#a lot of confusion on both sides

[veryaren]

reaction image for when short fur affinity kleptomaniac won't put your cravat down

[amethyst-halo]

im noticing as i watch twt for the trillionth time that cooper moves his ears up n down but none of the funk trolls do, n i think that's a cute lil thing from being raised a pop troll bc pop trolls' ears are very expressive and funk's tend to just droop down naturally

[buttercup-barf]

Under the cut are mostly self-insert doodles of decreasing quality. Again, not much directly tied to Team Fortress 2. Might as well toss these out while I have no access to my puter. Much yapping under the cut and in the tags incoming.

Another self-insert, this time less of a "here's me as a tenth class" and more of a "here's my game experiences translated into the class I would take the place of". The Cleaner. Although I guess they could still be wearing either suit. It doesn't matter that much.

That one Convict's Case taunt with Backup would be extremely funny, because the man would be on the verge of a breakdown (he does not want to go to jail so bad you have no idea). The second image- I owe no explanation. You know what I am. You see the pattern with my favourites.

The duality of the man. Resting face versus "just heard you express interest in religion/Russian folklore" face. He's not that hard to make friends with, when you pull him away from all the explosions.

Some doodles of trying to figure his face out. Unfortunately, the more I stare at him, the more I worry that he looks like A Certain Guy With The Last Name "Kazarin", and the fear of never being original in my life caught up to me.

Don't look at me, don't perceive me, I refuse to explain any of my actions to you.

[vaugarde]

man i clicked on crow callers “unwind” video expecting some cathartic justice for not liking what i read of book one back in middle school, but now they have me wanting to give it another chance (really confused and botched reproduction rights discussion and anti native racism aside)

[wesavegotham]

The different parts of Gotham War not lining up at all in terms of plot, character motivation and characterization is bad enough, but now that DC is suddenly trying to explain when other titles like Detective Comics and Batman and Robin are taking place in relation to Gotham War it gets even worse because now all of these storylines make so much less sense too.

[cabeswaterdrowned]

was bored and did this ya books tier ranker … this is like the only ranked like this I’ve seen include individual books from series rather than just the first idk if I like that more or less

[lunar-years]

I love your insight into Roy and Nate and think there could've been some great stuff there, but I disagree about Roy thinking Nate has to be protected or at least caring about protecting him. Roy only sticks up for him because of Ted and the book from Ted. Roy was ignoring the bullying of Nate for 6+ months. They barely interact in season two other than when Nate kisses Keeley and Roy doesn't care.

ooh i think this is partially a case of me thought dumping in my post and not exactly being the most clear or concise, lol, because I mostly agree with you about all of this!

I don't think Roy cares about protecting Nate until the time it becomes convenient to him/his journey (hence my line about Roy swooping in when it fits his agenda, and not a second before, lol. Nor does he make any attempt to actually connect to Nate or help him find new footing with the team afterwards. It's very much 'well they've stopped putting their hands on him everyday in the locker room so that's my job well done. back to paying no attention to him!').

I think maybe we're meant to believe that Roy was just sooo checked out as Captain that he wasn't being the leader he *normally* was/had once been, and the book/Ted are what prompts him to reconnect with that part of himself and start caring enough to finally do what he's long known needs to be done.

But I think it's only partially that, and partially that Roy IS a hotshot who generally doesn't pay attention or give a shit about the kitman, and also that there's a very real part of him that thinks Nate is sort of pathetic for not standing up for himself. So when I say "Roy thinks Nate needs protecting" I mean that in a "Roy is being very patronizing" kind of way. I think it is very connected, honestly, to Roy's experience as a young boy at the Academy. I can't remember if there's actually a line about this in canon, so this may be verging into headcanon territory lol, but it feels at least strongly hinted at (imo, given how strongly he hates phoebe's and henry's bullies) that Roy was bullied as a kid by virtue of being the youngest kid there, which contributed to both his early anger and his learning to fight back. He had to harden himself to survive, and he did so by quickly becoming competent at making himself intimidating and unafraid to give as good as he got, making himself the bigger threat by overt macho bravado. I think with Nate in season 1, there's definitely an aspect for Roy of like, "I could stand up for myself when I was 9, and here's this grown man who can't stand up to other adults. how sad."

Him barely interacting with Nate in season 2 despite them literally having the same job and that job being one of collaboration at that is all a part of it! Nate thinks Roy brushes him off and doesn't pay him the time of day because Roy's an arrogant famous asshole who had the job handed to him by virtue of being rich and famous and ted liking him, rather than real merit. Which is sort of true (until the last part!) But Roy's problems are also much deeper than that and are rooted more in insecurity and self-hatred than his ego (he hates his anger, for one, and the ego is largely a mask for the self-hatred). And he tells Keeley openly in s3 (in the scene where they tell Phoebe they broke up) that he doesn't feel competent with the strategy side of things as a coach now that Nate's gone, which is surely something he's also had brewing in season 2.

It's like, Roy doesn't respect Nate because he thinks Nate is spineless and sort of pathetic (an unkind and unfair judgement, because it's not coming from a place of trying to actually understand Nate, but rather projecting his own insecurities), and he justifies that unfair judgement with Nate's very real actions, such as Nate ratting on Ted, running out on the team and going to Rupert, etc, (fully valid reasons not to respect Nate). On the other hand, Nate doesn't respect Roy because he thinks Roy's got this amazing life handed to him, whether it be by luck and innate talent or whatever (looks, money, a great career, a gorgeous girlfriend) and Roy is too stupid to even appreciate that he has any of it (again, an unfair and unkind judgement not coming from a place of trying to understand Roy or where he's coming from, but rather projecting his own insecurities into the situation). And he justifies the unfair judgement in fair criticisms of Roy's actions, like Roy not treating him with equal footing at work and Roy's micro-aggressions in the scene about the Keeley kiss.

I don’t any of these judgements results in overt hatred for one another, either. Obviously that’s not what we see on the screen. It’s more like, indifference/distaste on Roy’s part and stewing bitterness he can’t quite name on Nate’s part. Idk.

So I do think there was enough set-up there for them to do something interesting with them in season 3, even though yes they absolutely don't interact much onscreen.

[strewbi]

you’ve heard “my white family thought I was a different black girl in the hotel lobby and called out to her” this time here’s “my black family looked at a photograph of my current day white mother kneeling down next to my six year old niece and seriously asked if it was me. And I had to say “first of all I’ve never been a little white girl.”

[ilikeyoshi]

hardest thing about Controversies is you'll almost always have two sides, each full of reasonable people with compelling and frankly not even conflicting opinions—but most of what each side knows about the other is their insane subset of totally deranged idiots who want to burn everything indiscriminately.

[squidult]

warp event that turns admech characters into necrons, and vice versa, GO

[nageki-the-friendly-ghost]

Okay. Now that I feel comfortable talking about it. I can 100% believe that Kazuaki THINKS he's in romantic love with Hitori. But imo he's just. Not. He finds someone who is nice to him while he's adjusted to feeling only numb, depressed, or panicked. But he feels happy around Hitori (and Hitori is actively manipulating his attachment) and Kazuaki mistakes the subsequent mix of joy/confusion/finally feeling understood for butterflies

[hopefulstarfire]

I was watching tiktoks and one brought up people named Richard being called Dick. Right. Okay so my Grandpa's name was Richard and was sometimes called Dick, though he hated it; usually I heard it when my Grandma was trying to get him to hear her and go "Richard. Richard. DICK!" And it took me until I was a teenager to know that wasn't her calling by his name at that point.

His mom, my Great Grandma, typically called him Dick though. Which, she was this very like prudish, proper Norwegian woman, I don't think anyone ever heard her really even curse. I certainly don't remember her doing that.

Anyhow, she took this a step further.

On a drive home one day from church, she's sitting in the car with my Mom's cousin and her husband. They get to her house and see my Grandpa's car already there, because the whole family was supposed to get together for like Sunday dinner per usual.

And this woman very casually exclaims, "Oh look, the Dicks are here!"

Not Dick and his family. Not, oh look your uncle and everyone are here. The Dicks are here.

Anyways the temptation to get this on like a door mat for my grandma or for myself grows more and more every time I think about it.

[munamania]

ok had another ‘deep’ convo or whatever with this girl (until 4 in the morning amazing since i had to be up early today) and she really is a lovely person. and i still like her so much. but i feel like i had this sinking feeling of oh jesus christ i don’t know if i can ever say something to you about this

[dragpinkman]

ive seen adult eat the "carnivore diet" aka meat and dairy products only and thats whatever. i mean its definitely not good for you but you're an adult so. but i just re-download instagram and saw on the top a post about this lady feeding her kindergarten aged son like that. insanity what

[noxtivagus]

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[sysig]

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