#worthless worm

[dormouse-iii]

still use Google. What else am I gonna use?

How do you even use other search engines? If I want to find a video like... HOW??? There's no video tab & when I type "Video" I don't get videos???? How????????

Is this another computer babble thing where you need 80 years of training to understand it? Like "It's simple, it's a webcranker that runs a YUB into a LE curt & decouples your AURP into a ZILK data structure to avoid rendo-scrumming with the system KJ20s. Do a little research, lol!"

That aint research. That's a dedication of my life, years I will never get back. You don't understand, man. I have doo-doo caa-caa brain, I can't soak this stuff up like yall do. If my Vram-KJ20s don't line up with a specific VGB-muncher am I in danger??? What does this stuff mean? Everytime I look it up I find more alien robo babble-

WHAT THE HECK IS A "OS-level virtualization"? "Reproducible environment???" "Docker Container"??? SANS, LANS, VANS, CANS, YAML????? ITS LIKE A SPIRAL!!! Everything leads to a new TOME of vocabulary that means more mush in my head!!!

[katiebell]

Gideon killing crux, who was so cruel to her, and having a breakdown over the revenge not feeling good broke me btw

[hussyknee]

At this point we need to start pouring white phosphorus directly on any cringing subhuman shitstain who says "I know Biden doing a genocide is shitty, but he's still the lesser evil—"

[lasloser-mc-useless]

Shout out lidl bakery isle, this earthbound fan art post is sponsored by the lidl bakery isle. Just that isle I don't care about the rest of lidl just give me my pretzel god damn it

[ziracona]

Thinking about how in Glass Onion, Miles claims he saw the Mona Lisa at six in this foundational experience with his mom, and his life goal is to do something that will be mentioned in the same breath as the Mona Lisa, and people hear that and go ���what does it mean’ and whoever defends him says ‘it means immortality.’ How it’s the thing he spends millions on just to get to see, and installs an override to be able to look in the eyes, right? The one thing he claims to truly care about, and love, and be inspired by. Value. And how even knowing he murdered two people, both friends, his entire group of shithead lackies still won’t turn on him, are going to let him get away with it all. Until the Mona Lisa burns, and he’s responsible for it. And then they’re all going to go to the cops and ruin his life together. Because you can’t get away with destroying the Mona Lisa. You can’t. And how the movie clearly displays the Mona Lisa Miles has as just not quite the right size, the right color. How it burns, and it’s clear it’s canvas. When the real Mona Lisa was painted on poplar wood. Which means he loses a replication, and the museum sent him a fake. Which means if Miles had truly known about and cared about and valued even one single thing his entire life, other than himself, even just the one thing he claimed to love above all, he still would have avoided going to jail and losing everything. But he didn’t. Because he’s a stupid piece of shit. Who deserves everything he has coming.

[envioussin]

....are peeps still active on here?

[nebulouscoffee]

The thing about Jadzia Dax and Elim Garak is I know they are such, such different characters, but I also just know I am drawn to them for the exact same reasons. Like- idk, they both just have this very specific ✨quality✨ to them that makes me go "BESTIE!! What is UP with you!!!" and break out the sixty thousand word character study multichapters dissecting their brains under a microscope

I mean, flirty gay aliens!! Flirty gay aliens who drop the craziest lore about their lives all the time but when you actually sit down and think about them, you realise you barely know anything about them at all- flirty gay aliens who wear masks of camp and Performance held together by 6342 quips because they don't quite know who they are without it and honestly most days they feel more like collections of interesting Characters than people, and they cover this up with Spectacle and Duty because they are scared to interrogate this, scared to be visible, scared to be boring, and furthermore they feel like they can never truly be known, never truly go back home, because they're so proud of and defined by what species they are but in reality have such fraught relationships to their home worlds- flirty gay aliens whose complicated relationships with the idea of "family" made them construct their whole lives and their concepts of "worth" around One Specific Goal and are scared to ask who they are without it because they fear that the answer is no one, so instead they just smile and drop some more crazy lore and 352 jokes per minute

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

lies on the floor and has just So Many Feelings about all the ways in which pericles and cassidy are foils, one of them being the comparison between how they use constant, vocal, unabashed affirmation of the qualities they value about themselves to cope with rock bottom self-esteem.

there's so much to be said here about how pericles' 'positive' self-talk is ultimately destructive to himself and everyone around him, whereas cassidy's has both been healing for her and held her back from processing her self-loathing in other ways, and so much of that has to do with her experiencing firsthand the results of pericles' shit handling of his poor self-esteem and desperately not wanting to be anything like him. fuck me up man

[meezer]

a combination of meme formats where it's the patrick bateman "I have to return some video tapes" and the guy saying "I want to [X]. but I don't/won't"

I have to send an email. but I won't.

[spookyreader23]

Tuesdays are for new books!!! I got "The Weight of Blood" by Tiffany D. Jackson. "Tell Me I'm Worthless" by Alison Rumfitt, and "How To Sell a Haunted House" by Grady Hendrix. I can't wait to read them all.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

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[histoireettralala]

"Sometimes, the king is extremely satisfied with me": Richelieu and Louis XIII

The complicated collaboration of king and cardinal was fortified by strong emotional bonding. The beginning, of course, was shaky. The royal master was suspicious of this suave and sophisticated appointee who had alarming elements of Luynes's winsomeness and La Vieuville's self-assurance. While Richelieu's bright, ingratiating manner had worked well with Concini, Marie, and Luynes, it was not foolproof in the presence of a sovereign opposed by nature to flattery and arrogance. As late as 1629, the cardinal-minister pleaded with the king to trust his advisors, to listen to them and not their detractors, to support them even when they were critical (in private) of royal conduct. He concluded wistfully, "Sometimes the king is extremely satisfied with me; sometimes he takes a dislike [to my service]."

Fortunately, the master and servitor were able to build on their common ground and mutual needs. Although beholden for his entry to the council in 1624 to the good offices of the queen mother, Richelieu made it plain in a private meeting with Louis that he would serve king and state exclusively. This solemn vow, repeated throughout their long association, was backed constantly by his encouragement that Louis be "a great king". Richelieu was equally adept at playing the humble servitor who merely carried out his master's commands and would gladly resign if his services were no longer helpful- an effective counter to Louis's past suspicions about the cardinal's overbearing manner.

The cardinal-minister's letters illustrate this ongoing campaign of mutual indoctrination. Shortly after Richelieu replaced La Vieuville as the king's major advisor, he thanked "the great king" for elevating "mediocrities," signing himself "the very humble and very obedient servitor, le Cardinal de Richelieu." Within a year this complimentary closing lengthened to "the very humble, very faithful, and very indebted subject and servitor." That same year, the servitor told his master he would "maintain with the little spirit and industry that God has given me a total fidelity with which I will be, right down to my last breath, [your very humble . . . ]." In 1626 during the crisis surrounding Gaston's marriage, which appeared to threaten the cardinal's life and his sovereign's throne, Richelieu obeyed Louis's command to come to his side with the statement, "Your Majesty is so prudent and so wise that he cannot fail in his councils." The closing to this letter was more grateful than ever: "the very humble, very obedient, very faithful and very indebted subject and servitor." Thereafter, the complimentary closings remained the same; pledges to lay down the servitor's life for his master continued; and allusions to "the best master in the world" appeared frequently.

Louis warmed to Richelieu's words and the success of his policy analyses. There is a world of difference between the royal letter of 1622 referring to the bishop of Luçon as being among those "who favor the prosperity of my affairs" and that of 1631 assuring the trusted servitor "that I hold to what I have promised you, right to the last breath of my life." Two years later, Louis wrote, "I will always be the best master who ever walked this earth."

The change was gradual, with some emotional high points. In 1626, when Richelieu feigned sickness and offered to resign if that would ease the political crisis, Louis fell all over himself trying to express his gratitude. He wanted his servitor's good health "more than you do," the ruler asserted, "provided you find it in the care and principal charge of my affairs." He noted his satisfaction that "everything, thanks to God, has succeeded since you have been here [in my council]." And he concluded, "I shall protect you against whomever it may be, and I will never abandon you. . . . Rest assured that I will never change and that whoever attacks you, you will have me as your second." In a society where dueling was still the highest form of self-protection and acting as "second" to one's dueling friend the greatest mark of devotion, there was no stronger way for Louis the Just, who expressed his feelings so awkwardly, to describe his relationship with Cardinal Richelieu.

Did Louis XIII really mean what he said? Of course he did. Had he really done away with backbiting? No, there were always times when his darker side surfaced. So Richelieu was wise in following the practice common to early-seventeenth-century royal favorites and ministers, from Luynes and Lerma to Buckingham and Olivares. A series of pro-Richelieu fellow ministers, royal confessors, king's favorites, and other officials marched in review before the king from 1624 until the cardinal's death in 1642, all with Louis's full knowledge —first on occasion, and then more regularly, until by 1635 the king was surrounded by his own chief servitor's own servitors and surrogates.

The system had its drawbacks, notably in the case of royal favorites. Richelieu knew he could never fill all of his master's emotional needs. Hence it was in his own interest to cultivate Louis's attachment to an innocuous young courtier whom the king liked. That courtier, however, once master of the king's heart, might try to poison his mind against the cardinal during a dark mood, just as Richelieu had done against La Vieuville. Richelieu would then have to wage a campaign against this former friend. It was not easy; as in other matters, he won his point only by playing on the king's political conscience. Even then, Louis had to see with his own eyes that his loved one was violating the vow he had made after Luynes's death never to let a favorite interfere with statecraft.

A. Lloyd Moote - Louis XIII the Just

[faultlinesurfer]

Anyways I sent Taylor to be canonized as latina lmao.

[radgritty]

[envioussin]

I miss being active here but I’m super busy….also idk how active the fma rp scene is on here atm

[whorenerdking]

Precure All Stars movie but it’s just one big therapy session

god all of those girls need therapy but some of them REALLY NEED THERAPY like jesus christ the fact that most of not all of them have seen someone die or get severely injured in front of them