#partnership break

[wrestlingarsenal]

Oh my -- now this is getting very sadistic (and sexy!) My poor Daniel Garcia looks so vulnerable and helpless beneath the boot of his deviously betrayer. And look how jacked and powerful MJF appears in his tank top -- total Boss! Those black pants and chunky boots just add to his dominant appearance. What a visual!

It was a good idea for MJF to wear that white shirt because it really shows off the crimson bloodstains -- much better than, say, a black or red shirt.

To my utter shock (and satisfaction), the post-match abuse continues as MJF hoists his former friend into position for an Off-The-Turnbuckles Pile-Driver.

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS, WRESTLING FANS! THIS CRUEL BASTARD MIGHT HAVE JUST ENDED YOUNG DANIEL GARCIA'S CAREER!!

Garcia has not been seen at any shows since this devastating assault occurred on July 3rd. Sources inside AEW have reported that he's lost all feeling in his arms due to MJFs neck-breaking Piledriver!

(But I also learned that Daniel Garcia's contract with AEW recently expired and now he is in negotiations. He is considering joining the WWE given that he's one of the hottest studs in wrestling rn.)

From a purely selfish (and prurient) perspective, I sure hope he returns to AEW to continue feuding with MJF for at least another year. I need to see MJF beat him down at least 6 to 8 more times, maybe in a few Dog Collar Chain matches, and to stand with that boot on poor Daniel Garcia's neck after every match. Maybe I can start a GoFundMe to pay the difference between AEW's salary offer and whatever WWE is promising...

Anyway, THANKS guys for performing this sadistic and very homoerotic break-up scene. MJF is fantastic as the backstabbing devil, and Garcia always cooks. Also thanks to the He Is Out! blog for creating these images to help me tell this story.

[serpentface]

Hibrides and Brakul having the world’s saddest booze-fueled girl’s night, probably a few months before the start of the story.

Anyway here's an extensive rundown of their shared history.

Hibrides Uryashta was the eldest daughter of a chancellor of the imperial city-state of Erubinnos (his lordship Erub Uryashta). She was brought up with great privilege and security, but (like most daughters of noblemen) was destined to be used as a bargaining chip in a political marriage arrangement. She was taken from her friends and family and moved to the city of Wardin at the age of 16 to complete her pledged marriage with Janeys Haidamane, the failson of the trade magnate Haidamane family. Janeys spent about a week poorly attempting to behave like a husband, and then took the first excuse to flee and engage in a petty military campaign against raiders on the Yellowtail trade route. She found herself left alone in his villa for three years with only hired servants for company. She made a few attempts to break into the city's elite social scene, but was quite shy and failed to make any headway.

Brakul had just spent a year and a half in a bit of a whirlwind. He was brought into a skirmish at the behest of an allied clan, who had been raiding the Yellowtail route and now was under attack by combined forces of an enemy clan and Imperial Wardi mercenaries. He killed one of the mercenary commanders and was captured as a prisoner of war, but was spared at Janeys' behest (who fucking hated that guy thought it was awesome that he got killed with a rock) and was ultimately recruited into the group. He had a chance to go back home, but actively chose to deadbeat dad out on his wife and child to be with his newfound lovequest, Janeys. He spent a year and a half as a mercenary, bonded closely with Janeys and swore brotherhood with him, and was eventually brought home to the city of Wardin with him. He found himself in the odd position of being simultaneously scorned as a foreigner and 'heathen', and the legal kin of one of the richest families in the city (and effectively the secret male concubine of their only male heir).

It was in this context that the two of them met, with Hibrides now being 19 and Brakul turning 27.

The two were initially wary of each other (Hibrides was particularly put off by his 'heathen' status) but bonded very quickly, partly due to their mutual states of being unmoored from their old lives, but in large part being just a natural chemistry. They had a lot of common interests and enjoyed learning from each other. Hibrides introduced him to traditional verse poetry (of which she was very fond). Brakul taught her how to ride khait, and even gave her a gelding from his own collection as a gift. They became very close friends over the next couple of years and spent much of their free time together.

A big part of the dynamic was that both of them are gay in a cultural context where there is no concept of Being gay, marriages are usually arranged and always between a man and a woman, and having children is a societal expectation. Each of them began to see the other as an ideal husband/wife, ie "if I had to marry why couldn't it have been him/her?". For Hibrides' part, Brakul had all the traits she would want in a husband: he was a pretty good friend and easy to get along with, he seemed like he'd do an excellent job of fulfilling expected roles as a husband and father (she didn't know about the wife and kid for a while), he treated her as an equal, and, most of all, had no interest whatsoever in fucking her. They were both in a sort of platonic emotional affair, and grew to love each other deeply.

Hibrides was pretty quick to catch on that something was going on between Brakul and Janeys, and found it strange and offputting but ultimately none of her concern. Her husband only being interested in his sworn brother and leaving her to her own devices suited Hibrides just fine, and Brakul always just kinda being There meant she was living with what had become her closest friend.

The stable state of this Feelings Triangle began to change in the wake of the brilliant plan to get Janeys (gay) (probably infertile) children he could pass off as legitimate via a Brakul/Hibrides pregnancy. It was something all three agreed to as a necessity; it was already drawing scrutiny that Janeys and Hibrides had been married for several years without a pregnancy, and producing heirs is a societal expectation and a central point of an arranged marriage between wealthy elites.

It was especially critical in this case, given Janeys was his family's only male child and only hope of continuing the family line, given both his golden-child sister Faiza and black sheep half sister Couya were Odonii, and thus sworn virgins and would never marry. (There's also a level to this that Janeys was regarded as a complete disappointment by his parents, and his mother made damn sure he knew that his only value at this point was to produce a better male heir to inherit the business. So this was a big fucking deal to him, and to Brakul by extension).

This was also not a route any of them wanted to take on any personal level, least of all Hibrides. She consented to the pregnancy and everything it entailed, but it was inevitably a painful and distressing experience all around. She had never wanted to be a mother to begin with (though had long accepted it as an inevitability), and now found herself with an infant daughter, which only meant it would have to happen again (they needed a male heir after all). And it would be utter social suicide and a profound shame upon her if the child's illegitimacy was discovered, which only added to the stress.

To make things worse, her first pregnancy shifted the entire dynamic with her husband and brother-in-law/best friend. Janeys changed from completely indifferent to actively spiteful and hostile towards her, and things had become extremely uncomfortable between Hibrides and Brakul. It only got worse with Brakul (the only one of them who actually WANTS kids) (kind of haunted by skipping out on his first child) finding it unbearable to be so close to HIS daughter and having to keep up an act that she was not his own, having no direct role in the kids life. He desperately wanted to be a father.

Hibrides, who was going through a fucking lot, started to become vindictive towards him for his role in things. She resented him more than Janeys, because Brakul insisted he cared about her and would desperately try to pretend things were normal, while consistently siding with Janeys against her wishes, including in preventing her from getting a divorce. (His excuse is that the children's legitimacy would be interrogated in a legal setting, which Is likely and Would be absolute social suicide with very real consequences. But the real reason on his part is that if she got out of the marriage, he might never see her or the children again). Hibrides began to do everything in her power to prevent him from having any relationship with his bastard children, even in secret or under the guise of a relative. Sort of an “if I have to suffer to keep up this facade so should you” thing.

They had two children in a span of three years, two girls (ruh roh!) named Erubi and Livya. By this point, Hibrides and Brakul were both experiencing what we would now call Clinical Depression and Alcohol Use Disorder (especially in the latter's case). Hibrides started to have affairs with both men and women, which she was sure to be very obvious about to insult Janeys and Brakul, but was mostly out of loneliness. Brakul turned his complete focus to Janeys and started avoiding Hibrides entirely, in hopes that she would become desperate enough to be willing to make amends (shockingly, this did not happen, and the rift only deepened).

In the present, their relationship status is: fucked. Both of them do still love each other on some level, but this is probably beyond repair. What little time they've spent with each other in the past year is sitting around being miserable and getting plastered. And now Hibrides, Janeys, and Brakul are all forced into the public eye on the pilgrimage together, and with a third child on the way. So that's probably going to be everyone's problem.

[sammaggs]

spent the last two days with a chainsaw felling, limbing, and bucking a tree in the Canadian bush (it was encroaching on the hydro line to my cabin) and all I could think of the whole time was this

also I would have GIF’d this but you really need—NEED I say—to hear the boys’ 4AM voices. you need to.

[papayafiles]

...not mclaren using ai art on their instagram... come on now take that down don't embarrass me the literal day after winning the championship :///

[cocktailjjrs]

You guys don't understand how much i love the fact that ALL of us have just accepted the HC that -

After those two unnecessary gay-ass speeches of Dazai, irrespective of the fact whether he knew Chuuya was a vampire or not (I believe the first one was legit while the second was just him being overdramatic).

The point Being, We all have unanimously agreed, that after those corny confessions, Chuuya is NEVER letting him Live those DOWN!

Because, as much as we love to baby Chuuya, He is just as much of a shit as Dazai is. He is just as much screwed in head as his partner! And while he may sometimes show restrain, when it comes to Dazai, he would surely go above and beyond to make his life just as much a hell as the other does AND HE WOULD ROCK IT TOO!!!

And it get's worse when both of them join force. They trolled Fyodor (and Gogol) and definitely had a laugh BTS.

[c1trvswurld]

look, im a die hard top 50 yeehan shipper as of currently, But I very much doubt they'd be in a traditional, longterm, completely monogamous relationship.

[numbknee]

this isn’t a new hot take of mine but it still blows my MIND that I’m in the minority in the kyman fandom when it comes to thinking of Kyle as a dom/top and Cartman as a sub/bottom. From what I’ve heard from veteran kymans the fandom barely had ANY sub Cartman truthers in its earlier years, and dom Cartman is still extremely popular to this day. There's so much art/fics where Kyle is like... a pain slut (????) or gagging for Cartman’s giant dick (?????????) but any time I see that stuff I get a visceral, skin-crawling HELL FUCKING NO 😬😬😬 reaction and have to back out immediately.

A mutual once told me something like “I can’t write Cartman as a dom, I think I’d break out in hives or something” and that’s p much exactly how I feel lmao 😆

y'all do you ig, but it's not my cup of tea at all.

[roughroadhaley]

the issue with the RoyKeeley storyline in season 3 for me. if they’re not meant to be that’s fine, they’re very different people at different phases of their life, but tell us that. Give us some sort of emotional pay off for watching them share half of their screen time together for two years. There’s no scene in season three that felt cathartic to me.

[writterings]

sometimes i get too high during the workday and when working at home and ngl that's when i get the best work done

[lord-shitbox]

I genuinely believe Leander & Kuras's "business deals" are (medicinal) drug trading & I also think Leander wants to kill Ais because he cooks Adderall and is threatening Leander's weed empire

[pikslasrce]

anybody wanna be the ulay to my marina abramović...

[medicinemane]

It's amazing how quickly you can make someone turn on your company by making a stupid and insulting move

Force me to go through the front door and scan my card when I have backdoor business that never needed a card before (what? ...I was going to somehow... sneak in and... purchase things with a borrowed card? ...which I totally can't do from the front door after scanning it?)

Or like... twitterify your layout right after your users give you a bunch of money just cause they like you, and then refuse to walk it back

...or all the other things companies do that just kinda piss people off and then they refuse to acknowledge maybe it sucks and is stupid cause "hey, the customers didn't leave"... yeah... yet

[doux-amer]

Revenant is soooo mid which is disappointing because I was looking forward to it due to the actors and writer (this isn’t a flop like Jirisan, which I gave up on after 2–3 episodes, but it’s not really good). BUT. BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m suffering from “poor little meow meow middle-aged man” deficiency and Professor Yeom Haesang suffers so much. I can’t believe I was like “Oh...okay” about his casting because I’m planting my palms against his windows, peering at him in his little cage and being fed because he’s had the worst life ever and it keeps getting worse. HAESANG *____*<3

[suzilight]

Interrupting my regularly scheduled content for:

Russia's Putin and North Korea's Kim sign mutual defence pact

June 19, 202412:47 PM PDT Reuters

Russian leader makes first visit to North Korea in 24 years

Putin: pact provides for mutual defence

Putin: Russia may develop weapons and technology ties

Kim calls the new ties 'alliance', pledges 'unconditional support'

West fears Russia could aid North's nuclear, missile programmes

Putin and Xi pledge a new era and condemn the United States

May 16, 2024 Reuters

Putin and Xi cast U.S. as Cold War hegemon

Pledge to deepen partnership in defence, trade

Say new era in Russian-Chinese ties is dawning

China and Russia declared a "no limits" partnership in February 2022 when Putin visited Beijing just days before he sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine, triggering the deadliest land war in Europe since World War Two.

Xi, 70, and Putin, 71, signed a joint statement on Thursday about the "new era" that proclaimed opposition to the U.S. on a host of security issues and a shared view on everything from Taiwan and Ukraine to North Korea and cooperation on new peaceful nuclear technologies and finance.

"The China-Russia relationship today is hard-earned, and the two sides need to cherish and nurture it," Xi told Putin.

"China is willing to ... jointly achieve the development and rejuvenation of our respective countries, and work together to uphold fairness and justice in the world."

Ranking the nations of the world based on current available firepower by Global Fire Power

Looking ahead, Russian leader Vladimir “Putin’s total mobilisation of his economy is simply not sustainable. And he knows it,” British military chief Grant Shapps said Monday on social media while sharing the latest British intelligence update on the war in Ukraine. That update emphasized reported labor shortages inside Russia, which are seen as something of a ticking time bomb for Putin’s long term goals. (source Defense One)

[bighandsforabigheart]

My delulu mind trying to explain how tenet and tmfu are just movies with the same tropes where the only differences come from the style the respective directors add to it