#my brain is playing the hits today

[rosetta-j-stone]

Also, actual footage of me hoping the teacher doesn't notice all the Christmas/New Year's vocab I remember comes from cheesy SL Christmas songs

[charmac]

Which episodes have the best Dennis and Mac ship moments?

I wouldn't necessarily say Mac and Dennis have "ship moments" that you can pick and label as the "best" (other than what would make sense as scenes for compilations/edits?) and I'll defer to @psymachine's answer to a question similar to this: don't watch this show for Macdennis moments/episodes.

I can pretty confidently say that Mac and Dennis (and the show) will be lost on whomever decides to go at it through the lens of "best ship moments". Because what is considered a good "ship moment" for something as fucked as their relationship?

Mac is canonically admittedly in love with Dennis, so it's not hard to pull a ton of "ship moments" from his relentless pursuit: you have attempted kissing, erotic dreams, baby trapping, sex doll Dennis, room trapping...all stellar attempts on Mac's side and all important aspects for their relationship (Gets Romantic being one of my favourite episodes), but those moments are almost all, in the most blatant way to put it, sexual harassment. Sexual harassment of Dennis that was essentially born and grown from Dennis' conditioning of Mac's sex life in the seasons before: making and recording sex tapes for him, teaching him the best way to get sex is through carefully orchestrated systems and schemes made up of lies and deceit, that getting off has very little to do with a second (willing) participant.

Barring their individual personalities and mental illnesses, what ends up coming from Mac heavily relies on what comes from Dennis years before, and what is eventually ongoing between both of them (reaching batshit levels of sex chicken) exists among and within that all. IMO, placing any specific "best" on a moment for them as a ship is almost impossible without reference to everything before it (and an actual understanding of it all).

That being all said, what I would call the best ship moments for the two of them are what's hidden between and underneath the hard punches of their back and forth, the subtleties that are continually ongoing (mostly the ones that lead you to understand that Dennis is in it, even when Mac is on the offensive), this shit that's impossible to pin out of context:

The way Dennis gets even stupider when he's wrapped up in an idea with Mac (Timeshare, for example) and the way he attempts to cut off his outbursts when dealing with Mac's own stupidity (see Frank Retires) (and Recession is great for both of these). The fact that Dennis will push past his own grievances for little reason other than to make Mac happy (Suburbs) and the fact that at the end of it all, he's always going to end up going home with Mac (Divorced.. mm). (For all of this in one shot: Inflates)

And for Mac, in more recent events with Dennis on the offensive, when his ever desperate vie for Dennis' attention and affection is pushed back on in favour of being the Mac Dennis truly wants. The Mac Dennis fell in love with decades ago.

[gosteon]

TWO! OF! THEM!

[clovesnz]

Okay so I know sometimes we talk about hearing someone sneeze for the first time, but do y’all ever have a ✨moment✨ when you hear someone say bless you for the fist time?

[crossbackpoke-check]

Dysprosium, Mary Soon Lee

dysprosium, AN 66, is a silvery-white rare earth metal. its name is derived from the greek dysprositos, meaning “hard to get at”, owing to the difficulty in separating and isolating this rare earth element. dysprosium is used to measure neutron flux, to fuel reactors, and to activate phosphors. terfenol-d is a magnetorestrictive alloy, meaning that it changes shape when a magnetic field is applied, and is used to manufacture underwater acoustic systems.

jason ���robo” robertson, dallas stars #21 for @simmyfrobby’s nhl periodic table poems <3

[scavenger-toll]

today was wild

[timelessbian]

putting this out into the universe that my inbox is open for agatha all along/agathario fic prompts!! can't super promise anything but i am itching to write and low on inspo rn so hit me w/ whatever and we'll see what sticks

[sobie-is-scared]

AI art this, AI art that. Sit down and let me talk to you about chess.

My dad loves chess and has loved it for as long as I can remember. He watches a lot of games, livestreams of big contests, and analysis of them afterward. He has taken part in some local competitions and overall enjoys them both as a player and a watcher. We used to attend a chess club with my brother when we were younger with him, and he taught us how to play as children. Now that is all good and all, except for one tiny little detail.

A human being hasn't been the best chess player since 1997.

I have been born into the world where computers have dominated the strongest players on the planet. A lot of you probably have as well.

And none of it really matters. The world hadn't ended, and there are still master chess players who go against each other and whose games are scrutinized and analyzed by enthusiasts all around the globe. Even if a chess engine could crush Magnus Carlsen, it really doesn't matter.

Because some things really are about human ingenuity. Some things are about how we arrive at something, about the process more so than the destination.

It is similar with "AI art". It's a tool, albeit one unethically stealing from creators, still a tool nonetheless, but it isn't what the craft is about.

[seeminglyseph]

Rip Nalzyr's funny eye, Volo popped it out and replaced it with one that can see invisibility, so here's one last image of him with his original look.

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel like at least several times a month, I have a random insane revitalization of my love for The Smiths. Not that I ever stop loving them, but I'll listen to some song and then suddenly fall into this pit of just deep, intense love for their music again where I can't stop listening to their music on repeat and watching live performances and looking at pics like AAAAAHHHHHH WHY IS THEIR MUSIC SO GOOOD?????? WHY IS IT PERFECT?????? WHY WERE THEY SO GENDER???????

(songs I am feeling intense brainrot over rn in case you're curious: "I Want The One I Can't Have(live)", "Stretch Out and Wait(live)", "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others(demo)", "What She Said", "The Boy With The Thorn in His Side(live)"(p.s. I Want The One I Can't Have is Martian-coded to me, pls listen)(also it reminds me of that movie I watched yesterday)

[goldensunset]

scarvio is so epic for no fall damage while riding koraidon/miraidon and for the rotom phone acting as a makeshift parachute that only kicks in at the last second before you hit the ground with no consequences at all

[snowddeong]

Rocker au thoughts are back I really need Ryujin purposefully riling up Yeji on stage by being a bit too hotTM with her fanservice and even straight up seducing Yeji during her guitar solo to the point that the same Yeji who's super cautious about their relationship for the sake of the group basically pounces her backstage.

[magpies-gold]

Between quietly going feral over Alpha Base while prepping it for NaNo and not being able to scream about it because -literally- no one will know the story until I actually write it down and also getting the overwhelming urge to dunk myself head-first back into Trigun Stampede but not having anyone willing to let me to force feed it to them and so I’d have to go back in alone…

Well, I am lightly vibrating today. My goodness.

[desperatepleasures]

i did overcome a major stumbling block wrt my fic earlier and now im like. well what am i supposed to do for the rest of the day? not chores, surely.

[fairymint]

i need a bit more sleep and alone time today (have to take my testosterone and preferably decompress)

but i am chewing on some lore in my head to hopefully make my muses more comfortable to work with while i make connections with them. logistically, anyways. (such as volo being in the future, twins traveling, etc. general things. )

my rp mental health is a little fragile admittedly, and i don't know what it needs... though i may try to focus on just making posts/ possibly replies until i feel better. my mental health overall is fine, just some little internal issues.

I'm still available for ooc chatter if you have something! but I'm trying to fine tune my efforts ic. when I'm feeling better i might make some self indulgent posts, but imma rest until I'm in good condition to reach out w/ individual wants again-

that's my mental from the past few days, there'll probably be mood whiplash and sin/fluff the next time i post IC- gonna let the muse be a brat later cause he deserves to unwind a bit.