I think a really underrated part of the TF2 comics is the way the relationship between Spy and Miss Pauling develops and falls apart. It's this rich little microcosm of Spy's heavily masked (ha) personality and Pauling's desperation for approval.

During their few interactions in the first three comics, they act accordingly to their given roles- they're coworkers, that's all. Miss Pauling has seven other mercs to locate and manage and Spy is busy wrangling Soldier and Zhanna.

That really changes in the latter half of #4- that's when things start falling apart for both of them. Miss Pauling, of course, is caught up in her hunt for more Australium- unlike Spy, this isn't just a job for her. She wants to impress the Administrator, to get her attention and praise. Both of their motivations shift completely because of their visit to New Zealand.

oh yeah also @tf2heritageposts i think you'd find this interesting. anyway

So- when Miss Pauling goes with the mercs to confront the Administrator, she makes a choice that she probably wouldn't have the strength to before all of this.

I love grindr images like this, they're so awesome sauced

How could you forget this classic?

i cant believe this one is missing

some gems from my own personal “grindr is a hellpit” collection

”Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Do people energize you or drain you? Would you rather be at a party or a library?” Stop subscribing me to binaries. Social interaction is invigorating and makes my life better and I’m exhausted the whole time.

Please invite me to the function. I’ll be all tsundere about it

Something I like about dungeon meshi is that Falin's resurrection is never treated like a bad thing. Sure it was "forbidden magic" and Marcille TECHNICALLY committed a crime, but the story is pretty clear that these are just laws created by people, and that that doesn't make it inherently immoral. There's never any implication that Falin was "supposed to die" or that "it was her time." The narrative says that Falin continuing to live is unambiguously a good thing. That Marcille made the right choice in wanting Falin to keep living. It was a pure act. Unlawful, but good.

the fact that you’re trying is a big deal. that’s all that really matters.

"Hey Derin, how did you get started in web serials?"

Jesus fucking christ, dude

Imagine ur the Republican CEO of IBM excited for a big tax cut under the new administration and they invite you in as economic advisor so you end up spending two years of your life desperately playing therapist to try to unlock why your boss is so fucking weird about everything

a series of unfortunate events is many things and one of them is ‘a story about children learning repeatedly and painfully that adults will not protect or help them’ and no matter the sheer amount of fantasy anachronism or ridiculousness the books contain, that message shines through in every chapter, and it makes the series very fundamentally real

🎶You deserve to get paid! Let them know that!🎵

i think 90% of the time being like 'all my political enemies are personally miserable' is on some level cope. but when it comes to elon musk it is just obviously true and thats pretty funny

[coughing up blood] please, I require... media that will make me feel as bad as is physically possible...

what kind of five act tragedy is befalling the national hockey league

good dynamic: character who’s too deeply rooted to a fault + character who’s never been able to form roots anywhere before

yeahyeaheyaheyeahyeahyeahyeah

ok everyone else shut up this is the only one that matters

Dan and I bought a thing called “long ziti” from the local Weird Bargain Store, largely as a joke, but…. I have never had a more unsettling pasta experience in my life. They wouldn’t bend enough to cook from top to bottom simultaneously, and while they were cooking boiling water kept spouting out from the tops of them out of the pot, like a boiling pipe organ. Then they were so long and floppy and hoselike that we couldn’t pick them up with anything other than tongs, and then they were so long and unwieldy that it was basically impossible to sauce them without them all slithering out of the bowl like wet snakes. They then proceeded to cool down almost completely within the the seconds it took to walk to the living room. Eating them was like eating a bowl full half melted drinking straws.

Bringing back Long Ziti for another round because it’s just too funny

real life creepypasta

were they on estrogen when they made this LOL???

The matrix (1999)