he/him, 19, sfw blog, aro spec, shitpost blog i guess, Destiny 2 and Star Wars lore novice, if not responding to anything then I'm probably overthinking about life
Ive been seeing a lot of posts and videos online speculating about the new darkness subclass in Lightfall. Like I don't wanna say that I think they're wrong like an egrogore subclass or a gravity subclass would be cool as hell, I just want to add my own speculation.
Also small spoilers for the witch queen campaign, its been almost 5 months since its release but I might as well say it
Whenever you swap to stasis there's this bit of text that's shown before selecting it.
Based off of this I think Darkness based abilities are more reality bending if anything, even the deep sight allows us to warp reality back to how it was in the past to reveal certain pathways and symbols or as explained during the campaign revealing a psychic imprint on objects. When swapping back to a Light based subclass it shows this text.
People already theorize that the Light and the Darkness are opposites if each other and I think this somewhat proves it.
Light based abilities are all energy based Arc is electrical energy, Solar is heat energy, Void is.... Well idk what kind of energy it represents or its the transfer of energy between objects and people. In the lore there is radiant light and im not sure what it is but Ill just go with it being more radiation kind of energy and manipulating energy is bending cosmic nature since the only thing that's been present since the universe existed is energy, and energy or the transfer of energy is cosmic nature.
The Darkness like I said before warps reality or makes some kind of physical object like stasis crystals or those weird branch like things that come out of Rhulk and the Caretaker when you defeat them in the raid. Even egrogore and the nightmares is some kind of physical manifestation of the Darkness so I think that when we get the new darkness subclasses they're going to be doing something that either warps reality or makes a physical effect on the area around it.
After watching the Lightfall showcase and seeing the new darkness subclass my gremlin brain was filled with serotonin cuz I was technically right with my speculation. I thought in no way I'd be correct but fuck it, this one brain cell shit poster got it right.
It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.
Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real
There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations
Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that
The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.
There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)
The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.
Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.
Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.
today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.
but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.
the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.
The objectively funniest part of this is actually that the city that holds his remains, Ravenna, refused to give his remains back. This was a ploy from florence to have his remains moved back for the tourist money and its been ongoing for a long time. Florence had a fake tomb built in the city to trick people into visiting, and have tried to force the return of the remains.
His actual caretakers have been very steadfast in keeping them hidden, moved, or generally out of reach to respect his choice in life to never, ever, ever return to florence, even when he was first offered the chance to return. This is at this point an almost millenium long feud that florence is really, really mad about losing
not only bc itd be hilarious but also to exemplify that this is precicely the kind of humor this website has thrived on for months and predstrogen got permabanned and threatened with feds for saying this about matt. My guy I downloaded this from tumblr.
i think we should be clear that as funny as it would be for matt to be a little pissbaby who shit his pants bc somebody made a threat of cartoon violence against him that this was not why avery got banned and he wants us to believe that it was.
avery got banned for being a popular trans woman. thats it. the original communications she got from tumblr didnt include any mention of harassment or threats of violence. they alleged she had been banned for sexually explicit content. there has been no proof provided that avery ever posted anything out of community guidelines on what sexually adjacent content is allowed. the most popular post she has that got marked explicit was a fully clothed, sfw, shoulders-up before-and-after photo of her one year into transition. that's it. (if anyone has the screenshot of that post id appreciate it getting added here.)
matt's claim that avery was "threatening him" is so obviously an attempt to make it seem like this decision was about anything other than her daring to be a trans woman who had a following. the fact that he wasn't able to pull up any better proof than this shit is evidence that it isn't anything to do with the reason for her banning.
she was banned because tumblr thinks transfeminine people are sexual. thats it.
Don't pay a single cent to Tumblr, its merch, or the checkmarks. 4 blogs erased in about 48 hours, fuelled by transmisogyny. If you want to read more about it, look up the usernames of the blogs involved and scroll through the posts. There's no shortage of explanations or perspectives from the transfems on tumblr. And tbh I'm worried that more will be deleted for speaking out.
Me and dozens of other Palestinian bloggers have been on the receiving end of no shortage of harassment, threats, stalking. There are several users who consistently create and recreate accounts that come back to harass us everytime we block them, to spout the most heinous, genocidal, racist drivel that no one else receives on this website, because we're Palestinians and we're outspoken on our right to exist in peace and as sovereign people. This is the least of it.
The knowledge that staff can actually take care of this problem, along with the nazis, the white supremacists, and the TERF epidemic, that I don't have to deal with the shit I do on this website every day - but don't - and instead use their moderation capabilities to delete trans women's blogs arbitrarily?
Sharing this for everyone who stumbles on this post!! Please be safe y'all, def use gloves, mask, and make sure to have good ventilation! Always check the ingredients of your cleaning products before using them together! Please share this so more folks are aware, they literally don't be teaching us important stuff like this to prepare for the Adult World™
“This world is God's trial for us, our true reward is in the hereafter -- any pleasure or surcease in this world is a trick of the Devil to tempt you into hell!” That's what they believe.
Whatever the eventual outcome of the genocide case, it sets up an epic battle over the meaning and values of the so-called rules-based order
[NewYorkTimes is Private US Media]
Over the past month, we’ve watched an astonishing, high-stakes global drama play out in The Hague. A group of countries from the poorer, less powerful bloc some call the global south, led by South Africa, dragged the government of Israel and, by extension, its rich, powerful allies into the top court of the Western rules-based order and accused Israel of prosecuting a brutal war in Gaza that is “genocidal in character.”
The responses to this presentation from the leading nations of that order were quick and blunt.
“Completely unjustified and wrong,” said a statement from Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister.
“Meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever,” said John Kirby, a spokesman for the United States National Security Council.
“The accusation has no basis in fact,” a German government spokesman said, adding that Germany opposed the “political instrumentalization” of the genocide statute.
But on Friday, that court had its say, issuing a sober and careful provisional ruling that doubled as a rebuke to those dismissals. In granting provisional measures, the court affirmed that some of South Africa’s allegations were plausible and called on Israel to take immediate steps to protect civilians, increase the amount of humanitarian aid and punish officials who engaged in violent and incendiary speech. The court stopped short of calling for a cease-fire, but it granted South Africa’s request for provisional measures to prevent further civilian death. For the most part, the court ruled in favor of the global south.[...]
The court was not asked to rule on whether Israel had in fact committed genocide, a matter that is likely to take years to adjudicate. Whatever the eventual outcome of the case, it sets up an epic battle over the meaning and values of the so-called rules-based order. If these rules don’t apply when powerful countries don’t want them to, are they rules at all?
“As long as those who make rules enforce them against others while believing that they and their allies are above those rules, the international governance system is in trouble,” Thuli Madonsela, one of South Africa’s leading legal minds and an architect of its post-apartheid Constitution, told me. “We say these rules are the rules when Russia invades Ukraine or when the Rohingya are being massacred by Myanmar, but if it’s now Israel butchering Palestinians, depriving them of food, displacing them en masse, then the rules don’t apply and whoever tries to apply the rules is antisemitic? It is really putting those rules in jeopardy.”[...]
The military campaign has “wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II,” the report quoted researchers as saying. The researchers, hardly some raving left-wing activists, are experts cited in one of the most respected news organizations in the world, The Associated Press.[...]
The International Court of Justice issued a nonbinding opinion in 2004 that the security barriers Israel was erecting in the West Bank violated international law, but that ruling has had no effect. The walls still stand.[...]
Indeed, what is a rules-based system if the rules apply only selectively and if seeking to apply them to certain countries is viewed as self-evidently prejudiced? To put it more simply, is there no venue in the international system to which the stateless people of Palestine and their allies and friends can go to seek redress amid the slaughter in Gaza? And if not, what are they to do?
For the cause of Palestinian statehood, every alternative to violence has been virtually snuffed out, in part because Israel’s allies have helped to discredit them. The most recent example is the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement that has, in many places, been successfully tarred as antisemitic or even banned altogether. Efforts to use the United Nations Security Council have drawn U.S. vetoes for decades. Is seeking redress at the appropriate venue for alleged violations of international law also antisemitic, as Israel’s defense minister said on Friday? Does no law apply to Israel? Are there no limits to what it may do to defend itself?[...]
The Biden administration has made the shoring up of the international rules-based order a centerpiece of its foreign policy but, unsurprisingly, has struggled to live up to that aspiration.[...]
Occasionally straying from your principles because circumstances require it is very different from being seen to have no principles at all, and that is precisely how much of the global south has come to regard the United States.
It seems especially shortsighted in these times that the Biden administration elected to wave away the carefully documented case prepared by South Africa. One of the biggest threats to the rules-based international order is the growing consensus in the poor world that the rich world will apply those rules selectively, at its discretion, when it suits the powerful nations that make up the global north, such as when Russia invaded Ukraine.[...]
As far as the rules-based order is concerned, when it comes to crimes like genocide and ethnic cleansing, it simply does not matter who started it. [...] The best way to shore up the rules-based order is to be seen, in word and deed, as committing to the institutions and moral commitments of that order.
Western countries do not support Israel because they love the Jewish people or because they feel bad about the Holocaust, they support Israel because they have political and economic interest in supporting this particular power in this particular region at this particular time
