Eyooo. I'm a youtaite, but this blog's about pretty much everything but my singing. I just post whatever tickles my fancy at the moment. This used to be the part where I'd tell you what fandoms I'm into atm but it's kind of annoying to keep this description updated so-- Anyway I also sometimes draw if that's a thing you wanna see. Ask me a thing if you want.
not to be too 'kids these days' but boy the notes on that post about whether it's OK to ship things that the creator(s) of a work do not endorse are depressing. people have got waaaaaaaaaaaaay too comfortable with the idea that fandom and fanworks are things that creators should engage with and know about, let alone - good grief - exert some degree of control over. where is my fandom fourth wall, where has it gone
something funny to me fandomwise is seeing a wildly popular ship EVERYWHERE before you’re in the fandom & fully expecting to ship it yourself but when you finally watch it’s like………them? 🤨
my favorite thing about navigating fanfiction is finding a really good one and being all “oh boy this was good, I hope they have more!” and literally every other story they’ve ever written was for like Miami Vice
#a lot of the time this happens because someone in their 40’s got into 1 new thing and threw a fic at it before resuming business as usual#like sorry gang they’re not a youth who’s weirdly into your mom’s shows they’re your mom who played genshin impact
Full context is Zen talking to the Bergant Twins about forming new relationships outside their family.
Now he COULD be talking about himself, Mitsuhide and Kiki! However the phrase "completely separate lives" makes me more inclined to think he's talking about Shirayuki, Obi and himself. Since, though they obviously had their own thing going on, Mitsuhide and Kiki were members of nobility and so I wouldn't consider them to have "seperate" lives to Zen in the same way Shirayuki and Obi did. Especially since they were essentially both "assigned" to him.
Plus he's just finished talking about Mitsuhide, Kiki and Hisame, and his smile makes it look like it's almost an afterthought or fond memory. He's moving on to a different topic, as it were.
I also think in the first image he's talking about Kihal since he's looking up at the bird and they did have a VERY rocky start! So he's obviously drawing upon different types of relationship here when giving advice. So again, it would make sense for him to be talking about different people in each example.
Hopefully this ALSO means Kihal will be returning at some point? I wanna see more from that funky indigenous lesbian!
If you live and vote in California, I hope by now you've heard that there is an election happening on September 14th. You may have even gotten your ballot in the mail already.
An election? In September? Yes. A stupid one.
You see, some Republicans got Big Mad at Governor Gavin Newsom when he made the decision to lockdown the state last year at the beginning of the pandemic. They decided to start a petition to remove (recall) him from office. California's state constitution allows voters to remove the governor via recall election if they get enough signatures.
How many signatures, you ask? 12% of the total votes cast in the previous election for the office of the person being recalled, or in this case, 1.5 million.
Yeah. That's all. Out of a state of nearly 40 million people. A state that is the 5th largest economy in the world.
Just 1.5 million people need to sign an official recall petition for a statewide vote to remove the governor from office.
(If you didn't know, a recall election is how California got Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor in 2003.)
If a simple majority (50% + 1 vote) of voters choose YES on their ballots, Gavin Newsom will be removed from office and whomever of the 46 candidates on the ballot gets more votes than anyone else (not even a majority vote, just more than the other candidates) will become California's new governor.
The current (as of today, August 20th) frontrunners are a very right-wing talk radio host named Larry Elder, and a real estate broker/YouTube personality named Kevin Paffrath. Neither have what you would call "political experience."
(Caitlin Jenner is also running. Just in case you were wondering.)
How do you get on a recall ballot in California? To replace the governor, the highest office in the state? Well, you need to complete the arduous task of forking over about $4000 and getting 7500 signatures of real Californians saying they back you as a candidate.
Yeah. That's all.
Oh, and just having this election is costing CA taxpayers over $250 million dollars.
So what's at stake if Newsom gets recalled?
Majority control of the US Senate.
You see, Senator Dianne Feinstein is 88 years old this year. She's been Senator since 1992. If she falls too ill to continue her duties, if she resigns, if she dies while in office, California does not hold a Senatorial election.
The governor appoints a replacement.
This is how we got our current junior Senator, Alex Padilla, after Kamala Harris was inaugurated as Vice President.
Let me say that again.
The governor appoints a replacement Senator if Dianne Feinstein cannot complete her term.
If enough people vote to recall Gavin Newsom, and a Republican, or Libertarian, or, let's be honest, any inexperienced wet sack that can be bought off by the highest bidder, takes his place, they will very possibly appoint a Republican Senator to replace Dianne Feinstein and put that fuckface Mitch McConnell back in control of the US Senate.
So please, please, if you're a Californian, make sure you're registered to vote, get your ballot, and vote NO on this stupid waste of money recall election.
The 12 questions that help explain the historical, political and logistical forces behind the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom of Californ
And more: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-18/vote-recall-election
"78 percent of registered Republicans said they were “very interested” in voting in the recall, while only 47 percent of registered Democrats said the same. And while Newsom could theoretically take comfort in that 57 percent approval rating in the CBS News poll, that figure won’t help him unless people vote who don’t seem particularly inclined to." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/california-recall-election-newsom-ballot-mess.amp
The year is 2042. Your daughter is awkwardly silent as she eats her dinner. “Something wrong sweetie?” She sighs and puts down her fork. “I was digging really deep in AO3 last night…Why didn’t you finish that coffee shop au?” It happened. Your past has come back to haunt you. Nay, it never truly left.
OKAY BUT WAIT. This has happened to me. Recently. Because I am old and I have things out there from previous fandoms with previous pseuds and one day my teenager begins a rant at me about people never finishing any WIPs on the pit of voles (which he does not call the pit of voles because he has No Knowledge of such a thing but yet he still reads on which I didn’t think anyone did any longer) and he points out an example to me of something I WROTE AND LEFT WIPing for ages and he has NO IDEA #1 that his mom wrote this and #2 How much it still haunts me to this day that it will. sit. there. for. eternity. because I am too lazy to pull it down.
why is it so difficult for ppl to distinguish between "this person is a literal bigot and should not have a platform" and "this person is not actively malicious but has accidentally done a couple harmful things that should be addressed" and "this person has made a few poor taste jokes several years ago but has since grown as a person" and "this person simply just didn't know the 'proper' term for something"
Caption: [ (Stitch with @/oldbruhh): What’s a music opinion that genuinely pisses you off? I shall commence the-
The idea that disco was some frivolous, soulless music genre… when instead it was like this time of unprecedented power that people of color and queer people had over the music industry. And that it simply “fell out of fashion” instead of being pushed out of the industry by people who hated the fact that people of color and gay people were kind of like having sway in the industry.
Honestly I really blame the Disco Demolition Night of 1979. This was an event hosted by the Chicago White Socks and uh 97.9 WLUP in Chicago. It was organized specifically by this dude Steve Dahl. He was an anti disco shock jock dj for the radio station. And Mr. Dahl’s plan was basically that you would get 50% off your ticket to the baseball game if you brought a disco record to destroy at half time.
Here he is next to a dumpster with a bunch of the records. Over fifty thousand people showed to this event and it quickly got out of hand. And the Chicago police had to show up in riot gear to break up the event. This is a great article that speaks to the racism and homophobia of the event if you want to check it out.]
When a DJ called on listeners to destroy disco records in a Chicago stadium, things turned nasty – and 40 years on, the ugly attitudes behin
When I first heard about this subject online I was a bit skeptical at first that music fans who disliked disco were motivated primarily by prejudice, since music taste can be shaped by a lot of things. But one day my uncle brought it up to me completely unprompted. This was a few years ago, shortly before he died. In older age, my uncle was a huge audiophile who collected all these classics on vinyl and he was a young adult during the 70s, the height of disco. I remember him talking about how he was ashamed of his behavior when he was younger. He basically said that white straight dudes like him hated disco because they were being homophobic and that they saw it as music that "f*gs listened to" and he now regretted holding that prejudice in his past. It was interesting hearing from someone who actually lived through the time period and in hindsight could see the bigotry that clouded his judgment back then. Most boomers who hated disco and deny their prejudice are probably being a lot less honest than my uncle was.
It’s actually 326 playthroughs, and some of the titles read like b-sides from My Chemical Romance’s middle two records. Like. Seriously. Look at this shit:
I’m pretty sure Trent Reznor has a song titled after number 39, like come on.
For anyone needing titles for their angst fic, just consult this list. It’s probably got you covered. In fact, I propose we take this list and make a writing meme out of it. Can we? Can we make this a thing?
Enemies-to-lovers, but instead of featuring a villain redemption arc, the heroic one is getting progressively more corrupt, unhinged and fucked up, and the one who was originally the clear-cut villain out of the two is just like "well mark me down as scared and horny"
I remember Brennan saying “laws are just structured threats made by the ruling socioeconomic class” during an episode of D20 and we truly just had to stan immediately
