#WE could afford it

[green-blue-heller]

No… no…

Like…

This is all actually somehow worse (better?)…

Remember, this is literally only eight minutes in!

He looks down as soon as he says it, a little flustered and embarrassed. But there’s no indication he’s about to no-homo what he said.

There’s a slightly awkward pause with him and Misha. But Misha doesn’t actually look surprised (cue your memory of his over-dramatic look when Jensen said he recorded them… in the zoom, not room, for the podcast…) or upset or like anything.

So like… did they have a discussion at some point, that if there was ever an opening to put that out there, that if either of them felt comfortable enough in the situation, that they could take the opportunity???

And Jensen decided to take a freight train and make steer that puppy right in there…

Because here’s the thing.

If there had been no prior discussion and understanding that something like that could be said, Misha would have every right to be upset - considering nothing about Jensen’s demeanor was indicative to it being a joke.

We have had a decade of jokes and bits to know when he’s making a joke. Even if we know it’s a half truth contained within the joke/bit.

It looks more like he’s just catching up and realizing where Jensen is taking this.

And it seems like just as they’re about to fully process and address, cue the music and cake.

Like I want… no, I need to know how they were going to follow up on that statement.

But now we’ll never know.

And even though their moment got interrupted, they weren’t uncomfortable with one another after and neither of them pulled away.

In fact, for the next 50+ minutes they’re still being sweet and cracking jokes and you have Jensen serenading Misha and as he literally sits on the floor, practically at Jensen’s feet, staring at him as though he’s the eighth fucking wonder of the world, Jensen gets so flustered he can’t play the guitar or remember the lyrics.

To 1) a song he literally wrote and 2) to a song he’s been singing and playing for a decade! 😂🤣😂

No… seriously… look at him…

So then Jensen is like come on back up here and let’s write a song. Let’s write a song together…

And the look on Jensen’s face, when Misha sings making it about Dean with Sam and then immediately adds about the angel.

Like, Jensen was 💯 planning a romantic song and yeah Misha did kind of try to reign things in a little there, as he always has to do during their panels, but Jensen was like nope, this isn’t a brothers song.

And how do we really know Misha wasn’t upset?

“Deeeean… Deeean… I love you, Dean. Dieter… kiss me…”

Yes, it was their characters, and him and JP were trying to annoy Jensen and get a rise out of him (and I so love that we did get a grumpy!jensen moment, because they’re so damn adorable and that asshole knows it). But he wouldn’t have kept saying “I love you” and “kiss me” if he’d been upset about being publicly declared as Danneel and Jensen’s boyfriend…

Sorry for hijacking your post, Ary, but this why I’m kind of convinced they may have actually sort of planned this. Maybe not this exact moment, but the general happening of this moment.

(Special thanks to @angelradioco for workshopping this with me last night… lol)

What I want to know is WHY?

Why'd you say it, Jensen? You didn't have to. You were talking about cooking for fuck's sake! COOKING!! You said you like spicy food-- and that your wife often makes you spicy food.

How great.

How wholesome.

Sure, you kinked it up a bit. You went on to say that she knows how to "spice things up in the kitchen."

Ha Ha

*wink wink * nudge nudge*

And Misha of course responded in his very Misha-like-way with -- "Oh yeah she does!"

So you go "Ayye!" in your trademarked Dean-ish, mock-grumpy tone.

And that was fine.

That was all good, Jensen. You could've left it there, son! You could've gone back to the fucking innocuous topic of cooking.

Go on and share Danneel's recipe. Maybe your favorite spice while you're at it. Or even just go back to saying Italian words in your very Mario & Luigi type accent ... any of that would've worked, my guy.

The world is filled with non-implicating topics!

But NOOOOO .... instead you take a fucking eon-long pause, rub your thigh in the universally known nervous-jackles way, and then you say:

"SHE DOES REFER TO MISHA AS HER BOYFRIEND"????

and then

AAANNDDD THEN

ANNNNDDD THEN YOU SAY

"WHICH IS FUNNY 'CAUSE SO DO I????"

YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT COOKING, SIR!!!

COOKING!

MOTHER FUCKING COOKING!

[priestblaster]

butchfemme love is so beautiful to me

[t4t4t]

Idk new post bc the last lost traction, no donations in a week. We need 450 for the rest of February, 450 for a deposit, and 950 for March, 50 for the rest of the utilities. We were homeless since Aug 2020 excepting 4 different months whose places fell through for various reasons, have to get rid of the van we were living in because it's falling apart, Collie got FFS December 28th, she's recovering well and maybe could do something with a car if we had a better car, given her ability to drive. I still haven't found much work but I'm still looking. Anything helps.

paypal.me/NoraEstherRose

venmo: nora-esther-rose

venmo: Leah-Esther-Rose

[pseudospectre]

[the-punforgiven]

Hey, I'm really sorry to have to ask y'all, but my family and I are being evicted from our home and we can't really afford to live anywhere else.

We've been saving up for a while and we've found a place we can almost afford, but we're still short about $4,400. So like, if you have anything you can do to help I'd greatly appreciate it, but like, I get that times are tough all around so I totally understand if you don't

Here's a link to my paypal, but like, please only donate if you've got the cash to spare, I don't want anyone to go hungry on my account

[fungusqueen]

me and an older coworker have this long-running joke we do at work where we make up stories/events when we know customers are listening. mostly we try to, in one sentence, create some sort of mystery and intrigue. sometimes the story can continue and it can morph and evolve. and whether the customers are listening or tuning in, or engaging with us in regards to that story, thats up to them. sometimes we do it just in passing, so we can just drop the story off and walk away.

but like, recently, the stories have revolved around yodeling classes. for example, we might walk past each other and say:

"how much did you pay for your yodeling class?"

"did you ever get the refund for your yodeling class?"

"hey, I need the number to your yodeling teacher, don't forget when I see you in the break room!"

"I'm coming to your yodeling graduation, save me a ticket!"

"is your sister still dating her yodeling teacher?"

but if we're working together, there is more opportunity to have a more in-depth conversation around the given topic. but like, today we were talking to a customer and she was telling us about some random national holiday tomorrow (Rice Krispie treat day) and we were talking about the process to propose holidays for things like that (random things). and my coworker says "hey there should be a national yodeling day!" and so I tell her "he's doing yodeling classes," so he has to play along with it/continue the story. and the customer was so intrigued and asked to hear a sample of the yodeling...which I knew he couldn't perform because the yodeling classes don't exist. so I quickly said that our managers have asked him to stop yodeling at work so he, unfortunately, cannot yodel for her at this moment. and then we're just like, okay anyway, goodbye stranger, have a good day! back to work!

and then sometimes, my coworker lets out an evil laugh after we have successfully convinced a customer of our made-up story. I'm not good at an evil laugh, so I don't do one, but like, in my head i definitely feel evil and mischievous

[ganondoodle]

the company i work for decided that its switching from the german formal "You"(Sie) to the informal "you" (Du) in all of our websites so now we have to scour the entire database to change it and i quite frankly hate that, not just bc the unecessary extra work but especially bc its such a weird and unecessary change

i bet its bc everything here is getting englishfied (both literally and culturally it feels like, when my new boss talks its half in english bc every second german word is just replaced by an english one despite there being perfectly fine words for it in german too, its so annoying) and bc they want to sound more personal in hopes of getting more clients bc 'company is your fwiend uwu!!', i know this here is the amercian tm site so you wouldnt understand really but i do not want to be greeted with 'du' by companies, no, thats too personal, you dont know me and im not giving you my data, stay away!!

i guess thats how i would describe it .. the formal you is like a polite distance, like someone you dont know staying outside your personal space, but when its the informal 'you' it feels invasive unless i told you you can call me that, and that goes double for companies

maybe its a small thing that doesnt seem important but i cant stand it, im just a little part time worker doing data work so i got no say in it but the companies founder also announced hes giving his post to his kids some time ago so ...... since then theres been alot of changes and new projects that solely aim to imitate whats popular and whats done by other companies, despite ours being one that is, or used to be, intentionally different, like, that was the POINT, but i guess chasing trends is just too appealing for CEOs

[sforzesco]

"Since you've named yourself after Julius fucking Caesar, perhaps I'll follow in your lead and choose one of the conspirators." "Interesting," says Giuliano. "Should I worry about finding you at the center of some kind of conspiracy that ends with my death?" "Not from me," replies Ascanio. He sounds tired. "Not anymore."

informally, some kind of. conversational follow up to the last comic. I'm trying to get the atmospheric conversational whimsy out of my system because I have a vision of the vatican as a body in active decay, a point of infection spreading out and poisoning the well, a jaw unhinged that people walk into over and over, and I am so close to figure out how to convey this visually. maybe.

[forecast0ctopus]

wrastling......

[spurgie-cousin]

Here is the profile from The Times on Ballerina Farm if you'd like to read it, I've only had time to skim it but holy shit. Her husband does a lot of talking for her in this article and it does paint a picture that was even bleaker than I think most people realized.

It sounds like she is just run ragged, contrary to popular belief she does not have any help in the day to day at all, and it apparently gets to the point where he husband says she can be in bed for days from pure exhaustion. it also sounds like her husband pushed her to give up her previous ambitions to start a family quicker than she originally wanted, so she tries so hard to fit pursuing her own goals into an insane schedule but it's just too much for one person to do most of the time.

Anyway this article really paints her husband as a controlling asshole, and for the first time ever I'm feeling sympathy for Hannah.

[eminentzayn]

a hug to 12 year old me who was a fan that couldn't afford concert tickets;

a hug to 23 year old me whose worked hard to fulfill her childhood promise to herself that if they ever reunited, she'd be there, front and center, with the most expensive ticket money can buy;

now, a hug to 25 year old me, the me of today, who has to live with the fact that she'll never witness the magic of an ot5 concert in her life;

i'm truly grieving the places i've never been today.

[egberts]

people shouldn't be allowed to sell houses that have known problems with things like the plumbing. like we are currently dealing with the ramifications of the people before us leaving the house in shitty condition, but what could we do? we couldn't afford anything that wasn't a fixer-upper and our apartment was falling apart under our feet. we were forced into a home buying decision and now live in a shoddy flip like millions of other young home buyers in America, meanwhile the people who caused the problems are running off with the profit and a smile on their face

[cozylittleartblog]

swatchvember prompt: party

happy 37th birthday to Microsoft Paint ✨🎂🎉🎈

[omatoxin]

doing it scared!! (birthday self portrait)

[feroluce]

Connecting dots tonight (didn't connect shit, I've connected them, etc) because of this post about item descriptions to do with Sampo I saw a few days ago and! I feel like there are so many interesting things that could be implied from this!! Because the recipe for the High-Tech Protective Gear is given to you by Bronya (before the IPC invaded Belobog!), who says this little interesting tidbit about it:

This is an item from before the Eternal Freeze, 700 years ago. Even to the rest of the universe, it would be SORELY outdated. It cannot be made in Belobog anymore due to the loss of entire eras. It is effectively useless; this recipe had to be somewhere gathering dust, kept around solely for archival purposes. There is no reason for Sampo to know about this item or have any idea how it works and yet. AND YET. He's just running around selling knock offs!!

He shouldn't even know how to make these, but the fact that he does means Sampo either

had the blueprints from off-world before he came to Belobog (most likely but also most boring answer)

broke into Qlipoth Fort and copied down the blueprints (completely plausible - he's possibly shown doing exactly that in his splash art)

found another copy out in the ruins of the old world (also completely plausible - Sampo is astoundingly resilient against both the Fragmentum and the cold, as noted by Lynx haha)

Meanwhile, the Inferior Protective Gear recipe comes from an NPC in the underground, and when she gives it to you, she talks about building robots and the robot fighting scene sorry about the quality I didn't have screenshots for her dialogue so I had to use wiki

Which makes me feel like it's safe to say that the inferior gear is mostly being used in the underground, especially by the vagrants and their robots for fights, because...well, who else would use it? Cocolia has made it illegal to explore too far into the Snow Plains, and besides, it's way too dangerous for most civilians even WITH gear. The Silvermane Guards are funded by official sources, they have no reason to rely on Sampo for armor. So it makes sense for an underground mechanic to know the recipe; there's probably not as much market for it up in the overworld.

And if you look at the descriptions, you can see why this probably wasn't something that could be made in Belobog anymore; it requires a charging system of some sort.

We know it's not a problem with the basic materials because all three ingredients can be found right in the administrative district. But the underground only has two of them; somehow, despite being in the planet's crust, and literally crawling with robots...there is no metal down there. It isn't found anywhere, sold by anyone, or dropped by anything. And metal just so happens to be the one ingredient Sampo replaces in his knock off version.

The Inferior Gear uses trash instead, something which, going by the words of that same mechanic, is MORE than abundant in the underground- any good quality parts are extremely difficult to come by down there.

Anyway, all his shadiness aside, I love the implication that Sampo is smart enough to be able to take this item that no one else on the planet probably knows anything about, and was able to figure out what he could replace, and how, and with what, in order to make it easily accessible to the people of the underground, even without access to overworld resources. Because his version DOES work! It literally gives you the exact same amount of defense boost as the IPC one!

Someone should absolutely still knock him around for it, though, world's most slappable face fr fjkdsjfdkjafk

[nataliescatorccio]

what is it going to take for the uk to abolish the monarchy? what is it going to take to stop ignoring years and years of atrocities that this figurehead stands for? or to stop cheering at men parading in golden carriages while people starve on the streets? i'm so tired of seeing an outdated constitution glorified while the people i know live pay check to pay check, if they can at all, with constant concern that they won't be able to afford to live for the next month, let alone afford such things as their own home, while one family leeches off them just because they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. eat the rich and feed the poor.