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Gorsuch of all people and the three liberal justices were all dissenting. This is a tragedy.

The Chargers have a group reunion after a couple months of separate missions.

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[Image descriptions:

In panel 1, Krem and Bull are sitting next to each other in the Herald’s rest. 

Bull: The stubble is coming along nicely, Krem!

Krem, touching his chin proudly: Thanks chief! That medicine from Stitches works wonders, no magic required! Shame it tastes so gross though.

Bull: Hah! Typical Stitches.

Stitches’ voice floating from out of frame: Cremisius…

In panel 2, Stitches is now visible and is horrified at Krem, exclaiming and gesticulating. Krem scratches his face and isn’t fazed.

Stitches: Have you been EATING IT THIS ENTIRE TIME? IT’S A SKIN OINTMENT

Krem: Ohhhh that makes more sense.]

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My new commission work! Picture of characters from The Elder Scrolls Online. Very unusual work for me, because the background takes up most of this painting. I think would love to draw more TESO characters :)

If you are interested in a commission please send me an email to point.maitimo@gmail.com

Commissioned illustration for @xensilverquill of her original dragon design: the woodland amphithere! If you think it’s neat, I highly recommend checking out this post to learn more about its biology and see the adorable crocheted sculpture this drawing was based on :)

the thing that really gets me is the multiple levels of retconning of reality that have to happen for the moral defense of barbie stanning (and mattel bootlicking) to make any sense at all

there’s the sarcastic rhetorical “did you do this for other IP/merchandising-based franchises as well or is this something you only do for things that are pink and she/her-coded” when like.. yes we literally do this for other franchises all the time??? we do this for disney and marvel and we talk about product placement (and ESPECIALLY we do this for military propaganda in ~he/him-coded~ media) and how all of this fits into the direction of hollywood as an industry relying more and more on big tentpoles

and we talk about how a lot of these studios will prop up a female director or a director of color and a Diverse cast as a shield against any criticism of either 1) the deeper issues in the story that only actually perpetuates systems of inequality but with a “colorblind/racebent” superficially “feminist” veneer or 2) their really really fucked up business practices and what this means for the industry from a broader standpoint. this IS absolutely part of a larger discussion that has been happening literally constantly for YEARS at this point about nostalgiabait and the increasing reliance on existing IP and “brand recognition” and singular massive tentpole blockbusters that have to make a billion dollars to be considered successful which leaves less and less room for anything that doesn’t fit that business model

as i’ve said, the criticism of barbie probably just seems more extreme to some people because 1) this is something that actually affects them personally because they feel personal attachment to this particular nostalgiabait IP, while they somehow don’t remember the constant mcu- and disney-bashing that happens on this website because they never really had any personal desire to engage with those things, 2) the added Feminism and pinkwashing (which i know is usually about public facing support for gay people but like, come on, it’s literal pinkwashing) of this IP in particular, and 3) the naked corporate cashgrab of mattel films and the brand partnerships and product placement and the cynicism of it all etc etc IS imo genuinely at a whole different level with barbie and the imminent mattel extended cinematic universe featuring gritty barney the dinosaur and gritty hot wheels and lena dunham polly pocket and over 40 other projects in development to build the empire of a ceo who has been described as a modern-day medici

AND THEN there’s the retconning of “barbie is the universal little girls’ toy that all little girls loved growing up” and the invention of A World Where Girls Who Loved Pink And Barbies Were The Oppressed Minority And Girls Who Did Not Like And/Or Own Barbies Growing Up Were The Norm (And The Oppressors)

AND the retconning of barbie as something that was always on the forefront of feminism and progressive ideas and beloved as a feminist icon when like ???? that literally was not true??? barbie has always been controversial and feminists have been protesting barbie for a whole myriad of reasons from the very start?? to the point where barbie as a toy had a moment i think in the late 2000s or the 2010s when it was losing popularity and seen as a misogynistic relic of its time that we had moved past as a society UNTIL mattel was like actually we don’t want to let go of the profit potential of this IP so we’re gonna revive it and that’s how we got here and it went from on the brink of losing relevance to the once again the top-selling toy model???? LIKE???? this did not happen accidentally or organically because of public demand or because it is genuinely a Feminist Icon and grew in popularity due to its merits, this was literally a corporate push from mattel inc HELLO

this is all just so insane to me that we’re pretending that this version of reality that people have concocted in their heads is what actually happened in order to claim that barbie was always a progressive feminist icon beyond any kind of moral reproach EXCEPT from misogynists who only criticized it because they hated women and things that women and girls enjoy… literally the lindsay ellis i’m sorry stephenie meyer video arguing that the only reason anyone criticized twilight was because it was popular with teen girls… HELLO. FUCKING HELLO???? god. the amount of damage that video did to discussions about twilight. i’m gonna fucking lose it

also in case people accuse me of only doing this to pink-colored she/her-coded things… another thing that is a personal pet peeve of mine is that this is ALSO tolkien stans trying to claim that the because many people hated the black elves in the amazon series for racist reasons, the way to combat that is by arguing that ACTUALLY the original books and world were incredibly progressive (or at least neutral) on race and it was written For Everyone…… no my dude are you fucking kidding me jolkien “orcs are swarthy, squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes, degraded and repulsive versions of the (to europeans) least lovely mongol types” tolkien would not have supported any of this and it’s very much a cynical superficial move on amazon’s part to get people to have this exact defensive reaction to it (AND many people do hate the racebent elves for racist reasons! multiple things can be true at once)

literally many such cases. people do this all the fucking time and it’s all so so insane to me. honestly truly just mass delusion and retconning of actual real world history in order to make sure that this thing they love is clean of any hint of Moral Offense and can be held up as a pure irreproachable thing. fucking hate it here for REAL

Can all the tumblr homosexuals agree to stop buying chick fil a. It's so depressing that across the board lgbt people and supporters are indifferent to chick fil a and feel fine buying it. Can we at least stigmatize it here

For those who actually like chick fil a sauce and refuse to boycott because of that:

It's ranch dressing, honey mustard, and barbecue sauce. Now free yourself

hey this is a friendly reminder that if your state requires submitting a picture of yourself or a photo ID to view porn on the internet, don't fucking do it

don't give them your ID. don't let them "age verify" you by accessing your webcam and taking your picture. for the love of god, don't give any site access to this shit, it doesn't matter how secure the system claims to be, anything can be hacked, and you should not trust websites to keep this info private.

what do you do instead? use a VPN. my favorite one is mullvad, but just. god. use a VPN and don't give your private info to often-sketchy websites, and don't trust the govt's laws about this to protect you, because they fucking won't.

that's all

There had been small rumors floating around. 

Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it's not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?

It's like I'm at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I'm like ah okay so I'm clearly overthinking this

This restaurant is absolute chaos and I'm giving it 5 stars

Cackling.

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Washington State Department of Natural resources tweets:

(Falling to my knees, begging, pleading)

Please.

Folks, seriously.

PLEASE.

Do not - and I can’t emphasize this enough - set the state on fire this weekend.

Fire danger is abnormally high this holiday weekend.

URGING you to consider firework alternatives:

- screaming “bang! boom!” at the sky

- dropping a stack of large books on the floor

- wrapping a toga around a candle

- play America the Beautiful while combining Coke and Mentos

I'm kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn't colonizer bullshit, it's what everyone does. It's just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

"Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A's word for thing. Say, what do you call it?"

"Oh it's [language B's word for thing]."

"Got it, it's [language B's word for thing] variety [language A's word for thing]"

added to which it is LITERALLY JUST LINGUISTIC SHORTHAND for 

[item] the way [culture] makes it. 

If you don’t want sliced bread, you want bread the way Eastern Indians make it you ask for Roti, not bread. Because Roti is bread THE WAY [EASTERN] INDIANS MAKE IT. Like fuck, it’s not that complicated a concept. 

OF COURSE it’s not colonizer bullshit! It’s just linguistic shorthand!

I hope black girls with depression have a good day today.

I hope black girls with Anxiety have a great day today

I hope my black girls with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have a great day

i hope my black girls w personality disorders and PTSD have a good day today

I hope black girls with ADHD and/or autism have a good day

I hope black girls suffering from chronic pain have a good day

I hope disabled black girls have a good day

French people raised half a million. Half a fucking million for the family of the cop who murdered Nahel Merzouk, an Algerian boy.

Well we don’t know the value of an Algerian life in France but we sure now know the reward for killing one.

To all the French people who say France is not racist fuck you. To all the Europeans who pretend to be so much better than the US a huge fuck you. To all the people getting a hard on over France fuck you. To all the people who even think about mentioning how destroying public property is bad fuck you. Fuck everyone who is not revolted by what happened.

If there’s a way to donate to Nahel’s family please do it if you can.

I thought I had shared the link for Nahel’s family but apparently I didn’t do it on tumblr. Thank you for your reblog it reminds me to do it. The link to help Nahel’s family (mom and grandma) is here

The cop is now a millionaire. Becoming a millionaire less than a week after killing an Algerian teen. All that money a support for the murder. It doesn’t even matter if the government cancel the crowdfunding now because the message was sent.

Donate to the family of the actual victim if you can. The link is just in the previous reblog.

When a person dies, their whole life returns to zero. In a blink of an eye, a whole body becomes nothing but junk. My dolls are better than that. No matter how many times they fall to pieces, I will always be able to save them.

That

is why I will win.