Listen yeah okay. Alastair was mean at school. True enough, I don't care, I think he was funny, but it's true. I just wish that those who were mad at him cited "partially responsible for a prank that resulted in a student dying" rather than "called our friend Goatface" as the reason they didn't like him. Because that way they'd have, like, actual valid ground to stand on

True love is possible only in the next world. For new people. It it too late for us.

(Redraw for @pakhnokh's DTIYS post!)

ADA member: hey tell me about your pm days-

Dazai: :[

ADA member: -with Chuuya

Dazai: :D

Dick genuinely doesn’t have a favorite sibling, he’s like the parent that says “I love all my children equally” and you believe it, he actually loves them all equally. He’s been trying to convince them that for the last few years, they don’t believe him, so he does what he has to, he says it’s Steph and let’s her deal with it.

trying to create an accurate simself hair out of sheer procrastination

genuinely think the best hermitcraft content comes from a bunch of hermits randomly congregating on stream and fucking around for an hour straight. its so baffling 2 me when they apologize for not making any progress bc they were busy just hanging out . like dont get me wrong i love the builds and the storylines and the editing but to me this is peak hermitcraft u dont understand. This is what the people want 

I wanted to draw fanart but then realized I have 0 art talents so here's a ninja turtle

You're welcome

thank you so very much, this is better than fanart and I thank you lol

Listen. The team went their separate ways at the end of season one in part because Sophie conned them and in part because they felt like it was time, they reached a natural breaking point, they did some good and now they don't need to be together anymore.

They came back together in season two in large part because they realized they wanted to continue the work and that they needed/wanted each other other, but also because Sophie conned them.

She had the whole world and she was in a show specifically in Boston (where she knew Nate--the hardest person to convince--was going to be).

She arranged it so they all arrived at roughly the same time (seems likely she gave them an arrival time, probably saying that's when she'd be able to come out and see them before the show), without anticipating ahead of time that they would be seeing each other and thus having second thoughts (all it would have taken was one mention that she was inviting everybody; instead they all seem to expect they were each the only person invited), and shortly before the beginning of the show so that she has just enough time to make them feel guilty enough to stay without leaving enough time for anyone to politely excuse themselves.

And she set up a situation in which she was sure to have their pity, thus making them both stick around a little longer and want to cheer her up (Sophie knows she gets bad reviews on stage; she doesn't understand yet why people don't like her performance or how to do better, but she's one of the most observant people in the world--she knows. She knows the team knows.).

Sophie put all the dominoes in place and then let them be who they are, because she was right and they do belong together.

every single time paul mccartney opens his mouth and talks I just have to sit here and go "sure. why not. whatever. I guess that's something you can say!! sure! whatever paul!"

That is generally sad because having parents who aren't really abusive or emotionally straining yet- they don't really feel like people who LOVE you? I guess? Like- Hajime's parents were probably just normal everyday parents like Makotos but, I'm just spit Ballin here, they're less optimistic than Makotos parents, who in contrast, always bonded with their children and loved them right off the bat.

You can feel like a stranger in your family, and that sucks. It's no one's direct fault and no one can point to any huge grievance, which makes it hard to pinpoint, which means you never get the Comfort Of Family or the Tools of Dealing With Abusive Parents- you just. Manage.

"Bring on The Dancing Horses"(x) - Echo and The Bunnymen × Ferrari Drivers

back on my bullshit (meeting men im in love with). Ben Schwartz is so kind and tall :-) I didn’t totally freeze like when I met the Jonas brothers but the selfies we took are blurry so 😔

(at least I have these bc I told sam to record the whole thing heheheh)

Hear me out re: the Ghost MV.

The whole came back from war wrong thing is so tasty, but take it a step into sci-fi territory. Say Original Flavor Jeff is still in space and soldier!Jeff is also a clone.

Wife wouldn't know, she was anticipating OF's return, but we don't actually see anything to confirm he's back from space. Maybe it's a one-way mission and he doesn't have the heart to tell her. Maybe the military bigwigs know it's a one-way trip but he doesn't. Either way, the farmboy clone is OF's companion gift to his wife, but somewhere after OF blasts off it becomes an experiment with the soldier clone in charge. Observing everything. Learning, to an extent, who he's supposed to become when he "returns".

It doesn't go as planned, ofc. Like, enough time has passed that Wife's memories of OF are kinda fuzzy, and maybe they didn't know each other all that well to start. And she repeated specific memories of OF with farmboy clone (like the blindfold), maybe because that was also part of the experiment, but now the memories are blurred together and she can never quite tell if she's comparing soldier clone to farmboy or the original.

And little niggling things are wrong. Soldier adopts some mannerism that was farmboy's but not the original's. He'll occasionally betray too much knowledge of current events that happened while he was supposed to be in space. His body feels the same against hers and that's a relief until she remembers that space should have physiologically left its marks on him. It's wrong that he feels so familiar.

i've been ruminating a lot on it because i think i'm bad at putting my thoughts into words but i need y'all to understand that while there are absolutely a lot of Not Good Things about the finals being held in saudi arabia for three years...the way people seem to treat is as morally black and white is shortsighted and unhelpful.

realistically the players traveling there will be protected. it may be uncomfortable, it's certainly not ideal, but they will travel there for a few weeks, play their tennis, then leave. there are a lot of women, a lot of queer people who actually live in saudi arabia who cannot just leave, who are actually subjected to laws and social climates...and to me it just seems very disrespectful to that actual lived experience, for everybody to sort of turn their noses up and get on their high horses. of course, if the players wish to opt out, that is their choice, but that is their choice to make. that's their judgement. not ours.

and then, what about a tournament like miami? florida is literally experiencing one of the worst active regressions that i've seen in the us (granted i'm young). things like critical race theory and lgbtq+ ed are being removed from curriculums, rights for trans youth, trans healthcare, etc. are going backwards. abortion rights? gun violence? and yes i know that the laws and climate in saudi arabia are different gravy, i understand that, but my point is, no one would ever DREAM of arguing against hosting a tournament in miami despite all of these issues. and we can extend this to a lot of other tournaments! i mean, all the outrage about fifa hosting a world cup in qatar, but we don't have any of these sentiments about doha? i've seen other people bring up that the finals were hosted in singapore when gay marriage was still illegal there. we've already talked about italy's fascist prime minister. and i could go on and on and on about the war crimes of countries like the us or the uk - is the us not participating actively in genocide right now? where is the standard? if you argue against hosting the finals in saudi arabia for the reason of human rights, to me it seems you have to uphold that standard for the location you do land on. and i can guarantee, you will not find a single country in the world with clean hands.

i want to be clear i am not arguing that hosting the finals in saudi arabia is a good thing, especially for three years, especially because it's definitely going there because of money, and not for any of the "good" reasons i think some people want us to believe about "improving the region" (which is very weirdly white savior-esque anyway). i don't really have an official "conclusion" to this discussion.

what i am arguing is that i think a lot of the protests against saudi arabiahosting the finals are more an example of implicit anti-arab bias and islamophobia, rather than genuine discussion. key word implicit: i don't think most people are purposefully trying to be anti-arab/islamophobic. or at least, i'd like to believe nobody is. but i also think, particularly in the west, there is already so much of this xenophobic sentiment ingrained. and this is why i think it's really really REALLY important to check ourselves when we talk about it instead of just jumping straight to the human rights conversation without a second thought.

i'll say it plainly: i don't think the finals should be held in saudi arabia. but for me, it has more to do with sportswashing, with the dangers of the way money is thrown around in sports, and because i think it's more evidence that the wta doesn't care about player welfare but rather about making a profit (what else is new). human rights are absolutely a concern of mine, but how is it fair to hold saudi arabia to a standard that we don't seem to care about for literally anybody else?

literally look at the us's ugly ugly history, past and present, and tell me why we deserve to host a tennis tournament.

I don’t typically like when star trek characters reference legacy characters just to talk about how great and perfect they are but I do like this route where even though Tuvok calls him a great visionary in the end he brings Spock up to say he argued with him. I think this is the way of the future. Lean in. Star Trek characters should say things like ‘An old man cut me off in space traffic the other day. I think it was McCoy?’ and another should nod and shake their head like he’s always doing that shit