#no offense uncle

[katapotato55]

things that don't make you a try hard in tf2:

-playing the game seriously -being better than the other players (this is directed at people who wine just because they are getting dominated by a better player)

Things that DO make you a try hard in tf2

-being that one dickhead pyro burning the group of friendlies in the far off corner of the map minding their own business when you could be focusing on the enemy that is actually playing the game seriously. - calling someone a tryhard because they are better at the game than you. as someone who is crap at this game: please learn to fail gracefully instead of being a whiny little bitch. you will have so much more fun playing this game that way AND you will end up improving your skills faster. special shout out to that guy on a casual server that asked me "why do you sound like a femboy" not understanding that women actually play this game too.

[veone]

can we talk about how yooniesims called rona a korean creator corona unnie....as a funny joke....

[stereax]

our boys at the jets game!!! LGD :D

[razzbberyl]

for those of you who wanted more Uncle Posting: I am absolutely not telling him abt his fame he barely knows how to work facebook are you insane. I hope instead you will be satisfied with the knowledge that he’s a fire chief and we got a new recruit the other day so guess who gets to play astronauts with them tomorrow :]

[salvadorbonaparte]

My mum went down south for the weekend with my grandma for a reunion thing and people kept telling my mum that they tried to invite her uncle (my grandma's brother) to a family thing and that his "old witch of a wife" kept telling them that he can't answer the phone because he's watching the news and that she'd just hang up on them and he never called them back. So my mum had to tell them that her uncle is dead. And has been for a year.

[onewomancitadel]

Something else I was musing on re: consistent symbolic language in R/WBY, referring to Jung and alchemy et al., is that Qrow in particular is (ostensibly) associated with chthonic imagery (the crow, bad luck) but he is most prominently a nurturing and protective figure. Like, his introduction in the story (in V2, when Yang tells Blake about him rescuing her and Ruby) is literally as a protective figure filling in where Tai is unable to; in V4 he's protecting the kids without them knowing; relatedly he's the father figure Ruby rebels against in V6. He is basically repeated over and over to be a Daddy In All But Name (pleazzzz don't come at me with crazy fantheories since I'm just describing his role in the story and the way family dynamics are nuanced).

Which basically goes against his corvid posturing because he thinkssss he's bad luck, but it's his intentions and motivations and care that matter. There is dual imagery to every character across the story, but if you want to simplistically say that Qrow = crow = death (when he literally averts Mentor Death Flags in V4) then it's shortsighted and simplistic. It has to be read on the terms of what the story is thematically/tonally interested in where it is being playful with this kind of thing.

It's why you can't take basic symbolism and leap to really wild conclusions. Not that I've read such things about Cinder before and I've had a chip on my shoulder since or anything.

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

The time thing is actually something I'm glad you mentioned in your response because I've been puzzling over it myself. I can see this happening one of three ways so far: 1) the RDA have been there for longer than in canon and Grace and them ended up arriving at a later time. 2) the meshing is less organic and more purposeful. After gaining their independence they still want to keep parts of their culture but want to sort of move away from the more traditional stories told by their creators/captors, so they mesh the stories and songs on purpose to make something uniquely theirs.

Or 3) since they are just experimental versions of the recoms, it makes sense that the RDA scientists might have needed time to perfect the memory transfer, especially since around two-thirds of their test subjects are from the people who volunteered their memories way back when the science of memory transfer was just becoming a thing as to not waste more valuable memories. Therefore a lot of their memories are often muddled, and those who can remember fully are few and far between. I imagine that if this was the reason I chose it would also give me a reason as to why Paz went up so high in the rankings: she's one of the last to be made, therefor all of her memories are intact. With the knowledge she knows, it's no wonder she became the Priestess of Songs. Plus, she knows far more about the RDA than the others because of how long she was with them, which could be another part of that.

Hmm, very interesting!! I think any version could be very cool. I think it seems like you have the most fleshed out about the last one. I kind of like the idea of them all being somewhat defective memory-wise.

My best friend suffered a brain injury while we were growing up, we were about sixteen, and sometimes talking to her is just having the same few conversations over and over with slight variations. She is the same person with the same personality, she just doesn't remember that she told me this story last week, you know? It really isn't that big a deal, because she lived and she is much better than she used to be. Often with fictional memory issues or brain injuries, I feel like a repeated story or a forgotten detail is treated as a sign of the character still being broken, not quite healed. Sometimes it's every day life. I like the idea of a whole clan of characters who are... I don't know, damaged mentally, for lack of a better word, but it's just their way of life. I've read a few stories where Spider has mental trauma from the RDA mind reading machine, and the memory thing being such a major deal always makes me vaguely sad. I'd love one where he'd adjust to his new normal.

When my best friend is tired she CANNOT balance, she will fall trying to walk over something even if it's the only thing on the floor. It's just her now so it's the funniest shit in the world, we just make fun of her. Idk. That idea makes me feel warm and happy. My apologies for going off topic, you made me think about something that's really only been a half formed thought.

[brltpop]

I can't vote in polls but do me a solid and vote for jerry mf cantrell on that one vs billie joe armstrong like come ON

[caligulalotus]

the next non-league team fall is gonna be for a team called the plot gang that’s just fourteen plot heavy players who haven’t fallen out yet

[hazel2468]

Sorry to be a salty Jew on the first day of Pride but like...

I just came across yet another person going on about how Jews are white and, aside from the obvious- anyone can be a Jew, of any race, from anywhere, it also made me think. Like... Jews may look white to you, oh enlightened person on my Facebook feed.

But when I was younger, I remember that time that a cop told my mother that she wasn’t allowed to have me at a public park. He said she wasn’t allowed because she “wasn’t from this town” and this park wasn’t for “your kind of people”.

My mother is, like me, white. Paler than I am.

But she also has that dark, thick, wiry brown hair most of my family has. She has my grandfather’s, her father’s prominent nose. She has (and this makes no sense to me) “Jewish eyes”- something to do with how her eyelids sit that I’ve never understood but that I’ve heard from her and a few other, older members of my family, who share the same traits.

Yes, my mother is white. But in that moment. To that cop, who knew nothing other than we lived in state based on my mother’s license plate, she was a Jew. Instantly identifiable. Recognizable. Marked by features that he, and other white supremacists like him, consider undeniably non-white, non-European. Other. Alien.

I was adopted into my family from birth. I do not have my mother’s nose, the one my grandparents had. The one people constantly mocked, according to my grandfather (z’l) as a “kike nose”, a “jewboy nose”. But I have, funnily enough, her hair, and my father’s brown eyes. I have my mother’s hair, which has grown thicker and more like hers in texture as I age. I look like my parents.

I am white, yes. I go out every day and I benefit from being seen, in passing, by most people as just another white woman on the street. But I am keenly aware that at any given moment, someone might look at my hair, my eyes. This isn’t some hypothetical, this has happened, more times that I can count or remember. Either people have looked at me and said “You’re a Jew, aren’t you?” or told me “Oh, I knew it!” when they find out.

So yes, enlightened Facebook commenter, every single annoying leftists who has spat, with venom, at me that Jews are WHITE and as such we are the oppressor and privileged and EVIL... To you, I am white.

To a white supremacist. To a Nazi. To the people who view me as an alien, a stain, a foreign invader. I am a Jew. Instantly identifiable. My family even more so.

I am white when it suits the narrative. And make no mistake. Us Jews who can go out in public and pass as nothing but white Americans benefit from that, yes. But there is no place for us in white supremacy. And those who perpetuate it know who we are.

[scarletspider2the2ndpower]

“Minimum Carnage, Part Six,” Minimum Carnage Omega (Vol. 1/2012), #1.

Writers: Christopher Yost and Cullen Bunn; Pencilers: Lan Medina, Declan Shalvey, and Khoi Pham; Inkers: Karl Kesel, Walden Wong, and Jaime Mendoza; Colorist: Sotocolor; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

[hirazuki]

Personal rambling under the cut because I feel the need to share this absurdity, feel free to ignore XD

I met and spoke with my mother yesterday for the first time in almost four years, to talk about why my sister and I have cut both our parents off (i.e. emotional abuse and neglect throughout childhood that has resulted for both of us in severe trust issues, c-ptsd, eating disorders, depression, ocd, suicidal ideation/attempts, anxiety, and emotional and social stunting, to name but a few things), and, as an example because she asked for one, I brought up the fact that she and our dad kept sis housebound (she literally did not go outside for like, eight years?) and crippled by her dependence on them that they cultivated, and that the first time sis used any kind of public transportation alone was at the age of 26.

Mom's response: So taking the bus by herself as a child would have fixed everything?

Me:

[stereax]

In today's episode: Dougie Hamilton and the real reason for 7 (it's not just from 27), Alex Holtz picking a number from an ice cream brand, Brendan Smith and Bobby Orr, Erik Haula's attachment to 56, John Marino and Tom Brady, and why Dawson Mercer went high with 91.

[donewiththisshitplsstop]

The way you were so outraged when someone called Hannah a snake only to say 'okay but let's not bring Kelly and Max into it' when Nelson called Lewis the 'N' word. I see your selective outrage.

P.s. Susie needed you to have this same outrage when Sergio said women belonged in the kitchen. Your fellow female F1 fans needed this outrage when Christian was saying they only watched F1 for the good looking drivers instead of it all being chalked down to 'peak shithousery'

[softgrungeprophet]

amazing spider-man annual #5 add that to the list of comics in which peter is indirectly responsible for the death of someone trying to kill him lol

[covertblizzard]

hal once again as cool uncle character because come on who DOESN’T want to have pet club meeting on the moon