#posts that almost nobody will care about

[slimeandsadness]

It's funny that there was chatter about Becoming YouTube and Benjamin Cook yesterday. I almost mentioned in the tags that Ben Cook is also relatively well known in the Doctor Who fandom (mainly for his work in Doctor Who Magazine and being RTD's correspondent in the book The Writer's Tale), then in The War Games in Colour (released today) he's credited as the editor.

[mumblesplash]

pov you’re the wither and you have about 30 seconds to live

(the marks under his eye just say ‘RIP’ in sga/enchantment table language if anyone was curious)

[13eyond13]

I love the way that, in addition to his origin story with his over-sized sword and the scar on his nose, the flashbacks to Guts's childhood show how much of his insane work ethic and reckless self-endangering abandonment in battle were all kinda ingrained into him by his craving for attention and approval from shitty father figure, Gambino.

Random nice mercenary guy: "Don't overexert yourself, kid. Just do what's needed. 'Cause if you die, you lose everything."

Gambino: "It's your first battle. Work hard!"

Guts: [throws himself into battle so hard he nearly dies multiple times, fixating on pleasing Gambino the entire time]

Gambino: "C'mon, hurry up! Work! Work!"

Guts: [gives Gambino his entire earnings, Gambino tosses him back a single coin]

Guts: [more motivated by this one mild bit of encouragement than anything he's ever experienced before in his life]

[anonymouse5]

more marauders fame au’s, more regulus as a professor au’s (jegulus ones, oooh or jegulily yes)

[origamiyoda]

I have Something to make a post about but it's literally like. Genuinely nothing that any of you would care about or like. ITS HARD 2 EXPLAIN but it's been bugging me . And it's not anything here or something I've ever really talked about but it's like. Idk I had a conversation w my irl today and it really frustrated me

[tariah23]

Man, I still remember participating in one of the many jjba zines that I took part in and how my piece was placed as the first page (for the second time) and how one of my mutuals/artists that I’ve always admired, hit me with the “oh… you’re on the front page again… 😅…” like man, that kind of killed me lmfao. I never got over it like man, what was that about.

[itz-pandora]

Huh. If my life was a quote, it'd be "one of those sad ones with a deceptively happy tune"

[maxgicalgirl]

I’m not going to lie I’m like really stuck and don’t know what to do with my feelings about All Of This. I dont have therapy until next week and they don’t have space to move me up and I dont really have anyone else to talk through how I feel ? I dont know what to do.

[maximusboltaqon]

ok so. in lockjaw (2017), lockjaw is mentioned to be 30 years old

this same series ALSO says that lockjaw and his littermates were experimented on to ensure terrigen exposure prior to birth was safe.

as far as any if the comic seems to imply, black bolt is the oldest of his generation (or at least the second oldest, as gorgon's never really shown as a child and i cant find anything that references his age). since rynda is seemingly already pregnant with bb when lockjaw is born, bb is also likely 30 as of the lockjaw comic!

we also know that bb was allowed out of his prison room when he was 18 (or 19, according to some comics). royals lists maximus as being 16 around the time his parents died, giving him a 2-3 year age gap on bb.

we also know crystal is the youngest, though her gap between maximus has also been retconned a few times. in a women of marvel comic from 2010, she's described as being "too little" to play a game karnak's trying to teach her.

maximus is also explicitly said to be 14 in this, and karnak and medusa are both implied to be older than him here (or at the very least karnak is implied to be older), though their ages are not said. maximus is at least old enough to not be considered too young to play bak taga. im going to assume crystal is not yet a preteen in this, making her 2-5 years younger than maximus.

as mentioned above, there doesn't seem to be any clear indication of how old exactly gorgon is. he's older than crystal, and... that's about as specific as it gets. once and future kings has him working with the king while his cousins were missing, and he doesn't seem to be treated as a child during this though he is referred to as a "boy" several times (similar to how medusa is referred to as "the girl") so he's probably 17-18, likely a bit older than medusa but a bit younger than blackagar.

triton is also a bit difficult to track down, as his backstory has been altered a bit over the years. initial comics say he underwent terrigenesis at a year old, while once and future kings (the most recent comic i know of to reference his childhood), clearly shows him as much older than that. he and karnak seem to be close in age:

and there's nothing in this to retcon their mother azur died when triton was 14, which would clearly be after his terrigenesis. karnak could pass as somewhere between 9-12 here, and triton somewhere in the 12-14 range. the main problem is we don't really know *when* the child karnak and triton scenes happen in regards to everything else, other than it was before triton's terrigenesis and before agon and rynda died.

pairing with the wom comic, karnak is older than maximus, and pairing with general early comics lore that oafk references, triton is 18 during the main story, as that's when he started going out on scouting missions. since this comic takes place relatively recently after the death of rynda and agon (maybe a year after at the absolute most), blackagar has to still be 18/19, so triton can't be any older than 19 here, once again if we extend as much as possible. he's probably 18. karnak is subsequently younger than medusa (late teens), older than maximus (16, *maybe* 17), and so he's probably 16/17.

under the assumption time in 616 has been moving the same as in the real world since 2017 (which... obviously isnt true because comics but bear with me for a moment), lockjaw and bb are 36, triton is 35, gorgon is 34/35, medusa is somewhere between 33-35, karnak would be 33/34, maximus is 33/34, and crystal should be between 28-31.

the birth order seems to be blackagar, gorgon, triton, medusa, karnak, maximus, crystal!

though, once again, gorgon is almost completely shrouded in mystery when it comes to his age, and medusa/karnak/maximus are all potentially born the same year! really, the three of them could be only weeks apart for all we know. its very likely at least two of the three are born the same year (probably karnak and medusa, if i were to bet on it)

considering how comics time is always being adjusted, these are probably not totally accurate, but at least the general early 30s for most of the fam and late 20s for crystal is,,, probably correct for modern comics.

(on a side note: the kids/second gen's order is luna, ahura, alecto, petras, leer!) ((yeah, luna should be like 19 by now, ahura was 16 last we saw him (in 2018 iirc) and he's at *least* a year younger than her. giving the rest of the kids specific ages can be a different post bc oh boy))

[wild-magic-oops]

Galemancers

Julian - bi, Lucas - gay

Oliver - demi, Elaine - ace

The Dark Urge - gay, Damien - demi

[fauvester]

bridgerton s2 was SUCH a clayhoun slay. thots in tags

[dementedmk]

Im gonna say it

i dont think raping or torturing hostages was in any way furthering the goal of a free palestine. I think Hamas might just be evil.

This does not change the fact that Palestine and its people deserve freedom, of course. Equating Hamas with Palestine is a scare tactic to sell genocide to the west. But Hamas are not your friends.

[kyofsonder]

Physically, I'm already lying down.

Emotionally, I feel like I need to find a soft spot and crumple dramatically to the ground and lay down for a few weeks.

[skyward-floored]

For some reason I’m the type of sleepy right now that’s mostly just making me extra verbose

[craneboys]

my dad showed me this song as a teen. i'd wondered what this sample was from for years, thought it came from a talk show. apparently it's actually from a Kelsey Grammer lawnmower commercial and if i wasn't insane and watching this man's ads on youtube at 2am i never would have known, crazy

[adhd-mode-activate]

I'm gonna cry, honestly

in my senior year of college, my grades really slipped, to the point that when grades for my last semester came out, it was clear that with what I had I couldn't graduate. I honestly would've been more surprised if I had been able to graduate

my parents and I talked. a lot. my mom was disappointed, but we talked and we're doing better now. my dad was frustrated, but he also looked at me and told me to read the date on his diploma. and then asked how he could be mad when I did exactly the same thing he did

the assumption was that I would have to take at least one more class in my field of study, which is Biblical Studies, so the options for where I can get a relevant class are...limited

but my dad said to wait. just wait. be patient until I got an email from the registrar saying what I needed.

I got that email today, from the dean of my school. he told me I needed one more credit hour in my department to graduate. and then he said that since I'd done my internship for zero credit hours, if I did the paper evaluating my internship he could bump it up to one credit hour with no extra charge

I think I cried for an hour. I actually get to graduate. I get to spend my money and time saving up for a home and a newer car and buying food for my darling cat.

It's weird, thinking how much that hit me. Freshman me would've been shocked and somewhat horrified that I was so relieved just to graduate. But it feels like the days I wake up and realize that it's not so bad to be alive

I get to graduate