#Backwash

[shirozen]

Forbidden brown water

[starchbean]

Backwash

My brain understanding the term "backwash" not as

"liquid that has washed back out of your mouth to where it came from"

but

"Liquid that went down your throat, washed your back from the inside of your body, and is now dirty because it was used to wash your back"

For some reason???? XD

[sage-nebula]

It happened, as things so often did, like a bolt from the blue on one of Pacifica's rare days off from work at the diner.

It was the height of summer and so hellaciously hot, even for—no, especially for Oregon. Having lost access to the private pools and yachts after her father's investments into Cipher capital during Weirdmageddon four years prior, Pacifica found herself at the Gravity Falls community pool, lounging on a pool chair after layering SPF 50 on her skin, and silently telling herself over and over that it was always morally correct to block her parents' numbers on her days off, and that her father probably hadn't yet found where Pacifica's pet rescue opposum, Susanna, had hidden the bell yet, so there was no need to worry.

(Pacifica had rescued Susanna from the diner kitchen two summers ago, when she was fourteen. Susanna was technically a male oppossum, but something about him reminded Pacifica of Lazy Susan, so Susanna he was.)

But it was at that moment that deep laughter followed by a higher pitched "shut up!" and even more laughter from both voices broke through Pacifica's inner mantras. She opened her eyes to see that both of the Pines twins, having once again made their yearly visit to Gravity Falls, had also chosen to visit the pool that day.

Pacifica swallowed hard.

For all that she had tried to deny it even to herself in her tween and early teen years, by now Pacifica had long since accepted that she found Dipper Pines attractive. It was impossible not to, with the way he came back taller each summer, his shoulders increasingly more broad as he grew into the physique promised by his great uncles (or his Great Uncle Ford, anyway), a little stubble that he "forgot" to shave always left around his chin, and his sideburns. Oh, his sideburns. Pacifica hated how much she loved Dipper's sideburns. It was beyond cringe, and the only other living soul who would ever know about her crush was Susanna, but Pacifica Northwest did indeed have a crush on Dipper Pines. She knew, and accepted, this about herself.

But then, on that hellaciously hot summer day at the community pool, Mabel Pines took her sweater off right in front of Pacifica's eyes.

Mabel pulled her sweater up over her head, and it was as if time slowed down. Mabel's arms were just as toned and strong (if not maybe a little more toned, the way the sunlight hit her muscles) than Dipper's. She had been wearing a bikini under her sweater—a pink one decorated with stars that fit her perfectly—and her thousand watt smile revealed she'd finally gotten her braces off to reveal a set of dazzling teeth. And when she tugged her hair free from her ponytail, it swished around her in a cascade of long, brown waves.

Dipper had thrown his tanktop onto a pool chair, and Mabel followed suit, throwing her sweater and hair tie on top of Dipper's shirt. But as Dipper was in the middle of saying something (they were too far for Pacifica to hear clearly), Mabel whipped back around with devilish speed and shoved him straight in the pool.

Mabel laughed uproariously as Dipper came back up for air, sputtering water and shaking his sopping bangs from his eyes. But he was only off guard for a second, and Mabel's mirth kept her off hers for longer. Dipper grinned wickedly and snapped his fingers around Mabel's wrist, yanking her in headfirst after him. Just as Dipper had before her, Mabel resurfaced immediately, though she had to use both hands to shove her curtains of damp hair out of her face. But her smile was just as impish as Dipper's own, and within seconds they were splashing each other, shrieking and laughing as they caused the biggest ruckus the pool had seen all day.

And as she watched them play, the water making their skin glisten and their smiles making their eyes sparkle, Pacifica felt a swarm of butterflies in her gut and a flash of heat in her face that had nothing at all to do with the summer sun above. She curled in on herself in her pool chair, and tugged her sun hat down over her face.

"Oh no."

[see-arcane]

Speaking of "Lucy wants Mina but Mina's disgusted and rejects her" in that novel as well as Dracula 2013 is so funny when Mina cannot go 7 minutes without talking about how beautiful Lucy looks and moves and sounds or is looking at beautiful girls mid-mourning her foster dad.

But because I don't like to snark without offering something nice, did you know that The Row that Mina mentions that Jonathan told her that she'd enjoy after the funeral is The Rotten Row at Hyde Park? It's where noble and society people would ride horses during the day, show off equestrian skills, and people would watch.

First trivia blurb: >:C

Second trivia blurb: 💕🏇✨

[onelastride]

your art tastes like raspberries and freshly baked bread and I love it

thank you for existing

Lol there’s no way my art would taste that good but thank you for the compliment :D

[goldenbeastkeeper]

(When you have to choose between keeping your bad eyesight (you'll have to keep wearing color contacts anyway) and drinking backwash)

[hot-frog-stew]

i wholesale reject the idea that metropolis is across the river from gotham. Because that means that metropolis is in new jersey. metropolis is NOT in new jersey. Metropolis is in kansas, why would it be anywhere other than kansas. clark needs to live within a 2-3 hours drive from the kent farm.

don’t come here telling me that metropolis can’t be in kansas cause it has a bay and kansas is a landlocked state. i do not care, this is comics it works somehow.

gotham can still be it’s sister city, they don’t need to be near eachother tho cause that is a ridiculous concentration of weirdos in costumes.

also the weather, metropolis is a sunny blue sky picture perfect american dream meanwhile gotham is an overcast perpetually polluted nightmare. they cannot be within the same weather cycle.

[romanyeva]

Dick Grayson is not a dumbass. I will die on this hill.

[keclan]

dean is right that it IS pretty stupid of sam to have a random hookup while they’re investigating a siren, their main theory being she spreads venom during sex. amateur hour.

[sporkazoid]

i’m normal i’m normal i’m normal

i’m so normal it isn’t even funny

[abimee]

in a different life althaea would only live to the age of 26 until an accident would see her dying at a deep pit river, with her two friends coming out soaked but unscathed otherwise and with no idea where she has went

[jrueships]

twitter(.)com/heykayadams/status/1686813346127896576

so THIS is the cause of diggs's beef with allen.... WE HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER !

diggs after refusing his gemini moonness then inputting his dob, time, and location into the zodiac finder analyzer website thing: omg JOSH can you BELIEVE we both share a GEMINI 🤯⁉️⁉️ that is CRAZY!!!! but i CANT be.. it HAS to be wrong!!!.. right? right? you're a gemini, you should know all about gemininess! it's crazy, right! right!! YOU KNOW GEMINIS, JOSH! YOU ARE GEMINI MAN!!!!

Josh, trying to deal with yet another miserable, heartwrenching playoff loss: idc

diggs:

Diggs:

hOW CAN YOU NOT CARE ABOUT zODIACS, i HATE you you STUPID FUCKING GEMINI!!!!!!!!!1!1!11!1!!1!!!!

[starredforlife]

why is it called spelunking. that sounds like the annymatopea for what i do on the shitter after a joyous night of feasting

[ararexic]

dawg i literally drank juice straight from the bottle and suddenly my family gets all mad at me calling me a hypocrite and tearing me down and so much more bullshit and then they wonder why i’m always upset ☠️☠️

[froggynelson]

living in relative peace after finding the dd episode one of the only very few enjoyable live action daredevil things in the last 10 years, but only because i have the mcuedit, daredevil tv, "nmcu", charlie cox, netflix daredevil tags and all their possible variations filtered. havent seen a single image or gifset that didnt require me to click a View Post button

yes i loved matt on the she hulk episode and think hes a delightful comic accurate dd interpretation, and yes i am an incorrigible hater and will not change my mind on the netflix show because of one episode. we exist