#i feel so smug and happy

[pizzapasta23045]

People in mondstadt: Oh, Kaeya's such a good kid, just a bit eccentric...

Kaeya's "eccentricities": litterally running off in a country that doesn't even border fucking mondstadt using his new adoptive father's business trip as an excuse because he heard some vague bullshit about his ancestral homeland being there.

#kaeya alberich #alberich clan #textpost #when one of your biggest hc is confirmed #i feel so smug and happy #also what the fuck was kaeya fed as a kid like did he steal food for all his voyage? did he steal money before and bouthg food?? #how long did it take till they found him in goddamn sumeru? how did they even find him?? #kaeya please elaborate

[acidbathpuppy]

I don't think I ever posted my rocky horror drag look (raising money for local pride)

#me n my twin brother (tapeworrrm) won best dressed so... pretty smug tbh #drag is so weirdly gender affirming cus ive never felt more like a man than when i saw my arms and shoulders squeezing out a corset #so happy that i can actually feel like a man in drag and not just dysphoric lol #monty barks #lgbtq #gay #drag #rhps party

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[princelancey]

Ngl feeling rewarded for having faith in Lawrence's five year plan

#lance stroll #aston martin f1 #I did the hard years 21 and 22 and now we have comms talking about us being a rocket ship #Feeling a lil smug but trying to be chill about it kskflg #No but honestly I'm so happy for the team that all their hard work over the last few years is showing

[georgieluz]

10 characters, 10 fandoms

thanks @hesbuckcompton-baby @footprintsinthesxnd @jump-wings @cody-helix02 and @merriell-allesandro-shelton for the tag!

since five people tagged me i'm gonna include a few extras bc i couldn't narrow it down to ten :) i also decided to do characters outside of hbo war since everyone knows my faves already

faramir – lord of the rings

dick grayson – dc comics

kendall roy – succession

adam kenyon – the thick of it

desmond hume – lost

nanami kento – jujutsu kaisen

varian fry – transatlantic

roy kent – ted lasso

jamie tartt – ted lasso

john constantine – comics & matt ryan

tim gutterson – justified

marjan marwani – 911: lone star

tk strand – 911: lone star

gethin roberts – pride (2014)

jesper fahey – six of crows (books only, but despite me not being a fan of the show, the casting of, and performance by, kit young was impeccable and was the perfect choice)

i think most people got tagged in this over the week whilst i was at work so i don't think anyone is left for me to tag but if you haven't done this yet, please consider yourself tagged!

#julian did a tag game #gethin roberts is so special to me #as a gay welsh man whose mother doesn't accept him gethin's story arc actually broke something inside me #so even though andrew scott isn't actually welsh it's the one time a fake welsh character hasn't annoyed me #colin from ted lasso doesn't annoy me anymore it did at first but us queers have to stick together so he's my babygirl now #i was saying in the group chat yesterday how i have two brands of men: dark and brooding or smug smartarses #and i feel like this list kind of reflects that #apart from marjan who is just iconic and above it all #and faramir who's just a sweet angel who deserves nothing but happiness in the world #they're all a little bit (a lot) fucked up though so maybe that's where the venn diagram connects #ok so the official categories are: #dark and brooding #smug smartarse #fucked up baby boy #and every single one of them fits into one or more #marjan has her own category and that's just: iconic

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: May 3

"Life Less Frightening" by Rise Against

#song of the day #'I don't ask for much / truth be told I'd settle / for a life less frightening' #another song that when I sing it alone it doesn't sound much like the original but I do so like to sing it #check me stirring my roux humming 'these lives we live test negative for happiness' sweetly to myself #today was Friday and I'm still trying to decide if I'm satisfied with the amount of work I got done this week #I suppose I'll have to be #I had my weekly report meeting and again the updates my boss asked for in the meeting were not the ones she asked me to prepare #so I split-screened her and delivered the prepared updates as I frantically opened and updated the new request #and then when she finished making politely falsely interested sounds (I'm not bitter I'm not I'm not) she asked again for the new update #and by then I had it ready! saved it as I brought up the share-screen and showed it to her #too frustrated in the moment to be properly proud of myself but now it's hours later and I'm feeling a little smug about it #little back-pats for me #I have something like a project timeline worked out for the idiot project #and I did some good work in the garden (nasturtium growing up the post under the bird feeder. very pleased it took the transplant so well) #and I sooooort of sorted the freezer stuff. kind of. mostly we ate the things I wanted to rearrange but I've got a plan for moving forward #the last non-work thing I'd really wanted to accomplish this week was getting my queue set up again here #I've gone through my drafts and done some prep but as you can see the queue isn't actually running again yet #hopefully I'll do that tomorrow. we'll see how it goes #the queue may have to wait until Sunday because I must confess if I can accomplish only one single solitary thing tomorrow #I would like it to be six hours of uninterrupted sleep. may it please the gods I shall rest tomorrow. blessed weekend #edit: wait wait I'm a fool I'm a fool I just typed 'May 3' and still I am a fool #it's May the Fourth!! #happy star wars day my loves if I don't get the queue up today after all #it's because I'm reshuffling everything because I've got a new influx of SW posts to distribute!!

[royalphantompain]

So there is going to be a sequeal to Megamind, one of my favorite movies of all time, and there is a trailer for it, and ooh boy, is it sure something.

#ghost's pain #LOOK AT HOW THEY MASSACRED MY BOY!!!!! #I mean maybe it is a bit too early to start judging it but like??? #How does the sequeal look so bad compared to a movie released 14 years ago???? #And the voice??? Like uhhh??? I'm sorry to the VA but that does not sound like him at all. #Like Megamind seems so weirdly smug if that makes sense??? Like he was childish but uhh not like this??? #I am just not a happy camper and I can not put into words how everything feels so wrong right now #I need to throw this gif of something I love after seeing one of my favorite movies get stepped all over

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[myname-isnia]

Forever stuck thinking about the parallels between Kuviren and Mingzan no one touch me

#I mean. unless you wanna yell about it with me. then yes please touch me absolutely #there's just something about tiny snarky waterbenders and their smug teasing earthbending partners #the type is definitely genetic #suiren not only looks exactly like Ming-Hua but also inherited her tsundere #and ghazan and kuvira are similar enough too. the way they're utterly smitten for their respective gfs. their love for teasing #their not so secret death wish #etc etc #once Mingzan and Kuvira get to meet some interesting conversations will have a chance to take place #I've got two main ideas #one is suiren and ming-hua #their relationship has gotten healthier. ming-hua has learned to let go of that little water lily she missed so much #suiren has realised her child self isn't dead just hidden deep down. once they reunite again it's nothing at all like Uprooted #and once ming-hua finds out about who her daughter is dating. they talk #suiren feels the need to overexplain bc of the whole former dictator thing. but ming-hua is like 'I see the way she looks at you.' #'like you're the world. she makes you happy and that's all that matters to me even if I don't quite understand why her of all people' #and when suiren asks how she knows. ming-hua talks about how ghazan looks at her. and then they get to discussing #and realise how similar their respective partners are #and then the other idea is ghazan and kuvira #she's nervous at first because again. an ex dictator surrounded by anarchists. and is worried the convo will be about intentions #with their daughter. so she too quickly tries to explain why she and Suiren are together. but ghazan just says #'if she's anything like her mother. and she was. as a child at least... then I totally get it' and he grins #and they talk about their girls in length too #ghazan's my love vs kuvira's my suiren #both smitten. completely and utterly in love #<3<3<3 #if there's one thing to gain from all of this is it's that I maybe have become very kuviren centric but it's still a red lotus hyperfixation #first and foremost #and I've been craving RL shenanigans these past few days. so so badly #my beloved darlings

[the-malfunctioning-somnambulist]

Just finished the Black Rose musical and survived (barely)

One question:

WHY THE FUCK DID THEY HAVE TO MAKE WAKABA'S DUEL HURT SO MUCH

#i just. makes noises forever #NOT THOSE TWO CLINKING HER CUPS IN THE BACKGROUND #also mikage and mamiya's separation at the end ;___; #the good news is that the juriori part was exactly as i hoped it would be <3 #wakaba borrowing saionji's smugness for a blissful second while utena is confused vs utena IMMEDIATELY calling shiori out on treating her as #the sunstitute for juri #yknow breaking the character limit in tumblr tags feels like running out of breath gasping and continuing #which is exactly how you're supposed to read all that #also the wakaba flourishing/cowbell of happiness mashup was GENIUS #there's so much more i could say but ugh. anyway stan nanami

[kalach-cha]

idk why but so many gifmakers online are absolutely insufferable. like you'll see the most gorgeous sets from one person who's in a bunch of your fandoms, and then you'll scroll and see the most heinous takes floating about on their blogs

#so many of the ones i've seen (and maybe it's because i'm mostly in video game fandoms) are very much in the dark academia #pseudo-intellectual ''i'm better than you because of the media i consume'' camp and it. it drives me up the goddamn wall #it's very much the 2010s hipster mentality recycled and it SUCKS to see because so many are so good at what they do #but just because you're capable of making art doesn't mean your opinion is any more valid than anyone else's #idk maybe i am just hypersensitive to these really smug attitudes about fandom. but i feel like i've blocked all of the really popular #gifmakers for rancid takes in video game fandoms and now it's really hard to find shit i enjoy lmao #something something pros and cons about curating your online experience. i may be a little too trigger-happy with the block button lol #ALSO. this gets even worse when they're oc blogs lol. im saying this as someone with an oc-specific sideblog but #those places are breeding grounds for this hipster superiority complex mentality. so i can never find stuff for my own oc blog :/ #michi.txt

[whentherewerebicycles]

ran 33:30 without stopping :) my map app says it was only 2.75 miles but my missed-IUI-cycle goal was 3 miles or 30 min without stopping by 3/20 so I’m gonna count that as achieving my goal!!!!

#my first mile was 11:30 and then after that uh slower haha #but that’s not bad! #12:14 average pace per mile which feels about right for my level of fitness haha #also I thought I was only going to do 24 minutes but then I was feeling ok so I thought why not?? #only major complaint was I had a bad stitch in my side but it went away through the power of positive thinking (I imagined smoothing it out #with my mind haha) #now I am sitting down halfway up this big hill I have to climb before I walk 20 min home 🥴 #also still have to walk the dogs for an hour soon 🥴🥴🥴 #but yay I feel so happy!!!!!! fun to set an ambitious goal and work hard to achieve it!!!!!!!!! #i think I might try swimming laps tomorrow?? since I have the morning free #and then I may attempt 33 min again on sunday #I do think if I did it at the gym I have a pretty good chance of making it to 3 #bc my outdoor route has a lot of small inclines that slow me down/tire me out #but idk we’ll see!!! yay now I get to feel smug as hell all day

[vyibunni]

as promised, the besties in the same post!

#vb ocs #original character #what can you deduce abt their characters based on the names they used on their pictures? 🤔 #to elaborate: no one calls sasha his legal name yet he chose to put that on it. while teddy is called other names including his legal name #sometimes yet uses it on an official photo #anyway what can i tell you abt them quickly? well theyve been best friends ever since kindergarten #(does not mean they went to the same kindergarten jdjdjfk teddy went to a private one while sasha went to a normal public one) #you know SOME things abt sasha already. but anyway he normally wears more band tees and ripped stuff but he had to be #a bit more tidy for the pictures lol (covering for myself here bc i havent designed his tattoos yet LMAO) #omg i had so much trouble with teddy i had to start over multiple times before i saw the image in my head on the tablet ⚰️ #anyway hes like you look at him and you cant trust him hes like. smug and mischevious but if you get close to him hes ride or die #and hes flirty bc yes hes into casual relationships but also as a weapon and defense #oh also his family is extremely rich. new money to be specific. his family is a sailing family #thats it for now lol i keep saying this but one day ill write their profiles..... #im really happy with how teddys mouth came out hdkfkdjd idk why but i rlly like the shape not to get too omakehuinen here ⚰️ #OH LAST THING dont be fooled by these images sasha is 198 cm and teddy is 176 cm. teddy is the libero of their team #he gets to feel unique with his different colored jersey 😌

[pcrtgasdace]

#19 days spoilers #i am dead. look at them!!!! LOOK AT THEM #foaming at my mouth because we have been waiting years for them to come to this point 😭 actually crying screaming pulling my hair out rn #tianshan #THAT TENDERNESS #AND MO NOT BACKING AWAY!!! HE WANTS THIS JUST AS MUCH #how smug he tian was about mo's kiss and how he so so very carefully and tenderly touches his face 😭 testing the waters #watching mo and making sure this is okay for him too as not to overwhelm him 😭😭 the level of care and vulnerability shown here #not okay. absolutely not okay. actually trying to be very hard to react normal but i am SO HAPPY #and mo that cheeky shit actually reciprocates so boldy cause!!! YES HE WANTS THIS TOO NO DENIAL NO FEAR JUST LETTING GO #he tian is his safe place and vice versa 🥺 i feel like a grandmother watching them #after all this pain they finally got their happiness within each other #and he tian is so at peace and so SO CONTENT that look on his face and mo daring him to continue WOW OKAY WOW #still not over the tender face touching like ... breathtaking #love how mo still is his cheeky and rude self even in an intimate moment like this one. old xian has outdone themselves just shoot me #zira.txt #19 days #he tian #mo guan shan

[headphonemouse]

I dont really share my interests that much. Not until last year, and mostly only online. And I've made a huge discovery! It is perhaps, maybe possibly a good idea to find people who like and do the things you like and do and to talk to them.

Because doing everything by yourself gives you some strange ideas about what's "normal" and what's "good" and what's "impressive." I never really thought I was impressively good at anything, I thought I was average, and that my skill reflected the amount of time I'd spent doing the thing. That it was a given. "Of course I'd be at this level. I took each measured step to get here, simple as that." And like, yeah, maybe it is as simple as that. But it still deserves praise. Someone can walk in and see me where I am and be impressed and I don't have to judge them for it. I used to always think "you're impressed with this? You could do it too if you wanted to"

Which book was it, it was probably a cnovel, I read a book earlier this year that was like "if the steps to becoming strong are so simple, why doesn't everyone do it?" "Can you be a virtuous person? All you have to do is refrain from alcohol and sex, fight for justice, take care of your parents, and uphold your honor. And yet there are only one or two truly virtuous people per generation." To do anything, there are simple steps that anyone can follow. But I think actually taking those steps is what sets the practitioner apart from "anyone." Only someone who has taken the first step can move onto the second, so "not just anyone" can take the second step, and the third, and the fourth. And then after a while you might realize that even though the path you took was simple, you for having taken that path have become someone special

#talking tag #it was only through talking to someone about languages that i realized that my language comprehension‚ patchy as it may be‚ was still #useful and impressive #and that drawing something you see right in front of you is truly a difficult and impressive thing to be able to do #and that being able to play a tune after 3 listens is exciting and amazing #at least as far as party entertainment goes #not just anyone can fill a gallon jug with handmade paper stars #not just anyone can bind books or write sheet music or tie complicated knots or crochet a scarf or invent their own practice exercises to #suit their style of guitar playing #so MAYBE i can be proud of myself #maybe i can learn to take the compliment and feel not just smug but happy and satisfied #its a long road but i can at least take it one step at a time

[icharchivist]

something about Dracula Daily that can’t leave my mind this year is how much i remember when it started last year, there were so many people saying stuff like “you all are getting into it right now while it’s new and everything and you’re making it trending, but you’ll see everyone is going to drop it eventually, none of you have this commitment for so many months”

and while people did drop out, obviously, the activity of this little “book club”, of the people who didn’t drop out, still made it trend up until the very end, there were enough people who were still motivated enough to read this book in this format that it carried on all the way to November

and now it’s starting again. now people who were sad they didn’t jump on the bandwagon last year AND people who loved the ride so much last year they’re participating again (and it being kept spicy thanks to the Re:Dracula podcast) are STILL participating to this tumblr bookclub enough to make it trend.

There were so many messages about how “you’ll see you’ll get tired of it so quickly”, and yet people made it a yearly commitment

there’s something so endearing about that

#it's the only one of those bookclub that people constantly talked about and kept trending #and i'm at fault too like i subscribed to so many classics that way but only read the Dracula one #mostly bc apparently this is all the energy i have and i was invested enough #(+ the discussions and memes made that going through the tags were always fun so i wanted to stay up to date) #i have so many classics by emails in my emails and maybe one day i'll read them that way #but in the meantime i'm just so endeared by the endurance of the Dracula format in particular #and somehow a bit smug after reading so many people say everyone is going to drop it quick #'drop it? oh you mean make it a yearly event? gotcha' #i'm doing DD via re:Dracula this year and the voice acting really makes me care so much it's unreal #idk if i'll do it fully bc it's still too fresh for me #but it does make me happy to go back into the tags #the mix of 'people's first reading who are memeing like we were memeing last year' #and 'rereaders who are all picking up all the dreads they didn't pick up at first when they were memeing' #is pretty funny ngl #anyway i don't like. actually post about it personally though i reblog some stuff from the tags once in a while #so feel free to blacklist and all #i'm just soft for weird reasons today this website can be fun at times #ichatalks

[silvysartfulness]

Some days I am more tempted than others to go on a blocking spree to block those either putting stinky takes on my dash or reblogging posts from me and adding super-aggressive rants in the tags and comments that I'll then have to see in my notifications.

I'm sick and cranky today, and not really in the mood for my usual perpetual patience, and some repeat offenders are on thin fucking ice.

#i go on tumblr to wind down #i DO NOT WANT your aggressive takes clogging up my notifications #i DO NOT WANT people putting smug american-centric takes on my dash #i am sometimes SO SICK OF being perceived as eternally understanding and patient #because it means any time i actually do express my annoyance #people get upset and feel betrayed #trust me #i wouldn't be snapping if you hadn't already walked all over me for a good long while #also fuck covid #i think i caught it again #silvy is not happy today

[medicinemane]

I still argue that bleeping someone like Gorden Ramsey is bullshit so that people who love and find swearing fun can pretend that they didn't just hear him call someone a fucking donkey, because there was a bleep... like they don't know the exact word he used, like they didn't think it, and like they didn't have fun with it

Cause I bet you... any amount of money you want honestly, that if you asked Gorden Ramsey not to swear he just wouldn't... I don't think they ever bleep anything in shows where he's helping kids cook

No, people find swearing fun, it's entertaining... they just don't want to admit they like it because it's naughty

And to be clear I'm directly pointing to this and pointing to 'unalive' and drawing a line between them for how we got here

#you either don't swear or you do; bleeping is only for when no one's supposed to swear but it came out by accident #but 99% of the time; you can tell the producers wanted people to swear because their audience loves it #and at best they didn't bother telling them to keep it polite; and at worst they encouraged it #you know; I once when I was like 12 went with my mom to see Chuck D give a talk about stuff #and at the end when he went up he was like 'oh I'm so sorry; I didn't know there was a kid in the audience or I wouldn't have cussed' #and we assured him it wasn't a problem (didn't explain I'd know all of it since I was little) #(and I think to an extent even then I had a mentality of that I'd rather hear it how he was gonna say it normally) #but... he very clearly could have and would have simply kept a check on himself like everyone is capable of #and he clearly would have been more than happy to #it wasn't an 18+ event; it just was on a college and he expected adults only and talks how he talks #you can have zero naughty words most of the time... all you have to do is ask #and you can avoid serious conversations... it's polite to let people not be forced to engage with topics they don't want most of the time #hell; that's the whole point of trigger warnings #...I don't know; I'm forever fuming about this whole fucking topic #it's like a huge portion of humanity is willingly and gladly throwing shackles on #it's on thing not to say fuck; I respect the hell out of that #it's one thing to mind your words and subject; go for it #and it's also one thing not to want to listen to people swear #you know... I often do tone down how I feel like talking cause... I get some people following me might not like it... and I actually care #...it's just also... in the end this is my spot I dump bullshit out of my skull in a verbal vomit #so you get it how you get it... but like I get not wanting to hear it #but don't you fucking tell me you hate swearing and them sit their laughing at a bleeped bit from a show where someone's cursing up a storm #no you like swearing but you're just being a shifty self righteous prick that's pretending you don't to feel smug #and don't talk about death if you don't want to #but don't say 'unalive'; not unless you're meaning the opposite of undead and coming up with something interesting #if you're saying 'unalive' you're just a spineless fucker who can't even manage saying you'll kill a zombie in minecraft #(or a fool who doesn't get what you're going along with)