#this is ok to rb if you can even make sense of it. I refuse to reread

[fagmegumi]

(pacing around my room gripping my hair & holding a cigarette with shaky fingers) how is hamlet the same thing as rei ayanami you ask? well its very simple really. how is being a prince haunted by a destiny you can see coming but not prevent NOT the same as being an artificial puppet created for a purpose by a very bad man? this goes beyond rei & hamlet btw its a character archetype and it transcends genre so seamlessly its not visible to the careless eye. An automaton is the same as a tragic hero which is the same as an a.i. who acquires conscience which is the same as the genre-aware fool in a comedy which is the same as a child who’s the only one who can see the family curse. meeting the ghost of your father on a dark bridge is the same as returning his hungry look with an empty gaze through the glass pane of a tank which is the same as realizing that your father is both a flawed human being and an asshole and that either way you can’t help being what he made you

[kite-writes]

ABOUT THE WRITER

hi, i’m abi! i’ve been meaning to post this introduction for a while now - i’ve been dipping in and out of the writeblr community for a few years now, but i recently graduated uni and so finally have the time to dedicate to writing my own stuff. right now nullifidius (more about that below) is my only wip, although i’m also playing around with historical dark academia, a sci-fi plot about elves! in! space!, and a collection of short stories taking inspiration from each of shakespeare’s plays. ok. am not really sure what else to put here and will probably make a better intro soon, but in the meantime here are some facts:

i wrote my dissertation on mothers in early modern tragedy, and news flash: i love medea

i’m 22 and i’m from the uk - i live in a very boring town in the middle of nowhere. i’m gay and i write poems about 1) being gay 2) space

i really love greek myths and ancient greek history

please let me know (either through this post, dm, or ask) if you want to be on any kind of taglist for nullifidius - i’m going to start posting excerpts and character bios over the next few days, as well as aesthetic moodboards (which i am addicted to making) and playlists! it would be great to connect with more writers on here - if you like/rb this, feel free to introduce yourself and i will definitely check out your blog!!

ps. you can find me on goodreads here and my brand-spankin’-new writing twitter is here!

NULLIFIDIUS: THE GODS OF CATS AND BIRDS

GENRE

ahistorical fantasy; new adult

THEMES

lgbt; diverse; mythical creatures; supernatural creatures; astronomy; religion; gods; nature; female relationships; time; betrayal; prophecies; flora and fauna

POV

third person limited; past tense

STATUS

first draft; world-building; outlining

SYNOPSIS (under read more)

twenty and one more makes the wolf white eye waxing, white teeth flashing waiting in time and shadow and flesh.

In the ancient city of Corinth, times have changed. Harpies - females warriors, once known as the winged dogs of the father-god himself - still watch over the city, but the threats that once hammered at its walls are now so distant that they no longer trouble the memory of even the oldest fae: they are consigned to myth, to imagination, to folklore.

In place of War, Peace thrives. It reclines over the city like a well-fed calf - glossy-coated and bright eyed, senses lulled by the scents of sweet-grass and wild flowers, the drone of honey bees burying the sound of the rasping knife. Under its docile tranquility, centaur-drawn carts clatter down streets made cloudy with dust, silk-clad dancers pay a feverish homage to the stars, and selkies forget their water-lust under the intoxicating light of the moon.

And so danger, when it comes - in new stars in the sky, in spectral glimpses of the uncannily familiar, in blades waiting on the hillside - finds no resistance. It slips, weasel-fast, between cloven hooves, and slides beneath an unprotected underbelly undisturbed. When Peace finally startles - smelling the iron threading the breeze, feeling the nosing of claws at its open chest - it heaves itself onto unsteady knees, ungainly and drowsy in the summer heat. Head bowed, legs quivering, it moves to stand.

Too late, of course. It is already dead, even if it doesn’t understand it yet - even if the teeth in its throat feel foreign, and the gore matting its fur it doesn’t recognise as its own. It is dead.

Maybe this was fated. Maybe Peace is only ever meant as a sacrifice, to be bred and fed and fattened until the serrations of its dual existence - security and doom, future and altar, divine and defiled - catch at the skin of something ancient and terrible, which Peace will forever die to sate: a bog-body that refuses to drown blindly beneath the quagmire; a fly struggling against the amber that binds its wings. A forgotten god nursing a fierce and wounded pride, caged under a midnight sky by a people who insult him with their ignorant blasphemy. Peace is not the only thing he will claim in recompense.

When, one night, a trespassing cat witnesses the dark and gruesome depths to which forgetfulness is plunging the city, her path will be forever entwined with those of a stargazing gardener and a reluctant priestess, and together they will learn the reality of dreams, the strength of friendship, and the inevitable cost of outwitting the gods.

it will begin with a bee that does not sting; it will end with four birds who do not sing.

[prorevenge]

The Mean Girls club gets destroyed

So a while back I had the joy of stopping around 5 girls who had been openly using and abusing people. Most of them ended up losing partners and almost all their friends one lost their job two went to jail and they all lost their social status.

So context, years ago I worked in a large corporate store, trust me you would know if I told you the name. Now during this time I was in a dark place emotionally for various reasons and was very much a loaner which led to me being a target for this one girl (let’s call her CS for cos-play slut) now I know it sounds terrible me calling her that but really it’s what she was and trust me as this story goes on you’ll see why.

Now she quickly befriends me and gets me to help with video editing and photo shots I say yes as at the time I was trying to get into content creation and figured it’d help and I was a very lonely depressed virgin at the time and any girl showing interest in me made my brain go crazy. Looking back I kick myself for letting her use me that way but I was stupid and didn’t know better. This girl used me for everything from making me edit videos for her and her friends totaling around 3 or 4 videos a day all with different styles and length to getting up early to help with shoots that had to be done at sun up to get “the magic hour”. (I know it’s a real thing but still not the best thing to spend your day doing when your days off are spent making videos)

As well as using my help for her online stuff she used me for a lot of other things rides to her “meetings” with potential photographers (she never picked her them she was just sleeping with them) to buying her movie tickets that’d she would go to claim being alone with me in a theatre made her nervous so I’d have to wait outside for then I’d have to buy her food on a daily basis at work then if we ever did anything outside of it.

Now I know this sounds like I was the worlds biggest cuck and yeah I was. I had no self confidence as previously stated was a virgin with very little ability to socialize and never learned to choose how and when to give my help. So I was an easy target for all this, my parents tried to warn me against it but i didn’t listen and even at one point told her I liked her only for her to laugh in my face.

This went on for months in that time I quit content creation but was still editing her videos and was always doing something for her. One day while she was having me buy her supplies for another cosplay we ran into another girl whom we will call RB (random bitch) she was nice enough very energetic at first and I felt like we could get along so we exchanged info and became friends on fb. Afterwards CS told me how she was in a relationship and not to try and hit on her not even talk to her because I gave off a “creeper” vibe.

I only mention that interaction before this next one because it is chronological and because it was the first time I can ever trace back to the two of them working together against me. So after that CS starts going after another guy not gonna give him a special name but let’s just say he was terrible I mean really bad. Him and CS meet up once bang them he tells her all these lies about emotional damage and how they have to keep things a secret but still wants to be together. She believes him but he ghosts her she gets worried and has me look into from my end with an old friend. Now here two things happen that to this day I’m happy happened because it let me later on get my revenge the first was I created a second fb account pretending to be a girl the next was CS gave me full access to her fb.

Now like I said this dude was bad news he was cheating on her didn’t even need to catfish him just sent him a friend request and got dp back. Then I learned from some friends he did this serially and then ran across a girl who after I asked her about him responded “that’s the man that raped me don’t contact me again.”

I gathered all this evidence and brought it to CS and she flat out refused to believe it was real claiming I had faked it and was just jealous of him and that she and I were never going to be friends again. I said ok and we stopped being friends.

Now then that was my interaction with CS, after we broke off our friendship I started messaging RB and we became friends little did I know the real story behind them. I’ll be quicker with this than with RB but to put it lightly she was worse she would constantly have me just give her money and buy her things like expensive things. I never felt like I could say no because if I did she would give a sob story about her sad childhood and me being a bleeding heart would cave.

This went on for two years during which time I got a lot better more self confident and a better all around person but i always would go back to my sad self when she would belittle me. Finally I had had enough I told her to stop messaging me and we weren’t friends anymore. She took it hard dragging my name thru the mud at the end of it I had one friend left.

Skip ahead two months and I’m feeling way better I’m smiling more often no longer wanna take my own life and am feeling great. But I was still upset about everything that had happened but couldn’t do anything that was until I got bored one day and was looking thru my phone and saw something interesting. CS’s account was still logged into my phone a second profile. On a lark I tried opening it it let me she hadn’t changed her password and had given it permission to just sign in.

I thought I was just gonna have a weird voyeuristic look into her life but what I found was even worse a fb group that was literally called “Mean Girls Club” in it I found 5 girls including RB and CS all talking about what they were getting guys to buy them and do for them. It was horrid to look at I scrolled up and up and up all the way to the first message and it went back years. I don’t know how but these 5 had been doing it for so long it was crazy.

It was then I started to form a plan. The first thing I did was screen shot everything and when I mean everything I mean I had thousands of pictures from this including but not limited to pictures of stuff they had bought or had bought for them. Nudes of their partners or of people they were interested in and then the biggest one a shared drop box folder filled with pictures and videos of them doing a lot of nasty stuff I mean really bad. Apparently this whole thing was set up so that none of them could stop nor back down at anytime due to the blackmail Dropbox and the fact the rest of the group would back the others.

I know this is crazy to understand but let me put it this way from what I gathered to OG group was a total of 8 girls and 1 guy the numbers that left all were told they would be ruined and boy was it bad. I read about them making some of the people leaving lose their jobs and families falsely accusing the one guy of rape of which if what they said was true he was forced to move to another state because of the rumors.

On top of that they ruined a local store making them go out of business and then getting another guy thrown in jail after they accused him of attacking one of them. I can list plenty of what they did that was bad but mostly all of it was them bragging about guys they were using for stuff and money and what they could get them to buy them. I of course was on there as was everything I ever bought them totaling around 5500 over two years. The two of them CS and RB were so proud of what they did.

I was astonished by what had happened and was honestly very hurt by it all I knew they were bitches but nothing of this level. So I did what anybody would do I turned them against each other. The first thing I did was use my fake profile to enter into the group chat under the guise of a friend of CS’s. Took some time and creative use of the two profiles but I did it then moved onto insight some war by messaging each of them about the others of the course of a month I had them all suspicious of each other with some he said she said then I struck with one reveal.

I sent RB’s bf a message from CS’S profile in sighting them to openly flirt then took a step back and told RB about it. All the while with my fake profile I told CS that RB wanted to burn her by sending out her blackmail then I messaged the rest relaying info on the upcoming conflict telling them to prepare to burn another person if someone else struck (think start of world war 1 but with 20 something girls). 3 hours was all it took from went that past message went out to the first “bomb” fell. It was glorious each one destroying the other telling significant others about lies cheating and theft. Jobs being called about misuse of company property and inappropriate behavior in the work place. Full on sex tapes were posted to tons of porn sites.

It was three months later that the dust cleared everyone but CS had deleted their social media accounts. It was then that CS started in on my fake account demanding for some form a of repayment stating she had never added me to the the group and that no one had had any dirt on me so I was unscathed. I responded with “Well let’s just say I’m a bitch, the names Karma.”

I deleted the profile and lost the login info for CS. I keep the Dropbox stuff though and screenshots since I’m sure if they ever put two and two together they could guess who I was. But now a full year later nothing.

I’ve not been able to know more then the basic repercussions of this sense I didn’t know the other three personally but RB ended up homeless for a few months before going to jail sense some of the blackmail was a video of her doing drugs while skipping a court date about drug use (she openly stated in the video the date and that the courts could suck it and told them later she was helping a friend go thru some hard time to get an extension) jail due to her breaking parole and lying to a judge. CS lost her day job and all but around 30 of over 5k followers as well as her bf who she was cheating on then he back up bf since she was cheating on him with another guy who was just in it for the sex. Last I heard she moved back in with her parents and can’t keep a job due to her running into people who know what happened.

TL:DR Got emotionally and financially used by two girls and then made their mean girl chat destroy each other’s lives.

PS if rslash is reading this hope you know you inspired me to share this because your vids are amazing.

(source) story by (/u/notmine1337)

[mrsbaako-blog]

The story of RBS, a missing bank statement and so my husband’s possible deportation.

A story for you folks - a day in the life of yours truly, wife of a Ghanaian Immigrant applying for my husband Adie's final UK Visa. We are seriously at risk of having Adie's application rejected because of one missing bank statement. RBS are unable to help us! Please read on……

I had a lovely reaffirming start to my day - Celia, a local accountant helped me by providing the necessary  evidence for Adie's final Visa application. After this Visa he can apply for a UK passport - so in 2 & 1/2 short years we will be able to go to Torremolinos together at last 😜. She turned out to be from Shetland, we know many people in common and her Uncle was a fiddle player. Fiddles duly brought out, tuned up and played, the lovely Celia refused payment for helping us with this 5 minute task - a massive gesture as other accountants were quoting us £400 + VAT. 

I left her house with a warm glow, faith in humanity restored, it being the 1st of February and all. Self employed friends will no doubt be able to guess why 1st Feb is a day of lightness and joy…….for the uninitiated, tax returns submitted on time and tax paid by 31st January deadline.

Next task, for Adie's Visa the Home Office require original bank statements evidencing income. I have 6 years worth of statements filed for 3 separate accounts and only one missing statement. As luck would have it, the missing statement is required for the Visa Application. But that's ok, as I only need my local branch to stamp a downloaded printed PDF of the statement to meet Home Office requirements. 

I enter RBS Dalkeith Branch full of the joys of new friendship, Shetland catch up and tunes - still happy. You'll be sensing the impending doom..... 

It was a case of computer says no. 

I'm going to spare you all the sordid details, but in brief, here is what happened. 

The Cashier said he could not stamp my online printed PDF statement. 

"Then can you give me a letter of confirmation on headed paper from the branch, confirming my printed online PDF statement?" I naively ask.

"Not possible, we can only certify statements issued within the last 6 months ". 

I ask to speak to the manager. The manager is on the phone. The Cashier and I go round in circles. I ask to speak to the manager again. The manager sends a verbal message that I have to order a new statement. 

I accept this and the cashier orders it. "That will be posted to you within 5-7 working days" he says. This is no good to us. It's the 1st of February and we must submit by 7th of this month. 

From that point on things deteriorated. There was an ever growing queue as the Cashier tried his poor best to help me whilst his colleague at the next desk tried and failed to keep up with demand. The queue extended out of the front door.... There were other staff around (doing not a lot as far as I could see, when and if dared look up toward the queue) but my problem, it seemed, was not within their remit. 

I stood there for around 40 minutes, publicly humiliated. At no point was I offered an apology or a more private space to deal with this clearly very personal and distressing situation. We are genuinely facing the prospect that without the original Bank Statement or a verified copy, Adie's Visa application will not meet requirements and he will be deported. Home Office requirements are very clear and you simply must meet them. I was armed with a letter from my Immigration Lawyer explaining what was required, but to no avail. I did explain all of this to the cashier. Repeatedly. I asked him to tell the Manager. I have no way of knowing if he did or not, because at no point did anyone more senior come to talk to me. 

After a 3rd attempt to speak to management and appeal for discretionary action, the Cashier returned saying that the Manager would not see me, would not verify a statement and that I could not book an appointment with the manager. So holding in a flood of tears, I left. 

I was handed a complaints leaflet on my way out.

After a restorative bowl of soup (I am a Scot after all, there's nothing a hearty plate o soup'll no sort), I plucked up the courage to phone the complaints line. Would you believe it - it's just RBS's standard phone line. I thought they had given me a direct contact to Complaints. Aye Right. 

I call and explain. A very pleasant soul tells me he can order me a replacement statement that will arrive in 3-5 working days. 

"3-5 days", I exclaim! "My branch didn't tell me that."

I order. It's still risky, it doesn't guarantee delivery in time. But it's an improvement and I'll take it.

"Is there any way to pay for a faster service?" I am a fool to ask. Of course there isn't.

I ask to be put through to complaints. Another stupid question. I don't get to call them, they e-mail me back in the next 5 working days. I stand my ground - I am not available next week, it has to be now. 

I WIN! He agrees to put me through. Amy 1 - RBS roughly  53,546748. Still, it feels good.

I am transferred to complaints. I speak to a kind human being. He did answer the phone as “Ben from Natwest”, which I wasn’t overly worried about, as I have no idea who owns RBS. I know they and Ulster Bank are as one, so why not Natwest? I told him the story. 

I opened with “I went to my RBS Branch in Dalkeith today because……..” and told him the whole story. 

He listened sympathetically, he apologised. Then he said “I work for Natwest, I’ll need to put you through to RBS”

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I mentioned my opening statement about RBS. I can’t even remember what he said in reply. 

After an hour on the phone I reach RBS complaints. I may as well be back in the Dalkeith Branch. I am asked if I am making one or two complaints - I explain that I haven’t made a complaint before, so I really don’t know how best to proceed, so please can the advise me. He advises two. I agree.

Complaint number 1 is that the RBS Dalkeith Branch won’t verify the statement. This complaint is rejected because statement verification is discretionary to the branch (now they tell me). I have a mini-meltdown when he asks me if I am “happy for the grounds on which this complaint is rejected”. I explain that I am not “HAPPY”. After some protracted discussion around semantics we revert to one complaint. Now I understand why he wanted me to go for two.

I recite the rest of my woes. At one point he says “we’ll credit your account with £30 compensation today”. I say he’d better not, that I am totally insulted that my married life with my husband when in jeopardy could possibly be compensated with £30. I started crying at that point. 

My complaint is in the system. I will be allowed to take it to the financial ombudsman. I expect this is far too trivial a matter for them, but hey it’s worth a shot. I am leaving RBS, but before that I would love this story to be spread far and wide. 

We still have no guarantee that we will receive the missing statement in time to submit with Adie’s Visa application. Please do a dance, say a prayer, keep us in your thoughts. 

And share this post if you know anyone that could help us get a single original or verified bank statement from RBS by Wednesday next week. Or share it so that no-one else need go through this and RBS might just get the message and change their ways.

My day hasn't all been bad, thanks to the Celia’s of this world. 

[kylewalker-peters]

okay here is the much anticipated english rb xi for miss eleanor my beloved (i will welcome any suggestions bc this was lowkey vry difficult lmaooo

GK: kyle walker - there was a game a few years ago where kyle walker went in goal for city tbh that was my main reasoning. also he’s fast and i can’t think of anyone else to put there

RB: KWP - do i even have to explain this one??? his development at right back mad how instrumental he is for southampton plus he’s cute and i think he plays the most traditional right back role here. plus i love him

RCB: reece james - very physically strong and mostly defensively capable, plus gareth loves him

LCB: luke ayling - he’s english and again he’s v defensively sound, also can provide aggression to defensive line - i don’t like him that much tho that’s why he’s on the left

LB: tripps - our fave long-standing english player that gets played in literally every position but his own ,,,,, in honour to euro 2021 he’s playing in lb bc southgate refused to play ben chilwell lol :/

RCM: taa my beloved, a more attacking role bc gareth seems to think he can’t defend, less pressure for him and he has the freedom to provide tons of assists to make gareth look silly xxx

DM: tyrick mitchell - young crystal palace rb, he’s fast and i think he’ll be a good link between defence to attack whilst also supporting the backline, he’s fast not afraid to put in a challenge and can also venture forward really well

LCM: james justin - idk much abt this guy but he has two first names and i think that’s funny,,,, defo more of an attacking rb which is why he’s in midfield

RW: livramento, again young but super good for southampton last season, very good attacking, creating and scoring goals

CF: tavernier,,,,, ok hear me out on this one - yes he plays for rangers but he’s english and also a rb - he’s so so good attacking wise he’s good a good aerial presence and he’s fast and is at the centre of so many of rangers attacks

LW: ben johnson - again young and still in the under 21s set up but he’s so so promising (also there was no way i was putting aaron wan bissaka in this )

ALEX OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!! THIS IS LITERALLY YET ANOTHER MAGNUM OPUS PIECE OF WORK BY YOU I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!!!! literally the greatest gift i have ever received in my inbox!!!!!!! alex new queen of right backs after this i swear down literally she deserves the crown!!!!

oh my god like all the reasoning makes so much sense and they logically fit so well in every position literally do NOT let gareth see this he will LITERALLY steal this word for word bar for bar reason for reason

FAVOURITES!!! include KWP keeping his RB role (though one day i would like to see him even try midfield because my dad suggested it once in 2017 and I've thought of it nonstop since), reece at RCB, tripps at LB we love a versatile old man, tyrick at DM and livramento at RW is literally so galaxy brained like wow

[junker-town]

The 10 dumbest mistakes from a humiliating NFL Week 8, ranked

Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports

So many teams were their own worst enemy this week, but at least the refs saved the Titans from themselves.

There weren’t many surprises Sunday in the NFL. The best teams (Patriots, 49ers, Saints, Packers) kept winning. The worst teams (Bengals, Jets, Falcons) kept losing. With Washington dropping its Thursday night game and the Dolphins probably doing the same on Monday night, Week 8 stands to be our chalkiest one yet this season.

Despite the lack of drama on the scoreboard, there was plenty of it on the field — mostly of the humiliating variety. It started when the Jaguars and their fans spent most of the day mercilessly teasing Sam Darnold, the Job (biblical version) of the NFL.

It continued on, with the Titans and Bucs trading self-inflicting turnovers, the Chargers and Bears trying to gift-wrap a win for the other team, and the risk-averse Broncos getting called out by the expert in all things boring, Joe Flacco.

However, the biggest “STOP HITTING YOURSELF” lowlight of the day came from the most predictable source. The Browns dug themselves into an early hole against the Patriots with a three-turnover sequence, each increasingly more embarrassing than the one before.

And somehow, the mistakes this week didn’t end there.

10. The Falcons had little interest in trying to beat the Seahawks

You’d think in the middle of a 1-7 season, Falcons head coach Dan Quinn would be coaching for his job. But Quinn was oddly conservative down 3-0 early against the Seattle Seahawks. Facing a fourth-and-1, Quinn opted to try for a 51-yard field goal. The Falcons missed it, and Seattle countered with a touchdown drive to go up 10-0.

What’s worse might be how unprepared the Falcons’ defense was on the touchdown:

.@dkm14 was RIGHT THERE. Q2: SEA 10, ATL 0 pic.twitter.com/vs4b6DmFg2

— Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) October 27, 2019

On the other hand, Quinn might be doing exactly what he’s supposed to be doing — tanking so the Falcons can draft Ohio State DE Chase Young:

did y’all see chase young yesterday? dan quinn is doing a fine job

— Harry Lyles Jr. (@harrylylesjr) October 27, 2019

9. Melvin Gordon blocked the wrong guy, then had to make a touchdown-saving tackle

Gordon’s spent the past four weeks shaking off the rust accumulated in a contract holdout. It’s safe to say there’s still a little bit of corrosion left to work through. When quarterback Philip Rivers pointed out an oncoming Bears blitz deep in his own territory, Gordon stepped up to handle the onslaught — and picked up the wrong guy.

Rivers makes a pre-snap adjustment to counter the Bears' oncoming blitz. Melvin Gordon picks up a player who's already being blocked instead of the free man, and Rivers throws off his back foot for an easy pick at least Gordon got the touchdown saving tackle? pic.twitter.com/4J9gsoNnuL

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 27, 2019

Seconds later, Chicago was rumbling toward the end zone after an interception.

At least Gordon’s make-up effort on the tackle was worthwhile. The Bears settled for a field goal four plays later, and the Chargers ended up with a one-point win.

8. Bruce Irvin gave the 49ers the underrated fuel they’ll use for months

It can get hard to keep playing the disrespected card when wins are piling up. The Patriots somehow managed to act like they were the Cinderella story of 2018 on their way to a sixth Super Bowl win in the 21st century. But that took a special amount of delusion to pull off.

The 49ers are 7-0 and just one of those wins was within a touchdown. A 51-13 destruction of the Panthers in Week 8 was their most impressive performance to date. At some point, it’ll be trickier for San Francisco to find bulletin board material if it keeps laying opponents to waste.

That is, unless there are more guys like Bruce Irvin on the docket. The Panthers linebacker refused to give the 49ers much credit immediately after he was handed a 38-point loss.

I asked Panthers end Bruce Irvin just how good this 49ers team is. “They’re OK. They’re OK. They’re not world-beaters,” he said. My guess is SF will use this as another log on the motivational fire.

— Jim Trotter (@JimTrotter_NFL) October 27, 2019

There’s a solid chance both the Panthers and 49ers will make the playoffs. If we get a January rematch, you better believe there will be plenty of talk about Irvin’s Week 8 comments. Even if there isn’t, the 49ers will probably cling to his “not world-beaters” description for the rest of the year.

7. The Broncos burned a timeout because the battery in Joe Flacco’s headset died

It was a bit confusing when Joe Flacco walked off the field as the play clock wound down late in the third quarter against the Colts. Instead of directing traffic for a first-and-20 play, he opted to burn a timeout after a fruitless huddle. It was a decision that didn’t make much sense on the surface, until the CBS broadcast team got the inside scoop. Flacco couldn’t hear any of the plays coming in from the sideline because the transmitter inside his helmet had died.

Flacco’s midgame maintenance meant the Broncos were forced to use a valuable timeout late in a tight game during a drive with limited prospects. And it wasn’t as though the veteran QB missed much once he finally got his headset fixed — the play he missed turned out to be a fairly predictable 6-yard screen to tailback Phillip Lindsay.

The Colts took a 15-13 lead late, giving the Broncos the ball back with 22 seconds — and no timeouts.

Speaking of Flacco ...

6. The Colts indulged Joe Flacco’s Lamar Jackson cosplay

Flacco has played in the NFL for roughly 12 years. He entered Week 8 with 822 career rushing yards — or 4.8 per game. He is not a mobile quarterback.

So when he does this to you, it’s time to reexamine your defensive philosophy.

i take back any nice thing i've ever said about the Colts defense pic.twitter.com/swMx1bxbIM

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 27, 2019

That scramble helped set up a 29-yard field goal and bumped up Flacco’s career average to 4.9 rushing yards per game.

5. Three Bengals defenders could’ve had an easy pick and whiffed

Cincinnati dropped to 0-8 on Sunday, losing 24-10 to the Los Angeles Rams in London. Late in the fourth quarter, the Cincy defense nearly picked off a Jared Goff pass attempt to Cooper Kupp. But in classic Bengals fashion, even three defenders couldn’t make the play. No seriously, this ball bounced off three different guys’ hands before falling incomplete:

The Bengals, summed up. pic.twitter.com/T7PxpasyeY

— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) October 27, 2019

Not sure what else there is to say about this other than, Go Bengals?

4. The Browns’ own offensive lineman forced a fumble with his foot

Yes, it appears as if the Browns are officially back to the same team we constantly make fun of. During their 27-13 loss to the Patriots, Cleveland literally forced its own fumble. In the first quarter down 3-0, Browns guard Joel Bitonio inadvertently kicked the ball out off Nick Chubb’s hands, and Dont’a Hightower recovered it and took it to the house for a touchdown:

Only the Cleveland Browns.... One the most reliable ball security RBs getting stripped by his own pulling guard's foot. Bitonio's foot literally slides down the ball & pulls Chubb's hand off the ball for a split second...all you need in driving rain. TD return, bc, of course. pic.twitter.com/UbMO8fGkLK

— Jake Burns (@jake_burns18) October 28, 2019

If it makes you feel better, Browns, at least the Patriots do this sort of thing to every team they face.

3. Breshad Perriman made one helluva tackle (on his own running back)

A draw up the middle out of shotgun on third-and-goal from the 4-yard line doesn’t leave much room for error. Especially if the play’s most dangerous tackler is already a couple yards behind the line of scrimmage and streaking toward the tailback:

If you own Breshad Perriman at WR in an IDP league, do you get a point for a tackle on this play? pic.twitter.com/Dt0ZApbT3U

— DK Nation (@DKNatn) October 27, 2019

That’s Breshad Perriman, signed away from the Browns to bolster the Buccaneers’ wideout position in 2019, coming down the line in motion with the horrific timing needed to completely derail a vital play before it could even begin. Dare Ogbunwale lost two yards after getting smoked by his own teammate.

Tampa was forced to settle for a 24-yard field goal seconds later, in a game it lost by four.

2. The Bears went into victory formation, then lost

The Bears know a thing or two about missed field goals. They were embroiled in one of the weirdest kicker battles this past offseason after Cody Parkey missed a field goal that ended the Bears’ season in the playoffs. They eventually settled for Eddy Pinero, who so far has been pretty dang effective this season.

Perhaps too effective. From the Chargers’ 21-yard line with 43 seconds left on the clock and a timeout in their pocket, the Bears elected to take a knee. There was plenty of time to run a couple of plays, even just simple runs to try and make it a bit of an easier kick.

Nope. Matt Nagy, showing what appears to be a significant lack of faith in his own offense, called the “victory formation” kneeldown. You can guess what happened next: Pinero’s field goal was no good, sailing wide left:

oh no, Bears pic.twitter.com/1EDNWxSxOV

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 27, 2019

The Bears lost to the Chargers, as a result.

1. The referees cost the Bucs game-winning TD on a bad fake field goal by the Titans

Not only do we have a dumb mistake by a football team, we’ve got one for the referees, too. Leading by four points with less than four minutes remaining, the Titans were in field goal range, enough to put them up by a touchdown. Instead, they ran a fake field goal that went extremely poorly.

And the Titans kicker or holder got destroyed on the rush attempt! pic.twitter.com/z8B9K0tZvZ

— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) October 27, 2019

They picked up no yards on the play and fumbled. It was recovered by the Buccaneers, who took it all the way back for a touchdown that would have given them the lead.

But the the referees blew an early whistle, which ultimately prevented the Buccaneers from advancing the football. Early whistles are among the most frustrating things in the NFL (and keep happening to NFC South teams).

Although the Buccaneers had another couple opportunities to win the game, it still feels like the referees cost them a win on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Titans are lucky that they were saved from their own terrible decisions — for the second week in a row.

[crisiscrafted]

TENETS

These are the guidelines and rules for interacting with me. It’s good to at least skim through them before doing anything, just in case there is something we don’t agree on.

CONTENT: 

This blog will contain violence and possibly graphic violence.

This blog contains a muse from an extremist Omnic rights organization and will delve into such themes as discrimination. 

This blog will contain discussions and depictions of physical and mental trauma and indoctrination. 

This blog is fine with handling and will handle NSFW if it comes up.

This blog will contain a lot of ooc.

This blog is fully headcanon based until Michael Chu personally tells me the facts of this character.

This blog will contain swearing.

This blog will contain possible mentions of religion. 

BASICS/MAIN RULES: 

No godmodding. So no taking control of my characters for me, and no being invulnerable.

No partaking in violent or sexual content under 18. People and muses under 18 years of age should not ask or partake in any sexual or otherwise graphic content and will be blocked for attempting to do so. That is non-negotiable. This counts for both text and image.

Don’t force ships. Let them progress naturally, and don’t assume. This will prevent a lot of awkward moments for the both of us and our muses.

No noncon, incest, bestiality, or pedophelia. I refuse to interact with people who rp incest, bestoality, and/or pedophelia. You will be blocked and possibly reported where necessary and viable.

Don’t reblog threads you aren’t a part of.

Don’t be a jerk to me or other role players for no good reason. That ain’t cool. This involves: No hate/phobia towards GSM(gender and sexual minorities)/LGBT+/MOGAI(Marginalized Orientations, Gender identities, And Intersex)/SAGA(Sexuality and Gender Acceptance), no abelism, no toxicity, and so on. I honestly can’t believe I have to even clarify all of this for some people.

GENERAL CONDUCT/ETIQUETTE:  

I will not rp with non-rp blogs.

Personals and other non-rp blogs are welcome to follow, but don’t reblog threads, ooc posts, ic posts, or ask answers to asks you didn’t send. The only exception is those tagged with #ok to rb or #personals welcome.

Do not reblog asks without ever sending something. That’s just rude. Not to say you must always send something, but at least space your reblogs so my activity isn’t flooded and/or send something so you’re not just that guy using me as meme archive whom I may block because it’s annoying me. If we never talk and all you do is reblog ask memes, you might as well not follow me is all I am saying.

You can post as much ooc as you like, just try to tag it.

I generally dislike passwords, so if you have a password, it is likely I will not follow. If you do and you follow me first, it is safe to assume that I have read your rules and bio before following back, as I dislike following back without doing so. If the page is on a post, I will like the post to show I have read it. This rules page has no password. I assume all who follow have read and agreed to the rules.

You may remind me of threads via IM, or discord if you have me added there, but limit it to one reminder a week and be polite. If I sense any form of manipulation, I will not continue the interaction.

You need not notify when a thread is dropped. It is nice to be notified, but that’s it. Besides, I really don’t mind if people forget threads either. If a thread is really old, maybe even a year, it’s fine to ask to continue.

INTERACTION:

This is a single-muse side blog to bluesunsdusk. All follows will come from there. If willing to deal with multi-muse, one is welcome to just send asks for mystery/nameless omnic there instead of here.

This blog is not mutuals only but is semi selective.

I will rp crossovers and AUs. If there is a fandom I have no verses for which you want to rp in, let me know.

I will rp with duplicates if we get along ooc. I am no fan of dupes, but they are bound to exist and I’m not about to be a dick about it. That being said, unless we’re bros, I won’t follow one.

I have restrictions on ship dynamics. Toxic ships will only be available for people I talk to ooc and whom I can tell if it’s at a point I find uncomfortable. Cheating plots are a no go. Anyone I hold the right to say when a muse is too young for mine. I do not do teacher/student ships. No dd/lg stuff in my Shambali Minecraft server. If you call Set daddy, you’re blocked. I jest on the last one, but please only use it jokingly or familially.

I don’t tend to do exclusives. With ships, that would only happen if we’ve both agreed to it. I may do mains, however.

This blog is multi-ship. Any ships will be separate from each other in their own little timeline.

OCs are welcome! I love OCs. Give your omnic ocs especially. There aren’t enough of them.

If you have some headcanons that conflict with mine, it does not mean we cannot rp together, we could just do a compromise or something.This character is very much headcanon-based due to only having a crumb of information shown in canon. Nothing is set in stone and things may have to change whenever the OW dev team announces new info.

EXTRA INFO:

I currently do not use a thread tracker.

I do not interact with muses from media such as Steven Universe.

I don’t know much beyond the Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, Dynasty Warriors, Doctor Who, Overwatch, Fallout, and Fable franchises at all.

Don’t rush yourself with responding. Taking your time is fine. 

Multi-ships will be AU.

Feel free to suggest headcanons and theories, if you want.

Links and link page still to be made.

Any Sigma blog run my non-Dutch-speakers may ask questions regarding the language and the Netherlands itself. Keep in mind, however, that I was raised bilingual from birth, unlike many other Dutchmen.

MUN SPECIFIC: 

Mun is 24 years old as of August 2019.

Mun speaks Dutch and English.

Mun is in one of the European timezones.

Mun has no triggers, but ask that one tags graphic imagery, irl violence/news, and sexual content.

Mun may not follow people who post too much too often, as it clutters the dash and makes it overstimulating.

Mun is currently in college and has limited time to be online.

The mun is shy, has other hobbies, is still studying, isn’t very talkative to most, and is forgetful. 

Mun is not always active. Muses do not always cooperate. Do not take my slow response time personally, and don’t worry about how I’d react if you reminded me of a thread. 

Mun =/= muse. I do not condone everything my characters do/have done, and their behavior should not reflect on mine. Do not mistake their hostility to your muse as hostility from me to you.

[picsofmegatron]

I wrote all of this purely because a TE//RF followed me

(they refuse to unfollow from what I can tell and idk their URL so I can’t block them)

Ok but honestly Megatron and probably Optimus and every other Transformer would absolutely hate TE//RFs. There are MANY reasons behind this but let’s go with the most obvious three because I’m lazy.

1. Transformers literally have no canon gender, nor do they even have concepts of gender.

They have canon pronouns but no canon gender. There have also been “male” TF’s that had their holomatter avatars (as shown in MTMTE multiple times) be female humans -- and while JRo has stated that all avatars are are just physical human representations of their mind, it still brings into perspective that Transformers literally hold no conceptual importance to gender. To a Transformer, gender would be a foreign and probably human concept.

Cyclonus’ holomatter avatar was female (though I personally headcanon non-binary). Ultra Magnus’ holomatter avatar was female -- specifically modeled after Verity Carlo. Bluestreak also had a female avatar. And so did many other “male” Transformers.

If Cyclonus feels like a female human royalty, then he can feel like a female human royalty. If Ultra Magnus feels like taking the form of a human female named Verity Carlo, then he can. If Bluestreak feels like a, and I quote, “Young Hispanic or South Asian woman with headphones,” then he can take that form.

So automatically right there, TE//RFs can get their gross “gender critical” hands off of Transformers because literally no assigned gender exists with Transformers -- and even then they’re already breaking gender with their holomatter avatars.

2. The general hostility, exclusion, and disrespect TE//RFs have with trans people would probably make Optimus cry and Megatron want to wage yet another war.

Ok but this is a better way to put it:

Literally in a sense, TE//RFs are kinda... human functionalists. They reduce womanhood to nothing more than genitalia and a person’s biological functions. Therefore, Megatron (and Optimus and probably all Transformers who are against functionalism) would have no patience for transphobic assholes. Thank you, @mewsa64 !

3. “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.”

Do I even need to explain this? I think Optimus agrees that trans people are free to be whoever they wanna be and identify however they wanna identify.

So yeah. There you have it. I wont post this into tags because I’m not here to start drama but feel free to rb if you want.

[misterbitches]

Im not intelligent at all. In the conventional sense. The ramblings of a girl who just has sooo much going in in her head it's constant. But im not a genius. Or that confusing.

It just sounds like I am bc fandoms have this issue where they can JUSTSO point out the issues in soletiing. They can pick and prod and go oh problematic! But then you go to name the problems and the difficulties within society like for ex: the idea of representation in general. Salivating over it. How fucking sad that is. How we are trained to accept it. So in a BL and also RACE in the bl genre they exploit viewers naivete both domestically and internationally. Ive seen tons of people liken being asian to being a person of color. However, in their predominantly homogenous society (or intentionally publically homogenous society), they are not "poc" (also name the of color; i dont use bipoc idc if u do but it's called being asian guys cos yall aint talkin about black ppl lmao)

They as humans seeing other humans who look like them everywhere, engage with the world differently than an american in asia or asians living outside of their home country (like bae doo nanwhen she worksnin the US is not the same as the bae doo nanworking on a korean program) I dont complain about it in everything i see bc ppl say it ALL THE TIME. but it is NOT the same. Being a person of color is very distinctly an american concept. This is all stuff people will get to know on their own if they choose to dig more.

I do my best to underline what my ugly little eyes process. How i figure things out as a black female american artist too! Im hard on shit cos i should be. I take it seriously. And even if i dont take it seriously bc THEY dont then thats their problem.

I know this is a complaint that I am not alone in. I know it's the internet. I just don't get how people can write really heavy analysis but they refuse to actually probe the underlying issues. Not everyone is me, or like my friends, but if there's way fewer people talking about this stuff it seems absolutely glaring when theres few people engaging in the way i do. It seems like im the glitch but I am thinking just as much just differently.

I really loved where your eyes linger but there was little deep class analysis. I remember few convos a bout it. I know a lot about korea (sigh being a black ex kpop fan lol mess) and i love the history but all ofnit matters! Korea's relation to labor!

People bringing up thai actors snd actresses leaving the industry and doing acting as something quick. As an artist~ who went to film school with insanely wealthy ppl and isnin tons of debt you have to understand how shitty that is. People have monetary access and they just fucking do whatever just because they want to. Meanwhile you have young people being coerced into this bullshit mainstream life to LITERALY just make money bc they dont come from a rich background. The wealth gap in thailand is BAD, theres a dictatorship, they had a fucking coup. The governments like here do not respect their people. Their marginalized groups. Trans thai women, black thai ppl, poor thai ppl. And it LITERALLY CANNOT DO ANYTHING EFFECTIVELY IN CAPITALISM. No nothing can be perfect but if it's going into our eyeballs and we can view the worlld critically then why the fuck not!???

I dont say the things i see are wrong always. I reply when i think i need to. I try and engage with others but not to kuch avail. I just want to rb stuff and tdhink lajfhhdjwhjej.

But like yea theres a lot of just wrong or misguided stuff. A lot of the times it is just historical inaccuracy in framing or idk. A refusal to think outside the box. I dont care. Theres more to life than just sort of looking and not thinking especially for othrr artists.

Idk im sorry. I dont see how i can change how i view things. I really wish people would expand their palettes too and go deeper into other means of art from places! Things not in the mainstream! Theres a lot of good thai artists and a lot of them critical as fuck about their country as they should be. Authority, austerity, patriarchy, capital, racism etc like that is central to a power thats interested in growing gains and fiscal and social power. Theres rly radical or left leaning etc ppl out there in the world and these countries in these communities. So they exist. No people in these countries dont have NO clue whats going on. Cultural relativism is alsos something people should understand. I had a good talk with ppl on here a while ago about that. Talking about shit, critiquing, but being respectful to a group. Part of thay is realizing these groups CLEARLY know their own issues and all our cultures share the same goal. Guess what it is. It rhymes with acquiring wealth. Money means you hurt people. In the post, we talked about use of "wife" and "husband" which is a stupid joke that has been "explained" a billion times and yet the explanations still dont seem to answer or justify a minor problem (it's very funny to me that a language that doesnt have gendered pronouns is now very specific about two men. Hmmm wonder why. It is annoying.)

So im not the only person on the planet doing this. Or the few ppl ive seen that do. Im not new my thoughts arent new. Ive gotten to see another side to a culture i knew not much about and that means i can put the context of my beliefs and life and try and understand thheirs. For ex i learned from ITSAY because of a sign that said 'french food' that they were the only country to not be colonized back then. Do you know how integral that history is to their region? That was an interesting detail (i didnt finish itsay bc ihad a lot going on and i was rly upset that i would see hownrich they are and i hate that.)

Anyways thats my complaint. It used to feel like a sting of rejection. I left online for months in 2019, i started organizing more, joined a union, trying to do some panther work shit like that. I learned a lot in those months and it changed my life! But when I came back, I felt so isolated. It wasnt my true friends tho sometimes theyre ANNOYINGGGGG (love u) but it was me being like "if we are going to complain guys then lets put our money where our mouth is" lets be fucking serious about it then. No say it with your chest dude. It isnt difficult. Go with the fucking flow, talk about it, critique it, think. You can still fucking like itnor love it.

I am BLACK ok and i love rap. I am a black woman. I will continue to clown black men that cant seem to not clown themselves and listen. No i wont support monetarily: drake is a creep and i hate him but i bump that niggas song. Thats fucking LIFE. I got so sick of hiding myself and it became clear that it wasnt that i wasntthinking well or hard enough. They just didnt like that i said we need to commit class suicide and inspect out middle class sensibilities and middle class wealth hoarding (google it) if thats what we engaged with. Every part of you, antagonize it. I still have my privileges; class, skin color, even my father being a nigerian immigrant, me being cis, im not str8 but not a lesbian and those are differences.

Insecurities in general but some shallow thoughts (?) on discussion in "fandom" space. FYI, this will most likely stay the same. I tend to stay in my own bubble socially IE me and my friends are similar in our views. During this awful year while running my union's account, im surrounded by like minds. Me and my friends? We changed together. We grew up and saw what we didnt like and what we want. We do our best.And i CHOOSE my life to be that way bc it should be. There is no solution. I dont believe in solutions because the solution is to abolish capital or just divest. Abolishing capital and labor are a huge one and i will die before that happens (but so help me as long as im alive? Black women to FREEDOMMMM is my motto!) so making your own path in life is the best thing an artist can do IN MY OPINION.

However with technology and stuff this puts another layer onto things. Tech, social media, this shit....it THRIIIIIIIVESSSSSSS off of conflict and shallow readings of the world. We are literally primed for it. Engagement in bites. Impossible for me with my brain; i got used to it and i paid for it by limiting my scope. Not being encouraged to THINK AND READ before just speaking

(For ex i am in iww, i helped form a branch here. It is a radical union. Unionism is imprative to me-if ur interested u should read up on some. Look up peter cole! Google inthesetimes Ilwu. Gives you some understanding. Ive always been progressive and now i am....very left idk ic ant label myself. But even in my progrssiveness i had the gall to tell my white friend, whoa has her privileges but i had mine with our class disparity, that we dont need unions, i have WORKED retail. Ive done barista work for sonoing and i do gig work. So i wasnt out of touch. I had been stiffed even with a shoot i was working on by rich kids. So i had a frame of reference . But i didnt know what the FUCKa union was and why it is imperative. Then learning about anarcho syndicalism and all these other things. It changed my fucking life but two years earlier i was this idiot spouting shit like that making one of my best friends fucking upset. We DO AND CAN CHANGE. Think!!!!)

So were i a creator for tv id just constantly try and push the buttons if i need big money. Make them sell into me (thank you sonic youth!) theres Endless possibilities guys which means theres SO MUCH TK EXPLORE!!!! When i wanna have fun with it i just have fun. When i want to think i do. I dont understand why we are so dedicated to upholding things and doing mental gymnastics to end up in a space you dont need mental gymnastics for. What about these critiques makes you uncomfortable? Saying we're all part of the problem as spectators? Im sorry but we will always be. Thats LIFE. God fuck. Fuck me. I feel so fucking worthless and stupid sometimes. I know I am not. I know i am talented and intelligent. I know my friends and family. I know how to approach ppl. I know how to tell people if they are rich but want to be progressive whatsup. I choose how i live part of that is being ok to say what i want.

Ironically consrrvatives say this shit alot. But they arent ever alone bc their ideology is default. But yea it does feel shitty. It even feels shitty when ur in left circles but people STILL dont even wanna do that. These perspectives really arent ss many as they should be. I dont want to feel so alone with it. I know there are more. I just love art and the world so fucking much, endless possibility. Endless pain but endless good.