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Johnny floating in and out of Jersey throughout his childhood and finding Daniel every time he’s there. Then he stops going back to Newark because his mum marries Sid and that guy’s too good for a place like New Jersey so Johnny ends up losing his first friend.
Then Daniel’s moving to California and Johnny swears to god he recognises the skinny kid but he can’t for the life of him put his finger on it.
#fic prompt#prompt#fic#johnny lawrence#daniel larusso#lawrusso#karate kid#cobra kai#80's lawrusso#johnny travelled when he was younger#his mother had a lot of jobs#first meeting part 2#might follow movie might not#they're still stubborn af
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jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:
Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)
Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.
LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.
It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.
The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.
So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.
So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.
#jenndoesnotcare#respuestas#long post#cw religion#cw mormonism#i've been thinking about how my mother was the compassionate service leader in the church when i was a kid#which in our area was the person assigned to manage collective efforts to assist other members in a crisis#this could mean that someone got really sick or broke their leg or something and needs meals prepared for them for awhile#or it could mean that someone lost their job and they're going to need help#it might mean that someone needs to move and they need more people to move boxes or a piano or something#she was the person who made sure there was a social net for every member in our area no matter what happened or what was needed#there's an obvious way this is good but it also makes it scarier to leave and lose access#especially if there's no clear replacement and everyone is hostile#i was lucky in a lot of ways - my mother was unorthodox and my bio dad and his family were catholic so i always had ties beyond the church#my best friend was (and is) a jewish atheist so i had continual evidence that virtue was not predicated on adherence to dogma#and even so it was hard to withdraw from all participation in church life and doubly so because the obvious alternative spaces#-the lgbt+ ones- seemed obsessed with gatekeeping and viciously hostile towards anyone who didn't fit comfortable narratives#so i didn't feel i could rely on the community at large in any structural sense or that i had any serious alternative to the church#apart from fandom really and only carefully curated spaces back then#and like - random fandom friends who might not live in my country but were obviously not mormon and yet kind and helpful#did more to help me withdraw altogether than gold star lesbians ever did
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Do y’all ever think about how Vegeta’s only ever mad at Freeza for what happened to his planet and he’s never mad at Freeza for what happened to him because I think about that a lot
#Like I think the anime portrays their relationship as much more abusive but Toriyama seemed to be consistent in the implication that#Freeza treated Vegeta VERY well — even Vegeta talks about his time on the frontline being voluntary and the only time he talks about being#“Worked like a slave” is to describe how Zarbon treated him. In the manga Vegeta implies Freeza usually refers to him with fond greetings#‘my dear’s and the like. Freeza was so quick to offer him a promotion in ResF and coo about Geets’ loyalty — which I think about a lot#as well — especially in terms of how totally fine Vegeta used to be with killing other saiyans but that’s another essay#Point is. I’m a huge fan of gilded cage theory. Not quite Mother Gothel levels like they’re a corporate military but I do always describe#Geets as Freeza’s favorite wardog and I think a big part of the culture shock for Vegeta having healthy relationships with people is#The idea that relationships do not have to be transactional with value based on performance — because if Freeza was always fond of Geets#In the way that King Cold is fond of Freeza (which seems true based on Freeza offering Goku Vegeta’s job right after he dies iirc) then it#For all the fucked up things that it is — was the most supportive relationship Vegeta had up until Bulma (or Gohan). At least from someone#who wasn’t dependent on him like Raditz and Nappa were — which loops back into transactional dynamics even if/though they were sincere.#What I’m saying is#The learning curve was so steep for this man and he still (hesitantly) took the offer to borrow some climbing gear and get to work#And I love him your honor what a great character#dbtag#headcanons
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So I may have been slightly obsessing over “To sir with love”, as one does, and a thing that has been circling in my head for the last few days is the way Tian's confrontation with his mother at the start of episode 13 and his talk with Yang at the end of the same episode echo and oppose each other.
Madame Li comes to Tian when he is in love, hopeful, begging for a chance at happiness, and how does she respond? She crushes it, with the revelation about Jiu and Mr. Ma yes, but mostly with everything else. You will never know love, she says, except mine. That stifling love who wants him to be someone else, that chips at who he is again and again and again.
Then Yang finds his brother (heart)broken, and Tian holds him back to confess his love, again, now in despair and shame and self loathing. And Yang response to that is as it has always been, that his brother is wonderful just as he is. You deserve love he promises, and I love you I love you I love you. A love with no reservation and for all that Tian is, a love always there.
And they both love Tian, they are both afraid and worried for him, both are going to great lengths to protect him, at this point both believe that Jiu has lied to Tian and played him. And. Yet. His mother again puts the blame on him, on who he is, makes him guilty of his own betrayal. His brother reminds him that it's not true, that the betrayer is to blame, and that the fault never laid with him.
And so it's no surprise that Tian pushes away his mother and the prison her love has built around him, but seeks the comfort of his brother's love who has always celebrated who he is.
#the contrast between the ways Madame Li and Yang love Tian was fascinating to me during the whole series#the way his mother keeps pushing him down into shame and his brother keeps lifting him up and celebrating all of who he is#also I was already pretty weepy halfway through the discussion at the temple#but when Mme Li said 'no one will ever love someone like you' I straight up sobbed#the violence of those words??? mein gott I had to stop the video a moment#and after seeing him smile like that at being loved?? believing he's being deceived is NOT an excuse putain#(anyway there is a lots of shared blame for the way Tian views himself (hi Mr Song) but she's done a big part of the work ngl)#on the other hand Yang get the Best Brother Award - leaving the rest of the competition far far behind#and don't get me started on Tian's crying face#it got to me every fucking time like excellent job here but also I ended up on the verge of dehydration too many times#Khun Chai#To sir with love#thai drama#lakorn#asianlgbtqdrama#Tian x Jiu#TianJiu#One31#thai bl#mine#gifs#ragongif
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2024 reads / storygraph
The Saint of Bright Doors
a surreal Sri Lankan fantasy about colonialism, revolution, mixing fantasy with the modern world
follows a man raised by his mother to kill his father, a god-like cult leader
but as an adult he puts aside his life of violence and moves to the city for a quiet life
he becomes fascinated with ‘bright doors’ around the city that never open and have no other side, and joins a group studying them to find out more
and a support group for those with divine heritage that becomes increasingly revolutionary, until the task he was made for reemerges and his life upends
#the Saint of Bright Doors#aroaessidhe 2024 reads#this is kind of hard to explain I dont know if I did a very good job here lol#it is weird and full of so many interesting elements. I’m still not entirely sure how I feel about it but?? I really liked it mostly???#It starts pretty small scale focused on the MC & slowly unravels the wider worldbuilding and narrative elements in a really interesting way#The first chapter or two I assumed it was typical high fantasy but then it’s like. oh this is a modern city. with emails and stuff.#The pacing is a bit weird - it’s quite meandering and also pivots significantly in the second half. tbh I’m still ????? about the ending lm#but also I am happy to float through on vibes.#and there’s some elements (like the doors that become….not that relevant) that I want to know more about. (as an aside - I saw someone say#that it’s a very clear retelling about Buddha’s son? which idk enough about but probably could give a deeper context to a lot of it)#writing style is kinda detached from the MC but also there is a reason for this that makes sense with the twist near the end!#which is a kind of twist i LOVE. Maybe I wish it had been emphasised a bit more over the story though? unsure.#I thought his mother's story was interesting also - you think she's an terrible parent just there for background context at the start but#then when she tells her story it's like ohh there's more context here.#also I hesitate to just say ‘if you like the spear cuts-- you should read this’ because I think the elements that are similar are done in a#kinda different way and might disappoint you if you’re expecting it to be the same as spear….but regardless the sort of dreamy writing#rich world; narrative with fantasy but also modern day elements; some of the writing style; mlm MC (tho not a romance)#idk. it will definitely not work for everyone but I enjoyed it overall#also it is full of queerness#bisexual books
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Not my cat flirting with every pet sitters I get him during my vacations lmao
#misc#this year it's a man#i was lowkey worried cause my cat don't know many men#(idk if they even can tell the difference tbh lmfao)#but this hoe of a cat smelled him and immediately targeted his legs#sometimes i wonder if he wouldn't cheat on me with another human if he had a chance dusjsjjejz#anyway the guy is a young man and as someone who struggled when i was younger#i feel like doing a good action paying someone to do a cool job#(i mean cleaning the litter is not exactly a fun job but getting paid to pet a cat is)#also i met him through my physio who knows everyone#because last year i chose a pet sitter through a pet sitting website#but it was hella expensive#and it's basically a scam cause i paid something like 150€ but only 50€ was for the pet sitter the other was for that shit website#fuck start-ups#anyway i decided to do it the old fashioned way#through social relationships#but i struggled cause i have not social relationships???#except for coworkers#but I don't want coworkers to go to my home#that's an absolute no#it'd be a violation plus i am ashamed of my home and shit#so i prefer someone I don't know at all#so if i get judged it has no consequences#(yes i have trust issues)#so i had to actually gather my courage and ask my physio if she knew someone because she works with lot of young adults and teens#and turns out the mom of the man was here and she said she'll ask him#can't go wrong with someone vetted by hus own mother lol#anyway he said cats are his favourite pets so we're good#Loki definitely sensed that he can plays him like fiddle
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Some people have the most atrocious takes on the people in Houston in the aftermath of Beryl and they all have shit like "guardian" and "I love everyone" and "peace for all" in their bios.
It's like the Tumblr version of bigoted Karens on Instagram having bible verses in their bios.
#Genuinely fuck the people who are doing this#I saw a building with the side sheared off today#The road my students live on is a minefield of downed power lines and trees#You know who suffers the most in these situations? Those in poverty#Those in mobile homes and trailers and spaces with less strong foundation#You know what population Houston has a lot of? People living in poverty#THESE ARE MY STUDENTS YOU ARE INSULTING AND SAYING ARE BEING POORLY PREPARED AND CALLING BABIES ABOUT IT#And me but like. Fuck insult me all you want I don't care#But come say it to C whose home has a tree in it and got fired from his second job because he had to take time off for getting covid#Say it to E who lives with SEVEN OTHER SIBLINGS and her parents in a single wide trailer whose mother hasn't been able to get back to me#You talk a big fucking game about being progressive and a leftwinger#But when it comes to it your empathy is conditional and if you get the chance to mock somebody else you take it#Because you being able to be 'right' comes before the honest and real lives of ACTUAL FUCKING PEOPLE who have done nothing wrong
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I am not exaggerating when I say I live with one of the worst cishet men I've ever met in my life and its horrible
Pretty big vent incoming in tags, just a warning. Feel free to scroll past /gen
#sorry i. need to vent#he is genuinely one of the most ignorant; stubborn; and absolutely manchild of a man I've ever seen#I'm not fucking lying when I say he gets pissy and shouts and complains about EVERYTHING#and I don't mean just occasional shouting and getting loud#whenever he's upset. its /loud/. very loud#first time in my 5 years of knowing him I had enough and snapped back at him because he was yelling at me-#-bc I supposedly do absolutely nothing around the house and I take horrible care of myself and dont care about anything#at least in regards to the house#and complains about why I'm deciding not to go to college and that he got a job at 15 while he's literally#in his mid 40's#so.#like.#I told him I'm still 18 and I dont want him to boss around my entire fucking life but he brought up the excuse again of-#-him doing all the shit I SHOULD be doing by his words when he was 15#first of all. like. to get things straight; we are not related at all not even in the slightest#he's my mothers bf; I don't know why he gets so pissy at me about MY life of all things#like Jesus Christ shut up challenge impossible#yeah I had a fun (/s) moment earlier where I went to clean my dish and he started to snap at me about how I-#-walk past the dishes every day while they're piled up and I should do them. meanwhile. they're literally not mine. ever#I get it yeah but. whatever. he kept going onn and on and on and got even more upset with me literally not saying or doing anything to-#-provoke him more#Ig he just doesn't know that!! wow!! I do actually care about my life and future!!!!#and that getting a job is not that easy or the same as it was 30+ fucking years ago!! wow!! who would've guessed!!!!#Like genuinely i am literally trying to get a job rn and shit and have been stressing horribly about it for literal YEARS#but yeah ignore that I guess ok sure buddy#god sorry i.. really hate him. a lot#I dont like to hate on people really; esp if im accustomed to them. but him. he. no <3#I will say I hate him w my full chest#vent#negative post
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shit I think I've just admitted to myself for the first time that I kind of hate my dad
#like I've had. conflicting emotions since he died in 2016#talked through it a lot with my therapist and everything#but.#I think it's only now been long enough that I can be honest and say he really sucked#he was nicer than my mother so he was always my favourite#but he wasn't NICE#he constantly yelled at us#he never stopped my mother from blaming me for everything#right until he died he only cared about his girlfriend and his job#there was never one word about being sad about us (his children)#he did everything for whatever shitty woman he was with at the time. we were never a priority#he treated his girlfriend's daughter (my ex best friend) much better than he ever treated me and she is THE WORST.#like#fuck. that's not okay#he left his first wife and his two small children for my mother#he's always been shitty and I just didn't want to admit that both of my parents were not nice#I mean like I thought it was normal to constantly insult each other and like call your children/parents assholes and whatever#but that's not normal???#like I even had to defend his shitty girlfriend's daughter all the time. she was so young still and he constantly said mean shit about her#fuck. I'm just so tired#I don't want to think about this anymore#and I will never admit this out loud around anyone in my family. because it was always my mother vs my dad and I was in the middle and#everything he did was my fault. he was the worst so I was the worst#(oh but they also had an affair for like 20 years after their divorce. while she was married and he was in several relationships)#(fuck my parents really just suck all around in every fucking way ľ
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Y'all I so want to participate in InuKag Week but I don't think I even have the energy to pick up a pen let alone draw stuff 😩😭
#i just got back from a week and a half learning how to drive by my brother and let me tell you he took the job VERY SERIOUSLY#which is good but he'd drag me outta bed by 8 or sometimes 6 so we could practice#plus we did a lot of stuff together or had friends of his and family come over to interact with or entertain#I actually had a mothers day drawing I got started on but couldn't finish bc we were so busy.#i still might post it tho so don't worry#and then we drove down to FL where we met up with my mom and aunt and stayed a few days#then we had to rush home because I had work scheduled this weekend#so then we got home and i had barely 45 minutes to get dressed for work & I finished work only for us to go to dinner bc it was my b-day#and then I worked again today and tomorrow will be the first day in forever where I dont need to be anywhere and meet people#oh and I also have summer classes starting on May 30th#I had a lot of fun of course and I enjoy seeing people and like my job but I'm so freaking tired guys and my feet hurt😩#so of I end up not posting any art for InuKag Week ya'll will at least know I'm not dead#i know I usually only post 1 or 2 drawings for the Week anyway but still#inuyasha#kagome higurashi#inukag#the hanyou and his miko#inukag week#inukag week 2023#story of my life
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Rewatched Aft.erlife today for the first time since I saw it in the cinema and tbh, my perspective of it has changed a fair bit...but I'm still not making it canon for my Egon.
#𝙷𝙾𝙻𝙳 𝙾𝙽 - 𝙿𝙾𝙿𝚂 𝙸𝚂 𝙷𝙰𝚅𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙰 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃. (OOC)#don't get me wrong I loved the film the first time I saw it#and I do think a lot of aspects of Egon's characterisation is on point#and they did a brilliant job of doing the OG films justice#not to mention the references to the EU lore#but I can't accept it as canon bc Harold wasn't around to give all the changes his approval#especially Callie and his family and not telling the other Busters about them#which does not make sense for his character at all seeing as in the EU lore he introduces em to his mother#and is completely open with them about practically every part of his life#I just don't get why they never knew he had a daughter#and in all of Harold's writing of Egon he didn't make ANY reference to having an ex-S/O and child#shit in the video game there's a reference to ELON and Elon's son#but no kids of his own#idk fam I feel like harold would've included SOMETHING if that'd been his intended plot for him#but regardless I don't hate the film by any means#they did a LOT of good and the dedication to Harold at the end was touching af#but at the end of the day we'll never know how Harold intended for Egon's arc to end so
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was gonna say i can't believe my mother would pull this shit, but actually I can believe it
#me for several weeks: i don't want to go to this thing#my mother: aw but your brother and his family will be there :( and they'll ONLY be there FOR TOYS and then they're leaving :(#THIS*#you KNEW i didnt want to be there. i told you multiple times. and you know most of WHY i dont want to go.#fuck you didn't even NEED to tell me my other niblings would be there#but you KNEW i would want to see them#fuck i hate this#i really dont want to fucking go but i barely see my niblings at all#I've missed more than one trip in the past year to see them bc of my job#i miss them :(((#but also like. the event is a birthday party for a 1 year old baby.#and like yeah shes my niece but she's 1 YEAR OLD.#also i hate her mother. and i hate her mothers boyfriend even more. like. a LOT.#I've done a damn good job of avoiding interacting with him so far but the more im put in a small space with him the harder that gets#also i also do like avoiding my sister whenever possible as well#AND ive had a really long and exhausting week#but no. no. now my mother had guilt tripped me into going so i can see my brother and his family.#i hate this. i feel like shit.#I'm so fucking mad about it. maybe i can just hide with my niblings the entire time im there.#shh ac
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I'm gonna need Yai to tone down the rudeness towards his step-mother. He doesn't even KNOW what it's like to have an evil step-mother!!! And, by the looks of it, he never will???? That woman is too nice. She seems genuinely concerned for him and feels guilty for making him upset with her presence, even though she's done NOTHING wrong 🥲
#big dragon the series#I've had an evil step-mother once *looks into the distance*#she's gone now :)#my current step-mother is a lot better#we're not friends by any stretch of the imagination#but I feel protective over her since my family is mean to her for some of the same reasons they are mean to me#(she's too quiet / her body isn't the standard / she's got a hard time finding a job / she doesn't want to serve others‚ etc)#we have this mutual silent respect arrangement and she might be one my favorite members of this family now that I think of it 🤔#what I'm saying is. not all step-mothers are bad. they deserve a chance.#(especially when you're already an adult. what she even gonna do to you?? let your father live his life and go live yours)
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( @amarriageoftrueminds tags) this is too fucking true
steve rogers: pr disaster | gen | 4k
(someone asked about the full version of this, so here u go)
“Wait,” says Sam, “you had a publicist?”
“For my first five months at S.H.I.E.L.D,” says Steve. “Then she quit. Uh, decisively.”
“Well yeah, she had to keep you in line,” Bucky says with a half-smirk. “How many times did you make that poor lady want to sock you in the face?”
“Lost count,” Steve admits. “I did offer to let her, once. Seemed fair.”
Sam laughs. “I feel like you’re sitting on a story here.”
“There’s no story,” Steve tells him. Sam raises his eyebrows. Bucky’s half-smirk tilts towards a full smirk. “Seriously,” Steve repeats, “no story.”
Interlude: The Story of Steve “Walking PR Nightmare” Rogers, and How For a Short While He Single-Handedly Destroyed the Emotional Health of Eva Laura Ortiz, His Now Ex-Publicist
Keep reading
#steve rogers#meta#Stucky fic#kinda#also the part about steve going against his own people in the name of doing good is one of the many things I relate to steve about#because rn (if you can believe) a lot of Irish people are talking bad about immigrants coming here to live here#there was even some people who threw a few of the ‘asylum seekers’ tents into the river#and NOBODY was was talking about how horrible it was#like I’ve had family who I thought I could look up to#talk shit about immigrants and talk about them as if they’re the feckin devil#it’s disgusting#especially considering the fact that our people not 100 hears ago were looked down upon and ridiculed#Irish people couldn’t even get jobs in America before I think the mid 1900’s#look up N.I.N.A signs btw if you wanna know more#I recommend learning about it#and considering we still don’t have our 6 counties back and it’s 2024 is insane#and these people are worried about people needing homes and trying to be safe#when there’s a fucking housing crisis in Dublin#I mean young people are paying a grand a month for student housing#they also just paid NINE FUCKING MILLION EURO on fucking phone pouches for schools#instead of using that money to help the mental health services where suicidal.#depressed kids are being told to take a hot bath or a walk#instead of being given help#it’s fucking insane#steve would go bonkers if he saw what his mother country is today tbh#anyway rant over#steve come to Ireland and rip these stupid politicians apart please#the news channel is currently on rn and our taoiseach 🤢 is talking a nd I want to kms just hearing him
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1 for stryder and 4 for kestrel…
me when i forget to answer…. ok
ok so the thing with this question is like. it’s about like.. a bar setting. and i have 0 experience there. never touched an alcohol in my life. etc. so i can’t get too specific here. so. he definitely orders smth high proof but it rly isn’t because he enjoys it… he has to play up his like. intimidating persona and part of that is showing off his high tolerance. if he’s alone in the bar he’ll get smth tastier
the good news here is that i finally decided where her burn came from! she has a big burn scar on her left shoulder that goes down her back. she got it before going to safehaven— right after killing her first husband (reasonable) she panicked really bad (reasonable) and stumbled and knocked a lit candle over. and she was in such a panic she couldn’t put it out and a big chunk of her house ended up burning down. it scarred really bad because it was hastily patched up before she went underground
#yaaay#answering the reverse too bc it’s easy#kestrel is a water drinker. she doesn’t like alcohol bc she doesn’t want to be like. being intoxicated makes her feel vulnerable#if anyone gets on her to like have more fun she goes “okay!” and orders a shirley temple#stryder has a few scattered scars but the one i usually draw is the gunshot on his arm#it. well. self explanatory. i don’t have a lot of specifics there. gunfights come with the job i fear#and his neck tattoo#well it’s a rattlesnake. his alias is rattlesnake and the group is the serpents so he just. he really went all out#but also his adopted mother (viper— haven’t figured out a real name for her)#had a snake tattoo over her eye. so in some ways it’s in homage to her#i’ve tried to give him more tattoos but im bad at like. layout#gg answers#gg’s ocs#oc: stryder#oc: kestrel#yaaayyyayay thanks shep yahoo
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the other day spouse & i went out to watch Alien (1979) in theatres for its rerelease, and in addition to such useful thoughts as "this is the only filmset i've ever seen that gives an impression of absolute grime while everything looks perfectly clean" and "Ripley Scott decided to simply not light his film and I have spent my life trying to catch the same effect in my writing. I am in Hell"
-- in the middle of all of this, i leaned over to whisper "this film is just Moby-Dick in space"
and I STAND BY THAT QUIP
#i cannot EXPRESS my emotions about Alien (1979) except to say that it is the closest thing to a good film of Moby Dick (text‚ not plot)#the dread and loss and isolation and some real shit decisions & (hilariously) an entire scene for Ishmael's complaint of his poverty wages#MOTHER being Ahab. Ripley is Ishmael. Jonesy is Queequeg. Ash is a goddamn robot#also holy shit i had missed a lot of the violence and sexualization because allllmost none of it is between the characters. oh clever girl#Alien is my harvard & my yale#anyway i am really going to get back to rereading Moby Dick soon. am (only temporarily) waylaid by my actual job & relationship & life goal#... one of those life goals was to see Alien in theatres so i'm feeling accomplished as fuck y'all#i cannot afford to see it again but i am thinking of getting a payday loan and / or selling my body on the streets
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