#i don't exactly want a repeat of that

[skeletalheartattack]

bozo dubbed over dubbed over

[bylertruther]

some byIers be like "well, yeah everyone in hawkins from kids to teens to adults knew that will was gay and called him all sorts of slurs and made fun of his clothes and laughed at him but that's just because they had secret knowledge bestowed upon them by a higher power or something about him being gay. clearly it wasn't because will is visibly gay and does not act like other boys (aka is gnc) or fit in with them aside from his party who are also outcasts for different reasons. everyone knew that he was gay even though will has never tried or done anything with another boy, and it has NOTHING to do with how we're told in many ways that he does not act like, dress like, or like the same things as everyone else in literally under the first twenty minutes of this show. will is our conforming #hypermasc king who isn't ever scared of anything, has never needed to be saved (and definitely not repeatedly), never cries, never gets called slurs aimed at feminine men, is on par with hopper when it comes to being a manly macho all american man, and would fight anyone and everyone with pure ice in his veins. fuck you if you call him sensitive or acknowledge that he runs away and hides when confronted with danger bc obviously being scared and fighting in any not offensive&aggressive way is Bad and Emasculating and something to be Ashamed of. embracing will's canon traits is Bad and instead acting exactly like lonnie does is Good and makes you an exemplary ally btw. so is taking everything about will and plastering it onto mike instead somehow for mental gymnastics reasons that i will never explain to you bc i know it's dumb."

and somehow..... i'm supposed to respect some of u and ur opinions? 🤨

[nonstandardrepertoire]

once, many years ago, a foreign army came into a little piece of land that had long been a punching bag for the larger states on all sides of it. the people running that army didn't really care about the people who were already living there, altho they were certainly happy to use those people as labor for their state-building projects and to extract food and money and other forms of wealth from them in the form of taxes

after a time, the people in charge of this more powerful state decided that the traditional ways of life of the people who had been living there before the army rolled in were no longer acceptable to the ruling elite and had to be stamped out (to some degree at least). a big group of the people who had already been living there decided they weren't very happy with that and started waging a guerilla war to regain political control of the place they lived

like all wars, this one was bloody. and the people who were fighting to regain political control of the place they had lived for generations killed a whole lot of innocent people, including people who thought they were on the same side. so did the state-organized army they were fighting

after years and years of this, the powerful state decided they had had enough of this and up and left. the guerilla warriors had carried the day. (the state they set up themselves didn't do too well, but that's a story for another day)

tonight, a whole bunch of people are going to start lighting candles in commemoration of this guerilla military victory and then some number of them are going to use this bloody, asymmetrical struggle against a more powerful centrally organized state as a rhetorical argument to valorize a centrally organized state doing war crimes against a population they have been systematically dispossessing and culturally erasing as punishment for a portion of that population waging a bloody, asymmetrical struggle and the irony of it all is going to be the end of me

[c0rpsedemon]

sleepy...

[dan-crimes]

Nuh uh uh *shakes my little finger* you will not get me Sonic franchise you will NOT get me invested into all this my dear buddy pal I've always enjoyed seeing you around but I will simply continue being a bystander just watching as it all goes by bcuz I know how it'll go if I actually get into all this

But also if I get bored I might get into it anyways it's mostly just a silly rule I put for myself cuz I know it would be a lot of work to catch up and I would prolly end up wanting to play some of the games if I got into the franchise but I'm not a gamer @ all so

[waffles-and-flapjacks]

[miyeosin]

🫠

i do wish soyeon would shuffle the order in which members sing for the title tracks. they usually change things up a bit on the bsides but i wish she would do it for the songs they actually get to promote. it’s just a little annoying that miyeon is pretty much always just singing part of the chorus (or pre chorus). and i can really only use rv as an example of what i mean bc they’re the only other gg that i stan so i know their songs well enough to remember the orders, but in queendom and fmr each member had a part that wasn’t part of the chorus or singing the same exact line twice. and idle has their own sound right i don’t want that to change i’m not saying they need to change that much but i just wish soyeon would mix it up. and i love her i really do but sometimes it really does feel like ‘soyeon and friends’ when she has a significant part of the first verse, and then a rap (which is usually a significant part of the song as well). tomboy and nxde are pretty similar so based off that it just feels like a bit of a waste to have soyeon singing part of the first verse when there are 2 members who could being singing something other than the chorus. and the places where she would usually put soojin just feel like they’ve just become part of whoever was singing before then (minnie usually, and/or soyeon) yuqi’s been getting an extra line in between minnie and soyeon in the first verse but she also tends to be delegated to just the chorus. even shuhua has had verses outside of the chorus. and truly truly truly this is no shade to any of them, i’m miyeon biased yes but i really do love soyeon so much, i just want some variety in the title track structure. let yuqi open the song! let miyeon do more of those little bits (adlibs?) that are sprinkled throughout songs! put a bridge that’s not just instrumental or non-lexical vocables (yes i looked up the term for it) back in the songs! let her sing something other than the chorus. tomboy and nxde are on the shorter side so make them a little longer to let the vocalists sing!

[daincrediblegg]

every time I see a still from joker 2 I become just a little closer to donning the makeup myself

[erraticroses]

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[redxriiot]

Upon becoming a father, Ei would absolutely ensure he’s the most present parent possible for his kid(s). The worst possible thing in the world for him would be to miss something important of theirs ( milestones, school presentations, etc ); he would absolutely take it quite badly, even if the kid reassures him it’s okay/unavoidable.

[the-sunshine-dragon]

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[botchallthethings]

They were not lying when they said fiber arts are actually maths in a trenchcoat

[leatherbookmark]

god has cursed me with. the curse

*wanting to have lots of interesting conversations but not being smart or creative enough to Have Something Worth Saying to people

[antisatiric]

" you didn't have to step in and help me, but you did, and i appreciate that. "

"Yeah, well. Someone's gotta stick a leg out for the new hires."

Tsukasa's been here for a couple weeks now, so he's not really that new considering the rate of 'hire' the Guild has. But he doesn't exactly personally greet most new blood outside of his own management; Tsukasa is under Fitzgerald, after all, which Twain doesn't really think all that much good can come from.

Better than here, though. Least there's a better shot he won't be involved in the freak shit that goes on with my branch of the place.

He's seen Tsukasa perform once. With Fitzgerald, actually, as part of the guy's research into him; determining whether he actually fit the criteria to be part of Fitzgerald's division, officially. Unofficially, determining whether it was actually true that either he or his troupe had an ability.

Twain's not sure he ever got the answer to that question. He probably could have asked 44, but talking to the guy is pretty much impossible.

"I'm Mark Twain; most people just call me Twain, though. I saw you perform a few weeks ago, actually. Fitzgerald likes to take people out scouting," he rolls his eyes, "and nobody else wanted to come. Not that I did either, but I like a good show. And you were good."

He's casual as ever, stumbling over words naturally. The kind of disarming that comes from the fact that he completely means what he says. Most of the time, it's something he uses to his advantage---but in times like these, things just sort of tend to come out that way whether he wants them to or not.

"I don't work much with Fitzgerald's group; lucky I was here when I was!"

safety. / accepting.

[calamitys-child]

Listening to a podcast discussing conspiracy theories and deconstructing the ideas behind them and it's reminded me of the coolest practical lessons in critical thinking I ever got, both in high school, both from the same teacher. One was a month long project on who killed jfk in which we could basically present any theory as long as we cited all our reasons and it got us really excited about research and interpretation, but it was the follow up that I liked best.

Our next project she brought us into class and showed us a documentary claiming the moon landing was faked. Gave us worksheets to do that sided with that stance. And at the end of class a bunch of us were like miss wait this doesn't seem right?? and she said okay, we'll discuss that next week. The next lesson, she showed us a mythbusters episode countering all the claims of the original documentary and gave us worksheets for that, and another bunch of people went wait miss you can't teach us two opposing things, which one is right? What do we put on the exam??

So she split the class in two and told us each to present a case based on each side, and to explain why our source was or wasn't the more reliable of the two. Got us to debate each other directly and use additional sources to back us up and explain why those sources were reliable and should be believed. And because they were randomly assigned there was no guarantee you'd agree with the stance you were presenting, but you had to present it like you did. At the end of the project she asked us all which stance we found more convincing and why, and the majority of us basically said "we think that the moon landing is real because most of the arguments against it seem like someone reacted to a confusing thing without testing it, but when you test it and ask the person running the test to explain the science it makes sense once you have more information. Also, one documentary was made with the help of scientists with qualifications and experience and the other was made by people who don't have that but like to write mystery books, which looks like a less reliable way to get an answer. But we still dont understand why you showed us both if one is wrong."

And she was like excellent. You've done exactly what you should do. At high school level, we as teachers are expected to filter for the reliable sources for you, so you know to repeat that to pass an exam, but if you want to be historians on your own, I won't be your teacher any more once you graduate. Lots of people have opinions and theories and research about times in history, and it's your job to learn how to look at them and decide who you want to trust. This won't be on the exam, but I need you all to know it. You all did a great job following the school's instructions to repeat information you were given, but for some of you, that information wasn't on a reliable foundation. I know you all know how to pass an exam. You're smart and you've been trained to follow these instructions. What you deserve to be taught is how to use all this once you don't have to do exams any more.

And then as a reward for us doing a good job at figuring out the value of checking your sources' sources she let us watch Bush get hit in the face with a shoe before we had to go to maths. Shoutout to you Ms Hannah you were a good'un I hope you're doing well ten years on from that class

[simptasia]

when char is in Dom Mode, to miles she's a mistress, to dan she's a goddess