Lost in the Woods by Jonathan Groff walked so I'm just Ken could run

Thinking about Matt and Neil going on their own country tour together during Matt's last year spring break where Matt has a big signing bonus for his team.

Matt: "Hey Andrew, you know how you and Neil have those cute couple road trips during school breaks?" Andrew: "We're not-"

Matt: "So I'm taking him this time and we're going to have our own cute couple road trip. Bye!"

What follows is Matt and Neil's cross country trip trying out all these fancy food places because Neil's relationship with food is still weird and Matt wants Neil to enjoy nice things.

*holds out my hands like a starving victorian child* please more hoffstrahmdon sir

road trip!!! (they're on the run)

you know i am absolutely delighted by disciples era au. like, for the liushen potential, obviously, but i also can't stop thinking about a situation where sqq spends all of his free time trying to get evidence on sqh being a traitor, while sqh is frantically wondering wtf he did to piss sqq off so bad, because he certainly didn't write sqq having a huge grudge against the original goods!!

and eventually sqq does get definitive proof of sqh's traitorous behavior, only for sqq to discover that sqh is also a transmigrater. probably through sqh doing a harebrained scheme of trying to buy sqq's silence by offering to tell him his future.

and because sqh is a fellow transmigrator (even if he is annoying), sqq has to do a frantic dash to cover for sqh's misdeeds before sqq outs him even more than he already has. he bitches out sqh the entire time as he does this because he COULD have been reading the new installment of whatever fiction came out of xian shu this entire time but nooooooo, he had to waste all of his time chasing after this stupid author who isn't even a good spy and is APPARENTLY just doing the spy work to get some demon ass!! what kind of plotline is this?? of course it came out of the author who gave him the garbage he's stuck living in.

the funny thing is, this is actually what does convince people that sqh is a traitor. because sqq has been talking about his suspicions regarding sqh to the other future peak lords (chief among them being lqg, who obviously believed sqq immediately and has been his accomplice to this point), the complete 180 sqq does from trying to convince everyone that sqh is a rat, to him -- seemingly out of nowhere -- covering for sqh and spending all this time with him and talking in code (modern slang) with him, when everyone knows that sqq HATES sqh is soooooooooo sus.

in other words, everyone is now convinced that sqh is blackmailing sqq, because sqq actually found something to prove sqh's guilt.

and this results in a frantic quest from his friends (the other future peak lords) to try and find out what sqh is using to blackmail sqq so they can get rid of it. this does not go unnoticed by sqh, who demands that sqq fix the mess he got sqh into, and sqq tells him to fix it himself because he's the one stupid enough to become a spy to get some demon ass (which sqh points out is a gross inaccuracy of the situation, he hasn't gotten one iota of ass, not even a glimpse, do you know how difficult it is to pull that off in demon society which might as well not believe in the existence of clothes).

then system shows up and threatens immense bodily harm to them both if sqh is caught by the sect this early. so what are they supposed to do but begrudgingly work together to save sqh's ass so he can get some demon ass.

NANCY DREW PARALLELS

the sign of the uninvited guest (1x14) ⇾ the witch tree symbol (3x12)

L + Your girl calls me mommy.

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO STOP RHYME ANIMA (DONT)

Y'know it was REALLY goddamn evil and nefarious that the oil fields gave my mom (a single mom working 3 jobs to raise 2 kids) a single $5,000 check in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure to never complain about them.

Of course we fucking took the money. Even with her working 1 full-time job and 2 part-time jobs, she barely made over $1,000 a month. Of course she took the money. We though about moving but we still couldn't afford it. She was so frugal with it, though. It did give us a sliver of financial security for years.

But goddamn. $5,000 is table scraps to them, and they bought her silence with it because she couldn't refuse the chance to slightly lessen the weight of poverty on her family.

yet another dream about killing someone and trying to cover it up.. this is normal right

:)

is it embarassing that i'm starting college and still don't have a driver's license? no actually

Not like I said a whole lot or anything fancy but proud of myself for speaking some Thai to my waiter at a [Thai] restaurant tonight?? Did it despite being shy lol and the waiter (this older guy) was SO happy. He had seemed kinda tired out but after the exchange he was smiling so much and kept coming back excitedly to see how we were doing. It was very sweet :)

(He understood me without missing a beat, too—like replied instantaneously— so I guess my pronunciation was alright haha)

im simultaneously terrified and excited out of my mind for june

What was your favourite band or album through high school and do you still listen to/like it now? 🤔

✨ Galantis ✨

(In XOXO and let me tell you this part always makes me cry)

Okay so apologies in advance for basically rambling in your inbox for no reason. You didn’t ask for this but I had this running in my head currently at a Wendy’s drive thru and I would like to hear your thoughts.

Why don’t we ever see Blake, Adam, Ilia, Ghira, and Kali ever like. Affected by their status as second-class citizens? Like, being minorities involved in world politics? Why don’t we ever see their opinions on literally anything?

I got to thinking, after @sssn-neptune-vasilias made a response to rwbycritics saying it is unethical to bring children to protests, it just made me stop and consider “Holy shit Ghira and Kali had to watch their only child grow up in violence for their right to live” y’know??? Like???? No matter your stance on children attending protests, you can understand it because it was effective. And even from a purely storytelling perspective, that shit is can be emotional stuff.

And that’s not even going into how that violent upbringing should’ve shaped Blake. AND THAT’S not even going into Ilia’s experience growing up in ATLAS and being an orphan IN ATLAS. AND THAT’S NOT EVEN GOING INTO ADAM’S CHILDHOOD AS AN ACTUAL CHILD SLAVE.

AND that’s not even going into how those 3 have all been affected by being so involved in the White Fang as children.

The White Fang and the people being a home to Ilia and Adam, being the only thing they had, it’ll them hurt so much to leave. Hell, you could say the White Fang was all Blake knew, and going to Beacon was her first experience with domestic living.

Again, no matter you view on these characters and their ideals and opinions and actions, this could’ve been meaningful stuff. RWBY could’ve made actual commentary on minorities, civil rights, discrimination, protests, oppression, real fucking slavery that is fucking canon, etc. they could’ve actually said something. Instead they chose white comfort shit and an anti-violence message that had the depth of a pancake

Don't insult pancakes like that.

Again and again the show set up opportunities for meaningful commentary; again and again it did not deliver. And often, what it did deliver was harmful. I've said it before, I'll say it again: RWBY world building bad.

Like, if you don't have anything meaningful to say about racism or the best angle you can think of is saying that a minority fighting back with the "wrong" methods is bad, don't include racism in your fictional world. Simple as that. It's not something that should be tossed in as set dressing or tossed aside as a main plot because it got "too complicated." It's shaped and ended more lives than there are people alive on the planet today. It fucking matters and it deserves to be a topic treated with nuance and some goddamn respect to reality.

my friend wants us to go abroad. but not just like, hop on a plane and visit some city for five days. no no. he wants us to drive from england to amsterdam to alicante and 'stop by' some places in france/spain/belgium en route. all in the space of ooh. about a week.

sir. sir. i appreciate the ambition. but. but no.