#fuel my ego

[toxictoxicities]

*KICKS DOWN DOOR*

BROHOE ITS ALMOST VALENTINES I DONT HAVE ANYONE TO SPEND IT WITH SO I'M DRAGGING YOU WITH ME TO WRECK WEDDINGS.

[butch-with-a-deep-voice]

Saw someone mentioning their tumblr crushes and now I can't help but be curious

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

Only one of these left!

Just added these convertible belt chains & necklaces to my site. Great for people who have been wanting to dip their toe into leather but are maybe a little intimidated by the bold statement something like a collar or harness might make, and/or who might not be able to afford something like a belt. Can triple as an impact toy if you're feeling extra fun.

And as always, available on sliding scale <3

Pansy-Leatherwork.com | @pansy.leatherwork on IG

[thatonedudeinthecorner]

You’re telling me this ISN’T what happened in season 1 episode 1????

Is it hypocritical for Aang to be the one to call Zuko bald when he is objectively balder? Yes. Was this really funny to me? Also yes. God may forgive you for not capturing the avatar, but NO ONE will forgive you for that fuckass ponytail.

[hinkawithanx]

Who knew the evil lesbian duo would make the show 10x better

[bandtrees]

hiatus catastrophizing has made me really worried for how find us alive will end. given the weight it gives character deaths and injury, i don't think anyone will die or anything like that - but i think, and maybe this is just my angst brain talking, site-107 has evolved so much and its people have adapted so well over time, into something unrecognizable as the foundation, that i think when they get out they will be completely incompatible with the outside world/the foundation at large and we'll get a tragic "the shift grew to symbolize hope in isolated community that cannot persist in the 'real world'"-type ending.

(in particular, anna got an ask about the idea that the 107 employees will all be amnesticized when they're found, and that concept's stuck with me...)

a foundation site has become a place where d-class are treated like people, where people who'd previously hardly spoken are now close community members, where a contained anomaly can atone and return to his work and his friends, where anomalies themselves are treated with affection as the pets of a physically+mentally disabled field agent who was considered disposable by the foundation long before she became disabled.

and that's wonderful. it makes me so happy. but i have to fear if the rest of the foundation will be as understanding of the hope and triumph the staff of 107 have gone through - and i don't think they will. fua's story is all about making normalcy, and i would say at this point in the story, shown most recently by gravett and klein, that they've achieved it - but won't it hurt, just like it had in the initial shift, to have that normalcy taken away?

[buglvr24]

brought some of my lemon ricotta cookies into work and not enough people have eaten them and gone ooo yummy these are so tasty you are so talented lauren >:(

[the-way-astray]

(Also sent to Lisa)

This one is called:

Crossover

(Keefe pov)

Keefe sat down down in his desk. He sat between two girls who seemed to hate each other. Lucky for him, he got to be between the evil glares.

The teacher started to drone on about chemistry. He didn't give a crap, so he decided to lay down on his desk. He was hidden from the teacher's sight by the person in front of him.

After a few minutes with his eyes closed, he heard the two girls whispering.

"I can't believe you really think you have a shot with him," the girl on his left, Lisa, said.

Stria, the other girl, snorted. "And who does he always go to for the homework? Me."

Keefe peeked his eyes open. His hood covered most of his face, but gave him a clear enough view of his surroundings.

Lisa rolled her eyes. "Ooh, you're so special. You do realize that's because you get most of the awnsers right?"

The other girl huffed her reproach. "Wow."

"Further more," she continued. "I get paired with him by the teacher more than you do."

"And you think that means he likes you."

Keefe had to stop his snicker. They were really fighting over him. He wasn't necessarily interested in either of them- don't get it wrong, he was flattered -but he found it quite amusing.

He would've liked to keep eavesdropping if his teacher hadn't noticed him.

"Sencen!" She shouted. "I've told you not to sleep in class."

He picked his head up and pretend like he was just awaking so the girls didn't know he heard their conversation.

"That's detention, sir." The teacher added. "And put that hood down." He rolled his eyes, but obeyed.

At the end of class, he started to walk out the door. Both girls were passing by him. He noticed that they were both staring at him. He gave them a wink. They hurried away, seemingly arguing about who it was meant for.

alayda! you forgot to finish the fic. tsk, tsk, tsk. it's okay, i'll do it for you.

stria pov

the second stria and lisa were out of earshot of keefe, lisa grinned and stopped the video she'd been recording. katie had wanted full audio and video. stria internally sighed. then she externally sighed. the weirdo that katie was. the weirdo that she was, to have been willing to go along with this moronic plan. and she didn't even fully remember what katie had been planning on doing with the footage anyway . . .

lisa must've noticed her annoyance, because she reminded stria, "hey, remember: katie wanted to know what keefe would do if he thought two random girls were fighting over him? we owe her this."

"i owe her nothing," stria grumbled back. "and if katie wants this shit so bad, she can come be the second girl herself. i can't keep this shit up for the entire semester."

"do you think he realizes you've been doing all his homework incorrectly this entire time?" lisa wondered.

"nah, he's too stupid for that." stria drawled. his stupidity really was a wonder sometimes. for one of his chemistry problems, she'd put "water has eight lone pairs" as an answer, and keefe had turned the worksheet in without a second thought. she'd known because she'd walked by his desk right as the teacher had handed it back. it was full of red markings, and she'd seen an "eight lone pairs????????????????" circled in bright red, complete with sixteen question marks (stria was starting to like this teacher). the top of his worksheet had said 37%. and he could've at least had the intellect to stop coming to her for homework help after it was clear she was intentionally sabotaging him. but clearly he lacked the brainpower for even that. katie had clapped and jumped up and down an excruciating amount when stria had dryly reported the news; it had seemed like she was trying to achieve flight as she added the new data to her detective-style keefe wall.

"when do you think he's going to realize that i'm not even actually in that class, and that i'm actually just a ta that's paired with him on projects so he doesn't flunk out of class?" lisa continued.

stria shrugged. "katie's estimate based on her very thorough analysis of the data we gathered was a rough thirty-two days. but she said there was room for error." she couldn't even begin to remember what the hell katie had done for her that had merited a favor like this.

"anyway," lisa said, pulling up the footage. stria was in awe at lisa's videography skills. before keefe had winked at them as they exited class, lisa had managed to hold the phone up to capture it, like she'd known it was coming. she'd camouflaged this with a shy wave and a flirty giggle. naturally, keefe, stupid as he was, hadn't seen the phone in her hand, which had been visibly recording his idiotic expression. and in class: she'd managed to record the slight snicker keefe had foolishly let slip. stria wondered how keefe could have fooled himself into thinking they didn't know he wasn't asleep. clearly katie knew what she was doing in hiring lisa, though; the footage's video was pretty clear.

as she stared at his annoying smirk now, she could see how extra stupid he looked while doing it. his eyes seemed a bit too desperate, his smirk a tad too large. the wink was the rotten, moldy cherry on top. all of it felt very try-hard. it made him all the more cringy.

stria sighed. "i can't take this anymore. i'm dropping out. katie can get someone else."

lisa shook her head. "you say that every time. and you can't! we have established identities as keefe lovergirls."

stria considered banging her head into the wall, but decided it wasn't worth a trip to the school counselor. "keefe's stupid enough to buy a sudden swap, if the previously gathered data has shown us anything. and i genuinely do consider that every time i say it. there probably isn't a single person in this school that actually likes him. i bet they're all doing data collection for their own katies. even katie doesn't like him like that! she just thinks he's a weirdo and she's bored this semester so naturally, she wants to torture us."

"i don't think katie thinks he's a weirdo-"

"well, i do!"

"-and it's only you she's torturing. i quite like this job."

"because you're getting paid! you're not in debt to katie."

"irrelevant."

"so relevant." stria continued to badmouth keefe, but she could tell lisa was no longer listening.

lisa texted the highly scientific footage to katie as stria rolled her eyes to the heavens, also known as their school's chipped-paint-ass ceiling. katie texted back immediately and stria could practically feel the excitement oozing out of the four simple words she'd texted back: "this is so fascinating!"

she wondered what katie would do with the footage this time. run his moronic wink through some sort of face analysis tool? break down his excruciatingly playboy-ish snicker by its falls and breaks? something else entirely?

who even knew? only katie.

well, stria thought. at least this will all be over soon.

@lisalikesapplesauce @myfairkatiecat come tell me how in character you guys are

[illyrianbitch]

you are really beautiful and your writing style is incredible. I'm looking forward to all your new one shots and series😍 but also to a few chapters from your current series - miss them 🥹 and maybe a revival of detective azriel - love the concept!

thank you so much 🥺 you are so sweet to me!!! i’m hoping i can take all this excitement and inspo and give yall some fun lil one shots 🤍 (and the random series i have planned)

i’ve been rereading all my old series to remember where i left off and get inspired again!! 😌 it makes me so happy to know detective!azriel was loved by someone other than me hehe, i was watching white collar the other day and it made me think of sweet, self-loathing detective az…. 😏 i probably just need to brain dump on someone tehe

[bo0tleg]

MY FRIENDS REACTION TO THE TOP GUN (1986) REACTION POST

In case you don't know what I'm talking about: I made a post a while ago of gems my friend said whilst watching Top Gun (1986) for the first time. I showed her the post, and she created even more gems about Top Gun derived from what she said originally! I'd suggest you read the other post, because some are references to prior gems. Enjoy!

"TOM CRUISE IS OLD, HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHAT HE LOOKS LIKE?"

"I said that? Jesus, I have the memory of a fish." (About: "Did he really need to be in his underwear for this conversation?")

"I DID COMMENT ON THE VOLLEYBALL SCENE!" "I distinctly remember laughing about you not saying anything." "I said 'Ah yes, the hetero scene that actually looks really gay.' Because it does. How the fuck are you gonna play sports looking like a hot piece of ass without looking gay? You're not supposed to be hot! Especially in volleyball. Why did they choose volleyball to make them look hot? You're supposed to slap that fucking ball, not be like 'hahaha look at me, I'm so dainty and pretty.' THAT'S GAY!"

"I'm only stating the obvious, these people should already know this."

"Iceman is the gayest in the entire movie."

"No! Actually, it's his plane buddy. His plane buddy is the gayest." "... Mind telling me why?" "He always says that he has a hard on."

"OH MY GOD THEY COULD BE EXES! It's not possible he always has a hard on. I KNOW IT'S AN EXPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES BUT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE. They've definitely hooked up. Not in the movie, I think it was before he met Maverick, but there's no doubt."

"You wouldn't say that you have a hard on to just anyone."

"And I didn't even look anything up, I just watched the movie."

"I don't think it's possible to surpass the gayness in Top Gun."

(Upon being informed that Slider was not, in fact, the one with the hard on) "HE'S NOT? Oh, then it has nothing to do with Iceman. But I still think that they (Hollywolf) had something, that's the dynamic that I got the gay vibe from."

"I bet both of the actors are blond, or whatever." (shakes head) "I don't give a shit."

"It's not my fault the NPC's look like the protagonist!"

(Scrolling through the Icemav tag on tumblr) "There's a lot of fanart. A lot of fanart of them making out."

"Only the superiors aren't gay in this movie."

"Making out in a corner, having a fling with the best friend, there's definitely one of those somewhere in the middle."

"Oh look! More fanart of them making out."

"Even the handsome guy that seems like a protagonist but is actually an NPC looks gay! He has that gay vibe, I don't know." (Reminder: This a reference to the phrase "He's to handsome to be a rando!" This man had like 2 minutes of screen time on the Enterprise at the start of the movie, and a little at the end during the Layton Rescue. 2 min might be an exaggeration.)

BONUS: Reaction to Quentin Tarantino discussing Top Gun in "Sleep With Me" (1994)

(Silence for 30 seconds) "I... agree with everything he said... but I'm in shock."

I never... thought a straight man would say so much gay shit in three minutes.... but he's right."

"That part where he says about the girl, Maverick's chick, dressing up like a guy, I hadn't noticed. He's a genius."

"When he says 'STARFIGHT! STARFIGHT!' I don't know if he was crazy, high or hallucinating."

"Them screaming 'STARFIGHT! STARFIGHT!' looked like they were on crack. And they were just talking about a movie."

"If a military movie ever happens to be openly gay, it'll become a whore house."

"And the worst part is that he convinced the dude! My guy just watched Top Gun for fun..."

EXTRAS (The original language all of the phrases were said in was Portuguese. I had to translate all of them. You're welcome.):

"How am I going to translate 'Puteiro'?" "Aren't there any prostitutes in the United States?" (I went with "Whore House")

"How am I going to translate 'se pegaram'?" "There's a word for it in English, I forgot it.... eeeehhhh" "Hooked up?" "I meant to say that they fucked, but sure." "'Hooked up' can mean sex." "It can? Great, use that then!"

"How many phrases are there? I'm scared. I don't remember the atrocities I said."

My friend, who fueled this entire post: @annonimouslesbian

[ugly-anarchist]

People are still reacting to and making separate posts referencing this post and it's honestly wild to me that it had that much of an impact

[homosubtext]

been thinking about my legal name as a scientific name rather than a deadname lately

like yea. ur not incorrect to call me that. but ur a fucking weirdo if u do. do u walk around calling dogs ‘Canis lupus familiaris’?? freak

[mayuurx]

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

Any of these ordered by Tuesday afternoon will be in the mail this week!

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[chaosduckies]

I fully agree with the potato man. Your OCs are AWESOME!

Yah! Zeyr so cul!

Thank you! Internally screaming because you guys are too nice TwT But thank you all the same! 🫶

[what-a-catastrophe]

my new drunk shtick is speaking solely in a british accent and convincing everyone i’m from LUNDUN