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bethanydelleman · 1 year

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Catherine Morland: She’s Naive Not Stupid

Catherine seems to get hate because she comes off as unintelligent and because she marries a very intelligent man. Kind of an odd angle for me to take in character defence, but Catherine is worthy of Henry Tilney and this is why:

Catherine tells the truth, even when it is painful to her. It’s easy to tell the truth when it helps you (like explaining why you missed a country walk) but Catherine does not lie even when it makes her look bad or even lie by omission. She was walking around Mrs. Tilney’s room, imagining that she had been murdered by her husband, and when Henry finds her she tells the whole, mortifying truth. Given that Henry lives with two people who pathologically lie (General and Captain Tilney), it would be pretty refreshing to have Catherine in his life.

Catherine believes the best of people until proved wrong. (very Jane B., but Catherine’s also younger). She tries to believe the best of John Thorpe but quickly realises she doesn’t like him and that he must be lying. Isabella Thorpe is harder because Catherine likes her, but she does understand her character by the end. General Tilney is harder still, because he is much better at disguising the truth about himself. The suspicion that he killed his wife seems ridiculous, but Catherine is trying to fit the General into her understanding of the world. She cannot see how someone can have the appearance of goodness and yet be so bad. Given that the perceptive Elizabeth Bennet fell into a similar trap, I am inclined to give Catherine a pass.

Catherine stands on her principles. She thinks it is wrong to lie to Eleanor about having a prior plan and she resists her friend and her brother to set it right. Mr. Allen suggests that riding in an open carriage isn’t wise; she says no. It seems minor because she is only resisting peer pressure, but we can’t expect everyone to have the fortitude of Fanny Price.

Catherine is loyal in her affection, which I think would be attractive to a younger son like Tilney. When Catherine sees Captain T for the first time, she accept that he is hot, but has not a single thought of going after him, “She looked at him with great admiration, and even supposed it possible that some people might think him handsomer than his brother, though, in her eyes, his air was more assuming, and his countenance less prepossessing.” (Ch 16). I wonder how many times in his twenty-six years Henry has had a girl interested in him, only for her to go all Isabella Thorpe and try to use him as a stepping stone to his brother. Catherine never even considers it and unlike everyone else, she doesn’t seem to ask or care about Henry or his brother being rich. She is disinterested, not mercenary, and that seems like a hard trait to find (unless you’re an Austen heroine).

Catherine is a quick learner, she’s going to catch up. She has gone from living with a family that are, “plain, matter-of-fact people who seldom aimed at wit of any kind; her father, at the utmost, being contented with a pun, and her mother with a proverb; they were not in the habit therefore of telling lies to increase their importance, or of asserting at one moment what they would contradict the next” (Ch 9), to Henry Tilney, one of the funniest characters in Jane Austen’s collected works. But still she’s not lost! She is intelligent enough to find him amusing.

Lastly, Catherine is interested in improving herself. She doesn’t like reading history, but she wishes she liked it. She misunderstands people so she seeks help in comprehending their motives. She doesn’t resent people who are smarter than her, she is attracted to them. She’s only seventeen for most of this novel, she’ll never be as intelligent as say, Anne Elliot, but she’s not Harriet Smith either.

Also a quick comparison to the Mr. and Mrs. Bennet marriage, because this comes up a lot online. Catherine is nothing like Mrs. Bennet. When Catherine is told she is being thrown out of the Abbey, she asks if she has offended the General, tells Eleanor not to be so unhappy, and then assures her that she will be ready at an early hour. She doesn’t cry until Eleanor leaves the room. Can you imagine what even a younger Mrs. Bennet would have done? It would have been nothing like that, it would have been all nerves and wailing. Because Catherine and Mrs. Bennet have entirely different personalities.

Catherine Morland: She has many first rate qualities!

#catherine morland #she's naive not stupid #henry tilney #northanger abbey #jane austen

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chuplayswithfire · 2 years

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stede, inadequacy, and the perpetuating cycle of self-hate and low self-esteem

i've been pondering making a post on this ever since i started my live re-watch (which. no one ask how that's going) because that "i am adequate" moment of stede's is just. exquisite.

the surface layer of this moment is that it shows that stede's self-esteem is clearly in the toilet, because his pep-up talk to himself, his power-pose serious-face getting-himself-together moment, is saying something as underwhelming as "i am adequate". it's heart-warming that he's realized this about himself, and heart-breaking that this is as far as his self-confidence can take him.

but as i've considered the series, and stede, on further rewatches, what i've started to notice is... that statement is correct. mostly.

stede is adequate. stede is fit for the task at hand. stede is, in this moment, capable.

and the part that i've been chewing over is: this may be one of the very few moments in stede's life where this is true.

think about it: stede has been told all his life that he is a lily-livered little rich boy, that he's a coward, that he's useless, that he has nothing of worth and value to the world. now, obviously these are horrible, cruel, and objectively terrible things to say to any child, and it's hellacious that these things were repeated to stede by his father and peers, and that his mother appears to have played absolutely no roll in counteracting that message, and people come out of that kind of confidence-destroying, self-esteem crushing experience with, generally, one of two responses:

they make themselves the best thing since sliced bread often accompanied by a brutal perfectionism streak

they stop making real efforts and withdraw because nothing they do will ever be good enough

stede's pretty clearly fallen into that second category. by the beginning of the series we can see that pre-the revenge stede (and honestly, even captain of the revenge!stede) has retreated primarily into a life of fantasy and fiction, withdrawing into reading and his own thoughts and barely paying attention to or really interacting with the world around him.

he reads at the dining room table, able to completely block out the sounds of his children running and shouting, fails to hear mary even when they're having direct conversations (buddy she hates the ocean-), has hired lucius to record fantastical versions of his life as a pirate for what appears to be the specific purpose of turning them into a memoir...

stede has checked out completely. and the thing is? you cannot be "useful" or "helpful" or "build meaningful relationships" when you are that checked out.

at that point in his life, post-childhood and pre-piracy, stede had checked out of being an active participant in his own life. he marries the woman his father found for him, he and mary have the children that are required (i don't think it's a coincidence that the writing team chose to give them only two children, and make the youngest the boy), and they live the very bare-bones version of the life they're supposed to and it is not enough. they are rich and comfortable and have family dinner nightly and stede is so miserable that he cries alone in the dark.

and part of that is because he hates his life. part of that is because this life doesn't fit him and it's not what he wants. part of it is that he's about as straight as an ouroboros.

but a big part of it is that stede still feels as useless and unwanted and incapable as he was made to feel as a child, only this time, the reason he feels that way is because he's internalized how horrible he is at everything, so he doesn't even really try.

sure, we don't see a lot of stede and mary's married life, but what we do see speaks volumes: mary seems to be the principle minder of the children, the one who knows about their nightmares, the one who asks them about their favorite animals, the one who enjoys raising them. mary also seems to be the active partner in the marriage: mary makes an anniversary gift that represents their marriage and wedding day, crafted from her very own creative pursuit that she wants to share with stede.

the primary interaction we see stede have is playing pirates with the children right after mary has asked him not to because it's caused nightmares, and using the moment where mary has asked alma and louis about their favorite horse to interject with his favorite horse.

and like, i'm not here to say stede was a horrible useless father or anything like that, but as a father, stede was clearly not successful - louis is absolutely old enough to remember his father, but he doesn't, even though it can't have been more than a few months since stede left, a year at the absolute maximum. and that could be interpreted as louis being passive aggressive, but i think that would be a very loose interpretation; it's much more likely that stede was genuinely not a strong presence in louis' mind, because he wasn't a very involved parent.

the primary interactions we see between mary and stede are equally distant - stede barely touches her for their engagement/wedding portrait, is also distant in the family portrait (which is one reason he can be so easily painted out of it), appears to regularly ignore mary during conversations or at the very least quickly forget about them (the ocean.... bro the ocean -), and provided an anniversary gift that was entirely focused on his own wants and needs, aka, the desire to retreat further into those fantasies by running off on a boat. to break up the monotony - which he's clearly never spoken to mary about feeling, because she's shocked to hear that he finds their lives monotonous.

and like, domestic life can be very monotonous - but it can also be dynamic and exhilarating, especially when you have young children and you're helping them grow and change and transform into actual people. it seems very likely that one of the reasons that stede finds life with his family so monotonous is that he's not actually participating in it.

and this is probably part of why he cries at night. this is definitely part of why he feels useless, and its absolutely why he thought he could just walk away from his family without a real word to them about it. to tie this back to the thesis statement:

stede has been "inadequate" his entire life, and that was initially due to the abusive and unrealistic standards he was held to by his father and peers, but that continued into his adult life because of stede's own internalizing of that abuse. stede is inadequate because he doesn't try, not in ways that would leave him emotionally vulnerable, and he doesn't try because he's been told all his life that he's useless and inadequate and a failure. it's a perpetuating cycle that doesn't break until stede finally walks away.

the idea came to stede to escape further into fantasy and build that boat - and he had it built, without speaking about it to mary until it was far enough along that it was either completed or nearly so, depending on how much time you think passed between the anniversary scene and the "we only have one life" scene. the idea was initially one where he was accompanied by his family, but it doesn't seem like stede actually considered the details of actually having his family aboard the ship, not the way he considered the details of having it entirely crafted to his preferences and desires and interests. his family being aboard the ship with him was not the central focus of the fantasy - the fantasy was running away and starting a new life as someone cool, someone adventurous, someone people respected.

stede was inadequate as a father and husband, because he was too convinced of his own worthlessness to *try* to be a good father and husband. he was no longer being psychologically and emotionally abused at home, but it didn't matter, because his mindset was such that his own unpacked trauma was doing a fine job of carrying out the abuse in absence of people eager to inflict the abuse for him.

and then we get to the revenge, and stede is, as we all know, entirely inadequate as a sailor, a captain, and a pirate.

he has great ideas, he has a people positive management style, and plenty of money to throw around, but he doesn't know how the ship works, he doesn't know how to help on the ship, and he doesn't know how to engage with his crew in a way that earns their respect. they don't hate him, but even lucius is on board for the mutiny, and even oluwande, who actually seems to like him first, thinks he's going to get them all killed. everyone except stede knows he's bad at this, and then, stede knows he's bad at this.

and it's pretty crushing! it hurts his confidence, a LOT, and then in walks nigel badminton, a living representation of that internalized self-hatred and all stede's low self-esteem... of course stede whacks him over the head once nigel starts in on the bullying and the rhetoric. of course he does! there's only so much a person can take.

this is when things start to turn around a bit for stede. first: the guilt and the horror set in, the emergence from fantasy back into something like reality: stede realizes that there is no going back. there is no return to his old life. he is a pirate and being a pirate is not like the fantasies he had - it is killing and blood and his childhood bully's corpse on the ground in a puddle of blood, a sword through his head. it is taking hostages and realizing his crew wants to torture them and trying to gently ease away from that. it's losing his hostages and again realizing - i might be bad at this. i might be terrible at this. i might once more be as useless as everyone has always said i am. it is freaking out, and then it's gathering himself once more and saying -

"i am adequate"

it's trying. it's actually trying, earnestly. that plan to steal the hostages back from izzy might be silly and ridiculous, but it's thought out, and most importantly, it takes advantage of stede's only strength - everyone underestimates him. everyone thinks he's useless.

he wins his men back because izzy turns away from him even though stede has a knife drawn, because he never thinks enough of stede to imagine he'd do something with it.

in these first two episodes alone, we see stede put forth more significant effort at being a pirate than he ever seems to have put being into a father or husband. he's engaging. he's sharing his interests in a way that invite others to develop their interests. he's sharing vulnerability and seeking counsel and guidance. he's putting himself out there, and the show rewards him for this with success: with getting his first hostages, and then with stealing one back from a trio of actually dangerous pirates. episode three actually continues this trend, despite the fact that stede is tricked, betrayed, and stabbed - episode three shows us that by trying, by putting forth efforts, by not withdrawing but being active, stede has captured the attention of blackbeard himself - leading to stede's rescue in his great time of need, by blackbeard himself.

and episodes four through seven feature stede rising to still greater heights - the more effort he puts in, the more he's rewarded. it's a pretty simple point but it's there: the less stede withdraws from the world, the more effort he puts in, the more effort he puts in, the more adequate and confident he feels, the more adequate and confident he feels, the more he bonds with other people -

to the point that in episode eight, stede has enough confidence to stand in front of his crew and ed both and tell jack to get off his ship. even after an entire episode where he was pushed back into those feelings of inadequacy and helplessness, he takes his newfound confidence and sense of self and he sets a hard boundary and tells jack to get off his ship, and just as importantly, he does not take it back even when this causes him to lose ed.

yes, he spends the entire night spying on them like a creep, but stede does not go chasing after ed, he doesn't lower the boundary, he doesn't trample over his own newly-gained sense of self-worth by frantically backpedaling. even in the face of a break up, he holds fast.

that's really fucking good. that's incredible, for a guy with such terrible self-esteem, and i would wager that most of you reading this felt as proud of him as i did.

which is also, by the way, probably the same reason most of us felt so damned disappointed in episode nine, when stede falters under chauncey badminton and the re-traumatization of seeing him die, and the horrible, soul-destroying spew of words spat at him.

stede goes back to his family in barbados not because he actually wants to be with them, but because he wants to punish himself. because he feels that he is a plague upon the earth who has ruined ed, and that by leaving he somehow unbalanced the universe and caused destruction to his family. he is resigning himself to a life he hates (and resigning his family to living with him and his misery) because the trauma of that experience - from the kidnapping all the way down to chauncey's accidental death - has eviscerated his burgeoning self-confidence and newly grown sense of self-esteem. in that moment, stede is lower than any other moment in the present course of the show, because by the time the show started, stede had decided he deserved happiness, no matter how inadequate he might be. end of episode nine stede has relinquished that.

he is making his house a prison again, a place of misery and pain, again. because stede's house could have always been a better place. his relationship with mary would have never been romantically loving, but it could have been friendly, it could have been warm. his relationship with his children could have been close-knit and essential, instead of a bond so thin Louis has already forgotten him. all stede would have needed to do is meet them halfway, and he couldn't. he was too miserable, too-filled with self-loathing, too consumed by other people's judgements of his worth, and now he's pickling in that toxic cocktail of self-hate and self-doubt all over again - and where stede was expressing it all via withdrawal and sadness before, now he expresses it through anger.

he's angry that he came back and no one seems to have missed him. he's angry that mary replaced him. he's angry that mary won't give up the "dishonest title", won't give up the life she made for herself the way he gave up the life he made for himself. he's hurting still and he's sad still, but he's expressing it through anger, and that's why he's snide and cutting and passive-aggressive, and eventually, violent. stede's angry that he gave up everything to come back here and fix what he "ruined" and the sacrifice isn't appreciated or wanted.

and then you know, he's nearly killed and the shock of that bursts his bubble, and the tension between he and mary. they talk, finally. mary gets what she wanted, which is a conversation, which is stede meeting her halfway, and between the two of them and in a newly safe space, stede can admit that this isn't working, and he can admit what will work, and he can admit what he wants, which is to be in love with ed and go after him.

but he was only able to get to that point because he started trying. he was only able to reach out and find closure and peace and love and happiness and friendship because he stopped checking out, stopping punishing himself, and started trying.

the only way out is through. wherever you go, there you are. the only way for stede to begin overcoming his trauma and grappling with his low self-esteem and endless cycle of misery was to invest in his life and engage with it and do something, anything, about it.

that's one of the many points of stede's narrative: that you have to try. you have to reach out. stede was a participant in making his own misery, and mary's misery, and his kids' misery, all because after years of emotional and psychological abuse he had withdrawn into himself and stopped reaching out - which meant that he couldn't have meaningful connections - which hurt - which made him withdraw, and so on, and so on.

the point of stede being a middle-aged man when he finds love and gets his first tastes of real happiness is to show that it's never too late to start over. it's never too late to try. it's never too late to be an active participant in your own life. it's never too late to choose happiness.

tldr: you can't feel adequate or confident or happy if you don't become an active participant in your own life.

#our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd meta #stede bonnet #father bonnet #mary allamby bonnet #blackbonnet #i worked on this for a few hours while i was at work just. thinking about HIM #stede is a really great example of the way misery comes to roost in your brain and keeps you pinned in until you DO something #even when that something is wild and radical and everyone around you thinks its insane #initially this was not under a read more but i irritated MYSELF having to scroll past it #so under a read more for length it goes

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distort-opia · 1 year

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Besides superficial similarities, what would be the points of equality between Cherik and Batjokes? I mean, I think the main difference between them is that in Cherik, Charles and Erik are much more open and see the other's point of view compared to Batman and Joker. I would like to see your opinion on both 😊👀

Mm, that's a good question. They're obviously both pairings between two comic-based characters who are nemeses, but they're quite different when examined in depth. Like you mention, Charles and Erik are much more open to reconciliation, and that's kind of the crux of the matter. Charles and Erik were friends before the rift-- there's something to reconcile to begin with. They agreed that something needed to be done about the survival of mutantkind, they cared about the same goals, but ultimately their ideals and methods differed too much, as a result of their life experiences. Meanwhile, in Batjokes there wasn't ever a time in which they weren't at war. Moreso, the essential difference in principles between Batman and Joker isn't about... others, the way it is in Cherik. Charles and Erik both ultimately care about mutants like them, with Erik being willing to kill to protect the people he cares about. Joker's whole thing is that he doesn't care, while Batman's thing is that he does. Magneto destroys believing it is to protect; Joker destroys for the sake of destruction. The differences in way of thinking between Batman and Joker are fundamental, while Charles and Erik still have enough shared goals that they've worked together more than once. And I could go on when it comes to contrasts between the pairings... finding more in-depth similarities between them is a lot more difficult. However, I do see a couple.

I see a lot of parallels between Charles and Bruce, essentially. As people, and when it comes to the ways they relate to Erik and Joker, respectively. They're both very rich individuals who ended up "adopting" other young people and creating a family-like structure (Charles has the school, Bruce has the Family). They're both the "hero", but they're also much more conflicted and complex than they appear. While striving to do good and avoid killing, both of them are struggling with a need for control and a terrifying capacity for destruction, a certain kind of arrogance and self-righteousness. And their counterpart... serves to keep that in check.

In Erik's case, the very straightforward element that represents this is the helmet. Charles can't control Erik, because he can't reach his mind. Simple as that. The less straightforward element is that, even in the absence of the helmet, Charles wants Erik to want him, and if he uses his powers... Erik joining him would be a lie. Charles wants it to be out of Erik's own volition. And Bruce can't control Joker, he's never been able to. He doesn't fully understand or know Joker, no matter how hard he's tried; he can't predict Joker, who's more or less chaos incarnate. Essentially, in both Charles and Bruce's case, there's the "unstoppable force meets an immovable object" component-- the equality between two individuals who are otherwise unmatched, and alone in that. In both Cherik and Batjokes, there's an understanding that they would always stop each other if they went too far; that they'd always be there to keep the other in balance.

There's also the "I can fix him" instinct... which Charles and Bruce both have (to different degrees). But where does "I can fix him" come from? We joke about it a lot, but what causes this drive in people? There's multiple elements to it (including the simple need to help another), but relevant to this discussion are three things: avoiding fixing yourself, loneliness, and a painful mix of insecurity and self-hating tendencies. Both Charles and Bruce have... problems, when it comes to how they relate to themselves and others. They're proud individuals, but they also hate some aspects of themselves; and ironically, a lot of those parts they would rather not deal with in themselves, are mirrored in their counterpart. Why attempt to fix yourself when you can try to fix the other, and yourself by proxy? Deep down you know you'll most likely fail, and use that to blame yourself some more-- but it's safer to fail with the other, and not yourself. And if you fix the other person, they'll stop fighting you. They'll stay with you because they agree with you, and you won't be alone anymore.

Oof, got quite long. Hope this was fun to read through, Anon! Both these pairings are very complex, there's a lot to say. But yeah, personally I see the points of equality between Batjokes and Cherik when it comes to their deep-seated sense of loneliness and the need for an equal, most of all.

#appreciate the interest in my opinion!#asks #batman #batjokes #x men #cherik

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jeremy-queere · 19 days

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im actually gonna liveblog my own thoughts about those last few chaps of my fic, which are basically always going to be "i'm hilarious actually" but yknow. specific lines. minor spoilers ig

>be jeremy >tell rich about how you fixed the giant issue where yelling at a squip can turn off every squip in the network >by telling him this aloud, you just alerted the squips to this security flaw >mfw i destroyed the easiest way to save the world without a second thought: :) >still smilling at rich, ready for praise >rich short circuits.

plus with the shutdown that christine mentioned this chapter. it's almost like ? jeremy isn't coming at this from a perspective of wanting to turn squips off???? and never even bothered researching that option??? 😂 bonkers. who'd have thought

i fully recognize that having a coder POV say "The bugs, miraculously, became rarer and smaller" is the biggest ask in the fic in terms of suspension of disbelief. maybe when jeremy is better at this they'll realize they were wrong about that. not in a "this update is secretly a time bomb" way but in a "holy shit i can't believe i used to think this was good programming" way

i still think it's funny whenever i reference jeremy muting themself after the FIRST TIME it came up where jeremy acknowledged that "muting themself wasn't any different from a human just choosing not to speak." i love my weird robot child.

i still like the "C-c-c-c'mon, Jeremy, can't you see, we've got a date, so concentrate! We'll start with us, just me and you, some deja vu, and then ensue: your microchip plus our friendship-" implying "the squip" being sung in the same lovestruck voice as the chorus usually sings "christine."

^ i usually pick a song to write the summary from based solely on vibes and character focus. the fact that this was from Upgrade rather than two player game was a dead giveaway regarding michael's intentions btw.

writing michael after that last mall scene has been so weird. on purpose. but like everything he says is a catchy line ending on a discordant note. the sudden pivot from slowburn to joking about having sex and humanity = romance. every time michael interrupts or talks over jeremy instead of going out of his way to set a good example, i wince lol. encouraging them to stop thinking so much. ignoring every one of jeremy's soft "no"s because they're inconvenient. Here Are Our Stereotypical Nerd Spots and Here Is Your Mandated Giant Teddy Bear and Here Is My Secret Condom. (jeremy sprinted into the sunset before we got to that part and we all thank them for it.) jeremy never once having indicated that they wanted to actually have sex any time soon but michael did everything in his power to make sure the date would end that way without a single worry about what jeremy told them about chloe.

i don't think it's spoilers to clarify that michael was in the driver's seat for all of that, but was in a situation where he was very incentivized to listen to the SQUIP. and jeremy looooves squips so obviously the SQUIP is the expert on this, not michael :P

madeline offscreen: constant orgies, pretending to be from paris, scheming femme fatale madeline for the 2.3 seconds she was onscreen: i swear quebec is better than people give it credit for wait don't go-

jeremy's definition of breaking up with someone is, consistently, running away from an emotionally charged moment and convincing themself that they hate them. lol.

christine accusing jeremy of talking at her was also a direct response to the author trying to get on their wikipedia-level-of-philosophy-knowledge soapbox again. btw on that note, observation selection effect seems to only be mentioned in places as a synonym for the anthropic principle. it is more specific than how jeremy defines it, being an existential thing about how "the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations could happen only in a universe capable of developing intelligent life" (~ wikipedia <3). i get away with a lot of bullshit claims, some of them even intentionally bullshit, bc the character making those claims is reading even less of the wikipedia article than i am.

but that was transparently just a nod to the book being one of the many parallel universes that are foundational to how the squip works in canon

speaking of references that delight me and me alone, in-character phantom of the opera reference re: pageboy

i think all the main/supporting cast all think they're the main characters. except jeremy! not because of jeremy 1.0's insistence that he's not a leading man, but because they have been so busy with observing themself that they haven't even considered anyone else observing them and coming to different conclusions. (see: the PA system joke with michael which alerted the ENTIRE SCHOOOOooool 🎶 to their situation, which in jeremy's narrative, was just a gag as part of a longer fun flirty convo with michael, brought up for laughs and then forgotten.) (it's not like it's plot relevant as in that it doomed them or anything, but just a signal that not everyone perceives the fic events like jeremy does!!)

they're trying to learn to be less self-absorbed (and i'm not saying that as an insult so much as an accurate description of their default thought patterns) but it IS a learning curve. for all their self-reflection, i would describe them as a very reactive person, which is also probably why they (along with jeremy 1.0 and keanu squip) constantly struggle/d with needing a sense of control

im aware that despite christine's in-character criticism of the narrative i wrote 🙃 that she's here for exposition and emotional closure. she knows and she's not happy about it. it's a consequence of writing the story i wanted to tell but that doesn't make it immune from criticism. it's a good question for me, that the story i wanted to tell DID involve removing her agency so much. but i don't see that as a question that needs a direct answer or for me to defend so much as something to reflect on after it's over. in the meantime christine ma'am i'll give you something good in the epilogue i prommy, and i'll add something about this to my notes now that i think about it.

#ooim

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a-dauntless-daffodil · 1 year

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speed reading or skipping paragraphs is a thing both me and my mom

(amazing person) (had me so late i only knew her as cool old lady) (the only reason me and my half siblings and technically not related at all but fuck that siblings got to grow up as family bc she fought tooth and nail with her exes for it) (and by fought i mean gritted her teeth and was polite to the vindictive assholes bc her exs had money and legal status and connections and an education that translated properly so they could have white color jobs while she was being a single mom below the poverty line working part time jobs still somehow making her kids feel like they lived in a magical wonderland and she was the dragon who'd eat anyone that tried hurting us)

had in common

(she died almost a year ago the first anniversary is coming up this is fine)

she grew up also poor af in her home country but her parents sent her to a RICH GIRLS PRIVATE SCHOOL bc her grades were good and this nuclear scientist Doctor Doctor -insert name here- who couldn't do the most simple everyday things (her husband was the same) and was in actual awe of my grandma (who cleaned for them) 's ability to figure out how to hang a picture straight or fix the plumbing

(grandma led her catatonic older sister across an active war zone as a teen and also told stories to my mom about mice who came out at night to read scraps of newspaper she left on the floor for them, she was legally blind and still walking a mile to the local store when i knew her, didn't care a fuck that i didn't know her language and i actually learned several family stories from her somehow)

the Doctor Doctor was convinced my mom would be stifled in a normal school, hence the Everybody Else Here Own A Pony And A Summer House Meanwhile We're Living On The Shack By The House My Dad Is Building For Someone Else situation with mom in rich girls school because of her scores

But

the thing is, my mom was kinda shit at school

(she almost failed one class bc the professor got pissed she wouldn't treat him like a god as a good student should so she refused to do anything in his class except fight with him and he DID fail her, but the other teachers and principle had her do a test and whoops turns out she'd learned his class better on her own than most of his students hehheheh fifty years later she was still gloating about it)

and this has to do with speed reading and skipping because, in one class, you were supposed to take turns reading out of a book and then later pick a topic to write a paper on

well my mom's turn would come, and bc she was like me, she wouldn't actually read the words. She'd see the shape of the sentence, scan the first letter of every line down the page, add that to the topic at hand, and kinda just FEEEL what the section was about

you'd think someone would notice she wasn't reading it right but she was So Confident and Casual about it i guess everyone just went "well i must be reading it wrong her version sounds right"

this worked for her!

until the paper came due, and she was asked to read hers in front of the class

well she hadn't written anything, turns out.

So my mom (who outside of school drifted between wearing boys clothes to scare off her friends exes or leather mini skirts with fishnet stockings and no undies depending on her mood) she picked up a BLANK piece of paper, stood up, and read out the Best, Most Well Thought Out And Insightful Paper her professor had heard all day

good, right? easy peasy pass grade. cheato completo

unfortunately the professor liked it Too much

and they asked. for a copy

So my poor mom had to admit that not only was her brilliant little paper an imaginary thing that didn't exist, she ALSO had to cop to all the OTHER times she hadn't been reading from the book, just to prove to her teacher that her paper WAS fake

(my mom had a real strong if weird sense of integrity. she'd bend the rules into a pretzel, but she hated the idea of being thought of as a Liar, when it was just for personal selfish reasons)

(lying to help someone else was another thing zero fucking hesitation there only gleeful dramatics)

now im not anywhere near my mom in coolness levels, but i also have the thing of skipping around when reading and going by shape and recreating what it might say based on other clues instead of just, seeing each word individually

a lot of the times it works!

it's also why I Can't Get A Driver's License

Reading Manuals Doesn't Work For Me And There's No School Or Instructor Place In Reach So My Can't Drive I'm Gay Credential Is Permanent! It's enforced! I've been assigned pedestrian by whatever the hell seemingly inheritable trait it is that made me and my mom find books in the library via size, color, geographic location and anything OTHER than the gods-damned TITLE!!

(thnx mom) (had to hold the instructions for instant mac and cheese physically in front of my face the entire time it cooked) (you'd have laughed) (i laughed instead tho don't worry) (miss you <3)

#reading difficulties #.#..#....#......#and then she became the best primary school teacher at my school despite only being a teacher's aid #bc she was the only one who'd actually STUDDIED CHILD PSYCHOLOGY #and talked to the kids like they were (shock horror)#People

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Painter! Porsche Au Ideas Dump

I'm dedicating this au idea dump to @arewedoneyet in hopes to recompensate for not writing it after unleashing this post on y'all out of blue (fingers crossed that maybe some writer sees this tho and will pick it up). Sorry hon, all the love to you tho 💕

Starting this off with this pic sent by @arewedoneyet to me in hopes to persuade me but will haunt my brian in the most pleasant ways for enternity now:

So, I have different first meetings and different kind of painters

Because I have two and idk which i like more

a. Porsche as a smaller scale Banksy, all social commentary graffiti on the sides of the buildings, Kinn is a businessman and no mafia in this au

So get this Porsche is annonymous, he needs to be to get above the law and everyone is trying to uncover who this "Phoenix" is. And no one can because Porsche grew up in Bangkok, in the streets, he knows every blind spot, every nook and cranny and the city's habits, he is untraceable.

Until one day Kinn catches him on one of his cameras while Porsche was putting a graffiti on his building that was a critic of his company (idk the logistic of that and why Kinn's cameras are special, probably thanks to Arm) and so now he has the information who Phoenix is and more tangible proof

He then calls up Porsche to make a deal with him

This would include enemies to lovers, Kinn showing his trust that Porsche will stay, not because of their deal but because of Kinn after they confess by fucking deleting the video and therefore any proof that Porsche is a Phoenix

b. Gallery owner!Kinn and Independent artist!Porsche

So imagine Porsche being a small traditional art artist and he has his principles, he hates the high art galleries and all stuck up rich people and if he displays his art somewhere it's only at Yok's Gallery.

Cue in Kinn who was there accidentally and at first wasn't interested in any artwork and then he saw Porsche's and he was transfixed, he then proceeded to fell in love with it, just the use of colors, the imagenary of his paintings enticing Kinn

And he wants to display Porsche in his gallery, Porsche says no, Kinn coaxing him with the promise of money to give him just one painting, a special piece just for Kinn

And Porsche has his principles but he IS an artist, it doesn't pay a lot and he needs to feed both him and Chay, bills have to get paid and Chay's tuition too and Kinn is basically throwing money at him for just one piece

And after some time Porsche agrees but under the condition that Kinn will be his model thinking that Kinn won't agree

He does, so now we have the soft painting session, filled with idle chatter and comfortable silences and both of them observing and admiring the other, Kinn being breathtaken with Porsche's beauty, his focus, his quirks, the way the paint smears from his fingertips to his elbows and sometimes to his cheek and his lips when he puts his fingers to his mouth when concentrating as if forgetting the pigment is even there

And Porsche being just as fascinated with Kinn, at first only as an artist and then as they get to know each other the feelings grow deeper

Also the reveal of the painting by the end (because he wouldn't let Kinn see it until it's finished), like the way it would be Porsche's final admission of love, I'm screaming

The scenes both of those au would include in my mind:

Porsche saying he is painting because of his mother, Kinn then admitting to playing violin because his mother played it which would resulted in Kinn playing violin for Porsche (i would love to think Porsche would later do a quick sketch of it and leave it for Kinn, and Kinn being taken with how Porsche depicted him, so beautiful, commanding attention and yet there was some softness in it, as if hidden, couldn't stop wondering if this is how Porsche perceives him to be, hopeful)

Porsche having paint on his clothes and hands. And idk which one but one of them has enough of the tension and just kisses the other and Porsche grabs Kinn's neck with his hands and it leaves prints which just make Porsche crazy and so he dives in for another kiss and he keeps leaving colorful marks, as if painting Kinn's body with his signatures of ownership, tainting his smooth silky skin with color

#i totally blame me being bored at work and apo being beutifull for that one #dom's au idea of the day #kinnporsche #kinn theerapanyakul #porsche kittisawasd #kinnporsche the series #i am once again being a clown 🤡🤡#i guess it's what i do now #fic prompts #kinnporsche fanfiction #kinnporsche prompt

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pattysplaceofplaces · 2 years

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Hello it is 🐉 Anon being absolutely annihilated by Season 4 (just finished Episode 5 when I’m writing this, so I saw The Jeantonio Scene Ever, still recovering. This season is SO GOOD)

Been adoring the stuff you’ve been writing (the short story snippets have great concepts, the headcanons are amazing as usual, I LOVE Heart Ache and her relationship with Dash)

I usually get really nervous to request stuff (I work on the principle of “If you can do it yourself, you should”), but I think it being like. Really late is helping push me to ask.

Friend do you have any spare. Jeantonio headcanons 👉👈. They can be general, romantic, silly, or even poly if you feel comfortable with it! (You don’t have to if you want to!) Is just. These two drive me up a wall in the best way possible, Man 🐴.

Hope you’ve been doing well! Take care of yourself!

Random JeanTonio Hc’s

[Author’s Note: Hello there! I missed you and I’m glad your back! You don’t have to worry about being away for too long or feeling like an ask is foolish. This blog is for everyone to share their mind and have a few good laughs together! You’re apart of the blog family and we all love you! Thank you for your kind words, much love!]

It was hard the both of them to see Carmen in Boston again after a year. After the scene was caused both of them spent a quiet night comforting each other.

El Topo has a fear of bugs, like a super huge fear. Le Chevre thinks it’s absolutely ridiculous but will still remove a bug from the room because he loves his hubby.

Le Chevre also helps him style his hair.

Both of them now hate swimming because it reminds them of the several times Carmen threw them into the water.

Before El Topo joined the school he did date a girl. It didn’t last for very long and it was a mutual break up and they remained friends until he went to VILE where all communication was cut.

I feel like Countess Cleo was a family friend of Le Chevre’s family, he’s got that elegant rich dude vibe.

After VILE crumbles and they run their food truck they run into Grey who is traveling the world and heard of a food truck that locals and tourists alike love. They definitely become friends again.

I love them so much.

#Carmen Sandiego #carmen sandeigo 2019 #where in the world is carmen sandiego #Jeantonio #jeantonio headcanons #Le Chevre x El topo #Dragon Anon is back! :D #Dragon Anon my friend!#Much love to dragon anon #MlM ship

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Re hp discourse:

I heard someone in the audience of a lecture comment that 'Harry Potter is right wing now'.

Now I know that the charitable reading of that statement is 'yeah, a rich heir kills someone upsetting the status quo and becomes an FBI agent' but their use of the word now connotes the author's transphobia.

But I feel like that association is very obscure relative to the size of the books' readership globally. Which makes the comment seem badly mistaken.

Yeah, like, the old coworker I follow on FB who posted about liking it... I was disappointed to see it, but not SURPRISED. His thing the whole time I knew him was playing Hogwarts the Whatever mobile games on every lunch break beginning to end regardless of quality, because that was his fandom and his thing.

Do I wonder if he might secretly be right wing? I mean, I guess he could be, but he's a super muscley gay guy who really didn't seem to me to not realize straight society would find him kind of weird and cartoonish.

So I would guess that if he has heard about it, it was something like "JKR turned out to hate trans people, fuck that but I love my wizards."

Which, I mean, I could get tied up in knots over it, but I could also be like "you know? Tumblr is kind of a politics petri dish. Are we sure everyone who plays this game is as aware as we are? Are we sure ignoring the creator's well known transphobia translates to BEING transphobic? Are we sure ignoring the creator's well known transphobia... translates to... hating Jews... because of some alt-right connections... that most people said were gone... when a game dev left?"

I guess for me it's... talk to your friends. Ask them why they're doing things. Nine times out of ten people aren't being intentionally malicious, or going "my principles are less shiny than Hogwarts."

I dunno, it feels to me like the revival of 2000's SJ stuff, where you were assumed to endorse anything you didn't vocally oppose.

I'd hoped we might be past that, kinda.

#also i get a 'you can have a special interest just not THAT one' vibe from all this #and like my special interests of late have been #hellraiser megatron thanos phyrexia #i have heard any and all variants of 'stop liking thing' many times

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1 22 and 24 for ryan and atty <3

Eeee yay I'm glad I'm getting more of these! Ty for asking :)

What do they think of each other's family? And how does the family feel?

Ryan is definitely a little intimidated by Atticus's family. I mean they're The Winthorpe Lineage, one of the most revered and known families in the vampire community. His mom and dad are much more traditional/conservative than Atticus, and it makes Ryan uncomfortable when they mention their thralls/familiars or talk about mortals like food. But he does think Atticus's mom is charismatic and intelligent and charming in a lot of the ways Atticus is - the two of them get along. Atticus's dad is a little standoffish but so is Ryan so he doesn't take it personally. Atticus's parents (even dad) really love Ryan. They know that he's not a born vampire and that Atticus turned him, but they've come to accept that and are impressed with the work Ryan's done to master his new powers. Imperia (mom) especially has a soft spot for him. She thinks he's adorable. Like "I could just eat him up!" (figuratively. unless...) Atticus's sister HATES Ryan though, on principle. He's a turned and doesn't deserve the Winthorpe name. He still smells mortal. Ryan is mostly just creeped out and kinda afraid of her lmao Ryan is pretty estranged from his parents and doesn't have a lot of contact with them. They know about Atticus but haven't met him and definitely don't know he's a vampire . Atticus is curious about them and a part of him wants to meet them, but he won't push Ryan about it. He knows it's a sore spot for Ryan, and doesn't take it personally.

22. What's different about their backgrounds? Do those differences affect the relationship?

A LOT. Atticus: white, filthy rich socialite vampire family who are extremely loyal to the Lineage. Atticus was pitted against his sister so they would be competitive and work harder to become more powerful. It worked but gave them an Azula and Zuko type relationship lmao. Ryan: POC working class mortal family with pretty hands off parents who blatantly liked his brother more than they liked him. His brother is his absolute best friend in the world.

It affects a lot of their values. How they feel about work (Atticus: working is pointless; don't do anything unless you love it. vs Ryan: working hard is a necessary evil to survive under capitalism and I take pride in what I've accomplished through working hard at it and being dedicated to that), money (Atticus: literally does not know how much money he has because of infinite generations of generational wealth. vs Ryan: weird about letting Atticus support him financially, much more frugal) and even their aesthetics (Atticus: MAXIMALIST. Loves STUFF and THINGS and ITEMS vs Ryan: Minimalist. Only wants what he needs) Class and race and upbringing are huge. I think there are just some things that Atticus will not be able to understand because of that, but he does try his best.

24. How did they fall for eachother?

If you want the full story 👀

A "brief" summary: They were both contestants on The Bachelorette, and well...they lost the plot. It started off a simple arrangement--Atticus needed a source of fresh blood because blood bags weren't cutting it, and Ryan had a type of blood cancer that essentially gives you too much blood lmao. Kind of a no brainer that they'd meet up to help each other out. The more time they spent together, the more the tension built. There's something inherently intimate about feeding on someone. They also got to know each other on a deeper level. They'd found a blindspot from the cameras and so they could talk at length about whatever they wanted without it being recorded. Atticus was immediately smitten with Ryan. He found him dark and fascinating and easily saw through his prickly exterior to the loving, soft, broken man that was underneath. Ryan saw that Atticus saw him. They were able to bond. But Ryan's internalized homophobia and jealousy about Atticus getting on so well with Aja soured things before anyone could say how they felt. Atticus chose to leave the show, thinking Ryan wanted to be with Aja and not him. But then he came back for Ryan, confessed how he felt, and they both realized what a stupid misunderstanding the whole thing had been. It was a dumb, twisty love story that could've been a lot easier if one of them was just like "hey I think you're cute" but that's not how either of these idiots do things.

If you’re reading this send me some numbers from this prompt 💕

#katowin household

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hi! i'm not sure if you're still looking for opinions on taylor x matty but i just wanted to share my thoughts as a woc and a long-time swiftie cause i think i've been going crazy lol feel free to ignore this if you don't want to post about this anymore!

even if healy didn't mean to say or do any of the things he's said and done, even if it was "just a bit" or "part of his stage persona". none of those change the fact that the "jokes" are offensive.

impact over intent.

i don't care what his intentions were. i care that he's hurt multiple minority groups at a time when hate for minorities is growing again.

i’m not blaming taylor for his actions but i am blaming her for her inaction. since her documentary, she made herself out to be an ally, a voice for the marginalized and yet chooses to align herself with someone like this. i saw a comment say that with her dating him, it just shows that racism isn’t a dealbreaker when dating. which says a lot about her lmao.

i can’t even say i’m disappointed because taylor swift is the peak of white feminism. i don’t even expect her to do or say anything about this because she isn’t losing anything which is the most disheartening thing, that she’ll only ever do anything if it affects her directly. rich people are crazy.

i just wish that white swifties would actually listen to minority voices and understand why we’re so upset without gaslighting them. the past few days, i’ve seen so many white swifties try to defend this man’s actions all because “he makes taylor happy” all while not understanding at all the impact of all of this.

i absolutely despise this "relationship", real or not. in my opinion, her even being associated with him puts the "taylor swift mark of approval" on everything he does and has done. and that mark of approval is extremely powerful considering her level of fame and power. plus the fact that swifties will literally defend anything she does, even if that means throwing morals out the window.

i might not have explained my feelings v well so i'll plug some bipoc/lgbt+ creators who've spoken up on this as well (they're more eloquent than i am sdjkghsd):

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLeonNFb/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLd1j1GM/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLd1bYrS/ https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSLd1Cd4p/

i’m so sorry for the rant!!! i just feel very passionate about this and hurt tbh sdgkjsd her songs have been the soundtrack of literally half my life so i have a lot of feelings on this :( again please feel free to not answer! i guess i just needed to vent jkfdgfkdj

i've been wanting to hear about this situation from the perspective of a poc who is also a swiftie, so thank you for your insight! don't be sorry!!

i've been thinking about what you said about "impact over intent" literally all day. it's a basic principle i was more people understood. it doesn't matter if you were just joking if what you said/did hurt people in the end.

the more i'm learning about matty, the more disappointed i get in taylor. because, like you said, his racism and anti-semitism is not a dealbreaker for someone who would call themselves an ally. she def shouldn't be blamed for anything matty has said or done, but by dating him, she's being complicit in those things and.. there's just no defending that in my opinion.

#bug answers #ily

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Ink Demonth 2022 - The End, part 2: Movement, Timing, Exaggeration and Dimension

Chapter 22 - Movement

(1960-1063)

Joey walks past Bertum's carousel in the fake Studio and it becomes activated by his presence. He watches it spin from a distance, still amazed that Bertum's imprint remains, even though he has not tried to put him through the machine. He only let his body dissolve in the ink to make it disappear. He remembers with annoyance that he was so full of himself and, above all, so much better than he was that he rejected with horror his proposal to involve him in his plans for the ink machine. He was interested at first, but was put off by the use of the "donors" needed to create the characters. Joey, disappointed at losing his eventual monetary contribution, was forced to kill him so he wouldn't get into trouble.

He turns his back on him and walks out of the room, ignoring him with a thin smile on his face. For all his fine principles, talent and pride, the great Bertum Piedmont ended up here, doomed to spin endlessly for Joey.

Chapter 23 - Timing

(Late 1939)

Despite his best efforts, the Studio is not as successful as Joey would like. One night at home, slumped in a chair with a drink in his hand and fed up with being a small-time studio owner, his eyes fall on the book Nathan gave him over fifteen years ago. Without knowing why, he stands up and opens it. The urge to read it is so strong that he finds it strange despite his slight intoxication. But he continues anyway, and the more he reads, the more the desire to be rich and famous flares up inside him, while the thought of using black magic becomes more and more acceptable. This reaches its peak when he comes across a lexicon of demon names, and Caym's name seems to stand out from the rest. He will quickly act on it, invoking the demon for the first time, and never doubting what he is doing as long as he has the Book in his hands. As the years go by, the Book's influence diminishes and Joey becomes more and more suspicious of it. He becomes convinced that the Book was only made of paper and ink, but that it is something that serves Caym and that, like the demon, it doesn't mean him any good.

Chapter 24 - Exaggeration

(Before 1920)

A look back at Joey's first year at the front. He was fifteen years old, had just spent four years alone on the streets, and had joined the army to be fed and clothed without thinking of war as a reality. He found himself with a gun in his hands, not necessarily repelled by violence but never having been close to death. He will see the other young men around him die, and will come to kill for the first time to save his life. He will come out of it scared, shaken, but he will not regret having done it because he wanted to survive at all costs. He will then find it easier to kill each time, and will value human life less and less. Later on, he will easily manage to hide the horror of sacrificing people if it is to get what he wants: in his eyes, the value of human life is very exaggerated.

Chapter 25 - Dimension

(1939)

Caym heard the Words and felt them open a passage before him with wild joy. Yet he was already suffering from being torn from Hell and forced into a dimension that is usually forbidden to him. As demons are not supposed to go to Earth, they can only gain access to it if they are summoned, and this subjects them to many restrictive conditions. The main one is that they must obey the human who summoned them, and many demons hate this humiliation even if it allows them to devour a soul. But not Caym. He made the Book so that he could influence humans and have a greater chance of being summoned, because in Hell he is a demon of little importance, deeply bored and hates being weak. On Earth, even if he is not stronger, his powers allow him not only to play cruelly with humans, but also to hope to rise in rank because the souls that will end up in Hell thanks to him will come back to him and allow him to increase his power. So he makes sure to push his summoner further and further, trying to corrupt as many people as possible through his influence. This also amuses him, as he likes to inspire terror and respect, even if it means lying to get it, but he also constantly needs to distract himself. Caym deeply despises humans, sometimes underestimating them to the point that they manage to surprise him, but he is too full of himself to learn from his mistakes. Demons are incapable of improving themselves, and this is the only weakness that humans can exploit when faced with their powers...

#batim #bendy #The Ink Demonth #Bertum Piedmont #batim joey drew #Caym Batim OC #young joey

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time for daddy‏‏‎ ‎(yeah the ep is called daddy. sorry. it's not weird like it sounds just weird in a different way). maybe i will lose my mind

-i strongly STRONGLY doubt this episode will get me to like‏‏‎ ‎sherman but alright the song is kinda good. still angry frank didn't get a new song himself though. linda got one!! she's got like 3 now!!!

-speaking of songs if i hear‏‏‎ ‎our‏‏‎ ‎doors‏‏‎ ‎are‏‏‎ ‎open‏‏‎ ‎instrumental in the background at any point i will explode into a million and one pieces <3

-CHRIST OKAY. GETTING INTO IT

-MISSED THESE GUYS TOGETHER SO BADDDD

-me too‏‏‎ ‎nick lang :)

-HE SOUNDS SO HURT THAT SHE'S LEAVING i KNOW it's because she's one of his only employees but i am still SO! SO! AUGH!!!!!!

-ah yeah there it is there's the instrumental i'm dying i'm dying i'm dying i'm dying

-FRANK ANTI-AMAZON CONFIRMED <3 i'm so so so sorry i once implied you wanted to be like jeff‏‏‎ ‎bezos‏‏‎ ‎man you are nothing like that wretched waste of air you are a small town business owner doing your BEST. also this may be the one and only time i will say these words in this order but: lex maybe you should be nicer to frank.

-okay this shit is hitting close to home now...ouch. stores going out of business because of the prevalency of online shopping...

-I FEEL SO BAD FOR PUTTING THIS IN A FIC NOW. GOD. I'M SORRY!!!!!!!

-HIS DOG :(((((( this is so fucking sad i knew most of it was coming but it still makes me miserable

-after this episode confirmed frank has a genuine appreciation for toys beyond just selling them someone in the tags mentioned autistic frank and yeah i'll absorb that permanently into my canon of course i will. most of you weren't here for the post about frank‏‏‎ ‎selling‏‏‎ ‎stim‏‏‎ ‎toys after i explain to him what autism is but it has a sequel now. frank starts using the stim toys and does his own research and calls me later like Hey So.

-"and when the doors opened, it was my store!"

-sobbing. sobbing. crying and sobbing and TEARS! i just know i will look at all of his scenes in black‏‏‎ ‎friday‏‏‎ ‎differently after this

-still hate sherman but at least he keeps frank in business

-i will not be jealous that frank gets a love interest. i will not be jealous that frank gets a love interest. i will not be jealous tha

-it helps that she's evil. also helps that she's like. hot evil. yeah if i was in his situation i'd marry her too. i still have complex emotions about it.

-"yeah, she's a milf"

-when i said i wanted frank to get another song i did not mean the sugar glider mlp‏‏‎ ‎knockoffs' theme song.

-frank immediately getting less invested when sherman says "growing up is for poor people"... you do have morals king!

-STOP BEING A DICK NOW THAT YOU'RE RICH YOU'RE RUINING YOUR SPOT AS MOST REDEEMABLE/LIKEABLE OREN PRINCIPLE GUY

-sherman age reveal...

-"WHAT SHOULD I HAVE DONE, SHEILA? :D"

-the fucking exasperation in his voice. he has immediately become sick of this.

-becky‏‏‎‏‏‎ ‎barnes‏‏‎ ‎:)

-frank looks surprised and kind of grossed out when sheila insults becky. women respecter

-"because this is the pediatrics wing and he's a grown ass man :)"

-FRANK'S CAPITALIST DISILLUSIONMENT ARC <33333 SO SEXY OF HIM ACTUALLY

-okay yeah the‏‏‎ ‎man‏‏‎ ‎in‏‏‎ ‎a‏‏‎ ‎hurry‏‏‎ ‎is funny but i won't forgive people for caring more about him than frank in‏‏‎ ‎Frank's Episode

-YAYYYY!!!! FEAST‏‏‎ ‎OR‏‏‎ ‎FAMINE‏‏‎ ‎INSTRUMENTAL!! BITING AND CHEWING (POSITIVE)

-"I'M SORRY, LEX......"

-WEEPING AND WAILING!! AND LOSING MY MIND!!!!!!!!!

-yayayayayay lore...eats it...

-BAD END :(

well i don't like that frank is sad now but!!! we got new content!!!! he has motivations and hobbies and relationships!!!! that i can BUILD OFF OF!!!! and he really does care about lex...in his own way...congratulations‏‏‎‏‏‎ ‎frank‏‏‎ ‎pricely‏‏‎‏‏‎ ‎on the character development and sorry about your new awful son. don't worry i'll get rid of him in fanfic.

#this is sooo incomprehensible to people who haven't watched this #mostly i am just happy‏‏‎ ‎frank‏‏‎ ‎got‏‏‎ ‎content.‏‏‎ ‎and‏‏‎ ‎content‏‏‎ ‎with‏‏‎ ‎lex‏‏‎ ‎in‏‏‎ ‎it...#my special guys...#he gets one‏‏‎ ‎short little appearance in‏‏‎ ‎yellow‏‏‎ ‎jacket‏‏‎ ‎so that's something to look forward to #nyx on comms #ship: your annual entrepreneur #THE TAG IS BACK!

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INVESTMENT 1

10 “IF you are FAITHFUL IN LITTLE THINGS, you will be FAITHFUL IN LARGE ONES. BUT if you are DISHONEST IN LITTLE THINGS, you won’t be HONEST WITH GREATER RESPONSIBILITIES.

11 AND IF YOU ARE UNTRUSTWORTHY ABOUT WORLDLY WEALTH, WHO WILL TRUST YOU WITH THE TRUE RICHES OF HEAVEN?

12 AND if you are not FAITHFUL with other people’s things, why should you be TRUSTED with things of your OWN?

13 “NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS. For you will HATE one and LOVE the other; you will be DEVOTED to one and DESPISE the other. YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND BE ENSLAVED TO MONEY.”

Luke 16:10-13 (NLT)

• True wisdom on finances comes only through the Word of God.

- Jesus said being a good stewardship of money is a prerequisite for being used by God for greater things (Luke 16:10,11).

- If the church will prosper materially and spiritually, the funds channel through it must be managed properly.

- There must be a balance, too much attention on money will make the church a servant to materialism.

• Management. If the Believers do really believe God owns everything, then they must manage their finances according to His principles.

- After you had given your tithes and offerings; Prophet Offerings, Offerings to the Needy, What should you do with the surpluses?

- The surpluses should not be wasted, it should be invested to multiply your resources for Giving:

"GOD gives SEED to the farmer and FOOD to those who need to eat. GOD WILL ALSO GIVE YOU SEED AND MULTIPLY IT. IN your lives HE WILL INCREASE THE THINGS [the works] YOU DO THAT HAVE HIS APPROVAL" (2 Corinthians 9:10 GOD’S WORD Translation).

- You supposed not to be on the same level of Giving, and if your level of Giving would change, you have to Invest.

- Your income that is sufficient today may not be sufficient tomorrow, Thus Invest the surpluses you have today. .

- Establish a basic standard of living for yourself and your family.

- Do not be impulsive or rash; when you have a raise, it does not mean you should change your standard of living immediately.

- For you to experience financial rest, invest in your year of surplus. Joseph suggested to Pharaoh that they should save one fifth, twenty percent, of what they got at the time of surplus.

THAT actually help them as a nation at the time of famine. The then known world came to buy food from them at the time of famine (Genesis 41:33-36).

- God wants to raise Kingdom financiers, those whom He would channel the resources needed by the church through.

AND whoever would be among the people that would be used for such a purpose must have proven to be faithful and prudent in spending, and a good manager of the resources which had passed through his or her hand before.

- If you were not faithful in that little which God had earlier given to you, you definitely would not be faithful in MUCH (Matthew 25:21,23; Luke 16:10).

- For you not to beg later, you invest at the time of surplus (Proverbs 20:4).

- Whatever God has blessed you with presently, is a test, and how you manage it determines what God would do for you next—the level He would put you.

- God gave favour to the Israelites in the sights of their Egyptian neighbours when they wanted to leave Egypt, and they left the land with abundance (Exodus 3:21,22; 11:3; 12:35,36).

- One of the reasons why the abundance was given to them, the Israelites, was; God wanted them to build a tabernacle for Him in the wilderness—on their way to the promise land (Exodus 35:20-24).

• lnvestment

(i) If you are investing your money, be sure to do on what you have knowledge of—what you know about.

a. Seldom would anyone be duped in get-rich-quick scheme on what such knows about—his or her area of expertise.

b. The vast majority of people who make money do so in the field in which they have the most training and experience (Proverbs 13:11; 20:21). Thus, Do not risk borrowed money.

(ii) Do not borrow money to Invest. The down payment of any investment should not be borrowed.

YOU can only finance, leverage, an investment when you have adequate value to cover any liability.

(iii) Do not make quick decisions:

"BE still in the presence of the Lord, and WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM TO ACT. DON'T WORRY about evil people who prosper or FRET ABOUT THEIR WICKED SCHEMES" (Psalm 37:7 NLT).

"GOOD planning and hard work lead to prosperity, BUT HASTY SHORTCUTS LEAD TO POVERTY."

Proverbs 21:5 (NLT)

(iv) Seek good counsel (Proverbs 12:15).

Good, objective Christian counsel should be a prerequisite to any major financial decision.

a. Someone who is not emotionally involved with get-rich-quick scheme can spot whatever the flaws quickly.

b. One of the best sources of counsel is a PROVEN servant of God.

• To avoid financial traps.

- Establish your standards through God's Word.

- Seek God's plan for your life.

- Stick with what you know.

- Seek good counsel.

- Wait on God's peace on the inside of you, before you act or take any step (Proverbs 10:22).

• Kingdom Investments

- Your relationship with God should be strong and cordial, for you to know what to do about Investments.

- If you build a strong relationship and fellowship with God, you will know how to Invest your money through the leading of the Holy Spirit.

- That being said, First and foremost, the foundation for prosperity of any Believer is Kingdom Investment.

- If you Invested in God's Kingdom, He will give you wisdom on how to Invest wisely in whatever Business you wanted to.

- The Holy Spirit will lead you the way to go and how to make profit:

"THUS says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, WHO TEACHES YOU TO PROFIT, WHO LEADS YOU BY THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO" (Isaiah 48:17 NKJV).

- Kingdom Investment is a mystery—a hidden truth. If you had passion for God and His Kingdom on earth, He cannot but repay you or compensate you:

"BUT first, BE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS KINGDOM AND WHAT HAS HIS APPROVAL [His righteousness]. THEN ALL THESE THINGS [the material things] WILL BE PROVIDED FOR YOU" (Matthew 6:33 — GOD’S WORD Translation).

• When you made money, especially substantial amount, you would need to ask God about how to spend it.

- The money possibly had been made available for a particular purpose. Thus, for you not to eat your seed, that is, the money you supposed to sow, you would have to ask God.

- Out of your income, whatever money provided for you, the Tithes should be considered first, then, the Givings or offerings: to the servants of God, and the Needy, particularly those of the household of faith, and the MISSION work, plus other Projects.

- If you do not give priority to Kingdom Investment, you could have problems financially.

- If you did not spend the money channeled through you, as instructed or commanded by God, your Business investments could SUFFER.

• Money is spiritual. It flows in the direction WHERE it was programmed to go from the spirit realms.

- Avoid get-rich-quick quick schemes, follow and practice the covenant principles of the Kingdom, Givings—that you may prosper in God's own way.

- You can only succeed financially as a Believer in Christ Jesus through the practice of Kingdom principle of Giving and other principles mentioned in the Scripture.

- Believers, Christians, are meant to prosper through their obedience to the Word of God, that is, practicing the principles mentioned in the Bible (James 1:22,25).

- The making of a Believer, a child of God, is by covenant, through the practice of the Word of God, and NOT by toiling or struggling.

• You will not fail in Jesus' name.

Peace!

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samtheflamingomain · 2 years

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twitter down the shitter

I'm human. A real, meat-being. So of course I'm on social media.

Except Twitter. It has too many buttons and people I don't know. It scares me. I believe my tweet count is in the low double-digits.

So to see the whole Elon Musk debacle, as someone who will never be remotely impacted on a personal level by whatever the fuck he does to Twitter? I feel I'm in a sociologically interesting position.

I was going to make a comparison to a ref, but refs get paid to care about the integrity of the game. The only thing Twitter ever did that impacted me in any way was the ban of Trump, because that meant less things for Stephen Colbert to make fun of him for. I was a whole-ass week late to covfefe.

So, as someone with zero stake in the game (only focusing on Twitter itself, not any economic implications), I'm just... I wouldn't say amused, but almost.

Let's get the obvious out of the way: yes, any large change in ownership of something as massive as Twitter will have effects that ripple out. It could be harmful, especially in the wrong hands.

But here's the thing that I don't think a lot of people want to hear: the hands could be worse. Yes, he was born with a silver spoon up his ass and has some trash-fire takes. He's made some bad decisions, in business and otherwise.

But he's not stupid. As much as it pains me to say it.

I'm the insufferable philosopher that says "intelligence is a social construct, no one is 100% unintelligent". But without any caveats, he's a smart man.

But... he's also extremely selfish and impulsive, and I'd say it gets in the way of his intelligence.

Musk is absolutely a weird, toxic, incel-y dude. He's Michael Scott if he were a billionaire aware of 4chan.

As a die-hard socialist, I hate him on principle. But compared to all the other billionaire assholes, he really isn't the worst of the bunch. If Bezos was doing this, I'd actually be alarmed. He already owns the means by which most people buy EVERYTHING. Musk has a space hobby and one car thing. He's certainly filthy rich, but I'd argue that he doesn't have a whole lot of power.

But I mean that in one very narrow sense: I don't think anything Musk does is ever going to influence law-making or precedent-setting the way many other billionaires have done.

Again, billionaires should not exist, eat the rich, etc. But I think people who use Twitter are... overreacting.

I get the feeling that a lot of people see Twitter as THE social media, or at least the biggest. Maybe it is. But it's not the only one.

At one point, Myspace was the biggest. Then we moved on. We all, eventually, abandoned it completely for Facebook.

It's 20 years later, though. I don't know of anyone who is ONLY on Twitter. We're all on, say, 3 different social media - is one of them going to shit going to cause a Myspace-like exodus from the platform?

Probably not. Here's why: I'm not the only one who has an account for every site but uses only a few. It's different for everyone. Some have Insta just to see others' posts. Some have FB just to talk to that one family member. Some have Reddit just to glance at r/all once a week.

Social media is no longer all-or-nothing. Very few are die-hard "fans" of any one site. If Twitter becomes a cesspool, I don't think it means the end of it, but maybe a shift in attention to a different platform. Maybe it becomes the platform we all check now and then to see what politicians are saying.

At the same time, I think any such change would be very, very slow. People that like their Main social medium will cling to it as it sinks. See: me and tumblr.

Aaaaallll this to say, to go back to my outside-looking-in viewpoint, I don't think Twitter will look much different one year from now.

This goes back to Musk being not the worst possible hands for Twitter to be in. Selfish and impulsive, but also smart. He's not Trump, going bankrupt left and right.

And maybe I'll lose some people here, but let me don my tinfoil hat for just a moment: he's marketing.

All the weird tweets, bad takes, inflammatory threads... he's just trying to make waves. He's a smart man, but he's not a genius.

A smart man makes people write articles about him. A genius plays it quiet.

As an outsider, it seems glaringly obvious that he's simply fanning the flames, getting everyone to write about him. And clearly it's working. Look at me at this exact second.

But this kind of marketing only works when you back it up. When right-wingers are disappointed at his actual level of involvement and leftists are disappointed at all this leading to jack-shit, it's gonna be onto the next one.

We got a little tired of Ukraine and decided Twitter was important enough, and too many people gave Musk a bit too much attention. But totally honest, I think he's more selfish than he is smart, and that will be his downfall, and 6 months from now we'll all be laughing about the time Musk thought he could Change Twitter.

I've been wrong before, though. All we can do is watch the show.

#eat the rich #tax the rich #elon musk #twitter #social media #sam

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