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joining a fandom discord server is so funny bc you either come out with some of the bestest friends you’ve ever made in your life OR the experience of bearing witness to some of the most insane and specific drama you could imagine

#i swear on my life this is what it's gonna be like for yls #we need a bingo card for this actually...

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me: (sighing longingly) i miss my son, pipecleaner soup man

pipecleaner soup man: time is cruel. one day we will cease to function, and be lost to the black holes in our hearts.

me: ok can you chill for like two seconds

jesus waluigi: black holes aren’t in our hearts dipshit

dishevelled green mass: yeah what he said

me: shut the fuck up dishevelled green mass nobody likes you

jesus waluigi: hey guys dont be mean to her she just got here

pipecleaner soup man: borax

moby dick: is there

squirt: squirt

me: MY SON

#read this again. cowards.

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I need to show y’all this fauckin. Creature

Errrmm basically What if The Gups. Were more Animal than Vehicle. ignore the name change btw

#he is TERRIFYING <3 #octonauts #octonauts gups #hershel’s octonauts au #i’ll drop actual ref sheets for the anivessels (gups) one day … C will be Genuinely Horrific and i mean that in the best possible way #imagine if you will. a blue whale. now give it a ranged attack in the form of Something on its tail #that can best be described as a part flesh part metal anchor #also its a LOT smaller than an actual blue whale but still Big and stares at you with the look of a royal guard. freakazoid #honestly the one who will ironically be one of the least scary is b. straight up tigershark cat hybrid i unno what else to tell you #MASSIVE teeth and can fly. that is something to be afraid of actually nvm b is scary #anyways … big spooky anglerfish that has bear tendencies. bye

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#this is what the shrimp at shrimp island are doing when the players arent there. sorry

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AITA for Making Someone Choose?

The details are not important, and I don’t care how it looks. I just gotta know.

You see, my conversations die a painful death, and people don’t bring me joy regardless. But I recently met someone and I gave them an ultimatum:

They have to choose between the Internet and me.

I’m still waiting on their answer, but I kinda want this to work in my favour. They’re the first person who’s ever wanted to do algebra with me, and ever since we met I’ve been missing them like oxygen…

AITA?

#another weezer one… #qb blitz guy you some kinda Creature for this one

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why have i not stopped thinking of emma for like 4 days straight

call me weezer’s I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams cause baby. she is in my blood

#i need to hold her and tell her everything she deserves to hear #emma… emma from the stupidly big octonauts au… my beloved… #emma from the soon to be webseries yls my best friend in the whole wide world #emmaaaaaaaaaa. emmmmaaaaaaaaaa

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#‘we’ll add a footnote to the prophecy about your failure.’ #i hold that like dear to my heart it is EPIC and SPECTACULAR #but ‘it might be because you’re weak’ is also goddamn incredible #tippi has some wicked dialogue she’s so amazing at being mean whether she actually means it or not

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#my new favourite of these. #thoreau

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the pipeline from "look at these silly guys!!" to "i cannot allow myself to forget that every powerhouse *except* for charley has a body count of 100 and upwards." is astonishing

#hershel’s octonauts au #sorry to be wild on main but They Have All Killed A Lot Of People For Varying Reasons #i would say philliam gets away with it because he's the grim reaper but. hm. #i would also say theatre gets away with it because play's the grim jester but ALSO. hm. #i like to imagine this is the average discourse topic for yls fandom in the far future #half of em are like ''these are such silly characters'' and the other half is ''they've committed unspeakable horrors'' and there is #ABSOLUTELY overlap. it will be glorious to watch

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Thinking about this one tonight

They're so full of whimsy and joy here. They've set aside their differences and went on a silly adventure and they come out of it closer than ever. Power of friendship is real

#hershel’s octonauts au #look at them... frined.. firndendsd... frined.s.. frieiinds... friiiends #physics what physics. where are they? it doesnt matter. they're together on an adventure that's all that matters #''uh but didnt lars kill polly/jarvis and didnt theatre curse lars and didnt--'' they've set that aside for joy and whimsy. ok.

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I love it when there's a couple but then there's a third guy who's also there and he's part of it but not like romantically he's just a part of the couple but like....platonically

#lars inkling and min. trust me

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

#WEED PALINDROME DAY

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Why do we as a society keep coming back to sex jokes?

Penis blast hilarious

#FINALLY. #ive been looking for this godforsaken audio for AN HOUR #.i have my reasons #penis blast

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IT'S EMMA ANGST HOURS

you know, I've written an awful lot of female/feminine characters that are treated harshly or without respect from their male/masculine counterparts. Emma is probably the biggest example of this, where she, the "only girl" in her Gup group, is often scolded like she's a child or protected from the outside world because she's too "fragile" and "weak". boy I sure hope this doesn't mirror past experiences i've had as someone who's grown up as a girl and OH WAIT IT DOES

The most tragic part of it is, no matter how much Emma tries to hold her own, she's just not able to get to that level of independence that other characters like Rosemary and Polly have, or hell, even Dashi and Tweak from the actual source material

Emma's the most held-back character I've probably ever written, period, and ESPECIALLY the most held-back lady

She's held down by her own self-confidence some of the time, but most of that is direct result of the constant misogyny, babying, and general disrespect by the people she's closest to. Regardless of if them mean it or not, it's still disrespect

#there's a lot of other factors aside from her gender that make people so shit to her in-canon and some of these may Also be a bit of + #+ self projection. as there always is. sadly #emma's my favourite gup spirit and i'm being SO CAREFUL about writing her for the webseries but i also have to remember that #not every experience with sexism/ageism/etc is universal. i am allowed to pull from my own experiences. i have to know this #im not sure why im talking about it now but it's especially important in regards to emma because she's one of the most frequent characters #yeah rosemary is important and polly is like the Main Antagonist but emma is overlooked despite appearing MORE than rosie. even in-rp #honestly i've been avoiding this subject for a long time on part of some personal shit about it but we had to get here sooner or later. so. #to end it off i think that emma should be allowed to be angry about this. i'm angry about it so why can't she yk #bottled up rage about this kind of thing hasn't been helping me and it certainly wont be helping her so i dare say she even should Yell #thanks for coming to my ted talk #hershel’s octonauts au #octonauts gups #i came here with emma angst and left with the basis for an essay on misogyny in yls jesus christ

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the two emotions

#hershel’s octonauts au #i legally have to tag that everytime theres more than one character from it thats the law #p.o. crump #hahah !! points and laughs at jazz !! bro has no tag !! #.my dumbass is just now realizing theres More Overlap between the two i initially thought #uh. something something ‘last straw’ .. idk #LISTEN I MAY HAVE CONFUSED NIHILISM FOR NARCISSISM. SOMEHOW. IT HAPPENS #LEAVE ME ALOOOONEEEE

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AITA for being King?

You see, I (M, 50’s) own this town. There hasn’t been any complaints about it, and anyone who tries to start something quickly learns they don’t belong.

I recently had an unfortunate encounter where my title was challenged at a dance. I saw this fine lady, she really was such a fine baby. I walked up to ask her to dance, but some dude just ran in and grabbed her! Naturally, I told him to back off, and to cut me some slack.

When he refused, I just had to let him know that I was King.

Personally, I’m no Asshole. He had to get on it, with it, you know? I own this town, and many of the fine folk here are on my side.

#WEEZER … #King you’re just some guy im sorry

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AITA for Possibly Sending my Assistant and his Friend to their Deaths?

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Sincerely sorry for dropping in like this, but this has been weighing on me for nearly two months now and I’m just— I’m quite scared at what may have become of these two people.

So, ah… I (M, 42) work in a “comic company” in the Hero Department. I essentially train future Heroes for work all around our universe, which, I know, that sounds weird considering our main thing is making “comics”. Not the point though. I used to have a personal assistant (M, 20), P, who I… I will be honest, I thought of him as my own son. He was a bit unusual for this planet, being some sort of television/demon cross, which gained the attention of my coworker (F, 17[???]); G.

Now, this is a bit important. Me and G, we do this thing where she sends me off every year to another universe to pledge an alliance to them, increasing our own chances of protection. So this year, when she approached me in my office, I thought it was going to be the same… But she instead said that I would be sending P, “alongside someone else to protect him”. She refused to clarify what she meant by this.

It was suspicious to say the least, but I’m ashamed to admit that at the time I still trusted her completely, deapite her several mistakes and mistreatments in the past. So I accepted and told P the news, and I even let him pick who would go with him. He ended up picking our very odd receptionist, C (M, 30’s?), who he had made friends with mere weeks before. Oddly enough, I actually barely knew a thing about C before. I still don’t.

Before I knew it, P had sent the two off to a universe simply called “YLS” in our files. She explained that they were due to come back in exactly a month, so I waited for them.

And waited.

And… They never showed up again.

I suspect that P was just trying to get rid of them, but I cannot shake the feeling that if I had just resisted, they would both be here, alive, safe.

But what do you think? I really do appreciate some sort of feedback, this has nagged at me ever since. Personally, I think I should have done more to keep them in my universe…

#come on nick… you couldnt have known … #with new information we JUST got though this just gets sadder so i gotta cut the guy some slack #a little bit.