henlo i was tagged by my amazing bae jasper @spidcyson and the brill zuriel @cherrybomb-and-starlight for the tumblr crushes thing! thanks lads, i tag you right back!!
When Krolia and Kolivan revived the Blades and went back to HQ, Krolia found a sketchbook in Keith’s room filled with drawings of Luxite swords.
Krolia recognized each one and knew whose it was before she even looked at the names her son scribbled below every sketch.
As she turned the pages, she realized that they were all swords of Blades who Keith lost on their missions, and she only knows they’re gone because she saw them die in Keith’s memories in the quantum abyss.
Keith honoured his fallen family by etching every single detail of their swords in his memory and drawing each one to never forget.
ok, i’m built like a noble ox. like i am 6′1 and i am sturdy lady. like thighs for days. if you try to move me. you will be moved. body images aside (lol, i am self conscious about my size, yeah it’s life)
so like, i am very used to girls standing next to me in public places. i end up acquiring a pack of ladies. just because women are like, that lady is a lady men stay away from. i am jerk kryptonite (usually, i get my fair share of creeps, such is life) but most men have self preservation that this 6′1 ox will break them. and i will
so usually i am in my own phone and look up to another lady standing next to me. and i will immediately look up and make eye contact and nod. like, you know, that nod. i see you and you can talk if there is something wrong. i end up on a reg basis being a defacto bodyguard to these young ladies and small women while waiting for buses and in the metro.
i am a large oak tree. i protect the other birds.
ladies, we all got roles. find tree in the wild. we’re always happy to provide shelter from the creeps.
i’ve regularly said, “move on, she doesn’t want to be your friend”
I’m in love
Story time: So I’m 6’2 and “big boned” as my mother would call it. This happens to me all the time and a couple years ago I managed to get the the front row of a Macklemore concert. This woman, probably 5’4, squeezes up next to me and says, “Hey, I’m here alone, do you mind if I stand in front of you?” Of course not. So we’re all having a good time, dancing around, when all of a sudden this Bro™️ is behind me telling me that I’m too tall to be in the front row and it’s not fair. Now, keep in mind that this concert was outside, in February, in Vail CO. It was FREEZING so not only am I of the stature I am but I had my hair up and a beanie on and a big coat and boots. We try our best to ignore him but Bro™️ is drunk and very clearly thinks I’m a man and proceeds to punch me in the back of the head.
LIL SIS WENT OFF, FOLKS. This tiny woman literally moved me out of the way, jumped up, and head butted Bro™️ in the face with such a fury. I thought she was going to kill him, it was truly a beautiful moment in my life.
The moral of the story is that for every tree in the wild there is a cute little birdy who will defend its shelter to the death. Stick together ladies👯♀️
Yelp is crazy unethical. Even before I heard about this nonsense, I worked at a small business in San Francisco whose customer traffic was directly influenced by their cesspool of a site.
Anyway, my supervisor and I worked hard to make sure every customer was happy. And we were succeeding! We had a perfect 5 star rating on Yelp! It was amazing! Then one day we got a 1 Star Rating on our Yelp Page. Someone from Pennsylvania left a nasty review on our site. It was scathing.
Now, that’s not something that’s too far out of the realm of possibility for my job. While I sold mattresses in a brick and mortar, we also sold mattresses via Amazon and our online store and people from all over the country purchased mattresses from us. But I digress. The reason this is important is, well, where it gets dicey for Yelp. Because sure enough, Yelp sent us an email telling us that if we paid some fee they would push all the bad reviews off the site. They were extorting money out of us!
And here’s where it gets really interesting. My supervisor contacted the customer to see if there was anything we could do to make them happy with their purchase, so they can change their review. But the customer in question had literally never heard of our company and obviously never purchased anything from us.
Yelp literally committed fraud, and it was only when we threatened to sue that they took the fraudulent review off of our page.
do you ever see your sibling and just have this overwhelming urge to smack them for no reason? like my brother will walk into the room and i’m like “oh man i guess i have to end you”
tbh tho vld deserves more credit for having a target audience of young boys and using that platform to systematically dismantle toxic masculinity over and over again
these are just some scenes off the top of my head from the new season, and it doesn’t even begin to encapsulate the multitude of healthy messages imbued throughout the entirety of the series.
the show repeatedly conveys that men can talk to their friends about their feelings and be respected and heard. that women are independent agents with intelligence and strength and exist as more than a potential love interest or catalyst to further a man’s narrative. that men can tell their friends and family they love them. that men can cry and be scared and be vulnerable and it’s okay. it doesn’t diminish your strength or worth as a person and it doesn’t make you any less of a hero.
and then there’s the fact that the man who most closely resembles the archetype of a stereotypical hero in a young male-targeted show is a gay, disabled Japanese man with ptsd.
whether or not you find the representation to be satisfying, through the lens of their target audience, shiro being the person he is–relationship or no–is hugely important.
is the writing perfect all the time? no. but the vld creators took a (kinda goofy) mecha show from the 80s and built a subtle but beautifully healthy portrayal of masculinity for a target audience of young boys and I think the fandom at large can get so caught up in our own lens that we lose perspective on that.
anyway, I’m just really appreciative, and I can’t wait to watch the show with my nephew when he’s old enough.
look, whatever youre doing, if its working or being helped by a worker, throw out ‘sorry for taking so long/sorry for the wait’ and ‘sorry for the trouble/confusion’ and replace with ‘thank you for your patience’
just do it and everyone in the interaction feels better about themselves
lifehacks courtesy of your local professional fucker-upper
look, whatever youre doing, if its working or being helped by a worker, throw out ‘sorry for taking so long/sorry for the wait’ and ‘sorry for the trouble/confusion’ and replace with ‘thank you for your patience’
just do it and everyone in the interaction feels better about themselves
male characters burn through female love interests like crazy and no one cares but a female character gets two (2) love interests and y’all write essays about why the male love interest is Actually The Biggest Victim Ever
i actually feel very bad i named this strawberry plant bitch when i planted the seeds because i didnt expect it to survive but now that its flourishing….
