dirk meeting grandma for the first time: Hi, uh, Ms English. I’m a huge fan of your work. Your work concerning nuclear physics and the intricacies of (nerd shit) has been groundbr
jade: oh so you’re a nerd? a nerd and a bitch? hm?
I know it sounds fake but you really do have a lot of silent lovers on this planet who look at you and wish they had your smile or your hair color or your humor or your intellect or your intentions or your heart, your manners, your eyes, your ease, even just you. People who are too shy to tell you what they admire about you or what they wish for you or who they see themselves becoming bc of you & they’re too shy to tell you. even tho it isn’t verbalized, the universe has still heard and the universe has loved you for helping out on its creations. You’re that person. You’re you.
I was tagged by @twizzlerstriders
(whoops sorry it’s a little past reasonable tag meme response time, thanks 4
the tag)
Rules: Choose any
three fandoms and answer the questions, then tag 10 people you want to know
better.
My Three Fandoms:
Homestuck
Kingdom Hearts
Voltron
The first character
you loved:
Rose Lalonde (!! I was such a smug fucking 14 year old)
Xion (arguably first crush, jeez, I used to stare at her picture
in the Nintendo Power preview article I had. I ripped her theme off of Youtube
and put it on my old ipod. My Xion love was and still is intense.)
Pidge
The character you never expected to love so
much:
Dirk Strider (I
actually… was lukewarm at the start. Mostly due to my own internalized
homophobia. Whoa, what a concept.)
Axel (gettin’ those
heartstrings despite his dumb hair)
Keith (!!)
The character you relate to the most:
Dirk Strider (we navigating
this shit together)
Roxas (I just don’t
know what’s fuckin’ going on, dude)
Keith (I want to live
in a conspiracy hut in the desert this is the dream)
The character you’d slap:
Every Alpha Kid
Riku
Shiro—but, like, in
a sexual way. Is that TMI? That’s TMI I think.
Three favorite characters (in order of
preference):
Dirk Strider, Rose
Lalonde, Jake English (Jane Crocker, Dave Strider, Jade Harley, John Egbert,
Roxy Lalonde) (that’s the full order, but additionally All Kids>Literally
Anyone Else)
Xion, Roxas, Axel (:D)
Keith, Shiro, Pidge
A character you liked at first but don’t
anymore:
Dave (I still love him
but he’s slipped a few spots in the rankings and I’m not sure why.)
Namine (turned very quickly from goth kairi to “eh”)
Lotor (No, I like him,
I was just expecting a villain and I’m not sure what to think anymore because I
had a very big bad built up in my head. gimme the traitor arc i neeed it.)
Three otps:
Dirkjake, JaneRoxy,
JaneDave (DirkJake is King, JaneRoxy is Queen, and two of my immortal OCs came
out of a JaneDave AU that went off the rails so… They always get a special nod
in my heart.)
RokuXi (the precursor
to Dirk/AR), og OT3, and……….. YuffieSora (it’s a long story,)
I don’t touch Voltron ships with an 8 foot pole my man u seen that shit
newwavey websites clearly made by techbro designers who have sacrificed their humanity in the quest for the nebulous concept of “sleek” where the whole website is actually one loooong stretch of a single webpage and the links at the top just jump you further down the main scroll of info you were already on and had finished and now thought there was more pages but no, there’s no actual pages or space for any kind of elaboration it’s just the super-compressed, basic info they’ve trimmed down to chic meaningless buzzwords and artfully shoved onto basically-an-ancient-scroll-but-electronic + one singular link to a “contact us” page but even then that’s probably also on the All-The-Information-You-Seek-Is-In-This-Scroll, We-Simplified-This-For-You page at the very bottom
those? those give me anxiety. i will take some basic ass 90s html shit over that any day.
((Fun Fact: I had to take two Halcyon back when I was an oral surgery assistant so I could explain the sensation to patients and be able to detect bad reactions and that shit is wild.))
Controversial Food Opinion: all fruit+chocolate combos must disclose where they fall on a scale from “white chocolate on a particularly mild strawberry” —> “dark chocolate so bitter it would make god invent capitalism on a particarly sour orange” before being served to hungry and naively curious patrons
Me: anyway, yeah, my humor has really envolved over the years—
My Brain: [thinking about kingdom hearts cosplayers already in the middle of a high school musical parody shot-by-shot reenacting the baseball scene from twilight]
The Part of Me That’s Still 13 Years Old: this is the apex, this is untoppable, why do we still make literally anything,
Imo Lincoln’s song “Saint Bernard” is about a gay catholic teen which is a theory supported only by the fact that “Saint Bernard sits at the top of the driveway/you always said how you loved dogs,” is a lyric written with the distinct sense of near-nihilistic humor found only in gay catholic teens.
i know adult swim can be skeezy at times, esp with their animation practices, but i am glad it exists if only because roughly half the shit on adult swim could only exist on either adult swim or an incredibly dark and hard to reach corner of the internet
Here’s a doodle in the extra space on my watercolor paper I got carried away with. 🦋 There are process photos in my instagram story today if you’re interested!
Me when I see someone use the descriptor “grimdark” even though the word has been around for a significant amount of time and exists on the fringes of popular lexicon: 8y
Not to dip into true-crime-on-main again but holy shit, y’all, a suspect has been arrested and charged as the Golden State Killer, almost 50 years after his killing spree throughout the 70s and 80s. The late writer Michelle McNamara worked tirelessly and endlessly for years, sifting through and compiling evidence just so someday we might see this very moment. While she isn’t here to see it happen I hope her family and fans are feeling this triumph. She deserves the resolution she so fiercely sought, and I have full confidence this case wouldn’t have been solved without her tireless quest for justice.
Hey! I’m trying to find a book at the moment! I just had it reccomended to me but I’ve forgotten the title already.
Here’s what I remember: It’s a historical novel but I’m not sure what time period—I want to say maybe Regency? I think it’s set in Britain. It’s gay. It’s about a troublemaking (gay) wealthy kid who gets sent off to say goodbye to his sister who I believe is being sent away to a boarding school? And also he’s in love with his best friend.
Not to dip into true-crime-on-main again but holy shit, y’all, a suspect has been arrested and charged as the Golden State Killer, almost 50 years after his killing spree throughout the 70s and 80s. The late writer Michelle McNamara worked tirelessly and endlessly for years, sifting through and compiling evidence just so someday we might see this very moment. While she isn’t here to see it happen I hope her family and fans are feeling this triumph. She deserves the resolution she so fiercely sought, and I have full confidence this case wouldn’t have been solved without her tireless quest for justice.
OMG that’s incredible news! The My Favourite Murder podcast did a really heartfelt tribute to her recently (with her husband Patton and the guys who put together her final book after her death) and I didn’t realise before just how insanely dedicated Michelle was to solving this case. It really means so much that they’ve finally arrested someone.
Michelle never let the case go cold. This is her victory.
Yes! That episode was so excellent. Karen & Georgia were fantastic hosts.
I’m sorry she’ll never see the killer—but really, she was the queen of this cold case. I’m glad it might finally, finally be put to rest.
“Thank you, Kanye. Very cool!” coming out of the mouth of POTUS Donald Trump is a concept that sounds like a comic Andrew Hussie would write pre-Homestuck but I fear we may actually be living in a timeline stranger than what even the Huss has prepared us for.
