#genuinely will be flabbergasted

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

you really need to raise your standards for what's considered "a phrase" because if it only makes sense in the specific context of the post it was originally found in and it isn't repeatable in other situations, that's not a phrase that has entered the lexicon, that's just something someone said one time.

i started this thing last week i need all the posts i can handle

What doesn't alter your vocabulary may alter, or may have already altered, someone else's. This is not about adding to The General Lexicon - I have an entire tag for things that change this site as a whole, which has a higher bar; this is largely about novelty and humor. This is us curb-stomping whatever the fuck we want into the right form for our needs, whatever those needs may be, including altering aspects of the phrase to fit the necessary format or context. It's a linguistic shotgun.

its my fuckin blog bitch ill shit where i want

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

This one is dedicated to @shirokokuro, who made a lifeguard AU fic to fill the void where there was none.

Read it here! It's great: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51598429

[clawz-loopz]

Watching death note w/ a friend only to be harassed by the biggest puppy eyes haver

[luvingsolace]

“Why was Will so whiny during tsats he was literally fine” mind you they were in hell and then in Tartarus and my boy he gets sick from not being close to the sun not to mention all of his injuries… how was he fine???

[stackslip]

frankly i can't find a better illustration of how arakawa chooses to write the ishbalan genocide than these two pages, one of which directly follows the next.

on one hand you have two soldiers who actively, willingly participated in the genocide, acting in it until the very end for their "fellow soldiers", before waxing maudlin about how tragic war is but how it is their duty to Protect Everybody and they will change the country so less people die. by less people they also mean less of their fellow soldiers btw bc these matter more than actual genocide victims. and this is framed as this great deep nuanced moral lesson after we saw them continue following orders to mass murder, shoot and burn people until the very last one to "protect their fellow soldier". sure ok

on the other, right after this, you have the depiction of scar. scar who just lost his entire people and family in the genocide. who is horrifically traumatized. scar who is portrayed as bad bc he woke, saw amestrian soldiers in panic killed them--and this is the "sin" he has to carry the entire fucking manga. roy and riza can carry all the atrocities they did as this Nuanced Lesson, scar meanwhile here is portrayed as feral, and brutal, and bloodthirsty (a bad thing) for the people who committed these atrocities. he's covered in the blood of the poor innocent rockbells. like. that's it. Revenge Bad. roy and riza want to build something constructive (how nice of them.) and scar wants to build something destructive. not even like, a page to show scar crying, or broken, in the aftermath of horrors so bleak that anyone would be traumatized by them. no, he's just a violent brutal husk possessed by the Evil Spirit of revenge.

how fucked is this? it's so unbelievably fucked. just. i keep being told again and again by random tumblr users and the like that really the genocide of ishbal is nuancely and respectfully depicted in the manga and it's like, is your understand of a "nuanced" tale of genocide, especially one that is so obviously coded after american intervention in the middle east, really that fucking skewed by all these american war movies? do you think american sniper is a nuanced tale too? wanna tell me all about how anti imperialist fma is? yes i know this is all fictional. yes i know this is shounen. i think if you're going to graphically depict women and children being burned to death by a sympathetic character who justifies it as his duty of being a soldier and depict his PTSD and survivor's guilt with nuance--following interviews you made with soldiers of real conflict!--but you can't be fucking bothered to give the victims of said soldiers even a quarter of the same kind of attention and nuance, nevermind this fucking bullshit, you should maybe not write about these subjects at all, especially when the rest of your shounen is about a fucking stupid magical mystery guy who is the Real Evil Bad Guy!

[neodiekido]

it's a little funny to me ouma revealed maki's real talent in front of everyone and then deliberately continued to antagonize her throughout the game, finally claiming to be the mastermind and taking the one person maki would definitely kill to protect hostage and then when she tried to kill him he was like "owww what the fuck is your problem dude"

[wulfhalls]

https://x.com/bearsnenya/status/1837864247637758066

which could mean nothing...

sitting in my room feeling things god only intended for martyrs in moments of devine ecstacy at the threshold of death to experience

[manwholovescabins]

sometimes i remember that sokka and zuko aren’t like… actually canonically a couple… but aren’t they kind of? kind of they are. i think they kind of are.

[coffeegnomee]

when Medusa was happening did ya'll think it was Mapicc and Ro or did they get away with that?

[anabetel35]

Ninjago Dragons rising s2 part 2 spoilers!!!

Ninjago fans when Arin becomes evil (they've been theorising about this since the very first episode of DR came out):

[wizxrdpendrxgon]

[mazojo]

I am so incredibly normal about this ask me how normal I am I am very normal guys

[timeless-orchid]

Just watched Tommy's new video, what do you mean he harassed Tommy's mom during her divorce 😧

WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE TRIED TO HARM THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOMMY AND HIS MOM 😧

[gaillol-13]

The face of a man in a situation.

[vulcan-moon]

pls pls pls put somewhere on ur profile that ur proship just out of respect for victims and minors

im not though????

[ditty-nightsong]

"even though my life before was tragic... now i know - my love for her goes on." 🎵

received this absolutely STUNNING angelyse from @softfuzzyships today! i liked it so much that i made it my new blog banner... it may also end up on the angelyse playlist cover. when i get around to actually Making The Playlist.