#Enrich Points

[ninjasmudge]

doodles of a lamb and their horrible cat

#cotl #cult of the lamb #my art #cotl the lamb #cotl narinder #hey. its me. here are my doodles #i have so many cotl ideas #let nari destroy a few houses as enrichment #its fine #narinder #narilamb #i swear at some point ill do actual narilamb

[mckinlily]

You’re a Gotham teenager playing FMK on your neighbor’s stoop as you do.

“Hmmmm… and marry Red Hood.”

“Red Hood?” says one of your friends. “Doesn’t he kill people?!”

You consider.

“That’s not a deal breaker for me.”

And then, from somewhere above, a distinctive mechanical voice:

“IT FUCKING SHOULD BE!”

You look up. Red Hood is dangling a spitting and hissy Robin over the edge with one hand and gesturing helplessly at you with the other. You stare at him. He stares at you. You don’t know how his face emotes “baffled but concerned for you horror” seeing as it’s covered completely by an expressionless helmet, but it does.

Robin chomps down on Red Hoods fingers.

“FUCKING FUCK!” Red Hood drops Robin over the edge. “DID YOU BITE ME?!”

Robin lands one roof over like a feral cat. He stands up with just as much offended dignity. “I was trained to make use of every tactical advantage,” he states.

Then he waves something small and indistinct from your distance. “Unlike you.” And swings off the roof.

Red Hood roars and chases after him.

There is a moment of distinctly Gotham silence.

“You made the right choice.”

You jump a foot and find Red Robin perched on the railing like some kind of overgrown parrot.

“Hood’s the only one of us who can cook,” explains Red Robin. 

He gives you a single nod—and disappears.

…

Just another day in Gotham.

#batfam #only in gotham #at this point most gothamites believe throwing/dropping/flinging Robins is vital for their development #*yeets a robin* it’s enrichment #this rumor was started by a baby dick grayson who wanted to be flung off ALL the things #and continues strong with Damien and his many big brothers

[high-voltage-rat]

I think it's fascinating that the quotes:

"Have you forgotten sir, we were at war? A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our species. I feel I must remind you that it is an undeniable, and may I say fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable."

"When you spend every day fighting a war, you to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're subhuman. Because if they weren't, what would that make you? What I'm trying to say... is I've been afraid to see you for what you really are. You're our brothers. Our sisters. And the things we've done to one another are unforgivable."

"These guys want to use us, take us away from our families, and send us all over the dad-gum galaxy just to test if their agents are ready for the big fight? Well... guess I'm interested in showin' em exactly what a big fight is all about! So I'm not ordering you to go. I ain't even asking. You do what you gotta do, Private."

came from the same series whose standard fare is lines like:

"What in the hell are you two doing?" / "We're being executed by our own men, sir." / "Cut it out."

"I only drink the blood of my enemies, and the occasional strawberry yoohoo."

"You always said I could sleep when I’m dead, Sarge, and guess what? I am dead. This purgatory is about to become purga-snore-y, yawn!"

...and both categories manage to be a poignant statement about the nature of war and what it does to the people in it.

#everyone always talks about the more dramatic bits of rvb with the speeches and the 8+ seasons of plot development as the anti-war part #but the comedicization of the violence and death that the characters go through. the tongue-in-cheek gung-ho attitudes. #the way that they're so desensitized to the idea of death or gruesome injury to the point that it's!!! a comedy show!!! #all of that is just as much a statement of the fucked up nature of war!!! #it's like Col. Flagg and Frank Burns in M*A*S*H. they're so simultaneously into and detached from the war and it's a STATEMENT #idk I'm just. thinking about my favourite anti-war media. drawing mash-rvb parallels. and suddenly had to scream about it #might reread the paper on rvb being anti-war media. for enrichment. #not video games #late nights with ali #ali watches rvb #rvb #red vs blue

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

Last week, Johnson & Johnson agreed not to enforce their secondary patents on bedaquiline in most countries after a long public pressure campaign by TB activists around the world.

(A special shoutout to Nandita Venkatesan and Phumeza Tisilethe, the two women who led the charge to prevent the patent evergreening in India, which is the only reason generic bedaquiline is in production.)

But the problem of patent evergreening is everywhere--as this NYT story reports, Gilead intentionally denied people access to a drug they knew to be less toxic than alternatives because it wanted to extend its monopoly on HIV drugs for as long as possible.

Similarly, Johnson & Johnson has been intentionally denying people access to affordable bedaquiline, even though they knew they could make a profit even if they decreased the price by 65%.

What's especially galling is that both these companies benefit tremendously from public investment (bedaquiline research was funded primarily by the public), and so we end up paying for it twice--once to develop it, and once to have it available to the sick.

This is infuriating, and it is resulting in the real impoverishment and death of so many people. How does it end? With better governance and regulation. In this respect, India can be a model for us--their courts have done a much better job than U.S. ones of determining what really deserves to be patented and for how long. I'm hopeful that we can learn from the, but disgusted by this ongoing horror.

#coffee company #pharmaceutical companies #it's almost as if we healthcare shouldn't be a market-driven enterprise #like what if the point of healthcare #is not to enrich the already rich #but rather to improve the health of a community #with preferential access for the most marginalized and impoverished

[nikomedes]

labru this chilshi that. all i want is a post-dungeon fanfic where kabru wakes up late at night and chilchuck is in his room and gives him a shovel talk about hiring scab labor (mickbell and kuro)

#THE PROBLEM OF UNION BUSTING SHOULD ALWAYS FIRST BE LAID AT THE FEET OF THE EMPLOYER #also i think kabru and chilchuck would have fun bullying each other. as enrichment #anyway hyped for kuro to get to the point in his study of common to actually explain to mickbell the function and protections of a union #mickbell is every young employee who’s normalized work meaning he has to put up with anything. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #chilchuk tims #kabru #dot txt

[sidetongue]

this beautiful idiot went to live with someone else and honestly, both of our QOL are much better HAHA

#she just could not vibe with a house full of other animals #her anxiety manifested in insatiably eating everything #not just food #cardboard plastic you name it #i had to lock cupboards and put books on the bin so she couldnt open it and rummage through it #she screamed for food constantly #she innappropriately toileted constantly #to the point where i bought two automatic litter trays so they were always spotless in case that was the issue #she was medicated and given daily enrichment #but nope #anyway after over a year of kind of hating our life together #i bit the bullet and rehomed her #her food obsession has disappered and besides peeing on their bathmat once #she has used the litter tray without issue #we make a commitment to our pets yall #but do not force yourself to keep them if you are both miserable #i wish i was brave enough to have done this sooner #anyway #rehoming is not the devil #and you can do it responsibly #bye ferg i'm sorry to say i don't miss you #but i'm so glad you're finally happy #fergie #the cat edition

[vaguely-concerned]

I have seen people question whether dios apate minor really needed to happen the way it did. it's the 'this could have been an email' of htn. 'augustine this did not have to be a threesome', I hear people saying. and boy do I have an obnoxious amount of things to say to protest this perfectly sensible assertion so here we go haha

1) yes it absolutely had to be like that. It says so on this piece of paper *hands you a piece of paper that says "because I said so and also it's narratively and thematically Sexy"* in my half-legible handwriting. seeing tamsyn muir describe harrow the ninth as a book about being a kid and realizing your parents probably had sex has given me such validation, I am unstoppable now. (to be serious for a moment, harrow the ninth is essentially a bildungsroman, and the threesome scene does a whole lot of thematic heavy lifting around harrow glimpsing elements of adulthood, relationships, and sexuality she clearly finds at the same time repulsive, bewildering and fascinating, and around opening her and especially our eyes to how much john is just a man with human longings still, under the god stuff. dios apate is crucial plot- and character-wise too -- it's a loadbearing threesome in terms of delivering the clues you need to piece together the mystery plot of the book, which is simply delightful -- but even more so thematically. and then the scene at the end where they confront john gives gideon some of that same opportunity to peek into adulthood and go '...well shit I guess', as a sort of mirror, just without the french kissing that time and more murder. the things magnus and abigail model for the girls about love and adulthood? mercy and augustine are providing the opposite-day batshit insane version of that fhdskjfa, you know, for contrast and spice)

2) listen... it gets lonely out there in deep space with your 'legendary unamorous' brother, two infant pathetic baby kitten sisters who you'll probably have to kill one day when you take another stab at god if they don't manage to get themselves killed along the way on their own, and the two people you've spent the last ten thousand years having separate yet connected married & divorced arcs with and also btw one of them is god... honestly a threesome over the dinner table is probably The most well-adjusted reaction one might hope for under those circumstances

3) on a characterization level I think Augustine is actually doing something incredibly deliberate with it: he's presenting John with yet another chance to admit what he did. which is notable especially since the deal he and mercy agree on as a condition for the threesome to happen at all seems to be that they're going to give the ol' godslaying another game try sooner rather than later. (I get the sense that it's not so much that he disagrees with her ultimate goal so much as that he thinks she's being dangerously indiscreet and hasty going about it, before. “though I think it will be the death of us,” huh.)

notice how he's structuring the whole thing: he's invoking the intimacy and love in their strange little threeway relationship and how long it's been by truly playing along with john's 'we're a happy family really when we're at home! :)' delusion (helped along by lowered inhibitions via enormous amounts of alcohol and what I've previously described as a joint mercy/augustine leyendecker themed thirst trap. ah, a classic). he brings up alecto and what happened to her -- or rather, he is clever enough to make john bring up alecto and how she is totally dead, right?? by seeming to make a careless statement that leads there and then acting contrite about it after. he (helped along by mercy, who I think realizes exactly what he's doing -- this is very much a two-man con) brings up how much they all loved their cavaliers, and wow funny how that's been haunting us for ten thousand years now huh :) wow, a lot of our other lyctor friends slash family sure are super dead in the name of some unknowable greater reason neither of us quite grasp and that you won't fucking tell us, aren't they. these are all the main grievances he and mercy confront john about at the end of the book, but put forth much more subtly and not phrased as an accusation -- he's baring his and mercy's vulnerabilities as bait, essentially. if john had, say, a conscience where his conscience should be instead of a black hole, it probably should have stirred something in him.

(also let me just say... the way augustine just takes a pneumatic drill to the TWO tender spots g1deon seems to have and then has the audacity to be like 'oh dear. did that upset him. ooof my bad *loooong dead-eyed slurp of his wine*' is just sooo... he's such a bitch!!! he's the only person who could ever have held their own in a ten-thousand-year bitch-off with mercy and I love him so much. well even if it wasn't all to get g1deon into murder range for harrow I think he wouldn't enjoy sticking around for the 'getting our tongues on god' part of the evening so maybe it's a kindness, really, and totally not pent-up aggression from the last twenty years or so breaking through)

he is all but shaking john by the lapels begging him to just... come clean about it already, to stop thinking he's still kidding everyone else along with himself. it's clear throughout the book that augustine knows exactly what john is at this point -- and all of the most cynical things he does say about it turn out to be distressingly right. john is always less sentimental than you'd think. john wouldn't forgive mercy, he will abandon in a heartbeat anything that isn’t necessary to him anymore, whether emotionally or in some other way. and still he seems to hold out some desperate absurd hope that the man he wants, the man he thought was there, is in there, somewhere deep deep down, if he just gives him the chance to show himself.

(mercy definitely has her own side of this whole thing, I'm just focusing more on augustine because this evening was like. his idea in the first place and I feel like we can Read Some Things into that fact lol. now that we have both ntn and htn to go from I sort of have this sense that the things augustine wants from john are more... personal? more interpersonal? they both love him equally, but mercy's love seems tinged slightly more towards the religious (augustine accuses her of knowing 'only worship without adoration', which like... also the eight house's entire Vibe lol) -- mercy at the end of that book is totally a person breaking up with GOD, not just with john -- while augustine's vibe is more like a man in the last not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper days of a marriage that sort of felt like it could have been something real and good once but all your illusions about it have since been taken from you and trampled underfoot into the mud and you've had the divorce papers signed and ready in a drawer for over a year now, hell, as it turns out, is other people etc. lmao)

having a threesome over the dinner table with god is one thing, having a threesome over the dinner table centered on the one man and god who has yet again let you down in a way so fundamental it can barely fit into words and who you both still love in a way anyway, miserably, and also just reaffirmed your joint resolution to murder (all under the pretense that it gives your baby sisters the chance to murder your brother of ten thousand years yeah that's why this is happening no other underlying aching emotional motivations here haha)... listen mercy and augustine are simply on a different level, theologically. they've added horny shrimp colours to the religious spectrum. who else does it like them

#the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #augustine the first #mercymorn the first #john gaius #dios apate minor #bad cop worse cop and sorry cop #augustine 'when I die I want john to lower my casket #not so he can let me down one last time that's honestly a given at this point #if at all possible I just want to pull him down into the grave with me' quinque #first saint to serve the king undying #nona the ninth spoilers #nominally? in that I am saying there's relevant information to this polycule clusterfuck in it? eh let's just be safe lol #just when you thought I had no more thoughts about the terrible old people to unleash upon you... here I am again hahaha #the locked tomb meta #also yeah I mean I guess they didn't actually have to get their tongues on god on-page for all this to still be true #but I'm glad they did let them have some lyctor enrichment #hate fucking is actually lyctor love language hashtag did u kno

[ellies-enrichment]

another version of me >> i was in it

#sophie thatcher #prospect #yellowjackets #cee prospect #natalie scatorccio #endlessnat #endlessprospie #cee just pointing a gun at ezra for fun at this point #its enrichment to her #threaten the forty year old man

[little-alien-duck]

what a movie night with the various doctors who would be like:

one: does not like the movie anyone else picks (except for Susan’s choices, those are fine) 

two: doesn’t matter what you’re watching, two is scared. anything that is remotely similar to a jumpscare is too much. he is clutching Jamie’s arm for dear life

three: is actually pleasant to watch a movie with so long as it has sufficient cultural cache (or it’s got a lot of car chases) 

four: one of those insufferable bastards who figures out the plot twist in the first five minutes and then gloats 

five: falls asleep (claims he was just resting his eyes) 

six: points out any and all inaccuracies in the movie 

seven: figures out the plot twist, does not gloat, tries to nudge his viewing companions into figuring it out themselves 

eight: will not shut the fuck up. has a running commentary on everything that happens and reacts with passion even if he’s already seen the movie before. then someone else talks and it’s all “you’re ruining the best part charley!” 

nine: claims he’s not actually watching but instead is just keeping who is watching company while he tinkers or whatever (he is watching) 

ten: likes to watch musicals and sing along to all the songs loudly 

eleven: can’t sit still long enough to watch a movie 

twelve: had never watched a movie in his life until he and missy start doing semi frequent movie nights in the vault. he claims this is just give her some variety and he does not enjoy it and that “it’s not a date bill!” 

thirteen: diligently pays attention to the entire movie. notices incredibly minor things happening in the background. somehow misses the main plot entirely

#the point is they would all be terrible at watching movies #also I just like taking this guy and saying #how would all the versions of them react to this specific scenario #it is like enrichment for me #doctor who #dw

[tracfone]

GLaDOS when you tell her you don't want to play toys with her

#portal #glados #whats the point of an enrichment center if you have no one to play with ):

[skaldish]

I am on my knees begging for people to contribute to public heathen spaces more. If you want less brosatru nonsense floating about, there needs to be a larger-scale effort to provide alternative narratives to it and normalize their presence.

You don't even need to pick fights with people, just create/share content that reflects your heathenry in heathen spaces. In other words, participate.

The folkish and odinists don't have nearly the level of authority they used to have, but their nonsense will keep circulating unless challenged by the average person.

#zan speaks #the most plausible worst-case scenario is that you'll piss off some dudebro when you point out the Eddas aren't scripture #and that's only if you're offstandish about it #I've spoken to a number of people from the middle of the isle who found their conversations with me enriching #besides the point isn't to correct people it's to provide a variety of perspectives so newcomers see they have choices at their disposal

[fate-defiant]

These four wormed their way into my head last night and would not leave me until I spat something out so here's some assorted headcanons, a comic that I'm not sure I understand the punchline of myself and the youngest inn-bling(ba dum tss) in ten to fifteen years.

#princess tutu #author #malen #i didnt really stop to think of the tots' names. #i honestly dont know what their parents would name them! #i mean so far we've got an author and we've got a malen. absolutely bonkers combination mama and papa innskeeper what were you on #also i just found it hilarious if they had a ridicilously small age difference for siblings thats it #like not even a full year and he's acting all high and mighty lmaooooooo #i fear i am genuinely being too mean to author this time #i am sure he didnt mean to alienate himself from his family- #-by diving headfirst into researching its dark spooky past- #-to the point of forming his own self-contained cult of a sort. #thats just puberty. teenagers need to be agressively weird its enrichment. how else will they find themselves? #no seriously i am asking #so far i havent seen a different method #anyway #fanart #my art #i think ill tag stuff specifically tied to these four as #the inn-blings #i feel like i had more to say in the tags but i forgor #OH OH OH #i didnt! say anything! ABOUT MALEN #like hwllo this makes her involved in the whole spooky fucking writer drama?? osrt of? #.i mean #its implied that authors father was adopted and theres no direct blood relation #or something of the sort #either way the innblings have no hereditary powers #author is just a big fucking nerd #so like.

[lordcryosrealmoftrash]

I've created a fun new game for myself. It's called Stephcass or Bees? It's basically me looking at fanart of a blonde with long hair and a black haired person with a bob and trying to figure out if it's Stephanie and Cassandra or if the artist just forgot Blake's ears

#bumbleby #stephcass #i create my own enrichment #bonus points if its neither

[musical-chick-13]

So I guess ultimately my question is why are we assuming that Nayuta specifically meant “Denji belongs to me definitively, and you are trying to take his attention away from me?”

Aside from the fact that narrative misdirection is a thing and that I think it would completely contradict all the themes of the story thus far to just have her be Makima 2.0 and inherently evil...

We don’t actually know if she and Yoru recognize each other or not? Even on a subconscious level. If she does recognize Yoru (and, reasonably, knows how her powers work) calling Yoru a thief could have meant that “You are trying to steal Denji’s spinal cord to make a weapon” or even “You have stolen this random girl’s body to use for yourself.” (Even if she doesn’t know specifically that Yoru is sharing Asa’s body, she might still be able to tell that something weird is going on?)

She’s still a child, she might have just impulsively said the smallest amount of words that would sort-of convey what she was feeling.

I’m not worried yet.

Yet.

#I know people are pointing to the 'don't kiss me in front of her' as evidence of her posessiveness over denji but. she's also a child? #lots of children just don't like seeing kissing in general. especially involving family members. it's also possible that...idk they were #watching a movie once with a kiss scene and she made a disgusted face or something and denji just interpreted that the wrong way #I mean. I know creators like to troll people especially ones who are essentially human cryptids like fujimoto but...he did say that part 2 #would be different from part 1. idk he's not a stupid writer I don't think he would go this hard on Themes™ of love and connection and how #they enrich our lives and then backtrack on that? I don't think he would highlight how Things Will Be Different if it didn't mean anything? #MANY THOUGHTS HEAD FULL #I'm still sad we didn't get a discussion between yoru and nayuta about eating crayons I'm thinking too much about that one comic #nayuta #yoru #chainsaw man #chainsaw man spoilers #chainsaw man manga spoilers #csm spoilers #csm manga spoilers #csm chapter 119 #(I think that's all of the tags people might have reasonably blocked if they don't want manga spoilers???)

[apollos-boyfriend]

minecraft hardcore players are absolutely insane i’ll open up youtube and the first thing on my recommended is some shit like “i rebuilt the entire earth at a 1:1 scale in the end in minecraft hardcore while blindfolded and also on fire”

#icarus speaks #the end segment is an exaggeration. but everything else is fucking on point okay #like. glad you’re enriching yourself. why are you torturing yourself tho

[yael-art-den]

I find It funny in a lighthearted way when an artist writes "reference used!" under a piece of their art because my mind inmediately goes to

#yeah i sure hope you did!!! its normal and good to use references!! #in fact as many as possible that enrich your art #i think it should be a given that almost any piece of art uses references #text #AND I KNOW it means its copying a pose off pinterest. point still stands. its normal!!!!