#// you'd be safer drinking actual poison

[fishermcn]

// you'll know you've gotten into sam's good graces when the location of the hidden hooch stash is "leaked" to you. doubly so if you can survive drinking it with him.

[mercumeme]

Wait, cadmium and lead in chocolate?? What do you mean????

Oh buddy, I'm about to ruin chocolate for you (besides chocolate harvesting/processing being one of the largest and most brutal sources of child slavery and human trafficking in Africa and Central/South Americas... buy slave-free chocolate).

According to a study conducted by Consumer Reports published in January of 2023, 23 of the 28 most popular dark chocolate bars sold in America that they tested had levels of cadmium & lead that would put the consumer over the legal and safe limit of one or both of said heavy metals by eating just one ounce a day. All 28 had trace amounts of both heavy metals.

To further this, Consumer Reports conducted another study in October of 2023 for heavy metals in other chocolate products (milk chocolates, baking mixes, drink mixes, chocolate chips, chocolate powder, etc.) and found that a third of all chocolate products tested showed cadmium and lead levels that were over the legal and safe limit (this "limit" was measured against California's legal limit for heavy metals in food, as they are not regulated by the FDA or at a federal level). All products were found to have trace amounts of both heavy metals within them.

You may be asking yourself, how did the chocolate get contaminated in the first place? Well, according to a similar study conducted between 2014-2017 by As You Sow, "Cadmium (Cd) is taken up by the roots of the cacao trees and deposited in parts of the fruits" while lead seems to enter the beans during the harvesting process by being absorbed from the air by the drying and fermenting beans. This means that lowering the amount of heavy metals in chocolate, while possible, will be a long process that will result in chocolate that will still have heavy metals within it.

What do heavy metals do to the body, and why should you care? Good question! Significant exposure to cadmium can cause lung cancer, birth defects, and other reproductive harm, while significant exposure to lead can slow children's growth and development and damage the brain and nervous system. While frightening, the amounts found in chocolate are not likely to cause adverse effects unless consumed in excess or by someone especially susceptible to heavy metal poisoning (children, the elderly, those with liver or kidney issues, and the immunocompromised).

I personally continue to eat chocolate, I just do my best to keep it small, infrequent amounts and from companies that actually care about human rights. If you'd like to see if the chocolate you consume is suspect, please click the linked Consumer Report articles above. They also have a list of "safer choices" that you can buy that have less than the legal limit of heavy metals per serving.

[smytherines]

Yes yes yes yes yes. I apologize in advance for the essay, I've just posted so much about this and it feels like it constantly gets dropped, and it's so important to his character.

In A1P1 Curt doesn't drink to excess, but it's important to note that he pulls his flask out immediately after Cynthia insults him and compliments Owen and tries to recruit Owen. Alcohol is how he deals with uncomfortable feelings.

In Spy Again Curt realizes that his drinking has gotten to a very bad point, that he's using it to suppress his grief, and it makes him incapable of doing the one thing he feels like he's good at. It leads to this endless cycle of drinking to cope with the grief day to day, but the drinking is the thing ultimately keeping him from moving forward.

The whole song is about the conflict he feels between wanting to be a spy again, to feel like a person again, and the guilt and grief he feels over Owen's death. That he doesn't feel like he deserves to move on after he killed his best friend. Every time he sings a line about how badly he's feeling, its followed by a line about drinking. He's able to decide that getting back into the spy game is what he needs by convincing himself that this is what Owen would want for him- to move on, to go back to the job they both loved, to do some good in the world.

So much of Spy Again is focused on Owen. Curt feels shame about who he has become since Owen's death- "Owen please, if you could see, what's become of me, what would you think."

He convinces himself to stop drinking by tying it to his love for Owen- "I think you'd want me to spy again, you'd put this drink down, turn my life around" like he's giving himself permission to live again by imagining Owen encouraging him to do so. And in any other circumstance that is probably exactly what Owen would do.

And of course the most important one- "Owen would want me to do this, so I know that I'll get through it." He's going to commit to not drinking anymore and get his life back, in honor of the partner he loved. He's using Owen as something to hold onto, instead of drinking himself into oblivion. It's the first real step he takes towards moving on, no longer drinking to forget him, but staying sober to remember him and honor his wishes.

And he does! With the exception of the poison flask, he does not drink again until One More Shot. But putting One More Shot in context, it happens after he goes rogue, after he fucks up spectacularly at the gala, after he confesses to Tatiana that he is afraid that he will never be the spy he once was.

That's why One More Shot is actually pretty sad to me. Everything that happens in that song bums me out. The peer pressure, the way he gets sloppy drunk, the way Barb is pouring drinks down his throat and groping him. I know it's supposed to be the fun Here's the Team moment, but this entire show Curt's alcoholism has represented him hiding from his own feelings, his self-destructive behavior. So it's hard for me to suddenly see his drinking as a fun casual thing when it has consistently been a negative force in his life.

And it's not as if this was a casual relationship with alcohol. He didn't go through a couple of weeks of hard drinking- he drank himself into a hole for four years. Even if he wasn't emotionally dependent on alcohol (which he absolutely is), he is definitely physically dependent on alcohol. There is no way he drank that hard for that long and doesn't have severe withdrawal symptoms. And those symptoms can be very severe. You can have seizures, fall into a coma, you can die from alcohol withdrawal. I absolutely agree that lines like "I feel the feeling coming back to me now" make the most sense in the context of him no longer experiencing withdrawal symptoms. Of returning to the state of hard drinking he has become used to.

I'm a harm reductionist. I firmly believe that people with alcohol use disorder can transition from harmful, chaotic alcohol use to a more reasonable, safer level of alcohol consumption. Sobriety isn't the only win state here.

That being said, I firmly believe that from a narrative perspective Curt is drinking again at the end of the show because he is trying to bury the grief of killing Owen again. I think most people would barely survive killing the person they love once. Curt has now done it twice. I think now he drinks just to keep living.

Frankly, from a narrative perspective, A2P7 is such a drastic tone shift that not even a total banger like Spy Dance can fix it. I kinda have to rely on headcanon to make it make any sense to me at all.

I think he appears so casual in A2P7 because he has already returned to drinking. He's using alcohol to suppress his feelings again. Hell, when he has that phone call with his mom about having a fresh start, the second item on his list is "restock the bar." Maybe for a little while he can convince himself that the drinking is no longer a problem, but I think when he realizes that Barb and A.S.S. are doing the same thing that Owen was doing, when he keeps trying to take down Chimera and can't, he'll realize that the alcohol still has control of him. But by then, the one thing he was able to hold onto to have just a few days of sobriety is long dead. And Curt is the one who pulled the trigger.

I don't think he is ever sober again.

the fact that curt fell back into his alcoholism after killing owen will never fail to destroy me

[aamircoeur]

hello! i just read your val agents with an s/o that's like vi. if it's possible, could i request val agents with an s/o like jinx? specifically with viper, fade, and reyna? thank you!!

hi!!!!! i love how a lot of people can relate to arcane characters' personality. thank you sm for the ask, i hope you enjoy!!

Viper, Fade, and Reyna x Jinx!Reader (From ARCANE)

hc/imagines format. gender neutral reader. might be ooc for both parties, but i hope it's alright. cw: guns, bombs

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Viper

loves going on missions with you

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but she'd rather drink her own poison than admit that

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would let you know that she's annoyed by your personality, but she's grown rather fond of it over time

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would always be interested in the bombs that you make, you showing her how it works and stuff

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"say, vipes, whaddya say about working together? put your poison in my bombs and ammo and we'd be unstoppable!" you exclaimed, a crazed look in your eyes.

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she would just disregard your suggestion in front of you, but she'd definitely rethink it, considering the pros and cons

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is used to how reckless you are.

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would ask sage or any other sentinel on how to make your gears safer

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would force you to wear any kind of armor

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during missions, you were right, actually. the two of you were fucking amazing in the battlefield. with viper's toxin minimizing the enemies' sight, it was perfect with how you moved so swiftly in the shadows

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you'd draw on her mask, a few doodles and your name written boldly on one cheek

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viper will not clean it off. she would wear it proudly

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Fade

the two of you would be known as 'the nightmare couple' or some other corny shit.

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name explanation: fade knowing and fights everyone using their own nightmares, and you were quite literally the physical form of a person's worst nightmare. it was a match made in hell <3

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fuckin' loves how crazy you are

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would encourage you to go batshit crazy in every mission, her marking each and every one of them and you getting an ace

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phoenix and neon would be so upset when they're teamed with the two of you for a mission. they get no kills at all! nada!

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when it comes to messing with other agents, the two of you were amazing at it

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fade would stare at you with a proud look, no matter what you may be doing

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would call you "my little nightmare" while you call her "pookie" or "sugarbutt"

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the two of you would switch gloves. just because.

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would get matching tattoos with you

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would ask you to put on her make-up, you make her look more edgy, she says.

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Reyna

you LOVE her evil laugh!!!!!!!

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makes butterflies explode in your stomach every time she does. other agents would be terrified while you just stare at her lovingly, cheeks on the palm of your hands kinda stuff

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you'd rush into the site, enemies barely noticing your presence if it wasn't for your footsteps. you'd hurt and immobilize every enemy that you see, bringing them to reyna for her to take their souls. "gracias, cariño." ーshe'd say.

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matches jewelry with you. earrings or piercings or ring, whatever

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reyna loves seeing a lipstick mark stain your cheek when she kisses you

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would show off her glowing marks to you

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you'd imitate her lines in battle, "They will cower!" you'd shout as you rush into site, and she'd only follow behind you with a chuckle, her eyes glowing with radianite and amusement.

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listens to everything that you talk about. she'd think that your mind's the most beautiful thing

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and she loves that.

you were smart, strong, fast, and absolutely brutal.

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i enjoyed watching this so much omg. (probably cus i kin jinx? i'm not a murderer though i swear) thank you again for the ask!

[consciousliar-blog]

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