#history doesn't repeat

[tigerwolfdemon21]

Mimi: (calling her moms) Heeeey

Zoey: What did you do?

Mimi: Why do you assume I did something?!

Zoey: Saves time.

Mimi: Ya know what no. I'm mad you assume that of me.

Zoey: Okay, bye-

Mimi: WAIT. DON'T GO I'M SORRY, You were right....

Zoey: What did you do?

Mimi:

Zoey:

Mimi:

Zoey:

Mimi: (mumbles under her breath)

Zoey: what?

Mimi: the thing you told me not to do

Zoey: (groans and pulls up a list) Did you kill anyone?

Mimi: No.

Zoey: Are you currently in jail?

Mimi: No.

Zoey: Did you eat one of Eomma's favorite plants?

Mimi: No.

Zoey: Then what the hell did you- (gasps as she realizes what's left) Ryu Park Thibodeaux McIntyre Rivera Reneé Isabella Molly Mi-yeong, did you use the honstrap?!!

Mimi: ....yes....

Zoey: Did all of you use the honstrap?

Mimi: no....

Zoey: okay was it just two of you? or was it just you?

Mimi: just me....

Zoey: (rubbing her temples) please tell me you just wanted to know what it felt like to jerk off

Mimi: .....no....

Zoey: Which one of your girlfriends did you use it on?

Mimi: both....they traded off.

Zoey: BOTH OF THEM?!! Did Sora conjure a honuss-

Mimi: Yes.

Zoey: Did you use any protection of any kind?

Mimi: no. But it's not like 100% effective every time. You just said that to scare us into not using it?! Right?!!!

Zoey: Every time we came inside of the person not using it, with one exception, that person would end up pregnant.

Mimi: heh.....what was the exception?

Zoey: When Your Appa and I came inside your Eomma twice and she ended up with TWINS.

Mimi: (noises of regret)

Zoey: How many times.

Mimi: twice.

Zoey: (groans)

Mimi: in both of them.

Zoey:

Mimi: Mama?

Zoey: (sighs) We're coming over to discuss our options you and your girls.

Mimi: Are you mad at me?

Zoey: No. I'm not mad. (sighs) Shit, my own curiosity is how we ended up with Emmett. Your bubby Jenny's curiosity is how they ended up woth Rina. Shit, Jess and I both exist because my mom's a hoe. Your brother and his girlfriend messed with the honussy and that's how they ended up with Cleo.

Mimi: (in mild horror) So I'm on brand for our family.

Zoey: Yepp.

Mimi: fuck....

Zoey: We'll be there soon. However if both of them or one of them keeps the pregnancy, I would suggest getting a hysterectomy before the baby is born.

Mimi: why?

Zoey: Because all I did when I was having your brother was threaten your Eomma and Appa with you fuckers are next.

Mimi: Oh no.

[patchworkmechanic]

It's Ghost that notices first, and understands best, what's happening to Johnny.

A shift- in personality, in bearing, in aura- that happens when the orders come in and the mission begins.

Serious. Focused. Sharp.

Not to say that Johnny hadn't been these things, before. Nor to say that these weren't good traits to have, especially for the work they do. It is simply that Johnny becomes these things a bit more, as time goes on.

But Ghost can see, too, how Johnny becomes less at the same time. Less joking. Less spirited. Less happy.

Gaz and Price notice too, of course. How their Sunshine seems to be fading, just a bit each time they brief a new mission, every time they gear up for infil.

But they don't see it the same way that Ghost does. Because they haven't lived it like Ghost has.

Ghost was created to protect Simon. Born in the blood and agony of a man who simply couldn't take it anymore. And Ghost is there to protect Simon til the end of their days.

And while what is happening to Johnny isn't beat-for-beat the same bloody, screaming destruction that created Ghost, it's still a separation born from the necessity of protection.

Soap and Johnny.

Soap, the protector, and Johnny, the protected.

Soap, as Ghost, and Johnny, as Simon.

Simon never wanted this to happen to Johnny. Never wanted Johnny to be "just like [him] when [he] grows up", like Johnny half-jokingly claimed in Las Almas.

But Ghost can't protect Johnny. No matter how hard he tries.

And sometimes, when they watch their Sunshine hide behind his protective cloud, Ghost feels like he's failed to protect Simon too.

[periaptgames]

Art history

Painted caricature of acclaimed actor Nic Cage as a hoofed demon (Jan Matejko, 1890)

[skeleton-in-a-hoodie]

You know that thing human kids do where they stand at their parent’s bed in the middle of the night and just watch them until they wake up? Imagine if poleepkwa kids didn’t do that. Chris wakes up one night to Micha just standing next to his bed and watching him, at max 2 inches from his face, and nearly screams

[dinerkenobi]

“It’s like poetry, it rhymes.”

-George Lucas

[eisbecherovka]

The major truth of our time is that the only dependable defenders of peace, of democracy, of progress, are the people themselves, the artists, the professionals, the workers, the man in the street, multiplied by millions, who throughout the world are today prepared to unite with all forces, with all nations, with all goverments manifesting identical interests in the maintenance of peace. Who can doubt this who has followed international events in the past few weeks?

Editorial statement from Theatre Arts Committee’s Special Czechoslovakian Supplement, November 1938

[skeleton-in-a-hoodie]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Summary: Christopher reflects on the past whilst looking for clues in the present 

Thanks to @slumbering-beauty for the name of the poleepkwa homeworld: Pandyra!

[skeleton-in-a-hoodie]

Everything an Ordeal in Area Family

Behold chapter 1 of my D9 wip:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32468944

Summary:

Thirty years after the Mothership returned to Earth, the Johnson family’s life is turned upside down once more when one of them is kidnapped.