Pride is fragile. Or, what could possibly go wrong for the dark elf Deimos when you turn your high elf lover into a warlock patron? I wanted to experiment with shape design again for this drawing, so that I can show more of Deimos’ psyche: Prideful yet starting to shatter.
The bright side of this situation being the warlock powers he gets from the high elf Vannatir.
And hey, Vannatir has feelings too! And he’s never done anything wrong, ever.
Vannatir ending up trapped on the outerplanes? Arguably Deimos’ fault. Vannatir returning as a powerful warlock patron? That was more of a collab of these two elves haha. Deimos was the one that carried out the ritual without knowing all the details. He just trusted Vannatir completely and wanted to save him.
if you didn’t know, discord has a serious internationalization/accessibility problem where diacritic count is capped PER MESSAGE. this means if you have a decently long text in hindi for example it starts deleting VOWELS IN RANDOM LOCATIONS. yep. RANDOM LOCATIONS. it used to be just at the end but now they’re removed from random locations. this has been an issue for years and i brought it up. it’s such a fucking stupid problem that they introduced to themselves for some reason. they havent fixed it. i cant have funny copy pastas in hindi. fuck discord
this is me typing the syllable बा bā over and over again. its made of the base letter ब ba and the diacritic ा ā. you can see in this example that it just deletes the diacritic in random fucking places. this is definitely gonna lead to stupid fucking misunderstandings. My guess is that this was introduced for preventing diacritic spam like zalgo text or whatever. guess what diacritics is how scripts FUCKING WORK sometimes you stupid fuck
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and because devanagari is an abugida vowel being deleted isnt obvious cause the base letter has an inherent vowel this is so fucking dumb this has been a problem for fucking YEARS fucking hell bitch
fix your fucking stupid app i cant believe how fucking stupid this is this is like such an obvious unicode oopsie they tell you not to do in programming classes
I cannot stress enough that this is NOT exaggeration they are calling for the complete abolition of trans people. And you may go “haha well. Thats just West Virginia” which first of all, fuck you for downplaying the struggle of trans people in a place just because you dont live there, and second of all its not just west virginia. This is the goal of all republican regimes across the country.
If you are not fighting against republicans with every fiber of your being at this point you are not a trans ally. If you tolerate the republicans in your family without challenging their ideas about trans people you are not a trans ally. Fight for us goddamnit or we will be culled and our blood will be on your fucking hands.
Yeah, so, fun fact:
If this goes through, even if it has a lot of resistance it’ll be used as both the precedent and blueprint in every state they have power.
And if the “just give up and don’t vote left/at all” people get their way, it’ll become national law.
In a First Past The Post system, you have to vote for the lesser evil candidate or you get the most evil candidate. It’s that simple.
Don’t fall prey to the right-wing propaganda / leftist infighting that tells you not to vote for Biden/Democrats. Dems are the lesser evil and the greater evil must be stopped at all costs.
Exactly, voting is not a popularity contest.
In a FPTP (First Past The Post) system? You don’t vote for the guy you like. You vote for the candidate that is *viable* (actually able to get elected, so they can get things done) and then closest to the policies you like. And you do this *every time.*
This is how the GOP has gotten from Reagan to gestures vaguely What we have now.
There is a caveat: You can vote strategically in a primary. If you live in an open primary state, sometimes it makes sense to vote for a less horrible republican. Not every time, but I voted in a republican primary to try to resist W., for example.
Otherwise, vote your heart in a primary and your head in the general. you can push the more establishment candidate further left if a more progressive candidate has a strong showing. EX: Sanders and Warren doing so well in the 2020 primary pushed Biden’s policies and the party platform further left. He never would have tried to abolish student debt, for example. (Republicans and the Supreme Court stopped him from abolishing all of it, but he keeps finding work arounds that have freed millions of people. He was initially against it.)
When it gets to November though? No fucking around. A shitty centrist Democrat we can pressure is always better than a Republican who wants us dead.
Yes it sucks, but I have to be pragmatic when it’s life or death. I can’t play ideological purity games with things like freedom, human rights, and the future.
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