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pinned post because i need to like sort my facking tags or something idk

NOTE: I do a lot of roleplay that frequently involves (but is not limited to) some darker themes such as violence (and all its implied themes such as blood), war, corporate greed (mostly on my @evil-executive-k sideblog), there may be some body horror if one particular aspect of a specific thing ever gets explored. there is a particular "big bad evil group" that shows up that is a cult and generally carries themes of manipulation and abuse.

it's thankfully not all that though there is some fun and whimsy

#mathposting - its math. and im posting

#thinkposting - generally whenever I post about like my views or ideas it'll be under this tag. this also includes other things like when I analyze something and have fun doing so.

#thoughtposting - for whenever i "just had a thought". used to indicate that a given post was infact just a silly thought i had and is not, for instance, freudposting.

#analysisposting - whenever I analyze something or go through the process of figuring something out, it's under this tag.

#freudposting - what do you think its about

other things

#mystery critters of whimsy and ourble - my silly goofy critters

#critter lore - for posts important to critter lore, for if you're catching up on critter lore

#disciples of xara - cult that worships the critters. apparently.

#cultist lore - you're never gonna fucking believe this

#the red goobers - critters but theyre red

#the abyss - mariana trench wasnt deep enough i fucking guess

#lower abyss - oh hey guess this is so deep it needs to be its own section. wait hey whats up with-

#the orange stuff - weird substance that fucks with things. apparently common in the lower abyss.

#the epicenter - best summarized as tree of babel. and its underwater!

other things pt2 (for story arcs)

how this is gonna work is I will tag the start and end of a given chapter/part with the tag for that part. these should be used as search terms for that particular arc because the tags for each part will be different

this is so I don't fucking lose it.

they are listed from most narrative importance to least, though this is not linear.

Main arcs (I put the majority of critter related literary devices here)

[the world looks orange]

[We're in the fucking building again / Corporate espionage]

[A light in the dark / Critting Bad] (A light in the dark is the tag name, Critting Bad is the affectionate name)

Side arcs/Character specific (these may still contain critter lore relevant information !!)

[The Science Team is fucking with The Microwave again]

[Case study]

[a war of unknown reason]

[a revolutionary product]

talentlesshuman

🌸 Mantis Sketch

#awesome bug

lady-of-vitreous-sight

the walls in my house are really thick and the signal is really bad so the angel girls that visit always get a little fuzzy and groggy and sometimes even have trouble standing on their own. but. that's not a problem.

#of course. it doesnt even know why it feels like this its just vaguely confused and being cutes about it #this is why i have to do a little puzzle to open my doors because its enrichment for me and impossible for them

mousidy

we tried to hit her where the sun don't shine but zonbies and skeletons had already spawned there and we got scared

itswaow

Now would be a good time for everyone to understand how the US dollar hegemony works, and how oil was leveraged to turn the dollar into a weapon. Here, it goes like this:

1. The United States creates dollars, which costs them essentially nothing.

2. Over time, US military power compelled the biggest oil producers (starting with Saudi Arabia in 1974) to trade exclusively in dollars.

3. When a company needs oil, it needs dollars to buy it. You can obtain dollars in a number of ways: you can take a loan or you can sell shoes to the US or teacups to Europe. Notice that the factory has to ship actual shoes to the US or to third markets in order to obtain, basically, a bookkeeping entry that took the US microseconds to create.

4. The oil company receives the shoe factory's dollars in exchange for oil. It invests these dollars into US treasury bonds or securities, which is really the only sensible thing they can do --cash deprecates in value over time, and there are virtually no other risk-free places to park your billions of dollars worth of oil earnings.

5. The US puts part of the investment it received into military use, so that it can keep anyone who would dare to detach from this dollar hegemony in check. The rest goes to enrich the US. Return to step 1.

Note that this mechanism is essentially an obfuscated tax on the rest of the world. An Iranian shoe factory has to obtain dollars if it wants to buy oil, and the oil company is incentivized to store its dollars in the US treasury. This means that part of the value that foreign capitalists would otherwise pocket actually ends up in the United States.

To obtain a million dollars, the US government pushes a button; to obtain the same million a Bangladeshi factory has to sew 500 000 T-shirts.

Because the oil bill comes in dollars and the only deep, liquid, politically safe asset is a US Treasury bond, value flows to Wall Street.

In other words: The US creates money, manufactures a need for everyone to hold some of that money, and then incentivizes them to return that money to the US.

The petrodollar was only ever the beginning. Many things are gated behind the dollar: Shipping, aviation, SWIFT transactions, etc. Everyone needs dollars; if you can't get any you're going to struggle in the global capitalist economy. This is why the US gets to create seemingly endless dollars and have them still hold value, it's why the US can bend anyone reliant on the dollar to their will via sanctions; the dollar itself acts as a weapon. Of course, the status quo is maintained at gunpoint, and the dollar's value is ultimately backed by US military might. The United States exports death.

Because of all of this, the US has an enormous material incentive to keep oil flowing, to keep its military spending high, and to topple any and all projects that would endanger this system. To stop the flow of unequal exchange, to stop the coercive taxation over the rest of the world, would be to destabilize the US empire. Anyone who would provide an alternative must necessarily be seen as an adversary.

Want to nationalize your oil? Want to deal in another currency? Are you another military superpower? No? Too bad, here's one million drone strikes and a new *democratic* government for you.

This is why shifting to renewables has been such a struggle in the west, this is why the planet is warming, this is why the US is engaged in endless wars, this is why most of the world is poor, this is why millions have died. This is imperialism and it must be dismantled.

shigure

🥘 stillstainless following

full dishwasher kind of annoying actually. release me

🔲 tupperware follow

can we all agree that handwash onlys are attention seeking? you're using the same dish soap as the rest of us but you need a sponge bath because you're too good for a shower

🍳 cast-iron following

op some people will die if they're washed with soap at all. unlike certain plastic divas dishes that claim to be "top row only" like that makes a fucking difference.

🔲 tupperware follow

can you actually fuck off

🥣 countercandy mutuals

fav thing to hold

fruit

vegetables

keys

candy

soup

something else/not a bowl

Voting ended onFeb 20, 2024

☕ mug-shots follow

i love being on the top row like you are NOTTT using me for coffee LMAOO

🐾 dogbowl follow

dusty ass

🍴silverwarewolf following

all tucked in. in my drawer. with my polycule <3

#and these takeout chopsticks too i guess #ok

🥡 lunchb0x follow

Excited for summer break 😃 Can't wait to see what kinds of mold i'll collect this year

#ForgottenAgain #BackpackGang #LockerGang

🔁cast-iron following

anonymous asked: Why are you whining about how other dishes like to be washed when you're literally covered in spaghetti stains

tupperware answered: what if i killed myself

🥤 papercup mutuals

WASP IN ME

dragongirlsnout

it's punk to lay eggs

okaypersonwithuterus

Trans women and transfems with crowdfunding campaigns for medical needs are deliberately targetted for mass reporting to cut off one of the few sources of income in an attempt to passively kill them. If you participate in harassment campaigns, spread callout posts, or follow and defend people who do, you are complicit in attempted murder.

eridan-ampora

baby animals move like theyre playing a new video game & havent figured out the controls yet

eridan-ampora

^ just found the dodge button

#she has i-frames

lady-of-vitreous-sight

if you discover someone has a crush on you, you should check your work once or twice by reviewing semantic differences between responses to your attention vs others' attention (as well as differences in past responses to your attention vs present responses, in case it's a recent change). just to be sure.

the difference between a crush from someone who basically has crushes on everyone and a crush from someone who only has a few crushes is very huge.

and, then, once you've measured the degree to which the perspective is warping, then you should start subtly implying you know without saying it outright. maybe occasionally scroll liking posts, or referring to various relationships, or even almost-mentioning the concept of a crush in front of her.

not infrequently you might run into someone who has the 'emotions' of a crush but hasnt realized what it is yet. you can get away with a *lot* more here. helping that person realize what a crush feels like without ever letting her know you know is perhaps the ideal scenario.

but in general the name of the game is 'awareness of information'. ideally you want her doing light deathnote shit at all times. because it's fun.

#awesome

musashi

Hey can you guys reblog Cheeseburger so he can take a sunbeam nap on lots of blogs. No other reason I just want you guys to see him.

missvikalaslut--wiggle

*flirting* hey you're cute wanna go reblog each others posts and tag them "that's right"?

wrenhavenriver

the cat was sleeping cutely so i took a picture and went to show it to my mom and she burst out laughing and pulled out her phone and showed me a near identical one she'd taken a few minutes before

wrenhavenriver

self-proclaimed free thinkers when the cat is doing a snooze:

pocket-deer-belly

it's like, definitely still mansplaining if the man is dominating the conversation unintentionally and he would totally stop if you asked him to, actually. like, the term exists to describe a phenomenon that arises from the implicit bias that women are expected to simply be less knowledgeable about things. it doesn't matter if he's doing it on purpose or not. he does it cause he expects women to not know things or to not have any input. maybe don't fucking expect women to stand up for themselves every single time they have to have a conversation with a man because that shit happens like daily for a lot of women

pocket-deer-belly

genuinely, sincerely, if you are a man you need to learn to shut up when you're talking to women

estrogenesis-vaporeongelion

one of the most classic antifeminist tricks is to go "well it's not fair to get mad at him for (sexist behavior) if he didn't know" which is not only yet another tired attempt to reject the political frame in favor of the personal, it's a direct tee-up to the next idea, which is "because [as established] i can't be responsible for sexist behavior if i don't know it's sexist, trying to tell me about feminist ideas is an attempt to guilt me and possibly even a form of attack." do not entertain this bullshit.

if we're only allowed to be mad at being mistreated if the mistreatment is deliberate, not structural & baked in to the normal way of things, then feminism is worthless. do not ever concede this point. we are multiple thousands of years into patriarchy and it's a worldwide antifeminist backlash out there right now; if he "didn't know" then he should've, and he better catch up quick.