#roads to elsewhere

[fantasiallamarcia]

i am very normal about kingdom hearts union x :) you can trust me to talk about kingdom hearts union x in a very normal manner :) i definitely won't lose my absolute marbles if you give me an opening to talk about kingdom hearts union x :)

#kh #khux #this is coming off of me having finished dark road last week #and having some time to reflect on it #i loved dark road! #don't get me wrong #it was fantastic in its own right #but khux hit different #strel and lauriam... #ven... literally everything with ven... #brain... #ava and luxu??? surprisingly??? #they occupy a lot of my brain nowadays bc of khux??? #and we can't forget skuld and ephemer #also elrena #i said this elsewhere but khux + dark road + days feel like #the most blatantly horror kh games without being “horror” #and i respect them so hard for that #but khux really struck a chord in me #it's no days in my heart but it's still insane

[duskcowboy]

I think SJM had always intended to have a rejected mating bond. Even when Nesta was supposed to be mates with Lucien I think they were gonna reject the bond. I think originally, SJM thought Nesta was the kind of character who would never accept being told who she must end up with and is too stubborn, so she was going to reject her bond with Lucien, but then I think SJM realized it would be a much more compelling story for Nesta to finally let go of control and let someone love her unconditionally like Cassian, and that it would be greater character development for someone like Elain, who constantly does what she is told or expected of, someone who never speaks up for herself, to put her foot down and reject a mating bond for who she truly loves. That way, both Nesta and Elain have much more compelling growth as individual characters.

#which means I think Lucien was always planned to have a rejected mating bond #and that SJM’s comments about him having a HEA down the road is because she KNOWS it doesn’t seem happy that he’ll have #a rejected bond but that he’s going to find his happiness elsewhere and she’s always been planning it that way #acotar thoughts

[knaveofmogadore]

You ever have a customer with a legitimate problem but they're such an asshole that they extinguish the embers of empathy within you with their insolence?

#messages from knave #her name is [redacted] and I've dropped from being her champion to wishing she'd lose internet #in about 4 hours #i felt. SO BAD. for this woman last night. only for her to call and scream at me #when the office phone turned on this morning #she's like 'the weather shouldn't have effected anything' when it was raining half this week #this same woman blew her top that people were late when a fucking tree was blocking the road #i tried so hard to keep feeling bad for her cause we (my boss) genuinely screwed up at her house #but she's made it extremely difficult to keep being nice to her because she's begun inventing problems #like for example #i say 'the electrician is gonna be there between 9 and 10am' #she says 'youre disorganized and confused because he said he cant be here at 9. why are you terrible at your job' #i send her a SCREENSHOT where the electrician says he's going to be there around 9:30 #she says 'thats not 9am' motherfucker that isnt what i said. He gave a timeframe of 930ish to 10am and that is what i told you. #between 9 and 10 #lord in heaven #i dont know why she hired us again she hates one of our techs enough to remember him by name and ask he not be sent #she's never said a nice word and threatens to sue us constantly like WHY DO YOU WANT US TO WORK FOR YOU IF YOU HATE US #YOU'RE PAYING. GO ELSEWHERE #and i tell her last night 'just so you know we're not done #'we have to come back #and what does she do but fucking call me at 8am yelling about why shit isn't done. ma'am. i told u it wasn't finished #im going to lose my mind #can't even make her my boss's problem because he threw a temper tantrum at the implication something was his fault #and fumbled their text chain so gloriously last night that he wont even share what he said to make her want to sue him specifically #I don't even WANT to know what he said because it'd give me an ulcer thinking about it #i need another job before this one gets sued into the ground #also im sick because my partner works retail and thats about as bad as having a kid in daycare

[grungiiuvu]

So would sqx have liked or seriously been afraid of Monika. The way they wrote og fx and hc makes it seem they like yanderes but would monika have been too much?

They saw fanart and animatics first and fell in LOVE with her, somehow managing to avoid all game spoilers. Started playing, eagerly aiming to seduce this slightly yandere girl, only to sadly find she was not a player.... Then Sayori died.

They had a very fearful time after that and could barely play

#but their love for yanderes comes from elsewhere im afraid #laughs in author #shi qingxuan #cheap villains presentation on the importance of road safety

[moghedien]

Gas station bathrooms aren’t gendered and Imma be using whichever one will get me out of here fastest actually

#really all bathrooms should be non gendered and I wouldn’t care using men’s bathrooms elsewhere #but my level of caring is much lower when I’ve been on the road for five hours

[northwest-by-a-train]

The amazing thing is not that the stomach churns, it's that it doesn't churn more often

#I've seen people say ''hamas is not murdering civilians it's expelling settlers'' #i've seen people be rabidly anti-Semitic about people fleeing in airports #newsflash: there's not exactly a robust train system or safe roads #i've seen people— neighbors. neighbors. say that animal control is the best solution for this #i've seen people posting maps of reservoirs in Gaza and @-ing the Israeli government in it #i've seen pictures #i've seen people calling for retaliation on Iran and listing off targets #i've unfollowed countless people I thought I had things in common with because nothing anyone can do is criminal #forget evil for a second; evil's not a historical category #this is; as another put it; a series of massacres #and yes most if not all anticolonial movements went through massacres #and I do believe people who switch sides or withdraw any sympathy and wash their hands of it the moment a massacre are committed #i believe that those people are deeply unserious; no matter how sympathetic i am to them #and I also personally don't believe Hamas is doing this half-cocked/for the fun of it/with no blueprint for the political aftermath #i do think this is not random; senseless violence. it was carefully planned violence. a very organized massacre #and of course the stomach churns to that; as it did to what came before and what came after #i just wonder whether anything else is possible. if there is a path to peace where our stomachs will not churn. one not forged in massacre #it wasn't possible for French Algeria. it wasn't possible for India. it wasn't possible for Haiti. it has happened elsewhere #but can anything else happen here ? within these borders ? with these people ? with all the blood ? #so as I have always done and will likely always do I support any Palestinian challenge to the occupation #but the stomach churns at it. don't believe it doesn't

[z428]

Pole in the green.

#outerworld #pixelfed365 #fediphoto365 #on the road #elsewhere

#Elsewhere #outerworld #pixelfed365 #fediphoto365 #on the road

[hjemne]

Tell me about your strong opinions

Ooh okay

-teenagers need support and restrictions when navigating the internet, but they also need to have unmonitored spaces where they can express themselves without fear of their parents seeing, especially queer teens

-tiktok authors are a menace to society. I am mostly joking about that, but also it pisses me off to no end. What really should have been a questionable kinky fanfic is now being published and is seemingly the only thing on booktok. People are connecting their real names + faces onto poorly written books entirely based on tropes and they are ALL just 'oh this bad boy is really bad but also he likes you but also you don't have a choice in this romance. Also there's only one bed. This is Art and to say otherwise is snobbery'. Erotica has its place in published fiction but oh my god not like this please stop

-during the 2 months where I watched the entirety of supernatural I became so unwell that I had to get an emergency appointment at the hospital because they thought I might have a tumour. I am 100% sure the two were connected. This isn't an opinion, but I'll allow you to draw your own connections

-attack on titan isn't fascist. It does, however, have complicated themes & depicts military states and segregation. Neo nazis don't have good media literacy & just choose to ignore everything that very explicitly says that imperialism, racism, war etc are Bad and Wrong. Aot doesn't have an easy moral and there are definitely different valid readings of the end. I will not argue against a Jew who is uncomfortable with s4 and doesn't want to watch it. However, to call aot irredeemable also shows a startling lack of media literacy and implicitly accepts the far right interpretation as the correct one

-historians and academics need to keep using the term Anglo Saxon as a neutral historical descriptor because the moment they stop they give the term to the far right forever

-everyone who has ever commented 'women ☕' is going straight to non-denominational hell. They are deeply misogynistic and will take any socially acceptable path to express it. It genuinely terrifies me to think how quick some people are to express a real hatred and inability to emphasize with women and how they can hid that behind 'its just a meme'

-i have many many strong feelings about how shittily cyclists are treated but that is probably for another time. What I will say is that the times I've been the most scared for my physical safety have been when drivers let their impatience and road rage literally nearly kill me

I fully accept people will disagree with some of these (& I'd be v interested to hear other views) but this is what I think

#this was fun thank u anon <3 #ask me abt specific things if you want #asks #the cycling stuff is largely just because of the particularities of my hometown and how everyone HAS to cycle #& so drivers from out of town or cycling elsewhere is unreasonably dangerous and IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT #I've been within centimetres of being hit badly twice and both times its because the drivers were so impatient that they risked killing me #just to save the 3 seconds that it would take to wait for me to use the road

[bunnyb34r]

Oh and we were facing the windows so I got to birdwatch during the lulls of customers and I saw two bluejays fighting (or flirting idk agdgdgd they were chasing each other), a female cardinal, and a bunch of sparrows

Then on the way home we saw a family of bluejays (three of them!!) Which made us smile :")

#marquilla #mom is always like i never see them :(( and im like thats bc when you drive youre just looking at the road bc if you look elsewhere you #drift so you can only see em as a passenger #but she saw em yesterday!

[lightsoutandaway]

The way Merc is moving is as if 63 is the all-time great of this sport, is in the title fight and is the one who has carried the team on his back for 10 years. Get a grip and realise who you have on your team.

#probably had to call Ferrari or Mclaren to give them those 2 podium pics #and yet again lewis is the one to take the high road every time with his unreciprocated love #if all the other teams weren't what they are I would love to see him elsewhere but alas #stop coddling 63 challenge @ merc

[pyreshe]

livvy can, would have, and should have made angela stranger things cry

#angela: [looks at jane] #livvy vc: we get it your daddy doesn't love your mommy and that has to be everyones problem but please go peak elsewhere bc this is going to #be as good as it ever gets for you unfortunately #st s4 spoilers cw #✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ: ooc / [mothman vc] take me home country roads

[wildermouse]

Can you drive yet

no :/

#i don’t want to but i do #or more i want to but i truly do not feel capable #at least where i live #where it’s so densely populated and ppl suck at driving and the roads are windy as fuck #i think if i moved elsewhere i could

[ruinconstellation]

Seraphina and Tess of the Road just had everything huh.

#formative #childhood #seraphina series #tess of the road #there was a lot of topics barely even mentioned elsewhere #and treated very respectfully for kids' books #also poly endgame on the series #op #thinky thoughts

[expresshappyy]

A return to elsewhere, 2012 - ongoing

#roads #elsewhere

[z428]

Früher Nachmittag: Andere Hügel, andere Wolken, aber die Farben bleiben gleich: Himmelsweißgrau. Schmutziges Grün dösender Wiesen. Das Braun grob gepflügter Felder, dazwischen glänzen die flachen hellen Steine, die man über den Teich, den Fluss springen ließ damals, mit weniger Jahren in der Tasche, als die Welt noch weiter schien. (Es soll Regen geben, später. Die Stimmung dafür findet sich schon ein, mit jedem Windhauch etwas mehr.)

#outerworld #elsewhere #on the road

#Elsewhere #outerworld #on the road

[hedgehog-moss]

Just wanted to say I have been internet-less for a while now, due to damage from a thunderstorm, and it's not clear when the problem will be fixed! Hopefully by Monday but that's also what they said last week. At first I was able to find some 3G here by sitting perilously on the very edge of that one specific window on the 1st floor of the barn >

—but this no longer works for some reason. That's too bad because while I waited 5min for websites to load like it's 2001 I could watch the llamas bounce about and the chickens scour the pasture for insects, it was like having a real life Windows screensaver. But this week was very windy so I assume the elusive airborne internet in this corner of my barn has floated away elsewhere.

My next solution was climbing up to the plateau through the woods with my laptop under my arm to go sit in a pasture that's famous (to me and 1 neighbour) for having inexplicably good cell reception. It's funny because I sat nowhere near the road but Pandolf kept patrolling all over to check for enemies while I checked for emails so people driving by kept stopping their car and crossing the pasture to come say hi like, "I recognised your dog from afar!" I've had better luck keeping in touch with people I know via this great new social network called DogRun than via modern means of communication.

The guy who owns the pasture also came to say hi and when I told him what I was doing here, he looked at his phone and went like, wow, there /is/ great reception here, better than at my farm, I could come check my email here too. So this cow pasture is poised to become a trendy new coworking space.

But then I had to make a video call and that exceeded the capacities of even the great 3G Pasture, so I had to drive several km to sit under a tree a few hundred metres away from a village so I can leech their amazing urban 4G.

This is probably how a mediaeval peasant would make a Zoom call, once a week riding their donkey across the countryside to go sit in a field near the ramparts of the nearest fortified village and enjoy their feudal lord-sponsored high-speed connection.

#crawling along #just go to the library! you might say #i can no longer go to the library because i had to take a side in a Complex Rural Vendetta #until the dispute is resolved i have to get internet from cow pastures and that's just how it is