#and they were 6 years apart

[dragon-swords-prophecies]

in case anyone was wondering I'm still terrible at math

49 - 12 is not 35

you'd think I would know this, because 7 + 2 = 9

but no, no I did not

in a similar vein of thought, if two siblings are born 8 years apart one of them cannot possibly be 35 while the other is 31. that's not-- 1 + 8 = 9, not 5

the same logic applies if the same siblings are born 6 years apart!

I did not notice either of these errors in my timeline spreadsheet of herald related things for at least six months

[ratwithhands]

Read Right to Left (Manga Format)

I have returned to watching demon slayer after a year and it came up while I was having a serious late night talk with my big sister. I was talking about the relationship between Michikatsu/Kokushibo and Yoriichi and it turns out we both see each other in Yoriichi's shoes and ourselves in Michikatsu's place. Definitely surprising, but really relieving to know that we both worry too much and we are not so far apart in skill as we believe.

This is technically the first piece of fanart I've ever made for the characters in Demon Slayer, I have made OCs before but I never drew an actual character from the story. For context this is mostly just a fun "what if" scenario with them meeting in the afterlife. I like to think Yoriichi's love would reawaken Michikatsu's humanity.

[helenofblackthorns]

thinking about how much Ty hates change & how he was visibly distressed when he thought Julian forgot about the pancakes but he's the one who most desperately wants Mark to take over from Julian. thinking about how Julian's first line in the series is that Ty & Livvy are eating wax and how his hands are covered in wax too. thinking about how Julian thinks of them as his children but they're the siblings closest in age to him, the brother and sister he was probably the closest to growing up

[futuremrscameron]

just found out that rafe and barry are only four years apart😔 (there goes their problematic age gap slay)

[n1ghteeea]

The Real Ghostbusters’ future analysis

Do you guys ever think about how tragic the real ghostbusters’ lives went on to be after they dismantled the group. Cuz I do, maybe even more than necessary, and I’ll go over EACH of them in this post.

Ray

At first he worked in uni, which is okay, but ended up being fired and had to settle for selling old cars while grasping every opportunity to pay off his debt. Ray, the guy who is the most ‘in love with his job’ as stated countless times in the show, is SELLING CARS.

In the “Look Homeward, Ray” episode we see a similar situation with him quitting ghostbusting to work in retail and he was MISERABLE because he is obsessed with his work, I’d even went on to say it’s his hyperfixation with how he forgets about everything at times, including time and other tasks he has (from one ADHD guy to another). And that man is selling old cars. Jesus.

Peter

He went on to Hollywood to sell the idea for the second Ghostbusters movie and has been doing that for SIX YEARS. Six years he was out in LA trying to push it through. To do that you need connections, and I’d imagine that making them is not easy, not even talking about how you need money to survive, and since he never said anything about his job, it is probably like super lame. Again, he LOVED ghostbusting and didn’t want to trade it even for a life of stage and fame (“Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?”).

In “Take Two” episode we saw that he does not get along with Hollywood people, he has too strong of a moral compass and principles, so I can only imagine how those six years where he NEEDED to interact with them constantly went.

And finally, his father. He has a difficult relationship with him, but it’s easy to see that while he still cares for him, he hates how Jim makes money and would rather die then help him in his ‘projects’. Well guess what. His dad also went on to Hollywood to sell a movie about Ghostbusters. A movie no one clearly wanted, similarly to Peter’s (cuz I believe if his idea was a banger he wouldn’t have spent 6 years pushing it through), so at the end of the day he became like his dad, which is absolutely the worst nightmare of every person with bad parents.

Winston

I would say that Winston is relatively better off than others. He got his pilot’s license and went on to travel, which is cool as hell. However, Winston was the glue of the group. He was always the one saying “we’re a team, we need to stick together no matter what”, which can be seen in maaany eps, the most prominent one is probably “Ghostbuster of The Year”.

And he needed to watch them all drift apart, unable to do anything, and going non-contact because in “Back in The Saddle” they were catching up as if they never talked since they parted ways. That’s wild.

Egon

Last but not least 💪 technically you could say that he doesn’t have it that bad. He still lives in the firehouse, he works as a prof of his own course, right? WRONG ‼️

In the comics that are arguably canon, but logically still make sense, Egon get transported into an empty dimension where everything is normal, except he’s all alone. And this is what he thinks of that.

Bro hates being alone. He needs his friends around even if he doesn’t usually show it. This was his nightmare situation and he lived to experience it in real life. For six years.

When it comes to teaching, cool, but he’s a scientist, not a professor. He was excited and interested in experimenting and discovering, not teaching. Additionally, no one takes his course seriously, he has an average of 3 student per semester, and even they are only there for an easy A. That is depressing.

His life does get better after he creates Extreme Ghostbusters: he’s no longer alone, he’s (kinda) doing what he used to, but even then he still struggles with his self-image and midlife crisis, poor guy :(

Overall

These guys are the epitome of ‘frequently bought together, do not separate’, they cannot be without each other.

In “Look Homeward, Ray” Ray leaves the group thinking he’s not good enough and they do EVERYTHING in their power to bring him back.

In “Cry Uncle” Egon’s uncle Cyrus (god I hate that guy) takes Egon away to help him in his lab and the whole team is at first miserable (sitting around the phone waiting for him to call) and then makes 1500 miles one way to ask him to come back.

In “Egon’s Ghost” even though it’s not the only instance, when Egon gets sucked into limbo they go in for him with a condition of ‘either we get him back in an hour or we all stay here’ like THESE GUYS ARE A FAMILY. I did not see this kind of relationship in the live action movie, but in the show? They aren’t just colleague or buddies, that’s a FAMILY.

Even the fact of separating itself is heartbreaking, and accounting for the fact that neither of them went on to do something exciting (except maybe Winston) it is absolutely devastating. Man.

Even in “Back In The Saddle” they get one (1) successful bust and go ‘hell yeah guys, let’s go back to being Ghostbusters, I think we dropped it off way too early’ like yeah, I’m sure that’s what people with their lives together would say.

TLDR: the old men yaoi angst in the real ghostbusters is real 🎉

[etiragram]

there's a normie (monogamous, very het) social group I go to about once a month specifically to expand my comfort zone and to devour their drama. There's another poly guy there, but I never talked much to him because I wasn't even sure I liked the guy, plus being poly isn't something I bond with other people about. I guess I vaguely knew he was queer also but had no idea what flavor

anyway. today a well-meaning comment from another person hurt and angered me to a surprising degree because it seemed like she had no idea my (GNC-flavored) experiences existed and thought hers were universal. And there was no concise way to explain to her my experiences existed! I excused myself, blundered off, and ended up talking to this guy, with whom I've never had a connection before

we went for a full hour (more?) talking about queer community drama and being poly and being poly in this group specifically and being GNC and being GNC when leftist infighting over gender is so brutal

I still was delicately stepping over patches of major political disagreement but it felt so fucking cathartic immediately following that interaction. It's the coalition vitamin babey

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Yeah... I remember seeing the architectural design majors at my uni having this breakdown each semester...

[icewindandboringhorror]

Misc. photos from the past year or so ~

[sea-buns]

it just set in for me that i start community college this upcoming monday literally less than a week from now and i want. to throw up

[scionshtola]

i went to sleep early and didn’t even get any rest bc i was having college stress dreams

[schrodingerseurydice]

sometimes i think about the fact that in grade 4, my sister and i both interpreted "write an informative speech about a topic you're passionate about" as "infodump about your favourite animal for 5 minutes straight"

[practically-an-x-man]

i keep forgetting about the tradition of kissing people at the stroke of midnight. like I know it exists and it's even going to be a moment in one of my fics (since that chapter takes place on New Year's) but now that we're like. actually at New Year's Eve it's just made me realize how I've never once kissed someone at midnight

[justinefrischmanngf]

i wish i had had more friends when i was younger/actually dated people because like . idk i wish i had had the chance to fuck it up in the ways that you do because you're young like YEAH i'm obviously very very much young now i'm not saying that i'm just saying that i wish i had idfk fought with someone i loved when i was 15 instead of being suicidal . ykiwm.........

[shadowglens]

the progression of alma and john’s relationship over their lives is something that is so personal to me actually

[ssaalexblake]

Not me buying a very good pair of winter slippers in June bc unfortunately for my perpetually cold ass a good pair are a necessity and I don't want to pay over £100 fucking quid for a pair of slippers when the weather starts to turn again 🙃

[running-in-the-dark]

help I can't stop thinking about furniture. it's keeping me from thinking about the other way more important things I need to be thinking about (Jenkins, Dan Fielding, etc.)