#I didn't expect this /gen

[alexkittyandra]

so my sibling got me to watch smiling friends and I wonder

Pim was depressed/in shock/having a multiple day long existential crisis for long enough for Desmond to get his life back together and grow a full head of hair, so like... did they still do missions and stuff during that time?

anyway it can't be that easy to make people smile when one of the people working is... like this.

[iizuumi]

Guess Narumi isn't getting any paperwork done ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[front-facing-pokemon]

[tizeline]

you give me cass vibes. I wouldn’t be surprised if you became a finalist in the competition.

I'M GONNA EXPLODE

[wrongspacetime]

Gen V (2023-) 1.05 | Welcome to the Monster Club

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

[generation-fucked-nostalgia]

Don't get me wrong, I love having a smartphone but... there was something about this era of cell phones that was just so... texture

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[windslar]

My reaction too, Debare.

[ice-creamforbreakfast]

Unfortunately for them, their wedding night antics caught up with them.

[wereh0gz]

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[floripire]

welcome to: am i talking myself into it or out of it? anyway, if i were to write s/tefanie s/alvatore as mentioned in l/egacies, but, like, tessa edition tm, she would: look like this, be the child of divorced parents, be a total mama's girl in every sense of the word, have inherited her dad's looks, have very complicated feelings in regards to her dad, would definitely prefer her uncle, would not go to the s/alvaschool despite being a walking-talking vampire cure.

[palettepainter]

His name is Caleb *posts this at 1am and runs away*

[theloveinc]

i feel like in order to see shinsou smile you have to pry his big hands away from his mouth to see 🥺🥺🥺🥺 his toned arms not budging a bit (his physique DOESNT match his shy attitude)

STOPPPPPPPP or you'll make me cry!!

Cuz your touch makes him smile mORE and your teasing + begging gets him all flustered... so its honestly kind of a disaster for him because now he just wants to touch you but that means GIVING IN TO YOU SEEING.

(the way you can feel his muscles tense too, trying not to let you win.... like he's always in kinda oversized stuff, def not usually a fancy dresser, so feeling him up, even if it's only briefly, is s c a r y.

take off your clothes, shinso. take them off. now.)

it's probs one of the first lil roughhouse fights of your relationship... cuz eventually he starts letting u win so u can see his grin (if only to get your kisses).

[how-about-will]

an unnecessarily long rant about windows 11, bitlocker, bulldozers, and one sad man's quest to format his 2tb nvme ssd

it's incredible how bad microsoft can make a product. windows 11 home pushes bitlocker on my drives without my knowledge or consent, encrypting them without a recovery key. fine. one of the encrypted drives (i have 2) gets corrupted! uh oh! the metadata of the single partition drive is now GONE! oh well! 'twas just my steam library and some stray GOG downloads. no worries! we'll just forma-the drive is now read only and every goddamn low level, registry edit, diskpart solution found anywhere online does squat. can't format the drive because it's read only and bitlocker encrpyted too somehow? okay. maybe the drive being encrypted has something to do with the permanant current read only state. let's go into settings and manage our bitlocker in control panel, yknow, like you've been able to for since it was released in 2013. FIne fine fine i'll go do that. microsoft does not include the ability to manage bitlocker via any other way than command prompt and powershell if you do not pay $100 for windows 11 professional and like WHATEVER right i've been using windows for 15 of my 20 years on this planet i can definitely handle some easy commands except oh wait the commands don't work? and the documentation for them is poor or nonexistant? oh and your now completely RAW drive actually doesn't have the relevant information to remove bitlocker at all???? i fail to see why formatting a drive cares what the fuck is on it anyway??? it's supposed to be like the bulldozer and also the vogons at the start of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, right? you just format the drive and all of the everything on it is supposed to get bulldozered and space lasered and filleted into new, clean, workable data! i can't clean the drive with diskpart because it's encrpyted, and i can't decrypt it because it has bad blocks where the metadata is!

[hourglassed]

^_^

!!!!! THIS IS SO CUTE OH MY GOD, THANK YOU 😭🤍😭🤍😭

[kikaichuno]

Today I apparently want to send people compliments so I wanted to say hello, I really enjoy your blog and all the shenanigans you post! They brighten my day and I think make the whole community brighter as well. But also your writing of longer things/threads is spot-on and awesome too! SO YAY.

AAAHHH thank you! That was so unexpected today, I really appreciate the compliments! I've always loved dash shenanigans and since Shino mostly appears in filler episodes, I call them filler episodes djfghfdjgh I should make a tag for it.

I try to provide the best Shino in longer threads, I have to sit back and think for a while for every reply because... Shino isn't as silly as me, I gotta use my brain. I'm glad it ended up being spot-on! ♥