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One day Commander Shepard made me love women with a military background

So here we are

did i tell u guys i got into an argument on twitter bc i said foxes are dogs and someone tried to bring up their actual fuckin. classification or whatever and i just said “foxes are dogs cause they are fluffye” and they kept arguing with me. the entire time i was like “you will not survive the immigration to tumblr you are lucky we are not there right now”

District doodle dump on god on god

You never know!

you never know!

When you reached for more, he left you on the floor

EVERYBODY DO THE DINOSAUR

More notebook doodles, now with more space marine booty and old skeletons.

she took my ability to complain in the divorce but I guess I don’t really mind

No, Donald Trump would never suggest ending the war on drugs. Instead, he’d suggest ending the war on illiteracy to allocate more resources to the war on single mothers

We need to end the war on drugs so we can allocate more resources to the war on single mothers

ablaze! the mysterious fires of spontaneous human combustion (1995) - larry e arnold

"lets spontaneously combust with mama"

Happy birthday to the thing ever 🧁🔥☆。*

ok so Nazis are fucking awful and have zero media literacy, no argument there. What's more, Nazis are famous for appropriating and misinterpreting aesthetics and narratives that have nothing to do with their bullshit ideology.

However, in these tags you specifically mention Frieren. Now, the thing is, I don't know if Nazis who like Frieren are actually misinterpreting it, cause that anime actually does have some concerningly fascist/racist messaging; the biggest example of this easily being the demons and the demon arc. For those who don't know, in this arc, Frieren and company enter a town in a war against demons which, for the most part, are completely identical to people. Frieren repeatedly says that demons are not people and, by their very nature, only seek to deceive, manipulate, and kill humans. She also goes on to attack them on sight and largely imply that their race cannot be allowed to survive. Other characters initially protest this ideology until the story proves Frieren right; the demons that she had racially profiled earlier were literally just there to destabilize the town and kill people while spouting evil one-liners and twirling their moustaches.

In summary, unless I'm completely misinterpreting something (which is always possible), the show has:

A race of people that are depicted as inherently evil animals/monsters that (despite being able to talk) cannot be negotiated or reasoned with

A main character who profiles, despises, hunts, and kills this race of people on sight

Characters who initially oppose this behavior/ideology until the narrative reinforces it by showing the deadly consequences of trusting this race

All of which has obvious parallels to Nazi messaging about minorities and so-called "undesirables" being evil and unreasonable. When I first watched this arc I thought that maybe there was going to be a twist where Frieren learned the error of her ways but nope; the exact opposite happens and she gets proven right repeatedly. I was genuinely disgusted and astounded at this weirdly violent and fascist ideology from what was, previously, a relatively wholesome show. That being said, it wouldn't be the first time that fantasy adventures were used to propagate dangerous fascist ideas, as the typical good vs. evil trope so often found in fiction can easily be used to dehumanize and reduce people to obstacles.

Always weird to me when a piece of media about redemption, forgiveness and understanding cultivates the meanest fandom imaginable

EVERYBODY STOP FIGHTING

ok now watch this video of anteaters

ok you all can start fighting again now 😊

he’s like trash Batman

original thread by @pukicho and several other users

showing you my newborn but im holding its head the way ash ketchum holds a pokeball

Having a tumblr account is like having the worst secret identity possible

Like, “I can’t let anyone know I’m @fartstinkle69 on tumblr.com or my enemies (my friends and family) will hurt my loved ones (the characters from my hyperfixations)!”

I genuinely feel like the lamest spider man in the whole damn spiderverse

okay so I’m glad you like my post and all but what exactly does this mean? Are you Ash? Are you the pokeball? Are you both? Am I overthinking this?

showing you my newborn but im holding its head the way ash ketchum holds a pokeball

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

ok but, genuinely, one of the biggest reasons I love the Death Guard is that Mortarion is a petty asshole with undiagnosed OCD and I relate to that for some reason

i've been thinking a lot about mortarion recently because i read mortarion: the pale king and re-read lords of silence and it's so interesting to me how mortarion seems to have a lot of fixations that border on compulsions.

in lords of silence, vorx describes mortarion as having "relentless superstitions" even before the heresy. mortarion also has "an exaggerated interest in names, bordering on obsession" that has "only grown" since his ascension to daemon prince. mortarion's manse on the plague planet also seems to be subject to this:

"The gates are, like everything here, a parody. They are, it is said, seven centimetres taller than the Eternity Gate on Terra. Just seven. Mortarion did a lot of things like that -- petty things, mediocre digs at fate. The cupola is slightly taller than that raised over the Senatorum Imperialis. The walls are steeper by seven degrees."

mortarion's compulsions appear in mortarion: the pale king as well, particularly his fixation on numbers.

Sanguinius stared right back. ‘Help me understand this, then,’ he said. He pointed to one of the hills of corpses. ‘Those mortals, for instance. What are they doing?’ ‘They are tallying the dead of the Order,’ said Mortarion. ‘Why?’ ‘Because I commanded it.’

mortarion's behavior here is indicative of a larger trend within his character: his own desire for agency within a series of systems that do not allow him any. for example, lords of silence asserts the following:

"...it is said of him that everything came late, and with difficulty. He was the last to succumb to the full embrace of the pantheon. He was the last to arrive at the Siege. He was the last to retreat, it is rumoured, though others contest that."

mortarion is an agent of others' will. first necare, then the emperor, and finally nurgle's, and his compulsions appear to be a desperate reach for agency where otherwise he'd have none. furthermore, mortarion is fundamentally scarred by his youth on barbarus and appears to see himself in slaves and serfs. in mortarion: the pale king, mortarion is reprimanded by horus and sanguinius for use of excessive force on a planet ruled by small group of people who keep the rest of the populace heavily drugged, forcing them to work. his reaction is ultimately a reflection of his own trauma on barbarus.

furthermore, mortarion seems to be viewed as fundamentally broken by his brothers, which in turn fuels the death guard's us-vs-them ideology. (from mortarion: the pale king)

"The ship seemed unadorned compared to those of its brother Legions. The olive-green band of the emblem on its wings made the bone colour of the rest of the hull even more apparent. It was a machine that had been scraped raw. It was, Horus thought, a suitable chariot for his brother, and that saddened him."

"It was, Horus thought, as if no matter where Mortarion went, he never truly left the toxic world that had nurtured him."

Mortarion looked past Horus, up the slope of rubble to where the Angel waited. Mortarion was less pleased to see him. Sanguinius was so consumed by the illusion of nobility that Mortarion felt the Angel was perpetually looking down from on high as he circled an unreachable ideal. Why had their father instructed the Angel to come to Galaspar? Why not someone like Perturabo? He might have been an ally. And Sanguinius and Horus were so close. Mortarion felt a bond with Horus, but he knew it was not as strong as the one that joined Horus to the Angel. He was facing a united front, whether or not the other two would admit it, even to themselves.

‘We may hold this council aboard the Reaper’s Scythe if you prefer,’ said Sanguinius, sounding sympathetic now. The look in his eyes reminded Mortarion of their father’s sorrow, and he did not like it.

mortarion's nihilistic outlook seems to also drive a schism between himself and the other primarchs. mortarion views the Great Crusade with no love, contrary to the likes of horus and sanguinius who believe in the dream proffered to them.

An embrace was a promise of unity and comfort. That made it a promise of illusion. That made it a lie. He knew that Horus didn’t look at things that way. That didn’t change the truth of things. Horus was lying, only not to Mortarion. He was lying to himself. Mortarion put much more stock in his ceremony of poison. To share a draught of concentrated toxins with one of his warriors was to acknowledge the reality of their lives. He and his legionaries stood with each other, fought with unity, but never pretended that the ultimate truth of war was anything other than death. In the toast of poisons, there was no promise that could not be kept. It was an acceptance of risk, and of the inevitability of the end.

in fact, some of the only times mortarion demonstrates any affection or care are to his so-called lessers, including serfs and his own astartes.

At his side, Cinis nodded, watching in respectful silence for the manifestation of judgement. The serf was a favoured one, more disciple than servant. She took in all of Mortarion’s lessons and taught his precepts to the thousands who laboured for the Legion. Having come from neither Terra nor Barbarus, she symbolised the unity of all aspects of the Death Guard, and her understanding was profound.

mortarion first encountered cinis after liberating her world from the oppressive order aforementioned. in fact, in the pale king, mortarion actively chooses to humanize her, granting her the name cinis. in lords of silence, mortarion calls on vorx to fight "by [his] side, as we were before."

vorx earlier in the novel says this of mortarion:

In Mortarion, more than in any other, is conflict. Hatred was everywhere inside him -- of his father, of circumstance, of the Imperium, of himself. The poison of his foster world was hard to excise, and even if things had been handled differently by those in command, his would have been a damaged psyche.

mortarion's lack of agency directly ties into this. he views himself as being more similar to his servants than to his primarch brothers. the us-vs-them mentality returns.

ultimately there are dozens of examples of mortarion's issues across both novels and i have zero interest in regurgitating all of them. what is interesting are the implications about mortarion's character. mortarion's self hatred feeds into his compulsions; his trauma forces him to rely on them to regain a scrap of freedom.

his compulsive nature appears to contrast with nurgle's evident draw towards entropy, but i think this also fits with the nature of his character. he was the last to succumb. he continues to fight against the his own nature, because he doesn't know how to do anything other than fight. he doesn't believe in the kind of peace nurgle offers, so he can't accept it.

I'm having a good time :)

who’s a good girl

“Call Me Maybe” with every other beat removed

watching Seven Samurai

What the fuck does he have to do with it?

half of my interactions on this hellsite are just me being confused

the other half is me confusing people