I'm normal about this podcast I promise. hey google can you survive eating a cassette tape.

I keep wanting to make a fun glib joke like "I'm teleporting into the podcast to drag jon to a twelve step meeting" but I have the burden of knowing that our man would NOT get on well with that kind of program. he reads the first "admitting that I'm powerless over my addiction" bullet point and starts crying and shaking so hard that he has to go to the hospital.

Still fucked up on that piece of TMA meta that finally made so many of use understand that Martin has trauma linked to alcohol.

Because like. Of course he understood that Jon could love both him and the thing that is withering away his humanity. Of course he could walk beside Jon as it was happening. Of course he would value Jon's promise to not doom the world as if it was a solemn vow to him, because he knows the powers that have Jon in its clutches are nothing in the face of a single person. In the face of love.

Except in this case, it was.

OKAY series of polls about sock preferences because i'm a curious autistic fuck:

(if you don't wear socks don't answer any of the other questions)

When will y’all learn

if you're nervous he's nervous

give him a cigarette!

some of my best friends have been shower spiders

michael the distortion everybody💥💥💥💋

mag 03 across the street relisten number [loud sound of a bus driving by] thoughts:

I think about this every time: who threw amy into the street? why? was the not-them trying to engineer a situation where she would become obsessed with graham and watch him get replaced?

there's a nice little bit of foreshadowing in the first appearance of the web table. we're led to believe it's spiral-affiliated for a while because it's described as having a fractal design, but it's first description goes: "It was an ornate wooden thing, with a snaking pattern of lines weaving their way around towards the centre." weaving, babey.

rip graham and whatever the fuck was wrong with him. he was gay he was weird his parents died his diet was just pizza and notebooks.

people have speculated about jon's fanon design and ethnicity a lot, and I wonder if any of it subconsciously comes from this episode? amy is 100% a fledgling beholding avatar of the "obsessive and nosy but also extremely paranoid" strain, and also she's (presumably) indian. I just wonder if people at all associate her with jon.

I've seen a bunch of people over time say that fans exaggerate tim's flirting with people for information and that it's only mentioned one time, and I would like to gently push against that, as he does it in this episode, too. if he's mentioned to do it twice over a fairly long period then I think it's safe to assume this is a regular tactic of his.

as always, this statement's dates remain completely incompatible with the dates in oliver's mag 11 statement. I 💖 the incoherent tma timelines.

cecil would frame and hang an important piece of info or graph of carlos' bc it looks pretty and carlos would go bonkers looking for it and walk by it 10 times before stopping short like an old cartoon character and tearing it off the wall.

carlos would also not take it out of its frame, and bring it to the lab framed and continue to use it, while framed. and everyone in the lab wouldn't question carlos' behavior because he is also as crazy as cecil and they'd assume he just really appreciated this one specific piece of science.

this is how they are made for each other btw

(problematic sitcom episode where a straight actor who is mistakenly under the impression that he needs to be gay to be cast in a gay movie role recruits his gay friend to teach him about stereotypes)

straight guy: I’m just having such a hard time remembering all this information about musicals, who’s sondheim again?

friend (trying to talk in a way that he understands): sondheim is the GOAT, man!

straight guy: oh fuck I thought the goat man was dr dillamond (suddenly gets really angry and starts hitting himself on the head) stupid stupid stupid stupid

posting an oc ref here again yea

Samba's OFMD BTS Cat Improv video with transcript

Scene begins in the middle of an ongoing discussion of Zheng's fighting skills being similar to that of a cat

Stede: ...cat

Ed: Just a cat. She looked just like a cat.

Stede: Feline.

Ed: But not a lazy cat. (dramatic pause)

Stede: An attacker cat.

Ed (says sagely): A motivated cat.

Stede (repeats himself because he likes how it sounds): An attacker cat!

Ed (eager to spin the story to incorporate Stede's idea): Uh, eh, it was...it was a cat attack!

Stede: Ooh yeah! And we were there, too.

Ed (adamantly agreeing): And we saw it.

Stede: We were part of it.

Ed: I was part of it. We were-

Stede: We were like...

Ed: -we were also like cats!

Stede (whispers in awe imagining them as cats): Yeah!

Ed: It was like three stealthy cats.

Stede (nods in agreement with his smart bf): That's right!

Ed (loving his bf's hype): Like three humans who had skinned some cats.

Ed (ADHD mode activated): You know there are many ways to skin a cat. You can start at the head and you just peel from the nose all the way down. Or start at the ass and (gestures as if he were skinning a cat) whip it back like that!

Spanish Jackie/Leslie: Jesus wept.

Ed: It was like three cats had been skinned and we just leapt into their bodies, zipped it up...(train of thought switching tracks)...uhhhm-

Stede (trying to figure out what track they're on): It was cat skins.

Ed: -It was actually the other way around. It was like three cats killed some humans and then-

Stede (loyally agreeing with his bf): That's true. It was the opposite.

Ed: -skinned them. So like three cats had sk...caught some humans, skinned them, and then wore their skins-

Stede (quietly pushing his imagination to the limits): Yeah.

Ed: -as little suits.

Stede (proudly agreeing with his bf): Take that humans! Cats are back!

Ed (needing to emphasize the size of said cats): But they're in the big cats!

Stede (happily reiterating Ed's added detail): Yeah, big cats are back!

Ed (switching tracks again into unknown territory): Or it was like a bunch of...it was way bigger than a normal cat. It was like all of us and we are full...are filled with cats! (abruptly ends his brainstorm and silently rests his hand on his hip)

Stede (proudly standing by his bf, nodding, though he's not sure how he feels about being filled with cats): *buffering silence*

*random meow*

Swede (unsure if he's in the gravy basket because of all the poison he drank): Are you sure I'm not dead?

Spanish Jackie (tired): Yeah. Yeah.

thinking of them

"you have a severe anxiety disorder. All of us hour it because you function so well and you're so cute about it but-" EXCUSE ME

if a man ever said this to me they are getting slapped and never spoken to again seriously wtf will

Very hot take: it doesn't make sense that Emma and carl never had sex.

Carl was so good at helping her with her ocd and one of the reasons Emma struggles with intimacy is because of her OCD. You're telling me Carl, the guy who convinced her to eat grapes without washing them and took her to rocky horror, didn't develop any ways of helping her with the intimacy part of her OCD??? I don't buy it. It feels like a cheap trick to write Carl out so will can slip in and act like the good guy who 'cures' Emma's ocd.

Which is even more fucked up when you remember will deliberately broke Emma's boundaries and kissed her without warning or asking for permission WHILE SHE WAS DATING CARL. and this was AFTER will knew Emma had issues with kissing without warning due to her OCD. I hate you will shuester I really do. It's not even mentioned that he did this which is what annoys me the most. Will broke her boundary and forced her to cheat on her amazing boyfriend. What a pos.

CUDDLE! 👏 POST! 👏 bc they deserve it. Zoom in!! ID in alt and under cut bc loooooong.

[ID: doodle dump of the OFMD couples canoodling. 1. Chest up of Ed and Stede laying in bed fast asleep, both wearing fancy nightgowns. Stede is on his back, one arm behind his head and the other resting on Ed’s waist where he is draped over Stede’s chest with his hand over his heart. Ed’s beard is just beginning to grow back in and Stede has some ginger scruff of a similar length. They look as though they are sleeping deeply for the first time in their lives. 2. Full body of Stede and Ed in bed, laying over the covers and giggling together. Stede is wearing a nightgown and has his back mostly turned toward the viewer, legs tossed over Ed’s hips and kicking happily. His arms are tucked between them and he is blushing with a grin, eyes closed, as they press their foreheads together. Ed, seemingly wearing nothing at all, has his knees tucked up under Stede’s and one hand laid over his arm. He is grinning happily, equally flushed, and staring at Stede’s face with loving eyes. His beard, though still rather short, has begun to take shape and Stede is clean shaven. 3. Chest up of Stede big-spooning a sleeping Ed in their bed, the state of their facial hair the same as #2. They are both under the covers, Ed shirtless and Stede in a nightgown, Ed’s hair and arms strewn comfortably over the right side of the bed. Stede has his face pressed closely to Ed’s neck and is smiling contentedly, squeezing a handful of Ed’s tit with his free hand. Text above him reads “titty grab” with a few hearts. 4. Full body of Lucius reclining on some supply bags with Pete laying against his side, head and right hand on Lucius’s chest. They are both dressed down, sans jacket vest and belt, but clothed. Lucius’s right arm is around Pete’s shoulder and Pete’s left arm is sneaking up to hold Lucius’s right over his stomach. Their legs are tangled together comfortably and Lucius is placing a kiss on Pete’s head. Pete, eyes closed in bliss, smiles. 5. Waist up of Ed and Stede laying facing each other in bed, both shirtless with the covers pulled up over them. Stede is asleep, eyes closed and lips slightly parted, his left arm draped over Ed’s waist and the other trapped beneath the pillow, hand laid just behind Ed’s head as if he had fallen asleep petting his hair. Ed is still awake and flushed with love, right arm laid over Stede’s to drape over his back, left arm squished in the negligible space between them as he extends his fingers slightly to nudge Stede’s chin. Ed is so close to Stede that their noses are overlapping and staring at him with heartbreaking tenderness and love, the tiniest and most content of smiles gracing his mouth. 6. Full body of Oluwande and Jim standing together fully clothed and kissing. Jim has their arms thrown around his neck, hands in fists, and is smiling into the kiss despite themselves. Olu is leaning hard into the contact, flushed and always a bit surprised, arms loosely fitted around Jim’s waist. /end ID]

Very hot take: it doesn't make sense that Emma and carl never had sex.

Carl was so good at helping her with her ocd and one of the reasons Emma struggles with intimacy is because of her OCD. You're telling me Carl, the guy who convinced her to eat grapes without washing them and took her to rocky horror, didn't develop any ways of helping her with the intimacy part of her OCD??? I don't buy it. It feels like a cheap trick to write Carl out so will can slip in and act like the good guy who 'cures' Emma's ocd.

Which is even more fucked up when you remember will deliberately broke Emma's boundaries and kissed her without warning or asking for permission WHILE SHE WAS DATING CARL. and this was AFTER will knew Emma had issues with kissing without warning due to her OCD. I hate you will shuester I really do. It's not even mentioned that he did this which is what annoys me the most. Will broke her boundary and forced her to cheat on her amazing boyfriend. What a pos.