#unironically that was a fun challenge

[bobbiedebruyn]

+ bonus:

TV SHOWS/MOVIES AS ANOTHER GENRE

the wilds + superhero film [part two]

[lemonmatronicsart]

Twitter trend or something

[xenon-demon]

breaking the ice

written for the prompt 'pool' | word count: 442 | rating: T | cw: swearing, alcohol mention (they're in a bar), suggestive flirting but nothing explicit, background rockie (robin/vickie)

A/N: if you're not aware already, @steddiemicrofic is doing a monthly challenge where you get a prompt and a (strict!) word count between 300-600 words, so this is written for the july prompt! this was a Lot of fun and i highly recommend giving it a shot if you have time <3 also if you don't play pool: 'breaking'/'the break' is what it's called when you start the game by hitting the cue ball into the rest of the balls to scatter them.

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One of Steve’s favorite things about Vickie is her knack for finding really cool places to hang out.

Tonight, the three of them have landed at a pool lounge. Steve hasn’t played pool in years, not since he moved out of his parents’ home and lost access to their table. Robin has never played a game of pool in her life, so Vickie – apparently a regular here – is oh-so-generously offering to teach her. Steve can see the flush spreading across Robin’s face from the other side of the table, so he excuses himself to head to the bar for a drink; he doesn’t want to get hit by a stray pool cue while Robin's distracted.

Steve orders himself a beer, aiming to thread the needle between “sober enough to drive them home later” and “drunk enough to third wheel without crying about it”. He loiters at the bar after getting his drink, not wanting to interrupt the girls, when the loud clatter of pool balls catches his attention.

Steve turns his head towards the noise and oh, shit. There’s a guy a couple tables over who’s just broken, pool balls spinning out across the table, but that’s not where Steve’s looking. He’s looking at the man’s ass in those jeans as he leans forward – the sight makes something in Steve want to sink his teeth in. Steve watches the guy straighten up and pace around the table, evaluating the outcome of his break. It lets Steve take in the rest of him; the glint of his rings under the dim lights, the dark curly hair cascading around his shoulders, the doe-like eyes that are looking right at Steve.

The guy grins. Winks at Steve.

Game on, Steve thinks.

“I think this is supposed to be a two-player game,” Steve says as he reaches the guy’s table. He somehow looks even better up close.

“Maybe I like playing with myself," says the guy, giving Steve a (pretty blatant, if you ask Steve) once-over. Well, if he wants shameless, Steve can absolutely do shameless. It might even distract him from how nice the guy's voice is.

“Maybe so. But I think you're looking for someone else to do it for a change." That lights a spark in the guy's eyes, a flash of hunger that darkens them. He leans in. 

“I'm Eddie. What's your name, pretty boy?" Something swoops in Steve's gut at the pet name.

"Steve."

"So, Steve," Eddie drawls, his eyes flicking down to Steve's lips momentarily. "Think you can handle playing with me?"

Steve smiles, wide and eager. "Only if you buy me a drink when I win."

[bubble-jasmine-tea]

Commission done for @thetrainiskindacool ! Genuinely peak crack ship, ty for commissioning me! (even tho it took a while! sorry!! ^^')

[anthonycrowley]

see the bronze is fantastic because it tells the story of a girl who is just a straight up loser worst person in the world who kind of stays a loser but learns how to be a sliiiiiiightly better person and i feel we need more just absolute dogshit women in media i feel. seb stan is also there and has an olympic metal on his penis but this ain’t about him.

[maple-keenes]

i will never be over araki introducing a new character like "yeah, this is my new character, rohan, he's a manga artist and he's super famous and popular, and he can draw super fast and good, and that's not even his stand ability, he's just that cool and good at art. he's hot and everyone loves him (not josuke) and he has one of the most powerful stand abilities in the series and he's like a LITTLE evil but in the fun way that just makes him cooler" like. i aspire to have the confidence to put my self-insert into my work and then also have every other character (NOT josuke) think they're awesome and super smart and good at art and stuff

[chipjrwibignaturals]

i think i want to replay pokemon XY before ZA comes out. i know that gives me a lot of time but i gotta think thru a team

[flo-zoinks]

I love making these it's kind of a problem now

WHAT EACH RDR2 GANG MEMBER WOULD POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA (my opinion)

Dutch - 10 minute tiktok rants about why the USA is failing (normally stitched from a news clip) - with a small cult like following with about 150 likes

Hosea - Outdoor skills teaching videos (hunting and whatnot) with all the comments saying hes like a Father figure

Arthur - Pretty photos of Forest animals on Insta without a caption

Bill - stitching people on tiktok challenging them to fist fights and those "what happened to real men" tiktoks

Javier - Music covers on guitar (very popular)

John - (1899) shitty gaming clips with NO schedule like sometimes 9 months apart

Abigail - get ready with me ranting about her child and husband

Jack - (1907-11) posting videos of his family being stupid without them knowing (80% Uncle and John)

Mary-Beth - Novel bios and links to her online Wattpad

Tilly - cute trends on tt often with her friends (like dances or cool transitions)

Karen - funny ass one-liner captions making fun of things

Miss Grimshaw - Those "Mother how do i" videos in her spare time

Reverend - Bible passages with a 9 minute rant after and then every week an accidental upload whilst shit-faced

Molly - shopping hauls that turn into vents

Strauss - Links to his business (regularly asks the younger members how to use functions and what things mean)

Trelawny - Magic tricks and Dramatic storytelling (everytime in a random place people find funny)

Sean - 20 second rant that's unironically hilarious and gets made into a template

Lenny - Book readings and 5 minute stitches respectfully arguing against the people he doesn't agree with

Charles - Never uploads aside from once a photo of Arthur next to an animal in a really pretty outdoor scenery

Sadie - secret videos of people like Pearson doing something embarrassing (inspired Jack to do the same) and "pranks"

Uncle - going out in public and doing something outrageous that ends in him being arrested (was nudity 9 times)

Micah - thirstraps

Pearson - videos on his wild "adventures" whilst cooking in the backround (the comments bully his food and his adventures)

Kieran - Horse Care videos (fully anonymous and would blur his face on everything). Lots and lots of horse videos

Yall remind me who I forgot

[copperbadge]

TIL there is an Excel spreadsheet world championship. Sounds like it would be in your wheelhouse

MWAHAHAHA THERE IS INDEED. I've been following it for a year or two now, it kinda broke big last year or the year before. It's...I hesitate to say it's great fun because unless you're really into spreadsheets and willing to hella focus on it, there's a lot of stuff that happens in each competition that isn't fully comprehensible, but it is kinda fun to have on as background noise, and watching nerds fully and unironically embrace the challenges of Excel and their love-hate relationship with it.

The world championship was about a month ago, so it may be quiet for a bit, but you can watch all the tourneys and such at their youtube page here!

[baycitystygian]

paulie basically is a human muppet anyways (if you don't go here: I say this genuinely with all the love in the world) so is he *really* the only human there technically?

I think there should be a Muppet remake of The Phantom of the Paradise.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

question! apologies if you've already answered this, but you've talked about how each alpha kid has a beta troll counterpart that would match well(or at least, was alluded to match well) with them thematically, or at least fit their interests. roxy = eridan, jake = vriska, jane = equius. following that theming, who would dirk's be?

It's not as obvious for Dirk, but given the pattern followed by the other alpha kids, probably Tavros?

The other kids, it's practically indisputable - Jake's intro literally yammers about how he loves "cerulean knockouts, hubba hubba" and how he wishes he could be the guy who dated Neytiri from James Cameron's Avatar, wording it in a way that makes it sound exactly like the TaVris SGRUB situationship. The other big hint is that Jake is pretty much at the center of the venn diagram of Vriska's two love interests, John and Tavros (three if you count Nic Cage). Let's note that one of those interests shares a Class with Jake, a Page.

Roxy's is also practically indisputable; she fucking loves wizards, she's a hipster, but crucially, she also has a crush on a broody Prince, and her other interest is John, who's got black hair and glasses (and in their initial meeting, she literally isn't even listening to him, just going "wow... black hair and glasses... is he single" hahaha). Similar to VrisJake, Roxy is in the center of the venn diagram of Eridan's two red interests, Feferi and Nepeta - a bubbly pink nice girl, and a cat-themed Rogue. Let's notice again that some major foreshadowing here is class.

Finally, Jane literally talks about having a wall of "cobalt beefcakes," and she's constantly described as a "tightass" who starts out correcting peoples' grammar and chastising them when they cuss. Equius's main redcrush? Aradia... a Maid, except he laments her low social status because he's really into being dommed. Well. Guess who is also a Maid and of high social status (heiress).

So, following this pattern, it's very likely that Dirk's redrom situation will be someone who shares a class with his extant red interest... which would be a Page. Moreover, while it's subtler, his interest sets him up for Tavros in a similar way to the other three - he unironically loves Rainbow Dash, a flying horse, with Tavros also having a preoccupation with flight; he has a tiny horse similar to Tinkerbull (and Tavros also has horse associations, given his fiduspawn of choice is Horsearoni), and he's shown in his introduction rapping with a robot significantly less good at it than he is, winning by dousing it with orange soda. This same orange soda is later used by Dirk to pacify Gamzee, and Tavros and Gamzee are implied to be destined moirails, so that also gives it a more direct Tavros association. It's also not the first time soda of a corresponding blood color has been used to represent a troll character, as part of pale EriKar foreshadowing is the cherry-red Faygo that Eridan picks up. Tavros is a real mess in the romance department, meanwhile, because he regularly pursues people purely for status/accomplishment - Vriska (after dying) and Jade most notably - but he also has a weird something-something with Dave, being the first one to show up to doomed!Dave's bubble besides Aradia to challenge him to a rap battle. As we've seen with Vriska and John, an indicator of compatability might be interest in a similar family member.

Plus, the glimpse we get to see of Jake and Dirk casts Dirk in an interesting light - he IS needy and IS pushy, but his messages largely read as "what do YOU want to do? Let's go do something fun for YOU. Or if you need space, that's OK, just tell me and I'll give you some. But still you have to tell me". In a very Heart-esque way, he's super comfortable putting his own wants aside to accommodate his partner - he's just pushy about knowing what his partner wants.

(Quick sidenote - I believe that Hal is a fully separate entity from Dirk, so I don't lump any of Hal's actions in with Dirk's.)

This actually seems like what Tavros would need - as we see with Gamzee, he ghosts people who are too forward, but Gamzee is also deeply pessimistic and self-conscious, so he probably didn't bother trying to get back in touch after the first ghosting. Meanwhile, we see from Vriska that Tavros actually doesn't mind some pushiness, and there are even parts of their adventure he had fun with, since he just genuinely loves adventuring - she was just ultimately too inconsiderate and selfish for him.

And again, the major caveat to all these relationships is that every character needs character development to get to a point where the relationship is viable. Eridan, Vriska, AND Equius, given how they were before they died, and sometimes after, were all far too unstable, their worst traits untreated, for them to be good matches with the Alpha kids - but with some char dev and maturation, each of these characters' best selves are basically perfect fits.

Vriska's character development cuts out her need to live up to her society's murderous standards, and learns to be a bit nicer, meaning she ends up as a confident, take-no-shit bitch, whose adventuring style would mesh well with Jake, who's a fan of a challenge to a greater degree than Tavros and rebounds better from humiliation and defeat.

Eridan at full character development is likely still a naturally arrogant-sounding, despotic-acting freak, but firmly on the side of good (the "i will kill for you" type of friend), much like Slinus Marlevort from Roxy's wizard fanfic, but 1) she's really into all of that, she DOES NOT STOP describing Slinus as Hot as Hell, and 2) he's also a simp, like he would do anything his dating partner asked LOL

Equius at full character development has had a very long reflection on the fact that he's mostly just got a fetish, which - because he hasn't realized it's a fetish - he's inadvertantly been pushing onto other people. And he would stop that. Equius, at his core, is a polite and helpful lil' stoic, and most of his casteism is a combination of being a sub mixed with "this makes sense to me as an explanation of the horrible things that happen around me". Once he learns to rein in his fetish, his natural tendency is already to be the strong, silent type - à la Ron Swanson, Jane's "ideal man". Moreover, we see from tiaratop!Jane (and Jane and Jade later describe their mind control as them acting on their worst impulses, so it's still meant to be read as a reflection of Jane) treats Jake like an object/breeding stud, meaning that there's a part of Jane that's looking for submission, deference, and obedience in a partner............ Equius.

And finally, Tavros with full character development sees Tavros friendly, nice, confident, and outgoing. It's the version of him that puts together a massive pirate army at the end just by asking them nicely. Dirk's introduction describes that he unironically loves Rainbow Dash... because she's so spunky <3. Spunky is a good word to describe this final form of Tavros we get to see at the end.

Just wish I could see these characters happy, man. Like, I get why I can't, but still.

[alittlebitofloveliness]

Modern Au Headcanons

Modern Au head canons

-Pony is the only one of the gang who vapes because of his crippling nicotine addiction. Curly makes fun of him for it but also steals them for him all the time

-Steve and Soda were those guys who act incredibly homoerotic all through middle school/junior high school because it’s ‘funny’, but are just officially dating and sickeningly sweet together by the time high school graduation rolls around

-Steve is as good at hacking phones as he is jacking cars

-Darry still uses WhatsApp. It’s the only way he messages Soda or Ponyboy when he needs to get ahold of them, and it drives them both up the wall.

-Curly and Ponyboy both listen to Soundcloud rappers unironically. Angela and Darry are both ready to commit homicide.

-Two-bit shoplifts pretty much exclusively from Walmart or other big corporations because fuck capitalism

-Curly and Johnny have one class together (its an elective and usually under enrolled so anyone can sign up) and the teacher made the mistake of seating them together. It took two days of class for Johnny to stab Curly with a pencil, and the teacher nearly fainted at the sight of it sticking out of his arm.

-The Shepards were a nickolodean/YTV household and the Curtis’ were a TVO kids household (and it shows)

-Darry has never seen SpongeBob and is one of those people who brag about it

-Two-bit often tries to ‘bring back vine’

-Curly once annoyed Ponyboy badly enough in class that he told him to ‘go eat a bag of dicks’ a little too loudly and they both got detention

-Soda watches tv on Darry’s Netflix account because he forgets to change it and Darry always gets PISSED because it fucks up his algorithm

-Steve downright refuses to do any tiktok/internet challenge ever and Soda will try pretty much any one he sees

-Pony and Johnny once made a tinder account for Darry as a joke. The still haven’t recovered from the aftermath of Darry finding out

[witchofthesouls]

Human eating something spicy: Good food

Cybertronian: You're actively burning and poisoning yourself. Stop eating that

Human: Mmm capsaicin

Cybertronian: I said stop eating that!

Chilis are too obvious and kind to them. Of course, the space aliens are highly concerned by spice challenges, especially with humans attempting to breed hotter, spicier peppers... as a fun hobby.

("Isn't capsaicin the active ingredient in pepper spray?" "Yes. But people enjoy eating spicy food.")

Cybertronians would be blown away by how much agriculture transformed human civilizations... as well as be boggled between humans' ability to endure extreme conditions, yet be so damn bodily fragile and inefficient.

Genetics have never looked so wild in the botanical community. Like yes, space alien, many vegetables are related. It's dependent on the area of concentration to painfully cultivate it for hundreds to thousands of years because some regions wanted something more leafy, while others focused on the pods or roots.

And yes, space alien, many cultivated foods had derived from poisonous origins. Animals (including humans) figured to circumvent it through evolutionary adaptations or utilizing methods to draw out the toxins.

Cybertronians can be impressed by how humans managed to figure that out in the countless preparation and cooking processes in different cuisines across various cultures... yet slap their helms because their funky, little squishy is having so many health issues because of the lack of Vitamin D or a Candida infection, so Cybertronians will unironically go "touch grass" with their assigned/favorite human.

(Cue confused Cybertronian noises when their human explains sunscreen and cancer.)

And fungi, like mushrooms, are a mindfuck within itself as a kingdom to both Cybertronians and humans.

This isn't delving into how other Earth organic species can't consume certain human foods due to toxicity, like dogs and chocolate.

[riacte]

Going on the Ao3 subreddit makes me such an annoying contrarian like. Fanfiction is a hobby and it can be serious but it's also a hobby. Oh you don't like it when people use emojis and think it means the author is young and immature? Idk maybe one day there'll be an insane emoji hieroglyphic fic that veers so hard into irony it starts to become unironic. Oh you're completely rinsing someone for saying they format their fics exclusively in italics? Well you know what, that seems like a fun challenge! Maybe that's the vision of the author! Maybe the paragraphs of slanted words is the point! Suggesting someone to not write an April Fool's crack chapter because it breaks immersion or whatever? Well you know what else seems like a fun challenge? Idk man for a creative hobby let people be creative and break the unofficial rules! Y'know for a subreddit dedicated to transformative fanwork it doesn't seem very open to, y'know, harmless transformation of existing fanfic norms.

Maybe people won't read what you write but you can write whatever you want. Forever. I love you Unconventional Formatting I love you Metafiction.

[natequarter]

❄️ icemaiden Follow

Killing myself today btw. If you even care

💻 matrixfucker3000 Follow

we do not care! hurry up and regenerate already

❄️ icemaiden Follow

You're just bitter that I'm smarter than you

#I bet you've never been down to the Vaults #the Academy sucks so baddd

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🖼️ cardinalcollector Follow

"I bet you've never been down to the Vaults" why must I be cursed with terminally stupid students

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

hurts to see ur own nature reflected back at u doesnt it

🖼️ cardinalcollector Follow

I hope you never regenerate again.

#Holy Rassilon why did I ever introduce my brother to Timeblr

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🖼️ cardinalcollector Follow

Curses. I just thought of a better insult

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

lol who says "curses" unironically anymore

🖼️ cardinalcollector Follow

Someday you will be cursed with one of my students and then you won't be laughing

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🗡️ worsthumanongallifrey Follow

damn i had no idea the time lord side of timeblr sucked so bad

#like i promise you touching a human is not going to kill you

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🗡️ worsthumanongallifrey Follow

just had someone tell me i didn't understand offworlder troubles and i'm appropriating their struggles. i literally am human????

#you guys are just jealous my husband is hotter than you 👍

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⚪️ whiteguardian Follow

Just had a GREAT idea. I am so so smart guys

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🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

fuuuuuuuck me

❄️ icemaiden Follow

Is this an offer, a challenge, or a figure of speech?

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

U WERENT SUPPOSED TO SEE THIS

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🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

my little brother once told me "i hope someday u have to deal with some1 like me" and that day has come. fuck

🖼️ cardinalcollector Follow

My actual words were, and I quote, "Someday you will be cursed with one of my students and then you won't be laughing". But nice try!

#also I was loomed first

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❄️ icemaiden Follow

Saw a woman so beautiful i started crying???

❄️ icemaiden Follow

Killing myself for real this time

#wish me luck #rassilon it would be embarrassing if I ended up with two heads or something

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👑 fred Follow

success ! new face

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

thats unethical put it back

👑 fred Follow

you don't like it ?

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

its got nothing to do with not liking it. u cant just steal faces without asking for consent

👑 fred Follow

oh is that what borusa taught you at the academy

#willing to bet you stole at LEAST one of your faces #i mean what about that salamander guy #so much for ethics

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🖼️ cardinalcollector Follow

My former students routinely fail to make me feel anything other than pure misery

#convinced they're genetically designed to be idiots at this point #oh let's all just regenerate for the fun of it #WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

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🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

getting married wish me luck

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

UPDATE: we have adopted an alien son. at no point did i consent to this

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

UPDATE: she left me

🧣 the--adventurer4 Follow

i give up

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ihave died. badly

⚰️ themaster Follow

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

✈️ donewiththisshit573 Follow

what the hell mate

#i am so confused

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🧪 tryingmybest Follow

has anyone seen traken?? i can't find it

⚰️ themaster Follow

LOL have you checked behind all the fucks i don't give

#idiots

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🏏 the--adventurer5 Follow

I miss my girlfriend

🏏 the--adventurer5 Follow

Save me Romana... save me...

✈️ donewiththisshit573 Follow

are we just going to skip over adric dying then or

🏏 the--adventurer5 Follow

Obviously

#romanaaaaaaa

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[anxiousapplepie]

if the main cast of roses could dye their hair like a human (aka it actually worked regardless of if the colour fit them) would they?

And if they would what colour would they pick?

OKAY! So, I reckon a good half of the team (if they could dye their hair any color like a human could) WOULD want to try out being a different color! So lemme give a visual aid, and then explain my logic for each of their choices!

Jim would pick green, because he'd love the opportunity to "look like a Dragon" without having to do any of the mental loopholes to get the hairdye to stick Bristly would be black. Mostly because he thinks black is cool and would make everyone take him more seriously. Tara would go white, half as a way to "relive her childhood innocence" but half because she would think it'd be fun to play life on hard mode. If nobody takes you seriously, everything is a challenge! XD George, if he seriously thought about it, would want to look like an autumnal Dragon and go for orange! And Rodgeric? Honestly and unironically? they'd go for brown! It'd get a good reaction from everybody (who isn't a human) and to him it would feel comforting to CHOOSE a color that is associated with poor mental/emotional health. As for the others... Well, Barbara thinks her hair color is perfect the way it is so why would she change it? And Morgan [REDACTED] Anyway, I recorded a quick timelapse of that sketch so for those interested you can see that under the cut :3