#but they are still there!! there was a time!!!

[shanklin]

Sentient Mystery Shack, who is really biased towards Stan, so when Ford tells Stan he has to give it back after the summer it’s on sight.

Ford keeps tripping over nothing, nothing is where it's supposed to be and somehow he keeps running into closets when he tries to go outside.

But the worst part, the WORST part is that Ford's lightbulb just won't. Work. No matter what he does it keeps flickering and exploding.

Ford is spiraling. 

There is no reason why it shoudln’t work. All his trial runs work perfectly. He’s already checked the Shacks wiring three times and relearned this dimensions science from the ground up. 

Nothing works.

The Rift? Bill? The impending apocalypse? Eating? Sleep? Who cares about that. 

WHY. WONT. THE. LIGHTBULB. WORK???

It doesn’t help that Stan keeps laughing at him.

“Then you do it!” Ford eventually snaps at Stan.

Stan shrugs and with a little song under his breath screws his own lightbulb in. It works perfectly.

Stanford screams.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Learning to celebrate the little wins!

[ao3commentoftheday]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who was (or is!) proud of being a bookworm. When I was a kid/teen, I loved the fact that I'd get a dozen books for my birthday and have them all read inside of a week. I loved reading and I loved stories and everyone knew it.

It was a core part of how I constructed my identity, alongside being a Star Trek fan and being sarcastic. If you asked 15-year-old ao3cotd to describe herself, I'm positive being "a voracious reader" would probably be in the top 3 things I listed.

When I see that post about people on tiktok claiming that they only read 100K (or longer) fics, I just see it as the current version of "I got 12 books for my birthday and I read them all in a week." It's people who strongly identify as readers (specifically fanfic readers) bragging about their ability to read.

It doesn't feel like the prevailing opinion to me. It also doesn't feel like something that's necessarily true. Even people who love epic length stories will dip into shorter stuff now and again, just like people who prefer shorter stories will read something longer if the summary and tags look appealing to them.

All of this is just to say, don't worry too much about other people's preferences. You know what you like, and that's what's important.

[boobilby]

Anyways

[tenthmusing]

just thinking about this lgbtq suicide prevention video by the house cast

[thekekita]

Get your progesterone checked, though. I mean, yes, also your point, but like go to the doctor.

Well obviously I can’t have chronic fatigue, that’s a real problem for real disabled people that’s diagnosed by doctors probably. Clearly I just have some sort of perpetual exhaustion issue, that is also almost certainly my fault somehow

[saint-luigi-of-fiji]

So to catch you up to speed

Luigi Mangione is an innocent man who has not been confirmed to have been involved in any crime.

We have police documents confirming he was not DNA tested or fingerprinted, and confirmation no usable DNA or fingerprints were recovered at the crime scene due to incomplete prints and immense DNA contamination of New Yorks streets.

No evidence has linked him to the crime.

No facial recognition has even remotely come close to identifying the cctv suspects face as that of Luigi. His own family and friends do not see a resemblance. Most people agree the features in the cctv do not match the very well documented features of Luigi Mangione.

Luigi Mangione has no history of violence nor with firearms. He is a vegan pacifist with no history of mental illness and an aversion to killing even bugs.

He is still only a SUSPECT and all involvement in any crimes are merely ALLEGED at this time. Alleged by the most corrupt police force in the entire nation; the NYPD who do more organized crime than they've ever stopped.

Luigi Mangione's attorneys confirmed they have been shown absolutely nothing that even places Luigi at the scene of the crime.

People have repeatedly tried to recreate the entire timeline of events and found it is not physically possible to do what was alleged in the time frame police gave. Especially dubious for Luigi Mangione to have done given his recent, crippling back injury.

Luigi Mangione in his own words has said police planted evidence on him and are not being honest about his arrest or what he had on him at the time.

There is no body cam footage of Luigi's arrest.

There is no autopsy report for Brian Thompson.

Luigi has so far been:

Stripped of his hat, jacket and shoes and forced to walk in the cold in December wearing wet socks.

Forced to urinate on himself where police then took and published humiliation photos of him.

He was then stripped of his shirt pants and socks and put in a blue psychiatric gown and strapped to a chair inmates called "the torture chair" and left for prolonged periods of time. To the point the entire inmate population at the prison protested in anger.

He was slammed unto a brick wall, choked, and shoved by various police officers for no reason.

Was marched through nyc at gunpoint by officers with military firearms, forced to wear chains

Was called a murderer by the mayor of NYC on national television.

Was then placed in solitary confinement for weeks. Something extremely damaging psychologically to be exposed to for even just a few days. Something usually reserved for cannibals.

He is now being forced to sleep on the floor despite again, a crippling back injury.

Again, he has not even had trial yet. He is an innocent man by the very definition of the law. He has nothing tying him to any crime. And even the crime itself was a nobody being shot in a city where nobodies are shot everyday, seven days a week. And those shooters don't get this treatment. Cannibals don't get this treatment. Serial killers don't get this treatment. Why are they doing this? Because we entered an oligarchy and they want people who are rich to matter more than people who are not. The NO ONE, no name, insignificant person that Brian THOMPSON always was and WILL ALWAYS BE is more important because of his net worth, to the fascist oligarchy we've entered into, than the innocent man, data scientist and robotics engineer with a promising future that is Luigi Mangione.

The NYPD doesn't want him to be innocent. They are torturing him gleefully and postponing his trial because they know he's innocent. They just want to scare the public into understanding that the ultra rich, even those who's names will never be remembered as anything other than markings on a never visited tombstone, are the only persons who matter now. Not yours. Never yours. You're poor. They'll torture you without a trial too. Your life means nothing to them. Your children dying in school shootings means nothing to them. Pinning a crime on an innocent man they can beat to scare the public out of class consciousness is the only thing that matters to them now. Depose them.

[qqueenofhades]

Okay all -- few quick thoughts about the Elon Muskifying of the government, especially the takeover of the Treasury and associated financial data for every single US citizen and organization, that we are learning about in detail today.

Don't panic. This sounds bad, because it is bad. It's really, really bad. It's outrageously fascist bad. But we've still gotta take a deep breath and get through it.

This is the kind of shock-and-awe exercise of untrammeled fascist power where they are absolutely counting on gleefully terrorizing, paralyzing, and stunning you into mounting no resistance, or just giving up and giving in. They are literally live-tweeting it in real time and boasting about all the access and influence they have right now. They want you to know about it and feel like you can't do anything, so you might as well let it happen.

We have to show them that's not true.

TIME TO MAKE SOME NOISE. Because it's Sunday night, I've gone ahead and contacted my state Attorney General and both senators by email (but come Monday morning, we should all be calling). Here is the email that I wrote to my AG:

Dear Mr. [AG],

As you will be aware, today (February 2, 2025) the Trump administration has granted wide-ranging access to sensitive US Treasury data, including the personal and private information of [state] citizens, to Elon Musk's so-called "Department of Government Efficiency." Musk is an unelected private citizen who has no legal right to access this data, and is engaging in extensive intimidation and coercion to fulfill his personal and harmful ideological agenda. The present and material harm that this causes to US citizens, [state] residents, and basic laws of government, privacy, and financial security is direct, unconscionable, and actionable. I strongly urge you, in your capacity as [state] Attorney General, to file direct suit against the Trump administration, Elon Musk, the "DOGE" office, and any identifiable individuals who have taken part in this action, in order to protect consumer data, citizen privacy, and basic faith and trust in government.

All the best,

[Qqueenofhades]

Short! To the point! Doesn't waste time, tells him what I want him to do, how Elmo's nonsense directly harms the residents of my state, and why he should take action to stop it! And frankly, given how on-the-ball blue-state AGs have been thus far, they're probably already working on it. You are very welcome to copy-and-paste this message and fill in your AG's last name and your state as appropriate. Super easy to do. Takes five minutes. Call tomorrow.

If you are in a red state, your voice is particularly important right now. The Trumpsters are counting on and are even emboldened by blue state pushback, but you really need to make it start coming from Republican strongholds. Congressional Republicans will only feel the slightest amount of unease about docilely enabling this BS when it starts threatening their own personal power. Hit them where it hurts.

Other lawsuits are coming. Marc Elias, Democratic lawyer extraordinaire, is well aware of this situation and has noted on Bluesky that more lawsuits are in the works. He often wins his cases. This does not mean that you shouldn't loudly make noise elsewhere, but please remember that this is one of those 24-hour periods where, as noted, they are counting on demoralizing you with a nonstop blizzard of bullshit. It does not say anything about how this will play out long-term or the opposition that can and will be mobilized to stop it.

Once again: courage. Take the small steps that you can do today. Then take a breath and get off social media for a little while. Try to take the long view. One step at a time, we will get through this.

Courage.

[gureshinlover]

No one asked but here are Rafayel's dagger infos and details from different angles and approximate lengths (that i most likely calculated very poorly, do not trust me on that lol)

Apologies for the bad quality in some pics i tried my best 😔

+ I tried to figure out the details of GoT dagger as much as i could from my screenshots so take these

[reasonsforhope]

"In Sacramento, California, an estimated 6,615 people are experiencing homelessness, a number that — while still heartbreakingly high — has declined 29% since 2023, according to the latest Point In Time counts. 

But a new project, which has been in the works since 2022, might bring that number down even lower.

A new 13-acre property purchased by Sacramento County will soon be home to the Watt Service Center and Safe Stay. 

The county broke ground on the mixed-use service center this week, which will provide shelter, emergency respite, safe parking, health services, and more to community members who are unsheltered — meaning they don’t have a place to safely sleep at night.

“We wanted to do something that is not only larger, but a large-scale campus to provide more than just the shelter,” Janna Haynes, of the county’s Department of Homeless Services and Housing, told KCRA3 News.

The Watt Service Center will have amenities to help meet the needs of anyone staying there, including bathrooms, showers, laundry, and food, as well as mental health, treatment, and employment services.

“You can also meet with your case manager, get behavior health services, look for a job, get rehousing services, a place for your dog,” Jaynes added. “It’s really everything you need, not only for your day-to-day life, but to hopefully end your homelessness.”

While the center is a costly offering, the city explained that it is ultimately less expensive than allowing the homelessness crisis to go unmitigated.

The land was purchased for $22 million and will cost an estimated $42 million to construct the center. According to ABC10 News it will be mostly funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.

While the center will have the capacity to host 225 beds in Safe Stay cabins, 50-person capacity in Safe Parking, and 75-person capacity for emergency/weather respite beds, it will serve countless others outside of the 350 total people it can house at any given time.

According to a press release from the county, “conservative estimates” have found that over the course of 15 years, the center will serve 18,000 people.

In 2017, the city found that the average cost for an “unsheltered individual” was about $45,000 a year, considering public systems like county jail, shelters, behavioral health, and more.

With the projected impact of the shelter, that cost lowers to less than $3,600 per person.

“If you break down the funding, it’s actually not that expensive,” Rich Desmond, county supervisor for District 3, told ABC10.

“It’s a heck of a lot cheaper than letting someone stay out in the community, unsheltered where they are extremely expensive in terms of the emergency response from fire, our emergency rooms, our law enforcement response.”

Providing what the county calls “wraparound services” not only brings down costs but truly helps people meet their basic needs.

“The really great thing about this site in particular, that we don't have at any other shelters, is the sheer size and the ability to really wrap everything people need,” Emily Halcon, director of the Department of Homeless Services and Housing with Sacramento County, told ABC10. 

One notable feature is the center’s Safe Parking spaces, which are the first of their kind in the city. People living in their cars will now have a safe place to park, monitored by security.

“We know a lot of people who are unsheltered actually are living out of their cars,” Desmond said, “maybe a family that’s barely hanging on but they still need that vital transportation to get their kids to school or get to work.”

This support is especially helpful for those who are newly homeless, Halcon added, building on the amenities provided in the county’s two other “safe stay” facilities. 

While Sacramento County just broke ground on the Watt Service Center, officials say they hope to begin moving people into the facility in January 2026.

“Our staff is putting in extra time and attention to this campus, ensuring that it houses everything we need to end homelessness for people,” Desmond said in a statement.

Once it’s up and running, Jaynes told KCRA3, they plan to onboard formerly unhoused community members as part of the staff at the facility.

“When you have a conversation with someone who understands where you’ve been, and you see the success they’re having now,” Jaynes said, “it really does give you hope something could be different.”

-via GoodGoodGood, January 24, 2025

[crehador]

gentaro saburo jyuto!! sorry that's. not one...

NO NEED TO APOLOGIZE ANON I'M DELIGHTED BY THESE 🥰🥰🥰 i'm going to skip the least favorite thing for all though bc i genuinely have nothing bad to say about any of the hpmi characters lol even their flaws are beautiful to me

also sorry in advance many of these answers are going to be long and rambly lmao

gentaro.

favorite thing about them: his lies of course!! especially when he uses them to bully dice, like it's an extremely entertaining facet of his personality but not only entertaining. it's deeply compelling to me as well, being led around (just like dice) and made to question what is and isn't real about him. the way his character has unfolded throughout the series has just been *chef's kiss* a delight to see

favorite line: okay this isn't strictly speaking a "line" but i'm probably going to choose favorite moments from the lives for these because that is what i'm into lol. and for gentaro it's EASILY the moment at... i think it was 2nd or 3rd live, whichever one soma didn't miss. so this was eons ago, and it was his first performance of scenario liar, where he was holding an open book while he performed. so it looked like he was reading all the lyrics off the page but then AT THE END he turned the book around and hit us with that maa zenbu uso nandakedo ne while showing us that THE PAGES WERE COMPLETELY BLANK love love loved that for him

brOTP: hmmmmm fling posse forever but i don't think they're necessarily a brotp (fling posse ot3 real) so for this one i'll say i really enjoy the idea of gendice and hifudo becoming friends in the future. i always think of this one fan comic i saw many many many years ago where dice was like passed out naked (i think he had boxers on at least) in the street after losing everything at pachinko or whatever, and i think it was... doppo? or maybe hifumi? one of them saw him on the street and brought him home. then the other came home and was like [terrifiedhamster.jpg] but they fed him and put him under their kotatsu until gentaro came to pick him up. love that dynamic for them lol

OTP: SO GENDICE OF COURSE!!! but i am also a big enjoyer of fling posse ot3 like they are just so intertwined. stella my beloved... stella...... stella was a game changer ngl

nOTP: gentaro could get with anyone he wants tbh, i guess i don't have any specific notps but i haven't really thought of him with anyone but dice and ramuda before. and hitoya. can't forget about my hitogen era lmao

random headcanon: SPEAKING OF HITOGEN. i doubt i'll ever write this fic idea so i'll just say it lmao. so this is entirely about the arb tennis event and how tennis gentaro looks wildly like a bored housewife who's looking to cheat on his husband (dice) with his cranky old tennis instructor (hitoya). anyway that's not the fic idea, the fic idea is gendice where gentaro writes a steamy, smutty romance novel solely for dice to read, where the characters are blatantly a gentaro self-insert hooking up with tennis instructor hitoya while gentaro's husband dice is away on a business trip. "crab how is this a headcanon" OK SO GETTING BACK TO THE POINT the headcanon i have is gendice would be into ntr but with like. extra steps lmao. not ntr in practice but ntr in gentaro's writing

unpopular opinion: idk if i have any but maybe that ntr headcanon counts lol

song i associate with them: ooh i imagine the spirit of this one is to associate songs that aren't. like. already their songs. but idk i think i will skip these as well because of course their own songs are the ones i associate with them lol

favorite picture of them: OH HO HO okay so it's a tie between the new groveling gendice card from dream rap battle (recency bias but still it's such a good one)

a tie between that one and the uncorrected waftage card where gentaro is wearing dice's shoes lmaoooooo legendary. we will never forget

saburo.

favorite thing about them: ohhhhhh what don't i love about him!! he's just a little guy!!! my special little boy 🥰🥰🥰 but in all seriousness i love saburo's bratty moments the most, the ones that remind you that he's bright and capable but still just a kid who absolutely should be a brat sometimes. he deserves it! being bratty, being pampered. all of it

favorite line: this is going to be another live event but it's after he performed requiem at... i think 6th live? possibly 8th, but i think it was 6th. or maybe it was both. anyway it was all dramatic lighting and a very intense performance as usual, then at the end when the lights came back up he put on a super cute voice and went "......tadaima 🥰🥰🥰" like OUGH the. the cutest baby. in the world.

brOTP: RIO!!!!!! UNCLE RIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is definitely highly influenced by the amachan and kamio shenanigans that seem to go on at every live lol but i love the idea of saburo actually getting along really well with rio and going on excursions with him (he can't be on the computer all day) and it's especially funny to me because jyuto would be such a grump about the two of them getting along. that one time amachan and kamio were annoying komachan while he was practicing private time was like. lmao. the perfect dynamic for them

OTP: in all honesty i have not thought about saburo ships much because despite saying he can't be on the computer all day i do imagine him on the computer all day 😔 are there even any options besides jiro?? i don't think i've ever seen any

nOTP: saburo/hatsune miku. if anyone could figure out how to date a vocaloid it would be saburo but he would never do ichi-nii dirty like that

random headcanon: i think saburo really looks down on gacha players but keeps that to himself because ichiro and jiro are both huge gacha players.........

unpopular opinion: NEW STAR IS GOOD. NEW STAR IS GOOD GODDAMN IT NEW STAR IS A GOOD SONG IT IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF DEBUT SOLO TRACK YOU WOULD EXPECT A 14YO TO PUT OUT YOU GUYS ARE JUST MEAN i will defend new star to the death

favorite picture of them: favorite might be a stretch bc saburo is cute 100% of the time but for now i'm gonna have to give it to the time arb said

jyuto.

favorite thing about them: STINKY. STINKY RABBIT MAN. jyuto i loooooove you it is so hard to narrow it down to one thing. i love this ride or die tsundere piece of shit. like the way he'll do it the way he'll love and support his friends but he'll bitch about it the whole time

favorite line: I SAY THIS WITH IMMENSE AFFECTION i truly love the one time at 2nd or 3rd live where he was introducing rio before what's my name and really put his whole chest into saying "WHO IS HE" but he said "WHO IS HIM" like genuinely 🥺 one of my favorite live moments (though i say that about many. live moments. lol)

brOTP: idk i guess samatoki?? i think they're a fine ship too though i don't ship it personally for monogamous to samaichi reasons (and even if i did i would prefer mtc ot3) so idk if it counts as brotp. even if it does it's kind of the obvious one. OH WAIT I GOT IT. jyuto and rei lmao god it's never not funny to me when all of ichiro's friends (i use the word friends loosely) get all chummy with rei lol oh and i like the idea of jyuto and ichijiku hanging out too

OTP: RIJYU BIRDGUN MY ETERNAL BELOVED easily like my 2nd top ship in all of hpmi (right behind the obvious) like. ough. rijyu is such a comfortable ship to me. i don't think everything would be easy for them all the time and i think it would take them a bonkers long time to actually mutually realize their feelings. they would just be so good for each other. and when rio is looming menacingly (not even intentionally) behind jyuto, jyuto would get to be an even bigger bitch than usual because what are you going to do about it. bitch back when his boyfriend can slap you into orbit??

nOTP: much like gentaro, jyuto could get anyone he wants lmao

random headcanon: less of a jyuto hc and more of a rijyu hc but i think they get married in hawaii. i hc rio has a parent there and brings jyuto home to visit one day and they just. get married on the beach while they're there 🥹

unpopular opinion: hmmmmmm idk if it counts as unpopular but i think he should be taller. not only because komachan is so tall but one time i saw this art of mtc as kids, but still with their actual age gaps, so samatoki was of course the smallest while rijyu were standing behind him. and i just love that aesthetic so much of like. leader toki being the shortest one, enormous (one beefy one lanky) boys backing him up

favorite picture of them: jyuto is so fucking sexy i could put any number of images here however i am going to shamelessly go with a stupid meme i made because i still love it very much lmao

[telebeast]

unoriginal joke

[10yearsofdnp]

Dan reblogged this far too relatable captcha meme on February 4, 2015! 🫥

[sailing-ever-west]

graph of what being hungry is like with adhd

[yourmajestybee]

EVERYONE NEEDS TO LOOK AT HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON UNTRAINABLE THE STAGE PLAY RN