Wait where does it say that Arya likes lemon cakes too? I genually don't remember that

that's cool

There's a few things that indicate she does:

In AGOT, Sansa tries to tempt her with lemon cakes to join the carriage ride with Cersei and taunts her by saying she and Lady will eat them all when she refuses

When Arya is starving in Flea Bottom, she thinks about how she wants a cup of milk and a lemon cake + asks a man selling tarts if she could have a lemon one, even though other flavors were mentioned

In ADWD, she thinks that she had known a girl who liked lemon cakes but "that was only Arya"

So it's pretty clear that she enjoys them even though she doesn't have a line where she outright thinks "I love lemon cakes".

Let me chew you out a little, since we have a couple minutes (Patreon)

[Panel 1] Prismo: *mumble* *mumble*

[Panel 2] Prismo: *mumble*

[Panel 3] Simon: Hmph. “Just because it’s in your head-”

[Panel 4] Simon: “-Doesn’t mean it’s yours,” huh?

[Panel 5] Simon: Give me all the responsibility with none of the privileges?

[Panel 6] Simon: And then you get mad at me for trying to pick up your slack? Prismo: Hey...

[Panel 7] Simon: Clearly you already expect that much from me!

[Panel 8] Prismo: Hey, hey! I did the best with what I had! I didn’t expect any of this!

[Panel 9] Simon: And yet you didn’t even consider telling me, so we could’ve avoided this?

[Panel 10] Prismo: It’s not like I could’ve just- taken it out! I was locked out!

[Panel 11] Simon: You could’ve done something!

[Panel 12] Simon: Instead you let my life spiral around this thing, kept me tethered to Ice King’s Madness-

[Panel 13] Prismo: Fionna and Cake are real thou- Simon: NOW you tell me! After I find out for myself!

Reasons why I frequently make my friends and family baked goods/confections:

So they'll never feel desperate enough to betray me for turkish delight

Love I guess

(i haven't read Whole Cake in a while, and i never really watched it, so bear with me)

I'd love to write a fic with Usopp on Whole Cake. it'd be sooo fucking long and i'd need to refresh myself on the entire arc, but god i'd probably be so satisfied when it's done. specifically for having brought a single moment in my head to life, but we'll get to that.

On Zou, he insists to be taken along on the Sanji rescue team and has worked himself up with a whole bunch of very good reasons as to why he should go there instead of helping in Wano, but of course Luffy just immediately accepts with a "yeah sure"

With Whole Cake, I think he'd be flipping between having fun as part of the idiot trio/quartet (Luffy, Chopper, Carrot), and being terrified with Nami. There wouldn't be that many differences in the arc as a whole, though; some things would be easier/better and some things would be worse- I don't necessarily think Usopp's presence would be overall an advantage or disadvantage, just different. Like, major events would stay mostly the same, but little details would change and maybe those little details would build to a far more drastic change-

for example, maybe one of Big Mom's kids considers themself a great sniper and wants a match with Usopp, or is motivated to work harder because Usopp is around and they want to take him out and boast about it. Maybe it means Sunny takes more damage than canon, or maybe Usopp's help means less damage to Sunny. (idk if i'd really do smth like this, but it's just an example)

skjdhf fuck i'm really not equipped to try and figure this out when i don't remember shit from Whole Cake aaaa

I do know that, despite his penchant for talking and rambling, I'd probably have Usopp be dead silent after his initial shock when Sanji fights Luffy. Everything about that is the same, except Usopp is just watching Sanji the whole time- not panicking, not moving, and not speaking. He doesn't say a word the entire time, doesn't even make a sound, and that, along with Luffy's words and Nami's begging, stick with Sanji.

(Usopp is thinking of his own fight with Luffy in Water 7, he's partially wondering if this was what it was like- if it was this painful to watch from the sidelines- and partially knowing he doesn't have to say a word, because he knew, like he knew back then, that it didn't matter what was said. It wasn't quite the same, but he could tell in the way Sanji moved, in the way he spoke and held himself, that he was putting on a front, trying to be brave in all the wrong ways. Usopp didn't say a word to Sanji because there was nothing he could say that Sanji himself didn't already know. Should've known. And his quiet, direct stare, was more than enough.)

the singular moment i really wanna write, is a scene where Sanji is apologizing for dragging them into his mess- either during the big meeting in Bege's castle or some other time- and Usopp's like "I'll do what you can't, you do what I can't, right?" and Sanji pauses, a little confused, until he remembers Enies Lobby and a stupid mask and cape and-

and tears are gathering in his eyes now, fuck, but he laughs a little. It sounds wet and his face is itchy and they're surrounded by tentative allies, but he- he laughs again and he says, "Fuck, you remembered that?"

Usopp shrugs, a little smile on his face. "They were some wise words from a wise man."

Sanji laughs a third time. "You think I'm wise?"

And they banter a little more before Bege tells them to quit it since they're on a time constraint or something. Quietly, Usopp will ask, "It-it helps. On bad days. And I figured, 'what's a worse day than this?' Ah, not that you getting married would ever be bad per se-"

"Usopp," Sanji says, looking more relaxed and settled. He smiles fondly and grabs his friend in a one armed hug, crushing him to his side. "Thanks."

And yeah, don't remember much beyond that, except the whole "hiding and then busting out of the cake" bit, which would mean Usopp in a cute little tuxedo or smth- maybe with a fedora aaaaaa <- loves fedoras- helping out with the fighting and eventually sailing with everyone to Wano.

He would be so distressed about fixing up Sunny now that the whole thing with Whole Cake is over. Maybe there'd be a gag about him promising Franky to take good care of Sunny while they were gone and being confident, after being Franky's tinkering partner and learning from him over time, that he could handle minor repair work much better than he did the first time around with Merry. And so when he finally takes in all the very-not-minor repairs he has to do, he's certain Franky is gonna strangle him for not keeping his promise. Probably also try to write in some nostalgic 'repairman Usopp' vibes from pre-Water 7.

Also something something, Sanji, wanting to do more for the crew bc he still feels guilty about Whole Cake, decides to take it upon himself to help Usopp not fall into a whole anxiety spiral about the ship. In turn, Usopp ends up helping Sanji not feel so guilty- usually by handing his own words back to him on a silver platter. And, yknow, having the two of them bonding and being buddies again like they so rarely get to be in canon nowadays qwq

I think one thing I will say about the finale was that the most problematic aspect of the concept of the show was how it feels like they had to use the Fionna and Cake plot to Trojan horse a resolution to a swathe of loose ends Simon and Betty's arcs had. They pulled it off even better than I ever wanted to let myself hope for for the most part but I would say my main issue if anything was how cramped the finale felt when I think they could have left a lot more up to season 2 speculations (especially with the resolutions for the alt universes, they didn't really feel necessary when they basically just had to egg Scarab).

I feel I liked the understated melancholies of seeing Simon recontextualized and kinda infantilized in that temporary form hosting his mind, and some people have said the Casper and Nova thing felt hamfisted but I thought the vibes were too cute to care that it wasn't particularly "efficient" as far as metaphors go, but that does slow down the pace which probably crunched the ending a little harder :'). But it also worked in further showing the sad side-effect of the crown on Simon's relationships, including that of stunting his ability to have ever matured in his understandings of love and his relationship with Betty. I also think their last scene in the memory worked because it was Simon reconsidering how he viewed their relationship for the first time, even if his attempt to do for Betty what she did for him would have just been an inversion of their original flaw, the scene rests on them understanding it's unchangeable anyway, so that decision doesn't matter so much and it's not something for Simon to dwell on.

I also feel I liked the scene a lot in spite of how scarce it felt in the finale was because of what was most conspicuously unaddressed, which was just the sheer logistical impossibility of any different choices they made having possibly been any "better." It sticks out because Betty says they could have made better choices, which kinda seems to situate their relationship in a vacuum as if there wasn't a very high likelihood had they done anything different at that crossroads, they would have just been literally nuked into orbit regardless. Sure, it seems like enough time had passed for them to have worked out their relationship better at least and then died, but that kinda seems better by an arbitrarily less tragic amount, and really it seems the least tragic possibilities ever were either that they conceive their relationship more healthily, Simon finds the crown and protects Betty from exploding somehow and also doesn't warp her to the future, and they live some terrible survival life but at least they get a chance to live something kinda fulfilling and Betty probably would have taken care of Ice King decently for the remainder of her life once Simon was gone while also having a better understanding of what had happened to him. The only other hand would be that she also was still warped to the future he finds the crown but Simon had not enabled her self-sacrificial tendencies and so she becomes less undividedly obsessed with saving him and instead integrates into Ooo more properly and also accepts what had become of him (I find it hard to think she would have just let him die either way though lmao).

That all said, they had been around a long time to have reflected over everything. I think it is a bit of an issue that they don't really allude to that, but I find it easy to believe that they did recognize how thwarted a happy ending would ever be for them by all angles of their reality, yet they still had that tender ache of that simple and small tragedy just between them two that still exists within the torrent of catastrophe that engulfed them and the breadth of their fate. So much horror in their lives but they reconnect and find themselves primarily concerned with that last regret of not having been able to make the ideal relationship they quite thought they had.

america's most eligible wedding edition finale spoilers

i swear i'm almost done with ch0ices guys. almost. but for now here's a compilation of all the screenshots i took of book 3 while i was pining after slater while being engaged to another man 😍 i don't know why i took this many and i dob't know why my hoarder instincts extend to useless screenshots but i need to put these somwehre before i delete them. just in case i need them at some point. (idk why i named my mc 'yum' either but it was so funny when people were trying to be romantic and they just went '... yum... 😋')

Do you think Gabe and the V-series need / choose to sleep at all in this version of the world?

i do think it's a necessity for the v series though not too often, and something of a rarity for gabriel. with how quickly v1 is canonically making it through hell (based off of gabriel's 24 hour time limit), it wouldn't need to sleep at all in that short amount of time and neither would gabe. however, if they were to continue on for much longer stretches of time, i think both of them do sleep - v1/v2 need to do so in order to update their software and it's used for "dreaming", which in their case is organizing the data they've collected and running simulations of battle (or in v2's case, it also runs sims of conflict resolution). they can have "nightmares" as well, especially after close calls, in which their mind continually runs sims that result in their deaths (and in v1's case, in gabe's death). gabriel needs sleep even less often than they do though, only truly needing rest if he is made entirely exhausted through battle - otherwise, he is meant to be constantly vigilant and requires very minimal downtime, an eternal, tireless worker for the spheres of heaven. he may sleep if he wishes to, but i think he only begins to do so when v1 needs it and they find themselves in one of the totally empty layers of hell. in this case, he's really sleeping for the peace of mind it provides...and being able to stay close with v1 by sharing a bed. after falling, however, gabriel does need to actually sleep on a far more regular basis, no longer nearly inexhaustible and needing rest every few days. initially, again, this is a huge nuisance to him, to actually feel genuine fatigue. but he grows accustomed to it, especially since it puts him and v1 on a more regular schedule (which is much better for v1), and he finds there's sort of something...intimate just about being sleepy together :]

I survived another year of my life on this planet and I’m going to make it everyone else’s problem (by continuing to post the same weird crap as before)

Portal 2

How many players? 1 to 2 What console(s) is it available on? PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Nintendo Switch

The original Portal was just a small side project packaged with the highly anticipated Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and the long-awaited Team Fortress 2. To the shock of many, it turned out to be the most well-liked of the bunch, with many claiming it was the best game of the entire decade. It was an ingenious puzzle game with a wonderful unique mechanic which should be quite obvious from the title. Just one example: you could put a portal into the ground, one into the ceiling, and fall infinitely until you reached terminal velocity. It was clever and fun in equal measure.

As with all successes, it was only a matter of time until the developers returned to it to wring out more money, thus Portal 2 joined Half-Life and Team Fortress in having second instalments. Fortunately, Portal 2 is still great and just as inventive and fun as the original while also bringing a co-op campaign separate from the main story. You and a friend can bring double the portals to solve puzzles, all the while still being sarcastically remarked on by the resident robot darling GLaDOS, whose glorious pitch-black humour has only aged like a fine wine.

Portal has universal acclaim as one of the all-time greatest games that everyone must experience for its uniqueness, brilliance, and fun. Portal 2 allows the fun to be shared between family and friends and is just as good as it was before. Although the first-person perspective takes some getting used to, the games are truly worth it.

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Just finished watching Magical Girl Raising Project and like

I mean. I watched it alright.

watched phantom planet today

it does genuinely piss me off how much of the greatest things about my old school was built off the blood sweat and tears of this one incredible passionate lovely teacher and they never ever ever gave him anything in return until he left for a better school during my a levels 😐 and then I had to have the shittiest teacher alive for othello instead of him who would have slayed it and I'm NOT bitter about it out all

"I see", for Kirk or Man-Bat!~

Send me “I see” and I’ll tell you how my character perceives yours

"Mr. Flannegan is... I feel him to be a misunderstood individual." Kirk says after a few moments of thinking about it. Where to even begin with Gotham's Ratcatcher? The media had painted the man as a villain, with warped views and an even more warped portrayal of his character. Speaking to the man beneath the gas mask... now that had painted him in a very different light from what others had reported. Mercury scurries up his shirt and he takes a moment to cradle the pale rat, placating her with a peanut. She takes the treat and nibbles it, squeaking softly when he strokes her grey back. "Most people don't like rats. They see them as dirty creatures, especially the wild ones. They're thought of as vicious, even evil if we take certain cartoons and movies into account. Which is nonsense, because they're just animals at the end of the day. They have needs, just like you or I." He could hardly berate Otis when he had a certain appreciation for the common vampire bat. They were similarly seen and treated as vermin by humans in Central and South America when their 'crime' was simply existing in their native habitat. Was a rat any worse than a bat? What made one species worthy of life and special consideration when another could be exterminated without further thought? "Don't tell anybody else I said this, but I think Mr. Flannegan is a very empathic person despite what the news has to say about him. His heart's in the right place, even if his feelings aren't centered on humans specifically. People can be different without being 'evil' or 'insane' simply because they don't fit into society's expectations of normal." After all, what exactly was considered 'normal' in a city like Gotham?

A light in the darkness. That was what the Ratcatcher represented in Man-Bat's mind. A small man, he crept with his rats along the underground tunnels and dwellings where things were quieter, away from the noise and brightness of the city. He too was quiet, his footsteps much lighter than that of most other people and he did not scream, at least not until Man-Bat, vaguely recognizing him above ground, swooped down and snatched him up in his claws. Not to bite or to feast upon his blood, no! There was a memory somewhere that was not connected to that one experience down in the sewers. The man with the light and the rats felt almost like a friend somehow, but where he could not say and unfortunately the man did not feel the same in return. Man-Bat chirped, equal parts curious and disappointed. The Ratcatcher had a sharp stick to go along with his light.

my first ever big internet fight was hosted in the instant messaging feature on wattpad that was around for about 6 months in 2013 and also the moshimonster roleplaying forums where i made a post like LOL idgaf about remembrance day the only poppy i care about is poppet the moshimonster. or something like that. and this girl (very popular in the roleplaying community) was like don't disrespect remembrance day my great grandfather literally died you're disgusting 😡😡😡 and i was like lol and it escalated to the point where she was like he literally got STUCK in a barbed wire fence and just STAYED THERE until he DIED which is absolutely hilarious to imagine like okay your grandpa died ass up sexual style and silly. and she got so mad at me she dm'd me like i just stuck my hand in the oven because of you you cow and i like cried and told my dad and he told me to tell her to fuck off and i got my account suspended