#god forbid women do anything

[cynassa]

When will I get a post about how SHE committed atrocities but SHE'S my special little guy and also SHE looked hot while doing it

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I read an article that women were using eggs from their backyard chickens to barter with each other and it was impacting the economy.

[isolatedgirlthing]

she's the woman of all time

[spider-gem]

Some people will be like “We need more well-written complex and morally grey women in media” and then can't even handle HER

[heather-m-quigley]

[0xycod0ne]

post world saving event beats to chill/study to

[legally-allowed-to-slime]

The last few people had logged off the server, leaving it in its burnt, damaged state.

She knew where Gem would be.

Cleo scaled up the ladder and clambered up to the rickety roof of Joel’s tower — where you could look out on the entire server.

Sure enough, Gem was perched on the railing, sitting on the edge with nothing to support her but the wind, staring in the direction of the Secret Keeper.

Cleo looked around at the short cobble walls. Grian had told her that he’d hid away here. Not a bad strategy, overall. You could shut yourself here and forget everywhere else existed.

“Hey, Cleo.”

“Am I that loud?” Cleo joked weakly.

“Who else?”

Cleo watched as the last remains of the green flesh flaked off Gem’s skin, leaving her regular human tones. “No more zombies now, then? Good job, anyway. Killing people left and right.”

“Not you, though.”

“Not me. Only way I’m going out is my way. I’d rather die on my own stupidity than someone else’s callousness.” Cleo allowed a hint of pride to enter her voice. “You were great zombies, though.”

“We weren’t zombies.” Gem turned and hopped down from the railing.

Cleo noticed that unlike the other zombies, or even Scott or Grian, Gem didn’t have a single scratch or injury, save one neat bandage that no doubt was due to Scar’s reckless arrows.

Which meant the blood splattering her face wasn’t her own. “What do you mean?”

“That’s not how zombies work. No offence, Cleo, but most zombies aren’t sentient.”

Cleo blinked. “No worries, I know they aren’t. I kill plenty of them at night.”

“So you should know how they work. They’re mindless. They lurch along, they kill without thinking, they probably bump into trees.”

Gem tilted her head. “They don’t set TNT traps, or betray their teammates, or ask for permission to kill their wife’s perceived murderer.”

Cleo’s mouth was dry. “So you’re saying…”

“I’m saying the apocalypse wasn’t zombies, Cleo. It was human.”

Horribly, incredibly human.

Cleo remembered when they were up on the tower, staring at the others down below, condemning them as monsters.

Somehow, it was better to think of them as a mindless horde and not people she’d been laughing and arguing with a session ago.

Gem was watching her. “You know I’m right. Look at Pearl. Was running from us, convinced we were infected or something but once she realised she had permission to kill, she went in. Even unleashed a warden, or two. That’s how quickly we switch.”

Ironically, Cleo realised, the roles had been swapped this session. The humans were chasing the zombie, but it hadn’t been any different.

“That’s not true,” Cleo said, “It’s not all bad. Did you know, Grian snuck down from this tower to check on his magma pet, and I was there too. And so was Etho. He didn’t kill us.”

Irritation flashed across Gem’s face. “He didn’t kill you? If he had, or, like, told us your location or something, we could’ve all just gone after Scott, and, and, the task would’ve succeeded…”

She trailed off, and looked at Cleo. “Is that the point you’re trying to make here?”

Cleo shrugged.

“Alright, I get it,” Gem grumbled, “No need to rub your holier-than-thou alliance and great morals in my face.”

“Well, no one asked you to put your task over your bandmates.”

Gem didn’t say anything to that.

“It’s not as if I’m exactly a paragon of morality either.” Cleo continued.

“I guess not.” Gem gave a short laugh. “Neither am I. You know, all the murder and stuff? I don’t feel bad! In fact, I feel great. I feel proud of myself for it.”

“…I feel you should be a little less bloodthirsty.”

Gem smiled at Cleo, an innocent, cheerful smile that would have been such if not for the circumstances. “Oh, no.”

Cleo was suddenly feeling very unsafe on the highest platform on the server. She wished Etho was here, or even Grian.

She knew Gem couldn’t take any lives, not now, not when the session was already over. But still…

Cleo raised her sword to stop the axe swing that came, but it was a feint, and her sword hit nothing.

Gem dramatically swung her axe back into her inventory.

“You really thought I would attack you?” Gem said.

“I don’t see why you wouldn’t,” Cleo retorted curtly.

“That’s true,” Gem conceded. “But the curse is just so- it’s so freeing, Cleo? Can’t you see? You could do anything.”

“Uh- no thanks. Session’s over, anyway,” Cleo pointed out.

“That’s true. But I’m still kinda cursed, you know.”

In response, Cleo warily raised her sword. But all that Gem did was deliver a mock salute before logging off with a chirpy “See you next week!”

Cleo stood silently. There had been one zombie on the platform just now. Her.

And thinking about it, she wasn’t sure if there hadn’t been two.

[dailykatnep]

Day 39

[sluttyhenley]

Pom Klementieff as Paris

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING Dir. Christopher McQuarrie

[onenicebugperday]

Little guy landed on my leg and proceeded to bite me over and over. I let him do it until it hurt too bad because he was so cute :')

Pretty sure it's a green lacewing. North GA, USA!

It is a green lacewing! This one was apparently hungry for human flesh :)

[comradevo]

Leto: If something happens, will you protect Paul? Will you protect our son?

Jessica: With my life-

Leto: I'm not asking his mother, I'm asking the Bene Gesserit.

Jessica: Why are you saying these things?

also Jessica, one movie later:

[kinokoshoujoart]

friends of mineral town intro (gba): you inherit the farm because you visited this sweet elderly man’s farm as a kid, had a nice vacation and met (future wife), when he died put you in his will

friends of mineral town for girls intro (gba): you are conned into buying a run down farm by asshole mayor. you immediately have the option to Murder Him

[iaminsideyourwalls]

Reactor has a little trouble keeping friendships alive. if you want to spend time with her you'd better have a lead-lined hazmat suit. I bet scout is a little more impervious to her radiation than everyone else.

[seasononesam]

You can't honestly think you're happier now. A broken-winged suck-up. All I know is that for the first time in a long time...I feel at peace with who I am. Whatever that may be.

Brother's Keeper (10x23) Deleted Scene

[iamafanofcartoons]

Is it me or the hate for Cinder and Salem comes from the fact that they're female the critics hate that the two main villains of RWBY are female?

Well, there's this. But yeah, also this

And

[moss-petal]

Starclan forbid women do anything