#Don't you judge me

[googleitlol]

Telemachus: Being cute and singing with optimism

Antinous: Boy

Me:

[anitoonart]

OK HEAR ME OUT!!,... Just hear me out dude....

[hetalia-club]

GIVE US THE NORTH ITALY WHIMPERING AUDIO WE DESERVE!

I legit said "mmk tf is that?" found it on YouTube and had a visceral negative reaction.

That being said I'm going to make that for myself...just for me, no you will all never hear it...unless you DM me on discord

[deltadarlingf1]

The gods put me in the right generation as an F1 fan bc if I was around in the 70s/80s?

1. I'd have done anything in my power to be a grid girl and

2. I'd have been hopping in and out of driver's hotel rooms so much you could call me housekeeping

[subversivecynic]

Please somebody with skills add a tiny animated fedora to the second half of this picture

[lambishep]

First world addiction problem ... it's half 11 in the morning, my vape pod is finished, I'm still at work till 4pm ...

... then going home, where both my other vape pods are also finished ...

... and pay day is only the 28th ...

... this, this is a problem indeed ...

[crispy-crust]

was out on a hike today and i found this nailed to a tree.... what the fuck?

[4r4chn10]

"Alt!"

Alternate Muse Ask! This one is a muse I am not currently using in an official RP capacity.

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His fist made contact with the faceplate of Megatron, knocking the Decepticons Leader off balance before Optimus kicked his leg out from underneath them. Once Megatron was on the floor, he dropped his aggressive stance.

"This does not need to continue. You and I should be allies, not enemies. Do not allow one disagreement to blind you to the greater threat we face. If we and our world are to truly prosper, we must put aside our personal hostilities and stand as one."

He then extended his hand.

"Stand with us, Old Friend. Not as an Autobot... Not as a Decepticon... But as a force for freedom against those that would see that our war continues to drive us apart."

[oriixxc]

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[valrvn]

enough talk of boy pussy. I am here to discuss man cunt

[your-reluctant-optimist]

I. Have never thought about that song in a gay way. And now I feel sort of ashamed.

”Wdym heteronormativity fucked you up?” I went for YEARS thinking that I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry wasn’t gay. Like, I wasn’t at all concerned that a girl kissed girls. I was like “Welp that’s a weird thing to make a song about?” and moved tf on and recently I was like “… wait Katy Perry is gay? WAIT SO YOU MEAN I KISSED A GIRL WAS AN ACTUAL GAY SONG AND NOT JUST A SONG ABOUT GIRLS KISSING GIRLS FOR FUN??” 💀

And don’t even get me started on how I realised I liked girls and my first thought was “oh I like both then” WHEN I OBVIOUSLY DID NOT LIKE BOYSBSHDJWHDJWHE

[linkcharacter]

Oh I have so many thoughts on aroace Curly, I think it brings so much on the table when analyzing the game's story.

Amanormativity ties in with the reoccurring mentions of the nuclear family, from Wrong Organ making 1950s mock advert posters, to Swansea talking about how getting a wife and kids didn't bring him any fulfillment in life.

In the cake cutting nightmare sequence, where Jimmy talks with Dream Curly about the mediocre cake, Dream Curly begins to talk about how sometimes you can only get the subpar stuff in live. Sometimes he'll get promoted, buy a house, fall in love. But other times he'll just have some awful fucking cake with his friend.

I think there is that subtle implication that Jimmy does buy into Amanormativity, with him projecting his beliefs on Dream Curly that a platonic relationship is lesser then a romantic one. But we never see Curly suggesting that he wants such a thing in the pre-crash.

With Jimmy thinking that Curly has everything in life, except for the desire (although I think Jimmy would view it as Curly not having the skills for it) to get a romantic partner, he would heavily lean into getting the one thing that Curly couldn't get in life to one up him.

THATS EXACTLY WHAT IM THINKING!!! AMATONORMATIVITY BE DAMNED!!!!

Looking at Mouthwashing through an aroace lens is interesting

"Jimmy thinking that Curly has everything in life, except for the desire", well said, well said! And references to the nuclear family fit in very cleanly thematically for Mouthwashing.

Jimmy leaning into amatonormativity is a smart observation. Jim internalizes all the social norms and standards on what you have to do to have a normal and desirable life, who sees everything Curly has and what Jimmy wishes he had, and is offended that Curly isn't satisfied, that he has the "audacity" to be unhappy. Curly meanwhile only wishes for his life to be something he doesn't have to run from, because by all means, he has already reached a point where he should feel accomplished, but isn't. Curly doesn't want to be a freighter captain his whole life, he doesn't want to settle with his sustainable position, he just wants to be happy. Like Swansea who has reached the "ideal" outcome of his life, having a wife, kids and a good career, it will never feel as good as embracing all what society deems undesirable yet right for you.

Jimmy does imply to seeing himself as lesser as a friend, "fall in love" being a goal and a "cake with a friend" being something he "has to settle for", it's all in the subtleties with underlying themes of "what you're "supposed to want" by society's expectations" against "what feels right for you". Jimmy is frustrated that Curly is going to "leave the dirt behind him", when in actuality, letting the crew and him go is the last thing Curly wants. Curly wants to be with his friends, he deeply cares about his crew, and about his close friend.

Mouthwashing as a whole reads to me as platonic through and through. Swansea and Daisuke having such a meaningful familial bond, Curly and Anya being sweet, playful and caring without romance, Anya and Daisuke having something of a siblings dynamic are dear to me. Also it's really rare to get to see representations of "toxic friendship" in media. Its always toxic romance this, toxic yaoi that, toxic family there, however in reality, friendships aren't excluded from being as rotten and abusive as the others, yet they're often overlooked. Jim and Curly are especially unique in this way. It's very impressive how they managed to showcase Jimmy's mistreatment of Curly in such a platonic way (at least that how I read it). Jim too, like Curly, in general avoids hints at romance and attraction explicitly related to him during his gameplay, not with Curly, nor with Anya (dear god thanks for that at least). It's all spite, annoyance and parasitizing off of these two. (That man's dry and lowkey hates everyone and everything) No attraction attached, no desires except hoping it hurts.

Curly to me is very much aroace, or at least on the spectrum. Like, the trivia fact that one of Curly's fondest memories is that of his friends putting in effort to make a shitty awful cake, tells us all we need to know on how dear his friends are to him. Platonic relationships mean so much to Curly, even when it's Jimmy fucking Mouthwashing, the worst friend ever imaginable.

[captain-astors]

The Crown Prince

[imeriayapping]

[marypsue]

Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.

However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.

[teaboot]

wait im confused. how do you have a sudden restraining order against someone that you didnt initiate? can the court just order someone not to be around any random person?

sometimes if someone assaults you or expresses threats, the judge can place release conditions not only banning them from entering the property they were picked up from, but also from knowingly approaching you for a certain period of time

I've had people get conditions to stay away from me before, so that's old hat, but this one was alarming because I never actually talked to the guy before he was arrested, and he didnt assault me

meaning that whatever threats he made, they happened after he was taken into custody, directed towards me SPECIFICALLY, spoken to a cop judge or parole officer, and taken seriously enough to address in court

And I don't know that until the letter arrived in the mail eight moths after the dude was picked up