#silver processes bs

[castingmysilver]

....I find a great deal of Derek Webb's "The Jesus Hypothesis" album relatable but I'm kinda stuck on these lines from "Some Gods Deserve Atheists" rn.

"When you were young

Hypothetical sin

Was all that you'd done

It was so simple then"

So........ this would imply having a generalized view of sin nature but *not* believing every other move you make is fucking up???? That was not my personal fundie-adjacent experience!

[castingmysilver]

....still processing this one.

I know hell is an insanely evil thing to *desire to exist* but i.... am struggling a little as someone raised in an intensely Christian bubble with whether it's insane evil to *teach about* if you firmly believe it exists and are scared of it yourself and trying to keep people you love OUT at all costs, rather than consciously using as a manipulation tactic??

I mean I know abuse isn't always dependent on intent, but like... Is there a moral difference between handing on a harmful belief with intent to harm, and handing on a harmful belief because it's your best understanding of the world?

my most antitheist opinion is that hell is like. a cartoonishly evil thing to believe in and insanely abusive to teach children about

[orpheusilver]

argument scene is. a lot.

[jovibee]

Everybody finds it strange that Silver is the only character that doesn’t have a last name and idk if that’s been addressed in game yet but I like to think that his last name IS Vanrouge and he just asked for it to be dropped from his papers

[unicornondeck]

would you tell me what's wrong? (silver)

As Silver's gaze met his, Izzy's lips straightened into a line. When questioned about his state, he offered only a shrug in reply. His silence spoke louder than words. He avoided direct eye contact initially, opting to mess around with the handle on the drink as he tried to come up with a plan. The scent of alcohol lingered around him and added to the credibility of the few empty glasses by him.

His shoulders were tense against the back of the chair, both legs on top of the table beside the adjacent glasses. He was silent, clearly wrestling with something internally. He knew he was not exactly hiding his feelings about the past few weeks but it was clearly about to boil over. "Nothing is wrong, why would anything be fucking wrong? Everything is fine."

@pyratezlife

[umbrellajam]

I feel like whether Tim is on some level suicidal in RR #12 is very open to interpretation, which is part of what makes it fascinating!

because Tim's homecoming to Gotham is the culmination of an upward/self-actualization arc, after struggling through multiple low points/depression/an extended breakdown.

he finally got proof Bruce is alive. managed to claw Tam and himself out of the Cradle and away from the Council of Spiders/LoA by the skin of their teeth. thumbed his nose at Ra's and reaffirmed his own principles by blowing up all the LoA servers. finally kind of processed that Kon and Bart are both alive again - he just tackle-hugged Kon in RR #9 and told him, "when you found me in Paris, I was in a bad place. Now... Now I'm in a good place." he's full of renewed purpose and the realization that he doesn't, in fact, have to do things alone! (team-up Robin ftw!)

so probably not actively suicidal

but then in all of his frantic calculations to thwart Ra's and save each and every person Bruce loved - he doesn't factor himself in. he doesn't put himself on that list of loved ones and set up a contingency for preserving his own life (wtf Tim).

or does he??? that's where the ambiguity comes in for me, because we don't actually see him discussing the full details of his plan with anyone. and he doesn't mention it in his internal narration, either! because his internal narration is always super reliable..... hmmm.....

we know that Dick isn't aware of any other contingencies, or indeed the full details of the plot they were thwarting - after catching Tim, Dick has to ask him, "You want to tell me what that was all about?" and of course "How did you know I'd be there to save you?"

and as I've mentioned before, I don't think Tim had actually planned for Dick to save him, so his "You're my brother, Dick. You'll always be there for me," response is uh, both loving BS and a "genuinely felt expression of retrospective faith", as Silver put it (and which has been stuck in my mind in glowing cursive letters ever since, lol).

but. we do know that as part of his plan to thwart Ra's ninja-assassinate-Bruce's-loved-ones plot, Tim calls all three of his best friends into Gotham. (among all his other rallied allies.) his best friends who are various combinations of flight and/or superspeed capable. and who had each just smugly patched in via comm to confirm that their protection jobs were all successful, meaning Tim knew they were available if he potentially needed them.

the fact that the rest of the Core Four then twiddle their thumbs and let Tim keep fighting Ra's on his own after confirming Alfred/Selina/Barbara are safe, instead of zipping over to have his back (ie punch the jackass through a wall) almost has to be because of: (a) Tim's plan to deliberately stall so Lucius could file the WE paperwork (on the Watsonian level), (b) Yost allowing Tim to have his Final Showdown with the villain of the arc on his own, and also (c) Yost setting up the emotional climax/reconciliation of Dick catching Tim (both on the Doylist level).

like, Tim stalls Ra's for long enough that Dick is able to glide and grapple his way over from his own ninja-busting detail, we don't think the speedster or the Superboy could have gotten there in time?

Dick is the one who caught Tim because it was thematic, it's a motif in their relationship and the resolution of their 12-issue arc, and don't get me wrong I wouldn't change that moment for anything - but! he wasn't the only one around who could have done so.

and Iiiiii have to suspect Tim would know that? there's ambiguity and room for interpretation, of course, especially since Tim doesn't say anything at all or call out to anyone as he's actually falling.

but also. Kryptonian superhearing? Tim's comm which could very well still be connected? could he have been relying on allies listening/clue-ing in, whether or not he actually explicitly sketched out a back-up plan with anyone to come back him up, after Lucius was done transferring WE? all according to (dumbass improvised) keikaku??

idk! seems plausible to me, but it's all so open to interpretation, it makes my brain go BRRRRRR 😊 like you can make a compelling case/headcanon/fic any way you look at it!

anyway. Dick catching Tim is very much The Moment Ever Of All Time <3 but also the thought of Kon just hovering at the ready to grab Rob but spotting Dick!Bats swooping in and being like ":))) oh ok. they both need this." is v. hilarious to me

[ordinaryschmuck]

Okay, with Phase Five of the Multiverse Saga DONE, here's the obligatory ranking...

Secret Invasion is at the very BOTTOM of the list, no doubt about it. It looked interesting in the first episode, but quickly lost its momentum as it became a BORING slag to watch with the WORST CGI a Marvel TV show had and the WORST finale any of these bullshit shows had. This is the absolute bottom of the barrel, right there with Iron Fist and Inhumans as a show I do NOT want to see again. I'm not kidding.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's biggest problem is its consistency. It's trying to be this SUPERHERO EPIC, with great battles and threatening villain that our heroes just can't seem to stop...And also an Ant-Man movie with goofy humor and silly characters. Honestly, if it chose to be one or the other, this movie wouldn't be so bad. Just cut out most of the jokes and have this be a serious showdown with the MCU's new (And quickly forgotten) big bad, Kang. Or, alternatively, cut out KANG and make it a lowstakes movie where Scott teaches Cassie to be a great hero as they face off against MODOK. Either option would have worked well, but because the movie tried to be BOTH, it ended up falling short in the process. It also doesn't help that the best thing about the movie, Kang himself, is tainted by the actor being a not great person. Overall, I don't hate the movie as much as everyone else did, but I can't really call it GOOD.

Captain America: Brave New World is the most OK movie the MCU has ever had...and that kind of makes me hate it a little more, BECAUSE IT DIDN'T NEED TO BE! This is a movie that could have been the BOLDEST film Marvel could have ever produced in this year alone. It's a movie where the president turns into a giant, red rage monster who could have burned the whole world down, all while being guided by his tech-bro "super genius" to get the position he has in the first place. THE UNIVERSE SERVED THIS FILM WITH THE BIGGEST POLITICAL STATEMENT OF THE CENTURY ON A SILVER PLATTER...And it did NOTHING with it! It's actually FRUSTRATING how scared this movie is to make a SINGLE claim about ANYTHING. It gets so PAINFULLY close to doing so, yet it feels like some Disney executive is holding a gun to the film's head and DARING it to make those connections. I mean, does it still have some epic fight scenes and some solid performances? Yeah, it does, but so does a LOT of MCU movies. This one doesn't offer much outside of that, despite how CLOSE it does to doing so. I WANT to like movie more, it IS awesome to see Sam Wilson as Captain America fighting the mother fucking Red Hulk of all things, but it doesn't offer ENOUGH substance. It TRIES, but trying isn't enough at times.

Echo...is a show I keep forgetting exists and that's not great for it. I respect the attempt to bring more mature story telling to the MCU again, and it was actually cool to see someone gruesomely bleeding out for the first time in years...as sick and twisted as that sounds. But as far as this show goes, it also doesn't go far ENOUGH, as its big climax is this...sort of BS about seeing the good inside someone foul (Really glad Daredevil backpedaled on that idea...). Also, there's the fact that the show made a big change in adapting Echo by giving her the powers to have the same abilities and strengths of her ancestors as they echo through her. Cool idea on paper, I guess, but I went over this with Ms. Marvel: If you change the heroes' powers, you might as well make them a new superhero. It doesn't help that the showrunner/director/WHOEVER said that the reason for this change was because they didn't think Echo's comic accurate powers were COOL enough, so they decided to give her this mystic nonsense instead. And I don't think anyone really care for it...Or maybe they did? I don't know, this show flew under the radar and I haven't heard anyone talk about it since. And it came out a YEAR ago! We forgot a show that's over year old, people!

What If...? Seasons Two and Three might as well be lumped together, and I will forever stand on the hill that says they're NOT the worst thing the MCU has put out. Only weirdos who have this intense hatred towards Captain Carter (for reasons that boggle my mind). We have Secret Invasion RIGHT THERE, a show so lazy it relied on an AI Generated intro, yet you'll see people SHAME What If...? for being...I guess not living up to expectations? People were expecting HIGH concept adventures and FASCINATING new universes that the MCU could never explore. Only to get a show with twenty-six episodes of dumb fun that's the equivalent of someone mashing their action figures together. And, truth be told, I'm fine with it being the ladder. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE the high concept adventures, but this is a series where you get to see Iron Man go on a drag race with The Grand Master and see Howard the Duck fight every big bad in the MCU to protect his surprisingly powerful egg. Oh, and also watch the big buff lady kill nazis and body slam beings of pure infinity. That's either your cup of tea or it isn't, but it surely was mine. I enjoyed a lot of it, and I will never understand the hatred it got. It's NOT that bad, it's just...fun. Nothing more.

Ironheart is a show that exists. There, I said the thing. And truly...it's accurate. I have nothing more to say about the majority of this show other than it being something that...exists. Is it fun? Sometimes. I guess it's kind of cool to see Iron Man-like action again after a good few years without it. Though, that comes with the fact that the CGI isn't always the best at times. When it's good, it's like movie levels of quality. When it's not, it's like watching a Red vs Blue CGI shot, cheap-looking and very out of place. As for the characters, they're also fine? I guess? Weirdly enough, I find every character fascinating...except for the titular Ironheart. There are too many lines that TELL us how great and brilliant Riri Williams is, but never enough scenes that SHOW us. I mean, the girl BIT INTO live wire and would eventually make a deal with a clearly evil man and that same man's little bitch. She's not exactly BRILLIANT, and I think it says a lot where I am WAY more invested in the identity crisis her AI is going through more than Riri trying to find herself. Not to mention the show suddenly throws in some magic bullshit that is WAY too jarring to just take in for six episode season. A lot of it really wasn't hitting for me...until those last two episodes. THAT is when things get really fun, fascinating, AND engaging. We're not only introduced to a character fans have been hoping to see since WandaVision, but the show also ends on a cliffhanger that REALLY makes me hopeful for a season two. Or, at the very least, a continuation at SOME point before the universe soft reboots itself if those rumors about Secret Wars are true. We'll see what happens when it happens, but for now I'll say that I don't entirely mind this show. The last third of it was REALLY amazing, even if the first two thirds could use a little more polish...And a LOT more time for the CGI (I really hope those animators weren't killing themselves with this one...)

The Marvels is...fun. It's not SUBSTANTIAL, but it's got a lot of fun moments with solid chemistry between the cast and some pretty cool fight scenes. It's one of those movies you put on if you just want something to kill the time...Basically, it's an airplane movie, but I'm fine with that. Not every MCU film needs to be a masterpiece that reinvents the wheel, it just needs to be OK at worst, and that really is The Marvels. At its worst, it's just...OK.

Oh, Deadpool and Wolverine, weirdos on Twitter could NEVER make me hate you. Are you the very best the MCU has to offer? Not even close. Your story is messy and your themes could use a bit more polish. But are you a super fun, mildly hilarious, and wonderfully awesome movie that I don't really see myself getting sick of. This is the movie that has Ryan Reynolds as his most Deadpooliest and Hugh Jackman arguably at his most Wolveriniest. It is so much fun seeing these two interact and bounce off each other, while still giving it their all to make sure the humor and serious moments are as effective as possible. Jackman may not top his performance in Logan, it's still so much fun seeing him cuss, kill, and drink for a big final ride with Reynolds' Deadpool, all with a comic accurate suit for the first time in twenty fuckin' years. It's awesome, mildly rewatchable, and some good comic book fun that I will not get over. Some may have moved on, but I'm sure as hell not ready to get off the ride this movie consistently offers.

I. Was. NOT expecting to like Agatha All Along as much as I did, but holy SHIT was it good! Not OUTSTANDING, mind you, but still a really well-performed, strongly written, and surprisingly compelling mini-series that acts as a spiritual second season to WandaVision. We watch as Agatha Harkness and her Coven of Chaos travel a world of insanity and try to survive to get what they all desire. What follows is a fun enough adventure that's often delightfully dark with characters I can't help but admire. There's this one character who has what's best described as reverse Alzheimers as her oracle magic leads to her mind constantly drifting to the FUTURE instead of the past. That is just ONE of the brilliant ideas that Agatha All Along has, and that's not getting into the two big twists at the end. I'm not kidding when I said I was IMMENSELY impressed by both, more so about how the show reveals it really WAS Agatha all along. I'm NOT going to explain HOW that makes sense, trust me when I say it's for the best to see it for yourself as it's up there as one of the best twists an MCU project has had. Even if the finale itself floundered a bit past that major reveal. Still, solid ending to a surprisingly solid show.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season One is part of the Multiverse Saga. Disney+ says so. Fuck you. And also FUCK ME for having doubts in this...Okay, the doubts were warranted with a bad trailer, choppy animation, and a leading actor who I HOPE gets replaced by Season Two. Not a lot of hope to work with when going into this series, and those supremely low expectations is what hurt my enjoyment going into the first episode. I saw nothing but faults through most of that first episode, thinking it was going to be exactly what people who HATE MCU Spider-Man THINK MCU Spider-Man is like. The cracks showed immediately...but then we got to that final few minutes that showed us MORE the direction this show was going to go in. And from there, the show got better and better with every episode, making it feel like a show that lines up more with what Spider-Man fans WANTED the MCU to do with the character. We have great drama, a compelling cast of side-characters, and the slow burn of seeing some of Spidey's iconic foes becoming the sinister threats we know and love. In some cases, with characters like Lonnie, it's tragic, seeing someone GOOD go down a darker path. It's surprisingly compelling stuff with scenes that kind of make me wish that THIS is what MCU Spider-Man was like from the start. It's filled to the brim with some pretty clever writing, including this one twist to Spider-Man's mantra that hit me RIGHT in the SOUL. Like, HOLY SHIT, what was said and WHO said it was a case of brilliance that I will NOT get over. This is another one of those Spider-Man projects that has fans PRAISING it nonstop and telling others it gets the character better than anything that came before. And...things MIGHT be hyperbolic at this point, as Season Two can easily change that the second it makes ONE decision fans hate. Plus, as great as everything is, it is often held back by shoddy animation and sometimes the restraint to make this an alternate timeline in the MCU CAN get in the way. Still, as a Spider-Man fan, I found myself loving the hell out of this first season way more than I thought I did. If you're not hooked in immediately, stick it with it. Trust me when I say it is WORTH it.

Daredevil: Born Again is NOT Daredevil Season Four. That is a harsh truth that people need to understand as this is NOT a direct continuation that matches the highs and lows of the original series. Instead...it's more like Daredevil comic run ended and Marvel switched writers and artists for a new one, trying to match what made the work of the last team good while still making it their own story with its own identity. That being said, though, while Born Again never matches the high of Daredevil Seasons One and Three, it is still a GREAT season of television. This is a season that shows all you need are great actors to give performances that can take even the most mediocre writing and ideas and turn them into GOLD. Every actor in this is giving it their all, with the ones from the original series feeling like they've never left the roles they played for four years. And while it IS a little obvious that the show is a Frankenstien monster of a new cast and crew trying to rework a HORRIBLE first draft, what they make is still really great with strong performances and some amazing action that, at times, rivals the original with its intensity and violence. Daredevil's first fight with Bullseye was the perfect return to form to draw audiences in, with the rest of the season...admittedly taking a while to match that same greatness. But when it does hit, it really fucking hits, with those last two episodes being the strongest of the season and giving high hopes in Season Two being even BETTER. Plus, everything else isn't entirely without merits. Kingpin treating his duties as Mayor the same as his job as THE Kingpin is a brilliant idea and that bank heist episode still remains one my favorite episodes due to how good it felt seeing old school superhero shit again. People act like the last two episodes are the ONLY parts of the show that are good, but I disagree. The rest of the season IS great due to its direction and performances. It never reaches the same level of perfection, but for a starting season to bring back the character and his dark stories, it's not too bad. I look forward to season two, and all the bloody mayhem that will surely follow.

Thunderbolts* was the movie that restored faith in a lot fans in the MCU. I think it's just...pretty good. It has a solid script, incredible action, a fun cast with great chemistry, decently handled themes about depression and suicidal ideation (YES, really), and a fair mix of humor and heart that feels perfectly balanced. In other words, it's...an average MCU movie, BUT a good one. REALLY good, I can't stress that enough. For a lot of fans, it felt like watching the MCU at its best and brightest again, taking characters no one really cared much about and making them EVERYONE'S favorites. Only instead of ripping comic characters and giving them a coat of fresh paint, Thunderbolts* takes MCU characters and gives them a better chance to shine brighter than they did upon their introductions. I have seen so many people give more of a shit towards Red Guardian here than they ever did in Black Widow, and that's the power of this movie. It dared to ask fans to CARE about what's basically the scraps of the MCU, and it did it well. Fans LOVED this film and these characters, but I feel like all this hype Thunderbolts* got is because...it's been too long since fans saw a GOOD MCU movie project like this? I mean, we've had a lot of good ones, three in particular that rank HIGHER, but things HAVE been inconsistent for a while. Thunderbolts* just happened to have the right amount of sauce at the right time, and fans aren't willing to give up on how...GOOD it is yet. I mean, they might after a while (They always do), but for the time being, this DOES feel like a film that's worth its praise. It's everything that's fun about the MCU with the tiniest bit of substance to make you appreciate it all the more.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is definitely going to be up there as one of the best in the MCU, not just in the Multiverse Saga. It's highly emotional, actually FUNNY, and a perfect final swan song for all of these characters and James Gunn's inclusion to the franchise before peacing out to fix DC (Don't let me down, Superman...). I'm SO glad that this wasn't a rushed job made out to make a deadline, as it really feels like a movie people wanted to get RIGHT, and they succeeded in spades. I mean, it made us cry over a talking CGI raccoon. COME ON!

Loki Season Two was the show that renewed my faith in the MCU after Secret Invasion downright squashed it into peaces. I was about ready to call it quits after that absolute MESS of a mini-series, but was willing to give Loki Season Two a chance because, well, I liked the first season and was hopeful for the second to at least be just as good. And it wasn't...it was BETTER, introducing more fun characters, getting into even WACKIER nonsense with time travel and multiverse shenanigans, and somehow having even STRONGER emotions. That ending--That FINALE--remains as the only time this saga has given me CHILLS that match the ending of Infinity War. It's beautiful as it is tragic, and don't you DARE think I'm going to spoil it. It is THAT good.

X-Men '97 Season One is ALSO in the Multivers Saga, according to Disney+, so you better BELIEVE it counts! And good thing too, HOLY SHIT is X-Men '97 awesome! Controversies involving the showrunner aside, this was the show that made me think, "Oh, that's RIGHT! The X-Men are COOL!" After the FoX-Men movies that focussed more on making Wolverine awesome, and ONLY Wolverine, I knew X-Men '97 was on the right track the second they made Scott Cyclops Summers have the coolest opening fight scene imaginable. And the momentum from that just never stopped as we got some INCREDIBLE action, some heart clenching tragedy between these characters and their relationships, and some LARGER THAN LIFE scenes that can only be conveyed through animation. The best part being that all of this happens in ONE season! One season alone, and this show already feels like a modern Marvel Masterpiece! Now, Seasons Two and Three CAN change that, especially with What If showrunner replacing this show's due to...valid reasons (That Rogue and Magneto subplot feels so uncomfortable now...). For now, though, I'll take this super epic and emotional first season for all it's worth.

All in all, this is definitely a MUCH better phase than Phase Four. Phase Five has much higher highs, even the lows are almost unforgivable at times. It really feels like everyone involved has heard the critiques the MCU has been getting the last few years and are trying to do better. Sometimes they succeed, other times they almost miss the mark, but when things work, they REALLY work. Let's just hope that Phase Six ends this MESS with a bang instead of a whimper...

[ryuichirou]

i saw a twst piss shade thread on twitter and was sharing to acquaintances how Idia is so often hc to piss in a bottle, energy too strong, and so! i wanna ask who do you think would piss in their bottom's mouth or ass :D your ask box has been quietly uncursed those days by what's answered and i thought of that so i'm not sorry uwu

Anon, this is such a long overdue reply, but I never forgot about your ask. In fact, I was saving it for a rainy day (golden rainy god I hate myself), because the mere fact of having such an ask in our ask box was making me happy. I really appreciate the cursedness of it, and I especially appreciate you considering us an authority on such an important, topical and very complicated question.

(by the way, of course Idia would pee in a bottle – the guy is all about convenience!)

Let’s get into it lol

Ace – would. This absolutely isn’t his go-to, but I can picture him both having an accident and doing it on purpose just because of how much of an asshole he is sometimes. He probably wouldn’t expect it to be this hot, he was just being a dick, but…

Trey – wouldn’t, but he would think about it… but this is just one of a million cursed kinky things that Trey thinks about hypothetically. He is also the type to apologise a lot afterwards and clean his bottom’s mouth thoroughly lol

Cater – would also think about it, but probably wouldn’t dare to do it. He also might do a fake “oops, sorry” afterwards.

Ruggie – he absolutely would for money, but no one is really offering ;( “Weird stuff you’re into, but sure” type of thing.

Jack – he wouldn’t… intentionally. He is super against it, the idea would sound revolting to him. But he is also a young pup and can’t always control himself, so he might have a little “marking territory” moment.

Azul – wouldn’t, he probably would think it’s gross. If something like this happened accidentally, he would be more embarrassed than smug about it…

Floyd – would. Sometimes because he just wants to piss inside his lover’s mouth (especially if Riddle (or Idia…)’s been annoying him), sometimes he just feels so aroused that he can’t help himself, and sometimes he just feels like peeing but doesn’t feel like moving. He likes doing it a lot.

Jade – absolutely would. But only if the situation is perfect for it because this isn’t something that he can overuse, so to speak. He knows that his potential partners wouldn’t expect him to do something like this, so he has to catch the most perfect moment of bliss and pleasure to shock his bottom with his special hot liquid lol

Kalim – he would, I’m sorry Jamil. He would do it on accident the first time, and it would be in the butt, but after that he would kind of get into it… he doesn’t do it all the time of course, and he is a little embarrassed to bring it up, but all this shyness goes away whenever he’s having sex.

Rook – would, but isn’t allowed :( Doesn’t mean that he absolutely never does it, mind you. But there is a very strict policy in Vil’s bedroom that he does break from time to time, to be completely fair. And with the other boys too, but not always – he is weirdly strategic about how he uses his urine. 🤔

Ortho – he would adjust his special gear just to try it out, and if he gets a fun reaction out of it, he’ll do it again! But he also was partially interested if niisan would be able to tell that the liquid he squirted inside of his butt is different by consistency and temperature… it’s not real pee, so it shouldn’t be a problem, right?

Lilia – would, he did it with a lot of boys back in the day, and he still does it now; he also kind of taught Silver that this is something that could happen in case of an emergency if you can’t leave your pee smell in the woods for some reason.

Sebek – would, and this is 90% because of what Lilia has taught Silver. Sebek knows that this is complete bs, but he got so flustered and shocked when Silver got down and opened his mouth, that he couldn’t process it or say anything in protest. 

[satansboot]

I still don't believe the throwaway account and other impersonator account isn't Hunter. Also, yeah, that impperfect account isn't a KiwiFarms Lurker, there's being genuine then being a tryhard.

Look, I am not harassing Hunter, but there's a no tolerance policy when it comes to lying and spreading rumors about my friend online. You forgotten what Hunter did to my friend, he lied about someone.

Hunter, please. For the LOVE of god, just apologize to Chai and everyone you wronged, you expect people to give you an apology for being rightfully upset at your behavior, but it's somehow my and (Orion's fault?) honey, Orion is considering actually running off the platform from the hate this BS has given him.

I am simply, escalating and stepping in to have you take accountability. You being afraid of Orion, Vel and Helluva is ridiculous because you, don't want to take accountability for your bullshit actions.

The "impersonator" is too in defense of impperfect to consider it being a possibility of a "lurker", has said some shit regarding Orion, had accused people (who?) of wanting to doxx Imp. Which is funny because I said, he needed to be careful to avoid it. Doxxing is hard to do (unless given by the person themselves on a silver platter.), unless you spread misinformation. So now NOT only Hunter is twisting words he's trying to claim everyone here is doxxing or in the process of.

I have not heard from Orion in awhile and I am exhausted as shit trying to tell Hunter to stop LARPING as a fucking victim and two different people.

He could give all the information in the world that he isn't who he says he is, but I have no way of believing him. My friend told me numerous times Hunter scares him, that he believes his fans are going to actually come to his house and hurt him.

If Hunter's capable of calling someone a predator, Orion thinks he wouldn't stoop so low to do that. For now, I don't know if e's okay, I just don't know. But all I want is for Hunter, to apologize. There won't be any issues at all, I will leave it as that.

I only ever got involved and joined this shitty site because Hunter was causing problems and accusing my friend of being on the 'Farms. So, yeah. That's it. No farmers are doxxing, no one cares about Hunter enough to "kill or harm" him (as if it was a thing in the first place.). All I told him was to be careful eitherwise people (not me or The Farms.) can dig into him, Orion actually for real got doxxed by someone who claimed to be Hunter's Stan and immediately afterwards they deleted the account (I can confirm he did not, indeed doxxed himself as there's non-public information about Orion that was discovered.)

So, if you actually give a fuck about this ending, please for the life of me. Just admit your wrong, you constantly have shifted the goalpost from being a victim to being a perp. You reblog posts regarding the situation and anybody regardless of IQ can see through your shit.

Anons are sending you asks to continue this drama, which is WHY it's continuing. At this rate, there's several solutions.

Don't answer them.

Apologize to Orion, Helluva and Chai publically.

Don't ever criticize people in the critic community.

Ignore this and continue

I don't care about your life, your problems or you in general, but I won't doxx you or send 'za to you over your stupidity on the internet. To me, your entire account is the site of a car crash, I watch to laugh about how sad a 21 year old man is defending and denying evidence that was there.

I simply don't hate you, Hunter.

I wished you'd improve and now you can't, you can't because the Anons are holding you back as your ego. I've actually spent ages trying to keep the 'Farms from harassing you, trying to mock you as yet another progressive person, but at this rate, the moment you lied about everyone, I just gave up and told the Farms you were no good.

You won't ever improve from your actions, you won't learn compassion nor understand consequences. You said it yourself that you lack empathy. It's funny how self aware you were in the DMs with Orion but lack the awareness to understand what you did in both situations was bad. It's not because your autistic. It's because you can't show remorse for your actions and I hope you learn from your mistakes. But I don't think you will, you weren't merciful to Orion or Chai in public.

So, have a nice day. Just be safe and don't share enough information. This is not a threat or a warning this is coming from someone who builds their life on Ospec Security. I came here on a mission to defend my friend and call you out, but it's clear you don't care, you don't want to see what happened. All I see is VivziePop bullying DollCreep again.

All over a godamn slur and who or who doesn't have the right to use it. I swear, I better not hear that Orion had succeeded in his attempt. Because this drama is got so out of hand that this community lacks the actual responsibility and maturity that is required to call out figures like Viv, but when it's someone within the community whose rotting it like Hunter, you all rise in solidarity and push a man (potentially) into suicide.

You are no better then Viv's Standom and for that fact, I have to agree with everyone. You all are just a hatedom. You only pick and choose what you want to speak about. I'm sorry for ever caring about someone I guess, but I am returning back to the Farms and once again only returning here if new developments come. Have a nice day.

[silver-wield]

the whole degradation stuff in ff7 is both interesting yet confusing to me. iirc in crisis core, only G-type SOLDIERs experienced degradation, but the way pres shinra says in remake that degradation is a common cause of death among SOLDIERs is giving me the impression that they've retconned that and that it's now happening to S-type ones too (which i'm still a little skeptical abt). it also makes me wonder if broden and roche were G-type SOLDIERs or they just were no longer able to withstand the jenova cells hence they turned into black robes....

but what do u think, silver?

G types are their main forces. Only Sephiroth, Zack and Cloud have S cells. Gast and Hojo were competing. Hojo made Sephiroth and stopped because you can't beat perfection. He then got distracted with all his reunion jenova bs.

S type soldiers are stable. That's why Genesis wanted a piece of them to stabilise his degradation.

Cloud only thinks he's degrading because he isn't a soldier and doesn't know how the process works.

[brokendreamscreation]

🥂 favorite part of the canon🧂 least favorite part of the canon

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🥂 favorite part of the canon

There’s a good handful of things in canon I consider a favorite, so I think I’ll discuss one I haven’t really touched much on: Unapologetic Villains. This story primarily takes place in Hell so it’s unsurprising the worst of the worst are gonna exist there. We’ve got Overlords like the Vee’s, Alastor, Rosie, and Carmilla. Yes, Rosie and Carmilla! They may have lent a hand, offered advice on motherly levels to Charlie and Vaggie, but that does not mean they are any less villainous. They are in Hell for a reason! They are not actively seeking redemption. Quick problem solving is killing and all the Overlords want to ensure their power stays in play. Getting rid of the exterminations altogether? That’s gonna open so much more power potential to all of them. If they win, it keeps their turf, allies, and select loved ones safe. These nice acts and charisma overshadow that they are doing this for their own benefits and agendas. Perhaps on different levels, but they are putting time and resources in to help. Also note, neither Carmilla nor Rosie were on the battlefield, they were safe in their bunkers per usual. Because if things went south, well, someone’s gotta remain in charge. They aren’t about to give up all the literal blood they shed to get where they are for a cause that had a slim chance of working.

I also like that they made villains in Heaven! Namely the Adam and his Exorcists. He’s misogynistic, crude, selfish, gluttonous, and displays every one of the 7 deadly sins in his character. He loves the thrill of killing off Sinners, and has the audacity to demand respect after all the cruelty he’s done because all of humanity came from “these nuts!” It’s extremely egotistical, he’s been handed everything on a silver platter for the last 9,000 years. But what is he hung up on? The rare instances he was told “no”. That he did not get everything he wanted or was promised at first. He feels entitled to those handful of instances to be made “right”. He ego and drive for power to squash the Sinners and his rival Lucifer is as equal to the Vee’s drive for power and squashing anyone that ever dared to say no to them, namely Alastor and Angel. These villains and antagonists are so unapologetic and embrace how they’ve come to be. No room for the watered down bs and sparkle of Disney level villains that are almost always redeemable these days. Not to say that they can’t be, but do Adam, the Vee’s, Alastor, and the other Overlords want that? NO! Why would they give up all the hard work they did themselves? They don’t owe anybody shit! If anything their egos make them believe they aren’t respected enough and demand more acknowledgment, either turning blinders or straight up not caring who they hurt in the process.

🧂 least favorite part of the canon

How many plot-lines are crammed into a limited amount of episodes. It is not entirely Spindlehorses fault, they are restricted unfortunately by Amazon Prime on how many episodes they allow a season. However, they seriously need to pace their shit out and not overwhelm the audience with so much. Because while I can follow each one, I don’t get nearly the chance to care as deeply as I feel I should. Yes much of this will be addressed as the seasons continue, but now new characters are being introduced. With potentially their own plot lines and conflicts that extend beyond the current ones. It is exhausting and makes me not care about things as much, like with Husker and Al. It was so briefly touched on and clearly a HUGE plot point, but then it was bypassed by other issues at hand. So I sit here going “well it didn’t give me much to cling to for content right now when I am getting more potential for these other plot lines over there, so I’ll just place it on the back burner.” And that is not fair to the characters, it really isn’t. I LOVE Husker! I’m more interested in his relationship with Angel Dust because it focused more on that. Or his personality over all. It was a surprise to hear the hint that Al is on a leash, we already knew Husker was. But the fact HE KNOWS MORE? Yeah that got swept under the rug in less than 3 min. Never really brought up again until Al’s finale song. Just too much crammed in into a short window of time for a show.

[dragonladies]

with the rushed wedding and following the old ways does ben still get the chance to cloak val? I always thought that was a sweet tradition and im sure ben would take great pride in val wearing anything of his seeing a physical reminder shes HIS wife and a blackwood now which fits my hc that postwar peace val loves to were symbols of ravens/house blackwood maybe a hidden b sown into the bodice lining of her dresses to keep ben close at heart. the secret b’s are secret from ben until he sees it one day and teases her endlessly about it but he absolutely loves it and sentimental enough to always keeps her favour on him

there is a reason why aly made him a cloak all those years ago 🙂‍↕️ and why that cloak was brought up again shortly before they kissed for the first time

early in the process of writing this, i made like a "paper doll" of val's wardrobe at different stages of her life. image id below cut i know my handwriting's horrible and tumble is probably gonna murder the quality rip

i love the idea of her wearing Bs. if i can equate them to a ts song I WILL

[first dress is a black dress with a side part in the skirt showing a red underskirt. here is how i described it in chapter 6 of clipped wings: "Most of the gown was black, but the sleeves were slashed to show the red silk lining and a dragon of gold thread breathed a ruby-encrusted fire across the bodice." val is wearing a circlet studded with rubies, which matches aegon 3's crown later down the line. my notes for this dress read: feast dress, before RR [riverrun] (court) - no dragon of her own, reps syrax - gawdy, not her style. awkward in her own skin. - very mommy+ me. ↪ insp. from rhae costumes + lil bit of young rhae in sleeves]

[second dress is a grey dress with a scalloped neckline and the tully sigil across the bodice. this dress was tweaked a little bit by the time i got to writing this chapter, but in chapter 35 i described her nameday dress as "conservatively cut in the skirt, flowing out above her natural waist and concealing all signs that she had a body, though the neckline was cut low enough to bare the tops of her breasts, which made her feel daring. The gown was made of a heavy brocade the colour of the sky, trimmed with sable fur. A silver girdle was secured at the waistline, studded with rubies, and a matching circlet was placed across her brow. For the second time in as many days, Val wondered what her mother would see when she landed in the courtyard." the notes for this dress read:

nameday dress, riverrun - less austentacious - closer to her own style, but still lil bit off ↪ cosplaying as someone she's not - jonquil necklace from kerm]

[third dress is a red gown with renaissance style-split sleeves and a white lace hem on the skirt. there is a stylized weirwood down the front of the gown. i don't think this dress will appear in the fic, it's more of a concept of her wardrobe style as lady of raventree. the notes for this dress read:

post dance raventree - meld of crownlands (ren) [renaissance fashion] and riverlands (raph) [raphaelite, referring to pre-raphaelite paintings. stylized medieval fashion p much] styles - v little jewelry, no circlet ↪ no symbols of royalty, rejects it. not princess, lady of RT [raventree] - weirwood motifs ↪ still trying to find her ID. v young still (mama a whole life ahead of you 💜)

[authortobenamedlater]

E2 deep dive, once again under a cut to be extra careful of spoilers.

Where is Dr. Halsey, the world wonders?

She’s in an oddly comfortable and well-lit place to hold a war criminal, playing a game with what turns out to be a flash clone. Maybe of herself? Young Halsey had red hair and brown eyes? Well, I always knew that blond hair wasn’t growing out of her head. She keeps asking the flash clone about “the man” but the clone dies before she can answer. One gets the feeling this has happened before.

Riz still has lingering pain from taking a plasma grenade that would have killed a mere mortal. Understandable, even if Spartans heal and recover at lightning speed. Interesting bit of info from Kai that the emotion regulator acts as pain relief, since physical and emotional pain are processed in the same region of the brain. Yet Riz would rather have “a bullet in [her]” than put the pellet back in. She’d rather feel pain than feel nothing, we discover as she struts away in her tank top and leather pants.

Jumping ahead a bit, but since we are talking about Riz, who’s this Louis guy? I don’t remember reading about him in the admittedly very few books I read. He and Riz are tight, though. Maybe a former couple? And who IS that Danilo guy Louis takes Riz to see? A massage therapist? Psychic? What’s with this “your life is yours now” line? Foreshadowing? It’s a little weird.

I know I’ve been beating the “John is a broody introvert” drum for like two years, but WOW is he earning that reputation this season. He keeps talking about Makee, and she’s part of his troubles, but the other part is Cortana. He’s in denial about how not OK he is without her.

Kai, of course, knows something is up as she and John stare at a board showing the status of all Spartan teams. A status board that is not computerized. Well, Fenway Park will probably still have a manually operated scoreboard in 500 years, so I guess FLEETCOM can too.

Back to the matter at hand. Kai knows John is hurting. She tells him “We’re more than just—“ More than just WHAT? Let her finish, John you emotionally stunted dunderhead! Nope, you’re too busy fixating on Cobalt, for whom your concern is endearing if not a little inordinate.

There seems to be some ongoing…I don’t know if tension is the right word, but something between John and Kai over Kai shooting Makee.

About the status board. We see at least five teams: Silver, Gold, Cobalt, Omega, and Sigma. Blue Team is conspicuously absent, but if they got slipped in like this there would be pitchforks and torches outside Paramount HQ. I will use this to feed my headcanon that Blue Team is the Spartans’ SEAL Team Six and officially does not exist.

Maybe this is nothing, but silver, gold, and cobalt are all metals in addition to colors. Does this timeline use metals instead of colors to identify Spartan teams? Doesn’t explain Omega and Sigma, though.

After watching who knows how many flash clones keel over in front of her, Halsey finds out Ackerson is the “nice man” sending them in and he’s the one holding her prisoner in what turns out to be a holodeck of some sort. He doesn’t outright say the clones are of Halsey, but his “any resemblance is purely coincidental” line smells like BS to me. Halsey gets the award for most flash-cloned human in history, probably.

At any rate, Ackerson and Halsey know each other, a departure from First Strike and Ghosts of Onyx, but their rivalry will be even better face to face. Ackerson’s agenda, whatever it is, most intriguingly to me involves keeping Halsey alive. She was sentenced to an Article 72 at the end of S1 and in the last episode she’s seen leaving Reach. So how did she get back here, and into basically the Pentagon with nobody seeing her? Why does Ackerson need her alive?

Laera is not having any of Soren’s crew’s shenanigans and I don’t think this will end well for them. She hasn’t survived however many years married to Soren-066 by being a dummy. Kwan is still hiding out in that cave and running from her indentured servitude. Are we gonna get an explanation of this or…? Again, do Soren and Laera know she’s here and Kessler is going to see her?

I’m SORRY but the John/Kai implications when Ackerson is talking to Kai? “I know how long you’ve been together” “I understand what he sees in you.” WTF, buddy? I know he’s using this to try to get to Kai, but if he didn’t think there was something to it, he wouldn’t bother. Kai doesn’t refute any of it, either.

More evidence of Ackerson’s agenda comes when he talks with Cortana, who in addition to getting a makeover is cloistered in a holotank and stuck running simulations. Presumably about the Covenant hitting Reach. I’ll speculate that Ackerson is purposely keeping her separate from John because together they might dismantle whatever his plan is. He’s kept her from accessing “external systems” even though she says they might improve her simulation’s accuracy. Basically, he needs to keep her contained.

Cortana’s “you won’t visit again, according to the simulations” line. Is she predicting Ackerson will die on Reach? He survives to the Battle of Earth (Halo 2) in game canon. We also see him with Kai in the trailers and I’m presuming they’re on Onyx. Does he die on Onyx? Or is this not related to him dying at all?

John inadvertently crashing the Perez family dinner is great. The grandmother’s “You’re very large” observation is 🤣 The reference to the “Spartan Attack” game gives us a look at the wider universe. We have Call of Duty and other such games, why wouldn’t this world have something similar? I’m also all for Silver Team going around the galaxy picking up honorary Spartans. John doesn’t realize that’s what he’s doing but he is 😂

They gave Carter’s famous “the Covenant’s on Reach” line to John, nice touch.

Lastly, Makee is somehow alive. I like it less than my headcanon of her Halo 5 Cortana gambit, but I’ll allow it. Covenant must have some serious medical tech, which given how advanced they are vs. humans, could track. The Makee reveal doesn’t surprise me. I said right after S1 that she was too good a character to just be gone. It does, however, feel a little cheap to have her walking around like nothing happened. I seem to be one of the few who actually liked her and thought she was a good foil for John (The Scene notwithstanding), so I’m interested in seeing where this ends up.

Still no sight or mention of Miranda, but Olive Gray is listed in the credits. This means we HAVE to see Miranda at some point since there are union rules about this. Once upon a time the rule was anyone appearing in at least 8/22 episodes had to be credited with the main cast (Babylon 5 fans will make the connection that Warren Keffer appeared in exactly eight episodes 😆), but I don’t know what that looks like now. Anyway, I have some theories, but I’ll save that for later in the week because this show makes me chatty.

[lboogie1906]

Dr. Herman Branson (August 14, 1914 - June 7, 1995) was a pioneer in biophysics. Born in Pocahontas, Virginia, not much is known about his early life. He attended Virginia College and received a BS. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati where he received a Ph.D. and started a career in academia.

He served as Assistant Professor of Physics and Chemistry at Howard University. He served as the Director of the Experimental Science and Mathematics Technology Program in Physics. He became a tenured professor of Physics and was named Chairman of the Physics Department at Howard University.

He entered into a partnership with Linus Pauling at the California Institute of Technology. He focused on the structure of proteins. His process used mathematics to determine possible helical structures that would fit the x-ray data, as well as chemical restrictions that had been outlined by Pauling. He narrowed down the possible structures of two helices. The two coils were named Alpha and Gamma. Linus Pauling initially dismissed his work, saying that the shape of his coil was impossible. Pauling published the data in his name, giving him minor credit for his original research. In the initial press release from Caltech University, announcing the discovery of the Alpha Helix, his name is excluded. When Linus Pauling received a Nobel Prize for his contribution to Chemistry, he was not credited for his contribution.

He returned to Howard University as a full professor of Physics and Chairman of the Physics Department. He served as the President of Central State University. He assumed the position of President at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania. He continued to research and published more than one hundred articles in his lifetime.

He became one of the founders of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. He led a group of educators to the White House to speak to President Richard Nixon about the growing disparity in financing for higher education.

He spent the remainder of his life in Silver Spring, Maryland, surrounded by his wife, children, and grandchildren. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

[talkingpointsusa]

Tim Pool hosts an absolutely idiotic panel discussion on “deep state weather manipulation”

We have been seeing a lot of disinformation lately about the recent hurricanes in the south, particularly the false claim that the United States government is somehow controlling these hurricanes and using them to somehow steal the election. It’s a claim that’s stupid on its face but that didn’t stop Tim Pool from hosting a completely batshit insane panel discussion on supposed government weather manipulation. It turned out to be about as dumb as it sounds and I figured that we needed a lighter debunk after the last post. Let’s let Tim introduce the topic and then the co-panelists (who are all internet lunatics but I’ll get into each individual when they’re introduced) and then we’ll get on to debunking some conspiracy BS.

00:07, Tim Pool: “All these corporate journalists are livid cause Marjorie Taylor Greene was tweeting that they can control the weather. Of course she’s referring to militaries, powerful individuals, the general — the man right? But the media wanted to make it about the Jews because that’s the only way they can go after Marjorie Taylor Greene when she talks about geoengineering, cloud seeding, and other weather manipulation techniques that are available.”

Yeah, there’s a long history of antisemitic coding revolving around the word “they” but leaving that aside for now let’s talk about weather manipulation.

There’s a great recent article in the Atlantic that goes over some of the details about cloud seeding and geoengineering but suffice it to say that these are both really new technologies that really don’t have the kind of power that these guys think they have.

Take for instance cloud seeding, the process of injecting silver iodine into clouds in order to create artificial condensation. Cloud seeding is only semi-affective at best right now and as the article notes, we can’t artificially create clouds right now and we need clouds in order to seed them. Scientists have tried to artificially dim the sun in the past but that’s an extremely finicky process that requires releasing a quadrillion carefully calibrated particles into the atmosphere. It’s not like you can just pull a lever and then boom, different weather. That’s not a thing that exists outside of imagination land.

As for hurricanes, the notion that anybody can create a hurricane out of thin air with the current technology that we have is ridiculous. We can *barely* make it rain (and even then only with the right conditions) and these dumb-dumbs think that we have the kind of technology to control something as powerful as a hurricane?! If somebody tells you that the government can create hurricanes, the only reasonable response is to laugh in their face because clearly they don’t know what they’re talking about.

00:46, Tim Pool: “This results in this massive viral conversation from tones of people about, can the government make hurricanes? Ok, well that seems a little bold but some people are talking about actual weather manipulation. We’ve talked about Operation Popeye a little bit on Timcast IRL because the subject came up where the US Military was cloud seeding as a weapon of war to wash out roads in Vietnam.”

Except that there’s no proof that this operation was actually successful. Just because the government tried to do something doesn’t mean that they actually succeeded.

Also, trying to wash out roads with cloud seeding is a far cry from the government being able to create targeted hurricanes. Anyway, here are the panelists. I’ll let them introduce themselves and then I’ll explain how every single one of them is completely batshit crazy.

01:26, David DuByne: “Hi, I’m David DuByne, I run the Adapt 2030 channel and the Civilization Cycle podcast. I was a former coffee buyer in Myanmar and when we were purchasing coffee there circa 2012, we were encountering cold leaf damage, leaf kill on the top, and then the bean density was decreased but talking to the farmers they told us that their great grandfathers who were also farming at that time in the 1880’s experienced the same cold wave but you realize, and this is in Myanmar so I was a global warming believer, so I went back to the end of the 1880’s to take a look and then suddenly I found these cycles through history that eb and flow food production and that follows right along with civilization cycle and decline, apex and decline.”

Congratulations David, you’ve discovered what seasons are. Nice job buddy.

David DuByne is a climate denial grifter who’s YouTube channel is all about how the economic collapse is coming any day now, climate change is fake, society is going to reset, and you’ve got to buy his junk to “adapt”. His arguments are the usual climate denial nonsense like “Well, if global warming is a thing how come it snows sometimes?” (I guess when he discovered seasons he stopped before he discovered the difference between weather and climate).

It’s just brain rot stuff and I have no idea where Tim even found this guy since he’s not that well known. We don’t hear from him too much over the course of this episode which I think is a positive thing.

Let’s move on to the next grifter.

02:27, Ransom Godwin: “I am Ransom Godwin, I’m the host of Mountain High Time, a YouTube channel and you know, I’m not an expert on anything I’ve just been around the circle continually getting banned everywhere cause I seem to find the right topics to talk about that are taboo I guess. So I keep getting banned and now I’m the co-host with DuByne on Civilization Cycle where we talk about how things are changing and you know, some of these things like global warming. I’m not a fan of global warming, I don’t believe that, but I also don’t believe that governments have enough power to control things as big as hurricanes, I just don’t see it happening.”

I love how this dudes entire qualification is just “I’m kind of a dick and keep getting banned on social media”.

Ransom’s a former DJ turned weirdo right-wing YouTuber and later David DuByne’s co-host. The dude has one thousand subscribers on YouTube, again no idea where Tim found this guy.

I guess he’s the one arguing for the reasonable side of the aisle. They didn’t get a meterologist or someone who actually knows what he’s talking about, just a guy who’s big introduction is “I GOT BANNED FROM YOUTUBE ONCE”. Also, he later admits that he thinks that the government can amplify the strength of hurricanes so he’s not even that reasonable.

03:04, Brian Smith: “How you doing guys? In2ThinAir. I run the In2ThinAir channel. I am a creator, private researcher.”

Tim Pool: “You gotta slide over to your right a little bit.”

Please don’t, I’ve already heard enough of this guy for one lifetime.

So, Brian Smith is a self-proclaimed weather expert and the owner of the In2ThinAir YouTube channel. A cursory look at his channel shows videos with titles like “🤯 DOG Climbs the GREAT Pyramid IN EGYPT! - MESSAGE From the GODS!”, “🤯Trump 2nd Assassination Attempt PREDICTED By TIME Magazine!” and my personal favorite “SOLAR FLARE Shows 'Phoenix Rising' Ahead of Total SOLAR ECLIPSE!!”

Now, if those extremely illuminating titles didn’t tip you off, this guy is…how do I put this delicately? COMPLETELY FUCKING BANANAS!

Half of this guys videos are of him ranting about a coming spiritual war and sounding like that guy on the subway that everyone tries to avoid! This is not a serious person.

Speaking of unserious people, the final panelist is a weirdo chemtrail guy who appears to have made up his own system for classifying clouds.

03:31, Shane Cashman: “Very excited for this episode today. Shane Cashman, host of Inverted World Live every Sunday at six on YouTube and weather channel reject and I study fake clouds.”

Tim Pool: “What’s a fake cloud?”

Shane Cashman: “Well there’s a classification system, there’s a whole bunch. There’s vintage clouds, god made.”

I can see why this guy got rejected from the weather channel because I found absolutely nothing on this classification system outside of Tim Pools YouTube channel.

Shane’s one of Tim’s “news writers” and is mostly here to represent the chemtrail weirdo contingent of Tim’s audience. This whole thing is a circus full of disinformation spreading clowns.

With all of that out of the way, let’s take a look at the actual discussion and debunk some BS. Tim starts off by asking the question on his audiences minds and accidentally lets a bit of his reasoning for hosting this panel slip.

04:54, Tim Pool: “Alright, so the question that everybody wants to hear first I suppose; did the government make the hurricanes to destroy the southeast so that Kamala Harris can win the election?”

Shane Cashman: “Make or manipulate?”

Tim Pool: “Well, I went for the most extreme version of this story.”

Yeah, I believe that. This whole thing is basically just Tim dragging the dumbest people he could find onto his channel so that they can launder government weather control conspiracies to his audience and get him more money as a result.

Anyway, Ransom has really dumb thoughts on cloud seeding.

05:13, Ransom Godwin: “No, I don’t think they can control it. Now, manipulating it is another topic because obviously they do have a lot of cloud seeding programs and a lot on the internet right now they’re talking about lasers seeding clouds as well and I looked at their experiment and this is a very small room and a little thing. However, the sun we just had a flare. That produces enough electrons to seed lots of moisture so whenever you have a solar flare combined with a Hurricane and maybe some manipulations I think they can do a Ho Chi Minh trail type thing and make it rain more.”

Ok, this is extraordinarily stupid for a wide array of reasons.

The only thing less developed than standard cloud seeding is laser assisted cloud seeding. That technology is extraordinarily experiential and can barely influence standard weather, let alone hurricanes.

No cloud seeding technology can influence hurricanes. As I said before, hurricanes are extraordinarily powerful and the amount of energy required to manipulate them is greater than our current technology affords. The clouds found in hurricanes also contain less water droplets that silver-iodide targets making influencing them with cloud seeding even more infeasible.

There are so many moving parts in this conspiracy too. So the shadowy government cabal needs to wait for just the right solar flare and then just the right Hurricane and THEN they can influence the election. This is ridiculous.

06:01, Brian Smith: “I believe they can create them. I don’t think it’s as easy as people may think. This is a combination between HAARP, lower level things like NEXRAD, and the simple radar towers, 5G.”

Yeah, one thing that you’ll notice about this Brian Smith guy is that he likes to just throw out a lot of conspiracy buzzwords and never provide specifics. This is one of the massive red flags that the person you’re talking to shouldn’t be taken seriously. The enemy of conspiracy is specificity.

For example, how exactly can 5G influence a Hurricane? That’s just stupid on its face. Next thing you know we’ll be hearing about how the lizard people are using vaccines to create hurricanes. It’s alt-right mad libs.

To give you an example of this in action, here’s what happens when Tim asks Brian for specifics.

06:15, Brian Smith: “Things can be manipulated, the jet stream can be controlled. There’s definitely examples out there where they have hurricanes that were sitting in one area with a lot of military around them like the airplanes and stuff like that as if it was a project. They were working on it, it was getting bigger and smaller and then eventually dissipated.”

Notice how again, there are no specifics. Just “well there’s definitely some examples out there, just trust me”.

Tim then asks an armour piercing question.

06:33, Tim Pool: “When was that?”

Uh-oh.

Don’t get me wrong, Tim is a terrible interviewer whose main goal is laundering his guests extreme positions to his audience but that’s a really really basic question. If this “independent researcher” is what he says he is this should be a slam dunk.

Spoiler alert: it isn’t.

06:37, Brian Smith: “They started — they started doing that in the 40’s and 50’s.”

Tim Pool: “When they started creating a hurricane?”

Shane Cashman: “Project Cirrus. Creating hurricanes? 1948 is when they started dropping silver iodine into Hurricane King.”

Brian Smith: “47 was Project Cirrus, that’s when they dropped dry ice into a hurricane thinking it would dissipate it. It actually caused it to hook a turn into right into Florida and actually killed somebody.”

Oof, saved by Tim’s idiot co-host.

Nothing about what these guys are saying about Project Cirrus is true. While a lot of people did blame Project Cirrus for causing the hurricane to hook a turn into Florida most scientists nowadays agree that the notion that 80 kilograms of dry ice could even remotely impact a hurricane is pretty ridiculous.

Hurricanes are strong, unpredictable, and make unpredictable turns all the time. For example, Hurricane Charley made an unexpected turn in 2004 which led to Tampa being spared and Sarasota being hit. In 2005, Hurricane Wilma made a sudden 90 degree turn towards Florida. There’s no evidence that the shadowy cabal of Democrat operatives had any role in either Hurricane or the countless others that made unexpected turns in the past.

Tim reads the first quarter of the Wikipedia page for Project Stormfury and then makes a remarkably dumb statement.

08:29, Tim Pool: “I’d actually assume that creating is substantially easier than manipulating because planting a seed is very very easy, moving a tree is very very hard.”

Ah yes, because trees are equivalent to a giant tropical storm. What are we even doing here?

08:40, Tim Pool: “If, so you have a small depression form and then it starts to expand and grow as the storm grows wild and crazy. The implication to me that you could move a thirty mile wide Hurricane sounds pretty nuts but the idea that you could seed with a very small and I mean very very small portion of warm water that creates the beginnings of what could create a hurricane seems much more plausible. Not that I’m saying it’s possible, I’m saying it seems easier to plant a seed than move a hurricane.”

Both sound pretty nuts to me considering that modern cloud seeding technology hasn’t even came even remotely close to the level it would have to be to create a hurricane. Neither of the options that Tim has given here are scientifically feasible. We are not even close to being able to generate the amount of energy that’s needed to just create a hurricane out of thin air or even increase its size. The only way this metaphor would make sense is if planting a tree required enough energy to wipe out all life on the planet!

I’m definitely using “it’s easier to plant a seed than move a hurricane” in my day to day life though.

So, they yap on about how cloud seeding was utilized in Dubai once and I’m not going to waste your time with it. Just because one piece of technology exists doesn’t mean that some larger scale piece of related technology also exists. We can call people with FaceTime but that doesn’t mean that Star Wars-esque holographic projectors exist. We can fly through the sky on airplanes but that doesn’t mean that we can teleport.

10:23, Shane Cashman: “I wonder if you could go back to 1861, there was that colonel they called the rain maker who went out and literally bombed the atmosphere and said I could create the — and he had a patent for it right? And then he took credit for every storm.”

This is an argument you hear from weather control conspiracy theorists all the time, this is a Marjorie Taylor-Greene line too. Years ago somebody filed a patent for a machine that supposedly could control the weather so that surely must mean that the government can create hurricanes now, right?

The problem is that patents are absolutely meaningless. There have been patents filed for; full body teleportation systems that transport the body through “hyperspace”, greenhouse helmets, and devices that calculate your life expectancy. Do MTG, Tim Pool, and Shane Cashman mean to tell me that we can secretly teleport because some nutcase filed a patent for it years ago? And in case you were wondering, none of the specific patents that these guys always cite are compatible with modern technology and science. I couldn’t find the specific thing that they were talking about but provided that it does actually exist, it’s still some dumb patent from the 1800’s and that doesn’t prove anything.

Anyway, time to learn about HAARP. They harp on about HAARP for a bit and then Brian decides to try and prove to the others that HAARP can influence the weather. It’s predictably very stupid.

12:35, Brian Smith: “That’s not the point though. HAARP’s not creating the hurricane, HAARP’s adjusting the atmospheric conditions on earth to allow hurricanes to be formed in a certain area on earth.”

None of these dumb-dumbs know what HAARP is. I feel like HAARP is one of those things that people talk a lot about but nobody actually seems to know what it does. Enter morons like Alex Jones who exploit that lack of knowledge to push conspiracy theories about HAARP because it has kind of a scary sounding name.

HAARP stands for High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, it is a research facility located near Gakona, Alaska. The purpose of HAARP is to study the ionosphere which is the highest ionized part of earths atmosphere. The way that HAARP does this is by sending radio signals into the ionosphere which causes electrons to move in waves. It’s pretty complicated stuff and I’m not really an expert in this particular field, nor is 99% of the population including Brian Smith.

The fact that what HAARP does isn’t really clear unless you read up on the science, which is a pretty complicated process in and of itself, is something that conspiracy theorists have taken advantage of. Lots of people have claimed that HAARP is used to control the weather (they never elaborate on HOW it’s supposed to do this). HAARP research data is actually pretty public and they offer annual tours of the site.

Anyway, Tim doesn’t believe in HAARP conspiracies…for now. So as a result everybody starts selling him on why HAARP is controlling the weather.

14:05, Shane Cashman; “I think it’s more than just controlling weather. I think they’re burning — they’ll tell you they’re burning a hole in the ionosphere, which is where radio transmissions go, migratory birds use the ionosphere the magnets with their cryptochromes, it’s affecting something. I think it doesn’t just stay in the hole, I think there’s a ripple effect honestly. And other people would say that by doing this — you ever hear of cymatics? Like with frequencies used to make sound become matter. I think there’s something to Tim’s point. The leap — that’s for me is where I’m thinking. If you can control something through frequencies like cymatics does with shapes and matter or sound into matter, that’s the reason it could potentially be controlling weather.”

One of the games that conspiracy theorists will often play is throwing out a bunch of complicated words and concepts and capitalizing off of their audiences ignorance around those concepts to sell a faulty premise.

Shane Cashman has no idea what he’s talking about here. Cymatics is the study of visualizing audio frequencies and has nothing to do with HAARP or the weather. If we’re taking what he’s saying seriously, we essentially are being asked to believe that somehow sound frequencies can manipulate the weather and create hurricanes.

Also, they’re not “burning a hole” into the ionosphere. They’re heating small portions of it to study it’s effects.

This part is pretty funny. Presented without comment.

15:19, Tim Pool: “I’m concerned about this right, because we got a few super chats from people saying HAARP is disinformation or distraction, one thing that we know that intelligence will do is fake conspiracies, that’s the real conspiracy right?”

HAARP’s a psy-op everybody!

“Yeah, all this dumb stuff that guys on my side are saying including everyone around me at this very table…that’s the CIA bro.”

I guess that’s one way to do damage control.

16:06, Brian Smith: “I try to tell people that when — a lot of people bring up HAARP and I’m like, you know, HAARP is like an idea. It’s a thought process of a very powerful type of technology but it’s old and I think it’s possible that yeah, the whole term is being used as a distraction now to discredit people who talk about it. I do think there’s a technology that’s bigger than HAARP that can do exactly what HAARP conspiracy theories are saying that it does though.”

This guy is such a dick. Five minutes ago he was all in on HAARP conspiracy theories but then when he gets the most mild pushback I’ve ever seen it becomes “Yeah, I think that HAARP’s a distraction from this bigger weather control station that I won’t name in this video”. This is embarrassing.

However, Tim’s brilliant analysis got me thinking. Brian seems almost intentionally dumb. Could it be that he’s a CIA operative using Tim’s dumb Russia-funded YouTube show to poison the well and make conspiracy theorists look bad? I think we’re getting close people.

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve stopped taking this “panel” seriously. They start talking about CERN and “anti-matter weapons” and I honestly don’t care about what their thoughts on that are. People aren’t throwing black hole grenades around and the entire CERN leg of the discussion just comes across like a bunch of twelve year old boys making stuff they think sounds cool up. They then have a very dumb discussion about AI.

21:42, Tim Pool: “The fascinating thing too is, I remember watching these old sci-fi movies where they’re trying to find a chemical formula for a cure or something, and they’re in a computer and the computers like running a simulation and it shows like the chemicals and everything and that was sci-fi. AI literally does that now. So, they collect all of our health data, put ten million different files from various humans and various ailments into the computer and let the AI run through it and they don’t go to do anything. Basically the AI brute forces all the data and finds patterns and then it says ‘we discovered that every single person who is suffering from pancreatic cancer also had this one weird marker that no one’s ever noticed before’ because it can see patterns we can’t recognize. Then doctors are like wow. Then if you take some random persons medical data, load it into the AI, they’re gonna be like in ten years you’ll have pancreatic cancer because you have the same marker as them and we can treat it right now.”

So AI apparently can predict if you have cancer now.

There are some AI tools that have been developed to identify if a certain cancer patient is likely to respond to certain drugs like checkpoint inhibitors and some that can identify cancer, the tech isn’t currently even remotely close to where Tim’s saying it’s at.

Take for example, a recent AI tool debuted by the Royal Marsden NHS foundation that can accurately identify cancer. While the AI can identify cancer in people, it’s extremely far away from being able to detect hidden markers that indicate that the person may be suffering from cancer. Even the researchers behind the tool admit as much, quote:

“In the future, we hope it will improve early detection and potentially make cancer treatment more successful by highlighting high-risk patients and fast-tracking them to earlier intervention,”

So yes, what Tim’s saying might very well be the next step for AI’s utilization in medical research but we aren’t quite there yet. If that were the case we’d be throwing parades in the streets because we’d have basically cured cancer.

22:40, Tim Pool: “So if you were to load all the worlds weather data in real time, constantly, into an AI it’s gonna show you basically a map of probabilities where storms may form.”

There is technology being developed to predict the weather using AI but that still doesn’t mean that people can control hurricanes. That’s a massive leap.

Tim Pool also has no idea what he’s talking about when it comes to climate change.

26:44, Tim Pool: “We did a show, I think a few months ago, maybe more than a few months ago. We were talking about the poles shifting and one of the interesting things that was brought up that I didn’t really think about but it’s so obvious is that there’s a glacier in Indonesia. That there’s a gigantic ball of ice on top of a mountain in Indonesia and it seems crazy because it’s a warm area but at the high altitudes these glaciers take very very long times to melt. And so, thinking of that, and then hearing stories about global warming it really does feel like — when I hear about climate change scientists, and you know or whatever, or the climate scientists and blah blah blah, it feels like a kindergartener trying to explain what’s going on with the weather without having enough data or understanding of the billions of years.”

What?!

So, let’s break this down. Glaciers exist on top of mountains in Indonesia so that means that climate change is fake…that’s it, that’s the argument. Never mind the fact that those exact same glaciers are literally melting because of climate change or the fact that there’s really no connection between both of those topics.

Science is also fake apparently.

27:45, Tim Pool: “I think there’s a strong possibility when you look at everything, actually I think it’s a 100% probability, we are wrong about all science. To be fair, 99.9. What we get right is what we can replicate. We can make video games, we can drive cars, so science does get us to these points where we can predict and make these systems. But to predict global weather, I don’t know that humans have been around enough, tracking enough data, to really understand what’s happening.”

Even in the context of this video that statement doesn’t make any sense. Tim was just going on about how AI can predict the weather (which we now apparently can’t do) and cancer, not to mention all the stuff about how we can apparently manipulate the course of hurricanes.

Also, David DuByne is an idiot who sucks.

28:09, David DuByne: “Let me combine these two ideas and then Brian, I’d like to get your opinion on it. So, going back to this, if you’re going to really control weather, not manipulate it, not modify it, you’re going to have to have sensors about every foot on the planet to understand what’s going on from the ground level up to what? 18,000 feet, maybe 20,000 feet? The same thing is true with what we get fed with global warming and global temperature data. They don’t have sensors everywhere. In the oceans it’s barely a cover, they might have a few buoys out there. And when they’re talking about overall land temperatures, there’s very few temperature data stations collecting data anywhere and they’re trying to say the entire planets heating at this uniform rate in this area but it’s not.”

There are over 100,000 weather stations around the world. Furthermore, there are satellites monitoring the climate and there’s the fact that our recorded temperature data shows that the present keeps breaking records in terms of heat. In short, David DuByne has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.

Half of the episode is just these guys making stuff up about climate change. They play an extremely boring slideshow from DuByne for a majority of the other half of the video that’s basically “hey guys, look…weather patterns exist” and I’m not going to bother looking at that. They then go back to talking about weather modification and it’s basically the same stuff as before. If you want to watch it, go right ahead. It’s just the same dumb crap from the beginning constantly being repeated ad nauseam.

Conclusion:

Wow, I’m pretty sure I lost brain cells looking at that one. When Tim Pool is the most reasonable person in the discussion, you know you’re screwed. It’s probably going to be a long time before I look at another one of Tim’s panel discussions because these are just way too long and everyone there has a bad habit of saying absolutely nothing.

Original Video:

Tim Pool. “Geoengineered Super Storms & Government WEATHER CONTROL | the Culture War with Tim Pool.” YouTube, 11 Oct. 2024.

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Would love to hear how you feel about Seth, he's definitely up there for me as far as gave YV boys goes ^^ Any music assigns? Idk, I just like hearing ppl talk about what they like! Much luv! /plat

seth means so much so much to me actually, i have so many hcs and project onto him a lil(lot). i don't listen to a lot of music exactly but i feel like seth would listen to very contradictory music !! like you'd expect one and get a totally different genres--that or he doesn't listen to much music. uhmuhm also this is totally projection. autistic seth :3 i look at him and see a lot of myself in him and so it just felt fitting. and especially like the bits in the first season of bs where we learn moreso about younger him and how he behaved, all shy and like not really much of a people's person. but then as he grows older he learns how to mask and adapt to others personalities and finding their "weaker points" or recognizing repeated behavior and what triggers it, even if the understanding is lacking. struggling with empathy can be seen when al describes him by having a silver tongue, kinda digging at people and recognizing this pattern but lacking the understanding as to why. and once initially meeting listener he holds this almost "badboy" persona, kinda masking with this evilish strongsuit? and is like still super awkward. and at the end of season one when at listener's house he's still kind of holding onto it. then in season two he's starting to grow more comfortable and allowing himself to be more vulnerable, he's opening up yet also masking more properly if that makes sense? like to listener. he learns their behaviors, though recognizing a bit of them before when they'd approached him that first night. im actually in the process of reanalyzing bs right now so i don't have autism analysis of specifics in season two or three, but incase you can't tell. i really enjoy autistic seth, maybe audhd :D i don't really have any specifics on this one but dyslexic seth means quite a bit to me aswell.(also projecting) i was thinking about it before my car ride nap earlier but i currently don't remember it :( BUTT THAT DOES REMIND ME !! i think seth gets car sick when he's not driving. like long drives where he isn't driving? every long drive we see i believe seth winds up falling asleep. i like to think it's because he gets carsick.

IM SO SORRY THIS WAS LIKE A HUGE WALL OF TEXT HE MEANS SO MUCH TO ME .. i have so many more seth hcs and analysis thoughts it's insane. thank you so much for this, i love you(/p), i enjoyed this a lot :D