#lms defense

[pontmercysamis]

while i think we SHOULD blame marius, i think pushing valjean away makes sense from him as an emotional response. marius has an expectation and anxiety of rejection, and he deals with his problems by running and fixating on something that will ‘fix’ him. jean valjean is the first character marius can emotionally view as a father— except for maybe mabeuf, who’s now dead. his apprehension no longer has a place in him— of being a good enough son for guillenormand, who now accepts him (though i don’t think marius is over this) or being righteous for his father, after the barricade. he can just be. jvj, as cosettes father, and therefore trustworthy, is the first father figure he can believe in, despite marius’ mistrust of adults. then, jvj says he’s a criminal, and unfortunately his self-esteem making him seem worse than he is… and also, marius believes he kills javert. while marius SHOULD have tried to get more information, his response is to do what he has always done— take action through himself, not authority. when his father(s) could not protect marius, he walked out on his own. if jvj cannot/should not protect cosette, marius will. jean valjean being a criminal is more than him being a bad person— it’s him being a bad father, like guillenormand and theoretically, georges. pushing valjean away is a horrible way to “protect cosette” because unconsciously, it’s to protect himself.

[lesbianvaljean]

this is definitely a digression, but in addition to everything else, 1.2.13 seems very much like a tale of two priests: Bishop Myriel and the nameless priest on a horse.

Priest-on-a-horse is not an actively malicious guy! He just sort of doesn't care. He says, offhand, about Petit-Gervais: "He is a little stranger. Such persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." And when a hysterical Valjean says something that alarms him, he races off. He wants to "know nothing" of strangers passing through; he is unwilling to risk his own comfort or safety to help.

This seems like a pretty deliberate nod to the Bad Priest of the parable of the Good Samaritan, who "happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man [in need], he passed by on the other side." Not a man he knew; unpredictable and distressed; ignorable. (Hugo is really not subtle on this point; see also Jesus, saying "Depart from me, you who are cursed, [because] I was a stranger and you did not welcome me.")

Myriel is only present in Valjean's memory. But the memory of Myriel's care and mercy toward him, a stranger, a criminal, is so transformative for Valjean that Myriel is raised into the place of Christ in his mind. Parts of this chapter read like the very best of conversion literature — Saul blinded, Augustine turning — with the Bishop quite literally acting in persona christi.

"As the Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance."

compare Colossians 3:3: "For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory."

just an extremely neat contrast here, the nameless erasure of the priest who knew nothing of the stranger, the hagiographic elevation of the priest who, despite all his faults, welcomed and fed and forgave Jean Valjean.

[edwards-exploit]

Troublesome Tangmere and 249 Squadron Reliable Rebecca!

In an ideal world, we could've had a story where Tangmere causes good old Sundrian Confusion and Delay and then promptly eats shit.

Rebecca as 249 Squadron wasn't my idea, but it's been ingrained into my head nonetheless. I like the idea of a Rebecca that spent most of her life in scrapyards and storage and then still coming out singing- quite literally! But the trauma of it is still very much there, just... lingering. I imagine 'What Rebecca Does' was one of those moments where her anxiety and self doubt got the better of her- she only spent a short while on rails, and while she did pull expresses like The Night Ferry back on the mainland, here on Sodor it seemed that everyone is much more.... experienced and worldly and cool, and most of all, they got modifications and rebuilds to work around their design flaws while Rebecca is still very much an unrebuilt bulleid pacific. Poor girl's not sure what she can really do, after all these years and with her mechanical problems. This isn't even getting into when she WAS in service- her family was fine, and quite loving actually- and the ex SR engines were a decent sort! Everyone else, however...

[compacflt]

can i just say that I'm haunted by the image of Ice wearing "one of Mavericks cheapest rolexes". One because of the mental immage of Maverick being the kind of men who not only owns multiple watches but also Rolex, which is absolutely delightful, because oh the quiet vanity of that. And two because of the implied and groundbreaking (to me) domesticity (and defiance of the not talking/acknowledging the thing between the 2 of them) of wearing another person watch. I'm screaming into the void about your brilliance. So I need to ask, do they do that on purpose (before the mission) in a sort if roundabout way of acknowledging each other presence in their life? What would Mav wear that belongs to Ice (apart from that USNA ring eheh)?

pilots/sailors/doctors etc who do high-level specialized work with their hands tend to really be Watch Guys. and “cheap” rolexes (sub $7k ish) are actually pretty affordable if you’re making >$150k a year and want to treat yourself every fifth christmas or something. source: know several sailors & doctors. ALSO the watch ice is wearing in his famous gay plane photoshoot is actually a rolex. So theres some evidence ice at least is (annoying, ostentatious, bad with money, and) a Watch Guy. Maverick’s also wearing a kickass chronograph in TGM so i think he’s also probably a Watch Guy. also… you know, status symbol, honor, et cetera et cetera…

they probably wear each other’s socks because in-regs socks all look the same and they’re both men so who cares. i also hc that they’ve always worn the same size in shirts so each other’s t-shirts are also free game. and was very confusing at the start of their relationship when trying to figure out whose shirt was whose after a midnight rendezvous. lots of accidental shirt mixups. and, yeah, each other’s watches, because most people only see the status and don’t see the detail, and most people aren’t around both ice and mav enough to recognize that “omg last month adm kazansky was wearing the same omega chronometer capt mitchell is wearing today!! theyre totally together!!!” so if ice buys a new watch and maverick salivates over it, sure he can borrow it, whatever. and i think there’s a scene in wwgattai when maverick wears ice’s pj pants hold up lemme find it

“in bare feet.” now wtf does that mean. that could use a rewrite.

ice also wears mavericks leather jacket when they’re on their baseball date in debriefing. at some point when you live with someone long enough your stuff becomes their stuff which was the point of this graf

thinking about it… trying to decide if they’d wear each other’s cologne. that seems like a little much. no i don’t think so.

[pilferingapples]

Wow, a Les Mis fan who enjoys worldbuilding. Shocked, I'm shocked.

I've been holding on to this for a while bc it's such an odd message from an anon , but yes , indeed, We Are Just Like That XD

[lizzy-bonnet]

A lot of people think Aunt Elizabeth is mean and/or cruel and honestly they could not be more wrong. Grandmother Kennedy is both mean and cruel, and LMM clearly knew the difference. Aunt Elizabeth is hard, but she isn't cruel, and she has a sense of justice, even if it's a very Victorian one. For heaven's sake, she apologizes for burning reading Emily's letters to her father! Grandmother Kennedy on the other hand, keeps it secret that Dad wrote to Mother asking her to come home and is glad she burned his letter, and tries to prevent Mother from going to Jane when she's sick - she's a controlling, jealous old bat. Aunt Elizabeth is a moral relic from another time, but she isn't self-serving like Grandmother Kennedy whose meanness transcends ages.

[fideidefenswhore]

Chapuys, while making Rochford protest his innocence of the charges against him, is evidently anxious to make him recant his Lutheranism, which the other versions of the speech do not represent him as doing. Constantine, who professes to have been present at the execution, gives an account very similar to Wriothesley's; and, as the two writers were poles asunder in their religious opinions, we may do best by accepting their versions. If so, the brilliant young courtier, poet and diplomatist, made an edifying end, but with his religious sympathies unchanged.

The Life of Anne Boleyn,  Philip W. Sergeant

[lizzy-bonnet]

This makes me pity Aunt Elizabeth even more because rather than being an awkward teen when the pretty new baby comes to charm everyone, she's at the age when she's getting called an old maid but is still under the control of a father she fears. No autonomy, and losing hope for someone to marry her and take her away (the way Valancy, a similar age, dreams of and eventually manifests with Barney). It would start to harden anyone. Great post, thanks for doing the math!

Inspired by one of @lizzy-bonnet 's wonderful posts about Elizabeth Murray (THANK YOU!), I decided to try and do some research to answer the question that had been bothering me (and probably only me!):

How old were the Murrays, when their youngest sister (Juliet) was born?

Let me start with quoting Douglas Starr: "Elizabeth and Laura and Wallace and Oliver and Ruth were old Archibald Murray’s children. His first wife was their mother. When he was sixty he married again—a young slip of a girl—who died when your mother was born. Juliet was twenty years younger than her half-family, as she used to call them." (Emily of New Moon).

So, here we go (my very own order):

I. Elizabeth Murray: about 26-27.

"Aunt Elizabeth was nearly seventy." [...] "You will be twenty-four your next birthday," said Aunt Elizabeth." (Emily's Quest).

So, let's say she is about 69-70 when Emily is 23, which would make her about 46-47, when Emily is born.

We don't know for sure how old Juliet was when she gave birth to Emily. Yet, her age might be guessed... at least, a bit.

Douglas tells 11 year old Emily: “I met her [Juliet] twelve years ago, when I was sub-editor of the Enterprise up in Charlottetown and she was in her last year at Queen’s." (Emily of New Moon). Queens is a two-year course, and if Juliet attended it right after Shrewsbury High School, she would be around 19 when she met Douglas and 20 when Emily was born.

Elizabeth also gives such an older sister's vibes. She rules the family and even orders Wallace to "leave this child [Emily] alone". (Emily of New Moon).

II. Wallace Murray: 23-26.

"Your Uncle Wallace might, seeing as he reckons himself the head of the family. He’s only got a grown-up daughter."

So, I would say, he is the second oldest (and a first-born son). He seems to think he is the head of the family, which would be understandable if he was the oldest son. There is not much more evidence, but I would say he might have been 1-3 years younger than Elizabeth (so, 23-26).

III. (or IV?) Oliver Murray: 19-25.

Not much evidence here, either, but one of Oliver's children - Andrew - is only a year or two older than Emily and another unnamed child (probably daughter) gets married, when Emily is 20: "Emily, just home from an interminable week's visit at Uncle Oliver's, where a cousin had been getting married" (Emily's Quest).

So, at least a couple of his kids are about Emily's age (which doesn't really prove anything, due to the fact his own father was 61, when his last child was born).

Yet, Oliver is old enough to have "bristly white moustache." when Emily meets him, so I would say he is probably older than Ruth. He seems to be in his early to mid 50s, when he meets Emily (so, 39-44, when Emily is born?). I think he is Wallace's younger brother (he doesn't have the importance of a self-proclaimed "head of the family").

I always thought that New Moon was going to belong to Andrew, not because he was the oldest son's male child, but because Uncle Wallace didn't have a son, only a daughter (and girls did not inherit anything then). On the other hand, Elizabeth ruled The New Moon, so maybe it was not the matter of gender...

IV. Ruth Dutton: about 22.

When Emily is about sixteen (the night she and Perry get caught "kissing"), we learn that:

"Ruth Murray," he said, "do you remember the story that got around forty years ago about you and Fred Blair? Do you?" [...] "When she was a girl of eighteen she had been trapped in a very ugly situation."

So, Ruth is about 58, when Emily is 16 (42, when Emily is born, and 22 at Juliet's birth). She seems to be a bit younger than Oliver (although not sure about it).

V. Laura Murray: 14-18.

She and Dr Burnley were believed to have been romantically involved with one another, before Beatrice Mitchell came along. Ilse was the same age as Emily and Dr. Burnley was 36, when she was born. Aunt Laura was probably around Dr Burnley's own age, perhaps few years younger, or older.

So I would say: 34-38, when Emily was born:

"Rhoda said once that Aunt Elizabeth hoped Dr. Burnley and Aunt Laura would make a match of it—which, you know means get married—but that is not so."

"Beatrice Mitchell—one of the Shrewsbury Mitchells. She was only eighteen when Allan married her. He was thirty-five." (Emily of New Moon).

It would make her the youngest. Actually, it fits her character: she seems meek, gentle, delicate and visibly younger than the rest.

She looks to be in her 40s, when she meets Emily for the first time: "She was almost pretty, with her delicate features and the heavy coils of pale, sleek, fair hair, faintly greyed, pinned closely all around her head." (Emily of New Moon).

Her hair doesn't turn white before the winter Emily is so sick: "Laura Murray, whose hair had turned from ash to snow that winter, went to her room and knelt down by her bed to thank God." (Emily's Quest).

So, that is how I picture The Murrays' ages!

Please, feel free to disagree :).

[mardthorn]

I recently found a deleted scene from LM where Cameron confronts Emma about the end of their relationship and he tells her that the only "serious relationship" she seems to have is with Julian.

Obviously referring to the fact that the parabatai relationship between Emma and Julian seems to be different from the others, Emma tells him that of course being a parabatai is something serious but Cameron walks away convinced that there is something more there.

Before leaving, he tells Emma that she seems to be the only one who doesn't see Julian's "cold" and calculating side, so she gets defensive and tells him to never say that about Jules again.

The last thing Cameron tells her is that she and Julian "deserve each other," clearly angry about the situation, and leaves.

I don't know how I never read that scene but I thought it was very good, I understand why CC didn't add it at the end but it would have been nice to read what Cameron thought when he discovered what was going on between Emma and Jules.

[riririnnnn]

So, boys, girls, gays and theys, I would like to present you one of our first formation:

It's 3-4-3 formation. Yes, it's an offensive formation.

Doesn't matter what type of balls you are stealing, just attack and steal.

'CAUSE WE DA REAL EGOIST‼️‼️🗣️🗣️🔥

SHOW DA WORLD WHAT A REAL GOAL IS🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

@pinkinsect is our goalkeeper. HELL YEAH‼️SPREAD THOSE DISPROPORTIONATE WINGS AND FLYYYYYYYYY‼️ RAHHHH🦅🦅

@satosuguhastakenovermylife is our Centre Back (CB). SHOW THE WORLD WHY ARYU IS YOUR GIRLFRIEND‼️ CHANNEL HIS U-20 MATCH PLAY‼️‼️

@bueris is our Defensive Midfielder (DM). SHOW THEM WHAT YOU GOT, TWIN‼️‼️‼️ WORLD DOMINATION 🗣️🔥🚨

@riririnnnn is our Attacking Midfielder (AM). And that's me. I ONCE PLAYED VOLLEYBALL WITH A SOCCER BALL, SO TRUST ME WHEN I SAY I WON'T DISAPPOINT OUR PACK 🐺🐺🐺‼️‼️

@cyberbluee is our Right Midfielder (RM). DON'T DISAPPOINT YOUR GIRLFRIEND 🗣️🗣️‼️BE THE ULTRASADIST YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE‼️‼️

@asarajaa is our Left Midfielder (LM). YOUR GIRLFRIEND'S LEFT FOOT IS DOMINANT 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️ JAPAN'S TREASURE 💴💴🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

@someprettyname is our Centre Forward (CF). GOD'S CHOSEN EMPEROR‼️‼️🗣️⁉️ MAGNUS EFFECT GOES BRR🌪️🌪️🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 100% GOAL RATE WHO⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

@luvingshidou is our Right Forward (RF). IT'S YOUR TIME TO SHINE, SHIDOU'S WIFE🗣️‼️‼️ SHOW EVERYONE WHY YOU DA GOAT🔥🔥🔥😍 BE OFFENSIVE AND OFFEND EVERYONE🚒🚒🚒🚒🚨

@getosugurusbangs is our Left Forward (LF). THE REAL FORCE BEHIND GIRLFRIEND FC FORMATION👏🏻👏🏻 NESS THE MAGICIAN 🪄✨ MENTAL STABILITY WHO⁉️😍

@blue-thief can you play as Left Back (LB)? Your position said any, but as Isagi, the main protagonist, you should've been the striker, but next time, I guess😥

@galaxynajma can you play as Right Back (RB) in this formation?🥹 Next time, I'll bring a formation with two forwards. Or you can fight with @someprettyname 'cause Kaiser fights with his own teammates anyway🤪

@wroophruh sorry😢 I'll bring a formation with a Winger position next time. Sending you loads of love💕💕💕💞💞

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TO VICTORY AND BEYOND🗣️‼️

LESGO, GIRLFRIEND FC‼️‼️‼️‼️

[khaohomies]

Hi *Proceed to spam pressing the oc maker button*

Here is their face concepts!

Just a bunch of coworkers trying to survive their shitty workplace

Some info about their classes and basic personalities! (Might be change, Except of bulldog and milo)

Roland - LMS Kitson 0-4-0ST [The small yet tough one]

Madeleine - L&YR Hughes 4-64t [The motherly one]

Archibald - LMS Stainer class 8F [The idealistic old timer]

Shepherd - BR class 47, painted in the transport police livery [The stern, bossy one]

Dandy - BR class 52 [The nervious perfectionist]

Honeybee - BR class 07 [A dreamer and absentminded]

Cooper - BR Class 08 [Aggressive yet defensive of love one]

Hila - BR Class 30 [The chill butch 😎]

Biscuit & Bun - BR Class 122 [Gossiping, drama loving sisters]

Owen - BR Class 37 [Unenthusiastic and burn-out]

Bulldog - BR Class 55 'Deltic' [Grumpy and distant]

Milo - BR Class 90 'Skoda' [Chatty, overly optimistic fella]

I might develop more with these guys if I have time!

[democracyunderground]

The Allopathic Complex and Its Consequences

luigi mangione's last words

LM

Dec 09, 2024

The second amendment means I am my own chief executive and commander in chief of my own military. I authorize my own act of self-defense in response to a hostile entity making war on me and my family.

Nelson Mandela says no form of viooence can be excused. Camus says it’s all the same, whether you live or die or have a cup of coffee. MLK says violence never brings permanent peace. Gandhi says that non-violence is the mightiest power available to mankind.

That’s who they tell you are heroes. That’s who our revolutionaries are.

Yet is that not capitalistic? Non-violence keeps the system working at full speed ahead.

What did it get us. Look in the mirror.

They want us to be non-violent, so that they can grow fat off the blood they take from us.

The only way out is through. Not all of us will make it. Each of us is our own chief executive. You have to decide what you will tolerate.

In Gladiator 1 Maximus cuts into the military tattoo that identifies him as part of the roman legion. His friend asks “Is that the sign of your god?” As Maximus carves deeper into his own flesh, as his own blood drips down his skin, Maximus smiles and nods yes. The tattoo represents the emperor, who is god. The god emperor has made himself part of Maximus’s own flesh. The only way to destroy the emperor is to destroy himself. Maximus smiles through the pain because he knows it is worth it.

These might be my last words. I don’t know when they will come for me. I will resist them at any cost. That’s why I smile through the pain.

They diagnosed my mother with severe neuropathy when she was forty-one years old. She said it started ten years before that with burning sensations in her feet and occasional sharp stabbing pains. At first the pain would last a few moments, then fade to tingling, then numbness, then fade to nothing a few days later.

The first time the pain came she ignored it. Then it came a couple times a year and she ignored it. Then every couple months. Then a couple times a month. Then a couple times a week. At that point by the time the tingling faded to numbness, the pain would start, and the discomfort was constant. At that point even going from the couch to the kitchen to make her own lunch became a major endeavor

She started with ibuprofen, until the stomach aches and acid reflux made her switch to acetaminophen. Then the headaches and barely sleeping made her switch back to ibuprofen.

The first doctor said it was psychosomatic. Nothing was wrong. She needed to relax, destress, sleep more.

The second doctor said it was a compressed nerve in her spine. She needed back surgery. It would cost $180,000. Recovery would be six months minimum before walking again. Twelve months for full potential recovery, and she would never lift more than ten pounds of weight again.

The third doctor performed a Nerve Conduction Study, Electromyography, MRI, and blood tests. Each test cost $800 to $1200. She hit the $6000 deductible of her UnitedHealthcare plan in October. Then the doctor went on vacation, and my mother wasn’t able to resume tests until January when her deductible reset.

The tests showed severe neuropathy. The $180,000 surgery would have had no effect.

They prescribed opioids for the pain. At first the pain relief was worth the price of constant mental fog and constipation. She didn’t tell me about that until later. All I remember is we took a trip for the first time in years, when she drove me to Monterey to go to the aquarium. I saw an otter in real life, swimming on its back. We left at 7am and listened to Green Day on the four-hour car ride. Over time, the opioids stopped working. They made her MORE sensitive to pain, and she felt withdrawal symptoms after just two or three hours.

Then gabapentin. By now the pain was so bad she couldn’t exercise, which compounded the weight gain from the slowed metabolic rate and hormonal shifts. And it barely helped the pain, and made her so fatigued she would go an entire day without getting out of bed.

Then Corticosteroids. Which didn’t even work.

The pain was so bad I would hear my mother wake up in the night screaming in pain. I would run into her room, asking if she’s OK. Eventually I stopped getting up. She’d yell out anguished shrieks of wordless pain or the word “fuck” stretched and distended to its limits. I’d turn over and go back to sleep.

All of this while they bled us dry with follow-up appointment after follow-up appointment, specialist consultations, and more imagine scans. Each appointment was promised to be fully covered, until the insurance claims were delayed and denied. Allopathic medicine did nothing to help my mother’s suffering. Yet it is the foundation of our entire society.

My mother told me that on a good day the nerve pain was like her legs were immersed in ice water. On a bad day it felt like her legs were clamped in a machine shop vice, screwed down to where the cranks stopped turning, then crushed further until her ankle bones sprintered and cracked to accommodate the tightening clamp. She had more bad days than good.

My mother crawled to the bathroom on her hands and knees. I slept in the living room to create more distance from her cries in the night. I still woke up, and still went back to sleep.

Back then I thought there was nothing I could do.

The high copays made consistent treatment impossible. New treatments were denied as “not medically necessary.” Old treatments didn’t work, and still put us out for thousands of dollars.

UnitedHealthcare limited specialist consultations to twice a year.

Then they refused to cover advanced imaging, which the specialists required for an appointment.

Prior authorizations took weeks, then months.

UnitedHealthcare constantly changed their claim filing procedure. They said my mother’s doctor needed to fax his notes. Then UnitedHealthcare said they did not save faxed patient correspondence, and required a hardcopy of the doctor’s typed notes to be mailed. Then they said they never received the notes. They were unable to approve the claim until they had received and filed the notes.

They promised coverage, and broke their word to my mother.

With every delay, my anger surged. With every denial, I wanted to throw the doctor through the glass wall of their hospital waiting room.

But it wasn’t them. It wasn’t the doctors, the receptionists, administrators, pharmacists, imaging technicians, or anyone we ever met. It was UnitedHealthcare.

People are dying. Evil has become institutionalized. Corporations make billions of dollars off the pain, suffering, death, and anguished cries in the night of millions of Americans.

We entered into an agreement for healthcare with a legally binding contract that promised care commensurate with our insurance payments and medical needs. Then UnitedHealthcare changes the rules to suit their own profits. They think they make the rules, and think that because it’s legal that no one can punish them.

They think there’s no one out there who will stop them.

Now my own chronic back pain wakes me in the night, screaming in pain. I sought out another type of healing that showed me the real antidote to what ails us.

I bide my time, saving the last of my strength to strike my final blows. All extractors must be forced to swallow the bitter pain they deal out to millions.

As our own chief executives, it’s our obligation to make our own lives better. First and foremost, we must seek to improve our own circumstances and defend ourselves. As we do so, our actions have ripple effects that can improve the lives of others.

Rules exist between two individuals, in a network that covers the entire earth. Some of these rules are written down. Some of these rules emerge from natural respect between two individuals. Some of these rules are defined in physical laws, like the properties of gravity, magnetism or the potential energy stored in the chemical bonds of potassium nitrate.

No single document better encapsulates the belief that all people are equal in fundamental worth and moral status and the frameworks for fostering collective well-being than the US constitution.

Writing a rule down makes it into a law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. Law means nothing. What does matter is following the guidance of our own logic and what we learn from those before us to maximize our own well-being, which will then maximize the well-being of our loved ones and community.

That’s where UnitedHealthcare went wrong. They violated their contract with my mother, with me, and tens of millions of other Americans. This threat to my own health, my family’s health, and the health of our country’s people requires me to respond with an act of war.

END

(posted without comment)

[bittyfromquotev]

So you know how Dark Sun is teaming up with Moon? What if another dimension’s Moon ends up in “our” dimension and the fam takes him in?

It would basically be the opposite of Dark Sun: Light Moon. The Sun in LM’s world tried to kill him like DS did to HIS Moon, but LM’s Sun only managed to remove the Killcode.

Now, this does not mean that Light Moon isn’t violent. After all, Moon should be allowed to have violent moments just like everyone else. He managed to kill his Sun out of self defense, panicked, and went into the portal and ran away forever.

At first, he’s violent with Sun. Because you know. Trauma. And while he still retains some violent tendencies, he warms up to the fam and Sun. Calls Sun his brother and ACTS LIKE IT.

Now the only issue is what would happen if/when “our” Moon comes back…

[hermesserpent-stuff]

Okay. Okay. So. Um. Now that I'm thinking of getting on ao3 a bit more and/or writing fics, I was wondering if I should pick up and actually make a full-fledged fanfiction of my Parent Wolverine A/B/O or Omegaverse AU...

I've made some posts here on Tumblr about it, and even a small oneshot on ao3. But I lm wondering if, now that I know u can write the fic elsewhere and then move it to ao3, if I'd be able to finally make it that way.

(I also, maybe, had a version with Sabretooth as Reader's parent) (but this one focuses on the au where Logan is) (I also, maybe, changed some things about the different genders, because I thought I could write them my own way, and not have the old tropes of meat-headed alphas, helpless omegas, and forgotten or nonexistent betas. Instead, alphas tend to be smaller and more defensive + are a bit more spry, omegas tend to be larger and very protective/aggressive + have stronger bones, and betas fall in-between, being a bit hardier/adaptive than either of the other two + tend to have dual tendencies) (I tried to be creative here)

I also know this isn't necessarily an au type you might like, and that is okay. I mainly just want to write Reader and the mutant teens becoming friends, Logan and the other X-Men adults being parents to the teens, and everyone being a bit more protective amd cuddly amd prone to purring + scenting.

(Bonus: mutants have heightened instincts and reactions and traits, while humans have next to none)

So. Yeah. I'm trying to write something, basically, I just have to figure out what I want to go with and go from there.

i cross post to ao3 all the time, especially oneshots so its easier to find and to read for me. I write for others!! but also a lot for my self. tightly recommend doing it

a/o/b isnt my vibe typically. I dont mind seeing it, but it gets too sexy for me most of the time lol so i avoid reading it most of the time.

[unitedbydevils]

Match Review: Manchester United Women 0-0 Aston Villa Women

SKINNERRRRRRRR.

Three wins to open United's WSL campaign, followed by three draws against plucky Brighton, the better Arsenal, and now the lowly Villa. Come on, dude.

In the absence of the injured Lisa Naalsund, Skinner opted away from the steady but unimaginative midfield pairing of Naalsund and Janssen and went to Clinton and Janssen, with Toone in CAM. The BBC had this as a 4-4-1-1 formation, which maybe it was but maybe not. Malard and Bizet at LM/RM or LW/RW? I wonder what's more likely.

The stats concur with what the video footage below says: United were lucky not to lose. Poor in possession, sub-par passing accuracy, and as such very few chances created.

Phallon Tullis-Joyce made some good saves and continued her good start to the season and kept United in the match. She made mistakes in some of her passing though, as did Maya Le Tissier and Celin Bizet. Ella Toone had some good attempts on goal, and Melvine Malard looked lively and spearheaded a lot of United's best attacking play. Bizet was solid in that regard too, but Geyse currently looks the better option; lively and direct, difficult to handle. It might be rotation time, see if that fires United up to start banging in goals.

Now, here's what annoyed me, and my points are directed to manager Marc Skinner:

Janssen is a CB first, and a DM second. She should be LCB over Millie Turner. She's almost as tall, perfectly strong for the role, and has much better ball control. If you want a DM, use Hayley Ladd ffs.

You also have Simi Awujo just waiting, if you don't trust Ladd / want to force her out (which if true is stupid)

You have the excellent Hinata Miyazawa and an average Ella Toone (based on present form). Whether that's the positional tinkering to rotate her and Grace, or related to her bereavement, or just a poor patch of form - bench her. Rest her. Rotate her out.

5 substitutes available and we use just 4. Emma Watson could have added something to midfield and we take Terland off and go big for Rach Williams.

4-4-2 isn't bad, but it's more defensive, and we're at home to a struggling side.

FREE HAYLEY LADD.

So yeah, boring game that pissed off players, fans, and pundits alike. The only ONLY solace is now it has people looking at Marc Skinner's performance just like they did with Jonas. About time.

Next up: Leicester City away next Sunday, 3pm kick off.

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Just finished the new LM chapter.. quinny you will be delt with.. -🐾😼

in my defense this one wasn’t too sad