#explain it

[tormva]

(Spoilers)

We won baby

[bedforddanes75]

tonight i wish i was your boy is a GAY song dont argue with me

[blondthndrninja]

The animators just can't stop with the orange and yellow for these two!!!!

[sorchasolas]

Why is it that i can be a straight A student with multiple clubs and extracurriculars but be designated a ‘lazy’ and ‘useless’ person for having to be reminded more than once to do a chore

[writer-rider-flirty-thirties]

How are y'all BoOOOOOoo ing me?

[masakuterarr]

TogashI? U might wanna tell us something about Shal in the Manga chapters?

[je-mappelle-sloppy-tomato]

Alright fuckers I’m tired of wondering why I think I could fall in love with almost any character if I wanted to but with real people it is oh-so-rare, someone tell me why right now

[average-emo-enigma]

Im emotionally attached to approximately 9 people and 5 of them are celebrities

[escapismqueen]

You know, it really is a true testament to best friendship when this is you and bestie @chenfordspiral

Us: constantly on the same wavelength

Also us: constantly confuses each other

[akkpipitphattana]

IF NOTHING BETWEEN BOSTONRAY WHY PAN TO RAY AFTER BOSTON SAYS HE DOESNT DATE

[spinspoon]

it's funny because sometimes ill just think about some of the ships i like and go "huh well if i think about it i think i like it as more of a platonic love rather than romantic" and idk if that's just due to the ace and wherever the hell i am on the aro spec bc im definitely on there somewhere

[kawareo]

Art snobs are actually a thousand times less annoying than people who respond to everything with "it's not that deep bro"

[captainobviois]

Training my parents to be funnier

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[homunculus-argument]

No wait, random worldbuilding idea:

A people who have an age-old tradition, that when warriors left home to go to war, their family that remains home prepare funeral goods for them while they wait, sewing them the clothes and preparing the tools and all that they will be buried with - to emotionally prepare them to the hard possibility that the one who left will not return home alive. If the warrior returns, their burial goods are all burned in a bonfire that is lit for the celebration of their return.

And to this modern day, mothers of the culture will tell their children "fine, but let me take your measures for burial clothes before you go" as a way of telling them that something they're about to do is lethally stupid. Sharing stories about just how dramatic their mothers are, someone tells their group of friends that his mother once actually took out a measuring tape to start taking his measures when he said he's leaving home for a work trip.

And another one goes "pfft, yeah. This one time I went to a rock concert and came back home to mom sitting on her sewing machine, fucking making me a funeral coat."