#this is my proof im alive

[theunmotivatedparable]

queers

[b1ttersweet-dreams]

and she's wearing down my rings taking the compliments meant for me and although i think i'll miss them at least there's proof of my existence a captive little soldier on her fingers deep behind enemy lines

[yaoicrack]

recent romberts^_^) guys that were made to annoy each other...

[ipfy-dot-tif]

some stick figure stuff. whadever

[n1ckelpistol]

post-race interview

[al-luviec]

I'm kind of crazy about my made-up Ray & Maya + Krux parallels.

A big theme in HoT is family and doing anything to protect those you care for. Drives me up the wall that for over a decade, Ray and Maya worked endlessly on a machine that would help destroy the world... but they did so to protect their children.

In my mind it was a "We've already worked on this for a year, what's another?" -> "We've already worked on this for five years, what's another five?" and that mindset looped until they finally met their children again. What they were doing wasn't good but it really didn't matter much because at the end of the day, their children is the most important thing.

Comparing how they acted about their inventions versus Dr. Julien when he made stuff for Garmadon, or more similarly Cyrus, who helped in the creation of the Iron Doom drives me a bit wild. Julien and Cyrus only helped in their respective cases to save themselves. Their lives were on the line and quite literally had no other choice.

"I'm afraid I was responsible for that," and then you have Julien being afraid to face Zane again because of the terrible things he had created. But for Maya & Ray you don't really get that. "Time travel machines aren't really my forte," (paraphrasing Ray here) of course there was some sort of guilt but as I said, their children were more important.

They'd go to the ends of the earth for their family, and that's exactly what Krux did too. Waiting 40 years without a sibling and ruining the lives of nearly everyone you were close to for the sake of revenge is... quite family oriented in his case. "I've lived 5 years, what's another 5?" -> "I've lived 10 years, what's another 10?" And this cycle repeats until him and his brother reunited.

I'm probably looking a bit too deep into this, but Krux quite literally wasn't himself while Acronix was gone. He was able to be Saunders for all that time because without his brother, he really wasn't himself. As soon as Acronix returns, his Saunders persona shifts and he can't pretend to be that nice old man anymore. Like hands on a clock... without them both you can't really tell the time. Or something.

Doing bad things for the sake of your family's success kills me everytime. Ray & Maya and Krux knew exactly what would hurt the other the most. Wu was who came up with the plan to strip them of their powers, but at the end of the day Ray's seal was on the weapon. A living reminder that the twins power wasn't their's anymore. Anytime the twins used the time blades they had to face that fact. They had to live with their betrayal and how it bit them in the ass. Not saying it was Ray and Maya's fault the twins were separated, but that's how Krux saw it.

Then you have Krux who snaked his way into Ray & Maya's lives and befriended them for a second time. He knew what he wanted from them from the very start! Every conversation he faked a smile and everyday krept towards them losing their kids. "If I can't have my family, you can't have yours." And he knew that Ray and Maya would do anything for the people they love. Not even just Kai and Nya, but Wu as well. They were who really pushed for Kai & Nya to get the reversal blade to save Wu, he is their friend too.

Something about their greatest strengths also being their greatest weaknesses. They love too strongly for their own good. Them starting off so similar, on the same side of the war!!! And then ending off on completely different paths and completely different moral codes.

Krux was there in Kai and Nya's life more years than their very own parents because of the system he set into place. He watched them grow up!!! And I'm very certain he held this over Ray & Maya's heads. "You've already done it for this long, what's a few more years." -> "You've made all this progress, you wouldn't want to throw it all away." But throwing it all away means losing their kids.

Rant over... I guess.

(Wrote this on mobile so pardon any weird formatting... also this is not proofread.)

[carinavi5]

I can't do anything to help those in Valencia, but I at least want to say my opinion.

I don't live close enough to go offer my help, and I can't really donate right now. I don't have a car and I live pretty far away from the city, which is where the main points to collect food, water and clothes are at.

But I'm seeing so much help from the rest of the Spaniards. Giant amounts of food and water being sent that way, and an even bigger amount of Valencians or people that live nearby walking to the most affected places carrying food, water and clothes, and shovels, brooms, buckets and whatever they each had in their home that could be used to help. Seeing all those people, all those volunteers, helping is heartwarming. Good people do exist. Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo. Only the village saves the village.

I want to clarify all this people are going there walking or biking because they aren't use the roads to not oversaturate them.

Now, let's being. What has happened?

Before: The day before AEMET, the State Meteorology Agency, had been giving warnings and updating their social media and all that saying that this was big. But nonetheless, no official warnings where given by the state. School and work was all continuing as before. No kind of informative help was sent to the people.

During: Rain. A shit ton of rain. A years worth of rain in 8 hours. Even in the places with no rain the effects are catastrophic, the rivers have caused floodings, and the cities, towns and villages have all been covered by meters of water. I don't know how much. (I also want to say that I'm no expert, but why had it been allowed to build in certain areas?)

The water rises in minutes, is fast, and with no warning no one was prepared. People were off to work, continuing with their every day life, now trapped wherever the flood caught them. Many others had gone to their garages to try and get their cars out when they saw that they were starting to flood. And many people have died in them, trapped. Don't blame these people, no kind of warning of how big this was gonna be was given, cars are a very big economical investment for the families and, again, the water rises too fast to really do much.

Cars and all kind of big, sharp and heavy crap being dragged by the water. That water also contaminated (by what the river in itself had, the liquids that came from inside the cars and other places, and now by the decomposing organic matter), so those inevitably swimming in it were in great danger for many reasons.

Think about the animals too. Ah, and also, no light nor electricity while all this was going on.

I've seen people on social media saying how it all went for them. I'm not gonna say their individual stories, but if you look them up, you'll be able to find them.

Immediately after: The people went to different stores to try and get food, water and medicine. All this stores were already broken and had been affected by the floodings. And still some newspapers (you know who you are) were trying to put shame on this people. Yes, I guess some people could have used the commotion to steal from houses or jewelry stores or whatever, but it wasn't the case of what they were showing, and it's not what the vast majority of people where doing.

Many others were out looking for their missing relatives. Some started to walk towards the big city nearby, to find some help. The conditions of the streets were apocalyptic.

A bit more time after: What I've said at the beginning. The affected throwing out the things inside their house that were too damaged by the water. Still no food, water or electricity. The roads blocked by the residues of what the water had dragged. Lots of mud everywhere. And the good people going there to offer their help. To clean the streets and their houses.

More or less right now: Other parts of Spain and even other countries offer help and resources. That help is denied. It took too long for the military to be sent to this places, but they are advising the volunteers not to go help, that theres no need anymore and that they are making it harder for the "actual help" to go. Lies. There's no emergency services help, no policemen, firefighters or military helping. And not because they don't want to, the help they offer is being rejected, not authorized.

Cleaning all that mud is so hard. All the help is appreciated. With proper equipment and machinery this would be easier.

Who to blame: The government of Valencia. Some say the one from the whole Spain for not applying certain measures. If you follow the law, the one to ask for certain measures to be taken is the Government of Valencia. And changing the whole administration of a disaster in the middle of it is just not a good idea, even if it's going late, because everything would be even more postponed.

And what truly makes them the ones to blame, they CHOSE not to warn the people, but they had cut down the budget for the emergency services and gave it to bullfighting instead.

Now the number of deaths is around 209, but there are still many disappeared people.

If you don't want to blame rain on anyone (some are saying climate change, others are arguing back saying that this has happened before), at least blame how they handled it.

Blame Carlos Mazón.

The king, queen, president of Spain and president of Valencia have gone to one of the affected places, Paiporta. I don't know why they are there, they are obviously not helping with the manual labor and are not saying anything useful either. I've seen some stuff around, I don't know what's really going on so for now I don't say anything. But the people were screaming at them and throwing stuff.

Some days after I'm still not too sure what's happening rn in Spain lol.

[mobydingus]

[otome-dissection]

You know logically I know the Yakuza Kiwami pier scene was just a really awkward retcon rgg shoved into the story to accommodate for the majima everywhere system and the literal One (1) model change that Majima had in the entire original game, but after playing later games and seeing how their relationship plays out . Hm. Something something foreshadowing

[rimbaud-fan-page]

Coincidence??? I THINK NOT

[jils-things]

queueing up my memoryshipping gift art made me remember how much i love steven hehe

[inkgeeky]

My favorite thing is having an anxiety attack out of nowhere with nothing leading up to it and so it hits you so hard that you're forced to lie down :D /s

[bitchyblkqueer]

re-reading my fic like damn who wrote this

[meanderfall]

Sometimes the suicidal ideation hits you outta nowhere and it's like

[icharchivist]

(this includes year 1 and year 2)

he's so fucking cute oh my god

see Lu Woh this is how you praise someone for not fucking dying????

I want to have my head pet by Wilnas now this is ways too sweet i'm feeling loved.

[geffenrecords]

i think i truly did not enjoy the mcr tour as much asi couldve because like we stopped being friends aorund that time which is so. wow haha.