#He's such a good friend

[rurus-kadoo]

The manic energy of Tango in Zed's newest video is so infectious!

Zed knows he's been working really hard on Decked Out 2 and he's almost done and he's been in that hole for so long with little to no external stimuli. And Zed's many things but he is NOT the kind of friend that refuses a friend the opportunity to have a little fun.

So he schemes for a bit and comes up with a new Zedvancement, an excuse to drag Tango out of the Frozen, sunless Citadel, and from the moment Tango sees that A.S.S. Hat, reminded of ye olde Sillies from back in the day, he's so excited.

Cut to the elytra course, Tango's all "Woah woah woah I'm rusty!" but Zedaph just laughs and says "Give it a go!" and hands him a lead attached to a baby chicken.

Cut to the rim of the Hole of Fame. Zed explains the Zedvancement, and Tango's laughing and asking incredulous questions and making hysterical noises but laughing and laughing and laughing and he's all in and Zed can tell this was a good idea.

Cut to the launch platform, Tango's holding his hand to his face and giggling furiously because Zed miscalculated which sheep would give birth. He's using his Smartness, his Tango brain, to calculate where the baby sheep's gonna fall and to decide which sheep needs fed first for optimal placement. Zed's having the time of his life, and he can tell Tango is, too.

Cut to Tango, squealing and flying and tumbling through the air trying to gain as much airtime as possible without using rockets, with Zedaph desperately chucking wheat in the general direction of the baby sheep. They come crashing into the water laughing and laughing.

Cut to Tango, stuffing wheat into the sheep's mouth when suddenly it's grown and he's roaring "It's alive! It's alive!" and trying to give Zed landing directions between the hysterical giggles. Zed lands the sheep and they laugh and cheer and sing their own fanfare.

Cut back to the launch platform. Tango pitches the Zedvancement back to Zedaph, listing the things he was cackling incredulously at the prospect of earlier, and suggesting they take it a step further.

Smash cut, "We go again, Zed." Tango has this manic grin on his face, that gremlin spark in his eyes. Zedaph, with a fierce Mischief look, steps forward. "We go again."

Cut to the platform again. There are now four dangling sheep. Tango and Zed now have bits of wool all over their clothes. "These guys couldn't keep up with our reproduction needs, so we had to add more."

Cut. "So yeah, it was getting a bit confusing trying to remember which ones to do so we have perfectly Zedaph-colored sheep now." The sheep are dyed pink and yellow, color-coded in pairs.

Cut, Tango and Zed have matching Gremlinsanity eyes and smiles, and potions in their hands. They're not going to stop until this sheep is dangled.

Cut to Tango's whoops and cheers and cackles as Zedaph hooks the lead onto the fencepost, a pink sheep dangling beneath.

Cut to the Hole of Fame. Zedaph's trumpeting their victory. "The walk of- not shame, the opposite of shame!" "No! Victory and glory and triumph and delivery service!!"

And he knows this was a good idea.

[babblingbat]

Heiji looks so good in his suit in the Osaka 3 K's case! Between the yellow tie and the way the animators did the highlights on his suit, he's just so handsome!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

[drumlincountry]

I was at a Palestinian solidarity gig last night & the one Palestinian artist who was going to perform had COVID so the organisers asked around to see if there were any Palestinians who'd like to say a few words instead.

A local guy who was born & raised in Gaza offered to speak. He started with "I'm an engineer. i'm not a poet or a politician. I don't... do public speaking… I had no idea what to say when I came up here. So i'm just going to tell you about the street I grew up on."

And then he did! He went down the street building by building. He told us about the ice cream shop on the corner, the grocery shop, the charity that supports people with intellectual disabilities. He told us about the people who he knew growing up, the families who still live in the different houses. He told us about the university buildings and about his friends who quit being accountants to start a band together. All on that street.

All of which is gone now, by the way. Bombed to dust.

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[heilos]

I don't want you to feel like you're nothing

[willgrahamscock]

Still think it’s funny that Will Graham asked Hannibal’s THERAPIST if he’s in love with him, brother he was penetrating you in his kitchen while you moaned into his shoulder like a whore???

[mrghostrat]

who am i to refuse a warmup crowley meme

[mumblesplash]

i know it’s like years old at this point but i love that one collab mumbo and grian did with tommyinnit bc it’s like the single most concentrated example i’ve seen of mumbo’s Chaos Nullification Powers

you get to see a bit of it on hermitcraft, mostly via his interactions with grian, but until seeing that collab it didn’t really hit me just how completely mumbo can no-sell other people’s attempts to control a situation. tommyinnit is possibly the single shoutiest, most chaotic minecraft youtuber out there, and in most videos i’ve seen he pretty much overwhelms everyone else and sets the tone for interactions because of this. but mumbo just. doesn’t let him. no matter how much tommy escalates in intensity, mumbo reacts with *exactly* the same energy he always does. grian largely comes across in the whole video as annoyed and reluctant to engage with the whole thing, but mumbo’s not even affected. he just rolls with anything he finds funny and basically ignores anything he disapproves of, only seeming more and more unflappable the harder anyone tries to get a rise out of him.

AND imo, this is the key to my favorite interpretation of him as a character

see, when the people around him are being more reasonable/calm, i think mumbo often comes across as anxious and a bit easily overwhelmed. the thing is, his nervous wet cat vibes do not scale. he has one setting. his responses to the last life ‘ah-ha!’ jokes and to hermitcraft 8 starting to crumble to pieces under a falling moon are almost identical.

mumbo jumbo is inexorably and eternally Just Some Guy, but that gets stranger and stranger the weirder his surroundings become. the giggly incredulousness that makes him an easy target for goofy puns looks Very different when it’s also his reaction to the impending end of the world.

[whisperwillyou]

I still haven’t watched the last two episodes lol

Have a Noceda siblings sketch that I never finished

Luz really cartwheeled into the boiling isle and swiped the brother Belos has spent the last 400 years fine tuning and I have nothing but respect for her. 😌

[chloesimaginationthings]

Everyone “hates” Mike in the FNAF movie..

[erabu-san]

I enjoyed every second of this quest

[This art has platonic intention. Thank you for not tag ship!]

[carlyraejepsans]

sans undertale would not make i fucked your wife jokes. people want to make jokes about sans fucking asgore's wife but sans the character would NOT do that r you kidding me. you can cut the secondhand embarrassment with a knife every time they're in the same room together, sans likes the guy, i bet he feels genuinely kinda bad for asgore. he'd be like sorry about the dating your ex wife thing. to be fair she's a really cool ex wife. and asgore would be like (rescue shelter dog sigh) She is.

[beybuniki]

re-read the 200s and I love their awkward phase in-between animosity and rekindled friendship :) bakugo has an awkward way of expressing his interest and worries regarding deku’s quirk and deku in general it’s so funny to follow

[dingledraw]

South Downs cottage fluff based on the Dolly Parton song “Berrypie” 🩷