best of b99: best of raymond holt

rest in peace, andre. you will be greatly missed. thank you for bringing captain raymond holt to life. ♡

lestappen text posts part 2. They are both so unhinged for each other

part 1

Happy birthday William Shatner (93) & Captain Kirk (-209)! 🧁

Not to be dramatic but I wanna sit with you and have healthy conversations. Not to be dramatic but pieces of me line the pavement, my blood soaks the cracks in the road. Not to be dramatic, but oh my god we're doing this again. Not to be dramatic but I look in the mirror and see a person I'm not sure I know. Not to be dramatic but I want permanence in the little things. Not to be dramatic but would anyone listen to this, the ramblings of a lunatic. Not to be dramatic but she wants to live her life but doesn't know how. Not to be dramatic but there's electrical tape around my shoes just to keep them from breaking in two. Not to be dramatic but my body is a canvas i want to mark my skin (it is paper thin). Not to be dramatic but I love my friends, they make me feel alive again. Not to be dramatic, but heaven sent is a coffee cup, the way you rest your head on mine. not to be dramatic but i used to think i only had two states, forcibly yellow or a default gray. Not to be dramatic, but you didn't want a boy to free you, you just needed a confidant. Not to be dramatic but I've never had satisfaction in the chemical reactions that happen in my head. Not to be dramatic but we're just looking for that kind love. Not to be dramatic but how am i overflowing when i feel so empty? Not to be dramatic but it gets better in such small doses. Not to be dramatic but they scream what are you running away from and I scream back everything and everyone.

List of sorely underrated animals, go:

- African forest buffalo:

- Red tree kangaroo:

- Indian giant squirrel:

- Pangolin:

- Long-tailed goral:

- Bearded vulture:

- Jerboa:

- Hoatzin:

me n the bestie :3 @algirdasgiedraitis

i want him.

Why yes. I did just spend $20 on invader Zim comics that I technically already own.

𝖠𝗋𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖠𝗇𝗇𝖺-𝖫𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺 𝖲𝗎𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗏𝖺𝗇 | 𝖨𝖦: 𝖺𝗇𝗇𝖺𝗅𝖺𝗎𝗋𝖺_𝖺𝗋𝗍

we just keep naming bugs like this

Love that while online fandom in general is having a weird meltdown about the morality of enjoying anything darker than sanitized fluff in fiction, the Danny Phantom fandom is still sitting in the corner 16 years after the show ended with a blankie and cocoa and their 10,000th deep-fanon supertorture cannibalism vivisection psychological horror fic

boy hostage (spiritual successor to this)

big brother to the rescue:

probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.

What if I was a lonely brooding man but my features softened as I stared at you adoringly?

✦ Milk and Honey ✦