
i think the funniest thing I have ever forgotten to tell someone was that the boat he was applying to work on mandates their employees do the hokey-pokey
imagine you are me. your friend and temporary coworker, a reserved guy who walks with the grace of a jaguar and lives alone in the forest, is applying to work on another boat. he has it narrowed down to two choices, and he thinks he likes the style of one of the captains over the other. he is going to pick that boat. you feel very strongly he should NOT pick that boat. why, he says. you don't know how to answer, except to say that he would not be a good fit. he says he wants something easy and laid back. you watch him go, and it is only two weeks later that you bolt upright in bed and Remember
We need more honorifics for when you like get good at something like dr ...like maybe if you, eat, 1000000 hotdogs you can be htdg. That's a fucking stupid example but you're not paying me to come up with posts now are you .
did you guys know that the robot genre of science fiction sprung up as a critique of the way in which industrialization reduced workers to taking up monotonous, unskilled factory jobs in order to earn profit, jobs which in turn alienated them from their own humanity? did you know that the theory of the alienation of the self under capitalistic mode of production is a core principle of marxism? did you know that robot itself comes from a czech playwright who, for a science fiction play, coined the word as a derivative of the czech term robota, meaning forced labor? did you know that the robot genre is rooted in anti-capitalist sentiment?
At this point it's both cheaper and healthier to just do amphetamines
how victorian <- is referring to the tv show victorious
how edwardian <- is referring to the tv show ed edd n eddy
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why do we take towels for granted. have you ever needed to dry off and could only use your clothes or a blanket or something. little fibers all over you, just terrible. towels dont do this. not nearly as much at least. thank you towels
even though i don’t think percy and annabeth start having kids until their mid to late 20s, they are still probably among the first of all their friends to have kids. and their first one is probably the most loved-on little munchkin ever.
and imagine at first, seeing their little family makes other demigods want to have kids. because their friends would see how happy and carefree percy and annabeth are. in my own head, their first kid is a little boy with curly blonde hair and sea green eyes, who runs around with his rubix cube and splashes around in water. he’s got percy’s sneaky troublemaker smile and annabeth’s calculating look. he’s freaking adorable. people would see annabeth looking so at peace—holding him close to her chest and running her fingers through his little blonde curls. they would see him running into his dad’s arms, and percy looking happier than anyone has ever seen him, throwing the little guy up in the air and making him giggle and kissing his cheeks. and people would think ‘wow. i can have this too.’
until something happens. until the first time people see their sweet little family under attack. and here’s the thing: percy and annabeth will always make absolutely sure nothing happens to their child. no doubt that when annabeth was pregnant, they spent countless late nights planning for every possible scenario. and you’ve never seen those two truly fight until you’ve seen them fight to protect their kid. so the little guy was never actually gonna get hurt.
but he still screams his little lungs out. he cries for his daddy as percy dives into an army of monsters that all look straight out of a nightmare. he cries as his momma holds him painfully tight against her as she runs the other way. until annabeth hands him off to a trusted friend, and tells them to take him and run, to which he screams even louder at being separated from both his parents now. and it’s at that moment that many demigods realize that parenthood is not for them.
because watching that little boy cry, hearing his screams, seeing the terror in percy and annabeth’s eyes—a terror worse than anyone has ever seen those two show—the moment they realize their son is in danger… it’s too much. it’s not something that people are willing to go through. the potential happiness is not worth the stress and the fear and the potential for unimaginable pain.
imagine percy and annabeth being the ones to show people that even the most targeted demigods can settle down and have a family. and imagine them also being the ones who make people realize that they never want to have families themselves.
you all hated me for this so i thought i would reblog it 🤗
Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!
Happy Leland Melvin Day!
NOT TO BRAG OR ANYTHING BUT JOHN FUCKING DARNIELLE MR. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS HIMSELF JUST SHARED THIS ON BSKY AND SAID IT WAS GREAT AND LOVELY WORK. WHAT IF I DIED