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[mylarena]

Soap: ... Why are ye smiling like that? Ye look suspiciously like the cat that swallowed the pigeon.

Rudy: Canary.

Soap: Whit?

Rudy: I look like the cat that swallowed the canary.

Soap: I once had a very large cat- but, not my point. My point is, why are ye smirking?

Rudy: You were watching him... With great interest, I might add. In fact, I believe you were... Enraptured.

Soap: He's my lieutenant! I look to him for guidance.

Rudy: Oh, I see. So, what guidance did you find in those swaying hips, hmm?

Soap: No, no, no! I was no' looking at... Ye ken, his... hind-quarters.

Rudy: Certainly.

Soap: I gazed... glanced, in that direction- maybe! But I was no' staring, or really... Seeing anything, even.

Rudy: Of course.

Soap: I hate ye. Yer a bad person.

[abby118]

[laurasimonsdaughter]

The werewolf sisters

Please share my delight in this folktale collected by Charles Joisten, from Joseph Lauzier in Champoléon in 1960:

There once lived three girls in the old water mill at Mourinou. One evening, they dressed as wolves and warmed themselves around the stove.

Some young men from neighbouring villages came to see them at their evening gathering. They were known to be pretty girls! Before going inside, they looked through the window to see if anyone was there and they saw the three werewolves. One of the young men said: "We must go back and we will arrive singing."

So, when the young girls heard singing, they quickly took off their wolf skins and the young men returned. But the young girls had not had time to properly lock up their belongings in the cupboard; there was a wolf's paw or tail sticking out.

Then the young men asked: “Huh, what is that?”

Then one of the girls replied: “If you had come a moment before, well we were wolves and we would have eaten you!”

[wordiestpage52]

MY FIRST FUCKING THOUGHT

I swear to God this is a horror game

like a PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR GAME, no jump scares, no tension, it's just wrong, and such an off putting abstraction of what we know, Eldritch even.

[ouppygirlcity]

This is how it feels when a professor emails you for your pronouns

[toovirgins]

there’s a lot of bullshit lennon/mccartney quotes out there, misattributed by biases in biographers or straight-up fabrications. but there’s also “if i was a girl”. there’s also “if he had been a woman”. there’s also “is this a self-portrait?” there’s “in bed.” there’s “maybe that would’ve satisfied it”. there’s “nothing to worry about”, and “life begins at 40”, and “it’s only me.” there’s “the emperor of eternity”. “he chose me.” “i’m still in love with you”. there’s “i can always deny that it was ever written about him.” so who cares

[q-kanbas]

If you are a voter in Georgia, please check your registration consistently as the election approaches.

The Secretary of State has launched a program that allows people to cancel registrations. Including other people's registrations. They can do so with only your name, date of birth, and county.

In Georgia, you have until 29 days before the election to register or re-register if you were purged.

[rubyfunkey]

I'm with Anii! I craved for someone acknowledging Narinder's eventual love for mortality!! And I wholeheartedly believe it would take a toll on Lamb one day since they're slowly losing mortality, ironic isn't it?

i havent thought about that angle much but id like to think they could keep each other in check maybe. maybe.

[gorillawithautism]

A little over a year ago, on February 3rd 2024, Clark Joseph Harman was murdered. He was 12 years old. Not even 24 hours prior, He had been legally kidnapped by two men from a "transport" or "escort" company that had been hired by his parents. He was brought to Trails Carolina, a "wilderness program" and part of the troubled teen industry. The act of being legally kidnapped in this manner is often called getting "gooned" in survivor communities.

Before I properly start, I have a note: I learned of his name because someone in the r/troubledteens subreddit found it not long after I heard of his case. I did not learn his name because it was consensually released by his family. As such, I will use only his initials (CJH) throughout the rest of this post. I decided to head the post with his name because I think it's important that people know it. It was not consensually released, and that should be respected, but he was still a whole person. He was a twelve year old boy with a name and a family and so much life left to live. All of you should witness what was taken from him.

The medical examiner's preliminary report states that after CJH was gooned, he went through a check-in to process him into the program. He was uncooperative at first, demanding a phone call with his parents, but was able to cooperate after talking to them. He was placed on a 1-1 with a staff member who was with him at all times. The staff member says CJH chose not to eat dinner. Then they went to bed. According to Trails' protocol, he was to sleep on the floor of the cabin with a staff member sleeping beside him. His set up was a thin mattress with a thick plastic sheet folded into a canoe-like shape and set on top of the mattress. Above that, a sleeping bag inside a bivy with a zipper alarm that would go off if he tried to leave his tent. CJH slept but he was restless and mumbling. He had a (staff-permitted) moment outside his tent around 11pm but then goes back to "bed." Around midnight, he is restless and mumbling in his sleep once again, and he begins thrashing. It eventually subsided. Routine checks were performed by staff, but the bivy being opaque meant that they did not actually see CJH. I will note that this detail was against protocol. Normally, the bivy has a mesh interior door and the staff would have been able to see CJH in their routine checks. However, the mesh door on the tent they used that night was broken, so they used the weather resistant outer door instead. Despite these routine checks by staff, the thrashing at midnight is the last noted incident until morning.

And yet morning comes, and a little boy is dead. Staff find him in his tent lying on his right side with his feet at the head of the bivy and his head at the tapered end of it. He is cold and unresponsive. 911 is called, CPR is unsuccessful and a little boy is dead. A little boy is dead and they don't notice until morning. A little boy was kidnapped and now he's dead. A little boy was in the troubled teen industry for less than 24 hours and he's dead because of it. He will never get out of the industry and he will never leave that wilderness program and he will never heal from the trauma he was forced to endure because he's dead. They killed him. The program killed him, the staff killed him, our government killed him, those goons killed him, his parents killed him, you killed him. A little boy is dead, and an uncountable number of people are at fault.

There's an extent to which his parents are victims too. They lost their son because of an awful choice they made. And while I don't know these people personally, I do know enough about how this industry works to know it's highly likely that they believed in what they were doing. Everything they did was legal, and everything they did was advertised to them as something that would help their child who they didn't know how to care for. I'm not saying it was a good decision, but I know how predatory this industry is. A parent who doesn't know where to turn, a child who clearly needs help, and suddenly a web page. Or a hired educational consultant. Or another parent. Or a pamphlet. Something or someone that tells them "There are schools and programs for children like yours. There are options for parents like you." They say "Send your kid to Trails Carolina. It's like a summer camp for kids who need help." According to several cult researchers, the troubled teen industry is much like a cult. The parents are often people who genuinely care about their kids and truly believe this will help. The cult drew them in as cults do. CJH was killed by his parents and their choice to send him to trails. CJH was killed by his parents, and that cannot be changed. They will always have to carry that responsibility, and I cannot stress enough how it was their fault and they do have a part in this. But if I let a single person come away from this with the impression that they are entirely or even mostly to blame for their child's death, I will have failed to communicate just what this industry is and what it does to children and their families.

The system at large is what's at fault. The program itself, Trails Carolina, has killed kids before (Alec Lansing, 17, died of hypothermia after being injured while attempting to run away from the program, Trails Carolina, November 23rd 2014). Other programs have killed kids before, both recently (Cornelius Frederick, 16, killed in physical restraint, lakeside academy, May 1st 2020) and further in the past (Phillip Williams Jr., 15, official cause of death was a "brain aneurysm" but this was determined with no proper investigation and he had been severely beaten in some sort of "therapeutic boxing ring" before his death, Elan School, December 27th 1982). These programs are not made to help us. They are made to fix us. And in practice, all they do is kill us and traumatize us. They manipulate, they brainwash, they abuse, they hurt, they kill. All of them do. Even the ones that supposedly don't utilize physical restraint methods. Even the ones where staff don't sexually or physically assault the kids in their custody. Even the most tame and least violent of programs. Even the ones that don't interrupt our academics, even the ones that don't drug us with excessively or incorrectly prescribed medication, even the ones in tourist hotspots like hawaii, even the ones where a kid can work with horses or dogs or rabbits. They all abuse us. All of them.

And it's legal. It's all legal. Even our deaths are legal. Trails Carolina was forced to shut down after CJH's murder, but other programs still exist and the DA chose not to press charges. Let me say that again. The District Attorney. Chose not to press charges. For manslaughter.

On November 6th 2024, District Attorney Andrew Murray issued a press release where he stated that while CJH's case was "heartbreaking" and "tragic," that it "did not involve criminal intent or recklessness sufficient to warrant criminal charges for involuntary manslaughter under the law." The carelessness of having CJH sleep in an opaque tent where the staff could not get sights on him during their routine checks was not enough. Letting him to sleep in a tent where such suffocation was even possible in the first place was not enough. Having an alarm on the door so he would be unable to get out without consequences was not enough. Forcing him to sleep in this tent despite the fact that he was both "audibly and physically upset" about this sleeping arrangement was not enough. A dead child was not enough. And it will not be enough so long as these programs exist. Everyone that put him in that situation and everyone who allowed it to go without any sort of legal charges or reform is at fault for this child's death.

And that includes you. Every single one of you who is not a victim or survivor of the troubled teen industry. All of you who watch these children die and say nothing. All of you who force survivors and victims to trigger themselves over and over again in an attempt to speak up against the system that hurt us. All of you who don't listen. All of you who listen once and then let yourself forget about us. Every single one of you.

A child is dead, and more will die. And it feels like TTI survivors and victims are the only ones who care. How many of us will die because of you?

[mylarena]

Roach: Okay. What does Y-E-S spell?

Soap: Yes.

Roach: What does E-Y-E-S spell?

Soap: Yes.

Roach: [Wheezing] What does E-Y-E-S spell?

Soap: E-Yes?

Roach: [Laughing]

Soap: What is happening??

Roach: [Wheezing and gasping] Okay- What does Y-E-S spell?

Soap: Yes.

Roach: What does E-Y-E-S--[Giggles]-spell?

Soap: …E-Yes!

Roach: [Wheezing, tears in his eyes]

Soap: What are you crying for?!

Roach: Wh-hat does-[Snrk]

Soap: [Mildly concerned] What are you doing?

Roach: [Collects himself] Okay. Try again. What does-HH- What does Y-E-S spell?

Soap: ….. Yes.

Roach: What does E-ehE-Y-E-S spell?

Soap: ….. E's???

Roach: [Wheezing]

Soap: Ey-yes?!

Roach: [Snorts]

Soap: You're making me-

Roach: I CAN'T BREATHE- OKAY-

Soap: E-Y-E-S. E-Yes! [Giggling]

Roach: Say it again! What does E-Y-E-S spell?

Soap: [Looks down, calculating] ….. [Looks up at him helplessly] E-Yes. [Laughs]

Roach: [Laughing uncontrollably]

Soap: What?!

Roach: [Snorts] YOU- [Laughing]

Soap: You're making me cry, what?

Roach: [Catches breath] E-Y.. E-S.

Soap: [Writing it down] E… Y….. E……. [Looks back up at him with wide eyes] EYES.

Roach: [Loses his shit]

Soap: [Loses his shit with him]

[intheholler]

[bigfatbreak]

Since Fu and his methods have been kinda debated on in this fandom, I've just making sure. Is Marinette over-positiving her memories with Fu since she blames herself for him getting mind-wiped or would he be really scold her on recklessness and taking care of herself?

former. grieving his memory wipe is making any kindness he did seem to gleam like precious stars in her memory, which is making it hit that much harder. she's definitely spiraling around losing him right now, and not seeing the reality that he chose child soldiers to fight a supervillain. he really might've scolded her for being reckless, but nowhere near as lovingly as she's imagining he would - she's putting positive words in his phantom mouth because his loss hurts her more than she's willing to communicate, and its become the cornerstone of her isolation.

[welcomehomeincorrectquotes]

Headcanon: Frank likes to knit

Sometimes with poppy:)

Many insects "knit" as well so I can see that!

[drenched-in-sunlight]

My one Elden Ring headcanon is that the reason that Miquella picked Radahn, and not Godwyn, as the kindest demigod is because Godwyn was allergic to horses, and Miquella didn't know that and just thought he didn't like horses. Radahn met the requirements of not hating albinaurics(assumed from friendly rivalry with Gaius), liking horses, and probably something else basic like not torturing people or something like that.

i know this is kinda meant to be funny but i do take it seriously that Miquella's wish in his childhood is not really sth mature and well-thought out at all 😭 and Radahn instead of being a responsible older brother and putting a stop to that, just run with it (and as i said, not without outside influence, but still) is really why it blows up in everyone's face later.

and tbh? imo Miquella's naive idolization kinda dooms Radahn to continue be a mere copycat of others as well. instead of growing out of it and finding his own thing and becoming his own unique self, he's stuck in a perpetual boyhood of wanting to be like his idols, mirroring Miquella's own curse.

that being said, i also think Miquella isn't completely false in not picking Godwyn as the kindest demigod out there. living under one roof and growing up with him as older brother, Miquella must know more than anyone Godwyn is the true scion of the old Order. Radahn could admire that same old Order, sure, but he is not of it the way Godwyn the Golden is (which is one of many inspiration i have to draw this)

funny thing is i think Miquella can sniff out that beneath all that sweet and nice image Godwyn has, he's a warrior that will stop at nothing to protect the old Order, yet fails to see the exact same thing in his own Father. and it makes sense! why would he see that when Father is always so supportive of his ideas? why would he see anything wrong when Father taught him Tactical Air Strike 101 when he simply wanted to heal his sister? why would he see anything wrong when Father encourage him to hang out more with Radahn, his other son, not Godfrey's son?

see? it's really a picture somewhere there isn't it...

but it's probably the horse thing as well afksjjdkf

[tomahachi12]

DUDE-----

It's come to my attention from another post (I forgor to reblog it 😭) that this was seen in a (I think) glitch short or something

First of all GLITCH YOU BETTER NOT BE MESSING WITH US---

I don't want to spread false hope but IM LOSING IT RN

Btw I love your virus au ^^

Silly little feral things

It could also just be the Glitch team fucking with us lol

While I would like to see more of these goobers, it seems pretty clear that the series is well and done.

You gots the source?