#this isnt even the most gruesome thing ive seen

[sunnyleech]

Just saw a video of a one month old dying of hunger in north gaza.

I just saw a video of a one month in north gaza with hallowed cheeks, unable to move or respond, only stare with an open mouth as their mother and father cried for the doctors to help them.

[sunrayretriever]

ok so im gonna put this one under a read more since its just my thoughts and not actually like. safety information that everyone should know (again nobody is obligated to read especially this because its fucking long and just a heads up im gonna get kinda gruesome so :\ but if u read all the way thru then u are a real one and i wanna kiss u sloppy style

meyah okay so. follower, come here im gonna tell u something. im not a professional. im not a meteorologist. all of my research and information is found online and by myself. but i have seen the damage that the earth inflicts on us. it is not an act of god, and i really dont care for when people say 'mother nature is pissed'. this is real. this is real life. the damage done to people is real. lives are torn apart. entire families are wiped away with the debris of their poorly constructed homes. if you survive, theres a million different ways you could be injured, and not just physically. the trauma, the grief, the emotional pain of losing not only lives but your home, your business, your car, your pets, your livestock, your city's infrastructure, your community... to lose it all is something that makes me choke up just thinking about..

ive seen videos of people huddled in shelters above ground screaming and crying and praying and the sound of wind and glass crashing and debris flying and sirens going off is pure horror.

something even more terrifying is videos of people STANDING NEAR WINDOWS AND GLASS DOORS AND EVEN OUTSIDE during tornadoes. glass nails 2x4s bricks furniture cars. they become bullets in those winds. wood can get embedded in telephone poles. do you know how incredible that is? its hard for even me to believe!!! and here in the united states IT HAPPENS PRETTY OFTEN!!

cw im about to show u destroyed houses!! click away now if u dont wanna see but i really wanna show anyone who DOES wanna know abt the damage these fuckers cause!!!

so i want you to imagine here. this is your neighborhood. let's say we have an EF5, the most intense a tornado can get. now, a tornado can be rated an EF5, but that doesn't mean it does EF5 level damage THE WHOLE WAY. shall we take a look at how your neighbors houses fared?

mmkay so here we have EF0 level damage. about 35-40% of the tornadoes in the united states are rated this level.

not too bad! shingles are replaceable!

as we go on we pass by a house with EF1 level damage.

whoa! 35% of tornadoes in the US are this level!! but it's JUST the framing of the roof, right? thank goodness the house stayed mainly intact! hopefully everyone followed their safety plan and got to shelter right away!

looks like the house a couple miles down got hit with EF2 level damage.. their entire roof was blown right off, exposing the whole house and everything in it to rain, hail, wind and debris from the tornado... but its just the roof, right? i mean, only between 15-19% of tornadoes get this strong...

EF3 level damage. 6% of tornadoes are this level. everything but some walls and the roof were destroyed. where will that family live now? who's going to help them clean up?

EF4 level damage. almost all above-ground structures are vulnerable to a tornado of this strength. this was a well-built, permanent home. look at how the tree snapped. these winds can uproot the entire thing. thats a 4ft+ tall projectile. thank god only about 1.1% of tornadoes in the US are this strong... but what could be stronger than that?

EF5 level damage. 0.1% tornadoes are this strength. the last one on record was in 2013, moore oklahoma. it destroys virtually everything in its path, and can rip people out of their basements if their door isnt reinforced. the memories from that home are gone. completely gone. there are appliances and vehicles that were never found from tornadoes this intense.

and these are well anchored, permanent houses. mobile homes were destroyed and twisted back in the EF2 level. anything above that turns them into smithereens. lost to the mercy of the winds.

"so james," you say my lovely follower, "what's the whole takeaway from this? what's the point?"

and i grab your hand very gently. and i look you in the eyes. autism be damned, we are locking eyes. and i ask you this:

what if it was you? would you know what to do? are you weather aware? do you have a plan on where to go when your towns tornado sirens go off? does your own even HAVE tornado sirens? what about your pets? the people you love? do they know?

for a while i felt bad for.. trying to spread this around. i felt like i was being a downer. i dont know why but it felt taboo to talk about... i dont know if it makes people uncomfortable or scared but.. it needs to be talked about. we cannot stop the weather from doing this but we can make sure we're safe. we can keep ourselves safe.

i don't want you to be afraid of these storms. i know plenty of people who have a fear of severe weather. fuck, for the first 23 years of my life i was one of them! when the tornado sirens would go off, even for a routine test, my stomach would turn and i would panic. after the 2022 december tornado outbreak, i was watching the news and i heard about the damage caused. i thought 'what in the world could do something so devastating?' and i think it changed my life forever. i went from fearing them to ACTIVELY WANTING TO SEEK THEM OUT. and not only is everything about weather fucking awesome, i know how to keep myself and everyone i care about safe. i can tell my dad when to get ready to go to the shelter before the sirens go off. i can check the radar and tell my friends in other states how big the hail is gonna be before it even gets there.

and it.. really wasn't hard. even a basic sense of weather safety can help. knowing myths from facts helps EVEN MORE!

the earth is so beautiful, my friend. a tornado swirling around in a desolated field in kansas is something that even in video takes my breath away. when it rains, i run outside to see the rainbow that usually forms afterward.

but with this beauty comes a price.

[gayspock]

ok sorry i'll compress this into one now

i did actually go look into the ob echoes tag specifically and i did get one or two spoilers. i shant say anything.

however i know argyle vest man is going to die a death most gruesome. as is the way with literally every evil man that appears to tag an orphan black woman away. we merely need to give it time. sir your body will be in a freeEE FUCK

NO THERE IT IS

CHARLE GET SHIT DONEEEEE

SCREAM LAUGHING

BECK FROM VICTORIOUS WE NEED TO GET YOU UP TO SPEED. THIS SHIT HAPPENS. COME ON.

god sorry i miss donny

this is actually me one conern from this series, actually. obviously orphan black had so much going for it in terms of its storylines and its drama and the more important themes. i AGREE. but i think like... such an insanely novel, and charming part of it will and will always be the clone variations and the super different personalities it brought out. we are never getting another alison and donny hendrix ever again those bitches were insane

also sorry yet again. what is this fucking budget. what the FUCK is happening right now

sorry im not trying to be so alarmed its just i feel like this show ive heard so little about it . granted im someone whos super out the loop with everything. but theyve spent money on this shit hi

miss luycy how much have you been doingin these 2 years

i love older guys with cunty little earrings

actually another thing im unsure about so far is like... hm how do i say it. i feel like its already gone so fucking far so fucking fast.dont get me wrong everything escalated so insanely in original OB too but its like it was always some messy, tense layering of shit going on and never just a point a to point b whichis why it was so fucking effective. and we didnt get THIS far this fast. and thats not to say this approach is wrong and its too early to actually say and i shouldnt keep comparing but you know. i feel like a lot of what ive seen, whilst well done, has been very hmmmmm...

expected? not just in how its sorta obvious where its going. but i dont think anything thus far is compelling. if i did not know this was an ob sequel i think i would have shut it off by the end of this ep.

also my other concern ilike lucy but i hope she isnt some super human person. i get the amnesia is a compelling thing or whatever sure but also like .... i think its actually hard to completely pull off a blank slate of a person and its also hard to pull off superhuman types effectively. is that my hot take. perhaps. shes cool but im not compelled yet by who she is.

i think i always found the character work in og orphan black to be so good cuz again it was so grounded in real people. you could really get who they were so quickly. and it was cuz they were real people who were then ripped out of their lives and stuck into some insane shit. with rachel, of course, being the antithesis to all of that . i miss rachel also. sorry my aside.

and anyway sorry this isnt all to be sooo crazy insane negative i d ont mean it like that and its not to be like ohhh comparisonsss but look man.a lot of the same team(?) are working on this right and ive been kind of like. skeptical of like a sequel series like this in general. if its literally called orphan black echoesd im like fascinated to know if its... justifyiably tied do orphan black at all or wh

OHHH SOME BITCH WITH STREAKS IN HER HAIRRRRRRRRRRR HIII

do you guys sit there and thiunk if this is 2052 and theres main characters in their like 30s these people are like gen alphas

nevermind lucy youve got some cunt for this kill your mini me now

sor

SRRY ITS WHO?

KIRA

FUCK YOU YOU SCARY DEMON CHILD I KNEW YOU WERE DESTINED FOR SICKHEADEDDDNESSSSSSSSS GET HERE NEOWWWWWW SARAH DID NOT GO THROGH ALL THAT FOR YOU TO PLAY SILLIES

WHY IS THE OUTRY TO THE SAME

FUCK YOU ALL TO HELL I DONT EVEN CARWE

[hamletsleftball]

no one asked but here it is

disclaimer: in no way, shape or form am i even remotely a professional forensics analyst. i am not here to give a diagnosis, just here to have some hehe haha fandom hyperfixation (more under the cut!)

adler has one of the most prominent facial scarring ive seen really. and i got a fine idea to go research scar formations. initially it kind of lead to just dermatologist cosmetic stuff but thats obviously not what im looking for

first had to trace to see exactly how the scar looks like. one thing that immediately stood out was the way its jaggered. its irregular. had a hunch as to it being caused by shrapnel but then its an assumption and that isnt very scientific-forensics of me without proof. so i had to dig deeper.

like see its irregular. there are parts which the scar seems to skim past the surface of the skin like skipping stones against a water surface. the depth of each wound varies.

if its not an intentional act by someone harming adler (i.e. using a tool to cut his face), and judging by the uneven and irregular shape of his scars, we know its a cut-at-random harm done to his face so its shrapnel or likely from an exploding shrapnel bomb/grenade frags(??) but grenade frags are known to explode and that might likely mean his head gets blown off i think)/some explosion that made any nearby sharp material like glass or metal shatter and have them fly at his face at high velocity

but theres also the matter of angle(?) because, see if its just shrapnel being sent flying then the scars shld be straight lines too unless they got lodged in his face and thats actually gruesome. but the way its jaggered and seems to get caught at odd angles just makes me think theres a particular angle where the explosion occured and thats what makes his scars rather 'messy'. but of course this isnt including other minor cuts or wounds that may have healed without scarring, and just that these scars that remain are the results of shrapnel digging deeper into his skin, thus causing a larger disturbance to his skin and causing the wounds to leave scars

like

the circled area- the scars look like holes were poked, like stones skipping atop of a water surface. the one large scar that runs down his cheek to his lips sort makes sense, but then the hook at the end of the cheek doesnt add up entirely. flying shrapnel wldnt do that. i dont get what might make such a weird hook shape

luckily forensics baby has an answer

out of the different types of wounds, these were my main guesses as to what caused his scars.

judging from characteristics ive pointed out above and linking them to the type of wound (depth, shape, etc), it's highly likely that adler DID get his wounds from a shrapnel explosion.

because that explains the sharp lil shards of metal/wood splinters/concrete that wld have flew and made the incision-like cuts. the skidding of small debris causing abrasive wounds. and the impact + other chunks that broke off form the explosion wld have caused the lacerations, which in turn caused the irregular, jaggered look of adler's scars

tldr: yes its shrapnel because of the randomness and its lack of conformity in his wound shapes and inconsistent areas where the scarring affects his skin. which i think. anyone would have been able to guess but i was on an adhd rampage then and im a huge lover of forensics and wanted a proper answer as to what type of scars they are.

for the record, even if adler didnt get his scars from Hue city as he says (i think someone mentioned the time doesnt match with him being in fracture jaw or smt), regardless the wounds can only be caused by shrapnel from what ive observed in laceration/scar formations

so at least hes saying a half-truth in bo6- hey! thats better than him in codcw

[wings-of-a-storm]

LUCAS’ HELL NIGHT ANALYSIS: PART 2 OF 2

Well, with this piece, I have officially finished trying to give voice to all the  frenzied thoughts in my head after watching that terrible Friday night unfold for Lucas.

I think the hardest part was revisiting the anguish on Lucas’ face. That is going to haunt us all for a while, no doubt...

Alright so we are up to Lucas running for the exit of Chloe’s house after finding Eliott with Lucille and being publicly outed... That poor guy.

OPEN GANG WARFARE

I only realised upon watching this scene that you actually see the ripple of Lucas coming through the crowd before you actually physically ‘see’ him. Like people were actually flying across the screen because Lucas was shoving partygoers out of the way to get to the doorway. He was like a hurricane, leaving a trail of destruction before and after him. From our limited angle, there are at least two victims: Unknown Partygoer No.1, and the Bouncer.

A minute of silence please for the victims of Lucas’ savagery. Particularly for Unknown Partygoer No.1 who was actually shoved aside the first time Lucas entered the house as well. :’)

Obviously I laugh otherwise I cry. It was actually heartbreaking seeing the lengths Lucas needed to go to to get out of there before he lost it completely.

I actually felt bad for Basile in this scene -- he was being really sweet and trying to grab hold of Lucas to, I dunno, support him? Calm him? Reassure him? He wasn’t to realise that that was the worst thing he could have done because Lucas needed space and distance from the heartbreak he had left behind in the house.

Things might have been ‘okay’ if Arthur’s patience hadn’t snapped; if he hadn’t escalated things further with that passive aggressive jab that was rather below the belt regardless of Lucas’ lies. Things could have been worse though -- there could have been actual punches instead of all the shoving and pulling. And the only casualty was Arthur’s glasses (which the petty part of me kind of revels in?). But still, getting into any physical altercation with your friends is extreme and just goes to show the pressure cooker Lucas’ life had become.

It is a shame the Gang had to reach this point, but they’ve all been kind of assholes to each other at one time or another. I think perhaps only Yann has been a good friend to everyone. Arthur, Lucas and Basile have all been hurtful at some point…

I wonder where Lucas and Arthur will go from here though; how they will make up in the school break if they aren’t forced to see each other in class. (Assuming David sticks to reality in his skipping of the hiatus?) This type of anger between them seems much closer to Marti and Elia than the og -- and it took the special powers of the love wizard Giovanni GaraU to piece their friendship and pride back together. Does Yann have the same touch? Time will tell...

ELIOTT KISSING LUCILLE

Lucas had already reached his breaking point when he engaged in a physical altercation with his friends. He had already lost control over his emotions and was incredibly vulnerable standing exposed in front of the yard. People were staring at him and Arthur was still screaming bloody murder from the doorway about wanting to slap the hell out of him. Of course it was at this moment when Lucas saw the man behind his heartache kissing the girl he said he had broken up with.

So much of Lucas seeing Eliott kissing Lucille was awful. Firstly, Eliott and Lucille could have just stayed inside the party, but them seeking out time alone outside is just so private and intimate.

Secondly, Eliott was the one initiating everything (something none of his counterparts did). He was the one cupping her face and smiling at her and going in for two kisses. Two!

And thirdly, yes, that smile of his as he was looking at her was meant to cut all of our hearts out. Eliott’s smile is like his strongest weapon even if he doesn’t realise it. He uses it as a shield and he uses it to express all the pure and lovely joy in his heart. When he walks into any room, that smile is the first thing you see. It���s nuclear -- even from far away, that smile absolutely knocks you out. And boy did it knock Lucas out.

I’m not sure I’d go as far as to say Eliott was giving Lucille the same smile Lucas gets. Eliott’s a very smiley person and even Lucas’ friends received that kind of smile when Eliott didn’t even known them. I feel like there is an extra level of giddiness to Eliott’s smile when he looks at Lucas. I wasn’t worried about him smiling at Lucille so much. Especially when I assume the context of it, which is...

Okay, so after Eliott was hurt by Lucas and feeling like he had to give him up so as not to be a burden to him, he would have been absolutely devastated. We saw his face in that corridor and that would have been him trying to hide most of it. I’m a little grateful we never saw the extent of Eliott’s private devastation...

But Eliott’s snap decision to cut Lucas out of his life, meant he was suddenly alone with this intense heartbreak, and probably feeling extra vulnerable because it related to that terrible force in his brain that he can’t control and that always messes his life up.

No matter how strained his and Lucille’s relationship had become in the end, she was still someone close to him who really knows who he is and has seen the worst of him. She is so safe. And since we have never seen Eliott with any friends at school, I imagine that Eliott is pretty isolated at the moment without her. It feels completely believable that he would seek Lucille out for that comfort and security. It would also make him feel better about his mental illness to know that there is someone in the world (excluding his parents who we have no information on aside from David’s headcanons), who sees that side of him and accepts it. He’s not alone with it.

Luckily for Eliott, Lucas made his comments about mental illness only a day or two after Eliott had broken up with Lucille. That meant there was a window of opportunity to try and repair things with her. It would have required a lot of effort on his behalf though, to be convincing enough for her to take him back even though he was secretly battling heartbreak over someone else. He might have even ironically used his mental illness as an excuse for their break up (actually, I am convinced he did because it will probably end up fuelling a certain comment from Lucille to Lucas about Eliott’s patterns).

What this means though is that Eliott has to stay convincing for Lucille: he has to be that happy boyfriend who wants to be with her, who just suffered a blip. If Lucille sees through him, he is in danger of being alone again. There is probably also an element of Eliott needing to convince himself that he will be happy with Lucille and can make their relationship work. The alternative of being alone after such a terrible year is just too painful.

So yeh, I’m not too surprised by all the smiles and kisses that Eliott was initiating with Lucille even though it hurts to see them. His instagram diary tells us the truth: that while he recognises the good parts of having Lucille as his girlfriend, it isn’t the same now.

(Side note: His ‘L and him’ caption breaks me! Like A) he is distancing himself from himself, and B) it’s like he is cherishing the letter L and finding comfort that he still has an L in his life. He can almost pretend it is the other L...)

LUCAS' FACE AFTER SEEING ELIOTT KISSING LUCILLE

Well, Lucas’s face after seeing Eliott smiling at Lucille, cupping her face, kissing her, doing things he can still remember Eliott doing with him not too long ago... That is a face that is going to haunt us for a long time. The level of fury in it, of betrayal... I’ve never seen anything like it in Skam. That expression not only cuts straight through your chest, it strangles your heart.

it was so powerful and clearly the exact moment Lucas reached the bottom of what he could endure. Like shit, place a copy of that face into a scientific journal under “Human breaking point.”

When I think about that look and all the intense emotions swirling behind it, It feels like the dark twin of the look Eliott gave Lucas when he was playing piano. When Eliott looked at Lucas in that moment, you were just hit with those eyes, and it felt impossible to even begin describing all the different emotions in them. Lucas’ devastating fury holds a very similar power with all the complex emotions behind it. I consider it a ‘twin’ because Lucas’ eyes also seemed fuelled by love, but love that had been desecrated and turned into a wound against him...

(That gruesome lip curl when he glanced back at Arthur still yelling at him though. Oh damn that was fierce.)

Oh gosh guys, it was just so hard seeing Eliott kiss Lucille during the worst time of Lucas’ life. It was stomach-churning in a ‘I think someone just punched me in the gut’ way. Like, Lucas used to go to this guy for comfort and now in his time of need, when his ex-beard is yelling out his sexuality to strangers, when his friends are yelling awful things at him for everyone to hear, he not only doesn’t have Eliott to go to, but Eliott is so engrossed in the person Lucas always felt second-rate to. Eliott doesn’t even look up at the noise, he is completely oblivious to Lucas’ distress. Could Eliott feel any further away?

I don’t even want to begin trying to imagine everything Lucas was feeling at that moment as he looked at Eliott and Lucille. It is just too devastating. It actually feels worse than what Eliott went through in the school corridor, because at least then Eliott had control over it. Eliott could walk away before ever having to see what Lucas’ face would look like if he learned of Eliott’s mental illness; before ever having to hear Lucas break up with him over it.

Eliott also had all the information over their break up while Lucas remains in the dark (hi Polaris). Lucas is the one who has to see the guy he is in love with for real kissing the person Lucas has always felt second-rate to. And after all those promises that they would be together because Eliott had chosen him...

And since Lucas does not have the information on their break up that Eliott has, all Lucas can see when he looks at them is: Eliott never loved me; Eliott played me; Eliott has been happy with Lucille while I have been so miserable I’ve barely had energy to get off the couch; Eliott lied to me; Eliott never needed space, he just used it as an excuse to get back with Lucille without guilt; of course Eliott doesn’t want to be with me, why would I be so stupid to believe that he did?

And then in the midst of all this gut-wretching pain and the slap of betrayal, Lucas glances back at his friends who he just fought with, who can’t understand what he is going through, who are still hurling really hurtful things at him from the doorway (well, Arthur is), and he is just over everybody.

It almost feels like he is standing in this awful triangle of snipers who have opened fire on the most raw parts of his life -- his sexuality, his family situation, and the man he loves humiliating him in front of everyone. It’s just way too much humiliation and exposure for one person to take. Of course he had to get as far away from everyone and that hellhole of a place as soon as possible.

What is extra fun is that the people behind Lucas seem to have pieced some of the puzzle together. They see his fighting with the Gang, they see the pained expression of his face as he looks ahead, and they all turn to see what he is looking at to cause such an unmistakably anguished face. They see Lucille and Eliott. Guess we’re going to have some fun rumours after all when each section of the party joins up what they have witnessed with Lucas at the epicentre…

LUCAS HURTING HIMSELF

We all had an inkling that the beginning of Lucas’ hell week would be the hardest version for the viewer to watch. I think overall, our assumption was proved correct and that is all because this is the first version where we have seen Lucas’ face in the peak of his anguish.

In comparison, Skam og and Italia gave their Isak/Martino some privacy with their pain. We only ever see Isak’s back as he falls to his knees and cries so loud you can hear it over the Kanye track. We only ever see the vague outline of Martino’s face in the darkness as he screams and cries into his hands (it was so dark, it was lucky we were even able to see the spit flying from his mouth as he screamed). You basically had to rely on all other senses to figure out the amount of pain that Isak/Martino were going through. I think that method is powerful in itself, don’t get me wrong. But in France, we see Lucas completely exposed to the anguish ripping his soul apart. And it is incredibly confronting.

At first when Lucas left the party and the camera was following him down the dark, empty path, it felt like og: Lucas had privacy with his rage and pain. But then everything got loud; all the senses were like doubled. The sound of him smashing his fist against the bars of the fence was so loud and violent. We had that kind of noise in Italia too but that was from the piece of wood Martino was wielding, not his actual hand. So not only do you have the deep echo of metal being hit by a fist, you vicariously feel the pain that that must be inflicting on Lucas’ hand.

And then after Lucas realises he has injured himself and his legs lose power and he slumps down to the floor, the street light completely exposes the expression on his face. His anguish is completely exposed -- and it is anguish that is actually distorting his face. He almost isn’t recognisable. I mean, it is hard to watch anyone suffering that level of pain, but it’s even more hard-hitting with Lucas because his expressions are normally so controlled and neutral.

Two things absolutely wreck me next in this scene. The first is the way he cradles his bleeding hand. When you’ve hurt yourself, of course your natural instinct is to hold the damaged area as if you can somehow contain the pain to that one spot. But since his hurt hand feels more like a physical representation of his emotional hurt, it feels like he is trying to cradle himself. I HATE IT, MAKE IT STOP, GUYS!

The second thing that wrecks me is how after he slumps to the ground and leans his head back -- which also crashes against the metal bars with a deep booming echo -- he mouths something as if to say ‘ow’, like he is just hurting all over, no matter what he does.

And through all of it, he is crying without any sound because the emotion is coming from such a deep place in him. Until you see the numbness take over…

I’ll say it again: it is highly confronting. I can’t even bring myself to take screencaps of it.

I mean, that’s probably why og and Italia took a step back -- because that level of pain is so private and awful, it’s almost wrong for us to witness it. But, well, France plays dirty.

LUCAS HAS NO BEDROOM

Did I just say France plays dirty? Because they are about to double that claim by reminding us all of their trump card: that Lucas has no place to cry privately. His bed is literally in a communal living area while Manon goes through her own grieving in his bedroom.

When a person is as wounded by life as Lucas is right now, it is so essential to have a safe space all to yourself to be able to grieve in. Particularly for someone as reserved as Lucas, who won’t let anyone see any hint of his pain at all (except for this Friday night when his depression was so extreme, he had no energy to move in front of his friends and he couldn’t hide it anymore). How the hell is this poor kid supposed to grieve in a communal living room?!

And that also raises another question: how long did Lucas stay slumped on the cold concrete path on Friday night? If that was the best privacy he had, it was probably a long time. So yeh, thanks for that, France! Like this whole clip didn’t hurt enough…

A TINY BIT OF HOPE TO END ON…

What is unfortunately so hard with Lucas is how reserved he is with his emotions. He is such an island and that makes it hard for others to be able to help him. When Mika reached out to him on Thursday, he got a defensive eye roll. When Yann tried to reach out to him on Friday, he got grumpiness and a hurtful ‘It has nothing to do with you.’ It’s really hard to see Lucas push people away like that and just suffer so many things alone.

This week is going to be such an important turning point for him though. He will finally make that step to trust in others and share the pain that has been slowly drowning him. He has no other choice because he cannot mentally survive like that any longer. And when Lucas starts to open himself up more to his friends and roomates and starts to value that process, it is going to put him in such a healthy place to be able to be that support for Eliott when Eliott’s secrets are exposed and he becomes highly vulnerable.

Lucas’ journey is really tough right now but he is going reconnect with people and with life and be the best person he can be once he starts to accept help. It’s going to be such a rewarding journey to go through with him. <3

[the-pan-ace-writings]

Chapter 9 A dead end

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  A/N:  Hey! so I wanted to apologize for the late uploading, i've finally fixed my computer and with my time in the airport yesterday ive wrote two chapters, so we can expect another update soon! I do want to preface this chapter though that if descriptive violence isnt your thing I would be careful reading this chapter, it is a fight scene and arguably one of the more gruesome and gorey ones ive written. regardless I hope you enjoy this one and I can promise the next chapter will be a bit fluffier

   Once she threw the door open, a turret dropped down from the ceiling, laser rounds almost taking her out immediately, She dropped down to the ground and rolled out of the way so. A rifle round fired behind her and the turret clattered to the ground. She struggled to collect the helmet she had strapped onto her ruck, but once she secured it around her head she took off, mask glowing a glaring red. 

   She encountered the first set of synths, they looked clean but inhuman, only mimicking a skeletal build. Her sword buzzing with electricity made quick work of the synths dropping them in seconds before they could let off enough rounds into the hallway. She heard Nicks pistol firing behind her, she hadn't noticed that the hall split when she had rushed in and noticed even less when another squad of synths entered the hall and she was shoved into the wall, the butt end of a rifle slamming into the bridge of the mask, crushing it against her nose which she felt give and warmth spreading.   With a snarl she kicked the synth away from her and to the ground, boot connecting with the chest plate of the synth crushing it below her, landing her other foot she crouched low her blade swinging and catching multiple synths near their center, a shot stuck her chest plate and she stumbled backwards into the wall again helmet bouncing off the concrete. She could taste the copper in her mouth, her head was buzzing and vision was blurred momentarily, She could she the last synth in the squad raise its rifle at her and she tried to raise her self from the wall, could hear the metal scraping against it, and she reached for her pistol strapped to her hip but before she could bring it up another shot rang out from down the hall.    The Synth collapsed like a ragdoll, a rifle round through the forehead. She was struggling to rise all the way. Dogmeat had reached her first and nearly knocked her over again barreling into her legs but MacCready had pulled her up from her elbow.     “Thank you” Her modulated voice and mostly covered face made it extremely difficult for MacCready or Nick to tell if she was okay. He had opened his mouth to scold her for running off without them but a voice on the overhead had called out to them egging Riona on.     “Now there she is, the most determined woman of the commonwealth.”    “End of the line! Kellogg! Its time you’ve died and I get my son back!” She shouted towards his disembodied voice.    “Who? Oh, that bratty kid? What was it? Shaun? Oh lady you're in for a real surprise!” He was half cackling taunting her. Her face twisted up underneath her visor, teeth bared and her voice came out harsh when she spoke again.    “Where is my son you bastard!” Her voice was clattering into the empty halls, reverberating and in a way it felt as if her own voice was taunting her.    “Why don't you come find out huh?” It was a clear trap, and it was obvious he didn't think she would survive to reach him.    Whatever control that had remained in Riona quickly vanish as she snarled at tried to barrel down the rest of the hall, but MacCready’s grasp on her elbow pulled her back.    “Now you get control of yourself, can't go off in here by yourself you’ll get yourself killed.” Nick was gruff with her.    “Plus you can't destroy turrets on the ceiling with that sword” MacCready tightened his grip on her elbow tugging her a bit towards him.    “I could get close enough.” She pulled her visor off with her free hand to spit the pooling blood from her mouth.    “Like hell you could,” Both Nick and MacCready spoke in tandem.    “You'll need a sharpshooter like before, we’ll get him Riona but you gotta live to get their first” MacCready let go of her arm and she shook her head.    “Then let's go.” She wiped her nose on her hand and clicked her visor into place. Dogmeat took the lead with Riona following behind, MacCready had his rifle raised to take out any turrets before they activated, and with Nick’s help took out the majority of squads that they encountered before Riona went barreling in outnumbered.    They had reached a large office after roaming the halls, it had a sealed door connecting it which even Riona couldn't get unlocked, much to her anger. Kellogg's voice filtered down from the overhead    “It's not too late to stop! You can go home, not a lot of people could say that!”    “You and I both know that's not happening! Open the door, you coward!”    “Okay! My synths are standing down, why don't we just have a chat huh?”    The doors swung open and Riona was seething, MacCready could clearly read it in how she held herself, Dogmeat was snarling hackles raised as high as they could go and he was couched down at her feet, she burst into the room quickly assessing it.    It had multiple synths lining the room, and the man that was in the Vault stood in the middle of the room, he looked more rugged and tired than when she had seen him through the haze of the cryopod.    The moment she entered the room, it was like a chill fell over it, she stood square in the doorway, and it was obvious her patients were nonexistent at this point.    “Tell me where he is.” it was calm, collected and deadly. Kellogg smiled    “Well now if it isn't my friend the TV Din-”    “Tell me where he is damn it!” She cut him off bringing her sword back into view in front of her, her thumb fingering the switch to electrify it.    “Fine, I guess you’ve earned that much. Shaun's in a good place, where he is safe, comfortable and loved. A place he calls home, A place called the institute.”    She pointed her sword at him from afar, emphasizing her words as she spoke.    “Fuck you, Kellogg, where is he really? Huh? You gotta baby locked up in here?”    “Let him go! Your time is done. Your son ain't even a baby! Your son is exactly where he belongs.” She stepped towards him reaching the edge of the platform, MacCready and Nick had readied their respective weapons, the synths in the room still passive but it was clear they were still as dangerous as before and guaranteed to strike if she was any more aggressive.    “Then you’re going to take me to him.”    “Take you to him?” he was laughing “Lady I can’t even bring you to him if I wanted to. It's the institute. Don't you get it? That place is untouchable, nobody gets there unless they want you there.”    “Well if you don't have him, then I guess you serve no purpose to me anymore.” Riona took the step down, her boots landed with a resounding thud, the room was silent until she flicked the battery connected to her sword back on.    She raised the blade and brought it down on where he was standing, but in the moments it took her to ready the blade he has disappeared with an electronic hum.    “The fuck?” she was boiling over, she crouched low searching the room for him, she didn't understand what had happened, or where he went. “You were right fucking here” she swung out wildly and decimated a synth that had escaped from Nick and MacCready.    “It's a stealth boy! He's invisible” MacCready called out to her momentarily breaking from attacking the synth guards.    She felt something slam into the back of her head, she stumbled forwards losing balance. Dogmeat rushed past her and collided with something it looked like he was trying to grab the air. It took her a moment but she started to see the rippling outline of a figure momentary struggling with the dog before a yelp had it released.    Got you now. Her blade connected with something and there was a clatter as an electronic tumbled to the floor. Kellogg reappeared in front of her. He struck her across the face with his pistol before she had a chance to gut him, Her head was buzzing and her vision was starting to blur together at the edges, she grunted and brought the pommel of her sword into his jaw. He threw himself into her knocking them both down, He was tearing at her visor as she grappled with him, she could feel blood leaking down her forehead from where his pistol stuck her.    He tore the visor off of her face and tossed it away, he was practically sitting on her his thumbs edging closer to her eyes, he grabbed the lapels of the coat that covered her chest plate and brought his fist down into her, helmet coming off. She swore as she in a last ditch attempt rolled him over so that she was on top, and that was the end of Kellogg. She snarled and watched pure fear twist his face as she grabbed the collar of his shirt and slammed him into the concrete floor, once, twice, three times, she didn't stop until it there was no more gunfire, and his brain and other gray matter painted the floor and her face.    When she stood up she took his pistol and fired into his chest, emptying the cartridge. When she looked up, both of her companions were staring, Nick clearly looked disturbed and MacCready just looked astonished, Dogmeat was cowering under a desk.     To MacCready she looked like a war goddess, enraged and bloody, gore and sweat mixing together. An Aura of strength and rage filled the room when he looked her in the eyes. She was clearly battered and was having a difficult time breathing, she turned away from him first.    She picked up her helmet and visor from the ground, she looked over at Dogmeat who was slowly coming out from under the table. Her face momentarily crumpled at the sight of him afraid, she regretted losing control in here, in front of her companions, she had no idea if any of them would want to assist or follow her after this, it was clear that she could be wildly dangerous.    Shaking her head she pushed her way past them and out into the office, collapsing on one of the couches in here. She heard MacCready saying he’d search the room.    She was dizzy, her head felt like it was spinning and her stomach was turning, she had emptied the contents of her stomach into an empty container near her and sprawled out onto the couch clutching her head in an attempt to keep the room from spinning anymore than it was. Riona didn't know how long it took them to search the room when they came out, but once they did they immediately started talking at her.    “This might have gotten easier.” Nick held up what looked like an implant.”Kellogg had some modifications and with decent luck and the help of the memory den in Goodneighbor we should be able to get some more information.”    She didn't respond to him and instead sat up, planting her feet on the ground leaning onto her elbows on her knees.    “If Shaun really is in the hands of the institute I have to find that place and rescue him. But I'm going to need help if y'all are up to it.” She spoke more to her boots than she did to them, she was mildly surprised when she felt MacCready’s hand close around her shoulders.    “I'm still game” He smiled when she looked up at him, her eyes big it was clear she expected him to leave after this.    “You'll want to talk to Doctor Amari when you get to Goodneighbor, but I think we’re all going to need to rest up before we head off.”    MacCready raised his hand to Riona to help her up off the couch and keep her steady.    “We found an elevator to leave” He slung her arm over his shoulder and pulled her closer to him placing his arm around her waist, supporting her so that she wouldn't collapse, Dogmeat trailed behind with Nick as they entered the elevator.    When they exited the elevator on the roof they were met with a horrible cacophony of engine sound, vertibirds and a blimp started to cross the sky. The ominous airship and vertibirds darkened the sky as they crossed. She couldn't make out the paint on them but heard MacCready huff. When she turned to look at him, it was clear that this sight wasn't a good thing.    “The Brotherhood has arrived.”    The dread in his voice was clear and it sent a shiver down her spine, it seems like this already poor day just got worse.

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[gaygollum]

all of ur tags on the endgame sucked post!! >>> i think the complete refusal to accept anything that happened in aos/ac is, yes, as you said, hating-women-o'clock. all of the character development went backwards and they tried to cover that up with action and guns. that one shot with all the mcu women in it was pANDERING and whoooooo boy this movie makes me mad !! glad to see there are other ppl in the 'engame completely ruined the mcu for me' club tho lmaooo

(this response ended up being very very long im so sorry but i get heated thinking about this stupid franchise lmao)

RETWEET to everything you said i remember walking out of the theatre feeling so crappy about the entire movie but not being able to verbalize it and everyone around me loved it and it wasnt until like after spiderman came out and the entire movie was basically about tony and i was like actually…maybe i hate this. and yes the woman group shot bothered me so much russo brothers you owe me financial compensation

and yeah agent carter wrapped up a lot of loose ends from the first cap and it meant so much to me while it was airing and having this movie just completely erase Literally everything that happened in those 2 seasons was a punch in the gut. esp because they just treated peggy as a “”reward”” for steve at the end… it was weird and bad! after peggy had literally moved on!!! and then endgame was like sousa?? never heard of him. by the way steve kissed his literal actual niece in civil war :) we made it even weirder than it already was :)

other mcu hating women moments was captain marvel in endgame supposedly being one of the most powerful superheroes but she only had like seven lines ohhhhhh my god. and killing off black widow… that sure was a choice!!! and i know these are all white women so like the few crumbs in this movie about women were. entirely white. girlboss!1!!1!1!1!2!!32

but even if i overlooked the abysmal treatment of women in this movie it just. wasnt good anyway. everything they did with thor especially was just… yikes! they completely ignored everything that happened in ragnorak they killed off loki in like the first five minutes they gave thor back his eye and his hammer and then they turned his depression into a running gag and it was like haha hes fat now isnt that funny!! *fornite joke* and i was like im in hell im literally in hell

not to mention the way they handled time travel was like the worst take ive ever seen. the plot was just flimsy and thanos isnt even a good villain like there is not really a memorable scene in this entire film and they hyped it up so much. russo brothers how does it feel to be literally so inconsequential (and the fact that russo brothers also wrote winter soldier which is about steve trying to move on from the past…what happened. WHAT HAPPENED?? im convinced they have a ghost writer or something because its the worst 180 ive ever seen.)

agents of shield interlude because its my favorite marvel thing: it is so good. like there are better seasons but there are no wholly bad seasons. i get it if people dont want to watch seven seasons of 40+ minute episodes because that is a LOT of tv but mcu stans are watching all these new disney+ shows and acting like they Invented television and i feel like im losing my marbles a little bit because aos has been here the entire time with the character relationships/growth that these people always gripe about the avengers not having but barely anyone has seen it!! not to mention the five female characters we got who all got their own arcs and were essential to the plot (two of which were superheroes and two of which were black widow-esque spies and one of which was a scientist — and 3/5 were women of color)

were they mad that the only main cast men in this show were 1. a traditionally masculine white man that fanboys would typically idolize who turned out to be a bad guy who was never redeemed or justified and was killed off in a gruesome way because he sucked in every possible way 2. a socially awkward nerd who is not very masculine 3. an old man who is not very masculine either 4. a black man 5. a man that sacrifices himself for a woman (fuck you endgame) and 6. two other men who were most of the time played for laughs because they were less capable than the women of the team. did that hurt their feelings?? that there were no billionaire playboys for them to idolize :(((( that women were given actual depth :((( boo hoo

anyway aos season 4 robot plotline was better than age of ultron, which admittedly is a low bar, but still. i think i watched aos s4 back in 2016/2017 and it blew my mind and i expected the mcu to hold up against it and it never did

[annathetrickster]

part 4 of my thoughts on FE4, covering chapter 3. 

spoilers under the cut obviously.

so first a bit of backstory that will help explain whats going on up to this point; 

in chapter 2 we helped lachesis defend nordion, and rescued eldigan who was being held captive after his unsuccessful attempt at negotiating peace. unfortunately, in the process we also conquered most of augustria (think of it as the state, and nordion one of its many cities/castles). eldigan was obviously unhappy about this and told sigurd he’d have one year to sort out the mess and get them back on their feet and under their own rule.

TLDR: we had no choice but to take over a bunch of land, and now we’re trying to get them back to being self governed.

a lot of this game is politics so i can understand if its hard to follow for most of you.

so even though eldigan said we’d have one year to sort things out, and he opted to let chagall live (ugly guy who locked him up), chagall decided that he’d rather attack us even though we’re apparently almost done restoring the peace.

its about time deirdre opened up more. she’s usually so formal with him even though they’ve been married for a while now. i wonder if something happened between them.

OHHHHHHH SHIT 

they fucked.

no idea why, but i completey forgot about seliph and julia while playing this so this still surprised me quite a bit. still, its very interesting to see deirdre finally go from calling him ‘milord’ to ‘my love’ now that they’ve done the deed. 

its time.

its worth noting that changing class doesn’t reset your lvl, so you stay whatever lvl you are and just gain additional stats. pretty interesting way of handling class change.

right so onto the map. 

as far as difficulty goes, this one seems like the easiest one so far. my main concern is the desert area towards the north of the map since i don’t see any way to access that part of the map, but we’ll cross that currently non-existent bridge when we get there.

and just like that a wild ship appears.

im a total sucker for the whole “girl who’s normally tired of a guys shit ends up actually liking him” deal. its part of why i ship inigo and severa so much. 

take notes guys: flowers are old news. want to impress a girl? get her a 12 might weapon capable of attacking up to 4 times in one round of combat.

and now she feels bad for being so rude to him. lex seems like a genuinely nice guy tbh.

so it took me a few tries but i think we’re just about ready to seize the castle. this chapter so far has definitely been the easiest yet. you really just had to defend your base for a good few turns but once thats taken care of taking the castle is fairly simple.

again, chagall is the ugly guy who imprisoned eldigan and he’s only still alive because eldigan thought it’d be totally cool to let him live and we’d be able to work out a peaceful solution, even though he literally already tried that and it got him locked up.

he goes on to tell sigurd about how his father, lord byron, is a prime suspect in the murder of prince kurth (the prince of grannvale, which is basically the state sigurd’s castle/city, chalphy resides in), and how theres rumors that both he and his father worked together to murder the prince. this is obviously just more of sigurd being setup to fail by the higher ups since his father and prince kurth were very close.

also tailtu was there and she apparently wants in the holy man’s pants.

1 down, possibly 2 more to go.

shanan: deirdre no

deirdre: deirdre yes

so deirdre gets abducted by this cloaked figure who’s been manipulating everything behind the scenes. earlier in the game, i believe around chapter 1, he mentions something along the lines of wanting to ‘resurrect the dark lord’, and that in order to do that you need deirdre. the exact details of what he said are hard to remember atm but there’s definitely some heavy NTR implications with what he said earlier in the game, as well as him mentioning ‘cleansing’ the slate of her life for her ‘true husband’. 

im sure more will be revealed as i progress through the story. as for seliph, he’s still with shanan.

eldigans patience with this guy is incredible. remember he had the chance to kill him last chapter but eldigan opted to let him go, even though he locked him up.

hes about to ride against his best friend all for the sake of honor, loyalty to his country, and his own pride. he reminds me a lot of camus actually in that both are loyal to an extreme fault. if battling against his best friend is whats best for the future of augustria then he’s willing to lay his life on the line for that cause.

great idea, because that totally went well the last 10 times.

top 10 photos taken seconds before disaster

and there it is.

the source of all the headless horseman eldigan memes you’ve probably seen

eldigan fucking dies.

not only does he die, but the way he’s killed is extremely dark compared to other games in the series. its not enough chagall wants him dead, he wants him decapitated, and humiliated. even though all eldigan did was what he felt was best for the future of his country. pretty heavy stuff.

so how is eldigan as a character? basically camus is his closest comparison. both of them have extreme loyalty towards their country, and while eldigan might not have the added complexity of a love interest, i think the fact that he pays the ultimate price for his unyielding loyalty makes him every bit as good of a character as camus is.

rip in pepperoni eldigan. press F to pay respects.

another handsome sailor moon villan appears

also wyvern emblem is a thing

apparently they’re dracoknights, interesting to learn that this is the first you see of them, and not FE8 with the ability to class branch pegasus knights or wyvern riders into them.

of course dracoknight emblem is not match for finn emblem.

also, im not sure how advised this is, but out of all the characters ive gotten so far this is my main force. 

sigurd

finn

quan

ethlyn

lex

ayra

sylvia

lachesis

i tend to favor smaller armies in the main series games and prefer to have a handful of OP units vs a bunch of mediocre ones so we’ll see if i can continue that strategy going forward.

meanwhile all the other characters just kind of hang around the castle. mostly because im way too lazy to drag them along on these ungodly maps.

its time

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gotta say, so far this is my favorite sprite by far. his class is great knight unlike finn and quan who are duke knights. the sprites in FE1-8 just have a certain charm that the newer games can’t match. even with fully rendered 3d models.

ok, several things to point out here;

how does he know eldigan died? we were literally halfway across the globe when he was killed, and we’re currently outside the castle, whereas eldigans body is presumably inside. unless of course he literally has his head on display or something extremely gruesome to that effect.

“youve murdered countless innocents, and eldigan” >implying eldigan isnt innocent?

this guy literally killed your best friend, possibly has his head on display, and the worst you can come up with is something you’d find on a negative yelp review?

i’d really like to see both him and marth just drop an F bomb once in a while.

#let sigurd say fuck

and finally this annoying fuck is dead.

oh boy, not only does he have to face his best friends lifeless body but now he’s about to learn his wife was abducted. i would really hate to be sigurd right about now.

not that shanan is in any easier of a position. imagine telling someone like sigurd you failed to do the one thing he told you to do. as kind and compassionate of a leader he is, he would still be an extremely imposing figure for shanan.

you had one job.

given the heavy NTR implcations, probably getting banged out by some other guy right about now to “resurrect the dark lord”.

after some pretty heavy storyline developments, the second castle is taken, one more to go.

so after all thats happened with eldigan, deirdre, and sigurd we’re kind of forced to care about this nameless character who is now the commander of a group of pirates after their boss died/was killed. she’s been telling them not to pillage and loot but they refuse to acknowledge her authority because she was just some girl their captain found rather than his actual daughter, and they’d rather do whatever they want (as pirates tend to do) than listen to her.

personally i find it hard to suddenly care about the well being of this character after eldigan literally gave his life for his country, and no one knows what happend to deirdre, but apparently the castle must be taken so here we go.

you’ve heard of horse emblem, now get ready for.. pirate emblem

“i know we’re pirates and we’re capable of traveling across water and all, but lets all invade this country through this one fucking bridge where we can only cross one at a time. single file everyone, mind your manners.”

then we have these guys to deal with who somehow ended up on the other side of the map before the bridge was placed.

this guy being a holy man is the only way he has the patience to deal with her tbh.

seriously why wait till now to give him such a powerful weapon, what is with this game and holding out weapons until you’re 80% done with the chapter.

so to put in perspective what you have to go through if you want to recruit tailtu, as i mentioned she starts at the upper left corner of the map and the hoard of pirates from earlier will chase bridget forcing her to retreat west. keep in mind: the only way to progress through the chaper is to seize the castle where we defeated chagall, meaning sigurd needs to be all the way down there. unless you’ve played this game before you have no real way of knowing whats going to happen next and therefore no way to prepare for the shit ton of pirates who will make their way west in an attempt to kill bridget. 

sure you could check the wiki and preemtptively place your units near the bridge, but even then unless you have cavalry movement you still have to chase after them pretty hard and keep bridget, tailtu, and claude out of danger. so again this would be another case where you’d have to reset the original game and try the whole chapter all over again if you want to recruit any of the 3.

thankfully we have the wiki and an ungodly amount of patience and i was able to save all 3 of them, even though ill probably never use either.

auntie ayra took care of all the pirates pretty easily so aside from running away from pirates with tailtu and bridget, this chapter was probably the easiest so far.

again, im not sure why we went out of our way to take this particular castle, and its not really helping sigurds case as a traitor. unless im missing something, the pirates had nothing to do with us as far as i know.

so after we take the pirate castle langobalt (pictured) shows up and apparently has orders to arrest sigurd who is being branded a traitor. another random guy (presumably his advisor) admits that it was langobalt himself who murdered prince kurth and is framing sigurd for the crime.

of course we knew sigurd was innocent already, but we didnt know who exactly killed the prince.

in a rare moment of weakness, sigurd actually loses his cool which is to be expected really. his best friend died, his wife kidnapped, and he’s about to be arrested. how would anyone not lose their cool at this point.

well that is going to do it for chapter 3. to recap, eldigan fucking dies, sigurd and deirdre have a child (seliph), deirdre gets kidnapped and possibly NTR’s sigurd unwillingy or otherwise, some pirate stuff happened, and sigurd is about to be arrested so he’ll be laying low in silesse for the time being.

overall the story sure took an interesting and very dark turn pretty quickly so im definitely looking forward to seeing what happens, especially with deirdre.

thanks for reading and thanks for your patience with me getting these posted.

[less-moe-less-problems]

i just want to say that ddlc was extremely triggering for me and i’m disappointed to see you reblogging it. i felt that it was not taking the themes of mental illness, self harm, and suicide seriously, and it was distressing to see a cutesy visual novel suddenly show graphic depictions of teenagers hurting themselves. i understand that it was my personal reaction to it but i’m sure there are others like me.

im sorry you feel that way. i cant say im going to stop enjoying it. ive seen/experienced first hand all of the things portrayed in DDLC, and its something hard to face. i think the fact that it shows the problems so gruesomely in an entirely non-conventional method, and then takes the time to talk about it draws good attention to the fact that “life isnt just okay.”

talking with Monika, she really says insightful and bolstering things, said in ways better than most anyone who has tried to support me through the years.

i also think that the game does a very -very- good job warning the player. you have to read three separate warning, as well as making a confirmation before you can even start the game.

i hope these dont sound like excuses, because i dont mean them to be. but i will always go to bat for this game, and Monika will always be special to me. i dont want to sound rude, but i also wont censor my blog for anyone, before anything i run it for me and the friends ive made here.

[adelaideattractions]

Three-letter code every hostie dreads

Many a hostie will tell you with a glint in their eye theyve seen it all in the skies. Theres a great horror story from a New Years Eve flight on an unnamed airline. Twin Americans boarded with cannabis gummies in their system and promptly took turns to green out, becoming very paranoid and unwell. The flight attendant said as soon as one of them was manageable, the second brother lost his mind too. From rogue body fluids to gruesome cargo items to privileged passengers these anonymous stories show why the coveted job of flight attendant isnt always the most glamorous. So strap in and prepare for a bumpy ride as cabin crew take to the internet to share their war stories, courtesy of the New Zealand Herald. SOME OF YALL ARE RATHER ENTITLED Reddit user and hostie Zlinerlabs relates a story of sky-high entitlement. Every so often we get the odd straggler who boards last who finds a vacant seat in first or business thinking that we wont know that they are from coach, they said. Spoiler: This doesnt work.

media_cameraThere is so, so much more to the job than simply this. Picture: iStock User Notweirdthrowaway had this to say. Not an attendant but was on a flight with really bad turbulence. It went on for about 10 minutes then the old lady next to me reaches up and presses her button. Attendant walks over to see if the woman is okay, the woman begins to yell at the attendant for the rough flight and that shes been flying her whole life and clearly the pilot has no idea what hes doing. The stewardess just walked away. Another person on the social media platform had a blood-boiler to tell. I remember flying into SFO (San Francisco airport) and going through the final walk-through asking everyone to wake up, buckle up, headrests forward, tray tables up and collect trash, they said. Halfway through, the pilot said, Flight attendants, be seated immediately which indicates a lot of upcoming turbulence. So I quickly started to trot through with my trash bag to my jump seat when a man yelled HEY! I was a few rows past him and he had his cup and wet napkin in his hand. I quickly said, I have to sit down and turned back towards the back galley. I then felt something hit me. I looked back and he had thrown his trash at me and was staring at me like the little (expletive) he was. I heard a few people gasp and everyone in the last eight rows or so was tuned in to the drama.

media_cameraFlight attendants put up with a lot of bad behaviour. DONT TRY TO SWAP YOUR WAY INTO AN UPGRADE User ConstableBlimeyChips is an attendant and this is their pet peeve. A type of behaviour Ive unfortunately seen too much of: Couple will book separate seats, the man in a premium economy seat with extra leg room, the woman in a normal economy seat, they explained. The woman will then play the sad sack and ask another passenger to give up their comfy seat so they can sit together. If the other passenger refuses (usually because they paid extra and literally dont fit in a regular seat), some will even complain to the crew. And all this to save a few bucks on the second premium seat. Doc_Choc added: I never understand the logic of this and how it works on anyone. Ive been the random person in a premium seat a few times, and when asked I decline and tell them theyd probably have more luck if the person in the premium seat traded theirs away. They always act like they hadnt thought of that and then move on to someone they hope is an easier mark. I cant imagine how Id react if someone tried to get the staff to move me. User I_got_em_coach reckons you might just have to play dead. Sir were are going to need you to move. Passenger, clearly reading a book, immediately goes completely limp in seat.

media_cameraWed keep those bare feet off the floor too, kid. IF YOU KNEW, YOUD LEAVE YOUR SHOES ON Please do not ever walk into a toilet with bare feet. I promise you, 9 times out of 10, that is not water on the floor, writes Reddit user HausofDarling. The toilets are often absolutely disgusting and get deep cleaned only at the end of a route For us this could be from one side of the world to the other imagine how lovely they are at the end of a 12 hour flight with 200 people using them. Seeyou_never adds: So many incidents occur on the plane that everyday passengers dont see or consider. My last flight an elderly man accidentally sh*t on the floor, stepped in it, and walked on like it was nothing. Pee and poop happens, all over. I feel like I witness an accident regularly; in their seat or in the lav. People get nose bleeds or their wounds open. Obviously, when we land, it is thoroughly cleaned. But in-flight our resources are limited. DONT CHANGE YOUR BABYS DIAPER ON THE TRAY TABLE. This also happens all the time. Its unsanitary and people use the tray table to eat! DEAD ON DEPARTURE As the crew members continued to list the horrors unknown to plane passengers, things took a dark turn. There is more often than not a lot of horrific things in the cargo, HausofDarling wrote. As flying is the quickest way to transport cargo, passengers may be unwittingly sharing their flight with some unusual items. Usually, the only people who know are the flight deck (pilots) and the manager/senior crew member. Dead bodies, organs, blood are obvious ones, but we also carry everything right up to Formula One car parts, exotic animals, marble tables, oversized televisions everything. HUM is the code for human remains and the cargo most aircrew dread, said user Rosiulia who worked in the booking department of a long-haul airline.

media_cameraDont think it doesnt happen. While there is need for speed when transporting these shipments, the same urgency is not always met when the cargo arrives on the ground. When we have these kind of shipments we need to contact the family to make them aware when the plane lands and when to come to pick up the body, explained Rosiulia. And guess what. The body arrived in Shanghai in time, and no one picked it up for days. Legion3382 has the grimmest of news. Im not a flight attendant but I work the ramp, they said. We do send full bodies on planes a lot. Some in caskets some not. Twice in the seven years Ive been doing this has fluid leaked out of the boxes the bodies are in and got all over the luggage. HORRIBLE LITTLE GOBLINS (YES, US) Sadly for hosties, it their living passengers give them the most grief. The items left behind are perhaps the most unpleasant things kept secret from passengers. People are generally disgusting on planes, acknowledged ex-attendant Boopboopster. People frequently do disgusting things on their tray tables (Ive seen people change diapers, clip toenails and wipe boogers to name a few). However, these discoveries pale in comparison to human faeces under a seat. Nodealreddit chipped in, having dated a flight attendant. One common story was about the Delta miracles. Passengers in wheelchairs would board the plane before everyone else, but they had to wait for everyone else to disembark before they could get rolled out. It is apparently common for people to be healed during mid-flight and no longer need assistance when they reach their destination.

media_cameraIts a tough job. Picture: iStock THANK GOODNESS FOR AUTOPILOT? Giftofnarwhals had this genuinely terrifying tale. I used to work with elderly people, and one of my clients was a former pilot that finally quit when he realised in the middle of a flight his dementia had progressed, and he couldnt remember where he was supposed to be flying to. Meaning he had been flying for a commercial airline with dementia for quite some time before that. A FINAL NOTE Lets hand the final word to Seeyou_never. It is NOT the responsibility of a flight attendant to lift your bag, they said. There are multiple injuries caused from flight attendants lifting heavy bags to be friendly, and then theyre out of the job for months to a year (on average). If you pack it, you lift it. If its too heavy for you, its too heavy for us. On your next flight, spare a thought for your crew and try to chill out on your next adventure. And cross your fingers for a mentally sound pilot and no corpse juice. What are the odds, right? This article originally appeared on the New Zealand Herald and was reproduced with permission Originally published as Three-letter code every hostie dreads https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flight-attendants-spill-secrets-including-the-sinister-meaning-of-the-code-hum/news-story/90af5f08c90674a44b7cf505c6cca2a4?from=htc_rss

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Character Name: Aaron Whitmore IV Character Age: 21 Character Species: Human Status: Open Character Quote: “Everyone around me dies. It's like a curse. My friends, my family-- one by one, I've lost every single person in my life. So, if you had any idea what survivor's guilt felt like, you'd leave me alone.”

Past:

Liam likes to think that his family is made up of good people. They’re rich and maybe a bit out of touch with people but they support many charities one being the Augustine Foundation for generations. They go out camping together, and to small towns to look at boring things like the world’s biggest ball of string. Despite this his family is made up of some of the worst luck around, because inevitably everyone ends up dying. Sometimes in their sleep and other times in gruesome horrible ways. At so young an age Liam wasn’t privy to this knowledge, simply that his Dad’s side of the family weren’t alive but his Mom’s was. It was sad but he knew other kids who only interacted with half their family too. Plus they had their close friends the Kings, who might as well have been family. That friendship giving him Megan another kid to hang out with during all of the boring galas they’d get dragged to. Looking back he regrets the times he fought against going to those parties, to spending most of them hiding away. Because at the tender age of six while they were camping, while he was sleeping soundly in his sleeping bag, Aaron’s parents were murdered. Waking up the next morning and walking outside proceeded to change him forever. The papers ran the tragedy and people sighed over it and how lucky the little boy was, how horrifying it must have been the one to find your parents mauled to death by a Black Bear. He was now the Whitmore orphan a heavy burden his own Father was held. His next guardian had been kind only to die suddenly and tragically, and the next, and the next. Soon hope was sucked out of the boy as he found himself a jinx, a real like character from ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’. The latest Guardian to take up the mantel has been Doctor Wes Maxfield, a professor at Tulane Medical, a research scientist and his Father’s old protege.

Present:

It’s a near miracle that he’s made it this far in school. Only a year left and still undeclared Aaron finds himself afloat and without purpose. He is about the right age to finally tap into his inheritance, a sum large enough that work isn’t something he’ll ever need to consider. But something about that just feels lonely. Aaron doesn’t want to keep isolating himself, he doesn’t want to keep being this magnate for death, he wants to just be happy. If only he knew how to actually reach out. A new girl in town Elena Gilbert seems to be the first person he’s met who understands that though, what it’s like to be cursed to be followed by the deaths of those you love. She’s actually reaching out to him, maybe he needs to take the leap and finally reach back.

Connections:

Megan King: His best friend, Aaron’s known Megan since childhood and when he found out she was coming to Tulane he was actually happy. He missed having her around, even if she had a habit of getting herself into too much trouble. He knows he can be overbearing at times, something no one else can draw out of him. But curiosity killed the cat and Aaron doesn’t think he could take losing Megan as well.

Jesse Laurent: Aaron likes Jesse, he does. But the guy is a lot to handle, positive energy and driven, always trying to include him in stuff. He’s probably the dream roommate for most other people. But Aaron isn’t most other people. They were assigned their room together a few years back though and it sort of just stuck, maybe he had grown on him, or maybe Aaron just didn’t have the energy to break in another roommate.

Damon Salvatore: He’s only seen the guy once or twice but something about him unnerves him. There’s something wrong there, something dark and evil. Aaron knows that he’s depressed and he knows the way he sees things is sometimes a bit skewed. But this guy is something else, someone who should be avoided in a back alley. Sometimes he wants to warn the guy’s friends.

FC: Luke Mitchell