Don't let this die. Taylor Swift is the Pollution Queen now. We need meme edits with her photoshopped onto backgrounds of wildfire-ravaged landscapes and oil refineries chugging out black smoke.
Photo of smudgy black eye shadow? That's THE Taylor Swift-inspired look now, it represents fossil fuels.
We need parodies of Taylor Swift songs about pollution and killing polar bears.
Give her representatives a full-time job for the rest of their lives defending her from the phrase "Pollution Queen." Make this meme a the figurehead of an entire fleet of other celebrity-terrorizing memes.
"But this doesn't dismantle the system that—" Shut. Don't care. Isn't it great that such a huge portion of environmental damage is being done by human individuals with egos, whose feelings can be hurt when people are mean?
Money can save you from physical harm, but can it save you from looking ridiculous?
I feel like the Robins probably watched horror movies to really up their game, taking notes on the gestures and body language that would creep you out. "Criminals are a superstitious lot", so yeah the guy in full body armour that could beat you up would suck, but a small child, somewhere in the dark, with an echoing laugh all around you as you fire off a hail of bullets, somehow dodging everything and gleefully messing you up. That's psychological warfare.
_Medics are scary, even if they're still training_
Trick had been helping Tiptoes neatly sort and hide some newly acquired contraband (sweets and paint someone managed to smuggle off of a supply ship, he's not sure who's insane enough as he's heard the horror stories the Vode whisper among each other, but it makes the kids happy and that's what matters) into the appropriate hiding places. The entire room was dedicated to stuff they weren't supposed to have but it was useful to still keep everything out of sight (there's a closet in the room juuust big enough to fit Trick in case as well). Trick's pretty sure at least SOME trainers know about this room, though he didn't really have proof beyond "I heard different sounding footsteps." because he's not taking chances.
If he and Tiptoes… sampled some of the products for themselves… who's to say?
No he didn't almost choke on something called a toffee when little 31 came running in with a huge grin.. it only takes the two a moment to realize the cadet was missing a tooth. "… what happened to you?" Tiptoes was the first to speak up after shoving the particular box they were inspecting away to share with the Vode later. "I got my name!"
Oh, that's good… why's he missing teeth though? It SHOULD grow back right? But still… he self-consciously licks his own teeth at the sight to make sure they're still there. "That's great vod'ika! Let's hear it." Trick tries to match the cadet's energy best he could. "Toothache!" 31, now… Toothache… beams up at them. The older two share a look. "Nice, have you told your batchmates yet?"
"Not yet! Wanted to tell you first!"
They stood and talked for a while longer before one of Toothache's teammates came to get him, saying they still had a few modules to complete that day.
Trick patiently waited for the cadets to be completely out of earshot before looking back down at Tiptoes. "I thought… Toothache… was training to become a medic." He starts slowly, Tiptoes seems to have a similar concern as he scratches at the sleeve hiding where he had let Matchsticks ink him. "He IS."
Trick throws a cautious look at the door where the younger ones left through with the knowledge that Toothache had patched Trick and some others up on occasion, calling it "extra practice".
"Then… what are they teaching those kids?"
"That's nothing… I heard they named one of the others Bite."
Trick has never been so afraid of being injured in his entire life. What were these vode going to grow into?! Then again Trick had rarely ever had to interact with medics besides Toothache so he's just not sure what he should be expecting.
"Scars build character.... just careful where they come from." He states cautiously. "Yes sir." Tiptoes agrees, catching his meaning.
Was he... assisting in raising future threats... or was that just his paranoia talking? Well... if he was then they better be darn lethal, he won't accept anything less. Those enemies better be shaking in their boots.
The fact that Grian IMMEDIATELY clocked Scar’s “do the opposite of what you’re told” task. they really are soulmates and the thing that ties them together is being as much of a menace as possible
Kalina was probably unmade in the mall fight along with Cassandra but she's a familiar. Familiars can be summoned. As a cleric, Kristen can't summon her, she doesn't have acess to that spell.