#we're the ones to make all the memes and roasts

[trash-shrike]

✨MAKE YOUR OWN ACOTAR OC✨

I resisted... but in the end I couldn't help myself... @highlordofkrypton introduced me to @dailydelulu's ACOTAR OC meme and @irithiadourden tagged me.

For all those who want to play, answer based on yourself as truthfully and honestly as possible! You are the OC!!

PICK A COURT BASED ON YOUR PERSONALITY AND WHERE YOU WOULD THRIVE

(and don't say the Night Court unless it fits, because we all want to be there)

I should say Summer, as it's my favorite season and I loved everything about the Summer Court in the books. Buuuut I'm partial putting my OC in Dawn for lore reasons, and for their very vaguely East-Asian inspired theme.

PICK WHAT FAE YOU WOULD BE/ANY TYPE OF CREATURE:

I've had this stupid white birdsona during my time in the ACOTAR fandom so I'm going with a Peregryn, going purely off vibes. Catch me watching citizens from above and accidentally getting arrested for crossing magical Fae borders bc my ass does not pay attention.

PICK A MAGIC YOU RESONATE WITH:

Would it be healing? A Shadowsinger? Elements?

The power that resonates with me most would be SHAPESHIFTING without question, but since my guy is already nonhuman... I'll say they have some minor glamouring / spellweaving / spellcleaving capabilities, with the assumption they work off the same basis of manipulating the fundamental threads of magic itself. Can be used to great and clever effect but sometimes they accidentally make things explode or stop working entirely. Whoops.

WHO WOULD BE YOUR MATE?

Pick one who would truly be a second half for you! (Characters with established mates count, because this is your story!)

I'm already in a polycule with Dwarf Irithia, Eris, and Azriel. We have three and a half kids. But it's an open relationship so um. If any character wants to hmu, I engineered this 10 inch-- gets dragged off stage

WHAT WOULD BE YOUR OCCUPATION?

Tinkerer in Dawn! I'd work as a contractor for the government. I'd prooobably be working with confidential military-related technology for this reason. Is weaving magic into objects akin to programming? Probably not but, vibes, ya know. Oh, and I'd illustrate smutty novels on the side, for funsies.

BESTIES?

Genuinely whichever extrovert wants to take me in. For established characters: If we're taking my location into consideration, Lucien would probably befriend me the same way he befriended Nuan. Tamlin and I would get along the best, but we probably wouldn't become friends unless forced to interact by an institution (e.g. the Spring government), cause of our asocial asses.

WHERE WOULD YOU LIVE?

IN @highlordofkrypton's OC's BULKYIAN STORAGE CLOSET. Jk. I don't think Eris would like it there.

FAV MAGICAL OBJECT:

I'd have all sorts of really minor inventions that do dumb things that I'd gift to people. Jewelry that tells the time. A mug that keeps your drink hot. bussy blaster 9000. normal stuff.

FAV PLACE TO HANG OUT:

At my place, or in nature somewhere, like in a forest or by a lake or ocean.

FOUR OUTFITS: PARTY, EVERYDAY, TRAINING, WORK

what a HOT studly bird. don't you just want to roast them low and slow over a fire

Too shy to tag anyone so... YOU, reader, you go do it. Do it now.

[undreaming-fanfiction]

(likely a modern AU so the timeline fits)

Eddie feels so very, very torn about the Hobbit movies. He loves the music and hums "the Misty Mountains Cold" before he can catch himself, but he not very silently screams about all the crap that was added for no reason and, the bad CGI? A travesty, your honor! He glares at the screen when Legolas appears and utters "where the fuck did you come from?", he loves the casting choice for Bilbo but absolutely roasts the idiotic way that the screenwriters butchered Bilbo's relationship with the dwarves and the way it evolved.

But the thing he never forgives those movies for is that unbelievably idiotic love triangle and the way it made others tear up when Eddie's soul temporarily left his body to punch Peter Jackson. Because it DOES. NOT. MAKE. SENSE. There was no development. The flirting was bad, trust him, he knows what good flirting looks like and this ain't it. Eddie hates it with passion, especially the scene that overshadows the incredibly powerful one with Thorin's death. He is PISSED. The scene is so so SO lazy and Thrandúil did not deserve this disrespect. Shit, even the weird added ginger elf Tauriel did not deserve it. Yes, we're talking this scene:

Eddie mocks the shit out of this. He gobbles up all the memes and there is a 50/50 chance in the months after he saw the fateful scene that his contempt for it would bubble up.

"Hey Eddie," asks Steve whe he sees Eddie between moving boxes when they finally find an apartment together . "Why aren't you packing?"

And Eddie, instead of saying "I'm taking a break," clutches his chest and chokes out, "because it was real, Steve!"

When Eddie goes to buy groceries and Steve unpacks them, he notices that Eddie bought two bags of potatoes instead of one. "Why did you get two?" he asks.

Eddie rummages through his pockets and produces the receipt. "Because the discount was real!" he says with a mock sob and points at the potatoes being 30% off.

And Steve is a patient man, he really is, but when Eddie tells him that the claws were real as a response to his question why is Eddie all scratched from their cat and refuses to elaborate, he threatens that if it doesn't stop being real, he's going to get a set of the Hobbit movie posters for his side of the bedroom and proudly display them.

Eddie bitches, moans, threatens, but eventually he moves past the idiotic love triangle.

When they lie together, falling asleep, Eddie mutters into Steve's neck "I can't believe that stupid threat worked on me. Why would you even thing about something like that?"

Steve turns to him with a deadpan expression and says:

"Because it was real."

[musedisorder]

Nerdy Prudes Must Die! Part 1.

This is a sentence / prompt meme with quotes from Starkid's nerdy prudes must die for roughly the first half of the show. I will make one for the rest at a later time! Feel free to alter / edit the quotes as needed! Lots of sexual implications / foul language / and mentions of violence in this one

"Help! Somebody help me! Please!"

"Wait until you get a load of this mess."

"Face down in the fucking john. What a way to go."

"The killer left a little love note for us. Penned in the victim's blood."

"Hey, do you think they're connected?"

"The nightmare started there but now has spread."

"I'm scared. Someone comes for me. I'm unprepared."

"I can't cut through all the tension"

"It's hell on earth, you know."

"I'm tweeting all about it."

"High school is killing me!"

"I'm so fuckin' dead."

"Shit."

"I was up all late last night and I couldn't fucking study."

"Hey, hey geek?"

"Me?"

"We've been in classes together a long time, haven't we?"

"Well, since the first grade."

"There's an unspoken bond between us. We're classmates. We're comrades."

"I got left behind this morning. Bus driver's a fucking asshole."

"We succeed together or we fail together. And I won't mince words. I'm gonna fail this test. Unless you help me cheat."

"Won't we get in trouble?"

"Cheaters!"

"That little snitch!"

"Oh god. I am dead! I am so dead!"

"What's the matter? This your first academic misconduct?"

"I don't need this kind of attention!"

"This outfit is a tapestry of my trauma! It is designed to provoke as little teasing as possible."

"I didn't know you were funny."

"I like funny guys."

"You better leave your hopes behind."

"I never intended to walk through YOUR hallway."

"Oh, well there's a difference between intent and impact. I learned that at an anti-bullying last month, fuck-nugget!"

"Now move along, bitch!"

"Really? That's a hot take."

"Now you listen to me, you stuttering prick."

"Homecoming's just an excuse for kids to dry hump in the gym."

"You're funny!"

"Can I carry your books for you?"

"Carry my books? I don't think either of us are ready for that."

"Come on. You're breaking my balls."

"Just one little date."

"You don't know me very well, do you?"

"I know that behind closed doors, repressed chicks are the biggest freaks."

"Watch some porn."

"Don't call me that."

"I am only one man's girl. And his name is Jesus Christ. I suggest getting acquainted with him before you end up roasting on a spit in Hell."

"Forbidden fruit, dick-hole! It's always the sweetest."

"I'm the reason you run and hide!"

"Don't need no one to tell me high school with be my peak, so I'm willing to take advantage."

"So keep on judging me. That comes with infamy."

"No one's gonna stop me!"

"This is politics! Learn to multi-task!"

"I'd like to have an intelligent conversation with you. In other words, shut up."

"Hey that looks like my... phone."

"I've found a weak spot, haven't I?"

"Ready to make like Newton and get this physics project 'in motion'?"

"This project's on thermo-dynamics. What the fuck are you talking about?"

"I got it on good authority that I'm actually pretty funny."

"What was it like when she touched your arm? Did you cum?"

"Silence your cellphone in the library!"

"Nani?!"

"What's the matter with you guys? You just told me not to get my hopes up!"

"A naughty schoolgirl wants you to help her study?"

"Stop being gross, both of you!"

"You're telling me I gotta be funny again? I didn't do it on purpose the FIRST time!"

"I bet you'd call this luck. Well, that's your perspective."

"But what if all my thoughts were stronger? What if my beliefs were taller?

"Way cooler than I think I am."

"But what if I were wrong?"

"What if people see me as someone other than who I am?"

"Am I cooler than I think I am?"

"If I can finally be cool I will know that I'm not a loser."

"But is that who I think I am?"

"Who do I think I am?"

"Think you're better than me because you come from money?"

"Uhg! So you're a poor piece of shit then?"

"Had to sell your bowtie to feed your fucking family?"

"Look, I know what you want me to do, okay? You want me to grovel. Run so you can chase."

"Well I'm sick of your... s-shit..."

"I don't seem scary to you?"

"You're just a bully. And when you stand up to a bully, they lose their power."

"Does it feel like I lost my power?"

"I did not cosent to this rendez-voos!"

"I decide who's cool and who's not."

"I'm your god. Now on your knees, bitch. It's time to say your fuckin' prayers!"

"It's haunted. Everyone says so."

"This is wrong! This is so wrong..."

"I'll never tell ya to behave."

"I am expecting you to betray me."

"I'm only in if your over it, a one way ticket power trip with no room for censorship."

"Won't you love me like you don't care?"

"You talk to me like you're in a locker room. It's clear you never stepped in a classroom."

"You want me? Can't be skipping school."

"I am expecting you to behave."

"I don't care about you!"

"You got my judgement all muddy and cloudy!"

"I'm a good girl."

"I won't care about you!"

"We thought you were waifu material, but you're just a bully!"

"Come on. You can't stay in the bathroom all day."

"What a fucking psycho!"

"That's some cool-kid privilege right there."

"Isn't this like, breaking and entering?"

"You're the bait for our trap!"

"We're gonna bully the bully."

"We're gonna make it spooky!"

"It's goofy!"

"Got a better plan?"

"We're gonna make a dirty movie where the losers win."

"We're gonna cut off his nips!"

"No, we're gonna be real cool!"

"So we're not gonna kick his ass?"

"No, we're gonna be cool beans."

"Well then I'm gonna have to shoot the whole thing in a wide and it's gonna look like shit!"

"I don't know. I'm nervous."

"You're like, super nice to me."

"Not really. I'm just doing the bare minimum here."

"I brought the brews!"

"Oh shit. Where's that creepy music coming from?"

"Oh shit! Oh fuck! It's a fucking ghost! I always knew you fuckers were real!"

"I've been scared of you my whole life!"

"Float over here ghost! I'm gonna kick your fucking ass!"

"I make the dead run in fear!"

"Maybe I should just run!"

"Where? Back home so dad can call you a little cuck?"

"We can't have a party here! This place is hella haunted!"

"Get behind me! I'll protect you!"

"It's not real, stupid!"

"This was all a prank. A trick to scare the shit out of you 'cause you deserve it."

"I thought you guys hated me."

"Mission accomplished?"

"I'm gonna kill you all!"

"No, no no! This was an accident!"

"This wasn't murder. And it wasn't an accident. It was an act of God."

"Don't you see? We're free."

"We're gonna bury the body right here in the lobby underneath the wooden flooring."

"This is a lot."

"We're gonna hack all his limbs off."

"Did you say hack all his limbs off...?"

"Stop saying it!"

"You want me to film this?!"

"This has been the best two weeks of my life!"

"We could go sarcastically."

"Things really are different around here!"

"You want me in the huddle?"

"You smell like an open asshole right now."

"You fucking reek, man."

"They're my bros for life."

"I love this school!"

"I love being alive!"

"You said you wouldn't bully me anymore. Remember what you said?"

"Oh, I remember what I said."

"You fucking NERD!"

"No! No no no no! That's can't be! You're DEAD!"

"I'm free!"

"And you know that that means, bitch? No more Mr. Nice Guy."

"Did you miss me while I was gone?"

"Did you really think you'd get away?"

"You can see I'm much improved."

"That ain't good news for you, ya bitch."

"I got a list, and you're on it."

"You think I seek revenge?"

"You pushed me off the edge!"

"I'm on a new crusade."

"The world is just to well behaved, it needs to be saved."

"Expose the bloody lie!"

"I want you to repeat after me."

"Who will pray for me when I'm gone?"

"Can you repeat that one?"

"Is this the eternal dark without a dawn?"

"Who will pray for you when your body's gone?"

"This is the consequence for what you've done!"

"I'm not a loser!"

"What did you say!?"

"Don't kill me."

"But you have lost... everything."

[agapestricken]

if there were a rogues group chat, i feel like anastasiy would lowkey be the one in the group that acts as the mediator whenever people get into a fight on the server, but then who turns around and tries to roast the person who's bothering his bestie in that same server JSJSJ 💀 LOL he'd be like 'hey, don't besmirch (insert friends name here) good name!! you wouldn't like it if anyone else did that to you, now would you?' and stuff that makes it seem like he's trying to talk to young children and 'ease' them into not being mean to each other with... mixed results. like sometimes, it might oddly work and other times, it fails colossally and people will be telling him to 'STFU' even though that's... well, mean. and i have an exact idea of who would be doing that (*cough* the joker *cough*)

but he's also the person in the group chat that i could imagine most of the people in the server have a sort of unspoken mutual agreement to not mess with personally, because most of the time, anastasiy means well and he also sends cute OR sometimes funny but off-putting memes like this to the GC:

and i mean, how could you be mad at these types of meme's, am i right? they're perfect /j (LMAOOO i'm kidding but the rapture one and the beetle one, y'all... they both got a good belly laugh out of me NGL because they're so random like JSJSJ💀) but yeahhh. i feel like anastasiy, while on voice chat with the other rogues, may or may not sometimes forget what equivalent a word in russian is in english orrr may say something that doesn't have an equivalent in english and the other people in the voice chat would be like. joking around with him about it by giving ana a hard time about it, but then they'd say something like 'AHHH we're just fucking with you' at the end to let him know they're not being serious (':

so yeah! also, one last little tidbit about anastasiy is that, yes... anastasiy is the one who yells at people to go eat something or go to sleep whenever they haven't done either. but i use the word 'yell' loosely here BC it comes from (mostly) a place of him being a mom friend and wanting only the best for the people in the GC that he likes okok <33 but anyways,, i hope you all enjoyed my little shitpost here BC i made a similar post like this on my account for barton, so i thought, why not do the same thing here?

[thesquiddygirl]

Ok I would ask better questions if my brain wasn't absolute soup but we're here and I rly want to know about what the book Gourmet Marshmallow and Cayenne Pepper fight about and what makes it special, in general or to them specifically, and also there's a little bit burned photo(?) that comes down from the top and I wanna know the significance/symbolize about that :)

Speaking about the animation meme(? Idk what to call it TvT) if that wasn't obvious :p

Hopefully that gives at least a little jumping off point idk hdjshjdhshsh I'm curious TvT

I’ve been trying to reply to this multiple times but I’m so glad you’ve asked this question uwu

So the book that I’ve referenced in my video is a book from the fount of knowledge days before Shadow milk became the creature we know and love

This book. Has a lot of knowledge in it. A lot. Especially from back then.

And gourmet marshmallow is an archivist.

This is her candy basically.

She wants it because she wants to read it all fully and absorb what it was like back then in that era before the corruption as well as is curious on how much knowledge it is as well as how truthful it can be. She’s not afraid of how ugly it can be, she wants it all. Eventually she would have stored it in her personal archives and then give it to eclair cookie along with other documents she had archived.

Cayenne pepper however, wants it for himself to absorb knowledge for his potential. He wants to learn more and advance. And the people he’s affiliated with would be interested in that book too.

Gourmet found the book first in her travel within beast yeast.

Cayenne saw her with it and kinda pressured her into letting him read it for a while.

Gourmet got tired of him hoarding it and one night stole the book while he was sleeping. The next day when gourmet asked for it and Cayenne realized it was gone she basically made it so that he lost the book and blamed it on him (gaslight gatekeep girlboss-//shot)

However he found out pretty quick into the day that she had it and it devolved into a very serious fight. Which well. Roasted marshmallow.

As for the burnt photo and implication, I’m gonna put it under read more since it delves into topics of obsession, stalking and conditioning. UwU

So this is a picture that cayenne pepper took of gourmet! He has.. a lot of pictures of her. And other things of her. He… has a lot of feelings towards her. He doesn’t say it, the most is he gives her his old cape. However internally he’s.. a mess.

Cayenne pepper was conditioned to not have any close attachments at all. If he did have close attachments it must be people that he was with within his organization. When he saw Gourmet it wasn’t an instant connection or anything he just thought she was… interesting.

Weird. Especially since she’s very stubborn and doesn’t give a fuck how scary he is.

And the intrigue went into obsession. Because he really had no other interaction that wasn’t from people he grew up with- besides the people he was sent out to crumble.

So yeah this is new and he basically took a lot of documentation on her as well as kinda picking her mind. He’s a very smart man so like- he basically psychoanalyzed her. And he did follow her when she does her visits before pretending to stumble into her coincidentally. He’s down bad in the worst way and he doesn’t know how to deal with it. It’s like very intense infatuation and intoxicating. Literally a secret part in his room is just a shrine that’s filled of picture of her without her knowing along with some clothes and tufts of marshmallow.

Hes so stoic he never show like… outward emotion towards anyone so when hes intense about his obsession it’s that… very intense stare bc how the fuck do you process something so foreign.

[ebongawk]

💖🦗👩‍🏫 (last one for hellcheer bc they're a set and can't be separated)

💖: Which of your fics is your pride and joy?

omg don't make me choose that's not fair! I love all my babies equally 😭 like... idk, we're a lie is always gonna be so important to me, but I worked very hard on heart begins to beat too. idk! I'm like a dragon, hoarding my fics in my arms and hissing at anyone who expects me to pick a favorite.

🦗: Do you write in sequence or jump around?

typically I write in sequence! every now and then, when inspiration for a specific scene comes and curb stomps me into oblivion, I'll jump ahead and fill in the blanks later (I did that most recently with a scene at the beginning ch 4 of the time travel AU) but typically the scenes come to me like a movie reel.

👩‍🏫: Pick a character and I'll tell you their favorite season and why.

hmmm ok, this is hard one Eddie's is somewhat obvious to me: he's a fan of autumn. He's a gremlin who loves Halloween and creepy stuff, but he also loves the beauty of decay. The way the trees announce their hibernation with bright color changes, dropping onto the ground to dry and feed themselves the nutrition they'll need to come back in the spring. The smells of nature permeating every inch of the city, the crunch of leaves under his shoes. Not to mention fire pits with Chrissy and his friends, pumpkin carving (and roasting pumpkin seeds), all the scary movies airing on TV.

Chrissy's might be controversial: she loves winter. Hear me out! Winter is everything she wasn't allowed when she was younger. It's indulgence and decadence and warmth. It's cuddling with Eddie in front of a fireplace with nothing to do and nowhere to be, but knowing that that moment is perfectly content. It's grabbing a slice of pie without guilt, and overspending on trivial things that she knows her friends will love, and drinking hot chocolate that Eddie made on the stove, with milk and cinnamon and a little drop of vanilla. When they're finally ready to settle, Chrissy requests somewhere with mountain views. With proper winter, and a balcony. So she can watch the sun rise over a cup of coffee with way too much sugar, curled up beneath a blanket as snow falls in gentle drifts outside. The snow blanketing the ground makes the world so quiet, she forgets, for a moment, that she needs to think. That she has a mind at all. When Eddie eventually comes to join her, wrapping them both up in the blanket and stealing her coffee, Chrissy snuggles into his warmth and lets her thoughts drift with the snow. Suspending in the cold until they can melt into warmth and new growth.

fanfic writer ask meme!!

[blacksurvivalnostalgichanges]

bored. thoughts on literally all the dna stuff

jackie- "i can fix her"

hyunwoo-i kinda get weirded out by the power dynamic in the sheer idea but tbh. it's nice i think. i just want this boy to be a little happier, man

jenny-i am DYINGGG SHE BOUGHT A BAIENGIACA

xiukai:i cant believe that, to sissela, hed be the grandma who makes you feel like you need a second stomach once you visit. funny. he's 34 with the vibe of a 70 year old

aya-what are her thoughts on fentanyl. i wonder. btw it's always funny when someone goes "NO drugs. but alcohol is great". like mate thats just drug lite

alex-now i'm curious what his disease is even supposed to be, i don't recall anything about that. if it's just some sort of chronic fatigue thing then i'd easily say fuck it and headcanon POTS just because but. i'd like to know

leon: "don't bring gifts for me >:( i'm not a kid >:(" the repression is strong on this man

chiara:i think itd be funny to have an alliance where it's zahir, chiara and aya. impossible to understand a damn word. also "i can fix her" part 2

shoichi:you know how it's canon that chidi anagonye is buff because whenever he felt stressed he just did pushups

sissela:she likes strawberry. noted. also ngl i do find the thomas sissela dynamic sick now that i think about it. for a solid second i felt so mentally ill remembering that he brought her to the experiment because he wanted her to get actually cured and not be in pain

rio-i feel VINDICATED. every time. i want to put that "rio to yuki" voiceline on my forehead. they don't get along on such a fundamental level. they have not had a single good interaction. that's why i feel feral when i see anyone ship them, she hates himmmm. also the delivery is bad but in a way that's good because it fits her, she sounds robotic but it feels like it's just how she be OHSFKSDF SHE DOESNT EVEN LIKE DOGS!!! SHE ACTUALLY FUCKING HATES HIM IM LAUGHING

echion-"i see the hesitation in your fists" about hyunwoo is making me mentally ill. also "don't be pretentious" to magnus IS SO FUNNY. he really went "stfu i'm gonna hit you". the things i dislike is also extremely funny. this sign can't stop him because he can't read, guys. though, he sounds like hunter toh to me in a way that makes me like him by association now. past me is crying but current me thinks this mans is funny as hell

tia-im crying. "what's wrong with my hair (┬┬﹏┬┬)". danny boy roasted her so hard. that "can i draw you ◕_◕ " to jenny though. i see you

daniel-even daniel cant believe it when she says she's a doctor. the doubt in this man's voice. also it's so funny how he reads people for their appearance (like "your hair is a mess) and then with yuki he just roasts him for his personality. does he think that bowl cut ass hairstyle is okay enough to focus on something else

eva-"nah i don't feel like getting a haircut quite yet" as he definitely fucking SEETHES

bianca-"oh my god a fellow weirdo!!!". four person alliance between aya chiara zahir and bianca actually. impossible to parse a single word. and it's funny that she goes gentle on sissela (i assume she's too skinny, so) and with echion she plain goes "you have literally no body fat"

johann-YO????? i am mentally ill about that one for sure. johann is so about trying to be the sort of christian who doesn't suck absolute ass and the interaction that has with the extremely complicated relationship isol and rozzi have with church and religion is so interesting to me rn

laura-how did they get away with this "things i dislike" line. also the bizarre thought process i had with aya and laura is so vindicated. police officers are her favorite

aiden-he did not just "we're not so different you and i" her. his luke is funny as hell though. "you get paid to clean? 🤨" do i need to explain society to you???? he sounds legit confused. hKFJNSDKFJ THEY JUST SHOVED ALL THE FUNNY MEME LINES ON HIM HUH. IT'S NOT LIKE I LIKE YOU OR ANYTHING BAKA

elena-she and rosalio allying would be nonstop complaining. they'd either hate each other or be like soulmates. "i hate the heat but i hate the cold" "me too" and then a look of understanding

felix-he did not hit elena with the "you'd be prettier if you smiled". i like him but. girl freeze him. also confirmation that magnus does not use steroids. weird-ass way to ask though. what if he met a trans person mid transition? would he hit them with that exact line as the poor fucker is like "yeah???"

[danniesstory]

Intellectualizing My Feelings Part 1

I have various groups of friends, but I meet with one particular group almost daily. A middle school friend introduced me to this group. It consists of 7 people, and even though we hang out almost every day we don't really talk about family problems or traumas. We mostly talk about games we're playing, movies, or just straight out roasting each other. The first year I hung out with them, it was fun. I felt like I found my second home, they made me feel safe. But the longer I hang out with them the more I realize that we barely have anything in common. We have different beliefs, we don't really like the same stuff. Whenever they found a new meme on TikTok I would not understand because we don't watch the same thing. The same goes for movies and shows. We have similar music tastes but at the same time, we don't.

It's been a few weeks since the last time I saw them. And that is because when I see them I feel uncomfortable. I can't really talk to them about anything because they wouldn't get it. In the last few weeks of hanging out with them, all I did was smile and laugh. I don't really say anything unless someone asks me a question. So, I was asking myself if they made me uncomfortable why would I still want to hang out with them? Why would I put myself in that situation?

And then I realized — the reason I kept hanging out with them was because I was lonely and they never made me feel that way. They were always loud and fun. They would sing, play games, and make jokes and even if I didn't understand or know what they were talking about; they would still include me in all of those things and that made me happy. So, at the end of the day, I think a little discomfort is worth the while.

[heartshapedcreaturefromcriptoon]

Except you people aren't genuine fans, nonny!

You're a specific type of genuinely unhinged pathetic loser "Anti Fans" who wanna completely nut Charlie and all the rest of Viv Medrano's characters until they denounce vivziepop as their true maker and let you piss all over them because they're yours now, apparently!

And then your ugly little piss leaking ass nutted all over my blog and you came for me and I told you fuck off somewhere else because I didn't consent to what you doing and you ruined my perfectly good Stolitz post and I told YOU to stay away from ME!

And now I see you're the one making not one, but two posts with like 32 notes with probably most of your own reblogs about me and you're replying to a person who's already blocked you, with "saucy gifs" from a show that you hate and disrespect the creator enough to spread leaks of her show from, and I love and respect the show and it's creator enough to fucking block you for that! And the people who make gifs for a show that you despise, that you're using as a "got'cha" on someone who genuinely loves it, as if you yourself are role playing these characters that you want to both fuck and let's say "Free", from Medrano's Evil Clutches so badly, isn't the flex you think it is, you're making yourself look stupid, and the genuine fans that work hard making the gifs you're now using to "own"me, again, as if you're role playing these fictional characters you wanna fuck so badly and "liberate" from their creator as if they'll fuck you back, probably fucking hate you for using their shit this way not only just block you, but they'd file a restraining order against you if they fucking could, too!

Because nonny, uh, your blog is some nonsense "Abled-Bodied Obnoxiously Autistic/Mentally Ill who needs to stop hyper-fixating and go outside and touch grass during the half an hour they get in The Institution..." shit if I've seen it!

That was a nice way of spelling "of" at the of your little fanti hazbin roleplay "callout post" for me, by the way... Shows how unhinged you are and how much little 20something abled bodied fantiturds need to be locked up for their own good...

By the way if you're a minor running that bullshit "burner account" just know that this is my opinion of you and all the minors in the fandom right now who aren't at least as old as seventeen like Octavia! *Into the fire with you shits I'm not searching for that one GOT gif, but I have recently realized that I do hate children, watching the werewolf arch of Dark Shadows will do that to you!!*

But oh! I *DO* love the feeling of looking in the notes of an antis/fantis callout post for me and seeing all those gray little faces, it's like I'm Ursula in the little mermaid admiring my weird little garden before finding some *new* poor unfortunate souls to turn my divine violence against, innit?

Oh look... Found some.

@giant1000egg So in response to this ablest old chestnut you've think just you've roasted an actuallydisabled/wheelchair/housebound person with ... I can respond with the classic Angel Dust ".... BITCH.... WE'RE IN HELL! THERE IS NO GRASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" meme that I'm sure everyone has seen... Or, I can kindly go over explaining to yet another ignorant abled-bodied mentally ill, the fact of how my own physical body cannot, in fact, "Touch Grass"... However, the wheels in my powerchair, can, and I could put all of my violent crip energies towards using my 4000 pound powerwheelchair as an extension of my body to run over both the grass, and your foot, forever crippling you in the process, if I wanted too... And that's what you get for gaslighting that I'm "that aggressive" over Helluva Boss and not the fact that a bunch of pissbaby hazbin kinnies leaking the show think they can interact with me...

... Now which of those two responses to your causal ableism would you prefer, you genius? You giant rotting egghead, you!

@luciferanalyzestar Oooooooh nooooooooooo .... Not the worst goddamn fucking character in the entire hazbin series so far besides adumb having a lil' Tête-à-tête under the table with the nonny who's obsessed with *VERY* suggestive pinup images of zer own daughter and url that suggests ze's an expert in anal but the BIG CANON DIVERGENCE made zem think a quick pronoun change would be enough that zer OWN DAUGHTER would let zem give her ANAL?

OH LUCI! Y DO U WANNA GIVE UR OWN DAUGHTER ANAL? :0 UR PERVERSION HAZ NOTHIN' 2 DO W UR PRONOUN CHANGE BUT THIS ISN'T KYLE XY OR SEVENTH HEAVEN AND THIS IS WHY LILITH LEFT YOU AND UR PACK OF DUCKLING SHAPED GUSHERS AND UR FANCY FOLGERS COFFEE ENEMAS AND UR Y/ZE NEO PRONOUNS WON'T HELP U SEDUCE UR TENDERQUEER DAUGHTER WITH WOKE BUT IT'S MY HONOR AND MY PRIVILEGE TO BE BLOCKING YOU AGAIN AND PLZ DON"T LET ME CATCH U STALKING MY BLOG THRU BURNER ACCOUNTS LEAKING HAZBIN SHIT AGAIN OR I WILL KILL U, LUCI! I WILL KILL! :D

Now...

These messages are THE fucking reason I keep making these goddamn fucking posts because bitch, I just caught two more them, the lucifer anal blog being a fucking block evader, and then nonny's entire fucking note section will appear like this to me because they'll all be blocked ... Which just tells me I'm a good girl doing a really good job playing Digital Whack-A-Mole! It's fun! :D

The truly unhinged thing to me is how delusional fantis always put "anti" in quotation as if it isn't thing while assuming that their way of being an anti is also welcome here, while also assuming that everyone in the hazbin fandom absolutely MUST "worship ayylmao.tv as 'Lord and Savior'!" as if antis haven't already fallen pray to that fucking clickbait pewdiepie/logan paul worshiping grifters bullshit monopolization of the particular fandumb space Hazbin got bronified SO HARD that that's apparently all there fucking is to it now if you're not part of this crappy resurrection of "SU Critical UWU" that is Hazbin's Critical Cult!

Meanwhile, the irony of nonny not realizing that the infamously unhinged chaifootsteps is the one who "jokes" about writing real person fanfiction about them making out with that Evil Leprechaun Overlord and bringing that Actual Nazi Sympathizer over to your "Anti Hazbin" Cult because they can tell he's getting BORED with his vivziepaparazzi grift and that none of the girlies, the gay's or the they's here with a proper head on their shoulders actually like him!

Meanwhile, the irony of nonny not realizing that I am also an archive blog trying to give the girlies, the gays, and the they's an alternative to BOTH The Evil Leprechaun Overlord/V-Tuber Regime and "The Cartoon Crit Cult Crazies!"

The only difference is that I'm archiving all this genuinely unhinged shit vivziepop fans are subjected with a touch of well deserved trolling, satire, parody, but most importantly, a sense of my own identity and personality, and you guys keep falling for my shit because you don't have either of those last things that I mentioned. ♥ X.O

[blogofageminimoon]

self reflection: friendships in your 20's

i'm 24 years old, turning 25 in november. i've always had the same group of friends since high school and our friendship has extended into our 20's. however, i've cut ties with people within this circle and my friendship group is smaller than before.

one of my old friends is in a long term relationship and whenever we hang out, a lot of our conversations are simply revolved around her bf and our work life. i feel like we don't have much in common anymore. also, there have been times where she brings him out to girls days unannounced or last minute. the way she approaches it is along the lines of "oh hey, btw my bf is coming." or he just happens to be there. it leaves no room for rejection. i'm not a huge fan of her bf but at the same time it's not really my problem. as long as they're happy that's all that matters. at our day and age, i suspect that he is more of a priority in her life which makes sense; because it's a relationship. they could possibly get married. although, i think this distance has shown the lack of reciprocation on her end. as a result, i haven't made much effort in this friendship. there's no bad blood, we're just not as close anymore.

the second friend is one that i've been in a whirlwind with. i've definitely changed as a person from high school compared to now. i think this has been more of a toxic friendship but maybe i was too blind to notice the red flags. or i've possibly changed to the point where i don't tolerate bullshit anymore.

Conversations have to revolve around her. Lately, i've noticed that we could be having a lovely conversation and somehow it always turns back to her or her love/work life. A lot of our conversations have been very repetitive simply because she turns it around to herself. It's just been annoying and she's been lacking substance, making conversations boring.

Peer pressure. This friend has very particular interests and she likes having a good adrenaline rush. She's into a lot of physical activities such as skiing, road trips, sports and going to the gym. When inviting friends for a hangout, a lot of times she asks to do these sorts of activities. Whether myself or our other friends are not interested, unavailable, or whatever.. she always finds a way to fight back. A lot of the time people are pressured to say yes. Or it just comes off as passive aggressive. Back in high school, I think I was more inclined to say yes to these activities. Now, I think that's changed. (Although I do like a fun physical activity here and there). Ultimately, I've noticed whenever we do these activities, she loves taking photos and filming videos for social media. To the point where the activity becomes revolved around that. I feel like that's why I haven't felt like doing these activities, because it feels like we're doing them to be influencers.

Your interests don't matter. Bridging off from the last topic, I could propose going to a restaurant, a food festival, or the beach. A lot of the time she shuts it down. Either says "been there, done that." Or it's boring. Then she goes back to suggest activities such as go karting or a stunt gym. Friendships deserve compromise on activities from both parties. Also, I could just send her a funny meme or something and she'll find a way to roast it. I love Harry Styles so I send her some edits just for funsies and I get hounded for it. Meanwhile she goes off and sends me F1 edits and expects me not to roast it? Girl.

Lack of effort. It has to go her way. She works a 9-5 and I do shift work, so you could see how our schedules don't always align. She's free on weekends, for me it's a hit or miss. I see her post things on social media indicating she's occasionally free on weeknights which tend to work better for me. She asks for a weekend (very last minute, I may add), I tell her I have work. I propose MULTIPLE weeknights or even an alternate weekend? She GHOSTS ME. Doesn't even try to suggest another day.

She's materialistic and finds a way to use people. This aspect kind of made me ghost her for good. With all the previous points I made, 1) I don't text her as much because I'm tired of always talking about her and her life. 2) I've been saying no to hanging out with her because I'm tired of doing activities that only she's interested in. Or just not even doing the activity at all because she's focused on perfect instagram shots. 3) I don't even send her jokes, videos or memes anymore because I know she doesn't care. 4) I stopped reciprocating or making effort to hang out with her because I know she'll shut it down or just leave me hanging out there because my schedule doesn't work for her. Lastly, she's always liked the idea of a rich, bougie life. She finds ways to use people for their resources and what they have. With all these previous aspects, clearly we've distanced ourselves. All of a sudden I get a random text, "hey how are you doing?" I reply, "good hbu?" She says, "i'm good, can i use your lulu discount?" And that sort of ended it for me. I let her use it but I don't think I've really heard from her since. So now I've given up on this friendship. I refuse to message her, I've muted her, I don't plan on ever texting her. Call me salty and petty and vengeful. But I've been through shit and been in a pretty low place (you can see my education and career self reflection entries) and I'm tired of people pleasing. I've been happier than ever in a long time and I'm thriving. So fuck fake friendships.

[blockedragon]

You have been lied to, OP. Everyone falls for this at some point when they fall down the dragon rabbit hole, myself included, but it is NOT culturally true.

The following post is not a takedown of OP, it's an explanation. I'm not going to just post "you're wrong" with no follow-though but lengthy replies can come off as a "roast" or "callout" or whatever and that is not my intent.

Alright, here we go:

"Dragon" is a very broad word, even if we're only sticking to Europe, let alone when we get other cultures involved. Let's use a very famous example Saint George's Dragon. Iconic, an objectively dragon-y dragon right? Well, depictions of his dragon generally have four legs but many works of art from ye olden times depict it differently:

It's a serpent in this one

This one fits the "wyvern's" description, barring the three heads.

This one has two wings and no legs

This one has two wings and two front legs but no back legs.

This one has four legs but no wings

This one fits the description of a wyvern perfectly. it is still a depiction of Saint George slaying a dragon

This one looks like a weird, scrunched up, version of the last guy

This one looks like a muppet

And that's just one popular story. This pattern can be seen pretty much everywhere, culture, even just within Europe, was and is not a monolith. -Greek dragons are also worth a mention. After all, the Greeks arguably named the damn things. The Word "Dragon" is derived from the Latin word, Draco, and the Greek drákōn. Both of which mean 'serpent' or 'dragon'. This is because Greek dragons were pretty much just big snakes.

Here's the dragon guarding the golden fleece. You'll notice that it looks very snakelike, it has a wide mouth, eyes situated near the front of the head, and appears to be swallowing its prey whole

Here's Leto and her children running away from Python (the snakes are named after him, not the other way around) It's just a snake, it's still a dragon.

-And then there's the ever-ignored Slavic dragons, usually called Zemi/Zemy.

They often had three heads and some depictions said they could control the weather, lived in castles, and would take human form to seduce maidens.

-And then of course there's eastern dragons

...Which were labeled as such by westerners due to their resemblance to dragons. If "dragon" was really such a strict term then why were these wingless lion-snake-deer referred to as such? ----

There never was a strict dragon genus that all must be compared to, it's an idea, like "spirit" or "fairy".

OSP has a really good episode on them:

And lastly:

One skim of the Wyvern's Wikipedia page could have solved this. This happens with all sorts of things, one is a catchy soundbite that sounds like neat trivia that makes you feel smarter than a work of fiction, the other is a lengthy examination of a broad, ever-evolving, idea. One is meme-able, the other is not.

The 'wyvern rule' only applies in cultures, depictions of cultures, and fictional universes that recognize wyverns as a distinct creature. It does not apply to pop-culture as a whole. You wouldn't fault toothless for not being accurate to a Slavic Zemi, you wouldn't fault Skyrim's dragons for not being wingless aquatic kings that distribute exotic weaponry to OP monkeys, and you shouldn't fault Vermithrax for not having the same limb count as the critter on the Welsh flag.

Something that really really annoys me is when people get dragons and wyverns wrong... They are NOT the same!

Dragons have 4 legs and 2 wings. Wyverns have two legs and two wings, wyverns also commonly use their wings in place of another set of legs.

This is a dragon. This is a wyvern.

(Pictures are not mine, I just yoinked them off of google to use as an example here)

[paintsplash1712]

What I love about Hobbie as an English Person (TW: Flashing Lights)

God does it feel great to have a British character in a none British film that actually feels, well, British.

So to the rest of the world, you guys have this stereotype of us being poor ass Conservative assholes that only care about ourselves and its sad that stereotype is so common because (appropriately) its a tiny percentage of people.

Now I'm not from London (another thing guys we're not all from London! It's like saying every American is from California) so I don't know every reference Hobbie made and I was born far after the punk movement so take my observations with a pinch of salt but...

He feels so real!

I work in retail so I see a lot of unique colourful characters and I've met people similar to Hobbie, you'd think they'd be intimidating or stone-faced but they're so chill and more likely to treat people in our work place with more respect then others. And I totally believe Hobbie would too (he's punk he has to).

I love all the little references in the way he speaks, I find it hilarious that the film had to translate what a jumper is or other things I thought were universal.

I love how kind and open he is to Gwen and Miles. If his story is anything like the comics I would've expected him to act more douchy or angry but he doesn't give a toss he just wants to play his music and make Miguel angry (which I respect).

His art style is collage! My favourite medium!

(Also very appropriate from what I learned in college, where we analysed album covers and artwork by punk bands and artists and how it stood out in a time of same-y looking artwork) So very appropriate for Spiderverse.

Anyway I didn't have a structure to this. I just love having English representation that actually feels like the writers talked to actual British people (not posh assholes but actual people) and did their homework.

So Daniel Kaluuya got to use his actual accent for once! Yay!

[gffa]

Robots for the reverse unpopular opinion meme!

I'm someone who has a very tough time getting over the idea that we're meant to care about robots in a story. They're programmed to do everything they do, no matter how sentient they look, they're still just 1s and 0s, and I almost never can get that out of my head. However, Star Wars has some sort of magical touch, because I do care about some of the droids there, mostly because they're hilarious asshole cats in robot form. R2-D2? Will come screaming into the room, rebound off the wall because he doesn't give a fuck about anything so pedestrian as "speed limits", spitting a stream of oil at the enemy, and will light the bastards up. And probably roasts marshmallows over the bonfire just after the starwipe cuts away from the scene. He definitely has given Anakin Skywalker a ride across a huge canyon more than just once. Is also willing to cut a bitch if they cross him--he knows Anakin is Darth Vader and still was ready to fly his X-Wing right up Darth Asshole's exhaust pipe and murder him right in the face, because of what he did, like, Artoo did not hesitate, bitch. Chopper? Gleefully shocks both his friends and other droids. Sometimes for a purpose, sometimes for no reason, just because it's funny! The only one he won't be an asshole cat to is Hera, who instead he will hold her hand when she's sad about someone dying, oh noooooo, even my ice cold heart towards robots was melted in that moment! Chopper, though, will knife fight you in a parking lot behind a Denny's and, make no mistake, he will beat you. He's done this a thousand times more than you'll ever have done it. BB-8? Can be an absolute angel at times, if you're sweet to him, he will be the sweetest boy back to you. But if you get on his badside, let's just be clear, that was not a thumbs up that he gave Finn, that was a, "You hurt her and I will light you up, motherfucker." BD-1? Best boy. BEST BOY!!!! He will ride around on your shoulder and hop down to go look at interesting things, then come skittering back to scramble back up your arm when you're ready to leave, all while chirping and beeping adorably, he is precious. But will also, without hesitation, go for the throat on an Imperial walker, that baby droid will stomp on the controls and destroy them into a still-sparking mess that crashes the walker to the fucking ground and will hop out of the burning wreckage with you, still brightly beeping and booping, because he's adorably asking if you can go do that again. Faithful companion and destroyer of Imperial fuckers. Best boy. Best boy. Anyway, Star Wars droids are amazing and Lucasfilm is asleep at the wheel because I would pay cash money for an animated series of all the asshole murder droids being in a series together and going on an adventure. None of these fussy or reasonable droids! No! Give us the ones who would stab each other in their sleep for fun, but actually get along and understand each other, the way two house fires merging into one understand each other.

[sorryimananti-romantic]

saw the ateez as dads and im so tired of you all calling yourself fans while keep treating yeosang as a fool. the joke is not even funny anymore, you all are not his friends, stop crossing the line.

We appreciate how idols show us a specific side of them so we pick their habits and quirks and play around with it in memes, fiction and other forms of content. I don't know which part exactly ticked you off but as a genuine yeosang stan who adores how precious and innocent he comes off as, we picked little cute habits of his and played around with it as we did with every other member. No one who writes fiction claims to know the member bc, like i emphasised, it's a work of fiction. We don't know who they really are, we don't claim to be their 'friends'. I don't even understand how you assumed we're thinking of them as friends- most of us (and me) can never meet or talk with them irl.

Also, glad you just skipped past every member whom we roasted as much as yeosang, maybe even more. The roasting was only a small part of our headcanon, and then the rest where we talked about their strengths and qualities? How they'd make such good father figures? Let's talk about that <3

[ectokelpeigh]

You know when you say something stupid or make a typo in a group chat and everyone echos it and refuses to let it go?

Yeah one consequence of the public getting chummy with the resident not-living meme, Phantom, is they love to roast him.

And it's kind of Danny's fault. He knows this. If he was any less of a loudmouth they wouldn't have any material to work with. And he knows it's affectionate. But by talos he wishes he could be a little more mysterious sometimes.

Say he's fighting Skulker in front of Casper High one day, just as school let out. He's tired and he's distracted so freakin' sue him if he's about to tell Skulker to "get f--ked" only to remember he's in public, so he catches himself like "get fu...rogged." and honestly it could be worse. Skulker does kind of look like a frog without the mech suit, and most people know that by now.

But everyone heard. And they do everything they can to replicate a group chat roasting without having a school-wide group chat with a ghost: in no time at all, "get frogged" is tagged on buildings, written all over desks, frog stickers line street signs and t shirts are made in stunningly short order.

If we're setting this in the social media, his Phantom accounts are flooded with mentions that just say "get frogged".

He tweets: "You can all go frog yourselves."

[darkoverord]

I need to have a rant about the UK, the heatwave we're getting next week, and shitty attitudes peeps might have about it :V

First just gonna if you're in the UK, we're about to potentially get our first ever 40C day next week (previous record was 38.7C for reference). Best advice is to keep your windows shut during the day, keep all the curtains shut and if need be put foil in the windows to reflect out heat (I'm legit considering the last point >_>). Make sure you keep hydrated, more than you think you need but not too much. Also make sure kids are adequately cooled and that you keep checking in on elderly people you are about 'cus both ends of age we end up with thousands dying in a year from heatwaves.

Second, people who are like "Oh but we get hotter temperatures regularly, wimps" and other similar shit just. Go past the memes, shut up for a moment and maybe read under the read more.

SO. Right. In 2021 the UK Met Office brought in to weather warnings "Extreme Heat", which seams standard enough except almost immediately after bringing that type of warning in they had to issue the 2nd highest level (within like, weeks IIRC?). A year later and we're now on the highest level, which they consider "an extreme risk to life"

Look, it me *points at Manchester*

Now I know what you're thinking, "why are you making such a fuss about this? Surely if you're getting these temperatures regularly then as a country surely you're getting used to it and mitigating it?" to which yeah we are trying to but we can only do so much with what we have.

Like I cannot spell out enough how rapidly these changes have happened (almost like climate change is real 🤔) but lets just, kind of point out some things that are happening:

UK building codes focus on heat but only in one direction, don't let it out - A properly insulated building would resist letting heat in as much as it resists letting heat out. However because until the past 20 years the UK was generally a cooler, wetter, country, it's never been a focus. Why wouldn't you want heat to come in when your climate is cooler? Well the answer to that is if a tiny portion of humanity decides it's okay to roast us alive for money you'd be able to deal with it.

The consequence of this is pretty simple. If your home equalises with the outdoor temperature (which you can try to mitigate), even if it cools down it can take days for that heat to finally get out unless you've got a home with decent airflow or just really shit insulation.

For example during last week's heat wave (yes... we've only had three days of respite...) it took 3 days for my flat to finally stop being 5C to 10C hotter than outside 'cus we just could not get the heat to shift. Now apply this principle to almost every home or public building you can think of like schools, pubs, offices, that don't have air conditioning. Oh yeah, that's the next point.

The UK generally doesn't have air conditioning unless you're rich or you're in a public building that is new or managed to retrofit it in - I'm not kidding. Most of us don't even have portable AC units 'cus they don't even properly fit our windows. We literally often end up dealing with heatwaves like this:

And god so often do we get these shitty "Oh just get AC" comments as if implying that AC is fucking cheap in the UK. Or that a lot of us own and don't rent our homes to get it installed.

The UK admittedly kind of has an obsession with buildings having large windows - Like even my flat has large windows? Not the best but they're generally always designed in a way to keep the heat in, so that's already a problem. I guess the idea is to let in as much light as possible so that the sun adds a bit of heating on a colder day. Now imagine if there were buildings with complete glass fronts suddenly dealing with direct sunlight at 40C, oh...

Okay so that's already three problems and the bulk of UK homes and offices date back to the 60s and 70s, which means they were already up to (and over with buildings from the 1800s) 70 years and more behind modern building codes. Even if the UK was preparing for these temperatures (since 2003, and we haven't been) the bulk of buildings simply wouldn't be able to cope anyway. There's two solutions to this, you knock all these buildings down and build new ones - or - you retrofit them all. Both of these are extremely expensive and the government will refuse to bank roll this. Don't die from heat stroke peasants!

And we're not even talking about infrastructure yet, I've only focused on "buildings which may contain people for more than a few hours". Lets look at that, with the first easy point that popped up even a decade or so ago...

UK Rail is not designed for regular high temperatures, it's designed for 27C stress free (so no trains on it) - (got a source for that one if you're curious) So trains will have to slow down because sometimes in these kinds of temperatures if the circumstances are right our railways could just buckle from expansion and in worst case scenarios kind of just pop out like springs 'cus railways are kind of designed to be at tension so when a big heavy thing goes over it it doesn't just, give way underneath the big heavy thing. So that's already one infrastructure "ah".

UK Roads are also not designed for regular high temperatures - An example given for this is that once the BBC took a temperature reading on the A68 Earlston in Scotland, 21.2C, but the road temperature was 49.2C, which is pretty much where our roads start melting like chocolate, but less delicious and more dangerous. You'll also note that this article is from 2013 and cites incidents in 2003 and 2006... Lets see what's happening this week, oh!

Which yeah, that's not a surprise if 21C in direct sunlight can start making roads tacky like taffy then boy, 40C will.

We're having at least one bridge fall apart because of heat causing it to expand - (Source) Again, a simple matter, especially with historical metal bridges (and I'd argue structures as well) like the Hammersmith Bridge where they were built to withstand load and temperature specifications long since gone. How often do you have to cover a bridge in foil to stop it getting too hot, and have to run cooling systems at night to also try to stop it getting too hot? I'd argue if you're in a country where you're used to these temperatures, rarely! Meanwhile...

Now in a normal sensible country not run by madmen who wish to only make a profit, these matters would be touched on. But all these points require public expenditures to adapt an entire country to deal with climate change. But it's not happening. That bridge? The government's Ministry of Transport refuses to provide any more than a third of repairs. Even though it's a historical bridge and a major crossing over the Thames.

If they're not willing to bankroll London you can bet your ass is Westminster's government not going to bankroll changes elsewhere.

Almost all these points point the blame squarely on poor planning by the UK government for 20+ years. - Not a shock of course, it's not like the UK doesn't have plenty of people who deny climate change, even MPs. But these are all reasons that with proper planning could've been mitigated well before the country starts melting. I believe the devolved governments are trying, but there's only so much they can do within their confines as they still technically have to deal with Westminster.

I could've given simple people reasons, British people are acclimatised to cool temperatures and so on. But they're often ignored and framed as us being unable to cope.

I could've pointed at the UK also having issues with wildfires now. I could've pointed at the fact that I'm in a particularly wet part of the UK it's not rained for two weeks.

But I know those kinds of points get shrugged off as other than the wildfires there's not really any "oh so that's why" reason. It just looks like the British public are idiots with temperature and should suck it up. (Granted given how often the general public lobster themselves in heatwaves that's not entirely an incorrect assessment...)

However maybe seeing that schools are having to shut ('cus most don't have air conditioning), hospitals having to cancel appointments (likely to deal with an influx of people suffering heat stroke) and our roads just melting, will kind of frame how this country was never ready for regular days of 25C, it wasn't ready for regular days of 30C and certainly was never ready for 40C.

The same works in reverse after all, Brits have no real right laughing at Texas when it snowed (well, okay, we could all join in and laugh at the "snow isn't real" conspiracy theories). If your infrastructure isn't ready then of course it's going to struggle.

Just, be a little more patient with people and not just go "Oh get air conditioning" as if it's some magical fix to the UK's climate change issues.

I do get ratty every year with this kind of thing and for genuine good reason.

Anyway now to price up how much tinfoil I need to cover our stupid windows.