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MASH but an AU where instead of distilling alcohol they’re growing weed in the corner of the swamp

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I keep typing and deleting posts bc nothing is properly encompassing just how much today sucked

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i know that's right!!!!!!

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i call this the headcanon chart. see my vision

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I feel so bad my extended family on my dad's side was never much of one to me and I don't really talk to them bc I have enough issues in my life I cannot control but my sister always tried so hard to show face and be perfect and everything I wasn't bc she saw how they were with me and didn't want to be treated like that

and now through no discernable reason (we have suspicions but no proof) they're treating her like shit at my aunt's funeral and she's like devastated and like I know exactly how she feels not only from experience but bc of how hard she tried when I said fuck it and it just sucks

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niche(?) stupid gendered thing that has always pissed me off

I've asked to help carry the caskett of several family members over the years and I'm always told no while boys who were of equal strength and or weaker than me with further degrees of separation from the deceased have been granted the privilege and the older I get the more it pisses me off to be quiet honest

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i always underestimate just how many people on tumblr are blogging from work. very beautiful. very powerful.

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To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of escalating series of actions and circumstances which, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

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Thunderbolts* (2025) dir. Jake Schreier

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Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink

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very into the recent niche twitter trend of people posting like they’re veterans of a nonexistent sci-fi war fought on one of jupiter’s moons

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LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION (2021—) The Belly of the Beast Job (2X11)

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The funniest thing about Bridgerton as a show though is Violet Bridgerton telling their kids every fucking season something like "Hey. You're in love with this person. Perhaps you should try to be with them" and the kids being dramatic bitches refusing to listen only for them to end up with that person. She's so used to her kids being drama queens during the courting process that when Francesca isn't she's shocked. Can't wait to see her push Benedict against a wall next season when he starts pulling that shit too and to see her face when she sees that Francesca isn't actually that normal, she was just saving all the drama for when she becomes a widow and starts a sapphic forbidden love story with her deceased husband's lesbian cousin.