#damning with faint praise

[zoomar]

The famous designer had not been able to make a queen of her. But she was a glorified chambermaid, a girl to shake the heart of a truck driver unutterably.

[periodicavocation]

for the first time in 4 years leafs are 2-0 to start the season lmao

[neonbrutalism]

i did not completely hate that issue.

[asklordcaptaincastronova]

🍁 + how competent would Watkyn be in combat if he didn't put aesthetic before function?

About average as opposed to laughably incompetent. He is stronger than he looks, and trained in swordplay. Bribes were used for grade inflation but he would have at least passed without them.

[nicholas-the-paleomancer]

All the enthusiasm of going to see your nephew’s piano recital. Hey, Marvel fans, blink twice if the The Mouse is holding you hostage.

[obstinatecondolement]

I read a 300-ish page book the other day, after not reading a lot of pro-fiction in a while, and it was like... pretty much just Fine in terms of the pacing and how polished it was. I could see the bits where the author was handwaving and trying to get something ticked off to move on to the next scene. It was mostly a pretty decent read and there was a lot I liked about it, but it was solidly mid and I was suprised that it had been published by a Big 5 publishing house when I got to the end and realised it wasn't an indie.

To be clear, this isn't a "which proves fic is better than books" thing, I was just kind of pleasantly surprised that you can get a good-enough-but-not-amazing-and-kinda-sloppy book professionally published in this day and age and have decent ratings on Amazon and GoodReads.

[tweedfrog]

Someone on tiktok is vigorously defending Barry Keoghan from deadbeat dad allegations by telling everyone he's an alcoholic like girl pls never become anyone's lawyer

[pocketramblr]

Honestly Kurogiri should have been an option for the fake family poll

I mean I can see why even a teenage corpse with limited programming to exploit as a fake family member would still be a better choice than most others, even if he takes third place behind Giran and Compress. But wow that makes the rest of the LoV look even worse in comparison

[amandaoftherosemire]

As a woman, I have always resented the gendering of scent. I do not want to smell of vanilla or flowers, of baked goods and meadows. I want what the men get. I want to smell of forests and mountain tops and abstract concepts like FREEDOM. To my delight, my spouse has no interest in these things, but their parents will not accept this. They got a big ass bar of soap for the holidays that smells of NAVAL DIPLOMACY. Someone has to use it, and I'm in. I'm expecting sea air and cannon fire. I will RULE smelling like this!

Update: I think it's bergamot, and maybe some citrus. Definitely no gunpowder or scurvy. Kinda bullshit if you ask me.

I don't know. It's fine. It smells like soap. Mens' marketing is so weird.

[alliluyevas]

honestly joseph smith seems to have been a surprisingly decent father all things considered. like aside from repeatedly cheating on his kids’ mom and getting arrested and ultimately assassinated and raising them in a militaristic doomsday cult and leaving unsecured weapons lying around in his house where his kids could access them. typing it out that does sound bad now that i mention it. but like he seems to have been an affectionate and involved father at least. like if you’re comparing him to future mormons who had like 50 kids or stalin he looks decent.

[phoenixyfriend]

i just went through the entirety of (what i could remember) of mandalorian history for my 11 year old cousins, and really the only reason i could do that was because of your long and incredibly informative thoughts on mandalore so thank you so much for that!

aoweygfuphaildfjka you're welcome

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

If I was going to pied piper a series of billionaires to their watery graves, I would simply spring for very reliable, very well-made game controllers to pilot my wrongful-death lawsuit-generator. I would use a tenth of a percent of one billionaire's ticket price to outfit the find-out machine with the sort of game controllers they give the US military personnel who operate drones, because nothing is too good for an indescribably ironic public self-guillotining.

[scumbag-the-hedgehog]

@timewontwait asked: 🔥

send me a 🔥 and i'll tell you one thing my muse finds attractive about you

They fucking hate it here. "...he's got these eyelashes when he blinks that are kinda cute."

[konstantya]

Me, 10 minutes into Doctor Strange In the Multiverse of Madness:

Hmm, is it just me or do Wanda and Stephen have some chemistry...?

*checks AO3*

Oh, good, at least I’m not the only one.

[biteyourcrush]

“...”

“7.1 out of 10.”

Oof, Milo.

[vaguely-concerned]

not to go full always sunny conspiracy board meme on self indulgent blorbo narrative analysis meaningful only to myself but... truly what is augustine if not a daisuke jigen Situation if lupin was actually, genuinely evil + ten thousand years for it all to keep getting Exponentially Worse. the whole dios apate setup is basically 'what if lupin was so fucking awful that jigen and fujiko had no choice but to join forces, still snarling at each other the whole way, to take him down'. it's just disaster polycules all the way down.

(...which would make g1deon the goemon equivalent I guess. I mean. it's not that far off actually lmao)