*through gritted teeth* every day i choose to be kind *barely restraining myself from violence* i choose to have compassion *tamping down the vicious bloodlust inside me* i choose to care and to be kind and to love
ALT
i love when people who i fit the dni for follow me. little buddy what did i say that was so compelling. am i allowed to talk to you?
Genderfluid Adrien Agreste, Post-Reveal Aged-Up Adrinette
18k Words, Complete
“I like being a girl.”
“That’s the alcohol talking,” Marinette snorted.
“I’ve always been a li’l jealous,” Adrien admitted.
“... Of what?”
“That you get to be a girl,” Adrien murmured, “and I don’t.”
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When Marinette and Adrien host Girls' Night at their apartment, Adrien is easily welcomed to attend as "one of the girls"... but has a bit too much to drink. Some drunken confessions are spilt, some assumptions are made, and most of all...
Adrien is confused.
So, um. Remember that art of Adrien in a dress I drew back in May? Surprise! I actually drew that because of this fic I was writing. I realized I should probably post it before pride ends.
Why am I having so much trouble finding "Rey trying to avoid her grandfather's attempts to marry her off to an advantageous partner" fic (that isn't for The Ship I Don't Like)
I searched for fic that had both Rey and Sheev and the word 'arranged...' unfortunately, 66 of the 71 fics are for The Ship I Don't Like.. I found one that's Rey/Vader which is a solid maybe, but the rest is just characters I don't know, or ships I'm not invested in.
I'd take The Ship I Don't Like as the advantageous marriage Sheev is pushing, if Rey ditches the altar to run away with Finn.
I don't write ST fics but I would consider doing this because I cannot get past the idea of Sheev trying to push his annoyed, estranged granddaughter that he did not meet until she was an adult into a good marriage. She's not 100% ready to ditch him or get disowned, because she did grow up in poverty and having a reliable fund to do things like eat. And live. And she kind of wants to have a stable financial situation.
But Sheev is so incredibly controlling and Rey is so incredibly independent that they are definitely at odds and everyone's watching with the expectation that they're going to reach a tipping point somewhere.
If this is canon-ish AU (as in, Rey was just born as Sheev's natural/semi-natural granddaughter around the Prequels) then Sheev is probably trying to get Rey married to Anakin.
But if it's a Regency AU, then Padme is Sheev's niece, with a smaller age difference between generations than in the PT, so Rey and Ben are second cousins and since she didn't grow up royalty/nobility, the whole cousins-marriage thing is a lot squickier to her than to Sheev.
(Padme, who married a random hot guy, and her daughter, who married a random criminal, have passed on a similar squick to Ben Solo, who's not super into the whole cousins marriage thing, but considers second cousins might have been okay if Rey didn't seem so intent on kicking him in the balls instead of getting married.)
Anyway. FinnRey is endgame, but the main plot is mostly Rey and Sheev being really Tense at each other.
This is the closest Sheev has come to actually loving anyone or anything, but considering that's his relation to Vader in the canon, it doesn't mean much.
Costco's pivot to checking the photo on membership cards is wild. I went in with a friend yesterday who is a member and I never, ever want to go back.
Treating paying customers like criminals because the big bad corporation is missing a few dollars from people sharing cards ain't it.
They checked her card twice while we were in the store *and we didn't even buy anything* because one item had to be bundled and we weren't aware and they were out of the other.
Like I don't like the Waltons, that's for sure, but Sam's doesn't treat it's customers like that and I've never left there without the stuff I went in for.
There was a news story about an employee harassing a woman whose photo "didn't match her person" as-if the photos on the back of Costco cards are decent quality anyways jfc. When she asked them to check her ID against it, they refused and continued to humiliate and harass her.
Like damn dude, that ain't it. Costco can get bent.
Years ago, my mother had surgery to remove her eye.
She needed groceries. I offered to go to Kroger, and she said no, go to Costco. I took her card, since I didn't have one.
I got her groceries, got to the front....they looked at the photo, which at the time they absolutely never did. Lady said she couldn't sell to me. I said "I'm sorry, it's my mom's card. She's at home recovering from surgery and asked me for groceries."
Lady said she'd call the manager to see if he could make an exception. Manager chewed me out in front of a long line of people, basically calling me a thief and saying he didn't care about my mother's surgery, she could come herself for groceries. I ended up crying and even someone else in the line told him to stop being an asshole.
I went back to my mother with no groceries, crying and apologizing. Keep in mind this woman had an eyeball-sized hole in her head. She had just had a vital organ removed. There was a wad of gauze on her eye socket the size of a golf ball, held in place with medical tape and an eyepatch. She was in incredible amounts of physical and emotional pain. But she demanded to go back to Costco with me. We got in, she demanded to speak to the manager who'd spoken to me. He walked out of his office and went pale when he saw her. You have to imagine a tiny verging-on-elderly woman who's visibly frail, this gigantic medical patch on her face, and that awful pinched drawn look people get when their pain is off the charts. I guarantee he wasn't frightened of her, exactly, he'd just realized what a giant fucking PR disaster he'd made for himself. He was looking at a very sick, very incapacitated woman with one eye and a cane, and he'd called me a liar for saying she was sick and incapacitated, and he knew it.
She walked up to him, handed him her Costco card, and said "you can take this. Since my daughter can't shop for me six hours after I had surgery. Nina, let's go."
He basically forced me to take the card back, stammering apologies. I just let him see on my face exactly what I thought of him, and walked out.
I later got an apology from someone way up the food chain in management. Basically their consensus was "yeah, you shouldn't be using your mom's card as a regular thing, but the moment you said she'd just had major surgery they should've been like 'yeah, no, understood, let's get you checked out,' and even if it was a more regular circumstance the language he used was just unacceptable."
If they're being that aggressive about checking cards, take it up the food chain. See what's going on. We might need to get pissed at Costco or it could be local management being dicks.
one thing to miss about porn on tumblr is how ridiculous people acted like. there was this one catfish on here who would steal other people’s dick pics and pretend they were all him. he’d post circumcised one day and uncut the next like… sir.
Image ID: screenshot of two replies to the post. First one says “fresh cut” the second one says “it grew back” End ID
“That sounds like a good idea…….”-“Is there something bothering you with the idea?”-“No, the idea is GOOD…..🙂”
Can someone explain this to me?
Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.
And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.
So an old person could type something like:
how are things going with your “boyfriend”….
and what they mean is
How are things going with your boyfriend? [Im so excited for you, sweetie, and I wanna hear about it]
But a young person would interpret that sentence as
How are things going with your so-called boyfriend…. [I say, while seething with contempt for him and possibly for you too]
The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you
older generations use ellipses the way we use no period
this is too serious.
this is not too serious
this is not too serious either……
cracked this code recently and it suddenly all made sense. and also i was embarrassed because sometimes i’ll end sentences like this,,,, and it’s literally the same exact thing…..
children outside screaming: annoying but ultimately for the greater good. children need Going Outside and Screaming Time for proper emotional development. an auditory burden I am willing to bear
neighbor with his car he made louder on purpose: jail for neighbor. jail for ten thousand years