#ready for batter

[major-mancake]

would you… go on a date with.. me? Again? B)

~ @dj-yonds-fort

Oh!!- Yonder!!

I'd love to, actually. :)

[starspangledbatter]

The Kinger and Zooble stans are gonna be eating GOOD in October. I’m calling it now. Episode 3’s A plot will focus around Pomni and Kinger’s team-up, which will reveal some of Kinger’s inner traumas or character traits (maybe he’s protective, sad, or actually really smart). Pomni and Kinger will become unlikely friends and attempt to help each other out throughout the mansion.

On the other hand, it’s B plot will center around Caine giving Zooble therapy on why they don’t want to attend any of the adventures, revealing what THEY’VE been going through during their time here.

As for the C plot, maybe Ragatha, Jax, and Gangle get into shenanigans? Maybe Ragatha is revealed to actually like the haunted house (knowing she loves horror movies)? Or maybe not? Maybe they catch ghosts and meet Martha beforehand?

[theropoda]

i think my wisdom teeth are erupting.... so help me GOD

[vivaciousoceans]

What was Elliot’s plan in 24.12? If his goal was to comfort her did her think they were going to sleep together? Because it’s bad enough he tried to kiss her? What were his motives?

[dacored]

OFFtober Day 1 - Warm up

[dinosaurwithablog]

It's starting.... top of the 3rd and Will Warren is falling apart. As I said, he should be a relief pitcher because he can only throw 1 or 2 innings before he walks a lot of batters or gives them pitches that they can hit. A run just scored. There's only one out. There are men on first and second. Warren just pitched a 3 run homer to Brendan Donovan and cleared the bases. Now he threw a double that was almost a homer. They had a mound visit, but he's still pitching. Get him outta there. Please. He's given away 4 home runs and is struggling to get the last out. No one is warming up in the bullpen. Thank God Verdugo had an amazing throw to home plate just now to get the out or the Cardinals would've scored yet another run. Boone should change the pitcher in the 4th inning, but he's an idiot so I doubt that he will. I really, really wanted to be wrong. I really wanted to have to eat my words, but NOOOOOOO. Will Warren is not ready to be a starter. He's good, but he's not ready. Boone is gonna destroy his confidence if he keeps letting him lose games for the Yankees. It's a shame. He's also gonna lose Juan Soto if he allows pitching to lose games, and he's destroying the morale of the team by letting the bullpen lose game after game after game.... Boone has been making bad decisions for years in regard to the bullpen. It's hard to watch. LET'S GO YANKEES!!!!!

[gmanmedias]

HOW COULD I SAY NO? SHE’S GOT A LOVE LIKE WOE!

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@frog-lover-yb

[talesfromthebandgeekmafia]

Stayed up until 1:00am to finish the last two hours of Thud!

You’d think I’d be prepared after seven books for Vimes to do something in the last act that has me on the edge of my seat holding my breath, until against all odds, the universe blinks first and I’m bowled over again by the heights of integrity one brave old terrier from the gutter can rise to. Still, I am surprised every time.

[major-mancake]

Myles!! What happened to you?-

- 🥞

Maverick!! Hey!!

I'm fine, don't worry, just human for a bit-

I'll be back to normal soon I'm sure!!

[bumblingbee1]

Wow, I thought those sesame waffles would take over an hour, but it took less than 30 minutes 😄

[atlanticsea]

Hello, I really loved the soldier, poet, king quiez!! Ik u have already done a thingy on the soldier, but as someone who got soldier I’m just curious about it. Is there anything else about the soldier you could perhaps tell us about?

Hi!! Hmmm I didn't necessarily leave anything out of my previous breakdown that I can think of.

I think I can clarify something I said about rules and the difference between King and Soldier though - I imagine the archetypal Soldier to internalise rules a lot more, thus feeling more pressure from themselves, while Kings feel a lot more external pressure. Here's a fun tidbit: for "Who taught you about guilt?" the initial Soldier answer was "myself," which I then replaced by "God." I changed it because I found it broader and more evocative, but maybe I shouldn't have, haha (and, of course, the King answer is "the world.")

Wait actually there is something I didn't talk about -- the archetypal Soldier keeps going no matter what and is so adamant that it will follow the rules it internalised because if those rules are wrong, then their entire life kind of crumbles. That crumbling can be a good thing, of course, but it's still terrifying. I mentioned in my Poet breakdown that each archetype is more preoccupied with either the past, present or future, and I think that also applies in terms of where each archetype is scared of causing harm. Kings are scared their decisions will hurt people in the long run, Poets are scared their attempts to affect change are hurting people now (and generally they feel at odds with the world and are simply worried that them Being Themselves is going to make people leave), and Soldiers are scared that their actions have hurt people in the past.

In fact, because of how I wrote the quiz, the archetypal Soldier is kind of convinced that it hurt people in the past -- it knows it will go to hell, and it considers that hell is doubt: in rules, in duty, in what is good, in itself.

Now I'll again repeat my disclaimer and say that this is ONLY true about the archetype itself, this abstolutely does not mean that those things are true about you, I just created a quiz for my friends, etc etc 😭

[mybodyfails]

[sorchaivy]

Some days, hope is hard. Today is one of those days.

Maudlin ramblings and wailing and gnashing of teeth below the cut.

Today is grey and rainy (and early summer here, so hardly seasonal weather), which always makes it harder for me to feel positive or hopeful.

But even sunny days are hard right now.

I live alone, and I've been single for nearly 10 years, working in a job that barely respects me as a worker let alone a person. I have my cat and my knitting and the media I enjoy, and beyond that and my family and a handful of friends I have very little else.

My father has dementia and is nearly completely gone. He's not yet 70, so young, and the dementia has moved so fast. It's barely 4 years since the first signs began, and he is now almost completely non-verbal, has lost all continence and spends his days lying in bed with a book open in his hands but no ability to read it.

We (my younger sister and I) knew it was coming, but knowing a thing and living it are horrifically different things.

In order to keep him in care, we have to sell his flat... and therein lies the next heartache. Because Dad was a hoarder who lived in squalor for 15 years, even before the dementia claimed him. And we can't afford to pay for professionals to help us clear out his flat, let alone pay for renovations to ensure we'll get even close to market value for it.

So we have to clean up and throw out 15+ years of accumulated filth and rubbish while also dealing with shame of knowing our father lived in those conditions, and we let him. Couldn't have stopped him, really.

And we have to do it within the next three or four months, so that we have a chance of selling the flat before June next year, so as to pay for Dad's residential care before the cost goes up and he gets evicted.

And we also have to do all before June because my sister is going to emigrate to the other side of the world with her new husband, to be with his family there. Parents and siblings and niblings are all waiting for them.

And that will leave me here, alone. Dad nearly gone, mostly just a body now. Mum died almost 15 years ago. And sister leaving for her new family on the other side of the world.

Add to that, my beloved cat is ageing and I will probably have to choose in the coming years between treatment I can't afford or the kindest goodbye I can give her.

And I just... I can feel my life, and my joy in life withering. I feel like all I have ahead of me is a hollowing out, a barren prospect of work and sleep and gradual physical decline as I age, and the occasional small bits of joy I can claw with bloodied fingers and grim determination from the implacable granite face of exhaustion and grief and late-capitalist hellscape despair.

And I know how tiny my problems are in the face of the literal fucking genocides, plural, being perpetrated right now. I know how little my complaints are in comparison with the fear of total climate collapse, or the possibility of further economic hardship driving millions into soul-crushing poverty.

And do not mistake me, I am NOT suicidal, nor am I giving in to this depression and despair.

I will persist, and I will keep carving out my tiny joys...

I just... for right here and right now I'm too tired and heartsore to do it without complaint.

I am crying. I hate crying. But right now I can't really do anything else.

In a little while I'll get up, splash water on my face, make myself a cup of tea and something to eat, and sit down to keep knitting a blanket for my sister. I'll even enjoy doing it, or I'll bloody well try to.

Because what else is there?

[d-lanx]

me coming back to see if my post limit has expired

hello? is this working?

[hooved]

every single day i experience symptoms of ocd and every single day i'm somehow surprised by it

[an1malcannibal]

Rewriting pinestars choice where he decides you know WHAT I’m taking my wife and children with me. Leopardfoot gets the cushy life she deserves, and mistkit and nightkit live because they get proper medical attention at a young age, and tigerstar becomes a kittypet that may or may not still turn evil. I just think that pinestar not taking his family w him is a plot hole I feel like he would have taken them considering he knew the stars had cursed tiger to damnation. Leopardfoots age is very unfortunate I’m going to chock most of that up to bad writing and the warriors teams blatant insidious misogyny instead of pinestar being a predator. Leopardfoot is still a very young warrior but she’s a warrior before she catches pinestars eye. The babies are born and they are small and weak and sick, pinestar has no idea what to do. Doestar visits him and insists he kill his son. He sees goosefeather watching his kits in the medicine den with hatred. He cannot live here anymore. So he bursts in a tells his wife to take the kits and come with him, they’re going somewhere. They arrive to twolegplace and Leopardfoot is like “YO hey what the fuck why the fuck are we here” and pinestar is like haven’t you seen??? Haven’t you noticed the hatred???? The violence??? They are so sick. The stars we’ve followed our entire lives want me to murder our child we must escape to safety. Leopardfoot is like Oh shit. Okay then. And jake shuttles them to safety. As Leopardfoot is taken in with the kittens, this is where pinestar goes back to make an announcement to his clan that he’s leaving and he’s already taken the wife and kids so BYYYYYYEEEE. Kittypet lavish living forever after the end.