horizon (where the sky meets the sea)

does anyone in this thread watch the x files

thinking about that mshenko dinner date scene in me3 and how instead of straight on confessing kaidan just carefully hinted that yeah it's getting kinda hard to find someone..... not that i'm madly in love with you or anything just saying....... like he still wasn't sure if it would be okay to confess, like he still feared rejection

sasharcy

Jude 🤝 Amsonia 🤝 RB: girls who grew up in a terrible situation and thus caused them to assert themselves aggressively/coldly with harsh walls surrounding them.

Jude- Was in the foster system, wasn't i. Good care and was a victim to bullying by other foster kids. Grew cold when realizing that their "friends" thought so little of them, and in general from the very poor treatment from those in charge. Made them think that no one is ever truly good- themselves included- and if no one was nice to them, they wouldn't be nice to anyone.

Amsonia- Her selective mutism made it hard for her to interact with others her age back in Kanto. It was made worse by other kids ostracizing her for it. Her home life wasn't great either, thanks to her good for nothing, abusive dad. Ames never really had her own safe place, other than the pokemon around the place she lived in , and her mom. To make sure that both her and her mom never gets hurt again, she becomes very protective,trying to keep distance between her and others. It doesn't work out well with Hau and Lillie existing lol.

R.B- Victim of abusive household, as well as a terrible school life. R.B has been a victim of severe bullying in her old schools, which resulted in her having enough and fighting back. Though this would just make her situation worse, now with the school staff viewing her as nothing but a brute and a lost cause. She would often get expelled for something she didn't do ( often by the fault of the bullies) and no one ever stood up for her. Even before all of this, her only friend that was her escape from her parents, Arven, pushed her away without her knowing why, leaving R.B alone. So now R.B has a constant scowl on her face, rather be left alone to her vices than having to deal with people assuming the worst of her.

girls.....

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

Sometimes I wish we would start calling out the performative radicalism on this site for the poser bullshit it is. "Remember, it's always morally correct to kill a cop!" "Don't forget to firebomb your local government office!" "Wow, it sure would be a shame if these instructions on how to make a molotov cocktail got spread around!"

Okay. But you're not killing cops or firebombing government offices. You are posting on a dying microblogging website to a carefully-curated echo chamber that has radicalized itself into thinking that taking the absolute most extreme position on any subject is praxis but that anyone discussing the most practical way to effect actual change is your sworn enemy. You do not have the street cred OR the activist cred to be talking about killing cops, babe.

the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

The math just adds up!

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

me when the disability disables me: oh what the fuck? this sucks. what the hell man!

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

after patrolling, unwinding in a diner somewhere ...

throw the man a bone batman geez

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.