#still interesting

[balkanbitch]

No one will understand how interesting I find rise raph and Mikey relationship is

Both Mikey and raph are fixers. Raph wants to fix all of his family's problems and make them feel safe and secure. While Mikey wants to fix any person he meets with any sorta of issue and will put anything and everything to fix it

So raph is taking a very physical (and somewhat emotional) burden to keep his family safe. He always puts himself infront of any danger to protect them. He makes sure they don't hurt themselves or get in any trouble. He wants to keep them safe and will hurt himself doing it and he has taken it as his sole responsibility.

Mikey similar takes on an emotional burden of his family. He is keeping everyone together. He is pushing them to get along. He is seeking them out to try and fix their problem. While it is to a much lesser extent than raph he is still subconsciously trying to fix his families emotional issues.

So like I feel like it would be really interesting to see these traits interact.

Like Raph notices something is up with Mikey and wants to try and fix it. But Mikey has picked up on the fact that raph is taking on weight of everything that is wrong in the family and does not want to add on to it with his issues. So than Mikey tries to FIX RAPH issues and raph, not trying to burden his youngest brother, ignores Mikey's attempts. And it just keeps creating this feedback loop until everything just explodes.

[ringostarrsbitch]

The Beatles invented heavy metal, by the way

[princessmo]

listening to a dinky little portable radio i found but the only station i can decently pick up is an AM where someone's talking about the GM strike. could be worse but damn i wish i could get tunes

[popcornaddict500]

HM

I could potentially dump a third oc into Touchstarved... it would cause some interesting dynamics...

esp since they are an alien 🤔

[vio1315]

Fasting isn't a sin because its considered a way of developing the virtue of self discipline. (As far as i understand.) But obviously there needs to be care with this as some people make it a works thing and believe they're more moral the less they eat. Anyone tempted to an ED should not fast

Fasting is not the same as missing meals

As I understand, fasting is done pretty purposefully, and I would imagine treating your selfish meal skips of ‘oh what a hassle, let me just not eat’ as something spiritual is probably a bad thing to do in general

But there is a lot I don’t know about the fasting process yet, so deets on the topic are welcome either way

[epoxyconfetti]

[ritualvirtuality]

please do look it up if you dont know the date bc there may be at least an approximate answer and otherwise the last option will completely dominate and this poll will be boring.

and dont be like 'but i cant sing'... just answer the earliest tune you know well enough that you COULD sing it

periods of western classical music provided only for reference

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Very much inspired by that Valentine Pin-Up Alastor merch where the only significant change is him having his bow-tie unclipped.

Anyway, happy valentine day sike, it's Aro week and we are begrudgingly going on dates to help our friends with their heist. Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 (end)

[elainiisms]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[the-chosen-half-of-one]

[femmeclefable]

definitive ranking of all kinks and fetishes by morality:

[ahjiing]

Gale is surrounded by weirdos and the only sane creature in camp is Tara

[froody]

The Italian restaurant in my mom’s hometown WAS definitely a mob front. The owner briefly served in the Italian military, immigrated to America in his twenties back in the early 70s, mysteriously had enough money to open a chain of Italian restaurants and was convicted for trafficking cocaine across the Virginia/West Virginia area and spent 15 years in prison.

My mom had worked as a waitress at the place while she was a teenager and throughout her 20s and she realized that when she was sent to the restaurant’s sister location in West Virginia in a mysteriously packed car by her mysteriously nice boss, it probably wasn’t pizza ingredients she was hauling. It was the 80s. She was a tiny, very naive, conventionally attractive church girl with no criminal record so she was the perfect unwitting drug mule.

The thing was, this restaurant and the man who operated it were locally loved. Beyond large scale organized cocaine trafficking, food was his other passion. Everyone waited anxiously for him to get out of prison and when he did this guy started a crusade against the corrupt local sheriff’s office. He started doing anti-police brutality advocacy work WHOLEHEARTEDLY. Donating to local families who had been victims and participating in local drives and awareness campaigns.

Made men usually do local charity work but the balls on this guy to take up sword and spear against shitty corrupt ineffectual law enforcement. Incredible. One thing about Appalachians is that we hate the cops and we love social agitators. This guy lived a long eventful life and died recently of natural causes and the overwhelming outpouring of love for him on Facebook was incredible, a uniting force that the town had not seen in decades, everybody was sharing their favorite stories about him and I’m sure local law enforcement was fuming.

[mangozic]

archivist be upon ye

[abd-appleboxdog]

I love these fools so much. I hope in the end they stay together or keep in touch. I heart them its like the dad who didn’t want a cat but loves the cat