#that's probably the best case scenario here

[thatguywhodoesstuff]

Another Doey The Doughman Thought I Had

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Alright, so this is going to be a controversial take, but here goes:

Despite how nightmarish being fused together to make Doey was for the boys, it was ultimately the best case scenario.

Alright, now before anyone whips out the GrabPack, let me elaborate.

Basically what I’m getting at is that despite the three’s personalities constantly clashing and vying for control, oddly enough they balance out and give Doey the traits he needs to make it in the depths of Playtime Co.’s prison. Now, if Jack had been the sole human used in Doey’s creation and therefor was the only one to serve as the Doughman’s consciousness, it’s doubtful he would have had the leadership skills (Matthew) or will to fight (Kevin) needed to make it in the hell he’d find himself in, let alone found the Safe Haven.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, I’d imagine that the absolute worst case scenario would be if only Jack and Kevin had been paired together to create Doey, who would have far less inclination or ability to manage his temper and desire to lash out at those that harm him as a result.

As tragic and messed up as it is, the Doey we got in canon is probably the most well equipped for holding out as long as he did.

[timbitshockey]

If you dont think things are different now than they were in 2017, idk what to tell you except you’re part of the problem. My cousin has to carry around her passport; she had to put her kids birth certificates on file with their school (ones a kindergartner) in case they get stolen away from her. Even tho they’re us citizens (it shouldn’t matter) but they’re brown enough it’s a problem.

Do I think every guy that went is racist? Probably. The exception is if they aren’t. But are they also all part of the problem? 100%. When we look back, if we’re lucky enough in decades to come, we’ll look at pictures of the people who normalized these types of politics and that’ll be one of them.

Fandom isn’t activism and people should draw their own lines where they’re uncomfortable. But if your first response is to see those smiling happy faces, next to a man responsible for destroying thousands (and soon millions) of lives, and not feel totally sick to your stomach- if your response is to write an essay saying - “hey Sid Crosby went in 2017 and maybe all white guys are like this so maybe we shouldn’t judge them too hard” , you’re also part of the problem and are no different than those smiling laughing men standing next to a misogynistic, racist, transphobic, homophobic, neo-nazi fascist (on a national day of protest, no less, with people protesting in all 50 states against the mass incarceration, forcible deportation, and eventual internment of thousands of people).

But I hope the Panthers had a good day! So glad they got to enjoy that old hockey tradition of going to visit the White House! So glad Matthew Tkachuck got to take a picture with on his clear idols!

i asked people on tumblr to be empathetic to each other, not the players. i was very clear that the players are responsible for their actions and in the best case scenario are uninformed and unempathetic and in the worst case scenario actively perpetuating exactly what you wrote in this message. if “be nice to the panthers” is what you got from what i wrote, there is nothing i could say here to make you happy since you are clearly looking to be angry and not reading what i write. i don’t like the panthers. i don’t like matthew tkachuk. this has nothing to do with my personal feelings about the team or the player. i am talking about the way we treat each other on this website, which is clearly not something that you care about.

i hope sending this made you feel better.

[seedling-lotus]

who wants to stand in my kitchen with a gun and make me do my dishes?

[naamahdarling]

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[auroras-void]

The worse the current situation gets, the more pissed off I get talking to liberals.

Like, academically I have always known that liberalism is deeply hypocritical, and they're at best, situational allies. But, like, this shit is getting real, and they still talk about this like it's a game.

They're still talking about the laws, precedents, institutions. They're still making quips about the orange man. Pointing out his hypocrisy as if anyone has ever given a shit except them.

"there's a hundred years of precedent behind that one" as if the Supreme Court can be trusted with anything whatsoever

"Ah he can only do that to enemies of the state" as if he doesn't decide who the enemies are. As if being an enemy of the state should deprive someone of their humanity.

"I'm more worried about the Islamic terrorists he's going to create by antagonizing the middle east" as if, just, honestly what the fuck... I don't even have words for that one...

"oh it's fine, he won't come for us" as if we aren't already at the first line of the poem. It might have different names but it's the same story: "First they came for the illegal immigrants..."

I had someone seriously try to argue that "don't worry the senate majority leader said he kinda didn't like him once, he'll stop this" and just like, how the fuck can you say that with a straight face?

It's all as if they don't see the aspiring dictator and his council of theocrats explaining their plans to destroy the world in plain English. As if everything we had that was supposed to stop this from happening hasn't already failed. As if millions of people aren't about to die.

Like, I understand upholding our institutions and using the law to slow him down is incredibly important right now. My sincere hope is that he gets tangled up in this for long enough he doesn't have time to change the laws and secure the keys to power tightly enough to crown himself king.

But fuck man, even like half of my best case scenarios right now still involve me leaving the country. Even just the stuff that's already explicitly in his power to do is fucking evil. Fascism isn't just a thing we're worried about happening in the future it's here right now.

This isn't his presidency, this is a Heritage Foundation presidency. I don't give a shit what dumb shit he says he's so blatantly and openly a puppet for them he might as well have strings coming out of his wrists. This man does not give a shit that he is president, he just knows if he gives the theocrats what they want and if he signs what they put in front of him, he gets to play golf for 4 years and become richer and more powerful than he's ever been.

There is a shadowy organization controlling the government, that has been in politics for decades, is powerful and well connected. An organization that has spent every one of those decades trying to kill me and anyone like me, and it's not a wild conspiracy, it's empirically verifiable fact, being openly published to the world.

I feel like I'm going crazy, watching what's going on right now, I keep explaining it to people and I sound crazy too, but then they listen to what I'm saying and they can't dispute any of it. So either I'm just way too good at arguing why things are dire, or this shit is real, and we're watching history repeat itself.

And these fucking liberals are here acting as if they aren't included in the last line of that poem. As if I'm not right in front of them terrified because I know I'm like the second or third at best.

I've already had to cancel my name change because of what's on the horizon. This isn't a game, this isn't a joke. "Running away to Canada" isn't hyperbole to joke about at a cocktail party to me... I am filling out my passport paperwork and I can barely hold my fucking pen straight because I'm so scared. I'm so scared. I have to go back to therapy because I'm genuinely worried I could be on the verge of a psychotic break over this shit. I'm so fucking paranoid now. The echoes of history are screaming in my head. I look at the world in front of us and all I can see is lovecraft, a cosmically terrifying planetary work machine choking all corners of the globe, fueled by blood and suffering, with no goal other than to perpetuate itself by any means necessary. I've seen it's face. It didn't have a face before...

Like I'm at my fucking limit, why the fuck should I have any expectation that liberalism will suddenly start working now. Why should I believe any part of this system was ever actually designed to protect me.

I know right now, we're only at the south bank of the Rubicon... it's not completely over yet... but we've seen this before... Caesar didn't stop there... and neither did anyone else...

If me and my friends weren't still fighting to keep each other above water, I'd have been dead last week.

Humanity was not built for this, we were never built for this...

I wasn't supposed to see this... I wasn't supposed to know all this...

I was just supposed to be this weird looking monkey picking berries in the forest and sharing them with my friends...

How do I go to my desk on Monday and act like everything is normal...

[ocellatum-h]

proud curly defender literally what was he supposed to do. its sad that he couldnt do anything but in no way is that his fault!!? theyre in the middle of space, his friend will 100% lash out if he confronted him in a more severe way than he did (he reacted to "lets figure this out together" with talking abour how theyll be remembered as a tragedy (crashing the ship)), and he couldnt lock him anywhere because theres like 3 locked places on the ship which are the cockpit (where he would crash the ship, and lock the captain out by putting him there), the medical room (all the medical supplies are in there!!) and the like storage room thing (they didnt want to and did not dare to open that until way after the crash.) . the only thing he could have done was kill jimmy, which would not only be kind of hard to shoot anyone period but youd have repercussions for when you get back. also then youd just have a dead body on the ship whicy they probably have no means of isolating/disposing of for the next like what 8 months? pleasw tell me what youd do in this situation if you blame him more than you blame jimmy

ALSO HE WAS GIVEN 2 DAYS TO PROCESS TBIS AND THINK OF A WAY TO FIX IT. THATS NOT ENOUGH TIME TO DO TJAT!! especially when tne answer to fixing it is nothing until they land back on earth at least

[a-s-levynn]

Love when an idea hits so hard that you have to stop and make a fast sketch just to make sure you don't forget it later

And all these lies, I can't confess

[ruleofheart]

unfortunately. UNFORTUNATELY. thinking about single mom ellie with jj. i know

[pepsinister]

Lots of reactions to today’s Staff post, so here’s another one in the ring.

I’m not so alarmist as to think that the changes Staff laid out today are going to kill tumblr, I think they’ll annoy most of us and drop a few users but ultimately blow over because they’re less egregious than what every other site is up to right now. Also, even though I don’t like the changes, I do like the way Staff is publicizing them.

But I do see a clear pattern in Tumblr’s recent moves - bolder merchandise marketing via Emporium, scrambling for engagement metrics with Tumblr Live, more aggressive prompts to sign in to see content, etcetera. Some members of staff have even publicly said outright that tumblr needs to start making money. What this pattern tells me is that Tumblr as a business entity has probably been given a deadline by which to become profitable or at least financially break even, and what we’re seeing is an aggressive push to meet that goal.

I don’t think Tumblr is going to work out the secret recipe to profitable social media, nobody except Facebook ever has, and nobody else is in the niche that Facebook is in. The secret recipe probably just doesn’t exist outside of that niche. Everything else that any of us do on social media is costing somebody a TON of money that they want to one day recoup.

So my guess is that Tumblr is going to shut down in the near future, not because of these unpopular changes but the other way around.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

i was doing sooooo well today and then i started thinking about the future and now i'm crying in bed and rewatching a comfort movie

[dreamofbecoming]

so my roommate moved out a while ago and she mentioned a friend of hers who would come and stay here to take care of her space before the lease ended. she also mentioned another friend who would come by on the last day of her recent visit to help sell of some of the stuff she left behind. one of the last things we talked about before her trip ended was how the friend who was gonna sell stuff canceled and wasn’t coming after all. can you see where this is going?

anyway my other roommate and i have been lowkey panicking for weeks about the lights and noises coming from downstairs, and the clear evidence that someone was living down there. we’ve been pretty united in our attitude of “fuck the nypd, and tbh housing should be free anyway so like, it’s literally fine if there’s a squatter or whatever, but holy shit it’s scary that they haven’t talked to us at all and we don’t know who the fuck is in our space this feels very unsafe”

turns out it was our former roommate’s friend all along, and she was shocked to find out we were freaked out

i’m going back to sleep

[kittlyns]

A hard pill for me to swallow lately has been that, despite everything, I'm probably the best version of myself that could've existed. And that's not really a comforting thought.

[smilepebble]

pokemon presents be kind. please be kind

[thousand-winters]

The devil is sweet talking me and I lowkey want to listen more each day.

[passiveagreeable]

I get up in the middle of the night to wash my face, brush my teeth after passing out earlier in the evening. And I’ve been in the bathroom for like two minutes when my sister texts me to hurry up. I heave a sigh and open the door, where she is standing immediately outside, and just wave her in, muttering “I’m so done sharing a bathroom with you,” on my way to the living room to wait.

So then she texts me about blah blah since when do we use the bathroom at the same time. And when I don’t respond, she says because I was mean to her (which is true, I was) that she’ll say how she feels and continues into a rant, of which I only read the first few sentences, starting with the point that we haven’t consistently shared a bathroom since she went to college (but she manages to misremember the year).

Neither of those are the point.

The point is that there are two other fucking bathrooms in the house, neither of which are occupied at 3 in the morning.

[icewindandboringhorror]

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