#say no to street food

[aahanna]

"It's been a year since I last had momos, and I haven't even missed them! Last year around this time, I had a severe case of food poisoning from eating them, so I've been avoiding them ever since. And you know what? Quitting momos was a great idea!"

[vanityangel]

WWE SMACKDOWN (JUNE 30, 2023)

Bonus:

[dykedvonte]

One of my mutuals opinions is the "bro code" thing, that Curly is one of those guys who wouldn't care about the victim because the perpetrator is his friend and I'm really banging my head on the wall like that other anon. I've only played through the game once but Curly's behaviour/reactions etc read completely different from the "bro code" thing and I have to wonder if my mutual and I even played the same game.. like the constant digs at him from Jimmy, his body language in his face reveal and so on like you mentioned in your post. While this game is a little different obviously, it kind of reminded of a point in Alice Madness Returns that makes it very clear that Alice's pain blinded her to the abuse of the other children and her failure to act earlier because of it. Curly is guilty of a similar inaction but it doesn't change the fact he was a victim of Jimmy too. I don't think I can look at it any other way because both of these games have really stuck with me.

I genuinely think it really is the idea that people want a simple easy to blame problem and the idea that the only relatable victims of abuse are those that "surpass" it or do a lot to help others. When it comes to victims, especially those that don't fit the typical demographics, who either accidently perpetuate it, enable it or aren't ideal in some way shape or form, people jump to ignore what they went through as it's easier than dealing with those conflicting sentiments.

The bro-code conversation in Mouthwashing stems from a concept I generally dislike that there had to be something about Curly that made him meet or keep being friends with someone like Jimmy. I think people genuinely underestimate how many like decent and good people just know an asshole or are friends with someone who is really bad outside of their view/established dynamics. The game makes it clear none of the inaction against Jimmy is because of a lack of care, it is a lack of understanding from the privaleged postions they have as men to not have to worry about what Anya does/went through and the type of extremes men like Jimmy will go through to cover it up. They are all too preoccupied in their own strifes.

Another thing I see being oversaturated the idea that you have to be a freak, misanthrope or have a disorder to do the thing Jimmy does. The game is an escalation, it's a spiral that I don't see people comment on that Jimmy was not likely having the mood swings and episodes of rage/frustration we were seeing in the game. This is after they all start experiencing the worst moments in their lives that he got THAT openly bad. Of course, this is just my interpretation but much like in real life, people that go to extremes like that usually live mundane lives. It's a pressure cooker affect to where the stress made them pop. It's self inflicted but still the case.

I really think people need to be more willing to acknowledge that not everything needs to be an extreme or in black and white or easy to understand. It doesn't need to be happy or have an answer or solution, especially in the cases where the abused sadly helps perpetuate what they experience. It's not he should've known better from experience or shouldn't he have known what could've happened because victims tend to not like to think in matters of the worst. Not to mention, especially in cases of abuse where it feels so personally directed that you don't expect to happen to someone else.

[cake-emu]

seen ppl on Twitter all "Carla doesn't cook but here she is chopping veggies for Lisa" and I will not be hearing this, no no no, Carla does cook, she's just frequently bad at it, and what I find so mind-bendingly endearing about that is that she doesn't let that stop her. she always keeps trying at it (except on Christmas Day), and sod what anyone says about it

[cuppajj]

most goatedest chinese takeout delivery ever

[sylph-o-life]

My cat, Ziggy, started doing something recently where she gets visibly upset when we have dinner late. (And we're talking 1-2 hours late, so not minutes late. And also a house of 3-4 people she gets upset about. Thats a lot for a little girl!)

MORE recently, however, she's started offering me her own dinner when this happens. Before that started I figured it was more a routine thing. Like, "why haven't you eaten all together yet?"

But now I'm thinking she might think we don't have enough food, and is trying to give us some of her share. She also gets pretty visibly stressed when we refuse to eat her food. Sometimes shell even threaten to go hunt down some dinner herself.

And then once she sees that we have eaten, she settles IMMEDIATELY. Like I cannot stress enough how immediate she begins to get up to mischief again. And only then will she eat her own dinner.

Idk what my original point was gonna be, but I am in tears at how much this cat loves us for such a little being.

[daxwormzz]

Youngin years

[do-you-know-this-cat]

Do You Know This Cat?

[dynamitekansai]

Via Solo Sikoa's Instagram Stories

[number1villainstan]

the thing about chisaki kai is. he was a street kid, right? in the anime, that flashback of him meeting pops--pops says "you've got nowhere to go." homeless. a street kid.

now.

imagine something. two street kids. maybe they're teenagers. maybe they're younger. maybe one of them's a teenager and one of them's like 7. doesn't matter. imagine these two street kids--they've found food in a place where food is either scarce or inaccessible. but there's only enough food for one of them. the other one will die of starvation. if they split the food, they'll both die of starvation.

one of these kids is thinking i don't know if i deserve this food more than them. the other kid is thinking i'll do anything to get that food and survive.

and let me ask you now: which of these kids is going to die?

[weirdo-from-bonesborough]

I refuse to believe Tim only snuck out at night to go to Gotham. He definitely fucked around in the city on weekends and summertime. A bunch of people from Crime Alley to Robinson Park who know him as “the one weird kid” + friends he used to hang out on various playgrounds with as kid.

No kid adventurous enough to decide to sneak out at night in the first place, let alone do any of the shit Tim has done, is gonna be satisfied staying cooped up in a lonely manor.

Also, Tim must love Gotham. He must. Sure, maybe Tim’s obsession with Batman and Robin started with him just wanting to see some cool gymnastics and fights, but Tim absolutely believed Bruce and Dick and Jason were heroes. Else, why would he care about Bruce self destructing? It’s sad to see anyone suffering, especially someone you look up to, but Tim must have been genuinely upset at how Bruce was treating people to try that hard to get Bruce to stop. Tim knew he could get hurt, and he knew he would have to stop Bruce from going too far, but he became Robin anyways. And he kept fighting every day even though he was put through the ringer over and over and over again. Robin can’t just be a job for him. There’s no way he doesn’t love his city…

Sorry I got distracted. What I’m really trying to say is that I think Jason and Tim should keep accidentally having mutual friends from before they were Robins/Waynes.

[sashiavi]

Y'all ever crave textures?

Every now and again I just need to feel the crOnch of a phat pork spring roll beneath my teeth

[helliecarousel]

I was wondering why the Yiga are obsessed with bananas but we never see them cook it to get the attack buff...

Inside joke between me and gf about them making filipino banana-based desserts like banana-Q, sinaput, turon, etc.

[nereb-and-dungalef]

To the tune of Billy Joel's "Back in the USSR" but it cuts off at "Back in the US"... how I feel about Tashkent lmao

[floral-hex]

woke up at 4am feeling the weight of my life crushing me, so I’ve been sitting out in my car for the last couple of hours because I just need. to. be. somewhere else.

[prommytheus]

wait when sholmes skipped town to go stop the exchange program, he was then on a boat for 50 days to Japan and then 50 days back to England. did he tell Iris that he was leaving. and was she alone by herself that whole time or did she go to Gregson or someone else’s apartment. thats 100 days sholmes tell me you got a babysitter Sholmes