#explain like i am five

[electronicmail]

Firefox-official vs electronicmail

Hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

okay come up with a better idea then. firefox-official is gone asshole it’s electronicmail or nothing

[tomfrogisblue]

thinking about how ever since their qsmp characters finally admitted their feelings, cc!Fit and cc!Pac's way in which they treat the fictional relationship has done a complete 180

Now the huevitos cannot relax because at any second FitMC might declare HIS BRAZILIAN BOYFRIEND to anyone in his general vicinity and my poor ratinho ass was just chilling when Pactw pulls up his desktop for a split second to reveal ONE OF FIT'S PICS AS HIS DESKTOP BACKGROUND

[wife-beam]

a lot of people act like sqq’s main character trait is obliviousness and i could not disagree more

[markscherz]

if you have time to explain like i'm five, why can birds not be meaningfully separated from reptiles? is it just to do with how they evolved, or are there cold-blooded scaly birds out there that i don't know about?

Imagine you’re a duck. It’s good, right? Here’s some noodles. Pretend they’re worms. Okay, no, stop trying to put the noodles up your nose. Attention here, look, papa’s trying to explain something. Can you listen? If you listen you’ll get more noodles. Okay? Okay.

So you’re a duck (*quack* yes good). But I’m a dinosaur. Yup. Waiiit. You have to be a duck for the story to make sense. Okay. I’m a dinosaur and you’re a duck. You’re descended from me. So you’re actually a dinosaur too! I know right‽ that’s because children (descendants) of one group are still members of that group. You never stop being a dinosaur, no matter how different you look, because you’re descended from dinosaurs. Even though you’re a duck (*quack* yes exactly)

You remember your aunty? Let’s say she’s a crocodile. Yeah, she looks like a crocodile sometimes, doesn’t she? Okay. If she’s a crocodile, and we’re dinosaurs, then what are your grandparents? That’s right, they’re a group that somehow gave rise to both dinosaurs and crocodilians. That group is called Archosauria. So your grandma is a great big archosaur (don’t tell her I said that).

Now, we call archosaurs reptiles. Crocodiles are reptiles, and dinosaurs are reptiles too. And if dinosaurs are reptiles, then birds are reptiles, because you can’t just cut the family tree. No it’s not a literal tree. You can’t cut it. No, not even with scissors. Like I just said, you never stop being what your forebears were. No, forebears, not four bears. Bears are not reptiles. Ducks are. Okay. You get it? Good talk. Here’s some more noodles.

[nonas-third-tantrum]

i’m reading the traitor baru cormorant and the best way i can describe the experience is that it’s like if gideon the ninth was told from harrow’s pov. i do not know what’s happening. i need an unreliable jock narrator to gloss over all the political machinations and tell me how hot (or not) everyone is

[sillyabtmusic]

[takaraphoenix]

Getting a little obsessed with the fact that my specialty in this fandom is writing increasingly more complex "slightly to the left" types of canon divergences.

You see, yes, canon happens, but.

But Boyd and Erica are still alive though.

But Jackson doesn't leave.

But Peter claims an Alpha spark after Derek gives his up.

But actually the whole surviving Hale Pack moves away to London/New York/my-made-up-town-one-over right after the fire so that they stay unaffected by canon and everything else still happens to Stiles, Scott and the non-Hales.

But every single member of the Hale Pack that got written out of the show is gonna be gathered up in a new and improved Hale Pack "off screen" from the canon plot.

But due to one of the last two options, I will have to be more elaborate on how these changes affect canon while still allowing canon to unfold.

Writing fics that get increasingly harder to tease/post about because they need like three paragraphs of preface to explain which changes I have applied to canon in this one.

I've never lived in a canon divergent space this hard before. Usually, I'm just... living in canon, with minor ship-related changes. But here, I am playing fast and loose with canon so hard - like, no, it is important that the Hale Fire happens, that Kate groomed Derek, that Scott got turned and they got dragged into this supernatural mess, that the Nogitsune happens.

But there are also enough things wrong with canon that make me want to write AUs, where all my faves get to live and get the chance to have a happily ever after. It's just that... a full AU would bore me? I need these canon things to still happen to them? Even though I am bending it into whatever shape I want it to have.

[bucket-puns]

Whale fall.

[corallapis]

i always forget exactly how crazy this scene is.

[ikjun]

yunho and changmin as well as seulgi and irene are never gonna leave fuckass sm entertainment and for what. for me to suffer.

[recurring-polynya]

this is the most disrespectful use of the split-screen reaction shot i have ever seen. i would file a grievance with the vice-captains' union.

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Dangerously close to plotting a real Skyrim/Lord of the Rings crossover for after Keeping Count because my secret desire for Leara/Glorfindel has reared its head again

Shhh Don't question it.

[uncanny-tranny]

You're allowed to be proud of yourself for achieving things that are not seen as achievements or are seen as "just the norm."

Sometimes, the achievement is reaching where others have always been, and it isn't about being normal, but about the things you have done to achieve a goal. You can celebrate and be proud no matter how "small" a feat it is

[minivirgo]

i think i'm just fundamentally evil and broken ?

[autumnrory]

i rmr when all the initial meta around endgame was coming out people were talking about steve being depressed and whatnot and it's like well yeah but he's BEEN depressed, like he woke up alone in this century and he kept going, now i can understand it being worse this time after finding a family and getting bucky back and losing them all except of course that's not why endgame steve was on about so like......the people writing meta were trying to connect these things that of course weren't really there on screen because that simply wasn't our steve

but i think it really could've been SO interesting to see this is the thing that finally makes steve stay down like he's lost so much and he just CAN'T keep fighting like i get some people think that's what they were going for but considering the ending......it's really not. and so i'm just thinking about a version after iw, maybe he gets some of the thor treatment except not turning his depression into a dumb fatphobic joke lol and maybe nat and others are trying to get through to him and it just doesn't work and then we get some flashbacks (which you could have done for all the original avengers actually which would be particularly important for bruce and nat and clint who did not have their own trilogies) including his mom telling him "you always stand up" and THAT being the thing to finally get him moving like it would've been such a perfect way to finally show sarah rogers some respect and ACTUALLY show steve really struggling instead of whatever they tried to do with him in that movie

[tricoufamily]

jesus christ are they releasing kits every day now or what