#am i genius or stupid

[fantasymindpalace]

okay so if acotar is supposed to be beauty and the beast and feyre is belle and tamlin is the beast, that makes lucien lumiere right?? which proves helion is literally his dad because lumiere is LIGHT wake up sheeple. plus his personality is also sooo lumiere coded

[alltheshadesofamber]

My personal interpretation of Kavetham is that Alhaitham is aware of his feelings for Kaveh and he’s just accepted them, shrugged and continued living his life. It’s just a fact to him now. And if someone asked him if he ever planned on telling Kaveh, he’d be like, “It’s none of his business.”

[airyairyaucontraire]

I can’t remember if I’ve said this before but I think that if you make a Batman 1920s AU then you have to take into account that Bertie Wooster often spent time living in New York and Gotham City is just New York Noir and Bruce Wayne would probably cultivate the acquaintance of Bertie Wooster because Bertie is exactly the sort of person Bruce wants people to think he is, so it’s both birds of a feather camouflage and because he wants to observe Bertie for behavioural ideas.

Bertie, ray of sunshine that he is, thinks Bruce is jolly good fun and really quite barmy, but he already has a friend called Barmy and he can’t manage two Barmies so he affectionately dubs him Batty.

Consequently Bruce exists in a state of nagging uncertainty as to whether Bertie is the golden-hearted silly ass he so transparently appears to be, or is in fact one of his villains, knowing who he is and taunting him.

[bnnywngs]

wwx: uncle jiang we need to talk, it's a life and death situation

jfm: what

wcz: a-ying, this is not the ti-

wwx: *opens a big map*

wwx: yunmeng jiang is weak and easy to conquer

wwx: *proceeds to explain his point very coherently and with excellent arguments and examples*

jfm:

wcz: a-ying

wwx: yes, a-die?

wcz: ...you're ten.

[lego-grayson]

is it common knowledge that bart was named after barry or am i just fucking stupid for just figuring this out

[triforce-of-mischief]

Legend has a verbal shutdown

1072 words, no warnings other than the shutdown thing

AO3

reblogs > likes!

Legend… couldn’t talk.

No, that wasn’t entirely true. He could talk. No physical limitations within his tongue or vocal chords were preventing him from producing sound.

But at the same time, something was stopping him.

He suspected that it had something to do with the fact that he had been traveling with the chain of heroes for so long without any time to adjust, and the stress had finally caught up to him. He walked alongside, listened to, and talked with eight other people day after day without rest. He had stubbornly ignored the overstimulation and masked his burnout, but his mind had decided that enough was enough.

Now he was sitting near the campfire and silently picking at his stew, simply letting the conversation flow around him.

Warriors nudged him and said something, hoping to get a rise out of him.

Legend expected a response to the captain’s teasing words to come easily, and opened his mouth in preparation to say something like “What’s it to you, pretty boy?” Instead, his throat tightened and he snapped his mouth shut, staring at his bowl to avoid curious eyes.

“Whoa, no answer? Really? Is something wrong?” Wind prompted.

Legend looked up and met Wind’s inquisitive gaze. He couldn’t bring himself to answer the sailor, instead giving him a weak smile before returning to his meal.

“Just leave him be,” Wild said from where he was dishing out seconds. “Don’t push him if he doesn’t want to talk.”

Warriors grunted in disappointment, but followed Wild’s advice.

Four soon launched into an animated retelling of one of his boss fights, and Legend settled comfortably into just listening to his brother’s voice. Legend’s own voice was still uncooperative, leaving him unable to speak up with his own thoughts. He found that he could still laugh, quiet huffs with the occasional soft vocalization. But even laughing felt too… awkward, somehow. Despite his mind’s protests, Legend continued to laugh whenever it was appropiate, just to prove that he could make any noise.

After he finished his dinner, Legend found himself fiddling excessively with his rings and bracelet. Having something to do with his hands was soothing, and distracted him from his mysterious loss of voice.

Four finished his story, and Sky directed all attention to himself by pulling out his harp. He plucked out a familiar melody, and the music calmed Legend’s racing thoughts.

Hyrule plopped down beside Legend and rambled about random little things, seemingly uncaring that his predecesor didn’t have it in him to talk back. Legend tried to convey his thoughts with his body language, but he didn’t think it went well. Being in a one-sided conversation with Hyrule was tiring, too. Legend just wanted to be alone, but it wasn’t like he could ask for it because he couldn’t talk.

Wild, thank the goddesses, asked Hyrule to help him at the opposite side of camp, and Legend was finally alone with his thoughts. He set out a pen and paper and began to write a letter to Ravio, just to try and sort everything out.

“I don’t know why, but I really don’t want to talk right now. Its gotten to the point where I can’t, not with the others around. I’m afraid to make any noise, I can’t even hum while Sky plays his harp. Something is making me paranoid and I hate this feeling. I just want to be able to talk again but at the same time it’s the last thing I want.”

He was interrupted by a large, fluffy wolf invading his personal space. Legend let out an airy chuckle and said “Hey, Wolfie,” reaching out to pet him. It took a few seconds for Legend’s actions to process. With a flash of terror, he frantically looked around to anyone had heard him speak.

None of the others had even glanced in his direction.

Still, he blushed and ducked his head down, burying his fingers in Wolfie’s pelt. Okay, so I can talk to animals? But not when there’s people around.

He tried to ignore the screams of badbadbadbadbadbad running through his mind and wrote down his new findings. It wasn’t like Ravio would even read the letter for at least a few days, but Legend found it helpful to sort out his scattered thoughts by putting them on paper.

“You doing okay, Legend?”

When had Time snuck up on him?

Legend found a small piece of scrap paper and scribbled out “Can’t talk.”

“Sore throat? Do you need a drink?” Time asked, and Legend shook his head.

“Don’t want to… CAN’T.” Legend snapped his fingers to make his annoyance heard, not trusting himself with so much as a groan. He slammed his pen down and scowled at his lap, silently fuming.

“Are you having a verbal shutdown?” Time asked, patient as ever.

Legend looked up, hoping that his bewilderment was written on his face since he couldn’t convey it with so much as a simple “Huh?”

“Nobody here would judge you if you are, you know that. We only want to help.”

The possibility of this being a verbal shutdown had occurred to Legend, but he hadn’t let himself really consider it. Nearly two decades of life and ten years of overwhelming, traumatizing adventures, and this was the first thing to psychologically render him speechless? Being around a small group of people for a few weeks? It seemed unlikely, but Legend supposed that he couldn’t write it off at this point. He shrugged and nodded.

“Can any of us try to help?”

Legend thought for a moment, then pointed at Sky.

“Do you want Sky to talk to you?”

Legend shook his head and wrote something on the scrap paper, then showed it to Time. “He can’t stop.”

“I’ll be sure to let him know,” Time chuckled.

Legend breathed a sigh of relief. He was barely paying attention to the music anymore, but the calming noise was the only thing keeping him grounded.

“I’ll leave you alone for now. Just focus on breathing, don’t push yourself to speak until you’re ready, and have Wolfie fetch somebody if you need help,” Time said.

Legend patted Wolfie’s head and flipped a thumbs-up. His surprise verbal shutdown was weird and freaky and he hated every bit of it, but he knew that it had to pass before long. Until then, he had his brothers to help him through it.

[i-like-omori]

a thought i had:

since twitter is x now, someone could just.. make a site called twitter

it's not copywrited anymore i dont think, elon changed the brand name

it could be exactly the same as twitter before and elon couldn't do shit because he made twitter so different from what it was prior that it would be stupid to think they're the same platform

[booksandothersecrets]

rip henrik ibsen you would have loved Barbie (2023)

[justaz]

wait. i was just thinking about it and throwback to chapter 13 of the lightning thief. it really didn’t make sense to me that zeus would send echidna after percy while percy was on a quest to retrieve his master bolt but i had just brushed it off on zeus being Like That. but now that i’m thinking back on it, percy never specified who medusas head was supposed to go to, he just wrote “the gods” and given that zeus is king of the gods it makes sense for the package to go to him yknow? so if the package did go to zeus and he pulled out medusas head and saw “with best wishes, percy jackson” obviously he’s gonna be miffed. since he can’t kill percy directly as he’s on a quest and his brothers child, it makes sense that he would just nudge one of the worst monsters in his direction.

anyways, my headcanon/theory:

zeus sent echidna after percy because percy sent medusas head to olympus and zeus opened it

[boxwinebaddie]

Hi Uncle Nina !!

I don't wanna clog your ask box with stupid shit but this is stupid shit but it was also my bday on the thirteenth so shjdjdjs

As a fellow Monster addict ( I got a flat of Monster for my bday and collect the cans I have 30 diff ones so far <3 ) I need to know what Stan's favourite is

And on the less stupid side of things I was also hoping to potentially hear more about Stan's trans journey/Kyle finding out Raven is trans

Also I'm sorry your job has been so stressful lately :(( I hope you have a good day 🧡

- Stan 🧡

hi orange heart stan! <3

it's so good to hear from you, baby.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHSLAY, MY LOVE! i'm sorry i'm a little late, but you know me -- everything i do is fashionably late, darling. ;)

but also!!!!! call your wonderful, lovely ask message stupid shit again!!! see what happens!!! i'm gonna frown So WIDE, i'm gonna look so Upset. i'm going to hold you up to the sun!!! JUST WATCH!!!! >;/

my sweet stannie; you are a gift, a treasure. and your ask memes are a pleasure. i don't find them stupid in any shape or form, be nice. conversely, they are extremely special to me and it's why i put off writing this message for a little while because i wanted to respond to it thoughtfully, seeing as though it's your bday message.

which, *cracks knuckles* to get the ball roooollling.

i can absolutely tell you what monster energy is stan's favorite, but as a bday bonus, bc i wasn't sure which stan you wanted to know about, or if you wanted both: i'll give you both my style's fave monster flavs

and i was going to go into some ravenstan trans lore after that, but i feel like that info should go in it's own ask, yeah? i just don't want it to get cluttered. so if you feel so inclined, would you mind sending me a second anon where i can drop that info? thank you, baby! mwah

but now, w/o further ado...

please enjoy the most Refreshing part of your day <333

for context ( and actually because i got an anon once who wanted to know whether i drink energy drinks ), i don't really know that much about energy drinks/flavors because i don't really drink energy drinks.

i mean okay, i'm not really sure if it counts as an energy drink, but i will chug a guayaki yerba mate like it is the elixir of life. ( also i fully maintain that pep stan drinks the enlightenment flavor and ravenstan drinks the raspberry one -- crunchy eco kings ) my favorite one is the passion terrere one. it's like the only one that doesn't come in a can and only comes in a glass bottle...that ice cold passion terrere mate in the glass...it hits so different than the can...oh my god. so good.

and as far as monsters go, i pretty much only drink pipeline punch bc i'm a pretty pink princess and that's what hot girls drink <3 but other than that i drink black coffee because i am an exhausted teacher girlie, but that's purely for fuel. to be honest, i rarely drink energy drinks just for fun, i only have caffeine to stay upright.

which isn't a great idea...but...i am not a role model....

speaking of:

so i told riley this story the other day, bc i needed to get her brilliant genius girl insight on energy drink flavors because she is the sugar free energy queen ( riley's answer was kyle x ultra strawberry dreams and stan x ultra mango fiesta, which, everyone say thank u riley <3 )

-- also god if you are real, bring back the watermelon lime venom you discontinued, you sick fuck, it was riley's favorite, thank you for giving us lovely orange heart stan, and fuck you very much for making ME, bitch! come on down, king! you won't! why the fuck would you extend my coworkers vacation! fight me, ugly!!!! --

and i was telling her about how i am the chaotic kenny friend, i make really bad, chaotic decisions, have no self preservation, hype and gas up my extremely bad ideas and convince myself i'm big brain, wow.

and...oof. so like 2-3 years ago during finals week, i had a fuck ton of essays and projects due ( i was a very bad student btw which is funny bc i'm a teacher ) and no idea how i was gonna do them, so i had the Brilliant Idea...to buy three Random bang energy drinks...

AND SHOTGUN ALL OF THEM BACK TO BACK LIKE BEER CANS.

ohhhhhhhhhhhh my god, party girl nina. help. crying.

and yknow, i thought this was such a good idea! i was like wow i'm gonna be so awake, i am going to b invincible.

i....was not Invicible. i was...very, very sick. i was like almost catatonic and shaking on the floor of my dorm bathroom, lmao. i had to have my roomate take a picture of me on the floor and text all my teachers what happened, which, thank god they were all really nice and laughed but...i feel like that tells you everything you need to know about me...people who think i'm their hero...i am a fucking idiot.

but!! BUUUUTTT! just for You, baby. i deep dived a lot of forums and read a lot about the flavor profiles and think...i made a pretty accurate assertion of what my kid's energy drink preferences are <3

me: paris hilton pipeline punch bc i am bad as hell ;)

stan the man with the plan: okay, so i think that pep stan is definitely that ultra paradise monster energy. it just seems really crisp, clean, earthy. stan also doesn't really care for sweets or sugar, so it makes sense to me that he would be drinking a zero sugar monster ( kyle is disgusted ) idk the kiwi, lime, cucumber flavor profile just feels like pep stan. please tell me you can see the vision, help.

kyle pile: hmmm...so what i've concluded with my research is that kyle pile probably likes that pacific pipeline monster that seems to taste like fruit punch <3 it has to be the full sugar ones because of his blood sugar and stan does kind of scold kyle for drinking them bc he's not really supposed to and he gets really cracked out ahdslkshd like he's really cute but stan is like oh my god bro you gotta lay down but yeah i think that one or the orange dreamsicle one, which is hilarious because the only foods stmwtp canonically does not like are pickles and artifical orange flavoring...he really loves kp.

raven: soooooo i know that i said pep stan was the mango loco monster energy, BUT RAVENSTAN IS LITERALLY THE MANGO LOCO MONSTER ENERGY LIKE HELLO??? also i feel like he is like those mexican dads that put a little tajin in whatever they're eating and act like they've invented fire heeeeeelp ravenstan is so the dad that cuts u up fruit into little shapes and pus tajin on them and feeds u them when ur sad <333 luv u raven ;-; <3 but yeah i feel like he full on turns it into a raspado its so unserious sometimes theres a shot in there, it's usually the spicy tamarind smirnoff vodka,

...what can i say my man is a visionary and i see it

jersey: oooookaaaaay. so...sigh. for Obvious Reasons, pre and during rm, because of kyle's ed, he only drinks the sugar free monsters. for energy because he's exhausted ( my baby </3 ) but i also do think he thinks they taste good. i think he fucks with that ultra watermelon flavor that just tastes like the most beautiful, delectable, mouth watering liquid watermelon candy ever. i also think he could rock with the strawberry or the peach one sounds dank.

if the watermelon one isn't there it does stress him out, but he has a mental list of what one is next on the tier list, and acts accordingly. its kind of a nice change of pace but...his brain does not think that. however, when kyle is healing, weirdly enough, i think he ACTUALLY LIKES???? those coffee flavored ones??? which is Insane and everyone including tweek points and laughs at him

i hope...that suffices? you're totally welcome to offer me what you think is the right answer: you're the monster expert, after all. but this is what i feel in my heart! i think it feels accurate but, lmk! :')

and also...speaking of my job. UUUUUUGH. thank you baby. :((( i am actually criminally depressed because my fucking HOE-WORKER fucking extended his vacation ONE MORE WEEK! so i have to cover all his shifts for an extra week while he's on vacation. so that means i don't get to watch my testing accommodation kids who i miss very much, i still don't get his kinder reccess shift and literally??? spring break is next week like he couldn't WAIT???? holy fuck i'm Sad. :(

but i will be fine darling. but it's actually why i wanted to see if you could send me another anon so i can use that anon to talk about trans stan journey stuff? i just don't want it to get lost in this post and also, i'm not in great spirits rn and don't want to answer it until i can write something that's not flaming garbage.

but happy late birthday baby, i'm so glad you were born. <333

-uncle nina, monster shot gun queen

p.s. what is your favorite monster energy? :)

[liazrad]

god i am so ridiculous in the best ways. earlier today i accidentally dropped a hair clip my sister gave me into a storm drain or whatever and i thought I'd never be able to get it out. but i just had the deranged idea to take the chains from my skirts and some magnets to pull the hair clip back out. my idea fucking worked and i have my precious hair clip again. what the fuck.

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

while source hunting i found "Determined Raptures": St. Sebastian and the Victorian Discourse of Decadence by Richard A. Kaye which i think is about what i was talking about a few months ago abt st sebastian always being drawn sexually, but it goes into why which is cool

link to me going on abt st sebastian always being so erotic that is mostly for me because i keep losing it and i need a link or else it will be lost forever

[aquared]

i just really think im a genius sometimes

[docholligay]

I think it’s important to remember in fandom that in your own fandom space you are allowed to be god, but never forget that you are also a little stupid.

[bnnywngs]

wwx: i heard you like classic music

lwj: mn

wwx, smug: i have something you'll like

wwx: *put lotr vinyl to play*

lwj: that is not classical music

wwx: of course it is, it's lotr!

lwj:

lwj: *sigh*

[tofixtheshadows]

why would you admit this