#RIDICULOUS NONSENSE

[fullbattleregalia]

I’ve getting my fiancé caught up on the Great British Baking Show, and his conclusion after watching about six or seven seasons is that, “Gold leaf fixes everything.”

Biscuits slightly over baked? Gold leaf.

Tray bake messy? Gold leaf.

Three tear cake leaning? Gold leaf.

Steak burnt? Gold leaf.

Soup under-seasoned? Gold leaf.

Car engine not turning over? Gold leaf.

He just sent me a link to buy a 24 pack of gold leaf on Amazon, so we can have one on hand to solve all of our problems. 🤣

[transmasc-charlie-lee]

so funny story last night i carpooled and took out a bag of carrots from my hoodie pocket and the guy driving turned and looked at me and then THIS happened

driver: did you bring enough for everybody? me, confused: uh... they're carrots?? driver: yeah, did you bring enough for everybody? me: *confused silence* *few seconds of awkward silence* other guy in the backseat: ...did you bring ranch? me: *confused-er silence* guy riding shotgun: you have any other vegetables?

so anyways that's the story of how i'm going to bring an onion next week and eat it like an apple

[violent138]

I feel like the Bats are pretty territorial about their "I know a guy" people. Babs doesn't share her contacts with Bruce, who doesn't share his with anyone; then Dick and Tim clear out massive swathes of the board, and Damian is fiercely against his contacts being the contacts of members of his family (and has let someone get two words in before taking over the call and demanding an explanation for this betrayal). Cass doesn't get it until someone offers to call one of her friends, and then her feathers get ruffled, and that phone is out of Tim's hand before he can finish the sentence. Steph rolls her eyes when Bruce says he also knows that person, and replies "well they don't like you". Jason despises his goons getting chummy with "the enemy" and will threaten to sever ties over even his pizza delivery guys getting shared. Duke meets with his contacts at the Hatch and refuses to even mention their names and will go invisible if anyone tries guessing who it is.

[monofazz]

Swindle, that's a weird dog you have

[bookshelfdreams]

oh for fucks sake

no, seeing someone in their undies is not, in general, sexual harassment. someone alluding to the fact that they think they're sexy or like to fuck is not sexual harassment. making lewd jokes in public, in front of an audience, isn't harassment either.

Sex and nudity aren't harmful on principle. You can say you disagree with someone without accusing them of very serious crimes. Like, I get that people are upset about a dude's opinions, but ultimately, it's not that important, you can't stop people from Reading The Text Wrong, and it would be extremely cool if we could all just chill.

[maxdibert]

If I have to read one more time some idiot Slytherin Skittles or Jegulus fan saying that Regulus “I have my walls covered in pro-Voldemort propaganda and was canonically the role model my mom always praised” Black was a poor abused child forced to follow the Death Eaters, I swear I’m going to explode.

No one forced Regulus to do anything. There’s no evidence of that in the books, no indication that he was abused — Sirius himself says his mother always reminded him how much better his brother was than him, lol — or that he was pressured. Regulus was a rich aristocrat perfectly aligned with his ultra-conservative family’s ideology, who chose to follow Voldemort because Voldemort represented everything he had always believed in, though he eventually got in over his head because he wasn’t cut out for war. He’s clearly a parallel to Draco Malfoy, who always believed what he was taught at home until it turned against him. Stop treating him like some poor soul who didn’t actually have such awful beliefs, because he absolutely did.

The same goes for Barty Crouch Jr., who was so much worse. At least Regulus regretted his choices, but Crouch was a fanatic willing to do anything because of his unresolved daddy issues that drove him to follow Voldemort in search of paternal validation. He tortured two people into permanent insanity, condemned his mother to die, killed his father, and kidnapped a disabled man, keeping him locked in a damn box for months. What tragic figure is Barty supposed to be? He’s not a tragic figure; he’s a freaking Jeffrey Dahmer, and you ruin his character by turning him into some “uwu poor baby who didn’t know what he was doing.” He did know what he was doing, perfectly well, and he loved it because he was a sadist.

The fact that you have the audacity to say Snape is the worst monster in the saga or claim that his actions are unforgivable while excusing these privileged brats is straight-up aporophobia and classism, and honestly, it’s starting to creep me out.

[theorahsart]

I wanted to draw Camille writing this letter to his Dad, because 8 months on I still think it's one of the most hillarious things I've ever read. Credit to the translated text goes to this wonderful LJ user who's taken the time to translate letters much more eloquently then I can manage rn

[horsemeatluvr23]

this is the face of a man who has never used a tool in his life... what is he doing

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Just reblogging one of my silly posts from the FFXIVwrite2022 thing from September. I quite liked this one, despite the scarring from the Google image search...

Pawn

After sex I began feeling forlorn,

When Emet-Selch turned to me with a yawn,

Saying "Forgive the intrusion,

But I required your collusion,

Since I so wanted to be in a pawn..."

Silliness intensifies...

(Also, I tried googling "sexy Emet-Selch" for an illustration for this... never again... it was too much for my innocent mind...)

[manfredthewarden]

i'd happily take a full game of just scoody-doo-esque mourn watch shenanigans

[crispy-ghee]

Larry and Earvin in an Urban Fantasy setting. Two young men with a rare gift who find themselves tied together in ways they barely comprehend. Maybe they have to save the world, Idk.

[worstloki]

Mu Qing ascending is objectively so funny considering Feng Xin and Xie Lian also do. Out of the people in your kingdom who accomplished immortality there’s this guy who used to be your servant but is now on equal rank to you and he‘s super rude now and also thinks you hate him because he remembers when you were 18 and lacked socioeconomic-interpersonal awareness

[lurkingshan]

It’s interesting to know what Sammon intended for the show, but tbh:

The big romance explanation is not very compelling an idea and not well aligned with the other themes around class disparity and accountability in the work

A lot of the stuff she is claiming as part of the resolution didn’t actually happen (I def missed the part of the show where the “relationship developed properly and gradually” or Great actually did any meaningful atonement)

The different “parallel universes” were never actually brought together and there is no clarity around their shared memories so there is no mutual relationship for them to build from

Not sure if this is just the best explanation she could offer for the result or if this really was her vision and the production just failed to get some of it across. Either way, it’s never good when you have to post an essay explaining your show because people are so confused about what you were trying to say.

I guess the most useful thing here is you can officially classify this as a bl, since apparently the romance was the point!

[arisveah]

hermitcraft is slowly removing my willingness to curse and possessing me to say things like HECK and DARN and GOSH GOLLY GEE like a comically angry butler from the 1800s or an old southern lady, neither of which are a good fit on a goth 15 year old

[zoophagist]

renfield: i'm mr dracula's right hand arm... man. i'm mr dracula ✨everything.✨ i'm his confidant, his best friend,, his silly rabbit-

seward: his what?

renfield: his Silly Rabbit ☺️

seward: is that what he calls you?

renfield: no ❤️

[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")