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ssaalexblake · 2 years ago

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Me on the phone booking a repair guy to come fix the fridge and him asking me if the 17th is alright and thinking that I cannot wait till August and the genuine shock that no, he meant next Monday and not next month. Cannot remember ever waiting less than a week for a repair on something??? I am shocked and elated.

#meanwhile I've fucked up my neck but oh well i guess #my wet hair towel turban just killed me it hurt so much lol #well one problem at a time i guess

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bunnieswithknives · 5 months ago

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I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

#fop #fairly oddparents #fop a new wish #fairly oddparents a new wish #hazel wells #fop hazel #fop dev #dev dimmadome #art #digital art #doodles #I wish Hazels parents were more flawed tbh...#Like I get why they wanted to have them be good rep so that young people could know what a good family is supposed to look like #but it felt like every time there was an opportunity to have them do something genuinely flawed-#they would perfectly sidestep it before it even became a problem #I really enjoyed the first episode because it showed a hint of a very unique emotional issue Hazel had related to having a therapist mother #The idea that she has to be mature all the time #constantly living around therapy speak makes her feel like she isnt allowed room to breathe #Feeling unable to express her emotions without someone there giving advice that she isnt ready for yet #just small things!#She feels so pressured to be emotionally mature all the time BECAUSE she gets praised for it #maybe im projecting everyone always tell me I was so mature for my age...#But like I really really wanted to see that from her!!#And then after that episode it doesnt even come up again #The only other episode that features the moms job as a conflict is the one where she wants to spend more time with her #which is a fine conflict I guess but it still ends with her saying all the perfect things #I wanted Markus to be more of a genuine threat too. even if he didnt actually do anything having him be more looming would have been nice #I feel like they mostly forget hes a para scientist most of the time idk.#I just felt like his interactions could have been more unique #Maybe he will be in future seasons idk

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marypsue · 2 months ago

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Man, it's cool and all if you see a metaphor for marginalisation in the monstrous, and if you want the power fantasy of 'what if you could just eat anybody who threatened you/pissed you off'. Me too.

However, as soon as you start saying 'no, these monsters are a 1:1 on Specific Marginalised Group, and you have to treat them in the fiction like they are directly representative of real human members of the marginalised group', BUT you also, in the fiction, make them hurt/kill/eat humans? And then try to shame me, your audience, for noticing or engaging with the bit where they kill people, because you made them directly representative of a real-world marginalised group? You have lost me, and also, I think, the plot.

#hear yourself. for the love of whatever you cherish.#'but they only kill bigots so ACTUALLY they're the GOOD GUYS -' your metaphor of monstrosity is entirely premised on the question of #'what if what you went around righteously killing; believing your actions to be justified;#were actually people and it was not in fact righteous or justified to just kill them'#'what if the world isn't neatly split into 'good guys' and 'bad guys'#who gets to decide who or what is 'bad'? because that's the original problem of monstrosity-as-metaphor-for-marginalisation #(if as a creator you say 'oh my intention with this was X' cool!#if instead you go with something like. well.#'well in this setting monsters are so rare it doesn't matter that they kill people and you'd have to be a homicidal sadistic psychopath >#< to hunt them; but sure I guess if you want to play a Bad Person' well I might have #but if you're going to explicitly judge me for wanting to engage with the moral question of 'how justified is this and who would do it #versus how justified are these monsters if they do have to harm or kill people to continue to exist'#then maybe I just don't want to play your game at all)#anyway I'm sick to death of poor uwu cozy vampires who are SO marginalised so I'm not Allowed to care about all the people they murder #it being fucked up is what's fun about it! do all the other shit but let me take the murders seriously!#and inb4 someone accuses me of being a bigot for saying 'actually I don't think you get a free pass to kill and eat people if you're gay'#remember when the CW's famously reactionary and conservative Supernatural tried to just gloss over the part where every time its heroes >#< killed a demon with a magic knife it also killed the person the demon was possessing #and say 'oh no it's fine we don't care about those killings; they don't matter; don't bother caring about them either'#but they were doing it to glorify exactly the kind of people that these 'monster as metaphor' stories are trying to cast as expendable?#I have other examples that are like. real dramas. but That Paranormal Show is the one that's in the same niche that I'm talking about here #it feels more insidious when it comes through a fantasy show where there are monsters involved #so you can say 'no it's not real so it doesn't matter'#but then ALL of it is equally not real. and vampires are not actually an oppressed group. because they don't exist.#you can say 'these vampires are a metaphor for an oppressed group so this fiction matters in real life'#or you can say 'don't care about the murders because they weren't actually real'#but you can't say both and then get mad at ME for treating the murders as seriously as the vampires #let me engage with your premise and don't waste my fucking time #or just set your fluff in the Sesame Street universe where vampires drink cherry Kool-Aid and help kids learn to count

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somegrumpynerd · 12 days ago

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-Okay but some of the fears that Color has are in fact the same fears that Nightmare has when it comes to Killer.

Like, Color is worried that Killer's so blindly loyal to Nightmare for whatever reason that he wouldn't even think of complaining if he hated it. And at the start that was something Nightmare probably expected. His henchmen should be loyal and obedient and not ask questions nor complain. But now, after years of learning and bonding and softening up significantly he wonders sometimes if that's still the case.

Nightmare knows Killer well, perhaps better than most, but he's not exactly an open book. Especially when it comes to his own wants or needs. More often than not when he makes a request it's intentionally silly or unreasonable for laughs, like asking if they can take Dust to the nearest pet store and try to trade him in. Very rarely does he want something strong enough to make it known, both to himself and others, like asking to keep the first cat he found.

So.

If he hated this. If he truly struggled and fought and agonised with himself about the position he's in and the work he's doing and the life he leads.

Would he say it? Would he realise that was how he felt? Would he even consider saying no was an option?

If Nightmare asked him to do something he really genuinely did not want to, would he just do it anyway because he doesn't believe he has a choice in the matter?

The only way of finding out (besides making a blatantly difficult request of him, which Nightmare is not willing to do) is to simply wait and trust that Killer will tell him if something is wrong. Which... is not exactly foolproof or easy.

But it's part of why Nightmare hates to be around Color too much, because deep down he's more than a little worried that Color could be right and he doesn't know how to fix it.

#UTDR #UTMV #Dadmare #This was a thought I had and drafted like months and months ago and forgot about #Little ideas about how to fit Color into a dadmare scenario I guess #Cool people who make Color posts don't look I'm probably doing a terrible job with your boy lol #He's not worried about the others in regards to this because Dust has never had a problem disobeying him #And Horror and Cross set out ground rules for themselves right from the start about what they would not do (murder)#He's never sure about Killer though. how do you begin to tell someone they don't have to listen to you if they don't want to #How do you tell if it worked?#Realistically Killer has and does disobey Nightmare he just hides it well #''I got caught out and ganged up on during that fight'' when really he peeled off to go talk to Color out of sight #''they must have heard we were coming. there was nothing we could do'' when one of them got distracted and they fucked up a job #''we've always had that cat. they're just shy so you don't see them very much'' when he brought home another stray in his jacket #<-That one happens a lot and Nightmare is beginning to suspect on it #But he never sees more than like 4 or 5 of them at a time so he can't prove anything #Whether it's sheer luck or Killer has trained his cats to do a Parent Trap bit on him nobody knows for sure #Anyway this has cooked for long enough time to release it into the wild #Go my post

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writer-room · 1 year ago

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Obsessed with Lloyd never mentioning his grandfather is the First Spinjitsu Master, apparently to the point even Arin didn't seem to know, because "eh, it never came up". Cause like, yeah, sure, my grandfather is God, what of it? Normal day for me. Shit happens. My dad is also evil, you wanna talk about that? I sure don't.

It's also funny from a character arc perspective. Here's itty bitty baby first season Lloyd, loudly proclaiming he's the son of Garmadon, and probably also making sure everyone knows he's God part 3 electric boogaloo. And then one Tomorrow's Tea and a few more years later and he's doing everything physically possible to NOT care about his heritage. In fact he'd probably rather his parentage was literally anyone else. Dude could care so less he forgets about it most of the time. King behavior.

#ninjago #dragons rising #ninjago dragons rising #ninjago dr #lego ninjago #lloyd garmadon #first spinjitzu master #garmadon #text post #talk #ideas #lloyd that entire time interally was probably like 'did wu get a temple--? oh wait thats granddad. sorry granddad. i guess'#he took one look at that altar and went hm. should probably fix that. mostly cause it'll fix my problem but wu didnt raise no disrespect #(except for when the disrespect is funny) what who said that #do you think he was like 'oh thank granddad finally my godly heritage isnt screwing me over' when the ghost mentioned needing a descendant #or was he like 'well. its another day of me being grandfathers favorite i guess'#do you think sora and arin felt awkward realizing they were in the temple of lloyds granddad. meanwhile lloyd did not give a flying fck #as far as hes concerned granddad can stuff it cause hes 80% all the sht that happens to him is bc God really likes him & thinks starting #problems is an appropriate way to show his love. and he doesnt think god takes constructive criticism #he sure will try tho #also yknow his closest interactions with Gods are his dad & uncle. & Wu is. like that. & also he's so sick of garmadon's bs #'my dad is literally banging some news guy i could not respect him less if i tried. his taste has only ever been mediocre. sorry mom'

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feelo-fick · 8 months ago

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I WANT ENDLESS BLISS!!!

HALF-AWAKE, HALF-DEAD, HALF-LIFE CRISIS

ALL NATURAL POMEGRANATE PULP.

FERMENTED TO PERFECTION, SAVOUR YOUR SAVIOR.

Q: What's your favourite food? A: THE ALE THEY SERVE AT THE TAVERN!

other versions : )

#uhhhh happy pride month have a fucked up chilchuck that im really proud of #i took so long on that hair rendering just so i could cover it up with the stars...#this was a reaaaally experimental one #if i had another go at this id change a lot of things but sometimes you gotta know when to stop #ive learned my lesson from this one so ill do another one with my knowledge now ykyk #ive discovered i reaaaallly reaaaaaally like thin lines #still figuring out how rendering + painting works but hey it was a nice attempt!!#this is my first finished peice in a looongggg loooooongggg time and it makes me really happy how well it came out #i guess switching things up really helped with things.. i usually get stuck at flat colors because i get so bored #cw alcohol #cw alcoholism #eyestrain #<- maybe? its really saturated #chilchuck #chilchuck tims #dungeon meshi #by the way i always thought him saying “ale” as an answer to “favourite food” was odd #maybe its a translation thing where theres a japanese wprd that covers both food and drink and the translator just estimated it to “food”?#cause if its not... sir??? chilchuck thats not a food... my man... you have a problem...#this is #[ tragedy au ]#but honestly you could take it as set in canon #by the way do you like my little poem : ) im pspspsps-ing at the dungeon meshi fandom/fandom in general to write more poetry/short lit #maybe ill tweek it and post the poem on ao3.... shrug !

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mourn-and-watch · 2 years ago

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the way cole makes varric conflicted is so delicious i think. most of the characters are uncomfortable around him because they're genuinely terrified of demons and the fade and magic in general but varric is a completely different case. the thing is, he doesn't see cole as a demon at all because he doesn't want to.

he acts like he doesn't care about this stuff. that's a little weird kiddo around here and he wants to befriend him. teach him something even. why not. that's a little guy who's a little too good with knives and can't pick up a single social clue at the same time.

but there it is. the "he could have been a person" line if cole is made more spirit. varric is so upset about it because it's not like he saw cole as, well, a spirit who got a little too human. for varric, he was a human first, a weird kid second. the spirit part didn't even come into consideration because. well. it would make him question things. you know where it goes.

every time he starts bitching about anders he brings up justice. justice drove him mad. justice took over him. justice this, justice that. justice is a scapegoat because the thought that someone varric was friends with was actually willing to blow up the chantry and it wasn't just some evil demon's wish is a very unsettling one. varric's friends may be crazy but they're cool and make no irreversible life decisions of that extent, don't they? blondie turned out this way because he let a demon possess him and make him do terrible things. completely out of the blue.

it's either varric's ex-friend has never been driven crazy by some inherently evil entity and there was a whole other person around him all along and that anger he used to mock was coming from the same place as compassion's urge to become a killer or that little weird but kind kid he started to care about has never been and will never be a real kid. he can't have both. a bitter pill to swallow for someone who has never picked a side in his life

#got a lot of cole thoughts yesterday. can't help myself #anyway. varric really must have not just apostate issues but also spirit issues now. a whole existential crisis #i mean. yeah. he was backstabbed (from his perspective) by his apostate buddies twice #but he also almost adopted a spirit guy. and before that he never took another one seriously for 6 years up until he and his host teamed up #and set varric's favourite city on fire. well i guess he has some mental gymnastics to do from time to time now #because cole is nice. he also kills people but who doesn't these days. also these people are bad so it's fine.#he wouldn't blow up a building for a greater goal or something. or would he if he becomes a spirit again #or maybe it's not about spirits and humans at all. i guess varric would rather not. find this out.#ofc his problem with anders is understandable on a character level and it's not only about justice. but he brings him up. well. a lot #and he never was interested in justice as a separate person. he was like. an evil unhinged anders for him. and then cole happened. and. yk #cole #varric tethras #dragon age

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himbohimhoe · 3 months ago

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Holding out hope that the writing in veilguard will get more bearable but rook saying to lucanis that it's "not nice that Spite hurt him" and he "shouldn't accept that it’s fine bc it wouldn't be ok if a person did that" like. That is a demon. Built off a single emotion called SPITE. Rook I am finding it really hard to believe that u have lived in thedas for more than 30 seconds.

#wow the demons which are one of the consistently evil forces in these games did something bad #hey players do you know that that was not nice #ok thank you. do u think I am 4 #dav spoilers #veilguard spoilers #dragon age the veilguard #also grinding my gears that everyone (including dalish elves???) just immediately accept the evanuris are evil/have come back #like the first person to not immediately believe it is the first warden and honestly he is the only character so far I respect #like maybe if this was like inquisition and a huge hole in the sky/rifts opened everywhere #but it seems like nothing like that happened but everyone somehow magically knows about the ritual and instantly believes everything rook sa #the more I think about these things the more annoyed I get #guys did you know being a leader means u sometimes need to make hard decisions... varric taught me that in my ma15+ game #i am enjoying the combat at least lol and I like Bellara and want to see Babylon so I'm in it for the long haul #why does everyone have a gun to their head making them nice though like it's so painfully out of place sometimes #and being able to only say the same thing but in a slightly boring slightly funny or slightly serious way is driving me insane #like I seem to be the only one who had no problem w the limits on dialogue in inquisition but this is driving me insane #Mourn watch rook what if you were somehow boring and nice. yay thank you bioware #ALSO rook stop talking and forming opinions without me getting to choose what u say like no I don't want u to day we have to save that perso #ok I swear I'm done now.. I need to go back to writing my thesis instead of grinding my teeth about this game #this is all coming from an inquisition enjoyer as well (sorry) but like so far I have found nothing I enjoyed about inquisition in this game #maybe if the inquisitor and Ghilan'nain are cool latee on I can focus on that (big maybe)#I am only early on still (just met first warden) so there is still time... i guess..

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hauntingblue · 3 months ago

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Rewatching act 2.... yeah ISHA WATCH OUT FOR THE CYCLE ISHA!!!!! NOOOOO

#ambessa setting up the logs on a fireplace while literally adding fuel to the fire with cailtyn... subtelty #silco spent his whole life trying to rile the undercity together STUPID JOKE THAT IT IS you have the chance to pull it off #isha is the true revolutionary after all... jinx get up to her level #was jinx scared of having hallucinations when the girl she released was gonna touch her shoulder??? and then she didn't #what i find really funny is that warwick knows how to use elevators and that funicular to the prison #also there is a lot of blood when he appears in the prison.... it was surprising #vander recognizing jinx with the name of powder after she complained about it eariler its just crazy crazy crazy #people commenting that its unrealistic how caitlyn bests vi when they meet in episode 6 as if there wasn't a montage about how she lost her #edge because of alcohol and living like shit.... she's not like jinx lmao....#rewatching so recently is so weird i imagine it is as close as being dr manhattan as i can get it is literally happening all at once #also the people of piltover are so dumb... lets let the government implement martial law and put this 20 something with 0 political #experience on charge with the army of this outsider agent. alright. i can tell you guys dont vote in this oligarchy you know fuck all #well i guess in that case it isnt the people of piltovers fault... just the important families that contribute in this oligarchy...#putting count fagula in charge.... salo is speciallt dumb but we all knew that #katie leung needs awards btw.... and interviews #“do not test this or you will yearn for caitlyn's dungeons” be careful singed my friend vi fell for that and look at her... her dungeons...#vander reaching for isha not jinx.... OR VI.... she just stopped him #“hes gonna kill you” and vi fighting vander to protect jinx.... yeah #and then she trusts jinx and the beast turns into vander... he serves as a recognizing tool for their true selves...#their mom being so worried about how to name vi and then names the second one POWDER kahdksjsk never not funny... also the barber of zaun #when vi joins with jayce she unlocks this loser flop aspect of her mother's inheritance.... two losers joining to maximize their joint flop #also vander kinda giving up this promise to protect the girls instead of bettering zaun... how it puts him in a standstill bc it's either or #like damn there is nothing as undoing as a daughter for reals. she didnt experience that bc she died so now vander has to and here we are #episide 6 starts with the end of the episode when viktor drops that metal piece..... hello..... is this anything #“do you think this place could work” underground utopia.... DYNASTIES AND DYSTOPIA FEAR IS NEVER AN OPTION SO DYING'S NOT A REAL PROBLEM #didnt ambessa suspect anything when they spent loke a full minite staring at each other 😭😭 she's lost her edge...#just like when she clocked sevika but not jinx... when there's a strong butch in the area her radar gets jammed up #and caitlyn leaving her weapon behind... ambessa thought she was gonna fistfight warwick or something #the metal thing falling when viktor dies repeats THREE TIMES WHAT DOES THAT MEAN #watching arcane season 2

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monstermoviedean · 3 months ago

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a better life is a myth. real is better than fake. now is better than then. accept your life. accept your life. accept your life. your problem is your anger. your anger is THE problem. it is your responsibility to stop being angry. that will allow you to accept your life. that's your problem. you're angry and can't accept it. that's on you.

play your role.

#ever notice how the only people claiming dean is angry are 1) writers who don't get him and 2) people trying to manipulate him #i go back and forth on perez sometimes i think he really gets dean and sometimes i think he's got no clue #this is one where i think he gets it and amara is intentionally playing dean #but the way she does it appears to feed the angry dean narrative #the thing is even now having seen most of dabb era i can only think of a handful of times when dean has been angry #and of those they all occur in times of extreme distress when a more vulnerable expression of emotion would be dangerous #you can't just tell us dean's problem is his anger and expect us to buy it without any legitimate evidence to support it #well. people do buy it. that's the problem i guess.#spn #spn rewatch #15x15 gimme shelter

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trifoliate-undergrowth · 4 months ago

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the thing with applying for federal seasonal jobs in national parks or forest service is they'll put out a general application for like 50 locations and ask you the check the ones you'd be interested in working at. Not all of them will allow you to select "any" and they generally want at least your first preferences. So basically the federal government has me sitting here with maps open on another tab playing lightning round smash-or-pass with "places I would be interested in working at for 6ish months of my life" checking answers as I go.

#this one had some in my home state and some in states I like so that's nice #but oh god the amount of options. I've been here an hour #the problem is that. for a seasonal job? yeah I can do anything probably. almost all of these are a smash just bc well. I Need A Job #after this position ends #and preferably one that will give me more experience in thisgs I like #personal (ok to rb)#going through the states like oh that's near where I worked a corps one time #oh that's near the Ocoee nice #oh hey that's a not too far drive from my dad I guess #oh neat that one's on top of a mountain #etc. like it's kind of fun but also GOD THE SHEER AMOUNT OF OPTIONS #makes it less fun #also the page will log me out if I dilly dally too much without action.

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froschli96 · 5 months ago

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you know, i always find it really funny when dudebros complain about syndicate and odyssey being too "jokey" or not "taking its characters seriously" or whatever…

like, did y'all collectively sleep through "it's-a me, mario!", "i meant besides vaginas", ezio inventing the latte, bartolomeo's... just... *gestures vaguely* entire character, etc?

like, it's fine to have preferences of course, i myself prefer a more serious and grounded tone, but these are usually the same people who tout the ezio trilogy as "peak assassin's creed", call ac1 a glorified tech demo and hate on connor for being "too serious and boring", like? make it make sense!

#asscreed #ac syndicate #ac odyssey #dont get me wrong #i do have problems with syndicate and even more so with odyssey #but it's not the tone lol #honestly i think kassandra is the protagonist that's the most similar to ezio if you really think about it #but bc she's a woman she's suddenly 'overpowered' and 'unrealistic'#yall don't remember the insane things that ezio survives in revelations do you #speaking of which #been replaying the ezio games lately #and i have something to confess...... i really don't think ac2 is good #ac brotherhood was a BIG improvement #in terms of story pacing for one (none of those insane unmotivated time jumps... well aside from the strange montage at the end)#and the characters are a lot more fleshed out (probably bc there aren't like 20 of them)#and the handling of female characters is MUCH less egregious #maybe bc there's only really claudia and caterina left LOL #lucrezia is a little annoying i guess... but she gets a pass bc she's cesare's sister and really they're the same kind of crazy lol #and hey we actually get to see how dangerous sex work can be and how it's not just a way for sexy nuns to give inner peace to men #even cristina gets fleshed out!#and i like that we get so see ezio being a little bit of a selfish prick in her missions #and making bad decisions in interpersonal relationships #at least i THINK that's what we're supposed to take away from it... but who knows maybe it's just supposed to be a tragic love story...#i hope not.... i hope the player IS supposed to think that ezio's treatment of her is bad. otherwise.... :/#sorry for rambling #guess im just kinda surprised by how much i enjoyed brotherhood #it had been a long time since i last played it #also the modern day is really good!#that you can talk so much to everyone and also being able to read their emails and the mundane banter... idk i just think its neat :)

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coquelicoq · 3 months ago

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i ate a cupcake recently without first spending five minutes talking about how logistically stressful it is to eat a cupcake, so. i am capable of growth

#i just don't understand how you're supposed to do it without making a mess #why would someone design a food that seems like it is specifically impossible not to get smeared somewhere?#like just design it differently idk??? but everyone else seems to be fine with it so i guess it was a fine decision and i'm the problem #this time i didn't want to say anything about cupcakes being stressful to eat because i was being given a cupcake by the person #who had made the cupcakes and also it was her birthday. so. would have been kind of a dick move.#instead i just unwrapped the cupcake very slowly to give me time to observe how other people were eating theirs #and then i decided i didn't like their methods and did something else #this makes it sound like i've never seen someone eat a cupcake before or eaten one myself but i have many times #i just have never liked it. and i keep holding out hope that someday i'll see someone do it in a way that makes sense #i want someone to crack the code so i can just eat cupcakes. i don't think they're very interesting but it would behoove me socially #to be normal about cupcakes. since everyone else seems so into them for some reason #food #my posts #that said i do know the wrongest way to eat a cupcake and that's the way my younger sister does it (or used to do it)#which entails eating the entire wrapper as well as the cupcake #so in my quest for an acceptable way to eat a cupcake i have at least ruled out several including that one

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sysig · 2 months ago

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