#and being unobservant

[norman-smsl-guidancecounselor]

@insertdisc5 don't mind me I just redrew yer sloops so that they're riding a sloop :sifThumbsUp:

[dredgesnails]

how quickly the lifers figured out the wildcard mechanic for session 2:

2 fast 2 family: literally immediately. gem nearly ate her sword before the wildcard activation message had even left the screen and joel noticed his hunger was strange just as quickly. took them no time at all to figure out what they could and could not eat. watching their pov first really made me think everyone was gonna have just as easy a time as they did so imagine my surprise when everyone started dying

bigb and the four Gs: scott and bigb noticed the hunger bar in about ten seconds but it took them all a minute or two to realise they could eat anything. and longer still to find what really worked well. pearl nearly starved to death in the process

the spanners and the tuff guys and renwood: took a good thirty seconds for bdubs to notice the "zombie hungry" though in fairness to them, grian was deliberately trying to mislead them. most of them figured out the rest pretty quickly after that and went back to their own little bases to experiment after a bit. skizz and mumbo took so long to figure out what they could eat though that grian had to intervene and mumbo still starved to death despite it

bamboozlers: like everyone else, noticed their hunger pretty quickly. unlike everyone else, their course of action was, believing they could just never regen hunger again, to make boats to travel in everywhere. which of course didn't work because they had hunger. about three minutes in grian sent the "eat things!" message in chat and that was when lizzie ate the stone shovel and they committed to that as their sole food resource for the next half hour. who knows how long they would have taken to figure it out if grian hadn't said anything in chat

[teatitty]

Funniest KakaIru first meeting to me is if they're forced to be roommates for whatever reason and Iruka just. Has no fucking idea who Kakashi is. Sure he's heard of the guy's reputation and stuff but how is he supposed to know that Kakashi-the-roommate is the same as Kakashi-the-infamous-shinobi? The Kakashi he knows is laidback and lazy and sleeps in until 11 and reads on the ceiling and uses the baby voice on his dogs

And Kakashi has no idea who Iruka is either. Yeah yeah he's heard about some delinquent kid who gave Asuma grey hairs early but the Iruka he knows mutters curses under his breath when he can't find something in the flat and reads historical drama's and slips his dogs extra treats when he thinks Kakashi isn't looking and stays up way too late doing work unless you bodily drag him off to bed

So you can imagine the tonal whiplash they both get when the shoe finally drops

[magnusmadness]

hey friendly reminder to the entire TMA fandom that jonathan sims, the archivist, is asexual. he does not have sex with anyone. this is canon and stated in the show. please don’t erase that aspect of his character. please don’t erase asexuality representation.

[cassmouse]

Am I unobservant or does it come up later on- but do we ever get much of a show of which positions all of the Yellowjackets play? I'm just curious lmao (though if they're different to British football positions I don't think I'll have much clue on what they mean. Like do they have the striker, midfielders, etc??)

[theo-decker]

Unrelated I rewatched the handmaiden last night and I revoke any half baked criticisms I made about it when I was 25, it is my fav lesbian movie ever. Honestly what more can you want.

[britneyshakespeare]

Don't tell my mom but this new puppy loves me the most

[ghostzzy]

ngl i love being home alone

[ineffablefool]

.....how did it take me four days after watching The Star Beast to realize that about the youngest Noble (yes I was confused when the kids on the bikes yelled at her)

(At least it was quicker than after I watched Good Omens s1, when it took a couple weeks of my Tumblr dash being 50% Ineffable Walnuts userpics before I realized that hey you could maybe ship these two)

[catboydan]

fiance got me a kindle for my birthday <3

[anaalnathrakhs]

honestly i think i feel more comfortable w things like "miss" and other generally more childish ways to talk about. female people? i dunno how to de-age it. anyway what i mean is that gendered expectations & gendered everything vary quite a lot depending on people's ages, and especially (assuming no abuse is going on) there can be kind of a "free pass" for non-conformity when you're a kid, just like there can be a free pass for all sorts of polite social manners until you're too old to like, play in the mud.

if you call me miss, you're playing along, you're being jokingly overly polite to a little kid who is clearly not old enough to need an honorific before their name. it's like you're calling me a teen or an adult. if you call me ma'am you're seeing a woman. you're acknowledging what you see. the primary point has shifted from age to gender. and i don't know if i'm really comfortable being perceived as very much solidly a woman.

[undetectorist]

returning to being active on twitter right as it literally crashes and burns sure is a choice i have made. am making

[just-sum-stupid-account]

I'm just gonna blame all the weird characterizations & directions post-Plastic Beach Gorillaz is going in as the after-effects of The Evangelist pulling some dimensional strings in a desperate move to prevent the end of the Gorillaz' world by ocean draining

[starcandybby]

having this account that absolutely no one in my real life knows about has been freeing in ways i did not anticipate

[bitchfitch]

Hey, sorry but could you explain Fiana?

he got into an argument with Arlo the asshole unicorn on neopets in 1994 and by sheer luck got grounded before she could open the message that would have Isekai-ed child Fiana onto a boat long after the end of the universe. On the night before his doctoral thesis defense she opened up his neopets account again just to try and destress and relax so she could get some sleep and welp.

he's the only human in the time of that pirate thing, is the eternal first mate of the harbor's bane (the pirate ship from the pirate thing), and wears a cat ear headband bc she thinks it's funny.

Has a grappling hook and is a great shot with it.

[isekyaaa]

To be honest, I think the thing about wanting to be liked by people, but not getting the validation you'd like about being a likeable person is like... people assume that people should like them for who they are. And when faced with this dilemma is that most people go in two opposite directions. They either stick adherently to the person they believe themselves to be or they change themselves into what they assume is the person most people would like.

The truth of the matter is that neither of these routes will get people to the place they want to go. When you stick to the first route, you become inherently self-absorbed. You show no consideration to the feelings and thoughts the people around you, what they are and are not comfortable with, etc. If you go the second route, you essentially become a robot following a preprogrammed path and responding in a preprogrammed way. Nothing you say is truly you.

I'm not going to say there is a magic formula to being the most likable, but the more you stray to the edges, the more conventionally unlikable you'll become.

I think the most difficult thing here for people is that the key to finding a good middle ground is confidence. It is only through confidence in yourself as a person that'll help you to stick to what your beliefs when you differ from others, but also being able to relax such convictions when there's no need for them.

Taking a chance by taking a step in the opposite direction of where you currently stand is scary. But you will never get anywhere if you stand still. All journeys start with the first step, as they say. But there's no rush. Everyone has the right to go about it slowly. But it will be worth it.