#oh right.

[endothermic-rain]

You can get a reaction out of Momo before you even trigger the first cutscene with him.

[fuckthisshitimin]

in the same way netflix asks 'are you still there?' after a certain time i should be able to code an extension for Word that pops up a notification if i leave a doc open but don't write for over half an hour asking 'did you forget your meds?'

[chronodia]

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[bitegore]

dag stip, 35

35. Their idea of a perfect day

hahghafhdsfkdsfkfdgdsfk. okay. i cant stop headcanoning drag strip as a persistent maladaptive daydreamer because other people keep writing him that way and it's really funny. so he has detailed notes on this one XD. Written almost as a fic because I'm serious when I say this, it's something I have to have clearly lined-out so that everything else can fall short LOL

Ask game here.

Morning; Drag Strip wakes up feeling well-rested. The sun is shining and the water outside the window of the Nemesis is a pretty shade of dark teal instead of pitch black. And there's a message waiting for him as soon as he gets out of bed, which he does perkily because he's so energetic and happy this morning.

The message informs him he's been promoted to leader of the Stunticons because he's so much better at leading than Motormaster ever could be. No- that he's now a soloist because Megatron understands that he as his own fighter is better than having Menasor on-side at all and that Drag Strip is just that much better than the other Stunticons. No, that he's been promoted to SIC instead of Starscream. Yeah that one. And there's a special note at the bottom from Megatron and Soundwave that says they both think he's the best fighter in the entire faction and they both love him and they're sorry they overlooked him as a fighter.

Also there's a love letter from Starscream. Drag Strip will go be super suave about this, probably. Or maybe it's from Megatron AND Starscream, both of them. Yeah that. They want him to be the third in their relationship. No - they're both more in love with him than they are with each other. That's suitably important. And they both want him to be theirs AND their third. But he's the most important. Obviously.

He looks at himself in the mirror and his paint is perfect, obviously, but then he goes outside and the other four Stunticons are all lined up waiting for him because he is so important and everyone loves him. Then Dead End tells him he's the best out of all five of them, which he knew. Wait, no, Motormaster does. And then Motormaster apologizes for being a bad leader and an idiot who didn't know how good Drag Strip was until now and he feels so bad about everything and he's going to make up for it by sending Drag Strip to a detailing salon. And being his personal servant for the next week. No, month. No, forever. Nice. And also he's giving Drag Strip all his engex and his candies because Drag Strip deserves them for being so good at everything. And then Dead End tells Drag Strip that he's obviously better looking than Dead End is and his paint is shinier and flashier and he's more noticeable in every way and Dead End is just playing catch up. And Wildrider tells Drag Strip that he's the most fun person on the team and everyone loves him. And Breakdown says he's good at everything.

He goes to the command center to accept his new position and the entirety of the Decepticon fleet is there and they're all lined up and watching and waiting because they all want to see Drag Strip get crowned most important person in the entire faction aside from Megatron. Megatron gives him a cape and a crown and a big shiny gold medal that says he's the best fighter ever on it and Starscream gives him a necklace - no, a SCEPTER that turns into a giant gun. AND a sword! And a rocket launcher! All four at once. Perfect - and a bunch of pretty magnetic jewelry and everyone agrees that he looks better in the regalia than anyone else ever has. And everyone claps when he shows up. And because it's such a special occasion everyone gets to drink as much energon as they want and it's a giant party because Drag Strip is so important. Then - hm.... then Motormaster and the other Stunticons go give a speech about how lucky they were to work with Drag Strip before everyone else realized how good he really was at everything and how fortunate they feel to get to watch such an unparalleled Decepticon genius come into his own before everyone else realized how important he was for the faction. And it's lovely and everyone agrees they're right about every count and they only have nice things to say because Drag Strip is really that good.

Then after that the Autobots attack! and burst in! And everyone else is drunk on energon but Drag Strip is so good at everything that he single-handedly defeats all the Autobots! and he defeats Optimus Prime and looks super cool while doing it and then Megatron kills Optimus Prime and he takes the Matrix of Leadership and gives it to Drag Strip because he's so strong and smart and cool and powerful and good at everything that even Megatron agrees he deserves it instead. And then the Autobots are so dazzled by his excellent fighting and how cool a car he is so they decide that this means he's their leader now and he wins the war for the Decepticons forever. And Megatron thanks him personally and calls him the next greatest Decepticon to ever live. And it's true and he is. Then they can go back to Cybertron-

-but he likes Earth. Hm.

Then he gets crowned ruler of Earth and put in charge of Earth forever while the other Decepticons reroute power from Earth to turning Cybertron back on and he gets to do whatever he wants forever. And the humans have to build him a huge awesome new base on land and keep all the energon he could possibly want on tap for him and every day every single Decepticon ever thanks him personally for being so cool and awesome and he gets to tell Motormaster to do all sorts of demeaning and stupid humiliating bullshit and Motormaster just does it because he feels so bad for overlooking Drag Strip's true abilities all this time and no one ever tells Drag Strip he can't do anything ever again.

And then because that's not a whole day then he goes to a detailing spa and also he gets a reformat into the same alt mode but now he's got mass-shifting components so he's actually the tallest mech in the faction and he gets to be space-capable so he can go into orbit whenever he wants or just fly to any planet. And he buys a lottery ticket and wins a million dollars and he drags Breakdown to a casino in space that Swindle says is impossible to win anything from and wins a million shanix. And he's so cool when he's there that the casino owners thank him for showing up to their casino and making it look better because all the aliens are coming from all around to watch him.

Extremely reasonable. That would be the best day ever, as far as Drag Strip is concerned. Anything less than that isn't good enough. Simple.

[everykillerbee]

[alaskanexile]

Thinking about Doc' Hunter cyberpunk AU...

[newty]

me: omg but am i writing dion or terence w too much nol influence or

halone ig: They Are All Literally Dumb Dragoons Comprised Of The Same Set Of Tropes, Thats Why Ur Here In The First Place

[thermesiini]

when vash realized that he and livio shared the same grief, he realized that he’a not alone in his emotions, he is not the only person who has ever felt the ways that he has, and that realization is what saves him and knives. they too share the same grief, pain, betrayal, loneliness. the same anger. that’s what it was that was “in his heart”. really, it’s empathy that saved them. that they’re brothers, two parts of the same whole and all of that. the only two beings that could possibly understand each other. vash righted his wrong by being knives brother again, when he remembered what rem told him about not leaving knives, something he might have even purposefully forgotten, but there’s nothing knives could possibly do to right his wrongs against vash, which is why this time, he had to leave

[demaparbat-hp]

He's never happy

[thedeafprophet]

I will testify that even if I strongly dislike, utterly hate, and cannot stand a character, I will never go on someones post talking about liking that character and say so. Basic decency and all that

[wileycap]

I don't think I've seen anybody talk about how absolutely insane The Boiling Rock is from Hakoda's perspective.

Imagine getting captured, and your son tells you that you won't be apart for too long. That's sweet, but obviously your son has no resources to spare for organizing a breakout. You hope that the Avatar can defeat the Fire Lord soon - that's the earliest time you could hope to be rescued.

You get put into a temporary holding facility until the guards can sort out who is who. After a while, they put you on a prisoner transport to the Boiling Rock. Your captors try to intimidate you by telling you that it's the highest security prison in the Fire Nation, probably the whole world. It's far away from the capital.

You arrive at the Boiling Rock. It really is in the middle of a boiling lake. There's only one way in or out, and it's a gondola that takes you above the boiling lake. You meet the warden. They take you to your cell. You settle down to wait for the end of the war.

And 15 minutes later Sokka comes in like "hey dad I'm here I got the prince of the Fire Nation and an Earth Kingdom ninja leader gf ok let's go I'm busting you out"

[the-real-google]

To celebrate pride month I've decided to make a part 2 of the killing transphobes post since it was given a community warning. (🚗🔨⚒️💥)

LIMITED TIME OFFER:

For every note this gets I will kill one (1) acephobe AND one (1) arophobe with my bare hands.

[whoreofthecentury]

[porcupine-girl]

Things we already know about the UHC shooter, mostly from his social media:

- He has a bachelor’s and Master’s in computer science from an Ivy League school.

- He has read several books on chronic back pain.

- His profile banner includes a photo of an x-ray for back surgery. (Spinal fusion I believe.)

- Based on messages from his family, he dropped off the map a few months ago and they’ve been worried about him.

- His political beliefs are a bit all over the map; without doing a deep-dive my take is a pretty average centrist tech bro who’s read too much evopsych.

I’m a bit worried that, as the left is so fond of doing, people will turn on him immediately for that last part. Let’s not do that! Can we agree not to do that? Because here’s the important thing:

He’s a victim of the system, just like we all are. The system pushed him past his limits, and he lashed out at it. The details of his political leanings don’t actually matter - what matters is that you don’t have to be a radical leftist to lash out at a health insurance company. That’s shows how bad things are broken, that a guy who seems fairly privileged in most respects, with no strong political motive, could be beaten down and broken to the point of doing this. He has two Ivy League computer science degrees and yet had nothing left to lose.

This is a class war that doesn’t differentiate between the working class, middle class, even upper middle class. We’re all dog food for the 1% to chew up and spit out. Even if he turned out to be hardcore right wing, in this one single issue we’re united with him.

Everyone’s been talking about how this guy has seen insane levels of support across the political spectrum - which means nobody should be shocked that he could have come from any spot on that spectrum. I’m hoping the fact that he doesn’t seem super far left or right politically will make it easier to keep that unity, but the left just looooves our purity tests. Let’s maybe not this time.

[ikuzeminna]

I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!