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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.
I will write the exact same fic a million times, a million ways, slowly, with my own fucked up hands
Meet Sallie! Alastor's whoopsie demon spawn he created while trying to fix his staff with whatever magical energy was left behind by Adam's attack. It ended up being a little too much power...enough to give the staff life. Now he gets to experience true hell: responsibility. Y'know, because I'm weak for the "cold, unfeeling character accidentally gets attached to/adopts a kid" trope. 🥰 (not that Alastor would ever get attached. No! Never! Perish the thought!)
Bit of a disclaimer, but this is NOT a shipkid. No problem with anyone who makes them ofc, it's just not the direction I'm taking with this gal!
I've had her since almost the time the show came out, but she's mostly just existed on my discord server. I have so many more doodles of this gal, it's unreal. Perhaps I'll start sharing them too lol
Reblogs are appreciated❤️
In this house we appreciate the literal cryptid baby
youtube is pulling this bullshit again
praying for the firefox gods to save me once more...
I just fixed this for me!
I use Ublock Origins (and recommend). Once you have it go to Settings and then Filter lists
Scroll down and expand the Built In option. Then uncheck the "quick fixes"
Apply changes and reload your youtube page!
Not sure how long this work around will function so time stamping to 12/20/24 ~4pm EST
Yup I found this on a reddit thread shortly after I posted and it worked for me. Reblogging to raise visibility.
I see some people in the notes thinking that this is the Death card, but it's not. It's much funnier. It's the Five of Cups, upright, which symbolizes like. Loss. Disappointment. Emotional Suffering. You thought you were going to get something and then you didn't. Even more hilarious than Fox News bringing in a tarot card reader for Trump in 2024 is that same tarot reader immediately flipping over a card that says LOSER.
Like to charge, vote to cast, god I'm tired
Maybe I DO believe in tarot...
January.
Writers ...
Yesterday I got a message from a friend in Germany who told me she cannot watch John Oliver's new video titled "The West Bank, JD Vance & Kamala Harris" that her boyfriend sent her from Serbia. This struck me as odd but also unsurprising, because John Oliver talks, amongst other things, about how Israeli settlements in Palestine are illegal. So I started investigating, asking my friends all around the world if they can see the video. Austria was a no, USA was a no, UK was a no, UAE was a no, India was a no. Then my friend with access to VPN got involved, and she checked the world for me. She then found a site that lets you tell where a video is blocked. Here is a map of all the countries where the video is blocked:
Now, some of these countries have YT blocked completely, but I really want you to ask yourselves why this video is blocked. Why is it blocked in countries where, as another friend has said, John Oliver is known and watched and trusted. I want you to think about that for a bit, and then I want you to wonder what it is that he says in this video that warrants it being unavailable for half of the world, and which half of the world that is. Why won't they let a white British man speak to the audience of the "western" world. What is it that he has to say? Then maybe watch it, and come to your own conclusions. Some critical thinking won't go amiss here.
Here is the video, if you can open it:
And here is the link typed out: https://youtu.be/LCXdbtlY9WM?si=tOl_sCdYKqWGKkxX
Here is the link for the video on Instagram, which should be available to watch: LINK.
Lets be very clear. For years now, John Oliver has been a string example for effective "pushing left" of the center and liberal wing of our national progressive groups. He's gentle, funny, welcoming of change, educational and informative, and adamently holds his line. The show is very much still meeting people where they are at (possibly part of its efficacy!) so it's not like he's always saying things the way farther left people would say them. But he is a subtle and consistent push left all the same.
It is.....concerning. that some of these countries have decided to bar viewership of this video. John Oliver is deeply cautious with his lawyers about what he can or cannot say and do. He crafts his episodes with intention and care.
What possible excuse could the United Fucking States of America have to censor a video about genocide and the current presumptive Democratic Nominee for president/Republican nominee for vice president from an internationally popular US news show? What could POSSIBLY be in that episode that justifies such a choice while we are in the midst of an authoritarian power struggle at the national political level?
I strongly recommend trying to find a way to watch the video or read a transcript so you can assess the answer to that question for yourself.
So it looks like (at least in USA) a copy has been reuploaded to Youtube (haven't yet checked streaming for the full video, but was able to access the main segment on youtube)
I'm gonna dig more into this later but have to hop onto a work call.
Free trip to the waters and the wild!
The OG bestieeeeeeeees back in the living world. Having a night out, plotting a murder. Normal weekend stuff, ya know
Decided to post some Hazbin art because it's practically the only thing that's been on my mind for the past few months. I have SO much stuff still squirrelled away in my files y'all would not believe
Individual versions of them under the cut cuz I really like how they turned out 😗
Reblogs are appreciated❤️
the notes are broken 😂
Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes.
He needs a cash withdrawal
just to ease my followers
To add to this from the notes:
Yes, every year, and they look ridiculous
It takes them 3 year to hit maturity and grow their first train with eye feathers- the other two years they have a very silly looking brown baby train with no eyes. Even at three, their train is usually shorter and smaller; it sheds and regrows the following year fuller and longer, until they’re about 6. No one is keeping these fragile ass birds alive for 3 years just to kill them, and certainly not until they’re 6. Here’s what the yearlings look like:
Not impressive, no matter what he tells you
20 is the low end of their lifespan. There are plenty of peafowl that live into their 30’s and I’ve even heard of a few living into their 40s.
“It should be a boy because-” actually it doesn’t matter. Hens sometimes feather in like boys when their ovary stops working through malfunction or age or not developing. Like this:
I am tipping my hat to the tags that suggested we could have a world full of cruelty free peacock feathers… we do. but also they drop this entire train in about a week’s time in the fall. For people with 1 bird or just a couple, that’s a hundred to a few hundred feathers to collect in a week. It gets old. You stop caring about picking them up after the first hundred or so.
BIG breeders (like, 30-100+ breeding birds) sometimes just. burn them. Because they have not enough people to give them to. They clean the pens by relocating the birds, and using a portable little flamethrower thing to torch all the collected feathers. Because it’s *so fucking many.* If you want to collect feathers, find a breeder by July, and ask if they’ll let you collect feathers when they start dropping.
They do not require “the strength of a grown man” to pluck from dead birds, even at the height of breeding season. Source: I just preserved one of my male’s train after he passed away from genetic health complications, and have done so with the first male I ever owned when he passed. You sit down, you pinch at the base of the feather where it hits the skin and rotate to loosen the skin’s hold, and while holding there, you pull near the base with your other hand. Should slide out. I hope none of you ever need this knowledge, but I’d rather you treat the dead with some dignity than not say it.
If you ever see something (crafts, jewelry, clothing, art, whatever) with peafowl feathers in it, they are probably not fake. There are a lot of feathers that can be made out of plastic or whatever and still look kinda like real feathers… peafowl feathers are among the most difficult to replicate and also there’s no real reason to.
peafowl do NOT fall under the MBTA. It is a USA-only act and peafowl are not native to the US. It is illegal to hunt or kill Indian peafowl in India, though I BELIEVE it is legal still to own naturally-shed feathers.
re: the above, there ARE poachers of wild peafowl in India, who kill native birds for their feathers. Chances are STILL better that the feathers you see for sale have been naturally shed.
Yes you can eat peafowl if you wanted to. I’m told by friends that have tried them that they taste almost exactly like chicken, though that may be because they were farm raised like chickens, instead of wild caught. That said, my understanding is that the birds are best harvested as yearlings, before the meat gets gamey, and at which point (as explained above), they do not yet have the train full of eye feathers.
The entire train (frame feathers and sword feathers included) is around 200 feathers, but large eye feathers only account for around 100 or so of those. This dress apparently has 2009 eye feathers in it; more than I would have guessed, but not a surprising amount either. I’m guessing towards the body of the dress, smaller eye feathers were used, so (accounting for damaged or otherwise unsuitable feathers being discarded) my guess would be it contains around 15-20 trains worth of feathers. It also, iirc, took eight people 40 days to craft.
It’s a wedding dress, in case you were wondering.
By me, a peacocks full train collected by some random farmer (and probably not containing all the feathers) costs between $30 and $75. So, even though the feathers are naturally shed, the raw material feathers would have been quite expensive.
Hell of a piece of fashion.
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Shout out to all the Black ppl that can no longer participate directly in the fandom they love because of the stresses of racism 👍🏾 you contain multitudes of value and I'm sorry that the color of your skin and the power of your voice makes people not want to acknowledge that.
Yes, nonblack people can reblog. I'd appreciate it, in fact, if y'all took the time to vocally support your Black friends/fans in fandom.
Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate
Oh my God every bit of this is wild
-when he does the first big jump the announcers start screaming. I don't understand enough of what I'm looking at to get what about this is breaking records but the announcers screaming was a pretty big clue
-He's dancing to music from Succession????? I don't recognize all of it but some of it is definitely the theme from Succession. At one point the audience claps along to the music. And I'm not sure if it's out of support for the skater or because they like the song 🤣
-when he finishes he just lays down on the ice incredible
THAT'S MY BOY!!! I SKATE AT HIS RINK!!!
That first big jump is a Quadruple Axel. It's 4.5 rotations in the air (you take off forwards rather than backwards, which is the extra half rotation). Nobody else in the world can do this jump it's so hard. He is the first and only person to ever land it cleanly, much less consistently. He had to land it cleanly here to have any hope of winning the World Champion title.
Yes, he's skating to music from Succession! The audience is clapping in support because he was doing so well (also because it was hosted in Montreal and the audience was very supportive of all the skaters that evening).
He lays down on the ice because he just broke multiple world records. He landed all 6 types of quadruple jumps cleanly, which no one has ever done at all (again, because he's the only one that can do the quad Axel), much less in a single program like this. This was an insane feat of athletic ability! If you go watch the other guys who competed against him, Yuma Kagiyama was in second place by 20 fucking points, and Yuma skated with no falls. This is Micheal Phelps / Katie Ledecky levels of smashing the competition (sorry the only other sport I know is swimming).
Some other notes for everyone:
Ilia listed that first jump as a Triple Axel on the sheet you give to the judges, meaning that he wasn't committed to doing the Quad Axel. (Technically you're not committed to anything on the sheet but it's generally your "plan" for the program.) He also doesn't do a quad axel in the 6-minute warmup beforehand when he does go and do it in the program, so it was a complete toss-up as to whether he was going to go for it. It's incredible that he manages to land the jump so perfectly without warming it up first!
He was 3rd coming into this skate from the previous short program. (All skating competitions require you to skate 2 different programs, 1 short and 1 long.) In order to win the title, he was going to have to skate without any falls, especially because his one strong point is his jumps and other skaters are stronger in other areas. There are many, many skaters who fall on their quad jumps, even when they're just doing one. It is so fucking hard to do even one of the 6 types of quad jumps. And he just does all 6! In one program! Insanity!
He did a 4 Lutz - 3 Flip at the halfway point of his program. Almost no one puts a Flip on the end of their combos, it'll usually be a Salchow instead because it's much easier. The only other skater I can think of to put a Flip on the end of a combo is Shoma Uno (who was also at these championships but didn't have a good skate).
His last jumping pass was a combo that was supposed to be a 3 Lutz - 2 Axel. He decided, in the moment, to change the 2 Axel to a 3 Axel. Nobody else has ever attempted this, much less succeeded. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to do another rotation to the second jump in a combo, at the very end of a 4.5 minute sprint no less.
In short, this kid is wild, had the performance of a lifetime, and I had the blessed opportunity to witness it.
I think the funniest dynamic for arranged-marriage royalty would be a queen who came here 100% prepared to murder her future husband and rule as a widow queen in her own right, only to discover that the king is autistic as hell and responds to her wish to rule with "oh thank god please do, I don't want to be bothered by these people. I can just tell them to go bother you instead, if you really want that. I've got beetles I wanted to study."
"I'm really not good at it," the king admits with horrible, aching grief. The country is in disarray. Peasants go hungry. Nobles trade power amongst themselves with impunity.
So the queen takes over and ruthlessly sets things to rights. Fires several generals, hangs nobles, redirects wealth to the peasantry. It isn't long before the first assassination attempt, which she expected.
She did not expect her docile, beetle-obsessed husband to go absolutely feral and fling himself at the assassins wielding a pair of sharp knives.
Also, the beetles are intended to attack and kill a certain type of invasive worm that has been killing off the gourd and potato crops for decades. He’s been trying since he was a child to crossbreed several native species to be hardier and better diggers. When he finally gets it right it’s all over for you bitches (“you bitches” being mass starvation of subsistence farmers).
Mad Scientist and the Head of HR ass dynamic
This is so delightful
Man: (exploding with glee)
Snek: (BEFUDDLED)
What if there was an apocalypse but some people were really really in denial and optimistic and thinking everything will be back to normal soon?
Like they’d be foraging through the ruins of New York for supplies, shooting raiders in the face and saying “Man, this recession is really bad, huh?”
Umm….
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
this post, plus that satire one about the increasingly ridiculous callout culture that slowly became more and more accurate
this one
was anything going on in 2017??? did everyone randomly have prophetic visions????????
Another one from 2017 by @nullsynth
“the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls” is actually a really fucking metal quote and i will be using it in the future
@handoverthehands it’s from Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. Referenced as well in Spirit of the Radio by Rush and again in Disturbed’s cover of the original.
And that in itself was a reference to the Book of Daniel from the bible, when the words of the prophet were written on the Babylonian palace walls.
In the real world, it’s not the kings and people in power who see the signs of doom, but the poor people in the subway, helpless to stop it.
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