baroque barbie

as usual, i'm late for everything

[baroquebarbie]

Whenever I see the words "hell yeah," I read them in the voice of Jenna Marbles with that echo effect.

[oblique-lane]

In this era of surveillance i don't need my phone anymore

[baroquebarbie]

Since Megamind said the real villains are the incels, and fascists successfully leveraged incel rage to take over the US, that means Megamind predicted the current political crisis.

[baroquebarbie]

Caine would absolutely BODY Britney Spears's "Circus"

[selenekallanwriter]

John Oliver gets it, as usual. AI Slop is one of the best episodes of Last Week Tonight I've seen so far. Gen AI is theft. Those who use it are not authors or artists, they're grifters profiting from real creatives.

[baroquebarbie]

This is why the fandom loves drawing Jax in drag.

[dear-ao3]

[ickaimp]

Just updated my Ao3 profile and realised it’s old enough to legally drive in the US. 😂

Got it in March 2010 and the user ID is four digits long.

Reblog with when you got your Ao3 account and how long your user ID is.

[baroquebarbie]

2018, and my ID is in the 4 millions.

[baroquebarbie]

Jax and Pomni are doing the same ploy here, but with opposite goals.

Jax wanted to prove to himself that there was no connection between him and Pomni. Throughout his ensuing crashout, he wasn't trying to convince Pomni they were never friends; he was trying to convince himself. In his mind, if she pulled the trigger, that meant she never cared about him, and he had successfully kept the whole circus at emotional arm's length.

But Pomni saw through his charade, and she turned it back around on him. Unlike Jax, her motive wasn't to convince herself they were friends; she already knew that to be true. Instead, she was trying to force Jax to realize and admit that he cared about her.

In the end, Pomni's ploy was the one that worked. Sure, Jax went on his whole rant about how he sees everyone as his playthings and he doesn't care about any of them. But he still couldn't bring himself to physically hurt Pomni, even though he had done so in previous episodes (2 and 3). He's come to care about her.

Jax and Pomni played a game of emotional chicken, and Jax swerved first.