Notes of the Violet Nightingale

Robyn's personal Tumblr. Autistic Gamer, Translator, Rambler, Artist, Roleplayer. [Her/She, Bisexual]

[animentality]

[depsidase]

[wilwheaton]

“Living through the Trump II presidency is an exercise in repeated loss and extended mourning for what is gone — while being daily confronted with the farcical and the absurd.”

— The Mounting Toll and Absurdity of Trumpism

[theconcealedweapon]

[maarvarq]

Always bear in mind that there is absolutely no legitimate evidence that Luigi was actually the one who killed the insurance company guy.

[theconcealedweapon]

Of course he wasn't. He was at a party with me that day.

[tiny-space-whale]

No but like literally, actually. All bits aside.

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

From the moment of his arrest, even left-of-center media has been presuming his guilt without examining anything (e.g. calling him "the killer" instead of "alleged" or "accused") and then when I say he didn't do it, the nearest person chimes in with some quip that tells me they think he did do it but should go free anyway. Don't get me wrong, I would have the same attitude if he had done it. But he didn't. It makes me feel like the only sane person in the world, even among my staunchly leftist friends.

[robynmarkius]

He is no longer facing the Death Penalty, which is progress and good news that I'll gladly take in these rough times, and would like you all to know in case you had not heard.

He has not been proven guilty nor deemed innocent yet. He is not yet a free man, and this mess is still not over.

There's a lot that doesn't add up in my opinion. I don't believe he did it. I'm 100% on the same side of "If he had done it, I'd want him to go free." Remember that he is still in custody and still going through all this legal nonsense.

Luigi himself has said he's been very grateful for all the support, so let's keep doing that and support an innocent man. ♡ His legal defense maintains/updates a site so that the public may keep up with his case and see what is happening should anyone be interested in that.

Due to the extraordinary volume of inquiries and outpouring of support, this site was created and is maintained by Luigi Mangione’s New York

[robynmarkius]

UMAD World Race got to P3 Kefka, and I got asked what the transition Cutscene said since Poikos [JP] got there first.

I'm enjoying watching the race. :3 Thought I'd share these here too since I tend to post things here when I do a translation by request. lol

Spoilers for Dancing Mad (Ultimate) / UMAD below.

ボクチン　もうすっかり把握！

(boku KACHIN mou sukkari haaku!)

"I've already figured it out!"

今からさ後悔せてやるよ……

(imakara sa koukaiseteyaro yo......)

"From now on, you're gonna regret this......"

誰に言ってるのかって？

(dare ni itteru no katte?)

"Who am I talking to?"

お前だよ　オ・マ・エ！

(omae dayo O・MA・E!)

You! Y O U !

[liberalsarecool]

Ownership meant a physical copy. Now you own nothing and can't find what you want across multiple streaming platforms.

Bring back headphones that plug in. Bring back expandable memory. Bring back owning media.

[nights-at-crystarium]

I'm currently facing a homophobic harassment campaign which illustrates it why there are fewer and fewer gay shippers. It's easier to give up and disappear than keep putting up with the hate. I'm not going to give those people the satisfaction of having bullied yet another marginalized creator out of existence, but now more than ever I need your support. Reading and sharing Fragments is free, and my patreon's only $1.

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[ladyfoxfire]

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

[dressedupliketheking]

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

[angel-lockhart]

Static 69 cleared M12S on Wednesday May 27th. :D

I knew confusing the Lindwurm with the AST Robes was a good idea. :v lol Love that my Co-Healer @paragonred is in the zoomed-in Duty Complete shot over my shoulder. :D

[robynmarkius]

It took me a little bit due to IRL nonsense, but it's up and Public. ♡

[theconcealedweapon]

The assholes openly admit it. The whole point of college is to enforce the hierarchy. When those who were supposed to be low on the hierarchy started going to college, the assholes get angry and want to make them suffer for challenging the hierarchy.

[theconcealedweapon]

[theconcealedweapon]

This is what's so fucked up about "nothing that requires the labor of others is a human right".

The labor is already being done under capitalism. The laborers are already being underpaid under capitalism.

When you propose removing the greedy profiteers and paying the workers a reasonable wage, people call that "slavery" while they have no problem with the current system.

They're not even trying to make sense.

[nnalyart]

Weekend required by Nnalyart

Day 271 of drawing Princess Luna

[orteil42]

Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

[idabbleincrazy]

Reblog if you were born in the 1900's.

[avoiding-claws]

[the-semicolonoscopy]

It’s Pride Month Eve, so leave out some milk for Freddie Mercury and his cats.

[theconcealedweapon]

[cherryjams]

‘Hands weaving magnetic-core memory, IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York,’ 1956. Photograph by Ansel Adams.

[bladespark]

My mother used to make computer cores as a "work from home" side business. As a child I got spending money via un-winding the ones that failed testing so that the magnetic center could be re-used. I got between $0.05 and $0.25 per core depending. Mom got more for the finished ones, of course, though I don't know how much. Her sister was an expert, and did the more complicated kind, some of which ended up in satellites and/or were used by NASA!

They were all done by hand using a kind of treadle-operated frame with a little (crochet!) hook to pull the wires around the cores. The people making them were mostly housewives who did this as a side-job in the 80s and 90s. I don't know if it's still done that way anywhere in the USA today, but the history of computing and space exploration is littered with "women's work" like this.