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I love a character that hides behind a smile what can I say

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ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT!!!

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it's incredible how stronger than you was ten years ago. Garnet taking like two years of grimdark fan theories and dunking them into the Earth's core by coming out as two lesbians and then calling Jasper single so hard that it registered on the Richter scale

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I know that some British people take umbridge at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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The craziest example of foreshadowing in Steven Universe is Rose's boobs.

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straight up "jorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My peanits

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gojo to cure me

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Yoshiki & ‘Hikaru’ as textposts <3

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Freak matched 🩷

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imma put the one without the piss gradient below :p

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ever since i was a little girl i knew i liked problematic tropes

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What tumblr fails to grasp is that I’m not interested in community groups for the things I like because fans of my favorite things are often very wrong about them

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please stop drawing ernie and bert kissing and shit they’re literally preschoolers. it’s creepy and weird.

Buddy I don’t know how to tell you this but:

1. Preschoolers don’t own apartments by themselves

2. Bert has a TWIN BROTHER with a CHILD

3. Take it up with the official German version of the show. They’ve done it way more than I ever have.

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Small rant about this scene because it's so dear to my heart

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Despite being a cute moment and a recurrence for couples (exchanging keychains), it being mitsukou has to have some kind of underlying sorrow.

In its very essence it's a mitsukou act of service scene, not at all a new concept for them but done differently.

Because it's so mundane.

Kou has a saviour complex and is a people pleaser, saving/helping others gives him a feeling of worth. In fact it's one of the only things that makes him feel of value.

This transaction!! Kou seeing a way to make Mitsuba satisfied and giving him a simple gift is how the 'phenotype' of his problems SHOULD have looked like...

On Mitsuba's end, this act of service actually made him happy.

This is rare because as just mentioned Kou's typical across of service are. Passionate. To say the least 😭

So Mitsuba seeing Kou's act as kind

Adds yet another layer of that yummy woe to this depression cake, because out of all the insane things Kou has done and will do for Mitsuba the only thing that can make him smile properly is Kou being a friend. Kou giving him small gifts, making food with him,,

Kou simply acknowledging him.

Kou doesn't understand that his presence alone is enough for Mitsuba. He's still under the belief he needs to make Mitsuba's greatest most impossible desire come true, so caught up in the idea that can forget to pay attention to Mitsuba himself.

When this scene comes along, it shows us what their dynamic could have looked like, had they been two normal teenagers :(

That's what makes, I'd argue this whole chapter, so tragic to me. For what was maybe an hour or two, mitsukou finally got to act their age, got to be who they deserve to be. And be who they should be had they not been corrupted by the horrible world they live in.

And as typical of the unforgiving story that tbhk is, the illusion of normativity shatters

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