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Shippers get a lot of lashings for being annoying and “forcing romance” but not enough is being said about people who force the nuclear family structure on everything. Nothing against found families, but the amount of people who seem to cram every dynamic into a cookie cutter nuclear family mold is driving me insane. It’s another lowkey reductive way of engaging with characters that pretends to less reductive than the shippers they constantly complain about. Not every relationship can be categorized as “sibling coded” or “father-daughter” because most relationships are more complicated than that. Don’t even get me started on the way these people use “coding” *cough* their headcanons *cough* to shut down ships they dislike.

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“'Jeremy Jason McCole is going to be endorsing The Sharing?’ I asked in a wavering voice.

‘Jeremy Jason McCole?’ Cassie echoed in awestruck tones.

Jake shrugged. ‘Yeah, it’s too bad, but it’s not like anyone cares. He’s just some wimpy little actor. I mean, it’s not like he’s Michael Jordan….’

’…or Brett Favre,’ Marco added.

<…or Wayne Gretzky,> Tobias offered.

<What is an actor?> Ax wondered.

’…or anyone else important,’ Jake concluded. 'He’s just an actor. I mean, he’s a dork.’

<What is a dork?> Ax asked.

<That hair!> Tobias said derisively.

'I love his hair,’ Cassie said.

'Plus he’s even shorter than I am,’ Marco said.

'The difference being that Jeremy Jason McCole is cute,’ I said.

'He’s more than cute,’ Cassie said. 'He is the single cutest boy on the planet.’

'He’s in every magazine,’ I said. ’Teen, YM, Seventeen.’

’Wussy Weekly, Midget Monthly, The New Dork Times….’ Marco added. He and Jake exchanged a high five.

I ignored Marco. I almost always do. Instead I made sure Jake was paying attention, and I said, 'Jake, you’re not getting it. About half the girls in our school have a poster of Jeremy Jason McCole in their bedrooms or in their lockers, or both. He is the number one cute guy in the country. He has like twenty Web sites just about him. If he endorses The Sharing, it would be as if….’ I looked to Cassie for help.

'As if the entire female cast of Baywatch endorsed something,’ Cassie supplied.

'Yeah. Like that.’

Jake’s smile evaporated. 'You’re saying this actor kid has that kind of influence?’

'He has that much power?’ Marco said. 'He has Baywatch-level power?’

<Yasmine Bleeth power?> Tobias echoed.

<Bleeth?> Ax echoed. <Is that a word?>”

- Book #12: The Reaction (Rachel), pg. 29 (by K.A. Applegate)

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that said i really do like to think that pops wasn't that good at being a dad especially at first and it's only because marco was a very independent, unkillable bird child who basically knew how to take care of himself that he managed to survive newgate's early parenting.

like he was a really good dad, emotionally, or else marco would not be the adult he is now. but he did NOT know what a kid could handle because he himself was a superhumanly resilient child and marco is marco, so it wasn't until the SECOND kid that he figured out How To Dad.

one of the new kids wanders off and pops is like what? how can they be lost??? marco never got lost?? and marco has to be like 'i'm an unkillable bird! you can't use me as the baseline for an average kid!' and newgate's like you are seven years old. why do you talk like that

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I swear to god this tweet will never stop being relevant.

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Heard this stupid dad joke that killed me: Which Chinese word takes the longest to write? "Friend" (朋友) because it takes two months just to write half of it

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Lol

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everyone's always like ohhh the bottoms sexual fantasies are always so fucking compilated and convoluted they always wanna be like some kind of European wild hamster digging through the undergrowth and you have to be the relentless bird of prey that is hovering over their den and ready to strike with deadly talons, and maybe the bed is a sand dune thats allows for the predator to take maximum advantage of the terrain. What about the top's fantasies huh when does the top have something to say about all this. Sometimes I wanna be President Nixon in the last days of the administration and someone else is Erlichmann showing ass to comfort me. sometimes the top wants to get weirdly specific with it too okay

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my toxic trait is that i think i could be trusted with the death note. i know the whole point of death note is that no one can be trusted with the death note but i would just use it exclusively to kill evil people. like corrupt politicians. and also every police officer. and people who don't use their turn signals

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the european quest for indian riches changed the world so irrevocably, and it leaves these terrible echoes, for those that live in the caribbean now are deemed west and east indians and the native americans deemed indians too and when india is finally opened up inevitably the forms of immiseration evolve. but the plunder continues.

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I reference this meme so often and nobody ever gets the reference. It's so distressing

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The first rule of cable management is "out of sight, out of mind"

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screaaaammm somebody just called me a bootlicker for being annoyed that my coworker is so bad at her job thats its making everyone elses jobs way fucking harder i can never ever ever ever turn anon off

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This sentiment is the logical extreme of what Bellemere said back in Arlong Park: That if you make it through the bad days, the good will surely come. For such an optimistic series, One Piece doesn't shy away from the horrors that people can experience, but by striving and clinging on to life it presents a world where happy endings are possible. Brook literally died, and yet he's still happy and thankful that he kept on existing to the point where he had a chance to meet Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates. The shittiest life imaginable is still life, and that's something that's worth clinging to.