#worst birthday present ever

[5ummit]

I feel sick. I can't believe I live in a country where the majority are so hateful, misogynist, and racist that they'd rather elect a twice impeached felon and overall horrible human being than an extremely qualified woman who actually cares about people. America is so cooked.

[ashendalia]

tfw Nier Reincarnation EoS is in 3 days

and it's also your birthday

[alleiradayne]

I have to put this story here.

My birthday is November 8th. I don't know why I like it so much. I think it's a great day on which to be born. I share it with Bram Stoker. Gordon Ramsay. SZA. Bonnie Raitt. Alfre Woodard. Matt Rhys. Kazuo Ishiguro. That's a lot of talent right there. And there are more. So yeah I think it's a pretty rad day, almost one of the best.

Almost.

I say that because November 8th always revolves right around, and sometimes lands on, the U.S. Presidential General Election. Several years ago, as I neared 30, I wished my birthday could have been any other day that year. Not because I was turning 30. No, I was quite excited for my 30s. My 20s sucked. I had a lot to look forward to in my 30s. But as the months passed and November neared, I dreaded that day.

I dreaded it because I turned 30 on November 8th, 2016. And if you don't get why I fucking hate that particular day in history and will continue to hate that day forever, in perpetuity, even from beyond the grave, then I want you to go look up who won the U.S. Presidential General Election that year.

[uesp]

Did You Know: The death of your shadow is a fatal injury? Syrabane discovered this after creating a sword that could cut through shadow. He demonstrated this aspect of the sword by cutting through a friend's shadow, only for them to expire moments after their shadow was cut.

[chimneyz]

i had a dream (more like a nightmare) during the summer that buck and tommy broke up. then they broke up in november. now i have been having dream after dream that they get back together... WHAT DOES THIS MEAN

[theflyindutchwoman]

Do we think that Nolan brought coffee for Lucy's birthday? (like he brought coffee + pastries when she came back to work after Day of Death?)

[syztemerrxr]

mark has like. some sort of a hospital fetish wtf /JJ

TODAY

[crashoutnarumi]

doomed by the narrative? how about fucked over by the narrative? how about the author absolutely fucking your shit up?

[lazy-toad]

Mike Walters as a species truly is drawn to grievous bodily harm like a moth to a flame

[astriiformes]

This is just a bad week. Turns out one of my incisions has been healing poorly enough that I'm going to need to have a second surgery sometime in the next week or two, which is the last thing I need right now. Can the universe be kinder to me and the people I care about, please?

[montied]

in the tags due to. i'm embarrassed

[blamemma]

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[thursdayg1rl]

god im so annoyed

[thinkingofausername]

some things from mouthwashing that i think need more attention:

UPDATED (again 😂) because I've been corrected on some things

jimmy, as co-captain, was unfortunately needed and couldn't be disposed of

pony express should carry the brunt of the blame - sending people into space and THEN telling them they're fired; not installing locks in the sleeping quarters; etc.

anya said "i have to believe our worst moments don't define us", implying she forgave curly, at least to an extent

every moment seen through jimmy's eyes could and should be questioned. he's an unreliable narrator

jimmy wanted curly to take the blame. he wanted the crew to blame him. the game wanted us to blame him for the crash (until the reveal)

curly got burned because he faced the explosion head-on; trying to fix things

anya died first; she did it with the last remaining painkillers which could've been used for curly; she even did it in front of him

jimmy shamed and attacked curly during the birthday scene and curly didn't react; implying their relationship was never smooth and truly friendly

it was never explicitly shown what anya said to curly. perhaps she never specified jimmy raped her. curly was shocked when she said she was pregnant, he didn't connect it with anything

anya telling jimmy she was pregnant is what made him crash the ship

it's implied anya told swansea about jimmy and he did nothing. he only attacked jimmy a while later, as revenge for daisuke

it's possible curly was only ever visited by jimmy, aside from anya

jimmy crashed the ship 147/365 days into the trip (they've got 7.2 months to go); the same day anya told him she's pregnant. assuming she found out a bit before that, and she could've found out within a month, by the time they got off the ship she would've been around 8 months pregnant - she would NOT have given birth on the ship

swansea had been 15 years sober

curly most likely wouldn't survive the cryopod. entirely skinless and then frozen? hell

curly was the only one to have clearance for the sweetener

curly very pointedly looks at jimmy ALL the time after the crash

after curly's conversation with jimmy (the "feet in cement" one), right before jimmy crashed the ship, the screen goes black and there's heavy breathing, implying curly was left panicking

jimmy gives curly medicine 3 times - first, with anya relatively nearby, a fairly normal intervention; second, with no one nearby, where jimmy assaults curly; third, alone again, he doesn't assault curly but he still cries, he's permanently scared of jimmy

curly was already struggling with insomnia before the crash

while anya was locked in medical, jimmy told daisuke she might do something to curly

anya said the mouthwash couldn't be used as disinfectant and jimmy still did it

jimmy drugged swansea; he convinced daisuke to go in the vent by saying swansea would be proud of him

curly and anya and jimmy all talk of "handling things"

jimmy says curly receives praise all the time; implying he was a good captain (he was also the only one to get exceptional references)

swansea had a wife and kids; daisuke mentions his mother, the creators of the game said curly loved spending time with friends and family. they had people waiting for them

jimmy said cartoon horses excite him and anya's baby is presented as a horse

[dumbkittehs]

The gift that no one asked for.

[iwillkeepfighting]

tim and dev and brains chapter 12

in my zeal to post way too much way too fast, I have forgotten to link new chapters here. lost count. oh well

happy birthday dev :)