Basil

Intersectional & uplifting disabled neurodivergent queer enby feminist succubus, mid skill gamer, & general geek. If no one's told you yet today, you matter. 💚

[Dr Prital Patel 🍉 Prital.Bsky.social @prital_]

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[Luna Bean @LunaBeanXOXO]

Making Carnival Sailor Moon was a love letter to two deeply impactful influences on my life.

Also, many communities in the Caribbean are still recovering from Hurricane Beryl.
You can help! https://t.co/ysfRkaFbNV 🌙

#Carnival #SailorMoon #Cosplay #BlackCosplayer #blerdcon

[D20 Burlesque @d20burlesque]

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT!
We got acts based on video games, anime, LotR, Marvel, computer games, @dimension20show, + more!

Performers: @HappyBunbuns @queerlyfemme @MarcusTerritory @AnjaKeister @makirollOFC @MayEsmerelda Agent Wednesday @HisMajesty and @luastardust

See you there!

[Basil @Basil_Elf]

@CriticalRole @samriegel We love you!!! Glad to have you back!! Thank you for taking care of yourself first and foremost!!! Also, thank you for your vulnerability and spreading awareness of this all too common cancer!!! 💚

[Basil @Basil_Elf]

@ItsDaniCarr @Larkspurns CONGRATS!!! 💚💚💚💚

[The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein @LVMandM9onPrime]

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Video description, 77 seconds.A glowing yellow strand streaks across a black background, curling and whipping until it fills the screen with light, clearing to reveal a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds. A raven flies by, then Vex walks into view, seen from behind, at a bug's eye view. She is joined by Vax, Scanlan, Grog, and Keyleth, who smiles, turning her head. Close up on Vex, who laughs with her arm around a grinning Vax. Cut to Pike looking with concern at a laughing Scanlan, while Percy and Grog walk behind them. The glowing yellow strand creeps past them, unnoticed. Cut to the back of Vax's head as the glowing yellow strand of light whips around him and he turns quickly, looking straight at it. Extreme close-up on Vax's eye. Cut to a close-up of the Matron of Ravens' ornate mask, crisscrossed with gleaming yellow strands of light that dissipate. Next, a close-up of a fireplace as schematics for a pistol are tossed in and burned to ashes. The flames fill the screen and then clear to reveal Percy looking at the fire, his glasses reflecting the light. The fire rises and falls away to show a close up of Anna Ripley staring malevolently, with a glowing yellow orb on either side of her, as black smoke wisps surround her. Cut to Keyleth, Percy, Scanlan, Grog with Pike on his shoulders, Vex and Vax walking, then suddenly the rest of the party fades away, leaving only a somber-looking Keyleth. Close up on Keyleth who stops walking and looks down. Cut to a close-up of a black feather lying on the ground, with a slightly blurred Vex sitting in the background. The focus shifts to Vex as she looks over at the feather worriedly. Cut to the back of someone's head. They turn, revealing the face of Kaylie. Zoom out as a door closes behind her, and a hand reaches out towards the closed door. Close up on Scanlan's face as he holds a glowing sword up to his brow, with closed eyes. Suddenly his eyes open, gleaming with the same blue sheen as the blade. He whips the blade before him and holds it up in one hand as the view pulls back to show him standing in a large, magical pink hand next to Percy, who is wielding a pistol. Vax is crouched in front of them, while Grog is wearing the Titanstone Knuckles with Pike on his shoulder to the other side. Vex and Keyleth stand ready on either side of the group, as an energy burst beams outward from the sword in a brilliant arc of light. The screen fills with pale blue, then clears to reveal a close-up of Grog smashing the Titanstone Knuckles together. The carvings on the Knuckles glow with yellow light as lightning surges from the metal. Zoom out as Grog leaps into the air, rearing back for a mighty punch. The ground erupts as he descends, enemies go flying and the collision fills the screen with debris. As the debris flies upwards, Vax's wings sweep open, revealing him to be mid-air, holding two daggers. He twists and dives, his teeth gritted with determination. Vax flies towards the rest of the party. Keyleth is running with her staff at the ready, as Scanlan glides on a magical purple hand behind her, with Pike a few feet behind him. Close up on two canine faced, axe-wielding enemies, as they menace a stressed-out Scanlan, then Pike smashes them with her glowing mace. Vex soars overhead with a notched arrow in her bow. Close up on her as it glows from glowing green to a lightning bowstring, then the lightning arrow fires and streaks through the air. Transition to a night sky with the lightning blending into a comet, seen overhead with a rear view of a crowd of people. Cut to a front view revealing Gilmore, Cassandra, Kima, Trinket, Lady Allura, Keeper Yennen and others. Flames fill the screen, swirling as Pike channels them from the holy symbol on her chest. Close up on Pike's face as her eyes open wide and the golden flames surround Thordak, the massive dragon. The whole party surrounds Pike in front of two dragons as blinding light suddenly bursts forth from her, filing the screen. Cut to a close-up of someone wearing a bloody bandage over their eyes. They tilt their face upward slowly. An orb is barely visible in the darkness, then purple energy sparks from it, with hands on either side of it. Cut to an extreme close-up of Vax's eye, slowly panning out to show his worried face. He closes his eyes and turns away, walking with the rest of the party. A black feather falls to the ground, joining several other fallen black feathers. A swiping gold transition reveals a vibrant "The Legend of Vox Machina" title card with a black background and the title in gold letters. The animated gold strand underlines the title, revealing the text "Returns October 3rd" in white font. Then, an animated golden “3” swoops behind the title. As the 3 vanishes, the logo bursts into flame and goes from solid to a glowing outline with embers around it.

[Basil @Basil_Elf]

@lilwildminx Can...can I also dress up? If so, fuck yeah I'd be in! 😂💚

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

How can we possibly get strangers to care enough to do the right thing when people who supposedly love us are unwilling? /13

[The Yeti of Kananaskis @kananaskinyeti]

There was never a reason to believe that:

-Covid got milder
-kids don’t catch or spread it
-masks don’t work
-It’s like the flu
-it isn’t airborne

These were deliberate lies told to deceive. If you repeated these lies, it’s only because you like how they sounded.

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

When someone says that only those with comorbidities die from COVID, they’re stating that it’s okay if disabled and high risk people die. Our lives are not disposable! No one has the right to say who’s life is worthy and who’s is not.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Here’s the thing: Accepting pathogens ripping through your community, killing and disabling people, is inherently not only a cowardly act but an unnatural one because it cedes humans' status as the apex predator.

This is something we have not done willingly in a hundred thousand years. Much of this was to the detriment of the planet and every other species, but one law has governed us for all of our history- no one messes with humans but humans.

We don’t allow wolves to roam our towns and cities because they only prey on the sick and weak. We never “learned to live” with any predator as dangerous as the pathogens we now face. We either limit their existence to a few select, remote areas, put them in a zoo, or make them extinct.

Humans are the apex predators on planet Earth; we have never ceded ground the way many do today. We have never accepted sacrificing our own to the Minotaur in the labyrinth. When anything tried, some folks grabbed a few pointed sticks, or figured out how to flake flint, and went out and showed them what’s what and who’s on top.

Now, when people fashion shields and arm themselves, others, who are unwilling to fight, unwilling to protect themselves or others, proclaim that they must have some secret message. They say that if they carry a shield, their friends might laugh at them, that only a few are taken, and probably only other people they feel don't matter, so why should they care?

Yes, there is a message in the protective measures we employ- it is that we don’t cede ground, no one comes for ours in the night, and no one picks off our elders or carries away our children.

The bull protects not just himself, but every member of his herd. Human tribes are no different, it is why we form them- for collective protection.

For generations of our ancestors have used superior intellect and cooperation to defeat any predator that comes for us or ours. A rifle above the door, a baseball bat beside it, an obsidian knife close at hand, a bottle of antibiotics- whatever the tool required to kill the threat, we have made it; humans do not surrender our own to anything.

To accept that any creature, any organism- any natural event, is our better and allowed to prey on us is unnatural.

Cowering by the campfire because the monsters in the dark only take a few each night goes against 100,000 years of evolution. We are the monster in the dark- we are the nightmare of every other creature on the planet, from single-celled organisms to giant whales. For the last hundred years, they have only been allowed to exist only at our sufferance.

Until today- when something, perhaps wandering out from the forest, perhaps escaped from a zoo- preys on us in ways we have not seen in centuries. Pathogens, the last remaining predator we have not beaten.

Now, many ask, why don’t we go belly up, bend the knee, cower, and timidly accept such a tiny enemy as our better? Why not live our lives happily in the moment as Eloi, accepting the predations of the Morlocks when fighting them is so inconvenient and unfashionable? What if my shield doesn't match my outfit? What if it hides my handsome face? What if my friends laugh at my shield? Why protect ourselves when even acknowledging the Morlocks are eating us is seen as gauche? Of course they are, but we don't talk about it- it's so vulgar.

Why don’t we allow pathogens, the last predator, to extract their price from us for another 100,000 years, taking days of pleasure and labor from us, disabling us, and killing millions? Why do we fight with technology, cooperation, and persistence like our ancestors did with every threat to their tribes?

Because some, in every tribe, cower by the campfire and hope that in doing nothing they will be safe, that someone else will be next. Some pick up a fist-size rock or whatever tool they can fashion and make sure they and theirs aren't next. They don’t cede ground, not to any monster- big or small.

[Basil @Basil_Elf]

@agrumpygremlin

[strawberry switchblade time @moodybitchtm]

I absolutely hate the “nobody owes you anything” discourse. We actually do owe each other, our communities, & our world so much

[Shawn Fain @ShawnFainUAW]

I am proud that the UAW International Union is calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine. From opposing fascism in WWII to mobilizing against apartheid South Africa and the CONTRA war, the @UAW has consistently stood for justice across the globe..

[yasmin🇵🇸 @_yassssmin]

It’s crazy how people were posting “I stand with Israel” soon after oct 7 and then the more time went on and the more Palestinians were being murdered, the more silent they became bc they realized they’re on the wrong side so instead of backtracking, they chose to just be silent

[DaFoool @DaFoool_]

To those that are not in the Discord, I will share this here. I really hope that the @KineticGame devs will reconsider their requirements, because you are not going to find someone more dedicated to this game than me. I feel completely broken by this news.