#thinking of useless cases

[aurorangen]

Travelling from the big city all the way to the English countryside to solve the missing lettuce case. Bless this old lady!

Transcript:

[Noah holds in his laughter and avoids eye contact with the old lady while Renee, looking down, is too shocked to speak, Like the team leader he is, only Darius keeps a serious face and continues the questioning] Darius: Excuse me, Ma'am. Please could you repeat that for us? [very confused] What exactly happened?

Carla: I woke up and brushed my teeth. Put the kettle on for a morning brew. Ah! Do you fancy a cuppa dear? Darius: [politely declines] We are fine thank you. Ma'am, could you skip to when you found out? Carla: Of course [thinks back carefully] I'm devastated to say someone has stolen my prized possession.

Carla: My giant lettuce is missing.

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 3 #renee reichmann #noah ngata #darius monet #she mustve dialled wrong station panicked and didnt share all details #bless her #idk what im doing ok!! #thinking of useless cases #and this is what comes to mind lmao #renees not too happy oops #i mean its wasting time she wants to solve “real” cases this isnt it!!! #im not rly inspired atm but im having fun visiting henford on bagley

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

#mlp #yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia. #yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show #but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!! #i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse #in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character #personal #delete later #unless you like this analysis stuff #i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did #cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her #mother and father as a teenager #i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased #but i'll put some in the tags #involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity #anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention #(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff #long post #regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at #a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up

[geodenes]

can someone PLEASE be insane with me about them

#mordeson #regular show #benson #benson dunwoody #(ꈍᴗꈍ)♡ #mordecai #regular show fanart #regular show benson #regular show mordecai #mordecai x benson #GUYS I LOVE THEM SO MUCHJ i rlly wish i could talk as in much depth about them as i would like 2 bc i could spend hours!!!! i swear 😪 #i can't believe i only had a single post of them I FEEL LIKE SUCH A FAKE FAN IM SO SORRY #btw has anyone thought of a name for this ship besides mordeson? i always wanted 2 make one like those big fandoms do ! it's just so.. cool #i suggest bluegum or videoclip ( videogames + clipboard ) in case there are no options available yet:3 #I HOPE THOSE DON'T SOUND LAME AAAAUGH I REALLY TRIED MY BEST TO THINK OF SOMETHING GOOD BUT MY BRAIN IS USELESS 4 THIS KINDA STUFF #anyway. thank u very much bee for letting me use the idea of the cat beanie hehee<3

[enjoythepetrichor]

"ohhh they look so similar, they're both in love with their childhood best friend and have a secret identity that they hide from her"

fellas I think the key factor that connects Kaito and Shinichi is their absolutely batshit insane, very hot mums 😌

#dcmk #dcmk fanart #chikage kuroba #kuroba chikage #yukiko kudo #kudo yukiko #I hear they're inlaws maybe? good for them #but also I think they should leave their useless husbands for each other don't @ me on this #i checked and neither wear their rings frequently don't think that's a coincidence #kaishin #secretly #detective conan #case closed #magic kaito #detco #zoe draws

[chaosinterlude]

you guys ever think about levi liking games so much because a lot of games require strategy, quick thinking, problem-solving skills, etc. and those are things levi is good at due to his past as a general / grand admiral and now that he isn’t really active in those ranks anymore games are his way to cope with that and keep doing what he loved and devoted himself to for such a long time

#love my tired little brain going down rabbit holes #i hope i don’t look at this tomorrow and realize that i make absolutely no sense sjdkdn #in any case i think about levi’s former titles a lot and how he’s stated he felt useless when times were peaceful #so yeah i think games are a great comfort to levi because they feel familiar #obey me #obey me shall we date #obey me leviathan #obey me levi #obmswd

[weepycat]

the full email is posted here but this paragraph from rachel corrie's last email to her mother in 2003 before she was killed by an israeli bulldozer is absolutely fucking harrowing over 20 years later.

I look forward to seeing more and more people willing to resist the direction the world is moving in: a direction where our personal experiences are irrelevant, that we are defective, that our communities are not important, that we are powerless, that the future is determined, and that the highest level of humanity is expressed through what we choose to buy at the mall.

#it's devastating #especially watching discourse around boycotts as the worst case scenario unfolds. #but i think allies need to hear her more now than ever... #i've seen discussion surrounding motaz calling us useless #and it's true. #not in a self-centered sense of personal guilt #but in that we have been made to believe that we are powerless to resist this #that eventually the embers of peoples' effort will die #that we have no say in our government #but we do #you do #i dont even live in the USA anymore but i can still buy e-sims and stand firm in my beliefs #even if it means constantly learning about more atrocities and constantly arguing and defending my stance #the work must be tireless when you rage against a machine #it might not feel like much... but it's honest work.

[gregoftom]

pretty sure i’ve seen romance movies with scenes like this

#tomgreg #where do i even start with t his horseshit okay here we fucking go. #so tom's first instinct is to go to greg when he's on shaky ground with shiv. the only way he feels safe is to have GREG with him. #who tf would want greg as an attack dog??!?!? lets be fucking real. when he says that i think he means just a dog. just someone loyal. #who loves him and won't dick him around. i think he's pretty tired of it by now. #he wants an alliance with like. ok in this show who would you pick to ally with. i love greg but he's abso useless in terms of skills that #would keep you safe. if anything TOM would keep HIM safe. in fact tom himself says who else has taken care of you. literally spells it out. #he even says greg is a joke; will fail; will fuck up; so what use does he have for tom other than companionship. other than love? #a dog might do tricks for you but your main reason for getting one is usually love. right? at least it should be. it would be in tom's case. #and don't even fucking get me STARTED on ''do you wanna come with me? ...sporus?" like girl. #you know what you told him about nero and sporus right. and now you're saying to him; yeah i was talking about you. #you and me. you're my favourite and i wasn't joking when i said i'd marry you. #the whole while tom is asking greg to be his attack dog his fuckin. eyes and expression we get it you're in love with him. like it's ridic. #and all this coming with phrasing it sounds like they're fucking ELOPING. I HATE IT!!!!!! SHUT UP! stop saying that fucking shit god. god #they are so annoying. anyway #the way tom's voice breaks as he says he has things to do [what things. will i find out later.] and the deal and!! #what am i gonna do with a soul anyways... i have you what do i need it for. and as that paragraph said somewhere. he castrates his soul. #then they giggle and are fucking annoying and greg'S HANDS LOOK LIK EHE'S ABOUT TO IDK. HUG TOM? AROUND THE MIDDLE MAYBE #or do something else. and then they just hug instead and i fucking. ugh. i've had enough tbh good fucking bye

[pttucker]

Han Sooyoung who had to endure the time frame of 50 years – could she still maintain a normal, functioning mind? Was she able to maintain the ego of the Han Sooyoung that I know of? "This is all because I made a deal with the 'King of Reincarnators'." ⸢It 'd b een be tter if I sac rificed myself ins tead.⸥ I turned my head to discover Yoo Joonghyuk glaring at me as if I was a pathetic fool. His lips bobbed up and down several times, but then, squeezed his eyes shut as if to suppress his anger and leaned his back against the couch's cushions. "I'd like to say something, but it seems that someone else will do that for me, instead." "What?" Right in that next instant, fiery pain shot up from the back of my head.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Joonghyuk just swallowing his anger and letting Sooyoung smack Dokja upside the head and yell at him while he just sits there and silently seethes is everything I never knew I wanted.

Ughhhh, and Dokja once again thinking that it should have been him to sacrifice himself. Dokja, you have such a "sacrificing yourself for other people" thing going on, and I know that cannot be healthy mindset as noble as it may be.

Not that Joonghyuk's plan was stellar in comparison. Joonghyuk, my guy, you are hundreds of years old and Dokja is like...thirty. And completely and utterly softhearted. As you well know. Please forgive him if he rejects the "let's spend who knows how long in this roleplay scenario orchestrating the perfect succession while everyone's minds continue to degrade" plan.

Sooyoung literally said that these idiots were gonna mess everything up and she was right. I swear, she can't take these two anywhere.

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These three mean everything to me, guys. There is currently nothing I want more from ORV than to see them interact as much as humanly possible.

#orv #orv spoilers #orv liveblog #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv novel chapter 380 #kdj #yjh #hsy #seriously I'm kind of joking but also really not #I love seeing the three of them come together from their different perspectives and ORV even pointing this out - reader writer protagonist #and now that they all have their own versions of 'future knowledge' and there's no secrets as to them having it #I'm looking forward to some of the schemes that might be cooked up #or in the case of this scenario no scheme and them deciding to just follow yjh's idea of fighting now that that's the best option #...though I still do worry a teeny tiny bit that dokja will end up feeling useless since he's already thought that his companions #would be better off without him or that they're doing well when he's not around...if he starts to think 'yjh & hsy have got this covered'..

[badley]

i recommend. Personally. watching international court cases and being in a removed part of your brain fucking terrified and horrified while you try and remain focused on the facts in the front of your mind so that you can know what the fuck is going on. and then letting that stew to make a list of things you find suspicious or dubious. also recommend then watching a bunch of philosophy all night and going hm fair point and well no i don't think that's true. and then doing the writing three pages thing your good friend suggested to you. and knowing your own naivete intimately. and then i recommend grabbing the a3 newsprint block so that you may make some inconsequential art. which inevitably will help you think. and then i recommend writing again to find out what you think. happy monday guys

#i hope this doesnt sound flippant i truly mean this in the most sincere way possible. i think if we refuse to think or observe we cannot get #the justice sorely needed. and also someone mentioned that they think sa's case is a part of the anc (governing sa party) trying to win back #their credibility as arbiters of justice after being in power for thirty years without delivering on various promises. WILDLY CYNICAL!! but #i don't think that it is unlikely that at least some in the anc are swayed into support of palestine by that logic. election this year #they have to restore an image of their core and founding values somehow. still though i do think those in the legal team at least and probab #ly many outside of it genuinely believe in this cause. and i think that's very important obviously #but ultimately i do think this idea is so cynical as to be functionally useless. did you all see that court footage though. jesus christ #all we can hope is for this to delegitimise israel's stance on the world stage and bring forth the truth. even if they don't achieve their #aims i think this can only be a step in the right e #direction. so. that's good.

[theflyingfeeling]

...💩

#so i live in an apartment block #and one (or some) of my neighbours have started smoking cannabis recently (or something that smells similar) #i say ''have started'' because i haven't noticed anything until a couple of weeks ago #sometimes i can smell tobacco in the staircase but it has never really spread to my apartment #but the pot? my hallway REEKS of it #(=inside my actual apartment!!!!!) #and look. i could not give less shits about what someone chooses to smoke in their freetime #but PLEASE don't subject me to it ffs🤢 #i have a suspicion which neighbour it might be but i'm not 100% sure so i guess there's not much i can do about it #however. the smell is so strong that it would make sense it's from a nearby apartment #and considering my next-door neighbour had a couple of visits from the police last spring... 😐 #i know i'm not the only one bothered by the smell judging by the notes some of my neigbhours have left on the noticeboard of the building #i think these notes (''heippalappu'') are somewhat useless though because 1) the neighbour to whom it's directed may never even see it #and 2) even if they did i doubt it would make them stop smoking indoors #because i don't think it's a case of them not realising the smell might affect others #it's more a case of just being a dick and not giving a fuck about other people #just now i googled ''what to do when my neighbour smokes pot'' lol #but i couldn't really find anything useful for this particular situation where i can't be sure from which apartment the smell comes from 😑 #and i don't really feel like snooping around behind my neighbours' doors like a sniffer dog to figure out where's the source of the smell #i live on the 3rd floor and as i said my main suspect is my next-door neighbour #and someone in the heippalappu was also suspecting a 3rd floor resident (''you know who'' they had written) #but then someone else had written they think it comes from the 4th floor so 🤷‍♀️ #unless it was the pot-smoker themselves bluffing 🤔 #i did find a reddit thread (in finnish) in which some people are like ''it's just a smell. deal with it'' #ah! so i'm supposed to just tolerate the smell of pot inside my apartment! even though it's fucking disgusting! okay thanks!!!!!! #AITA for being bothered by pot smell inside my apartment caused by my neighbour lol

[stupid-sloot-headcanons]

Jokes and memes aside you guys DO know that the only way to determine if someone is a top or bottom is like. Asking them right. It's not a personality trait and top =/= dominant in the same way bottom =/= submissive, that's just a cultural norm tied to misogyny and the belief that to be penetrated and submissive is feminine. And conversely the patriarchal cultural belief that to be masculine is to be dominant and thus the one penetrating

#like i get the jokes and have made them myself sometimes but...sometimes ppl actually seem to think thats the case #and that'd just be misogyny and homophobia but with extra steps 👀 #.personal #sloot bitches about things #its just a pet peeve of mine the same way the jokes about 'lesbian culture' and 'bisexual culture' became smth ppl terminally online #take SERIOUSLY #like bisexual culture isnt actually cuffing your jeans or making puns or whatever quirky internet thing #and lesbian culture isnt blushing while holding a girls hands or being bad at driving or being 'useless'

[end-orfino]

i think one of the worst realizations i came to in terms of creative stuff is the fact that people just coming up with things in their stories etc. as they go along in making it is far more common and accepted than i would have expected. I thought (and still kinda do) that it's a clear sign that the thing's gonna have flaws that could be easily fixed by just planning ahead, like plotholes or contradictions or retconning stuff. But apparently it's frequent?? Especially with situations where something was well-liked, so the creator kept it going, like FNAF or.... I don't fucking know, Bolesław Prus's Lalka, or various TV shows and such. I understand eg. only having a vague sketch of what's supposed to happen in the future of the story as you start making it, and only making it clearer as it comes closer, I get that. That's still planning out the story. But some people don't do that at all and just jump right into stuff without actually thinking of what to do in the long run.

But then again, even if these things suck, I guess they were still made. I can't say the same for my things, so maybe there's some method in this insanity. Even if it can result in some significant flaws

#and obviously there are things that were made this way that i liked or at least appreciated #like that's for sure #i'm not writing off this method as entirely useless and causing a failure everytime because thats not true #im saying that it causes risks. and that personally i think it expresses a lack of care from the creator sometimes #and also can be frankly disrespectful to your fans. like in fnafs case

[greenishness]

my brother booked a flight to the us not two weeks after he begged 200 € off me to pay his debts to the bank and it's pissing me off bad ngl. i'm usually happy to give money to my siblings and friends but at this point he is using me it's not like i have that kind of money just lying around like i was struggling this month bc i gave it to him and he decides to invest into an impulsive trip to fucking arizona?? also don't get me started on the way he pulls the same shit on our sister. he heard that she was working full time and decided this was a good opportunity to ask her to cover his semester fees. asking his LITTLE SISTER for the money SHE earned working a job she hates because she was saving up for her own apartment... he really has no shame omfg

#and every time i come for a visit he tells me about his grand plans for the future how he's gonna be a millionaire soon and provide for us.. #this is why i think that even in the majority of the cases where male influencer hustle culture does not result in rabid hatred + misogyny #it's still ruining lives bc it provides a vision of masculinity that paralyzes men's ability to actually build a good life for themselves #and this failure is on men like my brother just as much as it is on these guys they watch to feel good about themselves #real courage and strength first of all require an ability to make personal sacrifices. it requires doing the shitty work no one wants to do #but it's more comfortable to buy useless supplements go to the gym and daydream abt the manly valour that modern life has stolen from you #it's on YOU that your life is empty and unfullfilling!!!!!!!!! #anyways. i love my brother. i think men are a plague on this earth.

[burinazar]

unfortunately i have caught myself again mired of my own volition in in a lengthy frustrating-ass exchange trying to politely explain basic narrative facts about my favorite characters to someone who manifested some strange unsupportable misunderstanding and won't budge on hearing otherwise. why do i do this sometimes. [hypothetical question, i know why.] i will stop replying now lol

#reason 1: i'm a Snoot and Interfering Busybody (in fandom) and also tbh may suffer from the text version of liking the sound of my own voice #reason 2: neverending wish to discuss my favorite characters which cant actually be met by people i already know in the fandom #except on the rare days when the fandom groupchat gets active and we talk about them in detail for three hours #on those days i actually feel sated and am like 'oh wow there actually is a ceiling for how much engagement with this topic i seek per day' #the rest of the days im off doing things like wandering reddit in case i encounter someone who Needs Me To Explain THem #even so i usually know better than getting into useless dead end convos lol i think i did it today because i'm exhausted and cranky #but gghh that is NOT how the cradles of desire work and that was NOT something vueko (?! who never used one) wished for with them

[missshame]

Fuck medschool so so much omggg

#I'll have to go back after my last exams to finish this stupid fucking rotation #It's only two weeks but two weeks they're taking from my SummerOfFreeTime I've been dreaming of for YEARS #I was hoping we would be enough students in the unit to take some vacation but it seems like it will not be the case #Like at best I'll get to leave early but I'll have to go eveyday I think #Fuck them lol I'll do anything to leave early and I will go out every night if I want and I'm gonna be so fucking useless #Like I don't even give a shit about this speciality I was curious about it for like two days but that unit fucking sucks the week I spent #there were some of the worst of my whole training and lord knows how shitty our rotations usually are lol #I hate being a medstudent it's the worst fucking status to have in hospital your exploited and underpaid they justify it by telling you it's #your formation not a job but then they make you all the shitty tasks and don't give you formation #+ they ask you stuff you're not supposed to do #Sometimes the paramedical team hates your guts from day one they don't even give you a chance #In this particular unit the nurses were so rude lol can't wait to see them again #Also you depend on other so much sometimes you just have to stay here with nothing to do just in case the might need you later to do some #Random shit again lol

[sack-thing]

When you have (close to) no feedback on your fics you have no idea if you have any reader. But still you keep going.

#or not it depends #random thoughts #it might pay off in a few years from now on you never know #for now i don't think it's useless that i keep posting #also i still have so much to write outside of translating the stuff that's already done so chances are I'll be on FFCC all my life lol #so if my main story is available to read online it's still a thing #also in case it needs to be said this isn't a guilt tripping post or anything #it's just me wanting to get this off my chest cuz it's not always easy #but that's the game! i knew what i was getting into