#trick question they are one and the same

[okmcintyre]

#the 100 #raven reyes #making our way through t100 #this one is almost a trick question #bc she's always saving the day with her 🧠 #but ALL THE SAME #lol #which is your fave? #the100 #poll #polls #pollskt

[phoenixyfriend]

[struggles with the feeling that my plots are getting stale and repetitive, with minimal variation in plot concept or execution, beyond the absolute surface level]

#do I have a brand or am I a one-trick pony? the questions that keep a girl up at night #I feel like I keep doing the same basic structure with slightly varied sets of characters #which is like. It's not necessarily bad but it does feel uncomfortably stuck-in-my-ways #and like I need to work on building more variety into my writing #phoenix babbles

[nakanotamu]

#Stardom #Fukigen Death #shot from a pro wrestling or a pretentious one act play? Trick question they are the same

[its-wabby-stuff]

I don’t think a fight is the best time to flirt

Have some Leosagi:

Usagi swipes at my feet, I narrowly avoid it, jumping over his leg and flipping around, casually trying to find my balance again. “Already trying to sweep me off my feet, aren’t we going a little fast?”

“You’re an idiot.” He charged forward with his sword, but I could see him smile, soft. Like he was enjoying it.

“Is the fighting really necessary?” I parried, my two swords to his one. “What if we just talked it out, perhaps over dinner?”

“Are you asking me out?”

“Are you saying yes?”

Usagi’s ears perked up then dropped to the sides of his face as he looked away.

“My turn.”

“What?” I swept at his feet and he fell on his back.

“Falling for me yet?” I smirked. Leaning on my sword and looking down on him.

Usagi groaned, a little tsked off, perhaps his ego a little bruised. I open a never ending portal and watch as he slips into the blue portal below him, again and again- and again. “How about now?”

“Get. me. off. this. ride.” He spoke between the waves of portal hums.

“As you wish.” I closed the portal and jumped under to catch him, bridal style. “Hey,” I smirked.

He just stared at me. With those big, round, blue rabbit eyes. I got lost before he pushed himself off me and walked away, covering his face with his ears. “Hey wait comeback!” I laughed. He was so flustered. I picked his sword off the ground. “Cinderella you dropped your sword!” He didn’t turn around. “Fear not I shall search far and wide to return it to you.” That got him to stop.

Usagi turned around, combing his ears back in place with his hand and walking toward me. I took a tiny step back, in case it was a trick. “Do you have a bandaid?”

“What?”

He couldn’t even look me in the eye. “I scraped my knee- falling for you,” he mumbled.

It caught me off guard for a second. “Ohoho, what was that?”

He took his sword back and pulled away, pushing something into my chest. My hand brushed his for a moment. “See you around,” and just like that he hopped away. What had we even been fighting about? I couldn’t remember.

“WAS THAT A PICK UP LINE!?” I yelled after him, “We’re you flirting with me!?” I laughed, almost wanting to chase after him.

I opened the slip of paper he had pushed into my hand. There was a number. A phone number. “Oh mi gosh. It worked.”

#ultimate rizz #Spiderman hey #technically neither of them blush #but I like to think Usagi is the more flustered one #rabbits fur would prevent the blush from being seen #and Turtles are cold blooded meaning blood doesn’t rush #they have the same love language #cheesy puns and pick up lines #sword bros #leosagi #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #wabbystuffpost #rise leo #tmnt #Leonardo and Usagi #the real question #would Leo trust the phone number #maybe it’s a trick #or maybe it’s not #don’t worry Usagi will get more confident for sure #leo is gay #I like to think he’s bi just given his nature #Leo is bisexual

[todayisafridaynight]

Okay I know Ichi’s crazy hair is what makes us smile and go absolutely insane… but when I see him with his punch perm I forget how to breathe. 🥵

HE IS VERY HANDSOME WITH HIS PUNCH PERM THAT A VALID REACTION TO HAVE

#snap chats #ichi's always handsome..... trick question lol.... #see i say ichi has no game And I'm Right but he is a very handsome and attractive fellow #i still stand that playing in english dub is dangerous for me cause SOMETIMES tang hit us with That Tone that got me unwise 🥴 #but crying cause when my friend saw his punch perm was gone she was like :( but he looked so hot with it :( #OK HE'S STILL HOT ?? nerd. #naw she still think that we just started chapter 7 the other night and when ichi was shirtless for chapter 6 she was just #'can he stay that way all the time. he's hot :)' like girl if you dont RELAX #frame one she saw saeko and she was like 'oh she's hot' like we get it if it breathes you'll fuck it #when she buttdialed her friend she literally opened with 'oh you look handsome today' AND HER FRIEND RIGHTFULLY WAS JSUT #'??? OK??' like no joseph its ok she does the same shit to me too like RELAX GIRL #ok im just rambling at this point Bye. stan ichiban where's his statue i wanna see how pale it's gonna be

[quarterprioritymidnight]

one of my favourite hobbies has to be pretending to be suprised every time i meet a new person and it turns out ive been to the same bastille gig as them, as if i don't follow that band around europe like its my full time job ❤️

#personal #nah i think its cute when i say my favourite bands bastille and people are like oh i saw them at such and such #and then i have to be like omg no way i was at that gig too 😲 #like if you went to the bbx tour theres a one in three chance we were at the same show or something #like the person at ally pally on sunday who was like oh i was at the kew show :) #trick question i was also there hello

[verygoodcomments]

oh yes on the topic of submissions...

i had one from someone in my inbox from YONKS ago that tumblr is not letting me post for some reason. that person also sent me an ask about whether i could provide links to the videos/places i found the comments on (i would just answer their ask but it explicitly references their submission which, again, tumblr won't let me post... and also it was from ages ago) so let me answer that here

unless i think that mentioning the source amplifies the comment, or provides some humorous context, i usually don't do that as a general rule. if someone asks for the comment source and i still remember what it was, i'll tell them, but i don't tend to mention it explicitly on the post itself

i don't tend to redact pfps or usernames (to give some form of credit to the authors of the comments, sometimes they make the comment better, they're already public on the internet & usually posted on videos by youtubers exponentially more popular than my blog & usually post obscure comments i had to scroll for quite a while to find anyway, it's fun when someone recognizes their own username, etc etc), so this is an alternate method of security against people trying to be weirdos to the featured commenters. most of my posts come from youtube, which doesn't even have a direct messaging system anymore, which is simultaneously why i feel fairly comfortable leaving pfps/usernames unredacted on these comments and why i feel it's better if i try not to provide TOO many context hints at least in the actual text of the post. just on the off chance some bitter weirdo wants to try being a bitter weirdo, you know? and if someone goes all the way out of their way to try and track these comments down explicitly to bully these people, then at this point, it kinda seems like redacting that stuff wouldn't have helped anyway. while i definitely do not condone harassing anyone from here, i also... don't think it'd exactly be My fault there, and entirely the fault of this hypothetical extremely brainrotted rando. this has, to my knowledge, never once happened, but just putting that out there

i do give little hints or context notes in the tags on occasion, under the general assumption that anyone following this blog knows that this is a place of comment appreciation, an art gallery of Internet Humans. usually it only extends to mentioning the youtuber or what type of video it was, but as a general statement. this is the other part of my philosophy here: i enjoy hunting for comments as a sort of peoplewatching-esque hobby and i think other people should try it out (so long as they have the self-restraint to NOT reply to people even if they make you mad. it's never worth it man.). i also think it'd be a fun treat for someone to only get a hint, figure out what video it was, and then go on their own hunt and see the comments in the wild. i often skip over Loads that don't quite make the cut so you'll probably find something else fun in there

does that make sense? it does to me. anyway if anyone ever wants to know where i found a comment just ask and i'll tell you, so long as i remember. fair warning, the older the post the comment is on, the more likely i am to have forgotten what specific video it was. i usually at least have a vague idea of the original poster and/or the content/topic of the video but sometimes i don't

#not comments #i can tell you right now anything 2021 or earlier was very likely from someone in the drew gooden/danny gonzalez commentary youtuber bubble #contemporaneously and as per my personal taste at the time: drew/danny/cody ko/eddy burback/maybe jarvis johnson? #never really been into kurtis's style so idk if there's anything from him on here #i watched jarvis back then the question mark pertains mostly to whether any of the comments came from his videos #danny has Loads of videos more subs and an audience that skews younger than the rest #(because his style of humor is more accessible/appealing to a wider audience than say drew's extremely dry humor) #(and also he's got a young face. people constantly comment stuff like 'i forget he isn't 16 until he mentions his wife') #so most of my posts are likely from a danny video somewhere #the hamster with a handgun was from his video titled something like DOGS ARE CANCELLED #there were approximately 500 other comments making that exact same joke but the hamster one was the funniest imo #i don't even care if it was a piggyback comment. '31 warning shots directly into his stomach' was leagues ahead of the rest #anyway. there's my tip and trick if you're curious about older posts #there are exceptions and anytjing 2022 and beyond is more ambiguous #cause my posts were more sporadic i think because video essays were getting more popular & i don't find as many postable comments on those #but i was and am addicted to them #so rather than being able to say 'oh probably a commentary youtuber it was all i was watching' the really good comments are like #'ummm... hmmm... well this one was on some random how it's made video... this was a minecraft video... this was jerma...' #anyway. i have gotten distracted. need to go do some non-comment writing. some big boy writing

[fragmentedblade]

Just how big was Teng Xiao if Cirrus calls Jing Yuan a "lightweight"???

#I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #I guess they don't mean it physically and more in countenance given the insults they direct to Jing Yuan #but that was my first thought lmao #I keep forgetting people here don't age so I always picture the masters old or at least like Gongshu aesthetically #so this line made me reconsider how Teng Xiao may have looked like #I always think of him‚ Fu Xuan's master and Huaiyan‚ for example‚ as old(ish) people #until the reminder of how they don't age hits me on the temple with a pan lol #The one time I saw Huaiyan art it took me a moment to place who that pretty man was because it wasn't anything like I pictured him #And then the idea that he could actually look like that even nowadays dawned on me like a punch. Same thing happened with Fu Xuan's master #Yet even after the punches I keep forgetting after two days and go on to think of them as rather old looking #only to be hit with the realisation again at some other time. Like right now xD #Super funny that he just pushes the fight on us. In line with his 'okay but why do I have to deal with this? This spark isn't even worth it #And then he pulls the 'if you lose you must answer one question without lies or tricks'. The same guy who can't be named in front of #the prisoner who collaborates with the interrogations of the Ten Lords Commission and that has a few free days yearly #This is so his way of doing things and god I love him so much for it #Odysseu.s-adjacent kind of character. A scoundrel truly in many regards‚ Fu Xuan was so right. I love him so. He should have been my fave 😔 #Cirrus talked about chessboard‚ pieces and pawns. I love how Jing Yuan's opponents keep talking in chess metaphors #And how he manauvers conflict and his moves in a similar fashion yet how he draws a clear line between real conflict and a chess match #when asked if war is truly similar to a xiangqi game #Ahfksjkd I love him sooo much haha

[nostalgia-tblr]

I realised that the 10k words that I currently have is likely a much smaller fraction of the hypothetical completed work than I thought it was going to be and I told myself I shouldn't take anything out because it all seems to be fitting together fairly neatly BUT I am def starting to have my doubts about the value of "the scene where the two male characters discuss whether the female character (who is not in this scene) should be breastfeeding the baby that she just had with one of those men (but she's been passing it off as the other one's)" because WTF that sounds AWFUL and I think I only put it in there because I was all YAY I'M JUST GONNA WRITE ABOUT MEDIEVAL QUEENS (KIND OF!!!) and there was that whole Thing in monarchies where you have to get a wetnurse in because breastfeeding reduces fertility and your shitty husband needs AT LEAST another couple of boys what with infant mortality being what it was in them days. And for some reason (probably sleep-deprivation TBQH) I at some point thought that it wouid be a good thing to put into an MCU fic???

#wip tag #now that i type this out it has become both worse AND funnier to me so who knows what i will decide to do with it in the end #i also remembered that this entire adventure into whatever the heck i am actually making now is because i realised that two famous queens #i forget which ones OBVIOUSLY #were famous for pulling off the same feat #which is 1) pop out at least one boy #2) outlive your shitty husband #and 3) your child-king son is now basically your talking puppet and you run a country now you go girl yas queen slay etc etc etc #i think one might have been catherine di medici? and... possibly margaret beaufort? (i know henry wasn't a kid at the time but yk) #POSSIBLY one was Empress Cixi? aka the one non-European more-or-less-queen that I know anything about #but anyway yes the trick here is to have a royal son and then refuse to ever die #elizabeth woodville has to be an Honourary Mention because she COULD have done it as well #had her brother-in-law not realised she was about to do that and kidnapped usurped and then probably-murdered the boy in question #Henry VIII's famous gang of queens all failed to meet at least one of the requirements :( #anyway hello some years ago i started reading books about famous dead queens and now what have i become??? #BTW monarchies are a terrible idea #just scrolled up to see wtf i am typing this stuff under oh yeah it's the post about the lactation debate scene oh noooo #gonna... gonna hit post now while i still can #the Sylki AU that got longer and wronger

[enjelinheaven]

im actually so stoked about the theory about kusanali actually being rukkhadevata turned out to be true.

it adds such an interesting conflict to the story.

but it also makes me feel so bad for nahida because it seems like she doesn't even know that she is greater lord rukkhadevata.

the sun and moon symbolism is so interesting though, when nahida mentions that the sun is long gone and that the moon is all that remains, it kind of directly implies what we know now -> the moon is a reflection of the sun. while they are not the same body, they glow from the same light :)

i'm still speculating on what "world forget me" is all about however. i feel like we're missing some words where the ellipses are. part of me wants to say that it may actually be the words of the scarlet king, referring to the radical followers under his name but now that theyve switched sides thats been debunked. AHH THERE'S SO MUCH WE DON'T KNOW YET!!

#the subtlest foreshadowing at the beginning with the statue of the seven too #when paimon said which one do you think the statue is of #TRICK QUESTION ITS THE SAME BITCH #also the hint that cyno may be a descendant of the high priest from the cutscene is p cool #genshin impact #genshin impact 3.1 #kusanali

[microwaved-cheese-sandwich]

I also have an internal monologue constantly but it's like talking to another person. I mean I'm talking to myself but as if it was another person. So I also think/say "you have to do this", "please be calm", etc .

I thought it was what everyone does... isn't it?

sometimes! peoples thought streams are all different. many people think in first person, some in second or even third; usually ppl use different perspectives at different times. lots of thoughts aren't words at all, just a flow of feelings and concepts. personally I often talk to myself in second person. I also sometimes use 'we', referring to myself as speaker and listener. how and why this kind of thing happens, and how common it is, is probably beyond my expertise. but i promise you are not weird for it lol

#it brings up some interesting questions about how we conceive of the self in different scenarios #maybe sometimes its easier to use 'you' because conceiving of oneself as a different entity makes it easier to put things in perspective #or give orders or make observations yanno. we often give other people's thoughts more credence than our own so its a pretty neat trick to #pull on yourself i would say #same/similar thing with 'we' #i use it cause it makes me feel less lonely which is depressing i know #but also we give the thoughts of collectives/groups more weight than those of one person so its also useful for making judgements #internal monologues are so so interesting #i could talk about the way i think for a very long time which is lowkey narcissistic but i havent exactly been in anyone elses head so #some people dont have a discrete internal monologue; its like just a flow of concepts and impulse #sometimes thoughts can be chains of interconnected memories images and sensations esp for neurodivergent ppl #for me my clearest thoughts/emotions are tactile/proprioceptive impressions of shape and movement that i then have to pick up and examine t #understand what they mean exactly #like ohhh this thing made me feel *hands smoothing on the underside of a round smooth cold stone structure with weird amounts of affection #and the tensing that indicates they are getting ready to lift* #like what does THAT mean #anyway that was a very long tangent #you are normal. everyone is different. brains are cool. end of story #autism squeaks

[whorenerdking]

I’m going to have an aneurism if she keeps talking to me

#literally like #she’s the one that’s like ‘I need to focus on this so no distractions!’ #and then she won’t shut the fuck up #constantly talking to me about the same shit over and over again #and then getting pissy with me when I don’t respond in a timely manner #or like she goes ‘you just ignore me half the time don’t you?’ #AND ITS A TRICK QUESTION #cause if I say yes #because yes I am ignoring her #if I say yes she gets pissed off at me #so I have to be like ‘no you’re fine don’t worry about it’ #and half the time THAT doesn’t even work #I swear interacting with her is like diffusing a bomb #except there’s no correct wire to cut

[normiewizard]

i work at a preschool and the 4 year old girls are super into bringing me various woodchip foods to eat and then yelling POISON! at me when i pretend to eat them and im just like. they dont know i run a wizard blog

#we are the same + time is a flat circle + the nature of humanity is to reinvent playground games #i encourage them too much maybe because i ask them all about what kind of poison it is and what ailments i have now and what other potions #they can make #so far theyre really into feeding me potion of traps me in a marshmellow cave. cause i told them i didnt want to play pretend jail anymore #i have also asked them why they would want to poison me :(( but so far they have just ignored that question #but as their 'we just discovered lying and its awesome' games go this is my favorite #it is way more fun than 'guess what i have in this baby shaped wad of blanket' 'is it a baby?' 'no!' ' are you sure? because last time you #said that it was definitely still a baby.' 'no its really not a baby!' 'okayy is it a (not baby) (x27)' 'no!!' 'i give up what is it!!!' #'ITS A BABY!!! WE TRICKED YOU!!!!' #that one got old soooo fast and then they were so offended when i was like i dont want to keep playing this game if you're gonna trick me #+ you gotta encourage them to play with eachother instead of just talking to adults. but the poison game is communal.

[midnight-rot]

Thinking about Vanny getting carried away and biting William a little too high up on his neck so he's stuck with this nasty bite mark that sticks out from his collar just enough to be noticeable

#absolute agony #and its so dark on his pasty ass skin #he gets marked up so bad actually honestly #new game called animal attack or sex with Vanny #thats a trick question actually cuz they're basically one in the same #rotten text

[luffia]

now, will I try a different class / gender / alignment or will I just agonise over the character creation screen for half an hour before inevitably doing the same thing I always do?

#mass effect #lux plays mele #trick question: I’m literally gonna do the same thing I do every time #femshep earthborn vanguard baby #I HAVE played other classes / alignments ok #I just rlly love this one style of play!!!!

[spandexbutterfly4lyfe]

Okay I’m currently furious that migraines are often so blindly easy to treat and I had to find this out myself at the age of 26 when I’ve been to a neurologist since I was 11 lol so I’m about to teach you two neat and fast little tricks to deal with pain!

The first is the sternocleidomastoid muscle, or the SCM muscle.

This big red section is responsible for pain around the eye, cheekbone, and jaw, as well as some temple pain. Literally all you have to do is angle your head down a little, angle it away from the side that hurts, and then you can gently pinch and rub that muscle. I find it best to start at the bottom and travel upwards. The relief is so immediate! You can increase pressure as you feel comfortable doing so.

Here is a short and easy video showing this in action

The second is a fast and easy stretch that soothes your vagus nerve, which is the nerve responsible for calming you down. The vagus nerve, for those unfamiliar, is stimulated by deep breathing such as yawning, sighing, singing, or taking a deep breath to calm your anger in a tense situation.

You can stretch this out by sitting up as straight as possible (this does not have to be perfect to work) and interlacing your fingers. Put your hands on the back of your head with your thumbs going down the sides of your neck and, while keeping your face forward, look all the way to one side with just your eyes. Hold that until you feel the urge to breathe deeply or yawn, or until you can tell there’s a change. Then do the same thing on the other side. When you put your arms down, you should clearly be able to turn your head farther in both directions. If the first session doesn’t get rid of your migraine, rest and repeat as many times as necessary. I even get a little fancy with it and roll my eyes up and down along the outer edge sometimes to stretch as much as I can.

If you need a visual here’s a good video on it. I know some of the language they use seems questionable but this is real and simple science and should not be discarded because it’s been adopted by the trendy wellness crowd!

I seriously cannot believe I didn’t hear a word of this from any doctor in my life. Additionally, if you get frequent recurring migraines, you may want to see a dietician. Migraines can be caused by foods containing histamines, lectin, etc. and can also be caused by high blood pressure in specific situations such as exercise, stress, and even sex.

If any of this information helps you I’d love to hear it btw! It’s so so fast and easy to do. Good luck!

#migraines #migraine symptoms #disability #disability stuff #disability pride