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Extremely Exhausted Starters

“You. Rest. Now.”

“You took five steps and need to sit down again?”

“I’m absolutely fine, I just need to sit down.”

“I just need to sit-what do you mean I’m already laying down?”

“Your eyes aren’t focusing. Just close them for ten minutes.”

“Write one sentence on this piece of paper, and then I’ll let you up.”

“I just need a breather, that’s all. Maybe ten. No fifteen.”

“We’re both so exhausted we can’t even argue about not being exhausted.”

“When I said I needed five more minutes I meant it more like hours.”

“… no… I’m tired… let me sleep… I don’t want to get up.”

“We need to get out of the heat, you’re starting to look sick.”

“You can’t hide those shaking hands from me. You need to stop.”

“I’m just a little cold, I’m okay, really. Let me sit with a blanket or something.”

“Moving…? No I’m good thanks.”

“Gravity has a hold on me of which I have not the strength to break.”

“Was… was that actually there? That wasn’t there was it?”

“I’ve had no energy for three days.”

“You worked yourself so hard that you’ve been sentenced to three days of bed rest.”

“Listen I can… I can get up. It’s fine.”

“If we’re both in this state, we both really screwed up somewhere huh?”

“I have energy for exactly one more person of favourable standing, and going the hell to bed. With or without that person, bed is happening.”

“You’ve struggled to move anything for the last hour.”

“This is what happens when you over exert yourself.”

“You were almost dead from pushing it too far!”

“I went a little overboard sure… but I’m still alive. So shh.”

#( APERTURE SCIENCE: WE DO WHAT WE CAN BECAUSE WE MUST / ASKBOX )

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#( I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS / FT. CAVE )

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#( I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS / FT. CAVE )

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Not only did she graduate top of her class at Oxford, start multiple charities, and is a fashion icon—Astrid has the biggest heart of any of my cousins.

Gemma Chan as Astrid Leong in Crazy Rich Asians (2018) dir. John M. Chu

#( NOW LITTLE CAROLINE IS IN HERE TOO / VISAGE ) #she....

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royalmuses‌ ( rick. )

          Rick nodded, accepting the memo with a borrowed smile and unapologetic gusto. Heart in his throat, but he took the assignment like he’d both never received anything more important, and could handle it as easily as Mr. Johnson would be able to read it when he was through.

          Alright, so the order was… irritating, but that was the sort of thing a body had to expect when the boss had all of the money and power with none of the scientific background to hold up his big ideas. At least, that’s what Rick figured in the moment— the frustration would catch up to him some other time, but this was NOW. Now, what really mattered to him was not the message, but the messenger.

          Lovely,    proud,    intelligent    messenger.

          ❝Sure thing, Miss Caroline,❞ he agreed readily, all pleasant attitude and Southern accent like a careless summer, ❝If that’s what th’ boss wants, that’s what he’ll get. An’ if that’s something that’ll make your life a little easier, all the better, huh?❞ Punctuated by a wink. 

          ‘thank you. i’m sure you can understand how... particular mr. johnson can be.’ and it was either to cut out the middleman when it came to him constantly sending notes back to their SCIENTISTS trying to clarify. as many with such kind of tireless ambition, it came with its setbacks and though she would never outwardly INSULT her employer, he didn’t always understand the kind of work and thinking that went into making his ideas a reality.

            caroline gave a polite, PROFESSIONAL smile as she stood on the tips of her toes, in hopes she could catch a little peek of what he was working on. her job didn’t allow for her to do much of the work she found interesting and even a little FUN when she was busy coordinating schedules and taking down notes. and she did have a mind and eye for science even if it didn’t get utilized as much as she liked.

              ‘may i see what you’re WORKING on? if you can show me.’

#( MAYBE WHEN I DELETE YOU I'LL STOP FEELING SO BAD / IC ) #( GOLDEN AGE OF APERTURE SCIENCE / V.001 ) #royalmuses

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#( SAY GOODBYE CAROLINE! GOODBYE CAROLINE! / ABOUT ) #( I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS / FT. CAVE )

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“Can I give you a lift somewhere?”  “You know how to drive?”  “My therapist told me it might help.” Maniac (2018)

#i hate that james and azumi have the same dynamic as cave and caroline #( I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS / FT. CAVE ) #( SAY GOODBYE CAROLINE! GOODBYE CAROLINE! / ABOUT )

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maniac au............................ Sweats

#( THAT'S SO SAD GLADOS RELEASE DEADLY NEUROTOXIN / OOC ) #g.r.t.a. and glados hang out challenge

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Gemma Chan arrives to the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards

#( NOW LITTLE CAROLINE IS IN HERE TOO / VISAGE )

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          ‘mr. johnson wants your work ready by tomorrow and he said, and i quote ‘write it like you’re telling your five year old nephew’.’ at least he was cutting out the MIDDLEMAN of her having to explain it herself like it was for a kid. she glanced down, offering the original MEMO he’d given her.

@royalmuses

#i figured this would be for rick? #( MAYBE WHEN I DELETE YOU I'LL STOP FEELING SO BAD / IC ) #( GOLDEN AGE OF APERTURE SCIENCE / V.001 ) #royalmuses

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i remembered my email so we back

#( THAT'S SO SAD GLADOS RELEASE DEADLY NEUROTOXIN / OOC )

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starter call.

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Gemma Chan at Valentino SS 2019 Paris Snapped by Benjamin Kwan Paris Fashion Week

#( NOW LITTLE CAROLINE IS IN HERE TOO / VISAGE )

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another Caroline sketch from In Search of Dead TIme

#( NOW LITTLE CAROLINE IS IN HERE TOO / VISAGE )

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hello, my periodic portal replay

#( NOW LITTLE CAROLINE IS IN HERE TOO / VISAGE ) #( THESE PEOPLE IN THESE PORTRAITS LOOK SO FAMILIAR / FT. GLADOS ) #chell tbt #wheatley tbt

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starter call.

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I legitimately love the fact Portal and Half-Life take place in the same universe, because it sounds so fake to hear at first, but the more you look into it and think about it, it starts to seem less and less bizarre. 

Like, Portal’s funny and it has a lot of memes about it and whatnot

But if you think about it seriously, it’s only that way because of how over-the-top it’s presented. It’s intended to be taken in a silly way, everything about the game’s writing suggests that sort of Black Comedy/Gallows Humor style writing, but if you just tweaked a little bit of the writing, or present the quotes out of context, they’re really scary.

“Your entire life has been a mathematical error. A mathematical error I’m about to correct.” 

And then you have the famous “lemons” speech by Cave Johnson in the sequel. Sure, on the surface, it’s just a dude ranting about lemons, and its pretty funny to hear. But it’s a broken man who refuses to accept responsibility for his actions, constantly blaming others and throwing money at his problems, even when he has nothing. It stopped being funny for me after that, but it took me a long time to realize what was actually being said. 

Then you have Half-Life 2, which opens up with The G-Man teleporting you into a hellhole where humans have been prevented from reproducing, are regularly killed or kidnapped to be converted into menial labourers, and the only thing that’s keeping us from total extinction is the sycophantic pleading of a man who used to be your boss. The entire world’s grim, dark, gritty, and full of explicit pain and suffering. Headcrabs, the Combine and their Manhacks, and worse stuff. It’s all plain as day.  

Portal and Half-Life sharing the same universe is interesting to me, mainly because it’s such a blatant display of the power of words vs. visuals. Half-Life is scary because of the visuals and audio, from the disconcerting way G-Man speaks to the zombies that beg for death as they attack, to the alien overlords and their innumerable crimes. It’s all conveyed through visuals. 

Portal’s horror is different. You’re in a bright, clean, almost medical environment, alone and isolated, with a cake-obsessed robot you know you can’t trust. It’s still pretty dark to open with that, but then you have the “cake-obsessed” which kind of makes you question the seriousness of the game. Over the course of the games, this sillier and less-serious tone is kept, but its still made clear that something’s amiss. As you progress through the game, and learn about the Neurotoxin emitters, the Personality Cores, Cave Johnson, and more, you learn the truth. It’s still tongue-in-cheek, but the more you let it sit and ruminate, the weirder and more twisted it all seems. 

I enjoy both types for different reasons, and both Portal 2 and Half-Life 2 are in my top 5 video games based almost solely on their storytelling and characters, but I think that the fact they’re so radically different methods of storytelling in the exact same setting, and that you have these potentially parallel and concurrent stories of Freeman and Chell, fighting oppressors of radically different types using radically different means of fighting back. There’s something about it that just appeals to me so much. 

#good post op #( THAT'S SO SAD GLADOS RELEASE DEADLY NEUROTOXIN / OOC )