#im so down for sammy

[bizzielisteningtogreta]

i want (deserve) to sit in the fires that burn and rage all around bc of this man

[thecryptidart1st]

No, I was absolutely caught off-guard by John Oliver explaining how Chuck E. Cheese used to be sketchy as hell, almost as if two guys from the 1970s made it through a ton of ABBA, drugs, and sleepless nights

(Also Hello Minerva)

[todayisafridaynight]

i cant explain it but daigo being subtitled to just be like 'you're making me look like i have no balls' feels so illegal and wrong. hilarious but something's off

[devilat-thedoor]

im sorry????? tears of rain????? on b stage???? acoustic????? in philly????? tonight?????

[nilbog]

playing splat3 aftr not playing for 1 million years. so i could 100% side order in 2 days and then try out ranked and realize i hav lost all of my abilities and lose pathetically

[dru1dry]

o-]--[

[shrinking-violetta]

can people from my past stop texting me?????

[orcelito]

the weird thing about when someone dies is that they're never truly dead in my head. when i think about my grandpa, my grandma, my uncle, i dont think of them as dead. i think of them as just... gone for a while. some longer than others. i think about my cat sammy and my cat cassy and i feel like i could still look over and see them there beside me. i can see the way sammy would always cuddle right up to me and lay his head on my shoulder. i can see the way cassy would swivel his head at me when he wanted pets.

they're all dead. they're all gone. but i feel like i could see them again, just like old times. all i need to do is give them a call.

[inkdemonapologist]

AUGH ITS BEEN SO LONG SINCE A SAM HAS BEEN SILLY TIMED!! But your most recent Prophet and Sammy piece reminded me- how does Prophet feel about being called out to handle the situations Sammy can’t? Does Sammy force him out or does the Prophet kinda understand what’s going on and automatically take over? I just have So Many Emotions about Prophet and I love me some good angst flavored soup to rev up the headcanon brain

Oh man, Prophet’s perspective can be a lil tricky to describe; let me go on a bit of a tangent –

Imagine you’re living your life and then SUDDENLY REMEMBER that you have a job, that it actually matters a LOT to you on a personal level, that it has kind of a deadline and you haven’t been going in to work at ALL. You scramble to take care of as much as you can, but you start to realise that in a short amount of time, you’ll forget about your job again, until something happens to jog your memory. This goes back and forth a few times, until eventually, while your memories are gone, you write a letter to… yourself, trying to understand why you keep running off and doing these incomprehensible things as if you have a job??? And then, you find something that’s jogged your memory before, and you jog your own memory. Once you have all your memories again, you realise written reminders are a great idea, so you start leaving yourself notes for after the amnesia kicks in. You have a job!! Don’t forget your job!!! But the frustrating thing you discover is that while your memory is lapsed, not only do you forget your job, you can’t even seem to get it through your own head that it’s important. Your amnesiac self has a completely different set of priorities to you and doesn’t want to do the job. Your amnesiac self CAN’T remember. Your amnesiac self starts to treat you like a different person, the one who can remember. When you jog your own memories, you aren’t trying to remember – in that altered mindset, your amnesiac self is trying to wake you up, the person with the memories, and hand tasks off to you because they don’t know how to do them. And with your amnesiac self having this unbreakable barrier to remembering, it… DOES feel like they’re a separate person, honestly, like you’re just remembering this other person’s memories as they make choices you don’t want to make. But, if you can figure out how to get them to remember your job, and how important it is, then that wall between your memories would dissolve, then you could finally function normally again.

This has been the Prophet’s experience. Until Sammy started really pushing the idea that they’re separate people, he didn’t even parse it as being called out to handle things because, in the Prophet’s perception, he’s still the same person, just with all his memories and faculties now intact. Even when he started to see “The Shepherd” as a separate person with very different emotional responses, that person was still a part of himself – a fear in part of his mind that’s keeping him split in two.

More recently, they started switching briefly every time Sammy’s mental stability took a serious hit, which the Prophet has described to the others as a moment when “the Shepherd steps back,” and seems to understand that he’s being reached out to because the Shepherd can’t deal with something. So far, he's willingly stepping forward, and he WANTS to be able to step in and make sure his Lord's will is followed. In Prophet’s eyes, this is GREAT, ACTUALLY – he's encouraged to have that kind of trust from the Shepherd, because eventually he wants the Shepherd to be willing to try to remember his encounter with the Masked Messenger, so they can be one person again. He sees it as the first baby step towards the Shepherd learning to overcome his fear and trust the Masked Messenger again.

Which isn’t to say it’s not hard on him, but the thing is that most of Prophet’s misgivings and fears are buried under a lot of layers and displacement.  Like, being dragged by the Lurker into the Starpools to drown was a terrifying, traumatic experience that still haunts him, but it’s Joey he blames for killing him by bringing him unwittingly into dangerous territory. In spite of being so messed up over what happened to him that he’s STILL mad at Joey about it, the Prophet refers to the Starpools as his Home, believes he was granted a great gift and that he should be grateful to the Lurker for giving him the chance to receive it – beliefs which are so at odds that they should be really difficult to hold simultaneously. The Prophet has briefly admitted that receiving his visions is physically and mentally harrowing (“We hold our Lord's glory in this fragile body 'til it trembles, to snatch a fragment of a warning, a vision”), and he is not really receiving a specific vision so much as being subjected to an overwhelming flood of insight and struggling to grasp pieces of meaning out of the torrent – but he refuses to fear the visions, the one (terrifying) contact he has with his Lord, and instead gleefully thanks the Messenger for honouring him in this way and only resents when others complain that the visions are vague and that the Prophet should’ve calmly written them on paper. And when the Prophet fails at a task he’s been called to – tasks he is tremendously, comically ill-suited for – he can’t insist it was too hard; he can’t even blame the others, because he was supposed to be able to overcome them. Failure reflects ultimately only on him, in the face of a deity whom he believes has shown him unjustified grace.

Prophet is happy to take over for the Shepherd when he can, because he thinks he SHOULD be able to handle everything that this frightened piece of him can’t. After all, he has to make up for the Shepherd’s doubt. If he can be strong enough, and never fail his Lord again, maybe he can drag them both to salvation on his own good graces.

[totentnz]

honestly the fact that streetkid path starts with "cops are our enemies" and then you meet river and his partner (cops) and not one of them goes "havent i arrested you before?" is a crime in itself

[aristobun]

[solesommerso]

just to let yall know I didn’t forget about s7 swat. I’ll be catching up on it soon hopefully. also cpd i really need to catch up on that

and 911/ls but I’m an entire season behind so-

[vcrnons]

i would like the timeline to know that @ikigaisvt is currently attempting murder by seungkwan.

[3416]

ohhhh it’s the willy stans on twitter catastrophizing again, here we go

[ikigaisvt]

im gonna finish analyzing my birth chart and then i will start analylzing my kpop boys' birth charts!

[the-kipsabian]