#Vaguely Concerning

[randomvoices]

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There is a Vaguely Concerning jar of applesauce in Mr. Frill's house. It's not even in an applesauce jar, it's in a mason jar.

About three minutes ago, Susan Wilson reportedly heard someone scream "Let me have my panic attack in peace!"

The dragonflies are staging a revolution against the dandelions.

[spiderversegf]

i hope if nothing else i am remembered for being kind

[chamerionwrites]

Possibly The most surprising thing I have discovered on the internet is the number of people who will unironically refer to others as "degenerates" without expecting anyone reading this to immediately assume that they are a straight-up fascist

[spacedace]

Found this old snippet and don't really remember of the context for it outside of being a joking exploration of how weird the Fenton/Phantom family tree would seem to outsiders (not even getting into how relationships might be classified differently between the human side & the ghost side)

Anyway gonna drop it here as a prompt lol

Mind the quick reference to dismemberment, there's no gore or detailed description and no one is actually hurt, it's more there for comedic effect, but still wanted to give the heads up on it 👍

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Nomad motioned to the towering, vaguely vampire-looking buff dude with literal flaming hair what the fuck, “Dan, this is everyone. Everyone this is Dan. He’s my…” Nomad trailed off and blinked, a look of confused befuddlement on her face as she let the sentence hang for too long.

“Huh…” She said considering, looking up at vampire-dude, Dan apparently, with a confused furrow on her brow. “You know this is the first time I’ve ever had to try and explain our relationship to each other and I’m drawing a blank and what exactly to call you. Uncle? Dad? Brother? Like, I think you could technically be considered all three.”

What the fuck did that mean??? Kon snapped his attention over to meet Tim’s masked gaze, the look of wild confusion Kon was sure was on his own face mirrored there. Around the meeting room confused and worried looks were being shared by the rest of the League. Which like, yeah, what in the Habsburgs was happening here for all of those terms to be applicable?

“Well, you’re Danny’s Mirror, so if you consider him your dad then it stands to reason I’m also your father.” Dan said, hand coming up to his - literally flaming, how did that work? - goatee thoughtfully.

“Yeah but like, I call Danny dad just to piss Vlad off.” Nomad countered, toying with her severed arm with her still attached hand. Kon didn’t think he’d ever get over how casual she was about being literally disarmed and just…not caring. “And I definitely don’t see you as a dad. Uncle?”

The giant of a ghost shook his head with a frown, “Implies that Danny and I are brothers, which could work but gives our relationship kind of a weird vibe. I feel more like his father than anything.”

“Gramps, then?”

“No.”

Nomad laughed, “Fair, wouldn’t want to take the title of Grampa away from CW. Besides we’re both half Vlad, so I think brother works best here.” She frowned, looking thoughtful, “Maybe half brother?”

Dan considered, “Half-brother could work. Though it gives Vlad more credit than he deserves.”

“Oh come on, can you imagine the look on his face if we went in together on suing him for child support?” Nomad asked, fanged grin wicked. Dan’s face lit up at the idea, and Kon felt like they were rapidly heading towards the two ghosts running off to go and go torment whoever this Vlad guy was rather then them help deal with the current demonic problem at hand.

“Can you please explain what any of that means?” Kon asked, more a squeak than anything else. He was starting to get a headache.

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

I'm sure he'll be fine

[protosymphonette]

gordon freemans. gordon... freemen? gordon... threemen. ha ha

closeups + alt bg under the cut

[sea-buns]

gotta love me a character whose post-timeskip synopsis is just More Anxious

[quirkle2]

art pieces that r incomprehensible without access to my mind

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Humans are very much a social species. We look to each other without even always noticing, for cues about how to interpret the world around us.

Unfortunately this often leads to people thinking stuff just isn't that serious because if it were, the people around me would be taking it seriously!

But the people around you do not always have the best view of the situation, and they can be wrong.

Some things you have to decide for yourself whether they're worth being concerned about, or worth acting on.

[canisalbus]

I love how machete always looks vaguely concerned, it really suits him

You'd look vaguely concerned as well if you were in his position and knew what he knew.

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

So… An update…

(We’re watching episode 36 next, can’t recommend Toqger enough)

[avariceaside]

*peaks head into tmagp tags* heeeyyyyy early access folks, how we doing?

[bubmyg]

231/638 posting a picture every day until yoongi is home

[rottmnt-residuum]

So in the last update that agent threw some kind of ball at Raph and Leo. My best guess is that it's some kind of holding device that traps mystic energy, right? But I got a little confused at the Krang. Was that just what Leo and Raph felt like? I mean that their mystic energy got "sucked away" again, like what Krang did. Also those balls were what they bought (?) from that yokai with the cloaking brooch. Will those have a significant role later on, or will you explain a bit more about them if you didn't already?

*slides in from my self banishment*

Yes! the kraang is basically what they are feeling! a.k.a it's a ptsd episode. You got it in one ;P

You know, i kinda forget not everyone is working under the same base knowledge of the show... anyway! we proceed!

As far as i can tell the hidden city police have a few different ways of detaining suspects. The first as seen in 'raphs ride along' are these:

they're just a less invasive version of cuffs really... consequently, they're also basically useless. perp can still get away and all that, mind you, they can't get out without keys... but that's pretty easily solved

the next type is the anti-mystic device:

these bad-boys suck up spells and absolutely wreck any mystic device within its limited range. barry's cloaking broach shatters and is basically unrecoverable, and as you can see it sucks up the mystic odachi's portal. they seem to just suck up any mystic energy thats 'in use'. so as long as you're not doing anything mysticy you're good

For Residuum, the way they work is that any currently active mystic energy is sucked in and stored, so as long as you keep using your mystics the longer it will keep going. Though it does cap out at around ten minutes, it can only hold so much. At any rate, it's best to not use mystics if this thing (multiple of these things) is on the battlefield, as, if you continue to try, you'll end up with an empty tank.

Depending on how mystical exhaustion works, that could be either mildly inconvenient, or deadly!

as to their significance in the comic... i'd say they'll be pretty significant

[drumlincountry]

It feels soooo silly to be like ‘holy shit, did you know oil & gas companies are evil?’ like ‘wooow omg did you know water is weT?’

But I was at a talk yesterday about fracking & they’re just, SO evil. It’s insane how evil they are?

First off, they are deliberately targeting traumatised communities. The activists I was listening to were from Northern Ireland, where approx 45% of adults have PTSD. The oil and gas companies were targeting NI because 1. the communities are so divided by the Troubles that they can’t always put prejudice aside to fight a big complicated fight, 2. similarly the political structures in NI exist on a sliding scale between ‘weak’ and ‘nonfunctional’, due to all the trauma and violence and division & they can’t effectively like, pass laws preventing extraction.

BUT if you do manage to develop laws preventing extraction, you’re still not safe ....because the oil and gas companies just change their terms! Say you outlaw fracking, right - they come back in two years time saying ‘ok, this thing we want to do now is the exact same industrial process, EXCEPT we are using a SLIGHTLY different machine so we aren’t calling it ‘fracking’ anymore. Now it’s called [dumb new acronym], and its totally legal!’

Oil and Gas companies lied consistently about the health impact of drilling/fracking/extraction on local communities, while the medical & scientific community spent decades building up irrefutable evidence that living near oil, gas, or coal extraction sites increases asthma, autoimmune diseases, infertility, cancer risk, etc.

Then what do the oil and gas companies do when they can’t lie anymore??? they just IGNORE IT. One activist (who was also a doctor) had a meeting with senior civil servants asking them to justify giving extraction licenses, given the health implications. And the senior civil servants said WAIT. WHAT HEALTH IMPACTS? WE’VE BEEN IN TALKS WITH THIS COMPANY FOR 3 YEARS NO ONE MENTIONED ANY HEALTH IMPACTS?

If you manage to create the community power & political will to prevent them from extracting oil and gas – they sue you for lost earnings! Millions & billions of pounds, euros, etc. Because there’s some international energy agreement that means they could have expected to earn money drilling somewhere, and you subvert that expectation, they can SUE YOU for what they ARGUE they MIGHT HAVE earned from drilling down there.

So now, when people create geothermal energy infrastructure, that involves drilling down into rock. If an oil or gas company gets their hands on that rock sample and finds there might be oil or gas down there, they can turn up out of NOWHERE and say ‘hey, we want to drill under this city centre because we saw there’s probably oil down there’ & the city are like ‘wtf? No?’ to which, oil and gas companies can say ‘yes. I expected you to say that. We’re now suing you for €€€€€€€€€€€€€€€!’

evil! evil! evil! evil!

[varilien]

it doesn’t matter how heavy your cross to bear is; you can still smile!