#shouldn't have big responsibilities

[angelbitezzz]

Does this count as fanfiction spoilers when this is technically not canon?

Eh

[navree]

i just

who raised you, sir? why does MAWS slade insist on starting bitch fights with literally ever person he comes across at all times? why is he physically incapable of being polite or even just not being a dick? why is he beefing with someone who looks more like his comics version than he does? i love him.

[muirmarie]

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[cattatoir]

I think I have unpopular Sandman takes bc I'm usually on his side

[dw-flagler]

gross thought but like what do you think would happen if taylor got a parasite. like a tapeworm. one of the ones that hatches in the human body. cause her power doesn't detect larvae or eggs i don't think so she wouldn't know about it if she drank dirty water or something.

again gross thought but i'm thinking about her like detecting through her power a tapeworm hatching in her own stomach. or intestines. wherever tapeworms live. what would you do about having a tapeworm in your stomach and knowing about it from the moment it hatches from its egg. like do you let it die? cause she controls it so she can just make it so it doesn't eat any food and it starves to death. does that make it worse does that kill you

[sskk-manifesto]

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[crescentfool]

with the year coming to a close, i hope that anyone who's reflecting about how the year went remembers to be kind and fair to themselves with how you evaluate the year as a whole.

i think there are definitely times when life throws things that are... Not So Great at you. whether if it's some external circumstance that surprised you, or maybe your mentality wasn't at it's best. i wish for anyone who's encountered those kinds of challenges to be able to triumph over them and be able to say that they got through it.

heck, it might still be a work in progress even though you've kept chipping away at it, and that's ok! the results will show themselves eventually as you work through it! and i hope that we can all remember to be patient with ourselves as we go through these processes (learning, healing, etc.), because damn, it can be frustrating when you feel like you're "not there yet."

knowing that life can be rough at times, i think it's unfair to yourself (and others) to discount and downplay any progress you've made this year- whether if it's something that you did for the first time, or maybe you came to a new understanding and insight that you didn't have in the previous year.

it's not to say that you should undermine the validity of your experience with hardship, but to take the time to remind yourself what makes life worth living. to recall what moments were the most satisfying to you- and use it to strengthen your resolve for the next year and beyond. no amount of hardship will ever take away from the fact that you deserve to have hope that things will get better.

i hope that looking back on the year, you don't leave out the things you cherish. that you can remember the good that came this year. whether if the small victories are things like meeting someone new, trying something out for the first time, or making some strides in a long-term project/obligation...!

i wish everyone a happy new year! may it be prosperous, and that your life can move in a direction that's close to what you want out of life. you're all going to do great! remember to congratulate yourself for what you did well! despite everything, you're still here, and that's wonderful. never forget that!

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Currently fighting the urge to put Mecha into the alchemy world

[blood-in-retroflex]

google: how does one tell people I don't celebrate without pretending to be jewish or a johovas witness?

[fisheito]

Imagine you have to set up yakumo's enclosure for the next couple months. How do you set it up and what do you put in there?

oh NO.! THE PROPPHECY HAS BEenm FUFILLED

i am standing in my room, leggies rooted to the floor. i am in shock .frozen and i have no idea how to proceed. there is a perpetual pathetically sobbing serpent under my blankie.

[thornheartfelt]

I didn't wanna go into a kinda unrelated ramble here so I'm making this an actual post. Yeah the way that people treat Jav.ik actually annoys me and that was an example I was thinking of. I do get that a lot of it is related to limited character development due to being a DLC character but still.

So you've got this guy who was born into war, was raised for war, who was woken up to discover he was the last of his kind and the things that killed his people are back. He wants to fight in this war despite how traumatising all of that will be, he is willingly helping.

Except he's struggling to adjust to a brand new life upon waking THOUSANDS of years after everyone he knew was killed. Especially considering he is now in a completely different culture with different technology, different ways of communicating etc. So yeah he's gotten annoyed with people and verbally lashed out. He's been subject to the propaganda of his empire but hasn't exactly ever had the chance to unpack all of that because he's always lived in war that he was probably bred to be a soldier in.

Jav.ik is not constantly rude to everyone and IS capable of polite, respectful conversation. If everyone I knew died and then people just kept asking me about it while I was still trying to come to terms with that, then yeah I'd be snippy with people too.

Mor.din on the other hand had more opportunity to reflect on things. For most of his life he still came to the conclusion that the geno.phage was necessary. He still held onto prejudice and convinced himself that it was for the greater good. I'm not gonna break down all my thoughts on viable alternatives but spoilers: the geno.phage was never necessary. And Mor.din got the chance to experience that character development and to seek to make up for his actions in-game.

If you're reading this then you already know how much I love Mor.din, but he's also a good example of how hypocritical people get towards these characters. Look at Garr.us who's also well liked. A lot of his dialogue, mostly from the first game yeah but still, is also him clearly reciting propaganda and harmful rhetoric that's been passed around. And with Shep.ard being a good influence and Garr.us having new experiences, he grows as a person.

In conclusion, both the game and fans are unfair to Jav.ik. He just had so much potential as a character and it was unfortunately kinda wasted. And people really forget the context of WHY he is the way he is. No, he's not been nice but neither have other fan favourites in similar ways.

[saltinesinsoup]

aughhh the hell of like. being sick but feeling decent like i could go to class. and the knowledge that like. probably shouldnt. and also my class is in half an hour and i havent had lunch

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

Combining the idea that Teresa wants to work in the ICU and the idea that Mac has energon poisoning, I've been given the following:

Mac, sitting in the emergency room holding a bucket of her own glowing vomit and looking like death warmed over: huh, that's new

Teresa: IT CERTAINLY FUCKING IS

Wig you have given me a wonderful idea for a drabble, please enjoy:

Teresa had bounced between multiple different hospitals in her time working as a travel nurse. She knows the ins and outs, the dangers of the profession, and what the various codes mean. Code blue is cardiac arrest, code red is a fire, code pink is someone trying to kidnap a kid, code aqua is part of the building is flooding, code white is get security to me now, code silver is someone's grandpa wandered off again, and so on. Those were the most common she heard on her usual shifts and she'd called a couple of them herself.

However, as she bounced between her two ICU patients, thinking about if she should text Emily about bringing home dinner, she freezes in place as the overhead intercom crackles to life.

"Code orange in emergency department, code orange in emergency department. Stay clear of area."

"What the fuck?" she mutters. The emergency department was a meager floor below them.

One of the nursing students with them on shift gives her a confused look. "What's code orange for?"

"Hazardous materials that aren't biohazardous. Usually radiation or chemical spills," she says, stepping behind the counter of the nurses station.

The phone rang and Teresa nearly jumped out of her skin. The charge nurse answers it and Teresa takes a few deep calming breaths. She tries to remind herself that it probably wasn't that bad. Someone probably cracked the container of one of the xray machines or spilled cleaning chemicals.

"Teresa?" She turns at the sound of her name. The charge nurse had one hand over the receiver of the phone. "You have radiation and hazardous material safety training right?"

Her stomach twists as she sighs, "Yeah."

Teresa had worked in her far share of various wards and units while traveling. She had oncological experience handling both chemotherapy patients and radiation patients. Whatever was happening must have been a mix as she had been told to gown, double glove, put on a respirator and face shield, and a lead vest with an EPD. She was pulling her disposable shoe covers on when the elevator dings.

Teresa was already in the patient's designated room. It was at the very end of the unit and had no one in the neighboring rooms to reduce the chances of cross contamination. She's not sure what she's expecting to be wheeled in. She had seen gruesome sights in her career. Everything from fourth degree burns to necrotic limbs to chemical burns down to the bone. She always expects the worst and hopes for the best.

The bed is wheeled into the room and Teresa freezes in shock.

Her patient is a young woman, looking small against the stark white sheets, still wearing street clothes, and clutching a bucket in her lap. Her eyes are glossy and something bright blue is dribbling from the side of her mouth.

Transport gets the bed into place and Teresa steps into the hall to take report. The patient, Mackenzie Adam, came into the emergency department complaining of gastrointestinal distress, high fever, trouble focusing, and a migraine. She then proceeded to vomit into a bucket, the contents of which were described as "unnaturally blue" and set off the radiation warning system. Vitals had been taken, blood type and allergies unknown, and she scored an eleven on the Glasgow Coma Scale.

"Great," Teresa says, clapping her hands together.

"We're trying to pull doctors to come and see her right now, it's just, we don't know what's wrong so we don't know who to send," the nurse says.

"It's fine. I'll take vitals and see what her complaints are," Teresa says.

She steps back into the room and smiles wide enough that it translates to her eyes. "Hi Mackenzie, can you tell me where you are right now?"

Mackenzie blinks slowly before mumbling, "Hospital."

Teresa gently places a monitor onto one of her fingers. She glances into the bucket and bites back a wince at the glowing contents. "Wonderful. Do you know which hospital?"

"Mercy," she mumbles.

"Correct," Teresa says. Slowly increasing that GCS was always good. She taps at her patient monitor, bringing it to life, and begins reading her vitals. Then she does a double take and reads them again. Just to be sure, she fishes a thermometer out of her pocket and swipes it across Mackenzie's forehead.

"What's wrong?" the woman asks her.

Teresa hesitates before answering, "Well, your vitals are a bit concerning. Your heartrate is a little high, as is your blood pressure, but still within range. And your oxygen saturation is phenomenal. But your temperature is very high and we need to bring it down."

Teresa had seen high temperatures before. She had encountered her fair share of hyperpyrexia patients and coaxed their 106 degree fevers down within normal range. She had seen patients hit 108 and watched their bodies give out.

The temperature on the monitor and her own thermometer read 125 degrees Fahrenheit. By all modern medical logic, Teresa should be standing next to a corpse, not someone who looked like she was suffering through the worst hangover of her life.

"Oh. I do feel kinda warm," Mackenzie says. She begins to shift around, pulling at her coat, and Teresa breaks out of her daze to help her.

With her arms free, she should start an IV line on her, start getting fluids in at the very least, and pull blood samples. But that grinds to a halt when she looks down at her patient's arms.

"Do you know what's wrong with me?" Mackenzie asks her. Her heartrate has increased.

Teresa snaps her eyes back. Normally, this was the point when she should be forcing a reassuring smile onto her face and saying she'd get the doctor. But there was no doctor right now.

"I am not a doctor, so I cannot give you an official diagnosis," Teresa begins. "But I can point out abnormalities."

She walks over to the light switch and flicks it off. The room is illuminated only by the meager light from the hallway, the dying sun outside, and a third source. She walks back to the bedside and gently grabs one of Mackenzie's wrists, turning her arm over to expose the underside of her forearm.

"See how it looks like your veins are glowing?" she asks.

Mackenzie nods and in the low light Teresa sees that it's not just her veins. The sclera of her eyes were tinted the same luminescent blue.

"They're not supposed to fucking do that," Teresa says.

"Oh," Mackenzie replies and Teresa has to bite back a nervous laugh. The whole situation felt so surreal, so fake, so inane. She wondered if she was going to wake up to this all being some wild dream.

As she snaps the light back on, she hears Mackenzie mumble, "I don't feel good." It's the only warning she gets before the woman goes lax and the monitor screams as she flatlines. Teresa curses to herself before calling a code blue.

Twenty-eight minutes of chest compressions and an ungodly amount of epinephrine later, Mackenzie is sitting up in her bed, asking for some water, surrounded by confused neurologists, cardiologists, hematologists, and toxicologists.

Teresa has retreated to the clean stock room to take a moment to compose herself by sitting on a box of clean linens and whispering, "What the actual fuck."

[shivunin]

20. How do they comfort each other when one of them is upset? Is this method of comfort effective? and 26. What sacrifices do they make for each other for Arianwen and Zevran?

Have a lovely day ^^

Hey!! and thank you for the ask c: I hope you also have a beautiful day. <3

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20. How do they comfort each other when one of them is upset? Is this method of comfort effective?

Ooh so, I think they both tend to offer physical comfort first, actually. This works well for when they're upset, but not well when either of them is angry (Wen Does Not like to be touched when she's mad, but she finds pressure really comforting when she's upset, for example). I think part of this is that, for Zev, physical affection makes the most sense. It was sort of the first language he learned, in a way, so that's what he understands best and most easily.

Words are harder for both of them, but definitely something they would try if physical contact doesn't work. Again, this is more effective when either of them is upset rather than angry. Wen thinks in a very linear manner, so laying out facts actually works pretty well to bring her down from the worst of it ("There was nothing you could have done because you weren't here to do something. The people responsible are dead," etc.) whereas I think Zev responds better to words of comfort ("It shouldn't have happened, but I'm here now and I'm not leaving," etc.) even if it takes him a while to admit it.

26. What sacrifices do they make for each other?

Oooh. This is maybe more abstract than the question intended but:

The greatest sacrifice Wen makes for Zevran is the largest portion of her anger. At some point, she recognizes that she can't love him and despise the world, so she makes the conscious decision to let some of it go. (Not all of it. I don't think she's capable of that. But most of her desperation for revenge---that's something she sets aside so she has space for him in her heart instead.)

The biggest sacrifice Zev makes for her is staying. Not because it's a sacrifice to be in her company, but because running and distance have become the default for him and choosing to stay is so, so much harder.

But I think, most importantly for the two of them, they make space for each other every day on purpose. I think this is what they need more than anything: someone to look at them and say "this is for you and will always be yours and no matter what distance or time passes between us, my arms will be open for you, even when it scares me." And I think that's something that would feel very vulnerable and frightening to both of them, though it is also so worth it.

[demigirlboss2girlrotboogaloo]

While failure rates are lower in sub-i7/i9 SKUs, they are not entirely absent. Some Core i5 SKUs *are* affected. Specifically, anything with the K suffix. If your CPU's name starts in a 13 or 14 and ends in a K, and you've been having stability issues lately (random crashes and whatnot), you're eligible for a warranty claim. Regardless of whether that happens though, your warranty *is* extended by two years, and this applies to both proccessor-in-box (PIB) products, which can be warrantied directly from Intel, and to tray processors found in prebuilt PCs, which can be warrantied directly from the manufacturer of your prebuilt PC.

Also, Intel has not yet released the patch to fix this. They're currently validating it internally (i.e ensuring it won't fuck everything up even worse) and will be releasing it to motherboard manufacturers shortly, who should be integrating it into a new BIOS update. The patch is slated for release to manufacturers by mid-August, so we can likely expect BIOS updates a week or two after that, start of September at the latest.

Do you know if the thing about Intel 13 and 14th gen CPUs dying is true?

Yeah there's a major flaw in some very high-end 13th and 14th gen processors. If you just got an off-the shelf computer (not a gaming computer, not a high end workstation) you're probably fine. If you got a high-end processor but are not having issues with this, Intel has released a patch. If you ARE having problems, Intel extended the warranty of those processors and you should replace the processor.

It is a big deal, however it is a big deal that impacts a small but disproportionately loud subset of computer users, so if your computer cost less than a thousand dollars basically you're cool, this isn't going to be an issue for you.

[misconceivedcapricorn]

Am a big fan of angsty adult men who put up a flashy persona but have a strong friendship with some kid/teen girl who knows how angsty that mfer is. I do not like kid/teen girl to be somebody who has to be a pillar of emotional support for the angsty man and suddenly becomes really motherly or sisterly-like. no. keep it away !!