#the price of your greed

[motherfuckingmaneater]

The price of your greed is your son and your daughter, what are you going to do when there’s blood in the water?

[xawkward-ariesx]

the price of your greed

Stefan should've known it was going to blow up in his face the second Klaus suggested he help dagger Kol. Particularly after how everything went down the last time he’d helped Klaus to dagger one of his siblings. That creeping feeling of trepidation had only grown when Elena too had come to him with her own plan. Two conflicting plans all to put down one Original for a cure that had apparently already led to two separate massacres. He was starting to wonder whether it was worth it if it demanded such a high price just to find it. What would happen when it was finally within their grasp?

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"I don't wanna just dagger Kol, I want Jeremy to kill him." Elena's words had already registered before Stefan foolishly tried to disguise them with the revving of his bike. 

Really mate? You should know better, had the 20s taught you anything? He wasn't some common halfling vampire that could be stumped by mere parlor tricks. It appeared he'd grown soft, let the Mystic Fools believe they were safe from retribution after all their plots against him, especially Finn's death. Well, it was time he rectified that. He'd already lost one brother after keeping him safely tucked away for 900 hundred years, he wouldn't let their hubris take another from him.

Damon's death had been swifter than he'd liked but the young vampire had never seen it coming and that was what had mattered in the moment. Time was of the essence to save his little brother, he'd already lost his youngest, the Other Side wouldn't claim Kol as well. So one second he'd been beyond the barred door and the next he was in front of the weakened vampire. Damon had barely enough time to turn at the sound of the door screeching open before he was dead, and Klaus was gone.

"If you're going to threaten me again Klaus, you can save your breath." Were the first words out of Kol's mouth before he'd even had a chance to speak.

"It seems your paranoia has gotten ahead of you, brother." Klaus ignored the scoff and muttered 'You'd know' that followed. "The Gilbert's are planning to kill you."

The line went deadly silent as Kol came to a stop, Klaus could just hear the grinding of his brother's teeth over the line but that was enough for him to picture the murderous expression he must be adorning. 

"Are they now?"

For all the Mystic Falls bunch believed him to be the biggest monster, it was Kol that had garnered the more volatile and bloodied reputati on in the supernatural world of the two. It was Kol that the older sirelings feared. The ones that were old enough to have seen the Originals in the flesh, to have watched the myths about them be born. The ones that knew if Kol had appeared at your door then no amount of pleading would save you. Kol was no wolf, he had no need for the extended chase that Klaus had subjected Katherine to. The hunt only served to amp up the fear and apprehension in Kol's eyes.

Because Kol had been a witch - not a wolf - before their turning he knew that the torment was what really made the death significant, it was the suffering beforehand that ensured the earth would be scorched with the magic of their death. And it was something that Kol specialized in as a vampire.

"Well, you can forget about suggesting I return the daggers for my own safety. With the way you've all been fumbling over yourselves for this cure for your darling former blood bag, I don't trust that you won't just serve my daggered body over to them. This cure has clearly blinded you to any sibling loyalty you once felt." And with that, the line went dead.

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[clonerightsagenda]

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[mynameisrobiniamadumbass]

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[soapdispensersalesman]

I cannot stress this enough

FUCK

SPOTIFY

Cancel your Spotify account

[moltenhair]

WOOF.

RIP Watcher i guess.

[motherfuckingmaneater]

Use the truth as you want, it changes nothing.

Pretend to be everything you are not.

Teacher, husband, father.

But there is one unavoidable truth you will never escape.

You can not change.

You will always be a monster.

[stonedregulus]

✨

“You don’t have to remember this, Ron. I can help you forget.”

“I don’t want to forget,” Ron says, shaking his head. “I want to help you. I want to help, Harry.”

“You can’t help me. I have to do this. There’s nothing you can do, I can’t stop.”

“No, you misunderstand. I want to help you kill them.”

[scarlxtleaves]

kiss day meme // closed

@crimsontwins​ asked: ☺️💋 for albedo

A day that’s reserved for kissing, how preposterous and yet Sera played along with it wholeheartedly.  Maybe she just did that to simply entertain the idea..whatever the reason she kisses him anyway, kissing her was always..something he couldn’t explain. It was a shock, it was pleasure, it was great, it was magical even...the smack of their lips separating left the lingering taste in his mouth. “Hmph, the ‘holiday’ itself is still irrelevant, still the action will always be memorable.”

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[flatstarcarcosa]

live action atla giving me no reezai brain worms outside of au concepts and general horniness.

[error-404-fuck-not-found]

Hey so remember how grocery prices suddenly jackknifed during lockdown and never went back down?

Well turns out the companies would have done that shit either way and had been steadily price-fixing for the last decade!

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson just announced more than $40 million in court-ordained Fuck You money from massive swaths of food production companies are to be paid out to households earning at or below 175% of the federal poverty level ($25.5k for 1 person, $34.5k for 2 people households) before Dec 31st of this year. Happy Holidays.

"The bottom line here is that my legal team took on two large corporate price-fixing conspiracies that increased the cost for groceries for Washington families. We've prevailed, and as a result, we are sending checks to over 400,000 Washington households."

Cannot stress enough the extent of the conspiracies he's talking about here. 15 out of the total 19 chicken producers got nailed in this lawsuit. Not the total number of conspirators, mind, just the ones who left enough evidence for the AG to kick their ass in so expedient a manner. Make no mistake, all 19 were in on it. The court case against the rest of them has been delayed until October of next year, though. None of them are making it out unscathed.

Tuna didn't escape antitrust horseshit either, because the CEOs of Starkist, Chicken of the Sea, and Bumblebee Tuna had a fucking group chat where they complained that the price of tuna was "too low" and they agreed to artificially inflate the price.

“What’s so maddening about the conduct of these companies is the reason that they engaged in this price-fixing conspiracy was greed. They wanted to make money."

So anyway the AG who nailed their asses to the wall and continues to do so is running for governor. If you live in Washington, could be worth your vote when primary season rolls around.

[arimarushunya]

lrb I'm actually so fucking mad about that. Like, my spouse has a thousand allergies and we already deal with unlabeled or improperly labelled allergies.

(Like, did you know some sesame oils are produced with seeds fried in PEANUT oil? and for some reason this doesn't need to be labelled, so someone who is not allergic to sesame may actually be allergic to some nebulous number of sesame oil brands? Or, companies aren't always required to disclose exactly which white fish their food contains, meaning someone with a freshwater fish allergy, who can otherwise eat saltwater fish, has to take a gamble on what fish the company might be talking about)

If these companies get away with adding an allergen to undermine the law, this sets a VERY dangerous precedent for any and all food companies in the future. Bc it's always gonna be easier and more cost effective to just add the allergen rather than go thru the efforts to prevent contamination.

And, at risk of sounding melodramatic, this comes at the cost of real human lives. People who have something marked as a safe food suddenly having a severe reaction, OR slowly poisoning themselves over time. Which btw the slow poisoning situation can really fuck with a person and leave them with permanent health issues, so even tho the reaction is less severe in the immediate, it's still very dangerous and life threatening.

And what about people in food deserts? people who rely on just a handful of brands? what do they eat now when all the brands have collectively decided to say fuck you? All these companies are saying they don't care about the human toll, if it means they make a few edtra bucks on a loaf of bread. They deserve criminal punishment imo, but if they manage to get away with no fines or any negative repercussions, this will undermine the whole of allergen law. And if companies aren't held accountable, they WILL continue to do this with more and more allergens, putting more people at risk and starving others.

This is disgusting. Like that post is correct, if I wasn't already vehemently anticapitalist, this would be my joker moment.