I have decided to "use" this blog. Hello, I'm Ciara, I'm in my early 30s and I am a writer and br*tish. I like...
Hannibal
My Chemical Romance
Pulp
The Smiths (not Morrissey)
CMAT
Antifascism
Comedy
Taskmaster
Seals
Dogs
Film
Literature
Anarchism
I don't write fanfic or what have you, idk why I have no problem with it but you won't get it from me. I may post my writing here if I feel like it. Fuck Mindless Self Indulgence. Fuck AI. Fuck Johnny Depp. Fuck Marilyn Manson. Fuck abusers, racists, landlords, and fascists.
Canonically in Project Hail Mary some random voice actor did a job for an AI text-to-speech and probably didn't think about it again until years later when an astronaut 11 light years away sent back tapes of himself meeting an alien and he heard his own voice being used to translate man's first encounter with extraterrestrials.
Obviously blonde4blonde ships are fucked up and scary, but it's important to remember that fiction isn't reality. Many people enjoy things in fiction that would be fucked up irl, and writing blonde4blonde ships doesn't inherently mean that someone is actually okay with two blonde people dating in real life.
"In a devastating investigation, Israeli soldiers are now speaking in their own words about what they did, what they witnessed, and what their commanders allowed in Gaza. These are not secondhand accusations or political attacks. They are confessions—raw, detailed, and impossible to dismiss.
They describe opening fire on unarmed civilians identified only as “targets” on a drone feed. They describe prisoners humiliated, abused, and discarded. They describe executions—men surrendering with hands raised, only to be shot and later labeled “terrorists.” And they describe something just as revealing as the violence itself: a system where none of this leads to accountability.
What emerges is not chaos. It is structure.
This is not the “fog of war.” It is policy by practice—kill first, justify later, investigate never.
As we have seen in this country, the destructive effects of the “fog of war”—the brutal killings, the unjustified pushes toward empire—do not end on the battlefield. The damage lives on in the soldiers who are sent to carry it out. And too often, it feels as if those in power simply do not care. But we can choose something different. We can listen. We can create space for those who were there to speak honestly about what they saw and did. And in doing so, we can begin to confront the truth—not from the top down, but from the ground up—where real accountability, and the possibility of change, actually begins.
[…]
It exposes a military culture that normalizes dehumanization, a political structure that shields it, and an international order that enables it. It reveals a reality that cannot be dismissed as isolated misconduct or “a few bad actors,” but instead points to a pattern—repeated, reinforced, and quietly accepted.
And that is where the story turns outward.
Because none of this unfolds in a vacuum. The bombs, the cover, the diplomatic protection—all of it flows, in part, from Washington. The United States continues to fund, arm, and politically defend the very system these soldiers are now describing from within."
The official narrative isn’t just cracking—it’s being dismantled by the very people who carried it out.
Here's something young Israelis need to know - whatever consequences you face for not joining the IDF, joining it will do more harm to you. However much you've been told to hate Palestinians and that it's necessary to kill them to protect Israel, you can't ignore their humanity when you're shooting them or watching them scream for their children. If you commit these atrocities or witness them and do nothing, you will have to live with it. You can tell yourself you're a good person but when you knowingly take an innocent life, it will haunt you. That's infinitely worse than a few months in prison, that's for life.
“Tim and Eric Do High-Fashion Drag” from Paper magazine, Winter 2014
text by Jessica Jean Jardine / photos by JUCO / fashion by Shirley Kurata
On a bright fall afternoon, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, creators and stars of the Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! and Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories, are seated inside an airy photo studio on Sunset Boulevard. Photo assistants and stylists buzz around while Wareheim gets the finishing touches put on his purple eyeshadow. Nearby, a straight black wig with a row of choppy bangs is positioned over Heidecker's blonde hair. Enormous racks full of kaleidoscopic dresses and accessories fill a second room.
Shuttled from hair to makeup to wardrobe, the men behind countless nightmarish and insanely shareable videos peep intermittently at their phones. Asked what their careers might look like without the Internet, they both pause for a moment.
"What would anything look like?" Tim says. "We'd all be looking at Thomas Guides together. It'd be a nightmare."
Awesome Show, which debuted in 2007 on the heels of their first basic cable venture, Tom Goes to the Mayor, was a textbook example of shows migrating, often in bite-sized chunks, from the rigid confines of television to the free-and-easy Web. "Our success has been through our videos being distributed online," Heidecker says, "whether it's YouTube or Adult Swim's website. It's how most people experience our work. Very few people turn on the TV at the time [the show is] on and watch it that way."
As you'd expect from any thriving online franchise, Tim and Eric lend their unique voice to Facebook and Twitter to connect with the people who share, quote and generally worship their work. "I respond to fans," Tim says. "I respond to fans if they say negative things, and then they tend to like that."
Wareheim, whose Twitter following is a little over half the size of his partner's, has a plan to close the gap. "We have a contest that, once I reach a million followers, Tim and I will make love on webcam. I'm almost there." Pause. "I hadn't told Tim yet, so this story can break it." FYI, he's roughly 740,000 followers away from hitting that target.
They've burned themselves onto our brains through a decade's worth of culty TV brilliance (not to mention Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, from 2012), but that doesn't mean Tim and Eric are impervious to the inaccuracies of the Internet. When Howard Stern Show regular Eric the Actor died, numerous press outlets used Wareheim's picture in their obituary pieces.
"They just looked up the words 'actor' and 'Eric'?" asks Heidecker.
"Yeah. So I died," Wareheim says.
As for today's shoot, fans will know it's hardly the first time Tim and Eric have done drag. Eric fondly remembers his first time dressing up as a lady when he was a kid. "I would dress up in my mom's stuff," he says. "I'd wear her hemorrhoid pillow as a hat."
So maybe it's not too surprising that Tim and Eric count Cindy Sherman as one of their heroes. "She does these self-portraits as these grotesque characters," Wareheim says, "from Jersey housewives to old plastic-surgery millionaires. Tim and I, all of our characters are pretty big and grotesque -- horrible little moments of people that you see in real life. So to see a woman [like Sherman] take herself that far is hugely inspiring."
As the duo is whisked to set with sky-high wigs and teetering heels fastened on, there's time for one more question: do these comedy titans still Google themselves?
Do greedy CEOs realize that the death penalty for killing a CEO isn't a deterrent if people are going to die from poverty anyway?
Insurance CEO denies your claim. You can't afford the medical care you need. You die from not receiving that medical care. The CEO profits and forgets you ever existed.
Insurance CEO denies your claim. You can't afford the medical care you need. You kill the CEO. You die from being sentenced to death. The CEO is also dead. Other CEOs worry that they could be next. Other CEOs may be afraid to deny a claim.
Being a child actor cast in a major role in a Harry Potter production is genuinely more life changing, irreversible, and potentially damaging than taking puberty blockers.
"People won't do essential but boring jobs without the incentive of wages under capitalism"
I have a neighbour who spends all day picking litter and you know what? He's a total prick. He's not even doing it out of the goodness of his heart, he's just a weird mean dude who likes to pick litter.
