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what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

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Luhan – Tian Mi Mi (Hanzi/Pinyin/English)

Note: This song is very sweet, and the lyrics are slow and repetitive which makes the song easy to memorize.

甜蜜蜜你笑得甜蜜蜜 tiánmì mì nǐ xiào dé tiánmì mì as sweet as honey, your smile is as sweet as honey

好像花儿开在春风里 hǎoxiàng huā er kāi zài chūnfēng lǐ just like the way flowers bloom in the spring breeze

开在春风里 kāi zài chūnfēng lǐ in the spring breeze

在哪里在哪里见过你 zài nǎlǐ zài nǎlǐ jiànguò nǐ i wonder where on earth, where on earth have i seen you

你的笑容这样熟悉 nǐ de xiàoróng zhèyàng shúxī your smile is so familiar to me

我一时想不起 wǒ yīshí xiǎng bù qǐ but i still cannot remember where

啊~ 在梦里 a ~ zài mèng lǐ ah… in my dreams

梦里梦里见过你 mèng lǐ mèng lǐ jiànguò nǐ in my dreams, in my dreams i’ve met you

甜蜜笑得多甜蜜 tiánmì xiào dé duō tiánmì with your smile that is so sweet, as sweet as honey

是你是你梦见的就是你 shì nǐ shì nǐ mèng jiàn de jiùshì nǐ it is you, it is you, the one i saw in my dreams

在哪里在哪里见过你 zài nǎlǐ zài nǎlǐ jiànguò nǐ i wonder where on earth, where on earth have i seen you

你的笑容这样熟悉 nǐ de xiàoróng zhèyàng shúxī your smile is so familiar to me

我一时想不起 wǒ yīshí xiǎng bù qǐ but i still cannot remember where

啊~ 在梦里 a ~ zài mèng lǐ ah… in my dreams

梦里梦里见过你 mèng lǐ mèng lǐ jiànguò nǐ in my dreams, in my dreams i’ve met you

甜蜜笑得多甜蜜 tiánmì xiào dé duō tiánmì with your smile that is so sweet, as sweet as honey

是你是你梦见的就是你 shì nǐ shì nǐ mèng jiàn de jiùshì nǐ it is you, it is you, the one i saw in my dreams

在哪里在哪里见过你 zài nǎlǐ zài nǎlǐ jiànguò nǐ i wonder where on earth, where on earth have i seen you 你的笑容这样熟悉 nǐ de xiàoróng zhèyàng shúxī your smile is so familiar to me

我一时想不起 wǒ yīshí xiǎng bù qǐ but i still cannot remember where

啊~ 在梦里 a ~ zài mèng lǐ ah… in my dreams

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Making Sense of Strahd pt.1

I'm prepping a Curse of Strahd campaign and a problem I have come across is the fact that Strahd is supposed to be this terrifying 'Big Bad' but the game also encourages the DM to make Strahd a presence in the game, with whom players can expect to interact with relatively often.

To combat this, I have come up with a re-skin of the game which I believe solves this problem: Strahd the Eternal Conqueror.

The source book gives Strahd the background of being a once all-powerful conqueror who took the land of Barovia in a bloody war. Rather than having this be part of an ancient history, with current-day Strahd being a strange man in a big tower who sits around moping after his dead brother and long-lost love, I have reskinned Strahd to be stuck in an eternal war to keep the borders of Barovia under his control.

Now, the source book does somewhat help with this, as it does state that if the party travels anywhere or tries to venture outside of Barovia they not only face The Mist but also a catalogue of evil creatures who seek to kill them. In my reimagining of Barovia, these creatures are mindless entities controlled by Vampyre, the dark power under whom Strahd is cursed.

Why does this solve the problem?

It provides reasons for Strahd to leave Ravenloft and interact with the villages outside of 'fucking with the party' purposes

It illuminates Strahd's power without the party fighting him: a military parade can roll through Baravoia village, NPCs can be off-duty soldiers in his vast army, there can be factories building ammunition and arsenals filled to the brim with weaponry, etc.

Vampire Spawn can now be high-ranking officers rather than vaguely sexy people loitering on various pieces of furniture

To explain this last point a little more: Vampire Spawn are used in the source book as random encounters rather than fleshed out characters. Making Vampire Spawn be the officers in Strahd's army provides opportunities to make them more interesting, and less generic. For instance, one Vampire Spawn could be his Chief Engineer who has fun suped-up weaponry. Another could be a Colonel, flanked by soulless Barovian soldiers. A Vampire Spawn who is a Goebbels-esque propagandist could be a fun role-play encounter.

But, you say, doesn't this just make it obvious who the 'bad guys' are? Well, that's where you're wrong! Because as well as Strahd's Vampire Spawn, in my reskinned Barovia, most of the population have been swallowed by this military machine.

For instance, in Barovia Village, there is no Burgomeister (mostly because this is an objectively silly name in what is supposed to be a horror-themed adventure). Instead, Ismark and Ireena's father is the Brigadier General. He still lives in a manor, and still is the de-facto leader of the village.

For me, this reskinning also helps with the problem of one-note NPCs. In the source book it explains about the soulless Barovians being dull-eyed and not having much to say... yeah, that does making role-playing rather difficult. So why not, instead, have them be soldiers, factory workers, nurses, seamstresses, and all of the other jobs that go into keeping an army functioning? It allows for cohesion, while also allowing a little more variation and interest which, as a DM, is helpful to have rather than a population of monotone, monosyllabic soulless NPCs.

Now, I will be keeping the notion of the Barovian population gradually losing their souls, as I believe it's a fun part of the curse. But in the source book, there is a little bit of a plot-hole in terms of why Barovians are still having children, going to work... living, in essence. Whereas, if they all believe that they are constantly under attack, but winning, then it can explain why some would have allegiance to Strahd and if they all have jobs that seem important and worthy, it explains why there is still life in Barovia.

Also: Fun Uniforms! Austro-Hungarian Era Weapons!

In a later post I'll detail about my plan to overhaul the 'Dinner with Strahd' and instead turn it into more of a military ball which I believe is better tooled to happen at the beginning, rather than put the players in a position where there could be a TPK within the first five sessions of the campaign.

eternal-3clipse

Op. Do u have Van Ricten’s guide to Ravenloft? Cuz there are domains of dread that can be tied to Barovia directly and can be used by Vampyr puppeting them against one another to try to make the ultimate dark lord or something!

As well as some with personal history for Strahd! Old General Allies turned enemies! Fiona Wachter is descended from a house that fought beside Strahd and perhaps she is loyal due to his husband being a general in his military or maybe secretly hating him cuz he died in one of his battles.

Have fun with this op! :D

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I woke up out of a dead sleep to make this and then immediately passed back out

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I raise u

awkwordalex

Trainer Alex wants to battle!

hirudo-verbana

I add

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please consider

velvet-vagabond

A new challenger enters the stage

serperoir

how about…

duothelingo

I present:

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Fuck you

eternal-3clipse

Y’all stop I almost feel off my treadmill

la-venere

nothing sexier than that picture with the italian players on top of eachother after the win and the english ones going through the 5 stages of grief in the back

la-venere

THIS ONE

phthalooo

i can see it

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ITALIAN MANWHORE SUMMER

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always reblog italian manwhore summer

eternal-3clipse

Rebloging shout out to my Italian mom’s side of the family and my Italian professor!

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Words to replace said, except this actually helps

I got pretty fed up with looking for words to replace said because they weren’t sorted in a way I could easily use/find them for the right time. So I did some myself.

IN RESPONSE TO Acknowledged Answered Protested

INPUT/JOIN CONVERSATION/ASK Added Implored Inquired Insisted Proposed Queried Questioned Recommended Testified

GUILTY/RELUCTANCE/SORRY Admitted Apologized Conceded Confessed Professed

FOR SOMEONE ELSE Advised Criticized Suggested

JUST CHECKING Affirmed Agreed Alleged Confirmed

LOUD Announced Chanted Crowed

LEWD/CUTE/SECRET SPY FEEL Appealed Disclosed Moaned

ANGRY FUCK OFF MATE WANNA FIGHT Argued Barked Challenged Cursed Fumed Growled Hissed Roared Swore

SMARTASS Articulated Asserted Assured Avowed Claimed Commanded Cross-examined Demanded Digressed Directed Foretold Instructed Interrupted Predicted Proclaimed Quoted Theorized

ASSHOLE Bellowed Boasted Bragged

NERVOUS TRAINWRECK Babbled Bawled Mumbled Sputtered Stammered Stuttered

SUAVE MOTHERFUCKER Bargained Divulged Disclosed Exhorted

FIRST OFF Began

LASTLY Concluded Concurred

WEAK PUSY Begged Blurted Complained Cried Faltered Fretted

HAPPY/LOL Cajoled Exclaimed Gushed Jested Joked Laughed

WEIRDLY HAPPY/EXCITED Extolled Jabbered Raved

BRUH, CHILL Cautioned Warned

ACTUALLY, YOU’RE WRONG Chided Contended Corrected Countered Debated Elaborated Objected Ranted Retorted

CHILL SAVAGE Commented Continued Observed Surmised

LISTEN BUDDY Enunciated Explained Elaborated Hinted Implied Lectured Reiterated Recited Reminded Stressed

BRUH I NEED U AND U NEED ME Confided Offered Urged

FINE Consented Decided

TOO EMO FULL OF EMOTIONS Croaked Lamented Pledged Sobbed Sympathized Wailed Whimpered

JUST SAYING Declared Decreed Mentioned Noted Pointed out Postulated Speculated Stated Told Vouched

WASN’T ME Denied Lied

EVIL SMARTASS Dictated Equivocated Ordered Reprimanded Threatened

BORED Droned Sighed

SHHHH IT’S QUIET TIME Echoed Mumbled Murmured Muttered Uttered Whispered

DRAMA QUEEN Exaggerated Panted Pleaded Prayed Preached

OH SHIT Gasped Marveled Screamed Screeched Shouted Shrieked Yelped Yelled

ANNOYED Grumbled Grunted Jeered Quipped Scolded Snapped Snarled Sneered

ANNOYING Nagged

I DON’T REALLY CARE BUT WHATEVER Guessed Ventured

I’M DRUNK OR JUST BEING WEIRDLY EXPRESSIVE FOR A POINT/SARCASM Hooted Howled Yowled

I WONDER Pondered Voiced Wondered

OH, YEAH, WHOOPS Recalled Recited Remembered

SURPRISE BITCH Revealed

IT SEEMS FAKE BUT OKAY/HA ACTUALLY FUNNY BUT I DON’T WANT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD Scoffed Snickered Snorted

BITCHY Tattled Taunted Teased

Edit: People, I’m an English and creative writing double major in college; I understand that there’s nothing wrong with simply using “said.” This was just for fun, and it comes in handy when I need to add pizzazz.

poppetsisters

Why it Matters that the Vampire in Sinners is Irish

Part of investigating my own Irish identity inevitably forces me to reckon with Ireland's colonized soul. When I attempted to find literature about pre-catholic Irish folklore for a comic I'm working on, the best resources were decades out of print books and texts in dead languages.

Meanwhile, head into any Barnes and Noble and you'll find a plethora of Irish myth representing the revised Catholic interpretation of those myths. With few exceptions, the cultural identity of pre-colonial Ireland has long been erased.

When people say Irish people were, at one point, not considered white, the takeaway shouldn't be "well of course they're white, look at their skin" it should be that whiteness is the social construct supremacists use to "other" those they don't consider themselves. Ireland had to be violently colonized with war, famine, and christianity for them to eventually be considered white.

What this means in the present is that I, half-Irish living in North America, am disconnected from my ancestry in a way that I may never be able to reconnect to, because the Ireland that I miss in my soul has been replaced with a colonized history, a colonized culture, and a colonized soul.

Sinners (2025) is probably gonna be the movie of the year for several reasons, and one of them is how Remmick, the irish vampire, acts as the perfect antagonist to the film's themes.

In what is perhaps the film moment of 2025, Sammy plays I Lied To You with such passion and spirit that the past and future are connected. The threads of blues, of identity, of culture travel back to ancient ritual ceremonies and forward to rock and roll, EDM, and rap. It's not just black american culture represented either, we see peoples representing east asians and west africans alike. In one beauitiful moment, everything is connected.

It's this connection that Remmick wants desperately for himself.

In a later scene, Remmick does his own version of this moment using the song Rocky Road to Dublin, but it's... not the same. Despite his multicultural attendance, the song is entirely a celebration of Irish culture and ONLY Irish culture (and post-colonial at that!) He has no ability to reach into the past or future because he himself has been so violently disconnected from his own heritage. Remmick is no longer irish, he is now white.

The vampirism in the movie is whiteness. It's the loss of cultural identity in favour of the mass. It's the appropriation of others to replace what is missing. It's to collect but not connect.

That's why he want's Sammy's ability: he's trying to fill the void caused by his assimilation into whiteness, but he can only think to do it by enacting the same violence enacted on his people. By taking.

In other words, Ireland is what's going to happen to Black America if Remmick wins.

eternal-3clipse

I wanna add to Vamparism as Whiteness from the Chinese American perspective.

Becuase we have been viewed as either “fresh off the boat”/forever foreigner, or model minority, we tend to be closer to Whiteness. So close that we don’t even realize how much it’s hurt us before it’s too late.

Bo just went to get the car to escape and ended up turned. He never even realized he was falling into trap, he was just trying to adapt for the safety of his family. And when Remmick uses Bo and Grace’s native tongue to literally sexualize it. It echos back to how whiteness sexualizes us and our culture, from the Qipao to our women.

Really big personal ick cuz I saw some white guy saying to an Asian girl. “I could colonize you.” 💀

But anyways. Bo’s turning echos how many first or second gen Chinese immigrants have to adapt in relation to whiteness in order to survive. Giving up customs, language, food, etc… in order to assimilate.

For a personal example: I’m kinda embarrassed to get Chinese food as a Chinese adopted kid cuz my dad always make fun of it, when I was gifted porcelain bowls in a Chinese style he often tells me to get the “normal” plates for me to eat from.

And The vampires dangle Grace’s daughter over her head. Literally threatening to consume our future generations through assimilation. I am an example. I’m adopted by white parents and have been discouraged from learning my native language and indulging in any aesthetics or food for it being “too weird.”

It’s so powerful that Grace is the one to confront the vampires a Lesson the Black and Asian community needs to learn is that WE GOTTA CONFRONT IT we can’t fucking stand by as they turn our neighbors. The Asian American community has to start deconstructing the whiteness we have been subjected to, and the global Asian community, ESPECIALLY mainland Chinese who hasn’t lived overseas has to UNDERSTAND us, because WE are seen as representatives for YA’LL and it ain’t fair. Overseas Chinese don’t understand what it’s life to be a minority, because they have the majority similar to whites in America.

The black community has to clean house as well. That’s a discussion for ya’ll, and I salute F.D. Signifier for starting that convo with his videos on YouTube.

Anyways, Grace literally goes for her vampire husband and takes him down. She cleans house. She comforts the whiteness threatening to destroy her future in her daughter. And I’m sick and tired of mfs blaming Grace for letting them in, WHEN WE GOTTA DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM- WE CANT LET THOSE BLOODSUCKERS GET OUR KIN-

Anyway. We gotta confront whiteness and clean house within our communities of this disease before it eats our future and wipes away our past.

Thank you for my Ted talk

poppetsisters

Worthy addition

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YIPEE