me in the last couple days leading up to new rekindled updates:

me after rekindled updates and i see everyone's reactions and tags and theories which makes it all worth doing it over again:

Crumpets with Andrew James Clutterbuck

I...I would like to go to the movies. Please and thank you.

Defection? Shibuya? Culling games? Never heard of that. Satosugu are on their USJ date with matching bear bear headbands-

master splinter really made out with scumbug with tongue on the big screen. loves not dead

JUST BECAUSE IT'S A MOVIE ABOUT CHINESE-AMERICANS DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE PANDEMIC OR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THE MOVIE IS LITERALLY A RAUNCHY SEXY COMEDY

I’m just having one of those days…

(crying over a man I never met because I miss him)

the venn diagram between them is a fucking circle

I think the funniest end to The Angel Experiment would be the flock finally learning these momentous things about themselves, learning their past and their parentage, and finally knowing their actual birthdays.

And then it turns out that they guessed incorrectly and not only is Iggy actually oldest, but Max and Fang are still thirteen.

They will die salty about it.

The thing with a friend group being a kind of community and a community not necessarily being a friend group is that a friend group is together because the people in it gel together and are there to hang and fuck around and do shit together because they like each other, the onus being that there is no one specific topic, people are there for the people.

A community exists around a certain something, so while a friend group could be a community, a community is not necessarily a friend group, and the onus of the community usually is a topic, a show, a game, something that you have congregated to celebrate and enjoy regardless of who you find in there, because you’re not there for the people per se, you’re there for people in general, and some of them you’ll like, and some of them you will not have a single droplet of chemistry with.

Friend groups also exist because interactions are made in good faith: It is normal to assume that whatever encounter of interests or opinions is ultimately not personal, and you just move on, because you like each other or at the very very least you don’t want to shit it up for everyone else and you’ll be good with whoever you have a disagreement in like 2 hours from now, anyway.

Communities are not necessarily based on good faith. In fact, it is a very common story that like cliques within communities try to undermine others in a vie for “influence” or “power” within that niche microweb context. You are united by an interest, one of the weakest bonds possible, so it’s not at all surprising to see person A misrepresenting person B, engaging them in bad faith, or taking them out of context for the express purpose of stirring the pot. The members of a community are also not necessarily your friends, and the context isn’t necessarily one of friendship, so you have a lot of, pardon the bluntness, socially maladjusted jerks that would just get the boot in any other context hanging out and shitting things up with toxicity.

What I’m trying to say with this is that you should not consider a community a friend group, and likewise, your friend group is invaluable and is a community, but it’s also home.

Rolling around a modern au where Ingo never got yeeted to Hisui and Akari still isn't dawn, but she does look an incredible amount like her. Akari works at gear station with the twins and bc she looks like dawn people often mistake her for the Sinnoh champ. Akari is the youngest of the gear station crew so everyone is constantly looking out for "the baby" (affectionate) Making sure the baby has her lunch, making sure the baby has all her hygiene needs, keeping the baby safe from people who want dawn's autograph or a battle. Akari left her family at the first chance, so the support of the gear station crew means everything to her. Maybe someone, a leftover from team galactic or team plasma, mistakes her for Dawn and thinks they'll get revenge on her and abduct her. Except they made a mistake, because they took gear station's baby and there will be hell to pay.

People will complain about there being no original IPs anymore than completely disregard said original IPs and instead opt to watch the newest remake or spinoff.

i’m fine (thinking about they/them deadeye)

So @kuramirocket got me thinking of a Vampire AU for the Mario Bros (while discussing in this post) so I figured I would share some thoughts of how I personally would want it to go:

please note that I am not really a big vampire enthusiast, nor do I know that much about vampire lore. I never got into Twilight, nor have I read Dracula (yet). So I'll only be referring to the basic stuff I know about vampires. For those interested: do with this au as you please :)

- Luigi gets turned into a vampire (whether by dark magic, an item, or another vampire). And it's not long after that effects start to take place (his skin burning in the sun, a taste for blood, the urgent need to wander about in the night). His skin also gets a more pale tinge and his eye colour turns purple.

- Luig tries to keep this hidden as long as possible, but Mario finds out and is devasted. He blames himself for not being able to protect his brother from this. He promises to fix this and help Luigi find a cure.

- After many months of travelling (and trying to keep Luigi's new vampire instincts in check in the meantime), they soon come to learn the truth that there is no cure. Luigi is stuck like this forever.

- Mario, without a shred of doubt, asks Luigi to bite him, so he can become a vampire and live with him in immortality.

- Luigi is of course furiously against this. Why should Mario suffer because of him? His brother deserves much better than this, and he should just forget him.

- Mario gets upset at this and firmly tells him that he wants this. Luigi has done nothing wrong, and if fate is deciding that there is no way out of this, Mario would rather shoulder that with him. They're a team, always together, and he can't bare the idea of one having to watch the other age...

- Luigi finally agrees. They hold each other tight, and Luigi (after some hesitation) bites down on Mario's neck.

- It's so painful. And Mario can feel the venom swarming around inside his body. But he knows it's not Luigi's fault. He holds him closer, trying to communicate via his touch that this is fine, everything is ok, this is what he wants.

- After some time Luigi stops and Mario steps back. He's lightheaded, his skin already turning pale, and his eyes becoming a shade of purple. He also has two bite marks on his neck (which he forever carries around as scars). But he's ok. Mario smiles at Luigi reassuringly, knowing it worked.

- They move far away and live in immortality together, deciding to become dark shadow hunters (to protect innocents) and only live on a diet of animal blood and plant sap.

The Banshees of Inisherin / Polite Society / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse / Summer of Soul/They Cloned Tyrone /The Godfather/Rye Lane / Bottoms / Die Hard

9 Favourite First Time Watches: 2023

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Whenever we have deaf customers (which is maybe once every few weeks, not often at all), I try making it a point to thank them, because “thank you” is one of the few things I know how to sign. (I’m from the Blue’s Clues generation, after all! 😂)

I had a pair of ladies earlier, older women, who were laughing and signing to each other as they checked their groceries, just real pleasant and cheerful people. I thanked them as they left, and they just. LIT UP with joy. One of them signed thank you, thank you, thank you and then shook my hand.

Wasn’t there a program where you can learn ASL professionally for free? Because that lit a fire under my ass and now I wanna commit.