#just asking questions

[drchucktingle]

wow has this been tested?

#buckaroo lifestyle #just asking questions

[numinousmysteries]

Was the teamwork seminar in Detour meant to be an outdoorsy thing? If not (and I don’t think it was) Mulder and Scully fully packed their LL Bean wilderness finest knowing they would get derailed from the seminar and end up chasing mothmen in the woods. Which honestly checks out.

#xfiles #txf #the x files #x files #just asking questions

[fandomestuff]

Excuse me Mr Mordecai Heller sir I would also like to know please

Who hurt you and gave you trauma that I'm SURE you have?

#just asking questions #nothing else #*loads gun* #i just want to know #lackadaisy #lackadaisy pilot #lackadaisy animation #mordecai heller

[dee-morris]

God and the Metatron

I feel like we've more or less decided as a fandom that the Metadick is operating alone without any input from God. There's reason for this; Neil says in an ask that God doesn't have any influence on the plot and isn't talking to anyone in season two. (If anyone has the original feel free to drop it below, I'm terrible at finding things.) So we're pretty much, yeah Metabitch has gone rogue in God's absence, and this is a power grab of some kind.

(If this is not your headcanon PLEASE share with the class, I'm dying of curiosity of how God is ultimately going to fit into the story, or maybe they won't! All bets are off.)

But it just occurred to me recently: what does Aziraphale think?

He knows that Metatrash isn't God; he established that in season one. But if a White House spokesperson showed up on my porch with a job offer, I would assume that they had Biden's approval if not direct instruction. And I would also be very wtf and follow him back to DC just to see what the hell is actually going on. Does Aziraphale think that God could be directly involved, or maybe he hopes that they are. Or maybe he just wants some blessed answers and this is the only way to get them.

Aziraphale is critical of heaven but still hopes for the best from God. I'm really really REALLY burning to know how this apparent cognitive dissonance will resolve itself.

And finally an Aziraphale gif bc he's cute and has never done a thing wrong in his life.

#good omens #aziraphale #aziracrow #aziraphale my beloved #good omens 2 #good omens meta #also fuck the metatron #just asking questions

[thatbadadvice]

Help! The Woman I Have Been Stalking for Years Is Disinclined to Engage With Me

Carolyn Hax, WaPo, 1 June 2023 (originally 11 March 2009):

Dear Carolyn: About five years ago, I began to realize that a woman I dated 25 years earlier was someone I had stronger feelings for than I was mature enough to appreciate at the time. I had questions for her about why we hadn’t blossomed into the kind of relationship I now think we both believe we were destined for. In the past five years, I’ve continued to have those questions, then dreams, etc., which led me to do a paid search for her address. I wrote her twice and left a voice mail. My messages have been about old friends I bumped into who reminded me of her, what I’ve been doing and how I’d like to hear from her. That is, nothing too serious or about what’s been on my mind. I haven’t received an answer. I’ve thought through the reasons she hasn’t corresponded, and why I needed to talk with her, and am still at a loss. Would asking her my questions directly in a letter be a way to coax her to reconnect? Telling her that, apart from this midlife crisis of mine, I’m happily married and successful, and that all I want are answers? -- A 30-year-old question

Dear 30-Year-Old Question,

One might expect a happily married person to do all kinds of things, but topmost among them is paying to find the contact information of an ex-girlfriend and sending said ex-girlfriend multiple unanswered messages, repeatedly and through a variety of means, over the course of many years in the hopes of deceiving her into heady conversations about the details of your long-ended relationship. Yes indeed, when the Bad Advisor thinks of "normal stuff a person who's very happy in their marriage would do," her mind immediately goes to "pretending to ask innocuous questions about old friends in the hope that a woman I dated 30 years ago believes I am solely and only asking her innocent questions about old friends, when in fact I am explicitly and admittedly not."

Women are famously unable to clock the intentions of men, who are very clever, extremely stealthy, and never creepy or dangerous to the extent that they would unsettle people from whom they have demanded interaction and who have time and time again ignored them. Probably this woman received your incredibly blasé letters and voicemail and thought: "Gosh, it seems like this dude who deuced out on me three decades ago is trying to rope me into responding to him multiple times despite my obvious disinclination to engage only and exclusively on the subject of our old friends, what a boring conversation, I shan't respond unless he sends me a lengthy bit of written correspondence detailing his many thoughts and feelings about how our romance ended, I simply can't imagine having a conversation with him unless I know for absolute certain he wants to rehash what happened between us, which is the only possible way I could fathom entertaining such a reconnection, one which I would never have reason to pursue otherwise, as I am so desperately in love with him and have been lo these 30 years but could not in good conscience find a way to broach the subject unless he sends me just one more letter finally making his bonerful intentions plain, that sly dog."

Might you have neglected to include a return address on the previous correspondence about which you were extremely desperate, but in a very casual way, to receive a response? Does your ex-girlfriend own the only cellular telephone on earth that does not log the return-call number of people who leave voicemails? Mayhap she simply does not know how to contact you after multiple attempts over half a decade! These are highly probable reasons she has not sought you out! Vastly more likely than the fact that she sees entirely the fuck through your pretenses and wants nothing to do with you whatsoever.

If you wish to receive a concrete answer about the status of your relationships, your best hope is to CC your spouse on any future correspondence. I think you can expect a prompt response.

#advice #bad advice #carolyn hax #washington post #mid-life crisis #happily married #the gift of fear #just asking questions #sea lion #m'lady #stalking #just regular stuff happily married dudes do #absolutely normal shit

[istumpysk]

#stumpy poll #just asking questions #earnestly seeking truth

[vampire-skunk]

Fairly applicable to some UK media too!

#just asking questions #Ughhh #trans lives matter #trans rights #trans lives are human lives #lgbtq

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Is it merely a coincidence that everybody who has died has been exposed to dihydrogen monoxide?

#chemophobia #chemtrails #dihydrogen monoxide #conspiracy theories #conspiracy theorists #everything is chemicals #LOL #funny #jokes #just asking questions #religion is a mental illness

[greenthena]

ahhhh i literally get so excited whenevr i see trojan horse virus updates!!!! i love that fic sososo much

Thank you! I get excited whenever I post them! I’m really glad you’re enjoying the story. These guys are so silly and so fun to write.

#Just asking questions #fanfic #ao3 #good omens

[barrydeutsch]

I've Got Nothing Against Trans People

A #PoliCartoon by Becky Hawkins and I.

If you like these policartoons, and you have it to spare, which I know many of us don't, you can support us making more - here's the Patreon. A $1 or $2 pledge really helps!

Lots more cartoons making fun of transphobes here.

#A cartoon from last year but with all the stuff going on in the discourse this week it seemed like the time to repost it #TERFs #transphobes #jk rowling #transphobia #political cartoon #just asking questions

[roselightfairy]

You know, once we’re introduced to the re-ensouling thing, this introduces a logical flaw to the entire show. Why does patrolling not just turn into rounding up all the fledgling vamps, locking them in a cage, and re-ensouling them? Why is Angel’s soul special? Why not just do it to all of them? HMMMMMMMM.

#just asking questions #btvs

[thefatedthoughtofyou]

if you forget someone. Or have them taken from your memory. Do you lose who they made you? Who they shaped you into? Do you lose the person you were when you were with them?

#watching doctor who don't mind me #my writing #mine #just asking questions #ponderings #fate ponders

[damianwho]

Conspiracy: Is Tumblr doing nothing about the bots because they are the only ones watching the Lives?

#tumblr #bots #tumblr live #just asking questions #the new bot names being good makes me so sad i always get fooled #we could have been friends exuberant-oilman #if you werent just a stolen selfie

[heelcody]

you guys think if I keep messing with this cut on my lip, I'll get a cool lip scar??

#just asking questions #txt

[dee-morris]

Why does everyone talk about Duke of Hell Crowley like the position of Prince of Hell isn't wide open??

#good omens #crowley #anthony janthony crowley #Just asking #just asking questions

[littlepatchofhell]

Heads up seven up!

Stealing @writingpotato07's open tag! Tagging: @sapphic-story @spuddlespud and @measlywritingblog or no one or anyone if they want to join!

“Rude?” Secco squeaked, his breath growing labored with rage. “Who are you to call me, Crown Prince of Sinopia, rude? I only asked to see what we all came here for!”

“I also have been wondering,” the creaking voice of Lord Litharge piped up from the sidelines, “if these rumors of her lethality have been exaggerated. It seems to me that she plans on waiting for us to die of our own accord."

"The Empress is resting due to a sudden illness. I will be attending to each of you in the Empress’s place.” Xilo delivered the explanation they had been practicing during their long and winding walk down the many staircases of the Imperial Palace.

"Will you also be attending to me after the wedding?” the sly drawl of Grand Duke Sgraffito slid in from the back of the room.

They ignored him. “I will, of course, be relaying all notable details of your character and accomplishments to her majesty.”

#just asking questions #tag games #Secco was not of course