#I'm inclined to think they didn't

[canisalbus]

I like to imagine, in the 'canon', before Machete's assassination, as they drift apart, Machete starts having terrible nightmares. A distorted version of himself, resembling only the worst parts of him hurting everyone he loves (aka Vasco) and potentially even killing him. As he realizes how dangerous he is he starts distancing himself, hurting Vasco even more in the process. I even imagine them exchanging some pretty heated and mean spirited words (especially Machete) a few hours before he inevitably dies.

All that can tie back to that other anon had said about Vasco having nightmares. He feels guilty and that he's responsible for what happened.

Oh boy, that's terribly sad ;^;

Machete had been spiralling for a while before he was ultimately assassinated. I'd like to think they were still very close and not actively drifting apart, but there was definitely some tension in the air. Machete had been retreating into his shell, consumed by mounting paranoia and self-loathing and felt that it was actively harmful and dangerous for Vasco, the light of his life, to be near him. Vasco was worried of course, but they had had rough patches before and Machete had always managed to outrun his demons that far, he believed things would work out eventually like they always do. He had no reason to think it would end this time.

#I don't know if they parted in tense terms #I'm inclined to think they didn't #it just seems so cruel #maybe it was more like 'we'll figure this out the next time I come to visit' #'I'll write to you' #'stay safe' #because Vasco wasn't in Rome when Machete died he was at home in Florence and only found out about it days or weeks later #answered #anonymous #Vaschete scenarios #Vaschete lore

[quatregats]

Also I realize that the answer is probably just reading enough period sources but as a linguist I really do need to pick Patrick O'Brian's brain about where in the world he got his different speech patterns from

#mostly just fascinated because they are mostly not based on modern speech patterns #and maximum respect to him for that period pieces should be in period language and that includes different sociolects/dialects #but i'm just really really interested what he took them from. like i want to read the source material #also as someone who knows virtually nothing about irish english i didn't notice most of stephen's irish speech patterns #until after reading the golden ocean which makes them much more obvious #but i'm curious if (1) they're recognizably modern and/or period irish and (2) what the irish people here think of them #generally inclined to trust him on it because it's unexpected enough that i feel like it's probably at least slightly based on sources #i just have no frame of reference for it #anyways when i say that i need to talk to patrick o'brian you have to understand that this would be minimum 50% of the conversation #the other 50% would be asking him about the catalan references because i am nothing if not predictable #perce rambles #aubreyad

[sleepynegress]

Love this interview... I have been semi-checking in on Zawe's journey since before certain stans were feeling some kinda way about her recent familial additions. I do for certain Black actors/creators especially, who seem to be moving in interesting ways in entertainment/film media...

-A remnant from a period when I used to go to screenings and blog about films (and was published a few times in a major national newspaper)... So, I knew of Zawe through the grapevine of her mentorship, i.e. she is the reason why Rege Jean Page of Bridgerton fame got to work in U.S. markets, as she sponsored him. And she is known, as one of those "good eggs" who will be accessible and help/advise especially young actors of color. ...But, I have some other stuff to say. This isn't about proving that she's an amazing human being. It's about a certain brand of misogynoir that some of these people far beneath her in self-knowledge, self-love, and just plain grown-ass-woman-personhood...keep letting fly in what they *think* are compliments, but actually are just trite microaggressions. Saying things like "as long she makes [T-blank H-blank] happy then she's alright" as if he's the centered human and her attachment renders her worthy somehow. Babies, as long as SHE'S happy. Yall. He's marrying up.

WAY UP and the fact that he knows this? Actually elevates him. She's been there.

She tells a story in the above interview that reminds me of Uzo Aduba's anecdote about her name , - of an incident when she was called to an early job (at 6!) and someone there said she wasn't pretty because of her gap and her Ugandan mother took her on past this person and into the room, ANYWAY.

... She learned a specific self-knowledge and self-love, that is necessary in very white western spaces that constantly pressures a narrow sense of worthiness and beauty, especially from Black women, something a lot of these small-minded stans don't even have a notion of seeing beyond. Zawe is biracial, and her features, aside from her skin tone are very African. So while she benefits from colorism, featurism is something I've seen those bigoted stans, pick on as well. She knows those features are what makes her beautiful and knew that, w/o and before her partner saw that too. And people who aren't blind narrow-minded ignoramuses can *also* see that. This is why I assert the fact of featurism needing to be in the conversation of light/dark privilege conversations. Lips, nose, gap, and even the set of her eyes are ethnic beauty markers within quite a few spaces in the Black African diaspora... My mom was an absolute stunner because of her gap.

Even the old school white model Lauren Hutton got there because of her gap. Uzo Aduba, who I have already mentioned has a deeper skintone and has similarly large round striking eyes, gap, and a non-pinched-nose *rightly* played Glinda in NBC's production of The Wiz a few years back, with Dorothy saying she's so beautiful *because* of those features, not despite them as a very narrow white-washed gaze would wrongly assert.

And while we're here that includes sizes and shapes too. I'm saying your boy is enjoying all that plush. A lot of yall need to read or reread Maya Angelou's Phenomenal Woman, for comprehension.

Anyway... All this to say I know Zawe is and will be fine regardless.

P.S. Maya Angelou *also* had height, and gap and was very much known for her beauty/magnetism as a woman when she was alive. :

#she's as steady in herself as ms. whoopi goldberg is and was back when ALL the comedians even some Black men were picking on her #for her African features meanwhile she pulled whoever she wanted and kept working and has her EGOT #I could also get into the notion that particularly worldly white folk with redhair are more inclined to understand #being picked apart or fetishized for a feature... and can have a leg up on empathy #especially I think when also in the spotlight #she also mentions sinead o'connor who also subverted standards and being an irish woman with her oppressive history pushed back with her ar #zawe ashton #interesting watch #meta #blah #getting ish off my chest #some of yall were comforted by the lie of a certain standard beauty being the only milkshake bringing them to yard #even beyond the misogynoir #grown ups in partnerships and marriages etc value other things and see beauty much differently when they mature. #I'm talking about grown ups some folks never grow to that point sadly #Youtube #I'm so glad she didn't quit acting #and I see TH giving his old theatre school buddies and Black women a word or boost or whatever he did. #...if he had a hand in that #love yourselves because of & not in spite of what you have going on

[bonefall]

In canon Spottedleaf, Redtail and Tigerclaw are all related. Like super closely related. I have an anger for this for the sole reason that they could have done so much with this. I found this out untangling the family tree. I don't even know why this annoys that much.

It was such a profoundly uncomfortable retcon and I really can't believe they did it. They wrote Tigerclaw and Spottedleaf flirting in the first book. Spottedleaf dies in that same book. For the entirety of the time we know she's alive, she solely expresses romantic interest in Tigerclaw.

So WHY, god WHY would they make a retcon like that?? They could have put her in ROBINFUZZY and it would have been less bad!

So personally I fixed it by giving her and Redtail to ROSETAIL. That cat who has a NOTORIOUSLY RED TAIL AND WANTED CHILDREN. The one who HAS NO CANONICAL KITTENS. The way it SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

Btw you can go check out my ThunderClan Family Tree Diagnosis and take some tedium off yourself if you'd like, I drew the entire canon tree and made a family-by-family analysis on the problems that plague it before I made the BB version. It'll be super helpful if you want to DIY a ThunderClan family tree fix.

And my BB Trees are also totally free to take, tweak, and do whatever you'd like with. Half of the reason I do this is so that no one else has to go through the gargantuan effort of redoing trees of 100+ cats if they don't want to. Here's a link to the ones I've done so far.

#bone babble #i really cannot get over how bad of a retcon it was #Robinfuzzy and Adderswift destroyed the entire tree #it's like they didn't think when they made the retcons #like they just picked at random. Or Worse. They WANTED RF and AS to be huge without considering descendants #Either random or the most shortsighted decision making possible #and I'm inclined to believe that it was shortsightedness because of dotc #where they killed off every family that isn't Skykin and gave them 16+ kittens

[simcardiac-arrested]

May I have. A fun fact please :)

fun fact! the baader-meinhof phenomenon, or frequency effect, is not really some sort of mystical thing or a sign from the above or whatever. hell, it's not even that much of a phenomenon. your brain is simply drawn to things that you have just found out about, or have already been thinking of, and so you start noticing that thing repeatedly. some people think it's weird or that like, i dont know, the universe is spying on their thoughts and trying to give them a message. but really it's just what our brain does best: notices patterns. let's say for example you find out that bamboo is a grass (hey, that's another fun fact for you!) and so next time you turn on the tv or watch a youtube video or scroll down a few posts from this one, Bamboo Being Grass might get mentioned. several times, even. and you'd think: that's weird, could it really all just be a coincidence? but yes, it could! realistically, Bamboo Being Grass would've been mentioned in a bunch of places anyway, it's just that you are now more inclined to notice that fact because it's new information for your brain!

#i don't know if this is like obvious or common information... but personally i didnt know this until a bit ago! used to think it was #something weird. the universe doing cocomelon shit to me. but rly that's just human brains for you #although if i'm honest i haven't really started experiencing this effect until maybe a year or two ago... or well maybe i have been #experiencing it before and just didn't notice/can't remember. but it rly does feel like such a newfound thing to me #or hey maybe just because i found out it exists as a concept Now i am more inclined to notice when it happens? #who knows #cramswering

[fragmentedblade]

Also, Ruan Mei was the one who lent the Phase Flame to Ratio, wasn't she?

#That Ratio and her were working together seemed to be the case since we first found him but idk #Ruan Mei plays dumb when we ask about him but I thought it was clear that she did know him #Herta also pretends she doesn't know him for some reason #cringefail acquaintance #Jokes aside I wonder why they did that. Is it because they both are ehm working behind each other's back #(Herta when it comes to the IPC‚ the SU and the bet‚ Ruan Mei kind of with everything)‚ or is it due to some other more complex reason? #Based on we've seen thus far I do think Ratio and Ruan Mei were working together in something #and that she was in the known of at least some things. Perhaps not everything #She seems to care about things beyond her research even less than Herta does #But given what we're told it seems fair to conclude the fire Ratio had was given to him by Ruan Mei #Herta said Ruan Mei needed it for some research. So either she didn't need it anymore and didn't mind giving it to Ratio afterwards #or maybe what Ratio was doing was something she was a part of. Or did Ratio steal it when he was around the seclusion zone? #I'm not inclined to think that tbh it seems to me Ruan Mei must have been knowingly implied. Yet now she owes Herta a favour #Which is more valuable according to Herta. This quest has left me very curious about the development of all this #Screwllum suspected Ratio since the beginning. I wonder if he suspects Ruan Mei too #Ruan Mei's line about Screwllum makes it seem like they don't get along too well I think. I have so many questions xD #I am very curious about all this‚ satisfied and potentially excited. Not yet excited but I sure have hopes for an exciting development haha #Maybe it will all end up being nothing but the relationships between the characters in the Genius Society (especially these three) #seems kind of messy and that intrigues me. The relationship the three of them have with Ratio seems intriguing too #Any iteration of these dynamics seems to be very interesting #Maybe it will all end up being nothing or I may be misreading or seeing more than there is but I am looking forwards to knowing more #I talk too much #Traces

[transingthoseformers]

Do you have any headcanons on the effects of energon on human physiology? E.g. prolonged exposure (just being around it), skin contact, fumes, etc. I'm torn between the idea of making it like gasoline/petrol/bleach (with fumes and whatnot) vs making it more "safe", more like an oil (probably causes dryness/irritation/etc. in long term, but if you drop a bit on you, it won't kill you)

I feel like it varies per continuity because the properties of energon vary per continuity!

Iicr, the energon we see in Aligned is highly volatile and toxic to humans, full stop. You do NOT want to touch it. Just by observing the effects of energon in aligned I'd suggest it's closer to gasoline in properties, and iicr in rescue bots if improperly stored raw-ish energon can be corrosive. Now, I certainly don't think a drop of energon will kill you, but it's gonna start to sting rather quickly. From what I can see, however, for negative effects to occur it's contact based. Just being near energon doesn't seem to do much.

I like to imagine liquid energon smells very sharply chemical, like working with particularly strong smelling nail polish without any ventilation. The fumes can be disorienting, but they themselves won't have much consequence unless you're working with them for a long long period of time

#maccadam #transformers #tf worldbuilding? #in aligned it's exactly toxic #Raf was lucky because the dark energon and regular energon destroyed each other #I'm almost inclined to say dark energon is safer to expose the human body to than regular energon #especially considering how Raf didn't die immediately after the DE shot #was he showing that dark energon poisoning symptoms x 10? yes #but like he lived and recovered better than you'd think he would #hcs #hc

[boyfridged]

it's so interesting that the version of robin jay that actually argued with bruce about the nature of his work and was outspoken about it was pre-crisis jay. the fact that he openly challenged the no killing rule and subtly taunted bruce over the fact that he [bruce] once killed someone in self-defence... it might seem surprising to some given his background but i think it makes so much sense that he was so openly critical. a part of it was definitely that the authors liked to use him for the sake of certain moral lessons, but what's interesting, it wasn't always merely instrumental; the readers were supposed to consider what jase said a challenge to bruce's reasoning. and for it to come from jase also made sense – there was always that shadow of doubt that (pre-crisis) jason had regarding vigilantism; he was never very religious about it. and he was a character who, unlike post-crisis jay, was given (by both the narrative and in-universe, because of his upbringing and natural self-confidence) so much freedom in exploring the meaning of the world around him. he was the "fresh" eyes when it comes to the mythos and the legacy and because of that, his pov was actually valued. and this tendency to be contrarian wasn't ever written as an ominous sign of his dark fate either...

#tbh i'm very happy post-crisis robin jay never had this discussion with bruce #because it would be taken as definitive proof of his destiny to be doomed #<- and also because i think a significant element of post-crisis robin jay's characterisation is his uncritical dedication to vigilantism.. #(personally i hc he did have doubts. i also think he loved and was impressed by bruce too much to indulge them esp pre starlin's run...) #also. with pre-crisis jay it was merely something that was said by a child with a sharp mind who liked to challenge everything and everyone #in general... pre-crisis jase is shown as so bright! and him being defiant is an integral part of this portrayal #+ of course ironically pre-crisis jay could say that because he was never associated with lower class #and wasn't thought to have any “natural” inclination for violence #<- and he didn't. it was more of a philosophical dispute #this is about ? one of the last issues before the crisis. and it was written by collins #if anyone is curious which issue it was i can look it up later. #jay.zip #jay.txt

[daisywords]

nothing like getting very minorly told off at work to make me feel physically ill for the rest of the day

#logically it's like. ok no one told me not to do that and it was ambiguous #so now that you've said not to I won't in the future. case closed #but it's like ahhhhhhhh so who even told you I was doing that in the first place #and why. were they annoyed? and more importantly did they present the situation accurately to you? #or do you now think I was doing something worse than I actually was? #second of all it wasn't complicated to explain so you didn't need to slack me to tell me to stop by your office #you could have just said it over slack. two sentences #a real win for the inclination to assume that everyone thinks I'm annoying and bad at my job and they regret hiring me #<<skewed for sure but there is a tiny bunny rabbit in my chest who needs a 99:1 positive to negative feedback ratio and she's not getting i #anyway I don't ever want to be seen as resistant to criticism so I'm always just like okay :) 👍 #resisting the urge to explain or justify but then that just makes me worry everyone assumes the worst of me #bc I'm not making it absolutely clear where I'm coming from #and the answer is. bestie they aren't thinking abt you at all it's not that deep #also. it makes sense that I am worse than everyone else at my job bc I am the newest and the least experienced #and also! this is the first time I've ever worked in an office environment! first time I've ever worked full time! #I don't know what I'm doing! I deserve a little grace! #anyway yikes yikes yikes #yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes yikes

[daxite]

ok after watching oppenheimer i can safely say with confidence that 90% of people here clearly did not watch the fucking movie and those massive posts going around with thousands of notes are for the most part complete horsehshit lol 💀

#dax rambles #not saying there haven't been any valid criticims against the movie there absolutely are lol #but like a core fucking key factor about the movie is that it's about...the fucking western side of things the american propaganda and #how horrifically awful the US government was with handling the entire fucking situation #and ultimately it's a biopic about oppenheimer obviously #i understand the argument that people have about criticising the lack of the japanese perspective in the movie and shit but like #the movie isn't about the japanese side of things it's about how shittily america handled it lol #and it does not fucking shy away from how the government did not value their lives at all #there's also the whole debates about “oh he wasn't shown in a bad enough light” but i think whilst the movie obviously favoured oppenheimer #it didn't exactly show him as a fucking saint #in fact it's a pretty big part of the movie showing how people saw him as this fucking patron matyr figure but he was fucking far from that #like yeah no shit oppenheimer wasn't really a good person lmfao but i don't think he was this completely evil remorseless induvidual either #his actions post-war kinda show that which was also another thing in the movie lol #you can argue about the sensationalisation and hollywoodification of things and i'm honestly inclined to agree with a lot of that but that #is a whole other different debate lmao

[britneyshakespeare]

being aroace is weird bc i’m queer but other queer ppl for the most part don’t understand the way i’m queer unless theyre also aro and/or ace

#i belong to the queer community but ppl think i'm an asterisk #queer on a technicality #queer because i'm definitely definitely definitely not straight #and i relate to other ppl under the queer umbrella but i feel like they don't. relate. to me #most likely bc they haven't seen or heard from many ppl w my experience which is...... hmph #bc i didn't really see or hear from anyone w my experience until i realized... oh shit that's me #& had to go seeking out others. i had to be inclined for my own self-interested reasons. which were totally fair #but like most other ppl are just. not. inclined to learn about aspecs especially not arospecs #which frankly i think i just get more and more aro w age #tales from diana #i'm gray aro (but very VERY aro okay very very disinterested in romance & borderline romance repulsed) #it's happened a couple times.... briefly for the most part. the 'gray' area is not very important to me nowadays #but when i was younger & i had NO CLUE i was aro & i just wanted romance i was very very confused #trying to figure out if i liked girls or not...... which i do....... but like...... in the same...... lukewarm way i liked boys #so i am sapphic and when i finally started to accept that side of myself around 18-19 it felt very important to me #& i still am sapphic. i still am queer in that way. but i hardly hardly ever care to define myself as bi these days. #not because i'm NOT bi anymore. but bc the way almost everyone uses 'bi' i just don't really feel represents me. #im aroace... that's what i am. other aroaces & their experiences represent me #my friends irl all know i'm queer but only like 3 of them even know i'm ace. bc it's not easy to come out as. #but i... do not like to tell ppl i'm bi. not anymore. they get the wrong assumptions in their head. #& those assumptions don't make me uncomfortable except for. it's not ME. #that's the only thing wrong w it. it's that there's this big missing MOST OF MY IDENTITY in my relationships. #i wish ppl fuckin understood more widely the aspec experience. for real. #my fellow aspecs i love you all btw.

[musicalchaos07]

Do y’all think they told Jonathan that Will needed to be resuscitated? Or is that a surprise Mousekatool for later? 

#Will was technically dead! #I'm inclined to think Joyce didn't tell him #because I think Jonathan would've 10x more protective of Will than he already is #stranger things #byers brothers #jonathan byers #will byers #anyways Jonathan is going to be mostly dead in s5 as a callback and Will is going to save him but I digress

[that-was-anticlimactic]

i keep looking at the replies on the atla twitter poll because i think they’re funny and people really out here saying zukka shippers are misogynistic and hate women and sapphics when like. we probably treat the sapphic ships better than most ships in the show ???

#z.tara shippers just want to be the victim lol #and maybe i'd be more inclined to bvote for sapphic ships if the toxic ones didn't keep winning :/ #(not y.uetara ily bby) #sorry i just think this is so funny #i may delete this later but i'm cackling and also so concerned ??? #one z.tara shipper said that they'd post their suicide if zukka one i??? #*won #someone even said STOP THE COUNT PLEASE #i'm cackling i shouldn't look but michelle just reblogged it and i was curious about how k.ataang was doing and #i just can't stop it's so bad but z.tara fans will literally make stuff up just to make us look bad and to play the victim it's so stupidly #funny i need to stop it's so bad but so funny guys the reason we hate z.tara shippers is because y'all are mean my God we don't even attack #the ship or call y'all misogynistic or anything (even tho they are more than us...) y'all just love to bully the twelve year old traumatized #protagonist lol #anyways sorry guys i needed to laugh and complain at the same time i'm the worst haha

[noxtivagus]

rambling. again. oops.

#🌙.rambles #randomly. thinking of ebenholz n arknights rn. I REALLY SHLD FINISH READING OR WATCHING IT SOMEWHERE FUCK #ständchen is. one of my most favorite songs pls the uh. oh no i'm just basing this off memory i'm not sure how to classify it but #yk ständchen from schubert ^^ late classical/romantic era around there ? n then w arknights oh my god #i love orchestral stuff so much n then the progressive rock melts my heart n the lyrics too n the vocals !!!! it's all so perfect to me #moving on from that though #there's just. so much i want to experience. it sucks #so it just feels like i don't really belong anywhere. i know there r stuff i'm more inclined too but like #it just gets especially lonely when i think of it i think #i don't know how to put it n i'm not thinking through my words rn i'll stop in a bit but it's just #lonely. thinking too much of.. so much i guess. but i'll be fine #didn't realize it was nearly 10 pm #but no i really don't want to think of all those stuff rn so yeah bye i'll fix my posts rlly soon #i have no obligation too but it just makes me hdlkfajsdflkd w how unorganized it is 😭😭 #random edit bcs i just rmbered something i meant to say earlier but forgot #i want to go to orchestras so badly. esp yk hdkfajsdlfka video game music.. so dear to me

[astrxealis]

damn i never thought i'd get into stardew valley this much but here we are !! makes perfect sense tho

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #heyy this adds to my roster of games that actually have Evidence #gotta play more soulsborne legitimately soon so i have more evidence of my range LMFAO ... #i love how my. taste in games is really broad tbh! i'm willing to try anything out but i do uhh am less inclined to the more popular ones? #unless i get into them by way of. personal. or without outside influence #but if there's a certain something that makes me dislike a media yeah ... i do end up more indifferent tho. ultimately #i think sdv is another huge example of how me and lune really go all in when getting into smth #like terraria. but we end up forgetting about it pretty soon after. oops! #it depends tbh on how bored we are? how much we have to do. so yeah #xiv was That for a very long time bcs we didn't really have anything else uhh insert hashtag xiv was there for us when nobody was #aaa so thankful to xiv fr. idk. i think about what it has done for me sometimes and i get really emotional! #also funny how things connect. i got back into tumblr bcs of jjk and then connected w others mostly thru gi. and then twt thru a friend i #met thru a school event wholy thru chance. who got me back into twt where i connected with others thru ff(xiv) #and i find it fascinating how people make friends irl! i think its easy for me to feel that way 1. its just who i am lol its in my nature #2. im more of a bystander so. yeah. ez for me to study people and people-watch. idm that much tbh #it's funny... hmm interesting? a bit sad too. wnvr i want to. Take A Step Further. i end up not caring anymore LMFAOOO but tbh it's really #nice in the long run! my outlook on life is pretty weird tbh like uhh... idk. hard to explain. complex #whenever i face a problem i'm. absolutely confident i'll get over it. and unfortunately i feel like that... sense of confidence is rather ra #rare*? idk. and the fact i've always known (always!) i'd love myself no matter what. even if sometimes i would be really insecure. i never #truly hated myself and i sincerely doubt i ever will. but the fact i often suceed and rise from my failures that sometimes they don't feel #like failures doesn't mean that uhh i'll end up facing my downfall through. naive confidence? i try to be self-aware and do my best for no #regrets and it's fascinating how my values in life are shaped by my past. not just me. everyone. damn. i think the formative years of a #person are so goddamn fascinating and also i'm still unsure what i want for college but it's already fucking march HELP #anyway wow. i dont want to be too harsh on myself if the What If bad scenario/s end up happening but i'll really try my best #my aunts on my dad side both got into up diliman and i'll be damned if i don't. i know i can do it. i just gotta put in a ton of effort. #okay rambles bye bye #also i've been staying up until 3/4 ever since break LMFAOOO SDV HAS RUINED ME dw i'll be good again next week lmfao

[aparticularbandit]

DUKE WHY ARE YOU STILL PUSHING THAT--

okay maybe apexosity is not the rhino pills.

but like.

he is wearing the logo big and bold on his shirt, he’s wearing it big and bold on his hat, he has BOXES of that stuff.

...which, you know what, twitch streamer pushing a product that they’re using, this tracks.  how many youtubers do i see pushing gfuel that keep it in the back of their streaming/recording set-up.  or etc.

i just hope that this apexosity stuff isn’t the rhino pills stuff.

(but it’s still basically viagra, if you read the descriptions on the box.)

#musings #bandit sees glass onion #glass onion spoilers #duke cody #bandit liveblogs #so i guess what we're seeing here is a /pattern/ #not just of /these people screwed up/ #but also /these people return to their screw ups/ #but that's specifically with duke and birdie #duke might have gotten off the rhino pills but he's onto pushing something else that's extremely similar that might also have stuff in it #birdie might have come back from being cancelled with her sweats but she's still making mistakes on twitter and using sweat shops (because #she has no brain cells - she didn't know the sweat shops were THAT and i'm inclined to believe that she didn't realize the slur was a slur) #which is just that same thing with miles #we want to assume these people are smart #THEY AREN'T #(lionel and claire are smart - i think - which is why they get drawn in on klear and why they talk about the problems with it)