#dynamic reporting

[cosmokrill]

Don't look away!

[fraternum-momentum]

Can I suck your dick I also loved that panel. I don’t even go here your art just rocks and the way you drew the pupils in that one was soooo fucking good

opening ur ask with 'can i suck your dick' is wild THANK YOU 2JEBWJEB

[cementcornfield]

Did you see the clip of Joe yesterday?

Is it a clip now? Oh lord....was it funny at least?

It was the first time he ever used the F word in a conference.

He cursed? Y'all lying...I be trying to get him to curse, he don't curse when I'm talking to him...

[witherburn-after-school-news]

Spoilers for Season 2:

(These are vibes based spoilers)

Alice is giving a very “I would watch the world burn for you” energy to Robin and Robin is like “Ummm I would rather you put out the fire actually. Wtf”

[justanotheryapper]

I just wanted to take a minute to appreciate the scene where Mark gets back from Thraxa and talks to his mom.

Steven Yeun did such a great job in this scene, and I haven't seen anything be said about it yet. He managed to capture the exhaustion and defeat in Mark perfectly and really capture that older sibling feeling.

As an older sibling, I could really feel and relate to Mark's dialogue (his low energy voice) and body language, even his heavy sigh after saying he couldn't just leave Oliver to someone else. [I sometimes feel like I overcomplicate things with my family, but in moments like this one with Mark I just feel so defeated and overcome with dread because I love them too much or can't really do anything about things at times.]

That paired with him having to possibly give up his future (college) and complicated relationship with his father just hits the nail on the head a little too well for me and made me dwell on that moment for a bit after the episode ended. It's crazy because most of my siblings are half siblings too, but I've never viewed them that way until I remember it for a second and forget about it for another year lmao.

The show just managed to capture that part of Mark so well, and it's one of my favorite moments in the show. It may be a mundane thing to obsess over, but it spoke to me personally. He is just so older sibling coded in the best way possible, but more specifically in the parentified way because Mark also has to take charge of how Oliver grows up given their shared alien heritage (something I relate to as well💀the parentification aspect i mean😔)

Honestly, it's just one of those things that I had to unpack for a moment because I don't get therapy and probably won't for a couple more years until I'm ready.

[inadvisablebutinevitable]

I think Neil is always going to be a nostalgic little shit in the dumbest ways. I think they’re going to be retired in their mid-forties grown ass adults with a house and a mortgage, and one day Andrew wakes up alone and goes outside to see if neil’s gone for a run or something and then a shingle falls right beside him, and he looks up and Neil’s just. On the roof. Smoking a cigarette with his legs dangling over the edge of their little suburban bungalow and Andrew is just like “Jesus fuck junkie” because he’s too goddamn old for this.

[swan2swan]

I could've wished a thousand wishes

for this night, can't comprehend

that it's finally me and you,

and you and me, just us...

[arathejedi394]

[minecraft villager voice] hmm...

imagine a soulmates a/b/o world. when you're born you get your finger pricked and it goes a database and magically finds your true match then the database spits out a name and address, as long as your true match is in the system. secondly, paganism didn't get stamped out so badly. that's not really a huge detail more a flavor one. okay, that's the context. this is long. keep reading.

now imagine it's 1717. the true match finding system for children is really only used by rich people bc it be expensive. king and queen of a tiny province in southeastern wallachia near the black sea George and winifred barnes had all their kids tested at birth but their firstborn ickle james buchanan barnes's blood sample doesn't get matched until after his 4th birthday. the magic system pops out the name Stiofán Mag Raighne Ruairí II ("that's a mouthful" George says) the newborn grandson of ireland's brand new independent king. see, Ireland just won a like 50yo vicious war with the English over their independence. Stiofán Mag Raighne Ruairí I is now the king of Ireland, having begun fighting for Irish independence at age ten. more on that in a bit.

so george and winifred go to ireland with their kids and entourage, arrive around five months after stiofán is born, and they're like "hello sarah ruairí and husband joseph who married in and comparatively is as about as important as the wallpaper, this is is our 4yo stop picking your nose james who's destined to be your infant son's soulmate james I said stop picking your nose don't wipe your boogers on your clothes no don't eat them either use a hanky" they introduce james to stiofán. stiofán is 5 months old and has not fully formed a personal concept of human existence yet, so has no opinion of the pink blob in front of him. james is 4 years and 9 months and thinks stiofán looks like a potato. winifred then tells him that stiofán is going to be his very best friend when they grow up and that they'll always be together and they'll always love each other, and they'll never be alone bc the other one will be there in their hearts. james understands best friend and is happy to see his new potato buddy. they prop ickle james up on a sofa and carefully let him hold 5 month old stiofán who looks very unhappy about everything happening and they take a picture.

"aren't they just darling!" sarah says "the most precious" winifred agrees. stiofán sneezes in james's face. james begins to wail. which makes stiofán start screaming. it's a great start.

winifred from then on takes james to Ireland every summer, to spend the month of july there (it's the 18th century, it'll take 3 months to get from the black sea to the coastline of France where they then have to take a boat which takes another month, so yeah just one month in Ireland, and they spend pretty much the end of march to the end of june traveling, then the beginning of august to the end of November getting back). once stiofán learns how to talk, he renames james bc he has a lisp the letter J is additionally too difficult to pronounce. he is now bucky. newly minted bucky refuses to answer to james anymore. it is a problem bc he doesn't ever correct people he just ignores them until either they magically guess he now goes by bucky or someone else tells them. once stiofán learns how to stand up, he's immediately able to run, and this is also a serious problem. the two of them combined are a menace. sarah and winifred try to get them to behave like noble children and they go "MLEH!" while spitting raspberries then produce pop rockets out of their grubby candy-filled pockets scare the shit out of their mothers and all the nursemaids then vanish in the ensuing chaos. things are great. until stiofán's seventh birthday.

remember the english? yeah.

july 4th, 1724. stiofán gets a music box from bucky that year (okay his parents got it and then put bucky's name on the gift label and told him to hand it to stiofán) and it's custom-made. it's round and squat, a gold case with little clawed feet, and the sides and top are inlaid with bright blue opal with lots of fire inclusions. it only opens with a key, of which bucky's parents had two made they're also gold little skeleton keys on a chain for safe keeping with small blue fire opals in the handles, round domed ones, and when the key is inserted and turned counter-clockwise (you have to turn it a bunch like a normal music box crank to get it to stay open and keep playing) the lid rises and out comes a little rose quartz figurine of stiofán and bucky, as they look at ages 7 and 11, standing together like they're dancing but they're wearing adult clothes bc they're actually playing; bucky's figurine is wearing an adult man's tailcoat with a full skirt that's almost touching the ground and a grown man's buckled shoes, while stiofán's figurine is holding up a lopsided adult omega's wig and wearing a ball gown with the waist around his knees. the ball gown's skirt then wraps around their legs, but you can still see bucky's rose quartz feet in their too big shoes. the figurines spin slowly with the music, which is the melody from the song that sarah and winifred had already had commissioned to play during bucky and stiofán's first dance at their wedding, sometime after stiofán presents probably around age 16 his doctor says. stiofán has never heard the melody before. he loves the music box more than any of his other presents.

as he's watching himself and bucky carved in rose quartz spin, the party is crashed by the English!!! dun dun dun!!! the guests flee and winifred escapes with bucky (also his three sisters they were there too bc they whine if they get left behind when bucky goes to Ireland) and bucky escapes with the music box as well as one of the keys, but the entire ruairí family, all of Ireland's brand new royals, are captured and killed.

bucky is traumatized. he is now moody, sullen, prone to isolation, hot-tempered, and most especially hates the english. it is considered bad form for a person whose true match died to marry someone else but winifred and George reluctantly start looking for a new bride bc their heir needs to be able to have heirs. bucky grows into his bitterness and anguish instead of out of it, then when right after turning 24, he shocks the whole of wallachia by abdicating the throne out of nowhere, then he seemingly vanishes off the face of the earth.

he moves halfway across the globe to new york city, specifically Brooklyn, where he sheds his blueblood life for a blue-collar one. he fortunately educated himself in steam mechanics prior to leaving europe, so he becomes a boiler man at a factory. after a few months, he's out of money and his salary isn't enough, so he starts moonlighting as a bartender at a "gentleman's club" called the big apples.

which is where he meets steven grant rogers. 20 years old, a male omega, blonde, freckled, blue eyes, slight Irish accent, has lived in Brooklyn for 14 years. is 6'2" and built like a brick shithouse, does not look like an Omega. very hot. yes, exactly, it's stiofán alive by some miracle and in Brooklyn, new york.

one problem. bucky doesn't go by bucky anymore. people call him james again. second problem, steve was fucking 7 when he last saw bucky so he doesn't remember that bucky is a nickname and not his actual first name given to him by his mama on his day of birth. and third problem neither he nor steve look anything like they did when they were 11 and 7yo respectively. well, when you put a picture of 11yo bucky next to 24yo bucky it's obvious they're the same person but 7yo steve looked completely different he had chicken limbs and was too long while at the same time being very short for his age. and as an Omega in the early 18th century he ought to have ended up between 5'6" and 5'8" (no serum. he won the genetic lottery.) there is no recognizing Steven Grant Rogers, XL fairy punk who spends half the time in remarkably convincing drag, as Stiofán Mag Raighne Ruairí II.

steve is a regular dancer at the club, but he turns french tricks, too. he and bucky become quick friends after steve asks him to fill in as bouncer by the back rooms one night, then after the club closes, they stay back and get drunk together, then they kiss and steve goes back with bucky to his apartment, but they're so drunk they fall asleep the second they're in bed. they wake up the next day both of them still fully clothed and steve's makeup has rubbed off on one of bucky's pillows. bucky is like "hey no offense that can't happen again" "eh your loss." steve later offers bucky a discount bc he's got a crush on him and bucky says "I still haven't gotten over my childhood sweetheart so no thanks" and steve's like "baby that's depressing just fuck me" "sorry no" "ugh"

their friendship continues. they do not kiss again. does bucky mention what happened to his childhood sweetheart? no. does bucky still have the music box from steve's seventh birthday?

yes.

alas he never wanted to hear the song again so he sold the key when he got to Brooklyn. he keeps it in his nightstand and looks at it every night before he goes to sleep and the first thing he does when he wakes up is pick it up and hold it for several minutes of silence. unless steve is there. bc somehow steve keeps ending up sleeping at his apartment, in his bed, eventually just leaving much of his clothes and even his makeup and toiletries there. they do not fuck. they do not kiss again. steve tries very hard, tho. bucky is politely oblivious.

july 4th 1732 comes around and bucky takes the night off to be depressed. only steve crashes his own deathday party, guest count one. he's like "wtf are you doing why are you drunk in the middle of the day c'mon it's my birthday you're going with me to the theater" and bucky's like "absolutely not it's my childhood sweetheart's day of entrance and his day of exit I will do nothing but sit here and consume that entire case of whiskey staring at this music box" and steve's like "dollface that's depressing get -- wait a second" and he points at the music box "where did you get that"

bucky's like ??? "i've always had it you've seen it before" "no no, I've seen it tucked into the nightstand drawer before and it was not that specific music box it was just a random blue thing in the shadows now where the bloody fuck did you get it" "none of your business!" "does it still work???" "does it -- what do you mean?" "it's a music box does it still play?" "I don't know it doesn't open without the key and I don't have that anymore I sold it last year how the hell do you know it's a music box???" and then he goes to put it away bc he's possessive of the very ghost of Stiofán Mag Raighne Ruairí II but steve suddenly gets all angry he says "give it to me!" and bucky is very offended "no!!!" "james you give me that music box right now! you don't know what that is!" "I know what it is!" "it's mine!" steve declares.

bucky's like "..." steve says "that's mine i lost it when I fled Ireland in 1724 it was a present from my alpha's parents they made it for me special and you have no right to even have it let alone keep it from me, so give it to me now, right now!" "no..." bucky says "the omega this was given to is dead, the English killed him and his entire family!" "my mother and I got out" steve says "but I dropped my music box and my alpha picked it up and that was the last time I ever saw him or it" "impossible!" and then steve pulls out a gold skeleton key on a pewter chain, having sold the gold one it came with long ago, set with a blue fire opal in the decorative handle that matches the music box's opal inlay and the decoration on where the key inserts, and he's like "look see this is the key to it please give it to me where did you even find it???" "I picked it up" bucky says quietly. "where?" "when he dropped it" "then give it to me!" steve insists and he even tears up a little "I haven't heard it play in 14 years I don't remember what the song is" "does the key turn left or right?" bucky asks "left" steve says "were you sitting in your mother's lap or your father's lap when the english crashed the party?" "my mother's how would you know that" and bucky is like "dumbass... I gave this music box to Stiofán Mag Raighne Ruairí II for his seventh birthday and if that's you, that means I'm your alpha" steve's like "??? my alpha's name is bucky!" "dumbass! my first name is james my middle name is buchanan!!! bucky is the nickname you gave me when you were 2!!!" "no!" steve insists "no my alpha's first name was.... well it was long for bucky!" "it's long for buchanan and it's my middle name because you had a lisp and couldn't say the letter J either!" bucky shouts. "oh" steve says "that's true" "..." "..." "bucky?" "Stiofán Mag Raighne Ruairí II????"

they spiderman point at each other for like a minute. then steve's like "okay but I literally can't remember our song play the music box" so bucky takes the key and cranks it counter-clockwise. he hasn't listened to the song in like 3 years, steve hasn't heard it in 14. steve tears up and bucky kinda just awkwardly puts the music box down then takes his hand and his waist and starts shuffling like he's trying to waltz in his shoebox studio apartment, where suddenly they're the ones too big for the dancing scene. steve instead bear hugs him and kisses him. both of them cry yes. when the music box stops playing bucky cranks it again and they sort of just sway in circles for hours listening to it play.

"do you have a blue dress?" bucky asks in the morning "a real nice one?" "yeah" "go home and change, then come back here and we'll go find a preacher." "okay." so they hunt down somebody to marry them, and even though they don't have a chupah and a ketubah like winifred and George once wanted for the wedding and even tho they can't have a big crowd of guests to block the way between bucky entering the church and steve at the altar to then also rob him blind for the people's bridewealth as he literally fights his way through them for the chance to marry steve like sarah and joseph had insisted on, it's the perfect wedding for them. they don't have a honeymoon, they spend their wedding night turning the key on their music box over and over so it never stops playing.

"you know you gotta stop turning tricks now right" "ask me again when you have a bigger salary" "I'll just write my parents they'll be so thrilled I'm still alive let alone you that they'll dump buckets of money on us" "your... wait... have you been dirt poor this entire time by choice?" "..." "???" "yes?"

their first marital fight is fought with pillows.

[videnrambles]

JJK Small AU/Plot/Thing/I have a lot in my head and I need it out

I have this mini AU thats very self-indulgent where Junpei lived and became window. He has an apartment near by Jujutsu Tech so that he can do Window training on the weekend. Nanami, Yuuji, and Todo visit/stay with him constantly because I saw fanart of them together once and I haven't been the same since.

They basically roleplay a single dad and his 3 kids who have their own apartment and their lives aren't constantly in danger when they are there.

Okay this is long as shit, so I'm adding a keep reading thing.

Anyway I have a bunch of soft little ideas for the AU:

In this AU Sukuna teaches Yuji how to use shrine when he stayed over night at Junpei's because Yuji kept complaining about how all the knifes were always dull or damaged.

Usually all forms of CE and Jujutsu talk are banned from the apartment. But when Todo rushes into the kitchen to tell him off and sees his brother with headphones, softly humming as he practices shrine on food, finally looking his actual age. He quickly becomes the exception.

Yuuji gets really fucking good at using shrine, it's not very strong yet but he's able to use it in rapid succession. He basically learned to use it at the same speed of vegetable chopping. Yeah he could make multiple cuts, but he just found it relaxing to make single cuts in quickly. So while he may not be as strong a Sukuna, he some how trained himself to be significantly faster.

Junpei still has his technique, the shikigami roleplay as normal pet jellyfish. They sit in a bunch of different tanks spread around Junpei's house.

Junpei has an extra bedroom with bunkbeds Todo and Yuji. Nanami takes claim over the pull out couch. On the rare occasions someone outside their group stays over(Gojo wants to roleplay normal too, but keeps failing), they get a sleeping pad and the floor.

Junpei's apartment has a pretty big apartment (Gojo bought it knowing Yuji would likely stay over a lot): 2 bedrooms, 2 offices, a living/TV room, dining room, a bathroom with a shower and tub, a surprisingly large kitchen, and a small balcony.

Nanami has taken up one of the offices in Junpei's house, its another area that falls under the grey zone of the no jujutsu rule. Nanami is allowed to do jujutsu paperwork in their but he has to pretend it's like spread sheets or smth.

Despite owning the house Junpei views the kitchen as Yuji's domain and always texts/calls when he wants to use something.

Todo and Junpei share the other office, Junpei uses it to watch movies and Todo uses it for video games. Nanami bought them a really high end PC that runs basically everything.

Todo once told Mai about his weekend roleplay get away and she was very judgmental about it. No one has actively discussed it with "non-family" since.

Dad Nanami, eldest brother is Todo, second eldest is Junpei, youngest brother Yuji

Gojo keeps trying to get in on the family dynamic but keeps failing miserably. Yuji one time took pity on him and made him the family cat.

Ijichi gets to be their Uncle because I want him to have something that Gojo doesn't.

Sukuna is referred to as the problematic grandpa

Todo and Junpei bond over knowing a lot about filming. Junpei because he's a film buff and Todo because he watched the BTS for every Takada-chan video ever made.

Tsukamoto is given to Yuji and kept at the apartment because I love that weird little bear and there is zero chance that Yuji didn't trauma bond to that fucker.

They have family movie night and they all sit together on the couch cus holy shit these bitches need hugs. Yuji needs to hold Tsukamoto during movies nights or he will subconsciously push CE into whatever he sets his hand on, this usually results in an explosion.

Todo tutors both his brothers, Yuji needs help in academics, Junpei needs help in sorcery.

aro/ace Junpei?

When Todo asked Junpei his type he said he'd honestly just rather have garlic bread and it moved Todo so much that he got hit with a whole new set of memories linking all 3 brothers together.

When Todo asked Nanami, he looked at Todo dead in the eyes and said Money. Todo believes his father to be a gold digger who simply finds Satoru Gojo not worth the effort.

People born into sorcery families are not allowed in, they can't do much against Gojo except ignore him, but Todo will fist fight everyone else. He will still attempt to fight Gojo, it just doesn't usually work.

People who were raised by sorcerers break the roleplay immersion.

I think Miwa could come over sometimes and be like a cousin

Mechamaru onetime came with and Todo acted like an overprotective brother and ripped the puppets head off. The head is now in one of Junpei's fish tanks.

Nanami keeps a shrine to Haibara in his office, Yuji has one for Wasuke in his and Todo's room, and Junpei has one for his mom in his room.

Idk man, they just kinda show up when they feel done with Jujutsu society and that they have a normal life. It's prolly not the healthiest coping mechanism but they got each other :D

I just really wanted to put my comfort au into words, its been a long day

I wish I had more for Todo ;-;

This was mainly inspired but the shrine and fast cutting thing but then I kinda just kept typing.

[catenary-chad]

I’ve made blanket statements about “rail freight is a profitable business and passenger service is usually a money pit” but there’s some pretty interesting nuance relevant to Stex that becomes more significant in Europe.  

Longer distance bulk freight is a profitable business.  It made up 80% of BR’s freight revenue and was its only profitable freight segment.  This is “trainload freight” that’s a long line of all the same thing (grain, oil, stone, etc).  A lot of longer distance bulk loads in continental Europe are handled by barge vs train.  

Car/Wagonload freight is unprofitable in Europe and low-profit in the US, and economically undesirable to large rail companies because of that.  The Freight (and Components!)  in Stex fit this since they’re a mixed group, though I think that was done because a line of identical characters would be boring.  

It has a much harder time competing with road transport because logistics of getting things in and out of rail yards and general clunkiness of rail freight makes it much more time-consuming over short distances.  Roads are also uncritically fully government funded and trucking companies pay low access fees to use them vs higher access fees on rails. In Europe it’s even more slanted towards roads with cheap trucking labor and antiquated buffer and chain couplings adding a ton of time/labor to adding/removing cars, these are finally planned to be phased out by 2030 to make rail freight more competitive.  

Passenger-freight prioritization is an issue pretty much worldwide, to different degrees and in different ways.  Yes, passenger trains do dominate the rails in most of Europe, yes they’re higher priority and cleaner/better maintained…. because they have live cargo with higher standards and even perishable goods don’t mind being an hour late, humans do!  There’s just a greater need to move large quantities of people (who handle the clunky transfer and last-mile moves themselves) and more benefit to getting a ton of small individual passenger vehicles off the roads vs a smaller number of trucks.  

It’s apples to oranges to compare coaches more in line with intercity/long distance luxury to carload/wagonload freight.  Intercity passenger trains can be profitable in a system where infrastructure maintenance costs aren’t considered.  But they’re better compared to longer-distance trainload freight in terms of being a faster direct train with fewer stops, which is financially sustainable even in fully private systems.  Regional and local passenger trains are a fairer comparison and those are far less profitable. The old US long distance luxury trains the coaches are visually based on were absolute money pits mainly run for PR reasons.  Belmond’s trains are probably their closest modern equivalents, and seem to be far more stable but ultimately they’re a niche luxury market vs essential service.   

Modernization is also the furthest thing from a threat to rail freight and if anything, notorious choo choo killers Dr. Richard Beeching and Al Perlman often have their major freight improvements looked over.  See also the buffer and chain coupler situation (I take psychic damage remembering that fact as an American).  It’s arguably more of an issue in Europe with the far smaller advantages of rail freight, any reduction in labor cost and turnaround time is VERY valuable.  Small freight lines in the US get away with some ridiculously antiquated equipment (Iowa Traction lol) but that’s an even weirder separate rabbit hole.  Electrification is an incredibly positive thing for rail freight since it allows a major increase in speeds, increasing capacity in congested non-electrified areas.  That’s mostly a factor in the UK though, since continental Europe is much more electrified and just struggles with lack of physical tracks (though this is also a UK problem and a main reason for HS2).  Battery and hydrogen power just aren’t energy dense enough to viable for freight usage and English-language media constantly undersells how absurdly OP electric trains are.  It’s not like electric cars, they are so much lighter and more powerful than combustion alternatives that they were desired for capacity/power reasons before global warming was even a thought.  

In short: passenger/freight just doesn’t make sense as a class thing and the comparison canon makes isn’t even a fair one.  It obscures the actual issues facing rail freight (lack of capacity and struggle to modernize).  I don’t even think the intercity vs carload combo was even picked for that deep of reasons, unit trains and lower-end passenger trains are just less fun and popular as toys and onstage characters. Mine trains and subways are an extreme example, they’re almost nonexistent as models despite being otherwise well-preserved and publicly recognized. 

Trucker Caboose is a timeless and international villain (and cabooses are very much still used on occasion, though I can’t speak for how recognizable they are internationally).  Weirdly enough this is a situation where steam engines would be a solid villain too, representing refusal to improve practices and infrastructure (one was used to protest this in Germany recently lol).  

Ironically, Greaseball is a far less effective villain in the context of European freight, American freight diesel locomotives like the EMD Class 66 were very positively received in Europe.  On the business end that is, they were physically unpleasant for actual employees. He’s almost a kind of crappy superhero- while relatively dirty, inefficient and “stupid” vs other diesel manufacturers, EMD engines are notoriously reliable and maintainable and even smaller models like the SD40 are very powerful by European standards.  Making him the “biggest and the strongest” makes more sense with him as something like a Class 66, though he would not be competitive speed wise (compared to a 50s-era EMD E9 that’s relatively weak but would be competitive on rugged, curvy tracks the Nationals couldn’t use their full speed on).   I think I get why Europeans seem to skew towards him being a less malicious himbo, that’s the actual role an American diesel engine would have there vs symbol of hegemony (see my Greaseball post on how he gets even worse than the workshop when played true to US reality)

[fires0ut]

right not here but still haven’t arrived so i need everyone to know that eddie does get locked up in a rather creepy cage by @x51163 to avoid bookings a second time. the quiet, evolving anger? inescapable dread from being trapped with no escape? while knowing it’s for his own protection, thank you for this canon event

[werewolfdog]

Feeling very unwell realizing how exactly my relationship with M is like one between a parent and a child that’s complex and contrasting. You made me food for lunch and taught me many things yet you don’t fully take in my gifts of food and give me opportunities to talk to you more about my hobbies and interests. You make me feel proud of my accomplishments but you also make me see my limits that you can not understand. You drove me to work today in only a single minute away from when I was before you stopped me but you can’t often bother to take even a second to say hello or bye to me first. You give me health based advices because you care for my wellbeing although you’ll laugh or make a self-conscious reducing comment about certain aspects of my appearance like my eye that had a surgery or the dried skin on my neck. I wish you weren’t overly playful with and concerned of me all of the time but I know I’d terribly miss you being that way to me because it shows you do care about me a lot in your own ways that I can be too emotional and sensitive of handling at times.

[wizardnaturalist]

while ghost hunting would be fun, it is a twelve year old's imagining of a job, and I think dipper would be disappointed by how many ghost reports amount to nothing. but personally, I feel like he would kill it as a wildlife biologist

[sadaveniren]

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[akkivee]

and so the kuukou actor bullying his jyushi has begun in new stage lmao

[brain-of-soup]

Something I find particularly fascinating about Leopold and Loeb is that reportedly neither of them was particularly excited about the actual killing of Bobby Franks. Loeb enjoyed the prospect of planning and getting away with murder, and both Leopold and Loeb enjoyed the prospect of impressing each other. But both saw murder as a means to an end, with that end being committing the Perfect Crime. Both Leopold and Loeb either stated or were reported as expressing disgust at the memory of killing Bobby Franks, and in Loeb's psychiatric evaluation it basically says that they only went through with the crime because of the sunk cost fallacy—we've spent so much time planning for this, and so much of our relationship with each other revolves around this, that it's too late to back out; at this point, we MUST go through with it.

I've seen Leopold and Loeb described as thrill killers and while I won't say that's a wrong analysis I will say they're not thrill killers in the traditional sense. They did not murder Bobby Franks because the idea of killing someone was thrilling; they murdered him because the preparation was thrilling, and because the desired aftermath (getting away with murder) was thrilling. But the act of killing itself was not thrilling, if not unpleasant.

Obviously this could be wrong; it's entirely possible that Leopold and Loeb lied and did actually derive some pleasure from the murder itself. But based on the information they gave and what was reported, they did not enjoy or even really want to kill Bobby Franks. What they enjoyed was the intellectual exercise of planning a murder, and the challenge of getting away with it.