#if it ain't broke

[mortal-maebh]

i knew i recognised that shot from somewhere...

Bridgerton 3x01 // Scandal 2x08

[annatateson]

Nika, my current Pathfinder character <3

[knight-in-sour-armor]

[hopepetal]

My friends, fellow creators, watching me write: You should really get some sort of brace if you're in that much pain and writing so much

Me, broke, using a hair tie as a makeshift brace: Like this?

My friends, horrified: no-

[spirit-x-ing]

*Me Looking at Tumblr's new layout.*

[cbsaidwords]

I've started saying basically this in the feedback form whenever my existential horror around the state of our dystopia boils over.

every time I do a web search, right at the top I have AI info dumping on me

just give me the top result please

[takeyourmaskoff]

Mental illness corner

[mireuhwa]

why do all tech companies have to introduce changes and features that no one wants and then won't give us the option to turn these features on or off? i might actually have to stop using gdocs because that new @ feature popping up on every new line messes with my brain. i just want a simple and good fucking word processor with an easy sync and backup so that i have access to it everywhere and knows it's relatively safe that also won't financially ruin me. is that really too much to ask for?

[sanrielle]

This pfp change blows. Who's genius idea was that?

[x-i-l-verify]

#remember when france tried to do a 10 day work week as a part of its whole 'science and reason will prevail' thing #during the revolution + reign of terror #and it utterly crashed and burned #wow it's almost like these things are like the way they are for a reason

Looks like the secular world discovered the Sabbath.

[sunfulien]

When You Broke Me and Left These Pieces (Part 2)

[foolishlyzephyrus-too]

finally dipping my toes into classic who and it’s so comforting to realize that the sound of the tardis just has not changed for sixty years

[link-is-a-dork]

[amateur-madder]

Self-care is daydreaming about the same scene/plot for the 10th day in a row

[liedownquisition]

Every time someone writes anything re: the Arrows (esp Ollie) and treat it like they have these like Bat-level strict morals or just otherwise being really "strictly principled"???? it drives me crazy. Like I don't wanna be "you haven't read the comics" but... They haven't.

Ollie, very famously, killed not only Parallax (something which was very difficult for him bcs Hal was his friend, for all their fighting), but also the Electrocutioner (for killing Lian, maiming Roy, and destroying most of his city). There was that whole thing in Crossroads when he worked with Huntress, Catwoman, and Deathstroke, and was killing criminals with guns! Killed a man torturing Dinah! Hell, even further, at least once he helped someone who he considered to have been justified in killing someone escape the law!

I'm pretty sure literally all of his proteges have harder lines than he does (Jason criticizes Mia for limiting her angles to non-lethal in Seeing Red, Oliver being shown to use more brutal methods in a team up with Roy in comic I admittedly don't remember the exact name of & Connor disapproved of Ollie training with the guy who trained Deathstroke to learn the "killing arts" re: 1YL, tho idr if that was more of a killing disapproval or a "dad, really, this guy is awful tho???" kinda deal. Uhhh... Emiko might be an exception to this probably, at least inasmuch as you can consider those two his proteges given I don't think Ollie really trained them that much/they mostly came to him like that). Hell, when Mia killed someone he wasn't mad about her killing so much as that it was her (an innocent kid) that did it!

In the marriage comic, Dinah had apparently killed Ollie in self-defense! (Before concluding that it hadn't been him despite all evidence to the contrary, ect., ect., ect.)

Roy worked for the gov't and definitely killed for them when it was called for. Fell in love with an assassin and walked away instead of turning her in or killing her like he was probably supposed to do despite knowing she'd likely go on to keep killing more people (You could call this a statement on his love for her, which on some level, yeah, but on the other level shows that his lines aren't so well-defined.) The only reason he hadn't killed the Electrocutioner himself is bcs Ollie got there first. For all the complaints re: RHATO/RH&A they are still considered current canon (to an extent, I think some specific things around it might be retconned?) & he has killed in there too.

Emiko as a former assassin/being trained & raised to be a "perfect killer" by Shado I feel is rather self-explanatory.

There's probably more but I'm runnin' out of steam here. Anyways. My point is that while they're not exactly actively murderous vigilantes, they FAR from have some kind of no-kill rule. They'll typically try something else first, but when lines are crossed (like their family) or there doesn't appear to be a better solution that would actually work, they're plenty willing. They're not "Batfam 2.0 but lamer and not as powerful," which seems to be the predominant interpretation most of the time.

EDIT: I have a confession to make, I mis-cited who Ollie killed. I forgot there were TWO GUYS involved bcs it's been so long and it's not exactly a storyline I like revisiting, so they sort of blended in to my mind. The one who tore off Roy's arm, as well as sent the order to set off the bomb that killed Lian was Prometheus, and THAT'S the one who Ollie killed. Roy most definitely did in fact end up killing the Electrocutioner, who was the trigger man who pushed the actual button to set it off, and for a brief period did in fact go on to try and kill Deathstroke before he came to terms with Lian's death. Ollie did also have some regret for killing Prometheus and did try to stop Roy, because he felt that it was a pointless revenge which... tbh considering some of his other things I'm like "okay buddy, little hypocritical there but you are nothing if not a knowingly flawed man trying to do the best by those around him."

[klaus-laserdisc]

Wrote this before learning Southwest Airlines is indeed using Windows 3.1 and 95 today, right now. In 2024. The Paris airport failure was in 2015...

We laughed at the Paris Aiport running crucial systems on Windows 3.1, but that only had 1 critical failure in 23 years of operation.