#// nothign really happened

[dykedvonte]

I think any fix-it mouthwashing au has to have the mandatory scenes of Curly either being able to blink again or speaking for the first time.

[br1ghtestlight]

bcuz im living closer to her now my mom has been trying to insert herself back into my life and like. whatever i will accept her free labour in the form of washing dishes for me or cleaning the bathtub but when she starts texting me at midnight asking if i want gas station snacks bcuz she's in the area..... girl we're not going this. we BOTH know this isn't happening. cmon

[gutttings]

not to complain about the same thing over and over and over again but i how am i meant to keep waking up every day wondering if it'll be the last day i get to talk to my best friend before they kill themself

[nightfallsystem-moved]

art is literally hthe only thing i have left in life which kind of sucks but at least it gives me an excuse to overwork myself until i cry

[cosmosynthesis]

school starts tkmrowo maybi i should leanr how to us e this app (it is 2am ignore my horrid tyoign plz)

[ilovescaredysquirrel2]

The new Backyardigans reboot vs Fairy odd parents reboot

Okay, I do have an opinion on this new Backyardigans reboot, even though I was never a big fan of it as a kid. I didn't get real excited for it like I got for Max & Ruby or Little Bear, or even Oobi. However, I feel bad for the creator of the show who just died, and I didn't hear any controversies on her, so I'm assuming Janice Burgess was a good person. I think a similar thing happened to SpongeBob when Stephen Hillenburg died, but the "Kamp Koral" show was made a few years after he died. Plus, for SpongeBob, he's like Nickelodeon's life support, where as, Nick Jr. can live without the Backyardigans and has been for roughly 10 years (I'm not sure when they took it off air, probably around the same time they dropped Moose & Zee?). Also, I believe the original creator of Dora the Explorer is still alive, but I could be wrong. They made a cruddy reboot on BOTH Dora and the Backyardigans.

Also, the reason why the Fairy Odd Parents reboot worked because the original show was trashy and offensive. I made a post about me ranting on how offensive Fairly Odd Parents actually was, even if you enjoyed it as a kid I recommend you read that post or rewatch the clips that I called offensive. The Reboot doesn't have Butch Hartman (or should I say B*tch Fartman) working on it, so it's probably not as racist and sexist and ableist. However, the Backyardigans was NEVER offensive, like Fairly Odd Parents was. There was nothign wrong with the original Backyardigans and they didn't need to be changed so much.

The designs in the new Backyardigans reboot are also an issue. It's kinda giving Cocomelon, and what's wrong with the original designs? What's wrong with today's kids seeing small-eyed characters? I grew up on small0eyed characters and I turned out fine. Do they only want to attract babies and toddlers and not preschoolers. Honestly, I found some episodes of Backyardigans quite boring as a kid, but the songs were fun and I'm sure as I got older I would have enjoyed the stories more. Also, they kind of lightened the colors of the Backyardignas a bit (I know I can't count that as white-washing, since they didn't actually have races) but that's another thing. I guess it doesn't really matter but someone in the comments section of an instagram post said that they looked "white washed". I guess it's because they had POC names and I don't think it's right to make the colors lighter, but I really know.

If you have any thoughts, type in the comments. Maybe you can convince me to agree with you if you don't agree with me, or vice versa. I respect opinions, even if I argue!

[avesmonster]

let's talk about KEPLER i have a theory that he got the eccentric half of his personality from jacobi. because he acts totally different depending on who he's talking to. first of all:

the way cutter says this implies that kepler never jokes around with them. he's like "YOU'VE got to be kidding cause that's nothing like kepler at all" even though we've all heard kepler tell that fuckign pig joke and also just about everything else he says in s3

and we know he's scared of cutter (this is when the sol manifests out of nothign)

and that he's ALWAYS been scared of cutter. throwback to kansas

so it makes sense he wouldn't be all silly goofy around Scary Man Number One (he also doesn't seem to be very unafraid of pryce. not even rachel is unafraid of pryce but that's a different topic). so he's only silly when he's COMFORTABLE...... and that said i'll circle back around to this later

first thing with jacobi i wanna point out is that he was the one who taught kepler questions only. which seems to be the best thing that has ever happened to kepler why is he so enthused about this game

and then at the end of no complaints

this really makes it sound like jacobi pranks kepler all the time but it's totally unthinkable that Kepler would ever prank him back. Jacobi is so astonished by this (and idk what the Duck Thing was but. whatever it is it apparently wasn't a prank)

anyway it would make sense that jacobi plays around at work a lot because. his profile literally says he does

and kepler seems to highly value this trait of jacobi's. first by enjoying his sarcasm and then when he tells eiffel that jacobi is a smart man for telling eiffel to lighten up

and all the way up to dirty work, kepler is his usual silly and irritating self. even when he's taken captive and down a hand, he keeps joking around. and playing twenty questions with people. and overall being a smug little jackass

until... dirty work happens. and something shifts in kepler. something MAJOR because once jacobi turns on him, his whole demeanor and brain chemistry changes in under 24 hours

he's completely serious after this. he has a few bantery lines but otherwise, he's all business, and he's SCARED, and he's not interested in joking around with anyone anymore. he's stuck pretending to be on cutter's side and that means he has to act NORMAL--apparently his "normal" doesn't include being a silly little man

and like,, he honest to god didn't think jacobi was upset with him. which is a whole other thing i could talk about but for the purposes of this argument, it really is the Exact Moment that he realizes he lost jacobi's support that his personality makes the shift. when he still THOUGHT jacobi was on his side, even after getting his ass kicked by everyone on the station and bob, after being completely humiliated he STILL acts smug and unserious. like i cannot overstate the shift that happens in this man during dirty work i really can't

so going back to kansas. which is the only scene we have of him before he met jacobi. he was very rigid, nervous, and angry. and that's ALL he was. also

he's just a man who wants to be taken seriously. apparently

which,, the life he built came at a pretty ridiculously steep cost. so yeah, i guess he WOULD want to be taken seriously. it's not like he has anything else

he's an empty shell. he's a manipulator, too--he knows how imitate people around him to make them comfortable. He emulates Cutter to the point of making his job his whole personality. It's not out of the question that he would pick up some personality traits from jacobi, the man who's been glued to his side for six years. especially when he's around jacobi and he's having fun. jacobi likes having fun!! so kepler can do that too!! he can imitate people and be just like a real boy!!

going back to no complaints once more, kepler is all business that whole time. other than when he gets really excited about questions only. and of course when it was revealed it was all a prank--even then he didn't do any kind of big reveal, he just?? "Yes I Pranked You" RIGID. happy though :) and that was only one year into knowing each other. he likes the games jacobi taught him and he liked playing that prank and he liked planning a,, frankly EXCESSIVE first anniversary party with his subordinate but i digress, he's still kinda flat in no complaints but it seems like he's having a bit of a shift?? he's having fun with jacobi. he doesn't have fun with anyone else--not really, not when jacobi isn't somewhere in the same building and on his side

and since jacobi has a whole philosophy about "work shouldn't be separate from play," it's implied that he plays pranks on kepler, and implied that he's always getting into trouble--idk, to me it really feels like kepler absorbed some of jacobi's personality over the years. for funsies <3

thanks for coming to my kepler talk he's all i ever think about

[deadgrantaires]

at some point in the like. 30 minutes between by roommate going to bed and me going to bed last night, the balls of my left foot started to hurt so so fuckign bad for no reason at all. it feels like a goddamn. boen bruise. but ive done NOTHIGN THAT COULDVE AT ALL CAUSED IT. it was hurting so bad even while lying in bed last night that i got up to take ibprofen and that STILL did nothing and when i got up this morning it hadnt imporved at all and all day ive had to walk around mostly on my heel on that foot to the point now my HEEL is hurting really bad too so the whole foots baiscally out of commission due to... mystery pain. and im supposed to cut peppers for peppersteak and i still dont knwo how this happened or how long itll take until it doesnt feel like im dying when i stand

[thenightsuns]

i love my best friend to death but one think i really dislike about her is her inability to see/accept things and her tendency to feel too much. or maybe its my tendency to feel nothign but annoyance/indifference

the first word that always leaves her mouth is why? she dwells alot, and as a nihilist who still adores and believes in religion, i think the why never really matters, youre dealt a couple of lit candles and sometimes a couple of candles will blow out, instead of cherishing the still lit candles, she'll fret over why the others blew out despite the lack of wind. and baby, it just happened. she'll see a guy with alzhemiers and say "i feel really bad for him". how do you know he doesnt deserve this? you dont know his past and how deeply shaitan has tainted it, maybe he deserves it, maybe he doesnt, but all that matters is he was dealt that candle, that card, that situation, whatever you wanna call it, and at the end of the day, no amount of why or concern is gonna change it. khalas

[myrskytuuli]

please do share your thoughts on small talk 👀

I just feel like people get weirdly smug about "not doing small talk" Yes, there are wild differences between cultures about where and when small talk is expected. I hated the "how are yous" from cashiers of uk and usa, because they are not expected in my culture. But if I want to get to know a new person, or navigate unexpected social situations, now matter where I am, it just has to be done through small talk. It's just a necessary component of how human interaction works.

And yes, many people are bad at this. Being bad at small talk is fine, but trying to jump over it straight to the "good parts" usually always makes things worse. Small talk very much has a purpose, and its social calibration to scope out the feel of the person. What kind mood are they in? What kind of energy levels they are at? Where the conversation veers from there depends a lot from what you suss out during the lighter small talk topics. If someone is already tired or sad or melancholy, I would not want to bring up depressing existential topics, while a more energetic and positive tone gives me a green light to veer the conversation to more silly topics. A little bit of small talk when you approach a new peron you don't know that well can save you from very unplasant moments of saying something completely tone deaf and embarassing. It's also that if you approach a new person with a really heavy conversational topic already locked and loaded, they might feel trapped by it. It's easy to just casually slide out of small talk, if you don't want to talk to someone, but if that someone has started the conversation with "do you believe in free will" or "let me tell you about the life-cycle of the hummingbird" it is difficult to just leave without looking like a dick. That's why I would never be brave enough to jump over small talk when starting a conversation, because I'm terrified that I've locked someone into listenign to my infodumb against their will. I feel much more comfrotable sequieing from meanigless chatter about the weather into more spesific topics after I've gotten a bit of read on how the other person is responding to me.

Also, and this is just my own experience speaking, but I do feel like people who are loudly proud about being above small talk have the tendency to think that everything they say is deep and meaningful and everythign you say is shallow and meaningless. I think most people who have attended house parties have at some point met this person. The one who loudly proclaims that the world would be a better place if we all just discussed philosophy more, and then goes on a two hour monologue about their last breakup with full confidence that this is a philosophical discussion instead of a onesided ramble. And don't even get me started on all the tinder profiles with no other text expect "don't approach me with a hello, say something interesting or gtfo" Like, call me a boring normie, but I don't want to start every interaction with coming up with a new and clever quip that's measured as the only indicator on whether any conversation should be even started.

And if you are locked in a situationship with total strangers, I don't want to hear about their hobbies or philosophies. I want to hear friendly noises, that assure me that we all feel friendly towards each other, despite being stuck in an elevator. Just meaningless chatter that tells me that no one here is about to throw a random temper tantrum, while we wait to be let out.

And sometimes I just want to lightly chatter with my loved ones, even if we have nothign of really importance to say, to just exchange some idle gossip or telling about mundane things that have happened, just for the pleasure of getting to hear the voice.

I used to be firmly in the camp "I hate small talk, it's dumb" untill I met too many obnoxious people who have made it a weird point of pride to be condescending towards other people who are just trying to navigate social interactions in a completely logical way. Nobody needs to be good at small talk, or even enjoy it, but in my opinion overenthusiastic small talkers are much more preferable to the cynic who doesn't waste time with small talk.

[superchat]

i dont care. i dont care im wasting my time, I DONT CARE. my heart already aches for you. you know it''s true and i do as well. if i didnt help you then. well. honestly my life would be the same and that hurts. it hurts so much to know.i guess there's nothign i can really do. juist. please think about it. it's the best choice for you. i know that when you're unconscionably depressed that pain feel s so nice and even afterwards too. but there's always some part that yearns for truth, for love, for companionship, hope, joy, and and all the other dumb bullshit words that aren't real. and like i said i was in your place and i'm genuinely happy now. i'm seriously happy. i want you, as my sister, to be happy too. i'll prolly only be on this beat when i'm drunk again so no promises, but this'll be my last one. fore the night i love you. i always have.

very kind anon but i think im existing more as a concept to you, you dont rlly see the irl me on here. there is a reason i cannot rlly keep lasting friendships with ppl , if you tried to be friends with me the same would happen to you,

thank you for wanting to see me flourish or something similar but you are setting yourself up for dissapointment, sorry again

[neon-in-the-night-time]

nothign like a good ol' spreadsheet to make me less nervous about figuring out which classes im gonna have to take next semester

gonna have to take 18 credits to graduate on time, which... i dont want to think about

i have two backups for each requirement i have to take (except for my senior baking and pastry labs, which... i dont really want to think about what will happen if i dont get into those)

but yeah the spreadsheet helped with like 80% of the anxiety i love spreadsheets :) it's color-coded and everything :)

[dykevanny]

haz i know absolutely nothign about zeno rpg but ur zeno au has intrigued me and im curious about it,,, i saw smth abt like. meomory loss and being handcuffed together and ik they eat ppl but thats it 😭 explain the au if u want ig bc im interested and i think thye look so silly. also bc u put vanny n will in my brain and they wont leave im shooing them with a boom and they are not moving

OK LET ME GET THE INFODUMP<3

So ummm Zeno au<3 I’m really normal. Allow me to give a brief explanation of what Zeno is first You see, Zeno is a fictional disease sort of thing that makes people cannibals. Specifically an oneset is caused by traumatic events/extreme cases of unrequited love(specifically mostly familial) and the only cure is eating the flesh of someone else with Zeno.(not widely known.) It’s also transmittable through biting like zombies. there’s one specific facility with scientists dedicated to getting to the bottom of how to cure zeno, also housing ‘patients’ (or, people with zeno being used as lab rats). Now onto character lore.

So william and henry were good friends right. Yeah. Considering that they even have a small diner together. Well one day will got zeno (oh no!) and started slowly picking off kids going to the diner. He even accidentally attacked Charlie, who escaped in one piece luckily. Charlie went to the afton household to see if he was doing okay (because will’s like an uncle to her and all! And also what if everyone else got hurt?) only to find will ate them all oops. And yeah same happened to her, but since he transmitted zeno to Charlie he was cured! How convenient! The people in charge of the labs ended up roping him and henry into being scientists for them through shady shady means and well the two aren’t on good terms and avoid each other like the plague. Henry’s still sore over the ‘you ate my fucking daughter’ thing. Luckily he has his assistant/the archivist (tape girl) to keep him company. So Vanessa right! Crazzy I know. Nessa as we know comes from a broken family. In this specific au I’m mixing her backstory with the character who’s place she’s taking (hi kuro) so basically her parents. Neglect her. In favor of her younger sibling because she was born from her mom’s affair and blablabla… she grows up basically taking care of herself. Eventually she develops zeno and starts you know. Killing and eating random girls as you do. When one night she comes home and is confronted by her parents about this!! And well you can guess. What happens to them lol. She gets captured and taken to the zeno facility where she’s specifically studied/talked to by William! They’re funny bc nessa hasn’t had anyone willingly spend so much time around her and be so nice to her. Will … well she’s a specimen to him lol. Since being cured himself zeno has been a subject of interest to him, he’s thrown himself completely into his work (under the guise of feeling soooo guilty for his actions which henry can see right through) and well. He’s realized the consumption of human flesh has something to do with it, since eating Charlie cured him. So he’s been …. Robbing the morgue/killing people when needed to feed vanessa every time they meet. Which, she’s more docile when she’s not hungry so it kind of works but she’s not like cured you know. It has the side affect of her being hungry when it’s time for someone to chat with her though which was funny the one time henry had to go in will’s stead cause he offered her a granola bar and she was like 😐 ew.?? Anyways will has gotten her total trust because he also plays board games with her yay!! He’s the only one not enforcing the whole straightjacket-dog muzzle combo also so she’s like woah !! He sees me as another human unlike these other guys :DD (needless to say zeno patients are not treated very humanely.lol) there was also one time tape girl had to be a substitute for william but nothing of note happened they just kinda chilled and ness threatened her in a backhanded and mildly gay sort of way.as you do.

Anyway yeah so basically Henry’s been experimenting with treatment through amnesia and totally surely unrelated note at the actual start of the story, Will and Nessa wake up in a strange room with no clue who they are or how they got here, and have to navigate the now bloody and corpse-strewn facility while handcuffed together with nothing to guide them except each other and the only clue to their pasts is tampered resumes which effectively switch their backstories!! Nessa is under the impression that she’s the scientist (the whole cannibalism part was left out) and she thinks William is the serial murderer/cannibal. Which was funny cause she read her own resume like wow… I’m kind of a big deal huh :) and then read Will’s like ERM.OKAY… Will didn’t read either of the resumes. Also tape girl gave everyone code names and said code names were swapped on the resumes also! So ‘bonnie’(nessa) and ‘vanny’(will) are just kind of cluelessly walking around like damn this place is really… corpsey:) until henry starts showing up and trying to kill them (he contracted zeno big surprise) and also tape girl (assumed dead) shows up sometimes just to see how things are going. Lots of shenanigans and also murder ensue.

The game also has multiple endings so. sometimes nessa ends up killing william lol. Intestine jumprope…. … ……… Also side note.will found out it’s specifically zeno infected humans that need to be fed to patients to cure them but kinda. Didn’t cure nessa on purpose<3 because she’s sort of entirely dependent on him in this way and she’s kind of his only friend.the same way he’s her only friend……wacky wild!

Tape girl is having a fucking.day. Because henry mentioned he was going to do something but likeee. She didn’t expect to be caught in the crossfires of a HUGE MASS MURDER CANNIBAL EVENT.AS LIKE ONE OF THE 4 PEOPLE STILL ALIVE IN HERE,.. once he chilled out henry explained himself and she agreed to help out (she also decided to distribute some of her recorded notes.just for fun…after the two get separated for the first time ‘vanny’ listens to them and is like woah… i was a patient here⁉️ And bon was my unethical doctor⁉️⁉️ which is funny) but like. She is the only one NOT infected in here and would like to keep it that way so she’s having quite the time. Seeing vanessa walking around unrestrained keeps jumpscaring her LOL. Once ness’s zeno symptoms start returning well ofc will as the only one she’d encountered here who she cares about is the first target but tape girl nearly gets chomped too lol.

Zeno has an interesting affect on the subjects mood which is funny. Basically when an oneset happens and the person with zeno is running around eating people they’re in a crazed manic state which. Is really fun.will and nessa are wandering around handcufffed and he’s like uhh bonnie you okay cause her facial expressions.well they went from the example on the left to the one on the right.

It’s funny bc. The memory erasure actually technically did work… her symptoms only started returning bc she got bit LOL

Pre-the amnesia incident the other three’s interactions with vanessa were pretty.limited. Considering she’s theeee most dangerous patient. Will talks to her for like an hour daily but Henry only really knows her as ‘william’s mutt’ (he was especially not a fan when he found out will had been FEEDING HER HUMAN FLESH.) and tape girl is afraid of her but also. Kind of endeared from their two in person interactions. The second one in which vanessa tried to convince her to let her cannibalize her but hey she was very polite about it..!! Henry and tape girl are both shocked and stunned that she’s actually pretty chill when she’s not insane and eating people.

TL;DR

^these fuckheads are almost all cannibals and beating each other up forever

[heretherebedork]

thank you for putting your frustration with love sea into posts. i agree 100% it feels like i am watching a completely different show than the people loving it in the tag and on my dash the only positive was the pretty scenery in the first couple episodes and the fact that fort and peat work great together. i liked their earlier sex scenes. i thought they could have an interesting dynamic once it develops further. there was something to it that i could latch on. and now i just skip forward through most scenes, and i entirely skip vi and mook (aahahahahah i hate vivi so so so so much, absolutely nothign she does is genuine. she is so childish and entitled and so fucking annoying.) i completely agree with your comments re: mut and how we are told he is a good guy but he barely lives up to that reputation. most of the time he ignores boundaries. like, really important boundaries. and what the hell is going on with meena and how him being meant to protect her apparently means making her face her abusive grandfather... oh boy! if the show had 12 episodes, i'd drop it. but i've endured it so far, so now i want to finish it.

The problem is that he is a MAME seme which is to say that he is perfect in every way and if he's not, well yes he was and you better accept that.

It's why I call Ter a MAME seme.

But yes.

I watch, I write, I suffer and I do it willingly. But I also don't tag it because I am here to offer my opinion and I know I won't change anyone's mind.

We are definitely watching a different show than the people loving it and I've experienced that many times before and I really do wonder what show they're watching sometimes.

The worst part is that they were close with Mut. Like, I was even just rolling my eyes are most of what he did. But today's episode was SO contradictory to everything that's happened in the other episodes and that's been said about him and with his own damn words that I don't know how people... aren't bothered by it.

Now, admittedly, I do not seek out positive meta about this show. I read it if I see it and I am often very confused by it but I do not look for it and most of my mutuals aren't watching.

But it's just... it's wild to me.

I will finish it. I always do. But also because if I am going to criticize MAME, I gotta know what's going on.

[popupsquiggles]

I’m so hype for mousetrap actually I know one of these emotions is gonna uncover some secret other personality

what :3 whas that supposed to mean i have another personality?? yknow that would be COOL though yknow. imagine that actually happens and im just really childish or something its nothign cool LMAOOO SIDSjdfidsuhfi

[420technoblazeit]

20 for the dsmp! If you're willing :D

20. part of canon you found tedious or boring

oh this is a hard one bc i really liked a lot of the dsmp arcs. not a lot i can think of that disappointed me yk? ig im a little sad that nothign happened with kinoko kingdom. i was really invested in karlnapity back in the day i thought they were super cute adn i remember being there in the stream where they got engaged. i thought they were sweet wouldve been nice to have a conclusion to that

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