#my family was so pissed

[hannah-the-red-head]

OH MY GOD, I CRACKED THE CODE!

I got Animal Crossing: New Horizons a few months after it was originally released, and by the time I finished the main storyline by K.K visiting my island, i was having a difficult time catching the Tarantulas and scorpions that you come across at night.

I tried every trick other players used, but due to my somewhat slow reflexes and twitchy thumbs, my character ended up getting bitten or stung.

But i think I cracked the code on how to actually catch them!

So I was playing Animal Crossing because I couldn't sleep and came across a tarantula in the town square; I stopped moving and immediately equip my bug net at the same time the eight legged abomination that haunts the nightmares of every Arachnaphobe does its pre-charge attack pose.

For the next 3 seconds (i literally counted) me and the spider are in the middle of what is a family friendly western showdown right in front of the clothing store at 11:00 at night.

I've got my switch an inch away from my face, glaring at the little f*cker as if it murdered my entire family and is the sole reason for living is catching it just so I could sell it to Flick for that juicy 12,000 bells.

"Come on, you pixelated bastard. Charge me, i'm gonna get you this time!" I whisper yell at the screen like Arnold Schwarzenegger taunting the yautja in Predator into a trap at this arachnid composed of zeroes and ones.

Thats when the little bastard turns around and scitters away a short distance. I'm like: "B*tch, you did not just turn your hairy back on me!" and i walked closer, only for it to go "Gotcha B*tch!" And do its attack pose again!

I stop and get ready again. 3 seconds later, it turns around and walks away again!

This cycle repeats until I get close enough to let go of the A button.

Swip and plop! I catch the a$$hole!

It is at this moment I forget that I live with my family and proceed to let out a loud "YES!" just as the clock reaches the stroke of midnight that not only gives my dog sleeping at the end of my bed a near heartattck, but scares the literal sh*t out the cat eating out of his metal bowl that goes CLANG that results in a domino effect of chaos that ends with my 10-year-old orange tabby face planting into the glass window that wakes up every on edge texas dog in my neighborhood.

And that is how I learned to catch a tarantula on Animal Crossing! Have a great day, guys!

How to catch a tarantula:

Approach until attack pose.

Stop and hold A to catch.

Wait 3 to 4 seconds while tarantula is posing before it turns away and begins to move.

While still holding A, move slowly towards the tarantula until it spins back to face you and poses again.

Repeat steps three and four until you are within catching distance, then release the A button to catch tarantula with net.

Tips: Get as close as you can before the tarantula spots you. When it does spot you, immediately hold the A button to enter sneaking mode, the tarantula will still be posing, but you will be able to get a few steps in before it actually charges.

[dannymans66]

OKAMA BEAM✋🎀👗

[discocandles]

one thing about steve harrington is that he sucks at doing nothing. like he has to be doing something with himself lest the guy waste away. this has led to him being very good at fucking around with things especially when its something relatively quiet. the loudest steve will let himself keep his hands busy while stuck idle is tossing whatever's in his hand to himself and catching it, which usually bodes well for sports practice after coach learned that just because he was moving didnt mean he wasnt paying attention(usually the opposite).

he learned how to flip a pencil around his thumb in middle school and seeing someone in one of the meetings he sat in on doing it. he'll twirl anything he can around in his hand, especially while he was working in the mall. the scoopers were perfect for it. and any way youve seen a drummer/percussionist fiddle with a drumstick, steve knew he had to replicate it.

but even with all this movement and the fact the guy was barely ever not moving, it seemed like no one noticed it ever. a fact that nearly drove eddie insane when they were in high school together. because he did have the reputation of being restless, and in a constant state of movement. and he probably fucked around with random shit less, so how did steve "the hair" harrington not end up with the same reputation? the answer was just that he was way more quiet("and sneaky" -eddie) about it. and if the teacher hated when their students fiddled and futzed he'd be sure to try and keep the movement below his desk.

but it not that he only has to keep his hands busy. no no no, if bored or stuck waiting, and that won't suffice, steve harrington will pick up anything with words just to read it. anything. outdated newspapers, ingredients lists, magazines of any topic. he just mindlessly grabs for whatever and starts fucking reading. Robin could swear under oath to a court that her best friend has read the back of every vhs in family video. hell, she's seen him reading drugstore novels, like the fucking grandma smut and books with cover art of nicely dressed ladies running from a castle. and its her jock best friend reading it, instead of some repressed suburban woman who hates her husband. yes, this information is the bane of robin buckley's exsistance because its not like anyone would believe her.

idk just give me steve being restless but doing it quietly enough that no one really picks up on it.

[starry-bi-sky]

mmm throwaway conversation between Dan and Danny that popped into my head that I had to write out:

"You spent ten years being a one-man mass extinction event, then went back in time and fought me, and lost." Danny snarls, arms crossed and throat tight. His mouth pulls back to bare dagger-sharp teeth, and his eyes burn with the familiar thrum of ectoplasm heating up behind his eyes. "If I didn't believe you were half of Vlad before, I do now."

His other self -- and really, can he even call him that? He's half of Vlad too. Two halves severed from each other and welded together to make a new whole, -- snaps his head over to him. Wild-eyed and furious, he looks unlike the man Danny fought before, the one unruffled and untouched, unbothered by the world around him. It's familiar, but not like the way a reflection is.

"What's that supposed to mean." The Other hisses, matching Danny's scowl one-for-one with fangs much bigger and sharper than his.

But there's a reason lions fear hyenas. Danny matches the rumble in The Other's chest with one of his own, and shoves his face close to his. "I don't lose."

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 293

Jason takes a deep breath. He takes a deep breath, in for ten seconds, out for eight, and just takes a minute before looking again. Nope, there’s still the strange quartet of orbs in the box of what should be stolen weapons (What, the government had enough, honestly) that gave his workers the heebie-jeebies. 

Which is not the vibe he gets from them. In fact, he’s actually kind of concerned with how much he has to beat the Pit back with how quickly it lurches to latch onto the… Well they’re not gems, and he’s a little wary about touching them at first, but the Pit does seem to settle when he does.

Alright, he can deal with this. It’s not like he has several heads in a duffel bag that needs to be delivered or a tiny assassin child back in his safehouse (Seriously Talia, why was he the preferred babysitter?) or an entire gang in Crime Alley to deal with. It’ll be fine. 

…

He would like to curse out his past self, because there’s now four babies in his safehouse that appeared to have fucking hatched from the orbs. Goddamnit. 

[shima-draws]

Just got back from seeing Sonic 3 and HOOOOOOLY SHIT y’all. Oh my fucking god. OH my god. Ohhhh my g o d

[chrollohearttags]

this na’ziyah harris case has been tearing me up so bad and I just can’t get over it. it’s so heartbreaking but not surprising how older black women will coddle predators but villify young black girls for things they have no control over. even if it’s never been to the extent of full SA, I feel like a majority of us in the community at some point has experienced predatory behavior from an older man or being called ‘fast’ or ‘grown’ simply because we developed faster. and the moms, aunties, grannies, etc blamed us for what a grown adult has done or said. not to mention this sick bastard gave a 4 y/o VD and hurt his own daughter (I couldn’t specify if it was the same child but either way it’s disgusting) ik they’re turning his nasty ass every way but loose in that fucking cell but it still doesn’t change the fact that he stole all of these poor babies’ innocence and na’ziyah’s life. I really hate how our ppl move sometimes man…that whole family failed her and I pray one day she can be found and laid to rest 💔

[heyimkana]

Solo Leveling Season 3 has been greenlit…

Us jinwoo fans need to hold hands and stay strong bro the aura farming only starts NOW

[higuchisora]

Adding onto my headcanon about Zaun culturally valuing art and literature:

The names in Zaun have meanings. Not just in the "Oh, my name means 'flower'" way. These names are primarily references to poetry or music or literature in some way.

This idea comes in combination with my headcanon that Zaun has a different dialect/sister-language to Piltover (like how the Romance languages share a common origin but are different, or how there are a bunch of different types of Spanish but they're all still considered Spanish).

The Zaunite characters' names seem strange to us because they're either a reference to something, or are transliterated Tolkien-style from Zaunite/old Piltovan (at some point League said Zaun was the original Piltover before it sank).

Which is why we see names like Powder and think, what the fuck? It's because it's a transliteration of a name that doesn't really make sense in our IRL languages. In reality, it's probably considered a pretty normal name. Just like how straight up naming someone "beautiful" doesn't sound normal in English (whereas "Hope" does), but is fairly standard in plenty of other languages (ex. Belle/Bella).

Similar to Ekko and why it's spelled this way. It's not "echo but more masculine/quirky," it's actually a name with an entirely different meaning that HAPPENS to sound like our English word "echo." We see phenomena like this IRL all the time (called "false friends"), of words in unrelated languages sounding similar even though they developed entirely independently.

Vi (short for Violet) works fine because it is, in fact, an easily translated name. But the name itself is also in reference to a classic book/song/poem.

Names like Silco, Vander, and Claggor either couldn't be transliterated/localized or sounded even weirder in meaning than Powder. Mylo either is another "false friend"/cognate name, or is a localization of his actual name. Regardless, all of their names are in reference to literature, poetry, and/or some other artistic expression.

(I'd like to add, before I forget- that Vander's name IS real- according to the Internet, it's Greek for "good man", which might not be real but I'm taking it and running with it as a name from an old play or something).

Googling Sevika's name gave a pretty straightforward meaning- it apparently means "female servant"/maid in Hindi (please correct me if I'm wrong, those who know Hindi). Which. I'm not trying to think about the negative implications of that, though there are many. So I'll try to make a positive spin on her name and say she's another "false friend" name, and it means something entirely different in the Zaunite/ancient Piltovan language.

[screechingfromthevoid]

Something that I love about orym is his refusal to play ludinus' game. He said one (1) thing about his family. "Cold comfort for my family in the ground" and promptly never indulged him again. Because if you give people the space and the room and the decency to explain their point, you're treating it as if it's a real option. And orym never really considered it to be a real option.

So he didn't indulge him. He said fuck you I hate you and that was that. He didn't care about motives or trying to make ludinus feel bad or sway him any which way. Orym saw what ludinus was and refused to treat him with any seriousness. Because he was wrong. From the beginning to the end.

[kelin-is-writing]

Fuck you Endeavor. Fuck you All For One. Fuck you to all the Pro-Heroes. Fuck the Hero Society and FUCK YOU HORIKOSHI too 🥰

[stiffyck]

i actually like hate people who refuse to watch animated movies just because theyre animated. im so sorry your taste in movies sucks.

[crows-of-buckets]

Every day I mourn the fact that Anders and Morrigan have never (and will never) interact in canon. I want to see what happens SO bad.

Morrigan who enjoys pissing people off and generally just pokes and prods at peoples insecurities versus Anders who has never taken a chill pill once in his life

They're sitting at a table together and Morrigan keeps saying shit about old magic and dark rituals and old gods while Anders is white knuckling his chair to keep himself from leaping over the table and strangling her

[angelpuns]

Everything is very horrible today in an autistic meltdown kinda way so either I'll pop off and draw a lot or lay face down in bed doing nothing for several hours we'll just have to see

[pastadoughie]

ok but b4 i love myself i have 2 first become good enough to be lovable. this is a healthy and unbiased mindset.

[teh-nos]

i feel bad about it but "he killed eighty people in two days" in The Avengers just doesn't seem like that high a number to me? it'd be high for a normal person, but in supervillainy terms that's... a bit crap, really isn't it?

no wonder Thor was so quick to say "he's adopted" the honour of the family is at stake here, you can't let the humans think that's the best any of them can do D: