#ask boombutton

I've speculated about that before a few times, based mostly on the loose ends and the weird pacing of s5. As far as I know though, the series creators haven't said anything about a planned breakup.

I'm a little confused. What does it mean to listen to a song publicly? I pretty much don't go out in public anymore, and if I did I would have better manners than to listen without headphones.

Is listening to a song in the car with my fiancé public enough? Is it more or less public to crank up the volume and roll down the windows?

What about subjecting people to songs in Discord voice chat? Does the answer change if they've all got the music bot on mute and so I'm the only one who can hear it? Does the answer change if we've all gotten together in voice for the specific purpose of listening to a given album, most of us for the first time?

Or am I completely overthinking this and it's just asking me to admit to it publicly? Which is weird if so, because my tumblr is anonymous?

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I'll go with songs I've subjected people to on Discord, I guess.

Evil Eye by Franz Ferdinand

Friday by Rebecca Black

The Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin

We Share Our Mothers' Health by The Knife

On A Boat by The Lonely Island

Your roommate bit your hand???

Yep! She wanted me to do something, I think clean? And I was planning on going and doing my homework with some friends, so I told her I'd do it later. She grabbed me and wouldn't let me go, so I turned the grab against her and pinned her (loosely!) by the neck against the bunk bed with my forearm. Instead of letting go she wriggled and bit my wrist.

Fair play tbh, and no real damage done. Once I let her up, she let go and we continued about our evenings.

☺️ I have good takes apparently!

I am but a simple podcast listener. I hear podcast about crab god, I obsess about podcast with crab god, I go out of my way to find all you can eat crab, I offer my flesh for my fiance's teeth.

So this trope does occur in some written works, but my best examples for it are actually from long-running sci fi TV shows.

The Magical Pregnancy. Honestly, most tropes and cliches revolving around pregnancy are just profoundly cringe-inducing, but the Magical Pregnancy really takes the cake.

A character, often one previously defined by their practicality, either magically becomes pregnant or has their existing pregnancy interfered with in some way. Being pregnant Changes Them, softens out their edges, makes them So Protective Of Baby, You Guys. If the pregnancy was unintentional, they won't even think of trying to get an abortion.

The pregnant character is now hunted by people who want the baby delivered into their hands for some kind of power boost. They usually end up kidnapping the pregnant character in time for them to give birth. The birth may be either remarkably painless or remarkably traumatic; in either case the baby is whisked away to become a Creepy Magical Child, growing to Not Boring age practically overnight. There are no lasting consequences to the Formerly Pregnant Parent except that their personality and role in the story is now primarily defined by them being the Mother* of the Magical Child, with a weird, often-psychic bond often existing between the two even if the Creepy Magical Child was stolen away at birth.

Examples from popular media:

Twilight

Dr Who revival

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate SG-1

Dune (arguably)