mafia goon in the 1940’s who just started transitioning:
Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Read more on forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
I've always wanted to move to Norway...
hold on let me google something
what the fuck
happy Boston Molasses Flood to all who celebrate
My Very Punctual Wife Gets My Night Worm can also be used to remember the order of the planets in the solar system!
Mercury Venus Pearth Wars Goopiter Maturn Nuranus Weptune
She maturn on my pearth til I goopiter
wayne-shenanigans
still learning to draw the batbros- the second one is my favorite i think
also idk if anyone noticed in my last post but i gave timmy a nightwing hoodie :))
also also, dick totally paints jason’s nails blue while he sleeps, so jay wrestles dick down and paints his nails red (dick pretends to fight back but not too hard cus he wants them to match) jason secretly likes the paint tho but he would never admit to it shut up
hot take: the relationship between Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and Sheev Palpatine is one of the most hideously abusive relationships ever realized in fiction, and the effect Palpatine’s abuse had on Anakin/Darth Vader is criminally overlooked in 99% of Star Wars critical analyses.
It’s also probably the most substantial depiction of grooming I’ve ever seen in the PG-13 action/sci-fi blockbuster genre.
Anyone interested in this topic may appreciate this post and the full essay it quotes. Here’s an excerpt from my own commentary on it:
The true nature and extent of Sidious’ influence on Anakin/Vader is something that is still so often overlooked, both in fandom and, sadly, even in supposed additions to ‘canon’. The idea that one such as Vader could be a victim at all, let alone a victim of such a heinous level of spiritual abuse, perhaps does not even occur to those who cannot see beyond this character’s tragic flaws and dark deeds. But the story establishes him as such, as well as making it clear that his existence as ‘Vader’ is one of suffering and severe psychological and physical torture (the maimed-Anakin’s imprisonment in the Vader suit can be interpreted as yet another example of his perpetual torment at the hands of Sidious). The tendency to put the onus for everything that occurs in RotS and onward entirely on Anakin/Vader ignores the elaborate, decades-long machinations that Sidious put in place, not only to groom Anakin into doing his bidding, but also to ensnare nearly the entire Jedi Order and bring about the downfall of the Republic. In many respects, one former child-slave scarcely stood a chance in the face of such, well, insidious evil. Anakin is portrayed in a way that shows he is at least as much ‘collateral’ as he is catalyst. And indeed, George Lucas even said that, with regards to the Prequels, he was drawn to “the idea that the person you thought was the villain…is really the victim.”
So, I’m gratified to see such an insightful piece—it sums up a lot of my own feelings and is one of the many reasons why I’ve never been able to relate to the mainstream pop-culture view of ‘Vader’ that revolves around and glorifies his villain status. Whenever I encounter it, I can’t help but feel compelled to point out that Anakin/Vader is also depicted, in Lucas’ canon at least, as a life-long victim of abuse, imprisoned in a state of perpetual torment, regret, and suffering. I’m far more interested in the persona of ‘Vader’ when viewed in this light, rather than as an oversimplified 'bad-ass’ villain.
every time a word that is a real and actual word and is spelled correctly gets auto-corrected to a different, more common word, a tech company manager should be shot in the back of the head
your job maybe, MAYBE is to correct obvious misspellings. if i write a word correctly and you change it, without asking me, to some other word you assume i must have meant because that word is used more often — and i am completely, deadly sincere about this — someone should die.
brains on the fucking walls of silicon valley NOW
