#the shadows send videos

[highcaliberstupidity]

Whumptober Day 6 Bloody Recordings Rating Explicit CW's/Tags Major Character injury, main character injury, torture, explicitly mentions of torture, recorded torture, Soap's being tortured by Shadows while the 141 try to find him, the Shadows send recordings, open/ambigous ending Characters Simon 'Ghost' Riley, John Price, Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick Summary

The timestamp is from three days ago. They've had him a week. And yet still, they are no closer to finding him, and now the Shadows are taunting them.

Ghost has seen enough torture that these days, it doesn't tend to have much of an effect on him anymore. 

He's seen, dealt, and endured some of the worst man has to offer. 

Yet as he watches the smoking metal rod being pressed to the bare skin of Soap's rib cage, he feels like he's the one in the chair. 

Phantom pain eruptes in his side, and he grits his teeth as he watches Soap struggle, trying to escape the pain as he screams . 

The timestamp is from three days ago. 

They've had him a week. 

And yet still, they are no closer to finding him, and now the Shadow's are taunting them. 

Beside him, he hears a pained noise, as Gaz finally cracks and looks away, feels Price stiff and unmoving on his otherwise. 

Yet Ghost can’t look away.

He stares at Soap's bloodied, bruised skin, at his ragged, matted hair, and the tears tracking down his grimy skin. 

Who knows what's going to be left of him when they find him? 

The rod draws away, and Soap slumps, shaking and heaving as he tries to prepare for the next blow. 

"We have to find him, Cap. I can't watch anymore of this." Gaz looks like he's going to be sick, a bit ironic, Ghost thinks, because he's seen the man lay on torture just as cruelly. 

But he supposes it's different, watching it happen to someone you care about. 

It certainly feels that way. 

"We'll find him Gaz, we will." Price says it firmly, darkly , as he grits his teeth and reaches for the receiver. 

Ghost stops him with a hand on his wrist, and he can feel both of them stop, eying him. 

"I want to see it all." His voice is low, nothing but grating gravel and thick accent as his eyes never leave the screen, tracking the knife now being taken to his Sergeants bare chest. Gaz opens his mouth to speak, expression sour, but Ghost cuts him off before he can even squeak. 

"I want to see it, so I know exactly what I'll do to the man who did this when I find him." Gaz's jaw snaps shut, and Price retracts his hand after a moment's hesitation. 

"We'll find him, Simon." His voice is soft, and Ghost knows there’ll be pity in those pale blue eyes if he turns to face him. 

So he doesn’t, just lets his own expression harden as he folds his arms over his chest and fixes his gaze on Soap . 

"I know we will."

[aurosoulart]

I put a little deer inside the lamp to be its light source... his name is Lightbringer and he acts as a guide through even the darkest of forests. ☀🦌

(ps: if you have Figmin XR, you can download this and put it in your own home here!)

[l3fool]

So you're telling me out of all of Leonard Cohen's discography, they pulled the song that he compares him & his lover to Steve McQueen and Marlon Brando.. and lupe and Vaseline.. and made that music video.. and we still have those who doubt?

[vagueconfusion]

They sound so good together.

[the-chocolate-thunder2]

ASK SONIC CHARACTERS, but from my designs I’m going to use in a fan comic that’s gonna be in development soon, current cast: sonic, tails, knuckles, Amy, shadow, and eggman

[donaviolet]

going kinda insane with some new lighting techniques >:33

do u guys think it looks better with or without blur? I'm still experimenting a bit around

[heli0s-writes]

[callibones]

[greenbergsays]

I have not touched video editing software since I used to make Peter/Claire fan vids back in the S1/S2 Heroes days—you know, back when I was seventeen, aka The Teenager’s age—but I’m definitely relearning how to do this shit just to I can make myself a Crows supercut

Say what you want about fangirls but being one teaches you skills you wouldn’t otherwise have

[nomaishuttle]

its impossible for you all to understand how much of my thoughts r in sweeney references. like there is one person on this earth who understand and its my sibling who is similarly inclined...

[italiantea]

hello dearest mutual. I am waving at you from the shadow realm. it's so dark in here. if I could I would give u cards from the sidelines to support your duel. (you realize they're all off brand pokemon cards but it's the thought that counts.)

anyway unfortunately im the kind of guy who listens to the same thing every day for months on end so I can't say I've branched out to new taiwanese indie bands :///

one band I've found through a collab with vast & hazy is mary see the future

particularly this song

(disclaimer: I have not listened to many of their songs. I won't sit here and be a fake fan. but hey it's a pretty cool song)

as for taiwanese artists in general, I'd point you towards ?te, whom I can only describe as cool sexy faceless lady with a Very big hat. she does multilingual R&B. very chill and groovy. and sexy. did I mention she dropped out of med school and made a song titled fuck in italian? she's so cool

and lastly for underrated music I'd like to plug this song demo, recently featured in an Adam Neely music critique video. incredibly talented, Vibes off the charts.

[bloodyke]

tagged by @swimmignfool 🥰 to shuffle my spotify wrapped and post the first 10 songs.

under your spell - the birthday massacre

taking over me - evanescence

247 - seventeen

dr. bebe - pentagon

love me more - mitski

drunk walk home - mitski

nasini el donya - ragheb alama

mi meyor venganza - la india

the hunger - vampyrean

abigail - motionless in white

[absentlyabbie]

seriously, though. i work in higher education, and part of my job is students sending me transcripts. you'd think the ones who have the least idea how to actually do that would be the older ones, and while sure, they definitely struggle with it, i see it most with the younger students. the teens to early 20s crowd.

very, astonishingly often, they don't know how to work with .pdf documents. i get garbage phone screenshots, sometimes inserted into an excel or word file for who knows what reason, but most often it's just a raw .jpg or other image file.

they definitely either don't know how to use a scanner, don't have access to one, or don't even know where they might go for that (staples and other office supply stores sometimes still have these services, but public libraries always have your back, kids.) so when they have a paper transcript and need to send me a copy electronically, it's just terrible photos at bad angles full of thumbs and text-obscuring shadows.

mind bogglingly frequently, i get cell phone photos of computer screens. they don't know how to take a screenshot on a computer. they don't know the function of the Print Screen button on the keyboard. they don't know how to right click a web page, hit "print", and choose "save as PDF" to produce a full and unbroken capture of the entirety of a webpage.

sometimes they'll just copy the text of a transcript and paste it right into the message of an email. that's if they figure out the difference between the body text portion of the email and the subject line, because quite frankly they often don't.

these are people who in most cases have done at least some college work already, but they have absolutely no clue how to utilize the attachment function in an email, and for some reason they don't consider they could google very quickly for instructions or even videos.

i am not taking a shit on gen z/gen alpha here, i'm really not.

what i am is aghast that they've been so massively failed on so many levels. the education system assumed they were "native" to technology and needed to be taught nothing. their parents assumed the same, or assumed the schools would teach them, or don't know how themselves and are too intimidated to figure it out and teach their kids these skills at home.

they spend hours a day on instagram and tiktok and youtube and etc, so they surely know (this is ridiculous to assume!!!) how to draft a formal email and format the text and what part goes where and what all those damn little symbols means, right? SURELY they're already familiar with every file type under the sun and know how to make use of whatever's salient in a pinch, right???

THEY MUST CERTAINLY know, innately, as one knows how to inhale, how to type in business formatting and formal communication style, how to present themselves in a way that gets them taken seriously by formal institutions, how to appear and be competent in basic/standard digital skills. SURELY. Of course. RIGHT!!!!

it's MADDENING, it's insane, and it's frustrating from the receiving end, but even more frustrating knowing they're stumbling blind out there in the digital spaces of grown-up matters, being dismissed, being considered less intelligent, being talked down to, because every adult and system responsible for them just

ASSUMED they should "just know" or "just figure out" these important things no one ever bothered to teach them, or half the time even introduce the concepts of before asking them to do it, on the spot, with high educational or professional stakes.

kids shouldn't have to supplement their own education like this and get sneered and scoffed at if they don't.

[bisexualpixiebabe]

I love it when I get a part time job that I don't need per say so I can call them out on their shady shit without super major repercussions.

[novelmonger]

Arbitrarily-Chosen Video Game Tournament, Round 1.11

Welcome to the Arbitrarily-Chosen Video Game Tournament, where we will find out which of the games I've played is the best game of all time!

Why? Don't ask. Just vote and reblog!