Oogly Boogly Bitch!!!!👻👻

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.

This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?

"It's red on the inside?"

Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.

"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."

And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything had a nice list of additional examples like this, with (non-)obvious major insights with regard to opening stitched bags, cleaning your bathroom floor, using a search engine, catching a ball, pinging somebody, proving a theorem, playing sudoku, passing as “normal”, improving your writing, generating novel ideas, and solving your problem.

If you’d asked me six months ago how to get better at something, I’d probably have pointed you to how to do hard things. I still think this is a good approach and you should do it, but I now think it’s the wrong starting point and I’ve been undervaluing small insights. [...]

Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.

When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.

He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.

This one has already been submitted, but I feel that it needs to be resubmitted with the following fact:

When this chapter of the manga originally came out, The Sixth Sense was just airing in Japanese theaters. With Araki being big into western media he had already seen it, but most of Japan had not.

Jolyne didn’t just spoil the movie for the people watching it in the manga, she spoiled it for every JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure reader who had yet to go see it. Which would have been god knows how many people.

sukuna and toji sat on the old benches outside at the park bickering as theyve done since they were just teenagers. the only difference was that now they both had a small baby girl on each of their laps.

you and tojis wife sat near a table farther away from them, chatting about motherhood as you heard their voices get higher and higher in volume.

“what do you think theyre arguing about now,” she asked, smiling at her husband with loving eyes.

“couldn’t really care less, they do this basically everyday,” you scoff, shaking your head.

you could hear their conversation slightly, both of you pausing to listen in.

“okay yeah your she is pretty cute but shes way fatter than my angel here,” sukuna said, gesturing to tsumikis chubby cheeks and tubby belly. “am i right kuni? youre way cuter than her,” sukuna said to his daughter, planting kisses all over her even chubbier face.

“okay yeah fuckface, she is a little bigger but shes still cuter. shes just been bulking since birth and thats perfectly fine.” toji said, smirking and crossing his arms smugly as if it makes complete sense.

“bulking? nah bro shes just fat, she probably doesnt even understand the concept of-“

smack.

sukuna was abruptly cut off as your hand met the back of his neck with a loud pop.

“ah, the fuck was that for?”

smack.

“dont talk about tsumiki like that and watch your language. to be fair, you were even bigger than her when you were a baby.”

toji tilted his head back and let out a loud cackle.

“how ‘bout that shit. ryomen was a fat ass baby, i’d love to see that.”

e z i o :

He cooks for you and you help him clean up after

He wants to make sure that you know he's not the sort of guy to come over, help himself to all your stuff, dominate the space, etc

He 'accidentally' forgot to bring any night clothes with him though so he's going to have to sleep naked

You know it would be a great idea if you joined him with that ;)

e d w a r d :

He's not the tidiest person and he's aware of that so he does his best to tidy up after himself

But he'll still leave a cup or plate lying about - oops

The two of you have a shower together before heading to bed

Maybe it's just me but idk there's something about being comfortable enough to shower at a place that really indicates I'm comfortable being there

a r n o :

I'm sorry but I just know he'd silently judge your decor if it's not to his tastes lol

The two of you cuddle up in bed watching the DVDs that he brought with him, your mutual favourites

He packed extra jumpers to leave behind for you because you're always stealing his anyway

Yes, you're wearing one while cuddled up having your little film fest

j a c o b :

You build a blanket fort together

He's a child at heart and the two of you have great fin making it together