#when it works

[snootlestheangel]

hello! i would love some brain rot for these :)

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gazalex🪐

Don't know why this took so long so uh yeah

Intended to actually write something but the draft didn't save from last night so I basically gave up 😅

For 🎮 I've been watching a shit ton of Lethal Company gameplay. Definitely love the amount of chaos and comedy that comes out of that game.

Just picturing Gaz talking to Soap on the very first run they're making, and Gaz doesn't realize there's a gap, so he just walks off the edge and dies. It goes immediately to spectating Soap, who is fucking cackling with laughter. Ghost and Alex came in late (Ghost was having tech problems and Alex needed to adjust some settings) and they're so confused when Soap rounds the corner just cackling. Gaz is in tears from a combination of embarrassment (cause of course he fell again) and genuine comedy.

Gaz just waking through the halls of the buildings and randomly hearing snippets of Ghost talking to himself and saying increasingly concerning things. Gaz just hears Ghost muttering "you wanna fuckin' square up, mate?" Only to turn the corner and see Ghost doing the dance in front of a loot bug holding a bell.

Soap and Alex start screaming and Gaz turns around just in time to see Soap step on a landmine and kill both of them. Ghost started laughing so hard he choked.

Gaz standing with Soap and hearing Alex from somewhere close by go "ew his legs are out". They hear the music box winding and Ghost just asks if they should be concerned. Alex just giggling "he's winding himself, gross" and then the sound of the Jester activating and killing Alex instantly. Ghost actually ends up screaming and running past them. They get team wiped by the first Jester they encounter.

Literally all of them losing their shit when Gaz inevitably falls off the map. It happens way too much and it's still funny every time it happens.

Soap just going full Scots when he's getting chased to the point Roach (Gaz's editor) just puts "Scottish noises" in place of captioning what Soap is saying

I really need to write this actual video thing cause the brain rot is real

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The major premise of their undercover story is that they're posing as a newlywed couple. Why else would 2 guys their age be on a cruise together??

Gaz is surprisingly okay with that idea. He knows it's just for appearances and Gaz is a confident fella. Meanwhile Alex fully believes he's died and gone to hell because pretending to be in love with this incredibly attractive guy is just not something he signed up for.

The classic "there was only one bed" trope. Except Gaz keeps getting horribly seasick at night (it's related to the experience he had on a cruise as a kid) so he subconsciously keeps holding onto Alex because he doesn't feel well. Meanwhile Alex is having the gayest crisis of the century.

#i genuinely wish i had more but all that writing is gone #so have some crumbs #gazalex undercover au #youtuber au #gaz is a gamer #when it works #snootles's askbox #snootles answers #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #kyle gaz garrick #alex keller mw2

[bizarrelittlemew]

i do appreciate not working in production but i miss the tablet press. she is so special to me and comes in many shapes and forms. giant rotary press. high-speed single punch. manual single punch, crank that lever. the old one where you assemble it and whack it with a hammer. and then you and the machine and the powder and the die all have to be good friends for anything to work. if you gain her loyalty, she will work so hard

#pressing tablets is fun ok #when it works #and you can just stand and watch her go #spitting out all the pretty tablets #she is a mother #and a thing to behold #niche posting #🐭📓 #i learned that in some places you can get a pharmacy degree without having pressed a single tablet?? #why would you deprive young aspiring pharmacists of sweating over this mechanical wonder

[galacticsabc]

So, my fucking tablet stopped working in the middle of drawing. like, the pen wasn't registering. it became just a monitor.

I tried everything, reinstalling the drivers (updating them, even), restarting my computer multiple times, plugging and unplugging my tablet, messing around with the settings, replacing my nib, you name it. Nothing worked.

y'know what ended up solving the problem? opening up my pen, blowing it out like you would do with an NES cartridge, and putting it back together.

I wasted nearly an hour of my life.

#i love technology!... #WHEN IT WORKS #well. at least my drivers are up to date. and my nib is replaced

[isweartheyregayyourhonor]

Did anyone else go to Wattpad before remembering that it’s just a site of thirteen year olds writing self inserts or yn?

#ao3 #ao3 is down #ao3 is superior #when it works #Wattpad #fanfic

[cryptid-called-ash]

@that-bastard-with-all-the-bones

You did what with a retirement village?

#when it works #local cryptid's shitposting again

[crabdinners]

Great to see Cyberpunk 2077 is still absolutely busted in a few ways

#I actually do enjoy playing it #when it works

[treypug]

"Based on your likes!" no bitch i literally have that and 10 other variations filtered out for a fckin reason

#personal #i love filtering shit out lmao but i guess it doesnt always work which makes sense bc tumblr #its perfect for when u like a blog but they like some stuff ya dont so u dont have to unfollow completely #when it works

[epoxyconfetti]

#geology #scotland #i haven't worked in geology in 30 years #but it's still dangerous to let me drive when the geology is interesting #@ayeforscotland #but i am still a cartographer #and this is a way cool map

[anartificialsatellite]

The older I get the more I admire people who are earnestly, genuinely into whatever their thing is. I know it sounds like an annoying cliche but unless you're being cruel or hurtful there is really no need to be normal about things. The dude with the bad fake accent at the renaissance faire is having the time of his life. The people having photoshoots with their fashion dolls are loving it. The old lady with a yard unreasonably full of tacky ass lawn ornaments is having a blast, HOA be damned.

Don't waste your time being too cool to have fun, y'know?

#it's hard sometimes not to be embarrassed when people tell you you should be and im still working on it #but life is so much more fun that way

[bookpdf]

there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities

#heartbroken that i can't play video game and read a book and work on my art in a single evening when im already tired from work!!!

[snootlestheangel]

🪐 I’ve been thinking about them lately

When It Works Snippet

*GazAlex Undercover AU*

Which features Alex and Gaz having to pretend to be married, and also Gaz is a cocky little shit that's too smart for his own good.

When Alex received the assignment, he had made a promise to himself to keep professional during the course of the operation. The last thing he wanted was to allow things like emotions to complicate such a delicate mission, especially when already pretending to be married was outside of his realm of experience. Besides, he figured this would be rather easy to separate the character he pretends to be since he's working with someone he's never met before.

He was very wrong.

Alex actually wondered if this assignment was some sort of sick joke from Laswell and Price to either give him a heart attack or get him laid. Because, of course, that would be the only explanation as to why he was assigned to work with the most beautiful man he had ever met, and why he was struggling to maintain that sense of professionalism.

And it's not like Kyle was just effortlessly gorgeous, it was the fact he knew it. It was the fact Kyle Garrick carried himself with so much confidence, the way he was so intelligent and knew how to manipulate others without ever giving any hint of malice. To Alex, it was not just Gaz's good looks that made it difficult to keep personal feelings out of this assignment, but it was the way he committed to his role as Alex's newly beloved.

And for the first four days of the two week long cruise, Gaz and Alex had spent a lot of time discussing, in private, the boundaries of where the fake relationship ended and the real one began. They discussed the different theatrics they'd be willing to perform for the sake of keeping up the appearance of newly weds.

The theatrics proved hardest to establish. It was a combination of Gaz's understanding of needing to make their undercover story believable and Alex's refusal to be anything but professional. In the end, Alex ending up siding with Gaz, and agreed to displaying some PDA here and there in an effort to keep up appearances. And Gaz, ever the kind soul he is, told Alex if he was ever going to far for Alex's comfort, then he could simply say a codeword and Gaz would stop.

Alex thought he could live with the arrangements they had made and still maintain a professional relationship with the sergeant in private.

But on the fifth day of the cruise and their assignment, keeping professional proved rather difficult.

The two were by the large pool on deck, watching their targets of interest at a distance. Gaz was behind him on the pool chair, legs on either side of Alex and effectively trapping him as he rubbed sunscreen on his back. Alex couldn't quite determine if it was the bright sun bearing down on him or how close Gaz was and how his hands felt trailing along his back that made him so light-headed. And he really didn't feel pressured to figure out which one it was, given he may ruin the professional aspect of their relationship by admitting such a thing.

Alex tensed as Gaz's arms suddenly wrapped around his middle, and the light brush of lips against his shoulder sent a chill down his spine.

"Looks like they're waiting on someone to join them before they do anything else." Gaz whispered against Alex's ear, and it took more effort than he would be willing to admit to process what Gaz had said. He nodded, swallowing thickly as he tried to focus on the group of people he should have been watching the entire time. Kyle lets out a soft chuckle before lightly kissing Alex's shoulder.

"Having trouble focusing?" Kyle muttered against his neck, but Alex didn't respond. Another chuckle from Gaz, and his arms wrapped tighter around Alex's middle, a few light kisses to his neck accompanying the act.

"Come on, let's get in the water and cool off a bit. We've just put sunblock on you and you're already turning red." Kyle commented before slowly getting up from the chair, stretching as does so. Alex blushed deeper, mentally cursing himself and Gaz as he stood up himself. Gaz allowed himself to be used as a crutch, slowly walking both of them towards the water's edge. Alex took a deep breath as he tried to regain his composure, hoping the shock of the cool water will help get rid of whatever just happened.

How is he expected to stay professional in these conditions?

#kyle gaz garrick #alex keller #gazalex #gazalex undercover au #when it works #snootles's askbox #snootles answers

[thatrandomblogsays]

Annabeth: I, a child, had to earn Thalia’s love, that’s how the world works! I have to earn my moms love. Love is transactional, you gotta be worthy of it first silly :)

Percy, listening to this on the train

#STOP TRAUMATIZING THIS CHILD PLEASE #this is what it’s like when you were raised in a loving home and you find out your friend wasn’t #but they don’t know they weren’t #so you’re like um hey that’s fucked up and sometimes a crime? #you tell them parents are supposed to love you as is without earning it and they don’t believe you #you can hear the therapy bill racking up #annabeth chase #Percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo series #pjo tv show #mine #adding on to my tags because some people are debating if that’s how love works #love is meant to be a mutual exchange and something that grows over time between two people as their bond grows #whereas how Annabeth says it #in my opinion at least #she had to do XY and Z to be worthy of thalias love before receiving it #like with her mother #she has to be amazing before Athena is proud of her #vs Athena being proud of her just for being her daughter #that being said I’m not hating on a traumatized child having potentially negative and toxic patterns #more pointing out the comedy of the scene from Percy’s perspective who has a good grasp on healthy vs unhealthy relationships

[teaboot]

If I can recommend you do 1 low-effort thing for the love of God it is this:

Keep 5 cards in your pocket. One will say "yes", the second will say "no."

If you lose your voice, or lose speech, or want to make a dramatic embellishment at the right time, it is an elegant and efficient solution that is right there at hand.

But what if people question you from there? "Why do you have that card? Why would you do this? How long have you had that in your pocket?" For this, or whatever else they say, the third card: "I don't have a card for that."

"What the fuck," they ask. They laugh. They are bemused. You bring the energy back down with the fourth card: "I have laryngitis. I've lost speech. My throat hurts". Whatever you expect to occur.

The joke is over. Rule of threes. Now they are curious. They wonder about logistics. "How did you know I would say that? Is everyone so predictable?"

As a three-part bit, nobody ever sees the fifth card coming.

"I have powerful wizard magics."

Gets them every time

#No lie I did this my first two weeks of college when I completely lost my voice #The payoff was glorious #Could not believe it worked

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[goryfluff]

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) 2020 / 2021 / 2022

#ev nautilus #nautilus live #marine biology #sea creatures #ocean animals #marine animals #works #HI THERE AGAIN #LOOK AT THESE LITTLE GUYS #I love them so much!!! #talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping etc #remember when I made gifs of the older streams #I never know how to tag these though

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

#this is the grandmother who passed away unexpectedly earlier this month #she was so cool yall #and so weird #they got married twice by the way once when Massachusetts legalized it and once when New Mexico did #they hiked the grand canyon together #they had a european river cruise planned for this fall #she was 89 and she wanted to see the whole world with her wife #and they were working on it #literally i thought they were roommates #and there was only one bed