#just perplexes me

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I am so perplexed as to why there seem to be newer (female? queer?) fans of The Avengers who don't think Steed and Mrs. Peel are sleeping together? What do you think is going on there, then?

#the avengers #john steed #emma peel #patrick macnee #diana rigg #not judging here #just perplexes me #i want to understand

[overtake]

“a sexual awakening so intense it registered on the richter scale” is the single best and most accurate description I have ever heard.

pov: you're 16 years old and doing the final test for your super license ahead of joining f1 as the youngest ever driver. you expect the doubt and hate, and you know you can prove on track why you deserve to be there once you actually get in a car, but until then, you just have to be the subject of everyone's headlines and criticism for a factor you can't control.

then this guy comes along.

race winner who got himself to a top team and is beating his world champion teammate, a cool older handsome charismatic guy with a giant smile and big brown eyes, beloved and kind while still being fiercely talented, competitive, and hungry? the guy who you met in 2011 and who gave you the time of day before you were old enough to sniff at the f1 grid. he's not even going to be your actual teammate (yet), but he still takes the time to tell you he's looking forward to seeing you on the grid when so much of what you've heard is nonstop criticism.

he tells you good luck for your super license with a big grin meant just for you

and this is how it makes you feel.

this is live footage of daniel ricciardo becoming a permanent fixture in max's spank bank. it's one of those foundational crushes you have at a young age that sticks with you for life and unconsciously affects "your type" forever and never truly goes away.

also, i just think everyone should hear the way max very softly says "he's a really nice guy, yeah" with so much affection packed into every word.

how are you not to psychosexually imprint on him? one look at that video and max was ready to risk it all. he's been metaphorically tucking his hair, kicking his feet, and giggling since day one. he found a guy who he could race hard, who would challenge him on track, but who would still make the miserable pr days better for them, who was always laughing at max's jokes every time he did his little glance over to ensure it landed. max is so fiercely loyal to his people, and daniel has clearly earned that trust.

tldr: max verstappen is number one dirlie and if he were on f1blr, he would be writing long posts with onboards, data, and that ☝️🤓 attitude of his explaining in detail why everyone is wrong about daniel, and i hope it haunts all the max fans who get their rocks off to calling daniel a washed asshole loser that max's porn folder is daniel late braking compilations.

#ask #this got long. sorry. i also took a 5 minute crying break over old videos of daniel. #my exams start in a week and this is what i'm doing #anyway #OBVIOUSLY i don't think you have to like daniel ricciardo in order to love max. #but it's perplexing to me that people can look at someone who makes max so visibly happy #and dedicate their entire life to obsessively hate-posting about him. #move on! ignore him! #i couldn't tell you anything about a driver i hate's race besides the basic race coverage #because i don't dig into every facet of it to feed an pathological hatred. #i definitely couldn't tell you things about their personal life/anything what they've been up to/recent quotes/etc #because i just see them and scroll. wish others had that ability. #maxiel

[vic-does-battlecats]

Minor spoilers for the already revealed chapters of the next A Starless Clan book Wind

#a starless clan #a starless clan spoilers #wind spoilers #asc spoilers #warrior cats spoilers #warriors #warrior cats #tigerheart #tigerheartstar #tigerstar 2 #tigerstar #Squirrelflight #squirrelstar #frostpaw #Nightheart #I’ve been wanting to draw this ever since the chapters were revealed and what better time than like two days til the book comes out #i actually think tigerheartstar is an interesting character in this arc he genuinely thinks he’s doing the right thing and he does honestly #want to help. he just does it by trying to crack dad jokes to lighten the mood while trying to run a group that doesn’t want him there #i also think it’s funny that he’s consistently just chill with taking in cats thrown out of their clans. ESPECIALLY from RiverClan #don’t get me wrong he’s super weird in omen of the stars and avos and I think in his super edition (I haven’t read it in a while) #but he’s also a good dad. he’s such a perplexing character I can’t help but find him interesting. at least he DOES stuff yknow #I’ll eat my words if he does turn out to be completely evil or something. but I’ll hate if he does his behavior really isn’t like Tigerstar #-the first. this guy isn’t out here trying to seize power #but ENOUGH ABOUT HIM!! Nightheart asking squirrelstar if frostpaw could come to thunderclan with him was so sweet #i wish she’d accepted I don’t want them to split up I’m worried the writers will forget the entire last book and they won’t be close again

[mueritos]

its crazy how coming into clinical social work, i really just thought I was up against systems and cycles of trauma....but it turns out i'm up against those two things AND other therapists. the amount of work spent correcting mistakes from other clinicians--whether with clients or during the classroom--is fucking crazy.

i totally get we're all on different journeys in terms of being clinicians. but it is insane finding out day after day of therapists and clinicians saying the worst things ever to clients. demeaning them, telling them "it's all in their head", the racism and the ableism and harm that is caused. like no fucking wonder people are afraid to seek therapy (on top of the accessibility issues). while i'm a little biased and think that at the very least clinical social work training focuses on viewing people within their environments (so not engaging in the medical/individualist models of practice that a lot of counseling programs focus on), that doesn't mean it gives every person the skills to be an effective therapist. i'm also not saying i'm the best clinician ever--I'm literally in training--but boy! it is jarring seeing how some of my peers interact in class and wondering...is that how you are with your clients??

my social work program at the very least also has a focus on anti-racism, but i know students from other programs and some of them don't even mention racism AT ALL and focus entirely on diagnosing people "correctly", or finding the perfect form of therapy to use on a client. but man, what none of these programs teach are basic life skills. wanting to be a clinician isn't enough, especially considering that an inhumane amount of people in my program are 1. so nervous about making mistakes that they lose scope of their practice 2. have so much internalized racism/white guilt to work thru 3. or they have absolutely no listening skills.

again, im not trying to make it seem like I am the number 1 clinician in the world ever. I don't even have a psych background or bachelor's in social work. my reasons for going into social work are quite selfish (I want a job that is very flexible, easily transferable, and can be done in different contexts), and the helping people part is just a plus. i'm just saying it's very jarring seeing other people in training and realizing they too are working with clients. i have conversation after conversation about these issues with other BIPOC/queer/marginalized clinicians, so I know i'm not the only person worried about some of the people that will be out of this program in a few years practicing on their own or with vulnerable populations.

#muerto talks #just rambling #maybe im just a hater virgo with a strong sense of justice #i am just forever perplexed #learning that some of my classmates believe that you can be racist to white people is crazy #learning that some of my classmates are rude and dismissive to BIPOC students but they work in BIPOC communities #learning that some of my classmates weaponize their mental illnesses as an excuse to act shitty to professors classmates or clients is craz #there are zionists??? trying to be social workers?????? #i literally have classes with zionists #some people r doing a whole ass career change because they had a spiritual calling to help people?? #again not saying im such a great clinician im in training just like the rest of my program #but you cannot like tell me to even try to be hopeful about some of the people who will be my collegues in a year #because i have no hope for them #and its going to take making serious mistakes for them to maybe snap out of it #and that fucking sucks #nothing in my body feels safe around those people #like idc maybe im an elitist with impossible standards #maybe im the one asking too much from these people..... #the cognitive dissonance is real in these people man

[cyberdragoninfinity]

unwise to sell a wolf ticket when it's your own pelt on the line

#yugioh 5ds #primo 5ds #placido #ygoart #dana art #wolf symbolism #if they wont let me make weird digicollage ygo art in heaven then brother im not going #i just like him. everything was his own damn fault you cant be a lone wolf when youre a third of a person!! AND YET. #robot gore / ? i suppose #'better luck next time' is actually from a yugioh card. the other text is sourced from #the very labyrinthine and perplexing drmikebagwell dot org 🖤

[fanta2y]

this screen cap of true form sukuna is killing me 😭😭

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#he’s perplexed #he’s confused #he’s thinking #very hard #about something #he looks so funny #just scratching his head like #hmmm #i can hear his gears turning #LOLL #i’ve been chucking at this for a good 10 minutes #LIKE IDK WHY THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME #😭😭😭 #who fucked up this house like this good GOD #that’s what he’s thinking #scratching his head like he just woke up from a nap confused on what century he’s in #❥fantas blog

[linguisticparadox]

"Jonathan's been at the hospital for six weeks which means he must have gotten there the day after he left Dracula's castle!" I love every one of you dearly but you might wanna reread the August 12 entry before you do any serious theorizing about that:

Sister Agatha says he's been under their care for nearly 6 weeks. Exactly six weeks before August 12 would put him arriving at the hospital on July 1, yeah, but he didn't GET there exactly 6 weeks ago! It was probably a couple of days later!

#shitposts and speculating are fun don't let me stop you I'm just #dracula #dracula daily #original #jonathan harker #not mad btw! just a little. perplexed I guess lmao

[yonpote]

I think I remember u mentioning something about trying to find when dan said bi ppl can say they're gay on stereo, was it 36:55 in box boys? (if im thinking of someone else then ignore this, my apologies)

YES IT WAS ME AND THANK YOU!!!!

including some context cuz it kills

stereo listener: [talk about] shapes in the clouds ☁️☺️☁️

dan: awww ☺️💖 GAAAAYYYYYYYY 🫵😐🌈

#dan and phil #myclips #phan #so evil and for what #and then makes a great point about using the term gay if you want to #and then phil just completely ignores it LMAO they perplex me #dan and phil stereo #box boys

[surreal-duck]

do i even need to caption these anymore you already know the drill

#i dont even want to count the amount of times ive drawn them atp its actually concerning #im very normal about them (extremely obvious lie) #duck scribbles #doodles #midoyuzu #yuzumido #midori takamine #yuzuru fushimi #enstars #ensemble stars #was going to make a 2nd related comic but from yuzurus pov but i ran out of time :'] maybe once im home from the con tmrw #just like to think abt mido probably only approaching him for his art and starting to pay more attention to the person himself after a while #obsessed w them labeled as ''perplexed by'' and ''big fan (+master artist) on each others relationship charts skjdjkgsdhkgdsgh #but like yuzuru said in jingle bells he is a little happy to have one of his juniors that attached to him its so. augh #its nice to see him go from gently turning him down or dodging his requests to humoring him instead and enjoying himself #hell yeah!! go have fun u two #they mean the entire world to me !!!!! #minicomic tag

[ja3yun]

hee's smut for tdh is getting too wild like idk what i was on yesterday but it's filthy...

#i'm ovulating its making me go feral #like i'm rereading it and im just???? perplexed because i never write like that #need to strip it back #its hot as fuck but also enough #ykwim #aj talks #tdh

[eridan-ampora]

#gray.txt #posting the same thing twice but just. that phrasing has me perplexed

[brawltogethernow]

Do you remember when subbers used to get "fancy"? I remember watching a Naruto Fansub and when he used Rasengan the subtitles swelled when he called the attack name. And at least one time they spun too. Some people are just that extra.

It's basically a meme to poke fun at fansubs now, but at the end of the day, while encompassing pretty much the entire spectrum of competence, amateur teams are definitionally going to give more of a shit than professionals actually being compensated for their time. Anyway I had to track down and download the old Lunar fansubs of Ouran because I tried to watch the Funimation ones once and had an allergic reaction to them not matching the fonts of the text on the screen.

...Just opening the episode at the top of the folder to a random point to grab the first decent examples I ran into I was decadently coddled by the subbing team approximately once every three seconds. Why would I NOT want to live like this. EVERYTHING labeled is captioned next to where the text actually is on the screen in the same color and a font with the same vibe as long as there's space to do that legibly. Twists at the ends of sentences with pointed pauses in them fill in when the characters actually say them so you can't read ahead and lose the comedic/dramatic timing. The opening theme has a translation of the lyrics AND a phonetic transliteration, AND the transliteration fills in to full visibility as each syllable is reached like a sing-along video to make it easier to follow along--which wasn't even weird! That was sort of industry standard before faster official releases started outmoding fansubs, except I'm not sure if you can technically call free guerilla translations made by volunteers an industry!

You also got plenty of Millennium Tin Sticks, but it's not like I can watch twenty consecutive minutes of subtitled TV through friends' Crunchyroll subscriptions without hitting at least one moment of "lmao WHY", except those don't even make good memes. They just make me either vaguely concerned about worker conditions or disappointed depending on what flavor of stupid they represent.

#thinking about how well the subs i watched of op's alabasta arc handled the first opening theme playing over the end scene ;A; #thinking about how i'm trying to watch ML with a friend and the only subtitles netflix has are just the dub script................... #asks answered #anonymous #hit undo and tumblr reverted back like 200 edit steps instead of 1 with no redo #and my text cacheer didn't have the latest version because blocks perplex it #so that ordeal gave me some kind of disease of the spirit people get in victorian novels #giftogethernow

[davy-zeppeli]

images of michael nesmith where he looks like he's trying to blow someone up with his mind

#I'm not funny this is just perplexing me #michael casts the spell 'fucking explode you' #mike nesmith #the monkees

[cellgatinbo]

very funny seeing it time and time again, for every character and every arc they go through, when something big and angsty is teased everyone goes "oh once they're out of this they're SO losing their memories. they'll forget all the personal growth they've accomplished and everyone dear to them and it'll be angsty as FUCK 👍" and then they. don't.

#and by very funny i mean. slightly confusing to me #just like every time people just convince themselves it'll happen 100% and i just. don't see it?? #except shoutout bad for actually doing it. like twice i think. based of him #post inspired by my twt tl where i literally saw 10+ posts >in a row< abt fit post trip losing his memories that left me just. perplexed

[redeemingbaddies]

I know this should stop being surprising to me at some point, but do the people crying for us to not ship snarry (or any adult/any minor or aged up character that was once a minor) know how old these ships are? Like, I was shipping Snarry pretty aggressively after ‘The Tea Series’ came out in, IIRC, 2001. For like, the next 20 years all was good until suddenly (and it was suddenly) kids in droves decided morality should apply to all fiction. I still get whiplash from this. Like, do the kids actually think they are going to change my mind? Or are they just having a morality circle jerk with themselves?

Like, I get teen sex is down from when I was in high school. That’s great! But…some of us had great sex in high school too. Like, you can’t pretend like we weren’t screwing in high school, sometimes with college guys. It was not a small number of us either. Most adults I know were banging in high school. Some of us also may have had fantasies about our teachers (LOOK one of my substitute teachers was a Marlboro Man model ten years before he started teaching, you damn right I thought he was fucking hot).

But that’s the fantasy. That’s what we write. You can’t say our experiences are not worthy to translate to fiction. Snape is like my Marlboro Man and Harry is me. This is valid. Every adult had these kinds of fantasies when they were younger (ie: ‘Hot for Teacher’ by Van Halen). And it’s fun to revisit those fantasies in fiction…because that’s where fantasies live. In fiction. Amazing.

Snarry, Snamionie, Snaco, and whatever else, is not going anywhere.

#snarry #otp #rant #I guess #it’s just perplexing to me #I know I’m old #I don’t understand the youth #I’m only in my 30s for Christ’s sake

[sbd-laytall]

Because I'm re-watching the first two seasons of the Dub and then switching to the Sub in the latter two, I get some absolute goldmines for jokes, but I do have to say the whole "Chazz it up" mantra genuinely had me wondering what I was watching because I did not remember this part at all.

#maybe I blocked it from my memory because what the actual hell did I watch #I mean I enjoyed the duel don't get me wrong #but it also felt like I was in a fever dream cause I was just so perplexed #chazz it up #I cannot believe that's an actual tag #chazz princeton #jun manjoume #yugioh #yu gi oh #yu gi oh gx #my post