#in other words business as usual

[rocketbirdie]

keeping watch

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"These are some of the best-conditioned athletes in the world. It's about precision, technique, skill."

Leverage S02E02 The Tap-Out Job.

[tai-janai]

anyway fun little au idea i had

"If she can do whatever I think she can... does that mean she can do... anything?"

The Princess smiles wickedly. There is a hunger in her gaze.

It is too late now.

Next time, you'll make the right choice.

Everything goes dark, and you-

Voice of the Protector:

GASP- Wh... What?

The Narrator:

You're on a path in the woods. At the end of that path, there is a cabin.

[forcedhesitation]

this undeniably has to be one of the worst opinions I've seen about this season. like out of the plentiful failures season 4 had... you really couldn't choose one to talk about? max's mental health was one of the only things that I felt season 4 handled pretty damn well.

I do think it could have been better written, yes. the ending of her arc in season 4 was....insulting at best.

but overall? the show does a great job of addressing that max actually hated billy (she literally fucking admits to wishing for his death) and that her grief is more complicated than just missing a person. because she wasn't missing a person! she was ultimately glad billy was gone. but even in death, he torments her.

she watched a person she grew up with be brutally murdered by some fleshy abomination, RIGHT in front of her. her shitbag step father bailed on her and her mother after billy died, forcing them to move to the trailer park. her mother abuses alcohol and is never home because she's always working so they can afford to live in the trailer park. her friend group has been split in two by the byers moving away, which took el away from her too. she doesn't know how to reach out to lucas, deep down doesn't feel she deserves his love & concern, despite lucas' best efforts (vecna literally taunts her with lucas turning on her at the final confrontation). she wished so badly to have someone like steve in billy, but she knows that billy would never be that person. he was the complete opposite & she can't just have steve in his place. she mourns the brother she never had. she is devastated by the way billy still hurts her, even after he's gone.

she's what. fourteen??? when this all happens?

like the death of an abuser is never so simple as "hooray! I am so very joyous now that the source of my pain is gone!" the damage an abuser inflicts on you is not some cut to the skin that can be healed and one day forgotten. it's so much more tortuous than that. especially for a child.

[lunar-fey]

ohhhh my god. okay. so. my aunt does like, she buys random junk in bulk from retail wholesalers and then resells it on like, facebook marketplace and ebay and stuff. whatever. so my mom works for her. makes a flat $50 a day, regardless of the fact that shes disabled and doing hard labor for at least 8 hours a day, often 10+. and min wage here is $10 an hour but mom argued that $50 a day is still more than what she would make working the same hours at an actual job because of taxes...like girl that would be 50% taxes. you do not pay that fucking much. so thats already Bad.

but today mom shows me a video of a knife theyre gonna sell, and i watch 2 seconds and i realize its an automatic knife, and i tell her hey. thats illegal to possess in this state. let alone sell! and mom is like ohhh [aunt] knows what shes doing itll be fine.... we sell knives on there all the time she just doesnt put pictures and calls them something else on the listing to get around fb/ebays policies :)

LIKE. HELLO. THATS NOT BETTER. YOURE COMMITTING MULTIPLE CRIMES. *AS YOUR JOB.* and she was just like "its not a big deal she knows what shes doing." folks, this is the same aunt that, very illegally, paid me to sort through her clients confidential tax documents and bank records and stuff. because she works for a bank. and took the records home to sort them. i dont think she DOES know what shes doing, actually!

[orangerosebush]

Tim overhears Angeline and Butler talking animatedly in the other room about something in Russian and he proceeds to discretely text Artemis to go "my son... I am summoning you to see if they are talking trash about us both" to which Artemis simply sends a "👍" before promptly appearing in the study to join Tim (despite Artemis having fully been in the other wing of the house last time Tim checked?)

[eddis-not-eeddis]

I have had a sword for a little less than 24 hours, and already I have driven off a man with it.

[tariah23]

Outside of all of… that happening to Gojo, and finishing Snowfall the other day, eek……..

[myownprivatcidaho]

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[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt my dupe ocs again... Maybe Quinn does have hashtag issues actually

[vanosslirious]

Just so you know, the posts I make are from videos from a year ago. :/ I've kind of fell off the Vanoss wagon for a bit over the year, i've gone through episodes of depression that stopped me from writing fics, and updating.

So, one day, i'll get to the more recent stuff. Vanoss uploads a lot though, so who really knows if i ever will. :)

[applejongho]

i cant wait until this semester is over 🙃

[asterdeer]

lucy's va is like. criminally undervalued imho. i'll never not feel secondhand devastation at the way she delivers "maybe you're right, connie." "i am?" "yeah. it probably is none of your business. bye" LIKE. not cruelly not cattily not over the top or anything just. complete deadpan. thoughtful, even. utterly obliterating

[rotatedaxis]

the venn diagram of people who liked pop punk & dan and phil in the 2010s, and the people that like bears in trees, is a circle.

[noxtivagus]

IM SO EXCITED FOR WHEN WE FINALLY HAVE OUR SCHOOL FAIR AGAIN .

[hedonicghosts]

Really happy to hear youre not an endo exclusionist, I was just wondering your stance on tulpa systems!!!

its not my place to police peoples identities in any way shape or form. you do you 💜