#THEN HOP ON THIS SHIT TRAIN

[sister-pianist-chan]

Guys, we NEED to manifest the CCC Joker Out human train for Ruissi! Just imagine! Instead of the dancers (or joining the dancers) all 5 members of Joker Out join Jere by doing the train!

Lol anyone wanna predict the order?

My prediction:

Jere riding Bojan (and he makes the fucking face again)- Kris- Nace- Jan- and Jure leading or maybe Häärijä leading.

Or Jere riding Nace maybe? 🧐😉😁

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #107

You've seen the Twitter fics where folks go out of their way to make whole Twitter profiles and properly-formatted tweet threads

You've seen the social media fics with Instagram posts so legit-looking they even have user comments and screenshots of IG stories

You've seen Youtube fics and fake Buzzfeed articles and everything in between

Now get ready for, in this same style, a Tumblr fic*

Featuring, for example:

Peter has a Tony Stark fan account that has been active for like a decade

Flash has a Spider-Man fan account that regularly harasses Peter's account. He leaves comments, asks, makes his own posts about Peter being a fake intern, and has a whole tag on his blog dedicated to #peter's lies (or maybe #penis lol I feel like Flash could get some uh. not intended results for that one)

Spider-Man has an account. Tumblr users discover which account is his WAY faster than he wanted them to

Maybe he saves someone and quips about his most recent hyperfixation, and the person he saved happens to be on Tumblr and happens to notice at 2am an account called wallcrawler posting about that exact same piece of media

Maybe there's a villain with truly unholy looking shoelaces and Peter without even thinking about it quips, "Nice shoelaces, did you steal them from the president?" only to then realize what he's done and someone's caught it on camera and we see Spider-Man rapidly go through the five stages of grief

Stark Industries has a tumblr! They also have a tag dedicated to #kid sightings, #cryptid of si

If they also have tags #tony stark has a heart, #irondad moments, and #stark jr., well.. their boss doesn't need to know

The Twitter apocalypse happens, and a bunch of Avengers migrate over to Tumblr

(Which Avengers do you think seem, perhaps, a little too familiar with this website already...)

(Tumblr sleuths clock Clint's secret blog within the hour. Nat, who has become acclimated to the website very quickly, reblogs Clint's post where he's whining about it with just, "You're supposed to be a spy." It goes viral immediately.)

Y'all know the wild ads we get on this hellsite? Pikachu man? Shaving? What kinds of ads do you think the MCU might have

*to be clear, we're talking about a fic with screenshots of carefully crafted fake tumblr posts and conversations! not a tumblr account roleplaying as various characters and interacting that way!

[dailykugisaki]

Day 100!!! | Id in alt

She's not at the right place, but she's still here regardless.

(messing with backgrounds again! I just wanted Kugisaki to look too real in an unreal kinda place💥 also!fyi. I will not be posting this week or at least a bit so I can hopefully see more posts Abt Palestine n ect and bc of the strike!! Just letting you all know!)

[noodles-even-less-stable]

I cAn FiX HiM

Okay? And I can match his freak, we're not the same

[sweetsuke]

happy five nights at freddy's month to all who celebrate <3

[boxdstars]

i love playing the game of how long can the narrative excuse amara’s actions before she passes the point of no return and the whole place goes up in flames

spoiler: not long.

[yiddishfisting]

fuck america forever and always but lrb is how it feels a lot when you get huge anti america rants from white europeans like yeah this country's evil and should burn! yours isn't exactly uh. all that better my friend

[crayonturtle]

I finally did start reading Tiger, Tiger and. It really is just that good huh 🧍 you weren't lying.

YES DUDE YEEEES

it makes me giggle with how good it is

[papasbaseball]

I think it's actually incredibly sexy to use incorrect Google translate European languages in your fics. I know it would make l'Académie française upset, and therefore, you should do it.

[curiosity-killed]

Absolutely fascinating behavior by the public tonight

[primalrageanddumbassery]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Red vs. Blue Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dexter Grif & Lavernius Tucker, Dexter Grif/Dick Simmons, Lavernius Tucker/Agent Washington Characters: Dexter Grif, Lavernius Tucker, Dick Simmons (Mention), Agent Washington (mention) Additional Tags: Grif and Tucker are Best Friends, (no Simmons isn't grifs best friend. he's his boyfriend), (shoutout to that One fic based on that One tumblr post that uses that premise), (I love you red vs blue fandom. you're so fucking smart), anyways. tags, Cigarettes, what's better than this? just guys bein dudes, making fun of each others love lives while being in the Exact same boat, set ~generally~ before chorus, I don't know yall. this was no thoughts just vibes, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, I've never smoked in my life I'm sorry if it's described wrong, no beta we die like church, (which is to say- Repeatedly and Never for Long Periods of Time!), (god Church really is just prometheus huh? new liver same old eagles), Canon typical use of the word 'pussy' meaning 'coward', Not Canon Compliant, sorry gang we're running on Beck's canon now! Summary:

“You do realize that I practically invented changing the subject to avoid my problems, right?" Grif says with a stupid and smug 'gotcha!' smirk that Tucker fucking resents . "I can tell when someone tries to worm out of a conversation with a shitty joke.”

Tucker rolls his eyes, his grin fading.

“Man, fuck off.” He takes a drag, holds it for a second, blows it out nice and slow. “Listen, if I wanted to talk about my feelings or whatever, I’d get Donut. Or Caboose.”

...

Tucker and Grif bitch about their equally stupid and hopeless love lives and smoke some exceptionally shitty cigarettes.

[rosesncarnations]

Ope, update on the work drama

So our main manager is back from her week off and the other managers are filling her in on everything

And the girl that said another coworker was bottom of the priority list tried to say she didn’t mean it like that (girl what?! How else did you mean it??)

And now she’s going to get her hours cut because of how many coworkers have complained about working with her (and also because she acts like she owns the back room) [like I’m not even supposed to be on the sales floor but she gets huffy if I won’t, like girl be fucking for real]

They’re also not letting her ass hide in the back (she done fucked up good)

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Do you think in-universe that there's actual pokemon levels? If so, how do they measure it? And if not, how do they keep things like the battle facilities level-capped? I remember you mentioning before that you think battles are largely for show, and that in gym battles the leaders/trainers will basically "fight down" to whatever predetermined strength level they've trained their pokemon to fight at depending on how many badges a person has. And that basically they're not actually "fainting" from some kid's baby pokemon, they just have a set amount of damage they can take before they concede the win. Assuming I'm remembering correctly anyway.

But like... are those standards just arbitrary? I assume the various Leagues have rules about that kinda thing, so their gym leaders and Elite Four/Champions are trained rigorously (gym leaders more so, I think, because they'd have to learn eight different levels of difficulty by heart, whereas the Four and Champion only need to abide by one difficulty level). But in a battle facility or tournament, you're not just limiting what your pokemon are allowed to do, you're also somehow making sure that your opponents are doing the same, at the exact same difficulty level. If there were actual levels I think that'd be easier (although I'm still not sure of the actual mechanics of how it'd force them down to level 50 or whatever), but if there's no levels and it's all arbitrary, then literally how would they even tell or enforce it?

Or is this the kinda thing that's just me entirely overthinking video game mechanics that have no logical or reasonable in-universe explanation. Because maybe it's just because it's really late here, but I'm drawing a blank. Although, I guess the pokemon universe does have some mind-bogglingly advanced tech that would in no way work in ours, like Bill's machine that turned him into a clefairy or a functional doomsday device 4,000 years before the modern era or even just the PC system as a whole, so I guess if there are levels it'd make sense that there was some kind of tech that could measure and suppress them?

oooh, really tough question.

so your first paragraph summary is basically right lol—what makes most sense to me is if pokemon battles are like, for show, or honor duel type things, where they're—generally speaking—stopped long before the point where either party would do lasting harm to the other. (there are exceptions, like in the case of frenzied alphas or other certain wild battles, but usually if it's not a scenario that is legitimately life or death, they're not gonna fight like it is.) it's just a matter of demonstrating that one is stronger, and their opponent conceding. & yeah, the corollary that goes along with that is that gym leaders and other high level fighters really are, as they rightly should be, much more powerful at a baseline than you are when you fight them—but to make the fight fairer, they'll try to match strengths with you.

levels though. yeah, it's kind of a toughie. even if you don't assume the above, levels are kind of tough to make coherent in-universe. this might just be one of those situations where game mechanics sort of run up against inworld depiction, yeah, like when an npc tells you to press the B button to run? or the apparent metaphysical law of reality preventing anyone from having more than 6 pokemon on their team at once. it might be that in reality, "strength levels" (inc. not just xp levels but also EVs/IVs and that kind of thing, since some trainers (ingo again) have also shown that they can modulate those) are just sort of a thing a high-level trainer and their team gets a general feel for as they advance, and then maybe they have to do some extra training to actually do the moderation, but the general sense for different strength levels is already there. like, maybe it's not as granular as "okay, now be level 37," it's just "yeah put in like... 40% of your normal effort. great."

but then yeah, the idea that there's no hard and fast rule for it makes stuff like the battle subway kind of hard to explain. since like, there's no way to actually stop someone from cheating and going over 50, and if they do there's no actual Numbers for them to point to and say "no, you've gotta take it back a bit." they can only rely on vibes to determine whether someone isn't strength scaling appropriately? that seems like they wouldn't be a fan of that.

on the other hand i do love the idea that modern day pokemon people have invented some kind of machine that can just scan your pokemon and output a bunch of numerical summaries of their general stats. ooh, maybe that's one of the things a pokemon center machine is doing when you heal, it's giving them a lil blip and updating their info chip in the pokeball-or-however-it-works with their latest info. if it was anything that was actually enforcing a level standard i think it would have to be based around that, since modern pokemon are at least partially data based and i think it would make some kind of sense to be able to sort of. put checks on that data.

alternately, there's no actual physical limitations, it's just that if you try that you will be kicked out of whatever you're participating in. and there would probably be like, sports news drama about it, depending on whether you were participating in some kind of tournament. so people generally don't bc the payoffs of winning once aren't worth it when it's so immediately obvious to everyone that they're breaking the rules. (there could even be some kind of like, known scammer's/cheater's art of trying to just barely toe the line of "rule-breakingly strong" without anyone being able to strictly prove it and punish them for it. but for the most part that's more investment than people want to do for not a lot of gain, it's easier to just fight normally)

...but then the thing you always circle back around to when talking abt this is like. from the battle subway forwards, you're not just going down to 50, they can make you go up to 50 too. which is like, how the fuck, even. how are they juicing the fuck out of my level 20 starter to make them match with everyone else. which is why i feel like there might not be any physical in-world numbers about it, and it's just a matter of it being accepted that both opponents should play down to whatever the weakest party member is, and 50 happens to be the standard level the games represent that as for ease of calculation.

-ok wait a second i just went to check and according to bulba in post-bw games, like in the battle maison and further, they stop doing that scale-up-to-50 thing. it's just the fucking battle subway that does that?? hi?? hello?? out of universe i guess this makes sense from a gameplay perspective, since they're a much earlier-game and generally more accessible facility than other regions, so it's actually unlikely that a player would have a level 50 team when first boarding. in-universe, though?? what the hell are you guys doing over there???

[3416]

steve dangle ranting about the fact that ~certain~ leafs players put their jersey numbers in their contract amounts........... who gives a single fuck actually

[fuckinvaderarcs]

As a former mod I want to strangle the shit out of the very concept of IA lol I can’t even watch normal Invader Zim without feeling weird and Bad

honest to god every time i look at that show im haunted by the horrors dib mun brought

[the-smallest-gremlin]

who knew that actually eating breakfast would make me feel so alive! wow!