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blueboybot · 1 year ago
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In Your Cold Dead Arms
I don't care! I need to show yall one of my weird pairs.
Twigs and dry leaves snapped under feet that were in a hurry, wind blowing violently enough to feel as though it was one more step from uprooting trees and flinging them carelessly about with its strong might. Rain droplets fell from the dark and cloudy sky, rapid rainfall increasing with every droplet that hit skin and cloth, each one harsher than the other.
Some might find struggle with this kind of weather condition but for him it was way nicer than dealing with someone who could manipulate the weather at will. Luckily for him it was simply an act of nature, no powerful foe was attacking him and he could appreciate that once he got out of said rain.
As he ran his eyes continued to look out for shelter, something he could only hope to find in an area like this. More trees and plants overtook his vision, his temper starting to flare as rain fell even harder, almost feeling as if it were lashing him. Thunder boomed from above and lightening soon followed after, clouds lit up and illuminated the area for a few seconds.
On que, lightening striked next to a tree he was close to making him instinctively dodge out of the way. The tree took major damage, its base split in two and some of its green leaves burnt black. Fire appeared for a quick second before immediately being quelched by the rain. However with the destruction of the tree he was able to see a path, and further in the distance some kind of structure.
With the discovery of shelter he headed straight for the building, his legs picking up speed with the promise of soon being out of rain. Getting closer he saw that the structure was a mansion, an abandoned mansion at that. Not one to be picky he pushed open the gates with overgrown vines, finding them unlocked and bolted straight towards the front door, ready to use his body to force it open only to find out it was also unlocked and opened when his hand pushed on it.
Entering the mansion his first red flag came when he laid his eyes on the interior of the place. It was much nicer on the inside than the outside, the floors were clean and shiny, a chandelier lit up with flames hung high from the ceiling, red carpet and wooden decorations greeted him from where he could see them. Overall, the mansion gave off the vibes that it was well kept and that meant he may have just broke into someone's home.
"HELLO, IS ANYONE HERE?"
He expected someone to come rushing out of a door, cursing him or attacking him for entering their home as an unwated guest but he got nothing.
"Please tell me I didn't walk into some kind of haunted house." He mumbled.
Arsenal stood near the entrance door, wiping his boots on the mat and trying to dry himself with the warmth of a nearby candle. He tried to contact the team but something was blocking his signal, so for now he was stuck here until the rain stopped, but judging from the sounds outside that may take a while. He himself think back to how he got into this situation in the first place.
They were flying in the bioship when they got attacked, while trying to manuver through the air the ship got hit and plunged into the sea. He remembered exiting the bioship to look at the damage, only to be swept away by a current that appeared out of nowhere. He ended up on a beach and tried to contact the others but his communicator didn't work. Leaving the beach to explore the rest of the island storm coulds appeared, then it started raining so he ran to find shelter. Now, he was here in mansion that may or may not be haunted.
With a hesitant first step he continued to explore the mansion, going up the long steps that lead to the second floor. Turning left he was met with a hallway, dark brown with a few candles lighting up the way from which they were positioned from each door. Peaking inside, he saw a room with the same dark brown wood, but this time there were elegant designs carved into some of the walls, soft looking chairs and a rug lay in the center surrounded by bookshelves on the wall, a window showcasing the rainy outside world.
The sound of something falling against the floor in another room caught his attention. He whipped out his bow and readied an arrow, cautiously, he drew nearer toward the sound, stopping infront of the third room on the right that was slightly open. Slowly, he pushed open the door back, coming to halt when he saw nothing but furniture covered in white sheets.
He didn't lower his bow though, and his theory of something being in here was proven correct when movement came from a sheet close to the window. Arsenal stepped closer, arrow aimed directly at what he assumed was its head, whatever is under there could be dangerous for all he knows and he wasn't taking anymore chances. He wasn't about to lose another arm or any other limbs for that matter.
The rustling stopped and the sheet pulled back, revealing the face of someone that was definitely close in age to him. Hair so dark as if it was trying to mimic the void of space looked wet, strands clinging to their forehead. Freckles dusted over their cheeks and nose like they were carefully placed by the gentlest of hands. Blue eyes stared at the bow and then him, looking at him with a hint of curiousity only to turn to fear a second later at remembering that there was a weapon very close to their face.
Those blue eyes intrigued the red head. They were unlike any blue he had seen before, mesmerizing in a way, tempting him into their hypnotic trance. Looking away was becoming more of a challenge the longer he continued seeing into something so enchanting. They reminded him of the ice and a burning blue star. So out of this world that he swore his body was beginning to tingle as those eyes gaze back into him. He was locked in a view so breathtaking that the word did little justice to describe how he felt as he stared.
His trance was broken when the teen scrambled away from him, hitting hard against the underwall of the window, and likely hurting his back if the way he winced was anything to go by. The other boy quickly got up an moved to side, hitting his head into a piece of covered furniture that reverberated with a clang sound.
Aresenal winced, deciding he needed to step in and do something before the teen knocked himself out while trying and failing to get away from him.
"Easy easy!" He put away his bow and arrow, looking at the boy on the floor with his hands up to come across less dangerous "I'm not going to hurt you, I was just curious as to why I heard a noise coming from this room."
The teen looked at him with those blue eyes, accessing him to see if he was lying. He must of taken a gamble and decided to somewhat believe he meant no harm because the boy rose to his feet once again, looking at him with slight caution now.
"Do you live here?"
"No, I was trying to escape the rain and came across this abandoned mansion." He replied, looking away from Roy and opting to stare at the carpet.
"Got a shy one." Roy thought looking over the boy and his body language.
His clothes looked a little too big for him. A white t-shirt with short red sleeves and an oval pattern in the middle, black cargo pants, and red shoes with white lacing. There was also a metalic looking wristband the boy wore on his left hand. Overall, Arsenal took him for a pretty boy who wasn't used to these sorts of situations, one who doesn't do much except for sit in quiet with the popular kids and have everything handed to him without much of a resistance from other teachers or students.
"So do you have a name or do I just call you boy?" Roy asked, trying to lighten the atmosphere.
"I'm not a child!"
Oh he was going to have fun with this one.
Roy's face split into a grin as he waited for the boy to reply. The other teen rolled his eyes at him.
"My name is Danny." Danny looked him up and down, "Did you just come from a cosplay party or something?"
He raised an eyebrow, "I'm Arsenal!"
This time Danny raised an eyebrow at him.
"Protégé of Green Arrow."
The boy's face remained the same as Roy's changed.
"Part of the Young Justice team."
Still no look of recognition.
"The Justice League."
"I literally don't have a clue on what any of those are, is it like some kind of sports team?"
"How do you not know the Justice League?"
"I'm from a small town, a lot of outside media doesn't get through to us." The boy mumbled something with a hint of annoyance at the end.
Roy groaned in frustration, putting his hands up to his masked face. He silently wondered if he was going to have to tell pretty boy here about the existance of aliens and meta-humans.
"Woah!" He heard the boy exclaim, feet that barely made a sound ran up to him. "Cool arm!" Roy spread his arms apart from his face to look at him, seeing that the boy's focus was entirely on his prosthetic.
"What kind of lights did you buy for this?"
" Lights? What no— This is how it is." He growled out the last part, remembering what Lex did still left a sour taste in his mouth.
"No. Way!" Danny's eyes seemed to sparkle with awe. "Can I touch it, please?"
Roy let the other teen poke at his arm, watching as fascination filled those blue eyes. The only other person that showed this much interest in his arm was Bart and the little menace would always ask to look at it or try to wrestle him, resulting in him always winning because there was no chance of him losing to someone with those kind of arms.
"This is amazing, can you wiggle your fingers for me?" Roy did just that and watched as a smile etched onto the boy's face.
"INCREDIBLE! The black metal, the desgin, everything was made to fit you. But, I bet I could do a way better job."
"Oh really?" He raised an eyebrow.
"My parents are inventors and scientist, I obviously picked up a thing or two from being around their equipment for so long." Danny placed his two hands on the prosthetic, providing Roy with the knowledge that he was two inches taller than Danny.
The vigilante catalogued the information given to him for later. Even if Danny meant him no harm that didn't mean he trusted him right away, sue him, but the other's parents being scientist that built enough inventions for Danny to alledgedly make his own made him wary.
"You're not a bad cosplayer." Danny said, leaning his head against the metalic arm while looking at Roy.
Those too blue eyes pierced his soul. Danny had to be a meta or alien of some kind, there was no other explanation for his eyes.
"It's not a cos—"
*SCREECH*
An unholy noise screamed out, sounding like a high pitched call and simultaneously a warning from whatever creature it came from.
Roy quickly grabbed Danny by the waist and pushed the boy behind him, shielding him as he armed himself once again.
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connorthevgfan78 · 9 months ago
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A Quick Word on the Internet Archive:
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On October 9 2024, the Internet Archive suffered not only a massive DDOS attack that took several services (including the Wayback Machine) offline, but also a data breach that saw the emails, usernames, and passwords of nearly 31 million accounts leaked.
As of the last time I checked, the Internet Archive remains down, and the hacker group claiming responsibility has openly stated that they took down the Archive because it’s “owned by the US Government” (Spoiler Alert: it’s not, it’s an independent non-profit that happens to be based in the US):
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I was very upset, to say the least, when I heard of the Archive getting taken offline, and appalled at the reason given as to why it was targeted. The fact that someone would want to, or in this case, go through with taking down such a rich and diverse center of information, as well as the Internet’s very own history book in the form of the Wayback Machine, is disturbing. Additionally, to have this come nearly months after the Archive lost a landmark copyright case against book publishers, and two months after record companies announced their own lawsuits against the Archive, makes this situation feel like a cup of salt being poured into an open wound.
The Internet Archive is such a vital source of information for everyone on the Internet, whether it be people wanting to revisit an old website from their childhood on the Wayback Machine, or looking for any other form of media from digitized VHS recordings to full books and magazines that are out of print. The Archive is a vital resource for all, and one that we must defend and support now more than ever.
At this moment, the Internet Archive remains down and the details of the breach have been imported to Have I Been Pwned (if you have an IA account, I highly encourage you to check your email address on HIBP to see if it was in the breach data). When it comes back online, I feel like we need to evaluate how we can help the Internet Archive going forward. Whether it be with downloading and storing Archive content on our own systems or supporting the Archive monetarily when able. One thing is clear: going forward, supporting the Internet Archive is going to need to be a community effort, like it has always been since the first files were uploaded to its oldest servers. We’ll all need to contribute in our own ways, so that content from the Internet Archive continues to be preserved and accessible, even in a catastrophic event like this one.
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verbosenerv0sa · 4 months ago
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ok this is probably another really hot take but... [little rant incoming]
Excluding young people from ed spaces does not prevent them from developing an ed any more than it would help an older person recover. Think about it! How many of us started well before we were 14? 13, 12 even? And not everyone with an ed is in online spaces or knows anyone else with one, and they can still have an ed all alone! Nobody to understand, nobody to offer tips that would limit their suffering, nobody to offer harm reduction, little access to the information they really need - because a hundred youtube documentaries and short films about anor❌ia isn't going to help. And that's what many of them are turning to with lack of real life representation. I'm not saying under 13 year olds should be on social media - because that's the actual rules of the platform! - but those who are desperate enough to lie about their age just to get some support deserve it. Those who don't, who don't have access to support STILL also deserve it. I would also like to add that older people (past their early twenties) should not be expected to outgrow their ed and are not automatically creepy for being in ed spaces, even if they interact with younger people. Most of the community is 14-21, and if you're outside that range you still deserve to be included. I don't care if you're 8 or 80, you deserve support. You deserve friends. You deserve access to facts. You deserve access to harm reduction. You deserve access to realistic representation of what you're dealing with. You deserve a space to have an ed and be allowed to exist with it without fear or consequence.
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flaminandgooo · 3 months ago
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So, I suddenly realized something and I didn't know whom to tell, and I thought you could understand me. My mp3 shuffle brought back "Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová - and I can't tell you how much I ADORE this sweet, profound ballad about the relentless, inevitable, constant healing power love can have over two broken souls meeting and finding each other, going from strangers to lovers even if they really don't know each other. And I couldn't really pinpoint it on a specific ship, not with the amount of awed comfort it offers. Until today. It's about Sambucky.
Don't tell me these two verses aren't Bucky talking about himself, and Sam answering him:
Falling slowly
Eyes that know me
And I can't go back
And moods that take me
And erase me
And I'm painted black
Well, you have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
Thank you and sorry. I'll go back crying over them.
First of all, thank you for the song rec, this is such a tender song T.T
AND YES! I completely understand what you mean. This is sambucky through and through. It's two souls hurt and abused by life, finding solace, comfort and healing in each other!
The first verse is totally Bucky. We know that man has some serious self loathing at some point and is still afraid of not being completely free of HYDRA's control. So the 'I'm painted black' is especially fitting for him.
Though I feel like the second could be him talking to Sam, too, especially after their scene in BNW. They've both seen the other suffer, Bucky probably knows about Riley and how seeing Joaquin fall made Sam feel (and the 'say what you gotta say' bit because he knew Sam was blaming himself and putting too much responsibility on his very human shoulders, responsibilities that not even Steve could fulfill with the superserum (ia: Bucky saying even Steve couldn't save everyone and he had the serum)), so this verse is both of them for me. Just at different times.
Also this bit at the very beginning
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For me, it's Bucky from CACW all the way to Endgame. Because he didn't really know Sam yet we see them rather close and I can't help but feel it's because Sam always treated him normally, teasing and prodding and not acting like he was a walking timebomb and it meant the world to him so Bucky chose him to latch onto because it was such a relief for him.
So, yes. Yes. Absolutely. This song is sambucky and this is officially going into my sambucky playlist.
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alicepao13 · 7 months ago
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Hudson and Rex S04E09 - Impawster Syndrome - Part A
I like this one better than the previous one but... I disagree with a lot of the things Jesse says, and mainly with how he thinks his coworkers should have treated him in this case.
Black letters in quotes: Actual show quotes.
Green letters in quotes: What I come up with my twisted brain.
I wonder if they had Justin Kelly voice the criminal in the opening scene to throw us off.
Wait, I take it back. They probably did because they already had him play that scene.
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Oh, that rascal.
Remember when we thought that the worst thing to come out of technology the last decade were deepfakes? Good times.
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Dear Hudson and Rex, I think your actors are suffering from the cold again.
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lol why is Rex the most annoyed that Jesse stepped on evidence? Everyone else is pretty chill.
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I bet this won't come up later as sketchy behavior.
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Sarah: "Wait, I need Charlie to translate Rex-speak for me." Rex: "I wait for no one. Follow me."
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That's what they all say.
Why would he not assume that since his car was stolen (crime) it was used in the robbery (also crime)?
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I wish. What I mean to say is that they took a long time to actually act like they should impartially investigate this.
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I'm sorry but Jesse's acting like a child. He knows the procedure, he should know that if this case went to court and he was on it without having been cleared beforehand, he would be the one to blow it and create doubts for the court. He should know that it doesn't have anything with his friends not trusting him. Which, later, they will actually have ample reasons not to.
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On my first watch I'd actually thought she had something to do with this.
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Dude, you stepped on evidence and your face is on camera committing a crime, and there's currently no explanation for why this isn't your face. You can't be surprised they don't want you anywhere near this case.
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Oh my god stop! I mean the thing with the tongue, I can't concentrate. Also, stop joking around because we definitely will be doing the "I'll hear something my friends are saying about me out of context and take it the wrong way" trope.
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What did I say?!?! Jesse, this is just how they do foreplay, I promise. It has nothing to do with you.
Charlie is actually doing his job and entertaining the possibility that Jesse might have had something to do with this, even as a joke.
Yes, guys, after all this I, too, would assume that Jesse's car was used in the robbery. I'd bet on it before finding it.
I'm not sure what joking about Jesse having many action figures achieves when the house does look geeky. A loading bar on the wall? An entire gaming installation in the living room? That's how I'd imagine it. Does it have to have action figures? Not to mention that I don't remember Jesse mentioning action figures a lot. I'd love to go to Comic Con too but I don't want to buy action figures.
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Not sure they should have done this. Then again, if it was any other case, they would have done this. They have had Rex sneakily search again and again. And I think they mostly did this because they thought that would at least clear Jesse.
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Not Rex too!
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Sarah is the one who's supposed to clinically examine the evidence, how did we get to that point?
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Oh, he was. Which definitely didn't make all this any better.
I'm not sorry for suspecting Imari. She was the red herring, anyway. She always popped up at the right time. And was too chipper for this job.
I think the most clear sign that Jesse hadn't done this would be the fact that he wouldn't be so stupid to deposit robbery money into his own account. He's worked so many cases. Although that's not exactly a defense and they'd still have to keep searching.
I'm sorry, you're interrogating him and you say "We're on your side"? This is insane. Will IA review the interrogation tapes?
Jesse plays online poker. That's not as weird and out there as they make it seem.
Crypto again. I know that in my country most of the gambling websites that gave winnings in crypro have been banned. Probably in the EU (although the law here has a pretty funny idea of who is and who is not allowed to run a gambling website).
"Are you doing a search of my apartment?" Shocked Pikachu meme. Are you serious right now, Jesse? Yes, of course they are! The evidence is piling up.
All this is because you were gunning for Charlie's job in the previous episode, Jesse lol
Aaand, they found a shotgun.
"Nice find, Rex." May I ask how you humans were searching Jesse's apartment all this time? Because it was literally on the chair under a blanket.
Sarah: "If I take your approach forgetting we're talking about Jesse and just looking at the evidence..." The investigative, approach, yes.
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Indeed. At this point, the frame-job is getting way too obvious.
I got to the image limit in 16 minutes of episode runtime. This is not good.
To be continued in Part B.
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fogii-yume · 6 months ago
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and let me introduce you to my project sekai joke unit
name: sekai.start(self); (whaaaat world.execute(me); ref ???)
one-liner on the loading screen: an online group that specializes in game osts, minecraft, and the occasional piracy
summary: sekai.start(self); (often abbreviated as Start, Startself, or SSS), was created by Minecraft user sunny_lakes. ‘Sunny’ because she’s cute and sweet and a die-hard omori fan and ‘lakes’ because it's pretty and calming and she’s also a die-hard Taylor Swift fan
backstory: The group was formed because none of them had any social life or meaning. They were like “make a music group? Yeah sure why not. I need money anyway.” It started when a girl namd Usada Kiku, on Minecraft as user sunny_lakes, joined a popular youtuber’s (canned_man19) minecraft server and started building people houses for diamonds. Minecraft user エコー /ᐠ - ˕ -マ  (yes, with the kaomoji) gave her five stacks of diamonds after Kiku built a base for them (which really surprised Kiku. how the heck did someone get so many diamonds ??? also how the heck are there symbols in her name????). and uhh i havent thought beyond this
Members: 
Usada Kiku (Kiki) - she may not look like much and she’s still learning the controls to Fortnite, but she’s really good at building in Minecraft. Her YouTube channel has thousands of subscribers because she’s just that good at building. She also thinks of very creative ways to defeat the Ender Dragon. Not to mention the hacking videos she does that she herself doesn’t think are funny (I do it all the time ??) but her community goes wild over it. She composes most of the soundtracks. 
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Emi - she’s really cute, but not the kindest. jirai kei girly <333 will probably dox you. has your ip address and credit card number somehow. she edits, mixes, and masters the music along with Kiku. selfie girl prolly. i also can't find a single good picrew for her so just have that for now. her pupils are off-centered flowers, she has a bunny hairclip, and there are pink streaks in her hair.
Fuuki - hacker. she’s x-raying in minecraft and you can’t ban her for some reason. she gave herself more power than the mods, than the admin themselves. she could take down the entire server within seconds but she won’t because she doesn’t care to. she doesn’t really commit much to actually making music, but she pirates all the music programs the others use because everyone’s too broke to pay for anything. also probably goes by she/they (demigirl) but i'm too lazy to change that rn
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Kamui - ah, the traumatized one. she has a sad backstory and glues herself to their screen to disassociate. she’s always doomscrolling on social media and is definitely not healthy (showers probably aren’t in her vocabulary). she wears a mask to cover their face because she believes she’s the ugliest person on earth. also because they have breathing problems that their parents won’t treat so she has to anyway. she’s the artist that draws the backgrounds and stuff for the osts. also transfem and goes by she/they. who accepts them ? no one ha suffer (i’m kidding i love you my sweet child)
Virtual Singers: 
Hatsune Miku - because she’s the first one
Utatane Piko - because he looks like an actual robot with all that tech stuff going on like yeah ok 
IA - because i love her and she was released on mafuyu’s birthday and uh i love her 
Gekiyaku - idk i was scrolling on the vocaloid wiki and she looked cool
Kagamine Len - i needed him and his sister to make six vocaloids and i didnt really want to add luka kaito or meiko
Kagamine Rin - ^
Electronic Sekai: 
Start’s sekai. It’s kind of like a big room full of all sorts of technology. Lots of LED lights and stuff. Except since the whole room is basically a computer, Fuuki has hacked it numerous times to benefit herself. 
uhh that's basically it. they were actually originally supposed to meet on fortnite but i dont play fortnite so minecraft was easier. why did i put so much thought into a joke unit ;-;; (but i love them) btw all the picrews are in their artstyle (or just their style. only one person there can actually draw)
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ultyso · 2 years ago
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It’s so hard to focus on anything anymore. Everything is so heartbreaking. I hate these stupid uneducated countries governments supporting I$rael by backing them with millions to keep murdering. I hate they took our tax paying money to support them murdering more people. I hate all these companies supporting them with millions. I hate all these celebs supporting them and signing petitions in support of them. As long as all of these greedy fuckers have their dirty money, they don’t care. They willfully allow in the genocide of Palestine. Heartless.
Hearing how they’re now bombing journalists and their entire families in Palestine. Bombing hospitals, safe houses, and schools. Bombing where aid are trying to help the civilians in Gaza. How they warned Palestinian civilians they were going to bomb an area and told them to evacuate on specific roads, then they had the audacity to bomb where all those civilians went that was claimed to be safe. Tell me that wasn’t on purpose, a trap. How can anyone see this as anything but genocide?
I$rael is shoving so much propaganda at you all to try and make themselves look good. They aren’t! They are killing so many innocent people. So many children. So many babies. So many animals. And countless people are on tiktok laughing and happy that this is happening?????? How absolutely twisted do you got to be to praise the death of innocent lives especially children’s lives? Palestine has no running water, food, electricity, and army, yet they are seen as the threat???
This same kind of shit going on with Ru$$ia and Ukraine but ohhhh countries around cared about that and were quick to support Ukraine. Now why is that? Oh because they’re white. How can so many people UNDERSTAND the issue with this war but then be completely fucking stupid with I$rael and Palestine? Mindboggling.
How can anyone keep looking away from the issue? How can anyone be neutral about all of this? How can anyone willing support them? How can these people who cried about their own innocent children being harmed be JOYOUS that innocent Palestinian children are dying? They should UNDERSTAND the pain of not wanting kids hurt but they don’t care they take pride in it. They want the Palestinian children to suffer. How heartless do you fuckers have to be to DESIRE death upon children????? How little humanity does everyone have?????
How many damn Palestinian people have to die before people wake the fuck up and show an ounce of care??? We are seeing in real time the genocide of Palestine. This is not okay it was never fucking okay.
Please be informed. You can start here: https://uscpr.org
Educate yourself. Show compassion. Share the word of Palestinians. Do not let them be forgotten. From the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free. 🇵🇸
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sortamadwolves · 2 months ago
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My rant about The Rookie
I have a question. I've seen a lot of hate towards John Nolan in The Rookie. I've seen a lot of people call him annoying and saying that he "thinks he's better than everyone else" or that he's constantly breaking rules. Why does everyone think that? I've fully caught up on The Rookie and I've seen everyone make the same mistakes he has and everyone on multiple occasions have broke the rules. I've never seen him act like he is better than everyone else. The whole situation with Armstrong wasn't his fault. Nyla whose literally his training officer didn't want him to follow the rules by going to IA with his suspicions because of it being a fellow officer and then Armstrong who was Nolan's friend, manipulated him and by the time Nolan realized the truth along with Nyla's insistence on doing the investigation themselves, he got screwed over and framed for crimes he didn't commit. Then in Season 1 with all the times he "didn't follow orders" its the same mistakes everyone has done especially rookies.
Even Tim broke the rules on multiple occasions. He literally protected his ex wife who was on drugs while on duty carrying a gun which could have gotten so many people hurt and even afterwards he was still protecting her. It took Lucy, his own rookie, to get him to finally back away.
From everything I've seen of the show, and I've watched the whole series, Nolan has dealt with so much trauma alone. His mother was toxic and maybe even mentally abusive, his father abandoned him and his mother when he was a kid, his son needed a lot of heart surgeries before his 1st birthday, he got stuck in a bank robbery, has been shot at countless times, killed a guy while he was still a rookie, watched his boss get killed in front of him after having a hit put out on him and all of that was before he even became a P2. Then there's the fact he's been kidnapped countless times, tortured, shot, etc. Then the one time he was kidnapped by a serial killer, he was hit by a car, drugged, and then hunted down like an animal by the guy and no one was even looking for him. He had to deal with it all himself. He also had a different serial killer obsessed with him because of the one time he saved her life. He's had to deal with so much alone and he's been there for everyone else when they've dealt with traumatic moments.
I think the perfect example of how alone he's been in his suffering was in the episode when his son is back in the hospital and getting heart surgery, the scene when him and his ex are talking outside on the roof, the whole time he was trying to be optimistic while she was very upset and then when she leaves, he stays and then he breaks down. He suffers alone and no one sees it. No one talks about it. The only time I've ever heard one of his traumatic moments talked about was the mentioning of Armstrong when him and Bailey are trying to make it so they can adopt but because of that moment and all of the danger both of them have dealt with, they can't.
It's just sad how alone he is. Tbh that's probably one of the reasons why I relate to him so much and why he's my favorite character in the show. It's why I don't understand the hate people have towards him. Do people hate him because he's technically the main character? Do people have higher standards for him because he's the main character? It's just hard for me to understand why people hate him so much. There's barely any fics centered around him and I had to specifically look up his name on tik tok so I could see edits on my fyp because just looking up The Rookie, all I get is Tim and Lucy edits. Am I like the only one willing to defend Nolan?
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exuberantocean · 5 months ago
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This.
OP wAs right that Trump 2025 will be different, but it isn't without hope.Everyone who isn't MAGA is going to need to get pragmatic and scrappy. Find GOP members that aren't MAGA (they still exist) and do what good we can with them. Division exists already in the GOP, sow more where possible. When things get bad - and they will - make sure you are vocal about how Trump's policies are causing the suffering. We have an election in 2026 and with a razor thin majority in the House already and a likely shit show presidency, we have a real can of a Dem win that year which will introduce both accountability to the White House and thrown a huge wrench in MAGA plans. But we can't do the ideological purity bullshit. Not every Dem candidate is going to match your beliefs 100%. We can't keep handing MAGA victories because candidate Jane Doe once supported logging in 1993 or whatever bullshit.
But, most importantly get involved. We need so much help and their are so many ways. Your town/city has committees that need members. The Dems need people to walk the streets or help organize. Hungry need to be fed, environmental organizations need your help more than ever. Immigrants need someone to speak for them and the Trans and greater LGBTQ IA+ community has many brilliant organizations that could use bolstering. Abortion clinics and comprehensive women's care is under seige. There is room for everyone to help. None of these choices are wrong. Pick one or two.
I am in the process of joining a local town committee, I have joined am the board of a local nature conservancy and I set up reoccurring payments with three nature organizations (they get paid everytime I get paid). All of this felt like it would be huge to accomplish. None of it actually was. Places like these are desperate for someone to lend a hand. (Also, the board will pay me $50/meeting, with each meeting being 1 hour, this will be the highest pay rate I have ever had. 😂)
The point is, doom scroll is not activism and doesn't help. Wringing you hands at home doesn't help. MAGA's success runs on your despair - on the idea that you will roll over and surrender for the next four years and beyond. Don't. Rise up.
I don't think I've brought this up before but it's how I've felt pretty much the entire election season and especially now: this is not going to be like 2016.
trump in 2016 was the president despite clearly not wanting it, not being prepared for it, and having limited influence over his cabinet (who also were constantly quitting because either they hit their limit of bullshit or still had a sense of shame), and he still did, like, all of the shit he did.
trump in 2025 has an axe to grind, has eliminated anyone who might so much as politely disagree with him, and has (with the help of the Heritage Foundation) had four years to plan out how he's going to accomplish his goals as quickly and efficiently as possible. I'm trying to be optimistic given how the H1B visa thing has already been going but also we had the richest loser in the world throw a Nazi salute so it's kind of hard to be optimistic about anything.
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barbechoanthony · 2 years ago
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DEFINITIONS
Science fiction:  Is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
Tale: A fictitious or true narrative or story, especially one that is imaginatively recounted.
Story: A narration of a chain of events told or written in prose or verse.
Preserving the Flow: A Water Conservation Crusade
It was the year 2040 and I was lying on the sofa watching television. Suddenly a message appears saying: "Ecuador is running out of water". Since then, life in my country has been horrible. Everyone was struggling to get at least a drop of water. A friend, who will remain anonymous for the time being, helped me build a time machine. The day has come to put the time machine to work. We had put a lot of effort into creating it. 
Before carrying out the water recovery plan, we reviewed it. It was to come up with evidence that I am from the future and tell the young people that the bad habits and water wastage of that time caused the country to run out of water.
- Ready," said my friend
-All for the preservation of water in my country- I said.
Then, we started the machine and set the next date 2023, where the people of this country started to have bad water usage habits. Consequently, it continued to worsen over the years, up to my present.
Immediately, I went to talk to all the schools and showed them what happened in the future. All this was done against the government and the big companies because in the future they had total control of the little water there was in the country. Although I had this against me, I had faith that the schools cared about the future of their students and this was the only way to get my message across the country.
To sum up my speech, it was about how difficult it was for citizens to drink a simple glass of water. Moreover, of those children who were wasting water and making fun of countries that had no water, in my present time many died of thirst or were suffering from scarcity.
I had to go through difficult situations and run away several times to avoid being caught by the government. But that effort was worth it in the end. When I returned to my time, I saw that the water had already returned and I started to reflect on how small bad habits can trigger the scarcity of such an important resource as water. But thanks to the efforts of the people of the past, the inevitable end of water in our country could be prevented.
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I created the image in the ia image editor and I write "Time traveler giving a talk to the people of the past about contamination".
REFERENCES
Wikipedia contributors. (2023, October 15). Science fiction. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Science_fiction&oldid=1180294282
About kemetale — kemetale. (n.d.). Kemetale. Retrieved October 18, 2023, from https://www.kemetale.com/about
(N.d.). Collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved October 18, 2023, from https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/ingles-tesauro/story
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ev3rm0re-q · 2 years ago
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study nights ⋆。✎ ˎˊ˗
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desc: you have a hard time trying to get taehyun's attention as he tries to study and accomplish his physics homework.
pairing: boyfriend!taehyun x shy fem!reader
genre: fluff
warning/s: if you close one eye, and squint with the other while tilting your head to the side and then turning the other way… it's suggestive.
wc: 1.5k words
a/n: bro he looks SOO fine in these pictures i canttt. anyway, im so sorry for being so ia huhu but i j wanted to thank everyone for all the support the first post has been getting <33 i want to reply to the comments but im so bad at simply interacting with others that im scared to sound awkward kjdfnajkd. ik this is another fluff but i swear ive been working on a muchh longer fic that i wannna post soon, so stay tuned and i hope u guys enjoy this one first!!
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Only the scribbling of words on some papers and the sound of typing on a keyboard could be heard in Kai and Taehyun's shared room as the two of you went about with your own separate activities.
Kai, his roommate, was currently in the living area with the other boys, given that he didn't want to interrupt you two during your time alone. Which was a bit of a wasted effort considering Taehyun seemed to be using it more for his solo study time. 
At the moment, your boyfriend was devoting his utmost attention to his academics, with different papers and books systematically scattered all around the small study desk. His favorite pen on hand for extra notes, and he had a laptop propped up by a stand, followed by a Bluetooth keyboard on which he was currently typing his heart out.
You, on the other hand, were sat timidly on his bed with a good novel pressed against your nose. You did not wish to disrupt the boy because you knew how serious he was about his studies.
He had been trying to complete an extremely difficult homework for his Physics class, and because you didn't choose that as one of your classes for the year, you'd have no idea how much pain and suffering he'd have to endure in that class.
Like he was even going to suffer with that Professor Kim around.
Taehyun was very academically inclined, and as a result of the way he behaved himself, participated in class, and excelled in all of the work given to him, he often became the teachers' favorite student.
You could not help but admire your boyfriend for it. He truly possessed a lot of exceptional qualities.
Though your relationship was not as fresh as it used to be―you both being together for eight months long―you could not help but let your bashful manners take over when it came to situations like these.
You'd always been a shy and reserved kid who couldn't seem to take a stand for what you wanted in public interactions.
Of course, you could still converse with strangers when they needed directions and whatnot, but you never bothered to join large gatherings or tried to blend in with the other kids because you felt it was pointless and time-consuming. Basically being the opposite of Yeonjun... but you were still close friends with him.
Which is why you've often questioned how you managed to catch the attention of the extroverted boy sitting at the desk across from you. Maybe it was the random exchanges in the hallways- or you being well-acquainted with the rest of the boys.
Who knows?
You were just thankful that someone saw something special in you.
You looked up from your novel, expecting him to be almost finished with what he was doing and offer you some of his attention. Instead, you were disappointed to see that he remained deeply absorbed in his study. His focused gaze visible in his dark-brown eyes.
Because of this, you began to wonder if approaching him for attention was even a good idea. You decided to move a bit forward from your position until you were directly behind him, sitting on the edge of the bed.
For the following thirty minutes, you continued to silently read as he worked, giving him subtle hints that you wanted him to at least feel your presence from right behind him and take a glance at you.
"Tae?" You murmured out softly, unsure whether you wanted him to actually hear you or not.
He continued to focus solely on his work as he hummed out in response, "Hm?"
"How's your worksheet going?" You awkwardly questioned.
"Pretty rough, if I'm being honest. Why, love?"
"I-uhh just wanted to make sure you were doing alright." You uttered out before going back to your book.
Another hour had soon passed, and his prior hyper radar focus appeared to have cooled down to a more relaxed state as he progressed more with finishing his homework.
You were finding it difficult to concentrate on the task at hand because of the guys' occasional loud noise s outside, which was beginning to increase.
"You know, if you needed my attention, you could have just said so," He suddenly stated, out of the blue, eyes still glued to his screen.
"Huh?" You let out, not expecting him to even notice what you've been doing the whole time he was so immersed in his work.
"You heard me, love." He turned his chair around to finally look at you after hours of having his full attention on his homework.
"I'm not needy for your attention." you sneered, not wanting to appear 'needy' to him.
You hated that word. Needy. You were particularly insecure over having that trait in your relationship. You wished to prove to your boyfriend that you were just as responsible and self-sufficient as he had always been.
You frequently walked yourself home from school and even took precautions as to avoid spending too much time with him by only seeing him once or twice a week or texting him a lot but not too much to bother him. 
Even while you were out with all of your friends, you took care to keep your proximity to him to a minimum so as not to overly suffocate him. It was a pretty big deal to you.
"So you wouldn't mind if I keep going until Soobin calls us for dinner?" 
"Not at all." Your stubbornness took over as your y/e/c eyes never left the book.
So he continued studying for another couple of minutes and you were getting more impatient by the second. 'I fucked up.' you thought, remembering how much Taehyun truly sticks to his word.
You slowly started to fidget with the corners of the pages of your book, looking over your phone every now and then to try and find something to entertain you. Until, you finally broke. You stood up from the bed and headed over to where he sat to place your hands on his broad shoulders.
"Honey~" you called him out and him just humming back again in response.
Actually, he had finished the entirety of his worksheet a few minutes before. He was just pretending to do work to simply get a reaction out of you. The boy only wanted you to get over the shyness you still had, at least a bit, whenever you sought his attention or desired affection. To at least voice it out to him.
You spoke his name out once more, but he simply responded with another hum, seemed to barely acknowledge your calls.
"Can we... you know.."
"Huh?" His eyes still glued onto the PowerPoint he was currently 'studying'.
"...cuddle" You barely whispered out, not even sure if anyone could have heard what you just said.
"Excuse me... can we what, darling?" He teasingly replied.
As soon as you realized he was merely doing it to playfully taunt you, your stubborness resurfaced.  
"You know what, never mind." You immediately took your hands off of his shoulders, backing out of your previous statement and started to walk back to his bed.
You suddenly heard another loud squeal come from the living room, it was probably Yeonjun teasing Kai again. That's when the idea popped into your head. You started making a beeline for the door, trying to leave without muttering another word to your boyfriend.
"What do you think you're doing?" His eyes left the screen in front of him.
"Well, I figured the rest of the boys were just playing around outside, and since you're busy, I figured I could just get extra cuddles from Kai or Beomgyu, or something." You blurted, your novel still safely stored in your hand, as you inched closer to the door.
You then felt a soft hand grab your empty one, swiftly pulling you back. Your body was tenderly encircled by familiar arms from behind, and you felt his body's warmth envelop yours as his head rested on your shoulder.
"Just say it, please." You heard him barely mumbling it into your shoulder.
"Say that you want my attention. That you want me." He practically begged into your ear.
Since he was so close to you, you stammered out "I-I" as you felt his hot breath brush up against your neck like a feather.
"You don't have to look for it from other people, Y/N. I'm here." He reassured you before slowly guiding you back towards his bed.
You two simply lay there together as you gazed into his large, dark-brown eyes that nearly had the appearance of dark pearls. As he was witnessing your open gawking at him, he couldn't help but let out a soft giggle. 
"Why are you laughing so much." You pouted as he continued to tease you.
"I don't know, honestly. I just can't help the fact that I find you pretty cute." He remarked.
"Ugh, you're such a tease Kang Taehyun."
He then brought you in even closer before sealing the already little space between you with a gentle but hungry kiss.
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"Were you really going to ask for cuddles from Beomgyu?"
"I think you missed the part where I also said Kai."
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self-loving-vampire · 2 years ago
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You're my favorite preservationist blog, so once again I wanted to hear your take on this:
I may not fully understand the situation here, so take this with a grain of salt,
but wasn't it a risky move for the Internet Archive to allow 'unlimited concurrent lending' indefinitely?
Yes, the pandemic still exists; yes it would be better if greedy publishing houses couldn't threaten the existence of petabytes of preserved data over the equivalent of a few bucks,
but as one of the last bastions against the relentless onslaught of IP law, in some cases literally the only thing preventing content from falling into lost media territory,
shouldn't they have stayed a little more within the rules on this, rather than risking legal exposure they can't afford?
Isn't it their duty as an archive to play it safe and act within the law so a loss like this doesn't mean everyone loses access to everything?
Is it worth fighting a costly legal battle to maintain a more ideal state of open access if it very well could mean the end of all they've worked for and media preservation as we know it?
All the commentary I've seen so far has been rightfully angry at the publishers for pursuing this, but if the IA goes down because they fought for the right to help the most people possible and lost, the resulting harm will be irreparable, and from an archivist's perspective that seems woefully irresponsible on their part.
I think their objective should be to preserve as much content and maintain as much access as possible, yes, but this feels like an all-or-nothing gambit that could have been avoided by just going back to how they operated pre-pandemic.
I'm afraid of what will happen if fighting the good fight means dying for the cause. Some loss of access, even if it's a change as drastic as going from unlimited to limited, doesn't seem like the hill to die on if it means total loss of access.
Please correct me if my understanding of the situation is factually inaccurate, but this is the conclusion I've come to given the information I currently have.
(Also thanks for hearing me out on this. It really means a lot that I have someone I can express my thoughts to, on this and in general.)
I am honored that you see this as a preservationist blog! While I think media preservation is an extremely important thing I saw myself as just a normal person with opinions and some resources to share rather than any kind of expert or activist.
As a result, my understanding of the laws and consequences involved is probably not more advanced than yours. In the best case scenario the archive survives and only the book lending service suffers, but even that seems like a catastrophic loss. In the worst case scenario, the lawsuit could cost them so much that it could impact other parts of the site. This ruling is definitely bad either way.
That's also saying nothing of the effect this could have on other digital libraries, which could begin to limit their own services to avoid similar lawsuits.
Due to that lack of understanding of the nuances of the law, I don't know how strong their legal case was and therefore can't really comment on whether providing this particular service was unusually reckless.
However, on a moral level I am proud to have financially supported them even if just in the small ways available to a random person on the internet, and will continue to stand by them throughout the appeal process.
One thing about preservation that is always worth keeping in mind is that it's not about just keeping the texts or putting them in some restricted archive or a museum. Ideally, I want as many people as possible to be able to acquire whatever information they wish with ease and become vessels for sharing it themselves.
That not only keeps the information more "alive" by letting people actually interact with it but also makes it more resilient. If the only copies of a work are kept in a museum then said work can easily be lost if something happens to said museum. However, if the work is downloaded and shared by thousands of people around the world then it becomes much more likely to endure.
Most of all I just wish for the end of copyright law and the very concept of intellectual property...
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dirtydancingdean · 4 years ago
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✨ fic recs ✨
ok so back in like 2014 i watched supernatural for a solid 3 years until they killed kevin and charlie and i got bored of the bmol storyline. now im here again let’s not talk about it. BUT during this time i accumulated a Lot of fic and in the past two months i’ve gone through all 213 of my bookmarks and gone through like every rec list made after s12 in order to read fic set during every specific season while i rewatch the show. because im insane <3 im on s8 rn and wanted to share my list of favourites from each season so far as well as my favourite aus ! they’re all generally nsfw so minors be careful, and also check the warnings ! and i will update this when i finish s15 <3
aus
asunder by rageprufrock (23.8k, e, background samruby)
obviously the most perfect thing to ever exist. 
and this, your living kiss by opal_bullets (56k, m, background saileen)
poet dean fic need i say more. part dean studies if dean studies was elaborated on lovingly in detail for 56k words, part gorgeous and beautiful poetry, part incredibly clever commentary on meta and fan allusions, and part stunning exploration of the relationships in the show turned on their heads.  
one white little lie by komodobits (11k, gen)
this is SOOO cute. cas is so embarrassing i was covering my face the entire time i was reading it. if u want to be cheered up. read this. 
broadway musical by griftings (12k, m)
this is genuinely sooo funny. big “castiel did you fuck the michael sword” energy and jimmy novak as that “am not against gays” tweet, plus jo <3
c-s-t-l by komodobits (90k, m)
i haven't read this in a while but from what i remember it was incredible and also had cassie <3 
rest is under the cut because it got long fhjfkfklf
pre-series/season 1-3*
a turn of the earth by microcomets (time travel, 95k, standford era, m)
i think everyone’s read this at this point but if u haven't. what are u doing. go read it. it’s absolutely everything i reread it in the week before the finale without remembering half of the stuff it talked about and i was a WRECK. if u think about standford era dean every day read this. cas punches john winchester in the FACE. 
geography by aeli_kindara (3k, teen and up, warnings for discussion of rape/non-con and prostitution)
not dean/cas but a really wonderful and needed conversation with sam and dean during 2x02.
season 4
so says the sword by komodobits (85k, e)
yeah. i dont need to say anything.  
consequences of falling by fayjay (37k, e, background samruby, warnings for rape/non-con)
THISSSS FIC. pls it’s perfect literally everything i wanted when i was watching s4 and obsessed with love as an act of worship + ruby and cas parallels. ruby and cas get drunk together! ruby says this: “dean and castiel sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes the fall from grace, then comes battling the hosts of hell and wishing that you’d managed to get your skinny ass laid before the freaking apocalypse”! what more could u want!
named by rc_machlan (94k, m)
literally the best fic in the world i am not going to say Anything if you love dean and angels and the mythology of s4-s5 that was promptly dropped, you absolutely have to read this.
four people ruby seduced & one she actually fell for (or: ruby's epic love affair with humanity in general and sam in specific) by tuesday (3.7k, e, samruby, ruby/jo)
this is more background deancas than anything else and does contain brief, not romantic in any way dean/ruby and dean/cas, but like. if u love ruby (which i do) u have to read this.
season 5
final fantasy by orange_crushed (1.9k, m)
endverse.....this made me want to die
the (mostly accidental) courtship of dean winchester by tuesday (11k, m)
a classic for a reason. really cute and soft and the handprint and cas beating dean up in 5x18 are angelic marriage rites. what more could you ask for.
the girlfriend experience by rageprufrock (15k, explicit)
of Course i mean of COURSE. thee s5 deancas fic.
strike me down and i’ll come back more powerful than you can possibly imagine by trinityofone (10k, gen)
post 5x22 dean and cas rescue sam from hell with the help of some special guests. PERFECT. the only valid good omens crossover.
season 6**
something stupid by zatnikatel (20k, e)
this broke my heart and put it back together. one of my favourite cas characterizations, takes place over s5-s6 and it’s just stunning. 
a crash course in someone else’s history by annie d (11k, teen and up)
s4 cas ends up in the body of cas in 6x20. fucking life-ruining.
season 7
make known by domesticadventures (16k, teen and up)
this is a really heartbreaking look at dean’s headspace near the end of s6 and throughout s7, and it’s really wonderful with a hopeful ending.
redemption road by a whole bunch of people (652k, virtual season, explicit)
oh boy. ok. know ur herstory ! this was written from 2011 to 2012 and it is thee s7 fic, a virtual season written by 17 fans all together. it’s very very long and it suffers sometimes from having being written a decade ago, but im making my way through it right now and it still fucking holds up. i really do recommend reading at least some of it, you can stop around halfway through and you should be fine.
season 8***
rinse, repeat by ias (3k, teen and up)
exploration of cas when naomi forces him to kill copies of dean and then his perspective in goodbye stranger.
my keeper by whelvenwings (5k, gen)
another goodbye stranger fic, this time with bonus artist cas!
though the course may change by imogenbynight (51k, e)
au after 8x23. i love this fic so much. dean accidentally ends up making himself have to go undercover with cas and pretend to be fake engaged. also, charlie and kevin. do i need to say more.
apres by imogenbynight (24k, e)
au after 8x23 where dean goes to find cas after the angels fall in paris 🥺
*i have found exactly one bela fic that i loved, and zero henriksen fics that i loved, so IF u have recs for those. i would appreciate that.
**mostly the s6 fics i read were uh...vampire dean fics...
***have found one (1) good dean/aaron fic but im still searching for the perfect purgatory crew fics 
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jellogram · 3 years ago
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I saw the Logan Paul suicide forest video on IA and I watched it because I wanted to see his reactions for myself and while I don't recommend watching it because it was exactly as disturbing as you'd expect, I do think it's really interesting sociologically.
So much of Logan's reactions do seem genuine. He is genuinely upset and uncomfortable but he doesn't know how to express that in a way that fits his persona. Here is a man who's spent so much time inside the altered reality of internet fame that he's lost touch with anything else. All he understands is content. But this is a dead body. That doesn't fit. That's not his brand. The façade he's constructed around himself doesn't have room for tragedy, and it doesn't allow him to express genuine distress. He knows he needs to appear sympathetic, so he throws in some performative bullshit about suicide, but in reality his content goggles are blurring everything.
There's a moment towards the end of the video where he comments that he wore a stupid hat for the occasion. This was supposed to be fun, his says. Logan's life is the story and the world is his stage. He can wear a stupid hat and goof off in the suicide forest, because he's the main character and nothing will happen unless he scripts it. The world wouldn't dare intrude into his narrative. Or so he thought. And for a few brief moments, barely visible in the video, he realizes he's a complete fucking idiot.
But then he gets back to the parking lot. He greets some young fans. He still seems shaken but he's back on. He's back in His World, where he calls the shots. This will be fine. We can frame this. We can shape this into a narrative that works for us.
And what does the internet content machine do with tragedy? What is the only way that dark topics like this become readily consumable? They're sensationalized. They become clickbait. They must have all their real pain and suffering removed and replaced with mimed sympathy in order to let curious viewers indulge with a clear conscience.
So that's what Logan does. It's all he knows how to do. He's no longer operating by human rules; he's part of the machine. He's a brand. He's soulless. The human part of him is trapped somewhere behind his eyes, genuinely disturbed by what he's witnessed, yet too small and feeble to affect his judgement.
So he posts the video. And suddenly, outrage. He discovers that not everyone else is also inside his Content Bubble, completely devoid of humanity.
Perhaps I am reading too much into this and perhaps it is after 2am and I should be going to bed instead of writing essays about Logan Paul, but this one video encapsulates so much about social media, content creators, and fame. It's such a perfect snapshot of a man's destroyed soul.
Like I said, I don't recommend watching the video, but I am glad it's been preserved for anthropological purposes. There's been a lot said about how and why this was a terrible action (which like, duh) but I think the mindset that causes a person to do such a thing is interesting to unravel. Selling your soul for fame or success is such an old concept, but rarely do we get such a clear cut example.
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linkemon · 4 years ago
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Dark Side (Todoroki Shōto x Reader) [Soulmate AU]
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"ɪ ᴀʟʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴇ ɪꜱ ᴍʏ ᴅᴇꜱᴛɪɴʏ, ᴍʏ ꜱᴏᴜʟᴍᴀᴛᴇ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ'ꜱ ᴡʜʏ ɪ ʜᴇꜱɪᴛᴀᴛᴇ. ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ ɪꜱ ᴀ ᴍɪꜱᴛᴀᴋᴇ."
ᴀᴅᴅɪᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ɪɴꜰᴏʀᴍᴀᴛɪᴏɴ:
1. ɪᴛ'ꜱ ᴀ ꜱᴏᴜʟᴍᴀᴛᴇ ᴀᴜ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ʟɪɴᴋᴇᴅ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ ʀᴇᴅ ꜱᴛʀɪɴɢ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴀᴛᴇ ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ꜱᴇᴇ ɪᴛ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴀᴡᴀʏ.
— Todoroki-kun!
At the sound of his surname, he turned to face me.
— Congratulations on getting your license!
Now killing him will be even more difficult.
— Thank you, [Reader]-san.
— Let's go out to eat something, my treat. You can tell me more on the way...
Since Todoroki started living with the rest of class IA in the UA dormitory, my task turned into a different level of difficulty because our contact was very limited. I kept telling myself that I was dragging the matter out because I should still try to get something out of the boy but deep down I understood that he would not tell me anything more.
I knew perfectly well that he would be returning home from the dormitory for the summer break so after a careful analysis of the information I planned everything in advance.
I waited a week after the last meeting — it was the time when the boy managed to visit his mother and see his siblings, which made him visibly softer and he also listened to his father's tirades, which led him to pure aggression. Emotions went back and forth.
In the midst of all this, there was me, pretending to be his peaceful refuge. It worked perfectly.
I had a plan on how to approach him and get him interested in me a long time ago. It required a lot of energy and  reading  (my quirk) to work. I am able to predict events up to a few seconds in advance in my immediate vicinity and be at the center of them. Thanks to this, I could be sure of how my target would react to certain potential situations in which we would find ourselves.
In this way, I also present myself as a good opponent for Todoroki due to the close distance I maintain during the fight, which the boy should avoid.
He had no reason to believe that I had quirk because I introduced myself to him as a quirkless person and intended to leave him in that belief for as long as possible. I've been doing it quite well so far.
I knew I was good at what I was doing because I saw him slowly breaking. I just wasn't sure how far Endeavor's son fell into the web of lies. The end result, however, was usually satisfactory because people who suffered by fate always broke. It's just that the teenager had a different tolerance threshold than everyone I have met so far.
Thanks to the carefully woven cobwebs, I got to know the other side of his father that no one had heard about and the dark secrets of the family. With time, also the scars caused by the mother, now in a psychiatric facility, stopped being the mystery.
Somewhere deep inside, it really touched me, after all, I was human too. However, this was not the reason why I would like to suddenly abandon my whole worldview and try to change in any way. I was aware that changing the state of affairs would be useless. My family and its decisions will stay with me forever. Wanting to cut yourself off from such a business was not an option. Only death could have been more certain.
I do not deny that sometimes I did wonder what my life would be like if I was born into a normal family. Not habing an outlaw father and mother probably mean less moving out, running away and pretending. There is also a lack of murderous skill training every day and instilling knowledge that will never be useful to the average person.
When the neighbors' children ran around the yard, I was learning the art of sneaking.
When the boys were fighting in the school corridors, I was learning the real fight to death.
When the class was breaking into the school store, I broke locks in other people's apartments.
While my friends were putting on red lipstick after break up, I was wiping off the blood of my blade.
When they cried after a break up, I wiped away my tears in some shady corner remembering the first murder.
It started with a few simple thefts for practice at the young age and ended with paid homicides.
My family and friends were proud when I got the biggest job in my career. After all, it is not every day that you have the opportunity and the resources to kill the son of the famous Endeavor — in addition, aspiring to be the future number one hero. No one would miss such a chance because no one would even dare to think about it. The case was clear — you either take the job or you die. The risk of spilling  out the client's name was too great.
So I accepted the offer.
That's why I'm now on the roof of an abandoned building, in the suburbs, where we were supposed to be watching the stars, which was a stupid idea because I hate the night.
I am not surprised by the shock visible on the boy's face after I showed my quirk. It must have hurt more than when his mother had poured hot water over him.
I know that Todoroki Shōto is a dangerous man because I have already met him for the one hundred and thirty-ninth time.
However, now he's a dangerous man with a license.
License allowing him to kill me in self-defense and he is using it.
The ice will come from the right — I know it a few seconds before the chill touches my cheek.
— [Reader]-san, give up!
Standard formula — I thought he could do a little better.
There isn't even any: [Reader]-san, how could you?. However, given his cool-headed nature, I shouldn't be surprised.
The boy uses fire and ice, clearly trying to keep me away but after a few (almost successful) attempts to shorten the distance, he gets used to sudden shifts. I hope that he will start having problems with reflex.
I teleport in front of him and swing my knife but he hit my left hand with fire, making me dodge quickly.
Todoroki is doing too well, I shouldn't have delayed that job for that long.
I'm still trying to reach him with what I have in store but the situation is getting dangerous. The initial shock of betrayal and the element of surprise stop working on the boy and reading is a huge strain on my strength.
Until now, I have been able to avoid his attacks quite efficiently and cut him twice with small knives from a distance of several meters. But nothing can last forever.
The ice is appering a meter in front of me blocking my left calf and climbs up higher on my body. The overwhelming cold makes me scream with pain and rage.
Confusion flashes in the boy's eyes. Just for a while but it's enough for me.
I know that I will not have a second chance for a close contact in my state. I have one opportunity to aim my blade perfectly.
I manage to keep myself sane to do the most thorough and tiring reading of my life. I know where he will be standing in a moment and I'm sure he hasn't figured out what I'm doing yet. I am moving before I finish using the vision, which I have never done before.
I am close.
So close to the target.
My knife in his body and the broken red string — that's the image I see.
I already know that he is my destiny, my soulmate.
That's why I hesitate.
And it is a mistake.
The roles in the vision reverse and it is Todoroki who holds the murder weapon as he watches life draining away from me.
The vision becomes blurred.
The last thing I see is his distraught gaze fixed on the thin, bloody line that connects his finger to mine.
The string breaks.
This one time, I'm not the culprit.
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breitzbachbea · 4 years ago
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Also sorry if this is awkward but where can I read your works??? I’ve become a bit invested solely based upon what you post about them and stuff and I wanna read them haha
Oh, this ain't awkward at all! I am super glad you are asking!
They're all on Ao3, where my account is also called "BreitzbachBea". But lemme give you the grand tour so that you aren't overwhelmed or confused on what to read!
Irish Problems - ... I can't in good conscience ask anyone to read this. Yes, it's the first book of the mainseries so it's basically the best place to start, but I wrote this from ages 14 to 16. It's OOC, it's pretty non-sensical, the pacing is atrocious and it's also cringe. If you can stomach that and keep in mind that a) a teenager wrote that and b) it DOES get better, I would say go for it. I'll rewrite Irish Problems some time in the next two years to make it a much better basis for what Like Father Like Son has morphed into. It's main characters are Team Ireland, Team Sicily and Team England, so if you want to catch an outdated glimpse at the kids, it is perfect for that.
Italian Affairs - Sequel to Irish Problems. If you were able to handle IP, then sure, give IA a go. It starts on pretty much the same level as IA but it does improve. There are genuinely gut wrenching moments early-ish on, like Charlie's love confession in Chapter 9 "Unfair Life" and Dolcetto's scene from Chapter 13 "Good Morning" is REALLY GOOD. I still love it. It only gets better from there on out and while it suffers from its plotholey foundation, I do think there are so many great moments and plotlines in there. The first scene of Chapter 21 "Tipping Point" is my favourite thing. It only works because of what came before it and it's thusly probably my favourite thing ever written so far. Plus, it's set in Rome and we get a bunch of Italians! Lovino! Feliciano! Their friends!
Drabble Collection - Probably the best way to start if you just want to get familiar-ish with the world this is set in. Plus, you can just ignore any ship that you don't like and just browse through your favourites - provided I ever wrote anything for them.
No Rest For The Wicked - Fun romp I wrote for rarepairweek. It has TurGre, it has SicIre, it has some references to OCs and it has Best Girl Sophie (my Northern Ireland OC). Enjoy their vacation in Turkey and rooftop dancing alongside them while you get to know them a little better.
'Tis but a scratch - A Spamano Fanfic that features Team South Italy and Team Spain! I yet have to finish it, but what's there is already really cute. Just some fluffy Spamano shenanigans while Lovi, Rella and Fabio visit Tonio.
I stayed with you - A Rochu Fanfic that's basically a series of drabbles/oneshots that details Yao and Ivan deepening their relationship. I've written it in 2017, but it still holds up damn well! If you like fluff with twinges of sadness or something deeper, it's perfect for you.
Don't Touch The Artwork - Look. If you want something OC-centric and are absolutely here for some hatefucking and toxic masculinity dick measuring contests, this is it. Alois and Hugo are a fucking trainwreck, but I cannot take my eyes of it. They're terrible, all they know is insult and banter. I love them. I hate them. Everyone should read that. Team Austria and Team Liechtenstein have excellent found family dynamics. The porn is pretty good. What else to say.
There are a few more I could talk about, but let me just also super reccommend Don't Let It Boil, Between Me and the Goddess (and You), 36°, Smudged Makeup & Cleaning Up (though you probably have to read A French Trio Of Bad Decisions, which is pretty meh, to get what Arielle's deal is), and Mistletoen't do this to me.
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