"taken" style action movie where a man searches for his wife. as he fights baddies in gunfights and hand-to-hand combat, it's slowly revealed that:
his wife hasn't been kidnapped
their marriage is not healthy or functional
this guy isn't rescuing his wife, he's hunting her down
his wife is a crime boss, those are her henchpeople he's fighting in a john-wick bloodbath
the tension builds until, drenched in blood, our protagonist steps forward for the final showdown. he pulls a manila envelope from his bullet-torn jacket and throws it at his wife's feet. he's just spent an entire trilogy biting & killing & maiming....all so he can deliver his shit wife her divorce papers
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Websites , Phone Menus, and Other Technological Detritus
This is the story of how I waited two weeks for a telephone appointment, missed it, messed up, gave up, and settled up.
I have been making arrangements for new window coverings. The windows have been measured and colours have been chosen. The representative wanted to know when I could pay for the deposit and I asked for some forbearance while I moved some savings from one account to another. She…
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ಜೂನ್ 1 ರಿಂದ ದುನಿಯಾ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ದುಬಾರಿ: ಯಾವುದೆಲ್ಲ ಹೆಚ್ಚಳ ? ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ
ಜೂನ್ 1 ರಿಂದ ದುನಿಯಾ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ದುಬಾರಿ: ಯಾವುದೆಲ್ಲ ಹೆಚ್ಚಳ ? ಇಲ್ಲಿದೆ ಮಾಹಿತಿ
ಬೆಲೆ ಏರಿಕೆಯಿಂದ ತತ್ತರಿಸಿರುವ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಜೂನ್ 1 ರಿಂದ ಮತ್ತೊಂದು ಶಾಕ್ ಕಾದಿದೆ. ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಶುಲ್ಕದಿಂದ ಹಿಡಿದು ಎಲ್ ಪಿ ಜಿ, ವಿವಿಧ ಸೇವೆಗಳ ಶುಲ್ಕಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗುವುದು.
ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ಮತ್ತು ವಿಮಾ ದರಗಳು, ಎಲ್ಪಿಜಿ ಸಿಲಿಂಡರ್ ಬೆಲೆ ಮತ್ತು ಎಟಿಎಫ್ ಇಂಧನ ಬೆಲೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಪರಿಷ್ಕರಣೆಗಳು ಪ್ರಮುಖವಾಗಿ ಸೇರಿವೆ. ಅವು ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯರ ಜೇಬಿನ ಮೇಲೆ ನೇರ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುತ್ತವೆ.
ಜೂನ್ 1 ರಿಂದ ಅನ್ವಯವಾಗುವಂತೆ ಗೃಹ ಸಾಲದ ಮೇಲಿನ ಎಸ್.ಬಿ.ಐ.ನ ಬಾಹ್ಯ ಮಾನದಂಡ ಸಾಲದ ದರ (ಇಬಿಎಲ್ಆರ್)…
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Ok this is completely out of left field but hear me out. A royal!au with Diluc where he's a little known lord in the capital, and you're a bachelor/ette being taken to every ball of the season and getting paraded around to secure a good match. Diluc is incredibly rich and known in his lands for his kindness, revered by his soldiers, but he never really cared for the theatrics of high society nearer the capital. He was too young before his dad died, and he ran off during what should have been his debutant year, so nobody really knows of him besides trading partners. He always supplies the nobles with fine wine and meat from his herds but declines every invitation to actually come and attend an event in the big cities.
Until one time his wait staff and close trading partners manage to convince him, and he agrees to go to just one ball because he's in the area for business and the networking is always useful. He's not up to date with the current trends but gets a suit tailored for him ahead of time. He hasn't read any of the famous writers of the moment but he's still a learned man who can talk philosophy with all the men twice his age, who are charmed and all too eager to throw their kids at him, hoping for a chance to bring their families together.
You're one of the debutants and have had to sit through a dozen introductions while your parents try to secure a good match. You're not rich or important enough to have your pick of husband, but you're not poor enough to be completely irrelevant. Of all the bachelors running around and trying to charm you with their knowledge of the latest plays and wars, only one catches your eye. It's hard to not notice him, honestly. Diluc is tall and broad but doesn't hold himself like a man of war, fiery hair tied back from a handsome, brooding face while he stands on the sidelines and talks to some older nobleman. You've never seen him before, and none of your friends seem to know him either. He's the lord of a smallish county near the border, and you recognise the name from their generous sponsorships and rich wines.
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Thinking about afraid of the dentist!Bruce and like
Bruce Wayne's dentist seeing all the #DoTheButtsMatch twitter trends and wanting so fucking badly to violate HIPPA and join in like
(ID in alt)
Because 1) honestly she loves the man but FUCK it's so annoying. She'd take a bitey toddler patient actively throwing a tantrum over Bruce Wayne any day, I mean she understands nervous patients because the man is so damn eccentric to boot she's never sure what kind of response to prepare for,
and 2) look, dental records are so very, very specific. Like ,"legally acceptable to identify the body" kind of specific. So she ALSO would absolutely know that Bruce Wayne very much is the Batman, so it would be the same level of trolling as the Wayne kids.
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He came in, dazed her and...took out the trash? After that he just left.
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Love (cannot emphasis how much sarcasm there is in that word) that an official Canadian government response to high cellphone rates is to switch carriers.
Switch it to what? We basically have three companies since one was allowed to eat the forth (with the government saying it wasn't anti-competition and the company eating the other pinky promising they wouldn't jack rates up). Even the smaller companies have to rent infrastructure from the Big Three so there's only so much they can do if that rent costs an arm and a leg.
And that's not touching on how many "small companies" are actually just subsidiaries of the Big Three. You may save $5 but you're still with Telus/Rogers/Bell.
Or that the actual small companies tend to have shit coverage because they don't have the infrastructure available to them and are prevented from getting it. Or their traffic is throttled in favour of the Big Three's customers. Or both.
Or that they're extremely regional thus aren't an option for a huge chunk of Canada's population.
We have no true options and the government has shown time and again that they're fine with monopolies, in multiple industries, and don't care when said monopolies jack up prices to make shareholders and the c-suite more money at the expense of everyone else. At most there will be a verbal slap on the wrist and a giftcard for $25 that people have to register for, for a decade and a half of price gouging.
It's not talked a whole lot about outside the country from what I've seen and heard but Canada is a country of monopolies. A handful of companies own nearly everything, every province has a family or two that owns a hell of a lot (Nova Scotia is basically owned by one family at this point), and our government ignores it. Even the branch that is supposed to be against monopolies is fine with mergers and takeovers in most cases.
Because, you know, the company said it totally wouldn't use consumers' lack of options to increase prices.
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Quixis gives free texturing to Icarus
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being rich/famous is truly like having a devil's bargain where you get everything you ever wanted at the cost of slowly becoming more and more evil
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a tactic of abusive parents that i don't see brought up very often: convincing their victims that child protective services are evil and that foster parents would certainly be even more abusive than their current circumstances
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c!dream + acts of service, a noncomprehensive list:
c!dream making a majority of the community structures in the community house
c!dream repairing various parts of the server that had been blown up or otherwise destroyed early server, filling in creeper holes, fixing tubbo's house
c!dream treating c!eret as a king the first time he heard abt lmanburg when eret first logged on
c!dream talking about how his time "as ruler" will end at the beginning of the revolution, being named de facto leader because of lmanburg declaring independence and the ensuing war, and framing the period of his rulership as temporary
c!dream naming c!eret as the official ruler at the end of the revolution
c!dream rejecting roles that wilbur gave him post-revolution and deferring to eret
c!dream putting himself in c!wilbur's service during pogtopia
c!dream defending tommy and helping him repeatedly in conflicts during the same era
c!dream immediately finding techno to give him items and ensure him of his help shortly after he joined the server
vassal convo + c!dream stepping between c!tommy's crossbow and c!wilbur
c!dream acting underneath schlatt post-revive book deal as someone fighting for schlatt and defending him w/ manberg themed shields, supplying him with items
c!dream going over to techno during the speech where he set off the withers and defending him from projectiles with his shield
"i'm so proud"
c!dream acting as c!george's knight in early season 1b + defending the king after an attack to his place of residence by a foreign official
c!dream helping puffy + gathering wood for her
c!dream defending c!eret in dethronement debacle + mexican lmanburg revolution, demanding peace + reparations after an attack to their castle as well as apologies, fighting for them + in defense of the other knights of eret
c!dream giving techno intel + resources (such as a map to where he could obtain a totem of undying) as well as saving him from being executed by nlm
c!dream putting himself in the line of fire to defend c!punz from scrutiny by the server, the possible implications of the revive book experiments especially considering the divergence in goals between c!dream and c!punz
defending techno during the prison break when he was too distracted by ranboo's death, getting his enemies off of him
post-inconsolable differences putting himself in a position of service to c!foolish in exchange for a warning of c!quackity's presence
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I hate this new wave of impossibility with shelters
When my cat cookie had her last oops litter we tried to surrender them to the local shelter cause we figured theyd find homes easier that way BUT the shelter wanted $400 per kitten plus several "interviews" with the kittens over the course of like 3 months before they would even think of taking them, and if they decided against taking the kittens you were down $400x however many kittens (in my case it would of been $1200) and the kittens would be like 6 months old and at that point you might as well just keep them all and get them all desexed instead of taking them to the pound to surrender them at all
We ended up rehoming them via facebook and two of them went to the same home a week apart
They...wanted you to pay $400 to surrender animals to them??? That alone is insane but an extended interview period with the kittens as well? Are they applying to work there like what the fuck?
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I love how Tumblr's reaction to Leander being a rich boy is a collective ew.
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POV the old fart you rescued from some crazy lady's ice prison just realized he hasn't updated his spouse on his wellbeing in weeks
twitter
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