#logically

[pratchettquotes]

That evening the men were practicing archery on the green. Bill Door had carefully ensured a local reputation as the worst bowman in the entire history of toxophily; it had never occurred to anyone that putting arrows through the hats of bystanders behind him must logically take a lot more skill than merely sending them through a quite large target a mere fifty yards away.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

[whereissanz]

SANZINIONS —

I didn't want Hamza and Yalina to have a child.

I'm not saying people in dangerous jobs can never have kids. But in Hamza's case, he was a deep undercover spy whose entire identity was fake.

Every day carried the risk of betrayal or exposure. Bringing Zayan into that world didn't just add joy, it added a massive point of leverage that was ultimately used against them.

Yes, agents are human and imperfect. But when you're living that kind of life, you have to be extra realistic about what 'settling down' actually means.

A child isn't just a family milestone, it's another life that can be threatened because of you.

Idk about y'all, but it's better being safe than sorry. By the time Yalina got pregnant, he was already ruling Lyari. He had enough power to go against societal norms if he wanted to. Choosing not to have a child would’ve been the safer, more responsible decision.

The only justification I can think of is that it was Yalina’s choice. If it was his choice, I'm side eyeing. She was an adult, she knew what kind of life Hamza was living, and the risks that came with it.

But even then… most of the responsibility still falls on him.

Let me break y’all’s delulu. <⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠>

If you’ve already realised, good. If not, here it is.

We all know Jaskirat returned home… but not really. Not Punjab, not Lyari. He looks at us like he’s questioning: which way should he go?

A lot of people have different opinions; some think he’d choose his Punjab family, others think he’d go to Vancouver to live with Yalina and Zayan. But let’s use a little logic.

For Pakistan/Lyari, he was Hamza. But for ISI/Omar and the people who caught him, the ones who knew he was an Indian agent, if they ever find out he’s in contact with Yalina and Zayan, Jameel Jamali (a Pakistani politician), then everyone is done for.

Yalina aur Zayan toh jayenge hi… saath mein Jameel aur pura spy network bhi. If Jameel gets caught, the other assets are done too.

So yes, he’ll probably never return to them.

Now about his Punjab family: what is he even going to say? That he’s alive? What has he been doing for 15+ years? That he accidentally killed Pinda... his sister’s husband? He’ll only bring back pain and bad memories.

Honestly, it’s a miracle that Yalina, Zayan, and everyone connected to him stayed safe even after Omar found out he was a spy. Warna Ravindra Kaushik ka case sabko pata hai.

To justify it a bit, it was Omar who found out, not the entire ISI. They probably assumed he was a single-network spy, and everything happened too fast, Yalina calling Jameel, Jameel calling Sanyal, and Sanyal reaching the ISI chief.

Thank you for reading my rant.

[sopjacm]

I want to get food but what about the demons

[evenfallbloom]

I haven’t been seeing enough Queen of the Baz house: Ms. Farah Baz so I’ve come to provide

[willofdpeople]

THE MEME BELOW IS NOT MINE, HERE'S MY SOURCE

As an INTJ, I saw this meme and was like "Wait. Other people aren't like that"? So I asked my ESFJ mom and she said no, obviously. Meanwile, for me, this concept is new. What do you mean you don't make a pros and cons list the second you find someone appealing? What do you mean you don't figure out the potential problems you could face in the future? What do you mean you don't regularly talk yourself out of crushes if there are too many cons?

[elene78-blog]

Let's talk about the Ravens on TGR, but first, let's see, for example...

- The Charles Manson family.

- The Jonestown massacre.

- The Waco massacre.

- Rape culture on college campuses and toxic hypermasculinity.

- School shootings.

- Idolization of murderers or "morally questionable" people on social media by fans.

- Extremely aggressive fanaticism of certain sports by fans, like in football.

This is just to mention a few things, but I could go on and the list would be endless.

That said... does it really seem like the Ravens are cartoonish, ridiculous, and everything they do is surreal? Given these REAL cases?

Nora hasn't pulled anything out of her hat; it's perfectly done, with the only problem being that the construction of the Ravens is done between the lines, and not even that much because we know what happened to Jean and Kevin.

Do you really find the Ravens surreal or cartoonish? Think about the events that happened and are happening above.

Really?

Okay, I can't change your mind if you believe that, and that's perfectly respectable, but knowing these cases, I think that in the case of the Ravens, reality far surpasses fiction, and Nora is being very clever in showing the context that made Riko the way he was, and everyone else.

[transingthoseformers]

There is a top tier valvedom + service tops situation possible with the insecticons trying to bring new genetics into the colony the old fashioned way: fuck a bunch of favorable transfluid donors and store the transfluid for the colony's future eggs for a while