#but aside from that claptrap

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

The other thing I think the early Midsomer Murder seasons did well (for its many, many faults), are ugly fearsome women and, also, women’s relationships with each other

I think they hit high notes on both fronts and I appreciate it for that

[empyreansentinel]

hey chat is this anything.

[fleshmetal]

just watched the borderlands movie and the only good part was that krieg’s little harness thingo lowkey looked like a very skimpy little bra thing sometimes

he needs some back support with those jugs ofc

[krotiation]

sorry im about to vent off topic :i s2g if they hint on handsome jack in the movie and it is NOT dameon clarke im gonna lose my marbles. I feel like when they look at the success of the characters as well the VAs do so much heavy lifting to giving life to these characters. why they didnt just use the VA for Claptrap from B3 is beyond me why did it need to be someone else so it doesnt even sound right - they def went for name recongition over matching the characters - kevin hart is so tiny hes such a small dude and roland is large and also if roland is alive wouldnt thta imply that jack's also alive. like handsome jack is so successful because of dameon. he gave so many off the cuff lines. and if they wnated to make a movie why would they not choose the tales gang if thats the one that gave them so much credit? sorry i have so many feelings and i, also so SICK of seeing tiny tina bein g used for literally every borderlands merch thing recently

I'm fine with actors putting their own spin on characters they play and seeing how their writing can be interpreted differently but with handsome jack it becomes really tricky cause like... dameon clarke MADE jack who he is. Like a lot of people credit him for how good of a character he is so whoever WOULD play jack would have a whole lot of expectations to match. We already hate the casting (which is 100% just to get attention instead of accurately portraying the characters) so imagine how much more we would hate it if they messed jack up

Overall the whole movie just adds to what I said about gbox being out of touch with the fandom. We got randy already claiming he wants to make a sequel when the whole fanbase has voiced concern and disinterest about the movie just based on the trailers and they're just really trying to force lilith and tina to be fan favorites when they're... not? Like I love them, especially lilith like that's my homegirl right there, but the fandom as a whole would disagree that they're even well-liked characters

[apocalyptic-dancehall]

say what you want about borderlands 3 but at least the skins aren't model recolors

[enigmatist17]

So I did go see the Borderlands movie this morning, and holy cannoli, it was a flaming dumpster fire of a movie. Spoilers about below just FYI

However!

Kevin Hart ended up being one of the saving graces when I thought he would be the worst of the lot! Sure, he doesn't physically embody Roland from the games, but performance and combat-wise, he was very solid! Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis was alright as well. She nailed a lot of Tannis' mannerisms to a T, and overall, unlike Lilith and Moxxi, I didn't mind her being aged up. Kreig was great despite being pretty much silent most of the game, and looked like he'd been quite literally pulled right out of the game and dropped into the movie.

Tina was very meh, it's like they wanted her to me more unhinged but restrained themselves at the last moment, and it doesn't work in the Borderlands world. They also had this thing where she's really a clone of a supposed "Daughter of Eridium", whatever the hell that means??? I think if it had been rated R or unrated like it should have been, Tina would have made more of an impact, but she just ended up being very meh.

Lilith was...well, I'm not sure. Most of the movie kinda centers around her backstory/her mom, which tbh is not what I wanted to see from a Borderlands movie? Like seeing some twists about Pandora/her being older was fine, but to have almost everyone fawning over her/her mother got old super quick, and they waited until the end for her to be the badass siren we all know and love??? I'm not the biggest Lilith fan, but Cate did her best with a script that couldn't decide if they wanted Lilith to be an asshole or sympathetic, which for an actor who's played/loves the games, has to suck :/

Jack Black was not great, and to find out he VA'd the Claptrap lines before they started filming makes his odd detachment make so much freaking sense. It always felt like Claptrap was just slightly removed from everything, and I couldn't nail down why until I googled that midway through the movie (which btw my sister, a friend, and I were the only ones in it lol). They should have just gotten the VA for him, Jack was not it :/

The CGI was either really good or really bad, and Lilith's wig did not blend in with any of it at all lmao. The sets/Pandora/costumes, aside from Tina's, were pretty damn good, but where it really shined was the guns. I could literally point out specific guns and their manufacturers despite all the motion of combat, and to be able to do that for even a casual gamer? Loved it.

Sadly though, despite them having been credited for months leading up tot he film, Hammerlock, Wainwright, Ellie and Scooter all got cut from the movie and it's a fucking travesty. I was kind of hoping Hammerlock would kick ass, but to get to the end and find out the asshat who ruined this movie said "oh they were gone for pacing" made me SO mad.

THEY FILMED A WEDDING SCENE YOU ASSHAT, I WANT THAT FOOTAGE AND I WANT IT NOW

Overall, my score is a 1.5/10

[loader-bot]

4, 7, 13, 14, 34, 38, 40, 43, 44, 45 and 55 for the blands ask game 👁️👁️.

4 If you could meet your favorite character, what would you tell them?

aside from thanking him for being the biggest and best badass in the entire universe and being the greatest inspiration to all loader-kind? give him one of these bad boys.

this got long so the rest is under a cut vvv

7 Least favorite character?

well. nekrotefayo is a cool planet except for all the parts we have to put up with typhon. but he's dead already so uhhh. no need to beat a dead horse.

13 Weapon of choice?

CONFERENCE CALL!!!!!!!!!!!! MWAH MWAH MWAH!!!! 🥰🥰🥰 for when you want to turn a whole bandit camp into a fine red mist with just a few shells. very efficient murder. even if he got pretty nerfed in bl3... still love him.

honorable mention to cryo/rad redistributor for being incredibly fun with the right zane build. nuclear winter in a single gun.

14 A gun or skill you can never seem to get along with?

just. all of krieg. sorry big guy just don't like ANY of his skill trees or his action skill. which is ironic considering my love of bloody violent rip-and-tearing.

34 Favorite location?

whether running around elpis looking up at it, or around on it, helios is the best place in the universe. 🌌

[ this message brought to you by hyperion board of tourism ]

38 A character you wish you could play as?

WELL since fl4k got a loader pet that's probably the closest we'll ever get to playable loaders so... hm. hoping ava is the player siren in bl4. both to piss off the haters and because she deserves to be a main character 👍

40 Favorite wild animal species?

ava's little buddy hermes is very cute, whatever he is. also those split-in-half lizard-horsey things on gehenna. wanna pet em.

43 Something you wish you could change in the franchise?

if it was good. 😔

UHH real answer is bring back hyperion pistols. and add hyperion assault rifle offering. something like the DMR from halo or soma prime from warframe would be awesome and suit hyp's elegance + precision aesthetic.

44 A character you wish had died but didn’t?

well those nasty bandits roland and lilith are already dead so that's mission accomplished already baby 💪

45 A character you wish had lived but died?

this probably doesn't even need to be said but ANGEL MY PERFECT ACUTE ANGLE!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA 😭😭😭

or kat so he could get a redemption arc where he gets bullied by rhys and everyone at atlas until he learns to be slightly normal.

55 Favorite song in the OST?

ough. can't choose. blands has such incredible soundtracks.

bl1 - fyrestone. the og. thank u for giving blands its leitmotif that will be stuck in this units cpu forever 🙏 also overall love bl1's ost for being so much more... atmospheric and moody than later games. very cool.

bl:tps - claptrap's defragmentation immediately comes to mind (also where it plays is such a cool place) but jack's office is also a very nice ambient track.

bl2 - exploitation preserve ambience. ice is a classic. + the bunker is not what it seems!!! very good. oh also hyperion, obviously.

bl3 - main menu day makes the 'tism brainwurms very happy. also neon arterial upper. also atlas hq. and all of jackpot's soundtrack tbh. bl3 has the best overall ost.

tftb - the galatarium. just. incredible. the tension building in the music as rhys becomes more stressed about making a super hard decision while in great danger is just peak cinnamon topography 👌

[thirtysixsavefiles]

@callmearcturus replied to your post “well I have. watched the Borderlands movie.”:

oh g-d. wh.... how. um. anything?

​It was bad. Like adaptation issues aside (which were also bad), this was just a badly made movie. The characterization fell flat. The pacing was all off. Nothing had weight. The final boss fight confrontation felt like it went on for 8234343 years.

And as for an adaption — well it was a movie made under the shadow of Handsome Jack, you know?

Spoilers for anyone who minds underneath the cut. TL;DR this movie isn't worth it.

So the plot of this movie mashes together BL1 and BL2 in ways that don't, imo, serve the narrative at all. Tiny Tina gets the Angel treatment, with her father, Dekayrios (sp? the internet doesn't even care about his first name) Atlas having cloned her with Eridian blood. Atlas is a bargain-basement Handsome Jack who attempts none of the humor and at best a quarter of the menace. He slow claps twice.

Lilith is the pov character and nothing about Sirens is mentioned until about 95% of the way through the movie. Cate Blanchett is all right at being Lilith but her wig is bad. Kevin Hart is simply unconvincing at being Roland. Moxxie was physically hard to watch. Claptrap fell flat. Krieg was probably the best realization and he was wearing a mask the whole time. The actors are clearly phoning it in and honestly who can blame them.

There were some fun little details in the background — mostly the names of corporations and gun manufacturers. The Atlas tech was good. And at least there were tentacles in the vault, eventually. Someone got that detail right.

But when I say this was made underneath the shadow of Handsome Jack — like it's hard to revisit this series and not think of him, you know? So it's like they took pieces from each story line and said "close enough" and it really, really, wasn't.

[dailyanarchistposts]

The utter irreconcilability of the interest of labor and capital based upon the present system of buying and selling: the utter hopelessness of arbitrating and harmonizing the interests of the two parties to any lasting agreement, one of whom gains where the other loses, should be transparent to any one who gives the matter serious thought. We see this fact exemplified now in the long wrangle going on between the miners and the mine owners. Capital is invested in a “plant” by its owner for the purpose of deriving profit therefrom.

Labor is employed to reproduce or create more wealth, and the mutual interests of wealth-producer and the profit-taker is ended. The one is employed by the other; the laborer wishes to sell his labor at the highest figure possible; the capitalist wishes to buy at the lowest, so the conflict of interest begins. The whole labor problem is brought up when the dispute arises over the share of the product which each of these parties, the workers and the capitalists, are to receive. The competitive system fixes the wages received by the wage class upon the basis of mere subsistence; all over and above this sum, the surplus, goes to the profit-taker. Hence the hours of labor is a vital question at all times, for it is a well established fact that the compensation of the wage-earner decreases in exact proportion to the number of hours he is employed, while the share of the profit-taker increases in the same ratio.

This is not taking into account the moral and social benefits to be derived from the added leisure gained by shorter work days. The capitalistic class understands this; consequently there is no demand for a reduction of the working hours. Witness the long, hard fight for this point alone. A reduction of the hours of labor to the point where all can have employment is worth a General Strike, because upon this point all efforts can be focused, and if carried, its beneficial effects would be felt immediately by the whole working class, men, women and children.

It would be an object lesson at once demonstrating what united effort can accomplish. Having carried this point of attack, further moves could be instituted for attacks upon the profit-taking class, and gained until the wage system is abolished and a system of co-operation is instituted, the working class preparing themselves in the meantime for a larger liberty.

There was a movement at one time, not so many years ago either, which was international in its scope, which had for its object the setting aside the first of May for a general, international holiday, looking ultimately to the inauguration of a short-hour workday, but this grand idea has been side-tracked in later years by a lot of political buncombe and claptrap, thus persuading the working classes into the notion that they can gain their freedom by electing a lot of fellows to office.

The IWW and other advanced labor organizations could not show their real usefulness to the toiling classes better than by reviving this international holiday. For the IWW cannot hope to gain and hold the confidence of the wage class long if it has no definite aim in view looking to a lasting betterment of economic conditions. The Industrial Workers of the World have been organized nearly a year. What have they done worth mentioning? Carried a few isolated, insignificant strikes? What does this amount to? The whole organization seems to be floundering around like a ship lost at sea without a rudder. Take the magazine, The Industrial Worker. Three issues are out. There is no definite line of action outlined in it. What kind of showing can they make at their next convention soon to be held?

[naughtygirl286]

So yeah we went to see Moana 2 this week I didn't think there would be a Moana 2 but I was interested in going to see it.

Now as for collectables there was a premium popcorn bucket and I did want it but the price on it was kinda high which was a surprise with tax it would have been close to $50!! like $46-47 which we thought was a little much for that it was like the most expensive one they ever had yet. like I didn't even pay that much for the Borderlands Claptrap bucket and I consider that one the definition of “premium bucket” so we sadly had to pass this one up but anyway buckets aside..

I thought the movie was pretty good! I remember going to see the first one and liking that one and I watched it again not too long ago maybe last year, but yeah I thought this one was pretty good. I feel it is a bigger movie and a bigger adventure then the previous one.

The basic story is this.. It takes place I think a few years after the first one because she now has a little sister and she is continuing on her quest as a "wayfinder" and trying to find more people and more islands and she is given a vision to find a legendary island that has been cursed and if she finds it and lifts the curse it will save her people and unite all the islands together again. So Moana must assemble a crew and sale out further then anyone sailed again Maui once again who is trying to do the exact same thing and the pair team up again to sail off into the unknown to secure the future of Moana's people.

Now this does have plenty of action and quite a bit of silly funniness it did pull out some giggles out of me and some smiles. The songs were all really good I did like of course some more then others. like I wasn't overly feeling "Get lost" but I did like the Rock's “Can I Get A Chee Hoo?” song. speaking of which Maui in this one seemed a bit more like Robin Williams version of Genie from Aladdin. thats not a bad thing mind you its just how it seemed to me. Like you get that bit of Genie feel from the first movie but in this one I feel you get alot of that by alot of the things he said and the way he did things it just reminded me of the other character.

but everyone did an excellent job with their voice work and the animation and visuals in this was amazing! I was looking at all the expressions and body movements and it was all really impressive, fluid and life like. I wouldn't expect anything less from Disney animation of course.

So Yeah! I thought it was a good follow up to the original movie so If you liked the original one then I think you'll like this one too! I feel it is a very natural progression of the story so I would recommend.

Also don't forget there is a mid credits scene so don't get up and leave to quickly.

[laurarolla]

About halfway through the Borderlands The Pre-Sequel campaign. Keep in mind I have not played any other game in the series except a little bit of the first game back when it came out. I do, however, know who some of these characters are and what happens to some extent in BL2. I'm not talking about gameplay in this post, just story, which is good because the story and atmosphere are the best parts of the game.

So, am I ever supposed to feel a little bad for Jack? Because if I am, mission failed because Jack is just a top tier piece of crap right from the start. He comes across as a spoiled brat and, at best, woefully naive about everything. He has a singleminded focus on whatever goal he's pursuing, he has absolutely no respect for anyone and comes across as a somewhat self-aware asshole with most of his dialogue. The only time he seems to have really shown any compassion was to Felicity, but what he ordered done to her...

On the other hand, Moxxi is a fun enough character, Roland and Lilith come across as pretty average mercenary minded folks, Janey is great, every Claptrap so far has been a delight, and Zarpedon is around just enough to be a likeable antagonist (at the moment). As an aside, I do think that Jack is well written to become exactly the character he will be in Borderlands 2, and Felicity is a solidly tragic character despite not having much screen time. I'm enjoying the stories, the characters, and the vibe of the game. I'll have my thoughts on the gameplay organized when I finish the story (and maybe the DLC)

[meowmeowuchiha]

Ranting about the new Borderlands movie under the cut

Okay I'm just gonna say it

The Borderlands movie trailer? Doesn't look AS BAD as I thought it would, but still awful.

Most of the characters are extremely miscast

But honestly? I don't think Kevin Hart is that terrible of a miscast.

If it was Borderlands 2 and pre sequel Roland then yeah he'd be awful and I feel like that's what most people are thinking of.

But if you're going based off of first game Roland? He's not that bad. Just listen to the voice lines from Roland from the first game. Can find it on YouTube easy enough.

On to everyone else!!

Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina: Honestly, I'm gonna just say that it's both miscast and miswritten, but I acknowledge that it's probably gonna be pretty damn hard to find someone who could pass as a younger teenager (since Tina in the 2nd game is 13) who could also feasibly act as Tina. She's a very very unique character and I feel like acting as her, even if she WAS written properly, would be incredibly difficult. Getting that combination of batshit insane, childish naivety, and actually knowing what she's doing would be TOUGH. Ariana Greenblatt, from what I've seen, does well enough as bratty snarky teens. Tina was written as that for some god forsaken reason.

JLC as Tannis (aside from the fact that JLC is a fucking zionist. I'm only critiquing casting based on how they are as actors, not whether or not they're decent people.) isn't...terrible? It's odd, and I can't give a definitive opinion on it because hardly anything is heard from her in the trailer.

Jack Black as Claptrap: Honestly, personality wise, not a bad fit for Claptrap. However, voice wise, absolutely a terrible fit. Claptrap's voice I'd supposed to be shrill, nasally, and just overall ear grating. That's part of his CHARM. The rest of the fault in how awful they did with Claptrap lies in the writing. I will admit, I'm not certain who I would've cast as Claptrap instead, but I at the very least would have tried to see if Jack Black could try and at least imitate Claptrap's voice??? Or just...like I said, found someone better.

Cate Blanchett as Lilith: Yeeeaaaah, very miscast. I'm not even all that upset by the age thing. That's like....a tiny tiny gripe that tbh I think people are focusing way too much on. When the real problem is the fact that Lilith was HORRIBLY written for the movie. Lilith, in the games, is this hotheaded, snarky, cocky woman. She's the woman who's told "hey, for strategy reasons, we need you to stay behind for this fight" and responds with "no I'm going >:(" and shows up anyways. She's the one who goes "I...liquefied a guy. It was AWESOME!! This eridium stuff is the TITS!!!". She is not the stone cold badass bitch that she seems to be in the movie. I will admit, I haven't seen anywhere NEAR Cate Blanchett's full filmography. I've only seen a tiny handful of movies. But from the ones I've seen, she doesn't tend to play characters like Lilith. Her characters tend to be more serious. Less snarky and sarcastic. She just....doesn't seem to fit in the Borderlands universe at all really to me??? She'd be miscast in pretty much any role. The only one I could MAYBE see her managing would be like....Athena. Again, not her fault, just...the vibes. Lilith was terribly written for the movie, and was also terribly miscast.

I can't really say anything regarding anyone else, as I didn't really see enough of them to form even the barest hint of an opinion. Either way, the movie is going to be awful, even if it might not be as terrible as I'd thought it would be before the trailer.

If you're gonna watch it, pirate it if you care about Palestine. The director and at least a couple of the actors (JLC, Edgar Ramirez) are zionists, and yet more of them (Jack Black, Gina Gershon) are of the mind that it's a two sided conflict and they want both sides to make peace and their hearts go out to both sides.

[anthonybialy]

Mortgaged Economy

You have to respect Democratic dedication.  Wait: no you don’t.  Permanent remedial students adhere to the worst ideas possible in an illustration of commitment’s downside.  The slowest learners don’t even mean to help with a bad example to avoid.

Doing more of what’s wrong will surely help if we believe strongly enough.  Some diabolical capitalists must not be mustering sufficient faith, which is why printing more money isn’t making everyone wealthier.

Giving you money to buy a house sounds great.  They’re expensive, after all, what with the walls and plumbing.  Prices are especially high recently for mysterious cursed reasons.  It’s much better to not pay, which is where Kamala Harris swoops in to save the economy and sanity with a coupon for $25,000 off a house.  The money is free because it’s from the government.  Why do houses suddenly cost $25,000 more?

Deciding how much something should cost is only okay when the government imposes.  Punishing businesses for the crime of being too good at it is the very fair approach Democrats use to encourage progress.  The Berlin Wall just wasn’t high enough.

Ranting against decadent success is the America-haters’ version of the American way.  Taking the free in markets the wrong way may not be sufficient deterrent against selling something customers want so badly that they’ll trade money.  That gets expensive.  But it’s nothing compared to government declaring you can take what you wish.  Trade is voluntary, which enrages coercion fans as much as gun ownership.  Buy a firearm to really enrage the White House.

An item on a shelf may cost a different amount tomorrow.  This whole supply and demand scheme leads to uncertainty.  Aspiring president Harris needs you to put her in charge so she can enact price controls, which work great except for how they don’t control prices.  But at least she’d get to tell you what to do, and you’ve certainly noticed how much smarter she is than you.

Timing is everything.  It’s astounding how corporations discovered greed as soon as liberals got their way.  Demonizing their victims in that charming Democratic style is their way of avoiding blame, which also explains why they’re sympathetic to muggers and not those relieved of property. 

This is not the federal landlord’s first attempt to create homeless paired with vacancy.  That may not be their stated goal, but it is the result.  Things didn’t turn out too bad aside from melting down the global economy.  Oh, and fewer people had homes, but anything can look bad if you check it.

Defying reality is for the imaginative.  But the world’s not reacting positively to fantastical Democratic claptrap.  Subprime mortgages were the inspirational attempt to let people who couldn’t afford houses try to buy them.  We shouldn’t have even rented the notion.  Trying more of what caused awfulness will surely expand the square footage.

These should be pleasing times, what with the kindly government buying us whatever we’d like.  Yet acting like our grandparents hasn’t helped the case for replacing families.  

Evading cruel prices was supposed to enrich life without money. The ability to live without spending somehow didn’t allow us to finally focus on our boutique pottery business instead of some boring job with a desk that leads to sales.  Attempting to evade life’s expenses is sadly predictable.  The White House has pulled off the reverse miracle of turning money into something that buys nothing.

It takes a visionary to come up with something so simple.  Joe Biden wonders why nobody ever thought of free money when he’s not working on shoelace and bathrobe knots.  Yet his genius wealth plan buys less and less.  We’re not enduring a genie’s curse, as Democratic presidents are unable to grant wishes despite their claims.  I’m starting to suspect they don’t dwell in lamps, either.

It’s tough for Trump devotees to indulge in their propensity for announcing everyone other than them sucks when they believe in slightly different sucky things.  Republicans head forward and back to the ‘30s with their embrace of tariffs.  The same conglomerates Democrats hate for dealing with their policies will merely pass along Trump’s charge to the consumer.  They’re tricky with the loophole.

Ban raising prices next to be bipartisan in defiance of gouging.  Either way, take comfort in knowing we’re going to end up with a president who will do everything possible to raise prices.

The willful ignorance required to pretend government gets us good deals on anything seems like personal contests to test the limits of daftness.  Wondering how long before we hit rock bottom offers the only surprise.  Even Argentina decided they wanted to stop being silly, and the fact we aspire to one day have as strong an economy as one of South America’s most historically silly enclaves apparently hasn’t created enough shame.

A lack of empathy defines those who boast of caring.  It’s possible to understand how free markets work without running a business just like Brian Wilson could capture surfing’s spirit despite trying the tricky sport one time.  By contrast, Democrats got into politics precisely because they’re unable to profit by creating value.

Kamala is running against the current president.  Her campaign against whichever big meanie made cookies an unobtainable luxury makes zero sense considering her present job, but neither does anything else she claims.  Running to reverse the deleterious policies of this criminally stupid White House doesn’t work unless she was a saboteur the whole time, and her destructiveness is inadvertent.

Never learning is crucial to those who know everything.  Just ask them.  Their habit of ruining everything in the same way every time just means we’re due for a different outcome.  Boring life leads to the same thing every time.  Failing to learn patterns would mean they didn’t know best how to run your life, and that can’t be right.

[apocalyptic-dancehall]

when i first got into borderlands i didn't really care for anyone aside from claptrap, but then that all changed and trust me when i say it was for the best

[atotc-weekly]

Book the Second—The Golden Thread

[X] Chapter XX. A Plea

When the newly-married pair came home, the first person who appeared, to offer his congratulations, was Sydney Carton. They had not been at home many hours, when he presented himself. He was not improved in habits, or in looks, or in manner; but there was a certain rugged air of fidelity about him, which was new to the observation of Charles Darnay.

He watched his opportunity of taking Darnay aside into a window, and of speaking to him when no one overheard.

“Mr. Darnay,” said Carton, “I wish we might be friends.”

“We are already friends, I hope.”

“You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don’t mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.”

Charles Darnay—as was natural—asked him, in all good-humour and good-fellowship, what he did mean?

“Upon my life,” said Carton, smiling, “I find that easier to comprehend in my own mind, than to convey to yours. However, let me try. You remember a certain famous occasion when I was more drunk than—than usual?”

“I remember a certain famous occasion when you forced me to confess that you had been drinking.”

“I remember it too. The curse of those occasions is heavy upon me, for I always remember them. I hope it may be taken into account one day, when all days are at an end for me! Don’t be alarmed; I am not going to preach.”

“I am not at all alarmed. Earnestness in you, is anything but alarming to me.”

“Ah!” said Carton, with a careless wave of his hand, as if he waved that away. “On the drunken occasion in question (one of a large number, as you know), I was insufferable about liking you, and not liking you. I wish you would forget it.”

“I forgot it long ago.”

“Fashion of speech again! But, Mr. Darnay, oblivion is not so easy to me, as you represent it to be to you. I have by no means forgotten it, and a light answer does not help me to forget it.”

“If it was a light answer,” returned Darnay, “I beg your forgiveness for it. I had no other object than to turn a slight thing, which, to my surprise, seems to trouble you too much, aside. I declare to you, on the faith of a gentleman, that I have long dismissed it from my mind. Good Heaven, what was there to dismiss! Have I had nothing more important to remember, in the great service you rendered me that day?”

“As to the great service,” said Carton, “I am bound to avow to you, when you speak of it in that way, that it was mere professional claptrap, I don’t know that I cared what became of you, when I rendered it.—Mind! I say when I rendered it; I am speaking of the past.”

“You make light of the obligation,” returned Darnay, “but I will not quarrel with your light answer.”

“Genuine truth, Mr. Darnay, trust me! I have gone aside from my purpose; I was speaking about our being friends. Now, you know me; you know I am incapable of all the higher and better flights of men. If you doubt it, ask Stryver, and he’ll tell you so.”

“I prefer to form my own opinion, without the aid of his.”

“Well! At any rate you know me as a dissolute dog, who has never done any good, and never will.”

“I don’t know that you ‘never will.’”

“But I do, and you must take my word for it. Well! If you could endure to have such a worthless fellow, and a fellow of such indifferent reputation, coming and going at odd times, I should ask that I might be permitted to come and go as a privileged person here; that I might be regarded as an useless (and I would add, if it were not for the resemblance I detected between you and me, an unornamental) piece of furniture, tolerated for its old service, and taken no notice of. I doubt if I should abuse the permission. It is a hundred to one if I should avail myself of it four times in a year. It would satisfy me, I dare say, to know that I had it.”

“Will you try?”

“That is another way of saying that I am placed on the footing I have indicated. I thank you, Darnay. I may use that freedom with your name?”

“I think so, Carton, by this time.”

They shook hands upon it, and Sydney turned away. Within a minute afterwards, he was, to all outward appearance, as unsubstantial as ever.

When he was gone, and in the course of an evening passed with Miss Pross, the Doctor, and Mr. Lorry, Charles Darnay made some mention of this conversation in general terms, and spoke of Sydney Carton as a problem of carelessness and recklessness. He spoke of him, in short, not bitterly or meaning to bear hard upon him, but as anybody might who saw him as he showed himself.

He had no idea that this could dwell in the thoughts of his fair young wife; but, when he afterwards joined her in their own rooms, he found her waiting for him with the old pretty lifting of the forehead strongly marked.

“We are thoughtful to-night!” said Darnay, drawing his arm about her.

“Yes, dearest Charles,” with her hands on his breast, and the inquiring and attentive expression fixed upon him; “we are rather thoughtful to-night, for we have something on our mind to-night.”

“What is it, my Lucie?”

“Will you promise not to press one question on me, if I beg you not to ask it?”

“Will I promise? What will I not promise to my Love?”

What, indeed, with his hand putting aside the golden hair from the cheek, and his other hand against the heart that beat for him!

“I think, Charles, poor Mr. Carton deserves more consideration and respect than you expressed for him to-night.”

“Indeed, my own? Why so?”

“That is what you are not to ask me. But I think—I know—he does.”

“If you know it, it is enough. What would you have me do, my Life?”

“I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not by. I would ask you to believe that he has a heart he very, very seldom reveals, and that there are deep wounds in it. My dear, I have seen it bleeding.”

“It is a painful reflection to me,” said Charles Darnay, quite astounded, “that I should have done him any wrong. I never thought this of him.”

“My husband, it is so. I fear he is not to be reclaimed; there is scarcely a hope that anything in his character or fortunes is reparable now. But, I am sure that he is capable of good things, gentle things, even magnanimous things.”

She looked so beautiful in the purity of her faith in this lost man, that her husband could have looked at her as she was for hours.

“And, O my dearest Love!” she urged, clinging nearer to him, laying her head upon his breast, and raising her eyes to his, “remember how strong we are in our happiness, and how weak he is in his misery!”

The supplication touched him home. “I will always remember it, dear Heart! I will remember it as long as I live.”

He bent over the golden head, and put the rosy lips to his, and folded her in his arms. If one forlorn wanderer then pacing the dark streets, could have heard her innocent disclosure, and could have seen the drops of pity kissed away by her husband from the soft blue eyes so loving of that husband, he might have cried to the night—and the words would not have parted from his lips for the first time—

“God bless her for her sweet compassion!”

[fairysylveon]

Bl ask: who did you play the most in bl1?

What's your fav dlc and why?

What mob do you despise the most?

OOH fun questions!

who did you play the most in bl1? mordecai! I tend to play whichever class has a little helper that comes and fights with you. bloodwing's ai is a little funny/frustrating but once you get her to attack multiple people + a 1 sec cooldown, she's pretty good. (didn't know what pronouns to use for a bird that changes sexes so I just went with the most recent ones lskdfslj)

what's your fav dlc and why? I LOVED claptastic, it's just so fun as a concept and imo really humanizes claptrap a lot in a way I didn't expect, which I love. also mainframe is so catchy and fun to sing idc what anyone says LOL but I also can't answer this question without mentioning jackpot, the aesthetic and the characters (I love freddie and ember so much) and showing me My Boy again definitely deserves a mention. for bl2 it's probably captain scarlett

what mob do you despise the most? CURSED PIRATES. bastards. aside from them, spiderants, nomads, basically anything that's harder to shoot/you HAVE to hit its crit spot OR anything that pulls you in towards it.