#3am is the death of Logic

[ibelieveinahappilyeverafter]

me, whisping furiously to myself: you don't need to post all the chapters you have written for a story at once, you don't need to post all the chapters at once, you don't need to-

[feyd-meowtha]

Sneak peek at the start of 3am Eternal ch6!

Bucky woke up feeling worse than he had in a long time, jackhammers inside his skull and regret thick and bitter on his tongue. He regained consciousness sprawled on the couch, having failed to make it to his bedroom, and for a moment he felt a pang of anger at Uli for letting him pass out in such an uncomfortable position. He groaned, feeling the way that every vertebrae in his spine creaked and groaned under his own dead weight, and realised that his anger was ridiculous. Uli wasn’t the caring type and expecting that from him was a mistake, whatever he wanted Bucky to believe. He smacked his dry lips, wiping a crust of dry saliva from his chin before inching his way up to sitting and looking around the room.

Everything was still there, right down to the dirty socks on the floor, and he breathed a sigh of relief that Uli hadn’t stolen anything. It wasn’t because there was any logical reason that he would, he clearly wasn't short on cash, but there was something sly about the man that meant Bucky wouldn’t put it past him to take something just for the sport of it. He was mulling this over when his eyes caught on an unfamiliar object, standing slap bang in the middle of his coffee table.

He squinted at it for a moment, cringing at the afternoon sunlight glinting off its polished surface, before he realised what it was. A zippo lighter, or more accurately, Uli’s zippo lighter. He reached out instinctively but his hand never reached its target, hovering in mid-air a few centimetres away. The object made him nervous. Something about the way it was placed, so perfectly in the centre of the table, felt a little too much like a trap. Bucky just stared at it for a moment, struggling to believe that a person as fastidious as Uli would leave something behind in such an obvious place.

After a few breaths he convinced himself to pick it up. It was ice cold between his clammy fingers and he turned it over to read the inscription he had caught sight of a few days earlier. Wir sind ja nicht aus Zucker.

The words meant nothing to him, of course, but the lighter felt hard and heavy in his hand, heavier than it should. Chewing on the inside of his lip, he set it back down on the table, a slight shiver of revulsion passing through it as it left his fingers, the same way it did when he found a spider in the apartment, coaxed it into a jar and set it down on the windowsill. For no reason that he could articulate, he wiped his hand on his trousers, feeling both too hot and too cold as his body clamoured for water, food and a merciful death, in that order.

Next chapter coming sometime in the next week! (Link to ch1 below the cut, please heed the tags!)

[asleepinawell]

lingering questions and thoughts on the dlc lore

first off, some of these may have been addressed in item descriptions and i either 1) missed an item or 2) read it but it was 3am and my brain didn't retain some detail

all opinions are just opinions etc, i have no interest in getting in lore fights and block people who try and start them. I'm too tired for that shit. this is just fun speculation

one question i had that i feel must have been answered was what was the scadutree actually for?

what was the timeline regarding messmer and melina's birth? they're referred to together as if they're twins or were born close together. my assumption was that messmer at least was radagon's kid with marika, but the dialogue of the story trailer implies his purge took place shortly after marika's ascension. marika could have split off radagon fairly early (even as part of the process of becoming a god like miquella and st trina) but there was no mention of them having kids until after the rennala thing much later on. my assumption about his parentage is based on 1) hair color and 2) he has a special curse which gives him something in common with malenia/miquella. he is not an empyrean though so maybe radagon isn't the dad (did you fuck the god devouring snake marika????)

i don't want to touch on the miquella and radahn stuff too much since I'm not interested in The Discourse. (i found the parts of the story about marika and the hornsent to be far more interesting). i will say that while the radahn thing felt like it came out of nowhere, the reason miquella didn't choose malenia is probably because 1) she's another empyrean and therfore a candidate for being a god, not a lord, and 2) she's already been claimed by a god. godwyn would have been the more lore logical choice but he didn't even get a mention, like "miquella wanted him but his soul was gone". so weird choice (and bad boss fight) but eh

i'm not sure if miquella's two fingers is ever commented on but he and ranni both followed a similar path in abandoning their flesh to remove themselves from the greater will's influence except ranni then went feral and stabbed hers to death and then got engaged while still covered in its blood. 10/10 no notes

one thing I'd wanted but hadn't expected to get was the reason marika smashed the ring. the whole "woman went crazy because her son died" thing is very grrm and 😬 about what i expect from how his writing handles women, BUT! i think the dlc gives a more complicated possibility for this. marika gets her tragic backstory (which i was also dreading because grrm) and it's one that actually made a lot of sense in terms of the lore and did a good job explaining her actions without justifying them (she slapped the cycle of violence on the roof and was like this bad boy can fit so much perpetuation). the fact she removed death from the elden ring after having witnessed the brutal extermination of her people makes complete sense. and then her son gets killed. she obtained godhood to punish the hornsent and to protect what was left of her people (which seems to mostly be the children she had later) and the elden ring failed her and her kid died. it wasn't grief over her son, so much as past trauma mixed with extreme anger. she took on godship to prevent this and the elden ring had failed her. it had one job basically. radagon, who lacked her memories, was immune to this. overall i think that's a decent plot compared to what it could have been

the whole story with the hornsent also makes the story of morgot and mohg much darker (and it was already dark). marika must have been really pissed and upset to have omen children (maybe part of why she ditched godfrey?). since they were her blood she wouldn't have killed them (since protecting the last of the shamans/numen was her thing), but man. fucked up if true etc

marika probably would have gone apeshit about jarburg if she hadn't been off being crucified

also since ranni was not marika's kid (or wasn't raised by her per se) she might not have known anything about marika's backstory and not expected marika's reaction to godwyn's death. edit: this is not me being like ranni did nothing wrong. i support women's wrongs. i think they should do more of them. more like, imagine ranni kills godwyn and then suddenly marika smashes the ring and all the other demigods go nuts and start waging war and she's just like huh. wild. and then fucks off to her tower until they all get it out of their systems

the lgbtq community has forgiven mohg is possibly the funniest narrative choice they could have made. poor man didn't even get to yell sex in his fight 😔. at least he had some of the sickest looking moves in the game

rellana was the best boss in the dlc and possibly the whole game imo. the fact she may have been into messmer is really funny though because 1) if you go age of stars that is now your aunt in law kicking your ass and 2) your aunt in law who is into the brother of your wife. what a family. no wonder ranni wants to go to space

[kerubimcrepin]

Liveblog - Dofus, livre 1 : Julith [PART 11]

As I've mentioned, Kerubim and Julith have Beef.

As far as she is concerned, whether he was behind her framing (he wasn't) he is one of the people to blame. He defeated her that fateful day, and then she never saw her son again.

I've already went into detail, on the way "killing" her has affected him, (A mixture of horror and duty. Killing a mother and making a child an orphan for the sake of a city. Being grateful for her dying because it made him a father instead. Feeling awful for that thought.) but it is interesting, how he reacted to her turning out to be alive, when he killed her with his own hands.

Seething. Perhaps even coping.

This is chichala, which we had seen. I suppose he uses it to buff himself up before the boss fight. Drinking alcohol before a fight is very much RPG logic.

Sadly, there are no interesting buffs to it in-game:

I think a lot about the way Kerubim, Joris, and Atcham would be characterized in video game logic, by the way. I still have no working theory of how the hell their fighting styles would synergize. Would Joris be their buffer/debuffer? Their glass canon? Both? And do any of them take ranged weapons on missions...?

They probably do. It'd be kinda dumb not to. Personally, I like to imagine that Atcham would be the one using those, most of the time. He has that "skyrim stealth archer" vibe to him. (Though they're all melee users, through and through.)

Despite how smug he is at a couple of moments, he really was struggling during this fight.

My honest reaction whenever Kerubim does this fucking face is just:

This is very much a "deeply mentally ill adoptive father (who inadvertently ruined his child's life by adopting them to atone for his sins + because he was abused as a child) fighting through an army for his child before dying in their arms and saying they're the only good thing he ever had" look for him.

Another reason that one has to support both women's rights and wrongs when talking about Julith, is that, like.,.. what was she playing at, here? There are two possibilities:

That she would destroy whoever has the dragon's soul and set it free, giving her an advantage.

That Kerubim would shield that person.

Either one is good. :)

Either way she was perfectly willing to risk/attempt blowing up a random, innocent person, who was hiding from her.

My personal headcanon is that while Julith is physically stronger than Kerubim, she lost ten years prior because she couldn't stop thinking about The Baby. Where were they taking Joris? Did Bakara leave with him? Is Joris alright? Didn't Jahash give him to this cat man, who was now trying to kill her? What the fuck is going on, who did this, why, why, why?

I imagine seeing him lose for the exact same reason brings her great pleasure.

the nonbinary slay here was insane

Guys I think this might be bad for Joris's long term mental stability.

On a more serious note, I think there should be more content about Joris fucking hating Julith. During the movie? There's too much going on to work out what he feels.

But after? He has all the time in the world to hate her for everything she did.

I do think that he probably grew up and found whoever framed her to take revenge on/to get justice. But hating her, and wanting to clear her name of the crimes she DIDN'T commit so she could have some peace in death, so that people would stop smearing her name, — are two things that can coexist.

Like to slap his bald scaly head, reblog to slap his bald scaly head.

Kerubim never changed his stupid ass baka "George George the Farmer Farmer" name.

Though we've been knew.

BAD. I DON'T LIKE THIS.

AND she recognizes him by the blue eyes. AND, this implies that, for the entirety of the Dofus show, — and the entirety of Wakfu as well, since he, once again, has yellow eyes there, — he had dragon eyes.

Imagine being Simone, waking up at 3am, realizing because you forgot something in Joris and Kerubim's bedroom, sneaking in, and seeing this.

It also raises some questions about adult Joris, because we know he no longer has Grougalorasalar in him. The easiest explanation is that he spent so much time with the dragon, that after their final separation, his eyes couldn't change anymore.

After all, — the changes the dragon made to his height/skin/hair are permanent. It would make sense that, with time, even his eyes would be permanently altered.

I don't think it's a sad thing, by the way. Imagine going your whole life with beautiful brown eyes that look a bit like your adoptive father's. Then imagine suddenly having blue eyes (scary) and that they're your Dead Father's Who You Never Met but whom everyone misses. Like which pair of eyes would you choose? Because I think there IS a right answer to this riddle.

I think Julith has convinced herself that whoever took her and Jahash out wouldn't want loose ends, and that Joris was taken out as well, or something. Maybe that's why he wasn't really on her mind.

Mind you, this is a tinfoil hat headcanon.

This is so beautiful, to me... She was so emotionally stricken by seeing him again as his mother, that his father, who was both fatally wounded and stricken by seeing her perform deeply painful dark rituals on his son after traumatizing him, could land one last hit on her to save said son.

Julith has been a mother for a grand total of a few days to a month, while Kerubim has been for 10 years. Of course, her first concern is getting surprised it's him, and not that she hurt him. Because she couldn't even dream that she'd ever see him again.

There's a tragedy in that. She never even had a chance to learn how to be his mother, or who he is as a person, — she was the mother of an infant. Her love for him is far more theoretical than Kerubim's.

It's a love for Joris not as a person, but as a lost opportunity.

So she has no regrets about hurting him, — and she will hurt him as many times as it takes, if that's what it takes to get back her family.

[gender-thief2]

random death note sleeping headcanons:

light needs like total darkness to sleep and L’s blue laptop light shining on him at 3am just might cause him to become kira again

meanwhile L’s totally oblivious and on his 10th lollipop not planning on winding down anytime soon because sleeping for the week obviously.

L totally insists that sleep deprivation helps him with cases, because when he’s well rested he’s more hesitant to make insane (but oddly accurate) leaps in logic, and when he hasn’t taken a break in 36 hours, kira needing specifically a name and a face to kill makes perfect sense (like maybe he just decided not to kill you tf).

misa stays up until ungodly hours writing in her diary (she has gorgeous handwriting and doodles hearts in the margins). she also doodles her and light holding hands, with “misa yagami san” (aka mrs misa yagami), over it.

L sleeps even less on the kira case than he normally does, because he doesn’t want light to be alone with him while he’s vulnerable. eventually he passes out of course.

L is a very heavy sleeper, he doesn’t snore, and sleeps curled up on his side. Light is a very light sleeper, and wakes up at least once every night. Light also has nightmares a lot, even after having his memories erased, so he tosses and turns a lot, and whispers things. L has taken to writing down what he says whenever this happens, and quickly develops a habit of just watching Light sleep when he gets bored of working.

im not sure how to end this so goodbye

[thereapersgambit]

Here's a 3am post about Lenore and Annabel Lee's death. If the logic isn't...there it's because I just woke up from it being too hot to sleep.

Anyway, in some earlier posts I made it clear that I believe Anna and Leo most likely died by their fathers' hand after they were found out to be scheming to get married and run away together.

But I was having my daily Nevermore brainrot when a thought popped up in my head about the latest class specifically it's location, Mystery Manor. The goal: to get to the Widow's watch and ring the bell.

But if a student were to get up there after getting past every Specterd being, they have to face the last one: The Lady in White.

Now, I've been thinking that it may not be just a coincidence since the Widow's Watch correlates more to Annabel's Spectre than anyone. It also led me to believe that Annabel wasn't the one to die first. Lenore was, making her a widow. Technically, it doesn't make sense sense she was yet to be married but died before it but I still went along with the thought.

It got me thinking of the next person who could've taken an opportunity to find out who Lenore was and kill her which is the other potential suitor and childhood friend of Annabel. Okay, now I still think Annabel's father still killed her but back to the suitor. Her social season is ending and he just so happens to show up to take what he thinks was always his. Annabel's hand in marriage.

So he pulls up and sees this Leo guy succeeding to court Anna and gets suspicious. It reminds me of Jafar from Aladdin so can we just refer to him as such in this post for now lol. Anyway, Jafar suddenly wants to get to the bottom of who this Leo guy is and find out that he isn't a guy at all. He may even fimd out he's plotting with Annabel Lee.

This causes him to go start snitchin to Anna's father. Or even wanting to get revenge on their big day because Mr. Whitlock doesn't believe him at all. So he shoots Lenore first and tries to expose Annabel for their scheming.

There would be conflict between Annabel, Jafar and her father about knowing she was a girl. This could lead to Mr. Whitlock killing her for this. It's unexpected from everyone, especially Annabel Lee who expected to habe her father by her sode always. Whether he thought killing her would be, in a sick and twisted way, for her own good I really don't know.

But that's the gist of this theory. It's been forty minutes and I might look for a snack or go back to bed but thanks for reading and don't be afraid to add on, debunk, whatever it is but just no hate or I'll cry and that's a threat.🚶🏾‍♀️see ya.

[voidscarredadjudicator]

Random question, but what Ink weapons do you think would do the most damage/be lethal if any to Kaleb? I feel like an E-litre and Explosher would be nasty, especially at close range

Both of those would put the hurt on big time for sure, but as far as the most lethal out of anything?

Without a doubt, it's actually Splatoon 2's Sting Ray (and by extension, the Stingers in Salmon Run). These things shoot ink with enough force to just pierce any and all map geometry - and I'd like to think that implies that it's literally cutting through these things to be able to do that (obviously not represented in gameplay bc it's impractical to reflect that on many different levels). Waterjets are a real thing, and waterjet injuries are incredibly dangerous because of how water being forced through a tiny hole at incredibly high pressures reacts when hitting soft, spongey material such as flesh.

This click-baity ass video does actually do a pretty decent job at showing the kind of damage you could expect. Imagine this cranked up to eleven if it was being shot by a Sting Ray. Kaleb would actually just fucking explode in a red mist. And yes, I am thinking about this for Act 2.

(if you wanna skip the setup they start testing it around 5:10)

I'd imagine the Sting Ray being removed in Splatoon 3 can have a very plausible explanation in canon that's basically just, "we got sued into the ground because of Sting Ray damages"; which would also explain why the Salmonids are still using it, as they do not give a shit about that.

All of that said, honorable mentions to the Killer Wail (both OG and 5.1) for similar reasons. Apparently, sound can cause damage to internal organs at above 185 dB (for comparison, the sound of a jet engine is about 140 dB). It's 3am right now and I'm a little too sleepy to go on a Matpat tier mathing spree taking cartoon logic realistically and determining that the fuckin princess cannon is ten gorillion decibels loud or some shit because it had enough force to stop Tartar's ink death ray, but the standard Killer Wails are probably powerful enough to make Kaleb receive permanent hearing damage, if not outright making him go deaf.

...Crab tank could probably also kill him with focus fire at full windup if aiming at the head. Most weapons probably could, in the sense that hitting someone in the head enough times with a blunt object will eventually crack the skull.

[thepringlesofblood]

Major ACOC Spoilers

so, there are a few posts out there pointing out two math errors in acoc ep9 - Liam’s damage to Ciabatta being miscounted as 67 instead of 77, and Jet’s riposte for 13 damage not hitting Ciabatta when it should’ve. this is true. this might lead one to wonder, “well, if those extra 23 points of damage were counted, would Ciabatta be dead? would Jet have lived?”

I wanna clear things up for all of yall who are watching ACOC for the first time after the ravening war, so i did the math (under the cut) by counting his hp in the finale as he took damage.

Ciabatta had 118 hp

it wouldn’t have made a difference. if both errors were fixed and he was dealt the full 77 + 13, he’s still walking out of there with 28 hp.

to be clear: absolutely no shade on the intrepid heroes/brennan. no one clown on this post about whether they should’ve done this or that. it was 3am in a warehouse in Hollywood on a wicked messed up shooting schedule. Jet’s death was a beautiful, emotional scene, and it’d be weird and narratively dissonant to go back and redo it bc some math was wrong.

i did this math bc my logic brain just needs to know how the numbers do for my own personal peace of mind. given the several other posts I’ve seen trying to calculate this same thing, others have the same problem. so. enjoy.

Ciabatta doesn’t physically appear in the finale until pt 2

“The last Ceresian force musters, appears at the front of the wall with Imperator Ciabatta” is at 1:33:00ish

first damage done to him is by Saccharina, when she Cone of Colds his whole force in front of the castle for 41 damage (1:37:08). it hits him and the forces he was leading, and they do not save for half.

after that we have this exchange:

Zac: Ciabatta's-

Brennan: Ciabatta is still very much alive.

Emily: Okay. He's very much alive though, he's doing really well?

Brennan: Yes.

Emily: Okay. Then just to fuck with him, I'm gonna fire breathe on him.

and she does. Cinnamon uses his breath weapon to deal 57 damage, demolishing the rest of the forces

Brennan: He does not save for half. He goes from looking wounded but okay to injured, badly injured.

then of course the final damage is done by Ruby w the water-steel dagger

Siobhan: It's 4d6.

Brennan: 4d6, he just rolled a natural 4 on his Constitution save.

Siobhan: Great, it's actually three Constitution saves. It's 12.

Brennan: 12 damage, but you also add your sneak Attack.

Ally: Oh!

Brennan: Yeah.

Siobhan: 12, 14, 16.

Brennan: More than 20?

Siobhan: Yeah.

Brennan: Standing in the burned and frozen remains of his soldiers, what happens to Imperator Ciabatta?

[as a 7th lvl rogue, Ruby has 4d6 sneak attack dice]

so, presumably, Ciabatta had 20 hp left before being stabbed.

41 + 57 + 20 = 118

now, I highlighted those exchanges for a reason. It is technically possible that Brennan was using a similar mechanic for Ciabatta leading his troops as the PCs leading theirs- being attacked as a troop by another troop does deal the commander as an individual some of the damage, but not all. so, the Cone of Cold may not have dealt all 41 points of damage to him. here’s how he’s described after the Cone of Cold

“very much alive” “doing really well”

after breath weapon “He goes from looking wounded but okay to injured, badly injured“

so it is possible that the Cone of Cold did not do full damage bc of troop mechanics. however. personally I feel like since Saccharina is not attacking as a troop but as an individual (with a dragon), it’s not troop v troop action.

fun fact: Saccharina’s breath weapon attack + Ruby’s finishing blow is 77 damage - the same amount of damage Liam (should have) done to Ciabatta in episode 9 (that didn’t take him down)

so as long as Saccharina’s Cone of Cold did more than 13 damage [Jet’s riposte] to Ciabatta (which I’d fucking think it would even w very unlikely troop mechanics), then it wouldn’t have made any difference.

and bc we know he took at the very least a non-zero amount of damage from the Cone of Cold (“wounded but okay”), nothing would’ve saved Jet. the other assassins had already hit, and even with the math fixed on Liam’s damage 77 would never have taken him down. the only difference even possible is that her 13 damage riposte might’ve downed him, but even that is extremely unlikely - Ciabatta would’ve had to take less than half damage from Cone of Cold, and he did not save.

[howam-i-theparent]

Sanders sides incorrect quotes based on my friends/family

Janus: I knew one of us was a vampire, and I’m surprised that it wasn’t me

Roman: What are you talking about? Of course you are a vampire, O tried to wake you up that one time, and you just hissed at me

Janus: I guess I am a vampire

Virgil: and the way you dress is a undead giveaway

Janus: Fair

Virgil: not to mention that you have the darkest room, that doesn’t get any sunlight, in the entire mindscape

Janus: Okay! I get it!

Remus: Jeffery Dammer is my inspiration and husband

Virgil: We need a Logic and a Lesbian, a logical lesbian

Roman: at least I’m hotter than you!

Remus: at least I have a mustache!

Remus: Logan, if you don’t stop dipping your carrots in your cheese, I’m kicking you out of the table.

Virgil: Whatcha watching?

Roman: It’s not gay

Virgil: Never-mind then

Remus: What’s up Broskis! *does a anime girl pose while dressed as a flower fairy*

Virgil: I want everyone to be guilty of my death

Remus: Hachoinkers! *hits Roman on the head*

Patton: If you get hurt… , I’ll- I’ll- take care of you.

Remus: You are being Shuned! Cmon Roman! Shun with me!

Janus: See you in hell!

Virgil: I’m going to kill you-

Roman: You can’t, you love me too much

Roman: Holly snickerdoodles!

Janus: I am your mother! And your father! I can be both!

Logan: Hey, fun fact! did you know, *spits out a obscure (and kind of gross) science fact that no one understood*

Janus: You guys are all on drugs

Logan: Okay, fine, I’ll play along

Logan (letter to Patton): What did I agree too?

Roman: Fudge you keyboard, you can eat my potatoes

Roman: Okay, so, I just pushed up the lid- and- the water just spilled on me!

Virgil: *starts laughing* How-

Roman: The stupidity magic!

Virgil: I feel bad for his girlfriend * Watching one of those 3am videos*

[denimbex1986]

'UPDATED: India’s minister for information and broadcasting Anurag Thakur has asked for the sex scene in “Oppenheimer,” which features a line from Hindu holy scripture “Bhagavad Gita,” to be deleted, reports NDTV, quoting sources.

PREVIOUSLY: A sex scene in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” featuring a line from Hindu holy scripture “Bhagavad Gita” has led to protests even as the film rakes it in at the box office.

The film was passed with a U/A certificate by India’s Central Board of Film Certification.

SPOILER ALERT: The sex scene features Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimer and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock. Pugh stops during intercourse, gets up and goes over to the bookshelf, picks out a copy of the “Bhagavad Gita” and asks Murphy to read from it. Murphy reads the line “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds,” the quote from the “Bhagavad Gita” that Oppenheimer famously thought of when the first nuclear bomb was detonated – as intercourse resumes.

The 700-verse “Bhagavad Gita” – literally the word of God – is a part of the Indian epic “Mahabharata” and consists of a dialogue on a battlefield between the prince Arjuna and the divine Krishna as the former undergoes a moral dilemma.

India flocked to see “Oppenheimer” in Imax and other formats from shows beginning as early as 3am, as Nolan is a huge draw in the country. Protests began on social media almost immediately after.

Among them was Uday Mahurkar, a journalist who was appointed by the Indian government as an information commissioner in 2020. Mahurkar is also the founder of the Save Culture Save India Foundation.

In a letter addressed to Nolan on Twitter, Mahurkar wrote on behalf of the foundation:

“It has come to our notice that the movie ‘Oppenheimer’ contains a scene which make a scathing attack on Hinduism. As per social media reports, a scene in the movie shows a woman makes a man read Bhagwad Geeta aloud while getting over him and doing sexual intercourse. She is holding Bhagwad Geeta in one hand, and the other hands seems to be adjusting the position of their reproductive organs. The Bhagwad Geeta is one of the most revered scriptures of Hinduism. Geeta has been the inspiration for countless sanyasis, brahmcharis and legends who live a life of self-control and perform selfless noble deeds. We do not know the motivation and logic behind this unnecessary scene on life of a scientist. But this is a direct assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus, rather it amounts to waging a war on the Hindu community and almost appears to be part of a larger conspiracy by anti-Hindu forces.”

The letter goes on to say that Hollywood “is very sensitive about the fact that Quran and Islam is not depicted in any manner that may offend the value system of a common Muslim, even if you make something based on Islamist terrorism,” and asks, “Why should not the same courtesy be also extended to Hindus?”

The letter urges Nolan to “remove this scene from your film across world” and adds, “Should you choose to ignore this appeal it would be deemed as a deliberate assault on Indian civilisation.”

Meanwhile, the film is a box office success in India, grossing $3.6 million in its first two days of release, comfortably outperforming “Barbie,” which collected $1.2 million.

This is not the first time a quote from the “Bhagavad Gita” has been used in a Hollywood studio picture. An orgy scene in Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut” (1999) featured the lines “For the protection of the virtuous, for the destruction of evil and for the firm establishment of Dharma, I take birth and am incarnated on Earth, from age to age.” Following protests from Hindu groups, Warner Bros. edited out the lines from the soundtrack.'

[brbuttons]

So are telling me that, you’re shipping Ms. Bucket with Willy Wonka? Or is like one-sided? I need answers

Yep! It was not planned, and usually we'd never ship Wonka with anyone; but as we went over plot points everyone listening along went 'oh. oh this works really well.'

It's two-sided, but it's one of those relationships that defy titles: they simply know that they enjoy eachother's company, that they bring out a side in eachother that no-one else does- at least, for Mrs. Bucket, not since her late husband- but Wonka doesn't care for any label outside of a product's (not to mention, Wonka has a complicated relationship with the feeling of 'love') and so they simply are.

Molly Bucket understands Wonka in ways others don't; she knows his moods, its tells, her hiding places, how to clean his office without stressing him out, how to put her back to bed when she begins to spiral at 3am. And Molly never intended for it to be this way- in fact, she initially spent time with him to try and convince him into therapy for her son's sake; she was quite certain for a long while that the chocolatier was leading Charlie along, and would soon enough drop their whole family back into poverty.

But over time, over hot chocolates and talks and listening to William's ideas and rants, she realised he really did love the factory, that he did want the best for Charlie, but that he was so complicatedly lost in his own psychology's labyrinth that his logic and methods were beyond anyone's understanding… until, as she listened, she realised some of them did make sense.

And Wonka didn't like her in his office; he doesn't like anyone in his office. But she came with hot chocolate- his favourite- and she didn't pry in the way others pry and she didn't have annoying habits and- oh her voice. Like a siren on the outskirts of a whirlpool, her voice made Wonka feel so soothed, so feminine, so delicate, like none of the stressors mattered anymore, like time had stopped and death was no longer encroaching slowly.

He began to call her petnames like Gumdrop, Butterscotch, Cupcake. She calls him Dumpling, Teddy Bear. Sickingly sweet, but what do you expect from a confectioner? Still, it's not all cutesy- Wonka's still Wonka, and still has the energy of that one cat-knife meme; he'll say something with a sinister edge, and Molly'll give him a "Oh Will!" and William will reply with a "What?! It was called for!". She can only keep him in line so much.

But over time, realising she loves this woman dearly, Molly finds it's time to drop the 'Mrs.' in her name. That perhaps her husband would've wanted this for her. And the two help eachother out in hard times.

there's your infodump if u ever have specific questions happy to answer lmao

[kizanakinnie]

Maybe I’m a weeb under a rock but tell us a bit about Kokichi. Show a favorite gif, manga/anime panel, something. Use this ask as a free space to speak.

I got so excited when I saw this HSHSJBSHS I love him with all my heart

I didn't really know how to introduce this so I'm just gonna speak and answer the first two thingies about Kokichi then say whatever comes to mind so this might just be a blubbering post about what a good boyfriend he would be with some hints of other anime characters I love dropped in 😀

Okay so his favorite gif would be this hands down.

Literally only bc it shows up when you search his name 💀 he's a self absorbed babe.

He probably really likes death note. His favorite character is Misa. He probably screams "GET IT GIRLLL" anytime she does anything 💀💀

He also says he likes attack on titan but only actually watches clips of levi Ackerman and says he would date him if he was real. (new kinnie unlocked /hj)

Okay so here's where I had no idea what to say next so get ready for something. I don't know what that something is but its gonna be something.

okay so how do you think he keeps his hair up? He's gotta be using like a shit ton of hair spray so like how DRY and CRUNCHY would his hair be brushing through it? His hair has gotta be SO unhealthy. Also like he loves panta so imagine if he drank so much panta his hair turned purple. I know that's not logical but like I can see him staring in the mirror one morning being like "I could've sworn my hair wasn't purple before..... Oh well!" JSGJSGSG OR OR OR YKNOW THAT TREND GOING AROUND WHETR PEOPLE WOULD DYE THEIR HAIR WITH JUIVE PACKETS?? HE DID THAT WITH PANTA 100000%. Oh how I want him to dye my hair with panta 😩😩😩 /j do you think he uses emojis? Istg he unironically uses the poop emoji and the 😈 emoji 😭😭 anyway 10/10 boyfriend would recommend even though he'd be super fucking annoying. Now that'sall I have to say bc its 3am and I need sleep 💀

Nighty night 😍

[genderdisaster]

The Doorway

I sat in the driver's seat, A/C blasting my face while the sun beat through the windshield. Phone perched precariously on the steering wheel, camera pointing back at me, I waited to be connected to my clinician. The loading animation continued to spin, and I wondered what the hell I had gotten myself into. I had, without knowing, picked the hottest day of the year so far to book my telehealth visit, and even with the air conditioning on high, the back of my shirt was already soaked through with sweat. Every step of this process was difficult, and it made me wonder if this was all the universe giving me a sign that I was making a grand mistake. My fan belt squealed with protest as the AC compressor kicked in again.

This strange arrangement was the product of a grand revelation from three weeks prior. Laying in bed in the wee hours of the morning, I had this sudden realization--what if I'm not the man I always resigned myself to be? Why was I so worried about fitting into this mold of masculinity that felt so alien and foreign to me? What if I could be something else? Something different? Why didn't I take the plunge and finally make an appointment for HRT like I had been dreaming of ever since I had learned about informed consent prescribing? I had run out of excuses and, at 3am on a work night, I scheduled a consultation at the local clinic.

I postponed the first date.

I nearly postponed the second date.

But I couldn't keep putting this off forever.

A face suddenly shot into view on the cell phone screen. A medical assistant was there to walk me through the initial steps of the consultation and to gather medical and billing information. She told me her pronouns, asked me for mine, and I was hit with the full weight and realization that "Oh, this is a thing I need to start thinking about." I had gone my entire life fitting neatly into the "he/him" box because it seemed like the logical choice given where I was positioned in my family and in society writ large. By extension, I felt safe in that role because I felt invisible. I enjoyed a considerable amount of privilege because of those pronouns, but they never really felt like me. I sheepishly replied "they/them, please."

And then my phone shut down.

As it turns out, resting your phone on the dashboard of a car in full view of the sun on a 95 degree day is not a great idea. Neither is using that same phone for a teleconference via 5G and charging it at the same time. My poor phone, overwhelmed by the elements and the task at hand, had overheated halfway through the intake and put itself into "safe mode." I could make phone calls, but all other apps were off limits until the temps came down. Unofficially, I told myself that even my phone couldn't take the vulnerability of the situation. The medical assistant called me back, thankfully, and we were able to get through the rest of the intake portion. My phone, for its part, gradually came back from the brink of self-immolation and played nice during the phone call--provided I kept the cool air blowing over the back of it. All cleared and ready to go, I was placed into holding-mode for my appointment with the doctor.

There's something about being on hold on a telemedicine app that makes it so much more fraught than in an actual office. In an office, even if the doctors and the rest of the staff forget about you, there will inevitably be a kindly janitor or cleaning crew to come by and tell you "everyone's gone, bud. Go home." But on a telehealth call? Does the app disconnect? Does the clinician get a reminder? Do I just wait for the inevitable heat death of the universe? All those questions (and more!) swirled around in my head as I waited for the clinician. Five minutes turned into ten, which turned into twenty, eventually closing in on an hour. I worried that, given the issues with our initial connection, I was missing the actual appointment and this screen would just keep refreshing. Maybe, in a more realistic sense, I was worried about this timing because I felt so vulnerable and downright …weird sitting here, waiting to talk to someone about all of this from inside my car in a strip mall parking lot. I made a mental note to come back at some point and try the barbecue spot near the end.

After an eternity, the screen finally changed to indicate that I was being placed into a session with a clinician. As the screen momentarily blinked out, however, I caught my reflection in the blackness of my phone. I saw my face, my full beard, my square jaw and well-coiffed hair. I felt like a fraud. How could I be anything other than a man? Who was I kidding? What would this clinician think of all this? I imagined her looking at me with complete incredulity, asking "Are you sure this is what you really want to do? Maybe you should come back in a few weeks or a month, just to see if you change your mind? Is this all some Weird Sex Thing™?"

"Hello, can you hear me?" she started.

At least, that's what her lips were indicating as they moved. The audio was still utterly silent on my end. On the screen sat a young woman clad in a fuzzy micro-fleece half-zip, the wall behind her emblazoned with slogans about safety, validity, and acceptance. She looked friendly, accepting, safe.

"I cannot hear you." I began, "Can you hear me?"

The woman nodded her head and began fiddling with some wires on her desktop, mildly flustered with the technology issues. After a few failed attempts, (was this another sign?) she began chatting with me via the app--

"I can hear you, is this XXXXX?"

I indicated yes.

"Great, can you verify your birthday for me?"

I told her my date of birth, and she responded that she would call me to finish up the assessment. The little voice again, echoing from the back of my mind--"This is a siiiiign!"

My phone started ringing. I picked it up.

"Hello?" I began.

"Hello! Can you hear me now?" she asked. I could, to my relief, hear the chipper and friendly voice coming from the other end.

Things smoothed out considerably after that point. We went over my medical history (high blood pressure, anxiety, neurodivergence), my feelings about gender (neither feeling masculine or feminine strictly, but leaning more fem in overall feeling), goals for transition (to demasculinize, first and foremost), and we mapped out a game plan moving forward. I would be starting on a normal dose of transdermal Estrogen as monotherapy; my blood pressure medications wouldn't interact well with Spiro, but I could always add that on in the future with the blessing of my regular GP. In terms of social transition, we discussed the issues that I face with coming out as anything other than strictly cis-passing in my day-to-day professional life. Finally, we would follow-up in 90 days to see where my levels were at and how I felt. She sent the script off to my pharmacy, as I actively felt my heart rate returning to normal and my shoulders relaxing for the first time in hours.

I did it. I took the first step through the doorway to a new me. I had been lingering on a threshold for most of my life without even realizing it, and I had taken the first step at last. I finally began to move past the fear and shame, and towards the feelings that simmered under the surface for years.

I felt a new and exciting feeling. Hope.

[kick-a-long]

I don't mean to be insulting, angry or rude to goyim that are as flabbergasted by the claim, "Chirstopher Columbus is Jewish by DNA" as I am, but it's happening right now and it's making goyim look stupid as fuck.

When i google "chistopher columbus jewish" this is what comes up as of oct 15 2024:

so you can see that rueters, the forward, the independent, fox news, and yahoo are the first pages I get and all say, mostly explicitly (except for the forward...maybe) "secretly jewish." most news when you look at the full list of articles say the exact same "secret jew" take.

here's cnn:

sephardic jews btw, are of Spanish decent. to say "Western Europe" is a pretty fucking disingenuous and skewed way to say that. Actual Saphardic jews escaped the Spanish Inquisition (the one where Spain expelled or killed ALL jews, burnt jews to death, stole ALL property and belongings, and even killed the ones that converted.)

ALL jews who are sephardic escaped Spain, mostly to South America... because they spoke Spanish and ladino (a mix of Hebrew and Spanish.) but the term 'western europe' preserves the "all jews are global oppressors" myth. pretty neat trick imo.

so like, the very very catholic guy, the one famous for representing catholic origins in America, the one who got a special holiday in the US because he was a symbol for Catholics (look up the knights of columbus,) the one that just lost his annual day in America for being a genocidal dick head (who's prime directive was to find new lands with resources to plunder and "savages" to convert to christianity (Catholicism specifically which is why so many countries in South America are HEAVILY CATHOLIC,)....

is SUDDENLY not even christian, despite all evidence to the contrary... he's jewish! A jew is a jew is a jew if they have a drop of jewish blood? DNA is what determines his religion? nazi eugenics logic you say? oh my!

Not all goyim are stupid, some of my best friends and husbands are goyim (obvious proof that I can't be racist against gentiles /s) but there is a concerted media effort to paint jews as the genocide colonizer bad guys throughout history. You would have to be a willful moron to think the ol' CC was jewish. Yet the press is uncritically regurgitating this shit everywhere.

Is being catholic provable by DNA by the way? I forgot to ask, because I know it isn't. You know why I, a secular jew, knows so much about christianity and its conversion process? Because it's EVERYWHERE I LOOK. From commercials on tv to billboards to nut-jobs in the subway yelling at me to convert at 3am while I'm crying alone about a breakup.

Why don't goyim know how jews identify themselves and what is a jew vs a non-jew? Because you would have to find a jew and ask them. You can't be a christian jew, or a muslim jew, a "jew for jesus," or any non-jewish religion jew. being jewish is exclusive to Judaism and secular jewish/culturally jewish and you lose it when you convert out of Judaism or into a religion where the jewish god is not THE ONE AND ONLY god. This is a pretty HUGE part of being muslim or christian, actually.

in answer to question 1: the media is making most goyim look PRETTY FUCKING stupid.

in answer to question 2: yes the goyim are always in the room with us, at least if most forms of media is playing.

don't believe me? find a jew that has never heard about christ before.

goyim: ummmmm “ethnically jewish”????? being jewish is LITERALLY just a religion omg it’s disgustingly racist for u to say that being jewish has anything to do with BLOOD or DNA judaism is a RELIGION and NOTHING MORE you ZIONAZI.

also goyim: CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WAS JEWISH!!!!! THIS EXTREMELY UNRELIABLE MYTH THAT HAS BEEN DEBUNKED MANY TIMES SAYS HE HAD JEWISH DNA!!!!!! THE ULTIMATE COLONIZER WAS A JEW!!!!!!!!

[lily-janus]

The Thankless Job I Gotta Do

Summary: Janus forces Logan to sleep.

Pairing: platonic Loceit

Warnings: none but let me know if I missed anything

Word count: 563

@loceitweek2022 day 1 - Self care/Mental health

Janus sighed, looking at the sight in front of him.

Logan was typing away at his laptop, eyes red from staring at the screen for so long and brow forrowed from concentration. On the coffee table beside him were way too many empty coffee mugs and a half full one he was currently sipping from.

Janus cleared his throat, hoping to catch the logical side's attention but to no avail, he would even bet Logan didn't realize what time it was.

Letting out another deep sigh, he reluctantly walks over and shuts Logan's laptop closed. Causing him to flinch and blink at the sudden darkness.

"My my, looks like someone lost track of time, why don't you continue this in the morning and get some sleep?" Janus offered, keeping a firm hand on the laptop to prevent Logan from opening it.

Logan scoffs. "Preposterous, my sense of time is flawless, I know exactly what time it is. It is currently 3am in the morning."

Janus raised an eyebrow. "In that case you stayed up late on purpose? Why, I'm disappointed, teach, thought you knew better than that. Weren't you the one to lecture Thomas about his circadian rhythm?"

Logan rubbed his eyes beneath his glasses and took another sip from his mug. "One night shouldn't have any significant effect and this needs to get done before noon tomorrow. I can't afford sleep at the moment but I will make up for it once I'm finished." Logan explained calmly, though exhaustion was clear in his voice. "Now if you'll remove your hand from my laptop and let me resume my work, that will be greatly appreciated."

Janus shook his head. "No can do, Logan. I'm afraid I can't let you do that, I take my self preservation role very seriously."

Logan sighed. "No need for that, I know how to take care of myself."

"Clearly." Janus said dryly and snapped his fingers. The laptop disappeared from the table.

"Janus!" Logan protested. "All my files are there-"

"Calm down I merely moved it for safe-keeping in my room, now go to sleep, you clearly want to." Janus cut him off.

"What I want is for this to be finished, I won't be able to properly relax-"

"Shh-sh-sh Logan, the world will not end if you take some time to rest, I'm sure you'll work better in the morning once you get some sleep." Janus interrupted him again, stroking his shoulders soothingly.

Logan shook his head, fighting off his exhaustion, his eyelids growing heavy. " 'm fine… don't-" he yawned. "Don't need sleep."

Janus tutted, grabbing his hand and sinking them both to Logan's room.

Logan squirmed weakly in Janus' arms as he laid him on his bed. "Told you… don't need rest, need to get this done…" but his eyes fluttered close as soon as his head hit the pillow and as Janus turned off the lights, he was fast asleep.

Janus shook his head as he sank to his own room. How can someone so intelligent manage to act so stupid? 

These idiots would work themselves to death if it weren't for Janus, and yet he gets almost no credit for it.

But he's used to this thankless job, and since, thanks to Remus, he hadn't managed to sleep until now, he think he deserves a me day tomorrow.

After all, self care is important.

[purplehoodiesimon]

It's DST in America and I know it's not for another few weeks in Europe but I am awake and the time is wrong and I am annoyed so

- Wilhelm is the fucking weirdo who just. Changes. With the clocks. Boom it's a different time and he wakes up at the right time without feeling like death or anything. Doesn't understand why people make such a big deal, you just. Wake up earlier. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

- Simon will be getting his sleep thank you very much what the fuck does the clock mean it's 8am? No. It's 7am thank you and he will be sleeping in for another hour. Would like to abolish Daylight Savings, it's a bit of an outdated practice for society at large now. He can accept losing the extra hour in autumn if it means not having to go through this.

- Sara is neutral on it. She doesn't like having to get up earlier/later and change her schedule, but she doesn't particularly care that much about it. It's just another part of life and society and she can deal with the schedule change. It's always very difficult getting up at the right time though.

- Felice is the weirdo in the opposite direction of Wilhelm. She cannot get up at the right time ever, it completely throws her body and routine off, it takes like a month for her to adjust and get back to a regular schedule. The first week she just sleeps straight through all her alarms and is late to everything.

- August drags himself out of bed an hour earlier than the time would be with an hour earlier (normally gets up at 5AM). Logically he knows how it works but he fucks up his alarms every time. The ridiculous part is that he doesn't mind and just gets up at 3AM to do his workout stuff.

Bonus

- Maddie is in the drafting process of her 14th letter to the President asking him to abolish it in the US already. It's hell. It's worse than the US to Europe jet lag. She would know.