"No, we can't allow you to use the American flag as part of your superhero costume. It's against all the rules, even Legend can't."
"My superpower is creating… guns."
"Here's your permit and patent number. Welcome to Murica."
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"No, we can't allow you to use the American flag as part of your superhero costume. It's against all the rules, even Legend can't."
"My superpower is creating… guns."
"Here's your permit and patent number. Welcome to Murica."

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Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.
I’m trying to prove something.
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Im asexual ^.^
Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated
absolutely looosssinggg it. i'm so obsessed with movies which portray the woman MC in a highly specific job because the writers clearly think it's like "off-beat" and "quirky" but have no idea how the field works whatsoever.
i decided to try a romcom i somehow missed i the 2000s 'head over heels' and i got 3 and a half minutes in and we're introduced to the lonely MC with bad taste in men as evidenced by her extremely short list of ex boyfriends, including her first boyfriend when she was 11 or something because i guess that's still relevant in her adult life.
so she's resigned herself to never finding love and prefers to ignore men to focus all her energy into her career.
this job is immediately presented as though it's for spinsters with no hope of ever finding a man.
the mc's lesbian bestie (whose first line involves her being scolded for being too sexual in the workplace, but moving on) points out their colleagues as evidence that they're doomed to a romance-less, sexless life if they don't switch up their shared career path. the colleagues are three old women, so-dubbed "the menopause triplets":
these women are presented as if they have no idea what's going on at any given moment. this is 2001, and presumably this is an entry level job requiring low effort and no experience.
then their boss bursts into the room, unceremoniously bumping a large painting into the door jam and walls, announcing that it's a new project for our MC.
our MC is thrilled to see the painting. apparently it's a light in the daily slog at her dreary job for loser women with nothing going on in their lives.
And that job is? Conservator of paintings (specializing in Renaissance) at the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The painting being handled like an old couch on its way to the curb?
The Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian.
Her lesbian colleague who is presumably also a a highly trained & skilled curator finds it depressing that the MC is so excited about the painting.
it's a quirk unique to this MC that she cares so much about paintings, in her department at the metropolitan museum of art, where her colleagues find all that art business rather dreary. because we all know that's what conservators in extremely competitive museum positions are like.
I'm not saying there can't be lifelong love in here somewhere but I also just feel like the monogamous heterosexual marriage you're fantasizing about isn't necessarily best represented by the bacchanal. and that's okay. but i do stand by that.
Recently managed to activate the most amazing infodump trap card.
I was driving through Vermont with a friend, and we pulled over at a tiny shop offering Maple Items. We were on the state highway, not the interstate, so "pulling over" meant "squeezing my tiny car into a parking bay the size of a broad highway shoulder."
As we got out of the car, an older woman emerged from behind the building where she had been pruning her roses. She introduced herself as Tammy.
Her shop offered the promised variety of Maple, but also a number of small antiques and a plethora of dog figurines, plaques, and clearly-hand-stitched garden flags.
A huge purple ribbon hung on the wall behind the register, along with many pictures of small dogs. This was no county fair ribbon. It was the size of my torso. The material had the soft sheen of actual silk.
As I placed my purchases on the counter, I asked, "Do you... Breed dogs?"
Yes. She does. She has bred Yorkies for the last 40 years. Her mother bred Yorkies before her. The purple ribbon was from her national championship winning Yorkie.
You may be expecting that the infodump was going to be about Yorkies.
It was not.
It was about 40 years of drama in the Yorkie breeding community. Where – you must understand – the judging at shows is often about who you're in with, not about the dogs. This is especially true when Tammy's opponents win anything.
And Tammy's mother! Well. Phyllis has been on the Yorkie scene since Yorkies were invented. Because of this, many women of equally venerable age hold deep grudges against Phyllis. The sort of grudges that result in episodes of Midsommar Murders.
This led to deep injustices against Phyllis on the part of judges and prevented her dogs from winning so often she retired from the scene. Judging is all about who you're friends with, after all.
After 20 years in hiding, Phyllis – the One True Queen of Yorkie Breeding – hatched a plot. She may have been out of the show circuit, but she was still breeding dogs. She entered an absolutely perfect bitch in the national competition, but sent her with a handler rather than go in person.
None of the usurpers knew who this dog belonged to, and in dog-breeding circles this Does Not Happen. This could have resulted in further injustices, but Phyllis was crafty. She knew this tournament was being judged by a man from the UK, who knew naught of the drama in the US Yorkie Empire.
With these advantages – and being the best dog there – Phyllis's bitch won the highest honor at the show.
Incensed by this insult to their ill-gotten supremacy, the other owners descended on the handler after the show, demanding to know for whom he was working.
"Phyllis," said he.
The name of the overthrown queen evoked horror in the usurpers.
"PHYLLIS!? She's still ALIVE!???"
Yes, Phyllis yet lived, and this bitch – the dog, not the woman – went on to mother Tammy's current dogs. One of whom, Lucy-Fur, is the reincarnation of Tammy's sister (also Lucy). This is certain for two reasons.
Firstly, Sister Lucy absolutely went straight to Hell upon her death, and Lucy-Fur the dog is positively as evil as Sister Lucy was.
Secondly, Sister Lucy always said when she died she wanted to come back as one of Phyllis's dogs because "mom treated the dogs better than us."

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I don't know how you'd set it up but it would be really funny to force Tobias into a mission where he HAS to morph some other Bird of Prey because he would spend the entire time complaining endlessly about how the tail feathers are all wrong or something.
That would be amazing! God knows Tobias doesn't have nearly enough problems, and definitely needs more.
The obvious one would be a night mission that forces him to give in and just acquire a damn owl already. It's so funny to me that he goes the whole series without that morph, despite its obvious utility, out of sheer stubbornness. But even Tobias would (grudgingly) use owl if there was a mission that needed a very skilled flier at night. Heck, he might even enjoy it despite himself.
I could see him being forced into golden eagle morph if they need to carry a lot of weight in raptor shape — maybe he's assisting a fellow Animorph in snake form to the battle, like in #21. Tobias would haaaate it, but he'd probably also see the point in needing a shape that big.
Alternately, could there be a mission with a lot of close-quarters speed flying where he has to take on his other nemesis, the peregrine falcon? Maybe something where the Animorphs attack a yeerk base on the side of a cliff and need an ultra-fast getaway. I could also see Tobias — through his teeth — admitting that peregrine falcon is cool, the way he does with mallard. Golden eagle would probably be the only one he would never ever come around on, since he sees them as bullies and for him that'll always be a hard "no."
CROW he needs to do CROW everyone needs to do CROW
#controversial take. but: i don't know that crow morph gets them much they don't already have from starting as humans?#crows' strengths are a) social coordination and b) crafty tool use#both things that humans do EVEN BETTER than crows#like. they actually don't need mental abilities. they need physical ones.
What they need from crow is also what they’d get from pigeon or sparrow, bird that can exist in proximity to humans in large numbers and not be remarked upon. A murder wandering around basically anywhere outdoors is normal, and it’s likely normal crows would join the Animorphs just to see what’s so interesting.
And Tobias would hate it.
This is great because Tobias has real problems, but compared to the other Animorphs he doesn't have nearly enough stupid problems. Living in a tree means no younger siblings eating your leftover shrimp fried rice.
This is the truth. He doesn't have math assignments conflicting with his need to save the world, he doesn't end up looped into family vacations in the middle of Visser Three's annual review, he doesn't have little sisters to babysit or horse poop to shovel... Get this man some annoying inconveniences, STAT!
I mean... Cassie and her family find an injured crow, rehabilitate it, and release it, but it still sticks around the property, because there's food and helpful humans, and before long, there's a whole murder of crows living close to the barn.
At first, Tobias has to deal with them trying to bully him off, but he's got to go to the barn for missions and meetings, so eventually a peace treaty is negotiated. Cassie may or may not have been involved as a neutral party.
But once peace is established, the crows don't just leave him alone. He's the one coming into their house (as far as they're concerned), so they're going to pay attention. This irritates Tobias, who is not happy about being stalked by a crow mafia.
Eventually the crows come to the conclusion that Tobias isn't actually a hawk, he's actually an incompetent crow, and the murder decides to adopt him. Against his will.
Marco will deny to his dying day that he ever morphed crow and enticed the murder in messing with Tobias, but Tobias knows the truth.
please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy
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Is "Mary Sue" Still a Valid Criticism? (pt. 4)
pt. 1 | pt. 2 | pt. 3 | pt. 5 | pt. 6 | pt. 7
The backlash against calling characters "Mary Sue" is valid — the term is often sexist, racist, and simply unfounded. However. I do think that there's a baby in that bathwater, and that "this character is so perfect it becomes a major flaw in the story" can still be a meaningful criticism.
Argument 4: "Mary Sue" is still a valid criticism to the extent the "Mary Sue" character tends to start out good at everything... which can end up giving them nowhere to grow. And character growth is awesome. It makes for some of our all-time favorite heroes: Spike, Anya, Castiel, Zuko. Edmund Pevensie. Taylor Hebert. T-800. So on. Watching a character become talented or ethical or powerful makes for a great story. But if a character starts out talented/ethical/powerful, then the story often ends up in a trap of throwing ever-bigger Godzillas at a character we've already seen defeat Godzilla several times.
Effort and struggle tend to be what make a character interesting or relatable. It's the all-important difference between fearlessness (boring) and courage (relatable).
One example of how doing something badly often looks more impressive than doing it well: Captain America. He got widely derided as "useless" in Avengers (2012), so for Winter Solider (2014) the writers didn't make him more powerful... they added visible effort.
The moment of hesitation before Steve jumps, and the moment after he lands where he has to stop and go "ow" for a few seconds, do so much to sell this moment, vs. the unreal-looking way Steve does almost everything without effort in Avengers movies:
Example of this problem*: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Protagonist Ender has so many abilities so ridiculously beyond what real six-year-olds can do I can't list them all, but the point is that as of his first day of school, he's already curb-stomping kids twice his size and scoring better at training games than any other person ever measured. What problems Ender does have tend to come from being too good at things — hence John Sclazi among others deriding him as insufferably perfect.
Counter-example: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Protagonist Jean Valjean is smart enough to invent a new type of fastener, strong enough to lift a carriage unassisted, moral enough that he's literally meant to be a Catholic saint... and the book gets away with it because when we meet him, he has none of that. He'll become the world's greatest dad, but in his first scene he gets in a shouting match with a small child over a single coin and only realizes too late what an ass he's being. He'll end up running an entire town and its wealthiest business, but first we get a long sequence of him unable to get even a chance to earn enough food to survive because of his criminal record. He can go a long, long way (1500 pages!) and the story can still feel coherent, because he starts out with so little.
Tl;dr: Mary Sue ≠ ultra-talented. BUT if a story has a character start out ultra-talented without showing us how they got there, the character tends to stagnate and the reader may lose interest.
*I constrain my examples to white male protagonists that someone else has called "Mary Sue" first, as part of my argument that it's not all sexism.
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#yeah ender lol#from what I remember card was trying to answer the question “can a good person commit genocide”#or rather he was arguing the answer to the question was yes#and could only do it with a mary sue protagonist#but yeah excellent points
Huh. Had not heard this before. Because like, I do think Ender's Game has some cool ideas around the theme of inherited conflict, AKA The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody. But I've always felt the so-called "moral dilemma" of the book falls far short of having any real dilemma to it, because ultimately Ender doesn't choose to commit genocide; he literally doesn't know genocide is the result of his actions.
Ender's Game goes to a lotttt of effort to assure us that Ender is innocent of everything because he never wants to hurt anyone and never intends to kill, only "win thoroughly." Ignore the fact that he killed two kids and then arguably committed genocide, he just needed to "win," so the story sets up ways for him to be innocent while simultaneously letting him kill. You have to judge him by his intents and desires, not the results of his actions, right?
Now remember that the author was a Christian fundamentalist right-wing piece of shit, and ask yourself why someone with those views would find that justification so important and compelling to argue for.
@geeko-sapiens #this analysis borrowed from an article I read once and can't remember#but yeah point is#ender's game has the same moral valence as the fantasies of a kid who wants to blow up the school he was bullied in#it's the fantasy of getting revenge and inflicting violence while remaining morally pure#and when you consider the author's politics. uhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Inch resting. If you ever find that article again, please send a link!
Not to defend orson scott card, but genocide is, like, the one thing you really can't blame ender for doing. He kills other kids in physical fights at least twice, he's ruthless, manipulative, and self centered, but he genuinely believes, when he does the actual genocide, that he is doing a training exercise, basically playing a glorified video game. When he finds out it was real, he is horrified to the point where he falls into a deep depression, and then the remainder of the series is split between horrific shit happening on earth and ender trying to atone for being tricked into wiping out an entire species.
Which is partially achieved by saving a single individual from that species, potentially delaying its extinction by a while and ensuring that when it does happen, the cause will be a genetic bottleneck leaving them massively inbred and vulnerable to disease. You may recognize this as a comically christian fundamentalist view of atonement.
Anyways, what happens with ender is definitely osc wanting to have his cake and eat it, too, but the genocide really can't be laid at ender's feet if you want to apply a consistent system of ethics. It's an atrocity, but it was not intentional (on his part) and he had been told repeatedly by people he'd been groomed and conditioned to believe that none of it was real. I think one of the other books says one of ender's friends figured it out, but he never told ender if he did.
Yes, I feel like that's what makes Ender in many ways the most Mary Sue Mary Sue I've ever encountered in a mainstream work of fiction: he's simultaneously all-powerful, and excused in-text for all excesses of that power using some combination of "he didn't mean to" and "but the greater good."
And that's also why I've always pushed back so hard against people bringing it up as an additional example of kids facing moral dilemmas in the style of Animorphs. He literally doesn't know his actions will result in death, ever, at any point in the first book. (How he can be a tactical genius and yet not know that about curb-stomping Bonzo as Bonzo's already lying wounded on the floor is... one of life's great mysteries.) The Animorphs are killing strangers so they won't kill the ones that they love, and then they kill their loved ones as well. And not because they were following orders from some adult.
Also, I'm eternally frustrated by Ender's Game because of the way the adults in the story, to a one, treat him as the specialest boy in the universe before he ever does anything special. I guess the handwave about [mumble mumble IQ test] is meant to explain that, but he doesn't do anything to single himself out for not being expelled for MURDERING A FELLOW STUDENT BEFORE HE EVEN GETS OFF THE BUS TO SPACE!SCHOOL. Much less being treated as extra-special by every other adult in his life, through elaborate reverse favoritism, until he gets handed responsibility for the entire military after a mere three years of training. Like a true Mary Sue, he black-holes the entire story around him into illogic with his gravitational pull.
Maryland will become the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in retail stores, after passing Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.
Jesus fucking christ that this exists in the first place
I WAS FUCKING WONDERING WHAT THOSE DIGITAL PRICE TAGS WERE ABOUT SUDDENLY i had hoped they were so the workers didn't have to finagle those little papers into the slider part anymore 😭
Hi, yes, that is the OFFICIAL excuse made to me by the guy replacing the paper tags with digital ones at my local Walmart, but the end goal is to remove the numbers off the shelf entirely, replacing them with QR codes that you have to scan with the app…. Which requires your login information….. and also stores your card information so even if you didn’t use your Walmart account at the physical checkout, if you used a card they recognize, they assign that purchase to your Walmart account purchase history.
I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.
Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:
Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.
No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.
So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:
Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:
Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.
Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.
POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.
When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)
If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.
In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.
Yes, call your reps. Yes, push for more legislation like this in more places. But also take an extra minute out of your shopping trip to MAKE IT HURT for companies to pull this shit.
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Ugh Linvios being the one to hear the confession and letting it play out and giving vetn and tesy that moment because deep down he wishes he had that
It’s the opposite of genz and millennial queers seeing elder gays and crying because you can get that old. You can! They did!
But instead it’s an old man who has hid his entire life allowing for a queer love confession before he attacks the two because he knows what it’s like to want so desperately but be so scared of what the consequences of your want would be.

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If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.
I've been thinking. Animorphs have go-to morphs that they picked during a battle unless they needed something specific.
Jake has his tiger, Rachel bounced between grizzly bear and elephant, Marco morphs into a gorilla, Cassie went with a wolf and Tobias and Ax didn't really have an main or primary morphs, electing to go by their baseline state of being a hawk and an Andalite respectively. But, if you had to pick new main battle morphs for them, what would you pick?
I personally am thinking like a big snake like python or something for Cassie. And maybe a bison for Jake. I'm also thinking a hippo but I can't decide between Rachel and Marco for it.
I've concluded there is no right answer to this question, because arguments about biology have no real winners or losers. Does anyone else have morphs you'd have liked to have seen the Animorphs use?
Generally speaking arguments about biology don't have winners or losers, but the Immortal Snail would be the best battle morph simply because it's immortal and it kills on contact. Just need give Tobias feet-gloves so he can drop the Immortal Snail on Visser Three.
Jokes aside: YES on Bison for Jake. Bison would be my own battle morph if I had one, and I think Jake would make good use of it too. As for the others, what I'd like to see:
Cassie - Mountain Lion. She's got easy access and they're extremely capable.
Marco - Tarantula Hawk - less for outright battle, more for sneaky incapacitation of Human-Controllers without actually hurting them. Though, this being Animorphs, there's a 50/50 chance the victim is allergic and goes into anaphylactic shock.
Marco (again) - A very large weasel of some sort, either honey badger or wolverine.
Marco (again again) - Great White Shark, just for all the movie references I know he'd make.
Rachel - Moose. It'd be a good intermediate between Grizzly and Elephant.
Rachel (again) - Also honey badger or wolverine. She's got a lot of big battle morphs, she could use a smaller one for enclosed spaces.
Ax - I wanna see Ax reverse the "Morphs a giant alien" thing on Visser Three for once, then awkwardly explain to the others that the creature he has morphed is a placid herbivore he once touched on a field trip after Rachel asks where the hell he got that morph from. Followed by an epic kaiju battle between Ax and Visser Three.
Tobias - Oh, hard to say. Probably also Mountain Lion. Somebody needs to morph a mountain lion.
Tobias (again) - Less a battle morph and more a battle strategy - I want to see him airdropping Marco or Ax (who are in their cobra/rattlesnake morphs, respectively) on the bad guys.
The Red Baron becomes a bomber flyer 🔥🔥🔥
Also yes someone NEEDS to get a badger! Embody the spirit of Stoffel (look him up, he's the greatest!)
Also-also, weasel! I considered it as an alternative morph for Tobias specifically once, but I don't remember why
Moose Rachel is also perfect
Oh OH and Kaiju battle HECK YEAH!!
I'll say it again: Chimp Rachel with a gun.
Honestly, elephant Rachel with a gun. I bet that trunk is dexterous enough, especially if you can remove the trigger guard.
THE SPIRIT OF BUSTER KEATON LIVES ON
Centrism and incrementalism are done.
Gentrification creates a stifling homogeneity in urban areas that makes it less suited for the everyday lives of the lower class and more suited towards the leisure and tourism of those with expendable income.
An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.
Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.
What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.
Imagine if someone totally renovated your house and turned it into a mini theme park - they took away your sleeping space, where you prepare food, where you clean yourself and get ready for your day, and replaced it with things that will please people who are visiting, who have their own homes they can go back to, who are here not for their entire life but just as a distraction from their otherwise mundane existence. It’s not that you hate theme parks, it’s not like you’ve never been to a theme park and vow to never visit one again. It’s just that you need to live! To survive! And the leisure of those who have more than you should not invalidate your existence.
I am glad this has made the rounds. Some people feel a dense misunderstanding or misinterpretation concerning gentrification, and I think it helps to hear a description/explanation of what gentrification is from those who are both affected by it and educated by the culture from which it hails. I and many others enjoy some of the delights of gentrification while simultaneously having their livelihoods threatened by it.

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happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only
Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal
Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only
aint it crazy how many people realize they're queer when they have the language to express how they feel and a support system to encourage self exploration????
I never stop enjoying reading this. Literally everyone's lives improves.
Ancient legends say that if you reblog this on June you get 110% gayer and stronger
right at the beginning when she's like how do I help my son feel loved and accepted I'm here shouting "QUEEN YOU ALREADY DID THAT BY TAKING HIS SIDE AND LEAVING THAT NO GOOD HUSBAND FOR HAVING THE AUDACITY TO KICK YOUR BABY OUT!" And Good for her! this is the only response to a man who kicks out a child.
Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.
The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there
Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.
And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.
love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears