#it got so bad my bank was actually 100% full

[system-architect]

this post tripped me up because that screenshot literally looks like my bank down to some of the stupidly specific hoarded items

every time my partner sees my bank he starts making fun of me so im glad someone out there understands me

do you guys wanna see my fucked up bank. you do. hold on.

[spaceagebachelormann]

zigmar i come to you humbly on this fine evening with the simple request that you give me some sort of might duck sustenance por favor and muchas gracias

they can be incoherent and stupid and goofy and silly to the max i just need to rotate this little kids like rotisserie chickens in my mind (esp fulton portman and julie)

random miscellaneous tmd thoughts !

✧ warnings: some of them may be ooc ngl

✧ additional info: u got it pookums 😈😈😈🙏 also these can be read as either platonic or romantic (not luis)

✧ m.list — nav.

♡ charlie conway !

the most insane taste in music literally ever

bro goes from madonna to death metal SO FAST

but ngl his playlist is always the best and he always gets to play music whenever u go anywhere

but oh my god he’d love pierce the veil in present day

HES ALSO LIKE SOMEHOW AMAZING AT MATH. but he cannot do science for literal shit

also his clothing style changes js like his music taste

will literally be kurt cobain one day and morrissey the next (hed hate morrissey though)

♡ adam banks !

every team sleepover/event/literally anything could js be a spontaneous hangout is always at his house

it’s because he’s rich and his house is huge as fuck and he has every board game known to man

just do not play uno because a fight always breaks out (charlie is always part of it)

he’s always the one who ends the fight also

he has this very calming presence that’s so nice to be around and him js talking to whoever got into a fight immediately helps calm them down

also weirdly good at comforting in the middle of the night but never during the day??

♡ lester averman !

he would watch full house religiously prove me wrong

his favourite character is obviously joey because they are one in the same

everyone on the team and their mother has been forced to watch full house while he’s been at their house/vice versa

he can also cook like. decently well !! it’s not something he’d prefer to do but he will for his friends if they’re tired or smth

♡ fulton reed !

this little shit

he is so unbelievably competitive over the smallest things it’s actually insane

typa guy to race u to see who can get to one side of the room first and start genuinely tweaking if he doesn’t win

at sleepovers he refuses to fall asleep first even if it’s just by a few minutes

he could be dead to the world but still have his eyes open cause he refuses to let u win (unless ur his s/o cause he might consider it that way)

♡ connie moreau !

she is definitely a theatre kid idc

her favourite musicals are probably grease, hairspray and heathers

she likes female main characters!!

everytime she gets into a new fandom she immediately starts thinking abt what it’d be like a musical and probably wanted to be a composer at some point

would 100% beg to use the aux on a road trip and then blast hamilton loud as balls

she wholeheartedly believes six is a top tier musical and she will DIE on this hill

(fun fact i’ve met andrea macasaet <3)

♡ guy germaine !

modern day guy would’ve loved basic white girl music

“life is too short to pretend to hate taylor swift” —him

also 100% a britney spears girlie. and nsync and every stereotypical white girl artist

but i wholeheartedly believe britney would be his favourite and he has her whole discography on cassette, cd, vinyl, u name it he has a britney spears collection

also his ass is NOT straight 💀 i’ve never met a straight man who listens to britney spears

♡ julie gaffney !

lowkey a regina george multitude if she wasn’t kinda. yk. a bad person

she’s a mix of cher and regina

everyone at the fancy ass boarding school literally loves her because she’s calm, smart pretty nice etc etc she’s just a really great person to be around

shes that one student who has every assignment finisher a week early, all a’s and 100% in every subject WITHOUT being mean abt it!!

her ass is friends with the whole student population and knows every well and knows all the drama but won’t tell everyone if she thinks it’s too personal (it’s it’s random petty nonsense she tells the team)

♡ ken wu !

secretly rlly good friends with julie but nobody knows even though they do not try to hide it at all

literally wander the halls talking abt whatever just for everyone to be like “y’all are friends???”

also this man secretly loves lana del rey

him and julie will sit on his bedroom floor and literally tell him the most insane and jaw dropping gossip she heard that day while lana is playing in the background

everytime someone asks his favourite lana song he says grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he’s deep-sea fishing on did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean blvd to fuck with them

♡ dean portman !

is actually very very good at math!!

he was a tutor for the 9th/10th graders for a bit to get volunteer hours and also cause he just likes doing math

you’d expect it to be like doing homework with ur dad and the poor kid is in tears while deans like “WHATS NINE. TIMES TWO.” but he’s actually surprisingly patient

if he’s explained something a few times and they still don’t get it he’ll just try it a different way until they get it and work them through the problem

has rlly strong relationships with the 9th and 10th graders cause of this and is essentially their older brother figure

the amount of 14/15 year olds that he’s given relationship advice too is insane (id be one of the 14 year olds probably)

♡ luis mendoza !

his type is secretly quiet girls cause he finds them rlly interesting and likes the thought of them being happy around him but quiet around everyone else

he’s like yes girl be urself with me

it all stemmed from the girl he liked in 8th grade who helped pick up his pencils when she accidentally knocked his pencil case out of his hand (she was a quiet nerdy girl)

like a whole year later and he’s still trying to rizz her up 💀

he’s one of those guys who takes forever to lose feelings

the girl is actually good friends with him btw

♡ dwayne robertson !

i feel like he is fucking AMAZING at baking

his icon is dolly parton and he heard berry pie so he immediately learned how to bake

if someone he knows has a birthday he either bakes the birthday cake or brings them something he made depending on how close he is with them

and holy shit it’s the most amazing thing u will ever taste and nothing will ever compare

yes he’s one of those guys who will go on an 18 minute tangent on how amazing dolly parton is if someone talks shit about her (same i love dolly)

[class-1b-bull]

Class 1B as random things me and my friends have said part 2.

(Once again i got every student but some got a bit more than others)

Not proofread we die like men

Awase: "35 dolla?!"

Tsubaraba: "its worth it for the vegetable titty pad"

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Tsubaraba: "ya know like a bussy doctor. What are they called again? Pedestrian?"

Rin: "NO-"

Tsubaraba: "then whats a pedestrian?"

Rin: "a child doctor...."

Tsubaraba: "....i quit...."

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Monoma: "i get to go home an hour early because a costumer told me to kill my self."

Rin: "damn. I get to go home because a costumer called me a woman."

Manga: "poggers. I get to go home because I was fired for drawing titties on cyborg."

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Komori: "part of me hopes the fnaf movie is bad."

Kodai: "dont speak to me ever again."

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Monoma: "I dont check my bank statement because im a bad bitch."

Kendo: "and your hiding from the fact that your in crippling debt."

Monoma: "....... bad bitch."

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Shoda: "the tire pressure one."

*ends call*

Shoda: "i sounded so fucking smart" :D

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Reiko: "death is starting to seem nice..."

Pony: "i actually just finished playing a dating game where you date the grim reaper! It was super cute. And yea he was really nice!"

Reiko: "not what i ment but okay-"

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Manga: "youre honor, that wasent very skibbidy toilet gyatt of you.. you're really giving ohio fantam tax vibes and thats not gonna slide when my venus is doing the renegade."

Kamakiri: "hey... have you tried shutting the fuck up lately?"

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Sen: "cool and all but i didnt ask..."

Setsuna: "yea you did. In my dream last night you came up to me and said 'at exactly 2:37 tomorrow, can you tell me your favorite things about the older pokemon games?' And i was like fuck yea! So yea... ya did ask."

Sen: "i fucking hate you."

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Bondo: "and i really respect you so im not going to treat you differently based on some opinion that i may not agree with."

Kuroiro: "i think your favorite show is mid."

Bondo: "and im not going to treat you differently for that opinion. Even though its wrong.."

Setsuna: "i fucking will, the fuck you mean its mid?!"

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Shiozaki: "how did you even.... get that far...?"

Shishida: "its the only game i play."

Shiozaki: "still i wouldn't expect you to have 100% over a 500 different levels in geometry dash..."

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Pony: "a fucking pokemon theme song quiz? I got this shit who dosent know this song. Embarrassing honestly."

(46% correct.)

Pony: "... i am never speaking again."

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Tetsutetsu: "i am packed full with so much testosterone that I could fight a horse."

Tetsutetsu: "i mean i would lose but i ckuld fight one."

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Honenuki (or pony): "yea bomb threats in school are cool and whatever but do you believe in the power of friendship?"

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Komori: "i swear he was flirting with me! I mean i hope he was because I was so red after he did that!"

Setsuna: "i highly doubt a monster from a horror game was flirting with you..."

Komori: "yea yea but did you SEE the way he dragged my corpse away? Hm? Snapped my neck and took me to dinner all in the same night as far as im concerned."

Reiko: "i am now forming a bracken protection squad just to protect him from you."

Pony: "ill make the t shirts!"

Gif anime - dungeon meshi

[cloudtastrophie]

A little headcannon tidbit based off of chapter 2 of @canarydarity 's ranchers baseball au <3

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St. Louis felt infinitely like home. Or, as close to home as Jimmy could get. Coming into the city from the Illinois side of the river made him sick to smell the air of his childhood backyard. To taste the dirt in his mouth as he, once again, lost against Grian at the diamonds. St. Louis was 10 times smaller than grand old New York, New York, but it was 10 times more welcoming. The drivers were calmer, the streets less full, the culture more laid back. It was a lazy city, sticky and slow like molasses in the early summer midwestern heat. 

As the team bus rattled its way across the Eads Bridge, Jimmy felt Joel smack his arm, breaking his gaze away from the lazy flow of the Mississippi. “What in the bloody hell are they building?” Joel muttered, half standing to see over Tango’s shoulders across the isle. Tango looked as if he was about to burst out of the window, he was pressed so hard to the glass. He swiveled his head to look at Jimmy and Joel. 

“You two haven’t heard? It’s been in every paper for weeks!” He was practically vibrating with excitement. 

Jimmy shook his head and stood up taller to see what the fuss was about. By then, the whole team was ‘ooh and ahhing’ at the absolutely massive structure being built, right on the banks of the river. 

“It’s going to be called the Gateway Arch. It’s probably going to be the biggest feat of engineering since the Empire State. Probably better than the Needle out in Seattle is going to be.” Jimmy raised an eyebrow, a hint of a smile on his lips. Since when did Tango have a special interest in engineering?

“I did a few months in an engineering class. Got me hooked, but numbers are easier to understand.” Tango explained, as if he had read Jimmy’s mind. Then he turned back around and continued to peer at the stories-tall cranes slowly moving into place, and the two wide, square beginnings of what would apparently become a feat of engineering. Jimmy didn’t really see the draw, but he leaned across Joel and the isle to Tango anyways.

“We should come back to see it once it’s finished.” Jimmy said, watching the construction site fade behind them. The Cardnial’s stadium appeared behind the looming Old Courthouse. 

“I agree!” Tango replied, beaming. Jimmy didn’t care if he was 100 by the time the Arch was finished. He’d come back and see it with Tango when it was done.

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hi worm i know you're reading this,,,ok I haven't had the energy (or time) to do any art for the baseball au but the brainrot has been stuck with me for DAYS. so I decided to write a little tidbit of how I imagined the ride into St. Louis for that game against the Cardnials. I have a lot of love for the city I grew up around so I really wanted to do something for it for you :) And if you're interested, here's some of the history I incorparated to make it feel more historically accurate! (i'm a cloested history buff, can you tell)

the st louis gateway arch began construction in 1963 technically, but I'm like 90% sure that there was soo much prep work done on the site before the actual construction, as there is a basement underneath it, and a huge walkway/viewing platform area, as well as the whole thing with the levee right on the Mississippi. I wanted to sort of figure out what that would look like in 1961 when the plans were being laid out. Also, the Arch is a certified national park, it's professional name being "St. Louis Gateway Arch National Park"

The Old Courthouse. UGH its one of my favorite buildings I've ever seen actually. Its so beautiful, and you can, from the road I'm writing them on, see Busch staduim looming behind it. The Courthouse also actually held the first two trials of the Dred Scott case, if you're into that kind of stuff.

The Eads Bridge. Also one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. It is the oldest bridge on the Mississippi and was constructed under the care of Andrew Carnagie. That bad boy is made out of actual authentic Carnagie steel. Sooo history rich. Pretty sure they actually held a parade with elephants once it was done. so that's cool

Oh, and Busch stadium. It wasn't called that way back when! And it looked much, much different than it does now. I'm honestly not sure what it was called in the 60's, but I'm sure most people called it Cardnial's stadium. It was a beautiful and massive stadium back then, and it still is now.

the seattle neetle was being constructed around the same time as the arch as well, which is why i had Tango say something about it LOL

And for funsies, here's a scorecard that I'm sure Tango would've recieved in 1961 from the stadium.

hope you enjoyed my little rant!! And if you made it to the bottom of this and you're not worm, I hope you enjoyed learning a little about st. louis today. :)

[cyarsk52-20]

They’re beating your ass in the replies, not sure if you saw .

"No Vaseline" is a diss track written and recorded by American rapper Ice Cube. It was released on October 31, 1991, through Lench Mob Records and Priority Records, amidst his feud with his former group N.W.A. The song serves as the twentieth song on Cube's Death Certificate (1991). It is Cube's response to several diss tracks N.W.A. released after his departure from the group.

Ice Cube recorded this song in response to the comments N.W.A made towards him in their albums 100 Miles and Runnin' and Niggaz4Life. He had made some brief disses to N.W.A. in the Kill at Will EP, mocking the phrase "hundred miles and running" on "Jackin' for Beats" and ending "I Gotta Say What Up!!!" with an answer-phone message asking what had happened to the other members of the group, which leads to Ice Cube hanging up on the caller.

The first minute of the song is a reference to N.W.A's "Message to B.A.", in which they call Ice Cube "Benedict Arnold" as well as an "Ice-T wannabe". Ice Cube then begins his full-blown diss on the group and their manager, Jerry Heller.

Ice Cube addresses Eazy-E and Heller, employing particularly harsh words to criticize Eazy's decision to align himself with Heller: "Heard you both got the same bank account / Dumb nigga, What you thinkin' 'bout?" He uses homophobic and antisemitic slurs as he accuses both Eazy-E and Heller of unfairly exploiting the rest of the group: "You little maggot, Eazy E turned faggot / With your manager, fella -- fuckin' MC Ren, Dr. Dre, and Yella" and "It's a case of divide and conquer, 'cause you let a Jew break up my crew",and, finally, he claims that this alliance has reduced Eazy's credibility: "house nigga gotta run and hide, yellin' Compton but you moved to Riverside".

Heller is not simply dissed as being a bad manager; he is given an antisemitic death-threat: "Get rid of that Devil real simple / Put a bullet in his temple / 'Cause you can't be the Nigga 4 Life crew / With a white Jew telling you what to do / Pulling wools with your scams / Now I gotta play Silence of the Lambs."

Politically, Ice Cube also references Eazy's appearance at a lunch benefiting the Republican Senatorial inner circle, hosted by then-President George H. W. Bush, repeatedly saying, "I never have dinner with the President."

The song appears on the Death Row Greatest Hits compilation album. Although the song was not released on Death Row Records (as Ice Cube was never signed to the label), it is believed that Suge Knight included it as an act of animosity towards Dr. Dre as the song includes numerous disses towards him. "No Vaseline" was track number 20 in the track listing of Death Certificate and was the B-sidefor the album single "Steady Mobbin'".

So while the song does have lyrics that have been criticized for being homophobic and antisemitic, it’s definitely not the same as a white guy who clearly has no knowledge about and needs to shut up forever regarding hip hop and black culture saying he’ll rape a black dude who never even mentioned him by name

No Vaseline has nothing to do with Ice Cube raping anybody. It actually doesn’t even talk about them getting raped either. This is why we say he and white ppl like him need to stay out of our business because you have no does what you’re talking about

Imagine comparing a song about metaphorically fucking someone over to you legitimately saying you’d rape Kendrick Lamar. All because he said don’t let white comedians speak on black women.

Kendrick is making y'all culture vultures crash out and expose yourselves. He's 2 for 2 and still going strong! What a run! fave genre

How about for next year we just have a full stoppage on yt people infiltrating on hip hop until we figure out what is going on.

And this is coming from same person who has this artist on this year’s Spotify wrapped as top artist of the year , and a white rapper from the city of Louisville, Kentucky mind you.

[wordybee]

Just reblogged your excellent Parker meta but was curious what your issue with the French Connection Job is if you're interested in sharing

I am very interested in sharing, thank you for asking! (This is the meta post mentioned btw.)

The French Connection Job breaks the generally well-followed Leverage rule of not creating out of character traits for the sake of a single episode or joke, which is bad enough -- but it especially irritates me that they do it for my two favorite characters, Hardison and Parker.

First of all, I don't believe for a second that Alec Hardison -- a character established as being so empathetic that Eliot surmises he would actually die trying to get the body of a dead mountain climber back to the deceased man's wife in "The Long Way Down Job" -- would ignore his friend/girlfriend when she's clearly feeling sad or upset about something.

Second, Alec Hardison tips. Alec Hardison has never met a system he couldn't rebel against, and the customer/worker capitalist class system would be no different. The implication that he would see customer service workers as "just doing their jobs" and therefore undeserving of tips is ludicrously out of character. Alec Hardison tips 100% of the check. When Alec Hardison is helped out by a worker who "isn't allowed" to take tips, he practices his pickpocketing skills by reverse-pickpocketing a $50 bill into that person's pocket. These are headcanons, but they're heavily supported by everything we know about Hardison, how he was raised, and how he's used his hacking skills. All evidence tells us he is a deeply compassionate person who would not argue over tipping unless it was to argue that the people living off tips really deserved more than they got. And then he would drop a fortune into his frazzled waitress's bank account just for the fun of it.

Third is the episode's implication that Parker would find anything wanting in how she lives her life, or that she is passionless and without feeling. Parker's passions for bank layouts, jumping off high buildings, Christmas, cash money, safes, and chocolate are weird passions to most people, but they're genuine passions and they clearly make her feel a full array of emotions. I don't think she would see herself as needing to change, and I don't really like the episode's implication that -- if she did see herself in that way -- she would be right. Parker does not need to have "normal" interests in order to "feel things". She feels things just fine and there is nothing wrong with the way she interacts with the world.

[geometricalien]

Realistically, people can lose feelings toward someone who had hurt them greatly. No more rekindles, not even a spark.

This wouldn't happen to my fav ship Akafuri, but I love angst and I would like to put them in that situation.

Seijuurou and Kouki broke up last year due to reasons (Seijuurou was under succession process stress and Kouki was depressed). Seijuurou tried to take him back, but Kouki was still under clinical depression and the only reason he accepted the offer was because Koutarou (Kouki's bro) has a startup company and their main client was a subsidiary of Akashi Corporation.

It's the last thing Kouki could do for his brother whose business plans were paused for choosing Seijuurou last year.

Seijuurou tries everything to make Kouki smile while staying in their old apartment where they stayed as a happy couple, but all he could do is to watch Kouki eat himself away in the apartment, scared of him and wary of him. In these instances, Seijuurou would remember how Kouki made his life colorful, but he drained all those colors away.

Kouki's love is simply gone, his dreams unreached, his youth unrealized, and his life meaningless.

What had Seijuurou done to turn such cheerful being this way?

Can he wake up Kouki's soul again? Even not his love for him. He just wants Kouki happy again, even not for him.

hell yeah!! put them in situations!!

This is an interesting idea, especially with japan's attitude towards mental health and at the core of this premise is that yes Seijuurou distancing himself from Kouki when he was under succession scrutiny surely didn't help Kouki's depression- it is not the actual cause.

From the way you've described this, I can't help but think that in this Kouki has untreated, undiagnosed, clinical depression. Which will be a life long battle for Kouki, not a quick fix, tada!! you're all better! thing. It comes in waves and it ebbs, coasts, rushes, drowns- and Seijuurou needs to realize that. Kouki needs to confront that.

Seijuurou is a perfectionist with (although he would describe it as an entirely truthful and whole view) a very specific view that if things are not the way he wants them to be then he can make them the way he wants. And while some things definitely do work like that, another person's mental health isn't one of them. Especially if he trusts, loves, and respects that person. His character development arch would be centered around accepting this fact - which for a control freak like him it would be fairly difficult - and doing what he can to support Kouki be it holding him in the night, giving him space, offering to pay for any medical support like therapy or medicine, and even if it calls for it- walking out of his life.

It must be difficult for Kouki to be back in their old apartment and feel the ghost of who he was, of his hopes and dreams, and not recognize himself anymore. The memories of bad lonely nights, his insecurities bubbling up when Seijuurou wouldn't come home because he was "working late" and although Kouki 100% trusts him and knows that Seijuurou wouldn't cheat or anything those intrusive thoughts are so fucking loud. (Codependent Kouki lets goooooo :'( ) And unless Kouki got that mental health help and therapy, he won't be able to stand being back in the same environment, stuck in the same thought loops, and feeling awful about himself. And even if he does get help or therapy, he might still need to break off from Seijuurou to start fresh and actually have a safe place from the person who all of this is connected to...

And like you said, if their full and final dissolution is what will make Kouki finally able to make progress with his mental health and create better coping mechanisms/habits, Seijuurou would pack his bags for him.

I am banking on a ten year later reunion when Kouki has better control over his mental health and they can rekindle the spark that never truly died

[jjsanguine]

BL/QL Ask game: The Ugly, the Bad and the Worst

From @clara-maybe-ontheroad

I feel like starting a random tag ask game for all the terrible shit us QL-lovers put up with, sometimes for pleasure, sometimes for pain, sometimes for both! The list of questions ended up being very long so no one has to do them all, just the ones you want, but I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with :)

The categories are:

Worst soundtrack / weirdest song choice in a BL

I listen to basically anything so I've yet to really be weirded out. I have kpop, world music, afropop, Afrobeats, gospel, country, drill, R&B, praise and worship (?) and others I don't know the genre names for jumbled together in the same playlist lmao.

Most cringe-inducing line (cute)

"Let's kiss the dog together" in Lovely Writer. I don't like dogs so this made me crease even more. Kissing animals is gross I'm sorry.

Most cringe-inducing line (actually bad)

Any line I truly disliked is blissfully gone from my memory.

Most stupid decision made by a character

Any of Phupha's decisions in The Promise (2023), but chiefly the decision to disappear from 10 years. I know it was the driving force in the show but it was still a fucking terrible decision.

Worst plot line

Gram x Eugene in Not Me. Literally huh ??? I choose to ignore it.

The most problematic show you've watched

Probably Tharntype. I do not care what happened in Lhong's life man. Why are you muddying a cartoon villain with a sob story.

A show people love but you find bad

I never finished Love In The Air or Gap the Series. I didn't find them bad really, I just got missed an episode and then never caught up.

A show people find bad but you will defend

I don't know if people dislike the while show but secret crush on you episode 1 makes you want to peel off your skin and wring the ick out of your bones. But after you've taken a month or so to recover from that, it's a masterpiece.

A show that is just objectively bad but you enjoyed it

Probably Tharntype, purely based on me watching it several times but also wanting to throw my phone for like 80% of the runtime. It's like when I eat food and go "I'm not sure how I feel about this" the entire time, but have to conclude logically that I liked it somewhat since I finished it all of my own volition.

A bad show that you kept watching because you were intrigued/fascinated

A lot a lot of them. I am easily pleased.

A bad show that you kept watching because you were horny

There's no level of horniness that will make me stick with a show that I'm losing interest in. Why would I bother with something that has a plot in that case lmao.

A bad show that you kept watching because of that one character

I've never done this with a QL because I could just watch a fancam, but I am going to keep watching Outer banks even though season 3 was character assassination because Pope is my baby.

A bad show that you would still recommend

Why would I recommend a show I think is bad??

The character that ruined a show the most

He didn't ruin the show but Not's off screen redemption arc in Be My Favourite soured the ending a tiny bit for me. Not everyone has to win y'know?

Most awful character that you hated /Most awful character that you loved / A character that wasn't awful but that you just don't like

If I dislike a fictional character I usually just forget about them.

A hero that should have been a villain

Joke in Hidden agenda. He was a troubled guy but they could have gone full on toxic with it.

A morally bad character you're into

Kinn. Well, most characters in Kinnporsche. If they were real I'd want a few dozen degrees of separation between me and anyone with such casual disregard for human life.

A morally bad character you're not into and you wish people would stop being into

I don't really keep track of who others are into.

The show that disappointed you the most

Step by step. You don't even need to change the plot, just the pacing.

The Worst Show of Them All Because of Your Own Reasons

I 100% purged my memory of it, whatever this show was.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

The only good thing that will have come out of this park job fiasco is that two weeks from tomorrow I should get a direct deposit of around $100 for my single day's work.

Should.

Problem is, I worked 8 full hours, but I was only on the clock for 4½. My boss had me come in at 11:30, but didn't add my name to the punchclock system until it was time for my lunch break at 3:00. I punched in at 3:00, immediately punched out for lunch (paid, luckily), punched back in at 4:00, then punched out for good at 7:30. My boss said he would go into the system and change my start time, but I don't think he ever did because I called to quit the very next morning. I did 8 hours of work at $15.06 per hour, so I should have made $120.48 before taxes; at my old job they took out between 12 and 13%, so I should take home around $105 for the day. If I only get paid 4½ hours, that'll be less than $60, and I'll complain to the labor board if they don't honor the remaining $45.

I'm in a low point in my life right now, so I could REALLY use that $105.

Well, no, it's not really that low. I have my own apartment, so I'm not trapped at my parents' place in the cultural wasteland of the Keys. I have my own car, so I can go wherever I want. I don't have any money, but I got food assistance for the next three months (there was a bureaucratic hiccup last week, but I resolved it and got my benefits reinstated), and my parents can help me with my rent now that my little sister got a job and they can stop paying hers. I'm seeing a new psychiatrist and am back on antidepressants for the first time in over 2 years (though they don't appear to be helping at all, so I'll need a new prescription next month).

Things are bad, but they could be much MUCH worse. I'm actually doing better than a lot of people; I still have a right to complain, but it's not as bad as it could be. Not yet, at least. My life sucks, but there's somebody out there who would kill for the position of relative stability I have now. I'm not gonna starve, I'm not gonna wind up homeless, I have a safety net if I need it.

I feel like a leach... Not on society, I mean a leach on my parents. I will never feel bad about being on foodstamps; the program exists to help people like me, and I will take full advantage of whatever pittance the state is willing to offer me (the Florida government sucks ass, and I deserve the assistance after all the taxes I've paid over the years), but I hate asking my parents for money. The only way I can justify it is that my dad consistently borrowed thousands of dollars from me when I Iived at home. He would borrow money, pay back a portion of it, then borrow more; he usually fluctuated between $500 and $1000, but his high water mark was over $3000. I was an interest free bank to him for years, so helping me with rent for however long it takes me to get back on my feet seems fair to me. I feel less bad if I think of it that way...

[anything-viva]

sorry i just need to rant about this bc i've fucking had it. here's the big lies she's told me off the top of my head, kinda tmi but idc.

like she said she got pneumonia when she was nine and her parents refused to take her to the hospital, nearly killing her. funny thing, whenever i complained abt my cramps she'd bring up how hers used to put her in the hospital. (way to center the conversation on yourself, btw!) she wouldn't be old enough to drive when she first started getting them, so who took her to the hospital? i went to school with her, i live five minutes away from her, never saw ambulances that often! curious!

that's also part of the reason why i didn't get my shit checked out for so long! "oh, it's not as bad as rachel's so it's no big deal. i should just shut up and bear it." i can hardly stand up for ten minutes without pain now. THANKS! I CAME TO MY BEST FRIEND FOR ADVICE AND YOU LIED TO ME <3

btw her periods aren't even that bad. she gave me the thinnest fucking pad that would hardly last me three hours on a bad day like that. SHE CLAIMED IT WOULD LAST TWELVE! FUCKING LMAO! she didn't belive me when i laughed and told her it wouldn't last. if your parents refused to take you to the hospital when you nearly died, why would they take you if your periods are that light? like if your outer signs are so minimal, they wouldn't take you!!

said her dad took the lock off her door and creeped on her. HER DOOR HAS A LOCK, THERE IS NO DAMAGE ON THE DOOR!!! also the way she described it sounded exactly like an anime trope. shes a MASSIVE weeb, so i think she got it from some shitty anime she saw.

she said she's saving up to move out of her abusive household yet she splurges money like crazy. her room is full of anime figurines and unused wiccan shit. i really don't think she's actually a wiccan, she would've used those candles but they showed NO signs of use! as soon as we get together she starts talking abt buying lingerie and stuff from spencer's. aren't you saving up???

she says she can hear demons when her ears start ringing- babe, you have tinnitus.

and the constant constant "how do you think i feel?" she says i can tell her anything, but whenever i complain it's almost always "hOw Do YoU tHiNk I fEel" unless im on the verge of a fucking breakdown

said to my face "i haven't gotten fast food in months!" I WAS IN THE CAR WITH HER WHEN SHE GOT THEM? LIKE LMFAO? i wouldn't really care how she eats, but the audacity to lie to my face about something I SAW?!

she lies about getting commissions CONSTANTLY. made some fucking ridiculous lie up abt getting a comm from some rich lady who owns property at the tip of florida, supposedly over 100 manatees live there! No the fuck they don't!!!!!!! do you think i'm stupid?!

most recent example happened tonight. she hung up some of her paintings today at the gallery and claimed afterwards she got two offers on them? no the fuck she didn't, they were some of her worst paintings. i was there most of the time, i likely would've heard it!

i think that last bit is bc i got more attention than her. we were seated at the same booth. i talked a LOT to the people who were interested in my art because i can hold a conversation!

that's why she started making up shit abt commissions and getting jumped. OH MY FUCKIGN GOD

SHES BEEN DOING THIS AS LONG AS IVE KNOWN HER AND I ONLY JUST REALIZED

EDIT I FORGOT ABT THAT ONE TIME THIS SUMMER SHE SAID HER DAD TOOK A THIUSAND DOLLARS FROM HER BANK ACCOUNT. GOOD GOD I FORGOT ABT THAT. MY MOM AND BROTHER WERE THERE.

[archenemyintellegence]

(27/3/2023) Sushiro

Went to Sushiro with my classmates to eat some Japanese food (that we can afford 🥹) after the Washoku course.

The sushi in Sushiro is pretty acceptable. It's affordable and it's not bad. Most of the time, cheap sushi in Hong Kong taste like shit, but not the ones in Sushiro. Overall, the items are worth the price (most of the time), and they're what they're supposed to be, but you never expect anything that can blow your mind there. (Except this time, and this is why I am not writing an essay about Sushiro. I will tell you about that later 😳)

There are multiple items that I really enjoy in Sushiro. First are the Grilled Cheese Salmon Sushi, and the Basil with Grilled Cheese Salmon Sushi (which are the multiple dishes in the photo lmao). Everything goes well with grilled cheese, which explains why the Grilled Cheese Salmon Sushi is nice. But for the one with basil, it's better as the fatness of salmon is enhanced by the basil mayonnaise, while the basil balanced the greasiness a little bit. It's the item with the greatest value imo, as it only costs HKD$12 per 2 pieces. You can literally eat this until you full and it still cost under $100. However, I ranked it the same as the grilled cheese one, as it can feel really greasy if all you eat is the basil one. Ordering with the cheese one can make it feel more pleasant.

The next one is a side dish, but it's literally the best regular item in Sushiro. I think you can guess what that is, because we were ordering it in bulk in the photo lmao. It's the fucking Fries. It's one of the cheapest item in Sushiro, costing only $12, and it is the best Fries I've ever tried. Idek why the Fries in a fucking sushi shop is so fucking good. They're freshly fried every time we ordered them. It's hot, crunchy and the inside is soft. Also, the fried are quite thick so it's more flavorful. Moreover, there are a range of sauce you can dip the fries with. Soy sauce goes surprisingly well with Fries and the best one is the "甘だれ", which literally means sweet sauce. It's thick, sweet and with the unique saltiness of soy sauce. It's goes extremely well when drizzled on the freshly fried Fries.

For the items I've mentioned above, the star is never the seafood. As this is budget sushi, the quality of the seafood is pretty meh. They're just pleasant item that gives you the experience of eating sushi and piling up towers of sushi plates with friends, without breaking your bank. (Trust me, the more expensive item on the menu taste just as meh as the cheap items.) However, today, I have tasted an AMAZING SUSHI THAT BLOWS MY MIND IN SUSHIRO 😳 It's so good that it got me rethinking why tf I was eating silly grilled cheese salmon sushi at the first place, when this item is available.

It's the Grilled Kinmedai (金目鯛) Sushi. It's a special item for March. I wanted to order something outside of salmon and tuna after studying the Washoku course. I was thinking about ordering this one but I was intimidated by the price at first, as it costed $22 per 1 piece, which is almost double the price of the grilled cheese salmon sushi. However, I couldn't resist the curiosity and ordered one AND THEN I UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S SO EXPENSIVE. IT'S TIERS ABOVE THE SILLY GRILLED CHEESE SUSHI. THE EXPERIENCE OF EATING 1 PIECE OF KINMEDAI SUSHI WORTHS MORE THAN EATING 2 PIECES OF GRILLED CHEESY STUFF.

I was so shocked when putting this in my mouth, because it blew my fucking mind. I never expected I will enjoy actual seafood or taste of Japan in Sushiro, but this time it's real seafood time. The fat of the piece of fish just melt in my mouth right when I put it in, with the aroma of grilled flavour and the light flavour of the fish. When I actually bite the fish, the texture was so fucking good. It's firm, kinda crunchy, a little bit flaky, and it feels really meaty. Also, the flavour is extremely amazing. It feels like the flavour of a whole steamed fish I usually eat in Chinese restaurant compressed into a piece of meat. It also comes with the saltiness of a sea fish, and the light sweetness of fresh seafood. Moreover, the taste of the fish is amazing. It's like the umami of the whole seafood cup noodle compressed into one piece of fish, without the msg and the extremely unpleasant saltiness of junk food. It also has a faint taste that resembles soy sauce, but it's not salty. It's so satisfying that makes my mouth water just by thinking of it, and I believe it's the fucking umami the lecturer is talking about. The sushi rice gives the fish some sourness to activate more sweetness and umami of the fish, and also balanced out the flavour to make the whole experience extremely enjoyable.

After swallowing the sushi, it even leaves an amazing aftertaste. It's pure umami with a little bit of sweetness, and it feels more amazing than the initial taste. Maybe it's because there's no more texture of meat or rice to distract the marvellous taste of the fish. It's so fucking tasty that I can't help but order one more piece. The next piece didn't come with the element of surprise like the first one, but it came with a better taste than the first one. It's more sweet, and the fish flavour is a little bit more heavier. The fish is more juicy and the juices really tasted like fish soup.

As I was full, I couldn't enjoy another piece of the Grilled Kimedai Sushi. So, I tried to convince my friends to experience the amazing thing that I've enjoyed. However, they refused to order one because they were full too. I felt like a fish that jumped out of the water and had a glimpse of the sky. I couldn't stop talking about how tasty the Kinmedai is, but they were unable to understand the amazing experience of it. I believe they were kinda annoyed about me being so hyped about some Sushiro sushi, and they're probably disappointed that I am still writing essay about the Kinmedai. However, it's really THAT GOOD.

It's so good that it got me rethinking of my decision of refusing to go out of the comfort zone at first and wasting money on ordering cheap cheesy junk food. I'd rather order only eat Grilled Kinmedai sushi (with some Fries because the Fries there is GOD tier) instead of filling my stomach with meaningless food. It even got me rethinking my choice of not taking eating seriously, and keep eating junk food just to stop my body from feeling hungry. Now, I understand that food can also be a beautiful experience, beside of fulfilling the purpose of filling my tummy. I will probably cut some cost from eating random cheap junk food, and save to eat some actually enjoyable food.

Also, if kinmedai in Sushiro is THAT GOOD ALREADY, IMAGINE KINMEDAI IN REGULAR JAPANESE RESTAURANT 😭 I need to go to one to enjoy some fresh, nice quality kinmedai to blow my fucking mind and spoil my tastebuds 😭😭 Maybe I will go to Japan one day just to eat some fresh kinmedai 😭 Thank you kinmedai for changing my world. Your sacrifice is not wasted, as your delicious body has enlightened my world. 🙏🏻💯✨ I am fortunate to meet you, and consume you, kinmedai 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 I love you so fucking much and I really wish that I can meet you, and experience the beautiful experience with you again 💙❤️🐟🍣🥹🙏🏻✨

[kierancampire]

I'm stressing a bit about finances haha. And please, please for the love of god, on the extreme off chance anyone reads or responds to this. Please don't say "Everyone is struggling with this right now". I am sick to fucking death of people saying this every time i mention financial fears, it's why i never do, happens literally every fucking time. Just feels like it instantly invalidates me while doing less than nothing to fucking help

So the wet food I've been buying the girls is around £80 for 24 days of food, yeah, kinda steep, meaning 1 purchase doesn't even last a full month, but it's the only food they've consistently eaten, plus it is a good quality food and healthy for them, i feel bad giving them bad food, they straight up won't eat it anyway. That's without how much i spend on their dry food. So all my monthly direct debits come to around £83.97 for now, my internet discount runs out soon so i gotta find another deal or it over doubles. The thing is, with that i haven't included my utiity bills, so my gas when the radiators isn't on is around £10, no issue, but my electricity bill has kinda been fluctuating/steadily rising from £50-£90, and they've said the prices are further rising still. I didn't include it cause i dunno how much i need to pay to cover my utility bills now, £55 used to do it, i may need to be putting on £100 now, so that could be pretty much £185 in total already. But then there's also food. I think this is where I'm gonna have to start cutting corners, get store brand and less treats, cause I'm spending an ungodly amount on food. But when i gave myself a budget of £350 a month, which i dunno if i spend that or not, i can't afford my food, 2 purchases of the girls food, and my drastic increase in utility bills, that's without any other variables/extras that can change throughout the month. Like, literally spending more than I'm getting. I literally have half as much in my bank right now than i did at the end of January, one month cleared out half my balance

I think starting tomorrow, at least for the whole of March, I'm gonna buy only necessities and make a start on those cut corners, I'll turn my radiators off, see what my electricity bill is like, then just see what everything looks like in April. I have been keeping a log of my finances for a few months now, since PiP got taken from me, but it's hard to really base it on those records as i didn't have the girls then, plus i wasn't making the best financial decisions, then obviously February i had the vets and the bed. I just can't keep eating in to what little i built up, in a few months there'll be nothing, and this time there's no foyer, I'd be completely fucked, i won't survive losing the girls and homelessness a third time, i think that'd finally push me over the edge

I need to look at it as i need to manage it and see what i can do to do so, but it's so fucking bleak actually sitting there and counting up all the numbers, especially to reach that end conclusion of, unless i make changes, i literally am spending more than i get right now. It wouldn't be so bad if there was even a guaranteed £5 or £10 at the end of each month, but I'm going at least £50 over. That's a lot to cut considering everything is pretty much necessities/forced to pay, like a £90 electricity bill

[starseedfxofficial]

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[adickaboutspoons]

Kissing you on your bally mouth right now. Our greasepaint smiles are smudging. 🤡🤡

So I think maybe the Revenge looks Like That as a result of the storm. Ed seems v. much to be in his reckless "I don't care about anything (and especially not Stede Bonnet)" era and prolly didn't order the sails to be shorted (or specifically ordered them to be left full) which results in them getting tattered to shit. I'm also wondering if they abandoned ship and let it drift like that after? Pure speculation, though. Also! He's got the cravat in the storm scene! I'm wondering about him being washed overboard and rescued by the Chinese junk (which is where Stede catches up with him leading to head bonks. And, because I like hurting my own feelings, that encounter ends with him shoving the cravat back at Stede saying he doesn't want it anymore. Something something, "Just another goddamned reminder of you hanging 'round my neck like a fucking albatross.")

I'm also thinking the beach fight has to take place after the Chinese Junk, because Stede has no earring on the junk. I'm thinking maybe Ed is injured on his side when he goes overboard, and it hasn't fully healed by the time of the beach fight.

In re what the other posters say:

[RE]WARD [For knockin]g over {illegible} bank {can't read the tiny print} [2]0 Guineas {more tiny print I can't read}

Wanted for Bouncing Doubloons All over town

Nag for sale cheap See [Billy?] John for details

Maria Li[ndsey] Merciless M[urderer] [At] Large {illegible} That {obscured}

(I think the poster obscuring Maria's is another copy of the first one - this looks like the other side of the picture. Check out the bent knee of the dude in the chair and the triangular drape of the tablecloth right next to it. Still can't read the tiny print. Sorry.)

The {obscured} NE{obscured} At LAR[GE] TERM{obscured} The fly-specked paper is a Most Wanted list but I can't make out anything other than that. Sorry again.

Weed smoking 100% takes place in Anne and Mary's antique shop. Dig the chandelier with the yellow candles and the pale curio cabinet behind it, and compare to the close-up on Stede just after Ed says, "Former":

I am unwholesomely attached to the idea that the sputtering is about someone saying something to him about how he's not over Stede (and him vehemently denying it), and Anne deciding to prove the point by giving Stede the lapdance from the teaser and Ed getting all "Get your hands off of my [wo]man, motherfucker!" I am basing this on NOTHING!

I've seen several people point out that Stede has the Steard in the running-on-the-beach, and sword-fighting with Izzy on the beach scenes as well as in the promo pic. So I'm thinking either it's: 1) Stede fantasizing about saving Ed from the big bad Izzy, and, like, butching himself up in his imagination. (I really like this one because I think it has the possibility for comedy gold when juxtaposed with the ACTUAL Training Montage and what a failboat Stede is during it).

2) Ed daydreaming about Stede coming back to him, swinging in all dashing and fearless and ready to absolutely own Izzy. (I actually think this one a bit less likely, because I don't know about Ed daydreaming about Stede with a beard, but I like to pair it with his wistful little Disney Princess moment when he's resting his head against the helm) Or

3) The training montage takes SO LONG that Stede grows a beard to show the passage of time.

Incidentally, we DO see the red waist scarf again! When he's doing his little twirl in the red trajes de luces outfit in the teaser. It's not a tail coat - those swinging tails are moving independently from the coat. Here's the outfit hanging on the door of the reliquary:

Those bits that are hanging down behind the coat are the pants - you can tell by the gold trim along the side seam. Of course, a red sash could just be a red sash - there's no saying it weighs the scales in terms of whether Steard is real or fantasy. In re: the person who Stede is talking to when he says being a failure isn't so bad - I think it might be Susan. I had originally taken it for Ed because on long, dark hair with greyish highlights, and I thought the bit of skin was, like, his elbow, but the more I look at it, the more it seems like the grey in the hair is just lighting - not grey hairs, and the skin looks like the corner of an eye and eyebrow and the curve of a cheek.

Wouldn't it be hilarous if the garlic and crosses were about Lucius? Like Ed let it be know that he sent Lucius to doggy heaven, so when Olu and Jim and Archie see him, they assume he's some sort of revenant? I'm not sure Stede's wound is a bullet hole it doesn't look like it goes through and through - more like a brand. My guess is that it's more of the Torturer's tender mercies (and that the part with him screaming and upsidedown from the teaser where we first caught a glint of the earring is too. BTW - LOVING your idea that Stede's ear gets peirced as part of the torture). I'm also thinking that Ed in Button's coat on the dock and sitting with Jackie is going to be end-of-season. He's still got a little mark on his cheek like he did on the Chinese junk and in the Antique Shop, but it looks all healed over, and he doesn't have a cut on his lip at all. If I had to guess, I would say that is his "I've reconciled with Stede and we are going to ACTUALLY embark on a new adventure together because Stede has had quite enough of what being a 'real pirate' is like thanks to everything that happens this season" look, and that is what the "trying out something new" thing is all about.

In conclusion, Honka Honka.

S2 TRAILER ANALYSIS WITH 1 BILLION SCREENSHOTS

obligatory warning that this post is gonna be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO foolishly long and rambling with all my silly little theories and thoughts and if you ALSO have silly little theories and thoughts you should ABSOLUTELY share them here please!!!! we can clown so much harder when our cacophonous honking harmonizes!!!!!!!

NOW ONTO THE POST (putting it under a read more so tumblr doesn't literally explode):

-the revenge looks BUSTED AF: i don't know if this is from general disrepair when ed is in his kraken era or if she was in a battle but her sails are all dirty in the opening shot of the trailer, and later we see stede on her deck with tattered sails and ropes everywhere, AND i'm like 99% sure that the shot of buttons ziplining from one ship to another is him going from the Chinese warfleet ship to the revenge, which i'm guessing is essentially stuck bc the sails are so torn they would never be able to catch the wind strongly enough to move her. I also wonder if the shot of roach shooting a canon at something is him shooting a canon at her since we had all those allusions to her exploding from samba, vico, and david on twitter all those months ago

-stede's earring: he DOES NOT HAVE THE EARRING when we see him lying on the deck next to roach and sighing dramatically nor does he have it during his conversation with Olu about stede dumping him, but he DOES have the earring in later shots like the beach english fight and when he's talking about being a failure his whole life which means WE WILL GET TO SEE STEDE GET HIS EAR PIERCED!!!!!!!!!! we'll get to see him make the decision to look even hotter and who knows who does the piercing for him idk!!!!!! @sluterastede had a dastardly beautiful thought in her brain about ed giving stede the piercing and stede making groaning noises and izzy once again thinking they're flapping their jacks right there on the deck in front of god and everybody!!!!!

-stede is spilling his heart out ("i let him down. i should've just told him how i feel") to susan on her ship (you can tell it's her by the long hair)

-interesting that there's a drawing of a donkey next to ed's wanted poster considering s1 had the line "a rich donkey is still a donkey". also i can't really read what the surrounding posters say other than "WANTED 20 GUINEAS". is this in the republic of pirates?

-stede says "i will find him" meaning ed may be actively avoiding stede at the beginning of the season???? (or the basic laws of travel physics have finally caught up to them)

-"look, captain, you know blackbeard's gonna murder you" i just think it's interesting that Olu is referring to him as blackbeard again even though ed told everyone in his pink robe era to call him ed. like it makes sense that he'd say blackbeard considering ed is on a rampage but it just made my brain wheels start spinning

-the Kraken crew are eating cake :)

-ed is holding a torch while letting the storm rain down on him: i don't think the laugh we hear is his because i don't think his mouth is even open during that slow-mo shot

-STEDE with a TEAR in his EYE as he says "i think i hurt him pretty bad"

-ed sobbing on the floor while the little bride cake topper is next to his head

-ed choking on the weed smoke i'm ACTUALLY crying, but also: where the fuck is ed when he's sitting in the chair smoking??? i thought it was on deck at first bc above his head is really dark and it looks like the lanterns we see on the deck of the revenge but there's a chandelier too?? it might be whatever shop Anne Bonny and her friend "you two know each other?" run bc behind ed in that chair is just a bunch of random furniture and a chandelier like we see when ed and stede are at the market. in fact, i think ed is smoking with Anne Bonny because I think that's her hand in the corner of that shot:

-"no more booze, no more drugs, and no more _____" not sure what the end of that sentence could be but we know that the "stede" that was put in there is NOT what he actually says!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-"you two know each other?" now hold on a sec because it kinda sounds like stede met Anne Bonny and Co. separately from Ed/before that market scene (maybe in the teaser clip of Anne on Stede's lap??) WHAT IF WE GET THE AITA SCENARIO WHERE ED AND STEDE TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR VERSION OF EVENTS AND NO ONE REALIZES THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT EACH OTHER UNTIL THAT MOMENT BC THEY'RE BOTH SO BIASED ABOUT ONE ANOTHER

-the evil guy definitely got his nose sliced off by Jackie. good for her :D I also don't think the evil guy is Hornigold, i'm still holding onto my theory that the man in the white rags we saw in the teaser and this trailer is hornigold's "ghost" that ed needs to contend with to find his inner peace or whatever a la stede with nigel's "ghost". but i DO think the evil guy is the rich prince dude from that leaked audition tape from rhys's friend. if memory serves, the guy wants to buy his way into the pirate lifestyle but he's pompous and entitled which makes him reckless. based off the production stills we also got today, he still had a nose when he went into Spanish Jackie's...but i don't think he leaves with one. so because he gets butthurt over invading a space that was NOT meant for him and faces the consequences of purposely disobeying their customs, he defects to the english navy and goes on a rampage against all piracy, very MRA energy :/ also, later izzy says to him "you don't know the first thing about piracy" which would further support that this guy just tried to buy his way in

-izzy gets an honest-to-god pegleg but he doesn't start the season off with it because we see him in several shots with both legs, like the wedding raid and swordfighting stede on the beach. unsure if he loses it due to infection from the toe situation or if he gets shot in the knee like i've seen some posts talk about, but @sluterastede mentioned that one of the leaked audition tapes for archie included dialogue about an amputation so maybe that character has to uh. Get Her Roach On

-as i mentioned before with the teaser analysis, izzy is clearly training stede for something and now im guessing it's the english but like we kinda knew that !

-olu is in a bar fight??

-THE "ED GETS CAUGHT IN A BUCKET ON A ROPE DURING THE STORM AND GOES OVERBOARD" THEORY IS OUT. THE "ED TIES HIMSELF TO A MF BIG ASS ROCK AND JUMPS OFF A GOD DAMN CLIFF TO GO ON SOME SOUL-SEARCHING JOURNEY UNDER THE SEA" THEORY IS IN. and what the FUCK is the rag man doing with ed up on that cliff hello?????? if my theory is correct and that is in fact hornigold's ghost or whatever, what advice or harmful shit is he saying that makes ed do that?????????????????????? but do note the large rock with the rope around it in the first pic

-the revenge crew is blowing up SOMETHING on the side of a building. maybe to cause a distraction or gain access inside the building? is it the side of Spanish Jackie's?? also hiiiiiiii lucius <3

-"our entire escape relies on this" i'm just assuming they're trying to escape from the english bc that seems to be the Big Bad of the season??

-not plot related but during the rope swinging training session izzy slaps stede on the ass and makes this face (sir??????):

>he also has his pegleg here so their mentorship may ramp up after izzy is out of commission for hand-to-hand combat. maybe izzy was supposed to have a larger fighting role alongside ed in defeating the english but once he became incapacitated he realized he would need to train someone else up for the job so ed would be sufficiently protected. but it also had to be someone izzy knew would be willing to die for ed to save his life if it came to that, just like izzy would

-"i've been a failure my whole life. it's not so bad once you get used to it" is stede talking to ed here? is that ed's hair in the corner of the frame??

>side note: as mentioned above, stede also has his earring by this point!!

-"you're going through that 'if i was a regular dude' phase" first of all, SPANISH JACKIE AND EDWARD TEACH BEST FRIENDS TRUTHERS RISE UP. second, why would ed be considered a regular dude now?? how did he lose his reputation? did he willingly give it up or was it taken from him? is this permanent or just temporary? or did he fake his own death with the cliff and the rock thing so he could retire and live a more normal life?? the swede doesn't seem scared of him at all in the final clip from the trailer, straight up asking him if he's poor and going "back to basics". of course, that could just be a power trip from being one of Jackie's newest husbands (or at least her waitstaff)

-possibly totally minor/just a continuity error thing, but: ed has a red ring. we saw it in s1 as he picks up the rather fine cashmere and we see it as ed dramatically drapes himself across the ship's helm with his head on his hand. we do not see it in the scene where he's smoking (see above) or the scene where he's talking to the rabbit. now, if you'll allow me a little bit of clownery for a moment, red has been explicitly coded in this show to be a symbol of love/the heart, especially as it pertains to edward like his red silk scarf as a metaphor for his heart in s1. what if. what if he. gave the red ring (his heart) to. SomeOne. because.....................because his heart belongs to st--[GUNSHOTS]

-olu, jim, and archie with garlic around their necks and making a cross with their fingers - clearly they think someone is a vampire on the ship. @sluterastede proposed it could be izzy, especially if he's on the brink of death due to an infection and frenchie managed to spread his superstitions to other people on the ship!

-THIS FUCKIN GUY. WHO ARE YOU??? it seems like he kidnaps stede and his crew and throws a party on the ship and drugs the drinks which is why everyone is kinda tripping/laughing in some parts. but then everyone gets tied down (stede to the mast, wee john's hands get squished, olu and roach's heads get squished, and jim and archie's feet get secured to the ship's railing i think??). also that wide shot is definitely the rando dude hitting some shrill high note at the same moment the revenge crew cry out in pain from all the squishing (except maybe jim and archie - they might just be laughing at the others bc they're badasses and this pain is nothing). also don't know what the guy is looking at when we first see him but im thinking maybe it's a wanted poster of stede and he's looking at the description of the gentleman pirate to confirm it's the dude right in front of him/that he's captured?? also i think roach is wearing flowers from the drug party in his apron when he fires that canon, so maybe he's tripping too and shoots a canon?? i need a prayer circle for the revenge's safety at this time

-stede has a bullet hole???????????????? did ed fucking shoot him in the heart?????????????????????????? he also notably does NOT have the earring in this scene but he does have the sexy stiddies (blue) shirt like we see in the other shot where he DOES have the earring. maybe this weirdo dude pierces stede's ear bc he thinks stede needs to look more piratey?? or stede gets absolutely sloshed (or drugged) and gets his ear pierced idk !!! maybe jim does it bc they're effortlessly cool and has a bunch of ear piercings!!!

-idk if this is a coincidence or not but i'm pretty sure stede in his training scenes with izzy is wearing the clothes he wore in that final shot of s1 as he rows to find the crew on the island (white linen shirt, dark pants, brown belt and boots). so either costume changes are happening later in the season, they're reusing outfits like normal people do, or the training montage happens extremely early on in the season

-so originally with the teaser trailer i thought ed falling in the water was followed by the shot of ed coming out of the water on the beach. i don't know if i fully believe that anymore because ed is NOT wearing his jacket on the cliff (see above), but he IS wearing it as he comes up out of the water, so either it's two different events and ed just spends a lot of time in the water this season or he puts his jacket on before jumping off the cliff

-ed his holding his right side as he slashes that dude on the beach so he definitely got hurt in battle but i hope it's not him getting stabbed bc ur supposed to cleverly take the sword on the left where all the unimportant bits are :(((

-I VERY STRONGLY BELIEVE that the person in the scene where stede turns around and shoots his gun into the air and everyone else on deck suddenly draws their weapons against that person is our boy lucius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he's wearing a beret?????????? @sluterastede proposed that lucius got picked up by the english navy after getting thrown overboard and that's why we see him in the english navy garb (which we later see frenchie in too?? i believe an infiltration fuckery is afoot). also the fact that the shot immediately after this one is of Black Pete doing a happy little fist pump which i'm choosing to interpret as a cute little easter egg symbolizing Pete gets reunited with his love. i also also also believe lucius is in the shot of buttons about to zipline from one ship to the other. i missed him :')

-okay i know i said in an earlier post that stede running across the beach was romantic but i changed my mind and i think izzy is just making stede do cardio as part of his training lol. his outfit matches the one he's wearing when swordfighting izzy in that earlier wideshot and i think he even still has the scarf belt and the full beard in both scenes (explained at the end of this post via production stills) so maybe they have an honest to god training montage that takes course over several days and we get an incredible 80s powerballad to play on top of it while stede thinks of ed to motivate him or whatever. david jenkins hire me to help write season 3 i have ideas

-i think jim is behind stede as he breaks into the weirdly religious room we saw in the teaser when stede punches that guy??

-ed is pretty bloodied in the shot of stede leaning over him and saying VERY worriedly "ed????" so my theory is that ed got hurt in battle or he was taken captive by the Chinese warfleet and stede was worried he was grievously injured. however, once ed comes to and realizes who's kneeling over him, he gets pissed and headbutts stede because he's still mad at him for breaking his heart, and maybe his hands are restrained/his body is too weak so he can't push stede away. or maybe they had to begrudgingly work together on some mission and stede fucked it up and ed got hurt so he's mad about that idk!! ALSO HE'S WEARING THE CRAVAT HELLO

-ed in buttons's shirt looking so PEACEFUL what the HELL. obviously it's from the same general time as him being in Spanish Jackie's when she's talking to him about being a regular dude and later when the swede asks him if he's poor addkjfajdfhlkefh i fucking love this show and its writing so much. but ed says "no, i'm just trying something different man >:/" so i wonder if this is ed at the end of s2 or if this is more towards the middle as he's still in the thick of his healing journey. maybe buttons teaches ed about meditation and/or the tai chi he practiced with the Chinese warfleet crew??

-the BTS production still of ed with his "trust no one" tattoo also features what i believe is the treasure chest we see jim carrying off the ship in the shot where fang is smashing two dudes' heads together!

-i also think the BTS production still of stede with the beard is early on in ep 1 because he has a full beard (that im hoping someone on the revenge bullies him into shaving off to the scruff we see in the rest of the promo materials) and ALSO because he's wearing a long red scarf around his waist, which we never see again in any of the other promo material - except, however, around his neck as a makeshift cravat:

>it's the same exact material and everything! my guess is he gets his ass handed to him in a fight (maybe against izzy??) and his scarf belt gets destroyed, so he repurposes the shredded fabric into his necktie

-there's literal gold bars in the background of this production still lmao the kraken crew got BUSY during ed's goth era

>speaking of, the fucking hair dye dripping down izzy's forehead in this production still:

*sad clown noises*

in conclusion:

WE'RE BACK BABEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

anyway that's my second dissertation on less than 2 minutes of content that turned out to be quite literally 6 pages long :)

[the-firebird69]

Black widow Harley is full of people they got a shipment like 20 bucks or 30 bikes and they're gone you got on the phone send 500 it said 500 usually don't sell one you better make it a thousand. They're on the way the guy sent 1500 and says I'm banking on you selling more said thank you.. they're willing them off, they're yelling that they're going to give him this much money and that much money. So the guys going okay, pull your horses though they got somebody from the bank, certifying bills and they can transfers and they're moving fast, 2000 more bikes on the way. We're going to get it out there now Hera is ready she packed up a ton of victory got in the line with Ken says he can't do it so she doesn't line with the store and said you want to have the engineer there this is that would be great so you better get ready and think of a price like 100 grand and he goes 100 grand for what and I told him for each one says Hera says this is why I always sold out and said you'll see so she says more and they're going down there to the victory to Harley all of the motorcycle shops and they sold out in minutes and then be calling like mad Men we loaded up a ton of them and they're coming in

Thor Freya

It's a huge day for me my friend is still my friend he says I'm cool in my jets with Jason that's funny as hell but for really for real I'm going to start selling my bikes I'm actually selling them I can't make as many as they want so he wants to know if we want to be a wholesaler distributor that is well I know what he's saying and we're saying yeah in the United States and the max are not frowning anymore so I'm going to call him and he's saying it's going to see what he can do and that's good

Brad

He's not producing them out in the Midwest no he was but not that many probably he has 500 million but we're not at them yet and he can't get them we could get them and we could sell them to him at a discount for finding them or take some in trade so you see what we're saying so he has to start producing and he might want to buy hours and resell them cuz he never keep up with production and we want things to happen and we need to ride them then we have some we have a bunch of them and we don't have access to his either. So it's going down like this he might call up and try and order a bunch and it's not a bad idea we start selling immediately so we're going to sit down with him and talk to him and see how it goes

Hera

I said the top part but actually we did and this not a bad idea and we think he's going to call he does have the number and we can get a ton of bikes real fast we have a Time made and yeah they're not his version ours are a lot faster and no this is not a chain on them. Other bikes are wanted too they want the KTM the maaco the boltaco gas gas and of course our son's bike they want all the brand names Hondas first and dirt bikes and then they want all of the sport bikes in the superbikes and they're calling like madness and they want a lot of the it's it's the supermoto or touring bike it's the ones that can go off road they really like them they're happy and fast and they want a ton of them huge orders are going on massive orders and we have stock and we're going to start sending tons of them and the max want them and the McDonald's they're real huge orders and foreigners everybody they just figured out that they're in a race against Time

Thor Freya

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[cartoonsbyandie]

I almost got scammed! How to avoid my mistakes.

I’ve been pretty quiet on my social medias for a bit for a lot of reasons, and one of them being that I very nearly fell for a scam that would’ve cost me $2000. Several calls to my bank later, it’s finally all been sorted out, which means I can finally talk about the whole thing. Even though I didn’t end up losing much of anything (certainly nowhere near $2000), I don’t want any other commissions artist to go through this for the crime of giving someone the benefit of the doubt that doesn’t deserve it.

I do commissions online. I got a message on Instagram from someone wanting me to do a picture for their daughter’s birthday this month, offering to pay me way above my commission rates ($200) for what I assumed was a rush job. They provided pictures and lots of details about what their daughter liked and what would be good to include in the picture, and I even drew up a sketch for them. The way my commissions work, I take the full payment once the sketch had been approved, and so far, everything was looking normal.

That is, until, they revealed they were going to pay by check. And really I’m just going to give you the biggest TL;DR piece of advice: Just don’t take checks. It’s not worth it. The reason is that they’re prone to scams because when you deposit a check, the funds will show up in your account. That doesn’t mean the check has cleared, and won’t bounce. This is incredibly annoying to research because so many google results will tell you that a check ‘clears’ within 1 to 2 days, but that’s because the law requires the funds to be made available that quickly. If they find out the check is forged or bad-- WHICH CAN TAKE A MONTH OR LONGER-- you not only get hit with a returned item fee, but the money vanishes from your account.

So say, if the person you’re assuming is trustworthy has told you they “accidentally” wrote a check for $2000 instead of $200, and gave some excuse why they couldn’t simply write a new check, and came up with the brilliant suggestion of just having you deposit it and then Zelle them the remaining $1800-- If you do all that, suddenly you’re out $2000.

I came dangerously close to falling for it. When the person wanted to email me a scan of the check (so I could use mobile deposit, which I did because I figured it’s a rush job and they didn’t want to wait to mail the physical check, look I’m not smart okay--) AND THEN suddenly demanded I use Zelle to instantly give them the money, that’s when I got suspicious. I literally googled “Scams that use Zelle” and found my exact situation. But I figured it’d be fine if I waited until the check fully cleared and kept my bank in the loop, which is why I risked depositing it. I figured I was at no risk until I actually sent them the money, and I still wanted to believe this was a legitimate customer, and I really liked the idea of making $200. Which definitely blinded me to better things I could’ve done. Like, you know, not depositing the check and demanding a different method of payment.

It’s been about a forty days since I deposited the check. Three calls to my bank’s fraud department + one physical visit (two of which told me they might find me culpable for depositing the check and burn my account, which was scary) is what it took to get this mess sorted out. ONE OF THOSE CALLS TOLD ME THE CHECK HAD 100% CLEARED AND HAD A 0% CHANCE OF BOUNCING. I almost Zelled this person the money that night.

Seriously. If you get a bad feeling, trust that. That’s the only thing that saved me here. So did getting lots of advice from family and friends about how this stuff works.

TL;DR Here’s a quick and dirty list of red flags I learned just from this single experience:

Insisting on paying with a check is a red flag by itself if I’m honest, but especially if they just mail you an image of it and expect you to mobile deposit it. Seriously just don’t do this I don’t know what I was thinking

Especially especially if they insist on paying with a check and then want you to give them money with some instant form of payment, like Zelle.

If all their accounts have different names. (This one was Jessie something, their email was Shawn, they wanted me to Zelle to another account with a different name.)

If their account is a generic name + number thing. (Like jessie.10 or something.) I know a few legitimate people with accounts like that but it’s just one of many boxes to tick.

If they seem way too trusting to give a stranger on the internet a crazy amount of money with the expectation that you’ll pay them back. I’d never met this person and they were saying they trusted me with the $2000, I just had to give them my word that I’d give it back.

If they’re offering you well above your commissions prices. They want to blind you with the idea of a big payday when they’re paying with imaginary money.

If they put a ton of pressure on you to respond quickly. This person kept spamming me with Instagram audio calls early in the morning or while I was at work.

If they say stuff like this, which honestly was the biggest gift they could’ve given me because it just removed all doubt: