It had become a habit of late that he would settle down of an evening as he watched Zelda bury herself in research, with light starting to shine from between his scales as the sun set. Despite the peacefulness they had managed to cultivate between them, Link would rather have been able to sit beside her in person to keep her company during the few scant hours when Zelda was allowed to be herself.
Pushing myself with backgrounds and some more Dragon!Link AU content~
Rapists, and killers, too? Really? (Those on death-row?) The drug/prostitution problems are just a portion of USA criminals.
yes, all criminals. the moment you say “except X criminal” is the moment that people will try to convict their opponents as having committed X crime.
it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.
do you understand what i’m saying? you can’t take away the rights of any category of criminal, because suddenly that category will be overflowing with people who totally 100% definitely committed that horrible crime.
Just to look at this from one step further back, let's accept the premise. Let's imagine that there is a type of crime that is 1) horrible evil irredeemable universally-agreed-upon bad, and 2) could somehow be prosecuted with 100% accuracy and 0% bias. Yes, even then, those criminals deserve a right to vote.
Do you think they're going to like vote themselves out of jail? Vote to make murder legal? What exactly are you afraid of.
Realistically they'll just... vote just like anyone else. They'll help elect city councilmembers they think will better their hometowns, and presidents they think will best serve the country. They might even vote in their own interests! To reform prisons, fund rehabilitation programs, and outlaw predatory practices by telecoms. Are you saying you don't want any of those things?
And even if there were one of those super-duper-unambiguously-evil totally misanthropic death-row convicts, who's scheduled to be execute the very next day and just wants to sow chaos and watch the outside world burn however they can... what's the worst they could do, vote republican?
Taking people's rights away isn't bad because it might happen to someone you like, it's because taking people's rights away is bad.
‘What It Sounds Like’ is never actually officially released. only the fans that were there at Namsan Tower remember Huntrix performing it but it isnt ever recorded and, for a while, is rarer media than ‘Takedown’.
To Huntrix ‘What it Sounds Like’ is personal. Yes they used it to defeat Gwi-Ma, save everyone’s souls and construct the new Honmoon, but it was a confession of their imperfections, a reminder of a sacrifice, and a promise for a new tomorrow.
(It’s not like they sat down and wrote it before they performed it anyway. And going back to reconstruct their emotions behind the performance and the musical backing that had been gifted to them by their new Honmoon—it felt artificial. Not genuine to everything that happened that night.)
It’s not until a particular night on tour when, for some reason, Huntrix hits a high, a peak. Maybe it’s from the crowd, maybe they discovered something more about themselves. Emotions become so raw and vulnerable and overwhelming that their final song isn’t enough. So. They start singing from their hearts.
(The fans hear the fabled song from Namsan Tower, which had never been recorded. The tech crew is trying to figure out where the music is coming from. And the Honmoon, shimmers just enough that it becomes briefly visible to everyone in attendance.)
From then on performances of ‘What It Sounds Like’ by Huntrix are still exceedingly rare. But on those nights when the energy is just right between the girls and their fans, when Rumi starts singing acapella for those few seconds, everyone knows that that night in particular has been deemed special. Unforgettable to all who got to witness it.
hate when u agree with the sentiment of a post but not the condescending tone . Why dont we do a cool prank that's called being kind for no reason and speaking respectfully Even on the internet
man the public defender discourse pisses me off so bad. yeah. yeah I do think that every single person deserves representation. yeah that includes people who *have* committed rape and murder and abuse. when I say every single person I mean every single person. if your idea of justice excludes one person it excludes everyone. next question
“so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to sexual assault?” i’m saying I have.
“so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to domestic violence?” i’m saying i have.
"so you’re saying you’d represent someone who has admitted to child abuse?" i'm saying i have.
and i am saying i have given each and every one of those clients the same level of professionalism, effort, and zealous advocacy i have given my clients who are victims of the same. that is how due process works, and every person is guaranteed it.
i have nothing but respect and admiration for my colleagues in the public interest sector who represent those who have committed and/or been accused any and all crimes, no matter how "morally reprehensible" others may find them.
public defenders are among the best, brightest, and most selfless attorneys out there. they are on the front lines of combating the carceral state and protecting the rights of every day people. get it straight in your heads. thanks.
Being a public defender is one of the most essential and under-recognized jobs someone can do to help maintain our democracy. Fuck absolutely anyone and everyone who goes after them. If you’re against public defenders you are fighting for fascism. There’s nothing more to say on the matter.
It is infinitely preferable that some guilty scumfuck bastard motherfuckers who deserve the worst walk free, rather than the state should have an easy time of throwing any undesirable into prison.
Any power you grant the state must be evaluated against the damage it will do when (not "if," when!) the state turns it against the most marginalized and oppressed groups under its authority.
There must be high quality, professional, dedicated and well funded public defenders in a democratic society, and they must be available to everyone. Not because Nazis and pedophiles and racists and etc should have nice things, but because the moment the state can get away with abridging people's right to a fair trial it will turn that power on the vulnerable. Inevitably, and usually instantly.
It's not a nice thing that the worst people in the world get good legal representation against the state, it is a grim fucking necessity. One of those rights that people had to write in a lot of innocent blood.
I drew the gang,
my horrible hybrid of all of them
That's just a deer
that explains deer pretty well
synthesis!
It's so important to acknowledge the very real and sometimes truly horrible failings of the healthcare profession and the pharmaceutical industry while never ever ever letting them drive us into the arms of pseudoscientific bullshit. This is something I feel really strongly about.
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I need y'all to watch this clip
Like to charge and reblog to cast Chinese scientists destroying the Insulin industry
yay for the Chinese destroying the American insulin industry!!!!
kids deserve so much more respect and it turns out that saying that is a great way to locate the horrible people in any community <3
you'll say something as simple as "no child deserves to be hit" and people will crawl out of the woodwork to explain why they should be allowed to beat a 6 year old for spilling some water
you'll say "i think it's weird that adults literally have control over when children are allowed to use the bathroom" and up pops a teacher to say that when they're not shouting at the kids they teach, they're trying to stop them from hiding in the bathrooms
you'll say "i think children shouldn't be forced to eat food they hate" and here comes someone who feeds their kids plain rice and boiled chicken (while eating a nicely seasoned stirfry) claiming that it's okay actually and kids shouldn't be allowed to taste things
you'll say "i think kids should have bodily autonomy" and in comes someone who pierced their babies ears before it was even 24 hours old, frothing at the mouth because their kid wanted a haircut and thats somehow an insult
children are an oppressed class and everyone should be looking back at their own childhoods and making sure they don't ever make a child feel the same way they felt.
the contrabass saxophone is such an absurd instrument
talk dirty to me
Have ya’ll seen the double contrabass flute before???
reblogging my own post because what in the fuck
i give you the contrabass tuba. Why is it real. I dont know.
Know what’s even better?
HYPERBASS FLUTE
my counter:
piccolo trombone
I’m both glad and sad that string players are only limited to violin, viola, cello, and bass. Can you imagine a contrabass? Or a piccolo violin????
String players are not limited to just those.
I present, THE OCTOBASS
It’s so big that it needs keys to hit the strings.
And in the reverse direction there exists the Pochette. Translated from French, it means pocket, as it was a pocket sized violin like instrument.
This is amazing
someone post the archlute
This one?
Subcontrabass C ocarina
Legend of Zelda: The Subcontrabass Ocarina of Time
this is my favorite post i think i’ve reblogged it like 4 times
I present to you, the Contrabass recorder.
we’reくコ:彡 entering squid territory
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I know I’m following the right people when I see this kinda stuff on my dash
now C:≡ approaching octopus territory
onwards C{≡ to jellyfish territory
oh! you’ve found some isopods! look at them go!
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And here comes the trout!
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I love these types of posts cause I’m always like “WOW!!! THOSE SUM CRITTERS!!! :)” ya'know
This post has critters. That’s all.
