#Enter Number Two

[lifewithaview]

Kate Winslet and Evan Peters in Mare of Easttown (2021) Enter Number Two

E3

As Mare and Colin parse new physical evidence, phone records lead to an unlikely suspect. After lashing out at Helen about a possible custody fight over Drew, Mare receives some unprompted advice from Richard on how to move forward with Carrie. Later, Kenny and Mare face the consequences of their misguided attempts to protect their families.

*Although this episode takes place in January/February, autumn leaves are shown on the trees when the trees should be bare.

[alfheimr]

erosion

[cozylittleartblog]

small PSA: if you shop at craft shows or artist alleys, please bring more than apple pay or a virtual card - especially if you're not comfortable entering your card number manually. not all of us have fancy card readers, so please also bring your physical card or cash, even if it's only as backup 👍

[radiance1]

Vlad opens up a bottle of wine, filling one glass and handing it to John Constantine "Do you know why I called you here today, Mr. Constantine?"

John takes the glass, eyeing the very expensive wine that he's wanted to try but couldn't get his hand on before today. "Because I accidently send you a booty call, perhaps? Or because I stole one of your company's magical items." Constantine shrugged and took a sip. "Either or, really."

Vlad brought his glass up to his lips, before pausing. "Accidently?"

Constantine blinks, then took another sip before shrugging. "I mean, it doesn't have to be if you don't want it to be."

Vlad resumes taking a sip, swallowed and placed down his glass. "I will admit, I was not expecting you to admit to stealing from me, but I am willing to... overlook, said slight against me."

"Is that a yes or a no?"

Vlad smiled.

"I'll take that as a yes then."

[no-brain-just-akutagawa]

Was anyone going to tell me that fyolai made it to top100 ships of the year on ao3 or was I just supposed to find out through a youtube video

[peliginspeaks]

Sick in bed so I am thinking about Hallowrove and her relationship to poisons, as one does. Specifically what going through BaL did to it, turning a curiosity and a bit of rashness into something more like a nervous compulsion to keep ahead of a possible threat that quickly faded into improbability.

(mild TW for unhealthy habits/self harming behaviours)

Hallowrove is not, as a rule, a paranoid or preparatory sort of person. For most situations, monster hunting or otherwise, their strategy is more reacting quickly to threats and thinking creatively in the moment, rather than preparing for possibilities before they happen. Poison, however, is not a thing you can just react to. You can't fight it like a combatant. You can't run from it like a rockfall. You can't outwit it like a monster. You can only endure, and wait. Perhaps you'll die. Perhaps you won't. The outcome was decided from the minute it poured into your veins.

So, of course Hallowrove hates that. Of course when the nuns of Hunter's Keep came after him with poison, when he realized that everything he touched and ate and drank was fair game and he might never get the chance to react, what once was a passing curiosity and an occasional game between him and Scaleflats at parties turned into dosing himself regularly, to build enough tolerance to push the inevitable into being less so. Being slightly ill and slightly weakened - even then in the thick of it - was preferable to having no tolerance and ending at the mercy of a hit he couldn't dodge, so it became almost comforting, downing the latest concoction and knowing that no matter how much pain it put him through it would still be slightly less than the time before. It felt like having a cushion to the fall, for a person whose life was strung on the high wire between the horror that hunted him and the horror that was trying to train him to defeat it. It felt like an extra card kept up his sleeve, a way to react instead of feel the fear.

And then the nuns were gone. The Vake was dead. No more reason for the poison, right? She could go back to curiosity, back to tiny swigs of unknown things just to see what they do, back to batting back and forth false slights with a friend...except for maybe whoever the Masters might hire to silence her about the victory. That could still happen. And there was always the monsters, with the venoms they carried, and those weren't the same as the poison she drank but it had to help a little bit, surely? And, well, perhaps she just likes the taste of amanitas and would like to be able to eat them with no consequence, and what if she has some other enemy she doesn't know about, and there was always that feeling that never quite went away, of a safety net, of some faint power and security that once grasped felt like danger itself just to let slip from her hand again. It wasn't...illogical, surely. There could always be more reasons. It was just better to be cautious, is all. To not overthink it too much. To just...down the vial and feel worse, to feel better when she got up again.

It's not a thing they think much about, anymore. It's been two or three years since the Vake, and they'll miss a dose sometimes, and feel safe enough to have no real need to make up for it. But they'll still throw out the cream if the bottle seems moved a little to the left from where they last put it, and they can't remember why, and their "curiosity" these days never quite seems to be satisfied enough.

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

fauci saying “vulnerable people will fall by the wayside” and that some will die but that’s ok because we’re not going to see the “tsunami of cases” we’ve seen before is so dehumanising. so babies with no immune system, elderly people, disabled people, and people without adequate access to healthcare can all die of covid. but it’s ok guys because actually they’re just falling to the wayside and everyone else will go back to normal and be fine (sarcasm).

my death or the deaths of my family or friends wouldn’t be us “falling by the wayside”, it would be us being failed by our government, healthcare systems, and communities who have refused to take coronavirus seriously despite mounting anecdotal and scientific evidence of the harm this virus does. fact that people can accept the deaths of vulnerable groups just because they want to eat in a restaurant or don’t want to wear a mask is horrifying

[arolesbianism]

I wish So Bad that I could confidently recommend lob corp and library of ruina to people because they're both genuinely rly good games and I also need ppl I know to understand the insanity that is project moon but like godddd they are a fucking Investment. Both in time and in brainpower. I generally think ppl exaggerate how hard lob corp is but it's certainly not easy and when it does get hard it gets HARD. Also it literally requires at least one day 1 reset (basically a new game+) to fully beat the game and at this point I've done at least 10. And for lor I'm not nearly as far in and I'm just scratching the surface of the real game but it's a beast of its own. Also 100+ hours and also hard as hell. Like this game does not fuck around with its difficulty spikes it will make you use your brain and it will give you a damn headache in the process. It's also one of my favorite card combat games I've ever played with mechanics that just so beautifully complement each other to create a dynamic and interesting battle system that gives it a completely different vibe and feeling than any other deck builder games I've played to the point where it almost feels wrong to me to categorize them together. But also I am not even slightly joking abt the headache thing every time I play this damn game I close it with a horrible headache and have to take a multi day break. I think everyone should experience this with me <3

[mariocki]

Honor Blackman guest stars as art expert Syd Lewis in Saber of London: Deep in the Heart of Chelsea (1.3, NBC, 1957)

[zoldyckd]

gonna start job hunting again this week!

[epaulando]

so i've been making a spreadsheet of all the race results in order to see different stats for myself yeah. i'm sure i could do this just by like visiting reddit but i want to make it myself. and i start around 5 pm. so tell me why i look up and it's suddenly 6:52

[nintendont2502]

got full marks on my lab work that had a massive flaw today lets gooo

[seaofreverie]

The Me who bought tickets to see TMBG in february 2023 and the Me who's going to actually go to the show next month are two completely different people

[grimkeepher]

Hey, can you play that LIL DVRKIE?

[multishipper-baby]

Lately I've been ruminating about my Eak headcanons some more and I'm trying to like... Manage the level of angst I want to work with.

[shadowtraveled]

i know i’m constantly chewing drywall over shadowgast and it is because there’s so much to drive me insane there and i’m extremely fond of them and their batshit fire/mirror dynamic but if i even Think about essek’s induction to the mighty nein or his feelings toward and friendship with them i will lose my fucking mind