Sooo funny to me that Peglar and Bridgens are out here having a functional tender communicative relationship with guilt-free understandings of their respective sexualities and desires and with clear boundaries that both reflect their personal preferences and keep them safe from retaliation, while every other man out here is like “what the fuck are emotions. I’m going to die. I want to kill this guy. Nvm turns out i was just horny. I want to fuck this guy. I’m going to kill myself. Our wedding was on Tuesday. We’ve broken up five times since then. I’m going to murder him. I’m starving and I’m sure he is responsible somehow. It was a beautiful ceremony. There is a great darkness within us all. The murder will be an act of mercy that neither of us can fully understand or recognize as such. If you ask me how i’m doing i will say i’m fine and i’m so emotionally stunted that I genuinely believe it. I’m still angry and hungry and horny and freezing and it’s all my dead ex husband’s fault.”
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one thing I love about iwtv is that louis & armand being rich isn't handwaved. no "oh, they're old ass vampires, compounding interest, yadda yadda." nope! louis is a Business Man with Business Sense who loves to have a hand in a Profitable Business. armand? he will live in the literal sewers and not complain. louis? nope! no way no how!
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like when Guy started to feel the influence of the Other Thing and realized what was happening to him he looked everywhere for any help he could get. And there really wasn't anything anyone could do for him. An old god picked him, time to right a will and say his goodbyes and hope that he's still Him enough after the merging to not hurt anyone he loved. That's what the end of the story should have been.
But basically everyone he talked to said the some variation of 'Well, there is one thing you could do... But it won't save you in the long run.
because Yeah the Grinning Thing had a good foothold and was usually pretty helpful and about as un-duplicitous as a pupating old god could be. They Could absolutely interfere enough to cut off Other Thing's connection to Guy. It would be easy even! Old gods are territorial bastards, Grinning Thing might not even ask for payment since it would preempt them having to share.
Issue is that there is no way to get Grinning Thing's help without it realizing Guy is wanted.
Grinning Thing doesn't want anything unless someone else wants it. Guy is wanted, so Grinning would want him.
But there's nothing special or unique about guy. He was picked by Other Thing basically at random. Being cut off from him isn't a big deal, Other Thing could just pick someone else to use. Which means that as soon as Guy gets Grinning Thing's help, Other Thing wouldn't want him anymore, so Grinning Thing wouldn't want him anymore. And Grinning Thing is never too nice to things that it stops wanting.
It's an out of the frying pan and into the fires of mount doom situation for Guy if he goes to Grinning Thing for help. At least as Other Thing's vessel he'd still be alive and there was a Chance at it being all ok but no one thought there was any good that could come from getting Grinning Thing's help.
Which is why everyone is really surprised when Guy comes back from his ill advised trip to Grinning Thing's apartment in perfect health and whole of mind... With a shopping list in his hand because Grinning Thing's vessel used to love french toast but never learned how to make it so Guy is going back over to their place tonight to teach them how and watch some old movies.
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Pizza delivery drivers of Reddit, what are some of the craziest reasons people have ended up on the “no delivery list”?
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I worked for a pizza place that was near a very large software company. Deliveries to the neighborhoods or offices where all the tech workers lived was usually pretty awesome because they'd tip rather well. But there was one apartment that started to become a concern for us drivers. The man ordering was always polite, always paid, always tipped $4, and he would have been a perfect customer. He'd order breadsticks and a salad twice a week, and sometimes he'd include a bottle of root beer.
Except when he opened his door, you could see an alarming amount of our breadsticks boxes stacked everywhere inside. Not like a few on the counter and a couple by the trash, stacks and stacks of them. Even worse, it was only our boxes in there. He wasn't just ordering from us often, we were the only place he was getting food outside of work. Now, I've worked in some of those tech offices myself, I know that there's enough decent food options just hanging out in the break rooms that this guy was probably not malnourished, but the way his living space was a shrine of greasy cardboard was a clear sign that this guy didn't have a healthy relationship with our food.
Our manager was a really cool dude though, and he heard the drivers joking about the boxes and asked a couple of us "Is this like a messy guy or a guy who needs help?" We agreed it was probably the latter. So on his day off, the manager went to the guys apartment with an envelope that had gift cards for several other restaurants that delivered in that area and chatted with him. Manager found out that the guy was an immigrant on a Visa who was struggling to find American food he liked, and too socially awkward to ask anyone. So he talked with him through a few menus and helped him with some recommendations. Then he helped the guy load all the old boxes into his truck to take to the dump, in exchange for a promise not to order from us more than once a week.
For a little while, the manager had a note on the calendar showing the last time the guy had ordered, and a couple times he had to hold his ground and refuse the guy's order. But after that chat, I never saw the stacks of boxes again, and the guy would boast about the different meals he'd had.
what the fuck dude, this is so sweet.
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Ngl, I don't understand guys who jump from one relationship to another. Like they didn't even break up with the first girl, they already know it's doomed and looking for another before ending it, securing that they will have a new relationship to enter. Why is that.
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the panel that got me into promise cinderella was the one of issei emptying an alcohol(?) bottle on a girls head (i saw it on pinterest n was so obsessed i was searching everywhere for more pages (at that time no one was translating it yet)), but i think that scene was p much the last messed up thing that happened in the manga?????? or at least one of the last. after that its like everything suddenly ....became a standar romcom??? which is so weird cos the premise was VERY messed up, with a really weird and unbalanced power dynamic going on, economic and age-wise, and both the mc hayame & the romantic interest issei having very strong personalities n values.. idk im not rly following the manga lately but i think ive read (AT LEAST) 60 chs n as i kept going i was more n more surprised at how....tame ...everything had become. and i think................. its gonna happen the same thing with hotaru no yomeiri, if its not already happening, tbh u___u
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