#not laughing in a mean way mind you

[inkysquelched]

side octo: order expansion

[quarterprioritymidnight]

[cakemoney]

brennan: so you're in the last standard exam in an alien realm and in the stands you see a bunch of arthur agueforts, they're cheering for you, they're talking to each other, they've got your names written on their chests

editors: zooms in on the two arthur agueforts who are making out because they know how we are

[jeysuso]

#oooooh they wanna kiss so bad it makes them look fucking stupid

[oatbugs]

today was ok good great bad 😭 rant in tags lets try to be normal abt this

[thisismyroadtothethrone]

OH MY GOD NOT TK TELLING BUCK HE ALREADY HAS A BOYFRIEND AND LEAVING HIM SPEECHLESS I AM CRYING!!! TK KNOWS WHATS UP!! LIKE SIR SO DOES BUCK!!

And Eddie posts pictures of Christopher and Buck on his insta and one of those posts is the skateboard yall this is making me FERAL!!

Eddie saying “you obviously don’t know Buck”

And Buck saying his captain isn’t his dad but he might as well be I’m gonna cry just thinking about it I love their relationship so much and I just wish that as Buck can see Bobby as a dad and Bobby sees Buck as a son that Buck will finally realize the same with Christopher!!!

And Buck stealing a fire truck again omg but not the 118 because Bobby would kill him!!

I am so glad I watched the lone star episode it gave me so much good content and I genuinely did not expect to be fed so well!!

[derpinette]

as soon as i want to relax i start thinking about how vulnerable my vitals are

[agentbluefox]

Thinking about Face in ‘Beneath the Surface.’

The whole episode, everyone keeps talking basically about what a handful he was growing up, scamming the other kids in the orphanage, basically being the same old Face we know. But frankly, the things he did are pretty mild? it’s not like he was some holy terror, he was just a little boy who was good at selling a lie.

At first he’s defending himself, saying it was his ‘training ground’ or whatever, but as the episode progresses, we see that he really does seem to feel bad about being such a handful as a kid. Which... he was a little boy. He wasn’t in the best situation. And I’m not saying that lying and cheating is the right way to deal with things, but it’s understandable. He was a little kid in a world that had already proved itself to be unfair. And the worst thing he did it seems, was to sell his friend a fake treasure map.

Then towards the end, we get this scene here:

Face is once again apologizing (in his own way) for how he acted when they were younger. And then Barry drops this bomb.

So while Face scammed his friend out of a concert ticket, Barry scammed Face out of a family. Seemingly with no remorse. Sure, he tells Face about it here, but he says it like it’s no big deal. Even seems to think it’s funny.

Now if Face had been there, who knows if he would have been adopted in Barry’s place. Maybe, maybe not. But the point is that they believed Barry was Templeton Peck (or Alvin Brenner - depending what his name was at this point), and they adopted him believing that. (What I really want to know how the orphanage didn’t catch that but that requires more brain power than I’m putting into this post lol)

Face is the one consistently shown to want or even need that sense of belonging and of family (and also the first one to balk when he finally gets something close). To suddenly have it dropped on him so casually that he could have had it, that he almost did have it, maybe when he needed it most, seems especially cruel.

It’s in the past - a long time in the past by now - but no doubt it got him thinking about how different things could have been.

[divinekangaroo]

I remember reading a Professionals fanfic years and years ago where Ray Doyle introduced himself to a dude in a hotel and the dude repeated back, doubtfully, ‘Raid Oil?’ and I still fucking laugh about this now, randomly walking around and my brain throws it up for no reason and I laugh at nothing in the middle of nowhere, like, over a decade after reading the fanfic and over forty years after the actual source canon finished i was not even alive when this was made

[starpros-sunshine]

I used to be funny you know? I used to have good humour and now every time I try to crack a joke I just feel awkward like I could've gotten that one delivered so much better. Smitten with the curse of not being able to be serious while also being horrible at being silly. If you ask me I'd rather be smitten with other curses but such is life I suppose.

[tremerechantry]

You identify with Patrick Bateman because "sigma male manipulator emotionless masculinity based schizo murderer", I identify with Patrick Bateman because of his fundamental lack of self esteem--the fact that he feels so empty inside that he has to turn to absolutely disgusting competitive materialism in an effort to maintain any sense of self worth. His clothes, his furniture, his belongings, the music he listens to, the food he eats, the shows he sees, the politics he'll pay only basic lip service to and then contradict three sentences later, the women he fucks, his career, his degree... these are the only things that he has in terms of an identity, and he reacts absolutely violently to anyone that threatens that. He kills Paul Owens because he threatens Patrick's sense of status. Patrick kills gay men who threaten his masculinity. The ex-girlfriend who threatens his image as a perfect specimen. Prostitutes and the homeless, because his ability to kill them and get away with it bolsters his own sense of wealth and status.

And he thinks of himself as a killer because killing is something he alone in his circle supposedly does. He continuously pushes the envelope, committing increasingly more horrific and blatant murders, because this is something he can be noticed for. He begins viewing his own reality as if he were watching a movie... filling up the emptiness inside him with delusions of grandeur. And if anyone around him could actually notice the murders, he would gain some sense of recognition, but no one does. Even if they actually do happen in the novel, the only person that actually remarks on them is Patrick himself. Even if the outside world pays absolutely no attention to what Patrick is capable of, he knows what he is on the inside.

But inside doesn't matter.

So we're not the same. And I think you're pretty stupid.

[bumblingbabooshka]

I think Tuvok should have kissed Neelix on the cheek after getting his brain tossed around and I think he should pretend that he doesn’t remember doing that but he definitely does.

[headlessstar]

i finally did... i found the drakengard 3 intoner OSTs with zero's interruptions!!! i was looking for years how did I accidentally stumble upon it now of all times

[saturnsuv]

update <3

[ducktracy]

Idk how influential you are on the LT fandom on a Whole but you definitely inspired me to check out the originals, and especially appreciate Porky/Daffies more. It helps that my favorite short for years was Yankee Doodle Daffy!

AWWWWWWWWW THIS IS SO SWEET THAT IS 100% MY GOAL THANK YOU!! you don’t know HOW much this means to me!

i tend to stay away from fandom spaces/don’t consider myself a part of the fandom, so quite honestly your guess is as good as mine—i HOPE people think of me or associate me with these cartoons HAHAHAHA but 100%, my goal is to spread the joy of the originals and shed a light onto the people who made them and how their experiences and input inform the cartoons as a whole, and maybe how our perceptions of these shorts and characters have changed as time has gone on…

there’s no right or wrong way to enjoy the franchise, but i really do think it is a more fulfilling experience to Experience The Originals for yourself. i really enjoy talking about cartoons that are given less love from a mainstream angle and that 100% includes the Porkies and Daffies (and is also why i’m so adamant about spreading The Porky Gospel; he gets such a bad rap and is so underappreciated and every person i’ve spread my gospel about him to seems to really like or appreciate himself after HAHAHA. Daffy will always be my #1 favorite but he doesn’t really suffer from this, though i absolutely think his ‘40s persona gets a lot of misunderstanding as well)

THIS REALLY MEANS A LOT TO ME GENUINELY. making the plunge and checking out the cartoons is the best decision i’ve ever made. there’s a lot of rightful hesitancy to be had since there are SO many cartoons and it’s hard to find a starting point (and not to mention the many, many, many, many aspects that have aged poorly and/or were poor to begin with), but i can’t begin to tell you how fulfilling this experience has been.

so, if anyone who’s following me is cautious about making the plunge, i encourage you to give the originals a chance, ESPECIALLY if you’re into more modern LT media to familiarize yourself with the source material. you absolutely do not have to be a nut like me and watch every single in chronological order, but these cartoons are so ingrained and formative in the animation landscape today that i think anyone with an interest in animation should definitely give them a chance. and, if you’re a bit of a history nut like me, it’s very fun to see the evolution of culture as a whole as the years go on… radios evolve into TVs, the rambunctious attitudes of the shorts during the war years take a more domestic turn after the war, celebrity references depend on the decade, even the stylings of music, and of course the art styles of the shorts themselves… it’s so fascinating from a multitude of reasons. i really can’t tell you how happy i am to hear this (and Yankee Doodle Daffy is a GREAT favorite to have!)

[godsfavoritescientist]

*collapses on the floor and starts having visions (new fic ideas)*