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twilight but bella is accidentally super stoned every time edward does something weird and supernatural so she never actually notices or figures it out by herself, but she points it out every time and scares the hell out of him
the cullens have had several code reds, all because edward’s new lab partner keeps brushing up against him unintentionally and going “woah, dude. you’re like, super cold”
eventually, after months of them hanging out and her repeatedly missing key things he gradually makes more and more obvious
he is literally sitting underneath the sun and sparkling, and she just squints at him, gives him a silly thumbs up, and then a high five shortly after
he just gives up and tells her
edward being so fed up with keeping the secret from bella so they’re lounging in the sun, with edward just waiting for it to click, for her to realise that he’s not human.
bella spends so long looking at him with edward completely frozen in place, waiting to see what her reaction will be. he’s prepared for fear in her eyes, for her to scream, to distance herself from him or possibly run away. what he is not prepared for is her lazily trailing her finger down the length of his forearm and breathing out a single word. “pretty.”
she then falls back on the grass with her eyes closed enjoying the sun but edward is so outraged that he springs to his feet, not even bothering to move at a human pace and throws her words back in her face as if they were an affront. “pretty?? bella, this is the skin of a killer.”
bella just snorts, barely opening her eyes to look at him “okay, edgelord,” there’s a lazy smile on her face but she doesn’t even bother to sit up before she continues, “edward, seriously, that’s the skin of every teenage girl in the 90s and i admire your bravery in attempting to bring back body glitter but don’t oversell it.”
What really bothers me is that staff thinks it needs to make this site “safe for children” like have you seen this place? Get rid of the pedophiles and child porn by all means please, make it safe for teens sure, but no 9 year old should be using tumblr so I think you’re in the clear there. I don’t get it like what did staff just wake up one morning, and look at this site like
“…Hmm…”
GREAT USE OF JOHN MULANEY REFERENCE
GOOD JOB OP
Anonymous: You seem to be good with kids but I don’t know how to talk to children. My standard small talk rules don’t work on smaller humans. Do you have any go-to opening questions or topics of conversation?
For any child shorter than waist high, I like to open with the absurd: “What did you do over vacation? Did you fight a dragon?” When they laugh and correct you, continue asking about the thing they tell you. Just be interested in them.
For children bigger than than but not yet teenagers, I prefer a direct approach with less outright silly. Don’t fool around until you establish a report, because they want to be taken seriously. They’re Big Kids who don’t want to be called Big Kids, because wanting to be a Big Kid is babyish.
For tweens into young teens, you’re either going to get a fantastic kid or someone jaded and disdainful as fuck. Ask them to teach you about a thing they’re into, or start doing something you’re awesome at near them. The mileage I get from “what’s your [video game of choice] strategy?” or just simply knitting near kids is immense.
Any older than that, just treat as an amnesiac adult: a peer who just doesn’t know all their stuff yet.
tl;dr: Everyone loves talking about themselves to someone interested in listening, so just give them the opportunity. (Also “Do you have pets” is small talk for anyone.)
Hey you know what studios do in America? Due to animators unionizing, instead of paying all the animators proper wage they started sending animation to be done over seas to lower labor costs. Now most studios’ animation are shipped to Korea and China and etc., which means the designs for the characters have to be simplified for easy character animation. Not to mention the history of American animation overall and how the American cartoon style has led towards more simplified styles over the years.
Also animation in Japan, while it does have plenty sakuga stuff, are actually just budget dumps for the best fight scenes. During normal scenes, characters can be very static and has a lot of holds. There’s also the mouth-flapping thing that a lot of animators in America detest. Everything is revolved around budgets for both countries. For America, to pay animators working wages they decided to cut costs and ship labor overseas. For Japan it means terrible working hours and labor, where plenty of animators have fallen ill or even die in their own cubicles.
So watch your fucking language and learn animation history. People like you are the reason why a lot of studios are cutting costs on their workers in America.
The party is about to mediate a peace conference. The fighter is talking to NPCs, gathering useful information before things get started.
DM: Mayor Lobo starts pointing people out and telling you their names, which towns they’re from, why they were invited. There are several local business owners, the political leaders of a few small towns and cities along the river, and the directors of all the local mines.
Fighter: So, anyone in particular we need to be worried about?
Mayor Lobo: Well, you’ll want to watch out for the dwarf over there, Yolo. He owns the mines up around Opalhorn, and he’s a stubborn fellow. Never admits when he’s made a mistake, and never changes his mind about anything.
Fighter: Wait, wait wait wait. His name is YOLO?
Mayor Lobo: It’s a very traditional dwarven name. It means, “He Who Lives But Once.”
rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie
ok but like the writer is transgender nonbinary and the language used in the play was the preferred language by trans people of that time can we not deny parts of our history because we’ve evolved since then thanks
So fucking much this.
PS, youth of today: you’ll be saying the same damn thing about art from this time before too long, for good or for ill. Terminology will, in fact, change. Definitions will, in fact, shift. It always does, they always do.
PPS, it is pretty much impossible to overstate how life-alteringly important this movie was to kids who didn’t conform to standard expectations of gender and sexuality, back in the day. Especially when back in the day was the mid-to-late 1980s, when the only queers you saw on TV were neutered AIDS tragedies, Bowie was playing straight, and even Elton John was married to a woman, and midnight showing of RHPS were pretty much the only place that felt like home. It was mental life raft for a lot of people.
You can convince a living old person to change, but older art is gonna stay where it is. And you gotta be okay with that if you wanna engage with the culture.
Yes, the old ways we engaged our identities are problematic as fuck. And we can criticize and analyze that. But acknowledge that it’s celebrated for saving lives - it literally saved lives by bringing queer people together and giving them a space together. A space they maintain. A space they don’t take with them outside - We Know This Shit Stinks. I dare you to find any fan of RHPS that won’t admit it’s gross and bad and terribly done. We know. But it saved us and we love it and we keep it in its place. Like Rent. Yes, the new generation’s RHPS. Rent, where the most decent person is the bad guy, the next most decent person killed a dog and then died, and everyone else is an entitled little shit.
Rent is objectively a story about shitty people who learn nothing and go nowhere. But the younger queers love it and I won’t judge them for taking comfort and community in a story, even as I criticize it for the terrible mockery of La Boheme that it is.
RHPS is… not great by modern standards and it’s so good that people understand that and why. But remember how much, at the time, it made a difference. Some of us wouldn’t have made it without it.
Not to turn mental illness into relatable content but is there anything more hilarious then spending an entire day vamping up to do something like spending ALL day thinking about it and putting it off and dreading it and then you finally, FINALLY do it and it takes 6 seconds and you realize that was your whole day plan
