#it could be Car because he be selling cars. but idk i like that its his dad's business ie peter never got into his own thing

[brotherofmercy]

I was thinking of mlp designs for Cornetto characters while falling asleep and I kept getting stuck cuz like. There are multiple characters who have clear defining traits but not skills (Shaun, Gary, etc) and I was thinking, "ok but what's the best symbol to allude to this trait but also leave room for a special talent?"

Then I remembered the Element Of Kindness' cutie mark is butterflies, meanwhile she takes care of anything from yes, butterflies, to full-on bears. It's not that deep

[rottenpumpkin13]

Idk if you have done this before, but what type of drunk are the boys? Lazard, Tseng, Angeal, Genesis, Zack, Sephiroth, Kunsel, Reno, Lazard or whoever you are willing to grace us with? (Aka, who is the functional alcoholic, lovey drunk, willing to fight with anyone/thing drunk, sleepy drunk, touchy drunk, existential crisis core drunk, the drunk that holds conversations with walls, etc)

Drunk Sephiroth: Has absolutely no filter when drunk. He will info-dump. He will overshare about classified missions and SOLDIER info. He will state his opinions on things no one asked him about. He will corner strangers to talk about the ethics of artificial materia production. He will let "fuck Shinra" slip more than once. If they take their eyes off drunk Sephiroth for 2 seconds he's either a) in a state of sleep not even a meteor could rouse him from, or b) telling the nearest stranger all about how he first learned to swim and hold his breath for extended periods of time when Hojo dunked him in a mako tank when he was five.

Drunk Zack: Has a lot of love to give. Will befriend literally everyone and everything including inanimate objects. Has lengthy conversations with the wall because "oh so just because its inanimate it doesnt deserve attention?" Tries to pet every stray animal he sees while sobbing about how hard their lives must be. "Look at this kitty! It has no home! Angeal, it has no home! Can we keep it?" (it's Sephiroth). Forms deep emotional bonds with random objects, cradling a bottle like it's a newborn like "This is my best friend now." Drunk-dials Angeal every 10 minutes to tell him he's the best mentor ever and cries when Angeal answers like "I KNEW YOU'D PICK UP, YOU ALWAYS PICK UP!" Looks at Cloud and bursts into tears because "He's so small. I'll protect him forever!"

Drunk Angeal: Compulsive cleaner when drunk, to the point of absurdity. Aggressively wiping down counters at the bar with "I can't believe people live like this." Starts rearranging furniture at the bar, claiming it has "terrible feng shui." If Zack's got anything on his face, Angeal will grab a napkin and scrub like he's buffing a rusty sword. He has no boundaries either. Strangers get dusted off, tables get realigned, and if anyone tries to stop him, he responds with "Oh, I'm sorry. Am I ruining your trash heap aesthetic? Please, let me leave this spilled drink so the rats can move in." Ends the night cleaning the bar's industrial fryer while the staff begs him to stop.

Drunk Genesis: Becomes a text book theater kid with complete disregard for his surroundings. Any elevated surface is a stage, whether it's a table, a car, or Angeal during a piggy-back ride back to HQ. Uses materia and fire to "heighten the dramatic tension" during monologues, setting off every sprinkler system within a three-block radius.

Drunk Lazard: The composed Director transforms into everyone's wine aunt. Makes inappropriately accurate observations about everyone's personal lives while swirling his glass.

Drunk Tseng: The only indication they have that he's inebriated is that he'll approve absolutely anything put in front of him with a completely straight face. Has signed off on vacation requests for people who don't even work at Shinra. Weapons budgets for departments that don't exist? Signed. Reno wants to purchase a horse on a company card? Stamped and approved.

Drunk Reno: A hazard to both himself and everyone around him. He's the guy leaning heavily on whoever is closest, slurring compliments and flirting (unsuccessfully). Trips over flat surfaces but plays it off like it was intentional. Gets way too into darts and nearly takes out Rude's left eye.

Drunk Kunsel: Is never actually drunk around other people. Instead, he pretends to be drunk, slurring his words and stumbling just enough to sell the act, all to finesse gossip and classified intel out of everyone while they're too wasted to notice.

[ckret2]

What are some of your favorite books?

This is not an exhaustive list. I have read a fucking lot of books. I guarantee you I have forgotten 8 out of my top 10 favorites.

Here are the answers that would make my literature teachers proud:

Grendel; To The Lighthouse; Dracula but I was into Dracula before it was cool; Don Quixote; a moment ago I had two others but I forgor

Here are some other answers:

When I was a kid my mom said I was too young to read RL Stine's Goosebumps books so I was banned, so I picked up one of RL Stine's Fear Street books instead, because at age 7 I understood malicious compliance. The book was Revenge of the Shadow People. It was the first horror story I ever read. Because of that I've had a lifelong obsession with shadow people characters. (Heartless, Aku, Okage Evil King Stan...) It's a modest book, but it helped shape my personality, so it belongs on this list.

My middle school favorite books—because I read them 5,000 times and will never forget them—were How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found; The Last Book In The Universe; Self-Portrait with Wings; and anything by Neal Shusterman. The Last Unicorn SHOULD have been one of my favorites except I only saw the movie and didn't learn about the book until I was an adult.

As a kid I was really into Lovecraft when I was still young & ignorant enough to be like "gee, the way he writes about other races sounds kinda racist, but I'm sure there's a good reason for that!" The reason was he's hella racist. On the bright side, there's now a bunch of very good Lovecraftian stories ABOUT racism. I liked Lovecraft Country (of course) and The Ballad of Black Tom.

Lovecraft was the biggest influence on how I think about horror and Hitchhiker's Guide was the biggest influence on how I think about comedy and idk what that combo says.

Adultier favorites: Wild Seed (anything by Octavia Butler tbh), Machineries of Empire trilogy, Sherlock Holmes Vs. Cthulhu and I shan't apologize for my terrible taste; The Android's Dream; NOS-4-A2 which I picked up because it had the same name as a Buzz Lightyear character even though the Buzz Lightyear character is a robot and the book is about a car; I'm gradually working my way through Poirot; Carnacki the Ghost-Finder. 

I read the Popol Vuh in college and was hypnotized by its poetry but that was an academic translation and more recently it's had a poetic translation that I've bought but I haven't read yet.

Here's some random recent books I enjoyed—not necessarily my "favorites," but they're in my recent library card history so it's easy for me to look them up rather than trying to pull titles of old out of my ADHD black hole. Beholder by Ryan La Sala was fantastic—fun cosmic horror (both the premise and the entity itself), fun mystery, and I like it when you can say "and it's a queer romance" as a bonus to what makes the story good as opposed to being its only selling point. Such a Bad Influence had such a perfect ending that I went to the writer's site to immediately email her about it but then my browser crashed so I went to sleep and I still need to email her about it. Darcy Coates is my current "pumps out a million haunted house mysteries" author whose books I'm working my way through. Zero Sum Game was good, I still need to read the sequels.

Separate from the above, I'm in the market for book recs that feature Death/the Reaper as a main character, because I just read one that was crap. (The book was fine; but Death was characterized boringly and didn't have any significant impact on the plot. Like he was the selling point of the book and they could have just left him out.) Bonus points if Death is depicted as an actual skeleton rather than just some guy. I'm flexible on genres, but if it's romance Death has GOTTA be a skeleton, I'm not interested in a monsterfucker bait-and-switch. I already know about Discworld and respect that Death, I just want something that isn't Discworld.

[reikunrei]

feeling incredibly averse to posting this but i'm just gonna drop my kofi link here in case anyone wants to help me get out of my increasingly shitty situation living with my parents

more info below ig

after having given my parents nearly $100k over the last four years, i'd love to be able to actually leave. my future job situation is still up in the air (i've submitted for about a dozen positions and the only one i've heard back from and interviewed for hasn't gotten back to me yet), and i haven't been able to build up any savings because, again, i was (and still am) helping my family afford rent and bills, and probably the taxes my parents are behind on, but if i think about that, i'll get too angry. no joke, i've given my family, at the bare minimum, 85% of my income over the last 4 years. the rest of it has gone toward medical stuff and, now, my car

at this point, with the combo of my mom refusing to lower her standards and my dad's seeming refusal to hunt for a new full time job, i don't see how they won't continue to bleed me dry. my dad even has a bad habit of taking money out of my old savings account that he's a joint owner on or whatever from when i got it set up when i was 16, even when i stopped actively putting money in it, so now any time it gets its automated $1 transfer from my checking account, he'll just take that $1 without consulting me. i'm not exaggerating, even if it has $1-2 in it, it'll be gone within a week

i've even put off starting on testosterone because of this. i wanted to start it like 3 years ago, but kept putting it off because of money issues and wanting to save as much as possible. i got really close to actually starting it this year, but because of how messy everything is, i put it off again bc having one more thing on my plate, especially when my parents are already weird about me being trans, was not something i wanted to deal with

not to mention, we're still currently not living under a lease in our house that we're, as far as i'm aware, still tens of thousands of dollars behind in rent on (again, my dad refuses to disclose our financial position honestly with any of us) and it's developed many, many issues bc the landlord, even before we were behind on rent, is shit and refuses to actually fix anything. and my dad loves to just ignore things unless we beg him to do something

i'd love to be on my own (in the, much more affordable, midwest) by the end of summer. i by no means want to rely on donations and i have other avenues i'm working with to make money (i still have my current full time job, but i'm going through my old belongings and selling a lot online), but i'll take any help i can get atp because i'm truly at my wits end. i'd start doing art commissions again if i could, but doing that from 2020-2022, partially on top of my full time job, absolutely wrecked my right hand and i'm still in enough pain that i can't make it a regular activity

idk how much else there is to say. there's more i could say but... i don't really wanna air all my dirty laundry here. i'm miserable in so many ways and it's just become increasingly clear that my dad expects me to constantly cover his ass. my younger brother gives money too, but he manages to go on big cross-country and overseas trips with friends, so i think i've been stuck with the burden of giving the most money. there's so many more things going on in the world rn and everyone is stretched thin so i don't expect much, or anything, but. idk. might as well throw it out there, right?

i’ve also since taken down the gfm i set up last year when we got our first eviction notice bc, while we still need the money, i don’t feel right keeping it up for multiple reasons, including “i don’t want to give any of that money to my family” and it feels too… serious to keep it up when i could just throw out my kofi instead

i just want to make sure i have some sort of safety net to catch me if i move before anything job-wise is finalized. i need to be able to afford a place to live for at least a month so i can job-search while physically being in the area i wanna move to, which would ultimately make it easier for me to find a job at all. i'm working on being more firm with giving less money so i can actually have the means to move and be safe and comfortable, but... that never lasts long in this house

anyway. that's it, i guess. thanks for reading

[ima-lay-on-the-floor]

So this is just gonna be a lot of random Twisted Wonderland thoughts that I haven't been able to say and need to get out of my head before exams

This is NOT going to be spoiler free!!!!! It will include JP only cards, the events of Book 7 that haven't been translated yet, and maybe some of the beta designs if I really get into yapping (watch this be my longest post ever)

I'm still new to Tumblr so idk if this is hidden but if it is not, ADVERT YOUR EYES

If you're still here, welcome to my ted talk

Let's start with the upcoming JP Coral Sea event, specifically the cards we got for it.

FIRST, MALLEUS

Glorious king 🫶

I don't know the picture limit to this post, but based on this card and the others (Rook, Riddle, and Jade), there's multiple explanations/reasonings I've seen people discuss.

#1, a wedding event. Not like Ghost Bride, but maybe attending a wedding??? With all of the SRs carrying a flower basket and spreading the petals, it's very much giving flower girl.

#2, hometown event. Jade is our SSR this time and this takes place in the Coral Sea. You could ask, "Hey floor, if this is a hometown event, why is it on land?" And what I say to that, my sweet child, is that they already gave Jade his merman form card and they need to sell more. HOWEVER, I KNOW Yana is going to cook with this story. Maybe Jade is visiting a town that he saw from afar in the sea, but never could actually visit because he didn't have legs. Now he can. Maybe the whole wedding theme is because they just stumbled onto a wedding and decided to help (which doesn't sound like a Jade thing to do unless there were mushrooms involved).

But at the end of the day, who knows? I'm very excited to learn the plot of this event. HOWEVER, I definitely think this is a nod to the Little Mermaid marriage scene at the end of the movie.

I'm going to do a little bit of card analysis, specifically with Malleus's card. Let me throw in a screenshot of all the cards.

So we see all the SRs have a certain motif in their jewelry. Riddle has red coral, Rook has pearls, and Malleus has oysters.

Hmmmmmm interesting. Why oysters?? Maybe because he seems like a cold, rough person on the outside, but his personality is like a shiny pearl (he's precious, be so fr).

Small tangent real quick. Oysters are still a weird choice, because they've been mentioned in another event. Which event? Tapis Rouge (not calling it Vil's Red Carpet Cadets). Now Ace is a HATERR of oysters. This is interesting to me because if you remember when Ace's dream and his UM awakening came out in JP, a LOT of people were freaking out because they felt validated as Aceyuu shippers (its me I'm Aceyuu shippers). If you follow the Aceyuu tag, you can see a couple of people talking about how if twst ever has an endgame couple, it's either going to be Malleyuu (don't know if I got the ship name right😔) or Aceyuu. This design choice could be a reference to the symbolism of an oyster OR it could be a really fun reference to the two ships. Maybe both.

Ok I think I got everything out regarding that event, and now I think I'll focus only on cards just so this won't be a 10K word long ramble no one's gonna wanna read.

Let's talk about the Tangled event, Lantern of Wishes.

(weird space I can't get rid of)

First off, I am the #1 fan of this Kalim card. It looks so good in the card art and in the 2D sprite. All the hair looks good in the art, but personally some of the 2D sprites don't do it justice. Like Deuce, my king I love you, but I can BARELY see the hair. I know why though, because it is a high ponytail but that's the fun of art, you can make it over the top and extra.

Let me start by saying, 2025 is the year for Riddle fans. We get dream Riddle (who will be brought up soon, trust), the then long hair Riddle, and now we have coral Riddle in the new event.

Jack's hair fits his personality so well, it's crazy and big and kind of wild. No other notes, just great.

Before hitting Deuce's card, let's talk about who each character could represent

Riddle -> Rapunzel obvi

Kalim -> the green makes me think Pascal

Jack -> I want to say Maximus because, animals

Deuce -> maybe Flinn, but I saw someone in a YouTube comment saying that he's the frying pan which sent me so it's canon now to me

Ok, now let's talk about Deuce. When I first saw the ponytail, I got flashbacks to his beta design. If you haven't seen it before, I'm adding the image below.

It shows all of Heartslaybul's beta designs.

Trey didn't change much, he looks less spiky though.

Cater is still fruity, but WHAT IS THAT HAIR. Yana thank you for changing it.

Ace with brown hair haunts my nightmares.

We have Deuce, who might be an honor student, with the perfect posture and a subdued attitude compared to the others.

Let's talk about Riddle. He seems like, for lack of a better term, a BRAT. Maybe he's still super smart, but instead of putting in work at a young age, all of his excellence is pure talent. Maybe his OB arc would be him hitting the gifted kid burnout and realizing he needs to put effort in now to keep his spot, he throws a tantrum and OBs, yada yada yada.

But that design also feels familiar now doesn't it?

I present you, dream Riddle.

Is it the exact same vibe? Hell no. Are there definitely elements in this? Hell yes.

I immediately picked out the fuzzy collar of the jackets, but now that I'm actually trying to find other similarities I think they were just in my head. It's official, I'm delulu.

Even if those two cards weren't inspired by the beta designs, I find it interesting that you could draw that conclusion, or maybe it's just me 🤷.

To finish this off, let's mention the OB cards.

We finally got what we wanted guys.

It looks like they'll be going backwards, and they might all include two different home screen outfits like Silver's did. My theory is that the GROOVYS (I had to put it in caps lol) will either show moments at the end of the chapter or will feature their dream forms.

Let's bring Riddle into this because he's my fav OB, sue me.

Riddle's GROOVY could be :

#1 his SLAY dream outfit

#2 the unbirthday party where he gave the NASTYYYY tart to the rest of the Heartslaybul main cast

I kind of want the dream forms because we'll get a Octopus Azul card, Leona's king outfit, and Jamil's dream school outfit (Vil's dream outfit was mid tbh).

I'm super excited to see if we get Idia's OB card announcement at the same time as his Board Game Club card, but the devs can't be that evil to the Idia fans, right?

Also, I NEED Idia's goofy ass coat at the end of Book 7 on my homescreen.

I also have stuff I want to say about Azul's club card, but I'll hold off on that to see how people feel about this ramble, lol. Wow this is a lot of words. Sorry if this felt random or rushed or not explained clearly. I was just writing my thoughts as they came to me.

Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk. Please try guessing my fav character from this, I don't think it's possible because of all the yap.

[aropride]

Criminal minds episode. if theyre hiring writers for season 18 let them know im avaliable

[shot opens in a forest] [camera zooms in] [keeps zooming in] [scalpel, bloody] [camera shifts] [terrified victim tied to tree] [camera shifts away] [blood splatters, scream] [criminal minds theme song plays]

[bau office meeting room]

JJ: we have a case :( family of 4 tortured and murdered in the woods in vermont. from a wealthy neighborhood, mom and dad, a daughter and a son, all white. they were reported missing several days ago and only found a few hours ago.

REID: Actually technically its a forest ☝️ not the woods. considering the amount of tree coverage and types of wildlife

PRENTISS: stabbing... it could speak to a lack of sexual satisfaction. maybe the killer is impotent?

MORGAN: or the victims could indicate it's because of familial issues...

ROSSI: who evers killing these people is a sick freak ... no doubt about that

HOTCH: wheels up in 30

[cut to plane]

REID: how are you prentiss

PRENTISS: i thionk im bisexual but cbs wont let me say that

REID: me too :( also i have autism

[cut to forest]

HOTCH: agent hotchner fbi. these are agents morgan and prentiss. we're here to look at the body and the surrounding area

COP (INCOMPETENT): Ok 👍

HOTCH: morgan get garcia to draw up a map of the five-mile radius around this portion of the forest

MORGAN: ok [opens phone] hey sugar pie

GARCIA: hey babygirl how may i assist u on this beautiful tuesday morning

MORGAN: we need u to get a map of the area and map out a 5 mile radius around this portion of the forest

GARCIA: your wish is my command. garcia out

[cut to family home]

VICTIM'S AUNT: im just so devastated idk how i'm going to move on from this

JJ: we know this is hard. we need u to tell us whether there is anyone who wouldve wanted to hurt ur family.

AUNT: idk... they were a lovely family nobody would ever hurt them... hmm... Except.

HOTCH: except?

AUNT: some business deals fell through ... they were struggling for money, maybe they tried to get some through illegal means? i wish there was more i could tell you...

JJ: its ok. this is helpful thank you

[cut to the forest (not woods)]

HOTCH (appearing from somewhere else): They found another body

REID: only one body?

ROSSI: that breaks the pattern... could be be devolving?

JJ: there were deeper and less controlled lacerations on this victim so it is likely...

HOTCH: now we have a devolving psychopath on our hands ... i think its time to give the profile

[room full of cops (incompetent)]

HOTCH: the man we're looking for is a while male in his mid 30s. he has familial issues and erectile dysfunction. he probably suffered a loss of a maternal figure at a young age. does anyone know someone like that it would be very helpful. thank you

[outside]

MORGAN (on phone): my darling angel can you get a list of every white male in his 30s in vermont who had a mother, aunt, older sister, or any other maternal figure die around 20 years ago

GARCIA: anything for u princess [typing] Ok there are 4 results. ...and it looks like this one just lost a lot of money gambling and had to sell his house... a wife and 2 kids

MORGAN: that must have been the trigger ... thank you garcia youre everything to me

[forest]

VICTIMS: [screaming]

UNSUB: scream all you want nobody can hear you...

[cut scene, inside car]

HOTCH: we think he's right by the storage shed near the entry to the forest

[forest]

UNSUB: who wants to die first.....

REID (appearing out of nowhere, visibly shaking, holding gun): Nobody else has to die. put the scalpel down

(unsub puts the scalpel to the mother's neck)

UNSUB: if you move i'll kill her

(child gasps scaredly)

ROSSI: we know you dont want to do this just put the scalpel down...

COP (incompetent): Should we shoot him

ROSSI: ? no

REID: please put it down :( u dont want to do this...

(unsub puts the scalpel down)

[cut to plane]

MORGAN (voiceover): "for murder, though it have no tongue, will speak." william shakespeare.

[camera pans to reid and jj]

REID: jj i think i have autism

JJ: we know

REID: how? i havent even undergone typical diagnostic testing

JJ: well we're profilers.so we notice things about people. :-)

[lunyxdragon]

Dragons Rising Rant

I WAS NOT READY for season 2 part 1

(I'm spoiling pretty much everything below the cut)

This was everything I wanted and more (not to say it doesn't have its issues, but still)

I know some people were grumbling about Lloyd taking Zane's role of being the vision haver but I honestly like how they handled it. Because it feels an awful lot like a PTSD allegory. Like, Arin is literally like "you've been through a lot, maybe it's catching up to you" or smthn like that, the visions showing up at random and inconvenient times during the day, being unavoidable but they can be lived with, panic attacks, so am I the only one seeing this??? This does some interesting things to my Lloyd PTSD headcanons... another thing is the two people that have had visions are the two most likely people to have PTSD imo, so... there's that...

Lloyd verbally acknowledges having panic attacks which caught me so off guard for a show to sell toys to eight year old boys. It wasn't like puss and boots level of panic attacks, definitely not given that much focus, but it was there. Lloyd canonically has panic attacks!!

I know it's a kid's show, but I feel like they could have handled the sleep deprivation a bit better than "Lloyd is falling asleep all the time," like there's so many other ways you could convey that, at least vary it a bit. They hammer this point into the ground and I feel like kids aren't that dense, and would understand it even with half of the random falling asleep replaced with irritability, zoning out, or other stuff like that idk.

I WAS NOT READY for Kai to get sacrificed. When they were talking about human sacrifices I was like "nah ninjago would never go that far, that pretty much confirms that either the sacrifices aren't actually necessary or the forbidden five don't get brought back," then Kai literally gets sent to the backrooms with no way out.

And Bonzle. BONZLE. Need I say more? Wish she had gotten more focus though. The sorceress felt like a d&d oc shoved in last minute though, and her design was so chaotic it was distracting from the show for me. Probably just me though, I like order. She's fun, I just wish they'd either given her an arc or given that focus to Bonzle.

Internally screaming when Nya says "Jay would never forget me" and when Jay showed up. I really hope they give him enough time to shine.

Ras literally runs and catches up to a moving car and knocks out a dragon in a single hit. Bros insane. I guess the blood moon just makes him physically stronger? They didn't really elaborate what the blood moon does to Ras and why. But he's an actually competent villain, which Ninjago is in short supply of.

Cole literally said "Come at me (bro)" to the Administration.

Speaking of Cole, Geo misses him!! I'm way overhyped for this couple, but this is the closest thing we'll get to a canon gay couple in ninjago. Lego doesn't have the balls to actually show them kissing or being a couple, not with their show that gets aired all over the world to sell legos. I'm gonna go rewatch the land of lost things episode from s1 later.

The timeline is even more messed up now though. If Cole only just returned, when were the Mech Pilot shorts supposed to happen? We'll see what the creators say on Twitter lol.

Ending this off on a positive note, the found family is gonna kill me. Arin literally seeing Lloyd and Nya as his parents was gold. Oh man Ras slammed the poor boy around a lot, physically and mentally. Just let both Arin and Sora realize they're not useless. Nahhh the angst is too good.

Is there more? Probably. But I need to do my calculus coursework...

[angie-long-legs]

Angel Dust - Review 19/4/2025 - VEEBay

soo I ordered this as a gift for my friend who loves spiders and he hates it??? like he said he wanted a spider for the yard for Halloween but when this one arrived it was white and pink which isn't even Halloween colors and he said the spider stood for like ten minutes in the yard when asked to, and then started checking its phone (which isn't even scary for the guests to see) so he was really disappointed and we returned it and had to call the phone number on the listing, only for a really tall bald guy to come pick it up (I mean RIDICULOUSLY tall) in his car that was like OBNOXIOUSLY big (who are you trying to flex on) and it was just very unprofessional and a huge hassle. Plus the bald guy took an attitude with us as soon as he showed up. I would not recommend this product and neither would my friend

PS I think the bald guy shouldn't be driving! idk if he was drunk or what but he completely demolished our mailbox when he backed into the driveway. I'm not sure who I'm more mad at, the spider, the bald guy, or me.

Total rating: ⭐️

(I had to do one star because VEEBay doesn't let you do less but if I could do zero I would. I hate Halloween now because of this.)

review my muse like a product !

"Hey! I remeba' you! Listen, busta', spookin' the neighbourhood kids ain't part a' my job description, or did that listing fail ta mention that I'm a whore?!"

Wait... this review was on VEEbay? Was Val listing his services on a buy-and-sell auction site?!

"Hold up... I gotta make a call."

[quohotos]

So I'm sure no one remembers this anymore but it's been eating up my mind and I might as well get it out. There's this service called Carfax or some shit, and they pay for youtube ads. In one of them they have their mascot, this like fiver-ass animated furry, known as the carfax fox. Get it? Carfax? Carfox? Whatever, he looks like shit. Well he speaks in this snarky Ben Shapiro ass voice and explains that Carfax shows you the damage history of a vehicle so you can know it's true value. To illustrate his point, he has behind him two identical twins with two identical cars. Then through the magic of carfax or some shit the car on the right starts to rapidly morph from a normal car to a totalled wreck, I guess to illustrate how its damage history is being brought to light. This puts the twin on the right into a state of distress and causes the twin on the left to point and laugh.

"HA! Your damage has always been visible!" the guy says, pointing and laughing at his own brother.

It hangs for a beat where the other brother just looks so emotionally distraught. He's shocked and confused that someone so close to him would ever say something so unhinged and cruel. Like you just say that to someone? To your brother no less.

He stutters and then simply says: "We're twins!"

And then the add just fucking ends. Right there. Idk maybe they cut away to some slogan but it's the last we see of them and then your youtube video plays.

Excuse me what the fuck? What kind of martian wrote this?

Your damage has always been visible? What brings a person to say something like that. What does it even mean? I can tell you're traumatized, I can tell you're struggling, you're trying to hide it but I can see. I can see you're damaged goods, brother, and I find that funny. I laugh. I laugh at your weakness.

And don't you be fooled into thinking this is just some sort of edgy east coast style tear each other down humor, the twin on the right looks genuinely hurt. All he can do is appeal, brother how could you betray me like this? Are we not cut from the same cloth?

And why, why would he do this? Over a car? To impress some red fox who can't even make it up to his calf? Yes he appears large because of forced perspective but he could, would, and should drop kick the fucking carfax fox given the first opportunity. See the fox also thinks it's funny, or at the very least doesn't react. To him nothing matters beyond the monetary value of a vehicle. Human emotions, compassion, all that? It just gets in the way.

Oh god, did he coach the other twin? Maybe he wasn't always this way. Maybe the carfax fox has been corrupting him.

Just put yourself in the poor twin's shoes. It's been months, you haven't heard from your brother. You see him post on Instagram, but less and less does he actually have room for you in his life. You see photos of him, him and this fucking fox. Drinking, going to parties, their relationship status changes. Your twin brother, he's gay, and dating a fox. He didn't tell you, you're twins but apparently this wasn't worth mentioning. Maybe he didn't feel safe telling you. It keeps you up at night. You thought you were close.

Then a text message comes out of the blue. "Remember that car you're trying to sell, you haven't found a buyer yet, right?" Not hello, nothing like that, just straight to business.

"Yeah," you reply back, before clarifying, "It still hasn't sold."

"My boyfriend has this app for selling cars, do you think you could bring it by to the studio, we were thinking of using it in an ad."

"Yeah sure, totally, bro."

"Awesome. Would you like to be in the ad? You just need to stand there next to your car. It'll really help it sell"

"Uhh... sure, I guess," you reply back.

It's a nice car, but yeah you are struggling to sell it. You've had it for like eight years and put a lot of work into it. Real ship of thesus type vehicle. Selling it is important, but not really your priority.

"How've you been, man?" you text back.

No reply. Minutes later the typing bubbles pop up. He just ignores your message, it's just a date and time.

You show up as requested, it's a sound stage. A producer helps you get your car in the building. Some makeup people give you a once over, someone puts a lapel mic on your shirt. You finally see your twin brother, on the other side of the stage is a car that looks just like yours. Same make, same model, same color. Maybe it's a rental. Then you see him.

Your brother, he's there with that fox, they're laughing about something but you can't hear it.

You introduce yourself, but as soon as you approach the smiles stop. It's awkward. Were they laughing at you? You have so many questions, so much to catch up, but apparently your brother's boyfriend isn't even happy to see you.

"You don't have any lines, don't worry, you just look forward and smile."

Your brother produces a plastic bag of cocaine and you watch as the fox snorts it off of the hood of the rental car like it's nothing, in view of everyone.

"All right, it's showtime folks," he says, and suddenly everyone's moving. Your brother scowls at you.

"Get to your place," he says. You're shocked, shocked by his tone, but a split second later he's back to smiling for the camera.

The first take is messed up because you're not in place yet. The fox berates you, tells you to get it together. This isn't him, this isn't right. What does he see in this guy. Is he just leeching off of his money, would your twin brother even do that? You thought you knew him.

They reset from the top, you smile into the lights, into the cameras. The fox is saying something about damage history. Whatever, it's a car sale app or something. Then to your horror you hear the sound of bending metal and shattering glass. You turn to see your car, totaled in an instant. What? How? What did they do?

Your eyes shoot around the room. The fox won't even look at you, his tail swishing back and forth playfully.

"Ha, your damage has always been visible."

You turn to see your brother pointing and laughing. Your damage has always been visible? What does that mean? What does that even mean.

"We're twins!" you say, mouth agape in disbelief.

This isn't him this isn't right.

"Alright, I think we got it. We don't need you anymore," the fox says, finally turning to you.

"Bro, what's... what's gotten into you?" you sputter.

His guffaws, they're softer now, just a slight chuckle and smirk.

"You're weak," he says, "Just like your fucking car."

Whoever this person is, he's not the brother your grew up with. Not the shoulder you cried on, not the guy you shared a pokemon emerald save with, not the one that you did matching Halloween costumes with for fifteen years straight. No, no he's something else now, and all because of that fucking fox.

"You son of a bitch!" you shout, lunging for him.

The fox seems only mildly amused as you're grabbed by security, dragged out kicking and screaming.

"I'll kill you, what did you do to my brother?" you demand.

"Your damage has always been visible," your brother laughs. That's the last you ever see of him.

[vera-yaps]

something i’ve shared before on the subreddit is how andre’s bpd coded. now i recently ish got my bpd diagnosis and so am i projecting in trying to cope with it? maybe (definitely) but also hear me out

So i’m glad andre and cal dont have official diagnoses aside from cal being add simply bc the whole idea that is stressed is there is no reason for what happened having happened. plus bpd was even more stigmatized in 2002 than it is now so it wouldve defo been some weird glamorozed shit

(i was gonna go symptom by symptom but it FUCKING DELETED so cope with mindless yapping)

he goes from fine /neutral to angry within seconds. and its over the stupidest shit too. he sees the world as for them or against them, he goes from seeing himself as gods to genuinely showing hopelessness, unstable self image is massive in bpd. we see cal have interests, some sort of life outside the plan while to andre hurting others is genuinely his purpose in life. cal sees it as a way out, andre sees it as a way of living.

UNSTABLE RELATIONSHIPS. thats a big one. people see andre’s character as one-note compared to cal. i disagree—the fact we dont get andre talking to us *alone* is telling in his character as is. his relationship with cal is not a normal relationship. something coccio has said before that sticks with me is that the main character is their friendship—In 94 minutes they tell us nothing even if all they do is talk.

This leaves openness to interpretation beautifully to be frank. many people observe it as queer attraction and i definitely agree thats a valid point—However keeping it ambiguous gives more wiggle room for interpreting their friendship as no two people in the fandom describe it the same. that in itself is relationship instability because well…it is.

the way he and rachel describe each other is also interesting because if you notice rachel, in being an outsiders source which we rarely get in the movie until the security cameras come on, is wary of andre, agreeing when cal described him as violent even if he gaslights her afterwards. however when he describes rachel, its a matter of, “idk what her problem is, i didnt do anything”. this is another instance of instability, also a big thing with bpd is needing to be right and the victim which ngl mecore.

Also—He doesnt see what he’s doing as wrong. people with bpd dont tend to see themselves as doing anything wrong most situations. and if theyre questioned, it could trigger anger, as seen in the suicide note tape.

Abandonment issues. holy hell. is that a big one, andre’s biggest fear imo is cal abandoning the plan, while cal honestly is the embodiment of “fuck it we ball”. cal can definitely be interpreted as andre’s favorite person. cal gives no signs of abandoning him or the plan, yet andre thinks he is anyway. tbh the poem scene sells it for me even more because he saw that as reckless and involuntarily abandoning the plan. ZD wouldnt have happened without cal, abandoning the plan is abandoning the friendship. i saw the scene in the car as textbook splitting. he went to anger and implying that his best friend was stupid, acting like he was a pawn rather than a friend imo. within minutes. hell, the camera in itself is a character in its own right and he goes fromteaching us, the audience, how to pull off what they eventually pull off, to threatening us like we’re his victims (“59 seconds is all it takes for me to hide this sucker and come after you”)

that also feeds into the paranoia because the whole movie he’s so concerned that cal would give them away even in minor instances. like bffr a poem isnt gonna put yall on a watchlist lmfao. also dissociations a big one and when he lays on the ground looking into nothingness post egg scene that felt very dissociate-y.

self destructive behaviors

Arguably, planning this in the first place is self destructive among other things. also a minor detailin the shooting scene is him putting a gun to his face but dry firing it multiple times without seeing it it was loaded.

also two teenagers lighting fireworks when i know damn well neither of em got licenses is impulsive if i ever seen it.

also identity disturbance—

so essentially, cal and andre balance each other out in every possible way. from physical appearance to dynamic, but something else is their perception of themselves. cal knows who he is. he has interests, he has actual close friends outside of andre, he simply wants to hurt, and take himself down in the process. zero day is a suicide mission for him but andre really doesnt see himself with a purpose. he’s canonically going to college, in all these activities (that are vastly different if you ask me) but is obviously not fulfilled. i definitely see this in the scene with his dad. he *sees* more for himself but really all he sees for himself is zero day. to do it as a living. cal sees it as his end but andre to some extent sees it as his existence. he latches onto that for identity.

i’ll prolly add more to this if i think of more lmfao

[puckpocketed]

Still basking in that latvian win. Hope we hear that anthem play a few more times, those guys deserve that and more - no ego, no pretense, they give it their all out there!!

Idk how closely you're following the wjc, but what games are you looking forward to the most? Im kind of a worlds-only hockey fan lol but want to know what to keep my eye on for this tournament and get more into it

sorry to get back to you so late… it was a wonderful game !!! and the game after was really good too. latvia’s a super young squad and they played in the evening -> afternoon next day, it was amazing to watch them hang in there (despite the wonky score at the end) (NOT a shutout. btw!!!)

“worlds-only hockey fan” ahah.dont look at my blog <3 you fascinate me anon i watched one hockey game and i was gone on the sport forever… like one of those mice that goes crazy for the sugar water….. im saying Could NOT Be Me.

I’m looking forward to any game team Finland plays because I’ve decided theyre my guys this year. some NHL prospects i follow are playing (Halttunen, Kiviharju) and also i love saying Car Salesman Konsta Helenius (astupid joke from draft day when he answered that he would sell cars if he wasnt playing hockey. so incredibly specific and slightly sideways of the usual “real estate” and “golfing” answers i HOOTED)

aside from that, I’m keeping my eye on team Sweden! Victor Eklund’s older brother William plays for my favourite NHL team (🦈) and i think its sooo funny hes like, a more vicious purse dog. my sharks comrade Marta knitpurlgoal once said William is a yip-sized dog that thinks hes a boof-sized dog and i think thats very accurate for Victor as well.

as you can see im very serious about the tournament 👍 im rooting for individual success across every team since i cast my net pretty wide when it comes to loyalties (little guys <3 everywhere <3) so perhaps im not the best person to ask.

dont want to ping anyone because im . scared lol BUT if you’d like to chat to other blogs that follow the tournament more closely, poke your head around the wjc 2025 tag. anyone who’s posting there is a good bet.

[despite-everything]

moving across the country in two weeks and im fucking stressed.

im really excited - ive been trying to do this for more than half a year and only just now got a job, but this is hard! ive moved cross-country twice before, but once i was still in high school and was moving to live with a different parent then i moved again for college, so both of those moves were very different than a full adult moving because i want to. ive moved around within an hour or so radius over the past couple years, but this is so different and its starting to feel real.

i have my flight booked. ive put in my two weeks at my current job. i have a date im selling my car. im fortunate enough to have been offered to live with my sister and her husband for a couple months while i look for a second job and a place of my own (def with roommates though. im moving nyc. is this the smartest finanical decision with the current economy? probably not. but i feel like i need to for a multitude of personal reasons).

my cat is my personal item on my flight, and i plan to have a large backpack with important stuff (computers, audio equipment, and a pair of shoes), and one large checked bag. im hoping to send my stuff later once i find a place to live (i can keep things in my dads basement for a year or so which is a huge relief, but i want to get it out of there sooner rather than later since he doesnt know im on hrt and im sure wouldnt react well to figuring that out).

im trying to fit as many clothes as i can into this bag, as well as other important things and damn its fucking hard. i own a lot of things, but even just packing the essentials is tough because idk if this is all i will have for a couple months or for longer. and honestly? the hardest part is my pillow. its the only pillow ive ever wanted to use long term and it doesnt have a fucking tag on it so idk the brand. and i love my sister but i got serious neck pain after staying with her for a week using her pillow options, so i want to bring mine. and the fact that im not sure i can make it work is really activating my stress. i know i could ship a box or two with other things i could really use, but i think this pillow is kinda my breaking point for realizing how stressed i am.

im just trying to stay focused on how much i want this and keep reminding myself that millions of people have done this before me. but its scary! and i have someone in my life who id like to be talking to about this stuff but theyre going through some major shit of their own and i know they really need space this week so im going to wait. but i just needed to get some of this out.

[bi-buck-coded]

Fuck It Friday (but make it Teen Wolf)

I've been rewriting my sterek fic where Stiles is the one who's bit instead of Scott in season 1 (also they're seniors so stiles is 18 do not judge me) and idk ive loved this idea for a while now and I know it's probably already been written a thousand times but I'd like to write my take. I'll put it under the cut so people that don't like teen wolf don't have to scroll past some huge post but ya.

"I was umm- Well I- No okay.” Stiles sighs and rubs his hand over his face giving up. “I definitely would like to answer that question, you seem like a great guy and I'm terribly sorry to inconvenience you, but I don't actually know why I’m here.” Again a growl and another step towards Stiles. Stepping back he tries to explain, “No, wait! I'm not lying! See, me and my friend Scott were trying to find a dead body in the woods- which may have been my idea- and possibly my dad caught me, but I went back in the woods to find Scott when I heard a howl and-” Stiles stops, worried he may have underestimated this headache. “Wait, no that couldn’t have been right. There haven't been wolves in California for like 60 years-" 

"Really don't need a history lesson, just why you’re in my house.” Stiles scrunches his brows and looks around at the burnt down house before turning back to the man with an incredulous look.

“You live like this?” The stranger rolls his eyes and crosses his arms. He says nothing else, though, so Stiles powers on. "Okay, sourpuss, I couldn't find Scott so I was headed back to my car when I found the dead body! I ran to get someone, my dad or any deputies if they were still out there, when I fell. Must've hit my head because I don’t remember anything past that and it’s killing me now.”

"So you're saying that breaking into someone’s house is okay as long as you can’t remember it?” 

"To be fair, man, this is barely a house, it could be a haunted mansion maybe? Definitely doesn't look livable to me-" the man clears his throat. "I mean some throw pillows would be nice, but other than that its a very fine house! Actually, are you looking to sell?" Stiles stumbles over his words. The stranger nods looking insanely unamused. “You know what, I can see that you’re gonna be a hard bargain on the selling front so I’ll just show myself out.”

“Yeah, you do that.” Stiles walks past the man and turns to go down the hallway, but is stopped by a hand on his shoulder turning him so he’s facing a door.

“Right, sorry.” The door slams behind him as he looks out to the woods. "I don't suppose you have a map? Or GPS?"

Silence.

"Yeah no it's- I'll just walk this way,” Stiles says loud enough for the stranger to hear. “It’s not like there was just a murder in these woods,” he mumbles to himself.

[bloodbruise]

what’s some of your james headcanon ?

okay kinda went overboard, but once i started i could not stop. also left out the nsfw ones but if you want them just send me another ask nonnie :)

he gets carsick. like bad bad. the first time moony took the marauders in a muggle car they had to stupefy him. no one brings up the "which is worse" debate: cars vs apparition in front of him or remus anymore because one mention and they're bickering for hours. its a touchy subject for them both.

he has a soft spot for late 60s soul music, a lot of the songs remind him of how he feels for regulus

he's the type to go to the farmers market and then feel bad that no one is at a stand so he buys two of whatever they're selling.. he comes home and reg is like ??? we already have a perfectly good cutting board but james is like i know baby, but i couldn’t just let the woman sit there! she was old and she looked sad :((( and she hand made them!!

the real reason he goes to the farmers market though is to pick the flowers he gets for reggie every week <3

he is a miserable wet noodle when he is sick. like a big baby. idk i just think effie would’ve tended to him so well, made him soup, brought him his medicine, water, potions, etc. anything he needed she would give him. so the first time he's sick at hogwarts and he has to get up and get his own medicine, he's acting like the world is ending.

he loves muggle touristy stuff. idk i can picture him on a double decker bus in an I <3 LONDON shirt and glasses just cheesin’ (after he's loaded with motion sickness meds)

wears mismatching socks. regulus gets irritated that he finds it endearing instead of stupid.

he starts wearing a hair tie on his wrist when sirius grows his hair long (i also think remus does this too but he started way before for the girls)

i think that when he loves someone, there is absolutely no line, and i cannot emphasize this enough, no line that he would not cross for them. i think it scares him sometimes the amount in which he loves and how consuming it is.

he runs hot. always in shorts no matter the weather. likes to put his jumper on reg whenever he gets too warm.

he would LOVE karaoke. and he chooses a song with ridiculously difficult vocals (im thinking testify by parliament). like he cant sing for shit but he's pulling out all the stops to get people to laugh--dancing, sliding on his knees, etc--so he pulls it off.

that man does not get embarrassed, foreign concept to him really.

drools when he sleeps. starfish sleeper, limbs just sprawled.

obvious but not a white man. i love both latino and desi hc's!

[honestmouse20]

So a friend and i were jokingly talking about 'dropping everything' and going to wwwy to see MCR in October. It's like clear across the country from us. A day and a half drive if we don't stop at all. And tickets are like 300 bucks.

We were joking but then like, we were like okay but road trip? take the week off and just go? And then we were like oh but we could fly? and then, four hours into the phone conversation we remembered that trains are a thing. And well, from my house to los vegas is only 300 bucks a ticket. and thats the same as the pass for one day. And then, because my friend is crazy, she was like okay what if i buy your ticket as a birthday presesnt. And now im like, wait I can swing 300 bucks. Like we'd probably have to stay in a hotel or take an early train and sleep but like- very quickly something that was impossible and a joke to even talk about IS possible. And im trying to decide if its a horrible financial decission when I've already taken one vaction this year and have a long weekend next month for my sister's graduation. BUt then again, what if i Never get to see MCR live? We keep saying they're gonna tour again but what if they Don't. Yk?

So yeah she told me to think on it and calculate how many vaction hours I've got after my sister's graduation. We have six months. But now im kinda scared to say yes bc that's a Huge trip. Ive only been to the middle of tennesse. Thats as far west that ive ever gone. Ive been tot he top of virginia and down to flordia and thats it. So this would be a massive trip.

Idk

But also Mcr and they're my Literal dream band yk. I would sell my car to see them. But the Fear of such a big trip and it just slotting into place like that is very strange

[thedeliverygod]

What would you do/buy if you had unlimited funds for a day

random but okay lol

first purchase would undoubtably be a new car because mine is a 2006 and now that I'm commuting to work every day my fear of it dying on me is ever present

a house because obvs a place to live is essential

anything my parents need especially my dad because he has had zero income for a while now and much like me has been selling things to make ends meet.

new clothes... I've been screenshotting stuff and saving it to a "window shopping" folder lately so I can hopefully get some things when I have some spending money. Because of my weight gain I wear a lot of clothes that don't really fit and aside from physical discomfort it gives me a lot of body dysmorphia too. I did buy a new pair of jeans to wear to work because I hate switching back and forth between 1 pair of jeans and cargo pants. haven't had the chance to wear them yet because of my work's server imploding & having the past 2 days off lol.

a bunch of cat food/litter so I can stay well stocked for a while.

pay off my payment plan for my surgery & also my phone [I think my phone is almost done but my surgery is definitely not lol]

whatever the fuck I want in the grocery store I want because I'm tired of everything being so expensive I have to pick and choose what I truly ~need~

edit: oh oh a shit ton of grubhub/door dash gift cards so I can get easy food on my bad days.

a ps5 so I can play FF7 rebirth and eventually KH4 lol

the rest of the older stray kids albums I don't have yet + skzoos I don't have

the damn yato figure that is impossible to get for less than $700 (at least a nendo is coming out soon so I can pre-order him)

I think that about covers majority of things that come to mind right away. of course if I ever won the lottery or whatever I'd hire a financial advisor but in this magical situation where its an endless amount of money within 1 day that wouldn't be necessary.

as an after thought I would love to book a vacation somewhere; anywhere really. preferably outside of the USA because I haven't left it yet but tbh I'd be happy to go anywhere. But with this stipulation in place I would have to make sure everything was pre-paid or else I wouldn't be able to do it (like most hotels wait until after you check out to charge your card etc so idk if I could afford a hotel stay atm). the easiest thing I could think of is honestly Walt Disney World because I could just buy a shit load of gift cards and pay with them for everything because I've known people who have done that but yeah lol.