#drugs are bad kids

[shiiro-arts]

Try to imagine my stupid ass face when I realize that I do, in fact, have an Instagram account but I've been telling people that I don't.

I COMPLETELY FORGOT I CREATED ONE HOW CAN I BE THAT STUPID

MY INSTA (it's literally empty tho LMAOOOOOOOOOOO)

this is so embarrasing

[maidomaidomaido]

Eclair gijinka

I changed some things on her design

I think she can get thing out of her hair

Also random hc: I think she stole Axez's clothes and use them but bc she's normally on street the clothes are so ripped out and dirty

[yennao]

Girl there’s no way a shield woulda helped him.

[zivazivc]

this came to me in a dream

Floyd's emo ass and a techno troll could make scene kids...! Do you see my vision??? . . . Ravin is Happy Hardcore and Eddy M is Synth-Pop, that's how troll genetics work, right?

anyway...

i don't think floyd leads a proud life

[ovenproofowl]

bad blood is one hell of an episode. it literally opens with mulder straight-up murdering a regular teenager via stake-through-the-heart and he and scully are like pretty sure the FBI is going to be sued and they're going to be doing some serious jail time. except both of them remember the story differently. scully's story is predictably logical and straight-forward. the killer was drugging his victims before bleeding them out, mimicking a vampire attack by wearing fake fangs (which are proven to be fake. this is crucial. this kid was wearing plastic fangs when mulder stabbed him. in the chest. with a wooden stake.) what is also crucial is that mulder was a victim of this murderer's attack and so he was tripping hard when scully intercepts the killer. mulder - whilst tripping balls - is convinced that the killer has glowing eyes and flew across the room before running out the door. and so - whilst tripping balls - he gives chase and ends up stabbing the kid through the heart with a wooden stake.

and of course this is the x files and so while scully and mulder are arguing over who gave who the hardest time in their percieved series of events, it turns out that mulder was right. the kid was a vampire and the stake didn't actually kill him. the fangs were fake because he was copying the sorts of vampires that you see in books and on tv. he was a real vampire.

and it's not just the kid. there are bunches of vampires, including the sheriff. the whole town are just. vampires. the lot of 'em. and the second they're found out, they just up and leave without a trace.

sometimes the extent to which mulder turns out to be right in this show is borderline ludicrous, it's amazing, I love it. but what was even better was that the biggest point of contention between scully and mulder's stories wasn't even the vampire thing, it was whether or not the sheriff was actually hot.

[weast-of-eden]

i present: my favorite eric bogosian scenes in netflix’s the get down (2016)

[kugisakiss]

Au where Conan is a weed dealer. Cue him sitting inside Kogoro's office and laughing calmly with bloodshot, red eyes while smoking.

taking down the B.O. the "normal" way is taking too long. Conan and Haibara are going to build a criminal empire so large it will chase them out of business and they're going to start it by selling meth without getting caught because who would even suspect them?

[mewobrute]

i think dust wants something.

[midnightdemonhunter]

we're scared and we're coming for--

[ratguy-nico]

And just for fun this is a draw that I made a year ago of this two...like you see I have no style XD

Based on this foto of two good fellas (found it in tumblr NO IDEA who this people are ¯_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)_/¯)

[eternityembodied]

"Oh trust me, they'd love that" With that, she takes the gun from its holister spinning it a few times before pointing it directly at her face and placing a kiss to it. Then she points it to the door and shoots. It makes the expected sound but instead of a bullet a beam of light came out and seemed to 'dissolve' away the door to reveal a very different sight from whence they'd come from.

"Welcome to the backrooms my fair vampling" She cheerily tucks the gun away and proceeds into this newly exposed part of the former's home.

Honestly not much had been changed in this part, except that virtually everything was thoroughly trashed. All manner of creatures were strune from ceiling to floor. A bit like Cirque du Soleil on steroids. You know people in those hanging acrobat hoop things, contortionist, interpretive dance, and some cases of very loud clothing.

Music was also being blasted but it was 'modern' music so nothing Astarion would probably regonzie. Right at that moment it seemed 'Happy Pills' by Weathers was playing. His guide seemed to dance between the cluster of bodies cheerily handing out greetings as she went.

The door that had been there was gone and instead was replaced by a wall which seemed to show those on this side what was happening on the other

"Oh, we know. We know all about what went on here. In fact, I suspect it's one of the reasons why it was chosen as the base, well that and the fact that it's friggin huge" She gave what one could only describe as an obnoxious chuckle correlating in a small snort as she tried to regain herself

"Alright then, just follow me and ask away. I'll try to explain things on the way"

As they went past the intake area, things began becoming sectioned off into patient and research rooms with the patients seeming to be on the one side and the research seeming to be on the other. Everything seemed clean and clinical, simple and neat. Indeed, it was a far cry from what it had once been.

"As for the late tenant's possessions, there were tons of those left. Bunch from the living ones too" She chuckled her strange little laugh again. "The city was going to try and sell a lot of it off apparently but there was something going around about things being cursed and just the fact it had a bad connotation surrounding it with everything that went down here. Turn out though you throw bars of gold at people and they pretty much let anything slide, ha!" As they went further into the reformed mansion things seemed to become less and less populated. There was still staff, but the regulars of Baulder's Gate seemed to all but drop off.

"So, you used to live here then? Must mean you were one of his Spawn, judging by the way you were talking about the sun earlier. I'm sure they'll all get a kick out of that" That queer sly smile was back as they stopped finally in front of seemingly a shabbily held-together wooden door. Things were quiet. This area, for whatever reason, was empty

[erendur]

Elwing, "the people of Sirion" , drug money and bad decision-making

My two cents that nobody asked for on the Sirion situation (with (almost) no discussion of property rights ! because I think that's beside the point !), for which I will draw a lazy parallel with No Country for Old Men.

So : 1. The Silmaril as dirty drug money

In No Country for Old Men (book or film, makes no difference here because I am going to simplify the shit out of these themes), the protagonist stumbles one day on a drug deal gone bad at the US-Mexican border. There's been a shoot-out, and everybody is dead (I said I was going to simplify). Amid the massacre, the protagonist finds a suitcase full of what is clearly dirty drug money (several millions of dollars worth of it). He decides to take the money, and run away with it to a better life. He thinks his odds are pretty good : he is a skilled hunter, and a Vietnam veteran, so he can move around in the desert pretty much undetected, and can shoot well. He has good survival skills, and is poor. Obviously (spoilers), things do not end well for him. The gangs whose dirty money he has taken are very determined to get their money back (is it really "their" money is beside the point there), are obviously very violent, well-armed, and not squeamish. The protagonist ends up dead.

Now of course the bad guys in the story are the violent drug cartels. But also pretty obviously from my point of view, taking something from violent, determined and ruthless people; that they consider to be theirs, whether they are right or not, is very poor decision-making. It's not about what is morally wrong or right (the DRUG LORDS are in the wrong, obviously), it's about what is a sane decision and what is not.

I don't know about you, but if I were to find a stash of very obviously dirty money somewhere, I wouldn't bring it back home. I would leave its vicinity so fast that I would probably beat a world-record for velocity.

And the worst you think the Fëanorians are, the least sense it makes to keep the Silmaril away from them, especially after they have very clearly proven their determination to kill for it in Doriath.

Pre-Doriath, you could argue that few people knew about the oath. Even people who hate the Fëanorians would frankly be at pains to find anything bad that they did between Alqualondë and the massacre at Doriath (and Alqualondë was not about the Silmarils, or not directly). So the decision made by Thingol or Dior not to return the Silmaril at that point could have been born, in part, of a bad reading of the situation : they did not expect the Fëanorians to attack, or if they did, the expected to win (and thought they were in the right, but I won't go into this now).

Post-Doriath, though ?

Which leads me to : 2. Who took the bad decision to keep the drug money away from the violent drug-lords (and who are "the people of Sirion ?")

So now, lets' get to Elwing - and "the people of Sirion" (I'm using quotations marks on this one, because I have thought about this).

The Silm says that "(...) Elwing and the people of Sirion would not yield the jewel which Beren had worn and Lúthien had worn, and for which Dior the fair was slain ; and least of all while Eärendil their lord was on the sea, for it seemed to them that in the Silmaril lay the healing and the blessing that had come upon their houses and their ships".

It's presented here as though the decision to keep the Silmaril - or, in my analogy, the drug money that the violent drug cartel had firmly asked to be returned - was a collective one. It's Elwing AND "the people of Sirion".

I have several thoughts on that. The first one is that it seems that even though Maedhros writes to Elwing, she doesn't seem to be too much in charge of the situation. We are also told, earlier on in the same chapter, that :,"Bright Eärendil was then lord of the people that dwelt nigh to Sirion's mouths ; and he took to wife Elwing the fair (...)", so it seems that it seems that Eärendil is in charge, and Elwing is...his wife. It's obviously my interpretation, but in spite of the whole "gender equality" among Elves, women seem to have very little power, especially at a political level, so I fully believe that she did not make that decision alone.

Who, then, are "the people of Sirion" ? For me, given the context and the time period Jirt is drawing from when creating his world, it is pretty clear that "the people of Sirion" are Eärendil's, or maybe Elwing's, advisors, or at least the most important people in Sirion (lords and the like), that were left in charge along Elwing when Eärendil left. I don't believe that it means that the decision to keep the drug-money was a democratic one, because we just have zero instance of democratic process/decision making in Tolkien's world. It's all monarchy-this and lord-that.

In any case, these people clearly feel that they cannot give the Silmaril back without Eärendil's approval. What right, as an aside, does Eärendil have to the Silmaril, you might ask (that's the "almost" part of the "almost no discussion of property rights") ? To me, it seems again that given the time-period Jirt is drawing from and all that, he has a "right" to it because he is the lord of these people, and Elwing is his wife. Married women in Medieval England did not have property rights, all of their possessions automatically became their husband's.

But back to "the people of Sirion". Even if you disagree with my analysis that it basically means "Sirion's important people who were left in charge along with Elwing because she can't be trusted to make all the decisions on her own because she is a woman", this would be a mix of refugees from both Gondolin and Doriath.

Now, the people from Gondolin have lived for centuries walled off in their magical city, and have escaped it amid hellish destruction and Balrogs. They would sound like the kind of people that would think that they could take on a few Fëanorians (wrongly, but they only find out about that later). So the decision to keep the drug money would make some sense. They think they can defend it.

The picture the quotation above gives of "The people of Sirion", however, make them look like they are mostly concerned with the Silmaril in relation with the people of Doriath. " (...)the jewel which Beren had worn and Lúthien had worn, and for which Dior the fair was slain."

Could be sympathy, could be the people of Doriath speaking there. And that's where I feel like screaming "give the drug money back to the merciless drug lords, you fool !!!!" Because, if the people of Gondolin get the benefit of the doubt as to how much they know about the evilness and the determination of the Fëanorians, the people of Doriath do not ! They were there ! They fled from the massacre ! How on Earth do they think that keeping the Simaril is a good idea ???

And then, we have the final lines : "for it seemed to them that in the Silmaril lay the healing and the blessing that had come upon their houses and their ships."

They don't want to give the Simaril back, because they think it does them good. The Silmaril as a holy object seems wholly addictive, and no one seems to be able to give it up voluntarily. And to go back to my drug money analogy, would a bunch of refugees be able to benefit from a few millions dollars, and do good things with them ? Sure, they would. Would they put the money to better use than the drug-lords ? Sure again. Does it make keeping it a good decision ? Nope, certainly not.

So, to sum up that long portion, "the people of Doriath", along with Elwing, seem to take the decision to keep the Silmaril because

some of them, the Gondolin ones, might underestimate the Fëanorians' determination / overestimate their strength ;

they think they can't make the decision to get rid of the Silmaril without Eärendil, their true lord ;

they are making decisions based on the sunk cost fallacy effect (the Doriath people have already suffered so much at the hands of the drug lords, we can't give them what they want to make them go away, even though we know first hand how determined and ruthless they are - not rational decision-making - it's the same logic that makes you watch 4 seasons of a bad series because you've spend so much time watching the first 4 that you don't want it all to have been for nothing - or throw good money after bad - yes, that car has been a defective piece of crap from day 1, but I've already spent so much money on it that I have to keep going in the hope it eventually finishes by getting better)

the Silmaril is addictive

And all of this just makes for poor decision-making.

And my conclusion would be :

don't take the drug lords' money

don't think you could do good things with it and that that's reason enough to keep it

don't think that having had your relatives murdered over it should mean that you have to keep it all cost

and just bloody return it if you are asked for it, even if you think that the tone of the letter is a little bit stiff and haughty. It's not about who has a right to the dirty money, it's about saving your own skin.

[hollowfairybabybat]

lemme tattoo u with some dumb lil cute design then u n then tell everyone its ur kids drawing

[pinkmandias]

walt’s contempt for jesse & his addiction is soo wild to me given that this is the same man who gets extremely drunk & takes more than his prescribed dosage of pills to cope when his life is at its worst (his own doing) on multiple occasions… like he has absolutely zero empathy whenever jesse relapses & makes absolutely sure to throw it in his face as much as possible that he doesn’t think that jesse will ever be anything but an addict & that he’s weak willed & stupid for something that he literally cannot help.

the shit he says when he’s trying to convince jesse to stay and work with him in s5 is all pretty vile (even though he tries like. three different methods of manipulation. none of which work bc jesse is all too familiar with walt’s bs at this point) but when he goes from telling jesse he has no one in his life (his doing, again) & nothing but video games & go karts to saying that jesse will relapse again because he’ll be too bored & lonely?? when he says that jesse won’t believe he’s upset about drew sharp unless he curls up in a ball and cries and gets high? like jesse does? like walt does not also abuse substances to cope??? ohh that man is burning in hell fr

[autisticrosewilson]

I want you to know I am EATING UP your headcanons about Willis and Catherine, posts that treat them like people (and not just their failures) are so hard to come by. Thank you for sharing ❤

Thank you for reading! Not a lot of people are generally interested in a more grounded perspective on the Todd's.

What DC has done to the Todd family has SO much underlying classism, and as someone who grew up in a very similar environment it always grosses me out how people make them completely devoid of any actual personality. Catherine becomes the miserable helpless wife who passively allows her husband to throw around her kid at best or a mindlessly neglectful addict at worst. Willis becomes violent and uncaring about the people he originally died to provide for, he gets reduced to the most bad faith interpretation of a criminal and in doing so it really misses the point of Jason's character. It's no wonder so many people mischaracterize Jason as trigger happy, as someone who doesn't care about petty criminals or thinks all addicts are disgusting or all dealers are heartless monsters.

They fail to see that in growing up impoverished and seeing his dad commit crimes to provide for them, in watching his mother self medicate after the healthcare system fails her, he learns to empathize and he knows where the root of the problems lie in a way someone like Bruce or Dick never could.

[whoblewboobear]

Me vaping during this episode 🫢💨