#Get spotted!

[jaybarou]

Hi, femme-enby!

(and I apologize to OP for highjacking your post a little)

You were checking your insurance policies on your phone, completely engrossed in the minutiae that could leave your mother uninsured if any step was done wrong. You were so deep as to ignore the half-smoked cigarette, its ashes approaching slowly to your fingers, and the rest of your surrounding area. You were ignoring the whole huge Pizzaplex at your back.

You took a drag of your cigarette and held it while you skimmed over the terms of a long-term stay in the hospital, then went to blow the smoke to the other side with a big sigh.

And you found yourself staring at a collection of turbid bubbles... And at a plastic bubble maker right between your eyes, attached to a blue hand. You cranked your neck up.

“Moon!” You frowned a little. “Where did you get that?”

“Confiscated!” He dipped the plastic stick in the soap and offered you the renewed delicate tensed surface. “Again!”

Your smile twitched to life and you indulged him, because how could you not? He sat by your side and you let yourself be used as a human bellows for your and his amusement.

The insurance policies were put on hold for the rest of your break.

🌜

The next night you tried to read the exact same paragraph again. Yet another cigarette in your hand. Focused again on what dire consequences may come from the hospital stay. Economical at least because the health ones you had no way of predicting.

You should have seen it coming. This time you should have seen it coming.

You took a drag of your cigarette and held it while you read, then went to blow the smoke with a sigh.

“Twuuuut”

You shook, startled out of your musings by the noise. You turned looking for the culprit and of course Moon was there, so close that you almost startled again, holding a kazoo between his fingers in the exact same position as your cigarette.

“Wa- How did you…?” If yesterday had taught you something, it was that he didn’t have lungs, so…

He made a gesture with his unoccupied hand to yours. You moved your arm and he moved his so you played along. You took another drag and he mimicked you, down to how his chest piece seemed to fill and expand with air with just a change of posture.

You held your breath for a moment wondering what was going to happen now. Then you let your arm with the cigarette hang and he did the same.

You exhaled.

“Twuuuut”

You couldn’t help yourself and cackled.

“It’s your speakers!”

“Twut Twut twt twuut twuut!”

“That’s cheating!”

“Twut Twut twut!”

Well, you were not getting any conversation out of him today, so you took another drag and expelled long and continuously.

“Twuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut- Tw tw tw tw.”

The last of your smoke and his twuuting stuttered because you couldn’t help but laugh.

“You didn’t need to bring the kazoo if you are going to make the noises with your ‘mouth’.”

“Twut twutn’t twut tw twuut thw twtoo tw tw tw twing tw twk tw twuut twt twt twuut.”

You didn’t expect any less of him.

“You are Twidiculous!”

“Twut Twut twuuuut!”

Yet another break where you didn’t manage to read a single line.

🌜

So much time had passed, you no longer cared for that particular insurance policy. Instead, now you cared about what half-destroyed bots would be sent to your workshop, what Sun would think if you bought him a Rubik cube, what Moon would think of getting new clothes, what your friends at The Rooms would be plotting this time… But today had been a long day and you had had to put on a front for people who would rather see Sun and Moon back under the orders of FazCo. It had been rough.

You patted your jacket and felt the box. Just what you needed after such an ordeal.

You leaned against the wall of the hotel, well outside the streetlamp area, and Moon followed. Then you got out of an inner pocket a cigarette box. Something still rattled inside.

“No,” Moon chided you immediately.

“It has been a long night,” you complained.

“The last one was the last one.”

“Just one,” you even put one finger up in front of him.

“No!”

“Yes!”

You didn’t give him any more time to complain. You opened the box, whipped out the content, held it between your fingers and…

“Tweeee!” ...blew the party horn right to his face.

Moon didn’t move. He said nothing.

“Tweeee!” you repeated, making sure the end of it tapped his faceplate.

Said faceplate twitched to the left. And just when you were about to ask him what was-

“Twuuuut!”

You knew that noise clip!

“Tweeee!”

“Twuuuut!”

“Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

“Twuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut!”

“Twee!”

“Twut!”

“It’s two am, I’m going to call the Police!”

You looked up. From the window of the hotel you saw a spiked silhouette leaning, his face on his hand and watching you.

“Twee!”

“Twut!”

On AO3

My friend sent me this post and said it was Sun core so y'all know what I had to do.... 🤭😭✍️

[crowfonder]

Hi I'm one of the Americans that transferred to Rednote as word of Tiktok shutdown got around. I just wanted to drop by and show everyone a comparison that is WILD to me.

These are all in Yuan, the local currency. A buck, two bucks, six bucks... that seems really nice.

And then you pop it in U.S dollars.

14 cents. 14 cents for food.

So seeing the difference there, I got curious and made a post asking the netizens how much they typically pay for things, and I asked for how much my meds would cost. These answers are eye opening.

Eleven Yuan.

A dollar and two quarters.

Without insurance, my meds are 400 bucks in U.S currency.

There's no excuses for this. No excuse for why anyone should have to live like this.

[ryuuna]

so much baby is happening

[slavhew]

dandadorks

[novaneondream]

Anyways what kind of music do you think Eri listens to

[ionomycin]

phoenix and the priestess

[corviiids]

my top bit of advice going into the new year: compliment people. especially strangers. literally everyone you interact with if you can. when you buy coffee in the morning compliment the barista's tattoos. when you're chatting with a coworker tell them that by the way you like their outfit. always find something they've chosen to do on purpose. nail polish, jewellery, tattoos, hair colour/style, statement accessory, outfit, etc are all good bets. things people hope will be noticed. things that aren't too personal so it doesn't make them uncomfortable (eg probably not their physical features). i've gotten into the habit of scanning everyone i talk to for something about them that i think is cool so i can tell them. it's a great habit because it makes me notice people and realise just how many neat little details there are in people's presentation of themselves that might pass me by if i wasn't paying attention. and it brings out so much joy. you'd be surprised how much it disarms people to receive an unexpected compliment from someone they don't know. it is the most sincere smile you will see all day long. it feels nice to make people happy but it also means you win the social interaction. establish dominance by complimenting a stranger's earrings and disappearing into the fog

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[saveskum]

The lovely shapes and colors of our companion's eyes.

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

[regonold]

So during a wayne gala, there was a rouge attack shocker. It was by scarecrow he was planning to flood the ballroom with his gas

Unfortunately his bomb was shoddily put together and one of the cannisters holding the gas fell and landed in the hands of one danny fenton there with his godfather

Now unfortunately all anyone could do was watch as this gas can suddenly spayed gas in this young mans face who started looking panicked and backing up before spotting vlad and stopping

Suddenly this kid who seemed like he was seconds from running is now fucking growing and preparing to pounce on vlad???

And vlad just looks resigned as if he figured this would happen

[polararts]

They're all friends, wdym. Print preorder? available??

[umblrspectrum]

3 years of this godforsaken show

[akanemnon]

Well, someone just pushed all of Kris' buttons at once

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[vonspe]

cleaning up older emmrook doodles ✌️

[isatohlee]

He deserves to sleep comfortably in his mother’s arms after all he’s gone through