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[secondbeatsongs]

I love the rodeo (bc of the danger and violence and hot cowboys ofc), but I have to emphasize just how comically, performatively patriotic it is at all times.

like. jesus. tonight after the announcer got done introducing the bullriders, he leaned into the mic and said, "And now we bring on the most precious cowgirl of all: Old Glory" and someone on a horse rode out carrying a giant american flag, and just...fuck. what the fuck.

the most precious cowgirl of all

and I was sitting there silently losing it, but then the horse reared up and the rider dropped the flag?? and the horse kinda stomped on it, and cowboys were running around trying to pick it up, but the flag was visibly dirt-stained by the time they got it off the ground.

and the cowboys were looking upset but the announcer said don't worry, it was fine, but that we should all ask for forgiveness, as if dropping a flag is an actual sin rather than just a weird american one, and holy shit. I wish I was funny enough to make up stuff like this. god bless america

[secondbeatsongs]

this year the flag-carrying-cowboy's horse pissed through like 80% of the national anthem, but I happened to be seated next to some of the rodeo moms and dear lord it was so fucking hard to keep it together so my new besties would keep telling me fun facts about their sons' violent and exciting bullriding career choices

[madlluna]

I like to think that the story of the Travelers is a cautionary tale to never ever install League of Legends

[popstarglitch]

My shot in the dark about if Kaylin knew she was gonna be a player in the ep or not:

I think she was signed on to be a contestant for a Game Changer episode and also a PA for an episode. She's been involved as a featured guest before (Bingo) and as a regular PA (Youlympics). She can fill both roles so she was probably signed up for both roles thinking they would be seperate episodes/shoot days, which let them pull the loopdeloop of her thinking she was working as a PA this episode but actually it's the one she's a player in.

[anendangeredspecies]

Lisa/Amy just doesn't work but I do think it's funny to force them to interact.

Lisa sees how fucked up the Dallons are when she first comes to the bay and inserts herself into Amy’s life, breaking her away from her family so she can be her cash cow.

Amy gets “seduced” away by the incredibly vague implication of romance that immediately goes nowhere once she’s semi burnt her bridges with new wave (or is at least too proud to go crawling back).

Weirdly it's still be a net positive for Amy since she’s out of a toxic situation, financially independent despite the generous cut Lisa takes, and is probably in therapy since Lisa’s motivated to keep her stable. After a few years of personal growth Lisa may even consider her a good colleague/almost friend.

Amy meanwhile has to grapple with the fact that Lisa fixed her life, got rid of her problems, and gave her the chance to have a normal sisterly relationship with Vicky, but like 99% for her own benefit. Sure she probably wouldn't have done it if it actually fucked Amy over but that's still gotta leave a bad taste in her mouth.

[secondtolastrow]

I offer you a delightfully crunchy scenario: mirror!zoemira somehow end up in the main timeline...several years after the initial swap. And by this point, Sarang's doing much better and is known to the world as Rumi's younger half-sister.

Why and how are they here? Good question. But with mirror!Celine dead at main!Celine's hands, it's anyone's guess how well the last few years have gone for them

My stance has always been that the mirror timeline must be better off for Sarang getting out of it than they would be otherwise—as I refuse to have a narrative punishment for removing a child from an abusive situation—though, like. Two Hunters are certainly not going to be as successful as three

Mirror!Zoey and Mira, in many versions of events, never learned what happened

Celine spent a week being strangely nice to them and insanely nice to the demon, despite everything she’d taught them, and then she and the demon both disappeared. And never came back

Neither of them were nineteen yet, but thankfully the contract they’d signed let them move into dorms with the company’s other trainees instead of having them sent home when they finally called the police

(Zoey still went back, for a summer, didn’t quite know how to exist around her mom and stepsiblings, how to feel anything like the girl she’d been, but. It was good for her.)

(Mira didn’t.)

They knew how to sing, and how to summon weapons, and that somewhere out there their third was waiting. So they sang, and they killed demons, and they searched

It was nasty and a steep learning curve and the company nearly dropped them for coming in beaten up so often before putting them in the next group they debuted and watching them soar

(The other girls figured it out soon enough. There was something different about Mira and Zoey—something electric, magnetic, wonderful. Something terrifying. Something incomplete

They never said anything, but Zoey was their maknae and Mira was just a baby too, and that meant it was their job to take care of them. So they did.)

They spend hiatuses back at Celine’s hanok. She left it to them, along with everything else she had, but it never feels like theirs

It’s years of searching before they find a mantra that helped another duo find their third. Probably just a focusing tool and the nature of the Honmoon, but they have to try, don’t they?

(It’s not just a focusing tool and the nature of the Honmoon.)

Of all the things they’re expecting to see on the other side of the portal, a pair of demons making breakfast is not one

[plain-flavoured-english]

As a Greek, in response to the current controversy about Matt Damon being cast as Odysseus, I'd just like to share that one of the moments that changed my brain chemistry as a kid was reading a novelized version of the Odyssey and coming across the following description of Odysseus when Circe sees him for the first time and thinks he's hot: "his hair curled like a clematis and his eyes were very brown".

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

[plain-flavoured-english]

Excuse me???

[ruffboi-mags]

you are right and you should say it.

[instantduckninja]

Is this the face of a man who would put his own infant in front of a plow to avoid going to war?

Absolutely not

You know who would try that shit?

Is this the face of a man who would defy the very gods to get home to his wife?

You know who would defy the gods just to show he could get away with it?

[fluffmugger]

The last thing Penelope's suitors ever see:

[justanotherrandomposter]

@mer-acle Thoughts?

[mer-acle]

... perfection

[oak-the-crow]

I second this motion

[deervsheadlights]

look even if you arent into grace/rocky you just HAVE to admit they explored each others bodies on the journey to erid. just to see whats up. the scientific boundary-crossing is already canon. and you wanna tell me those two intellectually curious guys trapped in a tin can for 3-4 years didnt at least get up to some weird shit for enrichment? dont make me laugh

[deervsheadlights]

#i know this post is supposed to have a sexual connotation but imo they're getting weirder than that#rocky lets grace observe his entire digestive process with an adapted x-ray machine#they make some slapdash endoscopy equipment so rocky can look down grace's esophagus and stomach#grace lets rocky pull a tooth for study because he's fascinated by the human body producing something that's similarly sturdy#to himself (also he wants to have it professionally embedded into his carapace as soon as they get to erid but shhhh)#rocky chips off pieces from his own mantle (his deformed legs are already brittler than the rest of him so it's not like it's hard)#also for “study” but is internally debating himself on how to ask grace if he's ever considered subdermal piercings#grace gives himself multiple surgicial lacerations so rocky can get a better view of his sinew and muscle#and document the (from his mostly inorganic perspective) insane restorative ability of human skin#maybe grace even lets some of them get infected on purpose so he can show off his immune system#anyways that being said#rocky is not a biologist and probably doesn't know the exact chemical make-up of his internal tissue.#so they're definitely shoving a heat protected spectrometer up his cloaca

no no @ecobanshee youre right on the money. its definitely also about all of that.

[814519]

let's have a smoke break with mama (and question our career choice)

[814519]

hey,,.. let me offer u a surgery resident trinity santos

[814519]

kiss ! kiss ! kiss !

[morgangalaxy43]

Jason and his polycule of redheads

[814519]

trinity doing handstand and some stretching (saw a post saying ‘hey what if trin hv olympic tattoo?’ cant get it out of my head)

[scoes]

Grace is one of the most classic things to fall from

[scoes]

That and the monkey barrrsssss

[animentality]

[coldgoldlazarus]

[samreich]

for whatever reason im not so sure

[crochethub]

A catfish..🐱🐟 by TheKnottyDruid

[theaudientvoid]

Does Victoria Dallon Actually Have Large Breasts?

A year or two ago, someone posted art of Taylor with massive tits. Like, a real set of mammary hammers. This was rightly ridiculed by the tumblr fandom. A bit later, someone found art from the same artist of Victoria with equally large breasts, and the fandom consensus was: well at least they got that right. But did they?

I have just completed a complete reread of both Worm and Ward, and it is actually surprising difficult to pin down what Victoria's breast size is supposed to be. At no point in either serial are Victoria's breasts ever described as being large.

Victoria's introduction in the Glory Girl interlude does not mention her breasts at all, and seems to imply that the "sexy" part of her body is her legs.

(The Glory Girl interlude in general is kind of weirdly written; Wildbow doesn't seem to have fully gotten the hang of the strict third person limited POV yet.)

The closest the text comes to providing any concrete information on the subject is in a chapter of Ward, where Victoria is wearing a borrowed Halloween costume sized in men's small, which she says "squashed [her] chest".

In a later chapter, Victoria is designing her new costume, and Chrystal suggests that she go for something that shows off her "assets", which Victoria rejects out of hand. This would seem to imply that Victoria's has "assets" worthy of showing.

Note that the context specifically is that Victoria's forcefield means that she can get away with wearing armor that display her cleavage not that her tits are especially big. Still, we can probably infer from this that Victoria's breasts aren't small.

However, the fact that Victoria's breasts are never described as large probably means that they aren't. In particular, given how prone early Taylor was to noticing other girls' chests, if Victoria's breasts were meant to be notably large, this likely would have been commented on during the bank fight.

The conclusion that I am forced to draw about Victoria's breasts is that they are of average size.

[shortandsadandstupid]

No, I don’t think Victoria Dallon had boobs like that

[shortandsadandstupid]

ironically, the only character with boobs like that is Emily mother fucking Piggot, and she has ZERO sexy art. What a shame

[victoriadallonfan]

I'm gonna shock you all, but we already know Victoria's cup size.

@noctilia shared the sacred information from Wildbow for an art piece

It's 32D

[victoriadallonfan]

Pretty sure it was for this piece in fact: