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chardee macdennis: the ship of ships

[boiled-dennis-deactivated202502]

a photo of my austrian great great uncle and his lover in the 1930's. this was a photo of one of their few happy times together as they were not accepted in their home country ❤️ #loveislove

[rudeteens]

Everything needs to be glass, if it can’t be glass it needs to be ceramic, if it can’t be ceramic it needs to be wood, if it can’t be wood it needs to be stainless steel, if it can’t be stainless steel it needs to be stone, if it can’t be stone it needs to be glass

[yellbug]

currently reading modelland which is tyra banks' YA novel from 2011. this book is so strikingly weird in its visuals. it feels like shaun tan's the arrival and the uglies series had a baby and the baby was bad but there was something fascinating about the baby that made you want to read it. it is also very hard to follow because it feels like it was dictated. i do think tyra actually wrote it instead of having some ghostwriter editor do it because no one else would write like this and it's genuinely magnetic. i keep doing other things and then going god i can't wait to go back to reading modelland.

what the fuck is going on with the smizes. they're like... spontaneously generated orbs that are released into the dystopia's water so it like incentivizes everyone to waste water and swim in sewage for the chance to have one because it bestows a magic power that means you can become a famous fashion model. and then when you find a smize it like expands like a ponyo spell in your hands and turns into glasses that make you beautiful??

another wrinkle is that the world of modelland has nations. one of them is france, but the first guy from that nation who we meet is a homunculus with a giant human hand for a head. he's the only one like that so far so i don't know. another nation has ONLY people with albinism, which is really confusing because they explicitly point out that their whole nation-state has a ton of life-threatening health complications because of it

unfortunately i have a lot further to go before i know all the secrets of modelland

No, we never know when ManAttack will happen.

[depsidase]

[excaryder]

[turbulenceoflies]

I like to think of Charlie's messy habits/dirtiness in general as an unintentional coping mechanism from growing up with his mother. I feel like it's pretty clear that she has OCD, and looking at how easily she gets upset, along with how clean her house is, I could see her possibly doing obsessive cleaning and that becoming overwhelming for Charlie. That could lead to him surrounding himself in filth, as that's his filth that he's able to control. He also shows a distaste in "gross" or "wet" things in sexual context, which could also be triggering (I feel like theres a better word for exactly what I mean but I'm not sure what) for him considering how sexual things were normalized/around him a lot as a child, both indirectly (his mom being a prostitute) and directly (uncle Jack), and he may associate sexual acts with him involved with not having control.

[thefoolishjester]

S18 renaissance fair peter nincompoop returns???

[bastardmanvibes]

i still stand by the fact that gender swapped mac should be hyperfeminine, but it's also a fact that she looks better and 10X hotter as a gym butch with cut off sleeves. many such cases

[batty-4-you]

my frequently visited 😭

[worst-bar-in-philly]

the face you make when your crush gets “sexed from behind” on stage by his roommate in a play written by your stalker

[arbitraryfuck]

I think one of the underdiscussed aspects of the Charlie and Frank dynamic is that in addition to Everything Else They Got Going On, they are also boss and employee. not only that, it seems Frank is the only one in the gang who truly understands that even though Frank finances, Charlie is the one who actually keeps the bar running smoothly. In Dines Out he says Mac and Dennis don't appreciate all his work, implying /he/ does, and it's true. But because of this Frank believes Charlie needs to be kept down, at the bottom, that's where the foundation goes. everyone knows that Frank lives in squalor because he chooses to but I think some people forget the other side, that for Charlie it's not a choice. only reason he let Frank move in w him in the first place was because Frank offered to pay rent. Everyone in the gang relies on Frank financially but not so much as Charlie who is completely dependent on him, and whose livelihood is entirely reliant on Frank's whims. Few examples is when Frank moves out to live with Bonnie, he takes all of Charlie's shit with him. In Great Recession he kicks him out, making Charlie homeless. And I think that's why we get stuff about Charlie keeping Frank reliant on him as well, through changing his prescription glasses and even insisting on chewing his food. Something I think about too is in Back in Business Frank claims he's going to take Charlie under his wing and mentor him. Even though Charlie proves to be useful once he starts asking questions and wanting to actually learn, Frank fires him.

I don't actually know where I'm going with all of this. I guess I just find this very interesting to chew on when discussing those two and I don't see it considered often, when to me it's a fundamental aspect of how their relationship became Like That.

[janeblackfyre]

the real reason why mac locked in

s07e01 / s14e04

[mrsterlingeverything]

Carly rae needs to do a folk album beyonce needs to do emo rap divorce album adele has always wanted to do reggae just let it happen one time gaga needs to stop doing real estate commercials and divorce her pharma husband slayyyter needs to stay exactly as popular as she is or she’s gonna become charli xcx charli xcx needs to not do a rock album like she says shes going to next and i need to do anything at all

[transgenderwaterrat]

anyway hoping that the generative AI bubble pops so disastrously that the tech industry becomes allergic to anything involving it for the next 1,000 years

[scooplery]

"it's just growing pains" -> "you're too young for that to hurt that bad" -> "you just need to get in better shape" -> "welcome to being old, everyone is in pain"

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[depsidase]