Random deathknighting from Ezorea. Yes I'm a wowfugee from Azeroth. Other fun I'll inflict upon you from exploring your Netherweb.
I also repost things like a crazy metabolically-disadvantaged person.
Suffer well!
Disability benefits shouldn’t be tied to the income of a disabled person’s partner/spouse/parent.
Do you hear me?
DISABILITY BENEFITS SHOULDN’T BE TIED TO THE INCOME OF A DISABLED PERSON’S PARTNER/SPOUSE/PARENT.
This is the straight forward way to deprive a disabled person of their financial freedom and independence and trap them into possible abusive relationships.
It’s so funny every time reality butts up against these guys’ fantasies of a glorious war, they get upset. They can’t handle what Hemingway said all the way back in 1935:
“…In modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”
The worst thing to happen to modern warfare was modern warfare. Nothing has fundamentally changed in a hundred years. War is not the noble meeting of champions in the arena, it is murder.
Anyone who tells you different is trying to sell you something.
Do I have this right? During the election, the fascist republicans were an existential threat to everything we hold dear in America, and the only way to stop them was to send $3 or $5 or whatever to the bullshit fund, so we could elect Democrats who will stop it.
Okay, we tried that and we lost. So now we are really relying on those same Democrats and that same Democratic party to do everything within their power to protect us from the terrifying threat they all warned us about.
Some Democrats have been amazing – Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Chris Murphy all come to mind – while the leaders in both houses continue to do nothing more than spout empty platitudes in public, and rubber stamp the most incompetent, unqualified, dangerous, nominees in the history of the country.
There’s not a lot the House can do now – that’s coming up soon – but the Senate has had a number of opportunities to slow things down and make it hard for the fascists to enact their Project 2025 agenda.
And the Senate leader, with the exception of one performative and ultimately pointless filibuster, has done fuck all with the powers the minority has in the chamber.
I am furious that Schumer allowed his caucus to grant unanimous consent for anything, but he’s done it, again, and this time we have Tulsi Gabbard – Tulsi fucking Gabbard! – as the Director of National Intelligence as a result.
Chuck Schumer is an absolute failure of a leader in the Senate. We are crying out for leadership and support as we fight to protect America from these fascists, and instead he insults and demoralizes us with droning lectures like we’ve all been called to the principal’s office, and an absolute refusal to fight for anything.
I got thousands of text messages and emails from Democrats all over the country, correctly warning us that if Trump were not defeated, we were looking at a nightmare of fascism, crony capitalism, corruption, and targeted cruelty.
Well, we’re here … where is the fucking fight, Senator? Did all the existential threats just vanish the day after the election?
Schumer has made it painfully clear that he values some version of Senate collegiality that no longer exists, and that he has zero fight in him.
This moment demands action and a willingness to use every single lever of government to slow this down, and this old, wealthy, out of touch, effete, relic of a time that no longer exists is catastrophically letting us all down.
the other thing I find very funny about trying to write a canon compliant wol is taking all the wolship hints extremely seriously.
I don’t really wolship because I’m just fundamentally not that kind of fan. But I know for those who are, the sheer number of romance hints FFXIV throws at you can be overwhelming to parse in a context where you have a preferred/intended wolship, particularly if you’re not attracted to the gender the hints are coming from in the first place (a particular tip of the hat to wlw fans navigating the g'raha of it all). I’ve seen plenty of people write around them or write them out or be like “no aymeric was for real inviting my wol to a nice platonic zero-subtext dinner,” and God bless all of you.
But it’s really funny to imagine them all as all-too-real but unreciprocated or perhaps unreciprocatable. The sheer scale of it is comedy. Spoilers for all of FFXIV follow.
Oh God, the Lord Speaker wants to have dinner, just the two of us, at his family estate and not a government building. I hope he doesn’t bring up his crush on me. Thal’s balls he’s about to bring it up—oh thank God there’s an emergency. Oh no someone got hurt! Oh no it’s the teenage girl with a crush on me.
Your life is a cosmic joke. You watch the Sultana get poisoned and all your friends probably die to save your life and it’s kind of all your fault in some ways, I mean at the very least you should’ve spoken up when they gave the teenager a private army, and then the teenage boy speaks up and is like, “hey, I guess we have at least one ally. What about if we go visit that guy who is really obviously down unbelievably bad for you and wants to lick the sweat off of you.” and you have to be like, yeah, Alphinaud. Great idea. Let’s do it. I’ll call him.
(brief interlude: also haurchefant’s DEATH hits so good if you don’t reciprocate. It’s okay. He gets it. You’re going through a lot and even if you had time to sort through your feelings maybe you’re just not into him. That would be okay! You can love someone, or the idea of someone, without needing it to be romantically reciprocated. That’s chivalric, even. Knightly. So he won’t ask you to lie to him and say you love him as he lies dying in your arms. He’s not so low as all that. But could you smile for him as you used to? That true hero’s smile of yours. And you do, and he dies. And you both know he died for a lie, in a way, or a flight of fancy. And he’s okay with that. Are you? Should you be? Should he?)
Then you’re into Stormblood and it’s like wow, okay. That last part was all high fantasy, of course there were loyal knights and elegant princes. But this is war. Imperialism. Grim business, surely there’s no way—oh no BOTH handsome young revolutionary leaders seem to have a special interest in you?! And so does the Crown Prince of the Empire? Come on, man. I should get to do the whole horrors of war thing without having to also deal with this. Gaius sucked and it was weird that he let his foster daughter run around being openly obsessed with him but at least he never made it my problem.
You can’t even get away from it across dimensions. Shadowbringers is a horror story about going on a teambuilding camping trip with your work colleagues for some reason except they all suddenly got really hot and they keep touching you affectionately on the shoulder and being like “I care for you and your happiness. Truly.” And also you’re being stalked for the whole camping trip by two old men who are obsessed with you. The false climax of the story is that the one old man tries to betray you and give a dramatic monologue about how he loves you but the two of you are doomed by the narrative and then the other old man shoots him in the back like “no actually its MY turn to betray them and give a dramatic monologue about how our love is doomed by the narrative.” Then the real climax is old man #1 backstabbing old man #2 in the middle of said monologue before old man #2 dies and gives ANOTHER wistful monologue about his doomed love. Then for the patches they’re like okay so we have this even CRAZIER old man who’s gonna strike when you’re weak and give a dramatic monolo—
and that’s without even getting into the literal soulmate ghost only you can see
my warrior of light never felt more betrayed than in that scene where Y'shtola is like “haha Alisaie and G'raha have crushes on the warrior of light.” Like I thought we were COOL, Y'shtola! I work here! This situation is already in such a delicate balance! Right when I got here I met Alisaie’s “friend from work” who was like oh haha so YOU’RE the one she can’t stop talking about and we never followed up on that because the woman died horrifically like five minutes later right in front of us! Then when Vauthry got away and we had to do all that shit with the dwarves, G'raha kept pausing every ten minutes to be like oooooh I’m so old I’m gonna die soon…at least I got to spend some time with some people who are really important to me…in fact here’s what I’d tell the person who’s most important to me…actually u know them really well haha. And I just had to sit there and be like wow, dude, crazy.
even in the face of apocalypse you still gotta go back in time like 12,000 years and there’s somewhere there who makes you sit and listen to his story which is that the purpose of his whole godlike immortal life was to be in a throuple with you and old man #2 from the camping trip. and you just gotta sit there the whole time knowing you/your past life is the one who broke up the throuple over politics. He’s like come help me harangue the old man into streaking in public, he’ll do it if you ask.
then you meet and fight and kill God and you gotta turn to the team and be like hey sorry guys can you give me a sec. I’m gonna call God by her real name because we met one time for like four days and after that the promise of meeting me again was one of the things that sustained her through her millennia of suffering. Not like that but like. Idk. Just gimme a sec!
It’s a relief when you finally get to Lahabrea and he’s like actually I still don’t fuck with your vibe. Like thank GOD.
And my WoL is very obviously dad-shaped so Dawntrail had a very specific energy for me but I understand that for plenty of people your deepening rapport with Wuk Lamat had a romantic subtext (same for Koana depending on how you read a few of his lines). And personally I think it’s the height of comedy to be like, noooo, babe, your highness, I know you and your brother the king are in love with me and want me to stick around and support you emotionally through this governmental transition haha. But it’s just…the cursed wineglass, babe. I GOTTA go figure out what’s up with this cursed wineglass.
It’s a running gag in some of the more optional content that people are like “you have an unreasonable number of hobbies and side gigs” to the WoL from time to time. But if every time you tried picking up a new hobby some new elf started baring their soul to you, you too would be like Hey Jessie (or sometimes Krile or Tataru), my good friend who is one of the only people in my life who knows what professional ethics and work-life boundaries are, any chance you need muscle on a gig on the other side of the world? Ideally with only Cid and his ex so all libidinal energy in the room is directed towards machinery or someone who isn’t me?
ironically one of the only places you get a break from psychosexual obsession is the nier content
Thinking again about how many disabled people end up getting shunted into art/craft work because like. You can technically do it. Sometimes. Yeah you make a pittance at best and are almost certainly going to make your physical health worse by pushing yourself to get things done, but what else are you gonna do? You’re too sick for anyone to hire you. You’re “not sick enough” to qualify for benefits. Just devote every scrap of time and energy you have to a chronically underpaid, low-prestige, incredibly labor-intensive industry. A few people manage to make it work with luck and help and the right skills. Many people don’t. Everyone gets pressured to monetize their hobbies, but it’s especially insidious if you’re disabled because any tiny thing you manage to accomplish to bring yourself joy gets twisted into proof that you should somehow be able to work.
probably shitty worldbuilding idea: fantasy world that keeps going
they keep sending out expeditions to try and map the whole world and figure out if it’s round or flat or what but it just keeps going and they keep meeting new people who’ve met other people coming the other direction and everybody so far has found that it just keeps going
what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
Friendly reminder that his family are nazi sympathizers and actual nazis. His family participated in South African apartheid and got rich off slave labor.
