The Thirst

An injured/ill/exhausted character rouses partially from their much-needed sleep, giving a faint questioning muzzy murmur, but is readily soothed back into restfulness by a companion's sotto voce reassurances- 'Shh, sleep now, you're safe, I'm right here, rest easy, shh.'

Beorn. But only in man form. His bear form is a muppet too.

it is cute to watch USAmericans celebrate Brian Thompson’s assassination (CEO of United Healthcare) but I think it also highlights a certain ignorance and false class consciousness among the country. I’m specifically referencing this smug fixation on the fact that the investors had their meeting without him anyway and that they posted his job online already, and how there is this sort of smug “hahaha they don’t care about you either!” ouroboros-esque consumed-by-your-own-labyrinth attitude of righteous self-satisfaction and I feel like the point is going over people’s head.

No CEO of a publicly traded company really thinks they are that important, and it is extremely obvious to them how replaceable and at the mercy of the shareholders and board of directors they are. actually, it is this structure and system that guarantees the most ruthless profiteers to become CEOs, because the owner class of the company has made being a ruthless profiteer part of the job description because CEOs have a fiduciary obligation to the owners to solely prioritize profit. it’s literally the law that the only thing they are to do is create profit for shareholders.

The CEO is a tool which the owner class uses to facilitate company operations, no more. Literally they are a mask to hold up in front of themselves. A prop.

Understand that the CEO dying is the point. He took the bullet, the blame, the conflagration. His purpose is fulfilled in the eyes of the faceless diffusions of power within the company. Now, get another. And seemingly the actual controllers - the owners - remain anonymous and safe.

These people are not the ruling class - they are the lowest possible rung of it. They are the vanguard for the ruling class. These are celebrities, CEOs, the public faces of the ruling class which direct resentment toward themselves and save their bosses from the fire. They exist to absorb the impact. And this is how nothing changes, because as people joke about Brian Thompson online they participate within the very safety-valve that the owner class has put in place to preserve itself. Yet seemingly it feels radical and fun and transgressive to make fun of it. Another example of how co-opting dissent is one of the primary and greatest tools the ruling class has to maintain itself.

Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

I am OBSESSING over the fact that the RGB siblings seem to have some sort of hugging thing where one person carries the other and spins!!

The first instance I can remember is during MotM where Kai and Nya reunite and hug. In this scene, Kai jumps on Nya and she carries him. There’s no spin, but maybe they think of this later on because in Dragons Rising, Kai picked up Lloyd and they spin when they reunited after the merge. The same thing happened with Lloyd and Nya later on when Lloyd wakes up after the final fight.

SO, Nya picks up Kai, Kai picks up Lloyd, and Lloyd picks up Nya

Idk why but this little thing has been eating me UP. Like, did they talk about doing this? Was it just something they started doing after a while? Was it only for reunions where they just wanna hug? Is there some sort of three-way version of this (don’t know how that would work tho) or do they just hug when it’s all three of them?

Nyas face when wyldfyre tackles Kai is the funniest