#very thought provoking...

[phantomrose96]

Im usually much too shy to send asks but you gotta be the change you want to see, and i agree that asks need to stay so: would you rather right 1 horse sized rat, or 100 rat sized horses?

ah yikes... so my knee jerk reaction is "the 100 rat-sized horses, certainly, as those can be picked off one at a time." however the risk of my conscience catching up to me by the 30th or 40th horse is too great. how much death could I inflict upon these rat-sized horses before I vow to see death no more? even if pure survival instinct drives me through all 100, what of the aftermath? surrounded by the carnage of 100 tiny horses with only my own wet breath among 100 still chests? inconceivable. war is hell.

[homehauntsyou]

the way that right before dean punches sam in bloodlust he kind of makes himself look less threatening, smiles a little bit, shakes his head, and then turns around and absolutely swings at him. he wants sam to be surprised by it !! he does want it to hurt !! he does get some level from satisfaction in the act & what it means and that’s really really crucial to just how dean is.

[chellustrates]

oooohh... oral hygiene..... scary....

[ninyard]

I really wonder if Nathan was raised to be like that or did he just turn this way for some reason after something happened and managed to catches the moriyamas eyes and if neil ever meet his grandparents or knew about them or if they’re even alive, this is so silly but i needed to talk about it !

YES LET'S TALK ABOUT IT

I feel like he had to have been born into it. But like. Let's talk about Nathan.

I wonder if he had a bad relationship with his father, too. I wonder if the only times he felt close to his parents was when he was doing their work with them. And what was it that made him so... nonchalant about killing? Is it something he was born with, an incorrectly wired part of his brain, or is it just something he's been around for so long that it never was a big deal. Was he a child in the back of his father's car while he carried out a hit, staring out the window at the silhouettes of his father pointing a gun or strangling a man. I wonder how he viewed the blood on his dad's hands when he got back into the car. Did he even think about it, or was the comic book in his hands or the streetlights outside far more interesting than whatever it was his dad did for a living?

Did Mary ever meet them? Did Nathan's mother like her, or did she view her as his property, viewing most of the women that married into the family the same way?

Maybe Neil was the oldest grandchild. Maybe he was the only one, a pregnancy unexpected, unplanned and unwanted. Maybe Nathan's mother blamed Mary for it, and with her family in England and her in-laws not caring about her at all, she spent most of her pregnancy alone and scared. But maybe Nathaniel was going to be the thing that would show to Nathan's father that he could create something worthy of approval, something of value. Maybe Nathan pitched Nathaniel's greatness to anyone who needed to hear it, and maybe Nathaniel couldn't fill the boots laid out for him.

I want to say that if the Wesninskis were a multi-generation crime family, maybe Nathan's father knew some member of the older Moriyama family well. I feel like the Moriyamas and Wesninski's would've been allies, but at some point Nathan became a project, similar to Riko and Kevin. But instead of superstars in Exy, he became their hit man. He belonged to the Moriyamas to some degree as well, maybe, and so his father raised him to not flinch at the sight of blood, to be a good shot, to cut the right arteries and slice the right limbs.

I wonder how the Wesninskis died. I wonder if Nathan was involved. I wonder if it was to repay a debt or to fix a slip-up. I wonder if Nathan blamed Mary somehow. I wonder if he ever got to show his father his failed protégé. Or are they still alive? Was Neil's family young enough that his grandparents are still around, somewhere, retired or in prison?

[itsdefinitely]

do girl jeri and boy jerry exist explicitly to torment me

[theoneofshame]

Salutations! Here's more half-baked scribbles because I just can't help myself.

Voldemort has a love for books that rivals Hermione’s. The nebulous feel of Voldemort’s consciousness at the periphery of Harry’s would suddenly snap into laser focus at the forefront of his mindscape whenever Harry studied from a text that piqued his interests. Would practically push Harry aside if he found his attention or notes lacking.

Voldemort's hunger for knowledge was limitless in subject-matter, and makes for a surprising complement to Harry’s wandering mind. Voldemort indulges Harry’s genuine questions where other’s brushed him off or scolded, even finding some amusing. Especially the random thoughts like: aren’t Santa’s elves an awful lot like house elves and did that make Santa a wizard, and what exactly was the difference between alchemy and chemistry, or if there's applied mathematics, does that mean there’s unapplied mathematics?

If the current topics are connected to one of Harry’s classes, Voldemort has him search through specific readings, and circles around conversations with pointed remarks until Harry comes to his own conclusions. He makes learning… enjoyable for Harry. Reminds him that professor Quirell’s instruction was partially responsible for Defense being Harry's favorite subject.

[erikkarlsson]

to all the sports “writers” mad that sharks winning the lottery proves that “tanking works,” i regret to inform you that this team actually tried very hard to win every game. they just suck.

[whywontuluvme]

There's something about dramas like Our Liberation Notes, Call it love, Summer Strike and Tell Me that You Love me that just heal me and provide me with so much comfort.

[lostreverb]

OK so fuck marry kill: Colin Zabel, Peter Maximoff, and Ralph Bohner.

Personally, I'd fuck Ralph (see if he lives up to the name), marry Peter (I love that goober) and bc I haven't ever watched mare of easttown, I'm sad to say that Colin would be the one meeting with Princess Diana ☹.

okay well WELL OKAY THIS IS HARD?

fuck - peter bc his mutant powers HELLOOO VIBRATING DICK

marry - colin bc he's literally like the perfect husband like THEEE perfect husband

kill - ralph (as much as i love him) and put him out of his misery LMAOOO

i almost said colin for kill but uhhh yk!!!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Time’s Agent

sci-fi novella

an archaeologist who studies pocket worlds with her wife, with the hope that maybe some had become a refuge from colonisation for her Taino ancestors

when she exits one and the time dilation means she’s suddenly 40 years in an unrecognisable future, where corporations have turned pocket worlds into a commodity for everything from tourism to commuting to factories and unstable landfills and refugee camps

with her wife still within a pocket world she carries, and dealing with the sudden grief of having lost everything and navigating a completely changed world, she seizes one last chance to discover something to redeem herself

[kyouka-supremacy]

I know that Akutagawa has dog symbolism, with the connotations of him being canid coded—with connotations such as “rabid dog” and “lone wolf” and it’s supposed to contrast Atsushi’s cat coded symbolism but I really think, in my mind that Akutagawa is like. A sloth bear. He looks the part and he’s aggressive enough to be one too. My evidence of this is entirely based on the fact that

1.) they have generational beef with tigers. Since they share the same circles with other big cats they’ve evolved to be incredibly territorial and aggressive to the point where tigers generally. I wouldn’t say scared but they avoid attacking them most of the time. Something something about the aggressive-defensive strategy of making itself look like a bigger threat to make the enemy back off—I think it’s Akutagawa like, even though he is more bite than bark when it comes down to it. In the same way sloth bears are more aggressive to make up for not being strong or fast enough to fight off a tiger, Akutagawa is for more aggressive to make for what he lacks in strength and speed against Atsushi.

2.) sloth bears are incredibly hyper-aggressive with humans and attack unprovoked. Akutagawa Is also very aggressive and attacks (atsushi, mostly) unprovoked. A large part of it is most definetely due to his job but I think his general hostility to others and willingness to maim on sight when feeling threatened is very on par to the way I see Akutagawa, I think. I don’t know how to word it properly.

3.) they way the hair sticks out on a sloth bears face really reminds me of his bangs.

The sloth bear is like if god removed all the bulk and it skin and bones compared to other bears, but gave it every bit of aggression in the lord’s heavenly arsenal, and weapons (Rashoumon) to maul everything that startles it or vaguely threatens it.

Wake up girl new Akutagawa symbolism just dropped!!!!!!

[lvebug]

i made this blog 1 year ago today and it was my first ever venture into rp so really i had no idea what to expect but what i found was so much openness, love, & encouragement that i really don't know if i can express how it makes me feel!!!! this community has really opened me up so much to my own creativity and taught me to think more about the world & about storytelling, the stories i want to tell, how i want to tell them. andie has grown so important to me and it blows me away how important she is to some of you too!!! truly the love i've received is overwhelming 😭 she teaches me everyday. everyone here is so kind and i have so much fun with you. there's an incredible amount of talent and joy in all of the people i've met, so much creativity, detail, color. it's an honor getting to get to know everyone and to have fun w you all. literally this has filled my days with such joy and thoughtfulness i will always always have a positive thought for each of you. you're all my friends & i want to thank you for that and for being encouraging and for sharing all of your brilliance and all your wonderful characters with me it's so much funim so glad to be here with you. even if we don't talk a lot seeing your posts on my dash or sharing silly comments with each other is what makes my day bright. i love silly sweet interactions!!! I MEAN THIS FOR EACH OF YOU I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH

[nomomio]

This year I've revitalized my insane love of reading that I had in my childhood/teen years, that up and died 7 years ago. I went from literally never not reading, walking into people in the school halls on a regular basis because my nose was in a book, to totally burnt out lit-degree droput. Literally couldn't finish a book for 7 years. It felt like a part of me died that I'd never get back. It feels so good to actually love devouring books again, and to actually analyze them and think about them with nuance. I've not only already finished by "minimum one book for each month of the year" goal, but already needing more to add to my "to read" pile as I've chewed through 15 titles in the last 10 months.

But also, I am now an adult and have to reconcile with the fact that as much as I want to, I cannot in fact stay up until 3am devouring every page like I need it to live... this feels oddly unfair.

[lonely-dog-draws]

my main takeaways from I Saw the TV Glow:

oh my goqhdbgkwbfxsdkwc

scary moon

[badxwolf]

I desperately want Empire of Death to be the kind of episode that starts conversations and debates and makes people have strong feelings and lots of thoughts. The vibes of everyone being confused/deflated/disappointed are so ahhhh I don’t like it.

[aro-with-bad-aim]

the “taking responsibility” theme in mouthwashing goes way deeper than it just referring to Jimmy and how he needs to take responsibility for the atrocities he committed and how he believes he is when he’s avoiding it. It’s also towards curly. theres a lot of debate about curlys character but if there’s one thing about him that’s certain is that despite his reputation as a good leader, he failed to take responsibility and punish/ fire Jimmy, which leads to everyone dying. both characters the player plays as fail to take responsibility, leading to their downfalls