#as are tomatoes

[heavencasteel420]

WIP Wednesday

Featuring: Robin vs. bra shopping and Jonathan vs. the machine (a scary elevator).

From Tomorrow’s a Long Way Off (brief references to sexual harassment and heteronormativity):

It was amazing, Robin thought, as she watched her mom put the towels into a cabinet, how the smallest comment could get her blood boiling. She knew her mom liked Gail for having interests other than boys and clothes; those were some of the reasons she liked hanging out with Gail. Yet Robin could hear words behind the words. She’s a smart girl, not like you. Not like Molly. You should spend more time with Gail and less with Molly, so you can be a little less stupid.

“Molly’s smart, too,” she protested.

It was true, if you didn’t count the business with Steve. Molly was great at math. Her mom just rolled her eyes.

“I never said she wasn’t.” Then she looked critically at Robin’s shirt. “You need a new bra. Since Gail canceled, we should go to Penney’s and get one.”

Robin crossed her arms over her chest and felt blood rush to her face. She’d had the bra she was wearing since eighth grade, and it was one of the only ones that didn’t scratch or dig into her skin. She hadn’t realized that it wasn’t doing its job anymore, but everyone else must have.

“Didn’t you burn bras?” she asked. If she was nasty, her mom wouldn’t notice that she was upset.

“I did,” her mom said drily, “but you take after the women on your dad’s side. I also don’t think you understand symbolism.”

“Well, I’m sorry my breasts aren’t feminist enough!”

Her mother just squinted at her.

“Robin Elizabeth, you are not making any sense. What’s the matter with you?”

“Nothing.”

Her tears were falling fast, though. She didn’t want to go bra shopping with her mom, who would pick on her for hours before making her agree to an itchy, ugly bra that she liked. She didn’t want to be looked at by gross old men or seniors who treated her like a joke. She didn’t want to be looked at by any man. What she wanted was a girl to look at her like she made the sun rise, but it felt like that would never happen.

“Are you getting your period?” her mother asked, in a slightly softer tone. “I have some Midol if you need it.”

“No!” Robin exploded. “I’m just apparently an idiot who’s been walking around with my tits out all summer! No wonder everyone’s been staring at me!”

Her mom stared at her. Robin waited to get scolded for being crude or overdramatic, but instead her mom did something totally shocking: she burst into laughter.

“It’s really not that bad,” she finally said, once she’d caught her breath. “You’re not going to shock anyone who’s seen Three’s Company.”

From Tonight, Tonight (brief ableism, vague references to Jonathan’s life in Hawkins being rough):

“Well, I hope the traffic back up isn’t bad,” Kevin said. He opened a door at the end of the hallway, leading to a smaller room with an elevator. It wasn’t like the ones in apartment buildings or malls, with buttons pressed by the passenger; instead, it was controlled by someone in a room with close-circuit TVs, somewhere in the labyrinth of Pennhurst. “Debra’s family’s just over the Roane County line. She’s one of the McCorkles. You probably know them if you’re from Hawkins.”

“Mm-hm.” The McCorkles were one of the old farming families in Hawkins. “I had geometry and English 9 with Lisa-Anne, I think.”

“Oh? I’ll make sure to say hey.”

Jonathan thought of Lisa-Anne—serene, ladylike, way into 4-H—and suppressed a tired grin at the thought of being remembered to her. He was so sure she’d want to hear from the basket-case son of crazy Joyce Byers. Still, it had been a nice thing to say.

“Thanks,” he said. “I remember those little purple tomatoes she grew for the county fair last year.”

He’d ducked into the agricultural tent while Will and his friends rode the Tilt-a-Whirl for the second time. He’d gone up with them for the first round, despite his distaste for being tilted or whirled, because Will had still been little enough to be wary of the creaky machinery. Maybe he’d been right. The whole town had been creaky, full of rusted parts and sharp edges. Jonathan should have known that from his own experience: Clint Morris’s granite fists, Robbie Hagan’s slow white smile, the free-and-reduced lunches that seemed to get smaller every year.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for “not being a vegetable” because they're technically a fruit when:

A) There are a ton of fruits that get categorised as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes and cucumbers.

B) The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they somehow got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy despite the fact that they're not even plants.

[arctic-hands]

Every time there's a food recall that spreads from one company to the next, even from generic brands that are unique to the store selling them, it makes me realize the illusion of choice under capitalism hyped up by conservatives is a bunch of bullshit.

Oh and uh, don't drink apple juice for a while. Arsenic. And it's more than just Aldi and Walmart

[mistbornthief]

in fucking tears rn

[cosmonautroger]

Milton Glaser, Therapy With A Tomato, 1978

[anchounn]

thinking of summer

[conman167936]

Critics reviewing the Mario movie: It’s just a bunch of goofing off with no real story.

Mario fans: Yes that’s what we want.

Critics reviewing the FNAF movie: It’s just a 2-hour lore dump.

FNAF fans: YES THAT’S WHAT WE WANT.

[sixcupids]

the 🔑 to my heart

[fatty-food]

summer garden pasta (via instagram)

[phantomhivestims]

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Throwing tomatoes at Jimmy stimboard

Req by myself

Note ; I hate him and want to throw things at him and expect a stimboard for my queen Anya <33

Another note ; HELP THANKS FOR SO MANY NOTES??? 😭 didn't expect this would be my most popular stimboard atm

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[audreys-hepburn]

#same girl FRIED GREEN TOMATOES 1991 — dir. Jon Avnet

[toyastales]

Breakfast Sandwich

[lovertm]

bag for your tomato by curiouslifecrafts

[mellosdrawings]

So, I'm not all that caught up with canon lore yet, but one thing that annoys me at times is when people blame Rook for his bad new style (it's not even bad. He looks cute, look at him smiling so much he's so baby). Rook has been shown several times to do things on his own volition without even warning Vil (like, you know, changing dorms?!) and you'd expect me to believe he's not the one to have chosen his new style ?

Anyway, leave my man and his bad haircut choices alone. What's the point of having hair that can grow back if you don't have some fun with them while you're still at school ?

[floofcatalogue]

sumikko gurashi tomato plush

[happymiffy]