#especially heinous

[the-final-sentence]

The city takes a breath.

Carmen Maria Machado, from “Especially Heinous” 

#Especially Heinous #Carmen Maria Machado

[mxlabradorite]

Committing the cardinal sin of wearing these bad boys with socks to New York because they're the only shoes that don't make my lower back scream right now.

#travel #crocs crimes #fashion crimes #especially heinous

[gatherthewords]

#cats #kittens #incorrect svu #especially heinous #Nebraska Jones

[magicshadowshow]

#ich wache auf #especially heinous #waka waka

[uncanny-tranny]

And another thing that gets me about the human condition is how we weren't even meant to survive this world alone - humans with humans. We chose to trust certain animals, to nourish them, to be symbiotic with them, to love them like we love ourselves. I think a lot of people talk about how selfish it is for humans to take advantage of animals, but I think that's too simplistic. It's closer to friendship - if you do not foster the relationship, then it simply won't go anywhere, and I think the implication that animals can't ever know anything for themselves, for their survival, is also human-centric and selfish (selfishness not inherently being a bad thing).

It's just nice to know that we want to be around people - we want to be around comfort and security and safety so much that we now have animals by our side. Every time I cuddle with my cat, I think that we weren't meant to survive this world alone; she is shaped to fit in my chest, and my arms were made to wrap around her.

#positivity #and i know many people are like 'but we domesticated animals for what they could do for us 😞' and that's not the full picture... #...YES we fostered certain relationships with animals because they are skilled and they are qualified so to speak... #...but we also must prove ourselves in order to keep our end of the deal. would an animal really WANT to do their work if they... #...weren't taken care of? ESPECIALLY if they're stubborn in nature? #it just seems human-centric to think that all animals are at the mercy of us and could NEVER think or feel #and even then!!! we won't ever KNOW because they have different thoughts and feelings and perspectives we won't KNOW ABOUT #maybe we should just bask in the company and love that animals give us without worrying about committing Awful Heinous Sins #YOU ARE A PART OF NATURE. YOU ARE ALSO AN AMIMAL. YOU CAN SURVIVE WITH OTHER ANIMALS #when you take the time and care to learn about animals you can even relate and feel for them and understand a little better #i just love that humans tend to pack bond so intensely that it doesn't just apply to other people #our instinct to love and care is a good thing. our pack bonding will help us survive. #to live is to be 'selfish'. it is you IMPERATIVE to be selfish

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Especially Heinous: 272 Views of Law & Order SVU" is available to read here

#novella #novellas #especially heinous: 272 views of law & order svu #carmen maria machado #21st century literature #english language literature #american literature #cuban american literature #cuban literature #latino american literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

The picture of edas friends as children, reminding us that all these adults, allies and villains alike, were once children. They were abused and indoctrinated by the same system that some of them are using to abuse and indoctrinate kids now. A few of them like alador and darius were able to see whats wrong and fight for a better world. But people like odalia sided with the emperor until it was too late because thats the only thing theyve ever known. And then it cuts to adult lilith and raine and shows how a lifetime of living under this system has sapped the joy out of them. How as kids they never would have thought to make their last stand against they system thats been there their whole lives. Its the lifetime of trauma and the perpetuation of the cycle of abuse for me

#the owl house #toh #shut up pandora #kings tide #thats why i dislike everyone saying that x character got redeemed or dont deserve redemption or smth #bc in toh redemption isnt the point its what belos has been doing with his christian guilt #the point is that everyone has fallen to the wiles of a cult leader #and many of these ppl would have grown up to be normal if not a little bitchy and dramatic #but because of belos they were manipulated into heinous things that they can never take back #and even though the world and their religious leader was the one to tell them to do these things #they still made their own choice to listen #because hard as it was to say no to these atrocities the choice was there as shown by the rebel squad #and if more people went against the emperor #especially the coven heads #he wouldnt have succeeded in the day of unity #but because belos was so persuasive and the coven heads and odalia were so obsessed with special treatment #they couldnt see the red flags and they almost caused a genocide

[duskydrawings]

my bestie @bluegekk0 bribed me with burger money for this drawing of our shrimps together (real)

#dusky.art #hk pale king #men kissing #pale king #homoerotic amputation #learning to love yourself is a daunting and difficult process especially if you have committed heinous crimes against your kin #also you are divorced #alas. what is a hamster/silverfish hybrid to do? #as famous greek philosopher aristotle once so wisely put it; you must love the dumpster-diving non-fruity version of yourself #before you can begin to love others #can i get an amen 😇🙏

[unnecessarybeltbuckles]

Wouldn't mind the sudden introduction of canon heterosexual relationships for characters that were previously unassociated with each other, if they'd stop with the fucking "ummm these two same-gender characters regard each other like blood family now so pairing them would be weird :))))" they've pulled so many times across MK11 + MK1 it's so blatant

#makes me actually mad because instead of making things awkward they could literally just leave it alone #it would cost $0 to just leave it the fck alone #examples: jade + kitana #hanzo + kuai #kuai + smoke #reiko + shao #they're gonna make Shang say Quan is like a brother to him next /j #made this same post back with MK11. lol #the subscorp fiasco is especially heinous I don't even have the energy for it #I won't ever forgive that

[brotherofbagels]

There needs to be more nuance in how people view the situation but the internet doesn't allow for that.

#georgenotfound #the thing is though is that the internet as it is rn is completely black and white so that's not gonna happen #'non-verbal consent is not consent' it absolutely can be in certain situations #if you cuddle for hours and seem comfortable doing it and reciprocate by coming back and showing positive body language l #then yes putting a hand on the waist of the person you're cuddling with isn't a heinous crime #social context is very important here #context in general is very important here #i just feel like people forget how the real world operates sometimes because the internet's view on stuff like this can be so polarizing #especially in a community as young as the mcyt fandom #that being said #caiti's feelings are completely valid #george can be innocent at the same time #i just wish people could look at this logically instead of being so chronically online all the time #instead of throwing around the assault word and hoping that gets them internet brownie points #idk this is so stupid catie's friends made the situation 1000x worse by publicizing it the way they did before catie could even try and #resolve it privately

[freckledsweetpea]

I really need the internet to just allow gypsy rose blanchard to fall into anonymity. Be remotely normal please. She's never going to perform the way you want her to and she's not a zoo animal. She's a flawed human being, as are we all, and doesn't need to be smeared for viewing under a microscope. We can support her release while not making a meme about how her husband looks like her mom.

#especially since she's undoubtedly going to be consuming the entirety of her release on social media #and will most certainly see the heinous shit you're posting

[anxiously-sidequesting]

To me personally malistaire is the funniest and most pathetic villain wizard101 has ever had AND I MEAN THAT SINCERELY!!! Between doomed children who have been manipulated, groomed, and isolated into becoming products of their environments, someone scorned who has been punished unfairly by having your biological heart torn out your chest and turning your children and all of reality against you to satiate their own ego, a nonhuman entity so powerful and so clueless they unintentionally threaten the lives of everyone around them, Malistaire FELL DOWN BRO. Like yeah you're bitchless now. You and me both. Get in line. Everyone in this room is bitchless. We are ALL living that ✨💅🏾💃🕺 Single Life™. You are a middle-aged man. Cope

#this post is lighthearted btw JELAJWODJTU i aint actually mad #but like...... malistaire as a villain is kinda mid though im sorry. IM SORRY ill take the L opinion if i have to #its one thing if he lost his wife to unfair systematic negligence or thru someone else's doings or smth but. no she just got sick bro 😐 #HWMSNFLEKSDIDOA EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE I WILL GIVW A BAD OPINION AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. i cant be right ALL the time /j #like if i dont focus on malistaire's motives and just his ACTIONS he seems super metal #but then he does ALLLLL of that heinous shit because his wife died. like thats absolutely very sad but damn get a grip #(fandom starts breaking in my windows and drags me out into the street) IM SORRY IM SORRY LOOK ITS JUST NOT MY CUP OF TEA #ive never been invested in those Mr. Freeze types of villains where a person they love dies due to normal circumstances- #and they go fucking BERSERK. they LOSE IT. they go like “well okay fuck the entire world i guess nothing matters” and then kill people #LIKE IF IT'S DONE IN A CERTAIN WAY I CAN BE INVESTED but more often than not to me? its just kind of funny #like “okay damn there was only ONE person keeping you from being a national criminal? okay” #and you know what? thats a mood actually. thats a mood #without my cat i probanly would have become the president by now #for some reason its a little diff for me if its like a child you lost and idk why #like if malistaire lost a kid instead of his wife id probably be more inclined to feel bad and thats terribly fucked up JSLSJSJSJ #you know what its also bias because in some shape or form i relate to all the other villains. morganthe and duncan especially #whereas in malitsaire's case i have never been married. which i mean doesnt stop me from tryna be more synpathetic i guess but im just not #ONCE AGAIN FEEL VERY BAD FOR HIM AND SULVIA. like losing someone to sickness or any reason really is a serious thing #but in terms of a fictional setting with fictional characters where one of them decides to commit genocide over it? 🧍 like okay boo u do u #i will gladly give up my mantle for the “most reasonable opinions” guy in the fandom foe this one. i deserve it #wizard101 #w101 #wiz101 #text posts #malistaire drake

[clowniconography]

this is my message to all current and future freshman college students. i am begging you please do NOT quote memes you don't know the source of to your teacher in class as though they're legitimately talking points. sincerely, a senior who just had to hear another student directly quote the "men are like waffles and women are like spaghetti" meme as though it has any actual scientific basis, clearly unaware that it was originally created by a pair of homophobic evangelist christians. readers, PLEASE take caution where this student clearly did not

#as a rule nobody wants to hear u recount memes in class but this was especially heinous #the prof is such an enable too. we spend like half the class talking about tiktok trends 😭 #like man i paid to see YOU teach not hear freshman theorize about gender 😭😭😭 #scooter.txt #rant

[invinciblerodent]

one part of BG3 that I appreciate a lot (and feel like I don't see mentioned quite enough) is just how many different ways there are for the companions specifically to break up with the player, or for them to openly say that though they love the PC, they either cannot abide by whatever it is they're doing/have done, or that they know that there isn't really a chance of a happily ever after for them.

the characters having their own morals, and actual, strict boundaries that are immutable and which they abide by, that's always really nice to see, and I feel like it's not quite as common as I'd like it to be.

like, sometimes I feel like in certain big or popular games, the players are kind of... coddled, in a way? either by not being given the option to do heinous shit (and thus there not being a need for them to experience consequences), or by negative consequences to actions being written in a way that makes them inconsequential, or avoidable altogether. I like that this time, there are things for which that's simply not the case.

every time I see someone be like "I did this thing that this character told me they hated, and they DUMPED me for it! that's so stupid!" I always just feel glad that the characters were written mostly to stand up for themselves, even if it's against the player. that's just always really nice.

#squirrel plays bg3 #astarion especially has like what... 3-4 different scenes? that can trigger of him breaking up with you? #and all of them are very reasonable and like... yeah yknow what that's understandable #very “well what did you expect was going to happen” #that AND the levels of SALT certain types of people produce when their in-game boo won't just let them do whatever with no repercussions? #that too is just delicious #here let me do this straight-up heinous shit; but oh no not the quencies!!!!!! #like... isn't the point of making those decisions to experience the consequences....? #well this. this is one of them #(yes I just saw a short of the breakup if the player forces sex in act 2) #(yes internally I hoot and holler; way to go you funky fella YES dump that asshole!!!)

[jerktournament]

Would like to emphasize there's no "wrong way" to play this poll!! If you're voting based on your most beloved jerk, cool! If you're voting based on who's the bigger jerk, sweet!

Personally this was created with "which is the favorite jerk" but I'm cool with seeing who's meanest too. Who cares it's poll. We ball.

TLDR: If a blorbo is winning it doesn't necessarily mean they're "worse than" or a bigger asshole than the other. Don't worry 👍

#Was just worried it'd spout genuine discourse #Especially since I think we have a few characters here who can be considered of doing Heinous Terrible Actions #I know a lot of the polls are caught in people's dashes who don't folow the blog so I don't blame the competition going on lol! #Shrug #txt #not a poll #I am trying not to fall asleep so this might be sloppily worded LMAO

[punk-pandame]

call me an asshole if you want but if an artist isn't good at live performance then it shouldn't cost hundreds of dollars to attend their concerts

#listening to live versions of songs by [REDACTED] to simulate attending a concert #only to get angry and go back to the studio versions cause the live sucks so bad #as a performer im allowed to criticize especially when i could literally do it better #heinous #there's no shame in being a studio-only artist! you can still have live concerts! just fucking dance and jump around or disc jockey or smth #idk man SOMETHING cause this shit obviously aint workin for some of yall