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farcille isn't "toxic yuri." nothing remotely toxic about them, they both treat each other with a great deal of care and affection and respect. just because marcille is willing to do forbidden necromancy and arguably cannibalism for her wife doesn't make her toxic that's just what you do for a woman with broad shoulders

queenbruv

the power of hitting 'end task' on a glitchy program in task manager is intoxicating. i feel like an assassin. i feel like a tyrant. you don't want to work properly? begone. off with your head. i need to kill my apps with a guillotine

valtsv

we need to bring back the phrase "what business is it of yours" in a big way i'm serious

valtsv

i know you can just say "none of your business" but phrasing it as a question with a jarringly formal tone is the ideal way to shoot an overfamiliar unwelcome overture dead in its tracks and force the person making it to confront the boundaries they're taking for granted + it would really piss people off which is funny

valtsv

&also it allows you to experience the joy of talking like an autistic vampire, which i highly recommend

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

art by @niochemblyat

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

I always know its getting toasty out in the world because girls start reblogging this post like crazy

sa1ntss

Ritual

noonesgaylikegatson

were--ralph

I want what they have

ringneckedpheasant

the final photos are so cute x

queer-joy-detector

Queer joy detected!

bluefox4

But, my father kept insisting, the Yeerks on their home world have been peaceful, these years since the attack that destroyed his honor. I didn't point out that the Yeerks on the home world had no choice: An Andalite fleet was parked in orbit above them, ready to shred anything that tried to come or go in the system. p. 34-35

How much does the Yeerk Homeworld know and support the space-faring Yeerks? How much of a split is there on the homeworld? We don't really know. Because their is an Andalite Fleet parked at their homeworld ready to blast everything.

So that also means that Yeerks like Esplin 9466 Prime that were born on the Yeerk spacecraft don't really have the option of just going home if they decide that they don't want to conquer other species. We know that some of the other Yeerks in his training program didn't like it but they really can't just leave.

The Yeerks that went willingly into space are one thing but the Yeerks born in space? They are born probably just to be more soldiers. Get the ones that don't want to fight to become parents because that process kills three Yeerks but get hundreds of new potential soldiers out of the deal. Sounds like a win-win for Yeerk high command. Pressure decenters out (tell them that they need to mate if they aren't going to fight) while getting more troops that you just have to feed the right propaganda to while young.

zarohk

OK, but given how little yeerks know about anything beyond their world before the andalites came, and how low-tech they and the gedds are, how many yeerks even though that they are? And of those who do how many even know why?

thejakeformerlyknownasprince

There's a really interesting question about thrownness and settler-colonialism in there. Like, suppose you're a guy with French parents and French culture... and you were born in Algeria in 1904. And you've never seen France. And now it's 1943 and France is occupied by Germany, and they're also invading Algeria.

Like, what do you even do in that position? You could do your best to be nice to your Algerian neighbors, but that won't stop them killing you first chance they get because you're on their parents' land. You could try joining that rumored Anti-Colonial League, but that wouldn't necessarily help Algeria and might even accelerate the rate at which Germany takes over the entire planet. You can't go back to France — it's occupied, you've never been there — but staying in Algeria makes you part of the problem. You could join the military, because at least then you're protecting your own, and you're helping prevent Germany wiping out Algeria entirely... but likely as not you'll get sent to "quell unrest" in Algeria instead.

I dunno. I feel like a lot of the ordinary yeerks are caught in a system too big to do anything about, and probably do their best not to think about it while also telling themselves that at least they're nicer to their hosts than the people on the aquatic hork-bajir project.

changelingchilde9

And that's assuming that the Andalites didn't just set the planet on fire and refuse to admit it. That does seem to be their usual MO.

dontmixpaintinyourcoffee

Interesting point here, especially given that (as far as I remember) the only actual look we get at the Yeerk home world is the chunk of the Time Vortex world that Esplin creates, which isn't even based on memories! It's justust what he thinks it would look like from how others have described it. Who's to say that barren rock and acidic calderas were always the default state of that planet?

thejakeformerlyknownasprince

Oh that's a good point -- and if anyone is taking andalite propaganda at face value, it'd be Esplin 9466!

free-and-to-none-accountable

I don't like to make too much of a business of joking about how the US military is bad at doing war because the inverse (a world where we're good at wars) would be an even worserer situation but like. Jiminy fucking Christ we're really really bad at wars it's downright remarkable

free-and-to-none-accountable

I'm really hung up on the oil thing. I love the part where we apparently have a critical interest in preserving the economy of the country we're trying to blow up because our economy will collapse if their economy collapses. I just. That's the worst anyone's ever done it, buddy. It's like the eternal war in 1984 but like the Jason Friedberg version of 1984. If the term total war describes the Clausewitzian mobilization of an entire country's political and economic apparatus towards war then the USA of America is in a permanent state of Quarter-Ass War. Like they're never gonna get there but they're gonna keep on trying anyways

free-and-to-none-accountable

Raids. They think they're gonna subdue a country half the size of the continental US with commando raids in order to avoid a costly occupation. "Uhhh yeah we don't gotta command nor control nuthin we're just gonna do Calla Doody on em til they say quits" I. Everyone is 12 now.

Clown-ass evil empire for clowns. I think all the ppl that had called Trump a bonapartist was right cuz this is some Napoleon 2 shit if i ever did seent it

itsabear

it feels like their incompetence at war is directly linked to a desire to do war. It's trite to say but I think "They are so bad at war they want to wage it" works for the modern era. The more the bomber mentality took over in ww2 and afterwards, the worse America got at war and the more they wanted to do it. Being good at war would involve knowing how disastrous/expensive/long it would be to try it.

free-and-to-none-accountable

It makes no difference what clowns think of the circus, said the judge. The circus endures. As well ask clowns what they think of stone. The circus was always here. Before clowns were, the circus waited for them. The dumbassest trade awaiting its dumbassest practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way.

free-and-to-none-accountable

The USA has been forced to the negotiating table while the strait is still closed and they haven't gotten any of their desired concessions or accomplished any stated goal while the entire world watched American tactics and equipment fail over and over and over again. You love to see it.

eflatminorseven

thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

pitbolshevik

i still think about the fucking quesadilla terf

pitbolshevik

iirc it was like this terf who was absolutely fuming because her brother was dating a trans woman and she started claiming that she was clearly male socialized because the terf made quesadillas for dinner and the trans woman was like "wow :) this is really good, what is it?" and if she was a REAL woman she would instinctively KNOW what a quesadilla is

anyway it turns out the reason the poor woman didn't know what it was was because the terf had used hummus instead of cheese for some fucking reason so it wasn't even a quesadilla

succulentul

And then I saw it. A wall. A door. Some combination of both. It had no exit.

I trembled. I prayed it would not look my way.

And then it saw me.

It SAW me!

bigandretired-deactivated202501

lonewolf23k

Let's be fair, the Rock is capable of solid line delivery and emotional acting, it's just that he always try stay in his comfort zone of "cool badass action hero" and won't allow his characters to show physical or emotional weakness, limiting his performances.

The Rock has the potential to be a great actor, but his ego is holding him back.

curiooftheheart

Funny enough I think that’s more scathing

gwenthebard

The fact that an SNL skit about the Rock inventing the worlds most evil invention and one about him snorting drugs for ed reasons are some of his best work as an actor and shows hed be great at comedy, but he holds himself back in movies by demanding to play a cool bad ass action hero, makes it all the more baffling he seems incapable of acting

Like he has shown hes great at comedic timing, and is held back by the fact even his comedy movies insist he play a bad ass action hero

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

the garlic. it beckons you

thesweetestsupervillains

It occurs to me that "1920s gangster doing a cooking show while holding you at gunpoint" is an untapped market.

We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.

ao3cassandraic

I'm uh.

Just going to point out that this happened, and then go into hiding (with, I hope, somewhat improved opsec) before somebody puts a horse head in my bed.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

Huh.

xiranjayzhao

A movie like one of those where a white dude finds himself in an Exotic Foreign Land TM and somehow, in an incredibly short amount of time, beats the locals at doing things they’ve been practicing for years - except it’s me who lands in revolutionary France and quickly learns to become a master orator of enlightenment philosophy while getting tangled up in a romance with an Exotic Local Woman: