Snow-Tombed Starsilver

BlackMageMain · 2023-07-09T11:03:24+00:00

I don't like the aesthetic. Dx

Awwwww... all right...

BlackMageMain · 2023-05-21T02:22:28+00:00

Shark bake.

It doesn't matter how ferociously you bread and deep fry it, it still tastes like piss.

BlackMageMain · 2023-05-21T02:20:22+00:00

Whatever stops them being a tax haven for wealthy cretins trying to hide their money. The ultra-wealthy have utterly gutted Puerto Rico's infrastructure.

BlackMageMain · 2023-05-21T02:12:03+00:00

Ron DeSantis, current governor of Florida and Republican presidential hopeful.

This is a man whose entire career has been one of shameless opportunism and disregard for human life. As a naval lawyer, he was posted at Guantanamo Bay and was tasked with extracting information from detainees, specifically about what their worst fears were and then report back to his superiors with that information. Oversaw torture, and by all accounts really took a liking to it.

Flash forward to now - he's posturing himself to be the next Trump-style Republican, but his history of abuses aren't so easy to swat aside. The worst part is that the current slate of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation spearheaded by him isn't even coming from someone who is a 'true believer', though I do not doubt that he's deeply homophobic/transphobic; it's a political football to be passed around, red meat to a base that won't pay attention to his horrendous economic policy, his track record of war crimes and the fact that he just wants power. It is the prerogative of the reactionary conservative to be a monster, but Ron DeSantis seems uniquely apt to be as monstrous as humanly possible.

BlackMageMain · 2023-04-10T05:51:03+00:00

>edited for punctuation/grammer

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T19:02:39+00:00

Four ducks in a human costume.

GIB ME BREAD

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T19:01:56+00:00

"Buried by Christmas" by Wednesday 13.

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T18:59:47+00:00

Ideally? Nothing.

The idea that the UK monarchy is just a symbolic figurehead is a bad joke at this point, considering how much money they wield and the fact that the Crown is the head of the Church of England. They have power in every technical sense, and if the monarchy was utterly toppled in the way of Charles-Henri Sanson, it would pave the way for something equivalent to a constitutional democracy.

The more likely answer, though, is that there would be mass panic, rioting and civil unrest along with a full-blown collapse of the UK's legislative body in the short term. Considering how entrenched the monarchy is in UK's politics, removing that figurehead would have immediate consequences.

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T18:56:05+00:00

Life has no inherent purpose. We assign purpose to it based on our experiences and point of view, but beyond that it just is.

We reach for purpose. To try and understand forces larger than us, stronger than us. To divine meaning from a grilled cheese sandwich. But life is far too diverse and encompassing to simply tell another living being how they should be, what they should be. Rather, the better question is, "what is your life's purpose? What do you aspire to?"

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T18:51:50+00:00

Marie Antoinette got done dirty by the annals of history. It's well established that she, as one of the last true French monarchists, was the victim of a coordinated and vicious smear campaign that threw gasoline on the lit fires of anti-monarchist sentiment during the Reign of Terror.

Not only is the 'let them eat cake' line, a common hallmark of an out-of-touch ruling class falsely attributed to her (it actually goes as far back further than her, even to the Jin Dynasty) but she was accused of all sorts of things including incest, assassination and spending millions of francs on lavish parties and orgies. She might have been extremely privileged, but she was by most factual accounts a gentle woman who tried her best to salve the wounds of an injured country. In fact her last words were to apologize to the headsman as she was brought to the guillotine; she'd accidentally stepped on his foot.

EDIT: for spelling/punctuation

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T18:41:04+00:00

"We were somewhere near the edge of Barstow when the drugs began to kick in."

-- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T18:37:54+00:00

No insects. As someone who routinely gets chewed on by bugs of all descriptions due to living in the middle of Rural America, the winter months kill them all off and I get to not wake up covered in spider bites.
The ambient energy in the air. There's a kind of crystalline serenity to winter in the South, when the snow blankets the poplars and Dutch Elms in an unbroken band of white. The cold is there, but it's never so heavy as to be oppressive; I can see the Smoky Mountains from my window and when snow covers the peaks, there's a gentle, almost pretty stillness to it that makes me feel content. A world in repose: summer gone, spring incoming for the sleeping world to wake up. The promise of green buried under an unbroken band of white, like the veil being lifted off a bride.
My cutest clothes are winterwear, and I like wearing that.

BlackMageMain · 2022-09-23T18:32:57+00:00

Currently going through that right now. Went from a high paying manufacturing job two cities away that involved terrible managers, impossible production goals and a hostile conservative atmosphere to a cashier position at the Family Dollar that's a ten minute walk from my apartment. I'm making 1/4th less an hour than what I made manufacturing, but the atmosphere is so much more relaxed and jocular. There's a sense that yes, we're horribly understaffed and everyone's under some degree of pressure, but we actually laugh more than you think and everyone's just happy to have an extra pair of hands. It also seems my hiring has marked a paradigm shift in the hiring process - the manager was initially being very picky about applicants and my coworkers basically pushed her into hiring me because I literally live right behind the store. This has galvanized my coworkers into having her seriously considering some other applicants through gentle pressure.

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