#and we're just mates

[cantquitu]

.

#I'm going out to dinner tonight with 2 friends that I used to work with many years ago #they're both lawyers #i always end up being friends with the lawyers #my brain definitely always needs to balance my creative work with non creative #and the legal and contracting stuff often provides a bit of a break for me #whereas most of my co-workers absolutely hate it and are scared and baffled by it #ANYWAY - #both my friends got out of media law #so we have no work connection at all #and we're just mates #and this is a last minute hang #but a beautifully timed one #because it's a timely reminder that no matter how stressful and weird my job is and whether i end up leaving my current role or whatevs #what matters is that I've made so many good friends over the years and those friendships are not remotely dependent on our work #the job losses and chaos and uncertainty in the industry i work in are due to hollywood greed and wall street brutality #and it's wreaking havoc on ordinary workers lives #and I'm not underplaying that #but i need to focus on the fact that the friendships that matter are the ones that will last regardless

[yinyuedijun]

anyway I'm over it

[cw slavery, implied abuse, omegaverse]

#true mates trope but its actually just a trauma response #cant write a single dark fic without brutal deconstruction ig #yueshuo #dead dove #oh aventurine we're really in it now

[spotlightstudios]

Wizard 101: Hey kid, you just got pulled into Wizard School, and it looks like you're ready to start. Go down that path and someone will teach you to fight. Oh shit, that's Malistare, uhhhh, *one minor battle later* Good job kid. Go and do some little quests and beat up some fairies, you're doing great! :)

Pirate 101: You're in jail. Pirates are breaking you out of jail! They're... asking about your trauma. You're a pirate, an orphan, the son of a whore and a scotsman, you were raised by another group of people, now you're pulling a jail break and helping other prisoners escape! A uhhh, a guy threatens to murder you. He's the one who locked you up. The pirate guy almost dies and you have to drive his ship??? *one stressful sail later* Hey kid, go beat up this guy who stole from me. I'm gonna cheat and scam you, btw, just so you know. :)

#light's spot #W101 #P101 #pirate101 #wizard101 #I'm biased because I'm a Wizard thru and thru #but I played Pirate yesterday and am losing my mind over the shift of tone #in w101 it's like sure I'm the hero of the spiral but it's a story of training and growth and friendship #in p101 it's like I'm a wanted criminal yet I don't have a ship or a name for myself nor a crew and this Armada guy really wants to murder #me specifically??? #anyways #Silent Ryan Ironside is my mute pirate and Subodai will forever be my first mate because we're bound by mutual imprisonment and escape #<- She's a Swashbuckler and was raised in Grizzleheim btw. her parents were killed in a mutiny #pretty sure she became a mute after her parents were killed and the Grizzleheim bears gave her the name “Silent” and she took the lastname #of “Ironside” while she was in their care because she'd shoulder her way into battle #fun shift of pace from Natalie BlueFlower who was just like #huh I'm an ice wizard now- HOLY SHIT I'M GETTING MAGICKED AT- #and then never stopped being magicked at lmao

[psychidelias]

Something really funny to me is just Howard Moon as a character, because why is he literally me. I do that stupid head bop when i listen to music sitting down, I have an unhealthy attachment to jazz (psychedelic and acid nonetheless), I fall in love with anyone who shows the least amount of attraction to me, we actually look oddly similar facial wise, those weird exaggerated arm movements when talking, and a scarily similar fashion sense (should I feel ashamed of owning Hawaiian shorts, because I don't)

#the mighty boosh #booshlr #howard moon #in retrospect #maybe we're both just autistic #who wants to be my genderfluid mate with the fashion sense of a futuristic sex fiend #slash joking (maybe) (yeah)

[theboxfort]

New III episode huh

#inanimate insanity #ii spoilers #iii spoilers #<-- i don't know which one we're using laskjgasdg #do the. inani-mates even have a tag. #please let me know if they do. for now. i'll just. #ii nickel jr #ii diamond crusher #pink draws #i need a better way to make fake bw screenshots 💀💀 the text alone took me 10 minutes or more (i forgor)

[tenitchyfingers]

ok i found this on the beatles subreddit and i really hate men atm (because you know this is straight white men saying this shit)

BITCH MCLENNON HAS A LONG AND ANCIENT HISTORY AND MCLENNON SHIPPERS ARE THE WHOLE BACKBONE OF THE BEATLES' WORLDWIDE SUCCESS FUCK YOUUUU

#btw i'm a millennial and PROUD MCLENNON TRUTHER GO GET FUCKED YOU PUNY BITCHES #besides IT'S PAUL DOING THE ENTIRE HEAVY LIFTING LIKE WE'RE JUST PAYING ATTENTION #like he literally said they slept together #that he dreams of John like all the time #he says corny and extremely romantic shit about John all the time #if you saw Get Back you know #like what else should happen for people to get off of us #it's not my fault that paul literally defined himself as John's ex wife and he had to cut all contacts with John because of Yoko #as if that's a 'just mates' thing #is it my fault that he keeps writing songs explicitly about john where he says 'i love you' #is it my fault that he spent 43 years constantly not getting over it #is it my fault that every time he performs Here Today he can't help but cry #is it my fault that he explicitly said he and John had such a deep understanding that they could communicate without speaking #LOOK AT HIM NOT US #the beatles #mclennon #and btw zoomers who are beatles fans are 100% welcome fuck you #the Beatles are for EVERYBODY

[hella1975]

just think this time tomorrow ill be publicly indecent in a spoons somewhere. i am so strong

#ONE MORE EXAM. WE CAN DO THIS. I WILL BE DONE IN LITERALLY LESS THAN 24 HOURS NOW #AND THEN THE NEXT EXAM SEASON ISNT UNTIL MAY. COME ON GIRL #we have such a fun plan for tomorrow though bc the consensus has just been 'we need to get fucking mangled after this exam' #like i havent been out-out in WEEKS the closest i came was the end of december for a hometown house party of all things #i didnt even go out for nye. let's all take a moment and consider the implications for someone like me NOT GOING OUT ON NYE #so i am OVERDUE a good night out and then on top of that ive had exams be SO fr #and also this is the first year where my main friendship group (i.e not my housemates but my actual social circle) #are ALL econ students like there's about five of us and we all do econ and yeah two of them ive been mates with since first year #(the girl is my best mate at uni and is always who im on about if i talk about a 'girl on my course' and the lad is the one i lived with #in first year and have kind of got a thing with now?) BUT THE OTHERS ARE NEW ADDITIONS AND THAT'S SO FUN #so we're ALL gonna tip out of that exam and then me and her are gonna go back to mine to get ready bc am i fuck doing make-up #before that exam. the STATES i have shown up in these past few days i think the invigilators are worried about me #and then we're meeting the lads at the pub and starting there and THEN going spoons bc it's me and the girl's tradition #(calling her just 'the girl' is so funny. woman 🫵) after exams to buy each other mystery shots at spoons and we HAVE to drink them #and then one of the lads really wants to go to a karaoke bar for some reason?? so that might be in my future #AND THEN we're going clubbing. im so ready. take me home vodka shots. the end is near please please please #hella goes to uni

[ahappydnp]

hope they were doing their lad banter at each other the entire time

#bros bros bros shoulder bump #hey mate you want a pint lads lads lads #thats what bros do mate we're just two guys

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#oh lads. its not looking good for my genomics exam on Thursday. its all fucked #i dunno. its just been a weird day. bc one of my lab mates is getting ready to go to the astr0biology science conference #and its just so wild how i got here. into the perfect position. i have a great advisor. a great phd project. a committee member who is super #integrated with n4sa astr0biology projects. and so many of the instructors are amazing. my genomics prof is terrifyingly smart #so is my advisor and his wife. and the program is great. ecology and Evolution. its perfect. its all perfect #and yet. and yet. it just feels like its all falling apart. ive lost that compulsive thing thats always set in my chest #and now all i want to do is lay on the floor and cry and sleep and not do anything. why am i so tired? #its just so frustrating. and im sure ive got the most wretched vibes bc im constantly like 1 comment away from bursting into tears #like 2 weeks and its done. then im off to find a summer job. and find a long term job. and consider throwing away everything ive ever worked #toward. just let it all burn. im so tired. and i dont get to see my therapist until Monday. thats gonna b fun #hi. hello. since last i saw you my life has crumbled into pieces. ugh. i just dont wanna fail this genomics exam but it looks like that's #where we're headed. maybe i should have just dipped out of these last 3 weeks. but no. i didnt want to leave the lady i ta for 100 lab #reports to unexpectedly have to grade 4 days before grades are due. ugh. itll b fine. i mean it wont but whatever #unrelated

[dna-d2]

(One Piece Live Action Spoilers, Beware) (Also long post alert, Also Beware) (TL;DR at the end)

(Beware)

So I finally finished watching the Live Action One Piece and BOY LET ME TELL YOU.

(Please note that this is coming from someone who’s read the manga numerous times and is almost caught up on the anime. So this is a time for me to lovingly rant about this show/franchise in general)

I loved it. Like, to start off with, I fucking loved it. It had a couple flaws, and I certainly wouldn’t say it’s the BEST way to experience the story of One Piece, but I had so much fun with it, god.

Like, one of the biggest flaws you see with live action anime adaptations is that they make a bunch of changes, and these changes feel like they were made by a bunch of higher-up suit-wearing dickheads who think they managed to systematically dissect why people loved Dragon Ball so much and gave us the war crime that was Dragon Ball Evolution.

No, OPLA does have changes, but these changes feel like they were made to actually ADAPT the story into a new medium, since this would require a whole different type of storytelling compared to anime or manga. And (almost) all of the changes do feel like they were able to get the same point across as in the anime/manga, just in a different way.

Like pretty much everyone’s been saying, the casting choice was SPOT-FUCKING-ON. Like

HOLY SHIT

Guys, Iñaki as Luffy was absolutely brilliant and you’d have to kill me before I’d ever say anything different, I mean it. The closest I’d have to a character complaint (and it’s really not a complaint, it’s more of a nit-pick than anything) is that Zoro was just not goofy enough. OG Zoro gets caught up in the shenanigans more than he’d like to admit and gets pissed about it and many other things. OPLA Zoro was way more stoic than that. Though I did also like the stoic himbo energy he was giving off too, so like I said it’s not ENTIRELY a complaint. Just a slight nitpick. (And this is nothing against the actor, the actor did a phenomenal job and I will hear no slander against him or any of the others. Especially Usopp’s actor. Dude was perfect in pretty much every way)

And then the only REAL complaint I had. Well, two, technically. And they both center around the final two episodes.

One of the ONLY changes I didn’t like is that the people in Cocoyashi DIDN’T know that Nami was working for Arlong to buy back the village. The anime/manga had them all know about it and play along so that her efforts to help them wouldn’t be in vain, thus when she was double-crossed by Arlong, they had 7 years of resentment against just HIM to get out, and it felt so nice knowing that these guys were more than willing to fight to the death for her in her name and in the name of the years she sacrificed for them.

In this one though, the fact that they didn’t know just made it feel less impactful to me. They hated Nami for years, then just gave her an apology for not realizing what she was doing before deciding to march on Arlong Park. They didn’t even march on Arlong Park. It felt like the writers were rushing this along a little bit, which kinda leads into my other complaint.

I think there should’ve been ONE more episode. Just one. Nine overall. I think they should’ve spent 2 episodes, 7 and 8, specifically on the fight against Arlong, instead of an episode and a half with the resolution to the Garp thing stuck on at the end. THEN made episode 9 the resolution to the Garp subplot. Or hell, I think even just an extra 30 minutes would’ve helped a lot more. But it felt like they didn’t 100% get how to pace it out properly and had to change certain things that resulted in being a detriment to the overall product. I didn’t feel anywhere near as moved during Nami’s scene asking for help as I did during the anime/manga. In those, she looked absolutely broken, pushed so far past her breaking point that she just couldn’t see a way out of this darkness she’d found herself in for years and years. And in OPLA, she just…Didn’t. It’s hard to put to words, but it just wasn’t as impactful to me.

NOW WITH ALL THAT SAID!!!!

This is an incredible show in its own right. If I didn’t have the anime/manga to compare this to, I would have almost no gripes whatsoever. Maybe even none!! I enjoyed the hell out of this from start to finish, and only came out of it with like one complaint and a couple nitpicks. That’s INCREDIBLE for a live action anime adaptation. Not to mention the way that this is already proving to be a great way to get new people into One Piece. (They don’t realize. They don’t realize that this is the gateway show. That this is where it starts. They don’t realize that they’ll be hooked after this. They don’t realize. But I realize. I know. And soon, so will everyone…!!!)

So yeah, OPLA, solid 8/10. It’s not the best way to experience the story overall, but it’s great for beginners and I will watch again for Easter Eggs and further enjoyment. You should watch it.



TL;DR: One Piece Live Action is great actually, and while it’s not perfect, you should watch it and I love it.



#And of course there's everything else #The wardrobe the set design the ACTING #You can just tell this came from a place of love and enjoyment on just about every front and I loved it so much I mean it #Also you remember the first scene? #You remember that woman that showed up? Near Shanks? #Some people think it might've been Boa Hancock but she was probably too young for that #You know who wasn't too young? #THAT'S RIGHT #CROCODILE #THIS IS OUR TRANS CROCODILE CONFIRMATION I'M CALLING IT HERE #ALSO WE GOT OUR FIRST-MATE ZORO CONFIRMATION #AND I AM LIVING FOR THAT!!!!! #But please I beg just make him like #2% goofier #That's all #And please everyone watch this series #I know we're probably not getting past at least Skypeia ever #But I would commit actual war crimes for at least season 2 #One Piece #OPLA #One Piece Live Action #OPLA Spoilers #One Piece Live Action Spoilers #Luffy #Roronoa Zoro #Zoro #Nami #Usopp #Sanji #DNAVerse Discussions

[camelspit]

how am i supposed to raise my gpa if i keep getting the shittiest fucking teachers on earth oh my god. no more peace and love i hope they die.

#i am. so fucking done. #14 days left of the semester and i am on the verge of giving up #staring at the final in a week or two like. #girl. no one is passing that shit and it is your fault. #and then youre going to have the fucking audacity to lecture us about #how we're the problem because we dont study correctly #like you always fucking do #and its like no! #youve always been the fucking problem!! #go back to the school you fucking came from bc we were a lot better without you bitch #god im just. so angry. #like my team mate was honest to god unironically praying after we took the quiz #like girl !!!! people should not have to pray for good grades !!! #tell me how we still got a 72 with ALL OF US working together #AND DOUBLE CHECKING IT LIKE 5 TIMES #AND WE WERE LIKE THE HIGHEST GRADE IN THE CLASS ??? #BE FR. #I HOPE YOU FALL IN A FUCKING PIT #and i probably wont be able to take spanish 4 next year because HE teaches upper level spanish now #and im so fucking pissed about that #like i want to learn spanish but im not doing that in this class. because he doesnt teach it. #i cant do this for another semester. i would rather die. #and next semester im taking art and #apparently i got the teacher who never gives hundreds because 'art isnt perfect' #girl WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU #IF I DID THE WORK GIVE ME THE 100 STOP MAKING THIS SOME MORAL BLATHER OR WHATEVER

[angelsaxis]

yeah idk i really dont have the patience for women w/ the means to not work who shit on women who are forced/to prefer working to not being totally financially dependent on one (1) singular man like if we think for a second about why a woman might want to be poor(er) but in control of her own money rather than "rich" at the behest of a man she's legally tied to do you think we'd get a semi decent explanation as to why a woman might choose option a rather than b 🥺

#angel posts #like mate. what. wha.t what. what. #screams #working isnt even inherently bad its the conditions under which we're forced to work that make it shitty #once more women get better working conditions hopefully rich women will just shut the entire fuck up like my god theyre so annoying 😭 #''ew why would you wanna work'' why not #i like being out i like making money #and some of these SAHM moms that be shitting on working women but then have their own lil side hustles. hunny thats a job #you just hate when its lower class women or when it involves any semblance of punching a time card #so classism on top of the misogyny!! #did you get it? did you get the patriarchal approval?

[geffenrecords]

the outsiders is hintons best work bc it doesn't have that dumbass awkward romance between the guy and the girl . like in most of them it's fine it's not a big deal but whatever the fuck was happening in taming the star runner was just pissing me off .

#maybe she was trying to imply smthn between pony and cherry but i literally dgaf . it wasnt real #zyz #outsiders #i dont like jamie in tex at all ajd i feel sobad but dude taming the star runner was gay asff she wasnt even trying . travis was like i fuck #ing hate this girl. okay we're making out in a barn and shes my soul mate. okay nevermind we r not dating . man....canyou go help yr uncle #with his divorce... #cathy was fine in twttin but she was just like...kinda boring..i wish angela and bryon had gotten back 2gether so i cld watch them be beat #thefuck out of each other

[dragon-in-the-mountains]

Light furies are more than ‘The Toothless Girlfriend’ and ‘Night Light Makers’. That is all.

#otherkin #dragonkin #light furykin #//I hate that The Light Fury is the only real representation we have// #//and that we're just known to be night fury mates and nothing else// #//our sole purpose almost feels like it was so night lights could have fun little white patches on them// #//because people care more about night furies and night lights// #//sorry about the mini rant//

[crawley-fell]

The daily struggle of two fem lesbians being mistaken for sisters

#my partner and i dont look anything alike we're both just relatively girly #tbh this happens to my more masc presenting mates as well #if you have a vaguely similar haircut people are like... couldn't possibly be dykes theyve gotta be siblings

[soulaans]

constantly being told i'm mature for my age (19) kinda makes me wonder how do the people around me perceive nineteen year olds

#i think... most ppl my age act the way i do?? not exactly like me but yk.. 19 is like the retirement age of ur teens ??? for me... no? #idek where i'm going with this #lol but like obviously young ppl wanna be young and turnt but like if u sit down with a nineteen year old i feel like we're all kinda #Just some guy #but i also could be perceiving my age mates incorrectly #all of my friends (except 2) are 23+ #quite literally