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thinking about them again. pearl and joel. girl who wishes she could stop feeling like an animal, guy who chases the feeling. girl who gets assigned the role of attack dog and can't seem to live up to those expectations, guy who puts himself in the role of guard dog because it's where he wants to be.

we sometimes throw around the words "guard dog" and "attack dog" like they're interchangeable, but they couldn't be more different. pearl is an attack dog, forced into the ring, pushed and pushed until she lashes out from sheer desperation. joel is a guard dog, built on a foundation of trust and admiration. attack dogs are fueled by their misery and frustration. guard dogs are part of the family, and they wouldn't fight so fiercely to protect their own if they didn't have a mutual rapport of love and respect.

pearl would be much happier as a guard dog. the only thing she's ever wanted is a family. both she and joel know what it's like to be all alone, just them against the world. they'll both do anything to avoid that kind of isolation.

they'd be perfect for each other, and they don't even know it. they have the same animalistic sense of loyalty. after all, wolves are meant to run in packs.

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kris will sing swears

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pov: you’re Jimmy on Skynet 3.0, with Martyn below you

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Honestly I think Joel's pov might have been my favorite for session 6, mainly because despite not going anywhere for the majority of the episode you still know exactly what's happening.

Like imagine people keep inviting themselves into your living room to discuss their murder plots like "ok so the plan is we're gonna lure them over there, & then wait for the signal to strike." And your just upstairs renovating. You're not even against this happening, that's just free Background Noise. Anyway you agree that their plan won't fail (it does) & continue working on the base.

And then later after you finish fixing everything you go outside to find the neighborhood is preparing an angry mob. You immediately join in. It ends up being the Worst riot ever & you find out while you were gone someone set your house on fire. You end the episode.

10/10 viewing experience.

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crazy work by jimmy "nickel" solidarity this is indeed his season

shout out to @mala--draws for putting this idea in my head

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this is hole husbands propaganda btw

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The thing is people are worrying about the wrong thing when it comes to Kris telling Susie about the SOUL:

She's literally gonna be "TWO friends?" and isn't that how you should respond if someone says they're more than one person? and wouldn't it be weird to expect them to tell you that right away?

The ACTUAL problem is gonna be Kris's alliance with the Knight. The Knight that beat her, threatened Toriel, kidnapped someone in front of her and made her feel like she failed to save them, that summoned a Titan that made her fear for a second they might all be about to die.

but even THEN we've seen how Susie responds to what very credibly appears to be someone betraying her.

She literally couldn't kill him. She heard him out and understood. He was just trying to protect people he loved on both sides. That's why. They're gonna be fine, people

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high five

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Did you guys know that Scott's killed Joel 8 times (3 of those times being permakills) That's 26% of his kills being solely Joel (33% of his permakills being Joel). Anyway Joel's only killed Scott 4 times (5 if you count DL where he killed Pearl), which is 9% of the time, with no permakills on Scott

Anyway, you can't really say that Scott doesn't see Joel as a rival or enemy because he sure does kill Joel a lot.

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Remember back in Double Life when Joel was complaining about some tierlist putting him as Lawful Good. He was all on about how he shouldve been Chaotic (and Evil). People would probably put him in the Chaos row these days - he's got crazy and bloodthirsty down at least.

But, like, he is the most lawful player. Death game law anyway.

He doesnt kill when he's not explicitly allowed to, even when its making him really antsy, or when his faction is losing badly. He won't do anything without undeniable permission. In Wild Life, he wouldnt leave a bolthole trap activated before he was red, so he couldnt even have used it in self defence like it was designed for.

At the same time, when the rules say kill, he sure does kill. No hesitation. He wants to be boogey, and doesnt see it as a burden or something working against him. He was THE red name of Last Life, longest red life kill streak etc. No hanging back on killing strategically to not make enemies (and he lost because of that in the end). The game says try and he tries.

Its very much about the spirit of the game not just the letter of the law. He never half-asses a task in Secret Life, even when it kills him. He never tries for loopholes in the rules. (He could have killed Impulse after he teleported Gem into Scott's 'team fight' kill. It would have been just as much of a team fight, and he specifically needed Impulse dead, but he didnt even consider it.) And he's not about sacrifices. Killing has to be done properly. He's accepted one sacrifice ever (Grian for time in Limited Life) but he didnt want it and refused to do it a second time, prefering to die trying to kill his enemies in combat.

He's very against doing anything cheap or cheat-y. He wants to earn everything right. But he's also never trying to be the good guy - the opposite usually. Its funny. Me when I want to kill and terrorize but my strong sense of justice keeps me on my own leash :(

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it’s a good thing we don’t encounter tasque manager until after noelle “world’s biggest lesbian” holiday leaves the party because i don’t think she could be normal about it

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they are barring wikipedia. they are barring spotify. they are barring important news - both national news and world news. they are barring mental health forums and LGBTQ related things and so much more. this is not about protecting children, it has never been about protecting children.

the online safety act is an insane privacy breach, and if that does not scare you then you need to think harder about it. it is going to end up in a massive data leak - all the information is getting collected by random third party systems. can we trust them? no. can we even hold them accountable? no. because the government couldn’t even make their own system to do these age checks.

and i hear you - it is important that kids don’t see porn. but even if all this was about protecting kids, it’s sloppy and useless. it’s easy (for now) to get around with a vpn and the only thing the act doing is censoring things that it shouldnt. if the government wanted to protect kids, they would do something concrete about it - they would be putting more funding into education, for example.

of course the policy isnt called “national surveillance”. they’re not going to call it that. everything will be hidden behind things that people want.

so email your MP, and tell other people that this is WAY more than blocking porn from children - this is the first step towards national surveillance.

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We always talk about Achilles' "eat [him] raw" line in book 22, but I find Hecuba's later, similarly cannibalistic, line to be equally (if not more) compelling

In book 24, right before Priam goes out to retrieve Hector's body, he speaks with Hecuba, telling her where he's going and what he's doing. In response, Hecuba freaks out, telling Priam to stay and mourn Hector within the walls of Troy. During this exchange she says, "Oh would to god that I could sink my teeth in his liver, eat him [Achilles] raw! That would avenge what he has done to Hector--"

What I find most interesting about Hecuba's line is that it is so much more direct than that of Achilles in book 22. In his speech, Achilles adds a few degrees of separation between himself and the act of cannibalism: "Would to god my rage, my fury would drive me now to ... eat you raw." In Ancient Greece, mortal cannibalism was a serious taboo (duh), seen as the ultimate act of barbarity, one which fundamentally separated a person from their humanity. Cannibalism is an act so disturbing, so inhuman, that even Achilles, in all his rage, cannot bring himself to desire it (let alone commit the act!).

But Hecuba, Hecuba doesn't dance around it. "Oh would to god that I could sink my teeth in his liver, eat him raw!" This is a direct wish; were she were given the opportunity and the power, she would eat Achilles. At this point, what does she have to lose? She's already lost so many sons, Troy is in a state of constant distress, and now Hector is gone. Hector, her very own son. Hector, the protector of Troy. All Hecuba has left is rage, a hunger for vengeance. A Rage so potent that it can only be expressed through the most sinful and visceral act of devouring your enemy.

But Hecuba never actually eats Achilles. She doesn't have the outlet that he does; she can't go into battle, can't actually do anything to the man who has killed her son. And so Hecuba's rage, so intensely inhuman, stews within her. And maybe it's because of this festering anger that, in many versions of her story, Hecuba becomes a dog. A beast which, in the Iliad specifically, is so often used as a threat to soldiers and their bodies: "Sooner the racing dogs will eat him raw".

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for anyone in the UK, needing to access discord and unable or unwilling to provide an ID:

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i only threw this party for you or whatever charlie xcx said