#two in one!

[tired-of-being-nice]

whumptober day 6: "it's not my blood."

i had something in the works for day 5, but it just kept getting longer and not getting finished.... alas. oh well. here's coren having a Time! and ray is there

cws: blood, injury, um. implied/discussed terrible workplace environment including hunting people for sport (kinda)

Coren is having a great day. They're on the move, adrenaline rushing through their veins, doing what they do best.

If you asked Coren, they'd say they liked both parts of their job equally, of course, and mostly they do. One half of their job is retrieving employees who get the silly idea of trying to escape the Company lodged in their heads and try to run away. This is...sometimes fun. The other half of their job is making sure employees of other companies aren't trespassing on their territory or breaking curfew, and that'spretty much always fun. There's way less yelling and crying and fighting back and looks of betrayal involved— not that Coren minds any of that, they're not going to complain, it's just– annoying? Yes. It's annoying. 

So. Yes! This is better! This is a great day! The retrievals earlier put up a bit of a fuss, but it's alright, it's dealt with, and now they get to have fun!

Coren scurries along a rooftop, scrambles down a fire escape, spots a flicker of movement and tracks it to a corner. It doesn't recognize them. Out of place, most certainly. Needs a friendly reminder. Coren smiles, and pounces.

The person screams, very gratifyingly, and presses back against a wall, which is stupid of them but helpful for Coren, who takes a step forward to ensure they have nowhere to run. "Jesus Christ, that's so much blood!" the person says, and everything is going normally until they follow it up with "Are you okay?"

This short-circuits Coren's brain a bit, until they realize that the person probably just said that to confuse them so they could get away, and then it snaps back to focus and realizes the person hasn't even tried to move away, and then they decide to stop processing any of this at all and just answer the question. "Yup!"

"Are you sure? That's– some of that's fresh, oh god..." They do look properly terrified, at least.

"It's fine!" Coren says with a light, cheerful laugh. "It's not my blood." They glance down at their shirt, which makes them so dizzy they nearly fall over. "M-most of it, anyway. I think. Ah—" Their vision goes black for a minute, but through sheer stubbornness, they remain upright.

Sheer stubbornness and, it realizes belatedly, the other person's hand on its arm. When did they get so close? 

"Hey," it says. "Let go."

The other person shrugs and does so. Coren immediately feels worse.

"Why'd you do that?" it says petulantly. "Don't you know you're supposed to be scared of me?"

"Oh, I am! I'm terrified," the other person says. "But I'm terrified all the time anyway, and also, you oweme."

Coren bares their teeth. "I don't owe anybody anything!"

"You at the very least owe me a spatula," the other person says, which throws Coren  off so much they forget about being angry entirely.

"What??"

"The spatula," the other person says. "Remember? From when M—"

There's a sharp ringing sound and a smell of iron, and Coren finds itself abruptly on the ground with a terrible headache.

Somehow, the idiot trying to talk to them still hasn't tried to run. Instead, they stand over Coren and say "Huh. Weird."

Coren glares up at them, or tries to. 

"You should leave," they manage to say. There is a lot of blood on them, come to think of it.

"Or what? You're going to bleed on me?" Ray—how did it know that?—says. "You really should check where all that's coming from."

"I'm. Fine," Coren says through gritted teeth. "I am threatening you." 

"Oh, are you?" Ray says sweetly. "Sorry. I forgot."

Coren forces itself to its feet. Hm. Ow. It may have a sprained ankle. And– it puts a hand to its side –damn it, Ray was right, it is bleeding. That's inconvenient, although it does explain the dizziness.

"For the last time," it says, taking a step closer to Ray. He takes a step back, and Coren sees a brief flash of fear in his eyes– good! Finally! "Leave. Now."

Ray stands her ground for just a few seconds longer, then says "Fine. No skin off my back what happens to you."

She turns and leaves. Coren waits until they're 100% sure she's out of sight to collapse back to the ground. Fuck. What a way to ruin a perfectly good day.

[one-winged-dreams]

@northernwolfie

[this-is-a-podcast-fanblog]

"Kamala Harris raised 50+ million dollars after Biden dropped out!" you fools.... that's the money she got from selling Biden to One Direction :(

[housederiva]

My housemate's cat came into my room while my dictation was on...

[schistcity]

ohhh… you guys are like… STUPID stupid

[incohorace]

what studying literature feels like

[aholefilledwithtwigs]

I once had a landlord offhandedly mention that his mother had set this house on fire before. He and his wife lived on the first floor, and i rented the third.

Apparently his mom didn’t like his wife. So she set their house on fire. The house i was living in.

He assured me that everything was fine now and that this was years ago, just kinda laughed, smiled, and said ‘You know how moms are’

Yes. I know how moms are. I know how fucked up moms are as well. I have known many fucked up moms and fellow children of fucked up moms.

Attempted murder through arson is not typical mom behavior, even for a fucked up abusive mom

Oh, and his mother lived next door 🙃

[thegodoffortune]

from 8 months ago

animated by mee :)) watch the full thing heree

[the-shifting-long]

@ anybody who's started getting interested in slay the princess after watching Markiplier play it: trust me. trust me on this. stop watching his playthrough. don't even think about his playthrough. ideally wait for the pristine cut to be released (completely free expansion to the game.) but if you're impatient it's complete as-is. go play it yourself. as blind as possible. trust me. TRUST ME. the game is SO MUCH BETTER when you're the one behind the wheel, making all the choices, and you don't know what will happen when you make them.

it's a very, very, very good game, if you can't afford it the devs are perfectly fine with piracy, there are two of them, they have plenty of the money they need to support their future projects, you can always buy the game later or official slay the princess merch to support them financially, i'm telling you this for your own good, trust me, you want to play it yourself and you want to avoid Markiplier's playthroughs until you do.

[jellyjamheadobb]

[dramatic-dolphin]

when we were studying the bible in literature class (so we have the context necessary for later works that reference the bible), i think we were at the book of jonah, and one of my classmates was studying the text very intently, and then looked up and earnestly said "professor, i don't understand the will of god"

the teacher was just like. well sadly i am a literature teacher and not a priest so i can't help you there. but if it helps, many people throughout history had the same problem.

[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

[charliepoopyfart]

They made having blue hair and pronouns illegal in piltover

[fuzzballsheltiepants]

ok looks like we're gonna be doing the same thing, different verse, now that it's Kamala Harris on the Dem ticket instead of Joe Biden.

friendly reminder that one of these 2 people is getting elected. there's not a magical 3rd party person who's mystical and perfectly progressive who is gonna come out of the woodwork and save us. not voting or voting 3rd party isn't a "protest," it's capitulation. so let's do a comparison:

On Gaza:

I forgot to add to this that Trump also stated he will deport any non-citizen who protests the war in Gaza.

On LGBTQ+ rights:

On criminal justice:

On reproductive rights:

On the border:

In case you don't believe me re: the last Trump point.

On voting rights:

On climate change:

On the working class:

[livelylambs]

he’s soooooo close