#this is for the teenage thirty year olds

[badlydrawnlips]

When the world needed her (Massie Block) most... she returned

[kenisle]

so funny how in the first season of the witcher which spans decades has so many major characters that are basically immortal and don’t age… except for one, the totally normal human bard who looks exactly the same in his last appearance of the season as he did in his first twenty years prior for absolutely no reason. like did they just forget or

[seaglassdinosaur]

There is a spectrum of ‘adults playing teenagers in high school’, on one end is Riverdale, on the other is Nerdy Prudes Must Die.

[robinyourcreator]

mentors! teachers! librarians! old ladies you see at the grocery or the knitting shop once in a while! middle aged men who are regulars at the same hardware store! the teenagers who come to the local game shops board game events and THEIR little siblings!

do you believe you dont share common humanity with any of these people?????

or do you have bizarre ideas gatekeeping the "sanctity" of friendship limiting it to only people you could have gone to high school with???

"what do a 19 and a 28 year old even have in common"

WE ARE ON THIS BIG BEAUTIFUL BLUE EARTH AT THE SAME TIME, ENJOYING THE GLORIOUS EXPERIMENT THAT IS HUMANITY, GOOD SIR!!!!!

this isnt even about dating-- like fuck no you couldnt PAY me to date someone in their early twenties NOW!!! but this is how we're being about FRIENDSHIP??????

[galacticwildfire]

I was hoping for savannah steyn as young Ahsoka because of the resemblance but after watching it I’m so so glad they went for a younger actress who is the actual age Ahsoka was because it made it so much more jarring seeing her as an actual child soldier and she was incredible

[fuck-john-calvin]

Which of Shakespeare's plays is your favorite? Mine is Macbeth

I haven't read Macbeth yet unfortunately but I know the plot and have been told by all my friends that I have The Vibes, which is pretty cool. The plays I've read are Hamlet, Henry V, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tempest.

This is kinda the basic answer but Hamlet was the first play I put on and the first Shakespeare I ever read, and it got me through some really hard times so I'm extremely attached to it. It's also just an amazing story and I have MANY opinions on the characters, especially hamlet, laertes, ophelia, and horatio, as well as the countless parallels,

I mean, come on. You gotta know that when the main character is kidnapped by pirates and it's a side plot happening off stage that gets brought up once that it must be one hell of a play.

[officialpenisenvy]

a girl i went to middle school with got married and has a kid with the man who's been her dance instructor since she was eight years old ✌️😗🔫

[gothighunicorntolerance]

If you don’t know how to interact with kids my number one tip is to just treat them how you wish you were treated at that age.

[cocoabeloved]

just a quick reminder - absolutely NO joe alwyn slander/hate is welcome or allowed on my blog. it's frankly exhausting seeing how much swifties villianize him simply because of his break up of taylor. you don't even know him. neither do i, which is why i'm not going to pretend like i do. if you don't like what i said, that's respectfully not my problem. just leave the poor man alone, where's your human empathy god.

HEAVY rant down in the tags so beware.

[alula]

imagine a world. where character meta extends beyond a list of diagnoses

[urdreamgirls-dreamgirl]

ok but what if i started writing ttpd inspired one shots again… would u think less of me 😔😔😔

[topaztimes]

I think part of the reason why Hannibal appealed to me so much is because it's gay men written by a gay man. I have a sixth sense for when it's a straight woman writing a gay relationship and it's driving me up the fucking wall

[yusuke-of-valla]

Damn it's so hard for shows with kid protagonists to handle really tight time frames this happened with A Series of Unfortunate Events, Percy Jackson, and now Avatar The Last Airbender if only there was some sort of story telling medium that didn't have this problem

[sorrellegiance]

worn the fuck out why did my grandparents have so many children and then why did all their children have so many children

[101flavoursofweird]

I wanna see how Tony and Arianna reacted when they first saw Don paolo in the Professor adopts the Barde kids au 😭

Thank you for your interest in the ‘Layton adopts the Barde kids’ AU! And for asking about Don Paolo because his run-ins with the kids are always hilarious to write about.

A series of extracts from my fic about Tony and Arianna reacting to Don Paolo’s disguises (summary in bold)

Basically, Arianna holds a major grudge against Don Paolo (till the end of PL3, anyway), and Don Paolo inspires Tony to become a future master of disguise

Curious Village - Tony works out ‘Chelmey’ is wearing a mask and proceeds to rip the mask off with Luke…

“Admit it, Layton!” Chelmey spat. “You lot wanted to keep the Golden Apple so badly that you conspired to murder... What—?” 

Luke and Tony leapt at Chelmey’s face. 

“GEROFF...!” Chelmey tried to growl as the pair tugged at his cheeks and his chin.

Chelmey attempted to shake them off. Luke and Tony clung to his arms like limpets.

“Almost there...” Tony grunted. He started to peel away at Chelmey’s skin, which was all stretchy. Tony emitted a triumphant cry. “I knew it! It’s a mask—!” 

Chelmey’s ‘mask’ finally flew off. Enraged, he hurled Luke and and Tony across the parlour. The professor caught Luke. Tony landed on the settee next to the horrified Lady Dahlia. Arianna rushed to Tony’s side. 

“I’ve always despised you Layton,” the imposter growled. Everything about him was pointy; his dark brown hair, his moustache, and his nose... How had his face even fit under that mask? 

Tony gasped and repeated something he must have heard from Crow. “Who the hell are you?”

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Diabolical Box - Arianna, upon discovering Don Paolo has disguised himself as Luke, loses it and throws a teacup at Don Paolo

As Don Paolo (Because of course it was Don Paolo!) discarded his Luke-disguise, Arianna’s dread was submerged by her rage. 

“YOU!” she yelled, her voice resonating around the hotel lobby. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH LUKE?” 

At first, Don Paolo didn’t even acknowledge Arianna. “Curse you, Layton!” he growled. “Curse you and that foppish hat of yours—!”

Arianna hurled the teacup at him. Don Paolo dodged the cup and it smashed against the staircase (much to the dismay of the hotel clerk). 

Turning to Arianna, Don Paolo pursed his lips. “Nice try, little missy!”

“WHERE’S LUKE?” 

“Oh, your boyfriend?” Don Paolo jabbed a vague thumb over his shoulder. “He’s back in Dropstone, probably chatting to some cows in that barn I left him in.” 

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The Eternal Diva Prologue - In which Tony and Flora unmask Don Paolo again This is literally a scene from the fic. This is how short the scene is

There were several people suspected of silencing Big Ben’s bell...

Tony pointed at the old lady as soon as he saw her on the bridge. “Mask!”

“And that outfit...” Flora tutted. “It looks like something thrown together in five minutes—“

“LAYTON! YOU AND YOUR BRATS WILL PAY FOR THIS...!”

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Lost Future - Arianna argues with Don Paolo about his motives for despising a local archaeology professor

It turned out Don Paolo had also disguised himself as a Future Dr. Schrader in hospital and Future Dean Delmona at the hotel…

“Tony wasn’t with you when you saw ‘Dr Schrader’,” Arianna realised. “And he didn’t see ‘Dean Delmona’ either— he was too busy playing with that toy car—“

“That kid has a great eye for detail,” Don Paolo snorted. “Shame he’s blind as a bat—“

“Shut up!” Arianna sniped at him. “Why are you even here? Don’t you have robots or boxes or— or bells to steal?”

[obstinatecondolement]

Something about Norman Stanley Fletcher having most of his youth stolen from him by imprisonment hits different now. Can't think why, haha. 😅