#definitely the former

[souloftheintrovert]

“jimmy, do you know what happened to the last people germans got pissed off at?! tell him, kahl.” either i’m exhausted or that was hilarious

#.souloftheintrovert #definitely the former #definitely

[jcams88]

Buzzfeed really said We are going directly for the throat with this one, huh

#try guys #the try guys #ned fulmer #ned fulmer is a cheater #directly for the throat is what he deserves #but also damn his former employer is G O I N G for it #i also wanna be very clear that just because everyone is dunking on ned #doesn't mean that alex should be absolved of her part in this #like girl that's your boss and you also work with his wife #you've definitely spent time around his kids #wtf is wrong with you?

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

what i like about movies like Heathers is they ask "what if teenage girls committed atrocities?" and then they take a good hard look at teenage girls and conclude that what's already going on is worse

#murder and terrorism? not ideal but somehow LESS gruesome than the Actual Everyday Crimes of High School Bullies #and the thing is they're not Wrong #i mean yes the former is *technically* worse than the latter #but it just doesn't capture that CHILL FACTOR u know #(also just a sidenote but i feel like Mean Girls very much definitely deserves to be included in the category 'if u enjoyed Heathers') #like Mean Girls is not TECHNICALLY a psychological thriller. but also it Completely Is

[dykealloy]

the catholic rejection of it all

#one piece #op #trafalgar law #monkey d. luffy #gear 5 luffy #song is big god by florence and the machine #religious symbology? in my shounen anime protagonist? it's more likely than you think #im 24 years old it's the end of 2023 it's MY turn to finally make a cringe amv for christmas #to be clear. i dont think law sees luffy as his god. but i definitely think he's helped law regain some faith #i.e. catholicism (yeah hardy-hah one piece character is an ex-catholic its all very silly but let's take it unironically for a second) #it would've drilled into law as a child to believe in one true cause (that cause being god). and that will supposedly carry him through lif #give hope purpose etc. but a lot of former catholics choose instead to find that in something else. in law’s cause: #the freedom and hope corasan gave him #the freedom that luffy brings. the will of D. the goodness in the people around him #it's a transfer of faith that feels real and tangible #it's a neat concept and I don't see it talked about much #CJ's op watch-through #corasan #donquixote rosinante #sun god nika #CJ's edits #op analysis #amv

[unpretty]

thoughts on the new Watcher news? I’m not mad about it at all, it seems very logical to me when they’ve always been focused on being able to control their content and they need a more lucrative way to do that. and it’s about as much as a patreon tier would be. but I also get that people are upset about possibly losing access to stuff they previously had access to.

lmao we were just talking about this in the groupchat, i honestly thought they'd partner with someone like nebula before going and doing their own dropout thing (i wonder if they've also partnered with vimeo?)

edit: oh i checked the terms of service and they're 100% partnered with vimeo just like dropout, i wonder how many other channels are going to end up doing the same thing once they get big enough

moving away from youtube makes perfect sense when you consider how bad youtube fucks creators for ad dollars, now they can make shit without having to worry they'll get demonetized for saying you should rob banks

if they want to make Old Watcher's Senior Ex-Buzzfeed Sanctuary i support them, based on an article i read they're going to be keeping the old stuff up and just not posting the new stuff? i don't mind either way but the whole thing does make me miss VRV because that shit was convenient

(remember VRV? and how you could subscribe to the one thing and it would get you a bunch of different premium streaming networks like crunchyroll and shudder and shoutfactory and collegehumor but also they bought original programming from defunct networks which is how they got the mbmbam tv show? dunno if it was actually good for the networks but it worked out great for me)

#original #i should probably pony up because i do watch a lot of watcher shows #but i'd like if they could drag more people in #maybe they could have a show with a lady for instance #there are definitely some former buzzfeed ladies stuck in the youtube content mines

[beskarfrog]

#dinluke #digital art #dinluke art #the mandalorian #clan of three #force sensitive din #he's trying his best #its not very good lol #between din and grogu the baby is definitely the better student #look im not saying that din would have former gifted kid burnout when studying the force #but that is exactly what im saying #like to be the covert's source of income he must have been a fantastic mandalorian #and if he has the force that likely supplemented his abilities #so going into force training with luke he's expecting to pick it up easy just like always #but whoops he's actually just average and he is now struggling with that #grogu is just happy to have his dad do lessons too #this doodle has grown legs and lore sorry lol

[slashmagpie]

“Pearl? Why are you in my house?” 

Pearl blinks up at Bdubs from where she’s sandwiched between the wall and the waterstream, curled up on herself in the narrow space. “Somebody destroyed all the lights in my base and now it’s full of mobs,” she says bitterly.

“It wasn’t me!” Bdubs cries, raising his hands.

“Well, I didn’t think it was you, but the way you just said that’s making me think—”

“No! I’d never! I swear!”

“...I believe you,” she says after a moment, and Bdubs feels himself relax. “Can I stay with you tonight? I don’t really feel like…” She gestures in the direction of her house.

Bdubs nods. “Oh, sure, for sure,” he says. Then, “Should we invite Joel over? His house got blown up too.”

“Ah, yeah, probably. Good idea, Bdubs.” She fumbles in her pocket for her communicator, eventually fishing it out. The screen is cracked. Her fingers shake as they tap against the glass. 

“Are you okay there, Pearl? You look a little…” Bdubs forces his hands to tremble. 

She glances up at him, face scrunching in confusion, before she lets out a small laugh. “Just the adrenaline, y’know.” She grins. “I’m red. It’s great.” 

“If it was anyone else, I’d think they were being sarcastic. But with you! With you, I’m pretty sure you’re being serious!”

She giggles, hitting send on the message and shoving her communicator away. Bdubs doesn’t feel his own buzz; it must have been a whisper. “You know,” she says after a moment, “I’m a little surprised.”

Bdubs blinks. “Surprised about what?”

“That there’s still three of us.” 

He laughs. “Yeah, I’m a little surprised, too! I thought for sure Joel would die today. For sure.”

“Don’t let him hear you say that.”

“Oh, no, never. But between you and me… that guy’s kind of a loose canon!” 

She snorts. “Throwing stones from glass houses, there, Bdubs?”

“Surely I don’t know what you mean.”

“Mhm.” She pauses, eyes glancing down to where her fingers pick at a stray thread on her hoodie sleeve. “That’s kinda what I mean, though. Joel doesn’t live here, and you’re making friends with half the server, I’m surprised I’m not spending tonight alone.”

“Pearl…”

“What?” She snorts. “I know how these games go, Bdubs. People don’t stay loyal. Not for long, anyway.” She glances up at him, eyes half obscured by her hair. “People like Joel, people like you? I know how this ends.”

And Bdubs—

Well, he can’t pretend he doesn’t know what she means. Can’t pretend he doesn’t remember Impulse yelling as Bdubs’ arrow had found home in his throat. Can’t pretend he doesn’t remember Etho backing away when Bdubs had tried to get just a little too close. Can’t pretend he didn’t fight when he promised he’d run. Can’t pretend he hadn’t taken advantage of his broken home. 

…He can’t pretend he doesn’t remember telling Martyn about their plans, or planning to do harm to Etho. Can’t pretend he doesn’t cross his fingers behind his back every time he makes a promise, just in case.

But at the same time, he remembers—searching for Cleo in a castle she’d been too dead to return to, pushing Lizzie to her death for a life he’d never received, taking two hands in his own and vowing to face the end as four instead of two, for once, for once in his life, choosing three and being pulled apart because of it—

Bdubs lets out a breath. “Pearl, hey, no,” he says. “I told you, didn’t I? I’m your weapon.” He gets down to his knees, lowers his head before her, feels her gaze burn into the top of his head.

“Bit late for that,” she says. “I’m my own weapon now, mate. Don’t need you to attack for me anymore.”

“Well, no—but—” He looks up at her. “Pearl. I’m yours. I promise.”

“Right. And you’re Martyn and Etho’s too, huh? We can share.”

“I’m using Martyn!” he protests. “That’s—that’s all it is—I’m usin’ him because he’s the first red and he knows his stuff! And Etho—”

“I don’t mind about Etho,” Pearl interrupts. “Like I said, I know you guys have your little thing going on. I don’t care about that.”

“I set a trap in his base,” Bdubs blurts.

Pearl blinks at him. “Excuse me?”

“I set a trap in his base. Tripwire hook.” He grins. “Right outside the bedroom. I—I think I got Grian, in the end? But—could have been Etho. I coulda—could’ve been Etho.” He swallows.

“And you’d have been okay with that?” Pearl asks, smile gone from her face, expression suddenly very serious.

“I—after I set it, I went up to them. Had a chat. Lied the whole time. I coulda—coulda told him. I didn’t.” 

“And you’re okay with that?” she stresses.

She sounds dubious. Bdubs can’t blame her. He feels sick, swallowing back the bile that’s building in his throat.

“I—Pearl.”

“Bdubs?”

“I learned my lesson, Pearl. I learned—don’t put all your eggs in one basket! Because—because either they die, and then you get left alone, or—or it gets you killed, and you die. You gotta—I have two hands. I can be loyal to multiple people. But then I learned—when you do that? People aren’t loyal back. They don’t trust you anymore. Nobody else…” He laughs. “I feel like I’m the only one who can trust people like that anymore!”

“So…” She frowns. “So you’re making friends with everyone so you don’t get betrayed or left alone?”

“Exactly.” 

“And you know none of us are gonna trust you for doing that.”

He swallows again. “Yeah, I know.”

“And you’re doing it anyway?”

“Well, what else—what else am I supposed to do? I can’t… I can’t go back, Pearl. That’s… I can’t go back. You know how it is.”

“…Yeah,” she says quietly. “I’m—I want you to win, Bdubs,” she says. “Out of everyone—I want it to be you.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. So… You better not make me regret this.”

He blinks at her. “Regret what?”

She bows her head to him. “I’m your weapon,” she says, an echo of his earlier words. “And a bit more of a dangerous one at that.” Her smirk leaks back into her words as she glances up and winks at him. “So use me well, alright, Bdubs? I want you to win this.”

Bdubs’ heart is in his throat. He swallows it back down. It burns.

“I’ll do my best,” he promises. 

The door slams open, startling them both out of their skin.

“Hey guys—uh. What are you doing?”

“Oh, for—Judas Priest, Joel, learn to knock!”

“You invited me over! Or, Pearl did—hey Pearl.”

“Hey,” Pearl says. “Come on in! Sleepover at Bdubs’ time.”

“I can’t believe this is the last of our bases left standing. It’s, like, the worst one.”

“Hey!” 

“There’s no space in here!” To punctuate his statement, Joel slumps down against one wall, kicking Bdubs in the ribs as he does so. Bdubs grunts. “See?”

“It’s definitely not the most spacious…” Pearl acquiesces.

“Anyway. What were you guys doing before I came in?”

“Swearing loyalty,” Bdubs says. 

“Oh.” Joel blinks. “Do you need me to do that? Because I’m a Mounder for life. Loyal to the end.”

Bdubs and Pearl glance at each other.

“Somehow I actually believe him,” Bdubs stage-whispers, and Joel squawks in offence as Pearl barks out a laugh.

“No, I think you’re good,” she says. Leaning her head back against the wall, she says, “This is probably our final night.”

The three of them are quiet for a moment.

“Well,” says Joel. “We gotta make it to the end then, don’t we?”

He’s looking at Bdubs. They’re both looking at Bdubs. 

Bdubs nods.

“May the best Mounder win,” he says solemnly.

Joel grins.

#secret life #spoilers #fanfiction #i am late on the post-session ficlet this week since i wasn't able to watch until today but here it is! #this isn't quite what i wanted it to be i was struggling a Lot with this one #idk. i really liked pearl and bdubs' little arc this session. #and there's definitely like 5 other angles i could have come at this from but this is the one that ended up on the page and i'm too #brainfogged to figure out anything else so here #anyway. do you guys ever think about how dog-coded the mounders are. #two feral former lone wolves and a sad-eyed shelter dog. or something. #magpie feather quill

[leverage-ot3]

love how we all went into redemption either wary of or expecting to hate harry but within two episodes we all collectively went, oh, he’s just some lil weird guy and we adopted him just like the leverage crew did

#the writers definitely knew what they were doing writing him #I think it’s definitely interesting and a feat to good writing because we were technically losing two series regulars and they had the task #of both finding new characters while also making sure they wouldn’t just erase or dismiss the old characters #they had to come up with something completely different and have it appealing enough to satisfy us as we are missing two of our original #beloved characters (nate and hardison) #and they came up with harry lmao #he’s such blorbo shaped #skinny little dude that is a former evil lawyer bad dad forgot he was bisexual until he saw eliot fighting #skrunkly lil gamer guy pathetic man silly little disguises way too enthusiastic just happy to be there #honestly me too bitch #jackie talks #mine #leverage #leverage redemption #meta #harry wilson #harry wilson meta #leverage redemption meta #leverage meta #character appreciation

[front-facing-pokemon]

#do y'all pronounce this as [sɔɫ.'gæɫ.i.oʊ] or as [sɔɫ.gə.'ɫeɪ.oʊ]. those are the two pronunciations i've heard for it and personally #i've always said the former. but since i heard the latter from someone else i figured i'd ask #solgaleo #i dunno this is definitely a less fitting evolution for cosmoem than lunala. lunala absolutely seems like the. Prime. Correct evolution #in this evolutionary line. solgaleo might just be here to be a different legendary for the other box #lunala just looks so much more fitting in the cosmog line…

[zombieplaguedoc]

Imagine your f/o presenting you with a flower crown.

Or

Imagine you presenting your f/o with a flower crown

Antis fuck off, this post is not for you

#🎙The representative from California has the floor🎙 #antis go away #antis fuck off #antishitters dni #anti anti #antis dni #proship #proship safe #proship positivity #proship please interact #proshipping #proshipper safe #f/o #s/i #self ship #proselfship #selfship #selfshipping #f/o imagines #imagine your f/o #For the former it's definitely 🍨 #For the latter it's 🦊 #And 🐎 #And actually pretty much every one of my f/os

[naturecalls111]

Kidd in Highschool

#eustass kidd #one piece #hs au #fanart #sketch #the bottom left expression is the first time he sees Luffy just doing anything #he doesn’t know whether to laugh or laugh really really hard #the former would be in private. the latter would be to Luffy’s face #he goes with the meaner option #(ignoring the lawlu stuff for a moment. kidd would definitely be so entertained by Luffy that he’d go for it) #also I meant to give him more jewelry but whatever. #ok now I’ll stop talking

[ashe-studies]

had a sorta fluffy thought of shadow growling at sonic while sonic's smiling with his arms crossed. he growls back at shadow, though his smile remains as he does it. his growl is louder, but it's lighter and might not sound intimidating, since it's all in good fun from his end.

shadow is taken aback, flustered, and never does it again. sonic is confused, but doesn't bring it up.

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #shadow #sonic x shadow #sonadow #i like to think #that sonic only growls if he thinks smths fun or if you done fucked up #this is definitely the former #as to why shadow growled #no idea #gay ppl r weird #- a gay person

[thirddoctor]

Curious about how much overlap there is between people's first Doctors and their favourites. Are we all imprinting like ducklings or do some of you take awhile to find a Doctor you connect with?

#Doctor Who #Classic Who #Ranger's polls #I was definitely the former #I mean I would've liked Three anyway but there's just something special about the first one y'know?

[gwaedhannen]

[Excerpt from Sorrow Beyond Words: Collected Testimony of the War of Wrath, 4th Edition; ed. Elrond Peredhel. Archive of Cîw Annúminas, inaugural collection]

“Simply reaching Menegroth was a struggle. Doriath had become a twisting nightmare of overgrowth and rot and mists, as Morgoth’s power warred with the remains of the Girdle and our old songs. Ai, our home, our haven! I know the name of every holly in Region, before the exile. We found deadfalls surrounded by dozens of animals who’d lain down beside the trees and rotted before they died. Blind moose more antler than flesh staggered towards us even after a dozen arrows. Vines covered in dripping thorns reached for our eyes. The cherry trees were overladen with fruits that smelled like gangrene. Deildhod stumbled into a nest of maddened vipers, and only escaped because their tails were all tangled together into a festering mass and could hardly move. We never saw or heard a single bird. I’m amazed we lost no one in that whole push through Region. No, I speak a lie. I know how we passed through with nothing worse than scrapes. Elrond was with us, and the ghost of Melian’s love still recognized her kin.

“Esgalduin had nearly been dammed by one of Hírilorn’s fallen boles, but the bridge still held. We crossed and reached the ruined gates, wrought twice and broken twice. Within there was only darkness to be seen; we knew not what manner of horrors Morgoth had sent to infest the city, but Ingwion was unwilling to leave them at the rear of his forces as he moved north, if it could be helped. Celeborn stood at Elrond’s right and myself at his left. Far less an honor guard than the heir of Elu Thingol and Melian Besain deserved. Yet in those dark days it was all the honor we could muster. King Dior Eluchíl had known thirty-six summers when he was unrighteously slain. Queen Elwing Nimaew thirty-five when despair took her to the sea. Lord Elrond Peredhel beheld the city of Elu for the first and only time in his twenty-ninth summer.

“Elrond stood before his inheritance and Sang. He sang a lament, for the lost endless years of joy and peace, for deep halls lit by birdsong and echoing with wisdom, for the Forsaken People who awoke the forest and earth with many voices, for the works of beauty never to be seen again on this side of the sea. He sang a promise, that the glory of Menegroth will be remembered in the songs of Middle-Earth for as long as its children endure. He sang thanks, for the protection the halls granted us until it could shelter us no more. As his song at last ceased, I thought I heard nightingales answering him.

“Stars shone on his brow, and his hair glistened as the vault of night, and the memories of our once-eternal bliss in the woods of Thingol’s realm under Elbereth’s gifts arose in my mind. Let Oropher dream of a deep hall for his own; let Celeborn reign where he will at his wife’s side! I knew in my heart, as the echo of nightingale songs faded, that there was no lord or king I would ever stand beside save Elrond Elwingion.

“The living stone in which our kingdom once thrived knew his voice, and at long last laid down its burden and passed. The darkness over Menegroth was lifted, and we went forth into its corpse, and no beast or orc could stand before us. I do not sing of what we found and left behind when we cast down the bridge and gave leave for the river to flood the caves. It is not worth remembering.”

#silmarillion #the silmarillion #tolkien #silm fic #elrond #doriath #menegroth #war of wrath #my OCs #war of wrath: sorrow beyond words #stormwritten #the Second Kinslaying occurred on this day in FA 506 #you can observe the day of remembrance by burning a Son of Feanor in effigy #in remembrance I'm writing Sindarin Elrond because I've seen too much Feanorian Elrond recently #the narrator is a former senior Marchwarden who escaped the Kinslaying and brought refugees over the mountains to Celeborn and Galadriel #she'll never forgive herself for not being at Sirion for the Third Kinslaying #she becomes one of Elrond's chief counselors and one of the heads of Rivendell's forces along with Glorfindel #she and Glorfindel were definitely at each other's throats for years until Elrond yelled at them to chill #they may have hatefucked #sorry Erestor #she either dies when Celebrían is captured #or leads the search for Celebrían and sails west with her #in either case she'll never forgive herself for failing #“Nimaew” = “white/pale bird” I think #a name given to Elwing after her leap #she doesn't know about it yet

[ladyofthenoodle]

on a note related to canon inconsistencies: does anybody have a theory on why some akuma detransform when their object is broken, but others don’t until ladybug has purified the akuma?

#i think fandom has largely adopted the former as ‘canon’ #because it’s more convenient for writing battles where ladybug isn’t there #but there are definitely akuma in canon that don’t detransform right away #miraculous ladybug #noodling

[lemongrass77777]

I will never be over the fact that Lily Potter was the one who defeated Voldemort in 1981 and she was never given proper credit for it in canon. We barely even know anything about her and she was the one who defeated the snake faced bitch the first time around. It drives me insane. Lily deserved so much better than what the books ever gave her.

#genuinely #like Harry got him the second time it doesn’t finish his heroism to give Lily proper credit for taking him down in round 1 #after I was done reading book 5(my favorite of the seven books) #I assumed that we would learn a lot more about lily in the next two books #because she’s definitively a good person and she was the one who defeated Voldemort with her love magic #but no! #we barely hear anything about her from slughorn #and Snape #both two men! #we never hear from her female friends or her male friends who weren’t creeps #petunia only says the “you lost a mother but I lost a sister’’ line in a deleted movie scene #Lily is objectively more important to the story than James and we still know so much more about him #I’m not even lilys biggest fan #I think getting with your former friends bully/the person who SA’d them #is a bad thing #even if that former friend was a bigoted dipshit #and even then I’m still furious for her #harry potter #Lily potter #lily evans #marauders era #post