Resting Sus Vibes

What is up with lefty types pushing to learn practical skills (sewing/gardening/etc whatever) as like "you'll need to know this after The Revolution:tm:" and not, like, "this is a useful skill to help yourself & others in your communities Right Now". You all sound like doomsday preppers and it's weirding me out. We don't have to prep for communist rapture maybe thee revolution starts with helping your neighbors

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN LIKE....... it's weird. It's a subtle distinction but it's weird. People wanna be protagonists in post apocalypse movies so bad & when you're like "well that's not going to fucking happen innit" they call you a counterrevolutionary. Like yeah no I'm on board with dismantling the establishment etc etc I'm just saying you're being fucking weird about it. This is an action movie hero fantasy in a gen z aesthetic trenchcoat. You can just repair your clothes and feed people Right Now

“Can you pay?” I asked. Of course she could. Her shoes were worth more than my rent. She could pay. “I can pay,” she said. Her eyes were wet. I wondered if anything else was wet. Probably not. I am not handsome. Not since the war. She was looking at my scar. Lots of people do. Most look away. Not her. She did not look away. She looked at my scar and I looked at her legs. There were two of them. I liked that about her. I liked that a whole lot. “Will there be danger?” I asked. There always is. This city bleeds danger, then drinks it right back up again.

*through clenched teeth* All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well

The longer I am stuck at my job I am trying to leave, the more I understand Mercymorn. 😮‍💨

Edmond Dantès and Jean Valjean are like opposite ends of a spectrum of "how does this 19th century French prison escapee who likes to wear disguises and fake identities a lot deal with his trauma?". And neither of them are doing it well, but they're still doing it in opposite ways.

not the first person to point this out I'm sure, but I love that aside from the joke of half the "kids" thinking the count is a vampire, the count actually IS a vampire. in all ways but physical. from everybody else's perspective, at least: a young man was taken away and died. one day a strange and mysterious man shows up with pale skin, dressed in all black and terrifying in every way. he seems to be foreign, doesn't understand french customs and has strange habits, seemingly doesn't eat. he's accompanied by a beautiful woman he claims is his slave but he treats like a queen, behaves all in all unusual. he seduces young men around him and tempts people with his unimaginable riches. he's capable of superhuman feats, superhuman speeds, strength, precision. he speaks every language under the sun, has every skill known to man. he's omniscient, omnipotent. but most terrifying of all- he is that same man who died many years ago. he's different now. but he's the same man. and he still looks as young as he did, only... different. his mere presence forebodes death now, people he comes into contact with die or go mad shortly after, their lives are destroyed one way or another. his life was taken from him and now he takes the lives of others, perpetuating this cycle of death. he just doesn't do it by way of sucking anybody's blood. but otherwise, in all ways but physical, the count is a vampire. and that fucking rules.

@fauvester a friend and I are going to read it over winter holidays this year lmk if you want in.