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that's a happy ending, kindness in action can do some good here and there.

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I've probably said this before, but it still bothers me that the Ayakashi Horror Tales DVD subtitles have Kusuriuri's response to "You're an interesting man" translated as "There's nothing remarkable about me" when what he actually says is more like "I'm not an extraordinary human." (Even someone who doesn't know Japanese that well can probably pick out 人間 in his dialogue.) Translating it that way turns what he says into a straight-up lie when, in reality, it's technically true, and the change makes his characterization different in a way that annoys me.

I think, like the fae, Kusuriuri would rather tell the truth creatively (or very creatively) than tell a baldfaced lie. If he absolutely had to lie to get the job done, he probably would, but I feel like he'd consider it somewhat beneath him. I've tried to remember if there are any times he does blatantly lie, and I can't think of any. I think it would be interesting (although I recognize it probably isn't really the case) if he were somehow prohibited from lying and had to work around it.

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I love to watch vaguely bro-like dudes react to the original HTTYD because they start off a little skeptical like "Is this really as amazing as everyone says?" and 20 minutes into it they're like "I would literally die for Toothless."

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"If I divorce my wife while she's pregnant, does she lose the baby, or do I still have to take care of it?"

-posts that horrify you before you realize it's the Stardew Valley group

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Three of Swords and The Star

If you've been endlessly thinking about how awful everything is, now might be a good time to take a break and do something nicer.

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

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I am polyamorous with blorbo but generally pledged to only one The Character.

observation: among a certain subset of tumblr users, the term “blorbo” has become unchic, but the concept it describes is still important; and so it has been replaced with “The Character”

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To all trans youth out there: I see you, I love you, I am proud of you being who you are in this extremely difficult time. I'm so sorry so many adults either want to attack you or have failed to protect you from those attacks.

You deserve a better world and we won't stop fighting until we make a better one.

And fuck the Supreme Court.

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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This meeting could've been me rewatching Gravity Falls episodes.

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screaming

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That middle right-hand one represents the moment on my first time through the series when I went from OK, he's really pretty to Holy fuck, gimme.

I just think his fangs are neat