#pardon or kill

[consumedshadow-mysticmc]

This game is interesting so far.

[ladyzirkonia]

[3416]

pre-overtime yapping | 02.15.24

[creatore-is-an-amarena-addict]

HUMANS ARE SPACE ORCS: TREAT OF EXTERMINATION

Alien: sorry to interrup... whatever you're doing... but what exactly are "mosquitoes"?

Human: *stops trying to lick elbow* you mean mosquitoes? Oh those are a species of insects with an itchy bite that suck your blood when you are distracted

Alien: wait WHAT? you mean that there is a creature that would suck the blood out of you?!

Human: yea i don't think there is human that has never been bitten by one

Alien: you mean that having your blood, the fluid that keeps you alive, sucked by an insect is a COMPLITELY COMMON experience for a human?!

Human: pretty much

Alien: how do you survive that? From what i understoad humans die if they lose too much blood

Human: that's true, but mosquitoes are actualy really small and take an insignificant amount of blood, what is really annoying is that their bite is itchy

Alien: oh, that doesn't seam like that much of a pro-

Human: but you could also get infected with a likely fatal parasite

Alien: WHAT?!

Human: yea they carry some real nasty parasites, that's why them and parasites kill so many peoples in less developed countries.

Alien: wait so are you telling me that a single minuscle insect that can suck your blood whitout you noticing can infect you with a mortal parasite or illness?!

Humans: they also shit and piss on your skin witch further irritates the bite.

Alien: That's terribles! Humans had to deal with this for hundreds of generations?!

Humans: yea but over the years we found ways to cure most of the viruses they carry but the parasites are still a problem so we found a more permanent solution

Alien: oh that's inspiring, you humans usualy ignore this kind of problem after you resolve the bigger issue, what did you do? Perhaps did you ingeneer the human race to be less desirable to those creatures? Or, or you made a special repellent with a 100% rate of success? Or a special vaccine that creates a special film around your body to protect you from the bit-

Human: we exterminated them

Alien: i should have expected that

Human: at least we tried, but then we realized that would impact the ecosistem greatly so we are just back to spraying them to death whenever we get bitten

Alien: That's... That's weirdly considerated for your species standard... im gonna hope you did the same with the parasites

Human: oh no those one are basicaly extinct

Alien: normaly i would be bafled about how you made an entire species go extinct but from what i understoad those species where hazard to human health so i understand the decision this time

Human: nah i can assure you we did this only becouse they where annoying and painfull to deal with, health hazards or not.

Alien: ok so you decided to punish an entire species with total extinction just becouse they where annoying your population?!

Human: don't be silly we just eradicated the 3 main species that attack humans, also we constantly deal with creatures that we put under treat of extinction, that's kinda what we do with things we consider "ugly" or "annoying" like most bugs or small animals

Alien: *becomes the alien version of pale from fear* thank you for your time... *goes away to warn the galaxy of the human habit of extermination creatures*

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

ancient vitani WIP be freeeee

[actualbird]

who could possibly accept this ruthless killing machine—oh okay

[intosnarkness]

How about: 91. “I remember everything.” Kanej

“You have to leave this fucking city.”

Inej is surprised to hear herself cuss. Even the years out at sea haven’t hardened her tongue like this- she curses, sure, at ropes and waves and wind. She doesn’t curse at people. It’s not an effective management technique.

But she has found the end of her patience for this nonsense.

No one really expected Kaz Brekker to live to see thirty. She’s not even sure Kaz, with his bravado and his theatrics that have only gotten worse over the years, thought he’d make it. But here they are, a month from his fucking birthday, and he’s laid up in bed with a bullet hole in his fucking body.

He’s putting on a good show of being strong, of ignoring the pain. But Inej can see the tense muscles of his jaw, the sweat that stands glittering on his forehead, the way he shifts his weight slowly and braces for each move.

“I don’t—” Kaz sighs, wincing as he presses his hand to the bloody hole in his side. It’s been bandaged, it’s been days, but he won’t let anyone call a healer and Inej is going to kill him if infection doesn’t.

“I don’t want to fight about this,” he finishes, and his voice is so hoarse and raw that Inej moves, grabbing the cool pitcher of water from his bedside table and pouring a careful glass for him. She’s used to a certain amount of gravel in his voice, but the pain makes listening to him feel like walking barefoot in the mountains.

“Kaz,” she sighs, using her sleeve to wipe the sweat from his brow as he drinks. He barely flinches. Progress. “I know what happened,” she says, meeting his eyes.

“Jesper has a big fucking mouth,” Kaz bites, and he’s not wrong. Jesper had told her. He had told her all about the little skiv who had waited for Kaz outside the Geldstraat tunnel, who had ambushed him as he’d been walking home from dinner with his friends.

And she knows the kid’s name. She’s known it for 12 years, since Kaz forced Pekka to his knees behind the Church of Barter.

Albie Rollins is in Ketterdam, and he’s gunning for the return of his father’s empire.

“I can handle him,” Kaz says, struggling to sit up in bed. Inej wants to press him back into the sheets, make him lie still and see reason. “I walked away from this one.”

She’s frustrated, she’s exhausted, and the man she loves is struggling in front of her. Inej doesn’t know how to get through to him. How she can make him see that if he lets this city kill him, she will never never forgive him.

“And what about the next one?” she asks. “Or the one after that? What happens when you’re forty or fifty or sixty and some little teenager puts a gun to your head and demands you say the name of his loved one, huh?” Inej snaps, her nerves frays. “All the saints hear my promise, when that kid comes and kills you for his brother or his mother or his cousin, I will—”

Inej swallows around the lump in her throat. She honestly doesn’t know what she’ll do. What her plan is. What it could possibly be.

“What?” he’s holding her gaze now, his eyes dark and private, even from her. But he’s listening. He’s actually listening to her. “What will you do?”

“I will set the fucking Wraith on fire and stand in the flames as she goes down around me,” she says, her voice barely a hiss in the quiet room. “I will let the world know that Kaz Brekker was the death of me, and I will find you in the next life and I will never, ever speak to you again. It— if you let this city bury you under the weight of your own gold, I will dig you up and give the gold to the fucking council before I bury you at sea with me.”

He nods once, breaking the eye contact they’ve both been holding. He hears her. He’s not ready to respond, but he hears what she’s saying. She can give him time to think about it.

Inej turns around, her back to him, and scrubs at her eyes with the heels of her hands. She’s not going to cry. Not over something that hasn’t happened yet.

“You know what the difference is?” Kaz says, his voice still strained, but soft. “Between me and Rollins?”

He waits for her to reply, but she doesn’t. She just waits for him to tell her.

“I remember.”

She turns to look at him, cataloguing the far away look on his face.

“I remember every person I put in the ground on my way up. Everyone I hurt. I remember their names. Their faces. I can’t forget them, I’ve tried. So when that kid puts me on his knees and demands I say that name, I promise you, I will say it.”

Now the tears are at the back of her throat, unbidden. She knows he has ghosts, they both do. But it suddenly strikes her just how haunted Kaz really is.

“All of them?” She asks, reaching down to take his hand

He doesn’t flinch away, just lets her lace their fingers together as he nods.

“Trust me,” he whispers. “I remember everything.”

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[subsequentibis]

having now watched a handful of curated metalocalypse eps i have to say the fact that they have to squeeze everything into ten minutes makes a lot of things incredibly funny, like. s2e14 where they hire the other manager, that guy weasels his way into their good graces & convinces them to fire charles in like, one night, and then the big intense fight to the death happens in the last twenty seconds of the ep, implying that charles having lethal rooftop fencing matches is just another tuesday for him, and that is INCREDIBLY funny.

[seventh-district]

not even gonna tag this properly bc i don't wanna get Involved but i do have some Thoughts i need to get out into the void so here we go

(aaa quick edit: CW for mention/discussion of Boothill leaks)

[antennatoheaven]

my favourite thing about portal 2 fanworks is that wheatley is always there for some unexplained reason. like yeah he got back from space it's chill now

[wearevillaneve]

She wants to order. (illustration by Sagelli/Twitter)

[popsicle-stick]

didn't get the national trust job i wanted/needed so so bad. proceeds to lock myself away in an attic room and never apply for anything ever again

[royaltea000]

Sorry I just rediscovered the joy of making oc children and am going a little wild 🤠

[oasisofgalaxies]

Here’s my absolute favorite video from last night, love the dichotomy between Aurora’s little hand motions and then whatever Swiss is doing

[befuddled-calico-whump]

ok well now that you've raised the scenario:

How long would it take sahota (or even vic) to break themselves out of jail?

-🕯

so if Sahota had a mission to complete or thought he didn't deserve to be there, he could escape with relative ease

if the guards/warden knew his skillset and who they were dealing with, they'd implement countermeasures to make escape a lot more difficult for him, but he'd likely still get out on his own eventually, it would just take a lot more time

However, if it was Vic who turned him in/betrayed him to save his own skin, he might just... stay. It might even turn out he likes prison better than being Vic's captive.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

do you think reggie's killed a lot of people or like just a little bit