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Eugene von Blaas - The curious one (1897)

literally insane to me how sera's entire philosophy is "revolution doesnt have to be organized or even particularly coherent. all that matters is reminding the aristocracy they are mortal and the common people that their power is contingent on our compliance" and the game just completely fails to find it thought provoking at all in fact you as the player are expected to find it juvenile and baffling there is no way to even humor her in her beliefs without an added disclaimer that the inquisitor still finds it all ridiculous and isnt really taking her seriously

Excluding the crucial fact that office jobs pay you an income….if staying home to raise children and do chores and bake bread was really so much easier and more joyful than working in an office on some objective level, why aren’t men doing it? Why aren’t they chomping at the bit to be ~leisurely house husbands~ to a working wife? Why aren’t they stepping up to depend solely on someone else’s income in exchange for round-the-clock domestic labor, if it’s really as blissful and their propaganda suggests? Curious.

Thank you! This is such an important reminder.

Was scrolling through AO3 and found this gem

Enemy to parent is a trope we have to popularise lmao

this is all my brain got from the death of the undying episode

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

MSNBC covered this story yesterday. Unfuckingbelievable

Don't buy your advisors on Amazon

Here's the thing that gets my goat about Colossal Biosciences trying to sell itself as a conservation group: We already know how to save endangered species and have brought many back from the brink. They claim to have introduced badly-needed genetic variation into several red wolves using their cloning technology, although so far I've seen no independent confirmation of this. If so, this may be of some benefit to species undergoing a genetic bottleneck, although I will wait for further research and expert commentary before I make up my mind on that one.

Saving endangered species requires protecting their habitat, helping them grow their population through captive breeding programs or other measures, and protecting them from intentional and unintentional harm by humans, predators, or a degraded environment.

Some of you might have seen me posting about how excited I am to watch a peregrine falcon from my office at work. The reason is because when I was a child, there were only 324 nesting pairs left in North America, where I live. Thanks to banning the pesticide DDT and a captive breeding program, they are now a species of least concern that has surprised everyone by adapting very well to urban life.

You may also have seen me completely lose my mind over sea otters, which, like peregrines, were nearly extinct when I was a kid. Although it's still listed as endangered, legal and habitat protections plus breeding programs have tripled the population and they are a regular, common sight along some parts of the West Coast.

These are just two particularly charismatic animals that I am privileged to enjoy seeing wild and free in nature because of multipronged conservation efforts.

The thing is, these efforts require a lot of political heavy lifting, restrictions on access to and use of environments and resources that are often very unpopular with the public, and lots of money and human labor. There's no scientific magic wand, which is the impression you get from Colossal's press releases.

IF Colossal really has such a great tool for undoing genetic bottlenecks, the right thing to do is publish it so every other conservation group can adapt it free of charge. But keeping it this super secret IP that's somehow part of an elaborate bid for venture capital investment is not good for conservation in my opinion. The most realistic outcome of their efforts is that a few rich people will get really expensive designer pets-- they probably already have people lining up to buy the designer wolves and fluffy mice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/04/10/trump-endangered-species-protections-dire-wolves/

They were always planning to gut the endangered species list anyway but now they have this bullshit to justify it.

Please look at these babies!

I AM LOOKING AT BABIES

I respect an "I can fix him" villainfucker 50x more than a "he didn't do anything wrong, he's just misunderstood!" villainfucker. like yeah they both get the cute domestic happily ever after, but man the first guy has depth they have nuance and most importantly they are actually aware they're a villainfucker

but the guy i respect MOST is the unapologetic villainfucker. "yeah he did that shit and it was sexy" fuckers. "was the wanton murder fun babe it looked fun" fuckers. these guys know where it's at

Good god, imagine how solas was with romanced lavellan fighting and getting downed in inquisition

Like. People die. That's what they do. Yeah okay hon tell me that when you're constantly keeping an eye on her back, watching as she practically falls into the role of Inquisitor, a role you've orchestrated for her, and nearly dies On The Daily

He purposely creates that distance, only to see it dwindle inch by inch, near death by near death, until that one day she hits the ground and he is flying across the battlefield to destroy whatever dealt the last blow, dropping to his knees and scooping her up like dust in his palms.

But then she's blinking up at him, bloodied and wincing but alive and he all but melts. But it hits him differently, right then, how very delicate these creatures are. He knew, of course, in a practical sense. But he hadn't been in it.

He's fought beings beyond even the comprehension of these people. She is a blink, a breath, a weave in the tapestry of his existence, but if she were to be torn or pulled from him he would unravel and that is terrifying

Anyway yeah, ancient being who is acquainted with mortality and then is forced to know it intimately through adoration is uh. It's pretty cool I guess

Viago at Rook: *squints in suspicion* Viago at Crow Rook: *smiles slightly*

Everyone in America needs to be forced to spend two weeks a year in The South

Started new Morrowind playthrough with this silly battlemage called Speaks-No-Wisdom. They don't speak much, hence the Tamrielic name (first given to them in a slightly mocking manner, but they embraced it).