#was striking and wonderful to see

[glitchgh0sty]

Ohmigosh- while we’re still talking about ocs!? I realize I forgot to pat this down here.. so—

*pat, pat,*

@fallisl1fe come collect your gremlin child, as she can no longer be trusted and @innome0,, can I keep your tired mom?? He is the entire ships only braincell,,

[bitchthefuck1]

I actually really love that we see Helena's palpable hesitation about going back to the severed floor. We know that this has all been a publicity thing for her and it's about helping Lumon, so she's really invested in the outcome, but like. from her POV, she's literally letting someone who actively hates her and everything she stands for, and also has a proven willingness to hurt herself if it means hurting Helena, who now knows who she is and her significance to Lumon, pilot her body for 8 hours every day in an environment where they've repeatedly failed to control her. If I were her, I'd be genuinely surprised to wake up with my limbs intact.

You already questioned why on earth she'd come back after Helly's suicide attempt, and the identity reveal explains the reasoning, but on a human level that's still a wild thing to have to think about. This person (who is you but also isn't) almost succeeded in killing you, and like a week later you let them pilot your body again like nothing happened. How could you not be terrified?

[mymarifae]

please look at my cute bird. he is so cute and i am so happy. i missed him SO MUCH. this event was so fun

[ecolateral]

[secriden]

Ok, genuinely asking cuz I think I missed something??

So the captain is using Kant (and Style) to get evidence, not on Fadel and Bison, but specifically because they want whoever is behind them, right? That's the whole reason for this ruse to begin with.

So, like, okay he's still the police and they're pretty sure there's going to be an attempted murder, so they have to be there to try to prevent it. But if they actually arrested Fadel and Bison, their boss would probably go to ground and be impossible to find.

(Especially if the captain/police don't know about the dysfunctional psudo family relationship that Fadel and Bison have with Lilly.)

So, did Bison and Fadel only get away in episode 6 because they captain intentionally let them go? Is he still hoping to use Fadel and Bison to get to their boss? (Was the motherfucker just a hilariously dramatic act for show?)

If so, why does Kant think he's done? At first I thought it was because he thinks the brothers have been caught, but he tells Style, "You have to get over it. You can't ever get together with him. Move on." which suggests that Kant thinks Style has the opportunity to try (ie. he knows Fadel hasn't been arrested yet).

Clearly, Kant understands that Fadel and Bison's arrest is an inevitability, that it's only been delayed because they're not interested in taking out only the people on the field. So he should know that Fadel and Bison not being arrested means the ruse is very far from being done.

Maybe Kant means it like: I'm done, I can't do it anymore, my heart won't let me lie to Bison again. ;A;

But even so, at this point (the day after the botched shooting), Kant hasn't discovered anything more than what he gave to the captain when the captain refused to agree that Kant was done the previous day, so like... why does he think he's done???!?

I'm just feeling very confused as to what, exactly, the captain's plan is now... Cuz surely the police know that Fadel and Bison are going to be suspicious about the undercover police presence at the charity event. Which therefore puts their moles (Kant/Style) at risk of not only being discovered, but being fed false information. Is the captain so confident in Kant (and Style's) seduction that they think Bison and Fadel will come back with NO caution?

Or am I just taking it all too seriously and this is one of those "accept the suspension of disbelief" moments? Should I just assume the police people aren't actually that smart? This is, after all, a comedy.

[waitineedaname]

I'm back on my reread, and I love that Ming Fan bursts into tears when sqq wakes up again after the demon invasion. being a crybaby is not a Binghe-exclusive trait, all the Qing Jing disciples cling to their shizun's robes and sob on him

[cringelordofchaos]

Ok so we know the raisins girls strategy of getting tips - to be very flirty and charm the customers, make them in love or whatever so they could get as much money as possible

Which is why I find it so funny that in TFBW the raisins leave a picture of Tweek taped on a wall saying "bad tipper" 😭

It's like he's a criminal and his crime is lack of heterosexuality

[off-brand-adorabbit]

Tress scratched the best itch for me, I’ve been craving a good fairy tale and it was just perfect. I kept slipping so hard into the fairy tale aspects that I kept getting caught by surprise whenever a cosmere thing stopped beating around the bush and revealed itself, actually. While I’m sure that wasn’t fully the intention, it was a really fun way to read some brandermansanderman coming fresh off of sunlit man and how intensely locked in I was with the Connections. Genuinely Tress is such a fun little romp. I love girls who sail in fucked up seas and this is a genre I want more of please thank you.

[shadowuserannie]

Unreal

You know what would've been fun? If the elves had indefinite lifespans but not indefinite bodies. and them just like. not talking about it it being sort of an open secret that your parents take you aside to quietly explain, then make sure to say 'never mention this again'

Because just think about it. Elves taking a special elixir that maintains their body in its prime state. Skip a day and the decay is obvious, especially if you're already centuries old.

Some of the older elves obsessing because the elixir isn't perfect, it staves it off but they're not eternally twenty anymore, they look human forty now and forty is too much by elvin standards so they get plastic surgery.

Except elves' surgery consists of more elixirs. And the elixirs are almost perfect, too. They don't have the plastic botox effect that humans' plastic surgery does, that makes their face harder to move. The elves just...have this weird feeling about them. Like there's no obvious plastic surgery effect. It's just that uncanny valley feeling of 'face too perfect, too unreal.'

Elves obsessing over taking their elixirs, because there's a single Wanderling of an elf who was an Ancient. She lived in isolation. One day someone visited her and screamed because all that was left was a pile of ashes on the floor within a dress. She didn't want to live anymore and skipped a single day of her elixirs.

Elves can live forever, but unless they use elixirs to maintain their body then they will die. Except this contradicts itself, doesn't it? The very definition of quasi-immortality is living unless an outside force kills you. Your own body shouldn't qualify. And of course it's Sophie who brings this into question when she first hears it.

So what's happening is that elves aren't actually immortal. They just take elixirs to stop their bodies from aging and decaying to nothing. Otherwise, they have a lifespan just longer than a human.

And the very first elixir one takes to slow their aging, preparing your body for the rest, is Youth.

[essektheylyss]

Fun fact: I was already planning on writing a fic about Essek watching Verin die in battle and not being able to react the way he wants to, and just hadn't because I wanted to put it in context of the actual battle. So I am REALLY thriving tonight.

[hvackisser]

I've been thinking about how when Scout tells the other mercs that his sister is gonna be swinging by they're like "good god, its gonna be like having two Scouts = _ =" and they're very surprised to see that she's very....normal. college will do that to ya, but I think she just needs an opportunity to let her inner BEAST out!

If she were to actually join the TEAM and fight alongside everyone, I think she'd have a lot of repressed rage that she'd be able to let out and no I'm not projecting I just think if I was handed a lead pipe and told it was fine to just bludgeon guys to death with no repercussions no one would be able to stop me

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

the x files au where everything is exactly the same except mulder takes home the child neanderthal from the jersey devil episode and raises them as his own

[drrav3nb]

KIM YOUNG KWANG as SEO DO YOUNG in EVILIVE (2023)

[dirtyoldmanhole]

(unicorn overlord spoilers, drakenhold region)

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Gilbert: Though I must ask: Why do you not stand by Travis, to comfort him in his time of need? Berengaria: …First let me tell you what it was like getting put under that bastard Baltro's control. Berengaria: Thoughts of my brother were the first to go. I was consumed, haunted by an all-encompassing thirst for vengeance. Berengaria: And then, silence. No cares in the world, no worries, no pain. Berengaria: Almost like I was fast asleep at the bottom of the ocean. Berengaria: It… made me wonder if things weren't better off that way. Gilbert: Hence you feel guilt for ever succumbing to its allure. Berengaria: It was all nonsense, of course. And now that I have my body back, the only thought I've got left for Zenoria is hate. Gilbert: Yet there's not a person alive who doesn't wish to let go of something. Gilbert: Countless souls suffer under the weight of who others expect them to be. Myself included. Berengaria: …You understand, then. Berengaria: After what I've done, Gilbert, I don't deserve to stroll back in like nothing's happened. Berengaria: And no matter how much I want to pull him close and apologize, I feel wrong for even reaching out my arm. Berengaria: I abandoned my own brother when he needed me most. Abandoned myself too. Berengaria: But I'm fixing things, little by little. Getting my revenge is just one small part of that.

[volosdarling]

I HAVENT BEEN POSTING A LOT BUT THTS BECAUSE IM TRYING 2 FIND AN OFFICE JOB & FSR ITS REALLY HARD . . . I DONT WANNA GO BACK 2 RETAIL . . . VOLO WOULDNT WANT ME 2 GO BACK 2 RETAIL . . .

[ghostieblotts]

hi, what does naff mean? (I googled it and it said it was British and meant unfashionable but I don't think that's how you used it)

That is correct! The way I use it is very broadened, to be perfectly honest. I often use it in a sense of being unimpressive, disappointing, or generally not very good. On its own, I'd say that naff is maybe slightly better than bad but worse than an absolute middle on the scale of quality? (The way some people use mid reminds me of how I use naff). However, I use intensifiers to play fast and loose with it, so I'm not exactly consistent, and I will use it to express more negative meanings (is this ironic understatement or genuinely having a more negative meaning? I really don't know!).

This is a great question and now I'm wondering whether the broadened way I use it is local to my social group and area, or whether this is a change in meaning covering a larger area that webpages and dictionaries haven't quite caught up with. This is also, at least with the imprecision of use that I use it with, a really awkward word to try and define. Thank you very much for the ask I am going down research rabbit holes