#toasty life

[destinationtoast]

My grandmother is Japanese and really likes to give gifts. Often those gifts are Japanese desserts or other food, but sometimes she just slips me cash, folded up inside a tiny, beautiful envelope. But she likes to pretend she's not giving me money, so when possible, she'll hide it somewhere that I will find later.

Today I spent the afternoon with her doing chores and tech support, and she clearly felt this warranted a significant gift in return (no matter that I enjoyed myself). But she forgot to slip something into my pocket or bag before I left, so instead she rushed outside as I was starting my car, making the old-school "roll down the window" gesture. Once I complied, she was forced to acknowledge she was handing me money, but she also tried to minimize the gesture.

The result was that she said, "Thank you, dear! I just wanted you to be able to... to buy yourself a hamburger," and then handed me a darling little envelope that turned out to contain $100. And all I could think was:

#we live in california and even here that's a lot of hamburger #do kids these days still know the old signal for #roll down the window #? #do they still use it? #it does have the advantage of being distinctive #in a way that holding down an imaginary button does not #toasty life #the value of a hamburger #memes #it's one banana michael #op #50 #100 #500 #1K #5K #10K

[pininiu]

hand studies for the bloomic love interests cuz I wanted to try out adding more variety in drawing the appendages

totally didn’t regret the idea halfway through

#blooming panic #xyx blooming panic #quest blooming panic #nightowl blooming panic #nakedtoaster blooming panic #HANDSS #this is more of a headcanon for me what their hands would be like #but if anyone else ever wanted it for some reason here you go #I think toasty would have painted their nails impulsively and never bothered to clean it up as it chipped #xyx would have regular manicure appointments to keep his nice and pristine #quest never bothered getting a manicure in his life #nightowl would be the one doing his own nails

[toastybugguy]

sciles is the “you came” “you called” romance trope except it’s both of them all of the time, and no that doesn’t make me emotional at all it’s fine I’m totally normal about them don’t look at me

#on one hand I’m emotional but on the other. giggling a bit #they’re sort of dramatic #like it happens with them so often that their continuous affectionate surprise when the other shows up… everyone else is like ‘okay guys’ #‘let’s wrap it up shall we’ #imagine them living their domestic life and in the middle of the night Scott has to go help like Liam or Isaac or something #Stiles shows up n he’s like ‘omg bae? 🥹’ #bc sneaking out works better when you don’t share a bed. and ​Stiles is like ‘I’d never let u take this on alone babe…..’ #Isaac (GAGGING): You drove for like half a mile #Malia: You guys never turn your locations off it’s not that hard— #you get me. they’re dramatic. but also it is SO SERIOUS #IT IS NO LAUGHING MATTER. but also giggles. but also DONT LAUGH THIS IS SERIOUS. #teen wolf #scott mccall #stiles stilinski #sciles #scott x stiles #toasty talks

[mayorofcattown]

You know normally I dunk on USAmericans for not understanding aussie slang but sometimes they're right. just found out aussies call toasted sandwiches "jaffles" and it is the dumbest name I've ever heard for anything in my life

apparently it refers exclusively to the ones made with the proper toasted sandwich makers, not the like. pan fried ones. but you could've still called it literally anything else

#tho apparently the proper toasted sandwich makers with the like. grooves were an aussie invention #which does explain why I barely ever see americans using them #never understood why they'd always use a pan for them cause toastie machines are way more common here (and dirt cheap) #anyway who is even calling it that. I lived in Aus for 8 years and I've never heard that word in my life #tho I was admittedly in perth. which is like the distant cousin you've never met of the australian states

[opikiquu]

#lalaloopsy #toasty sweet fluff #i am so sorry for not posting i just had the craziest 6 days of my life #so have this old lalaloopsy drawing i found :D #silly doodles

[toastys]

I have a really out-there theory that The Pale itself is symbolically/metaphorically/allegorically/a physical manifestation of the influence of The Players of Disco Elysium. The Pale wiggled its way into Harry's comatose, bender-beaten brain and shattered him into twenty-six different pieces for the Players to convene with. Strap in cause this is a Long One.

The Pale is often described as 'consisting of' everything that has ever happened in Elysium's past - the memories of everyone you meet, speech, radio waves, etc - it would make sense that it would be almost completely inaccessible to the Player as its own plot device. You can't just dip your head into Elysium's Lore Sauna to learn everything immediately... In a sense, you have amnesia too, and are learning everything with Harry as the catalyst. He is an unreliable narrator in an extremely specific position in the world - as a cop stuck on a case in a destitute part of Insulinde - allowing you to absorb the worldbuilding little by little instead of slamming you in the face with all of history at once.

Elysium is giant, but not infinite. Not even the people who live in Elysium know what it looks like from above. The Pale acts as a physical barrier around the most important parts of this world, and is eating away at it - much like the Player absorbs its geography, politics, and cultural sensibilities to utilise to the best of their abilities through Harry. Dora and Harry's past being inaccessible due to physical or mental manifestations of the Pale is another way of motivating the Player to shape Harry into someone new, as You are all he has now.

(She'll be coming soon. Le Retour. One day I will return to your side.)

The rest is out-of-bounds. Dora is not even seen in the game, since Harry's subconscious can only see her as Dolores Dei, ramming home the fact that Dora is long gone from Harry's life and the realities of poverty he must face. Dolores Dei was killed 300 years ago by a person she was close to after being perceived as something inhuman, and the bourgeois are not human.

Dora is middle class, and using this, she has literally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually transcended from the love she became disillusioned with. She wanted to spend the rest of her life with Harry because she thought he 'looked cool' during a brief economic boom. When the economy went to shit and the shit that made Harry look cool became outdated and tacky, she jumped ship using her class status. Harry is haunted by this - she is eternally leaving him in his dreams (his subconscious saying: 'why couldn't you take me with you?'). This mirrors the upper-class vacating Revachol, that was once the capital of the world, not once but twice. However, after everything, Shivers can still take the letter from you. The city proclaims her love for you. She finds you coat to keep you warm. You can't get Dora back; you couldn't even save yourself from crashing and burning - but the city needs you.

^ Key phrase 'Let me'. Implying that Harry of all people could kill it via neglect, and that Harry of all people could stop a fucking nuke from dropping on it. Shivers - the City, the Pale itself - could have taken Harry's memories away; the memories that drove him to attempt suicide - and replaced it with voices which guide him (however flawed) and an outside influence so far removed from Elysium that it can see beyond its outermost walls. The Player, baby.

Furthermore, the Pale is often implicated to be made up of alternative universes that contain events that never happened in whatever current playthrough...

This supports the idea that the Pale - and the resident pale-brained Inland Empire - is at least unconsciously aware of future events. Inland Empire deals in both Harry's inaccessible past and every future that could happen. Furthermore, could this imply that the route in which Kim survives the Tribunal and makes it to the island with Harry is the 'canon' series of events?

So, the Pale - which eats away at the fabric of Elysium - contains information from alternative timelines, and the future? Sounds a little like a Player's cumulative knowledge coming into Elysium to influence events that would otherwise remain unaffected... This would track with Harry's record of Knowing Shit that he definitely has no way of finding out, or even just 'can-opening' people. It's an essential gameplay mechanic turned into a pseudo-supra-natural ability. Other characters pointedly cannot read people's minds, see things that are happening miles away as if they were there themselves, or slow down time enough to make thought-out decisions in the blink of an eye. The Player, combined with Harry's Skills, may be a kind of lightning-rod for the Pale's container of near-infinite information. Of course, it is fallible, but it can also be excruciatingly accurate - so much so that you can freak people out by knowing or predicting shit. The Pale gives voice to Revachol via Shivers; voice to the RCM via EDC; and voice to the inner minds of the people around Harry via Empathy. The way Harry's brain is organised at all (via lists/trees) is genuinely an RPG mechanic based around extracting as much information as possible... Like the Pale. Human can-opener, sending facts straight back into the Player.

^ See, Kim? Harry can teleport... By the Player glitching him with game mechanics. So, the Pale is the out-of-bounds area inaccessible to characters? Where you have to travel through a physical 'loading screen' skybox of nothing that can do nothing but repeat other areas of Elysium?

I enjoy reading about people speculating on Harry's potential status as an Innocence, while also acknowledging the fact that every Innocence that has ever existed was elected from already-high-status by a politically-motivated court. There have probably existed people with Harry's/ previous Innocence's abilities all throughout history, but were simply never going to go anywhere due to their social standing. Dolores Dei was technically a nepo baby, and built a cult that absolved her of every crime against humanity via religion and political absolutism. A husband who vanished from history, as if his only purpose was to introduce her to the court. Her influence was a part of her Innocence- people were caught in the spell of her (funded) intelligence and (happenstance) beauty. There is another theory that Innocences were Player characters in different genres of games that all took place in Elysium: the Perikarnassian as a 'civilisation builder'; Francongero as a 'dark ages royalist military simulation'; Dolores Dei as a 'political strategy' (maybe Innocence Sola as a representation of the eventual disillusionment of Elysium in Moralism as a religion and the Innocentic system as a whole?). Wouldn't it make sense for the entire world to revolve around the Player? Wouldn't it make sense for them to have a massive outward impact, the future and history seemingly manifesting itself through them? Through the choices they make - the ways they choose to play the game, against an antagonist, and towards a victory that only they can see?

Wouldn't it be natural for Dolores Dei's assassination be the result of Her Player not investing enough skill points into 'appearing human to outsiders'?

^ The bourgeois are not human. 'We were supposed to come up with this ourselves!" - a reference to Dolores Dei pulling the future out of the Pale; from future universes where she never existed and retconning inventions into this one. Inland Empire who?

Appearing so perfect that she seemed inhuman worked for a while. People adored her, submitted to her. But, it eventually backfired.

An Innocence of Humanism - Humanism being a ideological strategy to increase the population and produce more expensive goods? Gaining EXP?

At the same time, using her wiles and her 'Army of Humanity' to crush and slaughter any dissenters to her rule? Holding tin soldiers between her fingers... The most 'socially secluded' and 'least self-aware' - perhaps secluded to prevent a game over? Un-self-aware because her consciousness is literally separate from Elysium? Is her assassination fundamentally detrimental to Elysium, the world coasting on the Player's absence like a softlocked game? Is Disco Elysium taking place in a 'game over'? 'Elysium' is the word for the resting place of dead gods...

Harry, without the Player, has made an absolutely clusterfuck of his life out of grief. It cannot be discounted, however, that he was an incredible detective. 216 cases cleared, earning the reputation of being a 'human-can-opener'; knowing things that he has no feasible way of knowing; carving a path across Martinaise and taking in every tiny little thing related to the case. From the Phasmid-traps to the Maybells. Perhaps pre-amnesia Harry even knew about the sniper, throwing his shoe through the window to gaud Iosef into shooting again.

^ Harry's parallels to Dolores Dei? Her toy soldiers, his human cans... Appearing out of nowhere and causing an avalanche, people both attracted to and terrified of them. The difference being - Harry's in a detective game where you start playing as a poor, ugly, drunk, amnesiac cop - and Dolores' political strategy where you begin climbing the ranks of the richest of the rich as a beautiful and immensely educated woman. Harry's scared of his own supra-natural abilities to the point where he doesn't even want to think about how they work? Talk about a sequel....

Who fucking knows what was going through Harry's head before the game started. It doesn't matter. All we know is that we now have an option to combat past-Harry's declaration of 'getting worse'. And we can save-scum this shit as many times as we want until we succeed, with a precinct of voices to converse with when it is necessary to read between the lines or take an action. We even know how likely it is for Harry to succeed at something, down to the percentage. In real life, we might have something of a clue about how likely it is to make a jump or whatever, but Harry's got it down to a percentile. Because he's a goddamn RPG main character, and the Pale cleared out the room for us in his head since Elysium needs another Innocence. One who is not 'innocent' of anything at all. One who is an absolute dumpster-fire drenched in flammable alcohol, representing the culmination of Revachol at this point in history. Born in a place where people go to die, contracting a disease that everyone was too poor to be vaccinated against, catching the momentary fancy of a richer upper-class only to be vacated and haunted into a recession fueled by addiction and poverty - now, reborn and rising and able to prevent his death in as many ways as the game allows us to.

^ Access to hidden places and circulation among those who are hidden - is this referring to his uncannily good detective work, and the trust and information he is able to can-open from those in hiding from one thing or another? 'Hidden places' could even refer to the future (or things otherwise unrevealed to most people), in this context. 'Hidden people' could be those who have been so downtrodden by capitalism that they are essentially nobodies - trapped in spirals of poverty, addiction, etc, - just like Harry. He is able to converse with them on semi-equal footing because of this.

His status within the RCM and whatever special treatments he socially benefits from is apparently paramount in him saving Revachol. Perhaps the RCM will become less of a tool used by the Coalition and more of a People's Army, fighting foreign control. A free Revachol. Not everyone in the RCM is a fan of this whole 'Moralism' thing...

'ONE DAY I WILL RETURN TO YOUR SIDE', burning in fuel that Harry lights with a tiny spark, written to be seen by the Coalition Warships above by a young revolutionary. The flames warm them both. We don't know how exactly Harry will stop the nuke from falling on Revachol - it could be something as little as a butterfly effect decision he takes, or as big as playing a leading role in Le Retour. A plea from the city to be vigilant. A stack of boxes, representing all of history, holding for a small moment with the help of Harry. Something beautiful is going to happen.

This one kind of got away from me, so thank you for reading all of it. What I think I really want to say is that our determination and hope to see the HANGED MAN through to the end is for us to witness all of Recachol's bloody history and fall in love with it anyway. To want to make it better, even a tiny little decaying part of it like Martinaise. Even a broken, objectively terrible man like Harrier Du Bois. Disco Elysium was meant to be only a prelude to a bigger series of games; a taster of the wider world. Sadly, we'll probably never get anything like that due to the original artists who created this world being fired from ZA/UM. But I don't think we'll stop loving or dreaming of this wonderful story and the characters who inhabit it. Capitalism can't kill an idea, after all.

^ Thank you to these people for planting this girthy idea in my head. I need a lie down.

#harry's deification thing could be latent spiritual shit from unrealised innocenthood? #kim's 'fan above his head like a *halo*' after saving harry's life.. hmm... #also yes yes i know ACAB but would the RCM even exist after revachol is free?idk. someone more versed in this should talk about it #metatextual wank #or... subtext? i dont know. #long post #disco elysium #Harry du bois #Dolores Dei #shut up toasty

[edirazirollyx]

Relevant to the foolish crew design questions,

Who's your favourite to draw and why?

[My bet's on Blaza because you genuinely remind me of him (im fairly afraid that this is Blaza running a Tumblr account)]

(Who knows, maybe he is 😉)

But to be quite honest, tbh is my favorite design (that ive done) the mix between human and crab was fun to play with!

Hes so fun to draw!

(Adding the long floppy ears just felt right)

The crab part i added are:

. Shell

.appron (like a turtle plastron but for crabs)

.tail (crabs have tails!)

. Claws that change into hands

. Crab eyes (obviously)

. Tmnt like feet but with claws (sandals are a must

I did the same with meme

(This went so off topic)

#random #my bullshit #art #stupid #edi speaks #Toasty!!! #tbhhonest #character design #edi art #Hyperfixation talk #making meme into part hyena was my best decision of my life #Same thing with tbh #the crab was inevitable

[ask-the-friendly-red-cyborg]

((...ah regrettably the boop feature is on main blog only so HOOLLO *boops you, boops you, boops you*))

#not an ask #mun speaks #april 1st #((things I come back to life for...)) #((jk I'm always there just on my... personal? crafts and gaming and reblogs? or is that just 'personal'??? blog)) #((so uhh how's the weather? pretty toasty out there))

[creamecream]

Everyone deserves to have their birthday be their’s, no matter what holiday they were born around.

#I’d think this no matter what #but as someone who has had to compete with christmas their whole life #and is routinely forgotten by family because of it #I understand but that doesn’t mean I can’t feel forgotten and cheated #I have a lot of particular feelings around especially december birthdays #*everyone* deserves their day I don’t care that it overlaps with a holiday doesn’t make you any less deserving #text post #texty texty toasty posty #Creame brabbling

[destinationtoast]

Well, it's been a hell of a couple of weeks, and one of many things that happened is that I ended up coming home from Urgent Care looking rather like fruit being packed up for long distance shipping.

I got pretty scraped up when I fell while hiking nearly a month ago. Then I got significantly better... and then I got a whole lot worse.

If you would like to avoid some truly disgusting and painful wounds, you should know that you are likely to develop an allergy to Neosporin if you use it for multiple weeks (and probably the same goes for other brands of over-the-counter antibiotic ointments, I'm guessing).

#in better news #my parents and I successfully moved my grandmother to a retirement home #where she's been on the waiting list for over a year #there's lots left to do still but great progress #and it was hard but went well #and i got my parents each to sign up for some big health treatments they need but have been avoiding thinking about #and i tested positive for covid but it turned out to be a rare false positive #(though that cost us some time with the move while i isolated until i got PCR results) #so yeah overall a hell of a week and a half #also my parents and i rewatched S1 of Ted Lasso #and they were like #'you sure know a lot about this show' #XD #toasty life #contact dermatitis #neosporin allergy #i might be a fruit well-packaged for shipping #op #50

[ruicchiii]

YEGAHHHHHHHHHH !!! HJAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THEM !!!!!!!

#beeviart #beevirambles #!!! #bloomic #blooming panic #toasty #nakedtoaster #blooming panic nakedtoaster #HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE MAN WHO RUINED MY LIFE WO OOOOOOOO !!!!!! /pos /affectionate

[iheartmoons]

wip game: under my skin sounds delicious

mmmm yes yes. it's actually probably very different from whatever you're imagining :)) it's basically a long canon-compliant fic about poppy and minerva!! it would take so much planning and time since they literally lived through both of the wizarding wars, however i would love to still write it bc their plotline is fucking awesome, so maybe i'll continue?? i sort of took a break from it, but i've written like two chapters <3

#toastie's tag 🍞 #moon answers #keep forgetting to put tags this is so chaotic #their plot line is actually a lot like wolfstars yk?? #esp minnie's life is literally sirius' but like flipped over??? #ANYWAYS #yes #wiseflower

[toastybugguy]

in my head, Eli is just Derek and Braeden’s adopted son, maybe they rescue him from another pack who knows do ur thing, and everything is fine and good and they’re together and Derek is still whipped as hell for his badass wife

#COME ON. why’d they have to imply things about my emotional support c-plot couple. #THEY WERE SWEET N FUNNY :( #shoutout to the post-canon-future-fics that include draeden going off and living a domestic life with two kids and kick ass on the side #give ‘em some peace #and more friends their age #teen wolf #teen wolf movie #teen wolf the movie #toasty talks #eli hale #derek hale #braeden teen wolf #derek x braeden #draeden #teen wolf movie is NOT CANON!!! I REFUSE!!

[pastafossa]

Ok so after buying the electric saw and fucking with my window and smashing the foam sealers in and sweating a gallon in my attic bedroom, I have at last set up my portable ac unit, FUCK THE HEAT, FUCK THE VAGUE INSTRUCTIONS, I GOT THIS DOWN.

Oh god I can't wait to sleep at a soothing temp tonight 🤤

#pasta life update #FINALLY #between this and the insulation going in on the 7th my nights are about to get way more comfortable #i must be cold to sleep i must i must #fuck the heat #fuck sweat #fuck climate change #fuck sticky skin #wanna curl up under a blanket with my head out and my head is cold but my body is toasty in blankets #i am a fucking polar bear give me cold

[hiatus-queen72]

Lean in 💞

#me #selfie #love #i feel like im good at communicating with ny eyes #high high high #i miss the sun #but also winter vibes are cool #i ordered the nicest winter jacket of my life #imma be super toasty #my tolerance is so high i hate that #girl #cute #photo #blue eyes #brown hair #hot #tumblr

[clintismoved]

[TOUCH] The sender caresses the receiver's back, attempting to entice them back into bed.

Prompts from Post-Cotial, In Bed, or Honey Come Back memes -> Accepting

As the autumn leaves turn to crunches under their feet, their apartment's thermostat has been turned up to keep the home toasty as they wait out for the first of the season's storms. Snowfall already began, and every year like clockwork; clint turns his home into an oven. Blankets gathered over years and years get pulled out from storage; some being a thick woolen knit identify for outdoor use and others softer fleeces acquired more recently.

Each blanket has a distinct smell to them, or at least the ones he's had since he was in his twenties. Even as the mornings begin frost with them, making the hardwood floors unappealing for frozen toes to touch; his training could not go on for hibernation.

Clint knows his worth, his value to New York City, and it's that of being one of its heroes. Finest heroes might he add, along with being the best master marksman in the world. He's been in this business for years, with no retirement plan in sight, and the way he keeps on top of that is getting up in the mornings.

Early mornings, despite the rebellious and somewhat depressive part of his brain wanting to remain curled up in a dark warm hole shut odd from the world, were when he spent the time honing his skills. His two to four hour workout regime that keeps him fit and absolutely to keep up with heroes like Captain Marvel and Thor.

In the last few years, there has been on hindrance to this work out regime which hasn't affected his skill set, but did distrupt his sense of discipline with himself. That hindrance had one name and that was Peter Benjamin Parker, of whom was currently curled tightly into the flannel sheets swapped in for the wintry months.

Clint had been in the process of sitting up, stretching out his arms above his head and spine before he got out of bed (letting his legs savor the warmth) before he was up and going to slip himself out of bed and descend the loft staircase. He had reached a hand to pull the sheets and covers higher over Peter, tucking him in tight.

However, Peter doesn't keep himself tucked in that way. NO, Clint finds that out when two fingers start to walk up the back of his spine, fingers warm against his skin as Peter had slipped his hand underneath the sleep shirt that Clint's been sporting since the cold spell had hit the city.

The archer finds himself stalling, in fact more than stalling, Clint was actively leaning back as Peter's fingers continue to trace up and down his spine. A few moments he just breathes with the lines drawn on his back until he feels Peter start to spell out words on his back.

What's one missed morning? echoes in the back of his mind, it's a phrase he's thought often since Peter B. Parker has wormed his way into his house and bed.

First, S-T-A-Y is spelt along his spine but Peter doesn't stop there and he had already been convinced. It's thr next thing that Peter starts to write out along his spine as well.

I-W-O-R-K-U-O- and Peter doesn't have to finish that as Clint twists around to go kiss Peter's lips, whose peaked his head out of the blankets and he's looking at Clint with a gaze. He supposes that he could tuck himself back under the blankets.

I'll work you out is what he imagines Peter was implying, and the look in the dork, his dork's eyes was warm, inviting, and Clint likes the idea he was suggesting. He speaks only for Peter, with a whisper as he gets under the covers and lays his body over Peter's. His lips finding his lips again, ❝ And I'll keep you warm. ❞ He promises as his lips go for Peter's throat and Peter's hands are tucked back under his shirt.

This may be his preferred way to get sweaty, he'll thinks later after they have removed their clothes and kissed his way down Peter's body, currently working the both of them out.

#I was so EXCITED ABOUT THIS !! #all typed out on my phone and AHHHH the boys #about to have a toasty little morning uwu #little spicy #SPIDEYHAWK -> 616 -> Familiarity is knowing his every line and crack even in the dark #I LOVE THESE BOYS SO MUCH AHHH 💜 💙 ❤️ #Odin is maauling me j wasnt finished tagging #anyways BOYS IN THE MORNIGN #crisispider #THREADS -> Crisispider #VERSE -> CRISISPIDER -> Hey look who got an all new lease on life still same old loser Hawkeye entangled in Spiderman's web