the final scene of merlin was so unnecessary and for what. traumatizing an entire country on christmas eve with the implications that the magical twink with the death wish has spent 1500+ years waiting by that mother fucking lake for his wet golden retriever of a mythical noble boyfriend to come back. and it DOESNT EVEN END WITH A REUNION. haunting. jail for ten thousand years. i am devouring it with pita chips and hummus.

tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

Ideal work schedule:

I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks

I complete the list

I leave immedietly

Ok, something that came to my attention is that if you frame Actor as being Mark's self insert character, the entire way the character carries himself is immediately ten times funnier.

Typically a self insert is a reflection of a persons desired traits, but Mark decided to back that train of logic into reverse in the most drastic way possible.

I mean just look at Actor-

He's divorced, he's been to prison, he has zero sense of direction and no idea what's happening a good chunk of the time, he wears crocs with a three peice suit like it's a normal fashion statement, he didn't have pants on the entire time he was executing his revenge plan, hes a sopping wet rag of a human and he is so violently depressed, he's the inventor of what's commonly known as 'Gaslighting'-

Darkiplier is at least one third his ex wife, Mark didn't need to make that a plot point, he just did and the fact that nobody brings that up is wild to me, good for him though.

The cast at large is a collection of people who are all at fault in their own ways, but Mark took one look at the story he was crafting and said 'I'm going to be the worst person in the room' and I respect that so much.

Even the way Mark carries himself differently from his normal speaking tone when playing this guy is immaculate, the voice acting is absolutely wild. I still can't rewatch 'Damien' because as soon as I hear that asshole start yelling it kicks in my fight or flight response.

TL;DR Actor is a great villain but his execution is so violently off the wall it's absurd, props to Mark for making me genuinely afraid of theater kid.

never not funny to me that darkiplier lore is essencially just "i have to avenge all of my dead friends by making sure my asshole dead friend suffers for eternity, but i'm also doing side quests."

meanwhile warfstache lore is like "my friend, who's wife i had an affair with, rigged a game of russian roulette, forcing me into killing him. the events that followed led to me killing two of my other friends, ultimately driving me insane from guilt, and leading me to believe none of it actually happened and it was all just a game. i then proceeded to invent a new name and identity for myself, both hyper-aware of but also deeply indifferent about everything going on in this incredibly complicated multiverse of events. anyways,"

Billy is correct.

If I found out my sibling was in a stranger's house with a guy that everyone knew slept with girls and was known as "king Steve" and lied to me, I would rightfully be concerned and ready to kill. And not only is it just Steve, it's 3 other boys.

Everyone should be on Billy's side with this.

"we need less sanitized queer stories" yall keep saying fucking she-ra romanticizes abuse. you couldnt possibly handle less sanitized queer stories

yo why does this podcast go so HARD

dndads memes i made part 2 (w/ more effort)

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

i love the phrase "cruel and unusual." not only is what you're doing mean but it's also quite frankly fucking bizarre

dungeons and daddies s1 is them pissing shitting killing themselves to be better dads and s2 is you finding out that despite it their sons turned into the worst losers alive