#i starting thinking about my cats and how ridiculous they are lolz

[zomb-rabbit]

hiiiiii!! <3 it's me again, so the habit has pet cats, right? shows this on Tribetwelve, so could you do hcs where your partner actually likes cats and gets acquainted with their habit pet cats, please? Thank you very much in advance 💕🐇

hi 💕!!! i can totally do that for you, that's so cute !!!! i did notice that u were off anon when u sent this in, so i'm answering it like this just incase it was a mistake :) let me know if you want me to post with the original ask though!!

🐇 HABIT x gn!reader that loovveesss the kitties :))

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AWWWWWW

he likes it when you talk back to them like they're people

or if you just meow back and forth with one of them

thinks it's adorable

he wouldn't say that, but he's definitely leaning on the door frame with his arms crossed and smiling, waiting for you to notice him while you're CLEARLY mid-very-important-conversation with one of them

cats go on the bed

he doesn't need to really sleep too often, but he'll occasionally jump in with you and the cats to hold them like chunky babies

you end up spoiling the cats with treats trying to get them to like and get used to you the first little while

they end up LOVING you

they like to bug you when you're doing things- trying to get in the way of everything, eat whatever you're eating, etc.

if you're the type to yell/scream/do a big dramatic gasp when something happens, you're gonna scare the hell out of him by accident

there's gonna be a day where one of the cats knocks a book off the desk and the noise scares you enough to freak out for a minute

he HATES to say it but he next to sprinted to where you were at

lil mf is keeled over laughing at why you got so freaked out

thinks it's the funniest thing that you're dating him, and you were scared of a lil chunky cat

y'all are the sweetest with these cats though :)

[multsicorn]

KENT PARSON

LOLZ it’s like you know me

this is so long it’s under a cut

character: hate them | don’t really care | like them | LOVE them | THEY ARE MY PRECIOUS

ship with:  EVERYONE.  literally everyone.  … okay to break this down:

* Jack/Parse is the main thing I write about and think about and have feelings about.  however they are generally pretty sad-trending feelings.  so what does ‘ship’ mean.

* Parse/OC(s) is the thing I actually WANT TO HAPPEN for him, it’s the happy place future I go to when I go that far in my mind; not to get back with Jack, with or without Bitty, but to get the FUCK OVER those wounds, that hook, finally.

* (I have a tendency to go for Parse/Swoops, specifically, cause I’d like the ‘falling for a teammate’ story to work out *well,* and, um, cause there’s a specific set of tags that I started keying that off of that I should go find again - it was on a post about ace Kent Parson, something like #he wants to be someone’s everything #in a very specific way, and.  idk.  it makes a compelling story-seed, for me.)

* Parse/THERAPY is also an extremely necessary thing that I’m not likely to write but I dearly hope happens someday

* PB&J/Pimbits/whatever it’s called is my favorite sort of shippy story, I think; there’s lots of Parse/OC fics that are JUST AS GOOD, but… the overlaying of multiple love triangles, and then synthesizing them into a working system, that happens in the Jack/Bitty/Parse fics that work with the setup there (rather than skipping forwards into ‘when they’re all happy together’)… gets my #feelings well enough that it dragged me into this fandom!….  specifically, I started reading first check, please! fic and then eventually the comic because touchy subject and ain’t licked yet are not only so fucking good but hit my id SO PERFECTLY.  Everyone having feelings about everyone else’s relationships.  Such wonderful emotional ~density!

* Patater is the only popular Parse ship I’m like… why.  (I do buy des-zimbits’ ship manifesto about how they could be good together; but, c’mon, that’s not why, the reason why is cause Tater is the next-most-fleshed-out NHL character who isn’t Jack, and isn’t already fairly strongly paired with someone else, and can therefore be paired with Kent without disrupting any existing popular ships.)  Basically I’ve read some good ones, but most of it seems to be the exact sort of fluff that is why I mostly don’t read Zimbits fic and mostly do read Parse fic!  (And that’s before even getting into #little Russian things that throw me out of the story.)

* But really, just, anyone; I read the Parse character tag on AO3 so I won’t miss the gen fics or the random crack ships, cause sometimes they’re good!  (I think this is what it’s like to be way more OTC than OTP.)

friendship them with:  JACK jack jack jack jack.

Also Bitty that could be so interesting, I want to see them navigating a friendship around their separate feelings/history/etc. wrt Jack, I want to see that #blessyourheart and Parse’s probable answering antagonism (or simply antagonism born out of jealousy) morph slowly into something that’s somehow an actual friendship, that can be really interesting!  And fun!  And I love to see them being petty together, lol; I also love to see them commiserating over why is Jack Zimmermann such a dick, depending on circumstances.  (… I suppose those two can be one at the same.)

So yeah, that’s fun, but Jack and Kent getting back to a place where they can be friends with each other?  Where Jack’s not like ‘um Parson *abort* *ignore ignore*’ and Kent’s not tearing Jack into shreds at being rejected and they can have conversations and maybe some of those mutual apologies alluded to in Shinny and maybe ~closure,~ even?  For the way ‘it just ended’?  The idea of after years of wounds getting to put to rest the bad parts (cause I suspect their relationship was A Mess) and get back the good parts of one of your old best friendships again?  It makes me more #emotional dammit than anything else about this comic.

(the lines I’ve been thinking about here, lately:i said i’d never miss you but i guess you never knowmay the bridges i have burned light my way back homeon the fourth of july~)

there’s something i can’t seem to reduce or explain any further about ‘may the bridges i have burned light my way back home’ that just GETS TO ME.

general opinions: SO MANY.

I love him.  I mean, obviously.  If one takes a look at my blog.

But, interestingly, I’m not quite sure why I don’t read him as abusive.  (If anyone from Glee fandom remembers the way I was about Sebastian…!)  Some of the things he says to Jack in Parse III - ‘you think you’re too fucked up to care about?  That you’re not good enough?  Everyone already knows what you are, but it’s people like me who still care’ - and ‘you’re scared everyone else is going to find out you’re worthless, right?  Oh, don’t worry, just give it a few seasons, Jack, trust me’ - are ABSO-FUCKIN-LUTELY red flags, and I’ll throw down with anyone who says they aren’t.  (I mean.  I hate confrontation, so I probably won’t? but in theory.)  Likewise, coming to Samwell/the Haus in the first place when he seems to know that Jack wouldn’t want to see him if he had a choice about it… is also an awful thing to do, if possibly understandable depending how you write the backstory and decision-making or lack thereof, but also a red flag!!!

I mean, basically, you can read ‘Parse III’ as literally one of the worst nights of his life, and when he’s behaving the worst, as something that’s not much of a pattern and so you shouldn’t judge him on it too harshly; or you can read it as HE IS SOMEONE WHO BEHAVES LIKE THIS, abort abort get away.  I find trying to take what we see and still make someone sympathetic to be a much more interesting story, basically, and the bones of a very compelling one; but in my experience with other characters in other media who have triggered my own pattern matching to be ‘abort abort get away,’ I have utter sympathy and understanding for everyone who has him blacklisted to hell and back, and I’m actually still not sure why I don’t myself!  (of course if I had reacted that way I wouldn’t be in this fandom at all, so I wouldn’t have much need to blacklist him… but ykwim.)

SO OKAY HM WHAT ELSE, cause if I’m listing all of my opinions on Kent Parson I could literally be here all night.

* ‘He never got over it’ may sound cruel but it just so happens to be the truest thing.  Kent’s not really still in love with Jack (though I’m sure he was when they were both 18); he doesn’t really know him, hasn’t really seen or talked to him in seven-ish years, now.  In which they’ve both changed.  But Kent’s in all that time never managed a relationship with anyone else (… probably); never managed to reorient himself sufficiently away from the horrific failure that losing Jack in the particular way he did was.  He never got over it isn’t just your stupid ass, Zimmermann, you’re not that great!, it’s the wound of finding your best friend and lover dying on the bathroom floor (or hearing about it later secondhand, that’s great too), it’s the wound of him not wanting to talk to you or hear what you have to say afterwards.  How the fuck would you get over something like that.

* (so, I mean, that’s why I love Kent.  His STORY is so much more INTERESTING than zimbits’ romcom or the smh team shenanigans; or, well, okay, it’s objectively a different flavor of emotions at least.  And the higher drama and angst quotients there are infinitely more interesting to me.)

* I think he’s a good captain for the Aces, actually.  I think he enjoys parties, getting to interact with lots of people, loves attention and flirting, etc. - and dancing/dance music too! - but I don’t think he’s ~partied~ in a problematic way since maybe his first year on the team.  (Or if he has, it’s in a few isolated incidents.)  He’s generally responsible trying to look out for his rookies and his teammates in trouble.

* AND OF COURSE HIS CAT, who is the love and light of his life, and also more popular on the internet than he is.  There are tons of people who recognize Kit Purrson from her photos but have no idea who Kent is.  He loves it, I’m sure.  =^.^=.

* He is, however, really bad at controlling his own emotions.  (Or should I say, himself.)  It’s fine when this results in impulsive spending, cause he’s a multi-millionaire, it’s fine when this results in being ridiculous or gushing at people, and he IS actually able to keep secrets, though this would probably surprise most of the people who know him but not that well.  (he’s not out yet, so.)  But he says REALLY MEAN AND UNFAIR things to people he cares about when he feels rejected/abandoned (… I’m sure that time in Parse III is not the only time), so, that’s a problem, he knows it gets him into trouble, and I don’t think he’ll learn how to not until, um, THERAPY ~*~.

* HE IS SUCH AN ATTENTION WHORE THO.  Also great at being ~charming.  (see, e.g., the accountant sketch, as well as the epikegster) - and pretty genuine with it!  He LIKES people!

* He is also a FUCKING MESS - possibly not in the #adulting sense, maybe he can feed himself, who knows, but, emotionally - I think he both longs for connection with people, and fears it going south, cause, well.  The last guy he was in love with almost died (almost killed himself? I bet you couldn’t tell from the outside!) and then stopped talking to him.  And very possibly also for reasons predating that incident, too.  Cause if Kent had the sort of relationships he wants to have with people IN LAS VEGAS, then he wouldn’t have crashed the epikegster in the first place.  So: lonely, and dealing with it poorly, no matter how well he’s doing otherwise.  But not sad all the time.  I think that’s all of the important things?

* (I’m not sure where the line between ‘opinions’ and ‘headcanons’ lies, so, yeah, I’m gonna cut myself off here.  Maybe I’ll write ‘my list of random Parse headcanons’ next!  Or maybe not, who knows.  But I would LIKE to.  Everyone wants to know how I imagine his sexuality, his family, etc., I’m sure; well okay, I want to write about it, anyway!  Not only waiting till the times I’ve finished a fic!)

[notskeletonrants]

Bing, please search "meaning of life."

So, I always realize that there are some flawed lynch pins in previous rants. I’m not going to apologize for my word spewing, that’s what you came here for, isn’t it?

Hello?

Anyway, people are always going on about two topics in my news feed on the daily. One is the meaning of life and two is “lolz kill me pls.”

They bring to light a very confusing and utterly important and yet meaningless subject. What is the meaning of all this? And how can I, a simple… definitely human and not just a sentient pile of bones, define it for you?

Let’s look at the idea of subjectivity versus objectivity. Now, I know if you’re reading this, you’re smart enough to either know what these are or at least know how to search for them on your favored search engine. Bing, amirite? Hahaha. No one uses Bing. If they do they’re a psycho, and please disassociate from them.

But that right there is Subjective- it is my opinion without any studies to back it up. The studies aren’t needed because I’ve yet to meet anyone who doesn’t want to Google these sexy bones instead of “bing-ing” them(?)  Objective means it is related to a non-changing or at least overall source. Instead of being a different story from person to person, it has to be true for all. But there’s really nothing I’ve ever found that is necessarily subjectively true. Take for example, the sky is blue, right?

But, not to my Tritan Color Blind friends. They might see a different color altogether. It brings a very philosophical idea of interpretation about. If I see a cloud in the shape of a ball, will you see the same ball? Will it be a sports ball? Will it be a honeydew melon? You don’t know! And that’s okay with me. Not having all the objective answers readily available shouldn’t be frightening.

What is the meaning of life? There isn’t an objective one, as far as I’ve found as of yet. And I’d say the closest response if you demanded an objective one would be the mass of people shouting, “please leave me alone, I don’t actually know!” You’re very aggressive with your demands, you know. You should work on that.

This really just boils down to a lack of the fabled objective complete truth.

Now, I know what you’re saying, “how long until you get to the ancient aliens pitch?” But I’m not going to do that. I just think that philosophical subjects, things that reside only in the sentient mind are the things best left to subjectivity. As an objective fact, we do know that evolution is an ongoing process that has been happening since life began. As a subjective opinion, creationists think that fact doesn’t exist. They are exercising subjective conjecture. They’re wrong, objectively wrong, but being wrong doesn’t really play into the ideas of subjectivity.

And that’s why no one can really convince you that there is objective meaning. Why? Because their lynch pin is a belief system that you’d have to accept, too. It’s one of those self-fulfilling prophecy type things. If you convince yourself to believe there’s an objective meaning, all you’re doing is convincing yourself, not creating the objective meaning, do you see?

I’m in the age range of being a millennial. Shock and awe, these bones aren’t made of powdered sugar just yet. Soon. But not sugar.

The current joke with millennials across all platforms is the twist on the archetypal joke that has a dark and very twisted punchline. Imagine if you will, an orange feline drinking a cup of coffee on one panel. On the next panel, a buffoon in a blue sweater comes out and says, “why do you hate Mondays? You’re a cat, it’s not like you work.”

And the third panel has the cat look down into the blackness of the coffee saying, “nothing matters. Please, kill me.”

See, if you’re not within my age range, or you have a large pile of sticks up your anus, you won’t be busting up laughing at that parody. But I will, because I get the humor behind it. The humor is that as the information gap becomes smaller, and our predecessors reap the benefits of fucking our economy and then write slanderous news articles about an entire generation of people with blank statements like “Millenials are killing the toilet insurance industry,” we see this buildup of meaningless drivel being forced down our throats. And the only way we can escape it is through humor. Now, being that we’re not 100% suicidal, we take this in stride, but understand that in positions that lack power, we are still pushed beyond our anxieties. This is what makes that funny, that cat doesn’t know what it’s like working that forty hours a week of a meaningless garbage job that that blue sweatered doofus has to work. But in his situation it still seems hopeless enough that we can relate to him in a suffocating world. But, how ridiculous, though. Cats have it easy, right? And that whole ridiculous situation is what actually is supposed to make it funny.

This is why I’m so done with explaining jokes. That shit is no longer funny now that I’ve dissected every particle of it. If you ever want to enjoy a sausage or a joke, don’t look at the inner workings. It’ll just sicken you. Ugh.

Now, that was my side point to bring to this the two things that I raised up at that beginning point. Millennials understand their lack of control in the universe more than pretty much any prior generation. I hope Gen Z becomes an unstoppable force of superhuman power, but that’s neither here nor there. What we understand, for the most part, is that this world wasn’t custom built for us. We understand that not everything is going to fall in our laps, and instead we’re going to have to work and possibly get stabbed for it, because we live in a hellscape built by baby boomers that don’t understand economics or consent, for that matter.

Here’s the most important thing we understand about the universe. There is no meaning inherent. What you have to do is dig your heels in, bite the bullet and either find or make your own meaning. And once you do, everything will start to make sense. But there’s no objectivity there.

And it’s okay that there isn’t. You don’t HAVE to have every answer to everything, you psychopath.

Just kidding. I love you.