Please tell me that I'm not the only one who will refuse to call facebook "meta".
I literally live in fandom spaces, if I search "meta" somewhere and facebook appears first I'm going to personally go kick zuckerberg's ass.
Ashanti, another oc of mine lol
I just love him so much
Comic on having long-COVID as a young person. Sending love to others who may be similarly suffering.
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Instead of getting kidnapped by the reach, the runaways get onto the Infinity Train.
Okay, I don’t know how true this is - but this is huge fucking news.
I’ve been saying this for a while now, but Disney, Amazon and co. are trying to return to the studio system of the old Hollywood days that got - rightly - discontinued in the 1960s. Those were the days when each studio owned their own cinemas that could only stream their movies, where they owned actors who could only play in their movies (unless hired out by others) - and that led to people like Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe etc. literally being owned by studios that fed them non stop pills and driven to overdose.
That’s the end point. That’s not the point we’re at now. But you’ll notice that in the last 3 or 4 years, every major production company now has a streaming platform. Much like up until the late 1960s in America, you can only see movies on company-owned platforms. This, with Johansson, is a huge step further - the largest production company in the world - who breached contract, not the other way around - are now essentially blacklisting Johansson from working with them for speaking out against them. Sure, this isn’t a blacklist on the level of the red and lavender scares - but if they can do this to Johansson, the biggest actor in the world, it sets a huge fucking precedent for blacklisting anybody who stands up for workers’ rights.
It also sees Disney - and other companies will follow suit, as they always do - moving a step closer to owning their stars. What Disney is trying to say is that Disney and Johansson are not equal partners in the contract, but that Disney has the ultimate say over everything. This idea that the contract is a formality is absolutely fucked, because it means that artists have no rights under the corporations, and if they want to continue to work they have to obey. Nobody is signing exclusive contracts yet, but you bet this is reverting to Judy Garland times.
We are not going forwards. The movie industry is going backwards to the days of Louis B. Mayer (and it’s capitalism’s fault) and we all need to boost the fuck out of this. The courts will handle the Disney case - but we must support ScarJo (I say as very much a non ScarJo fan) and make sure that she continues to have a career after this, to set the precedent that audiences will not stand for future blacklisting.
I changed a few of the games narratives slightly to make it fit,Like that deok-su and his team had a harder time winning tug of war,and Ali isn’t married,he’s in the game for another reason.
This was an idea from a request!
Warnings- mentions of violence and death
*It was most lightly a strength reliant game such as tug-of-war
*He knew that you were strong and surprisingly never tried to impose on that.
*But on this occasion you were tired, everyone was but you just got the bad end of it.
*Of course you were on his team,if you weren’t he was afraid that one of you would be eliminated.
*He wasn’t really paying attention to you,his attention was focused on the task at hand.
*You had insisted at going on the front,he objected heavily to that.Not only was he so prideful he HAD to be on the front but he was also very concerned for you,he’d never show it though.
*He opted to go behind you after battling with your iron-willed self
*The team you were facing was a lot stronger than anyone would have thought.
*His attention fumbled from the game to you as he noticed how near you were to the edge,one pull from the other team an you’d fall.
*The opposing team saw this as a chance to pull,sending you over the ledge,only to be held up in mid air.
*He had grabbed the rope as quickly as it fell and just pulled with all the strength in his body,keeping you in place and hauling you up.
*This caused the other team to loose their balance as the rope was being held still by Deok-su and the rest of the team in order to save you and themselves.
*This gave your team the chance to pull and send the other team tumbling to their deaths.
*When you got in the elevator going down,he just hugged you.
*It was the first time he’d shown true affection towards you around others,it was common in private but this was new.
*Putting his pride to one side he admitted he was scared and thought he’d lost you
*He slightly scolded you to not do something like that again but he really meant it,he couldn’t loose you.
*During Red-light Green-light you’d had a pretty good running streak,understanding the game and abiding by the rules.
*The giant doll was progressively getting quicker and more difficult to prepare for
*Ali had noticed you from the very beginning,seemingly unfazed by the deaths of others around you,you’re main focus on the game.
*You peaked an interest in him,prompting him to stay close to you,slightly in front.
*The dolls’ singing continued as he looked behind him,noticing that you had stumbled on a stray body.
*Knowing that the doll would turn around any second he backed himself up and stood directly in front of you,shielding you from the dolls view.
*Once the singing continued,he helped you up by your hand and stayed in front of you protectively.
*He knew he had to get you through this game and he was intending to do that.
*Any time the dolls head swiveled around to stare at the players he made sure it couldn’t see or detect you.
*As the timer ran down with only 5 seconds to go,he shoved you hastily over the finish line,jumping to his own safety moments later.
*Staring at the brittle honeycomb that lay in the small metal tin,you recognized the game as sugar honeycombs,a game that you had never been good at even as a kid.
*Now with this knowledge,choosing the triangle was a good decision
*You looked over towards Gi-hun in order to gauge his reaction and what shape he chose,he was sweating bullets.
*Sitting down next to him,you saw the imprint of an umbrella,looking back to your honeycomb,you traced the outline of the shape with the provided needle.
*Watching the clock count down,you began to panic,knowing how little time you had and how little you had done it was as good as over.
*You were at the point of giving up and accepting your fate until you felt a curt tap on your shoulder.
*Turning around you saw Gi-hun with his honeycomb,almost completely uncut,but he then began to like the back of it.
*You didn’t catch on right away,you just thought he had given up too but once he held it up to the light,you understood.
*Licking the back of the honeycomb would soften it and make the shape easier to slide out.
*You followed in his footsteps and began to lick it until you were able to take the triangle out with no bother.
*The timer had just ran out making you sigh in relief as you and Gi-hun showed your shapes to the staff,upon hearing your names on the intercom you took your leave.
*Everyone was on edge,the night was fast approaching and there was going to be fight or a killing.
*Sae-byeok suggested moving nearer her for the night knowing that you were nervous and because she was sure Deok-su would try something.
*You agreed,sitting on her bed waiting for the lights to turn off.
*As they did you just sat there with her,listening for any movement.
*A scream echoed through the room as a broken bottle was jammed into her neck.
*Moving off the bed with Sae-byeok you inched slowly to the group of guys in the corner,agreeing that there’s strength in numbers.
*But you caught the eye of some of deok-su’s gang who promptly ran over to you with self made weapons.
*Sae-byeok had noticed them already and took a metal bar from one of the many beds surrounding you.
*As they started to approach you,she swung at them harshly,hitting them in the jaw knocking them out.
*Rushing over to you she sat you down on a high bed and checked you over for any injuries or wounds.
*Until the lights came on she wasn’t letting you out of her sight,keeping her pocket knife at hand.
*He was always very concerned whenever you played,there was always the possibility that you would be eliminated and he couldn’t stop it.
*But he knew he couldn’t just pull you out of them,he didn’t have that authority.
*He was on staff during the sugar honeycombs,watching over you and making sure that you won’t be eliminated.
*Walking around he saw you over by the slide and went over to you,seeing the fear in your eyes and the way you covered your tin,he knew what had happened.
*He asked you to let him see it,causing you to show the crumbled sweet treat.
*Picking up your tin,seemingly to inspect it he placed something into it and gave it back to you before walking away.
*Looking into the tin you way a perfectly cut shape replaced your mangled one.
*Smiling you showed one of the other guards and heard your name on the intercom,giving you your pass to leave.
I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem
We have the opportunity to partner up with Rubik’s Cube and customize our own cube. I was thinking of naming it the Cube of Pride. Do we take on this project, fellow Pride Knights? Yes or no?
What the heck, why not lol