Luimnigh

Call me Luim. Bi, Nonbinary, Accepts All Pronouns, Irish, Autistic.

[grunkypeep]

i hate when men complain about women’s body hair, even like the fine hair on their backs. go fuck a shark if you wanna have sex with something hairless

[cannedviennasnausage]

#shark skin is actually covered in tiny barbs #aka teeth #they are literally a swimming tooth

I suddenly have the urge to grate cheese on a great white

[flanoirbunny]

wouldn’t that make the shark a

grate white

[shutupandtalkgeekytome]

This post got weird

[jennytrout]

This post started with fucking hairless sharks. Weird wasn’t a destination so much as a jumping off point.

[captainclickycat]

I’ve never been so surprised not to encounter the word “smooth” in a text post

[sibyllance]

Apparently someone got their car stuck on the light rail tracks at Mt. Baker. For those unfamiliar this is 35 feet up in the air

[puppygirllaika]

Fun fact! this is likely due to racism. Not the drivers, to be clear, but this is a not-entirely-unsurprising result of systemic racism in the greater Seattle area and the influence it has on infrastructure spending.

I'm a huge proponent of public transit, rail in specific, and I'm very glad that the greater Seattle area is finally starting to see some solid light rail infrastructure sprouting up in the form of the 1 and 2 lines, but that in no way stops me from critiquing the decisions made in planning and implementation.

Light Rail, in it's colloquial form here in the US, is basically always a compromise solution. It's cheaper than subways, can make good use of existing right-of-way around freeways, and can function as a kind of low-capacity commuter rail in the subways while behaving more like a tram or streetcar in downtown areas. It is crucially, however, not a streetcar, nor is it a commuter rail. Streetcars make frequent stops and are optimized for dense areas with lots of traffic. Commuter rails are larger and stop lest frequently, optimized for bringing suburban residents into city centers. Commuter rail should, however, be independent of street traffic so it can travel at higher speeds. For this reason, most of the Link light rail system in seattle is actually not at-grade (street level), but on either elevated or sub-grade track. Downtown, the lightrail actually functions as a low-capacity low-frequency subway system in what used to be the bus tunnel (we don't have time, but yes it was stupid). Everywhere else, it's up on elevated tracks that largely follow the freeway system.

There are three stations, all immediately south of that Mount Baker elevated station, where the Link actually runs at-grade. These stations run through the historic low income immigrant neighborhoods of southeast seattle. Here, the trains are forced to stop at red lights, interact with crossing and left-turning traffic, and even cross through terrifyingly narrow pedestrian islands. They could have built elevated track here, as they did everywhere else, but they didn't. they didn't want to spend the money. I have personally watched light rail cars carrying hundreds of people have to wait two full minutes for cars turning left in front of them, delaying trains so like, 5 people could drive there. Once it reaches the end of this low income immigrant-dominant neighborhood, however, the Link returns to it's above-grade status, with Mount Baker being the first elevated stop. You want to know how this woman, who claims she was misdirected by her GPS, probably ended up here? I would bet anything she tried to make a turn at the intersection just before the stop and got confused. The intersection, for reference, looks like this:

I'm not saying it's an easy mistake to make, but given the number of people who drive through here every day, it's honestly not that surprising that someone, especially someone who is from out of town, or someone who is used to shared streetcar lanes, would eventually make this mistake. When you're dealing with a city of hundreds of thousands of people, it's only a matter of time before a mistake like this happens. but it is only possible for it to happen because of the decisions made in the planning process, and one of those decisions was "we can save money if we make everything worse in that part of town where all the foreign poors live", and so they built the thing at-grade, instead of keeping it elevated like everywhere else.

and yes, those tracks are in the middle of a four lane road, and no, there is no way to get to any of the at-grade stations without crossing at least two lanes of traffic on a very busy avenue. and those tiny little pedestrian islands are not only terrifying to walk on, but a man in a wheelchair was clipped by a passing train car a while back because his chair didn't really fit through the tight turns well and one of his feet was sticking slightly out when the train passed by. This is not a problem at like, any other stops in the Link system. Just here. Just in this neighborhood. And it's a fucking disgrace.

[prokopetz]

It's not my cats' dice-stealing habit that surprises me, but that they have preferences. One favours classic ivory-white but doesn't care how many sides they have, the other is indifferent to colour but prefers d12s and d20s, I suspect because they rattle more loudly when swatted. I have dice snob cats.

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[brainrockets]

Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!

[good-to-drive]

Whenever I see a really off-the-wall take about the beatles I remember this adorable post from an older fan about how they used to play "Beatles" at recess but they were too young to really know who the beatles were so they just played house with British accents and I assume that's what a lot of people on this website are doing as well

[markadoo]

too young to really know who the beatles were

NO ONE is too young to know who the beatles were. its important to tell your children about the beatles as soon as they can understand language. My father told me when i turned two that the beatles were four men who sang and played music. over the years he added more details like girls loved the beatles and how some of them died. there is no excuse.

[good-to-drive]

[luimnigh]

I am mildly obsessed with the roster speculation for Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls.

Because like the initial announcement had a fairly obvious selection of characters: you had Cap, Iron Man, Spidey, Ms Marvel, Star Lord, Ghost Rider, Doom and Storm.

All fairly big names. Robbie Reyes Ghost Rider is less so, he's the only one of them not to be in a live-action movie, but he was adapted in Agents of Shield and his star is on the rise right now.

Then the next trailer for the game arrives, and it reveals that the roster is made up of five teams of four, and the graphic at the end of each trailer is the leader of each team: Storm, Captain America, Spider-Man, Doom and Robbie Reyes.

Storm's team was that trailer's focus, and naturally it's the X-Men. We get Wolverine, who is so obvious for a Marvel game I forgot he hadn't been announced; Magik, who's a major rising star in Marvel media even if her only movie appearance was in the last gasps of the Fox era; and Danger.

Danger, the robot girl made from the AI of the X-Men's Danger Room. Absolutely a deep cut here from Marvel, it's a character who's turned up rarely since the end of the Utopia era, but a cute robot girl in an Arc System Works fighting game is hardly out of character.

The next trailer is Spidey's team, and it's Ms Marvel, they've worked together in the comics, makes sense; Star Lord, which... not entirely sure on the connection beyond them both being Peters (and have dated Kitty Pryde in other universes); and... Peni Parker.

Who, to be fair, is again a rising star thanks to the Spiderverse films and a place in Marvel Rivals. I'm honestly surprised she isn't getting her own solo comics at the minute. Definitely has more name recognition than Danger.

And on the graphic at the end a bunch of things have been drawn on: a marshmallow roasting on Ghost Rider's head, a wand in the spell Doom is casting, a first-place ribbon next to Spidey, a rubber duck, Cap's shield.

People speculate what all these symbols mean, whether they hint at yet to be announced characters, but it seems clear the Avengers are up next.

At this point, people also point to the Avengers logo looking like it has a 4 in it, and speculate the team might be an Avengers/Fantastic Four combo.

And while Avengers are next, it is just Avengers: the previously announced Cap and Iron Man, plus the obvious Hulk, and Shuri as Black Panther. Which is not the obvious pick, but she's headlined her own movie, so she isn't exactly obscure either.

The graphic at the end does something very interesting this time: there's two flashes where the colours invert to green and black, and there's multiple things written that are obscured when the colours aren't inverted.

There's a hashtag next to Doom, Spidey's face is scratched out, a #5 written in the top right corner, claw marks in the text, and what appears to be the number "361" written repeatedly in the bottom left corner:

The speculation on this one is all of a one-track mind at the minute:

Fantastic Four Vol.1, #5 is the first appearance of Doom. Similarly, he appears in Amazing Spider-Man Vol.1, #5; and Avengers #361 and Fantastic Four #361. The green inversion also screams Doom. So it's Doom's team next, the villain team.

However, if Spidey's face being scratched out points to a Spider-Man villain, then Amazing Spider-Man #361 holds a clue: it's the first time Spider-Man fights Carnage.

Carnage fits the pattern of being the less obvious pick while still being decently well known. Less obvious than Venom, still a major Spidey villain with a Sony movie appearance under his belt.

But, that still leaves five more to to go to fill out Doom and Robbie's teams.

Now, there have been two leaks. The first is from a Bulgarian retail site, and was brushed off as possibly just being an AI-generated product description as the stages and characters it mentioned are also found in Marvel Rivals.

The stages being Wakanda, Sanctum Sanctorum, and the Hellfire Gala.

However, Wakanda has since been confirmed as a stage, lending some creedence to it.

The two characters it leaked are Magento and the Scarlet Witch.

Magneto would fit with a villain team, especially one led by Doom.

Meanwhile, Scarlet Witch does fit on a team with Robbie from multiple directions. Most people are assuming it's a magic/supernatural team, like a Midnight Sons.

There are some speculating it might be more like a West Coast Avengers, as Robbie is basically the most popular LA-based hero, and much of Wanda's history was spent on the West Coast Avengers.

The other leak is from 4chan, and thus much less credible. But some guy claiming to work in a dubbing studio said they saw materials for the dub, and two pictures of unannounced characters.

One of them is She-Hulk, who is described as having a Cammy-like braid. Now, people are claiming the presence of Bruce disproves this one, but I'm not so sure, the two can very easily have different fighting styles.

The other is Spider-Gwen, who is described as wearing a pink-and-white leotard, a pink bomber jacket, and swords on her back.

To which a chorus of Um Actuallys rang out, as every corrected the 4chan leaker: that's not Spider-Gwen. That's Gwenpool.

Which, like. Yes. Please. Please. Please.

Anyway that's the current state of the Marvel Tokon Fighting Souls roster. I may be more than mildly obsessed.

[luimnigh]

Well, new trailer is out: it was Doom's team, and not only did we get Carnage, but also Magneto and Green Goblin.

So Bulgaria Leak has a stage and a character under it's belt.

Scarlet Witch's chances have shot up.

[luimnigh]

However, the 4chan leak is definitely in doubt. as She-Hulk is visible in the background of the new trailer, and she doesn't have the described braid.

Unless he fucked that character up too.

Female character, green skin and a braid... doesn't sound like Gamora or Mantis. A Skrull? The only prominent Skrull I can think of with a female form that isn't a villain is Xavin... maybe Lyja the Laserfist...

It's probably a wash at this point.

Most likely, it'll be a magic-based team, a Midnight Sons/Defenders deal. Outside chance of West Coast Avengers with Robbie being famously an LA Kid and Wanda spending a good chunk of her history on the team.

[jcogginsa]

IIRC, one of the directors has said Robbie is leading a "Dark Hero" team, which some at taking to mean anti heroes

[luimnigh]

Yeah, but you can fit that with any combination really. It doesn't really narrow it down.

[luimnigh]

One thought I am having is that I wouldn't be surprised if Robbie's team was majority women.

Up until Doom's team, the overall roster has kept fairly close to gender parity, with 8 announced men and 6 announced women.

Doom's team unbalances that by being all men.

While nothing can be done about Robbie's gender, at least by Arcsys, making the rest of the team women would drag it back up to an 11/9 split.

[tim-official]

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

[tim-official]

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry

[bobcat-pie]

[hollowedskin]

[tinybed]

[comealongphil]

dawn dimmadome? wife of doug dimmadome, owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome?

[punkrorschach]

actually she took the dimmadome in the dimmadivorce

[wheelie-sick]

when people tag posts "unreality" it's a signal to people who struggle with discerning reality that a (likely scary if believed to be true) post is not real even though it's written as if it was. it's also a filter tag so those people can opt out of seeing posts like that entirely. many people who rely on the unreality tag are psychotic and struggle with paranoia alongside (or because of) the struggles discerning what's real. posts that these people interpret to be real can lead to incredible distress and compulsions.

when someone tags your post "#unreality" and you screenshot the tags and say "what are you talking about? this is real" because you consider the post easy to discern as not real and find this joke funny you're actually just causing paranoia for people who now feel like they can't trust the unreality tag. not everyone has the same reality discernment skills as you. what's "obviously" a fictional story to you may not be obvious to other people.

I don't think most people make this joke maliciously. I think most people making this joke don't even realize why the unreality tag exists. anyways, if you've made this joke or have the urge to make this joke then consider not doing that.

[weterpete]

Um no I'm pretty sure those are both switches

[spookyscarysnails]

[inkbi0tic]

[systlin]

In 38 years of life I have learned 1 thing;

If anyone is ever training you to replace them in a position and tells you 'its an easy job I don't do much' what this means is that you are about to spend six months to a year catching up on all the stuff they didn't do and sorting out the stuff they did poorly.

In related news I finally managed to finish un fucking my predecessor's lack of a filing system.

[heyhoneyfox]

"I'm lying to you but this sentence is technically the truth without context" is such a good trope. Like yes the way that I am spinning these words forms a lie but if you squint I'm actually not lying.

[knighthearts]

happy pride month for it/its users, polyamorous people, xenogenders, non-transitioning trans people, and other "weird" identities. btw

[cheaphalloweencostume]

there’s a Masters of the Universe billboard near the cafe i like and i need to find a picture of this particular design because just describing how shitty it is won’t convey anything

[cheaphalloweencostume]

okay there’s no pictures of it online because no one gives a shit but imagine: i can’t drink my coffee without making eye contact with the gigantic shitty visage of Jared Leto Skeletor. however, they’ve completely rendered him bland. tasteless. he’s not green or yellow and has like no purple on him. so it’s just Skeletor’s head in his hood, a plain white skull in a black hood, so it looks like Spirit Halloween. and he has 2 red lightbulbs in his eyes

[cheaphalloweencostume]

very fast rendition of how it feels

[ozempicofficial]

[lycanshelby]

Starting a collection

[liarsblade]

Fanfiction is cool because you get to learn what other people's parents taught them the hymen is like

[liarsblade]

I know that I had somewhat unusually comprehensive sex ed but it still surprises me every time I'm reminded that some people genuinely think that losing your virginity is a capri sun kind of situation.