Going through the looking glass

No. They want you to realize Notorious Shitheel is a person, too. That's all you need to take from this. That piece of shit was somebody's baby, somebody's child, who just wanted to be loved and wasn't and their heart turned to poison as a result.

You don't have to feel sorry for them, or pity them, or think the backstory makes their actions okay. But the backstory informs those actions and gives context and you can see the full shape of the person with that knowledge. You can see that it's self-hatred boiling until it blisters, lashing out at others because if you just keep hurting other people, no one will see your own pain or want you close enough to take a risk.

It's a weapon that otherwise turns in on itself.

My partner worked for years at a domestic violence shelter. One thing that he would emphasize is that people in shitty situations who need help aren't always good or nice people. But that doesn't mean they don't need help. Someone can be an absolute jerk and also be desperate for a safe place to sleep.

Just. A fun thought idea.

He decides to go down to the WRP and visit with his girls when he sees Tianlang Jun sitting at a table just enjoying the music and talking about novels with the girls.

Fucking Bingo

Within days, Shen Jiu is announcing his own marriage to a demon and Tianlang Jun is thrilled because Shen Jiu is even meaner to him than Su Xiyan was.

ALL OF THIS

Anti-porn laws are a trojan horse for fascists to sneakily slither in

It’s a nice sentiment, I like the energy, I do. That said, I am actually descended from a “Salem Witch,” and my Ancestor, Mary Isham Towne, was not burnt at the stake, she was hanged by the neck until dead. We’re not savages y’know.

Furthermore, Mary Isham Towne was a churchgoing, god-fearing woman, who just so happened to be a widow who owned a piece of land that the local judge wanted to purchase, but which she refused to sell, and which he set out to acquire pretty much immediately after he sentenced her execution.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

to start, magic grand vizier, laurie as the vizier in botc. also known as pussy puss puss give em cunt cunt cunt bitch, he is the moment.

then, we introduce a taste of what I like to call Angry Dad Laurie. mostly draughts era, he takes on a sort of rebellious edgy persona that can bubble over into a very camp fury. for this I have selected don't mess with cthulhu (you absolute pit of FUCKING vipers!) and what next?

now we have cheeky guy laurie, he's just a silly little guy who's good at board games. he's in the zone in speedport and clickport while sporting some very fashionable accessories. and you can't beat the classic laurie strategy of always playing a skull.

hollywood 1947 and mysterium (MORONS UNITE!) bring us some much-needed laurie and rosie chaos. they fill a very similar niche to team rocket but I couldn't think of any favorite laurie and brooke episodes off the top of my head.

then, betrayal with madam zostra. first of all the wig makes me crazy. but secondly I just love love love laurie's roleplaying!!! his character work is so incredible he can't help but breathe life into every game he plays. which is why I was tempted to put a lot of chaotic neutral videos on the list.

in the end I decided to go with yellow sign of the four with earnest stickler and last night of freedom with shawn cocktail. almost complete opposite ends of the rp character spectrum and laurie walks the line flawlessly. honestly watch every ttrpg laurie has ever starred in he's. mwah.

I hope there's something in here for you, I tried to give a little smorgasbord of all the things I adore about laurie. but honestly every nrb video could have been on here I just really like them okay. my sillays.

get on board!!!

Which makes Fullmetal Alchemist so much funnier because Edward Elric very very much does join The Organization. He’s in fact quite famous for joining The Organization. Where The Organization is a hostile fascist dictatorship with immense military power which is good at both giving orders and punishing defectors.

Here's how that works:

say you get a text from your internet provider, let's say it's Comcast (whom i hate). So you have this text that says it's from Comcast about your bill with a contact number and a clickable link -- could be real, could be a scam.

Don't touch anything about this text. Open a web browser and look up the customer service number for Comcast. Or get the number from the bill they send you. However you do it, get the contact info for Comcast from a trusted source, like an official phone directory or the Comcast website itself.

Get in touch with them using that information.

So. Let's run the example both ways it could go.

If it IS a scam: you reach out to Comcast and tell them you were contacted about a problem with your bill, they look you up in their customer database, and they tell you there is no problem with your bill.

If it's NOT a scam, you do the same thing, they look you up, and they explain the problem. In this case, neither Comcast nor the employees involved give a single shit whether or not you clicked the link in the text vs. going through their official website.

This works the same for the your bank, the IRS, Amazon, political causes, charities, everything.

If it's not scam they'll be like sure, here's the reference number. Then you follow the instructions above, call the separate number you find yourself on a reputable website and give that person the reference number. And they'll help you resolve the issue.