#the worst anyone has ever done it

[cicadas-epiphany]

Why is my rooster barking

[time-being]

I've been working on a theory that Jod kinda sucks. Might not be such an awesome guy as we have all been led.to believe.

Nona the Ninth spoilers, tw for abuse and cult dynamics

Jod does this neat little trick beloved of cult leaders and perpetrators of domestic violence, where he minimizes all of his potential culpability for harm to other people, and maximizes every grievance anyone has ever done to him. I don't feel like this is a theory I have to work to convince people of; it's pretty blatant.

But I just restarted the book again and noticed something weird that makes me think that even in his confession, he might not have admitted to the original sin that set everything else in motion.

It's based on my professional experience with this kind of asshole, which makes me go: Often the biggest and most consequential pieces of information, the ones that make an entire generations-long two hundred car pileup unravel into sense in two minutes flat, are kept the most silent. Like, someone will finally look into historical records and ask their family some questions and go, "Oh, apparently Great-Granddad killed a man in the home country, so they had to immigrate with no money and start at the bottom, and every time he felt 'they' were close to catching him, the whole family had to move again." And it's like, well, that explains why your father was raised in a family with absolutely no stability!

And waaay back in NtN, back at the very beginning, when Jod talks about his program being shut down, he says:

We got a lot of attention at first because they wanted someone to blame [...] M— and A— could’ve walked into new jobs in a heartbeat but I was irradiated, I’d never work in the industry again. I sure as hell wouldn’t be allowed to work on anything else to do with you.

Why is that, John???

What did you do that burned all your other bridges before the wall of meat, the cult, or the nukes? Why was your reputation "irradiated"? Not just for the cryo project, but for everything to do with saving the earth? Why were you forced to cling to this one group as your only choice, why when you developed the ability to cure cancer did your field of vision narrow down only to discrediting your enemies, without trying to argue your own case more strongly? Why when you could choose between saving the human race or getting back at the trillionaires, did you chose over and over again not to save the human race?

Was your reputation actually "irradiated", or were you just so piqued and offended by the world not falling over itself in gratitude that you decided to stay in your research facility and sulk about how they didn't realize how special you are, instead of trying again?

What else aren't you telling us?

[angryducktimemachine]

I watched the Granada Holmes Hound of the Baskervilles and this is my explanation (and defense ?) of Holmes just absolutely horrible looking stew.

[ID: a digital drawing of Sherlock Holmes. He's walking across a moor with his hands behind his back, holding a letter. A thought bubble above him reads "I forgot my damn stew by the fire." /End ID]

[conceptofjoy]

[comfortabletextiles]

So, I hemmed my curtains, and while doing that I noticed mold, so they went into the wash... Welp, they shrinked, only a LITTLE

[doghartzy]

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[herearedragons]

Adina: Can you go one minute without staring at me like you're itching to stitch up my mouth and put me in a collar?

Iron Bull: That's not my job. My job is to report you to the people who will do that.

Adina: Yeah, well, fuck you too.

Adina: Relax. Even if I wanted to kill you, I'd never do it out here.

Iron Bull: That's just another reason to watch you.

Adina: You don't have to. I want Aqun safe. As long as you're protecting him, we're on the same side.

Iron Bull: You've got a demon telling you what to do. That's the side you're on.

Adina: Not a demon. Doesn't want to kill you either. Not that you care.

Iron Bull: Next time we fight, let's split the field so we don't go after the same guys. You take the left, I take the right.

Adina: So I'm casting away from you and you always have me on your sighted side. Sure, whatever.

[3416]

mitch literally got his dog's initial and a smiley face tattooed on him. like lol

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

WOE! IDIOT WHITEBOARD SCRIBBLES BE UPON YE!

[pixelatedraindrops]

Yuma Month: Day 25: Broken

Night terrors, burning body temperature, delirious hallucinations, and glassy faded vision…

Helpless and afraid, he calls out for his caretaker…but he’s not there…

He’s all alone now…with no one to help…

Completely broken.

[empyreansentinel]

liking baron flynt is so embarrassing. this might be the worst outfit in borderlands history.

[flamingtoads]

Toad they’re out here hating on your girl Athena.

WHA-? WHAT NOW?! (911 s8e8 spoilers in these parentheses: but if it has anything to do with telling that woman to fucking return the cart I will lose my damn mind lol)

Okay, listen here my sweet jellybean! We both know those who are hating on our drop dead gorgeous and talented Queen are some straight up silly-billy goofballs. And we will celebrate their collective wrongness by re-blogging and posting more positivity about the lovely and oh so precious Athena! You agree? I agree! We AGREE!! IN THIS HOUSE WE LOVE AND CHERISH ATHENA GRANT NASH!!

[moe-broey]

Technically this is the second part to something else but I feel bad the og sketch still gets notes every now and again LMFAOO so as I'm in between projects. I have some ideas for Alcryst Forging Bonds whenever he's added to FEH 👁️👁️

[capn-twitchery]

moulin is gonna start giving grace arctic expedition flashbacks

[recurring-polynya]

someone please send this man back to remedial layering school

[tishinada]

US politics and history time for a moment...

The people who want to claim that voting for Biden would mean they supported genocide remind me a great deal of the people in the 1830s - 1860s in the North who wanted immediate abolition because they believed slavery was a sin and God would hold them guilty of that sin if they didn't oppose slavery. This sometimes resulted in them supporting 3rd party candidates that, SURPRISE!, did nothing but push the election toward the most rabid pro-slavery candidates.

You know what most of those moral anti-slavery people didn't care about? What happened to Black Americans. They were concerned only about their own guilt, not Black Americans' welfare.

None of these people making this a moral issue now show any signs of caring what happens to Palestinians OR to all of the other groups that will suffer if the dumpster wins instead.

Biden can't wave his hand and make it go away because the US doesn't have unilateral power worldwide (though some Americans seem to believe that, sigh.) There are limits on his powers, especially since he has to negotiate with a hostile House of Representatives. He has chosen what is actually a pretty effective route and fought for at least some aid to get to Palestinians. And currently he has *some* leverage with the Israelis.

The question you should be asking yourself if you really care about genocide is which choice will do the most to help the Palestinians? Do you really think the dumpster would do even as much as Biden? Or would he be actively helping them and every other imperialist country (*cough*Russia*cough*)? And who else will suffer if he wins that would not under Biden?

If that isn't what matters most to you, then you're no different from the moral abolitionists and other Northerners who wanted slavery restricted (because it depressed wages for free white men) but also wanted to make it illegal for African Americans to move into new states like Ohio and Indiana and Illinois (racism and fears of wage competition.) Or to ship them to Africa, no matter how many generations had been in the US?

It's not idealism. You're self-centered and egotistical and actively choosing evil if you think "punishing" Biden is the result of not voting.

Vote pragmatically. Vote strategically. Vote with the welfare of the most people possible in mind.