#The perennial why

[divinekangaroo]

Every time it comes around I laugh tears again

That's me in the corner That's me in a cock Fight Losing to a pigeon

[the-badger-mole]

I agree that the normalisation of abuse thing is a dumb take on enemies to lovers but. Women can also be abusive. Something being a female power fantasy doesn’t discount possibility for being abusive. Women are whole people and that includes capacity to be awful

Please, oh please don't do this. This is dumb, and you have to know it's dumb. When people are talking about E2L normalizing abuse, you know what they mean. If you want to have a conversation about women being abusive in relationships, have at it. But not here.

[tacticalgrandma]

I just think it’s so fascinating how the manifestation of Darkness the Witness gave us, that it viewed as this ultimate enticement, as “salvation,” was Stasis. Beyond Light associates it with control and obsession. And then in Lightfall we find Strand and it’s about letting go, accepting, moving. Osiris and Nimbus talk about how we were drained using Strand when we tried to grasp it tightly, how it only truly came to us when we let ourselves flow with the river. And the Witness did not know about Strand! It literally destroyed its defenses!

Just man. The Witness valuing control above all else, chasing and obsessing over the Traveler to finally control it. After an expansion where Nimbus and Osiris learn to grieve by not fighting the current, not trying to force themselves to be healed when they’re not. Where Caiatl watches her father’s obsession finally consume him and makes her peace.

Anyway just thinking about Savathun saying the Witness “gives [Darkness] a wicked shape” and appreciating how she read this eldritch horror for filth a whole year ago

[3416]

the whole laine situation is so.......... idk. i get why cbj players wouldn't be happy with him publicly basically saying they're okay with losing (EVEN if some ppl there are like.. no way every athlete on that team likes being put in that light). regardless of rumors that float around the league or whatever abt why someone leaves, it's one thing to actually cite it out loud and on paper as a reason you want out, and imo it doesn't look good on you. i feel like most nhlers know how to graciously be like "yeah, i wanted a fresh start somewhere else" when they leave an org even if they have other issues internally, but people who can't fathom why an org or why teammates of the guy wouldn't be happy with their effort and motivation being called into question like... this is pro sports. columbus already probably struggles to seem like a team people Want to go to, so idk. i think it's tacky from him to do that.

in the end, it's funniest of all that he's went to the fuckjdfs montreal canadiens after saying he was tired of being around people who were too comfortable losing. like.... that's a joke in itself.

[humanmorph]

I just don't know what to do with Gur now. I'd already somewhat written them off as fucked forever I guess considering the divine they're bound to is imprisoned*. Would that be unceremonious & somewhat unsatisfying (at least to me)? Sure but it happens. But Austin twice(!) (once in the chat at Jack's Palisade soundtrack livestream & then I think in the Post Mortem) made a weird "oh well who knows about Gur" type comment & it's like. MAN.... WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT.... If they're not just fucked forever, what is happening to them? In what state could they possibly exit that situation, and how could they ever at all?

I guess the most we get about what's happening with Gur now comes from Future in the PAL46 intro: "No more visions of tomorrow for you. Now, simply recollect." Is this Gur reliving the moment of his death over & over again?

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*I don't super remember but I'm guessing that's what happened to Future after Brnine got it back from Jesset? Also I know the whole deal there was that it's hard to enact justice on beings with the livespans that divines have - that eventually, on a long enough timeline, they could all be free again. But I don't think this matters much here, because there probably won't be that big a time jump between PALISADE & P3.

[vankaar]

After some years of lazy pot gardening (now that I have a salary) I'm thinking about trying to plant a small no-dig vegetables garden.

I'll keep you posted :)

[stsebastiens]

scenes from a midwest vacation

[forcebookish]

yeah theo's mom sucks i'd divorce her too

[love-too]

Just made a fool out of myself

[navree]

Sorry but Visotto>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Visdae or whatever the ship name of Daemon's cringe relationship with Vissy

Viserys and Otto do have a glorious dynamic, it must be said, we love the tale as old as time of the pathetic fail king and his evil advisor (and also they did have a genuine affection for each other, probably more on Otto's side than on Viserys's which is an interesting thing about it)

Unfortunately whatever Daemon's got going on in his head with Viserys is so gloriously dysfunctional and sordid that I've already got plot bunnies percolating about in my head that really shouldn't be there when I've already got such a huge backlog

[promithiae]

I would like to invite everyone's in the notes to read "how to bite your neighbor and win a wager" and (somewhat more relevantly) its sequel, "how to sell your blood and fall in love" by @brynwrites

D N Bryn treats vampirism as an excellent metaphor for disability (bonus points for also including non-fantasy disabilities as well) and they're just really good. Clementine was entirely too relatable to me

Honestly, I love the idea of a vampire who only drinks blood taken from blood banks and hospitals, because it so beautifully encompasses someone who's more concerned with the vibes of something than the actual impact of it.

Drinking from someone on the street, barring some other condition they may have, isn't likely to kill them unless you gorge yourself. Taking blood packs? There's always a shortage of blood, and having even less of it runs the very real risk of getting someone killed in a way that is wholly out of your control once you've sipped on that blood. Someone you can't assure the innocence or guilt of, if you're the type of person who cares about that.

Despite that, in popular stuff, I often see discussions of drinking from a blood bank being somehow better or preferable, and yeah. No. The only thing it does is make you feel better while doing more harm, because of that degree of removal. You're effectively drinking blood from someone on the cusp of hypovolemic shock, but since it's not straight from the tap, some people seem to think it's better.

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[zznsthetic]

I'm telling y'all. This cold's fucking me up badly.

[elancholia]

While I'm not an anarchist, there are forms of organization that lie between The State and neighborhood busybodies. Plenty of voluntary associations and nonprofits understand the value of nonjudgmentally serving whoever walks through the door and take pride in doing so. Some are prejudiced or evil, sure, but gigantic civil services also screw people over on the basis of individual or organizational biases or the whims of the governments who set their rules. Adherence to principle and procedure is not the exclusive preserve of federal law.

[caseuoiseau]

So lemme get this straight.

I've spent about two years listening to a podcast (Just King Things) in which they "read the works of Stephen King in publication order," which includes a number of films, comics, and other one-off pieces of media in their bonus episodes. That pod is currently up to the mid-late 90s.

I've also been--much more slowly--working my way through the archive of a much longer-running podcast (Jay and Miles X-plain the X-Men) in which the hosts read the entire run of the X-Men books in (mostly) publication order. In my listening, Angel has just been turned into Archangel within the past 10 or so episodes, so we are in '88 or '89.

How is it that this is the way that I find out that someone got peanut butter in my chocolate in

Nineteen Eighty-fucking-Five.

Midnight Pals: X-Men

Stephen King: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of when the X-Men fought the literal embodiment of hunger King: it was for a charity comic Poe: oh right right of course Lovecraft: of course Barker: gotcha Koontz: wowww! x men!!

King: so kitty pryde goes to the get some food King: but then suddenly King: she starts losing weight! King: now normally King: i think that sort of this is good King: usually i think the opposite is way scarier King: but this time King: it's bad

King: what's the cause of Kitty Pryde's unnatural weight loss? King: it's the evil mutant ghost embodiment of hunger King: the monstrous force known as King: "hungry" Barker: ba ha ha ha Poe: clive

Barker: "Hungry!?" King: yeah, his name is hungry Barker: like, the adjective? King: yeah i Barker: ah ha ha ha King: i don't see whats so funny King: yeah, his name is hungry King: see, this one time he said to his dad "i'm hungry" King: and his dad said "hi hungry, i'm dad"

King: anyway the point is that its about kitty pryde King: that super hero you all know and love Koontz: i like superman! superman is the best super hero King: ha ha well dean you're certainly entitled to your opinion King: there's no reason for us to fight King: King:

Alan Moore: [appearing in a clap of thunder] who dares call upon the arch magus? King: we need you to settle an argument Moore: speak your question, mortal, and gain wisdom King: who's the best superhero Moore: Moore: do you have any questions that aren't about that

Moore: the arch magus can see through time, control the very movements of the cosmos Moore: and you dare to ask a question about comic books King: well i just thought since you love comics so- Moore: the answer is herbie popnecker King: Moore: herbie popnecker is the best super hero

King: i'm sorry, herbie popnecker? Moore: yes herbie popnecker King: Koontz: Barker: Poe: Lovecraft: Moore: "you want i should bop you with my lollipop?" Moore: haha it doesn't get old!

Moore: i must now return to my mountain fortress [disappears in a clap of thunder] King: Koontz: Poe: Barker: Lovecraft:

[night-dragon937]

currently holding back the urge to critique the entire gardening plot of this one shot and I'm being so brave about it