it's okay to be afraid.

The way the finale finale plays out, Barry seems to forgive Lucretia immediately, but I imagine that it goes much deeper than that. Barry is a pretty chill dude; he doesn’t want to instigate drama, so he bottles up his emotions and goes with the flow. They got their happy ending after all, right?

Deep down, Barry knows that he should talk to Lucretia, to ask her why. When Fisher’s memory erasure first happened, he thought it was a freak accident. He made it his goal to find his loved ones and ensure their safety—until he found Lucretia leading a dazed Merle to the beach, feeding him stories about a past that Barry knew was fabricated. Hell, Merle hadn’t even seen an ocean until cycle 7. Yet here he was, watching as his dear friend nodded along hazily when told he had practically been raised by the sea.

Barry’s next goal was to confront Lucretia, to demand an explanation, but he wasn’t given a chance for many months, when he finally found her hiking along the dangerous routes of The Teeth, fresh on the trail of the Gaia Sash with a small group of vagabonds. He waited until nightfall before approaching her, but was caught off guard as she yelled for the aid of her traveling companions, firing a well placed fireball at his spectral form. Outnumbered and feeling betrayed, Barry fled.

Every time Barry tried to speak with his dear friend, the only member of his family with memories intact, he was shot down. It was only on his tenth visit that Lucretia admitted to remembering his identity. The worst encounter, however, occurred while Barry was in his human form. It was one of his earliest test trials with the resurrection pod, and he had yet to adopt his magic coin for sending messages to his physical form. He was lost in the woods near Neverwinter when he came across an elderly woman, face buried in her hands, sobbing. He instinctively approached her, and was perplexed by her expression of panic when she saw his face. They soon struck up a conversation, however; Barry got a fire going while she spoke about the horrors she had just faced in a place called “Wonderland.” As the sun set and darkness fell, they cobbled together a meal to share. She knew without asking that he liked his meat well-done and preferred his coffee black. She was quick-witted and clever, and had a smile like the sun. They spoke for hours, her doing most of the talking, relaying the wild stories of her adventures as she traveled the world.

Barry had left that clearing in the woods feeling better than he had since the day the voidfish’s powers erased him from the minds of his family, feeling for the first time in months like he was truly home. The next day, his phantasmal form rose from his arrow-laden corpse, and the subsequent magical eruption was enough to completely obliterate the murderous thieves who had orchestrated his death.

When he discovered that Magnus, Merle, and Taako had been inoculated, he felt hope for the first time in nearly a decade; he could finally approach his friends. It was only then that he discovered that Lucretia had fabricated a story about an evil order of liches adorned in red robes. She had made him the enemy of the very people who he loved the most. It was then that he grew closest to losing himself; he was stabilized by memories of love and support from his family, only to have his three brothers refuse to trust him. He was hopelessly alone.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

Allison died. She died saving her friends.

“ACES BELONG AT PRIDE”

a PSA for the naysayers and encouragement for those who need it. mostly the latter rather than the former, but for those who needed the PSA:

you’re welcome.