Don't You Ever Forget This Worthless Pride of Mine

1w2. INTJ. They/them. An adult, get out of my swamp

[depsidase]

[just-try-and-stop-mee]

Lies, greed and exploding crockpots: How PE firm Cornell Capital’s purchase of Instant Brands went very wrong

Trustee Alan Halperin seeks to recover at least $400 million for Instant Brand creditors

It was private equity that sunk instapot, just like Joann’s and toysrus

[monkeyislandtwo]

this callout couldve been a block button

[monkeyislandtwo]

this callout couldve been a private conversation

[voidsteeth]

[motherblackcap]

[ID: a tag reading "# this callout could've been bitching to friends in a private space and then moving on". /End ID]

[kerink]

a lot has been said on the topic of "grace hiding that he was forced onto the hail mary so rocky doesn't think he's a coward" but i'd love for us to spend a moment meditating on grace hiding it so rocky doesn't think he's a bad person

[probuccalfat]

there’s a phenomenon when it comes to enjoying a male character in a piece of media where it’s so much fun and i love my blorbo and i want to talk about my blorbo and read analysis of my blorbo but i realize very fast and very hard that the majority of fans made up a version of him that appeals to their horniness and it’s become the popular and standard interpretation and i do not care for that guy at all like i’d beat him with hammers actually

[starlightshadowsworld]

And if I said Dazai and Chuuya then what?

[bird-prince-art]

generals please control yourselves

[assiraphales]

I love the headcanons that are like ‘the eridians already figured out how to replicate earth’s atmosphere, temperature, food, light, the ocean for the human. ofc they found a way to extend grace’s life expectancy’ bc talk about my exact brand of cope. but I also think another motivating factor could have been no one wanting to deal w 400 years of rocky in a bad mood

[verenakauer]

I'm assuming that Grace's voice sounds pretty monotone to an Eridian. So... do we think they kinda always interpret everything he says as Very Serious (unless they know him well, I guess, but I think even Rocky's first instinctive reaction for the first few years would still be "oh shit, I need to lock in")? No wonder they are willing to make anything for him in the epilogue, the whole savior-of-the-stars thing aside.

Grace: hey, no pressure, don't bother if it's too much trouble, but it'd be pretty cool if you made me a wristwatch? Eridians: oh. oh, this is a Life-And-Death Situation. we need to get to work NOW or everything will DIE. Grace, completely oblivious: you're so kind, thanks guys :D

[kokica1]

Do you think that, if the ship wasn't always recording at all times, when Stratt got those videos twenty years later, it slowly dawned on her that it was only Grace in recordings?

Do you think she felt a pitching, gut-wrenching horror when she realized that he was alone?

Do you think she thought back to that day that she forced him to go, soothing herself with the reminder that he at least wouldn't be alone, and realized that, no, she not only sent him to his death but she sent him utterly alone with two corpses?

Do you think that she remembered the fact that Grace had always been forcibly alone: ostracized from his communities, humiliated into silence, and realized she was only compounding on that?

Do you think that, upon hearing about Rocky for the first time, she felt a wash of relief rather than wonder or awe or surprise?

Do you think that, upon seeing Rocky in the ship for the first time, she felt pure joy not at the fact that she was looking at an alien but knowing that Grace wasn't alone anymore?

[sarazanmai]

[byrdiboo]

Imagine losing a game you rigged

[hegodamask]

“I was once a quirked up white boy the same as your father.”

[Original Post]

[hailmarysuggest]

I just want a fic where everyone is all ‘why is Dr Grace so grumpy today? He’s normally so sweet’ and Stratt goes to inspect him for like 5 minutes before grabbing scissors, snipping the tag out of the back of his shirt carefully enough not to leave one of those itchy lines behind, and then he’s a freaking sweetheart again for the rest of the day. Like the princess and the pea. And for some reason only her people watching abilities could figure out why.

Carl probably could have figured it out too, but he can’t be glued to Grace’s side 100% of the time lol.

[paper-mario-wiki]

in case you're wondering what the greatest AMV of all time is, it's this one from 2008.

[paper-mario-wiki]

[en-tailsgaythings]

y'all need to watch this this pride month

[lunalovesangst]

Big fan of the idea that, from Erid's perspective, Grace is probably kinda scary, at first.

Like his language consists of noises that are simultaneously very simple compared to the overlapping eridian notes, and weird clicking/hard sounds that no one could even begin to try to imitate. To begin with, that's a weird combination.

And there's a popular headcanon going around that Grace can pronounce certain simple words in eridian without his piano thingy, and he would sound like a pebble learning to speak. Let's make it creepy and assume eridians also have a fear of the uncanny valley.

Grace getting better with time at imitating simple words, therefore accidentally making himself sound more and more like a pebble, sounding right enough, but not quite. That shit would be creepy as fuck.

Imagine an alien that can imitate the way the children of your species sound like. At first you'd freak out! Yeah he saved your planet but. It's like a fucking mimic. Then you'd see him trip over nothing and fall face first and you'd calm down.

This is probably a stretch but I don't care. I like to imagine eridians and humans have some very similar fears, and the uncanny valley potential is just too good to ignore.

[puppygirllaika]

police departments love to be like "we need more money to fight all the crime that's been happening lately" and they show a graph with crime going up at then you look into the numbers and it's like "the ten percent increase in crime was correlated with a ten percent increase in active policing hours" and it's like oh okay so the crime factory needs more money because the crime factory stayed open late to manufacture more crime in order to convince us to give more money to the crime factory. Where can I get off this carousel of misery?

[fairycosmos]

big life tips dont be neurodivergent dont be poor dont get in any sort of situation and dont let yourself need or crave

[fairycosmos]

not getting good reports back on your progress with this guys

[divorcedwife]

in a galaxy far, far away

[shadowrosegarden]

Thinking about Zuko bringing the steambaby to council meetings so Katara can have an uninterrupted nap

• The first time he does it, the council members expects chaos. Instead, the baby immediately falls asleep against her father's chest the moment he starts speaking

• Zuko becomes surprisingly skilled at conducting business one-handed. He signs papers, points at maps, and gestures during debates while his daughter is tucked securely in the other arm

• Whenever the baby starts fussing, Zuko instinctively stands and begins pacing around the chamber while continuing the discussion without missing a beat, as if it's completely normal for the Fire Lord to be walking laps around the room while soothing an infant

• Meetings actually run more smoothly when the baby is present. Nobody wants to be the person who wakes the sleeping princess