wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
Impulse: --was wondering, no, the hermits were not kissing each other. There was no neck kisses from Jimmy, or Joel--
Pearl: (no neck kisses--)
Gem: I don't know, you and Skizz seemed really close--
Impulse: --well, Joel didn't make it--
Pearl: oh. Oh. Gem's seen some things--
Impulse: Uh, there is a really, really cool picture--I said cool, cause I almost said cute--of me and Skizz looking at the eclipse--
Gem: oh, please post that!
Impulse: --next to each other--have you seen that one? Do you think that one's okay?
Gem: Please post it, yeah yeah yeah--
Pearl: you post it.
Impulse: Okay, yeah, that was a good one--
Gem: You should post it.
Impulse: It was uh, him and me, side by side, just staring up at the sun, it was--it was actually pretty cool
Gem: It looks like an album cover.
Impulse: Yeah. It could be, it could be. Ah, such a good time, such a good time.
So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.
I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).
And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:
“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”
And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them
“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”
I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before
here’s the closeted furries “hey man… can u bum me a cig” and “the one uncle nobody invites to the family reunion but SOMEONE keeps telling him where it is anyways”
if you want an idea of what john is like, imagine hau from pokemon sumo
ALSO the ppl who kept asking me for trans thomas art, HERE he’s trans in this au (;