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madametrashbin · 4 years ago

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Blissful Relief

Modern Day life is stressful (no one can tell me otherwise), and as someone who will practically deflate upon suddenly having nothing to do and nothing important going on in the future (because being isekai'd means all regular world plans for life are cancelled), I will not hesitate to sleep like the dead because I'm not on a tight schedule now.

(Two posts in a Day?? What have I become?!)

A.K.A, I make an excuse to write a Lazy Nocturnal God!Darling who will abuse the cult pampering system... because that is what I would do without hesitation when I’m free from Modern Day duties that eat away at my health and sanity bit by bit with every hour I spend working like a mindless zombie from dawn to dusk, juggling home life that is filled with bothersome troubles that never change.

I’m also a night owl, caused by both insomnia and because it is the quietest hour that I cannot help but want to relish in since my life is filled with so much loud noise it gives me daily migraines... but of course, habits are formed from repetition and I will always wake up at 4-6am like a dumbass thus suffer the consequences the next morning.

Uhh... and I guess there might be OOC stuff?? Characterization who? Also Self-Indulgent again?? Super Self-Indulgent??? Letmeenjoysleepingandbeinganocturnalcreatureplease--

Morning tends to consist of Zhongli coming into your room, leaving the tray of breakfast he prepared on the coffee table near the sofa in your room before he walks over to kneel beside the bed where you're happily dozing off on, a hand moving to gently rest on the small of your back to rub small circles with his thumb. He’s softly smiling the whole time, looking at you with such adoration and fondness with how relaxed you were. As much as he wants to let you sleep in, he knows what would happen if a mortal body doesn’t move that much on a daily basis.

He'll try get you to wake up without being too loud, and if you ask for affection (kisses in particular, because I’m an affection and touch starved bastard), he will give it to you without hesitation and pepper your face in adoring kisses before carrying you off to the sofa so you could eat. He will feed you himself if you’re still too sluggish.

Will also put you in his lap if you’re nodding off, mostly to prevent you from hurting yourself (and because he enjoys the close proximity, if you allow it).

On rare occasions, Childe will be the one to wake you up in the morning instead whenever Zhongli is busy, letting you snuggle in bed a while longer if you want a few extra minutes before smothering you in his affections as he whisks you off from bed to get ready for the day and drop you off in the kitchen where breakfast is waiting on the table.

He will feed you himself if you're still drowsy, looking at you while cooing as though you are the most precious little thing this world has ever given life to (and to be fair, you are the most precious person to him with his family).

Will give you more cheek kisses if you’re still half-asleep, or in-between spoonfuls as a way to let you know you’re doing great... and because why not. It’s a rare moment to have, since Zhongli does hog a lot of your time.

Noon/Afternoon usually has Venti to keep watch over you if you ever choose to nap somewhere random around the teapot outdoors, or somewhere out in the wilds of Teyvat where the weather is just right and the surroundings are generally quiet. If you were outside of the teapot, you’d also have either Kaeya, Xiao or Kazuha to accompany the two of you depending on where you are for extra protection (per Zhongli’s safety precaution).

Venti will hum a song, and maybe strum a calming tune while you nap, happily basking in the gentle breeze and warm sunlight as the day goes by in a very peaceful and quiet manner. If lunch time comes around, he’ll try to wake you up as gently as possible, but finds it difficult to disturb you when you look so comfortable and peaceful right now. (And usually, this has you missing out on lunch if Zhongli is too busy to check up on you. Don't worry though, he'll make sure the packed lunch is empty before the old man drops by and that you did eat something.)

Kaeya will take the chance to cuddle with you, usually keeping you between his legs while you're using his chest as a pillow as your head is tucked in the crook of his neck. He's going to keep a loose hold on you, arms wrapped around your waist while occasionally shifting in case you're uncomfortable. He's smiling the whole time because you're so cute when you sleep like this. (Will occasionally give you kisses on the crown of your head if you don't mind it. Man wants to spoil you with so much love if you allow him to.)

Xiao is 100% attentive to all things in the surrounding, wanting to keep you safe from all potential dangers and will not relax while you're in such a vulnerable state. He will, however, melt when you sleepily call for his name while lazily reaching for him in such a lazy, but cute manner. Just like that, he's right by your side, asking for whatever you need. He's still on guard, but whatever you need, he will be there to provide... kisses and snuggles included, even if he’s struggling to be open about it.

Kazuha would be smiling serenely, occasionally brushing the hair off your face if it gets in the way of giving you proper sleep. He would take care of problems that may arise before it reaches you, and if you ever have trouble trying to be comfortable, he’ll let you lay your head on his lap while he gently pets your head in such a soothing manner that the nap turns into full on sleep... his legs might go numb, but he just couldn’t wake you up when you looked so peaceful sleeping right there.

Sayu will always accompany you when you’re in Inazuma, mostly because she could find an excuse to sleep with you around when you are getting ready to nap. She’ll be quick to defend you though, because if you get hurt, she’ll lose that excuse and she’ll struggle to find peace to sleep for a while without having people tailing after her.

Dusk/Evening you’re decently awake (or rather, barely awake), Zhongli’s not letting you sleep anymore until later into the night. Ei would keep you company, the time when it’s not so busy for her as things settle down and allow her to spend time with you. She’s honestly just internally squealing when you end up holding onto her hand or sleeve if you’re too groggy to walk by yourself and properly guide your own feet.

Sometimes the Kamisato Clan would be the ones to accompany you, per Ei/Raiden Shogun’s orders. Ayaka used to be on-guard (because how did someone who was barely standing on their own two feet turn the Raiden Shogun into some excitable puppy??) when she first met you, but she got over it after realizing you’re not a bad person after spending enough time with you to see it.

Thoma sometimes coddles you, knowing well enough that you were just tired from the stress of the daily life you used to have when you told him once during a day when he was left to take care of you... He does his best to make sure you were enjoying yourself in the city, keeping a watchful eye in case you’d trip on your own feet.

On rare occasions when even the Kamisato Clan is busy, Kujou Sara would be the one to care for you... as foreign as it was in the beginning, because you’re so idle and pretty sluggish most of the time, but she grew to find these times relaxing. Of course, she is ever watchful for all problems, and when you were awake enough, would be helpful with your foreknowledge if you do remember everything well enough.

When Night falls upon Teyvat, you are fully awake, if only for a while until you grow exhausted again. In these moments, they would all try to spend time with you and gain more of your attention... but aside from that, you would often take strolls on Watatsumi Island, if only because you do sincerely enjoy the scenery the island had during the night... but other times, you would either take a stroll at Starsnatch Cliff or Qingce Village.

Kokomi would be with you, walking alongside you while she admires the sight of your relaxed, fully awake expressions that mostly appears at night. She would keep each of these moments to her heart, knowing that if her God loved Watatsumi as it is, then all her efforts into protecting it was worth it... plus, there was something nice just knowing a God like you enjoying the natural sight of her home while taking a nightly stroll.

Gorou trails behind you like a puppy, basking in the attention you give him and will always be ready to defend you. When you talk, he is absolutely silent, wanting to hear your voice in its more clearer form. He will not be happy if someone interrupts you, definitely will snarl at them if you don’t keep him in check... but aside from that, he will stick close to your side while you’re at Watatsumi Island as your guard with Kokomi.

Diluc will be by your side during the night when you’re in Mondstadt, always looking away when your gaze is directed towards him but otherwise would observe you closely... since he often sees you when you weren’t fully awake. He enjoys seeing this side of you more, and while he does find your sleepy self to be adorable, he likes knowing that you’re aware of everything... It gives him a peace of mind when you do acknowledge his efforts.

Midnight rings clear into the night, the clarity of your mind would return into its sleepy state. You would return back to the Teapot and get ready for bed, tucked in comfortably by one of your acolytes before you slumber until morning rises once more and repeat your day... Sometimes, if you’ve relaxed enough, you might be fully awake for the whole day.

Of course, that is a rare moment that might not always happen, but if you were truly awake for a whole day, none of your acolytes are going to miss this chance and might fight to have your full attention if you don’t give them the satisfactory amount, unless you put your foot down and make sure they behave.

Aside from that, your cult will always be there for you, ready to take care of you and give you all the affection you want.

#self aware genshin #yandere genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #I don't know how to self-care #I'll just give myself this and share it to everyone #*wheezes from stress*#I should sleep #but brain got 50+ ideas #skjsksjksjskj #I had this in my drafts since the Greeting post lmao #Finally done with this #Even if I don't really like how it ended #But brain is dead so this is all I can do for now #Not going to revise this

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likelightningafterthethunder · 4 years ago

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Like Lightning After the Thunder: Chapter Three: Message from the Shadows

Fic Summary:

His breath wavered as he stared into Katsuki’s eyes. He knew he could get out if he tried. He could knock Katsuki out, hope that no one else would find them, and run back into the shadows where he belonged. Katsuki may have had him pinned down but he was in Denki’s range now and it would take little effort to send a charge through Katsuki to paralyze him temporarily.

It would take barely any additional effort to kill Katsuki.

As the sparks began to charge, lighting up the air around him, Katsuki refused to back down.

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Katsuki always knew he was destined for great things.

He didn’t think he’d have to turn his back on all he’s ever known to get there.

Rating: T

Warnings: Eventual major character death, implied/referenced child abuse, psychological trauma

Other Tags: Bakugou Katsuki/Kaminari Denki, slow burn, alternate universe - canon divergence

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As the reunion approached, it was becoming increasingly difficult to pretend that everything was fine.

Katsuki had been added back to the group text with Eijirou, Mina, and Hanta; he wasn’t sure if Eijirou had told them or if they had figured it out on their own, but almost all of the pictures sent after he was added back in lacked a certain pair of amber eyes. He appreciated their attempt to make things less stressful for him, but it just made him think about how the rest of the class might not share the same sentiment and that there was a non-zero chance of having to see those eyes― or worse, that damned smile― during the reunion. He didn’t say anything about it, of course, but the idea of suddenly canceling and saying he was sick was looking more and more tempting.

Ochako and Katsuki had met up a few more times at Takeshi’s, but to Katsuki’s frustration, their sparring sessions seemed to do little to help prevent his mind from wandering off to that damned smile and digging its claws in. The most recent session, his guard had slipped enough that Ochako even dared to repeat his own words against him, even if the threat of him wasting her time was empty. Despite that, she still didn’t ask what was keeping him up at night, a small blessing Katsuki was thankful for.

Work was the one aspect of his life where he had a bit of normalcy, and no one could ask about the telltale sign of sleepless nights when his mask was on to hide them. He didn’t interact with anyone else at the agency often enough for them to note any potential changes in his behavior caused by the recent hauntings and there certainly wasn’t enough time for his mind to wander off in the middle of a battle with higher stakes than an ongoing scoreboard and bragging rights. His work didn’t suffer so he was certain that he would be able to get through this… thing, without anyone at work noticing, and if he was lucky, maybe the big red bow his mind needed to finally tie the memory up and shelve it away was the upcoming reunion and he wouldn’t have to worry about anyone noticing, period.

Except his boss knew about what happened too.

It was hard for her not to know. Shion had been there that day, and while she hadn’t arrived early enough to stop Katsuki’s anger from kicking in, she had definitely seen the toll the fight had taken on the surrounding area. She had definitely seen the still smoking singes of clothing, seen the furniture and paperwork that were strewn across the room, heard the cackling of flames, of his palms, of the remnant electricity in the air, seen the―

Katsuki inhaled sharply, shaking the memory from his mind.

He’d like to assume that the main reason why Shion offered him a position at her agency was his hard work both at UA and on the field. He’d like to say that maybe it was because she saw a similarity between his explosive fighting style and her own, or maybe she noticed the quick calculations hidden behind seemingly impulsive actions. Hell, Katsuki would even be willing to say that she found some sort of sick twisted pleasure in watching his fuse burn.

Still, he couldn’t shake the idea that maybe it was out of pity.

That maybe all she saw when she looked at him was the teenage boy from that day ten years ago. That maybe he was some sort of passion project, an attempt to see if she could “fix” him. That maybe she thought that one day, Katsuki might break, and that it was best if she was nearby to take care of it.

That maybe, just maybe, Katsuki was stuck standing in that damned shadow.

Katsuki could normally easily avoid Shion asking him about his life outside of work. She only ever seemed interested in forcing him into having a life outside of work, but always left the details of what that entailed up to him and rarely pried past ensuring that Katsuki hadn’t secretly been doing paperwork or something when he was supposed to have the day off. She seemed to do the same to everyone else who worked at the agency though, so there was very little room to complain― though that didn’t stop him from taking every inch he got when he found the chance. (Not that it seemed to stop her either, especially when everyone else was more than happy to talk about their personal lives.)

But, between her knowing about Katsuki’s past and about the upcoming reunion, Katsuki was not surprised when Shion started being curious about his personal life “out of nowhere.” She asked if the reunion had some sort of plus one system and if so, if there was a lucky person Katsuki would be taking with him to formally introduce them to his former classmates; if there was a lucky person, how come she didn’t know of them yet; if Katsuki would introduce her to them so that she could get them on “Team Make Katsuki Bakugou Take a Vacation”; maybe if he took a vacation there would actually be a lucky someone; and a seemingly endless list of other questions every single time he saw Shion, even if it was in passing and there was no time to respond to it before they were out of earshot from each other.

He knew the worst of it was coming when he saw that he was scheduled to patrol with her in the afternoon. She left him alone during the morning― a small but welcomed blessing― and unlike every other time they had been scheduled to patrol together, she wasn’t waiting for him after his lunch break either. Katsuki wondered if maybe she was trying to give him space before she brought up the inevitable, or if maybe he had misread the schedule and he was going on patrol alone.

When he saw her in the agency lobby, standing at his approach, he held back a curse.

The walk exiting the building was uncharacteristically quiet, the only noises between them being the sound of Katsuki’s footsteps and Shion’s skates. Katsuki wasn’t sure what he dreaded more― the idea of a silent Shion for the entirety of patrol or the fact that when she did start speaking, it would immediately be about his personal life.

Thankfully (or not?) after a failed attempt at getting Katsuki to let her hook onto his arm and make him do the “hard work” of walking (“Fuck off, you’ve got legs,” “You walk too fast, I should be saving my energy for fighting villains, not trying to keep up with your rocket legs,” “Sucks to be you then,”), Shion started talking. It started off normally enough― Shion mentioned some workplace gossip that Katsuki didn’t particularly care about, some information about a new sponsor that was supposed to reach out later that week, how her roller derby match had gone the past weekend― but even though he was expecting something different, it didn’t prepare him for what she said next.

“The Commission’s looking into the Acolyte.”

Katsuki stopped in his tracks, Shion rolling to a stop a few feet ahead of him. Katsuki felt his throat tighten, like there was something trying to suffocate him from the inside out, his jaw clenching as he tried to hold back something between a laugh of desperation and a scream of frustration.

The Acolyte. The fucking Acolyte.

For once, Shion didn’t speak. Katsuki wished she would, even if it was an insult, even if she picked away at his shell and attacked the part of him that was still just a scared, lost teenage boy that was in over his head, anything so he didn’t have to deal with the deafening silence. Anything to jump in and distract him from the tidal wave of emotions and thoughts rushing at him, to redirect his thoughts away from the dark corner of his memory, to keep him here, in that moment, in reality.

He let out a shaky exhale as he forced the uneasy feeling back down, trying to shake it off. “Thought the Acolyte was taken care of.”

“I thought so too,” Shion paused, giving Katsuki a look over that he knew could see right through him. He forced himself to hold his resolve, waiting for her to continue. “Rumor is that someone on the outside has been in contact with Mother and is trying to prepare for her return. Recruit new members, spread their message, and find someone called the Son,”

Katsuki scoffed. “The bastards at the prison aren’t doing their job if the bitch managed to make contact with the outside,”

Shion laughed, moving closer to give him a playful slap on the arm, “I knew you’d see it my way. That’s what I said at the Commission meeting― well, in a more poetic way, of course. Those Commission workers wanted none of it though, even though it’s obvious that heroes aren’t to blame for this particular mess up. Now, come on, let’s keep walking while we talk,”

He hesitated briefly, brows furrowed as Shion started to skate ahead. Were they really going to continue patrol while talking about something like this? “Shouldn’t we be discussing this back at the agency?”

“Don’t worry your pretty little head about it,” Shion waved a hand dismissively as Katsuki caught up to her, ignoring the glare sent her way at her phrasing. “Besides, the agency is full of gossips,”

“You’re the biggest gossip there.”

“How do you think I know?” She gave Katsuki a wink and a nudge in his side, laughing when it was met with a scowl. “It’s fine. That was the most confidential part of the conversation I had to tell you.”

“Why did you tell me, anyway?”

Shion looked up at him, amused. “I’ve been asked to help find someone for their task force. You’re on the short list, Katsuki. Well, correction, you are the short list. Though, you do have the right to decline, in which case you and Hibiki will be in charge of keeping the agency in one piece whenever the Commission drags me away. Or, you know, as close to one piece as possible, so our public relations people don’t try to have our heads on a platter.” If she noticed the hesitance in Katsuki’s face, she didn’t comment on it. “You don’t have to give me your answer now. In fact, I encourage you to take your time― since the Commission’s being so rude about who’s to blame for this whole ordeal, I say we let them wait a few days before I tell them which one of us will be working with them. They have other things to do while they wait for my decision anyway― like actually finding the prison leak and getting information that heroes can actually act on, instead of acting like we’re all Divine Prophet and can find people in the blink of an eye. You know, kind of surprising that they haven’t dragged Divine Prophet into this yet either actually. They weren’t at the meeting and no one mentioned them, so I guess they’re busy doing something else for the Commission or something.”

Katsuki let her ramble on for a while longer, thinking back to the Acolyte. He had hoped he had heard the last of them, years ago when a raid on an Acolyte base resulted in Mother’s capture and the destruction of their intel. Some members had died but enough had lived and been captured that through the combined work of the police force, heroes, and the Commission, every Acolyte member had been imprisoned.

Almost, Katsuki corrected. Someone must’ve slipped past and hid until they could get a message to Mother. He could only hope that the leak had been found early enough before Mother could weave another web of misery.

Even if the Acolyte hadn’t gotten the chance to rebuild itself back up, helping take it back down would be a pretty important achievement to put on Katsuki’s hero resume. The original downfall of the Acolyte and capture of their information had resulted in the downfall of several smaller villain groups and prevented some large scale villain attacks from occurring, so while it was unlikely that whatever the Commission wanted the task force to do would be flashy and public, it was also likely the Commission would take the potential damage prevented into account when calculating the next Billboards rankings.

Yet…

Katsuki was dragged out of his thoughts when he felt a hand on his arm, his hand already gripped tight around Shion’s wrist before he realized it was her and let go.

She smiled softly, giving Katsuki a moment to reorient himself. “Just think about it, okay? You don’t have to say yes, but I know you’re the right man for the job.”

“Of fucking course I am,”

“Glad to know that you know. Anyway, let’s talk about that reunion of yours! You never did answer me about if you were bringing a special someone.”

Katsuki groaned.

Katsuki was half considering taking the last week before the reunion off just to avoid Shion’s questions by the time he finally made it back home. While the questions about the reunion had helped keep his mind off of the Acolyte shit, it took maybe half an hour before Katsuki was wishing they were talking about the Acolyte instead. There was only so long that Katsuki could deal with questions about his supposed love life (both present day and anything that might have happened back in high school) and the type of clothes he planned on wearing to show off his “post graduation glow up”, whatever the fuck that meant.

He cursed under his breath when his phone started going off while he was preparing dinner, not really feeling like talking to anyone. He let it keep ringing, focusing on chopping the vegetables instead and sighing in relief when the ringing finally stopped― until it started back up. He ignored it one more time, only giving in and checking his phone after he heard a few text ringtones.

Shitty Hair

Missed Call (2)

Well shit. Probably shouldn’t ignore him if it was important enough to call instead of text.

Shitty Hair: Katsuki!!!

Shitty Hair: Are you free bro??

Shitty Hair: I need your help for this project

Shitty Hair: I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong and I don’t know how to put it into words so I can ask the internet

Katsuki: If you can’t put it into words, how the fuck am I supposed to help?

Katsuki: I’m cooking right now but I’m free otherwise.

Shitty Hair: Can you video call??? I’ll just show it to you

Katsuki: Sure.

Katsuki propped his phone up on the counter, making sure that it wouldn’t get in the way of his cooking and that he’d still be in frame when the call connected. He scowled a little when the call connected and the only thing he could see was Eijirou’s eyes and forehead.

“Back the fuck up from the camera, Shitty Hair, I can’t see anything. Unless you’re calling to see if there’s an eyelash in your eye, then the answer is no.”

“Just give me a sec! I dropped my phone while it was ringing.” Katsuki waited as Eijirou readjusted himself and propped the phone up. “Okay, it’s not great, but ta-da! Not bad for an amateur, huh?”

“Are you knitting?”

“Yeah!” Eijirou grinned brightly. “There’s this group near my work that’s doing like, an auction of knitted and crocheted and other handmade things for charity, and I asked if I could try making some stuff for the auction. I’m not great at it but I figure some people would love to buy something that a hero made, and the money’s going to a good cause, so why not? And I thought, maybe I could knit on the train over to Musutafu, except it’s doing this twisty thing around my needles and I don’t know why, and I need to know what’s going wrong so I know if I have to buy new yarn before the reunion or if this is salvageable,”

Katsuki paused. “What makes you think I know what the fuck is going on with your knitting?”

“Dude, I know you’re the one who knits all of the knitted gifts you’ve given me, Mina, and Hanta. I figured it out years ago.”

“And you didn’t think of telling me that you knew?”

Eijirou shrugged. “You never said it yourself so I figured you were just waiting for the right moment to tell us or something,”

Katsuki huffed and shrugged it off. Eijirou wasn’t completely wrong, after all. “It’s salvageable. Look up ‘frogging’ to undo everything. Make sure the row’s straight on the needle before you start and that you’re not accidentally holding it in a way that makes it twist on the needle either.”

“Cool, cool. And what about these random holes, like this one?”

“Probably wrapped the yarn an extra time before you made a new stitch. Count your stitches, I bet you’ve got more than you started off with.”

“Thanks Kats! Mind if we stay on the call while I try to figure out this whole knitting thing?”

“Do whatever the fuck you want.”

Eijirou laughed and started talking about his day while he worked on his knitting, stopping here and there to ask Katsuki to see if he was doing things right. After he was done with his update, he asked Katsuki how his day had gone.

“Shitty,” Katsuki grumbled. “Damned Four Eyes kept asking me shit about the reunion, the entire fucking afternoon. While we were on patrol! I fucking swear, she enjoys pushing my buttons.”

“Oh come on, it couldn’t have been that bad.”

Katsuki paused cooking to stare at his phone camera directly, silently daring Eijirou to contradict him again.

“Okaaaaay maybe it was. Do you think maybe she’ll leave you alone about getting your ‘special someone’ to join the ‘Team Make Katsuki Bakugou Take a Vacation’ team if I officially joined the team?”

“Don’t you fucking dare.” Katsuki pointed his knife at the camera, ignoring the laughter that came from the other end. “It’ll probably plant the wrong fucking idea in her head and make all this shit worse.”

“Okay okay, I won’t join behind your back or anything, but if you skip out on Hanta, Mina, and me for the reunion or the squad hangout the day after, not only will I join the team, but I will get Hanta and Mina to join too. Maybe even Midoriya and Uraraka.”

“I already said I’m going, you damned Shitty Hair! Back the fuck off already.”

“Just checking! Are we still good for rooming together?”

“Yeah. Cheeky and I should be arriving in Musutafu around one, unless shit runs late.”

“All right, I should be there around eleven, so I’ll go ahead and check in first and text you the room number―” Katsuki barely caught Eijirou’s hand suddenly reaching out towards the screen, knocking the phone over onto the ground. He heard the sounds of Eijirou fumbling with something off screen before a faint voice that sounded like a news reporter came on.

“What the fuck, Shitty Hair?”

Katsuki briefly got a screenful of Eijirou’s eyebrows again as picked the phone up, frowning when he noticed the panic in Eijirou’s eyes. “Look,” was all he said before the camera flipped to show his TV screen, turning up the volume.

It was a live broadcast, with the banner indicating that the reporter was standing in Miyazaki. In the background, dozens of police cars and firetrucks surrounded a tall fence, officers and firefighters rushing in towards what looked like a large hole in the side of a building. A few of the heroes stationed in Miyazaki were rushing in as well, all of them escorted by people who looked like―

Prison guards.

Katsuki put down his cooking utensils, hands moving to grip the counter’s edge until his knuckles turned white in an attempt to ground himself. He could almost feel the thick tar build in the back of his throat and it took all his self control to force his breathing to steady. He could barely focus on what the reporter was saying, nearly missing Eijirou’s hesitant, quiet voice.

“Isn’t that…”

“...Yeah.”

“Shit.”

#boku no hero academia #my hero academia #bakugou katsuki #kaminari denki #bakukami #kamibaku #katsuki bakugou #denki kaminari #bnha fanfic #mha fanfic #story #from the creator

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mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune · 4 years ago

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Going M.I.A Until July 5th After Being Peeved Off By Toxic-Humans

I just need to have some time for myself,

and I wanted to wait until July to start posting again.

I just need to try to relax and do some self healing,

and it all has to do with finding out a bit more about Scott Cawthon.

look, no one has to agree about the same religious views.

I mean I have to stay in the Neo-Christian/Ma-Acolyte Closet,

as well as the Aceflux closet and the bigender identity closet with my family.

it be nice if it didn’t happen while FNAF Security Breach was still in the works.

I’m not even sure if it’s even finished, I can only hope that someone with a heart picks up where Scott left off and adopts the series but still gives Scott credit.

right now I’m listening to a comfort song right now,

which is Lily Allen’s song F**k You.

I guess I could listen to some other songs to comfort me,

but how I feel, it calls for that song.

I just wish they didn’t bring Trump or the other names that are involved into that mess...

after finding out that Trump had some form involvement of the, my guess bullying...

I did get upset at him enough to cry and say I hate him.

of course I can’t say that to my Mom or half of my family.

sure one half supported him and the other half don’t,

but we are still family.

I don’t much care for Presidents in Real Life, I have very little trust in them.

ones in movies or video games or any form of entertainment, are fine.

since it is just in a fictional world that is at times a counterpart of ours.

no one has to agree about my being mad at Trump, and that’s okay.

I can’t help but think that there is a possibility that Scott had retired

because of the bullying and it possibly being linked to Trump.

we all don’t have to agree to like or dislike Trump.....

but I’m sure a lot of people are upset at those that caused the early retirement

before the Five Nights at Freddy’s Security Breach

but maybe there will be still hope for it,

at least if it is true that Scott has a successor.

and if they do continue work on the Security Breach,

then we can only hope things works out well.

I didn’t know there was gonna be a successor,

until I was just looking up some more info about the whole FNAF thing.

but yeah, with only half of what I know so far,

it is still going to be a part of my Semi-Misanthrope.

I still know there are some good people in this world,

that is why it is “Semi”, which is better than it being the full.

maybe later I can try to look up more info about the whole thing,

but it is still possible the bullying was part of the reason for the early retirement.

I’m still peeved at this one person who was bad mouthing YandereDev.

if they are taking long to finish the game, it is because these things take time,

and also everyone has a off day where they wont be able to work on something right away and might have to put it on hiatus.

if Yandere Simulator ever gets on a Disc or game card,

and ends up being playable on Xbox One or Nintendo Switch...

I hope there will be a mode where we can dress up as Chara from Undertale.

at least there is some good news,

Doki Doki Literature Club will be on Nintendo Switch, I have been meaning to mention that after I had found out some days ago.

and parents should not let their child play it if they are under the age of 15.

don’t go blaming the mature content, when it’s you the parents who are to blame.

hey I did see a movie that I was not the proper age for,

and I wasn’t even a teenage yet when I saw it.

I’m talking about Cool World, I still like it and have the DVD.

but after remembering I had seen that movie, and we had rented it from a place that rented out VHS tapes.

I came to realize that letting me see that too early, even though I don’t think I can remember much about watching it during that time, all I know is that I did watch it.

but at least it didn’t get as mature as the Deadpool Movie,

and I still like the Deadpool Movie.

but anyway I figured out that it was wrong for my family to let me watch Cool World when I wasn’t the proper age for it,

and even letting me watch something else with the “witch” word on it,

when I was a toddler and I ended up saying “Son of a Witch”

of course it wasn’t the word witch, but you get what I’m going with this right?

I had to try to keep my little cousin from playing my Deadpool video game,

and it was lucky I caught them on time when the game had barely started.

did they even think about stopping them before they fully started to playing?

I don’t want to make the same mistake as my Mom or anyone else in my family.

at least the bad word I used wasn’t my first word.

but I had come to realize that it isn’t the mature content to blame,

but the parents, and even if some parents are willing to admit this cold truth.

that is perhaps long overdo, not all parents might admit to it.

if you have any mature stuff either on your computer or even a movie or show on DVD.

make sure to hide it from the child, give them their own computer

but put a child lock on the browser, where only you know the password.

and if you tend to forget passwords, write it on paper then hide it where your child or little sibling, can’t find it and it’s in a place that only you know.

also I want to say this....

I rather be a part of a Neo-LGBT, there can be different types of Aces.

some who are flux like myself, but because of the whole sexual energies,

I didn’t figure it out until I started to protect myself with my bracelets.

a Aceflux person can be a sexual empath, picking up the sexual energies of others when they are either in the same room or a different room all together.

and just because someone is Heteroromantic-Ace, doesn’t mean they should be exclude from the LGBT Community, even if some will still welcome them.

and even if some might not believe that a Ace can end up being a sexual empath, but it might be very rare.

I’m not sure if there are many Aces that are sexual empaths,

and didn’t figure it out until they started to wear gem bracelets to protect themselves.

I think I’m the only one I know of that is doing that.

of course when I had first started to wear a bracelet,

it was because of a dream that felt too real and I was in between awake and asleep and then I was scared awake...

it was also dark and I was laying on my back, that is part of what I remember before being scared awake.

and I can’t tell my family I’m one, or how I believe it had first started.

I rather not talk about that right now.

but the whole me rather being a part of a Neo-LGBT doesn’t really have to do with my being Aceflux, well technically Aroaceflux.

it is for different reasons,

of course I will have to be in the closet about being part of a Neo-LGBT Community......wait, is there already a Neo version...?

well I guess I’m fine being a solo member for now.

at least not everyone in the LGBT Community made false accusations on Scott.

and I’m not sure if my pendulum is being 100% truthful,

when I asked about Scott’s sexuality, I mean when I asked if he was Hetero,

I was given a No, but when I asked if he was Pan, I got a Yes.

but that might not be true,

I mean I guess there is a possibility that it could be true.

but maybe I should throw some salt on my pendulum later.

and if it turn out those questions were true, and I was being given a truthful answer.

then it might make others sorry for bullying him.

plus I want to point out, that you can’t just keep hating someone

who believed the lies that they were taught while growing up

about how a different gender identity from your bio-sex one

or not being hetero, is evil.

it’s only when they end up seeing the truth that they might end up discovering

that they aren’t hetero, and might just be bi or pan instead.

I wanted to tell my my family about me being on the Asexual Spectrum,

well the flux type of it.

but I wanted to get their view on it first, about the Asexuality.

like I had said before, it didn’t work out too well.

and I had to make it seem I wasn’t Asexual at all.

even though I was asked if I was, I didn’t say Yes and made sure to not give away I was one.

then when I went to my room, I started crying.

how I reacted was perfectly normal, as I had found out when I found some info about how a parent shouldn’t disapprove of it.

I love my family, but it’s best that I never come out of the protective closets I place myself in, that I can only come out online.

also I’m gonna try to relax and try to just hope the FNAF series keeps alive and there really being a successor who will continue it.

well now that I know the one who partly more responsible,

is a Toxic Game Journalist........

that person sucks, they suck and I hate them so much.

any Toxic-Journalist that dares do what that one did,

they are just as bad as the paparazzi that harassed a distant cousin of mine.

and if their lies is what got everyone mad at Scott,

at least not everyone, but still.....

I hope that Toxic Game Journalist who started it all,

will get the karma they deserve after they screwed everything up.

and yes while writing this, I wanted to look up more info about the whole FNAF and Scott Cawthon thing.

and it does appear that the root is a toxic game journalist.

and if I had to put two and two together,

I say the Youtube Video that peeved me off before,

that had to do with a doxxing of Scott and [Redacted]

and if had to do with that disgusting filth of a shisno.

if the info had happen some time after that whole mess happen,

then it means that that disgusting human whoever they are,

is the cause of it.

and there is a reason why I put [Redacted]

as I do not wish for the other person/creator of another series,

to be mentioned in this.

Cancel Culture is Evil, even if something does get cancelled,

it shouldn’t involve the cancel culture cult.

don’t blame the content, blame the parents.

Pepe Le Pew deserved better,

he could of been added into the Space Jam 2 Movie,

if he got character development.

he could still flirt, but would learn to keep it a bit more friendly,

and not force himself on a gal he likes.

ya don’t see girl characters being treated the way he has been treated,

Pepe deserves better, not just Amy Rose, Dot Warner and Fifi La Fume.

that is being sexist towards Pepe.

and it’s sexist for women and even some men,

to assume if a guy wears pink or uses a pink straw, he might not be consider a man.

so wait, if a woman wearing a blue shirt or uses a blue straw, she is still a woman...?

only a real man wears pink, uses a pink straw and even cries.

and I really hope there is a Anti-Cancel Culture Group to put that shisno group in their place.

I want to try to hope things get better, and the FNAF will continue,

and Scott will get a apology from those who had believed that shisno.

maybe I should avoid looking more info about it.

I just need to try to do the self healing and hope everything gets better,

and hope it isn’t a cruel joke about there being a successor.

I guess I can try to look it up more about it to check to be sure if it is true.

I’m gonna check a few more stuff on here first, before I sign off.

and I hope some of you understand why I’m upset about what happen with Scott.

it isn’t right what happen, and how it happen.

and no matter if he supported Trump or not, there is some lines that should never cross when it comes to a dislike of a president or former president.

but if it came to picking him or the evil woman, I would only pick him to keep the babies safe.....but I’m not sure if the rumor about Hillary Clinton is true or not,

I mean when I had found out about it, I was praying she wouldn’t become president because I was worried about the innocent lives.

but if the rumors still turn out to be 100% true, I still don’t want her as the first Madam President.

I don’t even trust Biden very much, but I will have to try to hope and pray everything will be okay.

like I said, I don’t fully trust Real Life Presidents.

the best thing I can do is hope and pray that everything will work out.

for real, this will be the last post until July.

but I wont sign back in and post anything again until July 5th.

I’m still listening to Lily Allen’s song, I’m gonna listen to it a few more times.

anyway not all of you might agree with all I said,

and I’m not gonna force you to...

so see ya later, stay safe and beware of shisno.

PS:

Please Do Not Misinterpret anything that was wrote in this.

and I’m gonna hope that not everyone believed that bull about Scott being a Anti-LGBT.

and I do hope the shisno who started that mess, will get karma for what they did and causing FNAF to be almost cancelled for good.

and it better not be cancelled for good,

and there better be truth to the whole successor to the game series.

and if it turns out that my pendulum isn’t joking about Scott’s sexuality,

if it turns out to be 100% true and not a prank my pendulum is pulling.

then I hope he gets a lot of apologizes, not only from the other stuff,

but also about the Anti-LGBT calling.

#self healing #need alone time to heal #five nights at freddy's #someone please adopt five nights at freddy's #successor #neo-lgbt community #beware of shisno

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clairebeauchampfan · 5 years ago

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Anne with an ‘E’: a personal review

I loved this book as a child (well, as a teenager....I discovered it very late into my teens). I loved the Kim Braden BBC TV version too, which was very faithful to the book, if memory serves me right. So it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I began watching the CBC/Netflix version produced by Moira Walley-Beckett and staring Amybeth McNulty as Anne, because I knew it had taken liberties with the Book and injected a lot of late 20th and 21st Century ‘woke’ issues, into what I remembered as an innocent, sweet book about an odd little white orphan girl adopted by an elderly spinster and her brother, growing up in a late 19th century all-white farming community. in Canada’s smallest province, Prince Edward Island.

Would revisionist Anne of Green Gables therefore be a Afro-Canadian or First Nations (that’s Red Indian to you, if you are still asleep) girl with a physical disability, adding to her already disadvantaged status as the abandonned waif reluctantly adopted in place of the boy that Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had asked for? Would Anne and Diana, her bosom pal, discover the delights of teen lesbian sex? Would we be treated to Anne indulging in a bit of onanism, or giving Gilbert a hand-job, or worse, and Marilla and Matthew ejoying incestuous relations (see ‘Sanditon’ for more of this kind of revisionist and grindingly ‘woke’ television)?

Fortunately for lovers of Anne of Green Gables, the wildest excesses of ‘woke’TV were avoided. We DID have one of the schoolboys, Cole the pretty, artistic type( spot the cliche!),

being bullied by the sporting jock Billy Andrews and his gang of brainless acolytes (more cliches), before finding shelter and a release for his artistic talent at the home of Diana’s Aunt Josephine, who in this series is a Sapphic and hosts amazingly decadent parties for her gay and arty friends ( I had no idea PEI was so advanced in the late 19th Century: gay central and great fun!). We had the minor character of the French boy Jerry Baynard (Buote in the book?) become a major character, in love with Diana but spurned because ...well, he’s French, and of course the English people are baaaad (all the wealthiest people are English English with cut glass accents with which to cut people dead, the snaaabs).

And, we are introduced to Sebatsian (’Bash’) a Trinidadian friend of Gilbert, who starts his own Afro-Caribbean family , also outsiders in Avonlea and struggling with racism and former slave cultural cringe whilst setting his hand to farming.

Plus, lest we forget, we have the horrific tale of Ka’kwet, the Mi’kmaq friend of Anne whyo is forcibly sent to a government boarding school to have the Indianness beaten out of her.

Naturally the perpetrators are Catholic nuns (hiss, boo!), whilst the character in the book who Anne describes as her kindred spirit, Rev. Allen, is of course here a bigotted clergyman leading the group of reactionary old white men (hiss!) who endeavour to get beautiful, trouser wearing, motor-bike riding feminist teacher Miss Stacy fired, and burn down the school for good measure. (Yah boo and double hiss! )

So much for the wokeness. Which is what we old snaaabs who like traditional opera and theatre performances find infuriating, where for example the director strives desparately to make things relevant by dressing Puritan-era soldiers in Nazi uniforms (see! fascist parallels! Boo, hiss!) , or having the cringingly ‘woke’ Shakespeare you can see these days at London’s Sam Wanamaker theatre, with HenryV played as a transexual-of-colour. just in case you needed to be woken from your slumber with right-on wokeness beaten into your brain with a mallet. Ah, it’s such fun to ‘epater les bourgeois’ and signal your virtue at the same time.

But in this version of Anne’s story I’m glad to say that although forced and didactic at times the new characters and novel situations, were extremely well acted and put together, ( notably Bash and his tragic wife Mary) whilst for the most part fans of the original book will be very, very happy.

All the leading roles, especially Matthew (RH Thomson) and Marilla (Geraldine James). (spoiler alert: Matthew doesn’t die in the only three seasons allowed us by those buffoons in Netflix), were well played.

Fascinating, character revealing back-stories were put into the basic story. I loved the evocation of 1880′s Prince Edward Island (I can’t wait to go there), and what is was to be school-children in a one-room school-house. I liked Rachel Lynde’s feisty character and her love for her bumbling husband. And I’m always fond of dear old dutiful Diana,

and earnest Gilbert Blythe.

But the crown should go to AmyBeth McNulty for her sparkling performance as Anne, struggling with her insecurity, her awkwardness, her gaucheness, her worldly knowledge of how cruel the world can be, and her determination to do something about it, all among the perils of growing up from innocent child (the first period episode is priceless) to barely adult college student. Anne. With an E. I think you’ll love it

#anne with an ‘e’# anne of green gables #anne cancelled after only three seasons

#ann with an e #Outlander

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araitsume · 5 years ago

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This commission by Gabomon01 [Artist’s Upload] depicts an AU where an older Aang took the “Last Airbender” part of his life seriously and realized that restoring a near-extinct race of people would supersede a certain “attachment” (Katara would be free for another more “firey” companion [or two]). As for the ladies who agreed to be in Project: Air Nomad Restoration, we’ve got Toph (who initially bonded with Aang over unrequited crushes, and later becomes a den mother of sorts among the group), Meng (she’s quite fine with the situation as long as she could be with Aang [considering how her sole episode was a lesson for Aang to learn that went completely nowhere in canon, she deserved a shot], plus she and Toph share a voice actress), Ty Lee (taking the "descendant of Air Nomads that managed to escape Sozin’s wrath and stealthily integrated themselves in the Fire Nation” theory even further by turning her into a full-fledged Airbender after Aang found her untapped potential and trained her), and Azula (now reformed yet rather smug akin to Dragon Ball’s Vegeta). Much like in the “canon” timeline, there’s a 1:3 chance of the resulting offspring being Airbenders, however the rest that end up being Earth/Fire/Nonbenders wouldn’t be left out as “Kung Fu Action Jesus” would welcome the opportunity to share his culture with as many as possible (especially since the Air Acolytes aren’t a thing here).

Well, that’s the end of my depra - “interesting” take on where the franchise could’ve gone [I await being canceled].

#gabomon01 #commission #avatar the last airbender #aang #toph beifong #taang #meng #aang x meng #ty lee #ty laang #azula #azulaang #background zutara #background maizutara #if you read into it #art made for me #commissioned art at my request

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tigerkirby215 · 5 years ago

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5e Lucian the Purifier build (League of Legends)

(Artwork by Riot Games)

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

-James Baldwin

Except now you have something to lose Lucian! You got your wife back! Be happy; settle down! Oh right your wife is cursed with half-death... Well I guess you can keep shooting zombies then.

Mostly making this build as an obligation after making Senna, though I think Lucian is a great character and a great build in his own right.

GOALS

Lightslinger - We need guns. Oh I’m sorry; “light pistols” that look like guns and act like guns but aren’t actually guns.

Piercing Light - Of course those not-quite-guns need to do light damage to our enemies. Can’t blast through the Shadow Isles without a flashlight.

The Culling - When the going gets tough we’ll need to go all out with a barrage of bullets to cut through enemies until they’re nothing but ashes and dust.

RACE

Lucian’s a man with a mission, and Variant Humans can go on quite a mission. You get an increase to two Ability Scores of your choice: increase your Dexterity and Wisdom for the ability to hunt and shoot. You also get a free skill of your choice and the Acrobatics skill to be able to dash around the battlefield. As for your language Abyssal will let you know exactly what the creatures of the mist fear.

The main reason to play a Variant Human is of course for a Feat: the Crossbow Expert feat will let you efficiently dual-wield not-quite-guns, letting you ignore the loading property on a Hand Crossbow, fire it at point-blank without disadvantage, and shoot one more time with your Bonus Action.

If you’re willing to bend the rules a little Half Elf is also a good choice. Along with the plus one to Wisdom and Dexterity you can get a plus two to Charisma, effectively cancelling out the fact that you’ll need to take Crossbow Expert with your first ASI. You’d also get Darkvision to see through the mist and Fey Ancestry to resist the mist’s influence.

The main reason to make a Half Elf however is for the Elven Accuracy Feat from Xanathar's Guide to Everything, which will effectively give you triple Advantage if you ever shoot with Advantage. This is a good feat for any ranged build but is even better for the subclass we’ll be choosing. (No spoilers!) But of course it’s only available to Elves and Half Elves.

For your subrace the default Half Elf is fine, but Drow Half-Elf can be good for some added light in your arsenal, and a Wood Half-Elf can pursue relentlessly a little faster with 5 extra feet of movement.

ABILITY SCORES

15; DEXTERITY - Lucian’s pursuit is endless, and you need a lot of mobility to dash around and avoid the warden’s chains. And Dexterity is tied to aiming your gun.

14; CHARISMA - Lucian is a popular fellow, but he also knows how to scare the monsters away.

13; STRENGTH - The mist is full of all sorts of big baddies that you need to fight toe-to-toe with. Also I think most people can see the multiclassing needs in this build.

12; WISDOM - Lucian keeps calm under pressure and needs that calm to track the monsters in the mist. It’s also a multiclassing requirement with the +1 from our race.

10; CONSTITUTION - Your health isn’t the greatest but you’re an ADC, not a tank.

8; INTELLIGENCE - Lucian is still fighting for his wife. His alive wife. That he has. Bro calm down.

BACKGROUND

The Sentinels of Light are technically priests, and the Acolyte background is perfect for a battle priest. And it’s on the top of the backgrounds list too; sweet! You get proficiency in the Insight skill as well as Religion, along with two languages of your choice. (Choose whatever though I’d argue that Celestial should probably be on that list?)

The main feature however is Shelter of the Faithful; you can provide church service for the gods of Demacia in exchange for a place to stay and help from the priests. You can also always head back to Demacia for more support from the sentinels.

(Artwork by SIXMOREVODKA STUDIO. Made for Legends of Runeterra by Riot Games.)

THE BUILD

LEVEL 1 - PALADIN 1

Crossbow Paladin? Crossbow Paladin.

Starting off as a Paladin for a number of features, but firstly their skills: take Athletics and Intimidation to strike fear in the creatures of the dark while you take chase.

Paladins also get Divine Sense, letting you detect any celestial, fiend, or undead within 60 feet of you as an action. This doesn’t work if they’re behind total cover and you only know the type of creature, not its identity. You also detect any place or object that has been consecrated or desecrated in the radius. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier plus one, and regain all expended uses at the end of a Long Rest.

You also get Lay on Hands: you have a pool of health equal to five times your Paladin level that you can use to heal someone you touch. You can spend any number of hitpoints to heal the target by that amount, or alternatively you can spend 5 hitpoints to cure any poison or disease affecting the target. You unfortunately can’t end Senna’s curse for her, but some healing is always good to have.

LEVEL 2 - PALADIN 2

Level 2 Paladins get a Fighting Style and Defense is the only one that works with your choice of gun. Paladins aren’t typically meant to use ranged weapons which sucks.

Speaking of cantrips you also get access to Spellcasting: You can prepare a number of spells equal to your Charisma modifier plus half your Paladin level rounded down. I mention this because we’ll be getting more Charisma later in the build so be sure to pay attention to your Paladin spell list. Anyways:

Bless will let you shoot a little more accurately and be a bit more resistant, adding a d4 to your attack rolls and saving throws for the duration. It can affect up to three creatures including yourself, so get Senna in on the action!

Divine Favor lets you pump a little more light into your shots, doing an extra d4 of Radiant damage with your shots.

Detect Evil and Good will help you find Thresh in the mist. Try and hide, scum!

I should mention for Bless and Divine Favor that since you can attack an extra time with your Crossbow Expert Bonus Action these spells are extremely useful for you. But they’re all Concentration based, so use them wisely!

Oh and speaking of spells you get Divine Smite... which you can’t use with a ranged weapon. Still: you can pick up a sword if needed, so remember that you have it.

LEVEL 3 - PALADIN 3

Level 3 Paladins get to choose their oath and the Oath of Devotion is perfect for good Demacian boys who go out to slaughter skeletons and zombies. You get Protection from Evil and Good innately prepared for a fight with Thresh, giving him Disadvantage on attack rolls and the inability to affect you with certain debuffs, and the Sanctuary spell to protect yourself as you walk through the mist.

Devotion Paladins can also Channel Divinity in one of two ways; The first and main option you’ll be using is Sacred Weapon, letting you spend an action to add your Charisma modifier to attack rolls with your pistol as it glows with Demacian light! The effect lasts for 1 minute or until you drop your weapon, or until you dismiss it as a free action. Note that this adds to your attack roll, not your damage roll. So your attacks will be more accurate but they won’t necessarily do more damage. It also only affects one crossbow technically, but there’s no rule saying you can’t shoot with the same crossbow every time.

Your other Channel Divinity option is Turn the Unholy. As an action you can strike fear into any fiends or undead within 30 feet of you, forcing them to make a Wisdom save or be turned for 1 minute or until it takes any damage. A turned creature has to move as far away from you as it can, and it can’t willingly move to a space within 30 feet of you or take reactions. For its action, it can use only the Dash action or try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving. If there’s nowhere to move, it takes the Dodge action instead. This is less generally useful than Sacred Weapon, but it’s still good to cut through the common mist creatures to get to the big bads.

You also get Divine Health, making you immune to disease, because purification doesn’t take a sick day.

LEVEL 4 - PALADIN 4

4th level Paladins get an Ability Score Improvement: increase your Dexterity for more accurate shots.

You can also prepare another spell: Shield of Faith will let you shrug off some blows with a +2 increase to AC.

LEVEL 5 - PALADIN 5

5th level Paladins can sling light with both hands thanks to an Extra Attack, adding up to 3 attacks total with your Crossbow Expert shot.

You also get access to second level spells: as a Devotion Paladin you have Lesser Restoration and Zone of Truth always prepared, and I’d highly recommend preparing some of your second level spells instead of your first level stuff. In particular Magic Weapon and Branding Smite, which works with ranged weapons so you can shoot with Piercing Light!

(Artwork by Riot Games)

LEVEL 6 - CLERIC 1

Lucian’s a Sentinel of the Light, which does mean that we need some holy light as a Light Domain Cleric. Light Clerics can use their reaction on Warding Flare, blinding a creature that’s attacking them to give them Disadvantage on their attack. You can use it a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (so only once currently) and regain all expended uses after a Long Rest.

You also get access to Spellcasting as a Cleric: as a Light Cleric you know the Light cantrip innately, and can prepare 3 other cantrips. Guidance will help you move across the isles, Mending will let you repair any damage to your equipment, and Thaumaturgy to scream Senna’s name through the mist. (Along with some other things.)

As a Light Cleric you always have Burning Hands and Farie Fire prepared to light up the night. You can also prepare a Guiding Bolt to mark an enemy with an Ardent Blaze, and you may as well pack Heal (or Healing Word) in case of an emergency.

LEVEL 7 - CLERIC 2

Second level Clerics get Channel Divinity. Every Cleric gets Turn Undead which you... already have. But Light Clerics get Radiance of the Dawn, forcing enemies within 30 feet to make a Constitution saving throw or take Radiant damage equal to 2d10 + your Cleric level as you dispel the darkness, including magical darkness! So now you can turn the creatures of the night as well as the night itself!

You can also prepare another spell and remember how I said to ditch some of your level 1 Paladin spells for Magic Weapon and Branding Smite? Well that’s because the Cleric list and the Paladin list have a lot of overlap: take Bless as a Cleric instead of as a Paladin and take some of your second level spells from Paladin.

LEVEL 8 - CLERIC 3

3rd level Clerics get access to second level spells: as a Light Cleric you always have Flaming Sphere and Scorching Ray prepared. I’d also recommend Aid to boost yourself for the fight, ideally cast at a higher level for more of a health increase.

LEVEL 9 - CLERIC 4

4th level Clerics get an Ability Score Improvement: cap off your Dexterity for maximum accuracy with your shots.

You also get another cantrip and Word of Radiance will let you cut through the creatures of the mist if they surround you. You can also prepare another spell like Prayer of Healing for a moment of respite after a tough fight.

LEVEL 10 - CLERIC 5

5th level Clerics can Destroy Undead of CR of 1/2 or lower... with their Cleric Turn Undead. Considering that this is a multiclass build and your Wisdom is stupidly low this probably won’t help you much.

You can prepare third level spells though! As a Light Cleric you have Daylight innately prepared to see in the dark, and Fireball innately prepared to blast away the darkness. For your spell of choice Clarvoyance will let you ward ahead so you don’t get hooked.

LEVEL 11 - CLERIC 6

6th level Clerics get a second use of Channel Divinity. But more notably they get Improved Flare, letting you use Warding Flare if a creature within 30 feet of you is attacked. Senna’s got your back; make sure you’ve got her’s.

As for your next prepared spell Revivify will help you make sure you don’t lose Senna again. Just make sure you’ve got the money to pick her up. Cause yeah: it costs 300 gold.

(Artwork from Legends of Runeterra by Riot Games)

LEVEL 12 - CLERIC 7

7th level Clerics can prepare 4th level spells: Light Clerics have Guardian of Faith and Wall of Fire innately prepared, in case you need to scorch the earth to get ready for The Culling. You can also prepare Death Ward for a Guardian Angel in your time of need.

LEVEL 13 - CLERIC 8

8th level Clerics get another Ability Score Improvement which means it’s finally time to increase your Wisdom and Strength to get rid of those uneven ability scores. But more importantly you get Potent Spellcasting to increase the damage of your cantrips, but you may notice we don’t have many cantrips. That’s because we’ll be using Blessed Strikes from the Class Feature Variants Unearthed Arcana to instead do an extra d8 of Radiant damage with your weapon strikes, so we can finally start properly slinging some light.

Speaking of Class Feature Variants: Aura of Life is on the extended Cleric spell list from the Class Feature Variants, and it can help both you and Senna go toe-to-toe with the chain warden. But if your DM isn’t cool with Unearthed Arcana spells (for some reason) then Freedom of Movement can be helpful, along with... I dunno. You have a big spell list to prep from.

LEVEL 14 - PALADIN 6

And now that we got our light pistols it’s time to finish off with Paladin: 6th level Paladins get Aura of Protection, giving yourself and creatures within 10 feet of you a bonus to their saving throws equal to your Charisma modifier.

You can also prepare another spell and Find Steed can be helpful to travel through safer terrain. You might be alone (assuming no one in the party plays Senna) but the people of Demacia can always lend you a horse.

LEVEL 15 - PALADIN 7

7th level Devotion Paladins get Aura of Devotion for immunity against being charmed, because you’re an honest man. You fought too long to lose Senna to a one-night stand.

LEVEL 16 - PALADIN 8

8th level Paladins get another Ability Score Improvement so it’s finally time to increase our Charisma for more accurate Sacred Weapon shots.

This also means you can prepare more spells: Kirby’s Mix of Multiclassing lets you get access to third level spells with a casting time of 1 more level.

LEVEL 17 - PALADIN 9

So you cast that spell eh? Jokes aside Devotion Paladin have Dispel Magic and Beacon of Hope innately prepared to help you if the creatures of the creatures of the mist attack your mind, or if you need a pick-me-up from your wife. "Look at us making new memories." “Same as the old memories.”

As for the spells you can prepare Crusader’s Mantle will give everyone in a 30 foot radius the ability to aid your Ardent Blaze, and Remove Curse will unfortunately not help Senna’s problem, but can help with a lot of others.

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LEVEL 18 - PALADIN 10

10th level Paladins get Aura of Courage, giving you and allies within 10 feet of you immunity to being Frightened. You’ve seen everything the mist has to offer, and it shouldn’t be afraid of you; they should be afraid of you!

For your spell of choice if you want shots that are both more accurate and do more damage Elemental Weapon will let you supercharge your shots with a Statikk Shiv.

LEVEL 19 - PALADIN 11

11th level Paladins get Improved Divine Smite... which you can’t use because you’re using hand crossbows.

LEVEL 20 - PALADIN 12

Our final level is the 12th level of Paladin for a final Ability Score Improvement which will go into Charisma. This means you can prepare two more spells: Aura of Vitality can give your team some Redemption in a tough teamfight, and Magic Circle can fend the creatures of the mist from coming close to you or Senna. They have their box and you have yours.

FINAL BUILD

PROS

Don't do warning shots - You do a lot of damage. Three d6 + 5 shots along with Blessed Strikes for an extra d8 of Radiant damage, and tons of Paladin spells to increase the damage of your weapons. You are also extremely accurate with your shots: a +11 to hit is standard but you can give yourself an extra +4 (for +15 total!) with your Channel Divinity and can also use weapon buffing spells to further increase your aim.

Full of salvation - The great thing about being a Paladin is that even your worst saving throws get boosted, with your lowest save being a +3 and your highest being a whopping +14 to save. Not to mention about 18 AC with Studded Leather, tons of healing abilities including 80 Lay on Hands health, and immunity to charms, diseases, and frightening effects. And your allies can come close for help too!

You can cleanse anything... - You’re actually not terrible at roleplay! With a very high score in certain skills and tons of flavor as a holy man with roleplay spells and class features you can rally the townsfolk or your party as a bringer of justice.

CONS

I can save her... I can save her! - Your big Achilles's heel is your Intelligence score. While your Intelligence save is passable thanks to being a Paladin it’s still low, and you’ll suck at any History or Arcana checks. Let your wife handle the research: you’ll handle the blasting.

Some call it magic, I call it good aim - Your spell slots go all the way up to 7th level but your prepared spells stop at level 4. Yes you can upcast spells (and a 7th level Elemental Weapon sure is potent when you have 3 attacks) but it would be nice to gain access to those big hitters.

Ain't enough bullets in the world - Multiclassing between Paladin and Cleric while using DEX weapons creates a build that requires Dexterity, Wisdom, Charisma, and a 13 in Strength. Along with the natural requirement of a good Constitution score you’re going to have to drop something. Magic Items are obviously on the table but you might want to save this build for when you roll well on your stats, unless you’re okay with sub-par spell-saves and a mediocre number of prepared spells.

But a man’s only as good as his tools; most of your problems can be fixed with Magic Items, and by the time it becomes an issue you should have access to the right tools to make you the brightest light against the darkness. Survive the early game and be prepared to shred through the mist in the late. Just remember to keep tabs on Senna: you don’t want to lose that Bond.

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Southern Sludge Acolytes Midmourner Talk Roots, Drop New Sounds from Cavity Split

~Interview by Shawn Gibson~

Foreword by Billy Goate

It's been just a few years since I encountered MIDMOURNER at a show. The southern sludge band from Birmingham, Alabama was making a rare West Coast appearance and stopped in Eugene, Oregon to play an all ages venue called The Boreal (which sadly has since closed its doors). I was on hand with my trusty camcorder to capture the action and the sound turned out so well that the band issued it as a live album. For all the savagery of their music (and when you're standing right in front, just feet away, it is quite frightening, believe you me), I found the guys to be quite friendly -- reminding me of the fabled southern hospitality I missed most when I lived in the Bible Belt as a kiddo.

Since that encounter, Midmourner has been busy, most recently issuing a split with the band Cavity. Doomed & Stoned is proud to debut the song "When Knives Still Drove Conversation" from the Midmourner side of the record and, to accompany your listening, we've got an in-depth interview conducted by Shawn Gibson, who has made it something of a mission to document the unsung heroes in the underground sludge metal scene. Here, he speaks with fiery vocalist Shane Geoge and guitarist Bobbie Harris and they take an unexpected turn into the history of the punk scene in the southern states. A fascinating conversation in deed. Enjoy it while you soak in Midmourner's new track, "When Knives Still Drove Conversation."

Give ear...

An Interivew with Midmourner

Shane: Have you got a punk background? Because we do.

The first shows I went to were punk and hardcore shows in high school. That would be early to mid-nineties.

Shane: Beautiful, beautiful.

In school I listened to The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Exploited, Charged, G.B.H...

Shane: Oh, my god!

Misfits, Minor Threat, Day Glo Abortions. I told Billy Goate I love sludge and heavier doom just because it's some of the fucking heaviest styles of music.

Shane: I'm glad you can appreciate it. That's the thing, is people classify us as doom. All of us come from punk backgrounds. I think we hit our limit. Punks discovering metal. We add the heavy element to it. You've got to have the punk background, man. That's what differentiates between doom and sludge. I think that's why I gravitated towards sludge. It still has that "fuck you!" attitude. There is a lot of professionalism in doom that I can't subscribe to, you know?

Bobby Harris: It has a lot of punk D.I.Y vibe to it.

Shane: Exactly.

Bobby: You got old punk rockers who grew their hair long and have beards playing sludge. They dig the doom stuff. It's so metal and we are not metal. It's a little metal, more punk. We grew up in Birmingham Alabama punk scene. We'd go watch Cavity in the early nineties. I didn't know about sludge until I saw Cavity. Have you heard of ATP?

Alabama Thunder Pussy? Oh, yeah, I've seen 'em! Dude, I took my Mom to that show! She lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and wanted me to go to The Grand Ole Oprey. "No problem, mom, you have to come with me to a GWAR show." I was not going to tell her about the fluids!

Shane: Everybody must see GWAR before they die!

We were in Charleston, South Carolina. She was in town and Clutch, Alabama Thunder Pussy, and Suplecs played at the Music Farm. I said, "Mom, we got to go to this" and she did. She always jokes, "What was the name of that band we saw?" "Alabama Thunder Pussy, mom!" We laugh.

Shane: All that comes back to Kilara. Eric from ATP played drums. There was also the drummer from Avail, which was the greatest punk band that ever fucking existed, in my opinion. We went to a show, Kilara and Cavity inside a record store one night. Dude! Blew the fucking roof off the place! I don't know if your into Cavity or not?

I have heard of them. I haven't heard their music yet. I'll check em out.

Shane: You need to check em out!

Bobby: Without Cavity, I wouldn't be doing this right now. That's how much Cavity had an effect on me as a kid. That made me realize there was more beyond punk rock. It was more pissed off than punk! How can you be more pissed off than punk?

I'd say punk's pretty pissed!

Shane: Midmourner is Cavity plus Grief. That is Midmourner. That's it right there, man.

Bobby: It's a big fascination with Cavity. It's a big fascination with Grief. Cavity has that pissed off, fast, aggressive sound. Grief has that crushing heavy sound, you know? Together that's what we dig.

Shane: That is why we are tickled fucking pink knowing that next year we are going to play with Come To Grief!

Bobby: This is going to be a dream come true! I've been a fan since 'Disrupt,' man!

Shane: That's definitely a bucket list check, you know? We've got Carl, the merch guy from Come To Grief, with us.

Yeah, I talked to him when I was getting some Midmourner shirts from the table. Good guy!

Bobby: He's awesome!

Adorned in Fear and Error by Midmourner

Shane: So who is your favorite sludge band? Let's hear it!

There's a really good sludge band from Tulsa, Oklahoma I love, Senior Fellows. What's up, James!

Shane: Never heard of 'em.

Bobby: I've heard of 'em.

Shane: Good shit?

Dude go check them out on Bandcamp. 'Ecclesiastical Servitude' (2013) is my favorite album, their first. Very bitter, very dry. Heavy! I think Carl and I were talking about "No Cross and No Crown" attitude and ethos. One of their slogans is "Religion Mandates Oppression." Very pissed off!

Shane: I could see that.

I would say Midmourner is some badass sludge that annihilates. Glad to see you guys live and rip it up!

Shane: What did you think of it? We are interviewing you. How about that?

Uh, wow. First time. Usually the other way around. (laughs)

Shane: We are interested in what you think. How did you get into this, ya know? That's what I'm interested in.

I got into this because I love music! I will always do this. I will always share music that I like and know other people that would love to hear the same music. Music brings us together for a small moment. We are part of a family in this musical scene and I want the world to take notice.

Shane: Beautiful thing. Beautiful thing.

It still feels like a scene for me. I caught the ass-end of tape trading, but I love it and want to keep some that going. Now it's digital. You share music all day, anywhere!

You are going back home and wrap up this tour real soon. You were at St. Vitus bar in New York, as well as Charleston and Birmingham. It is a small world! When you meet people and you go on tour next year with Come To Grief: "Holy fuck, Midmourner! I love you guys, man!" Someone will say that to you guys and they will be stoked to see you live.

Shane: We are definitely going to remember you.

The comradery. I don't think you have this much of a family with other styles of music.

Shane: People don't give a shit, man.

I love meeting people and making new connections. Meeting people that you'll keep in touch with for a long time, if not forever.

Bobby: It's getting to know people on a personal level.

Shane: That's the fun of this whole thing.

It's intimate. It's a bond that some people don't understand.

Bobby: Unfortunately, they don't. I don't get it.

Shane: Keep it small. Keep it underground.

(Billy Luttrell of Hexxus sits down and rolls a cigarette.)

Billy: I'm not interrupting, am I?

No not all. Join us.

Shane: We were talking about influences of Midmourner.

Billy: Molehill.

Shane: I don't know if you know Molehill.

No.

Shane: Sludge pioneers from 2000? '97 to 2000-something.

Billy: '98 to 2002.

Shane: That was the beginning of this. Me and Billy, who is our fill-in guy, we've been friends for thirty fucking years! We did a band called Molehill. We raised a few eyebrows. If you go back and look, you can find it on Bandcamp. Matt, who passed away, and Sonny, the guy taking pictures -- he played bass in Molehill. Now I'm 44 and still doing this shit. It's ridiculous. It's for the love of fucking music, man! That's why it pumps our nads to meet people like you, you know? Who enjoy listening to this shit!

I'm excited to listen to it, to be able to discover new heavy bands or obscure heavy bands that are definitely underground.

Bobby: Oh, we're definitely underground! (laughs)

That's why I'm glad to meet you, shake your hands, hear and feel your music live. We've been talking prior to this show about meeting up, being able to grab an interview in person, and especially grab some merch.

Shane: That is the most meaningful shit.

I've shared this show tonight for awhile now, psyched to finally be here.

Bobby: It was cool because I did know you from Facebook.

Shane: He said your name, I was like I know that fucking guy! Are you friends with Billy on there?

Uh...

Shane: Billy plays in Hexxus. Man I'm promoting all your shit today! He cut in three weeks before we were going to leave. We were going to cancel this shit! He came in and said, "Let's fucking do this, man."

Wow! Love to hear about stuff like that.

Billy: You don't have to twist my nipples to make me go on tour! (laughs) I do a lot of fill-in stuff because I'm self-employed. I can leave anytime. I do stuff in friends' bands. They hit me up two to three weeks before the tour and Bobby was like, "Can you fill in for this tour"? "Shit, bro. When do we practice? Let's go!"

I'm glad you did! I'm glad you guys trekked forward.

Shane: It's been a blast! This is the last night. I could go another six months, maybe.

Bobby: No! (laughs) You've run out of Molehill money!(laughs) He was homesick before he got to Ohio! (laughs)

Shane: I'm ready to see the wife. I'm excited! It's cool to be talking to Doomed and Stoned again, man! That's cool!

Yeah!

Shane: We were hoping that wasn't a one of a kind of thing.

Not if I have anything to do with it. I would like to keep in touch with you guys. I'd love to share or promote anything I can for you guys. Next year when your on tour with Come To Grief -- holy fuck!

Bobby: We are going to have a new album come out with Matt [Heath] on bass.

Shane: We have a CD coming out eventually. Excited! We were able to keep all bass lines and bass recordings. That was cool as shit. I am looking forward to that! Doing what the fuck ever! Try to have fun!

That's what it's all about, having fun. Life is too short.

Shane: Oh, exactly!

Live at The Boreal , Eugene, Oregon by Midmourner

You guys are from Birmingham? So Roll Tide?

Shane: Absolutely, man!

I'm from South Carolina, so I'm a Clemson fan!

Shane: Uggghhh, sorry man! (laughs)

I player hate on Alabama big time! I give em respect them even though Nick Saban is the devil (laughs)

Shane: I got to give it to you guys, you took it one year.

Renfrow sneakin in there! Whew!

Shane: Tua is the shit man! We're proud, man! It was good to almost see Clemson get beat by Syracuse again.

I was nervous as shit! They pulled it out. Lawrence had a concussion, Brice and the Tigers did it.

Shane: I'm kinda worried about LSU just a little bit.

I saw they beat Miami.

Shane: They beat Auburn, too. I think Georgia is going to fall.

On that note, I'm good with what I have from you guys. Is there anything else?

Shane: Find Midmourner on Bandcamp! Find the latest shit. We have a new CD coming out. We have a 10" split with Cavity coming up. Very fucking excited about that. They are personal heroes of ours! Somebody is putting out the new album on vinyl in Europe, so we will have a vinyl release which is fucking awesome! We are looking forward to the Coming To Grief tour. We got to find a bass player. If you know anybody that's interested. (laughs) Have the gear and the drive to do this shit and we can talk! It was fucking great talking to you, man.

Yes!

Shane: We appreciate it. We love Doomed And Stoned! Fucking cool man!

Bobby: Thanks for coming out!

Shane it was nice to meet you and finally see you guys live!

Shane: Very nice to meet you, too! It's nice to see the actual face behind the posts on Facebook. We have nothing but good things to say about Doomed And Stoned and Shawn Gibson!(laughs)

I've got nothing but nice things to say about Midmourner!

Shane: Thank you very much! It means so much more than people realize! You know, it keeps you going. Unfortunately, the post-tour depression begins now. We are going to get back out there and slug it out!

Hell, yeah!

Shane: Hopefully get back here. That's about it, appreciate the hell out of it!

Thanks again!

Shane: Thank you man! Doomed And Stoned all the way! There's Billy packing cigarettes! (laughs)

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Pessimists have been saying America is going to hell for more than 200 years

At the moment's real pessimism about America's future has very previous roots. Aaron Foster/Getty

Pessimism looms giant in America as we speak. It’s not simply due to Donald Trump, the vicar of concern and violence. It’s COVID-19, a faltering financial system, the rising energy of Russia and China, fires and local weather change – you title it.

Journalists and analysts have launched warnings: American democracy is about to finish; the American century is about to finish; the American period is about to finish. If Trump loses, there’s no certainty that the U.S. will make it to the opposite facet of potential political chaos.

That’s no delusion. The grim situations are a chance, though the likelihood is that america is not going to descend, any time quickly, right into a second Civil Warfare. The presidential election may properly be contested – though the nation will most likely survive intact.

This isn’t the primary time in American historical past that journalists, writers and intellectuals generally have solid a dismal gentle concerning the future. American leaders as properly have usually yielded to despair – which is very notable provided that political leaders are anticipated to be probably the most optimistic of the herd.

Trump marketing campaign official Kimberly Guilfoyle offers an apocalyptic speech on the GOP conference Aug. 24. Olivier Douliery/AFP through Getty Pictures

‘We’re not a selected folks’

Through the early levels of nationwide life, the temper was no totally different. Really, it was even worse.

When Thomas Jefferson realized the implications of grounding a nation upon slavery, his pessimism reached metaphysical, theological heights:

“I tremble for my nation when mirror that God is simply: that his justice can not sleep for ever.”

John Adams, the second president, was equally vulnerable to frequent bouts of pessimism.

“Our nation will do like all others,” he wrote a couple of years earlier than getting into workplace, “play their affairs into the palms of some crafty fellows.”

Then he went via his painful presidency, a single time period solely, which made him much more bitter: “There isn’t any particular Windfall for us. We’re not a selected folks that I do know of.”

Warding off damage

Again then, France and Nice Britain acted like the worldwide superpowers. The “American experiment,” then again, was puny, defenseless, hazardous. Consequently, many leaders believed that solely a structure, plus a stronger central authorities, may forestall damage.

When Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay set off to jot down the well-known 85 papers to influence Individuals to undertake the brand new nationwide constitution, pessimism was considered one of their favourite vocabularies. It was greater than only a rhetorical expedient. These males have been satisfied that society was really teetering on the sting of the abyss.

Individuals would quickly behold “plunder and devastation,” Hamilton wrote. Madison echoed his colleague and conjured a “gloomy and threatening scene into which the advocates for disunion would conduct us.”

The “advocates for disunion” – the antagonist political get together led by James Winthrop from Massachusetts, Melancton Smith from New York and Patrick Henry and George Mason from Virginia – would sap America of all its good vitality. “Poverty and shame,” Hamilton wrote once more, “would overspread a rustic which with knowledge would possibly make herself the admiration and envy of the world.”

On the finish of the 18th century, unfavorable campaigning was already widespread. Political candidates and their acolytes criticized their rivals and conjured photographs of destruction if their rivals prevailed.

If Thomas Jefferson have been elected, one newspaper wrote, ‘homicide, theft, rape, adultery and incest, will overtly be taught and practiced.’ US Nationwide Archives/Getty

If Jefferson have been to be elected, one Connecticut newspaper introduced, “homicide, theft, rape, adultery and incest, will overtly be taught and practiced, the air will likely be lease with the cries and misery, the soil soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes.”

Political campaigning and statements bordering on exaggeration shouldn’t be taken at face worth. However it’s additionally true that as we speak, like yesterday, a real pessimism about America’s future exists.

A patriotic feat

As a historian of the early republic, I dare say that pessimism is to America what salt is to french fries: with out, it wouldn’t be the identical.

Nevertheless, there are two sorts of pessimism in America, absolute and conditional – a distinction that political scientist Francis G. Wilson laid out way back.

Absolute pessimism is the idea that the nation is an enormous lie, a fraud, a trick that crafty white males have been taking part in on girls, native populations, African Individuals, working courses, immigrants. As such, this nation deserves to be cursed, canceled, sunk, forgotten.

Most leaders, journalists, analysts and historians don’t endorse this type of pessimism. They’re conditional pessimists, as Wilson would label them.

They’re like Jeremiah, the weeping prophet of the Bible. They ship a prophecy of catastrophe as a result of they wish to present a brand new hopeful resolution. They communicate to Individuals’ sense of satisfaction, exhort them, incite them, mobilize them, improve the extent of dedication to a typical trigger and enact a ritual whose upshot ought to be a deeper consciousness.

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To repeat: The worst can occur – is occurring – as we speak, simply because it did 200-something years in the past. That’s why these up to date prophets aren’t delusional conspiracy theorists, or just paranoids.

Their pessimism is reality primarily based. On the similar time, it’s a patriotic feat. Conditional pessimists evoke photographs of turbulence and peril. However they name on America to be its greatest self.

Pessimism, on this case, is optimism by one other title.

Maurizio Valsania doesn’t work for, seek the advice of, personal shares in or obtain funding from any firm or group that will profit from this text, and has disclosed no related affiliations past their tutorial appointment.

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