#We Are Gone

[saints-who-never-existed]

Ooh one more quick thing before I go to bed:

I love love love how quick Hickey's death actually is when it comes right down to it.

I feel like a lesser show would've lingered much more on that moment of realisation, would've had the soundtrack swell. "Ha ha! Look, nasty-pasty antagonist! Here's your comeuppance!" while we zoom interminably in on his wee daft face.

But this isn't that show!

A few tantalising seconds of eerie calm. An almighty CHOMP. One fleeting yet spectacularly impactful second of that "Oh Shit" look. Torn open like an overcooked hotdog. And done!

He's just a guy, at the end of the day. A horrible little rat man whose death doesn't deserve to be more than what it is. Whose death deserves to be just as quick and gruesome and ignoble and utterly utterly pointless as everyone else's.

#The Terror #The Terror AMC #S01E10 #We Are Gone #Cornelius Hickey #Observations #Random Observations #Meta

[made-myself-miserable]

well shit

This time more than any other time, I cried when Silna leaves and Francis tries to go after her. Cheeks are still wet from it 😭 I think a lot about that moment in terms of Francis’s development -- his moment of acceptance -- but jfc the scene leading up to that just had me in tears. I guess I’m drawn to the scene as a reminder the show is so much about loneliness and friendship, and how deeply both these things impact Francis. Just how it’s so fundamentally wrong to him that a good person would be totally alone. Too emotional to properly articulate my thoughts rn so i’ll leave it at that and 😭

#francis crozier #silna #The Terror #the terror amc #we are gone #ep10 #francis #😭

[palipunk]

Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.

Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.

#‘quick we need to preserve Palestinian culture before it’s gone!’ can you HEAR yourselves? #palestine #free palestine

[qiinamii]

we'll do fine.

#fionna and cake spoilers #what hits me a little is how similar fionna and simon's stories are in the case of finding nuance in their lives #when both have gone through their separate but still valid pain no matter the extent it had been #and its that they met each other they get to see how it compares and they're no less worth of the peace and fun they dreamed of #even in the form of simplicity and just being normal #“i wouldn't have met THE fionna and cake” “we wouldn't have met THE simon petrikov” #it hits me harder that after the dandelion scene would've been their last time seeing each other physically #and how assuring simon sounded when fionna didn't know what to do with the literal world in her hands #tho im sure prismo isnt that much of a rule jerk lol i still drew out the revelation anyway with this tiniest addition #also the fact fionna's world is influenced by simon's thought processes and conditions so now things are a little better for both of them #fionna the human #fionna campbell #simon petrikov #qiiarts #the lil flashback of #betty grof #fionna and cake #adventure time

[aintmyjewelry]

we need to bring back inviting people over for cake and coffee. my grandma used to do that all the time and I think it's a lost art

#we would get a nice coffee cake or pie or streusel #and then make a big batch of coffee #and she and my cousins and other family would just sit around chitchatting #and my grandma always said to call it 'cake and coffee' #so the guests didn't expect dinner #it was like code for be gone before dinner

[tawaifeddiediaz]

you know what boils my blood.

over the last 2 weeks, i've seen countless patients walk into my urgent care center, symptomatic for so many things, refusing to get tested for covid and flu, citing that they don't want to knowingly bring it to their holiday tables. i had a patient tell me, verbatim, "i don't want to test for covid, because i don't want to be the asshole who brings it on a plane."

i understand that - i understand that holidays are times where people look forward to meeting loved ones that they might only see once a year, or where they get a break from the hectic back and forth of their lives.

but here's the thing - whether they get tested or not, they will bring whatever they have to their holiday tables. it's pure recklessness to know that you're sick, and walk into someone else's house spreading the disease.

today, january 2, i saw 91 patients, many of them who have tested positive for covid and flu. many of these patients are the same ones who didn't want testing 3 days ago, until their events were over, and now, they will have to reach out to everyone they know to let them know that they were positive because they were showing symptoms well before their event.

the next week or two? we're going to see many, many more, all people with symptoms that started around christmas. these are the only two viruses we test for rapidly in our office, but they are potent and can be fatal in many people.

so here's why i wrote this post, and maybe it's a little late, but - if you care about your loved ones, please get tested if you know you're sick. it doesn't have to be at a clinic if you don't want it to, because the over-the-counter tests work just fine too (if you test within 5-7 days of symptom onset). just...please don't try to run from the knowledge that you might have covid, because immunocompromised people, elderly people, people with co-morbidities like asthma, pregnancy, diabetes, etc...many of them may not recover. and they may not be sitting at your holiday table in the future because of it.

#zee rambles #this isn't to guilt trip anyone #but im so so tired of people coming in and just refusing testing because they want to see grandma or whatever #and on top of that people are avoiding vaccinations and all that too?? #we all lived through the pandemic - everyone saw how many people unfortunately passed away from it #now because of vaccinations and some amount of herd immunity we're finding milder cases in healthy people #but that doesn't mean its gone #that doesn't mean it doesn't have long-term repercussions even in healthy people and that doesn't mean people aren't still dying from it #honestly i just needed a lil rant #and if this helps at least one person??? im all for it #also i can't sleep so here we are spilling thoughts into the voidddd

[watchingwisteria]

listen there really was just something about how in the book, snow’s 3-page descent from hesitant lover boy to deluded psychopath happens entirely in his mind. lucy gray gives him no indication whatsoever that she suspects him, that she’s going to leave or betray him. he’s just sitting quietly in the cabin waiting for her to return when that seed of calculated suspicion, which he has needed to survive the capitol, takes a hold of him and chokes the life out of any goodness left inside him. it really drives home your terror as a reader that “oh my god did he kill her? did she escape? what happened to her? why would he even think that?” in a way that when the movie had to adjust for visualization it lost some of that holy shit this guy has lost it emphasis.

#seeing some discourse and im not saying lucy grey didnt know #im saying she never dropped the kind of hints that she knew like she did in the movie #or if she did snow isnt worried about them until he very suddenly is consumed by them #snow is not concerned about whether or not she believed him. of course she did! hes snow! #but then shes gone…. for a while…… #and its the sudden immediate drastic unravelling that comes across so clearly in the book #that i knew wouldn’t translate to screen yet still cant help but miss #the hunger games #coriolanus snow #tbosas #lucy gray baird #not a crime or anything just a note that i cannot stop thinking about #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #this is all from memory of reading it quite a while ago. so maybe 3 pages is an exaggeration #but i remember it happening VERY quickly and without much external cause #like we as the reader have no indication as to whether shes nearby or not. #snow has no idea either. he just SUSPECTS. and his suspicion breeds the hatred that has been bubbling inside him all this time #he hates how she undoes him. he hates that he WOULD run away with her if shed let him keep his secrets #and he HATES more than anything that she makes him WANT to tell his secrets #he wants to be vulnerable and reveal the ugly nasty parts about himself and still be loved #but he does not let himself and it is everyone’s downfall #he chooses cruelty bc it is easy and familiar and makes him feel more powerful than the vulnerable give and take that real love requires

[plague-parade]

i feel like we dont talk enough about how distressing and disturbing memory loss issues are. forgetting what you were talking about halfway through a sentence, putting something down and instantly forgetting where you put it. having to reread one paragraph over and over again because by the time youve moved onto the next sentence you dont remember what the one before it said. always doubting if your memories of things are real, not being able to remember important life events.

its so incredibly scary, it feels like your mind is constantly playing tricks on you and you start to doubt whats real and what isnt.

“i forgot” is treated like a lazy excuse when it’s genuinely such a big issue for so many people.

#this has been building up in me for a bit #i was talking to my mom and she brought up a concert we went to and i have zero memory of ever going #huge chunks of my life are just. gone. #every time i sew i put the needle down and spend fifteen minutes trying to find it #memory loss #memory issues #cognitive issues #cognitive decline #cognitive dysfunction

[kosmogrl]

how is it still january? every day I wake up and it's still january ... make it stop

#this has gone too far #we need another month

[shima-draws]

Also the implication that megas are FINALLY coming back. Will he finally get the justice he deserves......

#HE'S BEEN WAITING SO PATIENTLY. #Shima speaks #MEGA EVOLUTION MY BELOVED. WE GOT YOU FOR ONE GEN AND THEN YOU WERE GONE LIKE THE WIND #Anyway manifesting a Flygon mega. WE'RE GETTING IT #Pokemon #Pokemon Legends ZA #Pokemon Legends Z-A #Pokemon Presents #Flygon

[saints-who-never-existed]

Reading the Episode Ten script again, mainly because I had it open the other day to double-check a specific quote, and there are so many wee things that are jumping out at me all over again.

The religious connotations of Goodsir's feet being the only "clean" part of him!

The fact that Crozier manages to signal to Hodgson and Diggle specifically not to eat their own portions of Goodsir while he's eating his!

This little quote: "Circuits are frying in Crozier's head but he continues to do this unthinkable thing with blind belief in a perfectly-named man called 'Goodsir'".

And finally, something that I'm only now realising I've not thought in depth about before - the fact that Tozer is the only one we see being actively betrayed and bonked on the noggin! We don't know how the others ended up in chains, in all fairness. We don't know if they were bonked too, if they fought back, or if they went quietly, albeit likely at gunpoint. The fact that his coercion is the only one shown says something incredible about Tozer's power and about how Hickey views him at that point in time, I think. He's clearly aware, if not outright scared, of what Tozer is capable of, how unpredictable he could be, how rapidly he's coming to his senses and escaping Hickey's control. He's painfully aware of the fact that he can't let that happen, not now. Like, they could've just held a gun to his face! Lord knows they have enough guns and loyal, desperate men to wield them! But the merest idea that even that wouldn't be enough to coerce him is just making me lose my goddamn mind! The idea that you could hold a gun to Solomon Tozer's handsome goddamn face at that point and it still wouldn't be enough to get him to do something he doesn't want to do...!

#The Terror #The Terror AMC #S01E10 #We Are Gone #Harry Goodsir #Francis Crozier #Solomon Tozer #George Hodgson #John Diggle #I really want to do a read-through of all the scripts again now like I'm doing with the book and show #But I can't imagine AMC would appreciate it lol #I'm also thinking of a quote about Tozer from an earlier script #From his show-down with Little #'He's unafraid - making him frightening' #But I almost feel like it's the opposite in this situation #Tozer is very much afraid but that's what makes him frightening to Hickey who's always relied on Tozer's strength and apparent fearlessness #He's not being what Hickey needs him to be anymore #That's what makes him frightening #That's what makes him a threat that needs bonking #Observations #Random Observations #I swear I'm going to think and be more coherent about all this soon

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Jason is terrified of Damian al Ghul-Wayne.

Talia dipped him in the Pit, fed him lies, put him through the worst kinds of pain possible for the sake of training and turned him into a monster that went to heel when called. A monster even Ra’s was wary of.

He’s terrified of Damian, because if his mother managed to manipulate and play him like a fiddle, then she must have taught the same to her son.

Damian, who only has memories of a catatonic Jason cooing at him, cuddling him and protecting him, is becoming progressively more distressed by Jason’s perpetual cold shoulder and skittish behavior whenever Jason sees him.

#and round we go #to lose our minds and find our soul #Jason thinks his instinctive protective feelings and affection for Damian were planted there by Talia #in reality Jason pretty much raised Damian #only he can’t remember #and Damian is heartbroken because when he went to Gotham he wasn’t really looking for Bruce #he was looking for JASON #who he’d been told was dead/missing/gone #while Jason is freaking out #thinking he’s gonna be manipulated by another al Ghul #jason todd #batfamily #bruce wayne #dick grayson #batfam #robin #Damian wayne #damian al ghul #red hood #misunderstandings #prompts #fic #fanfiction #ideas #miscommunication

[egberts]

louis gets bitey when he's sleepy so we got him a chew toy duck from the dog section and he loves it

#he's chewed it every time he's goning to sleep since we got it #lou #sonboys allowed #kittens

[nighttimenothings]

so hypothetically, what if we were late to the party because you were wearing the prettiest outfit and i couldn't keep my hands off you? you were so easy to just pin to the wall, and i licked and sucked at your neck, down to your collarbone until little pinkish marks appeared. you made the most gorgeous sounds, soft and high and desperate. and when i snuck a hand under your underwear, i felt how soaked you were. pearly slick webbed over my fingers. delicious. but oh look at the time. we have to go now, baby. looks like you're gonna have to wait till we get back home for me to take care of the throbbing between your thighs.

#just a couple of marks that'll be gone by the time we get there #only we'll know they were there #lesbian #sapphic #wlw #lesbian nsft #queer nsft #sapphic nsft #wlw nsft #nighttimenothings #men and minors dni

[poobirdy]

a bingqiu witches x xianxia fusion, as prompted by cass and fulfilled as part of an ongoing fundraising event at svsss gotcha 4 gaza!

#svsss #scum villain #bingqiu #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #shen yuan #mxtx #my art #i wanted to bring viet!binghe out for once #the prompter wanted them to be sitting on xiu ya #but the sword's not long enough to fit two grown men sooo next best thing was to have it tied to the broom lol #the white cat is sj #probably #but i can't decide if he's sy's familiar ORRR #if it was a summoning gone wrong #in which sy was summoned to possess sj's body by someone with Bad Vibes and inadvertently ejected sj's soul into the nearest living thing #which was a nearby white cat #ORRRR we do this sabrina the teenage witch style #and sj was sentenced to live a 100 years as a cat for some atrocity he may or may not have been involved in

[celestial-artisan]

Alastor: That is absolutely ridiculous, Vox does not have a crush on me. Angel Dust: Yes he does. Sir Pentious: Yes he doesss. Vox, from television screen: Yes I fucking do you goddamn idiot.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #alastor the radio demon #alastor #vox #hazbin hotel vox #angel dust #sir pentious #radiostatic #post-stayed gone #HC: pentious knows this better than anyone else #we support the alastor body pillow theory