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gingergarlictv-blog · 2 years

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Electricity Free Camp : The Only Good ways for camp!

With more and more people finding the appeal of spending time in nature, there are plenty of options how one can do so. Camping, glamping, hiking and backpacking are some. A lot of campers go outdoors to take a break from their daily routines and modern c

With more and more people finding the appeal of spending time in nature, there are plenty of options how one can do so. Camping, glamping, hiking and backpacking are some. A lot of campers go outdoors to take a break from their daily routines and modern civilization and to beat stress. But to be able to successfully do so, more campers are trying their hand at traditional camping or camping…

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happyk44 · 1 year

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Actually some more fun angst for the CHB!Jason AU by @tinybro but imagine that battle. Grover is helping Annabeth run past the barrier into the safety of camp. Luke and Thalia are fighting off swarms of monsters as they follow, trying to protect Jason in the meantime. Thalia can see Grover coming back to try to get them but there's no way someone isn't dying and she thinks about Annabeth and she thinks about Luke and how much she loves them and she thinks about Jason and his big blue eyes, yelling and crying, as he hacks at monsters with a sword that's too big for him and she grabs him and she throws him at Luke and she summons all the power in her to blast them back.

They fall just past the line and she turns, an electric storm, to face the monsters around her, remembering how it felt to face her mother the night she grabbed Jason and ran, the night she realized if she stayed any longer she was going to explode.

Jason is screaming, he's crying. He doesn't understand why she's not running to them. Why she's just standing there. Why isn't anyone helping her? And Luke is wrapped up around Jason, as he kicks and screams and shakes. Lightning burns on the edges of his skin. It electrocutes Luke but he just holds on tighter as Jason howls with distress. His voice is ran ragged, screamed raw. He's fighting back as hard as he can, but Luke won't let go and there's nothing left for Jason to do but watch as his sister is swallowed whole by the swarm.

Lightning slams the earth, eviscerating everything around them. Scorching the grass and creating an acrid smell that stings their noses. And when the smoke clears, there's a tree. Tall and beautiful. Magestic.

But Thalia is nowhere to be found.

Jason screams for her anyway.

#happy talks pjo #jason grace #thalia grace #this is so much fun for me thank you for rhe opportunity to create angst

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bitter69uk · 3 months

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Heartfelt thanks to everyone who attended the Lobotomy Room film club’s presentation of Strait-Jacket last night at Fontaine’s! According to Wikipedia, the shock-by-shock hagsploitation classick was released into American cinemas on 19 January 1964 – so sixty years ago today! As I argued in my intro, director William Castle is frequently derided as a hack reliant on gimmicks (skeletons dangling over the audience. Electrical shocks administered under seats), but his movies like House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Tingler (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960), Homicidal (1961) and The Night Walker (1964) are kitsch fun – and stark, mean little b-movie Strait-Jacket is his masterpiece. It’s got an atmospheric isolated rural setting. The action is enveloped in deep chiaroscuro film noir shadows. There are sudden eruptions of violence. In particular, the pre-credits cold opening, sketching in the past of axe-wielding anti-heroine Lucy Harbin, is haunting, powerful and economical filmmaking. Whisper it – I find Strait-Jacket more enjoyable than the more prestigious What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? or Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte. And - sporting the harshest, wiggiest jet-black wig in cinema history and jangling those maddening charm bracelets - glorious leading lady Joan Crawford’s force-of-nature performance is pure opera or Kabuki theatre. The scene where she strikes a match on a spinning record (and then essentially sticks her fingers in the mouth of her daughter’s fiancé) is the zenith of camp. Then there’s the blatant Pepsi product placement … Diane Baker’s perky ever-present Alice band … a LOT of blood-curdling screams … a leering and heavily perspiring George Kennedy as a farmhand whose job description mainly seems to be beheading chickens … and a pipe-smoking doctor explaining, “Sanity’s a relative concept …” Strait-Jacket is 93 minutes of perfection! The next film club is 15 February and I’ll be announcing the title soon.

#lobotomy room #lobotomy room club #william castle #joan crawford #horror movies #hagsploitation #exploitation film #cult cinema #bad movies for bad people #bad movies we love #bad movies rule #movies from hell #axe murderess

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clearwillow · 2 months

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Hi, I really love your work, especially the Mating Fever Series. If you are still doing the writer's asks, could you answer:

🍬

🔪 🦷

Thanks!!! I appreciate what you do!!

Hi @serstudiesalot! That's so nice, thank you! Yeah, I can still answer the writer asks!

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

I feel like Sesshomaru as a character didn't get a lot of personality beyond "older sibling gets the raw deal" and while I think it's great that fandom has been out there building lore for him, it's hard for me to actively seek out new creations featuring him. No fault of anyone in recent years - but way back when I got blindsided in fics where he was put up on a pedestal at the expense of a lot of other characters, and it didn't sit right. Give him good points, give him faults, make him fart in his sleep, but it's not doing him any good if the only way to glam him up is to dump pig crap on everyone around him, you know? Unless there is literal pig crap and he's set up some elaborate prank, then it's just funny.

But I've seen that done with many characters across fandoms through the years. Like Relena-bashing fics, iykyk

🔪 ⇢ what's the weirdest topic you researched for a writing project?

I've covered merman bullshitting/pantsing lore and looking for guy's perspective on different things, so there's not a lot of other weird stuff I've researched, I don't think? The closest behind those might be searching for pranks as inspiration for the plot of a fic I haven't started yet. Which...there's not a lot of good pranks anymore. It's all about being mean or trying to physically hurt another person, which isn't what I was wanting at all.

🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on

If you don't have the means to make coffee when the power's out (maybe you don't have a kerosene heater for some reason, don't own camping equipment, etc) all you need is ground coffee, coffee filters, twist ties, a pot of water, a cookie sheet rack, and tea lights.

Place 4-5 tea lights on a saucer, light them, and slide it under the cookie sheet rack. Fill the pot with water and set it over the lights.

Take a coffee filter and put however much coffee in the center. If you've only got a Keurig or some other fancy machine you're SOL I guess unless you can McGuyver it. You're going to bring the sides up of the filter to create a sachet; tie it off with the twist tie. If you want to get the same strength as your coffee machine, make two. Drop them in the water when they're tied tight and cover with the lid.

It will take some time but it does work. I had to use this method when we had no usable outlet in our kitchen after an electrical fire. Don't like coffee? Soup will heat the same way. Or you could brew tea. Just keep an eye on the tea lights and swap them out as they expire.

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woodsfae · 5 months

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one of my ADHD life hacks is The Universe Splitter. Sometimes when I have decision fatigue, or feel stuck on an activity and unable to choose to do something else, I can circumvent it by selecting two options and letting a high-tech physics device tell me which universe I'm in.

A few weeks ago I was having trouble sleeping. (because I was camping in Wyoming, in the area with the highest number of grizzly bears in the lower 48. And my sister, who was living and sleeping inside the high-voltage electric bear fence, kept telling me about a griz who ate people in Banff. And how her neighbor got bluff charged awhile ago. And about a mule that stomped a grizzly off a teen boy and saved him. Right before I went outside of the bear fence to camp every single night!) So I put "keep reading" and "go to sleep" into the Universe Splitter app and...it didn't work because there was no cell service to reach the quantum device in Switzerland.

BUT. I have so powerfully conditioned myself to do what the Universe Splitter says, that I thought to myself "there is a universe where I go to sleep and it's this one," and fell asleep almost immediately

This app is more powerful than my concern about being eaten by a grizzly bear.

#universe splitter #physics #many worlds #multiverse theory #adhd #actually adhd #life hack #adhd life hack #woodsfae

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tru-neutral-good · 2 months

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@grimmusings @raisedxbywolves gets everyone's favorite circus freak.

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usually, when the circus was working within the bounds of a big city and not somewhere out in the open where she could pitch a tent, they had opted for Hotels. They also opted to crowd the rooms, which was... Fun.

But azalea Found a little hack.

And this was what she was doing just now, Not really paying a lot of attention to the others in the room with her as she set up her camping cot and fit it into an unused slid-ey door closet. She was about halfway through setting up a string of paper lantern lights around until she felt someone watching.

"Hi!" She smiles, waving and immediately turning back to electrical taping fairy lights to the inside of the closet. "Lets be real, this isn't the weirdest thing you've seen while working here."

#muse: azae #raisedxbywolves #//// hope this is good lol

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ofpantheons · 6 months

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cerberus corp has been watching jaime flores. some of the public has dubbed them glitch because of technopathy gifted by ELECTROCUTION. having been an extra ordinary since 2009.they consider themself a civilian.

001. GENERAL

name Jaime Vega Flores nicknames Jay, Vega, Glitch (anyone who hires her get introduced to her as Glitch), Acid Burn (calling card she leaves sometimes when hacking) age 35 date of birth May 2nd 1988 zodiac Taurus place of birth Astoria, Queens current residence Soho, NYC gender Cis Woman pronouns She/They sexuality Pansexual occupation Hacker, Software Engineer,

faceclaim Lindsey Morgan height 5 ft 6 tattoos A full Legend of Zelda sleeve and a bunch of other small patchwork tattoos on her legs. Mostly really stupid ones that are memes. piercings lobes, daith and helix on on ear. lobes, tragus and industrial on the other distinguishing features slit through her eyebrow and a charming smile positive traits Intelligent, mellow, playful, generous negative traits Immature, paranoid, arrogant, lazy labels / tropes Playful Hacker, Techno Wizard, Cop/Criminal Family likes video games, pizza, tattoos, watching soccer and hockey, weed, comics, dislikes The government, nature, hiking, luddites, camping, people who say sorry too much, 'The Man', fears losing their family, being stuck somewhere with no technology hobbies gaming, climbing (indoor walls only), hacking, getting high, making mods for games she plays, habits rubbing her temples when she's stressed, overuse of fidget toys, forgetting to eat

002. EXTRA ORDINARY

near death experience… For being a smart person, Jaime is also kind of a dumbass and is more than a little dependent on weed. Even before she had her powers, Jaime was a gifted hacker and comp sci student on a full ride scholarship at MIT, who spent her time modding technology. While she was on winter break in the year 2009, she went to visit one of her cousins and they both hotboxed a room in his basement while they gamed. The power went out for the whole block, but her family had a back up generator. Only problem was, it wasn't working. While completely under the influence, she attemped to get it running again, which went as well as you can imagine. She was electrocuted and thrown several feet away from the generator. Her heart stopped and her cousin attempted to perform some of the shittiest CPR anyone has ever seen. Thankfully, one of her neighbours was a nurse and came out when they heard the noise and helped resuscitate her.

power… Technopathy - the power to interact, communicate and manipulate technology with the power of the mind. If things are in view Jaime can easily hack into any piece of technology that has any kind of motherboard or chip . If it has a wifi connection, she is able to communicate with it from just about anywhere.

drawbacks / vulnerabilities… Jaime's powers are also completely dependent on there being technology around or that technology having a power source. They can turn on devices that are currently off, but if that device has a dead battery or are disconnected from a power source, she's unable to control it. Also the term technology is widely used but Jaime can't just hack into anything that uses electricity for instance. e.g. a really old car, she could probably hack the radio and that's it but with a newer car she can do just about anything with it.

(if applicable) cerberus corp… if they could find her, Jaime is sure they would have tried to recruit her by now, but she's scrubbed all trace of her real self off the internet and their records. Or at least that's what she thinks, they probably have paper records and she's too arrogant to have considered that. They know she exists cause sometimes she likes to fuck around with their missions just for fun, and she always leaves them a calling card, but it's completely separate from her real life identity.

codename… Glitch came about as a joke on her cousins when Jaime first started hacking. She'd mess around with their PC's and they'd start yelling about things 'glitching' and after awhile it was their codeword for her less than legal online activities. When she started to accept work for hire she gave out the name Glitch instead of her government name, as a way to separate her identities.

003. HEADCANONS

Jaime comes from a big family and has a lot of uncles who are in law enforcement. Her dad was also a Police Detective but he was killed in the line of duty.

Carries one of her dads rings on a chain around her neck

Jaime is actually pronounced hi-may, but so many people say it jay-me and she's too lazy to correct them.

Is the most chaotic neutral you will ever meet.

Regularly Jaime will play on mic and if she gets shit from people because she's a woman, she will mute them with her powers or fuck with that persons equipment if she's feeling especially vindictive. Call it Karma.

When I say she's lazy, it's mostly that she isn't particularly that motivated when it comes to her career and also she could be doing so much more with her powers and she just doesn't because she can't be bothered

Got into a lot of trouble as a teen and has a sealed juvie record

Shares a bank account with her mother where her regular paycheque gets deposited. This way if she ever gets in trouble, the money that goes to her family is clean and they won't have any issues

Is a giant child and has nerd shit all over her apartment

Has made a lot of random donations to charity, Robin Hood style

004. POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS

Somebody she met online (where she met them is up to you) who she's never met in person but she tells them everything and confides in them, and they do the same with her. taken by Omar @ofrepeat

Cousins - her family is huge but she's an only child so her siblings were basically her cousins.

Clients - She does a lot of work for hire to sustain her wild lifestyle. They can be good people, they can be bad people trying to fuck with Cerberus...as long as their plan doesn't fuck with her life, involve too much effort on her end or threaten humanity in general, Jaime is game.

Somebody she met on a dating app and they exchanged numbers and texted with a bunch. They still haven't met up irl and they keep messaging each other so they're basically friends now. taken by keegan @losemorals

Flings/Friends with benefits/Exes - she's definitely a little bit of a flirt and I'm open to anyone wanting a physical history with her

Neighbours - Jaime is probably a terrible person to live next to though so you must hate your character.

Stoner friends

Gamer friends

Friends in general - she's a mess but she's pretty friendly!

Her Dealer taken by Zann @losemorals

#intro: jaime #cc.intro #one step beyond your door might as well have been a free fall

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mnikhowozu · 6 months

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time to post my absolutely insane fnaf dream here goes:

there was this themepark that was like “funtime freddyland” that had been built as an extension of the pizza places and had a lot of different big and small animatronics walking around kind of like disney. actors could still wear them, though

eventually it was shut down and became abandoned after the financial trouble and controversy

years later a kids camp was built a few miles away with different brands of animatronic suits to amuse kids, though they were safer and usually just worn at suits. they were pretty high tech, with cooling systems and other comfort features

some of the kids camp characters included: an easter bunny, a princess, and a zombie/scarecrow bunny that was played by a very spray, acrobatic actor

they discovered the ruins of the amusement park and eventually went there out of curiosity, and also because something had somehow gone down and hill and into the bounds of the property.

once a certain threshold in this field was passed, though, this lingering electric charge/protocol would hack the suits and make them go to the headquarters at the center of the park, and little patrolling animatronics that were falling apart but somehow still powered would knock people out and drag them off. they’d be given this implant by afton or some acolyte of his that made it impossible for them to leave, and the animatronics in the park (and anyone wearing any suit) would hunt them down and try to kill them, ostensibly

#misc: personal text #i’ve never played a fnaf game in my life #i’ve only seen the movie

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fandomshenanigans · 2 years

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Anger headcanons for don't starve characters pls. Also, would love general about the other don't starve characters.

I've sat on this ask for a bit and I've decided to make it into two parts: One for the main cast and the other for the DLC crew.

I'll do the general one at some point.

Anger Headcanons for DST Characters (Part 1: The Main Casts)

🧪Wilson🧪

This man gets frustrated easily but rarely does he ever get angry

He's probably one of the few who lets said frustration build up until he finally explodes

Most likely the type to scream when angry

🔧Winona🔧

Another one I'd think would be the type to bottle up their frustrations until they finally burst

Though she's least likely to let her anger slip when in public, especially when the kids are there to witness it

So she'd likely go somewhere a bit far away from camp and just let all her anger out

🔥Willow🔥

Angry? Looks like a case of major arson is on its way

If you think Willow is already fire happy normally, wait till you see her pissed with a lighter in her hands

She most likely burned down an entire pig village out of anger once

💀Wendy💀

Two words: Silent. Fury.

She's already quite the quiet person but when she gets pissed, somehow the silence turned louder as she glares in your soul or whatever it is that offended her

She also has a dark aura surrounding her when she gets angry, courtesy of Abigail

💪Wolfgang💪

I can see that Wolfgang would be the type to be incredibly patient with others so you gotta really work to make him angry

When he does, this man can get physically violent

He'd likely go to the forest and lets his anger loose on whatever poor creature that happens to cross his path

🎭Wigfrid🎭

Another one who's physically violent when angry

Though similar to Wolfgang, she also knows how to keep her temper in check due to her career as an actress

Still, also someone who would go unleash her anger on some poor animals in the woods

🎈Wes🎈

It's very difficult since Wes just brushes everything off and doesn't get bothered by much, I mean have you seen his life?

Though when he does get angry, he is surprisingly spiteful and will do anything in his power to get back at the object of offence, whether it's a person, creature or just a straight up object

⚡WX78⚡

Another one that bottles their emotions up until it bursts

When WX gets angry, I can see that he would be type that lets out electric sparks from whatever crevice he has on his bronze shell

🕸️Webber🕸️

He looks like the type to throw a full on temper tantrum when he gets angry

Webber is also another person who has a good grip on his own temper but once he lets loose, there's no stopping him until he calms down on his own

🍳Warly🍳

Everything he does becomes a lot more aggressive once he gets angry

Like you can hear him chopping veggies from a mile away or when he hacks into chunks of meat. You can always hear the 'thunk' loud and clear

🌲Walter🌲

This boi has the patience of a saint so you REALLY gotta work for it if you wanna see him angry and even then, you'd probably feel bad before it even happens

When he does, you best try to avoid him because he has a slingshot with you name on it

I feel like he'd also be petty as hell when angry

🐟Wurt🐠

Is very likely to start throwing hands when she gets angry and is very much violent

Honestly? I can see that her temper would be quite short especially when she's with the other survivors

🌱Wormwood🌱

I just can't see him getting angry, like at all

The closest I can see to anger for him is annoyance and boy oh boy is he annoyed a lot, especially when he sees the crop plots get trampled

📒Wickerbottom📒

"I'm Not Mad, Just Disappointed ™" kind of vibes

As a librarian, she's the type to get mad a lot but knows how to deal it professionally and very rarely does she show any raw anger

When she does:

Run.

🛑Wortox🛑

So y'all know Ghostbur and his blue? The way I see Wortox dealing with his anger is similar to that

But other than that, I can see Wortox having a fairly short temper and would be the type to throw a hissy fit but would also be a bit violent if pushed

🪓Woodie🪓

When he gets pissed, he would just go and use that anger to chop down a lot of trees until a tree guardian spawns in

Then, he proceeds to kill it, rinse and repeat until he's calm

🌑Maxwell🌑

Has a short temper and is very much the type to bottle it all up until he explodes

You know those bosses who has a habit of throwing stuff when they get pissed? Yeah that but with Maxwell

#don't starve imagines #don't starve headcanons #don't starve #don't starve together

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nickgerlich · 1 year

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It’s A Date

If the pandemic did anything to us this decade, it reinforced our propensity to be judgmental of others. As if we needed something else to divide us, COVID did just that, with people being counted among two camps: one group who believed the media and gladly got their vaccines, and those who did not.  

Pretty simple, and pretty sad. Relationships were affected and sometimes ended, be they among friends, family, or colleagues and churchgoers. Try as we might to be open-minded and forgiving, we didn’t do a very good job at it. I’m pretty sure that, since I have only been alive since mid-century (that would be the last century, of course), there were worse times in our history (I’m thinking of the Civil War era). But as far as I’m concerned, this is as bad as it has been in at least living history.

This division spawned a great divide in social media as well, with a rash of new sites aimed squarely at one or the other of these two camps. Naturally, all of these are echo chambers, where all contrary thought has been filtered out by self-selection. Why risk having an informed discussion turn into a free-for-all?

And now there is a new dating site in Germany that intentionally makes fun of itself just a little bit with all of the tin foil. Schwurbeltreff.de is designed for conspiracy theorists to meet up and possibly forge new relationships.

My first review is that this is a good news/bad news situation. It’s good news that the US is not alone in all of this craziness and division. The bad news is that we may very well have influenced the global spread of such thinking. Your call on this.

Now whether you are a conspiracy theorist or not is on you. This is a judgment-free zone as far my students and I are concerned. It’s just that every time someone launches a new effort like this, it causes an equal and sometimes greater response from those left out of the equation. I can see it now: A German dating site for those who drank all of the media Kool-Aid. Hammer, meet chisel.

Dating sites, as we have discussed earlier, have been around for a long time. Their predecessors were a slew of moody computer dating programs that were only successful—at least in my estimation—of putting two people together. Any people.

Today, there are many dating sites available in the US, from those seeking meaningful relationships to those wanting only a quick hook-up. Straight people. Gay people. Old people. Young people. Farmers. Heck, there’s even Ashley Madison, the site for people looking to have an affair. I’d be careful with that one, though, and for many reasons, one of which is the cautionary tale of how their database was hacked in 2015 and user information released. Oh, the questions you would have to answer.

As for Schwurbeltreff, they are aiming at a pretty well defined audience. I have no doubt that something like this would fare well in the US. It’s just that I have a hard time imagining how or why two people would want to come together over conspiratorial thinking. I can only imagine the conversations, not to mention filtering. “Soooo…what are your thoughts on 5G? Global warming? Electric vehicles? War on Christmas?”

Yeah, this could be interesting. But if two lonely hearts can come together in any of the other dating sites, I guess this is as legit as it comes. Pass the tin foil and let’s make hats. It is refreshing, I admit though, that Schwurbeltreff can make fun of itself as it has.

It seems like marketers are looking for as many ways as possible to slice the pie of potential customers. Technically, this is about identifying market segments, and choosing to act upon it, or them, as the case unfolds. The possibilities may appear to be endless, especially when it comes to matchmaking, because it is something humans have been doing since our beginning. Whether you seek procreation and a family or just companionship, we can use digital marketing to bring people together.

I just hate it that the latest from Germany is more fallout from the pandemic. That’s my judgment, and I’m sticking to it. 

Dr “I Think I’d Rather Play With Fire“ Gerlich

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#marketing #social media #dating #Schwurbeltreff #Tinder

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koulakoukoula2003 · 2 years

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📍Erwin visits Koula’s Lair (Continued)

Erwin hummed in what seemed like acknowledgment and headed towards the door before stopping abruptly, turning back at them and standing to attention. Sharp, posture rigid and unshakable.

It was clear that in an old life that the blond was once a commanding general. Someone revered, feared, worshiped almost.

It was subtle, the way his head raised up and his gaze at the pair fell beneath his nose. It was as if they disgusted him, the way he mouth pressed into a hard frown. His stare was icy and the pair felt a chill run down their spine. Their smiles melted and trepidation plagued their stomachs.

Erwin’s silence only lasted a minute, maybe less. But it felt like ten. The brown noise of the electrics and the flickering buzz of the overloaded sockets heightened the sense of untold darkness and hidden horrors that exuded from him. Erwin was terrifying like this and yet, eerily attractive. The unknown, the untold, a walking bottomless abyss.

Erwin inhaled sharply and quickly before speaking.

“Before I go, It would be ungentlemanly to leave you without a gift. It should be arriving in a few seconds.”

Suddenly, one by one, monitor by monitor the power cut out. The sound of entire mainframes and appliances shutting down. Extraction fans cutting out abruptly. Loud crackling from the plugs and all the bulbs in the vicinity exploding, entire space plunged into darkness. Erwin pulled out a small but powerful camping lamp from his coat pocket and placed it delicately on the table besides him, switching it on.

“Your wit and cheek reminds me of my Clare. Not quite enough bite though and certainly not nearly enough guts. But I do like someone who isn’t afraid of me and something tells me that deep down you both might be. That’s good. Fear is good. It keeps you sharp. Sympathetic pathway shocked into action. All those hormones flooding your system. Scrambling to protect you. I wondered what would happen when it was triggered and just as I expected, you didn’t flee, you certainly didn’t fight, you both froze. Like some deer in headlights.”

Erwin continued

“Antisthenes words stick with me always, ‘Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.’ No truer words have been spoken.”

Erwin stuffed his hand into his other pocket and pulled out a wad of unmarked cash which was sealed in a vacuum plastic. He tossed it to the pairs feet to which Slav scrambled to pick it up.

“That should be enough to revamp this space, get some new equipment since all of it is probably destroyed by this little gem my good friend Armin made for me.”

Koula’s heart sank as Erwin placed the small but weighty black box into Koula’s hand

“Any idea what it is Miss Kyriaki?”

“Yes.” Koula sounded dejected.

“Of course you do. What is it Miss Kyriaki?”

“A compact EMP.”

“And what do EMPs do, Slav?”

“They scramble and destroy electronic devices within the intended vicinity.”

“Exactly. Well done.” His voice was a little condescending but his eyes and smile were genuine. The conflicting personas confused the hacking pair . “Incredible piece of technology. Absolutely marvellous. A stronger charge would’ve set this place a light. Terribly piece of equipment.” Erwin clicked his tongue and smiled softly.

The artificial light making his features more pronounced. A face hardened by life but every inch was infact, ‘handsome’. It was the only word that Koula had on her tongue.

Erwin continued. “Knowing you both, you’d have backups of backups of backups. So I know this is only a slight inconvenience for you. I just wanted to show you two that I am willing to do absolutely anything to protect my family.” Erwin drawled sincerely as he put his leather gloves on. “Politics and allegiances be damned. That’s what I want. It’s all I want, and I’m willing to eliminate anything that will get in my way.”

Erwin drew closer and with his left hand tucked a loose hair behind Slav’s ear and ran his thumb across their lip. He watched as they become flustered. Closing their eyes and relaxing instantly, Slav leaned ever so slightly into Erwin’s gloved palm that rested on their cheek. Koula was so focused on what Slav was going through, envy almost consuming her, that she didn’t realise the blond man pull back her hood and repeat the same actions to her.

“To think that some of the people who are the bane my Clare’s life are as beautiful as this. What a terrible waste?” Erwin said as he delicately dragged his finger across her jaw, her cheek, her nose. Koula daren’t close her eyes, though her hardened glare softened.

She couldn’t help but bite her lips, swallowing, hard, to lubricate her drying throat. She cursed herself as her stomach flipped, the feel of leather against her skin and his touch, intentional but gentle.

“Curious things.” Erwin said softly before sighing and stepping back. Contemplative look on his face before scoffing and shaking his head.

“I’ll be in touch.”

And with that Erwin left but the thick cloud of desire he left, lingered like nuclear cloud, rending the pair speechless.

HOLY SHIT BROOO YOU WRITE SO GOOD mdwjegijdfrekj actually u write better than me AHAHAHAHA the "unknown, the untold, a bottomless abyss" had me like:

so good bro 👏👏👏 I'm thinking imma make Koula a lil more stubborn, cuz I really am stubborn af irl AHAHAHA tagging: @slavanimesimp @nathalunalune @dassmyname @shrekisshrimpthesimp @soaringmirror @nighttimescribble @ushiwhacka @tonaken

Koula didn't know whether she was aroused or enraged. The very thought of it made her even angrier.

She kicked the floor powerfully before grabbing a keyboard from the table and slamming it against a monitor with enough power to knock it on the floor and crack the screen.

"Not enough guts?!?! I'LL SHOW YOU GUTS!"

Slav cringed as she watched her partner ruin a few more monitors and keyboards and punching the walls. That wasn't the first time Koula had lost her temper. Koula pulled a lever, turning on a generator that began to produce power again.

"We need to turn on auxillary," Koula pulled a suitcase from beneath their desk, settling it on top and opening it, revealing a laptop inside. She connected it to the generator and it powered up. She started typing. "I'm going to set his smart car on fire. Have it explode to his face while he's driving."

Slav's eyes widened and she rushed in front of her. "Wait! K! Think this through," Slav slammed her hands on the desk, trying to draw her attention but it didn't really work. "He is a man with a wife and child. We can't kill him!"

"I'm simply ridding that poor family of a monster,"

"Think about it!" Slav insisted. "How's Clare ever going to find out about what he is if he's dead? Killing him would be doing him a favour. You'll only make him a martyr in her eyes. In everyone's eyes!"

"I get it," Koula stopped typing for a moment. "He doesn't understand. He doesn't know what poverty feels like. He cannot appreciate what he has so he's seeking for more."

Koula's hands clenched into fists.

"Power, power, power, everybody's so obsessed with power, money, material wealth, followers, it's making me sick. What happens when you get that power? What happens when you're worshipped and everything you want is handed to you on a silver platter? What's the point of life if there's no struggle to achieve? He is an empty man, just like all of them."

"That he is." Slav nodded. "But you have to hand that to him. He will do everything to protect his family."

Koula frowned. "Bullshit. If that was the case he wouldn't seek for more than what he has," Koula looked up at her partner. "Burn the money," she stopped typing. "I will not be bought and sold. Burn them. We'll rob a digital bank instead. We've done that before. If you wanna keep them for yourself then fine."

Slav smirked. "Hot or not, I will not be bought and sold by him either." She tossed the money in a can and she lit a match, tossing it in the can as well. The money started to burn but neither of them paid any attention.

Koula started typing again and Slav's eyes widened. If the Kabal killed Erwin now, that would mean war. That could have even been Erwin's own wicked plan. To become a martyr in the eyes of his dear wife and then she would have a renewed sense of duty and motivation to keep hunting down the Kabalians. Killing him right now would be the end of it all.

Slav grabbed her hands stopping her from typing anything further. "If you kill him now, you're no better than him."

Koula's eyes widened and she stopped. She was right. She would become just like him. She would fall right into his trap. Koula pulled her hands away from the keyboard.

"Fine."

Slav grinned. "Let's rob that bank instead."

Koula smirked. "Hell yeah."

#the kabals #kabal multiverse of madness #the kabalians #keep up with the kabalians #kabal lore #kabal kronicles #the kabal #kabal chronicles #AHAHAHA #ERWIN OWES TO SLAV NOW #this man's so hot when he's being a manipulative lil bastard #istg i'd do anything for him #loml #bro nat u write so good like wtf #pls make this into a book imma be the first to buy it

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leam1983 · 10 months

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Oh (no) Canada...

We've made ourselves some pasta salad and some deviled eggs, and Walt thought he'd break ground by introducing us to Maria Chapdelaine, the 2020 adaptation of Louis Hémon's 1910s novel on the long-suffering nature of your average French Canadian Catholic settler.

To be fair, he knew what to expect and pointed a finger at me. "Don't spoil it for me or Sarah, Mister French Literature degree!" he'd said, while bringing his slice of Key Lime pie to slowly peck at it over the movie's runtime.

I'm not about to give anyone who could read this an expert class, but let's just say that the early twentieth century was one that saw Eastern Canada be oppressively stifled by our Catholic priesthood, to the point of instilling gonzo virtues in the local literary output - such as the notion that a self-respecting colonist moved way up north into Pine Country, hacked foundations out of soil that never completely thaws using primitive tools and then spent a precious few months out of the entire year cultivating a few veggies out of the hardscrabble, with the end-goal of either covering his loan for his lot and tools or dying a good, long, agonizing and Christian death while the sawbones is trying to push a frustrated gelding through fifteen inches of snow. The priest got to you first if you were lucky, you were given your Last Rites and, well, that was it.

So. In this context, we find young and demure Maria Chapdelaine, settled in a verdant hellhole I'd call the Saguenay Lac-Saint-Jean region generations prior to modern-day logging camps and factories. As the exact same spot today is heavily industrialized outside of the pine preserves, but back then, it basically was a clean slate. For people from Montreal or Quebec City, the North was their second Klondike of choice: either you moved down to the States to adapt to the Big City or you abandoned civilization out of the honestly unproven notion that you could just Harvest Moon your way to prosperity.

Maria is sixteen, marriageable, demure, soft-spoken - and absolutely gonzo for a Métis trapper called François Paradis. He represents the 1910s Judeo-Christian ideal in the region, the "Civilized Wild Man" with all the virtues needed to thrive in Society and all the backbone and gumption you'd need to stake out your own fortune in an inhospitable environment. He loves her in the same way - desperately. She hasn't obtained her father's consent, however, so nothing happens. Nothing happens for long enough, in fact, that François up and dies in those pine-strewn wastes after betraying his status as a supposedly-flawless tracker. Maria is beyond distraught, but her social conditioning holds fast. She's the second woman of the household, so her grief only shows at night.

The problem is, Paradis hadn't proposed to her. He hadn't so much as engaged her, either, so it's effectively a love being pined for out of wedlock. You can imagine what the local priests, hypocrites that they are, would've thought about that.

Then comes the second john; a man going by Lorenzo Surprenant. He's the Self-Made Man, the Guy Who's Made it - or to borrow from French songwriter Bernard Lavilliers, the archetypal Tonton d'America, pulling several tall tales about Buffalo, Indiana's trolley system, its electric lights, its well-heated and lit brownstones and, well, the whole glitz and glam of the City, when all you've known is pines that are snowy about eight months out of twelve. Maria hasn't gone over the loss of her pelt-wearing Ken doll, so she responds to Lorenzo's advances noncommittally.

Finally follows Eutrope Gagnon, her neighbour by a few country miles who more or less promises a straight-line continuation of her current life. If anything, he's barely more of an optimized version of her father, as he's budgeted every purchase decades in advance and clearly has contingency plans set in place that could allow for failing crops or subpar yields to generate some profit. He has none of the first's passion, none of the second's pragmatic outlook on holding down a city-based job - and also none of the elder Chapdelaine's hangups about working on a milder lot further down south, where yields are better even if the social and moral credit of giving it a shot up north is abandoned.

If you thought she'd throw her conventions aside during a Disney musical number and confront Buffalo as a new challenge for her to undertake, you haven't really studied up on how the upper States and Provinces in the East coast were still stupefyingly Conservative as of World War One. The Roaring Twenties would improve things in cities, but only the sixties would see Progressivism fully kick the French Canadian clergy in the teeth.

As all this - the suffering of people like Maria's character, her settling for an unambitious life focused on servitude - was seeded in place by our clergy. We were born humble, made for humble lives and destined for hardship. To the Anglophones and Americans went tall tale of pre- and postwar success, we were being held down and more or less morally and intellectually abused by a ruling class of stole-wearing fuckwads who were the defacto lords-o-the-manor for most lots across Quebec that weren't, in fact, in Anglophone hands.

Considering this, should you really be surprised that Quebec and Ontario are as Liberal and Progressive as they are? We didn't just cast our chains off in the Quiet Revolution - we broke them to smithereens. It makes most of us default allies to POC, to the LGBTQA+, all of it because we know precisely well what it feels like to be marginalized. We know precisely how it feels to have natural instincts, personal goals or greater hopes be considered anathema by morons with a collar who hid behind their status as divinely-anointed representatives to control local politics, stifle minds and hoard their admittedly surprising scientific knowledge base (see Jesuits and their interest in Natural Sciences, for instance) for themselves alone.

They got money, they got resources, and French Canadians were told to shut up and take it, to the point where one of our leading character archetypes in adventure serials was Maria Chapdelaine's clone!

Shut up and like it. Carry your burden nobly. Suffer for sins you know nothing of. Endure in silence, for your reward is in Heaven.

Walt's background is consequently different. He grew up reading of Ontario's own Catholic and Anglican priesthoods, but Ontario and the ROC never really had this masochistic complex on being less than nothing and remaining as such. Ontarians are Diet Americans, in a sense - same gusto, same gumption, with just a dash of extra manners inherited from their long-removed English roots. If Louis Hémon had couched his story anywhere close to Sarnia, for instance, the poor kid would've hightailed it to Buffalo without question.

So, as the movie ended, and did so with the slight alteration of Maria not giving any of the three men a definitive answer - Walt gave me a puzzled look.

"Why didn't she leave with Lorenzo? I don't get it."

"Because the story isn't concerned with making sense, Walt," I told him. "This is catechism for shiftless Frenchie kids in their mid-teens as of 1910, hawked to them by well-meaning child molesters who only really think of putting more money in the diocese's coffers by acting as money-lenders to reckless kids with a sense of adventure and some misplaced Judeo-Christian sense of duty."

Sarah, who didn't study Lit, is equally confused. "Why send anyone up north like that? The ground's no good without modern tech or hydroponics!"

I scoffed. "You think fucking priests knew this? These guys seriously thought you could pray horniness away and pray fertility into a bunch of rocks and roots. Oh, and let's not forget that this didn't concern anyone's identity as a Québécois - anyone who did this was a Canadian French; un Canadien errant."

Walt falls silent as he processes this for a few seconds. "I mean, I sort of already knew why, but after this? After seeing this, your Atheism makes a Hell of a lot more sense. Damn, I'd have kicked one of those sanctimonious pricks in the balls, too!"

So... Québécois Lit 101, or Why Catholicism is a fucking grift that's only just recently realized that people are growing increasingly harder to indoctrinate into unquestioning belief.

Which is sort of funny, seeing as you see a lot of local hardcore Atheists sort of take to a hodgepodge of various spiritual, occult or "magical" practices - but hey, they reason, as long as you're not putting more money in the pockets of some shriveled old goat in a white stole in the Vatican, it's all good, right?

I mean, I guess. It's not like Brighid or Odin the Allfather or fucking Baron Samedi have tax collectors indoctrinating people left and right, hm?

Anyway - Happy Canada Day, if you're the type to go shop at Roots.

#thoughts #rants #atheism #history lesson with the Brain Gremlin #Maria Chapdelaine #movie #book #Louis Hémon #The Quiet Revolution #Leftism #Progressivism #Canada Day

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huevobuevo · 2 years

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Do u have any recomendations on series or manga or shows or ANYTHING im so bored

UMMM i dont wanna just outright say my hyperfixations but like <333

• I Expect You To Die is a vr spy game where you try to escape rooms and shit and do puzzles!! Rlly bad explanation but the characters are lovable as fuck and the humor is pretty top notch ‼️ ALSO THE INTRO SCENE IS FUCKUNF AMAZING GOD I LOVE THE THEME SONGS THEYRE SOOOO GOOD 💛💛💛

• psychonaurs is a really cool platformer adventure game thats abput psychic spies and a ten year old acrobat who runs away from the circus to join said spies!! First game is him in a summer camp for psychic kids where he tries to figure out who keeps stealin the kids’ brains and shit. Its also pretty funny with some really emotional moments (god especially in the second game & vr spinoff), though mind you it covers alot on mental health stuff since it DOES deal with going into peoples heads and dealing with Trauma™️- but its a cult classic and the second game is just as phenomenal as the first!! I recomend snapcubes playthrough for the main games and a regular no commentary one for the spinoff since its a relatively short game ^___^

• ELECTRIC DREAMS‼️‼️ PLEEEAAAASSSEE WATCH THE MOVIE ITS SO GOOD its a wonderful little 80’s flick about a computer learninf how to love and a pathetic closeted white boy but DO NOT BELIEVE THE SYNOPSIS OR POSTERS OF THE MOVIE!! The computy is NOT STEALING THE GIRL!!! HES LITERALLY JUST A SILLY LITTLE FUCKER MAKIN MUSIC WHO WANTS TO TALK TO A GIRL HE HAS A CRUSH ON!!!!!! Its like? THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what happens in the movie but imma let ya figure it out yourself ;]

ALSO I HAVE THE LINK TO THE WHOLE MOVIE ON YOUTUBE its a reslly good film to watch on the aide :]

• SAME THING AS ABOVE!! Wargames 1983!! Bout a highschopler who accidentally hacks into the military’s Big Computer™️ that can simulate world war three and almost convinces the government that the soviet is trying to bomb the US. Its pretty cliche and definetely something from the 80’s but like electric dreams its a funny little movie to watch on a nice cozy evening by yourself! ^__^

• MOON 2009 YOU HAVE TO WATCH MOON 2009 PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD its not as lighthearted as the past two movies but its silly and pretty cool and the story is genuinely intriguing also funny computer boy :]]]]

Its about this guy on the moon whose been there for three years collecting helium for an energy company. After an accident he starts seeing a clone of himself and the movie is about the two of them figuring out what to do. Its kinda confusing at first?? But it gets explained almost IMMEDIATELY and the banter between the clones is funny as hell :]

• SPLATOON YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO BIG MAN SWEEP

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youvereachedthebadend · 1 year

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…No, I don’t.

You do want to talk to him in person, then? How should we go about that? /He’ll/ be expecting magicians, this time

"Well is there another way to talk to him?" Chase asks.

"Can we video call him?" Marvin asks. "You guys said that Jack was able to hide all the magician electricity from you-know-who. He could protect a video call."

"But there's a chance that he will be watching, trying to actively hack into the call if he knows Error is on it," Schneep says. "He may be able to trace it."

"Then we don't do it from anywhere in camp!" Chase hits his hand with his fist. "We find a library or Internet cafe or something. Error has a laptop. I remember how to contact it. That could work, right?"

Seems like a good base, JJ agrees.

#jacksepticeye #jacksepticeye au #jacksepticegos #septic egos #septic egos au #chaseanswers #marvanswers #schneepanswers #jjanswers #the-earnest-system

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toyotaofnorthcharlotte · 2 years

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Tips for planning a car camping trip

Are you planning a car camping trip to hit the road and see the Great Outdoors this summer? Car camping is an efficient and affordable way to do it, and Toyota of N Charlotte is here to give you our top hacks on how to make the most of it. Don't leave home without this list of car camping road trip tips!

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pequenosol · 1 year

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Got to play a bit longer than usual today, which was awesome! ^^

I trained up Orchid and Cardemom to levels 10 and 9, then climbed up the hill to the big city, only to be challenging to a second battle by Nemona. I immediately OHKO'd her Sprigatito with Cinnamon, and then she sent out her Pawmi and proceeded to Terastaliyze it, which scared the heck out of me because. NOW ITS ELECTRIC MOVES ARE GONNA BE DEALING 4x DAMAGE. Thankfully, Cinnamon somehow outsped it and flinched it with Bite. I then used Bite again and defeated it. Thank you Cinnamon <3

After beating Nemona, we head into the city. There I wander around for a bit and run into a couple of Team Star members who are trying to peer pressuring Penny into joining them. I beat up the first grunt's Shroodle with Cinnamon, and then Nemona comes out and is like- "TEAM STAR- OH NO! D:" and then the grunts are scared because Nemona. Apparently is also the president of the school's student council X"D She then gives me a Terra Orb and is like "OKEY TEAM STAR GRUNT FIGHT THIS SMOL CHILD SO THEY CAN LEARN HOW TO USE THE ORB." (Ironic how the peer pressuree got peer pressured in the end ;3c) Anyways, I Terastaliyze Cinnamon and defeat the Yungoos. Nemona tells Penny "I LIKE YOUR BACKPACK :D" and then Penny runs off.

Me and Nemona climb a very evil and annoyingly long staircase before entering the school and going to homeroom with Jacq. He introduces me to the class and the other students ask me some questions. Then I got meet up with Nemona in the Staff Room and she's like "DO THE GYM CHALLENGE :D" and bookmarks the gym locations on Earl. Then I head to the Cafeteria and Arven is there and is a lot friendlier to me than before. He tells me he likes camping and cooking and stuff and is looking for these herb thingies. Unfortunately they're rare and guarded by a strong Pokémon and Arven sucks at battling ("Oh really? I couldn't tell based off your level 5 Skwovet ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)) and requests my help to fight them and bookmarks the titan's locations on Earl. Just as I am leaving the room, Earl gets freaking HACKED and some weirdo named 'Cassiopia' (who I'm betting is Penny) shows up and is like "Can ya beat up Team Star for me?" and leaves before I can answer. I then get called to Clavel's office, spend a good chunk of time trying to figure out how to get there, before I arive. Clavel's like, "Are you enjoying school?" And I respond "No". Clavel gets slightly sad before turning on a TV and Professor Turo shows up. Turo asks me if I'm the one his son gave Miradon to. I lie, which he doesn't like and says he saw me with Miradon earlier and my lies are futile. He talks a bit about Miradon before saying good-bye. Nemona comes in and takes me to my dorm.

Cue time skip!

A couple weeks pass (apparently) and then Clavel assigns the Treasure Hunt project. Nemona talks to me about it and challenging the gyms before Arven comes over and yells at her (turns out they hate each other lmao) and says that I'm going to be finding herbs with him. While the two are fighting over me, Cassiopia/not-Penny hacks Earl again, bookmarks the Team Star hideout locations on my map and bribes me to take them down before mysteriously disappearing. Arven and Nemona say more stuff before Oolong comes out and, Transformers style, turns into a bike and lets me ride em. I get on, and the VERY long intro to the game ends!

I wander around for a little bit before I decide to take on the Bug Gym first, so I headed in that direction. I did some training and plan to do a bit more tomorrow, and that's about it!

#pokemon scarlet and violet spoilers #story post

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