#The foolish things we say

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Ozzy Osbourne – Time After Time

[casualavocados]

An idiot like you...an idiot like you...

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 9

[zeb-z]

most islanders think Foolish is entirely pro Federation, either because he wants the power they give him or because he doesn’t truly understand what he’s doing or what’s at stake, and is just having fun. even to Cucurucho, he’s a bit of a fool - an overambitious one sure, but a fool nonetheless - who’s irritating and asks too many questions, not quite in a concerning way, but in the way a kid might bother you asking for more ice cream. a newbie on the job who wants the world and is trying to find his place in all of this - any digging for information surely isn’t malicious, because he’s obvious and ignorant about it!

it’s always so exciting when they talk about him, when they say such things to his face - it means it’s working. he tells Cellbit that he’s genuinely infiltrating and he’s not believed. Bad straight up says Foolish’s plans to a Federation worker, and if anything it does more to legitimize him further in the eyes of the Federation.

because he’s silly, and overeager, he can play dumb and his true intentions fly right over everyone’s heads. they only see him for whatever singular facet of his personality that he chooses to present, and it works so well because he can be all those things, he just overplays it to his benefit. Bad is one of the very few who can see his tricks for what they are, who doesn’t underestimate him - because hes right, Foolish does have this way of slipping past peoples defenses to get the info he wants without them even knowing they needed defenses in the first place.

idk this latest stream was just full of these little moments. acting silly when Etoiles asked him why he’s working for the Feds, and grinning when Etoiles says he’s basically a clapping monkey who doesn’t know what he’s doing, calling him naïve. asking Cucurucho a million questions and overwhelming him, acting suspicious and curious around the black concrete nonsense - allowing him to easily get away with presenting exaggerated, biased, and some even fabricated, evidence for his investigation, controlling the narrative entirely, because that part of the convo was made insignificant. (and through those questions, possibly even getting more bonuses for his office and fellow workers - he’s gotten the break room so far, and coffee machines, and another level for investigations, which has swayed workplace opinion towards him heavily.)

then with the AI, Cucuruchito, engaging in banter, then sharing a secret, which seems like a big deal - but everything he told the AI is just what he himself was told by Cucurucho, it was no secret to the Feds at all. then flirting with it for a long time before leaving - which is a tactic he outright explained to chat. to get what you want, information, loyalty, etc, you have to build a good repoire. if it takes flirting, and charm, if it takes a date or two, he’s more than willing to play the part to get what he wants. he’ll pretend to eat up their bullshit about him being special, and let them think he’s charmed instead of the opposite.

Foolish is good at what he does because he catches more flies with honey than with vinegar, and the flies never realize their caught - he’s patient enough to play the long con. and really, could someone as naïve, as foolish as him, be able to do such a thing?

he isn’t taken seriously. and it won’t be their final mistake, but it will certainly be the one that damns them.

[prommytheus]

i am going to phrase this poorly but i need to say it anyway: cringing and upholding cringe culture is your knee-jerk feeling of disgust against things that are unfamiliar or odd to you. yes, yours. it’s not just a silly word that means “when other people make fun of things i like,” it’s something that you can and will do too, often without even really realising.

“fighting cringe culture” means when you’ve been made uncomfy by something you see online, actually, truly reflecting on that feeling and if it actually comes from a thought-through and informed opinion, or your uninformed (or misinformed) biases and unfounded assumptions.

put simply: you don’t get to opt out of thinking. ever.

(and even if it truly is the first option, the best action you can take is to keep scrolling. harassment is never justified.)

[yelow-heart]

How...how is this happening? How is BOLAS winning??? LMAO

[jefferythejelly]

"foolish i feel like you would have an easy pregnancy"

[lucentaire]

something that i think we, as a fandom, should outgrow is reducing characters to common jokes / memes. i think this especially applies for the more minor characters because as someone who has mostly written minor characters, it is really discouraging if the general opinion on a character that you love is [ insert meme here ]. the author already fails to respect his characters. not clowning on the characters your fellow rpers clearly love and adore enough to write them should be the bare minimum

[possessedbydevils]

Hate how much the term "literature" is general now. TikTok is killing me. I saw someone compare The Secret History to Brother Karamazov and call Song Of Achilles literature. I'm dying.

[lovesitcomsandgaystuffs]

Since every day yohaji's anime is getting closer and closer this is a reminder that harassing real people about something fictional is not right and that if you see something you don't like the option to block is your best friend.

[south-sea]

shadow might have a good poker face but the trade off is he can’t control his ear movements worth a damn even if it’s to his own detriment. dude could be getting interrogated and his ears are waving around like he’s flagging down a plane

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Ozzy Osbourne - Time After Time

[cowardstiel]

if i have to hear the word "delulu" one more time it's curtains

[zeb-z]

qBad this, qForever that, when did everyone forget about unreliable narrators?

[gayclubsoap]

.

[dreamerlynx]

to be clear if foolish ever gets voted out I am out <— not really. unless? but he is just soooo entertaining I don’t want him to leave :(

[junuve]

how to lose a year of progress in one easy step

funny nier-fic-series related things i will lump into one post:

there is a fic in my nier series about the child soldier who would become grimoire noir having his memories selectively deleted and altered to create the "grimoire noir" as we know him. it is... absolutely as mindmelting to read as it sounds, and i cant imagine finishing up reading it at 5am, which someone did, to very "i feel like im having a stroke" effect

i commented on someone's choice of og nier music in a video as opposed to the 1.22 version, thinking it was a great pick considering the context the specific track was used in (and my preference for that song's original version vs the remaster) to which the op responded "wait are you THE junuve? the one who wrote the gestalt fic series?" to which im like "yes???" and then they proceeded to act like posting an unhealthy amount of fanfiction online is something admirable. sarcasm aside i enjoyed the exchange a lot :D

it has been a year since the last update on an unfinished fic in the series and not too long ago i thought i had deleted my ENTIRE wip, which was sorta fine since i had a backup of almost everything, but less fine since i had not yet backed up the next few chapters of the unfinished fic (BACK UP YOUR SHIT OBSESSIVELY FOLKS)