Reblogged brokenhardies
Gav’s Tavern Hi, I hope you like this. It is different from what I usually do. Also it was a lot of work.
Reblogged imhere-imqueer-ilikedeer
I don’t mean to be old but computer used to just have games. U didnt have to pay for em either but if u wanted u could get a little CD that put the game onto the computer and you could play it forever and ever even if the company that made it went to hell and shit. You didn’t even need the internet or wifi or anything. And it was pretty neat
It would be a finished game, too. If you played long enough and did really good you could go to all the places and get all the stuff. You never had to pay more money later it was just there. onn compter
Reblogged heartwitchhouse
obsessed with the fact that howl movingcastle, like, is the ideal portal fantasy protagonist. he's a welsh rugby-playing grad student who enters a magical world where he discovers he's a wildly powerful wizard. there's an evil witch out to get him and the king needs his help and there's a curse catching up with him. he has a magical creature sidekick and an orphan apprentice and a mentor who gets killed by the evil witch halfway through and a love interest under a terrible curse. the story is BEGGING for him to be the main character. and he's just like. no <3.
Reblogged athenaspetsnek
I wish i was different i wish it all was different . *cleans and does laundry *
Reblogged dragonpyre
Fanfic Writers: Director’s Cut
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Reblogged hobo-trash-dragon
no sentence fills me with utter loathing so much as "i asked chatgpt"
Reblogged can-i-take-a-stab
Thomas: Snakes are mean, they say, snakes are scary they say. No, do you know what snakes are?
Thomas: *squishes Deceit’s cheeks*
Thomas: Squishy~
Deceit: *flustered hiss*
Reblogged athenaspetsnek
Do you think canon Thomas ever, like... Mixes up their names? We know for a fact Writer Thomas does, thanks to bloopers. Like, Logan alone has been mistaken for both Virgil and Patton at one point. Like, it has to be the same for canon Thomas, right?
Thomas definitely had one of those mom moments where he just rattles through all the names until he says the right one. Also a possibility, Thomas rattles off a couple names, gives up, and just points at them while saying “That one! You!” Thomas accidentally called Remus ‘Roman’ once and, safe to say, will never make that mistake again. (No violence (surprisingly,) just a lot of yelling about Thomas’s ‘audacity’ and how they aren’t the same.)
But also I feel the other sides are guilty of this as well. Logan called Patton ‘Janus’ once. Patton thought it was funny, but this haunts Logan. Remus called Virgil ‘Roman’ once, and Virgil brushed it off as a ‘hey, don’t worry about it’ kinda moment. Remus had never been more grossed out by a mix-up. (Ew, I called him my brother’s name? Gross.)
And Thomas has been called by all of the side’s names at least once.
Reblogged goldenduckie
obsessed with just kinda Standing There. like idk how i got here or why i got here but i'm Here
Reblogged imhere-imqueer-ilikedeer
Yes your blorbo is tortured and pathetic and slutty and pretty and suffers more than jesus and all that but never forget that your blorbo is, first and foremost, a loser.
My followers know why I'm reblogging this lol
We love torturing our blorbos :D
Reblogged athenaspetsnek
I hope i never breach containment i like it here
Reblogged imhere-imqueer-ilikedeer
mesopelagic
time sensitive question how flirt boy
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thanks guys
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Reblogged athenaspetsnek
I meant to draw this back when I did this other doll comic as another side, to show a doll that had been cared for instead of abused, but somehow I wasn't able to finish it till like 10 minutes ago, anyway I did it *confetti*
Reblogged computationalcalculator
I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time
it feels like the sort of unforced error that should be obsessively postmortemed for the next fifty years, a catastrophe that should utterly delegitimize the society that made it happen, but instead everybody’s like “oh yeah, that. lmao, that was crazy”
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I have to add to this because I was teaching a text about this topic to a bunch of post-2003 undergraduates recently and each time I do so I experience the same sense of disorientation.
This is a war about which the accepted, mainstream consensus is that no one is able to explain the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. The people involved in that decision are unable, in retrospect, to explain or justify it. In almost every postmortem of this decision, you will find some reference to the fact that Richard Haass, who advised Colin Powell at the State Department in 2001-3, has said that he “will go to [his] grave not knowing” why the U.S. invaded Iraq. George Packer, in The Assassins’ Gate, describes the invasion as “something that some people wanted to do.”
This is a war that destroyed a country. It created ISIS. It destabilized the Middle East. It killed a minimum of c. 200,000 people. It displaced millions more. It resulted in devastating losses to the cultural heritage of Iraq. And twenty years on, no one is able to explain why it happened.
It seems to me that there are several important lessons here.
This is a war about which the accepted, mainstream consensus is that no one is able to explain the U.S. decision to invade Iraq.
Probably because everyone involved in producing and disseminating that "mainstream consensus" was involved and culpable in that crime, and instead of opening themselves up to criticism or their careers to repercussions for their monstrous behavior it's easier to just pretend that it just happened, somehow.
George Packer, in The Assassins’ Gate, describes the invasion as “something that some people wanted to do.”
"Some people." We know who these people are.
Established in the spring of 1997, the Project for the New American Century is a non¬ profit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership. The Project is an initiative of the New Citizenship Project. William Kristol is chairman of the Project, and Robert Kagan, Devon Gaffney Cross, Bruce P. Jackson and John R. Bolton serve as directors. Gary Schmitt is executive director of the Project
Some of these names might be familiar, like John Bolton, some less so, like Robert Kagan, even though this piece of shit, his brother, and his wife are still at it, having a direct hand in the current war with Ukraine.
In essence, The Project for a New American Century is a policy document laying out the intention and rationale for expanding America's hegemony as sole global superpower into the 21st century. It lays out in no uncertain terms why the US went to Iraq: [emphasis added]
In the Persian Gulf region, the presence of American forces, along with British and French units, has become a semi¬ permanent fact of life. Though the immediate mission of those forces is to enforce the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq, they represent the long-term commitment of the United States and its major allies to a region of vital importance. Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Iraq and Iran both are identified explicitly as obstacles to US domination in the region.
Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region.
And repeatedly the authors express anxiety over the fact that their plans for domination are on a time table as the regional powers they're looking to dominate are trying to develop deterrents, especially nuclear.
Potential rivals such as China are anxious to exploit these transformational technologies broadly, while adversaries like Iran, Iraq and North Korea are rushing to develop ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons as a deterrent to American intervention in regions they seek to dominate.
Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and North Korea are all set up on the chopping block because they represent threats to American/NATO interests. Elsewhere in the document they point out that such a transformation in American power and posture as they're prescribing might not be possible absent a "Pearl Harbor" like event, which they got in the form of 9-11.
And twenty years on, no one is able to explain why it happened.
No, they're just not willing to say the quiet part out loud. All these bastards know full well why it happened and who was responsible, but saying so not only implicates themselves, but the entire US government.
May they all hang.
Reblogged athenaspetsnek
To be clear, I did not write this.
I admire the level of spite her loved ones had to make damn sure that everyone would know how she died, even 154 years later. They payed for good, deep carving on a simple, sturdily shaped stone. They wanted this to last. I suspect because that was all the justice they were going to get, the 19th Century wasn't exactly known for consumer safety laws.
according to this article about the headstone,
"In the 1960s an older, broken stone with the same wording was replaced by the current one by Girard historian Hazel Kibler, who died in 1973 at age 89"
which i hope would gratify the loved ones, that someone found it that important even a century later
Context! Thank you! I love additional context! I think it would gratify Ellen Shannon's loved ones to know that a stranger a century later would do that for them.