#They are just following orders my ass.

[military-newsboys]

Erik Lehnsherr is a better man than me, because if a little twink that thinks the world is sunshine and rainbows would have told me "They are just following orders" I would have bitch slapped him all the way to next week.

That alone is proof that they are gay, because if Charles would had told any other jew something along the phrase "They are just following orders", He wouldn't have made it off the fucking beach, let alone continue to be treated like a "friend".

Like for real Charles is so lucky Erik is gay for him. There isn't a single jew, let alone a holocaust Survivor that would have let that slide as smoothly as Erik did.

Being a pretty twink saved his life from his own stupidity.

#x men first class #x men #x men comics #x men movies #erik lehnsherr #Jewish Erik lehnsherr #charles xavier #Erik's crush on Charles saved his life #jewish #jews #jewish representation #antisemitism #cherik #erik x charles #They are just following orders my ass. #Charles get your shit together ok? Like Come'on you won't be that pretty forever you need common sense. #jewblr

[aces-to-apples]

Frankly I think Alistair being mildly shitty to that mage in Ostagar seems pretty in-character for the guy he is before the massive, life-altering trauma that is the Ostagar massacre wherein he sees all of his Grey Warden comrades, his beloved mentor/father figure, and his beloathed half-brother/convenient-target-of-projection absolutely torn to shreds by literal Thedas boogeymen. IIRC Morrigan and Flemeth both comment on his wack behavior after Ostagar and then by the time we get to Lothering Alistair just fully surrenders any and all responsibility (and, frankly, agency) to the player's Warden for the foreseeable future. It can then take anywhere from a couple IRL hours to the entire second act of the game for him to retake almost any amount of it back. And depending on the player's choices in dialogue, and especially whether or not they choose to romance him, we may only see flashes of that guy we met at Ostagar before he potentially morphs into almost someone else entirely (hardened!King!Alistair). All that to say, I don't actually think it's a useful criticism of "characterization" to bring up Alistair's glibness as compared to his behavior in the majority of the game because from where I'm standing (looking directly at his snottiness about Cailan, his complaints about being assigned to the Tower of Ishal, his Templar-esque focusing on Morrigan and Flemeth being apostates, his generally pretty brusque manner with the Warden recruits) it seems fairly in-line with the rest of his behavior at Ostagar.

#like seriously he's a bit of a dick (more than what becomes usual) while at ostagar #before his world is shattered and his brain (and personality) is completely rearranged by seeing everyone important to him slaughtered #he clings so hard to the warden as a lifeline that he kind of goes full-on fawning mode for a little bit there #just giving up the reins completely and following orders as (imo) a method of coping with massive loss and trauma #throughout the course of the game he recovers somewhat and goes back to being kind of a dick #and/or growing up pretty extensively and becoming a much better and more tolerant person as a whole #but the idea of him being a dick to a mage because he's being moved around like a chess piece rather than a person #by someone who should NOT have the authority to do that and that fuckin ANNOYS him and then this dude's getting all up in his face about it #as if this was HIS decision and then being accused of harassing this random ass dude he could not give less of a fuck about for funsies #and thus him going full obnoxious shithead teenager about it is somehow OUT of character?? for ALISTAIR??? wack #like nah bro i know we all love ali but our vision is being obscured by that love and also how sweet he is in a romance #just being besties with him unlocks an incredible amount of unfiltered BITCHINESS that is fully in-line with ostagar!alistair's shenanigans #dragon age: origins #alistair theirin #by apples #da meta #anyway there's been disk horse on my dash for the last couple days and this is my take on it

[obessivedork]

WHY isn't there an option to tell Scribe Haylen that killing Danse was never and WILL NOT be my plan? 😡 I don't CARE if anyone hears me saying it! I'll yell it from the rooftops! Queen I'll more than "Hear him out" I absolutely promise, Maxson can go to hell- I'm NOT killing a friend in cold blood just because of where and how he was born!!!!

#fo4 #fallout #kat plays fo4 #Let me ROLEPLAY BETHANY ESDA 😭😭😭 #Also extremely funny of Maxson given there's absolutely NO WAY he doesn't know that Sole is friends with Nick Valentine and possibly Hancoc #Like. Buddy. I've made it PRETTY TRANSPARENT that I don't share that specific mindset with you WHY would you expect me to follow that order #thanks for the warning my friend's life is in danger tho babe on my way to make sure he's safe right away xoxoxo #many things can be said about the writing in this game but I DO think they nailed the ego and expectation of absolute loyalty #that a 20 year old guy raised the way Maxson specifically has been would have. He's constantly surrounded by people kissing his ass #not just for his supposed achievements but his family. people who wouldn't question his orders normally etc etc etc #absolutely FASCINATING #danse #paladin danse

[catastrxblues]

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#okay i actually want to rant a bit 😭 - not advised to read this because then you might get brain damage #because oh my god??????? weird #(was going to write an entire diary but nvm here’s the gist of it) #basically i was coming home from this chem thing right #i used the train as i always do when it comes to this. and because the new station just got a shiny renovation it is now connected to the #new mall in front of it (we have two now it’s an addition to the first one). and guess what 😭 #i had to go in and get to the first mall because my dad said he’d just pick me up at the lobby instead of the bus stop in front of #the station entrance right. #and when i was on the elevator going up on a call with my mom about food orders 😭 #the guy i used to have a very very VERY heavy crush on in middle grade got to the elevator leading down just as i was on the landing 😭😭 #and i had to make sure i wasn’t hallucinating so as he was descending and his back turned to me i examined the back of his head and i’m #pretty sure it was him. curiosity killed the cat i should’ve remembered that shit because you know what my stupid ass did?? #i was already walking away on my way to cross to the first mall but then that curiosity got the better off me and i steppedonto the elevato #leading down 😭 and followed him out into (apparently) the fucking bus stop #oh my goddd I JUST REALIZED this is my the one moment help #except i don’t think he recognized me because i was never even friends with him lmao. wrote tons of poetry about him ✅ #actually had one proper conversation with him ❌ #i was delusional and kept alone with my thoughts living in my head do not judge me #but seriously even though i don’t really care about him anymore this would’ve been (unfortunately) SUPER important to middle grade me #she would’ve taken it as a sign or something and write like five pages about it #and i just keep thinking about that #funny how things change because IF YOU KNEW how many credits and exaggerated compliments i gave him in my old journal #oh you would’ve laugheddd #like i used to SPEND SO MUCH TIME pondering over him it’s so 😭 #i used to have an oc and i think i based it on my idea of him and then i think that idea of him was even the reason i started to TRY to #write poetically. and i used to relate every taylor swift love songs to him (esp the ones in debut lover and rep and fearless) IT WAS SO #FUNNY LOOKING BACK AT IT NOW #i think he did see me though. i put on this act as if i was searching for someone confused and then (my go to) pretended someone called me #and then i whisked off as if to find that someone #i’d like to think i look pretty cool though. not because of anything (def not my looks because i was SO TIRED from that extra chem lessons

[the-lord-of-the-things]

That night Victor brought a stiff to the doctor’s doorstep Sketching out some thoughts that have been rattling about my brain incessantly ‘bout how my courier did actually die in Goodsprings, and it took somewhat ethically questionable means to resuscitate him

#courier micky #fallout new vegas #new vegas #fnv #doc mitchell #there was more scene I wanted to sketch out of victor leaning on doc mitchell to work on micky despite him bein obviously dead #cause sth sth following house's orders despite them not accounting for the courier being dead #and cause I'm a sucker for eerie victor #but this little bit alone kicked my ass #so I'm cuttin it here #for now #blood #blood tw #the resucitation after brain death being based on some very very new science I saw floating about #and just fallouting it a lil

[s0fter-sin]

i hate the commercialisation of the avengers inside the mcu both bc i find it cringy and meta but also bc it narratively doesn’t make sense.

we spent ten years establishing that the avengers are a contentious presence, civil war was literally about people not trusting them bc of what/who they are and now it’s almost completely erased and everyone loves them now? and don’t even get me started on rogers the musical

the way clint reacts makes it seem like the writers are trying to say it’s in poor taste but it’s less bc it trivialises a literal alien invasion but bc clint misses natasha and it hurts him to see an interpretation of her. not bc people are singing and dancing about an event that got hundreds if not thousands of people killed. the closest american equivalent i can think of is 9/11. people can’t even joke about it without being torn apart and it happened over 20 years ago. the battle of new york happened 10 years ago in the current mcu, the snap happened maybe a year ago, you’re telling me everyone’s chill with a musical about one of the worst days of their lives?

“i can do this all day” being their tagline encapsulates everything i dislike about it. the only people steve said that to were nazis that were immediately killed, tony who would never talk about what happened in siberia and the 2012 version of steve says it to him. no one else would know that phrase and acting like it’s something he crowed from the rooftops is at best a plot hole and at worse, an indictment of how little care the writers are having for the new era of the mcu

#other than the odd thanos was right graffiti the public loves the avengers now #and that spits in the face of over 10 years of established development and world building #even scott writing a book and becoming a celebrity doesnt make sense with his character considering all he wanted was to be a good father #now he wants to be famous and get attention? #to the point of disregarding his daughter? the entire point of his character? #and tony and hulk and presumably the rest of them getting ice cream named after them after civil war? everyone hated you three minutes ago #i already hated professor hulk for killing the hulk then acting like they didnt but him signing things and dabbing during the blip? #why was he being treated like a celebrity? #he and the avengers failed and half the universe died as a result why would people like him after that? #the avengers bringing everyone back shouldve created an ‘it was the least you could do considering you failed the first time’ energy #it should be grudging gratitude not this worship thats happening #which makes the flag smashers even weaker when theyre the only ones not sucking up the avengers ass #of course they hate the new world order theyre villains not getting what they want duh #instead of it being a valid expression #everyone in the world is way too happy and chill with everything when Half Of Everything Was Dead a year ago #it just doesnt follow the careful realistic world building set up over the entire mcu #coming out of my cage and ive been doing just fine.txt #marvelous #talk meta to me #marvel #the avengers #the snap #meta #captain america #rogers the musical #endgame #mcu #phase 4 #phase four

[bumblingbabooshka]

Everyone needs to start getting way weirder (read: hornier) about this moment so I don't feel so alone.

Also - Tuvok....this is WILDLY funny. Tuvok is SO cringe I love him, he's the worst guy ever. Absolutely 0 hesitation to, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, straight up go "Hey, first officer? Sorry for cutting you off in the middle of this life-or-death situation but I just couldn't help but notice that I, Tuvok, made a suggestion and you didn't follow it? That's literally never happened before. Did you not hear me or..?" There's literally not even a good reason for him to object it's straight up ONLY because it wasn't his idea.

#I'm telling you Tuvok gives such a wonderful 'spoiled know it all' energy <3 #Has Janeway NEVER disagreed with you????? HEHEHE #Oh anyway yeah Chakotay making Tuvok call him sir is hot #But more importantly - people who say Tuvok has no personality beyond 'Vulcan' simply aren't paying enough attention #like I know we sort of get SCRAPS as the series goes on but he DOES have a distinct personality to me #It's not only that he speaks up here rather than following orders - its the REASON he gives which is #'Why aren't you doing what I say? Janeway would never do this. =_=' (& the fact he does it in front of everyone) #It implies that he thinks his plan is better just because it's his plan (as otherwise he'd surely bring up a more facts/logic based #complaint) - He's ANNOYING and he's arrogant and he's clearly very close with Janeway #and he deserves to get punched <3 and I love him so much. #voy #How CONFIDENT was he that Chakotay would be like 'oh sorry Tuvok you're absolutely right' that he INTERRUPTED him to bring it up in front #of EVERYONE????? TUVOK!!! GIRL YOU ARE /DELUSIONAL/ ~!!! #I can literally see Tuvok writing a 'and everybody clapped' ass fanfic in my head as we speak...he and the doctor have this in common #the only difference is that Tuvok would never explicitly write that while the Doctor absolutely would and he'd be like 'this is the height #of my genius' and I unfortunately find all of that endearing

[butchyena]

im not training people at this job anymore lmao why should i waste my time training a brick fucking wall

#i hate training veterans !!!! thyre so fucking stupid !!!!!!!!!! #they DONT listen to women and all they know is follow ordered #their brains dont fucking work they dont have any critical fucking thinking skills and information slides right off their smooth ass brains #stupid fucking people on the god damn planet to try and get to UNDERSTAND what the point of a real job is #get a line job get a ohysical job just sont make me waste my fucking time trying to explain how to get the rodent wheel running #stupid stupid stupid stupid smooth fucking brain dipshits #when men tell them shit its no fucking problem #is all they understand guns being waved in their face? would that work you think? would that make them listen to me like im anhuman person

[reformedmercymain]

I have no desire to put this person on blast but my god it really shows when people didn’t play high elo overwatch pre role lock (not to mention how hard it was to have a completely stagnant meta for pro teams who weren’t the kings of it like titans and shock, which I wouldn’t bring up unless this person wasn’t mainly talking about OWL, which they were)

#like goats at the highest level (shock v titans) matches were incredible #but being subjected to ladder goats for that long? and seeing lower tier teams players like emotionally suffering because they can’t even #play the role they like and even within that comp the only change that can be made is to put a sombra in #also I don’t follow this person nor have I seen them before but I follow the owl tag so it just showed up on my dash #obviously don’t harass them just because it’s easy to disagree with their takes #(there’s a… lot of interesting takes because they stopped watching years ago) #c talks #ALSO DONT GET ME WRONG. DOUBLE SHIELD WAS IMMEDIATELY PAINFUL TOO. #but I personally still enjoyed it more than goats in terms of it being finally changed #I lovedddd playing zarya especially if I had a great rein (playing d.va wasn’t too bad but I didn’t enjoy her as much) #but still. I played it for so long that I felt stagnant in improving #in order to avoid purely playing goats I had to use an alt to not damage my highest ranking account #you could still get away with forcing some team comp shifts but you had play your ass off and have a team capable of adapting a bit #I have literally so many hours on mei and reaper bc I can’t fucking play doomfist #they also were afraid of 1-2-2 and as much as I miss some incredible tank duo synergy now that I’ve played a lot of ow2 I can say it’s the #best damn thing they could’ve done for the game #ALSO it’s completely fine to take such a long break and have… odd… takes because of it but it’s kinda funny to see it condensed in one long #post that drifts across your dashboard lmao

[bibannana]

Excuse me?? Commander Cody?? Crosshair?? Free my boys please. Someone remove their chips.

I will be leaving to fight the empire. I will free them. I swear if one of them gets hurt I will-. If they have to hurt their brothers I will be throwing hands.

Good soldiers follow orders

#commander cody #tbb crosshair #had his chip removed my ass #if they are hurt I swear to the force #protect my boys #don't make them hurt each other #just let the bad batch be happy #good soldiers follow orders #has me crying #star wars #the bad batch #unwhitewash the clones #unwhitewashtbb #will fight the empire single handedly to free them #save cody and crosshair 2022

[qazastra]

actually can i complain about my boss again.

apparently he only wants to have one experienced person on a training shift from now on. one person to train the entirely new worker how to work at our cafe. because "labor costs are through the roof." are you

are you fucking with meeee FUCK WITH MEEEEEE YOU PAY US MINIMUM WAGE YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS

hes just simply not going to have people who know what to do then!!!!! bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i cannot properly train anyone BY MYSELF!!!! what about when someone orders a small oat milk cappucino with caramel sauce and my coworker #doesn't know where to fucking find it on the cash register and doesn't know how to work the espresso machine besides so im basically #working the shift by myself with the added annoyance of having someone i need to explain everything to before i do it as well.... #AND IF HE DOESN'T GIVE US OUR LEGALLY MANDATED MEAL BREAKS THIS WEEKEND #idc how stupid i'll look im taking His Ass to The Law #can you believe he had a staff meeting yesterday and said something about #'i follow the law always because you know why? its cheaper than breaking it' with a straight face #when he knows damn well he's BEEN breaking it with no consequences. not just there either #but hes also got a SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD (bless him hes really sweet) serving alcohol. FUCK WITH ME IM SO SERIOUS!! #i feel bad for the two new kids they think hes scary and he can be but ohhdjaksgfjvw there were so many times i was holding in laughter #during the 'staff meeting' (it was a 40 minute lecture thats all) and so grateful that i still wear a mask my god #he sounds like hot air when he really gets going its very laughable hes so serious about everything. but i know what its really like t #to work here. so hes not fooling me. nope. #thanks for reading this rant i hope it was interesting #m

[bronzebtch]

i think what's most agitating for me about the whole franchise (and i might be wrong cause im frankly no expert and i need someone to guide me if i am getting this wrong) is like... there is no distinguishable fashion trend from whatever we have in hotd to whatever we received in GoT, even tho fashion style actually rotates quite quickly when you look back in history. similarly, while i can see that there are some outstanding hairstyles distinguishing the south and the north, as well as the increasing use of fur and leather (for northerners vs the southerners) but liek .... thats about it ? [brain explodes]

#to be very VERY fair #i do think the costume department did distinguish fashion between the houses #and we see this most favourably in tyrells i'd like to believe #because theirs are more loose... drapy.... flower motifs etc #as well as ( of course ) the lannisters #also the usage of colours ( but tbh that gets boring at one point kjsdhfjdsh LMAOOOO DONT SHADE ME ) #but like.... STYLES u know? #because didnt elizabethean era and victorian era all have their own styles with which the court followed #and thus influencing many noblemen / noble ladies to follow ? #and later on the crowd etc #like .... edwardian to victorian to regency moved very quickly from one after another yanno ? #but they're all VERY DIFFERENT from each other #( also i might fuck up that order ^ in my defense : im asian skjdhfdsh ) #idk man .... i might just be talking outta my ass #but its been bugging me #i might be missing smth tho! #brain needs a massage fr #GENERAL: OUT OF CHARACTER.

[asyourshadowfalls]

got a report yesterday that one of the stores complained that i hadnt been moving stock there all weekend (BS cause I moved 14 cases in that store alone which for a non sale weekend that's a lot ime) but of course it had me paranoid that I would have to field a call from higher up because that store in specific is the one watched closely. just got a message from that higher up, 97% in stock across all stores (even more than the other team mentioned) so FUCK YOU dude. 'm gonna be less salty than i had planned to be if i actually got 'in trouble', but still not gonna be buddy buddy with that fuck anymore

#like i get it it's a pain in the ass to deal with the amount of stock from one vendor #(hell i've gotten the hardass receiver at another store to love me because i get her position is a lot more stressful but im also upfront #about my role and what i can and cannot control). #but i dont control what gets ordered #and i don't control how much product gets bought between my visits #and i refuse to open up a dozen boxes to only put up one or two items fuck the mess THAT would inevitably create in the freezers #im also just annoyed cause the guy didn't speak to me at all to address it when he saw and made friendly comments to me each day #like be a big boy and use your words if you want me to do something different or are confused #personal #kayrambles #work annoyance #generally love the job because im on my own and just hopping around to stores to stock #but this bothers me simply because i've heard employees previously have been followed and at the root of it all #is i enjoy privacy and not feeling like im being surveilled even when that's inevitable in this country in general

[bellamyblcke]

the crazy thing about being a really conflict averse person that now is in a position of authority is it's so surprising to me how unpleasant having to enforce rules is like we get it i am not cut out to be a teacher but like... having to meet with unruly students SUCKS big time and i hate having to smack them down but the other option (being a pushover) is also really unfair to me and to the other students and as a student i would have had no sense of how anxiety inducing being the professor meeting with students could be...of course i would never act how my students are acting so maybe the point is moot

#maybe this just is another symptom of aging into new roles #but i'm like wow does having to do this make me feel young #also i'm not tenured faculty #i'm paid so little #but you still have to follow the rules in order to pass my class #you asses #it also makes professors with power complexes so baffling to me #like i hate having this power i don't want it #i don't have a personal tag alas sometimes i just rant to the void #and i'm feeling ranty

[incarnateirony]

You know what sucks a whole assload?

fighting an archangel

that's it that's the tweet

#why on earth were you so retarded to mix judaism with pagan pantheons without gnosis #why am i yet again fighting for you #i hate this #buddies yahweh wasn't unclear #now you got my ass out here fighting a demiurge for your mess #i'm so over yall #i dont know WHAT pissant shadow of shea's insecurities you been following #but i promise that aint been jehova #i just took four fists from him #thanks for that #PICK A FUCKING PATH YOU WORTHLESS PIECES OF SHIT #I'M GETTING TORE UP OVER YOUR SHIT ATP #YOU CANT KEEP ORDERING SIDE DISHES FOREVER WHAT ISN'T CLICKING #WHY IS MY ASS THE ONE PROTECTING YOU

[sirfrogsworth]

People are talking about not voting for Biden.

Again.

I'm just so tired of this argument.

I just can't do Trump again.

I can't.

His incompetence killed so many people. A panel estimated 40% of COVID deaths could have been averted.

One of those deaths was my mother.

She was killed because people didn't trust the vaccines and they didn't think masks were worth the inconvenience. That man could have gone on TV and said "This is the Trump vaccine and it is great." He could have sold fucking MAGA masks on his website. He had 100% influence over his dipshit followers and could have used that for the greater good. But he was too vain to wear a mask in public and bungled the vaccine rollout.

And now I worry some of my trans loved ones may not make it through another far right administration. They have this giant target on their back right now and conservatives seem determined to eradicate as many trans lives as possible.

I wrote a whole ass post about how I didn't care for Biden. I still don't. But when I try to imagine what a right wing administration would be doing right now... that seems like it would be a nightmare orders of magnitude worse than the current nightmare.

As someone with an untreatable chronic illness, I know the feeling of being presented with choices where all of them suck. And I have had to survive by choosing the least sucky option over and over.

It feels bad every single time.

I hate it.

And I still fucking choose.

It should be different. There should be better choices. I shouldn't have to choose the least bad thing among all bad things.

But there are people and things in this world I feel are worth sticking around for, so I continue to choose the least sucky thing.