#dex rambles

[ihavedonenothingright]

Thinking about the many times my early 30s professor will stare at something going wrong and mutter, "I'm the adult, I'm the teacher" before attempting to fix it and yeah that has Shen Qingqiu vibes to me.

[bear-tr4p]

he was gonna name that kid gideon meat packing …

[selfmedblves]

Guide on how stop caring about what others think about you as much

"you're annoying" –> "and you're boring"

"you're weird" –> "and you're boring"

"you're crazy" –> "and you're boring af"

"you suck" –> "and you suck more"

"be normal" –> "be yourself"

"we need to bring back bullying" –> "you just want the relevancy you had in highschool back"

reminder that any square shitting on you for being different is choosing to take time away from focusing on them and their own lives and instead trying to bring you down. explore and embrace your craziness, your weirdness, your "annoying" traits, your "cringe" interests, your "deviant" kinks. the world needs more weird in it. it needs more chaos and absurdity. we need more freaky, weird queers who aren't afraid to express themselves in all their eccentric ways. however that may be. be your crazy, weird, and wacky self.

[dreadfullydevoted]

I need to post my art on here but I’m so afraid of hate it scares me

[ihavedonenothingright]

THAT HAPPENED TO ME. One of my professors, in my first year of college, approached me right before class and asked me to speak to him outside. So naturally, I was a bit nervous, and I thought it must be something serious. And then he said, "As a nonbinary person, do you feel Taylor Swift is a hero or a villain?"

And I just kinda stood there cause, well, no offense Richard, but what the fuck does that mean?

Being trans and working in an office is funny sometimes

[ihavedonenothingright]

Very Boston Things at my cousin's wedding:

Brother & Cousin (not the same one) did a few improv skits, each of which started with, "So how 'bout them Sox?"

Groom's name was Kyle

Guinness

Entire party formed a giant circle to sway and sing Sweet Caroline

Several quirked up white boys dancing to Irish rock

Multiple Ryans

Chill Catholic youth minister officiant

[bear-tr4p]

not a day goes by where i dont think about how hoffman left the pen on purpose. strahms pockets were completely emptied, but the pen was left there. only the pen. hoffmans traps always have a way out. that shit was so intentional. and for some reason he still didnt expect him to make it out?? but ofc when he did it was over for the both of them. i think thats why hoffman basically expected strahm to make it out of the glass coffin trap alive. like to the point he would have a sedative in hand . god fucking damn it they drive me insane

[selfmedblves]

i love getting drunk to forget how fucked i am

[ihavedonenothingright]

"They tried to kill eachother!!!" And? I was in the front row telling them to try harder.

"They tried to kill eachother!!" oh my godddd that was only a couple of timessss and they were literally flirtingggg shut uppppp

[dreadfullydevoted]

HEYY HOWS IT GOING DUDE???

Sorry it’s been awhile hasn’t it nsnsns

Eh. It’s been going

[chvoswxtch]

on another note can you imagine how pissed dex would be if he went after karen or matt again and fucking luke showed up

as much as I want a frank and dex showdown I am fucking dying at the thought of the one person in all of new york that dex can’t hurt, who literally has bulletproof skin, popping up like-

marvel you have the opportunity to do the funniest fucking thing pls 💀

[teddybarebones]

I like shipping Obi-wan with basically any adult (especially male) character ever...so here is a non-exhausted list of characters I ship him with and why. (inspired by @grumpy-tooka 's post)

Quinlan Vos: They are friends with benefits, they started fooling around in their teens, and meet up whenever they are both between missions to hang out (and maybe fuck, if both their padawans are out). They are extremely loyal to each other, Quinlan lets Obi-wan help when he's drifting to the dark side, and Obi-wan trusts him to get help when he needs it.

Cody: They share something on the emotional level, two people who are always in charge of the situation, and struggle to rely on others for their personal issues. They would both put their own loyalties above their relationship with each other, and that works for them. They both hold the hope that when the war is over, they will discuss their unspoken (but known) feelings for each other.

Satine Kryze: A shared kiss here and there, oung love, two people who's loyalties to their own people would make them incompatible in the long run. They enjoy bickering, but can't last longer than a few weeks before they'd get tired of each other. There is still affection between them, but they both know that they wouldn't have worked.

Dexter Jetsetter: They fucked like once ten years ago, when they were both in a tight situation. I imagine that they happened to both be hiding from someone, and had to rely on one another to escape. The adrenaline and tension led to a quickie or something, and they became great friends. Nowadays all they do is flirt, but they are always happy to help each other out.

Jango Fett: Their tension on Kamino was CRAZY. I think there was some serious attraction between them, but neither would feel comfortable enough to actually fuck about it. They would both struggle with feeling comfortable around someone who is tied to the murder of a number of their people (some more than others).

Bail Organa: Bail and Breha have a loving and open relationship. Bail's interest in Obi-wan has lasted since they first met, and he has no shame in reminding Obi-wan that he and Breha would be delighted to share some time together (both in the bed, and out of it). They hold extreme amounts of respect for each other for their loyalty to their people and their dedication to do what is right.

Cad Bane: I think they had tension during the Rako Hardeen arc, that tense alliance between bounty hunters with trust issues is the perfect space for sexual tension. While I don't think they fucked, they definitely COULD have, and they know it.

Darth Maul: Maul's obsession with Obi-wan bleeds into all aspects of his life, including sexually. Neither of them would truly act on it. Obi-wan can see that Maul is attractive, but he is not interested in him sexually (too traumatized by his actions to think of him like that).

Asajj Ventress: Just flirting between them, their interest in each other is actually 95% platonic, they're just really weird about it. There is a decent amount of respect between them, as well as annoyance, resentment, and yearning for connection.

Kit Fisto: Sparring buddies, rare friends with benefits, very casual about it.

Alpha-17: Their time on Zygerria built a LOT of trust between them, they fucked once, and their interest in each other is now purely professional.

Cerasi + Nield: The three of them were codependant as fuck, it was more platonic than anything else, but they cuddled at night and were extremely loyal to one another.

Rex: They could bond over the headache that is Anakin, and later, over the betrayal that led to the enslavement and annihilation of their people. There is a connection there, that they would likely never act on, they are both instead consumed by guilt together.

Fox: They both hate politicians and dealing with the senate, they'd both love to be able to kill Palpatine, maybe they'd fuck about it?

Bruck Chun: The bullying could have been caused by both jealousy, AND a romantic interest. Obviously nothing ever happened about it, but Bruck had a little crush, and Obi-wan only realized later as an adult.

Hondo Ohnaka: They COULD fuck, but they mostly flirt for the fun of it, it makes everyone around them uncomfortable (and they think it's funny)

There are many MANY more ...but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head...

[ihavedonenothingright]

I had a history class a few years ago with a man who (in addition to spending his senior year trying to bang the freshmen) liked to remind everyone once in a while of how moral and Christ-like he was. This was, in part, an attempt to negate the many title XIs he had against him. A few times this led to quoting scripture, and more importantly, quoting it poorly.

We were on day four or so of a discussion about the transatlantic slave trade and revolts against slavery. Our readings for that day had specifically been on the Baptist War. I'm specifying this because midway through class, this man raised his hand and asked our professor, "Was the Bible around at this time?"

Four days into a discussion of slavery. The same day readings on the Baptist War were due. We stared, he stared back, and finally the professor said, "Yes?"

This man responded, in the same intonation as a Redditor saying "Checkmate, atheist!" with "Well, the first commandment says to 'Treat others how you want to be treated,' so why did they think slavery was okay???"

Three hands immediately went up. The class spent the next five minutes explaining to this man every single way the Bible had been used to uphold and justify slavery, all the way up to modern Mormonism, and he just sat there, looking smug and self-satisfied. In the chaos that ensued, we all forgot to tell him that he'd gotten the first commandment wrong.

There were a few similar instances (he accidentally declared that the two genders were nonbinary and lesbian). Worth noting that at the time he said this, myself and another classmate were actively pursuing title XIs against him for harassment. Convinced of his superior morality, we were not.

When I was getting my associates degree I took a Mythology class that I loved. But one of the girls in class was absolutely off the rails conservative Christian which made things… interesting.

The professor started off the class by being like, “Mythology is stories associated with religion.”

This girl. Haaaated that. She was like, “No, Christianity is true. It’s not mythology.” Mythology was delivered in the same tone as someone trying to spit excrement from their mouth.

The professor raised her eyebrows and said laconically, “Yes, most people believe their religion is the real one, that’s part of it, and the stories surrounding religion are referred to as mythology.”

The girl stewed in a hateful sullen rage. I truly don’t understand why she didn’t drop the class but perhaps it was court mandated education. We all expected her to drop the class but she dug in like a tick and derailed discussions as often as she could.

On a different occasion the professor was drawing a comparison between social constructs like gender. The girl raised her hand. The class hushed to hear her announce, “It’s just a fact that women like domestic work and even though men are awful and stinky we just have to love them anyway. It’s biology, we’re just hardwired like that.”

I was sitting next to my friend a baby gay Jewish girl and our eyes met in mutual hilarity while the professor tried to pretend she hadn’t just been stricken with a stress induced migraine while she steered the class away from that landmine.

The next sticking point was a week later when the professor informed us that many mythologies have overlapping events like floods but these didn’t necessarily happen in such literal terms. It was a metaphorical way to process and understand the world.

This girls hand shot up. I watched the professor exercise extreme self control to keep her expression bland before calling on her.

“The world did flood. And Noah saved all the animals. Before the flood all the water was in a dome outside the earth and then the dome broke and the world flooded. All of it.”

The whole class stared at her as if struggling to comprehend the overlap of her acceptance that the world was round while also firmly believing that there had previously been a barrier that held up all of the earths water before god smashed it in a fit of pique.

She raged under the attention, glaring balefully at our astonished faces.

The professor stared at her blankly, unable to form words to such a bizarre belief. I wanted to ask clarifying questions- what they’d drunk before the dome broke, if there were rivers or lakes prior, or did the dome allow some rain in somehow, but then I really looked at her.

She had the eyes of a feral, cornered animal who regarded any deviation in worldview from her own to be a physical assault on her person. Like the professor, I said nothing, and after a wretchedly long pause class moved on.

[lights-on-the-ridge]

Matt smashing Dex's face into the table only for Dex to thank him, we are so back.

[firehart9]

Man that episode would’ve been good if this show gave me a reason to give a shit about Heather

[front-facing-pokemon]