#they didnt get any discount

[vampyrluver]

Cried for the first time at work, mean customers

[nostalgia-tblr]

one problem with getting into Fiction Franchises like, oh let's say the MCU, long after they started is that 1) there are things that refer back to things I don't know about and 2) i don't know what i don't know about, and in a way that latter is more of a problem at least for me.

i managed an episode of wandavision and was left thinking "this seems like it's good, but i have no clue what's going on here so it's not going to work for me is it?" and i am reliably told it's supposed to be Mysterious Mindfuckery but i, a noob, was unable to work out without external clarification what i wasn't supposed to know. if you see what i mean.

i notice the mcu movies (at least as it progresses?) don't have numbers on them, and we know when they're direct sequels because there's a subtitle. and if you come at these later you need to get a chart to work out whether you should watch thor: ragnarok before or after thor: the dark world. which is easily done if i am determined to get things in the right order, but any effort is too much for someone.

so while i am willing to consider the idea that the later mcu films/shows are just Less Good than the early ones (personally Doubt so far but I'm not opposed to the idea) it's very easy inside a fandom to lose sight of what your thing looks like to the casuals who make up most of an audience, and frankly the mcu is currently Very Large and confusing.

who are all these Mrs/Captain/Miss/etc Marvel ladies and which of them have already been in films I might or might not have seen? how many ant men are there prior to this one? am i supposed to know who the baddy in this or that film is? which of these side-characters are from something else?

doesn't-seem-related-but-it-is: i was surprised to discover that the general mcu fandom view of the loki series was not that it was some sort of AU situation that could be thought of an entirely separate from the main series of films. because that was pretty much why it was the one to hook me, i think - it explained the relevant backstory with clips and yet also this is a different loki so if i don't want to go and watch however many films he was in i don't have to. i would expect him to be to some extent "out of character" because it carefully explained to me that this is not really the same character as that identical guy with the same name who was in some number of films. there's a woman one and an alligator one but don't worry they're all from AUs anyway.

[broke-on-books]

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The live action Scooby-Doo movies?

I did not see this ask until RIGHT now (first time on desktop since crab day, second time since Nov 5 2020 [which was DOUBLY experience since I got my phone taken the same day]) so I'm going to assume this ask got eaten on mobile because tumblr, HOWEVER you poked a bear with this ask anon (as I'm sure you knew when asking) SO without further ado: my Scooby Doo live action opinions

So when you say 'live action Scooby-Doo movies' I'm assuming you're talking about the James Gunn films, starting with Scooby-Doo (2002) followed by Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, just due to like, generally popularity and also the fact that I have actually seen those films. However shoot another ask if you wanted me to include Curse of the Lake Monster in this (because I will if anyone cares and turn this into a live-action scooby dissertation, i'd just need to like. watch the movie first) But anyways where I'm going with this is that this post is about the Gunn movies aka the ones with SMG, Freddie Prinze Jr., Linda Cardellini, and ofc our #1 man, Matthew Lilliard.

Okay so my take on these movies is... complicated. I wouldn't say it's as complicated as my feelings towards SDMI, because I watched the live actions way less as a kid and generally care less about them, but still no matter how much shit I throw at these two movies there are parts that I generally like (even love) that stops me from totally condemning them wholesale. Like the fact that these movies are FUNNY! There's so many moments from this duology that are just beyond iconic "like, that's one of my favorite names!" the whole thing with Scooby in the dress at the airport, ET. CETERA (like I can go on!)

The Gunn movies are genuinely SO fun and I can 100% see and understand how they've stood so well in the public view as a representation of Scooby. HOWEVER, this is where you start to see my problems with them. For the general American, (because that is the audience I'm familiar with) ESPECIALLY millennials and younger, who happen to make up the majority of both people on this site AND people I talk about Scooby with in real life, these movies, and the elements they introduced as "quintessential scooby tropes" are the base of their understanding of the Scooby franchise, along with likely some miscellaneous WAY episodes and maybe SDMI.

Which is where I get pissed off. In the pushing of the narrative of "breaking away" from the Scooby norm, Gunn basically invents (aka totally makes up) an idea of what classic era Scooby was like, cementing an idea of classic Scooby into the public mind that is totally disingenuous and just straight up false. For example, in attempting to portray Daphne as having taken strides to be seen more seriously in solving mysteries and defending herself, it pushes the narrative that in the classic era she WASN'T taken seriously, and only existed as a damsel-in-distress prop of a character, which is just not true??? Like yes, Daphne is clumsy, that's a part of her character, and her friends (because, fun fact, the gang ARE friends) joke about it sometimes because that's what friends DO. Framing that in some kind of sexist "that's all she does" lens is just total bull, especially as gang members fall into secret passageways/get lost etc. in WAY ALL THE DAMN TIME because that's how the plot functions! Like are we calling Velma ditzy for losing her glasses every other episode? Of course not, and Fred falls into passageways all the time, not to MENTION Shaggy and Scooby and all they get up to. Also one last thing on the topic of Daphne, like this idea of her mystery solving skills not being respected by the gang is just so supremely bullshit it amazes me sometimes, especially when she was the LEADER (or leader adjacent) through pretty much all of her appearances in the 1980s [Not that James Gunn could look at '80s era Scooby without spitting on it, but I digress]

AND THIS IS JUST DAPHNE! Like the perceptions pushed towards Fred (and Velma, but mostly Fred) through these movies are just as bad! Like okay, with Fred---In these movies Fred is just an asshole. I hate Gunn Movies!Fred. I mean yeah he can be funny but it's almost always so mean! Almost nothing makes me madder than a mean Fred by the way. If he's putting other gang members down (even halfway, like with his whole "dorky chicks like you turn me on too" line, which... ew) then to me something has gone very, very, VERY, wrong in your basic understanding of Frederick Herman Jones as a character. Like he's the cheerleader! He puts himself in between his friends and danger! He loves nets, and traps, and Elvis impressions, and wrestling, and the trapeze, and cars, and most of all he LOVES sharing the things he loves with his friends! (Sometimes to a bit of an extreme. No one wants to hear about your net facts, Fred) And the live action movies just don't understand that at all. And I know there's maybe something to say I suppose in that some of those aspects of his characterization hadn't been "established yet" by the time "Scooby-Doo" came out in 2002. But it's there if you look. For Fred Jones, being the leader means being the caretaker, (he's the Mom friend what can I say) and any version where he's cruel and arrogant and just DOESN'T CARE about his friends in the way he's shown to in the Gunn movies is just so far from Fred to me it's not even funny. And what makes it even worse for me is that this (or at least something similar) is the idea of Fred that has really spread to the popular culture. Just the "leader", the jock that makes the rules, the one that [insert X adaptation here] finally gave a personality and made interesting (something that has been said more times than I can count for pretty much every gang member, save Shaggy and Scooby).

And I haven't even touched on Velma, and how they gave her a bit of a early 2000s smart superiority girl complex against Daphne, plus the whole makeover thing and etc. etc. The Gunn Movies are pretty much what would happen if you took someone who hadn't seen Scooby since they were 7 years old (and honestly had a pretty negative outlook against it then) and tried to "fix" it, only his memory was so bad he just made up problems (and threw in a good helping of early 2000s style sexism with it) convincing pretty much the entirety of the popular culture that said problems exist and that Gunn was absolutely brilliant for fixing them (and then bringing up said "problems" whenever anyone wants to talk about Scooby) and this entire rant has been without even fucking MENTIONING what is probably the reason you, anonymous tumblr user sent this ask in the first place, to I, Swishy "Scrappy Doo Redemption Arc" Broke-on-books (dot tumblr dot com), which is his HIGHLY SUCESSFUL and utterly sadistic character assassination of my number one man, Scrappy Doo.

And I am going to try my damnedest here not to get totally into my highly passionate opinions over what James Gunn did to Scrappy in the first of his Scooby movies and how thoroughly it has pissed me the fuck off because I have been writing this post for over an hour now and if we start to really get into my feelings on this topic it will certainly be a couple of hours more but like. That Fucking Bitch. I give James Gunn personally a solid eighty-five percent of the blame for making my life as a Scrappy Doo fan UTTERLY unbearable with this stupid fucking movie alone, and just his Scrappy crimes would honestly be enough for me to say that I hate this movie, not even considering the numerous Scooby crimes I've been talking about here for the past million paragraphs, but the part about this movie that makes me the MOST mad the most pissed off is that it's actually a good fucking movie. James Gunn wrote two hilarious and entertaining movies that have become beloved in the popular culture for their successes in that arena, while at the same time pissing all over the core themes and messages of the franchise of which it was based, that of friendship.

TLDR; The Live Action Scooby Doo movies (written by James Gunn) are highly entertaining and fun pieces of media to watch, and are widely loved by the general public and looked at with fondness and nostalgia because of that. However, as a hardcore Scooby Doo fan (writing that phrase sounds so ridiculous but oh well) the existence of these movies and their impact on the popular culture can be extremely frustrating (despite any personal nostalgia said fan may have) due to their spreading of a misinformed picture of what "typical Scooby Doo" looks like. This picture is especially frustrating due to the fabrication or exaggeration of problems present in classic Scooby (such as sexism in regards to the girls), as well as giving more ammunition to other problems in Scooby fandom (such as oversexualization, and sexualization in general, which no one wants to see in regards to their children's cartoons, like HONESTLY.) Discussions of sexism and sexualization in Scooby (both of which ARE present and are issues, although not at their worst in WAY) can often lead to an overlooking of the issues that are very present and clear in WAY and have continued since then with far too little resistance (I'm 100% talking about the racism here) HOWEVER that topic deserves at least a dozen posts of its own that I am no way informed or qualified enough to even begin to think about writing. The Gunn Movies are frustrating to many longtime Scooby fans because of these reasons, but for me, and fellow Scrappy Doo fans there is also the added aspect of the demonization of Scrappy Doo in the live action movies and the affects that has had on the popular culture as well, making it uniquely inhospitable to like or enjoy the character of Scrappy. End post.

[rottengurlz]

Did the full moon make everyone crazy or something this week I feel like I need to stare at a wall for an hour or 2 to heal myself

[i-like-gay-books]

i wake up. i have four hours until work, three hours until i have to get ready. i cannot do anything but sit in my anxiety because my brain thinks thats not enough time to do anything at all

[piplupod]

the package i ordered a few days ago should be here next week or the week after and it's lowkey keeping me going rn, the seller contacted me this morning to tell me that they would make sure I got a good item of the mystery option i chose bc i asked if I could avoid getting one of the options since I already have two so I'm :3 that's very kind of them!!

[1982brucespringsteen]

i wanna thank the otherwise useless european union and their useless organizations for gifting me my first piece of hard plastic with my actual name on it!!!!!!!!!

[arcenergy]

i want whatever mental illness i had when i was 16 to come back so i can come up with half of whatever insane shit i was on when i was into dragon age. it was literally the mcu (max cinematic universe) of dragon age. i remember every time i tried to give someone a “basic explanation” of arcetri’s lore it took 2+ hours

[thesingingrevolution]

i was on reddit and someone posted a link to their dream hermes kelly bag and i was curious to see it so i opened the link and the bag costs $100k and a popup on the website was like “sign up today for $100 off your first purchase” thank you so much instead of spending $100,000 on a purse i can spend $99,900 on a purse 🙏🏻

[punk-pins]

i won a slightly rigged award at work that comes w a money prize so now everybody is congratulating me and saying well how can EYE win and I have to say well. You can’t bc it’s rigged

[fnvminorcharacterpoll]

FNV Minor Character Poll - WINNER-TAKE-ALL SUPERFINAL

Left: The Challenger, Trudy, proprietor of the Goodsprings Saloon. —"If you were able to get Ringo out of this mess, you'd have a decent reputation around Goodsprings. I'd even set you up with a discount."

Trudy's designated cheerleader is @sas-afras! trudy is, as the "town mom" of goodsprings, a representation of the people whose lives will most be affected by the state of the mojave by endgame. someone who just wants to live their life in peace, who has no stake in nor control over what happens to the dam, who no one in power wants to give a fuck about. she is the everywoman!! the proletariat worker!! MY MOM!!!!!!!! the fact that she can die so quickly in the first hour of the game as part of the couriers first "moral choice" (as simplistic as it may be) is a microcosm of that role, and its a shame she didnt get the development time she deserved. i love her and her hidden lesbian polycule. also, i will die on any hill if that hill is a woman. VOTE TRUDY!! Trudy was the twentieth seed in the tournament overall and a semi-finalist in the A-side bracket. She beat Ignacio Rivas, Francine & James Garrett, and Fantastic before being defeated by Keely in tournament semi-finals.

Right: The champion, Beatrix Russell, hired guard at the Old Mormon Fort and potential sex worker at the Atomic Wrangler. —"Longing makes the heart grow fonder, but I’ve always been a fan of hog-tying my lovers to make sure they can’t escape.“

Beatrix's designated cheerleader is @fnvminorcharacterpoll (@fallout-lou-begas)! That's right, it's me, your tournament organizer and the operator of this blog. In the interest of avoiding bias, I've refrained from using my platform this way to advocate for my own favorite picks during the tournament (r.i.p. ranger ghost), but now I have no such qualms. Why? Because the tournament is over. We have a winner! Beatrix Russell, a phenomenal and worthwhile character who's funny, rowdy, sexy, filthy, old, weird, rough, and immediately fascinating fights for her life to get the title belt, and now my opposing cheerleader refuses to recognize the results? The audacity! The shamelessness! The Fallout: New Vegas Minor Character Poll tournament blog would ordinarily not even entertain such audacious claims of illegitimacy, but if my opponent wants Trudy to step back into the ring so bad, then by God, she can step in the ring. We'll all go one last time. But Trudy's in over her head: Beatrix has won every bracket she's entered in a landslide. Meanwhile Trudy got knocked out by Keely, who Beatrix beat! See, Trudy, the numbers don't lie: and they spell disaster for you in the superfinals. Beatrix was the seventh seed in the tournament overall and the winner of the tournament overall. She beat Chomps Lewis, the Lonesome Drifter, Siri, Daisy Whitman, No-Bark Noonan, and Keely to become the grand champion.

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[fuck-customers]

so i work at a popular midwest gas station chain, and i've had customers get upset with me for the most asinine reasons, but this lady i had the other day takes the cake. she comes in, grabs her stuff, whatever, she's super erratic but i deal with a lot of those types so nbd (city has a growing street drug problem). i thought a product she had was on BOGO so i didnt charge her for the second one (i also punched my rewards number in so i could score some points and see if i could give her any extra discounts) and she goes on her merry way. except she came back, yelling at my co worker who was covering the counter about "whys this say arizona 23 do you expect me to drink this" and she's very clearly upset over... me having been nice and giving her s discount? and once she was called out for causing a scene and was explained to multiple times the transaction did not effect her negatively in any way shape or form, she ducked out the door with her man, tail between her legs.

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[i-like-gay-books]

realized that my nose piercing might be migrating and everything online says once a piercing starts rejecting its very rare that it can be stopped i want to cry

[mariefilms]

╰───► Dealer!Ellie Headcannons

Pairing - dealer!ellie x black!femreader

Synopsis- dealer!ellie headcannons bc she’s been on my mind heavy.

Warnings- suggestive themes, mentions of weed, ellie being obsessed with reader

a/n i’ve been obsessed with this song and it may have started this brainrot 🙏🏾

dealer!ellie who couldnt resist giving you the pretty girl discount everytime you came to see her. she fell victim to your otherworldly like beauty and made a vow to make you hers.

dealer!ellie who couldn’t stop thinking about you since she first saw you at her door. you plagued her thoughts 24/7 to the point of insanity.

dealer!ellie who’s so obsessed with you that once you finally allowed her to take you out she never let you go.

dealer!ellie who couldn’t wait to spoil you with whatever you wanted with her dirty money once you finally got together. you didn’t have to lift a single finger or want for anything around her. you need your nails and hair done? $2000 already sent to your phone with a “get you a lil something extra, baby.” you wanna go on a shopping spree with her money? bet she’s on the way to get you and taking you to the mall. you 100% leave with multiple bags from high class stores and best believe ellie is carrying every single one of em.

dealer!ellie that once she finally got a taste of you she was whipped, pussy drunk if you will. it was to a point where you’re rarely in your clothes whenever you stay over her house. “fucking love this pussy” “it’s mines right baby? please tell me it’s mines.”

dealer!ellie who didnt want you having any parts of the business she’s in. she didn’t want you getting mixed up with dangerous people who would do anything to hurt ellie even if it means killing you. she never let you go with her when she had to make a drop. it was too dangerous and she wanted her pretty baby to stay safe in the comfort of her home.

dealer!ellie who kept her promise and never let you go. she ended up proposing on one of the lavish trips y’all took overseas 3 times a year. she always treated you like the princess you are and even kept her promise making your wedding princess and the frog themed.

dealer!ellie who had to keep dealing so she could afford the lavish lifestyle you were used to, but once you got married and she started having to work more you started worrying for her safety. it got to a point where one night she came home bruised and bloodied. “ what the fuck ellie!? what happened to you?!” “ this has got to stop. you can’t do this drug dealing shit no more ellie.” “you know i can’t stop baby, i’m too deep in.”

a/n anddddddd i’m gonna stop here, i want to expand more with this in a fic, i’m litch bursting with ideas like

[mouthpoisons]

hi im trying to write a shorter version of my last post about this to hopefully get some more reach

in may i was granted a council house so that i can escape my abusive father, but i havent been able to move in yet because the house was given to me completely empty and didnt even have flooring in most of the rooms, just dirty concrete. im physically disabled and cant work; i only get between £600-£700 per month in benefits and my application for extra to help with the rent cost + subsequent messages ive sent chasing it up have been ignored, so im paying £400pcm rent for a house thats barely habitable. i was also given a £1300 council tax bill that they wont give me a discount on until im physically living there. since i signed the lease papers in may, me and my mum who has a below min wage job have only been able to afford to put flooring in one room and buy some kitchen appliances, and a bed

its finally coming to a point where i can move in but some essential stuff is still missing, namely flooring for the livingroom and hallway, an oven, and id also just like to have more furniture than just a bed lol. due to the nature of my dad's abuse (which i wont get into here its a whole other story but ask if you want) i dont have any furniture to take with me from my parents' house, im starting completely from scratch.

on top of this, doctors have been extremely slow to meaningfully help me with my physical symptoms which are getting worse all the time, more about this in the other post but essentially it took years of being told ''its cus youre fat'' for someone to get me tested. now the latest development is that ive been waiting on ''urgent'' specialist rheumatoid arthritis care since march. it gets harder to walk every day and i need to buy hip, knee, and ankle braces, and potentially upgrade from my cane which doesnt feel sufficient anymore. i cant afford any of this but my health depends on it.

if youd like to help out my paypal is @/flintjupiter and my cashapp is £flintjupiter. i have an etsy shop thats closing down because im too sick/cant afford to run it anymore, everything is 70% off. i also have an ebay that i'm using to sell some old collectors items as i take them out of storage.

heres the viktor blunt image again thanks for reading

[celestesparlour]

if bursonas play minecraft;

argbur's avatar standing there dumbfounded when simpbur keeps stuttering and trying to tell him that he can't JUST place his bed next to his own bed while argbur just doesn't understand what's the big deal since hes new to minecraft entirely

simpbur is more experienced with minecraft and thought if he wow'd argbur with his knowledge then surely argbur would think he's cool! unfortunately, moments after thinking this, he has fallen into a pit of lava and died in front of him

people have no idea why simpbur's avatar and argbur's avatar just stand still in the game, looking down until they realized they were just sleeping in call together

simpbur once pranked pogbur and lmanbur by putting their beds together, and then later saw in chat that they both died at the same time, and then died again due to smacking each other when they respawned

revivebur would put way too much effort into gathering lots and lots of materials, and hoards a lot of them in his already full, disorganized storage space— has too many building projects scattered across their land that were just left unfinished; they have no idea where revivebur is, most of the time, because he's always deep into the mines or exploring in other biomes.

whenever he comes back, its always to the craziest shit ever. he was days late into finding out that lmanbur and pogbur had just divided the land into two sections but then proceed to grief each other's builds + houses

revivebur always asks for someone to accompany him though, which is usually ghostbur. gets very anxious when playing alone; ghostbur and revivebur are oddly much more sweet to each other in chat, since revivebur allows himself to verbally reciprocate

only times revivebur stays longer at their base is to help ghostbur with building + tending the flower garden, bee farm, as well as the enclosures for friend.

revivebur had to build him a house bc "you sleep outside because you placed your bed out the fences— of course you need a house!" whenever revivebur returns, they would put the flowers he got into their garden (revivebur being stingy with his stuff but giving/sharing ghostbur any of his doesnt surprise all of them)

ghostbur hadn't slept for days because he spent all his time fixated on this one thing (building his area) and kept expanding on it; does not even have the essential materials. does not even wear armor. they shut off the server for breaks daily bc of this

phantombur brought capitalism in that server all so they can scam everyone; grinds a lot, and is the richest there— they give discounts for ghostbur and revivebur (only cuz ghostbur insisted too)

phantombur gets shy whenever playing with people with the full intent to befriend them, so they think bribery would help

one night limbobur was playing with just lmanbur and pogbur, he was reading the chat where they had this massive argument— heard the door slam from another room, before hearing an noisy, aggressive make-out session and then—

they didnt log back on for weeks

simpbur's the one that dies a lot to the point that a lot of people come with him just to regularly hold his stuff; argbur is the least trustworthy with his stuff because he keeps stealing it to tease him. argbur got his armor once, worn it and never taken it off again even when simpbur kept whining in call

ghostbur and simpbur have this thing where they both crouch and jump up and down while nodding their heads like they're having a conversation

pogbur kept hissing like a creeper; they all lightly tease him for it, but lmanbur said out loud that he genuinely thinks it's cute— proceeds to get bullied by revivebur while pogbur is silent on call, face red bc he thought the compliment was lmanbur mocking him

when they get together, it feels weird to the other burs to watch them on the new minecraft server— and they don't start any fights or grief-offs, or anything; they just build their dream house together and kept acting like they're married