Doodle of Achilles and Ajax playing dice based on this black figure vase painting by Exekias

immediately recognized this juxtaposition and haven’t known peace since

sitting with my grandfather to eat ice cream while he points out all the renovations he’s been doing to the kitchen and future ones he’s planning like we used to do when I was a kid is def a highlight of my night

my new baby cousin is dropping in ten days I'm so excited

let's watch the heck out of this pumpkin patch

i love winter holidays.. i feel liek so many of them are just "have a big meal with family and be warm and cozy" like yeah thats real. maybe i wanna be nice and cozy inside and watch the cold weather.

Do Jack and Megan paint each other's nails and play with their stuffed animals together or does Jack try to pretend he's above that kinda stuff when Megan is around?

That ask is very important to me, anon.

So, in my opinion, the latter applies to them (at least up to Megan's first (and last) appearance in the show). From what we gathered from the episode, is that Jack declines Megan's invitations to play, claiming he has important, evil things to do. Typical teen telling a kid 'go do something else coz I'm busy'. However, sometimes he goes the compromise route with Megan. I believe it is a 'you're annoying but still my family so I'll let you tag along' kinda treatment. Jack falls into that category perfectly.

There is some resentment on Jack's part, sure. Megan is not 100% ok kid either. (Dear child why are you making your cousin suffer don't use wu against him!) But oh, my Megan convincing Jack for a roleplay with her stuffed toys? Cute! Or when they're up to some beauty treatments? Precious.

Don't get me wrong, at the very beginning Jack claims he's 'above it'. He is meant to do something that may contribute to the victory of evil forces and Megan is just foiling that attempt! But, y'know, deep down jack is a very sweet boy so ultimately, he would agree to Megan's conditions. For example, he would let her paint his nails ON CONDITION it's not pink only red or black. He would impersonate one of her teddy bears ON CONDITION it's an evil bear genius who wants to destroy the tea party and superheroine Megan has to stop him.

I just want to see them bonding and these suggestions are great ones! Let me just suggest Megan drawing their portraits and Jack's heart melts because of her gifts and he hangs them in his lair but never admits he likes them because he's a rebellious teenager but Megan knows he likes her drawings so she doesn't mind what Jack is blabbering how unprofessional these look like and kjhnkvsjvn they are cuties and I think about what they could've been if Jack was more open and Megan less demanding <3 (hence my silly au with Megan as Jack's evil assistant, hehe)

ik she'd never play favourites and stuff but god its like. depressingly clear how much my mum prefers hanging out with my cousin over me. they have outings and regular movie nights and go on walks together and run errands and do chores they do literally everything together. and honestly its not just that like... even when im hanging out with the two of them i know she's more focused on my cousin. like she takes an interest in his interests. she asks him about spanish all the time but doesn't give a shit that i'm learning portuguese. i feel like i bore her whenever i try to speak. i always wanna let him ride shotgun the rare times im out with them because she can hold a conversation with him but not me. and whenever i'm alone with her she just treats me like a receptacle for her dumb fucking rants about facebook drama and then she seems so surprised when i have good advice for her even though i Always have good advice. she treats me like her talk therapist. she never thinks about my needs or my life or my interests. not that i even wanna tell her about it.

and like. for my cousin's birthday she got him a paranormal activity 6-movie blu ray box set because it's their favourite film series to marathon together. like they've rewatched it a bunch of times. they discuss their fan theories and everything. yknow what she got me for my birthday this year? nada. which is PORTUGUESE for nothing. god and they had that spontaneous weekend partying in london together and then a few months later she fucking planned a trip and went to sussex alone even though she knew id been wanting to go to sussex with her for literal years. she kept saying she'd take me then she didn't. what the fuck.

I want to draw so bad.

made a comment while we were all standing outside smoking after group today that its really cool we get to have this horrible ass air quality right now and do 2x damage to our poor shitty lungs then this guy idek his name tbh slapped me on the back so hard i thought i was gonna fall over but i think that meant he thought it was funny

Selena Gomez Via Priscilla’s Instagram 😁

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I should really use tone indicators huh

ok so, like in all seriousness, I need any and all of the children™ following me to know this about the internet in days of yore. So like a major precursor to scrolling through dumb posts on social media sites was chain emails. This was a formative part of my early internet social experience™.

Basically someone you were friends with sent you an email with a subject line that was something like FWD: FWD: Silly Dogs. This email almost always originated from some other person that you did not know that was sometimes even located in a different country than you. It spread like MLMs (Multi-Level Marketing Schemes) wish they could spread. The originator of the email would have sent it on blast to everyone in their address book, and many, many, many people who received it (and enjoyed the content) forwarded it everyone in their address books. Sometimes people added comments onto it. You could see the entire FWD chain, which included the email addresses of basically everyone who'd ever received this email before you. This included, again, many people that you did not know.

Some chain emails were the classic dumb "FWD this email to 10 people for xyz good thing to happen to you" or "FWD this email to 10 people in your address book or xyz bad thing will happen to you." Some of these emails were literally just a collection of funny, interesting, informative, or downright weird pictures with no sources. Some of them were "games" where you'd add something to the email chain that built on whatever the person who forwarded it to you built. Many of these emails have very similar formats to modern "reblog this post and say xyz in the tags," or "reblog this post for good luck," posts.

Here are some screenshots of one such email that I received in 2009, to give you an idea of this:

There would be, sometimes like 100+ email address blocks like the below before the actual email even started....

The above email contained 15 silly dog pictures btw. also, as was sometimes typical of such an email the end part of the email would have weird links to people's company websites that they had in their default email signatures. sometimes they had telephone #s too. Sometimes the bottom of the email just straight up had an advertising link for some kind of service that was attached to the originator's (or someone else in the chain's) email account provider because they had a free email account instead of one that they paid for. The internet was a very different place back then y'all....

As a sidenote, you used to have to PAY to have an email address with good features. When gmail beta came out in 2004 it changed the email game. It was pretty exclusive in the beginning so not a lot of people had it. By the time I got my invite and joined gmail beta 2008 it was almost to full release. That said, I didn't really start using my gmail until 2011 though because gmail still had, uh, issues at the time. Also because of the fact that I was still heavily into yahoo IM and like, yahoo answers. My email address before my gmail was an email address that my mom had bought for me when i was, like a toddler in 1999 with her dial-up internet service. I'm not sure why she bought all her VERY little kids email addresses they absolutely wouldn't be using for a few more years but there you have it. I sent my first email in 2004, which was, like fucking 20 years ago lmao. thinking today about how my first ever emails are older than a lot of kids on this site now.... fucked up because I'm not quite yet 30, so I'm like "don't let that be THAT fucking long ago..."

So yeah, uh, that's your internet history lesson for today kids.

Super Mario 64 has the same vibe as like. An old toy collecting dust in the attic, but it's not like broken or anything. Like, the color is a little faded but you can still remember exactly how it used to make you feel, and if anything it's GAINED charm with it's age and just knowing it's still there, y'know?

It really hurts when someone you've always supported and been happy for can never do the same for you and is spiteful and jealous and can't celebrate your wins