one time as a kid I forcefully shoved two magnets together, and these were the strong magnets my dad used in his shop to pick-up missing little metal bits, and I held them really tightly in the palm of my hand, went up to this one kid who legit said things like “I think black cats are bad, they should be drowned” and drew crosses on the notebooks of kids if she found out they didn’t go to church, I told her “Hey. I’m a witch. If you don’t stop trying to hurt animals and picking on kids, I’ll use my magic to throw you into the sky”, and when she dared to doubt my powers I told her that I had two “rocks” in my hand that I could send across the playground, then I opened my hand the the magnets shot off in two different directions (we were over in a spot that was empty, so no other kids were around, nobody got hurt), one of them stuck to a drainpipe and the other stuck to a fence. This kid SCREAMED, and ran to the office, and I guess had her mom pick her up from school, and then she wasn’t there for a couple of days, finally her mom called my house and claimed I had “traumatized her daughter by performing a terrifying magic trick”, and when my parents asked what I did I just said “I showed her a magnet and she flipped out. She’s not gonna be happy when she finds out about gravity, either”. eventually this kid came back to school and always made a point to come up to me and say “Hey, my mom told me not to talk to you!”, and would just be like “Good job, you already screwed that up”
I’ll join you in celebrating platonic and familial relationships if you keep the “romance inherently makes a story worse” far away from me. I am allergic.
One reply that I get to this post is the problem is not romance, but relationships that are given the shortcut of they’re in love in lieu of a well-written dynamic. Which I agree with and concede, and I want to submit the same thing happens with found family dynamics.
I call them “Bring Your Own Feelings” relationships. They’re not going to sell the characters feelings for each other to you, they’re counting on you projecting.
Tolkien (Bilbo) Inktober challenge ( @gnometheartist is to blame!) First three I drew with just regular ink, but I got bored and stopped drawing for a few days…and then I did the last picture, an experiment that combines ink drawing + scratching (in the background) ! I want to try this technique more in the next drawings ♥
Some of y'all like communism a little too much and act too much like it’s communism or else you’re a big ol’ conversative republican who loves capitalism and ‘Merica. (P.S. not everything is about the United States of America. No, not even if you dig. Misery can be brought by more than the US of A.)
It’s concerning as someone who spends half their time trying to tell children about communist atrocities and wondering how many of them go home and rant about how evil I am for being against communism. Even after knowing/learning communism has killed far more millions than we will ever really fully know because they figured out how to do it a little too well in an age when you just have to toss everything into a fire to get rid of the evidence.
How much generational trauma is still going along the bloodline because of communism. How many victims feel like they have to be silent or else they get dogpiled by children. Telling them they’re wrong.
Do you even know who the Khmer Rouge killed? Why?
Do you even know what the Holodomor is?
How many millions of Ukrainians and Cambodians are gone because of communists? Because their ideology literally says to murder en masse? I’m sorry that isn’t what you took out of your little commie manual.
How much bigger, fuller, wonderful would life be in dozens of places if not for communism? Communism does not encourage art. It does not encourage writing (except for the machine of communism). It does not care if you are disabled, it will kill you for being useless as a worker. If you think it cares a fucking whit about people like me, you’re sadly mistaken.
Queer people are an abomination. They will not/can not produce future workers. They are things to be killed and dumped into pits because they are not proper members of the Party. Some even got forced sterilization just for that extra bit of misery and humiliation.
It is not the amazing, wonderful, loving, caring ideology you take it for.
It cares not for true science. If a scientist disagrees with the Party Scientists, they have to go. Communist Science looks like putting hundreds into the freezing cold. Forcing them to have children. For the sole purpose of making the children immune to the cold. That’s not how that works. So many dead for science that isn’t real science. Where is your concern for ethics? For humanity? It does not exist in communism.
Communism is not what you think it is. Communism has murdered millions. Communism has hurt the families of people you claim the glory of communism in front of.
Better dead than red? Dead because of Red.
Communism is not 'people of color winning’ in South America, in Cuba. In Cambodia. In China. It’s people of color dying because of an ideology that should have been stopped in the 1800s.
What many people don’t realize is, Russia and most of the countries in Soviet Union were rich with all sorts of resources back then. Soviet Union could afford export to feed people in Cuba and stuff. No one has that amount of recourses anymore. Forests were chopped down, the sheer amount of crops was so much that it couldn’t be transported and it was left to rot. But some people still starved. Where do you see fairness here?
Also, “The honest labour” was never honest, the deadlines and demands were never met, everyone stole everything. The price of gas was low since it came from Russia, but everyone still stole it. People stole literally everything from factories they worked in, they added extra rooms to their houses built from stolen bricks, and no one really minded. That situation is unimaginable today. If Russia gets post-Soviet countries again, it will only drain them dry of what they have left and use their territory and people.
Some old people think they miss Soviet Union because things were easier back then. What they really miss is being young. Cigarettes were cheap and education was free, that’s what they miss. Life was never really easy. They remember visiting Poland fondly and laugh about the fact that it was only allowed to bring a little money so you wouldn’t be able to stay for long, that the trains were searched and KGB was allowed to examine you gynecologically and literally look up your vagina to see if you had money shoved up there, that you couldn’t speak freely even at a party with friends cause someone would inevitably report you to KGB. People raised in that atmosphere can’t fully realize just how abnormal it was. It’s natural to them.
Grandpas who sit in parks and play chess know more about what really happened in Soviet Union and its collapse than the West. Every time I hear someone from US say something about what it was like in USSR it’s just utter nonsense. Bribing, bureaucracy and nepotism was through the roof.
Q: How many witches does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Into what?
# Tuesday.
So that wasn’t much fun. The nerve-zapping-via-electrodes was…disconcerting. The insertion of the thin needles was downright upsetting. However! we lucked in that my patience and the number of needles to be inserted came to an end at the same time.
After, I went to Bleeker and Greer, had an early lunch of ham quiche and mocha (yes, yes — indulge me) then came home via Camden, Northport, Belfast.
I’m going to have a snack and get myself in gear to go out to needlework in a couple hours.
Today’s blog post title brought to you by Lonesome George Thorogood, signing Bo Diddley, and coincidentally the song I heard three times today on three different stations. “Who do you love?”
They huddled in the shelter of the ruins, the Stargate dead behind them, useless with its broken DHD. John held Rodney close to him, feeling Rodney's rapid pulse flutter under his hand, and dreamed of rescue.
This NPR article about Cards Against Humanity (the company) suing SpaceX for trespassing makes me want Cards Against Humanity, Inc., in various fictional universes.
Surely it exists in Leverage-verse, home of professional trolls. Possibly Hardison owns the company.
How scathing are the anti-Imperial cards in the Galaxy Far, Far Away? What wild schemes have they undertaken to mess with the Powers That Be?
The conflict between the Kardashians Cardassians and the Federation seems fruitful territory for people to have done really, really stupid things. Also, that allows for a tournament on Deep Space Nine. Is Garak really good at this game, or does he overthink it to the point where no one can follow his logic?
I would also love to see the Slow Horses playing the game, if only so they can observe that the real winner is Lamb, because they're all sinking to his level. Alternately, perhaps they could get mixed up in a corporate scheme.
As for The Expanse, clearly there are competing entities putting out propaganda packs on all sides all the way through, and they're all making political statements for Their Team.
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drawesome Drawtober challenge. The pics are all made in Procreate - you can click on each one for the full-sized art. 
