#i've been sitting on this for a while

[corvidaes-crow]

LCF Esports Valorant AU (+ a hint of Apex Legends)

Disclaimer: I watch Valorant streams, I don't actually play. Cale and Kim Roksu are the same person; Kim Roksu is Cale's name when he's not playing as a House Henituse member.

Character - username - main agents

Rosalyn - RosaMage - Astra/Reyna Cale - C_Heni (Heni) - Omen/Cypher (fights Alberu for him)/Breach Alberu - Sol - Cypher (fights Cale for him)/Sova (I could also see Harbor?? Kind of) Choi Han - C_Hannie (matching with Cale-nim) - Jett/Neon, tried Iso on release Mary - NecroMary (matching with Rosalyn) - battle Sage/Gekko, tried Clove on release

Cale and Choi Han made Valo accounts at the same time and matched usernames.

Cale started out playing Apex with the username KRSu (trio'd with LSuH and CJSu). He found and helped Choi Han when leaving a PC Bang. Next time they met, Cale proposed that they make Valorant accounts and learn the game together - and it turns out Choi Han is cracked?? After some time, Cale contracts Choi Han to House Henituse - his condition for joining is that Cale joins the team too, so here they both are now.

Raon (GreatMightyMiru), On (Fogkit) and Hong (Ivykit) play junior league gaming but, just like their guardian/father figure, they start as an Apex trio. Yes, On and Hong gave themselves Warrior Cats names. Lily went traditional sports and is now a national youth fencer. Basen wants to be an esports team manager.

Valorant teams/organisations: House Henituse, House Breck, House Crossman (competing in the Western Continent bracket), you get the gist of it

Everyone mentioned is contracted to Henituse, though Alberu and Rosalyn have two contracts (Crossman and Breck respectively)

Eruhaben coaches the kids (username GolDust)

Vicross - Cleaver - plays League. And Stardew Valley.

Bonus: incomplete Rosalyn as Reyna sketch I made from around January

[gone-with-the-windrixville]

I don't watch The Conners, nor have I watched Roseanne since the early 2000's, but:

I find it endlessly amusing that despite Darlene saying "Just stop right there, Ponyboy. You and the rest of your Outsiders can go rumble someplace else" in a season 5 episode of Roseanne, she still ended up with a Ponyboy in The Conners.

Always happy to see Jay doing more work. <3

[blackstarising]

hey i don't know who needs to hear this but like. parasocial relationships aren't about a lack of mental fortitude. and quite frankly i'm getting really tired of all of these smug 'imagine getting into a parasocial relationship with X lmao' posts whenever a celebrity scandal hits.

as if it's solely your fault and it wouldn't happen if you were just Smart Enough or whatever.

what's very much missing from these victim-blamey posts is that parasocial relationships in this day and age are insanely profitable actually. they make REAL, ACTUAL MONEY for these people. that actor or singer or streamer or vlogger you follow has a higher chance of getting you to buy their merch/album/tickets/sponsorship deal the more you like them. and it's easier to like them if you get those glimpses into their lives. messy selfies. sleepy voice notes. pictures of their spouses and their families. and so on. and these glimpses are more often than not curated.

(also if we're talking about "susceptibility" or whatever (and we shouldn't, because it's ridiculously reductive) people are lonely! people are isolated! we're still in the middle of a pandemic! when your social circle is small or nonexistent why wouldn't you feel attached to these people? they're there for you when no one else is.)

so yeah, you should be alert and be aware. quietly learn to hold these people loosely. quietly learn to not craft personas for people that aren't there. and part of it is growing up and getting older.

but it's not a sign of weakness. and on the other side there's somebody raking it in.

[deadletterpoets]

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I'm really bad at just naming random facts so these are gonna be pretty lame

I wear glasses

I live in Florida

I've never been in a romantic relationship

[n0v4t33z]

Posting TS later today if anyone is wondering 🤔

[blorbosinmyheadcentral]

You have my whole (digital) heart

[willowser]

HMMMMM bakugou being just. the absolute picture of sin.

he works overnight and comes home early in the morning, around 3 or 4 am or so, and you greet him and give him a kissy and ask how it all went. and even though it's still dark outside and he's been working for twelve hours—he's still coming off patrol, right ? so he's still got some energy left, and he eats something and takes a shower and winds down as you fall back to sleep.

and it's not until much later in the day that he wakes up, early afternoon, and you're kind of tiptoeing around so that he can get his much-needed rest. you slip into the closet of your bedroom for something and you think you're gonna get in and out without a sound, but his hearing is so attuned to just about anything and everything at this point.

so rough and raspy, he grunts out, "what're y'lookin' for?" and you whip around real fast and he's just—

half sitting up in bed, bare back leaning against the headboard. an arm behind his head, so that his bicep is tense and round and stone-solid. stretched like that, his obliques are more prominent, taut and rippling up the side of his ribcage. he must have gotten hot while passed out, as he usually does, because the comforter is all askew; one of his legs is bent, the fine hair a dark gold in the waning day; the other is hanging off the bed, lightly swinging as he watches you, and the blanket has come down enough that you can see the bulge of his thigh muscles beneath his stupid tiny black boxer briefs.

and he's just so. man. in every single way.

(his hair is flat on one side, too, and his eyes are still a little puffy from sleep—but you think that adds to it, all in all)

[alltimefail]

Random thought that could could absolutely be nothing, an over-analyzation of sorts even, but I have always found it interesting that in the Devlin house episode Charles gets sucked into the loop starting from the point he snaps at Edwin about him "Not being the all-knowing expert on all things." It's especially interesting to me because after he does so, Edwin tells Charles that he's "...Not acting like himself at all."

In theory, Charles could have just reappeared when Mr. Devlin turns the corner or when he approaches Mr. Devlin here:

because if the point of repetition here is to show us that the abuse Charles suffered at the hands of his own father is what causes him to get trapped in the loop, either of those moments would have been sufficient in supporting that idea. The dialogue shared beforehand between him and Edwin has little to do with the point at hand...unless...

Charles feeling pain about his own father isn't the whole sum of why he gets trapped in the loop; his fear that he's just LIKE his father, that he's not a good person, that he's "Cruel for the shits," and capable of hurting the people he loves (and thus undeserving of their love) is also what traps him in the loop, and that's why his "loop" starts with him snapping at Edwin.

Even though we as viewers can empathize with and understand why Charles snaps at Edwin given the circumstances, it's very unlikely that Charles extends that same grace to himself. I would argue that we see the multi-faceted layers of his trauma explored in various ways from this moment on. Charles himself even later admits that all he feels is anger despite the fact that he wants to be "a good guy." Charles has yet to understand that it's possible to be good and feel anger, that anger in and of itself is not bad, and that feeling strong negative emotions like grief or anger does not make a person dangerous or abusive like his father was...nor does it guarantee that he would use his anger to harm others. So, with that in mind, of course Charles' loop would start with him lashing out at Edwin, as opposed to it just starting with him lashing out at Brandon Devlin; it's not just about feeling powerless to stop the abuse, it's about feeling like you play a role in it. It's about the deep-rooted fear that maybe you actually deserved the abuse you suffered because you are not good, and just by being related to an abuser you are damned to be just like them, or worse. Charles worries about who he truly is, deep down, and that maybe Edwin is wrong when he says that Charles isn't acting like himself: maybe the darkest parts that he works so hard to bury are actually who he truly is, and his ability to throw careless, harmful, biting words at someone he loves deeper than anyone else may be a reflection of this. After all, his father loved his mother, he loved Charles, and look what he did to them... how he hurt them beyond repair. What if he is the same?

OR: the trauma Charles deals with isn't only the violence his father enacted on him (shown through what Brandon Devlin does to his family), but it's also the violence he feels capable of enacting himself (shown through his ability to throw harsh words toward Edwin who Charles openly claims is the "most important person in the world" to him).

What furthered this idea even more for me (and added a bit of salt to the wound frankly) was Crystal and Edwin's reactions to Charles being pulled into the loop. Out of shock, confusion, and frustration Crystal immediately turns to Edwin for answers but for a moment he is just frantic and uncharacteristically frazzled, only able to say, "Charles was right, I don't know everything..." and OUCH, right? But it emphasizes that 1) what Charles said to Edwin was quite hurtful, 2) that it did have an (unintentional) impact on Edwin, and 3) that Charles himself very well might have realized it was hurtful as soon as it left his mouth thus, again, why it would make sense that his loop began there.

It takes a strong emotional reaction to be pulled into a loop; the possibly that this moment was written to work on two levels of Charles' inner turmoil is quite clever (and extremely heartbreaking).

Again, it could absolutely be nothing... but it's worth pondering!!

[galentir]

Happy Halloween from three friendly night creatures! 🐺🦇👻

[xyriath]

but seriously if you are at all blogging about the i/p conflict you NEED to read that standing together article from that post i just reblogged. please. please please please please please. these are the people who are actually doing something about freeing palestine and have been for years. And here's the thing:

IF YOU WANT PEACE IN ISRAEL, IN PALESTINE, THESE ARE THE PEOPLE IT'S GOING TO COME FROM.

Because yeah. The way this site is spreading around uncritical posts is a huge issue (and a reason I haven't been around since October). Standing Together is doing a hell of a lot more than blogging about it. They're on the ground putting in the work. Nine days before the October 7 attack, they were in Tel Aviv publicly protesting about the systematic oppression of Arabs (not just Palestinians) in Israel.

"The global left has to be synced with what we need." Trust me, the right is. Boy HOWDY is the right synced. I have gotten more support about my Judaism from the far right than the left and it's??? kinda fucked up??? Someone who worked for Pat Robertson should not feel safer than someone dedicated to activism, but here we are. I can feel how easy it would be to be radicalized towards the right, and I'm actively fighting against it. Now imagine that multiplied by millions of people, plenty of whom don't have the same desire to do so, or feel like they don't have the luxury of safety to do so.

Seeing Hamas being portrayed as sympathetic and talked about like they had a right to commit all of the atrocities that they have is making me lose my MIND. They're a group run by corrupt billionaires who actively started this conflict with the intent of silencing the Palestinian people who have been protesting their tyranny. They have been siphoning money from Palestinians for years and this entire attack is them deliberately throwing Palestinians into the path of slaughter to distract from that fact, the same way that Netanyahu absolutely took advantage of the threat and tragedy to try and get himself off the hook for his own corruption.

Also check out the google doc linked in the article. It's not just a good way to learn how to communicate, but a very good resource for finding out if something you're sharing is worthwhile. In fact, it does a really god job of breaking down why I've felt so uncomfortable about a bunch of the posts on my dash. Some excerpts:

This got way longer than I had intended, but hopefully does its job. Go read the article and, yes, if you need to, reevaluate your activism. Because if it's not what people involved actually want or need, then it's just for you. And that's kinda fucked up.

[azurityarts]

Commission for @toastereno! 🍃🎶

[kiwidaru]

I want them to be the gambling power couple they were always meant to be 😩

[lalunanne]

death boy - 💀 -

[eveningrainstorm]

cycle knots

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[thebramblewood]

Helena and Caleb have been busy burying the hatchet and starring in their new hit sitcom. Currently accepting theme song submissions!

Clue card designed by @surely-sims! I thought it would be a cute detail to add. 🥰

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Caleb: Miss Scarlett with the dagger in the lounge.

Helena: Are you sure you’re not just describing your sister on a bad day?

Caleb: Oh, you mean every day?

Helena: Speak of the devil and she shall appear.

[canned audience laughter]

Helena: Regrettably, Miss Scarlett is out of contention. My turn!

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Helena: Caleb, look! Poor little thing. Where did you come from?

Caleb: More importantly, how is it still alive? Animals don’t have a tendency to thrive around here, wild or domesticated.

Helena: She’s a girl! We should keep her!

Caleb: Lilith would hate it. She might even…

Helena: Lilith will not touch a hair on her body! [in baby voice] I’m going to name you Drusilla.

Caleb: Hold on. Is that a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reference?

Helena: Oh, well, I went down this research rabbit hole after… you know. It may have included a Simflix binge. Is it forbidden media now?

Caleb: Of course not! [sheepish but excited] I actually have the full series box set upstairs. Should we…

Helena: HELL YEAH, WE SHOULD!

Helena: Drusilla, come back! Don’t you want to meet your namesake?

Lilith: Disgusting little goblin. What particularly loathsome circle of hell did you claw your way out of?

[canned audience laughter]