#if i got something wrong

[justanordinaryficwriter]

Family reunited

"What the [redacted]?" was the first thing to come out of her mouth upon landing...somewhere very colorful and confusing.

She couldn't remember how she got here. All she knew was that she was looking for someone. Someone close to her. Who that was, she couldn't tell.

She got up to get a better look at her surroundings. For the first time she realised that she wasn't alone. Staring at her were a one-eyed doll, purple rabbit, a chess piece dressed in royal robes, something that could only be described as amalgamation of shapes and colors, and some kind of masked ribbon creature.

Oh she needed to get the [redacted] out of here. Wait why couldn't she swear, what the [redacted]?!

As if this entire...situation couldn't get any more bizarre, suddenly floating dentures appeared.

"Well well well" oh, and it could talk too "a new face! Welcome, to our Amazing Digital Circus! Here is where you'll spend your next eternity. My name is Cain. I'll be your new circus master for all of time. Now let me show you around!"

"E-Eternity?" She didn't have time to process all that, as she was being dragged around by floating dentures, which went by the name Cain.

Meeting others was a mixed bag too. Ragatha seemed nice enough, but she wanted to strangle Jax with her gloved hands(since when did she wear gloves?).

It was here that she realised a horrible truth: she couldn't remember her own name. Or anything for that matter. Her new name was Marbles. It didn't feel right, but she had no other choice.

Caine also gave her "a special role" in the Circus: she was supposed to be the resident clown.

"Every circus needs a clown, and our last clown perished in tragic circumstances. But don't you worry your little clown head. I'm sure you'll fare much better!" Cain assured her. Marbles didn't know what "tragic circumstances" really meant, but she had a feeling she didn't want to find out.

"Oh, Pomni! Right on time. It's not nice hiding behind walls when new faces arrive. It's a bad etiquette you know?"

It was only then that Marbles noticed a jester, dressed in red, blue and yellow. Immediately she felt a connection.

"S-Sister?" She didn't know where that came from. Just that it felt right.

She could see the spark of recognition in Pomni's red and blue eyes too.

"Sister?"

"Sister!" Marbles knew then that Pomni was the one she was looking for. And she found her. She's here!

She ran to her and immediately tackled her into a hug.

"It's you! I thought I was never gonna see you again! So this is where you disappeared off to, huh?"

"Disappeared?"

"Yeah. You've been missing for...three months, I think." She wasn't really sure, but she had a strong feeling it was three months.

That was apparently a wrong thing to say, as Pomni started hyperventilating.

[redacted].

"No no no, it's okay, it's okay, I'm here now, im here." She reassured her while holding her tight.

Marbles didn't know where or who she was, but she knew one thing: that she had a sister. And she wasn't going to let her go a second time.

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[historygirl14]

this is def not my usual post, but i thought i might had to the post as someone who lives in a country with both compulsory voting, and voting for people how are/have been charged with a crime.

In Australia there are only 3 reasons why you are exempt from voting and don't have to pay the fine for not doing it.

if you are mentality/physically unable to understand the seriousness of voting to vote (e.g Alzheimer's, coma)

you have committed treason

and if you are serving a sentence that is longer than 3 years, meaning you would not have to live under the government that is being voted upon.

believe it or not, this has not lead to murder being legalized, or guns to be free access. Instead it has meant that, while out court system a very long way from good, or properly functioning, there have been steps taken to make imprisonment the last option, such as special courts for people with addictions, and elder lead courts for first nations peoples.

I am by no means an expert, but what I can say is that letting felons vote, allowing them to be functioning members for society has not crippled Australia and made it a lawless land, but instead actually allowed us to make some much needed changes, and to keep people out of jail.

[creative-clawmarks]

I like to think that even other machines think V1 is a freak.

[nanodelta]

some little guys

[aarchimedes]

for context: I read the hobbit first over the course of two years when I was like 13, but I'm only now starting to read lotr. having a blast tho!

anyways, reblog if you feel like it 🙌🏻

[hollis-art]

au idea... tng but it's set in the 80s and the enterprise is an apartment building rather than a ship

other tenants of the building include: -Picard (the head of the college that Data attends) and Q (no one really knows what he does, he just pops in and out whenever he pleases) -Troi (high school guidance counselor) and Riker (personal trainer) and Worf used to live here too but he moved out -Beverly (still a doctor) and Wesley (burnt out college freshman) -Barclay (works at Blockbusters w/ Data and Geordi) -Guinan (bartender of a secretly gay bar)

the ds9 apartment is a whole other story

[xxplastic-cubexx]

alternate apocalypse ending or something who the hcrist knows anymore

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

None of our hands are clean

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[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[inkskinned]

so one of the things that's so horrifying about birth control is that you have to, like, navigate this incredibly personal choice about your body and yet also face the epitome of misogyny. like, someone in the comments will say it wasn't that bad for me, and you'll be utterly silenced. like, everyone treats birth control like something that's super dirty. like, you have no fucking information or control over this thing because certain powerful people find it icky.

first it was the oral contraceptives. you went on those young, mostly for reasons unrelated to birth control - even your dermatologist suggested them to control your acne. the list of side effects was longer than your arm, and you just stared at it, horrified.

it made you so mentally ill, but you just heard that this was adulthood. that, yes, there are of course side effects, what did you expect. one day you looked up yasmin makes me depressed because surely this was far too intense, and you discovered that over 12,000 lawsuits had been successfully filed against the brand. it remains commonly prescribed on the open market. you switched brands a few times before oral contraceptives stopped being in any way effective. your doctor just, like, shrugged and said you could try a different brand again.

and the thing is that you're a feminist. you know from your own experience that birth control can be lifesaving, and that even when used for birth control - it is necessary healthcare. you have seen it save so many people from such bad situations, yourself included. it is critical that any person has access to birth control, and you would never suggest that we just get rid of all of it.

you were a little skeeved out by the implant (heard too many bad stories about it) and figured - okay, iud. it was some of the worst pain you've ever fucking experienced, and you did it with a small number of tylenol in your system (3), like you were getting your bikini line waxed instead of something practically sewn into your body.

and what's wild is that because sometimes it isn't a painful insertion process, it is vanishingly rare to find a doctor that will actually numb the area. while your doctor was talking to you about which brand to choose, you were thinking about the other ways you've been injured in your life. you thought about how you had a suspicious mole frozen off - something so small and easy - and how they'd numbed a huge area. you thought about when you broke your wrist and didn't actually notice, because you'd thought it was a sprain.

your understanding of pain is that how the human body responds to injury doesn't always relate to the actual pain tolerance of the person - it's more about how lucky that person is physically. maybe they broke it in a perfect way. maybe they happened to get hurt in a place without a lot of nerve endings. some people can handle a broken femur but crumble under a sore tooth. there's no true way to predict how "much" something actually hurts.

in no other situation would it be appropriate for doctors to ignore pain. just because someone can break their wrist and not feel it doesn't mean no one should receive pain meds for a broken wrist. it just means that particular person was lucky about it. it should not define treatment.

in the comments of videos about IUDs, literally thousands of people report agony. blinding, nauseating, soul-crushing agony. they say things like i had 2 kids and this was the worst thing i ever experienced or i literally have a tattoo on my ribs and it felt like a tickle. this thing almost killed me or would rather run into traffic than ever feel that again.

so it's either true that every single person who reports severe pain is exaggerating. or it's true that it's far more likely you will experience pain, rather than "just a pinch." and yet - there's nothing fucking been done about it. it kind of feels like a shrug is layered on top of everything - since technically it's elective, isn't it kind of your fault for agreeing to select it? stop being fearmongering. stop being defensive.

you fucking needed yours. you are almost weirdly protective of it. yours was so important for your physical and mental health. it helped you off hormonal birth control and even started helping some of your symptoms. it still fucking hurt for no fucking reason.

once while recovering from surgery, they offered you like 15 days of vicodin. you only took 2 of them. you've been offered oxy for tonsillitis. you turned down opioids while recovering from your wisdom tooth extraction. everything else has the option. you fucking drove yourself home after it, shocked and quietly weeping, feeling like something very bad had just happened. the nurse that held your hand during the experience looked down at you, tears in her eyes, and said - i know. this is cruelty in action.

and it's fucked up because the conversation is never just "hey, so the way we are doing this is fucking barbaric and doctors should be required to offer serious pain meds" - it's usually something around the lines of "well, it didn't kill you, did it?"

you just found out that removing that little bitch will hurt just as bad. a little pinch like how oral contraceptives have "some" serious symptoms. like your life and pain are expendable or not really important. like maybe we are all hysterical about it?

hysteria comes from the latin word for uterus, which is great!

you stand here at a crossroads. like - this thing is so important. did they really have to make it so fucking dangerous. and why is it that if you make a complaint, you're told - i didn't even want you to have this in the first place. we're told be careful what you wish for. we're told that it's our fault for wanting something so illict; we could simply choose not to need medication. that maybe if we don't like the scraps, we should get ready to starve.

we have been saying for so long - "i'm not asking you to remove the option, i'm asking you to reconsider the risk." this entire time we hear: well, this is what you wanted, isn't it?

[smollkittykat]

I kind of don't like how a lot of people forget that despite all the angst and the drama around Dean and Cas they are fundamentaly best friends.

How many times did Dean say it throught the entire show? Bobby in season 6 saying "Well, you just lost the best friend you ever had."

For Bobby to say that, knowing Dean better than even Sam in some regards, how many times had Dean been sitting with Castiel on the couch in his living room?

Cas doesn't sleep, and rarely does Dean, with the Apocalypse looming right behind him.

So all they had left, in those quiet nights were each other. And they were okay with it, because they liked each other's company.

[dunmeshistash]

Shuro's Retainers and the flowers from their nicknames

I really wanted to see what these flowers look like so I compiled some information about them. I tried to find the best info I could but it might not be 100% accurate (Things like flower language can vary and I couldn't find much in English)

Maizuru

Real Name: Iyo Flower: Maizurusou (マイヅルソウ) English name: Snakeberry, False Lily Of The Valley Scientific name: Maianthemum dilatatum Flower Language (Hanakotoba): The face of a innocent girl

Hien

Real Name: Naka Flower: Hiensou (ヒエンソウ) English name: Doubtful Knight's Spur Scientific name: Consolida ajacis Flower Language (Hanakotoba): Lightness, cheerfulness, free-spirited living

Benichidori

Real Name: Matsu Flower: Benichidori (紅千鳥) English name: Japanese plum Scientific name: Prunus mume, Armeniaca mume Flower Language (Hanakotoba): Nobility, Loyalty, Elegance

Inutade

Real Name: Hijouhi Flower: Inutade (イヌタデ) English name: Bristled Knotweed Scientific name: Persicaria longiseta Flower Language (Hanakotoba): Reliant, Depedant, "I want to be helpful"

Asebi

Real Name: Unknown, Izutsumi Flower: Asebi (アセビ) English name: Japanese Andromeda, Japanese Pieris Scientific name: Pieris japonica Flower Language (Hanakotoba): Dedication, Always with you, "I want to go traveling with you"

[apotelesmaa]

Raz truly is one of the funniest video game characters of all time. His ability to do platforming parkour is explained by the fact that he was raised in a circus. He’s a psychic prodigy. He thought his dad hated psychics but his dad is a psychic. He broke into a government camp in an attempt to get employed as a secret agent and it worked. He has canonically set squirrels on fire. His grandma is a former mass murderer. He’s addicted to giving people therapy and duking it out with the manifestations of their problems. He saves the day 3 times in the span of a week. He’s friends with a rat. He’s 10 years old.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[zephyrchama]

Yeah, pact commands are powerful and allow you to control the Seven Rules of Hell any time you desire. Pact commands are a little intense though. You can probably get the same outcome by bopping them on the head with a flimsy cardboard paper towel tube.

The great part is that this also works on demons you don't have a pact with, reapers, and other humans (even powerful sorcerers).

The longer your cardboard tube, the more power you wield and the greater your authority becomes. The downside is they can wrestle the tube away from you. But, y'know, until that happens you feel so mighty.

[soaptaculart]

Um I like Dungeon Meshi. Btw