#good/bad dichotomy is OUT

[towerartt]

Has this guy from Borderlands ever cleaned a toilet? 

Handsome Jack: It was one of many household duties his grandma saw him fulfill. Her authoritarian streak taught him a lot, about discipline, hard work, most importantly about the value of sucking it up. See, he went from a low level programmer to the CEO because he wasn’t scared of tasks that are gross, dirty, or even demeaning. He'd say that his experience with cleaning toilets is the cornerstone of his success, actually. And that's exactly why being made to lick the toilet clean was an Awesome thing to happen to him as a child.

Rhys Strongfork: Blew up a space station over getting demoted to janitor. He would not even touch a mop. Cleaning is simply something that happens to other people. As the CEO of Atlas he does however make sure that those unfortunate other people are getting paid well. Mostly due to his own near toilet cleaning experience.

Timothy Lawrence: Dodger of chores: electric boogaloo. But he is a significantly lesser offender than Rhys. Before the double program, Tim had to make a living somehow, right. He cleaned a rather fair share of toilets. And he won’t clean even one more, he refuses. There is a limit to the amount of piss a guy can wipe up in a lifetime. He gets out of cleaning anything by being Weaponized Incompetence incarnated.

Katagawa Jr.: In practice, no, but he views the siblicide he committed as a metaphorical cleaning of shit. 

Roland: Was put on latrine duty during his service in Crimson Lances. As the commander of the Crimson Raiders, he never cleans toilets, but he does meticulously inspect them. If the conditions are not up to his standard he has a stern word with whoever is tasked with keeping things clean. 

Wainwright Jakobs: No Jakobs has cleaned a toilet in three generations. But Wainwright doesn't act like he hasn't. At least.

[starry-bi-sky]

What would a mother not do for her child What lengths would a mother not go There's a bond that exists between mother and child With no end to how strong it can grow It's a promise for life between mother and child It begins from the moment of birth.

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She is six years old, and standing on the porch at her Auntie Alicia’s cabin. She is six years old, and holding an old rifle in her hands, standing at the railing and pointing the nozzle at a large target a couple feet away. There’s a pair of old ear muffs covering her ears. Behind her is her daddy and her sister, and Auntie Alicia. She can’t see them. 

Danielle Martha Fenton is six years old, and her momma has her arms wrapped warmly around her, keeping the gun steady for her. It’s heavy and the butt digs into her shoulder uncomfortably, and she feels nothing but determined. And nervous. 

Her momma was teaching her and Jazzy how to shoot, and they’re down in Arkansas to visit Auntie Alicia for her second “Divorce-iversary” as Auntie calls it. She keeps a hunting rifle in her gun safe for the rabbits that like to nibble on her garden. She mostly grows rhubarb, which goes untouched. But her carrots and greens and other veggies like to be tempting snacks for the game. 

Regardless, she is six years old and learning how to shoot. Her momma and her daddy (mostly her daddy) have been banned from every shooting range outside of Amity Park in a hundred mile radius. So Auntie is the best place to learn, or so momma says. 

Danny thinks it's just an excuse to see her sister, not that she's complaining. She loves visiting Auntie.  

She’s already seen Jazzy do this, her momma told her before the muffs went on to shoot when ready. No use trying to fire when you’re not; you can’t afford to miss when shooting ghosts. 

Danny breathes out steady, just like momma taught her, and quells her trembling little fingers. She focuses down the barrel, and pulls the trigger. 

Immediately, the recoil throws her off, the side of the gun that her cheek was resting on knocks against her skin, harsh enough to bruise if it weren’t for her momma’s steady hands holding onto her. The bang of the gun startles her more than she thought it would, and her heart leaps up and runs a jackrabbit through her chest. 

The gun is carefully slipped out of her hands, and Danny lets it go easily, her cheek smarting in pain and her eyes wide and following up to momma. Momma turns the safety on, and with a gentle hand, pushes against her chest. Danny takes a few steps back, and slips the ear muffs off her head. 

Mommy is smiling big at her, something that Danny can’t help but replicate on her own face as her heart swells. “Did I get it, momma?” She asks, watching as she passes the gun off to Auntie Alicia, who steps over to take it.

“I’m going to go see, sweetie, but I think you did.” Momma coos, before planting both her hands on the porch railing and, in a single leap, vaults over the side and onto the grass. She’s dressed all comfortable for the summer heat, with her hair all tied back and in shorts and a tank top and nice boots. Danny’s ribs swell hopefully, and she stands on her tiptoes to watch her walk over.

“I’ll be hard-pressed to believe if you didn’t, Martha Mae,” Auntie tells her, grinning like a cat, “that was a damn good shot.” 

‘Martha Mae Knight’ was Danny’s granny’s name. Auntie Alicia calls her that because of her middle name — and because, by her words, she has her momma’s weird-shaped eyebrows and piercing blue eyes. The kind that could scare a hawk into singing like a robin. It was Danny’s favorite nickname ever.

Daddy laughs brightly, the sound painful on her ears but twice as nice, and despite the distance, Momma whirls her head around to shoot Auntie a glare; “Language, Alicia. Not around my girls.” She warns. Her accent always comes through when they’re around Auntie. It’s Danny’s favorite thing to listen to. 

“Do you think so, auntie?” Danny says, bright-eyed and ever-optimistic. Auntie Alicia nods fiercely as Momma finally reaches the target and searches for the bullet hole. Daddy then comes up behind her, still laughing, and claps a hand onto her shoulder so hard that it makes her knees hurt.

“Of course she did!” Dad boasts, as bright as the sun and twice as warm. He shakes Danny affectionately, wobbling her on her feet and pulling her straight into his side. She goes so willingly with a burble of giggles. “She’s got the eyes of a Fenton! And our family are darn good shots.”

Auntie eyes him up and down, her smile immediately fading off into a pressed line. “I’m sure you mean she’s got the eyes of a Knight. You couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn at twenty paces, Jack Fenton.” 

Jazzy holds back giggles from where she’s standing by the door, her ear muffs in hand, and Danny watches her Daddy’s dark eyes immediately narrow. Just like Auntie’s, his smile tapers off into a frown. 

Before he can say anything, there’s a cheer from the yard, and they all turn to Momma clapping her hands in delight. 

Danny immediately pricks her ears up, and would’ve darn near rushed over to the railing if it weren’t for her Daddy’s hand on her shoulder. She yells instead, excitement thrumming like a hummingbird against her ribs, “Did I hit it, momma?!” 

Momma beams at her with all the pride in the world, “You sure did, Danny!” And she turns to press her finger against the target, right on the inside red ring of the battered old bag. “Right here, sweet girl!” 

There are cheers from all around, and Danny’s heart bursts inside her lungs with shiny, sunshine glee. She puffs her chest out big, and smiles so wide it hurts the cheek where the gun smacked her. Her Daddy shakes again, squeezing her tight against his side in a hug that Danny happily reciprocates. 

“What’d I tell you, Martha Mae?” Auntie tells with a big wink and a wide grin, the gun still gripped tight in her hands as Momma makes her way back over. “You got a Knight’s eye.” 

When Momma makes it back over the railing, she hugs Danny tight and praises her shot. Danny looks her in the eyes and chases the feeling, and asks to shoot again.

[maegalkarven]

In light of Alicole reveal, let me just say that I will absolutely LOSE my mind (in the best possible way) if the reason Daeron was sent to Oldtown is because he has brown hair.

[bunabi]

rest in peace to whoever sent that 'um actually most Russians are villains' message

this is not that kind of place hon

[nyan-bynary]

My controversial jjk take is that mahito should've remained the main threat/antagonist throughout the whole thing

[summerhighlandfalls]

I hate hate HATE tiktok pop psychology for many reasons but one of them is that they’ve taken the terms ‘anxious attachment’ and ‘avoidant attachment’ and bastardized them into ‘clingy partner’ and ‘distant partner’ so it’s become commonplace for random people on the internet—grown adults who should know better— to talk about how they hope everyone with an avoidant attachment style stays away from them or how there should be a dating app for people with an anxious attachment style and it’s becoming too much for me to take because those terms were created to describe the effects of how someone was treated in childhood and infancy. This incredible vitriol towards people with avoidant attachment styles is so so stupid and hurtful when you consider that that term originally applied to people whose psychology had been impacted by childhood neglect

[gloriousmonsters]

'which hazbin character do you think least/most deserves Hell' well personally i think we're coming at this story from fundamentally different angles

[n7punk]

btw know as we go into this game that i am going to be critical and say stuff that sounds like talking shit but it's because i genuinely love these games, they were part of my personality and what my mental health rested on at some point, and when i say that stuff it's because i loved them/the characters/the potential and i just want better from it in some aspects. i am excited. i am going to rag on myself for being excited. im one of the rare me:a enjoyers even and have invested hundreds of hours in inquisition so im probably going to really enjoy this game. but i am going to make fun of it and da as a whole also because lets be honest: it kind of deserves it

[satanfemme]

"no mental disorder makes you a bad person" is very very true and a good statement to promote, but "if someone does something bad, they must've chosen do it, there's never any other possible explanation, and it's especially never b/c of any mental disorders" isn't true?? besides the fact that people can make honest mistakes (even big ones) without realizing what they're doing, or the fact that life circumstances can influence what choices someone even thinks are available to them in the first place, my hot take is that mental disorder can influence you to do bad things sometimes and that should be acknowledged.

that does NOT mean a person with a disorder would be a special extra evil kind of abuser compared to a neurotypical person (ie "narcissist abuse" is still a meaningless and harmful term). it also does not mean that abusers are more likely to have a disorder than to be neurotypical. but disorders are disabling, they cause disorder, it's right in the name, they negatively affect you and your connection to others... why do you think that wouldn't that affect your behavior too sometimes? I know my disorders affect mine. often in negative ways!

besides just "mental disorders are never disabling in ways that make me feel uncomfortable" being ableist, understanding this is important if you believe in prison abolition (which you should). "someone did something bad because they randomly chose to be bad idk" is just as unhelpful as "someone did something bad because they were born bad". but "someone did something bad because of X thing they're struggling with, or their Y need is unmet" is helpful, that's something you can work with and fix. integrate this into your anarchist worldview.

and lastly, tbh it's isolating to have "scary" or "bad" symptoms, and then get told by armchair "mental health advocates" online that you're just choosing to have those symptoms and maybe you could be a better person if you simply chose to stop having mental illness in the first place. so you know, don't be fucking rude lol

[raziraphale]

I'm upset about the gomens S2 finale (er, rather the last like 15 minutes of it) obviously but people that are genuinely upset about it in a "he would not fucking say/do that" way are aliens to me. you do not understand my man aziraphale. he is a cunt and a dumbass. he is still not ready to let go of the good/bad heaven/hell dichotomy he needs another season to stew in the Consequences

[scaredy-katts]

Suga seems like he would be really into extremes. Like, he’s either edging you for hours or overstimulating you until you can’t speak and there’s rarely an in between. Or with what he says in bed, he either degrades you and calls you his dirty little slut or praises you as his “good fucking girl” while doing the nastiest things to get a reaction from you (someone save me from the mean dom suga brain rot i’m begging)

W O A H-

opened my inbox and scrolled bc I haven't looked at it in a minute and THIS was the first thing I saw ohmygodohmygod I'm getting WHIPLASH

ANYWAYS

I had to breathe reading this HOLY SHIT you're so right though anon

[halyorke-vampiredisaster]

Most of the time In the Flesh is just another dvd case on my shelf that I don't think about and then once in a while I go to rewatch it very innocently and 5 minutes in I'm violently run over by how fucking raw it is and by how insanely hard it hits omg

[faunabel]

tw maybe? dark psychology thoughts. careful if you're in a bad mental space.

i think it's a disservice when people treat selfish and selfless as two opposites of each other.

nothing is ever truly selfless. i think part of a selfless person should be the motivations behind their behavior. you can care about others and put them before yourselves and still have your own motivations for what you're doing for them. that's part of being human. it's impossible not to have your own reasons for doing something unless you yourself are a mindless machine. it causes kind and giving characters to come off as shallow when they're reduced merely to a giver, or people overcorrect by trying to force generic "badness" onto a character. what are the motivations behind their giving? those motivations don't necessarily retract from their nature. you can be genuinely kind yet have motivations behind it.

also, you can be selfless and still do things for yourself, even things that hurt others. that does not make you selfish. selfishness is a streak of caring about yourself regardless of how it may affect others.

selflessness is seen as purely a virtue, but it can also be genuinely selfish, like for example, it's easier to do what someone wants from you than to assert yourselves against them. it might seem kind on the surface, but it's really all about you not wanting to deal with conflict.

[apricotopera]

one of my most deeply held beliefs about bbs (one of. many.) is that despite being a literal part of heart hotel ven’s closest parallel isn’t sora, but kairi. aqua is the sora parallel here!!

i think it’s important to me to see both ven and kairi as balancing forces - even though ven has no darkness in his heart and kairi is a princess of heart, they’re sort of the middle ground in their trio. while sora and aqua are pulled to unflinchingly follow the light and riku and terra are being manipulated by darkness, they’re the ones who can, in some way, see through that dichotomy to the people they love past it. kairi is the one who sees ansem as riku in kh2!! this is vitally important to me!!! both are also in a lot of ways seen for their utility - ven because he can make the chi blade, kairi esp in 1 (and the melmem flashback) as a princess of heart to make the keyblade of heart. this isn’t unique to those two per se (xion roxas and namine cough cough) but it is a fun parallel.

and aqua and sora are the seekers!! they’re the ones whose goal is to find and bring together their friends again!!! theyre the ones that are the most unflinchingly devoted to the light!! and they also have the same very stubborn devotion to their friends, the way that both of them won't back down that their friends Are good people, that they Wouldn't fall to darkness, that they Will find them. theres a reason that aqua tells sora that it's going to be his job to bring his friends back, the exact thing she is doing at that moment. theres a reason that she (accidentally or not) sends kairi to him. theres a reason sora ends up with master's defender, however briefly. that's the part of the lineage he's a part of.

[soft-serve-soymilk]

Imagine finally going on your laptop to work on your project that is rapidly becoming due because u beat the executive dysfunction and finding ALL your files deleted (art, apps, sentimental screenshots etc)

And then while you’re fixing your dad’s dumbass mistake file explorer itself corrupts 😞

[tenulegdolbesheket]

@2peachy You are right. I think they may be one of the worst types of the millions of people who are full of racism and hate.

conflating diaspora jews with the actions of the israeli government is not okay, yes, but have you considered it's not okay to conflate israeli jews with them either