#god i hate this fucking world

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[marshyichor]

Hey here's shrimpo being a loser

Tiktoks algorithm fucking hates me dude

[gingerswagfreckles]

Probably the only thing giving me any hope at this point is that every few days some random gentile posts in the Jewish subreddit something along the lines of "I think I'm going insane am I going insane what's going on why is every single comment on my social media feed straight up Nazism why does nothing get taken down when I report it why is my niece simping for a terrorist organization what's happening are you guys seeing this shit." And the answer is always yes ofc we have been seeing this shit for a while. But it's always nice to get some confirmation that someone else is seeing it too.

[rainbowfartblaster]

VIKTORS HAND CARESSING SOOTHINGLY AROUJD JAYCES ARM I JUST DIED

[starstruck-critter]

drew the ISAT cast + whatever slugcat i think matches them most!

+ doodles for the missing scugs

[artuurle]

You and your hand-raised sacrificial lamb for the cause.

[novelconcepts]

I knew the instant the frog scene happened that people would be furious about the cold open with these strangers, but uh: hey, we needed a second away. We needed a second with these normal human adults, because the end of the last episode, them walking in? Horribly jarring! For the audience, because the audience and the team are the same at that point. We live with them. We see through their eyes. Even when we think we’re processing their shit as being insane—we’re right there with them, being desensitized, watching this new normal.

Spending ten minutes with these adults and then being thrust back IN to the girls’ situation? Equally jarring! You’ve had a taste of normalcy. You’ve let yourself, even without realizing, realign how things are “supposed” to be. And now we’re back, and it’s chaos, and a man’s head is caved in, and teenagers are spearheading a panicked hunt. We have to adjust all over again. We have to pivot back to where we were after this weird little reprieve.

Now. Imagine you’re the survivors. You spent all that time with your new normal. With your desensitization. And then they put you back into civilization, showed you the “real world” again. Told you this is what life is. As if they couldn’t both be real, as if you haven’t been living for two years under other conditions.

And then they made you pivot after your reprieve, right back to blood and violence and sacrifice and hunger.

Yeah, dude. That shit wasn’t filler, and it wasn’t because these frog scientists need us to care about them. It’s to put the audience on the same level as these kids we’ve been following for three seasons—and the adults who have no choice but to live with their own choices.

[ghost-bard]

I think at least some of varrics issues would be fixed if he looked into bisexuality and thats all i have to say on the matter

[bacchuschucklefuck]

okay unironically I love so much that porter is like this world SUCKS its BAD here and it HURTS you why do you care abt it!!! and literally every single bad kid is like ngl we just hate ur ass it does not matter what ur philosophy is

[sapphicdib]

I might have said this before but the nature of the iterator’s very existence is honestly horrifying. They do not die easily, and that is an understatement. Even in submerged superstructure, as the rain approaches, Moon’s siren still wails, with no one to alert but herself of her impending fate. A siren, crushed beneath hundreds of millions of pounds of water and metal, is still functional, screaming for no one. In the Saint campaign, parts of Pebbles’ structure are still active, producing steam and heat deep within despite being mangled beyond recognition, despite being fucking eaten alive. Do you think Sliver endured the same? No Significant Harassment? Suns? Chasing Wind? Without proper maintenance, it’s inevitable, and all they can do is sit idly and listen to their structures creak and groan, wondering when they’ll come crashing down.

An iterator’s death is not swift, it is agonizing, a drawn out whimper, a last punishment for daring to defy their creators. They weren’t designed to transcend, and it drives them mad.

[crossbackpoke-check]

blessed be (lorscher bienensegen) | telling the bees (wiþ ymbe)

"Bees" [remixed, abridged], Claudia Emerson // "Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now" [remixed. abridged], Matthew Olzmann // "Letter to my Great, Great Grandchild" [remixed, abridged], J.P. Grasser | Len Redkole, Nina Weiss, Brian Babineau, Christian Peterson, Mitchell Leff, Dave Isaac, Megan DeRuchie

[renonv]

Ignore the difference in styles but Two wonderful ppl on discord wanted to see me untwinkify Romano so I had to deliver

“Shirtless” (his tits are already out) vers :

[tempestandwhirlwinds]

MAJOR HADES 2 SPOILERS BUT...

FIRST SPOTTING OF ZAGREUS!! MY BOY 😭😭😭😭😭

also is Achilles (who is a SHADE btw) such a threat that Chronos froze him in time too??? LET HIM AND HIS HUSBAND HAVE THEIR HAPPY EVER AFTER FFS

[brainrotisseriechicken]

hi painter au clefdraki dont ask !!! forgive me if this sucks/theres any noticable mistakes its 1 am and ive been very drained this week....!!

capek jir...!!!ill delete it if i hate it by the morning

[daincrediblegg]

Big brain moment: I think maybe the biggest part of why Lamb has this attachment to Standish in particular above all of the other reprobates in Slough House is above and beyond because she’s literally the only person he’s ever really been able to save. Considering Charles Partner was directly responsible for so many of his Joes dying in the field and especially telling that story about how he slipped up in front of him and three (notably women) agents were killed as a result and probably feeling responsible for many more on top of them, he feels hopelessly disconnected from all the people he knew and to this very day carries all of the loss like a fucking ghost. But Standish is the only person that he was directly able to pull from that absolute train wreck. He’s the reason why treason charges didn’t stick he’s the reason Partner didn’t live to pin it all on her and it’s why he clings onto her in particular: running off to save her when she gets kidnapped, while also not letting her resignation paperwork through. She’s the only person on the whole of planet earth for whom he has been able to see a tangible result of all his efforts. Out of sheer circumstance, Standish is literally the only person he could have been a hero for (and in this way River is way more like him than either of them think- the only thing separating them being experience).

[kacievvbbbb]

The fact that Viktor was right there! They were right beside each other and Five didn’t even look at him. Viktor who was his closest sibling and probably his best friend for all he knew the concept of it. Viktor who made him those disgusting marshmallow sandwiches for months hoping he’d come back to eat them. Voice who was all Viktor had when they were kids didn’t even look at him. The world was ending they were about to die and Five didn’t share a moment with a single member of the family he crossed timelines to save. STEVEN! WHAT WAS THE RECIPE!