Jack Jack

🏳️‍⚧️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 J_Dtou on Ao3 🫶🏻 Downton Abbey, Theatre, 911, Gomens, Heated Rivalry, Osemanverse, The Bear plus many more obsessions

[wordswithkittywitch]

This post is me acknowelging that some people go onto tumblr to escape the real world and to soothe themselves after stressful experiences, so if they block or ignore social justice and news stories so that their decompression isn’t interrupted with yet more stress, it is not only no one’s business but it makes perfect sense.

Never judge people for not reblogging something.

[lifes-pinata]

Grace: *Retroactively freaking out about Doing A Misogyny™*

Rocky: Me and the bestie!!! :)

[bebx]

[once-a-monarch]

Cute animation for the like button for pride month!!

[laterkiss]

happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈

[humanpersonface]

I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

[funny-tik-toks]

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

THROWBACK THURSDAY! 1971 Black Panther Party poster. Plus ça change...

[void-of-nothing]

The age verification thing is horseshit!!!!!! full stop!!!!! Everyone knows the moderation on this site explicitly targets transgender people, especially trans women & transfeminist allies, people of color, and other marginalized groups, often marking their blogs and flagging their posts as mature.

This new update will explicitly take away the visibility of marginalized people. Raise hell about it. Write reviews and call in like we did for the reblog update. If anything, this is even more important than that one, especially for trans women and people of color who are already flagged.

[acedustbin]

You know what I truly hate about all this age restriction, identification, ai hacking everything and your data being free game stuff. You either have to learn a lot of technology real fast to protect yourself, or you’re just going to have to accept your new data hungry overlords.

I don’t have time to research how to best defend my data outside of the well known and standard options. I don’t have time to figure out a new program, or how to get into the code of my phone. I don’t know how to decide what search engine is better suited for my needs. I shouldn’t have to fortify myself and be suspicious of everything just so that I can safely do research for an essay I need to write for my study.

I followed a computer class a few years ago. I was pretty good at it. Then I don’t pay attention to technology for a few years and suddenly everything is different, worse, and wants to do you harm.

And I also know that I won’t be able to convince my family that they need to protect themselves. I couldn’t even talk my mom out of buying something from TEMU. And if their data gets stolen, my information will be in there too. Even if I do manage to protect myself.

So I’m fucked either way. Just trying to live your life shouldn’t be this difficult.

[pinkyprincessnom]

Rebloging

[ladymirdan]

[drabbles-and-rambles]

I saw a post about Shane and Ilya being sad that they can't thank each other in their acceptance speeches like other can with their spouses and it got me thinking:

Ilya wins his first awards and hes got nobody he really wants to thank after his team and coach cause he he hates his family but he knows his speech is too short so on impulse he goes "And I want to thank Shane Hollander for being slightly worse than me this season". Everyone knows it was going to one of those two, so everyone thinks hes an asshole to say that but whats new so it works for him. But from then on it then becomes a bit for both of them to thank each other in their speeches in a snide way as a reason they won.

Shane winning the Art Ross Trophy (Awarded to the player who leads the league in total points at the end of the regular season). and going "special thanks to Rozanov for missing at least 5 shots this season, he was a huge help"

Ilya winning the Conn Smythe Trophy (Awarded to the most valuable player for his team in the playoffs.) "Just want to give a quick shout out to Hollander for getting knocked out in the second round this season. Must hate to see me up here."

They find a way to mention the other in their speeches every time all the time.

[shanehollandered]

and every time, they sit in their seats like

[clowns0cks]

justice for good omens jesus he was amazing and I loved him so much. He had an amazing set up as a character just to immediately disappear in thin air without having any purpose in the plot 💔 I love you jesus

[stabthroughme]

I think Ilya had a lot of forgotten/low key birthdays.

I think he was so frequently at summer training camps after his mother died that it went unacknowledged. Maybe a cupcake if someone made note of it.

Even when he's an NHL superstar he gets bland texts from teammates, classic PR public birthday wishes, and gets drunk in Russia, usually with Svetlana. She gets him a card and several years in a row she takes him to a friend of a friend who breeds working farm dogs and lets Ilya dissociate with a bunch of puppies.

Then, after the Olympics, Shane actually texts him "happy birthday". With a little balloon emoji.

It makes Ilya's month. Even if he doesn't show it when he sees Shane a couple weeks later in Vegas.

Then, in 2015, Shane texts Ilya "happy birthday" at midnight in Boston, so perfectly timed that he's sure Shane set an alarm for it because he's in Halifax with the Metros and the Cup doing a cross-Canada victory tour. And that makes him so warm and fuzzy.

In 2016 Shane texts him "happy birthday" at midnight, and this time there's a picture. A screenshot of a donation made by Shane to a Russian community centre in Montreal. Ilya looks up the centre and they're the one place that gets a pass on cheering for Boston in the whole city, because so many of the young Russian kids look up to Ilya. In the spot to list a reason for the donation Shane's written "for Lily".

In 2017 Shane texts him a plain happy birthday. But then he has a proper cake (though small) ordered from a small bakery near the cottage. It's set for delivery a couple days after Ilya arrives (the day after they come out to Shane's parents) because it gave him enough time to cancel if it went horribly.

So Ilya wakes up to find Shane not in bed, talking politely to someone at the door, and when he goes to see what it is he finds Shane standing with a plain white box that he gingerly sets on the table and opens to reveal a beautifully decorated cake. It's a soft blue frosting with chocolate ganache covering the top and dripping down the sides, there are chocolate covered strawberries perfectly spaced on the top.

"I wasn't sure what flavour you'd like so the top layer's funfetti, the middle's chocolate, and the bottom is strawberry. And there's cookie dough-flavoured icing in the middle."

It's enough cake that between the two of them and Shane's parents it takes them a week to get through.

It becomes a thing. Shane finds new cake flavours for Ilya's (belated if the awards are after his birthday) birthday cake every year.

When they finish their first season together on the Cens Shane has spent months working with Harris in secret. And Ilya's birthday is turned into a Centaur's community fair. They fill the parking lot with rides and free carnival food and games. There's a massive adult-sized bouncy castle.

And there are twenty different flavours of sheet cake, each one with a different letter/number/! spelling out "Happy 31 Birthday Ilya!"

[astrid-beck]

The best thing they could've done after releasing that picture of Louis that says "the ex" is then release a picture of Armand that says "the ex" and a picture of Nicki that says "the ex" and a picture of Gabrielle that says "the ex" and

[azaablue]

personal hc that one of the hollanov kids loves hockey but it's just not clicking even though they practice all the time and shane and ilya both try different coaching methods with them and it only makes everyone more frustrated and then one day wyatt comes to the rink with them and after 1.5 seconds on-ice he's like "hey i think they're a goalie" and shane and ilya nearly black out because oh. ohhh my god. they're kid is totally, completely, a goalie. and that's why it wasn't fucking working. they have a fucking goalie.

[overclockedopossum]

If you tell neurodivergent people they need to "get comfortable with being uncomfortable" I am putting gravel in your shoes. No you can't take the gravel out. You have to deal with it. Dealing with it makes you a better person. What do you mean "pointless suffering".