#with how this lady looked at me like gd

[irukasenseii]

Why is it so hard for ppl to understand how our salads work??

[susiecarter]

I know you wrote alot of different superbat tropes and I'm not sure if you're taking suggestions but I don't think you've covered a jealousy trope. I'd love to see Clark helplessly jealous of Bruce and all his beautiful men/ women he dates and Bruce genuinely being none the wiser of thinking maybe Clark is avoiding him all of a sudden is because he's come to his senses and realised that Bruce's friendship is a waste of time or the reason for Clark being rude ( or as rude as someone like Clark can be ) to some of his dates is because he's annoyed with brucie Wayne and his airheadedness / fakeness . And then Clark just loses it when confronted and confesses how he feels and then they have life changing sex lmao !

:D Hi, anon! You're not wrong, haha, I am ALL ABOUT the tropes—and while I have to admit that part of the reason I've never written a fic focused on jealousy is because jealousy doesn't usually tickle my id particularly well (especially with these guys, because I enjoy their delicious angst the most when they're feeling insecure and unsure of themselves emotionally = they're usually holding themselves back/deliberately trying not to put themselves forward as an option :'D) ...

... I have to admit that the way you are framing this prompt is working for me VERY MUCH INDEED. *______*! Your parenthetical is totally correct, Clark being genuinely rude to an innocent third party is kind of a hard sell :D and basically all of the rest of this, I love—the more I think about it, the more I can buy Clark feeling Some Kind of Way about all the gorgeous models (dudes, ladies, neither, Bruce Wayne is ~flexible) Bruce has on his arm all the time, one second wishing that that were him and the next second telling himself not to be so stupid (and it's not precisely that he'd LIKE having lots of people staring at him, flashes going off in his face, all of that—but it wouldn't be about Superman, it would be because he was with Bruce, because he was Bruce's and everyone was seeing him be Bruce's, and he'd have Bruce's attention, too, the headiest part of all—) ... and also feeling a certain uncharitable degree of, like, frustration, because none of these people actually know Bruce, and so it's annoying to watch them be dismissive or patronizing toward ~Bruce Wayne~; he wouldn't be like that, he respects Bruce, he cares about who Bruce actually is, he'd be grateful if Bruce gave him the time of day and he'd do whatever he could to be worthy of it ... and also being afraid he couldn't get Bruce, or if he got him, couldn't keep him, when he'd have to compete with people who look like that, people who can swan their way through upscale parties just as smoothly as Bruce can, people who are glamorous and confident and important. ;-;

And OF COURSE he'd tie himself into a huge ugly knot about it, of course he'd get himself worked up in his head over it until he can't stand to watch Bruce smile and ~bedroom eyes~ at and kiss EVEN ONE MORE OF THESE GD RANDOS, and OF COURSE Bruce would take that carefully imposed distance at least ten wrong ways at once and decide he must be the problem. :'D I will never get tired of writing Clark snapping in the face of Bruce's unwillingness to believe Clark genuinely wants him and articulating his actual feelings as forcefully as he can figure out how to, AND *clenches fists* YES, LIFE-CHANGING SEX INDEED. :DDDDD

So, yeah, as always, I can make you no promises, but if I do actually manage to write this idea, I will 100% give all credit to this ask (and/or to you directly, if you want to send me a follow-up with a username I can attribute! IF NOT NO WORRIES ♥ and seriously, thank you so much for the ask and the prompt!)

[pastafossa]

Hi ignore this if you want ♡ but how did you get diagnosed with heat sensitivity? I've always been super sensitive to being hot and didn't know it could be a medical thing

I'm totally down with answering this! So it came down to three things:

As a little kid I was sensitive to heat and didn't physically do well in anything over about 80 to the point my dad had to fight my after school program's administration that wanted to punish me for not bringing/wearing a jacket (it only got down to around 65-70 at night cause it was gd LA, but the lady in charge didn't like me or her orders being questioned LOL). He wound up with a doctor's note. So pre-established history from doctors when I was young.

One of the chronic health conditions that popped up when I was 12 messes with your nervous system, including the nerves that help regulate your body temperature via blood flow. A specialist brought this up a while back when I mentioned feeling woozy in high temps and my body not really being able to warm itself back up in low temps.

One of my many medications is an antidepressant, specifically a tricyclic antidepressant, and these can affect both your body's ability to regulate its temperature, and make you more sensitive to sunlight, aka photosensitivity. And not just TCAs! This also goes for a whole lotta SSRIS, SNRIs, meds for anxiety, etc. I have no idea why doctors aren't warning patients on prescribing that these can wind up making you heat intolerant and sensitive to sunlight - the original doctor who prescribed mine certainly didn't say anything. It was only years later when a friend mentioned these meds being tied to heat intolerance, and I brought it up with a different doctor, that she said, 'well yeah, heat intolerance is a symptom of *insert health condition* and a side effect of your medication.' So I would absolutely check the side effects of meds if you're on any!

So it's definitely a medical issue to look into! Medical theory for me is I was always mildly heat intolerant, and my health issues + meds basically ramped it up to the point I'm sorta trapped inside with AC for any day over 80 unless I'm at a pool or the beach in the water, but there's a ton of other causes that might give you heat intolerance - both med side effects and health issues. I'd do some digging!

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

With the state Adrien was in just before the finale, can you think of any way he could have made it to the final battle without getting akumatized or otherwise being a liability?

So I've talked about how the final could have been improved by Adrien being the one to get the ring to Paris or by having Ladybug fight while Adrien goes and finds the jump rope lucky charm so that they can save his father but there is one other path you could take without massive rewrites. A path I haven't talked about because - imo - Chat Blanc and Ephemeral made it impossible by establishing that Gabriel is a terrible father who doesn't care about traumatizing Adrien and/or using him for evil.

If we accept the final's retcon that Gabriel totally loves his son and would change his wish at the last minute (a premise I DO like, but not one that the show earned) then here's what you do: have Ladybug and Chat Noir be at the final fight after Adrien fought off the nightmare dust the same way that all of his friends got to do. Have everyone's identities revealed during the fight so that Gabriel doesn't have time to plan. Have Gabriel do his normal evil route and command Chat Noir to stop fighting/switch sides, leading to Gabriel winning and getting both miraculous.

Have Gabriel in his moment of triumph release his son so that Adrien can share in this moment because Gabriel truly thinks that Adrien will be on his side now that Adrien has had a moment to process everything. Have Adrien instead run to Marinette, crying, apologizing because he couldn't save her. Because he's supposed to be her protector and he failed.

Have a horrified Gabriel flash back to when Emilie was lost because Gabriel always blamed himself for letting her use the peacock instead of him and now he's FORCED his own son to go through the same kind of pain. Have Gabriel suddenly question his goals at the sight of his child's anguish. Have Gabriel look at his wife, knowing that she never wanted to be saved. Have Gabriel make his final wish: give my son my humanity. Let him be free so that no one can put him through this again. Make me the senti. Everything fades in a ball of light.

Cut to graveyard. Adrien is dressed in black standing before his parents' grave stone, holding his mother’s broach. Marinette joins him, taking his hand, squeezing it.

He squeezes back, then sighs, putting the broach in his pocket.

“I wish that I had more than this. Even their wedding rings are gone.”

Marinette smiles, tapping his miraculous. “You’ve got the only ring you’ll ever need right here, Kitty.”

Adrien smiles back. “I don’t know, in a few years, I’d like to add one more.”

She blushes and he laughs, kissing her softly. Then they hug each other tight. Adrien looks at the graves longingly, then closes his eyes and tightens his hold on Marinette. He's got long journey of healing ahead of him, but with his Lady, he can do anything.

That's probably the most satisfying thing that I can come up with without completely rewriting the whole season (or even the whole series). The basic premise behind this rewrite is that letting an old video of Emilie change Gabriel's mind makes no sense in the story they wrote.

For starters, there is no way that this is the first time that Gabriel is hearing these words from her. I mean, you really believe that she took the time to make videos for Nathalie, but never actually talked to her husband? Of course you don't! So why would the video change his mind when the real woman couldn't?

This is especially true because the video is played at the end of a season that started with Gabriel choosing defeating Ladybug over saving his wife!!! In other words, the narrative has literally gone out of its way to establish that Emilie has no sway over him when it comes to Ladybug. You do not write Evolution (S5E1) if you want to have this be your ending, but they did and nothing in season five undermined Evolution's message, so this ending makes no GD sense.

But Gabriel changing his mind because of Adrien? We have actually seen that before and we want the Father-son relationship to build to something big. We also want the senti stuff to build to something big. This type of change would satisfy those expectations while also giving a resolution to the central conflict of season five: Gabriel trying to control his son because he thinks that he knows best. A conflict that will now never be resolved because Gabriel will never have that moment where he gives up control. His final act was literally controlling the fate of the entire universe. That is not a satisfying conclusion for a villain who's all about control!!!! It doesn't matter that he's dead if you let him control his death! But if he has control of the universe and uses that control to do the opposite of what he's been trying to do all season? Arguably the entire series? That is actually a somewhat meaningful and powerful conclusion to one of your main themes.

Yes, Emilie was his motivation, but he gets to be with Emilie, so he didn't actually give her up. He still gets exactly what he wanted and controlled the fact that he got to be with his wife while also further traumatizing his son! This is not a meaningful surrender of control. This is Gabriel just having enough and deciding he wants to be with his wife and Nathalie can deal with Adrien from now on even though she has never expressed any interest in being Adrien's primary guardian. Idk, let's not get into it, this is already long.

[lansangprincess]

Heartbreak High-lights S2E4

Legs Open Hearts Broken

the title just came to me, i know, im a disappointment

the holy trinity looking fine as hell !! that's my family right there 🥺💗

i feel really bad for amerie and how the end of her and malakai's relationship went down but baby girl do not talk to rowan oh god u need to shut up sometimes. i say this bc ily

seeing malakai w rowan makes me sad af like im happy for ur journey but gd if amerie's heart isnt the only broken one here

"hands up if u want to follow me" and DARREN AND CA$H NO HESITATION PUTTING THEIR HANDS DOWN LMFAOOO

the naked lady lighter was harper's hehehehe

malakai making out w rowan and then hEARING AMERIE'S VOICE WE'RE SO BACK

"I don't want you to be uncomfortable" "You've only ever made me comfortable. You let me be myself" I'M GOING TO JUMP OFF MR. SNUFFLEPOT'S BACK INTO A CANYON OH MY GOOOOOD 😭🤧🫶

the last shot of the "you're my soulmate" scene needs to be in the louvre jfc it's so beautiful, they're so beautiful

"i reckon i was just in the right place at the right time" thank u rowan, gonna get in my good graces now.

ANT WOKE UP HAPPY TO SEE HARPER ON HIM YES YES YES YES AND HE WAS HOLDING HER HAND YES YES YES YES (the confusion i had for a sec tho bc i thought that smile was for known lesbian sasha lol)

quinni being the only one that gets into a fatal accident on an excursion where EVERYONE but her ate sketchy mushrooms and got high? dont piss me off rn 😒

[hugogetspowerbottomed]

TVA archive anon again yes that is what I meant thank you! Sorry I wasn't clear enough in my first ask, I'm just a bit intrigued by the local fandom cryptid and don't know where to do research

No worries!! I can give you a quick overview of what happened (to the best of my knowledge) and places you can look for remnants of the Tall Varian anon.

The Tall Varian anon started posting under NSFW fics on ao3 that featured bottom Varian. (It's important to note that the Tall Varian anon and the Top Varian anon are the same person btw!)

They hit up a few top Varian fics, praising them for having that and begging for more material. These are mostly under "Anon Guest" users, but I think DAVIDOFF and Sararar were the pseudonyms they transitioned into using.

I'm pretty sure if you search Varigo on ao3 and filter it out to Explicit fics, you'll find a comment under one of those two names about it, so I would start there. It's mostly smaller comments like "this is actually good" or "why won't people write Top Varian?" until beloved fandom author PornOnTheCob declared open season on them in their comment section on I THINK their valentine's day fic in 2022 (?). After that it migrated to Tumblr and became way more hostile.

There was an incident where they posted under EVERY SINGLE Varigo authors' works (including non tts/vat7k fics) about how Varigo was a cult (these might be deleted, but I still have screenshots somewhere).

It's harder to search on Tumblr bc the search system is stupid and broken, but there were a million incidents on my main (@whothefuckisknives), and I'm pretty sure other blogs got hit up too (I wouldn't know tho bc I only knew a couple of ppl in the fandom at the time and we were in a Discord groupchat, not really on Tumblr).

Currently, they do have a Tumblr blog, but they have most ppl in the fandom blocked which is awesome for us tbh. I think they interact with 3 ppl tops.

One note to add, you'll probably find a lot of Tall Varian/Top Varian comments under Cheerio, HOWEVER you'll also find nice comments too. That's bc Cheerio was actually someone else, but Tall Varian anon started impersonating them to cause drama (I know this btw bc I knew who the original Cheerio was and they ended up making an AO3 account). So if you see Cheerio in the comment section during the Porn0nTheCob fights, that's not Tall Varian anon.

There's a bunch of other pseudonymous they used too, like Anali, Dan, Duchess de L'ciel, Rioteer, gds, and Lady [something?? i don't remember it but I think it began with an "A"]. They've gone through a couple of Tumblr blogs too that got deleted or banned too. The only one's I can remember is @imapervertedtangledfan (deleted, but you might be able to find it via archieve/waybackmachine fuckery), @/aliciasinferno (this one is still a little bit active).

Actually here's a really funny call out post that THEY POSTED ABOUT THEMSELVES to try and throw ppl off their trail (didn't work):

It has the names of all the blogs and some of the AO3 names they've used which is. Really really funny.

Anyway, those are some places where you can start looking! Its a really weird deep dive fr one you get into it. They're also still active on their current Tumblr, but I'm not comfortable with naming them outside of DMS bc I don't want them up my ass again.

[venusjaynie]

st social media au pt2

no real story line here, just another stranger things social media fic!

ST social media au masterlist here

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itsbuckleybitch

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itsbuckleybitch: folks, here we have steven marigold harrington in his natural habitat; stacking videos at our shitty job in a shitty video store

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stevie.h: buckley that is not my name and you know it

↳ itsbuckleybitch: do i know that?

↳ stevie.h: i hate you

y/ns.priv24: babe you look depressed af in this

↳ stevie.h: aw thank you baby. you're so kind

b.hargrove: cheer up harrington. munsons party's tonight

↳ stevie.h: i know dude. it's the only thing getting me through this gd shift

↳ itsbuckleybitch: hey dingus i think i'm making this shift a little more bareable

↳ stevie.h: um. no.

b.hargrove

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b.hargrove: the ladies say im almost as hot as my camaro

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y/ns.priv24: your tits look good in this

↳ b.hargrove: go fuck yourself

↳ y/ns.priv24: i took that photo. i was there. don't act as if you didn't pull your jacket back to show off your chest, and don't even try to convince everyone that that's a candid pic. it took you 45 minutes and 30024 poses to get the one you wanted.

↳ thefreakmunson: jesus christ. that was harsh kid

stevie.h: tbh hargrove, my girlfriend wasn't lying when she said your tits look good

↳ y/ns.priv24: steve i appreciate you agreeing with me (for once smh) but can you stop flirting with billy for one second

↳ itsbuckleybitch: yeah dingus, shes right. its getting out of hand

↳ stevie.h: as if you didn't kiss my gf at her birthday party when you were drunk

↳ y/ns.priv24 : that was a birthday kiss. doesn't count. it was robs present to me

↳ stevie.h: oh my god

stevie.h

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stevie.h: found this absolute fuckin gem in my snapchat memories

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y/ns.priv24: amazing. spectacular. this picture is like a christmas present i love it.

itsbuckleybitch: harrington take this down right now

↳ stevie.h: hm... nah

nanceewheeler: robin looking cute as ever

↳ itsbuckleybitch: nance stop im blushing

↳ johnnybyers: buckley stop hitting on my girlfriend

↳ nanceewheeler: byers don't tell my girlfriend what to do

↳johnnybyers: what the fuck is going on

↳ itsbuckleybitch: HA i stole your girl

willthewise

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willthewise: that was some good pasta.

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LucassSinclair: where tf are you guys?

↳ ElOhEl: idk like a parking lot somewhere? i could be wrong max drove us here

↳ b.hargrove: max did what?

↳ ElOhEl: she drove us here in your car

↳ madmaxx: whaaaaaaaaat

↳ b.hargrove: youve got some explaining to do when you get home maxine

stevie.h: is that my dog???

↳ y/ns.priv24: our** dog. but yeah is that ceasar?

↳ thefreakmunson: pfft you named your dog after a salad? that's stupid

↳ y/ns.priv24: no dumbass he's names after julius ceasar. like the famous roman general

↳ thefreakmunson: ...i knew that i was just kidding

y/ns.priv24

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y/ns.priv24: uncle billy brought ceasar back. major slay

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b.hargrove: never call me uncle billy again

↳ stevie.h: hargrove shut up i could see the big cheesey grin on your face when you read "uncle billy"

↳ b.hargrove: dammit steve

itsbuckleybitch: i love how no one has commented some shit like 'cant tell whos cute billy or the dog' cause we all know the answer already

↳ b.hargrove: aw thanks rob

↳ itsbuckleybitch: no man i meant my pal ceasar

↳ b.hargrove: im leaving this friend group

johnnybyers

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johnnybyers: guys my mom just sent me this im so confused

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y/ns.priv24: shut up this is so cute

↳ johnnybyers: okay but why is she sending me this shit

↳ nanceewheeler: cause theyre in love and they wanna show it

↳ y/ns.priv24: maybe. that doesnt sound like mom or hopper though. i reckon mom knew you'd post this and she just wanted some clout

↳ johnnybyers: you're so right

itsbuckleybitch: john your mom is hot

↳ johnnybyers: not cool dude

↳ b.hargrove: i agree with buckley

↳ y/ns.priv24: you guys make me sick

[unabashedhonesty]

Am I...transgender?

I’ve felt my whole life like I am not a proper female. I remember me, as young as three years old, arguing vehemently with my maternal parental unit that I am a BOY, gd it! I’ve had barbies and dresses and the color PINK forced on me my entire childhood. (I despise pink to this very day because of the association.) I wanted to play sports like wrestling and football, but I couldn’t because those were “for boys”. And then I learned when I was a teenager that I like both genders — but not sex. And I was apparently “wrong” for both of those things. I always had to talk and behave a certain way because of my genitals, which never sat well with me. When I finally started to live with the notion that I-have-a-uterus-and-sizable-breasts-so-logic-dictates-that-I-am-a-girl, I tried to embrace my “place” in the world and started focusing on how to be a “proper lady”, yet all the sudden I was “slutty” and a “hoochie” “outspoken” and “disrespectful” and should dress “conservatively”, even though girls who showed off their looks apparently got praise and approval (it didn’t help that the only affection I ever got was from the “family friend” who got way too handsy with me, but I took it because here was someone who was finally being nice to me).

When I finally got away from toxic relatives and out on my own, I tried to be a proper woman, but the label “woman” never settled in and I waited my entire twenties to feel “right”. Then tragedy hit me and my partner and living became survival again, thus I no longer cared what I looked like or what people thought. I stopped wearing makeup so much, I stopped shaving my legs and armpits, I stopped the painful process of waxing my face, and THEN!! For the first time, I actually felt comfortable in my skin. I stopped wearing bras so much. I started wearing geeky t-shirts and jeans and biker boots. I talk in a way that feels right to me, and not how a “lady” should. I stopped sitting like a “lady” and I don’t take shit from anybody anymore. I began to realize that I never liked being referred to as a “she” and would jokingly tell my friends to not accuse me of being a woman. Then I started an anonymous, faceless, genderless Twitter (before the muskrat takeover) as a social experiment, and learned that I LIKED it when everyone just assumed I was a guy. I didn’t correct them because I didn’t want them to change the way they talked to me.

I then came to the conclusion that I’m genderfluid. I prefer they/them pronouns, but I really do enjoy he/him. I still know how to be a “woman”, and I still occasionally present myself as one when it���s needed (or when it’s not a good idea to get into correcting people). I still thought I was stuck being a woman when I met my partner, so I will happily be a woman for them from time to time, because that’s what they’re attracted to and I still want to be attractive to them. But they never try to make me be anything, and certainly doesn’t shame me for my gender issues — they love and support me whatever I’m feeling. (They still refer to me as “she”, but that’s what I still was when we met nearly a decade ago and it’s hard for them to switch, so I don’t hold it against them; they’re not malicious about it at all). And if I’m feeling particularly masculine — even for weeks or months at a time — they don’t try to stop me from being just that. For most of my life, I’d never heard of transgender or gender-affirming care or anything of the sort (due to being raised in an EXTREMELY conservative environment), but once I started educating myself about it so I could support others, it started to make a lot of sense to me. But I’m still learning and trying to understand it all, so I beg of you, LGBTQIA+ side of Tumblr, to PLEASE help me understand what exactly I am and what I’m going through. I know how I feel — have ALWAYS felt — and that is most certainly NOT feminine. Am I genderqueer? Am I Trans? Is this real? Am I a hypochondriac? Is it all in my head? Am I just confused? Please help!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[myxinidaes]

Earthspark spoilers for all ten episodes below! I slapped down my thoughts here

First of all: I love twitch. I ADORE twitch. every single twitch moment had me going *points* ur my kid, lifting her on my shoulders, and cheering wildly. 99% chance twitch is going to be my first ever tf figure

I adore all the kids, tbh! I feel like Twitch is the most developed, but Mo and Robbie and Thrash are all excellent, and their interactions feel soooo natural! I'm not sure if Bee counts as a kid, but he's basically been sent to sit at the kid's table this series, so I'll put him here too. Definitely my favorite Bumblebee since TFA! He's such an asshole, and I appreciate that about him.

The transformations were fun, too! The way that bots would transform their weapons out of their bodies (but not attached like in TFP or TFA) was fascinating- and very slick. I'm looking forward to seeing the new Terrans' alt modes and final designs

And the LADIESSSSSSS oh my gd the ladies I am SO happy transformers shows are finally getting girls that arent just Girl (mean) and Girl (girl but cool and like the dudes). Elita One was *swoon worthy*, Arcee was delightfully insane, Frenzy was SUCH a pleasant surprise and possibly my favorite design yet, the Seeker twins were fanTASTIC, and the Terran gals are literally so good. Hashtag only showed up for a few minutes but she absolutely stole the show!!!!! let hashtag have her yuri manga backstory pls <3

My favorite episode was by far the traditions episode- Twitch's struggles with finding her place in her unique intersection of heritages rang super true to my experience growing up mixed, and hit unexpectedly hard! For the most part, the emotional side of the show was done well, which was a huge relief since I was worried it would come off as trite and shallow. I think the excellent characterization helped! Also, the foreshadowing/crumbs of exploring the effects of war on people is Very Tantalizing. Fingers crossed that if they portray combat PTSD, it'll be done respectfully! However, I think so far this show has been good about touching on sensitive topics and making them seem real.

Other people have also discussed how big the war looms over this show, and I couldn't agree more! The show does an excellent job of telling this story from a young person's perspective. None of the main four kids have seen war but it still touches their lives and even within this first half of the first season, you can see the kids starting to understand that. The intersection of Dot as a war veteran and Alex as a transformers fanboy is fascinating, too! Even though Dot's affected by the war, the kids perspectives of it are initially entirely from the sanitized stories and comics Alex gives them, giving them a rosy perspective on the battles and tragedies humans and cybertronians both endured. I wonder if this will be explored in later seasons? I can't imagine it's comfortable for Dot (veteran, possible con sympathizer?) to be constantly bombarded with this glorification from her fanboy husband. idk!

I can't really think of many things I disliked other than the way Megatron seems to be so disapproving of GHOST while allowing his (former) army to be imprisoned by them? I adore this Megatron's characterization, but the GHOST thing... hm. dislike. BIG dislike. Why would the guy that was the head of a faction during the war be so passive? I don't think we've been given any reason for the war happening yet, but even if the war beginning was entirely unrelated to functionism, it's hard to see half the Cybertronian population being jailed by humans as an ended war.

Which brings me to my final point. The war??? Is it over??? From Optimus' line in Age of Evolution about the Cybertronians on Earth being the only cybs left, something Big happened to Cybertron. Before watching the series, I was convinced that the war was still happening on Cybertron proper and had only ended on Earth because of the faction leaders being stranded on it together without communication back to their homeworld but now I'm like????? I feel as though we haven't gotten quite enough Lore Droppage for me to begin making any theories, which is TRAGIC

tldr: pls this was so good I'm so well fed and want more i was :DDDDDD the entire time earthspark is such a joy!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hamcrtia]

y'all i just have to rant under the cut for a moment bc i have no real life friends and my mom is busy lmfao

i moved back to the states for school just to find out my uni wants over 50k for an associates degree (whole other story) SO ive been looking at other nearby schools

i found one bc im a great detective

however yesterday i was in a call back line foR FOUR HOURS !! and then the line closed before someone called me so i had to wait until today to join the line again.

two hours. haha. wasting my gd time i swear.

anyway finally someone calls me and im like yo wassup i have some questions about the in state tuition. and they're like did you fill out the form and im like not yet maam i am trying to figure out what i need for the exception policy.

and shes like well you're 24 so you're an independent student and im like ya no i get that but there are three options. .. dependent, independent and the third option is an exception waiver with options . and shes like well it sounds like you didnt fill out the form, you need to pick independent.

AND I WAS LIKE MAAM... i have not been here for 12 months i don't qualify as an independent student. .. im calling to see what i need for the exception policy bc i apply to two of them. and shes like yeah pick independent. AND IM FRUSTRATED NOW. so i say there is a third option ... the exception policy ... what do i need for it.

and she got all pissy like genuinely rude i wanted to cry and was like pick independent, you're gonna get denied if you put those. so i was like ok... (whatever next question in my head) AND ... HUNG UP !!! ON ME !!! AFTER I SAID I HAVE MORE QUESTIONS.

trust me when i say we definitely went back and forth more than that but it would be redundant for me to write down how many fucking times she said that to me.

anyway i ended up getting ahold of a lovely lady afterwards who felt bad but mAAM ... thats how u gonna act in admissions ... absolutely not i almost drove down there to fight her

[lang-rangler-enjoyer]

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR STONE OCEAN OCS I'M WORKING ON MY OWN OCS AND NEED ✨INSPO✨

(esp Canada Goose he looks so FUNKY)

OK HERE WE GO :0 I don’t have too many

Canada Goose (yeah, that’s his name. legally)

•Somewhere in his late twenties. Six foot two. Chunky boi with fat tiddies. Has a large black back tattoo of the letters “BNL” in block font

•He’s a mid-to-high level ranking gangster in Sports Maxx’s gang who’s serving a reduced sentence (like Maxx, due to mafia destruction of evidence and legal tampering) for trafficking and selling hard drugs.

•He’s a natural stand user wielding Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated to BNL). BNL is a soft, squishy parasitic stand that enters the body through open wounds and travels up the bloodstream to your brain. Once it’s in your head, BNL attaches itself to your brain and can read and transmit weak electric signals. Basically, this allows Goose to hear all your thoughts and allows him to send you telepathic messages. BNL can’t do any physical damage to its host, but it’s a psychological weapon that also gives Goose a huge boost in combat, kind of like Dragon’s Dream.

•Not too smart, but then again he doesn’t need to be. He’s good at what he does, he’ll leave the thinking up to people like Maxx. He’s a good listener, he loves just hanging out and shootin’ the shit with people, maybe with a drink and a smoke too.

Viktor Rolf (like the fashion house Viktor & Rolf)

•I COULDNT NOT STEAL HIM HES SO PRETTY LOOK 👁️👁️ AT HIMM

•Mid twenties. No significant tattoos, marks, or piercings.

•Dropped out of university (majoring in English) in his second year due to burn out and personal issues. Got a “temporary” job at the prison and promised his family and friends he’d be back at university as soon as he was feeling better. It’s been at least four years and yeah, he’s starting to feel like that’s never gonna happen. Not that he likes his job at GD st., he fucking HATES it here, but he just can’t bring himself to change everything again.

•He’s cold and standoffish with most people. He doesn’t want to get close with any of his coworkers because it feels like settling in, admitting defeat, admitting he’s never going to leave. Not rude per say, just curt and withdrawn.

•Oh yeah, and he’s secretly dating Goose. He appreciates that Goose doesn’t judge or ask questions.

Dege Goose-Rolf and Skinner Goose-Rolf (like the fashion company Dege & Skinner)

Don’t ask how it happened. Goose would probably tell you, just don’t ask.

•I’m away right now and haven’t had the time to draw them more :( so these are just preliminary sketches

•The twins are weird. like those kids who show up at family gatherings and you’re not quite sure who they’re related to but your mom says you have to sit next to them even if they chew crayons and smell funny.

•They’re very close. Goose is trying his best but he is a first time single dad with no idea what he’s doing, so they sometimes have to rely on each other.

•They share the stand Beastie Boys. I haven’t figured out what it does yet 🤔

[cantankerouscatfish]

sometimes work involves, compiled mother’s day rush edition:

radio: 🎵 me: ...is this Gordon Lightfoot? florist: Yes. For more information on Gordon Lightfoot, ask: me. :) florist: *is Canadian*

same florist: I like Geddy Lee’s voice, too, but there’s only so much I can take before it gets a bit grating. floral manager: WOAH. won’t the Canadian government come after you for saying that??

Ro, in a mocking voice: can I get some nice cut pansies? can I get some violas in a vase?? M the office lady: you joke, but people do ask that! or for “asylum” instead of “alyssum.” Ro: oh yeah, we get that a lot. OH. I had a customer today come up and ask, “can you help me find the flowers I’m looking for?” so I went, “okay... what flowers are you looking for?”  “oh, I don’t know.”  ??¿?

me: *squinting at a bolt on the back of the staple machine* manager: if [Jr] was here, he’d look at that and be all, “that’s a- a number 4, grade 5, something thread, with--” me: hey, I used to be able to do that back when I worked at the hardware store. manager: DON’T. don’t tell me that. *leaves as if afraid* (I did find a nut for the bolt, and fixed the stapler. we are not sure what happened to the old nut. it apparently wore away into particles.)

customer: I’m looking for sunsugar tomatoes? me: yep! they are waaay in the back corner. there are picture signs. customer, from the back table: where are they?? me, just trying to water: they’re in alphabetical order, so S is way in the corner. there ya go! customer, 2 minutes later: I am getting these for a friend. she said to get one of these cages. but they’re so big! me: these tomatoes you have are going to be, like, 8-foot vines. that branch. they can get *puts out arms* big before the end of the summer. customer: can’t I just use a stick? *holds up hand to indicate she plans to use an 18″ stake* me: ...no, you really should use a cage. you can get cheaper ones at home depot, but again, these plants want to be basically shrubs, okay? customer: *looks down at cart* these little things? me, very tired: ma’am, those are babies. (she really didn’t get it. idk. I tried. sorta. we do have container-size tomatoes but her friend wanted sunsugars!!)

a couple came in with their little ball python for walksies. she was wrapped around one of their arms at any given time. snake. :D

the phone in the workroom had An Incident (water might have gotten in) so I gotta poke at it tomorrow or next week or whenever I get five gd minutes to myself. whuh. idk how to set up a spare phone. ;_;

[tiessainwonderland]

Southern Discomfort

I had this notion that states like Kentucky and Tennessee and Georgia and Alabama would be filled with slow-talking, solicitous Southern Gentlemen who still held doors open for women and said things like yes ma’am and no ma’am. Then I went to Nashville.

Now, I freely admit that I’m about to make a mass generalization based on interactions had in one of the highest pressure environments you can find yourself in, but I’ve traveled quite a bit at this point and to date, I have NEVER…EVER…witnessed the level of childish tantrum throwing and straight-up rudeness that I experienced in Nashville in the last 24 hours. I’m gobsmacked.

I’m going out on a limb and guessing that even when y’all are on vacation, the airport part is never your favorite. All the TSA rules and the airline rules and the taking off and putting on of articles of clothing and accessories, the occasional pat-down (or if you’re really lucky, a strip search), delays, and gate changes all just ratchet up the anxiety while you’re just tryna get out of Dodge. When it’s travel you’re doing for work, or worse, because of some sort of unfortunate personal circumstances (sickness, death in the family, etc.), it’s almost unbearable. But there is never a reason to use any of those things as your personal justification to become a complete Ogre. Buckle up because these situations all really happened, and they were all FULLY GROWN ADULT MEN.

Man 1, who we’ll call Albert, stood in line behind me at the rental car counter for around 15-20 minutes grumbling to everyone around him about the airport-wide shortage of cars available. When I got to the front of the line and was waiting to be called next, Albert shuffled himself and his luggage around me and walked up to the counter in front of me, like I wasn’t even standing there. He stood talking to the woman behind the counter for a few moments in hushed tones the rest of us couldn’t hear, and then finally she said, “It’s still going to be two hours.” He huffed and turned around and as he walked away he said, “Fine, I’ll just come back.” As he walked past me, I said to him, “Cool, are you gonna cut in line again then too??” He stopped and looked at me like he couldn’t believe a human with a lady brain had dared speak to him like that, and said, “I didn’t cut, I’ve been waiting.” I said, “As have all of the people you see around you.” Smh.

The next dude, who we’ll call Bob, had been on my flight from DFW to Nashville and had been talking SO UNNECESSARILY LOUD ON HIS PHONE both before we took off and immediately after we landed, like he was negotiating some terrorists down from launching missiles or something. It was loud and dramatic and hyperbolic and entirely for the benefit of anyone within earshot so we’d all see how cool he was. So Bob showed up in the Rental Car Garage right after me, and walked up to me and asked if I was standing in line for a car. I said yep and faced back forward. That’s when Bob posted up RIGHT. BEHIND ME. and proceeded to make another loud crazy phone call.

This time he was telling the other person how many Senators (pronounced “Sen-dors”) he had in his pocket and they need to change the law “up there” because people are gonna start dyin! He kept talking about his rank (Bob’s in the military, y’all, like WHOA), everyone else in the situation’s rank, the guy he was on the phone with’s rank, etc. While he’s having this loud, profanity-laden conversation, he keeps periodically SPITTING ONTO THE GROUND RIGHT NEXT TO MY BAGS/FEET. This happened at least 3-5 times. I turned and gave him filthy enraged looks every time and he. did. not. care. When I was finally up at the window talking to the Garage Attendant, Bob spit again, and that time the Attendant girl heard it and made a face, and she was inside a booth!!! FOUL. Meanwhile, Bob kept telling his phone pal about the GD SHORTAGE OF GD RENTAL CARS AT THIS GD AIRPORT…calm down Bob.

Speaking of calming down, after I’d given my phone number to the Attendant girl so they could call me when my car became available (est. 30-45 min, actual 90 min), I went around behind her little booth looking for more benches to sit on so I didn’t have to sit with Bob or any other potential Bobs. I found a couple of baby car seats and an airport wheelchair that had been abandoned behind the booth, so I posted up in the wheelchair where it was quiet and untainted by toxic masculinity, and made some phone calls.

Halfway through my second call catching up with my friend Rach, I kept getting distracted by Man #3, who we’re going to call “Jack”. Jack was a tall dude in his mid-60’s who was wearing skinny jeans with some ZeroGrand oxfords and a cashmere sweater, walking up and down the rows of cars and yelling about how many cars there were just sitting there ready to go and all of us had been waiting for hours. He kept doing this and then would go to the Express Assign Area, which was manned by two kids in their 20’s, where he’d loudly and forcefully harangue them with questions about why we were having to wait if there were all these cars. Meanwhile, the kids had to keep stopping what they were doing to interact with Jack until he’d inevitably shake his head and turn and swagger back towards where all of us were waiting with his arms spread wide like, “I’m tryna help fix it guys, but they don’t want to, sorry.” Ugh.

By the third time Jack went to walk his rounds, I had reached my limit of BS that I was willing to overlook for one day from all these dudes. As he started his swagger back towards all of us, HE LIT UP A CIGAR and started smoking it there in the garage around all of us. Wut?????

So as he walked past where I was and was still hollering about alllllllll the cars, I finally turned and said, “Would you calm down?” He stopped and backed up and looked at me with his head turned sideways. I love how SHOCKED these dudes get when a woman actually calls them out. Like bro, you may have hit your wife until she stopped back talking you, but I’m not your wife, son. So he says, “Excyooooze me?” I said, “I SAID, would you please calm down?…everyone here is waiting patiently, no one needs you out here with your chest puffed out and your cigar smoke trying to intimidate kids a third your age who are just trying to do their job.” He said, “You don’t even know what you’re talking about, all those cars are gassed up and ready to go, there’s no reason for us to be sitting here waiting.” I said, “Then by all means, go get in one and git so we don’t have to listen to you anymore, but they’re just following what they’re being told to do.” He said something about he didn’t understand why my “fat ass” felt the need to get involved, so I said, “Sir I can lose weight but you’ll always be a dick with a horrible personality.” He walked off and kept smoking his cigar. I hope he gets lip cancer.

Then today, I’m back at the airport standing at the ticketing desk waiting for the gate agent to finish with the two people in front of me so I can ask if there’s a spot on the flight they’re boarding that I can snag. Man #4, who I’ll call “Frank” comes up and stands not so much behind me as he is beside me. I looked at him like what are you doing, get in line, so he asked, “Are you in line to ask about this flight?” I said, “Yep.”

Ticketing Agents finish with the two people in front of me and Frank freaking side-steps RIGHT ON AROUND IN FRONT OF ME and says to the agents, “Are there any free seats left on that flight??”

Um excuse me sir? Did you just walk in front of me and attempt to take the last empty seat away from me????? Yes, yes he did!!

Fortunately for him, the agent told him the flight was closed and he scurried off to ruin someone else’s day. The agent got me on the next flight out and I went and sat down. As I was sitting there, I couldn’t stop thinking about these men who literally just walked right over me like I wasn’t even there, fully intending to take whatever I might have been about to get.

What’s happening right now that this is how people treat each other??? What kind of absolute douche do you have to be to have so little concern or regard for anyone around you that you will all but push them out of your way to take what’s theirs?

Like I said, it’s a fairly gross generalization, but I can say that I’ve not seen anything like this in Texas in the last 5 years I’ve been traveling heavily.

Nashville, what’s the deal???

[supercantaloupe]

✨falstaff thoughts pls✨

it was good! i still think musically speaking late verdi is still just not my thing overall but there were definitely some really great musical moments -- loved the ladies' quartet in act i scene ii, that recurring "from two to three" motive, everything the english horn played, etc. performances were great (once again especially the ladies, also bardolfo <3). i thought the design of the production was neat -- it had a 50s aesthetic and it was very fun to look at, especially ford's house. and ford's fontana costume, oh my gd. he looks like the most over the top texan caricature possible and it's SO funny. also props to the chorus because a lot of their background acting was great, adding to the scenes without distracting from the main characters. also shoutout to the gddamn HORSE i LOVE it when there's a horse onstage for no good fucking reason. it just stood there and ate hay for like 1/3 of act iii scene i. star of the show.

i haven't decided yet how i feel abt so much of the comedy around john falstaff being (sometimes vaguely, sometimes overtly) fatphobic, or the fact that the actor was in a fat suit for the role. i'm leaning towards slightly negative abt that but...what can you really do abt it, i guess.

anyway overall good show it had some great funny moments and i would watch it again on demand if i had someone who really wanted to watch it with me. i am however absolutely hooked on seeing the met live broadcasts in cinemas now...i haven't been to a movie in a theater since like 2018 it's generally Not My Thing but i had So Much Fun today. when did cinemas get so comfy?? my seat was cushy and RECLINED. like, so much. and i had such a great view from the back row. my only complaint is that the audio was up too loud but that's why i bring earbuds with me everywhere (i'm starting to wonder if my hearing/volume tolerance is just Different from the average person since this is a consistent problem for me in theaters and at big events...)

[romanovsonelastdance]

Fun question: Say do you agree GD Olga N and GD Olga A look alike? And that Princess Astrid Of Sweden( later Queen of Belgium) and Grand Duchess Tatiana look alike? Do you think The young Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark( later husband of Queen Elizabeth II) is a blonde version of Tsarevich Alexei of Russia? They say GD Anastasia looks quite similar to Lady Elizabeth bowes-lyon( later Queen of the UK and Queen Mother) as a child and teen do you think soo too? And the most famous opinion of GD Maria N looks sooo much alike to her paternal grandparents?

I think Tatiana and Astrid do look similar, especially as young children. As an aside, unpopular opinion, but I don't think Tatiana actually looks all that much like Alix. The eyes especially seem like all Nicholas to me! I can only assume the comparisons to Alix were mostly about her her demeanor and expressions, how she behaved and carried herself, or perhaps in coloring; either that, or my eyes/photographs are lying to me. Astrid's mother was a Danish princess, a first cousin of Nicholas II's, so it wouldn't make sense that Tatiana and Astrid look alike if Tatiana were a copy of Alix. There's got to be some Nicholas/Danish in there for it to work!

I also agree that Maria looks like her grandparents, Maria Feodorovna and Alexander III. She has the rounder face and more robust built of Alexander III but shares a lot of similar features with Maria Feodorovna, although MF's large eyes were brown and MN's were blue.

I don't personally think Olga N looks much like Olga A; to me their eyes and mouths are very different. Olga A had a look that was rather all her own. Olga N seems like a good combo of both her parents, especially if you look at photos of them as children.

I'm not familiar enough with young Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon to really say about Anastasia; from the few photos I can recall I think the largest similarity was that they both had bangs/fringe and they might not look much alike without that. Elizabeth B-L had a very round face--like Olga and Maria did--but Anastasia had a longer face IMO. I do think Anastasia greatly resembles young Alix of Hesse. Of all the children I think she, not Tatiana, looks the most like their mother.

I had never thought about Alexei and Philip. I suppose there is some resemblance, though I think Philip's face is longer and Alexei's a bit more round. I think he reminds me more of his Hessian cousins Georg Donatus and Louis/Ludwig. When I try to imagine what an adult Alexei would look like, I like to look at pictures of the Hessian brothers to try and get some idea. I think Alexei looks more like them than any of his cousins on the Russian side.

[kithtaehyung]

Ryen😭 I just woke up and I dreamt of kook tonight,😭 at the beginning I was in a hotel's conference room and all the students from my old school and my siblings too were there for some sort of occasion and bts was there to perform before the ceremony. They were in suits, all in different colors, and stayed in line singing in the mics. So I watched them aware that I was the only one there who was a fan, I felt like the others were making fun of them, but who cares because at one point I felt like they were looking at me directly like they knew me. So at that point I guess it all changed because I was a friend of them, but not just that. Because when it ended and people were going home, my friend mila told me hey don't you wan to say the goodbye before going home? And pointed behind me were jungkook was speaking to people. Okay so now the hotel was way less crowdy and the rest of the dream is the exciting part: I go to him and he said something like took you long enough. And took me to a blind corner to kiss me but there was this lady, maybe the owner, who kept trying to find us. So we run to other places hand in hand until we get into the tower (?) of the hotel were she can't find us anymore. And I'm ashamed to say this but he dryhumps me against the brick wall while we take each other s clothes off. And when we're naked we masturbate each other if that make sense until we cum. Idk why we didn't go all the way, I guess it's bc I'm a virgin so my subconscious wasn't ready for that. Anywayy we fall asleep for like one minute and then he decides to take pictures of me with my phone. Then we hear the lady again so we run again and then it's all confused, I can't remember. That's it, I just wanted to share bc it's my first dream with bts in years!! I also checked my gallery, no pictures of naked me..

SKDLSDLDLD WELL THIS WENT FROM AWHH TO 🫣😳🫣 real quick LMFAO oh my god?? What a dream and your first bts one in years.. wonder how last night was the one that had them come back! This sounds like quite an adventure though and to be in that situation with jk🥴 gd..