Today is February 26th.
Happy Hugo's 223rd birthday!
Let's say: Thank you Hugo, for writing such a great book and creating these wonderful charactersš„°š„°š„°
And 223 is the right age of writing more about les miz and ABC and e/R!
So wake up, Victor Hugo!
I just accidentally made un-tea?????
I made green tea, but I forgot there was an old bag of chai in the kettle, so I mixed chai water with decaf green tea, then I mixed in like a half table spoon or something of that honey from the dollar store that they aren't legally allowed to call honey because there's too much corn syrup in it and some almond milk and a single drop of coffee creamer because we ran out and???? It tastes like??? Nothing????
It has LESS flavor than my tap water! HOW do you EVEN-
I think I made a flavor that's only perceptible to shrimp, that's the only explanation
blood is so cool
Those Two Things Are Not Mutually Exclusive :( Yāall Just Donāt Get Him Like I Do <3
Also get ready to READ, I got caught up in Bob being left to his devices in NYC and that's MY Shayla in MY emotional support city so this is long af
This bitch has a criminal record. he has spent time in jail. Maybe not PRISON but certainly jail. And not just for drug possession either. āOh no but heās too small and cute for jail š„ŗā he attacked the gang with a metal sign wearing a chicken costume. depression and being babygirl isnāt a get out of jail free card. That man has run from the cops on several occasions.
Methhead lore you wouldnāt BELIEVE. Like true āOkay. Just be careful you donāt end up naked and jacking it in San Diego.ā āā¦what the hell does that mean?ā Type shit. Every time he drops the lore, the group has to take like a full business day to recover. And itās not like overtly tragic or depressing stuff. Itās just genuinely so bewildering and out of left field. Example: Ava joined a fight club in Azerbaijan? Okay. Alexei started a gang in prison called the Russian Revolutionary? Yeah sure. Bob gave rabies to a raccoon? Wtf Bob
THE MOST type B person youāve ever met. This mf hopped around the world for years, completely alone, pennies to his name, maybe a backpackās worth of gear, heavily addicted to drugs, and he did not have a color-coded itinerary with him. He was hopping on buses he could not pronounce the destination of and showing up to airports 10 minutes before boarding doors closed. He was making choices purely on VIBES and METHAMPHETAMINE and SELF-DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES
The sentence āmilk doesnāt really expire, it just turns to cheese, right?ā are actual words heās said before. Just trust me on this one.
Won't defend himself but he will be the hero for literally anyone he has ever had a single conversation with. (See: sacrificing himself so the Thunderbolts could escape Valentina.) HOWEVER he's not the "she said no pickles" kind of guy. He will instead buy another burger with his own money until they get it right to avoid the confrontation. Stupid? Expensive? A convoluted way of fixing the problem? Yes, but it's fine :) he wasn't going to spend that money anyway (lie)
Once he lives in the tower, Bob routinely gives out lunch to homeless people ESPECIALLY the ones that are clearly battling addiction. It would be an understatement to say that NYC isnāt very kind to its homeless population, and there is a big drug problem within that. Bob used to be in that situation, and he understands the shame of being looked down upon for it. So whenever he is alone during lunch, heāll go out and give some food to the homeless guys in the subway, maybe eat with them, maybe chat with them too. (This is all on Valentinaās card obv) The others can tell when he does this because he comes back smelling like the 7 train.
Once he actually got in trouble with the cops for talking with one homeless guy beneath grand central station. The guy was super twitchy (withdrawal symptoms) and freaking out some other people nearby so the cops tried to kick him out, but Bob was like āhey no weāre talking. Heās not doing anything wrong. Heās my friendā and ended up getting in the copās face like what he did with Valentina, and the cops were all laughing at him and like āokay buddy donāt try to be a hero. This bumās not worth a trip to the stationā so anyways Bob punched a cop :) Bucky had to bail him out. Everyone else gave him a high five
A REALLY fast typer. Like his words-per-minute is phenomenal. It's his favorite stim at home. He was obsessed with his typing classes as a kid, and he loved the computer lab. It was quiet, and the typing noises in the background were so fun. Typing gives his brain the good tingles.
Feels so out of place whenever theyāre in public. Not because people recognize him or he doesnāt like the city or anything. Heās just treated like a normal person now. Heās not that weird, twitchy, red-eyed guy people cross the street to avoid anymore. Heās just there. If someone bumps into him in line at a store, they say āexcuse meā instead of muttering some insults. He can go to a library or a coffee shop, and the staff wonāt hover over him like heās going to steal something or squat there. Heās perfectly invisible, but he is nonetheless awarded a respect he didnāt previously have. (On good days, he feels free. On bad days, it makes him feel sick.)
At one point in life, Bob was actually a dishwasher for some restaurant/crime front for a gang that peddled drugs. Bob got some cash under the table for his work, drugs for keeping it hush hush, and something to do that made him feel useful :) he mostly did it for the drugs though ngl
Heās got that āoh I guess weāre doing this nowā energy where he just goes with whatever the situation is to save himself the stress of fixing it. Once he got on the wrong subway train and just stayed the whole ride. Could have gotten off at any time and just taken the train back, but No. He was stuck there now. That was the new plan. He had to live with his consequences. (And heād never been to Coney Island before. Who knows? Maybe it would be fun. (It was. Ava and Alexei joined him as well. They really liked the Cyclone.))
BIG people pleaser, BIG wanderer off. If theyāre ever in Times Square together and they canāt see Bob, he either got roped into taking one of those CD handouts (this is parallel to how he got into drugs) OR he joined a conga line and subsequently got kidnapped. The group chat now threatens to buy him one of those leash backpacks whenever he disappears into a crowd.
Yk how people with anxiety tend to be the coolest under pressure? Well, when every single conversation feels like a gun to your head, and then one day, you do actually have a gun to your head, CONGRATS! You're already partially desensitized :D That is exactly how Bob survives every single encounter of having a gun to his head. (It happens frequently. Both before and after being Sentry. Like WAY too frequently.)
Got kidnapped like a month or two in because some guys thought heād be an easy target to lure the āNew Avengers.ā they were right with the 'luring the New Avengers' thing, but they were NOT RIGHT in thinking heād be an easy target. Heās one slippery mf and heās got street smarts. (Btw I do not forgive yāall for forgetting Bob had the idea to get up the elevator shaft by linking arms or whatever. Heās still babygirl, but he does have brain cells.) The Thunderbolts/New Avengers/Avengerz/Name Pending arrive to see the bad guys have all somehow locked themselves in the room they intended to lock Bob up in, and Bob is just stimming in a swivel chair off to the side acting like he inconvenienced the kidnappers. "The room was too stuffy. I didn't like it anymore :/"
Definitely allergic to something but didnāt know until someone on the team was like āhey want some apple pie?ā And he said āyeah sure but just a bit :) I canāt stand when you have too much apple and your throat gets all itchy, you know?ā And everyone looked at him like āno Bob we do not know šļøššļøā
Cannot keep a straight face to save his life. Maybe he can lie super well or make up a believable story, but you know heās lying about something. (Honestly a good things he doesn't join them on missions.) The only reason he was able to keep stuff from the Thunderbolts when they first met him was because they just met him, but even then, they knew he was hiding shit. They just didnāt know what and they had other priorities.
Additionally, Bob is banned from being in the general vicinity of Valentina during press events because he CANNOT hide his utter loathing towards her. Just like the memory of getting his powers, Bob eventually remembers most of the whole Sentry debacle, including Valentina lying to him, trying to control him like a pet, making him fight everyone, then trying to use the kill switch. (But ESPECIALLY being mean as shit to Yelena.) Thus he is not allowed near Valentina in ANY promotional material, otherwise he will stare her down like he wants to pummel her. He doesnāt even mean to. But after they told him to fix his face for the cameras, he decided he also doesnāt care to stop. Sorry Valentina XX
Sometimes Bob gets really frustrated when one of the others wonāt take care of themselves, like they wonāt shower or brush their hair or eat. It isnāt because heās judging them but because heās judging himself. He kind of puts them on this pedestal and relies on them to set a good example, yk? (Is that healthy? Ofc not.) But if they canāt do the basic stuff sometimes, then how is he supposed to? Itās rare for these feelings to bubble up to that point, and itās unfair to the others, and he knows that, but he canāt stop it sometimes. So instead of taking it out on them, he takes a breather somewhere else until he can articulate his feelings.
Bob was in the sentry box for almost a year (I know this probably makes zero sense but idc) so it surprised him when he saw the date on a calendar after they moved into the tower. At first, he didnāt care. In his own self-deprecating fashion, he figured a few months without him wasnāt the end of the world, maybe even for the better because he wouldn't have met his new friends otherwise...but the more he thought about it, the worse he felt. He had to spend a lot of extra sessions with their therapist to unpack that.
Let me know if you liked these! I didn't want to repeat all the cute ones that are being bounced around already like "he brings in strays" or "he likes wearing oversized clothes" (which btw are both real and valid, and I agree.) I just wanted to go in a different direction, almost like a character study actually.
I just love thinking about Bob's quirks that reflect his past in a way that isn't just cute and sad, yk? I like to think of the ones that are also annoying and inconvenient, the ones that directly reflect his difficult past where he made all those bad decisions and wrong turns. And the resulting traits are endearing sometimes, yes, but not always.
That's the message that got to me the most in the movie, accepting a person's annoyances or issues and still loving them. Not despite them but alongside them. Their good quirks and their bad quirks are what make up the whole person, and you need to acknowledge both sides to truly love someone, even if that person is yourself :(
These headcanons and all of the cute silly ones can coexist!! It's what makes a good character great, and it's what I love the most about Bob :)
OKAY BYE :D
reminder that i am only using it/its pronouns from here on out. i'm so tired of people not using them for me- my own close friends even avoid using it for me most of the time in favor of they. i'm tired of people literally avoiding addressing me appropriately. this isn't a matter of personal opinion- it's about correcting inappropriate behavior.
just as you don't question the she/her pronouns used by a cis woman, or the he/him pronouns used by a cis man- don't question anyone who uses it/its pronouns. trans, cis, intersex, or otherwise. it's not a debate. it's not a moral or ethical issue- it's about respect, and being addressed correctly.
i refuse to cave and use "they" so it's "easier" for people. it only takes a little bit of practice. if you are resistant to learning new concepts, you will always have negative reactions when you disrespect someone. that's what this is: disrespect.
Tony Stark is a genius. Like Daredevil once said, you could chuck him naked into the middle of a desert and heād fly out with a suit made of cacti. And we see this when he escapes the cave.
But, his escape was a team effort. He would not have been able to do it without Yinsen and yet it wasnāt really technological intelligence that Yinsen provided. Tony knew exactly what he was doing the entire time.
Yinsen provided hope.
Tony Stark is still everything without the suit because he will always have his mind but he is nothing without people around him. He was fully prepared to give up without Yinsen giving him something to live for, something to motivate him. He needed someone to force him to care about his life.
We see this repeated in every close relationship that Tony forms. Heās a genius. But it all means nothing when heās alone.
Also while weāre here I want everyone to appreciate that This
This wild, wonderful, beautifully animated and heartfelt queer story started here
Here, on tumblr, by an art student who was wrestling with his identity, mental health, and religious trauma
Tell your stories, kids, you never know how many people will thank you for it
I know most people don't care about anything unless it has to do with the U.S. but can we please start talking about the Canadian election.
Please don't vote for Poilievre. He's basically the Canadian Trump and plans to put in place laws that harm trans youth, and lots of other shit.
Please vote istg this is the only way anything will get better. Poilievre has been kissing millionaires and billionaires asses. He'll make life even harder, and he loves Trump.
Reblogs are appreciated, especially if you aren't Canadian.
truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if sheās sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if sheās perhaps worried sheās a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and thatās enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said sheās here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then sheāll make another one. I said āisnāt it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?ā and she just looked at me funny and said āwhat do you mean? The whole world was here, waitingā. Some people, I tell you.