#AND WHAT ABOUT IT???

[queenimmadolla]

Welcome Home, Franklin is really healing things in me i didn’t know needed to be or could be healed

[vampire-matcha]

Guys how do we feel about Soap x goth!reader? Thoughts? Feelings? Opinions?

[ohbo-ohno]

gaz x reader 💞💞💞💞💞💞

[tiredlilguy]

(stormbringer and current bsd manga spoilers)

so like… when is Verlaine showin up in the manga…? Babes, is this storm not big enough yet??? Like what’re u waiting for????

YOUR BROTHER IS A VAMPIRE VERLAINE ARENT U GONNA DO SOMETHING?!?!

AND FUKUCHIS ABOUT TO EXPLODE THE WORLD, SO LIKE.. IS THAT NOT A BIG ENOUGH STORM FOR U???

[scimitar-and-longsword]

No one: How do you know you've become fully hyper fixated on a new fandom?

Me *gesturing vaguely at Spotify... ashamed*:

[messymosaic]

Okay, gotta ask:

Thoughts on Bolin? I'm not his biggest fan, and I honestly don't hold a great deal of fondness, but 1 I am mature enough to treat him well in fanfiction, and 2 personally believe he got dealt a crap hand in LOK. Granted, Mako got dealt the worst hand, but Bolin's pretty close.

Thank you, and Makorra forever!!!

OMG totally DID NOT mean to leave this in my inbox???? I didn't even know I got this I'm sorry T_T

But I legitimately hate Bolin. Not enough that I will write fan fiction to bully him, but if someone starts a mob against him I'll probably grab a torch.

In the series I found him annoying but then I found out that the fandom LOVED him and HATED Mako. In a way he stole the love that should be for Mako. Just like he's all bubbly and Mako's all serious because Bolin effectively robbed him of his childhood, and people punish Mako for that.

AND YES MAKORRA FOREVER

[vicvinegarandhughhoney]

how about jack getting chills (maybe as a vaccine side effect topical) then he gets bundled in blankets and taken to the vet i mean vet i mean vet i meanv- human doctor

Uiscefhuaraithe- Bundled up in blankets: Jack Griffin

Fandom- AP Bio

Ship- Jack Griffin/Lynette Hofstadter

Jack gets chills after a vaccine. That's it.

Title from To Someone from a Warm Climate by Hozier

Read here or below!

Jack gets the stupid goddamn flu shot, because everyone at Whitlock gets the stupid goddamn flu shot (except for Devin, whose Mom apparently believes that they’re a manipulation tactic from the government and so will not allow him to receive any). He sits in the stupid goddamn chair in the gym, takes off his stupid goddamn cardigan and lets them stab him in his stupid goddamn arm before he thanks them for it and saunters off back to class.

He’s greeted by a whole bunch of students all rubbing their arms (Devin excluded, of course) and complaining about how rough the nurse was with them- Jack fortunately doesn’t have that issue at least. His was a strange but oddly gentle man from New York who offered him a ‘sucker’ afterwards and spent half the time Jack was sat there showing him pictures of his dogs from back home.

A few of the class are sat flicking through leaflets, their eyes growing with concern the more that they read.

“Woah, this says you can get a fever after having the shot?? That doesn’t make any sense!” Colin announces, brow crinkling with concern. “I thought the whole point of getting the vaccine was to make sure you don’t get sick?”

Sarika answers him before Jack has to. “The side effects are mild compared to the actual flu, Colin. It’s way better to maybe have the chills for a little while than to get super sick.”

“Still... I didn’t sign up for this.”

As he rests his chin against his folded arms atop his desk, Jack can’t help but agree. He hates getting shots, but it’s something that he has to do- especially after his last bout of the flu nearly took him to the hospital. If that event is anything to go by, though, then the next few days are going to be pretty unpleasant. His body does not react well to anything it perceives as a threat, apparently.

The end of the school day rolls around quickly, and soon he’s driving Lynette back to his place for the night- a tradition they’ve grown accustomed to in recent months.

“You read the leaflet?” Lynette asks him, thumbing through it as they pull up to a stoplight.

Jack glances over, shakes his head dismissively. “Nah. No point. I know I’m gonna experience all that stuff anyway, there’s no point making myself worked up about it.”

His girlfriend quirks a brow. “You’re gonna experience all the side effects?”

He nods, tapping a rhythm on the wheel. “Trust me, Lyns, I always get the vaccine side effects. It sucks but that’s life.”

“So let me get this straight- you think you’re going to experience... here, let me see: soreness,-“

“Yep”

“redness,-“

“You betcha”

“headache,-”

“Oh, definitely”

“fever,-“

“100%”

“nausea,-“

“Mhm!”

“muscle aches,-“

“Yep”

“and fatigue?”

“Absolutely.”

Lynette snorts. “Jack, I think it’s physically impossible for somebody to have all of those symptoms after a vaccine.”

Jack shrugs. “Watch me.”

When Lynette wakes up the next morning, the first thing she does is roll over like always, expecting to find empty space on the other side of the bed where Jack departed in favour of showering early. Instead, she’s greeted with the solid warmth of her boyfriend, who is decidedly not in the shower. In fact, he isn’t even awake yet.

He’s facing her, dead asleep, cheeks unusually flushed, and a stray curl hangs over his equally reddened forehead like the curving tail of a cat. With every even breath, he shudders a little.

Lynette shuffles closer and gently presses the back of her hand to his cheek just to affirm what she already knows. He’s got a fever. Damn. His prediction was right.

“Jack... sweetheart, wake up...”

She moves her hand so her thumb strokes repetitively across his jaw in a vain attempt to rouse him, and when this is met with no more than a defiant little grumble, she leans in to press a kiss to the bridge of his nose- it twitches almost bunny-like, and at last he wearily opens his eyes with a deep sigh.

“H-hmn?”

Lynette furrows her brow sympathetically. “You okay?”

He hums noncommittally and buries his nose back into the softness of the pillow, shuddering again. His eyes flutter closed just as quickly as they opened. “Mm.... cold.” 

“I don’t think you’re cold, sweetheart.” She explains. “You’re actually running quite hot, even if you feel cold.”

“Mmm....”

He’s gone again in another second, falling asleep faster than she’s ever seen him before. While he continues to shiver under the blankets, Lynette takes the opportunity to slip free of the bed and fetch some things to help. 

As it turns out, Jack is right about more than just the fever. Along with flushed cheeks and forehead, the area around the shot site is red too, and according to him, everything aches. Well, according to him when she actually manages to pry any information out of him, that is. Considering how dramatic he is about the prospect of getting sick, he’s always surprisingly closed-off when said sickness hits for real. Like a clammy clam-shell. 

His fever thankfully fades without much intervention aside from a Tylenol, but the chills? God, the chills are apparently here to stay. 

On the third day post-vaccine, they reach a new high, and no matter how many blankets she piles onto his lap, he just can’t seem to get warm. He shivers miserably underneath layer after layer, blankly staring at the TV and looking so out of it it’s almost concerning. And a little adorable, thanks to the fact that he’s cocooned himself like a sick little caterpillar. 

“Still feeling cold?” she asks uselessly. 

He nods, eyelids drooping as if the motion nearly sends him to sleep. “F-freezing.”

“Alright.” She stands up, and offers him her hand. “C’mon, Harvard. We’re going to the Doctors. Need to get you some heavy duty stuff to make you feel better, hm?”

Jack says nothing but takes her hand anyway, the clearest indication that he really isn’t himself. He follows her lead all the way out to the car. 

**

When she arrives back home, it’s with some tablets and an exhausted Jack that she wanders through the door. They don’t bother heading all the way upstairs- they barely make it to the couch before Jack slumps down in it and pulls all the blankets they left there over his shivering form. He’s about ready to close his eyes and conk out, but Lynette manages to keep him awake just a few minutes longer so he can take the medication. 

“Here.” She says, her own voice worn from the exhaustion of being up for what feels like days. “Take this, hon, or you won’t feel any better.”

His trembling hand retrieves the pill, and throws it haphazardly down his throat. He dry swallows it, like a goddamn weirdo, and promptly curls back into his blanket pile to sleep. 

Lynette, meanwhile, yawns, and settles herself on the other couch. There’s only one blanket draped across it but she isn’t a shivering wreck like her boyfriend so it doesn’t matter. As she slips beneath it, she raises the bottle of medication to her eyes and squints to get a look at the writing on the back. 

WARNING: Causes drowsiness. Do not operate heavy machinery while taking this medication. 

She grins, placing it back down on the coffee table and hazarding a wayward glance at Jack. Is he.... drooling? Jesus Christ. 

“Jack. Jack. Harvard. Jack.”

Nothing. Not even a twitch. 

She chuckles slightly and wriggles beneath the blanket. 

When she wakes up, he’ll definitely still be right where he is, and she is going to take so many pictures for blackmail purposes. Mary, Stef, and Michelle are going to lose their minds. 

[mejcinta]

When hotd fandom pull the race card on black viewers to force them to like characters, I just...

You should know how insane you all sound, by the way. The characters don't live on Earth in 2023. 🙄 And we all know how they actually look like in the book. Stop being miserable and threatened by people loving characters other than your faves I'm serious!!

[ibenology]

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[missabnormal]

imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

[foolfortune]

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[miiilowo]

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