#things boomer say

[buggachat]

"augh, this [media] sucks. it's all about shipping"

romance is a genre, harold

[surprisebitch]

what kind of ad for pokemon go is this

[apollos-boyfriend]

cpurpled could tell you the origin of every scar he’s ever gotten. channah could recount the most memorable ones, but has forgotten the smaller more insignificant details. if cboomer woke up with a giant new scar running all the way across their face i genuinely do not think they would notice nor remember it wasn’t there yesterday.

[gxlden-angels]

Idk I think it's funny seeing people on twitter say things like "Christians want to tell you it's all a part of Jesus's plan until it's them!" cause like idk about you but I've had family members 100% say they're ready to meet the Lord than interfere with his plans via a Tylenol and a flu shot

[archiephd]

some of y'all care way too much about your constant accessibility to entertainment goddamn

[aurosoul]

my dad asked me if I was gonna have a mid-life crisis about turning 30 in 2 months and I was just like…….

man, of all the things worth having a crisis about in life right now, turning 30 is the LEAST of my worries

[bamboozled-distress]

don't mind him

just the superior timber visiting you

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT THE CHOCOLATE GLAZE TIMBIT SHE IS THE ALMIGHTY

[bonefarm]

Psst. Hey. If you’re looking at a house and the previous owners have painted something a dark color they are HIDING something.

[designernishiki]

ok gonna be real I’ve never understood the “daigo is like a son to me” route that the writers took with kiryu. they’ve never, at least for most of their time knowing each other, felt like they’ve had a father and son dynamic– an older brother/younger brother one sure, or maybe a young uncle/nephew one. because I mean? they’ve known each other since they were both kids and they’re literally only 8 years apart in age. in y0 it’s implied that kiryu played with him and babysat him more or less when he was around 16-20 and it just doesn’t feel like a Dad sort of thing At All. kiryu was also a kid. just an older kid. daigo was a little brat to him just like an annoying little brother while secretly thinking of kiryu as a Cool Teenager he looked up to and wanted to be more like. it feels way more like an older/younger sibling sort of thing or something akin to that and it only starts being a little more like a father/son dynamic some time after daigo loses his father and feels the need to fill the void– which he couldn’t even begin to do until at least ten years later because kiryu was in prison. and it’s not particularly in a healthy way either, considering. well. like I said. kiryu’s never actually been like a father to him. I don’t even mean that in a negative way in this case, it’s just literally not the role kiryu fundamentally had in his life (especially because their age difference is a good 10-20 years too close to be that of a parental relationship.) so idk. having kiryu say all of a sudden that he sees daigo as a son (especially rather than as family in some other way) just feels kinda. wrong. and jarringly unfounded.

I mean shit, even majima would be more of a dad-ish figure to daigo realistically considering kiryu basically assigned him to look after daigo for like. years. while kiryu just kinda left without any known plans of reconnecting at all. or even kashiwagi on a certain level because of how he stepped in alongside yayoi after sohei’s death. kiryu has barely been around, hasn’t really showed any interest in legitimately being in his life, and has barely had any deeply personal interactions with him since they were basically both kids. and as much as I think how long they’ve known each other and what they’ve both been through is a means for a familial bond of SOME kind, there just seems like no room or evidence for a paternal role being taken on.

at least nothing healthy in that regard; if kiryu’s like a dad to him then he’s undoubtedly a deadbeat one and perhaps feels like a dad to daigo in a way because daigo’s paternal model (his birth father) was also emotionally (and probably largely physically) absent and near-impossible to live up to. that’d at least make sense, regardless of how unhealthy it’d be, but it STILL really doesn’t explain kiryu saying he thinks of daigo like a son.

it’s just. it’s such a weird thing to have him say and I wish it was this confusing because of nuance but honestly I just think the writers watered their dynamic down to supposedly father/son because it seems more emotionally impactful for kiryu to say “you’re like a son to me” than anything else he could’ve potentially said about their bond.

[cowboykeery]

i hate that i have such a hard time saying no to my dad. there’s a family reunion in goddamn idaho in the summer and i have no real reason to not go other that i don’t wanna spend 5 days somewhere i’ve never been to and flying on a plane by myself would put me into a panic attack right this second

[just-french-me-up]

Oooh can you PLEASE talk about French complaints about anglicisms? I also love linguistics

Oh BOI, CAN I?????

There's this weird tendency (aka policy) in France against anglicisms and adopting words from the English language because the ruling class has this grand idea about French exceptionalism, how it must remain pristine and unchanged just like it Used to Be.

And ok, that seems reasonable on the surface, fighting American soft power and soft imperialism and all that.

Except they go about it in the STUPIDEST WAY.

You know what didn't exist as it is now, say 600 years ago? THE FRENCH LANGUAGE! The pronunciation was different, the grammar was different, the spelling was different. And you know what won't exist in 600 years? THE FRENCH LANGUAGE as it is now! (and humanity, probably, but that's another topic for another day) Cause that's how languages WORK.

Politicians and conservatives are all up in arms because of a few English words, failing to remember English takes a sizable chunk of it's vocab from French itself since the Norman conquest. They sometimes fustigate people for using an English word.... OF FRENCH ORIGIN!!!!!

Also word borrowing is one of the natural processes languages undergo. Alcohol? Arabic! Denim? French! Trying to stop it is like building a dam with Swiss cheese.

There is also this whole institution in France called the Académie Française, whose job is to define what's proper correct French and what isn't, and most of the members (for life) AREN'T EVEN FUCKING LINGUISTS?????? They're supposed to be the highest authority regarding the French language and it's just a fancy club of old people with fancy black and green jackets????

Anyway, some guys are also in charge to proposing (imposing) French words to replace anglicisms. The lastest ones are :

a streamer -> un joueur en direct

a deepfake -> une infox vidéo

a podcast -> une baladodiffusion

And those are the OFFICIAL words lawmakers have to use in official documents, whereas NO ONE on the French population would ever use them. Like.... EVER, because the use of those anglicisms is already rooted in everyday life, since they weren't any French equivalent when they were invented.

Anyway, I hate it, leave languages evolve naturally thank you for coming to my TED talk

NB : this rant does not apply to corporate anglicism, corporate anglicism can go die in a ditch, they are the opposite side of the elitism spectrum, stop calling it a "one-to-one" (wan-tou-wan) it's just a fucking review conversation with one of your colleagues OH MY GOD

[loud-whistling-yes]

My class responded to our rainbow flag being banned for including a "sensitive issue that shouldn't be touched on in school" by changing to a pan flag and I think that's beautiful

[bumblingbabooshka]

Worst Guy Ever - Also, Unfortunately, Very Homosexual Convo. (subtextually)

[rosedhall]

Dr. Bose PhD (Please have Diazepam)

[magentagalaxies]

i really want to start making a table collecting statistics on the audience demographics i'll perform my aubrey material for (like what generation most of the audience is, whether i'm performing in a predominantly queer space, etc.) and how well the jokes land bc like. i need to collect more data points before i can properly present my findings but the results so far have been fascinating

[bellshazes]

bdubs truely prides himself with being the blacksmith that forges every sword he falls on

I have been turning this over in my mind bc you're correct and I think it hits on maybe the thing that gives me the second most agony over any given Situation bdubs has put himself in, which is that he is really good at forging swords to fall on to such an extent that he does not know how to make swords that do not harm the user.

I love thinking abt him in comparison to Scar, who has a similar but distinct paradox: he dies a lot, and is constantly trying to bend things to his will through big talk, and dies often enough that him being dangerous is always somehow a surprise. he just does not choose to be on high alert at all times, because playing dangerous or loose is fun and has minimal consequences when you can get regeared easily - and he can play well in 3L when it isn't.

bdubs, though. oh, bless him. he feigns outrage at the s8 clockwork mansion and then is absolutely tickled leaving it that his friends would do him the kindness of forging swords FOR him to throw himself on. he is, unlike Scar, frequently terrified of dying, which is why he sleeps and avoids the nether; when he plays reckless he's selfish and loud and full of fairly empty bravado, which is a different kind of big talk. scar wants you to buy his snake oil, but bdubs wants you to mistake him for a more dangerous animal so he doesn't have to find out if he is. so he dies enough, because it's an easy bluff to call! everyone laughs at the guy jousting at windmills as if he didn't build them himself.

he rarely gets away with even accidental slights in LL and DL without making enemies, even when others do worse and come out far ahead socially. but as has been said the bravado also hides his competencies, because you never expect the guy with the big mouth to have tricky secrets. (this is why his tango/etho assassinations in 3L are still the most impressive scheme of all, and why the homewrecker bit is just so fucking doomed.)

but. But! he is not in the habit of letting those be in service of much but crafting swords that can be fallen on. Interrupts tango fk show off his cobble generator and then remarks not a whit on how technically impressive the pretty stone sugar cane farm is as a custom functional art piece tailored to its commissioner (tnt, suckers) and charges nothing for it. he is not very good at being red unless he's building a disgustingly competent crastle (the WINDOWS they make me sick). hard to throw yourself on a sword when you've only got one, though he does it beautifully in his LL finale that no one will ever see his side of.

scar can turn it back on because his dying and percieved lack of skills is a focus and a stakes thing. bdubs rarely can, because his dying and perceived lack of skills is because he will play the role that needs played for good stakes to be possible, and if those stakes are life or death he's already being cleo's sword or a hero with skizz or making a stand at his wrecked home. he has already forged the swords, the hilts are already buried in the ground. just one tiny push, and there he goes -