#vic no one cares

[chawliekin]

and if I said that dennis’ insistence on being the breadwinner/provider despite literally being a pampered princess who dgaf about traditional roles of masculinity in every other regard (aside from ego) is because his mom only stayed with/chose frank for his wealth and dennis is highly aware that he’s difficult to love and unable to show his emotions openly so he has to be contributing something to the relationship materially in order to feel like he’s worth staying for… and mac grew up with parents who were extremely ambivalent to him and eachother so he has to overcompensate by proving his worth at every given moment and seeking praise/validation from people (and religious icons) who will never demonstrate the same amount of dedication to him but he has no idea how else to desperately keep himself close to those he loves other than by eroding himself into something they’ll approve of… dear god they’re both exactly what the other needs — someone who can’t and won’t leave them even if they try — and they don’t even see it…

[svtskneecaps]

lukewarm take of the evening: y'all care too much about being ""outdated"". fellas this smp moves inhumanly fast. it is ok to CHILL holy shit CHILL. y'all are like "(posts BANGER ART) super late guys sorry" friend i am hitting you with a blanket i am snapping you with my metaphorical towel WHAT DO YOU MEAN SORRY. "(posts BANGER FIC) rip this is outdated now" WHO CARES???? I LOVE YOU, OK. ohhhh woe is us as the fandom at large for having MORE HAPPY PILLS ARC CONTENT oh no how outdated!! how could you be writing speculative fiction about how forever felt during happy pills :( slash SARCASM!! WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!!! THERE ARE SO MANY BANGER ARCS, WHAT, YOU THINK WE'RE COMPLAINING????? FOR GETTING MORE OF THE CONTENT WE LOVED????? oh no we're past the period where everyone thought green gay ninjas were like Dead Dead, my work is now outdated and noncanon :( WDYM. GIMME. A BANGER IS A BANGER IDC IF IT TAKES THREE MONTHS. you think rome was built in a day?? fuck you, baltimore, GIMME. my ass has been cooking a goddamn backflipo family fic since july when it was ALREADY outdated do you think i fear god??? "oh no, you're making an edit of slime's (attempted) egg murdering spree?? how could you, that was months ago it's irrelevant" SAID NO ONE EVER.

save your wrists kidlings ok carpal tunnel is no joke. CHILL!!!!! CHILL!!!!!!!! TAKE YOUR TIME SHEEEEEESH OK LOVE YOU <3

[jackklinemybeloved]

every time I watch Very Important People I am blown away by how much work Vic is putting in to create a character that is so textured and hilarious while also interacting with a new character each time. they manage to nail a character that seems to have a lot of confidence and is cruel towards their staff while also being deeply insecure and sad. tldr vic michaelis is a gift.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

more characters who are technically from T$$ (lore under the cut)

So Lis/Lisbet (more commonly known as "Lu", her codename) was one of Vic's first victims when he started working on his own. At the time, Lu was a secretary at a law firm. Unbeknownst to her, her bosses owed money to a local mob boss, and Vic was hired to "apply pressure". By pure coincidence, Lu was the unlucky target. Her torture was recorded and sent to the firm, and it was roughly three weeks before the money was coughed up and she was released.

Her captivity resulted in the loss of her right hand and most of her left leg, and a pregnancy. With Lu not being in a healthy emotional or mental place, the baby was raised by Lu's sister and her husband. Meanwhile, Lu decided she was sick of feeling like a victim and began devoting her time to training, getting physically stronger, and hunting down Victor Shepard.

While her family was very supportive for the first few years of her recovery, most of them were horrified by her desire for revenge. Despite being raised in a close-knit Catholic family and being religious herself, Lu quickly became disgusted at her family's urging to forgive Vic and move on. The only relative who didn't shy away was her cousin Adrien (also known by his codename, "Uriel")

The two were close as children, and Adrien wanted revenge for Lu as much as she did. He not only listened to Lu's violent fantasies, but encouraged them, offering ideas of his own. As a former Marine, he had training to back him up, and helped Lu on her own journey, swiftly becoming her second in command and the most trusted person in her life.

Through the years, Lu tried to maintain routine visitation with her child, but the visits always felt strained, and gradually her goal took over and she came over less and less.

Years later, Lu's son (then going by Leo) sought her out. His aunt had warned him that Lu was going down a dark path, but he was desperate to form some kind of connection with her. He knew the basics of what had happened to his mother, but at her own request, he'd always been told that his father had passed away before his birth. Lu welcomed him aboard, finding it easier to foster a connection when he could be viewed as a soldier and not her son. When he came of age, she welcomed him into her group officially, granting him the codename Gabriel.

Though Vic is her target, Lu and her angels also chase after people like him, capturing and killing them in the name of avenging those who have been lost or had their lives destroyed.

In canon, Lu briefly captures Vic, but he escapes before she can do any real damage. However, in this AU, she manages to contain him, and gets the revenge she's sought for so long.

[wolvertooth]

LOOK AT THIS ALT COVER LIKE..UHM.......hellooooooooo gorgeous🙋‍♀️

[incoherentbabblings]

It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things but something I always found ??? about the Queen Charlotte Bridgerton series is the refusal to engage with why Charlotte and George's daughters were so late to marry and, yeah, it was partially Charlotte needing her daughters as emotional crutches when George completely lost his mind but also George's sisters and aunts were beaten abused and humiliated by their husbands and yes that really did colour his engagement in discussions for potential matches.

His aunt Mary was frequently beaten in Hesse, his sister Caroline Matilda's story in Denmark was so bad she was dead by 23 and his great aunt Sophia Dorothea in Prussia once watched her daughter nearly be murdered by her father during one of his rages to the point where it was the servants dragging him off her, not to mention her repeatedly trying and failing to protect her son from his father too. These were well known and publicised moments, these were not secrets. People knew.

So like... British princesses did not do well on the continent and George knew that was was extremely cautious about where he would be sending his daughters. This is the guy after-all who was known for being rather out of step for how much he enjoyed being a father.

I know Bridgerton is dumb fluff but it's still really teeth grinding in its erasure of George's caution when it came to safeguarding his daughters before he became incapable of making arrangements. And that in itself led to them being taken advantage by older men in their households because they were the only men the girls knew. They never stood a chance.

That's more interesting and heartbreaking than the girls meekly saying they wanted to stay with their mum to be her personal punching bags. Charlotte did need her daughters, and they resented her for it and turned to less than stellar men offering them a way out. Not the other way around. George loved the girls and had seen his own family be abused and beaten. His over-protectiveness led to them being taken advantage of.

Idk. This is just a ramble, but giving the daughter's this selfless motivation to stick by their mother when they had well and truly been failed by their parents (never intentionally!!) I guess makes for a less complicated tv story.

[donnydamakkk]

victoria, my love, when u go to dark places, u terrify me.

[svtskneecaps]

friends and fiends if this truly spells the Over for the qsmp i may let the brainworms that have been festering in me for MONTHS--A YEAR, EVEN--win.

i may summarize the goddamn fucking lore.

[fungi-maestro]

The Question #3 (1987)

[darcyolsson]

first of all. completely hysterical worldbuilding when it comes to families and inheritance and adoption as always. phenomenal, no notes. second of all this is really top 10 anime betrayals towards the lightwoods jace bestie who CARES about a house or even will herondale's welsh dragon tattooed ass. we spent 6 books establishing theyre your actual family only for you to now do a 180 in the literal last chapter of the last book be so forreal right now

[lcd-101]

And here we are! This just came in from Japan… a Panasonic FS-A1WSX! This is a MSX2+ home computer and a model I’ve had my eye on for a while. With the upgraded RAM, it should be one of the best MSX computers out there.

It came with an issue of MSX Fan from June/July 1993 and the matching disk! The video output is very clear, even over composite. I’d love to play around with it more, but I’ve got to go to work and I still need to buy a MSX flashcart to start playing Snatcher and Parodius and whatever else.

But it’s pretty cool for now, right?

[gloriousmonsters]

Yeah that 2nd ep of poker face gives me a sour taste in my mouth. They could have done it well tho, showed that the other guy's "protectiveness" leads him to see him as a threat bc of his assumptions. Like it could have been deconstructing both the sanism and the patriarchal vibes. But nah. Crazy guys gonna be crazy ok

YEAH like... I really don't like that they show the guy asking the girl (I remember no names sorry lol) 'is he bothering you?' and she's literally like 'eh, no' and then his reaction is to take a knife to go confront the guy alone and tell him to leave the girl alone? fucking hello???? i'm supposed to be ok with an ex-military guy with a knife in his pocket white knighting for a girl, and rooting against the guy who killed him? i'm gonna be honest if a dude who'd just been lecturing me about how luck didn't exist had won the lottery in front of me, I'd have pushed him off the roof too. but seriously White Dude The Bad One is in no way progressive if you're using the same tired stereotypes about mumbly dudes who look like they don't shower much being murderers in waiting

[6twisted6gentleman6]

My heart carries this deep love and sorrow for you.

The love and happiness I get when I'm with you, I forget about our current situations that we both are fighting against.

The love and comfort we both feel, just melts everything away that I feel no pain. And I'm so happy in our moments.

But i feel a deep pain and sorrow when we are apart. Like it gets so hard to breathe and exist in this pain.

I've lived with this deep pain for so long that I can't remember what caused it when I was little...I never imagined that the pain could be worse...

I miss you when I can't reach out to you. And when I see you crying when you tell me you miss me...I hold you so tight...I will always be patient and wait because I know we would be worth it...

It's just a matter of getting through the Long nights without you...it's a matter of bearing through the pain I feel in my heart as I miss you more than anything else.

[svtskneecaps]

so what i'm putting together from osmosis and the wonderful livebloggers and the incredible arkanis english updates account is something like this

Prefeito Jota: Hello, I'd like to hire you to investigate what happened in my city/island(?)!

Bagi, who was previously "invited" to a mysterious island/city by its elected official, subsequently trapped on the mysterious island/city, investigated the deep mysterious history of the island/city, came to no conclusions, found her brother after years of searching, was separated once again from her brother, gained and lost an adopted daughter (possibly to being kidnapped by the island government, which was evil), gained and lost a demon fiancée (possibly to being dragged back to hell, so there's no way to find her), gained and lost a close demon friend to dubious circumstance (did he die for his children? is he with skeppy in the gas station?), and has had an unknown amount of time to process and/or suppress all of this: Sure! :D

[icarodamiano]

Vic used a new (Danelectro, of course) bass tonight during GASOLINE!

[fungi-maestro]

The Question #4 (1987)