place your bets Sherlock or US government which is coming back first
Adam
Merlin
Firefly.
A deceased female on Supernatural
place your bets Sherlock or US government which is coming back first
Adam
Merlin
Firefly.
A deceased female on Supernatural
I'm thinking of Symphony of the Sixth Blast Furnace by Evgeny Sedukhin again...
hmm okay i'm trying to dig up a source on this painting, to see if i could find it in any higher quality
but i can't find any evidence of its existence from before 2018 lmao
and searching the artist's name only gets me like 6 pages of results on google

and a little artist showcase page on arthive for this guy with exactly 1 painting listed
and a biography that spells this guy's name like 5 different ways


which i'm pretty sure is because it's machine translated from something
very mysterious
октябрь "October" 2009 cardboard, oil, 29.5x39.5 cm
Осень на Чусовой, "Autumn on Chusovaya" 1999, canvas, oil, 79x100 cm
Чугун идет "Cast Iron is Coming" 1976
okay that's all the art this article had, i'm really glad i could find some this artist's other works!!!!
i think it's really fun when a rly specific trope is super popular in one particular medium but in other ones it's just totally unheard of. it's the time knife. visual novel players are suuuuper used to death games but many others encountered them for the first time in squid games. the other day my mom showed me all excited the summary of a super original novel she found and it was about a girl who got reincarnated as the main character in her favorite fantasy book
what the fuck is a time knife
This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.
Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.
Yes, actually.
Look, I know people want to react to the 'leopards eating faces party' with a big fat 'told you so,' but these are ex-cultists who are reaching out to people who may need an exit with a soft landing.
People who are deeply in a cult are afraid to leave it and MAGA is no exception! There's a fear that once you leave, you won't be accepted by anyone, so they stay even if they no longer believe in their rhetoric.
A very intelligent person can fall for a cult if they feel that it can offer them something they're missing. The outside world is perilous and you can be safe here. Your friends will reject you now that you've joined us, but we will accept you. Decisions are hard, we can make them for you. The secular world has broken you, we can give you new life through christ.
If you read some of the testimonies (and so many of them are young people) you'll see how much of it is 'I didn't see it, it took someone I love to show it to me, I can't unsee it now.' We've all done things we regret. Some regrets are bigger than others. I would rather forgive them and allow them to do good work than berate them for a decision they made when compromised by anxiety.
If you want to punish them, that's up to you.
But yeah. I think we should cheer for them.
This is going around Facebook right now
And it's 100% the sentiment that needs to be cultivated. If you want MAGA to go away or be diminished, then you have to give people grace when they leave. Not only that, but you literally have to make it as easy as possible, or all you're doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Maybe it's because I've followed the vaccines-cause-autism crowd for over a decade and a half now and so RFK Jr. and his insanity are not new to me, but as much as I think it's good to point out the horrible effects of what he's doing to our health infrastructure, I really don't think that he's doing this because he wants to do a eugenics and intentionally cull people from the population or whatever Bluesky doomers are saying. I think that is giving him way too much credit. He is that stupid, and his worm-brain has been so cooked on anti-vaccine conspiracies for so long, that he genuinely believes he's doing the right thing here. That's part of what makes him so incredibly dangerous: He's a true believer. He genuinely thinks he's helping by destroying our ability to fight infectious disease, among other things. And somehow even seeing dozens of Samoan children die as a direct result of his anti-vaccine advocacy didn't dissuade him in his crank crusade.
I think there's a sort of comfort in dooming for some people, and specifically in seeing everything you disagree with as coming from those people being fundamentally evil and cruel. And certainly, the Trump administration gives us plenty of examples of things where that is the case, where "the cruelty is the point" is fully accurate: everything about its immigration policies and enforcement, the crusade against diversity in every form, threatening universities and media companies that criticize Trump, the transphobia, the defunding of USAID and public broadcasting and national parks.
But I also think it's important to note that sometimes people support blatantly destructive, cruel policies because they are really really really really really really really fucking dumb.
This is the funniest fucking thing, omg.
THE SAPPHIC MERIDIAN
This is INCREDIBLE.
As someone born pre-1995, I can attest, so many women had no idea lesbianism was an option. This is damn near every female friend I had as a teen and below, and some of the lads-later-ladies as well tbh.
Thank god for Gillian Anderson and Laura Dern and Jodie Foster and Sigourney Weaver and