youve heard of missionary position. now get ready for MERCENARY position
Today we suffer, so tomorrow can live on.
NIMBUS, Destiny 2 Lightfall Vidoc Gifs
#destiny 2#destiny 2 lightfall#nimbus#d2 nimbus#cloud striders#I SAW NO OTHER COMPREHENSIVE GIFS IN THE TAGS AND WAS LIKE#CMON YOU GUYS#i'm deeply upset about how unhinged i am about this character already thanks bungie#important note for anyone who doesn't already know: nimbus is nonbinary and uses they-them pronouns
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There's lots of talk out there about working through trauma via dark fanfiction. I'm not saying anything against that - there's nothing wrong with it. But I do think there's an unfortunate implication being made in a lot of those posts. Accidentally or not, the implication being made is that trauma is the reason people enjoy dark content. That there needs to be a justification at all.
Guys, trauma is not the only reason to enjoy dead dove do not eat content. You don't need trauma to justify liking it. You don't need anything to justify liking it. You can just...like it. I get the point of those posts is to stop people from harping on others when they might be digging into said trauma, or harassing others for their coping methods, which is definitely wrong - but let's be clear in our intent and not alienate people that are just here for the fun of it. Let's not make people think they need a reason to enjoy what they do.
You don't need trauma to justify liking dark things. You can just like it and if that's all there is to it, that's perfectly okay.
horror movies, serial killer documentaries, splatterhouse-type games, etc - these are billion-dollar industries
there is a real, valid, profitable part of the human psyche that loves dark shit when it’s in a situation we can control
what do you think is the appeal of roller coasters? danger, controlled
i don’t give one single solitary shit what your particular dark fic itch is. seriously, i don’t care. it doesn’t matter. yes, even whatever super gross objectionable thing you just thought of - it literally doesn’t matter. unless real, live, non-hypothetical people are hurt in the making of a thing, that’s just how humans be. sometimes we gaze into the abyss, to see if we can handle it when the abyss gazes back.
Community Label: Mature
Bones and All (2022) // The Hunger (1983) // Interview With the Vampire (2022- ) // Possession (1981) // Ravenous (1999) // Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Community Label: Mature
Violence
GLaDOS is literally the funniest character ever. Her arc culminates in her saying "I hate you so much it's not even worth the trouble of killing you, so just fucking LEAVE. And on your way out here's a full choir to sing 'Goodbye My Darling,' an Aria I wrote in Italian about how I love you and want you to be safe, which mentions you by name. Don't read into it. Get the fuck out. And here, something to remember me by: a box with a heart on it. Leave." to a woman who has literally never responded to anything she's ever said
I know a lot of people are gonna be like "uhhh Chell is fully nonverbal! She CAN'T respond!" to which I'd point out two things
- We don't have confirmation on that, we (and GLaDOS) just assume it because she never talks. For all we know she's just stubborn and refuses to give any of these robots the satisfaction of responding
- Nonverbal people are still capable of responding when spoken to, and Chell literally never does. No thumbs up, no nod, no acknowledgement the other person has even spoken. When given instructions by Wheatley, she never actually does what she's asked.
Now, my point here is not to argue that Chell can hear them and just chooses not to respond. Quite the opposite. My point here is to propose that Chell is fully Deaf and neither GLaDOS nor Wheatley ever realized she couldn't hear them. You (the player) can hear everything that's happening but think about that game, and how easily one could complete it without audio or subtitles.
Maybe Chell is just fully on top of the situation, MacGyver-ing her way through this laboratory to escape, blissfully unaware of the fact that the robots trying to kill her are also projecting insecurities and psychosexual obsession onto her
Artemy Burakh is a man of many assets
[proceeds to talk about his personality and knowledge and how he and when]
"Could Benoit Blanc have stopped Light Yagami?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
"you can't ship that, it'll never be canon!"
look, when I was your age, we shipped characters who never even met in canon. uphill. both ways. in the snow.
My people used to make music videos shipping people from completely different shows with no chance of a crossover. Don't fucking talk to me about noncanon ships. You know nothing of noncanon ships.
"Could Benoit Blanc have stopped Light Yagami?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
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the fact that this doesn’t mention that 1. the song is called “the old dope peddler” and that 2. lehrer’s other songs range from delights like “the masochism tango” and “poisoning pigeons in the park” to a catchy theme tune for the myth of Oedipus to celebrations of plagiarism in math academia and a series of jokes about the folk song “Clementine” as written by various classical composers, not to mention The Elements Song, is unforgivable.
lehrer is also a math genius who entered Harvard at 15 and may or may not have invented the jello shot. eventually he got bored of performing music and went back to teaching math. as of May 2021 he’s 93 and still kicking around in California.
I know this is already mentioned probably a million times in the notes, but it bears repeating that he has also given blanket permission for anyone to cover his songs or use his music and lyrics in their own works. Obviously some of the tunes he used he did not write so this permission doesn’t include those. But otherwise. Cover, sample, do whatever you like with them to your heart’s content. You can also stream or download his music at the link above (tomlehrersongs.com), but the website will only be around for two more years (until 2024) so if you’ve been putting off checking him out, now’s the time.
adding onto this, because it took some clicking around, you can download his songs by viewing his albums, and from there you can download the compressed RAR files that contain mp3s :)
also, as of 10/22/22, the download link to disc 1 of The Remains of Tom Lehrer is broken (it redirects to /trotll.rar instead of /trotl1.rar), so either manually fix that l to a 1 or just click here for the correct download (it should automatically download when you click that link or open up your download manager depending on your settings)
have fun!
