#that we didn’t order

[moonfurthetemmie]

,,,Yes?

I said that thinking it would be an obvious example of how the system doesn’t really differentiate between specific types of things when it comes to substitutions, so long as it’s still under the same broad category.

The computer system doesn’t care if you’re lactose intolerant. As far as it’s concerned, milk is milk. An actual human, barring apathy, ignorance, or a really bad brain fart, would know better and would say there’s no available substitutions.

Most of the stuff that’s made to exclude things the item would normally have in them (lactose-free milk. Gluten-free tortillas. Low sodium salt alternatives. So on) isn’t made for those bullshit diet fads telling you that you can lose weight if you cut out this stuff and also this whole major food group. And several of these things (definitely some of the lactose-free milks we have) say something like “now you can eat these tasty things again!!!”, so it’s fairly clear that it’s for a group of people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to eat/drink that stuff. Unless, I suppose, you’ve never heard of lactose intolerance or severe food sensitivities that can (and do) kill people, but that falls into the category of ‘ignorance’ and can be corrected. And not just by telling that unknowing person about these sensitivities to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

People can reject substitutions before they even get to the store to pick up their order. And we have to go over the substitutions with the driver when they get there to make sure everything’s okay. The person grabbing you stuff being a dumbass and getting you regular whole milk instead of the lactose-free stuff that you can actually drink isn’t going to doom you to having that gallon of regular whole milk. You can say no at pretty much any point once we pick the substitution, up until it gets put in your car and you drive away.

While it’d be pretty shitty on our end to do something like that, there is stuff in place to make sure we don’t inadvertently make someone sick (or worse) because someone has dietary restrictions and one of us was being a dipshit.

And also to prevent lesser issues, like substituting a Fuji apple for a honey crisp apple, which the customer just can’t stand the taste of. But as I said; lesser issue. Severe reactions because of food sensitivities are probably, if I had to guess, the main reason this system is in place at all.

[the-girl-who-didnt-make-anysense]

"No one from House Dellamorte kneels" -Dragon Age: The Veilguard

[snacobie]

Playing Dragon Heist and getting threatened in the most cheerful way

[elodieunderglass]

[psilliguykai]

Happy [depending on your timezone belated-] 2nd birthday CCCC!!

I gotta eep now, but I might add some more thoughts tomorrow ^^

For now, thank you CCCC for being my intro to Chonny Jash, and thank you cj for all the awesome community and inspiration and joy you’ve brought me and so many other people. Your music and characters will always hold a special place in my Heart [haha] <33

[avpdpossum]

chanting “i am allowed to do this” out loud over and over while ordering delivery from a place i’ve never ordered from before. because i’m mentally well and am a normal amount of scared of doing things. now if you’ll excuse me, i have to get back to stewing in anxiety for the next 30-40 minutes while they make my food. like any normal person would.

[lightning-chicken]

i know plot convenience is a thing but i can’t stop thinking about the implications of jay finding bonzle in the fake monastery’s basement of all places. did he know it was there before he walked into the building? did his feet carry him there, subconsciously retracing old steps? did he wait there, knowing he was far from the fight, because his side of the fight wasn’t the one he truly believed in?

[vileidol]

ideal team ups

fun fact @dredgesnails and i made these independent of each other

[aceptical]

I know a lot of people are talking about Pearl’s lyrics about Marina in Suffer No Fools but I haven’t seen NEARLY enough people talking about their posing.

Im sorry but those are NOT straight activities.

[panakina]

Maybe I’m just too attached to comic, but i don’t buy Bruce’s speech at the end of the UtRH movie.

The whole speech about not being able to come back from it if he killed joker, he’s too calm and controlled, it sounds rehearsed to me. I could picture him saying that weeks early but not in that moment.

I vastly prefer the overwhelming emotion shutting down any sensible debate like it goes in the comic: The face of his dead son is in front of him demanding he break his vows and kill his worst enemy. Throwing all his Worst trauma in his face, After weeks of Bruce losing control of the very city those vows are meant to protect, after being forced into a vicious fight with said dead son. This isn’t the time for Making a Case for Restraint, this is the time for freaking the fuck out and throwing a batarang without thinking it through. This is the time for Batman’s iron will to crack.

[peachlit]

definitely found the hairstyle that gets me tips. completely dead day, but still managed to get $70 in tips tonight. most i’ve ever gotten

[heyclickadee]

One thing about Crosshair is that he’s a remarkably intelligent man with a good read of people and situations and emotionally wrecked life decision-making skills. Dude will have some truly perceptive insight into whatever’s happening that hits on a grain of truth, and then that insight will be filtered through so many layers of trauma and cynicism that his conclusion will end up at least 90 degrees off whatever’s right.

[too-many-rooks]

Me: I hate my job I hate my boss I felt like I had so much potential but I’m struggling to get anyone to take me seriously and get a job that would satisfy me intellectually and start living the life I imagined for myself -

Also me: Oh my god just like in slow horses

[angst-is-love-angst-is-life]

please tell me more about your barry gets kidnapped by zoom fic ideas. i haven’t been able to stop thinking about them since you said that on my post

hahfjsjfh how much time do you have? Cause Barry getting kidnapped/whumped by Zoom is my favorite thing to write and think about.

The particular one (as you accurately put it) rotating in my brain when I rb-ed your post was after seeing this. It got me thinking about how fun it would be if Zoom kidnapped Barry in that scene instead of threatening him :> (also how Barry could've been kept in the lab with Caitlin). I didn't get too far into it, but it's got some great whump potential and the contrasting dynamics between Barry, Caitlin, and Zoom could be interesting. Funnily enough though I wasn't thinking any torture for this one (...fuck well now I am), just some good ole captivity whump.

Probably not gonna end up writing this, but it's fun to think about.

…I know you said ‘ideas’😅, but when I come up with those for this particular scenario, they often end up becoming wips. So I hope you don’t mind if I talk about a couple of those as well. (Put under a cut because surprise surprise, this got long)

This one is the least ‘idea’ of the lot since it's got a couple chapters posted— but I can't talk about my Zoom kidnaps Barry fics without mentioning ✨Trophy✨. Long story short with no spoilers; it's an au where Zoom wins in the season 2 finale. Which has devastating consequences as you'd imagine, and for Barry especially because the inspiration for this fic was Zoom's line about imprisoning him after the race :))) . Lots of sadness, torture (that one's gonna start in the next chapter), and oh SO MUCH whump. Oh also it's very much Hurt No Comfort with an unhappy ending.

A much newer one is The Price We Pay To Love (aka the Barrisco whump fic), where Zoom kidnaps Barry AND Cisco :D. Boy alright this is the first time I've talked about my plans for this wip since the initial inspiration/concept from @/alittleflashvibe, and full credit to her because I would not be writing this otherwise. Tbh most of it's said in that linked post; but let's see. I've gone with her absolutely genius idea to have Zoom torture Barry to make Cisco open breaches for him, cause it's freaking perfect. And, something that's been tons of fun for me but horrible for Barry and Cisco— Zoom didn't kidnap them in either of the Earth-2 episodes; he kidnapped them after stealing Barry's speed in 2x18 :DDD. Anddd we've reached the limit of what my secretive ass is willing to say about this one. But it's gonna be a blast I'll tell you that much.

Alright that’s it for wip talk. Now some more general ideas with varying levels of elaboration (done chronologically cause why not) (also, just in case it needed to be said, any of these concepts are ofc free for the taking if any fellow whump gremlins feel so inclined):

Instead of landing on Earth-3 and finding Jay, Zoom ends up on Earth-1 and kidnaps Season 1 Barry.

Similar to the last but with an extra layer of angst; Zoom kidnapping Barry between seasons 1 and 2 when he’s gone solo and shut out all of his loved ones.

Zoom moves up his plan and decides to kidnap Barry to Earth-2 in 2x06. In my head he still drags Barry around the city beforehand, their final destination just happens to be the breach room instead of the cortex. Also no broken spine here because Barry needs to be able to run so Zoom can steal his speed.

This one could go anywhere between 2x02 and 2x13 (though for maximum angst post-2x06 is best), and I don’t have much concept for it at all; but Zoom kidnapping Barry as fake Jay is often on my mind. Some nice betrayal whump right there, especially when you consider that BARRY WAS SUSPICIOUS OF HIM BUT NO ONE LISTENED! He went against his intuition and decided to trust ‘Jay’, and now it’s slapping him in the face.

On a similar vein as the one above, what if Barry didn’t actually trust ‘Jay’ as much as he pretended to, and did some investigating. Whichever way it happens, he figures out that ‘Jay’ isn’t who he says he is, and ‘Jay’/Zoom kidnaps him to keep his cover. Especially fun if the reason Zoom gets to him before Barry can tell anyone is that he picked up on Barry’s distrust and was keeping a close eye on him.

AHA here’s one I always forget about till I remember how close a call it could’ve been— remember that scene at the end of 2x14 when Barry goes back to Earth-2 and finds Harry caught by Zoom, and luckily Harry has a tranq on hand and stabs Zoom with it so they can get away? What if Zoom saw the tranq and stopped Harry before he could hit him? And ofc he’s faster than Barry at this point, so since Barry can only defend himself so much; Zoom kidnaps them both. There’s a couple whumpy ways Zoom can make sure Barry can’t escape this time so that’s fun (recapture my most beloved), and ofc now that Jesse’s rescued, Harry’s gonna need some new motivation to remake the device capable of stealing Barry’s speed… And he does care about Barry at this point doesn’t he… I wonder where this could possibly be going…

Whenever someone gets kidnapped in this show, my brain likes to go “…but what if it was Barry,” so ofc this leads me to 2x18, and Zoom kidnapping Barry either instead of, or along with, Caitlin. The latter would be similar to my idea in the beginning of this post, but with a different location and, potentially, different reason for said kidnapping (at least on Barry’s end). As for instead of, well there’s a variety of options for that one, but I’m not gonna get into them.

Ok so I know I talked about this already since I talked about Trophy— but the concept of Zoom imprisoning Barry after the race is too good and deserves a separate mention. “After I beat Barry in the race and prove that I’m the fastest man alive on any earth, he’s gonna rot in a cage just like the one Jay’s in now.” I mean how can one hear that and NOT be immediately overwhelmed with whump potential???? It’s so versatile too! I’ve done my thing ofc but one could take this in SO many different places. Ex. an au where Zoom’s plan wasn’t to destroy the multiverse, and because of that Earth-2 is still around so Barry can be imprisoned alongside Jay (the real one). There’s ✨endless✨ possibilities.

I have absolutely NO idea how this would go down, but the fact that Zoom could catch up to season 5 Barry will always haunt me, and there’s interesting potential for what could’ve happened if he successfully pulled Barry out of the time tunnel in that episode (5x08).

Hope this is what you were looking for :)! Thank you so very much for opening the box because I think about whumpertunities for Barry *all the time* (especially involving Zoom since he’s my favorite whumper), so it was a lot of fun to share some! :D

[kingkatsuki]

One of my absolute favorite “cliche” tropes is amnesia fics where reader has been dating character for years, but they forget and then they can only remember dating their ex. So it’s like they go back to the ex because it’s all they’ve ever known, and their current love has to cope with seeing the love of their life in the arms of another guy.

I could read that trope a million times over and never get bored or think it’s too repetitive.

[ghostvibesonly]

can we please not instantly hate on the only other guy showing genuine interest in stolas and act as if he’s gonna end up being a terrible person that blitzø’s gonna “save” stolas from