phil-the-stone:

ralphsfine:

Jake gave up his dream so that Holt could have his (*′☉.̫☉)

#i’m still unstable #a boy and his father #REUNITED AT LAST #IT’S SO PRECIOUS THAT HOLT IS THE ONE WHO ALWAYS IMPRESSED UPON JAKE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS #TO PUT OTHER PEOPLE’S FEELINGS BEFORE YOUR OWN AND BE SELFLESS #AND ONE OF THE MOST SELFLESS THINGS JAKE DOES UNHESITATINGLY AND WITHOUT PREAMBLE #IS GIVE UP HIS DREAM SO HE CAN MAKE HOLT’S COME TRUE AGAIN #i’m so emotional

Jake’s dream was to track and catch a serial killer, which he did. He gave up the public credit, but almost everyone of consequence knows his role in the bust.

While Jake’s actions were admirable, Jake did not give up his dream to save Holt.

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seewater:

it’s getting close to Thanksgiving in the US so i wanted to pass around a link to the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Donate if you can, and even if you can’t, spend some time this November educating yourself about the history of the very-much-still-alive tribe that sat down with the pilgrims, the continued history of colonization in America, and about the tribe/s whose land you are occupying. 

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seewater:

it’s getting close to Thanksgiving in the US so i wanted to pass around a link to the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Donate if you can, and even if you can’t, spend some time this November educating yourself about the history of the very-much-still-alive tribe that sat down with the pilgrims, the continued history of colonization in America, and about the tribe/s whose land you are occupying. 

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barredandboujee:

As California is being ravaged by deadly fires, let’s remember that over a third of California’s firefighters are incarcerated.

They’re out there now risking their lives, making 1% or less of nonincarcerated firefighters’ salaries, and then they can’t even serve as firefighters when they get out because of their past convictions.

Prison labor is slavery.

seewater:

it’s getting close to Thanksgiving in the US so i wanted to pass around a link to the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project

Donate if you can, and even if you can’t, spend some time this November educating yourself about the history of the very-much-still-alive tribe that sat down with the pilgrims, the continued history of colonization in America, and about the tribe/s whose land you are occupying. 

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pephka:

Iqaluit’s second and largest grocery store caught on fire overnight. the fire was confined to the warehouse and the main store area was unaffected other than smoke damage. Iqaluit officials say there is no concern of food shortage, but we aren’t convinced. are Iqalummiut supposed to eat smoke damaged food, or..? about 60% of Iqaluit’s food is bought at this Northmart.

if you would like to donate, please send money rather than actual food donations. you could donate to The Qayuqtuvik Society, Iqaluit’s soup kitchen. check it out here. if any fundraisers start up later i’ll add them to the post.

@allthecanadianpolitics 

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heypancake:

baazlbub:

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

CHARACTER MODEL UPDATES

literally

The female worgen doesn’t even look like its the same species. And it wouldn’t have hurt a damn thing to give the female goblin the same nose as the male.

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ggdgart:

advent of the deliverer

andyzer0:

its-a-gemfact:

Hilda is really good and i’m having a hard time figuring out why exactly I don’t like it as much as my favourite cartoons about folklore (i.e spirited away and over the garden wall). Its all about personal taste but i feel like Hilda would be perfect if it had deeper, more moving themes to go with the vast, awe-inspiring visuals. Like, I get it’s a kids show. They don’t have to be complex themes. They just need to be Resonant. It’s so close to being true modern folktale but it’s just not there yet and it’s frustrating for me

My biggest frustration with Hilda is how apparently Nobody Has Even Complained Before.   (Like in all those Star Trek episodes where some alien kidnaps members of the crew and act shocked when the humans are mad at them.  How in the world can you exist in a galaxy with the Klingons and Romulans and pretty much ANY OTHER SENTIENT SPECIES who would sooner photon torpedo you if someone did that to them.   “Nobody ever complained before!” is the complaint.  BS.)

Standard plot in Hilda is how humans or a spirit or fantastic creature is doing their own thing; and this crashes into each other; and Hilda has to mediate between them.   Very nice, very tidy with a moral of different groups getting along. 

BUT….

They’re surprised and offended when a human picks up a plant thinking it’s a plant and not a vittra.  They’re surprised and offended when a human picks up a rock not knowing it’s a troll baby.    They can’t recognize each other when they’re hidden this way.    And yet somehow this kind of misunderstanding is unheard of up to now.

These are not the actions of races that have existed besides humans and each other for thousands of years.  These are the actions of a race of beings that came into existence the same day as the episode.

I don’t think it’s the same issue as seen in Star Trek, and most of the creatures they disturb seem pretty reasonable in their outrage. (Save the elves, who’s outrage is entirely unreasonable, but that seems to be the joke.) In Hilda the people having these encounters are largely children who are having them as a result of going places unsupervised where adults rarely go. Most of the sentient species in the surrounding area, including humans, seem pretty tetchy and insular (possibly as a result of the tetchyness). Trollberg’s defining feature is that it is surrounded by a giant wall built with the sole intention of keeping local wildlife out. Hilda and the gang only encounter the trolls, vittra, and the other fantastical wildlife as result of going places and doing things most people don’t.

Its reasonable to argue that humans should have encountered the vittra before and had largely the same experience, but the area Hilda and her friends are in is undeveloped and they never bring their encounter up to the adults. Hilda would be the most likely to know about vittra, but she is new to the area and vittra may not live in the valley where she grew up, it seems kind of cold for subterranian plant people. Her friends aren’t particularly woodsy and don’t seem to come from particularly woodsy families. If it weren’t for their community development project I doubt they would go anywhere any more rustic than a park. Which doesn’t seem like anywhere any reasonable sentient subterranean plant species would take their regularly occurring unguarded dirt-naps. Also, the vittra they encounter doesn’t seem surprised by what happened he just seems angry and frustrated. Which is reasonable, the vittra found an untravelled, undeveloped, seemingly safe plot of land to have their dirt-naps and here come humans digging them up and stabbing them with spades.

As for the troll baby incident, trolls seem to be more on par with elephants in intelligence than humans or vittra. They’re reactionary, prone to aggression and violence when slighted, and nonverbal. Humans being pretty reactionary and aggressive ourselves, I don’t see us having much in the way of interspecies diplomacy. The troll’s reaction to humans missing it’s baby is very similar to how a wild elephant would react. It doesn’t care *why* the humans have it’s child, it just wants it back and has the strength to trample everyone and everything to get it.

I think one of the major themes of Hilda is that humans don’t take enough time to understand the natural world around them. And that results in a lot of issues. Although that doesn’t explain why the citizens of ‘Trollberg’ can’t identify trolls, which is a major narrative failing for me. I can give the kids some benefit of the doubt, kids are inconsistent in their ability to identify threats. But every adult in that city should be able to identify a troll baby (the nose is a dead give away) and should also be pretty anti-rock collecting given the city was built to keep trolls out, the surrounding area is apparently full of trolls disguised as rocks, and baby trolls look like rocks. For that matter, those trolls should have never made it that close to the city in the first place, let alone have enough time to break in. Are there no patrols? Why not? How did this city survive long enough to get this complacent given that a determined troll can break through in a matter of a few evenings?

fightingyourbullshit:

So my daemon would be a superb starling

Little buggers

What about everyone who sees this post? I wanna know what your daemon would be I love daemons and his dark materials and even if ya don’t know what it is I encourage you to do it anyway because it’s cool

The American Badger.

Not as patient as their European cousins, but stolid and true just the same.

werewhulf:

“Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

Some good ol Watership Down art to make me relive traumatic scenes from this damn movie

vintar:

i’m listening

werewolf-in-the-sheets:

mymindsecho:

lizq-vs-the-kitkatuprising:

im-a-tnuc:

I don’t know why, but I think some Americans don’t realise how big the UK is….

American Customer: you’re English right? Do you know the bookshop between Wales and Bristol that has lots of books in?

Me in my head: yeah mate, I know that one. Classic. Love to pop down there on a cheeky break between work. What a wanker…

the continuous 48 states are is almost 39x the size of the isle of great britan

that’s your answer

For reference:

That’s JUST Texas.

I read somewhere that someone never saw their parents bc they were a 45 minute drive away. 45 MINUTES. that’s my usual commute to work and I’m staying in the same city.

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pumpkinprogram:

YO

U.S. Amazon employee here!!!

Do not buy into that bullshit about us getting a “raise”. It’s not a raise. Not when workers who have been there 2+ years who made $13 when they started and now make $14 are only getting that $15 like every other new employee is. We should be getting payed $16 but we aren’t.

They already took away our ability to earn payed days off. Yup that’s right. Thru points earned thru productivity we could earn a payed day off if we had a certain amount of points.

Now they take away our monthly bonuses too that we earned thru attendance and productivity.

AND they took away our stocks because of this so-called “raise”.

All they did was move the money elsewhere. Actually, I haven’t done the calculations yet but I bet we LOST money from our pay.

That “raise” is bullshit. Fuck Jeff Bezos and fuck Amazon.

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thatpettyblackgirl:

BLESSSS

Representation matters.

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