#A nice thing (sarcastic)

[turtleblogatlast]

Mikey and Leo episode centered around Mikey wanting to push Leo and Draxum together since Leo’s the most reluctant to give Draxum any grace (for good reason!) But, thinking on the spot, Leo says he’s gotta go do something for Hueso and “just can’t hang out right now 😔” (yes, he says the emoji out loud.)

Mikey calls his bluff and now the three of them (Mikey having grabbed a weary Draxum along) go to Hueso’s to find that yes, he actually does have a job for him. Said job asks for Leo to go with Hueso to deliver multiple pizzas to this giant yokai quite a distance away, and Hueso figured it would probably go better with Leo’s help (emphasis on probably.)

Well, Mikey decides that this would be a great bonding opportunity for them and basically invites he and Draxum along. Unfortunately for Leo, Hueso doesn’t care enough to wave away more help, though he does side-eye the wanted criminal Baron Draxum coming with them. But who is he to judge? (This choice has consequences.)

The journey goes about as terribly as you’d expect, but at least the pizzas get delivered on time.

[dissonantdreamer]

Ellie: can I have a gun?

Joel: no

Ellie:

[oriley42]

AO3 authors see your bookmarks!!!

I've seen posts to this effect before, but I just wandered across a really hurtful bookmark on one of my works so PSA TIME.

Authors see whatever you write, and unlike comments, we have ZERO control over bookmark text! So, now that someone's been an asshole and written something rude, it's permanently visible forever to the author and anyone else glancing at the bookmarks (which, plenty of people use bookmarks to look for recs, these aren't just for the individual user!)

So. 1) don't be a dick where the person who gave you Free Story will 100% see it and be upset, because at least personally, 1 mean thing > 100 nice things in terms of psychological impact. People who do this decrease my desire to share stories online so intensely. (If I wanted to hear people being ungrateful shits about my work, I could stay at, you know, work! And at least get paid for it!) AO3 is not Goodreads. Bad reviews based on your personal taste are not helpful, they're just toxic.

2) if you are, for some baffling reason, intent on making bookmarks for works about which you have nasty things to say (why???) then use PRIVATE BOOKMARKS. These are invisible to the author and other readers. Only you, the entitled and meanspirited user, will see your "1 of 5 star" rating and "liked the first chapters but then it's just gay sex 🤬" (real paraphrase from a bizarrely homophobic bookmark on one of my works). No one else needs to know that you're unbearable and tag-illiterate, okay?

End PSA thank you for listening

[rain-shoshana]

Editing to cope, here’s some Poirot being very soft about his precious Hastings.

[adorabledrugl0rd]

just try to calm down, Lee. Maybe call one of your brothers?

(I’m turning my emotional breakdown through her into plot development/ a character introduction. It’s how I cope)

[running-in-the-dark]

we're going to visit my brother and his family tomorrow, so we'll also see my mother. I've got a list of things we need to do/buy for her.

it's so weird. I get so confused sometimes when I see my husband's parents offering to help us with things. I can't remember the last time my mother ever helped me with anything, and I would never ask her for advice or help. it feels unnatural and wrong. also pointless. she just makes everything more difficult.

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

"Canon" facts about the lone wanderer:

person of color (their mom, Catherine, is black)

Born July 13, 2258 (making their star sign cancer. hm.)

Good at baseball (once pitched four strikeouts in the vault)

gnc af (in the game guide, moira says people can't agree if they were a man or a woman)

[willbyerswithpowersblog]

I have always found Will's reaction interesting when El says this.

Especially with this dialogue on the second season.

Owens: “What do u think that evil wanted? to kill you?”

Will: “Not me.. everyone else.”

[phantomimey]

I think my favorite thing about Zak Saturday as a character is that whenever hes made friends in canon (specifically Ulraj and Wadi) hes just such an asshole to them right off the bat its so funny

[socksandbuttons]

now if they were smart theyd NOT kill the guy everyone likes

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Wouldn't it be funny if people used my ask box for actual questions instead of trying to scam me? Haha just kidding....unless?

[streetsandsodiumlights]

doing this new thing where when someone sarcastically says something like “don’t you just love having a body/being alive/getting old” i actually honestly answer YEAH!! I DO!! unfortunately even if the circumstances aren’t always ideal i do still like existing in the world!

i like that my body can go outside in the sun and the rain! I love being alive because it gives me so many chances to do fun and interesting things! I like getting older because that means i have more years to enjoy every single thing I’ve ever loved! there are things i hate about some of those things, but it’s so important to my health to not exaggerate that hate from “this is uncomfortable, I wish it was different” to “this makes my life not worth living”

[ttimecode]

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABT THIS. OR LIKE THIS EPISODE IN GENERAL

[frogeye-pierce]

it's so nice when it happens good

[the-acid-pear]

An issue I have w tone indicators is that at some point you need to stop yourself and stop assuming everyone hates you or is trying to insult you constantly. Like you cannot live being constantly reassured you need to understand and live by it. Be more articulate, communicate confusion, think about how what you said will be read before saying it, etc .

[caterpillarinacave]

People need to talk about Roman Torchwick more