recently i had someone tell me "you don't look white enough" when they found out i was swedish and not only am i fuckin white but what the fuck???

Hollow, rushing in and frantically signing: Dad I need your help, people are worshiping me again!

Pale King: Again? That's... hmm... and you've tried tripping in front of them?

Hollow: I've tried everything! They found my clumsiness endearing, my drunken foolishness hilarious, my rage relatable—I even tried to lie and say that I wasn't a god!

Pale King: What did they say?

Hollow: They said that only a god worthy of worship would be so humble!

Pale King: That's not good...

Hollow: No shit! What do I do?!

Pale King: ...

Pale King: ... I have an idea.

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Radiance, groggily walking out of her house, mumbling to herself: You'd think being the literal sun would make you a morning person—oh what the actual fuck?

An Entire Crowd of People: There she is! The Goddess of our Humble God! Please, Goddess, share with us your teachings!

Radiance: Teachings... right... um, be careful what you wish for? Look, I'm going to... I need to go talk to a voidling god about a thing, don't... don't follow me.

Objectively fucking hilarious that Ruka tried to "Silver Springs" Juri, only for it to result in Juri breaking "The Chain" and Shiori ending the episode literally following down because she cannot get away from the sound of the woman who loves her...even though she does not love her anymore. Ruka made 2 episodes full of literal "shining autumn, ocean crashing," and Juri did not notice that he had died for a full two days. Shiori tells Juri she's awful, and then when her voice doesn't haunt Juri anymore, chases her and tries to catch up to her like "turn around, see me runnin'." Juri does neither. She's going her own way.

inspired by elli's poll lol cause this seems fun actually but if you guys have bad answers I'll kill myself on your doorstep or smth

Friends wondered what it would be like if Grimm managed to get Auric into a Grimm Troupe cosplay, so I created this concept of what a hip-ass 'fit of that ilk would look like on him. Except I am very bad at coming up with good clothing ideas, help.

I never realize how unevenly pigmented my skin is until someone has to put me in makeup lol

I always forget how people back in the olde days used to just die so easily from the flu, until I get the flu myself dhhdhdhf because on one hand I know our medicine is just soo much better now a days but on the other hand I have the immune system of a dead man and once I get sick I'm like the ye olde victorian child on a death bed dhdhdhhd it's been 4 days and I just NOW can get on my phone to watch videos and text, and eat and drink water, and coherently string words together and do more than just lay in bed and moan in pain, and sweat and cough in sick delirium 😭

{ I am quite literally about to go over the edge and nothing can help. }

MY BIKINI ARRIVES TODAY!!!!!!!!

I'm so excited yet fucking terrified. I haven't worn a swimsuit since 2017 and that one was a single piece, the last bikini I had was when I was like 12???? I think???

It's wine-colored and the top is like, triangles yk, and it has to be tied both on my back and neck. Dark colors suit me well so I hope everything looks good and in place.

brb imagining how Freckles and my eyeless albino circus boi Gwynn would be SUCH good friends

Gwynn just "oh my your voice is so lovely, I bet you're very pretty!"

and Freckles snorts "I ain't pretty, I'm missin' an eye!"

and Gwynn is just stunned and he just "... well, I'm missing both my eyes, but I still think I'm pretty, so it's possible, right?"

like no that's the first time in their life that Freckles can take that 'you're pretty even if you look different' (which is what they think about their family) and apply it to themself instead of just to other people

and they just hang onto his sleeve like "DUDE I WANT YOUR CONFIDENCE GIMME SURRENDER IT-"

it comes down to identity.                                                                   - strange (2022) #5

woke up with a fever of 101.4

i literally cannot catch a fucking break 🙃

I guess I want to get murdered for my birthday

Do me a favor and read to the end of this before you lose your mind. Maybe go take a walk. I certainly took my time. 

Now that three months have passed, and we’ve calmed down some, I hope we can all admit that Ukraine’s Eurovision win was a political one, unattached from the merits of the song. There was a LOT of feelings in the air right after the win, and there was some severe lack of critical thinking skills going on. 

“I liked the song” “I want to feel like Ukraine is being supported” and “They won because of the political situation, and would not have otherwise” are not COMPETING or EXCLUSIVE thoughts. They can all sit on the plate together just fine. There is not a single thing wrong with any of those thoughts. 

They got something like 96% of the available televote, I think. Wacky numbers. We all know that was not sheerly out of a deep love of sopilka and hip hop. You are not stupid people. They could have sent Embers, and won. Even more shocking is the jury vote--juries traditionally HATE this stuff, and that was also more a show of political support than anything. In normal times, they would have eaten Stefania for breakfast. The fact that Eurovision fanblogs and forums have dozens of posts about how the results might have gone if there wasn’t a war on Ukraine, with statistical backing a different formulae--a whole category of discussion--shows this point pretty clearly. 

There are a couple questions that came up and retorts offered in the immediate after, and I think now, when we’ve all had a breather, is a better time to talk about them. 

Was the result FAIR? In the sense that I think absolutely no cheating went on, yes, it was fair. Now another meaning of fair is “Did it deserve it?” and that goes onto all the questions above--I don’t think that’s answerable, I think it’s too slippery. But going from a sheer “was there funny business?” no, it won fairly. 

I think for me the more compelling question is: Was it SATISFYING? I’ve tried to think about this as if it had been Shum, a song I fucking LOVE, and not Stefania, which in full fucking fairness, I DO hate. If it had been Shum, I would still be disappointed, because I know for the rest of Eurovision history, it would never be thought of as a song that won in its own right. Stefania will NEVER be able to come up without the contextual discussion of the war and how it won. And anyone who tries to assert that the song was “just that amazing” is going to sound sillier and sillier as we go down the line. It almost immediately started to get whupped on by Space Man and SloMo in the streaming stats. SloMo has more than twice the streams. And I HATED SloMo, this is not me trying to elevate Spain here. It’s just the accurate numbers reflecting people’s actual attitudes. 

But mostly I’m frustrated that it made Eurovision boring. The winner was chosen the second the news rolled out. 

It can be frustrating to see a song crush before the competition even starts, and I don’t think it was very fair the way anyone who was annoyed and frustrated by the domination was shouted down as some kinda pro-Russian bot. Obviously this is part and parcel of the internet problem of thinking of things as binaries but come on now. Use your heads for something other than a hatrack. Being frustrated that what is at least OSTENSIBLY a song competition became some classically social way of ‘showing Russia’ without actually having to DO anything for Ukraine, is not an anti-Ukraine stance. 

UKRAINE won, but Kalush Orchestra didn’t, you know? I think it’s okay to support Ukraine and find that deeply frustrating. Eurovision has always been political, of course--who knows how the fuck Greece decided to allocate points this year, I’m sure it kept them up at night--but it’s usually not so NAKEDLY so, and I, as a long time and fairly invested fan, found it unsatisfying to try and engage with a decided contest. 

But much worse than that was the denial that it was a decided contest. I much prefer someone say, “It was a known game, disconnected from the song, and I am fine with that.” Fantastic. I have no argument with that! How could I possibly? Fair enough. My only hope is that we can hold with two hands, “I am fine with Ukraine’s political win” and “people who were irritated by it are not necessarily pro-Russia.” 

Thank you, and goodnight. 

thinking really, really, hard about Heizou getting hurt, and basically not knowing how to ask for help, so he tries to deal with it himself, except it’s worse than he thinks, so he just spends days in constant pain, until Kazuha finds him nearly unconscious and freaks out

went outside to grab shit for breakfast, immediately got bombarded with appearance issues

WHERE THE FUCK IS THIS KING MOTHERFUCKER

I am once again playing a game where I have an uncontrollable hatred for a motherfucking king. This time I’m playing Dead Cells and I fucking love it but there’s a statue of this HELMETED KING MOTHERFUCKER IN THE PROMENADE AND SOME REFERENCES TO HIM IN NOTES!! If you are at all familiar with my account, you know that I hate the Pale King from Hollow Knight to a frankly hilarious degree. AND IM BACK AT IT AGAIN I HATE WHOEVER THIS KING IS! He’s just fucking executing people, there’s apparently an infection here too and once again the king isn’t doing shit. Or maybe the king is doing shit but it’s really fucking bad and definitely didn’t work. So now I need to find this king, get the pure nail, and pogo his fucking body until he dies like a fucking loser. WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?? COME OUT MOTHERFUCKER IM HERE TO FUCKING EXECUTE YOU! I swear to God if I’m the king’s kid again I’m gonna usurp him even harder because I might get the satisfaction of killing him myself this time.