#Arbitrary signs

[multiheadcanons]

MERCS AND BIRTHDAYS

scout: june 28th, 11:15AM. cancer. big birthday guy. likes and expects a full showing of appreciation for the entire month that he is the birthday boy. forgets half the time that he shares the month with snipes, and it kind of annoys him that he has to share his birthday month with snipes, so he celebrates snipe’s birth month in may so he can have the month of june to himself. this has literally never worked. but the team will indulge him come the second. likes to pregame at the base and then barhop in town. birthday meal of choice is chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes, no gravy and two fluffernutters a la mode, drizzled in caramel. a decadent dessert for the birthday boy.

soldier: july 3rd, 11:59PM. cancer. if he didn’t love his mother so much, he would hate her. she couldn’t hold him in for one more minute? just one? come ON, MOM. he was SO. CLOSE. to having the BEST BIRTHDAY IN THE WORLD. he is always the first person to fire off a firework for the fourth of july, and if anyone shoots off a firework before july 3rd, 11:59PM he will find and rob them bloody and blind. the team came to the decision to only tell soldier (and america) happy birthday at the same time, since he seems to take independence day much more seriously than his own birthday. he has corrected them before, and they have insisted so hard that he didn’t know his own birthday that he let himself believe it. he doesn’t even remember why he doesn’t like july third. so now he just robs people of their fireworks that day. soldier gets the best cuts of steak for his birthday, the coldest beer, and is always served first.

pyro: november 13th, 10:10PM. scorpio. pyro doesn’t want to hear happy birthday until 10:10PM, because that was when they were born. until then, it’s not their birthday! the next day, the whole team is going to chuck e. cheese. pyro will point at one of the items on the very top shelf, that costs fifty million tickets, and the team has two hours of unlimited play to get the amount of tickets needed to get that for their birthday. the team has found their own ways to do this, and they have never failed their objective. pyro will greatly enjoy the pizza and ice cream for their birthday, but if engie insists on cooking them a dinner on their actual birthday, they ask for rice and red beans. not canned beans, the kind that take all day to cook. the texan now knows that when pyro’s birthday is coming up he needs to start on the beans the day prior so they’re ready in time for dinner.

demo: october 12th, 9:41AM. libra. demo wants the day off. let him drink and sleep. he doesn’t want anything more than that. but the team will celebrate him anyway, because they know if he’s the only teammate that doesn’t get a party of some sort then he’s gonna be hurt by that; and they love tavish. love him enough to make him the booziest, gooiest rum cake with a scrumpy ganache potent enough to kill three elephants in an hour. and he gets the whole thing. nobody will even ask for a slice. but they’ll all stop by on his day off and tell him happy birthday. he’ll convince the entire team to “strike” for the day. it’s his birthday command, nobody will do anything for the entire 24 hours. as a matter of fact you will be banished to the battlefield if you dress up. dress in your nastiest clothes and go to bed.

heavy: august 18th, 2:37AM. he’s just a leo to me idk that’s my big guy and he gets whatever he wants for his birthday. and it changes every year. one year he demands nothing but a clean sweep on the battlefield. death is not an option. failure is not an option. give him everything you’ve got or catch his wrath. another year he just… disappears. comes up missing for a week or two. another year he wants to go on a hot air balloon ride and he wants the team with him; everyone on the same balloon. he’s never been on one before. another year he just locks the door to his room and reads. normally he is not very present for engie to make him anything that he could make confidently, so he defaults to chicken and dumplings and makes sure he has a hearty helping when he’s ready for it.

engineer: april 5th, 4:53PM. aries. oh it’s really party time. engineer learned if he wanted a party he liked he had to throw it himself, and everyone across both teams get an invite. whether they show up or not is on them, but he knows his team will be there. the blu sniper will always show up, and the blu engineer will always show up. it’s technically his birthday too, and he didn’t even have to plan the party. nobody has verbalized any issues with this, so that’s all fine, as far as engineer was concerned. the itinerary is as follows: everyone takes the day off. nobody on either team is to work. arrive in two outfits layered on top of each other. pregame from 9AM to 11AM. nobody except the designated drivers should be leaving there sober. depending on attendance, they will take up to three company vans to this bar about five hours out. ideally you arrive exactly at 4:30. park around the corner, ensure lack of cameras, get dinner, pregame again. hard. don’t worry about the drive, the restaurant engie chose is a walk away. dine and dash, be out by 5:43. move quickly, they’re racing the police force now. go to the bar. at this point he will loudly yell “it’s my birthday!” to an absolutely empty bar. somehow this will sway the bartender to give drinks on the house. get shitfaced. designated drivers are now lookout, so preferably a sniper and a scout. people who can get to the car quickly to get them out when the time comes. when the police sound to be three blocks away (scout knows what that sounds like) lay on the horn until everyone is in the car. head count. catch the stragglers. lead officers in a high speed chase on two separate highways. eliminate threats. get home unharmed. it’s fun for everyone but the designated drivers.

medic: february 15th, 12:02AM. aquarius. cupid missed him by two minutes and now the man dissects the things he loves. he shared his birthday with his father, so the doctor will normally just go home for it. he’ll be back on the 18th. he likes to spend it with his mother. they go have dinner, they drink, they catch up, they shop a little, he tells her about the team. and his mother is happy to spend it with him! she loves her little boy, and it doesn’t matter that his kill count is easily in the hundreds and he’s been a grown ass man for at least three decades, that’s her little baby boy and she will never say no to celebrating his birthday with him. they have a good time. she makes him a red velvet cake and they go to town on it. the absolute sloppiest you will ever see this man is on his birthday. guaranteed one fist fight if they go out for drinks.

sniper: june 1st, 5:53PM. gemini. he’s not used to it being hot during his birthday. chronic middle child. once scout registers that june is around the corner snipes will essentially get shafted when it comes to a birthday plan. but the team won’t let him forget it too much. he always finds it odd that they’re asking him what he wants to do that day until he checks the date. then he remembers “oh, right! it’s my birthday! i’m gonna take the day off”. engie brings him some pot brownies and he spends the day baking in his van. if he’s feeling social he’ll convince everyone to go to the lake with him.

spy: september 19th; 3:37AM. he’s a virgo because i said so. the team will buy him a bottle of wine and he sits in his smoking room with the door locked. nobody knows what he does in there on his birthday, just that sometimes they can hear his laughter past the door. so whatever he does, he’s certainly enjoying himself. takes it upon himself to cook the team dinner that night. salmon, asparagus, and gnocchi. nobody is allowed to help. makes an espresso martini with a small scoop of vanilla bean ice cream for dessert. goes to bed happy and tipsy, wakes up hungover the next day.

[gowns]

ALSO i am an extroverted* autistic* person and am attracted to other people with that same energy, which i guess is like 0.0001% of the population, and they all do fucking comedy,. and i refuse to date another stand up comedian or improviser. so where does that leave me? hmm. well, ok: i could date a clown.

[theshmeepking]

it's her birthday today everypony 💖

bonus i drew just in case i couldn't finish the main piece in time

[astro1derland]

In today’s transits, the Moon 🌙 at 21° Sagittarius ♐️ 40’ 36”, Mercury at 23° Leo ♌️ 12’ 23”, and Chiron at 23° Aries ♈️ 30’ 26” all form a perfect Grand Trine. Our emotional needs, intellectual mind, and capacity to heal from our wounded selves align and work well together in a fiery, impulsive, regal way. Look for ways to refuel one’s passions, motivations and desires today. Realize how our motivational energy has been damaged and wounded and how we may transform that today. Take steps toward transformation today.

Also in today’s transits, the Sun ☀️ at 26° Cancer ♋️ 34’ 3” forms a sextile with Uranus at 26° Taurus ♉️ 26’ 14”. Our sense of illumination aligns and blends nicely with our sense of freedom and ability to invent in an emotional, lucrative and luxurious way. Escape depression today.

[actualbird]

idk if this is because of my bipolar or because of just my general personality quirks but im amazed at how married my brain is to Routine. for example no, i currently cant write fic anymore at the time of 8:17am because the sun is up and people are awake, writing fic is only for the hours of 3am-6am, a reasonable and sane time to be writing, like i Always Do, and writing any other time would be tantamount to sacrilege. on the flipside, if i accidentally go Off Routine my brain starts sounding the alarms like "oopsie you put the water in before the instant coffee powder instead of the other way around, Today Everything Will Explode And You Will Die"

[its-leethee]

Alright, gather 'round and listen up kiddos. If elves and humans can have kids together, and their kids can have kids: they're not different species.

It's an interracial relationship, not an interspecies relationship.

[ikjun]

RAN-JOO WANTING TO GIVE UP HER SHARES SO SHE CAN PRODUCE MOK-HA'S ALBUM AND BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T WANT TO BE AN EMPLOYEE UNDER SEO-JOON ANYMORE SO THEY CAN TRY AGAIN. I AM GOING TO VOMIT JHZGFZHJIK THE PEOPLE SHE CARES ABOUT THE MOST

[womansfilm]

Martin Scorsese on why he doesn't like emails and computers (2023) / The Age of Innocence (1993)

[jongace]

ok i never cared about mbti personalities and stuff like that but finding out i’m the same type as kjd i’m gonna embrace it. ISTJ AND PROUD (i don’t even know what it means)

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

Bless be upon if that stuff tickles your fancee, this saddle-various says fuck that noise

Astrology doesn't seem to work.

[stygiomedusae]

this post is making me madder than it should but its inconsequential so its fine but like. yes its arbitrary that we give the charge carried by electrons a negative sign but its not "wrong". protons still have electric charge, and that charge has the opposite sign as the charge carried by electrons. hence "positive" and "negative", yknow the sign we asign to these charge values. like its Arbitrary its not Wrong. whatever. growls hisses bites this post its all in service of a unfunny joke anyways

[larkspurious]

I suspect that for a lot of people, it was, "I bought this because I wanted an electric car because I'm worried about climate change, and Tesla has a monopoly on fast charging stations, so I put my reservations about Musk aside." A lot of liberals (and "leftists") where I live are stuck with Muskmobiles these days.

truly do not understand or sympathize with those "I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE HE BECAME A NAZI" stickers people have been putting on their Teslas because there has never been a point in time when he was doing even a halfassed job of appearing as a potentially Normal Guy. when he first started making waves in the news it was immediately obvious to anyone with half a brain that he was a dumbass who bought his way into every position he held because he doesn't know jack shit about technology. he started out as the stupid person's idea of a smart person and went downhill from there. if you ever held a positive opinion of him you should be ashamed of that and deeply investigate whatever personal shortcomings led you to that conclusion

[morlock-holmes]

The more that the deportation system in your country is fast, cruel, and not subject to appeal the easier it is for people to say,

"Accept my bad actions or you'll be deported."

This applies equally to legal immigrants, illegal immigrants, and people who are temporarily in the country seeking asylum, visas, etc.

I do not understand why people find this confusing.

If you're here on a work visa, and the consequence for being fired is that you are immediately spirited off to a concrete cell which is lit 24/7 and you aren't allowed to contact anybody and eventually they ship you off to an arbitrary city without any of your possessions,

Then your employer has a ton of leverage to say, "Yes we are making you work unpaid overtime and ignoring our supposed obligations under the contract you signed, but if you complain we'll fire you and good luck contesting it from inside your cell or from another country while you look for housing and a job."

That is how "strong border enforcement" creates an underclass.

People seem to respond to this by pretending I'm talking purely about illegal border crossings by people without visas and then explaining that it's fine to go round those people up. Which is simply beside the point.

Honestly border policy appears to involve simply ignoring how immigration works and pretending the policy only applies to criminals crossing the border without a visa.

[morgue-xiiv]

I can't believe how stupid companies can be sometimes. I want to go see a film at the cinema. There's an Odeon which is the closest cinema to my house, and I have already got their app installed on my phone. Wow, good for Odeon, right? I mean that sounds like a sale! They're so close! Literally all they have to do is reveal to me by means of the app I already installed, when the subtitled showing of that film is, and 4o long as it's convenient for me, I will want to go, and they will be able to sell me a ticket! For my own convenience, I'll probably even sign into the app and buy the ticket online, as their company prefers! There's almost no way they can fuck this up!

But the app will not show me screening times AT ALL, unless I sign in. Not tell it which cinema I want to go to, but actually sign in.

So I'm going to the Vue across town.

[signed-manny]

bcs it sounds so incredibly cool and complex and intricate and only you would have such a grasp and understanding of a magic system like that and the fact that you have 400 pages of explanation just emphasises how much thought and detail went into this concept and wow .. i respect you sm 🧎‍♀️🫡

why does the magic system in my novel (based on the phases of the moon and ancient riddles) require 400 pages of explanation? i hate myself.

[ookaookaooka]

i think all books with dragons in them should have dragons on the cover and/or in the title and all books without dragons in them should not have dragons on the cover and/or in the title. i have been deceived too many times