#the photos are in order from left to right btw

[brucequeensteen]

tagged by @roadwhores thank you marley 🥰 make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favourite

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[starlostastronaut]

SURPRISE TO GO

kim seungmin × reader - fluff, non idol au, coffee shop au, barista!seungmin - 1.1k

summary - seungmin spends his birthday working because his friends are busy. but are they really?

links - masterlist

yall i finally finished this. i forgot about seung's birthday and none of my drafts felt right so i wrote this quickly today. it's still 22nd in korea so i'm still on time. happy seungmin day! happy birthday my love! <333

no proofread and written in hurry. i hope you still enjoy and let me know your thoughts! <3

The bell rang above your head as you entered the small café. There were not many people inside at this hour. It was nearing the evening and the café was slowly going to sleep, people leaving and employees cleaning the emptying tables. You looked over the place, your eyes stopping at the coffee station. There he was, busy with preparing drinks and looking stupidly hot while doing it. Nope, focus, not the time for that now.

You felt it was a crime to make Seungmin work on his birthday, but volunteered anyway, when another barista called in that morning with food poisoning. When you asked why he did it, he just replied why not, the extra money was always worth it and his friends were busy anyway today.

Which was true. But not for the reason Seungmin thought. Ever since this morning, your secret group chat was blowing up with things going wrong. First the cake you ordered arrived damaged, then the restaurant canceled on you at the last minute… it was always something. Even now, you felt your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket.

You found yourself at a quiet corner table, where Seungmin wouldn't immediately see you from where he was and you took out your phone, dreading whatever catastrophe was awaiting you. Rolling your eyes at the chat name (seriously, who let Hyunjin name it?) you opened the messages.

SEUNGMINNIE'S BIRTHDAY BONANZA CLUB

sunshine baby sent a photo

sunshine baby: me and minho-hyung just saved the day!!

work of ART: wow the cake looks amazing lix

work of ART: me and changbin-hyung are almost done with wrapping the presents

work of ART: btw who's idea was it to do everything with pochacco paper? i hate that damn dog now he's everywhere 😭

devil bunny: stop being dramatic hyunjin you volunteered 🙄

DAD(dy): karaoke reservation for 7pm confirmed

DAD(dy): get your asses here and help innie with decorating

Oh. Finally some good news. You quickly responded to the guys, deciding on when to bring Seungmin to the karaoke. Checking the time, you realized you had about an hour left before Seungmin's shift ends and you need to somehow get him to the karaoke, where there is a surprise party waiting for him. Hopefully. But you trusted Chan that he can handle his six chaotic kids and nothing would go wrong again.

Deciding to make your presence known, you walked up to the counter. “Hey Seung,” you said, leaning your forearms on the counter as you checked the menu. “I'll have… whatever this is.” You pointed to the picture of this month's special drink, not daring to guess what was inside. But it looked big and complicated enough to hopefully fill some of the hour you had.

“Y/N.” Seungmin looked up in surprise, his lips immediately stretching into a soft smile when he saw it was you. He looked almost surprised to see you there. “What are you doing here?”

“I had to see my favourite boy,” you smiled. “And because he's working today…” You looked up, your eyes meeting his. Looking into Seungmin's eyes was always an experience. His dark, deep, chocolate eyes held the stars of the universe in them and you often found yourself weak to the love you saw when he looked at you. Sometimes, it took all your willpower to not avert your gaze. It felt like a bright beam of the sun, blinding and warm at the same time. And you weren't backing now.

If Seungmin's coworker was here, he would have by now uttered some ridiculous comment about the very obvious tension and to get a room. Luckily for you, Jongho was cleaning up spilled coffee, facing away from you.

“I wouldn't drink that if I were you,” Seungmin chuckled. What? Oh right, you were ordering a drink.

“Why not? It looks… fun?”

“It's disgusting as fuck.” Seungmin quickly looked around, letting out a relieved sigh when his manager was nowhere to be seen. “Our manager keeps coming up with insane things, but it went downhill after the first one. I'll make you your usual?” he offers instead.

You chuckled at his answer. He was the expert here. “Sure, thank you baby.”

Seungmin winked at you and began making your usual order. Moving away to not stand in the way but to have a good view of your boyfriend still, you leaned on the counter.

You loved watching Seungmin to do just about anything. He moved with practiced ease, knowing the steps by heart. If you woke him up at midnight and told him to do something, he would excel at it half asleep. He was calm, confident and always knew what to do. It was hot.

“There you go.” Seungmin slid your drink over to you and you smiled when you saw a cookie next to the cup.

“Is this the girlfriend privilege?” you laughed, carefully unwrapping the cookie and breaking it in half. You waited for when Seungmin was free again to call him over and feed him half of the cookie as he laughed and protested he's on the clock and shouldn't. As it turned out, bothering Seungmin was a great way to pass up your time and before you knew it, he was clocking out and offering his hand to you so you could leave together.

You led Seungmin to the karaoke, making up a lie about how you wanted to eat dinner together to explain why you weren't taking the usual route back to his and Felix's place.

“Karaoke?” Seungmin raised his eyebrow when you arrived in front of the building.

“You like singing and the buffet is great?” you shrugged, pulling him inside.

You made your way to one of the rooms, leading Seungmin into the darkness. “Happy birthday Seungmin!” the guys shouted as you flicked on the light, revealing your friends, balloons and gifts wrapped in matching wrapping paper and the cake Felix and Minho made.

While Seungmin stared in shock, you grabbed your present, lining up with the guys to congratulate him. “Thank you, Y/N,” Seungmin smiled as he received the box and you knew it wasn't just for the gift.

Later you watched him unwrap the presents with a glass of champagne in hand, enjoying his reactions to the gifts of all sorts. Sentimental ones, nice ones, and Minho's. That one deserved its special category, because the way he doubled over in laughter when he saw the shorts and couldn't show you for a solid two minutes, was something you very rarely saw. His eyes sparkled, barely visible with how much he laughed and that would forever be your favourite sight.

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[naffeclipse]

Btw looking at the little naga multiverse that’s going on. I love it sm lol Into the Naga!Clip-Verse am I right??

How would a BH!Eclipse fit as a naga? And how would he interact with the others? :0

Ahahah, it really is! And tossing the bounty hunter into the mix? Oh man

Bounty Hunter!Eclipse as a naga takes after the Rainbow Boa. He possesses deep red scales with black saddle-shaped markings along his tail, and his sun rays are made of black and orange frills. He's nocturnal and sticks to the trees, preferring solitude and avoiding anything that walks along the ground, except for, of course, our lovely Y/N. He does not interact with the others. The reason is if he's compelled, he will act violently, horribly, and it will end will blood everywhere. So, he's better off alone while he struggles with his urges.

He carries a captivating rainbow iridescent sheen to his scales that is rarely seen, but Y/N manages to snap a picture of it, mistaking BH!Eclipse for only a snake and not a naga. Oops.

BH!Eclipse is none too pleased to be photographed and as such gives Y/N a warning with some terrifying hissing and threats to crush them. He looms over them and the brush of his coils gives Y/N shivers of death but ultimately, he refrains from his impulse to smother them. He orders them to show him the picture. When Y/N reveals the photo with shaking hands, he's stunned by how nicely Y/N captured him. As if he's not entirely violent and deadly. It stirs something deep in his cold heart.

He orders Y/N to leave. They bolt out of there like a gazelle but little do they know the impression they just left.

BH!Eclipse wants to see them again (he wants to see how nicely they bruise, how pretty their sanguine blood is—no, no, no) he wants to see if they'll take more pictures. He wonders how well they can handle seeing him again after he scared them.

What's one more thing to try and get right?

[mchlgayser]

𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 [isagi yoichi]

You check your phone to see the time and it's appears to be almost 20:25 soon. You had just finished your night shift working as a waitress at a local cafe. It's the usual Monday, the street is bustling with people. A few in suits, maybe they just got back from work, and a few in normal clothing with grocery bags in hands or either just their phones. You waited for the bus, a few people is with you but no one is standing since there's a bench. You stand up, look to your right and left for the bus to arrive when suddenly a man come stepping in beside you. He had a mask on, though "You're waiting for the bus?" You almost jump in surprise but nodded your head nonetheless.

The bus screech at the stop and people got in, paying for their tickets. You thought you could finally get yourself a seat but the bus is already too full for any vacant seats. You decided to stand at the very front though, deciding it'd be better if you can get in and get out fast. The same man was just behind you, giving you a shrug of acknowledgement when you both make an eye contact. You didn't say anything, simply looking out front.

A few minutes past and the bus stopped at your stop, pulling the automatic door open and you got out in a hurry, a few people following suit. The bus closes its door and drive away.

Isagi watch as you left, disappointed that he didn't get to ask for your numbers. Well he had lots of times but he's too scared, couldn't blame him you look too imperturbable. When the bus reaches his stop, he knock over an object on the floor and it's a wallet. He picked it, curious and open it curiously to see your id picture pop on the photo insert.

You just got out of the shower, drying your hair off with a towel when your phone notification sound play on your vanity desk. You look up, unlocking your phone to check your messages. It's from an unknown number; "Hey I found your wallet!" Your eyes widen, rushing to get your jacket and check the pockets and no, you did not find your wallet.

You hit him up back, nose scrunching together. You just clocked that you didn't know how to reply. What would a sane person reply to if they got sent a message like this? It's a bothersome to check the Google or the Safari, so you just reply back; "Cool."

The person sent in; "So when can I send this back to you?" Another message came in "I'm the guy at the bus stop, btw." You hit the keyboard, typing in "Tomorrow, at the same bus stop." He sent back an OK and you reacted with a thumb up emoji.

The next morning, you hurried your way out of your house, grabbing a pair of shoes to match and went straight to the bus stop where you met him last night. Oh yeah, you totally didn't use the bus because you didn't have your wallet. You check your phone, open his text but stopped - What should you say? Should you just "Yo, I'm at the bus stop-" You deleted the text, purse your lips and sent in; "Hello stranger."

Isagi got out of the bus, look around and find you right on the bench, sitting down with your head hung low. It looks like nothing interest you anymore. Not the warmth of the sun, or the cooling wind or the green trees and the aromatic smell of fresh brewed coffees "Hello stranger," You look up, eyes widen seeing him here, well it's not like you didn't expect him.

"Here," He handed you your wallet and you check everything inside making sure nothing is stolen. You thanked him and he nod to you. An awful, most unexpected awkward silence fell upon you two despite the loud chatting amongst the passers-by "Should I treat you with a coffee? You found my wallet and I want to thank you," Isagi wanted to reject, not because he didn't want to but because he feel like there's no need to.

"I insist," And how can he say no to that. You two walk alongside to a nearby coffee shop, order yourself two cup of coffees and pastries to eat "What's your name?" He is the first to ask when you both sat down "It's Y/n." He hums, nodding his head in acknowledgement "I'm Isagi!" Wow, he's very full of energy, unlike you, especially during morning and weekdays. Your orders arrived and you two eat whilst chatting. You told him a little bit about yourself and he told you a variety of what he likes and dislikes. You may not seem like it but you are very attentive. He like cats by the way and he hate vegetables.

"I have a cat at home, his name is Simba because he look like Simba from The Lion King!" He told, sipping on his drink. You manage to crack a small smile when he showed you his lockscreen picture. It's a picture of his cat, yawning. You also asked him how did he get your number and he said he found a piece of paper you folded in a half and there's your number inside that you wrote down "Contact me if I ever lost my wallet" You had totally forget about that! You wrote that like years ago.

The two of you had a wonderful time, chatting for hours and Isagi got to know about you. You didn't seem nonchalant as you look, in fact he need to scratch the fact that he said you may seem like you didn't have any interest in things. In fact, you like so many things! You like to read or writes sometimes, gaming, watching Netflix or YouTube, listening to music, drawing or painting or doing pottery, enjoying nature or just sleep and eat. You are such a bright person inside, he just got to be on the good side of you to see how much of a fun person you are.

Isagi and you parted ways when he need to be somewhere and you had to go to work. You two separate ways after bidding goodbyes.

That night, a notification popped from messages and you open it "Hello used-to-be stranger. Isagi said he'd like to ask you out this weekend."

Another message came in, "This is Simba, btw."

[pluralsword]

you know we were going to making an Optimus out of Earthrise Elita and post with the line "freedom is the right of all sentient beings including the right to shellform" and are still going to, but wow wasn't really expecting an Optimus toy who effectively has g1 Arcee back stacks while having a mix of Jazz and IDW Arcee proportions to drop as the main studio series Optimus for the new movie- and are just thinking 'wow, 40 years was really something.' gonna see if we can make a truck Arcee at some point or if we're lucky/given enough time, a trailer fills out a light bus alt. all issues with thigh paint scraping from the hips are no longer a problem for us personally

Aren't they adorable... if you had told us two canon forms of a non-trans duo occasional m/f couple would be able to hold their back stacks like this in their toy form before we held Studio Transformers One Optimus in our hands we would have replied '?being able to do this with more than canon lesbians (who themselves desperately need to have more easily available toys)? yeah, I wish.' Dying with joy - living with joy

(also these two in the photo could still be wlw for all we know given the fact there are two gal Optimus Primes so far in canon)

btw can we get a gal and/or genderfluid Jazz in a show or film or game, please and thank you. so close for the former to happen in Cyberverse before she got cut from it

but yeah. revisiting the thing of hey so what if we got Elita and Optimus as lesbians in media we'd love that. I mean now that we think of it Blackarachnia was in the Yellow Order led by Splendid... clearly BW-based Blackarachnia but still... (and also Splendid would never have left Elita behind like that even if it meant crossing Sentinel, at least that's what we think anyways)

some personal trans stuff under the cut

To us, personally, there's something - something deeply joyful about this happenstance of designs overlapping. Especially given how intertwined Arcee and Jazz's stories have been with Optimus over the years, and Arcee's been subject to so much debate out the wazoo about her body- and for there to be an Optimus who has a variety of two Arcee iterations' body traits on top of being very curvy for an Optimus really gave a sense of, I don't know- euphoria? Peace? Feeling accidentally seen? Vindication that the body is doable with a bot mode without much of a fuss? We already knew that from the excellent action figure as in one of the most possible transformers ever ER Arcee, or from Cyberverse Warrior Dead End who's basically a G1-esque Arcee in red with bulky long ankles and a wider chest like IDW1 Arcee, or you know, the fact that speaking of the former, Legacy Elita is an excellent retool choice if you're not going to go for even more accuracy by retooling a Datsun mold to have side of the chest with lights instead form back stacks? But from Optimus of all bots...

We already loved the movie, which has been really good for Elita and there's so much about it we love (the trains. the trains!) but there's a deep happiness we're feeling this fall we haven't felt in a long time. Maybe it's partially the realignment of our life, but it's also - the beauty of transformation and variation we get to share with so many people (and not just in the transformers sense) so poetically comparable to the long journey transformers has had and is still having.

Maybe there's a part of us that's trying to be wiser by trying to get every once of happiness we can out of some lovingly designed (if you follow the toy designers on instagram it's clear they have excitement about what they do) off-shore factory mass produced plastic we got on discount while weighing other things, but that part of us is also playful scifi loving inner child who got to figure out via the adults within us that she's trans and doesn't ever want to let go of what for her is the stuff of life in a larger world of embracing with how much we don't know.

There's also just for those of us for whom Arcee's trans journeys (she's had multiple in canon, and then there's well, having a trans fan read of any other ones before, during, or after if you want or in the case of during and after tracing where the trans iterations impacted others) resonates very strongly there's something deeply relieving about getting to see the bot who is literally the face of transformers (aside from you know, the Autobrand being based on Prowl lmao), actually look more than a bit like her for once.

'Til All Are One, in pluralistic autonomy, journeying manyfold in all the forms and expressions that feel good to oneself

[bettyshoweduptotheparty]

Midnights is defined by duality: The story of an unreliable narrator and performance art (Part 1)

One year on, I think I've finally figured out what midnights is about. And it might surprise you.

The midnights album has just celebrated its first anniversary. And having listened to these songs for the last 12 months, staying up late to watch live streams of the Eras tour, and at times being unable to escape news about Taylor on every medium, I finally have an idea that makes all of this make sense: This is Taylor's duality era. And she wants us to notice. Join me on the ride if you want to know more :)

I made a post a few weeks ago about how the Midnights aesthetic has the ‘two Taylors’ duology: Private vs public, which is the lead theme that carries over into the music and most recently also into her public image. Midnights had a mismatched visual to it from the very beginning with the depressed 70s look (announcement photo and vinyl covers) and the glamourous midnight blue (cover image and public appearances).

The two Taylors in the Anti Hero mv really drove home the message for me that this album is about two versions of the same story, and Taylor is the writer and narrator. And while I'm sure that these two versions have existed for a lot longer than the midnights era, they have not previously been so prominently next to each other. In fact, the very point of having the public narrative, is to keep Taylor's private life out of the public eye. She has never shied away from providing the 'stories' that her fans want to see in order to relate to her music, and as the girl that made her fame with songs about heartbreak and fairytale princes, that usually meant being seen with a man that these songs could be attributed to. And she made sure people would make the connection, be it with scarves that change ownership, or foxes on shirts:

(Btw you can't deny how effective this was, with just a few photos she managed to hang an entire album on each of these men!)

So, acting is not new to Taylor. In addition to appearing in a few feature films and TV shows since 2010, she's done this public performance for well over a decade now. And she has been vocal in recent years about her intention to go into filmmaking, so we know she's able to tell stories in multiple ways. She's a storyteller first and foremost, maybe the best of our generation. But is she a reliable narrator?

What does 'unreliable narrator' mean?

A story told by a so-called unreliable narrator, is usually a first person narration, where it turns out that the person telling the story was either lying or in some other way unable to give a truthful account of events (e.g. hallucinating or dreaming). That usually means that the audience is left with having to interpret for themselves what really happened and what was real or not real. Famous examples of this kind of storytelling are the 2010 psycho thriller 'Black Swan' with Natalie Portman, or the YA novel 'We were liars' by E. Lockhart. If you like stories that leave you guessing, check those out ;)

So, why is Taylor an unreliable narrator? For those fans that have paid attention to her lyrics, it has long been evident that her songwriting and public narrative don't match up. The most obvious theme being her 17-year run of writing songs about secret relationships and hiding, while she was parading men around in public to be photographed with. But, as we know, most people ignore it because it's just easier than digging deeper into lyrics. But now with Midnights, I'm starting to think she wants people to notice the duality and start to question her narrative. The sheer number of songs on that album that have strong double meaning or draw attention to lying or distorting the truth is astonishing: Right out the gate with track 1 we have Lavender Haze, a pretty loud song about bearding using the very well established queer reference of lavender. (And maybe she leaned out of the window a little too far with that title, because we all know the gaylor uproar was so loud when the title was revealed, that she had to backpedal and hetsplain it.) Immediately followed by Maroon, the song that has probably singlehandedly turned the most swifties into gaylors since Bettygate of 2020... Then on to Anti Hero, the ultimate duality song that also makes mention of lying and scheming, same as Mastermind. High Infidelity and You're Losing Me join the ranks of songs that look like they are about romantic relationships on the surface, but could also be interpreted to be about Taylor's relationship with fame and her fans. High Infidelity is a play on words of the term High Fidelity or HIFI, which is a 90s sound technology that refers to truthful reproduction of sound. High INfidelity is therefore a genius way of referring to both cheating and unfaithful reproduction of sound, almost like someone who makes music that isn't quite truthful... We also know from Aaron Dessner that this song was written following the 2021 Grammys and in the light of the whole William Bowery grammygate situation... I think there is point to be made about this song drawing attention to lying in a big way.

The timing of the release of You're losing me right around the time that her breakup with Joe made the news also feeds the narrative of a breakup song. But in this very 'breakup song' she says You say, "I don't understand," and I say, "I know you don't" and talks about sending signals that fall on deaf ears. Doesn't that sound an awful lot like 'I gave so many signs'? What does she know the addressee won't understand? Is it that when she finally reveals all her lies 90% of her fans will be shocked to their very core? On the exclusive CD version that has this track on it, it also immediately follows Dear Reader which on the track list looks like this:

Dear Reader You're Losing me (Does that look like a message? I think it does...)

By the time we make it to Dear Reader, she's basically told us 'I'm a liar who hides behind fake lavender relationships who charms everyone like a sleezy congressman, I'm the narcissistic Anti Hero you can't trust who schemes like a criminal and plans out everything like the puppet master I am, just so you like me and therefore you shouldn't look up to me, but I know you still will.' If that doesn't scream 'I want you to question everything I say or do' I don't know what does. Which brings us to performance art.

What is performance art?

Performance art is any kind of visual art that involves a dramatic performance aspect. To explain how this relates to Taylor and who she may have taken inspiration from, I refer to the brilliant Kristina Parro on TikTok:

Ok, groundwork is laid, but this is getting too long. Part 2 will be relating this to upcoming music releases and media coverage but that will have to wait til tomorrow.

As always, thanks for humouring me guys!

[noroi1000]

Hi girl, I read your yandere stories and I’ve noticed that there is only one where Y/n is the yandere, well that I’m aware of. I had this idea of what if Y/n is the yandere in this story. It is a Geto x y/n x Gojo btw. I’m this story Geto and Gojo are dead, because Geto was executed and let’s say that Gojo died from a mission or something. Y/n couldn’t get over their deaths and slowly looses her sanity. And what if Geto and Gojo from the past when they were in high school teleport to the future by accident. I have no idea in how they meet so It can be however you want. Basically she takes them to her house and she lied to them that she’ll help them get back as long as they stay with her for the time being. She basically manipulates them into staying with her by saying that they died in the future and how lost, lonely and depressed she feels and not letting them leave the house. And as time went by they also loose their sanity because their stuck with her because they feel guilty and she makes them think that is safer for them to stay with her and that they need her in order to live. Only y/n knows about the past Gojo and Geto and keeps it a secret from everybody. She uses a veil around her house to his their curse energy so that other sorcerers wouldn’t notice. Basically they take care of the house while she works. I hope you like this idea and do it once you start doing requests again.

See you again

Gojo and Geto x yandere reader Warnings: manipulation, death

Summary: You loved them... They were your Satoru and Suguru... But they died leaving you alone... Your technique has never been precisely defined. Until it all ended. You have received life with them again. You didn't want to lose them. You lived with them. With someone you brought from the past to you. But they can't stay with you forever, right? There must be some way...

You just came back from the funeral.

There were circles under your eyes. Your face is pale.

Your hair is not combed properly.

You gave up any makeup because you knew you would cry.

Your eyes were red and burning.

They hurt as much as your heart.

It hurt terribly.

Carelessly dropping your shoes and coat on the floor, you didn't even bother to correct you or put your shoes and coat back in their place.

You left it as it was meant to be. On the floor.

You knelt down near your bed, lighting two candles on the altar you had in your room.

At least that's what you could do for memory.

You took the picture frame in your hands, hugging it. And he pulled out a piece of paper with the figure of your beloved Suguru on it.

He pulled another photo out of the drawer. And I put it in the frame, putting it on the shelf behind the candles. Photo of Suguru and Satoru standing with you.

Suguru died last year... And you couldn't even see his face before he died.

Satoru just told you about it.

And to this day, only his picture has stood there.

Now, there's a picture of both of them there.

Because two days ago, you found out that Satoru didn't return from his mission.

That he died.

Yesterday you cried when his body lay in Shoko's morgue.

You didn't want to leave him.

Yaga carried you out of there by force. Because it was necessary to prepare his body.

By giving you harsh sedatives, he calmed you down even more.

You couldn't sleep for several nights. Knowing that your other friend you loved died. He has gone already.

You went to his funeral being an absolute wreck.

Pale and tired.

Even after everyone had gone, you knelt before the tombstone with his name on it, weeping into oblivion.

Until Nanami came for you and brought you home.

You were there now.

Looking at the picture of the three of you on the altar.

Suguru, Satoru and you.

they died. Their bodies were cold. Their hearts did not beat.

You're on the shrine too because that (y/n) who was alive when they were died too...

    More than once, everyone you know has told you that you need to see a psychologist.

Stuffing yourself with sedative pills couldn't help you much.

Everyone's been telling you that.

They told you to go to a psychologist to forget about it and start a new life. Not to think that they don't exist.

You need to calm down and live as you were meant to live.

forgetting about it.

You had to come to terms with their deaths.

But honestly, you couldn't...

You lied to them about going to a psychologist. And you were actually coming home.

And you've never been to any doctor.

You even stopped contacting all of them.

You spent your days being at home.

You took tranquilizers every day.

You felt worse every day.

Every day it got worse with your mental health.

You missed them.

So....

You were talking to yourself as if you were talking to them. Hoping they listen to you up in heaven...

You prayed to them as you knelt on the ground in front of Satoru's tombstone.

You only begged for one thing...

For them to come back to you...

Your prayers have been heard.

One day, when you were sitting on the ground, staring blankly at the inscription in the stone, you saw white hair in the distance.

You were sure it was some old man visiting dead relatives.

However, this person was too tall for the old man. Too young.

And next to this person you saw another young person. Dark hair. Bun...

You stood up automatically, your legs leading you straight to them.

When they heard the rustling of leaves, they looked in your direction.

To see your dirty pants from kneeling and sitting on the damp ground. Your jacket was loose and your hood fell off your head as you looked at them.

Your eyes that had been shedding tears before started crying again. Even stronger than before.

You fell to your knees looking at them lifeless.

But at the same time, your eyes shone. Your heart was beating wildly in your chest.

"Hey, what's going on?" The white-haired man asked as they approached.

They didn't know what they were doing here.

All they know is that they were suddenly thrown to the ground here.

Your Jujutsu technique has never been revealed.

But you doubted that you were capable of bringing people back to life...

They looked the same as when they were at school.

And they were also wearing uniforms.

What if your technique gives you what you want?

That it takes what you want to a given place and time?

For some reason, when you needed something badly, it would suddenly appear next to you.

While studying at Jujutsu High, you were told many times that Tengen talked about opening a strange hole in his barrier.

Nobody knew what your technique was.

And you knew you could open something like portals.

Interspace portals.

And now it turns out you can also open time portals...

"Something's wrong?" The dark-haired man asked, crouching in front of you.

You got them back, didn't you...?

You pounced on him, cuddling into his chest.

"H-Hey..." he muttered in surprise.

It wasn't normal for a woman to suddenly hug him.

Also, it wasn't normal that they suddenly appeared here. They were just at school!

You clenched your fingers on his clothes, crying harder.

And he gently pushed you away.

"Who are you?" He asked surprised by your behavior.

It's obvious they won't recognize you...

You are 10 years older... You are not a teenager...

They might think of you as just some crazy old woman now.

You were 27 years old. They could have been about 17 now...

Hearing his voice, you started to cry even more, burying your face in your hands.

Z you must have looked so pathetic...

Kneel in the dry autumn leaves, have wet pants from the dampness of the earth.

"What is it about?" The white-haired man looked at his friend.

"I don't know..." he replied.

"Miss, what happened?" Asked the white-haired.

They were ordered to save people from curses. And you looked like you had dozens of them in your life.

Pale skin, dark circles under the eyes.

They met at the cemetery. So you must have suffered somehow. You were the perfect victim for curses.

But you didn't have one...

They didn't know how it was possible. But it was.

"...Suguru...Satoru..." you moaned into your hands.

They both widened their eyes upon hearing that.

And you suddenly got up and ran away from them.

It couldn't be them...

After all, Satoru's grave was still there!

"Oi!" They shouted at the same time.

They started running after you.

There was something wrong with you.

But your voice was strangely familiar...

They searched for you among the tall tombstones until they found you sitting on the ground with your legs on either side of your body.

You wiped your tears from your face.

They approached you slowly.

There must have been a reason why you ran away.

What they thought was that they reminded you of someone. Someone dead.

And it was true.

"Ma'am... Are you okay?" the dark haired one asked.

But as He looked at the inscription on the grave, his eyes widened.

„Gojo”

"What's wrong, Suguru?"

"Satoru..." He grunted and pointed to the tombstone.

A new grave around which there were flowers.

"...Huh...?"

The white-haired froze upon seeing this inscription.

There weren't many people with that last name...

The statue was brand new.

And at the bottom was a photo in a metal frame.

It was definitely a new tombstone.

Gojo, shaking off the shock, reached for the frame.

Geto crouched next to you and put his hand on your shoulder.

"It's me?" Gojo pointed his finger at the white-haired man in the blindfold in the photo.

You looked and nodded your head.

"Who are these?"

He looked at the people around him. Pink-haired, dark-haired, red-haired girl, the other with black and green hair, a short boy with a mask on his face. And also a panda.

All in Jujutsu school uniforms.

You cried at the grave. He must have been more to you.

"I died here?" he grunted as he looked at the picture.

There's a reason it stood on the grave with his name on it.

On the frame was written "Happy Birthday, Gojo-sensei".

"I was their teacher?"

He kept looking.

He saw Yaga in the account and Nanami next to it. I guess it was him. Stoic face and blond hair... A woman and a man with glasses stood on the other side. Shoko and someone else...

And right next to him in the picture was a woman with (h/c) hair. He kept his hand on her waist as they both smiled for the photo.

"(y/n)...?"

Suguru looked at him in shock.

He put the photo down and looked at you.

"(y/n)? Is that you?"

You didn't answer him, but you looked at him, still wiping away your tears.

He looked at your eyes. No shine.

It was you... It was definitely you...

"(y/n)?" Suguru echoed, also looking at the photo.

Without a moment's hesitation, the boy in the glasses reached for you, hugging you to his chest.

Holding you tight.

You mourned that he died here...

Why are they even here?

is this a dream?

If so, it's not a nice dream.

You crying at the grave with his name on it? It all seemed too accurate for an ordinary dream...

Also, those people in the photo...

All of them...

And you...

"Suguru... This is (y/n)... She... I don't live here..." He looked at his friend with a frown.

You didn't want to let them go. You kept hugging them. You kept holding them.

And they managed to get you to get up and go with them.

You took them to your house.

You decided to speak only after you entered the room.

Even though it was warmer there, the atmosphere was so cold...

You slovenly tossed off your jacket and shoes.

You went lifeless to one place.

To your shrine with their picture.

They looked around your house before following you.

It didn't look like your home.

You would never feel so empty. However, everything pointed to this being your home.

They both saw boxes of pills on the shelf. It was a disturbing sight...

Then they followed you and saw you kneeling on the floor looking at the picture.

"You both left me..." you said calmly. "You both died leaving me alone..."

"Both?" Satoru asked.

"You died a few days ago... Suguru last year..." you muttered.

"And my grave?" Suguru asked.

"There's no... nowhere." You said in a broken voice. "From 2007 to last year - 2017, you lived as a curse user..."

"Curse user?" repeated.

"What did he do?" Gojo asked and gave his friend an intimidating look.

"May I know how old are you...?"

"17."

"Suguru... When you were 18, you killed 112 people in the village on a mission..." you said calmly. But your breath wasn't like that.

"Me?"

You nodded.

Gojo looked at Geto as if he wanted to strangle him.

"Say... If you had to choose now, would you choose this way?" you asked.

"No... Why?"

"You hated people who weren't sorcerers..."

"How did he die?" Satoru asked.

"He was fighting one of your students. I know Suguru didn't want to kill him... And you knew it too. So he lost."

"He killed him?"

"...You did it..."

He widened his eyes upon hearing this...

"I wasn't there to stop Suguru from becoming a curse user... I wasn't there to stop you from finishing him... But according to the rules he was supposed to die... I'm sorry Suguru... I failed you..."

"It's not your fault..."

"But it's your fault I'm like this! Lonely and depressed! You don't know what life is like! I hate this! I don't want to live without you!” You screamed. You didn't care if the neighbors heard.

"I died on a mission?"

"Yeah...I don't know how...I wasn't there..." You groaned crying.

"If we died here, you must live on..." Geto said, sitting down next to you.

"It's all your fault... I don't want to live without you..."

"(y/n)–."

"Don't leave me again!"

They both suddenly hugged.

"What do you say when we get home we'll try to make sure that doesn't happen? So you're not alone now..."

"But I want you now! If you leave, it will be the same as before! I will wait years for this to change! I don't want to be alone all the time!"

"But somehow we have to get back..."

"I don't want to lose you again!"

"We can't be here..."

"But something can happen to you! I don't want to experience this again! Not now that I've met you!"

You started crying again.

They looked at your house again.

Just as empty as your eyes when they met you in the graveyard...

The most adorned place is the altar where you are now.

Suddenly you got an idea...

You don't want them to go away...

But they don't know how they can come back...

So they'll be here as long as they can't find their way back home...

They can be here with you all this time...

And maybe they'll never know it's something related to your Jujutsu technique...

You don't even know what it's about...

You can "protect" them as long as they're here. After all, they don't know where they are.

Anything can be dangerous for them.

"What if I help you find your way home?" You asked quietly.

They looked at each other.

"But I have one condition..."

                        "You stay here. You don't leave this house... I will protect you from whatever may happen... You can easily get lost... I will look for a solution... But stay with me as long as possible..."

"Suguru, do you think it's okay that we're still here?"

"What do you mean?"

"We've been here for half a year... Is there really no way back?" he asked, watching the soup his friend had cooked bubbling in the pot.

"She promised to help us get back. I believe she is trying. But we can't forget that she also has her job and her life." He told him, adjusting the apron around his waist.

"Sometimes I forget where we were supposed to go back... It's as if my memory is malfunctioning..." said the white-haired man, handing him the plates.

"I have that too... But I wonder, is everything okay. She is happy. The first time we saw her, she wasn't smiling at all. And now she..."

"She is happy. I know. I'm glad that happened. But six months in a future where we're both dead is something else entirely..."

"Do you think we should ask her about the results?" He asked, leaning against the kitchen counter.

"I think so... But she needs us, doesn't she?" He put his hand over his mouth.

"She's so lonely without us... She's worried... Can we really leave her here like this?"

You protect them, you make money and you live with them.

A small curtain is placed around the house. So that sorcerers do not smell them in your house.

It was something you did to take care of them.

But their psyche has deteriorated...

They felt bad that you suffered for so many years because of them.

They felt guilty for your tears.

But you kept them locked up in the house.

They didn't go out. You forbade them.

They simply did not see this world outside this apartment.

You were going to work. You visited the grave of an adult Satoru who died six months ago.

But you didn't cry. Your humor was good.

Because they were with you, you were happy.

But they sense

You manipulated them somehow...

But it was fine as long as you were happy...

You entered the house. Running straight to them. Hugging them hello.

They greeted you with a smile.

As always.

The atmosphere was so good. You ate the food Suguru cooked.

You were watching TV.

To go to bed later.

Satoru lay behind you, holding your waist as he hugged you. You cuddled up to Suguru, running your fingers over his jaw as he smiled slightly at you.

Those were your dream days.

Dream nights.

That was one night you remember.

"The first time we hugged like this was the day before your rescue mission with Riko-chan... Do you remember?" You said calmly.

"Who?" Satoru moaned, laying his head over yours. He squeezed you tighter in his arms.

"Amanai Riko." you repeated. "You secured her. Star plasma vessel."

"I don't know who you're talking about..." He muttered closing his eyes.

He wanted to sleep.

"Star plasma vessel? What are you talking about, (y/n)?" Suguru asked.

"Don't you remember that? You backed this girl up to Master Tengen."

"I don't recall it. Did something like that happen?"

You suddenly pulled away from them, sitting on the bed.

"You really don't remember that?" you asked looking at them seriously.

They looked at each other and then at you. They nodded their heads side to side.

"Wait... You should remember that... It happened before you came here. Or rather during this."

"We don't know what you're talking about."

"You should remember that! I understand that you don't know what happened next because you are young, but you should at least remember Riko's name!"

"We really don't know who it is..." Satoru said as he lay down on his back.

They lose their memory...

The more time passes, the less they remember...

They should remember Riko. After all, they told you that they moved here the day they found out about this mission...

They don't remember her...

They don't remember that they helped Mei Mei and Utahime...

They don't remember what happened on Suguru's 17th birthday in February. Even though it was unforgettable...

They don't remember anymore...

They lose their memories here every day.

And what if they finally forget everything they remembered while there?

Then what?

Nothing is going to happen...

The sorcerer slayer will live...

Tengen will not receive a Star plasma vessel...

Little Megumi will not be raised by Satoru...

There will be no demon parade on December 24...

No one can stop Yuji's execution...

But neither will they.

If they forget everything... They will disappear...

How many days are left until their birth...

17 years. However, they will disappear later.

It will be as if they don't exist at all...

Everything that happened to them will not happen...

Because they won't exist...

Which also shows that you won't remember them either...

Because at some point they disappeared while you were at school.

All you can remember is that you had two friends, but they mysteriously disappeared and never came back.

Everything you remember with them... Will evaporate...

"God... What have I done..." you groaned as your eyes filled with tears.

By you. Because you keep them here, they will die here. And no one who remembers them now will know about them.

It will be as if they don't exist for most people.

You will barely remember them. Same with Shoko and Nanami and Yaga...

"What happened?" Suguru asked.

You started to cry feeling terrible.

You're starting to forget now, aren't you?

"You need to go home..." you groaned. "I don't want to, but you have to."

"But we have to find our way home first."

"It was my technique that brought you here!" You moaned loudly.

Their eyes widened.

your technique?

After all, you didn't have a specific technique in school.

Have you had...?

they don't remember...

"I don't know how, but it happened...! I wanted you to come back to me, and suddenly you appeared then, in the cemetery!"

"You moved us here?" Suguru asked.

"I didn't know! I still don't know how! But you can't stay here!"

"Why? You'll be lonely without us." Satoru said, sitting up with his legs apart.

"You will die here if you stay! Disappearing as if you didn't exist!"

"But we can't leave you." Suguru spoke up.

You messed up their brains so all they can think of is that they made you suffer...

You still have time with them...

You can be with them for a few more years...

But they will forget you after a few years... After all, you met them for the first time in the first year of Jujutsu High.

And if two years pass, they'll forget how they met you...

You didn't want to see them die. You don't want them to die a second time...

Not that way.

They will die because of you!

Because you wanted to keep them for you.

But you didn't want them to die again...

"You can move us back, right?"

"Toru?"

"You can do it, right?"

"I don't know..."

"Try..." Suguru told you.

"Don't leave me again!" you shouted.

"And you will keep us here until we die?"

You widened your eyes at his words. So cruelly true...

"Will you keep us here until we die, or will you let us come back to make sure nothing happens?"

You looked at Satoru.

You don't want them to leave you...

When they come back nothing will ever be fixed...

"We promise you that we won't let you be alone like you have to now. But let us out of here."

"I'll never see you again if I do this..."

"But we will fix it. It will be the way you always wanted. That we'll be with you."

"You can't fix this!"

"If you can open a passage for us, we will also be able to keep our promise."

You suddenly stood in front of the bed. You always trusted them.

Did you at least try to make it...

You put your hands on the floor and thought about how much you want to see your school days...

You felt your energy evaporate for a moment.

And to your right there was a passage showing the sidewalk at your school.

"You made it..." Satoru said, surprised and amazed.

But when he saw your tearful face, he didn't smile.

You wanted to break the technique, but their hands stopped you.

"If you don't want us dead, let us go..."

"If you don't want to be alone, let us fix it."

Those two sentences made you stop.

And the transition continued to drain the energy out of you.

"Will you do something for me?" you asked.

"What?"

"Look for a solution. Fix what happened so you don't die..."

"And kill me now if you won't remember being here anyway."

"you're crazy..."

"Never!"

they said.

"If you don't, I will close the passage..." you said, giving them an ultimatum.

They stopped in front of the window in space, and looked at you again.

Either they go home and kill you, or they stay with you.

When they die, you will probably kill yourself too...

They didn't want it...

Suddenly they saw their hands appear in front of you. They both knelt on one knee in front of you.

"Maybe you want to start all over again?" Suguru asked.

"Come back with us. And do it all again. To make sure we stay together." Satoru added.

You didn't know what to do.

Start all over again?

How?

You don't know what to do with your life...

So...

"We'll be together."

These words convinced you...

All you ever wanted was their love...

You were standing with them in front of the passage.

And you didn't even turn to look at your house.

They went through a circle in the wall.

Their school uniforms appeared again on their bodies.

As they pulled your hands with a smile, you took unsteady steps.

Until finally they pulled you into their arms so you wouldn't hesitate.

Your uniform appeared on your body...

You felt different. What happened disappears from your mind quickly.

The passage behind you made a very loud sound of breaking glass as it shattered, disappearing.

"How are you feeling?" Satoru asked you, placing his hand on your cheek.

You clenched your hands on Suguru's sleeves.

"Satoru... Suguru... What just happened? After all, I was with Shoko in her room a moment ago... Why am I here with you now?"

They looked at you questioningly.

"What do you think happened now?" Suguru asked you.

"I was with Shoko. Literally a moment ago. We talked about you going on an important mission to escort the Star plasma vessel. And suddenly I heard broken glass and I appeared here in front of you. What happened?"

When they understood, they smiled.

They remembered.

You didn't remember...

"Nothing happened. We were just about to ask you if you wanted to come to town with us today. On a date."

"I want so much!"

Cursed technique: Transition User: (y/n) (l/n) A Jujutsu technique of opening passages between timelines and reality. It opens passages between the past, the future and reality. It gives the user what the user wants. Causing it to run out of control sometimes. The technique only allows moving objects and people, not including the user. When the user of the technique arrives through a passageway leading to another time, reality becomes distorted. The timeline the user exits cracks and disappears, bringing everything back to where the user enters. Wiping the user's memory of what happened in the timeline during which the user moved into the past or future. The memory of people passing through this passage with the user remains unchanged.

People experiencing the side effects of transitions: (y/n) (l/n) whose memory was erased after going to the past.

Witnesses of the transition technique in action: Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, whose memory after the passage remained, because they passed through the main passage with the user.

As the only ones whose memories remain, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru take over as the user's guardians - (y/n) (l/n).

[starmergeddon]

To someone who doesn't live in the UK and has only a very basic understanding of the different parties involved, pray could you provide a very brief rub-down of the election situation? Also a side question, where exactly did Rishi Sunak and the Tories in general fuck up? I've been getting a lot of British politics posts on my dash and I was curious. You seem like a reliable fellow to ask :)

Btw you really don't have to answer this ask if you don't want to or if it's too much work. In that case, could you point me in the right direction for some online resources I can refer to? Thank ye very much, cheers!

for context, I recieved this ask the day after the election, and somehow managed to miss it for 3 weeks. oops.

if you don't know how British elections work, here are three youtube videos from Jay Foreman which I recommend: how elections work, how elections don't work, and the bit that isn't elected at all

very long post under the cut...

the british political parties

like the US, the UK is a two-party state. unlike the US, the UK has more than two relevant political parties. here they are, in order of seats won this year:

Labour Party (411 (63.2%) seats, with 33.7% of votes)

won this year's General Election.

led by kid starver, queer harmer Keir Starmer, namesake of this blog.

was the Big Left-Wing Party. has recently become the Big Party which Doesn't Stand for Anything, Really, Except for Winning Elections and Hurting Transgender People, due to Starmer's leadership.

oddly patriotic. wants to establish "Great British Railways" and "Great British Energy". Nobody really knows yet what they mean by this.

former leader Ed Miliband is the man in my pfp, pictured failing to eat a bacon sandwich. Some speculate that this photo was the reason he lost the election in 2015.

Conservative "Tory" Party (121 (18.6%) seats, with 23.7% of votes)

tonight's Big Loser.

led by fishy, dishy Rishi Sunak, but not for long, because they're electing a new leader on Halloween.

was the Big Right-Wing Party. is still the Big Right-Wing Party, but is now also an Embarrassment.

they were in power for 14 years until this election.

Directly responsible for this country's decline over the past... 14 years.

their colour is more of a dark blue, but Tumblr doesn't let me do that.

Liberal Democrat Party (72 (11.1%) seats, with 12.2% of votes)

returned to its rightful place as the Third Party.

led by Sir Ed Davey, who spent the election campaign bungee jumping, playing Jenga, and paddleboarding.

is the Centrist Party that Nobody Really Cares About.

somehow is more left-wing than Labour.

Scottish National Party (SNP) (9 (1.4%) seats, with 2.5% of votes)

tonight's Medium-Sized Loser.

led by John Swinney, who was also their leader like 20 years ago.

unsurprisingly, is the Scottish Independence Party. is also more left-wing than Labour.

their colour is yellow, but Tumblr doesn't let me do that.

Reform UK Ltd. (5 (0.8)% seats, with 14.3% of votes)

Fascist Cunts.

led by Nigel Farage.

not actually a political party, for some reason.

enough said. (for now)

Green Party (4 (0.6%) seats, with 6.7% of votes)

the one I voted for.

co-led by Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsey.

the Actually Left-Wing Party. Their slogan is "real hope, real change" which sums it up.

Plaid Cymru (4 (0.6%) seats, with 0.7% of votes)

the SNP, but Welsh. (it's pronounced "Plad Cumry")

led by Rhun ap Iorweth. (pronounced "Rune app You're weth")

their colour is dark green, but Tumblr doesn't let me do that.

None of these parties run for election in Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, but not part of Great Britain. NI is an entirely different situation which I don't know about.

so what actually Happened? Now that the scene is set, I'll go through the events that transpired, from the conservative landslide in 2019 to the conservative demise in 2024.

2019

the Conservatives don't have enough MPs who want to vote for their Brexit plan, so they call a snap general election. in the UK, our elections aren't at regular intervals. ONLY the Prime Minister decides when they happen, within a 5 year limit. this is important later...!

they win a massive landslide victory, with Boris Johnson as their PM. the SNP wins 48 out of 59 seats in Scotland.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (affectionately known as Jezza) resigns, as does LibDem leader Jo Swinson.

2020

Keir Starmer takes over as Labour leader, and is immediately very boring. Labour gets more unpopular.

Jezza is kicked out of the Labour party, as are many of his supporters, on false allegations of antisemitism.

Boris finally "gets Brexit done" (this was his slogan.) The Tories get more popular. The Brexit Party changes its name to Reform UK, but they're still considered right-wing extremists

COVID happens. Everyone rallies round the flag. The Tories get more popular.

Boris gets COVID and nearly dies.

top conservative politicians hold parties in Downing Street, breaking their own lockdown rules, but shhhh! nobody knows about that yet! these keep happening until April 2021

The NHS begins to collapse a bit more than it already had, due to Conservative underfunding. The Tories get less popular.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces a program giving people discounts to eat out in restaurants. COVID cases spike. The Tories get less popular.

It's revealed that one of the top Tories, Dominic Cummings, broke lockdown rules by visiting family. The Tories get less popular.

End of year - Tories and Labour tied in the polls.

2021

the Queen's husband dies. She goes to his funeral, socially-distanced, alone. on the same day, more Downing Street parties are held.

not much else happens?? until December, when

people start to find out that the Tories were breaking their own rules by partying in Downing Street. Immediately, the Labour Party gains a 7% lead in the polls.

2022 - shit hits the fan

people are MAD about the lockdown parties. it's named Partygate and the police start to investigate.

Russia invades Ukraine. Boris tries to distract everyone by supporting Zelenskyy.

the police conclude their investigation. Boris Johnson becomes the first Prime Minister to have officially broken the law. as a firm punishment, he is fined.... £50. (so are Rishi Sunak, and lots of others.)

Everything gets expensive. Many people are now choosing between eating and heating their home.

Just after this happens, it's revealed that Johnson also gave promotions to a Tory who he knew had committed sexual assault. His cabinet revolts. He is forced to resign as Conservative Party leader. But because he is Prime Minister, he's the only one who can call an election, and he simply chooses not to! because he knows he'd lose!

The new Prime Minister is chosen not by the people, but by the Conservative Party members. people hate this.

Liz Truss beats Rishi Sunak in the final contest. She becomes Prime Minister.

The Queen dies.

Liz Truss crashes the economy. All hell breaks loose. The Labour Party now have a 25% lead in the polls.

The Daily Star starts a YouTube livestream - will Liz Truss leave office before this lettuce expires?

Liz Truss loses control of her MPs. She, too, is forced to resign, just 40 days after becoming PM! Because she doesn't have to call an election, she doesn't.

The lettuce won.

ONCE AGAIN it is up to the Conservative Party leadership to choose a Prime Minister... except nobody wants to be Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak becomes Prime Minister without being elected by ANYBODY

2023

not much extra happens, for a while. people are just sick and tired of the Tories

They decide it's a good idea to try and deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, because immigration is "too high".

Nicola Sturgeon gets bored of being a politician and resigns as SNP leader. Without a clear successor, the SNP destroys itself finding a new leader.

Nicola Sturgeon is also arrested on suspicion of having funnelled money out of the SNP to herself before she resigned! (she's cleared of suspicion, but the public gain a conception of the SNP being corrupt.)

Shit happens in Gaza. The Tories back Israel. Labour, having shifted massively to the right, also back Israel. People become unhappy with both of them, and still are today.

2024

A general election has to happen this year. The Tories are still 20% behind in the polls.

It's announced that the UK entered a small recession at the end of 2023.

Four asylum seekers are sent to Rwanda. They spent £700,000,000 on this.

Rishi constantly dodges questions about when the general election will be, simply saying it will come "in the second half" of the year. Most people think he means autumn.

He did not mean autumn. He calls an election for 4 July, but forgets to bring an umbrella in the process, and gets rained on.

Nigel Farage immediately takes control of Reform UK. (He's allowed to do that because it's technically a company, and as owner of said company he can do what he wants)

Reform UK surges in popularity, reaching 17% in the polls, just behind the Conservatives at 21%

Rishi leaves a D-day event halfway through to give an interview with a TV broadcaster, in which the multimillionaire claimed his childhood was hard because he didn't have Sky TV.

The Conservatives decide to cure their election woes by sending all 18-year-olds to National Service. (ie. military)

It's also revealed that many top Tories placed bets on the election being held on 4 July.

The Conservative Party loses voters to Labour on their left, and to Reform on their right.

election result analysis

where did it go wrong for the Tories? uh, everywhere.

where did it go right for Labour, though? depends who you ask...

voters decisively rejected the Conservatives, choosing either Reform, Labour, or LibDem instead.

however, they weren't enthusiastic about Labour instead. many Labour wins came about as a result of Reform splitting the right-wing vote in half.

polling suggests most people who voted Labour did so to remove the Tories from power.

Fewer people voted for Labour this year than in 2019, but they doubled their seats in Parliament. Our voting system is fucked.

The Green Party quadrupled its seat share. They have won in every seat they have targeted.

Five leftist independent MPs beat Labour in what were "safe" constituencies. One of them was Jeremy Corbyn!! What this shows is that people don't really like Labour, or that people really don't like Labour. They want something better.

The SNP is nearly wiped out in Scotland, despite getting 30% of the Scottish vote. Labour wins most seats in Scotland with 35% of the Scottish vote.

The "Party of Women" (which is literally just TERFs) got fewer votes than the Monster Raving Loony Party. Lmao.

19 people voted for Elmo in Keir Starmer's constituency.

More people voted for the Conservatives and Reform UK combined than they did for Labour. If Labour doesn't get its shit together, we could be in trouble.

what's happened since the election?

7 Labour MPs have already been kicked out of the party for voting to adopt measures to lift 1.6 million children out of poverty

pressure from Greens and independents led to Labour accepting the ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu and stopping some arms sales to Israel's genocide.

what happens next?

the Tories choose a new leader on Halloween. other than that? fuck knows lmao. what the 2019-2024 parliament tells us is that anything can happen. as mentioned before, we don't even know when the next election is.

where exactly did Rishi Sunak and the Tories in general fuck up?

you tell me

i also realise just now, after typing all that out, that you asked for a "very brief rub-down" of what happened............. yeah my bad

[cover-me-in-gasoline]

just imagine the red string i don’t have any

sticky notes say from left to right top to bottom:

orange: “ENDLESS NIGHT” drum — no other goodbye? not like them

orange: frankieromustdie fortune cookie posting REAL

orange: foundations is abt 9/11 (+ released w/out warning)

pink: that’s in 2 1/2 weeks btw :)

green: SEPTEMBER 11, 2023 mcr5 release / announcement 💜 a panicked poster by cover-me-in-gasoline

orange: outfits show a woman who stars to decay after “terror” drum (where she dies?) [with attached pink note: feat. gerard autism fit lol]

orange w/ arrow pointing from photo of all the drums: -> “here comes the airplane” + skylines played

orange: skylines is abt 9/11, foundations is abt 9/11

pink: 9/11 would be a banger reunion album theme tbh. circling back to the beginning but showing [how] they’ve changed [“how” not featured (i forgot)]

pink: + basically confirmed by frank’s bad lying + rich is bein kinda suspicious

images are:

top left: screenshot of spotify playing foundations of decay

under that: screenshot of the lyrics “he was there the day the towers fell / and so he wandered down the road” with “the towers fell” underlined in sharpie

under THAT: collage of all 9 drums from the nz/au/jap tour

top middle: screenshot of frankieromustdie’s story which is a photo of a fortune cookie fortune that says “let’s finish this up now, someone is waiting on you for that”

to the right of that: screenshot of a tweet detailing all the frank iero fortune cookie posting (feat. tinhat ray toro image)

to the right of that and all the way down the right side and then along the bottom a bit: all 9 of gerard’s tour outfits in order probably

[barklioowou]

Business Experience

(First time writing tf!! Hope you all enjoy!)

Caleb was an extremely gifted man physically, hulking with strength since day one of puberty. He used his talents to excel in wrestling and body building through out his highschool years, aiming restlessly for a sports related scholarship to allow him an easy ride through college. Caleb planned to major in business and continue his life of lifting and eating without a care in the world while his body paved his way for him as it always had. If he played his cards right he wouldn’t have to work a day in his life and he reveled in the possibility.

“YO WAITER!! I’ve been waiting for ages! When you gonna bring some bread or someshit dog huhuh” Caleb yelled out towards the poor server stuck with him in their segment. “Right here sir, are you ready to order by chance?” They ask while trying to maintain composure in the presence of Caleb’s brash demeanor. “Yeah dude, chicken tenders and a large Diet Coke, make it snappy” Caleb snapped his fingers for effect and The Server turned and left without a word. “Can’t even order an adults dinner? I’ll help that guy act his age for once” The Server scribbled down something in strange lettering on the back of the order note before turning it into the kitchen.

Caleb tore into the bread as The Server returned to table carrying a full glass of soda. “Apologies for the inconvenience sir, on the house” The Server says calmly while setting down the glass before departing once more. “Who the hell gives a soda on the house? Can’t argue with good service though” Caleb takes a big gulp from the glass and takes notice of the oddly sweet taste.

>>Yo Caleb!! How’s your first year of college treating you? Saw you joined a frat already, I’m not surprised considering how hard you always went at parties lmaooo

It was text from Caleb’s friend Jack, but why was he texting him like they haven’t seen each other? He was with him during their graduation just one week one year ago.

Huh? Caleb shook his head, he graduated highschool a year ago didn’t he? He remembers rushing his frat and cementing himself in the house after only a few months, but wasn’t he out celebrating getting his scholarship tonight? Why would he be celebrating it one year later…

>>Hows your beard coming along too btw, I remember you raving about how you’d grow one by the end of freshman year lololol

Caleb cracks a smug smile to himeself as he sets up his phone and takes a selfie to send to his friend, been so long since they saw each other it only makes sense to show him what he’s missed.

>>You already know I got that shit grown, told you I’d have it done by the end of freshman year 😎

>>Damn dude! You didn’t stop hitting the gym either, you’re totally late on that bet though dog you’re halfway through your sophomore year.

Caleb rubs his eyes in confusion while reading the text. Halfway through sophomore year? It would make sense, He’s been swamped with Economics work while preparing his presentation on the importance of service work in the generation of value.

“Here’s your steak, medium rare, and a refill for your beer, enjoy your meal sir” The Server catches Caleb off guard as they set down the dish and refilling his drink before speeding off. Wasn’t he drinking a soda before though? Caleb quickly discards the thought as he remembers he hasn’t thanked The Server for their work “Thank you so much!” Caleb calls after The Server, barely noticing their pause and smile after hearing his voice.

>>So you’re just gonna send me a year old photo and pretend I won’t notice? Send something up to date and not something I can find on Facebook

Jack was being impossible, Caleb quickly sets up their phone timer and takes another selfie

>>Jesus Christ fine I didn’t realize you kept tabs on me like this, here’s one from right now

>>Happy now?

Caleb sets his phone down and begins ripping through the steak dinner, the beer makes everything go down easy as Caleb enjoys his meal before noticing more texts from Jack.

>>Elated even, I’m surprised you’re not in uniform though I thought you were working almost every night now that you need to pay for classes out of pocket since you started your senior year.

Caleb rolled his eyes reading the text. Yeah he was eating a meal while on break but that doesn’t mean he’d take his uniform off, talk about irresponsible.

>>I think for once you’re mistaken, I’m not so childish I’d change out of it just to eat my meal, I’ll get back to you in a few hours. I gotta help serve these tables that just got sat. Great hearing from you after so long though!

>>Talk to you later dog! Crazy how in just a few weeks we’ll be out of college…

(I’m super rusty on writing in all regards so I know this isn’t the best to ever be put out there but I hope it did something for some of you guys out there, hoping to produce more work soon!)

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Monterey Bay Aquarium 07-09-24, Pt. 1

It was good to get out, away from "here" at last. Haven't left the Bay Area bubble in five or six years, so it was a definite occasion, a proper Day Out. The drive took a couple of hours each way, and it was nice not to be the one doing the driving; it gave me time to just take in the scenery.

The mountains here are unique...they don't look like the Rockies. I love their huge rolling, stacked-up hills and contours of the (mostly) grass and patches of scrub and trees. And when you see sand dunes appear on the opposite side of the road, you know you're getting close.

Kiddo's mom found an all-day parking garage, and Monterey has an old-fashioned Trolley bus that goes around in a circuit and picks people up and drops them at the Aquarium.

We got to the Aquarium sometime between 12:30 and 1pm, and gravitated toward the Kelp Forest, naturally. It's just so magnificent. We got there just before they were going to do the feeding, and I was able to get a couple of shots from the side (it was packed!), but mostly just got to look.

And I have to say a big number of the photos were just un-salvagable, because the light was just too low, and the autofocus was not cooperating at all. The shutter was having to stay open too long, and I am no longer as steady as I used to be holding the camera. There was a fair amount of being jostled and walked-in-front-of, and that kind of general photographic frustration, of course. Had to jockey for position on a lot of the more popular exhibits.

Since we got there past lunchtime we went to the little cafe and kiddo's mom got us all lunch. Let's just say the prices were eye-popping for this old guy who got everybody in because of his food-stamp EBT. That part, btw, went amazingly smoothly, it took less than a minute to get things squared away and we were inside. Very glad that the Aquarium is participating in the Museums for All program!

And the place seemed a lot bigger since 2013, but maybe it's just I'm a lot older. I definitely had to find a bench and sit down a few times, and by the end of the day my feet were screamin' at me, and I'm sore this morning, but It was worth it!

Spent most of the day today sippin' my coffee and going through the photos and short video clips I was able to get; we'll see if tumblr cooperates on the videos. lulz.

Things are in chronological order, for the most part.

Starting in the second photo, you can see the guy in the scuba suit feeding the fish on the far right side.

They had two "Sea Pens" this time, but they were both closed up.

I love anemones. Can ya tell?

Wow...only 1 video upload per post? See what I mean about tumblr cooperating on the vids? They definitely aren't! I'll have to make separate posts, which is ridiculous...these are just little clips, most of them less than 30 seconds. sigh.

Look for the rest of the posts about the day...I'll just number them.

[renthewizard]

I was just wonderin'. Do you have any information about this infected version of the red leader? I absolutely love the idea of her and would love to know more about the concept! Take as much time as you need. :)

helppp i didn't expect my first ever ask to be about sds /pos

Im not good at explaining so uhm this might not be what you had in mind, also i don't really have much for her 😭 YET

Note : oookay so like apparently one of the lore makers(?) (winter from the brickbattlers discord, but they left) already had a design for ALL of them (photo below)

... but i wasn't aware of that before posting it so I'll go with whatever i went with when i drew that yay

Also another note i still don't really have the whole super doomspire lore fully engraved in my mind so I'll just treat this as some silly AU instead of some canon conforming thing

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Thought Process : so i got inspired by itsoctalien, i found this little comic that they drew that had red say smth along the lines of " once you fail, you can't restart. no checkpoints... no spare chances. " and i was like "hey what if red was right and hey what if i made angst out of this" hence the "i should've listened" to the second photo of my post

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backstory or something idk, I have like two routes to pick

-> something something i deviate from that comic a bit and have Red warn Green multiple times and make the latter snap, making the reckless decision of accidentally throwing her the formula (or whatever thing started the infection) onto Red, but that might be ooc for green, not sure

-> have them two survive during the infection but Red sacrifices herself for Green at one point, Green falls back into the red doomspire asking help from Red's people and they eventually meet again, this time Red is infected (but honestly i don't really see this either reading that they became enemies due to the infection thing .. but anything for doomed yuri /JOKE)

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-> anyways as we all know Green fully blames themself for what they've done, and i once thought of them even killing off Infected!Red even if it saddens them, after all, she did them a favor, they might as well pay them back by letting her have her eternal peace

-> the other leaders are doing their own thing to not make it spread btw, I'm thinking maybe the three remaining leaders could have an alliance of sorts in order to stop the infection

yeah that's all i have right now I'm sorry if you feel it's inadequate

[team-heavenly]

Chapter 22 - Part 2

Lest you've lost your way, click here to progress (regress?) back to Part 1.

...Okay, now I'm officially worried.

Meanwhile, back in the Real World™️ (shout-out to my buddy @kantochampred!):

Alright, I'm about to go off on a small side tangent here but I promise it's worth it-

(Sorry to post your sins on main, Red 😔)

(Why Do I Climb the Mountain? is a reference btw)

LMAO OKAY thank you for bearing with me, now back to the main show:

Good job, neither of those two things is correct!

...Okay, Cherrim has replaced Drifblim, yes, but. Imagine this tiny seed holding Teresa and Andrea by their little stubby hands while riding the wind down the mountain.

I had to look up a walkthrough to identify that little Riolu to the right. Normally, that's an Exeggcute! (And the backup for Team Frontier, apparently).

The Third Station Pass was dubbed Great Turn, while the clearing was called:

Admittedly, I had no idea what an "oubliette" was, so I did a quick search and...

Wait a minute, are you freaking kidding me-

WE ARE STARRING IN A WAR DRAMA AAAAAAAAAAAA-

(Apologies for the small text at the start, let me know if I need to add an image description!)

...No >:l

The only reason I left this in is because this happened:

Oh my God yes PLEASE-

So fun fact, I actually did a dry run of the first few dungeons before doing it for real and taking photos. And the first time around, this gift was an Escape Orb? Which isn't bad, but I would 100% take the Reviver Seed over that any day.

The 4th Station Pass was named Sad Peninsula. (Florida? Dat you?) And the 4th Station Clearing? See below.

But then!

(Handsome Desolation? Is this where the handsome men in uniform... perish?! 😓)

I feel like a large, prehistoric rock dino should be enough to scare most things, but I guess taking the even larger rock snake as backup can't hurt.

So we go through the 5th Station Pass, Sandy Way... (Only one letter different from Sandy Bay.)

I. Don't remember why I took a picture of this. The downfalls of not immediately composing posts after the playthrough...

But yeah, those giant two-room dungeons with guaranteed MH's and a huge mass of enemies in the other room aside is definitely a theme and I hate it.

Andrea consumed enough Gummis to obtain this IQ skill, which is awesome since Max Elixirs are so hard to come by.

Look at this!! I'm pretty sure Blizzard only had 7 PP before! Yee haw!

I wonder which Pokémon are the ones bothering Sneasel Pichu?

OH NOOO!! I'm imagining this grisly scene where all these Combusken are just pecking Pichu to death.

Team Frontier happens to beat us to the punch:

I love that Onix is so big that she blocks Nidoran F.

Like all territorial encroachments in Mystery Dungeon, everyone just jumps right into the fray without listening to anyone 🙄

Honestly, all of Team Frontier was pretty based. Jolteon had an ability that allowed him to attack twice in a row (I think because the weather was different?) and he consistently used X-Scissor. Nidoran F had Sesimic Toss (55 damage) and Ice Beam. Deoxys had Attack Order, Seed Flare, Rock Wrecker(!), and Swift, the last hitting for 120 damage on a critical. Combined with Teresa's Chatter (when we finally got there, because you start off a ways from everyone), they didn't stay up for much longer.

Also Jolteon shielded me when Teresa got low on HP 🥺️

"SIT DOWN FOR TWO SECONDS AND LISTEN TO ME FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, I SWEAR TO ARCEUS!"

"We owe you..." -> Yet another line from this game that never made any sense to me. (Unless it was sarcasm ig?)

💀You what

Hey, speaking of... I know Onix is huge and all, but have y'all seen Pichu since the fight started...?

(Beep boop, click here to advance to Part 3)

[rainofaugustsith]

That post where someone used AI to finish Keith Haring's final piece, "unfinished painting," really, really got me like a punch in the gut. Maybe it's because I was a wee thing during the AIDS epidemic and grew up wearing a red ribbon on my coat. Maybe it's because I knew people personally affected by AIDS. Maybe it's because the deaths of people like Keith Haring, Ryan White, Ariel Glaser and Freddie Mercury from AIDS stayed with me. But just - you don't. You. Fucking. Don't.

Keith Haring did not simply leave the painting behind. He wanted it that way.

Yeah, the original story behind the piece was "sad." THAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT. It WAS sad that someone who was 31 years old died of a virus the government had made it clear they didn't give a fuck about researching, because oh, it seemed to affect gay men (the original name that a lot of people used was "Gay Related Immune Deficiency" if there's any doubt there) and they didn't care when that demographic died. It WAS sad that kids with HIV were harassed out of school and had to get court orders to attend in some cases, that adults with HIV lost their jobs and became pariahs because they had HIV/ADS, and that when people died of AIDS a lot of undertakers wouldn't even take their bodies. It WAS sad that so many people with AIDS were abandoned by their families and left to die completely alone, without even hospital staff comforting them. It WAS sad that people with AIDS often kept it a secret as long as they could because if anyone knew, it would cause immeasurable harm to them and their families.

HIV/AIDS now has treatments that can reduce viral load to undetectable levels. People with HIV and AIDS can live long lives. That's not everywhere in the world, BTW. But it only got that research and development and was taken seriously because AIDS activists put their blood, sweat and tears into it, and made sure that the legislators could not ignore them. This stuff isn't a secret. It's not ancient history. People who were involved with AIDS activism wrote books, made films and documentaries, sang songs, took photos, and so many of them are out there ready for you to read. People who remember and survived the AIDS epidemic are very much alive, including some who miraculously got through the 80s and 90s with HIV.

Keith Haring's final piece represents the loss of life, the loss of potential, the fact that someone who made glorious images come to life was now stopped in his tracks. It has always looked to me as though the painting is crying. Don't know if that's what he intended, but it's how it came across to me. Not just his tears, the sorrow of the entire situation was there on that canvas.

Any of of his friends could have finished his piece, if that was what he wanted, or what they felt was right. To feed it into AI and finish it is to erase all of the emotion this picture was created with.

So here's how it's supposed to be.

[etes-secrecy-post]

Hi, before I explain my post, I want to say something important.

• What you see my blog has become a major overhaul. And despite the changes, I decided that my 2nd account will be now my artwork blog with a secret twist.

⚠️NEW RULE! (W/ BIGGER TEXT!)⚠️

⚠️ SO PLEASE DO NOT SHARE MY 2nd ACCOUNT TO EVERYONE! THIS SECRECY BLOG OF MINE IS FOR CLOSES FRIENDS ONLY!⚠️

• AND FOR MY CLOSES FRIENDS, DON’T REBLOG IT. INSTEAD, JUST COPY MY LINK AND PASTE IT ON YOUR TUMBLR POST! JUST BE SURE THE IMAGE WILL BE REMOVED AND THE ONLY LEFT WAS THE TEXT.

⚠️ SHARING LINKS, LIKE POSTS, REBLOG POSTS, STEALING MY SNAPSHOT PHOTOS/RECORDED VIDEOS/ARTWORKS (a.k.a. ART THIEVES) OR PLAGIARIZING FROM UNKNOWN TUMBLR STRANGERS WILL IMMEDIATELY BE BLOCKED, RIGHT AWAY!⚠️

😡 WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT EVER LIKED & REBLOG MY SECRET POST! THIS IS FOR MY SECRET FRIENDS ONLY, NOT YOU! 😡

Okay? Capiche? Make sense? Good, now back to the post…↓

Take a Taste: with Meals from the Next Door Noodles by North Park [Recorded: May 19th, 2024]

Hello! It’s time for another “Take a Taste”! The series is about delicious food with my two paper dolls.

And today's episode is we're at the outside of condo, to a 24-hour restaurant known as the "Next Door Noodles by North Park"! Yum-yum! 🥢🍜🍛🍚🍗🥩😋 So, the question was, is it worth our appetite? 🤔 Let's find out! 😁

BTW: So sorry for the long delay. Looks like, I have to finish this topic before we proceed to next month, we're I have some "unfinished business" with my 2023 photos.

If you haven’t seen my previous episode, then please → [CLICK ME!].

As well as these links about our "staycation" 🏨🌴🏊‍♀️ down below: ↓ • Part 1 [May 18th, 2024] • Part 2 [May 18th, 2024] • Part 3 [May 18th, 2024] • Part 4 [May 18th, 2024]

IMPORTANT NOTE: No #OnThisDay throwback post for this date.

So, without further ado, let’s get started:

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• We're at the "Next Door Noodles by North Park" in Makati City 🍴🏮🏪 outside of our rent condo room, since the restaurants from the Jazz Residence we're closed until the next morning. Anyways, this restaurant have a selection of Asian-based cuisine of dishes, and its not just Filipino dishes and their well-known delicious noodles that they offered. Let my parents, and our siblings do the selection of meals. You just wait, okay you two? Good. 😊

• And now for some share info: The "Next Door Noodles by North Park" is a Filipino-based Chinese restaurant 🇵🇭🥢🍜🏢 established in 1974 by Raphael Soon, with their Peking Duck brought from China 🇨🇳🦆🍗, and sell it to the Philippine consumers (like us). Years later, in 1988, they opened their first establishment in Binondo, Manila 🏮⛩️🏙️ as a "Seafood Restaurant" 🦐🥢🏢, and soon it grows from one restaurant to another venue, and more. They evolved from a "Seafood" to a "Chinese style Noodle Restaurant" and their quality of ingredients to satisfy our taste buds.

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• Anyways, our orders we're served to our table! Man, take a look at our meals from fried Calamaries, to Yang Chow Fried Rice, to Sweet & Sour Chicken, and my picked the "Boneless Chicken Curry" (with steamy rice, included)! Mmmmm! Yum-yum! 🦑🍚🍗🍛😋 But, what about the beverages? 🤔 We stick with nice pure mineral water over sugary beverages. 💧🥤😉

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• Nonetheless, let's try my ordered "Boneless Chicken Curry"! And take a look at my construction, it looks delicious! 🍛🤤 But, let's see who is it tastes like. *munching* Wow! Damn, it's spicy, with no bones of course, and the rich creamy curry was astonishingly worth my taste buds, including my paper dolls who tasted my curry! 😃 But wait, was it spicy to your taste? 🌶️🥵 To me, this is fine! 😁

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• So, how about trying the "Yang Chow Fried Rice", eh you two? 🍚😊 *munching* Wow, this one is amazing fried rice! It has a few chunks of meat spreading over the fried rice, it'll be worth combining with my "Boneless Chicken Curry", which we'll get to that in my next photo. 😋

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• In addition to our current meals, my mom ordered a little healthy veggies of "Chinese Broccoli in Oyster Sauce"! 🥦😃 And we all know, that "veggies" are the us when it comes to a healthy lifestyle, whether you ate it or not, like it or not, it doesn't matter! (And some of you, you've recognized from watching the "The Powerpuff Girls" episode 🥦🛸. Just saying, and I've been there.) Anyways, my paper dolls want some of that veggies as well, so I had to cut off the broccoli in half before we consumed it, and the taste was pretty damn good with or without oyster sauce/fried rice.😋 Sadly, this is the only one veggie we ate because my entire family ate it all without us to grab more. 😥 Still, it is good broccoli, nonetheless.🤤

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• [20th to 22nd Images] Now, time to combine fried rice and curry to create a worthy meal for our appetite, *munching* and it did not disappoint us! It's so hot, that I can't stop eating it until I drink a glass of water. 🍛🌶️💧🤤

• [23rd Image] Other meals we haven't tried are Sweet & Sour Chicken (left) and fried calamari (that we're split into two chunks) (right) from before. 🍗🦑 Unfortunately, we've run out of fried rice (or steamed rice), so we have no choice but to consume these, anyway. *munching* Mmmm... I'd say they're both good. If I picked one, then I'd say the fried calamari one because of its right tender to ease my chewing! 😋

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• Man, our stomach was stuffed from our great midnight dinner! 🤤 And overall, I would DEFINITELY... Or rather, WE would gonna go back to any "North Park" restaurants, anytime soon. Not only the decor and the atmosphere we're pretty good, but also the meals from the menu are worth it! We haven't tried their well-known "Noodle Soup", so maybe we'll be planning on that, someday. Price, on the other hand, is a little bit pricey compared to super budget restaurants, but the quality of their food did not disappoint our wallet. Sadly, they don't offer "Peking Duck" based dishes from their menu, anymore. 😥 We wish we wanted it, but I guess we'll just stick with roast chicken dishes, so this is fine by us. 😊

Well, that's all for now. 😊

If you haven’t seen my previous episodes, then I’ll provide some links down below.↓😉

Take a Taste:

○ 2021 Food Reviews: ○

• Popeyes U.S. Spicy Chicken Sandwich [Dec 6, 2021]

• Jollibee Chick'nwich & Crisscut Fries [Dec 21, 2021]: Part 1 [CLICK ME! #1], Part 2 [CLICK ME! #2]

○ 2022 Food Reviews: ○

• Mini Stop Chicken Fillet XL Sandwich [Feb 7, 2022]

• Minute Burger Cheese Burger(s) [Mar 1, 2022]

• Pepper Lunch Teriyaki Beef Pepper Rice w/ Egg (& Honey Brown Sauce) [Mar 5, 2022]

• Bacsilog’s Sulit Combo Bacon-Tocino & Samgyup Day’s Pork Herbs [Mar 12, 2022]

• Burger King Whopper w/ Sides & Drink [May 6, 2022]

• Marshmello’s Limited Edition Coca-Cola Zero [Aug 26, 2022]

• Cheesy Burger McDo with Lettuce & Tomatoes Meal [Recorded: Sept 16, 2022]

• Mcdonald’s PH McSpicy & Apple Pie (featuring their World Famous Fries) [Nov 14, 2022]

• Mcdonald’s McCrispy Hamonado Sandwich [Dec 31st, 2022]

○ 2023 Food Reviews: ○

• Foods from Delicious Restaurant & 1919 Grand Cafe [Jan 8th, 2023]

• Homemade Churros by my lil’ bro [Feb 12th, 2023]

• Lugaw Sisig from Mang Boy Alfredo Lugawan Restaurant [Recorded: Feb 18th, 2023]

• La Prato Stakehouse [Recorded: Apr 10th, 2023]

• Salt ‘n Light Snack Shack’s Cheesy Bacon Burger & Fries [Recorded: Apr 14th, 2023] (Published on May 5th, 2023)

• Delicious burger meal at Tokyo Tokyo Restaurant [Recorded: May 6th, 2023]

• Delicious meals at the Valenzuela Food Fiesta Christmas Bazaar 2023 [Recorded: Dec. 10th, 2023]

○ 2024 Food Reviews: (Chronological) ○

• Mang Inasal Pork Sisig [Recorded: Jan 10th, 2024]

• Mr. Shaw Shawarma Rice [Recorded: Mar 24th, 2024]

• Mang Inasal's Chicken Inasal - Pecho (Chicken Breast) [Recorded: Mar 26th, 2024]

• Uncle John's Chili Con Empanada and Sprite Lemon Plus [Recorded: Mar 30th, 2024]

• Chowking Spicy Chao Fan [Recorded: Mar 30th, 2024]

• Samgyupsal dinner night at the Samgyup Mukbang restaurant [Recorded: May 12th, 2024]

[disniq]

Season 1, episode 3, "Origins"

Prepare to get flashbacked, folks.

So, previously; Dawn was thrown off a roof, Rachel was kidnapped by The Family. And now, conveniently, Kori is parked below just the building right in time to see Rachel bundled into a sensible family car.

We get an entirely unnecessary flashback of Kori finding a photo in Rachel's house and killing a cop, which does nothing to show how she got from there to here but just go with it.

She follows The Family, who are on route to their boss. They stop at a gas station, and Kori takes the opportunity to burn Dad alive. (She also blows up the bathroom Rachel is in, but it’s fine, shh, “I think you’re safer with me.”)

This is what every family trips feels like when you're a queer neurodivergent

Dawn is in a medical coma at the hospital, and this somehow leads into another flashback of a young Dick with his social worker.

Bruce Wayne wants to foster him! Isn’t that great news, sure that won’t end badly for anyone.

Young Dick is taken to the huge castle-esque manor (which i love, btw) and shown to a bedroom so bougie it has it’s own chandelier and a walk-in closet already filled with teenage-boy sized clothes.

Bruce, dude. You’re coming on a little strong here.

Alfred is the only one a little dubious about this development;

(This is why the killed Alf off-screen.)

Unsurprisingly, Dick takes this as his cue to run away.

Back in the present, Dick gets a lead from a police colleague despite the fact that he just walked out a week ago and never went back to work lol. She helpfully tells him Rachel has been spotted on cameras with a a six foot black woman with magenta hair, who leaves charred bodies in her wake.

Meanwhile, Rachel and Kori head to the place in the photo, Saint Paul’s convent and bond over having uncontrollable powers and a total lack of understanding about themselves!

They stop at a diner, and Kori fucks some guys up for harassing the waitress to a disco soundtrack which is, undeniably, pretty dang cool.

More flashbacks - I’m so sorry, the pacing of this episode is a mess - and Dick social worker is very insistent that Dick give Bruce another chance. If only you knew, lady.

I do like the stylistic choices here, though. Having Bruce being almost entirely absent from these scenes makes his presence feel like the looming, intimidating thing it probably was, especially in the shots of the big, broody, empty Manor that young Dick is left to wander alone.

During one of those wanderings, he finds the garage full of classic cars and, rapscallion that he is, takes one for a joyride.

Remember when you antagonised the police, Dickie. Fun times.

Kori and Rachel reach the convent, which it turns out they have both been to before. Rachel was sheltered here as an infant with her fake mom, and Kori came by a year ago in her search for Rachel. It’s all very Nuns of the Chattering Order, and yes that does make Rachel the lost antichrist.

There’s an arcade down the street that Kori has a mysterious locker key for, so she takes Rachel there and exchanges the key for… a second key!

Rachel gets to eat, play some pinball, and meet a fellow protagonist!

Dick - who used his super secret Bat-tech to track Kori’s numberplate - also turns up at the arcade. For plot convenience, he gives Kori the benefit of the doubt despite her record thus far and both of these untra-violent people actually talk out a problem from once! Yay!

You, ah. You forgot the *checks notes* six counts of murder so far.

Turns out the cops think Rachel killed her fake-mom, so Dick, who a day ago was looking to wash his hands of this kid, suddenly feels responsible for her. Kori, who gently kidnapped Rachel for entirely self-serving purposes, has also apparently decided over the course of the last half an hour that she too can't let Rachel out of her sight, so they all go back to the convent together.

This is, unfortunately, what counts as relationship development in this show.

We get one final Baby Dick flashback, wherein Dick admits to his social worker that he’s not running away and stealing cars for fun, he’s running away and stealing cars so he can hunt down his parents’ murderer and kill them.

Bruce overhears this conversation, and leaves Dick a letter offering him a job better way.

Elsewhere, The Family (minus Dad) report to Dr Adamson, a creepy guy with an egg fetish who really wants Rachel to open the door. He magnanimously decides to give them one more shot.

Bet you thought I was kidding about the evils of heteronormativity, huh

ANYWAY, back to the convent and the A plot!

We get this conversation between Dick and Rachel, which I think informs a lot about Dick’s relationship with Bruce, and also his attitude towards Jason later.

Dick: Listen I need you to-- Rachel: What?! Trust you? “Other people can help”, is that it? No they can’t. They’ll just make promises, but in the end they’ll fail. They’ll all leave, just like you. Dick: Yeah, you’re right. Rachel: What? Dick: You’re on your own. No one can help you, not really. I was just like you once. Thought if I leaned on someone, if I trusted them, all the pain would go away. I was wrong. Anybody that tells you any differently is lying. The loss is here for good now, there is no getting over it. But you can control it, you can channel it. No one else can do that for you. Just you.

Kori takes the opportunity to steal Dick’s car, to head to the storage locker her second key opens, and Dick chases after her. Depite both of their promises not to abandon Rachel again, there they both go!

And, surprise surprise, the nuns immediatly drug the kid!

Turns out, the nuns want to lock Rachel in the basement to keep her away from her father and prevent her from being used to unleash evil upon the earth.

It… doesn’t go well for them.

Kori finds her Connecting the Dots meme storage locker, full of alien writing and pictures of Ravens. Dick shows up, and together they piece together enough of the murderboard evidence to decide Rachel is the Devourer of Worlds, part of a prophecy. WooOOoooOOOo *spooky hands*

They’re interrupted by a sudden earth-shaking explosion, because guess what?

Rachel BLEW UP THE FUCKING CONVENT

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