#I saw this on Reddit and I died laughing

[dark-and-kawaii]

[alfredfortnitejones]

canon

[babyjinsu]

[r/Unsent_Unread_Unheard] i found the pieces of love that are not mine.

PAIRING ⟢ sungchan jung x fem!reader

GENRE ⟢ reddit au, oneshots, written, angst, just sungchan as your husband

CW ⟢ death of someone, implied emotional cheating (not by sungchan)

SYNOPSIS ⟢ what is a husband to do, when he finds a box containing memories of his wife's dead lover? he expresses it on r/Unsent_Unread_Unheard.

💭 dude ok im so.. i hope u guys love this as much as i do :(

[r/Unsent_Unread_Unheard] i found the pieces of love that are not mine. posted by u/chan01 • 5h ago

i'm not sure what to feel about this whole situation. i should have never opened the box. you hid it for a reason and i don't know why i let my curiousity get the best of me.

i wasn't even looking for it, i swear. i was just cleaning and moving things around to make space to put our baby's crib in our bedroom, and then i saw the box-- tucked away so neatly under the bookshelf.

i shouldn't have opened it. if i had known it would hurt me this much, i never even would have touched it.

i've always known about the existence of your ex boyfriend, even though you never told me; and i know you never knew i knew. i know he died several years ago from a car accident on his way home from work. and i know that for seven years, his mother has still been reaching out to you to talk about her son and you guys meet up sometimes.

i always thought you were just being kind-- helping her heal and cope from the loss of her child but no. i think. in some ways, you still want to be connected to your dead lover.

the box was filled with movie tickets, love letters, dried flowers, photographs, and everything that reminded you of what it used to be. your diary was filled with nothing but him, grieve, love, and longing. your last entry was a few years ago. we were married then. maybe you're over him now, with our baby on the way.

he's been gone for years, yet he's still lingering around your mind and our home. he's in the way you write about him, in the way you keep your memories tucked safely from me like it's sacred and untouchable. he's in the way you grieve and in the way you pray for him.

i can't even be mad or hurt because you're not cheating on me. you can't cheat on me with someone no longer here. you're not lying to me because i never asked about him. i didn't want to remind you of him. you're not even doing anything wrong. you just... you just can't let go. you're just grieving of a love ended too sudden and too soon.

and i know you love me. i know you love me because you said yes when i asked if i could be your husband for life. i know you love me because you laugh at my bad jokes. i know you love me because i've heard you talk about me to the stray cats and in the way you pulled me closer in your sleep. you chose me.

but you love him too.

and if it's not love, it's grief. but that's love too. love that is unspent and has nowhere to go. grief is your love preserved and you must've loved him so much to grief this long. and i fear it will forever remain with you, unexpressed, unspoken, implicit, intimate.

i can't compete with a ghost yn. i can't compete for your love with someone who has been idealised in death. i can't fight with someone who has no body. i can't ask you to forget, to erase, to call it off, to let him go.

oddly enough, i don't know why i wish he was still alive. but if he was, i wouldn't have had this chance to be your husband. but if he was...

do i pretend like i don't know? that you still visit his grave from time to time? how do i convince myself that the person you love now is me? i love you so much yn, as much as it hurts.

even if i'll probably never have all of you, the parts of you that i do, those are everything to me. and for that, i'll keep on loving you and the parts that are not mine to have.

💭 aaa i know i'm not finished with the first riize reddit series yet, but this is another series that i'm not sure what to call yet but it's angst mostly. i love angst... aah...

[ghostinthegallery]

Saw this and promptly died because I laughed so hard. Blame @metashard for showing it to me and making me go through the resurrection chambers 🤣

(meme also available here on reddit)

[the-catboy-minyan]

So if all Hezbollah members, including civilians that never saw combat (and people who owned a pager but weren't members of Hezbollah), can be classified as terrorists and any innocent child that gets killed when you attack those members are at fault for being in "such close proximity to terrorists to get hurt" even though those bombs were activated when the members were just just doing normal daily task in public such as grocery shopping then can we apply this logic to the IOF?

Can we blame all non-combatant soldiers for the massacres done by other soldiers and can we target those soldiers when they're off-duty in shops, schools, hospitals and if an Israeli child got killed or injured then its their fault for being "in close proximity to terrorists" or does that logic not work because only Christians and Muslims can be terrorists?

Also calling people being disgusted by you for making jokes about this terrorist attack "hatemail" and a "Jews are baby killers" thing (when you're literally laughing and justifying killing children) is laughably pitiful, you get 1/10 for self-victimization.

Plz try harder to not shame your colony of self-victimizers, you can't let those dead children steal the attention from you.

bitch you know what Hezbollah is, right? you understand the concept of terrorist organisations, right? fym "civilian hezbollah members"??

also lmao IOF I see who I'm talking to here

the fact that you're literally projecting how the antizionist movement treats current and former IDF soldiers and using our own arguments against us, it's just hilarious to me. the IDF is an actual military force with branches and roles of people that will never have to hold a gun in their lives except for the mandatory first 5 week training period. my friend reached military age and she's literally about to go serve in a dog shelter, a regular fucking dog shelter, like a volunteer job but getting paid by the government for it.

again, I'm not talking to someone about "think of the innocent children who died from an attack that hit 99% terrorists" from a person who didn't confirm if they cared about civilian israeli lives. over 100k people displaced, >1400 people murdered and raped horrifically, or are we not human enough in your eyes to deserve compassion?

any civilian being harmed is horrible, but you literally can't make an attack on that scale while guaranteeing 0 collateral damage, I did not personally make jokes on that situation, only shared ones I found on reddit, and I would not cheer if the attack did significant collateral damage, and from reports it seems that other people got hurt only in extremely specific situations. you'd fucking cheer if it was done to the "IOF" even if it harmed more kids than soldiers, so don't give me a fucking lecture over my morals, there's a block button at the top right.

these type of jokes are so out of character for me anyways, this is not something I usually joke about, but I had a horrific day yesterday and yknow what I think it's funny to think about how terrorists lost their balls from pagers. the VAST MAJORITY of people sustained minor injuries from that attack, the vast majority of the terrorists who carried their pagers barely even got harmed, this is really the hill you wanna die on? that an attack that barely grazed people is evil because of circumstances outside the attackers' control?

[high-mackrels-musings]

On the Jedi and Death

Another adaptation of a Reddit piece I submitted not too long ago found here.

When I wrote of the relationship between the transcendentalists and the force, I had in mind of the relationship between death and the force. And how indeed the Jedi view on death might be contrasted with that of the Sith. being perhaps one of the greatest signs of that selfishness that George a Lucas was attempting to warn us of.

Much of what I have I say has oft been repeated before, and I doubt much revelation will come from this short essay. Certainly I think there has come a great deal of misconceptions come about when some people speak of the Jedi and their views on attachment, as relates to them. 

There are still, even with the added discourse towards the prequel era Jedi and their views on attachment, whom believe that the Jedi have little emotions towards others. A stark contrast when one compares the words of Mace Windu, Adi Gallia, Plo Koon to Aayla Secura with regards to the of Master Tyvooka as found in Star Wars: Republic 37

This may all at a glance seem to go against what Grandmaster Yoda said in perhaps the most famous quote in all of Star Wars with regards to as found in Revenge of the Sith,

"Death is a natural part of life, Rejoice for those around us who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy, the shadow of greed, that is.

Indeed many a great deal of misconceptions with regards to the Jedi, and their alleged callousness towards others occur with this quote. First one must note that Yoda never shown any signs of thinking mourning another is wrong. Indeed in the novel, Yoda: Dark Rendezvous Yoda not only allowed Whie and Scout to mourn their masters, he mourned alongside them. 

“Yoda told stories, and ate, and cried, and laughed: and the Padawans saw that life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.”

Yet even if one we’re to not know this, I would urge one to consider the context of the quote, wherein Anakin precedes this quote by saying to Yoda that he will not let his visions come true. Hence Yoda calling attachment the shadow of greed. One might interpret this instead as Yoda reaffirming to Anakin that the Jedi accept, that is not something to fear. One might interpret his words to be about Anakin already mourning and dreading the loss of this person close to him. He is trying to hold onto someone, and as we know nothing is forever. David talks Star Wars goes rather in depth with that point of view here.

The sense of loss of something has always haunted Anakin as seen in the Revenge of the Sith Novel where a flashback takes us back to Anakin and Obi-Wan observing a dying star. 

"It is the way of the universe, which is another manner of saying that it is the will of the Force," Obi-Wan had told him. "Everything dies. In time, even stars burn out. This is why Jedi form no attachments: all things pass. To hold on to something- or someone-beyond its time is to set your selfish desires against the Force. That is a path of misery, Anakin; the Jedi do not walk it."

That is the kind of fear that lives inside Anakin Skywalker: the dragon of that dead star. It is an ancient, cold dead voice within his heart that whispers all things die...

Once more it is shown that to the Jedi  death is natural and not something to shy away from, as Obi-Wan says it is the path of misery. Anakin’s fear of is evident and it leaves him vulnerable to his downfall, his fear of and inability to love without attachment means Sidious is able to manipulate him. 

Death should be expected and felt, as explained by Quinlan Vos to Aayla:

And fear of death is how we can contrast the Jedi view of against that of the Sith. No matter how powerful any Sith might have been, there is always this lingering fear of death in all of them. From the most powerful of Sith Lords such as Valkorion, Plagueis, and Sidious each of them sought an escape from death, whether it be through the use of clones, proxies, or a manipulation of midichlorians. 

Indeed Star Wars is not exempt from many Sith who escaped would be, look no further than Darth Maul who stated to escape death he tapped into his hatred, or Darth Sion, a being so determined to avoid that his very body was decomposing. Maul’s own survival and quest for revenge ultimately left him mad. We can see that neither of these existences are what one might call peaceful. 

Indeed the Sith quest for ultimate life has on brief occasions resulted in some Sith managing to linger on after, some Sith even staying as ghosts, yet these existences are anything but peaceful. 

The irony of course is that no matter how much Sith crave eternal life, only the Jedi truly can achieve this goal as seen in a conversation between Qui-Gon and Yoda:

"The ultimate goal of the Sith, yet they can never achieve it; it comes only through the release of self, not the exaltation of self. It comes through compassion, not greed. Love is the answer to the darkness.”

Love being key to a Jedi, as George Lucas has never once stated Jedi cannot love as seen in an excerpt here about love.

“They can still love people. But they can’t possess them. They can’t own them. They can’t demand that they do things. They have to be able to accept […] their mortality, that they are going to die. And not worry about it. That the loved ones they have, everything they love is going to die and they can’t do anything about it. I mean they can protect them as you would ordinarily protect, you know, ‘Get out of the way of that car.’ Somebody charges you with a gun, you knock the gun out, but there is an inevitability to life which is and you have to accept that.”

Returning to Anakin it’s here we see a difference on how he cannot live knowing that others around him will die. That’s how a Jedi lives they see as not something to fear, but as a part of life that will eventually claim them all, hence Yoda’s words in Return of the Jedi:

“Strong am I with the Force, but not that strong. Twilight is upon me, and soon, night must fall. That is the way of things. The way of the Force”

Once more I don’t expect this post to contain much revelatory information, but I do think it’s important to have these sort of quotes and examples here for people to be able to read them and have at their disposal. The Jedi view of mortality is quite a peaceful one, and in my personal life I’ve always found it to be a sort of comfort, knowing it will come and willing to accept it is not always something we see in media. And in the end that seems to be consistent with Lucas’ desire for us to see the Jedi as unselfish.

[abigailspinach]

AITA for Selling My Late Husband’s Urn to Buy a Life-Size Goose Statue in a Top Hat?

I know this is going to sound ridiculous. Even writing it I feel kinda stupid lol.

My (40 M) husband, Dan, passed away three years ago. It was sudden. He was 36. We’ve been together for eleven years.

Dan was, without exaggeration, the weirdest, person I’ve ever known.

He used to say, “If I go first, do something deeply stupid with my ashes. Like, put me in a lava lamp.”

It was a joke, kind of. But also not.

Dan grew up in a conservative family. His parents are strict Evangelicals. When he came out at 19, they disowned him for like five years. Eventually, they let him back in ,on probation, basically. They never acknowledged our wedding (they were invited). They referred to me as his “roommate”.

He kept trying, though. I think part of him always hoped they’d change. I stopped hoping a long time ago. I know he loved them a lot despite everything. When he was disowned it was like his world was crumbling.

When he died, I wanted to scatter his ashes in the lake where we went every summer. But his parents begged me to “just let him rest in peace” in a proper urn. I let them pick out the urn. It was expensive. It sat on my mantle and was not Dan. He’d at least want a weird clown drawing on it or something.

A few weeks ago, I went to this local art fair. And there at a stall was this life-size hand-carved goose. Wearing a top hat. Standing upright with a tiny wooden tray in one wing and a monocle dangling from its beak. It was so dumb and I laughed, like actually laughed, for the first time in ages.

And then I cried like an idiot. Because I could hear Dan in my head going, “Put me in that.”

So I bought the stupid goose and sold the urn (the urn, not the ashes!!) the artist was very sweet and when I explained to her why I was crying she said she’d be able to carve out this hole in the middle of the goose so I could place Dan’s ashes in them. And then I cried some more and she basically gave me the goose for free

I named him Lord Honkton. He stands in our living room with a tiny engraved plaque that says: “Here lies Dan”.

Dan would’ve loved it, I know. He was such a weird guy- like he would have dressed him up for the holidays.

I’ve been trying with his family for years. Once a month his family comes by for coffee. It’s super awkward and tense but they’re trying at least. So when his parents visited last weekend and saw the urn was gone, they asked about it. When I told them Dan’s ashes were in the goose, they were really upset. His mom even cried. His dad said I “mocked his memory” and accused me of “erasing him.” They told me I was unstable and that Dan would’ve been “disappointed.”

Now I’m questioning myself. Did I dishonor him? Did I go too far?

I just wanted to remember him the way he wanted to be remembered. Like with something so ridiculous it couldn’t be mistaken for anything but him. So… am I an asshole? Should I have just bought the goose and leave the urn alone? I was just finally building a relationship with his family.

[athleticlamp]

FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES MOVIE REVIEW(WITH SPOILERS)

I have a ton of thoughts about this movie. There are so many things I wanted to say about it. This is going to be a long post.

Yesterday, I went to the cinema with my uncle and we watched Bloodlines. I had already watched that video where that leaker who saw the movie at a test screening explained everything that happened in it. I had watched the video after accidentally seeing a spoiler in a preview of a Reddit comment. The comment said how everyone dies. Well, I ended up spoiling more for myself on purpose after that. I figured if I should do that since I had already gotten the movie spoiled for me. I do regret watching the video now. But even if I hadn't watched it, it still would have been too late to watch Bloodlines without knowing what was going to happen.

Anyway, I loved the movie regardless. I do hate the ending, though. I'll elaborate more on that later.

My favorite part of the movie was the opening. The entire opening scene, from the beginning of it to the end(the end being the part where the vision ends via Stefani in her college classroom). Basically, the very start of the movie all the way to the end of the vision was my favorite part of Bloodlines. It was so great. The heartwarming moments between Iris and Paul, the dreadful tension in the tower, the horror movie drone noise that you hear in plenty of horror films(I love that noise. It sounds terrifying, but it's also so pleasant to my ears), the music, and the deaths in that entire opening sequence was so great. Also, I loved the late 1960s setting. Lately, I've been interested in the 1920s to 1960s time period. That's another reason why I loved the opening scene so much. I was happy right from the start of the movie. I was hooked from the very beginning.

I like how the movie would have close-ups of certain objects that were going to involve a death or make you falsely think the object was going to make a death happen. There was plenty of that in the tower sequence.

I liked the music too. This movie had some great songs. I loved hearing the song Shout, by the Isley Brothers during the tower sequence. That part was like a really cool music video. I wish I could see that scene again. It was so fun to watch. And while all of that dancing and cool music playing was happening, the tension I felt was wild. I knew Death was going to strike, and the people in the tower didn't even know it.

In my opinion, the tower death sequence was the best disaster scene out of the entire franchise. I thought it was that good. It was excellent. Everything about it was amazing.

The actors were amazing too. I really liked Brec Bassinger, Richard Harmon, and Rya Kihlstedt, because I knew them from other stuff I watched. Everyone else was great too, though. There was a lot of great acting in this movie. And there were a few other familiar actors, but the ones I really liked were the three I just mentioned. I appreciate everyone who acted in this film. They were all wonderful, really.

Also, the premise about a cursed, doomed-to-die family was a great idea. It reminded me of The Fall of the House of Usher. The idea of a cursed family that is doomed to die is so interesting to me. I wish more fiction had that as a premise. With Bloodlines, it made me more invested in this group of characters because they were all related. They were a family, and you could tell they cared about each other. It made me want everyone to survive. This made me more invested, hooked me in more.

I loved all of the hugging and the "Love you"s in this movie. All of that was nice to see.

There was some nice humor. I usually don't laugh while watching movies, but Erik got a laugh out of me once in the film. I think it was when he was pretending to be scared of a certain harmless object(I can't remember what the object was) when he, Stefanie, and Charlie were outside, before Julia's death. And Julia coughing because of the bug that was in her drink instead of the glass shard that the viewer believed was in her cup was another funny moment. The humor in Bloodlines felt natural and not forced. I loved that.

By the way, Grandma Iris was cool. She was such a badass while she was talking to Death in her cabin and making "him" know that she knew what he was up to. Man, I hate that she died so soon. Elderly Iris was entertaining to watch. It was funny(and sad) how she was treating her own granddaughter like a suspicious criminal when they first met. It was depressing, though. You could tell Iris was happy to see Stefani, but at the same time Iris was being very cautious because she knew Death was after her. She didn't even want to touch Stefani. That was depressing.

It was also depressing how Iris's own family didn't want anything to do with Iris, and even Stefani was going to leave her and never come back. Iris wasn't crazy. Death was genuinely hunting her. And before it was hunting her, it was hunting the other survivors of the tower incident and their descendants. Anyway, this wasn't explicitly stated in the movie, but Iris clearly sacrificed herself in an attempt to protect Stefani and the rest of their family by stepping outside and letting Death kill her. She needed to show Stefani that Death was real and was an actual force that was killing people. "Seeing is believing." Gabrielle Rose played elderly Iris so well. Props to her.

I feel bad for Iris. And even after her death, her family wasn't fond of her. Even though she sacrificed herself to try to protect them from Death. This movie was depressing. Also, Paul didn't get to propose to Iris at the tower. That only happened in her premonition, not in "real life". That's another depressing thing about Bloodlines. Plus, Paul being happy that Iris was pregnant only happened in the premonition as well. All of this is making me think that Bloodlines would have been great as a TV show. Not just a movie. Iris and Paul were interesting characters, regardless of the fact they weren't in the movie for that long. These two were intriguing people. Imagine if Bloodlines had been a TV show and had shown more of Iris and Paul's life, along with the lives of their children and grandchildren.

Moving on.

And I like how Stefani mentioned the Rube Goldberg aspect of death. How things happen that lead to deaths. The scene where she's explaining to Erik how certain things can happen that lead to a soccer ball hitting your face was awesome. I know a soccer ball hitting your face probably won't kill you, but I understood the point Stefani was trying to make.

Erik's death scene was brutal, and it looked extremely painful. That was the wildest death I've ever seen in a movie. That entire MRI sequence was filmed so well. And I love how the film made the MRI look like a menacing monster. Like when it was in the early stages of powering up while in the darkness, it reminded me of those movies where a monster's eyes glow red(or some other color). And I liked the way the metal objects were all going towards the MRI, including the objects outside the room, like the female nurse's(doctor's?) employee ID card's metal clip.

And this movie included William Bludworth's backstory. I'm so glad he was a victim of Death instead of being Death itself. Death is more terrifying if it's an invisible force instead of a man you can interact with and speak with. Plus, William being Death wouldn't have made sense, because he was trying to help the survivors in these movies. Why would he help them if he was active trying to kill them? Making Bludworth be a victim of Death himself was a great writing decision. Way better than making him be Death. His final scene was good, by the way. RIP Tony Todd. The way this movie put an end to Bludworth's character couldn't have been any better. The fact that this was Tony's last movie made it really poetic.

The character development in this movie was good. I like how Stefani, Charlie, and their mother are distant towards each other at first, but then they gradually bond and even hug a few times. This movie had some awesome characters. Erik was one of them. You can tell he genuinely loved his brother, Bobby.

I have a lot of love for this movie. I didn't love the ending, though.

In the ending of Bloodlines, Stefani and Charlie get killed. There are several reasons why I had issues with this. Stefani and Charlie deserved to live after all of the suffering and grief they went through. It would have been so satisfying to see them get a happy ending. Killing them off was a slap to the fact. I didn't like how Charlie couldn't tell that Stefani was unconscious instead of dead. That didn't make any sense to me.

Those two deserved to survive this movie and the rest of the FD franchise. Plus, Death has been winning for too long. Every character got killed off in this movie, FD5, FD4, and FD3. Making Death win so many times is boring. It's making the franchise too predictable. The viewer needs to wonder which characters will die and which ones will leave. They can't do that if 100% of the characters get killed in pretty much all of the movies, or in one of the sequels to the movies(Clear Rivers). So, can we please see a character who isn't Kimberly or Burke actually beat Death? It would be so satisfying.

I said this before, but it needs to be said again: It's okay for Death to lose a few times. It's still a terrifying force regardless. Having Stefani and Charlie live wouldn't have ruined the movie. I think it would have improved it.

In the video that leaker uploaded, some of the comments were saying how there was a reshoot and how that probably meant Stefani and Charlie survived instead of died. There was a rumor that Stefani would have survived the train derailment but she would have saved some people who were meant to die, creating a new group of doomed people. I wish the movie had kept Stefani and Charlie alive, but had made them save some people, which would have created a new group of survivors who were doomed to die, and the future descendants of those survivors too. It would have been a great sequel hook. Plus, it would have made a good cyclical ending. Stefani and Charlie survive, but they would have started a new cycle of doomed-to-die families. That would have been a much better ending than what we got. What were the writers thinking?

I absolutely hated the ending of Bloodlines, but I loved this movie like crazy anyway. I rated it four out of five stars. The only complaint I have is the ending. This was the best movie I've watched in a long time. I was sincerely joyful while watching this. Despite the ending being bad, I highly recommend people see this movie. And I knew every major thing that was going to happen, but I still enjoyed this film. So, even if you do know what's going to happen before you see it, that doesn't mean you won't have any fun if you do watch it.

I pretty much knew everything that was going to happen, but I wasn't sure what the ending was going to be. The video the leaker uploaded mentioned that Stefani and Charlie would die. Yet the rumor about the reshot ending stated they would live. Ultimately, Stefani and Charlie do die in the movie. And I hate that they did.

Regardless, Bloodlines was so good. It felt like more than just a horror movie to me. By the way, I was hoping Kimberly would make an appearance. Maybe it's a good thing that she didn't, though. Clear appeared in FD2 and look at what happened to her. If a character in the FD franchise appears in two FD movies, that means they're doomed.

Another thing: I loved the credits sequence. The part directly after Stefani and Charlie die, with the penny rolling and the newspaper clips showing all of those people dying, while that music played. That was amazing.

[beheworthy]

Heimdall and Thor's mother genuinely like Jane without even meeting her. Others don't like it or don't care.

When Odin threw him on a backwater planet, he didn't know his son will find the next Queen there. As is shown, he has had many lovers before in his 1500-year-long life, but with Jane, everyone just knows he's dead serious about her.

Also, everyone just knows what happened on Midgard: Odin in his Odinsleep, Loki makes a r*pey comment about paying her a visit (what the f?), Sif and Frigga talk about her (though this could be Sif recounting her experience on Midgard to the All-Mother but the point is that they know), and of course, the all-seeing Heimdall.

I'm assuming the word spread (accentuated by the Warriors Three) and the general public also has an inkling about their Crown Prince's dalliance with a Midgardian maiden on his exile.

1. Odin is obv unapproving because she's not a blue blood like them - a royal or even an Aesir. She is as far away from being an ideal daughter-in-law as she can be. He pushes for Sif. And his argument for that is this:

*clenches fist* We need to talk about this line.

This is his view of a Queen, that she'd serve the King like a servant by bearing him children and present herself to being used by him whenever he pleases. That's vile.

He's not in favor of Sif, he just wants Not-Jane. Anyone but a lowlife Midgardian. Why? Because her flimsy lifetime makes her unfit to 'serve' the King. And an Aesir woman would be able to do it better. The Aesir women 'lying' in front of him like things!

What's worse is that Thor doesn't even react to his father's abhorrent way of thinking :(, he's so used to it. Thor would never treat his Queen this way, jeez! But Reddit and Tumblr keep telling me how great it is that Thor is given parallels with this man in Thor3 and Thor4 as tho he was a positive influence on him :)

I thought Odin would eventually come around on Jane but his hostility only increases when Frigga dies 'because of her'. And he just never approves of her till he lived, not even for his son's sake :( I headcanon that Odin stayed near Thor and Jane's home when he was exiled by Loki and saw how happy Thor was with her.

2. Loki is actually understanding of how much wrong Thor is doing to himself by setting himself up for much bigger hurt. He should cut ties now when it will hurt less rather than later when she dies in a fraction of his lifetime anyway, leaving a gaping hole in his heart.

He's right but no one understands the predicament my man was stuck in. He had already done what Loki is saying by breaking his promise and not going back so Jane could move on with her life and contented himself with looking at her from Asgard. But when she got in mortal danger because she was looking for him, he can't just leave her now. He had to do justice to her this time, All-Father be damned.

I find it fascinating that Odin's opinion of Jane was about kingship and Loki's was about love and companionship.

3. Frigga and Heimdall are fully approving of her :D She has all but accepted her as her daughter-in-law and given her blessings to them. She died saving her. What more can you ask of her?!

And Heimdall is the only one who knows about his longing for her (that little laugh when he first asks her if he can see her at the end of Thor1). He knows how much Thor hurt himself by asking about her every day when he was never going to go back.

Also, I'm certain the Aesir people will be pretty accepting of her as their Queen, given how peaceful they're shown to be. :)

[melyzard]

Yo, so, I come from reddit because I saw your tumblr post posted on reddit where you described how you were born when your mother was laughing hysterically when your father came back from work confused because his uniform was just disintegrating because in a fit of rage a few days before that she ripped a lot of the stitches from his uniform and I wanted to know how is your parents relationship. Are they still together? How did your father take it?

Reddit? Oh crap, it's escaped containment again....

Okay so I will say right up front for those that always say "this is a story about abuse!" that this was not abuse because it happened ONCE, my mom apologized and never did it again, and also my father never paid for that uniform in the first place and didn't pay for a replacement (and also, it was work clothes, not something he loved and treasured, so). It was a ridiculous, silly situation between two frustrated twenty-year-olds, and as far as I've ever heard, not only did he also laugh really hard, even while hustling my mom to the hospital to, you know, give birth, but he told that story to anyone who would listen. He was a pretty big prankster in his own right, and that my mom got one over on him in such a major way delighted him.

Unfortunately, he died awhile back in an accident, so no, they aren't together still, but everything I saw or heard about them together indicates they had a really good relationship. And my mom still tells that story whenever she gets really irate about something (in a very Watch Out, Your Clothes Might Disintegrate kind of way). So while it's not a happy ending necessarily, it's still a pretty good memory.

[amarantine-amirite]

Time and Place

Sophie died. She got hit by a car.

I found out after seeing a story in my newsfeed about two burglars who were struck by cars and killed. The first got struck on her way to the scene of the crime, and the second got hit on his way home from the scene of the crime. The prevailing theory is that they were struck because the drivers couldn’t see them. While wearing visible clothing could’ve prevented their deaths, it also would have resulted in them getting caught.

I am almost positive one of those burglars was Sophie. She was a terrible kleptomaniac, I wouldn’t put breaking into homes to steal past her.

Her funeral was today. The list of speakers they had included her parents, psychiatrist, the principal, the kids in her homeroom, and two moderators from the r/fuckcars subreddit

Luckily, I didn’t have to speak. I’m not afraid of public speaking, what I have to say was probably stupid and inappropriate. Nobody wants to hear about how her recently deceased classmate died because she was a rabid kleptomaniac. And that’s before I burst out laughing at anything the Reddit moderators say.

One of the kids made a presentation about white privilege. One of the examples of white privilege they cited was the ability to remain visible at night while walking naked. I legitimately burst out laughing. I know that this is not the right time, but seriously, was there ever a right time? Besides, the guy’s presentation was about streaking, that’s funny.

Advising people to wear lighter-coloured clothing while walking at night so that motorists and other road users can see them seems like common sense, but according to this person, it’s blaming victims. 

One of the r/fuckcars mods spoke after this kid. Her name was Mandy, and she had blue hair, John Lennon glasses, and no fashion sense. I had no trouble believing she was a Reddit moderator.

I was able to keep a lid on it while Mandy gave her speech. That is, of course, until she said, “Speaking from my experience as a bike courier, we wouldn’t need to worry about nighttime visibility if it weren’t for cars.”

Now, what she said had to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. I had to say something. “Um, yes,” I said, “you do.”

Mandy shook her head and aggressively pointed at me. “No, you don’t understand,” she shouted, “if somebody gets hit by a car, the car is going to win because, in the battle of flesh versus metal, metal always wins.”

“That’s true,” I nodded, “but I believe you’re missing the point.”

“No, you’re missing the point.” 

I hadn’t missed the point. She had. I quickly pointed out, “You can still get plowed by somebody on a bicycle because they didn’t see you.”

To my surprise, Mandy backed down. “And how do you know that?” she asked. 

“Once, when I went skiing at night,” I began, “I saw someone get run over by somebody who didn’t see them because they wore an all-white ski suit,” I said, “That had nothing to do with cars and everything to do with the person blending in with their background.” I’m not exaggerating. I had a bright pink ski helmet for the very reason that if you wear all white on the slopes, nobody can see you. That’s especially true at night.

Mandy wasn’t too thrilled to hear a skiing story. “You ski? Wow, spoiled brat who doesn’t understand how the average American lives.”

“My point is that if you wear something that looks like your background, you are going to be hard to spot. That is the essence of camouflage!” I couldn’t believe I had to explain this to someone more than once.  

Mandy shook her head. “that doesn’t change the fact that Sophie got run over!” she sneered, “if you’d listened to your classmate, you’d know that expecting people to dress to be seen is racist!”

I shrugged, grimaced, and pointed at the screen. “The guy’s presentation was about streaking!”

Mandy’s lip stiffened and she narrowed her eyes. “Do you have something against the naked body?”

“Not all naked bodies, but yes, definitely the naked bodies of those who streak. Believe me, none of those guys look good naked.” 

Mandy put two fingers on her temple and glared at me. I grimaced and shrugged, “You can’t blow up my head with your mind!”

Mandy made herself bigger, ready to fight. “I’ll settle for an aneurysm,” she retorted, “I shouldn’t have to stand here and listen to this trust fund bitch car-splain why the 1% is so much better than everyone else!”

“No, I’m not,” I winced, “You are a nutcase!”

Mandy lunged at me. The gym teacher had to break us apart. 

I got sent home for misbehaving halfway through the funeral. I now know why more people don’t have Reddit moderators speak at funerals. 

@creativepromptfills

[catb-fics]

If the label wasn’t intentionally hiding Van there would be more photos being posted by Sardy, Benji & Larry (granted he’s still involved) about the band. I’ve heard he was but I guess we’ll see. I’ve been noticing Benji’s fiancé deleting stories within a few minutes to an hour-ish of posting things that could be hinting at Catfish related things a handful of times. I fully believe there’s someone from the label closely monitoring what comes out. I’ve seen this with other bands too. Fans are telling them exactly what they want and it’s giving marketers the clearest view of what will generate buzz, which is desperately needed. So essentially that is anticipation is a convoluted way.

I really don’t think Van’s staying away on his own terms. The label wants numbers and Van’s generating them with any potential sight of him. I mean, look at what’s going on. Sardy’s pic of Van, the fake Reddit post… all generating high numbers. This is how marketing works.

Praying for a music video featuring Van with different hairstyles to poke fun at fans or all somehow including all the rumors 😂 I’m sure Van has a favorite rumor about him. The guy who kept saying Van died in a skiing accident made me laugh so much.

I still don’t get it, I totally see a brief period of keeping the fans on their toes but this prolonged dragging out after a huge 3 year hiatus seems a bit much! Maybe it’s just me but that’s my opinion (if this is indeed just a marketing ploy). It doesn’t even feel like there’s a huge buzz at the moment either, in fact I’ve heard so many people complaining it all feels a bit flat 😔

I’ve no doubt that will all change when Van does finally show his face though and I hope he is doing good and ready to come back. Cracking up at the Twitter post below 😂

I don’t think I saw the skiing accident story. I’d love to see Van’s reaction at some of the crazy stories that have popped up on Tumblr over the years!

[tjalexandernyc]

so I am currently in a real state over this next book, real crunch time stuff. My wife, whom I love, has offered to "help around the house" doing all the chores I normally would do. Like cooking dinner. "I want to take some of the stress off you," said my wife. Whom I love.

Anyway I just emerged from working like 12 hours straight to my wife nervously standing in the kitchen saying, "OK now don't be mad......." I was sure she had somehow broken our new rice cooker (which I love. Not as much as I love my wife but....it's a REALLY nice rice cooker) so I was trying to gird myself for that when she picked up the airtight container I keep our rice in and said, "I think we have rice weevils."

Me: what

Her: Weevils. In the rice. I saw them.

Me: Okay....?

Her: So I went ahead and started cooking the rice for dinner--

Me: Wait why? If there's bugs in the rice why would you cook it?

Her: Because you said to make rice for dinner.

Me: But the bugs???

Her: Yes, I also thought that would be an issue. Which is why I'm telling you about it now.

Me: I don't--what am I supposed to do about the bug rice?

Her: You might know more about the rice than me. Maybe the bugs aren't so bad. Maybe we can still eat the rice. But if you--

Me: You thought we could EAT the BUG RICE?

Her (getting a lil snippy I gotta say): I wasn't SURE. But if you said no, we shouldn't, then I could dump out the rice in the rice cooker and go buy fresh rice. But I didn't want to disturb you so I waited for you to come out here to ask. And in the meantime, at least rice is cooking in case the bugs are not a big deal.

Me (absolutely convinced I've died at my desk and this is all a weird dream at this point): Okay. We can't eat bug rice. But--you're sure there were bugs? That container is airtight.

Her: Yeah, look!

We both then proceed to spend about 15 minutes staring into the clear plastic rice container, turning it every so often like those sand object-finder toys kids sometimes play with. There's nothing in there but rice. Once in awhile my wife gasps and points at something that "definitely moved" but it's just rice. We end up dumping all the rice out onto sheet pans so we can stare at every individual grain. No bugs. Just rice.

My wife (whom I LOVE): wow...............guess I need to stop staring at that subreddit about bugs

Me, wrist deep in rice that I'm now trying to shovel back into a container: what

Her: I've told you about the What Bug Is This reddit. The one where it's always either a weevil or a spotted lanternfly? (laughing to herself) Yeah I was looking at it a lot today. Right before I went to cook the rice actually.

Me:

so that's the story of how dinner's going.

[puckthedrama]

https://www.tumblr.com/puckthedrama/752938716465643520/idk-what-it-is-but-disheveled-quinn-looks-so-much?source=share

the biggest running joke with Canucks fans, especially on our Reddit page, is just loling about how harrowed and disheveled our captain looks. And everyone loves it so much. A comment I saw recently is “I can’t wait until he’s the first player to look depressed when lifting the cup” and I died laughing. It’s a part of his brand! We love our haunted, confused, always looks like he’s on the verge of driving off a cliff king 🫡

whereas Jack has always seemed to be more social and energetic of the siblings so I think it’s more concerning when he goes to Quinn level hahah

lol he does look confused and startled all the time 😭😭 but he looks cute while doing so! so it’s okay!!

and yes i agree, it is stranger to see jack like that so that’s probably why people get weirded out lol

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

Is it me or does it feel like our fandom is slowly healing? Positive vibes everywhere and I have seen so many funny posts in a row, sometimes I can't stop laughing. I am glad that the boys can enjoy their break but the fandom is kinda coming back to life again <3

Well...i think it's also because the Rammstein tour is over and the band are out of the limelight, that always causes less fandom sharing, and also because of it the media attention (and with that the fandom attention) to the allegations has died down a bit.

'Our fandom' has always been pretty varied imo, and that's probably that way in many fandoms. People like the band for different reasons and that's okay; i know peoplewho went to the live shows because of the great show ("the music isn't really my thing"), some people like to watch the good looking pictures, some fans think Rammstein is Till and some random musicians (like when a while ago a part of the fandom leaked that Rammstein would do a cover of a spanish song, and i turned out that was for Till's other band), some are in it for the dark lyrics, some have no idea what the lyrics are about but like that they sound cool, and some find support in Rammstein in a difficult period in their life 🌺

The Rammstein fandom has probably changed over the years, especially social media wise. Some people post a lot quality stuff and at some point loose interest, move on with their life, don't spend as much time on social media. If i see some of the older posts here on Tumblr that easily got 300-400 notes, and now, especially out of tour season, you're lucky if you get 50-100. I'm glad i wasn't here during the Mutter era fall-out, because i'm sure i would have left knowing there was all that trouble in the band. There are some great Tumblr blogs i started following when i just got to Tumblr, who haven't posted in years, some stopped before 2018 (even before the Untitled album and the staidum tour), some we lost this year; some because they don't like the band anymore, some because they don't deal well with the negativity vibe of others.

Also, sometimes i'm amazed how different X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Tiktok or Tumblr are, fandom-wise... That already struck me before, but since the allegations surfaced it's imo more polarized than before. I saw some people (on other sm) join the discussions with 'I don't really follow the band, but am interested in what's happening now', some have made up their minds as soon as the allegations started and started cancelling Rammstein, some have gone the other extreme and, now that some allegations haven't been proven, consider anything that has come to light as untrue even stuff that has been plain to see for years (which has again others argue 'if it's plain to see for years, you knew that it happened and you condoned it, so you're just as bad'). Some are only now reading the lyrics and consider them 'reality'. Some condemn Schneider for sharing his IG post. Some have come up with conspiracy theories that it's all a controlled 'setup' from 'the left wing media' to bring down the band. Some right wing fans now consider Rammstein right-wing too, because left-wing people are vocal in the allegations (That last part is probably what annoys me most, that some make a political topic out of it.).

I think this allegations stuff changed the fandom, and i think it has changed the band as well. That is not necessarily a bad thing, life is change, and i think the fandom had a major reshuffle because of it. The band will build on this together, like Schneider said 'all six of us'. And so can we 🌺

Panta Rhei (Everything flows, nothing stays the same, you can't step into the same river twice)

[cl0udstrife]

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The original post, a Reddit post on r/harrisonburg by u/MarkWestin.

Need a fake kid to piss off my wife

My wife and I are watching Elf together and we saw the part where Buddy (Will Ferrell)'s real dad (James Caan) tells his wife about Buddy, and his wife (Mary Steenburgen) gets excited about this surprise adult kid that pops into their life from a time before they knew each other.

I point out to my wife that it's a little unbelievable that she (Mary Steenburgen) would immediately be on board. I then comment that she (my wife) would actually be mad at me in this situation, even if I genuinely did not know this kid existed and it was conceived before I had met her.

She denies it, but I know my wife.

We're in our early 40s and have been married 10 years (together for 12). So, I need a 20ish kid to knock on the door and tell me they're my kid and that they just wanted to meet me. Gotta be convincing and really talk about how your mom and I were once really happy before she died of something tragic (dealer's choice).

Job pays $100.

Gender, race, etc don't matter so long as you can pass for early 20s. Shouldn't take more than an hour of conversation then you "get a call" or something and have to leave.

Want to do this soon after the new year. You come up with the backstory, and I'll play along. I'll give you a little info up front after you take the job.

And the update from justiceandwar98 on Tumblr.

There was an update - he hired a kid who did kind of look like him, apparently was a very good actor. Convinced the wife in like 20 minutes, and then had a preplanned exit. Wife was bewildered but kind of excited? Hubby kept it up for a few hours before coming clean, and she was so amused, tho she said she'd get him back laughing emoji