Glitter everywhere~

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[juliedillon]

I drew a Varric, pouting after getting slapped around a lil' by Cassandra in DA2

[daughterofnyks2003]

Weird people who are better than the police at Everything

So I'm compiling a list of people in movies/tv shows who are helping the police. Let's see which one is most idiotic. This is only the ones I've seen, so feel free to add your stuff.

So far I have:

Anthropologist (Bones)

Writer (Castle)

Cleaning lady (High Potential)

Schizophrenic neuroscientist (Perception)

Fake psychic medium (Psych)

Cannibalistic therapist (Hannibal)

Devil Himself (Lucifer)

Alleged art forger (White Collar)

High functional sociopath (Sherlock)

Every superhero ever

Blood analyst/serial killer (Dexter)

Human lie detector (Lie to me)

Guy with a computer in his brain working at target (Chuck)

[daughterofnyks2003]

Updates from reblogs/comments:

Mathematician (Numb3rs)

Recovering drug addict with a large number of hobbies (Elementary)

Podcasters (Only murders in the building)

Bad guys who are the only good guys you can get (Leverage)

Priest (Don Mateo)

Priest, but with a bicycle (Ojciec Mateusz)

Moose and squirrel with daddy issues (Supernatural)

Anxious princess with a disorder (Monk)

Immortal guy (Forever)

Teenage girl (A good girls guide to murder, Nancy Drew)

Human bullshit detector (Poker face)

Fake psychic medium, revenge edition (The mentalist)

Fake psychic medium, zombie mortician edition (iZombie)

Actual psychic (Medium)

Magician (Deception)

PI-type human specializing in missing folks (Found)

Asshole doctor (House)

A druggie on some super drugs (Limitless)

[hatikvah-shalom]

I feel like in the past ten years, boycotting has stopped being a tool for forcing action on specific policies and become a form of harassment and monastic self-denial. Less “I will not be giving my money to you until you improve these specific conditions” and more “don’t touch the contaminated thing, lest you also become contaminated.”

[aurora-eos]

We’ve also collectively forgotten how boycotts actually work. You need a lot of people (usually members of a large community or organization) to all collectively stop giving money to one specific entity until that entity changes its ways. And then the community or organization leaders have to publicly announce that they are all doing a boycott and state the conditions under which they will resume doing business with the entity.

You can’t do a boycott on your own, the company you boycott won’t even notice.

You can’t boycott a dozen companies at once, that makes your boycott hard to join and doesn’t hit any of the companies hard enough for them to notice.

You can’t have an effective silent boycott, the company will blame some other factor.

You can’t do an indefinite boycott without conditions attached and act like the entity is forever evil and tarnished, that isn’t effective because then they have no incentive to change their ways and will keep being awful.

I support ‘voting with your wallet’ and making personal decisions about who you will or won’t buy from, but that isn’t inherently the same as a boycott and doesn’t make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things.

[daughterofstories]

I notice something when it's laid out like this:

An effective boycott requires that the community/organization have a clearly defined leader/spokesperson or small group of leaders/spokespeople who can communicate with the entity being boycotted and the public on behalf of the community/organization.

The CEO/president/whoever has the authority to make the changes being demanded needs to have reason to believe that, when the leader/spokesperson says they're happy with the changes that have been made, the boycott will end. They also need to have reason to believe that there is some change that will be good enough to end the boycott, and the change can't cost more than they're losing because of the boycott.

You can't social media trend your way through a boycott.

Yes, you can call for public support, but the core community/organization needs to have a defined structure.

Between that, and the way an effective boycott requires a willingness to communicate with the entity being boycotted and accept imperfect solutions, it is fundamentally incompatible with the way the modern Left functions.

[cumdumpstiel]

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

[aropride]

ur clothes size doesnt say anything. like it doesnt say anything abt u as a person but it also especially doesnt say anything about what size your clothes are

[annabelle--cane]

what I mean: "sexual intercourse" is as much a social construct as "romantic courtship," and you discover this very quickly as a queer person if you try to talk to able bodied straight cis people who literally think the only thing that counts as Actual Sex is penis-in-vagina penetration, like they call oral "foreplay" it's so dire. various people have a lot of vested interest in cleanly defining "sex" vs "not sex" for a whole slew of reasons (ex. censorship dodging and enforcing, conferring the social clout of virginity and prowess, finding and closing loopholes about premarital sex, deciding what relationships "count" as serious partnerships, ligating what is general assault vs sexual assault vs Something That's Definitely Probably Fine And Not Sexual At All, Actually, etc.), and it's really not something you can just fall back on as obvious common sense that people are dumb for questioning.

what I say: sex isn't real and you can't have it

[amiya-shirou]

actually the way society hates both perverts and asexuals is kinda funny. Real "Anyone who thinks about sex more than I do is a porn-addicted degenerate and anyone who thinks about sex less than I do is a loser weirdo or a puritan" energy

[jewfrogs]

falling asleep during the day: slipping away on a clouds so easy

falling asleep at night: I heard an ant gasp downstairs

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

witch's coven disguised as a college sorority house is this anything

[unattendedcheesecake]

Their enemy frat is a bunch of vampires living in a huge gothic mansion

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh they sound INSUFFERABLE, I'm greenlighting it

[3liza]

IDENTITY EMERGES ORGANICALLY FROM ACTION

[3liza]

IF YOU DONT DO ANYTHING YOU ARENT ANYONE. SORRY

[depsidase]

[dictearchive]

[magnoliamyrrh]

i think misogyny starts to feel like a lot more crazy of an opression when u process that we are half of the entire world population. half of all humans. and half of all humans have been systemically opressed by the other half in large swatches of the world for going on hundreds and thousands. h a l f. and we treat sexism like its somehow much less of an opression than other ones

[red-garden]

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

[spiribia]

Why is so much adult oriented 2d animation bastard ugly, do they know they don’t have to do that? The characters don’t have to projectile vomit all the time either, but maybe that’s asking too much

[setulose]

Not to sound like a broken record but does it make anyone else viscerally angry how we realized in the very recent past that we can successfully eradicate devastating human-specific diseases (smallpox) yet now there's a million people telling you not to vaccinate your kids against measles. I know I know "everyone will not just" but also for real we could never have measles again if everyone would just be cool

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about