11 March 2024
I was surprised that my solutions didn't crystallize over the past week to which my thesis supervisor said lightheartedly that it's normal and that he once waited for something to crystallize for THREE YEARS. I hope my solutions know I need to graduate some day.
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I can't stop thinking about a fic idea;
Kory, Roy, Bernard and Jon being in the Wayne mansion and (affectionately) trash talking dating a Bat
Bonus: Jon is not even dating Damian (yet - they are in this akward will they will they not period) and Kory & Roy are also exes
Like, i dunno it sounds so funny in my head??
And like Selina joining them at some point and they create a group chat called something like "Bats SO" just to vent about their respective Bat
And it low key drives the Bats insane???
And like other people get wind of it so another group chat is created like "People victimized by the Bats" where they add like Clark, Wally, Kon and it just gets more insane
like i said, it sounds crazy funny in my head but im not funny enough to write this kind of crack
(i also mention those for SO just because those are my main bat ships but if anyone wants to write this, feel free to add more SO + bff)
(could anyone refer any of those kind of fics if it exists? im flexible with ships tho I'd love to see Kory in it)
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the one thing i feel pretty certain about for this episode is that america will not decide the election. a decision will be made, a president will be elected, but america will not be the deciding factor.
succession can’t mimic 2016 or 2020 point blank, that would be boring and have nothing to say. it can’t try to outdo trump because it’ll go too whacky and fall flat like veep’s last season (sorry conheads, no way he’s winning). but what it CAN do is illustrate the immensely corrupt, often arbitrary, and hugely influential nature of news media and conglomerations on political processes. i think probably jimenez will be in the lead, then atn/waystar does something to, i don’t know, discount votes or cast suspicion on jimenez or call the election for mencken early, and the tide will shift, even though the votes are already in. the votes don’t actually matter. the actual result doesn’t actually matter. that’s the power logan (and as an extension, billionaires and CEOs in general) hold. shiv says it herself to logan in s4e2: “just cause you say it’s true doesn’t make it true. everyone just fucking agrees with you and believes you, so it becomes true and then you can turn around and say like, 'oh, you see? see? i was right.'” but it doesn’t matter that logan’s “a human fucking gaslight,” everything he says comes true anyways. not because he was right, but because that’s how it works. he says things and then they happen, regardless of what the truth is or what should actually come to pass. that’s been one of the key throughlines since the very first episode of the entire show when, in response to kendall calling logan out of touch because times are changing and logan isn't changing with them, logan hisses that everyone always says you’re wrong until you do it and prove you were right: “you make your own reality.” you can't miss the bus if you're the one driving it. the election, the votes, the political process? none of that matters. it was always going to come down to the roys and their ilk (allies or enemies, just the top 1%) — that was the whole point of “what it takes” (the mencken episode) last season, after all.
i’ve seen lots of theories about what america will choose and how the candidates will respond and all that and i just don’t think that’s the show’s focus; i think the whole point is to demonstrate the lack of agency, the illusion of democracy. because, i mean, we’ve already seen the fall of democracy via fascist election and fascist election-denial, both in real life and in the countless (usually mid) satires created afterwards. it would be disappointing to see succession use the election to reiterate that same point of 'ohhh alt-right ahhhhh!!!' i don’t think it’ll be about ‘fascism’ at all — at least, not ‘trump-y’ fascism. it’ll be about fascism in the broader sense, the kind that doesn't sport a KKK hood (even when it keeps one tucked away in the attic). it's the fascism that every single roy (very much including shiv and kendall) aid and abet -- the fascism that so many succession fans don't seem to regard as fascism, despite it quite literally being the definition of fascism. trump wasn’t the entrance of fascism into our political process. he wasn’t the lone sign of the failing of american democracy. democracy in america has long been illusory, trump just made it more blatantly evident with his particular brand of hate-speech-ridden masculinist in-your-face fascism.
so i think that’s what this episode will hopefully focus on — america will not decide. corporations, news media, and the roys will. thus, the president will most likely become president not because the country supports his policies the most, but because he’s likely to agree to help block a business deal for a major media empire, and the other candidate is unlikely to. and this will likely come to pass due to said major media empire's interference and influence: they create their own reality. they say it, and everyone agrees with them and believes them, so it becomes true.
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I'm never bored anymore. You know why? Because Destiel exists, and it keeps my brain busy. All the time.
If I have to wait in line for something, I wonder: "When was the first time Cas healed Dean? What was the context? Why did he do it? How Dean reacted?"
If I'm getting bored at a party or a dinner, my brain goes "Maybe I could a fanfic where Dean pranks Cas to flirt."
If I'm in the train for hours, *type frantically on my phone's memo the rest of the fic I'm currently working on.*
If I'm at work and have to do a repetitive and boring task, *listen to a destiel podfic.*
I have never been this glad to wait in line, attending a lame party, travelling in the train for hours or working on a repetitive task before because it means I'll have time to think, write or read about them.
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my dad is really shitty about me being on antidepressants. i've been seeing a psych since 2015 and after almost every appointment, he asks when I'll come off the meds. anyways, for a minute i thought he'd finally accepted all that because he's been telling me he's excited that I'll start adhd meds soon and when i asked him why (cos he's never been excited about meds lol) he was like, "because at least with those you'll lose weight and be yourself again" and anyway that's how my weekend is going (shit)
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Doing one of these dealios cause I need some sort of motivation
Every 50 notes: I'll do one assignment I've been putting off
100 notes: I'll clean my room
300 notes: I'll consistently keep it clean
500 notes: I'll do chores to get allowance every week
700 notes: I'll brush my teeth every night
1,000 notes: I'll brush my teeth every morning
1,200 notes: I'll get a good school-people consistency
1,500 notes: I'll genuinely take care of myself (minus good sleep)
Rules (Rouxls):
No reblogging more than 3 times each day
No spam commenting
Tagging my speeddial list: @citrusfruitman @vincentbeloved @veggiefritters @poopyshithead
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Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared
The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!
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the thing that fucks me up about rereading instructions for dancing is trying to pinpoint when it is that derek becomes obsessed with stiles and realizing the answer seems to be always. from the beginning. the moment they met. that poor bastard. he probably should have tried to be a little nicer about it, though, saved them both some hardship.
I think it slides so quickly from fear and annoyance that Stiles will steal Scott away to 'Oh no, oh fuck,' I'm not even sure Derek knows himself. Poor guy hamstrung himself by starting out with the 'I'm going to scare him away' mentality then wondering where the hell that went and trying to find it again through almost every subsequent interaction (while something so much bigger and so much worse - Derek's Thoughts™ - completely eclipsed it). Meanwhile Stiles also helps cultivate Derek's dickish-ness by assuming that original motivation to be his only interest in him at all, essentially until the moment Derek tells him he's in love with him.
Which is hopefully why it seemingly comes out of left field for Stiles and the reader, because that's what I wanted.
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No one ever talks about how revolutionary headphones were for the neurodivergent community like I haven't been without a pair of headphones around my neck in ten years and I never intend to start those things are my safety blanket
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Watch the 2024 American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students now: https://youtu.be/5C-bb9PoRLc
The recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by student climate leaders! Join Aishah-Nyeta Brown & Jerome Foster II and be inspired by student climate leaders as we recognize the High School Student finalists. Watch now to find out which student received the $25,000 grand prize and top recognition!
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