#basket to hell

[gramarobin]

Courtesy of @kcg69

[technically-human]

An honor

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: campy

[foldbaron]

Matthew Mercer as Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona Travis Willingham as Nicolas Cage in Con Air Marisha Ray as Nicolas Cage in The Wicker Man Robbie Daymond as Nicolas Cage in Honeymoon In Vegas Sam Riegel as Nicolas Cage as John Travolta in Face/Off Ashley Johnson as Nicolas Cage in The Rock Laura Bailey as Nicolas Cage in City Of Angels Liam O'Brien as Nicolas Cage in MANDY Taliesin Jaffe as Nicolas Cage in Valley Girl

[intriga-hounds]

my most beloved sauce went to the vet today and was a Very Good Sauce so she got to go to the store and pick a prize. she chose this very large, very hairy pig ear. she’s very pleased with her choice!! she ate the whole thing and did not share a single bite.

[blenselche]

rewatching furuba. I rly love Akito as this god who prays to her own false idol.

She probably had a fair few SH spells after the ending, it's easy to imagine her trying to scream Tohru out of the hospital room but yk it wouldn't work.

[violetsinyoureyesandguns]

The girls who are put on earth

to be lost in the forest like fairies

and live near the river eating fruits

like nymphs,

are forced to live under the pressure of society.

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[st-pop2]

this is definitely what happened in the first game against tōō trust

[purpledavina]

[witchofthesouls]

There are many iterations of MegOp I can believe in... but not TFP.

Feels homoerotic or queer? Sure. A lot of tension? Definitely. A yearning or upon the cusp of something? I'm fucking dying right on that edge.

But TFP Megatron and Orion Pax couldn't even understand each other's histories and motivations, let alone have a hard conversation on their own philosophies, back up plans, and direction for society besides the pretty stuff. Y'all really think they fucked? Even if it's angled as 'hate sex' or casual, they fucking misread each other all the damn time, even if they vibed on the same level, which is so painful to watch. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them tried to subtly hit on the other in their own caste-derived/in-group's specific doublespeak... just for the other guy, who's an outsider, to understandingly not pick it up, but all their associated caste buddies did.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if that's why Ratchet and Soundwave have several tons worth of beef with each other's respective friend/war leader. Besides destroying life and civilization as they knew it.

The thing is to remember, Megatron is very much a social butterfly in a way. He genuinely likes people. He likes interaction. He has the flair and disposition for it. His inherent sense for the dramatics just enhances it. But the most important thing, Megatron was literally reared within the structure of the city-states. He intimately knows the social equations for his caste, has a lot of support in terms of emotional via friends, allies, and mecha with similar grievances, and is deft enough to wade through the avenues that are available to him and he takes them with both fists (gladiatorial clades into the political arena). Violence (and emotions) is a language that's easily available to him.

Orion Pax, on the other hand, is more careful. He has to be. This guy literally came from the boonies of Nowhere and got snatched up by a really powerful figure within Iacon inside the very heart of its machinations. People were beyond rage at that treatment. Orion isn't stupid but he's playing really dangerous games with colleagues that despise his very presence and multiple frameworks that literally eat people alive to keep a very brutal status quo. Then accounting Alpha Trion's own status as an Ancient Prime with the very relic with the power to foretell future events across the multiverse... it doesn't paint a kind picture on reasons why the hidden Prime plucked up Orion. The repression and stonewall tactics that Orion, and later Optimus, use really make sense with this in mind. The Iacon Archives are a keystone of the higher castes. Orion had to moderate his entire self around those people that would absolutely snitch if they caught a whiff of 'insubordination' or 'illegal' activities' or 'strangely sympathetic to those undeserving' along with the weird little side quests with Alpha Trion. Orion had to learn really fast how to bend before breaking, especially if he can only rely on himself in a perilous environment.

All I'm saying that these two spoke Neocybex, but absolutely missed all the cultural context of each other's backgrounds that would have easily explained the 'whys, whats, wheres, whens, and hows' of their decisions and behaviors. They legitimately did see something really amazing in each other, but never actually dug deeper thinking that the other mech would immediately understand their motivations and that's what so fucking infuriatingly tragic on why they felt so betrayed by one another.

[ghostyuri]

love when a character is fighting the most horrible demons known to mankind (comphet)

[yuesya]

“No.”

Satoru-niichan huffs, “At least finish listening to what I have to say–”

“No,” Shiki repeats herself. “Absolutely not. I refuse.”

The older sorcerer sighs. For a moment, he is silent, but then there is a light rustle as he sits down beside her.

“I know you don’t like it,” he says quietly. “For what it’s worth, this is just a ‘what-if’ if we encounter the worst-case scenario. You’ve already heard the news, same as I did. Kyoto fell in a single day when Tsukumo turned.”

… Yes, Shiki knows. In face of the disastrous outbreak of cursed spirits on a massive, world-wide scale, Tsukumo Yuki swiftly became one of the busiest sorcerers –both due to her position as a powerful Special Grade sorcerer, and because of her numerous well-developed global contacts. The woman poured her focus into finding out the reason for this unprecedented, unnatural phenomenon, so that they would be able to fix it–

But now she’s dead.

And it wasn’t because she had exhausted herself and fallen in battle.

According to the reports, Tsukumo had been tirelessly poring over older documents in Kyoto, before she suddenly doubled over, as if in pain. A black, smoky liquid had dripped down from her lips –first a trickle, and then an unending flood. Her body had twisted, then split; cracking open the way a butterfly emerged from its chrysalis.

But it was no butterfly that had metamorphosed from Tsukumo’s corpse, but instead a cursed spirit. 

… Another of those terrible cursed spirits. The ones which covered the world in inky darkness wherever they went, cursing the land and all the humans who lived upon that land.

Previously, there had already been several separate cases of lower-ranked sorcerers… turning. Somehow, inexplicably, turning into the very cursed spirits that they hunted. The information had been swiftly suppressed, for fear of causing panic, particularly since there were a lot more sorcerers nowadays than there had ever historically been–

But Tsukumo’s case was the first recorded incident of a Special Grade sorcerer turning into a monstrous curse, one that immediately leveled Kyoto to the ground upon its appearance.

There’s no way to hide this, and it also raises the question of–

Would the same also happen to other Special Grade sorcerers?

The worry is not an unfounded one. 

… It’s not like Shiki doesn’t understand where Satoru-niichan is coming from, making the request of her that he did. But all the same, it’s–

It’s terrible.

Terrible, but necessary. Especially in a broken world like this. Especially since their options are limited. But that does not make Shiki any more predisposed towards the very notion of what Satoru-niichan is asking of her. What he wants of her, what only she can promise him.

“… I don’t want to,” she whispers.

“I know,” Satoru-niichan acknowledges, which is quite cruel of him. But Shiki has always known that Satoru-niichan could be cruel. She loves him anyways. “If there was any other option, any other way of getting insurance, you know I would never ask this of you. But you’re the only one I’d trust with something like this, Shiki.”

Yes. She knows.

Shiki closes her eyes.

…

“I’ll only agree on one condition: You have to promise to do the same. 

If I ever become a mindless curse, then you need to kill me.”

[anxiousapplepie]

You mentioned vampires in Special Delivery, so could you tell us about them?

There aren't many vampires left in SD, but the few that are still alive (and more importantly, are still reasonable) are some of the wealthier individuals that know how to tighten their belts and wait until their main food source 'bounces back from the brink of extinction' again.

[frnkiebby]

BTW he did twink death dilf birth like no other, he nailed it, he did it and did it GOOD

oh he absolutely fucking did. sometimes it really throws me off bc like how the ever loving fuck are THESE two assholes the same fucking person???like???~🎃

[tj-crochets]

Cleaning update! Posting it here so I can keep track and remind myself I am making progress: - cleaned off one and a half fabric shelves (not sets of shelves) of everything and went through every item, reorganized, moved the yarn (how'd it get there???) to the yarn shelves, found the Mars Rover I'd been sewing a loooong time ago (just needs wheels). Also found a crocheted dragon that just needs wings (why did I put it there????) - got distracted, cleaned the floor of my closet, got a bunch of clothes added to the donation pile, moved the donation pile into a basket I'd cleared out from the fabric shelves - broke down some cardboard boxes so they are ready for recycling - got distracted again, got overwhelmed at the idea of narrowing down my collection of books, and pulled every book I have not read yet off my shelves and stacked them in neat piles on the floor. That way I can read them and make an informed decision about keeping them or not

All of this does mean my room looks worse than when I started somehow but I am trusting the process

edit: this is unrelated to my other cleaning post this is more of an "oh my gosh TJ just put the items on shelves/in drawers where they go" than a "clean this surface" kind of cleaning lol

[akashirl]

you can't convince me that he's not fine.