random shit that needs to be rebloged

“I really like the idea of love as a violent act, not to the person that you love, but against the world. To say to somebody, 'I love you; by extension, I hate all other things.” - Hozier

[evilsanlang]

it's okay if you as a lesbian want to fuck the straight blonde popstar but you can't be pretending she's a lesbian too girl at least make it a lesbian corruption kink or some shit

[evilsanlang]

"taylor swift is a lesbian" check your house for mold

"I can fuck the heterosexuality out of sabrina carpenter" questionable taste, but much more respectable

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

[anony-phangirl]

It happened

[angelshizuka]

#media literacy is dead and the "critics" killed it

HELLUVA BOSS 2.08 - The Full Moon 2.09 - Apology Tour 2.11 - Mastermind 2.12 - Sinsmas

[the-haiku-bot]

#media

literacy is dead and

the “critics” killed it

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[screenshotsofdespair]

[baddywronglegs]

[therealbeachfox]

Can’t wait to hit the lone and level sands which stretch far away this summer? Then you’re going to love our new beach fashions!

[pomegranate-pancake]

We’re having a HUGE sale!!! Shop ‘til nothing beside remains!!!

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

lie to me

[tlirsgender]

Do you think it's like a rite of passage for every new generation of xmen to momentarily feel like it's kind of fucked up to be trying to kick the shit out of a senior citizen until magneto crumples someone into a cube like a trash compactor in front of them and they're just like Oh Ok

[tlirsgender]

On the one hand I'm sure everyone else is very heavily emphasizing that magneto is Theee big bad of all time and so on and so forth the whole time the new ones are training but also. Like. Imagine you're the new new new mutants or whatever and somebody manages to actually knock magneto over and he stays on the ground for a second and you're kind of looking at each other like. Guys isn't he *really* old what if we just killed magneto & then the entire city starts shaking while he's getting back on his feet & you're like ohhh he's just REALLY ANGRY now. Ok :) oh that's bad :/ oh shit. Uh oh

[tlirsgender]

[ID: tags from @transguyhawkeye that read, "#having a panic attack over whether you just broke magnetos hip meanwhile he just separated wolverine into recycling and organics for the #third time this week" /end ID]

[losttheoldone-hereweareagain]

Bolaire is genuinely almost impossible to pin down as a character

He's a pretentious asshole. He's Shadia and Hero's "uncle Bolaire". He's a serial killer. He makes sure his favorite street performer always has spending money. He's a god-killing weapon. He's a huge fanboy of a popular actor. He's the curator of the most important exhibit in his world's history. He deals drugs to a random shithead noble.

Confusing as hell. What the fuck is your deal, dude, because I cannot pin it down

[nameless-midnight]

I saw a thing and was inspired.

[swhftt]

SWHFTT 107: Do not go gentle

[altrnvte]

[STATEMENT] .I FEAR THE FUTURE PROMISED | BUILT | EXIST LOST IN THE DARK [END STATEMENT]

[ecwscorpion209]

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[bougiebutchbinch]

I simply think that 'Bolaire canonically drains people regardless of whether he mistreats them, and therefore would really struggle to find willing hosts' and 'Bolaire doesn't really care about the suffering of mortals beyond the very small group he gives a shit about, and thus doesn't bother to find willing hosts' and 'Bolaire sadistically tortures his hosts by withholding food and water' and 'Bolaire is a tragedy of being forced to inhabit a dysphoria-inducing body he hates in order to exist in the world' and 'Bolaire nowadays only takes as hosts people who attacked him or his friends first, in a game where it is fully expected that you will kill antagonists in such a position' and 'Bolaire is living out his trauma of having his agency taken away from him for 70 years by taking away the agency of others' and 'THIS IS STILL IMMENSELY FUCKED UP, CRUEL, HORRIFIC, ETC.' and 'the way Bolaire chooses not to mitigate and instead exacerbates the suffering of his victims makes him MORE interesting but, yes, does mean he is ABSOLUTELY a deeply inhuman-morals killer who tortures his victims' and 'if you think fictional characters hurting fictional characters in Violence: The Game makes them/their actor reprehensible beyond all belief, and think that anyone who tries to empathise with them is 'woobifying' them, I don't think you should be watching D&D', can all coexist xxx

[dol-makjarcoffeehouse]

Bolaire Lathalia can be worn by someone voluntarily. Someone can wear him on purpose. He does not have to trick people into wearing him and take their lives and kill them. He can be worn by volunteers.

We know this. This is an established fact. This is how he worked up until he gained agency.

This is the context in which he kills.

In order to discuss whether or not he's a serial killer, you have to start with the fact that he deliberately chooses murder over pursuing other options, which he does have.

He can be worn by someone who chooses to wear him. He 100% knows this.

A lot of people have done a lot of murder apologia for Bolaire about how he has to do this for survival, but he doesn't. Like, flat out, he doesn't have to kill to continue to exist. He could choose to work with people and find compatible partners who are willing.

He doesn't.

[neonthecrazy]

Bolaire is easily one of my favorite characters in campaign 4 and it's because Taliesin is 100% willing to play him as a monster. He's playing on the same tropes of the elder vampire talking about literature and music while a man is chained to the dinner table dieing of blood loss.

Because Bolaire is choosing to kill these people to live a "normal" life, but he's not even really trying to do damage control. He's worked to maintain his own secrets, but he is choosing to burn through bodies at a high rate by not taking care of there needs. Let's assume he couldn't find a volunteer, let's assume he HAD to put someone on to live and he's decided that he just needs to grab someone off the street, if he cared for that body, age and species and underlying health in a medieval era depending, he could get 30-70 years out of a single body. As of episode 27, he is on his 3rd body in less then 2 weeks.

And he doesn't care! He is so good at justify it to himself. Because he wants to live as a person, he wants to have close connections and he wants to have his own personal space and he has thoughts on the world and he has a will he wants to exert. But he's so quick to assert himself as a thing, at every oppertunity he can stress it, he does, he's a thing, thing, thing, and things just do what they were made to do, things aren't good or bad, there just what they are.

He wants all the agency and liberties as a person, but he wants the absolution of being an object. The words left his own mouth, you can't be a person and a thing at the same time, but he would never admit that he wants to be both so very badly, but he cannot ever let go of being a thing, because then he would be a person, and people must face the consequences of their actions.

[theconcealedweapon]

A teenager cannot get reconstructive surgery. But a parent can circumcise a baby.

A teenager cannot get body modifications. But a parent can pierce a baby's ears.

A teenager (or even a 20 year old) cannot buy cigarettes. But a parent can smoke in places where their toddler is forced to be.

What a teenager chooses is met with stricter scrutiny than what's forced on a very young child.

[eeveegirlisnotonline]

@this-is-adultism

I hope it's okay if I tag you I thought this might be relevant

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” - Franz Kafka (died: 3 June 1924)

[lilly-townshend]

[zelda-fan-freak]

When the alive husband haunts the narrative of the dead wife…how the tables have turned

[my-dailydreams]

[girlbloke]

giving unread book back to the library makes me feel like i should be shot

[unsentimentaltranslator]

The fact that some people say things like this while other people think it’s totally fine to starve children is something that really should be talked about more.

[girlbloke]

period i am against that for sure

[sicklyseraphnsuch]

Times Occtis Used His Name to Get His Way:

Plan to Save Thjazi: Occtis and Thaisha were supposed to use their names to bypass inspection of the carriage

Plan to punish the Einfasen: Suggested by Thaisha to implicate the Einfasen

Plan to Deal with Tachonis Guards: Occtis volunteers to try and command Tachonis soldiers to stop

Plan to Deal with Julien: Pull rank.

Plan to Deal with Gaya Seremai: Occtis takes pity on her and takes her on

Plan to Deal with Tertia's Scorpion: Julien asks Occtis to tell it to stop

Plan to Deal with Tertia: Deducing that she was tied to his family, Occtis commands her to stop trying to kill them (they were low on health too)

(Bonus) Plan to Deal with Tachonis Basement Basilisk: This was Tyranny

Times Occtis Didn't Use His Name:

Speaking to the Druids: He spoke in defense of Vaelus, drawing attention from her as an undead threat, not specifically a Tachonis

Arriving at Castle Torch: He was introduced, he was part of an influential party so they all just walked up to the manager

Arriving at the Shadowlight Waypoint: He was identified, first by Hannan, then by Dr. Talter. He was a nerd and he read the right stuff so Thaisha tells him "it is now your civic duty to interfere". Cue Occtis being twenty and petulant.

Speaking to Vaelus about Reviving her Dead God: Occtis admits he would try if he could. Just to see if he can.

Conclusion:

Occtis uses his Tachonis name when he is specifically called upon to use it, which is how he got roped into rescuing Thjazi. Or he uses his family name when specifically dealing with Tachonis threats. He doesn't throw his weight around the druids or the folks at Shadowlight waypoint or even at Castle Torch. He didn't even introduce himself in those last two places.

The one shining example of Occtis actually acting like his rank was to snap back at Julien. Notably, Julien didn't even take seriously or conceded the point because he also adheres to the hierarchy as long as all parties are honorable. And that's not nothing. But it is a single example within a fabric of multiple occasions where the guy who thinks he has the right tool for the job... Uses what he thinks is the right tool for the job.

I wrote about this earlier before. Occtis isn't becoming dangerous and arrogant because he's learning to depend on his name. Occtis is becoming dangerous and arrogant because he is Occtis.

He is becoming a problem because of who he is as a person.

That said, I don't think he's the least class aware. That title goes to Julien Davinos, who still thinks that the Sundered Houses are fine in theory and the Tachonis are just traitor bastards. And every traitor bastard, like possibly the Einfasen, don't get to keep their station not because nobility is bullshit but because they aren't honorable. He even reached out to Einfasen first purely because they both have so much in common, being nobles.

On a spectrum of class awareness, Occtis is in the middle. Wicander Halovar is actually the most class aware. He didn't like the rules only applying to one class. That's his whole deal!

(Occtis has wizard hubris in its early stages. He thinks the rules eventually won't apply to him because he worked hard for the power he gets.)