#some ppl will still go batshit crazy lol

[tirfpikachu]

sex and dating aren't basic decency, btw ♥︎ y'all are actually feeding trans stigma with this "cotton ceiling" predatory bullshit. many trans people themselves have agab/sex-exclusive sexualities. creeps and bigots are benefiting from this rhetoric and we really need to kill it.

[darcyolsson]

hey there! i want you to know that i’ve never watched an episode of riverdale ever, the only thing i ever knew about it before tonight was that someone throws babies over a fire or something?? (saw it in one of those ‘whcih of these didn’t happen’ things)

i followed you for tsc stuff, but your posts about today’s finale made my head spin. i thought riverdale was a mainstream typical heterosexual show w/ bad scriptwriting tbh, based on the look of it? i’m ace so i’d seen ppl complain about jughead’s ace erasure, but i did not know literally anything else about this show? so your blog tonight deeply confused me, but in a fun way, so i decided to go to the tag and try and figure it out.

and, oh my word. never seen an ep of this thing but i’m sitting here with tears rolling down my face, i can’t stop laughing, i cannot believe they ended it like this, this is absolutely hilarious and iconic and what the hell levels of finale….. i feel for y’all and i’m happy for y’all and i kinda wish i’d watched this show before it ended.

also…… i must ask how it feels to be a part of two fandoms in whcih two ‘finales’ have both been extremely unbelievably chaotic and ended w/ a polycule to avoid ship wars in which the polycule breaks up at some point in said finale (if i’m understanding riverdale’s finale right?)……. as someone who loved qoaad but had no clue what was happening i cannot help but wonder what y’all must be thinking of this episode, it seems even crazier than thule and sebastian and janus and annabel from the edgar allen poe poem and your boyfriend literally selling his soul to his job but telling you two to be happy and😭😭

welcome to riverdale insanity. i hope your adventure has made you want to watch this show. i can try to explain it to you but i physically can't put this show into words (i can actually, they're "camp" and "metanarrative")

basically: riverdale is an intentionally batshit insane show which started out as a somewhat normal teen drama. most people, however, stopped watching after the crazy got turned up a notch and because of that most people still think it's a teen drama and the writing's just bad. but it's not bad writing! it's very very good writing! because every insane storyline is purpose!!!!! and that's why people love it. because they love their insane and gay show. somehow this is very hard for the average person to wrap their heads around.

i love riverdale to death. it is truly, genuinely, the only show of it's kind. it's outlandish and crazy and hilarious and beautiful. there's literally no other show willing to be as insane as riverdale was and it's definitely one of my favourite shows ever made because of that. this quote from a recent interview with some of the actors says it best:

as for the comparison quoaad: i will say that i enjoyed this finale... about the same amount as queen? i didn't like some parts of it but more for general storytelling reasons (i don't want to know the exact fates of every single character at any cost and that's literally all this finale was lol).

the main difference here is that the dark artifices is a serious (wel.. serious-adjacent) ya fantasy series but riverdale is a show that's centered around outlandish, comedic and dramatic storylines. a crazy finale didn't really fit TDA, while obviously, a crazy-ish finale did fit riverdale for the aforementioned reasons (i say "crazy-ish" because i would say this episode is like. maybe #70 on the most insane riverdale episodes list? believe it or not this was very normal by riverdale standards).

and yes the polyamory ending is always ICONIC. they really kierarktina'd us and i'm delighted. more of this please!

also, can i just say, the fact that you thought riverdale was a straight show is unbelievably funny and i KNOW most people think of it that way but you have to know that genuinely, without lying, 80-90% of the characters are canonically bisexual. and virtually all the other ones are gay. all of the main characters are gay/bi (except jughead, though that one's still a little debatable?). most of the main characters' parents are gay/bi. homophobic villains all end up being gay in the end. random background will make one on-screen appearance just to say they're gay and then leave. every single one of cheryls ancestors was a lesbian. i don't have the time to count but think riverdale has somewhere around 30-50 confirmed queer characters. and yes i do wish that they had given is a crumb of ace or trans rep but this is not my story this is one insane gay person's 20 year revenge plan and who am i to judge.

go watch riverdale now <3

[vamprnce]

thinking of pre saints chris and damn he was basically a blank canvas at the time, like no scars, no wear and tear, no major tattoos but yet he still was still unhinge af lmao

[hotwings0203]

Hot takes that y’all are gonna hate me for and I’ll prolly lose followers but idc:

-I wouldn’t put it past bakugo to say a slur tbh especially season 1 bakugo. I know a lot of ppl try to negate that but This dude perverted IZUKU MIDORIYA into some fucked up doll slur so I wouldn’t have high hopes that he wouldn’t say any other shit. Like, Pinky? Half and half bastard? Cmon y’all

-iida should NOT be a prominent character anymore, man’s entire worth is based on his stupid brother WHO HE COULDNT EVEN AVENGE, Stain put his ass in the muthafuckin concrete .2 seconds after he got there tryna pick a fight. And then he’s got the audacity to tell Shoto and deku to not bail him out? Gtfo😭

-Shoto had so much potential but he’s such a dumbass I’m sorry. This dude rlly had to be SPOONFED to be told “it’s your own power!!” BRO WHAT ARE YOU 5?? Harness that shit urself goddamn

-I don’t feel bad for ⚠️SPOILER WARNING⚠️ twice’s death. Hawks literally told him “I don’t wanna hurt you so play nice and you can live” but this crazy fuck had to go batshit crazy so OF COURSE hawks had to murk his ass, as he should. Otherwise twice could’ve made like a bazillion shigaraki’s and then the whole plot would’ve been screwed.

-I also love him but i DONT feel bad for Bakugo’s whole mental breakdown that one episode with him and deku. Like how am I supposed to feel guilty about some dude whose just upset he got surpassed? I mean I get it, it’s tough he thinks he’s the reason all might retired but in terms of deku surpassing him? Man grow a pair😭

-although I hate kotaro (shig’s dad) and endeavor, I actually DONT know what else they should’ve done tbh, obviously they shouldn’t have beaten the shit out of their kids but in terms of trying to steer their quirkless or weak kid’s dreams away from fantasies then I don’t rlly how else they should’ve done it. Like for touya, (again I hate endeavor) enji told him MULTIPLE times to give up on the hero thing. But again, it’s still shitty that he raised touya from the start to be a hero. In terms of tenko tho, like apart from kotaro hitting him I don’t think he was wrong in trying to ensure that his heart wouldn’t get broken if he indeed didn’t manifest a quirk

-oh oh and I don’t feel sad that sir nighteye died, mr “four episode flop” had his due time and plus this dude was PLOTTINGGGG on all lights downfall he can suck it����🏽

-also I fucking HATTTEEEEEE how hawks forgave enji so easily about the whole abuse thing. Man idc if you got mommy daddy issues urself BUT GODDAMN AT LEAST GIVE HIM THE COLD SHOULDER?? At least try and PRETEND like enji was wrong for screwing touya over jfc

-izuocha isn’t a bad ship but I fr wish hori would’ve given them more screentime. Also, Uraraka’s speech abt letting deku stay at UA doesnt rlly count as “character development “, she just did a good thing. Like she didn’t change her personality by making that speech or anything but obv it was still a big deal

Anywayyssss don’t take all of this too seriously it’s just my personal takes lol, feel free to respectfully disagree or give ur own take!!

[jaynovz]

3:30 am and I’m so sad from watching some of Black Sails s4 sooooo. Home and Away liveblog time! 1.7525 here we go!

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Recap! Last time we found out that Doc Green was under review for a bunch of his patients dying and he was super stressed out about it and Lewis kept fucking smirking in the background and just short of cackling maniacally at this news so it’s uhhhh heavily implied he had something to do with that, esp since we know he was willing to kill Ari to sabotage Doc Green. Anyway Doc Green got drunk, was angry, Lewis’ murdering little shit ass showed up and got DECKED (warranted lol) and then Tori and Doc Green had a fight over assaulting a colleague and she told Lewis he was within his rights to file a report. And then the conniving fucker kept giving Jaz the biggest shittiest grins and was like “YEAH YOU KNOW IT DOC GREEN IS FINISHED HAH SUCCESS” and Jaz was like 🤔👀 maybe my bf has some Issues. 

Also Mac is making an appt to get her smuhsmortion and hasn’t told Ari that she’s pregeranteay and it’s his baby. All caught up!

Anyway I am anticipating some major drama fuckery and I REALLY want to find out if Lewis has actually been murdering patients so, let’s dive right in~

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mmm strong arm girl WILLOW IS HERE yisss

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oh dear. jaz is trying very hard to de-escalate this and convince Lewis not to file an official report. she still has hope for him 🥺🥺🥺

this conversation is uhhhh not going well

poor jaz. crazy boi is on the warpath and there’s no stopping him.

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it feels like all willow does is help other ppl solve problems. she’s a saint.

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just wanted a cap of these cuties :3

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dean stop bullying ur sis about her smuhsmortion, it’s her decision ok. 

omg dude really you’re not even going to go with her. WEAK.

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Jaz trying to reason with batshit lad again

also he looks very handsome today as he does most days

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ohhh shit he just told her to pick a side ohhh boyyy

honey it’s ALL going wrong

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YESS ZIGGY FUCKING GET HIS ASS. She’s tearing Dean a new one about not supporting his sister. YEAH!

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willow wingman and problem solver extraordinaire 

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aight she chose Lewis’ side but is she going to regret that??? (likely yes)

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oh shit mac just collapsed! next ep~

[zhaleys]

Dir en Grey NA Tour Sacramento live report

Wanted to get this out earlier but I had so much going on. Im still traveling back as I write this. Below is my written live report for This Way to Self Destruction in Sacramento Ace of Spades 12/6! Im so grateful I got to be a part of this tour. I will have a drawn live report in the next few days so please look forward to that!

I'll try not to focus on mundane stuff since there's so much footage going around. Just my whole trip getting to Sacramento was a hellish scape because I was battling against the clock. I stayed at a friend's place the night before (thank you Ying!) I had planned to get in line around 1 or 2 but ppl on Twitter were saying there was barely anyone so me and my friends just waited til 5 since we realized it was a weekday. Thank God we did because it was right when the line wasn't really forming but there was still some people. I had GA ticket and I was maybe 20 from the front (VIP line had about 50 or so people?) Once it was time for doors to open the line had wrapped around the block. We all went in by sections to check bag/ID etc.

Once I got in everyone was dispersed around the hall. There was two bars next to the stage, one raised on a platform but not taller than the stage. The whole venue was TINY /tinier than others I've been/ but there was balcony seating and still plenty of space so ofc I went straight to shimote since there was maybe 3 rows formed barely. Once I was in place we stood maybe an hour and a half waiting for everyone else to come in. I also met a wonderful follower from IG KAI THANK YOU FOR SAYING HI. Im sorry if im awkward around new people but it was really nice still!

The lights went out and everyone immediately screamed of course. They had their usual video playback going on and some mellow tune as all the members walked out. Shinya, Kaoru, Toshiya/Die and finally Kyo. He was wearing his hair slicked and that half eye-closed look for a good 5 minutes as the crowd kept cheering. SO MUCH MORE TINY THAN I EXPECTED! I knew he was short but I felt I could squish him even though im the same height. Kaoru also looked really small but I think it was his pants that were giving that Illusion. Toshiya was pointing at the crowd getting us riled up with his white and black bass and the great wardrobe choice of that black vest 👀. They started the set immediately with Zetsuentai and everyone went batshit crazy. My row and especially people in center front were headbanging so hard I could see all the hair in the crowd. My shoe immediately unsnapped but I didn't notice until later when I was jumping harder. This is the full setlist (might have errors)

Zetsuentai

Ningen wo kaburu

Rubbish heap

Devote my life

Celebrate empty howls

Keibetsu to hajimari

Merciless cult

Values of madness

Aka

Downfall

Keigaku no yoku

Ranunculus

The world of Mercy

ENCORE

Hydra 666

Followers

Utafumi

The audio was absolutely fantastic. I could hear all the instruments and Kyo's voice clearly even though I was in the front and sometimes it tends to get all meshed. Now time for some highlights during the set!

Ningen was right after Zetsuentai and it was one of the tracks I was super excited for since the crowd singing and headbang after the first verse always looked so much fun and once it came to it I was not disappointed at how great it was! I understand this isn't a Japanese audience so the singing wasn't as loud lol I knew some of us were really on the lyrics. I was also surprised many fans also synced movements like at japan lives. It was very lively. No one was too still for a long time. I had to switch arms sometimes to keep waving lol

For the start of Values of Madness and I think also Devote my Life Die flipped off the crowd before he started playing. He's so beautiful dammit. By the middle of the set I was already in second row barricade because of the moshing in the back. We were sardines.

During times they switched guitars the crowd sometimes chanted diru or members names. I screamed for Kaoru at one point. This one guy at the elevated bar kept chanting dir en grey and Shinya name but it was kind of annoying.

When Ranunculus played we were all in really nice sync (at least my area) and we did hand waves during the chorus. I was so surprised when kyo was still breathing into the mic and then the music suddenly merged into WoM. I knew they might play it but was still surreal to me. I think a few of us mightve sang the first verse but it could've been my ears ringing. That part in the middle of the song when Kyo started to bite his wrist and pretend to take out his intestines had me terrified and in awe at the same time. His art and commitment to the performance was 100/10 I love this man. He smeared his lips and eyes too. The screaming part has us going crazy during the end as always. Such a supreme song live I couldnt believe it.

Waiting for encore felt eternal but we chanted probably through most of it. "one more song!" and "DIR EN GREY" until they came out. Poor Shinya almost tripped when he went around his set! There was no outfit changes except kyo who came out with his mask from WoM promo👀 (no bandages though) It started with Hydra666 which was a surprise for most of us but I could tell we were all happy since the crowd chanting was on the dot for it. Kyo removed his mask at the end to reveal joker makeup (super sexy imo 😔💕) The second song was Followers and then Kyo stuttered announcing "les,...Last Song" xD I was hoping between Child Prey or Utafumi and sure enough I was deafened by that amp sound once the Utafumi beat kicked in (it actually hurt my ears a little for how long it was) at the bridge part Kaoru extended his riff by a minute while Kyo stared down the crowd. He was making scrunchy face like "hurry up kyo!" Haha! I forget if this is where I made eye contact with him but I know he was right at the ledge with us as he played. I sang the bridge with kyo since it's one of my faves and then the set was over.

Kyo clapped then left immediately LOL but other members stayed. Toshiya and Kaoru baptized me with water as they started throwing their picks and drum sticks. ( I got none ofc fk) I was hoping Die might do a little speech like in EU but he didn't :/ Once the members all left the stage I was on a MISSION to get them their gift! I chased down the guy inside barracade who was filming and I think I caught him with another staff guy. Thank God I could speak Japanese so I asked them if they were staff and if they would give my gift to them. The non camera guy said it was fine and asked me for who it was and I was just like for all them ahsjsk ( my friends were looking for me at this point) so I didn't want to lose them. I thanked staffさん for their blessing then met up with my friends. It was pouring right when we exited and the venue workers were shooing us. After a while we all reconvened and picked out a place to eat. The rest in history~ Thank you Diru 💕💀

Other things I recalled from the set:

- during the bridge and last chorus of Values of Madness me and a bunch of people were screaming/singing with kyo it was so cool I felt so alive AAAA

- Totchi hugging his bass in the middle of WoM

- Die coming over to Shimote

- Shinya going crazy during Devote my Life

- Totchi headbang sometime at the latter half of the set

- Kaoru pointing at the crowd and shouting

[hotwngz]

What are you most passionate about with aviation? And what first drew you to be involved with it? Do you find it challenging/rewarding?

damb.....u must rly want 2 c me go crazy 

the shit that amazes me the most abt aviation is the feeling of limitless potential that exists in it. so much technology exists that people dont know about and its wild to me that its actually a thing. and i tend to think “well shit if we managed that already just imagine how much further we can go.”

its also BATSHIT when u think about how far the tech has come in such a relatively short amt of time. like wtf. its literally been like 116 years since the first instances of powered flight. considering the very humble beginnings and fact that now theres an aircraft for like almost every job, allowing people to do things that used to be impossible, thats amazing. like now we got shit that can cruise at the edge of the atmosphere. stealth fighters w/ radar absorbing coating so the damn jet appears as an object the size of a bug. i mean damn even airliners. ppl complain bc unless ur in 1st class its unpleasant to travel and yeah but when u think abt how u can cross the world in a day where it used to be like, weeks on a boat. damn shawty ok.116 years. 

of course so much of that development was driven by wars and stupid shit but its still fucking impressive the level of ingenuity and dedication on the part of everyone involved in developing these things. like. im not tryna suck military toes but shits still cool

and the technology is just going to continue to push the boundaries of what everyone thought possible bc as soon as a need arises for something that nothing we have yet is capable of doing, someone out there WILL find a way to make something that can. and bc its often the military funding it u kno they go all out for that shit

as far as how i got into aviation- its my dads fault. he worked for boeing and textron during the better half of my childhood and has always been involved with aviation to some degree. when i was a little kid he used to take me down to the airport to watch the planes on weekends and i could point to almost anything and hed be able to tell me what it was. that shit never got old to me.  actually learning to fly was just like an idea but not sth i looked at as a real possibility for a long time. and then i realized “bitch i can legit just do this lol.” i actually wanted to be a helicopter pilot originally but that training is even more expensive so i settled for fixed wing. its still fun. 

and yea its definitely challenging and rewarding. flying a plane is not like, easy but i also dont think its as hard as people assume. when i was training 4 my private license there were a couple things that were fucking hard for me but i got so mad about it i just kept doing it until i got better in a p short amt of time and i think i managed to do that bc i had invested so much time....and money already i was like ok mf ill be damned if i let it get me now. so i got my private pilots license. however i still have a long way to go before ill be able to make money out of being a pilot. and thats kinda intimidating but so are a lot of things. living is fucking intimidating so i might as well try this shit while im at it. im also hoping to go to school to become an aviation mechanic as well bc that side of it is just as interesting and fun 4 me. + if ur a mechanic who can also fly the damn things thats extremely desirable 2 employers. and ive had some hands on experience thanks 2 being buddy buddy with our mechanics. so i also get a lot of opportunities out of my current job just by nature of being at the airport all the fuckin time and knowing everybody.anyway long story short, that post thats like “im always in an airport. even when im not literally in an airport im emotionally in an airport” thats how im livin 

[marianbyron]

twdg take us back thoughts (forgive me if any of this is out of order, i’m doing this from memory)

-the game took 10 minutes to download and those were a wild ten minutes i’ll tell you that -right off the bat i was worried clem was gonna get bit -i tried to shoot lilly at first, then i saw it didn’t work and wished her well. that’s just my s1 lilly fan’s final breaths of air right there -LOUIS SAVED MY LIFE THANK YOU I’M SORRY ABOUT YOUR TONGUE -god louis’s little smile though oOF -VI I LOVE YOU -THE OTHER KIDS ARE ALIVE -vIOLET INITIATED KISS!!!! (adding a read more bc this got LONG)

-uhhhh i’m pretty sure i’m not the only one who was left with some post-ep3 lilly vibes with minnie. like fuck u for expecting some kinda redemption arc with any character we are going to make them go Batshit the next episode -like i really thought we’d be able to help her or something when she was fighting off those walkers. i mean i get she was totally brainwashed but c’mon man. she’s a kid. but fuk that ig -walker james man. i sorta justified not going back and killing lilly last ep by saying this was what james would’ve wanted (also it’s my playthrough i do what i want), and now that i know what happens if you do save him uhhhhhhh.... i’m glad i made the choices i did tbh! it’s what james would’ve wanted. -i spent so long in that cave looking for “something to light on fire” -i decided to trust aj. i figured a) that could possibly save my life (it didn’t lol), b) it would make him feel good about himself, and c) i’ve taught him pretty well up to now so i trust him. -MEETING UP WITH VIOLET AND OUR LITTLE FAMILY HUG WOW CAN I JUST SAY THAT SHIT’S THE GOOD SHIT -i low key wish i’d named the school castle violet, but i figured it was more important to give her the choice. texas two squad, gang gang -fighting minnie on the bridge i was thinking ‘ok minnie’s gonna get a lot of shit for this lol’ -speaking of Bridge Scene, that shit was INTENSE if nothing else -like SHIT -when minnie cut me, i thought ‘oh fuuck, something’s gonna bite that’ -i also thought ‘hey clem’s gonna have a big leg scar to match her big arm scar’ but i was wrong about that lmao -i’ve never been more stressed that someone was gonna bite me than in this ep lmao -i also thought the scene from the trailer where you try to grab aj’s hand was gonna be here on the bridge, not on the rocks -oof when tenn died i was upset, but i feel more secure in that than if it were violet who died. only because that was tenn’s choice, and tenn was another person, like james, who had seemed to make peace with the walkers in a way. plus he died with his sister, which seemed to be what they both wanted at the time. that’s not so say that i wish i could’ve saved him without killing vi (or louis), but i do feel satisfied with what i got here (rip tennessee, you were a cool kid) -and then vi jumps over a fence ok bye violet -climbing up the rocks, i knew this was when it was gonna happen. but still. i cried lol -when i uncovered the bite, i was reminded of the s2 game mechanics. oof -as soon as she was bitten i said ‘you have an axe! cut it off now! do it!’ and when they didn’t i died -the next bit was reminiscent of lee making his way to the marsh house in s1 -actually, clem’s limp reminded me of a new day when lee got into that car crash lol -and when clem and aj were closing the doors to the barn and clem said to get something to block the door, i was expecting her to continue and say something like ‘something strong and sturdy’ like lee said when they were blocking off the pharmacy in s1 bc that scene gave me strong pharmacy vibes -and then strong jewelry shop vibes bc why tf not -playing as aj. that was rough. he’s FAST tho oml -that was when i went ‘ok so clem is dying for real’ and cried a lil bit more cuz you know me -switching between clem and aj. DUDE that got me so emotional -also aj using clem’s trick (that used to be jane’s trick). GO KIDDO -seeing clem looking more and more dead fuckt me up (like how did she get from that to the end of the ep i don’t get it. like even if it was because she waited shorter to cut it off or because it was her leg rather than her arm or what. it doesn’t matter because by the time lee looked like THAT his arm was (determinantly) long gone. but hey, not gonna analyze it too much lol i’m just glad my girl clem’s alive) -okay when clem was talking to aj that also got me crying -and when i told aj to leave clem, i was thinking ‘okay, maybe she’ll link up with james. or tenn, but like hopefully not minnie at this point. and lEE maybe she’ll find lee. or luke. or her parents-’ -and then he picks up that ax and i was like ‘woa ok did you just kill her??’ -and then the flashback. lemme be real and say i thought that was the afterlife or something, and that those floaty specks were Afterlife Dust -but then i remembered ‘oh right the ranch’ -lemme just say i didn’t think the ranch was gonna look like that lol -not 100 percent on what was going on at the ranch tbh -like who were those people and why did we kill all of them? one would assume that clem would first try to get aj back peacefully -oh wait they were at war right -also i really liked the design of like all of those people -and the LAVA GUY HOLY SHIT -obviously i mercy killed him -also wait, was clem with the people they were fighting? i couldn’t tell -ALSO also, was. was that eddie? from 400 days? checking the wiki real quick -yea i think that was him. rip eddie you didn’t deserve That. i mean i was happy he was back nd then we were just forced to kill him oof sorry man -felt bad about killing that woman also, but hey, she had aj in a tiny locker, so i didn’t feel super bad about it after finding him -also lemme just say -little kid aj?? -SUPER CUTE OML -he’s like the perfect mix of anf aj’s face and tfs aj’s face. kudos to whoever designed little aj -also when clem was talking with him in the car. i felt like it was sort of unrealistic little kid talk, but not so much that it distracted from anything going on -never go alone god rule number one had me crying -and then we’re aj fishing! -i didn’t catch any fish as aj lol -also i LOVE how they changed the dialogue options for aj to be a lot more childlike if that makes sense? like fuck yeah that was a really nice call -ROSIE IM SO GLAD YOU’RE OK -i didn’t scratch out the v+m heart because it’s history, and it’s not mine to scratch out. same reason i didn’t make clem spit on marlon’s grave -CLEM’S HAT GET IT -GET IT GET IT -OH GOOD GIRL ROSIE YOU’RE A GOD -oh a walker -oH THAT’S A TENN WALKER SHIT -well i’m not gonna kill him Again -also i don’t want the other kids to have to see him -i was so glad when i got the option to throw the rock -he learned from james what a good boy -RUBY HI -god ruby’s the best lmao -my thoughts when they’re talking about the hat ‘...aj hasn’t put it on... they haven’t talked about clem in the past tense.... is she.... possibly.... not dead?’ -lmao and when the next scene started, the trees + sky reminded me of the st john’s dairy and i wondered if we had another lee dream or afterlife or something but nope -is this take us back?? -hOLY SHIT IT’S TAKE US BACK!!! -okay and walking home, seeing everyone. god i was so sjfsakjfa there -like when i saw aasim run up to ruby i was all !!! and when they held hands i was all !!!!!!!!! yknow?? and then when i saw omar and WILLY and then on the gate there was VIOLET (i was so glad she was ok lmao the last thing i wanted for my girl was an offscreen death) god that was so good with the music i was crying a little again -need to make another bullet to stress how happy i am for ruby and aasim. like i would’ve been happy either way but they were portrayed as such a cute couple in the few seconds we got of them, so like. consider me a fan now i guess -i was worried for louis at first cuz i didn’t see him -i thought maybe this was the end of the game because we closed the gate and stuff and i was thinking ‘oh, like closing the story’ but NOPE -sup omar. up and cooking again i see -lmao my sleep-deprived brain found it hilarious that we just put the empty bucket down next to him -uhh what came next the graves or clem?? i forget -WAIT IT WAS THE GRAVES BECAUSE THE TIRE SWING WHICH IS SO CUTE AHH -well tenn’s grave made me :( but then CLEM -so glad my hunch that she was alive was right lmao -but also i thought that was determinant it was a lot less satisfying when you realize that no matter what she lives -i mean i get why they did it like that, they didn’t want anyone feeling left with the “bad ending”, their thing is that their games are tailored to how you play and there IS no bad ending but still. a little variation on that front would’ve made it a lil more satisfying -also where did they get those crutches -i love talking as aj. so much. -he’s just a funky lil guy! -that convo with clem on the steps, when she asked if she did a good job... like FUCK YEAH you did a good job, I’M YOU, you think i’m not happy with how i raised me?? -aj saying ‘are you crazy’ when clem asked that made me smile -okay i know ppl have been saying this. but. siblings aasim and willy rule. -and then the meal!! -i was super hoping for a card game but what we good was good. not great, but good. also, card game as aj would probably not be quite as fun. or it’d be very fun. honestly, it’d probably just be a different kind of fun. -when we panned over the table i saw a flash of louis and i went all ‘louis!!’ in my head -louis’s little note sadfasf that was so cute -and honestly everything about louis in this scene i love you louis -actually, just this whole scene was cute. willy and omar were adorable, and then ruby, and willy asking for seconds, and everyone just being Soft in general like. yall deserve this happiness -vi and clem talking Strategy dude sign me up -i love how clem trusts aj now. and i trust aj too tbh, a lot more than i did initially. i think i taught him pretty well. -violet and aj duo let’s go -slightly worried abt that caravan that was mentioned, but hey. the game left off on a high note, so NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN TO THEM EVER. YOU HEAR THAT?? -vIOLET INITIATED KISS PART TWO!!!!!! CHEEK KISS EDITION!!!!!!!! IM SOFT!!!!!!!!!! -okay that hallway with the snb team’s names all over the walls?? dude oof. they worked so hard it made me so happy to see their mark on texas two -haha texas two -ANYWAY -obviously i looked at all the collectibles i had, AND pet rosie, because i knew that when i ran out of things to do, the game would be over, and who wants that? -aj: *places human skull* *looks at animal skull* wow clem really likes skulls -kiddo i hate to break it to you but -seems like you’re taking after her in that regard -good girl rosie -lmao aj and his magic powers -it’s like louis in a box -hanging up james’ walker mask made me :(( -he is watching over you aj. and he would like that -ok guys i am BEGGING you. if you haven’t already, PLEASE repeatedly click disco broccoli until you can’t anymore. it’s great. -and then i finally had to put down the hat -”thank you for playing” GOD THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME -I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS SERIES IS OVER -I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M SAYING GOODBYE TO CLEM -i mean i still have my louis route BUT IT’S NOT THE SAME AS A FRESH EPISODE YKNOW?? OKAY FINAL THOUGHTS: -FIRST OFF I JUST FOUND OUT VI CAN GO BLIND -honestly im in favor of that i rly like blind violet au and now it’s not au -rip her eye honestly -new tag to match my rip louis’ tongue -also i left violet feeling loved FUCK yea i did i love violet -OKAY ACTUAL THOUGHTS -looking at this episode afterwards, is it just me or is it a little... lacking? like, a little off? i mean obviously it’s good in the moment, super intense, but there were just a few things that make me feel like it’s the weakest of the season -also lmao i guess fuck minnie james and lilly, their storylines all felt kinda like a middle finger to their fans if that makes sense -but holy shit was that minnie stuff haunting. like HOLY SHIT -also, for a game that’s been focused a lot around clem’s interactions with the other characters, there was a lot... less of that in this episode. no card game, barely any interaction with anyone other than louis/violet, tenn, minnie, aj, and james. and two of those people are fighting you. one of them is even determinant. i was just expecting a little more on that front, because this season’s been really good with that sorta thing -also i would’ve loved a little more time with violet/louis. but that’s just a personal thing and not necessarily a problem lol -again, i feel like it would’ve been a little more satisfying for clem to survive if there were an option where she didn’t. but again again, i totally get why they didn’t go that route -in that vein, i’d really enjoy a little more time with the person who wasn’t on the bridge with you. i miss my boy louis :( -idk there’s just something a little off about this episode. -that’s not to say i didn’t love it (because i TOTALLY did just look at all that stuff above haha) -like i know i didn’t love the minnie part, but like i said, that shit was INTENSE -i can sorta see why they went that route -and i can’t speak for living!james but walker!james was oddly peaceful to see. like, there was a feeling of ‘this is what he would’ve wanted’ -and okay i loved the violet initiated kisses. so much. -also ruby and aasim that was pretty cute -and obviously im happy clem isn’t dead that’s always great -OH and i loved the scene with the snb team’s names on the walls. like that was so good. -finally, the end scene was so satisfying. it ended the series the right way. with clem’s hat :p

[meggannn]

LOL YOUR ROOMMATE?? I can't stop laughing omg

god did i ever share the full story of what happened with my housemate last year? i think i bitched about her a little bit but here’s the full write-up of my six months with that housemate. unedited and probably full of errors and discrepancies sorry cause im going off entirely from memory

i’ve now moved out of this apartment, but i was there for a year with three other girls. two of them i got along with fine, and we introduced ourselves to each other before we moved in because that’s common courtesy to see if we get along right? but basically before any of us could talk or interview candidates for the last spot in the apartment, this girl, i’m making up a name and calling her emily, this random girl named emily basically came in and signed on for the spot on the lease without talking to any of us. uh, okay? so we eventually all get in a group chat and talk and introduce ourselves and plan to move in. day one:  emily moved in before me and i moved in a few hours later. i walk in and see the kitchen and she’s already covered the fridge with magnets and pictures and paper clippings featuring…. herself. like, a few of them had her friends, but most of the pictures were of her. basically. am i crazy or is that fucking weird? so from the get-go she just seemed……. if not privileged (which i also knew she was later), then definitely some sort of weird type of entitled but i couldn’t tell if it was maybe just cultural differences? (she was russian but had grown up in the states. idk)

anyway. she had this boyfriend who would come over occasionally, it was no problem since we didn’t talk and just waved hi to each other occasionally. but from the first week she and another housemate who lived on the far end of the apartment were both having trouble sleeping because someone else on the floor was blaring their tv loudly all hours of the night in the room next door. after several weeks of not being able to sleep through the night, they’d pretty much had enough and managed to track down whose apartment it was, and it turned out to be this elderly black woman’s apartment. i don’t really know if the woman understood why they were so upset because i think she might have been going slightly senile as well, so i think maybe the tv, or the volume, was something she wasn’t entirely aware she was doing? but the other housemate, i’ll call her veronica (who is more chill but was still upset) understood that this was probably not a fight they wanted to pick. veronica noticed that the elderly woman had a middle-aged male visitor, who looked like family, come visit the woman a few times a week and take care of her/take out the trash etc, so veronica decided to wait until she saw the visitor again to talk to him about lowering the volume or turning the tv off, or maybe getting his relative headphones or something. but emily, like….. kept pushing it every single night. every single night for the first month or so she’d stomp across the floor and rap on the door loud enough to wake up the entire floor (the walls were thin and it wasn’t a big building). and most of the time the woman didn’t respond, but there was one notable time someone else got fed up enough to wake up at 2am and yell at emily (deservedly so) for waking up the whole hall. all of which i heard very clearly because my room was next to the main door to out apt.

things escalated when i overheard emily talking to her friend on the phone about the situation and then she mentioned that in retaliation, she went over in the middle of the night and put vaseline on the woman’s door handle. i was kind of stunned and disgusted that a grown ass adult (she’s at least a few years older than me, i’d guess late 20′s/early 30′s?) would do something like that???? but anyway a few nights later iirc, once again in the middle of the night, i was woken up by a shouting match down the hall because apparently the male relative had come back to check in on who he said was his mother, and HE WAS PISSED, UNDERSTANDABLY SO, AT FINDING MY ROOMMATE IN THE MIDDLE OF PUTTING VASELINE ON THE FLOOR CREVICE UNDER THE DOOR. LIKE. THAT’S NOT JUST PETTY BUT REAL FUCKING DANGEROUS TO DO TO AN ELDERLY WOMAN. he basically shouted at her and she kept talking about how she can’t sleep for months because of the noise, and whatever, but she stomped back to our apartment and they had this argument loudly at the door (remember, my room was right next to the front door). i listened to it for a couple minutes wondering if she would like, acknowledge what she did was wrong? and it became clear that she was so focused on the noise she wasn’t listening to this dude, so i came out and i tried to be a voice of reason. the guy was understandably really pissed that she would do something like that and i apologized for her and said she was wrong to do that (she had stomped off back to her room meanwhile) and he seemed grateful to talk to someone who wasn’t batshit crazy in the meantime so he mentioned that he had grown up in this building all his life before moving out so it hurt to see someone treat his mother this way who had lived here for 50 years or something. and after that i was just thinking like, jesus, this is so not the kind of fight you want to have with a family like this as a white woman in a gentrified apartment complex. like at some point you need to realize this is not your fucking place and if you must settle things, do it civilly or just dip out entirely.

i think emily eventually apologized and he accepted and they found out that the tv wasn’t even coming from the woman’s room at all, but from someone on the floor above who THEY also had had problems with for months.

veronica was away on a trip i think during this climax, but before, while it was still escalating, i was talking with veronica and veronica mentioned she and emily had bitched about the noise to each other often, but veronica said she drew the line when emily basically started making her complaints race-themed ever since she found out the elderly woman was black. etc the complaints turned from “it’s too loud” to “this neighborhood is so ghetto” and “that’s what black ppl are like” and stuff like that. veronica wasn’t cool with that, so she planned on handling any other complaints herself directly so she could resolve things like a normal person, but ever since veronica mentioned that i knew emily was a pos

emily also complained about people partying/drinking on the street outside till ~11pm, which imo isn’t too unreasonable, like normal people do, and basically being too loud or whatever. on some level i get it cause she had to go to sleep early to go to work early, but also at some point i was just wondering how she functioned as a human being in the real world

ANYWAY THE STORY I TELL AT PARTIES IS THIS ONE, THE ONE IN WHICH SHE LEAVES (i will try to keep this as short as possible while still giving you all the details you need to understand just how fucking weird it was):

in early november, emily group messaged everyone asking if her boyfriend could come live with us. to her credit she said she wouldn’t do it unless everyone was ok, and she waited to hear back from all of us. i was out of town at the time but i remember being really put off by this idea and i was going to say no, when i noticed that my two other housemates had ALREADY said yes in the chat. just like that. i was stunned. what? like, no follow-up questions or “we dont even really know him” or “how is this gonna work”? were they fucking insane?

i messaged her privately saying i really wasn’t comfortable with it, for xyz reasons. among those being 1) rent, because nowhere did she offer to split the rent five ways instead of four (they were basically going to split her room between them, which, no). 2) fridge/living space, which was small enough with four people to one apartment as it is, and 3) just overall “i dont fucking know him” atmosphere. she messaged back saying she understood, and i got to asking why this was so important to her to do now, because she mentioned she wanted to do it “asap” if we’d said yes.

and this is where my “no” turned into “hell fucking no.” she told me this:

in response to my question of if she’d want to put him on the lease, she said no, she wouldn’t want her boyfriend on the lease in case “something happens so she could just tell him to leave” (raising my question: what, exactly, do you expect to happen? maybe the landlord, who lives in the building, finding out someone’s living here illegally? bc THAT WOULD DO IT FOR ME)

she was marrying him in december which is why she wanted it to happen “soon” so they wouldnt be living apart. i asked why she couldnt just wait until the lease was up to do all this, to which she said:

her boyfriend’s green card (he was russian) had expired so he was now paying month to month and that’s when i realized, oh. bitch he’s using you for a green card marriage and you’re trying to inconvenience all of us instead of owning your life like an adult, or something

at some point during the conversation she like tried to bribe me with a couple hundred extra dollars per month “to cover the cost of the extra utlities/wifi/inconvenience,” which i politely declined. this was when i said basically “look i never got the sense you particularly liked living here (massive understatement) and i think that it’d work out best if you moved out, which you’re clearly already planning to do”

and she did start looking immediately. at some point while she was looking i overheard her talking to veronica mentioning that he was a huge fan of putin and she’d asked him to like, politely, stop?, lmao because she didn’t like his entire yknow politics, and he basically said “i’m sorry, i can’t betray my personal/national identity, i just really believe in putin” or whatever the fuck and i thought to myself, this bitch is marrying him anyway for some godforsaken reason

i don’t know why i hoped that she would be any more considerate moving out than when she moved in, but somehow i was still surprised when the sublet she picked out was someone she never introduced us to or mentioned before, she literally just said “hey here’s your new housemate and when she’s moving in” and dropped us a phone number and facebook page.

one last thing: while emily was moving out, veronica mentioned to me that she was really pleased i stood up to her because she felt massively uncomfortable with the situation too. i asked why she didn’t say something, and she said she talked to emily privately airing out her problems, and emily had managed to talk her into accepting that sort-of bribe privately off message, and emily told her ‘just say yes’ in the chat, so she did and was kind of kicking herself for it after. (our other housemate was off doing fuck knows what at this point; she was gone for weeks on end leaving us to take care of her guinea pigs for her with little to no warning.)

but then, veronica says, the big thing that astounds her is that this wasn’t even the same boyfriend who she’d had when she’d moved in. six months had passed by this point. SHE HAD BEEN DATING GREEN CARD GUY FOR LIKE, THREE MONTHS WHEN SHE DROPPED THIS ON US

and then she moved to fucking harlem, one of the yknow most diverse neighborhoods in the city known particularly for its black heritage, so i guess have fun honey

(her replacement somehow turned out to be just as bad as she was, so you can imagine why i was eager for my lease to end in may)

[mayahawkse]

i do agree about adrian being calculating and for sure that carries over into the bedroom, like the way he can immediately see people's weak points is also something he can use to know how to take you apart. i think he has a lot more self control than people realize and he can tease you for ages with a surprising amount of patience and self restaint.

however...i also see him as someone who can be very feral when he fully lets go especially when he's in dom mode. (i know i also see him as more on the dom end of switchiness than some ppl do so that might be part of it).

with eddie i see him as being controlling but also consistent about it if that makes sense? he's also a character i feel like i'm still getting to know though so my opinions are subject to change.

lol opinions subject to change yes!

i'm a switch!adrian bitch obviously, bc i love thinking about that crazy lil man whimpering and whining but i also like to think about him spitting and slapping me around lmao

with eddie tho it's full soft!dom bro with the mushiest aftercare. like playful, maniacal, batshit sex followed by the warmest hugs and softest kisses