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[iphigeniacomplex]

[girl in a low cut top voice] i just dont know what it is but everyone is being sooo nice to me today….[grows grave and guarded] they’re conspiring against my reign and they think me a fool

[beautifulscreaminglady]

Stuck With You by -MeMoreCowboyThanYou

Hello again! You might remember me from The Priest and His Fleabag piece I posted on here around a week ago. This piece is post-canon and focuses on them rekindling their relationship. No, you're struggling with the end of Fleabag. In the 27 hours it took me to pull this piece together, I haven't come up with a backstory I feel does it justice. Have they just come home from their first official date together? Are they recuperating from an anniversary party when everybody else has left? How did they rekindle? I'd love to hear what you all think could have led to them being on this couch together, I suppose the winner will be whoever ends up with the most upvoted comment! This piece takes inspiration from using Jack Vettriano's 'After Midnight' as reference.

(original post on Reddit)

I am NOT the original artist of this gorgeous piece but I asked for and obtained permission to share it from the artist

[warcrimesimulator]

[amillionmagpies]

You know, I think one of the things that frustrates me most about the "there is no platonic explanation for this" thing is that it's nearly always about characters who are unfathomably weird about each other. And like, not to be aroace on main, but romance is the most normalized relationship dynamic in Western society. Literally to the point where if you just say "relationship" people assume you mean a romantic one. So characters who are unfathomably weird about each other actually just wanting to kiss or whatever makes their relationship way more normal and boring to me, actually. If you were really engaging with their unfathomable weirdness, you'd know that they are probably family, friends, both, or somewhere complicated in between.

[pmamtraveller]

The Princess and the Pea, by Christian Birmingham

[nohoperadio]

just saw a pigeon doing the puffed up courtship dance thing to another pigeon, and as he was strutting around he suddenly stopped for a split second to do a very brief preen-peck at his own side, then returned to the strutting around. and i surprised myself by instantly losing respect for the male pigeon in that moment, like come on man i appreciate you had an itch or whatever but how is she supposed to feel special when you're getting distracted by bullshit like that? which on reflection i don't endorse, i mean those are pretty harsh dating norms i'm imposing on these pigeons, from a total outsider perspective, for no reason. probably not all girl pigeons are as uptight about that sort of thing as i would apparently be if i was a girl pigeon, maybe she even found it endearing who knows, i don't know her. it's none of my business really. sorry pigeons.

[fiore-firelily]

such insolence... guards? seize her! ...no. stop. not like that. you are doing it gay. why are you seizing her gay style

[cryptotheism]

[allthedope-fiends]

[release-the-sheep]

some assholes: the Holy See and the Pope lost the mandate of Heaven after Vatican II!

bobby from chicago: nah, they didn't. get divinely fucked

[prokopetz]

Thoughts on the schism?

"The Society of Saint Pius X pulled some excommunication-worthy fuckshit" is basically any given Wednesday. The only mildly surprising thing is that it took the Vatican this long to pull the trigger!

[vexwerewolf]

For what it's worth this might be the funniest joke I've ever made

[destiel-news-channel]

link

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'We've got a catholic schism today!' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

[gondorrevealparty]

duckduckgo Are camo pants secretly leftist or ironically fascist

duckduckgo Can pants be fascist

duckduckgo Most leftist type of pants

duckduckgo Camo bell bottoms

duckduckgo Will girls make fun of me at the gun range

duckduckgo When girls make fun of you is it good or bad

duckduckgo Are bell bottoms fascist

duckduckgo Is ironic fascism secretly leftist

duckduckgo Are pants fascist

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

[rederiswrites]

Saw this on FB and tried to find the original, which I haven't, but the point is so solid.

[funnytwittertweets]

[thenightgaunt]

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?

[teawitch]

Characters in a murder mystery should have some fairly good clues they're in a murder mystery.

Though admittedly at least one character doesn't find out in time.

[puppygirllaika]

This is gonna sound like a completely random aside, but go check out this talk from Nickolas Means about Three Mile Island. It deals with the narratives we create following a major incident, which he describes as first stories (seeking to identify who to blame) and second stories (seeking the systemic reasons why people made the decisions they did), and it very much lines up with the concept of "the character doesn't know what genre they're in", but applied to real life as a framework for understanding decision making in high-stakes situations. It's not perfect, but it is very interesting, and has stayed stuck in my mind for years now.

[destiel-news-channel]

reblogging for the excellent talk