#i've won but at what cost

[sukimas]

>be me, chemist with clogged drains

>buy solid lye because it's cheaper than liquid drain cleaner

>carefully equip all the right PPE, use a good solid bucket to make the mixture, add lye to water rather than water to lye

>successfully unclog the drains without harming myself or any objects around

>put the lye in the bases bucket in the utility closet

>walk back over to my desk, proud of myself for my accomplishment, feeling like i've gotten far less clumsy over the years

>sit down

>immediately roll over and crush the shit out of my big toe with my desk chair so hard it bleeds

#i've won but at what cost

[six-of-cringe]

You know what? The cancellation makes me sad, but not because I liked the show, more just because of what could have been. The show had the opportunity to be so good and broach the topics and themes with such intricacy as the books did, but it largely failed to do so. I can see how people could still enjoy the show if they were watching for other reasons, but for me it just fell flat in very bitter and at times offensive ways. It was surface-level, taking the outermost layer of each character and discarding the rest to fit into a disjointed story. I wanted it to be good, I wanted it to delve deeply into the characters and stories I love, but it didn't, and its cancellation just reminds me of that disappointment. Though seeing people upset about it makes me sad too, it also makes me feel somewhat isolated in my reasons for enjoying the book series in the first place and my feelings about the show. I would have liked to have a show that I could feel angry about the cancellation of, not a weird sadness-relief.

Also kinda bummed out for the actors!! They were clearly very excited for their roles and had little to do with the subpar writing.

#i have no sense of schadenfreude #i've won but at what cost #the show made me unhappy i should be happy right now #but i'm not. i just spent a big paragraph trying to explain why but i'm still not really sure why #seeing people upset about the cancellation of a bad show also makes me frustrated that they don't enjoy soc for the same reasons i do #which is silly but thems the brakes #shadow and bone #shadow and bone netflix #six of crows #soc #six of crows fandom

[youraveragecatastrophe]

[Image description : a two-part meme. In the top part, a black man looks happy, with the text "Julia asserts herself" to the left. In the bottom part, the same man looks distraught as the text on the left says "It's by refusing to help Carmen". /End description]

When you play To steal or not to steal and you tricked Julia in Monaco

#as a 'let julia go off' truther... #i've won but at what cost #carmen sandiego 2019 #to steal or not to steal #csweekly #julia argent

[rarestdoge]

Ty Distractable for keeping me alive while I work on backgrounds

#I fucking #hate doing backgrounds #I just #hrrrg. #worth? yeah #I've won but at what cost #/ #rambles #not art

[vendettasfanfictioning]

I spent almost an hour trying to get Good Omens stuff on my TikTok's FYP and now it's showing me all of these Ineffable Husbands S2E6 edits to Taylor Swift songs...

#as everyone's been saying since season 2 dropped #i've won but at what cost #good omens #good omens s2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley x aziraphale #aziraphale x crowley

[bunni-bun]

finished good omens 2, i am a broken women. why would neil gaiman do this to me

#I'VE WON BUT AT WHAT COST #AT WHAT COST NEIL #I AM IN SO MUCH PAIN #good omens 2 #cyndy speaks #or rather she cries so much 😭

[ftm-shitposts]

I'm kinda sad about how many gorgeous lesbians have rejected me but every time the reason is that they aren't attracted to a man which feels very validating as a trans something guy.

#I've won but at what cost #shitpost #ftm #transguy #thoughts #transgender #demiboy #lgbtq #trans

[wayfinderships]

AUUUUUUGH! I miss my little guy your honor!! I miss him so damn much!!!

#pan rambles #I've been listening to some songs and AUGH... #Sorry for bringing up the original story me and 2 close pals of mine have made again but AUGH #I MISS MY LITTLE GUYYYY #The way that despite everything he stays kind... #How being the Hero and Saving the World is cool and all #but what his real motivation for starting his journey is wanting to create a world that was safe for his family #How deeply he cares about his younger siblings and mother and how being apart from them hurts from time to time #How in one ending he achieves his goal of creating a safe world for his family #at the cost of watching all the friends he met across his journey die #He won and was called a hero but at the cost at becoming a shell of his former self #How his mother and siblings saw him leave with a smile on his face and coming back with a dead look in his eyes. How he looked so exhausted #How in another ending he achieves the same goal and even creates a world where the Villain got to live a better life #but this time at the cost of his life and memories. Specifically everyone's memories of him- #He got what he wanted and no one will remember him #And then there's the good ending <3 #Anyways yeah sorry I just needed to ramble a bit about my little guy-afksnfkdn He's so special to me <3 #no amount of s/i angst will ever top what I've made my little guy go through

[merakiui]

There's been a lot about maidenless Azul these days, and I just got hit with inspiration. In your fic where the princess had him as a "pet"/ bestie, he seems to win. Not only does he get his girl, but he gets to keep her in a nice cage, and have a baby with her. However, I can totally see the twins who were very pumped to see him and hear his stories after all these years, and probably helped build the cage, and subdue the darling the first few weeks, being a little jealous. They want to play with the new pet too! So they both decide they should just have some playtime, and maybe get some baby eels out of it. Meanwhile Azul is in the corner like, "I can't have anything, can I?"

(cw: yandere, female reader, nsfw, implied dub-con, captivity, unhealthy behaviors/relationship)

They're definitely jealous and a little annoyed. How dare you take Azul away from them and then cry and whine when they're subduing you? If anything, you're deserving of this treatment. The twins definitely know lots of torture techniques (courtesy of the family business), so they have no problem using a few as a means to threaten you into submission. But their services aren't free. Sure, they're all friends but they want to have fun, too. Plus, you're a human from the surface who had a child with a mer! They're obviously very curious about your anatomy when they circle your cage, peering in at you like you're a means of entertainment for them.

In hindsight, Azul was foolish to leave the two of them to guard you and the baby while he went out to gather a few things. When he returns, the baby is fast asleep in the coral crib and the twins have you sandwiched between them while they use your body for their own pleasure. If you can birth Azul's baby, then you can birth theirs! After all, the family business needs lots of capable mers and their parents will be very proud of them for finding a suitable mate.

The twins aren't allowed in the cave for the rest of that day, and Azul will console you with sweet words and gentle touches. Below the surface, at such a dark depth, your skin is frigid despite the potions Azul has concocted to regulate your body temperature and allow you to breathe underwater. But you can't survive in these conditions forever. It seems he'll have to make you like him soon.

You'd rather be an octopus mer than an eel mer, right? He'll build a happy family with you regardless of Jade and Floyd's intervention.

#tako won but at what cost? :( #twisted chit chat #meraki thirsts #n/sfw #yandere twst #tw: implied dubcon #i've considered writing a part two to the au because i'd like to add the tweels in hehe

[hgduo]

#YA'LL- #luckity #luzu #quackity #karmaland #kl spoilers #🌑 #☀️ #I love accidental foreshadowing sadhejfhekshf- #(Wario Voice: I've won but at what cost?)

[aura-can-draw]

When Hunter gets his hair noodle thing back but now Flapjack can't pull it anymore cuz he's dead

#Honestly im so upset at Flapjack's death #So sweet best boi #Rip flapjack #Toh #The Owl House #Hunter #Hunter toh #Flapjack #Flapjack toh #Meme #I've won but at what cost meme

[monty-glasses-roxy]

I apparently won the bonds again and as soon as I check my emails I have one from YouTooz like "HEY LOOK WE HAVE THE CUTEST FUCKING GUYS TO SELL YOU NOW COME ON YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO SINCE YOU ONLY EVER BUY THEM WHEN YOU WIN COME OONNN YOU KNOW YOU WANT CUTE LIL GUYS WE PROMISE WE'LL ONLY CHARGE A KIDNEY FOR POSTAGE TO YOUR COUNTRY THIS TIME-"

#I need to sort out an income god damn... #someone suggested like a ko-fi or something but like. bro. I make so little stuff people with money care about #what would be the point? #not exactly captain popular over here lmao #need to go get the benefits ball rolling... been meaning too I've just felt like I've been drowning lately #I'm all muddled up so I gotta... figure out what I'm doing #I would LOVE giant cupcake plush though #and I would get it too! #if the postage to my country didn't DOUBLE THE OVERALL PRICE #like come ON #this is RIDICULOUS #why is the US so fucking expensive to get things to and from??? #i may have won some moneys but the cupcake itself costs more than that #what I won wouldn't even cover the postage ffs #AND THE FOXY PLUSH IS ADORABLE #I might go on Etsy and hunt down some good plushies that won't cost me every organ in my body #if that's even possible #then again I've wanted to get into sewing and I was gonna start with plushies so... #could just make my own but I just. is it really such a crime to want nice things? :/ #anyway that's my complaints on this. #onto other stuff #pop rox talks

[divine-construct]

worst fandom thing is when you get into something because of your friend(s) and then you're still hyperfixated on it years later and they don't at all care about it anymore. bonus points if you're not friends anymore but you're still in the fandom they got you into.

#i got into tokrev right as they got out of it n i used to joke abt it #now sometimes i see a tokrev post n go “ah. this is a piece of me now. from someone that i haven't spoken to in years but still love & miss #the fact that one of them hasn't played genshin in months & my ar is “finally” (we made a bet. she started playing before me n bet that i #would never have a higher ar than her. i bet her i would.) higher than hers made me cry when i realised for the first time bc that made me #realise that. huh. i've really lost her now. #the genshin ar thing means sm to me #probably incomprehensible for anyone else but. yeah. i won the bet. but at what fucking cost. #“it was just a silly bet. what did it take?” “everything.” #yeah #idk #divine rambles. ` 🕊

[chayscribbles]

hey i had the worst idea. what if i tried to finish AR3 for nano

#chay's shenanigans #according to my calculations #i only need 20-25k to finish it #so it's not like i would be doing nano proper #(it would still be a lot shorter than i hoped but that's the first draft babey!) #and maybe i just need a kick in the ass to get it done with #but at the same time every nano event i've done i've managed to burn myself out #even camp where i'd only do 10-15k goals #like i always won. but at what cost

[skull-storm-daily]

5/27/2022 (high cost deck)

#inscryption #kaycee's mod #skull storm daily #high cost deck #think i'm obsessed with these high cost runs but like. really the only ones i'm winning are these ones where i get a good elk totem early on #this one i got an elk-searcher totem- a BLAST to play #major highlights included goobert blessing me not once but TWICE giving me not only a buffed dire wolf but also fercundity black goat #as in replaced the annoying sigil with fercundity #honestly really startled that goobert has changed a sigil on an annoying card it's been the annoying sigil changed literally every time #i don't know if that's wild luck or what but that's been a godsend i would give goobert's bottle a kissy if i could #also i gave that original dire wolf that goobert buffed a copy of to my grizzly so i had a double strike grizzly. even buffed it to 5 power #picked that card every time i wanted to win early #also bonus advice for high cost deck: you probably don't have to get rid of your mole so long as you sac a magpie onto it or something #that's what i've done both the runs i won #just search for the black goat you need #hmm what else what else #oh yeah i got a REALLY nice elk from a trial that had touch of death AND bi-strike #literally guaranteed wins for all the bosses even without items #because. yknow. elk-searcher totem #another trial gave me morsel field rat with something else i don't remember which was funny; even showed up in my final boss attack #ooooooh and i racked up enough teeth thanks to my grizzly to get a myco'd child 13 just before the end- which i gave 3-blood sigil onto #child 13 also just so happens to be in the elk tribe ;) #literally became a better black goat which was fun #blew past map 3 boss and final boss Easily thanks to that little guy #oh- i actually remembered to take a pic of my deck just before the end that i could show somewhere if you like #nothing really notable outside the cards i mentioned but it's here #fun times anyway

[doux-amer]

No, I’m not okay because Argentina loves to choke at big stages and if they got knocked out, istfg they would never live it down, but of course Leo saved the day and in the most Leo way too and I almost cried and then he almost cried and then Fernandez scored with a Leo assist and Leo carried his entire country on his goddamn back (and Martinez with a save) and someone dug up Fernandez’s 2016 Facebook post when Leo was thinking of retiring from the NT which was a whole love letter to Leo about how wrongly Leo’s been treated, how Leo has so much pressure that no one can understand, how he wants Leo to have fun, and he’s playing with his childhood idol and he got a goal at the World Cup and his childhood idol assisted him and Pablo Aimar was on the bench on the verge of a panic attack, crying and hyperventilating, and and and—

I just think about how the entire world was overjoyed when Leo won Copa America and how, regardless of whether you’re Argentinian/you support Argentina or not, the entire world wants him to win the World Cup. And you compare that to R***** and the difference couldn’t be clearer because no one gives a damn about seeing the latter win it or they actively want to avoid seeing that happen. Leo’s so beloved and I think it’s a testament to his character and career that there’s this outpouring of love that has become louder and more sincere as he enters the final stages of his long, storied career. We all know we don’t have much time left with him, and I love that we’re letting him know that we love him and appreciate him. And that’s what makes him indisputably the GOAT. 

#god the amount of swearing and yelling i've done because of so many argentinian squads over the years and this year is no different #who is this team because they're unrecognizable from the copa america-winning one #can't trust nobody but leo #sid lowe wrote an article today about the win and how everyone wants to see leo win #like okay cool argentina wins but we want that for LEO #how is memo still around and how does he look like he hasn't aged over the many years we've seen him??? #every time a team i'm rooting for scores against him it's like ''we won...but at what cost?'' #did tata martino sneak into the argentinian locker room to celebrate? is he going to pack his bags and go home to be welcomed as a king? #because you know he'll get the opposite reception in mexico