#but not if you do meth

[i-need-of-a-hobby]

barty: if i came up to you and said i'd been arrested, what would you assume it was for? reg and pandora: *without skipping a beat, in total unison:* pandora: tax evasion regulus: murder reg and pandora: *looks at each other* pandora: murder regulus: tax evasion

[anotherpapercut]

genuinely so many of you want to be leftist and "punk" and countercultural soooooo bad but you refuse to become comfortable with the concept of people taking drugs for fun because they like it and not because they were somehow tricked or forced into it without knowing what they were getting themselves into

you'll be like "addiction is a disease!!" but think you're better than those degenerate stoners because you only drink energy drinks and white claws and would never touch "illegal drugs"

many if not most drugs CAN be consumed completely safely with almost 0 risk to the user and even if that werent true and all drugs were extremely dangerous you still wouldn't be better than those of us who love doing drugs recreationally

lighten up and grow up. get offline, talk to real adults, and stop being shocked to discover that they enjoy doing stuff that adults do like have sex and do drugs and even listen to rock and roll

[c-bedrockbros]

made this in a cold sweat after seeing it in a vision

[bugwolfsstuff]

Fun fact in some myths Dionysus's daughter* is Methe, daimona (goddess/spirit) of drunkenness

*In some sources she's his daughter in law but i'm going with the daughter version

I find this fuckin' hilarious considering in pjo he cant get drunk cause of his punishment

Do you think he just goes 'fuck i'm too sober for this' some days and calls her up. (I highly doubt she can't just make people drunk at will)

[markcatiss]

london spy s1e3 scenes that gave me a lethal dose of brain damage

[jesse-pinko]

Those of you who love Walter BECAUSE you recognize how fucked up and evil he is and you have enough self-awareness to admit that you can relate to certain aspects of evil characters because evil is as intrinsic to humanity as good and is ultimately derived from human failings and not from an outside force: I respect you more than I could EVER respect the Reddit Fanboys that idolize and mischaracterize him HOWEVER I personally will hate his ass until the end of time not only was he MEAN to JESSE an unpardonable transgression against me personally but ALSO his personality just kind of grates on me lol

[ballercollective]

Get it guys? Get it? Cuz he's- Cuz he's mut-

[brandinotbroke]

...... I was today years old when i learned that EA heavily hinted at brandi broke being a drug addict

[specialagentartemis]

no riff on that Breaking Bad pride month comic will ever be nearly as funny as “gay meth”

[heybiji]

I play DND with people I've been RPing with for over a decade and I still get the "X reacts this way and waits for you to notice" shit from a couple of my players, I go crazyyyyy

it's such a hard habit to break haha, I think a lot of people approach RP like they do making the default character in a game that is granted the access of the central role of The Story just by the gift of being the One PC of the rather than one of several PCs in a story! my philosophy is always "make the characters that default PC responds to" since they tend to be solid in their motivations rather than granted the gift of neutrality to allow players to keep as many options available as possible. I get it's a natural and easy habit for people but boy does it make the collaborative storytelling of RP difficult if too many people do it at the same time. but hey i'll take "notice me doing this" if the things they want me to notice are actually interesting, add to the character, and have momentum!

[eliotquillon]

drabble request: re: time loop story: what convoluted or not reasoning led cameron to calling chase specifically for a hook up (and not going to a bar. or shooting her shot with foreman lol)

disclaimer: i have not done meth (shocking!) and therefore this is probably an inaccurate description of what being on meth is like. but you know.

The drugs kick in fast; it supports that lab’s analysis that Kalvin is the rare meth user who actually has pure product, because one minute Cameron is sitting placidly on her bed waiting for something to kick in and trying not to think about how fucking irresponsible this whole thing is, and the next her heart is racing, fingertips tingling as her thoughts race a mile a minute. It’s weird. Weird-fun, she decides, bouncing up on her tiptoes with a smile that makes her jaw ache—things feel fast and hectic and for the first time in over a day it’s like the outside world is finally reflecting what it feels like to be in her head. “Drugs are bad,” she tells her reflection sternly, but the woman in the mirror is laughing and frantic, her pupils blown wide, and Cameron is pleased. Bad, bad decision, she thinks, wagging a finger at the mirror. Bad dog. She laughs again, and it’s a full-body movement. This is what it must feel like to be Kalvin all the time. No regrets. No future. Just present-present-present and fun-fun-fun.

She should go out, she decides. Hasn’t it been forever since she went to a bar on her own? Since she went out for a drink without having to listen to Foreman whine about House and Chase try to flirt with the bartender? The corner of her mouth pulls down into an exaggerated frown. Boring. She should go out, and wear something short, and curl her hair—or straighten it, or maybe bleach? There’s blonde dye in her bathroom cabinet, a failsafe from when she first started dyeing her hair brown and wasn’t sure if she’d like it; Cameron likes to have a back-up plan. Not tonight, though. Tonight, she’s going to go out and have fun and she isn’t going to think about anything else. She sets her curling iron out on the sink, and leaves it to heat up while she hunts for clothes.

Her wardrobe is sad. “Bad dog,” she tells it, when one-two-three straight minutes of rifling through its contents yield nothing short and nothing exciting. Maybe she’ll just go out in her pyjamas, and buy something on the way. Department stores are open til this time of night, right? She never really shops for herself these days. Everything she owns is professional and strait-laced and dull. Cameron is professional and strait-laced and dull. No wonder Foreman hates being around her so much. Buzzkill. This Cameron hates being around that Cameron, too.

She goes back to the bathroom to start curling her hair, but she burns her neck with the curling wand on the second strand. The pain is white-hot and sour, cutting right through all the fun-buzzy-bubbly feelings but not in a bad way. The mark on her neck looks a bit like a hickey. Cameron has never had a hickey before; she always thought they were gauche and embarrassing, would always pulls boys away from her neck very pointedly when she thought they were getting too bold about things in high school. But tonight is meant to be fun. Tonight is meant to be full of new experiences, and feelings. She wants a hickey. The thought fills her with more bubbly-fun excitement, no fear or mortification, and she scrambles to put on music while she hunts through her cell phone.

Cameron sorts through her contacts alphabetically—not that there’s many; she doesn’t really talk to anyone from college or med school anymore—and selects the first man’s name she finds: R CHASE.

She hits dial.

[paranoidgemsbok]

its insane to post pictures of needles with 'hashtag meth hashtag slamming meth hashtag love this' and then five days later be like 'can anyone in this city come pick me up hashtag homeless'.

[all-pacas]

Something I find fascinating about Both Sides Now, is that Cameron ends up talking to both House and Chase about the sperm thing, and what they tell her is strikingly different.

House is pretty blunt. He tells her she needs to get rid of the sperm, that it's the only way to save the relationship. She compares keeping the sperm to having fire insurance, and he asks her if she'd rather be homeless than risk a fire at all: get over yourself, basically. Suck it up, marry Chase, do what Chase wants. She tells House that she has doubts, that it's normal.

But Chase, meanwhile! Cameron tells him she's going to destroy the sperm, and at first he's pleased, but not long after he asks her if it's what she really wants. He appeals directly to her emotions, talking about their future together as a framework for I know you don't want to do this, and then tells her not to. That she doesn't have doubts, that the sperm is an emotional issue (it's a reminder of her Dead Husband) and not actually a practical one.

House tells her what she needs to do (and turns out to be wrong); Chase tells her what she wants, and that she should do what she wants. House's advice is to destroy the sperm to keep Chase happy, and Chase's advice is to keep it because it's what Cameron wants. And throw in a line of Cameron's where she says Chase is too idealistic and a Romantic… it's just a kind of fascinating contrast.

Cameron keeps trying to treat her relationship with Chase as purely pragmatic, from the start, very much despite her actions. They're just friends with benefits (they spend the entire time together from day one). Engagement scares her, so she justifies ghosting him with "maybe he doesn't mean it." He's uncomfortable about the sperm, so she treats it like a break up and talks about how the rational thing to do is never speak to him again and/or move across the country. She keeps going to House to validate this, because of course she does, but he keeps out-rationalizing her: you don't break up with someone just because maybe he'll dump you someday.

And meanwhile, just as consistently, Chase is presented as the emotional figure. He tells her in S3 she has feelings for him (and the narrative does treat him as correct), based on her actions and basic personality. He tells her not to destroy the sperm. He… lets her be an emotional mess, in a weird sort of way: Cameron can appeal to cold rationality all she wants, and I do think she wants it very much, but she's really not. House's advice tends to push her towards pragmatic binaries; Chase tells her to do what she wants. And Cameron hardly ever does what she wants without a fight.

[nonbinarydva]

Don't be sad, approximately 2.958 billion brown eyed boys in the world, ok?

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

daily reminder that henry would pronounce the word quarters as quardas, richard would pronounce it as quawders, francis would pronounce it as qwaadus and camilla and charles would pronounce it as quowdus.

[arrow44]

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Last song: Technically the Finale from the Hazbin Hotel soundtrack cause I just finished the show, lol. It's a banger, btw. Peeps should absolutely give it a shot if they haven't already and are the least bit interested in it.

Favorite color: Purple! I've had lots of different favorites (or just liked pretending purple wasn't my favorite), but I can confidently say purple is the best. I made my mom paint my room purple when I was a kid lmao

Currently watching: ... Does Hazbin count? It's the first new TV show I've watched since Obi-Wan came out. I really have a hard time sitting down and watching TV without feeling like I'm being unproductive so.

Spicy/sweet/savory: Depends? If I had to choose one, I guess it would be sweet.

Relationship status: Engaged!

Current obsession: Oh god, my adhd is currently obsessing over like four things. Hazbin, as I mentioned. FE3H (particularly edeleth and doropetra) is pretty much always on my mind. The new Mirrorverse event for Overwatch has me thinking about Widowtracer pretty hardcore. And my original novel I'm working on.

Oh yeah. Surprise! I'm writing a novel :^)

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