A Figment Of The World

[justfigment]

The Inter-Veil Agency

When the ever wavering balance of the natural order tips… the IVA notices.

Operating from a sealed pocket dimension with agents threaded through countless realms, the Inter-Veil Agency exists to keep the balance between mundane and magic as well as chaos and order.

Think hunters, handlers, diplomats, and shadows all in one.

With its headquarters safely tucked into a special pocket dimension of its own and the seeds of its influence sewn through countless realms, the IVA is a balance-keeping organization which monitors, regulates, and intervenes in matters of all manner. Created and led by one side of the Divine Scales, Death, it is a shadow organization in a thorough sense- many of those under its influence or even directly employed do not know the full truths of its existence.

Whether you’re a field agent, occult specialist, political fixer, or something the Agency is still trying to classify- Balance needs keeping.

Contract now.

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• Personal and overarching plotlines.

• Combined Rank and Class system

• Collaboration through missions while also fostering friendly competition through events

• Plenty of room to move around and show off as an individual while still being a part of the larger group. •Built in buddies systems, so no one gets left out or behind.

This JUST STARTING and going through our very first recruitments, so while it may be slow and getting on its feet it is an excellent opportunity to secure a place as a founding member/player and have a strong voice in the direction of the beginning plotlines, snatch up good roles, and things like that!

https://discord.gg/qa7r3rKKsh

[escuerzoresucitado]

[valtsv]

the beastie boys if they wrote a song about lady macbeth: the blood on my hands won't wash away with WATER i'm haunted by my crimes of high treason and SLAUGHTER

[valtsv]

💯🔥💯🔥

[teaboot]

In my line of work, I stop people from doing something bad, and trust them not to do it again. And then they do, and I stop them, and trust them not to do it again. I watch them, I monitor them, but I give them a chance not to do it again. To make a better choice. And when they don't, I stop them again.

My coworkers think I'm gullible and naive. They say I haven't been doing this long enough yet, and that eventually, a day will come when I learn to hate people.

I don't hate people. I don't want to hate people. People make me tired, and sad, and disappointed, but I don't ever want to hate them for it.

And I think the reason is, I remember... not even making bad choices, or hurting anyone, but being in a place where everyone believed I was bad on purpose, and nobody wanted to give me the chance to prove otherwise. Because why take a muzzle off a mad dog? Why give it the opportunity to bite you like you know it will?

And I remember one day, very clearly, thinking, "nobody believes that I'm trying to be good, so I'm not even gonna try."

It was freeing. Exhilarating. And incredibly sad.

I don't want to hate anyone. I don't want to stop giving opportunities to do better. Not to jump in first on blind faith, but to creep in slowly, watch from a distance, and see what happens.

People I work with tell me that the people we deal with are animals.

I think that if you treat a person like an animal long enough, they'll become one.

[kaijuno]

[yardsards]

you ever see a poll and just Know that a character lost purely because their source material is less well known than the winning character's

[yardsards]

there'll be polls that are like "bipolar swag bracket round 1: PIKACHU from POKEMON vs SQUIMBUS from SOME MANGA FROM 2003 THAT ONLY SOLD 40 COPIES"

and you'll look in the comments and it's all "vote squimbus!" and *8 paragraph essay about how squimbus canonically has bipolar* and "#squimbus sweep!" and "squimbus my beloved" and *personal story about how squimbus inspired them to get help for their bipolar disorder*

and the only comment referencing pikachu is like "i have no clue who squimbus is but i like pikachu"

so you decide "yeah sure i'll vote for squimbus why not" and you see the results and it's like

pikachu: 93%

squimbus: 7%

[bloodycrownofthorns]

Set It Off becoming aware of what their music has been used for in fandoms is the funniest shit ever

They’re just like “yes guys we know what you’ve been doing oh and btw thanks for listening to our music!! plz make more of your silly things!!” and somehow I think that’s just wholesome

[beckettmariner-deactivated20200]

You ever invite your coworker to watch you give birth just to spite a racist

[linguisticparadox]

Okay howmst the fuck has a ship doctor in the far future never handled a birth without the father present? Are sperm donors and gay couples and trans women no longer a thing in the bajillionth century CE?? :/

[thatoldantique]

I while understand the frustration with erasure sometimes it helps to look at things through the cultural context of when something was made. Star Trek the Next Generation was made in 1987, this particular episode I believe aired in 1988 a time when a future where the husband was always present for the birth would have been amazing to many of the people watching the show as men had only been allowed to be present for the birth of their children for 10/15ish years at that point in the US.

Women (and many men) fought for decades with hospitals to even have men allowed in the delivery room during the early stages of labor, which can last for several hours, and hospitals only began to give in to their requests in the 1960s but even then they would be kicked out of the room by hospital staff before the actual birth took place. So many of the couples watching the show would have had to go through labor without having/being allowed to support their spouse regardless of their wishes. Having the child’s father present for the birth only began to happen in the 1970s and 1980s. Which means most people watching this show either went through birth without the support of their spouse, were not allowed to support their spouse during the birth of their child, or their own mother’s went through that during their birth.

A future where the husbands were always present for the birth was still a little crazy to consider in the late 1980s. A good kind of crazy for the people living in that time, it showed a future where the wishes of the couple were finally consistently listened to by medical professionals as a result of the actions of people during their or their parent’s lifetimes. And it does that by also subverting it in allowing Data to step into the role of the father when the father was unknown and/or unwilling/unable to fill that role (I’ll be honest my knowledge of Next Gen is a bit spotty and I have not seen this whole episode, just a piece of it at family Thanksgiving). The woman’s desires as to how she would give birth are listened to and respected, something that still doesn’t happen in many hospitals now and would have been seen as even more revolutionary then. So while it isn’t perfect I think this scene was actually fairly impressive for its time and cultural context and shows a future that many people of that time would have seen as ideal.

[cannon-fannon]

I think this kind of contextual understanding and analysis is really important because things that look antiquated now were revolutionary then. I remember reading that the mini skirts in Star Trek TOS were legot just in fashion (about 64’ ish), one of the actresses (the one that played Rand) requested they be in the show and both her and Nichelle Nichols said they didn’t see them as demeaning but liberating in that time and context. Where as NOW it looks like ‘sexy male gaze’ but then it wasn’t.

[elfwreck]

Miniskirts are comfortable and easy to move in - unlike longer bulkier skirts, which had previously been required for “modesty.” And unlike the approach of “we’ll just put them in pants,” miniskirts made a statement that women crew-members weren’t being treated like men. Miniskirts were a way to say “I can be an attractive woman, wear comfortable clothes, and still look professional and do a serious job.” 

The clothing for that message today would be different. 

[prismatic-bell]

This is also why the bridge crew of TOS may seem “tokenistic” today. When it came out, the Cold War was in full swing and “Soviets” were maligned and hated, Black people could not count on their right to vote being honored, and mixed-race people (like Spock) were called horrible things like “half-breed” and “zebra.” A white man was in charge of the ship, but Gene Roddenberry was fully aware that a chunk of the viewership read him as queer, and did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DISCOURAGE THAT READING, at a time when “homosexual activity” was illegal in the United States!

By today’s standards, “one of everything? How tokenistic.” In 1966? “A Black woman, a Russian, a man from multiple cultures, and a man who loves differently, all top of their fields, all working together and finding common ground to learn, grow, and help where they can? What a wonderful future!”

[charismat1c-megafauna]

Also I’m sorry but like. A show also featuring a Japanese man who isn’t a stereotype but part of the crew, having a Scottish character be a part of the central cast (idk if I need to get into why this is important, but considering how England has continuously tried to erase Scottish culture and identity, and the stereotype of Scots as bumbling bumpkins, etc, its kind of nice to see a Scotsman who’s the best of the best at his job).

Moreover, a lot of kids watched this show. MLK himself contacted Nichelle Nichols and asked her to stay on the show when she was considering leaving, because “you don’t have a Black role, you have an equal role,” and there wasnt many Black role models on tv. I can only imagine how Black kids, Asian kids, and mixed race or mixed culture kids felt seeing people like them on tv. Hell, seeing Uhura on screen is what inspired Whoopi Goldberg as a little girl.

Also, yeah, its easy to look back and say ‘damn, fathers weren’t there in the delivery room? What assholes’ but no like they legitimately were not allowed in there.

[gayahithwen]

Tiny correction: while George Takei is Japanese, and while Sulu thus looks like what we in the 20th-21st century consider to be an ethnically Japanese man, Hikaru Sulu was Pan-Asian by design. His last name is not Japanese. And Roddenberry designed him like that intentionally, because while there was a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment in the US at the time (I mean, hell… George Takei himself spent years in Japanese internment camps during WW2), there was also a lot of other anti-Asian sentiments, and Roddenberry intentionally put ALL of it on the character of Sulu.

Like, all the years of anti-Chinese racism in the US? Sulu. Anti-Japanese sentiments left over after WW2? Sulu. Korean War in 1950-52? Sulu. The Vietnam War, with Johnson in 1965 (a year before TOS started airing) choosing to start sending American troops into the conflict? Sulu.

Sulu was Roddenberry’s desperate attempt to show all Asian people as inherently worthy, inherently human, and yeah, he probably put kind of too much on Sulu’s shoulders, but it was the 1960s and Roddenberry fucking cared about representation, so he did what he could.

Just, you know… a little bit more historical Star Trek context

[gholateg]

Also to hammer this home?

Scotty was third in line for the captain’s chair. The only non-Kirk who had the con more then him was Spock.

He was smart, he was a *ranked* crewmen, he was a gentleman, he wasn’t a skirt chaser, and he was capitol L loyal. The only time he got into a fight was when someone both went after his Captain, AND his Ship.

And he was Scottish. 

That’s so above and beyond the typical Scottish stereotype even TO THIS DAY.

[earhartsease]

Dr Polaski was coded as something of an arse just so they could make their valid points about equality and bigotry using her as a foil. Yes it was kind of clumsy from a modern perspective, but it was also kind of groundbreaking (not least because you didn’t usually get arses being played by women)

[aqueerkettleofish]

I am hard-coded to put this on any post that mentions MLK and Nichelle Nichols.

Also, it’s very worth noting that the “token minority character” label doesn’t apply in any way to these characters.

Tokens are there to present the appearance of diversity. Whereas Roddenberry created a diverse cast in an era where there wasn’t even a need for the appearance of diversity. Roddenberry didn’t put these characters in because he wanted to look diverse– he put them in to BE DIVERSE.

[tomorrowillbeyou]

[chongoblog]

[balaclava-trismegistus]

There needs to be way, way more of a conversation about how being unable to drive in America means you don’t get to participate in society. That shit is genuinely life ruining. My neuro shit has kept me from driving my whole life and it’s always meant I can’t go do stuff I want to, I can’t get the trade jobs I know I’d be good at, I can’t even see the people I want to. Unless you’re in one of a handful of major cities in the US with decent transit systems, you’re basically expected to drop dead if you can’t drive.

[anonymousdandelion]

Do not vote on this poll. Restrain yourself. Hold back your curiosity. Tamp down your defiant streak. Feel free to interact with the post in other ways — but whatever you do, do NOT vote.<br><br>Check back in a week to find out how good Tumblr users are at delayed gratification.

I have zero self-restraint and voted the very first time I saw this post

I restrained myself the first time I saw this, but eventually I caved

Voting ended onMar 9, 2023

Reblog for a larger sample size for no sample size at all, because obviously nobody will vote

[raccooninapartyhat]

baby me, sorting m&ms by color and then into a gradient: now this is how you have fun!

[loremipsumflotsamandjetsam]

[roach-works]

baby me, observing other children eating fistfulls of randomly colored gummy bears all at once: when do i get to go back to my home planet

[fuddlyduddly]

[atomicniire]

This is what I did with my coin jar. Including the eating part.

[quesogrande]

[coquettesinclair]

“Be gay do crime!!” “Eat the rich!!”

And you can’t even boycott the most famous TERF in the UK

[hustlerose]

when you hear "cicero" which one comes to mind first

roman conservative politician

skyrim killer clown

Voting ended onFeb 25, 2023

[orange-catsidy]

secret third thing

[hexthelex-deactivated20230815]

Honestly OP had it coming... They only have themselves to blame

[kenstewdivorce]

Like as an alcoholic I HATE the fatphobia related to any form of treatment. The idea that I should stop drinking cause it'll make me lose weight, the way doctors will point out my "beer belly" before they talk about my liver or my kidneys or the social aspect of my drinking problem, the way people only care about my drinking problem cause it makes me fat. You don't care about me as someone who's struggling with addiction.

[kenstewdivorce]

I encourage non alcoholics to like and or reblog this because it's a unique experience of fatphobia you don't understand if you've never tried to get help for a drinking problem.