#I JUST THINK!!!

[gravehags]

i just think being sandwiched between a purring mountain and phantom right now would cure my headache. mountain gently chastising phantom for getting a little too comfortable and rutting against my ass while whimpering. phantom quietly apologizing but then i move my hand from resting on mountain’s belly and urge him to continue. you indulge him too much, mountain says softly, smiling with his eyes closed. eh maybe, but hearing him come undone is well worth spoiling him.

[bropunzeling]

I wish you would write a fic where Nate MacKinnon and Jo Drouin, you know...

oh gosh. im not a scholar about these guys but i am NOT immune. i think a really fun dynamic to contemplate is nate being low key in love with jo for ages in an almost not self-aware way, like he would do anything for jo but he also is not interrogating that to any degree whatsoever, and also not thinking about how things have changed since they were teens in any way whatsoever. meanwhile jo is aware that there could have been feelings, maybe could be in the future, but there’s their careers and he's not on the same team (or sometimes it feels like in the same league) and it just seems too hard and messy to broach... and then jo goes to the avs, and nate is like don't you want to crash with me instead of house hunting? don't you want to walk our dogs together? don't you want to play together like this for as long as we can? isn't this good? isn't this incredible? and it is good, and it is incredible, and yet jo is so aware of the ticking clock of his contract and his talent and can he really play next to nate for any serious length of time? can he even think past this season? maybe better to just focus on what's good now. and he's doing a great job of compartmentalizing that, right up until the moment nate kisses him.

[everwisp]

guy: is this what you call an “L” moment chigasaki?

itaru: (pulling for his best girl for the nth time and failing once again) not now guy-san

[snowangeldotmp3]

re: the food at the byers

i was gonna ask “why is the party always at the wheeler’s when the byers have superior food!” and then i realized. italian karen wheeler.

karen's authentic lasagna strikes again...

although consider: on special occasion (and bc the wheeler house is bigger) joyce and karen make a special latin/italian dish to appease everyone

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Reasons why I think my theory that Lucy isn't the strongest listener since Fittes, she's just the only one who's tried to listen, holds water even if it probably isn't true.

1. We see at the start of book 4 and throughout most of the series how little agency and autonomy most agents have. If the goal given to them is to restrain the source and not consider the ghosts as anything other than an enemy, why would they try to listen and talk to them?

2. We know that Lucy's listening abilities are deadened by salt, iron, lavender, etc. If most people don't try to communicate with the ghosts outside of safeguards, it makes sense that mostly they wouldn't be aware that a conversation could be had with the weaker ghosts because Lucy also struggles to talk to type 2s when the safeguards are up. As it was, she only got the idea to start trying after she talked to Skull. Which brings me to point 3:

3. The idea is that type threes are essentially myths, but Fittes was clearly keeping Skull as an oddity, crucially, rather than incinerating the skull as is done to the majority of sources. Why would they keep this skull in particular if they didn't know anything was special about it? This potentially indicates they knew more about how powerful it was than they let on, which fits with the very strong themes of corruption, intrigue, and deception among the ghost hunting agencies. It would perhaps make sense then that, for unknown reasons, the agencies are suppressing the information that any number of listening agents could potentially talk to type threes, as well as potentially attempting to keep the fact type threes exist outside of Marissa Fittes' diaries under wraps.

4. Type threes are clearly rare anyway, even if they aren't being kept secret, and they're very powerful. It's possible many listeners who faced them simply died. It's a very dangerous situation to be in.

5. Without the knowledge that ghosts can be conversed with caused by the interaction with a type three, there would be no reason for Lucy or any other agent to attempt to put themselves in danger by trying to talk to type twos.

So, I think it's perfectly possible Lucy isn't the most powerful listener since Fittes, but rather the only one with the particular set of circumstances of a. Having a Type 3 to hand and b. Not being controlled by an adult supervisor or a larger agency, which would allow her to make that discovery. Mostly I'm interested in this because it fits with the larger themes of secrecy, control, conspiracy and deception among those placed in charge of the Problem, and the themes of the power of the individual being suppressed by the institution. It would make sense thematically, then, for any number of listeners to possess this power, but for all of them to have the opportunity to discover it taken away from them.

[allevilsarc]

thinking about lucy ... what a fucking freak (affectionate)

[robyn-i-guess]

liking someone platonically is so embarrassing like. yeah i admire you. yeah i think about you all the time. yeah i look forward to every time i see you even if it's only for a minute. yeah it's all platonic and yeah i couldn't explain this because it'd sound romantic. fucking hell

[puppyeared]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[unforth]

Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

Sources:

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[demonboyhalo]

collection of useful things tumblr has taught me:

even if you can't fall asleep, laying down with your eyes closed will still rest your body

you don't have to brush your teeth standing up

you don't have to do any chore standing up, from dishes to showering

you don't have to shower with the lights on

if you can't brush your teeth, flossing and a tongue scraper gets rid of plaque and bad breath

if you can't do that, mouthwash kills a lot of bacteria

eating "unhealthy" food is better than eating no food

you can make the same meal everyday for however long you still want it

some pills come in syrups or chewables if you can't swallow them

kids nutritional shakes can be a quick way to get fuel if you can't eat/don't have time

if walking hurts/exhausts you on a regular basis, canes and rollers are for you, no matter how young you are

we have free will—if doing something "out of the ordinary" makes life easier for you, do it

if you have even a dollar to spare, please consider donating to Alaikum's family.

they're a large family at only 10% of their goal to evacuate, and could use any help you can give!!

[redstonedust]

in general i dont think fandom tattoos are a bad idea but i think u need to at least give yourself like a two year buffer from the end of that piece of media before you commit. like if someone told me "yeah im obsessed with hazbin hotel rn so im gonna get a hazbin hotel tattoo" id be like woah okay maybe put a pin in that idea for later. but if someone told me "yeah i read homestuck in its prime and i still love it so im gonna get a homestuck tattoo" id be like well fair enough its been like eight years. if you still like it now you'll probably still have fond memories of it in 20 years. you do you.

[wormspoodle]

compiled some things

[skipppppy]

Highkey one of the funniest parts of Gravity Falls is how obnoxiously close they come to revealing Ford’s existence in the early seasons but never do out of just. Cosmic levels of dumb luck

Episode 1 Stan nearly catches Dipper with the journal and it’s passed off as a gag about Gold Chains for Old Men magazine. In Time Travellers Pig they go back to the Shack 30 years in the past and miss Ford opening the door on them by literal seconds. In bottomless pit Mabel gives him a set of truth teeth that make him incapable of lying and he tells the twins TO THEIR FACES that he regularly commits massive tax fraud and if they had asked him to elaborate he would’ve told them who he was impersonating. In one of the shorts Dipper and Soos find a sentient omniscient mailbox that will answer any question in the universe, and right before they can ask it who wrote the journals Mabel shows it a video of herself snorting gummy worms and it kills itself out of disgust. The entirety of Dreamscaperers is them delving into the depths of Stan’s psyche, going through his memories, all while fighting his brother’s ex-boyfriend and it somehow just. Doesn’t come up. Bill never mentions him. Their grandpa Shermie never said anything. Their parents never said anything. Either the universe was conspiring to cover it up or they are genuinely all that oblivious