My Life, No One Else's.

Both of them.

Why forgive Nolan faster than Theo though?

Theo (my beloved) arrived at Beacon Hills with a clear goal in mind: Steal Scott's powers, break up his pack. Lying. Most of these he accomplished with flying colours. Still lying. The pack was destroyed, he almost got Scott's powers, but didnt. Put Lydia in a Coma. He got his own pack, killed them too. Aided the Dread Doctors, then sort of parted ways with them to cause his own issues, his own problems. He is a full on dangerous young man and there's no stopping him.

Verdict: Put him in the ground, your honor, this boy is out of control.

Nolan (my beloved) starts by witnessing The Beast murdering everybody it catches so hides out in the Library with everybody else and witnesses Scott McCall fighting with it. Has PTSD along with the anxiety and depression he already had (if you ever seen the interviews Froy did about Nolan, Nolan already had mental health issues). Gets groomed by his councillor to join humans taking out the Supernatural who he fears (see his fear response to Lydia just stopping him in the corridor) the Anuk-Ite was fueling 90% of the entire town's fear, it wasnt just Nolan. In the end he seeks out Liam to offer help, because he knows he's messed up by joining the humans. Even though he was with the humans, he never actually killed anybody and they were going to harm or kill him, because of his lack of killer instinct (as hinted at by Gabe) and do you think Gabe checked to see if Nolan was still alive after beating him up like that? Nolan was out cold for a while.

Verdict: Just a scared boy who picked the wrong side out of fear and manipulation, did the right thing in the end.

For all we know, The Doctors could have had Theo die and Tara be the big bad Chimera for them.

Theo wasn’t forgiven that much. They worked with him but that’s it. (Same as they do Peter and Chris and they go to Peter before going to Theo. Chris before both of them.) Nolan was given the co captain job just like that it seems. (Okay, it wasn’t just like that but it sure seems so.)

Also the town? Might have been scared but the adults and kids who killed families (because we know there were a lot of families killed) and just others needed to be held accountable and it seems as if they weren’t. Not even Nolan and he helped kill (even if we didn’t see him technically kill on screen). He might not have killed anyone on his own, like Gabe who I still say was in love with him, but he did kill, or help kill, and this was before his change of heart.

Theo was held more accountable than Nolan and the adults who didn’t join Monroe at the end.

My opinion still stands I believe.

I was trying to track down a non-soundcloud version of Chords of Humanity, the song he wrote that when he was 17 was used by Doctors Without Borders, and instead found that it was used in a Fallout New Vegas mod that he may also have made at 17?

which is a sequel to another mod that's also credited to a Dylan Hollis, which I'm not necessarily assuming is him. Could have been a different Dylan Hollis who happened to have found the song by searching his name--oh, wait, there's a video of game play (with the song as background), and there's a tiny bit of voice acting...yeah, that's him.

But that's not true. Where on the planet are you where there isn't a park? Lol. But really. There is always a park. Yes, you can just be a random adult and take a book to the park and sit on a bench and exist in a place that is neither home nor work. Yes, kids can still go to parks where they can play basketball and run around screaming like banchees and climb on jungle gyms. Yesterday, there was hardly any room under the cherry trees in Central Park, so many families and groups were having picnics. Recently, I was struck by how many middle and high school-aged kids I saw at ice skating rinks over the winter, just hanging out in groups on a Friday night, often being very silly, but still, not just sitting at home communicating only in virtual space.

We also often confuse things like malls and movie theaters being past their peak with them disappearing entirely. They're still around, and you're still allowed to go lol.

Coffee shops are also thriving. And many of them serve as prime "third places." They're upbeat. They're comfortable. They're inviting. You can sit in them for two hours, talking or eavesdropping or reading or writing or drawing, and nobody will bother you. I'm not just thinking of one special place that I'm really lucky to have access to because most people will never get the chance to visit it, I could rattle off a list.

Bookstores are also increasingly becoming a "third place" - Barnes & Noble is particular good at this, with ample space to peruse books at your leisure and seating to hang out for a while, but it's certainly not just Barnes & Noble.

Another example of a very common third place I can think of is a farmers' market. This is somewhere you can meet new people, talk, and exchange ideas (or not), try new things, and be outside in the sunshine. And oh my goodness, spare me the excuses. I've shopped at a variety of farmers' markets in different parts of the country. I've seen people shopping with EBT at the farmers' market in the Bronx. There are Wednesday markets, Saturday markets, and Sunday markets. Before I had a car, I walked two miles to the farmers' market that was open in the summer and took the train to the farmers' market I liked that was open in the winter. Spending time at the farmers' market is a feasible solution for a lot of people who might be looking for a third place.

Tangentially related, I saw an article several weeks ago about the "disappearance of the Sunday drive." Meaning, you can't just go drive around the countryside for pleasure anymore. Well, er, you can. Case in point, I do it all the time. Its "disappearance" is a choice.

This could all be an excuse to sit at home and rot on your phone, but it could also be more significant; pushing this negative message about third places to the masses (which doesn't seem to be working too well yet given the hoardes of people I find in parks and coffee shops) leads people to spend more time in front of screens, making more money for tech companies and also getting them slowly more comfortable with the concept of cramming into smart cities and traveling via virtual reality.

I live in rural Pennsylvania, last year some kids organized a hide and seek tournament. Nothing spectacular just kids playing a game, rules stated that they had to stick to public places, had to keep their cellphone on in case of emergency. They stuck to the park and the adjacent library and courthouse grounds no one went inside the buildings.

The cops were called within the first hour to break up the gathering.

So while third places will always exist, I have fond memories of just fucking around with friends by the river, that doesn't mean anything when you're heavily incentivized not to make use of them vis police or legal intervention.

(I also know that Books A Million closed and then reopened in Park City because people wanted it back. Probably other reasons also but that was one of them.)

My hometown had a bookstore just open up a year or two ago and our comic shop that was supposed to close was bought by a couple who own other successful stores in town just so we could still have our comic shop because it’s been around forever it seems.

Or so it seems…I am writing something but it’s taken me a week, five days but still, to even write more than I had started.

I’m also involving the Batfamily…again.

It is not my fault that Talia Al Ghul could have been Talia Hale at one point.

In my headcanon only but still not my fault that they could be the same person. It just makes sense.

And the fact that Jackson and Roy could be the same person or related. Colton did play both characters. Jackson’s also related to Tim through their mothers being Drake’s (whoever came up with Jack taking Janet’s surname I will love forever.).

Or that I like to headcanon Alicia and Boyd being related to Duke and Alicia being taken to Gotham where she is with her cousin/brother (it depends, I always change it up) after being saved. (She’s doted on by the whole family by the way, like Lian. As they should be.)

So many different ideas and every time I think of how to write the story, it changes.

This is what I have written so far, including today, by the way.

Well, it really isn’t but I say it is.