[clytemnestraaa]

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

[chutzpahchesed]

in case you’re wondering, no, this is not a sarcastic joke, she means it.

[sighinastorm]

........

[startrek-themed-barmitzvah]

This is literally what that shitty painter said btw.

they're going to try again btw. This time I feel like it will be left wing totalitarians in america, not rightoid fash trash in europe

[creekfiend]

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: We just went to a combination aquarium supply/model train hobby shop. Really casting the autism net widely. You gotta respect it.

[podcastwizard]

saw a comment that misspelled “kind gesture” as “kind jester” and am now imagining a beautiful world where we praise good samaritans by calling them kind jesters. good on you, you gentle fool. you’ve made the world a sweeter and sillier place.

[mariacallous]

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

You'd think pokemon gender roles are simpler because there's little emphasis on genitals and nearly everyone uses it/its but it's more complicated actually

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

Oh it is intentional! While I can't claim much experience since my system is only 3 people large, the concept of a group of personalities functioning as a unit with seperate tasks they're predisposed to is easy enough to get.

These roles don't map 1:1 on commonly understood system roles (the role of persecutor is split between provider and herder, for example) (note how the description for those are neutral to positive) (never say that I don't have an agenda), but they are my speculation of how pokemon, with their slightly different worldview, would label and divide tasks as if they're parts in a system

[sunbentshadows]

Now I do think it is true that one reason Americans don’t Understand™️ soccer is because the national sports reference point is the most authoritarian sport, American Football

[sunbentshadows]

Our second national reference point is baseball, another authoritarian sport

[sunbentshadows]

What I mean by this is the sports USAmericans are used to are judged by literal 1/16th inches, and seeing a game that is mostly “just” played through the entire time is extremely odd.

Every single play in American Football is scrutinized. Every single player is at risk of a penalty every single play — for jumping at the line or for blocking slightly wrong or for being slightly out of position or for not stopping defensive contact after exactly five yards, etc etc etc. If the ball goes out of play, it is measured to the exact spot the play ended. Time management is arguably as critical to American Football as the actual play calling. There is an entire game-within-a-game of managing the clock in the last two minutes of play. Time is added back by seconds for imprecise clock measurements.

I don’t even need to explain baseball - dgmw the world loves it, but that ball is in or out of the strike zone by millimeters. Etc.

Here comes soccer (football to everyone else of course). It’s 90 minutes, ish. But sometimes 100 or 102:47. You get extra time. How much? Ref decides! Ball is close to the line - did it go out? Line judge isn’t sure, players kept playing probably fine. Throw it back in where it went out - but you can move, you can keep hopping down the line, nobody is really policing how far you can move when given a throw in. Penalties are almost entirely based upon who gets the ball. Take a penalty, just throw the ball down and free kick it. When is the game done? Nobody knows!

The US is used to hyper-scrutinized sports. To me this seems the biggest cultural gap when watching soccer - I think there is an actual culture shock Americans™️ experience when watching a Sport that is just, allowed to play on.

[parentheticalaside]

I’m pre-upset about the rest of this year up to the midterms when we should have our eyes on the ball of getting more Democrats elected to literally any office so we can stop more of Trump’s wretchedness (or maybe he’ll die???) but instead we’re going to spend a bunch of our time pushing back on half-truths and obfuscations and complaints about Democrats from people who claim to be on our side of politics.

I don’t really worry about… we’ll say most of you. Excepting some people who I have blocked, most people following me or who I follow have their eyes on the ball. But then I see the normies on Instagram who believe every single social media graphic that gets posted by some idiot about politics. I worry about the kind of people like my friend who was so upset that Joe Biden was the nominee, not because she didn’t like his policies, but because she believed that the DNC chose the president and “Why did they pick him if he’s too old?” I worry about those people. The ones too dumb to know how dumb they are, but just smart enough to vote.

I think things are bad enough that Democrats will do well in the midterms. But one thing that people have refused to accept is that all of their posts have an effect. They think they’re just one nobody online and that no one listens to them, plus they’re in a blue state, so it’s fine, they can say whatever they want and their “vote doesn’t matter” while not recognizing that their words do, and that what they’re engaging in is a years-long campaign to stifle enthusiasm for the exact political changes that they claim to want.

So. Fun times ahead!

[perfectlyvalid49]

In 2020, Biden got about 81 million votes, and Trump got about 74 million. In 2024, Harris got about 75 million votes and Trump got about 77 million.

We can gain a lot of information from more precise break downs of how people voted, but just these raw numbers tell us something important. They tell us that about 3 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 decided to vote for Trump in 2024*, and they tell us that about 3 million people who voted for Biden in 2020 just didn't vote at all in 2024.

And it's very likely that at least some of those votes were from people living in states that went blue anyway, but it's even more likely that a lot of those votes were not. Yes, it's very rare that presidential elections are won by one or two votes and so it's easy to say that "my one vote doesn't matter," and that's true of any one individual person, but when you and your friend and 3 million other people all feel the same way - well, that's how elections are lost.

Yes, your one vote doesn't matter by itself. But in a democracy, you have to get rid of that hyperindividualist way of thinking for elections. Your vote is on a team - not in the fandomization of politics red vs blue sense, but in the you can't win a football game with just the QB sense. The team needs your vote to do its part so that their votes can do their part, and anyone who is telling you to not vote is doing so in an attempt to undermine your team. And if you're telling people not to vote, then you're actively working to undermine your team as well.

I get being disappointed with your party. I get being incredibly frustrated with the state of politics in the US right now. But it is still obvious that one party is significantly worse than the other, and as long as that's true, I need you to let your vote do its part, so that my vote can as well.

*I don't get it. Anecdotally, the people I knew who were the least enthused about Biden (and therefore the most likely to vote for someone else in a different election) who still voted for him voted for him on the basis of "dear Lord, anyone but Trump." So to see literally millions of them decide to vote for Trump anyway is just...confusing.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

On the one hand, it's kinda satisying to see someone lay out in excruciating detail why Israel has not committed the crime defined as "genocide", although of course the problem is that the people on the other side of this 1) don't care about the actual definition of "genocide", they're just using the word to mean "bad thing I don't like" 2) will therefore feel justified to respond to attempts to explain what genocide is with essentially:

So no one even learns anything ever (well, the "Israel isn't committing genocide" side learns something because we read the explanation as to why it isn't, but we can't use it, because, again, any attempt to explain it will ultimately result in

)

[adventuresofanotsoteenagewitch]

For all the activists screaming about being "kidnapped" by the Israelis, they sure aren't giving a single fuck about the ones that genuinely have been and are in actual danger.

Hello?, everyone that didn't shut up about the people the Israelis stopped, where the fuck are you? These ones are in genuine danger and you're completely silent.

Can't use it to scream about Israel so fuck these people I suppose.

[lacewise-psas]

I pulled up four different articles about this trying to figure out the severity (which is much more than their allies—outside of Italian mainstream news—seem to have done) and I’m genuinely surprised the update doesn’t say they’re dead.

Apparently they’ve tried this exact stunt before.

They are very, very luckily they were just forcibly disbanded. Libya could’ve easily gotten rid of them and claimed their travel into their borders was an “imperialist invasion”. They would’ve had a point. Anyone with any sense would’ve known they shut down aid channels because they don’t want the same channels used for arms trafficking (and separately they just don’t want to help Palestinians).

You will note that now that the flotilla activists have been confronted with reality they’ve moved on to blaming Israel for a secret global conspiracy to cut Palestinians off from aid. Rather than focusing on getting their fellow activists safely back, they’re asking for assurances they’ll be let through. The lack of intragroup solidarity and inability to prioritize is… telling.

They don’t think they can be harmed and they won’t do the hard, slow work of diplomacy to actually get permission through.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/05/25/200-gaza-flotilla-activists-stranded-in-libya/

https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/05/26/gaza-aid-convoy-activists-beaten-and-detained-in-libya/

Global convoy to Gaza reports attacks as activists detained in Libya : Peoples Dispatch

Ten participants of a global convoy to Gaza were detained by armed forces while negotiating safe passage through eastern Libya to Egypt.

Gaza land convoy activists detained by Libyan forces in Sirte | The Jerusalem Post

Activists from Spain, Poland, Italy, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia, and the USA attempted to cross a checkpoint at Sirte on their wa

[adventuresofanotsoteenagewitch]

Had to add your tags to this @lacewise-psas.

I'm very glad to hear they are still alive, no matter how stupid they were to think they'd get through.

[adventuresofanotsoteenagewitch]

Update: It's been 3 weeks since I posted this.

Those people are still being detained in Libya.

Still the people that should care about them aren't screaming from the rooftops about this.

[adventuresofanotsoteenagewitch]

#wonder what's going on with those guys #its been a bit - @bicest

I posted the update June 23rd, as of now 4 of them have been confirmed as released. The other 6 were supposedly getting released as well a few days later. Hopefully they've all got out of there at this point.

https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-announces-release-flotilla-activists-detained-libya-2026-06-23/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/italy-flotilla-activists-detained-in-libya-en-route-to-gaza-have-been-released-after-a-month/

https://hostageaid.org/four-gaza-aid-flotilla-activists-released-from-libya-detention/

[ffangedd]

🌒 midnight animal ✨

[ffangedd]

Pachyrhinosaurus

[taro-pdf]

happy ides

[ID: digital drawing of a caracal cat falling through the void, a yatağan (ottoman long knife) through its chest and head haloed by a starburst. End ID.]

(slightly) bloody version and references under cut

[ID: Two images.

1: same drawing as above, but with red staining the knife, caracal's chest, and edge of its mouth.

2: collage of caracal images, standing, walking, etc, with a transparent png of the yatağan knife layered over all of them.

End ID.]

[kitsumeo]

Febroary day 16 Caracal What is Febroary? Febroary is an art challenge where the goal is to draw wild cats, big and small, every day for the duration of the month February. Both as a fun exercise and to draw awareness to these beautiful animals. The Caracal can leap around 3 meters (10 feet) high to catch birds out of the sky! If you enjoy my work consider leaving a like or a comment it means a lot!

[midzukishino]

[taro-pdf]

[ID: digital drawing of a northern bald ibis walking behind a caracal on a path. A yellow caption reads, "'ware the Ides of March." The path disapears over the mountainous horizon, a distant grey wolf loping the path. A giant dagger is embedded behind the horizon behind the caracal in a parody of a stabbing. End ID.]

[tikuo2007]

『カラカルの親子』 福山動物園2014年。

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