#Neither option is good

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

I don’t know how y’all are still so invested in the presidential race like theres a chance for us. It’s an absolute garbage circus designed for social media outrage & other countries entertainment idk how y’all aren’t picking that up. After Republicans dug up & paid Amber Rose (because they couldn’t get Hawk Tuah) & Megan thee Stallion twerked for Kamala, I clocked out. I packed up and quit. Y’all have fun stressing over the Orange Ragebait & “”Mamalas”” past betrayals against the working class but couldn’t be me.

I’ll vote, but only because it means an extended lunch break.

[queenofbaws]

taking a quick break from flash fiction to have dinner and to ask myself an incredibly (un)important and (not even a little) serious question:

is it too late for me to completely change the plot of like wringing blood from a stone, because replaying ud has me thinking the only thing worse than jack being involved in the mess at hackett's quarry is the hackett brothers being in blackwood the night of the fire

just

just.

just...

imagine.

jack has. so much to do that night. we see him all over the mountain, and let's be real, he's a middle-aged dude - a monster hunter sure, but that snow is DEEP and you KNOW ya boy is getting tired out there. he's following sam, he's sneaking up the mountain, he's following mike and jess to the cabin, he's saving emily in the mine, he's delivering ominous messages at the lodge, he's getting his head cut off and dying, it's a FULL! NIGHT! FOR! HIM!!!!!

so what if

for (mumbles) reasons, the hackett boys have been up on that there mountain with him the whole goddamn time too and they're just. worse versions of themselves adkslfjsldjfasdfjasfkl

jack keeps to the mines for the most part because that's his thing. he's the one of them who has the best hang of hunting, is able to stay the stillest, and just plain isn't as scared of what's down there. emily still bumps into him, and later he's able to help find jess and matt because he knows those tunnels like the back of his hand.

chris starts off at the base of the mountain and is the one to watch the kids coming in. he reports it to the others, keeps them on their toes, but he doesn't join them up on the summit until he has to. he hates it up there. he's more the face of their operation, mostly hanging around blackwood township, so he is less than pleased to actually be dragged into a hunt. he's the supplies guy. he supplies the supplies. he doesn't actually hunt, are you kidding me?! the other three can do that crap.

bobby sticks around the lodge itself because he's not very good at being QUIET or HIDDEN out in the open, but he knows how to get in and out using the sanatorium tunnels, and if anyone's making sure nothing's getting into the lodge through the basement, well, it's him. he is. UNBELIEVABLY CONFUSED when he starts finding dead pigs and old sawblades piled up in the old resort. CONFOUNDED. every time he reports back to the others, they're just like "bobby, jesus christ, no there's not a saw movie happening down there, you're being dramatic." he is not being dramatic.

travis, of course, is the one to slink after mike and jess - at least until disaster strikes. next to jack, he's the best at staying out of sight and disappearing when he needs to. is there a NOTABLE silence that falls over the walkies when he immediately volunteers to be the one to tail them? yes. does that silence make him immediately very angry? yes. does that anger make his motives any less transparent? no. BUT NO ONE'S LAUGHING AT HIM WHEN YOU-KNOW-WHAT HAPPENS AND HE BUYS MIKE 5 EXTRA SECONDS TO KEEP JESS'S FACE ATTACHED TO HER HEAD.

mostly though

mostly

i'm thinking

about the moment

where after escaping the mines and the conveyor belt, emily rejoins sam, ash, chris, and mike in the lodge. you know. the moment. where we usually meet jack. only this time

this time

there's a very authoritative knock on the door. and someone with a very official voice calls out that it's the blackwood pd. and everyone in the group is so relieved

except for emily, who just barely gets a chance to remind everyone:

"they told us they wouldn't be able to get here until dawn"

before mike and chris tentatively open the door

and chris (hackett) kicks it the rest of the way in because he's just so fucking glad to be back inside instead of out there with those things, and travis oozes in with him, and the gang is suddenly very, very, very tense again because who the FUCK are these guys?! one is being very friendly and the other is being very unfriendly, and neither seems too worried about any of what's going on.

this tension only gets worse when one of them yells "how's it goin' for you, b?" and bobby comes up from the basement, twice as big as usual given his winter clothes, and suddenly the gang realizes no, whoops, oops, oopsie daisies, they haven't been alone all night. someone has been watching them. a few someones in fact.

a few someones who have spent too much time living in a blasted-out sanatorium in the middle of a deserted mountain to understand or appreciate the importance of personal space.

im just saying

i think

for how fun it is putting jack in hackett's quarry and making him the (extremely begrudging) voice of reason, i am suddenly STRUCK with how fucking hoRRIBLE IT WOULD BE IF THE SHOE WERE ON THE OTHER FOOT AND THE HACKETT BROTHERS WERE ALLOWED TO DEVOLVE INTO THE VERY WORST HORROR MOVIE VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES, BEING RAISED MORE LIKE FIDDLERS KLJASDKFJASLKDFJASLKDFJ

chris being all chummy and pretending he can't tell how deeply nervous he's making the people around him

bobby just grabbing people to keep them from running off

travis smelling the girls' hair

im just saying.

i am just.

saying.

i think that scene in the lodge would just be. so much more awful. and tense. and nerve wracking. if the kids were more or less matched with hunters vs. it being the five of them and jack.

i love the hacketteers, i do, but with the exception of laura, none of those kids were looking to commit a felony that night. the blackwood kids, though????? the blackwood kids?!?!?!?!?!?!??!!!

youre gonna look me in my eye and tell me if the blackwood kids suddenly thought this was a hostage situation, they wouldn't just fuckin go for it? sam cracks chris over the head with a lamp before making a break for it. ashley stabs whoever's closest (she deserves it). in a concerted effort, mike and emily almost knock bobby down the stairs. chris keeps getting confused when someone yells "chris," as does chris! they're both too keyed up to realize it's a same hat situation.

jack finally walks in after climbing up out of the mines and ages 20 years when he sees everyone fighting

hannah shows up and everyone starts screaming instead

THE! POSSIBILITIES! ARE! ENDLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chipthekeeper]

Every time I watch rogue one now I get more and more worried that season two of andor is either gonna be too crowded or they’re gonna kill off all the new characters so that it doesn’t get too crowded

[grungusdollar]

man i love nights when im already overtired and irritated that im getting to bed late and then MYSTERY SOUNDS start coming from the other room that sound like something short circuiting

[coockie8]

I saw someone on twitter claim that lolicon/shotacon and other adjacent type tropes only exist because pedophiles know they can't rape children, so they just draw it instead.

And I am not even remotely joking when I ask, if that were 100% factual and not a blatant strawman; how is that a bad thing?

How is someone with a mental illness choosing to cope with their desires through artwork instead of going out and raping a real, living child a bad thing?

Look me in the eyes and explain it like I'm 5 how intentionally going out of your way to avoid hurting a person because you know it would be wrong is bad.

[starry-bi-sky]

pouring one out for luo binghe in my disciple SQQ fic, poor guy has taken a backseat here. we're nearly 30k words deep and he hasn't even shown his face once. it'll be much longer before he even actually talks to Shen Qingqiu.

(i say im pouring one out but in reality im sitting in my director's chair chewing on a cigar and wearing a beret as he tearily and unsuccessfully pleads with me for more scenes with Shen Qingqiu)

[justdrawlynn11]

Meet the young EaPs Glamrocks in the CU au!

Look at the lil cutie patooties :DDD

These drawings aren’t of them at the same time frame, but of around the time Ruin got them.

Order of kids in how Ruin got them:

Ballora, his little British baby. Had her since her day 1 and is, within the confines of this au at least, her dad.

Lefty, found him shortly after he was born/created. He’s about 5-6 months younger than Ballora.

Sunny and Moonie, he found them about a year after Lefty was born. They were lucky to be found when they were in one of Ruin’s Creator’s abandoned labs.. trying to create a ‘successful’ outcome by trying to build another young one similar to Ruin’s conception/construction. Ruin accidentally activated them and so he just ended up keeping them.

Monti was around 3-4 years old when Ruin found her. She remembers having a dad but doesn’t know where he went, he just disappeared one day. She was initially scared when Ruin found her, but almost nearly fell asleep after realizing he was safe to be around, Ruin took her back to the group base. Poor little one was so scared and tired, along with being surprisingly well hidden. Monti is also actually the oldest kid there, being older than Ballora by 6 months.

Captain was around 7 when he was found. He’s the equivalent of a stoic, feral cat to those he doesn’t trust, and a somewhat polite and well grammared kid for living alone in a dead kingdom for most of, if not his entire life. Ruin’s more surprised by the fact this child, who’s ready to attack a threat at any moment, hasn’t been infected with the virus yet. He’s also thankful that Captain hasn’t caught it yet and now never will.

[tomaturtles]

IT'S KAWOSHIN DAY!!! As well as the last day of Kawoshin Week :') It's been such a blast, gonna miss it when it's over

Kawoshin Week Day 7: Cuddling/domestic fluff! + Sleepover and Spinoffs (again)! Based on the Campus Apocalypse sleepover chapter ☺️

[charmac]

It’s not unheard of that, in the USA, a chunk of rich kids get into Ivy League universities because their parents donate large sums to the school to ensure their kids get admitted… and a lot of the time the kids don’t even know that their parents “helped them”. Knowing that,

No option that neither did and only one knows cos like, we all know they’re not keeping that to themselves for thirty years lmfao

(If you aren’t aware of the standard of US Ivy Leagues, in short they are the most prestigious universities in the country and require almost perfect grades/test scores as well as multiple extra curricular activities or title positions in high school and a strong written essay in order to be admitted)

[lets-see-how-this-will-end]

Stop making politics about the POLITICIANS and make it about the actual POLICIES.

[crimeronan]

in the nicest way possible: i Really need you guys to Stop sending me multi-paragraph essays on anon about any of the various -isms i'm personally affected by. i talk about these things on my blog because i have control over my own posts but it's Intensely Unpleasant to open my inbox to random discussions/descriptions of lesbophobia, transphobia, aphobia, polyphobia (?? is that the term??), ableism, rape, sexual abuse, etc, etc.

i appreciate the solidarity of sharing and the confidence boost from being agreed with. but i do not like receiving faceless asks containing a bunch of upsetting information & i would prefer for it to stop.

thanks!

[fruitless-vain]

This weeks update on *the drama you watch living next to a public field*

There’s this one guy we call rottie pup (bc his dog looked like a rottie mix when it was a pup but now it just looks like a shepherd mix) who’s dog is that degree of hyper sociable that it’s just rude af. Very sweet dog, very cute dog, just has no understanding of boundaries or reciprocating body language cues.

He used to come to the field once every few days in the evening to run out his dog, occasionally see him Trying to do some training to get his dog to Calm Down (it’s Very Excited and Pully and Barky and Jumpy). Standard dog person things.

He’s now transitioned from Trying to work on it to just accepting this chaos as is (you do you nbd) but to add to this he’s now coming to the field twice a day Specifically to see if anyone else is there. If someone else isn’t in the field he’ll just walk by.

But if someone else is running their dog he will come on to the field and ask if their dogs can play (we stan someone who asks) I’ve seen one person say yes. Practically as soon as his dog was off leash it b lined for the new dog, body slammed it, pursued it, extremely one sided play, just outright bullying by dog terms. He did nothing to try to collect his dog, calm it down, or intervene, just stood and laughed while his dog mercilessly chased down this, now nervous and trying to escape, doodle. They don’t say yes anymore, and everyone else I’ve seen him ask has said no

[bitchfitch]

I've started playing Potion Permit, and so far it's one of my favorite games I've messed around with, but the most big brained move the devs made was giving you a dog on day 1, and then making that dog able to track NPCs and lead you directly to them no matter where they are in the town.

[magpie-trove]

🌸

[regulationhottie7905]

if dazai was older or oda younger, they would’ve had a slightly toxic codependent homoerotic friendship. I feel like oda takes care of dazai like you take care of a feral cat, lovingly and knowing their tendency to bite and scratch, a little scared. dazai romanticizes oda in his mind, obsessively idolizes him, sees him as his own personal savior, nearly a god in his mind. that’s the tragedy of them: dazai looks up to oda too much to ever truly open up and oda saw dazai too accurately to ever open up

[krotiation]

this soundtrack genuinely makes me so emotional like damn. the jack vs fiona scene at the end of ep 2 is already so perfect and then they had to go make this beautiful as hell ost with it too. those bastards