He's Terrible

BEST GIRL BEST GIRL

For my favorite 'best girl' on Valentines...

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This shouldn't have happened

I don't really know how to encapsulate the impact Akira Toriyama's work has had on my life.

As a scared and stressed little kid,I tried to make sense of my life in the context of some great battle that just had to be endured. I dreaded it and I hated *that* I dreaded it - that I wasn't some shining hero ever-ready to stand up straight and face whatever would come.

And Toriyama wrote a story about this whimpering little boy at odds with all these archetypal warriors all around him that I studied like a holy book.

To this day, when life is particularly exhausting, I'll notice little doodles of an exhausted and weepy little Gohan on the margins of scrap paper, and I imagine him getting up, patting clothes to shake off the dust, and wavering into a defensive stance to go at it again. And I go at my tasks again too.

Rest well, Toriyama. Gods know you earned it.

I WISH THE WORLD WAS KINDER TO US, BROTHER MINE.

as a gwen fan, i'm so tired of other fans of her try to erase the fact that she has done bad stuff. the whole point of her arc is that she can't ran away from her mistakes anymore and she has to face them!! sure, some of her haters are misogynistic, but putting that label on everyone who dares to point out her mistakes is weird (especially with how quick gwen/gwiles fans were to hate on margo/flowerbyte)

Good morning! And AAAAHHH THANK YOU IM KISSING YOU ON THE MOUTH /silly /platonic

Seriously! Thank you! I don’t understand how these people can say they love a character but then refuse to acknowledge the reality of their actions and their effect on the other characters!

Like I love Miguel a lot, he’s probably my favorite character in Across the Spider-Verse. But not for one MOMENT do I excuse any of his actions, NOR do I deny how much he has affected and very likely traumatized the Spiders (especially the teen ones) that work for/with him! That’s a big reason why I love him though! He’s so fascinating! How close to rock bottom will he have to fall to realize he’s gone too far? How will he react once he does realize, how will he try to fix things?

Why does it seem that so few of the biggest Gwen Stacy fans aren’t interested into diving into character examining questions like this for her? Especially when there’s so many avenues that can be taken!!

Definitely misogyny should always be taken seriously, but when those people totally overuse the word as an accusation against people they disagree with, I just feel that doesn’t get us anywhere productive. True equality for women/feminism/whatever isn’t never critiquing women and female characters at all!

And let’s please never stop talking about the hate and racism Gwen Stacy stans/Gwiles shippers perpetuated towards Margo Kess, her fans, and Flowerbyte shippers. Like actually, I plan to never shut up about that so none of us forget, the idea of all that is just so horrid and upsetting.

Thank you so so so much for this ask! I had a lovely time answering it, and I hope you have an awesome day💪

Somebody once told me-

I just dreamt that Gabriel was chasing me through a marshy swamp all night until he turned to stone when the sunlight touched him.

btw a lot of harry styles looks hes been praised for being gnc are like. direct copies of juan gabriel's suits

My Mandela Catalog HC

Type 4 Alternates;

TULPA appear in the background of a reflection when their victim is checking their appearance. The victim will whip their head around in fear, checking behind themselves and rushing out the bathroom in a panic. Alternates are bad enough it's no question people will go crazier if one appeared right in their mirror taunting them with unwanted words, all darkly smiling. Not only is MAD diagnosed but they'll develop Spectrophobia (Fear of mirrors) caused by anxiety and paranoia. This will only make their survival chances plummet to the ground. Life will only get harder; hearing voices, faces popping in every reflection from a car rear view mirror to a simple puddle, constantly being haunted with nobody daring to help, the police officials you can forget, shattering mirrors won't help it'll only create tinier TULPA Alternate fragments and more voices, they'll be too scared to look in the mirror fearing the TULPA Alternates and twisting their reflection into such inhuman monstrous structure no one should ever see, an endless torture that ends with the victim ending their own life.

Now, a mirror by definition is:

"A reflective surface, now typically of glass coated with a metal amalgam, that reflects a clear image"

Anything that produces a reflection is a easy realm TULPA Alternates enter to spread M.A.D quicker and conventionally, just like The Intruder uses technology to kidnap hundreds of children faster to pace up the s****** rates. Note that these Type 4 TULPA Alternates are a recent threat beginning to appear, encounters starting off as small ripples only getting bigger and spreading wide all over Mandela County and beyond. This war between Humanity and Alternates will only get harder and trickier to survive. Mirrors are used in everyday life and reflections are everywhere. There is nowhere to escape.

So internet archive lost their lower court case. They're appealing, and have a good chance with the 2nd circuit, but they need help. Here's a link directly from one of their librarians for how you can help.

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The Fight Continues - Internet Archive Blogs

Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts