#out laughing i guarantee

[victimized-martyr]

Did you ever mention how you got into kyman? Personally speaking, I got into it (again) around 2020 when I rewatched sp, and I basically fell down the rabbit hole. I’ve been into it on and off since then.

I probably did somewhere, but I'll say it again!

I wanted to see what SP was all about so I decided to just watch the most recent episode/special at the time-- post covid. But I realized, it was a story that wasn't forgiving for newcomers, and I had NO idea who was who. I have vivid memories of being weirded out by the redhead guy being upset about the rabbi dude's wife and kids. Then when he said "did you know that he once snuck into my room and gave me fucking aids?!" I GASPED bc one, it was super out of nowhere, super crude, and two, I falsely assumed like, OHHHHH they're gay exes... that explains this weird behavior. I'm sorry what else was my dumb ass supposed to assume! And I watched the rest of the special viewing them in that context hgkd But when I started to properly watch the show from the beginning/ hop between episodes, I felt embarrassed for myself, I was like HOW on earth could I have made that false assumption. I was actually grossed out by the thought of kyman at the start! I knew that Cartman was obsessed with Kyle, and that they did care for each other as friends, but I couldn't fathom Cartman's obsession being anything genuine or Kyle reciprocating. I even made a post abt it on my main as I was watching the show, it might still be in there somewhere lol. I was happy just watching the show as is and I was like, dang! This might be the first thing I get into without shipping anyone! Then, my buddy @shpadoinkle-day texted me what was practically the kyman manifesto and urged me to "wait till seasons 20/21, it'll change everything"

at the same time, an irl buddy watched THAT moment in Manbearpig w/ me for the first time and went "that's... kinda fruity" and I was also like?? yeah?? damn... Then I saw seasons 20/21 and it opened up my eyes. I think it was the only seasons I was so enthralled with to completely binge in one night ghfksd and I. was. floored. Kyle crying over cartman? during a montage of couples breaking up? Kyle being speechless when he saw cartman get a gf? Kyle questioning if he liked heidi, Kyle's stupid ass "we're all going out with Cartman right now", how he inserted himself in the relationship so hard, yet when taking heidi from cartman, talks as if he wasn't doing it for Heidi. His frustration at Heiman was at the very top in list of justification at bombing a country (yes, Kyle says he's upset a girl he liked turned into cartman... but there's layers in that statement, esp. compared to kyle's actions). Kyle memorizing the day they got together, confronting Heidi and asking how Cartman is doing as a boyfriend, what specifically she finds about him that's redeemable (and we all know how Kyle is about finding the good in people), batshit insane things a normal person (like stan) wouldn't ask his friend's girlfriend. And then of course, Kyle dropping all that effort when they break up. Insanity. I realized the obsession was mutual, and rewatching the show in that context completely rerouted my watching experience with the show. It kinda made it funnier for me too lolol. I started picking up on all the evidence I saw shippers point at, and I got what they meant fr. Kyle and Cartman are assholes and poke at each other's insecurities, have hurt each other, yet will not let the other die, Kyle is usually the first one to call for cartman if something happens to him, he saves him when he doesn't deserve it, and Cartman, as stated by Stan, cannot live without him. And it's subtly shown he wouldn't keep kyle just to rag on, bc if that were the case, he would not hesitate to hold it over Kyle's head. Their feelings for each other are very complex, and--if you really pay attention to the show--mutual.

[tyrantchimeraart]

Sometimes being a best friend means supporting your friend's decisions and offering advice. Sometimes it means screaming your head off at them for being an ABSOLUTE DUNDERHEAD, tanning their hide with your umbrella, and terrifying them into going into literal deer-in-the-headlights mode. In no particular order.

Inspired by @mocamagical's X-angel AU and some recent shenanigans with Alastor making an ass of himself. Because as Rosie herself said, no one in Hell is perfect.

[gowns]

person TEXTED ME BACK btw all is well suicide cancelled

[courtingchaos]

I’m just here as your friendly neighborhood podcast listener and current layabout with not much going on.

I’ve seen a few things about Eddie and the community turning on him quickly. I think a lot of things people aren’t remembering or realizing is just how prevalent the satanic panic was, and is, in the US.

Now there’s no chance that everyone in Hawkins hated Eddie and believed the satanic stuff. I mean, look at everyone in Hellfire. I guarantee parents were wary at first but then Eddie shows up like a goofball or has a string of ma’am’s and sir’s and they realize he’s just a kid with a lot attached to his name from a lot of terrible circumstances.

Anyways. A good thing to listen to is the You’re Wrong About podcast. Specifically these episodes.

Very first one of the podcast:

And then these two both have multiple parts to them, the first one is actually about the book that kind of jumpstarted the whole panic to begin with.

This also has multiple parts. This one is about someone getting seduced by a ‘satanic cult’.

These would have been books that while not everyone would have had one in their home, anyone who was devout or at the least religious, would have bought or read their own copy.

Basically all I’m getting at is that Eddie would have had a lot going against him. I know that a lot of people didn’t want to read Flight of Icarus but Eddie’s character is built on a very shaky foundation. The town dogpiling when the ‘Queen Bee’ gets killed, especially if they’ve already decided that he is a satanist? It was only a matter of time.

[quasiimodo]

can i offer you a low effort meme in these trying times 

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

Lan Jingyi's the type of dude to post memes on the neighbourhood groupchat while Jin Ling fights some old lady about the quiet hours, Lan Sizhui's trying to contact the administration to avoid escalating to the police and Zizhen cooks smoked fish in his balcony to spite the old lady that keeps threatening them with the police

[frogllad]

so happy everyone is finally appreciating mcsm after the movie trailer. jesse deserves their damn flowers man way better protag than whatever whitewashed steve got goin on

[wonder-worker]

Anne de Pisseleu had exercised a form of power that was intrinsically extra-institutional and dependent entirely of the king’s favor; her role was clearly understood by political insiders. Criticism took the form of conventional hostility to the role of women in power, yet in the king’s lifetime had to be circumspect and oblique. However, she lived more than half her life after the death of the king whose love had given her power and wealth. In this, she weathered the storm of disgrace remarkably effectively, carved for herself a new role and ended her life a moderately wealthy woman whose assets became a matter for ferocious competition among her relatives.

— David Potter, "The Life and After-Life of a Royal Mistress: Anne de Pisseleu, Duchess of Étampes"

[c-119]

Not necessarily an ask, I kinda just wanna say I really love all your doodles and hcs of Cabbie and such. He's become a brain worm and lil hyper fixation of mine and it's lovely to see so much work of him. Would definitely love to see more if you have any planned! :]

Aw, thank you dear! I didn’t have any more doodles of him, but I couldn’t just leave you with nothin, so I made some for ya :) I haven’t drawn him in a bit so I’m a bit rusty, but I hope these suffice !

[meezer]

my therapist seems kind of appalled and malding a little bit that I am not in a relationship and refuse to actively seek one out. it's okay though it's fine like genuinely water off a duck's back what she thinks of my celibacy. it's just annoying.

[todayisafridaynight]

Especially because in the end... Arakawa loses his son in small ways that just Accumulate... but Jo's the one who even gets to outlive his son... AUGH. THROWING MYSELF INTO A WOODCHIPPER

Also while going through old messages, I saw I actually had a dream back in 2021 that Jo came back in LaD8. I mean sure he had "longer hair" and "a new outfit NOBODY liked except me" and was Unserious like RGGJo whereas in the actual teaser he sounds more depressed than ever but I'm still taking credit alright... the vision came to me...

And in a Hell Will Freeze Over Before This Happens I Just Like To Think About It way. I want him in my goddamn party and I have for all of Y7 so it's not related to the new game. I don't care. I want to find out what his favorite flowers are I want to take him to Every Movie and get his commentary on all of it I want to take him out to eat and watch his little itadakimasu animation play out I want to have the most light-hearted and inconsequential conversations and I want him to chime in I want to exhaust every option on his Drink Link I want to unlock his sickass tag-team moves I want to wear True Hero and fight by his side I want to shower him with so much love and affection he won't know what hit him (<- channeling Arakawa tbh)

its just insane because from a metaphorical sense arakawa 'outlives' masato in that he becomes aoki and like. That's One Thing, but then Of Course. There's Jo. //stuffing my mouth with wet cement// like OHHHH the pain never stops it never ends,,

mate i think your brain was just tryna manifest RGGJo to make a come back through y7 ☠️☠️ CREDIT WHERE CREDITS DUE THO BUT DAMN would have been. THE MOST interesting change to his character though.... on the real.... because yeah he just sounds so tired from the trailer so far （；´д｀）would be hilarious if instead of entering a Super Depression arc bro's just. Yeah Alright Fuck It. What Can We Do Now Amirite. walk right out the cell with the white suit and snake-patterned lapels and all ☠️☠️

OK BUT MOST VALID RANT EVER. MOST VALID WANT EVER. would really just have the vibe of dragging your jaded uncle around the city i would died to have that,,, 😭😭

[the-sky-the-stars-the-sea]

Just found this thing that I wrote in my notes a few months ago the second I woke up from a dream so I could remember it…I very vaguely remember it, but my biggest question now is what on Earth did I eat the previous night

[eclipseatdawn]

if you claim to be an ally and someone calls you out for enabling transphobic/homophobic behavior and your immediate response is to get mad or say that the person you are defending is allowed to express their opinion, then you should really reconsider if youre actually an ally cause it seems like youre just putting on a mask to be seen as progressive and dont actually care about people

[worddevourer]

“Ah, Seymour, I have at last found thee, in spite of thy direction.”

“Milord Chalmers! I bid thee welcome, and I hope thou’rt prepared for an unforgettable luncheon.”

“Aye…”

Seymour steps away, leaving the man at the table, and retreats to check on the state of his cooking. A terrible smoke billows forth.

“Oh, egads! Mine roast is nought but ash!” His eyes light upon something beyond the window. “But perhaps all is not lost… Were I to prevail upon the local tavernkeep for assistance, and pass his work off as my own…” He laughs. “A deception fit for the Devil.”

He steps to climb through the window and embark upon his plan, but with only one leg free, he is interrupted.

“Seymour!?”

He freezes.

“Ah. Milord Chalmers, in such a moment you find me. I was… stretching my legs upon the sill, nothing more.”

Chalmers seems uninterested.

“Why doth smoke billow from thy oven so, Seymour?”

“Uh… Ah! You mean the steam of the steaming clams upon which we shall dine tonight! A most delightful delicacy.”

This seems to satisfy the man, who leaves the kitchen.

Seymour bolts with unnatural haste to the nearby tavern, returning shortly.

He steps into the dining room, carrying a heavy dish, laden with meats and potatoes.

“Milord, I do hope you are prepared for a delicious meal.”

Chalmers seems for a moment confused.

“Did you not say we were to eat steaming clams?”

“Oh? Oh, no, certainly not, steaming ham, I said.”

Chalmers frowns.

“You would call this steaming ham?”

“Oh certainly, ‘tis a phrase I learned in childhood.”

“And from where did your mother hail, that you’d learn such a thing?”

“From the north, nigh unto Scotland.”

“I am of Carlisle, and I’ve ne’er heard such a thing as ‘steaming ham.’”

“Ah. No, in Carlisle I’d think not. ‘Tis more at home on the tongues of those from Norham.”

“I see.”

Chalmers ruminates, eating.

“Strange as it is to say, I think I’ve supped on much the same in a tavern nearby.”

“No, no, that could not be so, this recipe is an old secret of my family.”

“The secret of steaming ham?”

“Yes.”

“A name you give it in spite of the fact that this meat most certainly once comprised a cow.”

“I. Well… It is curious that you should… If I may take a moment?”

“Certainly.”

Seymour steps away, into the kitchen, and returns instantly, carrying with him the smell of smoke and a rush of burning air.

“Ah, and what an evening it has been! It has been most excellent to speak with thee, milord, but I fear my strength is spent for the night.”

“Yes,” agrees Chalmers, “I must be- By God, what burning light through yonder kitchen door doth break!?”

“Tis a visitation of a heavenly angel?”

“Ah- A heavenly angel? Upon no holy day, at no auspicious hour, to we who are so far from the Holy Land, in thy own most earthly house!?”

“Tis so.”

“… May I see it?”

“… No.”

They step through the front door.

“Seymour! The house is ablaze!” rings a voice from a room deeper in the house.

“Nay, mother, tis merely a holy visitation!”

“Seymour, thou’rt a most odd fellow, but I shall speak truly… thy hams steam most excellently.”

He steps away, and starts off down the road, and Seymour waits a time until he hath gone beyond sight before rushing back to quell the fire and answer the cries of his mother.

[septembersghost]

i have experienced the full possible range of human emotion in the past hour i think, but honestly if the universe decided to balance out the scales and be a little softer, i can only be grateful. i'm saving this just because...there isn't a way to succinctly explain why the fob collab is as special as it is to me, or the memories speak now holds (coming out right when i was starting to recover), or the vital feelings attached to all this. and people think i'm silly when i say music is an actual force in my life and spiritually, cosmically connected to everything