#assuming he's about to be dumped

[warlordfelwinter]

waterdeep campaign off to a powerful start the dm almost made me cry during celeste's like 1 hour solo session

#i gave her so many knives to use against him i think she used all of them and found some more under the bed #like STARTING the session off with the fact that celeste has been seeing asmodeus less and less and less lately like #oh i know where celeste's brain is at constantly a little bit right now #assuming he's about to be dumped #and then hanala comes swinging through the window with visions of the apocalypse #celeste is just the this is fine dog right now #trying to force himself to be more social while just thinking about how maybe waterdeep is about to burn to the ground #at least he got to eat an orange roll #the world might end but celeste got a pastry so that's all that matters #i also got two fucking nat 1s during this session #i only rolled like 4 or 5 checks and two of them were natural ones like please #i picked dice with celeste vibes from my collection and they betray me like this #fel's ttrpgs #dnd #tales from the dancing sea dragon #oc: celeste #i didn't immediately trip over his accent and bail though which is nice #i'm so out of practice playing a charismatic character though like god #it's going to take me a few sessions to get back into the asra swing i think #i keep making pretty flirty boys which is fun for me an extremely awkward person

[0xeyedaisy]

Random stuff

#incredibox #sepbox #monart #spiders #Okay time to dump my thoughts in the tags #The first doodle was drawn cuz it had rained recently #I thought Edgar would enjoy the rain (assuming it doesn't rain in the depths) #The Watcher doodle was me thinking about how the Watcher watches over everyone #He sends out his little spider minions to spy on ppl! #He sees everything through their eyes #The Edgar comic is what I imagine he did when he left the depths #While the docs say that they only found his jewerly and crown at the Gateway #I like to think that Edgar saw this new place and immediately stripped naked. Cuz it's funnier that way #He decided to leave his past life as the prince at the gate with his royal clothes and jewerly #or something like that #The last doodle is how I imagine Tam's illness spread across his face #The documents don't mention how exactly he got the illness #I thought maybe it started from an innocuous scratch #He lost his eye cuz it straigh up rotted away #Annnnd that's about it #I'm always thinking about this mod as you can tell. So sad I can't draw every idea I have orz #Anyway I'll contunie having thoughts and patiently waiting for v8

[boyfridged]

i’ve been thinking a lot about what is so unique and appealing about 80s robin jay’s moral standing that got completely lost in plot later on. and i think a huge part of it is that in a genre so focused on crime-fighting, his motivations and approach don’t focus on the category of crime at all. in fact, he doesn’t seem to believe in any moral dogma; and it’s not motivated by nihilism, but rather his open-heartedness and relational ethical outlook.

we first meet (post-crisis) jay when he is stealing. when confronted about his actions by bruce he’s confident that he didn’t do anything wrong – he’s not apologetic, he doesn’t seem to think that he has morally failed on any account. later on, when confronted by batman again, jay says that he’s no “crook.” at this point, the reader might assume that jay has no concept of wrong-doing, or that stealing is just not one of the deeds that he considers wrong-doing. yet, later on we see jay so intent on stopping ma gunn and her students, refusing to be implicit in their actions. there are, of course, lots of reasons for which we can assume he was against stealing in this specific instance (an authority figure being involved, the target, the motivations, the school itself being an abusive environment etc.), but what we gather is that jay has an extremely strong sense of justice and is committed to moral duty. that's all typical for characters in superhero comics, isn't it? however, what remains distinctive is that this moral duty is not dictated by any dogma – he trusts his moral instincts. this attitude – his distrust toward power structures, confidence in his moral compass, and situational approach, is something that is maintained throughout his robin run. it is also evident in how he evaluates other people – we never see him condemning his parents, for example, and that includes willis, who was a petty criminal. i think from there arises the potential for a rift between bruce and jay that could be, have jay lived, far more utilised in batman comics than it was within his short robin run.

after all, while bruce’s approach is often called a ‘philosophy of love and care,’ he doesn’t ascribe to the ethics of care [eoc] (as defined in modern scholarship btw) in the same way that jay does. ethics of care ‘deny that morality consists in obedience to a universal law’ and focus on the ideals of caring for other people and non-institutionalized justice. bruce, while obviously caring, is still bound by his belief in the legal system and deontological norms. he is benevolent, but he is also ultimately morally committed to the idea of a legal system and thus frames criminals as failing to meet these moral (legal-adjacent) standards (even when he recognizes it is a result of their circumstances). in other words, he might think that a criminal is a good person despite leading a life of crime. meanwhile, for jay there is no despite; jay doesn't think that engaging in crime says anything about a person's moral personality at all. morality, for him, is more of an emotional practice, grounded in empathy and the question of what he can do for people ‘here and now.’ he doesn’t ascribe to maxims nor utilitarian calculations. for jay, in morality, there’s no place for impartiality that bruce believes in; moral decisions are embedded within a net of interpersonal relationships and social structures that cannot be generalised like the law or even a “moral code” does it. it’s all about responsiveness. 

to sum up, jay's moral compass is relative and passionate in a way that doesn't fit batman's philosophy. this is mostly because bruce wants to avoid the sort of arbitrariness that seems to guide eoc. also, both for vigilantism, and jay, eoc poses a challenge in the sense that it doesn't create a certain 'intellectualised' distance from both the victims and the perpetrators; there's no proximity in the judgment; it's emotional.

all of this is of course hardly relevant post-2004. there might be minimal space for accommodating some of it within the canon progression (for example, the fact that eoc typically emphasises the responsibility that comes with pre-existing familial relationships and allows for prioritizing them, as well as the flexibility regarding moral deliberations), but the utilitarian framework and the question of stopping the crime vs controlling the underworld is not something that can be easily reconciled with jay’s previous lack of interest in labeling crime. 

#fyi i'm ignoring a single panel in which jay says 'evil wins. he chose the life of crime' because i think there's much more nuance to that #as in: choosing a life of crime to deliberately cause harm is a whole another matter #also: inb4 this post is not bruce slander. please do not read it as such #as i said eoc is highly criticised for being arbitrary which is something that bruce seeks to avoid #also ethics of care are highly controversial esp that their early iterations are gender essentialist and ascribe this attitude to women #wow look at me accidentally girl-coding jay #but also on the topic of post-res jay. #it's typically assumed that ethics of care take a family model and extend it into morality as a whole #'the ethics of care considers the family as the primary sphere in which to understand ethical behavior' #so #an over-simplification: you are allowed to care for your family over everything else #re: jay's lack of understanding of bruce's conflict in duty as batman vs father #for jay there's no dilemma. how you conduct yourself in the familial context determines who you are as a person #also if you are interested in eoc feel free to ask because googling will only confuse you... #as a term it's used in many weird ways. but i'm thinking about a general line of thought that evolves into slote's philosophy #look at me giving in and bringing philosophy into comics. sorry. i tried to simplify it as much as possible #i didn't even say anything on criminology and the label and the strain theories. #i'm so brave for not info-dumping #i said even though i just info-dumped #jay.zip #jay.txt #dc #fatal flaw #core texts #robin days

[gimyung]

how samuel (secret friend)'s kidnapping incident got goo this aggy too 💀 got a chill guy premeditating murder like?@?@?!!

#I LOVE THIS SONGGGGGF #samuel got a chokehold on everyone at this point #LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO #im assuming hes talking about samuel #secret friends yknow #lookism dump #l;ch431 #lookism #kim joongoo #samuel seo

[waitingforsecretsouls]

Catching up on Tower of God, and all these theories about how obviously Zahard is the one who did something to Traumerei’s memories and that’s the only reason he could possibly be loyal to him, and as soon as Bam or Gustang or whatever gives him back his memories he’s immediately gonna turn on Zahard are reeeaally weird to me, and diminishing to both Zahard and Traumerei as characters. 

Everything we’be been shown about Traumerei so far paints him as a huge cunt, by choice, who gets off on the suffering of others (which is why he’s a favourite, of course <3 ). When he’s not napping or dead inside he’s short-tempered, capricious and cruel.  A feature not a bug, if you will. While it’s true that we haven’t been shown the origin of his memory-and-emotion-discarding habit we have been shown occasions where he proactively chooses that course of action by himself-in the Yasratcha flashback, where he returned from the Nest to feed some more to Leviathan before dealing with Nen Nen and Wang Wang, and sometime after the incident, if you go by his distorted recollection of the event to Yasratcha. We know from Leviathan that Traumerei is the one who created him and kept feeding ‘filthy’ memories and emotions to him, in quite the amount from what it sounds like. These memories, going by what we know so far, would contain Traumerei at his worst, such as his punishment of Wang Wang, Nen Nen and Yasratcha for example, and likely be coloured by resentment and hatred rather than regret and sorrow (something soldified by Leviathans demeanour, imo) (meaning the current Traumerei is the ‘sanitized’ version).

That aside, how exactly would Zahard have found a way to force Traumerei to cut unwanted memories and emotions out of himself in a way that seems distinctly Traumerei (involving the creation of a Shinheu)? This is not the Hidden Floor, where they were simple data to manipulate and erase (without ill effects to their real/outside selves)! Why would Traumerei have kept up that coping mechanism over the millenia, if it was something forced upon him by Zahard? Why exactly would Zahard himself inquire after Traumerei’s memories, if a key piece of Traumerei’s loyalty to him was their erasure? Zahard himself is the one who brings them up in the first place! What seems like a realtively recent problem to boot, and in a way that seems more eager that he remember and out of worry for an old friend and comrade (’By the way, what kind of nightmares have you been having lately? Do you still not remember?’), (at the end of their strategy meeting, after the ‘business talk’ is already finished) than as some sort of insidious check-up to make sure that he doesn’t remember something from tens of thousands of years ago. It honestly feels like people projecting their dislike of Zahard onto Traumerei, when everything we’ve ever heard about him and are ever shown about him shows him as an ‘enthusiastic’ follower of Zahard and having an absolutely insane treshold of what counts as genuine loyalty. Heck, going by everything about him, it’s more likely that even if he had harboured resentment against Zahard, he would erase it himself to uphold the standard of loyalty he preaches!

In fact, I’d go so far as to say, in view of the Yasratcha flashback and obvious mirroring between him and Traumerei, that it’s far likelier that Traumerei came up with some weird revenge scheme as punishment for ‘abandoning’ him rather than simply being yoinked along by Zahard in something, and that, if he erased his memories because he found them unpleasant to deal with, it was not due to guilt or sorrow but anger and resentment (as we eg. see him exhibit in the flashback upon returning from a trip to the Nest, where he clearly has some leftover frustration).

A lot of fanon seems to view Traumerei as former emotionally softie of the group, who was a poor little meow-meow before he experienced a deep betrayal that emotionally hardened him. While I’m ready to concurr with the latter (and the general fact that the Great Warriors devolved into worse personalities with time) I’d like to point to the examples of what Traumerei perceives as ’betrayals’ in the story, and whether they seem reasonable and justified to feel betrayed by in the first place, or deserving of ‘punishment’, and then reflect upon the likelihood of Traumereis formative betrayal (assuming there is one, definitive one, or that it even involves the Great Warriors) being a cut and dry affair.

As for painting Zahard as the instigator of his unpleasant personality, it reflects an unwillingness to let people other than him be fucked up even though we already know plenty of other family leaders who are, as well as lack of consideration that Zahard might care about some people, like his oldest comrades, and they care about him in turn. Zahard confiding in Traumerei with regards to his views and plans in the first place, Traumerei going above and beyond his assignment to try to turn Bam against Gustang if he proves useful, for example. ‘But the order concering the Poe Bideau family!’- Gustang is the one who stirs the pot in the first place, the one who stole an item whose sole purpose is to defeat Zahard, the one who basically declared if not war certainly conflict, and let it be known that it’s not like Zahard put out a hit on Gustang (which would arguable be pointless, but we do know people as powerful as Eurasia Enne Zahard are capable of getting imprisoned) but merely his family, Gustang’s major instrument for affecting the politics of the Tower.

As of now it seems far more plausible to me for whatever leftover memories that are haunting Traumerei as nightmares to be something done by him instead of to him.

I think that it’s been set up that Traumerei is gonna remember something at the least, and likely something big (maybe eventually prodded by Bam, whom Leviathan told of at least some memories fed to him), but when he does it’s not gonna lead to a sudden heel-turn and alliance, problem solved, but instead a Traumerei actually out for blood, instead of bored and dead inside (anyone remember Bam’s refusal to let Leviathan go free bc ‘if I let it out [...] I’d be committing a sin against the world’ (TOG #531)? That Shinheu formed out of all of Traumerei’s most negative memories and emotions he discarded? That would presumably bubble back up inside Traumerei himself when he remembers?)

To close with a Maschenny quote that summarizes my hopes for Traumerei:

“Has it really disappeared now? That rage of yours? [...] Even if you say that rage has hardened and sunk in your mind, I don’t understand how it could just fly away in the wind like that. It gets more intense and clings to you even more firmly as time passes and you recall those memories. That’s the kind of emotion that rage is. And as long as that rage lives-war can break out at any time.”

-Khun Maschenny Zahard, Tower of God #390

#Tower of God #Lo Po Bia Traumerei #my pet theory that I know is highly unlikely to be canon is that -assuming there was a formative betrayal and it involved the Great Warrior #is that Traumerei was the one who instigated some sort of messed up retaliation or whatever in some form #(forced V to kill himself?) #if we take leviathans demeanour as a genuine representation of Traumerei emotions (excepting eg the resentment of serving as smg to dump hi #negative emotions into) #there is some resentment against Zahard (unless the king he's talking about is Traumerei as his creator) #so what if...the person Traumerei felt betrayed by was Zahard? Maybe for proposing to Arlene even after their huge disagreement..? #So he did something to mess things up even further so V and Arlene really 'betrayed' Zahard (trying to steal the key..?) #(mirroring how Yasratcha framed Wang Wang as a traitor to Traumerei) #(so he'd have no choice but to disregard him either way and come with Yasratcha) #(which I realize is not an exact copy but slightly inverted in the scenario I'm proposing) #boom #Zahard feels betrayed by them for real and retaliates and no more talk of reconciliation #yes Traum talks about dominating those who betray him into forcefully staying by his side but consider: #his 'domination' is literally manipulation? #Emotionally as we see with Wang Wang and Nen Nen even if he seemingly had no set goal #manipulating others be it by controlling their bodies eg Yasratcha or their choices and actions #ngl part of me just wants him to be the toxic gay best friend à la Yasratcha sooo bad #if you want wholesome stuff there's Bam and Khun and whatnot the Great Warriors are for toxicity ONLY #also do not care about leviathan as Bams xth absorbed power show me those memories or perish!

[akkivee]

since ichiro’s the type that gushes about his loved ones when prompted, eg the ski lodge event where the manager of the resort teasingly told jiro he had high expectations for him because ichiro would not stop bragging about his bros lol,

i’d like to propose that ichiro telling his listeners during his first hypradio that kuukou wasn’t a bad guy and to support him is of the same energy—

#this is vee speaking #like i am never getting over it lmao what was the reason ichiro????? #for what purpose did you even answer a question about kuukou if it wasn’t because you wanted to talk about him lol????? #when again nobody else mentioned a soul about nobody outside their team?????? #what gets me about those first radios is that they were more character lore driven ig??? than the wave radios #like the way we got hints that ramuda was created and later on learned he also hinted at the origins of his bubbly personality #the wave radios weren’t throwing curveballs like that lmao #(yet lol) #*beatboxes* ​so what could we possibly assume from ichiro choosing to talk about kuukou in those character dump radios????? i wonder???? #lol i relate to ichiro because he’s kinda embarrassing about kuukou lmao #c: ichibro #c: kuukou👑

[agallimaufryofoddments]

Kinda wild that the announcement teaser for Fate/strange fake's upcoming TV special (airdate Dec 31) already has nearly 1.3 million plays (views?) on Twitter. It's been up for less than a month.

Not wild because it’s a Fate property, obviously. It’s not even really wild that F/sf is getting a TV special; we all knew an adaptation was inevitable, the question was only ‘how long would one be held off?’ Nah, It’s just wild to me that this TV special will be the first major animated adaptation of one of Narita’s works since the Durarara!!x2 ended in 2016. 

<snipping speculation re: the TV special and shoving it below the cut, since this post was just supposed to be a “wow this is wild” post.>

Man, if F/sf Volume 8 does come out in, say, January or February... I’m going to think happy thoughts and not “Baccano! Volume 23 top 10 betrayals” thoughts. I’m just going to hope the F/sf TV special will spotlight Ryohgo Narita’s name for mainstream western audiences and boost LN sales. On the one hand, it’s ‘just’ a TV special’. On the other hand, it’s a special seemingly hyped up by Aniplex and, uh, y’know, part of the Fate franchise.

Wasn’t F/sf the number 1 or top 3 ‘most requested anime adaptation’ in a poll a few years ago? That might account for some of the hype. Whether the special will lead to a 2023 summer TV anime like other Fate Dec 31 TV specials have, or whether it will be its own strange thing, the sheer fact of it finally happening is a Fate/strange feeling indeed..

It’s been pointed out that some other Fate adaptations have started with December 31 TV specials (Episode 0s) and gone on to have summer TV series, e.g. Lord El-Melloi and Grand Carnival. So...should we speculate this pattern repeats with F/sf? I haven’t really consumed anything in the Fate franchise and have little interest in doing so beyond F/sf, which I’ve been slowly and sporadically reading, so I’m not exactly familiar with precedent.

For instance, Fate precedent re: adapting incomplete source material. The LNs are at seven volumes so far and (though I’m not caught up yet) in the thick of the plot, and I’m not sure how a one- or two-cour anime would tackle adapting it. A two-cour anime would make more sense than one. Definitely not sure what a 24-minute TV special could accomplish, considering that F/sf is a bit like Baccano! with tons of stuff happening in one, two, three (etc.) days. 

Maybe the TV special will be an hour long or something; that would make more sense. Aniplex announced it in a livestream, didn’t it? Hyped it up? Is it normal for Fate TV specials to get the amount of hype it feels like this one’s getting? Am I imagining the hype due to my Narita bias? A long TV special would warrant it. A long special is almost necessary if they’re planning to introduce characters with it, because the entirety of Volume 1 is character introductions and couldn’t possibly fit into a half hour.

Oh, hm, the special could feasibly function as some worldbuilding / backstory set up. I’m guessing that most if not all Fate stories review Fate’s conceit for hypothetical newcomers, which is what Narita helpfully semi-does in Volume 1 (thank God, since I’m essentially a newcomer). Narita’s twist on holy grail wars is new—I understand that pretty much every holy grail war in all the Fate derivates has gone awry / atypically since...the first series?—the setting (Snowfield, Nevada) is new... so a TV special ‘orienting’ viewers makes sense. 

Except it makes sense only if the plan is 100% to proceed with a 2023 anime, so, who knows. R.L. (from the PSA teaser) and Ayaka (character’s VA returning) are both Volume 2 material, so... either the TV special is going to blitz through Volume 1 and end with R.L. and Ayaka as a huge cliffhanger / hype teaser, or possibly the special won’t function as a story episode at all and just be a compilation of ‘hype’ moments. That sounds... I mean, wouldn’t that just be spoiler central? I don’t buy that.

Precedent, huh. Also, since A-1 Pictures is handling the F/sf TV special, is it probable that A-1 would then handle a proper TV adaptation? Based on El-Melloi and Grand C., probably. Oh, wait, I forgot A-1 did that 2019 F/sf PV for the light novels—so make that ‘almost definitely’.

One potentially major aspect is that the TV special will have a simuldub, which, from what I’ve read, will be the first 1:1 complete simuldub of a Fate adaptation? Major for us since a simuldub will cast the spotlight on F/sf and concomitantly Narita’s name that much wider, even if the dub is terrible. The sheer novelty alone of a Fate simuldub may be enough to attract viewers. Er, beyond the existing big Fate audience, of course. I’ve also read that a simuldub was greenlit because F/sf is set in America (oh, Narita, you wag), but that’s no guarantee the dub will be any good.

....it’s also wild (well, weird) that I’m thinking this actively about an anime TV special, since I’ve barely watched anime these past few years. Could be that I’m aging out of anime, though, let’s be real, when I was an undergrad I was already more discerning. Could be that I’ve been in mental limbo ever since spring 2020 with the ‘advent’ (you know what I mean) of the pandemic and its affects on my grad school.)

#Ryohgo Narita #Fate/strange fake #F/sf #Fate franchise #PSA #long post #It should boost LN sales no matter what right? Is it possible to overestimate the Fate IP? #It's because it's Fate that I'm assuming sales boost is all but assured even if A-1 Pictures screws up. #With A-1 Pictures the quality of a show really depends on staff; Sawano composing the F/sf score alone is huge given how popular he is. #I don't have strong feelings about his music but his name translates to hype for a lot of people. #Sorry; this was just supposed to be a those video statistics are wild and so is Narita's return to anime post #but it ended up being a dump of F/sf thoughts. #I don't have many of those I swear; I've read the F/sf manga and 'am reading' the LNs...incrementally... #Way more thoughts on what does this mean for Narita than on F/sf itself at the moment. #the length of the post is also strange considering WOW my indifference to Fate is measurable and my knowledge minimal. #I'm having a decently good time with F/sf since it's Narita (also big plus that it's standalone despite all the meta references) #and actually it has raised my interest in Fate a little so let that append or amend my 'indifferent' statement #but I just don't have an urge to get into the rest of Fate soon. Maybe someday.

[shadowglens]

i spent like an hour looking at jdm’s instagram, and seeing all the photos of him and his kids is making me wanna give sage & negan a kid together

#txt #oc tag #like obviously sage has kit and would do anything for her babygirl #and negan by extension would kill anyone before letting a hair on that little ginger's head get hurt #but them having a kid together ............... sage keeping it from him because shes a habitual liar these days #until it eventually comes out and he just stares at her and her stomach for just a little too long before making a throwaway comment about i #sage immediately saying she's going to find a way to get rid of it and negan being so good at playing with masks that he hardly reacts #just nods and gives her the trademark smile and lets her leave #and for weeks he just ... assumes she did it? and tries not to think of all the possibilities of it #tries not to let the idea eat him alive #meanwhile cut to sage having a fullblown crisis about it #the pregnancy happening when things are still not quite healed after everything #but then they make up a few weeks later and are lying in bed together sweaty and soaked up in each other #and sage just takes his hand and puts it to her stomach and quietly says she doesnt expect anything #that she raised one kid on her own and she's ready to do it agan #and negan just laughing a little hysterically and rubbing at the silent tears running down her cheeks #‘i know you can baby. doesn’t mean i’m gonna let you.’ 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #fuck i didn't mean to lore dump in the tags but here we are i guess #i should tag them #sage x negan

[orcelito]

Honestly the store has come a long, long way since last January where we were legitimately going to hold a store-wide strike b4 the boss and then-manager panicked and started holding meetings with all of us to try to figure out what to do about it

It's still a workplace, but our current employees r in general much happier and content. + there's a better community in general. It's nice to know I had a part in making this happen.

#speculation nation #i was starting out in a higher position back at the start of the year. but really freshly starting out. #and it wasnt assistant manager. it was lead supervisor. essentially a go between of supervisor and assistant manager #and then all this shit happened and Then the then assistant manager ended up being incredibly nasty towards me #and i put in my two weeks fully intending to leave b4 changing my mind on the very last day bc my tax return was delayed #and i didnt have the monetary security i needed to quit lol #manager gave me the assurance that i wouldnt have to work with the assistant manager. and it was good enough to last until she left. #ive had my insecurities regarding the now manager in training. mostly about what she thinks about me #but i think she does like me. boss told me today that she spoke up for me on my level of effort around the store #since im kinda bad at messaging everything i do lol he doesnt see it like he sees her efforts #but she sees it. and she stood up for me. #she also spent a good half hour ish the other day info dumping about the ateez universe lore. and it was so fucking endearing #me being like 'i have no personal interest in this but you seem so excited and i am really happy youre this comfortable with me. go on' #and especially with her being promoted to manager... makes me feel less bad about how much i do comparatively #im still gonna try of course. but im going to assume she will be paid more than me. bc she will be doing more than me. #as it stood my wage was actually a little higher than hers due to seniority. and it was making me feel pretty guilty #and i was soooo anxious about her possibly leaving after graduating college & the responsibility for the store falling onto me #but i can remain in a support position while she takes up the mantle of manager. and i am so much more comfortable with that #yea it feels a lil weird to be like 5 years older than her with like 5 years more seniority working here & her being higher ranked #but i can manage that lol. im happier not having too many responsibilities thanks #there r things we need to improve on with the store. but overall things r so much better #makes me feel like i can actually breathe easy for once. maybe at least a little bit.

[frink-o-matic]

I just realized it’s been a year from when my ex dumped me the first time.

#personal #trauma dumping #yes I’ve been thinking about him again #I’ve found it easier to deal with if I call him my ex #that whole ‘I’m drunk and I think you’re ignoring me so I’m going to fume and blow up at you about it later’ has been burned into my brain #we played phasmophobia on the 24th #my side of the vc was having lag issues so 🤷🏼‍♀️ #he leaves at some point during the game because he thought I was ignoring him #he fumes all of the 25th #I ask him if I could join him in whatever he’s playing #he says no so I figure he wants to be by himself because depression #several hours later I wake up to him ranting at me #I say something snippy in return and go back to sleep #I wake up to him having blocked me on Steam #which I immediately assumed meant he dumped me

[awkward-teabag]

Related to my previous post, Horgan whines about and claims that the feds aren't funding BC healthcare—and it's true the feds' funding of provincial healthcare has gone down for all provinces—but BC is second only to Ontario in how much it spends on healthcare administration fees.

That could be expected if BC were second in population to Ontario but it's not. Quebec is second and has millions more people than BC yet BC spends more on healthcare administration than a province that has 3.5 million more people (and is projected to widen the difference even more in the upcoming year).

Here's the top 5 most populous provinces and roughly what they spend on healthcare admin fees per resident:

Ontario: $37.92

Quebec: $40.13

British Columbia: $78.26

Alberta: $32.36

Manitoba: $39.63

So $32-$40/per resident is about the norm... except for BC which is double that.

And keep in mind these are admin fees, not what's spent on frontline healthcare workers. BC has some of the most bloated and unneeded overhead costs for healthcare in not just Canada but the whole world and employs roughly 5x the number needed.

But the money still comes from the same funding pool.

And Horgan complains BC doesn't have enough money all while he and the province is spending double the national average on office overhead that could easily be trimmed back.

And to add insult to injury, the provincial government is paying private practices to do essential surgeries, paying to fly people to different provinces and the US for healthcare, and paying to bring in private nurses that work for private companies to cover shifts. All while saying it couldn't possibly pay doctors or nurses more and the fee-for-pay system is working perfectly.

But Trudeau's being a big meany and not giving Horgan even more money to spend on admin fees and on private companies *eyeroll*

#and of course horgan also says if people want fast healthcare #they should use telus health instead of seeing a doctor in person #telus being one of the three telecom oligarchs and a private company #and if you think more admins make things faster you are very very wrong #instead of one person signing off on things #several people have to sign off on it #it can take weeks or months for anything to happen #assuming it doesn't get lost/'lost' somewhere along the way #there's zero need for 5 people to approve a procedure and it slows doctors and nurses down #because they could lose their job and/or be fined if they don't wait for proper authorization #to the surprise of no one #healthcare admin is one of the dumping grounds for nepotism for politicians #and healthcare admins were (and still have) priority over nurses/doctors/emts/cancer patients for getting the covid vaccine #and horgan has the gall to whine about 'not enough money' as if there's not accessible stats available #which you would think he'd have realized a year ago when he and his government were saying we didn't get many rapid tests #when the federal government's website had detailed numbers and brands it had sent to every province #bc could shift hundreds of millions to fund doctors and nurses if the government wanted to #but it doesn't #it wants to leech hundreds of millions from the feds and bump up admin pay even higher #and either pocket the rest or give it to private companies #because the bc ndp constantly pocket federal funds earmarked for the public #and gives private companies no-bid contracts #and sells off publicly funded items to private companies which may turn around and sell them to the public for 500%+ more #the rot starts at the head #bc #british columbia #bcpoli #canada #canpoli

[velvet4510]

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

#jrr tolkien #edith tolkien #beren and luthien #luthien tinuviel #beren erchamion

[technicolorxsn]

watching the newest chezzkids analysis vid and im wondering if I might have misinterpreted some stuff,,,

#see the pretty clear implications of physical abuse in between the petals and the thorns and it being shown that #sarah is kind of an asshole boss and possibly breaking labor laws #led me to be a bit more sympathetic to harrison and doubt some of the more aggressive theories about sarahs death #but this person is sorta flipping some of the dialogue i had thought gone different ways #like the stop crying conversation i had sorta read as sarahs dialogue #bc it kinda fits with the rest of her depiction #shes made harrison bleed and belittles him shes an ass to her employees yea id buy that shed speak like that #but this person assumes harrison was saying that #and it kinda makes me think #theres not much directly from sarah #harrison was clearly dumped hard so he might be an unreliable #narrator #the way this youtuber is framing it all is just different from how i saw it at first #also theyre kind of a dick #like. if youre gonna mock the series at every turn why are you covering it #i mean im also rly frustrated with the shitty audio and visual quality and i totally get making fun of the peaking and pixels but theyre #also mocking just. everything?? like laughing at the phone calls and poems and glitches and like. i get it ig but also come on

[pierregazly]

but mama, i love him ꨄ oscar piastri smau

oscar piastri x leclerc!reader

the one where oscar's girlfriend has been soft launching their relationship for ages. and he's okay with it, especially if it means he can keep hiding in plain sight from her three overprotective brothers.

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ynleclerc omg omg omg... charles leclerc signed my hat? should i add it to the shrine? give them something to sacrifice?

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username any non-f1 fan would automatically assume ynleclerc is a crazy fan page for charles

username or a charles leclerc hate page... all she does it make fun of her brothers here

username she's offering her signed hat for the tifosi to sacrifice for a CL16 win??? that seems like pure love all around

arthur_leclerc i also signed your hat?

ynleclerc i also do not care? will a hat signed by you get me millions if i sell it for sacrificial purposes?

charles_leclerc what's next? my personal belongings?

ynleclerc is that an offer? if so, oui. i will take what i think will make me the most money next time i'm there, merci <3

scuderiaferrari if it gets us a 1-2 finish, sacrifice everything ynleclerc... please 🙏

username being a Ferrari fan is so satisfying when you remember ynleclerc is an automatic inclusion in everything and anything charles does

username the things i would do to have her as a McLaren fan... she's too beautiful for Ferrari 😭

oscarpiastri a piastri hat will get you good money in straya btw

username oscar??

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oscarpiastri 'stop hitting me with the ball on purpose you jerk' was said more times than it should've been, by someone who really just sucks at tennis. had an awesome week back home, time to get back to it 💪

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logansargeant no wonder you're so worried about getting run over

username the coordinating outfits?? i'm gonna scream, who is she!!!

username what does logan know, tell us your secrets girl logansargeant

username oscar is gonna soft launch this relationship until the end of time. show us her face, you coward!!

ynleclerc did you pay her for all the bruises that tennis ball left?? poor girl

oscarpiastri it's not my fault she's a terrible tennis player, we all know i've offered to pay for a trainer

landonorris so this is why you couldn't come to bali with me 🤨

username lando really said i'm the third wheel??

username to be fair i'd probably pick oscar's girlfriend over lando for a week away too

username girly you don't even know who she is!!! she could be the devil

username i wanna be included in oscar's post week home photo dump :(

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oscarpiastri you can call me pookie whenever you want if you're gonna post things like this

ynleclerc i'd call you pookie with or without your permission, mon amour

charles_leclerc who is this

charles_leclerc why won't you tell us who you're dating

charles_leclerc we won't hurt him

charles_leclerc answer my texts

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ynleclerc get you a man who can do both, luckiest woman in the world whenever you're around. mon amour 🤍

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username people involved in formula 1 and their obsession with soft launching everything NEEDS to be studied

username at least she posts her boyfriend and he isn't just a small figure in the background of every post (charles this is a direct hate comment)

arthur_leclerc this would have been very lovely if it weren't for the last photo

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ynleclerc suppose it's a good thing you could easily ignore it. cheers :)

pascale.leclerc.355 trés belle, ma fille 💗

charles_leclerc maman?

username could you IMAGINE if ynleclerc told pascale but obviously hasn't told her brothers? i can FEEL the outrage

username starting to think this may be a driver, ynleclerc is at every race weekend and ALWAYS makes a post with her mystery man at some point during the week after...

username okay ms sleuth (i think it's lando)

username i'm like 65% sure it's oscar, and 35% positive it's someone that looks a lot like oscar

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ynleclerc someone exposed us on twitter, so i had to expose us on instagram 😮‍💨

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oscarpiastri love you <3

oscarpiastri i will love you even when a ferrari has run me over, of course.

arthur_leclerc is this your way of telling me i was right, without texting me back?

charles_leclerc this must be a joke, non?

pascale.leclerc.355 so very excited to finally be able to invite the both of you for dinner. trés belle 🤍

charles_leclerc maman, you knew?

ynleclerc oscar and i will see you for sunday dinner, maman! <3

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ynleclerc live feed of oscar running away from charles in the paddock when he said he 'just wanted to talk, mate'

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charles_leclerc i truly just wanted to talk about the race

charles_leclerc i did not have a speech planned, non

arthur_leclerc i did have a speech planned

lorenzotl i just wanted to welcome him to the family, as a good big brother should

oscarpiastri my apple watch warned me of an overactive heart rate 5 times today. why did you do this to me. why couldn't you have three sisters???

ynleclerc so very sorry, in our next life i'll try to make sure you only have to worry about sisters and not three overprotective brothers

oscarpiastri as long as i get to spend every lifetime with you <3

i actually got a request for something like this ages ago, and finally got around to finishing it. i so hope you all loved it as much as i loved writing it. thank you for all the support!!

i'm not currently taking requests, but if anyone has lil suggestions or prompts please feel free to send them.

#oscar piastri #oscar piastri x reader #oscar piastri imagine #f1 x reader #f1 x you #oscar piastri fanfic #oscar piastri smau #f1 smau #f1 one shot #f1 imagine #f1 fluff #oscar piastri fluff #f1 #formula 1 x reader #formula 1 imagine #oscar piastri x you #my writing #smau

[thekimspoblog]

I keep thinking about something my Crim-Law professor told me. "That the rate of victimization for sexual assault for women is roughly 1/4-1/5", and that he "wasn't optimistic any amount of legislation could change this number. Not that there aren't ANY ways to lower the rate, but legislation is the bare minimum compared to the social change which is actually necessary to reduce these rates."

The fact that we have RAPISTS making decisions about the legality of women's healthcare isn't even confined to being a legal issue. We are sending a message about who is worthy of respect, and what kind of behavior is condoned, and those messages in themselves affect the level of violence women are subjected to. Not to mention allowing women to be killed through medical malpractice is a suffrage issue. Dead men cast no votes and the republicans like it that way. The more women die, the less our voices will be heard moving forward.

This is what I keep coming back to. Of course I want McWexler to be happy. If they got out early on good behavior, and they found a cute 1 story house in Colorado, and they found a power dynamic between them that worked for them, that would be just fuckin adorable. Of course I want them to be happy and (and this is the important part) curb the impulse to lash out at the system in petty ways that tend to backfire. But nowhere is safe. The noose is tightening around every woman's neck right now. At bare minimum, Kim needs to confront the attacks on Roe for her own self-preservation because this affects everyone's healthcare. But also... yeah I guess I am crazy; I construed that scene from 6x13 as implying Kim gives a shit about the safety of other women. Yes, the duo have every reason in the world to want to lie low right now, but lying low is no guarantee of safety. In the long term, fighting for justice is always the safest bet. Otherwise, tyranny is going to continue to grow out of control, and eventually you're going to run out of hiding places, or run out of resources, whichever happens first.

#basically the same debate dolores and teddy were having most of season 2 #and sure teddy eventually dumps dolores because he doesn't have the stomach for the dark path she's on #but notice the narrative never actually confirms that dolores was wrong thinking it was revolution or death #westworld spoilers #i can accept BCS 's ending on paper but spiritually everything after 6x09 is going to need to be undone #saul going to prison is only a satisfying ending if we assume the status quo is fine and the justice system is in any way equipped to conde #not to drag MLK into this but you know that quote about peace vs justice #well that

[malkaviian]

infodump in the tags about charlotte since she has been appearing more frequently in my thoughts

#oc talk #i said before that shes EXTREMELY attention-seeking. this is a behavior that has been repeated since childhood #and as dumb as it sounds it all started because a stupid ass friend left her alone when she was going through teenager stuff #she was genuinely distressed and tried to talk to her parents about it but since they were so busy working they didnt really paid attention #and she; having a completely black and white mentality; assumed both her friend and parents hated her and started to get nasty #she secretly tried to get everyone else in school to stop talking to her ex friend (according to her); but she didnt succeed #and got even more angry. her anger; from assuming EVERYONE hated her even her own parents; got a point where she couldnt pay attention #all she wanted was 'revenge' from a supposed betrayal. and then this girl got a boyfriend. her last resource was to 'steal' her bf #get a girl who was popular in school + a hormonal teenager and what you get? the bf dumped her lol and then she dumped him a week later #she got her 'revenge' and it felt great!!! but now she was known as the bf stealer or smth and... tbf she didnt mind that much #she now had people's attention even if it was bad. everyone was talking about her and that was good enough. #however she didnt had many friends after that. and the ones she had were kind of manipulated into trusting her. #TIME PASSES and shes now a 23 y/o. her black and white mentality never went away and craves attention way more. #she recently moved to donnarose so technically no one knows about her 'troubling past' as a teen. #finnley and dalila were basically looking for a roomate that could do the house chores for them and in return they can live with them #their house is not that bad so she accepted and left the shitty apartment. and thats how they met! she lived with them for a while #she basically used sweet talk to make them trust her. but when she opened about her past they thought it was interesting lol #keep in mind they still had contact with chase. the guy they started to talk with bc they were curious about him even when hes... himself #so now she tries to keep ALL their attention to herself. she and chase never got to actually meet each other #except finnley mentioning her and 'their housewife lol' sometimes; but i imagine she didnt liked it when they talked about him #well i gotta go to sleep but i dont think the event on her teenhood was what caused it. she was always like that it just made her explode