#I'm super interested in the results of this

[inbabylontheywept]

How is your life so interesting

Normally, I just kind of laugh this question off, but I've been asked enough times I'm gonna take an honest stab at it.

So, the first thing worth considering is whether the story itself is all that interesting, or whether I am just a good storyteller. My most popular story is about cutting a lot of worms and half, and crying, and then being comforted by my mom. That's not a terribly uncommon or hard to imagine event. A lot of my stories more about the telling than the substance.

There are also some stories that are weird, but they're weird in ways that I also find, like, relateably weird? It might just be that I knew a lot of athletes in college, but I don't think eating raw eggs is that weird. Eating 15 in one go is, but I was roommates with a guy that ate like, three for breakfast, three in his in-class protein shake, and another three at dinner. That guy was attending ASU on a gymnast scholarship, but also, he genuinely ate 5 dozen eggs a week. That seems much more normal than eating 15 in one day.

To say nothing of eating raw onion. Tons of people eat raw onions. It baffles the non-onion eaters, but it's a super common thing. Especially in Mexico.

Some of the stories happen because I am better at noticing story-worthy events than most people. I can't tell you how many times I've been in public, and seen someone do some weirdass thing, and then had to nudge my wife and to get her to watch it too.

If I had to point to the parts of my life that are truly, genuinely, bafflingly weird, they would be my dating stories, and. I dunno. My general thermonuclear dumbass event posts. And I can break down why those two are interesting pretty simply:

I was unbelievably bad at dating. The majority of the time, that just meant that there was a few minutes of stilted small talk and never get a call back. But the thing is, Mormon culture strongly encourages dating as like, a social-practice thing, and I was very motivated to get good at it, so I just kept trying and trying and I think I went on at least 200 first dates before meeting my wife. I genuinely believe that if anyone went on 200 first dates, they would get some pretty incredible bad date stories too. Especially if they had autism. I know I write well, and I can sound very charming here, but it took me a very, very long to get decent social skills. I am just a disturbingly persistent learner.

I am very convincing. This is helpful when I am interacting with other people, because it can do things like, convince them to let me into their secret facility, or convince them to not vote Republican again, or to save at least put the company match into their retirement accounts. But when I'm just debating something with myself, my convincingness works against me: I am very good at tricking myself into believing that bad ideas are, somehow, actually good. This is part of why I have so much sympathy for the right wing lunatics that I work with. Every time I meet a crazy person I go, ah, but for the grace of God, go I. Anyway, this does an unfortunate thing where my excellent verbal skills drive my poor decisions, which results in the very odd combination of welll written, articulate stories about someone being A Fucking Idiot. Like the condom bomber story. I think this is also why most of the lawyers that I meet are insane in their personal lives.

Anyway, those are my theories! I'm gonna tag @lizardho because we mostly had the same childhood, but she has a better grasp on what normal people look like than me, and perhaps she'll have her own theories on the weirdness of our lives.

[reading-sometimes]

I'm really sorry, I wrote my tags pretty quickly and didn't clarify what I meant. I was trying to say that autistic people being misunderstood by neurotypicals could be analogous to emotional abuse (there can be a link between autism and trauma, a lot of people have both).

Basically, the experience of an autistic person growing up in a nuerotypical society can result in things like the autistic person not feeling valued by society, and an autistic person's experiences of (for example) stimming being seen as a mistake by society when the autistic person is just being themselves. These are experiences that are also common to a lot of people who were emotionally abused - they don't feel valued by their parents and their natural way of experiencing the world (for example, feeling emotions in general) can be seen as a mistake by emotionally abusive parents (getting yelled at for the emotions being "too strong"). Of course, being devalued by society as a whole is way worse than being devalued by your parent (like in emotional abuse).

I connected to your experience, and I didn't want to say that it was because of autism (because I haven't been diagnosed) so I talked about the emotional abuse that I recognized in the post instead. I have a lot of symptoms that could be autism - getting upset by changes in my routine, I've watched a 3-hour long musical almost every day for months, can't eat certain foods because of the texture, paced around so much as a kid that I got punished for it, and twirled a specific strand of my hair so much that it's noticeably a few inches shorter than the rest of my hair (the last two examples could be stimming, maybe). The symptoms could also be caused by my complex PTSD, since there's a huge overlap between autism and complex PTSD. Regardless, I'll make sure to think more carefully about what I tag next time!

The world also believes that my mom is a saint, because she acts completely different when she's around other people than she does around me. No one noticed that I was being abused, either, even though I did things like cry in the middle of class in front of a teacher and all of the students. My therapist who misdiagnosed me with social anxiety (it was PTSD) in high school said that it was the worst case she'd ever seen in her 20 years as a therapist, so I was also a nervous wreck.

It's really interesting hearing your perspective, because we had opposite experiences, I think. If I do have autism, when I was a kid I wasn't able to mask at all, but I never got diagnosed. I was super blunt and didn't understand other people's emotions at all, I forced all the other kids to follow the teacher's rules, and I rewatched movies so many times that I memorized the whole thing (even though these could also be symptoms of complex PTSD). People in my family and even doctors suggested to my mom that I could be autistic, but she refused to get me diagnosed.

parents of autistic children be like im going to tell all my friends about how my son is dysfunctional behind his back

[valyrfia]

I know you rate Oscar very high but for me both McLaren drivers combined make this one great complete generational driver. But the thing is, they're not one driver, they're separate, and as a result you get these few tracks where each one excels and things get interesting for a while. You get the feeling that their team doesn't 100% believe in either of them. It's like a half ass belief, as if something is missing in both of them to truly justify supporting one single WDC. And I think combined with the fact that Max is a consistent talented driver and RB has this devotion to him to get him a car that can win. (Thing I wish Ferrari had with Charles lol). All this will give him his 5th championship. Like maybe idk I'm wrong and who knows, but it all seems to lead to that

No I agree, I think Oscar has generational talent potential but still makes a lot of mistakes, and Lando has hit his ceiling because he can't move past his mentality. McLaren has one of the shakier driver line ups and that's masked by the monstrous feat of engineering that is their car. Neither are super consistent over multiple tracks. If Max can keep that points gap low enough until Spain, he'll win the championship.

I'm really curious that apparently they approached Max last year, I wonder who they would have dropped if he said 'alright we're doing this'. I have my suspicions but well, guess we'll never know.

[strohller27]

Yes Hello to all my fellow Miss Lemon fans out there:

If you love her as much as I do, then 6.2 Hickory Dickory Dock is the episode for you

Now let us all just take a moment out of our busy day to bask in her glory:

That coat with those hats?? ICONIC she has such a flawless style

and this little scene where she's like 'this is just a quirk of Mr. Poirot's, don't worry about it' fellas help she's so cute

also HELP lads she took Poirot's comment about Inspector Japp's 'healthy appetite' way too literally!! LEMON SOLE! she's so funny aagh

Also she looks really damn good in burgundy wow

Also you know I hate the trope where guys tell ladies to take their glasses off and let their hair flow in the wind because they'd somehow be 'sexier' or whatever. That is just simply not true. Case in point: Look at how cute Miss Lemon is in her glasses!!

Just. Everyone just. Look at my favourite girl. Look at her!!! Her filing system is perfect! Her filing system could kick your ass!!!

[ellraiser]

when i say handcrafted world i mean it literally

[pollsnatural]

While reading hurt/comfort fics, I noticed that for each pairing I had a very strong preference for which character was hurting and which character was providing comfort. So, I'm interested to know if this is true for anyone else besides me, and if it has anything to do with who your favorite character is. I decided to do this poll about Destiel because the ship is clearly closer to me and I didn't want to complicate the poll with several different pairings and characters.

[shannonallaround]

I rewatched the second sonic film with my sister tonight and man. I forget how much I genuinely love this movie

[icharchivist]

Like those were the things we knew about the Executors before da4 and i'm like... still scratching my head about where that "they've been watching everything so far and they've been nudging history to provoke things to line up until they can start making their moves" (also nudging history? the thing Flemythal was saying she was doing? The thing you totally retconned because you didn't want to commit to her revenge plan and wanted to just make her the voice of reason instead?)

I've had the feeling originally that the Executors were... weirder than the norm, true, but from what we had there i thought they were an external force who started to put their eyes on Thedas because the Veil disappearing would be a problem for them, and it's why they see Corypheus as a threat and gives some ressources to the Inquisition.

I was so sure the Veil was going to come down that i expected that once the Veil would be down the Executors would make their moves because the one thing that was stopping them before from really looking at Thedas was the state of the Veil.

Revealing that the Executors existed since Elvhanan is one thing, sure, whatever, though i do think it's a shame to link them to ancient Elvhanan while we still are failing to properly develop the Forgotten Ones (and i have my own grievance about what was done with them in game, but there's also a nonzero chance the Executors would be linked to the Forgotten Ones and i think i need a drink ngl.)

but the implication that they've watched history and nudged it in some way from the secret ending and that they were just waiting for the Evanuris to stop existing and the Wolf to be defanged...

I fucking hate this whole "we influenced history" thing (that was Flemythal's thing!!) but the whole thing seems so weird to me seeing what were their original plot inclusions. They wanted to learn about the Wolf's plan, and they kept an eye out for Corypheus, yet it seems they still were just... waiting for the pieces to allign on the board? I mean i suppose they may just have lied all along but just "we can't trust anything they say" feels like a very bland way to introduce your next big bad villain that is supposed to have justified why everyone were bad before (because Free Will is an illusion and existence is a curse or whatever)

idk it feels like, to ME, that the Executors were not planned to be... whatever they're teased to be, and now i'm just. scratching my head about it.

[seaofreverie]

We should normalize bringing these sort of "small talk ideas" cards to meetings with other people so that it's possible to avoid the awkwardness of not knowing what to talk about to kick things off or if it's considered normal to talk about this specific thing and AUGHGHFCG all this stuff.

[good-wine-and-cheese]

I think I just need to accept that when I write a story it is, at minimum, going to be like 40 or 50k

[bitchthefuck1]

have you watched the pjo show?

I saw the first 2 episodes when they came out at a watch party one of my friends threw, and as soon as they ended I realized I didn't particularly care to keep going. It wasn't like, outrageously bad by any means, I just don't think it gripped me enough to want to continue, and there were enough odd adaptational choices that I thought weakened the story that I lost interest. I might have tuned back in if the changes actually built to something interesting in the later episodes, but from everything I've seen it kinda seems like they just took the teeth out of the story, which was what I was worried about.

That being said, the cast seems really great and well suited to their roles, so like, if they improve the writing and pacing in the later seasons and stop sanding down all the rough edges, I might pick it back up. But otherwise, pass.

[revengesworn]

OKAY SO I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND SHARE SOME DRAKEN HEADCANONS, mostly about his flaws since we didn't see that much in canon. under the cut for length. keep in mind that most of this is not actually implied in canon, just stuff i thought would be interesting and may end up scrapping/changing in the future.

in terms of actual canon moments that imply his flaws, i could only think of a few things: his initial fight with mikey over pah and how it got out of control, the moment after emma's death where he took everything out on mikey, and maybe (??) the fact that he didn't share his feelings/objections on toman's dissolution and accepted it while secretly being conflicted, too. i've tried to draw upon these moments when making stuff up, but if anyone has any different ideas to mine based upon these moments for flaws draken might have, PLEASE SHARE THEM WITH ME I WOULD LOVE YOU AND MARRY YOU INSTANTLY AFHJSDK

anyway. so i thought one flaw of draken's that'd be interesting is also a strength of his - his strong moral compass and high expectations of others. this is also a good thing for obvious reasons, but in contrast means that he expects people to react to trauma in the "right way" and thinks on some level that they have an obligation to do so.

now... it's actually more complicated than that. that's what he TELLS himself he believes, but in reality, when he finally acknowledges to himself that mikey has become a "bad person" (more on that later) - he can't abandon him. he decides to try and save him, going against his own principles which state he should be writing mikey off as a "lost cause", because mikey is ultimately more important to him than those principles.

however... i do think those high expectations caused issues in a different kind of way. specifically, while he subconsciously noticed mikey's pain and his "darker side" even before the kanto incident occurred, he somewhat denied the full extent of it because he didn't want to have to face that conflict between his principles and his love of mikey. maybe he was afraid of what the end result would be. it's kind of like... on some level, he didn't want to lose that "perfect" image he had of mikey, because then he'd be forced to either abandon his friend OR completely re-evaluate his worldview.

of course, it's not like he thought mikey was perfect. he was willing and able to call him out when needed, and noticed when he did things wrong, but kind of downplayed the seriousness of it to himself a little?? a lot of this is all subconscious, though. he TOLD himself the reason he didn't push harder about mikey's mental state is because mikey didn't want the help, or just needed support in the form of being treated like normal, or that he was healing on his own time. but deep down, it might've been because he feared that if he acknowledged what mikey was hiding, he'd end up abandoning him.

i guess in that way, his flaw is more "not wanting to acknowledge his own feelings" than "high expectations of others." they're both an issue to an extent, but for the latter, when it comes into conflict with his care for his friends, the latter ultimately wins out.

i also want to compare him to the others in toman a bit and my headcanons for them... so. baji i think was another character who noticed what was up with mikey and didn't push, but for him i think it was less not wanting to acknowledge his own feelings on it, but more that he felt he didn't have the right to interfere after what happened with shinichiro. mitsuya... probably didn't notice as much as draken or mikey, and might even have handled things better then them if he had - but by the time he did notice mikey's darkness, mikey already seemed too far gone. pah didn't notice because he's not the smartest, but if he did he would've talked to mikey about it because he's BEST BOY OKAY LISTEN I'M RIGHT!! #pahbestboy

but back to draken. some unrelated to the whole mikey fiasco flaws are generally his tendency to keep his feelings to himself. not telling emma how he felt, for instance - he tends to assume people just "know" how he feels already. also, he tends to keep in his more negative feelings/feelings he thinks he shouldn't have, and that leads to them spilling over when they become too much (see him @ mikey after emma's death.)

finally, i do think draken did on a small level rely on mikey to an extent. he saw him as a "strong leader" and didn't want to lose that image of him... but that's not really a huge thing for him in comparison to his other reasoning for not pushing with mikey, if that makes sense?? like he still considered mikey more important than that.

[gimmick-blog-bracket]

@hellsitegenetics

I love them

I didn't know I needed to know that the weed-smoking girlfriends post was genetically a wolf, but I did, and I do. Also puts great stuff on my dash.

it’s so fun to be scrolling unhinged posts and then boom. an organism!

so many moths‼ also, unexpected comedy with some of the matches

perfect blend of silly and informative, and makes for an excellent punchline at the end of a long post. puts creatures on my dash. literally what more could you ask for

It's a really unique blog concept and a lot of times the results are pretty funny. It's great when the sequence matches the post content too!

Creatures 👍

Finds beautiful creatures out of the mess of the hellsite

Offers finality AND gives us a creechur.

I love them. English speakers talk like moths

If this blog wins, they could run the text of the winning announcement, and determine the post's genus and species!

They're also very good about tagging the type of creature depicted in the results, so as long as you mute tags of creatures you don't want to see, it's a very fun time seeing iconic legacy posts (and new submissions) being reduced down to a string of letters and assigned a random species of fish or moth or something!

uhh it’s cool

BLAST

There are so many weird bugs in the world

Yippee!!

If, as Haldane said, God has an inordinate fondness for beetles, then surely this blog proves that Tumblr has an inordinate fondness for moths.

Top tier blog as a geneticist, I love seeing obscure organisms and MOTH

Admin got rate limited after trying to blast the bee movie

the knowledge of biology to pull this off (i have taken one biology class in my life) and also the work to find all the strings honestly deserves quite a bit of praise

This gimmick blog has it all: science, pictures of animals, interaction with the text of other peoples' posts, interesting information, and a unique and fun premise. As a biologist, I'm rooting for hellsitegenetics to reach the end and take the tournament, because it is truly a standout among gimmick blogs.

If they win, perhaps this blog too shall become a cool organism :3

@making-you-in-spore

Incredible works of art from a limited medium, the blog favors quality over quantity and I am always in awe when a dancing creacher in Spore [2008] crosses my dash.

His spores often take him multiple hours to create, and he will go through astounding amounts of effort to commit to the bit. He made his cull poll in spore and then blew it up. Hes also super responsive and active and seems really eager to share his creation techniques and spread the joy of making things in spore [2008]. His blog almost singlehandedly sparked a significant resurgence in interest and playerbase of a 16 year old game that most people see as nothing but a meme. Hes just a guy who likes spore [2008]

i say vote for making you in spore because seeing them blow up their opponents after they win is hilarious

[couldbebetterforsure]

We have a little less than three days until those Jack Jeanne favorite role polls I put up are closed but let's do a little progress report on results so far! I won't go into spoilers on what roles are winning because I want you guys to see for yourself when you vote/wait for the results, but let's see!

For Kisa, it's a race between two roles to get to the top right now and I'm surprised by how dumb I was not to consider one of those roles to be a fan favorite like DUH of course that one would be popular too!

For Suzu, it's surprisingly much closer than I was expecting. At one point we had a four way tie going on! I'm happy because like I said all of Suzu's roles are really enjoyable so I like seeing how close this poll is.

For Sou, while very much skewing in the direction I expected, I am seeing a bit more support for a couple other roles than I thought there would be!

For Mitsuki, it is VERY much as lopsided as I expected it to be! But there's one vote I am soooooo curious about the voter's reasoning because it was an unexpected one!

For Fumi, it's a very close race between the two roles I expected and I am genuinely not sure which one will come out on top. One day it's one role the other day it's the other role and so on and so forth.

For Kai, it's another case of it leaning in the direction I expected it to go but I am once again seeing more support for certain other roles than I anticipated!

For Neji, yup that's pretty much how I expected the results to be leaning! But it's interesting in that Neji's poll is the only one other than Otori's that has at least one vote for every choice going on.

For Otori, like I said his I am most curious about and most unsure what direction the voting will go. But it's another close race between one role I expected and the other that I didn't expect but am now shaking my head over not considering the popularity of.

[takes1]

ur blog is so pretty...

if you are okay with it, do you have any headcanons bout what type or p0rn the Karasuno boys would watch? 🌹

what type of p*rn would the karasuno team watch?

warnings. heavy nsfw under the cut. minors DNI

characters. suga. daichi. asahi. tsukki. kageyama. hinata. nishinoya. tanaka. yamaguchi. details. lots of kink discussion - just about anything you can think of

links. my masterlist. my ao3. more haikyuu. my imagines. requests open.

suga९᠀ - likes a good storyline video. loves a bad one. shitty acting gets him laughing, and he needs every chance he can get to feel as though he isn't sinning. won't say no to an amateur flick, but he likes the structure of 4k videos, and is a suuuucker for the 'oiled up' aesthetic.

asahi९᠀ - buddy has a rampant size kink that doesn't get much of an outlet. downside: most videos that cater to this are not what he wants, because of the unavoidable infantilization in most of them. so he opts for amateur vids with bigger guys turning out their smaller girlfriends, wives; extra props if there's some real, organic dirty talk, or if it happens to be super low-quality.

daichi९᠀ - has no shame about his oral fixation. face fucking. deepthroat. he's got any video with some lucky dude getting good head memorized by the title and the preview. his favorites are either: when the guy stays hands-off and silent, or when she takes a load down her throat. not much in between.

tsukishima ९᠀ - is a filthy animal with a porn addiction. will watch/has watched just about everything under the sun. he had a bukkake faze, a gangbang faze, but is now proudly serving his bdsm faze with specific interest in femdoms. shiny, black heels get him hard in an instant. has done the tried-and-true bdsm questionnaire in his spare time and does heaps of research on the community, usually as a pregame to jerking off.

kageyama ९᠀ - no particular preferences. but if he's got a crush on somebody, he will strictly watch lookalikes. it wasn't a conscious habit at first, but after the third time it happened, he couldn't articulate any other reason to look up seven descriptors in the search bar and get 0 results. how well/quickly he gets off is based on how well the actor or subject looks his crush. it's a long endeavor, too. he edges for as long as he can, and almost always does it twice.

hinata ९᠀ - can't watch porn long enough to build any strong preferences. has sensitivity/premature ejaculation issues, so he tends to just listen to whatever video he landed on. this has opened more of a pipeline to nsfw audios, instead. loves the sound of two bodies coming together, especially all the little pants and huffs in a video that aren't faked. has gotten insanely good at being able to tell if it's fake, too.

nishinoya ९᠀ - doesn't watch videos; similar problem to hinata. instead, yuu buys physical hentai novels. big fan of monster-fucking. tentacle stuff is a staple in his readable porn. he guards his collection with his life and would sooner lose a limb than have anybody go near the shelf that he keeps them hidden behind. once, asahi stood too close during a sleepover and -naturally- yuu bit him as a distraction, just to get him away from the area.

tanaka ९᠀ - wlw videos. solo-girl vids. he can't stand to watch something with a guy in it. it's huge turn-off, especially when the dude is too loud, or in the way, too soft, or straight-up ugly. learned to love the slow, women-catered stuff that's 40 minutes long and has plot to follow. also picked up a lot of tongue tricks from these vids, too. (congrats, kiyoko!)

yamaguchi ९᠀ - mmf threesomes. i think ya'll know what i'm getting at, here. either he 1: is poly and doesn't know it, 2: is gay and doesn't know it, 3: is genuinely very enticed by the idea of overstimulating a gorgeous girl, OR 4: can't see himself as enough for a potential partner, and this might be a subconscious way of evading that insecurity.

notes. i'm very sorry to any who were looking for ennoshita, kinoshita, or narita. i tried, but genuinely couldn't get anything going for any of them. they all seem like nice guys, but there's no material that i can properly make nasty.

taglist. @integers @paradoxicalwritings @yuchacco

links. my masterlist. requests open.

[kingghoost]

Posting this Cybertronian Ratchet design because all the drawings I have ready forward use/reference it ^^

I made it awhile ago and it may not be super creative, but I actually didn't wanna change his design too much to portray how he himself doesn't change as a person (not in a bad way, he holds firmly to his beliefs and has a strong character💞)

I wrote a little backstory, too!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

" Long before the war, Ratchet was one of the many medics stationed in Kaon with the task of nursing fallen gladiators back to health. Though he was considered the best, many feared his temperamental attitude, especially his own patients. Despite the coincidence, Megatronus and Ratchet had never actually interacted face to face, although they were aware of each other's existence. That is, until they had both been introduced through their mutual friend, Orion Pax.

With the little free time he had, Ratchet was one to frequently travel to Iacon to visit the Hall of Records, whether to spend his time reading or doing research on personal projects. Then, he met Orion at his workplace, and the two quickly formed a strong bond. When they weren't hanging out in person, they would keep contact via comms (sorta like online friends.) One fateful day, Orion had taken some time off of work to visit Ratchet in Kaon, coincidentally at the same time Megatronus had started to make a name for himself and his cause. This resulted in him witnessing one of Megatronus' speeches live, thus allowing them to meet and form a partnership as well.

In a way, Orion Pax changed Ratchet. Being surrounded by corruption and oppression from the caste system where it was at its worst, Ratchet had given up any hopes of a better Cybertron. However, Orion's altruistic nature inspired him, guided him to prove his mettle in the Great War, and binded him to Orion's—now Optimus'—side for millennia, and many more to come. "

Corny? I'm not sure. The writing's not all that good because of its age, but getting the point across is all that matters..

I really love the idea of a Kaonian Ratchet 💞💞

Ratchet being an indirect cause to Orion and Megatronus meeting is super interesting to me as well... do you think after all that happened, he feels at fault? In the episode where Ratchet was telling everyone about Optimus' backstory, he seemed to have nothing but bad things to say about Megatron, so they probably never got along since the beginning...