#sick of the nfl

[stephstars08]

A girl just stating facts!

Some people just can’t take the truth!!!

[meameagirl]

Joe sharing something around midnight.. someone couldn’t sleep

[snowyroads]

oh y’all are insane 🥲

[jiwonhaes]

the Luka Doncic-Anthony Davis trade is so batshit insane that literally people from every sport are commenting on it and it's making me realize that the nfl isn't nearly half as dramatic as the nba

[chasedeys]

clear eyes, full hearts collection of joemarr/bengals fics :)

Chapters: 2/? — my heart is thrilled by the still of your hand - joemarr, mature | 3.9k Tags: Other Assorted Bengals - Character, Pre-Relationship, but like really toeing the line here guys practically dancing on it insolently, Suits and Ties, The Homoeroticism of Tugging On Your Not!Lover's Tie, Banter Summary: joe wears a suit and tie for game day and has a Moment in it with ja’marr. (a very lighthearted fic of the 'nothing hurts' variety, kind of like my nipple piercings fic! featuring heavy flirting and an emotional support tee in the end for like 3 seconds)

also—joemarr pinky shake, to me:

[homestuckreplay]

one time dad egbert punched me in the face. it was awesome

(page 1137-1144; some troll and Midnight Crew theories)

I now know exactly what it feels like to get punched out by Dad Egbert. In a page that should definitely come with a photosensitivity warning and is the most abrupt, unexpected transition in the comic so far, we become Jack and get WHOPped in extremely dramatic fashion.

I like two things about this! First, even though the title doesn’t indicate that we ‘are’ Jack, that ominous shade of purple in the background and the red and orange of the word bubble matching the harlequin hat visually indicates who and where we are. And second, after the ‘psyche!’ pages scattered through Act 2, I’ve noticed that Act 3 has been perfecting seamless transitions where the narrative uses a pesterlog or visual parallel to move from one character to another. Some examples are the Jade to Rose pesterlog transition in pages 837-839, the Rose to PM timer transition in 869-870, the Jades to PM visual transition in 1032-1035, and the Rose to Dave gifts transition in 1093-1095. Having gotten used to those, I actually enjoy how aggressive and nonsensical this feels, especially as Jack is kind of ridiculous as a character and he is in this antagonistic relationship with Dad.

I had assumed that Jack killing John’s dad would be forbidden – kidnapping a Sburb player’s loved one and holding them hostage pressures the player to go the ominous planet and save them, even though it’s a dangerous place they’d otherwise want to avoid. Killing Dad, while tragic for John, wouldn’t be as effective from an evil game designer perspective.

Page 1140 is a callback to page 90, the first Strife page, and to Dad’s lighter gambit! Of course as a pipefan413 he needs to carry a lighter at all times. And of course as a harlequin enthusiast he knows those jester hats are going to be flammable. As for the shaving cream, I did some research and according to this video Barbasol, which is what Dad Egbert uses, isn’t flammable. Other sources say that shaving cream itself isn’t flammable, but the propellant mixed with it in pressurized spray cans generally is. So I’m not sure if Dad was trying to extinguish the fire (because he’s a sensible guy who cleans up after himself, and prefers harmless pranks to actual damage) or if he was trying to heighten it (because Jack was trying to attack him with a knife so things are way beyond ‘prank’) and it didn’t work. The Dad Egbert mysteries will never cease.

Jack letting Dad go is another mystery. Obviously, Jack thinks they have a shared hatred of the jester hat, and is grateful to Dad for destroying it – so is this a moral code of Jack’s, a favor for a favor? A sign of respect for Dad’s far more sensible hat? Or is this just about the amount of problems Dad is causing, and Jack’s just giving up? Either way, Jack is apparently going rogue. He’s going against his orders to wear the hat AND to keep Dad imprisoned, and he’s sure to get in serious trouble with the monarch.

Jack is honestly a fascinating character, but so is pretty much every character in Homestuck, so it’s hard to decide who I most want to learn more about! Jack seemed so hard-boiled and rule-following in his first few pages, immediately donning the hat despite his displeasure, and following standard procedures to contain Dad, but apparently this was the last straw he needed to totally boil over. Could this maybe, possibly be the thing that pushes him to leave his position, go hide out in an underground bunker with a few of his trusted associates, and begin some ‘nefarious plots serpentine in complexity’ (p.328)??? Spades Slick does have a knife in his inventory (p.329) but it doesn’t look exactly like the one Jack uses on Dad (p.1139), so maybe there’s a few more steps in between, but surely we’re going there. SURELY.

So what is Dad going to do next? He’s escaped, but surely a lot of people will be trying to recapture him. And he probably wants to look for John, but I don’t know where he’d even begin. Even if he found someone friendly, would he know how to communicate with them? How will he figure out that John isn’t even on this planet? I would like to see a parallel scene to Jade exploring Prospit where Dad explores the ominous planet, and I’ve previously theorized that the trolls are currently on the ominous planet. And they definitely speak English, so, could this be how we physically meet a troll?

And, as the trolls might have access to extratemporal wifi (thanks @foxgirlbeans for coining that phrase), is it possible that one of them is making the Midnight Crew comic based on real events on the ominous planet and posting it to the Earth internet as fiction? This could explain how a caricature of John is also present in the Midnight Crew (p.831) and why he’s referred to as GT there, as the trolls haven’t been able to relocate him since he changed chumhandles, so they’re guessing how his Sburb session is going instead of knowing for definite – or perhaps GA has gotten some information on the session through Rose. It would also make a great parallel between Dave making SBAHJ and whichever troll makes MSPA.

Based on what we’ve seen so far, I don’t think adiosToreador – the only troll we’ve seen Dave talk to – is capable of making a successful webcomic. None of the chumhandles jump out to me as ‘Midnight Crew author’, but apocalypseArisen and twinArmageddons have similar religious undertones to Godhead, and terminallyCapricious contains the word ‘terminal’ – like a Sburb command terminal, something that plays with the fourth wall, or like technology as in ‘turntech’. So if I had to put out a wild guess for this red string theory, it’s one of those three.

> Dad: Go and make a new friend.

[realtapiocafan]

the worst part about the justin tucker news is that random people have been mentioning it since 2021... but no one cared enough to investigate.

[queercodedcowboy]

i did just cry when the eagles lost. i did.

[ohymnia]

idk feeling silly

[tv1xx]

Yesterday was Super Bowl Sunday, and this is one of the AU’s I have been working on and I plan on making it a series on my A03 and on here. I also had the pleasure of talking about it with one of my fellow moots @crismakesstuff :3. So like…. What if Nolan played football? 🏈 *nervous laugh* *gets booed off stage*

Prepare to be sick of me with Sports AU’s , I am a MAJOR fan, and it’s the off season now, and I have time.

[thebroken--soul]

Fuck Mahomes and the Chiefs.

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Ew the Chiefs owners 🤢 Conservative zealots do be zealoting

[burreauxpop]

i need someone to praise me like these commentators praise mahomes because wtf…

[chasedeys]

NOW WHAT THE HELLLLLLL ARE THE RAVENS DOING 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[msclaritea]

The #1 Rule of a SHOWMANCE:

Whenever lead celebrity in the partnership, gets official promotion, the secondary celebrity partner, must also be promoted. Figures, she and TS are fast, media bffs. The last time I said anything about it, they had her trending, for two days, for doing fuck all. They've been pushing Deadpool 3 and Fantastic Four, every, single day, on Twitter. Superbowl, really wasn't exciting.

Keep in mind that Disney no longer does advertising on Twitter.

[feddy-34]

this is so hilariously 90s with the breathe right strip