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[shrimperini]

los human AU wiwis

wheatley, chell and arthur when they were younger :3

chell was adopted when she was 10 years old, she spent early life in an orphanage, she struggled being around other kids and always preferred playing alone.

her favorite toy was a fox plushie! everytime she was found smiling was while playing with it.

it was, however, a shared toy that belonged to the orphanage and when she got adopted she had to leave it behind. when her loving adoptive father bought her a new fox plushie, she found herself missing the first one, it just wasn’t the same ❤️‍🩹

i like to think she became more lively and cheerful once adopted, having a caring parent changed her for the best. she even got to participate to the Bring Your Daughter To Work Day at Aperture, where her father worked, and she got first place 🔥

wheatley has been chatty ever since he was a little kid!!! always yapping people’s ears off. kids used to avoid him so similarly to chell he was lonely, but unlike her, he continuously seeked out company and genuine friends, always failing

Arthur (cake core) is Wheatley’s younger brother, they used to spend so much time together as children but then he was sent to boarding school due to his very high grades so that’s when they started drifting apart

(Bullying CW)

Wheatley stayed in regular schools due to his below average grades and performance, he changed schools 3 times in total and one of those times it was due to him getting involved in a fight with bullies, which he didn’t start, but he got punished for swinging first after months of harassment. that school in specific was rly bad for him but things got better for him once he was transferred, he still struggled with loneliness tho

but yeah main idea is that chell’s loneliness is a choice, while wheatley’s isn’t. lol

chell likes being around friendly faces but she actually enjoys her alone time and is a lone wolf at heart. wheatley is in desperate need of real connections, of people who take him seriously and want him around. Sobs

[wildstar25]

MiqoMarch Day 13 - Wonder

"I wonder Emet-Selch- when you told me to seek out the city of gold, did you know I'd find another bathed in neon? And could you have predicted they'd have such wonderful coffee?"

[oceanatydes]

why is he serving cvnt

[outta-trouble]

as someone who grew up wishing to go to usa one day because of movies and cartoons, I woulda never thought they would have concentration camps after all that land of the free propaganda

First Felon is kidnapping and trafficking.

#LanguageMatters ✨️racism✨️💫

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[copepods]

i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

If you mess up a social interaction you can say "Failed Experiment" and move on

[queer-here-and-in-fear]

shorthands for dumbassery that i have grown to love deeply

"how dare you say we piss on the poor" in response to someone misinterpreting your post

"_ isnt gonna fuck you" for suck up behavior

"woah. should we tell everyone? should we throw a party?" for who the fuck cares

"and what if the world was made of pudding" for when would this ever matter.

"and sharks are smooth both ways" for a group of people heatedly arguing with 1 guy who is fucking with them all

".. but its about a witch in the alps finding her lost cat" for someone trying to sanitize something to the point of absurdity

[frontmansdog]

mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately

[gayvampyr]

the generational gap between me and the people my age who use chat gpt

[aropride]

i hope luigi mangione is proven innocent & gets to sue a ton of companies for slander and win & i hope he gets enough money to rebuild his life and get any help for his chronic pain that he needs & i hope he’s able to disappear from the public eye entirely if that’s what he wants

[koobiie]

i feel strongly about this

[hug-your-face]

via @swatercolour here on Tumblr and also on [insta]

EDIT: I do not interpret "just managing" as "just suffering, just enduring, curling into a fetal position and waiting for it to be over." Managing is an active process.

So I'm using this post as a platform to make the reminder that "the power of the people is greater than the people in power," and we all are cordially invited to:

Take good care of ourselves. Mental, physical, emotional health. Hydrate. Move if we can, get outside if we can.

Keep up a routine. Remember quarantine and we all had to find a routine? This is the same.

Be intentional in our news consumption. Let's not stick our heads in the sand but let's not doomscroll either. Get an RSS aggregator. Subscribe to WTF Just Happened Today, Yoour Local Epidemiologist, Fix The News (for some inspiring hopeful news!). We'll check our feeds a few times a week, but no more than once a day.

Connect with friends and loved ones. Remind ourselves that while SOME people are horrible, for the most part people are awesome... if complicated. Share our fears but also our hopes. Eat together.

Now that we're keeping healthy, safe, sane, and hopeful... now we also fight. Quietly if we prefer, loudly if we prefer. But sustainably. I hate that I had to live through three rounds of this nonsense where a few people use half of us as tools to fuck over ALL of us, but here we are again. So let us take just one moment every week or so to...

Use 5calls to keep blowing up our reps phones. Tell them to either break ranks with the Orange Administration, or to stand up louder than just matching outfits and signs. Or to THANK them for standing up.

Use Vote411 to find elections before the midterms. A lot of villages, cities, townships etc have local elections that will affect where we live... and more importantly, the people in office there will affect things upwards too.

Use Ballotpedia to know exactly what's on our ballots ahead of time.

Protest, because it actually works.

Use Vote.org to make a plan to vote in the midterms. Make a plan that is immune to voter suppression tactics. Get our documents in order. Reach out to our friends to go to the polls as a group. Plan to livestream our visit, up until the point we have to turn our cameras off.

Make and share memes that promote hope, organizing, solidarity, and/or resistance.

Get involved with an action network like Indivisible, MoveOn, or Working Families Party.

Go to a local town hall meeting. Speak up.

Heck, start our own local activism networks, letter campaigns, call campaigns, or fundraisers with Action Network.

And we will remember our self-care. We will remind ourselves and each other that they want us scattered, focus is how we resist.

It IS coming back. Things ARE going to get worse. The world has become a place where a very few people are pulling levers and pushing buttons that are actively destroying much of what is good about living in a society where people care for each other.

Many others are in shock, sputtering "but can they do that?" MANY many others are waiting for someone to come save us.

But there are those who are actively, loudly, opposing.

And there are more people speaking up, acting up, every day. More people saying it's time to get scrappy. It's time to get into some good trouble. The shock is wearing off.

Yes, it's gonna get worse before it gets better (the long-term damage of the acts of the past momentum of all the damage that has been done will take that long to be felt -- but it WILL get better.

If WE will it.

[drumlincountry]

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

[nattousan]

it was not on wheat...