#rich bitches

[justc2world]

They drove their family member around in their custom ferrari today

[rodolphus-lestrangex]

Bellatrix Black - our favourite nepo baby.

Technically, most of our favourite Death Eaters are nepo babies and we love that for them. 🖤

[a-rogue-tiddy-bot]

gdi why did all the blogs that make fun of McMansions become inactive? Did we run out of them!?

[liloinkoink]

one thing i think people get wrong about Martyn in the life series is he really isn’t loyal

like yeah, we all know him as the Hand, following the Red King as far as their shared grave, but that is… truly the outlier and not the norm with him

i mean, let’s take a brief look at other seasons. i can’t speak to Secret Life, as it came out when i was incredibly busy and i haven’t yet had time to watch it, but what about the others?

he won Limited Life because he’s a chronic traitor! he betrayed Scott, his ally for the whole season, so that he could win, and said he’d been planning it / wanting to do it the whole session. spent a whole season protecting and helping Scott, and laughed in his face to betray as soon as he saw a shot to do so

Double Life was a whole mess of Martyn and weird loyalties. just one example: he spent all of the first session hanging out with Pearl in favor of even looking for either of their soulmates, with no regard for how he’d been putting his soulmate in danger. when their soulmates dumped them due to being ignored all session and stormed off, he dumped Pearl just because. one session in and he’s betrayed both his soulmate and his day one alliance!

Last Life he teamed with the Southlanders and then made the Shadow Alliance in secret, so he was on two teams and never truly committed to either. he tried to kill Grian basically immediately when he got boogeyman, for example, and in the final fight he tried to lure Ren to himself by offering to team and then tried to blow Ren up

of course, i’m simplifying and ignoring a lot. he doesn’t earn the loyal reputation for nothing. he does a lot of things to help his teammates, like giving a life to Ren in Last Life, trying all season to win Cleo over for all of Double Life, or working to protect Scott for all of Limited Life. it’s not like Martyn doesn’t play the part of a loyal friend well, but, well.

the thing about Martyn is that he’s selfish. he’s basically always going to prioritize his own survival over anything else. he’s never going to roll over and die, especially not for another person. he’s good at looking loyal, because having allies will help you survive, and he knows making outright enemies is a bad idea. he knows he can’t make it obvious he’s a traitor, because then he’ll certainly be killed. but, when it comes down to the wire, he will generally bail at the last minute to save his own skin rather than protecting the people around him. when his loyalty is tested, nine times out of ten, he will not only fail, but do so completely without remorse

it doesnt take a lot to become Martyn’s ally, and once you’ve got a foot in the door, he will take his allegiances seriously (at least, to a point). but it takes effort to really earn Martyn’s trust. and, even when it looks like you have, there’s no guarantee he won’t yank the rug out from under you if he decides having you alive is more detrimental to his survival than seeing you dead

and yes, you can especially see all of this in Third Life. Martyn was absolutely not instantly ride or die for Ren—for a lot of the earlier episodes, he won’t say he’s on Ren’s team or that he lives at Ren’s base, and often tells other players he’s simply Ren’s employee rather than teammate and that he’s wandering or homeless. he trusts Ren so little due to Ren’s inability to keep a secret or stand up for himself that even Ren acknowledges in the third session that Martyn is probably going to leave him and find someone else. Martyn’s loyalty had to be earned, and it very nearly wasn’t. if Ren had taken a session more to grow a spine, Martyn probably would have left

but Ren became an ally that Martyn could rely on, who could stand up for himself and keep secrets. it became more beneficial to Martyn’s survival to have Ren around, so he stayed with Ren for the rest of the season, and committed hard to their kingdom. Ren earns Martyn’s trust by becoming a more dependable ally, and because of that, Ren earns Martyn’s loyalty…. probably

(half related, bc i want it in the post and i don’t know where to put it: after the execution, two sessions after Ren officially earns Martyn’s loyalty, Ren admits to being genuinely convinced Martyn was going to take him out of the series as soon as Ren gave him the chance!)

because yes, even here, even after Ren earns his trust and Ren trusts Martyn to execute him and they become King and Hand, Martyn was okay with killing Ren to save himself. Martyn has said he was going to betray Ren in the final session of Third Life. his entire plan was that when he and Ren hit the final 5, he was going to kill Ren. end Red Winter, usher in Red Spring. even the most loyal version of Martyn was a traitor!

now, you can decide for yourself if you believe he could have actually gone through with this—he and Ren were 6th and 7th out of the game, after all. maybe he wouldn’t have been able to steel himself. maybe his loyalty would have, for once, been too strong to kill Ren.

but it’s very possible that even the most loyal version of Martyn—the version of Martyn who has created this “loyal” image of Martyn in fanon—was only loyal because he died too soon to show his true colors

[regonold]

Danny over his many years has cultivated a unique sense on top of his ghost sense a- in this case- 7th sense

Danny can sense rich people it started with just vlad which he thought was just his ghost sense then he went to metropolis on a field trip to lexcorp and he got a feeling like the chill of his ghost sense but white hot rage instead he turned and saw lex Luther himself come to "chat" with the students on a field trip

This kept happening whenever some billionaire walked near he just felt the white hot rage of his billionaire sense

Danny didn't like this so he started leaving the moment he sensed a billionaire now this wouldn't be that bad if he didn't move to Gotham

So far danny has jumped out 5 widows crashed through 6 doors leaped down one elevator shaft and in one memorable time he climbed a building to get away from the waynes who appear to be everywhere

[writ-large]

if activists grow up

#east palestine, ohio  #crime labs frame thousands  #multi-story collapse in NY City

OK, I’m an old hag. I walk with a cane, but I can also plant myself and wield it when I have to. I am fed to death on whining Pretty Girls that can’t face what they’re up against. The world is in Deep Shit. The Money Men and Rich Bitches can always body-slam the rest of us and keep us running around squawking like chickens. They don’t care shit about urban blight or hungry children. It’s all about short-term gain and screwing everybody else, and they can hole up in their bunkers with their piles of loot when it comes to that. I’m not saying take up arms, I’m saying arm yourselves with a little Real-Politik!! This is the final Battle for the Planet and that’s what you came here for!!! Relish the life of the trenches. Forget that business internship, stop shmoosing for startup money. TIME TO ACT NOW!!!

(EPA won’t test residents, Status Coup; Crime Labs falsify tests, Business Reform; death toll may rise, ABC news)

[expulence]

𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆..☆🤎

[muzsmocsing]

Reading svsss really puts into perspective just how MIRACULOUSLY normal Hua Cheng turned out despite his arguably worse circumstances.

[divineandmajesticinone]

4 MINUTES (2024) GREAT & TYME I Yin & Yang ☯︎

[bitchslapblastoids]

V: Not that I’m broke. Because I know where to come if I’m broke.

D: Thank you for buying merchandise at shop.danielhowell.com so that I can pay for my grandma’s…total body workout.

Hard to overstate how much I adore this whole this (saved the parasocial for the tags)

[pownicmania5000]

"You go girl" is an understatement for this holy shit

[krekee]

This came to me in a dream

[redvelvetsource]

yerimiese

[foreverrryourssss]

[theereina]

[klqdraws]

Seems hellsing brain has come back specifically around the role swap au so here’s most of the gang! Still don’t have a good idea for who to swap Walter with 🤔