Prince Escalus' Words

mason's just messing with him tho none of them have figured it out<3

"I don't trust him. Scott doesn't trust him. I trust Scott."

"I don't like keeping secrets from Scott."

"I can't leave, not without Scott."

"I'm the hot girl." "Yes, you are." That fuckass smile and him grunting in satisfaction.

Him yelling Isaac's name when Isaac lost his shit on Ethan. Them yelling each other's names so desperately.

Isaac joking about murder and Scott giving him that dopey smile like he's the funniest man alive. "We'll kill them next time." Calm tf down, Scotty.

You literally hate Scott. No he wouldn’t.

As opposed to what, he should be grateful? He wasn't annoying enough in my opinion. I wish he was the menace that you guys claim him to be because the amount of garbage being dished out to him, while he's expected to take it is hilarious to think about. He's going through violent changes-which will alter his life forever- that he didn't ask for and the weight of responsibility is being forced on him.

I saw a story today about Derek Hale with this tag:

"what if they didn't hate him and call him a murderer on sight"

Do you feel the empathy here? The "they" which is being referred to is, of course, to Scott and Stiles. But here is the thing -- Scott and Stiles didn't hate Derek. They were AFRAID of him. And they were afraid of him because he stalked them at parties, and he broke into their houses, and he hit them when he was angry with them, and he threatened to kill them MORE THAN ONCE. If they hated Derek, they could have told their parents, a sheriff and an FBI agent, or they could have sold him out to the Argents, the werewolf hunters they knew about, or simply let him die in Magic Bullet (1x04).

And as for calling him a murderer? He buried half a body of a murder victim -- a murder victim killed by a werewolf -- in the back yard of the burned-down house he was living in. Police call that "probable cause," but I think a normal person would strongly suspect that this person was a killer.

What has this to do with Scott? They call Scott 'bratty' because he expressed his emotional needs, like making sure that he could live the life he wanted to live. They call him 'annoying' because he acted as if what was happening to him was just as important as the Hale fire. They don't think Derek is annoying for refusing to share even the most basic information in a way that didn't include stalking, threats or physical violence. Why?

Their entire discontent with Scott's character comes from the ingrained feeling that the show should be focused on white male characters. You know how I know this? Because no one calls Stiles annoying when, in the middle of a scene when Scott is trying to figure out if he murdered his old bus driver during a somnambulatory rage, Stiles is pissy about feeling like a sidekick. Note, I understand Stiles's feelings as valid, even if they are ill-timed. But the intended focus of that scene for the audience isn't average teenage angst, but the terror of discovering that you tore a human being apart with your bare hands. Yet, Scott's fear and his attempt to maintain control of his own life is greeted with derision if not outright loathing. Why? Because it gets in the way of white male characters.

Ask anybody why they find Scott 'bratty' or 'annoying' or 'the worst character' or 'selfish' or 'self-absorbed' in Season 1 (or 2 or 3 or 4 etc.) and they will either take one or two scenes out of context or avoid talking about it altogether. Because it's not about whether Scott is right or wrong, valid or invalid, in what he chooses to do; it's about the amount of time what happens to him and how he feels about it takes away from the time the audience can spend watching the nearest white male character.

My other headcanon, though, is that she met Ken: in him, she found someone she wanted to grow old with, so she did!

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OKAY SO. You know how we talk about how one way fast fashion has made itself “necessary” is that the clothing looks like shit and feels horrible after just a few washes?

Let. Me. Tell. You. Something.

Laundry stripping is a process where you load your laundry into a tub or bin (I’ve been using my bathtub) with warm water, half a cup of borax, half a cup of washing soda, and half a cup of laundry soap (not detergent, SOAP, there’s a chemical difference). Leave it there for at least eight hours. I’ve been going for 12-24.

What you will come back to is a tub full of nearly-opaque black-gray-brown water that absolutely REEKS. This is normal. You are looking at (and smelling) hard water buildup, body sweat and oils that were embedded in the fabric, dead skin, and just regular grime.

Wring out your clothes. Throw them in the washer. (I like to do a spin-only cycle before going any further, because I have one of those washers that determines by weight how much water any given load needs.) Wash as usual.

You will notice I didn’t suggest any further pretreatment, and that’s because 1) you don’t want to layer too many chemicals on top of each other but also 2) you may not even need it.

When your clothes come out, check each one as it goes into the dryer, and if anything else s still stained, set it aside to run again with a regular pretreatment. One of the sweaters I did this with apparently did need a second treatment…to deal with what appears to have possibly been a hot chocolate stain that was previously invisible due to “well, it’s old” dinginess. I was planning to throw this sweater out. It looks almost new now. I need to wash it one more time for the probably-a-hot-chocolate stain, and then it needs to have the hem weighted to block it and bring it back to evenness, but dude. I wear my clothes to rags and I thought this thing was unfixable. “I need to reshape it” is nothing.

Remove clothes from dryer when done. Fucking MARVEL at the colors and how good the fabric feels. Give them a smell. Get righteously and royally angry that you can rejuvenate this stuff so easily, with a process that does take awhile but is 90% hands-off, but we’ve been trained to believe it’s all got to be binned once a year because discoloration and gross fabric is “normal wear and tear” and can’t be fixed.

It’s utterly unreal! I just pulled a seven-year-old work undershirt out of the dryer and this thing looks NEW!! It FEELS almost new!!! One of the shirts I hung up from the last load is older than some of the people on this site and it went from “I keep this to wear on laundry day, for sentimental reasons” to “I could actually wear this out of the house, it looks old but respectable”! The pajama bottoms I’m wearing were from Goodwill and they have BRIGHT YELLOW in them! I thought it was goldenrod!!

I do not know how often you’re supposed to do this (doing it every time can strip the dye out of your clothes, not to mention it’s way too much work to do every time), but once or twice per season seems respectable. I don’t wear white, so I can’t test the “it will make whites look almost-new as well” claim, but I’ve seen a lot of people on the cleaning subreddit attest that it works.

Just remember: WASHING soda. Not baking soda. I tried baking soda and a little bit happened, but not a lot.

And sometimes I load the washer, including the detergent, and then open the lid. The laundry automatically stops itself, and I just let it sit overnight. This is great for stains (I have a 5 year old) and for clothes longevity.

It's also fragrance free (so great for many allergies), CHEAP, and Eco-friendly.

She had shut her mind off to me for some time then. And so I was left to revisit old haunts, desperate for connection. "Claudia, come home. I know I hurt you. I know I can make it right again."