#40 minutes lmao

[chiimeramanticore]

SURPRISE! i was at billycon the WHOLE TIME....!

[bugboybuck]

The team responding to a call at a pride event, not too serious injury or minor accidental fire. And just loads of guys flirting with Buck, asking him out for drinks.

And he's just "I'm flattered, and you all seem very nice, but I have a boyfriend 🥰"

So they ask if he knows any other hot gay firefighters.

And he replies "Yeah, but he's my boyfriend 🥰"

And shows them a photo of Tommy.

sdfkjdsfhj anon YOUUUUUU SPEAK MY LANGUAGE omg i rlly just need so many instances of buck bragging abt his cool hot boyfriend and taking any opportunity to show him off lmao (but also, buck getting hit on by guys !! and enjoying it / knowing he can enjoy it now even tho he's not gonna act on it bc he has one guy in particular already !! but in the past he'd never have noticed or responded to guys flirting w him like that !! my LOVE for comfy bi buck—)

[cyberstudious]

saturday, august 26th, 2023 | 47/100 days of productivity

I passed my exam this morning! 🥳 everything went pretty smoothly, which was nice. (I did forget my water bottle at the testing center, but that's not the end of the world haha)

I now have about four weeks before I start the next course in the series! I'm going to rest for a bit, spend some time on hobbies, and maybe take a short malware analysis course that I've been eyeing 👀

[shippyo]

"What will be beyond the sea?" Kirby thought.

[happybird16]

"Come here," Levi urges, hand tugging at your shoulder.

You sniffle, struggling to swallow around the huge knot in your throat. Eyes puffy and swollen, his form is blurry through your watery lashes. You let out a small sob, snot and tears flowing to coat your cheeks and neck. "Levi," you struggle, voice cracking with wetness. It's almost impossible to stifle your sobs, "I..I'm.. they..-"

It makes you feel so much worse, how much of a mess you always become when your upset. You must be such a disgusting sight, all mucus and tears. You can feel the tacky, stickiness of it coating your swollen skin. It's always so difficult to speak, when your crying like this, your lips feel swollen and slow, "Levi.. I.."

The fingers digging into your shoulder become more urgent. In your watery gaze, you can see the seriousness of Levi's expression. The concerned downturn of his brows, worry lines blooming as his mouth downturns in a frown. "Come here," he urges again, more firmly this time.

Tugging you forward, his grip on you shifts, fingers threading into the hair along the back of your head. The touch is soft, urgent yet comforting. For some reason it only makes you soft harder, fat tears welling in your eyes.

He's trying to pull your head to his chest, that much is obvious. Through swollen eyes, you note the stark white material of his shirt, firmly pressed and wrinkle free. The mess coating your face and neck suddenly feels so much thicker, cool and wet in the rooms soft breeze. You struggle weakly against his tugging, "B-but -I'm a mess.. I'll-"

"I don't give a shit," He barks sternly, pulling you forward the final few inches. "I-," Levi struggles, taking a deep breath, his chest rising and falling right below your ear. You can hear his heart throb, a steady yet quickened beat. "I'm not good at this comforting shit," he hisses softly, "but -just let me try."

"Okay," you murmur, lips brushing the soft cotton of his shirt. Your face heats, warmed by his intention. The hand at the back of your head hesitates, before slowly smoothing through your hair. Again and again, Levi pets along the back of your head, holding you firm against his beating heart.

"Just let it out," he murmurs softly, chin brushing the top of your head. You sniffle, tears still welling up in the corners of your eyes, but you already feel so much better. Nuzzling into his chest, you cry, letting the last echoes of your sobs escape freely. Levi says nothing for several minutes, fingers steadily smoothing circles through your hair and into your scalp.

He's warm, the weight of his other arm a solid mass along your back. Even through your clogged nose, you can smell him. He smells like warmth and spicy masculinity, like fancy black tea and fresh linens. The combination fills your senses with every sniffle, calming your frantic mild to nothing but a dull buzz. As tears slowly leak along your cheeks, you let all of your weight sink into him. Lip trembling, you fight a whimper, voice cracking, "It's my fault.."

"No it fucking isn't," Levi cuts you off firmly. Despite the phrasing, the words are soft. The fingers stop petting along the back of your head, shifting to pull you hard to the firmness of his chest. "They shouldn't treat you like that. It's really fucking shitty of them.

"But," you warble, mind filling with lingering self doubts.

"No." The petting begins again, his fingertips dragging long lines from the top of your head to the base of your scalp. "You don't deserve to be treated like that. You-" the rumble of his voice below your ear cuts off as Levi struggles for words. "You- You're- Fuck!" Breath your head, his chest heaves as he draws in one long breath. "You're good. And strong. And so fucking kind, okay? You always try with people, even if they treat you like shit." You feel him press a quick kiss to the top of your head, before shifting and pressing a cheek into your hair. He huffs a laugh, fingers threading through your hair, "Just look at us."

You smile, nodding your head into his shirt. "We did have sort of a rough beginning," you laugh softly. Sniffling again, you close your eyes tight as a fresh wave of tears stings along the edges. "Still, it hurts. It's always hurts."

"I know. I know," Levi hums softly, pressing another kiss to your hair. "And you always deal with this alone. I know you do. With everything." The hand at your back pats your shoulder softly. "Look -fuck- I know i'm not great at this, but just come to me from now on. You don't need to deal with this shit by yourself anymore."

"Okay," you respond truthfully, shoulders heaving in a relieved sigh. "I will, I promise." You nuzzle your nose into his shirt, now soaked with salty tears. "And you are good at this."

"That's a fucking lie," he huffs, warm breath dusting the top of your head. "You've stopped crying," he notes softly, "A-are you feeling better now?"

"No," you smile, faking a sniffle. Pressing your head further into the warmth of his firm chest, you decide you want to stay here, just for a bit longer. "Not yet."

[deadsh33p]

MEAH

[megamindsupremacy]

okok my brain not braining rn but.... smth smth stan starting to figures tbings out when SHERMIE calls asking ford to watch the kiddos like

stan: hello? if this is the irs you can talk to me in person!

shermie: ford blah blah blah kids blah summer blah blah

stan: (why tf is my brother calling this ford guy????? and familiar with him?????) uhhhhh...

OH HEY i hadn't even read this ask when I wrote my response to that other one so I guess we're just on the same brainwave with "Shermie is the one to ask Stan to take care of the kids"

Stan is so confused because like. Shermie is his brother. He knows Shermie is his older brother. Everytime someone mentions Stan's brother they're obviously talking abut Shermie. Right? So why is Shermie calling up Stanford (how does Shermie know Stanford exists? So why does his brother Shermie somehow know who Stanford is? Does he know Stanley stole this random dude's identity? Except, no, Shermie thinks Stanford is his brother, which is super weird. And Stan is so absolutely baffled about this whole thing that he finds himself agreeing to Shermie's request before he can think through "taking care of a couple of kids for an entire summer"

[danvillecheese]

the thing about a three way crossover is that the mml one was already so jam-packed with characters that plot points got cut and it was a hodgepodge of an episode and it was ending a story arc and also trying to squeeze in characters from pnf at the same time. imagine adding a third show full of characters to it could you even imagine the chaos

[crazylittlejester]

the way my shit posts and random complaining get pushed out to more people and get more notes than my genuine yapping where i talk about things that are important to me and my headcanons and ideas is just so cruel 😭

[crowleyanthonys]

crowley at the beginning of the trailer being like 🎵 i am on to see my husband, i'm happy, i'm happy, to see my husband 🎵

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s2 episode 20 thoughts

oh man! i really loved this episode. no aliens, no overarching plot, just some silly shenanigans and yeah, some murder, but in a far more lighthearted fashion than in other cases. filler episodes i love you soooo much <3

from the beginning, i thought the prompt sounded really good... shoutout to people who work in sideshows and other touring entertainment industries, y’all are real for that 

we open with some kids laughing under a full moon… nothing could be scarier… except SOMEONE WATCHING THEM!

and whoever it is, they are approaching the pool with feet out. where are their parents to safeguard them from stranger danger, i ask into my screen!

OH he is the dad!! what was once scary has now turned heartwarming. he splashes about in the pool with them and says they need to get ready for bed. aww. 

BUT NOW SOMEONE IS WATCHING HIM IN THE POOL!! NOOO the heartwarming session HAS BEEN CANCELLED... is he being EATEN???

(as he is killed, the camera shows a van with the words “alligator man” on it... at first i'm thinking that the alligator man was the creature who just Ate this guy, but turns out the father WAS alligator man, so named for his skin condition. rest in peace mister alligator, the world is a worse place for ur loss)

and now the agents are looking into his murder :(

(also, in the opening credits, we see that one of the guest stars is named “the enigma”... I’ll have to look into their work)

mulder says there have been a lot of murders in this fashion over the last 28 years, and they have been going all over the country!!! it seems to involve some sort of round bite mark. must be time to go investigate.

they roll up the the alligator man's funeral. honestly it is sad! and we see that the widow slash mother of the kids is a bearded lady and she is absolutely serving but this is a very sorrow-filled moment for them all

and interrupting the moment in which his community remembers the warmth he brought to their town, his casket starts moving… and someone emerges from the ground… and stabs himself in the chest with a spike???? HUH???

so the deceased was an escape artist but was forced into the sideshow circuit because of his skin condition… scully says she didn’t know sideshows were still a thing… which is honestly fair because it is a very vintage sort of entertainment. and they have a Not So Great history.

BUT if the people who live in this town in the summer are all traveling performers.. and if they have been touring for years... and the murders go on for years… hmm, it seems things are starting to add up

mulder notices a drawing of a creature on the menu of the restaurant they are sitting in, and he asks who drew it. why, the sheriff says, it's the artist named hepcat, of course! cut to him tending to his freaky mermaid. he describes his scary maze business as “a tabernacle of terror�� 

mulder asks what the drawing on the menu was, and i was thinking, hmm, looks like the fiji mermaid, and hepcat says it is the fiji mermaid, and mulder doesn't seem to recognize it?? i assume this is one of those situations where he acts like he doesn't know what is going on to get more information because i feel like that is Exactly the sort of thing he has read about at length. like i had him pegged as a guy who could write a dissertation on the subject at the drop of a hat. so i think he's lying but narrative wise it isn't fully revealed. 

scully: “what’s the fiji mermaid?” hepcat: “it’s the fiji mermaid!” <- thanks this clears up a lot <3

mulder is acting surprised to hear that the top half of the fiji mermaid was a monkey, which i again assume to be an act? but he says that the tracks at the murder look monkey-ish. so perhaps there is a correlation...? between the very active murder case and that time PT barnum sewed a monkey and a fish together? hey, the dots aren't connecting for me, but i don't work for the fbi so what do i know

they go to get a place to stay and the guy operating the rental place, a kind and verbose fellow with dwarfism named mr. nutt, gives them their keys. and mulder asks if had worked in the circus, (and since everyone they have met so far has in fact done so, i feel that this was a fair question, but maybe i also deserved what follows), and mr. nutt really lays into him about making judgements, and maybe some people with dwarfism want to manage hotels...

and as all of this goes down scully just observes. wow. she let him flounder. lmao.

the man carrying their bags is named lanny, and he has a conjoined twin sort of situation, it's not entirely clear- but he says mr. nutt got him to work there because he believed it was undignified to work in the circus. hmm.

back to hepcat at his studio… listening to some groovy music... and something crawls in his window… looking like the fiji mermaid. and it BITES him.

next morning. mulder going for a jog. in a sweatshirt and sweatpants in florida heat. what in the hell was he thinking??? let’s analyze that while a man chomping a fish emerges from the river. we receive no real clarification on what is going on in either of their minds.

scully in bed. alerted to a murder by lanny. still in a robe. we get a shot of her chest and also lanny's brother that felt mutually uncomfortable. SMH no rest for her!

okay, examining the scene of the murder. mulder notices some blood on a little window and WHY DID HE TOUCH THE BLOOD NASTY!!!! NASTY!!!

they deduce that to fit in the window, the suspect would have to be a contortionist…. and they walk out to see a contortionist. it’s the spike guy that so disrespectfully ruined the funeral!!

he puts a nail up his nose in front them. and mulder pulls the nail out. probably to get some blood. not an easy watch still.

we learn here that the guy with the puzzle tattoos who was eating the fish in the river earlier is called “The Conundrum”, and the spike guy slash contortionist is dr. blockhead

dr. blockhead gives the conundrum a bunch of crickets and he gulps them up; then he offers crickets to the agents and scully TAKES one, says thanks, eats it, and leaves LMAOOO????? never let them guess your next move....

mulder is staring at her trying to figure out if he is in love with a woman that just ate a cricket and if this is something she does regularly and JUST KIDDING!!! she didn't eat it silly!!! she "reveals" the lil cricket behind mulder’s ear awww... her uncle was a magician <3

(he also does a lil slight of hand trick and pulls out the bloody nail, saying "everyone's uncle was an amateur magician", which i am sure they can bond over at a later date)

scully goes to a museum that says "freaks free, everyone else leave a donation" and she puts in some money… publicly declared non-freak 

this guy at the museum is touching her. don’t care for that. but I like that he knows lots of random information. and he won’t show his whole face, we as the audience only see him through mirrors. very cool framing device.

he says he will take her back and show her something of barnum’s for another $5 and sworn secrecy. good luck bucko; last time she was told to keep a secret (affair baby) the SECOND she was reunited with mulder the tea had been spilled LMAOOO. he hands her a paper featuring jim jim the dog faced boy, who, dare i say it, seems to be a king.

he leads her into the back rooms… scary. but her trench coat is serving though

okay, deep in the back is a trunk. and it’s empty and opens an exit door. NOOO she was scammed! it’s all part of the hustle. 

(well, that is what i THOUGHT, at least, until she realizes it leads to the sheriff's house, and things are adding up...)

mulder sees something crawling about. it’s the guy who owns the rental space, mr. nutt, under scully's trailer! he asks why he is under there and mr. nutt says he is NOT being creepy. mulder flirts with the man and he runs away LMAO... weaponized bisexuality 

agents are in the trailer having a nerd off and it’s not clear who is winning and there is romantic tension. sheriff hamilton used to be jim jim the dog faced boy???? what a reveal!!!

we are watching them watch the sheriff dig a hole during a full moon. average agent bonding activities. he buried something in the ground and goes inside. 

they are in his yard digging up what he was just digging and mulder has taken his earlier roasting to heart and says “we’re being highly discriminatory here” and clarifies that’s no reason to suspect him of being a werewolf and it’s like well. i don’t know that we both thought he was a werewolf. they pause to consider the moral weight of their actions then keep going.

uh oh! sheriff catches them!!! not a good look being caught digging something up. “We’re exhuming… your potato” is the best line that usually quick-tongued mulder could come up with, which had me losing my MIND and i proceeded to write a very long keysmash to express my amusement

“may I ask why?” (she starts monologing about serial killers taking positions in law enforcement and needing to monitor him as as suspect, and it’s convincing) (he cuts in: “we found out you used to be a dog-faced boy” STOP THIS IS SOOOO FUNNY) and she looks soooooo guilty!!

he doesn’t deny it and says he started balding on his head which put him out of a job. fair enough, gotta pay the bills.

next genius dialogue exchange: “that doesn’t explain the potato” “I got some warts on my hand” “...that doesn’t quite explain the potato” 

(i kept having to pause in rapid succession to write these lines down because i was laughing SO hard)

has anyone thought that maybe a man wants to bury a potato in his yard in peace…. like that’s how we get more potatoes…

“to get rid of warts you rub a sliced potato on your hand and bury it under a full moon” <- new life hack just dropped!!

nooooooo the conundrum is chasing the dog… dog escaped. everyone is pleased. he brings a check to mr. nutt and it’s rent!! king of paying his bills on time. but dog is still barking... NOOOOO MERMAID ATTACK ON MR. NUTT!!!

someone with bloody hands bursts into scully’s room and she must have her gun right by her pillow, and she gets it so fast, but it’s just lanny, saying he found mr. nutt dead... they truly hate to see a hard working entrepreneur in the field of hospitality winning 

the pin at the scene looked like something from dr. blockhead, so they go to his house to investigate and he is full of hooks. i made a noise like whAUUUWAUUHWAUH and mulder is looking intensely at what's going on there. blockhead goes on some cultural appropriation bs. um sir this is weird timing bur you are under arrest.

he gets out of the handcuffs- contortionist and escape artist! but the sheriff catches him by the hooks. what a KING! shoutout to this sheriff, formerly jim jim the dog faced boy, can we add him to the team? skinner are you hiring?  

just as our agents apprehend their suspect, we see that the mermaid creature is in the room with lanny!!! but... he isn't hurt?

OMG the twin inside him IS THE MERMAID??

lanny confesses to this when he asks how it would be possible to turn his "brother" in without turning himself in...and he thinks the mermaid fellow hates him and is looking for another brother which is so SAD but he says he’ll come back

is anyone concerned about the twin crawling out of lanny? well, mulder knows he isn't the man in charge here: “scully, you’re the medical expert… I believe you” yessir it's good to remember that!

the mermaid brother appears to have run off into the "tabernacle of terror" and mulder trying to hold a little evil mermaid at gunpoint is SO comical

their asses are lost in the maze!!! scully pulls a gun on a rubber skeleton that fell from the ceiling!

she's trapped in a mirror room to serve infinite looks in all directions, and it looks like mermaid baby is caught... she fires.. but it hits the mirror!! baby mermaid brother escaped!!!

at this moment, mulder slides through a trapdoor... and it was SO funny pls tell me there's a gif set of that somewhere because i need it...

baby on the loose... bad news!!! conundrum is being eaten by the baby twin…. but what if he eats him FIRST, i ask myself, and received an answer in the form of baby being gone and conundrum rubbing his stomach!!!! yassss!!! diva down!!!

the next morning, while everyone is searching for mermaid brother, we learn lanny died that evening of a condition related to alcoholism. we learn this while dr. blockhead and the conundrum are getting ready to leave.

and dr. blockhead's going on about the future, and how nature needs freaks, and in the 21st century everyone will look perfect… "just like him" (points to Mulder majestically posing by a trailer) LMAOOOOOO “imagine going through your whole life looking like that!!!” <- yeah it must be really hard....... /s

at last, conundrum and blockhead are taking off into the great unknown... scully points out he doesn't look too good…. CONUNDRUM TALKS???? “probably something I ate", he says. LMAOOO his voice is sooo normal 😭😭😭

this episode had me laughing. we really had it all: exhuming a potato, scully's valiant attempts at lying, mulder hitting on a guy, lessons in ableism and judgement, a man who eats crickets and fish, flirting over case details, a dog, scully doing magic, mulder running in the florida heat dressed like it was a new england winter. truly i have nothing that could be added.

and did i have a secret evil mermaid twin on my list of probably monsters of the week? no, i cannot say that i did! was it the most compelling or scary of creatures? not really! but i was filled with whimsy. cannibalism saved the day. an excellent episode, and a perfect contrast to earlier in the season when scully was literally About To Die and i was crying a lot over the whole thing. ah, the duality of TV shows!

[bleaksqueak]

While i work I've been listening to an LP of the Telltale Walking Dead Games (the ones with clementine, I do not care about the others lmao). Ages ago when I played these I was well aware/amused that part of season 2 takes place in Parker's Crossroads/Parker's Run because I grew up right next to it and the detail stood out to me. But I never caught the line of "We'll head to parker's run. It's just up the road from here" until just right now. So I had a sort of "wait, where the fuck are they supposed to be right now?" (search)

ARE YOU SHITTING ME LMAO So by process of elimination, since it's the only city with anything even remotely resembling a large home supply store, that would mean they're in my literal hometown. My tiny hometown in the middle of nowhere that's never in anything that barely anyone knows of. How in the fuck lmao

[dawnbreakerluna]

the workout feature with sylus is not for the weak cos HUUUUUUUUH?!

[rox-of-iu]

weary sigh

also just so if anyones wondering i may not have drawn him in a hot minute but hes still rent free in my brain dont be fooled

[garthyobsessed]

I'm irrationally obsessed with Garthy O'Brien, especially their voice, so I made a compilation of literally every word they speak in FHSY and PiroL. Enjoy!

@d20fuckability

[fluffy-lovely-clouds]

Watched the new spooky month vid, how we doin folks