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pov your ex held your collection of thrifted spoons hostage for over a year (not entirely his fault, they got mixed up in his things during a move and you did not realize it, though he did adamantly deny that he had them) and reached out to your roommate on instagram nine months post break up after being thoroughly blocked for several months just to ask if you were still roommates and then to very cryptically reveal that he had in fact found the spoons (among other, mystery items that he did not reveal and you also have no idea what they are) in his car that he had not driven for a year cause he decided to make the worst financial decision of his life and buy a tesla and then tried to coordinate a meet up to drop off said spoons and mystery items which you did not want but you do want your spoons so you told him to either mail it or show up to your place of work when you were not scheduled only for him to entirely miss the point and still try to see you, then you reveal that you do not want to see him so he finally says that he will put on his big boy pants and mail it (though him actually mailing it is entirely unlikely) and also aparently hes gotten a perm since the last time you saw him and it looks terrible

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Why do people keep reblogging that photo of a goth chick in a combine harvester

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Thinking about Hex inner circle relationships. Like..

Lettie calling Arthur her brother and Arthur resonating with it

Which is incredibly ironic with the fact that Eleanor word for word goes, "if she asked, I would not mind dating her at all"

Lettie and Eleanor's whole thing. Like. They've got history. They match each other in ways neither of them really want to admit.

Quincy and Aoi's friendship. They mean so much to me. Quincy calling her "His fav girl", getting her info of designer brands for, seemingly, no cost. Having no problem dropping his guard around her with only a mild warning of "if you tell anyone about this, I'll kill you" but he's not at all serious and Aoi KNOWS that. Like she knows Quincy has a soft spot for her and takes complete advantage if that in good fun. I could go on about them tbh.

Amir's potential crush on Aoi. I saw a post about this ages ago but it's very true that a lot of Amir's thoughts on relationships and so on resonate with his friendship with Aoi. Wanting to ask her to dance?? Like cmon now. Aoi's unwavering trust in him. My soul.

Eleanor having a soft spot for Amir because she knows exactly what's in his head and.. oughh. Not babying but but helping him when he needs her. Him knowing that she'll be listening when he needs her and not hesitating to call out.

Quincy and Arthur's whole.. thing. They reflect each other a lot. Like a lot a lot. Quincy dogging on Arthur and meaning well. Arthur knowing about Quincy's quiet deals and not doing a thing about it.

Aoi and Lettie finding emotional solace in each other. Lettie comforting and Aoi helping (lovingly forcing) Lettie out of her shell.

All of them..

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My new dude coworker is exactly fine. Significant improvement over the last two dudes we added to the team who were both godawful. I first met him a decade ago and had marked him down points for saying he didn’t believe there was a pay gap between men and women. But since then he’s gotten married and has definitely done some growing.

However. One day he comes in and starts telling me and our other coworker about how someone called him racist on Facebook. “I don’t hate black people!” he said in outrage.

I looked at our actually black coworker who was sitting there ignoring him, staring fixedly at her phone watching a movie. I sighed. He clearly wanted to be reassured by our coworker that he was in the clear.

“Look,” I said, “What that person meant is you have unexamined privelege. White people can be racist without being malicious because they don’t understand what people of color experience. You might have been racist in that moment without meaning to be.”

He did not like this sentiment. He wanted to be told he was a good white boy and forget about it. I desperately did not want to discuss color privelege like a couple of clowns with our black coworker sitting right there ignoring us but he wouldn’t be dropping it any time soon.

So I pivoted to personal experience, “I’m gay, right?” He nodded. “And as a queer person I’ve had people be homophobic without being malicious.”

“How does that even work? If someone’s homophobic they’re a dick.” This from a man who implied all anal sex was a queer act.

“No, see. This one morning at the jewelry store we were setting up for the day and putting jewelry on display and I was listening to my coworker talk about something shitty that had happened to her. Then another dude goes, ‘Oh that’s gay.’ And he didn’t mean it in a shitty way, but it was still blatantly homophobic to equate something being bad with the word gay, right?

“So I made eye contact and just stared at him. He realized he had a gay coworker right there and that his words were hurtful and immediately apologized.

“But he wasn’t trying to shit on me. He was homophobic in that one instance, but he wasn’t trying to be. Being white is the same way sometimes. You’re a dick on accident and you apologize and it was a racist moment that you grow past because it doesn’t define you.”

He turned this over a bit and conceded that it might be true but he didn’t like being called a racist which is bad and I just kinda checked out after that.

When he’d gone away I turned to my Jamaican coworker and said, “You really put up with a lot.”

She snorted and nodded emphatically, adding, “I’m just watching my movie, you can take care of him.”

As penance I entertained him for the rest of shift to let her watch her movie in peace.

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you don’t really see key smashes online as much as you used to. SAD!

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literally can't stop thinking about this

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This may be the worst use of LLMs anyone has attempted, ever. Up there with recognizing mushrooms.

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no fucking way

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Spent tonight at a local short film festival. One of the shorts was made by two 12 year olds in their backyard and it was the best short of the entire night

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My part for Halsin week 2025! Day 5: Protection. Unwise to poke a bear and mess with his grove!

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So I got inspired by a bunch of Lilo and Stitch OC’s I’ve been seeing on Discord (and also no doubt the recent shitty live action remake) and I wanted to make my own Lilo and Stitch experiment OC despite having never seen the series (but I HAVE seen the movie Leroy and Stitch which is based off the TV series when I was a child so that comes close?) Anyway this is my take on Friday (Experiment 580) whom according to the wiki doesn’t have a design.

Obviously she’s based on an axolotl and like real axolotls can regrow her limbs. In addition to regeneration powers she can also clone herself and her original purpose was over hunting and endangering native Hawaiian fish and wildlife. Her one true place now is using her cloning powers to help people at work finish their tasks quickly

Maybe doing this should inspire me to watch Stich the Movie + Lilo and Stitch The Series proper lol

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Is the pure act of being alive too exhausting, tiring, painful, terrifying, devastating or daunting for you to handle on an average day-to-day basis?

Yes

No

I've felt this way for the last 5 years of my life and the idea that most people don't live like this is ridiculous to me. So prove me wrong. I honestly wish I could leave myself and have someone else live my life for me, at least for a few days. (Is it possible to be burnt out just for being alive??)

I've felt this way for the last 5 years of my life and the idea that most people don't live like this is ridiculous to me. So prove me wrong. I honestly wish I could leave myself and have someone else live my life for me, at least for a few days. (Is it possible to be burnt out just for being alive??)

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“i’m not the same as who i was before [x] thing happened to me” does it help to know that you would not have stayed that person regardless

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yknow what i take it back i will present this to the public, idk if ill actually make it in to the tennocon vid so i might as well bless some peoples ears

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oh also? An absolutely freaky thing I'm seeing yt leftists do?

STOP TRYING TO TRACK DOWN PROTESTORS THAT DO 'BADASS STUFF'. STOP POSTING ABOUT IT ONLINE.

PEOPLE FUCKING DIE.

AND IT'S USUALLY SOMEONE MELANATED.

THE GOVERNMENT IS WATCHING YOU FUCKING DUMBASS.

y'all are so stuck on egoistic heroism that every time someone does something 'sick' at a protest you wanna turn them in to the next celebrity to have a parasocial relationship with and then they go missing.

Tf is wrong w y'all.