You know, I really appreciate that despite how hard Animorphs went in on so moral ambiguity and “war is hell,” it never for one instant let that moral ambiguity affect the issue of ultimate responsibility: the colonizing aggressor is wrong, all casualties on both sides are the fault of the colonizing aggressor, the struggle against the colonizing aggressor is good and just and not some “over-simplistic” “narrative” that needs to be overcome with nonviolent peace and love or whatever.
YEAH LIKE. Honestly, that’s why for all that the Animorph’s actions in the later books are objectively horrifying, and the orders Jake gives are awful, I never bought into the “Jake became just like the Yeerks/Visser Three” viewpoint that many people seem to hold.
Because nah, he didn’t. Regardless of what he did do, he didn’t ask for the war. He didn’t start it. He might be “General Berenson” after the war, might be a war-prince, but those titles didn’t come with resources or training or any kind of capital that would have let him negotiate a bloodless end to the war. He was the child leader of a guerrilla force whose numbers were in the single digits, and for whom surrender would lead to the enslavement of an entire planet.
The shit he does and orders others to do is objectively awful by all moral standards, but in context? They’re still absolutely the lesser evil, and necessary, and no less horrible for it. Which is the entire point of the series, and reducing it to “Jake and Visser Three are exactly the same because they both kill loads of people” is ignoring the far more nuanced message of the books.
people who draw lup as Extra™ as possible and barry as Average™ as possible give me life. how did this goth punk fashion elf with a fireball in each hand end up with this best buy employee??? cuz they love each other bitch!!!
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shoutout to the fic im reading for keeping up the dramatic tension – character who has never been to a walmart before is freaked out by the seemingly endless store and the people who look dead inside. are they in a cursed walmart, or is walmart just like that?
one thing i rly want to draw is aradia n dave showing each other sick fossils from their respective planets n dave just losing his mind at all the wild shit alternia had
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Right now, they’re throwing everything out for far lower prices – because they’re closing shop. So if you need/want any of these, now is the time to get it, I guess.
The other day at the mall i saw a 15 year old sitting in a Claire’s piercing booth and it took every fiber in my being to not just grab her and take her to the actual, clean and sanitary and not guaranteed to fuck up your ears tattoo shop literally next door. Like I was frantic. Snakes manifested in my house
Piercing guns almost ALWAYS cause infections
They hurt more because they jam dull jewelry into your ear
Needles from a professional are designed to allow for minimum damage thus less pain.
The people working there literally have no idea what the fuck they’re doing and just guess it with a 1 hour training video vs a professional who trained under a mentor for at least a year and has a passion in the craft
They use bad metal for healings (copper, silver, etc) that can irritate ears. Surgical grade steel should be the only thing in your healing piercings
They put them on way to tight, causing swelling issues. Swelling is normal and piercings should be large enough to allow for that
They give you shit aftercare advice and cleaner (literally just buy saline solution at Spencer’s or hot topic for 8 dollars at the most and don’t touch them at all)
If done on cartilage it can LITERALLY SHATTER YOUR EARS
Please if any young girls in your family want their ears pierced take them to actual professional and don’t trust piercing guns. If a professional says your kid is too young (I.e a fucking baby) then trust their professional judgement. It costs more but you are getting essentially a art piece from a highly trained professional who knows what they’re doing vs a part time min wage employee who had 1 hour training on how to pierce ears.
I literally wrote an entire essay in college why piercing guns should be banned with pictures and my professor told me she was so interested in my topic and had no idea and even googled the topic herself out of curiosity and was horrified on the amount of damage they case
I am a licensed piercing professional and this is all sound and accurate advice. Get your piercings done by a licensed professional at a reputable shop. Not at the mall kiosk that uses piercing guns. Not by your friend who ordered a kit off of Amazon.
Association of Professional Piercers Aftercare Guide:
It’s funny, because I can tell all of this is true, and yet, to me Claire’s was such a step up from my first piercing experience.
My mom was certain any piercing place was going to give me AIDS or some such, so she insisted on taking me to the doctor’s office to get my ears pierced.
He didn’t have a piercing needle OR a piercing gun. He had these little individually wrapped plastic things that you pinched the (extremely cheap quality) earrings on with.
He also clearly thought the whole thing was dumb girl stuff, spent about one minute ‘prepping’, rushed my mom through checking his markings, and put my piercings in lopsided.
My mom, completely flabbergasted by the whole experience, took me to Claire’s to have them redone. The woman there was extremely nice, patient, and careful. The piercing gun hurt way, way less than the finger pinchy things, even on a still healing ear. It was a dramatic improvement.
(I’ve since had my ears pierced by professionals at a tattoo place and yes, that is a further improvement.)
“It’s canon that Taako stans Vriska” is a funny way to say that it’s one hundred percent canon that Taako will say anything five seconds long for $100 of a total sucker’s money
