#who knows what the threat is

[lizzybeeee]

When you spend 20 years attempting to bring down the child slavery, murdering, human trafficking exploitation ring that stole your childhood, murdered your friends, and killed countless innocents only to have them rebrand as 'Noble Freedom Fighters™' off-screen.

[mint-mumbles]

Just played Homicipher for the first time today (really good game btw, can’t wait for the full release) and when the player hides from Mr. Crawling without a weapon he goes to comfort them.

I was able to translate what he said after he pats the player character’s head after he startles them:

“There, there. Worry gone.”

Bro. I love him so much 🥹

[trappedinafantasy37]

Minthara reading everyone to filth upon recruitment is funny, but it also highlights just how paranoid she is. Realistically, it probably takes her a few days to figure everyone out rather than the instant she is recruited. When talking about all the companions, a common theme in all her responses relates to their combat capabilities and survivability, and points out their strengths and their weaknesses. She's not throwing shade or stirring the tea. Minthara is conducting a threat assessment. Minthara having very realistic and accurate readings of everyone is a trauma response, because she needs to know who they are and very quickly.

She is trying to figure out who is the most likely to kill her and why they would kill her. But also how they would go about it and is weighing her odds against them. She has to know their weaknesses in case she needs to exploit them, and she has to know their strengths so she can defend against them. And Minthara doesn't just consider their combat capabilities, but their psyche as well, using it as a factor to determine the likelihood of them ever coming after her specifically and how she can disarm them psychologically if need be. But you know who she doesn't provide her assessment for? You.

You are a conundrum. The moment you saved her, she has been curious of you, but wary. Although grateful you saved her, she doesn't understand why you saved her when she believes you had far more reason to either kill her or leave her behind. She wants to trust you, but her trust has always gotten her stabbed. She wants to have faith that her savior won't turn against her, but she has no reason to believe you won't. She spends the entirety of Act 2, watching you, analyzing you, trying to figure you out because she doesn't know what to do with you. She asks you some questions because she is still trying to figure out what motivates you. "Why come to Moonrise? Why raid the grove? Why knock me out?" In two of these questions, she is determining how likely you are to harbor any violent intent. And one of these questions is born of your history of bringing her harm. (Oh the irony of Minthara trusting you less if you knocked her out)

You're a potential enemy whose weakness she doesn't want to exploit, a potential enemy she doesn't want to have to defend herself against. And all this time she spends watching you, she finds things about you that she likes. Really likes. And while conducting her assessment of you, she falls in love with you, and it terrifies her because she still does not know if she is safe with you. So she asks you to share your mind and just tell her if you're safe and can be trusted. She doesn't want to guess anymore, and she doesn't want to come to a potential conclusion she doesn't like. She doesn't want to do the analysis, she doesn't want to be paranoid, she wants to trust you and feel safe with you. She needs to know that you are a safe person for her to love.

[stewykablooey]

funniest thing about stewy is that he’s a fucking anomaly in the roys social circle because not a single person in that family has any fucking friends. they genuinely only fraternize with family or waystar employees and then here comes stewy. the prodigal sons third-oldest friend best friend childhood friend. and guess what. he’s here to cause problems on purpose.

[torchstelechos]

I love that In Stars and Time gives the nonconsensual kiss a proper horrified reaction, by the way. Most media where a character can kiss someone out of no where either make it a funny thing or the "romantic" thing, but here Siffrin kisses without permission out of no where and Isabeau reacts correctly! He pushed them away! Because thats surprising, and fucked up to do to someone with no lead up and no permission! Isabeau had no context, and at the time when the kiss happened, was under the impression that Siffrin didn't like touch which can have a variety of horrible reasons for it. Not only that but... We don't know what face Siffrin was pulling and I don't think it was a nice one. Which, again, means that we don't have all the context either! This is a horrible event that has horrible consequences and I love that it does. Because it's something that is horrible and objectively one of the worst things Siffrin did to one of the others in the loops, so I'm just!!! So excited it had bad consequences!!!

[shepscapades]

GLAD EVERYONE ENJOYED THE ANDROID INFO UPDATE ABOUT INTERFACING DFGJNDGKGNMXGHNCBNM

[sansastarq]

nooooo you don’t understand, it’s absolutely crucial that daemon learns about the song of ice and fire prophesy and the birth of daenerys’ dragons and the white walkers so that he realizes that he’s a piece of the puzzle that helped daenerys fulfill her prophesied destiny of uniting westeros, killing the night king, and saving the world! oh wait

[coldflash-corner]

Speaking of Barry being able to read Leonard Snart scarily well, imagine that Barry notices how Snart reacts to people Barry knows, and files that away in his opinions of that person

Barry is in the cortex with someone he finds kind of annoying but harmless, Snart walks in for Definitely-Not-Flirting-While-Doing-Business Reasons, and starts lowkey acting like this guy is an Immediate Threat that he's trying to act cool around to not set him off. And Barry immediately knocks like 5 points off of the "how much do i trust this guy" ranking. Subtly starts telling him less things, looks into what he's doing on the downlow, treats him as potentially suspicious And turns out... The guy does have bad intentions

Leonard comes in and meets some of Barry's new friends/coworkers, and clearly seems to mark one of them as more trustworthy/less of a threat than everyone else. And when Barry needs help or someone to confide in, he goes to that person over everyone else

Barry comes in to Saints and Sinners and sees a regular he's run into before, but hasn't seen interact with Snart. He thought the guy might be pretty cool. But today he walks into them talking, and Immediately sees that Snart is closed off, jumpy, does NOT like that guy in his space. And Barry immediately takes cues off of that, turns the guy down when he later asks to have drinks together next time Barry drops by Saints

If Snart seems unnerved by someone Barry knows, Barry trusts his instincts. Even if Leonard never says anything to Barry out loud, he still takes note of that. If Snart likes someone, or just thinks they're reliable, Barry will trust that instinct.

Even if Snart doesn't say his feelings out loud, Barry trusts him so innately that he will listen to Snart's instincts when it's clear he's feeling a type of way

[beastwhimsy]

special to me... happy pride month I am so sick right now

[nickorite]

This is the worst timeline, literally

[ruegarding]

chiron said it would be better if nico died before knowing nico was a child of hades. percy lying to chiron and making himself a target to kronos is the only thing that stopped nico from being hunted down like an animal, like percy.

[ywpd-translations]

Ride 803: Kishigami Komari

Pag 1

2: Alright, I replaced the wheel

Number 42

3: Kyofushi's Kishigami!!

4: Huh? Ah, thank you

5: Don't be discouraged!! It's a shame you fell behind because of a flat tire, but don't give up, I'm sure you still have a chance!!

Pag 2

1: Yeah

I found something a little interesting

Pag 3

1: He's so fast

3: The guy we just saw with a flat tire... that purple jersey...

It was the strong Kyoto Fushimi

Kyofushi!?

4: Yeah, so that means that right now ahead of us Kyofushi only have five people, hyee

They're unlucky...

Kyofushi didn't participate neither in the sprint nor in the mountain stage....

5: So this year's Kyofushi...

Yeah!! Maybe they've gotten weaker!!

Pag 4

1: “Kishigami Komari fell behind alone because of a flat tire”

What this means is...

2: He's Midosuji's second in command

The “ace assist”

3: If someone with an important role gets a flat tires, in road racing

4: there's always at least another member who stops and waits for them

5: And then, to bring him back to the front, he'll be his windbreak and pull him

(Important player

Assist)

6: Kyofushi is a well-organized team... the fact that Komari “fell behind alone”, means...

It must mean “they have it”...!! They have it...

Pag 5

1: This year's Kyofushi must have one more ace assist!!

3: Mi!!

4: In other words... this year's Kyofushi... is even more powerful!!

5: But the Kyofushi guys are a little scary

You're right. I can't see guess what they're thinking

6: It's best to keep rumors to a minimum

Kishigami, the one who had a flat tire and fell behind

Pag 6

1: Has already caught up to us!!

Woooah

Huh!?

He's among us!?

Hyee

Pag 7

1: He got here so smoothly!!

2: Eh!? Huh!?

He's beside us!?

So fast!

3: Ahead of us!? From there!?

4: So I was right

7: It's the small-fry meat!!

Pag 8

2: Small!?

3: Small-fry!?

Meat?

4: He's talking about Sugimoto-san!!

Pag 9

1: You want to touch me!?

2: Like you did last year, before the start

3: to Imaizumi!!

7: Touch you? No way...

Pag 10

1: No way I'll ever touch such small-fry meat on purpose!!

Apaa!!

2: I understood it when I looked at you. Just your appearance is enough

It was the same last year, wasn't it? I barely glanced at you?

4: I'm only interested in touching

5: high-quality meat!!

Pag 11

2: Ah, well

Ah, I was wrong. Just now, it was all... a lie. Please forget it

I always stumble when I'm nervous

3: Last year, too, with Imaizumi-san, and with Kuroda-san and Izumida-san too

5: What's with this guy....

As expected, I really can't guess what the Kyofushi guys are thinking...

6: Sugimoto-san!!

Pag 12

1: There's no need to deal with this, with such a rude guy like this

Let's go ahead, only us

2: You're a second year, I saw it on the list!!

I'm a second year too!!

3: Lemme say it clearly, Sugimoto-san is a great guy!!

The people who look down on him, I won't...

4: Sugimoto-san

forgiv-

5: You... oi, I was talking!!

Kobayashi-san

Actually, I have-

Pag 13

1: a question for you

2: A... question...!!

This is just right

I was told to ask

3: if I had the chance

4: Midosuji-san told me so

5: Midosuji....

Pag 14

1: To me....!!

2: Oi, I'm talking to you!!

You sure are cheerful

Sugimoto-san is amazing!!

3: So, shall we prove it with a race?

You and me, here

4: You, with the eyes like a fallen acorn

5: Acor....

Pag 15

1: Let's do it!!

Please do it, Kobayashi-san!!

Please stop, Kobayashi

Lemme do it, please!!

2: A race until that traffic mirror we can see over there!!

3: Oooooo

Stop, Kobayashi

4: We're going'

5: Really?

7: I'll show you what I can do!!

Stop, Kobayashi!!

Pag 17

2: Huh!?

3: A hand!?

Pag 18

1: Huh!?

2: Hu- waaaaaa

Pag 19

3: Just now, something like a giant hands... was crushing!? Me.....?

5: I didn't stop him, did I?

Pag 20

1: Just now I saw a giant hand....?

You too!?

Was it.... his pressure...? It was huge!!

2: I lost the race... just when I started running...!!

3: What an amazing pressure.... I can still feel the after-effect...

4: He's even stronger than last year!! This is this year's Kyofushi!!

5: Now

Again, can I ask you?

6: Earlier, I fell behind because of a flat tire

If

Pag 21

1: the person who had gotten a flat tire on that difficult downhill had been Sohoku's Onoda Sakamichi

2: Would you have helped him?

[your-fuccked-up-dad-volume100]

 Kidnapping her so you can keep her all to yourself🔪

[lbhslefttiddie]

the qiong ding peak disciples 100% have petty beef with lbh for stealing their favourite didi lmao

they're not gonna Actually beat him up (without Reason) but they're very emphatic about how thoroughly they WILL if lbh messes with sy. it's like a shovel talk that never ends

sy isn't actually completely oblivious to whats going on but he doesn't get why they're like this and he thinks theyre being fucking stupid (and he trusts them to not actually bully binghe) so he's elected to ignore their antics entirely

[hitwiththefandomz]

NEW YEAR NEW CRIMES

[awkwardrocker]

The funniest part about George's meltdown today is that it was wholly unnecessary.

All he had to do was come out today and go, "I said my side of the story in the stewards and obviously Max didn't take kindly to that but what's done is done and we'll move on."

But instead he tried to go scorched earth and it made him look so much worse.