#seriously what were they thinking

[f0ntainefuturistics]

I think we as a fandom don’t talk about the canon chick magnet plasmid/tonic enough

[a-really-cool-blog-name]

Me hearing that 2012 future Leo's design is ugly and deciding to look it up: "It can't possibly be that bad, rig- OH MY GOODNESS WHAT IS THAT!"

[smol-blue-bird]

anyway, here's another fun Girl Scout memory nobody asked for: one time my mom built the Challenger Disaster out of waffles and oranges in a weird, failed attempt to earn me a badge

Basically, my girl scout troop (inexplicably) went on this trip to a fancy resort in the Poconos (I have absolutely no idea how we afforded this in hindsight), and this place had an activity called "Breakfast Wars" where you had to make a breakfast to fit a specific theme, and at the end, all the breakfasts would be judged and the winner would get a prize. I don't know why, but we were told that the winners would also get a patch for their vests at the end (I have no idea if this was a real thing Girl Scouts did or if we were just allowed to stitch random patches onto our vests--we never really followed the rules anyway). The theme of the weekend was "80s," so everyone was making big chunky cell phones, and scenes from movies, and girls with wild hair and neon makeup and shoulder pads. But our moms were like "we can't do that, that's too stereotypical. We have to pick a theme nobody else will do."

So they picked the CHALLENGER DISASTER.

Us kids, obviously, barely knew what the Challenger Disaster was. So we just kind of sat there and quietly helped while our mothers assembled an assortment of waffles, pancakes, and fruit into an exploding space shuttle like it was no big deal. They got, like, really into it. I remember them literally peeling a tangerine and using the peel for the fire, which, in hindsight, is absolutely nuts. I have no idea why any of these grown adults thought this was a good idea.

Regardless, the end product came out looking very cool (I wish I could find a picture, it was insane), although it was probably also extremely tasteless, BECAUSE IT WAS THE FUCKING CHALLENGER DISASTER MADE OUT OF WAFFLES. And we were so proud of it, too, because we didn't know what it was! We were like, ten, we were not alive for the Challenger Disaster!

Anyway, eventually the competition ended and the judges came around, and the kids were supposed to be the ones doing the talking, so the judge was like "what's your breakfast about?" and my poor friend just said "THE CHALLENGER SPACE SHUTTLE." And I wish I could have saved the look on that judge's face, because it was incredible. Imagine being that employee. Imagine hosting a fun little cooking competition at your cute bougie family resort and making it 80s themed, and then walking around to look at the entries and having a group of elementary schoolers proudly present their waffle recreation of a tragedy that killed 7 people. Why did our mothers put us up to this? Why did they not tell us what we were making?? Were they so desperate to create a truly innovative 80s breakfast that thought the Challenger was a good subject for this competition? Why did they think waffle art was a good medium for depicting this???? It has been over ten years and I'm still baffled.

Needless to say, we lost the competition, and we didn't get the patch. But—and here's the best part!—our moms were surprised by this! They were like "we obviously had the best and most innovative design," and it's like, yeah, maybe, but obviously they're going to give the prize to the kids with the giant waffle cell phone and not the kids with the fucking waffle CHALLENGER DISASTER???? My mom was like "that was rigged, we should have won," which, ?????????? WHAT MADE YOU THINK ANYTHING ABOUT THE WAFFLE CHALLENGER DISASTER WAS APPROPRIATE

[holdbeast]

I can’t believe what they did with Dan Heng’s magical boy transformation.

They had this whole entire amazing sequence where he grows horns and a dragon tail and gets cool robes and summons a dragon and then

He teams up with a terrorist to beat up a twelve year-old for no reason?????

What.

It’s like. We’re supposed to be impressed with this amazing new power of his but in reality the twelve year-old did not do so badly. Wow how impressive. The mighty Yinyue rises again.

[hedwyn-here]

So Secret Invasion is the first Marvel show to just not even have 1 good episode...

[scoobydoo-andnancytoo]

noisette "i <3 my nazi boyfriend" tornade

[thecagedflightlessbird]

Not calling adipurush a fanfiction because it will be an insult of fanfiction 😭

[leviathans-watching]

the nhl really dropped the puck on that one.

[rudiedelrey]

You’re writing fan mail to keanu…. I got him in my DMs on three accounts. We are not the same 🤪

/j

[hoodedcherries]

Thinking about redesigning w.i.t.c.h. lately, their guardian outfits were not it 💔

[kaiiyoshii]

I like tumblr so much more then instagram. Just cause when people reblog they sometimes add their own silly things in the tags and it makes me very happy,,, i love it

[ruindunburnit]

House of Night's take on history drives me wild sometimes. Like, Cleopatra as a vampyre has to sit there like, "I am an insanely intelligent and charming woman, and I have a powerful affinity for swallowing Alexandria in an almighty wall of FIRE -- how is my Mark a pair of goddamned ASPS?!", and Nyx has to sit there and smile like "No reason :3c"

[piratelifeforme]

If you’re a psychologist and your patient has abusive parents, perhaps don’t ask them why they don’t forgive their abusive parents and go see them?????? Idk

[timberlakefan96]

Real-ass real life: we organize the days into weeks. Each week is 7 days long due to a degree of an powerful emperor 4500 years ago, and each day of the week is named for a celestial body, or an ancient god no longer worshipped

The high-Fantasy setting of Dungeons and Dragons: ITS CALLED A TENDAY BECAUSE IT’S TEN DAYS

[wotchernewt]

seriously though nothing can stop me from interpreting Real Life as canon just for how it progresses the canary curse situation. i'm obsessed with it. the curse gets broken in secret life and then in the very next "series", as much of a joke as it is, you get a situation like THAT. jimmy enters a mineshaft and everyone but him dies. not just his team, though obviously it's more significant because they were all red, but ren/martyn/skizz all get a mineshaft-death apiece. that canary's not doing his job anymore. he escaped his cage and made a break for the surface and everyone else is paying the price for it, and i for one could not be more proud of that little bird.

[egophiliac]

Sorry, most likely my memory being poor, but I thought Malleus' mom (don't know how to spell her name and too lazy to check how to spell it) was already an adult when Lilia ""proposed""?? Like I was always under the assumption that it was like a one-sided child crush on somebody completely out of your league you tend to have as a kid 💀

I don't think they say how old she was? although it's entirely possible I just misunderstood; my Japanese is...shaky. :') the actual line is "幼い頃に私に求婚したのは偽りか?", which I read as "isn't it true that you proposed to me as a kid?", and took as her being older than him, but not necessarily an adult (like, I was thinking of Lilia as being not quite a preteen and Mel being preteen/young teen). although I don't know if there's a connotation or something I'm missing that implies a bigger age gap, if that makes sense!

(and of course, I might also just be forgetting some other line -- if someone else knows, then please correct me! I need to know which headcanons need adjusting 👀)

BUT YEAH in a canon-y sense, Malleus is 178 and around the third-years developmentally. which makes me think that even though dragons have a way longer lifespan, they go through childhood at about the same rate as most fae (or at least the kind that Lilia is) and just kinda...slow waaaaay down once they hit adulthood. so it makes sense in my brain that he and Meleanor could've basically grown up together!

...it makes it angstier that way, anyway. :)