John Smith and the Multiverse Cult

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

I can't describe how much I love this poem. I want to hug it.

There should be an equivalent to asking "how's the wife and kids?" that's like "so how's that fictional man of yours doing?"

hardison/eliot "two good old boys behind the wheel chasing down bad guys in lucille" bit you will always be famous to me

bro im not driving pass me the victor hugo there are men who seemingly are born to be the verso quote

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

Show up at work like hi boss sorry I'm late my I was helping my mother track down one specific 90s dungeon crawler for the purposes of obtaining a muffin recipe the developer hid in the files

I'M MAKING THE MUFFINS

Taste review: Make the video game muffins oh my GOD.

small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.

The more Leverage I watch, the more I feel like it’s fanfiction of some alternate Leverage show. Like someone was like, “I love this show and these characters so much, and I need a college AU and a music star AU and an Office crossover and I want them to solve a mystery at a murder mystery party on a spooky island and and and…” I love it so.

Leverage is fanfiction of every heist and action trope written by people who deeply love the genre (and who are even more deeply pissed off by current events.) And that’s why it’s perfect.

Watching Parker run her con alone with just a server (s5ep8) is actually soooo satisfying. She's grown so much from the first episode where she goes in early since she "always works alone", in the earlier seasons where she can't grift, before Eliot taught her how to fight and when she still had no idea what Hardison was saying. Now, Sophie calls her "Little Bird", she called everyone on the team and they all trusted her to know what to do best, she masterminded a mastermind, built tech from scratch, improvised where needed with her hurt leg, still fought dispite it; the job had Nate complimenting her after all is said and done--and Parker was complimenting Amy every step of the way and encouraging her!!! Like, I enjoyed this episode my first watch but with the rewatch I think its my new fav.

really love a corruption arc where the character is trying way too hard to make it work but they're in over their head and it's uncomfortable and embarrassing and they're swallowing their own puke every time they do something awful and damp with sweat and trembling but insistent that they can do this, they want it, they're not a child, but it's like they're playing dressup in clothes that are too big for them and trying to convince their own reflection in the mirror that they fit and it's just no fun to watch at all

+ then they find inside them a capacity for cruelty far more upsettingly vicious than anyone could have imagined and decide that because they enjoy how unafraid it makes them feel for the first time it must have been their true nature all along instead of something that had to be starved in the dark until it grew desperate enough to claw its way out 🙂‍↕️

. that is a serial killer