#this is complete nonsense

[kingyo-konbini]

one piece modern/social media au thoughts (straw hat pirates edition)

Monkey D. Luffy: technical owner of a channel dedicated to recording his and his friends adventures, but he never films anything or actually acknowledges the camera or the existence of the channel

Roronoa Zoro: has the potential to be a fitness influencer but he never records or posts anything. as such he has one account on one form of social media that is entirely un-customized and he only follows mihawk and luffy

Nami: fashion, makeup, and jewelry hauls. follows the weather channel. posts risque photos and scams men out of their money

Usopp: storytime channel but every storytime is so outlandish that he’s developed a reputation of being a liar. has an avid fanbase of children who are entirely convinced that usopp is the coolest person in the world. posts like every three days. sometimes posts diy tutorials. he’s also the one that runs luffy’s channel

Vinsmoke Sanji: accounts focus on food; recipes, tips, and asmr cooking videos and mouth watering final product photos. only follows women and comments on every single thing they post like a total simp

Chopper: doesn’t have a dedicated format or genre of content, just posts whatever he thinks is funny or cool or interesting

Nico Robin: didn’t have any social media presence until nami made an account for her. it remains un-customized, like zoro’s, but she follows all the straw hat’s accounts and some libraries and museums. everything is kept on private. posts about what book she’s reading sometimes and writes absolutely scathing reviews that no one other than nami and chopper read

Franky: large following, posts crafting, woodwork, maintenance, diy, etc etc. builds a lot of gundams on camera and a lot of people like that? he basically just builds stuff (legos, robots, cars) and talks about cola and everyone loves him

Brook: music, of course. covers, original songs, tutorials; has a MASSIVE following and likes to collaborate with his friends for the occasional daily vlog

Jinbe: chopper and nami made him an account. he follows all of the other straw hats and always comments something supporting (“Very cool!”) like a nice grandpa. doesn’t 100% understand why everyone is always sharing everything but he vibes with it and posts photos of him and his friends. really likes dog videos

[blueberry-bubbles130]

I’ve finally figured out how my frequently changing obsessions work. It’s like being on a really really long road trip, so someone has to drive (I’m never in the driver seat by the way) Therefore the person I’m most obsessed with is the driver while I’m in the front passenger seat. Then whenever the car stops, the person driving changes. Everyone else is in the back, because the obsession never stops, they just loom over me and become a driver again at some point.

So as of now, Thomas Cromwell’s the driver and Thomas More is backseat driving.

[themetalvirus]

no no little white hedgehog boy dont go in the sonic 06 cave!!!

oh mein gott this cave is full of ITS NO USE

[tobi-smp]

I think in my mind an inanimate object or concept is a "he" when he's domesticated and a "she" when she's wild and free, untamable

[critter-of-habit]

In the end, all roads lead to me.

[motherfucker-unlimited]

Yankee reactions to those leaked cut pokemon mythology stories is that it really shows that they don't have any folklore or culture

[vaxxildamn]

finally…… the legendary Level 20 Scissor Gal-adin

[tpwrtrmnky]

[ID 1: A two panel "Pills that make you green" comic, showing crude digital stick figures for people. A regular black stick figure stands on the Left, and a green one on the right. Panel one shows a regular black stick figure standing on the side with arms crossed, saying, in a screenshot of text, with paragraph breaks added for accessability: "The obvious straw men here weaken your argument because it makes it seem like you need to misconstrue what you and your critics are saying in order to fake-win the argument. If 'green' here is a metaphor for 'male who is taking estrogen and altering his fat distribution,' I don't think anyone is trying to say this is nonexistent or impossible to achieve. "A male can absolutely become a male who takes hormones to alter his appearance, and we all know that. "It would be more accurate to have something saying, 'that person is green" and the green person responds 'I'm transitioning from yellow to blue, but I was never actually yellow because I identify as blue, colors don't exist anyway and if you talk about them you're a bigot, but I'm fully blue now and you have to refer to me as blue, and while you're at it you need to refer to grass as blue, too, to avoid making me question whether you truly see me as blue, and if you call me 'green' you're abusing me and comitting genocide against transblue people, btw I'm bluer than any other blue person because I have to fight to be seen as blue". Panel 2 zooms in on the green person's face as they say, "holy shit they don't even realize they're strawmanning while complaining about strawmanning". End ID.]

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[midnight-mama]

Okay, I no longer write wrestling fanfiction, but if I EVER go back to Cringey teen days, I'm writing a story about how Dean Ambrose's parents are Mick Foley and Steve Austin. There will be no Austin/Foley shipping. They are literally two barely friends who raise a little monster together.

Steve barely wants anything to do with Dean 90% of the time but will murder for him. Steve definitely also gives Dean a beer when he's like 9 cause he literally doesn't know what else to do with him. Mick is just as clueless but knows to call his Mama for help. She is the only reason why Dean isn't dead. Mick also allows Dean to run around with 2x4s like it's normal. Imagine a little 9 year old Dean drunk as hell with a plank of wood trying to smack the neighborhood kids. Hilarious.

There will also be a part where Dean(as a teen or adult. Don't matter) speaks to Seth or Roman about his father's. Within this scene, Seth has met Mick, and Roman has met Steve. They don't know the other dad exists. Just like "Yeah my Dad's are cool." Seth looks at him all confused like "Your dad is Gay?" And Dean is like No. Roman is standing there like, "But you said Dads. Like....Two? Do you have a stepfather?" Dean is again like No. And Dean just....leaves. He doesn't explain it more, he just leaves and does whatever the fuck else he needs to do.

Before I leave this insane little post, I wanna point out two things....One, I made up this whole plot off an Instagram Reel! This post barely had anything to do with any of this. Two, I'm on a 10 hour flight losing my mind. I am so sorry to anyone who has to deal with me today. Also, I linked the IG reel I was on about below♥︎

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrvaaeZNGYJ/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[salemoleander]

I am BARELY resisting going full red-strings-corkboard on this season. And by barely resisting I mean not resisting at all here is an extremely long list of the events those pins would be marking out.

BigB getting a Task that was a different color than everyone else's. It's not just a randomly assigned Hard Task, bc Scar rerolled for a Hard Task and his was also just a white envelope. It's fundamentally different.

That task taking BigB away from socialization, and seemingly being an incredibly time-consuming and dull request. Of profound disinterest to any watchers.

The phrasing of his Task!!

Dig a big hole. All the way down. At least 3x3. Make it your base if you want.

Everyone else's are direct and formal - the only one with more than one sentence was Skizz's, with the rule clarification of "One attempt only." Bigb's Task is four short abrupt sentences. It is also the only Task to contain extraneous information, 'Make it your base if you want.' The requirements (at least 3x3) feel like an afterthought to mimic the numerical/specific demands of the other tasks.

Evo symbol on the face of the Secret Keeper statue.

The fact that there's a statue at all; the fact that there is a physical representation of what is assigning tasks that everyone must complete, when previously everything was always handled via commands and unseen RNG.

Grian talking to the statue, and (bc of his Actual Role as game organizer) acting as a mediator for the impartial decisions handed down, speaking for it.

Grian making one last bad joke and saying he doesn't know if it counted or not- depends on whether we the audience laughed.

Grian asking for task recommendations from the audience. The watchers are making the tasks. The Watchers are making the tasks.

Again I could be off-base, and I'm not usually even that smitten with bringing in Evo lore. I don't want a Big Bad really...but. It feels like something very unusual and intentional and cool is happening in this series. And I'd guess we'll know if theres something going on once we have more than one data point.

My largely unfounded suspicion is that there is another being (maybe Listeners, maybe something else) trying to reach out to the Players via decoy Tasks, and BigB was the first recipient. Get them alone, make them of disinterest to the watchers, and tell them something we don't get to know.

Because that's the really, really fucking cool part (if my wacky theory is remotely right): We're the bad guys. We're the ones giving out tasks - hell, we're the ones actively brainstorming harder and crueller tasks in Grian's comments!

If they actually made a story where the Players have to keep secrets from us I will be delighted. Bc that is the same genius bullshit that made Evo Watcher lore so fun

[mecachrome]

domestic behavior...

[peachitykeen]

A hyperrealistic cockroach would scare me too, if I were Frank. It scared me as me! I wasn’t expecting to see that little guy scurrying around on the website.

[scamperin-shroom]

Classic Zelda games: "So Link doesn't talk because he's meant to resemble you the player 🥰"

Echoes of Wisdom: "Link doesn't talk because his ability to speak was physically taken from him by a dark force"

(edit: since I need people to understand Link can't talk at all. It was forced out of him. It's not a choice. That part of him was consumed)

[rinauve]

honakana wedding 🪻

[minjimunji]

Grace siblings ⚡️

[thehealingsystem]

It's so wild to me that as a community we're still so hostile to multigender and genderfluid people existing in gay and lesbian spaces.

You...are aware that people who are both men and women are allowed to be gay, right? And lesbian? Their other genders doesn't cancel their connection to womanhood, or manhood, or whatever else they id with. They are allowed to be gay despite their fem-alignment, and they are allowed to be lesbian despite their masc-alignment.

It comes from these weird online spaces that the standard to be gay or lesbian is to be a "non-woman" or a "non-man," which is inherently transmultiphobic and...extremely ahistorical. And completely misunderstands nonbinary identity. So if you're both then you just don't belong anywhere I suppose.