#calculating the odds

[kaurwreck]

I like it when the fandom engages with Chuuya drinking problematically or Akutagawa smoking despite his lung disease or Fyodor indulging his gambling addiction.

Asagiri can't explore the same, there's a censorship regime in Japan for manga aimed at certain ages. But even if he doesn't care to, fan works should be transformative and exploratory; and fan works that do so while engaging with the source material and its themes like humanity and contradiction and culpability are even more golden for doing so.

The urge to lacquer fiction in performative didactism and aversion to moral turpitude is self cannibalizing.

[maschinen-mensch]

If BARGHEST was a legitimate corporation, Jago would be its CFO and his name would be on platinum-coated business cards. For now, he has to settle for the unofficial position of the organization's "treasurer". He's a real numbers whisperer, a virtuoso accountant and the bane of stubborn contractors. Though he may seem the odd one out in a highly-militarized structure, Jago aims high and works diligently to achieve his goals. His friendly disposition is only a facade, behind which lies a cold, calculating intellect.

[cinehomophile]

wilson's face when the patient tells house "do her or you're gay"

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

Davey: Racetrack Higgins! Why would you do that?!

Race: Do you see this? *snatches off hat and points to hair aggressively* Do you see what color this is? Sometimes that affects what’s up here!

[demonwebs]

what do you mean biting and licking people is not an appropriate way to flirt

[sniffanimal]

ive always been a metric units in recipes truther but i never had a kitchen scale to really embrace it until now but im 100% firmly in the camp of metric units for baking

why? the recipe i just found said "1 3/4 Cups plus 2 T bread flour" which could easily just have been "225g bread flour" instead of needing 3 different measuring vessels to piece out the amount of bread flour it asked for

if you're going to insist on writing your recipe in imperial units, just figure out how to center your recipe around using 2cups of flour in the first place instead of literally whatever that was

[child-of-hurin]

“I swear it, Your Majesty, this was the first time.” His eyeballs strained to the corners of his eyes, striving to see the king’s face. “You will tell Her Majesty?”

The king’s laugh was silent, no more than a puff of warm air against the baron’s cheek.

“I am here in the night, holding a knife-edge at your throat, and you worry that the queen will learn about your error? Worry about me, Artadorus.”

tfw you're right there holding a knife-edge at a guy's throat and the guy is still more afraid of your wife arghhhghr

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

My opinion on the hug kinda kept changing until recently, but I might have reached a definitive reading.

So, first of all: season 4 boils down the finale to be Shiv vs Ken and that is a good thing (!) it makes the most sense, mainly because Roman tends to go along with things. He can't win his father's favor anymore, so he tries with his siblings and, by extension, he tries holding on to Logan as long as possible by doing that. That's his objective. Shiv's thing is proving herself as the most viable candidate. She can't prove it to Logan, so she will do it for anyone else. But Kendall's thing used to be positioning himself against Logan, and since that can't happen anymore, he becomes Logan. Or tries to, bear with me.

Roman brings up Kendall "big brothering" him in ep. 8, but it's very prevalent throughout season 4. But it is also very reminiscent of what their father used to do; keeping them very close and making them feel trusted only to become violent (in some form) when questioned in his authority. Clearest example is Ken feeling the tides turn against him and attacking his brother.

But the hug comes before that, and there are two very important aspects to this--

1) It is cruel and I don't think it matters if you think Roman wanted/needed it because, crucially, Kendall's endgoal with the violence isn't within that line of thinking. He is asserting his dominance (as seen by the second physical attack later).

2) BUT much more importantly: imo, the hug starts with the intention of comfort (!!!) and only ends in violence. This is Ken at his most Logan; a last goodbye to his brother from his father by combining violence and a loving embrace. He learned from the best.

Though in the end, what it comes down to, is this: Does Roman push his wound into the shoulder? Does Kendall press him against it? Both. You don't get Roman's "i hate you" without Kendall's "i love you". It's both. It will always be both, but I will say this-- hate can't come without love, but love can very much stand on its own. So, even if it's both, one of the two weighs heavier. 4 seasons of story have shown how one weighs heavier, even if it's unintentional.

[rvb-relationship-royale]

[lovecorepatton]

i hope patton is ok forever. she deserves it

[lalalenii]

Since the next RRP audition is open im using the script to practice for my audition for Zauberspiegel and fuck why is this so hard

[izzibeeb]

sometimes seeing the accommodations my school offers is like. genuinely insane. one of the accommodations for test-taking is bathroom breaks which really only leads me to wonder why were bathroom breaks banned in the first place? why is drinking water “an accommodation” and not just like. a basic right

[vegancas]

me, anytime i want to do anything vaguely complicated on neopets: i should make a spreadsheet

[apotelesmaa]

EMU 5 SPACE THEME W NAYUTALIE COMMISSIONED SONG NEXT MONTH ‼️‼️ EMU NATION WINS AGAIN

[zincbot]

the moment where kakashi figures out that his and tobi's abilities are connected is so