#you're absolutely right tho

[dontfindmeimscared]

I cant stoo thinking of how, whike Leo would've become more tech-y, he wouldn't know ANY of the technical terms. That gap would probably really hilarious because Leo seems like the kind of person to name everything in a super explanitory but funny way (since I doubt he had much else for comedy in the pd except for his thoughts)

Donnie will hammer the proper tech terms into him... eventually... maybe

[bugsbunnycumrag]

man come on.

It's interesting how much people on tumblr will trust the "expertise" of someone who claims they are simply an obsessed amateur versus expert industry consensus.

I've seen this about everything from ecology to literary criticism to PCI compliance: "These professionals and academics who have studied this all their lives are out of touch, evil oppressors and also dumb as rocks, but I trust this 19 year old named bugsbunnycumrag¹ with my life!"

And it's not that the experts can't be wrong, and it's not that bugsbunnycumrag can't be right. I am open to the possibility, if given sufficient evidence or even if just validated by sufficiently clear cognitive logic. It's that tumblr users simply assume it to be the case as a matter of course.

I guess what I'm saying is: the anti-intellectualism here is weirdly full on for a website where every third account claims to be in grad school.

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If bugsbunnycumrag exists: I am sorry I used your account name like this

[sysig]

Chewtoy (Patreon)

[tiniest-hands-in-all-the-land]

Just some friends going on an adventure :)

[imjustavenuxwithaboomerang]

HELLO??? JUST LEARNED THAT STILES'S NAME??? ISN'T STILES??? IT'S MIECZYSŁAW????

[freakin-nightmare]

I just know Cody and Brock are having the NASTIEST sex rn like Brock is making that man a WHORE right now you cannot convince me otherwise.

[datingdonovan]

a/n: stfu I found yet another makki timestamp I never posted. guess I was like obsessed w makki during the era right before I stopped writing for hq *cough* you mean the era right before I got my tsukki bf and disappeared from Tumblr anyway if you haven't been following my tags & tales, my roomie is watching hq for the 1st time and it's causing me to want to possibly get back into writing for it, or at least post all the old stuff I wrote and never published. so anybody who's still in this fandom on here, come get your freakin FOOD!!!!!!

4:35 pm

Hanamaki Takahiro (27) is no longer between jobs. Well, actually, he’s sort of between being between jobs. Basically, he doesn’t think that scooping ice cream is a real use of his talents, but a friend of a friend landed him this gig, just until the summer’s over. Despite the fact that it sucks, he’s never been one to say no to cash. And there are some upsides. Namely, the fact that this kid around his age drops by every Thursday after they get off work. Hanamaki’s not saying he’s in love or anything. He just thinks you’re the most attractive person to ever order ice cream.

It’s been about a month since you started coming, which means he’s really only seen you a handful of times, but he doesn’t plan on forgetting you anytime soon. The way you sort of awkwardly fumble your cash out of your wallet, the absentminded look in your eye as you study the board of flavors, the fact that you say “No, thank YOU!” right back to his coworker when you tip way too much. He loves it. He loves the way you wait at the counter, swiveling around in your chair without a care in the world, just existing there in your own pleasant daydreams. He’s pretty sure you’re begging to be watched.

And he’s even more sure now that you’re here, for the fifth week in a row, and you’re glancing at him from your seat at the bar. He misses it the first time, so shocked at being caught staring that he doesn’t quite register that actually, you were looking at him, too. He can’t even remember who looked first. Had he even been staring? Or had he been casually looking your way when he noticed you looking at him? He decides it’s no use wondering, and as he serves another customer their sundae, leaning over the counter, he sneaks a glance at you. And you are watching, dammit. Your eyes aren’t on his, they’re in his hair, and running along his bicep, and then you look up, and he smirks, and this is definitely the best job ever. He turns back to his work, willing himself not to actually do a stupid fist pump. Instead, he busies himself with crossing the delivered order off the list in front of him, starting on the next bowl of ice cream.

He’s trying really hard to focus on delivering ice creams. He really is. But he keeps looking up at you, now, every time he comes to the counter. When you make eye contact again, he sees the smile creep onto your face, and he can’t help smiling too. And you keep smiling at him, each time he comes over, like looking at you was the right thing to do. Two cones, a cup, and a milkshake later, he licks his lips and flexes a little as he walks away, and he’s pretty damn sure he hears you snort. And his heart’s starting to beat fast, because you noticed. You’re watching him intently, even when he’s not watching you.

And then it hits him. You’ve been sitting there a really long time. Without ice cream. Whoops.

Right about that time, it seems like it hits you, too, because he watches you nonchalantly get up from your seat and walk over to the register, questioning the blonde man about where your cone might be. The guy walks over to Hanamaki and starts rifling through the order list, and sure enough, there’s your cone, line straight through the order. “You crossed it off like you already finished it, idiot!” The blonde laughs and knocks his arm against Hanamaki before coming back to you at the counter. “Sorry. He’s not the brightest.”

Your ice cream is ready faster than any of the ones you’ve seen come out before, and the blonde man watches with a laugh as Makki hands it to you. “I swear, I’m not new.”

“I know,” you say. And you don’t know what’s gotten into you, because you add, “They just keep you around cause you’re cute.” And you leave him standing there, mouth hanging open, and walk to sit at one of the tables outside.

It’s not five minutes before he sits down next to you. “Hey, pretty thing.”

You look over and roll your eyes, trying not to smile. “What, do you need something?”

“Nope. Just got off.”

“You expect me to believe that?”

“If it means you’ll let me sit here with you while you eat your ice cream alone instead of forcing me to go back inside—“

“So dramatic.” You laugh. 

It takes a minute for him to work up the courage to say it, but he eventually does. “You really think I’m cute?”

You shrug. “I was just messing around.”

“Well, don’t all good things start with messing around?” He swivels to face you and flashes you that lazy smile. And he definitely leaves with your number… even if he’s getting dragged away by Ukai.

[gxlden-angels]

RUBY FRANKE AND JODI HILDEBRANDT SENTENCED TO 4 TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON LETS GOOOOO

[the-dangerous-mute-lunatic]

You probably know the ask as soon as you see my username but: YOS Cave G1

This man is always smiling. You know somethings up if that grin drops.

[87foxeninaboxen]

On another note, I have consulted the stars and in a Danganronpa AU Aventurine would enter Hope's Peak academy as the ultimate lucky student before being named the ultimate gambler a week into his tenure. (Celeste doesn't exist in this universe, sorry.)

Ratio would be the ultimate teacher/professor.

[glowelle]

HELLO would you like me to sell you on Kate/Carson/Laura bc I have LOTS OF THOUGHTS

- Kate and Laura had a very Don’t Ask Don’t Tell FWB thing going on pre-duet. They both like girls and they both need the stress relief and hey it helps that they get along

- after Laura starts Actually Dating Carson she and Kate both separately have moments of “huh wait I kinda Miss Her” and after some trying to be Friends realize they’ve both caught feelings

- cue Laura, the absolute chaos gremlin that she is (idc that this show sucks at writing multidimensional women I will DO IT MYSELF) being like “hey Carson I think you would like her” and the most ludicrous and adorably awkward set of poly negotiations begin

- Kate with her years of experience in behavioral science trying to test the waters neutrally meanwhile Laura is in the background like “guys we’re all super hot let’s have sex”

- but also Kate hasn’t been with a guy before so why does she actually like Carson?? What’s happening???

- anyway this was Way Too Much to put in this ask but I have an insane amount of lore for the Blonde Space Polycule in my head and I think they would be adorable so either a) enjoy or b) feel free to delete this lolololol

HELLO I LOVE YOUR THOUGHTS

i literally love the progression and it feels so natural for their characters honestly

l'm so incredibly sold on this rn. bc i've seen all the fic about Laura x Carson, or Kate with Teyla and Elizabeth, or John and Elizabeth (lesbian Kate my beloved) but i've never considered these three but IT WORKS SO WELL especially the way you've got this progression nailed

the way Kate would try to be scientific about it while Laura is just simplifying the whole matter i adore bc honestly that's so them

i'm sold. im in. get me the tshirt.

[samithemunchkin]

[widevibratobitch]

charcoal, apricoat and, if the circumstances were but a bit different, carmine (also forest. probably with some blueberry bushes) (also i was not supposed to be here but you summoned and i came)

[romanticatheartt]

Well f*cking done people. Keep this up and you'll chase away every single artist. Good job.

[silverandebony]

i'm sorry. TAGGING SASKATCHEWAN CANADA AS KANSAS SOUTHERN GOTHIC AND APPALACHIA????

TAGGING SASKATCHEWAN CANADA AS KANSAS SOUTHERN GOTHIC AND APPALACHIA*

*i misremembered and the one tagged with appalachia&appalachian gothic isn't Explicitly saskatchewan (all of the pictures with location captions are apparently from saskatchewan so i'd be inclined to guess it probably is too, but there's no way to know for sure). so who knows!! i don't know what appalachia looks like! maybe it IS appalachia! in which case why is it also tagged saskatchewan

[Image ids: three cropped screenshots of 'regional gothic' style tumblr picture posts and their tags. The first picture is a truck at an empty intersection with a hazy yellow sky; the second is part of a building mural depicting a nature scene with canada geese captioned 'rural saskatchewan'; the third is of the edge of a town on a foggy day, with old, short buildings fading into the mist, captioned 'uranium city, sk'. Tags common across all three posts are: ethel cain, southern gothic, regional gothic, rural gothic, midwestern gothic, kansas, and midwest. Two of them are tagged with 'gibson girl'. Additionally, the truck picture is tagged with appalachia, appalachian gothic, twin peaks, and hayden anhedonia; the mural picture is tagged with small town usa, small town, small town america, small town canada, great plains, prairies, prairie, and prairiecore; and the foggy town is tagged with 'ghost town, liminal, liminal spaces, and foggy day.

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I also went back to the blog to see if those posts were still there so I could take better screenshots (they weren't; hooray reporting things for spam) but upon further scrolling I realized that every tagged post. Every. Single. Post. With Tags. all of them. Are tagged with southern gothic and kansas and saskatchewan. THESE ARE NOT THE SAME. WHY ARE YOU USING ALL OF THEM THESE ARE NOT THE SAME

*coughs* anyway. Among all of these, in all their spammy mistagged glory, there is one I would like to give a special shout out to, for in my opinion being the most wildly tagged:

[Image id: another screenshot of a tumblr picture post. This one is a picture of a small motel with a rundown fence in the foreground. A colour filter has been used to make the picture look washed out and fit the regional gothic vibes. This picture has been tagged with: gibson girl, americana, appalachian gothic, midwest gothic, preacher's daughter, regional gothic, rural gothic, southern gothic, hayden anhedonia, ethel cain, nebraska, kansas, motelcore, appalachia, southern aesthetic, saskatchewan, alberta.

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Take a moment to appreciate it. Bask in its questionable glory. Allow yourself the time to question why?

I think it's the 'alberta' tag that really makes it for me here. The 'nebraska' as well. The latter I assume is from the title of one of Ethel Cain's songs, which would explain... to some degree... how it got there. Why 'alberta' though? Why this picture, out of all of them? Is it actually from Alberta? (It could be; I've seen similar looking things) If it's from Alberta, why is it also tagged 'saskatchewan'? 'kansas'? 'appalachia'? 'southern gothic'? Do not each of these preclude all others? If it's Saskatchewan or Albertan, why is it tagged 'americana'?? Is it for views??? If you want it seen, it's already got the tags! Regional and rural gothic are fine! They'll probably get you a lot more views than tagging something with a Canadian province ever will! I just. I don't understand. why. why have you done this. please stop. i'm begging skfjjsjfjj

in conclusion: tumblr has tagging etiquette and i am begging the young aesthetic bloggers to take a moment to learn it. it will save you so much being reported for spam and having your posts and or possibly your entire blog taken down because of it. And now, if you'll excuse me, I have a blog to go report specifically because of this

[sysig]

Read an interesting new fic, but really it was the spider that sold me (Patreon)