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someone on twitter made an excellent take re. Easy: that it’s not Vaggi dismissing Charlie’s anxieties & distress just bc "she wants to have sex"

it’s a ✨conversation✨

she’s grounding her girl & reminding her she doesn’t need to carry the responsibility of fixing everything alone

moonsun2010

a sailor's last prayer

moonsun2010

If you've ever seen the Demeter section from my Dracula animatic (below):

💬 0 🔁 19 ❤️ 25 · 4 August - "But I am captain, and I must not leave my ship." this is from an animatic which you can watch here (spoilers

It's very much referencing this artwork haha

tea42

My beloved sent me gold and I wanted to share it.

ladyjessicadarke

I am dead. this was perfect

bloodraven55

so superman and lois is peak. love that we’re living in a bit of a renaissance of superman media that really gets him

kropotkindersurprise

July 22, 2026 - People around the USA are taking down Flock AI surveillance cameras. [video]

noneedtofearorhope

Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

nevermindirah

direct action works!!

physically interfering with the cameras is highly effective but obviously it's not a type of activism that's accessible to everyone — so if like me you think warrentless surveillance is never ever ever a reasonable thing for a government to do, but you're also like me and can't personally climb camera poles to dismantle that shit:

check out the August 16-22 week of action!

Mass surveillance doesn't equal safety. Join the movement to dismantle automated license plate readers in our communities.

big and small cities all over the US (and one so far in Canada!) are holding events like education sessions, marches, and public lobbying meetings with the local governments and police departments that decide whether to spend taxpayer money on warrantless surveillance. maybe my city and yours can join the nearly 100 places that have already rejected or ended contracts for mass privacy violation cameras.

persnickety-doodles

Wip 🚧

Inspo:

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terracotta7

As if Joanne couldn't get any shittier, she misgendered and insulted a woman who called for support, all because the woman had PCOS/PMOS and "didn't sound feminine enough."

Fuck her.

Your shitty children's series isn't more important than people's lives.

dittography-direwolf

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

assignedmale

womenofmcu

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

treesaspen

It's funny that many crossovers make Dracula and Carmilla into bitter rivals, because any rivalry between them would have been very unbalanced. Yes she's a Countess from a noble ancient family, too, but

He's an old man, white hair and all. She died at 19.

He's at least 300 years older than Carmilla.

He is not only a vampire, he's a wizard and a past warlord.

He's the lord of his castle, the man of his Vampiric household, and it's heavily implied that he's a vampire from his dealings with the Devil as a Solomonari. Carmilla was turned into a vampire by force, and if she's telling the truth she's bound by oath to her "mamma."

He's a man, she's a maiden.

He has tons of wealth, she has no home anymore

Dracula would never see her as an equal. He'd completely underestimate her. Imagine a CEO beefing with a rich teenager.

doctorbluesmanreturns

With Dracula, I have zero problem writing him as a totally unsympathetic villain who is a complete monster. But Carmilla? Spoiled brat nineteen year old who has never heard the word no.

People seem to really forget that Carmilla is nineteen, forever. That's a much different brain than say, twenty five forever. Or even twenty one forever. She's supremely selfish, dramatic, sarcastic, romantic, and furious BECAUSE she's nineteen forever.

Dracula has suppressed his emotions. Carmilla IS her emotions.

Dracula also mostly practices moderation, not because he has any respect for humanity but because being careful has kept him alive. (The most wanton slaughter he commits in the book is the crew of the Demeter and that can be argued as his needing to regain his full strength and leave no witnesses to his arrival in England.)

Carmilla? She says she loves Laura and drinks her. She said she loved Bertha and drained her. She eats all the village girls so that she can be with Laura longer, knowing that Laura is simultaneously her best friend and her favorite delicacy. Plus in her backstory, she was historically such a problem that the crown sent a knight to destroy her.

Dracula is more dangerous, but Carmilla is greedier.

Which ties right back to how Dracula is an unfeeling, cruel old man who vaguely remembers how love felt once, and Carmilla is, at heart, a scared, lonely, passionate, foolish, snarky, hotheaded teenager. She literally cannot learn to be "better". She is who she is. And it is very funny when she is written as a suave older femme fatale because yeah. In her dreams she's Gloria Holden (the actress who played Countess Zaleska, Dracula's daughter, in the 1936 Universal horror movie). In reality she's a mess.

And that's why we like her.

guccifloralsuits

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

barelyfunctionalcephalopod

[image transcript: Nolan's Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior's glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters have convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible. /End image transcript]

I strongly recommend checking out the full article linked by OP, this isn't even as brutal as Wilson gets.

katenepveu

acrobatic squirrel

This squirrel attempted to jump a full six feet (yes, I measured) from a nearby bush to the bird feeder. Its first two misses were spectacular, so much so that when it made it on the third try, I let it hang out and eat as many peanuts as it wanted.

(I'm sorry I didn't manage to get the leaps to sync up, but I've already spent quite a lot of time turning the video into gifs that'll upload here, so.)