#he EARNED that win
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"how did the guy with no friends win?"
except, he did have a friend in the end
Pearl, a past winner who was also all alone the entirety of DL and went mad because of it
Pearl, who won because the person who betrayed her at the very start atoned for what he did by sacrificing himself and giving her the win
("I guess I forgive you after all...")
Pearl, who after healing from that betrayal went on to open her heart to alliances in the end (Nosy Neighbors + Grian et. al.) and eventually did find one she could call...family (The Mounders)
Pearl, who was the ONLY one to extend that invitation to the friendless villain ("I guess you found your family after all, Scar")
Because she was the only one who knew what it was like to be all alone, like him
But also come back from that dark place and reach out to someone who suffered just like her
And in the end they became a duo, she even tried to sacrifice her life for that fellow 'undeserving' lonely person, and only didn't because he wanted a 'fair' (for a given definition of that word) fight
Even at the end, Scar's "I'm gonna get you Pearl!" loses just...a tinge of the angry, bitter bloodlust he'd been baring throughout the session, and sounds almost playful
And then "she's dead scar. you won."
He killed the only person left who considered him a friend because she, in a sense, gave her life to him
It didn't start with the duel. It started with her hand of forgiveness.
but also because Scar really did become so much better at pvp like dang his red kills were vicious
#heeho i'm back to talking about funny minecraft creators in their funny improv series causing unintentional pain to their fanbase again#secret life smp#traffic smp#life series#pearlescentmoon#goodtimeswithscar#i'm in no way trying to take away from scar's achievements#he EARNED that win#but like many people i'm just really fascinated with the storytelling and unintentional character development that unfurled here#both negative in scar's case#but less talked about is pearl's positive one#i seriously feel she was far less unhinged in this one even after becoming red pearl#she even did her usual crazy singing thing but then went 'oops sorry'#like i know it was just a gag but it unintentionally came off as actual character development and that's hilarious
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having fought every boss in the game now, daddy Whore's grab is the funniest one in my eyes
#hoarah loux#second phase grab i mean... more like a yeet#genuinely cracked me up every time to the point where i felt carefree childhood joy#I'm sorry Godrick... your grab was the funniest up until your father figure#he earned that win#elden ring
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This was one of the best NASCAR races I’ve seen in awhile. Absolutely wild from start to finish, and cleaner racing than I expected given the inexperience and weather conditions.
And I am so happy for SVG winning it, he fucking earned that, superb racing from him all weekend day. I hope this win means we get even more drivers from other disciplines in the Project 91 seat in the future (and hoping Kimi is willing to come back and win in it too).
#nascar#chicago street course 2023#shane van gisbergen#he earned that win#was worried with the radio issues early on#my consolation prize for button doing poorly
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911 Lone Star | S3E9 -> S5E1
#911 lone star#911lsedit#tk strand#tommy vega#owen strand#my gifs#911ls parallel#tommy vega racking up the referral credits at the local grief counseling group#with the third one she earns a free coffee#I do love that she brought both of them with her#it's such a tommy thing to do#but also the comparison of how tk walked in there willing to share and be open#while owen treated it like an argument he needed to win#is INTERESTING to say the least
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Absolutely sending me that vasco sleeps butt fucking naked with his weird little Victorian doll boyfriend
Different strokes for different folks.
Vasco finds sleepwear kind of unnecessary and restricting. He doesn't insist on sleeping nude and can go to bed decently dressed if the situation calls for it, but if it's up to him and he's comfortable and in trusted company, he prefers wearing very little.
Machete gets cold easily and has weird body image issues, not being properly covered tends to distress him. Plus he has a thing for high guality garments and wants to look pretty or at least passably presentable even in bed.
#Vasco grew up smothered in luxury so even though he enjoys dressing flashy and taking care of his appearances#he still ends up prioritizing comfort and convenience especially in private#the thought of somehow falling from his high lifestyle scarcely crosses his mind#Machete grew up in ascetic surroundings and wasn't allowed to have nice things until he began earning his own money as an adult#when he eventually started being able to afford silk (the softest fanciest material around but outrageously expensive)#there was no turning back he wants to wear that 24/7#Machete thinks Vasco is hot (easy on the eyes) and hot (warm to the touch) so he may sleep butt fucking naked in his bed all he wants#and Vasco thinks Machete looks cute in his silly frilly nightgowns and he knows he wears them to feel better about himself so why not#everybody wins#answered#anonymous#Vaschete lore
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the thing about being the highest-ranked and most-decorated officer in any GAR/Guard capacity, fox thinks, is that unsurprisingly nobody could give less of a shit or listen to anything he says. it’s not like he earned those medals and recognitions and perfect test scores or anything, now is it, kote?
or, after the zillo beast disaster, the coruscant guard medbay just so happens to be much closer than the GAR one, and surprise surprise, senators don’t want meatdroids to be treated in their facilities after they’ve just protected them with their lives. fox tries to reason against this. fox is unsuccessful, because no one listens to fox.
which is how he finds himself crammed into a corner along with cody, ponds, bly, rex and their jedi, looking out across a medbay which is quite frankly a goddamn disaster rivalling the fight with the zillo beast in proportions. skywalker tries to step out towards one of the medics, and has to be pulled back by the collar of his shirt by amidala, squawking loudly when he’s nearly rammed over by mauler, crucifix and a shrilly screaming crash cart.
it’s not like fox said this would be a bad idea or anything.
“um, vod”, cody begins, unsure, “what’s - is that guy sewing wooley up with thread?!”
meathook, who is in fact sewing wooley up with thread, and looks about as happy about it as his patient, and who fox honestly thought was going to cry when he announced the influx of patients about to descend on them, snaps something about triage over his shoulder at hound, whose arm is decidedly bent in a way it shouldn’t be, jerking his head to gesture at the rickety cot next to cody’s ARC. fox is pretty sure they salvaged the thing from a dumpster. he slaps a bandage on the stitches that fox fears might be from the same dumpster.
“putting those advanced reconnaissance training skills to use, kote”, says fox, who invariably turns into the worst possible version of himself whenever cody opens his mouth within a klick of his vicinity.
skywalker harrumphs, evidently at the end of his impressive patience. “well, why?! hey, trooper! these men need bacta!”
“do they, now? i’m sorry, i hadn’t noticed”, a low voice hisses angrily behind them, and fox is the only one who doesn’t jump on account of he’s too dead inside to be scared of his CMO anymore. a grave error, he’s sure. “i guess i’ll just go pull some out of my ass along with a tank and painkillers, then! hadn’t thought of that yet!”
warcrime, whose eye is twitching and who is holding a bloody saw in visible consideration of using it, pins skywalker with a look that has had shinies all over the guard peeing themselves. “we don’t have any fucking bacta, you absolute numbskull.”
“but that can’t be right”, cody pipes up again, next to a very troubled looking generals kenobi and windu. fox sympathises very much with the patented migraine-glare on windu’s face. “why do you not have any bacta?”
“because i like to smear meiloorun juice all over my patient’s stab wounds, commander”, warcrime says. “it’s a homeopathic medicine thing. because the chancellor refuses to give us any, genius.”
“what?!” skywalker says, bristling. “that can’t be true! he wouldn’t -“ he’s cut off by his comm pinging loudly over the moaning and crying in the medbay, and warcrime leaning close enough to be heard with a whisper.
“well, he would, and if you don’t believe me, there’s a holorecording of him telling marshal commander fox why biological weapons on the homefront have lower priority and therefore half rations of everything. now get out of my medbay or find out why they named me warcrime, sir.”
amidala, the collective braincell holder for both her husband and the senate combined (on occasion), tugs him out of the way of warcrime’s bonesaw and ire. fox, who very much enjoys not being the primary target of a medic for once, unfortunately also has to be the adult in the room. “sirs, a transfer to the GAR barracks medbay might be a preferable- AH, MOTHERFU-“
“get him, stabby!”, rabid whoops from where he’s resetting thire’s nose, who echoes a much more nasal and muffled, “go, ftabby!”
“get kriffing FUCKED, stabby, you absolute-“, fox seethes, trying to swipe for the medic’s head and nearly planting one on cody instead by accident, who unfortunately manages to evade the swing fox is admittedly projecting very obviously on account of the sedation hypo jammed into his flank.
“medbay rules, sir”, stabby calls, dancing away towards mauler and his crash cart, while someone bumps something solid and flat against the backs of fox’s thighs that he can’t help but tumble back on, already seeing two codys and blys dancing around his vision. “commander fox protocol dictates he is to be helped to sleep as often as possible, sir.”
“a desperate but well-founded measure, i’m sure”, kenobi of all people agrees, and fox waves an unsteady hand in what might be the general’s direction to the sound of cody’s scandalized gasp. “as you were, officer… stabby.”
“traitors”, fox slurs, just as his com-unit begins to ping with an urgent notification. before he can try and answer it, warcrime has ripped it off his arm and flung it somewhere out of his sight. eh, it probably wasn’t anything THAT important, fox thinks. and if he wakes up two days later to a near-hysteric meathook kissing the glass casing of the guard’s brand new bacta tank over and over again, he decides to just roll over and go back to sleep.
#commander fox#corrie guard deserves better#oc corrie guard medics my beloved#the com was in fact an emergency alert that the zillo beast wasn’t as dead as they thought it was and bit palpatine’s head off#‘oh no’ says fox ‘how horrible’#‘-anyways-‘#jedi order absolutely horrified at the state of things immediately begin to occupy guard headquarters#mace gives himself force exhaustion trying to heal troopers#he is not in fact a healer#kix who is horrified to hear all about this immediately puts in a temporary transfer notice along with a small army of medics#they come bearing all kinds of contraband once they find out about the lack of adequate food as well#it turns out murder and insults do in fact solve all of fox’s problems#stabby has to admit to a very concerned kix that he’s not actually medically sedating fox every other day#‘i only did that once out of desperation and ever since i’ve made a point of sticking him with an empty needle every now and then’ he sayd#‘poor thing’s so exhausted he keels over immediately’#fox gets his monthly eight hours and stabby gets to earn his dues: win win#kix is reluctantly impressed
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Rengoku-san was so, so close to cutting off Akaza's head, yet Akaza still felt more terror about dawn.
#i'm just#sitting with this#Akaza was stunned by Rengoku's strength yes#but he's seen a lot of Hashira who were ultimate unable to overpower a demon#Rengoku was already clearly dying at that point if he stayed human#Akaza was more worked up about that than his own peril initially#Rengoku was so strong and yet#AND YET#it just goes to show how overwhelming outmatched humans are by nature of being humans#but Rengoku chose this#for him it wasn't about winning and proving his own strength#like what might have motivated easily disheartened Rengoku ancestors#it was about not letting that demon harm anyone else there#hence why Tanjiro dying would have truly meant Rengoku's loss#but despite his hard earned victory#Akaza felt no fear of him#not really#humans just aren't the sun#and this is why the 12 Kizuki are always so stunned when they are defeated#BUT MUZAN DIDN'T TRULY KNOW FEAR UNTIL YORIICHI ANYWAY which goes to show how far a league of his own lonely Yoriichi was#my head is in my hands#things that happen when Mugen Ressha music goes through your head during the work day#rengoku kyojuro#rengoku kyoujurou#akaza
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semi-dark king merlin au, someone from ealdor tells king cenred about merlin and he is captured and held as a slave in essetir. since merlin despises captivity and servitude, he’d rather be dead and free than alive and in chains so he acts out and pisses people (especially the king) off so they’ll think him too much trouble and kill him. at first they stick to beatings until merlin manages to get his chains around a few necks and now has a body count so they kill him…..only he wakes back up a few hours later and king cenred is Intrigued and keeps him close. merlin keeps acting out but no matter how many times they kill him, he won’t stay dead. merlin has this moment after waking up perfectly fine after his twenty seventh death where he is hopeless and believes there to be no escape, not even thru death. a few other sorcerers in chains come and help him clean up and give him a lil peptalk, realizing him to be emrys, and then they revolt and take over the kingdom and crown merlin as king and now uther is like “wtf” bc his neighboring kingdom who was kinda sorta on his wavelength about sorcery, though uther did not approve of keeping them alive, is now a kingdom ruled by magic. he goes to war with them but with magic running free and fucking emrys on the throne, they don’t make a lot of headway. anyways merthur meet on the battlefield, enemies to lovers, you get it
#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#king merlin#arthur pendragon#merthur#fanfic#fanfiction#fic idea#writing prompt#king merlin of essetir#the angst is crazy#merthur despising each other bc to arthur merlin is an evil sorcerer while to merlin arthur is just like his father who is just like cenred#slowly learning more about each other and seeing their kindness#slowly earning respect between the other#lmao those silly episodes where the hero and the villain come to a truce to fight a common enemy and then go right back to fighting after#morganas ‘betrayal’ to camelot is just joining essetir’s side#she learns to control her magic and finds people like her#uhhh#druids flock to essetir while the antimagic people of essetir flee to camelot#essetir kinda just becomes a magic kingdom lmao#THEY SNEAK INTO CAMELOT AND SET THE DRAGON FREE SO ESSETIR JUST HAS A FUCKING DRAGON#camelot is shitting their pants#when arthur becomes king hes just like ‘we gotta sign a treaty atp theres no way were winning#and i refuse to send more of my men to their deaths’#tense political situation where theyre signing a treaty - one wrong move and everything goes to shit#now that the kingdoms can live in relative peace arthur can see the good magic can do for a kingdom as essetir thrives#since theyre on sorta good terms there can be feasts held w merlin in camelot or arthur is essetir#slowburn babey
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The idea that McLaren should hamstring Oscar in the remaining races to increase Lando's chances of a WDC is ridiculous to me. And not just because the fact that hamstringing Oscar could very well be detrimental to his own development as a driver.
This isn't 2021 where the two contenders are so close in machinery and skill that defensive driving from their teammates is *required* for success. Yes, of course, it always helps. But in 2021 both Max and Lewis proved that -- whichever one did end up winning -- they had earned it.
It is incredibly challenging, I think, for anyone in complete honesty and with credibility to say that Lando has, on merit/skill/talent, absolutely earned this WDC or successfully made the case to be first driver.
Setting aside, McLaren mistakes, Lando has left a lot of points on the table throughout the season through unforced errors and poor starts. That's on him, and unless he can fix that, it will keep happening and other drivers without those issues will keep besting him. Including Oscar.
I can't, and won't, speak for anyone else, but unless Lando's form seriously improves over the next 8 races, a WDC for him would not feel genuinely earned to me.
#f1#formula 1#Max Verstappen#Lando Norris#Oscar Piastri#McLaren#Red Bull Racing#also do not misconstrue this as a problem with Lando having a WDC at all#if he earns it good for him#but I am fundamentally opposed to manufacturing a WDC win when even the driver himself has admitted that he hasn't earned it yet
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I just personally think that if you decide a character should be heterosexual or cisgender because you think they’re boring or you want to use it as an insult against them, you are probably not a very nice person.
#if you think making a character cishet is some kind of punishment. that’s weird. you get that that’s weird right?#because it means that you’ve decided queerness is a special thing that has to be earned by being cool enough.#rather than just. being a thing someone is.#you are showing more about how you view queerness than you are how you view cishets is what im saying#it’s a bad take. that’s all I think.#yes this is about ‘heterosexual’ winning that Sam sexuality poll. and every Sam sexuality poll.#because you will always see people in the comments going ‘lmao sam is straight because he’s BORING’ shut up shut up. go outside. touch grass
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You know, I'm sorry for another story time but my life has been very stressed lately and today I got a huge boost. SO.
As some of you may know, I moved states at the end of July and have been here since August 1st basically. Social anxiety is a struggle but I'm making it. And there's this easy to reach by walking convenience store and almost every time I walk there I walk past a gem store. And I think to myself almost every single time "I love the store has a bouncer". I didn't say anything to him at first! But one day I got brave and proceeded to make an absolute FOOL of myself as I am on my way back from buying some sodas and ask him "are you like the store bouncer?"
The man looks at me and smiles and gives a little chuckle and says pretty much yeah? And then I say more awkward things and then promptly leave feeling very embarrassed. I purposefully AVOID that lil corner for a couple days and then finally feel brave enough to walk by cause it's ... like. Literally right by my destination. Man isn't even outside that day and I think phew! I can't be creepy if I can't talk to him!
BUT THEN I SEE THAT HE IS DIRECTLY INSIDE CHATTING TO A WORKER. And he sees me. And smiles and stops whatever conversation he's having and exits the store to say hi. (I am definitely beaming, like a normal person, because I apparently am NOT creepy enough to this man more than a foot taller than me who could easily kick my ass if he wanted) So we just chat. For maybe ten minutes? It's very nice! We have a Very Normal Conversation! I feel better about the first interaction because I had a second interaction.
So now............ today. I am once again wandering around and on my way to lunch when I pass the gem store and I'm like "hello again!" to the gem store bouncer. We begin to chat again and he mentions a pendant they recently appraised that he likes and I, thinking this entire time that the store was ONLY appointment only and I would never be allowed inside, am casually mentioning "yeah, I was born in June and we have three birthstones and like.... none of them are dark enough for me. I mean there's pearl which I'm not a fan of and then moonstone and another." And so he's saying they have a sheet inside to show birthstones so we walk in together to find out the mysterious third stone.
And the sheet only shows pearls. And I'm like "this is a crime against June babies" and then I somehow start talking to one of the female workers and I'm saying "yeah I just kinda like walking by here and seeing the bouncer" and she looks at him and is like "oh I like that." and I admit I have no other idea what to refer to him as (I don't know his name at this point anyway) and she's like "most often security guard."
Ah. Yes. Like a normal person would think. Security. Yes. Not "gem store bouncer". She then leaves to grab a coffee from across the street and I leave with the bouncer and somehow we get into talking about wearing mostly black and how he's pretty goth and then I mentioned a sweatshirt my aunt sent me once saying "I'm only wearing black until they come out with something darker" and he grins and says it's a life motto. Then the woman returns with her coffee and he tells me to tell her what I said, so I repeat it and she looks me dead in the eye and says "that was made for me. Also I love that you called him a bouncer it's hilarious".
I now observe that he (all black suit black shirt black tie) and her (black sweater with black/white striped pants n black shoes) are indeed somehow the gem store goth club. And then she heads back in and he says he's sorry they don't have any cookies to offer me, they normally have cookies in the back for employees, and I'm like "ah no it's fine thank you".
And then I left feeling like I was somehow allowed to join the Cool Goth Club at the gem store.
Anyway, sup, my new favorite person is the goth bouncer at the gem store and he makes me smile so much when I see him.
#moe talks a lot#not art#as a life update otherwise i am struggling but i am doing a LITTLE better and might actually finally be able to open comms like i planned#even if its already 9 days past when i wanted to open them.... i might be able to open some soon#it will probably not be a whole lot of slots and i apologize but while i need money i also need sanity o7#long post#look guys im sorry i just think it is very cool that i somehow earned the amusement of a jewel seller by referring to the security man#as a bouncer because thats exactly what he strikes me as !#i say as someone who has never been to a bar or club and only know bouncers from crime shows#but it amused the cool goth seller inside and the goth bouncer is also amused so im winning here
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Trying to go through the tags to celebrate this win but all I am seeing is people saying that the win was gifted and Charles deserves better from Ferarri
#the same shit y'all said about singapore 2023#he qualified on pole and led every lap#therefore he WON#the win was EARNED#just say you hate carlos!!!!!!!!! stop making things up about why you think Ferarri are sabotaging Charles#f1#formula 1#mexican gp 2024
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the number of people cheering that gareth's gone... babe he ranks third for all-time victories as england manager and all european championship runs to the final have been under his management. no men's manager has ever done that. he completely transformed how the england team are viewed not only by the public but by the players.
#im interested in the social history and men's mental health in football OKAY#pisses me off when people slag off southgate as though he hasnt done anything#people have this perception and by people i mean white male middle aged football fans with receding hairlines that football needs to be -#aggressive and get the job done and that men shouldnt show any signs of weakness on the pitch#imagine the pressure of playing for a country of knobheads and all that expectation on their shoulders to win win win#im not endorsing or condoning how much money those guys earn cos football is absolutely fucking mental and#thats a whole other kettle of fish#anyway watch dear england#london and manchester 2025 thank u#* football culture#thats the word i was looking for#gareth southgate
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Congrats on winning round one of the autism swag wars Jotaro. You deserve it
#Jotaro Kujo#jjba#[ask]#[art]#[part 3]#and with your help he could WIN!!!!!!#i have to earn my blog title *throws you a jotaro drawn in 15 mins*
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Actually, Guzman is his spanish name.
OH YEAH some other folks pointed that out too, makes sense since it's an irl Spanish name (probably why I see it around a lot!) 😳
(normally it's a surname, I've only seen it used as a first name once in a blue moon -- but also in the pokemon world it's pretty clear that naming conventions aren't the same lol)
#oceandi answers#radicalldreamer#still harder for me to connect it to him since I played all the games in english -- it's only one letter away but it still feels just a#smidge closer than 'bromley'#frankly I hope someone out there calls him 'bromley guzmán' as his full name. and he just GOES by 'guzma' bc it sounds cool#that'd be neat#tag rambling#rambling ahead ->#speaking of guzma I spent a long time talking about aus with some friends and well. I think his dad's from johto skdjfksjdfskjd#iirc that was a HC back in the day amongst a small group of guz enjoyers.... but I think it makes SO much sense for gene's guz specifical#ly bc listen . hear me out okay he somehow knew about the bug trainers' convention and he wanted to go and usu'ally they#hold it in JOHTO. he's never won a gold medal for BATTLE but got the dawn stone as his first ever victory -- guess what region you can#get a dawn stone from in a competition that's based on more than just battling? YEAH -- JOHTO BUG CATCHING CONTEST BABEYYY#(hgss edition)#TWO of his main team are johto pokemon#he moved from melemele island to ula'ula where malie city/garden are -- inspired by johto and even including a johto-style gym#(I mean yeah he STAYED bc po town had a sudden amount of free real estate but why did he GO THERE in the FIRST place to join the#proto-Team Skull.)#though ig if he hates his dad maybe his dad's Not from johto and is from paldea instead ('rents could've been inspired by the name guzmán#and just wanted to make it sound more unique lol)#but either way he totally used to go to johto with his dad which is where he won a bug catching contest with his pinsir.#and then started winning battles there but always getting second/third place in actual like. /competition/ competitions. so not#getting the grand prizes/money/stuff/fame that his dad wanted him to earn for the family#ANYWAYS.
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memori in every episode » perverse instantiation part two
#The 100#John Murphy#Emori kom Spacekru#Memori#the100edit#quite possibly the most important win in Murphy's life#not only did he successfully pull off rescuing Emori#he also proved to everyone else around him that he was changing and bettering himself as a person#this went a long way in earning back trust and helped everyone to see him in a brand new light#and it's just super romantic in general#one of their biggest moments on the highlight reel!
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