#I was dumbfounded

[parksrway]

this girl who always wears a mask under her nose (in 2024) and comes into where I work almost everyday asked if my laptop charger would work with hers (I was using it) and said "I just want to check" so I let her check and then she asked if I was using it (I was, she watched me unplug my laptop to hand it to her) and asked how much battery I had (25%) and said "I have 5% so I'm going to use it" (didn't even ask for permission)

[chaoticas-hell]

Nicky: hey today's June 1st right?

Aaron: yeah

Nicky: does that mean it's April fools day?

Aaron:

Andrew:

Aaron:

Andrew: how are you this stupid?

[forkpigeon3146]

still thinking about that one time that i looked away from my cozy little cabin in bloxburg and saw the fucking COLOSSEUM

IN BLOXBURG

[moondyad]

sometimes i scroll all the way over to that "news" section on my phone and see random articles recommended to me by google. today i was met with this article:

(you don't have to read it or give it any traction, it doesn't deserve that. it's simply here for context)

confused by the title, i was hooked into reading it. but the conclusion was simply, "My Lady Jane almost got as many renewal signatures as The Acolyte got, so the fans who did sign the petition are a vocal minority." and then went on to say this:

and i went "oh". these questions told me everything i needed to know about the author, he was a cis white guy. i scrolled to the end and sure enough, i was right. it really pisses me off when people are so entitled that they think something is just for them and should never branch out into appealing to other demographics. watching a cis white man protagonist in a movie or series never bothered me, why does it bother a cis white man when that situation is reversed, unless it comes down to bigotry?

forgotten what they are? the original trilogy was anti-war messaging and influenced heavily by a Japanese film, The Hidden Fortress. like frankly, shut the hell up. i'm so sorry that you got 7 (the new one making it 8) movies and ~7 series where a protagonist was a cis man who you could relate to. why is it so wrong to have media be "something for everyone" without the implicit reason being to alienate poc, lgbtq, or other minorities from your fandom.

yes, there is this almost weird corporate pandering where minorities get shoved in a role to be the "token", we generally don't like that shit either. we don't want half-baked representation. having a black woman protagonist just... being on the screen, is not "woke" corporate pandering!! what do you do if you pass a black woman on the street? scream, cry, throw a fit? i'm sorry to tell you that people exist?

i know this fandom is full of older white men, but i am continually surprised by the general narrow-mindedness and lack of media literacy that is so prevalent among them. when they willfully ignore the more progressive messaging of the original movies, it's like the alt-right manosphere space using The Matrix as a "stop being a societal sheep" metaphor when the directors and writers of the movie were two trans women who intended for the movie to be a metaphor for transformation. i won't say transness explicitly, because both of them were closeted at the time of making it and admit they only knew how to depict that in the form of their character, Switch, who was a trans allegory.

i for one was left with more questions than answers at the end of The Acolyte. i am a very lore-focused individual and tend to dissect things with the culmination of the information i know. but i did not hate the show. the characterization didn't have enough time to breathe for decisions to have felt earned, and just in general the pacing was quite fast. the newer concepts like heavily grey characters and Osha/Mae being the same person were very exciting to me, and i had hoped to learn more about Qimir in the next season. now i'll never get that chance.

if criticisms of the show stuck to the fast pacing or plot holes, we wouldn't be having this discussion. i like to think that one day these older fans will recognize the irony of their stances, but it might just be wishful thinking.

[melancholiea-mainblog]

i once was talking to a friend of mine who's a big star wars fan and she told me that, while she didn't enjoy the new trilogy, she like that by making kylo ren sexy they introduced women to the franchise.

[min-pathologica]

yesterday my dad fried some epic ass rice in 5 minutes flat

[thomas-mvller]

Do you ever see a couple on the streets and one of them gives you the icks for some (actual) reason and you silently go "i wonder how these two ended up together" but then the other person shows their true colours and it's like "ahh, i see now" 😐

[estrapotato]

You just described my first time time watching one of those mf

(That thing in the sky looks friendly)

(Wait)

(No)

(NOOOOOOOOOO)

[homkamiro]

I've been slacking this whole day and all I could draw was this

[kacievvbbbb]

I do really like the way the new chapter kind of showcases that Loid is really starting to settle into this whole parenting gig.

Like first 20 chapters Loid would have immediately gone into an anxiety induced fit about being a horrible fake father and how he's failing the mission and Anya, if Anya pulled the same crying fit trick on him (like she's done with success before) or he'd at least start to doubt his choices a little. But he just acts like a regular dad does and tells her to shut up, he doesn't give a fuck and she's staying her ass at home. And she would have too if Yor didn't convince him and if that isn't the most family shit ever I don't know what is

That's the growth we needed. Nature is healing.

Also he would have never out loud called her a brat before especially where Yor or someone else could hear and doubt their "father daughterly ness" but now he's yelling at her like a true father. Because yeah she really don't be listening but we love her for it.

I don't know I've always just felt like he's his truest self when it's just him and Anya. mostly because when he's not hyper focused on appearing like the greatest dad, Anya is just so ridiculous and left field that its hard to have anything less than a genuine reaction to her and the things she says. Also in regards to this operation stryx, she's the person he has the least to hide from, they both know he's not her dad and she's not his kid and that his marriage to Yor is fake. There's nobody to play pretend for, and that allows him to be just a little more real in their interactions because she's real with him.

Like I know he's a spy so we never really know his truest personality cause he's always putting on a mask, even with bond he puts on the mask of trainer no matter how badly he's not deceiving anyone, but honestly it doesn't feel like there's a mask with her. He's not Loid or Twilight with her but some secret third thing. Just a man with no real name but who is no less real and the strange kid he's trying to do right by no matter how many stress lines she cause him

[eggsdrawings]

so cheesyyyyy

kamijirou teasing/flirting with each other, ko-fi request for @bakusquad-babe !!

[wordfather]

You listened to indie and modern rock :) have you considered dream smp

spotify does NOT want me to be happy

[c-tepx]

I also love how in true friends fashion both chil and marcille went "coughs and dies from laughter"

[trianna-phoenix]

I’ve seen it around a few times but I love the idea that hobbits grow winter coats of lighter colors during the winter.

Like I can imagine as bilbos winter coat starts to grow in all the drawfs, who know hobbits have shorter lifespans, start freaking out cause they assume he’s growing white hair from age.

Thorin: “master hobbit, your hair”

Bilbo: confused “what about it?”

Thorin: “I knew you said you were grown, but i didn’t assume you were that far along…”

Bilbo: even more throughly confused “I’m not that old you oaf, this is just my annual coat growing in”

Thorin:

[aaronsinferno]

From here on, whenever I feel as if I’m being a bit too insufferable about Tommy, I’ll just remember how buddies made him trend the entire night after an episode he neither appeared or was at all mentioned in.

[omarcitoloves]

sweet baby angel