#the things I would do to be that chick

[are-we-really-doing-this]

I come bearing last-minute gifts for Fred Durst Friday.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 338

So the GIW is the Ghost Investigation Ward and not the Ghost Extermination Ward, yes? Hear me out, hm? 

See, it’s really hard to study ecto-entities when they’re going all over in and out of the world. Really hard! And of course they aren’t like, sentient, studies for years before the boom in this one town showed this! But, the overgrown not-birds (they’re still debating that) are really hard to watch doing their natural thing when they naturally mimic people around them! 

So! They got this idea, right? Their operatives can capture some! They’ve even made enclosures based off of what they currently know! It’s like containing crows, down to the mimicry & puzzle solving just er, with opposable thumbs and intangibility. 

And they don’t succeed first tries of course (Wow were said operatives frustrated and maybe cursing a bit that might be a bit violently) but then they get some assistance from the Fentons! Trying to hit an ecto-entities’ wings in a way to not permanently injure them is hard, but the new net canons that a ghost can’t pass through? Perfect! 

They have so many specimens now! They even released a few that were very much uncontainable- they rely on technology a bit and that entity kept unlocking all the doors. So catch and release with that one it is!  

They even managed to catch the white-haired ghost! In double! Which might not seem that important, but! As they realize during intake & initial examination (wow are they bitey) the two appear to be young! Something their ectobiologists only theorized about but oh are they excited! (Now if only the two would stop trying to escape their enclosure that’d be swell! Look, toys! Foo- oh dear God that baby ecto-entity is melting- Oh few, okay note taken to raise ambient ecto levels in that room dear god that was horrifying and stressful. … Maybe get some feelers out for feeding unstable energy entities…) 

[dreamofbecoming]

i’ve seen conflicting opinions on whether eddie would listen to springsteen, but i feel like the answer should be obvious. i mean, the guy painted a woody guthrie reference onto his first guitar, you can’t tell me he doesn’t have a soft spot for the johnny cashes and the willie nelsons and yes, the bruce springsteens of the world. guys with gravelly voices who sing about loss and disillusionment and being left behind, by life or the government or the girl they love. add in that springsteen openly made out with another man on stage (a black man no less) and you can’t tell me eddie wouldn’t be hooked. queer guy sings about being stuck in a small town and doomed love and hating the man? that’s his fucking shit right there. maybe he wouldn’t admit to liking him in public to protect his metalhead cred, but eddie values music, he values sincerity, he values bravery.

anyway my point is that in the 90s/00s eddie is absolutely a closet dixie chicks fan and i will die on this hill

[makotonaegiunderstander]

something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.

“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”

[adrift-in-thyme]

I know in my heart Time could walk off into the woods for a bit, maybe because he got overwhelmed and just needed to take a few minutes to himself, and he’d come back with some little deer trailing after him, and that’s just his new buddy. Everyone else (except Wars because he’s used to it at this point) is like “HELLO?? WHERE’D THE DEER COME FROM???” And Time just shrugs and goes about his business and the deer follows him wagging its little tail

- crazylittlejester

YES YESSS YOU GET IT

Time is like a Disney princess in that animals just follow him around without reason. They sense his deep connection to the forest and nature itself (plus I headcanon him being a fairy so there’s that). And they also see how gentle and kind he is.

It’s happened to him his entire life so he doesn’t even realize it’s…not exactly a normal occurrence XD It’s not uncommon for him to have an entire entourage of woodland creatures skipping after him. The Chain has no idea what to make of it

[shannonallaround]

After pondering on it for several days, I have officially decided I did not like the direction of KFP4 and have banished it from my brain. It is no longer canon. KFP4? What's that? Don't know what you're talking about.

[autumnrory]

you ever think taylor said " i need to be on the right side of history" not because she was thinking about what makes her look good but because she hadn't said anything during the 2016 relection and she wanted to do things differently in the wake of that?

[thedeadedhooman]

*any minor inconvenience occurs*

me: if sam winchester can survive 180 years of trauma and abuse in hell and come out the other side as an even more kinder and gentler and more considerate human being full of hope and light then I can go through *minor inconvenience* for sam. I have to do it for sammy. I have to

[n0heart]

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[jellogram]

I talked through a lot of shit with my coworkers today and I generally feel a lot better but there's one chick who keeps saying stuff like "Our workload is uneven and not everyone is pulling their weight" and I am like 90% sure she's talking about me and I'm just like. Okay first of all, yes, I do slack off sometimes. I try to make sure it never hangs anyone out to dry. My brain sucks at focusing for long periods so I take a lot of breaks. The alternative is for me to quit this job entirely.

Second of all, I have been having a long series of mental breakdowns for the past seven months so if you really want to get technical you should know that I was a) sleep deprived to the point of hallucinating insects, and still going to work and b) drinking myself stupid at the bar 3 times a week trying to black out because I couldn't handle my thoughts, and still going to work. So maybe I haven't been super on top of things, but come on man. I was a little preoccupied trying not to kill myself.

Lastly, have YOU considered slacking off MORE?

[docdalas]

—If you're gone, I hope it's really worth it — Twenty years of hanging on Now it all adds up to nothing. When you gave up on the moon and back— Thought you'd found your better half

I hope it’s something good

[naturalbornleaver]

I hate the argument the men make where they’re like “oh women want to be equal? Ok women try being soldier 😂 women try being oil worker 😂 women try fixing car 😂”

But it’s never

“Oh women want to be equal? Ok men try compassion. Men try empathy. Men try nurturing. Men try tolerance. Community. Connection.”

Like the only reasons these “male-dominated” fields are so respected are BECAUSE they’re male dominated. Not because they’re necessarily more” important.” That’s not to say that traditionally masculine jobs aren’t important. They are. But not any more or less important than traditionally feminine/female-dominated jobs. They’re supposed to be equal because there is supposed to be balance.

We need people who do the manual labor/tough guy/angry/boom pow/fixing jobs. And if that so happens to be mostly men, so be it. We need people who do the emotional/thoughtful/teaching/rational/caring/mending jobs. And if that so happens to be mostly women. So be it.

The point is that neither one is better or worse than the other. They both need each other. That’s their whole point. Men aren’t “naturally superior” to women, they’re just narcissists who believe that whatever they do is the most important thing.

Men don’t realize that in the abuse of women doesn’t put down women and raise men. It puts down everyone. Men have set up their own system that’s designed fail. They’re like children that are addicted to touching the stove.

[gloriousmonsters]

read camp dama.scus. enjoyed some stuff, really wish i didn't have the experience so often reading a book that's Good and Progressive and about Queer Affirmation etc of feeling like i'm side-eying the author like 'and you know that delineating the people that oppose you as pure evil that therefore deserves torture or death or being eliminated from society entirely is bad, right? you know that, right??'

[goldensunset]

FINALLY

[kedreeva]

What sorts of reptiles eat chicks instead of rodents? My knowledge is limited to egg eaters and common pet snakes like bps and hoggies who eat rodents lol so I've never encountered reptiles eating chicks!

A lot of things eat them alongside rodents!

Most snakes that aren't super specialized in prey will readily take them. You'll get stuff like... hognoses aren't easy to get to eat things like birds since they mostly eat toads in the wild (and are hard to switch to mice sometimes even), but a lot of other colubrids love them. Boas and Pythons can be a little pickier, since they're often not as opportunistic as, say, a ratsnake or something, but lots of them will take one. Snakes used to having a varied diet are more likely to try new things, too. There are also plenty of lizards that take meat items and as long as they're big enough to eat a chick whole (or the owner's willing to chop up f/t), they can be fed to them too. Chicks provide great variety in diet, with different roughage for digestion, and a little enrichment so far as novel scent and shape of food.

[bonefall]

If Feather had lived (Storm dieing in her place) and remained close to Twany, how do you think her reaction to Leopard slipping back into her old ways be? If she hadn't been kicked out at that point, would she leave for Thunderclan or help Misty?

Bonefall Feathertail has a very solemn way of coming to terms with things. Between them, Stormfur was the cynic. Feathertail is the one who always believes that things work out and will get better.

So I think her realizing this would have been quite similar to Misty. They would have shared a lot of silence, understanding exactly what the other is thinking, and what they must do.

Feathertail would stay and help Misty. I also think she wouldn't be the type to go live in the mountains. She would have stayed in RiverClan and probably become deputy after Mistyfoot kills Leopardstar. Misty can trust Feather utterly and completely. If Feather was exiled, she would come back the moment it was safe.