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sp0o0kylights · 2 years

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Steve was going to kill Jonathan.

He had to save the guy’s life first, but once he did, Jonathan was a dead man.

Skidding around the corner, eyes wild, Steve only slowed down when he could visually confirm that he had in fact, made it in time.

“Whoa, hey.” Jonathan said. startled as Steve nearly crashed into him, dropping the paper plates he was carrying to his backyard. “What’s wrong?”

“You-” Steve huffed, breath coming out in sharp bursts and man, wasn’t that a sign that he’d been slacking lately on his workouts? “You need to--”

“What’s happening?” Will interrupted, sensing trouble-- and running immediately towards it as always, El trailing behind. “Are you okay?”

“No.” Steve growled, hands on his knees, glaring up through his hair. “No, I am not okay. Jonathan won’t be either if he doesn’t go inside and stay there for at least the next twenty minutes.”

He slowly stood, his general fitness allowing him to regain his stamina quickly even if he had been neglecting it.

‘I’m sorry I ever stopped going on bi weekly runs.’

“What?” Jonathan asked, at the same time Will and El said;

“Why?”

Steve turned his attention to Will, startled to find the kid was almost taller than he was. That was a train of thought for a different day, because right now he was still focused on keeping Jonathan living and breathing.

‘The shit I do for these people.’

“You guys remember Gareth?” He said, staring pointedly at Jonathan.

Ah yes, there was the little wince he was looking for.

“Gareth?” El asked, voice soft as Will stiffened visibly besides his brother.

Steve nodded, still glaring Jonathan down. “You know, Gareth. Skipped a grade, Brown hair, part of the Hellfire club, got his ass kicked by Carver’s asshole buddies because he’s super close to Eddie?”

“Steve--” Will started, staring at him and not at his brother's hunched shoulders, the very first sign of guilt in a Byers.

(Among many other things, but Steve knew Jonathan better than he knew Will, and those?

Those were guilty shoulders.)

“Your brother,” Steve interrupted, making sure the sheer annoyance in his tone came through, “--decided to have a talk with Gareth.”

He put his hands on his hips, doing his best to communicate ‘you done fucked up’ with his own face. “Eddie found out and is on a rampage.”

A fact he had been alerted to by Gareth himself, after the poor kid had called him from Eddie’s shiny new government supplied house, begging Steve to stop Eddie before he made the situation worse than it already was.

(Considering Eddie’s paranoia and general protectiveness was still ramped up to a hundred even now, six months after all the Vecna bullshit, Steve didn’t blame Gareth for calling it like it was.

Eddie absolutely would make things worse.)

There was a very long pause, in which Steve got a front row seat to several different Byers expressions.

First was confusion, followed quickly by realization, and then the slow dawning of horror as Will cued in to exactly what his brother had done.

Meanwhile; Jonathan’s hunched, guilty form took on the look of something a bit more pinched.

Like a soccer player who had clocked that the ball was in the air, hurtling dead towards his face, and all he could do was stand there and take the hit.

“Oh.” El said, her head tilted comically, correctly reading her brothers faces. “Gareth is the boy Will has a crush on.”

She turned to peer Jonathan, Will’s face managing to somehow go redder at his sister's words.

“The talk Jonathan gave him was like Jim’s talk to Mike.”

Implied: That talk broke the two of them up.

Implied: Said talk was now firmly rooted in El’s head as a bad thing.

Implied: Jonathan was screwed.

“That’s not good.” She finished calmly, as Will whipped around to confront his brother.

“What the hell!?” He shrieked, voice cracking right in the middle as Jonathan raised his hands defensively.

“Look, you’ve been through a lot, and-” He started, only to be immediately interrupted by a furious;

“That’s not an excuse!”

Will advanced on him, sticking a pointed finger in Jonathan’s face, a whole tirade of words pouring out of his mouth. “I can’t-I can’t believe you! I told you about Gareth in confidence! You told me I could tell you anything, Jonathan!”

Steve raised an eyebrow, impressed to find that baby-Byers could actually be intimidating when he wanted to be.

He was pretty sure it was the height.

“Scream about it later, get inside now please.” Steve said, trying to cut Will’s attempt on Jonathan’s life off.

Personally he didn’t care if the guy’s own brother murdered him, he just didn’t need Eddie to catch a charge.

Again.

The very thought coincided with their time ending, as a furious screech of wheel’s and muffled metal roared into the Byer’s driveway. The car wasn’t even off by the time Steve heard the door slam, Eddie’s stomping footsteps loud enough for Steve to track him as he came around to the backyard.

“Hey, El?” He said, as he turned to face down his furious boyfriend. “Tell Will I’m on his side for this one, would you?”

El nodded politely, a smile overtaking her face as she watched Steve match Eddie’s stride, aiming to head his boyfriend off.

Kid probably knew what he was going to do before he did it, the little shit.

“Get out of my way, Steve-!” Eddie bit out, stopping only so he could point to where he wanted Steve to move to.

Sadly for him, Steve had a different plan.

Instead of slowing down, he simply bent at the knees, wrapping his arms around the back of Eddie’s thighs and putting his shoulder firmly in Eddie’s torso. He had to withhold a grunt to do it, the step- to kneel-to carry was not as smooth as it used to be when Steve was in proper shape and throwing girls around like footballs, but he managed to get Eddie over his shoulder anyway.

“Hey!” His boyfriend squawked, as Steve smoothly continued walking, right back out of the Byer’s backyard, Eddie hanging over his shoulder.

“Steven Reginald Harrington, put me down right now!” Eddie shrieked, the words only slightly tangled with Will’s own;

“You’re DEAD Jonathan!”

(and Els’ gentle laugh, of course.)

#Anytime I ship Gary with Will I just make Will the secret oldest #because thats hilarious #and Gary the youngest #for equal hilarity #do it right and they're only about a little more than a year apart #but let's just say at the time theyre like 16/17 ish #wardrum #steddie #gareth emerson #will byres #steve harrington #eddie munson #protective older brother / older brother figures ENGAGE #jonathan byers #0o0 fanfics #Steve needs a hug #will x gareth #steve x eddie

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nobodysdaydreams · 1 month

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Giving a complicated tragic childhood backstory to your favorite character is all fun and games, until you realize you need to account for how old all the other adult characters would have been at the time and realize that scenes that would work perfectly if one character was twenty three and the other was fourteen stop working when you need other characters who are played by adult actors clearly younger than they are to be in college at the same time so your story beats line up thematically.

#Don't worry. I made an excel document for this over a year ago #Was that unhinged? Yeah. But this is harder than you think it is #In unrelated news it is now reasonable to have a child in your 20s 30s or 40s depending on when the plot needs the child #Also people in their early 20s can be in grad school have already established careers and adopt children now. I've declared it.#Also: Hollywood stop trying to trick me into believing women in their 30s are the same age as men in their 50s. It's never gonna work.#I'm fighting for my life to make these age gaps normal even on a platonic level #Don't worry I aged the girls up and the boys down #But still this is a bit ridiculous #If you use the actors' ages it doesn't work. Garrison's actress is 16 years younger than Curtain. Why?#I mean I like the casting. But SQ is a teenager. We know Curtain has had his evil plans at least since SQ was born and lost his bio dad #and if the Whisperer is Garrison's invention that means she and Curtain were working together when SQ was born #If SQ in the show is 16 (the actor was older I believe) and Garrison is 37 (that's how old the actress is now she was younger at time)#That means Garrison was only 21 and Curtain was well into his 30s. And that's after you age SQ down and Garrison up for the calculations #So Garrison was likely (according to the shows' casting) even younger than that which begs the question what was Curtain doing?#Was he spending his 30s lurking around college campuses and high schools looking for a kid whose inventions he could steal?#What in the Marcus Cutter is that about?#All these jokes about Garrison being SQ's uninvolved divorced stepmom but nah she's really his estranged big sister #also this is very frustrating because the irl age gap between the actress who plays Number Two and Tony Hale only 7 years #but they're the ones for whom a 16 year age gap would have actually made sense because he adopts her in the books!#but now since Garrison is clearly so much younger than Number Two Curtain and Benedict I have to deal with this #(Don't worry I figured it out and made the age gaps normal. You just now have to believe Number Two is only a year older than Garrison)#It was the stress of living with her family that aged her and Garrison just looks naturally super young that's what we're going with.#And don't get me wrong:#I do like the actresses and actors they casted they're great but sometimes I google the ages and I'm like oh you cannot be serious #But we've (more or less) figured it out #Rant over #writing #writing struggles #tmbs

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swinging-stars-from-satellites · 1 year

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I think the funny thing about my being a youth leader is that I basically just Hang Out with a bunch of middle schoolers. like I just pal around with them and play games and then sit down and ramble at the youth pastor when it's time to discuss the Biblical topic of the night and somehow this has charmed like half a dozen of them into considering me A Cool Person despite the fact that I'm actually Introverted And Awkward at all times

#actually part of my goal in youth leadership is to show that like... you don't HAVE to be all together and chill #like when I was in youth group (briefly bc I was only in a location where it was an option for like 6 months tbh)#all the youth leaders — especially the female ones — seemed so Cool and Calm and Put Together ALL THE TIME #and it made me (frumpy and 16 and trying so hard to make friends) feel REALLY inadequate and insecure #and like I still have to work through the insecurity that caused in me!! bc the girls a few years older than me #who were youth leaders all seemed so CALM and RESPECTABLE and MATURE #and I STILL don't act like that! and I'm certainly not cool and calm and put together skskfndksnf #so I just want to like... not hide my awkwardness too much with these kids. not try to project Coolness or Looking Put Together #because I want them to see that like... they're fine just how they are? I want to be an example of what it looks like #when you're NOT the naturally calm and organized kind of person! when you're Awkward and Loud and Goofy and Hyper sometimes #because if you're following God then that stuff really doesn't matter. He made us a certain way and that's fine #idk. I think about this every so often again though akdkdkfnsk #Lu rambles

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br1ghtestlight · 5 months

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the weirdest feeling is knowing that im trans for like uhhh almost a decade now but i didnt transition until later so i still feel like a baby trans person. BUT im not even a baby anymore. more than a year on hormones. i think im just regular transgender now

#there is no set timeline between realizing you're trans and starting hormones/transitioning but i sure took my sweet ass time with it #😭😭 my transition timeline is all kinds of fucked up actually. still not out to a single person irl #nobody seems to care and im not gonna say anything. dont ask dont tell life policy or smth #i cant imagine people would ever refer to be as like an older trans person in terms of how long i have been openly transgender #(maybe mid 2017 or around then)#but maybe they would......?? i feel like the covid pandemic brought this whole new generation of trans people #and self discovery which is great. there isnt much u wont discover when u are surrounded by many weirdo 16 year old high school dropouts #EDITORS NOTE: i havent slept in more than 40 hours and im very tired. this doesnt make sense. dont read into it #txt

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np5enkidu · 1 year

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i need fgo to acknowledge servants horses more

#achilles isn't enough i need to know how each servant is around their horse(s)#i think that duryodhana has two main steeds and would have a hard time controlling them for when he's being petulant #highest ranking older mare (12-16) + her offspring (4-8) the older one would have a stubborn and calm temperament who doesn't respect duryo #and her daughter would have the same kind of chill but would be more playful and curious. dur is talking with his brothers & she trots over #starts nuzzling and sniffing his clothes because she's bored. duryo keeps talking but starts petting her #i also think duryodhana has instinctively good balance and he's good at multitasking so showmanship-like riding comes to him easily #but he's shit at all horse maintenance. especially hoof care; he's convinced his girls are going to kick him and doesn't want to even try i #but he wants good care for his horses so he watches over the servants tending to them. bossy yet incompetent duryodhana 🥰#we know georgios is a good owner but i think he likes rein maintenance & spends a fair amount of time making sure bayards armor is spotless #lalter gives out snacks more easily than her counterpart (going after the wild hunt takes energy! llamrei is a good girl!)#percival is great with horses in general and he enjoys taking care of them and will help out any other knights if they're having trouble #ashvatthaman is (un)surprisingly really good with young stallions. he's not afraid of them at all and will scold them for their mean deeds #horse tries to eat his clothes or nibble his hair and he's like. oi stop that you bastard. and the horse listens (will eat his hair later)#prince of lanling is very thorough with horses getting enough feed and water and will make sure they're well rested #arjuna is like. the main character of a horse movie. he's emotionally sensitive with them & bonds with horses easily (who sense his worries #works really really hard to be good at riding and wants to leave no room for mistakes. really aware of his posture at all times #we had dogy event please give me hors event... horses cute and underrated<-most biased man talking

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the-voice-of-night-vale · 2 months

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u know what i've been thinking about. how the economy expects you to be, right now, at a job you've been at and consistently getting raises in for like, ten years. it's almost like the implication is "well yeah, you'll be able to live off this job in three, five, ten years if you stick with it and grow in the company" which is all fine and dandy, but i kind of need to live right now

#the queen of trash has spoken #rewrote this post six times and it turned into an essay both times and i don't really need it to lol #also thinking about the graphic i saw this morning that said the average spending power of $100 here is $41 compared to the national averag #which i guess? min wage is just over $16 here. but uhhhhhhhh i think my city is one of the most expensive in the state as far as cost of #living goes (not hard since we're the second largest city in a state of three decent sized cities and mostly large towns)#and its just crazy bc i look at my coworkers some of whom haven't been there much longer than me #who have kids and a house and stuff #and i realize oh. their husbands are engineers or lawyers. plus they're probably making more than me because they're team leads or managers #or have been there longer. meanwhile my 25 year old ass is making $20 an hour and my boyfriend is making $18 an hour #both doing highly-specialized work #and like. the idea that in ten years if i last that long both in the company and in this mortal coil #THEN i'll be making a living wage (in today's money)#is like. so wack! considering the fact that people really aren't staying in jobs for very long for various reasons #and for some positions the only way to get a raise is to move to a whole new company #it's just crazy! the fact that a 25 year old with a bachelor's degree can't even afford a fucking APARTMENT.#like everyone should be able to have housing obvs and the obvious solution to this is a universal basic income #but the fact that my experiencce in the economy is so different from my brothers (who is seven years older than me) and COMPLETELY #unrecognizable to that of my parents when they were my age. like i know billionaires are totally disconnected from reality #but in what universe is this a successful economy? /rq i know the answer i promise

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8millionscorpions · 10 days

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remembering when i identified as a enby guy, and just that, anf someone asked me "to be their gf" and when i said. im not a girl. they said "well I'm pansexual"

#GRRRRR RR RRRRR ripping and tearing #also i was like. 16 and they were a good 3-4 yrs older than me #this person still friend requests me on fb every time they make a new fb. and i just block them #text

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mazzystar24 · 2 months

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Someone explain to me why a random Costco worker just decides to have beef with me everytime I go

This one is for you Kate you old hag 🙄

Legit this old lady has nothing better to do then shit talk me and my sister I’m like girlie how many people do you see per day do you have nothing better to do than legit memorise our faces just to be a bitch each time

#literally everytime we come she’s a bitch to us #also makes weird passive aggressive comments #and eventhough she legit knows our face to the point that she shit talks us she still asks me each time if I have an adult with me and if #I’m over 16 and I’m like girl what in the fuck?? I AM the adult #it’s funny cos I look older than I am and yet this girl is calling me what a 15 year old????#like I’m not a face reveal girlie but like I always have been told I look older #like when I actually WAS 16 I used to get told I look like I’m 20 something #like from anyone else I’d be like slay at least I won’t look old when I’m older but from her ik she’s being intentionally bitchy #I’m like I can’t keep doing this with you everytime #also #like have you seen 15/16 year olds now they’re FERAL don’t associate me with them #like I’ve not been going grey since nine years old to get told this Amy #*smh #me and the beef with the Costco worker 😭😭

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sapsolais · 4 months

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#i love driving *so* much. like i was made to move i think. i was made to Go #i could do it for hours. days. just keep going and going. coasting. racing. cruising #i learned to drive stick today. and i drove down a highway that was pretty empty. and it wound through hills. groves of trees #tall grasses. i passed a winery and a small town or two with populations of only a couple hundred. large fields and farms #cows and horses. a rodeo fairground #it was beautiful. and no one was around. and i just drove and it's my favorite thing ever i think #god. it's like swimming in a moment. does that make sense? it's like i have nothing to worry about #and i love driving as the sun sets. i also love driving in the city at night when everyone is moving and living and doing all sorts of stuff #i love the lights and the smell of cold concrete. i also love the sun on my skin and wind through my hair and the smell of nature #and i love passing through it all. things slow down and speed up at the same time. i think i love it for the same reasons i love liminality #because that's also sorta what it's like #ugh #i hope someday part of my soul gets to fly a rickety old spaceship through the stars #there's an itch there that needs to be scratched. it won't happen in my lifetime but. maybe sometime later #anyways. i'm so glad i'm alive #sometimes i remember when i couldn't imagine myself older than 16/17 #and i think about all my favorite things i've experienced. and everything i want to do. and i hold it so tightly #i'm just glad i'm here #sap says

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astrxealis · 5 months

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making myself suffer looking thru ffxiv stuff on tumblr when i could be playing ffxiv rn but i eternally love and miss ffxiv

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚#Ough... oooooggghhhhh..........#unrelated but i will probably make my next theme mr leon kennedy bcs how iehehebfknsnd i am over him lately #is... kinda insane! silly <3 #like. damn! damn. amidst darkest despair light everlasting.#ffxiv is so so so so so crazy from 1.0 to 6.0 and beyond and soon 7.x and and and #i miss raiding :( i miss my friends in ffxiv too. esp my best friend.#def will get back into raiding by the time 7.x ultimate comes out bcs GOD !!! god.#and okay pandaemonium & eden are my fav tiers aesthetic and story and fight wise #and memory wise bcs eden 9-12 was my first ever savage tier. meant a lot to me. still does #i played through that shit when i was . 14 y/o and newly 15 y/o LMFAO #and then pandaemonium just like. the year after. when i was 15 y/o... not even reaching 16. damn.#it's tough playing ffxiv when you're young but it's nice seeing more & more ppl around my age playing #even tho these guys most likely did Not start playing when they were like. 13/14 y/o. since i started on my bday LMFAO #it's crazy bcs i am playing w majority adults and maybe the occasional minor who is still like. at least almost an adult #^^ back then i mean bcs ok the closest friend i made when i was on eu was this guy 3 yrs older than me. that is already insane to me.#and my best friend since i'm now on oce is still a year older than me!#and it's silly (?) bcs eu i tried to hide my age at first but then they kinda found out bcs probably the way we r is just. too Different LOL #but i mean obvs it changed some stuff bcs it would be weird for probably 30 year old to be besties w a half their age kid #but the whole lil fc was just rlly sweet. :(( made a great friend i see as my big bro i am still friends w. that probably 30 y/o guy and the #kinda mom of the fc lowkey saw me & my twin as sweet kids. the person we got into xiv was like a big bro figure too and Damn his gf is rlly #cool! and the uni age students were super cool and fun to talk w. and the friends of my close friend who were also my friends were so fun.#i miss that but i look back on it all fondly ..... :3 and then w oce it's a bit more complicated bcs #i haven't had much time or opportunities to Find a group like that? but instead i found a best friend :((#rlly close in age and w similar likes and interests and personality..... etc etc etc.......#and separately the static i & my twin joined was. Funny lol! it's silly bcs we kinda had to hide we were lil 15 y/o kids w these guys who #were all at least uni. and all of these guys were def 20-30 y/o #and one guy liked making Daddy jokes (nothing bad tho LMFAO) bcs. hesperos sheesh!#silly bcs bunch of aussies and we were almost all miqos and Thankfully ye god one other filipino YAY !!!!!#anyway. max tags. so i love ffxiv man. i miss it always even when i'm playing it.

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obstinatecondolement · 1 year

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Perhaps one of the central tragedies of my life is that I am unlikely to ever read Norman Stanley Fletcher/Lenny Godber fic unless I write it my bleeding self. Other than that no complaints, really.

#I've shipped it since I watched porridge when I was... well going by the dvd releases anywhere between 14 and 22 #I'm gonna say I was probably 16 and guess that my dad got season 1–3 on dvd individually before the boxset came out though #which... is older than I thought I'd been because I fully thought I was like 12 max when I saw porridge #but this is very in keeping with my pattern of being like 'oh I watched this when I was just a little kid! maybe 10?'#and then when I check the dates I was minimum 19 #at some point I will make peace with the fact that I was developmentally delayed and out of step with my peers #so neurotypical ideas about how old you would expect someone of a certain level of emotional maturity to be #are not a useful point of reference to use for me to guesstimate how old I was at certain times in my life #bbc porridge

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verygoodcomments · 7 months

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oh yes on the topic of submissions...

i had one from someone in my inbox from YONKS ago that tumblr is not letting me post for some reason. that person also sent me an ask about whether i could provide links to the videos/places i found the comments on (i would just answer their ask but it explicitly references their submission which, again, tumblr won't let me post... and also it was from ages ago) so let me answer that here

unless i think that mentioning the source amplifies the comment, or provides some humorous context, i usually don't do that as a general rule. if someone asks for the comment source and i still remember what it was, i'll tell them, but i don't tend to mention it explicitly on the post itself

i don't tend to redact pfps or usernames (to give some form of credit to the authors of the comments, sometimes they make the comment better, they're already public on the internet & usually posted on videos by youtubers exponentially more popular than my blog & usually post obscure comments i had to scroll for quite a while to find anyway, it's fun when someone recognizes their own username, etc etc), so this is an alternate method of security against people trying to be weirdos to the featured commenters. most of my posts come from youtube, which doesn't even have a direct messaging system anymore, which is simultaneously why i feel fairly comfortable leaving pfps/usernames unredacted on these comments and why i feel it's better if i try not to provide TOO many context hints at least in the actual text of the post. just on the off chance some bitter weirdo wants to try being a bitter weirdo, you know? and if someone goes all the way out of their way to try and track these comments down explicitly to bully these people, then at this point, it kinda seems like redacting that stuff wouldn't have helped anyway. while i definitely do not condone harassing anyone from here, i also... don't think it'd exactly be My fault there, and entirely the fault of this hypothetical extremely brainrotted rando. this has, to my knowledge, never once happened, but just putting that out there

i do give little hints or context notes in the tags on occasion, under the general assumption that anyone following this blog knows that this is a place of comment appreciation, an art gallery of Internet Humans. usually it only extends to mentioning the youtuber or what type of video it was, but as a general statement. this is the other part of my philosophy here: i enjoy hunting for comments as a sort of peoplewatching-esque hobby and i think other people should try it out (so long as they have the self-restraint to NOT reply to people even if they make you mad. it's never worth it man.). i also think it'd be a fun treat for someone to only get a hint, figure out what video it was, and then go on their own hunt and see the comments in the wild. i often skip over Loads that don't quite make the cut so you'll probably find something else fun in there

does that make sense? it does to me. anyway if anyone ever wants to know where i found a comment just ask and i'll tell you, so long as i remember. fair warning, the older the post the comment is on, the more likely i am to have forgotten what specific video it was. i usually at least have a vague idea of the original poster and/or the content/topic of the video but sometimes i don't