#I do enjoy our conversations

[when-wulf]

My number one headcanon for Asena and Gale is that they have a nightly chat around the cook fire. From the first night they scrounge up enough food to actually cook (their first supper being rations courtesy of those temple looters) and Gale insists on doing it because “you’ve already done so much, and I’ll have you know I’m quite a wizard in the kitchen as well.”

But Asena, who’s been adventuring for years and cooking over a campfire her entire life, can’t help hovering because they are certainly not in a kitchen. Indoor and outdoor cooking are different, and “I don’t doubt you and am perfectly content not to have cooking fall to me. My only concern is that with the way you’re building that fire, by the time it’s all done the only thing anyone’s going to want to eat is brains.”

So Asena builds a proper fire for cooking over and sticks around to offer guidance as needed for adapting his culinary skills to the great outdoors. And they talk, because Gale is a pent up chatterbox and in spite of the initial appraising staredown she seems to give to everyone, Asena is very easy to talk to.

It becomes routine, a little nightly ritual. Asena building the fire and keeping him company while he cooks, talking about where they’re at and what the plan is going forward or more often just shooting the breeze.

Even once Gale can build the fire himself, Asena dresses wild game she’s caught or preps foraged plants and mushrooms he’s not familiar with. If there’s nothing else she’ll bring over some unrelated little task she’d be working on anyways because her hands aren’t allowed to be idle for more than a few minutes at a time. Others join in on occasion, but most take the time to get some stuff of their own done before it’s time to eat.

It’s just part of the early evening ambience at camp, a crackling fire and that low conversation you can’t quite make out, interspersed with the occasional barks of laughter (because they are both very silly, and Asena laughs very easily, and that’s contagious).

[micanomancy]

Me telling Gale to shut up every time he speaks to me: “yes yes shut up sad man I do not care”

Also me trying to start a conversation with him at every opportunity because I love him

[a-shade-of-green]

do you think it was weird for mike to go to california and experience his first byers family dinner in months just for it to be far too similar to wheeler family dinners

[keytaryourheart]

Why am I so into this Sneako + Dr K chat

[ramayantika]

It took me these many years to figure out that YES I am an introvert, and I can comfortably talk to anyone anytime if I WANT TO and make it seem as effortless than the general perception of introverts to be shaking at the thought of having a conversation with a new person or maybe even with a known circle of people

[mantisgodsdomain]

We ought to write more Pokemon fic some time. We want to recreate the Pokemon Manners/Human Manners cheat sheet that we made a few years ago we think that this site would like the Sliding Scale Of Politeness When Greeting A New Pokemon You've Never Met Before.

[gothteddiesdotcom]

I think that part of what like. kills me about the whole media literacy and critical thinking aspect of enjoying media these days is that people refuse to like. contextualize that

A. Bad media can still hold significant meaning to people

B. Media made for a demographic you aren’t apart of is not inherently bad media

C. Media made for and consumed by the opposite demographic is not inherently shallow or flawed nor is it above criticism for its media tropes either.

[bibuckleykinard]

how many times do we need to learn as people that irony and hyperbole can be harmful because 'jokes' aren't easily distinguished from genuine thoughts and feelings until we stop rewarding people for speaking or posting about violence

like even if you're joking/don't actually believe that/think whoever you are insulting is bad/immoral/fictional therefore deserves it - ad hominem attacks always do more harm to the people who share those characteristic then the individual you intend to cause harm to or discredit

[decaf-mother]

Blood is just human gasoline.

[edge-oftheworld]

when I was in high school there was a tendency whenever there was an attractive boy to simply fan over him. in a way that talked over everything he might say for himself and created a narrative that completely ignored, the fact in some cases, that he was really struggling—or if he was struggling, to pin all the blame on the girl he’s dating and completely ignore the thousands of other factors (no it can’t be mental illness or unaccommodated disability or systemic abuse or exploitation and if he is in an abusive relationship we won’t ever consider the factors that put him at risk for that)

and I’m not saying this fandom is like that. I get the need for privacy around some things and how in public conversations sometimes it’s a lot more respectful to stick to the positives (everyone who does that, I admire you) or even the struggles that are talked about publicly, show respect by not reading too far into them. there’s a time and place for that. but sometimes I feel like our only options are shitty and ableist gossip or totally ignoring the systemic and structural issues we know exist in something like the music industry until someone dies and then we’re looking for someone to blame. friends, there is a point where the respectful thing is to listen to what someone says and come together to make things better. and you can learn how to have that conversation respectfully. please do

[wakanai]

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[majorshatterandhare]

I’m thinking about how the Mechs use energy, because they do things and live and therefore they *must* use energy, that’s how physics (and biology) work.

I had the idea that they are always absolutely frigid to the touch because they suck in heat from the environment like an endothermic chemical reaction.

[ossifer]

me the last few weeks

[fridayyy-13th]

just about ready to throttle my brother how are y’all doing this morning

[girlcrushau]