Vibes and Googling Are All I Have

Y'all can call me Possibly, Possy, Pogo, whatever :P Lady_Ellhorn on AO3

[possibly-god]

TF2K Master Post

This right here is the master post for my ongoing TF2 AU, TF2K. New entries Friday evenings or when I feel like it :P I hope someone enjoys this (and even if not I enjoy it and that's what matters).

January, 1975. Soldier and Zhanna are gleefully expecting their first kid. Only Spy knows they're not the first of the mercs to have a child. Not even he knows how "not the first" they are.

Disclaimer: I'm playing fast and loose with timelines and canon here (no more than the source material really) and getting creative in the absence of a final comic. Also, I, of course, don't own any part of TF2.

The Kids, a.k.a. Team Fortress International

Hedy Mayer - the Rocket Scientist

Christoph Osterberg - the Shrink

Patrick O'Bannon - the Shield

Kelly Phillips - the Trapper

Rosa Guzman - the Hunter

Cliff & Lance Nakamura - the Driver & the Ninja

Jane "JJ" Doe Jr. - the Wizard

Dennis - the Beast

Mason Hale - the "Administrator"

Other Characters

"Auntie Pyro"

OHM

The Moms

World Notes

Timeline

Australium

Other

Quotes

More entries are on the way...

[couponkids]

[sexycraisinthanos]

this is my favorite comic ever i never don’t want to see it on my dash

[half-gobbled-piece-of-toast]

“I ain’t reading all that” your brain is rotting and shrinking

[springsgreenleaves]

Yes, but also, I am begging you on bended knee, paragraph breaks.

[the-haiku-bot]

Yes, but also, I

am begging you on bended

knee, paragraph breaks.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[pukicho]

Still rocking an NFT icon in this day and age is like seeing a confederate flag on the back of someone’s truck. You lost 100 years ago, fucker, it’s over.

[catchymemes]

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

Hey, what’s Winnie the pooh’s favorite color?

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

Yellow

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

No it’s red because of his shirt

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

No, it’s yellow because he loves honey

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

You have no idea what you’re talking about

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

DID I FUCKING STUTTER?

[voaga]

Things heating up at the Winnie the Pooh fandom

[sun-of-a-watcher]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[maryellencarter]

May I also suggest, for another variant which revokes the privileges but keeps the "stealing your trademark" aspect (because it is legally possible, though extremely difficult, to actually remove a company's ownership of a trademark if it gets fully genericized enough, and I feel it could be worth at least trying), that we might try something of this format:

"I googled it on DuckDuckGo/Bing/etc"

That is, make *explicit* how you have already implicitly been using "googled", in the sense of "looked up on any internet search engine".

(It is verbally clunkier than just "I googled" -- I do think "look it up" has a better potential for widespread use because it's the same number of syllables -- but this being Tumblr, the home of commitment to the bit, there's also potential for some major hilarity if it spreads further beyond the strict usage of search engines and becomes a synonym for "look it up" in general. I googled it on Wikipedia. I googled it in the dictionary. I googled it in the ancient tomes that lie below R'lyeh. Et cetera.)

[kaiasky]

its terrible for any number of reasons, but i think if we invent immortality there should be an extreme sport called civilizational speedrunning where teams of 20 go into the wilderness somewhere and try and be the fastest build the first internal combustion engine. i bet you could get it down to like 3 years tops

[biggestzam]

The real trick is to eat seed heavy food before the speedrun starts so your first poops are halfway to agriculture already

[kaiasky]

i want you on my team holy shit

[ur-favorite-fishgirl]

if you vote me for president i vow to make everything the ocean again. no more land only ocean. this will solve all of our problems and replace them with new, far more interesting problems

[fuckyeahsapphics]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH HONEYS!👩🏾‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏾🏳️‍🌈✨

[amarguerite]

🎶 there is power in a union 🎶

[loth-catgirl]

put up a statue of this woman actually

[whatthefuuuuuuccckkkk]

is she my role model or am i in love

[princessterf]

its always "unions are good" until the women get unionized 😔

[triforceofidiocy]

the post got taken down because the mods didn't want someone protecting themself from sexual assault to be up for moral debate

[qillermeme]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[notaplaceofhonour]

girl unhinge ur jaw

[notaplaceofhonour]

UNCLENCH. I MEANT UNCLENCH

[the-spoopy-ghost-of-raejin99]

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

[catchymemes]

[fearsomeandwretched]

Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there's such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don't

[toothfairyinc]

never let the fact that you were born a girl stop you from being the gayest man alive