#which is going to be a road trip

[sluttyten]

I just realized I’m leaving for vacation the day 2 baddies releases 😭 so no Target stop for me on release day and if I order online I’m gonna have to probably have it delivered to my grandparents so it’s not just sitting outside my house for hours or days

#but tragically for my family it releases the day we go on vacation #which is going to be a road trip #at some point they WILL very likely be forced to listen to the album bc that’s just how it’s gonna have to go #also when I experienced a partial realization of this last night my mom said maybe my brother will stop at a target and buy it for me on his #way to meet up with us since we have to leave my town as soon as I get off work that day but he has several hours to kill since he lives #like six hours closer to where we’re meeting him #maybe I’ll just go ahead and preorder the target exclusive from target and have it go to my grandparents house #and the rest I’ll just wait to see if they’re releasing a digipack or a kihno and then order those from somewhere else (and if I go with #kpopusaonline then I won’t even have to have it sent to my grandparents since they usually take over a week to get and send out preorders) #anyway this is just me typing out what I’m thinking because it’s like 2:30 in the morning and I randomly woke up about 20 minutes ago #I don’t even have to be up for work until like 5:15 soooo I’m just wasting time

[queenlucythevaliant]

Okay gang, here's a silly little game. I've assembled six teams of blended Narnia and Tolkien/LotR characters. Here they are:

For bonus points, tell me in the tags where you're going on your road trip, who has what role (driving, snacks, aux) on the road, and what you'll stop off and see along the way

#this is shameless inspired by the lotr national parks poll #but the crossover potential is just too good #also for characters who wouldn't reasonably fit in said VW bus just handwave it #everyone basically fits okay? #narnia #pontifications and creations #ask me hard questions #tolkien legendarium #i myself am going with team 5 (to no one's shock) #we're gonna hit national parks across america #Bilbo and Treebeard can trade off as DJ #Eärendil gets to help drive and navigate #Lucy is in charge of snapping pics out the window #Reepicheep can lead us in some road trip games or something idk #i feel like this would be a really lovely group to just sit and stare at natural beauty in silence together #which is kinda my jam #occasionally pointing out something really especially lovely #would be fun #edit: as if I left put your fave character I'm sorry both these series have about a million so it was bound to happen #and for Narnia in particular I was trying to bias it towards Narnians rather than friends of narnia #also i was seriously tempted to do a 'team dragon' which would be all the tolkien dragons + eustace haha

[front-facing-pokemon]

#bouffalant #i forgot this pokémon existed. i don't even know what type it is #ground?? ground/normal?? #okay no it's just pure normal. this is like tauros's cool cousin #Tau Ross. 'cause. he has bob ross hair. :)! #did you guys know that the bob ross show was actually filmed at my alma mater #yeah. the college that i'm doing finals for Right Now. the joy of painting was filmed there i think #no one talks about it and i had to find out from random anecdotal evidence from my mom when we were on a road trip #dunno how SHE knew but no one who goes to this college ever talks about it. they only ever wanna talk about david letterman #i hate it here. so glad to be graduating soon #the only reason i'm okay with telling you all where i go to college is because as of this posting (december 13th) i will literally #be graduating in three days. that'll be commencement. which i'm not even going to because fuck commencement

[queenoftheimps]

I am just now realizing that the first episode of Interview with the Vampire Season 2 drops on Mother's Day in the US, which:

1) is hilarious

2) makes me imagine a bunch of goths all across the nation, me included, twitching their way through nice dinners with their families as they await the moment they can bolt for their AMC Plus account

#interview with the vampire #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #armand de romanus #i am still not recovered from having to road trip for twelve hours on the day the season 1 finale dropped #which meant I couldn't really go on social media the whole time #NEVER AGAIN PLS

[divorcedfiddleford]

ok last thing i SWEAR im gonna shut up after this but i just wanted to post michael rianda's outline for the jack kerouac wendy episode that i mentioned. it definitely needed a lot of work but i do like it in concept. image ID/transcript below the cut (warning it's LONG)

[image 1 ID: a screenshot of a tweet from michael rianda. it reads: "I Found a Lost Wendy Episode of Gravity Falls! We were always trying to crack a Wendy episode. This was my favorite. I love the teenage feel of wanderlust + getting excited about reading "On the Road." I love the backstory and flaw. It didn't work but I always liked it." end image 1 ID.]

[image 2 ID: a screenshot of michael rianda's outline. from here i will simply transcribe what he has written, only fixing typos that interrupt screen readers.

Episode 3. Wendy's "On the Road" This is the first in a series I did where I wanted to get to know a character better, and I started with that desire, and followed it through.

Cold Open: A woman answers a phone at a Wal-Mart type superstore place. Wendy's on the other end with Dipper and Mabel. She asks to be transferred to extension 234. Extension 234 connects them to the stores loudspeaker speakerphone. Wendy starts making joke announcements over the loudspeaker: Wendy: "Clean up to aisle 6, customers seem to be projectile vomiting all over eachother." Mabel and Dipper are laughing hysterically. The woman can't hang up on Wendy so she calls the cops. Wendy's still going. Soos asks if she could get in trouble for it. Wendy brushes him off. Then the cops show up. Stan sees Wendy arrested and swells with pride- "she HAS been learning from me (quietly weeps) I'm so proud."

Act One: Open on Manly Dan... by his age it must be the past- he teaches his boys to chop wood and they're all struggling. A huge tree drops in the distance. When the dust clears... it's little Wendy. He tells her to climb aboard his shoulders my little axechild! They happily gallop off. They love each other. It's very sweet. Cut to present day: A confrontational Manly Dan is bawling Wendy out for getting in trouble for the prank phone call. He tells her not to be so impulsive and do the first thing that pops into her head. Wendy insists Manly Dan is the most impulsive person she knows, besides the cops left her off with a warning. She brushes it off by saying she has to go to work.

B story. (Not sure what)

Wendy's reading On the Road at work. She's getting progressively more pumped about this book. Mabel asks what it's about. She explains it all and the kids are pumped. They're swept up in this romanticized teenage vision of hitchhiking on the open road. Stan has to leave for some secret portal reason and Wendy's like: "Let's do this right now!" (Secretly she just doesn't want to go home and deal with her dad.) "Let's do it let's just hitch hike. Leave town! Start a new life! Like Jack Kerouac!" Mabel is enamored.

End image 2 ID.]

[Image 3 ID: picking up from the transcript of the previous image:

Soos is wary of leaving the shop at first. But Wendy talks them into it. A couple of her friends come. Lee, Nate, Thompson, and Tambry. They get on the road and are immediately having fun. Things are looking up. Soos is worried. Wendy: "Easy Soos, we're in Oregon... it's just going to be a bunch of nice hippies..." Cut to a terrifying crazy red eyed driver without a face driving towards them. Act break.

Act Two: Wendy and Co are having fun just like you should on a road trip/vagabond adventure. They're stopping at mini-marts and getting lame snow globes- and making fun of them. Things are looking good. It's like a road movie. They all relate to each other about problems with their parents. Wendy doesn't say much but she has a flashback to her and her dad drifting apart.

Stan B Story.

The scary faceless driver comes by and offers them a ride. (they can't see his ghoulish faceless self) Wendy immediately says yes before anyone else can decide. People are like "I don't want to go hitch-hiking." "Wendy: It'll be fine! Come on- this is the adventure of our lives. People in those stories never said, no I'm scared." She makes them all go in. It's creepy and tense in the car. Eventually the guy reveals himself to be a horrifying ghoul face and locks the doors. They all go screaming into the distance.

Act Three: He takes them to the "End of the Road" Diner. Or you hang a lampshade on it and have it be Bob's Big Boy but with a David Lynch head on the outside. There are other people that get taken there and stay forever and are sort of these lost souls that are stuck there. From all different eras. It's like this terrifying Lynch-ian dark version of an idyllic road trip stop. Basically it's a Lynch parody fest with Soos and Mabel. Like these little creepy old couple are walking in fast motion out of a wall and Soos is pushing them back in. "Whadda you doin grandma and grandpa... get outta that mouse hole. Get back in that mouse hole you goofs." (Probably too insane) Anyway, everyone wants them to have "the special" and after you eat the special, you stay there forever. Wendy's really guilty that all this is her fault.

End image 3 ID.]

[Image 4 ID: the last of the transcript:

Wendy wants to impulsively react, but remembers her dad. She thinks carefully what to do and comes up with a plan- and chops down a tree on the driver. They all come home- relieved to be back in Gravity Falls, and her dad is chopping wood in the back- he's still mad at Wendy.

Wendy: Hey... Dad? Manly Dan: (grunts) Wendy: Can I chop some wood with you? Manly Dan just nods and waves her off. They fell the tree. Manly Dan: Haha! That's my little axechild! Wendy smiles and keeps chopping.

Something like that- obviously a lot of variables to be figured out- but I love the teenage feeling of this and love that it gives Wendy a story and a flaw. Still needs work to make her better but it's a start.

End image ID.]

#gravity falls #tales of the wild zeep #like it's not perfect but it's at least SOMETHING. god #anyway going to be bitter forever that this couldve been our road trip episode and instead we got fucking roadside attraction #also... dan calling her 'my little axechild'... trans wendy is so fucking real you guys #if i had a nickel for every time a linda cardinelli character went hitchhiking because jack kerouac did it and she thought it was cool... #...i'd have one nickel. which is a shame because if they made this episode i could've had two

[patrice-bergerons]

Do you remember that insane Bergy and Marchy interview from last year, which among many other things, featured this exchange?

Anyway I was going thru my bergy tag last night when I came across this other article snippet from 2019

THIS IS THE BASEMENT MARCHY WANTS TO MOVE INTO

#boston bruins #brad marchand #patrice bergeron #marcheron #I HAVE CONNECTED THE DOTS #but god i do go so insane over rpf lore when im in the trenches #good luck to us all #but also its one thing to say ill move into your normal craopy basement haha (clearly a joke) #and another when the basement is in fact designed to accommodate a lodger #which is to say also a joke but i doubt the first time this thought occurred to marchy was during that interview #like when you know your hockey soulmate is retiring in a few months #and then you will never get to have those road trips that liminal time when the only two ppl who exist in the world is you and him #bc you both have families and it is just not done #and you look at your friends basement and one part of you #who is maybe already missing him as he sits next to you thinks-

[cookinguptales]

*looking at the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse*

bro I gotta find me more road-trip-loving freaks in my life

#it's only like six hours' drive from me #which isn't that much if you have a road-trip-loving freak of a friend #but very far if you are a can't-drive-for-shit friend like me ;; #(I'm a fainting risk so no driving for me) #I do actually go on a lot of road trips with my father but he's on the other side of the country lmao

[captaincleverusernamehere]

I just improvised like half of a dnd session and STILL managed to get the plot going where I need it to, in a COMPLETELY different way than I thought I was going to get that information, got the party to COMMUNICATE with each other, and introduced a BOOKSTORE GHOST WITH A CAT WHO MADE A DEAL WITH A PLAYER THAT SHE WOULD COME BACK AND TELL HER THE REST OF HER STORY bc they’re in an apocalypse so there are no more books to read and aaaaa

Now I get to design a mini dungeon for the players to steal a car from the neighborhood dealership that has been turned into a home base for the gang of republican dads who are also trying to survive this zombie apocalypse

#I get to flesh out the Waffle House secret society even more because of a 24 persuasion check #and I get to use the random encounters I’ve been saving up for the road trip they’re finally going on!! to north New Mexico and beyond!!! #I realize this campaign makes absolutely no sense to anyone who doesn’t already know what’s going on and I love it #AND in my panic I still managed to get the party moving northwest; which is EXACTLY where I need them to go for Plot Stuff (if ur in the- #campaign and ur reading this ignore it) hfgdghf #dnd #waffle texas failures #dungeons and dragons #dnd dm #dnd campaign #d&d

[olliesneweyes]

Friendship squad hcs save me

#i woke up at 5:00 this morning and now i remembered oh yeah we're going on a road trip today you dumbass #which honestly something they would do

[teaandinanity]

It continues to give me the warm fuzzies that basically every person at work has said they'll miss me. And it's not really utility, even if I'm useful; I am not in a critical position. There are many people who can do the things I do, even if the majority are less experienced. I'm not management, or a lynchpin, just a long-time worker bee.

But people like me, and I just handled a Crisis Situation well enough that the AD took the time to personally thank me, and my manager was like 'not only am I willing to be a reference you can use my personal phone number if that's easier' and even some of the newest additions said they're going to miss me on desk, and I just.

I love my job and my coworkers and it's really nice that the people there know it and love me back.

#I told mom about Crisis Situation #and tonight when dad got home she was like COME IN AND TELL YOUR DAD #and then both of them were like WHEN COMPANY COMES NEXT WEEK TELL THEM TOO #haha #I mean dad did follow it up with 'no you may not drive across the country alone we will figure something out' #I'm gonna work on him about it we tried the thing where all of us are in one vehicle #Tuesday screamed the whole time and mom wanted to kill her and also me #I shall remind him of that #I think he will probably come around #if I could convince someone to come with I would probably make it an actual road trip #'come to TX for the eclipse!' #'we will drive through the deep south and hit some Neat Shit and then go up the coast!' #like you could make that a fun drive #I'm not gonna do the long version if I'm solo tho bc my parents are convinced I will be murdered #which is silly; I have not infrequently been in Situations and strangers have been kind #also the odds of getting strangermurdered for no damn reason are SO low #and the incentives to murder Me Specifically are also very low #and if a white cishet-passing woman dies 90% of the time it's a romantic partner and I'm aroace so like #I really wonder what they're imagining is gonna happen #babble tea (blacklist this for less chatter) #tea writes tag novels

[fictionadventurer]

NaPoWriMo #19: A poem recounting a historical event

To a Man Commenting Upon Lincoln's Homely Features

Abraham Lincoln knew quite well He had never been beauty-graced. When Douglas met him in debate And told him he was quite two-faced, Old Lincoln made a quick reply With his usual sense of fun: "If I'd another face to wear, Do you think I would wear this one?"

#napowrimo 2024 #poetry #history is awesome #presidential talk #abraham lincoln #the man in the title is my father #who did say 'lincoln was a pretty homely guy wasn't he?' when looking at a wall of lincoln portraits in the springfield museum #which gave me the perfect chance to share this anecdote #incidentally my dad told me springfield was his favorite part of the road trip #and having me there to tell him all the extra historical details much improved the experience #so...success! #it would have been fun to use this prompt to do a full-on historical poem #but when i'm three days behind i have to go for the quick and easy #i'm just not gonna look at the atrocious meter in this one you can't make me

[ardentpoop]

#gesturing towards sam for the ''or worse'' lmao. YUP #in both of these scenes dean is unable to take accountability for the harm HE caused. the confrontation over ruby happens after #dean tricks sam into being forcibly detoxed in bobby's panic room under such shitty conditions that it effectively amounts to torture #all because dean is terrified at how unpredictable and uncontrollable sam is under the influence of his powers (and ruby - who could #in theory Take Him Away from dean) #whereas at the end of ''road trip'' dean cannot accept that everything bad that resulted from him allowing gadreel to possess sam #w/out his consent was PREVENTABLE. kevin didn't need to die and sam didn't need to be gaslit to hell and back and dean didn't need 2 almost #lose sam in the depths of his own mind where gadreel had trapped him #rather than properly confronting his misdeeds and vowing to communicate with sam going forward he pulls out the I'm Inherently Bad #and walks away instead. which is why sam says ''don't go thinking that's the problem because it's not'' #spn #liveblog tag #4.21 #9.10

[maddie-grove]

Watching Don and Betty parent (together or separately) on Mad Men is so so sad (because I don’t think either of them ever wants to be mean to their kids! I think they both genuinely want to be better than their horrifying parents! The bar is just very very low!) but also kind of funny. It’s like if somebody gave some kids to the most neurotic of the popular junior girls at a private high school and a confident teenage drifter. How do they have a house??? They should be in a road movie about two college freshmen who couldn’t be more different but their boyfriend and girlfriend go to the same college so they carpool and hijinks ensue.

#the bf is Henry Francis #he’s in law school and still obsessed with Nelson Rockefeller #I don’t know which of don’s mistresses would be the funniest #I think the best options are #(a) one of the married ones (Bobbie or Sylvia) #(his life is still messy and yes he did use some hustlery and scammitude to get into college what of it) #(b) midge (easy choice) #or (c) a fake out with platonic ID theft wife Anna (…awww?) #I think their marriage might have worked if they’d hashed out some issues on a wacky road trip first #call me old-fashioned but! #mad men #(oh and Betty decides not to go with Henry because his mom is there for some reason)

[mybrainproblems]

You know. A lot of the time I read ppl's anecdotes here and minus the "and everyone clapped" type ones, I never really disbelieve them.

Like maybe they're eliding some things or smoothing parts out for flow or leaving off certain identifying details but it's extremely rare I disbelieve them... because while on a vacation, I've gone skinny-dipping in a hot spring and met a 60yo lesbian divorcee celebrating her one year divorciversary so we went to the beach and got stoned and then went barhopping. I only know her first name and we will never meet again.

Humanity is weird and messy and serendipitous and I love it.

#that trip was already kinda... idk. freewheeling? #i flew out to cali to go hiking in the los padres and see an orville peck show #which i last minute scored pit tickets for and spent the whole night up against the front barricade. like i scored BIG. #honestly a lot of my US trips outside the northeast end up with this sort of stuff happening #like i hiked delicate arch with some rando who was also on a cross country road trip. we hung out for 3hrs and never exchanged names

[thebluestbluewords]

Welcome to the ool (please keep the p out of it)

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“I’m right and you know it,” Mal crows, pushing her way through the crowd of kids and tourists in the shallows of the wave pool. “I’ll get the boys to back me up on this one! Everyone does it!” 

“Just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do, babe.” Evie says, but she’s laughing and letting Mal pull her along easily by the hand, and there’s warm sun and the promise of cotton candy in Mal’s immediate future, and things are….not the worst right now. 

Mal kicks a spray of water at a toddler’s face on her way by, just because she can. “I think everyone does it,” she says loudly, reveling in the dirty look the kid’s adult gives her. “And the only difference between honest people like me and cowards like you is that I’m not afraid to admit it.” 

Evie hums, and taps her finger twice against Mal’s wrist. Two taps means dodge left, so Mal throws herself sideways practically before the instruction registers. She clamps down hard on Evie’s hand, hopefully pulling them both out of harm’s way, away from whatever danger Evie saw while Mal was distracted with her correct opinions about pissing in swimming pools. 

Unfortunately, the impossible weight of having all of the correct opinions is too heavy for one teenage to bear, and Mal’s dodge throws her directly into one of the water geysers.

Evie cackles. 

Mal comes up sputtering with a face full of water. There’s water in her nose, which burns, and in her mouth, which is probably gross. 

She could make it grosser. 

Evie bats away the halfhearted mouthful of water Mal spits at her. “Rude. Don’t be a brat.” 

“I’ll be whatever I want.” Mal says, and scoops her face back into the geyser for another mouthful. 

“Don’t spit piss water at me!” Evie shrieks, batting the second, much more forest up stream out of her face. “I don’t know where that’s been!” 

“You’re the one who pushed me into it!” 

“Because I’m right and it’s disgusting and you need to suffer for your crimes!” 

Ouch. “I’ve never done a crime in my life,” Mal says, swallowing the remainder of her mouthful before she can consider the potential consequences of her actions. “And I’m hurt that you would imply such a thing. I’m actually an innocent child, and you dragged me into a fountain like a common criminal.” 

“Technically, you dragged me.” Evie points out, waving her arm, where there are indeed droplets of water clinging to her warm, sun-kissed skin. 

“Point,” Mal agrees. “But only because you took advantage of my survival instincts to make me do it. So really it’s not my fault, and we should steal a bucket to dump the disgusting baby piss water on the boys, right?” 

“This is why I love you, babe.” Evie says. “You come up with all the best evil plans.”

#my fic #descendants #descendants fic #mal bertha #evie grimhilde #malvie #this is more of the road trip fic!! The water park is not an adventure they’re going to repeat for a multitude of reasons #one of which is the pee-to-water ratio #another of which is the inevitable heatstroke that will come later #i also think it would be very funny for Mal to get horrifying sunburn from this incident so maybe I’ll add that in later

[vulcanette]

Do you have any mothman stories of your own?

i sincerely wish that I did!! I remember being terrified of the movie with Richard Gere in it when it came out (a fact that is SO funny to me now bc??? indrid cold… chapstickkkk ooga booga! 👻 Lollllll) what about you???

#creepiest thing we ever did as kids was try to drive on shades of death road in NJ #which is. Very Dark. but that’s it #ask me #I would love to go have a camping trip and try to find the jersey devil but I also like living and not being killed in the woods in south NJ #so I’ll abstain #editing tags to say: I don’t want to be killed by people I don’t think the jersey devil is going to kill me LOL