#a c repair

[autumnwhistles]

(note: this is purely from a character perspective, not a comment on CCs.)

grian and scar have now both been in opposite positions to the original 'cactus ring', and it's so interesting to compare their attitudes to sacrifice on both ends. whether or not scar threw the fight in the cactus ring, he did offer for grian to kill him before it began. grian declined this, but was clearly fighting with the intention to win during the fight itself – he's giving scar a chance, but not sacrificing.

in secret life, scar's on the other end of things. he's fighting another winner – who herself has been sacrificed for previously – and, like grian, is going into what he assumes to be a fair fight... but which is in his favour due to the others' willingness to sacrifice themselves for him. this is a common pattern for winners: in whichever order, they take the win once, and are once willing to sacrifice themselves to let another take it.

cut to wild life.

this time, it's grian in the final two once more, yet again against an – albeit more distant – ally. he's got a win under his belt already, so you might expect him to do what pearl did, what scott did, right? sacrifice their chance at glory to let another taste it for the first time.

and yet:

"I'm going to have to kill Joel"

"Can I win this? I worked so hard on this series, I'd love to win it!"

because here's an important thing about life series!grian: though he's willing to even the playing field, he's not willing to sacrifice – not when it matters. pledge your loyalty to right a wrong, yes; give lives to gain allies hours, yes; refuse others' sacrifices to fight on fair terms, yes. but in the end, no matter how much he wants to stick with friends, no matter how bad he feels about it, no matter how may "i'm so sorry"s he gives – he will put his own life first, in the end.

there's a reason he's the reason for so many of his allies' deaths, after all. and in its contrast, the wild life finale showcases this beautifully.

(and for the record, i don't see anything wrong with this from an out-of-univere perspective – it's been 5 seasons and 3.5 years since Grian's last win, and even if it hadn't been, it's the CCs place to judge fairness, not ours.)

[meatball-soup]

aint even lying there buddy, my name checks out

[martyrbat]

detective comics #396

[ID: Batman laying on his back in a tantalizing pose—one of his knees bent and on the white ground as the other leg's foot is planted on the ground. He has both his arms bent at the elbow, one going down and the other hand near his ear. His costume is battered and torn, revealing titillating strips of flesh on his thighs and chest. His head is turnt and his mouth is opened in a cry as someone unseen is throwing green dollar bills on him. END ID]

[al-luviec]

zane + nya parallels

[befuddled-calico-whump]

man I have so much respect for people who work in construction and people who work with HVAC and electrical systems and people who hold the "SLOW" sign so road workers can be safe and people in food service and people who stock the shelves at the grocery store and people who drive big supply trucks across the country and people who work in factories that produce and package everyday goods and MAN, PUBLIC SANITATION WORKERS?? people who watch other people's kids? People who teach? Janitors and garbage collectors? I'm forgetting so many, but people with jobs that aren't glamorous, jobs that are HARD WORK, that are often physically taxing and time consuming and usually don't pay a lot

I love you all and you literally let society function

[sadquickchristmassnowman]

if I had a nickel for every time a staff member at greendale community college accidentally confessed to first degree murder in an emotional outburst about something related to their reasoning for committing said crime, I’d have two nickels. which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?

[accidentalencounter]

HIGH SCHOOL AU where the school's drama club is going to make Cinderella and Kai is of course the Prince and Cinder is the stage technician but something happen to the female protagonist and for some reason Cinder find herself in the Cinderella role.

[cyberphuck]

@satans-codpiece your robot boyfriend is radicalizing the EVs again

[melchior-supercomputer]

Thinking about the wholesome intimacy of fixing computers!! Again!!

Story under the cut

I have this Dell Inspiron desktop at home that was given to me after my grandfather passed away. Being the only other "techie" in the family meant my grandmother offered his old computer towers to me to be used or recycled.

Unfortunately, this Inspiron was the only thing that could be of use out of the four towers I received. It felt wrong disposing of the others, but I can at least live knowing they were recycled responsibly.

But the Inspiron was beautiful by my standards. I have never owned a good desktop before, and she was what I needed. And I thank my grandfather for his expertise every time I turn it on.

She has an AMD Ryzen 7 1700x, 16 GB of RAM, and a GTX 1060. Not miraculous by techbro standards, but miraculous to me. When I received her, she was broken—she wouldn't turn on. A couple hours of troubleshooting later showed me that she had a bad power supply. I ordered a new one and replaced it. I feel like I was thanked the first time I booted her. She was brought back to life.

So I wiped the drives and did (several) clean OS installs until I found a way to install Windows 11. And now the Inspiron that I brought gently back to health is my daily use PC. There's something wonderful about bringing new life to something someone once loved, or at least used. I'm sure she enjoys what she does for me despite her hiccups every now and then.

I love this computer in a strange way. And I feel like my grandfather is happy that I could make use of it. I do my best to take care of it, and it was my little passion project (ongoing hehe).

[spaciebabie]

if you must use a protein mask/rice water for your hair i recommend using it in combination with a deep conditioner ESPECIALLY if your hair is prone 2 dryness or damaged from heat or coloring

[ambrosiagourmet]

The fact that there’s not a beautiful buffet of post-canon Marcille & Laios fics to enjoy is a constant source of suffering inflicted on my heart & soul

[spacewizardazrid]

Computer, stop running the suicide simulations.

Computer, stop.

Stop please.

[tacagen]

ok but uh. can we talk about how thawne literally has one same fucking tactic for BOTH 'hero' and villain eras?? as in seamlessly fucking shit up on purpose, making it look like it was just an accident or bad luck (like canonically doing Something leading to a whole ass building being set on fire) just to save people and get attention and praise for that IS BASICALLY THE SAME PLAN HE PROCEEDS WITH WHEN DOING HIS ITWASMEBARRY SHIT ONLY FOCUSED ON ONE PERSON AND NOT INTENDING TO FIX IT AFTERWARDS??

[bluntforcespatter]

i see people interacting with my mutuals and become irrationally pissed. like.

that's my mutual. do they like you more than they like me? they reblogged that from you and not me. you must be friends with them and i'm nothing. i'm nobody. i hate you.

and it's just random people i don't know. i need to chill.

[slashingdisneypasta]

I'm watching Pawnstars and they have one of Harry Houdini's straight jackets.

That's the first thing that's really excited me. That's actually so damn cool. Oh my goodness. This is something I'd geek out over XDD

[emstargazer]

Umm, my last post just got deleted out of the blue. Well, I'm putting the general thought here again.

In the span of less than a week it already feels like I've interacted with half of the Titanfall fandom on here. Give me one more week and I'll find every Titanfall-related blog in existence. I'll revive deactivated ones out of sheer power of will and perseverance.

This game is consuming me whole.

And I'm letting it continue doing so.