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bambiesfics · 2 months

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𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗹𝘀’ 𝗖𝗼𝗰𝗸 — Ellie x Bimbo!reader

𝜗𝜚 Author’s notes ✦ Butch/femme dynamics, Ellie’s butch, wears a strap. Refers to it as cock, dick etc. Reader’s a bimbo. Just a filthy, filthy description of how you have to cockwarm your butch girlfriend, Ellie. Slight aftercare at the end too for you, considering how much she just stretched your tiny hole.

𝜗𝜚 If you find yourself uncomfortable with the themes in this fic, maybe try educating yourself on Butch sexuality. This heartfelt post may give you a sense of Ellie’s headspace. And this

!!! [ Please help Palestine ] !!!

kisses u. ⋆ 𝜗𝜚 ˚⟡.

You were restless and lonely. Ellie had spent the better part of the afternoon preoccupied with the LED modules shuffled in her laptop, attempting to receive her ServSafe certificate. The online test had been eating up all her time, and Ellie sometimes chastised you for being overly needy n’ pouty when she had her hands full with things to do. So you tried to not add to her plate by pressing for attention, or conversation today. No matter how much you wanted to chit-chat with her. You wanted to be good more than anything.

No one saw you and Ellie as a compatible match, if it wasn’t already made visually obvious, it was definitely made obvious the second you popped your pink lips open to speak, while the brunette butch brooded behind you. This was a chance to shush all those insecurities that crept over you and told you that Ellie could be with a smarter, more capable, more self-reliant girl. You wanted to be a good fit for her. So you distracted yourself by jumping through social media apps, flipping through old cosmo magazines, and touching up the corner of your acrylic toe set with some white polish you kept carefully placed in her desk. But none of that worked. You were bored with everything you’d tried. Worse, your girlfriend had been looking so handsome in her loose plaid button up and dad jeans, as she slumped in her kitchen stool. It was getting so hard to remain detached and unaffected by the pristine silence in the house when you would pass by to check up on her.

Every so often Ellie’s pretty face would cutely scrunch up whenever she was puzzled by a question, which made for very testing times. But not as testing as when Ellie did that thing where she yanked at and ruffled her scruffy wolf cut, when she was in deep concentration. It was the cutest little boyish tic. You had nearly broken your own resolve to go run to her arms and litter her cheeks in glossy kisses. Which all made it so hard to have her near, as handsome as she was, and have her not even look up at you once. Not even allowed to step in her embrace, held by her toned arms, her sweet cologne and that woodsy scented jacket.

You were moping, and that moping turned into whining, and whining turned into annoyed flashes from Ellie’s eyes every time you got too squeaky. Those flashes turned into scowls, and that led to Ellie groaning at you.

“Can I help you with something?”

Ellie’s face was unamused, and it made you straighten your spine.

“N-no.”

“Great. Thanks.” She replied, her voice was just dripping in sarcasm. But that little flash of attention you had received filled your tummy with happy butterflies, until it went right back to her laptop.

You felt a twinge in your chest at how quickly she tuned you out. Did she not wanna talk to you at all? Ask about your day? Wanna know about the influencer gossip you found online? None of it?

“Meanie” you pouted while nudging your chin into your palm and clacking your acrylics on the granite. She didn’t have to say it so mean, she was usually sweeter n’ sillier. But today Ellie was a big meanie.

Ellie huffed and held back a massive eye roll. She stuck her head deeper into her laptop, she had to pretend you weren’t there. This test was important to her. You were too, but this seriously mattered more. Ellie needed more money. She needed to find a better apartment to rent, she needed to be able to support you the way she wanted too, and she needed a position with better hours so she could visit Joel's grave more regularly. You knew all that, so Ellie knew your whining wasn’t from ignorance, it was from childishness. She hated indulging you when you were childish. It was bad manners.

But she also knew if this went on long enough you might start silently crying in your pillow because you felt like your girlfriend hated you. You were clearly feeling neglected by Ellie, and coupled with her little sarcastic quip just a moment ago, Ellie wouldn’t put it past you to start sniffling within the next few hours. You were so pathetic. Ellie often joked that if you weren’t human you would’ve been the little runt abandoned by your pack for being so weak and whiny. And Ellie would’ve been a large reptile; a komodo dragon, who felt bad enough that instead of eating your tiny ass she would’ve raised you. Ellie had a weird little obsession with pliocene history, and because you were dumb, with a brain full of makeup and miniskirts, it went over your head 99% of the time. But Ellie knew you well, and she knew that more than outright being ignored, you hated the feeling that you made Els upset with you. It was your little runt nature, to always seek the validation of the large cold-blooded reptile in charge of your care that could still decide to eat you if you pissed her off enough. This relationship was almost ironically engineered.

Ellie understood you way too well.

Ellie tugged at her hair, because GOD you were such a piece of work. An adorable one, but still, a piece of fucking work!

“Okay.” Ellie breathed out. She ran her palms down her jeans, and spread her thighs farther apart. When Ellie manspread like that, you knew what it meant. But you still wanted her to say it. “Come here baby, come take a seat on me.”

“You sure?” you said hesitantly. Your gaze nervously flickered between her lap and floor.

“Need my baby girl right here,” Ellie said. She cocked her eyebrow and grabbed her bulge tightly. Enticing you.

Your eyes flew open. Your mouth opened and closed repeatedly, like a gaping fish. You wanted Ellie’s attention, maybe to perch on her lap while she worked, but that movement meant something else entirely.

Ellie continued on, enjoying the surprise on your face a little too much. “Since you can’t sit still, come sit on this.” Ellie pulled her zipper down slowly, and shoved her fist in the opening; to fish out her hard cock out of her boxers, and rest it on her thigh. You gulped.

Your eyes fluttered between looking at Ellie's long shaft, and at her face. You could tell from her expression that she wasn’t bluffing. She looked very amused, and very curious as to what you’d do next. “W-what about your test?” You quipped. She lifted the base of her cock, “don’t worry about that, just come take a quick seat on this until you feel better.” You went to her lap, and nervously kept looking back at the cock she expected you to sink onto as you backed up on Ellie’s thighs. Ellie whispered “Why are you nervous princess? You’ve taken this before.”

Which made your hole flutter from the teasing smugness in her voice.

You had taken Ellie’s cock before. But after some prep, after lots of kisses from her, and after your slick was coating your engorged pussy lips from intense arousal. Not by just sitting on it while she was busy attacking a server’s exam.

Your eyes were glossy, Ellie found them so sparkly. You bunched your babydoll camisole higher up your tummy, and spread your ass cheeks. It was a good thing you loved prancing around Ellie’s apartment with no panties, it made spontaneous poundings so much easier. You lined up your hole with Ellie’s cockhead. “Good, now just sink down.” She fisted the base of her dick towards your vagina to help you. You slowly sunk onto her cock, taking it inch by inch. “Nhng, Ellie! feels too big, too big!” You clamped up as another inch forcefully popped through that tight little entrance. Ellie shushed you softly, rubbing circles in your back as she fed you her cock, until she was buried only a few inches deep. You couldn’t take her all the way down, and somehow you were so full. It felt like Ellie’s cock was pressing deep into your tummy. You had to hold back from whining to her about how her cock was definitely in your stomach, probably poking around in there. She’d shushed you for that silly idea once before and teased you for being so airheaded. Not like Ellie had expected you to have any better than a ditzy girl's understanding of anatomy anyway.

But as you felt her cock stretch you open, it was starting to feel like that again, like her cock was in your womb. It felt like Ellie was taking up all the space inside of you. She stretched your plump walls around her like you were her fleshlight. A fleshlight that was stretched to mold around every vein and ridge in Ellie’s cock.

You flexed your ass cheeks, and clamped your cunt around her cock, you tested for how much give you had to bounce up and down. But you gave up almost as soon as you tried lifting off the first time. The base of her cock was just too thick. Ellie felt stuck inside you. Like a wedding band wrapped around a chubby finger. You whimpered at the way her cockhead bumped all those squishy places inside your cunt. Ellie reassured you “Shhh don’t worry about bouncing baby, I’m nearly splitting you open. Just stay right here and get used to this angle.” Ellie turned her gaze back towards her laptop, and picked up from the last module she left off at.

Meanwhile your lower lip was trembling because your girlfriend's cock was resting inside your vagina, it was poking your cervix and rubbing along your walls in ways that made your tummy feel funny. The soreness was starting to subside but the fullness didn’t, and you wanted to move around a little bit. “E-Ellie i-it’s hard to move. No room,” you pouted over your shoulder.

“You don’t have to move, baby. You’re in timeout. Just sit and get my cock nice n’ warm.” Ellie turned her gaze back to her laptop as her other fingers drew slow circles in your lower back. It was such a brazenly lazy attempt at support, but Ellie’s main goal was to distract you — not make you feel pampered.

But you’d get that after anyway.

You tried grinding her cock in you, just to put the pressure of her cockhead in other places and not directly kissing the roof of your cunt. Ellie’s eyes flickered to where you two were connected and she thumbed the sensitive skin there. Which made you pull off slightly, you mewled at the sensitization you felt from her ministrations. Your hole was throbbing everywhere.

Ellie moaned at the sight, “you’re stretched so thin here, how did I fit inside you?”

You kept up with your poor attempts to grind n’ gyrate, so Ellie’s gaze traveled up towards your hips. She palmed your squishy ass; then skirted her fingers over your asshole. Ellie sunk her thumb into your asshole, just stopping at the first knuckle where her metal ring rested and whispered in your back. “I told you to stay baby.”

“Ellie no! Don’t touch over there!” You cried from embarrassment, you got so hot when she did that.

She smiled into your back “Why you shy cause I’m thumbing you right here? After your tiny cunt just swallowed my entire length? Please” Ellie smiled into your back.

Ellie’s attention kept jumping between completing her modules and questions and groping some sensitive part of your body. She’d mutter “You’re so tiny, wish you could see how much you’re stretched around me, plugged you up good.” Just to watch the hairs on your nape rise and watch how your hole contracted around her length from her words. Ellie rolled her narrow hips in circular motions, letting you get some little relief from the fat cock bullying your hole, by giving you some friction. The friction felt amazing on her clit too, rubbing along the puffy nub in a way that made heat pool in her belly.

Soon enough Ellie was biting back her own horny grunts, pressure building in her own cunt from the press of the harness. She kept up a slow circular grind to make her little baby feel good, and not feel so stretched out. But Ellie really considered chasing a silent orgasm for herself, it felt delicious to be in you.

You were dizzy with sensations, cock bumping your spongy g-spot just right. Your neglected clit was angry and red, but you were drunk on Ellie’s grinding. You were slurring all whiny “love your fat cock s’much Ellie. S’much ahh, love your coo-ock ahnnng.” Ellie’s hands came up to grope and squeeze your fatty tits. Because FUCK YOU for nearly making her bust after saying that. She kept grinding until your sloppy hole was doing butterflies on her cock. Slick dripping past the seal where you were wrapped around her shaft. Your hole was squeezing and releasing, over and over again as your orgasm tipped you over the edge and your toes turned pointed straight. The bottom of your fingers and palms had turned pink and red from how tight your fist was.

Ellie slowed down the grinding, she was happy enough you got your orgasm. The grinding felt nice on her clit, but she was more grateful at the fact that you might get sleepy and tap out. And she’d actually get some work done for once.

Ellie pulled you off her cock, and onto her lap. She smoothed a hand down your back as you winced when she pulled out. Your cum dribbled out of your weeping little pussy, globs of stringy cum seeped into Ellie’s pants after being plugged up by her cock. It was a mess you frequently made on Ellie after sex. It was evidence of a job well done; and a satiated princess.

You sniffled as you turned in Ellie’s embrace. “You sleepy?” Ellie asked

“Mhmmm” you moaned in her shoulder.

“I got you, you little princess. C’mon hold onto my shirt” Ellie guided your trembling hand to the collar of her button up and shushed you with sweet words about how “well you took her.” Ellie rocked you softly as she went back to her test, by the time you’d knocked out she’d completed a good chunk of her modules. She rocked you until your sniffles had quieted and you were fast asleep on her lap. She tucked her cock haphazardly into her boxers. You could sink onto it again after you woke up from your short nap.

Ellie spanked your ass, and felt the recoil jiggle against her palm. She shushed you again as you stirred from the assault. She whispered “I deserve a little treat after dealing with this bratty ass all day. I’m joking… I got you baby.”

After 45 minutes of not a single distraction to pull her attention away, Ellie completed her test. A solid 93%, way above a passing grade. Good enough to get her ServSafe certificate, and definitely good enough to start serving at her restaurant, and get better pay and better tips.

Ellie kissed the top of your head,

“Did it, peach.”

“Did’itttt wedidi...” You slurred into her chest. She smelled like sweet cologne. Your dreams were so happy.

She smiled into your hair.

Mhm yeah. We both did it.

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aloneatpeace · 3 months

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SHADOW OF THE PAST

Chapter one

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New home

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.→✒️:★: ͜͡✿͜͡ →. So this is a fic as usual the main protagonist is reader along with Dean Winchester and Sam Winchester from supernatural. There will other characters as well .

Im hoping to write this fic as horror / paranormal au . Hopefully it come together like that .

So that's it enjoy the fic please please tell me what you think and i appreciate every single of you reading my all fics thank you ❤️

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The warm sunlight's glade through the open windows curtains as you and you and your love of your life lay peacefully. Never in million year you thought that you will get to live the dream life you always wanted with guy you hopelessly and enormously in love with, an energic dog that always love to steal your attention every time he waltzes in, a peaceful home where you don't have to worry about anything nor your family chewing on every breath you take or friends who always around when they only wanted something. This is all you wanted, needed and dreamed off.

"What is going on that pretty head of yours? "

you heard his in raspy morning voice, The voice that you would love to hear for all eternity. You glanced at him to see his mesmerizing green eyes staring back you.

" Just thinking about how life is awful back then "

You said with laughing following in behind he joins in with you. Seeing the pure happiness on your face making his heart flutters. He could help but put his arms around you and pulled you closer to his side and you both sigh at feeling of being in each other's arms. The pure blissful moment was interpreted when a golden fluffy ball come in between the two of you and made himself home in your chest.

" Sometimes, I wonder if he is trying to steal you from me "

Your husband says and you chuckle and rub your dog's ear.

"Aww but I love you babe, don't worry your still my favorite"

max who probably smarter than average dogs you looked at you with what you assume 'are you serious ' face at you.

"I'm kidding" you whispered

"I heard that " comes from your husband who getting himself out of the bed and going to bathroom.

"So are you going to work today or are you going help unpack the boxes because there is a lot and i don't want to do it all by myself" the two of you moved in new house for fresh start leaving everything behind and having new start is what you always wanted and luckily your husband also happy about that idea.

" Trust me I don't want leave you alone especially when we are new in this area and doesn't really know how the people in here. But you know I have to go to the station".

It's true after all being with you where he felt more alive and happier and your happiness also what he gives importance to. Starting a relationship with you, falling in love with you, marrying you was the best things that happened to him and he wanted to give you everything and make you smile every day.

" It's okey Dean, I'm so thankful for what you done for me and love you so much "

You said coming behind him wrapping arms around his bare middle.

" I love you too sweetheart, you know I do anything for you my soul "

He turn around to see you lifting your chin up to look at him and he brushes his thump on your lower lip as he leans down to capture your lips in a kiss that rich in love and passion, one that makes your knees weak and heart to rush. his hands moving down your body desperately try get closer to as possible.

tugging on the shirt that he wore last night. his mind racing with last night's memory of how you looked up to him with the needy look on your face as he gives himself to you and how you tasted like fine dessert that still lingering in his tongue every time making him wanting more and take him on another level of ecstasy.

The bliss full moment where neither of you don't want to leave but with Shakey breathe you parts away from him. Before you can speak, he picks you up making you squeak as he continues to move a loud break the two of you as both turn to look at your dog who running towards you. You both look at each before laughing out loud.

"See every time he does this shit, man she is my wife. find someone else"

Dean put his head in neck as you still in his arms as you still laughing.

" Laugh all you want, wait till I get one puppy who loves me and I give all my love and attention to the puppy " he says with a challenging look as he puts you down.

you exit the bathroom to bedroom squeezing your dog in big hug as both make way your way to kitchen.

" Don't burn down the kitchen please we still new " He shouts form bathroom.

" No promise " you say back. You can hear his laugh as you made it to the kitchen.

You look around "That's a lot of boxes "

If your memory was correct, you put some milk and bread in the fridge with couples of things that you don't remember. As you open the fridge you hear sounds of running in living room

"Hey,no running around the room max"you say as you collect the things you need in hands and close the fridge with your foot. As you turn you see max standing in top of one of the boxes in the kitchen his ears sharp staring at living room and starts to bark.

" Hey boy, you want something " He turn to you and come towards you and lay down beside your foot looking up you with round eyes.

You crouch down next to him give him pat on his head.

" How about we have a walk around and how some fun time? How about that" He barks with enthusiasm.

" Good boy " You go back to making breakfast as dean comes wrapping his around your waist giving a kiss on your head.

" You didn't burn down the kitchen woah that's an improvement".

As you open your mouth to defend yourself he cuts you off with kiss" Don't say it's one time it still happened "He starts to take a sip of his coffee and hums.

"Okey I won't, hey I was thinking maybe taking max for a walk get know the place around "you said take a sip of your own coffee.

" Yeah, that good idea, but if you need anything don't hesitate to call okey " he said finishing his own coffee and having some breakfast.

You slap his butt when he gets up "are you assaulting a officer?'" he dramatically gasp at you

"Oh shut, up as if you don't like it "

He shakes his head at you before getting up to leave and as he passes, he rubs max on his back." Hey buddy take care of our girl will ya "and move to the front door.

" Good luck with work I really hope everything will work out I really likes this place" you said following behind him with files on hand.

You hand that him as you reach the front step

" Me too sweetheart, I love you, now give me a good luck kiss" he says pulling you towards him with a smile on his face.

You let out a small giggle and kiss him passionately.

He parts ways from you giving you cheeky wink and get in his car and look back at you mouthing 'I love you ' you repeat the same as drive away.

Both of you not seeing that shadow that watching you form the inside.

You make your way inside the house.Max was biting a box that labeled his name

" alright we unbox some and then we take a walk "a bark was all your answer.

Opening max's box first you give him his toys and move on to next and then to next.

You don't know how many hours passed but you are down to the last box.

You collect the wrapping and torn boxes into a trash bag and walk towards the trash can to dumb it.

"Are you the new resident of this house?" a female voice behind you said. You turn around seeing a woman standing there with a smile on her face.

"Yeah, we just moved here." You tell her feeling her presence only out of pure curiosity

"I'm Amy Peterson, I live down the street with my family. What's your name?"

You tell her your name "well, welcome to our neighborhood. It's a very quiet here but its peaceful. And you don't have worry about noisy neighbor since all the house are in a decent amount of distance"

Nodding your head at the it's also a main reason you and dean decided to move to her. "Yeah, it's nice..." before you can continue max comes running towards you when he saw you chatting with stranger abandoned his toy that he is chewing

You ruffle his hair beside his ears as he stands next you. "Oh, he is beautiful. is it you and this cute alone here?"

You shake your head with a smile on your face "no I'm with my husband."

"you're married, what does he do?" she asks

"Yeah, he is cop" you said proudly

She gives a wide smile "that's wonderful. Good thing now we have cop living here" she laughs. "See you soon, I have to go before my kids flip the house upside down the"

You sigh at her retrieving foam "well good to know we have nice neighbor. Isn't it."

Getting in shower you let the cold water pour down your head and shoulders washing away the soreness. You change into leggings and white sweater combing your hair until you're satisfied with a result. As you promised you took max out for a walk.

Dean was getting to know his co-workers at the station. He assigned with a man named Castiel. "So how you like in it here?" Castile, ask he shows the towns map and some report files with data of some local criminals. "Too early to answer that" he answers observing the file.

"I suppose it is, but our crime rate not that high aside from some random robberies other than that it's quite peaceful here."

"Yeah, my wife always wanted live in quite nice place" dean said "You have wife huh! Seems like those ladies don't know that yet" castile said making dean look up to see two females smiling at their direction dean and Castiel share a chuckle.

You were watching tv when dean came in, max run towards dean huffing demanding for pets from the man.

"You unpacked everything huh?" dean ask he take off his uniform

You nod without taking your eyes off the tv "yep, and I met one of our neighbors and took max out for a walk"

Finally taking off his uniform he pushes your legs apart and lay between them head laying on your chest you run your fingers through his hair making him groan. "Who is this neighbor?"

"Amy Peterson, just street down. How was your day?"

"It was great, apparently there aren't really much of crime here, so that a good thing. My partner also from here castile, seems like great guy" dean glance up at you with a serene look on his face "seems like everything is in favor, baby" he takes in your peaceful relaxed face, that was gone for a past couple of moths but its back now and he never felt so grateful for that.

Your eyes find his face a large grin on your face so it's transferred to his lips as he pulls himself towards you pressing his full lips on yours slowly knowing that he has all time in the world just savoring the feeling of you. You tilt your head side to get deeper hands gripping each other.

Dean hands grip your hip as he presses himself closer to you to feel you near him as close as possible, his grip get stronger as he starts to tug down the waistband of the leggings something fall down in the hallway.

"Shit something broke?" you get with dean as you both walk towards the hallway, a broken glass from the picture that you hung scattered on the floor.

Max walks towards it but dean held him back not wanting him to get hurt "hey you both stay there. I'll clean it up" he said

"You sure?" you ask he nods at you. Taking max with you, you both returns to couch max lie next you his eyes blinking up to you. You ruffle his hair cuddles to him.

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prttydolls · 2 years

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in her shadows — eddie munson

eddie munson x cunningham!fem!reader ✧.*

synopsis : reader has enough of being in chrissy’s shadow

warning(s) : being in chrissy’s shadow, rejection, being a rebound.

char note : chrissy is 19, reader is 18, eddie is 20 !!, also mean!chrissy, dark haired!reader hehe (lets pretend she took it from her dad lol)

amora’s note : aaa!! @imabee-oralizard are u proud of me for finishing this in a day ✊🏻 || im checking who ever likes, so u might get a dm from me if you have “18+ only”

important note : if ever, you have 18+ only or mdni please leave, the door is right here old woman 👉🏻🚪

!!! I LOVE CHRISSY THIS ISNT CHRISSY SLANDER I JUST NEEDED A VILLIAN !!!

chrissy, chrissy, chrissy.

your parents always compared you to your older sister, who was a year older than you. they're always saying “oh y/n, why cant you be like chrissy” or showing off her stupid achievements.

god why cant they fucking shut up .

you were the same as chrissy ; pretty, popular, a cheerleader, straight A’s everything! you were like a mini chrissy if you thought about it. your parents just didnt want a second child.

you were exhausted, secretly being an outcast.

speaking of outcasts, your only escape was your bestfriend, eddie munson. he hadn't known that you and chrissy were polar opposites behind closed doors.

eddie and chrissy were friends too, she didn't like him as much but she tolerated him. eddie? oh boy, he liked her so much.

he had a crush on her, typical.

you saw how she leaded him on, making him think she liked him back. whenever you confronted her, she just laughs and says “thats what girls do to their guy bestfriends, surely you dont know what its like.”

you just hated her for everything! you were smarter than her, yet your overshadowed by her! it isnt fucking fair!

it isnt fair.

not fair.

not fucking fair.

･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

next few days, you noticed how eddie stopped coming over.

you thought of asking chrissy, because she was the last person he talked to before leaving home. you hesitated to knocked, but did anyways .

“’kay, hold on jason— what? what do you want twerp?” she greeted, obviously on a call with jason carver and she seemed annoyed. “what did you say to eddie?!” you whisper shouted.

she looked confused. “what?”

you sigh in frustration, “i fucking said- what did you say to eddie?!” you repeated, abit louder than earlier

chrissy rolled her eyes, “he confessed to me, and i rejected him ‘kay? i don't like him back. he's just a friend to me.”

you scoffed, “just a friend?! you both acted like you were dating! you leaded him on you witch!”

she rolled her eyes once more, “for the love of god, its what girls do to their boy best friends. they act like couples, I didn't expect eddie to like me.” you just stared at her in anger.

you didn't wanna say anything and just left her there standing.

you needed to see eddie.

･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

you drove into eddie’s trailer and knocked loudly, “Eddie?!” you called out.

it only took a few loud knocks, for the door to open. you saw the brunette with red-ish eyes, and tears brimming around his eye. he looked so sad.

“eddie..” you sighed sadly.

he stared at your dark (hair color) hair sadly. “hey, y/n..” you invited yourself in and pushed eddie aside.

“eds, did chris reject you?” you asked hesitantly, he looked at you and nodded slowly.

you let out a “awh”, and hugged him.

you comforted him that night, you stayed just to comfort him, and him alone.

･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

months passed, you and eddie were close now. like super close.

you definitely had a crush on him, but you knew something was up. he still wasn't over chrissy. even though she had rejected him, he couldn't stop swooning over her.

you knew he didn't like you, he probably would if chrissy didn't exist. but he would never like you, other than just being his friend.

he still has strong feelings for her, you can sense that.

you felt like you were just a nobody to eddie, just his stupid friend that has a older sister everybody wants to be.

“y/n?” eddie’s voice spoke up, making you snap out of your thoughts.

“sorry- i zoned out.. what's up?” you replied nervously. eddie bit his lip and fondled woth his rings, “i- i wanna ask you something” he sighs

you raised your eyebrow, signalling for him to go on and he took a deep breath. “i- i like you, alot y/n/n.” he confessed.

your mouth went wide open, was he fucking serious?!

you chuckled bitterly, “ah, so this is the part where i date you and you make chrissy jealous and she wants you back hm?”

eddie was taken aback, “what do you mean?”.

“please don't act dumb, i know you became friends with me just to get closer with chris, and you did! but uh oh, she rejected you! whoopsie, now your using me to make you feel better. why? because im always the second fucking choice.” you laughed.

“please, no one wants to talk to me for me. they only talk to me to get closer with the queen of hawkins high. you really think im dumb like that huh? well im not munson!”

“what- no y/n? why'd you think like tha-” eddie tried talking but you already had tears and you quickly stood up and got your stuff.

“fuck you munson.”

#eddie munson x reader #eddie munson x you #eddie munson x y/n #eddie munson x fem!reader #eddie munson x cunningham!reader #eddie munson x cheerleader!reader #eddie munson #fanfic #— {🐚} her work's !

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"[viv said her characters are so detailed bc] she herself is willing to put all the work in to get every detail, but now she has other animators working with her for the pilot she feels really bad making them do more work." and yet she never made the effort to simplify the designs for them (like you and that anon said). she just "feels bad." that's pretty frustrating to hear. if it's important to your vision/tone for these characters to be so detailed i'd hope to hear a better explanation than "i'm willing to put the work in but feel bad for my workers who aren't." i saw a recent tweet from Jorge Gutierrez (El Tigre, Book of Life), about how all his work is so detailed bc of *his* design choices. and that's true. but here's the thing about that; his series have been made through mediums that *benefit* detailed work. El Tigre used rigged animation through Adobe Flash, Book of Life used 3D, in both cases you only have to create the details on the characters once (aside from minor fixes/special scenes/SFX), then animate by moving the puppets/models around accordingly. viv went for 2D hand-drawn animation which is way way WAY more work with detailed characters bc they have to be drawn over. and over. and over. and over again on *every* frame. now it's not unheard of to choose hand-drawn animation for detailed characters--and some animators enjoy it--however it's a very tall order, especially for a new series, and she definitely could've made much smarter and economical choices for her work either by simplifying the characters' designs (which wouldn't have taken much), or choosing a different animation style. it's likely why the new hazbin series with a24 looks like it was made with rigged animation: it's faster and more efficient, especially for designs with high-detail. then you couple all that with the statements of her under-paying and over-working the animators for her pilot and it's apparent she didn't think everything through thoroughly.

Vivzie's really out there being upheld as the "savior of 2D animation" by her stans and doing it as unethically as possible without hiring a guy in a hood to physically whip her animators around the clock.

#rockanroller #vivziepop critical #actual blog post

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I really enjoy Razbuten's gaming vids and his most recent upload - "The Games I Wish I Never Replayed" - really resonated with me in regards to RWBY. Tl;dr, he makes the case that some games (Bioshock: Infinite is his example) get away with seeming deep and meaningful primarily through their spectacle. The audience is so blown away by what's happening on screen, is so immersed in one cool thing after another, that they don't even question whether this makes sense until after the credits roll. Or, more likely, after they've stepped away from the game for some time and then replay it. This is by no means his only or even core argument - he's really talking about how changes in ourselves, the gaming landscape, unreliable memory, and nostalgia all combine to influence whether we still adore a game years later - but that particular bit about spectacle really stuck with me. This idea that if you just throw enough stuff at the viewer they'll get caught up in the excitement and, likely, fail to see the larger, less-than-stellar picture. This feels particularly relevant in the most recent Volumes not just because the quality of the writing has gone down after RT's attempt to turn the show into more than just a boarding school adventure, but because RWBY has embraced more and more of that spectacle along the way. We've gone from stuff like "A train the heroes were trying to stop derails and lets in a bunch of the show's standard monster fare" to "The girls fall into an alternate reality filled with pretty/humorous distractions and one main character has aged several decades while another is having a breakdown." Despite the show often feeling slow and like there's nothing of real importance going on, RWBY has nevertheless really leaned into that spectacle, making it that much easier to miss the ways in which it doesn't hang together.

The other, related thing Razbuten mentions is how he also didn't see these problems back in the day because he wasn't looking for them. He stresses that this isn't a 'I'm smarter now' situation, but merely a different perspective: someone who analyzes games for a living is of course going to be primed to see more issues in the medium than someone who only plays games for fun. Same with the RWDE tag. By and large we're fans who were - to a greater and lesser extent - already engaged in meta writing by the time we learned of the community's existence, meaning we were already viewing RWBY through the perspective of, "What makes this show tick and how well is it achieving that?" RWDE (generally speaking) isn't made up of people who hate the show, it's made up of people who approach RWBY with a more critical eye by default and, as a result, find it that much harder to buy into the spectacle. We've "replayed" the show as a whole and found it wanting. And there's a reason Razbuten doesn't conclude, "But then I just decided to enjoy those games anyway and everything was fine." Once you see those problems you can't ignore them and once you have that skill at your disposal you can't turn it off. At least I can't.

#rwde #rwby #mymetas

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I really like getting any look at how Eggman treats poor little critters of any kind. I wish they'd show more in depth, beyond just seeing that they're captured and used in robots/for energy/etc, such as his behavior and how he treats them too. In Sonic 1, the animals in robots and capsules were the first look at his evil on screen that established that he's a villain there after all, so it's pretty important.

I personally really wanna see more of his cruelty when he's messing around and toying with them. I really like how they did it in IDW when he was testing the metal virus.

He's cruel, threatening, condescending, and short-tempered when forcing them into doing as he says. But he also has a wide sadistic grin on his face and casts a delightfully sinister shadow while towering over them as he watches their fear and struggle as they succumb to their cruel enslavement and become what he wants them to be. He takes great pride in the success and revels in their suffering for his selfish benefit in his evil plans.

I also love how he visibly enjoys it way more than Starline, who treats it more like a serious task and procedure, while Eggman knows how to have fun with it! He's the evilest and most fucked up 💕

And I love how he lowers a Pocky down with a fishing rod to attack a poor Ricky and is just so silly about it. How does he manage to be so cute while doing something so messed up? XD

Rise of Wisps has that similar energy that I had always wished to see in Colors, so it was a real great treat to finally get it a decade later:

I love his dark mischievous grin after he grabs and almost squeezes the eye of the white Wisp, how he slams them into the machine then throws himself against the glass to scare them, then leans in for a good look at their energy being zapped for his benefit and erupts into laughter. He didn't even need to be so physically violent and harsh to get what he wanted out of them in this case, it's even clearer that he did it just because he wanted to and enjoyed it.

These are good examples of the perfect balance I say I like to see in Eggman, where he'll be dark, threatening, and serious in his evil, yet also find enjoyment in it and being sadistically playful and giddy in it too. Anything of the sort where he's doing something messed up but finding twisted joy and entertainment in it is something I always love to see, if you haven't figured that out already hehe

Just look at this asshole having a great time being terrible and tormenting and toying with his prey 🥰💜💕

You can really see how much he enjoys not only using them as his tools in accomplishing his goals but also striking fear into them, forcing them into submission, and having total power over them when they're weak and helpless against him. He finds it really entertaining and amusing and has a blast!

I can imagine that he enjoys controlling and tormenting little defenseless creatures because it gives him a taste of how he wants the whole world and everything in it to be as small and inferior compared to him and be overpowered, owned, controlled and used by him like this. They're a good start because they're vulnerable and easy targets. He probably likes how they can't talk or fight back and he's so much bigger, stronger, and smarter than them.

It's very satisfying and entertaining to him but he's so power hungry that he desires to move on to bigger targets. In the games, we know him to keep climbing up by starting with the little creatures, then Sonic and co, then other humans in his attempts to accomplish his biggest goal of all- total world domination where he'll force everyone else to become his slaves and obey and serve in the same way and they'll have no choice but to submit to the rule of the empire.

It's no secret that he's always been cruel even to poor innocent an defenseless creatures but it's interesting to get more insight to how he goes about treating them when they're in his clutches. Especially with how it's a good example of his sadism as he clearly loves the power and control he can have over them, finds it entertaining and will go out of his way to treat them especially cruelly, even when it isn't necessary to accomplish his goal. Love this nasty bastard 💘

#dr eggman #eggman #dr. eggman #dr robotnik #idw sonic #sonic colors #my post #animals #animal abuse

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Random Barbatos x Mammon Angst

I don't know what else to call this.

I only recently learned about this ship and I find myself curious about it.

I like the ship dynamic of the "seemingly perfect" and the "I fuck up for a living".

Mammon is much more self conscious than he wants to admit so the idea of him dating Barb, someone who seems to do everything perfectly while Mammon screws up; there's an appeal there for me, especially at the idea of Barb comforting Mammon and healing the man's heart with his love and support.

But yeah, I'm not sure how this will turn out. I haven't read any stories about this ship yet, but wanna explore it on my own.

This may be good, this may be sloppy, but if you're curious and wanna see how it goes then welcome aboard! I'm glad you're here for the ride lol

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Oh devil was Lucifer furious when he found out what Mammon stole and pawned from the castle, an artifact older than him and Lord Diavolo combined.

In fairness, Mammon didn't know it was something important; he just took one look at the object and thought it would make a hefty amount of grimm if he pawned it.

Lucifer was in Diavolo's office, apologizing for his younger brother as always and helping the prince locate whoever bought the relic from the pawn shop.

In truth, the Avatar of Greed was less worried about those two men or what punishment awaited him when Lucifer had time for it.

It was Barbatos and devil, did the greed demon have to think of something quick to make the butler forgive him.

Mammon found the other man in the kitchen, making tea for the prince and Lucifer to drink as they worked over the issue; he refused to look at the second brother as he entered the room.

"I...look--"

"I am not in the mood to speak with you right now." The butler said coolly, back to his boyfriend.

Yes, boyfriend. Things were...well, their relationship was still fresh. Neither understood their feelings for one another or how things ended up like this, but neither wanted to fight it anymore and decided to...well, see how things go.

Mammon was a bit awkward with this relationship. He...yeah, he's dated people before, but things never worked out

And despite how new this relationship with Barb was, none of his past ones could ever compare to how he felt for the older demon. These feelings were too strong, too real...and were too much pressure.

Now he's screwed up majorly and he didn't know if there was any way to salvage things.

"Look, I'm sorry--"

Barb turned, eyes snapping to the younger man's.

"You betrayed my trust, broke into the artefact vault, and stole a relic from the Era of Seclusion for pocket change." The man's voice was calm, but somehow intense, causing Mammon to avoid his gaze.

Yeah...when it's put like that, this obviously wasn't one of his smarter plans. Granted, he doesn't usual have 'smart' plans, but this was still pretty low for him.

"Barb...I know I fucked up; I just wanna to talk this over."

The butler stared the other man down for a full minute before releasing a breath.

"Because of our new...relationship," Barb's voice lowered at that word; it was so new and both men were so confused that they agreed it would be better to hold off on telling others. "I let my guard down around you; I trusted you and you betrayed that trust by doing something that has affected both my job and my lord."

Mammon winced. He knows he screwed up royally, hurt Barbatos in the worst way possible by hitting him where it was most important: his job; it was literally this man's like and the Avatar of Greed knew this.

"I know..." The greed demon mumbled, gaze on the floor.

The butler sighed and approached his boyfriend, taking a gloved hand and lifting the younger demon's face up by his chin.

"Look at me." Barb spoke firmly. "Why did you steal from us? From me?"

Mammon reluctantly met his boyfriend's green orbs, eyes that could inspire so many strong emotions in him. Like guilt in this moment.

"I..." He broke his gaze from the other man and pulled away from him. "Because Imma fuck up; ya know this. I'm the Avatar of Greed, the scummy brother, the idiot, the embarrassment; you know this stuff already."

The older man frowned, already understanding the source of all of this.

"Are you trying to break us apart now because you think it will hurt less than if we do later?"

Mammon didn't say a word and just turned away from his boyfriend to hide his face. The younger demon already had tears in his eyes and didn't want Barb to see them.

The older demon sighed. In truth, he knew Mammon had some self-worth issues, but he didn't realize this man had such self-destructive tendencies.

"Turn to face me." Barb spoke softly, cajoling the man to meet his gaze once more.

After some hesitation, Mammon turned to face the butler.

"Now...what about all of this is scaring you?"

Mammon's gaze kept flicking up and and down, like he couldn't decide to keep with his boyfriend's gaze or to stare down at the floor.

"Birdie," Barb placed a hand on his cheek. "We need to talk about this."

The greed demon's face blushed red at the endearment.

"I just...dammit..." He cursed under his breath. "I just...I never felt this strongly about anyone, got it? I just feel like this is all gonna crash and burn..."

It's not like things ever went right in his life. Why should this relationship be any different? And this all feels so important to him, even if he doesn't understand why he feels all of it, which just tells him that when Barbatos breaks up with him--and he definitely means when--that it will hurt worse than anything he's ever experienced before; even Lucifer could never come up with a punishment that would hurt more than this.

"I understand this is overwhelming," The butler agreed. "But that does not excuse this stunt of yours."

"That's easy for you to say..." The younger man complained. "If we broke up, you'd be completely fine; you'd still have ya job and Lord Diavolo and you'd just go on like this never happened and continue doin' everything right n' get everyone's praises--meanwhile, this will be just another failure on my belt, somethin' else I wasn't good enough for..."

"And so you find it easier to follow your own self-created prophecy? To sabotage yourself so you no longer have to worry about it ending on terms other than your own?"

Mammon tried to pull away, but Barb firmly locked him in place.

"It doesn't have to be this way." Barbatos pulled his boyfriend into his arms and spoke softly. "You do not need to live in fear me or anything between us. I don't pretend to understand how we got to this point, but I intend to love you how you deserve to be loved. However...you need to allow me to do so."

The greed demon hid his face in the other man's neck and held onto him tightly; he didn't want whatever this was with the butler to end, but devil was he scared...

Barb held him close, understanding that this hug must be incredibly overdue for his boyfriend.

The members of House of Lamentation were very...dysfunctional. Though the brothers love each other dearly, they also have their own wounds they struggle to heal and in turn, they aren't always the nicest to each other, especially to Mammon.

"I won't do it again," Mammon mumbled in the embrace. "Just...don't leave me...please."

"I am right here, my little bird." His boyfriend assured. "I promise I will not go anywhere, but you must be kinder to yourself and learn to behave."

#obey me #obey me otome #obey me mammon #obey me barbatos #obey me barbatos x mammon #just curious #these two seem kind cute together #what do you think?

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Let’s talk about life in New Rome

To start off, how many people actually live in the town?

In Son of Neptune, the number of people living in New Rome is said to be about three hundred. Now if we add the two hundred in Camp Jupiter, that leaves approximately 500 demigods. I doubt monsters, nymphs, and satyrs are included in that number, so we could probably round that out to 800 or so.

[The number is significantly lessby the end of Tyrant’s Tomb. Many veterans are said to have died. The legion has lost many demigods. ]

With this in mind, we have to assume that New Rome University is very small, likely between 20-50 students. We know from Percy they offer a four-year course, so that means about a dozen students (or less) are admitted to the college every year.

As far as I can tell, all students get into the university on a scholarship and there is no tuition. This is partly because Hazel seems very casual about admissions into the college and because of Percy’s comments in The Hidden Oracle.

“I’ve been guaranteed admission with a full scholarship to New Rome University, but they’re still requiring me to pass all my high school courses and score well on the SAT. Can you believe that? Not to mention I have to pass the DSTOMP.”

From this comment, I suspect Percy has given privileges equivalent of a legionaire who’s finished their ten-years of service. Basically like "you saved the world so that counts".

It’s unknown if they offer any post-graduate degrees, or if students go to Berkeley after that. I suspect with the close ties between the universities, as mentioned by Annabeth, the latter is more likely. However, demigod post-grad students probably do tutor classes at NRU like at other universities.

Looking at actual real-world universities. It’s more than likely NRU offers a liberal arts degree (Bachelor of Arts). One that is able to be modified for the individual student. This is further proven by the fact there is a music and poetry analysis section in the DSTOMP exam.

Percy mentions some classes for freshmen: English, math and history. My understanding is that’s pretty normal at US colleges (even though it seems redundant). So it really doesn’t give us much information.

It’d say there’s a strong chance all these classes are in Latin (except for the English class, duh) – as we see evidence that Latin is the primary language of New Rome. English would be being just another language in New Rome (unlike Camp Jupiter), as all the signage is in Latin. Also, according to Apollo a dozen languages can be heard while walking through the forum.

So with the assumption that NRU offers an art degree, we know that some of Annabeth’s architecture classes can be studied at the university. But she probably couldn’t graduate with a proper Architecture degree just through NRU – which is why she dual-enrolls into Bekerley.

Considering Roman culture, it’s not surprising their arts course would have architectural leanings. These are the majors/minors/classes I’d say are likely to be offered: Greco-Roman Mythology, Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Mathematics / Engineering / Architecture, Ancient History / Art History (focus on Rome).

Obviously, Percy mentioned possibly studying marine biology or aquaculture. I think it’s important to note that he’s not decided this. It’s possible he hasn’t realised these aren’t options at NRU. But I think he’s smarter than that. So my theory is that he’s planning to transfer at some point but wants to study alongside Annabeth and stay in the safe-haven of New Rome for a while (these seem to be much higher priorities for him!).

The univerity has a big library, a belltower, and very boring dorms (which I think is just tragic because everything else in New Rome is super fancy, why are the dorms boring? Ten years kids live in barracks, they deserve nice dorms...)

Due to the limited number of people at NRU or in town, I suspect much of the university is maintained by the students themselves. As veterans of the legion, they would be perfectly capable of organising much of the operations of the university. Furthermore, I think post-grads might come to the university to teach the occasional class as a guest lecturer. This all allows for the university to offer a wide range of subjects without too many members of staff.

As for getting into NRU, it seems to be pretty damn difficult. Even if you’ve been approved for entry, you still have to score high on the SATs and pass the DSTOMP. Percy mentions that he’s failed to get a high enough SAT score twice, presumably passing on his third try.

So that’s the university, next I'm going to talk about New Rome’s daily life and culture.

One thing that’s very obvious is that New Rome is flush with cash. The entire town is a mini-haven: gold, and marble everywhere. Pristine gardens. You name it – they have it. This makes sense since demigods are often very talented and when you have multiple generations of demigods living in the town, bringing in wealth…

The good news is that the Romans seem to have kept the tradition of the wealthy funding public works: festivals, civil and religious constructions, etc. Examples of this is the colosseum and racing track. This tradition is likely why NRU is able to exist at all. As the wealthy families can spare the extra cash to fund the place – especially with all the students on scholarships.

As far as I can tell, New Rome has very limited technology. According to Hazel this is because demigods tend to make technology go haywire. There are exceptions to this: Reyna, for example, owns a tablet. And we see the legion hire a fleet of SUVs to cross the country. However, daily-life seems to avoid technology. When celebration are on, the Romans decorate their town with multicoloured lanterns (potentially magic-based). Furthermore, there are no cars in the town – only chariots and wagons.

The locals of New Rome eat a mixture of old and new foods. Focaccia bread is mentioned, which is originally a Roman bread that''s still popular in modern times.

They have a thriving coffee culture! With the number of cafes mentioned, I have to assume coffee is very important to them. And it seems to align more closely with Italian coffee-culture rather than the American one.

One thing that is never mentioned is any kind of policing in New Rome. It’s idyllic nature invites the reader to assume there is simply not need – but we know that nepotism and corruption are present in Camp Jupiter. So why not New Rome as well? More than likely, what’s going on is that New Rome uses the same method of policing as Ancient Rome. That being a patron-client relationship (called a “sponsorship” in the books). Basically, wealthy and powerful families act as protection for those who serve them fidelity. So if you mess with a shop that’s own by “Marcus”, Marcus can go to his sponsors, the Lawrences, to get justice.

Anyway, I don’t have any like crazy conclusions or wild theories. Just wanted to put all this stuff into one place.

#camp jupiter #new rome #new rome is a small town #heroes of olympus #pjo hoo toa #new rome university

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God republicans are so funny about the ACA. It’s not unpopular. Cope and seethe. “The February 2024 Health Tracking Poll shows that about six in ten U.S. adults (59%) hold a favorable opinion of the ACA while about four in ten (39%) hold a negative opinion of the law. Views of the ACA are still largely driven by partisanship; nearly nine in ten Democrats (87%) along with over half of independents (55%) view the law favorably, while about two thirds of Republicans (67%) hold unfavorable views.” The only people who dislike it are people who already think like you. Which most people don’t. Just for the record I don’t think taxation is theft. I actually like having a water and sewer system.

Even for republicans talking about repealing it isn’t important or popular. “Republican voters are far less interested than Democrats in hearing the candidates talk about the health care law, according to new polling data released Friday by KFF, formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation. Only 32 percent of self-identified Republican voters think it’s very important for candidates to talk about the future of the Affordable Care Act, the poll shows, compared to 70 percent of Democrats.” You might not want to hear about it, but you’re not in the Democratic base. No one thinks they’re ever going to convince you to vote for Joe Biden so why would they waste time trying to pander to your vote when you disagree with the base on basically everything?

(Also you should read the fact sheet re: 2 million more homes. They’re not saying the government will build 2 million more homes, they’re going to use market interventions to encourage more building AND more preservation. Between preserving NOAH and incentivizing more affordable development and more affordable unit types- triplex, duplex, etc, we can manage the supply side challenges. They’re also encouraging communities to loosen their zoning codes through grant funding, a pilot version which started last year- the PRO housing grant that was very popular with municipalities. This is NOT a call for the government to personally pay for more housing, often it’s just the government encouraging more diverse housing typologies to even be allowed to be built.)

You're either new here or think you're smarter than you are.

I don't care what hardcore Republicans think about ACA and I don't care what hardcore Democrats think about it. No one's changing their minds. They're going to vote how they're going to vote. I don't know why Biden is wasting time talking to hardcore Dems now when he should be talking to independents, who are still moveable. And ACA is not the talking point you want to hit if you're talking to independents.

The KFF poll you cite found that Obamacare favorability is down 10 points since last year among Independent voters.

ACA is slightly above water with them now. But this trend does not look good for Dems. And it gets worse when you start to talk about the specifics of the package beyond the Dems' two favorite talking points - and even those fall apart pretty quick when you poke at them a little. This is a very flimsy case for Dems.

But the good news for you is that healthcare is not a top issue for voters in this election. Biden should consider that a win, in and of itself, and not remind voters that he's done pretty much nothing on it since he was vice president because here's your other problem, according to that same KFF poll:

Even among people who like Biden more than Trump in regards to healthcare, they pretty much all agree that Biden still sucks.

This is not about my opinion. If you want my opinion, I'd be happy to talk about how an Obamacare plan would cost me three times as much as the non-ACA plan that covers exactly the same stuff. I'd be happy to talk about how the government considers me uninsured because I obviously picked the cheaper plan and if it weren't for Trump, I'd be shelling out money for penalties and fines every year. I'd be happy to talk about how the changes to Medicaid billing that were passed alongside ACA created an entire new industry of leeches who have driven the cost of prescriptions up dramatically, reduced the patient choice, and worsened health outcomes. I'd be happy to talk about how those billing changes also forced independent practices out of business and caused the entire industry to consolidate into a small number of massive organizations who now control pricing at their own whims, which means costs have gone up even more.

But like you said, my mind is made up. I'm not voting for Joe. So my opinion isn't that important. That's why I'm looking at this as nothing more than electoral strategy. And the Dems are making a mistake.

And thank you for directing me to the White House 'fact' sheet on the housing stuff. It's actually worse than I thought. Can't wait to see my rent go up more because of this. I thought we were just going to make it harder for me to buy a home one day but I guess I get to enjoy the fun while I'm still a renter. This plan is a fucking joke.

#oops this got long

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queenofplaguerats · 2 years

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⚠️DHMIS (2022) EPISODE 6 SPOILERS⚠️

Okay so... There's a lot to unpack here, right? Like we just got about 2 hours of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared content dumped on us all at once, as opposed to the previous years of drip feeding. It's a lot of data to sort through if you want to do any kind of in depth analysis.

So I'm honing in on episode 6, since that's the one that actually jumped out at me. I've seen a few theories tossed around, but so far no one seems to be quite on my wavelength so I figured it's worth sharing.

First, a quick run down of the important plot points to Episode 6: Electricity. The theme of the title is pretty quickly relegated to a B plot, with the Teacher having her batteries swapped with Yellow Guy's (yeah he's battery powered apparently). This makes her uselessly dumb and everything pretty much immediately devolves into chaos. Yellow Guy, however, suddenly... Okay have you ever seen the movie Limitless? He does a limitless. He gets really smart.

So smart that he starts to understand that the Teachers are... Mostly actually wrong about everything. This is probably intended as very straightforward commentary on educational programming and its tendency to dumb down topics for the sake of accessibility, even to the detriment of actual learning. That's kind of this series' bread and butter.

Where it gets interesting is when Yellow Guy decides to climb the stairs. It turns out that up the stairs is... Red Guy and the Duck? But not quite. They're bigger and... Smarter? But in practical terms this basically means they massive smug ass clowns who can do "two lessons at once."

Yeah it's weird. Then, Yellow Guy (absolutely fed up of this smug pseudo intellectualism) sees through the artifice. He catches a glimpse of...

The puppeteers.

This drives him off and he climbs the next set of stairs to find...

Freaky space age versions of Red and Duck. These ones are actually so intelligent that they don't have to interact with the Teachers. Instead, they experiment on a poor helpless creature for entertainment. It could be said that this suggests they've BECOME Teachers themselves, inflicting cruelty on the next generation, perpetuating the cycle. It could also be said that this is a commentary on the idea that being intelligence makes you cruel, and a refutation of it since Yellow Guy is still smarter than them, understanding that their "experiments" achieve nothing but wanton cruelty.

So, Yellow leaves, and ascends one final staircase. Where he meets...

Lesley. Lesley is significant for a few reasons. For one, at the start of the episode we see her crank the wheel that starts the house spinning in the intro of EVERY episode. She also appears briefly at the end of episode 5, returning the car and the characters to the house and resetting things to normal.

Lesley is basically God in the DHMIS universe. Seemingly. Notably, she's the only truly HUMAN character we've seen to my knowledge, but her face still has sewn on patches. There's something about her that's still not quite real. She narrates as Yellow enters the room, a few lines which are VERY important to this analysis.

"Batteries can be replaced

But some things stay the same.

No matter how we twist and turn

We're still dancing in chains."

She then hands Yellow Guy a book. A book etched with symbols that actually appear a few times throughout the series as minor background details.

More interesting, to me, though... Is the embossed imagery around the border. They're 100% about the story of DHMIS. We never get a good look inside the book, but I think it's safe to say it would probably be about the characters. Maybe scripts, or a production bible.

The last thing we see in this room is a door, ajar, and behind it... Another stairs. We never see what would have been on the next floor up. Maybe Becky and Joe, maybe some Channel 4 exec, maybe a stage where Yellow Guy could finally see the audience. Maybe it's a dead end.

Finally, Yellow Guy descends. Without the batteries that have empowered Yellow Guy, the house has been enveloped in shadow. Red Guy and the Duck sit by the fridge in the dark.

Yellow Guy returns with knowledge, a sort of divine revelation. Red Guy and the Duck don't care. They take the batteries, bring their false world back to life, return to the status quo. Yellow returns to his old self as well. The trio shred the book. They reject the truth. Their world may be strange, unpleasant, miserable... But to them that's just their world. Why peer behind the curtain? Why chance it? Better the devil you know.

Okay that's it, I just spent... Way too many paragraphs and an hour of my life summarizing this episode of a silly spooky puppet show. Why? Well, for that I'm gonna have to drag you into the philosophy dungeon for a minute.

Show of hands, who's familiar with Plato's Cave?

For some of you, a lot of pieces just clicked together. Others... I'm sorry just watch this video.

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I think this really encapsulates the ideas behind episode 6. Yellow Guy sees the light, sees the world beyond the cave, but his fellow prisoners are content with their shadows. "No matter how we twist and turn, we're still dancing in chains."

Look at these side by side and TELL ME that's an accident. Duck literally says "We'd better get used to the dark."

This is a very well known thought experiment in philosophy, the idea of Becky and Joe adapting it for their story which explores similar themes of knowledge and understanding is FAR from implausible. Hopefully you guys agree that there's something to this analysis. Sorry not sorry if you wanted lore and got a philosophy lesson.

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intruality-overlord · 1 year

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Au idea/ramble

I’m having one of those times where I am hyper fixated on two things at once and I have no idea how much these fandoms overlap if at all BUT it’s making me want to smash these two things together in an AU so I present my idea of a Gotham/Danganronpa AU where the characters of Gotham are put in a killing game, probably a copycat killing game, and to make it more interesting they can keep their memories ….most of them. It would make sense not too cause that just gives them more motive to kill each other so— oh also this would have Gobblepot in it cause I’m obsessed but also Nygmobblepot drama because I just have to and for some reason I had the idea to put Victor Zsasz and Lucius Fox together? Maybe not together but there’s some type of feelings. In the situation I just felt it made sense for some reason— I have like a general idea of the plot if anyone wants to hear me ramble further but it’s not a solid outline yet. Gotham fans will probably be more interesting since I’m using those characters with the danganronpa format but maybe I can work in some Danganronpa character cameos.

The characters I’m planning to use are: Jim, Harvey, Oswald, Lee, Barbara, Butch, Zsasz, Selena, Bruce, Alfred, Tabitha, Lucius, Ed, Hugo Strange, Fish, and Ivy. So pretty good mix I think? For maximum angst? Not sure the mastermind could be. Maybe Sofia. Probably Sofia. Don’t know why she’d do this but, well, she’s more unhinged than Oswald and her father and didn’t bat at eye at endangering children so who else would unless I bring back Junko from the dead— okay now that I say that that’s exactly the dumb shit that would happen in both franchises. If not Sofia or Junko it could be Tsumugi and idk maybe it’s a random international season of Danganronpa. Jeremiah is another option but would he really be a copycat? Nah. And Jerome? Smarter than he looks but not smart enough to keep them trapped longer than a week. The mastermind might not be important cause I haven’t even decided if they’re going to escape or not :3

Imagine the angst tho you got fucking Jim and Bruce and all their most important people stuck in a killing game with Gothams rogue gallery like come on. All the tension cause the villains wouldn’t hesitate to kill but you’re in an enclosed space with Gothams greatest detective that’s gotta be a little intimidating especially as time goes on and the trials happen and Jim keeps finding the blackened…

Where the Gobblepot aspect comes in is I think Jim would just fucking glue himself to Oswald for three, eventually four, reasons. A) stop him from killing anyone. B) protect him from everyone else cause most of them have motive to kill Oswald, C) if he’s always with Oswald if someone tries to kill him Oswald would immediately be suspected so Oswald wouldn’t be dumb enough to try it, and D) he starts actually trusting him. Trust [romantic]. Bonus other reason Jim is making sure Oswald has an alibi all the time so no one can pin a murder on him cause that would be so easy to do.

Now the Lucius and Victor thing hear me out hear me out. Everyone likes Lucius. No one has beaf with that guy, including Victor. Lucius is also a kind understand smarties as we know from How The Riddler Got His Name AND I KNOW WHAT YOURE THINKING Edward and Lucius make more sense then, right? Well I thought about it. And I decided I don’t want Ed to be happy— kidding. Or am I? No I just love a good aro headcanon cbkgzjtdlydi but back to Zsasz. Since Zsasz if like the most likely to kill someone everything thinks for obvious reasons, they all avoid him. Zsasz also is not an idiot so in reality he’s not going to kill anybody. Lucius knows this. So Lucius being the kind person he is I imagine would check up on Zsasz (whomst isolated himself) and Zsasz would get really fond of him I think. Basically I like Zsasz better than Edward so Victor gets the boyfriend.

I’m just a sucker for some good angst and Whump so this AU seems like the perfect playground don’t you think?

#gotham tv #danganronpa #gobblepot #Jim Gordon #Oswald Cobblepot #Bruce Wayne #danganronpa au #gotham au #victor zsasz #edward nygma #Lucius Fox

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pollstuck · 1 year

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Alright let's get back on track.

There we go.

AG: What is it now! EB: fuck.

?CG AT ?:?? opened memo on board FRUITY RUMPUS ASSHOLE FACTORY.

CURRENT turntechGodhead [CTG] RIGHT NOW responded to memo. CTG: what CURRENT ectoBiologist [CEB] RIGHT NOW responded to memo. CEB: ok, i am here. CEB: oh, hi insufferable! CTG: hey CEB: what is going on in here? CTG: some kinda asshole rumpus looks like ?CG: EVERYBODY SHUT THE FUCK UP, I HATE YOU BOTH, ETC. ETC. ETC. ?CG: NOW THAT THE PLEASANTRIES ARE OUT OF THE WAY, THERE IS IMPORTANT BUSINESS TO DISCUSS. ?CG: THIS MEMO IS NOT ABOUT WHICH GUY CAN MANAGE TO BE THE HEFTIEST SACK OF SHAME GLOBES TO ONE ANOTHER. ?CG: IT IS NOT ABOUT WHICH ONE OF US WILL MOST DECISIVELY ESCORT THE OTHERS "TO SCHOOL", WHERE THEY WILL RECEIVE A VAST HELPING OF "OH SNAP" RAMMED DOWN THEIR INSATIABLE IGNORANCE SHAFTS. ?CG: THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION WHICH I BELIEVE NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE HERE AND NOW, SO YOU WILL BOTH SHAPE YOUR SHIT UP AND PERHAPS BEGIN TO APPROXIMATE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T EXCRUCIATINGLY RETARDED. CTG: ok later windbag ?CG: PRICK FUCK OFF ?CG: AND BY FUCK OFF I MEAN FUCK OFF RIGHT BACK HERE AND LISTEN, YOU SANCTIMONIOUS BASTARD. CEB: yeah, insufferable, don't go! CEB: i think we should listen to what he has to say. ?CG: YES, LISTEN TO YOUR LEADER INSUFFERABLE. ?CG: AS DUMB AS POOPLORD IS, HE IS SMARTER THAN YOU AND IS THE RIGHTFUL SUPERIOR AMONG YOUR DREARY LITTLE PARTY. ?CG: BUT I AM THE SUPERIOR OF BOTH OF YOU AND WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO BE DOING IS LISTENING TO ME. ?CG: SO INSUFFERABLE, TRY TO KEEP ALL THOSE SICK FIRES CHECKED AND THOSE STOIC LIPS PURSED FOR A GOD DAMNED SECOND ?CG: AND TAKE THIS SIMPLE BIT OF HATEFRIENDLY ADVICE: ?CG: STOP HITTING ON BLART IMMEDIATELY, IT'S FUCKING EMBARRASSING TO WATCH. CTG: nah CEB: haha, insufferable you're hitting on blart? really??

CTG: no CTG: but whatever he thinks im doing im not going to stop CTG: the guys jealous obviously he thinks his girlfriend has a thing for me and you know what hes probably right CTG: but what else is new just another lady from outer space mackin on me whatever chance she gets ?CG: OH, HA HA! IF SMUG WAS A MOTORCYCLE, IT JUST JUMPED OVER A FUCKING CANYON. ?CG: THE CROWD GOES WILD WITH DISMAY, AND THEN COMMITS MASS SUICIDE. CEB: crab, is blart really your girlfriend? ?CG: GUESS WHAT THIS CONVERSATION IS ABOUT! NOT THAT PARTICULAR TOPIC. ?CG: ALSO GUESS WHOSE BUSINESS THAT STILL ISN'T, FUCKING YOURS, THAT'S RIGHT. CTG: pretty sure she is CTG: or he thinks she is or something CTG: made it pretty obvious when he started ranting at me months ago CTG: back when i suspected these trolls were full of shit CTG: but now look how far weve come CTG: theres not any doubt left about that at all ?CG: EVEN IF THERE WAS ANYTHING GOING ON, WHICH THERE DEFINITELY [OOPS TIME TO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS AGAIN, ASSHOLE!] ?CG: OUR ROMANCE IS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE JOKE THAT PASSES FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT. ?CG: YOU ONLY HAVE ONE QUADRANT! THAT'S JUST ABSURD. CTG: right CTG: sounds like its time to get a clue she is over you dude CEB: what is so different about your romance? CEB: what's a quadrant? how many do you have? CTG: zoosmell god dammit stop embarrassing us CTG: first of all weve got to be on record here as not giving a shit about that CTG: second obviously theres gonna be 4 quadrants come on

?CG: ZOOSMELL, I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING I SAID ABOUT YOU BEING THE SMART ONE. ?CG: INSUFFERABLE IS NOW THE LEADER, EVEN THOUGH HE'S A SMUG SHITSTAIN WITH SHADES AND A POKER FACE. ?CG: IF THERE WERE FIVE, THEY'D BE CALLED QUINTDRANTS, GET IT??? CEB: wow, okay! CEB: who cares, jeeeeeeeez. ?CG: YES, EXACTLY. WHO CARES? ?CG: AS FASCINATING AS A LECTURE ON ALL THAT WOULD BE, IT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. ?CG: WHICH BRINGS ME TO A RELATED POINT OF BUSINESS. ?CG: ZOOSMELL, DON'T THINK I DIDN'T NOTICE HOW MANY E'S YOU JUST TYPED THERE. ?CG: THAT'S GOT TO STOP TOO. CEB: what does? ?CG: STOP TALKING TO VRISKA. I'M FUCKING SERIOUS. CEB: what! CEB: no way. vriska's cool, i'll talk to her all i want! ?CG: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. ?CG: YOU JACKASSES HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE GETTING YOURSELVES INTO. ?CG: THEY'RE DANGEROUS, AND YOU'RE JUST BLUNDERING RIGHT INTO THEIR HYPERCOMPETITIVE MINDFUCK MURDER-THICKET. ?CG: THESE PSYCHO GIRLS HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN EACH OF YOU KILLED AT LEAST ONCE TO MY KNOWLEDGE. CEB: well, yeah... CEB: but blart killed me in an alternate timeline, so that isn't too bad i guess. CEB: plus, i am pretty sure that she is sorry about it. ?CG: OH GOD, YOU EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT? ?CG: AND YOU'RE STILL GETTING UP TO THESE ANTICS ?CG: YOU ARE BOTH FUCKING HOPELESS, I GIVE UP. CTG: k then bye ?CG: SHUT YOUR SQUAWK GAPER AND STAY PUT. ?CG: I'M NOT DONE. CTG: sounds like a loudmouth inferiority thing going on here to me CTG: like you dont want to acknowledge that your troll ladies find a couple of human dudes irresistible ?CG: YOU DON'T GET IT. ?CG: I DO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS MUCH AS IT MAKES ME SICK TO MY VARIOUS BITS OF ALIEN PHYSIOLOGY YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF, THESE GIRLS ARE CLEARLY FLIRTING WITH BOTH OF YOU PRETTY HARD. ?CG: THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE SWEPT YOU BOTH INTO THEIR SICK ASSASSINATION GAMES IS SADLY WHAT MAKES THIS OBVIOUS. ?CG: THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. CEB: wait... CEB: are you saying that vriska is interested in me? CEB: like, romantically? ?CG: POOPLORD JUST EARNED A FEW BRAIN POINTS! ?CG: HE HAS REACHED A NEW RUNG ON HIS ECHELADDER, "EASILY OUTFOXED BY SIMPLE UTENSILS" ?CG: "BUCKAROO" ?CG: OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT CTG: smooth CEB: oh man. CEB: uh... ?CG: YES LET'S ALL HAVE A GREAT BIG OH MAN OVER THAT ?CG: AND THEN FUCKING CUT THE HORSESHIT FOREVER. SOUND GOOD?

CEB: i'm not sure what to think about this. CEB: insufferable, what do you think i should do? CTG: i dunno CTG: do you like her CEB: well, like i said, i thought she was pretty cool... CEB: kinda bossy! but also pretty friendly. CTG: yeah ok CTG: but i mean CTG: anything more than that CTG: like CTG: if earth wasnt destroyed and she werent in some other universe on a planet full of unspeakable frothing dipshits CTG: and she was on earth visiting your town or something CTG: would you want to ask her to go see one of your dumbass movies CTG: like the new maconnohey jam where he smirks and like all but deliberately draws the audiences ire like a goddamn magnetron CEB: mcconaughey!!!!!!!! CEB: um, wow, i don't know. CEB: i mean, yeah, sure it would be fun to do something like that with her, i think. CEB: but... CEB: beyond that, it's a little confusing! CEB: i don't think i have ever actually liked a girl before in that way, so i am not really sure what i am supposed to feel or do... ?CG: HOLY FUCK WHAT AM I EVEN READING HERE????? CTG: doesnt concern you dude ?CG: OK ZOOSMELL, ARE YOUR FEELINGS QUITE SORTED OUT YET? ?CG: ARE YOU QUITE DONE SLOGGING THROUGH THE EMOTIONAL MORASS OF ADOLESCENCE, EMERGING FROM THE SLUDGE IN YOUR JUNIOR ECTOBIOLOGY WADERS? ?CG: ARE WE FEELING JUST A LITTLE BIT WISER? DID WE GROW TODAY? THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL! ?CG: YOU WOULD THINK WARNING YOU GUYS THAT FRATERNIZING WITH THESE FEMALES IS PUTTING YOUR LIVES IN DANGER WOULD BE ENOUGH. ?CG: REALLY, DANGER YOU SAY? OH GOODNESS, WE NEARLY MADE A HUGE MISTAKE! WHY THANK YOU, MR. TROLL, HOW GRACIOUS OF YOU TO ALERT US TO OUR FOOLISHNESS. CTG: i dunno man doesnt sound like you really got our interests in mind here CTG: you just sound kinda bitter CTG: did one of the human ladies reject you ?CG: OF COURSE NOT. CTG: how did it go did you stand in a quadrant like you were playing four square CTG: holding a bucket full of flowers or slime or whatever and farmstink was like no thanks bro CTG: is that how it went down ?CG: YES, YOU FIGURED IT OUT! YOU ARE A SAVANT OF XENOBIOLOGY INSUFFERABLE AND I SALUTE YOU WITH ONE OF MY MANY INTERGALACTIC SPACE TENDRILS ?CG: (THAT'S FAKE, I MADE THAT UP TO FUCK WITH YOU) CTG: or maybe it was a guy who rejected you ?CG: FUCK OFF. CTG: haha wow bingo CTG: see how i look right now thats a poker face might want to take some notes

?CG: I SEE NOTHING BUT A COWARD BEHIND DARK EYEWEAR CLEARLY DESIGNED FOR WOMEN AND A PAIR OF IMPUDENT LIPS PURSED SO TIGHT IT'LL SOUND LIKE AIR SQUEALING OUT OF A BALLOON WHEN I PUNCH YOU IN THE GUT. CTG: oh god stop talking about my lips thats the second time CTG: ok youre clearly gay and youve probably got some issues about it dude CTG: zoosmell just a heads up in the future i think youre gonna spurn one of his awkward advances CEB: uh oh! ?CG: ZOOSMELL DON'T LISTEN TO THIS FUCKER, HE'S THE WORST GUY AT GIVING ADVICE I'VE EVER SEEN. CEB: yeah, i dunno insufferable, i have talked to crab a lot and i really don't think he has a thing for me. ?CG: EXACTLY. ZOOSMELL ONCE AGAIN IS FLYING HIGH AS SMARTEST HUMAN. ?CG: AND ZOOSMELL, PURELY HYPOTHETICALLY, IF ONE OF US IN THE FUTURE DOES MAKE SOME SORT OF SOLICITATION YOU DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND... ?CG: BECAUSE OF PERHAPS SOME CULTURAL DIFFERENCES ?CG: I MEAN NO ONE IN PARTICULAR HERE ?CG: MAYBE TRY TO UNDERSTAND THAT PERSON MIGHT NOT BE THINKING TOO CLEARLY AT THAT MOMENT CEB: uh... ?CG: IT MIGHT BE THE CASE THAT THIS PERSON HAS GOTTEN TOO WRAPPED UP IN A SORT OF CALIGINOUS IDEAL ?CG: AND GET CARRIED AWAY, POSSIBLY SO MUCH SO THEY WERE BLIND TO HOW COMPLETELY FUCKED UP AND WEIRD IT WOULD BE TO PURSUE ANYTHING LIKE THAT WITH ANOTHER SPECIES ?CG: ESPECIALLY ONE THAT DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF A CALIGINIOUS RELATIONSHIP CTG: what CTG: the fuck CTG: are you talking about ?CG: BUT I'M NOT THAT PERSON. I HAVE A FIRM GRASP ON HOW DERANGED AND UNNATURAL ANY SORT OF INTERSPECIES RELATIONSHIP WOULD BE, WHETHER CALIGINOUS OR CONCUPISCENT. ?CG: SO I ASK ?CG: NO I'M FUCKING BEGGING YOU BOTH ?CG: TO QUIT CHATTING UP THESE SHITHIVE BROADS AND LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE. CTG: thats obviously not gonna happen ?CG: FUCK. ?CG: LOOK. ?CG: ALRIGHT I ADMIT THIS ISN'T PURELY MAGNANIMOUS CONCERN FOR YOUR SAFETY HERE. ?CG: WE'RE ALL SORT OF COOKING UP A PLAN RIGHT NOW. ?CG: MY RIGHT NOW. ?CG: WHICH IF SUCCESSFUL, MAY, AND I DO STRESS MAY, END UP WITH ALL OF US MEETING FACE TO FACE. ?CG: AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO AVOID IF AT ALL POSSIBLE ?CG: IS TO HAVE THIS RENDEZVOUS INSTANTLY DETERIORATE INTO A LOT OF REVOLTING TROLL/HUMAN SLOPPY MAKEOUTS. ?CG: THAT WOULD JUST RUIN IT FOR ME, OK? ?CG: REALLY THE ONLY SCENARIO THAT I AM SURE WOULD CAUSE ME TO REGRET SUCCESS. GOT IT?

CEB: er... CEB: do... CEB: you think that vriska is going to try to make out with me? ?CG: SHUT UP. ?CG: I'M NOT ANSWERING YOUR DUMB QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW MUCH SNOGGING YOU'RE IN FOR AND I'M NOT PLAYING INTERSPECIES MATCH MAKER HERE. ?CG: SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS? ?CG: I SHOULDN'T EVEN NEED TO BE SAYING THIS. ?CG: GOD DAMMIT, IT'S NOT EVEN LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE ACTUAL HUMAN FEMALES NEARBY FOR ACTUAL BIOLOGICALLY VIABLE MATESPRITSHIPS! ?CG: DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A DIAGRAM??? CEB: flighty and farmstink? CEB: so, uh... CEB: you want us to like, date them? ?CG: WOULD IT REALLY FUCKING KILL YOU TO CONSIDER IT?????? ?CG: I MEAN GOD. WHAT DO YOU EVEN THINK YOU'RE DOING HERE IN THIS GAME? ?CG: YOU'RE CREATING YOUR OWN UNIVERSE TO GO LIVE IN. ?CG: AND JUST HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR SPECIES IS SUPPOSED TO REPOPULATE ITSELF??????????? IDIOTS. CTG: dude CTG: no CTG: just CTG: stop ?CG: OH OK, SO THE ALIEN HERE IS THE ONLY ONE CONCERNED WITH THE PROPAGATION OF YOUR SPECIES. ?CG: THAT MAKES A LOT OF FUCKING SENSE. WHY DON'T YOU WISE THE FUCK UP, COOLDOUCHE? CEB: i think he is right, i think we are all a little young to be thinking about that! ?CG: WELL NO SHIT, NOW YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY. ?CG: BUT WHAT ABOUT LATER? THINK ABOUT THE BIG PICTURE. ?CG: HOW DID HUMANITY GET AS FAR AS IT GOT BEING SO DUMB? CEB: um, also, CEB: we are kinda all related! sort of. through shared ghost slime genes. right? CEB: so, uh... ?CG: OH RIGHT, THE BIZARRE HUMAN ANATHEMA OF INCEST, I FORGOT. CTG: oh my fucking god CTG: please let this conversation not be taking place ?CG: OK WELL LET'S SAY THAT'S HYPOTHETICALLY A PROBLEM, EVEN THOUGH I'M RACKING MY BRAIN TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT WOULD BE. ?CG: I GUESS I WILL HAVE TO DRAW YOU A DIAGRAM, BECAUSE YOU ARE JUST THAT STUPID. ?CG: HERE ?CG: http://tinyurl.com/MATINGDIAGRAMFORMORONS CTG: ok youre by far the worst artist out of any of us CTG: and thats saying something ?CG: SHUT UP I DREW IT FAST ?CG: NOW

?CG: AS YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE, THERE ARE ONLY TWO SETS OF COMPATIBLE QUADRANTS HERE FOR LEGITIMATE CONCUPISCENT PAIRINGS. ?CG: INSUFFERABLE AND FLIGHTY ARE "RELATED" ?CG: FARMSTINK AND ZOOSMELL ARE "RELATED" ?CG: THAT ONLY LEAVES TWO PAIRS. ?CG: ONCE AGAIN, THE DECISIONS PERTAINING TO HUMAN ROMANCE REMAIN STUNNINGLY SIMPLE. ?CG: AND YET I STILL HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. ?CG: NOW GO HASSLE YOUR FUTURE MATESPRITS AND LEAVE THE TROLL GIRLS ALONE. CTG: thx for the shipping grid bro imma drop everything and go have a baby with farmstink right now CTG: no peeking k CEB: wow, i have to marry flighty? CEB: uh... CEB: wow. ?CG: AND NOW THAT I HAVE SAVED YOUR ENTIRE WORTHLESS SPECIES WITH MY IMPECCABLE ROMANCE BROKERING SKILLS ?CG: I WILL BID YOU A BITTER FUCKING FAREWELL. ?CG: JEGUS I AM SO TIRED. CTG: you should go back to sleep CTG: it was so much cooler when you were asleep and i basically never had to listen to you ever ?CG: I CAN'T GO TO SLEEP CEB: why not? ?CG: BECAUSE I'M TOO TIRED TO EXPLAIN WHY IS WHY. ?CG: YOU'LL FIGURE IT OUT LATER. ?CG: MEMO OVER. ?CG: GET OUTTA HERE. ?CG banned CEB from responding to memo. ?CG banned CTG from responding to memo. ?CG closed memo.

#homestuck #pollstuck #karkat vantas #john egbert #dave strider #vriska serket #ough this one was messy

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humming-pokemon-helpers · 1 year

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“Does my Pokémon…?”

“Is my partner Pokémon…?”

A guide to FAQ’s I get from trainers about their Pokémon partners, since I’m lucky enough to understand Pokémon speech!

“Does my Pokémon actually enjoy battling?”

I’ve gotten this one a lot, probably in part due to Plasma’s messaging having a pretty big impact on Unovan culture! And yes, unless your Pokémon is showing clear signs of anxiety or burnout, and as long as you see that they’re willingly using the moves you’re asking them to, they do enjoy battling! Like most anybody with cool magic powers would, they love showing off their skills and working to improve them with you! It’s natural for Pokémon to battle (even if not all of them do), and it’s great exercise as well.

“Does my Pokémon feel the same emotions I do?”

With the disclaimer that they may not feel or express emotions the same way as us at times (much like humans vary in emotional experience and expression), yes! Pokémon are happy when they eat a good meal and spend time with their loved ones, sad when they lose an important battle, angry when they can’t see eye-to-eye with their trainers, scared when they’re in over their heads, and so much more! One of a trainer’s most important jobs is recognizing these emotions and tending to them, like a parent would with a child.

“Is my Pokémon as smart as a human?”

This one is a controversial question at best, but I’ll do my best to give an answer based on my experiences. The first point, frankly, is that it varies. All Pokémon have the smarts to use moves and abilities, understand and communicate with each other and with humans, and to take care of their needs in life, but beyond that it can vary widely! Typically Pokémon tend to increase in intelligence as they evolve, for one rule. I’ll also note that type does NOT impact general intelligence: there are bug types that are smarter than psychic types, for one example! (I mention this because there's a well-noted phenomenon of assuming psychic-types are more intelligent due to their abilities; while highly intelligent psychic-types like Alakazam exist, there's also Pokemon like Hatterene that put very little critical thought in before deciding to thrash something that annoys them.)

But also, the question of intelligence doesn’t generally make a huge difference in human-Pokémon relationships. Pokemon might communicate less eloquently if they're a Magikarp versus an Empoleon, but they're still capable of love, competition, and everything else that makes Pokemon Pokemon!

"Does my Pokemon love me?"

The vast majority of the time I get this question, the answer is already pretty clear from how their Pokemon behaves. If you treat your partners with love and care, odds are that love will be returned with time! The tells vary from Pokemon to Pokemon, but if you look up your partner species' body language, you'll learn very quickly that most of the time, the bonds humans and Pokemon build are amazingly deep and strong even without words!

(With words, my partner Pokemon are frequently telling jokes, telling stories about their days, and expressing their love in so many ways I feel as though they're the best friends I could ever have. I hope some day the technology opens up to allow for open communication for everyone; it's a wonderful feeling.)

"No, no, I meant like... romantically."

The amount of times I have heard this from trainers of humanoid Pokemon like Gardevoir, Machamp, Lopunny, Incineroar, Zoroark, and Arceus knows why, but for some reason also one trainer with a Vaporeon??? is more than a little disturbing.

Firstly: just because your Pokemon has a humanoid shape does not mean it has human intelligence, something I neglected to mention above. They do feel love, and appreciation, and joy. They are loyal to a fault and would probably die to protect you. They show affection frequently in ways that might come across as romantic to some people: hugs, hand-holding, generally being up in your face.

But for the love of everything holy, that does not mean that your Pokemon is capable of a romantic relationship with you. Or that it would be willing. Most Pokemon are vaguely confused at the concept at best, because the relationships we build are fundamentally different from human-human and Pokemon-Pokemon ones. Relationships where there is already an inherent power dynamic of trainer and Pokemon. Relationships where there is a clear gap in communication.

In not a single one of the cases I have seen was there anything resembling "romantic feelings" from the Pokemon these trainers were talking about, and there was a very swift move to discussion of how to interpret displays of affection, the trainer's own intentions, and what led them to their own conclusions. Most of the time, luckily, it's just the trainer's own worry that their Pokemon is interpreting their bond wrong.

But in the cases where trainers have developed feelings for their own Pokemon... I'm sorry, but that's one boundary I keep in therapy. I just can't handle those kinds of clients, just because of the disastrous results it usually leads to. (And to be perfectly honest, I have my own personal biases here as well due to my... past experiences.)

...I think I got a bit off track here. But I'm happy to answer any other questions people have about their Pokemon in general! Just not the last one.

#pokeblogging #pokemon irl #pkmn irl #pokeblr #rotomblr #tw: pokephilia #poketherapist vanilla #//ooc vanilla is reeeeeaaaallly touchy about that last one

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debunkingtherightwing · 4 months

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A Deranged Dingus Discusses The De-Balloting of Donald

Charlie's expression here is how I react to pretty much everything that comes out of his mouth. (Photo Credit: Turning Point USA/The Charlie Kirk Show)

Well, I figured we'd take a look at the American Rights commentary on the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling that Trump was ineligible to appear on ballots in the state of Colorado, and who better to represent the right than the guy who's organization this blogs name takes a jab at?

So, Charlie Kirk posted a thirty minute video on YouTube about this event and his analysis on what happened....it's not great.

00:54, Charlie Kirk: "The Colorado Supreme Court yesterday ruled Donald Trump not allowed on the ballot. The left is constantly warning us about fascism, dictatorship, and civil war, and talk about rrrrr-democracy (sic). Now remember, every time you hear democracy what's the word you replace it with? Oligarchy."

It's unlikely that this decision is even going to get past the Supreme Court, plus the court is staying their ruling until January 4th which is the day before names go on ballots in Colorado. With that being said, the Democrats had no part in the initial suit that led up to this.

The suit was commissioned by nine voters from Colorado who alleged that Donald Trump was illegible to take office due to his role in the execution of the January 6th insurrection attempt. All of these voters were eligible to vote in the GOP primary which means that according to Colorado State Law they aren't registered Democrats, the left had absolutely nothing to do with this.

And like I said before, it's extremely likely that the Supreme Court will overturn this.

Now, about this oligarchy nonsense. Even in the unlikely event that this goes through, voters in the state of Colorado still have the right to vote for another GOP candidate in the primaries (for example, Ron Desantis). The Democrats still have the ability to lose the election even if Trump isn't allowed on primary ballot in Colorado.

Trump can also run in all 49 other states. Colorado isn't particularly important to his campaign because, as Charlie points out, it's a left leaning state. Trump lost it in 2016 and still won. It's extremely unlikely that other states have enough time to do what Colorado did.

01:20, Charlie Kirk: "They don't mean representative government, they don't mean election, they don't mean power to the people. They mean people in closed rooms who get to decide your future."

So if you couldn't already tell, Charlie isn't really taking this all particularly well.

He is inflating this issue to a way larger thing than it is and completely ignoring the fact that the United States Supreme Court is very likely to overturn this. Not to mention the fact that Colorado is an extremely unimportant state for Donald Trump's campaign, he is extremely likely to win the GOP nomination and the election even without Colorado.

01:32, Charlie Kirk: "They do not want representative government, they want a philosopher king, a ruling class."

Charlie is misusing the term philosopher king here. The term philosopher king was coined by Plato to describe a ruler who governs in a way that applies philosophy. I'm convinced he just threw that term in there to sound smarter.

01:52, Charlie Kirk: "Now I have to take a detour here. Colorado is without a doubt one of the saddest political stories of the last couple decades. Colorado used to be a ruby red state."

Colorado's change into a blue state is the result of a demographic shift. The youth, mainly ones coming from California, came to Colorado and brought with them more progressive politics and viewpoints and the Democratic Party capitalized on those viewpoints.

The huge turnout for Joe Biden in Colorado is also partly because Donald Trump is so extreme that he probably turned a lot of fence-sitters and old-school Republicans off from voting for the GOP.

It also feels like Charlie is admitting that Colorado isn't all that important due to it being a blue state.

02:45, Charlie Kirk: "In some ways Colorado is worse than California. I know that sounds extreme but Colorado in some ways is more Marxist and more captured than parts of California."

Ah yes, "Marxist", the rights new favorite buzzword. The Cultural Marxism theory is nothing more than red-scare propaganda repackaged into a new shiny conspiracy.

States that are more progressive aren't communist. California for instance is the home of multiple corporations and is actually quite a capitalist hub. There is absolutely no state in America that isn't capitalist and to say differently is to ignore reality.

03:02, Charlie Kirk: "And by the way, the Christians and the conservatives have been beat into submission in Colorado."

How? Is living in a left-wing state as a conservative really that much of a battle? Charlie is acting as if the police will come to your home and harass you if you are a conservative in Colorado.

Colorado is also still a majority Christian state according to Pew Research. 64% of adults in Colorado identified as Christian and 55% identified as strongly believing in God. But I forgot, those aren't real Christians because a lot of them probably don't agree with Charlies far-right political views.

03:38, Charlie Kirk: "And by the way, what is Colorado? Colorado is the second most college educated state in the country."

This isn't the gotcha that Charlie thinks it is.

"Yeah, everybody on my side is uneducated. Get them smart people outta here!"

03:56, Charlie Kirk: "Why would Colorado have the second most college graduates of any state in the country? Lot of tech companies, beautiful place to live, and a lot of people who graduate from college get their degrees, come to Colorado, they keep their toxic ideology and they've turned Colorado into a dystopian hellscape."

This is one of the most insanely overdramatic things I have ever heard from one of these right-wing weirdos, and I've listened to a lot of Matt Walsh for this blog.

In case you are wondering, no Colorado isn't a dystopian hellscape just because it's a blue state.

4:37, Charlie Kirk: "Well Donald Trump is currently under indictment but not even under indictment for anything that would disqualify him from ballot access."

This wasn't about whether or not Trump is convicted of insurrection, it's about whether or not the court deemed him to have attempted to commit an insurrection. What section three of the 14th amendment says is as follows;

“No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States … who, having previously taken an oath … as an officer of the United States … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Legal experts such as the CRS (Congressional Research Service) generally agree that a conviction isn't required. Quote; "Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment does not expressly require a criminal conviction, and historically, one was not necessary".

In short, Charlie is lying his ass off about Trump needing to be indicted.

05:38, Charlie Kirk: "Hold on, even if Donald Trump was an insurrectionist he's allowed to run for office. Just holding office and running are two different things technically."

The operative words here are "having previously taken oath as an officer of the United States". The implication there is that the person cannot run again as if they ran and won they would be holding office.

Even Charlie knows that this isn't what the Constitution meant which is why he threw in that "technically".

05:55, Charlie Kirk: "But he's not an insurrectionist because January 6th was not an insurrection."

Yes it was. Those people violently stormed the capitol with the intent to overturn the election and were motivated to do so both by Donald Trumps repeated lies that the 2020 election was stolen and by his and others comments at the Save America Rally.

Charlie himself is complicit in what happened, bragging the day before the election that he was sending 80+ buses to the Capitol to fight for the president and then deleting the tweet when he presumably realized that it could get him into serious legal trouble. Charlie knows this was an insurrection, after all if he didn't think it was he would have left that tweet up. If it wasn't an insurrection he did nothing wrong, however if it was he is complicit in trying to overturn an election.

05:58, Charlie Kirk: "Where are the weapons? You have an unarmed insurrection?"

There were weapons at the capitol on January 6th. According to D.C police officer Daniel Hodges the D.C police had seized multiple guns from the rioters. Quote,

"I didn’t want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns — we had been seizing guns all day,” (Washington Post).

Whats more, photos show the rioters armed with clubs and flagpoles. Stun guns were also used. But here are some images of the rioters with weapons in case you don't believe me.

A Trump supporter holding a metal post and weapons seized by the FBI (Credit: CNN)

A Trump supporter holding a sledgehammer on January 6th (Credit: NPR)

06:02, Charlie Kirk: "Where's the meeting where Donald Trump met with the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers?"

Ah, so he admits that it wasn't a "fedsurrection" like he claimed during his speech at AmericaFest. What is true is that Donald Trumps rhetoric spurred these people on and that they wouldn't have tried to overturn the election if Trump didn't claim that it was stolen. While the totality of Trumps actions such as claiming the election was stolen were what led up to the riot and saying that what Trump did on the day of was solely responsible for what happened plays into the hands of people like Charlie Kirk, let's take a minute and look at Trump's actions the day of;

Even before his speech on January 6th, Donald Trump tweeted out "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!" Many supporters of the former president said that Trump's posts on Twitter encouraged them to be there. This includes Stephen Ayers who testified quote;

"He basically put out, you know, come to the 'Stop the Steal' rally, you know, and I felt like I needed to be down here,"

Trump and Rudy Giuliani both delivered speeches that incited the crowd. During his speech, Donald Trump said quote;

"And we fight. We fight like hell And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

"Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong.”

Giuliani was even more overt calling for a "trial by combat".

So even if we ignore the broader picture of Trumps behavior before the day of January 6th, him and his cohorts really did incite violence at the Capitol.

06:09, Charlie Kirk: "Or, if this was an insurrection this would be the fakest, dumbest, insurrection in history."

I don't agree with it being the fakest but me and Charlie can find a little common ground in calling it the dumbest. Also, this argument makes no sense. Insurrections aren't judged by how successful or how competent they are, they're judged by if they are insurrections or not. If the insurrection were successful none of this stuff in Colorado would have happened because Trump would probably be America's new dictator!

Charlie plays a brief clip of Trump saying "peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard", which is a cherrypicked quote that ignores all the other stuff Trump said in that speech and like I said before, the totality of Trump's actions inspired the insurrection, not just the speech on January 6th.

07:03, Charlie Kirk: "It was a deep state insurrection if anything. It was the intel agencies embedding, infiltrating, and provoking activity and of course there were a handful of people who acted improperly, of course there were a handful of people that did things that they shouldn't have done inexcusably, but 99% of the people there on January 6th did nothing wrong."

Charlie knows that this the "feds did it" thing is complete bullshit, otherwise he wouldn't throw in that "99% of the people at January 6th did nothing wrong" which turns his argument into "The feds did it but even if they didn't do it, the rioters did nothing wrong when they tried to overturn the election!"

Charlie knows that if this is an insurrection, his side looks very bad and he may bear some responsibility since he provided transportation for many off the rioters, so he makes up multiple completely incongruent stories with the hope that one sticks. It's completely ridiculous.

08:19, Charlie Kirk: "We are in the middle of a slow motion civil war of the Washington D.C regime against the citizenry."

This makes zero sense. If we are in the middle of a slow motion civil war between the DC regime against the citizenry, why haven't they done more to take "truth-tellers" like Charlie Kirk and Alex Jones off of the air? Not to mention all the MAGA people in the government!

08:53, Charlie Kirk: "For our entire lifetimes the standard for controlling speech in this country has been that if you are accused of criminal speech you must incite imminent lawless action and that doesn't even include vaguely saying 'We should overthrow the government.' It means specific time place and manner."

Even by Charlie's flawed logic, this argument falls apart pretty quickly when you remember the be there will be wild tweet we mentioned earlier. In that case it would mean that the specific place and command is "Be there (the Capitol) and be wild", the place is obviously the Capitol and given the context of Donald Trump saying that the election was stolen for months before the 6th "be wild" could only mean "fight to stop the stolen election".

Also, the charges for Trump regarding the insurrection are 2 felony counts of obstructing an official proceeding, 1 felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and 1 felony count of conspiracy against rights under. So while those charges involve the remarks Trump made about the election (particularly obstructing an official proceeding), they aren't necessarily speech charges.

10:23, Charlie Kirk: "The party of democracy says that you do not have a constitutional right to vote for a former president"

As said prior, the Democratic Party had nothing to do with the initial suit here. This rhetoric is turning the case into something that it isn't.

Charlie plays a clip of Rachel Maddow calling into MSNBC because she's the right's hate crush. She says and I quote (this is important because Charlie's interpretation of it is completely batshit insane);

"I mean listen, I think in the broad strokes in terms of our democracy there are very few magic wands. That said, it is not a crazy thing for a democracy to do, this is something that our own congress did in 1868 after our own civil war specifically to preclude anybody from holding office in this country who had engaged in insurrection against this country and so it's not unheard of but it would be an incredible wildcard."

So, she's essentially saying that the situation is surprising but not unheard of. To prove this, she cites the fact that the United States government did a similar thing after the civil war to preclude Confederates from running for office. It's an example and it's not referring to Trump in any way. Now, here's how Charlie reacts to it.

12:33, Charlie Kirk: "Wait hold on, this is why this all ties together. We are in the midst of a cold Civil War, we don't know it but they think it. They call us Confederates. So Rachel Maddow says 'Well, it's not a crazy thing to do if Jefferson Davis is running for the presidency'. She's basically calling Donald Trump a slave owning Confederate."

This is so ridiculous. So pointing out a historical use of this amendment is apparently calling Donald Trump a slave owning Confederate. She's not even attempting to compare Donald Trump to a Confederate.

Now you guys see what I meant in the AmFest episode when I said that Charlie has made a career out of making an embarrassment out of himself.

12:58, Charlie Kirk: "They're doing this for a variety of reasons. They wanna justify violence against you, they wanna justify if it happens, an assassination attempt against President Trump."

I can't put myself in the headspace where I would get all that out of a twenty second Rachel Maddow clip. Ironically enough, in making people this terrified of the left and making people feel as if the left is coming for them, Charlie is justifying violence against people on the left!

13:45, Charlie Kirk: "They're setting the optics and the narrative and the philosophical rationalization and justification to kill you, to raid your home, put you in prison, and take out the leader of the movement and there is not an ounce, an inch, or a sliver of an iota of an exaggeration of that."

Translation; FEAR, FEAR, FEAR, FEAR, BUY MY SHIT AND WATCH MY SHOW, FEAR, FEAR, FEAR, FEAR!!!!

Charlie is preying on his audiences emotions, especially when he knows he's probably going to get more web traffic because of this ruling, and making them afraid of something that will never happen.

14:16, Charlie Kirk: "Thankfully the Supreme Court, the United States Supreme Court is going to weight in on this."

So, let's say that Charlie is correct and the left controls DC and is waging a cold civil war against the citizens of America. How would it make sense that the Supreme Court weighing in on this is a good thing?! In this world that Charlie has constructed for his audience they will probably allow this to go through and maybe kick Trump off ballots in every state because he's the president of the people or whatever.

I do think that the Supreme Court will overturn this and judging from this so does Charlie, which makes all that stuff about how the left is waging a cold civil war against you and how they're gonna kill Trump nothing but mindless fearmongering.

14:31, Charlie Kirk: "Now one of the most revealing things about this ruling is that of the 7 justices on the (Colorado) Supreme Court, 4 of them went to elite top fourteen law schools and three of them went to the regional University of Denver Law School and that is exactly the breakdown of Tuesday's ruling."

So, I've noticed something about Charlie Kirk, and that is that he is a professional college dropout. He constantly bashes higher education and says that it produces indoctrinated leftists, completely ignoring the possibility that just maybe the reason that college produces so many leftists is because leftists tend to skew on the more intelligent side. He even wrote a book on it.

The reason I call Charlie a professional college dropout specifically is because he himself dropped out of Harper College and allegedly wasn't the greatest student. I truly believe that this part of his career stems from him lashing out due to being angry at not succeeding academically and wanting to justify that lack of success by saying that he was too much of an "enlightened conservative" to fall for the leftist tricks of higher education.

15:32, Charlie Kirk: "Arlington National Cemetery, can we have a picture of this monument guys? It's worth putting up. (for clarity, he's talking to the crew). This monument at Arlington National Cemetery is one of the great pieces of work, it's America's most noteworthy sculptors, Moses Ezekiel a Jewish man."

Considering the weird phrasing of "It's America's most notable sculptors" with sculptors said after a brief pause, I am 95% sure that Charlie was going to say "sculpture" but remembered this other kind of obscure sculpture called the Statue Of Liberty and back peddled.

What Charlie is leaving out is that this statue glorified and sanitized the Confederacy by promoting false narratives that the South was a noble lost cause. Certain elements such a slave woman holding a white officers baby make slavery out to be less brutal than it was and this was on purpose.

The creation of the statue was funded by a group called "The United Daughters Of The Confederacy" which was an organization dedicated to romanticizing Confederate veterans, so it is essentially a Confederate propaganda piece meant to make the south look "not that bad after all".

Anyway, Charlie is really mad about this statue being taken down.

16:10, Charlie Kirk: "But now the monument is being ripped down pointlessly, not for the sake of reconciliation but the exact opposite, to create hatred, anger, and discord."

It's one statue. In the grand scheme of things it being taken down isn't a huge deal and getting rid of Confederate monuments is a good thing for society. Very few people would even care if the right wasn't making such a federal case out of this.

16:18, Charlie Kirk: "Why would the left do this? This is all connected. Trump off the ballot, January 6, the national security state, the 2024 election, and statues at the Arlington National Cemetery, it's all working pieces of the same operation. It's because the left sees us in a Cold Civil War already."

Did...did I hear that correctly? Is Charlie seriously trying to declare that taking down one problematic statue is proof that there is a CIVIL WAR going on?! I haven't heard a take that dumb since, well, the last blog post where Michael Knowles declared that all kids programs have secret leftist messaging in them!

I honestly don't understand how anybody with an ounce of critical thinking could take this verbal bile seriously. It's like journalistic Calvinball, he's making shit up as he goes along!

I am both dreading and excited for when I go onto Rumble and debunk full episodes of the Charlie Kirk Show, because if this is the stuff that he feels is good enough for YouTube, the stuff that didn't make it to YouTube must be remarkably dumb.

17:11, Charlie Kirk: "They will deploy their activist proxies in the streets, they will kick us off of social media, they will keep our patriots in pre-trial gulag style solitary confinement detention. That's how you act when you're at war."

Let's go through all three of these really quickly.

1): There's absolutely no evidence that activists are being paid by high-level people on the left. There is however evidence that Charlie Kirk is being paid by high-level people on the right.

2): I'm watching this video on YouTube and Charlie is syndicated on multiple radio stations so he cannot whinge about being "censored". On top of that, the left has nothing to do with people getting kicked off of social media, that is the decision of private companies who don't want to be associated with certain rhetoric that they feel is damaging to their brand image.

3): I'm assuming he means the people at January 6th by patriots, in which case those people are awaiting trial in jail because they tried to overturn an election and that is nobodies fault but their own.

If this is evidence that the left is waging a civil war than we are really bad at waging civil wars.

18:48, Charlie Kirk: "So they take down the monument and then this affirmative action moron Mara Gay, who probably is related to the other affirmative action moron who runs Harvard Claudia (sic, I know it's Claudine but Charlie pronounced it Claudia in the video) Gay."

Charlie Kirk Racism Count: 4

If you don't remember AmFest (which is good because I too have tried to block it from my mind) Charlie at one point played a video where he challenged someone on the left to find something racist he said and after a five second google search I managed to find three racist things said.

Since Charlie seems to still be set on being a bigot, introducing the Charlie Kirk Racism Counter™. While the racism counter was at three previously, calling successful black women "affirmative action morons" brings the racism counter up to four.

19:27, Charlie Kirk: "This is a New York Times reporter. She reveals the whole ballgame. She tells you that they believe they're in a civil war."

The only person that believes that we are in a Civil War is Charlie.

Charlie then plays a clip of Mara actually calling Trump a Confederate. What she's saying is that by trying to overturn the presidential election, Donald Trump betrayed the country. She's not saying that the left is in a Civil War with American's, she's saying that Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government and that makes him a traitor.

21:18, Charlie Kirk: "She's saying that if you went to January 6th, you're a traitor to the country."

She is correct, storming a government building and committing insurrection is treasonous. It's also telling that Charlie assumes that a lot of people watching his show went to January 6th.

Charlie then plays a clip of Tucker Carlson saying that the people he's interviewed who were at January 6th were actually the good guys and that the election was stolen, no bias in that source /s. Charlie declares that they should release all the tapes at Jan 6th, which is unrealistic given the fact that it's classified info. Reads a quote from Rush Limbaugh, not important. Charlie than undermines his entire AmFest speech.

27:33, Charlie Kirk: "More and more people that have wealth, that have stature, are waking up. There is not this malaise, that's one of my takeaways from America Fest, it was top and bottom, full spectrum, people are getting the stakes."

Wait a minute, didn't Charlie say that we were living in a top-down revolution and that the elites are all coming after the people? I guess the wealthy doners at TPUSA changed his mind. At AmFest Charlie said and I quote;

"We're living through a top-down revolution everybody. We're living through a revolution that's different than most others. It is a cultural revolution, similar to Mao's China, but this revolution is when the powerful, the rich, the wealthy, decide to use their power and their wealth to go after you."

He also said;

"This country has never lived through the wealthiest hating the country."

Charlie can't keep his beliefs straight because he doesn't have beliefs, or if he did he doesn't care about them anymore. Charlie is a grifter who does whatever he can to keep the money flowing into TPUSA. Who wants to bet that Charlie's wealthy doners didn't like all that talk about a top-down revolution and told him to switch gears?

Charlie declares that the Supreme Court will overturn this and the show ends."

Conclusion:

Well that was dumb. Charlie doesn't really have anything here outside of "January 6th was a false flag and even if it wasn't nobody did anything wrong". Really weak stuff here.

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Everything according to plan

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Summary: what if Wukong's plan work accordingly in his favored (and Macaque is too little too late to the party)

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He told them to wait, and wait they did. There's seem to be no other enemy nearby, aside from the lotus prince himself it's a good sign for the group. They can finally catch their breaths. They have been traveling for so long.

This is it

The time to finally save the world once again, and just like before Monkey King will be there by their side as they finally stop the ever terrifying Destiny the Lady Bone demon bestowed upon the world.

However..something is not right...

Pigsy and Wukong has a cold war going on, and The Head chef kept talking about a fourth ring.

It can't be true, Monkey King would never kept something so important from them ...right?

Of course he wouldn't, not after what they have been through, XiaoTian trust him and he trust him....right?

XiaoTian keep getting more and more Anxious...

Every second passes, he can feel the cold air of the mountain stabs him right into his bones. Pun intended .

Suddenly something fell off the sky. A familiar golden aura. It wasn't as strong as before, but it certainly does gain their attention.

Sun Wukong victoriously escape the Lotus Prince. How he do it, is not relevant and only him and Buddha knows.

"We haven't have much time let's get this over with" he said as he instructed the group to get in position, He then tells Tang to stood on the altar with the map and stay still.

He then began to shoved pass through the group and power walking towards XiaoJiao.

Poor girl has no clue why Da Sheng is heading towards her "W-what?" She ask still a bit cautious around the Monkey King. Unlike her best friend who has been oh so blindly eats up every words Da Sheng spewed, she was on the more smarter side. She knows every single lie Monkey King spewed, the gaslightings. It honestly starting to pissed her off.

"Long XiaoJiao, I need you to stay still, I promise it'll be all over soon" He said with the most soothing and calming voice she has ever heard. Now she gets why XiaoTian easily followed his every words. He was quite a charismatic fellow.

"What are you-"

Before she could ask, Wukong already put a hand on her chest and begin to chant what appears to be prayer or spells.

The Monkey's claws dug into her body without actually harming it all the while telling her that "it's going to be fine everything will be over soon". But boy does it hurts. XiaoJiao was wailing in agony as her chest seems to be glowing and before she knows it the monkey king is elbow deep into her body.

He then began to pull back.

The pain was even more stronger than before.

She screams and screams, and to his credit Wukong is doing it in the most gentle way he could.

After what it felt like an entire hour. He manage to pullout a familiar object. What's that object you might ask?

Why.. its one of the Fire Ring

XiaoJiao's body felt like its shutting down on her, and with a swift move, Sun Wukong grabs her before she can fall in to the ground.

The group was frozen in shock, many thoughts blooming in their heads, they grew a garden of question and emotions.

The silence was broken, by none other than XiaoTian Himself, the boy who has been following Monkey King's word oh so blindly,

"..the Fourth Ring..." he turn his head towards his Employer, who was already staring at him with an expression that was a mixture of "I told you so" and "are you okay?" kind of look. But whatever it is, its pretty darn obvious that his concern is more towarded to XiaoTian and XiaoJiao.

"Hah...Y-You just know that didn't you, Monkey king-- M-man, It's a g-good thing that you found that out last m-minute ahahahaha" XiaoTian tried to rationalize denying the possibility of his mentor keeping this a secret.

"Right? Monkey King"

"No,...I've already knew...for centuries actually " Monkey king replied, shattering the denial XiaoTian spouting. no more game, no more lies, no more avoiding.

Face all of the consequences. He hand the half conscious XiaoJiao to the gentle Giant Sandy and began his tale of truth.

"I've made a grave mistake back then, I let a ray of fire escaped my grasp and into a near by host. That host is none other than Long XiaoJiao's great great thousands time grandfather. Ao Lie, the white dragon horse. It kept getting Passed down from him to his descendants. Till it reaches, well... XiaoJiao"

XiaoTian feels betrayed, he wanted to yell, he wanted to scream. How could he left him out on a very important detail.

But He can't, there's more to it than what he did.

XiaoTian just stood there in silence still on a battle field with his mind. Debating if it were his fault that he's not worthy enough to be trusted with such information, or was it because Wukong isn't the hero he thought he was.

And frankly he rather the first one to be the truth. He don't want to lose his role model. Its a fate worse than hell.

Before he falls deeper and deeper to his ever growing self-doubt and self defense.

A strong, warm arm wraps around him. Claw like hands soothingly caress his head. "I never wanted to lie to you, i don't want you to get more involved than you already have, I'm sorry "

"Why..? Am I not good enough? Do you regret picking me as your successor? What did I do wrong, Monkey King" every question he spewed, his voice cracks even more. Waves of guilt and sadness, washed away any lingering attempt of being firm.

"Oh XiaoTian, you're Always perfect, I never regretted picking you. You did nothing wrong. You were never to blame. Normally I would trust you in handling things on your own...you have potential. And it takes time to honed your skills" he whispered oh so soothingly.

"But ever since her return, I knew time is ticking and you are not ready to face her yet.....I- I don't want to put you in danger"

He himself began to tremble, but he tried to keep it together, for XiaoTian's sake. "Everyday was a restless night thinking what would have happened to you, if I was too late."

He recalled all those nightmare he awoken to during his "vacations" and he wouldn't be able to sit still knowing he has yet to send another lesson for him to learn, at least new skills that might help him survived long enough until he got back.

The Astral Projection was something he will always thanked XiaoTian's fast learner traits. He can see how he was doing and talk to him. Of course he gets annoyed with the timing he pick. He can't even speak a little bit longer with XiaoTian.

XiaoTian can feel the Great Sage trembling while trying to sooth him. 'How can you still be thinking of me when you're trembling this much' XiaoTian thought to himself.

He raised his own arm and wrapped it around his now trembling mentor.

"I wouldn't be able to live with myself if anything were to happen to you all.." the monkey king finally spoke, loud enough to be heard by all.

It certainly didn't ceased pigsy's and XiaoJiao's anger towards him. But it certainly gave them a new understanding of Wukong's well meaning.

A poor old monkey, trying his best to protect everything he hold dear in his own twisted way.

Before he could say anything further, a row of calcium spikes grew from the ground right below where Wukong and XiaoTian were standing. Wukong and his fast reflexes managed to push XiaoTian and himself away from the calcium.

The Six Eared Macaque...

He has come back, new and "improved"

The Bone Spirits has taken control over his body. And the poor thing looks like he's in so much pain. No more of his cynical attitude, just straight up charging towards the group in inhuman speed from the direction of another mountain.

"WUKONG"

The raging black furred monkey yelled in an Uncharacteristic rage that XiaoTian has never heard him do.

"EVERYONE ON POSITION" The Monkey King commanded.

"But- What's the plan--" XiaoTian ask still unsure of what are they going to do after releasing the fire.

"JUST DO IT-" Monkey King didn't mean to yell, but he couldn't control his own anxieties.

Pigsy, Sandy (still holding XiaoJiao), and XiaoTian each stood in front of the slots to put in the rings while Tang Remain standing on the altar.

He commands the group to insert the ring as he held the fourth ring in hand standing in the middle of the circle.

And also on command Tang put the map on the altar as The great sage began to absorbs the Samadhi fire.

And so it began.

His grand part of his grand plan.

The Fire creates a burning hot heat wave. Sandy, blessed his giant heart, immediately shield his companions with his inhumanely durable body, shielding his Friends with his back.

The six ear Macaque arrived just in time to witness Wukong blazing with dark magenta fire.

This could actually work in his favor ....if it were true, that The Samadhi fire can destroy her..then...maybe Wukong's attack can help him break free of this cursed calcium.

On a whim, Macaque attack the blazing monkey in hopes to get the fire burns the calcium off him.

Which it works.

His calcium armor was destroyed and now he's free. He can..HE CAN...

...

He turn around to see that Wukong's struggling to keeping it together, XiaoTian was being held back by Pigsy and Blocked by Sandy as the younger one trying desperately to go to his mentor's side. It seems that fire itself is too strong even for the great sage himself.

He was pondering of what should he do next, on one hand he could've just let Wukong be, there is no Way in hell he would sacrifice his ass to help them.

But on the other hand,...What is even the point of being revived anymore if he can't kill Wukong himself.

"XIAOTIAN NO"

The cry of Pigsy rings in his ears, before he even could make any decisions. He saw a flash of orange pass by him and towards the blazing Wukong.

Xiao Tian Run as fast as his legs could take him, he doesn't care about the painful burns of fire. Sandy as Much as he would like to stop

"KID WHAT ARE YOU DOING" out of instinct Macaque yelled out to the adrenalin rushed Kid simultaneously grab his hand preventing him to move any closer to the unstable Wukong. What was this kid thinking? Is he trying to get himself killed?

"LET GO OF ME" XiaoTian tries to struggle to free himself from Macaque's grip. His grip is certainly way stronger than the noodle chef.

"DO YOU WANT TO DIE??" Was all Macaque could responded.

"WHY DO YOU CARE?!" XiaoTian yelled, the frustration that's been stacked finally erupted as he stare directly to the demon monkey with an uncharacteristically unkind eyes.

Macaque flinched at the sudden outburst from the boy he thought was so meek. He couldn't give any answer. He himself doesn't know.

He slowly let's go...fine then if the kid can't even appreciate his moment of caring, then so be it.

As soon as XiaoTian was freed, he continued to run disregarding his friend's cries for him to come back.

Into the flame he goes.

The cries of agony from his mentor sounds so bizarre to him, it actually make him felt like a weak little insect.

If The Great Sage Can't handle this what CAN he do?

He push aside his thoughts and Hugs the Monkey King as Tightly as he could.

The Great Sage gasp as if he just been drowned and hoarding bunch of sweet sweet air. And just like that the Samadhi Fire had calm down. XiaoTian's sturdy body still got burns and bruises all over it. Despite this he still held his mentor tightly "I know you're used to being alone, But not this time, You have us now,.. we can beat her together,...don't shoulder this on your own...please, Shifu..."

Sun Wukong's eyes teared up, all the bottled up emotions are leaking and it even prevent his usual jokester attitude.

He can't ... he just can't....

Wukong gently pushed him away, XiaoTian look in horror as he look at his mentor, shaking his head, and give a sad yet big smile,

"Not this time Bud"

Before finally jets away with his new power.

To the direction of the Lady's Mech direction.

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