#bus stop buddy

[caspiansrecovery]

I forgot about Baron the Bus Buddy from when I would wait for the bus to take me home from treatment 5 years ago. :)

[itwoodbeprefect]

meow. meowmeowmeowmeow. meow! 😾

[scattered-winter]

"we're just friends" "are you guys......more than friends..." "friendzone" DONT YOU EVER GET TIRED OF ROMANCE BEING PUT ON A PEDESTAL DONT YOU EVER GET FUCKING SICK OF FRIENDSHIP BEING SEEN AS INHERENTLY LESSER

[nami-moittli]

This counts as a “meme”, right?

[potatobugz]

sleeping

[fiercynn]

patpran roleplaying their bus stop characters but in bed

[jaythelay]

Oof. PirateSoftware trying to damage stopkillinggames.com credibility soley because he's working on a game it would barely affect, without disclosing so, sure tanks my care for the person as a whole.

Fuuuuuck off anti-consumers.

We deserve so much fucking better than your pathetic self-worth you should grow to become a more complete and rational, empathetic person so we can cooperate on a better world.

This shit? This is the harming the world. Harming everyone. Fuuuuuck you.

[lurkingteapot]

I rewatched the bus stop scene for Reasons™️ and I'm deep in my Pat feels.

The exchange is subbed in English as "say we're friends" - "no." - "lovers, then" but from what I can tell, in Thai, it's really closer to

Pat: "imagine that you and I are friends--" Pran: "Impossible." Pat: "Okay, that you're my lover(*) then." Pran: "Huh?!"

(* the word he uses is แฟน /fɛːn/, which I'm guessing everyone on BBS twitter recognises by now. Basically boyfriend/girlfriend, but gender neutral? ish)

And that makes that just sliiiightly too long break before Pat is like "it's just so we get a different perspective!!" EVEN WORSE, at least to me. The way Pran looks at Pat, and looks away, and blinks -- he wants that "darling" Pat throws his way to be real so bad.

And then!!

And then, when Pran refuses to be the hottest architecture girl of his year and Pat, without missing a beat, is like "okay, so we're both the respective hottest guys of our faculties, and we're boyfriends", and Pran is still not biting? Pat then the immediate follows that up with "you're the husband, I'm the wife".

I used to see those as separate statements – as Pat immediately falling back on the idea that okay, if boyfriends is out, he'll be a girl for the purpose of this weirdly specific hypothetical scenario he's trying to build. But the more often I watch it, the more I can only read that as "look, just play along, I'm not trying to dig at your masculinity or whatever, I'll be the more feminine partner" (**), because a) this is the exact husband-wife-terminology Pran asks/tells Pat to stop using in ep 9, and b) when Pran scoffs "you're a damn masculine wife," Pat pivots again and starts roleplaying high femme.

And something about how he's so willing, as early as this, to go along with whatever he needs to in order for Pran to be comfortable, to open up, just tugs at my heartstrings. Even now, several full rewatches later.

(**) yes, I know, tons to unpack. not for this post tho.

[distant-screaming]

wakes up in a cold sweat PATPRAN SOUNDWIN AU

[victimized-martyr]

Are you optimistic about season 26?

erm um… no?? 🥲

Season 25 and Streaming Wars had their moments, but overall the delivery of ideas felt lackluster. Much like the last 2 years, I expect a running theme. Essentially, the season won’t really be a season per se, but acts as narrative buildup interspersed with side episodes—though they will loosely connect to the season—leading up to the 2 specials airing later this year. It’s a solid game plan on paper, but s25/SW was super dodgy. I feel the saving grace was Tolkien’s renaming, and Cartman’s whole hot dog arc thing that just got set up. I know Randy was given competition (finally! the little resistance and pushback to his hijinks has done serious damage to his character) but really the biggest takeaway I’ve seen from fans/merch is stuff from Cartman’s arc. (cartitties).

However, I feel Matt and Trey have been revitalized by the concert, Casa Bonita’s opening, and their deepfake deal. It’s a double edged sword though, because now Mattrey are juggling the opening of a restaurant, production for the video game, their deepfake studio… I’m worried their attention will be divided and affect the quality of the story this season.

TLDR: Very mixed feelings, though not quite approaching cautiously optimistic… I expect the fresher ideas (HotDog) to get sidelined and Randy will remain in focus.

[aeide-thea]

poäng appreciation post 💛

[daenerysoftarth]

sometimes meeting strangers at the bus stop is just hearing about a lady’s kids and their accomplishments at school until the bus picks you up. other times it’s a man telling you about how his uncle used to own a gay S&M bar in LA that was popular with celebrities and had a stretch rack in the middle of the room, and that freddie mercury went there all the time

[itwoodbeprefect]

the pirates of the caribbean epic final battle style music that starts playing while they're discussing a bus stop..... it's art. this is art to me

pat: hey don't you just HATE architecture students. don't they just make your blood boil. your heart race. your stomach tingle in a way that's kind of funny

pat's clueless friends: … YEAH!! i think. hey did you just say-

pat: WELL THEN you know what we should do to get them back?? to really show them?? HELP THEM BUILD THE BUS STOP

pat's easily manipulated friends: AW SHIT. YOU MAD LAD. YOU GENIUS AMONG MEN. YOU'RE SO RIGHT

[vero-niche]

CRYING SCREAMING CRYING REI EXPLICITLY CHOSE KAZUKI AND MIRI OVER HIS DAD EVEN WHEN EVERYTHING WAS AGAINST THIS 😭😭😭 i want to have a love as real as this 😭😭

YES YES EXACTLY IM SO HAPPY THEY DIDNT SHY AWAY OR BRUSHED THIS OFF

also, same

[anxsity]

Ross Gay, "Weeping", from Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude

[maliciouslove]

there is a lady I always meet at the bus stop and she seems to be in her late 30s and she's currently reading a spicy webtoon next to me, she's so unbothered, I love her