#random thinks

[random-thinks-i-hav]

Mmmmmmmm solo hero fallen hero au:

-regenes are still a thing but they’re the only thing that resulted in super powers so they’re kept a secret so the government can keep their super soldier edge

-sidestep still escapes and eventually becomes a vigilante

-ortega (im using julia for simplicity’s sake and cause im gay) finds them half dead in alleyway by her apartment and decides this wet stray cat of a person lives here now

-maybe they room together, maybe they’re coworkers, maybe they’re friends who meet up a could times a month but step eventually meets anathema and chen

-anathema ends up step’s second favorite person and chen… is chen and they dont get along very well cause yeah step acts more than a little suspicious but they can tolerate each other at least a little bit

-anyway yeah step eventually starts goomg out to fight crime (i think itd be cute if they were inspired by super hero movies) and they try even harder than in canon to keep under the radar cause its be so easy for the farm to find them if they slip up

-and yknow maybe thats how things stay forever, step is able to help people and never get found, they get to live the life they wanted and everything is fine…

-…but i think we all know they’re eventually found out, and the farm comes for them, and anathema dies in the crossfire and its all their fault, and now they’re back in hell again

-and this time when they get out they cant stop themself, as much as they wish they could be the person they used to be step is too hurt to stop themself from lashing out and in a world like this, without widespread psychic blockers, its so easy to hurt the world and those around them, to be the monster they believe themself

-and it feels so good to embrace the monstrosity they were made to be, and no matter how hard they try and hold themself back from going too far, from hurting people who don’t deserve it, there’s always that voice in the back of their head telling them to take that final step, that they wanted a monster and step could shown them just how much of a monster they can be

-meanwhile julia knows, she saw step at that dinner and they told her about their powers in the years they lived together and really who else could this villain be. but despite everything theyre doing and ortega’s rational brain telling them to call the police and turn them in… all she wants is for them to come home…

anyway yea im done now its 4am and i got sleep to not have b0-0d

[chongoblog]

WAIT

I JUST REMEMBERED HEARING AN ELON MUSK QUOTE WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES CHESS IS "TOO SIMPLE" OR WHATEVER AND HE SAID HIS FAVORITE GAME WAS A GAME CALLED "POLYTOPIA"

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IVE PLAYED POLYTOPIA

It being Elon's favorite game (or at least one so important to him that his biographer dedicates a lot of time to it) is.....really really funny.

Basically, imagine Civilization, but as a mobile game. So like if Civilization Revolution was even more dumbed down (that's a Civilization insult. That's devastating. It's devastated right now). For what it's worth, it's not a bad game. On the contrary, from what I could tell in the little bit of time I played it, it's a perfectly competent game with good design. But it's not a deep game by any means. I played through it once, won easily on my first go, then saw that the other playable characters had barely any differences between them.

Like, not to imply you can judge a book by its cover, but here's what it looks like

I came across an article by Dave Karpf discussing this exact thing, and I think it describes it wonderfully

[technovillain]

i come from the universe where everything is the same except disney heroines get like an ounce of their fathers' obviously dominant genes and their clothes are like 80% more historically accurate. it's beautiful here.

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[ifriqiyyah]

"unlikable protagonist" and it's just a woman who's a regular human being with flaws

[redstonedust]

in general i dont think fandom tattoos are a bad idea but i think u need to at least give yourself like a two year buffer from the end of that piece of media before you commit. like if someone told me "yeah im obsessed with hazbin hotel rn so im gonna get a hazbin hotel tattoo" id be like woah okay maybe put a pin in that idea for later. but if someone told me "yeah i read homestuck in its prime and i still love it so im gonna get a homestuck tattoo" id be like well fair enough its been like eight years. if you still like it now you'll probably still have fond memories of it in 20 years. you do you.

[lastoneout]

"Violence only leads to more violence" TRUE! The thing is tho, a lot of people in power seem to think the start of the violence was the CEO getting shot, but they're wrong. The start of the violence was that very CEO running a company that turns immense, endless human suffering into money.

Violence did lead to more violence, decades of needless death and suffering willfully enacted by millionaires so they can make just a little bit more money, that was the start of the violence. If they didn't want it to escalate eventually, they should have maybe not made killing people the core functionality their entire company hinges on.

The people being tortured and killed by the health insurance industry are not the ones who started the violence, and tbh I don't really think it's on them to end the violence, either.

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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[paintedcrows]

In my heart, Ford once went to an ice dimension and got Really Good at ice skating, and now he's absolutely insufferable about it.

[catbyte404]

[nefelibatat]

So if I were to take away from this moment something deeper than “man Sevika's a freak”, I'd point out that we've seen the same tactic not long before.

What does this say about Caitlyn? She's fighting dirty. She's fighting like a cornered rat. She's fighting like a Zaunite.

And first of all there's hypocrisy. Caitlyn's been calling these people animals and monsters and whatnot but when placed in an identical situation she responds identically. Case in point: getting so mad at Jinx for terrorizing people out of grief that she goes ahead and starts to terrorize people out of grief. Sevika's expression afterwards is mostly “joke's on you I'm into that” but there's some surprise there too — you wouldn't expect that move from a Piltie.

Then there's desperation. Because she needs revenge; she needs it or she'll never ever forgive herself for what happened. So she'll throw away her morals and her dignity and just do whatever it takes to achieve the goal, whether it means chomping on someone like a feral raccoon or becoming a military dictator… which puts her in the same mindset as Zaunites, all of whom are desperate to survive and a lot of whom could never afford morals and dignity in the first place.

[random-thinks-i-hav]

rise!venus who is desperate to fit in with the rest of her new found family.

the explosion separated her from splinter and her siblings, but it was ok because she was found by her dad. they didn’t have much, but they had each other, he taught her kung fu for if she ever needed to defend herself, and let her have pizza every now and then if she was good. and sure she didn’t get out much on account of the whole being a bipedal turtle thing, but that’s what the internet is for, who needs real life friends when online ones are just as good.

and then her dad dies. maybe its the foot or the krang’s attack, maybe it was just an accident or illness, but it doesn’t matter her only family is gone now and she’s alone.

but its ok, because it turns out she isn’t. she has more family, blood family, a father and four brothers, and when they finally find each other they’re excited to meet her and she’s ecstatic to not be alone anymore.

things are different with her new family. they’re loud, and fight bad guys, and go on adventures in a city filled with people like them. its so different from life with her dad but she can try and fit in. her brothers are named after painters? well they can call her venus like that statue she saw online once. they’re loud? well she can try and match them in their antics and hijinks. they fight badguys? well she can try and keep up, she might not be as good as everyone else but her dad taught her how to defend herself and splinter is teaching her more so she can follow after them and help where she can.

and its fun to hangout with her brothers, and she loves being a hero with all of them, she does. but something always feels off, they don’t click perfectly when they’re fighting together, she doesn’t get all their in jokes, splinter is her father but he isn’t her dad… but she’s trying and it has to get better eventually right?

and then it turns out she has another missing sibling, a sister, jenika. she was with big mama originally, but now she’s with them, she’s home, right?

jenika is different from everyone in venus’ family. she’s abrasive, she doesn’t really want to be with them, and she’s always getting into fights with her brothers. jenika can fight with the boys just fine (better than venus can), but she only really seems to get along with april and her…

…but that doesn’t mean her sister spares her any venom when she learns how venus changed her name, doesn’t stop jenika from telling her how pathetic she is for trying to shape herself to better match her family, doesn’t stop her from telling her how venus, how both of them will never fit in with their brothers and father, how they can’t fit, how they aren’t really family…

…but its ok. because while venus may not have been raised a hamato, and their blood still runs through her veins. she might not click perfectly when fighting but when it comes to her family’s mystic powers she’s turned out to be a natural. ever since they told her about it she’s just had the ability to use it, she didn’t fumble around like her brothers initially did trying to gain control, its almost like it speaks to her telling her exactly what to do to protect her brothers, telling her how to fight back against badguys, telling her how if she just listens to it, does everything it says she can be strong enough to fight with her brothers, strong enough to belong…

She just has to listen…

[jezebelenabler]

Being drunk off your ass and checking your Uber app again, the phone screen giving you double vision. The black sedan that’s parked against the curb must be your ride. You bid your friends a goodbye hug and open the door, sliding into the back with a polite smile.

Your Uber driver makes no move to speak to you, just stares holes into your very being before pulling off and merging into the traffic on the street. Not being talkative is fine, but openly smoking a cigarette during the ride might be a reason to knock off a few stars.

“Hey,” you interject, leaning forward to tap his shoulder and being met with unyielding mass.

“You missed the exit,” you slur, inhibitions too far gone too panic. Too trusting. Too complacent.

He doesn’t even turn his blinker on, hanging a sharp right turn that presses your body against the passenger door and has you scrambling to sir up right. He laughs, the only thing breaking the silence in the car since he’s apparently a sociopath who drives with no music.

“I know my way home just fine,” he rumbles out, the bass in his voice settling deep in your gut.

Your phone buzzes against your thigh,

Uber: Hey where are you

Uber: I’m not waiting all night

Uber: Your driver has canceled the ride, we will connect you to another driver.

Your head snaps up to the man in the driver’s seat, panic rushing into your veins as he pulls into a driveway which is certainly not yours.

Simon doesn’t believe in fate, but who is he to look a gift horse in the mouth?

[nataliescatorccio]

it's so crazy to me how within the space of a year the internet's 'widespread' opinion of chappell roan has swung from admiration of an outspoken and refreshing new performer to huge hate trains whenever she so much as breaths. nothing has changed with her as a person, she is still projecting the exact same messages she always did, and yet comparing comments now to a year ago really highlights how active misogyny and homophobia are within media spaces. it's like 'ok, we let a gay woman get too big, how do we tear her down and black her out of these spaces?'. every single thing she says is twisted when before it was a breath of fresh air, now even what she wears is being torn apart instead of being revolutionary - the u-turn is giving me whiplash. and people wonder why we don't have more gay women in the media when men who have done far, far worse are never exposed to this kind of mass villainization

[zenwhoberi]

had the wildest interaction today some random woman called me a slag and my dog a fucking faggot because I was using a pink lead/harness and he’s a boy like what the fuck lmfaoo

[reinanova]

bcuz i’m curious:

any phone number that you could rattle off without looking counts here

reblog with your age/generation bcuz i’m curious if it’s still common practice for younger people to memorize phone numbers