#worst fucking timeline

[thebusylilbee]

"This is the most massive episode of species extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. More than half of all insects are disappearing worldwide at an accelerated rate; the hecatomb is reaching the staggering figure of 80 % for Europe. When insects disappear, the entire living chain is affected. More food for birds dying en masse, fewer pollinators for key food crops. A frightening assessment in a synthesis of 73 studies pointing to the responsibility of intensive agriculture in this collapse of life."

[wombtowaste]

how can a kid be murdered and ppl are debating their fucking pronouns and saying its "what they get" for being trans. if they were cis (and white) it wouldnt even be a debate it would be national news. i fucking hate it here. nowhere else is better, that trans girl got stabbed to death in the UK a few months ago. canada is like the united states but somehow even more racist. i dont speak another language. i cant detransition (and i dont want to) bc im interesex so im clocky no matter how i present. sucks everywhere

[sentientsky]

england v spain in the finals. would someone like to throw me into the sun pleasee

[thatstormygeek]

love the way fascists are comfortable acting so openly that a brand using a number as a name means however much research before deciding if it's one you can support.

Four digits? Probably a year. But you never know. And then why that year? What is it about that specific date that makes it important enough to use for branding?

Oh, joy.

[mooonwalker]

did woodz delete all his insta pics?????????

[lemony-snickers]

woof. seeing someone admit (anonymously, of course) that they've pasted "hundreds of fics" into chatgpt to continue unfinished stories or see a different plot with similar elements is... fucking ouch.

it doesn't matter if you don't publish it or whatever. you're taking someone's hard work and giving it to a blah sort of robot because you want something different or more?

then write a fanfic of the fic, man. daydream a gloriously self-indulgent au in your head and smile to yourself about it. get fucking creative. it's just such a soulless act to hand someone else's blood, sweat, and tears to a chatbot and be like, "spit me out something," damn.

[andromeda3116]

look, i know everyone said that the new interview with the vampire show was incredible but holy shit i was not prepared for how incredible this show is

like, not only is louis interesting now, he is incredibly compelling! his once-bland internal dilemma is now given actual weight because it's not just the same old Thou Shalt Not Kill But I Am Hungry story, it's tempered through his righteous fury at how black people have been treated all these years, how many people have wronged him and laughed and expected him to laugh along, how his ties to the community that once saved him are now turning to nooses around his throat, how his family that he once provided for and relied on have now come to fear him

that, combined with his explicit homosexuality, and with lestat being the only one who seemed to accept him and love him for all that he is, and how that is both comforting and incredibly toxic and combined with sam reid's insane charisma and mania and gravity as lestat that make it completely understandable why louis would still be drawn to him in spite of everything

and how they've used the changes from the original to this one to examine how memory shifts regarding someone who was so intense and formative in your life even if they were ultimately so controlling and abusive but still left such huge gouges in your personality like knives

like

fuck

this is the best-written show i have seen in a long time like this is top-tier writing holy shit

[iholli]

like don't get me wrong it is 100% absolutely sad what's happening with the Titanic submersible and condolences to the families who have to pick up the pieces from this. but if you paid a quarter of a million dollars to get on an untested tube of claustrophobia named Titan made with over the counter camper parts that is literally held together with bolts and prayers and is controlled by a fucking knockoff Xbox controller, all with the intention of further disturbing a hundred year old gravesite with worse visuals than if you just looked at pictures on your phone, you absolutely sent yourself to your death. You asked for that shit. You literally signed your death warrant.

Titanic wants to be left to rest and she is proving that in any way necessary. If they even find that rust bucket it's going to be at the bottom of the ocean in her corpse, left to corrode with the rest of the graves.

[ganondoodle]

so

ninetdy just announced that they are, and have been, working on a live action zelda.

i am not joking.

like i needed to lose my only source of sanity right now too, fkying hell

there goes my hyperfixation i guess.

[soaked-ghost]

taking a break from skeleton posting to show u my awesome child that I love

the third and fourth pictures are redraws of these

[maxthesillyy]

anyways so this is what happened right

[number1villainstan]

[Video description: Revolutionary Girl Utena clips edited over the audio from the "you wouldn't like me before my coffee" vine. Touga tips his head back and says "You wouldn't like me before my coffee" in an insufferable tone, and Wakaba replies with "That's so weird because I fucking hate you. All the--every--all the time. Every day." End video description.]

little meme edit I made on a whim

[gayofthefae]

I said it a lot more deep and moody here but in short and a much lighter tone:

Will is THAT BITCH. Be like Will. Be the boy who has boys he didn't even date never being able to look at their girlfriends the same way after you because you ruined love for them forever by being the best they'll ever achieve and can never have again or recreate with anyone else. Go off. Be like Will.

[bikananjarrus]

and okay. i know that announcing planned books about acolyte characters (indara being in vernestra’s book, the jecki and yord book, the mini comic runs (i think?)) doesn’t mean that a 2nd season was going to be confirmed. but also WHY would disney/LF invest so much in doing more media for the characters if they just, were gonna fucking cancel the show?????

[crimeronan]

AU Hunter taking care of Luz's hair? 🥺

YEAH... okay you guys can have my thoughts.

i'm always playing fast and loose with the number of servants on hand at any given moment. realistically luz would have servants to help her with her hair and getting dressed and whatnot, but i also like thinking about hunter taking care of her hair.

it's something i think could start when they're really little, honestly -- i'm gonna go out on a limb and say belos Probably did not bother learning how to care for his afro-latina daughter's hair, even if he was never Overtly Racist toward her. (i DO think the novelty of "you're a human!! <3" overpowered everything else wrt her skin tone, thank god.)

and given that he is Child Neglect Georg, it probably wasn't getting taken care of until hunter himself was like. hey. this is making luz Miserable. i fix.....

very fond of the idea that one of the few times hunter has actually asked darius for help has been in learning to moisturize and wrap and braid textured hair.

anyway with all of this as background, my main thought Today was about the worst timeline AU, where luz spends months thinking he's dead and completely gives up. on everything. under ordinary circumstances camila would help her with her hair, but luz does Not like being touched (for perfectly understandable reasons) and is prone toward freaking out, so camila is very anxious at the thought of asking to detangle or cut it.

so hunter gets there and sees that luz's hair is a giant fucking mess, which is part of why he thinks camila has been neglecting/hurting her, and he spends most of that first night going through approximately 85% of the hair products in the bathroom as he detangles the mats. because luz doesn't have any problem being touched by him and in fact wants him to stay near her and keep touching her hair for as long as possible. & hair care as a form of intimacy gets me Every Tiiiime......

waugh.

[tvckerwash]

thoughts on wash's fighting style and his position in pfl because I can (utc because it's really long lol):

wash is very unique among the freelancers for a variety of reasons, one is that he doesn't specialize in one specific area of anything, he's a jack of all trades who is able to fill in for other freelancers if necessary. for example in s9 when york was supposed to be unavailable for lock picking/infiltration duty, carolina immediately went to wash (and we are ignoring that york is not shown to be good at lock picking!) if she trusted wash to fill in for their specialist in one area, I feel it's not a stretch to imagine that he can do so in other areas as well.

need a snipper but north and wyoming aren't available? wash can cover. need someone to get into the enemies' computer systems in place of ct, south, or york? wash can cover. need someone for stealth or reconnaissance in place of florida? wash can cover. etc etc.

wash's combat style reflects that jack of all trades, master of none thing very well too, as the way that he fights is very grounded and pragmatic when compared to the rest of the freelancers. a lot of people like to portray wash as less skilled than the other freelancers, but in truth I believe that wash being able to keep up and compete with the other freelancers despite his lack of dramatic flare is a show of just how competent and skilled of a soldier he is. wash is so good at doing what he does that he doesn't need all that extra bullshit to get the job done. sure, he might not look as Cool and SexyTM as the others while doing it, but completing the mission and surviving to live another day takes precedence over all else.

another way of looking at it is that wash fights in the same way that the odst's do, that is to say that he fights like a human who cannot plow his way through the battlefield in the same way the spartans can. wash's style of fighting is one that employs careful planning and targeted hit and run tactics—this is most obvious in recovery one and s6 whenever he's fighting against the meta.

I also feel it's important to note that wash is not a cqc fighter, he can handle himself if he gets into a cqc situations but his primary weapon is the battle rifle—which is a mid/long range weapon. if I'm being honest wash's way of fighting makes waaaaaaaaay more sense if you look at him not as someone who is trained to primarily fight against other humans, but as someone who is trained to fight against 8ft 2 ton aliens with plasma weapons that can slice through the hulls of UNSC battle cruisers (ships designed to travel through space!!!) like a hot knife cuts through butter and have the technology to raze entire planets to the ground in a matter of minutes.

I also personally believe that wash has the most military experience out of all the freelancers right behind florida, wyoming, and maine (who I hc as a spartan iii). we know that wash did his basic training in the leonis minoris system (a canonical halo system) and that system had two of the three planets glassed by the covenant in 2537, and wash directly references these events in the washed hands interview in the fan guide and the way he says it implies that he likely completed his basic training that same year. now I have some grievances with the timeline given in the book when it comes to the events depicted in the freelancer saga because it's just kinda weird, but everything prior to that bit is actually fine (though I hate the way that they decide to number the timeline lmao).

now in halo canon the human/covenant war ended in 2552, and according to the timeline in the rvb fan guide that was 1 year after alpha was sent to blood gulch. project freelancer is first cleared for funding 7 years BBG (before blood gulch), and recruits the 50 freelancers 5 years BBG. doing some math we can determine that pfl was cleared for funding in the year 2544, and the freelancers are recruited for pfl in 2546. so assuming wash finished his basic training in 2537 that would mean that he was in the military for 9 years before he joined pfl, and while wash is addressed as a corporal (e-4) in the washed hands interview he was most likely demoted to that after he was court martialed, and he was possibly going to be dishonorably discharged from the military because of his disorderly conduct.

using the current standards used by the us marine corps when it comes to rank progression, wash was most likely a sergeant (e-5) who was very close to being promoted to a staff sergeant (e-6). wash as a sergeant would've essentially been the assistant manager/co-leader of the platoon he was in while his staff sergeant was the manager/leader, and that would explain why he was able to even get into an argument with his CO in the first place. I believe wash held a similar position in pfl, as it's kind of implied that he did some management stuff in pfl (talking with internals/upper brass, him feeling comfortable with openly questioning carolina about whether york should be allowed on the sarcophagus heist, and of course he shows the ability to direct and somewhat lead south in recovery one, and him leading church, caboose, and the reds in s6, and him taking charge of the meta in s8).

even if wash wasn't a sergeant as a corporal he would've been in a position to be the leader of a fire team, so basically wash isn't some rookie who had no clue wtf he was doing as many in the fandom like to characterize him; he is an experienced and battle hardened soldier by the time he joins pfl no matter how you look at it.

to put all of that into context, carolina is born 29 years BBG, which would be 2522. so during pfl she's in the 24-28 range and she wouldn't have joined the military until 2540. I actually personally head canon that wash is the same age as carolina, but that he illegally enlisted at 15 because of a crappy home life, but ignoring my head canon and assuming that he joined the military at 18 instead, he would've been born in 2519.