The Sad Oracle

I return to you now, at the turn of the tide. The Long Awaited Return of the Alexandrian Alchemist, Sam/Miranda, 30 years old, enby (they/her), a sad humanities graduate student and merry feasting crank with a deep love of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Angels in America, Tolkien, FMA, KSBD, Dimension 20 and Critical Role, Stephen Sondheim and Dave Malloy, Vinland Saga, Italian Leftist Postmodernism, Gankutsuou, Shakespeare, and Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

[kstnt]

[airinyourtires]

why so indigo ? the girls

[filyahehh]

smartest cat ever!

[pumpkaboots]

Scheduled post, buuuuuuuuuuuuuut HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME AND MY TWIN @somethinginthebasement !!!!!!!!!!

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There's no song for turning 29. :c

[pumpkaboots]

technically we turn 29 around 4:45pm tonight, but we'll be either eating dinner or waiting in line to get into Fenway for Noah Kahan's concert......

[junewild]

i think the scientology speedrunners should start visiting the hospital mitch mcconnell is supposed to be in. i think it would be enriching for them

[contemptible-scoundrel]

nyaaaah I'm so pent up~ *vomits a torrent of acid that bores a hole through the three meter thick concrete wall of my holding cell and melts a guard on the other side*

[the-real-countess]

tucking my lovely son into bed

[sovietpaintings]

Юность | Youth;

Evgeny Rastorguev, 1957.

[papayajuan2019]

what are three thousand things you associate with me

[xviolentxyouthx]

[shrineart]

I know some people on my dash that might appreciate this.

[eatthekidsfirst]

1-3, 9: Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993)

4: Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (1987)

5: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (1996)

6: Bubblegum Crisis (1987)

7: Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)

8: Gunbuster (1988)

[thegoodmorningman]

Anything goes? ANYTHING GOES!!! HAPPY FRIDAY!!! 🪩🔥🍾

[penny-anna]

what the hell is going on

[penny-anna]

i believe in you Binface. you can do it. this could be your moment.

[penny-anna]

Please god it would be so funny

[penny-anna]

there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.

[penny-anna]

for people out of the loop:

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

[butterflyslinky]

So what happens if Count Binface actually wins? Does he join Parliament? Does he have to take the bin off his face?

[penny-anna]

I've seen some people saying he would have to give up his title but it would seem that is no longer the case as of 1999; so, no, he can keep his ceremonial bin if he wishes.

Important to note also that Count Binface is the alter ego of comedian & political satirist Jon Harvey who seems to be an intelligent individual with reasonable politics. As I said no real downside.

[penny-anna]

The no hats rule clearly does not apply to him. He is not wearing a hat. It's a bin.

[ssjandtechno]

My favourite part of this so far is that, owing to the BBC's charter of neutrality, they have to interview Count Binface and his representatives (he has none) on equal terms to Farage. So he has appeared on a very serious, very straight laced British News Show.

The two 'earthlings' in this video, Justin Webb and Nick Robinson, are known for being impeccably well read and well researched, for giving politicians really harsh, uncomprimising interviews, for reporting unflinchingly on massacres of civillians in Gaza, Sudan, and Iran, for speaking truth to power. And today they interviewed Count Binface. There are two possible outcomes here: 1) Farage wins and his investigation by the commons standards comission gets immediately reopened (and there's a motion in parliament at the moment to continue the investigation while Farage isn't an MP, and of course he didn't turn up to argue his point), and we're back where we started, or 2) Farage loses to a fecking bin. And I'm honestly not sure which is funnier

[jame7t]

can i email you

you want me pregnant

[saveaboud]

WE ARE BURNING ALIVE IN GAZA.

My little siblings are crying from the unbearable heat inside their tent, which has turned into an oven.

[saveaboud]

[saveaboud]

I am injured and in critical condition. If you see this and stay silent, please ask yourself what you would do if these were your own children.

[saveaboud]

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[aboud-lives]

Guys, please don’t scroll past us. My family is suffering, and a share could reach the person who saves our lives

[dragon-in-a-fez]

jellyfish have to be kept in a round tank because if they're in a tank with corners they'll get stuck in them. I think that's beautiful. god's stupidest little plastic bags (affectionate)

[tectonicarthur]

Also when being bred in captivity(this is done at my work and my job is to teach people about it) to get them to reproduce from the polyp stage of life, we have to intentionally cause them enough stress to reproduce but not enough to harm them. Lately we’ve done that by cleaning their habitat extra well, makes them think the word is ending

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

vampires who volunteer at nursing homes so they can meet people their own age

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

#vampires who volunteer at nursing homes so they can hit on senior citizens that are way too young for them

[ndnbutch]

sometimes i talk about how awful it was to feel trapped by my daily makeup routine and how i couldn’t leave the house without putting on a full face and it played a major role in the misery of my high school experience because i had to spend so much extra time getting ready in the mornings and that followed me into my early 20s as well and it was hell and it was so incredibly liberating to go through the slow and uncomfortable but ultimately essential process of getting my bare face back and having makeup be an optional accessory instead of a mandatory uniform. and the response always tends to be ah yes of course, because of your trans and your masculine. and it’s like aha so close! actually! I think if I ended up being a feminine cis woman I also still would not deserve even a second of that shit! I think trans women and nonbinary people and every human alive should have the option to leave the house without a single cosmetic product ever touching their face! but thanks for playing!

[ndnbutch]

and when I say people should have the option obviously I do not mean “yeah you can but everyone’s gonna treat you like you’re frumpy and weird.” I also kinda don’t even mean “you’re beautiful even without makeup!!” because like. well of course i think many people are. some of the most beautiful faces i have ever seen in my life have had not a drop of makeup on them. and that’s awesome or whatever. but it’s also kind of irrelevant to the overall point I’m actually making. really what im saying is it shouldn’t fucking matter if you are beautiful or even pleasant to look at at all! you should be able to just be, all the time no matter what. everyone around you should just treat you like a person who is worthy of respect and fair treatment regardless of what you look like. I am of course keenly aware that that is not presently actually how things work much of the time. but that end goal is what my stance on makeup is informed by. you should never ever ever fucking need it to be treated with decency.