power

"They do not want the truth. And I? I am but a shadow, lingering in the sun." #DragonAge #Mythal

Iridescent black🖤 #bird #raven #birdart #animalart #digitalart #illustration #birdwatching #crow #original #colorful #avian #feather

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Nobody cares and nothing will happen but this is classically, paradigmatically fascist language. Comparing opponents to vermin and pests is straight out of the textbook.

How can I be racist if I'm praying to elven gods and buying my smokes from surface dwarves

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

this exists it is called thinking

Dawn Guardian #ELDENRING #NIGHTREIGN

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

witchposting

Drusilla Varus #ffxiv #ffxivart

ive had this sitting around since DT release and the only thing i remember thinking was man. this bnuny rly is Goin Thru It.

Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.

inflicts my tan lines on gravy once again 🫠🫠 #gravy_art

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

going to offer a lukewarm dissent from the general consensus that not liking this song makes you a tryhard edgelord loser and say that (like all ffxiv vocal songs) it is sonically well executed and appropriate for its usage but lyrically utterly abominable as well as poorly composed for vocalists

Lucky rabbit

At the risk of sounding mean, I think if you want FFXIV quests to be just go from A to B with zero engagement you should stop playing the game

🌽🍧🦤 #おはドド

hrothgar multitudes

i have no strong opinions on the final fantasy news of the week other than that i think mare synchronos has caused some form of mild collective psychosis

catslop. art low key makes me want to die rn so i'm taking a break

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Controversial opinion: When it comes to US presidents, "blatantly breaking laws and violently violating people's rights" is a bigger deal than "is old," meriting greater public concern and a higher percentage of attention.

THIS is why leftists and activists are so angry when Dem candidates throw vulnerable constituencies under the bus in hopes of shaving off a few swing votes; they are not insisting on “purity tests,” they just recognize the craven stupidity of doing the reactionary right’s work for them.

my lady priestess Amal { #oc #dnd }

one thing i’ll never forgive endwalker for is retconning sharlayan into a perfectly good, altruistic society that had a valid, existential reason for every major policy decision. one of the best parts of ARR’s writing was that sharlayan’s underlying belief system wasn’t so different from garlemald.

FFXIV　レイクランド/始まりの湖 Lakeland/The Source

There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally

not to get political but shb is meandering and overly expository until level 79 (interrupted by good character moments, as below) and even then the story that unfolds after that is more responsive to the entire game before shadowbringers than anything that happened in the actual expansion

emotional healing arc

vigil's keep gang #dragonage #dragonageawakening

I literally do want to spend my entire day arguing with randoms and there’s still absolutely nothing beneficial for me on Twitter, where the randoms are bad-faith bigots espousing the virtues of genocide and Hitler

If I were an all-time beneficiary of nepotism, I would just quietly enjoy my unearned professional success and decline to comment on the careers of other people.

for primrose: [+] all unsorted (she loves stuff) [+][+] playing cards [+][+] rare coins [+][+] baubles trinkets and assorted dinglehoppers [+][+][+] finely made clothing [+][+][+] perfume [-][-][-] silver jewelry

genuinely don't think i've ever been as offended as when someone suggested i was a fake moenbryda fan (and also that anyone who likes moenbryda is lying)

Say hi. They're harmless. It'd be silly to resist their pretty faces, right? ғᴛ. @vallavia.bsky.social { #ffxivsnaps | #gposers | #elezen | #viera | #radzathan | #aalvoix }

Listen as a guy with a 1200+ page worldbuilding and lore document (and growing) it will never matter as much as the characters. Characters and their circumstances/journey are why anyone looks at a story

And there’s no room among your gods for one more? #DragonAge

Let us meet again, in the land of a thousand dreams.

A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.

my favorite thing about the xiv fandom is that whenever anything happens people gotta make a statement about their thoughts on the situation like we're all senators

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.