#that's for the nadir bullshit

[asleepinawell]

my aunt just dosed february lolol and lmao

[advancedlupineurology]

everybody talks about abeds face during the troy and abed hug in geothermal escapism but when are we going to start talking about abeds face during the jeff and abed hug in intro to recycled cinema

[bingsucks]

*kicks in your door, knocks a cup of water out of your hand* Troy and Abed still sleep in a bunk bed when they're married because they couldn't find a king-sized race car bed they could afford, and a loft bed makes troy anxious that it's gonna fall apart if he breathes too hard (even though it's the exact same thing as a bunk bed with no extra bed). of course Troy refuses to admit that, he just says he doesn't want Abed hitting his head on the ceiling (partially true-- he does hit his head, he's very tall). fight me bitch I can't die *beats the shit out of you*

[safert0fu]

and in between us, we create the definition of heat.

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i've not a lot of energy to draw anything more than sketchy scribbles these days but the brainrot is still going strong. praise be.

[number-of-the-beast-is-666]

hey. don't cry. so much good black metal in the world yeah?

[backyardflames]

Are people really just so livid about Garcia having a relationship with someone that’s not Luke that they’re trashing her character in the most extreme ways? She’s acting no worse than the entirety of the cast has acted at multiple points. The JJ/Reid bullshit from last season was the absolute nadir in terms of character behaviour on this show, but Garcia’s a monster for getting her head turned by a hot dude? Eh.

[motherhenna]

In a town full of monsters, the lesser of all evils may still bear fangs. There are no angels in Nadir.

Back on my Twilight AU bullshit--it's sort of just turned into it's own thing, at this point. So here's another piece of my re-imagination of Edward Cullen: Caleb Alkaine, the mysterious son of the local veterinarian. Though he volunteers as a photographer for the school paper, Caleb has become a bit too invested in the string of unsolved murders tormenting the small town of Nadir, Alaska. The darkest time of year is right around the corner, and who knows what else could lurk in the endless winter nights to come.

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2023: Last Place

34. 37. ISRAEL Noa Kirel - “Unicorn” Third place

Decade Rank: 109/116 [Above Theodor, below Nadir] Edit: As per the update of 30 December 2023, this ranking has been revised. Noa now ranks between Brividi (#113) and Victor Vernicos (#111)

People complain about the jury vote hither and yon, and how it denied Käärijä his rightful crown, but the truly VILE result was Israel’s third place. This song? THIRD? REALLY?? DisGUSting.

Let’s not waste time here: “Unicorn” is a horrible, disheveled mess of a song. It has an orchestral start, a downbeat beginning, a weaksauce blackpink chorus and then an utterly SCUFFED dance break. None of its many parts work, standalone or put together. Everything about it is a shameless honeytrap for the undescerning gay or gay ally. It’s the absolute culmination of Israel’s Pinkwashing dream. I DESPISE it.

and don't get me started on this bullshit.

So um yeah, of course there were folk out there who saw a queer-coded party song they could unleash ~their inner fag~ towards (which I honestly get - i ranked SloMo second for the EXACT same reason!) and not a mercenary, insincere, off-puttingly cunning trainwreck with a horrendous meme choreography. Good on you, if you’re one of those easily satisfied people I guess. I am not one of them.

Israel have always had a tendency to weaponize LGBT rights and current woke trends (see also: Toy and #MeToo) for their own politcial purposes, and “Unicorn” is perhaps the most shameless example of that at ESC yet? This might ultimately be what offends me the most. Noa's top five was planned since the beginning, in the form of the most obsequious fan service imaginable and they were rewarded for it! How is Unicorn different from any Azerbaijani attempt to game the system during their top five streak at the start of the 2010s?

Its journey honestly feels very similar to “Tattoo’s” victory rly. Noa was immediately fawned over because of who she is even before her song’s release and it just sorta snowballed from there. However, unlike Sweden who fully lucked into Loreen's comeback, Israel have deliberately exploited both the televote and jury voting quirks for their benefit. That Rest of the World 12 points? Not a coincidence. 🙂 (my opinion on RotW: bin it immediately.) You may not like Loreen's victory, but thank fuck she was there to prevent this tomfoolery from getting EVEN MORE points.

In conclusion

THE RANKING

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

“It’s all been a ploy from the start,” the Eidolon-clone said, his aerokinesis carrying his words to our ears, “Every single one of you were deceived.  For every one of you that bought your powers, there were innocents who died or became monsters for the sake of that formula’s research.  No matter what good you might do, it will never make up for that.  And the rest of you?  Conned, brought in with promises of ideals and saving the world.  You’re fools.”

I mean, *gestures at Scion*

Fucking christ Echidna is just such a contrived and absurd package of bullshit powers, cheat abilities and then plot armor.

Strictly speaking, it's not the same sort of slog that Arcs 12-13 are, but Arcs 18 and 19 definitely are the nadir of the work for me so far. Jesus christ I hope this gets better.

[racefortheironthrone]

What are your thoughts on Woodrow Wilson? It seems like depending on who you ask, he’s either the intellectual father of the current international system, or the man who brought American race relations to their post Civil War nadir by segregating the federal government.

As someone who primarily studies U.S domestic policy, I don't hugely care about Wilsonian foreign policy.

Yes, yes, international law and the roots of the U.N, but at the end of the day the League of Nations wouldn't have been fit for purpose even if Wilson had managed to get the U.S to participate, he got massively steamrolled at the Paris Peace Conference by Clemenceau and Lloyd George on everything from imperialism to anti-German revanchism, and you can't get away from the fact that his liberal pronouncements on national self-determination were sharply limited by his racism when it came to the self-determination of insufficiently white people.

When it comes to domestic policy, it gets harder for me because a lot of important and good stuff happened in his Administration - the income tax, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act ("labor's Magna Carta" according to Samuel Gompers), the Commission on Industrial Relations, the passage of the Suffrage Amendment for women, etc. - but most of that happened thanks to other people. Wilson was more of a cheerleader and promoter than a policy wonk, so I think any Progressive would have done as good a job.

On the issue of "American race relations," I think Wilson's impact was largely symbolic, but his impact was absolutely on behalf of segregation. The Jim Crow agenda of black disenfranchisement and discrimination had mostly been completed between 1890 and 1910 - by the southern wing of the Democratic Party that he came out of, I should add - and Wilson's personal contribution was to extend the latter principle into the Federal government as a final thumb in the eye to lingering Republican sentiment on civil rights. At the same time, between McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, the leadership of the Republican Party had basically already surrendered on black representation in Federal employment (just as at least the Executive had on anti-lynching laws, civil rights, and voting rights), so the damage had mostly been done.

His public support for Birth of a Nation - whether or not he actually said it, the tagline "like history writ with lighning" was a useful boost to the film's marketing - was probably more impactful in the long run. His Administration's inaction during the Red Summer of 1919 was most impacful of all, and even if you buy the bullshit argument that the Federal government didn't have the power to do anything in most cases, Wilson absolutely had the power when it came to Washington D.C and it somehow took him four days to send in the Army to stop white mobs from making war on the black community.

[swearyshera]

Reliving this is a trip. I was an interesting feeling the first time thru, and I'm not saying that to humorously downplay a horrific situation. It drew out a little bit of sympathy for Catra I really thought I'd used up by that point, if only cuz what Prime does is really that vile. That's super unusual for me. I went in rooting for Adora to take back someone she cared about, not necessarily cuz it was Catra specifically if you know what I mean, but this got me to want Catra rescued weirdly well. I almost never feel for villains at their nadir like this.

Twisted how empathetic paragon heroes like Adora are among my most treasured characters in fiction, yet I suck at extending the same sympathy they can. You're supposed to see characters like Catra (or Azula or Bakugou or whoever you please) going thru awful things as flawed people with interior lives and subject to exterior circumstances that the heroes are kind/strong/savvy enough to see and incorporate into their responses and my knee jerk is still "fuck off with the pity party, get to the atonement." Or in a lot of cases to laugh while they're down. I always sabotage myself by seeing the author making horrible things happen to the rival/villains, and contrasting them with worse villains, as a cynical tactic to get me and the heroes to sympathize before they've started changing for the better.

It helped that Catra already saved Glimmer at her own peril, and Adora already would've saved Catra no matter what, but still. This is a big reason why villain mind control is one of my least fave tropes. Manipulation and coercion are all good because meaningful agency and responsibility are still there even if characters can't see it, and that is everything in my eyes. To me mind control is the writer hitting pause on a character's growth til a more convenient time in the plot. Or just forever. *cough*🌊🦂🧙‍♂️.

Most of my appreciation for pre-s5 Catra only built up in retrospect through meta-posts and following fanworks like this. So seriously thank you for this series; it's like experiencing the series as it was intended for the first time, weird as that sounds.

You're version of this sequence is as skin-crawling as I think we all could've hoped/feared. Prime is the worst kind of living scum. Great work. Now I can start counting down to the "you miscalculated." scene. Aimee Carrero crushed that line. Can't wait for your version. Positively dancing with anticipation.

It is - at least to me - a really interesting point for Catra to be at, narratively speaking, because it shows the dialectic in her journey. She both did and didn't "bring it upon herself" - yes, she tried to get in Prime's good books, but no, she didn't ask to be chipped. Yes, she saved Glimmer against his instruction, but no, she didn't know the full consequences of what that would do. And when you get people on different sides of the argument, some saying "poor meowmeow didn't deserve this" and others saying, "She's reaping what she's sown", actually they're both right, in this way.

I don't think it would have worked going straight to the atonement, anyway. We don't have these scenes to revel in the depth of her lowest point, we have them to show how bad, how inescapable it was - and then we set up to escape them!

The whole story with Prime has been an interesting writing journey, too. Every time I review the lines, I tweak them to make them that little bit more realistic, that little bit more uncomfortable. I'm painfully aware that we're seeing a lot of similar rhetoric flying around from real people in the media these days (particularly with anti-trans bullshit), and it's no coincidence that Prime is a reflection of this. But my focus isn't on "Oh look, doesn't this character sound like the person trying to destroy our lives", it's on "This character, like the people you've seen on the news, might think they're right but they will never win. They will never defeat us."

Indeed, the Save the Cat books (yes, this episode did remind me of them... It's probably where the name is from) talk about the 'All is Lost' point and the 'Dark Night of the Soul' - this is where we're at right now. It's bad, it's the worst - but it's going to get better.

[8bitsupervillain]

Higurashi When They Cry Hou Ch. 5 Meakashi pt. 21

Alternate title: Satoko Houjou's bad day pt. 2

Alternate alternate title: Ch. 2 Watnagashi pt. 24

Rika Furude, expert assassin!

I can't help but wonder, if Kimiyoshi hadn't been led to mention anything about Satoshi do you think he might have escaped this chapter alive? I'd wager as soon as Shion latched onto this idea of a revenge mission Kimiyoshi's life was forfeit.

I give a lot of these characters guff over the whole "Rika would never do that" stuff they keep spouting, but honestly Satoko is the only one who I feel could say that and genuinely mean it. They've been friends for most of their lives, so I think she's knows a lot better what she's capable of than the cop who met her two hours ago, and Shion the murderer who knew her for five minutes.

Skipping ahead, Shion starts stabbing up Satoko, who initially cries out in pain, but eventually starts choking back her cries because she wants to be strong for Satoshi and prove she doesn't need him. This enrages Shion because it makes her realize that despite all of her claims to keep Satoshi alive in her heart she didn't. She gave up on him pretty darned quickly actually thinking he has been murdered by the curse of Oyashiro.

Realizing that since she never tried to take care of Satoko Shion believes she'll never see her Satoshi no matter what she does. It's really very schmaltzy. But I do find it in keeping with Shion's character so... I don't know. Before she started just stabbing Satoko's arms until she died Shion told Mion that if she apologizes a thousand times she would be spared. Now she tells her to not even bother. At the peak of this newest despair Shion informs Mion that maybe she'll massacre Keiichi just for shits and giggles. Then when she's at the absolute nadir of her torment Shion will kill Mion. Which is simultaneously good news and bad news for Rena. She has beef with Rena, but for whatever reason she's gonna spare her, so even though all of her friends will be dead she'll still be kicking around.

Also with the revelation she failed to take care of Satoko, and engaged in a gruesome revenge campaign Shion comes to terms with the fact that she's just become a demon. (Can you tell I added this part in later? Cause I completely forgot to mention it? Cause I'm a forgetful dope sometimes?)

Then for far too long the VN retreads the same ground as the second chapter about Keiichi piecing together that Shion's behind it all, and Shion basically just laughing maniacally to herself at her clever scheme. Of course this leads back to the scene where she confesses her crimes to Keiichi and Rena.

I have to agree with the murderer here. They are being far too lenient, the bullshit about the cannibalism leading up to the killings she's committed even if it were true really shouldn't excuse the fact Shion in the present day decided to commit these crimes. I also don't think Rena could ever actually tell the difference between the twins. After all, if Watanagashi and Meakashi are indeed happening on the same timeline as each other (despite the differences in events) Rena has only been aware of Shion's existence for maybe a month, at most. Maybe roughly a week, when they saw the twins together when they were helping to set up Watanagashi. During the dessert festival at Angel Mort everyone was under the impression that this Shion was actually just Mion putting on an act. The only people at the time who knew for sure Shion existed were Satoshi, who vanished, Ooishi, and the Sonozaki family. When Shion thought Rena could see through her and read her like a book in that bus shelter, that was just a wild miscalculation, because again, Rena thought that was Mion. Maybe she got the feeling something was off about her friend, but she wrote that off as Mion being in love.

This identity crisis I feel really sums up Shion. She once again is acting like she's owed the right to be Mion, even though she isn't. If we're to accept the narration as being accurate Shion has always been Shion, the unwanted unaccepted second twin. But her jealousy, her "demon" kept growing inside of her so she started taking every slight real or imagined to heart and just fed it to her anger until this inevitable conclusion happened. She latched onto Satoshi because outside of Kasai this was the first and only real affection she believes she'd ever received. The fact he initially viewed her as Mion subtly started the ball rolling on her snapping and becoming a violent murderer. After all, he was Mion's friend, not hers. But she "loves" him, so that makes him hers, therefore she should be and must be Mion. I don't want to use the word entitled, but it's really the only one that I feel can describe her. She feels entitled to the life she believes Mion stole from her, and she is willing to utterly destroy everyone she views as an obstacle that stole away her happiness. Because Satoshi made her feel loved and accepted he unwittingly fed into Shion's demonic urge to lash out at her perceived enemies. Which is why she is so quick to violence with Satoko and why she so quickly and thoroughly killed everyone she believes is in charge of the Oyashiro curse network.

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure this is the only time Shion ever explicitly mentions that she's the older of the two. This makes me wonder, how exactly would this situation have been different if either Shion or Mion were born male? It gets brought up in Watanagashi once, but never comes up again. Would Shion have tried to place her romantic feelings toward Satoshi onto guy Mion? I assume this was meant to imply the issue of the heir would've been less of a headache for all involved. Also, what did I say, all of this would've been avoided if Oryou had just strangled her to death right out of the womb.

And now we're back on to plan kill Keiichi because Mion fell in love with him. And because he's not Satoshi, and that's quite the grievous crime to commit apparently.

Oh I do so enjoy my armchair character analysis that's probably way, way off the mark.

[ourladyofomega]

Years ago I ended up in one of the worst points in life. I was in such a depressing place where to this day I won’t ever mention. It was in a post-economic crash job where I had almost no outs to leave and I was broke, so I had no choice but to stay. I dealt with a co-worker named Barney who at 40 stood at 6’3 and 350 lbs.; and who had a multitude of social, legal, and dependency issues. Money issues, too. Back then, many people suffered and became desperate to hang in there. I wasn’t the only one who was bound for money, but even more so was Barney.

Our co-worker Little Mikey was still in university and on his way in becoming an economist. He was the head ringleader amongst our staff who had his influential ways; a major troll who knew his power. He was less than half of Barney’s age and size; shorter than him, too. He was the type to play on people’s weaknesses and exploit them for his and his friends’ personal gain. It was only time before Little Mikey knew that Barney was desperate for money. Barney non-chalantly asked me before to give him a few dollars which I instantly refused, right after he swindled his manager out of $100 and another co-worker of low self-esteem for $500. So, Mikey had a proposition for Barney: he’d offer him some money (an undisclosed amount but it was in the low double digits) if he’d volunteer to be recorded rolling on the floor behind the counter. After a few days of negotiations, Barney took up on the offer.

A few days later, I helped out a customer across the counter (I was the only one doing so when the rest wouldn’t) when, to my left, a group of co-workers were standing there giggling with their smart phones out, getting ready for Barney’s roll. To my right…here he comes! As I handed my customer her goods, Barney comes tumbling down the filthy, unswept floor towards my way. I literally had to jump up in order not to be bowled over to let him through. The co-workers all saw this and they were all laughing their asses off.  Mikey’s plan worked! They couldn’t believe that our largest co-worker would humiliate himself for a few dollars. Did Barney wake up? Of course not. He willingly volunteered to make a fool of himself in a couple more of Mikey’s games because the rush of a good laugh and the dare for the money was what he went for.

So can you imagine the type of power crafty devious elves wield to take down ogres and giants? Think of the influential power this kid-wonder degenerate held over Barney who was desperate to make ends meet to support his vices, and also the power he had over some of his other co-workers and myself who refused to bow to him? (I never yielded to his unwarranted garbage. As a result, I received some of it from his privileged co-worker friends because I refused to play along.) Imagine the depths of depravity that some would stoop so low to devalue and embarrass themselves for so little?

There’s other times I put up with such harassment and bullshit I never asked for, and that’s not even the worst of it. I had no choice but ended up in a place I never wanted to be just to survive. I count my bells and lucky 7’s that I forever removed myself from a depressing nadir in my life and the various sludge I distanced myself from. I remind myself every day I’m at a better place where I can look back and scare myself to never return and be ashamed of myself again.

[number-of-the-beast-is-666]

petja&nadir snippet under the cut, slight sexual line and self harm

Watching him there, on stage... Felt like a form of worship. Like mercy and wrath all mixed up into one, when he sang of eternal absolution and damnation, and lust just as bright when he sang of rot and come.

Shadowed by the dim yellow light from behind him, he looked inhuman; beyond human. Like maybe he'd burst into flame or fall away into dust if he just sang right.

Watching Petja on stage, cutting with an almost tender deliberacy that seemed altogether unfitting of the brutal and vulgar reality of what he was doing, getting hard whilst his hot blood ran down his elbows, letting his soul bleed out his mouth like his wrists to the screaming crowd.

Him up there, glass catching on old scars and carving jaggedly into his skin, getting off on the pain as blood tracked down his arms and chest, rivulets soaking into the top of his faded jeans.

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: June 10, 2011

Lyrics:

Girl my body don't lie (Red One)

I'm outta my mind

Let it rain over me (Mr. Worldwide)

I'm rising so high

Out of my mind

So let it rain over me

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me

A billion's a new million and

Voli's a new vodka

Forty is the new 30

Baby you're a rock star

Dale veterana, que tú sabe

Más de la cuenta, no te hagas

Teach me baby, or better yet

Freak me baby, yes, yes

I'm freaky baby, I'mma make sure that your peach feels peachy baby

No bullshit broads, I like my women sexy, classy, sassy

Powerful yes, they love to get a little nasty, ow

This ain't a game you'll see, you can put the blame on me

Dale muñequita, abre ahí, and let it rain over me

Girl my body don't lie

I'm outta my mind

Let it rain over me

I'm rising so high

Out of my mind

So let it rain over me

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me

A billion's a new million

Voli's a new vodka

Latin is the new majority, ya tú sabe

Next step la Casablanca

No hay carro, nos vamos en balsa

Mami you know the drill, they won't know what I got 'til they read the will

I ain't trying, I ain't trying to keep it real

I'm trying to keep wealthy that's for real

Pero mira que tú 'tas buena, y mira que tú 'tas dura

Baby no me hables más, y tíramelo mami chula

No games you'll see, you can put the blame on me

Dale muñequita, abre ahí, and let it rain over me

Girl my body don't lie

I'm outta my mind

Let it rain over me

I'm rising so high

Out of my mind

So let it rain over me

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me

Mr. Worldwide, Marc Anthony, tú sabe

I was playing with her, she was playing with me

Next thing you know, we were playing with three

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

I was playing with her, she was playing with me

Next thing you know, we were playing with three

Oh oh oh oh oh oh

Rain over me

Girl my body don't lie

I'm outta my mind

Let it rain over me

I'm rising so high

Out of my mind

So let it rain over me (Over me)

Songwriter:

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me (Over me)

Ay ay ay

Ay ay ay

Let it rain over me

Armando Christian Perez / Marc Anthony / Nadir Khayat / Achraf Jannusi / Bilal Hajji / Jimmy Paul Thornfeldt / Rachid Aziz

SongFacts:

👉📖

Homepage:

Pitbull

Marc Anthony