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tragicotps · 10 months
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Summer in Oxford ☀️🌸
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dogcoding · 26 days
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how it feels to be around your dad for one week
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THIS IS SO FKN AWESOME MAKO!! 😭
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bibleofficial · 2 months
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was going to be like ‘wow amsterdam is so great !’ bc i was taking a pic of this church & was like ‘im obsessed w thus church’ & this lady was walking past & said ‘its beautiful isn’t it?’ & i was like YES 😍❤️❤️❤️❤️ & not 15 minutes later im sitting on a bench smoking a doobie & this guy rolls up on his bicycle & asks to borrow my lighter, then berates me for smoking weed & implied that its bad for ur lungs whilst lighting a cigarette like girl these dutch mfs are rly hit or miss huh
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jakemyboy · 8 months
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He was standing on a table. Watching a GSD walk by across the street. Serious stuff!
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bunnihearted · 5 months
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🐰🌧️
#so on my way home..#i walked by a school and besides the fact that i felt so depressed bc just looking at these kids and adults i have NO hope for the future#i saw two boys on a bench as i walked by... and i just thought they were talking. and too late i realized that no one of the boys were#bullying the other boy. the bully walked away and the other boy just sat there looking so lifeless and dejected#a teacher came and sat down w that boy and i just kept walking. even if i wanted to say smth it's like what would i even do abt that situati#that made me so sad both bc that boy.. he looked so dejected and used to it. that anxiety going to school knowing you're bullied is awful#and like i imagined talking to him and saying heyyy if you're lucky you'll grow up to be 25yrs old#live like a parasite off your mom and be on wellfare and never have had a job :)#you'll have no education or highschool diploma :) you will still struggle to finish hs even at an easier level :)#you will also not have had friends in 10yrs and you'll be terrified of ppl and getting close to anyone and even going outside!!#you'll have no interests and hobbies and skills! you'll simply be a waste of space loser being a burden on everyone around u!#whoop whoop stay alive buddy it will only get worse ❤️#god i just wanna cry. how did i let my life turn out this way??? i used to be full of dreams and life and passion and HOPE#i used to believe in things and in people. i had so many dreams and i wanted to try and do so many things#now all i can think is 'i wanna die i wanna die i wanna die'. im miserable wherever i go lmao#there's this bridge over the highway i have to cross when i walk to school and every time i look down at the trafic and when a truck drives#by i feel my entire body vibrate. i just wanna jump and get mauled by it.#or i dont *want* to but i feel so deeply and desperately that it's the only way for me#only way to make it stop hurting. and i am weak. i dont know how to just 'stop' or take control of my life. thats why i wanna die#bc i know that i wont be able to. that my life will never amount to anything#for fuck's sake my dream now is just to have my own 1bedroom apartment and have a shitty job - like in a grocery store or whatever!!!!!#not even that can i make happen! bc im so worthless i cant do anything. im also stupid so i wouldnt be able to do my job right#i dont know... i dont know... these feelings and thoughts are too much i just wanna relax#but i cant bc my ribs hurt and idk if it's heartburn or an ulcer 💀 why am i even alive???? what am i doing all this for? 😭#my thoughts ran away but i meant like seeing that reminded me of how much of a failure i became#bc of my circumstances and all the shitty ppl around me thru out my life
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stephenlangdaily · 2 years
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Sweet interview with Stephen in the New York Times this week, talking about his morning routine, yoga, naps, living in the city, and more!
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bellcza · 11 months
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alejandro balde you deserve so much better, the madrid machine just too strong
we know who the real golden boy is 💫
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jinx-blackout-84 · 1 year
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The Shady Kid From The Alleyway
Chapter 1
Tommy-centric SBI TNTduo Benchtrio fic
Dream stans DNI you won't like this one I made hum a manipulative villain.... like IRL
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TW for mentions of violence, mentions of blood, and cursing
Anything in slashes are in /italics/
Anything in dashes are -bold-
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“Motherfucking fuck!”
Tommy saw a spark jump across his hand before he felt it. He snapped his hand away from the piece of metal in his hands that he was trying to install a computer chip in.
He picked it back up, sighing and glancing at the clock.
2:32 AM
His eyes were heavy, threatening to fall closed as he sat in his apartment’s kitchen. Picking up a screwdriver and the computer chip, he went back to fiddling with the metal gauntlet he had been staring at for the better part of four hours.
Does he sleep, or finish the gauntlet?
He weighed the two options in his head before conceding to finish the gauntlet on the grounds that he wouldn’t sleep anyways.
The light above the table reflected into his exhaustion-glassy eyes as he finished installing the microchip, leaving him with only a few pieces left to do. He first checked that a simple code Tubbo had written would work when run through the chip, activating a simple digital motor that would open one of the flasks attached to the gauntlet’s side, which would later be used to store gasoline to help Tubbo, in his words, “make arson more efficient, don’t you want my arson to be efficient, Tommy?”
Tubbo’s ability, the ability to conduct heat and electricity, made setting fires very easy for him even without the gasoline, which Tommy mentioned and was then debated by Tubbo. Do not debate Tubbo.
Tommy called over to the couch where insomniac Tubbo was pretending to sleep while Ranboo watched TV.
“We’re patrolling tomorrow, right?”
“Should be unless you fall off of a roof again. Think you can get that gauntlet done by tomorrow so I can code it?”
“Yeah, I just have to get a few panels screwed in and hook up the other digital motors and we should be good.”
“Awesome, let me know when you finish it up.”
“Yup, by the way, how’s the coding for my boots going?”
“Pretty shit.”
“Bugs?”
“Nope, just some new mechanics I don’t quite understand yet.”
Ranboo, enthralled moments ago by a documentary about art forgery, said, “He threw his computer at the wall earlier and I had to teleport it onto the bed so he wouldn’t break it.”
“I also had an English test today so I don’t want to hear it. That shit is difficult,” Tubbo grumbled.
“No, no, he has a point,” Tommy agreed. English was his worst subject back when he was in school.
Tommy chewed on the inside of his cheek as he hooked up a few wires from one of the motors to the CPU.
He slipped his hand into the gauntlet, flexing his fingers a few times before throwing it at Tubbo, who caught it without looking. Tommy was impressed.
“Try it on to see if it fits,” he said to Tubbo
Tubbo snarked back at him “Nope, it’s three sizes too small.”
Tommy threatened to make the gauntlet fit; and after watching Tubbo try on the gauntlet to make sure it fit, nodded, extremely proud of himself for being the most intelligent person to ever exist.
The stuffy air in the apartment was stale, and since it was not too cold outside, Tommy decided he needed some air, calling out to Tubbo and Ranboo,
“Hey, I’m heading up to the roof”
"Okay, don’t die again, thanks,” Ranboo replied, and Tubbo gave a thumbs-up.
Tommy opened the grimy window and pulled himself out onto the fire escape, which creaked concerningly under his weight. Scaling the rusted metal with expertise gained by years of practice, he finally got his hand over the upper lip of the apartment building’s roof.
The wind was quite harsh, cold against Tommy’s face, but not unwelcome after being at the table working on the gauntlet for so long. As he sat back on his hands, three things happened.
First, Tommy’s hand supporting his weight slid into a puddle and out from under him. Gross. Roof puddle.
Second, Tommy heard a scream from a nearby alleyway.
Third, he fell off the roof, directly into the alley the scream had come from.
“MOTHERFUCKER” He screeched, trying to throw out his hands to use his power.
A sudden gust of wind slowed his fall considerably, but hitting the concrete hurt like a bitch, which he said.
“That hurt like a bitch.”
“Looked like it,” A gruff and oddly robotic voice answered.
Tommy spun around quickly, making eye contact with a towering man. A man with a red cape and pig mask.
“Nope. I think the fuck not. I’m going back to my apartment. Fuck no.” Tommy said with conviction.
Just as he turned to leave, the man’s hand caught his hood, turning him around.
There was something cold under his chin, Tommy realized. Ah, it was a sword. Wonderful.
“You can’t just leave,” the man drawled “How do I know you won’t report me?”
“I promise that you, The Blood God, SBI and syndicate member, highest kill count villain, can handle being reported,” Tommy pointed out, before his brain could tell him to please shut the fuck up.
“You’re pretty mouthy for a hostage.” The Blood God drawled
After a moment of thinking, Tommy added “Please do not stab me. I do not have health insurance.”
“I am probably not going to stab you, just,” The Blood God pressed the heel of his hand against his forehead, “need a second to think.”
“Who screamed just now?” Tommy’s shoulders relaxed upon receiving the news that he was not to be stabbed, “was it you? Did you fall off of one of the roofs?”
After saying this, Tommy noticed a massive pool of blood below his feet.
“Oh, never mind,” he said cheerfully.
The Blood God sighed. He did not get paid enough for this. “Look, kid-”
“Fuck you I’m 16”
“-just, I don’t know, let me knock you out.”
“In a dirty alleyway? I cannot afford to be sick right now, bitch, and I probably already have AIDS from standing in this blood so thank you for that.”
Tommy tensed to run out of the alley, not liking his odds if he tried, but liking his odds if he got knocked out less.
“Okay, then just stay here or something. You can't get past me anyways."
"You can't hold me here, that's child abduction," Tommy said matter-of-factly.
He could maybe yell for Tubbo? Maybe Ranboo could teleport him out?
"Ah, well you see, as a criminal, I am hardly concerned about what is or is not a crime." The Bitch God responded.
Ah. The Bitch God had a point, Tommy conceded
Well. Tommy knew more than all men because he was far cooler than them, he decided.
Tommy said this to The Blood God, who looked down at him with disdain. The Blood God then tapped the side of his mask and spoke into it, "Yeah, so I found a kid," he paused, "Yup in the alleyway with me, no I cannot kill him. Yes we are still meeting here."
Tommy watched him, curious, and said, "who are you talking to?"
Okay. Shit. Tommy had to get out of this. How could he get out of this.
"None of your business," The Blood God replies
Tubbo and Ranboo were out of the question because The Blood God had heightened reflexes and would not hesitate to kill Tommy before Ranboo could teleport him out.
“Just tell me," Tommy protested
"You're like a toddler," The Blood God said, pinching his nosebridge.
"I AM NOT, BITCH," Tommy said, defending his honor against The Blood God's deceit.
"FINE I was talking to the rest of the Syndicate," The Blood God replied.
"You said they were coming here. Are you going to kill me?"
"Yes," the Blood God deadpanned.
Tommy hoped that was a joke "well good luck, I am the coolest and biggest man ever."
The Blood God looked over at him, raising his eyebrows and dropping the sword to his side.
Tommy’s posture relaxed the moment the sword was removed from his throat.
He felt the air in his fingers and imagined pulling it all towards him. The air pressure suddenly grew and he shot upwards, flying high enough he could've grabbed the top of the building if he hadn't been pulled back to the ground. Fuck.
Tommy hit the ground for the second time that night, and felt a thud reverberate through his ribs. They were for sure gonna kill him now. Panic clutched Tommy’s chest, though he tried not to let it show.
He heard an impressed whistle behind him.
Turning around, Tommy saw a large pair of wings and shining green eyes. Oh shit. The Raven.
"This the kid?" The man spoke and it had the same robotic sound as the Blood God’s. Voice changers then.
"Yep. Annoying as fuck, too," the Blood God Replied.
"You don’t want to do this" Tommy said, panic in his eyes.
"Ah, I see what you mean, mate, but he's just scared" The Raven replied.
"Oh no, he's very bitchy for a hostage. Give him a minute to get his attitude back." The Blood God said.
Tommy flicked his eyes over The Raven, trying to size him up under the cloak he wore.
And then, Tommy heard a snicker from the entrance of the alleyway.
And holy shit.
Tommy's favorite villain.
Mercury.
Mercury who could make anyone do his bidding with just a word. Who had never been apprehended, who fought with a smoothness Tommy had tried to emulate for years. Holy shit.
Mercury spoke, "so you can fly?"
"Well, sort of," Tommy said.
"What's your mutation?" Mercury asked.
"I can’t just tell you that" Tommy said.
Mercury rolled his eyes. "Well I can make you tell me, what is it?"
"Air pressure control."
The Blood God's eyes widened incrementally and he said, "damn."
"Do you have strong control?" Mercury questioned.
"Usually."
"Damn. That's a strong power." The Blood God said.
"I don't know, I can just jump around and fly a little"
"Then you're not using it right" Zephyrus said.
"Huh? Don't tell me how to use my powers bitch!" Tommy yelled, indignant.
"Oh, there's the attitude," The Blood God said.
Shit. He let his tongue get away from him. Shit he was dead. He got lower to the ground, pulling an exacto knife out of his hoodie pocket. It wasn’t much, but it might work if he was lucky.
Mercury snickered "Is that an Exacto knife?"
The Blood God began to speak "You’re gonna need more than tha-"
The crackle of a radio attached to The Raven's hip cut him off, and all of them fell silent to listen to it
“Hey, you need to get out of there, someone reported you.”
Three faces turned to Tommy.
"How would I report you? I left my phone inside. Plus, I would rather /not/ help the heroes if I have the choice. " He said.
"What do you mean, mate?" The Raven asked.
"They're not as great as everyone says. Even I know that, and I didn't even finish high school," Tommy muttered
"Huh, you an anarchist?" The Blood God asked.
"Not an anarchist, just a hero-anti I guess. I mean I could care less, they protect us in Logstedchire about the same amount as they would if they weren't here. Dosen't matter much if they're around or not," Tommy shrugged.
"Huh," The Raven said.
Mercury spoke into his mask, but there was something different in his voice than when he spoke to Tommy, “Hey Ace, can you figure out who reported us?”
The radio crackled again, “I mean I can try.”
"Well," Mercury said, "that's our cue. Bye kid"
He watched as Zephyrus took off carrying The Blood God, spiraling into the sky. Mercury used some smoke bombs on his belt to cloud the alleyway, gone by the time the smoke dissipated.
Tommy did not want to be in the alleyway. It was full of diseases and blood.
He walked through the entrance to the apartment building, disheveled and tired, and decided to think about that interaction later.
He then walked back through his apartment door, Tubbo's head popping up to look at him.
"Why didn't you come in through the fire escape?" Tubbo asked.
Shit. He needed a good lie.
"Fell off the fuckin roof again," Tommy grumbled.
Ranboo spoke, muffled by the pillow his face was squished into, "called it."
"Why is there blood on your shoes?" Tubbo questioned.
"I dunno man, there was blood in the alleyway." Tommy said.
"You're suspect."
Tommy grumbled some more.
He glamced at the clock
3:31
"I'm going to fuckin bed."
"Not until you shower," Tubbo said, "You have that interview tomorrow"
"Fuckin fine." Tommy replied.
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Wilbur tapped his pencil against his notebook as he sat criss-cross in his bed.
He had sheets of paper strewn around him, trying to draft a song he had been writing for awhile, but he couldn't think.
He couldn't seem to focus on the song when every time he blinked he remembered how that kid had looked at him. Something in the kid struck Wilbur as familiar, and he looked at his Mercury mask sitting on his bedside table.
Eventually, he gave up on trying to write new lyrics, knowing it was a fruitless effort.
He walked into the kitchen, seeing the clock sitting in the corner of the kitchen.
4:13 AM
He rubbed his eyes as he grabbed a glass, jumping when he saw a looming figure enter the kitchen. Techno's pink hair looked orange in the low light that shone through the kitchen.
"Couldn't sleep?" Techno asked.
"Couldn't stop thinking about that kid," wilbur replied, filling up his glass with ice cubes.
"Reminded me of you, you know," Technoblade said.
"That's funny. He made me think of you," Wilbur replied
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Tommy had not slept. He had laid in bed staring at the roof, which was so familiar by now that he thinks he could point out a new crack or stain instantly.
The room had been quiet, and Tommy's mind had made up for it, turning his interaction with the villains over in his head over and over again.
He eventually dragged himself out of bed, looking to the red numbers on the clock
4:47 AM
Tomorrow was Wednesday. Well, technically it was already Wednesday, but he didn't have to be at the interveiw till 11 AM. Shuffling around the kitchen for a moment, he sat down at the table with a mug of coffee and opened his laptop.
It was old, but it worked well enough as he tried to model some peices for printing on the 3d printer him and Tubbo had built shortly after becoming vigilantes.
He was making a new mask for Ranboo with night and thermal vision and a voice changer. He and Tubbo already had voice changers, but the pieces for thermal and night vision were too expensive for them to all have it, so he gave it to Ranboo, the least likely to break it. Tubbo shouldn't have to code this one much, so maybe if tommy could make it quickly enough Ranboo could have it by Saturday.
He worked on the rims of the goggles, making sure they were proportionate and would fit Ranboo, before sending the file off to the printer to realize.
The clock blinked.
5:34 AM.
Tommy blinked.
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The carpet in the waiting room had a stain in it, Tommy noticed. The rest of the carpet was an even grey, but the stain was red-brown. Gross.
It was 10:49
He was fiddling with the spacebar on his laptop as he tried to focus back onto a new support tech item he was supposed to be designing was a dart gun that you didn’t have to reload.
His current idea, the darts were stacked into the gun like toothpicks in a toothpick holder. It could probably shoot about five times between reloads. This was unrelated to the fact that Tommy had accidentally stabbed himself with a dart in the middle of a fight and passed out six times to date. He didn’t need help reloading a dart gun. He just thought it would be cool. Yup.
He rubbed his hand over the band-aid under his chin from The Blood God’s blade. He considered the interaction. Why hadn’t the villains killed him? Why did The Blood God say his power was strong? Tommy heard footsteps and snapped his laptop shut. Someone came out of a door to his left his glasses, with odd red and blue lenses, caught on the fluorescent light. His nametag read “Jack.”
The man nodded at him, asking “You Thomas Innit?”
“Yup.”
“Awesome, your interview is this way, follow me.”
Tommy trailed after Jack, tempted to ask about the glasses.
“Hey, why are your glasses like that?” Tommy paused, “not to be rude. Sorry.”
“Nah you’re good mate. It’s part of my power. I can vaguely see people’s emotions based on color, and the glasses help to get rid of it. It’s kind of distracting and feels like an invasion of privacy so I like having them but I don’t have to wear them,” Jack explained.
“Dude that’s fuckin’ awesome,” Tommy replied, faltering. “Am I allowed to say that here?”
“I mean I would avoid saying it in front of Bad but yeah,” Jack said.
“Awesome.”
They came up to a door and Tommy took a deep breath.
“Nervous?” Jack asked kindly.
“Fuckin’ terrified” Tommy replied with a huffed laugh.
“Well, I’ll put in a good word for you.”
“Thanks, big man.”
“Oh, I never said my word meant anything, I’m just an assistant,” Jack smiled.
“Still nice to know I’ve got at least one of you bastards on my side.”
Jack smiled again and walked away.
Tommy pushed open the door.
The first thing he noticed was not the floor-to-ceiling windows or the giant desk.
It was the man’s eyes.
They were a bright green, cold and calculating as they watched the door.
He also noticed how they widened in shock when he saw Tommy.
Tommy looked at his shirt to make sure he didn’t have something on it. He knew it wasn’t a suit or anything fancy but he tried to dress up a little and wore a collared shirt with jeans.
By the time Tommy looked up, the man had regained his composure, and the confidence on his face made Tommy wonder if he had even seen the man’s shock at all.
He walked into the room a bit further.
“Hello, Thomas,” The man spoke, with warmth in his voice as his glare softened into a more laid-back type of playfulness “Please sit. You’re here for the interview, correct?”
Tommy sat, and when he spoke, he did not drawl his words, giving them a crisp lightness, “Yes, I’m glad you could make time to meet with me.”
“My name is Philza and I will be interviewing you for a job as a Tech Department Manager," The man said.
Philza looked at Tommy and spoke, "what makes you qualified for this job, Thomas?"
"I think you can see that for yourself, Big man," Tommy said.
Philza smiled.
"Yes," he picked up Tommy's resume, "I can see you have a degree in Engineering from L'manburg Technology and Mathematics University. by the way, how old were you when you graduated high school?"
"Oh," Tommy paused, "I was fifteen."
This, Tommy knew, was a lie. He had no degree, had never finished high school.
You know, the kind of stuff that happens when you were supposed to be dead.
"Now, these are unusual circumstances because our last technology manager was killed by villains, and we currently have no one on staff that could take over the job.”
Tommy nodded to show he was listening.  Now, I’ve read over your resume, and It’s impressive, I’m not going to lie, especially for a, oh how old were you?”  
“Eighteen, nineteen in a month or so.”  
Philza smiled sharply. “Ah, yes, how could I have forgotten. So, you were emancipated at sixteen, correct?”  
Tommy nodded.
“Yes, I had a rough home life, so I applied for emancipation. I think this job could help.me get my footing.”  
“It’s not an easy process, takes some determination,” 
Philza said, ignoring Tommy’s attempt to change the subject.  
“It’s easier when It’s the only way you’ll make it to eighteen,” Tommy said with false calm, letting some of his Upper L’manburg accent slip, quickly adjusting his voice to have the definitive posh lilt.  
Philza backed down.  
“So,” Philza said, grinning, “Why this job?”  
Tommy leaned back in the chair. He could do interviews now that the questions about his past were over. “Well,” he began “I think I have a fitting skillset and could flourish in this position,” he ignored as his brain made a that’s what she said joke, “I think I could be an asset and I have been working in technology and engineering since I was sixteen. I am responsible and work well in leadership and would love to collaborate with the people here to produce new and innovative designs to improve the-” he faltered for a moment, “the capabilities and influence of heroes,” He finished.   
Boom, Perfect answer, Tommy thought to himself.
 “Huh. Okay then mate,” Philza paused, leveling his eyes to meet Tommy’s again and he felt himself pierced by the viridian gaze.   
Philza continued, “What do you think about heroes, Thomas?”   
Tommy paused.  “Well, they keep the community safe and help to stop villain attacks and are wonderful role models. If I had a better Mutation, I would want to be one, but I just aspire to represent them as much as I can in my day-to-day life,” Tommy lied, talking with his hands like the people in upper L’manburg. “I think they do a great job of showing how we can all come together to prote-”  Philza put a hand up, “Cut the shit”  Tommy balked, “I beg your pardon?”  Philza made eye contact with him
"Your accent is good," Philza said.
"Pardon?" Tommy asked.
"The accent's great, but Upper L'manburg citizens talk with their hands. Yours were in your lap the whole time."
Tommy froze.
"You can cut the shit, mate," Philza said.
“What are you suggesting?” Tommy asked, a threat veiled as politeness.  
“I think you know exactly what I’m suggesting, Thomas,” Philza said evenly, pausing, “I want to know your opinions on heroes. Say what you think not just recite some news article from Upper L’manburg to me.”  
“Well, I am entirely indebted to the heroes of L’manbur-”  
Philza set his hand down on the table, not slamming it, but hard enough to make a noise.
Tommy flinched, watching as Philza stored that information.  
“I said cut the shit.”  
Tommy laughed, letting his accent fall away. “Okay, you want to know what I think of heroes? I think that if they cared about my side of L’manburg, like Logstedchire and theFarlands half as much as they do the center district and Upper district, then L’manburg would be crime free. Instead, I have face-to-face encounters with the villains they’ve sworn as their enemies in alleyways full of blood while they’re off saving some millionaire’s watch so they can put it on the fucking news. I think if they really want vigilantes gone, they should do their goddamn job so teenagers and non-trained citizens in masks don’t have to do it for them. I think I should be able to sleep through the night in my Logstedchire apartment without being woken by fucking gunshots. I think they do it for the money and the fame and spit on anyone who dares question them. That’s what I FUCKING think.”  
Philza looked at him with something Tommy couldn’t decipher.  “We’ll call you to let you know if you got the job,” he said, no tells of any emotion in his voice.  
Fuck. Tommy had needed this job and he had gone and fucked it up.
God fucking damn it.  
Tommy passed Jack on the way out, who gave him a questioning look, and Tommy shook his head slightly.
Jack’s shoulders sagged. He gave him a sad nod and waved as Tommy left.
Tommy waved back, holding back tears. 
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hopecomesbacktolife · 7 months
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I’m not going to reblog the post itself because I don’t want that behavior on my blog, but oh my god I just saw a post about “looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3” and good lord the amount of bad takes both in that post and in the notes?? I have to just ramble about this for a moment because oh my god. it was ludicrous.
people were complaining that, and get this, unfinished fics exist. and that if you read an unfinished fic you’ll have to, get this, wait to read more until it’s published next. they were allll up in arms that there’s fics for a character that don’t cater to their specific interests. that they involve other characters and either do/don’t put them in a romantic relationship when they want the opposite for the character.
like at this point, most of you people in the notes on that post are 1) just being mean and condescending about FREE WORKS you can, may I remind you, READ FOR FREE and EXIT at ANY time! if you don’t like it!, don’t read it!, it’s so simple!, and 2) straight up do not know how ao3 works lmao
like I saw soooo many people in the notes complaining about a certain ship, dynamic, tag, etc, and like… y’all know you can filter by romantic vs platonic pairings, by ratings, by excluding certain tags or other qualifiers, etc etc etc… you know about ao3’s actually incredibly usable filtering and searching system… right… right??
at this point I’m just convinced a lot of these people are spoiled by large fandoms with 100k+ works for their characters and have decided to just be mean and condescending for no reason on main, about literally free fan works you can read for free any time that people spend hours and hours pouring their free time into out of sheer love for their craft. cuckoo bananas behavior if you ask me 🫠
I was legit so close to commenting that maybe they should try shipping two characters with <10 fics, with 0 fics, try liking a rare pair, try hyperfocusing on a character or niche type of fandom with a tiny but lovely circle of fans, and stop treating fan works and fic as Content TM that they deserve to have handed to them that caters to exactly what they want for free and maybe they’ll calm down lmao
like y’all aren’t cool you’re just being mean. we fundamentally approach fic in wildly different ways and honestly the way you do sounds exhausting. literally could not be me, I’m to busy finding joy in shared love for characters and not flipping the table in a rage because there’s one (1) element of the fic that isn’t specifically catered to me, maybe try that and you’ll feel better, hmm?
and yeah I’m aware that last sentence is me being condescending towards them, but frankly it’s warranted when so many people are being that mean and haughty for no reason lmao but truly those takes were horrific. fellow fic writers and even fellow fic readers I interact with, am mutuals with, authors whose works I read, readers who comment and interact with my works, fans of niche fandom subsets that run in the same circles as me— I hope you know this is so wildly not how I approach fics, I love just finding fics for my characters and forming these lil communities where we share our interests and love for them and hype each other up. I love what we have in these fandom niches and I hope you know I would never dream of being so mean and condescending towards y’all. fic writers and readers and fan communities are so special and I cherish it even if clearly there’s people in the notes on that other post who don’t know how to do that lmao. I love your unfinished WIPs, I love your fics that may only partially be what I’m looking for, I love when you write characters in a way I wouldn’t expect but shows your love for your particular headcanon, I love the variety and diversity and variance in fic. I love us. genuinely. fic writer moots I am hugging all of you and I frequently reread your works, even the unfinished ones. ♡
#personal#god this turned into a rant but sometimes I’m just shocked by how.. mean and condescending and holier-than-thou some people can be about fic#about works people write FOR FREE because they LOVE a character/ dynamic/ etc so much they can’t NOT let that love pour out into a fic tjat#once again you can READ FOR FREE HELLO#like god. maybe those people need to try not being a condescending bench (to quote Eleanor) and maybe they’ll feel better and be able to ac#tually participate in the wonder and joy and delight that is fan communities and fic communities idk man#I’m convinced some of it is people being spoiled by large fandoms and also not knowing how ao3 works at all#but like. this is not a streaming service this is an ARCHIVE it is a LIBRARY do you know how to use a LIBRARY#hello??? if you don’t like a book you can return it and borrow another???? not scribble in the margins about how you don’t like it???#like literally w h a t.#unhinged behavior and not in a cute way.#being mean isn’t cute it’s just being mean. condescension won’t magically make your dream fic scenarios appear. sorry (not sorry tho)#anyways. there was no way in hellllll! I was going to reblog that post and bring that whole mess to my blog. so instead. making my own post#(somewhat like people who can’t find fic they want could also just make their own but yknow 🤭💋)#anyways fellow fic writers and readers I interact with and am friends with ily ily and pls know I never think of your works like that in a#million years ok ❤️❣️❤️ I’m sorry some people are Mean I’m so glad the people I know who are fic writers + readers aren’t like that ty ty
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pp-goldenmeyer · 5 months
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Resting from the walks😌🐆
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applejongho · 5 months
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Walking through campus just on a nice walk admiring the buildings and plants and people, taking in the fact that is one of my last walks as a student here, and then my playlist just finishes that already bittersweet moment by playing mist for me
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nikkilover1323 · 1 year
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Ahhh, the struggle between a cheap buffet and a better quality one…
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krahworrah · 3 months
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While I was outside in my garden earlier, having a smoke in the rain, a squirrel ran over and stood under my umbrella with me for a bit. :')
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maiteo · 3 months
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Okay good palhinha is playing and there’s not 3 fullbacks this time but that attack is so shit why is Bernardo playing and not Neto
https://x.com/b24pt/status/1804525914396426453?s=46&t=Zw95KNXFc104noWwKx779Q
we win some (palhinha start) we lose some (that awful front three)….“attack” meu deus…türkiye is laughing rn.
that performance against czechia alone should’ve promoted all three of them to the bench. so unserious
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patternoticer · 1 year
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occasionally it's like. oh yeah. i am an adult and i can take myself to the park
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