#in which we show our face

[briefsoulsuit]

Me: looking in the fridge and thinking another Monster is probably a good idea since I have to stay up late af making chocolate peanutbutter balls.

Music: Have you Learned Nothing At All!

Speaker: *dies*

Me: Pop a Top Again

#we muses #when the fuckery finds you #in which we show our face #tell me i'm pretty

[findafight]

Robin and Steve playing a dnd character together because Steve said the only way he'd play is literally with Robin. They take turns each session for who speaks but always planning together. It's a teenage human, gangly and uncoordinated and a bit of a loner. Everyone sort of lets the "two people playing one character" issue slide, as they want to play a game with their friends.

Robin and Steve have wildly different character voices, and sometimes announce which way they are walking before stumbling in that direction, and also mutter to themself in character. when it's Steve's sessions to talk he flits with the NPCs Eddie plays, but Robin is just a little aggressive to them. The personality changes are kinda weird but everyone is just happy they're playing.

Everything is going well until the big bad of the short campaign they're all playing knocks them into a wall. Not hard, but hard enough they're scrambling and flailing and...splitting in half. By their own description. Immediately they start, with their respective character voices (they are committing to this bit) bickering about whose fault it is. And about what they should do now their cover is blown.

The table is silent.

Robin and Steve have been conning everyone the entire time. They're playing twin halflings, who alternated who sat on each other's shoulders pretending to be a human because they were goofing off the day they joined the party and were too embarrassed by the mix up to correct anyone about it until they had to. Their voices and personality changes are brilliantly embedded as not Robin and Steve not being able to keep consistent, it's because they've been playing different characters. It's brilliant. It's horrible. Everyone fell for it and the reveal essentially pauses play because everyone starts yelling at them.

#steddie #stobin #platonic stobin #stranger things #they were giggling and said hey what if we played a character together but it was actually us playing our own character #kids in a trenchcoat style. wouldnt that be funny #and the other said omg yes imagine all their faces lmao. theyll think we're bad at the game but we WONT be hehe #the party #finda's rambles #stobin month #im counting it as that #to all the ppl saying theyd have to tell the dm: not if their only goal is to be the funniest bitches in Hawkins #which they are. whats eddie gonna do? unfriend them? they made a character sheet for the fake human they were playing. #and for the actual halflings they actually were. just because they only showed eddie the fake doesnt mean he can be mad #finda writes stuff

[moghedien]

ok so here's my depressing prediction of the day. if we do get the scene where Nynaeve dresses as a sul'dam and she and Elayne go in and rescue Egwene on their own, I think that a difference from the books is that when Nynaeve walks into Egwene's cell, Egwene probably won't immediately recognize her as Nynaeve and just see a new sul'dam coming in who she has no idea what to expect from

#like especially if we get like Nynaeve having to paint her face or something like the sul'dam do #which I think would probably be a must because the sul'dam without unpainted faces #all have very visible markings like Renna where the paint is usually #so she would need the make up to blend in since she doens't have the markings #and Nynaeve would also have to do her hair differently #anyway I don't think Egwene will immediately recognize Nynaeve if we get that and I think her reactions is gonna hurt all our souls #wheel of time #wot on prime #wot show spoilers #wot book spoilers #egwene al'vere #nynaeve al'meara

[hella1975]

ive never felt more rural than i have in the past few weeks since hanging out with a lad who has only ever lived in cities. what do you MEAN YOU'VE NEVER DONE A MORRIS DANCE

#he didn't even know what morris dancers WERE i said some shit like 'you know it's summer when the morris dancers come out' #and he was like 'the what now' I FEEL LIKE IM GOING CRAZY. HE'S FUCKING WITH ME SURELY #AND THIS HAPPENS SO OFTEN ABOUT THINGS I JUST ASSUMED WERE BASICS #'harvest festival 🤨' PARDON. YOU ARE JOKING #and also the CONCEPT of a village is baffling to him. i said there's probably about 100 people in my entire village #and we don't have a pub or a single shop the closest ones are in the NEXT village over which is a 3 mile walk #and this boy was HORRIFIED. we are both in a constant state of thinking the other is taking the piss #and now every time i think/do something abundantly rural im SO self-aware 😭 #my mum told me the farmers are gonna do a xmas tractor run through our village this year #(they usually miss our village bc even by village standards it's tiny) #and she was like 'shame you'll miss it! i'll send you a video!' and im there already picturing this boy's face when i show it him #like sigh. yeah. yeah okay maybe the rural england is ingrained deeper than i feared. never escaping the allegations etc #had a conversation with him the other day that concluded with me 100% genuinely being like 'you need to touch grass' #i literally said 'i think it would fix you. like actually go and touch some grass what the fuck' #bc at this point he's so far removed from nature that it's INSANE TO ME. i didnt realise how much i took growing up rurally for granted #THESE PEOPLE DONT EVEN GET DRUNK IN FIELDS. THEY HAVE NO FIELDS. I HAD TO EXPLAIN TO HIM WHAT A CAMP OUT WAS

[averagemartian]

I love blue beetle and its message and I wish more people had watched it and I understand that the lack of promotion both because of the strikes and because the studios don't give a shit has affected it negatively and the role that racism/xenophobia play in people's disinterest towards the characters in general BUT PLEASE let's also not forget about superhero fatigue

#i keep seeing people complain about the marvels and blue beetle flopping like: we finally got representation and people aren't showing up #and honestly have they considered that these movies (although valuable stories) are being made in part as a last ditch attempt at relevancy #marvel didn't make the Black Widow movie when it thought it had something to lose which ironically would've been a better statement than #those post-mortem crumbs they tossed at us with it #black adam shang chi blue beetle eternals and whatever else... people forget these studios need audience more than the audience needs them #they're not doing it cause representation suddenly matters (and I don't mean creators and especially not poc I mean the suits) #they're doing it cause they have something to gain and nothing to lose that they're aren't losing already (attention/public interest) #and above all else: money #so sure it's upsetting that one of my favorite superheroes is not getting the love he deserves but look at the market baby #we're fucking tired and these crumbs don't help and the political climate is a mess #studios wave diversity on our faces and even preach some good messages but then they go and put their money where exactly? #hm. #blue beetle #marvel #dceu

[mikoran]

sometimes ill see a st3ddie post about their hypothetical struggle of being queer in the 80s and ficlets about the homophobia they deal with. and the rational, logical side of me thinks that its fandom and everyone is allowed to do what they want and finding comfort in characters experiencing your experiences can be very helpful to people. but the other side of me is yelling WILL BYERS IS RIGHT FUCKING THERE

#like theres nothing wrong with shipping it and portraying those things with them #but something about choosing the only slightly implied queer character and the very much straight one to use as an outlet just #reallyyyy rubs me the wrong way when a character in the show already canonically faces that shit #not to mention the fact that steddies popularity mostly comes from the ability to sexualize them which is a whole other can of worms #and said people doing the sexualization is often cishet women #and then they pull out other cards like oh actually lets focus on steves trauma guys and the tragedy that is eddie #and theres no harm in that either ofc character analysis is great i live for it #but we all know its not actually about their depths as characters #its about being attractive white men #contrary to what this post might tell you about me i dont mind steddie its like fine ig #and i like steve and eddie but god their stans annoy me sometimes #anti steddie #but back to will #hes had to face so much. hes had deal with people calling him slurs his whole life. hes in love with his (supposedly) straight best friend #hes got queer depression written all over him #and yet hes somehow not the top choice for crying over those things about #instead its two characters with like. a singular one on one interaction #again #no problem with shipping them etc etc #but seriously?? why are we focusing on them as opposed to the canonically queer much deeper romance playing out right before our eyes #with mounds of trauma and angst on the side #cough cough fetishization #ill shut up now sorry #will byers #byler

[anotherpapercut]

one of my favorite things a customer has ever accused me of was 6 years ago when I worked at Rita's (an Italian ice and frozen custard chain) a woman who came in every day with her husband and ordered the exact same thing insisted that the cups were smaller than usual and when we told her that they weren't she started screaming at me and my shift lead that we were "obviously shrinking the cups back there"

I still wonder constantly how she thought we were doing that

#still remember their order too. 2 large cherry and vanilla gelatis (vanilla custard on bottom then cherry ice then more custard) #her husband looked extremely apologetic the whole time and left us a couple extra dollars for a tip #my manager ended up giving her the ritas corporate number so shed leave lmfaooo but it was insane #her husband had bought the ices from me then she stormed back up with him a few minutes later demanding i remake them #because she insisted i had not given her a large cup and she knew bc she came every day and got the same thing #so i pulled out 1 cup from each of our 3 sizes and showed her that hers was obviously the large #and she kept insisting i was lying and asking for a manager. so i got my shift lead and brought her up front #which she was already annoyed about bc she was in the middle of making new italian ice which is a whole process #she kept telling her we hadnt gotten new cups in weeks so they definitely werent different #and the lady just yelled 'well then you 2 must be shrinking them back there!' and my lead started laughing in her face #which just made her more mad but it was unbelievably funny. still is. like how and why would we do this ma'am

[sadbeautifutragic]

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#as a black bi person i don't get the point in arguing over whether it's better to make a speech in a red state vs a blue state #at the end of the day the speech will have the same impact which is to raise awareness of the escalating situation our community is in #while also comforting lgbtq+ fans both online and in person #the argument that she only did it in chicago to avoid losing fans doesn't really hold up because she has fans who come from all over #so she will lose tickets even if she does the speech in a blue state and she has upcoming shows in red states/states that are in danger #of flipping back. besides this was only the first show of pride month she will likely continue the speeches which means she will speak in #those upcoming red states #i also think we shouldn't be complacent and act like living in a blue city/state means you're automatically 100% safe #especially when certain gop nominees want to force their horrific legislation upon the entire country #especially when there's people in blue states who still face the threat of homophobia/transphobia at the hands of people in their own lives #i'm saying all this as someone who lives in a blue city in a red state with some of the worst laws in the entire country btw #the only things protecting us are our governor and city leadership 😐

[pankomako]

dude i swear if i actually make gang's bay a real show and i write a joke about being trans people are gonna be like "this is incredibly offensive to trans people" and im gonna have to come out and be like "yall im literally a trans person writing myself im just having a laugh why cant you too"

like seriously where's the line between a joke poking fun for laughs and a joke that's actually offensive? i feel like that's a little bit subjective dontcha think

#sorry i literally cant stop thinking about this #i think we need to learn how to laugh at our own imperfections and just our attributes in general #even when they're being joked about from an outside perspective #people laugh at italian stereotypes and little german boy and conservative cartoons actively trying to offend queer people #oh but when a guy known to make fun of autistics makes a video making fun of 20-years-old european music suddenly thats bad #i feel like this ties into the whole idea of critical thinking too. which people are actively getting worse at on all sides #people need to learn to lighten up. not everything needs to either be 'safe to enjoy' or 'actively avoid this bad thing because its bad' #i actively watch helluva boss despite all the controversy around it. i dont give a fuck it's a funny show about hell whatever #i've been trying to avoid saying it because i was afraid people would block me about it. personally i dont have an opinion on the drama #it's just. swagever dude! im so tired of controversy over media actually what the fuck ever i dont care #there's an episode of clone high where they have a REALLY stereotyped charicature of adhd. i watch it anyway bc it's silly #are people boycotting the new spiderverse over the alleged stress workers faced? doesnt fucking seem like it! #idk maybe im just stubborn. or people REALLY need to grow thicker skin and lighten up #there is almost ALWAYS gonna be problems with something you like. learn to not give a shit and have fun anyway

[theresa-of-liechtenstein]

man i’m still so hung up on the way that this professor handled music in the philippines. there were Choices made and though i agreed with a few of them, i found most of them straight up fucking baffling and it was disheartening to not feel heard or invited to contribute to the discussion despite this subject matter being uhhhhhhh my fucking lived experience just because i didn’t pay a twenty dollar membership fee to the fil-am org

#if ppl actually walk away thinking kulintang = progressive and rondalla = conservative i’m going to scream and bite things #BARELY touched on actual music happening in the philippines. most of it was fil am stuff #like sure apo hiking was mentioned but THAT WAS THE ONLY ONE #and it was to juxtapose american junk with something a child of the diaspora made #which was filled with like AAVE appropriation and was mostly in english like hello? #and the point was ‘see this is male dominated and the new one is intersectional feminism’ YOURE MISSING THE POINT #OH MH FUCKING GOD #AMERICAN JUNK SUCCINCTLY CRITICIZES AMERICAN PHYSICAL AND CULTURAL HEGEMONY #ITS FRUSTRATION AND LAMENT AND RESISTANCE BUBBLING UNDER OUR ‘FRIENDLY FACES’ #the new song the fil am woman made covers WAY too much im sorry #i couldn’t understand it and i showed it to my parents and they were like we don’t understand this either lol #half of its not even in any dialect of filipino language #so we’re appropriating Black American art—music created by another oppressed group—and calling it SEA music. cool cool #the only thing i liked was this assigned book i need to finish it but it criticized the activities of fil-am uni orgs #it helped me verbalize just what put me off joining these group #NOT EVEN BAYAN KO. WE DIDNT EVEN TALK ABOUT BAYAN KO? #AND NO ASIN EITHER I WAS SO MAD #UGH i’m glad we’re done with this unit i was really really disappointed by it #NO WAIT THE FUNNIEST THING IS WERE GONNA CALL BAYANIHAN DANCE COMPANY CULTURAL APPROPRIATION #BUT WERE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW FIL AMS CASUALLY APPROPRIATE BLACK AMERICAN ART WHILE ANTIBLACK RACISM IS SO PERVSSIVE IN THE COMMUNITY #HELLO?

[cheekblush]

just woke up from a horrible dream about my chemistry final tomorrow 😭

#it felt so REAL i woke up with my heart racing bc i was so scared 😭 #immediately checked my phone bc i thought the exam is TODAY but no today is sunday the exam is tomorrow i need to calm down 😩 #i took a break from studying yesterday & just relaxed the whole day & clearly my subconciousnes is now making me feel guilty for it 😞 #i hate when my worst fears creep into my dreams like please let me sleep in peace i'm already anxious enough 😭 #i genuinely was so scared the exam was today & i'm completely unprepared bc there's still so much i need to study 😭😭😭 #in the dream i showed up to the exam & there was a delay bc they didn't print out enough copies but some students already got theirs #so i asked someone if i could look through their exam paper & i was absolutely mortified when i didn't know a single answer #so then i started to feel nauseous & talked to my teacher outside the classroom saying i was feeling unwell & he got PISSED #we always have to sign a paper right before the exam if we feel healthy/fit enough to participate #so i guess dream me thought if i told my teacher about it he would be understanding & let me leave but he got so angry 😭 #he said he saw me flipping through the exam paper (which obviously isn't allowed) & that's the only reason i'm feeling unwell now #then i confessed that i didn't have much time to prepare for chemistry bc of all the other exams which made him even angrier #then he basically humiliated me in front of the entire class telling them i'm retracting my exam participation in a joking manner #he kept saying i have to repeat another year & making fun of me... i was crying so much in front of the entire class 😭 #he wouldn't answer my questions anymore & then another teacher came & told me to leave & that's when i woke up in panic 😫 #usually i never remember my dreams & i'd rather it stays that way instead of having such horrible dreams 😭😭😭 #i hope this isn't a bad sign & that i'll manage the exam tomorrow.. i'm honestly so scared i just want to pass 😔 #the dream was honestly so scary.. i could see my teacher's face SO CLEARLY & all the little mannerisms he always does... #like he always has to turn everything into a joke.... ugh this is so unsettling please please please let me pass this exam 😞 #just a few weeks ago he gave us these really difficult questions for exam preparation & even our chemistry aces were struggling with them #when i asked if the exam will also be so difficult he just laughed 😭😭😭 #he later clarified that the exam won't include such difficult questions but like why use them for exam preparation then???? #everyone was so frustrated & discouraged after those questions #all the other teachers just revised all the study material with us & gave us questions that really prepared us for the exams #i'm seriously terrified of tomorrow now... i'm so scared i'll just be staring at the exam paper & not being able to answer anything 😭 #okay let me calm down.... i wrote a whole essay in the tags 😭😭😭 #☁️

[briefsoulsuit]

I am in love with this one filter

#we muses #in which we show our face #tell me i'm pretty

[skeletalheartattack]

what's the first anime you remeber watching?

dragon ball z! i was immediately exposed to it growing up because my older brothers were hugely into it, so it's one of the first pieces of media that i was exposed to.

#ask #anon #i remember we had these old wall stickers of most of the characters on the wall next to our bunk bed. #but yeah i remember having dreams and memories of wanting to be trained by piccolo but uh #i was far too young to understand what piccolos actual intentions were for doing so #as a kid i misinterpreted a lot of stuff about DBZ because i didnt have the right contexts #like i thought yamcha was gokus brother. i thought piccolo and goku were really good friends. #i though raditz was tricking goku when he said he was his brother #i thought kame house and kami were related. and i was always so confused why god had his own merch and a house he didnt live in #oh. i thought ox king was like. a dude chi chi was dating while goku was gone. or like goku just lived with them. #it took me a really really long time to learn who ox king was. and that he was chi chi's dad. #but anyway yeah. we had a fair ammount of DBZ merch and games. though the games were region locked #so my brothers had to use something that hooked into the ps1 to play those games #i dont remember what or how though #we had... Ultimate Battle 22 and... Legends? the latter had a dark gray border around the screen and icons of the characters faces #but it wasnt until i owned DBZ Budokai that i fell in love with the show #and was my first exposure to Zarbon #it came out in november 2002. so i was 4 when i got it. cause i let my cousin borrow it for his birthday when he turned 3. #i never got that game back from him cause everytime i asked back then hed always make an excuse to never give it back #he doesnt know where it is these days which sucks cause i want a physical copy again... #and btw its not an exaggeration when i say Zarbon is the reason im the way i am #literally the moment i saw him i was like ''wow. he has long hair. jewelry. pink attire. and a regal voice? wow. a guy can be that?'' #and then he turned into his monster form and i was like ''oh this dude is so fucking cool'' #and now i am bisexual because of him #anyway thank you for asking anon! :) #sad to say that idk what other animes i wouldve watched around that time if we wanted to put up another likely source #i also didnt know what an anime was as a kid. it was just cool brutal cartoons to me

[gloriousmonsters]

manifesting 35$ to come into my life in the next two days so i can make a video setup SOLELY to rant about how shitty Pickman’s Model was

#i ! am! so! disappointed! #i know GDT didn't write or direct but you'd think a show with his presence #would at least not be *more* sexist antisemetic and vaguely homophobic #than fucking lovecraft??????? #not to mention that even if we're ignoring that it's a horrible adaptation of pickman's model the story #(which is one of lovecraft's best imo #it's my brother's fave and we revisited it after the ep) #it's a badly made horror story! on a technical level! a writing level! a pacing level! it doesn't flow! #not one scene has a natural and satisfying consequence! #it constantly shoves references to other Lovecraft stories in our face #but its relation to pickman's model itself is so thin i'm left wondering #if the writer or the director actually. read the story? if they did then they can't have liked it! #so WHY ADAPT IT

[astriiformes]

Gus and Hunter’s friendship is dear to me for many reasons but it does not hurt that I figured out I was transmasc in my own teen years and was friends with a lot of equally geeky guys in middle/high school, so it’s very easy for me to think about all the dumb stuff we got up to at their ages and go ah. They are going to be so stupid together.

#the penny incident. the time i got murdered in the face by a paintball. the musical tesla coil. the mid-blizzard starbucks expedition #the math honor society bowling and laser tag tournament where we all showed up in matching suits and ties #the post ap physics exam drowning-our-sorrows-in-custard run. the driving around the neighborhood playing moonlight sonata bass-boosted #honestly for someone who did not come out properly until my 20s i sure still managed to have a semi-stereotypical teenage boyhood #i feel like there was always a distinct 'you count as one of the guys' vibe #(it was the autism and the inescapable tomboyness) #in general we had a lot of 'extremely smart kids who lose all their braincells while hanging out together' energies which #that's what i imagine for gus and hunter #it feels right #f: us weirdos have to stick together

[illuxtre]

Gonna talk about 1899 again bc why not

I watched it through my mother's indication and the wildest thing was stopping to compare interpretations at the end

She immediately saw it as a parallel to the allegory of reincarnation - the idea that all those people were running from something, just to live it all again, looping their own pain and mistakes; the idea that Maura and Daniel caused it out of despair from loosing a son (which makes a lot of sense since she is a mother!)

I fell in the rabbit hole of the mind analysis - the idea that I don't know what is happening, that I don't trust completely any of the information given - I feel like I just saw an uncompleted puzzle I can't exactly take allegories from, too incomplete to assume. But I'm also fascinated specifically by the idea that we truly don't know what reality is, it is truly in an individual level merely what our brain processes so who's to say?

Also we watched in different ways, she watched dubbed, I original, which means she lost the fun of the multilingual struggle and how touching it was to see communication that was above words, which, sad (I was rambling solidly to her about it)

#1899 #ohhh enjoy my rambles #I just LOVE shows that scratch my existential dread #extra notes of our compared interpretations: #I wholeheartedly agree 2099 is still a simulation while she didn't look at that angle before #I still think Daniel and Elliot are some level of ''not real'' while she interpreted their story at face value #(which made me look at their story closer too! they're fascinating regardless of what you might think) #We both think There's Something to Eyk and Maura #''I lowkey think Eyk is her actual husband mom'' ''Oh yeah they had something going on right'' ''EXACTLY'' #I realize I absolutely get Maura's mental spiralling like YEAAAAH what is reality and YEAAAHH human brain complex and tricky girl!!! #1899 netflix