So we know Alastor and Lilith disappeared at the same time 7 years ago. And we know that Lucifer had a meeting with Heaven which began the exterminations. We don't know when that happened though. Either they're not mentioning when the exterminations started because they've always happened or because revealing when they started would give too much away and make it too easy to guess things. All Charlie knows is that Lucifer went to the meeting and she assumes he gave the go ahead for exterminations. But the exterminations haven't always happened. They only started after the angels, or specifically Sera I think considering no other angels knew about it, became afraid of the power and influence Lilith had over the demons.

My current theory is that that meeting was called between Sera, Adam, and Lucifer because Alastor and Lilith were planning on working together with him broadcasting her voice on his radio station to inspire the other demons to rise to war against the angels. I think Sera demanded that Lilith and Alastor be separated with Lilith making a deal with Adam to stay in heaven where she can't empower any other demons with her voice or even contact anyone in hell and that Sera demanded the exterminations happen as well in order to not only lessen the demons' power but also instill fear in them in an attempt to prevent future uprisings. I think Alastor was given the options of either be killed or sign a contract limiting his power and requiring him to stay away for a while so that their little idea of rebellion is forgotten amongst the masses. I especially think that because of Zestial's comment about folks thinking Alastor had fallen to holy arms. Maybe Sera is his contract holder. That or they tried to straight up kill him and he somehow escaped barely alive and it's taken this long for him to heal and regain enough power for him to feel comfortable revealing himself to society. But trying to kill him wouldn't explain the contact or his need to 'unclip his wings'.

love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

i do think the recent my chem music journalism Discourse (in the traditional dialog sense.) is interesting bc this kind of weird defensiveness regarding mcr is something ive seen like since the reunion and in pieces about the "emo revival" where writers spend sooo much time offering themselves up to the altar of cringe or say shit like "well the pandemics made us all nostalgic for being 14 again" (smthing i actually read like sorry to you but i never want to be 14 again) and i think it truly boils down to people not taking my chem or any of this era like. seriously. as like intentional art. even by fans. it's so bizarre. like my chem were melodramic with a purpose not just something teenagers identified with and i have no idea why that keeps getting lost even during this recent period of like. sentimentality for the genre.

me: hmm who to romance who to romance

me: gets to the party scene

me: wait why is everyone all ready for sex now I BARELY KNOW YOU

going insane thinking about how the tevinter chantry is like roman catholicism and i wish we got to see more of the schism besides just “one side thinks andraste was a mage and the other side thinks she wasn’t” and what gender their priests are

for example, there’s the irl narrative that pilate didn’t want to kill jesus, he just didn’t want to upset his constituents and it’s actually the fault of the jewish people, didn’t really come about until the 4th century when rome adopted christianity and went “hey it’s kind of a bad look for us because we did kill the guy, we gotta fix that”

like, i wonder if hessarian is a more highly venerated figure in tevinter. i kind of wish he was their invention altogether. i wonder to what extent each faction emphasizes her military involvement (the east sees the rebellion as divinely ordained vs in the west, it’s incidental; after all, she wasn’t the real warlord, her husband was)

every day i get so sad about animal crossing i dont like what they did to it i dont like that interacting with villagers is secondary or a distraction from decorating and customizing and most of all i hate that any further titles in the franchise, if theyre made, will probably just push this even further

Explain what you said on Twitter

assuming that you're talking about when i said that imo the conversations around "scully, you're making this personal" aren't aligned with the intent/impact of the scene (actually i think what i said was that the scene is very serious but y'all never talk about what's serious about it so you loop back around to being unserious) and tbh i can do a post on my own feelings about the scene sometime when i'm feeling more with it if y'all want but i just meant that people bitch about that line every single day talking about how it's hypocritical and how infuriating it is and how much you hate mulder in s6 etc etc but i literally never see anyone even think about like...the actual meaning of the scene and implications of the line and the context and where they're each coming from. it's all just a very shallow and reactionary discussion in my experience

(i ended up talking more in the tags lol i never shut up in the tags)

crowdsourcing againnnn

what music do yall think Howard listens to 👀

recent google searches: how to gently explain to booktokkers that i don't disregard their fravorite "smut" bc i'm a prude, but bc it's bad writing

me + mayhem going on a stupid silly hike for my stupid silly mental health

touched grass and i am normal again (lying)

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lowk annoyed everytime people act like the main reason why kotaro and shinpei do those stuff is romantic jealousy like guys ik this is a romance manga but cmon. not everything is abt romance. ok. theres so many other reasons and to boil it down into romantic jealousy is so 💀

i said this sometimes on my twt but. good lord i love fishes so much

"c.ircus b.aby doesnt love william or look to him as a father, she thought michael was william and still used him as a skin suit, her character changes drastically to match the books in f.naf 6" ...

shaking in my "henry is michael's dad" boots.

Had HSM trilogy marathon recently and now I'm in desperate need of the Part 4 where everyone have a middle life crisis. It would fix me and my quarter life crisis.

I’d like to clarify one thing about CDC’s updated covid guidelines (as of mid-August 2022): yeah imo they’re absurd and dangerous, but I’ve seen a particular misunderstanding float around that could make things worse. 

Quarantine and isolation are not the same thing. This point has been thoroughly confused by a lot of bad media coverage and messaging, but quarantine is for after you’ve been exposed; isolation is for after you test positive. CDC now says you no longer have to quarantine if you’ve been exposed, regardless of your vaccination status. To be perfectly clear I still think this is stupid, and they should recommend quarantining for at least 5 days after an exposure, if you’re able to do so. But the point I see people confused over is this: “CDC says you don’t have to quarantine if you have covid!” Technically, that’s true... but it’s because quarantine is about exposure, not having covid. CDC does still recommend that you isolate for 5 days after you test positive. (Again, I also think this is bad advice, and you should isolate for 10 days or at least until you test negative.) 

But a big reason I flag this is, for instance, if your boss says you can come to work with covid “because the CDC says so—” No. they do not. CDC still says that you should isolate if you have covid. Don’t let people use this confusion over quarantine/isolation to push for even more unsafe conditions, and don’t take it as carte blanche to be careless while you yourself are sick. 

Caveat: I wouldn’t be shocked, unfortunately, if CDC loosens their guidance even further in the future, and believe me I am well aware that people have been flouting the quarantine and isolation guidelines all along. But the point is, you should know the difference before it’s used against you, and so you can try to keep yourself safe[r].