#this is so nonsense

[solreix]

random thought pero tsukishima kei as yn's masungit na tindero ng barbecue sa tapat ng bahay nila.

"magkano po isaw?" tanong niya nang nakatitig lang sa mga paninda.

"lima."

napaangat siya nang tingin nang marinig na hindi si aling mayet ang nagtitinda. napanguso siya sa sarili at tumango. "dito sa barbecue?" dugtong niya.

"twenty."

"five na ulit yung isaw, pero twenty na yung barbecue... hmmm..." bulong niya sa sarili.

"alam mo pala presyo bakit nagtatanong ka pa?" masungit na tanong ng tindero. mabuti na lang at walang ibang bumibili dahil halos kabubukas lang nila.

"sungit mo naman!" singhal niya. "malay ko ba kung nagbabago yung presyo. kita mo nga nabago oh, sais 'yan kahapon tapos eighteen 'yung barbecue." umirap siya rito.

syempre, hindi nagpatalo si tsukishima. pairap niya ring kinuha mula kay yn ang limang isaw na hawak nito pati na ang apat na barbecue. "ang takaw mo ah."

"wala kang paki. sumbong kita kay tita mayet. masungit ka na nga, pakielamero ka pa."

"magsumbong ka, nasa likod mo siya."

nanlaki ang mata niya nang tumuro ito sa likod niya. paglingon ay nasa likod niya nga ito at mukhang nakikinig sa usapan nila ni tsukishima kanina pa.

"nag-aaway na naman kayo?" natatawa nitong tanong.

"hello po! hindi po, nang-aaway lang po 'yang pamangkin niyo." lumapit pa siya kay aling mayet. "malulugi kayo sa kaniya, tita. napakasungit ng tindero niyo—malas 'yon!" suhol niya pa.

mas lalong natawa si aling mayet sa kaniya, at tiningnan nang nanunuyang tingin si tsukishima. "ikaw lang naman sinusungitan niyan eh."

"eh?" sinamaan niya ng tingin si tsukishima na namumula dahil siguro sa usok ng iniihaw. "dahil lang naputol ko pambura mo no'ng grade 3?"

ang paghiram niya ng pambura noon ay ang unang interaction nila, at nang ibalik niya ito, sinimulan na siyang sungitan ni tsukishima.

"nako, hindi—"

"ninang kanina ka pa hinahanap ni mama sa loob," putol ni tsukishima. narinig niya pa ang muling pagtawa ni aling mayet bago ibinaling ni tsukishima ang tingin sa kaniya. "ikaw naman, 'wag kang assuming. hindi ko nga maalalang pinahiram kita ng pambura."

"ang sungit." umirap siya, at nang makitang luto na ang isaw ay kumuha siya ng isa. naglagay na siya ng sawsawan niya sa tabi kaya naman kumakain siya habang hinihintay pang maluto ang iba. "eh bakit ang sungit mo? crush mo ba 'ko?"

"susunugin ko barbecue mo."

"uy hindi din-eny!" at sinundan niya pa ng halakhak.

"umuwi ka na nga!"

"teka—"

pumuwesto ito sa likod niya at itinulak siya direkta sa katapat lang, bahay nila. "uwi."

"hindi pa 'ko tapos—"

"ihahatid ko na lang! uwi!"

"hindi pa 'ko bayad—"

sumama ang tingin ni tsukishima, pero hindi mapigilan ni yn na matawa dahil namumula ang buong mukha nito. halatang-halata dahil sa napaka-puting balat.

"ako na. dadagdagan ko pa ng isaw, uwi."

ngumisi si yn. naningkit ang mata niya habang naglalakad patalikod, nakaharap pa rin kay tsukishima kahit nakatawid na siya't hawak na ang gate nila.

sumigaw siya, "ma! may ulam na tayo, crush ako ni sungit!"

napailing na lang si tsukishima.

[infime]

you may think your only options are

but in fact you can

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[sixth-light]

so one of the things I was vaguely aware of before reproducing was that people hold a lot of anxiety around the gender of babies and 'wrongly' gendering babies (i.e. failing to guess correctly based on their clothes and appearance what their genital configuration is) and having now had a baby: wow, yes, they really do.

I take an extremely laissez-faire approach to baby clothes because like, they are constantly being thrown up on and grown out of and so on, what matters is that they are clean and easy to put on and I am not spending $$$$$ on them. as long as the colour/design is not directly offensive, it's fine. what this means is that people are quite frequently 'misgendering' the baby and then falling over themselves to apologise about it.

and, like, I haven't even had a chance to dress him in anything pink yet; this is based on rules I didn't expect like 'anything with flowers or sparkly bits on it is for girls only'. equally, I do not care when this happens because it's an irrelevancy, but THEY care to make sure I am not offended. so I have started telling them "look, he's only [x] months old; his gender is baby."

and you know what? you'd be surprised how many otherwise average heterosexual people process this and go "huh, yeah, I guess it is." there is a tiny amount of hope for the future after all.

[etherealspacejelly]

reblog this if you like getting silly asks

[atissi]

hadn't seen anyone post the full comic about laios + falin's family on tumblr yet so. here you go source is from the reddit

[marzipanandminutiae]

hello, internet user. before you is a selection of pictures you tagged "dark academia." you have 30 minutes to explain what each of them has to do with academia, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship"

if you cannot complete this task a literature professor will enter the room and beat you into unconsciousness with a baseball bat that has the word "GOTHIC" printed on it in large letters

good luck

[seveneyesoup]

you can replace studying with 0.5-4 hours of thinking about The Character. but watch out

[furious-fish]

alex and jonny give me an easy episode to draw challenge (impossible)

[zephyrine-gale]

can i be your tail?

[rendevok]

Moon dance 🌕✨

[salemoleander]

I am BARELY resisting going full red-strings-corkboard on this season. And by barely resisting I mean not resisting at all here is an extremely long list of the events those pins would be marking out.

BigB getting a Task that was a different color than everyone else's. It's not just a randomly assigned Hard Task, bc Scar rerolled for a Hard Task and his was also just a white envelope. It's fundamentally different.

That task taking BigB away from socialization, and seemingly being an incredibly time-consuming and dull request. Of profound disinterest to any watchers.

The phrasing of his Task!!

Dig a big hole. All the way down. At least 3x3. Make it your base if you want.

Everyone else's are direct and formal - the only one with more than one sentence was Skizz's, with the rule clarification of "One attempt only." Bigb's Task is four short abrupt sentences. It is also the only Task to contain extraneous information, 'Make it your base if you want.' The requirements (at least 3x3) feel like an afterthought to mimic the numerical/specific demands of the other tasks.

Evo symbol on the face of the Secret Keeper statue.

The fact that there's a statue at all; the fact that there is a physical representation of what is assigning tasks that everyone must complete, when previously everything was always handled via commands and unseen RNG.

Grian talking to the statue, and (bc of his Actual Role as game organizer) acting as a mediator for the impartial decisions handed down, speaking for it.

Grian making one last bad joke and saying he doesn't know if it counted or not- depends on whether we the audience laughed.

Grian asking for task recommendations from the audience. The watchers are making the tasks. The Watchers are making the tasks.

Again I could be off-base, and I'm not usually even that smitten with bringing in Evo lore. I don't want a Big Bad really...but. It feels like something very unusual and intentional and cool is happening in this series. And I'd guess we'll know if theres something going on once we have more than one data point.

My largely unfounded suspicion is that there is another being (maybe Listeners, maybe something else) trying to reach out to the Players via decoy Tasks, and BigB was the first recipient. Get them alone, make them of disinterest to the watchers, and tell them something we don't get to know.

Because that's the really, really fucking cool part (if my wacky theory is remotely right): We're the bad guys. We're the ones giving out tasks - hell, we're the ones actively brainstorming harder and crueller tasks in Grian's comments!

If they actually made a story where the Players have to keep secrets from us I will be delighted. Bc that is the same genius bullshit that made Evo Watcher lore so fun

[egophiliac]

so excited for Kalim to save the day by swiper-no-swiping this dip. you can do it! I believe in you!

god I hope this reads properly

[intotheelliwoods]

must not.. overthink... must NOT overthink shit. magic... must not.... logic brain... my poor poor logic brain....

Response to this aha

[deecotan]

anyway here's wavewave

[deimosatellite]