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๐Ÿ”†Soleil | 22๐Ÿ”† Queer ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Agender ๐ŸŽƒwhat the fuck is going on๐ŸŽƒ
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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano Iโ€™ve ever seen)

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the childrenโ€™s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now thereโ€™s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

Want to learn something new in 2023??

Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)

Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)

How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)

How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)

Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)

Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)

How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)

Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game

Go (back) to school

Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)

Introduction to philosophy (free college course)

Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)

Learn a language

Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)

Portuguese (Brazil)

American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)

Chinese (Simplified)

Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)

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nothing in the world makes me more evil than just being kind of annoyed

me when i'm in genuine agonising distress: i'm so sorry if i'm bothering you with my childish histrionics :/

me when i'm just in a bit of a bad mood: i hope hydrogen bombs fall on every living thing in the universe

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โ€œOne time my Nanny and the Gardener were having a heated argument in the car and he took her Queen tape out of the player and threw it out the window with rage and she looked him dead in the eyes and pulled out a second copy of that same tape and put it back in the player.โ€

โ€” Warlock, probably

Warlock becomes a stand up comedian when he grows up. He becomes the John Mulaney of his time. This is his equivalent of โ€œone black coffeeโ€.

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feamir

I can totally envision Warlockโ€™s version of the duck story!

One day when I was ten, the gardener comes into the house soaking wet and says, in that voice one usually reserves for toddlers or small animals, โ€œAh! One feels like a duck splashing around in all this wet! And when one feels like a duck, one is happy!โ€ And then Nanny yelled, โ€œOoh, ducklings!โ€ To which the gardener replied, โ€œToo old to be a duckling. Quack, quack.โ€ And then walked into the kitchen. I think about that every goddamn day.

I canโ€™t believe I never saw this until now. Headcanon accepted. This is beyond hilarious. Alsoโ€ฆ.

I canโ€™t believe this one was hidden in the replies.

โ€œI love my family, or at the very least people would assume so. People would think that growing up as a politicianโ€™s son would be easy, and they are right. I got everything that I ever asked for, spending money the only way Rick People could spend money.

โ€œDad! I want a Ponyโ€ Boom, Pony is at my feet

โ€œDad! I wanted it blackโ€ Boom. Done. Pony now looks like it crawled out of the Black Lagoon.

โ€œDad! The Pony glared at me!โ€ I get a bottle of glue the next day. I was living the Rickie Rich lifestyle. I can have anything I want.

But the best part of growing up rich, the absolute best part, was that we were able to afford our own nanny.

I love her so much but am goddamn terrified of her to this day. I am a 28 year old man and I live in my own bodyweight of fear towards her.

When I was 1 to when I was 11, we had a nanny in our house. Her name is Nanny. If you call her anything else you will die. Somedays I think that my parents made a Rumpelstiltskin Deal with her before I was born, where instead of taking baby me she just moved in to our house to raid our fridge and judge the world from lofty windows. This is just the first part of the mystery of my nanny. ย 

She dresses like she is preparing to go to a funeral. And the difference between preparing to go and actually going is that they hadnโ€™t found the body yet. You know when friends say that they would kill someone for you? Nanny would gut a cat if I wanted to play the violin thatโ€™s how hardcore she was. She wore red sunglasses because her glare alone could turn anyone to stone. If you squint hard enough you can actually see lasers coming out of her eyes.

Now you need to remember, I lived with this woman for Ten Years. Since I was a baby. This shit was normalized to me. While my parents were in West Wing I was living in the Addams Family. Nanny loved me and raised me and so what if she told me that I was going to lead Satanโ€™s Army someday. Thatโ€™s just Nanny. But throughout all of this, I never truly understand how terrifying she could be until I was 8 years old.

Picture this: a little 8 year old me, plump and trimmed with baby fat, standing next to Mary Poppinโ€™s evil twin. One day we were going out for brunch so I can, and Iโ€™m quoting here โ€œpractice giving out orders when the army of hell arrivesโ€

Iโ€™m still waiting for them, just to let you know.

So we get inside Nannyโ€™s car, an old Black 1933 Bently which plays nothing but Queen music on cassettes.

I know this sounds fake, but she is a real person and not some Baba Yaga who decided not to eat me.

As we were about to leave, Brother Francis ran out to us. Francis was out gardener. He worked for us for as long as Nanny has, wears suspenders and a sun hat, and Iโ€™m pretty sure he ran away from a monastery. He walks up to Nanny and asks for a ride to the local gardening store for supplies. So he gets in the front seat, Iโ€™m in the back, and all three of us get on our way.

At 1000 miles per hour in a 55 zone.

Now Iโ€™m 8 years old. And no matter how cool your Nanny is, you just donโ€™t pay attention to boring adult stuff like meetings, or finances, or traffic safety laws. So Iโ€™m lost in my own thoughts on how to direct my hell army to build myself a waterpark.

I donโ€™t know how long I zoned out because when I snapped back in Nanny and Francis were arguing. Not in the pleasant passive aggressive way that makes you rethink your life choices, but full on yelling. So we are speeding down the road like death is chasing us. Bohemian Rhapsody is playing on blast. Nanny and Francis screaming at each other. Sulfur filled the air, radiant light pulsed menacing around us. Exactly how I imagined what parents fighting would be like. Things came to a head right as Freddy was about to hit his last โ€œFor Me!โ€ because that was when this meek looking gardener snapped. Francis turns to Nanny and screams โ€œYOUโ€™RE DRIVING TOO FAST!โ€ yanks the cassette out and pitches it out the window.

And then time stood still.

Have you ever been on a rollercoaster where at the top of the first hill staring down you regret every decision youโ€™ve ever made that led you to this point? That was where we were all at.

Because there were three rules to Nannyโ€™s Bently. Nanny always drives. Nanny always drives fast. And Nanny always drives fast with Freddy Mercury blaring down like her own personal angel.

This is all new uncharted territory for me. Iโ€™ve never seen anyone even dare disrespect her angel and plan to live to tell the tale. I was just watching in fascinated horror as this moment just searing into my mind.

Nannyโ€™s looking directly at Francis, you can feel her eyeโ€™s heat laserโ€™s charging up. I was trying to think of reasons to tell my parents why we donโ€™t have a gardener anymore. Because even at 8 years old I know a death marker when Iโ€™ve seen one and by the end of the trip I was expecting Francis to be nothing but a smoldering piled of ash and a $15 hat.

She looks at him, and takes one hand off the wheel. Still barreling down the road like a madman mind you. But it alright because timeโ€™s frozen so we donโ€™t hit anything. And with one hand, she reaches in front of him to the glove compartment, gently pulls out another cassette tape, and places it in the deck.

[pauses]

[sings] โ€œFOR ME!!!!!โ€

We pull into the parking lot by the time Bohemian Rhapsody ends and I have never looked at Nanny the same way ever again. Because anyone who can play the exact same song on two different cassettes without missing a beat is their own god and needs to be feared.โ€

-Warlock in his comedy special

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roanoaks

OH MY GOD Iโ€™M CACKLING

Thatโ€™s it. The โ€œWarlock grows up to be John Mulaneyโ€ AU is the only AU Iโ€™m here for.

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*person has consented to being eaten; theyโ€™ve donated their body. they died without suffering. you can cook the meat. you will not get sick from the meat.

bonus: explain why!

personal favourite responses thus far

  • the people who have no moral qualms with cannibalism but but voted no because theyre picky eaters or dont like trying new things
  • the multiple vegetarians who voted yes
  • the one (1) person who (rightfully) called out the phrase 'ethically sourced human meat' (when i typed that out i had to take a long look at the choices ive made throughout my life)
  • "ever since i got into pokemon vore i've had a huge fascination in cannibalism"
  • the anime blog who reblogged this post not 5 minutes after my anime fan friend told me that "anime fans LOVE cannibalism"
  • โ€œif they are my enemyโ€
  • and most of all - those who are reblogging without any commentary at all. because having absolutely NO thoughts on cannibalism is more fascinating than any possible response
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Yโ€™all hate me bc Iโ€™m gay. And no, donโ€™t say itโ€™s bc of โ€œmurdersโ€ or โ€œblackmailโ€ or โ€œstealingโ€ or โ€œgenocideโ€ or โ€œthreatening to killโ€ or โ€œunlicensed midwiferyโ€ or โ€œinventing communismโ€ or โ€œatheismโ€ or โ€œwitchcraftโ€ or โ€œdefacing the pyramidsโ€ or โ€œbreaking curfewsโ€ or โ€œcreating curfewsโ€ or โ€œmaking my mate eat his toeโ€. Yโ€™all donโ€™t care about that shit. Yโ€™all hate me cus Iโ€™m gay and thatโ€™s disgusting.

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I love how all of the Batman villains are like โ€œah heโ€™s not at the manor, itโ€™s defenseless! and then alfred just racks an AK-47 and is like pull up bitch

Batmanโ€™s Villains: The butler will be easy prey!

Heโ€™s just an old manโ€ฆhe doesnโ€™t have any of the Batmanโ€™s gadgets or training or fighting skills!

Alfred: Oh my youโ€™re right

Thereโ€™s something else of Master Bruceโ€™s I donโ€™t have as well

(Cocks a shotgun) A CODE AGAINST KILLING

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welshronin

Batmanโ€™s Villains: Wayne isnโ€™t here to save you old man!

Alfred:

Image

Alfred is the originalย โ€œCall an ambulance โ€” but not for meโ€

@dragonpuppies I spent way too long on this

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trader-j0e

Bruce: I have a code.

Alfred: And I have a gun.

Bruce: time to remove the guns.

Alfred: good fucking luck.

Iโ€™ve peer reviewed @ebonyheartnetโ€™s addition and found that it deserves a reblog.

yo in some versions isnโ€™t he also a former MI-6 agent?