#peer reviewed post

[limblesstar]

we should introduce jon snow to euron greyjoy so his concentrated uncle killing powers fucking get him.

[supmaww]

bitb prequel where it's them in high school just doing shenanigans and going to a party but it ends with Mrs. Rand asking Timothy where Rachel is (it's the day she went missing <3)

[xeniagda]

in the polycule bed straight up "jorkin' it". and by it. let's just say. your peanits

[thatfizzyyyy]

flirtmaxxing today

[the-useless-vampire]

Tonight's episode demonstrates how in dnd you can experience the wildest fantasy scenarios, like taking your friends to meet your family and the place you grew up and having it be a wholesome experience

[borkborkheresadork]

“Why so balls?”

-The Juggler

[aropride]

youre monogamous? oh… it’s ethical, right? ethical monogamy? okay good for you! i mean pretty much every monogamous couple i’ve met didn’t work out but maybe you guys will beat the odds! haha. so is it a sex thing? you guys have sex with- just each other? huh. how does that work? i could never do monogamy, i’m too jealous, i’d worry my partner would leave me for someone else instead of dating us both… how do you deal with the jealousy? is it hard? like, how hard? extremely? do you think you’ll break up? i mean in the long run these things rarely work out,

[snailcomicz]

#A smuggle pile if you will via @capital-j-jenius

[gayvampyr]

no offense but you guys need to learn the difference between someone implying their experience is universal and a post simply just not being about you

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

"this is a universal queer experience"

>ask if it's universal or white

>they don't understand

>I pull out a diagram explaining what is universal and what is white

>they laugh and say "It's a good experience sir"

>I'm a native american trans woman

>Experience is white

[ahotknife]

and while we're on the topic i'm here to say once and for all that ronan did NOT struggle in school because he's not smart. ronan did NOT drop out of school because he didn't want to learn or isn't capable of learning. ronan's incredibly perceptive and quick-thinking. we have canon based reasons to believe he's well read and well cultured. he's top of his class in latin by a wide margin, which is no easy feat in a private school like aglionby. he's so skilled at the language that he can write jokes and instructions in latin. he frequently references historical figures/relevant media/advanced concepts for someone his age ("the greeks didn't have a word for blue", "jungian bullshit", "doubting thomas"). he's ferociously hard working and possesses many practical skills. he's described as performing carpentry/repairs/staining wood on his own, he raises a baby bird by himself. he spends MONTHS trying to wake up the cows. not only is he capable of a lot of things, he's good enough at things to teach other people to do them. he teaches adam to drive a manual transmission. he can read music fluently and play an instrument well enough to participate in competitions. that shit is hard. i'm not falling for the propaganda that he's stupid or unintelligent or unaware simply because he didn't want to finish his formal education... he's just as smart as any of the other boys, he's just not pretentious about it like gansey or defensive about it like adam. in the opal short story she observes that ronan is smart, and not only does adam know he's smart, he likes that he's smart. we need to get serious about this. i simply cannot sanction the buffoonery. hello. is this thing on. is anybody listening

[maydaymadier]

captain’s steward on an 18th century merchant ship fit

[pinkhairandpronouns]

she grill on my cheese til i wahoo

[joyfulhottubfuntik]

Always kinda laughing at the bit from the reacting to thirsty comments audio thingy where Stan goes "I've known you my whole life and no one's ever called you hot", because, like, no, you've only known him for 18 years of his 60-something year long life. Just. Yeah. I love you but no you haven't.

But also tragic how they had known each other for a way shorter time than they were separated . Yet they were still a constant and large presence looming over each other's lives. I hate them both /pos

[stahl-tier]

(distorted and staticky bootleg recording of thomas the tank engine theme song echoes in the distance ominously)

I feel like there's some sort of horror story waiting to be told there about a Wrong Train

I'm not getting paid enough to also deal with this kind of sleep paralysis demon stuff during my shifts

Had a problem with one of the trains... Driver asks me to go check... Problem appears to be that his train is fucking cursed.

[overdressedcarp]

I've been thinking for a while about the optional Magatama dialogue in The Cosmic Turnabout where you can prompt Fulbright about what's bothering him, and for both of the wrong answers, he acts like you got it right, and actively leans into the bit. For example, if you suggest that he's exhausted by life, he agrees and claims he's thinking about quitting his job and going to space. (Honestly, mood.)

(AA 5-4 and 5-5 spoilers below the cut)

It's a good line on its own: funny, and definitely relatable. With 5-5's context, though, it brushes up against a deep-seated desire to disappear, to run away and start over, something the Phantom hasn't been at liberty to do in years. He's shackled to a seven-year-old assignment, strangled by loose ends that he can't tie off. For maybe the first time in his life, he has to wake up every day and live with the effects of his actions, made blisteringly real in the form of the people he hurt.

(Do I think he's walking around harboring deep, profound remorse for UR-1? Not really, no. But the self-protective lie of "my choices don't matter because I'm not really a person" only goes so far when you're clocking into work every day to hang out with the guy who's on death row because of you, who's grieving because of you, and suddenly you're the only person he trusts to hear about the monster that ruined his life, and you planned for this but you didn't plan for this and honestly at that point I'd want to quit my job and throw myself into the vast expanse of space, too.)

Also worth noting, during this entire scene, any time Fulbright goes to answer a question or make an assertion about himself, the tinted glasses go up like a shield. Eyes hidden, hand obscuring the lower half of his face. It's something he does pretty regularly throughout the game, but it's egregious here. My man is on the defensive and he's giving absolutely zero ground.

But the big thing for me is the other "wrong" option, where if you claim that Fulbright is troubled by love, the Phantom's knee-jerk "yes, and," response is to tell a story about a carp named Love who ate a bunch of goldfish because he put them all in the same tank.

In the moment it's supposed to be absurd and comical and one more example of how hapless this guy is, but in retrospect, it's kind of telling that when the Phantom tries to conceptualize love in relation to himself, the first piece of Fulbright-flavored bullshit that comes to mind is about a creature that brings pain and death through mere proximity, not out of malice, but out of nature. As though, subconsciously, he's fixated on the notion of a foreign element that's been dropped into an otherwise peaceful space. A fish that seems like it belongs there until it devours the others.

He really could have said anything—he could have made up a story about a bad breakup, or a really sad movie, or a family member who died. He could have jumped to talking about Blackquill, and how he's concerned for his emotional state given the nature of the current case. But instead, his mind instinctively gravitates to a Love that consumes everything around it: a Love defined by its capacity for violence. There was never a world where the carp could exist alongside the goldfish without hurting them.

And idk. I feel like if he wasn't feeling some kind of way about that, then it wouldn't be bleeding into his Olympic-level improv gymnastics routine to convince Phoenix that he doesn't have any secrets and you can put the supernatural lie detector away now, thanks.