I Can’t Stop Watching This

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cutese

you ever think about the intricacies of smoke & stack's dynamic and go fucking crazy?

their abusive father zeroing in on stack as the outlet for his beatings, smoke killing their daddy, half way done burying him by the time stack came to - smoke being the BIG BROTHER from the start, keeping stack safe - stack becoming who he is - bit reckless, full of charisma and whimsy because of smoke, in a way, shielding him from the world ("doesn't know how to watch his own back").

thinking of smoke saying how stack is the best thing about him, how stack talks a big game but how it's smoke who kills the snake, smoke who shoots two men for stealing out of his truck, smoke who pulls a gun on sammie and pearline. does he ever think he got more of their daddy in him than stack? where stack can connect with people in a way smoke can't quite follow. stack laying out clothes for him, doing his hair, rolling his cigarettes- giving smoke back some of what the war took.

but I also can't help but think that there is this slight ....almost paternalistic element at times - the way stack looks around for smoke when he's with mary, worried he'll be caught, worried he'll displease him and yet that thing he says when he's turned "don't let that witch come between us again" - there's no doubt that stack loves annie and is clearly DISTRAUGHT when smoke kills her but ...was there ever resentment? did he ever feel betrayed? was it ever only meant to be the two of them against the world?

"he was the best thing about me" "i ain't doing it without you there ain't no me without you" "sorry for not keeping you safe - you always did" the way stack is just that one person smoke can't kill, the way the only time he wavers in his resolve is when his vampire brother talks with him.

(this is borderline incoherent but I have a lot of thoughts)

LISA MADE HISTORY AT MTV VMAs 2022

flip that 🌱🌺🦋 #LOONA

idgaf about the met but just seeing how usamericans live in a bubble in regards to celebrities and everything is hilarious. srk went there and interviewers didnt know who he was. wdym they had to be explained how he almost caused a stampede at the hotel

I love every fucking part of this.

Extremely glad someone finally wrote a paper on how AI glazers, Transhumanists, Rationalists, and Effective Altruists are all the same people and they are all just eugenicists. Something I have gotten a sense for over the past few years but didn't have in concrete terms

Let's settle this:

Where are you from?

What would you call this device (in English and in your native language)?

Have you ever had one?