#FOR OUR SAKE

[donteverblameash]

I think I finally realized what chemistry was when I noticed how much Steve and Peggy LACK.

When I write and people used to say, "Make your characters have chemistry!" I didn't know what that meant but then It dawned at me that Steve and Bucky call eachother nicknames, and hug, and Bucky throws his arms around Steve's shoulders and they tease eachother and also remember that time Steve dropped behind enemy lines for Bucky?

Steve and Peggy literally just don't have ANYTHING. The only logical explanation is Steve boy and Peggy girl. Nothing really shows they're into each other that much until Peggy gets jealous after a girl downright forced herself on Steve like WHAT?!?!?!

Like we really can't have shit in this house.

[theballadofmars]

I love how mqf's oficial description is something like: a good heart who wants to help others but then you read the novel and his reaction to lqg trapping ten infected men who are crying in panic is "great now I can start to work in my experiments with decomposed people to find a cure" and gets out a lot of needles, which makes the man cry even harder.

Even if we only get bits of the other Cang Qiong sect leader's we can reach the conclusion that no one there is normal, sqq is just biased.

[drulalovescas]

"just roll with it"😭

[randomtheidiot]

Pretty much every other species of domesticated animal is easy to explain, such as cows and sheep being livestock, horses being a mode of transport and cats scaring away pests, but if aliens aver visited, I wonder how we'd explain to them that the reason we have dogs is because we competed with wolves for resources due to filling the same niche of large, pack hunting persistence predator, but then we decided to be hunting partners instead, even though wolves were large, dangerous and hard to manage.

[inkskinned]

even 2 years ago people still said autism with a whisper. it was also how people sometimes whisper lesbian, like they're afraid of uttering a slur. autistic was either an insult or it was something terrible, a horrible burden only select people endure. "select people" were usually 9 year old boys and skinny white men.

they are not hispanic young adults with a dog and a life and friends. i can make (sustained, calculated, painful) eye contact. with certain people, i don't even have to count how many seconds i am holding their vision - i can just look at them. i can wear clothes that bother me, i will just have a worse day than usual. i might cry about any changes to my schedule - but change is scary! this is normal!

when i was 16 it was OCD. i mean that was the thing everyone said. i totally have ocd. they would arrange 6 colors of gel pen in rainbow order (no worry for indigo feeling left out) and they'd be "so ocd" about it.

if you struggle with intrusive thoughts, be careful at this next paragraph, but. at 16 i developed a compulsion that involved self-harm. my ocd was convinced i was simply forgetting that i'd hurt someone terribly - a thought that persisted for no clear or delineated reason.

at some point i will probably write about how the idea of "morally pure thoughts" was hell for me and others with ocd, but this was the odd dichotomy for many of us: they liked our "aesthetic", but were genuinely repulsed by our lived experience. "intrusive thoughts" now means "cutting your hair in the sink" instead of talking yourself down from believing horrible things. "so ocd" is a label without any true understanding.

it's something i've talked about before - in multiplicity - but i firmly believe in the veracity and necessity of self-diagnosis. i think it saves lives and it saves tragedies from occurring. as someone raised in a house that wasn't safe, self-diagnosis was, for many years, the only viable option. 15 and honestly googling: am i depressed or are there demons affecting my behavior.

but it is not genuine self-diagnosis anymore, most of the time. it is a strange, blanched version of that whispered word autism. now certain traits are constantly seen as "autistic" - any passing intense interest. any flubbed social interaction. people say it while laughing - a touch of the 'tism.

and i like the acceptance! i do. i like that people are talking about it. i like that if i self-identify, more people speak up and say me too, bitch. but there is something-else quietly happening, the way it happened to OCD. the quirky, "fun" parts have been washed and sanitized and removed of all suffering. now it is just something that makes you "a little bit silly."

it took me 27 years on this planet before i learned to make friends. something about me just seems incredibly odd, i guess, some kind of radiation monitoring. someone once (in a way that was almost friendly) told me i am doing the right things, but in a way that's off-putting. i have scoured myself raw attempting to be charming.

someone on tiktok does a deep dive into their particular passion. the top comment says "what kind of autism is this lol". like we are a breed of animal. like it has no influence on our experience. like our life is a fresh breeze, an open meadow.

more often for me, life was a drowning.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Heartbreaking: Gamers give Ralsei the "Little German Boy voice" in Chapter 1, and have to commit to the bit for the rest of the series.

[pinkfey]

i saw a video where a woman’s husband said hello to her best friend (they touched cheeks with a short mwah) and so many people felt that this would be a personal boundary violation for them, so i’m curious what the consensus is!!

keeping it simple, no nuance + if u think ur ethnicity or culture has to do w your answer i would love to know!! 🫂😚💕💕

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[footy-footy]

please god get them arrested or hopefully worse

can someone look at this please

[cake-emu]

The UK has just experienced its warmest and sunniest spring on record, and the driest in more than 130 years.

Per press release, England's Environment Agency convened a National Drought Group meeting on 5th June 2025 - following the driest March, April, and May since 1893 - to discuss the latest outlook and hear from water companies about steps they are taking to prepare for the summer.

Water Minister Emma Hardy: "We face a water shortage in the next decade."

Dr Will Lang, Chief Meteorologist at the Met Office: "Looking further ahead, the chance of a hot summer is higher than normal with an associated increased risk of heatwaves and related impacts."

Sarah Keith-Lucas, the BBC's Lead Weather Presenter explains the impact of extreme heat on drought: "extreme heat increases evaporation of moisture from the ground leading to drier ground. Drier ground heats up more quickly, which in turn pushes the temperature of the air above it even higher."

The area of the UK burnt by wildfires this year (as of 27th April, so not including wildfires that have occured since then) is already higher than the total for any year in more than a decade, a result of prolonged dry, sunny weather, and lack of rainfall in March and April.

And now, the Guardian reports this week that the Environment Agency cannot accurately predict how much water England will be short of in future decades, due to the boom in AI usage.

AI datacentres, which use vast quantities of water to cool their servers - preventing them from overheating and shutting down - are not required to report how much water they use. As a result, the EA cannot model for how much water - which largely comes from the public water supply - these datacentres may require in the years to come.

"The regulator added that the majority of datacentres were using the public water supply rather than alternative sources, and that they did not want this to stop, or [want] transparency over their figures."

Meanwhile, Keir Starmer, looking to boost the UK's AI infrastructure, has pledged £1bn of extra funding for AI compute – the microchips, processing units, and cabling that make AI systems function. 💩🙃

TL;DR - as temperatures rise and Spring months become increasingly drier, the UK is facing a water shortage, and the Environment Agency cannot even accurately predict how much water we will be short of because AI datacentres - which notoriously use a lot of water to cool their servers - do not have to report how much they use.

[ozzybutweirdthistime]

interesting thing about tubbo fighting sapnap in creator clash 3 that I’ve been thinking about

i think it’s really weird how they let sap ‘mcc anger issues’ nap even enter an event like this, let alone fight tubbo, the guy that clowned on his bestie for being a fucking idiot. and how the people officiating creator clash let him request to fight tubbo in particular. and how sap ‘anger management issues’ nap still openly admitted that he requested to fight tubbo so he could fight someone he actually wanted to hurt. and they’re still letting him fight tubbo

and on top of it all, isn’t creator clash a mostly friendly event meant for charity??? as in, the people fighting are fighting to win money for charity??? not to beat up some guy that they have beef with because he called out their groomer freak housemate???

idk, i hope tubbo wins cause he deserves it, but still the things leading up to their fight becoming a thing rub me the wrong way and are kind of weird on creator clash’s behalf for allowing

tubbo should still kill him tho just saying

[akiacia]

it's baggie valentine 💝

[seventh-district]

Making Incorrect H:SR Quotes Until I Run Out of (hopefully) Original Ideas - Pt. 6

[Pt. 1] [Pt. 2] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [Pt. 5]

[applerums]

some doctors with swapped outfits this time

[eightsixtiism]

so no one finds it odd that the guy who was 20-4 down in qualifying last season, and, honestly, had no solid win that wasn't at the expense of his teammate... is now constantly winning races with a significant gap between him in first and the car in second? meanwhile the teammate who outperformed expectations in 2024, finished ahead, was p2 in the wdc standings and was the reason why mclaren really won that constructors, is struggling with the car (and still doing a damn great job at delivering)? no one is even sitting down to think 'that doesn't make any fucking sense' because it doesn't?

[tulipseason]

ofmd at the beginning: haha watch this silly guy run away from his family to be a pirate and befriend blackbeard himself

ofmd by the end: kindness and gentleness will prevail against toxic masculinity. the world is cruel but you’re never too broken to love and be loved. change is both possible and inevitable. queer joy and community is worth fighting for