A Kiss From the Shadows

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My favorite thing about the John Wick movies is how all the background characters seem just completely unconcerned with everything going on around them.  Nobody ever like tries to call the cops or anything.  This must happen all the time.

“Hey, I’m gonna be a few minutes late today… . Yeah, it’s the assassins again… . I swear, every gddamn day with this shit.”

Nah actually my favorite part is still in the second movie when we found out that the guild of assassins has an extensive administrative bureaucracy made up entirely of ambiguously-gendered alt girls dressed like old-timey bank tellers.  That was super weird but in like a cool way.  The fact that everyone seems to think this is normal is my second-favorite part.

#My head Canon is that everything in the John wick universe runs on the same degree of secrecy #Like plumbers have codewords and guilds and secret knocks #Taxi drivers are split into seven distinct factions distinguished by their medallions #The assassins are actually the most normal ones there

Catch me and the bard going HAM to these at ye olde inn

post that makes you need an ale

You know the old saying, ‘those thrown in pits will build ladders.’ For years, I believed that whoever wrote that never climbed a day in their life. After all, what pit has the material–the wood, the nails, the hammers–needed to build a ladder? Who, tossed aside by the more powerful, could find the will to build handholds and rungs from nothing at all? How does anyone, I wondered, escape the depth? But I realized something I had not considered. The powerful are frugal and it is costly to dig a new pit for each person you wish to bury. The weak, the downtrodden, the dismissed, the disfigured, the doomed. We are all neighbors. And we are too, the wood, the nails, the hammers, needed to build ladders. Austin Walker, Spring in Hieron

And yet Ubisoft continues to make more AC games whilst not even paying their workers what they’re owed… and using AI. Wow.

WHAT THE W H A T

If companies are allowed to sue you for losses during a strike, there is now no longer an incentive to not simply burn down your place of work.

For most people, there's really no difference between say, 15,000$ of debt, and 200,000$ of debt. They are equally life-ruining sums of money. Why not, you know, leave that gas stove on? Cost the company some real money? Maybe if it happens enough times they won't be able to buy insurance.

Christopher Eccleston would be so good as Sam Vimes it’s not even funny.

Consider also: he plays opposite Siddig El Fadil as Vetinari

IT GOT BETTER

happy ides of march. in honour of the sitewide holiday i thought id make a new uquiz, so take to find out how you get assassinated