#HE BURNED MY FUCKING HOUSE DOWN

[detective-angel426]

"THAT WAS MY HOUSE! NOOOOOO!!! YOU FUCKER 😭😭😭😭"

-Detective Angel

Yup‼️

(P.s I made this on capcut btw❤)

[inkskinned]

one of the things that's the most fucking frustrating for me about arguing with climate change deniers is the sheer fucking scope of how much it matters. sweating in my father's car, thinking about how it's the "hottest summer so far," every summer. and there's this deep, roiling rage that comes over me, every time.

the stakes are wrong, is the thing. that's part of what makes it not an actual debate: the other side isn't coming to the table with anything to fucking lose.

like okay. i am obviously pro gun control. but there is a basic human part of me that can understand and empathize with someone who says, "i'm worried that would lead to the law-abiding citizens being punished while criminals now essentially have a superpower." i don't agree, but i can tell the stakes for them are also very high.

but let's say the science is wrong and i'm wrong and the visible reality is wrong and every climate disaster refugee is wrong. let's say you're right, humans aren't causing it or it's not happening or whatever else. let's just say that, for fun.

so we spend hundreds of millions of dollars making the earth cleaner, and then it turns out we didn't need to do that. oops! we cleaned the earth. our children grow up with skies full of more butterflies and bees. lawns are taken over with rich local biodiversity. we don't cry over our electric bills anymore. and, if you're staunchly capitalist and i need to speak ROI with you - we've created so many jobs in developing sectors and we have exciting new investment opportunities.

i am reminded of kodak, and how they did not make "the switch" to digital photography; how within 20 years kodak was no longer a household brand. do we, as a nation, feel comfortable watching as the world makes "the switch" while we ride the laurels of oil? this boggles me. i have heard so much propaganda about how america cannot "fall behind" other countries, but in this crucial sector - the one that could actually influence our own monopolies - suddenly we turn the other cheek. but maybe you're right! maybe it will collapse like just another silicone valley dream. but isn't that the crux of capitalism? that some economies will peter out eventually?

but let's say you're right, and i'm wrong, and we stopped fracking for no good reason. that they re-seed quarries. that we tear down unused corporate-owned buildings or at least repurpose them for communities. that we make an effort, and that effort doesn't really help. what happens then? what are the stakes. what have we lost, and what have we gained?

sometimes we take our cars through a car wash and then later, it rains. "oh," we laugh to ourselves. we gripe about it over coffee with our coworkers. what a shame! but we are also aware: the car is cleaner. is that what you are worried about? that you'll make the effort but things will resolve naturally? that it will just be "a waste"?

and what i'm right. what if we're already seeing people lose their houses and their lives. what if it is happening everywhere, not just in coastal towns or equatorial countries you don't care about. what if i'm right and you're wrong but you're yelling and rich and powerful. so we ignore all of the bellwethers and all of the indicators and all of the sirens. what if we say - well, if it happens, it's fate.

nevermind. you wouldn't even wear a mask, anyway. i know what happens when you see disaster. you think the disaster will flinch if you just shout louder. that you can toss enough lives into the storm for the storm to recognize your sacrifice and balk. you argue because it feels good to stand up against "the liberals" even when the situation should not be political. you are busy crying for jesus with a bullhorn while i am trying to usher people into a shelter. you've already locked the doors, even on the church.

the stakes are skewed. you think this is some intellectual "debate" to win, some funny banter. you fuel up your huge unmuddied truck and say suck it to every citizen of that shitbird state california. serves them right for voting blue!

and the rest of us are terrified of the entire fucking environment collapsing.

[fyllophobia]

[cowboyshit]

[hollyhomburg]

honestly one of the only things that like- gets me through thinking about my sisters wedding is imagining if the bily m/c had an older sister like i do. my fantasy of choice is of namjoon and hobi and jimin and yoongi finding her and having a talk with her. Maybe she reaches out to the m/c and the m/c is torn with if she even can handle her sister in her life- maybe this is sometime in the future where the m/c is kinda wobbling a little in her recovery. she has her support system and everything but every day takes effort and she's tired. and unfortunatly- the m/c's sister reaching out kinda tips her over the edge for a single night before the pack catch her.

i can picture the rage in hobi's eyes, idk why in my mind this version of my sister works in a hospital as an administrator, maybe thats why namjoon has been able to corner her for a meeting. and it doesn't start out well because the m/c's sister mistakenly calls yoongi geumjae. but anyway- hobi's rage, i can hear his voice shaking has he growls it. "if you knew why didn't you stop it? You where her family, you where supposed to protect her. she was a child." "she was an adult." "she was a child."

absolutely feral when she so casually admits that she knew what was going on between the m/c and geumjae before they got married, and maybe it gets a bit heated and namjoon removes hobi from the room because he looks like he's about to punch her. leaving just yoongi and jimin standing there (a mistake)

and jimin slowly grinds out his cigarette on her papers as yoongi talks, "let me say this clearly so that you understand, first- we are not family. You are not welcome at our pack house, i do not like you and never will. if you ever do or say anything to hurt my mate again-" "you'll what? you'll hurt me?" and yoongi just laughs as jimin smiles and says, "Oh, He won't do a thing to you. yoongi's harmless." and she looks almost cocky until jimin giggles and says, "I am not."

like the dialogue alone would be so so good

[haedia]

Oh god. I just had an Illario thought. And maybe I'm not the first to have this thought but I haven't seen it around yet.

So, the part that I have seen around: I think it's kind of fair to assume that one of Illario's parents was definitely not Caterina's favorite (and maybe even her least favorite child) which in part leads to her not valuing him. Which is, of course, an inversion of her favoritism for Lucanis being at least in part because she favored his mother.

But what if Illario's other parent was an elf? (or other non-human whose traits disappear when they have children with humans) Then the Dellamorte the Lesser has another awful layer to it. It's not just about him being the disparaged grandson of the (probably very much) not favored child. It's also him not being fully human. Possibly the only grandchild of the family who isn't.

It wouldn't even have to be anti-elven/racist sentiment that encouraged Caterina to look down on Illario. If that elven partner wasn't someone she approved of? It wouldn't matter if they were human or not -- Caterina doesn't really strike me as the kind of person who tolerates it when people defy her in any form. Unless they're Lucanis, of course. And, by extension, probably his mother too.

But say that he is half elven. Then you get stormy self-destructive thoughts of "If I were fully human, maybe she wouldn't have done this to me" and then later, him allying with the Venatori becomes darkly tragic and gives another layer to the self-loathing. Then it's not just about using them to gain power and assert his position as First Talon. No, it becomes about subjugating and stamping down a part of him he is certain is why he's been maligned his entire life.

From Caterina's perspective, assuming her dislike of her child's partner/spouse is from disapproval of the match itself and not racist in origin, Illario is lesser because her child disappointed her over and over again and she's incapable of seeing her grandson as his own person. She can only see him filtered through the lens of her dead, disappointing child.

From Illario's perspective, Caterina heaps praise and her own distant form of love on Lucanis well beyond whatever he receives. He's not as good as Lucanis is at least some things but he's not incapable. And he's better at certain things than Lucanis. He's still a master assassin who has lived to be in his mid-thirties (which is impressive given the profession!). And yet he'll never be good enough for his grandmother. He's no doubt picked at it for years: the differences, the whys.

Why he's not good enough. Why he can never measure up. Why he's treated so differently. Why is he different?

Everyone who's suffered as the scapegoat or otherwise unfavored child wonders at some point: was I born wrong?

And, if Illario's other parent isn't human, well...there's no way he wouldn't have wondered if that's why she treated him so differently.

How could he not?

[densewentz]

i dont think you guys understand the horror movie level of psychological torture i get put through by crickets on an almost comically frequent basis.

[klanced]

Keith walking into the holding cell greeting all the regulars by name while Lance is sobbing lamenting that his life is over and his future is ruined (they were like. Trespassing or some shit he’s going to be fine)

lance: (actively dry heaving in the corner, on the verge of a panic attack as he imagines having a permanent record)(actually what does a permanent record even look like?)(omg is he going to have to go to COURT? like in JUDGE JUDY?)

keith: remy, this is lance. lance, this is remy, she’s my favorite alcoholic :)

[excedrinpm]

Fucking yikes

[tomanationcentral]

Toma, as someone that had a shitty college experience, and was partially due to having zero friends in any of my classes + everyone leaving me out, you have no idea how much I cried when I read this/pos/gen

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinkbing about. him

[hl-obsessed]

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[thisisntreaver]

Woke up and all i can think about is how the fable games have 2 different characters named Penelope, didn't show either of them to us, but did let us know that they have both burned a mans house down.

[eggsbenedictinurmom]

Also, completely unrelated to my post from like 10 minutes ago, but my lovely first disciple and wife Narinder got drunk for the first time yesterday.

He immediately cried, puked, struggled to get himself back up, slowly wobbled away from the place he puked as I cleaned it up and cried again behind my windmill. He will not like finding out about this later.

[moodycarcass]

Smoked one (1) cigarette I found on the ground in votv immediately got cancer and dr.kel is still coughing an in-game week later literally grow up dude

[troutlawyer]

Need to watch IWTV show but must find a way to do so without going into a dissociative daze and thinking if I can reach into the screen and throttle Lestat myself my psychological wounds will retroactively heal