#it’s cool and i will die on this hill

[birdantlers]

I can only title dbz fics some super flowery shojo-title bullshit and i think it’s so funny,,, toriyama is naming hsi characters canola oil or whatever the hell but i’m like lol what if i put a little Chaucer—

[hinamie]

i mean he's got all the outfits now might as well show them off

bonus:

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[dev-solovey]

Reading up on the history of American Idiot (album) and realizing exactly how revolutionary it was and I just have to yell about it for a hot second

So, before they started working on American Idiot, the band was having problems and they were thinking they were going to break up. But for a couple of reasons, they switched directions, most notably because they all felt strongly about the Iraq War and how it was manufactured by greed and warmongering from the Bush administration, which was amplified by the news media. I read a quote from Billie Joe Armstrong where he talked about how the news media was becoming "more of a reality show" than it was news, and he couldn't have been more right. In fact, that problem got worse, and now we're living in an era of rampant misinformation where everything is politicized to a point where just supporting human rights for marginalized people is considered controversial. The song American Idiot came out in 2004, and when Donald Trump first visited the UK at the beginning of his presidency, it was the top played song on every UK radio station, 12 years after it was released. Most things would be culturally irrelevant at that point.

When creating the album American Idiot, a lot of thought went into it - they had a very specific message in mind, and their goal was to send that message to youth. This is because they realized at some point that their fanbase was a bunch of teenagers, and even though they hadn't necessarily intended it that way, they suddenly had a platform with the youth of America and they decided they ought to do something good with it. The drummer, Tré Cool, said something along the lines of "I've never really liked the idea of preaching to kids, but I realized we don't really have a choice at this point." And I love that so much because like, so many people who get rich and famous just become completely out of touch, and when they get a platform, it's very easy to exploit that platform, influence them with terrible ideas, or encourage them to act in terrible ways for self-serving reasons (ex: JK Rowling, Andrew Tate, Dream, Logan Paul, Onision, etc etc). Green Day refused to allow themselves to get to that point. They know the platform they had gave them power and they made an active choice early on to be responsible with it. And a lot of that moral code comes from the fact that they came up in the DIY punk scene in Oakland, which held its members to a very high standard of ethics, a code that they still follow even after they were disowned by that scene when they signed on with a major record label in 1994.

The song American Idiot has a message of "this mass media hysteria is manufactured bullshit, don't fall for it," and it is not subtle about that message. It punches you right in the face. I remember being 12 years old and listening to it and thinking, "yeah, I don't want to be an American idiot." And now, at the age of 28, I am a staunch leftist who is firmly against the atrocities the US government commits, and I feel strongly about stopping misinformation. So I can say with absolute certainty that they succeeded.

I also get like, really upset when people say that American Idiot is the album where they sold out, because that's objectively not true, both for the reasons I've provided above, and also because of the song Wake Me Up When September Ends. Not a lot of people know the story behind this song, but it's actually a song that Billie Joe wrote about the experience of his dad dying of cancer when he was 10 years old. The story, as he tells it, is that when he came home from school, his mom gave him the news, and being (understandably!) upset, started crying, ran to his room and slammed the door. When she knocked on the door to try and talk to him, he shouted "wake me up when September ends!!" in response. It took him decades to be able to write this song, and it shows because it's the perfect grief song, having been played at benefits for 9/11, hurricane Katrina, and so on. The first time I heard that song it reduced me to tears, because you can hear the intense sadness in it. A "sellout" would never write a song like that!! (Side note: maybe stop tweeting at Green Day to wake up every October 1st, it's super tone deaf given the subject matter,,,)

Anyway, I think I'm done being autistic about Green Day (that's a lie, they'll forever be my special interest), so TL;DR:

Thank you, Green Day, for creating a generation of leftists who aren't about the bullshit

[moreaugriffins]

IDK who needs to hear this, but Egon and Ray aren't the only autistic og ghostbusters

Peter is too

Your telling me this man with two PhDs related to psychology, who always has the exact right thing to say to manipulate a situation to his favour (when it's a planned/known situation), but cocks up massively when it's an unknown situation, who has a massive reaction to getting slimed (more so than the others), who would rather joke all the time than take a situation seriously because wtf should he say

you're telling me this man is neurotypical?

nah

Winston's the only NT in this group (idk how he deals with these weirdos (affectionate))

[camgoloud]

okay sorry to be That Person but i’ve seen this in a couple of places and it’s been bothering me. guys babs didn’t smoke. no way in HELL did naberius tern ever touch a cigarette i mean look at him. you want to talk about someone who needs everyone to know that his body is a temple. IANTHE smokes because she saw augustine do it and thought it looked cool and everything for ianthe is forever and always about the aesthetic. the reason pal brought it up in his argument is that he’s been in ianthe’s mind and has thus absorbed the knowledge of how to smoke from IANTHE. which he then uses to be like “see, when souls overlap they will always bleed into each other.” he’s not saying that he learned how to smoke from babs. or even that ianthe learned how to smoke from babs! babs never touched a cigarette in his life. he was too concerned about “work[ing] his little butt off” (thanks ianthe for that phrasing I’m never going to stop thinking about it) to attain physical perfection so that he could win shiny trophies in every dueling competition the nine houses had to offer. i mean. come ON. it’s BABS

[arthursfuckinghat]

His name is Arthur, but the devil called him Arawn. The Welsh god of war, revenge, and the dead.

Hir yw'r dydd a hir yw'r nos, a hir yw aros Arawn.

"Long is the day and long is the night, and long is the waiting of Arawn"

[themintman]

Pokemon au but in a mystery dungeon sort of way 😋😋

[holy-reference-in-a-username]

out of curiosity did the zombeh attack ever happen in this world? if so do any of them remember it or how would they feel about it? if not what would you believe would happen if so?

well...

one of my favorite things about eddsworld is how it uses the classic cartoon trope of everyone dying at the end of an episode and then being totally fine by the next one. fuck continuity!

the zombeh attacks definitely did happen. at some point. in some reality. i guess i would say, Edd, Tom, Matt, and Tord remember what happened in the eddisodes. outside of that...

they're not really sure.

Text:

Tord: Remember that zombie apocalypse?

Tom: No.

Matt: Ugh, don't remind me!

Edd: Oh, that was a BLAST!

Td: How did it... uh... end again?

Tm: Oh I have to be WAY drunker for this

SFX: FWOOM

[socksandbuttons]

unironically always thinking of several dad aus with killcode

hes JUST...

SIGHS

[eucacici]

Quick scribbly minicomic bc I wanted some Rhack fluff

[notcactusman]

So, the Victim from TMAGP 15

They were archivisting right? Like that sounded like S5 Elias and MAG 200 Jon

But like

With drowning specifically

Also I’m convinced it was the TMAGP version of Jon’s victim from MAG 142. You can pry this from my cold drowned hands

[ilovewillsolace]

Will can easily kill Percy (and any other demigod)

as known, Will has the strongest biokinesis abilities among all the children of Apollo. in the books, there was almost no emphasis on this, because then it would reveal his character, and Rick does not want him to be anything more than Nico's boyfriend for us, but even with this arrangement, we know that he literally sewed Paolo's arms and leg, which is impossible in the conditions of camp half-blood without special abilities. that is, Will can literally control the human body, including all its processes, which makes him not only an excellent healer but also an excellent killer. he can literally kill a person with the power of thought by tearing off some blood clot or stopping the work of his brain or heart. I think Will is literally capable of killing Percy right in the water, just by choking off his breath, making Poseidon's son powerless against himself

[theproblemcallednight]

only had the energy to color skk cuz i got lazy but it was still fun to doodle. plus skrunkle sigma cuz skrunkle sigma

oh yeah @fyodorkitkat btw this is how i imagine u. ur now the anime man

[fosermi]

the silver bug got to me it seems...

anyway! have sacrificed chaos Silver because hes a cutie pie (ft. sonic and guifil and an itty bitty eclipse) <3

welp, I'm off to a road trip! bug me as much as you want ill be bored in the back seat.

heres some closeups:

[tremendously-crazy]

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective, and I will defend this strange, enigmatic, goofy little goober for as long as I live 😀

[alluralater]

personally i think jesus was just some super interesting cool bisexual guy that hung out with sex workers, did fake magic, held down a carpentry job, and went from town to town fooling people with his “powers” to make that extra coin. and his disciples were like his on stage assistants/the guys who went around telling stories about him to really rev things up before a show. judas and jesus were definitely fucking. #jedus. anyways so like just think about it. i think they crucified him because they found out he was lying about it all and judas, that petty bitch was like “jesus you never let me eat it from the back anymore and you’re always hanging out with mary” let’s list out his powers + the likely ways he conned everyone

walking on water - long piece of wood just slightly below the surface. this man was a professional carpenter like hello. stage crew vibes

water into wine - are you fucking joking right now, this is so easy to do. you just drop some blood in there with sleight of hand and pretend it’s changing color. or you switch out the liquids, or you use a false sided glass

healing the lepers - he definitely paid people to pretend they were sick + used makeup (rudimentary ofc) and ‘healed’ them in front of an audience who were none the wiser. this and the rumor mill made people think he healed the daughter of jairus from such a distance even though it was just a coincidence.

multiplication of material - girl be so real. box underneath a table with a bottom tray which pushes things upward and creates the illusion of materials being multiplied because they’re suddenly here when they weren’t before.

controlling the weather - shut the fuck up. this is fully coincidental and i will not hear otherwise

curses - LMFAOO okay so they say he talked shit about this tree and it immediately dried up. yeah okay where’d you hear that from? one of his disciples?? yeah that’s what i thought. btw it says gullible on the ceiling

resurrection - girl don’t play with me right now. this man legit went into a cave for three days, and was like “reborn” gwyneth paltrow goop style and some mf took it literally. jesus is a dude that loves a good hyperbole and clearly his self care. to say he was in hell for twelve thousand years is an exaggeration, and it’s obviously a very good tale. sounds to me like he was drinking too much wine and he needed to dry out for a few days. or of course this was just part of the show. lazarus my fuckin ass

immortality - um. according to the script this man was successfully and very famously murdered for his crimes so… let’s move on

performing exorcisms/dispelling evil entities from hosts - okay let’s pretend for a second that this isn’t one of the easiest things on our list to spoof. the best way to turn an audience of faith-led people to your favor is to make yourself seem like you have been bestowed with a divine power to rid anyone of demonic force. this is a desperate move but you gotta get that bag. plant in the audience + lots of convulsing. or he literally just held someone that was known to have seizures and people decided he was getting rid of the wickedness lmfao

teleportation - the way i laughed so fucking hard. okay so we’re saying this guy ran around in lovely robes and appeared suddenly out of nowhere with the twelve disciples even though they would always be in a closed room? yeah that just sounds like some david blaine type shit and secret doors. or he just snuck into the room because there are TWELVE other men in thick clothing and it’s not that wild to think they just didn’t notice him enter. he’s a theater kid, let him have fun

in conclusion, jesus was the first prolific magician of color, and his tales of deception were very tempting to spread en masse because he was just this guy from nazareth that cut wood. an everyday dude with daddy issues. jesus was a man who wanted to impress people, to please people. maybe he thought if he was famous enough he could find his real father. perhaps he was searching for that approval and got carried away with his work. he was probably polyamorous, definitely a bottom. all it takes is a very long game of telephone and people think this man got killed for believing in god and spreading the word and having powers. in all actuality he was sentenced to death for running a con and amassing too many unknowing followers in the regions by being a gay lil magic man. as he rose to fame, he was prepared to leave judas in the dust. judas said fuck that and turned on jesus, showing undeniable proof of how jesus was fooling people. with this, jesus was crucified and subsequently became a legend + unwilling religious leader and martyr. or of course, his death was all just

part of the show