#bougie stuff sucks

[gravel-rd]

an unfinished basement is so chic to me

#fuck mansions #bougie stuff sucks #i <3 brokecore

[brooooswriting]

Domestic Brie? 🥺

prompt 17 w Brie saying it 🙏

17. “You look beautiful”

You and Brie had just come from an annoyingly long and exhausting event. And while Brie was way more used to those things, she also handled them way better than you did. Sure, she was a bit tired afterward and happy to be home and get her heels off, but you were full-on exhausted. Plus, you were so hungry. This Bougie food served at those events sucked and didn't fill you up one bit.

“I'll go change real quick, ok?” you told Brie as you both pulled off your shoes, but only after greeting Six thirty. It became a tradition for the two of you to watch something cuddled up on the couch after such an event. The blonde nodded and made her way into the living room.

You quickly changed into some sweatpants and a hoodie and took off all your makeup. You weren't the biggest fan of makeup, but you were insecure about the acne and the scars on your skin, which is why you always made sure to cover them when you went to any events.

When you came downstairs again, you found Brie in the kitchen cooking your favorite pasta. She knew you weren't a fan of those events and that the only reason you came was for her. So she always made sure to thank you properly and do nice things in return. It was lovely and probably the biggest reason your relationship worked so well.

The blonde turned around when she heard you come into the kitchen, her eyes immediately landing on you and the furry friend next to you as she outstretched one of her hands to pull you closer to her. “You look beautiful,” she told you as her hand caressed your waist. You shoved your blushing face into the crook of her neck as your shyness took over. “I meant it,” she started as she pulled your face away from her neck so she could look at you, “sure, you also looked beautiful in that dress, with the makeup and stuff. But right now? You look even more beautiful. You're the most beautiful person I have ever seen.”

Your lip quivered as you looked up at her, your heart beating unbelievably fast. “I love you” was the only thing you could respond without nearly crying. You received a quick kiss before your girlfriend sprinted upstairs to change. As you were left with the job of stirring the pod, you couldn't help but think about how well your life had turned out.

You had a fantastic girlfriend, a cute dog, and a great job. You were happy, and you felt better than ever.

“Penny for your thoughts?” Brie asked as she stood behind you, one hand on your waist while the other sneaked before you to turn off the stove. You titled your head up and gave her a small before pressing a kiss to the underside of her jaw. You'd kill for domestic moments like this, moments with your own small family. Sure, you didn't have kids yet, but you had six thirty who acted like he was your child, and you had each other. You didn't need more.

While you plated the food, Brie fed the dog before you settled on the couch. Six thirty immediately joining when his bowl was empty, hoping that one of you would share their food. You couldn't help the laugh that escaped you when the dog nearly sat on Brie’s lap, trying to steal something off of her plate.

“You know, you're spoiling him. He wasn't allowed on the couch before,” she told you as you grinned at her. The dog had settled down, realizing that he wouldn't get any food but still enjoying the softness of the couch.

“Well, but I can't say no to him. Have you seen his little face? I don't want to say no,” you pouted at her as you kissed his head. The blonde sighed and wrapped her arm around your shoulder to pull you into her, enjoying the very much-needed physical contact.

“Oh great, so when we're gonna have kids, I'm gonna be the bad one while you'll be the angel, huh?” she joked. You gave her a proud nod before kissing her a couple of times.

“You know, sure, parties are nice and stuff. But nothing beats staying home with my family. I love you.” A kiss was pressed to the side of your head when she finished speaking.

“I love you too,” you replied before starting the movie.

#reader insert #brooooswriting #brie larson x you #brie larson x reader #carol danvers x reader

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

AITA for cutting up donuts? 🍩🔪

I cannot stress how low stakes (and dumb) this is.

Whenever I buy donuts, I usually get them from this local place that changes flavors monthly. Stuff like caramel apple, earl grey and lavender, Cuban cold brew, maple bourbon. Just. Amazing. My husband and I love trying the new options each month.

Typically, a person would just go to the box, grab a donut, and be on their merry way. I do not do that. I will cut a small, bite sized section of the donut(s) I want, leaving a portion in the box. I do this because 1.) I had bariatric surgery about 5 years ago, and a large amount of sugar all at once can cause dumping syndrome. It is exactly what it sounds like. 2.) What if I don't like how it tastes? I don't want to waste a whole donut.

My grandmother recently came over for a weekend visit. I decided to pick up some of these delightfully bougie donuts for all of us to share. I get my portion and go to my office to get some work done.

A few minutes later, I hear my grandmother yelling from the kitchen, "Who the hell cut plugs out of the goddamned donuts?!"

I come in, half laughing and explain that it is A Thing that I do and give my reasons. (I assumed she thought the bakery did it?) She says "Okay, but what if someone wanted the whole donut?" And points to my oblivious husband making coffee in the corner and adds "Is this how she makes you live? Do you ever get to eat an entire donut around here?"

He sheepishly replies, "Um. Yeah, not usually, ha-ha."

We all sort of laughed it off, but it bugged me a bit. I asked my husband later when we were alone if it really did annoy him and he said that it wasn't a big deal, but it did occasionally suck bc he felt like he couldn't just grab wherever he wanted just in case *I* wanted part of it.

So, AITA for cutting "plugs" out of the donuts, leaving partial, sad looking donuts behind in the box?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

[inluvwyouu]

bllk boys as american high school stereotypes

✧.* notes— bc i’m a bored asf high school senior and just finished rewatching high school musical

ft. isagi yoichi, bachira meguru, nagi seishiro, mikage reo

(in pt. 2: chigiri hyoma, shoei barou, itoshi rin, itoshi sae)

warnings: none :)

isagi yoichi - the accomplished nerd

you cannot tell me this kid wouldn’t at least be ranked top 6% or smth

like he would definitely have his whole high school life and college career planned out using his meta vision or whatever

he would “devour” all of his tests, quizzes, concept checks, etc.

and not to mention that he plays soccer

i know for a fact dude would milk the soccer thing for all it’s worth on his college apps

like in every other sentence on his college essay he would be talking about his soccer trauma lmao

he would also be a part of so many other clubs just to have a stacked resumé

i feel like he would study a lot too like just because he wants to do well in school in general

he’s one of those nerds that’s not necessarily popular but everyone knows him because people talk about his grades and his rank and they look up to him and stuff

was definitely cancelled for a bit for calling one of his classmates a slur after getting a bad grade on a group project…

nagi seishiro - the “invisible” kid

he’s not actually invisible he just never shows up to class lmao

he shows up occasionally to get the bare minimum of school hours so he can graduate, and also shows up for test days because making up work is a pain

he usually just sits in the back of class and is either sleeping or blatantly playing on his phone but the teachers never say anything because they lowkey forget he exists

but somehow he still has perfect grades??

he doesn’t think he has a lot of friends because he thinks it’s too much energy to keep up with a social life

and yet he’s still pretty popular and was somehow dragged into a huge friend group without even trying

a lot of girls have hallway crushes on him and try to flirt with him but he doesn’t even notice

and if he does he just pretends he doesn’t.

he couldn’t care less about school and just goes because he has to and internally complains about wanting to go home the entire day

bachira meguru - the weird kid

i’m sorry i love bachira but he’d definitely be that one kid people laugh at in the hallways

not necessarily in a “he gets bullied” way but just like, he’s weird and he knows it, everyone else knows it, and he’s genuinely funny

he’s like the weird kid that everyone’s friends with if ykwim

but it’s also kind of sad because he has no real friends

his grades are good enough i suppose; he doesn’t really try but he’ll get into a pretty decent college so he’s fine

doesn’t take school all that seriously

definitely the class joker

and is the subject of teacher gossip pretty much everyday because they find him incredibly tiring to deal with

other kids have seen him talking to himself in the hallways so they’re kind of creeped out by him

he’s completely aware that people talk about him behind his back but he doesn’t really care because he like being able to make people laugh

mikage reo - the rich kid

this one is obvious lol

he’s always wearing luxury brand names to school like it’s nothing

like catch this man in the hallway in gucci shoes, a louis vuitton jacket, prada sunglasses, and spraying his chanel perfume everywhere because the hallway smells like shit

people become friends with him just in the hopes that he’ll buy them super bougie stuff for their birthdays or whenever

he’s literally a nepo baby so he doesn’t even have to do well in school to get into a good college

has girls falling for him left and right but he knows it’s just because he happens to be wealthy and genetically fortunate

definitely would be a popular kid that gets along well with everyone

he’s really modest about his wealth but also not modest at all at the same time

the teachers try to suck up to him because they’re adamant that he’s going to be successful in the future (and he probably will)

blows money on his friends every time they hang out and throws the best parties with expensive ass alcohol

#blue lock #bllk headcanons #bllk #bllk anime #bllk manga #blue lock anime #blue lock headcanons #isagi yoichi #nagi seishiro #bachira meguru #mikage reo #anime #isagi headcanons #nagi headcanons #bachira headcanons #reo headcanons

[insertcurrentintresthere]

So I accidentally deleted my account so I’m reposting this :)

Why Mischa Bachinnski is such a tragic character

He has nothing to be brought back to life for

I was thinking about how Mischa didn’t even want to be in the choir in the first place. He just had to be there as a punishment. He ended up dying because he stole some wine for his cousin, as a gift. (One of) The songs mischa sings is all about how he wants to be brought back to like for talia. And talia, most likely, doesn’t actually exist. Even if she does, it’ll probably take a really long time before Mischa actually has enough money to go visit her. Mischa’s life also seemed like it sucked in general, he was neglected by his adoptive parents, had to leave his home and mother that he loved And most likely didn’t enjoy school. If you think about it, Mischa basically has nothing, at this point, to want to be brought back for. His afterlife is already much happier than his actual life because he has this group of friends, the choir, that act as his family.

He was poor before he came to Canada

The first solo song Mischa performs called “this song is awesome” is a rap about how great his life is and that he's a baller ect, ect. The thing is, everything he raps about are just normal things for a middle class family to have.

For example: “THE PLAYSTATION'S UP ON MY 60-INCH SCREEN”

A 60” screen is a pretty average size for a tv

“SPARKLING ALL OVER MY STAINLESS STEEL APPLIANCES”

In this day in age, many people own Stainless steel appliances

“CRUISE INTO THE LOT OF THE HARD ROCK CAFE”

The Hard Rock Cafe definitely isn’t usually a place for rich people or fit Mischa’s new-money rapper vibe.

“I'M ROLLING IN MY CIVVIE” (civvie being a Honda Civic)

Honda civics are not very expensive cars.

Mischa talks about all this stuff like it’s bougie and expensive, when in reality, they’re just normal things that most people own. When he was living in the Ukraine, Mischa’s family probably didn’t have much money, considering his whole family was just him and his mother, and his mom was a custodian, a job that doesn’t often make much money. When Mischa moved to Canada, he saw all this stuff that he never had at home before and assumed it was really nice stuff.

His home life

When Mischa was about 16 (assumedly) he had to be sent to Canada because his mother was dying. He was already going through a lot because of this, and the fact that he probably had no way of contacting his mother. So he doesn't even know if she's currently dead or not. When he arrived at his new home, his new parents forced him into the basement, not to come out unless his mother would start sobbing. Of course, his parents might be going through some problems of their own, but they treat Mischa like he’s some sort of monster, like he's the source of all of their problems. Mischa states before performing “this song is awesome” that he was saving up to move back to ukraine. Now, I can only assume that Misha's parents don't give him any money. Evident by the fact that, as karnak says “whenever his mother saw him, she would weep” and that he had to steal communion wine, instead of buying it, for his cousin.

How he’s changed since moving

Now, you might be thinking “you don't know what mischa was like before he moved” but on the contrary, there is some evidence towards it. Because Mischa was so mistreated by his parents, Mischa gets so flooded with anger and disdain for the world. Even though mischa does say that the only feelings ukrainian men have are “rage and passion” my first thought after rewatching mischas intro was, he wasn't always like this. Karnak clearly states that he becomes known as the angriest boy in town after he turns to “self aggrandizing hip-hop”. Throughout the show, mostly in Talia, we can see Mischa start to act a little more passionately and less angry. For example, before he performs Talia, he has a monologue about his fiance, in one part of said monologue he says “let rivers run wild, or let them be damned”. Mischa is a poet, in the right scenario, he is. Mischa is so passionate about Talia, that even without exact proof that she actually exists, he is willing to save up all his money to go be with her.

Sorry for the big blocks of text, this is incredibly ranty

#ride the cyclone #rtc #ride the cyclone mischa #mischa bachinski #rtc mischa

[sonicenvy]

Rating Every Lotion I've tried so far from Trader Joe's

As a backstory to this post, I love Trader Joe's, despite its bougie, expensive nature. They have a lot of random fun products, and a few food goods that are for bizarre and inexplicable reasons the cheapest price around despite being sold by a mini bougie grocery store. (noodles at 99¢ for a 1lb bag comes to mind.) There's one near the library I work at, so I go there a lot after work. Their produce kinda sucks, so I usually go to a different grocers which is closer to my house for that. They do have theee best snacks and desserts however, (also box mac and cheese from TJ's is 👌) so I go there for that stuff. They also have an impressively large collection of soaps, lotions, shampoos, conditioners, etc. for a grocery store. I liked the first lotion that I bought there, so something possessed me to go, hmm let me try aaaaallll the TJ's lotions to find the BEST TJ's lotion. I have skin (especially on my hands) that is drier than the Sahara. (it's all the pottery). Note that this is not a TJ's ad, as I am in no way you know, sponsored by literally anyone. Without further ado:

The first lotion I tried ever from them was their "Ultra Moisturizing Hand Cream" This seems to be a product they always have in stock, so it must be a staple product for them. idk.

Texture: Thick, creamy, medium greasy. You don't need a lot of this lotion when you use it. For your hands you probably need like, a bit the size of a small pea. I find it to be fairly pleasant, as long as you don't use too much of it at once. I give this an 8/10, docked only for the slightly greasy factor when too much is used.

Scent: This lotion is unscented, which is nice for all of us with sensitive skin. 10/10 love unscented lotions, because I don't have to worry about whether the scent is going to disagree with my skin.

Container: This lotion comes in a metal tube that looks exactly like those tubes that acrylic or oil paints (and fancy water color paints) are sold in at art supply dealers. It's a charming aesthetic and makes it easy to throw in your bag on the go, which is what I typically use it for when I buy this. It has a plastic screw-on top. The container is sold in the store in a cardboard box, which feels a little unnecessary from a materials use POV, but makes sense from a "This makes it easier to display on store shelves" POV. The flaws to this design are: the plastic screw on top can crack, making it difficult to put on or take off, and when the lotion gets low in the tube, the metal of the tube becomes quite hard and difficult to squeeze with your hands alone. This makes the end of the lotion difficult to get out of the tube. I haven't tried cutting it open, since I like my scissors and my box knife a little too much to sacrifice to that experiment. I am also fairly certain that this container is not recyclable. This is probably the worst part of this lotion. 4/10.

Moisturizing efficacy: When the right amount is used, this is very effectively moisturizing lotion. Not perfect, and it takes a few tries to get the right quantity, but I liked it a lot 10/10t

Overall Rating: 7.5/10. The major downside to this lotion is its aesthetically charming, but difficult to use packaging. It gets major plusses for being unscented, thick, creamy, and very moisturizing.

The next lotion is the "Nourish Antioxidant Facial Moisturizer". A thing that sucks about TJ's is that sometimes they pull a product from shelves and it doesn't return for like, months. I assume this is because their stores are small, and they want to make room for limited seasonal products (which they have in spades for every season). This lotion seems to be currently off the shelf, which is a shame because I actually really like this one.

Texture: Thin, medium grease, mildly watery, but like, in a good way that makes it easy to spread quickly. No complaints about texture here. Big fan. 10/10

Scent: This is also an unscented lotion, which all facial lotions should be imho. 10/10 for that.

Container: This lotion comes in a small plastic pump container. This is great for at-home use, but bad for on the go, but honestly I'm not taking it anywhere, so I don't mind. The pump pushes out just the right amount to cover your face with a single pump, which is great. I haven't gotten to the bottom of this one yet, so I can't say how it will do at the end, but for now, it seems to be chugging along great, and isn't getting jammed. Also probably not recyclable. 8/10.

Moisturizing Efficacy: The single pump is enough to cover my whole face, plus leave behind a tiny bit to moisturize my hands with. Because it is a little bit thinner (but not, like watery) my skin seems to absorb it pretty quickly, and is nice and soft after use. It pairs nicely with my cerave face wash and my super goop unseen sunscreen (which I literally cannot recommend enough -- absolutely worth the high price). 10/10, no complaints, would buy again (if they still carried it that is...😥)

Overall Rating: 9/10. Outside of my general distaste for pump containers, because I think they're somewhat wasteful, I love this lotion and am very sad that it seems to have disappeared from the shelves of my local TJ's. Maybe it will come back in the spring???

Next up the "Coconut Body Butter" This one's a year round product that they seem to always have on shelf:

Texture: This one's nice, thick, smooth and creamy, also medium greasy. It's pleasant to use for that. However, my tub had a few weird solid/gummy chunks in it, that I was not a fan of. I think they were, like, hardened chunks of the lotion that came from the lid as I used it? They weren't there when I first bought it. 6/10

Scent: Fairly strong, but definitely pleasant coconut oil scent that lingers. Fortunately it didn't seem to aggravate my skin which is a plus. I personally find the scent pleasant, but if you aren't a coconut person it's probably deeply unpleasant, as it lingers after use and you can smell it on someone else who has used it from a couple of feet away (ie: across the dinner table.) 7/10.

Container: This lotion comes in a classic round lotion tub. The tub is made of unusually thick, clear plastic and has a screw off lid. The lid was sealed off with a bit of "sealed for freshness" type plastic, presumably to prevent people from opening it in the store. When it was completely full on the store shelf, I almost mistook the thick, clear plastic for glass because of its weight. But there's something, uh, funny about the lid! You're actually not supposed to open the lotion by screwing off the lid! Instead it has a flap life in the lid that you're supposed to use. I find that those things are typically fragile, annoying to use and prone to breaking at the joint, so I just forgo using it like that entirely and unscrew the lid instead. Round lotion tubs are nice because you can get every last bit of the lotion you paid for out of them, and you can clean them out to recycle them or re-use them for something else. Nifty. 7/10 for the confusing lid.

Moisturizing Efficacy: This stuff leaves my skin fairly soft after a use, if a little greasy. I can tell that my skin is absorbing it because when I had to wash my hands with soap and water not long after an application, the scent and some of the smoothness remained. I think some of it was certainly washed off, because my hands were no longer greasy. It's not as effective on my hands as the hand cream, but it's pretty good. 7.5/10

Overall Rating: 7.5/10. Docked mostly because the scent is pretty strong and the container is weird and confusing. Overall decent product however.

Up next, the "Firming Body Butter + bright clementine scent". This also seems to be a limited lotion (maybe a summer/early fall product?), as they don't have it in my store now that it is December.

Texture: This stuff is thick, creamy and pleasant to rub around on your hands. It is probably the greasiest of the TJ's lotions that I've tried, and it takes a while to absorb into your skin. If you get this stuff on your clothes, you might get a light grease stain which I'm not a huge fan of. 7.5/10.

Scent: As the tube notes, this lotion has "a bright clementine scent". I love citrus-y scents, which was why I picked this one up in the first place. The scent is very strong, much stronger than the coconut one. However, I am a huge fan of the scent! Every time I wear this around my mom, she's always like "What is that scent?" but like in a good way, and I have to tell her it's lotion, after which she always seems to ask if she can borrow some lol. 8/10 despite the strong scent because, uh, I like the smell. I don't wear perfume, so using this lotion's probably the closest I'll get to perfume lol.

Container: This comes in a pretty classic, soft plastic squeeze tube. It's matte and soft to the touch, with a cute, bright color. It's easy to use, and will probably be very easy to cut open to get the stubborn end of it out when you can no longer squeeze it. The light color matte tube does stain easily if you carry it around, so it looks a little janky after a while lol. It is also definitely not recyclable, which is not unusual for every beauty product ever. 8/10

Moisturizing Efficacy: The skin of my hands is pretty smooth and soft after use, but very greasy for quite some time as it takes a while to soak all the way in. Because it sits on top of your skin for a while, if you have to wash your hands off very soon after applying this stuff, you'll probably be washing some of it away. Otherwise quite nice. Between the strong scent and the longer lasting greasiness I'm definitely not about to put this stuff on my face, but it's great for my hands after the studio. 7/10

Overall Rating: 7.5/10 Plusses include pleasant scent, nice texture, easy to use container and decently moisturizing efficacy. Minuses include a little greasier than I'd like, takes a long time to soak in and the scent is particularly strong. Overall decent hand lotion though.

For today's final lotion review, we have the Trader Joe's "Fragrance-Free Body Butter" I've only just bought this one, so I don't have the full experience. I guess It seems to be a new addition to their line up, because they were handing out samples of it in the store when I was there the other day.:

Texture: creamy, soft, moderate thickness, somewhat more watery, medium grease. It almost feels like meringue and overly thick whipped cream had a baby. 9/10

Scent: As the name suggests, this is unscented lotion, which I like! 10/10

Container: Classic round plastic lotion tub with screw top lid. It's the same size as the coconut body butter, but made from a thinner plastic. It also does not have the weird, confusing lid of the coconut lotion. Maybe someone at TJ's design realised that that was a bad design choice and corrected it for this new lotion? Either way, this is probably the best lotion container style. You get to use all the lotion you paid for (easily) and can wash it out and re-use it or recycle it. I've re-used lotion tubs like this one to keep bar soap in when I travel since the lids are nice and tight. 10/10

Moisturizing Efficacy: Pretty moisturizing, if somewhat greasy. Definitely faster absorption than the clementine or the coconut lotion. Good to use all over since it's unscented. Not perfect, but hey, nothing's perfect. 9/10

Overall Rating: 9/10. I think I've found my new favorite TJ's lotion (That's not the facial lotion. This one has the benefit of, like, still being in the store lol).

That's all (for now) folks! Stay tuned as I try even more TJ's lotions. There are like 6 more on shelf that I've seen and not tried. At least. I think there might even be some fun mini scented ones in gift packages. I'm always trying out new lotions, because, again, my skin is drier than the Sahara. This is a combination of the universe going "fuck you" to me and gifting me dry ass shit skin, doing pottery, which makes your hands even drier and living somewhere where it gets cold as shit (and consequentially dry as shit) for like a solid 1/3 of the year.

#lotion #trader joe's #long post for ts #margaret babbles #I'm not sure why I decided to spend my day off saturday morning typing up this post #but uh here ya go #side note if y'all have ANY lotions that you are obsessed with please drop them in my askbox or my dms or the replies to this post #I want to know about ALL the lotions because again i am the victim of dry ass shit skin #y'all let me tell you that YEAR ROUND my skin can get dry enough to bleed especially around my knuckles and the bottoms of my feet rip #it is also scaly as shit all the time. y'all i got old people hands in my 20s because of this #my dermatologist thinks that my dry ass shit skin and my bouts of skin cancer could be related to some mysterious thing that's fucked up #about my immune system 🤷🏻‍♀️ #yay for medical mysteries I'll never solve because I'm too broke to see that many doctors

[murfeelee]

Weekend! RL Update/Rant!

I’m not dead (yet), I’m just in hell school again, and already I’m sick and tired of being back. 1 year down, only 5 years left to go, yay~! 😒⚰️

It’s like academia has a special knack for making you hate what it is you do, it’s a real talent.

I just want to study archaeology and research and write my dissertation and get people interested in cool stuff. But no. They live to suck the fun out of everything and stay stuck in their antiquated bougie AF ways; and then they wonder why the department has such low frikkin enrollment and why classics is a dying discipline and the humanities are on their way out. 🤔 Mystery of frikkin mysteries. 🙄

#nonsims #non-sims #RANT ALERT #I hate school #kill me nooooow

[cleverthylacine]

fiddleford and jazz for the ask game?

OK! Re Fiddleford - if you love Fiddleford, I'm sorry, because...

I don't.

First of all I spent the first 26 years of my life in West Virginia and Kentucky so when this was the "Appalachian" character in Gravity Falls in the first season, before we knew his history, I was completely fucking PISSED OFF about that. That's where "why do they look like that" comes from. Sure we have people that look like that but they're not the majority, and so does every other fucking place in the world.

Second of all, I still don't like him. I have a lot of sympathy for him with regard to having to put up with Bill but that's where it begins and where it ends. The rest of what we know of him is as follows:

He had some kind of relationship with Ford, quite likely romantic and certainly queer, but after they graduated he fucked off to the suburbs and got married to a woman who was taking care of him, because before big tech got big, in the 1970s, that's not what your house looked like if you were someone like him. People who aren't me don't all know how Earth worked in 1982 so I don't blame anyone who wasn’t even born then for thinking he'd already hit it rich on his own but no, someone had to be supporting him, and to those who say he got married and had Tate after he left Ford, I'm just going to say that Roe vs Wade was passed in 1973 and even if you were drunk enough to screw him after he gave himself brain damage, would you actually have a kid with him? Plus, who was paying for the house?

Second of all, he dumped her to go back to Ford and his kid hates him. In other words, he's a shitbag at handling his relationships. He was queer until graduation, married because it was the thing to do in the very early 70s I'm sure, almost certainly wasn't honest about his relationship with Ford, and abandoned his kid. He sent giant robots after his wife who divorced him, which he bloody well earned.

And then he started a conspiracy secret society to erase people's memories whether they wanted them erased or not.

I don't. like. Fiddleford. And I do NOT ship Fiddauthor. Honestly I always ship Ford with OCs because there's nobody in the canon but Jheselbraum who deserves him and (hahaha) Valiska Courinna, my OC, did most of the stuff that Jheselbraum did, in my RP and in my fic, before Journal 3 came out and I even knew about Jheselbraum's existence.

Sorry. I know some of my mutuals ship Fiddauthor really hard, so I usually keep my mouth shut about it as I believe that everyone has the right to ship what they want, but from a canonical perspective, I think both Fiddleford and this ship suck.

Jazz is cool, sexy, and funny. There's not enough of him anywhere. They should have spent more time on Jazz. Mirage is a bougie wannabe Jazz and not nearly as cool. I adore JazzWave as a sexy rivalry even though RavWave is my OTP (it's not like they're strictly monogamous LMAO) and if you've got far enough in Voice of Stanix to be past the point where Jazz shows up you probably already knew this. He is also very open and loving and I think he is almost certainly poly.

There are not a whole lot of Autobots I like all that much (compared to the number of Decepticons I fucking adore) but I love Jazz and I would bang the hell out of him if, you know, allowances could be made for size differential and the relative tolerances of flesh and metal. I feel like he would be really smooth and really good at it. He's just adorable and fun. And also an incredible special ops dude and good at assassination and sabotage but um, we all know that's what I like in a mech right?

#ask game #sorry fiddauthor friends #jazz #fiddleford mcgucket #jazzwave #ravwave #ravwavejazz

[whatsabriard]

Watch With Me: Hart to Hart 2x08

Original Airdate: January 20, 1981

Synopsis: When Max's long-dead ex-wife suddenly reappears, kidnapping and a hot diamond necklace are not far behind.

Why this one?: We all make choices in our lives. We all have many different reasons for those choices. My reason for this choice is that I want to watch Jonathan seduce his wife while she tries to talk on the phone. I want that right now, and this is the episode that will give it to me. We are who we are.

Favorite Quote:

Jennifer: Oh, darling, we haven't even seen all the fish in the aquarium. Couldn't you be a little late? Jonathan: You mean just for the halibut? Jennifer: I'll pretend I didn't hear that.

this episode wakes with the Harts in bed, so you know it's going to be great.

there's a noise downstairs, possibly a burglar.

Jonathan keeps a gun in his bedside table.

that's probably because, even though the Hart Estate is supposed to be the Ultimate in security, everyone and their brother breaks into it. always. all the time.

look how cute they are in their lil jammies as if they don't always end up nakey every night. a nod to the 80's sensibilities.

it's just max, dressed like the guy on the fish stick box. He's gonna go fishing and then he plains to cook and eat the fish he catches. weird.

these two lazy humans and their lazy dog just gonna do crosswords in the bed together all day on sunday.

until they run out of newspapers and have to find another way to amuse themselves. behold.

this scene is everything to me because Jonathan is just gonna suck on whatever he can reach and jennifer is all about it.

anyway, since Max isn't there to interrupt his ex-wife does it instead. how annoying.

I do like Max's ex-wife though. She's spicy.

Her name is Pearl.

Pearl was before Jonathan's time, so they're really enjoying getting to know her.

"Do you remember your ex-wife, Pearl?" no jonathan. only you forget your wife.

anyway according to Max, Pearl has been dead for years.

she wanted people to believe she was dead because she was involved in some stuff. and of course, she's still involved in some stuff.

pearl manages to get herself an invitation to stay with them because Jennifer is a TERRIFIC LADY.

Jonathan worries that Max might get his heart broken by his ex.

the bad guys think that pearl is going to try to sell a stolen necklace to the Harts. but they want the necklace.

pearl and max cook together but immediately start fighting.

"Jonathan..." We can't get involved. But they go in to check anyway and find a little surprise.

Pearl hides the necklace in the house, which is definitely not going to backfire on them.

J&J meet at Marineland for a picnic (as you do???) and they're drinking wine out of glass glasses because they're bougie.

Max gets himself kidnapped because the bad guys want Pearl's necklace. Pearl gets away. Sort of.

The baddies call and want the necklace in exchange for Max but Pearl is in a coma and they have no idea where she hid the necklace.

They tear up the house looking for it.

Stanley gets info on the necklace and J&J show up to get it. Jennifer looks immaculate. Jonathan is half-dressed.

they don't have a lot of time to find the necklace so Jonathan gets the bright idea to have a fake made by Seymour. but Seymour says he can't do it, no matter how much money jonathan throws at him.

These are not words Jonathan understands.

insert ANOTHER rando suddenly pulls out a gun on them.

during the fight, jennifer does the greatest thing.

when the gun is knocked loose, she grabs a trashcan lid and puts it over the gun. Then she STANDS on the trashcan lid. girl really.

the rando is an insurance guy who has been chasing the necklace since it was stolen.

they're talking about how insurance guy ate all their food, and they have a lightbulb moment.

pearl hid the necklace in the fish. EW GROSS NOW IT STINKS PROBABLY.

for someone who has been tied up for days inside an antique shop, Max just keeps getting dirtier and dirtier.

but I guess he got a shower before the meet?

color coordinating dummies again.

how. how do they look at each other like that.

#hart to hart #jennifer hart #jonathan hart #stefanie powers #rj wagner #80's tv #watch with me #life ruiners the original recipe

[acitybythelightdivided2006]

when i was talking with anthony last night one of the people i was with told him "yeah ill be seeing you again at the bougie boat thing" or whatever it was he was like "wait what is that. oh the bougie thing. yeah that's gonna suck. im doing it as a favor. but you'll be there so that's cool we'll make it not suck" and then he just casually dropped info about LS dunes stuff in the works including that they were announcing this tour today. among some other stuff that i'm not really at liberty to speak on. take that as you want

#i scream #ls dunes #anthony green #saosin #circa survive

[glamoplasm]

it's difficult bc there Are genuine criticisms to be made of modern architecture and design and so as long as these guys are very careful on how they word it they can slip things under bc like. it's entirely reasonable to be someone who dislikes modern skyscrapers or like more fancy decorated things but man you have to see where these things are coming from and what the actual issue is.

much minimalism in the 20th century was in response to the very bougie overly designed useless status symbol design philosophies of the times, coming off of a period where there were still fucking kings and czars and the gilded age, the people whose extravagant wealth and brutal treatment of workers and imperial destruction and killing of the people of the global south built the palaces and mansions that set the standard for what was opulent. fascists too held with these standards and called anything outside it degeneracy. a lot of early minimalism and modern art was a conscious reaction to that! cultural shifts have changed it's meaning, as it has become associated with the wealthy where the ability to upkeep an exceedingly minimal and perfectly manicured life is a kind of opulence, but certainly those old standards of opulence are alive and well and carry a lot of that old meaning still.

it's not evil to think that stuff looks cool, but it isn't without context. so too is the fascist reaction to minimalism an "old classic" in a way, a long standing hatred bc it was always oppositional to their conception of beauty and worth. that doesn't mean minimalism = good, it's a style and u don't have to like it and a lot of it sucks also! nothing wrong w not liking it. i think it's just worth keeping in mind

[mysticdragon3md3]

Also, regarding the callous LinkedIn quote:

If you recognize there's something wrong in the world, and instead of saying "this injustice should be changed", you instead say "suck it up; the world is harsh so get used to it"---or worse, you have any amount of power to change things for the better, but you don't---then you're perpetuating the problem. Recognizing a systemic wrong in how the videogame industry is firing lots of working class people (which they still are, regardless of being artists and in tech, vs manual labor) just for some few millionaire executives to make more money for only themselves while exploiting their subordinates, is not comparable to little kids needing to learn to take a loss with grace because "the world is like that; you lose sometimes". (See my previous ✏️🍬 post.) Some things, you don't lay down and be the world's bitch over. That callous comment stank of cope and giving up. These working class people, trying to make a living, are trying to afford rent and food, so they don't end up homeless and hungry! It's just so telling that this guy thinks that what artists are fighting for are "lattes" and a bougie lifestyle that Hollywood has taught us to think encompasses artists. No, rich people trying to evade taxes, or whitewash their corporate images by putting their names on a museum wing, are the bougie art people you're thinking of. Art consumers can be very different from artists. Actual artists are working class. Our art shows may have wine and cheese for guests, but i assure you, it's the same cheap supermarket stuff everyone gets, and it's mostly for appearances and obligatory tradition. You better believe we're hoping for a grocery store sale on brie, and sales for our art supplies, for that matter.

#industry #artist problems #what art is for #purpose of art #reactions #ranting #quotes

[thebestoftragedy]

I feel like the only teaching situations where I could be happy long-term with the day to day stuff would be at an elite/selective high school (like the one I attended and have super mixed feelings about having attended) but the only schools like that locally are private/extremely bougie and I don't really have any interest in teaching the children of the local gentry how to be good investment bankers and/or tech industry scammers.

local public school district sucks ass as a place to work (low wages, very large class sizes, constantly changing standards/grading systems "to promote equity" that just make everything stupider and more opaque for both teachers and students while also radically lowering the bar for academic skill acquisition, shitty infrastructure) and the suburbs are. well. they're there and they're mostly not hiring. so what's left is I can spend a year selling off my book and jewelry collections and then be genteelly poor for a while and then I'll run out of money and be a majorly depressive unemployed housewife ranting and raving about how I could've been somebody.

[butmakeitgayblog]

My bougie pussy story isn’t quite over. I debated canceling my appointment for a Pap smear but I figured I should be an adult and keep the appointment. I’ll give y’all another update after if you want. My appointment is August 11th, which feels so far away. I’m a “rip the bandaid off” kind of person, waiting sucks. Anyway, I love fantasy and dystopian books, any recommendations to distract myself with? -🐟

Yeah you definitely should still go! It's always good to get stuff checked out and you're supposed to get em like every 3 years after 21 anyway so 🤷‍♀️ might as well knock it off the docket

#anon #had one a couple weeks ago dat bitch in tip top shape 🫡🫡🫡 #sorry this got lost in my inbox but I caught it

[harlowcomehome]

Glad ur getting a chance to wind down 💕 yesss shoes are the best therapy, I’m also hoping to go thrifting tomorrow! I read that you love purses, what kinds? Do you collect them? Im exploring wearing more accessories lately (purses count right?) - 💀

I absolutely love thrifting!! I grew up going thrifting a lot and then when I grew up it never changed. Where I live kind of sucks though so I like to go when I’m on vacations and stuff.

I love purses, I actually like replicas of the bougie girl stuff. 😅 haha. I don’t know if I collect them but I do have a bunch. I’d say it counts!! 😌

#💀 anon

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

this is obviously EXTREMELY far from the worst thing about Everything Bad Magicians Related / specifically about every single narrative choice made about eliot in season 5, but these are trying times and some of us complain about petty nonsense to cope, so: another thing that sucks about giving us just like 13 straight episodes of grossly framed and grossly prioritized or deprioritized as the situation calls for it and just grossly written Eliot Suffering Marathon is that in trying to write this fic where eliot is fucked up (as he canonically is) and making ungreat choices (as he canonically does) and wildly miserable all the time (as you would be too if you turned down the love of your life because of your childhood trauma and then he sort of tried to excise himself from humanity and then in trying to prevent that you got your ass possessed by a demon creature who killed a bunch of people and then after saving you he died but not before getting back together with the ex girlfriend he cheated with you on during the previous darkest time in your life now obviously surpassed) i keep second guessing myself about whether i am like complicit in the eliot waugh trauma p*** revue. everything about what canon has done is so bad in that regard that anything that's not like Gentle Conversations Where People Articulate Their Emotions fic has this like aura of suspicion! and do not get me wrong i LOVE gentle conversations where people articulate their emotions but i already wrote a fic with like ten billion of them and i wanna do something different!!!! i wanna write about quentin and eliot sitting in stony silence smoking weed in an airbnb in the hudson valley while eliot thinks depressing thoughts about his life as is my right. and like i will and am and wrote like a thousand very depressing words today but it is annoying to have in the back of my mind on the one hand four seasons (well. 3 seasons and 1 episode "lol") of characterization of someone that was like very fucked up and very heartbreaking and very beautiful all in very human ways, and then one season of just this spectacle of suffering where who eliot is matters to the text less than what has happened to him.

#i just wanna say that eliot had a bunch of coked up mediocre sex with a drummer when he was 22 #and not feel like i am contributing to The Tragedy Of Eliot Waugh the show both like #insists on giving us and also insists on refusing to admit it is giving us #also like obviously i would not write a q/e fic where they don't wind up together #but even there it sux 2 feel like if i want that process to be kind of uncomfortable and ugly and not fully resolved #between these characters who are uh traumatized young people who hate to talk about their feelings #i'm like... betraying the characters somehow by [checks notes] #attempting to write a story which feels like human and complicated and coherently connected to who they have been #which is NOT to say that this is the only type of story that is those things!!!! #but like again i already wrote a get together that is very extreme sweetness and gentle talks about feelings #i loved writing it and love reading it! those are things i love! i just love other stuff too! #man cannot live on bougie french toast alone u kno? and i'm saying this as a bitch who loves to pay too much for bougie french toast #anyway ONCE AGAIN obviously none of this is actually in any way hindering my writing choices lmao #it's just constantly present in my mind in a way it was not when i was writing 15k about how fucked up steve rogers is u kno? #bad comparison on its face but joke's on you i don't acknowledge that blonde guy in endgame as steve rogers #social distancing day 8 and the tags are... Happening #'sucks that magicians season 5 happened so that now sometimes i must think about it' #yeah that sums it up. #the magicians #it's late enough now that it's not gonna show up in the tag right? that's still a thing? tumblr changes its rules so stupidly i s2g