#instead of because they like it

[doctorsiren]

Gravity Falls AU where everything is exactly the same except Bill’s parents are alive and well, and they’re just so proud of their chaotic dream demon son

[liquidstar]

Yes, Greece still exists, we didn't all die 2000 years ago. Yes, people speak Greek. You people are so fucking stupid for real. So many of you claim to love ancient shit but can't even acknowledge the actual living culture of the people whose mythology and classics you romanticize. You keep leaving annoying comments about how you just forget Greek people still exist, thinking you're being quirky because you love ancient stuff soooo much that you forgot about the people it came from. You think about it so little you don't even realize that an actual Greek person has to read this shit, making it clear how little you actually care about the culture beyond the romanticized (and westernized) mythology. Don't claim you love Greece, don't use our mythology anymore if you can't acknowledge that we're still around without making it about how little you think about us. It's mind boggling that you'd think a Greek person would read this and think you're anything but obnoxious. Explode.

[htfs-ranked-on]

lets here a little more about you instead

htf ranked on if you would self ship with them or not and why?

OOOOOOHHH this is a TREAT just for me!!

in order of highest self ship to lowest + divided by romantic or not

romantic:

lifty: i mean. you guys all saw this coming right you guys have been reading the answers i've mentioned that he's my favoritest little guy ever in the world. he's just so cute and charming i love him to bits 💘💖💞💕💝💗 he was actually the first character i ever started openly self shipping with and how i got into the self ship community so he Means A Lot To Me

nutty: he makes me laugh okayyyy i like him a lot

sniffles: he has honestly grown on me a lot since i got back into the fandom! there's something really endearing about him and i think he'd make a good life partner

splendont: another favorite of mine, he would be soo ride or die once he warmed up to me it would be sweet

platonic besties:

cuddles: he would be like a brother to me tbh. he reminds me a bit of a couple of my irl coworkers who i feel very strong familial bonds to :]

shifty: brother in law... it would take him a Hot Minute to warm up to me but once he did we'd be homeboys for life

mime: bffs 4everrr <3!! i would go watch him do circus tricks and he'd make me balloon animals

toothy: he's literally a sweetie pie. supportive king we'd be besties

russell: i need to go drinking with this guy immediately actually. we'd be buds for sure

pop: i won't even lie to you i want to be his roommate. i'd babysit cub whenever and the little guy would call me uncle and that would be the extent of it 🤙

we wouldn't be close but we get along:

handy: he doesn't really seem to like people, but i think under the right circumstances he would have a pretty decent amount of respect for me and i would enjoy his sense of humor

mole: i don't think we have a whole ton in common but i like him as a character and i think he'd be polite enough that i wouldn't have any major beef with him

lammy: i like her quite a bit as a character but something about her just screeeeams ex catholic guilt to me and i think she has some stuff to unpack with a therapist before we could be close friends

flippy: ditto on needing to unpack stuff with a therapist + i honestly find him pretty boring as a character (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠) i wouldn't have any serious problems with him though

fliqpy: surprise i'm acknowledging fliqpy for once!!! in a universe where he's not a terrible caricature of DID/PTSD i think we'd find a good level of respect for each other but not be like. friends. also again with the therapist thing

petunia: quite frankly i think i would stress her out 😅 i'm pretty messy irl so i don't think she would spend much time with me

we wouldn't get along:

splendid: this is so funny because i actually quite enjoy him as a character, but we'd be beefing if i actually met him because he's enemies with the twins. he would be deadset on arresting my boyfriend and i would be hellbent on ruining his life.

disco bear: i also am very fond of him as a character but i just know he would immediately start hitting on me if we met and he wouldn't even be good at it. i would not be into it at all

giggles: this is gonna sound completely off the wall batshit but i really think she would have bullied me in high school that's the vibe i get from her 💀 as an adult i don't think she would be Openly mean to me i definitely don't think she would like me and there's just a vibe that people give off when they find me overly offputting that would drive me away for sure

flaky: okay i don't want to be mean but they remind me way too much of a couple people i knew who i was constantly having to talk up with compliments and reassurances because they were ALWAYS Going Through It and at a low self esteem point and you would not believe how quickly that gets exhausting. another one for the "talk to a therapist, not to me" pile

[silvermoon424]

This is a subject that really interests me because I (28 years old) had computer classes in grade school where learning how to efficiently type was a big focus. As a result I have a very high WPM (words per minute) count and am an excellent touch typer.

However, I've heard that they started phasing out computer classes in a lot of schools because it's assumed that kids/teenagers already know how to use a computer in this day and age. But smartphones are more popular than computers now, and as result a lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids are able to text very quickly but their typing skills aren't as good.

[buggachat]

something so fucked up about Chat Noir’s whole deal is that he is in a lot of ways Adrien playing a character. Like Adrien picked up his miraculous and was told he’d be a superhero so he was like “ok, time to act like a superhero!” and he lets himself have fun w it and play up the role and let loose and kind of just allow himself to be silly and goofy and have fun and for once in his life not care about performing Perfection™.

But. But none of the other characters KNOW THAT. So everyone just sees Chat Noir and is like “look at this guy’s ego. He’s so full of himself. Surely it’d be fair to knock him down a few pegs” without being aware of how few pegs he actually HAS. He’s like the “insecure character who overcompensates in ego” trope except he’s really not doing it unironically, he’s just having a fun LARP pretending to have self worth in his off-hours but nobody else is on the same page about it being a game and he refuses to tell them. He just dramatically pouts about it and lets them laugh and pretends like he’s not internalizing it and it is almost 3 am and my brain forced me to write this instead of sleeping I’m gonna take a melatonin

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[egophiliac]

finally got some time to finish these guys up! which is sort of ironic considering I started these because I wanted to draw Malleus with a Dragapult, and then I just didn't for a million years!

Malleus has the aforementioned Dragapult, except it's a super special non-canon color Dragapult (like an anime-only form that you could get in-game exclusively through some limited-time event where you have to show up in-person at a specific location in Japan) (it has some wacky overpowered exclusive move/form and the OT is listed as Malleus) (so like that kind of ridiculous specialness) (Leona is extremely salty about this). also hoards and hoards of Dreepy. Dreepy LOVE Malleus. they take naps on his horns inbetween begging him to throw them across the island at mach speeds.

Lilia has a Drampa and a bunch of Woobat that he hasn't actually caught, they just follow him around in swarms because they sense a kinship with him. (also breaking my own rule again to say that he had a Mawile in the past, because...I just really wanted to give him a Mawile...)

Sebek has Sandile for obvious reasons, and also a Pikachu that bullies him relentlessly. :(

Silver has a shiny Corvisquire; I really went back-and-forth on also giving him an Aegislash, but...hm. those pokedex entries though. he can stick with just one for now.

(I hadn't planned on the shiny for him, but after I'd decided on the Corvisquire line and was looking it up for reference, I realized that shiny Rookidee is gold and then turns silver when it evolves and I lost my entire goddamn mind)

[entertainment]

choose your friend (no fighters here :)

📸: @overchers

[yourangle-yuordevil]

what if we flirted at the gentlemen club 😳 (and we were both flirting) 😞❤️😞Discreet Gentlemen's Club

[tippenfunkaport]

You know, it would be amazing if Hollywood learned the right lesson from the success of Nimona. Something like "Hey, maybe don't throw out a nearly done movie as a tax write off" or "people want queer stories" or even "don't be afraid to take some storytelling risks and be original" but you just know they're going to come away with some absolutely batshit takeaway like, "next time delete all the evidence and burn it to the ground so the gays can't make us look bad!"

[bixels]

this is coming from the position of a student, so don't take my word as gospel, but i want to strongly encourage people to prepare for the coming years and look outward to find communities in real life. this can be big like getting involved in fundraisers or organizations or small like going to poc/queer/art social spaces and talking to people. making friends and connections will help you and others build support networks, something you will need as we enter the new term. i know talking to strangers in real life can be scary, unfamiliar, or difficult (depending on where you live especially) and it may take a lot of compromising and work –– and i don't want to condescend –– but we have to try starting now. this is about your safety and welfare, as well as the most vulnerable people's.

if leftists/progressives/minorities want to survive and beat back what's coming, we need to do our work offline too and take up space. an example of getting involved would be (if you're an artist) reaching out to fundraising organizers and making prints of your artwork to donate for raising funds.

[clouvu]

Father-Son bonding moment ✨

[wu-does-art]

thinking about Nico adjusting to letting himself miss and long for the people he loves. based on these bits from the sun and the star:

" As Nico and Will followed the trogs, he thought about how much he missed Hazel. He was learning to make peace with that feeling. It was okay for him to miss people because that meant he wanted them around in his life. That idea was *very* new for him- he was used to either pushing people away or watching them recoil from his presence." *

" That was the most surreal thing of all... Was he happy? Nico wasn't very familiar with the sensation, but he couldn't deny that he felt wonderful in Will's presence. He even longed for the son of Apollo when they were apart. A funny thing had happened as the two grew closer: Nico suddenly understood all those cheesy, sappy love songs he'd always hated."

[xray-vex]

"Like stuff. Don't be someone that doesn't like stuff, and if you don't like stuff, don't be a dick about it."

- David Jenkins

[coolcheese51]

ever heard of. 2007 portal odyssey. my favorite mobie

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.