#and say you dont own an air fryer

[paper-mario-wiki]

Hey how do you cook chicken so often. It's always a huge fucking hassle to me to prep and cook chicken and it's so expensive I usually don't bother. Is there some trick you know for making it easy?

the answer's a lot more simple than ya think. i just have a huge bag of chicken breasts in the freezer. dont remember PRECISELY how much it was, pretty sure under $25 for 10 pounds at costco, and it'll last you several weeks when cooking for one.

the only real "prep" for making it easier is, when i don't have any chicken thawed in the fridge, i take some out of the freezer and put it into a plastic bag in the fridge. then, by the next day, ive got chicken that can be cooked and eaten up in 10 minutes. while still raw, it'll stay good for 2 days refrigerated, and up to 4 if you're stupid.

the breasts are actually a little bigger than i'd like when cooking just for myself, so while they're still frozen i find their middle and split them in half on the hard corner of my kitchen counter.

before seasoning, pat down the breast with a paper towel to get excess moisture off. it'll cook more evenly and make seasoning stick easier. i only use salt and pepper before cooking because im lazy and spiceless (poor), but you can definitely use herbs and whatnot when cooking. also smash down some of the thicker bits of the meat with the bottom of a cup or a mallet if you've got one. as long as the breast isn't thicker than, say, the width of your index finger, it'll cook through very easily, mostly in its own juices. otherwise you'll have a harder time cooking it evenly, though it can still be done. it just takes longer and might not look as nice.

pan-frying is as easy as putting in a splash of olive oil (not a ton, just enough for the breast to rest in), and cooking for 5 to 7 minutes on both sides, depending on how brown you want it. this is on medium-high heat, so i set my stove's little heat dial to 6 or 7.

for reference, the meal i made today (chicken breast, hashbrown, fried kale) was prepared in about 15ish minutes, including prepping the chicken and getting it on the pan, which was done first cuz it takes the longest to cook. the hashbrowns cooked on the far side of the pan away from the chicken, and the kale in my air fryer for 3 minutes. the chicken came off the pan first, and i let it rest for a few minutes while i let the hashbrowns finish cooking.

it sounds like a lotta work, but sincerely the most tedious thing about cooking with chicken is thawing it out, so having a few single-person servings of chicken in the fridge makes the whole process much simpler.

make sure that you're wiping down surfaces and utensils that the chicken touches while still raw, and try not to let any of the other foods at all. salmonella is easily avoidable, but still no joke.

[ants-personal]

oh i just knooow that one day chris felt brave calling benson a fag cause he offered to help randy to simply take out the trash

last time it ended with the bag ripping spilling garbage everywhere and randy hiding tears as he cleaned it up he had asked benson to stay cause really he didnt want to get attacked by a raccoon or one of those really big rats and whos benson to pass up a smoke break and just being near randy plus its one if not the first time randy asked him to stay with him

Chris asks if benson is only helping cause he knows randy sucks off hardy and wants to do the same to him at the dump like the couple of fags they are and really benson was ready to stab christ to death right then and there in the kitchen with the shity rusty pair of scissors or dunk his head in the fryer neck cracking with a hard pop he only doesnt cause when he takes a glance at randy he sees the rage he so rarely sees in his cold eyes posture ridged and like he make actually lunge at chris. He it brings his anger down to a simmer he wants to see what randy will actually do hes more interested in that now than the violent thoughts. Randy grinds his teeth like hes testing the words out first.

"You shouldnt be rude to benson he hasnt done anything to you" Whether a warning or simply a weird way of pleading with chris to be nice benson is left a little disappointed not even a curse word but he did stick up for well benson not himself one step forward two back chris laughing hes bound to make more comments or a bigger scene when randy glances at benson with a minute tilt of his head towards the door any normal person probably would have missed it but benson hasnt and never will be normal and so benson follows they dont say much randy apologizes about chris benson says tells him not to its not his fault chris was born with an ass for a brain randy even laughs a little and bensons anger nearly dissipates

nearly hes still mad and chris really needs someone to knock him down a peg or two so on their way back in benson hangs back randy doesnt ask and he makes his way to his car and then the front of the resturant checking the windows and spots chris he is fully invested with jess on the counter and thats when benson takes out the hunters knife and plunges it deep into the front tire of chris's truck the air hissing is satisfying enough and he makes his way back inside through the back

and when chris sees his truck lopsided as they leave for the day he freaks out and turns to benson with an accusatory look hes about to open his stupid mouth and the knife still in his pocket calls for him when randy points out a very sharp rock that just happened to be near that tire hardy calls chris an idiot for popping his tires on rocks of all things

randy stands next to him when he looks at randy he finds randy meeting his gaze with a sheepish smile benson has a feeling randy knows he must know and he just helped give benson a cover story god he wants so badly to reach out grip randy's shoulder and let him know how much of a good boy he is but he doesnt do any of that and randy tells him goodnight and walks off towards his own car

[voiceofsword]

rinne giving niki an air fryer on his birthday

rinne sending niki one of those 'clearly you dont own an airfryer" memes a few days prior and nikis like i dont :( and rinne feels so bad about it he gets him one and shoots his shot. but what rinne doesnt know is that he needs to give him about 5 more kitchen appliances before niki considers saying yes

[canto-one]

Mah Bois: *at a mrBeast burger*

Me: Let’s finger paint!

Paint: WHAT! 😨

Lets: I’m scared…

Scared: No, I’m scared.

No: Hi scared.

KSI: Do you guys want Prime or not?

Me: I just want water.

KSI: What? Did you change ur order…?

Me: No, still water

KSI: Toes who nose💀💀💀

Paint: Just put the fries in the bag bro. *Balkan rage*

KSI: I’m in the thick of it everybody knows… 😭

The Jonkler: Why so serious 🤡 English or Spanish?

(Those who don’t know😊)

sussy caseoh: *moves*

Mah Bois: AYOOO 🍷🍷🗿

Hawk 2: AAAAAAAHHH!!!!

Logan Paul: Do you like ur cheese drippy bruh?

Me: No I like mango mango🗿🍷

(Those who know: 💀💀)

skibiti toilet: FEIN FEIN FEIN FEIN🤑🤑🤑

Mrbeast: Here’s ur food

the food: Gegagedigedagedago 

Scared: BOI WHAT U SAY ABOUT PHONK MUSIC🎵

Livvy Dunne: *walks by*

Baby Gronk: GYATT

Livvy Dunne: Clearly u dont own an air fryer😐

Lets: Bro has L rizz😭😭🙏

THOSE WHO KNOW:👇👇👇

I'm in the thick of it, everybody knows

They know me where it snows, I skied in and they froze

I don't know no nothin' 'bout no ice, I'm just cold

Forty somethin' milli' subs or so, I've been told

I'm in my prime and this ain't even final form

They knocked me down, but still, my feet, they find the floor

I went from living rooms straight out to sold-out tours

Life's a fight, but trust, I'm ready for the war

Woah-oh-oh

This is how the story goes

Woah-oh-oh

I guess this is how the story goes

I'm in the thick of it, everybody knows

They know me where it snows, I skied in and they froze

I don't know no nothin' 'bout no ice, I'm just cold

Forty somethin' milli' subs or so, I've been told

From the screen to the ring, to the pen, to the king

Where's my crown? That's my bling

Always drama when I ring

See, I believe that if I see it in my heart

Smash through the ceiling 'cause I'm reachin' for the stars

Woah-oh-oh

This is how the story goes

Woah-oh-oh

I guess this is how the story goes

I'm in the thick of it, everybody knows

They know me where it snows, I skied in and they froze (woo)

I don't know no nothin' 'bout no ice, I'm just cold

Forty somethin' milli' subs or so, I've been told

Highway to heaven, I'm just cruisin' by my lone'

They cast me out, left me for dead, them people cold

My faith in God, mind in the sun, I'm 'bout to sow (yeah)

My life is hard, I took the wheel, I cracked the code (yeah-yeah, woah-oh-oh)

Ain't nobody gon' save you, man, this life will break you (yeah, woah-oh-oh)

In the thick of it, this is how the story goes

I'm in the thick of it, everybody knows

They know me where it snows, I skied in and they froze

I don't know no nothin' 'bout no ice, I'm just cold

Forty somethin' milli' subs or so, I've been told

I'm in the thick of it, everybody knows (everybody knows)

They know me where it snows, I skied in and they froze (yeah)

I don't know no nothin' 'bout no ice, I'm just cold

Forty somethin' milli' subs or so, I've been told (ooh-ooh)

Woah-oh-oh (nah-nah-nah-nah, ayy, ayy)

This is how the story goes (nah, nah)

Woah-oh-oh

I guess this is how the story goes

Source: LyricFind

[archivist-the-knight]

xiv's cute little "well it couldnt hurt :-]" before getting exploded AAAAAAA literally prime xiv moment. also stick your head innit also xiv freshly being out of the tower makes this moment a little cuter i think. xiv's out and the first thing they're being encouraged to do is to make a reckless decision thats actually THEIR decision for a change and tals cheering them on. its so... its so silly its so goofy. comfort in the comedy or whatever.

"I see this all the time back on the farm" "what kinda farm do you work on..."

"think of all the thoughts its probably thinking it could probably think us a way out of here" yeah since we got two academic minds one taxpayer one tal and zero braincells in this group. rai had the braincell for once and look where that got him.

THE NECRONOMICON RAI'S EATING IS TITLED MAGIC FOR DUMMIES IM GIGLGING. AND IT SWITCHES FROM EIGHT TO NINE AS HE EATS IT PLEASE...

"it says that it hunts smart creatures. ok so we adopted the brain-"

also xiv's cursive handwriting is so so cute.... very contrasting to the FAMILY GUY CLIP. why is XIV LOIS.

the "fighting cheeks and balls out" is so insane. put those AWAY. rai also is the one to get to the helm first!!

also i was going to say on my last liveblog post that xiv's father looked like he had a tentacle beard but deleted it but!!! now i know why i was going to!! xiv calls the ilithid they see papa + sees the grandmaster i think hes called as a father figure. :-3 thats why!!

im sorry tal. i dont give a shit. also xiv's outfit in the 3d recreation segments being a bard fit is really funny but also as a bard-main the bard fit is attrocious. get it off them

xiv killing the mind flayer immeaditly even though tal was talking to it because it tried begging for its life despite what it had done ^_^ verse 1 of father by the front bottoms not the rest of the song just that verse

rai vc hey babygirl do you. come.[persuasion failed] HERE OFTEN HERE OFTEN

xiv's first casualty is pushing someone off the ledge + unintentionally nearly kiling tal with that stone thing. btw i know act 1's intro area is like that to teach the general rules of the game but i love how that thng isjust. there. no context. its just a stone on a fucking rope dangling pecariously over a kinda broken hole. thats really funny to me

"no. i dont think it was the fall <3 anyway im sure hes fine" HORROR MOVIE TRILL

XIV'S LITTLE SHOCKED SPRITE AT THE TRAPPED SACROFOGAPHS. i dontk now how to spell that ROOM ITS SO CUUUTE AAHH

tal with his ass out talking to withers. tal thats an ancient god... tal....

tal saying "well i think every life is of infinite value <333" foreshadowing...

"JESUS I SAID LONG REST NOT SCHLONG REST PUT THAT WEAPON AWAY!!!"

that was a ganon event....

"youre gonna wake them up with your shitty fucking song!!"

[ID: screenshot of xiv walking into the scene when you enter the druid grove in bg3. they're smirking a little. end id]

clearly you dont own an air fryer <333

"some other stuff happened here. i ended racism!!"

I THINK ITS IN ONE OF YOUR INVENTORIES HELPPP. this happened while tal was still in his damn underwear.

also the xiv scaring kids so they call the law thing is really really funny im not gonna lie. it makes sense they were sheltered blah blah blah but also ngl it is really funny

he was to able to intimidate the goblins into running away. and now for an act of heroism!! be free <3333 ...... too free.

SUPPLEX HIM INTO A CONVERSATION...

xiv saying "having no friends myself!!" GIRL YOU'RE ABOUT TO HAVE EM. sorry they handed you a leash and said you have to deal with three crazy ass dogs

sorcerer's guide to jelquing. no not that one

[riprendscore]

you arent very COQUETTE

hell dare i even say,... i bet you dont even own air fryer

I only buy what I can't make. Screw your air fryer, and screw your coquette!

[yourlocallunchable]

this is the most revolting ad I have ever fucking gotten, like what are republican Christians on???

[worldend]

MY MOM BOUGHT AN AIR FRYER

[pomegranatebat]

She kisses her air fryer good night ive seen it

What’s your pfp

it's a portrait of me by @pomegranatebat

[eijispumpkin]

Okay okay okay, since Eiji is the one who can cook (it was displayed several times in the anime and manga), let's just say that Ash can't cook for shit, and I know that there's official art of him cooking, but no. He may be a great marksman and all that stuff, but he's absolutely clumsy in the kitchen - while trying to flip a pancake he just slaps himself in the face with one, while trying to simmer some sauce (also wearing wearing kitchen mittens cause he KNOWS he shouldn't be trusted alone in a kitchen) he turns around and knocks over the pot, despite all his efforts (I'm not good with scenarios). He may be observant as hell, but he has to try his best to be careful when working in the kitchen, but it just doesn't work. The kitchen is his nemesis, while Eiji is just a god at cooking and the kitchen is his paradise. Of course Eiji tries to help Ash out, but he can't help but make fun of him when the opportunity arises, of course playfully and with no bad intent or whatsoever. It's just nice to better at something than Ash Lynx. Needless to say, Eiji enjoys working with Ash in the kitchen, tho Ash causes some problems from time to time, but it's still all fun and games, since it's something they can do together and like in the gun scene in Cape Cod, Eiji stands behind Ash and leads his hand when he tries to cut some vegetables or whatever. You know, just them enjoying their domestic life

i absolutely love asheiji living their best domestic life, yes.

however i DO disagree that ash cant cook. i dont think he's like, a gourmet chef or anything, but given that he strives so hard for freedom and chafes at chains and the idea of depending on someone (especially someone like dino), i just can't see him not learning at the very least the BASICS of cooking - you can't live on your own and be independent if you can't feed yourself, and his independence is v important to him. so maybe he's not making a souffle or a fancy three-layer cake, but he can scramble some eggs or throw together a soup or stir-fry out of whatever he scrounges up in the fridge.

that being said i absolutely love learning curves and fully believe he's like. completely confounded by how to roll a good sushi roll that doesn't either a) come undone, b) fall apart from being overstuffed, c) get squished and mutilated while being sliced, or d) have the seaweed get too wet while he's working on packing in the filling. eiji's like "it's not THAT hard" and ash is like "fuck you don't talk to me until you can eat mustard without crying."

speaking of eiji: he's quite good in the kitchen most of the time... but his arch-nemesis is the air fryer. he can never get a feel for the right amount of heat and cook time and constantly has to adjust and add more time after stirring and checking and stirring and checking. he's like "what is the POINT of this it's such a PAIN!!! i may as well just deep fry it in a cast-iron pot like l LEARNED to do" and ash is like "ok old man, any other 'back in my day' feelings you wanna get out while you're at it?"

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

watching people try to 'explain' away transness is so funny sometimes. they will be like well obviously women and gays are uncomfortable with the oppressive gender roles of society and attempt to escape them by any means that seem available even if- and its like clearly you dont own an air fryer you have never experienced being a woman but not a woman and a man but not a man simultaneously and in very nuanced & complex ways, and if i say this you will not understand at all what i mean by it but i wish that you could. maybe if you read ranma 1/2.

[tommyheadcanons]

tommy practices one-liners in his head but he doesnt realize that he also sometimes smirks to himself, mouths them outloud, or laughs in place of the "audience"

you will see him very smugly smiling to himself and silently laughing but what you dont know is that he's just thinking of himself saying random shit like Clearly, you dont own an air fryer

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[write-haikyuu]

Quarantine things (ft. Yamaguchi Tadashi, Tsukishima Kei, Ushijima Wakatoshi & Kita Shinsuke) | headcanon

Quarantine has been forcing me to be productive with school but I’ve been having all these spurs of ideas in my head. So I wanted to write this before I forget it, and so I can feel like I did something today before I work on more essays and hw. :) 

Also, side note I’ve been doing Yoga with Adriene to help with my chronic back pain. PEOPLE! If you want start yoga during quarantine I 11/10 recommend her channel on YouTube. Stay healthy and stay safe <3 

Yamaguchi Tadashi

You notice how much he’s willing to try new things, now that time has freed up.

Baking croissants, juicing veggies and fruits, rummaging through the pantry to make dinner with boxed food (because he wants to make sure you both only go grocery shopping when you absolutely have to). 

When it is time to go out to the public, he makes sure you both glove up, sanitize, and wear bandanas with sunglasses (at the market). 

You know those Korean grandmas that wear those sleeves and visors?

Yep. You two are that couple. 

“Grab the box from the inside Y/N!!” He’s sneaky like that 

He’s paranoid, but he still wants to make sure you both use this time to spend quality moments together ...because he knows you’re not able to visit a lot of friends and family right now :(( 

Walks at the park during the most unexpected times throughout the day

You both have a dog, his name is YamYam 

Tadashi uses this time to really upgrade the dog’s instagram and make him go dogstagram viral I dont know why I’m so obsessed with making Tadashi internet famous ok :( 

Sleeping in all the time (morning cuddles are a must) 

Don’t you think that I would forget about his terrarium. He still worships that buddy everyday! By now your days with Tadashi are filled with dog walks, healthy receipes, plants, and daylight cuddles. 

Tsukishima Kei 

Dalonga coffee, dalonga matcha, dalonga everything with our boy Tsukishima. 

Ever tried egg coffee? You protested against it at first but Tsukishima kept teasing you how great it was until you finally caved in and tried it. 

It’s. The. Shit. (However you want it interpret that) 

Every morning, without fail, you both sit over at the kitchen island and sip on coffee or tea. Bedhead, pjs and everything. You don’t say much, but its the quiet and peace that rises in the morning that makes you appreciate these moments with him. 

Contrary to popular belief, Tsukishima is actually a hopeless romantic. So you’ll have these evenings where he makes a new playlist from Spotify and just starts grooving to the beat with you. (This is shared between you and Tsuki ONLY). Copyrights on Tsuki’s jazzy hands. 

He loves seeing you move on your own and as some may think its him dreading it, he LOVES it when you drag him into dancing too. 

When you watch TV show together at night, he likes to psychoanalyze the characters with you

“But what do you think of this. He’s turned into a cereal killer because of childhood trauma from his aunt feeding him much coco puffs.”

“The hell Y/N?? that doesn’t even make any sense! It’s bc he worked at the grocery store and the manager always assigned him to restock the dry cereal and oatmeal aisle.”

You read in bed separately together, but you’ll lean on each other for back support. 

Stillness with Tsuki is all he’s ever asked for, all he’s ever wanted with you. 

Ushijima Wakatoshi 

Sure, most of the time his mind is on volleyball. But when it comes down to it, the person he spends most of the time thinking about is actually you. 

He’s estatic to spend time with you in quarantine! He makes sure to not break his routines though, so he’s always encouraging you to work out with him in the morning. Whether or not you’re a morning person, you also try to push yourself to exercise! So Toshi doesn’t have to run by himself, plus you’ll get fit too! 

But there was this one thing Toshi never really got into, but by being with you more, he’s finally come around to it. 

It’s Yoga baby. 

Volleyball is an intense sport. So with all that practice and endless hours he’s dedicated, Toshi usually goes to physical therapy to work on his muscles. Since everything is closed, he started doing yoga with you to relieve some back pain :’( 

He can’t thank you enough, because his posture is straighter and he doesn’t toss and turn in his sleep like he did before

Y’all I hate to break it to you but... Tendou finally got him. After all those ads on the Weekly Shonen Jump, he’s discovered Amazon Prime. 

He’s looking at things on amazon and adding it to his cart!!! He never buys it though 

“ Y/N, I think an air fryer is a good idea”

“What? No we have a toaster oven”

“But according to the (amazon price tracker app) it’s the lowest it’s ever been.”

The air fryer was indeed the best thing that’s ever updated in your household. 

He laughs more, he smiles more, he’s just really happy to be domestic with you. Home with you is like his safe space. Because he can let his guard down and lean on you for emotional and mental support. 

Kita Shinsuke 

This quarantine really concerns him. Not because he’s neccesarily afraid of contracting the virus, but worries about his grandma potentially getting it :(

So you both make a very, very tough decision and figured it was best that he spent his time with his grandma to nurse and take care of her until the shelter in place is lifted. 

But the week before he leaves, you and Kita spent an entire two days sewing face masks and care packages for his neighbors. 

He makes sure to meal prep for you some food throughout the week and even teaches you some basic recipes to get you through the month. 

You and Kita both go on this massive cleaning spree where you bleach and tidy up everything. 

By the end of it, there was more than enough bags of clothes to give away to a donation shop near by. 

On his last days with you, he spends as much time with you doing things unrelated to the pandemic! Like DIY face masks and cutting up fruit as you both play Bananagrams together. 

When he’s off to his grandma’s he makes sure to religiously facetime you before bed! 

You teach his grandma how to use dog filters over the phone and sometimes you forget he meant to call to talk to you. 

You somehow ended up talking to his grandma for half an hour, listening to her talk about baby Shinsuke childhood stories. 

I dont know, you miss him so much. He misses you more. But you both are so understanding and supportive of each other that counting off the days doesn’t even exist anymore. You just find new things to share and talk about over the phone everyday. 

[shadowthehedgehoggf]

miles edgeworth would be the kinda guy to say “clearly you dont own an air fryer” but like…. seriously

[surpriserose]

Need to say things that will get me anon hate so i can just constantly post clearly you dont own an air fryer diavolo

[ariyadaivaris]

- christ i hate smug mma dudes more than anything on this earth. you're a man doing mma what do you have to be excited about? washing out of ufc and having to resort to a dying professional wrestling company? the systematic oppression of women? the paul brothers? i'm putting nails in your shoes

- the rare and coveted tshirt ariya. phwew he's really uh. he's very. twirls hair. he's kinda

- ariya using a rose metaphor for himself teehee i love being very smart and always right about everything

- "i guess you don't think tony can do it on his own aye" is soooooo so so far from anything that has ever happened between tony and ariya that it's LAUGHABLE. ariya deserves to laugh in his face. cringe and fail broadway-musical-rock-of-ages-male-lead-understudy looking little man. no i'm gonna argue with the kayfabe enemy actually the WHOLE THING up to this point has been ariya trying to prove himself and the subtle tension of tony becoming champion where ariya never has, the only the ONLY time ariya has ever not believed in tony is when he had a full on spiral breakdown towards the beginning of the year when they were questioning splitting them up again for some fucking reason and then it got retconned because DUHHHHHH why would you ever split tony and ariya up just for fun or a giggle when they;ve got the most complex relationship on 205 if you re*you walk away knowing all of this already because you have heard this every week for the last three years but you can still hear me talking in the distance, talking and talking though no one is there...*

- obsessed with this promo actually...ariya's mannerisms are so good he's SO...FUN. i LOVE watching him. he is so self-assured and so charming and there is so obviously so much frustration buried like, an INCH deep beneath all of it. it takes grey pushing him ONCE for him to lose his verve. im SO interested in this

- the thread here is, of course, "you think tony can't do it on his own?" which, as i've stated, is so far from true or what ariya thinks that it's comic. when ariya spits, "of COURSE tony nese can do it on his own", there are a lot of factors at play. when he concedes that maybe instead of going out there, he WILL stay backstage, there's a lot going on there!!! there IS!!! *voice of an unwell person* there IS a lot going on   - tony doesn't need to prove he can do it on his own, because he already has. ariya's storyline...like i mentioned, he had a weird moment at the beginning of the year, when it seemed like maybe he and tony were going to be split up. that was very much a moment of "okay the writing might change so it's time to set something up" of course but i think it's interesting to think about as a character impulse.   ariya is working to prove he can do things on his own. this has BEEN his thing. he and tony are a team again, but ariya's tried to win with other teams and he's tried to win alone, and though he's successful more often than 205 would have you believe, he's still very shaky. tony has been allowed to work outside of the orbit of other people, and ariya hasn't gotten that chance as much. and, besides that, tony doesn't CARE about it in the same way ariya does. tony...when he gets intense, it's about interpersonal stuff. drew, buddy, cedric, akira, swerve. tony competes with people! ariya competes with himself. does that make sense. i know what i mean. its fine   ariya...is on edge. he likes tony and he likes working with tony, but he hasn't been a competitor like tony is. tony's been very accomodating, stepping back or supporting ariya's feuds and allowing him to do What He Needs To Do, which means ariya can try to work alone without going completely rogue and sabotaging shit. when he tried to cut himself off from tony, it was...well it was retconned. but. that's what he's done before and this time it didn't work because ONE it's just tony and ariya, there's no exacerbating force, and TWO, tony and ariya are, after all, friends. tony wants to be friends with ariya and it is hard work to be friends with ariya but he will do it. so they work it out. and ariya is left feeling very very weird about it, and very very aware of how much he kind of depends on tony, when tony doesn't depend on him, at all. ariya tries to protect tony and gas him up and keep an eye on him to make up for All That He's Done Before and to feel like this friendship is two-sided (which it is, of course, friendship is more than a strategic advantage but that's how ariya's always approached it and it's a hard habit to break), but he doesn't have the wins to back up the feeling of being Worth It as a friend.   it's...i feel like i just sound out of my gourd saying all of this lol and i am. but when ariya bitterly says, "of course tony nese can do it on his own." it's not just the anger at grey being a dickhead towards tony. it's also ariya being painfully aware that tony can do it without ariya's help. there's a threat in that statement, that question that doesn't need to be asked. there's an irony to it. its...think about it this way: if tony was talking to grey about watching ariya's match, grey wouldn't snark about if tony thought ariya could do it. you know?

- that doesnt make sense. whatever <3 im free

- wow love seeing kushida defending the title. imagine if that happened.....on.......205 live

- ariya literally getting successfully talked out of watching tony's match because he wants to show he believes in tony :( i'm hurt...i'm so hurt. so fucked up and twisted. by GREY too, ariya has kind of a BIT with grey huh. him cheating to pin ariya and then going noooo cheating is wrong against all other opponents. the way grey is super hypocritical and shitty to him and then to no one else. ariya almost respecting him for what ariya understands as Someone Who Gets It and then revealing oh no i just really don't like you and want to piss you off. this one dude who keeps targetting ariya specifically in all the ways that most drive ariya into a frenzy and he managed to hit him where it hurts the most enough to drive him into hiding. oughhhh aughhhh   - everyone on 205 being a hater for no reason and seeing ariya trying to deal with his Issues(TM): hm. i can make him worse

- SUNFLOWER JACKET!!!!!!!! SUNFLOWER JIRO. PRECIOUS AND BELOVED. KING AMONG ALL CRUISERWEIGHTS. I DONT KNOW WHO ARIYA IS

- the exaggerated "BOO!""YAY!" cheers for jiro. who am i to say he doesn't deserve them. he DOES. we LOVE jiro. jiro is allowed to homewreck gold standard if he wants to i'll pretend not to see

- UNBREAKABLE!! AUGHHH HE'S SO COOL AND FUN AND HIS MIND IS SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL. jiro has such a fucking bonkers sense of like...dragging a move out. that man can MAKE a sequence! he gets the upper hand and he holds onto it for ages and the entire time its never dull. always with the momentum! always with the visualization of everything around him and how to make it into a show. i just simply think that jiro kuroshio

- HE'S DYINGGGGGGG NOOOOOOOO JIRO. TONY NESE YOU'RE A DEAD MAN. he looks great at this angle though love you weirdo. oh NO your jacket is NOT cool enough to pull this off fkshsdskd  - jiro injecting some MUCH needed humor back into 205 thank you so much

- tony's stupid joth uniform next to jiro's sunflower pattern is SO good. fuckin goth v prep diagram dynamic. creamsicle blogging moments

- OH I LOVE A GOOD PIN. we LOVE a good pin don't we. that kick to tony on the apron ROCKS

- clearly you don't own an air fryer...

- OH HIS FORM IS FUCKING UNREAL. WHAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!!! JIRO KUROSHIO BABEY

- i REALLY like this match. this is 205 to me

- IS THAT A 205 CHANT??? IS THAT A 205 CHANT I HEAR??? OH????? WORM????? ITS BEEN LIFETIMES....................

- ooohohohoohohHOOO tony's recovery from the moonsault. that was. dare i say. Epic

- JIROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

- jiro treating mister nese like a little football. sorry anthony. perhaps you should just be cooler <3

- THAT WAS SO FUN......what a meaty episode this week. harkens back to 205 of old.............i love it. im loving this energy. jiro kuroshio you are going to save 205 i believe it