can i say how angry it makes me that i was totally okay with the fine lines I would get on my face in my twenties… and now girls my age keep talking to me about getting botox. like. yall this is fucking evil. this is my own damn skin doing a natural thing and youre trying to make me feel like it’s ugly? So i can get some bullshit injected into my FACE? yall. couldn’t be me. they got those poor girls good though didn’t they….
Saruman the White ponders his palantír. "You are the trusted apprentice to one of the greatest Wizards in all Middle-earth" in A Spy in Isengard (Angus McBride cover art for Middle-earth Quest gamebook #1 by Terry K Amthor, Iron Crown Enterprises, 1988). McBride has been memed more than once.
I don't remember if I've talked about it but Gregory would be Moon's fav and Sun's worst enemy and Cassie would be Sun's fav and Moon's worst enemy.
And that's actually shown in SB and Ruin-
Sun is very angry with Gregory as he didn't follow the rules and let Moon out. While Moon is actually? Pretty chill about it? I would even say he's kinda ecstatic about being out, even tho his programming/virus does tell him to punish Gregory for breaking the rules. He still doesn't even sound angry, he's giggling and chucking and just kinda vibing.
In ruin we see the opposite. Moon is out, in pain and angry at Cassidy for trying to turn on the lights. He's VERY aggressive and even his laughs sound just forced/painful. Part of his aggression obviously comes from the fact that they're in pain and scared but you get what I'm trying to say. While Sun is happy with Cassie as she's here to help! Not like that brat Gregory lol
I channelled my Guild Artisan Tav and visited a pottery painting evening with the work girls and... panicked.
Everyone else was painting geese and pumpkins on plates and autumn aesthetic stuff and I was sitting giggling maniacally away to myself that I was painting the tattoo of a nuclear bomb I like to smooch.
Edit: Now... what exactly should I keep in it?
Though saying that, I DID choose a vase initially because canonically you never find anything in the damn things in the game.
Actually.... have I ever talked about how I think Wheatley is basically the perfect synthesis of what an average Aperture employee was?? Because he was created in Aperture, he'd likely be a reflection of their entire work culture (....moreso than the gimmicky cores we meet in portal/tie-in games). Like the scientists responsible for making him really put all their hatred of their workplace/that-annoying-coworker-they-dislike into him.
He's sooorta miserable but Fine, mostly. A tad paranoid. Kinda classist/ableist (he disparages Manual Laborers in his dialogue and like... everything he says to chell is just so Bad lmao). he's TERRIFIED of GLaDOS but still belittles her. He laughs at the turrets dying in a shredder then realizes how messed up that is and backpedals (also backpedals on his smelly humans bit, but i'll be fair and say he deserves to hate humans as much as GLaDOS does). He breaks the nanomachines' work and then has the audacity to threaten to file a lawsuit against THEM for a Hate Crime?? (which is so so funny for so many reasons but I DIGRESS) Like I don't ascribe to him being a former human employee, but also I can clearly imagine working at Aperture and talking to Wheatley by the water cooler and he's That Moderately Unpleasant Guy who is juuust adequate enough to not be fired but never Exceptional enough to promote, but most importantly, he's not clever enough to actually do anything about his shitty situation in the company. He only fucks up a little less than what is allotted. He's got charisma! Fun for a chat sometimes! But he makes ppl feel bad when they talk to him. He's not the WORST, but he for sure isn't the best. It'd be easy to convince him to commit a crime in the name of Science. (He wouldn't sell your soul for a single corn chip, he'd only sell it for a whole bag.)
Wheatley is THE Aperture employee. And this all tracks because literally what could be a worse decision than continuing to work at Aperture Science?
when i say cannibalism as a form of love im talking about us both clawing each other apart and feasting on each other like starving wolves. im talking whoever survives kills themselfs afterwards because they simply can't live in a reality without the other. im talking soul binding. sealing your love with deaths kiss.