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Baldur's Gate 3// Bombast// Trashy Everything//
Anything else that is momentarily shiny//.
Redoing the pinned post, as I just had several (VERY) underage people follow me. I'm sorry y'all. You should not be on this page. I'm sure you're very mature for your age (I was too), and you can handle it (I could too).
I'm GenX - I'm the Hose Water & Neglect Generation!
The ones that read Interview With the Vampire by 10 and Flowers in the Attic by 12. My first FULL CHAPTER BOOK WAS Carrie!!! I did a book report on The Stand in 4th grade (that ended up with a parent teacher conference real quick).
All that being said. I know. I'm sorry. It's not fair. I am An Old. I know now I shouldn't have been given as much leeway as I was sometimes.
If you're here looking for other accounts, here's the ones I generally have semi-public.
Writing - references & inspiration, reblogs
Obey Me - where my MC lives. mostly reblogs, occasional shitposts or writing.
TS4 - mostly CC reblogs, so I can find things when the desire to actually play strikes again. Need to figure out how the fuck to take decent pictures in there. Blender scares me.
Other interests: Critical Role (again, now that C3 is over - finally), General Elder Goth Fuckery, music, visual novels, cult classic movies/musicals, bombast, shiny shit, whatever strikes my fancy.
Questions/comments welcome.
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It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible
As today is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s a great time to revisit Dinah from Devon’s memory of this historic event. And yes, still makes me laugh.
I've seen a lot of people who hated The Vampire Lestat this season... seems most of them aren't fans of character driven stories vs. plot driven. It also strikes me that they're mostly Show Only people - like... they've never interacted with the book.
Interview (S1&2) are told through the eyes of someone much more - I don't want to say honest - much more open about their flaws. Maybe a bit more self aware.
TVL (S3) is a story told by someone who used their (subconscious/unrecognized) trauma as an excuse for absolutely everything - until it explodes in their face. That explosion is the end of that season.
i just think that people who never read them were kind of lost trying to put this season together - i'd go as far as to call tvl & qotd required reading to really understand the show.
i'm not trying to claim the shows are in any way 1:1 with the books - they never will be. they aren't supposed to be.
that being said - i loved the season, the frantic pace, the styling, the music - i am super behind anything that pulls so much from glam. The first riff played really reminds me of the stage production of Hedwig (Sugar Daddy lead-in specifically), & the Magnus track/visual treatment felt so very Velvet Goldmine.
I definitely need to rewatch e7 again, just to get everything.
someone on reddit said this all a ton better than i can, although this post is a post-finale breakdown.
If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.
It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.
Russia’s Empire Is Starting to Fall—the “Good Russians” Know It
As someone who lives in Kyiv under almost nightly missile and drone attacks, let me tell you something.
Published 16 July, 2026.
By Kira Rudik
The more Ukrainian missiles hit Russian oil refineries, the more articles by "new" and "good" Russians we will see. That is the first sign the empire is beginning to fall. The "good Russians" will recycle the same old arguments. In Ukraine, we have heard them so many times they make me sick: “Russia is too big to fail,” “Russians cannot be humiliated—otherwise there will be nuclear escalation,” “The Russian army is incredibly strong,” “Russia has a democratic future,” etc.
None of these claims withstands scrutiny. The truth is that Russia is the last surviving European empire. It outlived the tectonic changes that reshaped Europe after the Second World War. Then it was a totalitarian state controlling the 15 republics of the Soviet Union. Today it remains a centralised empire ruling over 21 national republics within the Russian Federation.
It is a top-down, KGB-FSB state that survives by exporting natural resources while investing billions in propaganda designed to convince the world that it is an indispensable global power.
In reality, before the full-scale invasion, Russia's economy was roughly the size of Italy's or Canada's. Yet we never heard either of those countries claim to be one of the defining poles of a new multipolar world.
Black smoke rises from the area of the Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft's Moscow oil refinery on the south-eastern outskirts of Moscow on 18 June, 2026.
Russia is not too big to fail. Its territory is enormous, but territory alone does not make a superpower. The Soviet Union was even larger—and it collapsed.
The idea that Russia, and especially Vladimir Putin, must never be humiliated, became one of the defining narratives of 2022. I remember it vividly. As the world was discovering the atrocities of Bucha, it felt surreal that so many influential voices were still concerned about protecting the dignity of the dictator who had authorised murder, torture, rape, and countless other war crimes.
Back then, "Putin's red lines" dictated Western policy. Many governments refused to provide Ukraine with essential weapons because they feared escalation or believed Putin might resort to nuclear weapons.
That conversation sounds very different in 2026. Ukraine has demonstrated that the Russian army is not invincible, that Russia cannot adequately defend its own borders, and that its military power has clear limits. The Kursk operation, Operation Spiderweb, and the destruction of Russian warships across the Black and Azov seas proved exactly that.
As someone who lives in Kyiv under almost nightly missile and drone attacks, let me tell you something.
There has never been a diplomatic formula built on fear of Putin that protected Ukrainian civilians. The only thing that has worked is reducing Russia's ability to wage war.
And despite years of warnings about "retaliation," Russia's retaliation looks exactly like its regular attacks. It bombs civilians regardless.
Perhaps the biggest illusion many people in the West still cling to is the belief that Russia can become a democracy, return to the international community, and resume business as usual.
The "good Russians" want you to believe this too. There are two fundamental problems with that narrative.
First, Russia has never been a democracy—not for a single day in its history. Ironically, many of the same people who insist that 148 million Russians cannot simply disappear also expect those same 148 million people to embrace democratic values overnight.
We in Ukraine believed this ourselves in 2022. We thought that if ordinary Russians simply learned the truth about the war, they would rise against Putin. Considerable resources were devoted to breaking through the Kremlin's information blockade.
Reality proved otherwise. The majority of Russians support the war. Many genuinely believe they are fighting NATO and the West to defend their way of life. Good luck convincing them otherwise.
The second problem with the fantasy of restoring relations with Russia under the slogan "trade is better than war" is even simpler.
Russia already had all of that. It belonged to the G8. It traded freely with the democratic world. It created enormous wealth for its oligarchs while distributing just enough prosperity to much of its population. It expanded its influence across Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East while building partnerships with authoritarian regimes.
Now ask yourself a simple question. Can Russia realistically expect to achieve greater economic prosperity than it enjoyed in 2012 or 2013?
It already reached that point. And it willingly sacrificed it for one overriding objective: preserving the empire.
Russia is likely to collapse for many of the same reasons the Soviet Union collapsed—falling energy revenues, the growing political weight of war veterans, and the desire of Russian elites to regain access to the wealth and assets now frozen under Western sanctions.
The story of a sinking empire is never new. As the ship begins to sink, different players suddenly present themselves as reasonable, democratic, pro-Western, and pro-peace. They promise they can build the "good Russia" Europe has always hoped for.
What almost every one of these self-appointed Russian leaders desperately wants to distract you from is a far simpler conclusion.
The destruction and decolonisation of the Russian empire would be one of the best things that could happen to Europe—and the only lasting strategic outcome worthy of the immense price this war has already demanded.
Alright friends, I do have to go to bed but in the morning I'm going to list fluorite spheres - everything else is now up in the shop! I'm also going to send the newsletter in the morning.
I decided that the first 20 orders are getting an extra surprise crystal! No need to enter a code or anything, I'll just do it :)
Here's all items starting with what's just been listed!
Reminders: I ship from Austria which is great for EU people, also if you're in the US no need to worry about the tariffs, I collect it for you at checkout, and I do ship worldwide!
This update just added several pages of crystals to the shop, and I also still have some jewelry and a bunch of my altar supplies (like jewelry boxes and incense burners, etc.!)
Can't take people seriously if they can't even say the word rape here. No matter how serious the topic may be. Sorry but if you're too immature to say the word rape, then you're too immature to me to be talking about the topic at hand.
Stop using emojis too over it, or censoring the words with numbers/symbols/etc. They bypass peoples blacklist filters. It's just selfish and inconsiderate as well over the safety of others.
And if your response and excuse is "I know it could bypass it, but its important to share. which is why I wrote it like that for all and them included to see."
Fuck you. Yes it can be important for people to see. But doesn't give you the right to decide if someone should be forced to see something that could potentially upset or harm them.
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