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as non meanly as possible i think it’s funny when i share myself and one of the responses is a song recommendation that… ignores most of my tastes
#knight’s personal life#it was intended to be sweet but internally i was just like have you? paid attention? to what ive said?#or like#listened to the artists I’ve explicitly said were and are important in my healing#there’s not much judgment i just#i looked at the lyrics for the song and i was like#no offense#but i like my meaningful songs to be a little more#metaphor rich
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On Voting in America
So one of the most profound comments on routine chores that I've ever encountered was, hilariously, the Pickle Rick episode of "Rick & Morty," where (after a lot of shenanigans have already ensued) this therapist absolutely lays Rick out:
"I have no doubt that you would be bored senseless by therapy, the same way I'm bored when I brush my teeth and wipe my ass. Because the thing about repairing, maintaining, and cleaning is: it's not an adventure. There's no way to do it so wrong you might die. It's just work. And the bottom line is some people are okay going to work and some people, well, some people would rather die. Each of us gets to choose."
I think about this at least once a week — usually while I'm doing my laundry or sweeping or some other task that needs doing and won't get me anything more than clean clothing or a dog-hair-free floor. There's no Pulitzer for wiping down your microwave or scrubbing your toilet; no one's awarding you for getting all the dishes out of the sink. At best you have the satisfaction of crossing it off your list.
Voting is very much the same (and I'm talking about the US here, as an American). Sure, you sometimes get a sticker; but nobody's going to cheer for you. There's no adventure here, no potential for anything more than crossing something off of a list. It's a chore, something that needs doing in order to repair, maintain, and yes even clean. So I get why people don't like doing it.
And I've decided I don't give a shit.
Do it anyway. Your country takes astonishingly little from you — taxes, the once-in-a-blue-moon jury duty, and a theoretical draft that hasn't been used in over half a century and likely will never be again — but it asks you (asks! not requires! not demands!) to vote once or twice a year. It's not always easy; especially in conservative states, the impediments to vote can be ridiculous. But it is once a year and unlike in our nation's all-too-recent past, you will not die if you do it.
In fact, the worst outcome from voting these days is that the person or issue that you vote for loses — but you won't know if they lose until after the election. Polls are less accurate now, for a whole host of reasons; you cannot know until after the election who or what will win. This makes your vote more valuable than possibly ever before.
Use that power. Not because it's exciting or even rewarding, but because your vote is what keeps our country's metaphorical teeth from falling out and our metaphorical ass from stinking.
Brush, wipe, vote.
#ok the metaphor may've gotten a little gross but rick & morty chose it not me#anyway if voting didn't matter then rich people wouldn't do it#and I can assure you: they do#also: please don't think of voting like a reward for the person you're voting for#or as a punishment for the person you're not voting for#my mom's advice was:#think about the most vulnerable people you care about and vote for the person or issue that will make their lives better#and you'll rarely go wrong#yes there are often two bad options but if you're old enough to vote you're old enough to understand the difference between bad and less ba#anyway that's all the political lecturing I'll do this year#except maybe to complain about the 18-hour day I'll be having on Tuesday#oh also SIGN UP TO WORK ELECTIONS WE NEED MORE HELP#thank you#politics!
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new shifting mound dialogue... she's so real for this one
#slay the princess#DON'T WORRY GIRL I UNDERSTOOD YOU JUST FINE#in all seriousness i think this is probably a good addition? tsm speaks a lot in imagery and metaphor which seems to be frequently confusin#for certain players#i love the way she talks because it's very rich and evocative but I understand being confused by it
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The one thing I don't understand about the theory where Piltover and Zaun are teaming up to fight Noxus in the end, is why are Vi and Ekko flying towards Jinx's supposed airship if they're on the same team? Why does Vi NEED to confront Jinx in the middle of a warzone?
We see Ekko in garb that looks like he's on Jinx's side, but we mostly see him with the Firelights in those scenes, and they not decorated in Jinx's colors. Even minor background characters that are on Jinx/Sevika's side have a pink X on the right side of their chest. The Firelights are completely free of any graffiti or markers that would identify them with Jinx, and Vi is in an enforcer uniform. We don't see any other Zaunites in the crowd, but for some reason Vi and Ekko are centering their concentration on Jinx.
I think what's happening is that Ambessa's forces are fighting against Piltover's enforcers, but Jinx isn't helping, she's taking advantage of the chaos. Jinx is probably in Piltover to do something big that Piltover can't defend against since they're preoccupied with Noxus. Jinx will probably think the fight between Noxus and Piltover is the best opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. Vi and Ekko will probably object, they'll say her plan goes too far, and it'll get people killed. The whole scenario will probably be a more extreme mirror to whatever the Silco flashback will reveal about what went down on the Day of Ash and why Vander tried to kill Silco, except this time with magic.
#arcane#arcane meta#jinx arcane#vi arcane#ekko arcane#i know everyone's having a great time dissecting the trailer but the trailer for s1 wasn’t even that vague to begin with#sure you couldn't guess the WHOLE plot but me as a non league person could see#“red head has beef with eye dude”#“rich people either oblivious or super mad about poor people doing stuff”#“magic stuff is happening”#is the s2 trailer really any different?#also christian linke keeps hammering that the show is about if you can forgive a sibling that's a monster#and he's not that subtle when he's implying that the “monster” is silco and jinx in the metaphor (probably viktor too)#but what has jinx done so far that’s really THAT monstrous for her to stand distinct from the oppression of piltover#i think the show's gonna have jinx contemplate what it means to be lionized and valued by the general population#meanwhile Caitlyn's gonna do a lot of messed up stuff as means of asserting control over the situation and keeping piltover “safe”#caitlyn will probably REALLY cross the line and it'll involve jinx#cait will reavaluate her morals and break off from ambessa and jinx will be like “I'm gonna show you what a war arc is”#and move into Viktor's cult for a power up before leaving to destroy piltover and noxus#and also ekko's character description say he and heimerdinger will save zaun#so what's the magical problem that they build a magical solution for? ...it's jinx
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Cw: Animal death, blood and gore
Day 18 of DCA Promptober: Beast
He probably got out while he was in a stupor, he gets stupid hangry fresh after a shift and the local game are always sure to suffer for it
One of Sun’s worst fears is that one day the carcass he comes-to half-devoured is a person. Moon, Monty, and the rest of the glams have been diligent in watching over him on moon weeks for years, but things like this do happen and it haunts his nightmares how easy it is for him to potentially maul someone he cares about
Or worse: share his “predicament” with them
#cw blood#cw animal death#cw: gore#bzkt barf#fnaf sun#werebeast sun#fnaf halloween#halloween au#fnaf daycare attendant#dca fandom#art#artistsontumblr#fnaf sb au#all that aside he’s a bigger fan of elk#deer don’t have that richness elk have in his esteemed opinion#as opinionated as a fluffy monster that has eaten out of a dumpster at least several times is anyway 😭#still… you have to imagine the stress of being a therianthrope who seemingly naturally can’t get a grip on full moons#you want to let yourself make more connections… but what if#and that fear and anxiety controls the trajectory of your life#for a social and friendly person like sun it’s like a metaphorical leash#heh… how ironic
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if i had a nickel every time i consumed a piece of media where the male protagonist meets a well-spoken man of a higher class than him, crosses the boundaries of the professional relationship they were supposed to have, is later suddenly abandoned by said man, becomes so tortured by the memories of him that he recklessly goes after him, then meets a member of his family on the way, and eventually reunites with him at a museum in europe as they both stare at an art piece – i'd have two nickels, which is not a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
#yes the first one is obvious#nbc hannibal#you would never be able to guess what's the second thing im talking about#(unless you have extremely good taste)#wink wonk#the case files of jeweler richard#both rich in metaphors for love and social commentary except one uses cannibalism and the other uses jewelry#and this is only a simplification !!!!#if i went into detail you'd be amazed at how many more similarities there are 😭💝#anyways they're both masterpieces to me<3#housekishou richard#housekishou richard-shi no nazo kantei#hannibal lecter#will graham#hannigram#nakata seigi#richard ranasinghe de vulpian#richard de vulpian#seigi x richard
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I am better than you think, let me buy you a drink
#winter#crime city#original character#oc#mhai art#mhai oc#THERE HE BE#he's a florist by day#and a criminal by night#I couldn't tell you exactly how he operates#but he's pretty rich#both literally and metaphorically#he likes people to owe him favors#favors are a very valuable currency#didn't you know?
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it’s the reality show competition plot combined with that plot device of recently dead rich powerful person making people play some kind of convoluted game as part of a postdeath condition for me. elite combination of tropes happening here. cheeseburger and chocolate milkshake
#metaphor refantazio#I love in fiction when people are put into absurd situations because some rich dead person said so in their will
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I love to read an 85k femslash fic riddled with grammatical errors that suggest ESL authorship and encounter a line like "God's grace reaches England not without reluctance" (sardonic internal monologue). Magnificent. The fin-de-siecle society novel tradition is everywhere for those with eyes to see
#This fic has a lot of incorrect like. Irregular past tense conjugations#And tense issues in general#But I love it for its wealth of startling one-liners like this#And its plethora of surprising + rich metaphors#This is my third re-read and it always makes me Think#I keep trying to guess what language the author speaks because some of the syntax#Is craaaazy Slavic#This sentence included by the way
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all i want from ep 9 of jack and joker is one sincere joke smile
#this man has been going through it#he deserves to rest!!!!#hopefully the heist will be fun chaos#and joke can be joker again#jack better not get mad at him about roberry#like#hopefully the v on the nose game metaphors were effective for him too#so they can all reach the#stealing from the rich is actually a net good state of mind#i would be pretty happy if they ended the show w them being like robin hood boyfriends lol#however unrealistic that may be#jack and joker
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Fish, 7 (For your prompts! ❤️)
Hi, anon!! Thank you for the prompt, you were the very first one to send one in! 7 was, again, the wildcard, so I randomly generated a different number to land on Yue Qingyuan (from Scum Villain)! I have no choice but to dedicate this to @bytedykes, because I told her about this prompt and she said “yqy pet fish mental health speedrun” and we went, uh, a little insane about it. Enjoy some yuefang, folks!!!!
“Mu-xiong,” Yue Qingyuan says. “I’m sorry to bother you. Are you available?”
“Yue-xiong is never a bother,” Mu Qingfang says warmly. “And I am, actually, yes. Is everything okay, Yue-xiong?”
“I think I need help.” A bit dramatic, perhaps, and Yue Qingyuan hates to trouble Mu Qingfang on a rare day off, but Yue Qingyuan and impulse have never been the best combination, and he would appreciate a second opinion.
Mu Qingfang’s voice turns hard. “Where are you? I'll come right away.”
“What—?” Yue Qingyuan stares at his phone like the blank call screen will tell him why Mu Qingfang suddenly sounds so serious. “I'm at home, but—”
“I'll be right there,” Mu Qingfang says, and hangs up.
Yue Qingyuan stares at his phone for another second, then lifts his gaze to his sparkling new aquarium. His new betta, white and black and resplendent of fin, stares back. Was his crisis of faith about his viability as a fish owner really so deserving of such urgency…?
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“So,” Mu Qingfang says. “This was your emergency?” He looks about as unimpressed by the betta as it does by the two of them.
Yue Qingyuan feels obscurely like he’s being scolded. Mu Qingfang is one of the nicest men he knows, but that just means that his censure takes the form of a blunt instrument of mass disappointment.
“In my defense,” he points out meekly, “I didn’t say there was an emergency. Mu-xiong just assumed.”
“That’ll teach me,” Mu Qingfang huffs, but at least he looks amused. “Yue-xiong should get used to asking for help more so this gege doesn’t have to panic every time he does ask.”
Yue Qingyuan’s mouth almost drops open. He can only hope his cheeks aren’t as red as they feel. “Er—well, I asked this time, didn’t I?”
“You did,” Mu Qingfang allows, looking something horribly close to fond. Yue Qingyuan swallows and tries to hurry on.
“So—not an emergency, but I do want your opinion,” he coughs out. “I’m having… doubts. About the fish.” Mu Qingfang’s eyebrows contract. Yue Qingyuan rushes it out. “Do you think I should keep it?”
“Yue-xiong…” Mu Qingfang looks politely incredulous. “Why does my opinion matter? The fish is already yours, isn’t it? If you don’t think maintaining its upkeep will be feasible, that’s one thing, but… Surely Yue-xiong did the research before getting it?”
He doesn’t sound judgemental, but Yue Qingyuan feels his cheeks warm. “I did, but I wasn’t planning on getting a fish; I was only admiring the tanks. There was a salesperson who was… very insistent.”
Mu Qingfang regards him doubtfully, which is fair. Yue Qingyuan towers over most people he meets, and his bulk only further adds to the impression of immovability. It’s only when he opens his mouth that it becomes clear how spineless he actually is.
Yue Qingyuan falters. “I had thought… I thought it might be nice.” The bettas had seemed so majestic in their tanks, iridescent monarchs of false grass and plastic coves, and Yue Qingyuan had thought, wildly, that one might be rewarding to keep, might breathe a touch of life into his immaculately sleek living room. The whole affair hadn’t even been expensive by his shiny new standards, forget difficult to physically arrange. It was only when installation and set-up for his new aquarium had finished and he was left to watch that jewel-bright being swim disaffectedly through its new home that doubt had seized him, all-consuming and black. He had, admittedly, panicked a little after that.
(Yue Qingyuan’s apartment is very large, and very clean, and very empty. It holds the barest amount of decoration and muss to qualify as lived-in rather than a snapshot from a magazine ad. The fish may, in fact, be the only thing in the entire place which really qualifies as his. No wonder Yue Qingyuan wanted to jettison it from his life as soon as he got it.)
Mu Qingfang’s expression hovers between concern and simple confusion. “I’m sure Yue-xiong will be a more than adequate caretaker,” he says, more gently than Yue Qingyuan and all his neuroses probably deserve. “What’s this really about, Yue-xiong?”
Ah. There it is. Being the mildest person of Yue Qingyuan’s admittedly sharp-tongued social circle doesn’t preclude Mu Qingfang’s wit from being as keen as the scalpels he works with.
“I don’t…” Yue Qingyuan falters. How to express to Mu Qingfang how manifestly unfit Yue Qingyuan is to care for any living creature at all? He changes tack. “I think he hates me,” he admits dolefully.
Mu Qingfang stares at him for a long time, long enough to imply that he’s reevaluating certain opinions about Yue Qingyuan’s intelligence. “Yue-xiong, with all due respect to your new pet—it’s a fish.”
“Fish have emotions!” Yue Qingyuan argues. He flushes at the volume at which it comes out, and at the way Mu Qingfang’s eyes go wide-eyed in startlement. But the salesperson had been very insistent about that, as well. “Bettas are intelligent animals. They dislike certain colors, apparently, and they’re very sensitive—ah, to environmental disruptions, that is. And—”
Mu Qingfang’s eyebrows are still high, but his face has relaxed into a smile. “It sounds to me like you like it quite a bit already. Isn’t that reason enough to keep it?” His tone curls with sudden mischief. “Have heart, Yue-xiong—you’ve hardly known each other for a day! Give it time to adjust to you, and I’m sure you’ll win it over as surely as you do everyone else.” And he grins, sure and easy in his trust that Yue Qingyuan won’t fumble and shatter something so small and monumental as a life that he could cup in his palms.
While Yue Qingyuan is still dazed by that, Mu Qingfang’s eyes alight with interest. “Ah, Yue-xiong—what have you named it?”
“...”
Mu Qingfang’s face falls as devastatingly as it had lit up. “Yue-xiong…”
“Mu-xiong is aware that I was unsure of whether or not I’d keep him!” Yue Qingyuan is terribly aware that his ears are now heating up to match his cheeks. Mu Qingfang’s ensuing laughter does not help with that matter.
Yue Qingyuan is not very good at holding onto things. More often than not, he makes a mess of whatever he’s set his clumsy hands to, lets it fall right through his scarred fingers. But Mu Qingfang’s words ring through his head: Isn’t that reason enough to keep it? And, well, isn’t it? Surely Yue Qingyuan is adult enough to follow through on this. Maybe happiness can be look like his new betta swimming up to the tank to observe the new colorful form moving in front of it, can come as easy as Mu Qingfang quipping that his knowledge about fish is clearly lacking and vowing casually to read up on bettas to be a better fish uncle.
Yue Qingyuan buries a smile and walks over to let Mu Qingfang know that bettas can be trained to follow fingers around. The betta’s clear preference for Mu Qingfang over Yue Qingyuan is as good a marker of intelligence as any fun fact the pet shop worker could have given him. Yes, Yue Qingyuan thinks with a smile—he thinks he’ll be keeping this after all.
#yqy in canon: i make impulsive decisions of a scale where they torpedo my entire life#me: got it. in a modern au he makes expensive impulse purchases and then returns them immediately after#bc he can't conceptualize doing things for himself and also has no idea how to spend all his money he doesn't know what to do with#(this is suchh a vague modern au lmao like mqf is obv still a doctor#but i didn't write yqy as his boss here and am not sure what he does in this world or why he's rich now#and i have no idea who the fucking pet shop salesperson was either. i think it's sqh though)#don't worry about it okay? just enjoy the yuefang and the fruits of my and nik's agenda to make all our fave sect leaders fish owners#i personally see mqf as older than yqy! in this au he thinks he could be really into yqy#but he respects that yqy doesn't seem to be looking for a relationship (and that he has some shit going on that he hasn't seen fit to share#with mqf yet)#so he's content to stick to some mild flirting while enjoying their friendship#meanwhile yqy is totally divorced from the concept of attraction (directed at or coming from him)#so he panics every time mqf flirts with him but has no fucking idea that that's actually what's happening on either end#they would be so good together :)) mqf is going to be such a good fish co-parent :)) this fish is going to get these two together okay :)))#the betta is a black dragon/orchid; i couldn't decide so it's up to you#writing this was kinda funny bc the fish could and probably should have been a metaphor for sj#but i wanted to write smth yqy-centric that didn't directly allude to him even once#and i succeeded!!!#the entire reason i wrote this as modern au was bc i thought of mqf calling yqy 'yue-xiong' and went insane btw#OKAY SHUTTING UP NOW. THANK YOU AGAIN ANON!!!!!#asks#anonymous#my writing#svsss#yue qingyuan#mu qingfang#yuefang#yqy tag
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i watched the original x-men movies when they first came out, but never bothered to watch the prequel/reboot movies. just randomly decided to watch first class and was reminded what i've always felt my whole life: *whispers* magneto was right
#charles was so self-righteous and annoying lmao#he was a rich intellectual with a need for control#erik TRULY knew suffering#how are you gonna attempt to police somebody who has lived through the horrors he has lived through?#how are you gonna try to reason away his extremely valid emotions? police how the oppressed should feel about their oppression?!#the man literally was in a concentration camp. he knew what othering and using people as political pawns looked like#the humans were clearly headed in that direction and PROVED it by attacking you the second you no longer served their purpose#professor x absolutely gives the judgy people who look down their nose at rioting or other violent forms of protest#that are in direct response to violence and discrimination against the oppressed#especially when you consider the lens that x-men was written to be a metaphor for black/jewish/queer people#people who society shunned simply for being born how they were born#so yeah i'm with magneto the humans gotta go ✌🏾😂#and while i'm at it? killmonger and malcolm x were right too. they were just intense about it. i said what i said lol#mine#not bts
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What's your biggest dream?
Be loved, I want it in the most theatrical and dramatic way possible, in the most heartbreaking and at the same time tender way, I want it so roomcoom and at the same time so Dracula from 1992,I want to travel with him,I want to cook with him I want to be able to make jokes with him, watch television and have children,I want to eat him whole,i want his blood to be my blood I want kiss him under the pale light of the moon, I want to be the reason for all his sighs and his greatest obsession, I wish for love in its greatest splendor.
#girlblogging#lana del rey#coquette#60s#70s#50s#ask me anything#I am a strong and independent woman I swear#love quotes#love#cannibalism is a metaphor for love#blood is a methapor for love#dracula 1992#romantic#romance#questions#poems and quotes#soulmates#stolitz#emm i want to be rich and famous too#dark academia#vintage americana#sweet lana del rey#I was obviously listening to sweet by lana del rey while writing this
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another thing that was crazy abt megalopolis is that theres a huge subplot (the main plot of the movie??) about how adam driver is just going around demolishing historic buildings and peoples homes to build his stupid utopian city and everyone is protesting this for obvious reasons but then in the last 10 minutes he just unveils his stupid utopian city and its presented like a huge grand triumph and the demolishings are completely forgotten so you have to assume the movie thinks that coming in and exploding peoples homes with no warning is a good and cool thing for him to do and they shouldnt have been upset by this.
#also his cousin hates him so the cousin goes to one of these protests and agrees with the crowd#and like specifically stands apart from their rich family by saying 'no the common people arent trash theyre immigrants lets hear them'#so he joins the protest and riles up the crowd against adam driver#and then the next time we see the crowd its become a very on the nose trump metaphor w the cousin as trump#so in universe the people protesting the destruction of their homes with no warning are just. right wing crazies i guess#and the guy who listens to the common people and explicitly stands up for immigrants is trump#anyway thats more evidence that the movie thinks its good and cool for adam driver to be destroying peoples homes.#for his stupid city thats only benefit is. like. having those moving walkways you see at the airport.#avpost#anyway i have to keep talking about megalopolis to the detriment of my relationships and sanity bc theres just. so much#movie diary#oh and when i say the trump metaphor is on the nose i mean like. news people calling him an unconventional politician over#footage of the crowd holding up signs that say Make New Rome Great Again level of on the nose
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I'm worried now this is the new worst low of my life
#the parallels of aven being a slave to a rich man and then to the ipc#thematically it feels like jade is his new captor. the birdcage hes in now is gilded and jade is the one who put him there#i love these lyrics especially for using velvet rope as a metaphor for being bound and subjugated when the version release for aventurine#was the devil in velvet#anyway. kilmer is a great song go listen to it#i had trouble deciding which lyric translation to go with cuz there's like three but i just went with what's on the video for yuu singing i#honkai star rail#hsr spoilers#hsr 2.1#aventurine#nanjya.txt#i made this like 2 weeks ago and forgot abt it but here take it#btw these lyric edit things are more abt me telling you to go listen to a song more than the actual edit. my edits suck#go listen to kilmer and cry
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“but they cradled me, yes?” yeah that’s definitely gojo… he knows you’ve killed for him and bloodied your hands for him with a smile on your face… he knows none of the people you’ve killed weigh heavy on your heart because at the end of the day, as long as he’s safe and happy… well that’s all you care about. bloodied devotion to gojo… gonna be thinking about that for a WHILE……………………
#bodyguard!reader x rich brat!gojo you mean the world to me…………#i think having someone who would devote their lives to PROTECTING him makes him go a little bit insane (in a good way)#cradling his soft cheeks… kissing his forehead softly… his soft white hair tickling your face… GULPS#the blood on his bodyguard’s hands are both physical and metaphorical btw . know That#it’s the dichotomy of angelic white to blood red . YUM#anyways prev rb made me insane in ways i can’t comprehend#personal#snippets
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