writer: this is one of my male characters! he cares about his guy friends and loves them deeply.
tumblr: oh! so he’s gay!
writer: uh…no, he’s attracted to women.
tumblr: ….so he’s bi!
writer: uhh…no…….he loves his guy friends but he’s not romantically/sexually attracted to them.
tumblr: ….so you’re homophobic.
writer:
Healthy male friendships are almost as rare in mainstream fiction as gay male relationships, and maybe more rare in fanfiction. Let men be wonderful friends without pushing a romantic relationship, just like men and women should be able to be wonderful friends without the pressure of a romantic relationship.
*AGGRESSIVELY SLAMS REBLOG UNTIL I DIE*
This is literally the reason men are so terrified of being open about loving each other platonically, because they don’t want people to assume they’re gay just because they can be supportive of their fucking friends
I literally got anon hate about my response to this post, and I just want to say that I’m sorry…
No but the history behind this picture is really interesting
The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.
It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.
But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.
I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.
Hey, look; “Man Laughing Alone With Rice” is back on my dash.
always reblog Happy Rice Guy. once upon a time, he really enjoyed his lunch, and that’s beautiful.
It doesn’t make us go crazy. We just don’t understand the why. No one has ever satisfactorily explained why bagged milk is better than milk in jugs.
There is no literal reason since the jugs we use are just as cheap as bags and with a bag you need to put it into something as soon as it’s opened because otherwise you’re crying over spilt milk
I don’t understand why y’all use jugs though. They’re so impractical.
No they’re not. You have a self contained stand able container.
With a bag you have one floppy boi
We have holders for that. There’s no real difference.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if there was a way you could hold milk without grabbing a separate holder? Some sort of solid plastic or cardboard container, that would be so cool.
Okay so you guys know how some fighting games give certain characters unique taunts when they face certain other characters? Baiken is one of those. And they’re all great. Basically it’s her puffing a quick smoke before just taking the piss out of literally everyone in the cast by giving them an at least partly disparaging nickname. For example:
Sin is “Little monster.”
Faust is “Area 51″
Potemkin is “Blockhead”
Slayer and Dizzy are “Revered Elder” and “Heavenly Maiden” respectfully, both said with as much dry sarcasm as she can manage.
My favorite though is the one for Elphelt. Where Baiken just straight up calls her a spinster. (right for the jugular huh Baiken?)
And that got me thinking that if a proper crossover game between GG and BB was ever a thing, Baiken would have some gems to dispense, here’s a few off the top of my head:
Ragna: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, crazed mut?”
Jin: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, Sir officer?”
Noel: “Don’t make this boring, soldier girl.”
Bang: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, loudmouth ninja?”
Taokaka: “Don’t make this boring…wait, the hell kinda mask is that?”
Kokonoe: “Don’t make this boring, shut in.” (in Japanese I guess she’d call her hikikomori?? Baiken usually uses pretty outdated Japanese so maybe there’s an older term for that?)
Jubei: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, Grimalkin?” (refreance to Hakumen obviously)
Hazama: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, snake in the grass?”
Terumi: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, shitty viper?”
Hakumen: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, o honored Samurai?” (sarcastic, obviously, and here’s a possible win quote as a bonus: “Shut the hell up, I am no Samurai. I am Ronin, bound by nothing and to no one. Out of the way.”
Nine: “Don’t make this boring, almost as crazy as the other witch…” (muttered under her breath, a reference to I-no)
Relius: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, randy old man?” (referring to his AH…I’m thinking if he uses it on Baiken it would involve her being chained down with a multitude of heavy and bulky locks.)
Amane: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, okama?”
Susano’o: “Tch, the hell are you looking at, O-kami-sama?” (both sarcastic and dripping with venom, I’m thinking this whole mess would remind her of the whole Justice debuckle way too much)
if any body wants to add, or offer better insults for the ones I have, go right ahead! 😀
I’m home! And now that I rested for a short while, here’s what happened, or at least what I managed to glean from it:
So, yesterday at Barcelona there was supposed to be a flight to Israel at 22:30. Based on my posts earlier this obviously didn’t happen. It got delayed to 9 (and then) 10 in the morning the next day, and since there weren’t any hotels to send people too all the would be passengers (which included little kids, babys, a few elderly folks, and a pregnant woman that had her insulin injector on the plane) were forced to camp out next to the gate.
A lot of people slept on the floor, my mom and I found a bench in the food court that was barely big enough to lay on instead.
The guys from the airport at the time said something about not being to reach the crew for the plane. That would have been fair enough, if they had bothered to say anything at any other time then three hours after the flight was supposed to take off!
Seriously, and apparently they knew that there wasn’t a crew since noon that day at least! And they told nobody!
Okay, so at about 7 am or so the crew finally shows up, and after a few more security related shenanigans we get on the plane. And stuff gets weird when the flight crew says that the reason for the shameful delay was some technical failure.
So, as you might guess, someone was lying.
As you might also guess, just about everyone was pissed off and giving the crew shit for this, including my parents, even sending a bunch of emails to an Israeli newspaper because honestly.
And when we landed, they had the nerve to issue some half baked apology (a single piece of paper explaining what happened but we’ll get to that), and some damn chocolate.
People were not amused at all, as you might imagine.
So, what actually happened? According to the official apology, it was, quote, “An operational failure.” Which of course was the flight compony, El-Al, was trying to smooth things over so people won’t report this nonsense and cost them a lot of money.
So.
What actually actually happened? Apparently, and take this with a grain of salt because I’m thinking I might be missing a few details here still, the Barcelona Airport failed to arrange a late checkout for the flight crew. The crew, in response turned off their phones or otherwise refused to answer to attempts to find out where the hell they were.
So, a bunch of kids and babys, elderly people and a PREGNANT WOMAN had to camp out in a damn airport gate because the poor flight crew had to find another hotel in fucking Barcelona.
Moral of the story? If you, for some reason, want to visit Israel (which I recommend! it’s actually a cool place), never use El-Al to get here. They suuuuuuuuuck.
and on THAT note! I’m going to rest since I have work in the morning 😀
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