#but then i was like wait no THIS is a cleverer idea

[crownmemes]

Spy Sentences, Vol. 15

(Sentences from various sources for spies and/or secretive muses. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"Your reputation is warranted. You're beautiful at what you do."

"I was waiting for you in that alley. Watching you watching me."

"I came here to put a bullet in you."

"You've stepped into a world of lies. Nothing anyone says is true."

"Hacking's not really my area of expertise."

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right."

"Difficult stain to get out, blood."

"We're all human. We all make mistakes. It's just that, in this line of work, the consequences of those mistakes are simply more consequential."

"I don't have to tell you what a comfort anonymity can be in my profession."

"You sent me to die. That's kind of a deal breaker for me."

"Why don't we just kill him?"

"You and I know about this. That's where it stops, you understand? It never happened."

"Are you going to report me?"

"You act like you don't care about anyone, but here you are saving lives."

"Your lack of understanding does not obligate me to explain."

"Sometimes, a little death is necessary."

"Have you ever shot anyone?"

"We need people like you, who care about the one life as much as they care about the millions. That way, I never have to."

"Bravery's good news. It's got to be maximised."

"Are you really going to pull that trigger?"

"How many languages do you speak?"

"There are things happening here that you don't understand, and right now, you just need to accept that."

"You have something I want. Right now, that makes me the only person you can trust to get you out of here alive."

"When a man shakes my hand and says he's going to do something, I expect him to follow through."

"When things go wrong, I like to be ready."

"So many people think that when you're exposed to death and suffering every day, you become immune. It's quite the opposite."

"I've got no fight with you."

"No offence, I just don't think it's a great idea you going on a solo mission to save the world."

"You knew that I saw something, so you figured there must be something there and took a guess. Clever, but also pathetic."

#rp meme #rp memes #roleplay meme #roleplay memes #rp prompts #roleplay prompts #sentence starters #assorted; #spy;

[amaranthdahlia]

[chapter 408] extended cut - sewer chase scene

#oh yeah you knowwww where this was based from🤧🤧 #im kinda sad how mid this turned out rip i hnstly thought i was cooking with the idea (the execution blew tho</3) #anyways yeah the idea just popped in my head when i was looking at the cover redraw i did #and i was like hm the talk of izukus possessiveness here.....woah this scene would be real good with the dawn of quirks era cast #at first it was gonna be the other way around with kudou taking yoichi and afo going batshit and screaming GIVE HIM BACK #but then i was like wait no THIS is a cleverer idea #cus another thing!!! i always like to think afo-yoichi-kudou-bruce had a confrontation before they all started running and yoichi dying #which would further expand afos angry impulsive choice #cus after this scene yoichi has alot of words to say about his brother after he gets out of his grasp and then runs to kudous side #and boom the chase scene . the handhold was the last straw for him #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #mha manga spoilers #mha #bnha #mha all for one #mha afo #shigaraki yoichi #yoichi shigaraki #mha kudou #mha bruce #second one for all user #third one for all user #dahlia.art #second ofa user

[lokh]

how are we today laishuro fans

#the only idea i had for a clever caption was 'wow when will their EP drop' #which. ok wait hang on that would have been funny cos like ep (music) but also ep (short for episode)... #laishuro #laios touden #nakamoto toshiro #shuro dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #art

[skrunksthatwunk]

so i read cyrano today. here's some parts i thought were funny in/out of context

cyrano's debut comes with bullying an actor he doesn't like offstage. two acts later he sends a band of musicians after him just to get them off his hands. he also tells them to tell this actor he sent them

and, of course, marmaladegate

#anyway i love cyrano lol #ive seen two different theater productions of it but this is the first time ive read it #anyway. ow. sad. but it's also very beautiful to me #cyrano #cyrano de bergerac #i didnt feel like taking pics of all the space travel methods but those were good. im fond of the magnet most of all i think #theres also bits like where he tells montfleury he's a full moon and after three claps he should eclipse himself #like if you're gonna be fatphobic at least be clever about it yk #plus i think it says more about cyrano's projection of his insecurities than anything else. kinda central idea to the play #i have no idea if these are funny out of context. it's a funny show though. i think seeing it really drives home the humor #kinda like seeing vs reading shakespeare. seeing the actors really breathes life into it #EDIT I FORGOT THE oh wait. an hour? psh PART THATS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. theyre so real for that tbh

[mouse-fantoms]

I saw this picture right,

Hear me out:

#…I just my brain is now wired than whenever I see a ghost I just think about those three <3 #they gave a new meaning to the word #logistically idk how it works #WAIT- maybe it’s like a Halloween costume idea Reggie and Luke drsss up as bees and just stand there like ‘get it 👀’ #and Alex is like ‘that is not funny; you guys are immature’ and Julie is holding her smile bc hey it’s kind of clever #jatp #julie and the phantoms #jatp netflix #luke patterson #jatp luke #luke jatp #jatp reggie #reggie jatp

[mx-flint]

Just finished rereading Nona the Ninth and. Heartbroken. Again. Lifenis too short and live is too long. You can't take loved away. I will make myself remember.

#Nona the ninth #I hate these books <=lying #At least this time i did understand what i was reading #Proof that reading a 500 pages book in 10 hours with no breakes the they it comes out is not a great idea #I really didn't remember anything #But it was sooo good i needed to know what was gonna happen #Let's ignore that it sent me in reader's block for months because it made me so nauseus to read for so long in one day #But it was great #I'm obviously gonna do the same thing with alecto because why not #I'll probably read it all in one day and then start it again the next #This was my first reread of the books and it really gives you a greater appreciation of what the author does #She was so clever with everyrhing #I LOVE THESE BOOKS AND I LOVE GIDEON NAV #and i can't wait to read alecto #I also can't wait to rereread them because this felt like a 1.5 reading #I just really didn't understand anything the first time around #And the second time i had to read the wiki for like an hour after finishing the second book #Like i didn't underatand what was happening to cytherias body #Like why is it moving #I didn't understand until i read the wiki lmaoo #I think at the end of the book there shoud be a ''tlt for dummies: 10 things you might have missed'' #Because my brain is really bad at retaining information if i don't know if it's important #So i read but i forget information going along because i don't know if it's gonna be useful or not #So i should know some things but i don't because i forgot #But i really really can't wait to read alecto #Like as soon as they announce it i'll provably lnow it because i'll see it here but i still check every like. 3 days if they announced it #So sad #Anyways

[natdrinkstea]

My friend are you okay (regarding Steven universe)

no <3

#slash l h #that show fucked me up big time!!!!!! #I've not been more deeply or profoundly impacted by media in a While !!! #grits teeth white knuckles fights back tears he is JUST like me fr #i started watching this show FOUR YEARS AGO!!! when i was fourteen (steven's age in the main series) #so it's like. he grew up with me a little? except i Just Now got the chance to finish the show and it's like #IT WAS WAITING FOR WHEN IT WOULD HIT FUCKING HARDEST #it's about LOVE and FAMILY and GROWTH and ACCEPTANCE IN ALL IT'S FORMS #and i hate that people have such fucked up ideas of what this show is bc of how shitty the fandom was!!!!!! #because it's a MASTERPIECE!!!!!!! but there's Idiots who'd call me dumb for thinking that #IT'S GOOD!!! IT'S A GOOD SHOW EVERYONE! IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND COMPASSIONATE AND GENUINELY HILARIOUS #and BEAUTIFUL AND CLEVER AND WELL WRITTEN. AND IT HURTS!!!!!!!! #and it's for FOURTEEN YEAR OLDS. AND ALSO FOR ME SPECIFICALLY #anyway. holy shit girl im So Sorry to do this essay here in the tags lmao you asked a fairly normal question akdkkaks #hope this answers it <3 #ask nat #lasaraleen

[unproduciblesmackdown]

the most recognized as comedic song being the best part of the movie musical because the conventions that serve as a mode of communicating ideas, for example "people just bursting into song" or "choreography" or "'noticeably stylized' cinematography" that accentuates nonliteral nonrealism-invoking choices, are regarded as Silly or Frivolous. and the effort to shove everything else that's more "serious" into what is expected to be read as dramatic cinema that's not stylized in any ways that seem too "Genre" which only makes [but someone's singing?] underwhelming and out of place because no other elements are supporting it

#that plenty of Thee Establishment most concerned w/the commercial angle of musical theatre is also like ''musicals? is silly'' #or rather is forever defensive about this. all the musicals you know tonys will be comfortable with b/c they're gently ''edgily'' Serious.. #that old deh interview where p&p are like ''haha eugh we're not writing MUSICAL numbers musical numbers X'D this is serious this is real'' #deh as a living room play....like don't get me wrong. all Critiques / dunks on deh the stage musical even deh the movie...are not the same #all mine are better and wiser. but actually really for example like ''ben platt old?? he hair a joke??'' are criticisms i reject lol #wait a second does anyone in the Stage Musical ever do any more dancey choreography than they do in sincerely me....probably not #remembering the great times of that jared goldsmith interview where they were telling him to walk less dancily in ywbf lmao #taking some chassés across the stage....finally looked up if ''sashay'' is just a misheard + phonetic ''chassé'' & yes #anyways and just connect this all to the broader issue of Any ''genre(tm)'' understood as like. Unserious. style that is so unartistic.... #insert joe iconis talking about it. basically that if some Noticed ''unusual'' style usage is taken seriously it's presumed ''self aware'' #such that it may be like; parody of; commentary on; homage to whatever Conventions.... #like is a movie too associated with women as creators or audiences? some style choices that might seem to have some odd effect or w/e is #then just like wow guess this isn't good enough to be an experience i can completely intellectually disengage with as viewer.... #whereas if it's Not ''''gendered'''' so associated enough w/men as creators & audience (not much room for ''&/or'' there) then like #oh that perhaps somewhat awkward noticeable Style Usage? that was innovative; fresh; if it's funny it's ''clever'' rather than comedic #Don't Even Get Me Started on comedy also being an unserious ''easy'' too-Genre(tm) lesser style / way to communicate ideas #but i'm already started! it's right in the premise! ppl not even noting Sincerely Me has any material About anything b/c like #well it's Just Funny. jared & alana are Easy parts b/c they're so often Funny & set apart from the Serious Drama of parental angst #i actually haven't seen that many movie musicals but the ones unembarrased about themselves are superior #plus the idea of Worthy funny/noticeably styleized things as being Distinguishingly ''Self Aware''....the idea of Being Funny as either #being Unselfawarely the butt of the joke; or awarely deliberately Clever as what makes one superior to others; laughing At them surely #and i'm right back as well to what i was musing on re: the limits of billions' own language and in turn the limit of ideas if it cannot eve #express otherwise / beyond....that worthiness is awarded with this Dignity backed by the elements of the medium as tv's discretion #versus if someone's undeserving & unserious; or usually deserving/serious but is messing up & we want you to notice; then #they Will be beset with some humiliation; probably at least more proximate to being Laughed At; material may go out of its way to do this #another thing is that billions seems to have so little to no room for anyone having a capacity to be Silly #people Being Funny On Purpose is largely making references or pwning another character; both establishing competitive Worthiness #another shift from 5x08 onward like. rian truly able to humor herself is gone with her desk clutter #the fate of winston's =] ness is found in 6x01 when both quants are being funny until rian's funniness goes [abuse coworker] mode #that illustration that Hierarchy generates a Joke; at someone's expense. characters (& the writing?) Can't do otherwise to him or fathom it

[eldritch-composer]

oh ya forced my parents to watch twewy ani for my bday. well we got thru tha first 7 episodes anyway

#mom was like. meh whatever it was Okay #dad though was like. SO into it he really likes josh which is #deeply funny on so many levels #as much as dad hates to admit it he loves thinking and clever plots #he's sooo trying to figure out josh's game <3 #and he keeps calling out shit that's like. really close to correct its great #his favorite is beat btw #very early on like i think as soon as rhyme went ghhk #he was like 🥺 i rly hope there's a week where beat is neku's partner #(he had already realized week 1 couldn't be Everything) #he also wants to stamp kitaniji into dust #cant WAIT for the game within a game reveal heheh #oh and #he hasn't gotten that josh is the composer yet #but when he's in the cafe and hes talking #abt seeing the ug while he was alive #dad was like. wracking his brain #and came up w the idea that The Reapers Game Itself #was josh's entry fee which like. #one Thinking About neku week 3 #and also like. kind of. he's kind of right.

[dredshirtroberts]

My mom sent me a christmas card, postmarked january 6th.

my mom sent me a christmas card with a check inside. There's also a note, written in the most bland, banal language in order to best express that they don't understand what's going on but they're going to love me through it anyway.

In case you're new here, I gave them a hard boundary last june/july that they crossed in about two weeks after having set it. After a life of laying down hard boundaries that were crossed time and time again with no apology or acknowledgement that it had happened i was done. That had been their last chance, whether or not I said as much, and they couldn't manage to remember it even that long.

because it's clearly more important to let me know how much they miss me and think about me instead of respecting that i've asked for distance and silence from them while i do my own thing. They never had a problem leaving me alone before I moved away and then I had to essentially beg them to leave me be. To the point that I finally said that if you can't do this on your own, I will help make it easier for you and block you so you cannot reach me.

And she still sent me a christmas card. late, as it was well into the new year by the time of the postmark, but surprisingly close for her. I'd be almost proud of her for it, but like...

one of my biggest points of fracture with the two of them was about how much of a last-thought i always seemed to be, especially around the holidays and planning for the holidays. So is this early-by-her-standards because she's making an effort, or is it late because she really doesn't consider these things until the last minute?

I wish it was easy to explain to them why I won't talk to them anymore. I think they're assuming it's the name change, my gender. I think they probably are concerned it's the people i'm around. And, i mean, it's not not those things. but it's more than those things too.

it's... it's years of being an afterthought. it's years of being the last to know plans that have been in the works for weeks if not months before i get to know about it a half-week in advance (hope you can get the time off for it!). It's changing plans last minute and assuming i'll just know about it when no one bothers to reach out and let me know - especially if it's because they think my mother will do it for them because that's her position on the phone tree, as it were.

it's decades of trying so hard to set boundaries and just watching them be bulldozed over because it wasn't important to them to do anything other than what they wanted. it's a lifetime of being told i'm not good enough - and then finally accepting that and having to figure out how to justify "giving up" to my family who was banking on me being successful somehow. because that was my job - to be successful and be a trophy for my parents to show off to their families, their friends.

And i couldn't be that.

I also suffered years of emotional abuse and neglect, medical neglect, and academic neglect because no one could be bothered to get to know me as more than a conveniently quiet child while i ate myself up inside day after day trying so hard to figure out what combination of things would make my parents happy with me. what would make them love me.

It was a competition, too. I had to vie for my parents' attention with my sister. and there are two things you need to know about me: I would give my sister the world if I could afford it, and I am not a competitive person by nature. I fell into the trap, and i know it - she did too. We were encouraged to be mean and spiteful to each other before we were loving. I still don't know how to effectively show my sister i care about her. I'm terrified I already did too much and she'll never forgive me anyway. But i wasn't actively trying to be the best kid to win my parents' love away from her. I just wanted a little.

It was probably more likely that neither of us was getting any of the love, but it was incentive enough even with that.

I truly and honestly believe my parents just do not understand why doing the shit they do is wrong. My mother's tone in her note to me was readable probably ONLY by me, because I know her too well to not see the aggression in her words. The check was an attempt at violence - whether she understands that or not. She knows she raised me to grovel when I am given a generous gift, she knows I raised myself into a polite person who responds to things in a socially acceptable way. She knows, so she sends a gift that is large enough that I would have felt obligated to reach out and thank the giver personally, in the past.

And have, in fact, with my grandparents, just Friday actually done exactly that.

What do I do with it now? Am I resolved to keep them blocked? Will I suffer the consequences of rudely not thanking them and using the money anyway? Should I just send it back and not touch their bribery money?

Well first of all - I have earned so many reparations. And back-pay for the years I was overworked and underpaid at their fucking company. So I'll be keeping the money. The money will likely go to weed if i'm to be completely honest (assuming i don't end up using it for food or bills) - i considered name change or top surgery funds, but eh. those are too long a payoff for it, and she's not going to hear back about what i did with the money anyway.

I won't be responding to her. Because all I really want to do is go "YOU DON'T DESERVE TO HAVE ME BACK, THIS IS YOUR FAULT" and then outline every single thing that they have done to me, every reason i have to not talk to them anymore, and make them look at it and finally fucking apologize. And since i've done this on a smaller scale in the past and i know it doesn't work - they never apologize no matter what the slight is or what i point out - i'm not even going to bother. I have nothing to say to them.

Because while she opened with "We miss you" and closed with "love", i don't miss them, and she apologized for saying they love me.

but she didn't apologize for the reason I cut them off.

#the postmark is completely coincidental i just think it's weirdly symbolic and interesting #my mother is not clever or self-aware enough to do things like that on purpose #or the stamp would have also been another h/rry p/tter stamp like last christmas #i assume she has no idea about the Implications but one can never be sure with her #i'm angry and annoyed but i also know it's better that I opened it now rather than letting it sit and wait #and it's definitely better to have looked in it than to have just tossed it out #but man am i Scrungkled (derogatory) right now

[luimnigh]

I love the idea of the "Disney Princess", simply because the public's idea of a Disney Princess and Disney's idea of a Disney Princess don't actually match up.

Because to the public, a Disney Princess is a type of character in Disney movies. And to Disney, "Disney Princess" is a specific brand with specific characters.

The Disney Princess brand was set up in 2001 after the head of Disney Consumer Products went to a Disney on Ice show, saw hundreds of little girls in generic princess halloween costumes, and went "Wait, why the hell don't we sell Princess dresses?"

Rather than trying to give a dozen movies, many over a decade old, their own individual marketing pushes, they come up with the overarching Disney Princess brand, and launched it featuring ten initial characters:

Snow White, Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Esmerelda, and Tinkerbell.

Esmerelda was soon dropped, probably because Hunchback is a pretty dark Disney movie; and later so was Tinkerbell because they'd started production on her own line of straight-to-DVD movies, leaving the line with eight Princesses.

And now here's the clever part of the branding: when they release a new movie with a new Princess, they don't immediately fold her into the Disney Princess brand. That would cannibalise sales from the movie-specific merchandise. So they wait a year or two for merchandise sales to slow down, before having an official coronation ceremony to add the new Princess to the group.

(And presumably they cab recycle unsold merch under the Disney Princess brand.)

So Tiana got added in 2010, Rapunzel in 2012, Merida became the first Pixar entry in 2013, Moana took three years to be inducted in 2019, and the most recent is Raya in 2022.

So that's the official Disney Princess lineup: Snow White, Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Moana and Raya.

Now I know what you're thinking: there's a pair of very famous names missing there.

And like I said before: they wait for the merchandise sales to slow down before bringing new characters under the umbrella. Moana seems to have been quite popular, taking three years for Disney marketing to feel comfortable folding her into the brand.

But Frozen still sells like fuckin' hotcakes, even a decade later.

So we have a funny scenario where the two most popular Disney Princesses aren't actually Official Disney Princesses because they're too popular.

#disney

[teaboot]

As someone who learnt english as a second language via textbook, I have to say "flying by the seat of my pants" is a hilarious idiom xD

It's the first time I've seen/heard it.

Could you share another one you like using?

Idk about idioms specifically, but there's a bunch of phrases I learned from my mom!

Lord love a duck! (Incredulous, like 'oh my god')

Lord suffer in sheep dip! (Sheep dip meaning sheep poop. Incredulous, but for annoying things- like 'are you kidding me?')

Is there a piano tied to your ass? ('Don't be lazy, do it yourself')

Someone's cruising for a bruising. (You're picking a fight.)

I don't give a rat's rip. ('I don't care'- a rat's 'rip' is it's butt crack.)

Pull up a stump! (Get yourself a chair, sit down.)

Everybody out of the pool! (Get out of the car)

I'm flying by the seat of my pants. (I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm doing it.)

Don't go blowing smoke up my ass. (Don't over-compliment me, don't flatter me, don't stroke my ego, don't tell me positive lies)

Looks like it's gonna rain on our parade. (A storm is coming.)

Sorry to rain on your parade. (I've given you bad news- can be used sincerely or sarcastically to denote sympathy for incurring a bad mood.)

Better button that lip. (Stop talking.)

Someone's gonna stick a boot up your ass. ('Stick a boot up your ass'- fight you, beat you, kick your ass.)

Stick that lip out any further, and a pigeon'll shit on it. (Stop whining.)

Suck it up, buttercup. (Stop whining.)

Dumber than a fence post. (Very stupid.)

The back forty. (The wild or forested area behind a rural home. The 'forty' being forty acres, or farmland.)

Don't go begging for a fat lip. (Whatever you're saying or doing is going to bother people and get you in trouble.)

What on God's green earth (What the fuck)

I'm sweating like a pig in a porta-potty (like a pig in a plastic outhouse- I'm very warm, it's hot here)

He thinks the universe flew out of his ass. (He thinks he's more impressive than he is.)

Your mouth wrote a cheque your ass couldn't cash. (You promised more than you were capable of providing.)

You've got a horseshoe up your ass. (You're very, very lucky.)

Taking a dirt nap. (Dead.)

Pushing (up) daisies. (Dead.)

Give me forty acres to turn this rig around. (I need time and space to move this large, heavy, or unwieldy thing. Usually about navigating a vehicle. Taken from a song lyric.)

Jesus take the wheel. (God help me, I can't handle this, I give up.)

Gone belly-up. (Has died.)

We've got a floater. (This one is dead.)

Herding cats. (Trying to organize chaos, managing an impossibly complicated situation.)

I've got a black thumb. (I am bad at growing plants, all my plants die- reference to having a 'green thumb', or being good at growing plants.)

Stop trackin' floor cookies. (Floor cookies are bits of animal shit that fall off your work boots- 'tracking floor cookies' means wearing your boots in the house; take your shoes off at the door.)

Running around like a headless chicken. (Frantic, disorganized, stressed out by many tasks or panicked by a big situation.)

Spinning my wheels. (Waiting around for something to happen, getting nowhere, frustrated by inactivity, not making any progress towards a goal.)

He's gonna blow a gasket. (He's going to lose his temper, he's going to be angry.)

They'll tan your hide. (They'll punish you severely; usually through violence. Specifically in reference to a spanking.)

He's a few bricks short a load. (He's not clever / he doesn't think things through / he's crazy)

Not the sharpest tool in the shed. (Not the smartest person. Very dumb, clumsy, or absent-minded.)

I'm not going to bail you out. (Not going to save your sinking boat- not going to help you out of your bad situation.)

Looks like things are going south. (The situation is growing worse.)

I'll start making tracks. (I'll leave now, I'll start working, I'll get going.)

He's fucking the dog. (He's not being productive, he's doing a bad job, he's made things worse, he's screwing around.)

He's making puppies. (Less graphic version of 'fucking the dog'.)

Plant your ass. (Sit.)

Playing grab-ass. (Procrastinating- accomplishing nothing, slowing people down.)

He couldn't find his ass in the dark. (He's stupid, ineffective, underqualified, or incompetent.)

He couldn't pour water out of a boot if the instructions were on the heel. (He is unbelievably, comically dumb or ineffective. He can't do anything right.)

One foot in the ground. (Dying, or half-dead.)

I'm kicking rocks. (I'm not doing anything productive.)

I'm hauling ass. (I'm running away.)

Madder than a wet hen. (Very, very angry.)

Like I said I'm not sure that these are all idioms but they're all the phrases and sayings from my childhood that I can remember right now

EDIT: Cannot BELIEVE I forgot my mom's favourite

52. Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which gets filled first. (Wishes don't come true by themselves)

Plus some more I forgot:

53. You make a better door than a window. (You're in the way of my view.)

54. You can take a long walk off a short pier. (Go fuck yourself.)

55. He's about as sharp as a bowling ball. (He's stupid.)

56. Scoot your poot. (Move over.)

57. Not my first rodeo. (I know what I'm doing.)

58. He's built like a brick shithouse. (He's broad and sturdy and very strong, solid.)

59. I smell bacon. (I saw a cop nearby.)

60. I don't want to hear a peep. (Stop talking.)

61. You're thinking with the wrong head. (You're making bad decisions because you're horny.)

62. I'd lose my ass/head if it wasn't tied on. (I'm very absent-minded, forgetful.)

63. That went down like a lead balloon. (That situation was bad.)

#Teaboot

[inkskinned]

you found out today that a phrase you have used before was coined by an abusive man. this felt like getting your teeth taken out. it made you sick and sad and tired, but not surprised.

bad people tell you to be careful when you talk badly of bad men, that it could "ruin" a life. you had your life ruined by a bad man, not that it ever matters to them. your real life having real consequences is not valued as highly as the potential of his future.

this has always been a frustrating little mathematics problem for you. you've missed school and had to call out sick at work and had panic attacks that lasted for weeks. it stole sleep and food and friends from you. you cried in public, fucked your relationships up. and the whole time: your present has never mattered so much as the great what if! of his future. like - one life (your life) is already ruined, should we really ruin two?

so you live with the consequences and he doesn't, and that's just like, something you need therapy for. you once discussed this with one of your friends over coffee. she chewed the wooden stirrer, looked off into the distance. "once i became a victim, everything that happens to me afterward is automatically less interesting in the eyes of the general public. it is always about him. he changed my identity. to survivor. to statistic. meanwhile this whole time - i am a person."

you learned in college that three out of five of your favorite artists and authors were actually abusive assholes. these days, you are no longer surprised. oh, is that what was happening behind closed doors? of course it was, he was a "genius," and she was just a girl. you are talking about him in art history, so obviously his career was absolutely ruined, for eternity. that's what happens, right? they strike your name from the record and refuse to remember you? nobody really knows her name, but hey. that's what you get for being close to celebrity.

you got into an argument about it, which was a bad argument, because it made you cry. he said what, you want us to just ignore all the things this man did because he made a few women uncomfortable? and you'd balled your fists up and choked on it. later, in bed, you agonized over the response you'd been trying to articulate but never found the right moment to deploy: you are ignoring what any person could do if they weren't being fucking abused. maybe her talents far exceeded his and she was just never allowed to fucking use them. maybe we only see genius in white men because they purposefully fucking squash and silence any other people with talent.

but you'd cried about it instead of saying that, because you are the cost. you are the talent and potential that he took. you used to be brave and smart and clever and unafraid. like a lich, he stole years of your life.

quiet on set made you sad and sick and tired, but not surprised. unfortunately, one of the things he said was true: an entire network of people allowed it to continue. this is not news to you, because you have seen entire networks of people make the same fucking excuses when the same thing or-worse happened to you. and your particular story isn't even in hollywood. it was just a guy. it was still difficult getting people to stand up for you.

you and your friend wait in line for your coffee. like a standup joke, one man turns to the other and says "can't wait for every bitch to come crawling out of the woodwork complaining about harassment. it's another metoo." and you think - oh, that's the network. your boss tucks her hair back and whispers that while your skirt is cute, you're giving the boys the wrong idea. that's the network. when you'd told your "friend" about what happened, she'd said oh you must have misunderstood, that would never happen. and that's the network.

you woke up this morning panting, because years later you still have panic attacks. oh, it's not a network, actually, it's a web. and you, little moth: are you still surprised you're caught in it?

#warm up #spilled ink #writeblr

[anantaru]

cw. ⪩⪨ fem! reader, rich boy au, rich boy alhaitham, semi public sex (in a library), he's insufferable, possessive (he's used to getting what he wants n wants you all for himself), a little yandere i feel like

rich boy alhaitham has never experienced the idea of not getting something he so terribly longed for— in fact, the very moment he laid his eyes on you, desire flooding his veins and invading his taste, it's with immediate certainty that he will make you his no matter what.

because you see, it has almost always been that way for him, the idea of something being too expensive has never really crossed his mind in his adult years— although it was safe to say that in order to make you stay forever, he must add more than the couple gifts he had already planned to send your way, such wasn't enough, despite the fact that they certainly would make things a whole lot more easier for him.

because who on earth doesn't like a costly, with diamonds paired piece of earrings from fontaine? hand crafted of immeasurable worth. or would you rather choose the extravagant silken garments from the nation of electro? oh, you forgot already silly? you're of course, getting both, it's on alhaitham after all.

he doesn't understand that this emotion growing in his heart might become quite dangerous in the future, although again, the man was of smart kind, highly aware of the power he held not only with his fortune alone, but his cleverness as well— and there would never be a time in his life where he couldn't utilize the one or the other, or use them all together to get the result he planned to achieve.

dear, dearer, dearest you, alhaitham ponders, as long as the sun was alive, as long as desire merges with his addiction,

"i will pursue you".

alhaitham knows that from the bottom of his heart, he will make you his, and not just have you for a short period of time during those special days— where two people simply let go of steam, soft fingertips glissading over the edges of sweaty skin as you're wrapped around his fingers, the slight swell of your lips, the strong blush on his cheeks, both vividly showing that the two of you cannot keep your hands away from each other.

as expected, you find yourself hidden behind a bookshelf in the house of daena, and alhaitham kisses you like he has been imagining it for decades on end, soft lips dancing over yours as he forces his tongue past your mouth, his hands greedily skimming through your trembling figure— soul catching soul, like each touch of him felt like it was searing through you, burning your clothes.

there, in those precise rolls of fingers repeatedly crossing your sensitive nipples, alhaitham makes himself acquainted with your trace as he graciously feels around the curves of your body and how well you reacted to his touch, kiss and tremble— an immediate reminder for him that you like it when he touched you like that, lapped his tongue over yours like that or pressed his muscular thigh against your wet cunt like that.

alhaitham was cruel in a way— one might even go as far as to assume that pairing an excessively clever man with a boundless amount of money harbors a much darker meaning in on itself.

but right now, he was slightly cruel to you as well when it becomes more and more painful and he knows, he always does, especially when he notices how you're having trouble breathing from his antics, quite wobbly on your footing as you look up at him through soft eyes, lips parted when each kiss of him made your heart clench, unknowing of everything, only waiting until he finally fucks you like you wanted to.

what you do not realize is that rich boy alhaitham was already weak for you, and he could barely wait himself, his mind fighting with his rationality, being overthrown by nothing more than the addictive scent of your perfume blossoming across the skin on your neck.

he flips you around instantly, your figure now squished between his chest and the bookshelf before he flicks your skirt up with ease, almost territorial like he's the only one allowed to do that from now on, frenziedly touching and loving your body like he needed you to breathe and stay alive, like it's only you who can make him be this way.

"ahh— fuck," he gasps into the back of your neck, his hot breath planing across the skin and manifesting a strong shiver down your spine, "i love those earrings on you," as he trails off, your hips twisting and twitching when he finds them with his hands, repeatedly pistoling his thick shaft into you until the lewd, squelching noises of skin on skin were overturning your little whimpers, smack smack smack, it's only getting louder— so alhaitham uses one hand to quickly close one palm around your noisy mouth.

he thinks it's adorable how you forgot that you were still in a library, yet it only showed him that he was doing everything right, only a little more until you're all his.

the scribe has got you covered, okay? alhaitham needs you to realize that from now on, you have nothing to worry about anymore, so please get that into your pretty head! you're far too delicate and pretty to trouble yourself with something such as stress, not anymore— because wether it was intimacy you craved, love you sought after or money you needed,

alhaitham has got you.

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#genshin smut #genshin impact smut #genshin x reader #genshin impact x reader #alhaitham x reader #alhaitham smut #genshin x you #genshin impact x you #alhaitham x you #al haitham x reader #al haitham smut

[mythology-void]

okay so I was doing a Research™️ about ancient Greek etymology as one does and I found some Things that made me want to Violently Claw My Arms Off please allow me to force feed you my discoveries

So there are 2 words for "not" in ancient Greek, depending on the context: ou and mē. Having introduced himself in the Cyclops episode as " ou tis", or No-man, he then stabs Polyphemus in the eye. When Polyphemus' brothers come to check on him, they say this:

"... surely no man [mē tis] is carrying off your sheep? Surely no man [mē tis] is trying to kill you either by fraud or by force?"

Right after this, after the other cyclopes ditch Polyphemus, Odysseus's inner monologue goes something like this:

"Then they went away, and I laughed inwardly at the success of my clever strategem [metis]." (pronounced mEH-Tis)

Now, there's a difference between mē tis and metis. [mē tis] (pronounced mEH-Tis with a space between the syllables) is the literal translation for "no man". Metis is a word for extreme intelligence/cunning, which is something Odysseus is famous for.

Now, there are several examples of abuse of metis/intelligence in the Odyssey, but I think the juxtaposition between [mē tis], or the concept of anonymity, and metis, or extreme intelligence, is REALLY interesting. Odysseus's adoption of the title "No-man" was characteristic of metis--it was a really smart move that simultaneously hid him from the cyclops and avoided any future consequences. It was a highly effective strategy all wrapped up in a nest little package with a bow on it.

But when he revealed himself as Odysseus of Ithaca, effectively throwing off No-man (anonymity and [mē tis]), that was characterized as idiocy--he's essentially doxxed himself, and now he's doing to (spoiler alert) get tossed around the Mediterranean by Poseidon for the next 10 years.

This is really interesting because it lets you see the parallels/codependency between metis(intelligence) and humility. When Odysseus refused to allow himself to go unnoticed (hubris) he suffered for it. BUT when he declined instant glory/satisfaction (kleos) in order to achieve the long term goal of survival, he was rewarded with Athena's favor (pay attention. This part is important).

And this situation repeats itself MULTIPLE TIMES in the Odyssey--the EXACT SAME THING happens near the end of the book, with the suitors. When. Odysseus is dressed as a beggar and the suitors/Antinious are abusing him, he ACTIVELY CHOOSES not to react--he doesn't stand up and rip off his disguise and start hollering "TIS I, ODYSSEUS OF ITHACA! FEAR MY WRATH"

No. He sits there patiently and waits. He plans and schemes and quietly orchestrates their downfall without alerting them of it. Why? Because he learned his lesson the first time this happened. He buried his rage and adopted what was, according to Grace LA Franz, a more feminine form of metis, weaving a web of destruction for his enemies that ultimately resulted in their total annihilation (see Weaving a Way to Nostos: Odysseus and Feminine Metis in the Odyssey by Grace LaFranz). His patience allowed him to win the whole prize--no questions asked, no 10-year-long-business-trip strings attached--just the sweetness of a full victory. And he is, once again, rewarded with Athena's favor--both in the battle with the suitors and in the aftermath (cleanup/reuniting with Penelope).

This really reinforces the idea in the Odyssey that Odysseus's defining characteristic is not just his intelligence--it's his ability to learn from his mistakes. He used what he learned at the Lotus Eaters Island against Polyphemus--the Lotus Eaters drugged his men, so he drugged Polyphemus. He used what he learned from Circe and Polyphemus against the suitors--Circe used false sweetness and honeyed words to lure his men into a trap, so that's exactly what he did to the suitors. His hubris on Polyphemus' island cost his whole crew their lives, so he intentionally left well enough alone until the right time. He didn't just learn from his failures--he turned them into BATTLE STRATEGY.

i don't care what anyone says that is completely totally and objectively awesome

#Odysseus is a certified baddie 112% of the time #he's literally the coolest you can't convince me otherwise #there's a reason that literally everyone has a crush on him #even the lesbians #its the wordplay. his words #read me a poem in iambic pentameter you bloody stinky man #literally everyone: his sad wet vibes and dark undereye circles have captivated me entirely #odysseus #the odyssey #tagamemnon #odysseus x penelope #telemachus #epic the musical #the cyclops saga #odysseus of ithaca #poseidon #etymology #ancient greece #ancient history

[x-doom-and-gloom-x]

Anyways I have been thinking since one of my moots made a tag for their queue like. A year ago now and another just did recently that I wanna do smthn like that 😭

#tunas tales #I had some ideas wait #I think I was torn between #queue bleed just like you puke #or #you bleed just like queue puke #or both idk #but what if it sounds stupid !! I thought it was very clever and funny at the time but now. I’m doubting myself #the used lyrics btw !!! #also took me an embarrassingly long time to find out how queue was pronounced #I always thought it was K•YOU•WE or K•WEEK or K•YOU•K•YOU #that last one is from when I thought it was spelled queque #why the fuck is it not spelled que if it’s pronounced like that #what the fuck is the point of all the extra letters