#Of shaking hands with the Devil

[bananonbinary]

it somewhat frustrates me when people talk about biden funding genocide, because it's not not true, but it's also like. not really a biden-specific problem. the united states, as a whole, is very pro-genocide. i have never in my life seen a presidential candidate that thinks we should pull back from all the fucked up shit we do internationally.

that is bad. don't get me wrong. you should protest, and make your voices heard, and better yet, actually do things that support the people in danger, but talking about it like it's a unique wrong that biden has done really obfuscates the fact that he is one of the better politicians we've had in office. i'm not saying i'd be his best friend, i don't know or care about him as a person. but as a man doing a job, he IS doing it better than anyone else who could realistically hold the position. it's a low bar, but i'll be damned if we don't clear it just because people think small improvement doesn't matter.

[almostfoxglove]

pedro pascal cinematic universe aus 20/?

the one where joel miller meets you at the crossroads. (insp)

[sabrondabrainrot]

I'm currently sitting on the biggest most cracked theory on Eclipse V1 right now that involves Sun too but I won't spill unless someone asks me 😊🫶

Ooohhh you wanna know my theory so bad I just know you do

Hee hee~

[iheardyoulooking]

[firminfollowing]

I Do Not, I Do Not, I Do Not

(tw: religious trauma, LDS/Mormonism)

I do not miss the people.

or the way they made me feel.

I do not miss the steeple

or the couch, the walls, the kneel.

I do not miss your doctrine

or the books you made me read,

but every night I think about

the sinners made to bleed.

I do not miss the classes

or the lessons that they'd preach,

but even now I wonder

what pain was really meant to teach.

I do not miss the bathroom

or that place behind the stage.

I do not miss their loving eyes

that promised "love, not rage."

I do not miss the game nights

or the treats they always served.

I do not miss the way I felt

there was nothing I deserved.

I do not miss the bruises

the floor kissed into my knees.

I do not miss the iron rod

or the visions of the trees.

I do not miss the serpent,

the apple so misunderstood.

I do not miss the echo

of the sinner that I was.

I do not miss the people.

or the way they made me feel,

but, by god, I miss the steeple

the couch, the walls, the kneel.

[yuechicake]

Chase is so funny and he's literally the character of all time with his 1000 internal contradictions.

He's vain and charming and confident and acts like nothing can phase him. He hates himself for the things he's done to survive and the fact he would do it again if he had to. He feels massively guilty. He has no regrets at all. He won't let himself stop moving forward and surviving, no matter the cost, even if he isn’t sure why he keeps going. He's stuck in his own head and has stagnated emotionally and plays risky games. He would never be the self-sacrificial hero. He would sacrifice himself in a heartbeat for the people he loves. He craves love so desperately it tears him up inside. He doesn't crave love because it's an unaffordable weakness. It'll always work out for him. It never works out for him. He's the luckiest man alive and has survived everything that has tried to kill him. One day, his luck will run out and he'll die a horrible death that always awaits people like him. He's impulsive. He's calculating. He doesn't think before he does anything. The things he's done always linger on his mind. He's loyal. He's frivolous. He's the King of Thieves, scourge of Haven, having built himself into a legend and a leader. He's still the same desperate boy who has always yearned for love and a place to belong that he's afraid he will never truly have.

[bixels]

does discord (or some form of it) exist in your 1920s au? I feel like the general chaos of prohibition and 20s crime would be pretty potent fuel for a being who draws its power from utter havoc…

Yes, Tulli and I have an original story about him in mind.

[lucraven]

The horror and the wild.

[argetcross]

Finding Wyll was kicked out at 17 was such a slap to the face, because that means he's not even thirty when he becomes known as the Blade of the Frontiers? How did it feel, to be run out of his home by his dad, the Hells brimming and smoking in his hands, Mizora's distant laugh, knowing he can never return? To spend the next seven years living in the wilderness, helping people, never asking for anything in return? Living up to an ideal your father once represented to you, knowing he will never care to look on you so long as you have the Devil on your back.

[ol1verdrawsyt]

OK SO I BEAT CUPHEAD LIKE AN HOUR AGO!!! HERES A CAGNEY DRAWING 2 CELEBRATE (that I 4got to post earlier)

I've done. A lot in this game today. I beat KD + The Devil, I started the dlc, I got the achievements for the evil ending + beating a boss as Ms.Chalice, I beat the moonshine mob and the pawns, I bought whetstone + the cursed relic + heart ring, and I started S-Ranking Isle 1 bosses

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[bananonbinary]

Another aspect in the ‘it’s not not true’ that I think some people may have lost sight of- funding things, generally speaking, isn’t a presidential decision, it’s a congressional one. They’re the ones with the ‘power of the purse’. Biden has the power to veto those bills rather than signing them into law, but if they’ve got a big enough majority, they can overrule him.

And also? Congressional bills, especially the spending ones, often aren’t doing just one thing. A lot of the bills sending funding to Israel recently are the same bills sending funding to Ukraine. If Biden vetos and it stands, then he’s not just blocking more money that Israel will put into Palestinian genocide, he’s blocking support for Ukrainians trying to keep Russia from conquering them.

(And that’s not even getting into the fact that pulling support for a long term political ally would have ramifications that go far beyond just US/Israeli relations. Foreign policy has a lot of interconnected parts.). People want there to be a single simple solution, but it’s not that easy, no matter how much we wish there was.

this is a very good point. again the problem with painting biden as the criminal is like. it denies that the entire rest of the government is mostly working towards the same stuff. politics has a lot of moving pieces, and as much as people want the president of the united states to be a unilateral dictator, there's actually a lot of shit going on behind the scenes.

you know what actually im going back to referring to "the administration," because yeah, it's just not super helpful to frame this stuff as One Man's doing.

[3-2-whump]

No Update This Week, as I am On Vacay!!! And I take that fairly seriously.

So instead here’s a Demon!AU where our favorite whumper gets to be the whumpee 😈

(Demonology is hard, you guys, how the hell (pun intended) do you do it? 😵‍💫)

So in the Demon!AU, TJ is a lead vocalist to a meagerly successful band, and he makes a deal with the demon of music to make his band famous, which works, for a time, until said demon comes to collect 😈❤️‍🔥

This is just a half-baked idea for now, with some good drawings thrown in. There is no plot, just demon whump.

The usual Eternal Taglist: @kabie-whump @rainydaywhump @whumped-by-glitter @skittles-the-whumpee @generic-whumperz

@bamber344 @there-will-always-be-blood @morning-star-whump @a-la-whump @watermelons-dont-grow-on-trees

[gone2soon-rip]

DON MURRAY (1929-Died ? February 2024,at 94). American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include A Hatful of Rain (1957), Shake Hands with the Devil (1959, with James Cagney), One Foot in Hell (1960, with Alan Ladd), The Hoodlum Priest (1961), Advise & Consent (1962, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton), Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965, with Steve McQueen and Lee Remick), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Deadly Hero (1975), and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986, with Kathleen Turner). Murray starred in television series such as The Outcasts (1968–1969), Knots Landing (1979–1981), and Twin Peaks (2017).Don Murray (actor) - Wikipedia

[tswwwit]

(NSFW)

What was it like the first time Bill got turned on in his human body?? I mean even though he’s had demon sex (?) in his geometric form, and witnessed human sex dreams, it must’ve been weird the first time it happened to his, like. Real real body.

It sure was!

While Bill's possessed human bodies before, it was generally for mischief and mayhem, with the mind of the mortal screaming in impotent terror and/or rage. Which is hilarious, but not horny.

Even besides that, wearing one to get down with the human-style flesh-slapping didn't particularly appeal either; it just looked so.... meaty. With fluids going in places, I mean, c'mon! From the outside the whole ordeal looks completely ridiculous! You'd probably be all sticky at the end and pushing lots of air in and out. What a bunch of weirdos meatsacks are.

Of course, as we all know, Bill ended up in a meatsack at the beginning of Faking It - which came with a myriad of annoyances, but some extra benefits!

For one, having his own custom model suited Bill much better! It was quite literally made for him, tailored to his very essence. All the nerves and wires plugged into the right metaphorical ports and full driver installation. He's much more in that body than the other ones he's driven around, it's rigged out with all the luxuries and hooked right up to his own mind.

So it was with mild surprise that Bill noticed when he was, ahem, interested, there was an involuntary reaction. All the tubes pushing liquids into places and a slight rise in temperature; and some other things. One of which was quite evident. Bill was well aware of this one in the past he'd made considerable fun of it - but being in this body so much, and having it tuned to respond to his mental state, lent the absurd situation a bit of, uh. Urgency? Importance? Anyway, it was... much more distracting than he thought it'd be.

But hey! Weirdness is like, Bill's whole jam, you can't deny he's curious enough to poke around in places a being probably shouldn't, and he was already stuck in the thing anyway. Why not give it a little test drive and see what that's all about?

Important note: It's canon in the Bill POV sex scene that human flesh has hundred of thousands more nerve endings than his standard form. Considerably more sensitive. Touch is the difference between an armored gauntlet and your bare hand; temperature and texture are all very, very enhanced -

The results: Positive. Excellent. A+++, Bill was Enlightened and Delighted.

A convert was made that day. Bill Cipher is big into hedonism, and now the doors to the pleasures of the literal flesh were open.

Bill had to hand it to humanity; okay, like, he gets it now. It's an acquired taste to be sure, but once you get it it's fan-friggin-tastic! He cast all those old aspersions aside and prepared set sail onto new seas of sensation.

[transurgender]

i think the main reason why i love pnat is because of mayview. like thats just my hometown. "mayview isnt real, no real life town is like that" litterally all small lake towns are but ok. yes even the ghosts. yes even the weird vampiric dude who is buying everything up. yes even the weird rivalry with the ppl on the other side of the lake. thats just lake town life babay!

[thisishowgalaxiescollide]

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