She Fanfics Rancherly Down the Stairs

If someone is mailing you pictures of the assorted ways they've destroyed your toys, that's weird and you can and should ban them from doing so. If you're collaborating with other toymakers professionally, it would be perfectly reasonable to ask them to interact with your toys publicly in proscribed ways- that is both a professional business arrangement and a genuine one-on-one relationship.

But the toys themselves aren't yours anymore.

Don't leave this in the tags! Because Notch wouldn't approve of the fact we just had Pride MCC, never mind any SMP that has queer ships, canonical or implied. (And some of us even take absolute glee in creating things he'd hate in Minecraft.)

It's been a week since we launched My Liege with @novaandmali ! We've not only funded the project in 12 hours, but also unlocked every stretch goal 🎊

Thank you SO much for your amazing support! 🌈

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[x] with extra [x]

An intensifier. Usually styled as “flee with extra flee” but can be utilized with any word.

-ificator

Suffix indicating “machine that does [x]”. A “bonemeal-ificator”, for instance, is a machine that makes bonemeal.

niner

Used in place of any large number (“ten million bazillion niner stacks of wool”) or to punctuate the end of a statement in an affirmative way, similar to the phrase “ten-four”.

I’m not a builder/redstoner/gamer

An action word roughly synonymous with “move” and/or “operate” (as in “we’re just gonna skadoodle that over here”).

skadoodler - noun

The noun form of “skadoodle”, meaning “that which skadoodles”. Can occasionally be shorted to “skadoodle” which may cause some confusion with the verb form.

dunga dunga dunga

An onomatopoeia depicting movement, usually the footsteps of a large and heavy creature.

happy fun sauce - noun

[x] harder

An imperative phrase. Normally [x] is a noun (which is not grammatically correct in English but is in Tango-isms). Similar use case to “lock in”, with [x] being used as a placeholder for the task that needs to be completed (eg. “wheat harder”).

[x] of eternal joy and happiness

A literal saw trap. Will probably be said with sadistic glee and whimsy. Exact wording may vary.

pancakes

45% chance this is a filler word

45% chance it’s another murder monster machine scheme

8% chance it’s literally just pancakes

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

A Ranchers Rugby AU

Tango smiles back and starts following the team, unable to stall any longer, but he can’t stop himself from turning back to watch Jimmy pull his jersey on as he steps onto the pitch. He knows Jimmy will remember this moment forever, and Tango knows that he won’t be able to forget it either. Jimmy’s messy blonde hair, the quiet look of reverence in his eyes turning to steely resolve as Grian reaches over to fist-bump him - it’s a sight he’s seen a hundred times, a hundred new players he’s seen walk onto the pitch, but he knows he’ll remember this one. Maybe it’s the knowledge that it’s his last first game. The last time he’ll see a rookie on his team earn his cap. Or maybe it’s just because it's Jimmy, who has charmed his way into a soft spot in Tango's heart, as much as he denies it.

The Sonoran desert, Arizona