#made a joke about topping me

[places-people]

it is really hard sometimes dealing w how many people just. want talk to me about wanting to fuck my friends. Like cool. Cool cool cool. I get it. Yes they are very hot I know. Btw I had a crush on you for 2 months but this is also good

#Like I am aware I am not unattractive but I am also friends with people that decidedly make me look comparatively bad #which is NOT ON THEM god #I love them sm they’re my best friends and we talk daily this is not about them #this is just. idk a weird built up feeling over time ? #like. it is just. bad for your mental health probably to have this constant stream of people talking to you so they can hit on your friends #Like the number of times I have thought I have made a new friend or god forbid been flirted with only for it to segue into asking #about one of my other friends #it’s just. a lot #I literally brought a friend from out of town to a club once and people there who always ignore my existence #obvi got introductions #w/e i rolled that off bc I’m a good wingman I expect that #but later. dm’d me. on instagram. to invite *him* to a house party for them. I was not invited they just wanted me to pass it on lsnfhdgdgs #Anyway this is just coming up bc a guy I am now legit friends w but did have a crush on #made a joke about topping me #to which I made a joke back #knowing he was joking #and he hardcore backtracked #and reasserted that’s it’s not ‘bc I’m ugly’ / that we’re friends / HE WANTED TO SLEEP WITH MY FRIENDS MORE #anyway I’m ranting and I’m just. gonna go workout I guess lmao bye #Nate says stuff

[theminecraftbee]

you know sometimes one of the things the fandom does that i like the least is joke about how certain ccs are "lorephobic" because it basically always ignores the lore they actually are really and visibly doing. like, sure, they may not be doing the lore YOU'RE looking at, but, one, lore doesn't just mean "big overarching server storyline" it can also mean solo stuff. it can also mean 'builds that have story built into them'. it can also mean 'fun little storyline between like two guys'. it can also mean character continuity. it can mean many things. two, "this guy doesn't do lore" is NOT the same thing as "this guy doesn't do the specific lore i personally like and want to see them doing" and i don't always think you guys know the difference. all of this, of course, is to say: hey guys did you know zedaph can canonically time travel,

#discourse #sorta. tagging that more for the negativity than for there being actual discourse here #fanfic trope ask game got me into a SHARING OPINIONS mood and i've been sitting on this one for WEEKS #we'll see if i regret this later when i'm less punch-drunk #anyway this post is not just about zedaph this post is about. many people. x zedaph joel off the top of my head #zedaph is just my example here #i don't think you're bad for making these jokes mind (especially with joel given that he leans into it) #but also i think they can be really REALLY dismissive of the guys the joke is made about #especially when those guys ARE IN FACT DOING LORE #they just aren't doing the specific thing you want to see i guess. #this isn't prompted by anyone in specific incidentally do NOT think that i am aiming this at You Specifically i am not #this is just a general vibe #i also do get that these are normally in-jokes that start affectionately within that specific guy's fanbase #rather than intended as insults #it's just that when they spread widely they start to get. grating #anyway don't mind me just. in opinions mood

[betterthanbatman1]

Umm I love them???

#SHE WAITED FOR HIM FOR 4 HOURS ON TOP OF THEIR MEET UP SPOT #THEIR MEET UP SPOT IS BIG BELLY BURGER AHHHH #I didn’t really ship jayrose too much before #but I’ve been scrolling down their hashtag and I love them so much #Die hard Rose fans will say they don’t belong together and Rose shouldn’t be reduced as a character for Jason’s benefit #Yeah I completely understand and mostly agree with you. #Mostly. So for now I’m just going to enjoy me some good soft Jayrose content :) #I absolutely think Rose should NOT be reduced as a character but I have to say they are v cute together #The “Promise?’’ “Promise.’’ made my heart flutter I don’t even know why 😭 #I’m a sucker for couples who care about each other like this #She could have just left it at ‘be careful’ #But no Jason had to promise her that he will come back to her #It’s just. So. Damn. Good #IM DYING OVER THEM FR #You know they’d die for each other and make jokes about death and daddy issues #And with their shared use of ✨violence✨ #And just generally become THE power couple #jason todd #red hood #batfamily #batfam #dc #dc comics #Ravager #Rose Wilson #Jayrose #Jason x Rose #holy queue batman #red rambles

[theodd8ball]

GIDEON NAV IS THAT YOU

#i almost made a joke about Wake instead #but that made me sad #the top gun tlt fandom will love this #tlt #tlt memes #the locked tomb #the locked memes #gideon the ninth #commander wake

[abirddogmoment]

In the same vein as my Dog Thoughts post about performance foundations last night, the more I watch Sports People, the more motivated I am to distance myself from them and be done with dog sports completely.

#i had this thought while i was still actively competing #but mav was one of the top performers for his breed for his entire career and that is addictive #photographing events this summer doglessly made it sooooo clear that i dont want to associate with Sports People #no offense to those of you who are Sports People but it is so not my vibe #i have FOMO for sure but is it enough to return to that?? #(there is an argument to be made that people need to see more people having fun in the ring and keeping it light - #but i am a competitive person and honestly there were periods where i was NOT keeping it light and thats not cool) #i can see how easily i can be sucked back in #i unfollowed and blocked sooooo many people because i simple Do Not Want To See It #idk its the same vein as calling your dog bad or asshole as a 'joke' #is it actually a joke or are you harbouring resentment and justifying it as a joke? #im not sure how exactly they're similar but in my heart they are #there is a very specific flavour thats prominent in dog sports and it is not the right flavour for me #hmm im posting a lot of text posts about my thoughts in the last 24h hope this is out of my system now #back to regular queued pictures of the pubby tysm #eta: this includes confo people btw #it should be Competition People i suppose #sports are at the forefront of my brain because i was so deeply involved for years #but ive photographed enough confo shows to know that is also not the vibe

[compacflt]

I was wondering if you had thoughts about how Ice and Mav's politics don't fully align with their actions? There was a post where you said Ice's politics are more socially liberal than Mav's but Mav is also the one who goes out to La Jolla to hit on guys before Ice, and later again when he's broken up with Ice, but Ice only goes out with women out of fear for his honor or whatever. Same with their respective thoughts on feminism, with Mav's mild respect for Charlie (telling Ice not all women fit the stereotype) but later Ice is the one who sends Juno to Mav's Top Gun class without telling him she's a woman and Ice has a respectful friendship with Juno. I think you said Ice is vaguely on the ace-aro spectrum (demi-homoromantic) which is a sort of fascinating irony that he doesn't have the words for it whereas Mav is the one with the theories about Ice's sexuality. Though with their hypocrisies and inconsistencies this all just feeds into their characterizations of the fact that they keep divorcing their actions from their spoken words from their identities.

okay going to take this point by point

1. yes i have addressed their politics in relation to their actions before, so maybe read this post and this post before you read this one, just to see where my other thoughts line up

2. gay republicans and conservatives do exist (at the very least certainly republicans and conservatives who have gay sex in secret)

3. before maverick is a political actor he is a human being, and the characterization that we are primarily given for him is that he is impulsive and reckless and doesn’t think through his actions. As ive written about many times before—from a story construction standpoint, his thoughtlessness is his number one most important character trait. He is both thoughtlessly dangerous (his hero’s “fatal flaw;” he can’t stop himself from making bad decisions) and thoughtlessly brilliant (the navy’s best and most daring and heroic pilot). He does what he wants without thinking about it; and he makes excuses and hollow promises whenever that plan doesn’t work out (“I know better than that. It will never ever happen again;” [it happens again] “I’m not gonna let you down. I promise.” [goose dies shortly thereafter]). His thoughtless impulsiveness overrides everything else. Maybe the act of having gay sex (to address your “he gets fucked in La Jolla before ice” point) is politically subversive, but for Maverick’s thoughtless character that we are shown in Top Gun, the most subversive possible thing would be to LABEL the gay sex and think through the consequences of it. To call a spade a spade and call himself gay or bi or queer or whatever. That would be the most subversive (and with mav, entirely unbelievable imo) possible thing. That takes conscious effort of thought, something maverick is near-incapable of doing. As long as he can get away with it without thinking about it, he’s politically in the clear, with regards to his character & character arc. If that makes sense. “Don’t think. Just do.” That’s literally his motto lmfao. He represents thoughtless action as an archetype; his politics come secondary to his desires

4. Their “respective thoughts on feminism” are divided into two camps: 1. “Professional as required by the law” and 2. “Sex pest mode.” They’re naval officers in the 1980s. Whether republican or democrat, that’s kind of par for the course. How men treat women can be a performance to other men. Any respect i made them show towards women had broader, more metatextual “need to move the conversation/story from A to B” reasoning behind it. See the first post I linked for much more on that.

5. i never said ice was on the ace/aro spectrum, or if i did i DEFINITELY meant it sarcastically. That could not be further from what i believe. This isn’t something I’ve ever discussed on this blog before, but a MASSIVE part of the philosophical discussion I’ve been trying to moderate within this project over the last year is the question— “do labels even work with characters under these very specific and extraordinarily extreme conditions and societal pressures?” It’s a question I took from my time studying early American history—the contexts of certain environments, and I would definitely count the elite officer ranks of the navy in the 90s and 2000s as one of these certain environments, simply Are Not Conducive to the easier (path of least resistance maybe) ways we civilians handle sexuality and friendship and trauma. There are so many variables and external and internal pressures within an environment like the upper ranks of career navy officers that sexual orientation labels lose all nuance and accuracy. I don’t think Ice (as i have written him) is gay. I don’t think he’s straight. I don’t think he’s bi. I think he’s an unlabelable product of too many variables for labels to have any effect on how he is perceived. Which, in our society built around labels and categories, is admittedly difficult to wrestle with. But doesn’t make it any less worth wrestling with.

6. Yes, ice and mav’s hypocrisy is the linchpin of the entire story.

They’re both trying to have their cake (“honor” and moral superiority based on the harmful traditional subjective morals arbitrated by elite navy officership) and eat it too (a fulfilling relationship with the love of their lives). & the point is that they cant. they have to settle for one.

#adam & eve can either stay in eden or eat from the tree of knowledge. but the moral authority told them not to eat; so they can’t have both #or—they can have both but they can’t ACKNOWLEDGE having both; they have to keep it a secret even from themselves. that way it’s not sin. #(the navy is ice/mav’s religious institution as i keep repeating) #re: ice and labels. #like i am both joking and not joking when i say he’s mavericksexual #simply because maverick represents both the guilt Ice must deal with re: the death of a friend #AND the recklessness that would inspire him to realize (in the actionable sense of the word) the full extent of his sexuality #no one else can do that. he and maverick were made for each other like that. #same thing where ice is the only one who can legitimize maverick in the eyes of their overbearing institution. #they’re made for each other in a way that imo transcends sexuality and labels. #I’m not going to touch the politics of ‘demi-‘ labels because i know people feel very strongly about it #and you come to me for Top Gun not necessarily my thoughts on modern identity politics #but suffice to say i don’t believe either ice or mav are demi anything. #they’re just guys. they’ve killed people and killed with each other and killed for each other. they don’t need labels. just let them be #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #top gun #icemav #top gun maverick #asks #edts notes #thanks for the ask! hope it isn’t coming off as aggressive or argumentative #* argumentative yes. you can argue with me. #but the labeling issue has been on my mind since DAY ONE & influenced much of how i wrote the story #human beings are so much more complex than most labels give us credit for

[eclipsedsuns]

i love you “do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” i love you “thank you for making me feel special” i love you “i have a duty of care” i love you “every time we do something like this, i keep thinking, ‘what if something happens to you?’” i love you “she might meet someone she can't bear to lose. that happens, i believe.” i love you “i’m changing history to save clara” i love you “i will not let clara die” i love you “i’d know you anywhere” i love you “when do i not see you?” i love you “there was a crowd too?” i love you “if you love me in any way, you’ll come back” i love you “i never said it was your mistake” i love you “because if clara oswald is really dead, then you'd better be very, very careful how you tell me” i love you “everything you’re about to say, i already know. don’t say it now. we’ve already had enough bad timing” i love you “if you think because she's dead, i am weak, then you understand very little. if you were any part of killing her and you're not afraid, then you understand nothing at all.” i love you “and you'll still be gone. whatever i do, you still won't be there.” i love you “four and a half billion years” i love you “i was dead! i was dead and gone. why? why would you even do that to yourself?” i love you “i had a duty of care” i love you “look how far i went for fear of losing you” i love you “i don’t think i could ever forget you” i love you “smile for me. go on, clara oswald. one last time” i love you “it’s okay. don’t you worry. i’ll remember it” i love you “if i met her again, i would absolutely know” i love you “you said memories become stories when we forget them. maybe some of them become songs” i love you “

#they make me violent batshit sick bonkers murderous crazy dizzy insane #the greatest love story ever told #(real) (unbiased) (fact) #i know that i probably sound like i’m joking or exaggerating when i say that but i’m not #to me they are have most compelling love story i’ve ever encountered #like. two people so perfect for each other but so terrible for each other #the two most emotionally incompetent people in the whole of time and space #they’re so if i loved you less i might be able to talk about it more #they’re so whatever souls are made of yours and mine are the same #they’re so i’ll take care of you it’s rotten work not to me not if it’s you #they’re so i love you it’ll pass #they’re so. GOD #there are so many more quotes i want to include in this #this is me practicing self control #theyre so. fucking. GOD. #top two characters i would send to therapy #favorite shows: doctor who #otp: i had a duty of care #shut up carley #clara oswald #twelve<3 #doctor who #twelveclara #whouffaldi

[heroswine]

ok so i hadn’t been watching hermitcraft for a while & i’m getting caught up so i’ve only just now watched the bot battle and…. the rendoc sniffer costume………… i can’t

#‘doc is literally the bottom of a sniffer’ i have some Thoughts #some jokes or perhaps allusions i could be making about the choices made here #regarding the. top and bottom… halves of this costume……. #but i will refrain from saying anything #hermitshipping #rendoc #honestly this is barely even shipping i’m just being an idiot but #it is straight up adorable that they dressed up as one sniffer i love that for them #i’ve been watching mumbo’s pov but now i rlly need to go watch either ren or doc’s bc i love when they team up #and no one can @ me for shipping them ok THEY ship them #anyone else remember the painting that doc said looked like him and ren snuggling???? #then talking about how people ship them #followed by ren saying ‘dude you and i would make beautiful babies let’s be honest with ourselves… we should get it on baby!’ #and commenting hashtag shiprendoc on each other’s videos

[batwynn]

Ok so the antihistamines off amazon might be… bad somehow. At some point since going to sleep 2 hours ago I took off my cpap mask without waking up or remembering it, and then had a horrifying nightmare, woke up, saw it was off, confusion???, put it back on, closed my eyes, and immediately fell right into another horrible vision/nightmare and woke up again.

Wtf. 😰

#personal #batwynn talks #wtaf #uh maybe not taking those again #or it’s a bad combo of those and the full moon #idfk #but it’s bad and weird #antihistamines #tw: nightmares #I just grabbed a top voted knock off for #allegra #which is what the immunologist told me to take twice a day #for the MCAS symptoms #but uh #help #i should not have made jokes #about the hat man

[chaosradiation]

the new tailstube's reference to team sonic and team dark's fight in sonic heroes is going to drive me insane. they were trying to use it as another example of sonic and shadow not liking each other or getting along... but it. does not work for that. this was the game where shadow had amnesia. how can this be an example of sonic and shadow's rivalry if he had no idea who the fuck sonic even was.

also, from sonic's perspective shadow was supposed to be DEAD. the last time he saw shadow was when he FELL TO HIS DEATH FROM SPACE. not that im really expecting them to acknowledge that when they barely even acknowledged it in heroes in the first place. but its just another layer of context completely stripped from this interaction.

#talking tag #tailstube #sth #yeah im overthinking the glorified advertisement but like. come on. #you cant just ignore the 1 big plot detail introduced in heroes. thats shadows ENTIRE ARC in heroes. #they could have made a joke about it. it would have been so easy. whateverrrr #all this on top of the oversimplification of sa2 really aint it for me. but what can you do

[hauntedwoman]

actually one of the things about perpetually online ppl that rly annoys me is how they blindly adopt communism as an inverse of capitalism and call themselves a "communist" (i mostly see this w gen z age ppl that live in the us) as a way to say that they hate america when they really have no idea how badly communism decimated eastern european countries and their possibilities to grow into a stable economic state

#i joke abt this but it's literally the truth: communism made me autistic #in the very late 90s when ukraine had just separated from the ussr they were very much a third world country #vodka and alcohol was cheaper and more available than fresh water and it resulted in many children being born with #fetal alcohol syndrome and other birth defects and this of course led to orphanages being overcrowded and underfunded #in the orphanage where i was kept before i was adopted the nurses and aides didnt even have real baby food to feed us #they gave us watered down tea and broth for food and ofc this made us malnourished on top of whatever other issues we had health wise #so the next time you want to be super edgy or whatever actually take some time to critically think about the long term effects that communi #has had in our society and in countries that have not had the ability to thrive economically

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sebastian Vettel(ft. Jenson Button)

#basically just some additional Seb(and Sebson) that didn't make it into my main post #SEBBBBBBBB MY BABYYYYYY #even tho hes not p1 he still gets his own post #wdym i have a favorite child? what are you talking about? pshhh i dont have a bias.... #my little kiwi fruit <3 #him and jenson being on the same podium makes me explode! so compelling!!!! #theyre so tactile with each other it is vewy cute :D like constantly patting and grabbing each other #(god i made such a horrible joke to myself while watching this podium) #(commentators: 'jenson is going on the top step' ) #(me: thats not the only thing hes gonna top) #sebastian vettel #jenson button #sebson #sv5 #jb22 #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #we do a little bit of f1 #2009 bahrain gp #2009 bahrain grand prix

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

.

#these past two weeks have been so intense that ive just.. not spoken about it once i got home from work #blocked it all out #my beloved colleague whose desk is next to mine has cancer #breast and uterus. she needs two major surgeries #they just diagnosed her two weeks ago #so we've been trying to deal with that as colleagues and friends #because we love and miss her and i am so deeply sad as well #but i feel like i couldn't process that at all bc two days after the news of her diagnosis i was asked to take on half of her work #on top of my fulltime #which i agreed to do bc i like her tasks and i want to help her and i also know i can do it #but it does feel very off bc i know i don't earn enough money for this workload to be long term and it is def like this #for the coming four months at least #so i did tell my manager that i would like a raise and. that bitch told me to BUY MORE SECOND HAND SHIT. #i seriously thought i saw my life flash before my eyes #then the day after she asked one of my colleagues who's been with the firm for over 30 years whether she was looking for another job maybe? #which caused that colleague to instantly go home in tears and be home from basically a nervous breakdown the past 1.5 week #which is her full right and i support her with all my heart but bc my management sucks it meant that we had to also carry her tasks ofc #i felt soooo spread thin and super super angry actually but i didn't even realise how angry i was until last thursday my colleague w cancer #came by the office. and talked about all of it. and i suddenly realised how sad i was but then also how angry #but i was just blocking it all out trying to stay afloat #bc we told her about what the manager had said and she said “i hope that i get the chance to really tell her how it is someday.” #“because the stress she causes with people can actually kill you. just look at me.” #and the rest of the day i felt so ready to be done with everything actually #but seeing her anger made me see my own anger #and released me of my own pent up emotions bc i had actual leg pains this week and it was purely psychosomatic #i then managed to tell some friends yesterday about what was going on and their outrage spurred me on even more #so today i emailed hr. demanding a raise #doing this amount of work while constantly feeling like the house is on fire while also struggling financially seriously makes me suicidal #and i am not joking #so.. if nothing comes of that im leaving that job and not looking back

[fucktheroyals]

Any other one piece fans (when trying to encourage people to watch/read one piece) hold back from being like “You think Berserk made you cry? You wouldn’t survive One Piece.” “One Piece will make you cry like no other piece of art you’ve ever consumed in your life.”?

#I’m at the end of water seven/enies lobby and I know what happens because I read the manga and it DID make me cry then too #but the anime just made me sob like a freaking baby #WHY IS LIKE THIS #LIKE THAT GUY KNOW HOW TO FUCKING WRITE #YOU PUT A SOMEWHAT GOOD SOUNDTRACK ON IT TO REACH INTO THE EXACT PART OF YOUR SOUL ODA GOES AFTER #AND BLAAAAAM #YOURE DEAD #Like One Piece— I’m sorry none one piece for what I’m about to say— #but one piece should not be on the same playing field as top teir mangas. they just aren’t the same. #everyone who is grabbed by one piece by episode one knows what I’m saying. #I’m sorry happy One Piece has surpassed Harry Potter. Next the Bible. #One Piece = The Bible jokes are actually starting to get out of control #there’s so many typos in these tags #AND I DO MEAN READ BERSERK WHO WATCHES BERSERK #ON RECOMMENDATION?! nah never watch berserk

[dubioushonour]

Thinking midnight thoughts.

Thinking I want to go back in time and punch both of my sisters in the face for telling me I was going to die alone at the age of 13 because I wasn't the kind of girl that boys liked.

#it was admittedly a few more things than just that #im just thinking tonight about all the jokes made at my expense #through middle and high school #that i know for a fact neither of them remember #and im still pretty mad about it as an adult #so much of my 20s has been unlearning terrible habits but even more than that #its been trying to convince myself that im not completely unlovable as a person #which is a significantly harder prospect #but god if ever try and actually date i know i have to you know? i have to love myself enough #to set boundaries and not shrink myself and turn off people pleaser npc mode #or else i will die alone you know? #i cant be scared of opening up forever #im not going anywhere with this its just midnight and i am retroactively very mad #my best friend who had to put up with me through covid and one of the top 3 depressive episodes of my life #wouldn't ever say that to me #but heaven forbid i was undiagnosed and mentally ill between the ages of 12-16

[arklay]

DIANA x ALBERT WESKER / template.

#mine. #pair: ewskers #oc: diana #click for better quality ♡ #posting this before i start changing more things lmao but yes i went nuts and made my own psd from scratch... don't look at me #changed ages to birth years cause of how much time passes in the story!! and also gives cheeky fc for you hehe runs away #the checkboxes make me scream like he almost had a clean sweep it's so funny. and he could've had one more i'm not even joking. cause their #first kiss was technically both of them... like idk how to explain this but they were already standing close then diana moved even closer #and was tracing his jaw and such and they were just lingering while holding eye contact but he was the one who actually closed the distance #so i mean... yeah. she was just about to and he beat her to it!! but diana made the move to get them into that position in the first place #is what i mean. i just couldn't give him more it was already too hilarious lmao #can't tell if i like the lil icons but i can't doodle so peace and love on planet earth but yes i'm happy with how this came out hehe #clueless levels are cause they are clowns <3 i have a lot of thoughts about all that but yes they both take hints in some aspects but i #think they both have trouble telling if they are genuine or not or if they are misreading the situation or whether something is romantic or #not (unless ofc it's over the top and ridiculous. ahem. excella. cough. explodes her with my mind) but yeah hit him with the tism so he's #learnt how to read people very well as he's gotten older but i think when it comes to actual just genuine like wanting to get to know #someone and not just someone wanting to get in his pants he seconds guesses it a lot. and diana's all stems from being rattled by her past #experiences oughguhh and i mean her not actually having experienced proper feelings for someone until him lmao but she's got trust issues #also there were so many tropes i could use (thank you to bestie elliot for helping me finds names of things) but i had to do i got you a #drawer specifically because that moment has such a special place in my heart!! like i need to finish the wip where i talk about that cause #it makes me so silly i'm not even joking #anyway omg i hope the mentions work because doing this on the legacy editor after copying the html for beta one because the image just #didn't want to work in the beta image for some reason rip