am I bad? or mad? or wise?

And because Raoul talked about his character research indicating that Kelrec might have been someone who was good at his military job and therefore possibly "forced" to teach before he eventually found his place as a teacher:

I was a year above most of them at school so they threw a "goodbye" murder mystery for me just before graduation, and about 2/3 of the way through the game we all realized that everyone had at least attempted to kill the victim. The game then shifted from "whodunnit" to "who succeeded in dunninit" which we all felt was not only super fun but above the usual level of narrative complexity for those games.

Pressure from parent 36%

Transitioning was too hard for them 33%

The faced too much harassment or discrimination as a transgender person 31%

They had trouble getting a job 29%

Pressure from other family members 26%

Pressure from spouse or partner 18%

Pressure from employer 17%

Pressure from friends 13%

Pressure from mental health professional 5%

Pressure from religious counselor 5%

They realized gender transition was not for them 5%

Initial transition did not reflect the complexity of their gender identity (write-in response) 4%

Like, you can’t say you care about exploitation while you are enabling its atrocities and are actively participating in an industry built on it.

Animal agriculture isn’t some neutral background system. It runs on control over bodies, forced reproduction, separation of mothers and babies, systemic sexual assault and sodomy, gender-specific murder of babies due to economic inefficiency, and treating living beings as units of production. That’s not a fringe take - that’s literally how the system functions. Cows don’t just “give” milk. Chickens don’t naturally produce eggs at industrial levels. None of this exists without constant human intervention and manipulation.

And then people will turn around and talk about feminism, bodily autonomy, and consent, while funding industries that override those concepts entirely for billions of animals. You don’t get to selectively apply ethics only when it’s convenient or socially normalized.

And it’s not just about animals.

This system is tied directly to environmental collapse. Huge portions of deforestation - including massive chunks of the Amazon - are driven by land clearing for grazing and feed crops. Oceans and coral reefs are being gutted by industrial fishing. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.

It’s tied to human exploitation too. Slaughterhouse workers have some of the highest rates of PTSD and workplace injury out there. These are often underpaid, marginalized workers put into violent, high-speed environments and expected to just cope with it.

And globally? Wealthy countries outsource the damage. Land gets stripped, water gets polluted, and communities in poorer regions deal with the consequences so others can maintain consumption habits without thinking twice. Not because they need to. It's because they WANT to.

So yeah...when people say they’re anti-exploitation, anti-capitalist, pro-environment, pro-justice… but won’t even examine their role in this system, it comes off as inconsistent at best.

You don’t have to be perfect. No one is. But acting like this is some irrelevant side issue instead of one of the largest, most normalized forms of exploitation on the planet?

GIF 1: Christine Chapel holds a tray of colorful vials. “Nurse Chapel is part of Starfleet’s initiative,” Doctor Joseph M’Benga begins. 

GIF 2: ”to better observe alien cultures without contamination,” M’Benga finishes. Captain Christopher Pike stands next to him, listening. 

GIF 3: “You make disguises,” La’an says. 

GIF 4: “And you boss a rocket ship,” Chapel replies, tossing her head. 

GIF 5: “If, you know, we’re going all simplistic here,” Chapel says, smiling playfully. 

Air Jail for stealing

Image 1: Bucky lounges on a couch, holding his phone with his biological hand as he holds up a small white cat with his metal arm. Next to the cat are the words “air jail.” Another image in the corner shows Bucky crouching down and reaching for the cat as the cat holds a chicken drumstick in their mouth. 

Image 2: A close-up view of the white cat shows their smug expression as they’re held by Bucky’s metal hand. 

i just have to draw something from "the empath" every now and then.

process photos (and the truly fantastic version from 2016) below the cut