RIP REITA of the GazettE

A great Japanese musician and legendary Harajuku style icon has passed away. There was no band more popular with Harajuku visual kei fans of the 2005-2010 era. The famous Jingubashi bridge was full of REITA/GazettE cosplayers every weekend back then. RIP 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Official Announcement From The Band

Palestinians don’t have basic humanitarian supplies. No food or clean water and the Israeli army is given luxuries. 

Never buy Garnier. Filth.

[@selintifada]

hey bump this shit because this is fucking horrid

Their parent company is L'Oréal btw. 

Garnier/L'oreal and some sources regarding their involvement

i couldnt find anything recent but the company has been involved with israel since 1995.

The L'Oreal group sadly also owns ALOT of beauty favorites, including nyx, la roche posay, the body shop, ysl, urban decay, maybelline & essie (plus many more)

Everyone talks about the Senshi tulpa that makes them eat better and healthier and I've experienced this too but also it's thanks to the grim spectre of Laios i know exactly what my cat's treats taste like

(bad. they taste bad)

rip to you guys but i love assembling ikea furniture its so fun its like legos

people complain about how confusing assembling ikea furniture is and meanwhile i rise above their understanding and exist beyond their pitiful mortal comprehension as i spend a wonderful day assembling two twin beds with nothing but two hex keys, hope, and a whole lot of screws. 10/10 experience would do again

I am so fucking scared. I feel that... you know it's not about death. I'm not so scared of death. I'm so scared of being displaced. I want to go back to my home--and I'm so near, by the way... Gaza is so small. But I can't go there because the Gaza Strip is cut into pieces, and vehicles and tanks are in the borders between these pieces so I just can't go anywhere inside my homeland. My place. And... it's unacceptable. It's unimaginable. You know I have never imagined before that one day someone would just grab me from my... my homeland. My place. And just throw me away and prevent me to come back.

By the way, we don't know if we could go back. If we could go back again. Ever. And I'm so scared that they could displace us from Gaza Strip to the desert. [Bisan's voice breaks, she breaks into tears] We will die in the desert because of hunger. They displaced us to Egypt. To the north of Egypt, to Sanari desert. People just die. We will die.

[Sob] I don't know why do you guys are watching without doing anything to end this. Just in the... just stop it. Just stop it. Stop it in any price, stop it in any cost. Just stop it for anything. Just stop this. It's a nightmare. I can't continue just thinking about the displacement more and more. It's a nightmare. And I can't-- I can't keep it alive while thinking of being displaced more and more.

I just wanna go back to my home.

-- Bisan in a heartbreaking voice memo on Instagram, 2.14.2024

If you were complaining about wanting to watch the Super Bowl on the same day that Palestinians died from airstrikes, you are guilty. If you have the financial means to help and you didn't, you are guilty. If you have a platform and you didn't use it to spread the word on the horrific things going on in Palestine, you are guilty. You are guilty you are guilty you are guilty. Living a completely normal life while thousands of people die in front of you should be garish, it should be insidious, it should make you feel disgusting. Yet here you are complaining about watching the Super Bowl. You think Palestine is an inconvenience to your day. I'm disgusted to my core. I want nothing to do with you. You are guilty and you are complicit.

For those of us who still have humanity left to spare, please donate to the PCRF. Buy esims. Any last penny you could spare could make a huge difference. These people are literally enduring mass starvation and displacement in live time. This is not okay. Please try to do what you can. Spread this to anyone who has the means to do even more.

DID YALL KNOW THAT SOMEONE MADE SPEEDRUNS DEDICATED TO HOW FAST THEY CAN GET TO THE PUNCH SOLAS SCENE 💀💀💀

It actually debuffs all stats

Fear not though because THIS is her base stats

Vampires have REALLY GOOD stats so she's basically just nerfed into a normal person (most companions total scores is in the 80s)

She's also a lesbian and romanceable by female characters of any race♡

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

Who Builds Theseus' Ship?

This ties in to a greater discussion about Larian's changes to the game post-Full Release, and whether you consider those changes to be a good thing or a bad thing. Personally speaking, the quality-of-life and gameplay mechanics improvements were appreciated, while the direct changes to characters and especially characterization were not so much.

In such discussions, I often see people downplaying the actual changes to characterization that have been made thus far as "minor" things, but I often see one of the most glaring examples of a characterization change left out, because so many people aren't even aware of it ever happening:

Halsin.

For those who don't know, if you were romancing Halsin at the time of the original full release, and for almost four months afterward, if you took him with you to Act 3's orgy scene in Sharess's Caress, he would open up about a situation in his distant past. He would tell you about how he had briefly been "something between guest, prisoner, and consort" in a drow House, and been kept there for three years before escaping.

He stated that this was something that happened "a long time ago", when he was "a foolhardy young druid", which would mean it would likely have been between ages 100 and 245 — or at minimum 105 years ago, and at (likely) maximum 250 years ago. He closed the discussion with a line that really struck me, and that gave me such an appreciation for his character, and for the writers who had created it:

As someone in their late-20s, with a number of traumatic events in my past, this resonated so much both with my experience of those events – once harrowing and haunting, now just simple happenings that do not affect me the way they once did – and as an inspirational message, that hurt would not necessarily linger forever.

This is a good, eye opening post regardless of your opinion on Halsin comments, imo.

Because Larian has made little edits to these characters over the months after release (removing a poem from a certain character clothes, removing dialogue prompts from certain convos, etc).

What else will Larian change in the months to come?

I want my companions to be able to disagree with me, call me out when they think I'm insulting them, it makes them feel more alive.

It's BORING if they just agree with everything I say.

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

Guys I reblogged this and then wrote an 8000 word story I didn’t even have a solid plan for. Reblog this shit.

Here

This shit better work.

reblogging this as a joke bc I’m a terrible writer

Reblogging because honestly wanna get back into writing I got a handful of WIPs

我向所有神明祈祷，却得不到任何回应.

First night as a dark consort