Just your typical Pop-culture junkie's ravings

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[valtsv]

forget age gaps or differences in rank or whatever the most potently dangerous power dynamic in any relationship is "people like you more than me"

[valtsv]

genuinely nothing is more corrosive to love, respect, or trust than the insecurity of forever being second and last in line. of always being the plus one but never invited; always tolerated on their behalf but never wanted on your own. of knowing that nobody's jealousy or admiration is about you at all, only your place at their side. you tell them that you feel like you only exist when you're with them, and they laugh, charmed, but it isn't a figure of speech. it's not enough that they love you best if everyone else loves them better.

[valtsv]

okay some people are misinterpreting this as talking about people who treat you like a pity project and like they're doing you a favour by choosing you. this isn't necessarily about relationships made toxic by people who don't value you enough. this is about knowing that you're socially disposable and being unable to accept the love that you're offered because you resent how much your life depends on it.

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 5 July 1948, the UK National Health Service (NHS) was founded, on the principle that medical treatment should be provided according to need rather than the ability to pay. The idea for the NHS was not the result of individual enlightenment, but of working-class self-organisation. The inspiration for the NHS came from the Tredegar Workmen’s Medical Aid Society in South Wales, where coal miners and steelworkers paid in a small weekly subscription. By the start of World War II, 95% of Tredegar was covered by the society. Philip Prosser was born with club foot and received treatment as a result of his father's membership of the Society. He recounted: "I was taken to one of the top orthopaedic doctors in Wales and that was the start of my treatment for quite a few years. When the NHS came in in 1948, I was transferred over. It was exactly the same as the NHS in 1948. We already had it in Tredegar before that." During World War II, to motivate millions of people to sacrifice and dedicate themselves to the war effort, the government promised reforms to benefit working-class people after the war was over. Conservative MP Quentin Hogg had warned Parliament that "if you do not give the people social reform, they are going to give you social revolution." Sure enough, after the war ended, servicemen returning home, and others, began demanding better conditions, backing it up with direct action, like a huge wave of squatting. The NHS was part of a package of reforms introduced following the conflict to ensure social peace. But almost right away, it came under attack. Legislation to bring in prescription charges was introduced by the Labour Party in 1949. Then fees for dental treatments were introduced, and since then the free, socialised service has been under attack from successive governments who have gradually introduced more charges, marketisation and privatisation. Meanwhile, health workers, patients and local communities have continuously fought to defend it. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10531/foundation-of-the-nhs

[fcntasmas]

nothing unsettles me more than like a good fic on ao3 with no opening notes and no end notes. nothing but story. who are you? where are you writing from. are you ok. who hurt you

[fcntasmas]

#i click onto the author’s dashboard and open all their other fics looking for notes on them#they are all similarly blank#i go to the author profile. it tells me the author joined in 2014 and nothing else#they have no bookmarks. they have one gift and it’s a bts fic from orphan_account. none of their own fics are bts fics.#this fic has altered me. i leave an unhinged comment then bookmark it and go stare out the window // via @elegantlyloquacious

[goatedgreen]

i generally hate english patriotism because. its england. however there is something very satisfying in the way ppl say "INGERLUNNDDDDD" like idk its just fun to say it like that

[thevisualvamp]

Meow

[foldingfittedsheets]

Oh to be a little orange cat curled up safely in a dragons tail.

[animentality]

[ao3commentoftheday]

user scripts for AO3 relationships

If you're someone who wants to be able to find (or avoid) ships while reading on AO3, odds are good that a fan coder out there has created a user script that could help you out.

User scripts are similar to extensions. You add them to your browser to automatically adjust web pages for you. User scripts allow you the opportunity to personalize them, however, which is wonderful for things like AO3 filters.

Here are a few that might be worth a look:

AO3 multishipper saviour - if you want to read about a particular character in a relationship without specifying any other person. The relationships can be specified to be romantic or platonic or both.

AO3: Reorder Ship Tags - Automatically reorders relationship tags on work blurbs so romantic ships (/) always appear before platonic ships (&).

AO3 Relationship/Character Highlighter - highlights the ship/character you’re looking for if they appear in the first two relationship/character tags.

AO3 romantic relationship savior - hides all romantic relationships in sort & filter page that has "/"

AO3 First Relationship Tag Filter - toggle on the script if you're browsing a relationship tag and all the works that don't have that tag as their first tag will be hidden. Works on both romantic (/) and platonic (&) relationships.

AO3 relationship savior - hides works that have too many relationships in them.

AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing - will hide fics that don't have the designated pairing listed first in the tags.

AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing (Auto) - The difference between this and Neeve's script is that it automatically detects the primary pairing, little to no configuration needed.

AO3 Show every pairing except THAT one - Remove relationship tags from script which you do not want to read.

Feel free to add more in the notes!

[zetalial]

Would you happen to know the source for the Fullmetal Alchemist: The Girl Who Succeeds God magazine spread featured in your FMA 03 official art collection page (image 629)?

Hello! The image in question:

Unfortunately, the answer is no. I don't have any sources for where I grabbed the images from. Sorry I can't be of more help!

[done12356259392929-deactivated2]

REMEMBER THAT POST WITH CINDERELLA WHERE HER DRESS CHANGES TO THE COLOR OF YOUR BLOG?

THIS ONE DOES IT TOO!!

I found a bunch more!!

x

[spookykittyontheway-deactivated]

This. is. so. COOL

[everwizard]

If this doesn’t work I’m going to cry.

[thefancydragonqueen]

it’S back!

[kleikot-deactivated20181221]

What

[afeix]

[thelanguageoflovers]

why

[vampiresneverhurtme]

Just reblogging to see if the last one is true

[skinnyboi-uwu]

Wait- what? 🤣

Edit: OH WAIT NO I DIDN’T THINK IT’D GENUINELY WORK OMG- (tap on the images to see it after reblogging 🤪)

[corrupted-steven-youniverse]

i’m only here for the last one-

[official-graveyard-posts]

Official graveyard post. +Bonus

[jeopardy-official]

What is curiousity?

[no-one-offical]

‎

[m8r10theplayerspuppet]

Alright. Let’s see.

[vexlin]

Best woman in the world

[lovely-v]

Being crazy about a piece of media for any amount of time will leave a weird mark on you forever because years later you’ll see someone posting something about it like “can we talk about this frame” and you’ll be like “ah that frame. i know all about that frame. I was once a scholar of that frame.”

[crypticbrindled-deactivated2024]

MBS Anime Festival 2005 Programme Conqueror of Shamballa Feature.  

[parentheticalaside]

My most old-school internet opinion is bring back chunky scroll bars! I don't want some scroll bar so discreet I can't even find the fucking thing. I want a nice Windows 98-level of obviousness.

[ohvoyager]

Yui's Again but it's set to Fullmetal Alchemist 2003

[bethanydelleman]

Everyone, we can fix Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet if we just switch the leads.

Romeo wakes up in Hamlet's body and meets the ghost of "his" father telling him to kill his uncle. So if course Romeo just fucking does it, because he never considers consequences, and then gets onto more important shit, like romancing Ophelia, political fallout be damned! But given that he's the son of the murdered king, he'd probably end up on top.

Hamlet wakes up as Romeo and is told that he can't marry the love of his life because his family hates her family. Instead of killing Tybalt and getting Merucio murdered, he's planning elaborate meet-cutes for the two warring families. He's putting on plays about blood feuds and how to overcome them. He either succeeds in bringing the families together or bores Juliet enough with his indecision that the glow wears off and she moves on; both positive options. Everybody lives.

[ekjohnston]

This is much funnier than switching Hamlet and Othello.

[jarbley]

This tracks with how I think about tragedies. A tragedy is when a flawed character is put in the exact situation where those specific flaws will cause their demise. You put them in a nightmare scenario crafted especially for them. Since a tragedy is a union of a specific character and specific situation, if you take the character out of the situation it's probably not a tragedy anymore.

If we watched a character so flawed that they will always fall to calamity, then that's just a biography of a walking disaster.

If we put a character into a situation where anyone would fail, then that's just torture.

It's a tragedy because the character is complicated. They have flaws but also strengths and aren't doomed from the start, but then are put in a scenario specifically crafted to bring out the worst in them.

[wisteria-lodge]

Hamlet is genre savvy enough that I think he'd probably do well in *most* other Shakespeare play scenarios. A lot of his problems come from the fact that he can *kinda* see where this is going, and *kinda* knows what happens when you kill a king (nothing good) and he's stuck in this trolley problem trap. No matter what he does, he can imagine a potential negative outcome, and this holding pattern he's in... like it's not great but it's *bareable.* He's miserable but everyone else is okay. It's a lot of low-stakes spying-behind-corners BS. His solution is to basically provoke Claudius into acting out in order to get things going and justify his actions.

Romeo has comically little emotional control ("by his own tears made drunk") and would see the ghost and just tell... everybody. Ophelia knows about the ghost. Gertrude knows about the ghost. It wouldn't be a tactic or anything, he just wouldn't be able to stop himself. They'd probably be saying "crazy prince Hamlet" but Claudius would be freaking out and Gertrude would be saying... hey wait just a second.

Claudius would attempt to kill Prince Romeo... and Romeo just kills him. but by this point he would probably have secretly married Ophelia and the two of them run away with the pirates. And then it turns into... Gertrude vs Fortinbras.

[buffaloballet]

the 100+ unfinished games in my steam library vs my 20 year old game i have played through 2387462387 times