#In 1 Charging

[djungleskogs]

it’s crazy how absolutely blatantly luigi’s constitutional rights are being breached and people seem more concerned about his appearance than a real, scary view of the power CEOs and the healthcare industry have over the legal system. like yeah he looks good in those photos i can appreciate that too but can we focus on the fact that the media is absolutely treating him as if he has already been found guilty. this could happen to anyone. anyone could be arrested over the death of a wealthy, influential person and the precedent being set right now is essentially that the prosecution can run wild and create documentaries declaring your guilt. like that’s really serious and scary.

[cidnangarlond]

[aprill-99]

Xaden: “Okay everyone, safety briefing for this weekend.”

Xaden *to Ridoc and Bodhi*: “Do not add to the population.”

Xaden *to Imogen*: “Do not subtract from the population.”

Xaden *to Rhiannon, Sawyer, and Garrick in order*: “Do not end up in the newspaper, the hospital, or in jail.”

Xaden *to Violet*: “If you do end up in jail, establish dominance quickly.”

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I know we joke that f1 is basically musical chairs at times but this is taking the cake at this point. Five races is ridiculous. If you don't let rookies grow and develop, you're never going to get anywhere with this upcoming generation of drivers because they're never going to reach their potential.

[roocharfferarts]

my favorite guy!!

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love

[frightfullytreeish]

what if ravi persuades eddie to let his el paso house out instead of selling it right away and so eddie suddenly finds himself with a little bit of passive income and though most of it goes to mortgage and then most of what's left after that goes into christopher's college fund he allows himself a bit of fun money and immediately accidentally becomes buck's sugar daddy

[snailfen]

caseheart and knifeclaw go kill that dictator from twolegplace (cobs) or you're FIRED

[internetskiff]

It's sort of curious how Caroline's (probably quite brief) tenure as Aperture's CEO is never explored or really brought up save for Cave's dying wish for her to take on his mantle. Its likely that Aperture took on the form we see in Portal 1 specifically under her jurisdiction. While she was in charge the building took on this rusted jagged shape, burning with hellish red light. The building at what is probably its most inhospitable state until GLaDOS has a go at rearranging its innards.

The fact that her management of Aperture is so understated makes me think that, unlike her predecessor, Caroline operated quietly and in the background. Didn't bother with the same theatrics that Cave did. Aperture seems to operate in a manner a little more insidious than usual after he's gone. Test subject acquisitions are all hush-hush. Chell's generation of test subjects probably don't even know any of the employees that well, let alone whoever runs the place. No more "Welcome to Aperture! I'm Cave Johnson - I own the place." - you simply wake up in a concrete box with warped faces observing you behind the glass. Clearly, she seems to have figured out a way to keep the company afloat, but the place is still a slowly decaying carcass of its former self. She's just managed to slow, stall the rot that started staining the place ever since the astronauts went missing. Funny it took a piece of her to build the machine that would force this decay into retreat. The place was a slowly settling corpse until life was forced straight into its wires, giving it self-devouring immortality.

[maerossi]

Things that make me feel like I'm going to have a heart attack: my local library has shelves and shelves of books on Christianity. At first glance it has a shelf on books about Judaism, but upon closer inspection, all but 3 of the books are about "Messianic Jews." (This is a sect that emerged in the 60s/70s and is considered a form of Christianity by basically all Jewish authorities because they believe in Jesus and other pretty core Christian tenets.)

Like, our town has 2 synagogues. People observe shabbat here. There is not, to my knowledge, any community of Messianic Jews in this town.

This is most likely the result of our almost-all Christian (and 0 Jewish) librarians not knowing what they don't know and just feeling like it's a good, comfortable, and inclusive thing to acquire Jewish books that are still about Jesus.

This is antisemitic.

I tried to make a "read Jewish Joy" display shelf, and I literally can't because books on Jewish joy don't exist in our library.

I really wish we got an actual education on what modern-day antisemitism looks like, because I'm completely certain that if our librarians were more aware, they would have made better, more inclusive acquisition decisions.

[lesbiannieism]

sometimes it’s not about the lights to flags victories, sometimes it’s about being able to run in dirty air for 20 LAPS and still be able to heap on the pressure. sometimes it’s about having stronger pace than your teammate even at his strongest track. sometimes it’s about the weekends that show oscar’s fighting spirit, that he is NEVER going to back down and he will keep fighting every single lap

[tubbytarchia]

Help I never realized that the life series snail stickers were $5 a piece. That is such a scam I'm so sorry who has the money for that. That cost like 10 cents max to produce

[eliounora]

the US election for europeans is like the worst political cliffhanger ever. you go to sleep when the polls have not closed but wake up to the first results. maybe it is for the best, because indeed I'd rather be unconscious for this. good night and godspeed my friends. see you on the other side

[ianthedebonair]

Marshal Steel and Charge annihilate pumpkins for... charity(?)

[copyexe]

[boxeom]

Like Sylus, in my mind, is indeed the King Switch of Love and Deepspace (next to Raf, but he's a very very different case) but he's got like...power sub dynamics going on. I think it takes a lot to get him to truly REALLY get into that space of completely surrendering control. I think he's a bit nervous for it even if he acts like he isn't. Of course, he trusts you with all his heart and soul, but as someone who lives his life having to be the one with the power it's a new thing for him to physically and sexually explore.