[livingdeadpoetssociety]

Casual reminder that the Palestine Children's Relief Fund has a 97% on Charity Navigator and you should donate to it if u can. Despite the limited external aid that's been allowed into Gaza, they've been able to distribute a lot of aid internally. And they are providing needed aid to Lebanon.

PCRF

The Palestine Children's Relief Fund was established in 1992 by concerned humanitarians in the USA to bring injured and sick children for fr

[thatswhatsushesaid]

“kim is a spineless centrist” “kim is a moralintern simp and spy” “kim’s support of the moralintern tells you everything you need to know about him”

i guess it’s a stretch to wonder whether any of the tankies on the disco elysium subreddit have ever actually played the moralist vision quest, but i really wish they had. it’s so fucking clear in that particular questline how very much kim is objectively terrified of the coalition government and their power, and how afraid he is for harry when harry brings warship archer directly over martinaise.

earlier in the game if harry asks him for his opinions about the moralintern, kim will straight up tell him that the moralintern are a fact, and he tries not to have opinions about facts. if someone tries to pin down his belief system in-game, it’s so, so clear that this man had his idealistic fire burnt out of him by the harsh reality of living inside the literal zone of control, in the aftermath of the most tragic failed revolution in history. when he says he believes in the RCM, it is the most tone deaf and bad faith read on his response to call him a moralintern shill.

like… fuck off lol. lmao.

[ladyothelakes]

The Night Shepard

A little comic from last spring I made that hasn’t really had a home anywhere.

I liked the idea of immortality leading to a reverence for life and the world around it, rather than nihilism and wanton destruction. It was also a comforting thought that if immortal beings walked among us, they could see the future of our hope become a reality someday… so it felt relevant again.

[ghostparties]

Girl Pictures by Justine Kurland

[sayatsugu]

When You Look at Dr. Grace

part 1/2 (part 2)

[vamptits]

don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.

[halberdbooks]

Yeah

[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[transfemmbeatrice]

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

[timsutton]

[segamascott]

he seems to be doing a pretty good job tbh

[weepingwitch]

theist accelerationism: the world needs to get as bad as possible as fast as possible so God is forced to intervene

atheist accelerationism: the world needs to get as bad as possible as fast as possible in order to trigger a collapse of the current economic and socio-political structure

agnostic accelerationism: nobody knows why the world needs to get as bad as possible as fast as possible

[valtsv]

basically the best thing any character can do is decide they don't want to be afraid anymore - in fact they never want to be afraid of anything ever again - and take action so drastic they fail to realise that this too is a decision motivated by fear. or to account for the Consequences of that.

[valtsv]

[with obvious perverted intent] hey. don't you want to release the safety catches on that character. don't you want to flip off all the switches holding them back and let the control rods descend.

[passion-of-l0vers]

caramel frappe give me the strength to clean my room

[passion-of-l0vers]

caramel frappe PLEASE

[passion-of-l0vers]

#this art is so evocative. it feels like a goya painting 

thank you so much this is the highest compliment

[tintheelvenking]

OP did a lovely job with this piece. The pose they picked is a difficult one to do correctly and dynamically- the doubling over is hard to illustrate without making it look weird or poorly drawn, the low seat of the “pelvis” making the figure dip down lower (to emphasize the clutching motion of the hands) is a hard perspective to imagine without a reference. I liked the way OP chose to draw the shoulders, evoking both the hunching of shoulders that would be present in a fleshier painting and drawing out the strong, dynamic curve of the body.

The blood, the desperate clutch, the crying and the pose all suggest something religious, making the post all the more impactful with its drawing- The caramel frappe does not answer the subject, just as God does not answer the subjects of paintings who depicted the same theme.

It’s also intriguing where OP chose to put details. In amostly minimalist creation, the (relatively) detailed frappe, hands, and face guides your eyes in a a dynamic way- from the frappe to the face, then follows the line of the body out to the end of the legs- making the art more interesting to the eye.

I have a theory about the colors that I’m not sure is true, but I think the subject being black and white separates it from the frappe, which is fully colored. The blood, neither frappe nor person colored, acts as a connector between the two– the only ways the two subjects can connect are through touch and sight, both of which causes the human subject pain. Then again, I may be reading into things too much idk

[passion-of-l0vers]

okay this is my favorite comment on this entire post

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge! Just do something!

X

Not gonna lie. Everytime I see her face on my insta feed, I immediately get up and do something. She has me trained.

[wingkink]

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here

[briarlovesclara]

"it is already over" • doomed by the narrative

originally collected: july 2024

Prolouge: The Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover / The Oresteia by Aeschylus / Prolouge: The Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover

"Alexander Hamilton" from Hamilton: The Musical / "Memories" by Conan Gray / "Epic 1" from Hadestown

Introduction to Emily Wilson's translation of The Iliad / "The Hunger Games binge-read: Revisiting Mockingjay ahead of the prequel" by Sydney Bucksbaum, quoting David Levithan & Suzanne Collins / Antigone by Jean Anouilh

"That's Not How the Story Goes" from A Series of Unfortunate Events / Antigone by Jean Anouilh / Planet of Love by Richard Siken / Doctor Who 7x5 "Angels Take Manhattan" via chakoteya.net / John Darnielle / Doctor Who 9x11 "Heaven Sent" via chakoteya.net / "The Road to Hell (Reprise)" from Hadestown

Inspiration from (ask and I will untag you):

This post by @intermundia

This post by @tuverras

This post by @mirefireflies

This post by @hopeworth

[fangorn-forest]

her eyes were the sickly green of the sky before a tornado, and to his horror he discovered she could throw cows around just as easily

[that-house]

to his horror? weak shit. outta my way gayboy im boutta get it

[that-house]

all of our trobles seem so small from up here

[anarchistmemedistro]

[noneedtofearorhope]

"While those working at private companies can at least earn a little money, they face possible punishment if they refuse, from being denied family visits to being sent to higher-security prisons, which are so dangerous that the federal government filed a lawsuit four years ago that remains pending [note: article is from 2024], calling the treatment of prisoners unconstitutional.

Though they make at least $7.25 an hour, the state siphons 40% off the top of all wages and also levies fees, including $5 a day for rides to their jobs and $15 a month for laundry.

Turning down work can jeopardize chances of early release in a state that last year granted parole to only 8% of eligible prisoners — an all-time low, and among the worst rates nationwide — though that number more than doubled this year after public outcry."

Alabama profits off prisoners who work at McDonald’s but deems them too dangerous for parole

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

[anarchistmemedistro]

USA: More than 500 businesses, including McDonald's, Burger King and Walmart, allegedly using Alabama prisoners as cheap labour - Business a

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre

[the-cash-cache]

Alabama outlawed forced prison labor in 2022, which is the violation the state is being sued for now.

Alabama Outlawed Slavery in Prisons. Is It Still Happening?

Two years after Alabama voters closed the slavery loophole in their state’s constitution, people are still being punished for refusing to wo

I had to look this up since I was surprised AL was one of so few states that have tried to address modern slavery, but of course they wouldn't actually give up their slaves.

[coredrill]

“project hail mary (2026) using an orange-yellow-blue color palette in the majority of its lighting, set design, and wardrobe (except for the detour to the green planet with a purple aurora) is an intentional choice potentially based on the colors of the aroace (and aro and ace) flag(s) which may have been made in part because someone on the production staff realized that a story about a guy whose life is considered lesser explicitly because his relationships do not follow an amatonormative hierarchy, structured specifically to show that it is NOT romance which brings out the best in him but the love of/for a friend who similarly forgoes amatonormative expectations, and who is shown to be happy and fulfilled at the end for that very reason might be extremely resonant with aroaces” is a sentence which makes you sound like an insane person until you realize that project hail mary (2026) is a lord & miller production and those are the same guys who did this