#five minutes max

[ricky-mortis]

I love playing dress up with the blorbo

[verstappenclerc]

via

[the-knife-consumer]

They're fun to doodle

[wickerfemme]

They really just let you walk around while your waistband is doing this

[valyrfia]

the psychological torture of being charles leclerc's friend

[rubensmuse]

so i went into Death Stranding the same way i go into most AAA games: with plenty of story spoilers, but absolutely no gameplay spoilers. and DS throws a surprising number of complications and flavor into its otherwise straightforward gameplay; i 1000% underestimated how much effort went into shaking up the long-haul deliveryman routine. genuinely, it never gets boring for me.

anyway here's the expression i made the first time i ambled into MULE territory and heard the distant rev of a fucking car engine

[natade-art]

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thank you to ollie for putting never love an anchor in his ace playlist resulting in my making this amv

[aropride]

i don't think not using spotify is an important piece of leftist praxis, to be clear, but i do think it's insane that people pay $11 a month for spotify premium because they think piracy is stealing from artists. like, if you listen to 50,000 minutes of music, that's $37.50 that's being given to the artists you listened to- being split between all the artists you listened to in the entire year. you're giving them 132 dollars so they can give a third of that to the dozens, hundreds, maybe thousands of artists you listened to that year. i don't think the few cents an artist won't get anymore if you unsubscribe really matter that much to the more popular artists, and starting in 2024 the less popular artists won't even get paid anyway. i don't think piracy is that much worse, especially if you send smaller artists a couple dollars on patreon or bandcamp or something. and again, i use spotify sometimes, i pirate it but still, i don't think it's a moral failing or anything. just that it's a little hypocritical when people act like piracy is so much worse. but that's just my two cents (which is what like, seven streams on spotify is worth).

[arcadewonder]

vance gets a free pass from me because he tries his best with lil despite being a deadbeat partner. 

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

What is it about Kobra Kid that made all of us look at him and be like “yep that’s some uber autism there” is it the sunglasses?

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Okay, I'm playing off of @petes-5yr-cocoa 's headcannon that Max cooks

Max definitely watches YSAC. The first thing he made on a stove was a chopped salami grilled cheese, and the first thing he baked in an oven was bacon.

The first baked good he made, however, was Valentines Day Brownies, which he made when his father was out trolling bars for women. He ate the entire tray before his father got back the next day.

Before baking, he mostly just stuck with the No Heat and the Snacks and Dips recipes. He's definitely made all of the drinks, and showed off his shaky knowledge of cocktails at a party.

He's most definitely gotten the songs stuck in his head, but especially The French Fry Rap. The Egg Series made him genuinely emotional, and Better McMuffins scared him.

He forgets the name for a spatula (the scoopy/scrapey ones used for flipping) and calls them a wangjangler without even realising there's another name for them. Very confusing for his friends the first few times it happens.

He definately made some modified ramen for his first home date with Richie (or, yknow, a 'thanks for tutoring me' meal). I'd say that he kinda combined the egg ramen and steak & spinach ramen.

One of the first gifts Richie got him was the YSAC cook book, which Max responded very excited and enthusiastically to, even though most of his friends were confused when he yelled about how much he loved the gift Richie got him, since they didn't really know too much about his cooking.

Richie also turned him onto B. Dylan Hollis, whom he doesn't like as much as ysac (the deadpan comedy is something he really likes with ysac, says it's the perfect type of comedy for cooking) but he definitely like the more bite sized content with Hollis, and he finds the old recipes weird.

(Max got Richie Baking Yesteryear)

[givehimthemedicine]

"dead" vs "gone"

the relentless UD/Henry-coding of the word "gone" (+ a bonus implication for Max)

chewing on how often El says the word "gone" where you would expect "dead":

where could she have gotten that?

I promise the length of this post is mainly due to screenshots

so did El just not learn the word for death til she got older? no, because this predates the Henry "gone" line:

so she knew "dead" in '79. and those lab kids are obviously super dead, so she must understand Henry's "gone" to mean something other than deceased.

having no memory of this, El goes on to use almost exclusively "gone" in the first couple seasons. but she says "dead" too, especially later on. as if they're a tight venn diagram, but not a circle.

we've got "Mama is dead" and two "Papa is dead"s, which is pretty neato. the first two are false and the third one is true in that she's referring to Brenner but... what do you want to bet that it's also false in the sense that her biological papa is alive and closer than we th[gunshot]

other times I can find her speaking any form of the word:

love the combo in the Papa one. Henry's not dead but if only Papa would've let him go he would be gone!

so chronologically:

mama is dead

barb is gone

mother is gone

sara is gone

papa is gone

papa is dead

so many dead

they are going to die

papa is dead

once she switches from "Papa is gone" to "Papa is dead" in season 2, she's never said gone again, so far, but we have a season left. I would put money on somebody, probably her, saying that Henry is "dead and gone" by the end of 5.

I also want to talk about the way literally everybody else uses the word "gone"

SO MANY of the times the word is "gone" is used on ST, especially as an adjective, we know that person's circumstances to have something to do with the lab/the UD/Henry - even when the speaker doesn't, and is merely using it to mean "dead" or "away".

an example? I can find you one or two:

and with that in mind, let's look again at Max's final words:

if you needed proof that "dead" and "gone" are two different things, they had Max say both "I don't wanna die" AND "I don't wanna go."

Lucas, with her in the natural, spoke to the dying. El, with her in the supernatural, spoke to the going.

El's line isn't referring to stopping Max from dying, which we already know she did. El promised she's not going. as a separate thing. :)

[f1-disaster-bi]

I might be back writing Accidental Kidnapping and I am having so much fun with this one

[roseandgold137]

i'd be interested to hear your thought process behind ponyfied-tim's cutie mark

for reference, pony Tim:

So I wanted to make it somewhat connected to Robin, which is why it’s a wing, and it was originally red and orange too, but then I changed it to blue (1 to match the palette better but also 2 it could a reference to flying graysons/his Nightwing fanboy tendencies lmao), and the stars are purely decorative tbh I just thought it was missing something lol

[ridiculously-over-obsessed]

Writing some gay shit as usual and I'm kinda spacey and tired, but I legit just wrote the line "as she looked into Beca's stormy gay eyes" and like- I mean yeah??? But that's also not what I meant 😭💀

[unnamed-proxy]

Finally done doing audio editting for a stop motion animation for school !!! Only thing I don’t like about it is my voice :,) ended up being WAAAY shorter than I thought though so I refuse to complain!