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i love how some people are like “how long will this tumblr dracula fad last?” excuse me?! you’re asking that while supernatural’s fifteen season corpse is still being paraded through the streets? of people who read homestuck? have you seen the joke about the color theory?!

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I deserve it

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i just learned that little white lie of all things is the FIRST thing to show up under "known for" on darren criss's imdb page and i am fully obsessed with that. starkid's ancient web series from before they were even called starkid. is the FIRST THING.

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not alone just made me sob

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Soooo... SK Innit Sidekick anyone? This show was amazing I loved it (ignore my screeching I was excited okay)

Edit: mbmb filmed by @pale1green

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greg lifting nick out of the watermelons

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favorite doctor who quotes: 66/?

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Never gonna be normal about I-Spy books <3

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If you watch Doctor Who on Disney+, it gives you a 'skip intro' button, and if anything shows that Disney does not understand the appeal of Doctor Who, it's that. Who skips the Doctor Who intro. It's the least skippable intro in television history. It never even occurred to me to do that.

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This parallel drives me insane. Because it is in no way parallel.

Jack, the liar, the rogue, complimenting the woman who tore his walls down. On his way to die he takes a moment to soothe something she had been chafing against.

Ianto, ever the sensitive romantic, complimenting the man he intends to manipulate. Even if it means going against his morals, to meet his own ends he will make this man want him.

Both meetings changed their lives forever. Rose inspired Jack to live. Jack led Ianto to his death.

The two are not parallel.

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I swear any time Starkid does anything I'm like a sleeper agent reawakened. Suddenly I'm 16 again watching AVPM in 10 minute increments on my itouch and everyone around me just has to put up with it for the next 7-10 business days

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Sometimes I think back on the time I spent working as a barista, and it seems SO STRANGE to me that “coffee shop AU” has become synonymous with narratives that are low on conflict, high on wholesome romance. During the year I spent working at a coffee shop:

A coworker of mine took a bunch of psychedelics, walked through some strangers’ plate-glass door, and threatened them with a bowie knife, leading to his arrest and imprisonment (and, needless to say, a late opening for the coffee shop that morning). 

Another coworker, an ex-military type with a young wife and a new baby, decided to smoke up for the first time ever with two other mutual coworkers, in the back of one of their trucks; and ended up having a three-way with them which ended his marriage. 

I had a nervous breakdown, stopped being able to eat food or hold conversations, and ended up sleeping on my coworker’s couch for three weeks before she finally called my parents to come collect me.

Multiple store managers were fired for embezzlement. (Reminder: this was within the space of a single year.)

Yet another coworker, who was seventeen at the time, started dog-sitting for a couple of regulars in their (I’m guessing) early 50s, and ended up in an ongoing creepy and incidentally illegal ~relationship~ with them both. 

Various employees discovered, in the course of cleaning the bathrooms: couples fucking in the bathrooms; junkies passed out in the bathrooms; drunks puking in the bathrooms; both adults and children weeping in the bathrooms; a woman bleeding all over the bathroom from a gash in her throat (??); a dude standing in the middle of the bathroom floor and pissing in the opposite direction from the toilet, so that when the employee opened the unlocked door she got piss all over her (????). 

The owner of the bridal shop across the street was exposed as both abusive toward her employees and also cooking the books, which led to my coffee shop taking on a couple of untrained and weirdly conservative bridal shop workers for a few months while the bridal shop was shuttered and sold to new owners. Later the larcenous former bridal shop owner came down with some horrible disease which caused her to lose both her hands.  

There was a regular universally referred to as “Sketchy Steve,” who came in at 7am for a three-shot latte with room for Seagrams 7, and dealt drugs to all us baristas. I actually, at one point (I cannot believe I was this stupid), went inside Sketchy Steve’s house, and allowed him to spend like half an hour showing me his collection of découpaged outlet plates and also soliciting me for sex while I uncomfortably yet studiously declined.

Right before I started, the store manager had walked off the job in the middle of a shift, and ¾ of the employees had walked out after him. None of them ever returned. 

Like, working on the front lines of food service was the most operatically sordid professional experience I have ever had, and one of the most surreal; and it is hilarious to me that THAT, of all jobs, is the one that has come to stand for soft-focus domestic romance in fandom circles.