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I love everything about this, it has such chaotic energy.

SuA and Handong dressed as lesbian PTA moms. (Subtle flex with the Gucci belt on SuA.)

Yoohyeon and Siyeon are posing for the school newspaper yearbook photo. (Actually are yearbooks even a thing outside the US?)

JiU is in desperate need of coffee but is determined to support her daughter Gahyeon even if she’s not even caffeinated enough to hold her hand correctly.

Gahyeon is desperately trying to NOT hold her mother’s hand in public.

Dami is wearing a designer Peanuts shirt and pants big enough to hold 2 of her, making her the most powerful lesbian in this photo.

The best part about the reblog is the tags being in the correct age order for the members, lol.

The Evolution of Dice ! I’ve been wanting to do this one for a long time. Is it pretty understandable? Crits welcome!

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This is the content I’m here for. A+

This is fascinating, and hits a lot of different interest points for me personally.

I really love that last post, but I can also ABSOLUTELY see Dorian randomly deciding he’s an expert on relationships and thinking he needs to give the Inquisitor totally unsolicited and unhelpful advice.

Inquisitor: *starts a relationship with their LI*

Dorian: Inquisitor, I hear you’ve become romantically involved with [LI]. Let me give you some advice.

Inquisitor: That’s ok Dorian, pretty sure I got this.

Dorian: No, no, I wish to assist. Also I’ve seen the way you try to climb mountains, you obviously need help

Inquisitor: Dorian that’s not really the sa-

Dorian: First, it’s absolutely essential that you never, ever let them know how strong your emotional attachment is.

Inquisitor:

Dorian: Second, make sure the sex is glorious. You’re fairly athletic so that shouldn’t be too much of an issue, but do not ever take advice from one of Varric’s books, no matter what Cassandra tells you.

Inquisitor: Okay that’s pretty invasive but you aren’t wrong on the Varric bit. You can stop now.

Dorian: Nonsense. Third, be prepared to dump them at a moment’s notice if they show even a hint of coolness or lack of interest. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to ask them plainly how they feel about you. Simply end things, you don’t want to risk being rejected when you can do the rejecting.

Inquisitor:

Dorian: This is essential advice Inquisitor, gleaned from years of relationships in Tevinter. You should be taking notes.

Inquisitor, about to invent therapy:

Dorian: What? Why? Stop looking at me like that!

Bigger elf ears means more room for piercings.

I feel like this is something @thecheshirecass would appreciate.

hmmm

Right: Ron Perlman

Left: Ron Purrrrr-lman

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I'll see myself out.

A very tired DM (via outofcontextdnd)

hey did anyone hear the news that scientists have actually been able to figure out the most common key that old pirate shanties were sang in

imo it’s really interesting? like, they found and analysed lots and lots of sheet music that they suspect was inspired by all these old shanties, since all the music was written by people who are believed to have been former sailors or even former pirates. and the neat part is that statistically speaking almost 90% of them are written in the same key. i mean, obviously it’s not confirmed 100%, but it looks like almost all pirate shanties were sang in a high C

GO TO JAIL

FUCK YOU I THOUGHT YOU WOULD GIVE ME ACTUAL PIRATE INFORMATION BUT YOU PLAYED ME LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE

I don't know what it says about me that I saw that joke coming a nautical mile away.

incorrect star trek [4/?]

If you ever feel like you must be the most unobservant person in the world, remember: I once spent half a year failing to notice that my new favourite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the Ukrainian mafia.

(I didn’t think anything of it at the time, but in retrospect, the fact that it was always dead no matter the time of day - I think the busiest I ever saw it was five people, myself included - well, that should have been a tipoff. Also, the waitstaff kept calling me “Mr. Prokopetz”, which I had assumed was just part of the restaurant’s gimmick, but given that “Prokopetz” is a Ukrainian surname, I’m now force to wonder whether they’d thought I was, you know, in the business. I just liked the pierogi!)

What I need to know is how on earth did OP finally realize his favorite restaurant was a money-laundering front for the mafia.

I’d like to say I put together the clues, but in reality, I just showed up one day to find that the place had been indefinitely shut down, and later learned it was because the managers had all been arrested.

What I really want to know is how good the food was?

Excellent, if your tastes run to the “heavy cream and too much garlic” end of the spectrum.

Every crime front I’ve ever eaten at has had completely amazing food, honestly. I am pretty convinced that if you want to open a front, you don’t choose “restaurant” as your front-business unless you have a relative who loves to cook.

It tickles me that this is evidently a sufficiently common experience that people find it relatable. (Seriously, check the notes!) We should write reviews or something.

did I just read the line “every crime front I’ve ever eaten at” with my own two eyes

Look, I went to college and lived my early adulthood in a town whose entire thing was import/export, and we had a lot of restaurants that were suspiciously empty except when they were closed and filled with very serious men in nice clothes.

They were usually run by someone who was about the right age to be some adult’s parents or grandparents, and in the case of the two Korean restaurants matching this description, they didn’t speak English. Universally though, they were very pleased to see customers, very proud of their cooking, and very very interested in keeping us far away from the aforementioned serious men in nice clothes. And despite having huge dining rooms and never having more than a couple customers, they never went out of business.

Also, because I am very, very stupid and sometimes don’t think before I talk, I once said loudly, over the phone, while sitting in one of these places, “Hey! Yeah if you want to meet us, we’re eating at [place]. You know…[place]? You totally know it. The Front, on Warwick st!”

The looks I got from every single employee were amazing and then I left.

We had a corner store/deli-place near our apartment in college. Everyone knew they were in on something and no one cared because they looked out for their customers and their neighborhood as a whole.

They started stocking my favorites because I mentioned them within hearing range once, would tell their “vendors” to move out of the way if we stopped in. I walked a different route home and got harassed one night and they asked after me. When they found out what happened, they declared “Consider it taken care of, you should never be afraid around here.” Never happened again.

Everyone needs their friendly neighborhood crime lord.

This is both my favorite and makes me fondly remember home. Less of the  eateries, more of the mysterious retail joints that never seem to close despite no one ever buying anything, though. Well. Aside from the juice bar. Didnt last, though. 

Doctor Strange #11

Because why write a character actually using magic, studying magic DOING MAGIC, BEING A FUKING WIZARD when you can just replace it with a bunch of magic items. Because heaven forbids comics be about anything but punching! No hero ever solved anything by actually learning stuff, right? Violence solves everything! I’ve wasted my life learning things, where I could be smashing skulls! - Doctor Strange, ladies and gentlemen!

Aaron destroyed everything that made Doctor Strange cool and replaced it with a glorified D&D fighter with magic loot. Cannot do shit, just punches people! Anti-intellectualist crap.

Fuck this book!

Because why would we want to see amazing visuals and magic battles and shit like that when we can turn Doctor Strange into FUCKING Preacher.

Biggest stop down since JLA: Act of God turned king of the oceans into a loser calling himself”the Hand”.

Guess nobody learned a lesson from this and Superman: Grounded.

No one ever does. 

The idea of bringing heroes with “Phenomenal Cosmic Power” ‘down to earth’ is one of those ideas that only really works on an emotional level. But they keep trying to make it work physically.

And it fails each time.

It fails because the moment you do that the character ends competing for the audience with Batman. Of course they’ll lose, only few street level heroes can compete with Batman, bringing up a cosmic-tier character to his level won’t work.

Is this by Jason Aaron?

Yeah this doesn’t surprise me

Jason “Wolverine rules, everyone who disagrees with him is wrong, the White Queen is a dirty dirty whore” Aaron is a gross and REPULSIVE prick and an example of quite literally EVERYTHING wrong with superhero comics and the kind of trash that infest it

Big surprise he takes a character whose all about studying the mystic arts, learning spells etc like Doctor Strange and what does he turn him into? A knuckle dragging neanderthal who will settle everything by beating the shit out of his problems like REAL MEN do

I’m so sorry to Dr Strange fans right now…NO ONE deserves to have their fave written by Jason Aaron ;_;

Ugghhh

I mean, I’m not against Strange using some magic items – his Cloak of Levitation and Eye of Agamotto are iconic parts of him.  And collecting dangerous items to keep them out of the wrong hands (be they malicious or ignorant) is a part of his job as Mystic Defender of the Earth Dimension.

But foregoing all spellcasting – which has apparently been doing horrible things to him (or shunted off to Tibetan monks instead of him) all this time but we only just now learned of it – and just using magic items?  No.

@birbhubby Marvel really out there fucking with your favs.

I saw some of this coming before doing a purge of the ongoing books recently, mainly because I didn't have the time to read them. Can I say I'm surprised this is where it ended up? No. Am I sad and insulted by it? Hell yes. The visuals of the early issues in the Doctor Strange refresh were amazing and super compelling, but it is clear they need a new writer and most likely a retcon in the worst possible way to do away with this nonsense.

every time i see yal shipping harley quinn w that musty ass clown fucker instead of the plant lady im like [knife emoji]

Netflix’s new site is a giant “f*ck you” to Comcast and Time Warner

Netflix launched a site late Wednesday night called Fast.com, where — in one click — anyone browsing the internet can see how fast their internet speed is. Although it’s great for consumers, some internet providers might not be happy about the new website.

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Fuck Comcast

Netflix didn’t invent that it’s been around

Netflix didn’t invent speed checks, but this site is Netflix’s.

Okay, so here’s why Netflix speedtest is so brilliant. 

Most of us know about Speedtest.net, right? Well Comcast and Time Warner know about it too. They know customers use it to check to see if they’re getting what they are paying for. Comcast techs even tell customers to check their speed with Speedtest.net. 

So, to make sure people think they are getting good speeds, Comcast and Time Warner prioritize traffic going to Speedtest.net. When you check your speed there it’s artificially inflated. That is NOT the speed you are getting when you browse tumblr and that is definitely not the speed you get when you watch Netflix. 

Comcast and Time Warner can not artificially inflate the results by prioritizing traffic to Fast.net unless they also prioritize traffic to Netflix, and they definitely do not want to do that. 

That is so fucking slimy. Good for Netflix

@birbhubby this might interest you.

In this area, luckily, Comcast does not throttle Netflix, unlike AT&T U-Verse. This is a pretty brilliant move by Netflix, though I doubt the ISPs will even blink if people start complaining about it. They will just direct you to check against Speedtest to prove you're getting good speeds, and throw their hands up in the air and say, "Anything else is outside our control."

This isn't actually conjecture. I've given proof to Comcast, Time Warner/Bright House, and Verizon when their networks have screwed up in the past only for all of them to refuse to act on it.

I'm not saying don't call them on their shit, but don't expect immediate results either.

And last (for now), but not least is Rarity.

Rarity, here, is my personal favorite car currently in the game: the McLaren 570S. This car is lean, mean, and stylish.

Where’s Fluttershy?

Hahaha valid question; I haven't figured out the right car for Fluttershy and will need to do some more playing to save up the in game cash to buy it once I do.

Open to suggestions. 😉