#THEYRE GOING THROUGH THEIR MID LIFE CRISIS

[yurigalactica]

would you mayhaps infodump about LC! lyrics? 👀👀 /nf

(I saw you on the anon game and am incredibly interested)

OOOOOOOOOH YESYESYESYES I WOULD LOVE TO INFODUMP ABOUT LOS CAMP LYRICS

okay okay so first of all. this band is so good. they have so many banger ass songs and that cannot be denied. HOWEVER in my heart To Tundra will always reign supreme. like holy shit. it's got lyrics like "meet me at st. nicholas among the oaks, behind the church that sway like pig-tailed girls as summer wind whistles around your bare-skin knees and the forsythia leaves" and "we take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children with lilies bunched in our hands" like. those lyrics are so visceral and potent they literally leave me with my mouth hanging wide open after i hear them. oh my GOD that song is magical

some of my other favorite songs lyrically is OBVIOUSLY tiptoe through the true bits. that's the song that whenever i hear it i have to stop literally everything i'm doing, turn up the volume as loud as it will go, close my eyes and just absorb the Vibes. it's so gorgeous AHHHHHH. the bit that makes my heart go !!!!!! is the part where it goes "the bed-spread decked in suns and moons and symbols of the star-signs, how you read how mine applied to how I would be sex-wise." like that paired with the little guitar picking up in the back and the drums kicking in are SO GOOD AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

AND. IN MEDIA RES. that song changed my life genuinely. like WOW. the whole vibe of it, especially the end when the trumpets (i think they're trumpets at least) kick in and gareth goes "if you were given the option of dying painlessly in peace at 45 with a lover at your side, after a full and happy life, is this something that would interest you? would this interest you at all?" like WOW what an existential crisis moment while you feel like you're running through a rainy field. man that hits yknow

ALSO i am emotionally attached to Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown #4. i dont know why but the first time i ever heard it my brain latched its claws onto it and now it wont fucking let go. so whenever i hear the guitar at the beginning i am Legally Obligated to belt out at the top of my lungs "I RESTORED YOUR MOTHER'S FAITH IN MEN WHILST BORING YOU TO DEATH LEFT NOTHING MORE THAN A CIRCLE OF STUBBLE RASH AROUND YOUR CHEST--"

AND!!!!!!!!! for flotsam also has a very special place in my heart. i love the lyrics in that one, particularly "summer of odd-numbered year" like. MY GUYS YOU ARE SO CREATIVE???? all of your football metaphors to describe your boredom and emotions. like i don't watch football but you go guys i think its so kickass. i love you los campesinos. also the bit where they go "flotsam, jetsam, and spindrift, all the girls i have loved, dumped to earth by a spendthrift, gilt angels from above" with the "aaaahhh" in the back and the very faint piano in the background that i can only hear when i'm listening to it with my gaming headphones on bc my gaming headphones have really good mid range. just AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

AND WHAT DEATH LEAVES BEHIND TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 fun little fact this was the first song that i listened to when i first decided to listen to their discography all the way through. and let's just say that was a VERY good start because i was very impressed right off the bat. like "i was the first match struck at the first cremation, you are my shallow grave, I'll tend you as a sexton, if you're the casket door that's being slammed upon me, i'll be a plague cross painted on your naked body" LIKE HOLY SHIT. THATS SO EVOCATIVE. HOW DO YOU USE SO MANY METAPHORS AND BIG WORDS. THEYRE SO GOOD AT WORDS. i love listening to this one because it is so lyrically complex and yet it all goes together so well auuugghhhhhhhh

also since i started university recently, hung empty rings very near and dear to my heart. like the bit in the bridge that goes "my vision is fading, it's blurry, there are fingerprints all over the sun, we're glad to be loved but we're lonely and we feel like we're the only ones." like. that's the experience of moving out right there!!! i don't know where the fuck i am and i'm so lonely but it feels so bright and new and cinematic. this song Gets me on the most fundemental level it feels so very College-Esque

ALSOOOOOOO she crows!!!!!!!!!!!11 i LOVE she crows. someone inject this song into my veins Right This Fucking Instant. i need to live and breathe this song right now. just the instrumentals combined with the anthemic feel of the song really seals the feeling of looking back on your life and all of your mistakes and acknowledging that all of them brought you to where you are now. especially the end bit, i don't know why, but when it goes "big tip for the pretty girl waiting the IHOP, these blank napkins/unwritten suicide notes, it's dark inside these eyelids, blacker than the ink (squid)" it really feels like the end of the day. these are the lyrics that buzz like caffiene in your veins as you sit outside a dutchbros at eleven pm surrounded by the only people you feel like you can be yourself around. it's the feeling of cold biting at your skin while your heart feels warm and full. it feels like an open finale, the first time you smile in a long time, an acceptance of the complex beauty of life, that unforgettable moment when you realize that you wouldn't trade who you've become for the world

and CODA A BURN SCAR IN THE SHAPE OF THE SOONER STATE. I LOVE CODA SO MUCH AGH. PERFECT CRYING IN THE SHOWER SONG. like the lyric "an artist's impression of the manhattan skyline" will get me fucking SOBBING immediately. it feels like watching the world move on without you, the world a blur as you crumple inward under the weight of your emotions, a collapsing star in an endless void. and then obviously "i can't believe i chose the mountains every time you chose the sea" WOAH the SYMBOLISM i will just pass away right here in my dormitory with my headphones on. no sorry professor i can't write my essay i am unwell about the romance is boring album again. sorry yeah i'll be unavailable for 3-5 buisness weeks

but uh. yeah. los campesinos amirite???????????

#thunder talks #uh. a lot #los campesinos! #los campesinos #lc!

[80s-reject]

hihi omg im so happy i found someone that also watches kumovi bc its like my favorie show ever now i dont need to annoy my friends anymore RAH i js hope this isnt a situation where you like it in a chill way and i like it in a deranged way 😔 basically i was super obsessed with na granici first and also wanted to watch kumovi but i saw that its pretty long and didnt have time for the commitment but then they removed na granici for some reason so i started watching and holy shitt i love it so much ive spent like approximately 2 hours on the wikipedia page and the theme song was in my top 10 on spotify wrapped this year i know it by heart heehee...i actually saw vedran mlikota in real life back in summer but nobody believed me when i said it was him and like a month after i told my grandpa and he said yeah that was him. and i LOST MY SHIT!?!?;$  UM ANYWAYS *almost everyone* in the gotovac fam is my favorite i loove janko and lara theyre so sibling goals and lara is the funniest ever and ofc aljoša THE BETTER BROTHER :3 vesna is kinda annoying to me idk... i dont like her HOWEVER i love her character she was written really well,, my fav side characters are milica and marko their friendship is everything to me im glad theyre not really romantical towards each other :heart_hands: best friends for real..,,.,

HELLO I AM ALSO DERANGED FOR KUMOVI I ALWAYS ANNOY MY FRIENDS WITH IT i actually started watching during the 2nd season so whenever a character from s1 one appears i have to ask my mom who it is because she's watched both season i actually dont know why i started watching it i just sat down with my mom one night and i havent stopped watching it since I ALWAYS ANALYSE THE EPISODE WITH MY MOM AFTER WATCHTING IT janko is a good boyfriend but he is a literal copy of vesna it's actually scary how they managed to create parallels between them AND DONT GET ME STARTED ON ALJOSA. hes legitimately sooo hot and arguably the better brother. i like šima but (spoilers?) she's gen getting on my nerves lately stipan is only trying to help her but she's not used to having a father so she's all like >:( nE mOžEš mI gOvOrIt šTo dA rAdIm!1! and stipan is such a great character but he's a horrible father and great grandfather he would literally make sure his kids don't succeed in life if he doesn't like what they're doing (spoilers?) i agree abt that with milica and marko šank but his mother is literally the worst she's so insane she's literally trying to pull them apart and i'm p sure zvone is going through a mid-life (not sure if that counts as mid) crisis MARTIN IS SUCH A SWEET FATHER (jel novatv bh uopce dosla do toga??? valjda je matija jos trudna idk)

#si talks #KUMOVI #!!!!

[waffliesinyoface]

anyways i just read all of naruto in like a week so i am now qualified to have The Most Correct Opinions.

Land of Waves arc is unironically the best one

its also the ONLY standard mission in the entire manga?? literally, at no point does anyone interact with a client after tazuna, its all in response to orochimaru/akatsuki. Naruto your resume is ridiculous. The reason Kakashi is 6th Hokage is not because Naruto wasn't strong enough, but because he needed to learn what the actual job of being a ninja entails. Yes you are very strong but you do need to have a basic grasp of paperwork systems.

Its kind of weird that, out of all the akatsuki, kisame is the one who hangs around the longest. Most of the others show up, do their bit, and then are immediately killed. Kisame is introduced first and dies last.

i've already mentioned this in another post but the Cycle of Hatred thing does not work. It worked as a motivation for Pein, but like. The reason the villages kept declaring war on each other wasn't for revenge, it was because their economic system was inherently tied to being the one with the strongest military and also they were paranoid that if someone else got too strong they would be invaded first.

Related: they should've had warring clans exposition and details about the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd wars BEFORE Pein showed up. If there were more details about wars in the past presented in a tragic-but-still-overall-necessary light, then Pein showing up and going "you miserable bastards trample over everyone weaker than you and deserve to be punished or it." It would have had more weight. Literally you could've slotted this during Naruto's initial training with Jiraiya as a follow-up to Hiruzen's "The chuunin exams are a replacement for war" speech.

Sakura why the fuck didnt you marry Ino

Kishimoto did Sakura so dirty at every turn. Literally every time she gets screentime she goes "THIS TIME... I WILL BE THE ONE WHO PROTECTS YOU...!" and has a cool moment, and then gets immediately overshadowed.

Literally at one point she's like "in the chuunin exams i was so weak... i hid behind you guys at every turn" and i felt like I was going insane because both during wave and the chuunin exams she has moments where she's like "yeah i dont have any special powers but i DO have a knife and you're going through me FIRST, fucker" which is honestly way cooler to me than like 90% of all the jutsu bullshit. Literally she stands in between a berserk gaara and a crippled sasuke armed with nothing but a kunai and pure fucking grit.

its very funny to me that the first time naruto ever does a nature transformation its rasenshuriken. Kakashi woke up in a cold sweat one day and realized he forgot to do the most basic teaching about chakra theory when they were genin. Whoops.

Im sorry but i legitimately do not care about the sage OR his sons OR the reincarnation twist. Its not interesting to me and I WILL be ignoring it. I'm all for the sage being reminded of his kids or the idea of history being cyclical, but explicitly going "no youre a reincarnation, this was Fated" is dumb and kishimoto SHOULD feel bad.

Edo Tensei arc is unironically very funny to me. Kabuto is having a mid-life crisis and has turned into a snake about it, and has decided to raise a bunch of dead badasses for. reasons. honestly i am not sure how his goals required obito or the akatsuki??

Anyways he raises a bunch of badasses and WHOOPS theyre all comedians. Deidara and Sasori are bickering, Itachi is being even more of an unhinged control freak than normal, the Mizukage is curbstomping everyone while berating them for not hitting the weakpoints he's explicitly telling them about, Tobirama is annoyed at everyone but mostly himself for actually coming up with this jutsu, and madara puts his entire plan on hold for a minute because he sensed his ex boyfriend and got incredibly horny.

Orochimaru gets brought back to life and promptly goes "actually i take back my plans about konoha, watching sasuke is INFINITELY more entertaining. Also I'm going to help out against the akatsuki because Kabuto's snake fursona is a tacky knockoff of me and I'm disowning him for being lame." I also liked him being chummy with Tsunade, that was very cute. I kind of wish Jiraiya HAD gotten edo tensei'd so that all three sannin could have been reunited on the same side? It would have been cute??

I feel strongly that Sakura and Karin deserve to go to some hot springs together and mutually complain to each other about being unfortunately attracted to the most misogynistic man on the planet after kishimoto himself. Orochimaru and Ino can tag along because they LOVE gossip and complaining.

Gai being the only person on the planet strong enough to beat the crap out of Madara is great, actually. Yes you can block all ninjutsu and genjutsu, but can you block his fists? No.

The "special chakra" produced in uchiha brains is actually entirely unrelated to the sharingan. It mostly just causes brain damage. This is why Madara, Obito, and Sasuke are all Like That.

Obito's heel face turn and the ensuing team up with Kakashi is, against all odds, actually good. I am willing to overlook Obito temporarily coming back from the dead through sheer willpower both because its cool and because we've already established chakra is bullshit and ghosts exist.

Obito your plans are dumb, your motivation is stupid, your critical thinking skills are nonexistent, and your coping mechanisms are insane. Somehow I still like you, despite this??

Does anybody at all like kaguya. Anybody.

Everything about the epilogue annoys me. Mirai and Sarada can stay, everything else I am actively choosing to ignore.

Frankly I'm confused and appalled that kishimoto wrote sasuke and naruto like that, and then put them in heterosexual marriages with other people.

#naruto

[teslacoils-and-hubris]

Can I get the top 5 facts about your vampires please?

Ok so firstly I need to say I've changed their names since I posted the ref about them. The goth one is Billy now and the rocker dude is Robbie. Gonna do two facts about each of them then one fact about them both to keep it fair

1. Robbie was a draft dodger before getting turned. His eventual sire found him in a really rough spot and used that against him to get Robbie to lure in victims. Robbie's turning really (excuse the pun) drove a stake between the two. It was a really messy breakup (Robbie killed his sire). Two things came out of the relationship- Robbie isolating himself from connection (until he accidentally turned Billy), and his tendency to show his affection through feeding his partner.

2. He latched onto glam rock aesthetics because he stumbled into a shitty basement show while dilerious after his turning. It was the worst night of his life- just totally off his shit on a combination of vampiric hunger, guilt from killing his partner because they attacked him, and stoned out of his mind trying to deal with it all- and something about the outfits and the music just imprinted onto him in that moment. He doesn't go all out on the outfits like he used to, but he still has all of them. He likes to haunt seedy bars with live music to recapture that feeling.

3. Billy is just. So fucking squeamish. They were teased their whole life for being a scardy cat who fainted at the sight of blood. They may be goth but they cannot handle anything scarier than scooby doo. it's bad. And its barely gotten better now that theyre a vamp. Which is why they hang around Robbie, who's all too happy to keep his new friend fed. They consider this whole situation a cruel joke against them.

4. Billy was a vegetarian before turning, which they still consider themself to be because they still don't eat animals. Don't try and tell them humans ARE animals they aren't listening sticking their fingers in their ears LALALA CANT HEAR YOU. They can deal with people being killed Hurt for their own survival, it's mostly just the gore they can't handle.

5. Before finding each other, both were just incredibly lonely people. Billy was going through that mid 20s crisis and Robbie hasn't been close to anyone since before he turned. Billy resents Robbie for turning them and absolutely takes it out on him, Robbie is deeply afraid that this is going to blow up and turn into a repeat of his own turning if he ever gets too close to Billy and so refuses to open up in any way. But neither wants to leave because Robbie is terrified of being alone again and Billy refuses to take actions that would help them get over their squeamishness

#asks #my ocs

[savvage-arts]

Pov: your gay dads show up to break you out of prison

#jjba #jotakak #jojos bizarre adventure #stone ocean #jotaro kujo #noriaki kakyoin #jjba part 6 #THEYRE GOING THROUGH THEIR MID LIFE CRISIS #LOOK AT THOSE FITS #ive been wanting to design a pt 6 kak for so long and not to brag but i popped off #savs art #edit: i know i drew it but i literally cant get over this kakyoin LMFAO #yes the checkeres shoes are also pants like jotaros #....chants

[starcloaked]

thoughts on ur favorite cattails colony and/or your fav cats there!!

OKAY ive always been a mystic colony fan but i’ve found myself liking the mountain colony more and more lately... literally all the cats there r *chefs kiss* i may have changed my mind. i adore krampy, alisa, oracle, and savanna as much as the next guy but idk ive just never gotten as attached to nil or slip . OH and mossie i’m so sorry i just forget she exists sometimes... every time i think of her my brain is like ‘oh! that’s the youtuber cat!’ n that’s it adgshgshdgshajk

ok ok but the mountain colony!! first of all i love the territory black hares are the best items ever for boosting rep and selling things. i love the cool ass waterfall in the middle n esp the den spot it’s nice :] but the cats are the dealmaker lemme go through them (this may get long)

leo!! they strike me as a kind of like as a snobby rich kid but now that they’re an adult they’re having a mid life crisis and regretting their actions. they’re a so called free thinker type and i love that they like valerian i feel like they hoard it in their den and have a cute lil flower garden. to ward off their enemies. if video games were in cattails he’d play like fortnite and destroy kids at it for fun

jag jag i literally love jag so much i want them to marry me please mr falconstar i want jag to be my partner!! they’re prickly but have a soft side and a deep backstory i adore them with all my heart they have all my licorice root for eternity mwah. their character portrait is one of my favs too they just look so... I DUNNO their face just matches their personality it fits it’s perfect

luna!! lesbian. i know the cats in this game don’t have genders but they’re a non-binary lesbian i just know okay. my usual choice of mate bc we love a blunt healer girlboss ... every time they open up i almost cry tears they’re so cute !! mx luna my beloved i love to gift them diamonds i think they rlly like shiny stuff that reminds them of the moon n stars. astrology girl (gender neutral)

let’s see arthur! the way they talk is very charming i think they’re funny :] silly little guy they’re my friend and i love em sm. they seem like one of those ppl who has several of those talking fish mounts on the wall that they unintentionally scare kids with and feel bad about it. my knight in shining armor they’re probably one of the funniest characters besides krampy... i believe his catfish story i just know he keeps it in a gilded ice cooler with his suit of armor too heavy to wear around. would wield a sword

robin next!! they r my least favorite out of the bunch but theyre still very sweet i like how supportive they are!! i always gift them my butterflies and care them very much it’s just i don’t have as much to say abt them unfortunately :( friend though!! i think they spend a lot of time at the sacred temple they n coco would be friends i’m sure of it. perhaps even dating idk i don’t make the rules...

and DELTA I LOVE YOUUUU my beloved my beloved *shoves them in a heart locket*. have given me more cardinals and blue jays than i can count i just love how their like “hehe go play a prank w this!!” and give you one of the rarest items in the game <33 they’ve got that silly funny!! would love to be real life friends with this purple cat they seem like a ball pls god transport me into the kitty world i need to smoke some catnip with this mf prankster. if i picked them up and shook them around it’d make that little cartoon jangle sound that lets you know no thoughts head empty

pebble is another sweetie... don’t have as much to say abt them like robin but i can appreciate someone who appreciates rocks. likes to go mining in their spare time and r best friends with the moles... catches mice more than anything and brings home boring little rocks but it’s cute so no one mentions it. calls themselves a geologist but when you ask them what a rock can tell them they lean down and pretend to listen to them like they’re little guys. u can’t tell if they can seriously talk to rocks or their just joking bc the bit is so serious. might be the forest guardian themselves

#gingerrambles! #THANK YOU FOR THE ASK BESTIE <3 love talking about cattails #esp the cats they’re very cool

[stimmingandshifting]

ok so I found this incorrect quote generator and dsmp dr hyperfixation go brr so i made a Ton of agate and the other kids and here are the ones that fit (with some wording changes to better fit characters/situations)(warning there’s A Lot)

Tubbo: I made tea!!

Agate: i don’t want tea

Tubbo: I didn’t make tea for you. This is my tea.

Agate: then why tell me?

Tubbo: it’s a conversation starter!

Agate: that’s a terrible conversation starter.

Tubbo: oh, is it? We’re conversing. Checkmate.

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Agate: yeah, Ranboo and I have this sort of chemistry (/p) where we finish each other’s-

Ranboo: sentences?

Agate: don’t interrupt me.

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Agate: remember, if you see something, say something.

Tubbo: I saw a bee today!!

Agate: outstanding, this is exactly what I’m talking about.

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Agate: ha, some idiot tried to fight a squid earlier today.

Tommy, covered in ink: well MAYBE the squid was being a DICK

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Agate: I slept for almost 12 hours but I might still be tired so lets go for 12 more. just in case.

Ranboo: agate that‘s a coma

Agate: Sounds Festive

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Tubbo: jail is no fun, I’ll tell you that much...

Agate: wha- you’ve been?

Tubbo: once. In monopoly.

((Tommy is q u a k i n g))

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Tommy: how petty can you get?!

Agate: i once edited a wikipedia article to win an argument I was wrong about.

((but hey at least my first instinct when something goes wrong isnt child murder))

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Tubbo: .. -- / ... --- .-. .-. -.--

Agate: what’s that-

Tubbo: remorse code :(

Agate: I’m even angrier now.

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Tubbo: hey, we’re friends, right?

Agate: normally, I’d say yes without hesitation, but I feel like this is going somewhere. And I don’t like it.

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Agate: not every problem can be solved with a sword, tommy-

Tommy: that’s why I also have an axe!

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Agate: you use humor to deflect trauma.

Tommy: thank you

Agate: that’s not a good thing-

Tommy: what I’m hearing is you think I’m funny.

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Agate: *accidentally Decks Tommy after he made eye contact while they were wiping off their sunglasses*

Agate: *trying to decide between saying “I’m fucking sorry” and “are you okay”

Agate: ARE YOU FUCKING SORRY

Tommy: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

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Agate: calm down, violence isn’t the answer-

Tommy: you’re right.

Agate: thank you-

Tommy: violence is the question.

Agate: what.

Tommy, bolting: and the answer is yes.

Agate, running after him: NO-

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Agate: heads up if you try to make a candle with food coloring the food coloring will just sink to the bottom of the glass and when the flame eventually reaches the bottom all the food coloring will catch fire and become one giant tall flame that you cannot possibly blow out and the glass will start to crack and then you’ll throw your tea on it in a panic and then the extremely hot food coloring will boil and sizzle horribly and then the glass will shatter. Please take my word on this.

Tommy: what did you do

Agate: a Mistake

((look they may be fairly rational and Done With This Bullshit but theyre also a teenage intp which implies at least a little bit of chaotic dumbassery))

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Agate: this is a mistake.

Tubbo: a mistake we’re going to laugh about one day!

Agate: but not today.

Tubbo: oh no, today’s going to be a mess!

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Agate: prevented a murder today

Ranboo: really? How?

Agate: Self Control

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Agate: *stubs their toe* FUCK

Ranboo, covering Michael’s ears: language

Agate: oh, what am I supposed to say, “woe is I?”

Agate: you have to accept that swear words are necessary sometimes.

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Agate: I am the most normal person in this group.

Ranboo: agate this morning you thought a ghost made your toast

Agate: I DIDNT PUT THE BREAD IN! YOU DIDNT PUT THE BREAD IN! GHOSTBUR MIGHT HAVE PUT THE BREAD IN

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Agate: I’m starting to regret getting you that blender.

Tubbo, drinking toast: why do you say that?

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Agate: go away, I’m having a mid-life crisis

Ranboo: you’re 17-

Agate: and based on our track record i probably won’t even make it to 30. I’m starting late.

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Tommy: *kicks down the door, panicked*

Agate: what did you do.

Tommy: NO ONE DIED

Agate: WHAT KIND OF ANSWER IS THAT

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Tubbo: if you were to vacuum up jello through a metal tube, well i think that’d be a neat noise

Agate: I Beg To Differ

Tubbo: Then Beg

(there’s gonna be a part 2 bc I Have More)

#Dr: dsmp #Desired reality #agate #shifting #reality shifting #shiftblr #Drself #dr self

[losingface-mp3]

jackie and wilson by hozier but its tubbo and ranboo /dsmp

So tired trying to see from behind the red in my eyes -presidency is tiring, so much to do, so little time, sometimes sleep is sacrificed No better version of me I could pretend to be tonight -no matter how hard he tries, tubbos a yes man, and its really taxing trying to please everyone so he puts up a different front depending on what will make the people happy, but with his new friend, he doesnt have to :] So deep in this swill with the most familiar of swine For reasons wretched and divine -he feels happy and at home with ranboo, even though its a bit of a romeo & juliet situation She blows outta nowhere, roman candle of the wild -ranboo showed up on the server suddenly, he may be more mellow out of the two, but you never know what to expect from him Laughing away through my feeble disguise And, Lord, she found me just in time -they caught each other right when they needed a friend, ranboo didnt know who to align himself with and tubbo needed reassurance that he had done the right thing 'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done -being president probably shortened his life quite a bit, but now its finally all done and they can live a nice life together in snowchester, even if no one else is allowed to know about it I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young -he had been put through so many things that someone his age should never been through, wars, death, betrayal, presidency, he never had a true childhood and now its almost over She's gonna save me, -them having eachother's backs, him defending ranboo against quackity and ranboo making sure techno doesnt hurt tubbo Call me "baby" Run her hands through my hair -fantasizing about their future, free of government and stress She'll know me crazy Soothe me daily -theyll be there for eachother through all of their quirks, even if it takes some changes Better yet she wouldn't care -trading childhood trauma stories with your platonic husband like pokemon cards :] We'll steal her Lexus, Be detectives, Ride 'round picking up clues -theyre just trying to live the childhood they deserve, and if it involves a couple nukes then its not their fault, the adults shouldve raised them better We'll name our children Jackie and Wilson Raise 'em on rhythm and blues -theyre gonna give micheal the childhood they never had Lord, it'd be great to find a place we could escape sometime -theyre not quite there left, so they have to deal with whats happening now, but at least now consists of building a hotel and raising their son Me and my Isis growing black irises in the sunshine -Isis is seen as the 'perfect wife/mother', and tubbo sees him as just that,, perfect <3. irises grow in rocky mountainous areas with a colder climate, usually out of the way from big cities, just like snowchester. Every version of me dead and buried in the yard outside -hes realized that he doesnt have to please everyone and hes grown into himself since meeting ranboo Sit back and watch the world go by. Happy to lie back watch it burn and rust We tried the world, good God, it wasn't for us. -the only world they know consists of government, war, traitors and death, theyve rejected that to live in their commune with their son, friends, and nukes Cut clean from the dream at night let my mind reset Looking up from a cigarette, and she's already left -he wakes up after the night of living in a world without sides, only to remember that they still are separated and ranboo's already left, at least he left a note I start digging up the yard for what's left of me and our little vignette -techno comes over and he has to put on a personality that he'll like, techno always complained about being seen as a weapon, but here he is, only seeing tubbo as a government, he just wants to live his life away from the stress of everything For whatever poor soul is coming next once someone else comes over, once another side is formed, he'll have to go through everything all over again just so more people arent mad at him

#ranboo #tubbo #dreamsmp #dream smp #dsmp #hozier

[thethirdwheel404]

Med Rewatch Series (#7)

S3 E7: Over Troubled Water

THIS EPISODE WAS FUCKING SEXYYYYY - this is the one where connor and ava go out with an ambo and treat the guy who’s leg got pinned under the building.

THIS WAS QUALITY AVA CONTENT

let’s get into it

-HELL YESSSSSSS. ETHAN AND APRIL ARE TALKING AND THEY TRANSITION TO CONNOR TALKING TO AVA WHO IS STANDING AT THE COUNTER. that was fucking immaculate. already a great start (fucking sexy)

- the braidsssssss. jesus this is such a good episode for her

-ava: “are you getting sick?” (btw the way she said that was adorable)

connor: “No, I’m going to minneapolis.”

ava: “That sounds even worse.”

-ava’s shit eating grin when she realizes connor’s going to minneapolis for robin - MA’AM (so adorable)

-guys this is such a good episode i’m not even lying

-connor literally always looks offended

-ava: “No, I’d be happy to do it! Mostly because I find your gift for self-flagellation fascinating.” she speaks so eloquently she’s so smart i love her so much

-’dr. who?’ ava sweetie. the icon jumped out

-i’m calling it right here right now folks. this is the best ava episode in the series.

-charles talking about sarah’s probation like he wasn’t a key factor. bro

-the way ava says ‘what?’ after connor says they need to do a reboa (adorable)

-god the sadness on ava’s face while theyre doing the procedure look me in the eyes and tell me this woman is a psychopath

-sarah’s confrontation scene with charles hits so hard

-god that’s so sad. It obviously took a lot for sarah to tell charles that she wanted to be on his service and he completely denied her. he doesn’t want her, at least that’s what sarah’s thinking. I’m sure that brought up a lot of issues

-why i don’t like charles anymore is bc a lot of his actions come across as hypocritical. i get that the writers were trying to push ‘oh here, he’s learning that he’s wrong in some ways’ but he never actually learns. he always says ‘i understand where you’re coming from’ but never does anything about it.

-and here’s ava’s speech.

-listen. I honestly don’t think I need to explain why it’s so great. she is able to get through to this guy, talk him down. you can tell how much she cares for this guy. he’s about to lose his leg and she’s able to talk through to him. able to calm him down. level-headed. (not impulsive like in s5)

- hell if pretty doctor lady held eye contact with me like that hell yeah take my leg too

-hey they let ava count!

-ava defending connor. nice of her.

-i forgot sarah and charles made up at the end

- sarah is so confused its adorable

-babeyyyyyy

-her poorly concealed smile

-even the connor/ava plot had a good ending! the guy was just glad he was alive! that’s such a win

-ethan’s sister’s storyline hits so hard

-ava is still adorable. (’south african action hero?’) don’t know what to do about the face she makes when connor tells her that he’s not going to minneapolis. her smile sort of drops. you could argue confusion, concern (bc the next scene is connor impulse buying a car). we all know that she makes that face bc she has a thing for connor, but that’s just bc we know the subtext going in. without it, it reads more like ava thinking ‘oh, i’m going to have to deal with this,’ so, concerned.

-lmao mid life crisis? i always thought this storyline was hilariously pathetic (the one where connor buys the car to ‘feel a change’ and ‘get control’)

Okay. I am 100% confident when I say this was the best Ava episode in the series. Minimal romantic subtext, teasing Connor at the beginning for trailing after Robin, not getting cultural references, and making dorky references of her own. Not to mention her hair, in this episode, the braids are still iconic. She also gets a moment to shine when she breaks through to the guy who needs a leg amputation, talking him through everything, and calming him down.

It’s also a good episode because the other storylines were not that obnoxious to follow. Ethan has a good moment of pay off by revealing his sister. The Sharon’s ex-husband storyline wasn’t too messy. Sarah, god she actually got a feel good storyline. It feels like a lifetime.

Probably my favorite episode of the series. I remember I really liked S2′s Cold Front, with the huge 11 car pile up in December, because we got to see Sarah back doing emergency medicine, but this ep’s a close second.

There’s not a lot to say, but just a reminder, no one who could break through to a patient like how Ava did, talk to him, make him feel safe and cared for, would ever do what Ava did in S4. That is all.

Thanks for sticking through it

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read the rest here:

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10 / Part 11 / Part 12 / Extra

#chicago med #med rewatch series #over troubled water #mine #this was such a good episode

[sydmarch]

15

what’s the weirdest thing that’s happened to you? 

ok SO i’ve definitely told this story before on here it’s a long one so i’ll do my best to trim it down

like 5ish years ago i was walking to the train afetr doing some shopping and this guy around my age stops me to say something about my outfit idr. it’s mid summer so very hot & this dude is wearing teal eye makeup, platform sneakers. no shirt, and shorts made out of a hospital gown. we start talking abt fashion & stuff and he asks if i’ve ever been to this trendy thrift store that’s nearby & i say i haven’t so hes like wanna go shop? sicne i was lowkey goign through a crisis in my life at the time being a recent graduate w no job & no idea what i was doing w my lfie i was like fuck it so we went

in the thrift store we both picked out some stuff & while i was trying thigns on he was like lemme see so he came into the dressing room (i was like ok sure bcus he was extremely gay) but the employees were like hey you can’t do that. also you’re not wearing a shirt so you need to leave & i was like ugh just borrow mine (since i was wearing a shirt i had tried on) so he puts it on & they kick him out anyway so im like COOL and had to buy a shirt in my bra so they could ring it up and the cashier was this absolutely beautiful girl so i was like ok. great.

anyway i go outside & find him and im like gmme my shirt back you can wear this dress i bought so he puts it on & we wander around a bit more then randomly pick up these two other girls we meet on the street who need to go to the garment district to buy some stuff so we all get in a cab and go.

once we get there we go into this wig store and are like looking around but when they won’t sell this dude (idk why i havent said his name eyt its matteo) a wig for a discount he FLIPS OUT like throwing thigns around so we all leave. shortly after that the two girls manage to dip & im thinking yeah i should try and dip too this dude’s unhinged... but there wasn’t really an opportunity to leave bcus it was just us & i didnt want him to turn on me

so he suggests let’s go to (other thrift store that’s like 5 blocks from where we were at that point) and im thinking perfect i’ll get him to go in a fitting room then run for my life. on the ay there he’s like saying crazy shit to random people, steals someones cigarette that they were smoking, steals water bottles, etc. at one point he goes to cross the street when we didn’t have the right of way nd this taxi starts honking at him so he tosses his purse to me and JUMPS ONTO THE HOOD of the taxi and is like you wanna go so bad bitch go and the cab driver takes off. with him on the hood.

since im holding his purse im like fuck i guess i have to follow this cab and give it back??? so im chasing this taxi like oh my god. and these andom teens are like yo omg is that your friend he’s awesome! im like what’s happening. he gets down off the taxi and is all huffy and im like oh my gooood ok just get to the store.....

but on our way he starts talking to some lady outside an office building and follows her inside i’m just standing near the revolving doors watching as he tried to egt in the elevator w her and shes like i need to go teach a class you cant come wtf... and hes tugging on her umbrella and she’s yelling “stop this was a gift from my dead mother” and security escorts him out and looking back i couldve ran then but i was too invested. what could possibly be next.

we start walking towards the thrift store & when walking apst this outdoor seating area he steals a glass off someones table so a waiter comes over & like throws him onto the ground and they fight a bit and matteo is like i want the police. im like you absolutely do not youre going to get arrested. of course there’s a cop just like hanging around on a nearby corner so he goes over to him and is telling him abt the waiter and the cop is like ill call a patrol car over go wit by the restaurant.

the restaurant is right by the office building umbrella lady was in so of course as we’re walking back in tatdirection she’s elaving the building and sees us and runs over to matteo freaking out, the waiter omes over and starts yelling too, and then i swear to god a car pulls up and its the CAB HE JUMPED ON and the driver gets out and starts yelling at him. finally the cops show up and everyone’s yelling and matteo is going on this rant like you’re all evil!!! and they cuff him and the cab driver’s like how can you be friends w someone like that im like im not he’s like i saw you with 4him im like we just met!!! im in over my head!!!

the cops were asking me a few questions like did you see him take anything im like no. heyre like you can tell us you won’t get in trouble im like FOR REAL NO lmao like he could’ve been on something but i didnt see him do anything. anyway can i get my dress back. theyre like didnt you say you mt him today im like yeah. theyre like why is he wearing your dress im like i loaned it to him at the thrift store can i get it back. they took my number down but never called me about the dress it was only $5 but still

#fullmetalfisting #texticles #the moral of the story is you can egt away w ALMOST anythig in this city

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Anon 1 said:

i thought i found this one shot in your married tag but i couldnt find it again when i looked :( basically steve and bucky get married when theyre kids and everything still happens and steve tells everyone hes married and bucky gets sad that steve got married and that hedidnt even tell him and he remembers marrying steve when they were little and then steve tells bucky its him that hes married to thank you if you can find it!!!

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Anon 2 said:

Hi, I am having trouble finding a fic where Bucky comes home from a bad mission (people died), rims Steve and fucks him against the sink. I’ve been looking for it for a while, it’s relatively short and afterwards Steve reassures him that he can’t save everyone. Thanks

do-and-hope said:

Hi, I'm looking for a fic where Bucky leaves the Tower to go get coffee, gets hit on by a guy at the shop, and ends up asking the Avengers (sand Steve) if sexually hitting on people is how one gets dates now and do they have advice on dating. I remember his more subtle attempts at using the Avengers' advice don't work (Steve doesn't like coffee) and some of them just straight up tell Bucky to make sexual overtures like random coffeeshop dude.

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Anon 3 said:

Hi do you guys know the name of the fic where Steve and Bucky are neighbors and don’t like each other at first? I remember Natasha was the landlord and Steve smoked medical marijuana. Thanks!

hellaqueerangelofthelord said:

Hi! There was a fic I read a while ago that seemingly has vanished from the interwebs :( The basic premise was a stucky x reader fic where the reader faked her death and the boys found her again. A few specific details I remember: the chapter names were all colors (I think one was peach and another was lime green), and the reader had been pregnant and then lost the baby prior to the beginning of the story, she was also a scientist with a background secret from the boys

lesbianhozier said:

hey! i’m looking for a crack-y fic set during catws where bucky keeps trying to lean in and kiss steve mid-fight. bucky doesn’t really know what’s going on, steve doesn’t know that he’s the winter soldier is bucky yet, and natasha can’t figure out what kind of fighting technique bucky is trying to pull off when he does it. thank you so much!!

Anon 4 said:

hey could you help me find the fic where its modern bucky and cap steve and bucky is at the bar with the howlies and steve is with the avengers and the howlies dare bucky (who is drunk) to go ask steve for a piggy back ride. steve has a moment of discomfort that someone comes up to him but likes that bucky respects his space even though he's drunk. i think he ends up piggy backing bucky home jsdkjhdk it was really cute 

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Anon 5 said:

hi! i'm so desperate to find this fic and i'm not sure if i've sent this ask in before but if i have i apologise! it's one where bucky worked for pierce (some sort of legal profession). pierce owned an apartment building which nat + steve lived in and they used one of the rooms as a ballet studio. bucky was told that he had to to shut it down. bucky obviously falls in love with steve and they get into a fight bc bucky's unhappy w his job but won't quit (for becca). it had a happy ending!!

Anon 6 said:

I was hoping you might be able to help me find a Shrunkyclunks fic where Bucky is a musician who is performing in a bar when Steve walks in. I'm pretty sure Bucky is singing Jackie & Wilson by Hozier and he only has one arm, which Steve only notices after a while because he's so captivated by Bucky's performance. Does anyone happen to know which fic this is? Thank you!

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ummvengers said:

hey I was wondering if you could help me find a fic. It's a highschool au and steve and bucky hate each other and i think tony makes a time travel machine and steve and bucky get sent to the future? They find out that in the future bucky loses his arm and steve gets big (in hs he was small) and they're married in the future and they have to figure out how to get back to the present.

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atgirlstwobirds said:

Hi there! I was wondering if anyone knew of a preWW2 get together fic where Bucky asks relationship/sex advice from a gay guy he knows at the docks, maybe called Jack? It might’ve been called something like the sexuality crisis of 1930 but I might be getting two separate fics confused. Any help would be great!!

princessniitza sent in Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen by Laura JV (jacquez) (oneshot | 7,533 | E) - bucky/ofc

Anon 7 said:

I'm looking for two fics about Steve and Bucky but can't remember the titles! One is an modern AU where Steve is a comic book writer and Bucky is a vet with PTSD that moves downstairs. The second an AU set in the last where Steve draws naughty cartoons for money and he meets Bucky who lost his arm in the war. They move in together as roommates and slowly fall for one another.

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mischiefs-hawk said:

Hi, looking for a fic for a friend. It's modern-setting, with Peter as Steve's son. Bruce is the science teacher at Peter's school. Hope you can help!

Anon 8 said:

Um, hi? I really appreciate what you guys do, and want to say thanks for that. Ummm, I've been looking for this fic, and can't find it anywhere! It's about how the serum has... Unexpected side effects and it makes Steve really horny??? He tries to hide it, and when Bucky finds out, he's 'angry'. Uhhh, it's really good and I want to reread it. THANKS! (If you don't find it, don't worry about it, have a good day!) ((sorry if I was to vague))

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Anon 9 said:

Hi! I'm looking for a fic and it's canon-divergent TFA. Bucky falls and loses his arm but he gets found by Steve. Peggy is disappointed by how dedicated Steve is to Bucky and they kinda fall out? Bucky and Steve move back to Brooklyn. Bucky has to adjust to having one arm and both to civilian life. They get a flat together and realise they aren't happy there so they then move to California. Steve becomes an artist and they end up admitting their feelings to each other. Thank you!!!!!

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[nuisancehelicopter]

a-kuma replied to your post “popular seiyuus nowadays: 24-35 years old tenipuri seiyuus: 35-55...”

i think they feel very sad cause theyre like "im getting old and the character i voice lives in a timeline that give them infinite youth ://"

i can imagine tenipuri still being there and the characters eternally staying in middle schools as they go through mid-life and senior life crisis.

#a-kuma #damn #tenipuri thoughts

[cauldronoflove]

can u pls do hugo hansen, ben hurst, and maggie ortiz of welcome to class fame for that headcanon ask meme. only u and me actually know who these lil fuckers are but go off!

YOU KNOW I WILL

ben

Headcanon A:  realistic

has approx. 40 pens around him at all times,, in his pockets, in his car, on his desk, hes washed So Many pens w/ his clothes bc hes,, yknow,, a Mess™ (also? lactose intolerant. idk why but he gives off a vibe)

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

go to karaoke song is 99 luftballons. i wont offer any further explanation

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

oh super worried abt never finding anyone to spend his life w. hes a hopeless romantic but hes also rlly hard on himself and Super impatient so its a triple whammy :/

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

can i get a uhhhh ben eating his pizza like a normal person

my darling maggie

Headcanon A:  realistic

she keeps rolls of stickers for her patients!! and theyre all like,, dinosaurs and space and weird sparkly shapes bc shes a nerd whom we stan in this house

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

has this weird pile of trophies in the back of her closet,, from where you ask? food eating contests. girl can eat a whole pie in like 45 seconds its wicked

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

in med school she used to sit in her car and cry because she was just so overwhelmed but so so dedicated to school and it was a horrible combo for her gad

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

never knows a day of pain again in her life 📣📣📣

oh me? hugo

Headcanon A:  realistic

loves himself a good puzzle. hes one of those ppl tht can solve a rubik’s Real Fast and also puts together multiple thousand piece puzzles in like,,, an afternoon or two

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

he went through a mid-youth crisis and tried out a Bunch of different hobbies when he was younger and from that phase there is a hidden stack of photos tht document his a) magic phase [in full magic man regalia] b) his mime phase [again, full regalia] and c) his theater phase [he was in a jr production of cats godspeed if asher ever finds out my man]

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

he Loves long island but he misses tennessee So Much Good God. a lot of his family is still down there,, esp his maternal grandparents who he adores and who adore him and its hard to not be able to trot over to their house whenever to hang out ://

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

*presses my lips to the mic* can quote passages of twilight from memory alone

all right annie hope you enjoyed me dishing out some Hot Hot Takes it literally took me an hour to do this ayy

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[phantasyprone]

The Memeing of Life - A pretty extensive philosophical critique

Hey everyone, I’m just gonna take another break from writing my graduate thesis to briefly run through some of the points (???) made in Dan’s video. I’m pretty tired and stopped watching Supernatural to type this up so this is incredibly informal so yh, excuse the rambling nature of this. I’ll type what he said in the video then provide my thoughts.

 ‘‘Born too late to explore the earth, born too soon to explore the galaxy, born just in time to browse dank memes.’ Also a phrase that defines the purpose of our existence at this point in human history. Do you ever find yourself wishing for a different life, that your weren’t just a kid at school, or you weren’t just a young adult trying to work out what to do, or a person stuck in a job, but instead a person with a calling – a mission to go on adventure bigger than the life we know’ – OK, I have so many issues with this. 1. Only white males get to say that they wished they lived before this point. 2. ‘just’ a kid, and ‘just’ a young adult? Mate, Dan my man, no one is ‘just’ anything. Every single person is a complex, awesome human being capable of so much. No one is just anything and you say that like everyone out there thinks so little of themselves? Yeh of course, some people are on a journey to try and work out their life’s purpose but some people aren’t? For some people their purpose is to have close friends or family, or theyre on the career path they want, or some people are not in their mid twenties and just wanting to enjoy/get through the hell that is school. If I was 14 and watching a video where someone was telling me that ‘we’ all spend life trying to find our calling or mission I would have been like ‘fuck no. I just wanna pass my exams and get to uni mate, stfu.’ Or many teens, as actually was the same when I was young and super into philosophy, liked to think about this stuff on occasion, but in an informed manner not some chill youtube video they used to escape flinging an existential crisis at them.

  ‘our boring time’ – No, Dan. Our time isn’t boring. It’s exciting, amazing, there’s so much good in the world. Yo, have you even seen videos of baby pandas? Have you read the amazing things activists and progressive politicians, and inspiring children, and wonderful artists, and artists and non white cis straight amazing people are doing to make the world fucking awesome are doing? Nah mate. Not having it.

 (this shit got long so more under the cut)

‘well this is your life and its probs the only one youre gonna get’ – WHY DO YOU SAY THAT LIKE IT’S A BAD THING??? The fact that we only have this one life is such a beautiful thing to cling to and whilst sometimes things may seem shit, theres no need to go saying that phrase in that way like our lives are bad and we should just accept that? Yeh I could be Hermione Granger if I was in the Harry Potter books but would I want to be? NO. Yo, I wouldn’t give up my best mates for anything. And Hermione couldn’t play the guitar but I can. And Hermione didn’t laugh so hard she cried when my mate and me were out walking with huge rucksakes and my mate got stuck between two trees and couldn’t get out, then heaved herself through and fell flat on her face in the mud. NO, I saw that. – a wonderful moment. Yeh, this IS my life, and it’s the only one I’m gonna get SO GREAT. Things can be shit but yo, my mate got stuck in a tree so pffffft, this shit can be pretty awesome sometimes.

 ‘this reality could be a computer simulation talk’ – erghhhh, don’t throw stuff like that out so flippantly. That shit is actualy worrying to some people. I had a breakdown which took me 3 full months to get over that ONE thought, so cheers for saying that so casually. But it’s fine because if this is a computer simulation (which I highly doubt cause I did research, a lot of research) then this is what life is and it’s pretty great anyway so lets just not think about that and enjoy life if we can.

  ‘it’s a lot more difficult for us to find a quest that will give us the big answers’ – who are these people needing quests? Why do we need these big answers? You talk like there is some great, intrinsic meaning to everything and we should all be searching for it? Nah mate. Just enjoy what we have, don’t spend your life constantly searching for answers you’ll never find. Enjoy the now. What’s my big quest? To try and be kind to myself and kind to others. And to try to love myself and love others; there we go – big quest sorted. Don’t go giving people this existential crisis where they feel as though they wont be satisfied if they never find this ‘one true purpose’. You will have many different purposes and many different paths and missions and journeys and you will change and its OK to go in varying directions. There may not even be this idea that everyone has or needs ‘one big quest’ – just do what makes you happy and be kind, and if what makes you happy changes over the years then that’s cool. Don’t ever go thinking that you need to spend your whole life trying to find your purpose and you wont feel fulfilled unless you’ve found that purpose. Why only ‘one’ mission anyway? Do everything that makes you happy and live now instead of waiting and searching your whole life for something that you don’t find because you simply search for it.

 The whole discussion about contributing to science so that only a few people can go to mars – No dan, the amount of incredibly important advances in science, medicine, and technology that was discovered BECAUSE we funded space missions and people tried to find answers in the universe is staggering and I wish I could remember them all, but tust me – the amount of cool stuff in our lives that wouldn’t have been invented if it wasn’t for space exploration is seriously cool and y’all go try and be astronauts because you might change the world even if you don’t get to space.

 ‘reality is slow and painful’ – ergh, I mean, it’s cool if you sometimes think that, I do too! But you cant just say that without any context, or like ‘reality is slow and painful sometimes. But not all the time’. – like, of course we all feel this way sometimes but if you’re making a video you cant just announce that without also saying life is fast and amazing and wonderful. You have a certain responsibility here Dan. So no, reality can’t be defined by that wholly pessimistic and way too sweeping statement that it is ‘slow and painful’.

 then goes onto explain how cool, but not really cool books and film realities are. - yeh, but our lives are pretty cool. I mean, over half all movies and books are based on our reality... so i mean, it gotta be kinda interesting. Which it is...

Good bit being aware of this being a first world problem

 ‘you may say that there are many meaningful missions you could go on from perusing personal passions to politics, science or even changing the world to being a better place by doing charity work, and yep, that is all true but its not something that we can completely escape to, leaving what we know behind. I know, pretty disheartening right.’ – I mean, yay, finally some optimism but it was all ruined when you said that basically no matter what you do, you cant escape this reality. Eergh. No, Go do all those amazing amazing things and there is no way that any of these things are lessoned by the fact that they’re still within our reality. Escapism isn’t necessarily the best thing? Sometimes we gotta look at our reality and see how awesome it can be amongst the shit. And we should do all these amazing things to make it even better because if you could escape to a different world would you? If everyone who had something to give to society left then what state would humanity be in? A shit one. I for one am glad we can’t escape and I wouldn’t want to. Changing the world and making it a better place, whether that’s through charity work or by being a generally nice and lovely person, is awesome and the fact that we cant leave this reality isn’t disheartening.

 ‘But what do we have… is a world that might never do anything particularly amazing apart from destroying the world; memes’ – No, just no. People now are doing pretty fucking awesome things. Like, I don’t really need to say any more. Have you seen how far we’ve come? How much societal progression has occurred for minorities and women and the LGBTQIA+ community, and those who are disabled? Of course we have so so so far to go, but things are slowly progressing in general.

 meme discussions – they are relatable and show us how we all have relative experiences – but like no, memes are a cultural artefact which can be alike to Dadaist and surrealist work pointing out the absurdity of our time and how meaning can be warped and blah semantics, existentialism, satra, kafka, keikergaard, Joseph Heller, (I can’t be asked right now to go into a discussion of memes and existentialism and meaning because it’s interesting but long and tbh Dan should’ve covered that so I’m salty he missed this great and obvious discussion)

 ‘it’s what we do all day, and perhaps, that is us attempting to find meaning within ourselves in a time when the universe isn’t providing any easy answers’ – ergh, why do we always have to be searching for this true meaning you’re talking about? Maybe we just shouldn’t search for an intrinsic meaning? Look for love and kindness and humanity because who can argue with that, and let’s just not give your entire audience an existential crisis, or if you did want to discuss existentialism then please do so in a balanced, well researched and UPLIFTING WAY. This shit is serious and I’ve had so many breakdowns because of it but through YEARS AND YEARS of reading am I good and OK and not in that deluge or worry for meaning anymore. If you wanted to discuss such deep and truly worrying stuff as this, you needed to be more eloquent, less ‘ergh life is shit’ and just generally more optimistic (which I know you can be so, like, why was this so dreary and ergh)?

 so go reach for your dreams because what is important is that it’s your choice – erghhhhhh where did this argument go? We’ve missed so many steps in your discussion of finding one ‘true mission’ into you having a choice? Mate, I know how you could jump between these but you haven’t explained how you got here or how this all links up and whaaaaa? You need to back up WHY peoples choices make sense within the existentialist discussion youre basing all this on. You cant just say it and expect people to know?

 Sorry guys, that was my incredibly messy discussion of this video which was not at all eloquent because my brain is fried and I paused my rewatching of Supernatural to type this stuff up. 

#mischa's philosophy #response to dan memeing of life video

[calumcest]

MCR for the top five songs bc i know you love them a lot -betrothed anon

OH GOD this is literally CRUEL fuck . FUCK i’m gonna have a lot of honourable mentions here and a dishonourable mention to gerard way for his sins 

1. i genuinely...oh my fucking god. i’m literally short-circuiting i think i might have to say burn bright? there are SO many contenders for first place but i think burn bright MIGHT take it? idly is so close and i think honestly basically just the entirety of tbp should take first place but it can’t oh my god i’m having a CRISIS okay i’m gonna lock it in i’m gonna say burn bright. the lyrics just speak to me so much and its obviously such a banger because literally every single mcr song on the planet bar like 3 are the biggest tunes that were ever created 

2. i’m gonna go for i don’t love you this has the nostalgia factor for me because it was one of the first mcr songs i ever heard back in fucking idk 2008 or some shit and honestly its still so fucking good? oh god but what about ghost of you thats the same...no i’m gonna stick with idly. i have to say its just one of those songs that every single time you listen to it (and i have listened to it A LOT in the past 10+ years) you hear something new? its so intricate and layered but in the most beautiful and simple way that means it doesnt sound too fussy or intricate but like? fuck me its good especially the ending like the very final crescendo of the song it just makes me so emotional it REALLY does oh my god i love idly. i love mcr. i will literally die for mcr i’m telling you now so that when i do you can say yes she said she would die for mcr and she went and did it 

3. honestly i think the ghost of you? not me just putting all the singles but theyre singles for a fucking REASON the verses of tgoy are soooo fucking pretty like the guitar? gerard looks hot as fuck in the mv suddenly i’m attracted to elvis. actually lets not joke baout that because knowing me in like 3 weeks i’ll come back here and be like um...haha...so guys...anyway the chorus and the verse are such a great like juxtaposition they just work so well together i would die for the verse but the chorus is also really good and this song also expresses EMOTIONS very strongly also lets talk about hte music video again this was the first music video that ever made me cry mikey...but now i wouldn’t cry because mikey’s a nonce. anyway back to the song the ending is also so good 

4. FUCK??????? i’m going to break the rules because i literally can’t round this list up without including both of these and theyre both on number one: tomorrow’s money and boy division. i dont know why i VIBE so hard with boy division its one of the mcr songs thats carried through and is always on all of my playlists i especially like the second verse the way the guitar and melody follow each other so its almost like ? syllabic ? BEAUTIFUL content from the men who own every single inch of my heart and tomorrow’s money yes i accept this might be a slightly rogue one but its genuinely one of my absolute all time favourites and was my all time favourite for a while in like 2013 i will admit the verse is not exactly the best thing in the world but the CHORUS?? again with the like sort of syllabic nature i love it. i really just vibe with that and the song as a whole...we do be vibing 

5. oh my fucking godddd ONE MORE SONG and i ALREADY cheated i think i’m gonna give this final coveted position to the sharpest lives like firstly it obtains ultimate rights for why dont you blow me................A kiss before she goes :) but honestly fucking hell this song just SLAPS its just a banger through and through not that the entirety of tbp isnt but. this song encapsulates mid 00s emo and again is one of those songs that you just cant get bored of which frankly to me is most of mcr’s back catalogue but anyway even the weird moaning after the first chorus won’t put me off 

honourable mentions i have to give or my 2011 self will appear in my sleep and kill me: dead!, this is how i disappear, house of wolves, bulletproof heart, save yourself, the only hope for me is you, GIVE EM HELL KID!!!, cemetery drive, to the end and jetset life. also literally the entirety of tbp and three cheers i won’t lie to you i just would die for both of those albums also lets be honest we have to give rights to wttbp because even though i rarely listen to it it really is so fucking good 

#betrothed anon #i love mcr with my whole entire heart #Anonymous #helen answers

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After a century and a half, the American department store appears to be headed toward the grave. These glittering emporia that once drew crowds with fashion shows, concerts, and lavish holiday windows are going out with whimper, not a bang—an apparent victim of the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

Department stores had been in declining health for a decade, as they became less relevant in the landscape of American life. There was a time when consumers had to visit these stores to find the latest clothes, shoes, accessories, and home goods from must-know brands, but with the internet, consumers could buy these products from the comfort of their sofas. In a sign of how troubled the industry was, both Barneys and Henri Bendel’s went out of business in 2019. That was before the coronavirus arrived in the United States.

“Yes, department stores have faced troubles in the past, from rationing in the war years to a lack of purchasing power during the Great Depression,” says Vicki Howard, a historian and the author of From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the Department Store. “But they’re entering this new crisis in a very weak state, and that could make the outcome worse for them this time around.” In mid-March 2020, department stores were classified as nonessential businesses and forced to shutter in an effort to curb the spread of the disease. This may be the final blow for Neiman Marcus, which is currently contemplating bankruptcy or a fire sale. Analysts at Cowen say that Macy’s, Kohl’s, and J.C. Penney will only be able to withstand a few months of store closures before running out of cash and ending up in the same boat. Nordstrom may have about a year. “These brands are so powerful that they are likely to live on in the wake of COVID-19,” says Howard. “But the department store, as a business model, appears to be at the end of its life.” Their demise hints at an important, if familiar, lesson as retailers consider their future amid rampant uncertainty: innovate or die.

GLITZ AND GLAMOUR

Until the mid-1800s, the best shopping experience a person could buy in the United States was at a “general store,” which sold a wide range of products, from fabric to kitchen supplies. These were the original retailers that didn’t necessarily make products, but curated and sold goods from other merchants, taking a cut of the sale. “These were one-stop shops,” says Chris Calott, an architect and professor of architecture at UC Berkeley. “They offered customers the convenience of not having to go to specialized merchants.”

As money began to flow into major cities across the country, entrepreneurs elevated this concept with stores that curated high-end specialty merchandise. Howard says that department stores began in cities and encapsulated the sophistication and wealth that was emerging in these hubs. “They became ubiquitous urban institutions,” Howard says. “If you lived in a rural area, you would have to travel to a market town, or you’d order products using their mail order catalog.”

Both Macy’s and Lord & Taylor began as small dry goods stores, but in 1858 and 1859 respectively, they opened swanky new stores in Manhattan. In 1875, John Wanamaker launched an eponymous store in Philadelphia, which was quickly followed by Marshall Field’s in Chicago. All of these were modeled on elegant department stores that had popped up in Europe decades before, like Harvey Nichols in London and Bon Marché in Paris. Part of the appeal was that they offered a luxurious experience, with stunning architecture, well-appointed fixtures, and plenty of assistants on hand to help customers.

These early department stores were incredibly innovative. Founders worked hard to make shopping easy and exciting for customers: Wanamaker, for instance, invented the price tag and the return policy. Since department stores purchased merchandise from designers and merchants, they had an incentive to advertise these goods so customers would buy them and they wouldn’t be stuck with so much excess inventory. As a result, department stores got extremely creative with marketing products. They created stunning window displays that artistically showcased products. They staged the very first fashion shows, which became the precursor to the fashion weeks we now have around the world.

Thus began the golden age of retail. Throughout the early 1900s, Americans flocked to these stores to spend their money which, in turn, allowed department stores to invest in more lavish and entertaining in-store experiences. Henri Bendel packaged products in luxurious brown and white striped boxes and became the first American retailer to sell outfits designed by Coco Chanel. In 1914, Lord & Taylor unveiled its Fifth Avenue store, built in the Italian Renaissance style, complete with copper cornices, a limestone palazzo, and a concert hall.

Sure, there were some difficult moments. There was rationing of raw materials during the war years that led to fewer products in stores and a dearth of consumer spending during the Great Depression. But Howard says that the industry was able to bounce back through this period by being creative. “They brought in circus acts and entertainers to drive foot traffic,” she says. “They were able to do things they simply can’t do in this current crisis, since the stores are physically closed.”

THE MALL CHAINS

After World War II, as Americans bought cars and moved into the suburbs, department stores went with them. In the 1960s, developers began creating enormous shopping complexes away from major cities and invited chains like Macy’s, Sears, and Lord & Taylor to become anchor tenants. “Architects wanted to create a town center for fast-growing suburban areas,” says Calott.

There were many reasons for this shift, including a boom in cheap real estate, but there were also darker explanations. “There was a racist component to this,” Howard says. “Cities were increasingly seen as African American. Businesses chose to chase the white market that had fled to the suburbs.”

In some ways, it’s possible to trace the decline of the department store to this expansion into malls. Howard says that mall chains took business away from the original downtown stores, forcing many of them to close. Department store chains developed infrastructure to standardize their mall locations and had warehouses that held massive volumes of inventory, which were shipped across the country. The store fixtures were identical. “They discovered that this kind of centralized organizational structure allowed them to have bigger margins,” she explains. “Mall chains were big business.”

For decades—well into the early 2000s—this strategy worked well. Suburbanites had access to all the same brands that could be found in bigger cities, and many department stores also began offering cheaper products that met the needs of middle-class customers.  Cookie-cutter malls weren’t as luxurious as the original department stores, but they could be fun places, with movie theaters, restaurants, and arcades.

But over time, department store mall chains didn’t do enough to evolve in response to changing trends. Many chains had enormous, long-term leases; they didn’t do much to update their stores after opening nor did they invest in creating unique in-store experiences. Buyers at department stores placed enormous orders for products that would be sold across the entire network of stores. This was cost-effective, but it meant they couldn’t take risks on buying interesting pieces that reflected a distinct point of view, so products sold in these stores often felt generic and unoriginal. And at the end of the season, they had to offload a lot of unsold inventory by discounting them, but over time, consumers began to expect these discounts, which forced brands into a race to the bottom for pricing. High-end department stores started to lose their luster.

Most damningly, department stores were slow to adapt to age of e-commerce and social media. When they did eventually launch an online presence, many failed to invest in creating an exciting, easy-to-navigate user experience. These once-glamorous retailers had become dull, sleepy, and generic; meanwhile, online brands were working hard to capture the consumers’ attention. “These large, federated brands didn’t have much to offer the modern customer,” Howard says.

But here’s the thing: It’s clear that before the coronavirus crisis hit, consumers still enjoyed the experience of visiting a store. And some department store chains tried to evolve their formats. Nordstrom, for instance, has experimented with localized, small-format stores. And it is currently in the strongest financial position compared to its peers, according to Cowen. (But according to the New York Times, even Nordstrom is struggling: It is currently canceling orders and putting off paying its vendors.)

Calott, the architect, says that the most successful malls in recent decades have been outdoor ones like Santana Row in San Jose and the newly developed Seaport District in Boston. Both mix together smaller stores with residential and office spaces. But many department stores chains were resistant to shrinking their stores to fit into them.

So where does that leave department stores today? Howard believes that these household names may live on, but in an entirely different format. Brands like Neiman Marcus or Nordstrom may become online-only retailers, for instance. Or they might become something else entirely. Lord & Taylor was recently acquired by Le Tote, a fashion subscription box business. But one thing’s for sure: The age of the enormous, gilded building is over. Consider what has happened to Lord & Taylor’s iconic buildings: They’ve recently been acquired by Amazon and WeWork.

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