#idk take it with a grain of salt

[inky-da-dinky]

My friend group's Jackbox Quarentine Greatest Hits!!

[longlive2023]

THEY HOOKED UP? this is news to me

i've seen the rumor is all i'm saying 🤭

[kocokorok]

uh.. ghost hunter Roronoa Zoro?

[notacluedo]

Need to personally thank all the people I follow who post wrestling content that made me finding this reference possible <3

[dandy-loves-sun]

Duffer’s: Ah yes a interesting horror sci-fi show that takes place in the 80s where a bunch of kids fight monsters and the government

Fandom: Gay

[marragurl]

Look. This ain’t true. Like at all. This is so not the dynamic of this ship-

BUT

It’s fucking hilarious

So I made this on a google doc on my phone and I’m heading back to my sleep because of course, this came to me in a dream

[ge]

thinking about how someone said the way pbss chung myung is depicted in flashbacks is determined by who is thinking about him.. chung myung thinking about his past self is always shown as being unserious and ordinary, he sees himself as if hes just any other average person in the world, compared to the way others think about him; as a figure of legend, placed on an idolized pedestal, respected and admired but distant and untouchable

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Not sure if this theory makes any sense at all but I'm starting to believe that there's no time skip between Wally's phone calls and what we see/hear in the show's Media/Merchandise. If we see the Toyland call being made before the Homewarming episode then it would make sense that Wally's expecting Barnaby to come over soon. As well as the Homewarming sketch from the prior update. (I don't know, still kind of brainstorming this perspective)

that theory Does make sense and i've been considering it! the "timeline" is such a nebulous thing right now because we still... don't really know! there are too many variables and too many Maybes for any solid answer.

maybe the reality that the neighbors live in exists outside of time like you say, and like half of me suspects. there's so much reality fuckery already present, but I'm also... unsure of how much merit this holds given what we know / can infer about how time passes in Home. i'm putting this theory on a low shelf to look at but not prioritize

maybe it really has been 50 years, and Barnaby is either still around / Wally is still in contact with him, or Barnaby... isn't there. who knows, maybe Wally was just verbalizing some Wishful Thinking. i mean, Wally is a bit of an unreliable narrator, isn't he? we can't assume that everything he says is entirely accurate or truthful. and i mean, if it's been 50 years it makes sense that Wally would be pushing for connection / to revive WH. who knows how long he's been trying.

hm... i mean. it could be a mix of that and the Outside Of Time theory. who knows, maybe W is receiving calls from different points in the timeline - Wally may have started out just calling, and has just graduated to invading the WH website / getting pushy with the envelopes and media that's been sent to the WHRP. maybe Wally got tired of waiting for W to respond before W was even born. who's to say!

[ianthoni]

Ok, Idk if it's just me but I can't stop thinking about the part in Anthony's letter where he asks if Ian even knows the real Ian... like, I think I'm crazy and tinhatty for seeing Ian as visibly repressed, but Anthony literally sees the exact same thing.

My very detailed thoughts are under the gifs and videos. Buckle up that's a long ass post. I put some of the parts i find interesting in the video.

First of I wanna start with comments like "oh i think Ian is emotionless he doesn't show emotions" he literally did. Watch the video. Don't just listen to his words look at his eyes.

No no no you're not alone. The more i watch him the more I'm like damn this man has a lot to unpack. Like you can see he has so many emotions but also is hiding them. At first people were like Ian is so chill, Ian doesn't care and I'm like HE CARES?? You can clearly see he cares, you can see he's affected by everything happening around, happening TO him. He's just so closed up so withdrawn even he himself doesn't know how to react to things. Just like he said he's the most chill-unchill person. He probably has a hurricane in his mind but he doesn't show it outside. I think it's because he was alone for a long time. He was definitely more open when he's with Anthony but after watching the video I think their friendship stopped being close when Anthony started dating his girlfriend at the time. Ofc there was probably some stuff between them they're friends since 6th grade, but the strings broke and they stopped being best friends probably at that time. And probably after this Ian started to press his feelings. Cause I think he tried to talk to Anthony about that person but it backfired so he stopped it all together. At the time he probably didn't have enough close friends and after Anthony left he was just alone in his thoughts. Ofc he had partners he had co workers, friends, employees but at that point he was already in a state where "it's better if i just shut up about my own feelings/emotions/thoughts cause they're wrong they're the reason my best friend leave me" and everything else, the company, the break-ups whatever it was all his problems, he's the boss, he had to take care of everything and he had to protect his friends/company and everything. He should be the one doing it without bothering others. And that's why he's now "chill" he put on an unbothered person mask to stay strong in the game. He built strong walls around his emotions. He hide them so much that he lost his ability to show his emotions in the meantime. He's an amazing listener, problem solver, perfect boss and friend and best friend probably but he's not good to himself. His feelings are pressed, he has a lot to unpack probably. Idk if Anthony and him talk about everything (i don't think tho i don't think ian could just trauma dump) and i feel like he has to. Not just talking about shit happened before like they say in the video, no he has to talk about his feelings, how he feels about what happened, how he feels now, is he hurt, is he heartbroken. Without a filter. Like he had to leave the labels behind and idk have an open conversation with someone(probably a therapist tbh) and realize that showing emotions is not weak or wrong. And he's not alone. Maybe he felt that way before but he has friends, he has a whole family actually. I really don't believe he's an emotionless person he's just so so introverted in his emotions. And he's lost in his insecurities.

First of all you can see he's emotionally unstable already when he said let's keep going because he's either afraid he's gonna show emotions(god forbid he shed a tear) or so emotional to talk about the subject.

"I don't think I would even recognize if I was being put through emotional turmoil. This is just so sad.

"That doesn't mean you weren't being put through it, that just might mean that you're shutting things off" Anthony explained so well in this sentence.

And this part i definitely agree with Anthony. "How do you know if I'm keeping it to myself?" Cause eyes never lie chico! We can see the sadness showing from them. The fake smile thing is like. Ok yeah I don't think he's fake smiling in every smile but i think when he's actually hurt he just smiles at the person hurting him. Even in this video there are so many moments that you can see he's upset he just smiles and moves on. Not wanting to make things worse or trying to keep everything going. Don't wanna mess up again. But you can't live a life like that. You can't just accept everything anyone is giving and not have a breaking point. Idk him so idk if he had that point already or he'd have that in the future but i know if he keeps ignoring everything and trying to push them aside it's burst. (It's not about Anthony leaving this is not about anyone else I'm talking about Ian's feelings)

And the last part yeah I think we know the real Ian. Cause even if he pushes his feelings aside he's who he is. Him hiding his hurt moments is not gonna affect anyone but himself.

Also wanna add I was so so upset when he said he thought Smosh was his and Ian was just a sidekick to him and even then Ian just smiled and kept going. It's so obvious he knows Anthony felt that way at the time. He's not shocked about this. He probably had his moments about that. I'm so glad Anthony realized that Smosh is not this and that Smosh is them together. And praise him every chance he has for that.

Lastly. I was really sad when Ian said "I forgive you" and Anthony laughed with "for what?" I think this was the only moment we actually see Ian trying to show his emotions and Anthony's joke makes it go away immediately and Ian smiled and hid his emotions again with "just kidding". Again this is all me just putting my thoughts out there but I think Ian deserved an apology or at least a thank you(which Anthony probably did them in private i think) cause he fought to keep Smosh together for years alone. So there was something Anthony could ask forgiveness for. Yes it was the best decision for Anthony and his mental health and it definitely helped him. And Ian could have left with him but didn't. But if he didn't try to stay and fight there wouldn't be a Smosh to turn back to. Wow that was dark.

Anyways this is me overthinking for something I shouldn't at fuckin 2am and I swear I have a life outside this. I just love analysing shit and talking about it ok?

[6flyingosprey6]

Ok can I just say something

I know we’ve been talking about some of the decisions that the admins are making at the moment when it comes to story direction, and the thing that absolutely annoys me the most is how they’re not allowing some players to enter the server right now.

It’s for the story’s sake, I know. Some people like Baghera and Pol (who have both said that they are currently lore-locked) should still be stuck in purgatory, and I’m sure they have their reasons for telling Slime to wait but

It’s been like, three weeks??? Idk, I know the admins are constantly working their asses off, but I feel like making sure that players can log on should be at the top of their list.

[akatsukiky]

I feel that Foolish’s character is somewhat nihilistic at his core.

Because nothing the islanders do will get them off of the island or remove the Federation, nothing matters. QFoolish would rather enjoy what he has now- the Capybaras, his family (when they’re there), his hobbies, and the things the Federation gives him to do- than focus on working so hard for some grand goal that won’t ever be reached. It’s why he doesn’t mind arresting his friends and causing trouble- nothing matters.

It’s like a game to him in that way. He can make choices, he can favor certain things, but inevitably it is still a game. There will still always be something enforcing the plot and path of what he does and, even if he goes ‘out of bounds,’ he’ll only be pushed right back into it. Nothing matters.

[saionjeans]

ppl who are like “utena critiques gender as a construct and thus it is unfair to hold men to a higher standard if violence than women” are so frustrating lmfao. like. well there is something to be said for how we should interrogate our internalized notion that woman are less capable of violence than men, but it’s also important to recognize how the impact of that violence is diminished due to the denial of agency and power that women and girls experience when compared to men and boys. gender is obviously a socially constructed system of classification, but understanding how patriarchy largely benefits those labeled and afford the status of “men” and exploits those deemed “women” is also crucial to reading the show in a remotely coherent way. even if we collapse all notions of gender as it relates to personal expression (eg, utena trans), we wouldn’t be able to deny its role as it functions as a system that doles out power and agency to some and denies it from others. we must always ask, who is the exploiter and who is the exploited. obviously characters like touga and saionji and mikage are all “men” (well, boys) in positions of power who are also being abused by more established and entrenched patriarchs, and that’s part of the commentary the show is performing when critiquing these institutions. but it’s also fundamentally unserious to act as if the framework of gender within this show can be ignored and dissolved entirely simply because we are also invited to critique it. it’s harmful and it’s real. in fact, it’s real because it’s harmful.

[marmot-bee-person]

How exactly does Della control her robot leg? Cause she definitely has some control but like… the calf is hollow, even though she clearly has control of the foot to some extent.

Idk i have no knowledge of this subject, it just struck me while i was rewatching nothing can

[thebaffledcaptain]

actually part of what bothers me so much about this fandomification of historical figures is that it feels so disingenuous. if you love a person… you treat them with all the respect with which you would treat another human being, because that’s what they are. the same thing goes for historical figures—they are not any less human for having been dead 250 years. I don’t know. I just feel like if you really do care about these people then you don’t engage with them and their histories by blorboifying them, and if that’s the only way you can engage with them… well, then i’d take a step back to assess whether you can really call that history.

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

someone in the comments said they wanted to see the adepti mentioned for the attack on celestia, so here’s the crew

[lilydoeswrite]

lily on writing!

(obviously i’m in no position to give writing advice or tips but this is just what has helped me and maybe it’ll help you! take these lightly!)

crappy sentences will help

this is something i do whenever i lack the motivation to write but have ideas flowing that i don’t want to forget. basically, write them in crappy sentences. it doesn’t matter how bad they are, as long as you’ve put the idea down on your document. then, when you’ve found the motivation to write, turn those crappy sentences into better sentences or paragraphs and expand on those ideas!

just keep writing

this is something very subjective and defers from person to person but i really find this helping me. this is basically writing even though you don’t feel like writing. getting started is usually the hardest part and it is, so to help cope with that, i give myself as much time as possible to write down the first few words and sentences of a paragraph. if there’s anything that writing has taught me is that patience is virtue so i give myself time to figure out the first few lines. usually, i still manage to write things of good quality when i give myself time to do so even when i don’t feel like writing and it gives me a boost! i aim to at least write everyday except for my rest days :)

go back to the drawing board

this helps me when i have no idea what to write or how to get started. this can be done anywhere, on a sheet of paper, on a document, for me i use the whiteboard in my room. this is basically brainstorming your story/chapter if you have no idea what to write or how to get started, maybe even if you have no motivation! slowly, you can start to map out your story/chapter and as you link idea with idea, it’ll really help you get started on writing that story or chapter of yours!

songs, songs and songs

put on some fun music! for me, i usually create playlists or use the ones on youtube. why i say this helps is because it puts you in a better mood and i’ve found the better of a mood im in, the better it is to write. this also makes writing more fun because it’s like a half writing session half music session! also, certain lyrics might inspire you with your writing!