#Just mildly offended

[compulsiveobsessing]

i need opinions

told a couple friends that i don't think i'd be able to share a bed with my hypothetical spouse every night and they think it's weird and one asked if i had commitment issues

is that??? weird??? i have particular needs lmao

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Since the Neighborhood are adventurers, I'd like to imagine they travel by sea a fair amount of times too! A nice boat trip while occasionally breaking out into a sea shanty, eh? (And for gits and shiggles, to keep up with the whole.. Eddie in water joke, I imagine the poor guy is clumsy enough to go overboard. He may not be unconscious during it, but it wouldn't make it any less funny with the group desperately trying to pull him back aboard-)

OH OH OH allow to ramble at length about this!!! what an idea!!! i fucking love boats & the ocean & being on the water so this ask is checking all my boxes rn

first i imagine that the length of their trips varies wildly, along with the quality due to the glorious variation in weather & bodies of water. and i'm choosing to believe this universe uses tall ships instead of like... fantasy steam ships. because i fucking love tall ships. the sails, the rigging, the elegance... an absolute bitch to maintain and maneuver <3

i imagine that depending on the ship, captain, and size of the crew, the Neighborhood may be required to help out to earn their keep. especially since they're a crew of nine eight, and some ships are woefully understaffed!

I'd imagine that Poppy sometimes takes the cook's job if the crew is currently lacking one (or if the cook wants a fucking break, jeebus it's a demanding job. there's a reason ship cooks in moves/tv are always stern & serious). Barnaby can probably charm his way into doing nothing but provide music/entertainment (much to Sally's aggravation). everyone else are plain deckhands

of course i imagine that that doesn't always happen! plenty of ships are probably content to just take their coin and tranport them. some of them (Eddie, Poppy) may still wheedle their way into helping out though. they strike me as characters that can't Not help

who i imagine loves their little water journeys: Barnaby, Wally, Sally, Wormie

neutral: Frank, Julie

hates it: Poppy, Howdy, Eddie

allow me to provide reasoning!!

Barnaby's impeccable balance probably means that he's stable as a rock even in choppy waters, and i'm reasoning that he doesn't get seasick either. his vestibular system is as solid as his sea legs! he probably finds the whole experience relaxing as anything. He gets to just recline on the bowsprit's base or wherever he isn't in the way & smoke/play his accordion/nap.

Wally just has such a love of life and new things, so why wouldn't he love being on the water? it's different! it's new every time! there are ample things to learn about and do! Home probably keeps his systems stable so that he doesn't have to deal with seasickness. though it probably takes him a little bit to find his sea legs... catch him stumbling around like a lil newborn lamb. sometimes he is facedown on the deck <3 i imagine he'd enjoy going aloft!

Sally would probably love the inherent romanticism and adventure of it all. Who knows what dangers and glory they may face! I bet she writes up a storm during this time - plenty of story material! food for the imagination! what does Anne say... Scope for the imagination, i believe! i bet she also loves having a captive audience. Literally. they're stuck on this ship with her <3

so many lines for Wormie to climb... so many little places to crawl into... new people to trick into giving her treats... down time where the Neighborhood is relaxing in one place. abundant time for affection!

Frank probably doesn't have strong feelings about it. It's a boring ship with no bugs or things to do. Except when he manages to rope crew members into having a lil impromptu fight club. Or when the Neighborhood is put to work - i wonder if he'd find the maintenance soothing or pleasant... or if he'd relish in the hard work of pulling lines

Julie is likely in a similar boat (ha) as Frank. once the initial "wow! whoah!" wears off, it can get boring! and games are limited - there's only so much you can do on a ship (depending on the size of the ship of course), and there might be strict rules to keep passengers out of the crew's way and to lower risk. She probably entertains herself by "bothering" her friends and the crew & cloudgazing.

Poppy... do i need to explain? wooden ship on the ocean, which i understand can be terrifying. who knows what lurks below the waters? if the weather will change on a dime? if one of the flammable things on board catches fire? if the ship hits something? etc. I imagine it's impossible to get her to go above decks. They have to literally push her statue-frozen body onto the ship when they first board

Howdy! honestly i just think it'd be really fucking funny if he gets Violently seasick! like, curled into a ball in his bunk & involuntarily making agonized noises. he sounds like a ghost w/ all the pained moaning. his sea legs suck unless he stances all four at the right distance to anchor himself in place. he's a weak, sickly, fragile little thing, take mercy on him... he doesn't even have the strength left to swindle or sell...

Eddie. now we get to the point of anon's ask - his sea legs would be nonexistent. he's staggering and stumbling all over the place. the ship just barely tilts and he's smacking into a mast or careening across the deck. and of course, hitting the guardrails at precisely the right speed/angle to allow him to tumble overboard. i bet this happens enough that every time the Neighborhood is so much as on a dock, there is at least one person either holding his arm or acting as a barrier between him and the water. as soon as they get on any ship, he's immediately sent below decks. any attempt he makes to come up is instantly blocked.

there's a lot of both comedic and angst potential there. small ship, calm waters? comedic. some neighbors are playing cards, there's on off-screen splash & Frank immediately sighs and gets up all "god damn it, Eddie-". lmao im imagining him floating there and rapid-fire blabbering in fear 'cause there's a shark (it's not a shark. it's a dolphin. everyone on board is so unimpressed.) he's sobbing in fear as they pull him in <3

but angst? imagine there's a storm. imagine it's an all-hands-on-deck situation, every available hand is needed, and Eddie is strong as fuck - he'd be a monster at pulling lines. probably wouldn't even need to sweat them. but a violently rocking ship, slick decks, maybe even waves splashing over the deck... oof i can so easily imagine Eddie slipping & sliding right over the side. maybe while the others watch. maybe they try to grab him, but they're too late. and in such a horrible storm, there's not much they can do - it's dark, the water is incredibly turbulent, the ship can't turn around easily, there's torrential rain. a high stress situation! i'm imagining Frank grabbing a lifebuoy, firmly fastening it to a pin, and then throwing himself overboard after Eddie. something to think about! (i'm imagining that after the storm clears up enough, everyone rushes to the side to check. Eddie & Frank are trailing after the boat, lashed to the buoy and exhausted. maybe a little banged up, but overall fine!)

and then yeah.... oh the shanties Barnaby could lead... the whole ship sings! and then them all in their bunks (or in their hammocks!) in the [insert term for living quarters here, it can vary] when its sleepytime. y'all would not believe the shenanigans that can occur in the fo'c'sle (or the main hold, basically wherever the ship's sleeping quarters are), especially before actual sleep occurs. peak silly time.

there's a lot of potential here, thank you anon!

like now i'm thinking - what about sea monsters? or jobs that Require them to go on the water, as in the job takes place on a ship? ocean battles! ocean searches!

[mxriviera]

bri-bri from memory. i would hit him with a hammer,

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think the TSATS detail that im reeling from the most is the claim that Perseus Jackson is straight. did the first series change when I wasn’t looking. We all read the same descriptions of men from Percy’s POV right. that boy is bisexual.

[utenixx]

Cagalli and Athrun writing up a prenup and fighting over who gets to keep Meyrin in the case of divorce

[lordkingsmith]

Had a dream in like 2014 about a young man who is kept in an ornate bedroom for who knows how long. He’s chained naked to the bed and drugged, and his handler is a woman he calls the Lavender Lady. He doesn’t know his name or his past but he knows he needs to leave before “the master of the house” shows up. Eventually he does escape and gets onto the lawn in the middle of winter butt ass naked. Manages to get off the grounds into the surrounding woods and runs into a woodsman who gives him pants and brings him to his home, presumably to help him. However when he eats soup he sees the man is really a marionette. He fights the man and manages to defeat him. Doing so he gets a rabbit skin coat-and a memory.

His name is Waylan Spark. He’s a nature photographer from a small town. When he went home for his father’s funeral he was lured into the woods by a mysterious message about fairy wrens and his missing mother and the old manor in the woods. He then got himself ensnared and held captive by the local fae king who’s been terrorizing the human towns for centuries. He also knows one thing for certain: he can’t go home until he gets all his memories back, and the Autumn King’s got at least one back at the manor, which he will use as bait to get his prize toy back.

The dream out a bit like…resident evil or silent hill meets American McGee’s Alice in wonderland. Wrote it down with the intention of making it a novel, then a video game. Waylan’s an oc I revolve in my head. I can’t decide what the Autumn King is to him, or why he’s so desperate for THIS guy, specifically. The forest is where the broken toys go, so maybe he’s just a random shiny plaything that the king isn’t done playing with-whatever the playing entails. I got the sense there were ulterior motives but I’ve been thinking about the dream for years and I still dunno what those could be.

Waylan’s tall, and thin, with waist length copper wire colored hair. Watchful electric blue eyes. Before he got snatched up he wore it in a loose pony, afterwards the hair is free with things twined in it. Before, he wore a black turtleneck, a yellow and blue vest, jeans, and red sneakers. After he’s naked with a collar and a handcuff around his wrist. After that he adds loose burlap breeches that hit just below the knee and a large rabbit skin coat that is so big on him he’s swimming in it-and he’s not a small man. With the coat he can become a rabbit for periods of time.

Like, there’s images of the dream I still see so clearly they might as well be memories. It’s a dream I constantly have to take out and stare at. Wondering about it.

Used some picrews for Waylan. Not wholly accurate but they get him mostly across

Had the dream before I got into whump, but now I can very much see it as what it is. That king had just about turned this photographer into some kind of pet.

[bright-and-burning]

long long ago (~twenty……. nineteen???) i had THOUGHTS abt a/b/o but slightly tilted. wait i bet i can find screenshots . nvm i searched up alpha and it returned 90% screenshots of old code of mine and 0% what i was looking for im crying. it was actually lowkey for rpf i never ended up writing for someone who is now. associated w a driver. LMFAOOOO

anyways. i think the gist was basically omegas as sharp-toothed bitey and territorial. but still yk . reproductively typical to the normal a/b/o universe. flipping kind of the . typical personality aspect? and the mating bite aspect (which i feel like was a much larger part of a/b/o in 2019. tbh)? and like thinking abt it within the context of “making sense” like evolutionary bio wise (akdhakdh) defending your young + your nest requires aggression and territorial instincts. and then something something like omegas claiming alphas bc reproductively u gotta lock down the genetic contributor before they go. contribute genes to other bitches. akdhskdh. i definitely phrased this better the first time around Five Years Ago so i hope this makes sense lmfao

[tiredspirals]

Why do you say words? Mind your business

[purplepenntapus]

You oblivious fail to understand Tashigi's beef with Zoro. It's not fair to have knowledge about Zoro and expect her to know about it. Plus, perhaps she HAS been mistreated by men. I mean Zoro isn't a saint in this to be honest. Mocking her during a fight, etc.

First of all I never said it was wrong for her to have beef with him, just that I think it’s funny lmao

Second of all HE LITERALLY TOLD HER HJCJCNDN

Tashigi then took that to mean something to the effect of because his friend who died was a woman, he sees women as inherently weaker?

Particularly with extending it to Monet in assuming Zoro won’t kill her if he has to, specifically because she’s a woman

Which is honestly kind of an insane leap of logic on her part rather than assuming he won’t kill HER because she reminds him of his dead friend.

If anything I think her beef with him should be more specifically about projecting his issues with his dead friend onto her instead of treating her like any other enemy which would be fair

[ghoul-haunted]

anyway, crassus pouring a basin of water over pompey and caesar like. Not In My House, Thanks!

[defensivelee]

ok fine poison from habbinz hoteel is a six lives! marly song but specifically the live version on viv's channel

[honeyboyfelix]

every week my mom throws a shit fit and goes on hunger strike cause my dad makes something she personally doesnt like/cant eat (my mom has so many stomach problems the list of foods she *can* eat you can count on one hand) and instead of being a normal and rational adult about it she has decided to lock my dad out of their room so i am having a very normal one tonight friends

[my-arms-are-noodles]

the end of this measuring tape looks like a little surprised froggy :D

[mr-seamonster]

How is it that I'm literally living in Canada and yet every article I see about the wildfires across the entire country have titles like;

"NYC has bad air cause if the fires!"

"The states are being affected by the fires in Canada!"

"Canada is on fire but here's a headline highlighting what it's doing to Americans completely ignoring how it's affecting Canadians who are actually dealing with their homes being burnt down and needing to evacuate"

"America sends firefighters to help control Canadian wildfires"

Like how was I not seeing articles about it BEFORE it became an issue for Americans? Especially since I reside in the country the fires are actually in?

And why is it that these articles are only coming out AFTER it became an issue to Americans? Did people just not care until it was in their backyard? Or does the events of my country just get drowned out by the happenings of our downstairs neighbour?

There are articles from before the American issue but I had to go looking for them, so anyone who didn't hear about it from someone or somewhere else wouldn't know to look for them.

I want to make it clear I still realize the severity of the situation in the states and I know there are more pressing matters than why the fires gained media attention, but this is still a sentiment that I know for a fact is shared by many Canadians all over the country.

Now I'm not saying to ignore the smoke effects in the states, it's very much an issue, but when all you see about the fires ravaging your home is about Americans it makes it seem like what's happening here isn't as important.

This started as me just wanting to make a little haha about the article names but turned into a short rant 💀 my bad

[iqmmir]

I am an okay person i think

[works-of-magic]

So "hex maniac" is the colloquial term for a ghost trainer, right?

Is a coordinator who specializes in ghosts still a hex maniac, or is it something else?

Is Fantina, the ghost type gym leader and Master-rank coordinator, also a Hex Maniac?