#COME PICK ME UP

[barbieaemond]

@hoosbandewan is betting on no shirt at all at the HotD s2 premiere and now I’m scared

[tabinavi]

some albums i enjoyed! 7-22-24

welcome back, tumblr! i bring you my segment where i highlight three albums i got my mind on. with the chat font on lock and a year between my last entry, let me talk about music!

Come Pick Me Up - Superchunk (1999)

a story behind this! so i've been listening to the track Hello Hawk for a couple years as it had come to me on my discover weekly. cut forward to involving myself with my college's film club, i had went to the advisor's office. bunch of indie band posters on the wall! Built to Spill, Pixies, and of course Superchunk. and he tells me he's the biggest Superchunk fan! i believe it. i tell him about my knowledge of the band, along with other indie bands from his time. such a nice talk and i wish i could catch him more about music. i've been slowly going through the band's discography when i reached this one finally. amazing record. i love the sound direction on this one than the more punchy and blasting previous albums. and i continue on with the band! the advisor's favorite is Here's to Shutting Up; let's see!

Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five (1997)

another get-around from my discover weekly; the track Selfless, Cold and Composed is such a great pop composition. the whole album is so beautifully put together on other tracks like Fair, Brick, and Kate. the kind of music i am heavily inspired by. i wanna give myself more time with the record, because it's just so addicting! this one was also inspired by people in my life; more-so just my friends pushing me to listen to one since i knew the song i knew. Ben Folds Five might be a new favorite around here (my room)!

The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake (2006)

current song playing is Chasing After Deer. i basically listened to this whole album while writing this. a very nice and delicate album. Tim Smith's voice is so mesmerizing to me. i had recently again been obsessed with Head Home again, so this one's back in rotation. wouldn't know what else to expand on. i just really like Midlake is all. and they are great to counter my listener-block i've had for a while. more albums on the way from me! (and Midlake too? Bethel Woods was not a half-bad comeback...)

[curlyhairedintrovertsworld]

if i ever end up in the time traveling business i'm taking all the swifties who didn't get to go to the eras tour to the eras tour

[shoverse]

omg i bought an rx7

THE CAR

[jamespottersdaisy]

good luck on your exam!!

the relief after finishing the damned exam

i feel so light rn and started writing (therapy fr)

life is amazing when you don't feel academic pressure. only for a short period of time tho, there's another exam in 10 days

just give this 18 year old girl her degree, she's tired

[house-of-slayterr]

I am disturbed…

[fragmentsofnostalgiaa]

When you're walking downtown

Do you wish I was there?

Do you wish it was me?

With the windows clear and the mannequin's eyes

Do they all look like mine?

[inkedmyths]

Okay I KNOW this poll has been done before but after conversing with friends....

[phantomrose96]

Thinking about Edward Elric as the Amestrian Military's specialest little unfireable boy

State alchemists can be fired for underperforming. We know this up front from the likes of Shou Tucker. And this makes a ton of sense from the homunculi's standpoint since the state alchemists are sacrifice candidates, and the homunculi would want to cull the weakest candidates and focus only on cultivating the strongest ones who stand the best chance of opening the portal.

........Then there's Edward. Who's already opened the portal.

There's no need to cultivate him. No gamble taken on whether he's good enough to open the portal. He passed the final test already. Graduated 4 semesters early.

And as such, has a free pass to do Absolute Fuck All.

And I'm imagining how funny this is from like an outside perspective.

Some newish state alchemist who'd only ever read up on the stories of Edward Elric, ready and excited to start their career of being paid handsomely with endless freedom to research and travel and do anything they want in the pursuit of science... surprised and confused to find themselves put on probation their first month for things like "ignoring orders." Which is, as best they had thought, a famous Edward Elric pastime.

Roy showing a slight bit of stress about his yearly state alchemist report, and Ed just snorting and rolling his eyes at Roy because every year HE just hastily does his on the train ride over (canon in the manga, a travesty it was left out of the anime) and it gets rubber stamped. Ed not realizing that other alchemists' reports get genuinely scrutinized and torn apart while Ed is free to turn in whatever absolute bullshit he thinks of 36 hours ahead of time. One year his report was about whether alchemy could be done via dance (conclusion: no it can't) and no one cared. Roy WANTS to tell Ed there's some kind of unknown favoritism around Ed making him literally bullet-proof but Roy has no way to phrase this that doesn't sound like he's just in denial and mad at how good Ed's train-reports are.

Guy from the Internal Amestrian Affairs sector who's responsible for auditing other internal military personel for any suspicious activity hitting about 1 million red flags for Edward Elric, issuing a STRONG and URGENT recommendation to suspend the alchemist pending further investigation into things like "literal bunk-buddies with two members of the Xingese royalty (enemy nation)" and "spent $10,000,000 of his stipend on a librarian to make her re-copy (what he seemed to interpret as?) military records in some extremely transparent effort to unearth state secrets (it was a recipe book but he was literally asking her about state secrets)" and "literally has never once obeyed an order, ever, not even once in his career, and is on public record having said 'I do not care about the goals and protections of the Amestrian Military. I am in fact only pursuing my own interests several of which are diametrically opposed to the safety and well-being of the governing body of Amestris'"

The issued recommendation is intercepted before it even reaches its intended desk. President Bradley himself has taken issue with it and denies it before a single set of eyes has seen it. The President's veto stamp is a terrifying hammer, used rarely, and it is now sitting on the auditor's desk.

The auditor sleeps with one eye open from then on out.

[im-lost-in-ikea]

in 2020 the blue shift took four days, in 2020 the blue shift took four days, in 2020 the bl

[anbaisai]

AU where Mostro Lounge launches it as an official sporting event, because Azul smelled the business opportunity (featuring @raven-at-the-writing-desk's Miss Raven with Jade)

(Continuation of the book 4 mystery)

Bonus of the nefarious opportunistic octopus:

[magpiedraws]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

[seedofjoseph]

I hope. ⛪🙏

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

for those of you who've travelled alone and speak more than one language, have you ever accidentally adopted a travel grandparent?

basically it's when you're travelling alone and notice the elderly person sitting next to you is having trouble communicating with the airline employees in english, and feel compelled to help.

next thing you know you have a pound of sunflower seeds that was insisted upon you and you're helping copy and paste things on a phone that's on way too high a brightness

[mriachka]

i should be kissed on my silly tired face and have my hair petted gently as i lay on her chest and she tells me im doing okay. im doing well. im doing great. if you even care.

[24.07.23]

[random-thot-generator]

Ugh... yes. I was ready to go home two hours ago.