#z off topic

[zanderlisle]

Reminder that if you're interested in my non-serious content, you're looking for @sonofthestrs

[pyro3066]

he’s alright i guess (i think about him an unhealthy amount each and every day)

[deus-ex-mona]

scrolled a little too far back on mogetwt and found pure gold:

[llyfrenfys]

Maybe this is a hot take but

Is it just me or did the goalposts of who qualifies as Gen Z change when I wasn't looking?

A couple of years ago you'd have me (born 2000) described as late Millenial. Now suddenly Gen Z starts in 1996?

I know they're all fake but I could have sworn Gen Z started after I was born. Never mind the sticky assumptions which border on patronising when someone literally a year older than me presumes I've never heard of a VHS when I grew up with my treasured Land Before Time VHS tape and watched the Pokemon movie on VHS religiously when I was in the children's hospital. Not that one must prove their 'generation credentials' or anything.

This post may also be partly inspired by the very nasty shitting on Gen Z I've seen on here lately - I thought I remembered posts where Millenials vowed not to do the same to Gen Z which earlier generations did to them. So much for that I suppose.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I do think, esp as people who grew up with social media get older, we're just going to need a statute of limitations on canceling people. Like, when you turn 22, nothing you posted on any platform before you graduated high school can count against you as long as you're not still saying or doing it.

Sincerely,

Someone who would be in a boatload of trouble if he'd had tiktok in 2005

[deepdean-detectives]

okay so I AM at the airport today so I can't draw anything for the mmu 10th anniversary BUT keep your eyes open for a drawing tomorrow. Alternatively if you put a silly little emoji in my inbox I'll show you the mmu doodles I did in class

[firecooking]

Here me out, in the tugs fandom there are 3 depictions of captain zero

1. Shitty mustache ( looks like it's pencil drawn)

2. Mustache that curls into a zero ( it curling to represent how he's the antagonist and also it resembles a 0 )

3. No mustache ( because he's either terrible at facial hair or artist just didn't draw him with one)

In your au is there an inside joke that zero can't grow proper facial hair?

I have been a conosuier of human Captain Zero's for years, and that theory does hold water!

I think the only Zero I can think of until a few that cropped up around this year with a beard that was drawn more than once is Dan-the-countdowner's over on deviant art. God speed Dan you where like the only guy drawing human Captains for years.

Also, your asks are always on deck in my ask box when I have a few minutes of free time, please don't think I'm ignoring them, sometimes it takes me a while to formulate my answers. Also I don't often do drawing requests, but I make an exception for my TUGS au's!

Anyways, on to my au! There will be a detailed explanation under the read more but tldr:

When Zero was a younger man he always kept himself clean shaven, after his time in he army he attempts to grow a mustache, which was universally hated and every one regarded as a bad move. Post War 1918-pre Zip 1920 is lovingly known as the rat years in the photo albums that reside around Zero Marine Bigg City.

Before the Great War Captain Zero clean shaved every morning, brushed out, cared for, and styled his hair, and generally looked put together and intentional despite living with rather wild, wavy, longer hair. I picture him around a 2b/2c if he makes an attempt to care for it but when he's not doing anything particular its just a frizzy/fluffy 2a, he has pretty fine hair so it's never consistent unless Zero makes the effort. His hair keeping short also makes it less wavy than it might be if he let it grow out.

He'll never admit it but he never really liked looking anyone in the eyes as a young man, and he still doesn't like it. His long bangs covering his face made him feel more calm and helped hide the fact he was avoiding eye contact.

When he signed up for the draft, Star had made a few passing comments about his hair, but Zero never thought anything of it. He's always remembered Star had had longer hair, and the Army wasn't that different to the navy, right?

After he was drafted and was in training, one of the first things that happened was his hair was trimmed back to fit in his helmet better and his daily grooming routine was reprimanded as a waste of time for a medic. He was told to change it or lives would be lost. So change it he did. This change consisted of not doing his hair routine save for 'basic maintenance' [ie, none] as needed, and only shaving one or twice a week, his facial hair never did grow very fast and was rather sparse anyways.

When he got back from the war, he vowed to grow his hair back out, but he was a different man returning home.

With his new found free time in the mornings meant he could always find time for tea and some breakfast. Making for a slightly less 'tired bitch of a captain' according to his three tugboats [data gathered from eaves dropping on their nightly poker games]. With his shaving routine fully altered and him no longer being picky about being clean shaven, he decided to try out facial hair, his father always maintained a beard, so why couldn't he? Genetics were on his side! He often forgets he's adopted.

It never did grow in fast, or very full. Even with Zorran's best efforts to help, Zero never really had more than a slightly bushy mess. And his hair never really got back to it's same length/health after the war, he always blamed it on the fact it was cut back, and not the fact he was a depressed mess after Europe who had stopped grooming almost entirely for years.

When Zip was due to be christened, Zero finally went down to a barbers shop to get himself cleaned up for the photographs at the urging of his tugboats and mother.

The barber took one look at him and told him the mustache needed to go and that his hair was initially damaged from lack of care during the war and then exacerbated by lack of care after. Zero on a whim let the man do what he felt was right, it was a new decade after all.

Zero's up cut was initially very low maintenance for him and he quite preferred it that way. Zero didn't keep up steam with his hair care the same way he did before the war, but he could manage to brush it in the morning to keep it from getting as bad as it had been.

Once Zasha comes into his life and he realized she has much curlier hair than he ever did [a mix of 3 b/c], he starts to pick hair maintenance back up as he learns how to take care of her hair. He's gotta be a role model and a good father after all. He still never gets back to how he was before the war, but at least his hair is healthy instead of oily, frizzy, and out of place.

More importantly he's taking regular showers and grooming again. His tugs count both of those things as a win.

He never figures out why he was less particular about the way he looks after the war. He was living a life of crime before the war. In the army he never injured a soul or took a life, unlike his days collecting debts as an 'accountant.'

He doesn't see how the war to end all wars could have changed him.

[nowheresamsaucex]

BEHOLD!

PHILOSOPHERS!

[derang3d-and-insan1ty]

Literally no one asked but here's my pressure oc(s?) ^^

ALRIGHTY RANT TIME :DD

Z-82, or "The Children", are a man-made species of blind humanoid sea bunnies, ones that are about a little bigger than infants. They are experimented sea bunnies.

They wander around aimlessly around the room, around 1 or 2 each encounter, or in rare cases 3 or 4. They are pretty much harmless, if you run into them, they will cling onto you and slow you down, which can make you die if an Angler or any of its variants is coming your way. The only way to get them off is to have another person pry it off.

There are different variants, Z-82-A being the most common (the white one. Z-82-B is the yellow one and Z-82-C is the green one). Z-82-D is the rarest one, and the only one of it's species as that variant, making it endangered. Z-82-D can not spawn, the only Z-82-D is with Sebastian.

The reason why the Z-82 species are extremely clingy, is because before the site wide lockdown, their main scientist/researcher was a kind woman, whom as they all see as their "mother" (*cough cough* she is dead). And whenever they run into a living thing (example: expendables) they think it's that scientist and cling onto it.

The Z-82 species can be killed by an Angler if it is left out in the open as it passes by. However you can not eat it, it's poisonous. (Based on the true fact of sea bunnies being highly toxic-)

[zanderlisle]

By the way if anyone is interested in my fandom posting, you're looking for @dieverstort, this account is for civil rights awareness, education & activism

[ineffablefool]

The lil corner of the Good Omens fandom that I generally see is getting more and more into publicly declaring that That Theory I Dislike Is Bad And People Who Ascribe To It Should Feel Bad, and I don't know if it's really new, or if I was just lucky enough to generally be missed with that shit the last four years.

Different people's brains work differently, which means they will notice things, form interpretations, maybe come to extremely firm conclusions, all different from each others'. Different from mine, different from yours.

I get that some people think that they have the brain which produces the Objectively Superior theories (and/or which can easily determine which other people's theories are the Objectively Inferior ones). I just really missed the memo where Your Interpretation Is Not My Interpretation (And That's Okay) was dragged out back and fucking shot.

Anyway this blog is an "I may not agree with your theory but you may trust that I won't publicly heap scorn upon the very idea of having it" zone if anyone was wondering.

[oneofthosecrazygirls-mp3]

can't even look at myself

[pr0udn3rd]

Chris Christie really be out here wondering why he’s not connecting with the younger voters when “no off topic questions” is a staple in almost every Vine compilation.

[postmanlinksbootyshorts]

the way tiktok rots ppls brains is SO embarrassing. a friend of mine will sometimes bring up some shit she heard off that site and i have to bite my tongue to not be like "that doesn't even sound remotely real"

[deepdean-detectives]

Welcome to my London event post thread. First comment: I'm running Very Late