#idk id just have to see.

[orcelito]

Remembered lately that I do actually still have that fish tank for beta fish. Like a 20 ish gallon tank, plus a filter and everything, aka the PROPER way to tend to a beta fish. I miss having fish. And water snails. I wanna have more someday, I think.

But as-is, I semi-regularly go on trips to visit family that have me away from home for days or sometimes even weeks at a time. Makes it harder to deal with fish if I live alone. So I was thinking. Probably won't start keeping fish again until either I have a roommate that can feed them when I'm gone, OR I get my license and it's a lot easier to come and go more casually, so I can go down for shorter visits more often & won't end up leaving fish alone for so long lol.

I do want to get my license soon. I'm gonna have another driving practice on Wednesday. Gonna try to make it the last one before I schedule my drivers test. I'm basically ready. Just gotta work up my confidence + practice parallel parking. I can do it.

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[krittec]

there’s something extremely extremely creepy about taking an actor that you have known since they were 13 years old, only JUST a teenager, and making them kiss a fully grown woman the second that they turned a legal adult.

Steve Blackman already has a ton of shit out against him which came out recently so it unfortunately doesn’t surprise me that he would write something like this but it makes me genuinely concerned for everything behind the scenes.

There has been a HUGE problem in the Umbrella Academy fandom since season ONE when Aidan was a 13-14 year old of people writing insanely disgusting stuff and defending it because his character was mentally an adult but oh my god did they make it worse. You’d think they’d protect actor & character by avoiding any romantic interaction but instead you have him kiss an actress 15 years older than him. The age gap being the age that he was when they filmed season two. Quite honestly I feel that if he could’ve done this seasons previously and gotten away with it then he definitely would’ve done it, given the jokes that are actively made.

Quite honestly may Steve Blackman never work again if this is how he treats his actors because this is awful. I’m not even done with the season but that gave me very little desire to continue and this show has been important to me in ways I can’t explain. Maybe I am blowing this out of proportion but it feels so insanely creepy and horrific to me and I needed to rant.

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?

[quirkle2]

scenes that make me wanna eat drywall dust

[maliciousalice]

The Janeway Maneuver

[sanasanakun]

People try too hard to make Curly an active participant in Jimmy's abuse. Isn't the whole point that he's passive in everything Jimmy does? Abuse occurs because he actively doesn't do anything? Not to call someone out or be mean, but I saw a post saying Anya's ID being in Curly's locker at the beginning shows that he intended to prevent Anya from filing an HR report and I disagree. I get where that interpretation is coming from, but I think it's a little uncharitable. I don't like being too kind to Curly because he's like...a morally mid dude at best lol But if we're going by the HR report interpretation, I would say it's more likely he requested Anya's ID in order to file an HR report on her behalf. After all, the only way to contact Pony (that we see) is in the cockpit, he's the Captain, and Pony Express sucks bad so I wouldn't put it past them to only allow the Captain to use the communication device thing. As we see before, Curly is the only one able to use tools around the ship that you would think other employees could use (ex. Swansea should be able to use the axe if he's the repair guy. Idk why they'd need an ax but that falls under manual labor which Swansea is designated for as the mechanic/fixer dude. But it has to go through Curly). I never got the vibe that Curly moved to actively protect Jimmy. He just lets things happen without say a word; Jimmy walks all over him, and by extension, the whole crew. I get why people would think that because he gives the whole "Hey Jimmy, we can get through this together, bud" spiel right before the crash. This part interests me a lot because there's so many ways to interpret Curly's intentions there. My interpretation is that Curly is on autopilot mode. The responses seem so stilted in comparison to Jimmy's. Like it's the kind of thing Curly's said before again and again and again when Jimmy's gotten in trouble. However, as others previously pointed out, I don't think Curly ever dealt with Jimmy doing something this irredeemable. He doesn't know how to respond, so he just goes for the default "You've gotten through tough situations before. Work through it one step at a time." Like the response is lame af lol I think he was in shock; he was scared (and just so I can say it one more time: he's super lame).

Anyway, this is way longer than I intended and I've said things a billion people have already stated. But uhhh tldr the whole point of Curly's character is he's passive; he never acts. He just watches. Making him an active participant in the abuse by taking actions to cover for Jimmy (like preventing Anya from filing an HR report) defeats the purpose of his character. He's a bystander.

[mortysmith]

favorite colors

[yippee-optimistically]

ive seen like 2 actual episodes of the loud house but i watched no time to spy last night. they kind of cooked i cant lie

[todayisafridaynight]

[speaking-riddlish]

Why does everyone just... trust Courtly Jester all of a sudden??? Like, what is this??

[ID: A screenshot of a scene in the castleteria. On one side of the table sits Raven and Lizzie, with Duchess at the end of the table, and Courtly on the other side. Raven and Lizzie are waving at Courtly and smiling. Duchess looks bored. Courtly is talking directly into the camera and looks happy. \EndID]

Like, Raven and a Lizzie are just... having lunch with her?? Did that epic battle mean nothing to you? This lady tried to kill you??? And Lizzie, this is the lady who tried to overthrow your mother and steal your destiny?? What are you doing!?

[ID: A screenshot in the Mad Hatter's Haberdashery and Tea Shop, at a table is, from left to right, Alastair, Courtly, Maddie, and Bunny. All are seated except Maddie, who is standing and pouring tea for Courtly. \EndID]

At least Maddie had some excuse here, since she works at this tea shop and has to be nice to a paying customer, but also, what? You literally had to seek the narrators intervention to break out of the prison this lady put you in??? This is your family's tea shop??? Kick her out of the establishment!! Why hasn't Maddie's *dad* kicked Courtly out at least???

[ID: A screenshot of a scene in the Multi Hex Theater. In the middle of the frame, Sparrow, Courtly, and Kitty are walking together in a group, presumably having just seen a movie together. /EndID]

And Kitty! You went and saw a movie with her??? You actively chose to hang out with her? She put in place measures to counteract your powers, locked you in a mock turtle's dungeon, and tried to steal your best friend's destiny! You're literally so loyal to Lizzie that you'll drop Duchess as a friend for slighting her, but someone tries to usurp her mother, steal her destiny, coerce her into signing her inheritance away, ect, and you go to the movies with them???!??!

What are they doing? Why is she walking free? Why are they *okay* with her walking free? They should be fighting this??

(In case it wasn't clear, the tone of this is supposed to be light hearted. I'm jokingly mad at the characters, not genuinely mad at the writers)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

crusty evolution redraw. in theory.

[kori-senpai]

New Leokumi content in the lords year of 2024?? It's more likely than you think! (x)

[gamora-borealis]

incoming dangender thoughts: the more I read up/watch the stuff dan has said about gender after BIG + reflect on what he said in BIG I'm like. y'all she really has been explicitly trying to tell us his gender IS formless blob (without making it a huge deal in the mainstream public eye), but so many people haven't actually been taking him seriously! like. labels are made up, dan has pretty much said as much before. why do we have to have a specific approved™ term to consider them genderqueer/nonbinary/trans? those are descriptive labels and dan has been using a fun descriptive label they created that he defined for us in BIG, a definition that matches up with those other labels! and dan has said since 2019 that he is comfortable with any pronouns even though he still mainly uses he/him. like, lately dan has been using more she/her and they/them for herself and experimenting with being more femme and/or androgynous in various ways, and what is changing is not even necessarily gender (although maybe who knows), but probably that dan is finally feeling more comfortable with different kinds of gender presentation and pronouns than she typically uses. because low-key gender is kind of a performance and it's scary to switch it up sometimes but dan feels safe doing so especially with their audience and I think that's actually really special 🧡 but moral of the story, dangender has actually been out in the open since 2019 and I wish more people picked up on that!

[lilaccatholic]

Complex feelings about copyright and Disney's appalling ethics aside, it does unsettle me how quickly people jump to make and monetize the most unnerving, depraved content imaginable about characters created for children the second it hits the public domain

[insufferablemod]

thinking about john n davesprite n dave what happens when he finds out its not just a bird dave thing but a dave thing..... the idea hes built up of The Real Dave comes crashing down

like things were def made worse by being stuck together for 3 years with noone else n all of the extra issues davesprite has On top of all the normal dave bs but like, fuuuckkkkkkk