There’s also the undeniable way that the neutral races have a much much weaker story with the factions they join. Earthen might as well not exist outside of Kaz Algar for the notability they have, Dracthyr barely got a touch of story, and Harranir are just individuals who won’t get connections.

WIP 3

Anyways.

It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.

These are not the words of a national leader or professional soldier. ThIs is a freshman during fraternity rush hoping to impress and slowly summoning his own erection in the process.

Are you someone interested in hearing a lesbian and mean bisexual yapping too much on queer character depictions in a big IP, intentions behind writing/interpretations, community history and current state of queer depictions re: said big IP? Do I have a video for you! ✨️ youtu.be/JrTM31No6yw?...

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

This is really important. If you use Gen-AI as a creative literally in any way, you are both *endangering your own copyright* AND plagiarising others’ copyright. There is no such thing as “AI-assisted creative work”, it is entirely (oxy)moronic

In a 218-214 House, all this would take is THREE patriotic GOP reps to defect in order to strip Johnson of his gavel. Is Jeffries even trying to turn a few? Or are there really no takers even though the war is at 27% approval?

One of the coolest, funniest actors ever to grace a movie screen, equally adept with his voice, face, and body language. There's some alternate universe where he's coasting gracefully into retirement as an A-list lead. I think it's a better world than this one.

A reminder that the people in charge are in a death cult where they believe a war in the middle east—and the destrucruin of Isreal—will lead to the second coming of Jesus. They are deliberatly trying to destroy the world for this belief

And BOOM goes the dynamite. To all the AI Bros who have slid into my mentions to tell me that you CAN in fact copyright AI materials, the Supreme Court has told you to go suck rocks. A prompt is not authorship. And if there is no author, there is no valid copyright. www.engadget.com/ai/the-supre...

Always favorite. I think it's the shape of the wings...

I'm generally okay with most things associated with my age, but the one that stings is realizing that all of my heroes -- writers, filmmakers, actors, etc, the creatives who helped shape my tastes in books and movies in the 70s, 80s, and 90s -- are now at the age where they're dropping like flies.

The liberal justices call out the *rank* hypocrisy of their Republican colleagues on the Court

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

Dear Whomever is Attacking/DDSing AO3, The world is shit on fire in a basket on our doorstep. I need the little joys those millions of stories and authors share lovingly with the world to not go mad. Stop trying to trigger my villain era. I will find you. You will burn. Sincerely, An AO3 Reader

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

This is your friendly reminder to get registered and vote in every election (yes, local as well). The midterms are upon us. NerdsVote.com is where you can register/change your addy. Behold!

Also this crap only ever applies one way. The idea that it’s anti-democratic or insulting to voters to criticize a president only holds when we’re talking about delicate Republican snowflakes. I heard this exactly never about attacks on Biden or Obama.

History might not repeat, but it sure as shit rhymes.

...huh. #sexism #fat #plus-sized

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Marvel comic book artist Jacopo Camagni, known for S.W.O.R.D., Vision And Scarlet Witch, Generation X-23 and Nomen Omen died this morning at the age of 48 #RIP

Here’s a radical idea for Congress: abolish ICE, dismantle DHS, then take that ICE/CBP BBB slush fund and rebuild our national security apparatus, joint terrorism task force, and alphabet agencies as independent entities. We’re going to need them again. Trump won’t sign it, but let’s write it.

I'm reserving judgement until the ep airs. That being said, it's interesting to me that #ThePitt is already putting it out there that any need to be "balanced" on the topic of ICE was forced upon them by HBO execs looking to get approval for the merger. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/hbo...

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

Great thread.

In fiction and real life they think recognizing they have addiction/PTSD/ADHD/any other number of issues is the work. The suggestion that actually you have to *do* something about it and that includes make amends with people you've hurt is considered ableist and offensive to even suggest.

There's more fandoms I can point to but the concept I see again and again is the idea that talking about issues means holding characters accountable for their actions and a segment of the audience HATES that.

This ties in with the idea that I've seen both in media analysis and the real world that the role of therapy is to give a stamp of approval that your issues exist. Zero understanding that figuring out issues is merely a long first step and then *dealing with said issues* is the rest of it.

This is so fabulous. Thanks, @eoinglackin.bsky.social ! ❤️

I am once again stuck with 10000 wips and ideas and only being able to do one at a time. Evil.

Another horrible thing that is only happening because Trump is in the White House

the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

I wrote this comic 2 years ago. I was terrified when I wrote it but had hope it wouldn't come to pass and would be a reminder of how bad things got before we pulled back. It not only has, it has gotten even worse. This is absolutely terrifying and will destroy lives if passed.

I missed that Konan v. USPS came out yesterday. This is the case where the Post Office refused to deliver mail to a Black woman. Of course Clarence Thomas, 5-4, says it's okay. Clarence Thomas is the worst thing to happen to Black people since Roger Taney www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I do like draw some protoss from time to time.

BAFTAS were pre-recorded. Despite that, BBC chose to: - Leave in the N-word shouted while Black men were on stage - Cut out homophobic slurs shouted by the same person - Cut out "Free Palestine" declared by a Black man on stage This is what white supremacy & genocide approval looks like. Reject it.

I think Bones started solid but got better when Cam arrived in S2 & when Sweets showed up a little later. The big reveal w/Zack had a huge impact but I'm not sure he's departure was for the best.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Just looking at the decline of discourse over TV and movies across the last decade would confirm that for you. It was bad enough when reading comprehension was bad, but now people can't even about aspects of things they've SEEN

Welp. It was only a matter of time. Following this line of legislating to its natural conclusion is the Handmaid’s Tale.

Rewatched this again last night after my trip to the People’s History Museum. It’s still just so so good.

Take, for example, JD Vance:

If any of those women were TRUE party mavericks, they’d switch their affiliation to Democrat. That instantly would make Mike Johnson minority leader and deprive him of the Speaker’s gavel. They’d talk about it for YEARS.

Just a reminder while this is a victory, it's not over yet until Discord completely gives up on the age verification nonsense. Don't resubcribe to Nitro immediately.

Meanwhile, as someone who still reports on X, I can assure you that the idea that normal people staying over there with the Nazis has kept the Nazis at bay is, um, not true. People on X constantly engage with Nazis who post about pop culture topics without even knowing they’re Nazis, boosting them