Glory to the Spoons!

fortysomething librarian, writer, and multifandom dumpster fire | they/them AO3 | Tumblr fic | Bluesky | Annotated 911 Podcast

[frightfullytreeish]

everyone forgets that buck is a TWO-TIME college dropout. he was kicked out of an unspecified college before he got kicked out of community college for spending his tuition on a motorbike. we stan an undiagnosed king <3

[frightfullytreeish]

@semperama NAVY SEAL BUCK AUS MY BELOATHED. like buck spent so much of his late teens/early 20s being a chameleon trying on new identities in an effort to square peg himself into a round hole of belonging (as it were) and the seals was the one attempt that he learnt something CRUCIAL from, i.e. that he didn't like it

[frightfullytreeish]

ok I am so giddy with jetlag rn as i got noooo sleep on my flight home and now I'm chugging iced coffee at 7am/internally 2am but there are so many delightful tags here I'm having a brainwave

@fraddit @tweetsongs @bugbugly @theflatman et al WHAT IF I filled a wheel with suggestions for jobs buck might have had in his vagabond years and then there was a little ficfest where folks spin the wheel and write something inspired by the random buck job

[girlfailure-poetics]

who cares if you don't fully "get" the weird postmodernist novel on your first read, or if the experimental arthouse film is opaque to you on your first viewing? you are not being graded. you are not being scored. there is value in the attempt. every time i've read House of Leaves or watched Blue Velvet, I've gotten something new from it. the idea that you might not "get" something and therefore shouldn't bother with it is so silly to me

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[soupfic]

I just know Eddie’s terrible at sexting. Buck’s all god the things I’m gonna do to you when I get home 😋 and Eddie’s just like sounds good 👍

[lordkuntfuck]

Eddie telling Buck he would be in love with him if he were a woman and Buck trying not to show how much that destroys him

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 5 days 1 hour

[godlessondheimite]

he’s wet. he’s hysterical and he’s wet. he’s in pain, he’s wet, and he’s still hysterical. i didn’t say a name but i bet he popped into your head.

[haveyouever-polls]

Have you ever smoked a cigarette?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 2 hours

[dragongirlafro]

ok i know i'm one to talk but genuinely if you think 👍 or ❤️ is "passive aggressive" you might be spending a bit too much time on your phone jeez louise

[dragongirltitties]

who thinks 👍 is passive aggressive i read it as an old timey mobster going "on it boss"

[mollyjames]

Whenever I use thumbs up I'm sticking my hand out from under a pile of rubble, too exhausted to speak, but signalling I'm okay

[illiterate-oscillating-rat]

I want a plugin for Microsoft Teams that shows all the thumbs up as middle fingers.

[iamthecutestofborg]

Nothing will stop me from claiming my God-given right to be the cringe elderly 35 year old every generation must inevitably become

👍❤️👌😬

[frightfullytreeish]

everyone forgets that buck is a TWO-TIME college dropout. he was kicked out of an unspecified college before he got kicked out of community college for spending his tuition on a motorbike. we stan an undiagnosed king <3

[frightfullytreeish]

@semperama NAVY SEAL BUCK AUS MY BELOATHED. like buck spent so much of his late teens/early 20s being a chameleon trying on new identities in an effort to square peg himself into a round hole of belonging (as it were) and the seals was the one attempt that he learnt something CRUCIAL from, i.e. that he didn't like it

[rainydaydecaf]

I never saw people say stuff like this enough when I was a teenager, so I’m saying it now.

I’m in my mid-thirties and I have never had sex. I’ve thought about it and could have had one or two opportunities if I put in more effort, but I always decided against it because I just wasn’t into it at the time.

I can safely say that I do not feel I have missed out on anything. I was perfectly capable, by myself, of learning about my own body and boundaries without anyone else there to muddy the waters. The immense pressure that was there in my teens/twenties to Have Sex Just Do It is basically gone. I’m vibing. I’ve got my routine by myself in bed that I enjoy, and that’s enough for me.

And in the unlikely event that I ever decide to have sex with someone in the future, I don’t feel at all like I’m lacking some essential Knowledge or Skill that would “make it good” for someone else. I fully expect to ask my partner out loud what they like and to receive an answer clearly communicated and to relax and have fun. And if it’s a disappointing experience, I’m fine with that too. It is what it is.

Sex is just not that big of a deal. I suspected it as a teen, and I’m more sure of it now. It’s fine to have it or not have it. It’s whatever.

[undeadhousewife]

[eeby-deeby-dark-and-creepy]

Ok now I’m curious… Which do you prefer:

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer the city

I have lived in and out of the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived in the city, I prefer out of the city

I have only lived out of the city, I prefer out of the city

Bald/vanilla extract/I reject dichotomies under all circumstances/I can’t read

Remaining time: 1 day 5 hours

[homunculus-argument]

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

[thekijs]

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

[weaselle]

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

[worldwright]

movie yapper scale (HOME movies we're not being public menaces)

0- NO talking during movie NONE. i will kill you

1- a couple comments but keep it short. no pausing

2- frequently points out little stuff ("ooh cool shirt", "are they stupid")

3- i will pause occasionally to have brief discussions about the movie

4- frequently discussing movie stuff. might talk over dialogue occasionally

5- it's just nonstop. can't enjoy the film if im not engaging with it!!

depends on who im watching with / depends on the movie

not a movie watcher

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

[morganbritton132]

The kids get different results if they ask Steve for help vs asking Jonathan.

Jonathan is the son of a working single mother and often stepped in to help take care of his little brother. Between Lonnie's abuse and being parentified at a young age, he never really got to be a child. So when one of the kids asks him for help with something, he will do it for them.

Steve is the only son of absentee parents and was expected to take care of himself from a young age. He was left to figure everything out on his own or deal with the consequences if he couldn't. So when one of the kids asks him for help, he teaches them how to do it themselves.

Will, who sometimes feels smothered and babied by his family, likes asking Steve for help. Dustin, who has no interest learning skills he thinks are unimportant, loves asking Jonathan.

This is unintentionally creating drama.

[ladyelainehilfur]

real paramedic x golden retriever firefighter AU energy with this

[buckleysibz]

Eddie “extreme nonchalance before intense devotion” Diaz

day 3: subtitles on