Camilla - Currently insufferable about CR4 & Figure Skating GP

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

2011 email from epstein to ghislaine maxwell about donald trump spending hours with a young person who was listed as abused in the epstein files

"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump...[VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him"

— Jeffrey Epstein email to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2011

#epstein #epsteinfiles

Nel giorno della grazia concessa a Rudy Giuliani, noi amiamo ricordarlo quando tenne la conferenza stampa post elezioni davanti ad un'azienda di giardinaggio chiamata Four Seasons, avendola erroneamente scambiata per l'omonimo albergo.
E lui era uno di quelli intelligenti alla corte di re Donaldo I.

Piazza Fontana #Rolli

An illustration of Bolaire from critical role season 4 he wears a mask and has long wavy red hair. Hes posed with his neck at back and has has hands on his masked face with harsh green lighting coming from above

Bolaire

#Art | #CriticalRole

a set of semi-realistic sketchy head shot portraits of several characters from campaign 4 of Critical Role. Azune is a young human with a short beard and long wavy hair in a messy braid. he has a thin faded scar running up his cheek and through his facial hair, and a large birthmark over his left eye. he is looking up with a hopeful expression. Tyranny is a young-looking demon with pierced goat ears, horns growing out of her forehead, a pointy goatee, and long straight hair with short bangs. she is depicted in profile, her mouth open as if speaking and her hands folded in front of her face in a prayer. Wick is a young human with short hair curling delicately around his face. he has several simple tattoos on his face, including a stripe running down his bottom lip and chin and through his short goatee. there is a diadem resting on his forehead, decorated with crystals. he is looking at the camera with a serene smile. next to him is his grandmother Yanessa, an older woman with features very similar to Wick. she is wearing an elaborate up-do with a halo-like crystal ornament woven into her hair. she is smiling at the viewer with the same smile as her grandson. Teor is lion-folk with a septum piercing and a braided beard. he's looking wistfully into the distance. Occtis is a young human with dark shoulder-length wavy hair. he appears slightly tired, looking down. Julien is a young human with thick curly hair. he has a bit of stubble on his chin and a few moles on his face. he is staring at the viewer from under his eyebrows with angry defiance.

i just wanted to do a little study of Wick's and Yanessa's features over the weekend (totally headcanon that they basically have the same face), and then it spiraled out of control

#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleFanArt #Araman

[26.10.22] repost

Happy Birthday JiuJiu! You deserve love, my angry grape.

#江澄1105生日快乐 #1105江澄生誕祭 #JiangCheng #JinLing #mdzs

Wei Wuxian and the juniors in Yi City

Xiao Xingchen stabbing Song Lan while Xue Yang watches

Xiao Xingchen cutting his throat

A-Qing crying beside the coffin with Xiao Xingchen in it, the juniors in the background

OMG!!!!
The Yi City arc!😭😭😭

#mdzs Ukrainian edition, vol. 2
#officialart by
x.com/minshugart?s...

#WeiWuxian
#XiaoXingchen
#SongLan
#XueYang
#mxtx

Jiujiu 😭😭

#mdzs #sairusb

I'm going to miss Kaori so much at the end of this season. 😭

#NHK杯フィギュア #GPFigure #NHKTrophy

Koshiro Shimada and Ikura Kushida before their FD By AFLO

Ikura Kushida and Koshiro Shimada hugging after their FD by mainichi, Kota Yoshida

Ikura Kushida and Koshiro Shimada performing their FD. They are doing a lift in which Ikura is standing on one leg on Koshiro’s thigh, arms stretching to the sides by AFLO

Ikura Kushida, Koshiro Shimada and Cathy Reed hugging in the kiss and cry by AFLO

coming on here to post some ikuko photos because they deserve more attention

The classic 'George W. Bush gets told about 9/11' meme in which the former guy has an aide whispering into his ear that a second really bad thing like the first one has transpired

"Sir, a second Joyce Carol Oates post has hit—"

a man in a yellow suit is holding a flamethrower and the name arthur09 is on the bottom ALT: a man in a yellow suit is holding a flamethrower and the name arthur09 is on the bottom

joyce carol roasts

So, if everyone's headed back to work then it must be time for that vote on releasing the Epstein Files, right?
#epstein #epsteinfiles

Me: I most definitely should write my dissertation and do some job hunting today!

My brain: yeah but hear me out, what about some TTRPG one-shot planning, it’ll be fun, let’s get distracted, oops, it’s lunchtime already

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

I've checked, @hassan.senate.gov, and CareFirst doesn't allow me to pay my health insurance premium with "shame"

Vaelus 💜🪶⛓️
#CriticalRole #CriticalRoleArt

Sofia Samodelkina (left), Kaori Sakamoto (centre), and Loena Hendrickx (right)

Kaori Sakamoto

Sofia Samodelkina

Loena Hendrickx

NHK Trophy - Women’s podium #NHK杯フィギュア

🥇 Kaori Sakamoto
🥈 Sofia Samodelkina
🥉 Loena Hendrickx

📸: Aki

POV: You’re trying to watch figure skating in 2025 ⛸️

Someone at work just asked me what I was thinking so intensely about and I was too embarrassed to tell them that I was mentally inventorying my cardboard collection to figure out which bits I could tape together for a sturdy surface so I said "Orcas giving birth" because that's more normal I guess?

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

A digital illustration of Caleb Widogast and Essek Thelyss from Critical Role. There are two drawings of them in the image, in both they are dressed in pink outfits for Fjord and Jester's wedding. On the left Essek is stood behind Caleb with his chin resting on Caleb's shoulder and his arms around Caleb's middle. They're both affectionately watching Fjord and Jester dance. On the right they're both holding glasses of wine and trying to kiss but smiling too much to actually manage it.

Wizards celebrating their friends' love <3 #CriticalRoleFanart #CriticalRole #FjoresterWedding

Missing mollymauk o-clock

#mollymauk #CriticalRoleFanart

The Soldiers’ Table
🦁🐾🐺😈🌟🧚

#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart

I have not done Critical Role fanart in a very long time. Painted Sir Julien Davinos from season 4!

@matthewmercer.bsky.social @criticalrole.bsky.social

#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart

These two! Their vows made me cry! #criticalrolefanart #themightynein