#friend group dinner

[minghaosmilfshirt]

no context, Jungkook Spaghetti🍝

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today’s moodboard (jim spader edition omfg)

[worddevourer]

I'm thinking about the absurdity of everything that happened to the Mighty Nein when they finally make it to Rosohna.

Like, imagine being the Essek for that.

Here's a group of adventurers. They have a surprising number of humans in their midst. That's a little suspicious considering the war with the Empire. After a few questions, they appear to be the world's most obvious and transparent spies. Like... Come on, they don't even really seem to know the region.

Well, whatever, guess they're gonna be treated appropriately-

Oh, that's a beacon. In a moment of stress, they proceed to pull out the most valuable relic of your people, which was stolen, or lost, and just... hand it back over to you.

You (as Essek), know about 95% of how they got their hands on it, because you've been keeping tabs on it because you're the one who handed it over in the first place. And here it is. In the throne room. They have no idea what it is, but they know the Bright Queen wants it, and they seem to earnestly want to make friends, and really would just like one of their members to get her husband back.

And the whole thing gets even stupider because you (that is to say Essek), decide that your best chance of keeping everything secure is to be the one who keeps an eye on them, and these dumbasses categorically refuse to stop trying to befriend you. You are specifically, actively trying to stop them from getting you caught and executed for treason, and they're like 'hey, you want to come over for dinner or something? We have a hot tub.'

[aroacecaduceus]

One wish I have for the Mighty Nein series is that Caduceus does not know how to fight at all.

Like not even a little bit. Like he’s completely useless in a bar fight.

Like, I want him in the fights, don’t get me wrong. I want them to show him cancelling crits somehow, like one of the Mighty Nein is about to be fucking destroyed and vines form around them and yank them back or something. I want them to show him casting holy weapon on Beau’s hands. Maybe he creates some fun shields when things attack.

But most of the time in battle, especially at the beginning, when he’s the new guy, I want him to be the most cringe-fail fighter to ever exist. I want them to get into a fight with pirates and just get knocked unconscious in one punch. I want them to rush out and accidentally steal that boat and realize they left Caduceus behind on the dock bc he didn’t know what was happening.

My man grew up as a healer and a graveyard attendant. If this boy threw a punch he’d break his hand on the other guy’s jaw. But don’t worry because he’d never think to throw a punch anyway.

In the game, he needed to do some fighting sometimes. But in the show, I think he should just hide away for nearly every battle. He should not cause a single drop of blood. Even when he’s angry. He’s the healer. Not because of the god he worships (she’s actually a freak) but because of a personal choice.

The only time he should attack is if they show the scene with sheep Caleb.

[naneki-maid]

it took Diana’s dad less than a summer to read stephen for the lying manipulative trash piece of shit that he is—something that those closest to him, who’ve known him for YEARS have been unable to do. bless him.

[inchidentally]

just a thought, we know now that the grid dinner was at a japanese restaurant so obviously sushi’s on the menu, i wonder if oscar intentionally avoided ordering anything fish-y bcs lando was sat right next to him

😖✊🏻 aghsbsshjshhs

I mean he gave up eating salmon at the engineer's table and then gave it up for his breakfast for Lando which makes me absolutely insane bc that's smth so specific and pointed and sweet that should only happen in fic but !!

[motsimages]

As per Tumblr recommendation, I started Kevin can fuck himself yesterday. I see people comment on how the sitcom part makes it look the way people see an abuser and how the abuse can be disguised. People think he is just a funny guy and the abuse goes unnoticed. I personally see it otherwise, although it's similar.

People know he is an asshole. He spends a whole episode being mean to the new neighbours just because. He meets a dangerous guy at a bar, in public. He is an alcoholic who throws weird parties with lots of other people at home. Patty's boyfriend tells her twice in the 3 or 4 conversations we see that he is an idiot. People know, and people avoid him.

And his bubble know, but they justify it and excuse it. And that's the sitcom. The sitcom is the theater of excuses Allison has (and then other characters too) about his behaviour.

"Can you believe it? We were in our anniversary, such a fun party, we were both super drunk and I don't know how it ended, that I was face down on the floor and the table was broken! Anniversa-rager we call it lol"

"He is such a clumsy guy that just as I was leaving the house, you won't believe that I don't know how he managed to cover me in chilli sauce! What a silly goose!"

"He is so helpless without me, he couldn't find the printer and he called me all day because he needed me to explain to him how to work it. And he worries too! He called the cops because he didn't know where I was, maybe I forgot to tell him".

The conversations with her coworker about husbands help drive this point. That's what mariage is. You find ways to justify it and to avoid certain fights and that's it. We got lucky.

But he did all these things on purpose. And the unreliable narrator of the sitcom makes the joke of it and makes the audience consider that maybe it isn't *that bad*. Allison needs to believe that's what it is, so it is. It really isn't that bad, she thinks, he is just like that.

And we can actually see the worrying things and the threatening parts from minute one. It's only a joke because we have been trained to dismiss it. To justify it and to move on. He isn't doing any heavy lifting here.

In episode 1, just the fact that he ends up standing on the table (when she doesn't want him to even put glasses on without protection) says a lot. But then the table breaks and he fixes it poorly and visibly. It would be bad enough just like this, but I personally think there is more to it. It's just that Allison doesn't want to speak about it or look at it so it is just the table, but it's the switch that turns on for her, the last drop. But she did end face down on her living room, on top of the broken table. It's a very elegant narrative tool where we don't see, but if we wanted to see, it's there.

And the more she notices, the more off-putting the sitcom is. It's still played as a joke, with the laugh track, but she is more aware now, so we can notice too.

We start the series with her turning point, but if the series started a year before that, it would only be happening in her house, as it is her life, her only frame of reference, and it would only be a sitcom because isn't he such a clumsy but caring guy?

[robertdowneyjjr]

a soulmates au where your words only show up after you’ve met your soulmate. sort of like an insurance policy, you know, so you’re not left wondering whether every other person you meet is the one if your words are too generic.

in this universe, captain america has been recovered and active for several years now. he runs missions and saves the world with his ragtag team of superheroes formed by SHIELD. steve's become a celebrity, which he doesn't love, but it's something he learns to live with because that's life for public figures in the 21st century.

tony never became iron man because he walked away from his father's legacy the second he turned 18. he and howard are still working on their relationship, but maria couldn't be prouder and tells tony so everyday. he built his own company from the ground up and it's thriving under his leadership. he's only marginally famous these days and he tries his best to stay out of the limelight, guarding his private life as much as possible. that's how it's been for twenty years and he's happy.

they meet on a day when steve is tired, irritable and angry. he's just returned from a mission where two of his teammates were injured because of the faulty information they received. he goes out on a walk to let off some steam and he's just slipping his phone back into his pocket after rejecting fury's fifth call for a debrief when he slams right into tony.

tony was having a good day. he'd just sent out a new set of designs and decided to reward himself for it. he goes and gets himself a fresh, delicious, life-affirming cup of coffee and is just stepping out of the cafe with aforementioned cup when a walking brick wall comes out of nowhere.

good news is, tony had ordered a cold brew. once every few weeks that's just what he's in the mood for and it had been one of those days. bad news is, instead of drinking it he is now wearing it.

sticky and cold and more than a little shocked, tony barely has time to recover and figure out what happened when steve starts tearing into him.

“god damn it, watch where the fuck you’re going! that could have spilled all over me! idiot!” steve yells at tony. and on a normal day, he’d be apologetic and he’d never curse like this at a stranger. but he really didn’t need yet another thing to go wrong today and he’s on a short fuse.

maybe later, when he’s calmed down, he’ll think back on the cute man with the giant brown eyes staring at him in disbelief and start beating himself up over how he behaved.

at the moment, all tony can do is look at steve’s pristine white t-shirt that somehow has not a single drop of coffee on it, then look back down at his own chest. he has no words except, “wow. you’re a fucking asshole.” and he just turns around and walks away.

tony gets home and strips off for a rinse before he gets ready for his flight to london for a week of meetings. all the while he can’t help but think that angry blond man looked vaguely familiar and he can’t place where he knows him from. he doesn’t notice the new string of words tattooed down the side of his thigh until he’s in his hotel room half a day later.

meanwhile, steve gets home after his walk, after he’s checked on his teammates, after sitting with fury for three long hours to debrief, and finally washes the day off of him. before he gets into the shower, he notices something different about his reflection.

along his left bicep are the words, wow. you’re a fucking asshole.

he thinks back on the cute man with the big brown eyes and a chest full of coffee and wonders how in the hell he can fix this mess.

[crispywisp]

[3416]

remember when auston and mitch biked around seattle on valentines day together....

[sawvhs]

seriously doubt adam or lawrence had any close/trusted friends which just makes their relationship in the bathroom that much more weirdly emotionally charged. codependency bait to the max

[iobsesswaytoomuch]

"I don't need food, I don't need sleep, don't tell me that I'm wroOoOng!" (Suffering by Amélie Farren)

~me five seconds after threatening my entire friend group of like 9 people with a spray bottle/taking away of books/shoe slapping if they didn't eat, sleep, or drink water 😌

[the-nectar]

Body in the Woods AU!!!

From the title you can probably tell that this is a murder mystery AU, just one of several I have cooked up. Also I know it’s not the circus AU that I said I was going to post lol but it’s not entirely ready yet so here’s a peace offering.

- Four high schoolers who don’t know each other wake up in the woods after a huge party the night before.

- They recall seeing each other every now and then because of how small the town they live in is but they’ve never talked to each other before.

- All of them don’t remember much of the night (drinking, drugs, etc) before so when they wake up in the woods, they’re all confused.

- That’s until they realize that among them is a dead body. They recognize her from around their schools halls but they don’t know her that well. The girl is Maya.

- While they don’t remember how or why they’re there with a dead girl, they feel pretty certain that they all had a part in her death.

- The four teens have to work together to hide the body and keep the secret as the police start sniffing around.

- They try to get rid of any evidence of them being at the scene of the crime.

- Meilin is a crime mystery enthusiast and basically leads the group on how to get rid of the evidence.

- They try to pay their respects to the girl by attempting to give her as good a burial as they can with what they had on them but it was a shoddy job.

- The Greencloaks are cops who start an investigation when the body is found a few days later after a missing persons notice goes out.

- Tarik is Rollan’s adoptive father so the four of them get really nervous with how close a cop is to their whole situation (they’re under the impression that they either killed her while under the influence or they didn’t do it but they’re scared that they’ll be arrested for murder, the opinions are split among the group.)

- Meilin is terrified that she might’ve committed the murder while under the influence because of her obsession with true crime.

- Conor is scared that he accidentally killed her while under the influence.

- Abeke doesn’t think that she wouldn’t killed her but she also thinks she was involved in some way since she was there at the scene of the crime.

- Rollan firmly believes that they were set up but he can’t figure out why it would be the four of them, after all they barely knew each other.

- After that night, the main four have been meeting up in secret to help alleviate the weight and guilt of keeping that night a secret.

- After several weeks of investigation, the police start looking into other students at their high school to see if any student had a connection to her death. They believe that it could have been an extreme case of bullying.

- The main four get more paranoid as the investigation gets scarily close to investigating them.

- When the police find out about the party that Maya attended, they start to search for the other kids that attended the party.

- After realizing that they’re going to get involved one way or another, the main four start to do their own investigation to see if they really did kill Maya that night.

Sorry to do my girl Maya like this but it just made the most sense to me. The main four would be aged up to match her but for a guesstimate of their ages in this AU, I’d probably say 15-16. They’d most likely be in their sophomore year of high school. I wanted to have the victim in this be someone the main four know from canon but not someone they’re explicitly close with, hence why it’s not Shane.

Shane will play more of a side character part in this AU. My rough idea for him is to be Abeke’s best friend who starts getting suspicious of her weird behavior. He’s start to question why he’s seeing her talking to these 3 other kids that he knows she didn’t know that well.

The main four would have their own kind of character cliches that you’d see in typical teen tv. Meilin is the valedictorian who has a secret special interest that she’s kind of insecure about (true crime). Abeke is the jock who’s well known around school but she prefers to only have one close friend at the moment (Shane). Conor is that one kid who’s decently smart but not overwhelmingly, but he’s somehow known by all the teachers (who not-so-secretly favorite him). Rollan is the not-so-good kid that backtalks the teachers he thinks deserve it without care for suspension or detention.

The four of them don’t share any classes together, don’t typically see each other in the halls, and wouldn’t spend time in the same area normally so it weirds Shane out that Abeke just started hanging out with them. He eventually starts doing his own digging after realizing that Abeke won’t tell him what’s going on.

Um that’s it everyone! I have my own ideas as to what happened and how but I’ll leave that to when I actually write this into a fan fiction. I kinda like to leave some details open for you guys just in case you want to put your own spin on it. Once I start writing these fics, I’ll let you guys know. I’m under “The Necter” on AO3 if you guys wanna check out the fics that I’ve already written/started, a whole total of 3 so don’t worry. (And before you guys figure out that Necter is spelled wrong, just know that I know and it’s an inside joke.) Please tell me if you guys enjoyed this idea!

[humanveil]

turning 27 this year

[zyuyea]

[starjasmines]

forgot how painful it is making new friends that are like. getting closer but i still dont fully trust that they like me and dont find me annoying or think i talk too much or talk weird or share the wrong info and too much of it or that i act wrong and live my life wrong or that theyd rather hang out without me and im only there bc theyre being nice. you pass a point with friendships like only with time and experience that even if you're not best friends you know they want you around. and i like these girls a lot and we have fun but im still so scared at this stage lol.