#ZERO COST

[thoughtswordsaction]

Zero Cost - Mouths To Feed CD EP (Engineer Records)

Zero Cost‘s new EP, Mouths To Feed, offers a compelling journey through the passionate landscape of modern melodic punk rock. Released under Engineer Records, this EP solidifies Zero Cost’s place in the contemporary punk scene while paying homage to the genre’s roots. With influences ranging from classic skate punk bands like Bad Religion, Pulley, NOFX, and The Descendents, Zero Cost has crafted…

[3liza]

I don't know how many times we have to say this but this is because the United States of America does not have public transit in any form that a European would recognize as such outside of a few very small, highly-dense municipal locations like NYC and Chicago, and having used both those systems and the U-Bahn i can firmly assert that the U-Bahn blows American subways into smithereens. we especially do not have accessible interstate passenger train service outside of that one commuter Amtrak loop in the northeast. the country is designed to force its citizens to use cars and only cars, and the government has made it policy to incentivize car ownership since the 1940s and punish any other form of transit, including just walking around. do you understand? the vast majority of roads here do not have bike lanes. when we do have bike lanes they are not protected by a curb or divider, they are just white lines painted on the asphalt. you will regularly encounter roads and streets--inside of cities and suburbs, not just in rural areas--that do not have sidewalks

[smeraldo-heart]

How it feels to be a Cal Kestis fan when Star Wars makes almost 0 merch of him or anything from his games:

[worldxwonders]

One thing I haven't been able to get off my mind since Khao Reigns;

HE DESERVES BETTER.

[chinchillion]

[psychicbergara]

how much do you wanna bet that after this response, the people bullying, harassing, and sending vitriolic threats to them are now like 'oh thank you for listening, love you guys so much' like give me a BREAK you people are miserable

[unproduciblesmackdown]

always enjoyed the Chess Set In The Foreground perspective framing used here

now also noting like, huh, a chess set in a general store just visited by marigold competitors who killed one of their guys and are now on the way back from their rendezvous point w/suppliers

[wasabi-gumdrop]

thinking about modern au Kabru

ivy league college student, probably studying law and political science on a full scholarship. first time living away from Milsiril so he has to promise her, yes mom i’ll call you at least four times a week, no mom i don’t need your amex black card, yes mom the normal credit card is fine i need to learn how to budget like a Normal Person (it has a limit of $20k — that’s not normal Kabru).

Milsiril insists for a long time that she’ll just get him a house off campus so he can have his own space (aka a place she can drop by anytime and possibly live a few months out of the year just to be close to him) but Kabru puts his foot down and tells her the best way he’s gonna make friends is by living with other students (bye mom).

his floor in the coed dorms is the party floor and he always makes sure to invite everybody (his nightmare is accidentally leaving anyone out and having them think that he doesn’t like them). somehow it’s always a good time, everyone leaves with more friends than they came with, it never gets totally out of control, and plenty of girls who are interested in him (and a lot of guys too tbh) bring tons of baked treats so there’s always free food. Kabru is the RA’s favourite person to have in the building (even though Kabru himself is messy but most of the people he’s friends with are nice and clean up after themselves).

he has a porsche (Milsiril gift for his 16th bday) but he’s adamant about not driving it unless he absolutely has to (because he doesn’t wanna look like a douche). BUT he never says no when his friends ask for rides (so he ends up driving all the time anyway). he actually contemplates selling the porsche and going for a more practical car but Mickbell is like ‘dude you are not taking this away from me.’ Kabru sighs and decides to keep it because his friends (Mickbell) like being chauffeured around in a fancy convertible (Rin, Holm, and Dia don’t care, they’re just glad they don’t have to walk to the grocery store).

he’s probably on a casual texting basis with most of his professors and you know he’s going to all their office hours, grabbing beer with them just to keep chatting about life outside of school. and that’s how he winds up in some super secret faculty group chat where he’s now privy to all the college administration gossip.

Kabru is elected for student council during his freshman year and he’s probably the favourite to be sc president one day.

he doesn’t really date (gets too in his head about how he doesn’t wanna ruin any friendships) but he does hang out one on one with a lot of girls and treats them all really well. he probably goes so far out of his way to be platonic that he flies a little too close to the ‘Just Like One of the Girlies’ sun, he kinda forgets that most people interpret it as flirting coming from him. which leads to a few awkward conversations. people feeling led on, a few angry jealous boyfriends, scathing dms about him being a girl stealing homewrecker.

it’s such a nightmare for him and he needs it to end right now. so he begs Rin to ‘date’ him for a week or two and then publicly dump him just so the entire student body gets the message that he is Just A Friend.

Rin stares at him for a few seconds. then she laughs. she laughs and laughs. she laughs for a crazy long time. and then eventually she goes, ‘wow you’re an asshole, Kabru. no i won’t be your fake girlfriend. you’re gonna suffer and i’m going to enjoy it.’

and that’s when Kabru has a moment of enlightenment. ok yeah. asking for that is probably really selfish and mean. maybe he needs to think about girls’ feelings more and that’s maybe more important than his deep seated need to be liked, and when has Rin ever been wrong about anything.

he apologizes. and so begins one of the more serious talks he’s ever had with Rin about being okay with not being liked.

he thinks he can really turn over a new leaf. the whole ‘not worrying about what other people think’ thing goes pretty well — up until Kabru meets the aloof professor for his Monsters and Myths class who keeps forgetting and mispronouncing his name.

Kabru has never needed someone to like him So Bad, he needs Prof. Touden to like him as a matter of life and death, and he’s willing to look stupid for it (fails a midterm on purpose to justify begging for one on one tutoring)

[icarusdiesatdawn]

2025 I'm beating the nerdy prude allegations by joining the smoke club

[mo-online]

so dumb i even have to say this but if you don't like the content i post about... scroll? i've had like 4 people yell at me because i have the audacity to like kevjean, which, 1) insane, and 2) OH MY GOD IT SAYS IN MY BIO THAT I'M LITERALLY A KEVJEAN FAN BLOG YOU DO NOT HAVE TO INTERACT WITH ME!!!!!!

block tags!! it's legitimately so fucking easy, i will send each and every one of you a tutorial if you really want! interacting with content that you don't like is literally just going to put more of it on your dash.

and getting this heated over ships is actually batshit crazy. my sincerest apologies for being "delusional" because i post about the ship i literally created this blog just to post about. i don't actually believe that they're going to be endgame in tsc and like i have said over and over, i literally don't want jean to end up with anyone yet. not kevin, not jeremy, not even renee. he literally just left the nest and i genuinely don't want him in a relationship for another Several Years. i just like posting silly goofy kevjean shit because i've always had a soft spot for it since fucking trk. sue me.

people shouldn't have to explain themselves over meaningless shipping discourse. this is NOT the 2016 voltron fandom!!! LET ME LIVE 😭😭😭

[mnemosyne-xiv]

I'm sorry but his smile is just so--lord give me strength

[thoughtswordsaction]

Zero Cost Teamed Up With Engineer Records For New EP Release

Hull’s premier hard-hitting, speedy skate punks Zero Cost, who were raised on a steady diet of Bad Religion, NOFX and The Descendents, have teamed uo with Engineer Records to release ‘Mouths To Feed‘ EP, on Friday, 21st June. Formed in 2021, Zero Cost have played shows across the North of England with Bear Away, 999, Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies, Kate Clover, Kings Alias and The Ming City…

[cbk1000]

Alright, I don’t want to be too mean or embarrass you, so I'll be nice and say it like it is discretely where only you can see it. I heard some people on here were talking about Books of Merthur. I read the first few chapters, and honestly, I feel like I’m watching some bad art film—way too long, trying to be deep, but it’s just boring and off-topic. I didn’t finish it, and honestly, I don’t know how anyone could. I recognize the effort, but it's a mess. I know you imagine it is 'complex' and 'thought-provoking,' but it's really just a bunch of try-hard, pretentious nonsense trying to be a leftist hot-take on some bastardized British mythology. I had some high hopes for this but, yeah, it's just not it...

I accidentally gave it a kudo a while back and I wish I could reverse it somehow. So please always subtract one in your mind when you look at the amount there, alright? Thanks, babe.

I'm publishing this, because I think it's hilarious.

I won't subtract the kudos in my mind, you left it and now it's there forever, babe.

[moeblob]

Garet is literally so friend shaped. I can't believe how friend shaped this boy is. (top pic is actual dialogue)

[mycenaae]

the added layer to max’s freakout about the throuple — aside from the obvious — is that in the midst of trying to navigate his feelings about it and whether he wants to do it again/expand it into a relationship, he was also immediately confronted head-on with the possibility of being Pandemic Ground Zero once again. not only did he clearly feel like he wasn’t being respected on a professional level immediately after sleeping with avery and tristan (something already primed to make him feel weird, considering the conversations he’s had with both of them) both because he clearly felt ganged up on and because it was implied they went over his head to inform captain massey, but ALSO he was clearly freaked out by the possibility of having to face all of that again, and imo more than a little in denial about it. from his perspective, he went after what he wanted and got it, and the universe responded by threatening to put him back in hell. of course he overreacted and panicked and ran away!!

[defiledtomb]

I'm doing it. I'm taking a Break.