so, i only went in to get the shiny silvally code. should’ve taken like a minute or two at most but i was in there for upwards of ten. it was deeply unsettling right off the bat when i walked in because it was quiet. like really quiet. the tv that plays the gaming news and the speaker that plays the ads weren’t running. the cashier says hello and i get in line to wait. it is dead silent. nobody in the store is making any noise except for the cashier, who is typing. she’s helping a little boy sell 12 PS4 games. the boys mom is walking back and forth behind him sipping her gas station brand cup of coffee. literally just walking back and forth from one end of the store to the other. all the while the entire store is silent, the kid is silent, the mom is silent… all 5 of the other full grown adults in this store are silent. and i’m the only one in line behind this kid, these other adults throughout the store are like standing in one space just staring and being quiet. they weren’t browsing, they weren’t talking. nobody was making any noise. i wasn’t making any noise. i was standing there thinking about how eerily silent it was in this gamestop and wondering what the hell was going on – hyper aware of every move i made because i didn’t want to make a noise and break the silence. this carried on for literally 10 minutes before another cashier came in through the front door and loudly exclaimed “i can’t leave you alone for five minutes.” he called me to the counter and asked me what i needed help with. it was like immediately the ambient noises of gamestop all returned at once and i stepped forward to get my code.
my favorite part of this is the implication that not only was the first cashier somehow responsible for the eerie silence to begin with but also that this has certainly happened before
Noah fence but the story of a low/no empathy person trying to do the right thing and make the right choices is way more interesting and realistic than a low/no empathy person as a camp villain.
Low/no empathy hero vs. High empathy villain
“How can you choose to be good when you can’t feel it?”
tfw you find out your brothers have been lying to you about raw fettuccine at olive garden for years, in front of a live audience in the town you currently reside in
i love cutthroat kitchen but bingewatching makes it really stand out how often alton brown refers to himself as ‘daddy’ and makes contestants wear spreader bars
We met Alton Brown at a show he did here – we paid the extra cash to meet him and get a blurry cellphone pic with him and have him sign a picture. He noticed my (male) companion’s pocket watch, and proceeded to order him to take it out of his pocket. It wasn’t obnoxious, it was in a Dom tone that brooked no argument. So he complied. When he found out it wasn’t wound, and so not working, he was deeply disappointed, and told him to do better next time.
If this guy isn’t a Dom, I’ll eat that spreader bar.
i have never heard anyone not sing that one line in little lion man by mumford and sons with absolute relish like everyone really enjoys just shouting you really fucked it up this time and i dont blame them
After the Thanos snap I want to see Eddie Brock, mortal and human in his dirty ass hoodie, no super powers, no super technology, no PLAN, traveling across the galaxy with whats left of the avengers/the guardians and then just beating the absolute living SHIT out of Thanos with his bare hands for taking Venom away from him. I want to see Eddie land a punch right on thanos’s ballsack chin and break his hand and not care because he just wants his darling back.
I love this, might I also suggest, EDDIE was dusted and Venom picks out his favorite Avenger for Revenge Purposes. Like. he bonds with Thor and becomes an electric eel forever, is what I’m getting at
Venom, manifesting around Eddie after finally being reunited: Eddie! I bonded with Thor to save you and now look what I can do! *electricity crackles around them*
Eddie, still trying to understand what happened between being dusted and resurrected, barely able to comprehend that he’s just met Thor, an actual god and an original Avenger, and now feeling massive amounts of electricity surging through his and Venom’s body: *quietly* what the fuck
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