#im righteously angry

[tonydaddingham]

i am full body raging about this bullshit

like don't get me wrong if you're an east coast yank I'm genuinely happy for you

but prime premiere website literally states early screening is 26th, but now we have to go black out for 10 days starting the 18th

im so fucking angry this is a disaster waiting to happen, why the fuck did they bother getting so worked up about The Spoiler when youre pulling this shit jfc

if i see ONE SINGLE spoiler please know that there is NO CORNER OF THE EARTH where i will not find you and skin you alive 🥰

[fiddles-ifs]

I have a gender question for the cyberpunk IF!

Does Rider's sex have to be the same we select for Fury or can they be separate? I'm so excited! Identity crisis MC my beloved.

It will be generally assumed by other characters that Fury is cis -- but you'll have options to gradually change their gender expression throughout the course of that story. Starting with their hair, which can deviate from Rider's right off the bat. (The Initiative and Marik aren't pleased. With that.)

[aeide-thea]

truly just SUCH a typical tumblr experience but like.

Familiar Tumblr Name makes a post that's like: 'you know how fast fashion perpetuates itself by selling us clothing that gets dingy and grody really fast, so we have to replace it yearly?'

me: uh, no, actually—historically i've found that the few fast fashion pieces i acquired long outstayed their welcome, and were perfectly wearable long after i was heartily sick of them! but go on, i guess

FTN: 'let me tell you about this traditional domestic wisdom (implied: that's been lost because of, uh, capitalism) that will fix this problem (that you, too, definitely have) for you!'

me, googling: okay so this residue that FTN said was somehow a Fast Fashion thing is apparently generally caused by like. fabric softener and/or hard water. using discount detergents that skimp on active ingredients. using too much detergent so it doesn't wash out. letting your bedding go too long between washes. letting your washer go too long between cleans. etc. anyway. lots of specific factors here, many of which may in fact not apply to you in particular!

but like. why get specific when instead we could assert You Know This Problem, Right? This Lost Traditional Wisdom Will Definitely Help You Personally!!

[spotsupstuff]

Meep. Maybe as a break from angst, you could toss some FP friendship headcanons at us? Like what would it take to earn his trust? Or what would this nerd do with his friends?

I love your take on Pebbles after all. It’s refreshing to see someone who has such a good handle on Pebbles character. (Tidbit- I love to call him firefly in my head. It mixes that defiant spark he has along with being a cute little bug. I’m biased toward insects what can I say?)

FIREFLY PEBBLES OH MYGH- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HE IS!!! HE *IS* A LITTLE FIREFLY!!!!!!!!! i'mma have a stroke.

but also i am very honored to hear that you think that! i just stumble n mumble n praise that fire,,,,,,,,

ultimately i think what matters to Pebs the most is distance, in a way. the quiet moments? he's one of those "i socialize like a cat" people. i often imagine that most bonding he has done with Suns was by having them on a video call, not talking to them like at all, while they worked the hours away separately

if one can keep calm and respect the silence, he will open up. getting him to trust someone is again done by hearing him out, considering his opinions seriously- sometimes even having a generally closely aligned worldviews could be enough. it's actually interesting to consider that he'd most likely try to find someone who wouldn't like.. pose a challenge to deal with. Pebs is a fighter thru n thru, but hrhghrghhhh the idea that he'd wish for peace in his relationships.... Ough

i can imagine him enjoying analyzing media with other people- like just talking about this movie they've just seen, "what did you think of the plot, the characters, the message, the writing, the techniques? i think that-"- reading books with someone in a library, sitting side by side, not saying a single word and considering it the best bonding experience ever. him Lending someone one of his own reading materials would be like.. the biggest quiet "i love you" he as a person could give

[butchnavi]

growing up is realizing that 24 year old you used to crush on online throughout high school is actually just some massive loser who needs to get a life as opposed to a god who decrees what is Right and Good always and aggressively moral polices and dogwhistles more than an actual rottweiler. like i still respect them and think they have a lot of good takes but babe please touch some grass

[butcharyastark]

thinking once again about how painful but necessary the desire for revenge against hector is to isaac's arc, bc the thing is that it is unfair and it does hurt to see them pitted against each other, but that's part of the point. isaac doesn't really hate hector, he just hates what he represents, and to isaac hector represents a bucking of the security that gives isaac the only purpose he's found, the only morality that makes sense to him anymore. he starts out wanting revenge against hector bc he thinks he's betrayed them, which means betraying dracula, which means breaking down the only thing isaac has left anymore bc the thing is that dracula's presence and goals are both pillars of stability to isaac who doesn't believe in the goodness of people anymore, and so hector presumably unimaginably rejecting that is the necessary broken link in the chain that gets isaac on his road to genuine self-agency and recovery and believing in kindness again

bc the thing is that hector's betrayal (and dracula's following selfless compassion but not the focus of this post) is the first thing that spurs isaac into something he wants. it's him that's angry at the injustice and the fact his last haven of stability is gone. it sets him on the path to exploring and discovering goals of his own, nobody else's, bc before he was relying on dracula's support and plans as a coping mechanism and substitute for having control of his own life bc he had lost hope that there was any point at all to even trying to care about himself or what he might have wanted. and once that first domino tips, and the other players enter the board when isaac finally begins to interact with other ppl again (talking to the captain, that old woman, the demons) instead of shutting himself off, it can only end up one place from there: isaac realizing that he has a choice.

he wants revenge against hector and wants something for himself and realizes he has power to obtain it and makes an effort to care abt something new and he starts to realize that maybe what he really hated was himself bc maybe he never thought he was worth forgiveness either and maybe he thought humanity was hopeless bc he was hopeless and he starts to notice through recognition of the other that both starts and ends with hector that maybe, just maybe, if other people can be kind, if other humans can be worth trying for, if the world can be good--maybe they had never really been pitted against each other at all, maybe they had always been the same and had been trying their best to survive despite the horrors. maybe hector deserves compassion and kindness and tenderness and forgiveness... because realizes he deserves those things too.

[lesbienneanarchiste]

I'm basically an influencer now bc after 2.5 years of watching me use mine, my mom has finally started a book/reading journal 💅

[saesyndrome]

katniss is just such a perfect angry girl character. no one gets angry girls like katniss. no one made me feel like my anger issues were understood like katniss....... she was there for me when no one else was.

[grimmthorne]

and you know what, I can't even do diy hrt if I wanted to because accessing testosterone cypionate is apparently incredibly hard and I can't even imagine how hard it would be down here so I guess I'll just have to figure out insurance and planned parenthood and shit with telehealth, or I'll just never get around to it and convince myself out of transitioning and die wondering what could've been different. and I won't be happy. I don't care if I'm surrounded with the greatest most loving supporting people ever. I will die bitter and unhappy if I can't access this healthcare. I don't care about figuring myself out anymore if there's no hope of transitioning medically.

[science-lings]

I love thinking about the thematic and direct parallels between Phoenix and Ryunosuke, I'm going to make more by throwing Ryunosuke off a bridge

[stephaniedola]

honestly it was a little weird to see you. its strange to be confronted with what you've become.

[all-seeing-ifer]

you're welcome is like. if we want the rewards of seeing cordy again we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of the writers getting one more chance to treat her like shit

[erinwantstowrite]

okay i know tony knows about some of the abuse that peter experienced, but it sounds like him and peter haven’t had an explicit conversation about it. which makes peter sharing with dick SO much more meaningful in a way i can’t even put into words. like ofc peter trusts tony but the level of vulnerability he’s shown with dick makes my heart hurt in a good way. and dick having to pause the convo to collect himself is so sweet? ik peter might feel some guilt about the topics “upsetting” dick, but i hope seeing someone being righteously angry FOR him and not AT him helps him see how much he’s loved. big emotional growth steps for peter parker this chapter, i hope he gets a sweet treat and some love as a reward 😭 im also in denial about alberta, i didn’t expect to be so emotionally attached, but here we are

peter being vulnerable here is going to make tony and him a lot closer when they're reunited. especially since dick has now recognized tony's role in peter's life. it's conforting for him to know that if he'll truly never see peter again, peter will be cared for. his talk with peter about tony is one of my favorite parts because peter will have a much harder time being convinced that tony doesn't love him like a son if someone else has pointed it out. peter hasn't really talked about that insecurity with anyone (though on some level tony is aware of this and is trying his hardest to figure out what to say. he himself didn't have the best role model on emotional vulnerability). but now he has!! like, the reason peter doesn't question ned's friendship to him (even if he does have some insecurities) is because ned makes it hard to ignore the facts of his care about people. peter is someone that deals with fact to cope with a loss of control. dick pointing out that tony cares about him and peter should trust him was super important because now peter is affirmed that he's got a reason to do so.

and AHHHH yeah peter took a huge step telling dick in the first place and i'm proud of my little guy 💖 this definitely healed something in peter so see he's not being overdramatic about it. being able to tell his dad (even if dick is a counterpart) what happened to him is like... idek how to put that into words. not being able to run to your parent and tell them someone hurt you and getting comfort, and then finally having that chance? healing his inner child this chapter and it is devastating

alberta had to break down for the plot but i do feel bad 😔 she did her best and fought valiantly

[msbellebelle]

Hermitcraft headcannons because Im Normal

Scar cant look people in the eyes. He has to talk to people sideeyeing them constantly, because otherwise hes just not looking at them at all while talking. He's able to look forward, he just cant when it comes to looking at someones face

Mumbo's mouth is completely hidden by his mustache and only appears for exaggerated expressions

Ren's doggy ears are on the sides of his head in the same location where human ears would rest, but Pearl's doggy ears are on the top of her head. The sides of her head where human ears would normally be are completely blank.

Bdubs is constantly over-exaggerating his facial expressions regardless of whats happening. Of course he has his big ass grin, but i think he also looks righteously pissed anytime hes relatively mad, or looks absolutely pathetic and miserable when hes mildly upset. He's also the type that moves his mouth a LOT when talking (this sounds a little weird, so like, you know how some people can speak normally without moving their lips much to phone out certain letters? Bdubs is the exact opposite of that, hes constantly phoning letters and pronunciations in the most ridiculous looking way possible)

Grian and Jimmy are both avian-human hybrids, but Jimmy is more human and Grian is more avian. Examples: Jimmy has a regular nose and human ears, while Grian has a beak-like nose and no ears, just ear holes. Grian has bird feet and clawed hands, Jimmy does not. They both have feathers lining their cheeks, but Grian's feathers go down his back and form a tail.

Speaking of Grian, his mouth is also never visible, and only appears for exaggerated expressions.

No one has ever seen Etho take off his mask. Even when hes seemingly eating something, you never actually see him take a bite, and then you look away for one second and suddenly whatever he was eating is all gone.

Cleo's limbs can fall off and be taken apart, just like sally from nightmare before christmas

Tango's hair becomes more ignited and flamed depending on his current mood. Being sad or scared completely douses any sort of embers, and being excited or angry sets his hair ablaze

That is all the headcannons i have for now

[kaurwreck]

One of my law professor once said, "You're a lawyer defending your case. There's gotta be blood. It has to be bloody because you're not nice. You shouldn't be nice. You're a lawyer. And you're here to win your case." and although im aware that he said it mostly as a joke—before he said that he pointed one of my classmate to tell him how they'd defend their company in the face of lawsuit and got a little disappointed with how tame my classmate answer was—i can't help but be curious of your thought on that as someone who's working in the field

We are ethically obligated to be zealous advocates for our clients. However, it is immensely difficult to advocate for your client effectively if you've managed to make everyone else involved, including the judge and opposing counsel, angry.

To provide an example, when I was a paralegal at a plaintiff-side workers' compensation firm, opposing counsel once forced our horrifically injured client to travel an hour to our office for a settlement conference, despite not having the authorization to settle for anything close to an amount he should have recognized as reasonable. My attorney, rightfully and righteously furious, laid into him in the middle of our office, humiliating him in front of the parties and our firm. Four days later, my attorney realized we needed a deadline extension, for which we'd have to request opposing counsel's permission. Opposing counsel was gracious enough to agree to the extension, but he very well could have said no after how we spoke to him, and that would have damaged our client's case.

More recently, as a transactional attorney, I was tasked with drafting a disengagement letter addressed to a manufacturer who had failed to design the product my nonprofit client ordered to my client's specifications, which had, for lack of a better term, fucked my client re: my client's other obligations. The law and facts were on our side; if the matter went before a court, we very likely would have won, and easily at that. (For frame of reference, my client serves disadvantaged children. Even the optics were on our side.) But, my client is a nonprofit, and every penny spent on litigation would have been a penny taken from my client's mission. Thus, to zealously advocate for my client, I couldn't go balls to the wall such that the other party became incensed and filed suit or protracted our disengagement process.

You don't have to be nice, but you have to be professional, thoughtful, and strategic. You don't win lawsuits and negotiations from drawing blood. You do so by achieving the outcome that your client asked you to achieve.