#became a judge?

[fakeoldmanfucker]

I need to find the person who turned down Thiel's application to a Supreme Court clerkship and shake their hand.

[inkskinned]

he says i hate everyone except you and that is addictive and that is kind of romantic and beautiful because you're young and you're kind of a sarcastic asshole too and you don't like bad boys, per say, but you don't really like good ones either. and you like that you were the exception, it felt like winning.

except life is not a romance book, and he was kind of being honest. he doesn't learn to be nice to your friends. he only tolerates your family. you have to beg him to come with you to birthday parties, he complains the whole time. you want to go on a date but - people are often there, wherever you're going. he's just so angry. about everything, is the thing. in the romance book, doesn't he eventually soften? can't you teach him, through your own sense of whimsy and comfort?

at first - you know introverts often need smaller friend groups, and honestly, you're fine staying at home too. you like the small, tidy life you occupy. you're not going to punish him for his personality type.

except: he really does hate everyone but you. which means he doesn't get along with his therapist. which means he has no one to talk to except for you. which means you take care of him constantly, since he otherwise has no one. which means you sometimes have to apologize for him. which means he keeps you home from seeing your friends because he hates them. you're the single exception.

about a decade from this experience, you'll type into google: how to know if a relationship is codependent.

he wraps an arm around you. i hate everyone except you. these days, you're learning what he's actually confessing is i have very little practice being kind.

[cerezzzita]

Hi dmcblr, how's it going?

[evie-doesnt-write]

I feel because of Jinx and Viktor’s popularity in fandom (having some of the most annoying fans in Arcane fandom) and the attention they receive in the show itself, people forget/don’t realise how bad they were done by the writers in s2

[budd-ie]

“Mu Qing is too logical for his own good” is such a real problem that he deals with and as tragic as it makes his life I also think it’s really funny when someone is accusing him of something and instead of telling them to shut up or leave him alone the first thing he does is pull out the 95 fucking theses detailing every single thing wrong with their argument WITH historical evidence and additional considerations from scholarly psychology articles, MLA format works cited and completely annotated. It could use an editor and some bias correction, but he actually makes a pretty good point. anyways tgcf ace attorney au when

[anotherfanaccount]

Best drama pairing of the year.

And nobody told me this drama was gonna serve romance like no other. And that was just chef's kiss.

[akkivee]

mtr:

all named after jp god imagery

team symbol is a cross

jakurai’s mic is a ref of the staff of asclepius, a greek healer who was deified into the god of medicine

jakurai’s got a lot of holy imagery attached to him: angel wings, sins, salvation, etc

dh:

rei swore to be the god of this world

rei’s speaker has the ho-ou bird, a celestial figure in cn/jp mythology

tsuutenkaku means a building that leads to the heavens and is part of their lore

bat:

hitoya has warned jakurai against trying to act as a god (he’s learning to judge humans by their sins and not the human themself, as the catholic/christian god promised)

jyushi’s favourite band and heavy inspiration for his appearance is ‘dreams and gods are fake’ and quotes that phrase in song (but calls hitoya his god)

gods are not the highest veneration in buddhism; buddhas are human. kuukou’s main goal has been to live a life where he can proudly face the buddha (but has had a lot of buddha imagery placed on him: the black crown, sal trees etc)

so they’re like, the holy trinity divisions lmao 🤔

[aliasmard]

so, this is political post about elections. and yes this is homestuck fanart, but I just wanted to say pls don't kys, even if it feels like the world is cracking, your life is still so hella important. stay.

[ravenw1ngs]

Thinking about the reality of living under the physical conditions of Purgatory.

How the first days were a fight to make their corner of the island habitable. Survivable, not comfortable, because the first was necessary and the second felt impossible. How Soulfire stepped onto the island and froze, every member coming away with scarred hands from frostbite, hypothermia nearly taking them out on day one. How Green Gay Ninjas entered their jungle and had to quickly secure a safe water source, fighting off the heat exhaustion and dehydration that is inevitable with such a humid place. How Bolas scrambled to make shelter but couldn’t stay under it forever, and the harshness of Purgatory’s sun burnt their skin and sapped their energy.

And the food was scarce and spoiled so quickly, they start living off of tea, instead of anything solid. It doesn’t fill them up but it takes the edge off, keeps them going a little longer. Sometimes they have a mission to submit meat and they struggle to weigh whether the points are worth it or if they should just eat something, for once. They make stew with what scraps are left behind, scavenge berries and try to pretend they’re not all starving. This is only made worse by how much energy they’re burning each day—far more than they really have to spare.

The disasters don’t help. Even when they survive them, the burning sky kills their crops, the radioactive rain poisons everything it touches, and what few animals survive the deadly weather turn vicious when they least expect it. And they can’t afford to be caught off guard. If they aren’t prepared when the weather turns or the ground begins to shake, then they die. They help each other out when they can, but sometimes there’s nothing they can do but respawn and start over. They start over every single day.

Respawning doesn’t even fix everything, because respawn here is worse. It’s quick, which lets them get back into the fight faster, but it comes at a cost. It only ever heals enough to get them back on their feet. Wounds linger, and they don’t have the potions needed to finish the job, so they just patch each other as best they can and hope things heal the right way. They teach each other how to clean a wound, stitch it closed, and check for signs of infection. Their strategy for warding off said infection is mostly just to pray it doesn’t happen.

The boat ride back to Quesadilla Island is quiet. Not silent, but subdued. No one has the energy to do much but curl up and try to rest. Nobody really sleeps. Back home, everyone copes in their own way. Some of them carry more food, store extra in their backpacks just in case. Others spend more time indoors, under shade, or in the water to avoid too much of the sun. It’s always sunny. This is better for some, who do everything to seek out warmth, wearing layers and adding new fireplaces into their homes. No one can look at a cup of tea the same anymore.

[vickyvicarious]

Before I began to restore these women to their dead selves through my awful work, [...] Had I not seen the repose in the first place, and the gladness that stole over it just ere the final dissolution came, as realisation that the soul had been won, I could not have gone further with my butchery. I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home; the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam. I should have fled in terror and left my work undone. But it is over! And the poor souls, I can pity them now and weep, as I think of them placid each in her full sleep of death for a short moment ere fading.

I love this framing. First of all, I love that from beginning to end this is not depicted as anything like a triumph. Even though strategically it may well be so, Van Helsing takes no pleasure, not even in a cathartic revenge way, in killing them. He hates every second of it. Not just because he's afraid but because it makes him feel like a butcher, he can't endure the signs of their suffering.

But he frames it as "restoring" them. This wording is consistent with how he comforted the suitors about the necessity of killing vampire!Lucy, and I love how that doesn't suddenly vanish when the vampire is no longer someone they care about. Van Helsing's only exposure to these women has been as a scary story, or them circling him terrifyingly in the night. He never knew them as people and never will. But he still hates having to kill them, and he still finds great comfort in the idea that by doing so he is freeing them from this evil state, and restoring them back to the way they should have been after death. Mina does the same with Dracula tomorrow - even Dracula. And she has some extra reason to be personally invested there (I'll try and find my post from last year about it) but I just like how consistent this detail is.

[yumedoca]

Red Oni, Blue Oni...

[fredbensonenthusiast]

How do you rebel when your father is the Archbishop of Canterbury? Make ice-skating into a religion!

“By day I had to skate so much at Niagara, being at that time quite sure that life would never attain its full fruition until I had passed all three tests of the National Skating Association (English style), and could wear a badge of pure gold (silver and copper discarded) in my buttonhole. So the whole morning would be spent, like the aspiring Christian, with “the frequent fall,” and I would hobble away to lunch with entrancing people and go back for the afternoon skating session (session it was!) at three, and skate till it was almost a relief to hear the gong announce closing time.”

EF Benson, Mother

Niagara Hall, London, 1895 - 1902

[kingslionheart]

The Dane-Slayer is now a Man of Peace. It is a great pity Alfred is not here to witness it.

[fatedroses]

Emotions running high.

[shamera]

42k into writing this November!! And I stopped mid-sentence because I suddenly very very badly wanted to write cat!Klein. My dudes, it was like a pregnancy craving, I literally stopped typing, lol.

BUT THIS STORY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT (unless I revamp my entire outline to include cat!Klein, which I am very tempted to do), because omg. Sequence 4 literally has the ability to shapeshift into animals (around the same size), and also furthers the Marionettist ability to possess animals and transfer his abilities (which, with the shapeshifting, means HUMAN VOCAL CORDS) so cat!Klein is literally, and easily, possible in canon.

...Instead, I will amuse myself with the fact that I find Fors really, really funny unintentionally.

[state-of-beeing]

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Halcyon design loosely based on my LL2 Dusk Wing/LL1 Emperor