#blame google for this post

[lip-rings-and-quiffs]

🎶 My rockstar boyfriend 🎸

[herushingu]

Good evening, Hellsing 🛡️

You may need to take a long time out, but its never forever, & your touch will be needed someday. Rest as required & trust the process. Youll return stronger when the moment calls. 🩸

[mausinly]

BIG BURLY FLUSTERED MEN with a/o who takes one of their hands and kisses their knuckles - knuckles that have been covered in blood - and big burly man (I’m imagining König) just self destructs. Blue screens. Combusts.

Unwinding after operations is always a hassle. There's this limbo between finishing the mission and arriving back at base where adrenaline is still high, but you can't stay in one place long enough to come down from it.

Everyone is still milling about the building your unit is using as a temporary base. Counting your dead, if any, and treating the wounded before heading to the drop ships to fly back to KorTac's base.

You and König are holed off in a corner of the courtyard, you being seated on a bench with your back pressed against the wall while he sits on the ground between your legs. He rests his head back on your thigh, and you can feel the way he fidgets. Itching for something when there is nothing left to do but wait. His mask is still on, along with the rest of his gear. One of his hands idly tap your ankle, trying to find some way to release this anxious energy he has until you both can get back to base, where he knows it's safe.

You look down at him and remove your gloves, placing them aside before sneaking one of your hands under his hood and the balaclava beneath. Your fingers drag against the column of his neck, and your nails gently scratch his nape, making him groan and tilt his head back further to look up at you.

König let's out a grunt and fixes you a curious look. You hold out your free hand toward him. "Give me your hand." You murmur, and he does so compliantly.

He melts a little at the pleased little smile you give him, eyes darting down to where your hand holds his. His are so much bigger than yours, thicker too with the bulky material of his gloves. The fabric is stained red, speckles of blood still wet and crimson. He frowns a little at the idea of your hands becoming stained as well.

König thinks to rip his hand from yours, but falters when you begin to tug the leather off his fingers and down his wrist until his skin is released from the suffocating material. His hands are rough, pale and scarred and calloused. Your hands aren't perfect, but they are much more delicate and pretty than his in comparison.

You seem to disagree, though, with the way your hands trace the shape of his. You spread his fingers a little, dragging your nails along each callous and faded scar. It's almost devout in the way you study each line of his palm, the pads of your fingers so gentle against his skin.

You lift his hand up to your lips, tenderly pressing a kiss to each knuckle. You start at the base before moving down each finger, almost as if you don't want any of them to be left out. He would have laughed at the thought if his body wasn't frozen like a deer in headlights.

Your eyes fall down to his and your smile widens at the absolutely mystified look in his eyes, stormy blues flickering between yours and your lips against his hand as his pupils dilate.

His mouth opens and closes underneath his mask, but any attempts to speak die in his throat. How could you put so many thoughts in his head that he is unable to fabricate them into words? Do you have any clue what you do to him?

You let out a small chuckle and go back to kissing his hand, trailing your lips down across his palm and the back of his hand. You pull down the edge of his sleeve just to press your lips to his wrist. König groans as your affection doesn't let up, long and pained as his head lulls against your thigh and he drapes an arm over his eyes.

"Du wirst mein Tod sein, Engel..." He murmurs, thankful that his mask hides the stupid grin on his face.

[taviokapudding]

Simon's joke of "soup of theseus" is so damn good & way more layered than most people think.

Okay so first- what is the ship of Theseus?

So amongst his many misadventures and legends the ship of theseus was a ship the Athenians believed connected them to the divine living person that was Theseus. The thing is, he was maybe Poseidon's adopted kid/the King if Athen's son and probably not real (or at least if he did his misadventures were super exaggerated as royals = divity stories are) but the fate the Athenians had for him & Apollo (the 6 labors is a fun legend that explains their connection and what the original ship may have been) was so intense, they would constantly give maintence as a form of religious worship to said ship on the island of Delos (where Apollo's most sacred sancutary is) every year it would dock to pay respects.

Btw we don't need to know the specifics of Theseus but he did infamously slay a minotar and Finn did have a good exchange with the Mannish Man to get the enchiridion aka the book that sets Betty & Simon on the paths they are on now so that's neat af

So if you've ever heard about the ship of Theseus being paradox- it comes from the critique that's always existed about that ship's maintenance & religious practices tldr if you are constantly replacing each rotted and borken part of a ship, is it still the same ship?

The soup is a paradox like the ship

That paradox exists in many many scifi and adventure stories like the Nier series & Ghost in the Shell but in this instance we got to first look at the joke literally. Farm world's Finn's wife's soup is the same as the ship. The original soup farm world HW made no longer exists on a technicality, but the way Finn and his kids continue to add on and consume the soup is exactly like the Athenians. It's about the intent of carrying on the memory and keeping the soup around to honor the dead rather than the soup's original recipe {which also is incredibly sad & imples that farmworld Finn is both coping and never learned the original soup recipe}. It's a beautiful way to honor their dead mom/wife and it makes you wonder if that Finn did die if his kids will continue the practice.

But the paradox goes beyond the soup & into our reality

A lot of people have noticed that Fionna's last name is Campbell and Campbells is a real soup brand that would've been around before the great mushroom war. When Marceline gets sick as a kid, Simon goes great lenghts to get her chicken soup- that only worked out because the primordial version of the Mother Gum assisting {which is extreme Bubbeline foreshadowing}. And in that scene the can low key is a campbell design. But what if I told you there's more?

In Cheers, the tv show Simon is seen constantly watching and referencing throughout the original run of Adventure Time & in the recent Fionna and Cake had Carla Tortelli work at a Canpbell's Factory.

Neat references aside the soup ends the moment the main trio hit the remote button and I have a BA in psychology & interest in childrens media and entertainment that I want to milk for once. Metaphorical intention is beyond relevant episode specifics but actually the foundation of Fionna and Cake when it comes to the paradox.

Simon making the soup of Theseus joke is the main problem Fionna and Cake has to address

If Simon can summon his & Prismo's au from his head without proper MMS (Magic, Madness, and Sadness) where does Simon the human start and Ice King end?

As viewers who grew up alongside the series, the majority of 25+ watchers are finding Simon, older Finn, and Fionna painfully relatable because good fucking god we are all traumatized because of the ongoing pandemic.

If you want to focus on the main topic you can skip this part. But if you want to get very serious for a minute, please stay. The majority of people wont to accept what I just said about the pandemic being ongoing because global governments pretending the pandemic is over, the rise of depression and escapism in real time at a social level at a global level but especially in the US where the series is being made, and the daily interactions we have with most people refusing to mask up {with a violent reaction} when there still isn't a cure for COVID has created the perfect enviroment for most people to not accept change or crave extreme change. Fionna and Cake tackles these 2 very common forms of how depression tends to manifest when it's not fully manic to be displayed through Simon (self isolation from poor coping due to loss, detachment from society, dwelling on the past to the point it effects social interactions, extreme forms of religious practice, etc.) and Fionna/Finn (pretending everything is fine, avoidance, going through the bare minimum motions to survive, escapsim and dream of grandure, not caring about sel preservation, no/lack of self control with sweets/coffee, etc.). And I've noted there's a subset of AT viewers who don't relate or find the depections too real to the point they're upset the show's tone isn't as light hearted as AT. The thing is when a global disabling event happens, unless you were under 10 when it happened and even then it's a 50/50 because you probably did lose or know somebody who did die these last several years, you will have some kind of trauma response to it whether you like it or not. Hell, some of you unknowlingly have a gap in your memory about 2020 specifically due to inconsistent sleep schedules that have nothing to do with the shrinking of the brain mass COVID causes that we all call "brain fog" and now that I pointed it out you're probably going to go stare at a wall for 5 mins {sorry btw, doubly if you have long COVID and this is how you found out what brain fog partially is}. As someone who's been dealing with depression since I was a child, it's okay to be not okay given the last several years and doubly if you've been conscious long enough to see the US freefall into fascism too {which I hope encourages those who weren't aware that's been happening to go look into that because we can't get into it right now}. Because I unfortunately know what manic depression can look like - if you find yourself relating to Simon a little too much during ep 3, please talk to somebody who is licensed and trained to do so {not me, I haven't done suicide prevention work since 2017 and am not licensed- I genuienly won't be enough of a resource} okay? Don't throw away yourself nor change yourself for others only. You need to work to accept the past, move on to live in the present, and change yourself for yourself. It won't be easy and resources are out there to not do it alone, alright?

Becuase of how paradoxial and fluid mental health (espeically undiagnosed depression) can be and how AT has it's own version with MMS, could Simon have unconscious MMS still because of Betty's with without a battery but can't tap into it because of his mental state? And could Ice King as we once knew him even be considered a proper person Simon could return too?

The original wish of why Ice King's appearance & abilities is the way it is IS because of Evergreen's impression on Gunter {Evergreen was one of the ice elementals of the past btw- go watch the original Adventure Time for that context}. So Ice King isn't even an original character, just the crown building off the wishes and manifestations of each bearer by emulating a warped version of Evergreen. And that's the main reason why I speculate Ice Thing aka Gunter the Penguin is chill af to the point he got married and can exist with less gems. His wish didn't build off of power to protect Marceline (Simon) nor the power to copy Evergreen (Original Gunter).

As the main trio jump from connected universe to connected universe, more Simons and crowns will appear that are even more removed from our Ooo's crown and it's version of Ice King or Ice Prince or Winter King will only manifest because of the prior and current wishes made. So if Simon does get a crown that isn't the Ooo crown, will the Ice King that once existed even be THE Ice King he wants to be? And will Simon want to be Ice King or an Ice King when the trio do return to his Ooo?

The crown and it's many versions is a paradox that can only be resolved if Simon and Fionna can work together but also set aside their depression to address what they both really want and what that wish's intention will do to themselves and those around them. In short, shit's deep

I applaud the team for Fionna and Cake for tackling such a layered problem and I'm excited to see how Simon's soup of emotions, Fionna's growth, & magic crown of Theseus is addressed.

[crystal-mouse]

Bonjour Jean Luc!

Thanks @frogayyyy and @gayfour the inspo!

[fratboybeezer]

i can't stop help

[marislittlestories]

is there a ship name for severus/james i'm asking for a friend

[hawkinslibrary]

“The AMPTP, through Carol Lombardini, reached out to the WGA today and requested a meeting this Friday to discuss negotiations,” the WGA negotiating committee said in a statement to members on Tuesday. “We’ll be back in communication with you sometime after the meeting with further information. As we’ve said before, be wary of rumors. Whenever there is important news to share, you will hear it directly from us.”

as of august 3rd, 2023:

the current wga strike began may 2nd, 2023. it's been going strong for 93 days now.

the 2007-2008 wga strike lasted from november 5th, 2007 to february 12, 2008. 99 days.

the longest wga strike was in 1988, from march 7th to august 8th. 154 days.

sag-aftra also began striking on july 14th, 2023. 20 days.

the longest sag-aftra strike was in 2000, from may 1st to october 30th. 182 days.

sag-aftra president fran drescher says the union is "financially prepared to remain on strike for the next six months."

[agnesandhilda]

say what you will about why does he do that? by lundy bancroft (it's not right about everything by any means) but its general idea that, rather than being an expression of internal pain (I'll add the obligatory caveat that while emotional problems like mental illness substance abuse etc do make abusers more volatile they don't cause their actions) domestic abuse is the result of entitlement and the belief that someone is justified in belittling and intimidating their loved ones to get what they want is and has always been true

[theflagscene]

“What hidden secrets are about to be revealed?”

“Why is there a picture of Dr. Chalothon in this ancient textbook?”

[w98pops]

Holding out my hands to learn more about Volga and your new character 👐🥺

I just saw this goddamit 😭 i shoulve posted volga stuff in reply but oh well. heres noam!!

[...] At that moment I was really scared. I couldn't see his eyes, only the light from the torches reflected in his glasses. I couldn't make out the expression on his face, but I could hear Pascal (?) and Marcus (?) snickering (edit.: Most likely Aletus' older students mentioned earlier). I couldn't breathe, I was lying on all fours on the cold sand. A desolate nocturnal desert, drowning in my own blood. [...]

[...] Okay, a-ha-ha! I'm sorry. I'll try not to get off topic again. The truth is, I didn't feel any pain at that moment. But there, somewhere under my left rib, where the little bloatflies (?) had once fluttered, was now stabbing painfully. Betrayal, maybe, but the word "betrayal" implies that the person betraying was at least for a second pretending to be honest. I... ugh... [...]

[...] It wasn't even... that he wanted to fucking kill me! He wouldn't even listen! He didn't even fucking know I would have stayed if he'd said no. I wouldn't ever left him and Inga. I... never would have. But I understand why he refused to run away with me. [...] Maybe, there's something romantic about it. Well, that his first reaction was to kill me. I'm flattered to think that he loved me so much that he wasn't willing to let me go, under any circumstance (edit. Henry is still suffering from serious bloodloss. Reality of the situation may be perceived differently by him). [...]

[...] He was so charming when it came to his favorite Italian books. And when we talked about Inga. I hope she's okay. I'll kill that bastard if she's not. [...]

[...] I honestly don't know why I was stripped. Maybe so that guys like you (edit.: Followers of the Apocalypse (?)) would find my corpse and not immediately realize there was an execution, dump it as a random raider victim. Probably. [...]

[--] Henry. Henry Paradaimu. I'm from Vault 14 (?). I'm a surgeon. [...]

[...] Well, now you know. Practiced at our camp while I could. Then the boys in skirts (edit.: Caesar's Legion) came running in, dismantled and burned almost all of our equipment, labeled us "savages" and took us as slaves. As silly and ridiculous as it sounds. If it weren't for the women. God, Lydia... (?) [...]

[...] I won't tell you anything you don't already know. I wasn't a high-ranking officer there, I was a medic. No matter how high you put Eric (edit.: Aletus of the Boneyard) he's nobody there either. He will of course tell you otherwise, he-he. [...]

[...] I was a slave, Ms. Tennor. Do I look or sound like a man who would do that willingly? [...]

[...] Thank you for everything you've done, truly, but fuck you. I mean it. I won't say more. (edit.: A new interview is scheduled on April 7. A list of topics will be attached to the form. Don't forget to ask about Sallow!)

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

How can I have started a book, read the blurb on the back, the title and 30 pages, but only when I’m tracking my progress on the StoryGraph and only finding an English version of the book when searching by isbn I realise that the book is in fact in English and not in Dutch as I’d been convinced?!?!

[dsm--v]

duuuuude tell me why every time i’ve woken up today (three times) sprout has too. and she’s sick too.

[tkachunk]

babes need you to know that you (and probably others) have just introduced the op of that timbrady post to hrpf and im dying 😅😅

I did just see that as well uh sorry op

[lostandbackagain]

sometimes I'm like "okay so that was just a terrible auto-translation, I'm sure she didn't actually write that" and then I look at the page and it's a sentence I can read unassisted and she did actually write that

[pharawee]

Maximon Solution (which have since rebranded to Harikarn Solution) have announced that they had to temporarily stop production on the Chains of Heart special episode due to scheduling conflicts:

Announcement from Harikan Solution Co., Ltd. Harikan Solution Co., Ltd. (formerly known as Maximon Solution Co., Ltd.), the production company of the series "Chains of Heart," would like to announce the creation of the "Chains of Heart: Special Episode" prior to its release. We regret to inform the fans of the series that we have to temporarily suspend the production of "Chains of Heart: Special Episode" due to the primary cast members' conflicting schedules, which do not align with the planned production timeline set by our production team. We sincerely apologize to all the actors, the production team, and everyone involved in this project, as well as the fans who have shown interest and eagerly awaited this special episode. We express our utmost gratitude for your understanding and continuous support.