#I don't trust coincidences.
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s t a r t r e k d e e p s p a c e n i n e created by rick berman, michael piller [cardassians, s2ep5] 'I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But, I don't trust coincidences.' - garak
#star trek#star trek deep space nine#deep space nine#rick berman#michael piller#ds9 season 2#deep space nine season 2#ds9 Cardassians#Cardassians#lot: st ds9 season 2 ep 5/26 (ep 25/176)#alexander siddig#andrew robinson#Julian Bashir#Garak#I don't trust coincidences.#quotes#star trek quotes
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4 MINUTES (2024) I 1.02 "Do the police normally do house check-ins."
#4 minutes#4 minutes the series#userrlaura#uservix#userfaiza#tonkla#win x tonkla#wintonkla#win#tonkla x win#jjay patiphan#fuaiz thanawat#cheating storyline let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOOO - we're so FUCKING BACK#oh korn if only you knew that while you where on your knees before fasai your boo was getting visits from a cute cop#also the way win looked at tonkla when he first saw him - that look in his eye said everything#plus i don't think that the juxtaposition between korn cheating and win showing up was a coincidence hhhhhmmmmmm#how fucking sad is it that a cop who barely knows you shows more concern than your own lover..... unless win has a different motive#idk i don't trust anyone in this show#what if tonkla starts sleeping win only to get info from him on the police investigation and then actually falls for him......#mywork
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if i had a dollar for every person who stopped talking to me bc i wouldn't sleep with them i'd have a goddamn house.
#lost another one lads 😑#i'm not saying this as a 'humble brag' either idk if it could read like that but. god.#you may also say 'bana is it possible you're just annoying or it's coincidence?' no bc contact ends or slows to an end after rejection#one time someone unsolicited told me like 'you really should be dating' and like. okay first of all back off.#second of all listening to 'friends' for romantic/sexual stuff has only gone awful & life ruining for me and i don't recommend it to anyone#anyway. the way SOME people value or rather do not value me as a human being is staggering.#and i was raised to be made acutely aware of this before i really understood what it meant#so many things in my life just reinforce that i should never trust people or be seen by anyone which sucks & i have to believe isn't true#i'm not upset i'm just 😑 okay. it happen again. and again and again. and.#skelly speaks
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today my bike I have had for 7 years got stolen so I was really upset and called or went to every pawn shop on my side of the city then came home and realized I hadn't eaten at all throughout the day and I'm bleeding into my clothing (normal monthly blood). well. :/
#i don't see a stain on the jeans at least. cotton undies you have supported me once again#i thought i was just being my usual overly emotional self crying about this#how am i supposed to live in this world when unpleasant coincidences like this keep happening to me and i get way more upset than i should#etc etc can i go a year without some stupid mishap can i just live in peace. last year it was the roaches#i KNOW every time i move something unpleasant is bound to happen for a while but i keep moving around#and etc etc#then i realized i had not eaten so perhaps could chalk this unhappiness not up to my basic unsuitedness for life in society#but up to hunger#modern problems require ancient solutions#anyway that is the last time i leave my bike chained outside overnight#i guess i am too trusting
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my father's first name is my given middle name. I have wanted to change it for years and am about to in less than a month.
got a text from him today asking if I liked my chosen first name, birth middle and last. he's refinishing my grandmother's hope chest for my wedding and it's his always been his way to write names on the things he makes.
I called my sister about it. I've been cold-sweat-lying-in-bed anxious about this for years. Heard him wander in not knowing I could hear everything on the phone and complain about me wanting to change my name.
Ouch.
#blah blah blah#just needed to record this somewhere. hurts a lot. wish he loved me more than he loves himself#therapist said i can change my name to anything i want i don't have to feel bad about it#i felt dysphoric about my birth name from a very young age so it's an old wound#but it still hurts#my fiancee chose this exact middle name. robin. for herself completely by coincidence#argued hard to keep my last name bc family is important and we wanted a single same last name#but it will never be enough#even went out of my way not to give him the new name. i never want him to know it i know better than to trust him with that
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They say to never trust how you feel about your life after 9PM but it's always before 9PM somewhere. Anyway I think I might be a therian
#don't take this post 100% seriously I've been sick and#crying my eyes out to “no more birthdays” associating the song with trying to relive a childhood that isn't mine (childhood trauuuumaaaaaa)#that's a big problem I have#deep down I always think someday I'm gonna wake up and I will have been born a few years earlier-#so I can be an “appropriate” age to experience all my favorite media as it releases and interact accordingly#i always think- if that were the case I could have avoided my traumatic years and grown up much happier#don't get me wrong- I'm happy right now- you'd be hard pressed to find me on a day I'm not#but there's some existentialism that comes with wanting to magically wake up a different age- in the past- in a different life#I want to have lived any life but mine#and I just keep waiting for it to feel better again#it never does#crowfish crap#that therian part is definitely coinciding with autism and gender non conformity#when I picture myself I immediately picture my fursona- not a human who (at the moment) appears feminine#i hardly know anything about the subculture itself however#blathering#its true btw don't trust how you feel about your life at night time
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Me: ok, these symptoms are psychosomatic but this completely unrelated pain is real, I'm sure.
Pain: *gets better literally the second I take some medicine*
Me: ...... et tu, brute?
#i'm just *squints* at it now cause it might have been a coincidence cause this pain has been on and off for a while#but on the other hand i don't trust my body anymore it's main goal this year seems to be driving me insane#i need a health potion like in dnd or something just one gulp and it cures whatever is wrong with you#sorry i keep coming here to whine about my health i'm just so tired of it#ramblings
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I've noticed you haven't been tagging your news related reblogs anymore. Is there a reason?
Some of Tumblr's overall activity towards these posts (I know which ones you mean) has been... Incredibly sketchy, lets say. And by that I mean some people I was following have either been targets of harassment, shadowbans, or simply vanished overnight after showing vocal support for the victims.
I hate not tagging them because I feel like it's easier to find the resource posts I share if I sort them with my tagging system, but I already had an incident that required staff intervention and I definitely don't trust what might happen if the wrong moderator takes notice of my opinions on the matter.
Until I'm sure those vanishing blogs aren't connected to misuse of moderation powers/blatant support for oppression, I am gonna air on the side of caution.
#Friend Anon#Sucks when you can't even trust the platform you share news and resources on#but some things I've noticed recently don't feel like coincidences#and I definitely want to still be able to share resources so I'm being careful
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And i try to look up that pressure test just to make sure i'm doing it right bc girl i'm getting worried and "ovulation pain doesn't get worse with movement" well i guess i'm just built different /neg
#for reference if i try to move on my side i hurt#if i get up and try to sit down again i HURT#and i know i can wave that off bc this is just How It Always Is with me#sighs. when i was younger i had far worse menstrual cramps#but it feels like ever since i started ovulating it's a diceroll on whether i'm gonna have debilitating menstrual or ovulation cramps#insomma i LOVE having a uterus!! i love ovaries !!!!!!!!!! i am in so much pain for 2.5 weeks every month for no reason !!!!!!#whatever. it's not appendicitis every month i scare myself into thinking it is but it's not#no fever no vomiting it's not sudden and it's far lower than appendicitis usually is#i can't wait for the day i actually get appendicitis but it coincides with my fertility window so i just wave it off#tmi a bit lmao#this is why i love not having people who know me irl on here (unless i trust them severely) like yeah#babe let me tell you all about my cycle but only if you don't know what my real name is
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But it was salem ignorence that cause all of this sure what the gods did to her was awful but they right you cant just play with life and death (also they punish her the second time she try it when she talk to the god of darkness) if ruby will bring penny back it would mean that salem is right and the gods are wrong
Anon, I rewatched the segment with the brother gods and I recommend you do too. You wanna talk about playing with life and death?
How's this: the brother gods, after committing genocide on humanity, talk about how this was an interesting experiment but they'll go to other planets now because this one's a Remnant of what it once was. You know, because they committed genocide?
They created an entire sentient species to worship them, and then when a few groups of that sentient species did something they didn't like? They killed everyone.
So yeah, there was a lot of playing with life and death going on there. All of humanity was an experiment to them.
It's not Salem's ignorance that caused all this. This happened because the brother gods were so mad at a grieving woman tricking them into bringing her husband back to life that they decided to punish her. And the god of darkness explicitly says that this means she'll never be able to see her husband again! He knows how horrible that is!
So yeah, it would mean the gods were wrong. Because they are wrong.
What Salem is doing now? Yeah that's really bad. Obviously. But back then, she was a grieving woman who wanted to bring back this one person who she loved. And had the brother gods just told her she wouldn't be able to contact them again, that would have been that. Maybe she would have lived, maybe she would have tried to join Ozma in the afterlife, to put it mildly. Even immortal, that was what she initially tried to do.
The brother gods play with life and death constantly. All of humanity was their game with life and death. When talking to each other the god of light says that it's a balance they agreed on. It was their choice. They didn't punish Salem for playing with life and death, they punished her for tricking them and wrapped it in a bow of learning about the meaning of life and death. But really, they were mad that she tricked them.
Salem wasn't wrong for trying to get her husband back, the gods were wrong to punish her.
I don't know if they should have brought Ozma back, but they sure as hell shouldn't have made Salem immortal about it. Or killed everyone after she gathered some of humanity to fight them in an attempt that was completely incapable of doing any damage.
#rwby#rwby spoilers#because it's related to a spoiler post#salem#ozma#the brother gods#ask#anon ask#anon was I really not clear enough in my post that I think salem was right and the gods were wrong#you say that like it's an argument against bringing penny back#when my point was that the statement is correct and bringing penny back would show that#I think that's a pretty clear stance#it's no coincidence that these are two extraordinarily powerful men who use that power to hurt a young woman either#male authority figures (which. is kind of all of them?) are not to be trusted in rwby#I cannot think of any that hold true institutional power that can be trusted#and especially with ironwood recently in mind it seems clear that this is a pattern#initially friendly seeming until you don't do what /he/ wants#and then you get to find out how much he's willing to hurt you to get what he wants#or even just to punish someone
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see, epigraphs are supposed to be like cassandra clare quoting byron or dickens or so on at the tops of her chapters and they're pieces that existed at the time period in which the story takes place etc., etc.
then there's me quoting deep space nine at the top of a tlh fic because i don't trust coincidences either.
#writer thoughts and answers#fanfic#author problems#epigraphs#tlh#attempted quotations#i believe in coincidences#coincidences happen every day#but i don't trust coincidences
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Okayyy I am here to go horrifically in-depth about a long-held theory of mine that will probably go nowhere:
ANGEL AS THE HORSEMAN OF DEATH
His name makes no sense: Yoru is the War Devil. Makima and later Nayuta are the Conquest/Control Devil. Princi is the Spider Devil. Power is the Blood Fiend. Beam is the Shark Fiend. Galgali is the Violence Fiend. And then… Angel is the Angel Devil? The main devils/fiends all have names beyond their personification. He presumably lived as a human on the island he washed up on. He’s noted to be non-hostile to humans. He lives & works with humans. He is noted and listed with the other angel hierarchy names, who all have that as their name. But he has no real human name? EDIT: So the names for the angel hierarchies seem to have been given by Makima, but that still raises the question about the double naming (Angel-Angel) and what he was called prior. Also, naming in devils tends to indicate closeness to humanity for the other devils.
Angel’s amnesia is a whole Thing. He loses his memories of his time on the island to Makima, for some reason. I’d also argue that there’s a non-zero chance that he also had next to no memories when he washed up on the island in the first place. He later regains them just before Makima decides to take him over again. Canonically people don’t remember when she controls him and just before/after, so why did this entire section of his life blur out? Yeah, it could've been trauma, but he could’ve still had that sweet trauma she needed him to have to control him entirely even if he did remember living on the island for presumably at minimum a few weeks to several months before she had him kill them. Hell, it probably would’ve been more traumatic! So why?
His power makes no sense! Admittedly, creating powers for the concept of an “angel devil” would be kinda tricky. However. Fujimoto does play into the angel hierarchy and make callbacks to this kinda thing. People have noted Angel’s hair can look like that one iconic picture of Lucifer. People have also noted the Angel of Death connection before. But angels are typically messengers and soldiers. (And also the whole “angels loving humanity/disobeying god” thing is really fun to look at with Angel disobeying Makima but beside the point.) They’re also stereotypically psychopomps. Angel, on the other hand, explicitly has an ability related to death. He literally tells Makima as much. And it’s a passive ability for him, and he has no say in it. And Power makes weapons out of blood, Yoru/Asa makes weapons out of things she feels she owns, Makima can use the people under her control’s powers as weapons. Angel’s power isn’t making weapons, per se, because lots of devils can do that. His power is draining lifespans and then collecting them. He’s the final destination for those souls. Also, psychopomp and death related entities tend to be associated with wings, for some reason.
Continuing from the last point: There’s a parallel between Asa/Yoru and Angel, I can feel it. She can turn things into weapons if she feels she owns it, and the guiltier she feels about its creations, the stronger it is. Angel says that when he turns people into weapons, he sometimes sees them in his dreams and they blame him for it. (There’s also the Asa/Denji Angel/Aki parallel, but beyond the point.) He’s also shown to be immensely powerful, the more lifespans he uses, but he's very reluctant to use it to its full extent.
The relationship between Makima and Angel is so interesting to me. She states that she can only control those who see themselves as inferior (and tends to show their inferiority through fights), but there’s a really interesting progression between them: Makima meets Angel on the island. He asks her who she is, refuses to use his power because “[his] power brings death” and then Makima immediately asserts herself as superior by controlling him into killing (presumably) all the people living on the island with Angel. Similarly, as soon as he recovers his memories, she takes him out of play! And still, he still breaks through her control several times throughout the series, generally in relation to Aki. I don’t believe we’ve had anyone realize she was the Control Devil in this way yet in the manga, and I don’t believe anyone else has gained (some of) their memories back/broken through her control in the same way? I've seen several different arguments for certain people but I think so far he's the only we've been shown do both.
EDITING to ALSO add: Angel potentially knows more than he lets on. When he tells Aki about the chainsaw noise the devils heard before they were reborn here, and when Aki asks if he remembers Hell and he asks if Aki remembers his mother’s womb: He dodges the questions there.
Combining all of this:
Either (following current manga rules) Angel is a weird devil and Angel is his name and title, or it’s his title and he doesn’t have a name, or his name is Angel, like Power and Princi and Seraphim and Virtue and Dominion, and his title is something different… like the Death Devil.
My theory is that, after the fight between the Weapon Devils and Four Horsemen (and Angel/his powers are there via Makima when she tells the Chainsaw Man that “You fought the Weapon Devils and the Four Horsemen who are now here” or whatever the OG is in Japanese) and the Chainsaw Devil, Angel ends up amnesiac either via the Chainsaw Man, via Makima, or via some other way, washes up on that beach, and either he remembers his name or the people that live there saw his aesthetic and went “Oh yeah that’s an angel”. He stays with them, cares about them, and then Makima, who’s been looking for him in his capacity as a Horseman and is fully aware of what he’s capable of, comes in and immediately asserts her dominance. Angel, unaware of being the Death Devil and viewing himself as lower than Makima because he literally just killed everyone he cared about (and this is the tale Makima spun! She told Aki this. If Angel didn’t know about killing them prior, he probably believed that as well?), could be controlled by her.
So the War Devil says she wants to make the Chainsaw Devil puke up nuclear devil because she wants the world to go to war. The Control Devil said she wanted to kill the other horsemen, create a world where the “flaws” were erased and have one she could control (and Denji found out she wanted an equal she couldn’t control). The Famine devil says she wants to prevent human extinction because it would mean her favorite foods would be gone. So what would the Death Devil want from the Chainsaw Man, and why would it fight him? And like, the base is pretty easy: Angel’s been pretty nonchalant about dying from the very beginning. I’d think that the nightmares from the people he drained would be a pretty easy reason why he’d want to die, and maybe die permanently. I’m also wondering: the Primal Fears are said to have never been killed. They don’t fear death, so they’d be more powerful than Angel. The devils and fiends are in an interesting spot to me? Because they have a continuous cycle of life/death/life/death. Which raises an interesting question into whether or not they are also afraid of death. I’d almost wonder if the Death Devil would want the Chainsaw Man to end the reincarnation cycle in order to make them afraid of death and potentially allow the Death Devil to die, or whether or not the Death Devil prefers the endless cycle because it continuously produces fear of it. It also raises an interesting parallel between the Chainsaw Man and the Death Devil, because one kills in Hell/forces birth in the human world, and the other causes death. And then there’s the whole “chainsaws for birth” thing that makes it a life/death thing.
Side points: We don’t really get a clear look at his eyes after Makima takes him over. There’s a little bit in like, one of the immediate next panels of Angel, but beyond that, his eyes appear closed/looking down/covered by hair for the rest of his time in the manga.
The other panels he’s in the other people tend to be farther away or there’s more people so the eyes aren’t as consistent there but like. C'mon. Why can’t we see his eyes now of all places, while everyone else’s are clear. It’s not like all of them are dead at this point per se, either. I’d wonder if, once he realizes who he was, he’d get the distinctive horsemen eyes and this is the attempt to hide it, or whether or not he changed his appearance to fit further in with society, or if this is just because Fujimoto hadn't decided his fate at this point.
6. To be honest, the only way I can’t see this working out is if Fujimoto pulled something out of thin air for the Death Devil, or made it a primal being. If he doesn’t I’d kinda worry/wonder about it being repetitive, because the Angel Devil already has what would be the potential Death Devil’s powers if it isn’t Primal.
#like. I'm completely cool w current Angel's death in canon. but there's way too much going on for me not to be suspicious as hell#yeah a lot of this could be coincidence or angel-coding. but at some point you have to wonder if its coincidence or intentional#csm#chainsaw man#angel devil#and yeah this could've been the OG and then changed! but tbh as a writer i find the whole “i'm killing this character bc you like him” to b#like. really disrespectful of readers! foreshadowing is GOOD. you SHOULD have foreshadowing. don't pull shit outta ur ass to be “surprising#that just makes the story shit this aint CW!#phrasing/translation/context all changes my perspective on angel's death. but a reader has to trust the author to respect them & vice versa#we'll see how it goes tho!
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Nothing like getting a cryptic text addressing you by the name you go by online... 😖 "Lina, your sample has been sent by our company." What sample? What company? What the hell are you talking about
No way in hell I'm paying some website to figure out who/what this number belongs to, but like... Way to turn my anxiety up to 11...
#delete later#lina irl#i cant remember submitting any sort of sample to anything recently#and even if i did i don't think id do it under my alias if i had to use a real phone number#maybe itll go away if i ignore it lol because im not gonna return a text from a number i dont know if they havent given an introduction#please be just a weird coincidence...#the most i can find is that the number is from amarillo tx but id have to pay a website i don't trust in order to learn more#please just be a crazy wrong number...
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my want to share neat greek things constantly clashing with my utter disgust at the country
anyway, I found a mastic drink at the store.
it's nice (?)
the sour cheery (and the pomegranate that it has on equal amounts but doesn't mention it anywhere but in the detailed ingredient list) matches fairly well with the sparkling aspect of it, and even more with the strong mastic aroma, which ties them together kinda nice. it also, obviously, has a strong mastiha taste over all that, which is... a taste. never been able to decide if I like it or not, whether in drink form or the more common gum one.
anyway, somehow I can't bring myself to drink too much of it, even though I don't dislike it. it doesn't flow as easy as like, a typical carbonated drink and it feels heavier and stronger than I expected from something that advertises itself as "refreshing"
would rec if you know you like the mastiha taste in general or if you are in a group and can pass it around cause it sure will bring up opinions
#personal#ft. mini-meli observing#as she always does#finding this was a neat coincidence cause last night i ordered some mastic liqueur to see how it tastes#among a bunch of other drinks that i want to try#cause a while back i really liked tasting different drinks and cocktails (keyword: testing. i've never been drunk nor do i plan to)#and i feel like getting back into it#anyway#will be posting my thoughts of them on cohost cause i don't trust tumblr with anything semi-adult related anymore#✌
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i'll forever find funny that my first interaction with tfs was me accidentally getting one of the hardest to obtain (angel tf) because my man saved his vaginal virginity for sydney and rite of promise protects angel tf. with a guy named angel no less!! that's certainly A Thing
#trust me if i had planned to get angel tf with him i wouldn't have named him angel. but i didn't so coincidences happen#i didn't even knew rite of promise protected that tf so seeing “despite everything; you managed to stay a pure boy” after they fucked was ?#then he got the halo. me going like 'don't you need to stay a virgin to get angel tf wtf is going on'. well you don't if it is with sydney!#because he's that special<3<3<3#bunny talks
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Some time ago on Twitter there was discourse by transfems about how transphobes leave transmasc completely alone and just. Have you SEEN the books they put out??? "Irreversible Damage" is solely about transmascs. ROGD is solely about transmascs. JKR's half essay is solely about transmascs. Before that, transfems went on and on about how transmascs who don't want to dyi hrt are "not really trans" and are cowards and shit. (Despite T being an illegal and controlled substance) Can we fucking try for five seconds to not rip this barely held together community further apart??? This isn't oppression olympics. We're all in this together, so we fucking should act like it.
me: hmm, this post is talking about the ongoing trans genocide but in a way where transmascs aren't brought up at all & seems to imply that transfems are the central/only victims. but yknow, transfems are allowed to make posts focusing on their issues, i'm gonna assume this is in good faith and-
the notes of said post:
edit: someone left the op these tags url in the notes, I implore you to block but Please don't harass it's not helpful and it's not worth it
#and if you try to educate#block#dogpile#i already have trust issues#and i'm so fucking done#like#what is this???#why this hate?#i rarely see transmascs talk that way about transfems#maybe that's coincidence#I'm in no way saying it's not happening#but look at discourse surrounding dyi#how transmascs are talked about#sorry i don't want to go to fucking jail i guess
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