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I made my bean salad too good and now I ate it all and I'm sad :(

#my vegetarian dishes continue to slap #i need to find another one #vampiramble

lillids

Thinking about these two. A LOT

I like to imagine for Gimli “elf traits” slowly become “Legolas traits” until he’s in too deep.

Mini comic style thingy fueled by 2am hype only. Dont mind me not deciding on the faces i r u s h ed

#THIS IS SO SWEET AAAAAAAAAA

arnaerr

liurnia of the lakes

prints ✦ patreon

#elden ring

aeli-noir

papita474

Finished it,ngl this is one of my favorite drawings of him (old desing though but still)

thewindowofthesummerhouse

Wayne Barlowe

jellogram

Okay so I found the most incredible horse statue while doing research for my job and guys. Are you ready for this. Are you sure you're fucking ready for this thing

jellogram

*sees 2 notes* FUCK yes let's fucking GOOOO

Behemoth

bix46

I saw the opposite of this horse

shadowerrata

HONSE & hrse

micahulrichdraws

NEW LIMITED TIME SALE - “The Horsemen” & “Babylon” Small Art Prints are now discounted, each hand-signed, while supplies last! You can check ‘em out in my web shop (in my bio)! ❤️

jinxproof

Querelle Jansen Vogue Italia (April 2006) ph. Tim Walker

the-punforgiven

I think Miquella is one of the most relatable characters in Elden Ring bc all he does is start projects and abandon them

#elden ring #he go to sleep :)

depsidase

jarl-deathwolf

If anyone would like to read a thorough take down of Sparta as a state not worth emulating, then ive got just the series of articles for you!

heroineimages

Reblogging because pissing on Sparta is one of my hobbies. And yes, totally check out the link above. Brett has a lot of great discussion and scholarship on why Sparta was proto-fascist garbage, and he presents it with both snark and accessibility.

fierceawakening

Holy shit. That’s… that’s worse than I thought it would be. Yikes.

doctorjanedee

Reblogging because more people should read the ACOUP Sparta takedown and fewer people should get their concept of history from fucking 300.

fierceawakening

No one should get their concept of history from 300, and I say that as someone who enjoyed 300. 300 is a comicbookification of a legend, and legends are already exaggerations.

disorganisedautodidact

A Great Divorce has also done an audio version of the ACOUP Spart takedown if audio is easier for you!

#based my fictional society loosely on sparta (as a starting point anyway) and it sucks :)

notaplaceofhonour

will never not be mad about gig economy apps making a 4 star rating mean “unacceptable quality”

notaplaceofhonour

Doordash will suspend you below 4.2 stars.

Uber drivers can be suspended at 4.6 stars.

Lyft drivers risk suspension under 4.8 stars.

Even for apps where they don’t have a publicly stated minimum, their algorithms will bury you.

4 stars does not mean 4 stars. It means 1.4 stars.

If you give a person a 4 star rating, to these companies, you are not saying “I was mostly satisfied with the service, but there’s always room for improvement”—which is what 4 stars should mean—you are voting for them to be fired.

notaplaceofhonour

Genuinely, do not ever give people 4 star ratings on gig service apps for any reason that is not a safety issue where their continuation on the app could seriously hurt people.

If someone gives you “just OK” service where you don’t want to give them 5 stars, but you don’t actively hate their existence and hope they die, just don’t rate them.

tpwrtrmnky

A lot of the time when I point out that some right-wing policy is proven to not achieve the thing it purports to have as a goal, people rightly point out that the real goal is the negative outcomes that do happen.

Which is correct!

But this is often framed as me approaching the right wing naively by the respondent.

That's not the case at all. I know they're evil. The goal is to demonstrate that they're lying by exposing the way the rhetoric fails to line up with reality.

This has to be ongoing work because someone new has their political awakening every day. Every day, someone needs to learn that the right wing position is wrong on all levels, not just the obvious ones.

realflaminglily

there will be people out there who still think the war on drugs (as the absolute first thing that comes to mind) is a legitimate social cause against an antisocial blight on society. if you come out the gate with (the very true statement) that it's actually been a deliberate campaign to target minorities and other undesirable groups to the ruling class, you're going to sound like a clueless conspiracy nut

whereas if you come with a very defensible, statistically supported point of "it doesn't work and has never worked" you can open the door to the follow up question of "why did the government do it in the first place, and (in many cases) why are they still doing it?"

tpwrtrmnky

This, exactly.

The play is to:

Demonstrate that the policy doesn't work

Demonstrate that the people enforcing the policy have everything they need to know it doesn't work

Provide the context of what the policy achieves in the absence of its "intended" outcome.

Remind people that the purpose of a system is what it does.

Then, instead of being a non-sequitur claim you're just pulling out of thin air, the conclusion is the most reasonable way to assemble the provided puzzle pieces.