#is that a good thing? Sometimes.
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fisherrprince Ā· 26 days ago
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some of whatā€™s up with this guy
edit: can you pretend I wrote ā€œafterā€ instead of ā€œbeforeā€ THANX
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marisatomay Ā· 4 months ago
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People will claim to be a fan of some thing and then hate all of the themes and motifs and story lines and plot lines and protagonists and antagonists like man I donā€™t think that you actually like it here
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straightlightyagami Ā· 10 months ago
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u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me
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sergle Ā· 1 year ago
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Are you on southern men swing dancing together tiktok?? Huh??? Because I AM
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adjit Ā· 11 months ago
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I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented.
I feel like every time I see a post addressing someoneā€™s shitty behavior the post also takes the time to mention that theyā€™re not even good at [x] anyway. And thatā€™s just not always true? Equating being good at a skill as being morally good is just not necessary. Someone can be a fantastic writer, can have a beautiful singing voice, can create breathtaking artwork, and still be a horrible person.
I know part of this is probably just the instinct to dislike everything about a person when you dislike them, but I also think this mindset leads to people defending creatives way past where they should, because if bad people create bad art, then if this person creates art that I like and resonates with me, then they canā€™t be a bad person!
And you know. Thatā€™s just not true. Those two things are simply completely unconnected and I think itā€™d be healthier if we all started disconnecting them in our heads.
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glorious-spoon Ā· 1 year ago
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i'm very picky about tv shows, but my pickiness has only an incidental relationship to whether or not a show is "good". it needs to scratch a particular itch in my brain at the right moment. do i know what the right moment is? no. do i know what the itch is? also no. i can be relied upon to get instantly bored of 85% of tv shows and then turn the remaining 15% into a central facet of my personality for 3-5 business months and even i am incapable of predicting which one it'll be ahead of time.
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inkskinned Ā· 2 years ago
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probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.
we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."
at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.
the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.
the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.
what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.
here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.
#this is true#writeblr#warm up#relatedly for some reason one of our Favorite Jokes#amongst the Siblings#is like - ''this is so good u will love it''#while we are reacting to something we OBVIOUSLY find viscerally disgusting#like we will be actively retching and be like ''nooooo it's so good''#to the point that i sometimes get nervous if someone outside my family is like oh u should try it its good#(obvi we never force each other to eat anything. we are all just curious birds and#like. we're GONNA try the new thing.)#edit to answer why we had so much vanilla:#my mom is a very good cook and we LOVE to bake. so she just had a lot of staples in the house.#it's one of those things that's like. have u ever continuously thought ''ah i should get butter im probably out''#even tho u are not out of butter. so u end up with like 5 years of butter.#my mom would do that in a costco but like with vanilla extract#to be fair we WERE always using WAY TOO MUCH bc we were kids#so like she was right to stock up#ps. yes we were VERY sick after this lol i just didn't want to include it in the post in case ppl had an ick about that#u can tell it's real bc we knew "oh no we fucked up that's too much vanilla to waste'' but our reaction was to just. keep drinking it#> sibling understanding that vanilla extract isn't free > knowledge mother doesnt mind if we use it for milkshakes#> sibling choice to maybe get in a loophole of ''not wasting it'' if we drink it bc that's the same as using it (not throwing it out)#listen bud i was like 13 and my sister was like 9#when my mom discovered this we. got in. A LOT. of trouble. a lot of it. a LOT of it.#3rd edit bc i guess it isn't clear - i am 1 of my brother's 2 little sisters#i am the middle child#out of all the ways i have had to explain a post before being like ''did u forget a middle child can happen'' is my favorite
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alienzil Ā· 3 months ago
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Nanny Danny
ā€œThat is a whole ass baby,ā€ was the only thought running through Lex Luthorā€™s head when the scientist proudly showed him the tube containing Project KR. It was not remotely the sort of thing he would normally think and most definitely not what he had expected to be thinking the first time he saw the clone.
Heā€™d been pleased when heā€™d read the reports indicating the success of KR after years of failures. Lex had poured millions of dollars and literally his own blood into ensuring a clone of the alien could be made, one that would be under his total control instead of the unknown aspirations of Superman.Ā  Heā€™d wanted to see the fruits of his labors personally but thisā€¦
It. No, not an it. He scrunched his tiny face and smacked his lips andā€¦did he smirk? Was that HIS SMIRK on that babyā€™s face?! No. No. Babies this small didnā€™t smile or smirk. They passed gas and their sleep deprived and addled parents mistook it for an intelligent response. Heā€™d heard enough inane conversations in the Lexcorp office about the various progeny of his employees to pick up on that but still. This child had Kryptonian DNA, not to mention his own contribution. Surely, he was far more advanced than the dribbling potato shaped lump of an infant whose pictures heā€™d been forced to smile and nod over when Mark from accounting had rudely shoved them in his face at the last quarterly budget meeting. Yes, that was definitely a smirk. His, that was his smirk.
ā€œSo as you can see its growth is well within expected parameters and weā€™re planning to start phase one of accelerating the maturation process tomorrow once the testing is do-ā€
ā€œTake him out.ā€
ā€œSir? The testing can all be accomplished while it remains in the tube. Thereā€™s no need to-ā€
ā€œI said, take him out. The project is cancelled.ā€
ā€œWhat?! Mr. Luthor you canā€™t!ā€
ā€œI think youā€™ll find I can. Now get me my son.ā€
*****
Two years later
ā€œCall them againā€
ā€œSir, Iā€™ve called them seven times. They wonā€™t answer.ā€
ā€œThen call another agency!ā€
ā€œThere isnā€™t another agency, Sirā€
Lex glared at his assistant who stared back at him impassively. Mercy stood by the door staring off into the distance and pretending she didnā€™t notice him being bested by his own secretary.
He stopped himself from shouting again and took a deep breath before asking, ā€œThen what, exactly, do you propose I do Mrs. Anderson? Adjust my entire schedule around naptimes? Find a toddler size lab coat and safety goggles and bring my son with me to tour the new clean energy project on Thursday? Perhaps buy a tiny business suit while Iā€™m at it for the next board meeting?ā€
ā€œIā€™m not suggesting anything of the sort, Mr. Luthor. Iā€™m telling you that no childcare agency in Metropolis will return my calls anymore. Most wonā€™t even answer.Ā  Youā€™ve gone through 27 nannies in the last 3 months. You need someone better suited to your sonā€™sā€¦special needs.ā€
Lex snorted. ā€œSpecial needs might be a bit of understatement. He can lift a car over his head and his favorite word right now is No.ā€
He sighed and rubbed his forehead. ā€œThank you forā€¦clarifying the situation, Marjorie. If thereā€™s nothing else, you can leave.ā€
His secretary didnā€™t move. She looked at him like she was waiting for something and now that he was paying attention, he saw she was holding a file. Ā ā€œDid you have a suggestion?ā€
Looking pleased with herself she responded, ā€œActually, yes, I did.ā€
ā€œWell?ā€
She set the file on his desk and flipped it open. He looked down at the first page and raised an eyebrow, ā€œWhat am I looking at here?ā€
ā€œThis,ā€ she responded pulling out the top set of papers and spreading them out, ā€œis the employee file and background check for Daniel J. Fenton, an intern that started in our engineering department about 4 months ago. He has one sibling, two parents and several close friends he regularly meets with. His current supervisor has nothing but good things to say about him and reports he gets along well with all his coworkers.ā€
She set out the next set of papers, neatly arranging them on the desk to be easily seen. ā€œThese are newspaper articles and screenshots of social media posts regarding a small town vigilante locally known as Phantom. The same small town, Mr. Fenton is from coincidentally. Also coincidentally, Phantom made his first appearance only a few weeks after Mr. Fenton was involved in a minor accident in his parentā€™s home laboratory when he was 14, the medical records for the incident are included.ā€
ā€œHmm,ā€ Lex said observing several photos of Phantom and a younger Fenton arranged in order of similar poses and facial expressions and printed out side by side.
ā€œFinally,ā€ she said handing him the last set of papers directly, ā€œthis would be a report from the lab Mr. Fenton works in from an incident that happened yesterday. A test with a new protype went wrong and started a fire. Everyone evacuated per protocol when the alarms went off but one of the other interns was working on a programming issue off to the side of the lab while wearing headphones and didnā€™t hear the alarm or notice the fire. Mr. Fenton noticed his absence and returned to the lab to get him out.ā€ She stopped talking and let him look at the last several pages in the file, a series of photographs of the lab.
ā€œIs this ice?ā€
ā€œYes, it is. Itā€™s several inches thick and covers half of the lab. It completely put out the fire leaving minimal damage.ā€
ā€œThis machine was moved?ā€
ā€œIt was. It was very close to the flames and would have required replacement if exposed to extreme heat or cold. That particular piece of equipment also weighs several thousand pounds and was bolted to the floor.ā€
Lex read through everything in detail then clasped his hands under his chin and stared at the photo of Daniel Fenton for several moments before turning back to his waiting secretary.
ā€œHave HR send Mr. Fenton up. Iā€™d like to offer him a promotion.ā€
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lilislegacy Ā· 2 months ago
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annabeth: percy you take anything left, iā€™ll take anything right
percy: oka- wait, are you wearing my jacket?
annabeth, stabbing a gorgon: ā€¦maybe
percy, slicing a serpent in half: iā€™ve been looking for that!
annabeth, rolling and knocking empousi off their feet and stabbing them: itā€™s big and warm and smells like you. i was cold and needed something to wear. so this is what i grabbed.
percy, chuckling as he strangles an ogre: iā€™m okay with that
annabeth, stabbing basilisks: good, because iā€™m keeping it
percy, smashing two cyclops faces into the floor: it looks better on you anyway
annabeth, decapitates a chimera: *winks at him*
percy, casually lighting a hydra on fire and giving her a crooked smile: you know, i was thinking for tonight-
leo, across the room covered in monster blood and fighting for his life: GUYS PLEASE-
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aristoteliancomplacency Ā· 2 years ago
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Beans.
My partner and I have a running joke with a friend. Every time he goes on holiday we increase the quantity of beans in his flat.
The first time we bought ~30 cans of kidney beans and hid them around the house like some Easter egg hunt thing but with beans.
The Second time we bought ~6kg dried white beans and hid those in various places. Nearly every receptacle that could safely hold beans became the home of beans. My personal favourite was emptying an oat milk carton, very carefully washing and drying it, filling it with beans and then just putting it back among several other cartons.
He went on holiday again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously there is an expectation of bean-based shenanigans. And obviously we have to beat our previous efforts.
Our friend has (had) a mosaic on his wall of the famous Marilyn Monroe Pop-Art by Andy Warhol. He made the mosaic himself. Over the last couple of weeks we have spent hours and hours assembling a frame, drawing up a pattern and gridding out a 70 x 70 frame and gluing an untold amount of beans to it. I have spent over 21 hours gluing beans to a frames.
For the last couple of days I ended up going to bed at 5:00 am because I lost track of time whilst experimenting with which types of glue works best with different beans (I now have *opinions* on this, yā€™all). The day of our friendā€™s return we spent the morning and afternoon grouting the piece and wiping it down and wiping it down again and wiping it down again because grout is just like that. In the evening we went to install the mosaic, just a few hours before his return. Hereā€™s a comparison between the original and our clearly superior replication, and the new piece installed in its rightful place.
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clownowo Ā· 1 year ago
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been replaying the Portal series I think this is where its heading
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lgbtlunaverse Ā· 1 year ago
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One thing i've run up against when dealing with fandom and characters making less than ideal choices is that people seem to treat a character's decision being sympathetic, the decision being understandable, the decision being reasonable, and it being objectively the best solution for the situation, as synonymous. When those are 4 very different things.
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rogueshadeaux Ā· 7 months ago
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ā€œI hate the script, the vault dwellers sound so cheesyā€”ā€œ my Brother in Steel you realize thatā€™s the point, right? They were bred to act like the physical embodiment of an HR e-mail. Did you not catch the memo that Vault-Tec put out regarding their experiment facilities?
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allysketches Ā· 3 months ago
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organizing my art folder I found this one drawing sitting there for months bc I didn't like how it turned out and meant to come back to it later but never did lol
but on second thought I guess it looks fine so I might as well post it now šŸ˜…
also I've been pretty much MIA these past few months bc life (good and bad) and tbh it was nice, so I'll mostly stay that way, I think... pop back now and then, whenever I finish more drawings lol
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inkskinned Ā· 29 days ago
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we were sitting on the floor and i was cutting out tiny pictures to make a collage for a friend's birthday. you were on your phone and you laughed about something, and i was still in love with you then, so i asked what had you giggling.
"sorry. i was just..." you took a moment and went back to texting. "i was telling someone about how you're afraid of the dark."
i'm afraid of the dark because something bad happened. "oh." i felt a little slinky of shame crawl down my throat.
you glanced up, and maybe it showed on my face, because you rolled your eyes and held the phone to the side casually so i could see the group chat. "what? was it a secret?"
i looked down to the scissors in my hand. "i just..." no, it's not a secret. it just felt like something private, something serious. saying why would you tell someone that just feels like an accusation. it's unfair. i honestly am not even ashamed of it, it's just a fact about my person that i don't usually share.
what a strange experience. is this a human thing or a generational thing? for our grandparents: did they need to worry about how quickly someone can just... share your personal information? again, i didn't even really have a true objection. what could i say? i want any person in my life to feel they can be honest with their friends. it's not like i said don't tell anyone this.
i cut out another letter to complete the rainbow happy birthday, started hunting for the exclamation mark. i heard you sigh dramatically.
"don't make a big deal about this," you said.
this entire conversation was a pattern for us, and this was when we got to my least favorite part of the pattern. i would get my feelings hurt in some oblique not-technically-terrible way, and then it would be making a big deal about something. you'd get frustrated for me for being soft, but i was born soft. you knew i was soft when you pierced me. it's one of the things that made controlling me so easy.
"i'm not," i felt my voice crack. the question came without my wanting. "why are you guys talking about me?" and why are you saying that thing? why not like - i'm telling them how you're generous and kind and pretty.
you let out this low, tragic groan. "oh my god." you tossed the phone away from your body. "there, see? i just won't talk to them if you don't like it."
the rest of the hour went the way it always went, between us: i said i don't actually mind if you talk to your friends but -, you found a way to call my minor expression of discomfort "being dramatic." you got upset that i had been offended. i ended up apologizing, even though i hadn't actually done anything.
afterwards, you picked up the phone again. after texting for a little bit, you snorted. "okay," you said, "but it is kind of funny you're afraid of the dark. i mean, when you think about it."
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starjunkyard Ā· 4 months ago
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Hilson should have had ONE. (1) honest to god fistfight. Not talking about no pansy ass scuffle either i need a FIGHT. Im talking bloodied noses nd bruised cheeks. I need them to exchange words that will alter the course of their relationship forever. MOST OF ALL. They need to make out nastystyle afterwards
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