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[anonymous-kotlc-thoughts]

If I could I’d shrink down Sophie and co and holed them in my mouth like marbles (affectionate)

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[kitnita]

a win in jake’s 100th game   —   DAL vs CBJ   —   12.19.22  

[septembersghost]

tío was a piece of shit but honestly i can absolutely see why gus decided to keep him alive purely out of sadism. you know when gus said that a shot to the head would be far too humane? i know he's a piece of fuck too and a shot to the head would be far too humane for him too but honestly i get it lol

we love (if that's even the appropriate word) and are fascinated by gus, but gus, when examined closely, is truly a disturbed individual - undeniably tragic, but that man is twisted. and the coati story (along with other allusions) implies he was that way long before what happened to max, max just metastasized it. it's completely understandable why he makes the decision to keep hector like that, to get the satisfaction of it, and at the same time, it's like...if he could be reasonable, at all, he'd have let him die, and look at the mess he'd have saved himself. walt could never have gotten the upper hand, it was gus' one weakness. the achilles' heel of it all. that's such a great line, though - hector's so horrible that the narrative convinces us with gus' conviction that he has earned that torment.

i'm a bit haunted by where we left gus in bcs - it's smart, but it's so bereft. there's a loneliness to it that i can't properly articulate (i have half a post about this in my drafts that i never fleshed out, and i couldn't bring myself to watch fun and games again, which has left it sitting there). he has, for the briefest of moments, almost an escape hatch. a connection to another human being. this is something we rarely, if ever, see. gus is very adept at his persona (we talk about jimmy's saul persona all the time because it's omnipresent and colorful and loud, but gus has one too! the courteous benefactor of the community with a welcoming business), but in that scene with the sommelier, there's a hint of something more real, neither the fastidious, calculating drug lord nor the faux considerate businessman, and he immediately shuts it down. we see the shutters close across his face (even as he's opened the curtains at home). he converses with mike, and continues on his path of revenge, and we already know. we know he'll get it, in many measures, and we also know that way leads to ruin. the last image we have of him in brba is so gruesome and somehow iconic now in its gore, almost elevated beyond reality as he straightens his tie before collapsing, and the explosion is startling, and walt gets, "i win." but in bcs, gus can't have a real conclusion, everything is still unfurling, so what we get is instead this minuscule glimpse under the mask, and then a small death all its own, a spiritual one, as that mask slips back into place.

fun and games was like a psychological horror episode on some level, and it's...such an ending. i know i've said this, but in hindsight it's even more clear - it IS the ending to bcs in so many ways, to the story we were in, and it's so contrasting. it's intimate (almost claustrophobic in a few places), it's mostly quiet, it's all character driven, and everyone seals their fates, everyone dies a little. gus at the restaurant, and mike with manuel, and...fundamentally, jimmy and kim, who will never be the same...and they're all closing doors on choices. it's inexorable, we can't help them or stop them.

a bullet to the head would be far too humane...that humane exit is left to nacho, but all the rest of them plunge so much further into darknesses of their own construction. they keep having to live (at least for a while). it's the harder and more tortuous path.

[valtsv]

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

[runawaymarbles]

the "is it ok to have sex when your kids are in the house" thing is so funny to me because like. if you have lived with both of your parents at the same time there's a 99.5% chance they have had sex while you were in the house. if you co-slept then your parents probably had sex while you were in the same bed. this is the gender neutral bathroom debate all over again.

[bobbyjean]

[idoodlestuffsometimes]

I need to share how the IT guy at work greeted my department on CrowdStrike Blue Screen Friday. Never have I seen a man so shocked by the sight of perfectly functional computers

(They were off during the update)

[luriuan]

I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.

[mythtakens]

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[kitnita]

jake oettinger with his 60th win in his 100th start   —   DAL vs NYI   —   01.10.23  

[the-halfling-prince]

You can keep a hundred boys in jars or whatever it is that Chappell Roan said

[liones-s]

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

[transannabeth]

if you opened discord’s april fools day loot boxes how long did it take you to get all the items? it took my friend 18 boxes but me 65 and i want to see how bad my luck is

[venator-signum]

the pjo fandom on tumblr vs tiktok is so funny cause we've all (or most of us) have already read the entire series, we know what's going to happen so we can see the parallels and the tragedy behind it but on tiktok???

they're in love with Luke

they think he's so kind and nice and its wonderful he's percy's friend, there's no way that he'd be evil - I've seen theories that annabeth is going to be the one who betrays percy (prior to ep4)

the tonal shift is insane and I can't wait to see all these first time viewers lose their fucking minds