We are the raccoons in charge around here

were I to create an original piece of media I would create bait so queer in order to create a fanfic environment I like. I find you guys do your best work under duress.

I’d say “jeez can two people not be friends anymore?” and then I’d give one of them amnesia in which they only recognize the other above anyone else

my soft and comfortable mama

You'll have to turn sound on for this one

Thanks @heyesc for sending me this!

(This post is brought to you by the fact that tumblr are, hilariously, claiming that 50% of current users are gen z, and i wanna see how accurate claim that is.)

someone HAS to have written a fic where the githyanki egg hatches early and the entire gang just Has A Child Now right. this game is a giant chaotic found family with a built-in accidental baby acquisition, there's no way someone hasn't pounced on that yet right. right

back on this. someone suggests leaving the kid at camp while they go on dangerous missions and lae'zel's like camp? where devils and vampires are showing up without warning? no. we're bringing him with us.

so naturally wyll (the only one who's ever interacted with babies) suggests wearing the baby, and lae'zel's like "perfect, i can keep my hands free in battle and he can see the fighting firsthand" and wyll's like. uh. all respect to githyanki customs but i cannot in good conscience let you carry the baby when you're on the front lines constantly. [karlach raises her hand] karlach i love you but you're on the front lines even more than lae'zel is. [karlach lowers her hand] it needs to be someone who sticks to the outskirts of the fighting, someone who's careful, and above all someone who can make a clean escape if things get too hairy

and astarion's like oh no. no no no no. absolutely not. i know what you're thinking and there is no way i'm--

[cut to astarion grumbling and sneaking around with a baby gith strapped to his chest]

#he's whispering under his breath to the baby the whole time#like ''do you know what half the population of baldur's gate would pay to be this close to me for this long? and you get it for free?''#''if this keeps going i'll have to start charging you rent you know''#the baby is fully asleep btw#just snoozing away with his head tucked under astarion's chin while astarion's slicing through throats. nbd#maybe githyanki run hot so the cold vampire is extra cozy idk (via @iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid)

my friend you are dangerously close to writing the fic yourself

Daily fucking reminder that Luigi Mangione is innocent, completely and fully. He has been convicted of no crime. He has had no fair trial. He is a SUSPECT. Luigi Mangione is entirely innocent and everyone needs to stop parroting this insidious propaganda that he “committed” the crime he is only SUSPECTED of. He is not a murderer. He is not a criminal. He is an innocent man.

Put this out about Luigi Mangione.

hey! *rotoscopes your fool*

pacific rim fucks severely for a lot of reasons but my favorite is that it opens with "the lizard aliens are unionizing so we built robots running on the power of love to fight them you got all that right" and before you have time to really process that concept bam gunshot body on the floor and the movie goes "now consider the vast power of grief in this setup" it never really stops considering

i love when you read/watch an influential piece of storytelling and you're like ohhhhhh ok i see. so everyone else was copying this guy's homework

a girl does start to feel optimistic in a patch of sun

what if it GETS her though 😥

The Tulip Stairs of the Queen's house in LONDON

thanks guys

Some spins on the "mostly male team with a token woman" trope:

Note how these columns are designed to perfectly allow the climbing of small lizards up and down their faces. This is a typical example of Gecko-Roman architecture

The thing is that like “edgy humour” really is a GIANT red flag among young white men……you hear white boys making racist jokes all the time but people tend to brush it off and assume they’ll grow out of it or that they’re just going through a harmless edgy humour phase and like…..some of them might grow out of it but that’s not the POINT! They’re racist NOW! They’re spreading islamophobic ideas NOW and we brush it off because we assume they’ll grow out of it in the future but whether they do or not is irrelevant; they need to grow out of it Right. Now. Or more lives will be lost.

As someone who has worked with teenage boys, most of whom actually liked and/or respected me, the best tool I had for shutting down edgelord bullshit was a flat stare and “you’re better than that”. Simultaneously conveying “I am disappointed”, “I have expectations of you”, “you have otherwise met them”, “that sort of behavior is unacceptable”, and “you are better than the people who engage in that sort of behavior, but only so long as you don’t join them.” is an incredibly powerful tool with kids who care about what you think. The worst I ever had to escalate to was ‘disappointed headshake and “I thought you were better than that”.’ I’ve never had to repeat the sentiments or escalate after deploying that one. Actually made one of them cry once with just that. He felt that bad about letting me down, and we had a solid talk after. With guys my age, “I guess you’re not the kind of man I thought you were.” has proven effective.

I think this is something that we need to carry with arguments with these kinds of people. It is a sentiment grounded in humanity.