#casualty counts

[girlactionfigure]

[afklancelot]

you want me to live in a house. the same thing that killed Tom Navidson

[resurgentclass-stardestroyer]

Starkiller and Ren becoming Supreme Leader were absolutely massive Ls for Hux but I don't think it's acknowledged enough that Supremacy's [Snoke’s ship] decimation was also a catastrophic loss under Hux's command that probably had casualties in the thousands on top of losing vital industrial and laboratory centers.

[machinatings]

I love Eight saying “I’ve never thought of my self as suicidal” in The Last as if the entire reason the divergent universe arc was a thing in the first place wasn’t because he tried to kill himself. Twice

[rhynerd]

Ahoy! It is time for a somewhat more on-schedule episode of Vex's Mechs and Memes. I have taken all but one other of @vexwerewolf's very excellent memes about the mechs of Lancer and voiced them like I'm Dave's Spokesman from LoadingReadyRun.

For what I believe is #27 out of 28 (at time of writing), I am going to present the one that probably served as the prologue for a level in Viscera Cleanup Detail. The Caliban!

I hope you enjoy! Also, three things of note: 1. I might not be able to get an episode in next week 2. The next episode will not be the last 3. You have the power to determine what the next episode will be through this poll

[the-faultofdaedalus]

kobiashi maru hitless NC/NW% speedrun WR (4:23.22)

[revindicatedbyhistory]

honestly what is even the point of condemning hamas when the level of forces between israel and palestine are so disparate

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

hered the kill tally video: https://youtu.be/uMzpQCsGb_I

in short the rules are: on page death not just injured, last touch claims the kill (even the genocides), and sario rips or weird dreams don't count.

Oh man, I cracked up at the description of Temrash 114's death. Yay for everyone but Jake!

But also the methodology makes so much sense. I was wary going in because a) the descriptions of battles are so close to one narrator and so chaotic that they're hardly clean counts, and b) there are loads of times the characters choose to leave controllers to the elements, to either die or not. Torren answers both of those considerations, and more, with some pretty solid workarounds.

Also, that final point about Ax... damn. Also a really good point, no matter how you interpret the particulars of his and Jake's relationship during combat decisions.

Link is here as well.

[musette22]

Maisie met her feline counterpart today 💗

[dallonwrites]

heads up seven up

thank uuu for the tag @encrucijada <3

okay for novel writing technically the last thing i wrote was edits (not even with the intention of editing really just playing around) on the until heaven opening (which is like. months old now but i'm not ready to actually draft the story so i keep quietly tinkering with the same set of 300 words and they don't feel first draft-y anymore) and the last thing i drafted was the lover boy opening so i'm just going to share both hehe 🫶 (also because the difference in sentence structure and thus length is sooooo fun to me)  

from lover boy:

“I’m good.” The man smiles like he believes him. He unzips and starts rummaging through a brown backpack and feels a need to keep a stream of words as he does so, fill the beachy quiet. How he and his friend — his best friend — had just got into San Francisco this morning. How they haven't slept and how they'd had been planning it for months, thinking about it for years, dreaming about it, how they stargazed the skyline from a gas station last night and couldn’t believe they had finally made it. Beau props himself up onto his elbows, half-listening, the man’s voice starting to blend into the waves, until he produces a Polaroid camera. “Could you get a photo of us, underneath the lights?.”

from until heaven (cw paternal death and vomit mention):

Joanne likes big parties, likes please, invite everyone! parties, likes what she calls chandelier parties: a self-defined philosophy that everyone’s lives would benefit from frequent doses of glamour, like a chandelier over an everyday dinner table. Felix has little experience with glamour; he'd brought a lemon risotto and gotten so wine drunk that, for a dizzy moment, he felt twenty-one again. He does not remember the party. All he knows is that he’s still drunk – in that half-melted, sludgy way that wine stays in you – and that right now, on the other side of the city, his sister is waiting for him because their father is dead and instead he’s here, stuck in a suburb he could never afford to live in, where he doesn’t know the way home and is still wine drunk with cherry-coloured blots down the front of his white button up which had, at some point unknown to him, become half undone. He knows that his headache is quietly growing vicious and he should take off his headphones, but they’re singing about Heaven and Las Vegas again – two places he has never been – and he knows that at some point, still unknown to him, his father died, and maybe that means he’s now stuck in Heaven or Las Vegas or somewhere in between. Or maybe that means he’ll just be everywhere, in the rain on Felix’s face and the ache behind his eyelids, and that’s how it’ll stay. It had been these revelations that woke him up before anyone else, on the couch of a seventies style conversation pit, dazed and then suddenly terrified, and it had been this terror that drove him to the bathroom because he thought he would vomit, but then didn't, and then noticed the roof was accessible through the window — which was when the cactus casualty took place — and now he's lying here, in the rain, all from a sudden and dire need for air.

tagging w/ no pressure @onomatopiya @musingsbycaitlin @filmografo and anyone who wants to be tagged!

[homolobotomized]

such a big fan of this page. nagumo's text emboldened, yotsumura's expression,, "shaddup ab why im keeping this dude who has no chance of recovery (barely) alive. let's talk ab the reason im keeping this dude who has no chance of recovery (barely) alive",,, good shit

[scare-ard--sleigh]

idk man i definitely feel like i'm missing something seeing the way everyone's reacting to the penguin vs my own feelings about him jamfvjkfbm maybe i was ogling him too hard and tuned him out ????????/

[a-xo-lotl]

i miss two episodes of casualty and then BOOM NICOLE AND NGOZI KISS ???

[which-hospital]

So we're two-weeks no-Casualty now, how are people holding up? I'll be honest, I've only really been missing the spoilers up until now, it's a weird thing to miss but it gave me something to be excited about almost every day of the week. I am missing getting a new episode tonight, though. I've just finished my first actual week of university, I'm drained from having to talk to people, I'm ill (I guess it's technically freshers flu but that suggests a level of partying that isn't really achieveable when you're still living at home and also not that into that kind of stuff - uni for me so far has mostly involved reading about medieval whalebone boxes and catching trains), and the only thing that would make me feel better is the horrible nausea of watching my favourite idiot paramedics losing every battle in the relationship trenches.

Having no new episodes also means I don't have any pressure to post about Too Much, Too Young or Switzerland yet, so I still haven't made that post. I think it's just that I wasn't too happy with how TMTY went and then Switzerland was so brilliant that nothing I could say feels worth saying... I'll get to it eventually. I do feel like the episodes were kind of in the wrong order? I think it might be that Driving Force was only 10 episodes long, making Switzerland the special episode, but I feel like it would've felt like it made more sense if Switzerland came first?? Not just because of how I feel about the episodes, I think it would've made more sense pacing-wise for the Jan and Gethin storyline if Hard Pill was followed by Switzerland since it basically happens immediatley after what happened for them in Hard Pill anyway.

I am thinking I might start a proper rewatch now that I've got nothing to do every Saturday night (I am realising as I type this how miserably boring I must be making my life seem, I have fun I swear, fun for me is watching bad movies and overanalysing things). I wanted to rewatch the Welcome to the Warzone chapter up to Once Bitten so that I could have episode reviews for all of WTTW and DF but the secret reason I want to do that is to get an excuse to talk about With a Bullet, which is probably one of my favourite episodes since the start of this chapters thing. Honestly, I might just see if I can get my non-Casualty-fan friend who I have propagandised into also caring about Sah and Teddy to watch that episode with me tonight. So maybe expect me to start posting those episode reviews at some point, or possibly expect me to just start posting episode reviews of seemingly random episodes that I just consider to be my 'favourites' ('favourite' is an interesting term in the Casualty world because there are some episodes where I theoretically hate large parts of what happened but I enjoyed how one storyline was dealt with so much that I just ignore that stuff - like I think On The Edge and Falling are also some of my favourite episodes but I don't know/know I dislike what happens in them beyond the stuff with Sah and Teddy).

[windowsandfeelings]

Casualties, chapter 3: “Your need for a bagel is an emergency?”

An Upper West Side adventure, a celebration (or two), a mother-daughter weekend, and a lot of complicated feelings.

[inspectorseb]

All my fellow Canadians who are outraged by Canada officially recognizing Palestinian statehood, sincerely fuck off