#thecurmudgeon

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Happy to finally get my rings in by @lisaleonard . Showcase whom I hold near and dear #thecurmudgeon and #theboy

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thecurmudgeon replied to your post “Cowboys fans are the worst”

what;s worse is that you're dating an eagles fan :/

would you rather I were a patriots fan?

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thecurmudgeon replied to your post:

If I actually had a dæmon, I’m pretty sure...

Oh my gosh. I would have asked my daemon to become an elephant. It would have been a wreck.

The trick is, then you have to deal with being The Person Whose Soul Is Too Fucking Big For Most Cars.  Major hassle!  Like, I bet a lot of kids’ daemons would go through a PHASE of being really super huge, but it would take a special kid to actually stick with it.

(But, well, that was right around the age I crystallized my belief of “I am broken and will never pass for a normal human”, so I totally would have gone with the horse daemon)

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thecurmudgeon replied to your post “Me: Haha, yeah, I basically grew up in Tamora Pierce fandom.  I was...”

I was never allowed to read them growing up. Are they good?

I?  Fucking loved them, and still re-read them from time to time for comfort and enjoyment.  It’s hard for me to say if they’re “good” or not, though. It’s partly because I’m so close to them, and I know that things that make my heart sing are not always things other people are into. They’re definitely absolutely FOR teenagers--Pierce was one of the authors who really forged a path for YA--so I think if you want to enjoy them, you kind of have to go into them with a generous heart. So Mark Reads went through the complete works of Tamora Pierce as an adult and had a great time; meanwhile, a lot of people I was in Tammy fandom WITH when we were teenagers are adults who just sneer and groan over everything she’s ever written now.  So IDK?

They were definitely a HUGE influence in why I grew up into a happily bisexual sex-having social-justice-doing feminist, though.  And while some authors I’ve read have been really toxic for me on reread (hi there Mercedes Lackey and your “good people always put aside their wants or needs for other people” bullshit) Tammy has, racial problematicness aside, remained a good and steady friend.

[omgjustinoluransi]

Black!

Black: 1 fact about the person I like

idk really like ppl in the way the question implies so im gonna go with the last cute person who left a lasting impression on me

aka the cutest barista i have ever seen who i just wanted to cuddle with

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thecurmudgeon replied to your post “A bit more about my headcanon about Jack having historically accurate...”

this is so sweet. Consider: Jack's on a roadie and the whole time he's creating backstory for a naive aristocrat and a swashbuckling pirate down to the nitty gritty details. He writes everything up and emails it to Bitty (complete with a worked cited). By the time Jack gets home, Bitty's all caught up on the fantasy and they have unbelievably hot and historically accurate sex

OMG YESSS

Okay listen: The through-line of the story is that they are spies. 

This is during that brief gap of a decade or two 1760-1776 where Georgia and Quebec are both British colonies.  Bitty is a career agent for the Crown, possibly after coming to adulthood in the Royal Navy.  Jack unhappily enters espionage because his family is still under suspicion in the new English rule over Quebec, since his father was a famous French general who stayed in Quebec after his side lost the war; when smugglers offer to sell him illicit goods, the British say, “You’re going to take us with you when you pick the goods up.”  (”But I told them no!” he protests.  “Then go back and say you’ve changed your mind,” they say.)

“The British” who rendezvous with Jack so they can unravel the smuggling ring... is the same Bitty who hijacked his carriage earlier in the week. So after that they have to Buddy Cop their way through many adventures!  And sexy interludes.

So honestly, this could be like, a recurring series of stories.  Jack leaves Montreal on a “business trip”, meets up with Bitty, does derring-do and swooning romance, goes home again.

Eventually he gets Bitty to come back to Montreal with him, and he can introduce Bitty to his parish priest.  Who has been taking the most incredible confessions over the past two years from what he’d otherwise swear is such a nice young man, raised in a convent school, humble and polite, generous to the poor, doesn’t even curse, but the things he confesses...!  And because this is the 18th century and loci of anxiety are different and Jack’s from an aristocratic family, the priest just takes Bitty’s face in his hands and says, “Oh, so you’re the handsome devil who’s been tempting our Jacques!  I must say, I can see the attraction.  But tell me, young man--must you be Protestant?”

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Hm... shitty knight for the character meme!

sexuality headcanon: Bisexual.  Or pansexual. Whatever floats your stoat.  Shitty’s desires cover many spectrums.

otp: Life experience and seasoning.  Like whoa.

brotp: Jack Zimmermann. WHO ELSE?

notp: Like, any of the younger SMH players. Any of them.

first headcanon that pops into my head: Shitty is trans and totally in denial about it until some crisis during their 3L year where life is very hard and complicated and also they think, “I’m a woman. I want to be a woman.” It’s so clear and right and pure that it’s immediately shelved until they graduate law school, but somewhere in the months of decompression after graduation they can take that thought out again, look it over, talk to Jack and Bitty and Lardo, and begin to actually act on it.

favorite line from this character “Also, I wanna write my thesis on college hockey and how it's both the fucking queerest and most homophobic culture on the goddamn continent.”

one way in which I relate to this character We’re both huge nerds who really want to make the world a better place.

thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character HE’S SUCH A MANSPLAINING BOUNDARY-VIOLATING KNOW-IT-ALL WHO DOESN’T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT CONSENT. Like, I swear to fucking god, Shitty’s gonna hit 30 and look back at college and be like, “Aww man, it is SUPER embarrassing how I was always naked when it made people uncomfortable, and I violated so many boundaries, and lectured so many people who knew better than me, and I was so arrogant, and also Jack is amazing for putting up with me.”

cinnamon roll or problematic fave? Shitty is exactly why we need to abolish this binary.  On the one hand, yes, he’s problematic. I’ve said before that he really gets on my nerves for personal reasons, so I am like acutely aware of how problematic he is.  On the other hand: He’s a 22-year-old college student who thinks learning a bit about how the world works makes him an expert on everything.  Who hasn’t known someone like that?  It’s only a problem if he stops growing there. A lot of us go through that phase, where we think we can make the world less scary and chaotic by bending it all into a shape our brains can handle. And what Shitty also is, is a social justice activist who’s going to have a lot of privilege and social status that he wants to leverage into doing huge amounts of good in the world.  And if you think any of your faves weren’t as problematic as him at some time or other, you just don’t know enough about your faves.

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otterandterrier replied to your photoset “Operation Liberate A Bunny was a success ������”

He's so cute!! Where did you liberate him from?

shunpiked said: 

HE’S SO PRETTY

thecurmudgeon said: 

he’s so cute!! And I LOVE his name

He is the cutest. I am so so so in love

Also the story of his liberation: he lived in a Big Chain Pet Store which I happened to go into yesterday, and saw all these bunnies being..well, not abused or neglected as such, just ignored (although the individual staff were kind and helpful). It was so so hot and stuffy in there and, really, a pet shop is no place for an animal, so I decided to liberate one (if I could afford it/had the room, I would’ve taken them all). I went along today to find the saddest, most miserable looking rabbit I could find  and he really fit the bill. He was just flopping all over the place, really slow and dopey and generally unhappy but he’s been here all of one afternoon and he’s already bouncing around all over the place, eating food out of your hand and looking so much healthier and happier, and I’m so glad! And he’s pretty. Gosh he’s just the cutest bunny you ever did see. So yeah, that’s his life story. I’m sure there will be 93043290489042 million pictures of him, too, over the coming weeks