►Drop to your knees, look up at me with that pretty fanged smile, Angel~
Angel growled slightly at the command. His face scrunched up in displeasure before he dropped to his knees. He'd done that move so many times now that it was almost natural to him. He tilted his head up towards them and flashed a toothy smile. "Ya know, this ain't free."
i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good
okay but like. I just had the weirdest thought about that ‘don’t look I’m naked’ comic. Which is that that’s essentially the same thing Adam and Eve did after they ate the fruit of knowledge of good&evil. So I feel like the theological implications of that could kneecap Gabe if he doesn’t think V1 is a being with free will.
yeah ok. i dunno man. is this anything
((side note. this isn’t necessarily meant to be in-character or story-accurate or take place at any particular point in time, just a way to explore some Thoughts. i was also imagining more that V1’s words aren't actually spoken, more like Gabriel’s more articulate interpretation of whatever garbled mechanical noise V1 is using to communicate. I think an angel could do that.))
working at a grocery store has only made me even angrier about inflation and how food, water, and shelter isnt free
like just looking at groceries (not water or shelter) i see just a few bags (maybe around 5 or so) of food costing over $125 USD regularly. I've seen orders upwards of $600. and sure those have been bigger orders but no food should cost that much.
my coworkers and i shouldn't be complaining about the price of food when we get employee discounts.
a single bag of food for myself (usually containing some small pizzas, crackers, milk, and cereal) regularly costs between $50-60. minimum wage in my state is 15/HR. thats about four hours of work for one bag of food
a coworker who works on the front end of our store prides herself on being able to catch theives. everyone says how good she is at it. and sometimes it makes sense, sometimes people are just stealing to steal. but how do you ever know?
when the card reader we take outside is broken we are supposed to have the customers come inside to pay for their groceries if they're paying with EBT. there's a woman who's a regular who has a few small children and when she comes to pick up groceries they're usually asleep in the car.
am i supposed to make her choose between leaving her children alone in the car or waking them up and taking them inside?
four hours of work for one bag of groceries. is this not also theft?
four hours of work. let that sink in. four hours for one small bag of groceries.
we aren't supposed to accept tips but if we don't accept tips then how else are we supposed to afford our groceries?
i haven't seen a single person stealing food. you cannot steal whats already stolen.
although im no longer a christian, the teachings of my childhood have stuck with me, and in the bible it says "When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you."
society has reaped right up the the very edge and beyond of its fields, so it's up to us to reap what we can
i want to give a shoutout to whoever keeps putting nitw graffiti on this building near my apartment it genuinely brightens my day whenever i see it. it has been painted over like 3 times since i first saw it but it keeps coming back. is it one person? or are there multiple nitw fans silently agreeing that this abandoned building absolutely needs mae borowski's energy? i dont know but they are doing mankind (and me. specifically.) an act of kindness
so i remember seeing a post somewhere here talking about how if joey richter had a mustache on a stick/stick-on mustache he could easily play both ted and pete in the same scene, and i love that idea, but if it were to happen i do want one part to be included about pete wanting a mustache, something like
Pete: You know, I've been thinking about growing a mustache.
Ted, while smoothing out his mustache: You? (he turns to face pete) With a mustache? (he laughs) Like you could ever pull off a mustache.
Pete: Hey! I would look great with a mustache!
basically i want a scene where pete and ted talk about how pete would look terrible with a mustache aka joey richter putting on and taking off a mustache while telling himself he would look stupid with a mustache and arguing with himself