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Here it is finally — James’ POV of the Whispering Room scene from Chain of Gold. I wanted to wait until Chain of Iron was released to give more people a chance to read the book, and also because what we learn in COI does inform the scene. I hope you enjoy!
one day im just gonna do it. im gonna vanish into the scottish highlands like god intended
I love genuinely innocent “boys will be boys.” Just saw a guy come out of a frat house to poke a pair of jeans they’d left outside - they were frozen solid, and as soon as he confirmed that, like twenty more boys came rushing out of the house going “YOOOOOOOOOO”
I heard grunting outside my window the other night and there were four boys struggling to push this giant snowball (like 7 foot diameter) down the sidewalk.
I once lost my keys at a frat house.
My drunk ass had actually walked home without them, pounded on my apartment door, gotten let in by my rightfully-disgruntled roommate, and proceeded to pass out on the couch. Apparently I puked in the toilet before passing out. I do not remember this part.
The next morning, I schlepped back to the frat house. I stood there, right in front of the front door. This was a novel experience for me. I’d never been at a frat house in broad daylight before.
A boy, presumably, of the house, asked me what I was doing.
“I lost my keys in here last night,” I called back. “I was seeing if I could go in and look for them?”
He opened the door and gestured for me to come in.
“Go wherever you want.”
I’d never seen a frat house post-party before. Wandering up the stairs and through the halls, I was surrounded by hungover and still-drunk frat boys stumbling around in their socks and sandals and gym shorts, seeking out food and showers like moths to a porch light. A few of them threw puzzled glances my way. I’m sure they thought I was some post-bacchanalia hallucination.
I entered one room where a boy was drunkenly watching some Old Yeller-esque movie on a tiny TV in the corner of his room from his bed.
“Do you like dog movies?” he asked, voice all mumbly from grogginess and also from the fact that his face was squished against his pillow and half-buried by his blanket.
I told him I did.
He mumbled again, pleased, and asked what I was doing. I told him I was looking for my keys.
“Sorry, I haven’t seen any keys around here.”
I didn’t doubt him.
Twenty minutes had passed. I’d searched just about every bedroom and nuclear-waste-dump-site of a bathroom in that house. I’d given up on ever finding my keys and was prepared to beg my roommates’ forgiveness and get a new set copied.
As I stood there in the hallway, silently bewailing my predicament, a particularly-burly frat boy approached me.
“You need help with something?”
“I lost my keys here last night and I can’t find them, I’ve looked everywhere.”
“What do they look like? I’ll put it into the group chat.” He was already pulling out his phone.
No one ever checks a group chat, I thought, but what the hell. It was worth a shot. “Um, it’s just a ring of keys. The keychain is a pink plastic cat, though, like yea big. Like bright pink, you can’t miss it.”
He nodded, presumably typing this description faithfully into the group chat.
“Alright, I sent the message out. Good luck.”
And with that, he turned and left.
A few moments later, I heard a distant thundering. It was coming from upstairs, and it was getting louder and louder. One assumes that how I felt in that moment was how Simba felt seeing the wildebeest stampede through the ravine as a horde of large young men all thundered down the stairs, making a beeling for me.
“Someone tell the girl!” One of them shouted, faceless in the mob. “Girl! Hey, GIRL!!! We found your keys, girl!!!”
They circled around me. I hadn’t felt that small since I was maybe eleven years old. One of them split himself off from the crowd.
“Are these -” he pulled out a ring of keys from his pocket, “your keys?”
And lo, there was the distinctive bright millennial pink cat keychain dangling off the ring.
“Yes,” I whispered. “Oh my god, yes.”
The cheer went up.
Turns out he found them in the bathroom upstairs. I thanked them again profusely. There was a scattered round of “no problems” and then, just as suddenly as they descended, they all dispersed, like ships in the night.
THIS is boys will be boys
on a camp with teenage boys recently and as i was one of the camp leaders, it was part of my duties to help wake said boys in the morning (at 6am or a similar ungodly hour).
we (the camp leaders) found the most efficient way to do so was to blast music from a tinny little speaker one of us owned.
so before the sun itself has risen, we’re walking down a corridor with 8+ rooms filled with 6 or more boys in each, blasting the one and only Let It Go from Frozen, hoping to wake a few students, preparing for hateful commentary.
instead, what we got was the thumps and shouts of boys excitedly leaping from bunk beds, stuffing on shirts and bursting into the corridor to scream the lyrics to Let It Go.
every.single.boy.did this.
as soon as the song finished, they acted like it never happened and went back to their rooms to get dressed.
you will all be pleased to learn that provided with the zero-gravity environment of scuba diving, it is not uncommon to turn around to see 3 or 4 teenage boys t-posing mid water column
Young men and boys! Please reclaim ‘boys will be boys’ by doing chaotic good things, having good clean fun, and engaging in benevolent bro culture.
is there any look hotter than disheveled and slightly bloody
um?? dishevelled and slightly bloody, with a sword under their chin
Ahem. Dishevelled, slightly bloody, with a sword under their chin, while smiling lasciviously
for your consideration: dishevelled, slightly bloody, with a sword under their chin, while smiling lasciviously, and kneeling
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I keep going back to watch this video it just captures my sense of humour perfectly
Demön
When an NPC warns chaotic-aligned players to not do something
last night one of my campers was like “well i lost one of my shoes in the swamp today” and i said “oh no!” and she shrugged and said “its ok. shoes are just objects” and damn. they really are
today a completely different camper with scratches all over her legs was like “every step hurts me” and i was like “oh that sucks!” and she shrugged and said “well, you know, pain is a temporary emotion”
the next gen have achieved either peak buddhism or peak nihilism
*moonwalks into oncoming traffic*
As a Croat, seeing a meme about my country for the first time ever on Tumblr is an experience
Avengers AU - If Tony was Peter’s biological father
Tony is super protective of his son. And Peter, inspired by his dad, becomes Spiderman anyway (his dad and his Uncle Rhodey figure him out in a second though).
Just wanted to add:
hate to be That Guy but who’s gonna put the Infinity War gif in ????
now add the umbrella scene for all the sadness you’ve caused me
ok that is the cutest thing ever
Okay, but Endgame
Take it all back I don’t like it anymore (ಥ_ಥ)
I’m sorry, let me fix it -
add the umbrella gif again ;_;
the suffering never ends
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BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.
COOL.
REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE
1.“Fancy seeing you here.” “I work here.”
2.“Can I buy you a drink?”
3.“Right now, I don’t know if I want to kiss you or shove you off a bridge” “Can I pick?”
4.“You know what they say, panicking burns a shit-ton of calories.” “Who even says that?” “Me. Just now.”
5.“If I go through with this, I die. If I don’t, we all die.”
6.“No, no, you do NOT want me navigating. I’ll accidentally navigate us off a cliff.”
7.“Is that blood?” “No?” “That’s not a question you’re supposed to answer with another question.”
8.“This is all your fault.” “I hope so.”
9.“I’d rather be pecked to death by a flock of hummingbirds.”
10.“You have no power over me.” “You sure about that?”
11.“Hold on, you died.” “Yeah, well it didn’t stick.”
12.“Excuse me! I was a superhero for ten whole minutes!” “And in that time you got kidnapped and we had to come to the rescue”
13.“I am way too sober for this.”
14.“You’re not as evil as people think you are.” “No. I’m much worse.”
15.“Why do you keep risking your life? To prove a point?” “Yes.”
16.“That’s disgusting. You’re lucky you’re cute.”
17.“Did you just… agree with me?” “Oh, I wish I could take-““Nope! You said it! No take-backs!”
18.“I think I’m having a feeling. How do I make it stop?”
19.“This plan of yours is going to get us killed. Of course, I’m in.”
20.“Don’t mind me, I’ll just be in the corner having another existential crisis.”
21.“Can you please go be stupid somewhere that’s away from me?”
22.“What are you afraid of?” “You.”
23.“It’s a good thing you’re cute when you’re angry.”
24.“Are you SURE I can’t punch him in the face?” “Yes.” “What if I break his nose a little?”
25.“Stop that!” “Stop what?” “Doing that thing with your face when you’re happy. It’s making me nauseous.”
26.“You don’t strike me as a professional criminal.” “That’s what makes me so good at it.”
27.“It’s a long story” “You conned me into thinking you were dead for eleven months. I have time.”
28.“You can’t just turn into a bat and fly away when you don’t want to deal with things!” “Watch me!”
29.“I don’t give a damn.” “You give so many damns they’re visible from SPACE.”
30.“I’m trying to have a serious conversation with you!” “And I’m trying to subtly avoid it!”
31.“Unless I screw this up again, I’m going to marry you.” “Well you better not mess this up”
32.“Wait, you’re a superhero?” “How do you not know? My face is literally on the news on a weekly basis.” “I’m in grad school. I won’t have time to follow popular media until I finish my thesis. You’re lucky I’ve carved out some non-existent free time to date you.”
33.“I’m just really tired of watching you get thrown off the tops of buildings”
34.“Hey, I didn’t kill anyone today!” “What do you want? A gold star.”
35.“I feel like I’m being stabbed.” “How do you even know what it feels like to be stabbed?”
36.“Whether you believe in me or not, I will continue to exist.”
37.“We’re leaving.” “But they have a lobster tank in their basement.”
38.“Take my hand.” “Why?” “I’m trying to ask you to marry me, so take my damn hand!”
39.“I don’t care where I sleep, as long as it’s with you.”
40.“You’re a psychopath.” “I prefer creative.”
41.“Show me your scars.” “But… why?” “I want to see how many times you needed me and I wasn’t there.”
42.“You look…” “Beautiful, I know. Can we move on?”
43.“She’s my best friend. That hasn’t changed.” “It’s clear your feelings for her has.”
44.“I saved your life.” “You pushed me off a building.”
45.“How do we keep getting into these situations?” “Eleven years of friendship and I still don’t know.”
46.“I thought you forgot about me.” “Never.”
47.“I’m fine.” “You don’t look fine.” “Then stop looking.”
48.“You gotta stop doing that.” “What?” “Saying things that make me wanna kiss you.”
49.“I want to go home.” “And I want to go to the moon. It ain’t happening sweetheart. Time to accept that.”
50.“What now?” “I don’t know. I thought the jump would kill us.”
51.“I think that you’re not as dark as you want people to believe.”
52.“Sometimes, memories are the worst torture.”
53.“I hate you.” “Why? I’m lovely.”
54.“You really have no clue who I am?” “You’d think the confused looks and blank stare would have answered that for you.”
55.“Why are they afraid of you?”
56.“Literally everything about this is illegal.”
57.“You love her don’t you?” “Was it that obvious?”
58.“Why me?” “Because you saw me when I was invisible.”
59.“I was just kind of hoping that you’d, y’know…. fall in love with me.”
60.“It’s okay. You don’t have to love me.”
61.“You know, no one bothered me this much when I was dead.”
62.“Nope. I can’t go to hell. Satan still has a restraining order against me.”
63.“Only a fool would fall in love with someone as deadly as me.”
64.“I’d know that smirk anywhere.”
*thor hands peter a mug of beer*
Thor: Exellent work in the mission man of spiders!
Tony: Thor no the kid is 15.
Thor: Oh!
*hands peter two mugs of beer*
Thor: You are a growing boy.
Tony: Thor no.
EVERY TIME I SEE THIS POST IM WEAK
I’m just gonna leave this here…
Jesus Christ this is gloriously amazing
Art imitating life imitating art imitating life
not to be a history fucker on main but the whole mystery of the lost colony of roanoke is so fucking funny
governor of the colony: hey I’m gonna go back to england to get more supplies
115 colonists: okay
governor: ends up spending 3 years in england bc of a naval war with spain or some shit
governor: gets back to the colony to find everyone gone
governer: sees the word “croatoan”, the name of a native american tribe, carved into a post
croatoan tribe: has members and children with blonde hair/blue eyes, pale skin
everyone: what could have happened to the colonists of roanoke
racism is a hell of a drug
governor: I can’t believe my colony died
roanoke folks: actually these really nice people took us in? we left you a note about that? so please stop telling everyone we’re dead?
governor: Sometimes I Can Still Hear Their Voices
Some of those suspiciously mixed-looking Croatoan tribes-people were even still using the surnames of the Roanoke colonists! The degree to which ‘The Mystery of Roanoke’ is NOT EVEN SLIGHTLY MYSTERIOUS is fucking ridiculous! As an out-and-proud history fucker, I cannot tell you how mad I was when I decided to look into this ~super tantalising mystery~ only to find that it’s so dumb. It’s so dumb, guys.
some of them literally said “we are the descendants of the roanoke colonists”
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