#I agree unfortunately 😔✌️

[gxlden-angels]

Were you personally victimized by the JOY model in church? Did your youth pastor shame you for having basic needs? Do you compulsively feel the need to give the food from your plate, the clothes off your back, and the air from your lungs just to justify your existence? Well do I have the model for you!

Introducing: The "Y, Tho" Model

This model stands for:

Y - Yourself: You should put yourself first

T - The Bit: Always commit to the bit

H - Homies: Gotta kiss the homies goodnight

O - Others: You can worry about others when you have your shit together

Remember this model when you can't remember your priorities in life! Now get out there and change the world!

[kaondecay]

a couple little vol 7 thoughts featuring vashwood brainrot 😎✌️

man this scene makes my brain itch on so many different levels lmao, like on the surface level wtf wolfwood!! we’ve just had all these chapters explicitly digging into how vash has a Problem where he tries to hide his pain under empty smiles- and in fact wolfwood clocked that about him pretty much instantly back when they first met! so of course badgering him about ~looking sad~ (especially when he started the page with a neutral to mildly glum expression) is just gonna make him try harder to cover it up, and that’s exactly what he does with that stupid little smile on the second page 😔

but wolfwood’s whole point here is that that shit isn’t gonna work on him no matter how hard vash tries! unfortunately wolfwood is also emotionally constipated as hell, so it comes out as aggression and teasing rather than anything genuine.

actually i just gotta revisit that earlier moment here because the contrast is just fascinating lmao

like goddamn wolfwood really came in hot with the sincerity in that first meeting, how did we go from that to this?? was it just because they were strangers then, and wolfwood thought he could get away with saying shit like that because their paths might never cross again? this was also before ww got his assignment from Knives- did he not know this was the boss’s brother? he probably didn’t realize the twins’ inhumanity at that point either… he’s had a lot to grapple with over the course of this assignment, both re: the twins’ apocalyptic power, and the fact that he has to betray vash at the end of it, that would naturally create a need for emotional distance. allowing honesty and attachment with vash puts too much at risk.

so really, given that very high-stakes need for distance, it’s telling that wolfwood still can’t help expressing his awareness of vash’s suffering & investment in cheering him up, even if it comes out in such a ridiculous way lol

it also seems like a clumsy/oblique way of trying to reassure vash that he’s still a person? vash’s inhuman nature has come more to the forefront lately- losing control in the dragon’s nest, regaining the memory of all the death he caused in july, catching that bullet with a feather only for the whole town to turn against him for it- and it’s clearly been weighing on him. so wolfwood acknowledges that angle by calling him all those awful things- “the legendary devil gunman, the humanoid typhoon”- but immediately discredits them by pointing out vash’s softheartedness.

idk i also have one more little bit of brainrot about the moment they share leaving the bar, acknowledging that things are about to get serious with Knives

like goddamn there’s so much meaning packed into that exchange!! it’s the closest they really come to acknowledging their whole “you know i know you know” deal around wolfwood’s assignment. (hah, “i told you from the start…”, fuck. ) like, openly telling vash that knives sent him would break the plausible deniability that wolfwood is simply fulfilling his mission, and that would put the orphanage in danger. at the same time, he has been 0% subtle and never actually *lied* to vash about it either- the few times vash has asked direct questions, wolfwood has given him vague answers or conspicuous silence and allowed him to draw his own conclusions.

so this seems like their weird twisty way of setting mutual expectations for what’s going to happen next. wolfwood is vash’s “guide”, no more and no less- he has enough insider information to bring vash safely to his brother’s door, but past that point wolfwood will stay out of the confrontation. it’s the one thing wolfwood and both brothers all agree is best, whether they like it or not. god wolfwood’s face in that last panel kills me

i am absolutely normal about this

[miketownsends]

could you explain the current vibes of the mariners around the trade deadline? everything seems positive but surely they must also be losing some possibly important players, especially reading both their top draft signers

vibes are good! we’ve been BEGGING ownership to buy at the deadline and they’re doing that. still need at least one more good bat but we’ve got a little time.

we lost Aidan Smith and Brody Hopkins in the Arozarena trade (ranked #12 and #22 in the Ms system, respectively) as well as a PTBNL. obviously not sure who it is yet, but the report is it will be another minor-leaguer who is not quite as highly ranked as Aidan or Brody. Rays are still deciding from the list they agreed on but it sounds like it’ll happen in the next few days. there was some speculation initially that the list included recent draft picks (including our two top picks), but as far as i can tell that’s not the case after all.

then for Yimi Garcia we traded Jonatan Clase (#10 prospect) and Jacob Sharp (unranked). losing Clase is kind of sad - i liked him a lot (watched him in Everett and at the Futures game last year!) and he’s been up and down with the big league club this season. but unfortunately, he’s just not quite ready to play in MLB full-time, and now with Arozarena we’ve got an outfield logjam, especially when Julio comes off the IL. Sharp i don’t know much about other than that he’s a catcher and has been in Modesto all year.

is it possible that in a couple years i’m gonna see one or more of these guys doing something incredible and go “damn i wish we held onto him”? definitely! in fact, i HOPE so because i want all these guys to succeed! but the Ms have a deep farm system. we can stand to lose some guys. even top prospects don’t always pan out - players get injured and don’t come back the same (Kyle Lewis, Evan White 😔) or they hit a wall somewhere (either in a higher level or when they reach MLB) or any other number of things.

i pay a lot of attention to our minor league teams. i’m emotionally attached to a lot of our minor league players and i don’t want to see them go. but i also want the Ms to GO TO THE FUCKING PLAYOFFS and this is how we get a shot at that! especially in a year where the division title is SO in reach!

so, yeah. tl;dr - vibes are good, we haven’t lost anything we can’t replace, and i’m still hoping they do more ✌️

[slightlyrebelliouswriter23]

are you ever planning on reading throne of glass series? i personally enjoyed it more than acotar but it is a long commitment (generally a much more chill fandom though, people agree on most ships but still have fun with crackships). just curious, sorry if you’ve already answered this and i missed it!

i have read it! unfortunately, i didn't vibe with it too much, so i don't post about it a lot on here 😔✌️

i'm an ACOTAR gal through and through, and i guess that means either dealing with the fandom drama or staying in my own little corner and not really getting involved. i prefer the latter tbh 🙈