I think it's a fun contribution to the themes of the movie that the Irish step dancing number in Sinners actually bangs. Like, the message isn't that black people have culture and white people don't have culture. The message is that both black people and white people have culture, but the white people also want to Eat the black people's culture and they will Kill Everyone to get it, and that's kind of an important difference in what you might call their approach. A-fiddledy fiddledy-dee
imagine being a regular, poor kirkwall darktowner going about your day and then your doctor kills like 10 people right in front of you and no one even cares
But he doesn't charge, so you don't care either.
I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.
If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.
For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:
(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)
But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:
"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."
Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."
Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:
- That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!
- Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?
- So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.
Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.
While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.
Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:
This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.
this is the full video of patti lupone breaking the sound barrier at the 1988 tony awards btw
it's patti lupone's birthday have you listened to her breaking the sound barrier at the 1988 tony awards?
@bloodanna i'm stealing your tags bc it's a good explanation of what's going on!!!
El Jockey
beast of the Apocalypse
Laurent d'Orléans, La Somme le Roi, Paris ca. 1295
BL, Additional 54180, fol. 14v
So I’ve tracked through the tags that Bellefluer has always planned to kill Bastion, but I’m so curious! What are the deets! For what purpose, to what end! If she wants to end this history how does his death help her?
Bellefleur wants to do more than end this history: she wants to end all histories. She wants to bring about the final victory of the Emperor-Wolf, and drop the curtain on the universe.
How does she plan to do that (and what does Bastian have to do with it)?
To understand Bellefleur's plan, you have to understand (as she does) the actual purpose of the universe as conceived by the Glory itself. (And I'm going to have to be a little evasive here, because Emily hasn't worked out everything going on with this stuff yet.) The Glory has no will, per se: but the exhalation of the Glory at the dawn of the Anthelion history created the entire architecture of the universe as we know it, as if it were a natural and inevitable consequence of the Glory's emanation.
Into that universe, the Glory projected - well, it's called a lot of things across many cultures. A son, let's just say. Bastian understands it to be Lucifer: the greatest of all the Glory's creations, the one most like the Glory itself, but a being of dynamism and will and preferences, set to rule over everything in existence. Another way to think of it might be to just say that the Glory - which is in completeness and totality in a way that may preclude it from holding anything as prosaic as an opinion - created a projection of itself that was separate from itself, metaphysically incomplete in a way that would allow that projection to distinguish between itself and the universe around it.
And then the Glory asked his son - this projection, this emanation - a question.
Bastian doesn't know what the question was. But only Lucifer - as he calls this creation - can answer it. And Lucifer can't, presently, answer the question, because Lucifer no longer exists.
In the moment after his creation - right after hearing the question - the son of the Glory discovered darkness inside of himself, and expelled it to the depths of Mithra, the gravitational nothing at the bottom of creation. That darkness embodied itself as the Emperor-Wolf, but it's hard to say that the Emperor-Wolf is anything. It is nothing: it is the void: it is the negative image. It is the nihilistic howl of unmaking. And for the rest of the Anthelion History, the Emperor-Wolf planned its revenge against (as esoteric scholars in the world of Heretic call what was left of that son of the Glory then) the Sun-In-Glory, for presuming to define and create his perfect Self as one without a shadow.
The Emperor-Wolf created the Rending - an annihilating force of hatred and destruction - and hurled it out of Mithra into the heart of the Sun-In-Glory, and killed him.
And then a new history turned over, and the Rending did not kill the Sun-in-Glory, and this really pisses Bellefleur off: because the Emperor-Wolf had won. The Glory (if it is the Glory who determines the fission of a new history) had cheated. In this new history - the Pridian History - the Rending had shattered the Sun-In-Glory, but not fatally. What was left was
The Crown (the Sun-In-Rags, in hospice now under the care of the Madrugad, still in possession of the Voice of God)
The Mantle (the Pyre-Hawk, the burning beauty and joy of Lucifer)
The Body (Mother White, the strength and creative power of Lucifer, now undead and starving)
and the Blood, who is always mortal, and is...whatever is left of the Devil when you strip the rest of it away. The Blood is who the Devil is. What sort of person he is. Bastian is the Blood of his age. Christ was the Blood before him. There have been others.
What does all of this have to do with Bellefleur's plan?
Well, the universe can't end until the son of the Glory answers the Glory's question. That is - from the perspective of someone like Bellefleur, who is looking at everything on the grandest possible scale - the point of the universe. It is there to be regarded by Lucifer and inform the answer to the question, whatever the question might be. So to end the universe, first you have to put the Devil back together.
And that includes the Emperor-Wolf and the Rending, too! The part that Lucifer expelled from himself, and the part of that which the Emperor-Wolf fashioned into a weapon to be his active agent in the universe (mirroring the relationship between the Glory and Lucifer himself, if you like). Only when all six are one being again can Bellefleur hope for the histories to stop changing over. This project is known by esoteric scholars in the world of Heretic as the Reunification of the Sun.
But if the Sun is to be Reunified, it has to be determined: under which part?
The Emperor-Wolf and the Sun-In-Rags both want to 'rule' over the reconstituted Son of the Glory. Mother White seems to want that, too, if we can interpret "she wants to eat the rest of them" as 'ruling them.' The Pyre-Hawk doesn't seem to care who comes out on top, but has not joined its power to any of the others yet (and once did make a friendly overture towards Bastian, which he accidentally rejected because he didn't realize what it was): and then there's the Rending, who just wants to destroy everything, and maybe go on a date with the Sunflower King, but definitely wouldn't let any harmonious conjunction of the constituent forces of the Sun happen on its watch, unless perhaps it would leave the Emperor-Wolf, its father, ascendant.
That leaves the Blood.
The Blood always starts out as, BY FAR, the weakest of all of the parts of the Sun. But it's also the only one that isn't trapped. The Emperor-Wolf is imprisoned on Candle Lake, the Rending fell in love like a dipshit and is kept pacified by the sacrifice of the Sunflower King, Mother White is pinned down mostly-dead by the Black Captain and the Madderblade, and the Sun-In-Rags will die if it leaves the citadel of the Madrugad. (The Pyre-Hawk is just vibing. It's not trying to win.) So Bastian is free to act in a way that none of the others can.
Bastian intends to complete the Reunification of the Sun under his banner, and answer the question the Glory asked himself, once he figures out what it is, and how to make an answer. Bellefleur also intended that...up to a point. She had a great plan that would see Bastian conquer Mother White, the Rending, the Pyre-Hawk and the Sun-In-Rags before confronting the Emperor-Wolf (a plan which, to Bastian's great unease, his is probably still following). But Bastian intends to defeat the Emperor-Wolf: while Bellefleur planned to betray him and sacrifice him to the Emperor-Wolf, securing the final victory of the Void.
Bastian's still gonna have to confront the Emperor-Wolf eventually. And Bellefleur surely still plans to turn up when he does.
As for why Bellefleur wants this, I can't really say much. Why his wife who he loves meant to stab him in the back at the precipice of his triumph is a question that keeps Bastian up at night. She's angry at the Glory for the state of the universe, sure: but wasn't the plan for Bastian to change the universe? She saw the Emperor-Wolf with her own eyes in a moment of despair while on a last, desperate pilgrimage for meaning, but did that enslave her to his will - or did she genuinely find purpose in his nihilism? She was launched on this course after petitioning the Queen-In-Chains, but does that make her quest madness, or inspiration?
What Bellefleur really wants, and if she can possibly be saved from wanting it, is a big question for the final act of the campaign, when we get there.
Gem Cities by Neave Bozorgi
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A friend and I were discussing what we're like when we're sick and we decided people usually fall into one of these five 'sick modes': *Everyone is probably multiple of these at different times depending on how sick they are and with what but we think most people have a mode they default to and become more often than the others*
Delicate Consumptive Victorian: you feel tragic and mournful but also beautiful in a sad way, you are in bed, sipping hot tea, others should quietly whisper about how you are too good for this world, too beautiful, too tragic... And bring you more tea
Sick Dog: you are curled up in a ball, you don't want anything, you don't need anything, but it would be nice if others could still ask you if you need anything
Sickly Child Emperor: you are dying and it's everyone else's problem, you need pillows, no! you need soup, no! You need absolute silence or you will not be the first one to die today
Plague Pit: you are curled up probably on the floor, no one touch you, no one look at you, this is between you and God and you already know He has no mercy left for you
Warrior General: you are not sick. You are in perfect health and you don't know why anyone would think otherwise. Illness is an enemy that can be intimidated and you must remain strong for your men! (You are going to pass out at the most inconvenient moment possible)