#worm reducer

[myfriendtheurbanlegend]

The Carter/Reese kiss came up on my dash again...

I've always thought John Reese can love and care about more than one person at a time for different reasons. This doesn't do a disservice to any character and I find it incredibly reductive to think so.

Behind the scenes, it was an emotional alternative take that the writers chose to include in the final cut of the episode, despite the showrunners' apparent disinterest in a Reese/Carter relationship. Both actors said the lines sort of called for it and I can see what they meant. I fail to see how the kiss ruined anything about Reese and Carter and Finch, unless one thinks character roles are radio buttons and you can't check [BADASS] without unchecking [LOVE INTEREST].

Reese's relationship with Finch is special; Finch gave him a purpose and the means to fulfill it but that doesn't cancel the fact that their story starts with Finch wanting something out of Reese and effectively getting it through manipulation. There is a lot of friction and distrust in the beginning and Reese is smart to be wary. It might be me, but I like the ups-and-downs of this relationship, the arguments. Nonetheless, Finch proves himself to be magnitudes better than his old bosses, a leader he can follow. Instead of leaving him to the wolves at the end of Number Crunch, the "middle-aged cripple" comes for him, and saves his life. Reese puts his life on the line for him when he's kidnapped, and so on, and so forth, they stumble along together, trying to right their wrongs.

Carter on the other hand doesn't have that kind of baggage. It's not the same dynamic. She takes one look at him at the station and understands what he's going through. She is a working woman, a single mom and she was in the same path as Reese to an extend but she made good decisions and ended up different. I think Reese recognized that when they first talked. She did what he strove to do and failed and he feels that with the power Finch and his machine granted him he can protect the ideals she upholds even if he can never live up to them. He does say the world can't afford to lose her and has always, from S1 tried his damnedest to protect her. Now this isn't very well communicated in the show because Reese's active suicidal tendencies were cut (they wanted to have Reese dangling from a bridge but the city prohibited filming there) but this is what I think the "You changed my mind" line means. Carter, being the person that she was, gave him a nudge in the police station. When he was on his feet, she became his anchor, through her good work and character.

In the end, Finch gave him the purpose, the means. Carter was the ideal that he was fighting for.

[zooperdoopers]

She had left Harrowhark a note on her vastly underused pillow — “WHATS WITH THE SKULLS?” — and received only a terse “Ambiance.”

[badxwolf]

This is all I have in the entire world.

[theiaphage]

i wonder, often, if Rachel Animorphs and Rachel Worm would be friends

[kotaerukoto]

Every day I am tortured by the fact there are things in Danganronpa 3 that are conceptually interesting (such as the whole thing of "Makoto usually compares himself to others" being flipped, others comparing themselves to Makoto, with Mitarai's high opinion of Makoto vs his own belief that he couldn't do anything leading him to conclude "well there's absolutely no way everyone can deal with despair and death like Makoto did so I have to brainwash the world into permanent hope" and Sakakura's hatred of Makoto coming from how Makoto stood where he was unable to stand) but the execution and implementation of those ideas were almost universally botched

[bestfurrywife]

If you guys are interested, there's a little bonus game we could play.

I used to play it with a sibling. You pull up a wikipedia list of animals, and the other person picks a random corresponding number. You click that phylum and do it again for the next classification, and repeat until you have a species. Then you draw whatever you get.

Here we would poll for it, and whatever animal we get, I design a character to be the mascot for this blog. Does that sound fun?

[seithr]

seithr accidentally pulls a tuchanka in stellaris

[wormbloggign]

yknow what sure.

riley davis best girl

bonesaw did all that stuff, rileys just a girl in the world

[wanderingsquirrelgirl]

did they make FPWKK live-only to reduce the number of viewers of their otherwise very-cool-seeming D&D show? i'm truly confused about why i can't watch this on my own schedule.

i'm old enough to remember cable tv, yall, and it sucked. i NEVER missed it. why the fuck is this happening in the golden era of streaming television?

[ifuckeduplol]

i judge people so much based on their funger opinions like if you reduce samarie to all her negative traits i would never talk to you

[theflyingfeeling]

Aleksi going for a bike ride in his newest Tiktok.. I wonder if Olli inspired him to do it and if they do it together 🥺

He is? I don't have tiktok so I'm grateful for this information 🥺 even if it only makes my brainworms swarm louder 😩

I can imagine Olli talking about how relaxing biking can be and saying that aleksi should totally try it (since his new year's resolution was to 'take a little better care of himself'), but yeah also imagine them going on bike rides together 🥺😭 with a little backpack of snacks and a blanket so that they can have a picnic 🍓🍇🍪🥐🧃 and swimming trunks so that they can dip in if they come across a nice lake/pond 👀💦

[memoryoflife]

ALSO YOU CAN PRY MY LONG PARAGRAPHS AND SENTENCES FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS (begins to sob) don’t take them from me

[kalashnikovlaserpussy]

Situation that would go so awfully horrifically hilarious and terrible:

The day Taylor decides to become a villain for real and commit 100%, a comedy of errors results in the Undersiders kidnapping Danny and Taylor accidentally unmasking to him. No-one realises what the fuck is happening until it's too late and the circumstances required are already some Grade A Slapstick (gory af nightmare fuel edition).

Taylor is shaking and disassociating and Fucking Loosing It because she just made up her mind on being an Actual Evil Bad Guy Person™ and now her dad Knows. Just completely "oh god my life is over what do I do" mode about it and uncertain how she can go full scorched earth about this one.

Lisa is trying not to burst out into either tears or laughter and she can't really tell which at this point, she's half certain Taylor is going to try and kill herself if this doesn't get resolved Right Now™ and it's breaking her but the situation is just so insane and fucked up that she also feels like she needs to Actually Laugh.

Brian is so confused as to how this shit happened, but like, he's Trying. Of course he's a fucking 17yo boomer so this comes off as Clinically Insane ("so about that weather, accidental hostage?") and this is doing nothing but make Danny doubt his mental faculties

Alec is like "Ha Ha! Oh boy! What perfectly normal and sane family interactions!" (Suppressing the most overwhelming jealousy anyone has ever felt and quietly chuckling while his eyes tear up, truly the most relaxed person in the world)

Rachel's pissed and confused and stressed so she's being scary and loud, but she calms down and leaves everyone alone pretty quickly, but she'll probably stick around and keep an Eye on Danny

Danny is so so so so fucking lost, the fact that his daughter ran away to become a supervillain alone blindsides him, now Grue, who he Knows is a 17 year old boy, is trying to relate to him by talking about taxes and politics. His weird bug daughter is completely blank faced crying and covered in a layer of bugs, her best friend TATTLETALE is silently vibrating in the center of the room like an obelisk, this unstable twink looks like he's secretly The Joker but Sad, and the girl in the dog mask is screaming as loud as physically possible at him and Actually Snarling. He has no idea what the hell is happening anymore, he just wants his wife back, he might be crying but he has no idea, and some part of him wants to completely fucking snap.

[ratcandy]

did you know?

nema toed

[specialagentleonkennedy]

AU Leon DBD HC.

Became Umbrella’s best soldier after being betrayed by Chris, only to be taken by the Entity during his first field mission.

Has PTSD from both his past and his “Death” along with unresolved anger issues.

While in Umbrella he adopted Eveline, [the E-Series type fungal bioweapon who takes the form of a little girl] and acted as a father figure before Eveline eventually died due to biological instability, passing the virus on to Leon.

The Molded, paired with both the Las Plagas and the G-Virus from the Raccoon City outbreak have made Leon an apex predator in his home, now a deadly hunter in The Entity’s realm.

His eyes are normally yellow due to the viruses, but turn their original blue when he’s genuinely happy or experiencing positive emotions.

In trials he uses his stealth training to catch Survivors off-guard, manipulating the Molded to form misshapen worms that detach from his arm and attack Survivors, infecting them and slowing them down. However this causes hunger which leads to starvation if left unattended.

Leon possess two Moris.

Normal: similar to Legion’s, only followed by the crushing of the Survivor’s head.

Starving: impaled through the chest by Las Plagas tail, followed by the consumption of blood before the body is infested by Molded.

Back home he preferred being in the company of Nikolai, Carlos, Sherry, Eveline and a guard dog named Styx. In the fog he prefers Wesker, Carlos, an Evil version of Chris, and Claire.

His realm is RPD, only the Entity’s corruption is replaced by black mold and the Los Illuminatos cult symbol painted over the floor mosaic in blood.

If he likes someone, he won’t carry his weapon (a combat knife) but if he REALLY likes them, he’ll refrain from wearing his sunglasses and gloves, showing off his eyes and blackened hands.

Will headbutt someone to get attention when he’s lonely. (it actually hurts)

[meowstix]

genuinely as someone who has messed around with ai a little bit/tried to make things. genuinely there's something that bothers me so much abt seeing it reduced to "type in a prompt and then it makes an image for you" because sure if you're just fucking around with no aim in particular then it can be like that. but if you want something specific out of it, from my experience it's VERY tricky. like i once saw someone say that it's gonna be difficult for ai to completely replace human artists bc like, you can't really communicate in specifics with an ai the same way you can with a human being. idk what i'm getting at here it just makes me sad :(