#this is a joke i am not excited

[balleater]

so what did this mean, matthew :)?

#critical role #ik it was probably just a joke that didnt actually mean anything but #im so excited for Whatever taliesin plays that i am just clinging to any hint i can get

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

Those who don't simply tune out sports related tweets may have noticed an increasing number of distressed posts from Niall about his beloved lifelong football club Derby County and thought "what the hell is going on... oh whatever I don't care enough to look it up." Well that's my bat signal! I am here for you! So here ya go: the club (or team, in american parlance, but it isn't quite the same? but close enough for now) is bankrupt and in serious debt; if they do not find a buyer very soon (like, in the next 2 to 3 weeks), the entire club and team could cease to exist which would be extremely sad for Niall, an entire region of England, and kind of just in general too. Derby County are literally one of the first football teams to exist, like in the world, they were one of the 12 teams who formed the league in which they still play! They shouldn't simply cease to exist just because some shitty capitalists screwed them over!

Anyway back to the fandom, everyone's big question of the moment is: Niall is a rich guy, his favorite team needs a rich guy to step up and buy them, so if he cares so much why doesn't he just do it? The answer is, he's not THAT rich. The net worth of the club (which even in its current very depleted state is, as mentioned above, a big one) is pretty close to Niall’s entire personal net worth, and Derby's cost could be considered quite a lot more if you add in their £83 million of debt. We wouldn’t be a fandom if we didn’t stubbornly believe our faves could do anything at all, but as entertaining as team owner!Niall would be- we’re gonna have to buy a hell of a lot of Heartbreak Weather merch before it’s a realistic option for him.

#I suspect Niall also has no desire to take on the running of a major football club which is a huge deal #and way more than just silent investor stuff but that's a whole other issue #anyway I hope everyone appreciated this (not very) deep dive into the Derby County wiki page #sure sure you say but discourse why do you only ever pop up to post about boring things?? #Well friends that is because if it's exciting probably someone else has made a post about it and I therefore do not need to! #apologies if someone has already made this post but I didn't see it #niall + sports #15 jan 22 #for those being like but louis was going to buy the rovers?? #well they were a hell of a lot cheaper and also it didn't work out #but seriously it looks like they were trying to buy them for 2 million pounds??? I don't feel like doing a whole research on this but wow #that seems very low #also there was the whole business of Louis not being ALLOWED to buy them because he couldn't get some certification from the league #who even knows if Niall could #this post is fucking boring I am this close to simply deleting it #but I've gone to all the trouble might as well post #in like 5 hours I'm going to think of so many funny jokes I could have added :/

[phantangled]

“my child is fine”

your child is emotionally attached to two gay men that flirt on a podcast app twice a week as they wait to move into their forever home but now they’re ACTUALLY moving and your child is upset because there won’t be anymore regular joint content to make them happy

#DISCLAIMER this is a joke and if you don’t like it them please just don’t interact adsfajndj thank you #I’m memeing but I’m also projecting #adsfajndisndkdn #sorry #lmao #I will say again though #I am VERY excited for their future #I will just be momentarily sad #and I can’t wait to see what they get up to #dnp stereo #amazingphil #dan howell #danisnotonfire #dan and phil #phil lester #daniel howell #phan

[fuck-off-im-ace]

Me before starting cr3: So is there anything i need to know before i watch? Do i need to watch campaign 1 and 2 before i watching the third?

Everyone: Nah you're chill, its different stories, you might miss a few jokes but thats it!

Me 10 episodes in:

#what is going oooon #who is jarett #why is Everyone #people keep getting excited for shit and i am confusion!!!? #(ok but for real im joking) #(i dont mind not understanding shit) #(thats what you get for waiting years before starting critical role) #critical role spoilers #cr3 #critical role

[humming-fly]

@atomicpowered​ and i have been having productive conversations again, this time featuring whether or not ed, a country boy from a land-locked, warmongering nation, has ever seen a banana in his life and what he would do if presented with one

Just for fun here’s that original convo:

#i finished the sketch for this and was going to post it before deciding No i am going to overdo this shitty shitty joke for no good reason #i haven't had a lot to do these past few weeks let me have this #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #edward elric #ling yao #comic #my art #doodles #atomicpowered #honestly ling would probably be laughing his ass off i just wanted to draw this expression #i got a professional tarot reading to see how this shitpost would turn out and the answer was justice reversed #so i'm excited to see what that means

[sparring-spirals]

So I’ve been slowly losing my mind the whole day, over how Laura Bailey keeps managing to craft these fantastically morally complex characters.

tl;dr: both Imogen and Jester have backstories and context that leave them (or could leave them) with ,,, lets say, loosey goosey moral systems, and both of them handle it and react differently, and I love them both, and I am so excited for Imogen and her instincts and the way she fights them, y’all.

It got... long. Tossing a read more here.

Jester morality is always one of my favorite things, okay. Jester is sweet and kind and loves to make people happy and make them laugh and also she is fine with wiping peoples memories and occasionally doing mild-to-moderately-terrible things if its funny enough, and who is absolutely cold and ruthless if push comes to shove for the things she cares about. Jester grew up with a fey as her best friend and it shows. And through C2, she grows, and changes- but for the most part, that grey morality is extremely Jester, and stays that way and I love her for it. She never feels bad about how she processes the world- or not for the most part. Maybe when people she could be hurting are right in front of her, maybe when things are dark but overall? She believes in her choices. She sticks to them. She’s Jester Lavorre, she loves her friends and family and will kill for them, she’s spreading chaos, and she’s very funny and talented and good at pranks. That’s all.

But Imogen-

Look, we don’t know Imogen yet, so this is all technically conjecture. I’m just going to say that Imogen is kind of a constant ball of nerves (rightfully so), and not always great at lying, and very polite, and I love her-.

(As an aside- my god, hearing other peoples thoughts constantly, like an overpowering wave, deafened by crowds, constantly privy to peoples secrets whether they want you to be or not? The implications! The angst! The character potential!)

And-

Imogen has absolutely zero hesitation about lying, Imogen lies to shopkeepers to get information, Imogen pulls Dorian in and lies to two guards about getting ~too noisy hehe~ with a dead body behind her. Imogen makes a casual offer to pull one over Lord Eshteross.

Imogen has very, very few moral qualms about listening to people’s thoughts- for haggling, for information- even with the pain as the cost, Imogen doesn’t ever really show guilt for listening to the minds of others, speaking into the minds of others, she doesn’t really apologize for what is, arguably, an absolutely incredible breach of privacy.

(But would she see it that way? After who knows how long of being deluged and tortured by the weight of a thousand strangers thoughts that she doesn’t want to hear- does it even register like that to her anymore? She must know so much about how people think and operate and feel. She must be at least a little numb to it.)

And-

She’s so apologetic. She’s so unsure. She’s withdrawn and nervous and she apologizes for when the crowds are too much and she can’t push through the noise and she apologizes for pulling Dorian in if he wasn’t ready (not being considerate, she says). She is unfailingly polite, consistently second guessing, and- if my instincts are anywhere near correct-

guilty.  Guilty, or at the very least warring. There’s an instinct there- there’s something there, that drives that, that makes her first tools a little terrifying, a little unthinking, and then there’s a catch- there’s her reviewing her actions after, doling out apologies, holding that regret. Fixing her mistakes. Addressing them.

and I am so curious about that conflict. Imogen is full of so much turmoil and complexity. She’s holding on to so much and holding herself in check and fighting herself and her past and idk, probably a red storm AT LEAST, and I am absolutely pumped to see this conflict unravel, I want to Know. 

How does Laura Bailey do this. How.

edit: this is unexpectedly picking up some traction again, so if you're Feelin This, might I also offer this meta :D

#critical role #cr spoilers #c3e3 #c3 #imogen temult #character meta #wow this got VERY long I got very excited I apologize #jester lavorre #I love discussing jester morality so much. I wouldve linked some of yferes pieces in here if I could figure out a good way to weave them #and now... Imogen... SHE IS SO FULL OF POTENTIAL... I AM SO EXCITED..... #Ive been thinking about this nonstop the whole day #thinking about the soft tone and the jokes and the apologies and the lying and the SECRETS and oh my god how laudna plays into this? #and the pain day in and day out from the whispering.... how that factors into everything else.... I'm just *waves arms wildly* #im right back on my bullshit aka random meta word dumps with little warning #feels great :*) #imogen #imogen meta #my meta #i added the meta i always think about for jesters morality #i couldnt resist

[fandomcentralsposts]

shhhh do you hear that?! its the it fandom rising from the dead after a pennywise backstory TV show called Welcome To Derry was announced 😃

#no joke i am so excited #i joined the fandom really late everyone had already left 🧍‍♀️ #it 2017 #it #it chapter 2 #it 1986 #welcome to derry #pennywise #bill denbrough #stanley uris #mike hanlon #beverly marsh #ben hanscom #eddie kaspbrak #richie tozier #reddie #bill skarsgård #hbo max

[polygondotcomvideoproducer]

The sexual tension between that one sontaran and the other sontaran,,, damm

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #i cannot stress enough that i am joking #however ''damn dude u look uglier you're all fucked up from battle probably'' yeah that's for sure how a sontaran would flirt #''honestly dude I'm excited for the end of the universe'' *does some weird tongue shit

[nimblelizard]

Brennan this Brennan that, yeah yeah I get it, some random DM gonna be on CR. But where is the hype for thee Alexander Ward?!

#this is very much a joke everyone #i know who Brennan is #i love d20 lol #i am just amazed that i will get to see both of them #i also saw someone say that Brennan and Sam are gonna be a force of chaos and its true #cr spoilers #critical role #dimension 20 #brennan lee mulligan #alexander ward #alex ward #i also have not watched any content with Krystina so i am very excited for that

[heartkeys]

everybody: reacting to how you can get chased and attacked by aggressive Pokemon in Legends: Arceus

me, a Ranger fan: first time?

#this is a joke post #i just vividly remember being full-body tackled by Piloswine and pushed off cliffs by falling Golem #pokemon legends #pokemon ranger #if there's not a Golem rockslide in Legends while mountain-climbing it'll be a missed opportunity #and breathing in/taking damage from koffing's poison gas in the sewers...and having your party Pokemon possessed by ghost types... #those games were harsh lmao #but i really am excited to see the ways we can interact with Pokemon (in a main series game) being expanded upon like this #and i'm really looking forward to the surveyor/researcher angle! #pokemon #mine

[neoheros]

NEOHEROS & COOPHI 2021 SUMMER HAIKYU! WRITING CONTEST.

— hey everyone !! as promised, my dear friend @coophi and i have decided to host a haikyuu writing contest ! it is open to everyone, and whilst it is called a contest, this is in no means to put any fics and pieces done or submitted down !!

GUIDELINES :

— deadline is september 30, 2021.

— must be in relation to the prompts : married under 25 / neighbors to lovers ! chelsea and i have decided to celebrate our most popular tropes this way so we hope that you find fun in it too !!

— mention anywhere in the post that it is for the summer contest AND please tag me ( @neoheros ) and OR chelsea ( @coophi ) !!

— no word limit ! as long as you’re writing for the prop or tagging us in it, you can write it for as long as you like <3

PRIZES :

— a panel of judges will be helping chelsea and i pick the winners, i assure you it’ll be a fair and thought out judgement, and whilst we will acknowledge winners, this, in no way, implies that anyone who participated has failed.

( it’s very hard to fail when you write something you’re proud of. )

1ST PLACE PRIZE — Fanart of a scene in the fic written and submitted, 1 Year Free Spotify Premium, 2k word x reader fic of your choice written by me !

FIRST PLACE — TO START A YEAR BY @whistlingwillows

2ND PLACE PRIZE — Fanart of the character in the fic written and submitted, 1k+ word x reader fic of your choice written by me :>

SECOND PLACE — 1:02 AM BY @yutari

3RD PLACE PRIZE — 1k word x reader fic of your choice written by me, Short x reader fic of your choice written by @coophi !!

THIRD PLACE — AFTER DARK BY @snailfinger

JUDGING :

— a very gorgeous thank you to the judges whom i trust and respect and without would never let this happen !!

@tisalovestory @tsukishumai @kageyuji @mattsvn @karasimpno @amjustagirl

— i love love LOVE all of you to bits, and i cannot say thank you enough for having done this for us.

— the criteria of judging was left to everyone’s personal taste as a writer and a reader’s pallet is never distinguishable. please trust their judging as much as i did for they have taken their time to read and discern to each one of the entries.

FINALITIES

— i am so sorry this took longer than anticipated.

the judging took the longest time since everyone was busy with their own thing and it was a very long list of entries but still — i very much apologize for it only being posted now, and i am so so grateful to everyone who participated and took the time to write for the contest.

that is something i can never put a place on. as far as i’m concerned, everyone did so well and are all deserving of attention. i am very glad.

dated : august 16, 2021 — october 31, 2021

happy writing and we are very thrilled to read and reread all of your entries !! please and thank you !!!!! <3

#C/R_HQ!CONTEST #HERE IT IS AHH #REBLOGS R APPRECIATED OMG #ok i am very excited for this #and also very nervous #if this flops #i will walk into an ocean #JOKE IM JOKING #BUT CHELSEA AND I HAVE PLANNED THIS FOR FOREEVER AND I JUST #HAPPY #x reader #fluff #angst #imagines #haikyuu #haikyuu x reader #haikyuu imagines #haikyuu scenarios #hq!! #haikyuu headcanons #haikyuu masterlist #haikyuu writing contest #haikyuu contest #writing contest #haikyuu drabbles #haikyuu blurbs #haikyuu soft hours #haikyuu songfics #neighbors to lovers #married under 25

[gabreig]

Some person (maybe me):  I'm only watching Dune for that hot guy.

Other person (maybe my mother): Oh yeah, Timothee Chalamet, rigth?

Me: Yes...the age approriate, conventionally attractive man...DEFINITELY NOT...

#dune 2020 #dune #oscar isaac #duke leto atreides #timothee chamalet #this is not a joke #this shit really happend to me after i watched the trailer #my mom thougth that i was in love with Timothee and it was for him that i was excited...little she know that her son has a dilf attraction #after i said that it was not him...she googled the cast and named every actor in the list #and she insisted so much that i finally said who was and she was a little dissapointed...not gonna lie. #it's probably because he looks old (but sexy af) #the only lie here is that i'm not only watching the movie for him #i am a Denis fanboy and i'm really excited for that before i discovered how good Oscar Isaac is

[thunderon]

ianthe appears at the tail end of nona just to give her most batshit speech to date, and then later we'll open alecto to find out it was all foreshadowing for a big event and our collective tits are blown clean off

1) perfect phrasing there

2) tamsyn muir i know it’s you so just come off anon

#asks #jokes aside i am VERY excited for more ianthe content #i think she should get more villain monologues #as a treat #some of her speeches go so hard tho #im listening to the audiobooks for the first time ever and im excited to get to gtn chap 34 #the locked tomb

[doodlebloo]

Btw you will not catch me doomposting here. Forced improv is never ever good improv. If the ccs are up for roleplay they will do it, if they aren't or are busy they won't. I don't want any of them to put their huge plans on hold in order to log onto Minecraft. I have faith lore will come back bc I trust the ccs' word, if that takes until next year or longer, so be it - I will be here waiting and enjoying all the content they make in the meantime.

#/nm and not a dig at anyone specific - if you want to doompost you do you (though i do wish there was a tag for it) #but i am perfectly content being patient. like seriously they are BUSY. doing things that make them happy. #i will talk abt missing lore and i dont mind getting nostalgic/reminiscing at all but like #i will not doompost and HEY ALSO? #this has only happened a handfull of times but IF YOU WANT TO DOOMPOST KEEP IT ON YOUR OWN POSTS jeez #if i make a post like omg when lore comes back I'll be so excited do not go under it and be like actually it never will or smth??? #even if ur joking bc if we arent mutuals i wont know that ur joking so like #everyone (bc again i have no one specific in mind) doompost Over There and ill stay over here smile :) #doodle.txt

[drunkenfauvist]

me for the next 48 hours

#who am i joking i never stopped talking about mitski and i never. will. #mitski #mitski miyawaki #guys i’m so fucking excited #i have alarms set bc it comes out at midnight in my time zone #which i think is the most appropriate time to listen to new mitski music tbh

[meichenxi]

I present before the court this offering, allowing myself to be humbled shamed schooled humiliated brought down a peg etc etc in the hope that this time next year I can look back on it and create a really intensely very cool progress video...you also get to see what my constant internal monologue is like. it’s. it’s exhausting lmao. 

This is my fifth day in Korea, and about the second week of me studying Korean with Lingodeer. I made some noise about starting Korean way earlier than that in February but basically never did, so let’s say this is...two weeks in? 

Again, as we know, weeks don’t count. Days don’t count. It’s hours that do. Tragically however I have not followed by own advice and keep forgetting to use Polylogger to track the time spent - I doubt it’s more than 10 hours though since I’ve primarily been using the app.

Anyway. However long I’ve been learning, it’s early enough that it’s kind of shit and kind of embarrassing. But that’s one of the reasons I think that I’m posting it - I follow a few really big langblrs, and whenever they come into my orbit I sort of kneel down and weep bitterly in awe. But we’re all just nerds who like languages and occasionally post about it. I think it’s wonderful that people have been posting things more as beginners in a language, and I hope that we can do that for audio too!! Sure, it’s embarrassing! But that’s ok - we’ll get better! I hope that langblr can be a place to share the journey and encourage each other in things we are just starting out in too.

So posting this, here’s a little challenge to all the beloved langblrs on here: Have you just started a new language? Would you like to share some speaking as a starting point, maybe to come back to some time from now and see how far you’ve come? Tag me - I want to hear!!

---

In this snippet I say the five (5) sentences I can currently usefully say (’the dog has an apple’ does not count), as well as some live practice with Lingodeer. 

I know grammar and vocabulary will improve - that’s a given. My reading is also quite slow even for words that are not new, and that will improve without question too. But I’m mainly curious to see how much my accent and intonation will improve with immersion over the course of a year. Listening back, I can hear what some differences are between my intonation / stress patterns and those of the Lingodeer man - I can hear some places already where I’m going wrong (the stress on issumnida and related words I feel needs to be either on the second syllable or more distributed - either way not so much on the first. And particles I have zero idea how to stress). Others will exist that I can’t hear at the moment. I hope that that conscious linguistic awareness will grow and improve, but I also hope it will eventually marry up with more subconscious intuition. To go from ‘Oh, my mouth should be doing this - let me just -’ *wrestles with mouth* to ‘Wait, my mouth is doing this? Oh. Cool’. 

I hope this snippet also makes it clear that whenever I’m using something like Lingodeer, I may not be speaking usually, but it’s still fairly active study. I’m constantly going - ok, wait, how are these two sounds pronounced together? What’s the stress doing? Why do I sound wrong? Is this sound more palatalised/rounded/aspirated in this context? When are things voiced more or less? How are words pronounced differently in isolation when read in word lists and in the middle of a sentence? Language is an endless source of data and I plan to mine everything I can :)))))

Thank you guys for bearing with me, and I hope to reblog this with a much more interesting version in a year! Fighting~

- 梅晨曦

#korean #langblr #korean langblr #learn korean #studyblr #GOD I sound so posh #mumble mumble class identity is difficult mumble mumble #also to be clear: I'm not looking for corrections though you can if you want #I just want to post this as a Before thing. I know I'll get better in time #but yeah those of you who speak korean and are used to seeing me infodump about linguistics or chinese: #now is your time to laugh #hoho! heehee! #I'm joking I am actually not embarrassed at all lmao I've just started. #we don't?? expect brilliance?? the first day?? #and I am VERY excited to leave quarantine and test my I DON'T SPEAK KOREAN on some hapless bystanders on the street #I had some thoughts on my personal blog about today so I'll cross-post them here #they're relevant to being a beginner in the language