#in his case it was the Pig

[coldhandedghost]

Me 🤝 Gansey

Wanting to commit self-sacrifice because something got damaged

[420technoblazeit]

YIPPEE!!!!!!

[magenta-somethings]

reading tim drake's earlier comics (Batman: Rite of Passage, Robin 1991, Robin II, etc) and the politics are... Interesting.

[phoenixkaptain]

The Vampyre, by John William Polidori, is two things.

ONE: a love letter to a man Polidori holds in high regards and considers better than all others and thinks is super cool and dreamy smart. Honestly? Polidori is a sad existence, sitting between two couples, trapped in a mansion in a storm, pining over the absolute worst person to pine over. I’m so sorry you fell for Lord Byron, Polidori, may your soul find rest and may you forget all about him.

TWO: the most compelling evidence anyone will ever conjure that Lord Byron is, in fact, himself, a vampire. And we should all really be more worried about those women he was sleeping with, as well as the men he was driving insane.

[iamtheshriekingguineapig]

Something I learned in the year of our Lord, 2024 is that apparently the normal amount of daily joint pain you're supposed to have in your mid to late 20's is actually zero.

[idontliketomatoesleavemealone]

my guinea pig agrees that Alexander is a piece of shit

[sapphire-weapon]

I love leon going papa bear on a bunch of cia agents over sherry <3 he needed to bring that energy back and whisk her outta there earlier LOL thats his daughter you assholes!!!!

they really just crushed his soul, man. I keep thinking about how completely and utterly Leon just gave the fuck up the second CIA threatened Sherry, and he never got his fight back.

he became a part of law enforcement because he truly believed in justice and fairness and equality -- that the good guys would always win, and the bad guys would always lose.

and then here comes Brian Irons to relieve him of that idea.

and then here comes Ada Wong to rub salt in the wound.

and then here comes the CIA to just coup-de-grace any lingering notion in his mind that there's any sort of justice in this world at all.

Sherry was Leon's reason for living. he consciously made the decision to not kill himself simply for her sake. and they took her from him.

after everything he'd already been through, they took Sherry from him. and suddenly the world felt like it was running on repeat, with only the worst parts coming back around again and again and again.

I'd probably give up, too.

[suckndfuck]

while laszlo rejects the concept of classism, he's still very much guilty of the thinking. he believes he's better and smarter than others for being formally educated, for one. he assumes that anyone who grew up poor or in a place that he would consider "uncivilized" (and the very consideration of such a thing is another exhibition of his personal classism) is uneducated, probably unintelligent, and might even be "barbaric".

he also considers "common people" to be peasants, which, as i write it, i find it very interesting how unaware he is that he's actually very classist. rather than nadja subverting these ideas, he more so believes that she's an exception, rather than accepting it as evidence that he's wrong. a lot of this isn't conscious thought, just internalized ideals, but he thinks that the fact that he has no issue with interacting with "common folk" as "equals" means that he isn't at all guilty of classism.

now, i do have to clarify: he still thinks he's better than people who might have had the same level of education (or even higher) and similar upbringing (in terms of wealth and privilege) as him. he thinks he's naturally more intelligent (than everyone, honestly, he really believes he's a genius), and he's also better because he doesn't (doesn't think he does, anyway) look down on poor people like they might. he's just generally very full of himself and when his arrogance combines with his internalized classism, it's really just a bad look.

[bloodtwin]

feel like puck loves a weighted blanket

YES. CORRECT. i think about this quite often actually. not him & weighted blankets specifically, but him & pressure. because he needs it. a lot of it. desperately. constantly.

puck very much enjoys 1) lots of pressure weighing down on him, and 2) confined spaces. those two things are very comforting to him. they make him feel safe. he's always super understimulated, so having an external force either weighing down on him, restraining or closing in on him in some way helps him breathe better.

idk how to explain it in like, proper terms, but it's like. okay so his heart is always racing all the time & that pressure squeezes it really tightly and chills it the fuck out. <- this also happens when he throws himself into dangerous, high stakes situations. his adrenaline rush goes crazy & it's Probably because someone didn't go to bed with the weighted blankie the night before :o/

[blu-engineer]

favorite stan twins characterization is that they're both equally insane. stanley just gets more air time to show it off. loosely inspired by a post i read earlier but here's some absolutely insane things both of them have done

stanley:

drugged a person and turned them into an exhibit in the mystery shack

had a vegas wedding to a prospector-themed novelty dispenser

gave mabel a grappling hook

failed to steal an animatronic badger

chewed his way out of the trunk of a car

punched at least three bald eagles

is multiply divorced, possibly even with the novelty dispenser

committed premeditated murder on a llama

faked a heart attack to get on Wheel of Fortune

took his clothes off in front of a live studio audience on Wheel of Fortune

has a rivalry with a fifth grader, a grandmother, and a man who exclusively dresses like a corn cob

stanford:

pulled a gun on a bus driver when he wouldn't let a pig on board

directly assisted in mind-controlling ronald reagan during his election in 1980

gave mabel a crossbow

got bitten by a vampire bat and subsequently began sampling human blood

owns contraband outlawed in 9000 dimensions; keeps it in an extremely flimsy plastic case

"accidentally" set a hawk on fire

has exes ranging from as normal as his old college buddy to as weird as a triangle and an alien with 7 eyes who put a metal plate in his head

wears turtlenecks because he's hiding multiple tattoos he regrets, including one themed around "all star" by smash mouth

is an Extremely wanted criminal across hundreds of dimensions; was completely kicked out of one for card counting

is, bizarrely, super into the band Eurythmics

can see shrimp colors

[genericmain]

Oh so now my safety doesn't matter because it's his house?

So if he hurts me police are gonna do literally nothing to protect me?

And bonus - Cherry on top, He's not legally required to pay us back anything at all when we leave here? So we won't be able to leave prior to the end of the month at all like we'd planned??

Great thanks so much.

Also the crisis line which has previously been very helpful was super dismissive and unhelpful tonight and I just

Wow y'all really out here just leaving us for the wolves huh.

"Do you have a therapist?" Literally what is that gonna do at 4am when my landlord is threatening my safety Linda. What good is having a therapist when I am currently very vulnerable and suggestable???

Like oh get a therapist while you're actively in trauma and unable to get out as it stands, and highly suggestible!

[procrastinatingattorney]

the constant need to throw hammers at weirdos who are still obsessed with complaining about m/abel in 2020s

[yokelfelonking]

Post 9/11 Trivia

Most folks on this site were either children on September 11, 2001, or weren’t even born yet.  But America went crazy for about a year afterwards.  Here’s some highlights that I remember that might not be in your history books:

There was national discussion on whether or not Halloween should be canceled because…fuck if I know why.  After planes crashed into buildings in NYC it follows that 6-year-olds in Iowa shouldn’t be allowed to dress up like Batman and ask their neighbors for candy, I guess.  (Halloween wasn’t canceled, by the way.)

On a similar note, people asked if comedy - any sort of comedy - was appropriate anymore, ever.

People sold shitty parachutes to suckers “in case your building gets attacked and you have to jump out the window.” There were honest-to-God news reports warning people not to jump out of the window with shitty mail-order parachutes because they wouldn't work.

As a follow-up to the attacks, someone mailed anthrax to some prominent politicians and news anchors - you know, famous people - along with some badly-written notes about “you cannot stop us, death to America, Allah is good” and after that every time some random dumbass found a package in the mail they didn’t recognize they thought that the terrorists were targeting them, too.

Everyone was similarly convinced that their town was going to be the next target, even if they were a little town in the middle of nowhere. "Our town of Bumblefuck, South Dakota (population 690) has the largest styrofoam pig statue west of the Mississippi! Terrorists might fly planes into that too! It's a prime target!"

People started taping up their windows and trying to make their houses or apartments airtight out of fear of chemical and biological attacks. There were news reports warning people that turning your house into an airtight box was a bad idea because, y'know, you need air to breathe.

"[X] supports terrorism!" and “if we do [X], the terrorists win!” were used as arguments for everything.  "Some rich Arab you never heard of donated to his organization that backs Hamas which backs al-Queda, and also owns stock in a holding company that has partial ownership of the Pringles company, so if you eat Pringles you're supporting terrorism!" "The terrorists want to tear down our freedoms and our way of life and rule us through fear! Eating what you want is one of our freedoms as Americans! If you're afraid to eat Pringles, the terrorists win!" (I promise you that this sort of argument is in no way hyperbole.) (This argument is how Halloween was saved, by the way.  “If we cancel Halloween, the terrorists win!”)

People worked 9/11 into everything, and I mean everything, whether it was appropriate or not.  If you went to the grocery store the tortilla chips would remind you to support the troops on the packaging. Used car sales would be dedicated to our brave first responders. You couldn't wipe your ass without the toilet paper rolls reminding you to never forget the fallen of 9/11, and again, this is not hyperbole. My uncle, who lived in Ohio and had never been to New York except to visit once in the 70′s, died of a stroke about 8 months after 9/11, and the priest brought up the attacks at the eulogy.

On a similar local note, on the day of 9/11, after the towers went down, gas stations in my home town immediately jacked up gas prices.  The mayor had the cops go around and force them to take them back down.  I doubt any of that was legal.

Before 9/11, Christianity in America - and religion in general - was on a downward swing, with reddit-tier atheism on the upswing. Religion was outdated superstition from a bygone age. The day after 9/11? Every single church was PACKED. (This wasn't a bad thing, but the power-hungry on the Evangelical Right saw this as a golden opportunity to grab power and influence.)

EDIT: By Popular Demand - Freedom Fries. I initially left these off because they came a couple years after the initial panic and most people thought they were kind of absurd (and I don't recall anyone really going along with it other than maybe some local diners here and there). France didn't want to get involved in our world policing so some folks were like "TRAITORS!" and wanted to call french fries "Freedom Fries" instead, so as to stick it to the French.

Besides dumb shit like that…it’s really hard to overstate how completely the national mood and character changed in the span of a day, or how much of the current culture war is a result of the aftermath. (9/11 was the impetus for the sharp rise in power of the Evangelical Right, who made themselves utterly odious and the following backlash helped the rise of the current Progressive Left, for instance.)

And if all of this seems batshit...well, it was. But I want you to think for a moment how people react today over even trivial shit. People send death threats over children's cartoons. They call for blood if the maker of a video game had an opinion they don't like. If someone made a racist joke a decade ago when they were a teenage edgelord, folks will go after people who even associate with them. "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ALL THE HARM THEY'RE DOING!?"

Now take that same level of over-the-top histrionics and apply it to the unprecedented event of passenger planes crashing into crowded buildings in America's most populous city and killing thousands of people all at once. "DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE WERE ATTACKED!?"

[lovetei]

Most of the time, MC views their friends and lovers as normal civilians, just people trying to get by. But, of course, there are times where they can't help but remember that they're the elites of the elites.

Lucifer's red eyes are glowing through the shadow casted by the dark alley where a low-level demon thought it would be nice to stand in his path, "Huh?" He mumbled to himself then scoffed "Huh." they sounded the same to you, but the way he looked down at the demon, it surely is different treatment from how he is to you.

It's insane how much Mammon treats other people. Sure, you've come with him to play in the casino before, but this is your first time entering a... Private room. And surely, this is your first time seeing someone, Mammon, go crazy while playing Russian roulette. His beautiful laugh boomed inside the room as his opponent is about to pull the trigger, the suicide shot. "Haaah, shit! This is the type of shit I live for!" He laughed as he nuzzled on your neck while waiting for his opponents brain to scatter on the wall.

You thought Leviathan is just an extreme case of introvertness, but obviously—it's not just that. "Yeah, yeah..." He mumbled, bored, as countless nobles came to greet the head of the navy. But there was this one interesting occurance, a noble that held his hand. Sure his composure was commendable but as soon as the noble turned its back, his hand covered his mouth and you saw a glimpse of him stick his tongue out as if vomiting. Your eyes widened. Soon, maids started hurrying to his side, changing his gloves and spraying his hands with alcohol. "Opportunistic pigs... I hate greed demons." You heard him whisper, obviously not intending for you to hear.

Satan was the type to stay calm and often as a gentleman, maybe to you only. During one meeting between some nobles though, he looked particularly mad. "You sure have a lot to say." He suddenly gave off a threatening smile as he fix his position on the seat, then all of a sudden—splat. That disgusting sound rang on your ears as the head of the noble was blown away and then you saw a familiar tail coming from under the table that pierced the nobles head strong enough for it to blow away.

[freyfromthea]

despite glinner's efforts the it crowd will always be my comfort show but i can't watch the april episode without cringing hard

[elegyofthemoon]

day 4 i have zero assignments so ig im just not. coming in. aside from grabbing my schedule 🧍🏻‍♂️