#m is for mop

[shiningnightstars]

@a-moths-privacy

@anton-exe

@toshi-flakes

@rainylunesstorm

You make a post asking others to tag their favorite mutuals.

You tag your favorite mutual and post.

Your favorite mutual reblogs your post and tags you.

You two are now obligated to tag each other and reblog the post forever.

The longer it goes on, the faster you two get.

Eventually, the bulk of new posts is just you two reblogging the same post.

Tumblr is forced to buy more servers and storage just for your reblogs.

Tumblr starts selling a new badge called "Best Mutuals" to fund the growing infrastructure.

Tumblr becomes known as that site that's exclusively about two people calling each other their favorite mutuals.

ISPs are forced to improve their infrastructure to accommodate how quickly you two keep reblogging each other.

News spreads to other sites.

The internet eventually becomes just you two reblogging each other.

All news becomes updates about how many times you two reblog each other.

One day, you reblog your mutual's post and they do not reblog back.

Everyone on Tumblr panics and tries to find out what happened to your mutual.

Other social media sites learn about the drama.

News sites give Breaking News reports that your mutual didn't respond back.

Every website starts gathering information about what happened to your mutual.

Political parties come together to find out what happened to your mutual.

World leaders come together to find out what happened to your mutual.

Billionaires pour all their money into finding out what happened to your mutual.

Eventually, your mutual is found and the world waits with baited breathe fearing the worst.

Your mutual was hungry and stepped away to make a sandwich.

After finishing their sandwich, they reblog your post.

All is right with the world.

[womansfilm]

Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft at the Academy Awards, 1964

[russellius]

Formula Kart Stars at Whilton Mill, 2010 [ + | + ]

"Last year's Cadet champion was George Russell. He's back and he's as mean as ever, with his eyes on the Mini Max title. Can George be one of the only few drivers to win back-to-back titles?"

GR: I'll be doing Mini Max with Strawberry Racing in Formula Kart Stars, and hopefully can do the same as what I did last year! In Mini Max you got different tyres, which are a bit more grippy, and the karts are a lot faster. A top 5 finish [is my plan for this year], but any better would be really good.

[post-race]

GR: It was a really hard race! I was in second, then on the last lap made a really big lunge going into, I think it's Ashby, and got the win!

[aaronofithaca05]

AND WHAT IF I'M THE MONSTER?

Lurking deep belowww....

This was me yesterday singing from the top of my lungs!!!! hahaha

I´M SO EXCITED!!!!!!

APRIL 26TH, LET´S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO(⊙_⊙;)

UNDERWORLD SAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lord-squiggletits]

Semi related to the other day's post about people calling OP a hypocrite for not wanting to kill people, it also really annoys me how often this fandom (even in corners like MegOP where OP is ostensibly one of the main characters) just disregards or does not care about how Optimus feels. Or seemingly doesn't even comprehend that OP having his own emotions/goals besides validating Megatron/whoever else he's being shipped with or interacing with. Or they think that every time OP is "mean" to someone else it's bad and awful, but when any other character does bad things it's justified because they were upset/hurt.

It's not really a commentary on character apologism or morality so much as it is annoyance that the spaces I've been around in near universally don't give a crap about how Optimus feels ever. Like, to use MegOP as an example since that's my main context of seeing Optimus content, I always see takes like this that only center Megatron's experiences/feelings while completely ignoring anything Optimus feels.

Like. TF One? It's okay for Dee to turn on Orion because he feels betrayed by him "siding with" Sentinel and Orion is such a jerk for banishing him from Iacon. But god forbid that OP might be a little upset about being dropped down a pit by his own best friend (and then said best friend immediately tries to kill him again when he comes back) and want Megatron to get the hell away from him if he's gonna be so violent.

Can't even count the number of examples in IDW1. Megatron is traumatized and oppressed so that means he can do as many crimes as he wants and hurt Optimus as much as he wants because "Optimus should've just listened to him better" never mind that OP literally did listen but no one besides dedicated IDW OP lovers ever points out that OP has a right to be pissed off at Megatron for some of the shit he did to him. People get mad at IDW OP for making Megatron give a speech denouncing the Decepticons because it's mean/controlling/anti-revolutionary or whatever (never mind that OP letting Megatron go free on a space adventure is incredibly permissive and informed by his personal bias towards Megatron) but they could care less about the fact that OP is staying on Cybertron dealing with the remaining Decepticons + shit with the neutrals and might maybe want Megatron to pull his weight deescalating the post-war situation so that Optimus has an easier time trying to manage.

It's very much a thing that heroic characters are held to higher moral standards than villains and grilled over doing similar things that villains are cheered for. But this isn't even some strictly moral thing, it's just. So fucking bizarre how ready people are to demonize Optimus because "he hurt X" or "he got in the way of Y" or "he sided with Z when he should've sided with A" but completely disregard all of the many, usually valid reasons Optimus has for doing what he did! It's all about poor woobies who suffered so much and are doing bad things because they're upset and justified from their perspective. But all of a sudden when it's Optimus, his feelings don't matter and how things look from his perspective (his goals, values, obligations, what he feels is right or wrong, the depression he often has across continuities) doesn't matter either. He did something that made someone else feel bad therefore he's the literal worst who only does things out of hypocrisy/self-righteousness.

It's not like Optimus could ever experience emotions like depression, anger, frustration, fear, loneliness, urgency, etc etc that drive him to do what he does. Optimus has no internal struggles between what he desires as a person versus what he feels is the right thing to do/what he's obligated to do. Getting sympathy for the very real hurt and struggle he experiences is just for every other character except Optimus, I guess. Swear to god the majority of the fandom doesn't actually see Optimus as a character and instead just sees him as a prop to either validate their fave or to act as a scapegoat for whatever's wrong with the plot.

[androcola2]

every1 say Yay 70s mike

[daughterofhecata]

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[sotiriabellou]

lmaooo i just finished the first day at this job which was supposed to be a "try out" or whatever so i could learn the ropes and figure out if i wanted to work there or not and at the end when i was talking to the owner she told me i seemed like i didnt really care about the job and that i seemed unenthusiastic?????im sorry should i be jumping for joy at the prospect of working another minimum wage part time job cleaning tables at some hotel??youre not giving me the opportunity of a lifetime youre giving me some extra cash for the summer

[amyriadfthings]

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[mr-nicegirl]

being into asmr from the JUMP like since before it was even called asmr (whispering community og) and seeing it evolve over time has been so rewarding but that means i simultaneously love innovation but still miss the treasured lack of 'perfection' ergo meaning i LOVE let's player asmr #gamers which is still suprisingly underrated/underdeveloped but my aboslute fave FAVE niche within the gaming asmr content is WoW asmr which is like. ok i get it. tony bamboni did it a couplerrr times and it was suprisingly good / excellent bc the LOUD asf laptop fan whirring in the bg of his recordings have always been so good but my especially fave is like. random ass channels under 2k subs posting regular wow asmr content like i've found only a couple and most of them are #gerls and #europeans strangely enough. which begs the quastion. why's wow so popular with the girlies over there ?also are any of them single? and gay???

[sleevebuscemii]

GIRL FINALLY DEEP CLEANS HER ROOM AND LIVING ROOM AFTER MONTHS OF DEPRESSION EVERYBODY CLAP

[aew-regression-cove]

went to sleep super late then up early 😭 wanna be baby, gotta get some things done. don't like responsibility

[pamesjatterson]

moms have an inherent superpower to fuck up your day by yelling at you over the stupidest shit

[allthebestcowgirls]

i can't stop thinking about him pouring hot coffee from one pitcher to another over and over again, spilling a shit ton all over the floor, but continuing to do the same thing bc he wanted the coffee to have "maximum foam".... i think im in love

[lord-squiggletits]

The reason this fandom hates IDW Optimus isn't because he's a cop (plenty of people are fine with Prowl) or because he's a bastard (most characters in IDW are) but because he commits the crime of being an actual person who's messy, flawed, and makes a shitload of high stakes mistakes fitting for the intense situations and pressure he's put under constantly.

But we can't have Optimus actually react to his situations by lashing out or being unpleasant, no, he has to have the personality of a cardboard cutout of G1 whose only defining personality traits are "dad, funny, nice," and if he ever vents negative emotions it can only ever be #relatable depression or him being sad on his own without ever letting it show during the important parts of the story. If Optimus dares do things like be angry or frustrated or bitter it's just a sign that he's a bastard and LITERALLY the worst Optimus ever. If Optimus ever makes mistakes or does wrong things in the heat of anger/frustration/stress it's because he's just an evil bastard with no redeeming traits.

God forbid Optimus go through an unending gauntlet of war, politics, atrocities, near-complete loneliness, and a seemingly endless cycle of violence for his entire life and come out of it kind of bitter, angry, and tired of dealing with people's shit. He's not allowed to be a realistic person, context doesn't matter, sympathy doesnt matter. IDW Optimus doesn't fulfill the fandom's fantasies of Father Figure or Perfect Cultural Icon or Twinky Fucktoy and since that's the only reason most people care about Optimus in general, the fandom collectively trashes on IDW OP.

All because he can't fit into the overly simplified and childlike double standard the fandom has where if any other character is messy and flawed, that's good writing and interesting and compelling, but if OPTIMUS is messy and flawed, he's Literally The Worst and he's an asshole for no other reason than He Sucks, context be damned

[clearlyaginger]

No offense but can everyone shut the fuck up forever