#but whatever. capitalism yeehaw

[poorlittlevampire]

i am a battle pass hater just like. on principle but the ow one is sooo fucking bad i cannot believe people pay for it. and they changed it so now f2p players only get one free skin out of it and i wouldn’t even be that annoyed except for the fact that this seasons ashe skin in the bp wouldve been the free one. like bro just give it to me u fucking suck

[sweeter-than-teafood]

Texting

AN: I was inspired by the artifact for Amy and Sitri’s card, and thought up the silliest thing lmao.

Tw: A lot of swearing from these devils. Also, this is going from what we’ve seen from Day 3 of the Unsightly Guy event. So it may be ooc in the future. Or not. Yeehaw.

✨—————————————————————✨

-3am, Gehenna’s Palace-

Bzzt!

A new message? Sitri glared at his phone as the lit screen illuminated his entire bedroom. Who could be texting him at this ungodly hour?

————————————————

-Hell-Oh Talk: 1 new message-

Amy (Online now)

Status: Ew 2 drinking tea. Can’t b me, I’m manly as fuck.

————————————————

Sitri rolled his eyes at the violent devil’s status. Of course he’d think that, he has no patience to enjoy sophisticated hobbies. He probably couldn’t even pour from a teapot if the instructions were written on the bottom.

He opened the message, expecting to see some pathetic diatribe of how canned coffee is superior and that tea-making yields zero-rizz.

Amy:

Lol, maybe MC would lyk u if u weren’t 2 busy 😭 over their dead gramps. Solomon! Solomonnnnnn… Wot a loser u r! Enjoy ur left hand, buddy! 😂

…

Crunch!

Sitri ground his teeth, pissed off by the message. How dare he! The Descendant of Solomon liked him just fine! Who was he to comment on their relationship, when he hadn’t even met them yet?!

Fingers started typing away with a fury that wasn’t usually displayed by Sitri. He hit send, and decided to head to the tearoom for a cup of black tea to calm down.

-Meanwhile on the outskirts of Gehenna-

Amy smirked at the message he had just sent to Sitri. Sure, he would block his number because that fancy prick had nothing useful to say to him, but sometimes it was fun to unblock him and send an insult just to ruin his day.

Bzzt!

Oh? A reply so soon? Well, whatever it said, Amy was certain that it was complete and utter angelshit.

————————————————

-Hell-Oh! Talk: 1 New Message-

Sitri (Online now)

Status: Only a fucking idiot would use a stick as a weapon. Have some diversity, you caveman

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Amy scoffed at Sitri’s status. Of course he’d think that! He thinks he’s hot shit just because he trained in many weapons! But nothing bashes in angel skulls better than what he uses! Sometimes simple is better!

He opened the message, ready to read some sad sob story about Solomon.

Sitri:

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?

I'll have you recall that it was I who graduated top of our class in the Gehenna Military Program, and how I am an esteemed alumni of the Hades Intelligence Student Program, I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Heaven, and I have over 666 confirmed kills.

I am trained in guerilla warfare and I'm the top pistolier in the entire Gehenna Miltary Forces. You are nothing to me but just another measly target.

I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this Hell, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over a simple text? Think again, fucker.

As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across Hell and your GPS location is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, you lowly maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life.

You're fucking dead, loser. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands.

Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed and armed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Gehenna Capital Military Force and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the country, you little shit.

If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "funny" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot.

I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. I’ll use your tears to steep my tealeaves in, because nothing will bring me greater satisfaction than to see you snivel and beg for mercy. You're fucking dead, you cowardly bitch.

Amy let out a harsh laugh. Did this dickhead get ahold of some dank shit from Abyssos? The levels of delusion were incredible. His finger hovered over the textbar, before he decided against it.

“I have better things to do than to entertain this butler wannabe. Maybe later.”

-Sometime later, in the Palace of Gehenna-

That damn bastard.

>>Seen 16hrs ago

Sitri grits his teeth in annoyance at the ever increasing hours on the small bar. First that meathead talks shit about him, and now he can’t even form a response?

‘He’s probably masturbating to this, that fucking asshole.’

Sitri shuddered in disgust at the mental image and quickly threw himself into his paperwork as a welcome distraction.

-Gehenna’s Outskirts-

Amy decided to finally reply to Sitri’s lengthy text. He ponders for a second; there are so many things he could say to further fuel this tea-drinking bastard’s aggression. But he opts for something simple that will infuriate him.

-Palace of Gehenna-

Bzzt!

Sitri looks up from his paperwork to see his phone light up. He immediately grabs it and clicks on the notification.

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-Hell-Oh! Talk: 1 new message-

Amy (Online Now)

Status: Bitches b mad lmao

Sitri chose to ignore the devil’s pathetic status for now. He opened the message.

Amy:

Nice CV, loser. Still get no bitches tho.

Sitri stared blankly at the text, before he closed his phone. What a waste of time.

“I’m not even going to reply to that.”

Little did he know, he would pick up his phone ten minutes later to start typing away.

[segmentedsuperstud]

// Posted these in reply to an ask, but the blog who sent it deactivated and now I feel weird reblogging the post, so i'll just make a new one lol

I kept Jim's southern drawl from the games instead of using his Himbo (affectionate) voice from the cartoon. Though I do, of course, adore D.an C.astellaneta's voice for Jim, his Texas twang in the games coupled with the cute sprite animations gave him a really neat personality that I decided to pull from a little more than his cartoon counterpart.

Jim's voiced by D*ug T*nn*pel in the games, and if you know about Jim you probably know why that guy Sucks with a capital S, but I unfortunately very much dig his voicework for Jim in the first two games.

There isn't too much of Jim's in-game voice to go off of beyond short sound clips, but the CD-ROM port had added and enhanced voicework cause you can fit way more on a CD than a dinky-ass cartridge.

Here's how he sounds:

If I had to pick a voiceclaim that wasn't Gross™️, it'd probably be W.eird Al, but with a southern drawl. (Why do you think Jim plays the accordion?)

Anyway whatever yeehaw

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

thank you for your time Jamie :3

hi i really appreciate these posts [1, 2] and your tags.

i’ve been stuck in baby bat limbo for about a decade now (oof) [born in the early 2000s introduced to alt subcultures in 2010, tried to be more authentically me as the years went on, took stock and solidified my values in 2013 [redacted hell world] and now we are here!]

i feel like the lack of community is why i can’t ‘grow up’ to bat kid. when i tried to find other like me— sorry dollskill hauling influencers i didn’t count you but i was looking for a more of a community feel versus social media mutuals

i was expose to a). ‘vampire elders’ who teach and recreate spaces for all the culture that us poor zoomers missed out on��� but suspiciously only wants to take young girls under his wing, something about auras. [35+ y/o men who want a harem of succubi] or b). 28+ y/o men that have the whole ‘nu-metalhead’ thing going on [not as in ‘nu-metal’ (the genre) as in a specific wave of ‘alt guys’. long hair, tatted, mirror selfies, wants you to call him daddy, ghosts you when he realizes you’re not going to have sex with him on the first meet up]

and man, it is disheartening! i don’t have the funds to go concerts or festivals and a lot of them aren’t accessible, so i can’t meet anyone through there (plus people hardly talk to new people at those events nowadays— i say nowadays even though i wasn’t even there for those days lol). i’ve been invited to goth clubs by people who fall onto the vampire elder side of the spectrum… so possible but no likely because i don’t want be ‘thrown to the wolves’ so to speak and clubs are literally so inaccessible— the noise for one.

this whole summer i’ve debating if i should download bumble etc and say ‘hey i’m looking for alt FRIENDS’

i think the community aspect is so important to me because i am a lgbt disabled person of colour. i look at beautiful photography from the 70s to about the 90s (sprinkles of the 2000s). the photos are so diverse and feel real (so much trans people, dreamworld). and now the representation of the scene is pale e-girls (usually cisgender) decked out in killstar and dollskill with perfectly propped bedroom (a black skull there, coffin rug here product placement over there) etc

this not a question— though maybe there is a question hidden in this brain dump… your posts just turned a specific gear in my brain and i had to say something about it!

this can’t be the legacy of alt in the 2010s and 2020s what happened to the ‘rawring 20s’ (covid, capitalism). maybe i’ll be the change i want to see in the world…(thank you for allowing me to send this i appreciate your time a bunch, uhmmmm yeehaw!)

So you're probably not gonna like what I have to say simply because I don't like what I have to say here. I'll just start with the older guys. I find that there's a bit of a... How do I put this... Our community is made up of new blood that wants to be much older and more jaded than they are, and old blood who remembers being like that and is inclined to let them, which makes the scene a bit less dangerous for predators than it probably should be. Like I remember being in highschool and all my goth friends having fake IDs and lying about doing drugs and having older boyfriends, and I certainly don't begrudge any teenager that behavior because I've been there. Goth kids and young adults are very worried about breaking rules and being hard core, basically, and that is a known fact to opportunistic creeps. That being said other scenes also absolutely have problems with this sort of thing as well, I don't want to portray it as an alt scene exclusive thing partially because it's simply not true and partially because there are religious extremists and also just run of the mill conservative normies who absolutely have an interest in portraying our scene as exceptionally degenerate for whatever reason. I don't have a problem with age gaps either as long as everyone is legal and there's no other exploitation going on. If you want something like that having an older, better established squeeze when you're 19 can be as much of a status symbol as having a younger person who wants you when you're in your 30s is an ego boost imo. If you don't want something like that these guys are annoying. The guys who want a succubus harem are weird and gross tho ngl. Cult leader kink lookin ass.

Anyway now that that's out of the way onto the more difficult realities of the scene. By more difficult I mean entrenched problems that are more specific to our scene than the standard "disgusting individuals using the scene to try to ingratiate themselves to potential victims" that you find in literally any sufficiently large group of people.

Punk has never really been accessable. I don't like it, but it's true.

And by that I don't mean punk clothes or punk music has never really been accessable I mean punk events have never really been accessable. Punk originated in the 1970s in dinky little music clubs in major metropolitan areas. The original punks were mostly poor that's true but they were also the sort of people who were going to hang out at places like CBGB in NYC. Ever since then all of the culture basically happens in night clubs and concerts and the like. There was sort of a boom with the Emo movement on myspace when being alt got a little more accessible to people outside of major metro areas but we've never really left the night life behind. I would argue that this is also a problem that faces mainstream culture. Everything either costs money or is 21+ and everyone is drunk.

That being said, my experience has been really good so far. Everyone I meet at the club has been nice. I get asked for pronouns at the goth club more often than I get asked for pronouns at the gay club. The club I go to the people who work there and the regulars whom I've met with one exception all seem to be some flavor of queer. idk how old you are or what disabilities you have, but I will say the last time I went to Ground Zero (the goth club in Minneapolis) there was a group of people with blind canes there and the place is definitely wheel chair accessable. I also went to a Meet Me @ The Altar concert and there was ada seating right near the stage. If you're autistic my recommendation would be to get ear plugs. I'm autistic and went to When We We're Young in Vegas. I loved it. I moshed, I crowd surfed it was amazing. I saw my fav bands. I didn't get overstimulated once. And then I headed out and as I was leaving I took my earplugs out and put them in my pocket before I was fully clear of the venue and immediately the noise was overstimulating and I realized that my whole experience would have been completely sour if I hadn't had those babies in.

I also always see PoC every time I go out. I know thats just tangential experience and not all places are gonna be the same, but I'm getting the vibe that the reason the scene seems overwhelmingly white is because the guys with the cameras are a lil racist and only approach skinny white girls they want to fuck for modeling. I will say tho I see a few PoC every time I go to the club, and at WWWY the crowd was mixed but largely white. The crowd at the Meet Me @ The Altar concert (a pop-punk band which is made up of three WoC, here they are with two guitarists I don't recognize)

The crowd at their concert was by far the most mixed crowd I've seen at these sorts of events. So I guess what I'm saying is that I would guess based on what I've seen and what I've heard that there are a lot more PoC who want to go these things but only come out to events where they know they aren't gonna be the only one than who actually go to these things consistently. Which makes perfect sense, you probably don't need me to tell you that you're not the only person with those concerns, but what I can tell you is that there's enough of y'all that I feel comfortable saying the scene isnt all white and that the more people who come out the more people who are going to feel comfortable coming out.

Now the money thing. I would seriously recommend finding out where your local clubs are and who the local nobody bands are, because you're not getting into fall out boy and you're probably not getting into in this moment either. But there's always garage bands charging 5 bucks at the door for their first gigs, and that's the kind of concert where you meet people who are deep into the scene. I know Meet Me @ The Altar are touring right now. They've got a band called Kid Sister and a chick named Chloe Lilac opening for them. All three are pop-punk. And it cost me 25$ to get into their show. When I went to the show I discovered that the bar they were playing at has a whole room dedicated to shows like this and they have a lot of pop punk and punk bands that play there for not a lot. They serve food, you don't have to be an adult to get in. I assume that they're gonna be doing that sort of venue wherever they go so just check out where they're touring. If they've already passed you get on Google see what else you can find. I've met people who don't drink at the goth club but there's a 10 dollar door charge so it is what it is.

Personally I would not be afraid to do this stuff alone. Granted I'm white and able bodied, so your milage on going alone might vary. But I promise you once you get in the door the scene is not full of creeps. The creeps are just the ones seeking out the young girls who don't know where to start. There's people there who watched out for me with no benefit to themselves when I got out there the first time. And don't be afraid to talk to people. You make some acquaintances and hopefully you get invited to a house party or something and you become friends. I've mostly got one night stands so far but I've also shown up high off my ass a few times so I wasn't very conversational. There's people who want to be your friend. You just have to come out of the shell a little. And there might be some dicks. Fuck em. If they make fun of your vibe it's because they're insecure because the death hawk is their only personality trait.

TL;DR: unfortunately 90% of the goth scene is in bars and night clubs. But if you can get into one of those I promise it's not like being thrown to the wolves. My experience has been overwhelmingly positive. I won't pretend that the scene isn't largely white, but I'm also confident in saying you're probably not gonna be the only one there. And accomodations can totally be made for a lot of disabilities.

[nukenai]

Man horse people just really don't wanna admit that a huge amount of horse people are gross racist conservative shitheads that would be more than willing to call you slurs. I live in eastern fucking New York and every barn around here is run by yeehaw rednecks flying trump flags with confederate belt buckles you only see once you stop being distracted by their pink bedazzled cowboy hat. They'll happily tell you how well they treat their horse and how they love and respect everyone of course, support local farmers and shit, then when you turn around they start talking about the Fucking Queers or whatever. It's 99.999% white people, at my last barn there was ONE entire person of color and more than once I heard her - an adult woman - referred to as "THAT LITTLE BLACK GIRL" by other people.

English riding communities are also not exempt from this shit but they 100% think they are. There's just like Extra Classism thrown in most of the time.

I remember reading an article a few years back about a high school girl who did, I think jumping. And she wrote into her local equestrian magazine or something, about how she noticed the race disparity in Equestrian sports as a whole, and she got SO MUCH SHIT for it. People went insane and blacklisted her from shows and competitions, and she was viewed as a pariah for being a "shit-stirrer". Like holy shit, if your reactions are that horrific then this is DEFINITELY something we need to be talking about more!!!

And that girl lived nowhere near me so I can't just pretend this is a hyper-specific issue with my geographical area (I live right next to the capital city and even my small neighborhood is much more diverse than any horse thing I've ever been to, including barns I've boarded at, events I've been to, and fucking EQUINE AFFAIR).

Whenever I try to causally bring these issues up with anyone at my barn (ALL OF WHOM ARE WHITE) they stare at me like they've never heard of race ever being a concern ever in their life. And like, I AM ALSO WHITE, and it's completely bonkers to me that people can really be so fucking oblivious. But here we are.

And for comparison, there are maybe 2 people out of the 15+ boarders at my barn who could be considered "moderately wealthy".

[thatonesquintern13]

episode three - when you were young:

• it feels like ten years since the last episode. i started and finished a whole new show between then and now. taylor swift announced an album.

• okay read my last post and i’m back in the zone

• kat just chasing this boy through the forest

• that’s not jacob 🧍🏽‍♀️

• i’m gonna need a transcript of the quote alice (?) was reading just now bc iiii couldn’t process that

• oh a man.

• ELIJAH LANDRY!!!

• alice calling dell ‘grandma’ so naturally 🥹

• oh the boy is jacob but not JACOB

• THE FARM!!!! 🥹😭😭

• elliot. read the room.

• colton!? jacob!?!?

• oh he’s having a flashback? but he’s also. there?

• interesting choice! we haven’t done a flashback like this before

• back at the farmers market just reminded me that we still don’t know where new guy byron went 🤨

• alice you’re thinking with your american capitalism brain. let dell give out whatever she wants 😤

• former nemesis monica. i don’t know if we trust you still… but you are offering alice a job

• she’s taking this ‘helping dell’ thing too seriously. dell is gonna know she knows

• “helping you at the farm is important.” “how much help do you think i need?” fr the bees do most of the work

• back at the 1814 farm.

• THE FIREPLACE 😭 the initials 😭

• “stonework like this really stands the test of time.” kat please

• the stones are coming loose you say 👀

• 1814 almanac 🫵🏽

• kat hinting to elijah to keep the almanac everything about the present is bc of something they did in the past bc of something about the present

• rebecca landry ):

• so there’s another (?) landry son. and he built the lighthouse! feels like this is going to be important

• lol not the ghost tours, rita 😂

• $45 a ticket? alice is right that is a little steep 😮‍💨

• GOD ALICE you can’t just tell the whole farmers market that dell is losing the farm !!!!

• she would be front page news by tomorrow if the herald’s editor in chief wasn’t in 1814 🤧

• speaking of

• JACOB AND KATS SYMBOL!!! ON THE TABLE!!!!

• OH MY GOD JACOB IS THE SON

• WELL HE’S THE OTHER SON THAT BUILT THE LIGHTHOUSE

• JACOB’S BEEN THERE FOR HOW LONG!?

• “but he’s a landry through and through” yeah he is 🥺

• the jacob from the forest is our jacob’s nephew and he’s named after our jacob 😭

• not the war 😰

• “so he’s coming back?” “of course. this is his home” i mean yeah but he’s at WAR

• i think the canadians were on the winning side of this war so maybe he’ll be fine

• THE EXPLORER FOUND HIS WAY HOME !!!

• kat using present tense verbs about jacob for the first time in 24 years 😭😭😭😭

• “if you’re jacob’s sister… that makes you family too.”

• i thought elijah was going to be angry about her being there but NO HE’S A LANDRY HE’S GOOD PEOPLE

• chyler i’m sending in the emmy paperwork as i type this don’t worry about it babes

• and out of everything dell has a flat tire 🫠

• finally someone explaining what’s going on with the farm.

• but idk still kinda feels like she’s lying to alice so she stops worrying

• wHO is this white man.

• GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HER

• the last thing dell needs right now is a MAN trying to think he knows what he’s doing

• not to sound yeehaw kountry rn but dawg look at what you’re driving. your fancy shiny truck is NOT the flex you think it is rn

• i think she knows more about american girl dolls than you do genius

• “but driving up here in your fancy truck for a few weeks in the summer doesn’t constitute real life in the country” SEE I TOLD YOU 😭

• oh god this is gonna be her new neighbor isn’t it…

• did he think his flirting worked??? like?

• sad boy elliot having more in scene flashbacks.

• baby elliot overslept and missed his dad leaving. but it doesn’t really seem like his dad would care if he was there…

• okay back to 1814

• “i just can’t believe we lost him… to you.” “now, will we lose him to you?”

• yeah idk if you can really bring a 30yr old who grew up in the 1800s to 2023 and expect him to get along fine 😭

• suzanna! (spelled her name wrong last week my b)

• suzanna: you 🫵🏽🤨

• BETROTHED!? TO JACOB!?

• them landrys just can’t stay away from augustines can they

• “because i’m the sister of your betrothed.” hehehehe 🤭🤭

• i see big sister instincts don’t go away even when you haven’t used them in 24 years

• elijah is like “what is goin on here….”

• are they enemies or lovers! i can’t tell!

• back in the present dell is getting PHONE CALLS about the farm

• see what you’ve done, alice!

• not the phone in the freezer 😭😂😂😂

• oh look the horse that is probably colton is back

• (pete’a the horse is he’a)

• suzanna dragging kat to the pond is so real.

• “you said you were looking for the child jacob landry” yeah she just forgot how time works sorry /:

• “jacob the man” objectively funny sorry

• “i’ve known jacob a long time and he’s never once mentioned a sister.” oh. 😢

• not her calling kat’s outfit mens clothing again. come on, insult to injury

• AH okay there’s no reason for knives suzanna

• KAT SHE’S GONNA THINK YOU’RE A WITCH

• would be a terrible time for the pond to refuse to send her back…

• present day

• “who’s that” alice that’s literally your grandfather as a horse i-

• “oh good you can see him too” LMAO

• dell landry: horse girl, confirmed

• kat why did you go to elliot’s if you didn’t want to see him 😭

• BUT HE’S WHO SHE WANTS TO TELL ABOUT JACOB TO FIRST

• katelliot hug we are so back

• “you did it kat!” yeah and WHO was doubting her last week? hmm, elliot? 🤨

• “you found jacob… but he’s a war?” exactly what i was saying elliot yes

• “no, no. he’s not at war, he’s taking a ship to the war” oh okay much better

• katelliot arguing we’re so over

• chyler in a ponytail. that’s it, that’s the thought.

• they’re making great points about the almanac bc i was thinking earlier… wouldn’t jacob the child be in there? why didn’t that flag kat’s interest before? but now that i know that william is in there, why DIDN’T they put our jacob in there 🤧

• oh they think jacob the man did the painting! (still a katzanna truther but okay)

• “i’m sorry, elliot? mom, i have been here losing my mind and you stopped to tell elliot first?” kat is 100% the friend who doesn’t listen to your advice and goes back with her ex over and over again 🫠

• (which i’m fine with in this situation but yk what i mean)

• “not on purpose”?? girl you were lurking in his field ??

• when are WE going back!? alice do you not remember the last time you tried to jump to the same place

• yeah alice it’s too dangerous. your mom had a knife pulled on her by your aunt who is also your great great great whoever

• alice is NOT listening to kat tho we can trust that

• “i know i had a lot on my mind last night, but when did i miss ya gettin’ a horse?” oh the accent is rubbing off on them hehehe

• also kat that’s literally your dad as a horse i-

• also i thought it was bc her hair was wet (or stage wet) earlier, but chyler’s hair looks darker?

• “you just- you just look happy.” it’s what she deserves 🥹🥹🥹

• AND NOBODY BETTER TAKE THAT AWAY FROM HER I SWEAR

• horse girl dell naming her childhood horse lightning and this horse stormy okay we love a theme

• DELL AND COLTON FLASHBACK 😭 ofc colton wanted to get her a horse!!! 😭

• “i promised you the world, delly. that’s gotta include one measly horse” 🥺

• “we can’t have two dreamers in this family” why not !

• ugh they are so cute. i hope we get a lot more of them being a happy loving couple this season instead of grief stricken and broken ):

• “looks like he’s my new man 😉” LMAO

• not the town sending dell food bc they heard about the farm!!!

• “it looks like someone died” that’s so real i love small towns

• “i don’t know what you’re so upset about, it’s free food.” so true rita.

• she’s also eating that lasagna straight out of the pan. just like me fr

• dell has spent one (1) week with alice and she’s like “that’s enough go get a job.”

• a strange girl! at the herald!

• no bc….. why she kinda look like kat? 🤨👀

• “it would be a dream come true to experience print media first hand… before its dead” LOL too real

• kacey goodwin! as in THE goodwins!

• the herald continues its nepo baby hiring traditions

• oh my bad. a strange THEYTHEM! at the herald! okay hallmark i see youuuu progressive!!!

• (forgot this was hallmark for a sec)

• “i didn’t know her that well” okay evelyn’s son really is the worst. why would he keep his child from their grandmother! and port haven!

• (not you kat pre-s1, i know it was circumstantial)

• but kacey and kat lowkey going on the same journey! getting to know their family stories

• wait an age progression of jacob is actually so smart.

• why’d kacey look up jacob’s name? what do they know? 🤨

• they don’t know anything about their family but they DO know the landry family trauma. small towns, man.

• one thing alice is gonna do is confront elliot

• “i never made a pact with your mom” and did we make a pact with alice??

• oh! did elliot just say something he shouldn’t have!

• “turns out i’m not great at setting boundaries” yeah no kidding elliot 😭

• “when you care about the time traveler, you find a way to be there for them.” bestieism 🥺

• “even when they hurl constant demands at you and never say thank you” hey! she told you thank you for the present day help in 2000!

• but fine she’ll do it again

• “always said i’d do anything for a landry, right?” and he means that frfr!

• alice! you’re late to the nepo baby hiring! kacey beat you to it!

• “i’m sorry… who are you?” alice: this is my??? mom????

• alice is an only child she’s never had to share a mom before!!

• are they going to be enemies… or……. 😗👀

• “so i guess we’ll be spending a lot of time together here, then?” 👀

• kacey also kinda having a s1 alice journey too!

• alice you better be this kid’s friend they are lonely 😭

• alice working at the point (coffee shop) makes more sense anyways like you can’t work that close to your mom and live with her. you’ll drive each other crazy!

• oh she is. bad. at serving coffee… me too girlie

• why are the customers so rude 😭 thought canadians were nice ☹️☹️

• oooh spilt coffee guy is the most popular guy in schooollll 👀

• oh he’s old. (just graduated high school)

• open mic at the point! bc they gotta let sadie sing at least once per season

• back to the horse that’s probably colton

• ofc dell is able to train this horse all easy 😅

• oh god alice being bad at her job is giving me flashbacks to working fast food. please i’m so stressed for her

• “hey, i didn’t know you worked here! small world!” “small town.” alice be nice to them they just want a friend 😭

• why is she the only one workingggggg former nemesis monica this is no way to run a coffee shop 😰

• oh god kacey please don’t try to help

• and there go the milkshakes

• popular guy (noah?), “could’ve been worse. at least it wasn’t…. chili.” what… what does that mean? was that a high school musical reference? what did i miss 😅

• “i’ll be sure to wear a rain coat tomorrow... just in case” dude wHAT are you talking about 😭😂

• also yeah kacey alice is never gonna be your friend now /: sorry

• baby elliot and baby kat lighthouse flashback!!!

• “you’re part of the family whether you want to be or not, el.” 🥹

• present day kat also at the lighthouse!!

• “we both know why am i here. what’s your excuse?” “because… i knew you’d come.” STOP

• elliot we’re supposed to be mad at you you can just hit us with that line

• the whole jacob growing up in 1814 but also being a kid in 1999 is throwing me. i do not understand time travel

• okay pretty solid apology i guess 🥺

• “i guess jacob’s not a kid anymore, but he will always be your little brother, kat.” “and i’ll always be the sister that let him down, lost him.” alexa… you already know what to play 😪

• “you’re the family i never had” oof poor baby elliot he really really needed the landrys

• “but i also can not lose you. not again.” WE ARE SO BACK

• oh we’re setting boundaries 🥺

• okay i guess i’ll take katelliot friendship over no katelliot at all

• it’s a START

• ooh dell backstory!

• they had to sell her childhood horse! that’s why she didn’t want colton buying her one! she didn’t want to lose it again! 😭

• “seems i remember you didn’t wanna be a farmer” no alice, you will not be living that down 🤭

• oh dell’s gonna ride the horse 😭😭

• BAREBACK?! okay dell landry i was not familiar with your game

• i was gonna say, “i know that’s a stunt double but if there’s any actress that i think could ride bareback, it would be andi macdowell” but there’s a whole close up with dialog with her riding the horse! i was right!

• “i think if we dig deep enough we can find the child within” yeah 🥹

• “i made a pact with elliot about not discussing time travel.” there that word is again! and alice caught it!

• is this age progression about to make me cry…

• no. that is. just some guy.

• AH the white man from the road

• “well i wouldn’t exactly call it running into me, i mean this is my barn.” exactly dell let em know

• i knew he was the neighbor

• “which i suppose would make you delilah landry” DON’T CALL HER THAT

• noooo the colton horse is his ):

• just give it to her god you’re so selfish 🙄

• wait i’m not ready for what’s about to be under this desk

• polaroids!? 😨

• OF THE POND!?!??? 😰

• elliot/baby elliot what did you do….. (or was it baby kat!? 👀)

• the alice pact hasn’t happened for alice yet!

• “you can never go back to the way things were. people… grow up.” hello??? elliot what does that mean???

• “and everything you once knew about those kids we were is going to change” wHAT

• oh alice is jumping into that pond TONIGHT i can feel it

fin.

📺: the way home - season two

season one recap 🩵

episode one - the space between:

• watching the ‘previously on’ like i didn’t just spend the week recapping it

• thought this was jacob and dell but it’s just another little boy and older lady

• “it will always take you where you need to go.” 👀

• picking up where season one left off. kat and dell were literally JUST healing and now where back to murder boarding

• oh we’re just immediately jumping into the FROZEN pond

• it didn’t work!

• kat you know that’s not how it works !! just get out before you freeze!!!

• oh god now alice is in the pond

• and YEAH we’re BENEATH THE ICE

• ALICE

• KAT DONT YOU KNOW CPR

• CHEST COMPRESSIONS

• oh god alice is back okay

• so much just happened oh my god

• a note for kat on elliot’s door ):

• me and elliot squabbin the next time i see him 😤

• (did anyone else’s school use the word squab around like 2015?? 2016??)

• “if i’ve learned anything these last few months it’s the worst thing to waste is time.” i gUESS!

• now how can a dog time travel 😭 the pond is SICK for that

• “the pond is done with us, allie. we have to be done with it.” we’ll see

• they’re making a pact to stay in the present

• time jump! seven months laterrrr

• hello?? DECODE PARAMORE?!?!

• and kat is jogging through the woods like is this twilight???

• passed elliot’s (still empty) house. hayley williams is right, how did we get here 😭

• ofc kat is listening to decode she’s an emo millennial

• if you think about it this kinda is like twilight. she’s gonna jump off a cliff next probably

• dell landry: bee keeping age!!!

• where’d the horse come from? 🤨

• “hey, boy. who are you?” oh so neither of us know okay

• oh! it’s the last day of school!

• not spencer from school pulling up

• and maybe zoe from school? hard to say

• alice is leaving!? oh going to the states with brady

• “that’s the thing about shared custody, eventually you have to share.” rip /:

• ugh r*chel mention

• “i am screening your next guy! these last two, they’ve been so very disappointing.” LAST TWO!?

• oh she meant brady and elliot 😂

• “brady only disappointed in the later years. we don’t.. we don’t talk about elliot.” yeah still too soon formerly nemesis monica

• lol so new guy leaves (suspiciously 🤨) and kat is like “okay fiiine i’ll take over the herald and hire myself back!! if i must!!!”

• and good for her!

• oh someone’s died 😰

• evelyn goodwin??

• oldest member of the most prestigious (and wealthiest) family in port haven. an institution, dell says!

• linger?more?

• oh elliot has the AUDACITY to send post cards 😤

• yeah, alice you’re right to roll your eyes at him!!

• we’re getting so much landry lore!

• but also more evidence for my jacob is his own ancestor theory

• the landrys were a founding family of port haven with the aforementioned goodwins

• dell talking about HAPPY MEMORIES OF COLTON!!!! 🥹

• we’re throwing a summer partyyyy

• landry ladies kitchen dancing 🥹

• ruined! by brady calling 😤

• oh so kat and alice are on the same wavelength as me. no wonder kat knows so much about her great great whoevers

• they stuck to their word, no pond!

• “yeah, well. elliot’s not around anymore to give us those pearls of wisdom.” “when are you gonna let that go?” no, no. hold that grudge, alice.

• “elliot promised that he would always be there to help, and when we needed him the most […], he bails.” just like the avatar 😪

• can’t help but notice the herald is brighter now that new guy is gone.

• now i know brady isn’t trying to blame KAT for the shared custody thing

• are we ever gonna be introduced to rachel bc now it’s getting suspicious

• “alice is no distraction, she’s the glue” she really is huh 😭

• ooooh evelyn goodwin put the herald in her will???

• kat is going to ✨lingermore✨

• (i’m guess that’s the goodwin estate?)

• “no wonder you turned the herald into a weekly, you’re always here” okay dell kinda ate with that one 😭

• “i’m going up the hill” me: kate bush?

•but also: *eerie music change* “i’m going with you.”

• okay now i’m scared of lingermore

• oh something has Happened here…

• sorry, evelyn saved everything to open a museum and her son was just like “eh oh well. gonna sell.” ??? hate men.

• oooh but now the herald gets it all!!

• now kat has the entire history of port haven at her fingertips! finding jacob has literally never been easier.

• oh something Sinister has Happened here… 😰

• alice! step away from that pond! you promised your mother!!

• oh she’s just coming to say goodbye ):

• girl back up that’s literally how you fell in the first time!!

• oh it’s LITERALLY how she fell in the first time? the bracelet hello???

• i do enjoy that when i gasp now it’s actually stuff i am surprised about

• is dell gonna have flashbacks of her own of this place now?

• she’s just sad about evelyn ):

• you know. this was kinda how dell’s future was looking before kat and alice showed up…

• yeah how is kat supposed to get all these boxes back to the herald

• UM

• why’s this portrait look just like kat 😀

• “MY KATHERINE, 1814” HELLO

• what did evelyn know 👀

• aww the jewelry dish

• we are immediately back to kat and alice keeping secrets from each other 🫠

• she’s a runna she’s a track star 🏃🏻‍♀️

• oh! note’s gone from the door! is elliot back???

• omg he’s back

• “well kat landry!” “oh… elliot augustine…” okayyyy

•god, kat might as well have just said “you look hot” that would’ve been less embarrassing 😭

• (and he does, she was right.)

• why is elliot being weird

• wait. just realized this man LEFT in the MIDDLE OF THE SCHOOL YEAR??? elliot there’s a TEACHER SHORT- wait they’re canadian…. is there a canadian teacher shortage??

• um but still. in the middle of the year, dawg??

• okay elliot when have you ever “imposed” on the landrys be so for real

• omg kat get up girl you are not playing it cool rn

• “i will never understand why she took elliot’s travels so hard” bc they’re besties??? (also bc that’s her stepdad but we apparently are keeping that a secret)

• dell didn’t notice that kat and alice were literally time traveling but she DID clock kat and elliot and that is, once again, so southern of her.

• “i haven’t seen you wear the bracelet in forever! i was beginning to think you lost it.” hehe about that…

• no actually WHY is elliot so… off i’m starting to not trust this… like go back to the caribbean if you’re gonna be like this

• “somebody had a glow up.” lmao rita!!

• “looks like elliot had what the kids call a hot boy summer” RITA!!!

• oh so alice didn’t know about katelliot and is really just mad bc elliot is her bestie!!!

• “and besides, there is no us, really. right?” ELLIOT YOU’RE THE BIGGEST DUMB DUMB THERE IS

• fumbled the bag

• he didn’t even say GOODBYE!? god what is with these men

• “great party, dell.” 😭😂

• “you better get out there and get a lobster before rita pilfers them all” lol okay great callback

• “[the farm] will always be here waiting for you.” 🥹

• fireworks for colton 😭😭😭😭

• flashbacks for everyone 🥺

• i miss colton landry

• ugh how long are kat and elliot going to pretend they don’t love each other

• alice is connecting dots

• colton and baby elliot 🥺 the club house is always there for him to have a space 😭

• “don’t waste any time, kid. because it’s never guaranteed.” and elliot thought that was a joke?? i-

• *branch snaps* “did you hear that?” WHO CAME BACK 🫵🏽

• “i saw that look between you and elliot. are you two together?” alice you’re far too late

• alice you didn’t ruin anything, sweetie 😭

• kinda rude that i grew up an hour from the beach and never went to a summer bonfire beach party in high school. (i didn’t go to parties in hs who am i kidding)

• oh! we’re being haunted by our past! cool.

• an elliot mixtape!!! IN THE CLUBHOUSE

• aww elliot’s here.

• with a STRONG candian ‘sorry’

• oh they met alice after the last summer cookout… interesting

• i thought “traveling” was a euphemism. but he actually meant time traveling lol

• “i’m sorry i didn’t say goodbye. i just knew if i saw you, i wouldn’t go.” OKAY AND WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN SO BAD

• just sitting on the bed nothing crazy

• SCREAMING !!!!!

• grey’s anatomy training 😏

•making out with all for you playing in the background. gonna cry actually.

• elliot apologizing right away 😭 okay there’s the awkward guy i missed

• “i’m not your problem anymore” WHY WOULD SHE SAY THATTTTT

• ALEXA, PLAY EXHILE BY TAYLOR SWIFT

• the sad part is, they could just go right back to how they were. like elliot is so willing to be that sounding board for kat.

• but. he blew it. super hard. complete buffoonery.

• “welcome home.” damn she’s cold

• baby nick!!!

• ugh elliot was gonna make his move RIGHT before kat met brady 😭

• so i guess spencer from school and zoe from school are??? no more???

• alice is still hung up on nick 😭 girl he’s old let it gooo

• why are they making her sing rn

• now look you’ve made her get stage fright again. (it’s definitely not the ghosts of her mother’s past coming to haunt her…)

• kat and dell finally getting the mother daughter relationship they deserve??

• is the house called lingmore or lingermore… i need to look this up

• the subtitles are telling me lingermore. dell’s accent is just thick lmao

• oh! see, dell thought evelyn reminded her of herself too.

• “i wanna build back our relationship. i wanna get to know you again.” yup yup yup 🥹

• kat has also noticed that dell is talking about colton and jacob in a positive light now

• “no more regrets, only resets” dell would kill on facebook

• ugh, i know Something is going to happen and it’s gonna ruin everything we accomplished in this scene

• um why are we back at the “did you hear that” scene 😰

• WHO IS THAT!?!?? 🫵🏽

• colton???? new guy?????? JACOB!?!?!?

• oh my god

• the blurry polaroid!!

• alice and kat sharing their secrets! season of healing!

• kat don’t let her manipulate you like this!

• okay or do. whatever.

• wait elliot send that text 😭 you gotta be the one to fix this, dude.

• neighbor!? who is this man???

• they better not be trying to give dell another love interest 😤

• could be elliot’s dad tho? but i doubt it

• suspicious buyer of the neighboring farm????

• the new buyer isn’t going to lease the fields sooo what does that mean 😅

• dell is going to be losing money?

• AND WHOSE HORSE IS THIS

• don’t tell me that horse jumped in the pond 🤧

• mother daughter pond jump 🤪

• “it’ll take us where we need to go” what could go wrong! 😀

• BABY ELLIOT!?

• has present elliot been LYING to present kat this whole time??????

• if i got sent to 1814- hold up who is that

• not the gun

• HELLO

• grey’s anatomy training (dying in a horrific way)

• um. okay 😀

fin.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

Hello I'm here to weigh in on the amalgamate the states idea. What if we amalgamated them into one state, one large state with a decentralized government, that held elections based on popular vote rather than an electoral college outdated racist demographic information, and which updated its core tenets every 20 years to reflect the change in generation. And also had term limits on people in office such as to be no longer than 2 five year terms?

I mean it's just a thought and it would still be far from perfect.

But I live here and I don't know it just feels....better.

But also like, I do want the list of the ten amalgamated states you made.

okay so fair warning i'm canadian and also a bit stoned atm so you need to promise to not make fun of me for not knowing shit about your states, their names, your history, or my fashion sense. but here's my proposition to fix things as someone with no political power who doesn't live in your country. (to determine which old state capital becomes the new state capital, i propose a gladiator fight to the death and every old state sends their strongest warriors. that's open to negotiation tho.)

Minimichiowisconsindillinois- tbh i made this one just to piss off my ex since he said everyone living there would hate that idea. eat it, beard. this is a nice little centre state. it feels like a satisfying size. i originally devised it to be just states that were touching the great lakes but that IA one there really squares it out nicely.

East Topland- tbh i don't know too much about these states. it seems cohesive, though, and i think new york on the land has a lot of forest so if The OG Crew wants to start shit they'll have a buffer.

The OG Crew- i know these are not the only states that were like the starter states. east topland got some of those, i think. but these are the states that feel, to me, like they're the first states that started this whole deal out in the first place. if you would like to edit your history books to say i'm right, that would be a decent thank you for sorting this whole mess out for you

The Nothing States- these are the states i generally don't know a lot of stuff about. i think they're yeehaw states in some parts. but i have friends in at least two of them i think so i don't want to make up stereotypes because they will call me out because they don't care how stoned and canadian i am. rude. adding montana there on the end is a bit aesthetically displeasing but we need to keep the etsy sellers who sell prints of the shape of your state with a heart cutout in business so this leaves some tempting options.

New Oklouissippansexas- i am also keeping spelling bee judges in business. this also feels like a cohesive chunk. like i assume they vibe. plus when they have pride people can make t-shirts saying "New Oklouissippansexual" and that's gotta be a job creator.

The Midmidst- a very cool name for the middle of the country that i mostly drew because a purple stripe up the middle is nice. colorado gets included because we're not getting a straight line anyway so might as well give them, like, something

The Midwest 2- because it always bugs me that the midwest is so far east so it's fixed in this patch update. these places have a lot of empty space of various varieties, i think, and i feel it's important to have that all grouped together in one convenient state

Flo Rida- the same state but we do specifically rename it to honour flo rida and legally it has to be pink on every new map. this is self-explanatory

WETBOIZZZZZZ- for some reason when i originally did this calculation i thought it would be funny to name all the west coast states WETBOIZZZZZZZ. i still do tbh that owns. i think the west coast states all have a chill vibe, so i feel like they could probably be a state with a very strong identity before we meld all the people. WETBOIZZZZZZZ is obviously a party state but, like, a relaxing party, and i think it rules

Not Part Of The US Any More- hawaii can do whatever it likes- it can be part of whatever state it wants, or it can just leave america altogether because of, you know, everything. we're taking alaska since that just makes natural sense. again, no further questions needed

so there you go, 10 states (well, 9 states and one amerexit) that i could grow to respect

[albatris]

character theme song tag? :D

thank you @calicojackofficial for the tag!! to pick some theme songs for my main characters! I love love love music tags and oc tags and oc music tags so this is right up my alley

I feel like @multi-lefaiye @nicola-writes @nerice @tracle0 @wherearetheplants might enjoy? music tag? yeehaw? as well as anyone else who'd like to join!!

anyway, I'm doing this for ATDAO and Rental Car because no one can stop me <3

ATDAO first!

Tris: "Sloom" by Of Monsters and Men

So make all your last demands, for I will forsake you And I'll meet your eyes for the very first time, for the very last So love me, mother, and love me, father And love my sister as well So love me, mother, and love me, father And love my brother as well

Noa: "Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It" by Stars

Take the weakest thing in you And then beat the bastards with it And always hold on when you get love So you can let go when you give it

Kai: "Wander. Wonder." by the Arcadian Wild

I am always wondering what you see So I quietly conceal the dark inside of me Sins and scars you'll never recognise 'Cause I am the master of maintaining my disguise

Shara: "The Universe Is Going To Catch You" by The Antlers

Because we would call you at home and no one picked up the phone We were worried that you'd fallen in a river, or worse But then you sent us back a letter, it said in capital letters "THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO CATCH YOU."

Marrick: "You Can Be Happy" by IAMX

You put me in a cage in the daily maze of flesh and rage But I will follow every truth I won't let you go I want every tomorrow

Jacob: "Boy" by Birds of Tokyo

I've a memory of a little boy Who you'd like to meet He could do anything I've been missing him Hope he's been missing me all these years

and Rental Car~

Nat: "Grenadine" by Dreadlight

I'll be the king of it, the queen of it The god of it, all of it Eat your heart after I lick it clean Tastes like blood and grenadine

Quinn: "Tongues & Teeth" by The Crane Wives

I will only break your pretty things I will only wring you dry of everything And if you're fine with that You can be mine like that

Alex: "The Quittin' Kind" by Eleisha Eagle

There's a corner you painted yourself in I'm not sure, what was your intention? Now you're trapped alone on an island And you can't swim, no, you can't swim All the windows mocking your sad face As you dwell, disgruntled and at bay Take your paintbrush, create a doorway

Yvonne: "Karma" by AJR

I've been so good, I've been helpful and friendly I've been so good, why am I feeling empty? I've been so good, I've been so good this year I've been so good, but it's still getting harder I've been so good, where the hell is the karma?

Zeke: "Absinthe" by IDKHOW

I don't believe whatever this is Until you burn all of the witches I won't believe whatever this is Whatever they give you, stop drinking it down I hear voices, I see visions These spirits are your prison

The Garble (Outermost Layers, aka "vampirism as a condition is an interconnected hivemind entity and its own sentience": "Inside of You, in Spite of You" by ThouShaltNot

I am the dawn of ages I am the days seen through I'm final entropy I am inside of you I am the clouds that cover Your way into the blue I kiss with life to give All this in spite of you

The Garble (Innermost Layers, aka "this is just some fucking asshole"): "Dead Moon" by Brick + Mortar

'Cause I pray to the dark of the moon It's making me shiver If you really wanna take me down You need to think bigger

The Ethels???: "Don't Worry, We'll Be Watching You" by Gotye (paranoia tw)

Hey, lost your way? Don't worry, just do as we say And we won't hurt you ... Do you need a reminder Of the love that we gave you? Don't worry You're walking away But we'll always be watching you

hehe. tunes :3

[starwarspissorgy]

The more I learn the more I realize Tumblr is the perfect Anarchist website. Not that it's chaotic, but that it fits a left-libertarian political agenda.

It has a weak but very transparent financial model, so you don't need to worry about online security or serving corporate interests

It is completely unmarketable to brands, which further erodes the capitalist stranglehold on all forms of expression on or offline

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do

Surprisingly, the lack of an algorithm for the feed actually makes the process of content distribution more democratic. While liking something on some capitalist hamster-shit of a website gets it in front of more eyes, there's both a level of obfuscation from the process which intentionally alienates us from our own collective power, and complicated ways to make your vote not equal to everyone else's.

(Yeehaw, haha!) Here we go!

On the other hand, reblogging on a chronological timeline creates a random lottery style of democracy, where one reblog actually means one chance of all your followers seeing something. The more people you follow who

Speaking of alienation, the follow system also erodes hierarchies like the website's ability to control what you see and the accelerating growth of larger accounts causing them to completely overpower smaller ones, which results in so much more control over your own situation. It's basically the online version of the right to self-determination.

The only complication of this fact is the sponsored posts, but even then it's just a small complication. The model gave users a lot of power to maintain control, and through this unspoken collective action inherent to Tumblr culture we just used that power. Like, by blazing stupid funny bullshit about small fuzzy pets or whatever nonsense we kept everyone's Tumblr feeds feeling essentially the same, and even attempts to bring the platform in line with capitalism thereby failed.

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do

Di-ba-di-de-do

Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do

Di-ba-di-de-do

Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do

That's all there is to it!

Now, the most complicated but most fascinating part of this is the complicated history both Tumblr and Anarchism have with sex work,

Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do Di-ba-di-de-do Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do Di-de-di-da-di-de-do-do Di-ba-di-de-do Di-de-de-di-de-de-de-do-do-day-bi-di-do

[Outro] Hahahaha...

[colorisbyshe]

Just saying thank you for that post about the SAM. sometimes people act like ace-prioritizing LGBT politics/organizing are mere twitter ID politics, but they're definitely not confined to the internet, at least in my academic or community safe spaces, and sometimes I wonder if the process that has made asexuals out to be the LGBT community's most vulnerable and persecuted demographic can be reversed, or if this is what our mainstream activism will look like from now on. Sorry to be a bummer.

Unfortunately, a lot of liberalized/academic settings cling to THE WORST politics. I minored in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies in college and in one of the intro courses, we had an entire section normalizing BDSM. Another one where we learned about the charmed circle which basically said rape and pedophilia can be considered ~queer. I had a gender studies prof who literally misgendered Chelsea Manning by refering to her as a “him” whenever she was talking about the past becaues “he wasn’t a girl yet” and she had to be corrected by a nonbinary student :|

I’d say for the last ten or so years, the LGBT community (at large, not in total) has dropped the farce of radical politics. Inclusive policy gets the most attention and admiration from cishets and that’s all they seem to want now. The same reason Taylor Swift and Barak War CRimes Obama were chosen to speak at a Stonewall Event.

It’s the same reason why publications that don’t even claim to be by and for LGBT people use the word “queer” to describe the community and why when celebrities choose “LGBT Charities” to support it’s... fucking GLAAD or MAYBE HRC.

So, now there’s the LGBT community as in the people--which can have a range of politics from the dumbest fucking liberal, love your oppressor shit you’ve ever heard to truly radical stuff (not talking abotu radical feminism but radical as in opposed to liberal, fuck TERFs)--but then there’s LGBT Community as an Official Groups and that’s pretty much ALL the dumbest fucking liberal, love your oppressor shit you’ve ever heard because they don’t want to loose cishet donors. Inclusivity of aces, of aros, of kinksters, of polyamroous people, of girls with short pixie cuts and boys in pink sells better than “the mean old LGBTs don’t want to be called slurs or even see cishets near them.” Inclusivity and capitalism go hand in hand! Yeehaw!

I’m over it tbh.

BTW, I  used to GORGE myself on LGBT nonfiction when I was in high school (2007-011), literally read whatever I could get my hands on, and it wasn’t... like this. It wasn’t perfect by a fucking MILE but it wasn’t bent on pandering to cishets at every turn. I don’t know what hcanged but something horrible went down and it genuinely saddens me.

[an-emerald-bay]

8/11/2020

dear ellie,

happy late birthday to me.

well, to brianna.

i’ve been thinking about you. and by that i mean i cried a lot today.

so here’s to writing another letter that, once again, i will never send. if you had the material of those last ones i’d probably die, what with you idolizing becki and all.

what the fuck was up with that, by the way?

for fuck’s sake, she’s one of the reasons i can’t trust adults anymore! jesus christ, she tore me away from the last bit of stability i had, all because - all because of something i don’t fucking understand!

what was it, ellie? do you know why she separated me from you and adrianna and india and everyone else? do you know why you got special privileges and i got jack-shit? i don’t get it! i’ll never understand until someone tells me!

did she know i was gay, somehow? did she know i was a psychotic little shit? did she think i was too yeehaw, i was too loud, too pushy, too much? did she just hate my mom, or did that come later? was she jealous that people called me the smart kid and not her daughter, that i got called the godly worship kid and her daughter wasn’t? because fuck, i didn’t want those titles! she got what she wanted! my academics nearly cost me my life and i now barely feel a connection to God compared to how i used to. you know what i perform on guitar, you know what i belt to the “crowds”? not mercy me and lauren daigle, that’s for sure! 

why did the rules bend for everyone but me? we went to marsha and she did nothing. we went to pastor and he did nothing. why did neither of you stand up for me, why was india the only one who cared? why did she get targeted for that? i don’t get it and it hurts. i want to understand.

but that’s not relevant, i guess. i’m here about the letters. i suppose they do help me understand, at least a little bit.

some things have changed, a lot. i think those letters mark the point where i became florence instead of brianna. it’s funny, because florence wouldn’t befriend the Now Ellie, but brianna absolutely adored the Old Ellie. i miss both of them. and i love both of you.

hey, i thought you’d judge me for fanfics or whatever, but i guess i’m not sure. i’ve convinced india to write fics about her favorite book series she read. she said she couldn’t convince you guys to read it, so she’s given the book to me and left the other ones on her bed for when i’m ready. i’m excited. she stopped by today, since she’s moving away for five months. i’ve lost the one thin, wavering connection i had to you guys. maybe my birthday party will change that. 

i’ve lost my batman obsession, thank god. i still like the characters, but i respect my own interests a lot more now, i guess. by that i mean i don’t cringe at myself right now. 

i pointed out stupid spelling mistakes and grammar shit on that one video, which has changed! i now cannot read or spell, so like! kin! hell yeah! lmao. but i know i corrected you guys a lot growing up, and i know it was really hard on you. i never meant to be a bitch, i was just trying to help, but i have the feeling that pushiness is one of the reasons you guys don’t .... seem to love me anymore. i wish you had given me a chance to let go of those things, not that you’d befriend florence anyway. but a lot of that stuff was really, genuinely my fault and i’m willing to admit it.

speaking of grammar and shit, there’s another change! who needs capital letters?

....and another. i miss lifepacs, that shit was bliss compared to high school assignments. please just hand me a shitty paperback that falls apart and call it a day, for the love of all that is holy.

mom’s getting better about my health, probably because i’m getting better about my health. but she’s still being so so hard on herself. i want to help but she doesnt know how to listen. very stubborn lady, doesn’t like my words most of the time.

i never finished gotham. and i don’t remember what you photoshopped of ethan. now im gonna die wondering i guess.

the show is dead and gone too!!! how about that!!!! no more seven-year-old childhood dreams there, i have other friends to fill a different kind of role these days. i still wish you could be a part of it, though. you know you still matter to me, right? your place in my life is still there, ready to be filled again?

i’ve realized fictional crushes aren’t bad. so that’s neat. i guess. except now we call it yearning.

i think the funniest change is where i was like “stick around, and you still won’t find out” about one of my secrets, though. because now, everyone knows. fuck it, gamers, i’m gay! and 2017 was also the year i started to suspect i was trans. look at me now! i’m nonbinary! you probably don’t know what the FUCK that means!!!!!

as for things that have stayed the same..... well. 

i was surprised by my own ancient use of =) faces to convey sarcasm and cursedness. now i’m more of a :) kind of gal. got it from a friend,,,, or more like a handful of friends.

i still suspect i have depression. either that, or another facet of my other illnesses is showing 🤩 bc i have not picked up my laundry in about a month. holy fuck.

my insensitivity also stuck around! and so did the obsessive-creep-with-a-fear-of-abandonment thing! how wonderful! 2017 was my fucking YEAR for obsessive fear of abandonment. iconic, i was incredibly lonely! i had no connection left to the people i cared most about - yes, that’s you guys! things were just bad, and when they got rid of dinners together i was completely broken. i just wanted to be happy and spend time with you all again, and annoy your little siblings, but instead i lost my last scrap of social skills and got reduced to the title of nuisance-y little kid.

i think it was concerning how much i thought you wouldn’t care about my interests, and more concerning that i was probably right about it.

i still have nightmares. a lot less of that tone, but still certainly some. mom thinks 2018 was my worst year but im starting to think it was definitely 2017. can we go back and fix it, you and i? 

my parents don’t seem to think my friends are secretly pedos undercover anymore, but im absolutely fucking CACKLING over my mention of mom finding my quotev account if i forgot to log out. that’s! exactly! what happened! fuckkkKK! 

and oh boy oh boy, i certainly do have no idea how human beings function. that’s stayed the same.

and here’s another compelling passage: “I had a dream last night in which people were blaming things on me that I didn’t remember happening and I wasn’t in full control of my body and I was hallucinating and I was going insane I’m worried that dream will manifest in me. Heh.” this did end up manifesting! except i did use the word “insane” far too much when i was younger. i think that one of the most important things in growing up for me was learning that my experiences are not my own, and there are other people who go through similar things, and that there was a reasonable explanation for this stuff. well, a reasonable explanation for my end of it.

lastly for similarities, i think its... interesting how much i buried myself in fiction and how much i bury myself in it now. back then, it was consumption alone, my friends didn’t talk about the shows with me or read my fics or anything. it was just me! and while i had lots of online friends, i used fiction as escapism to fill in the lonely gaps of local friends. now, i share my ideas and stories with others who share theirs with me, and we can really create something beautiful out of it. i have more irl friends who care, and still have lots of internet friends. but me yeeting myself into fiction is less to fill the void and more to just... remove the stress. 

anyway. i’m done dissecting the letters. time to dissect you :)!

im worried about you.

i heard about what happened with your living situation.

why did you leave your dad?

paul was the good parent. how the fuck do you excuse choosing jennifer and her creepy-ass husband over him? i’m just baffled! when we were younger you talked constantly about how your mom didn’t really show her love and how you wish you had a better mom. james even called her a monster. she had an affair and stole tons of money and was a shitty mother! i really don’t get it! i don’t get anything that’s happening anymore.

im getting tired of writing. i think my emotions are chilling. so i guess i won’t talk about adrianna or the million other painful things yet.

but i miss you.

and i’d be so very happy if you came back for me, just this once?

i love you.

ps: here’s a cookie. 🍪

[burricane]

Spooky Musicals For The Kiddos

Some have warnings because no one deserves a trauma spook during Hallow-Month

Repo: This is.....oh man. You know how sometimes you find something and you’re like this is terrible, I love it??? That’s Repo. VERY GORY WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK. It’s like a Italian opera but it’s gory as all hell and also there’s organ theft uh oh

The Devil’s Carnival: Imagine The Greatest Showman but they’re all in hell and Satan really likes fairytales. That’s this musical. Lots of bussy bops in this one I’m not gonna lie. The same people that made Repo made this one what do you expect. Listen to the sequel as well that ones really good too

Phantom Of The Paradise: Retelling of The Phantom Of The Opera, but this version is set in the 70s and the phantom really likes black lipstick. Rock and roll and also murder yeehaw

35 MM: A musical that’s literally based off of a bunch of different photos. Has a psychopathic high school bussy bop, a song about fucking vampires, Lindsay Mendez, it’s really just the whole package. WARNING: MENTIONS RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE IN LEAVE LUANNE

Otherbody: This is literally my favourite musical of all time. It’s a retelling of The Outsider by HP Lovecraft but it’s a metaphor about racism and homophobia in modern day America which must make that horrible author’s ghost very unhappy it’s great

Jasper In Deadland: Local boy journeys to the underworld to save crush, doesn’t realize that he’s a massive idiot and is chugging idiot juice in the underworld with a bunch of ghosts when his crush is riGHT THERE SHE’S RIGHT THERE DAMMIT JASPER

Ghost Quartet: A really complicated musical about murder, ressurection, forgiveness, and love. It’s by Dave Malloy (NPATCO1812) and if you are looking to ease in gently into the sp00ky musical genre then I would suggest this one

Lizzie: An all-female rock retelling of The Lizzie Borden murders. Gay and very good. WARNING: MENTIONS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE THROUGHOUT MUSICAL

Love Never Dies: It’s a sequel to The Phantom Of The Opera musical but you don’t have to like the first one in order to enjoy the second. Set ten years after its predecessor, this musical talks about love, murder, and what to do when you really are the baby daddy. Side note: Domestic abuse is subtly referenced in many parts of the musical but not all of it

The Addams Family: How could I make a scary musical list without mentioning The Addams Family? It’s not spooky, but we love it none the less

Into The Woods: Fairytales but dark as hell. First act is super happy but by the second you are literally sobbing your eyes out. You’ll never get Your Fault out of your head sorry. It mentions rape in some scenes but doesn’t go really full head on into it

Rocky Horror Picture Show: If you love musicals but haven’t seen this movie or heard its songs then I feel very bad for you. Sexy, gender explorative, and boptacular this musical is a gift to humanity. But whatever you do DON’T watch the live version from two years ago because it will take ten years off of your life it’s that bad

Carrie: A good musical about why bullying is bad. Has Christy Altmore and Derek Klena in it and they sing a love song it’s super cute. WARNING: HAS BULLYING AND CHILD ABUSE IN IT

Hadestown: A retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice but it takes place during the Great Depression and is big ass commentary about capitalism. I didn’t think that I could be any gayer for Amber Gray but I was wrong

[paceunknown]

tag game !

Rules: 15 questions, 15 mutuals

tagged by @vintageholland ♥️♥️

1. Are you named after anyone?

first name my mom’s aunt, middle name my dad’s sister

2. When is the last time you cried?

i watched “to the bone” on netflix the other day and cried several times during it. very good movie, but it deals w eating disorders so be wary if you’re sensitive to that!

3. Do you have kids?

nope! and don’t want any

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

i tend to, yes

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people?

this is so extra and probably unbelievable but whatever vibe they give off. before clothes, before smile, before hair, before anything else I notice the kind of person they more than likely are

6. What’s your eye colour?

brown~

7. Scary movies or Happy Endings?

happy endings!!

8. Any special talents?

🤔 i don’t believe so. i’m a v empathetic person but i wouldn’t consider it a talent

9. Where were you born?

the capital of yeehaw aka texas

10. What are your hobbies?

reading, watching video essays on pop culture, diy/home improvement projects that always end up poorly, skincare, also watching let’s plays

11. Have you any pets?

nope! used to want a dog and on some level i still do but i’m just not about anything that requires extra responsibility from me rn

12. What sports do you play/have played?

lmao

13. How tall are you?

5′3”

14. Favourite subject in school?

hmmmmm i think right now i’m really enjoying all my classes where i learn how to create things using adobe programs, like photoshop, XD, illustrator, and in design

15. Dream job?

something where i can use my voice to simultaneously make people happy and help them. still trying to figure out exactly what avenue that may be for me

supposed to tag 15 people but i can only think of @stubbornghosts since she always tags me uhhhh anyone else ! feel free !

[alberteamllc]

Fancy That!

So there I was, your ever-humble narrator, enjoying a pint of something kind of fancy and minding my own business in one of the most chi-chi establishments on the Smallfellow main drag when who should blunder in one but one of those schmucks from the palace where I used to run that hobo operation. Of course he wasn’t in his dopey palace livery, he had on rags practically, which, like, was pretty racist-- this is a nice bar, wine and tapas and everything, look around you buddy, everybody in here but you is a halfling and nobody here has spent less than five silver pieces on their shoes alone, what, do you think all halflings walk around barefoot and eat ten breakfasts a day and live in pastoral squalor? Get real and try educating yourself for a change.

Anyhoo, he ambles up like he’s being sneaky and slips me this envelope. I guess after Prince Whoever had his big temper tantrum last time I went to collect what he owed me (it was embarrassing for him, but even more embarrassing for Ewer-- that moron got his adam’s apple turned to apple sauce that night!) they decided to try the “subtle” approach. Still pathetic. Strictly amateur hour. So I look him in the eye and loudly say “SORRY BUDDY I’M BY ENGAGEMENT ONLY THESE DAYS. IF YOU WANT THE FRANCIS FLIEG EXPERIMENT (my new nom du stage--like it?) I’VE GOT A SET AT THE BELL & WHISTLE FROM SEVEN TO NINE EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. NO ENCORES” but then just for the sake of appearances I take a little peak inside this envelope and holy st. merriwether dear reader did I like what I saw! Never let it be said I’m too stubborn to be receptive to a sudden change of heart. So I treat the bar to a round of the second cheapest champagne the place has and say hey look I’ve got this dry sense of humor sometimes, I really think we can work out a way to do business.

So I decide to indulge in some of that old-school Francis Flisk chicanery and dine and dash just to see what this stuffed shirt does about it. Squat. Good sign-- because I feel like his boss needs me for something illegal, and in most cases dirty money’s easier to get than clean money. Anyway we wind up at this apartment not far away, right on the edge of that human neighborhood, I forget the name, where all the hip young second sons and first daughters who can’t hack it in the dynasty game go to drink expensive coffee and become priests and priestesses of that tacky fucking bank. It’s one of those digs that you know the cops or the government keeps decorated in the most blandly tasteful and lifeless way possible to use for stake-outs and deniability stuff like this.

It turns out this job is my worst nightmare. It’s extremely hard work and barely illegal. Out of the shadows steps this cop. I know the guy. He’s crooked as the road to Schockonote, pardon a folksy halfling saying, the human audiences eat that shit up and it’s become a force of habit. Caowulf Cutty. A real bastard but he’d looked the other way for me plenty of times during my days with the Handsome Lads in exchange for modest kickbacks. But now-- what the hell?-- he’s acting like he’s never met me before and he’s got me pinned to the wall with his elbow at my throat and my feet dangling in the air, calling me criminal scum and this and that. Ok, sure, like he can talk. They make like they’ve got me in some kind of sting-- like, they caught me running tundra tar or something and if I don’t do what they say I’ll blah blah blah but I’m all like, yeah? Prove it. I’m clean, pigs (I’m not). After a while we work out a deal. I’ll keep 10% of the money in that envelope and they’ll stop hassling me about this alleged tundra tar business I did/didn’t do.

It’s like this-- once in awhile when I’m really hard up I’ll do a job for this guy Salomon Six-Fingers. He has a little tavern by the docks, slings this truly appalling sodfish stew but he’s a nice guy, honest, and somehow he’s managed to make a little name for himself running jobs under the nose of the Quiet Guild without getting killed despite being nice and honest. Mostly stuff the Guild couldn’t care about or fail to make overcomplicated because of course. And people work for him because obviously the guild doesn’t get a cut.. Or because they get off on pretending to have morals or professional ethics or whatever. Anyway one of the big things people go to him for is salvage jobs. Old ruins. Humans are too stupid to go into them because they think their precious mediators will pop out and say BOO at them and they’ll piss their britches so it’s good work for us halflings if we can get it.

All this time the dipshit from the palace hasn’t said who he’s working for. Like I don’t know. It rhymes with Rinse Cranselm Brinsatsi. But what they want me to do is they’re gonna leak Six-Fingers word of a ripe little abandoned mine called Sweetroll Hill and say the only thing keeping people out of that sweet ore is the fact that the place is overrun with the infamous Handsome Lads. Ok, yeah, “infamous,” big scary halflings running around with sticks and empty quivers. But I’ll get to that in a second. A little team is assembled-- including yours truly as the thief and the guy who knows the gang, knows the mine (which, I do and do, but again-- presumptuous and racist)-- and then we go and clear it out. But here’s the tricky part. All the way there I’m making little signals, leaving a little trail, and behind me, the fuzz. And on our way out, the triumphant heroes are caught red-handed with armfuls of stolen loot and a pile of dead halflings in their wake. I get off scot-free, the suckers who know about the place are in jail where they can’t blab about the location, and the “mysterious employer” gets to swoop in and take whatever he wants down there. Which sounds like a lot of work but again they wouldn’t drop this tundra tar thing. Oh well. The mine isn’t far and it’s run by a bunch of D-listers. Big-Stud Broly, who’s no Huge Hunk Haglund to say the least, and a snot-nosed little wannabe called Leander Hawthorne. If you want to know how vast and capacious the barrel they’re scraping the bottom of is, they’ve even got a goblin in their crew. I also get to help pick the team.

So obviously I’m presented with a moral quandary. I’m picking people for what’s essentially a suicide run. This is the end of the line for them one way or the other-- if they don’t die on the job (not impossible) or when the cops get rough with them (not unlikely), then they’re headed to prison for a long time. So I think and I think loooong about who I hate enough in this business to make this whole thing really hysterical and satisfying instead of just pretty hysterical and satisfying. I come up with a wish-list:

1. Davey Driftwood: This schmuck shot me with a crossbow once when he was guarding a caravan that me and the boys were trying to get our meat mitts on. He definitely doesn’t remember this but I know he kind of remembers my face because he always gives me this little nod and smile when we’re both at Salomon’s or that little place that gnome runs by the bazaar with the good bread. Couldn’t wait to wipe that goody two-shoes smirk off his face. He’s also some local celebrity upriver in the boonies because he knocked off some nobody bandit a few years ago. Occasionally some hick recognizes him at the bar and buys him one of those watery pee beers trash humans drink. I hate humble guys like that who don’t capitalize on a good thing. And I especially hate people who get famous for doing the cops’ jobs for them and then have the nerve to act like we can still be pals. DEFINITELY on the list.

2. Bloody Bonnie: B l o o d y  F u c k i n  B o n n i e. Ever meet someone who thinks they’re funny? That’s Bonnie. Some land pirate. Dumb term and anyway gnomes invented it. Yeah yeah, gnomes and halflings, different species, and I’d rather cut my own head off than kiss a gnome, but we little guys have to stick together and I hate it when humans bite our rackets. Speaking of which, right, she thinks she’s so funny. I’ve heard all the halfling jokes before and I’ve heard them all again another three dozen times from her. Wouldn’t kick her out of bed though. Had a brief idea about tipping her off before the bust and seeing how puny she thought I was after that.

3. Paolo the Exile: First off, what a joke. Who calls themselves “the Anything.” Can’t stand that bit. Second of all, I hate dwarves. I’ve only met the one but I hate stories about dwarves and I hate Paolo. Too quiet and I don’t like anybody who won’t show their face.

4. Roxan McClintock: People call her “Flinty” but she’s a Roxan through and through. You know these guys, these McClintocks? No, that’s McBEAM idiot, I mean the McCLINTOCKS. But don’t get me started on fucking McBeam. RIght, so-- I was born poor. My dad-- Moldew-- and my ma-- Instke-- they were both poor too. They grew up in tall grass over their heads and they worked until they died from it, because they were stupid. I’m smart. I knew I had to do whatever it took to have a roof over my head, with a chandelier on it, and a bed with eight pillows on it and a girl on each. And look, I’m young, and two out of four ain’t bad! The roof doesn’t leak and the pillows ain’t too shabby themselves! But yeah-- that’s why I degrade myself with these fucking jobs. Because I need to. That’s why I crawl through the dirt and show stupid tourist humans how to get through the swamps. For the money that I DON’T. HAVE. Roxan does all this shit because she “wants to.” Because “she ain’t no high class broad.” Yeah, stick a paintbrush down my throat already. She’s all “hey y’all” and “yeehaw” but Roooooooxaaaaaaaannnn is pure Smallfellow, get it? Her dad’s a university professor, her ugly brothers are university professors, they eat caviar and pear jelly with rich humans all day and wipe their asses with silk hankies. She should know her place and marry some rich tailor and cook fiddlehead fry every night and have a million dumbshit babies who marry rich tailors and so on and so on until they fucking choke on their gold pieces and die. If she wants to bark with the big dogs so much she can go bark in the kennel.

5. Huxley Swallowtail: This guy’s just awful. Just atrocious. Big hat with a feather on it. Pantaloons with stripes. Just the worst. The worst. Opposite problem as McClintock really. He acts like he’s some Seven Fingers of Sin gentleman thief but he’s really just alley trash who made his bones breaking arms for loan sharks and beating up younger kids for their lunch money. You can’t smother trash stink with fancy cologne.

But unfortunately I can’t pick all of these clowns so I write down DAVEY DRIFTWOOD in big block letters on the top of my little sheet of paper and then I roll a dice for the other two. Paolo and Roxan it is. To make a long story short the job goes fine. It gets dicey for a minute because I’m saddled with three incompetents. McClintock makes friends with some revolting hermit and comes back waving around some magic stick and later on they tip off the entire camp somehow and wind up cowering behind boulders. But it works out fine in the end. McClintock is shipped off to Fort Stolas to crack open rocks for the rest of her life-- priceless-- and Davey gets to have his precious reputation dragged through the muck. The best part is the dwarf-- he makes this pitiful “don’t worry about me, run, I’ll hold them off” martyr complex speech and just as they put a dozen windows in his stupid body he can see his friends getting hogtied and hauled away! God I wish he didn’t wear that fucking helmet so I could see his face when he realized he died for literally nothing. Exile, right, exile from reason maybe.

For a few days I’m walking on air. I have money in my pocket, shows booked, and I get to go to sleep dreaming of  McClintock and Driftwood toiling away in their cute little prison pajamas. But then that guy the Octopus shows up at my door. I’d heard stories but the first time I met him actually was the bust at the mine. He was in charge. I didn’t like him. His face didn’t change the entire time-- just straight lines. Before I know it I’m on the ground, can’t move a finger, and he’s telling me I’m coming with him. Well, not much I can do about it. So off we go and I realize we’re rolling up to the palace. I’m terrified. I mean, I’m cooking up a dozen escape plans but I’m a little scared, I’ll admit it. In we go and I’m trying to play it cool and he shoves me in this huge room with a fireplace and portraits of rich humans who look like they have permanent constipation and holy moley it’s the prince himself! Again. The first time I was kind of in awe of him. He knew how to run a good racket. But this time-- well…. I don’t know. On the one hand… I was scared. He didn’t… look right. Something lifeless about him. About his eyes. And that tiara or whatever, which, and I mean I didn’t get a good look, but looked like it was made for an elf head or an especially fat gnome head, it was… on him. Let me back up. It was on him but it shouldn’t have been. It shouldn’t have fit. It… there wasn’t blood but… I don’t… I can’t explain it. I… I was shaking, friend. But on the other hand it was kind of sad. This wasn’t the guy I’d seen knock the smirk right off of Elias Ewer’s face. This was somebody who didn’t know where he was going. You get a sense for that kind of thing in the circles I used to run in. People taking stupid risks and picking pointless fights because they’re just running out their time on this stupid planet and are trying to speed up the process. That was him. He looked exhausted.

But, you know, I tipped back over into scared pretty damn quick because-- oh, hey, this is off the record, right? Ok, good. Right. I tipped back over into scared pretty quick because he bares his teeth just like a dog and he’s on me with a fancy saber, just bludgeoning away with the pommel. I’m on my back with the first hit, because I’m fucking shocked, and then he’s got his legs on either side of me just going to town. I’m-- I’m blubbering like a baby, trying to wave my hands, say no no, get off me, and he’s got me by the lapels slamming me into the floor saying “Leave the McClintocks out of this, leave the McClintocks out of this, you filth, you worm, do not touch them, do not bring them into this” or something like that. Which-- what? Really? They’re well-off by halfling standards but what does he care about a pack of three foot tall hypernerds? But one way or the other he’s practically foaming. It takes that scrawny bodyguard of his to pull him off me. The guy dusts me off himself and walks me outside. He apologizes! He apologizes right to my face. I forget what I say. I don’t remember the rest of the night really. I got drunk. I got really really drunk.

But now he’s dead. Funny how that happens to people who cross me. And McClintock’s out of jail. Look, I can’t get revenge on the prince, because the idiot got to himself first. But when you mess with me and there’s something important to you, I’m going to do what I can to break that thing. And when you’re giving me a concussion while drooling some nobody poser’s name into my face, I don’t forget that name. And she’s not gonna forget mine.

[holdoncallfailed]

for context, i had to analyze margaret thatcher’s eulogy for reagan as one of the required essays in my AP english language exam my senior year of high school. there was no information provided about either thatcher or reagan beyond her insipid memorial to him and instructions to break down her rhetorical techniques or whatever. i was furious but after the exam none of my classmates were the least bit bothered — almost none of them knew who thatcher was, and no one had any strong opinion about reagan because we had never been taught much about him beyond Capitalism Is Good, Yeehaw. this document had been presented to us like it was an innocent speech that could simply be analyzed from a literary standpoint rather than a disgusting piece of propaganda written by one of the modern world’s worst politicians for another one of the modern world’s worst politicians.

also before y’all start shitting on these traumatized teenagers for being too centrist/moderate with their demands re: march for our lives, please consider that most us history classes don’t even make it to the vietnam war era, never mind the 80s/reaganomics and then the war on terror. what is addressed about these decades is done in a way that (surprise!) paints the US government as the good guys in every situation, regardless of all evidence to the contrary. even though i was distrustful of the education i was receiving, it wasn’t until i left high school that i understood the level of indoctrination i had been subjected to regarding this country’s past and present politics. so maybe before you write them off entirely try to remember how truly knowledgeable you were about radical politics in high school (and this is without everyone in the damn country scrutinizing your every move) and consider giving them a chance to develop their ideas/politics

[nim-lock]

the fury of “it comes out COMPLETELY differently if I intend to do something with a piece” vs. “yeehaw we can do whatever we want, no capitalism involved” >:| like at this point I’ve trained myself to draw on command, but the fluidity really starts disappearing if I second-guess myself