#In no order whatsoever

[thatgoddamngingerundercut]

daechwita

[electrozeistyking]

I'm putting N and Doll in a time loop AU.

And by which I mean N finds out he's in a time loop and Doll is kinda forced to deal with that because she is the only other person even remotely aware there's a time loop situation going on.

Here's the kicker, though.

It only resets whenever N dies.

It does not restart when Doll dies.

Sure, Doll is somehow connected to it and will taken back to the start with her memories of the last loop, but she is not able to restart the loop herself. She will come back to life alongside of N when it restarts, though it may impact her mental health in some way.

When the loop resets, N always wakes up where he found himself on after getting bootlooped. I did not mean to connect these events; I just didn't want to send N back too far. However, I will admit it's kind of an interesting way to get stuck in a time loop.

Sadly, N and Doll eventually realize that certain events are crucial to progressing forward, so they must play out similarly every single time. If they change too much, it will result in catastrophe and inevitably restart the loop.

N only finds this out when he attempts to save V at the elevator, leading to the very first instances of the time loop restarting. Unfortunately, this does mean N cannot rescue V without putting an end to the loop, and Doll refuses to try in case that ruins it more.

Neither of them are sure why Uzi isn't connected to the loops. She's bit of a unpredictable variable, since her responses or reactions can be drastically different no matter how safe N or Doll play it, but she is NOT aware of the loops. Nori and The Solver are very similar cases.

(I'm naming this the "Double Time Loop AU," after the fact there are two drones stuck in a time loop they're aware of... and also because double time is a thing and it felt clever in a way.)

[angelnumber27]

violently forcing myself to have better days

[mwolf0epsilon]

Ahsoka meeting Bean Rex for the very first time.

It takes a while for the clones to feel comfortable enough with the Jedi to share the existence of the Trooper Beans, but some had their suspicions that there was more to their troops than met the eye. Mostly because the Trooper Beans got up to shenanigans that left evidence of "unseen pests" on board.

When you have a living extension of yourself (that embodies both your emotions and personality) hanging about, it's not too unusual that you'd feel a little apprehensive about sharing their existence. Especially when these curious little beings are more often than not, the only remnant you may have of vode you've lost in the past.

Most Jedi don't take the initial lack of trust too hard.

[mako-neexu]

god. THIS IS IN NO WAY VOICED but i love his enthusiasm in english and all but THE SOFTNESS ITS ALWAYS THE SOFTNESS OF HIS VOICE IN JP HERE THAT WOULD ALWAYS SEND ME STRAIGHT INTO THE SUN. he is literally the best im choking on my blood..... the way he would laugh, he would encourage you of course, he would already sound triumphant...he sounds so sure and joyous!!!!! his voice, almost like a thunderous applause... to your struggle, to your wishes, to your desires, to your victory, to your humanity and then...

his voice lowers to an octave- to almost, a hushed whisper. the atmosphere turns quiet in contrast to the noise that had breached your heart.

the shadow that guards your soul stands before you, and stretches a hand out, presenting you to the world as the one and true victor in this battle.

yes, to you, alone.

I know. I know. If it is you, whose soul is already a champion in my eyes, dazzling and brilliant, you can achieve anything and everything you could ever want.

[youshouldseemeinadeerstalker]

Taika Waititi’s looks at the MTV EMAs 2022 -All outfits-

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Whenever I watch Black Friday I always look over to my Wiggly on my bookshelf, and gain some sort of superiority complex.

[fallenorder-incorrectquotes]

Cal: 5 years ago I was a fucking mess and now I’m a fucking mess but at peace with it and with cooler fashion sense

[falling-hand-in-unlovable-hand]

okay. i caved

(individual versions under the cut!)

i had SO much fun rendering their skin tbh

[bugsinthebayou]

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY I JUST BOUGHT

[mumblesplash]

season 9 has been amazing but i’m kinda excited to be around for the beginning of a hermitcraft season, they were well into the empires crossover arc when i started watching double life (which was pretty much my introduction to mcyt in general) so this is gonna be my first time actually being around for the early game

[doveshovel]

I saw a couple people putting together songs and playlists and stuff for their ocs so. First time attempting a character playlist(?) for Hunter wheeeee

This Cold Night: Drown me in the River

OH!Hello: Haunted House

The Smiths: Back to the Old House

Running away from his old house. Knowing that he would never wish to return, but feeling some conflict. Severing attachments to the few good memories that kept him there. Old love that, even then, existed as a distant memory. Has some wish to return to the same house as it existed in childhood. When the people around him were kind. Knowing it can never be as it was.

"I would love to go back to the old house, but I never will."

This Cold Night: Black Cathedral

Seeing the black silhouette of a church spire against the red light of dawn during the long drive north. He's not religious, but the imagery and timing leave an impression.

Linkin Park: What I've Done

Couldn't help myself. Had to put linkin park here.

Carmen Maki: 時には母のない子のように

Lost at sea

Joe Hisashi: A Town With an Ocean View

Arrival in Cape West

Corb Lund: I Wanna be in the Cavalry (Seth Staton Watkins cover)

Meeting WizardEgg, joining the soulriders. He's too optimistic about it, and almost believes them to be an idealized version of some little cavalry regiment. Doesn't think Garnok is an actual threat yet.

Big Data: Automatic

Aideen and Hunter's relationship, sort of. They're codependent. She needs a channel through which to enact her will, he needs to be kept alive and feel useful.

"I'll be the one to make your heart beat right"

"Here I am because you need me to do it again"

Modest Mouse: Float On

Despite everything, Hunter's an optimist. He tries to see the best in situations and people.

:)

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Kmusical Dorian Gray

[indigayghost]

Nadja is so angry they're not getting ready to flee but also how cute it is that she prepared run away bags with blood and clothes and new identities for EVERYONE and how she won't fucking run away without her family

[batsplat]

from the stuff i’ve heard marc’s former honda teammates (dani jorge and pol in their media careers but joan also i guess) say about him now that they’re racing is generally quite positive, both on a professional/riding level but also seemingly on a personal level? i’m wondering what you make of that given that, yeah, marc doesn’t seem like a very good teammate (unless you’re alex who i’ve left off this list). like MARC wants to separate on and off track stuff and it seems like all of these guys are willing too at least in retrospect, so he can’t have truly burned bridges with them. do you have any thoughts on that

(x, x) most riders are quite good at not burning bridges with each other! it's not like marc's competitors don't know that this stuff is kinda part of the game. I mean, all of marc's past teammates were also trying to assert themselves within the internal hierarchy... you can say that certain teammates engage in 'worse' behaviour than others, but, like, these people do understand they're supposed to be fighting each other! a baseline degree of nastiness is factored in and will be accepted to a greater or lesser extent by your rivals - especially when it comes to asserting yourself in intra-team power struggles. you might hate the other guy in the moment, but generally speaking once the active part of the rivalry is done with... you will probably get over it. marc's fellow riders are aware of how ultra-competitive marc is - and to a certain point they do respect it, not least because they're aware that this is part of the reason why marc has ended up with all those titles. it's like dani said, right, it's marc's strong suit. and in general, you do have to say that there's relatively few teammate pairings that devolve to the level of toxicity that it completely destroys the interpersonal relationship. you might need some level of preexisting animosity... most of the purely competitive sins can be healed with a little time

on the 'separating on-track and off-track' thing... well. this is kind of a question of how you define these things, you can say that marc generally speaking isn't going to massively hold grudges over isolated on-track incidents or whatever... but he doesn't just leave his fighting to the track, and personally I've also never felt he can entirely separate these things out in his mind. can you really say his professional and private relationships with other riders are completely detached from one another? mostly, he's opted to be pretty disengaged from his fellow riders as a collective, and obviously that's a good way to not take things too personally... it's all part of the game, isn't it? sometimes it's good to go with the straightforward approach: marc tells you he will make your life hell, he does indeed make your life hell, and then you both move on with your lives and can maybe actually have a pretty amiable relationship with him in years to come. he's not really defying your expectations at any point here, is he now? it's still a question for each of them as individuals as to whether they think that kind of behaviour is above board and acceptable or not... but everyone by now knows that marc plays these games, so it's not like they're going in blind

and it's not like other former teammates are constantly badmouthing each other. I mean... look, let's just cut to the chase here and bring in valentino as our reference point (as he is for the sport as a whole, which by the way does also help create a certain baseline of acceptability for marc's antics - maybe goated riders are just supposed to be dicks who knows). vale's premier class teammates were 1) nobody (2000-01), 2) tohru ukawa (2002), 3) nicky hayden (2003; 2011-12), 4) carlos checa (2004), 5) colin edwards (2005-2007), 6) jorge lorenzo (2008-10; 2013-16), 7) maverick vinales (2017-20), 8) franco morbidelli (2021), and 9) andrea dovizioso (2021). of these eight men (let's just exclude 'nobody' for now), do you know how many had serious complaints at any point about valentino as a teammate? that's right, it's one guy. one. some of valentino's other teammates, like hayden, checa and edwards, were even quite actively positive about their whole experience. this is the thing - you do need some specific circumstances for teammate rivalries to escalate from 'being kinda bitchy every other month' to 'actively fantasising about stabbing each other'. not accounting for natural interpersonal animosity, let's list some circumstantial factors that you need to get a bridge-burning-worthy level of feud:

you need a competitive bike. it is possible to beef about development direction when you're in the trenches (cf late 2010's yamaha, 2020's honda)... but generally speaking this is going to be quite low-level petty stuff, not actual war

you also need something that approaches competitiveness between teammates. if one teammate is unquestionably stronger than the other one, then it is very unlikely that you are going to get any open hostilities. the tension comes when the two sides are close enough to each other for the internal hierarchy to actually be a contentious issue (this is also basic self preservation... if you're the far weaker teammate then you do not want to make the situation troublesome, because then you will be the one to be fired)

following on from those first two things... well, it doesn't hurt to have a title fight in the mix. there are also other ways you can generate competitive stakes, like, for instance, if you and your teammate know that one of you will be out of a job soon. basically, it helps to have something to squabble over

it is maybe easy to forget how rare it is this century for teammates to be fighting directly for a title, let alone over the course of multiple seasons. only two 1-2's since the year 2000 and they're both for the factory yamaha's (though 2006, 2011-13 and 2017 did all prominently feature two factory hondas). which means that for valentino, the prerequisites were met just the once in his premier class career... and yes, the results were pretty memorable, but (topic! for! another! post!) it's worth pointing out that even that relationship was pretty much 'fine' whenever there was a sizeable disparity between the two of them performance-wise (2008 and 2013 are the most clear cut examples). I think the way I'd frame it with marc is that he has a bunch of mildly dubious strategies up his sleeve to assert himself within the team, which don't really deviate that far from what you'd expect from a rider of marc's calibre and only need to be escalated under specific circumstances. that doesn't mean he doesn't have the potential to be ruthless, but up until now it's mostly been a fairly 'acceptable' level of ruthlessness on the intra-team level... and not something that is likely to make other riders actually hate him

taking marc's teammates one by one... dani was the closest to meeting the bridge-burning prerequisites, though he was only a title rival in marc's rookie season. and marc did go further with him than he did with anyone else, and dani has made some pointed comments about marc's style as a teammate... but yes, he is fonder of marc these days. partly I'd just emphasise again that this is a fairly natural progression when you've stopped directly competing for long enough, and partly it's also just a question of individual personality - dani's not massively into holding grudges. then there's jorge, who... I mean, they might as well not have been teammates, given that jorge was either too slow or too injured to even be sharing any track space with marc. you have to put that one down primarily to circumstance, seeing as jorge's own track record on the teammate front isn't exactly spotless. marc and jorge beefing in 2019 would have been pretty dumb and also a massive waste of everyone's time in a year in which marc singlehandedly won the team's championship. even those two needed more to get things going

moving on to the dark years, pol and marc had an extremely stop-and-start partnership on a honda that was generally pretty uncompetitive... so the only stuff they could get ever so mildly irritable about were riveting incidents like 'marc saying pol wasn't the biggest championship threat' (neither of them were) or 'pol saying he'd copy marc's set up' (which proved entirely useless). not exactly title decider territory, is it now, and marc very much had pol covered as a challenger throughout their partnership. also, those two do have a longer history! they've known each other since they were kids and hold a pretty significant place in each other's careers. now that pol's more or less retired, it's natural there'll be quite a lot of sentimentality there - which will paper over any small cracks that appeared during those two years. and joan was a one year teammate at a time in which the bike was consistently close to offing them both. they only managed to start a sunday race together as teammates on thirteen occasions. it would take some serious effort to engineer a feud with that little opportunity, and, really, why on earth would you bother. maybe if honda had gone for rinsy rather than joan for the factory seat, it could've been a bit more prickly, but it's unlikely that it would have escalated beyond that

this is the thing, right, the only one of these partnerships that would have been worth burning bridges over was dani, and even there marc pretty much had him handled after the first season. in general, marc has been pretty clear on how he's not interested in making friends with the other side of the garage while the teammate relationship is ongoing... which is fine! there's some prominent-ish teammate pairings that are actually good friends, some teammate pairings where one of them is actively helping out and advising the other one, but some riders prefer to just keep their distance. it would have been a little silly of marc to start a feud with a teammate who is galaxies away from being a competitive threat, let alone a title rival, but generally it is possible to toe the line between 'attempting to suppress your internal rivals enough to stop them from becoming a problem for you' and 'taking radical enough action to make your internal rivals despise you'

especially in the post-dani era, marc never really had any need to push things too far... and, let's face it, how many of your teammate relationships end up with burnt bridges is also quite frankly a question of luck and circumstance. do you want to guess which top rider on paper has the worst track record this century with premier class teammate feuds, in terms of a) how many they've had, and b) how little public reconciliation there has been since the end of the rivalry?

yes, that's right, it's the first name that comes to mind when you're thinking of toxic and conflict-prone riders: andrea dovizioso. that old devil, constantly causing trouble. just couldn't stop undermining his poor, innocent teammates. can somebody please stop this ruthless bully before it's too late

I think you get the point. I would personally suggest that dovi is not in fact the worst teammate it is possible to have in a motogp top team. he just happened to find himself in a situation where he was teammates with two separate guys he did not click with at all, in situations that involved a pairing of riders who were (or had the potential to be) competitive with each other, as well as some proper stakes attached to the rivalry. in general, situational factors are going to determine this stuff more than anything else... and marc more often than not does have a reasonably good feel for picking his battles. he's flirted with the line, but he's mostly avoided crossing it. he hasn't had to

[mako-neexu]

sakurai has dantes use 俺 and オレ to differentiate the danteses in part 1 - 1.5 - and 2 plus events and interludes... but i really like the use of 我 it just turns me into a giggling flustered mess😭 for sure of course, 'ore' usage is most commonly used by men... and its definitely fitting for dantes as using boku is gentler and is definitely more used for younger boys.. so ore is fitting but then??? he only??? switches to 我 when it comes to addressing his accomplice. that alone is enough to snipe me dead???

我 is mostly used by ossans and ojisans lmfao...and is definitely something youd hear from the Cavern King/Count of Monte Cristo...he's very dramatic and profound after all www but he uses it mainly towards 「我が共犯者」 to mean to guda that he is a very dependable man they could always count on... thats why you can see some illustrations that depict gudas as kids with dantes as like, on the father or aniki role www but the thing with 我 is that the kanji itself also means 'selfish' www so not only an old fashioned way of speaking but also saying YOU are HIS accomplice- THE MAN WHO IS VERY DEPENDABLE AND YOU CAN ALWAYS TRUST NO MATTER WHAT!!!! whats this expression of love? wwww he loves his accomplice very much... and of course guda would return the same love by addressing him in the pronoun they RARELY use to anyone else!!: キミ

they love each other so much...accomplices for life.