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There’s a decent Italian place a few towns over from me, and they have tons of TVs up. But they put stylish frames around them like they’re paintings so that you know the place is still fancy.
Nothing annoys me more than, when I’m having a nice meal out with myself and a book, some loud mouth jackass screaming about some sportsball…thing. Thankfully, I have an unlimited internet connection on my phone and a pair of earbuds. Youtube, don’t fail me now!
Amusingly, unlike most vague and generic references to ‘the game’, this one is actually followed up with more specific information that gives away which sport it actually is, as well as one of the teams playing (with the other being easily guessed just based on Ruth’s previously established tastes).
It’s still sportsball, because as people who identify sportsball enthusiasts, we either cannot tell or do not admit the capacity to tell the difference between balls, pucks, gloves, oblong pigskins, bats, and other likely-accoutrements.
Get the thing between the posts! Across the line! To score the points that make you win! Unless it’s one of those games where points are bad. But no one watches those on TV! Yay sports on TV! Shout at your team, I’m sure they can hear you!
From the team mentioned, ‘the game’ Billie brought up is a hockey game. Ruth is passionate about hockey (this may even be a Leafs game). She turned to see where Billie was looking and saw a call being made that she disagreed with. Vehemently.
SACRILEGE! Nah, not really, that’s fine! I know it looks weird as hell but somehow I love that strange…grey bread. And it’s cool that you don’t! How about Olive Garden’s breadsticks?
Olive Garden may be boring, “safe” Italian food, but I’ll gorge myself on their breadsticks given the opportunity.
There’s a regional Italian chain around here that makes amazing rolls, too. They’re about the size of a tennis ball, with a thick crust that keeps the inside soft and warm.
Oh god that sounds absolutely delicious. This past Thanksgiving, I had my first yeast rolls and they were AMAZING. So thick, yet soft and warm…why is bread so DELICIOUS?
Outback is the yummy brown bread, isn’t it? When I was a kid there was a steakhouse in town with small loaves of brown bread and you got to slice it yourself and spread soft butter on it. I loved it. Also you got to eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor which intrigued me even thought I tend to dislike that kind of mess.
If it’s the same kind as Cheesecake Factory (I’ve only been to Outback once) it’s called molasses bread and it is delicious. And can sometimes be found at local bakeries/grocery stores.
This reminds of an entirely different molasses bread – Boston Brown Bread. The bread in a can.
Actually sold canned by B&M, but easy to make as well. Traditionally it actually is steamed, not baked and was often made in old coffee cans and the like. Sweet and soft and delicious, at least in my childhood memories. I now need to make some.
I also remember a black Russian Rye we used to get at the little grocery near college. Haven’t found anything in that line quite so good since.
Maybe im being too optimistic but i hope this ends with them figuring out you can go on dates however you like and you dont have to do it like the movies.
Only prepping it now? And you only have one? I have at least five “Damn You Willis” ready to use at any given time; in pristine condition. Because you can never, ever cease your vigilance when it comes to DYW.
In fact, I think I need to purchase a few more; considering he’s already been hinting at a particularly sad valentine strip happening this year.
No one is rage-murdered,
No one has lost their femurs,
No one is suicidal,
No one is unconscious in alcohol poisoning,
Aaaaand, they are both nervously and adorably reaching out to each other and in general behaving like young people with chemistry on a date rather than in the middle of a crisis. Ruth’s big fear was that they would have nothing in common outside drunk bullying/fucking in the murder cave. She seems to be wrong.
It’s cute because they don’t really know how dates work. Sure, you could “go out to a nice dinner” which is a sort of “traditional” dating activity. But it’s also fun — maybe MORE fun — to go places together and do things together that both of you enjoy, which means you get to just have FUN the whole time!
The whole point is to build a library of shared experiences that help your relationship bond together, like glue.
My first date with my fella was at a Starbucks. Neither of us enjoy Starbucks but we do enjoy Redwall and comic books and we chatted about it for hours on end.
About a year ago, my wife and I did a “bookstore” date; in which we searched for books based on stuff like “Book that defined your childhood” “Book about something you wish you’d learn about” and so on. Turned out to be quite interesting.
Of course, being that we’d already been married for over four years at this point, we agreed to see if we could find the absolutely -least- appropriate choice for the “risque book” category. I think mine ended up being a DIY book of some sort.
Oh! Fun! Ahem.
My first date with the woman I ended up marrying went like this:
Walk through park up a trail with a waterfall to reach –
A fancy Japanese restaurant (also accessible by car) where we had sushi. Then –
A walk back through the park (since the car was on the other side), pausing at a bench next to the waterfall for talking and then impromptu makeouts.
Makeouts led to… a bit more than that, which was fine until we got caught by other hikers and, blushing, made our way back to her car and then back to her apartment for more private sexy times.
After a few hours of sexy times, we rearranged ourselves because we were planning to meet friends. See, she and I were already best friends for years prior to our first actual date, and said date had been kind of spontaneous, so none of our friends knew anything had happened and we wanted to keep it that way until we had time to actually talk about everything that had happened.
Later that evening, after meeting (and, we later learned, completely failing to fool any of them that nothing had happened), we sat down to talk and ended up having more sex instead of talking.
Best first date ever. Obviously, I suppose, since we ended up getting married three years later and have been together ever since. ^^
Heh… I love telling that story.
To now destroy the god image a bit, this was our first face-to-face meeting, seeing that we got to know each other online. And it did take us a while to meet, what with living on different continents and all.
So when we finally met, there was… a fair amount (to say the least) of pent-up sexual tension to release before we could do anything else.
Billie: Place across the street has the game.
Ruth: *shoving breadsticks in her purse* I have to go. You’re coming with me. I need to yell at the referee from closer to the TV
(I’m not sorry for using this old meme format but I’m sorry for this not being a very good joke in general)
I feel like Billie’s trying to avoid talking about her new dorm. She says a short, generic thing that doesn’t really anything about the dorm at all, and then moves to another topic. At first I thought the third panel was Ruth trying to get to open up more about Forest Quad, and then next panel Billie avoids the question completely. But the structure of 2nd and 3rd panels don’t fit that narrative.
FWIW, I think that Billie still hasn’t come to any solid conclusions about Forest Hall yet, and the few ideas in her head (“They like me there! They really, really like me!”) she’s probably hiding because she’s worried it will make Ruth doubt their relationship.
I HOPE you’re right, and Billie’s not hiding things because she wants a kind of double life. That’s what I do. I mean, the hiding things part. Don’t do what I do, Billie!
–Except Billie’s underage (albeit with fake ID). Plus they have a bad history with alcohol. Watching it from across the street is probably a lot safer. :/
I’ve been getting this vibe too, but I’ve been trying to deny it, because I don’t like separating and categorizing into masculine and feminine, which I see as related to gendering. I still do it, whether consciously or not, because it’s so ingrained in culture, society, and in me, and omg I hate it. I just want non-binary to be mainstream in everything already. This isn’t really directed at you though, just me venting.
I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for complete annihilation of genders, everyone should be non-binary gender, etc. I just wish people could be themselves, like whatever they like, dislike whatever they dislike, without worrying about gender or the masc-fem spectrum.
Even so, part of my non-binary gender identity IS worrying about gender and masc-fem, because I really want to not be at the either end of the so-called spectrum. I haven’t progressed mentally enough that I’m free of that yet.
By which criteria did you reach that conclusion?
I don’t perceive any of them as more butch as the other (though Billie might have some more aspects that can be read as femme than Ruth, but still, that’s not enough to make Ruth butch ).
Aw, Ruth. She’s having such a hard time being her because she’s spent so much time being broken, she feels that trying to be fixed means trying to be the ideal of normality. … Sure hope Billie knocks herself out of it before that explodes in her face.
It’s more of a case that Clint has successfully programmed Ruth to believe that ‘being her’ is an intrinsically bad thing. Because of that, she’s afraid to let Billie see that part of her.
Ruth: during my experimental phase I dates lots of boys so I totally know how to treat chicks on dates.
Billie: ah yea.. I like the sound of that.
Ruth: ‘oh no’ I forgot my wallet. You pay for this Sweet Cheeks. Wait, my phone is ringing. Super important (aside: Toronto’s winning the game. Hell yea, **BURP**)
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What kind of fancy place doesn’t have the game??
(a quiet one with no shenanigans, probs)
What kind of place? Not the kind of place that is worth going to!
There’s a decent Italian place a few towns over from me, and they have tons of TVs up. But they put stylish frames around them like they’re paintings so that you know the place is still fancy.
They should have gone there.
TVs in picture frames? Ooh fancy!
PICTURE IN PICTURE IN PICTURE FRAME!
It’s like a Picasso painting, only with hockey brawls.
Wouldn’t a hockey brawl look more like a Pollock?
Pft that’s clearly more surrealist than cubist, you shouldn’t even watch fancy TVs if you can’t compare it to a more fitting art style
…. maybe impressionist, if pictures of pictures have bad resolution?
It’s the old, boring kind of fancy.
I would love to see more of such places where I live. I hate food places with turned on Vs.
Nothing annoys me more than, when I’m having a nice meal out with myself and a book, some loud mouth jackass screaming about some sportsball…thing. Thankfully, I have an unlimited internet connection on my phone and a pair of earbuds. Youtube, don’t fail me now!
Ruth Lesse: Master of romance
Lessick. I meant Lessick. Dammit.
Hopefully Billie can show off her own romantic side by suggesting they relocate to where Ruth can watch the Leafs lose.
i love the game
all about that sports
SPORTSBALL YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
WOOOO! GO TEAM HEADQUARTERED CLOSEST TO WHERE I LIVE!
Put that object in that net or goal on the other team’s side of the field!
Yeah! Score the necessary amount of points in the allotted time!
Yeah, take that, not so close headquartered team fan that I define as my lifelong enemy over people that really alienates me.
Don’t you mean PUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!?
Amusingly, unlike most vague and generic references to ‘the game’, this one is actually followed up with more specific information that gives away which sport it actually is, as well as one of the teams playing (with the other being easily guessed just based on Ruth’s previously established tastes).
Finally Ruth expresses a hockey sentiment I can agree with.
Everyone loses
Yes, I am a big sportball fan. Go sportsball team!
I’m pretty sure this one is a sportspuck game. I’m a fan of that, too, of course.
It’s still sportsball, because as people who identify sportsball enthusiasts, we either cannot tell or do not admit the capacity to tell the difference between balls, pucks, gloves, oblong pigskins, bats, and other likely-accoutrements.
If there’s a net, or a hoop, or a hole in the ground,
I hope they get it in!
And may they top their opponents numerically in the allotted time!
oh yay. That team has the sportspuck. Now the sportspuck is over there. That man has it now. That’s an interesting development. Maybe he’ll hit it.
….he has indeed.
Get the thing between the posts! Across the line! To score the points that make you win! Unless it’s one of those games where points are bad. But no one watches those on TV! Yay sports on TV! Shout at your team, I’m sure they can hear you!
Wooo, go Red Wings!
As a lifelong Michigander, I got a little tiny headrush when I saw that. I’m not even a hockey fan!
Seriously. I’m not really a hockey fan either, but I had just been in Detroit a few hours ago, and like…it’s the Red Wings, you know?
The *best* way to get thrown out of a restaurant.
2nd best. I’ve yet to see a single femur crack.
woah, true! actually, the way this is going, that may happen soon. poor waiter. XD
Hockey with femurs. Mmmm.
A femur might have cracked in the game, though.
Then Ruth would be smiling. Her love of femur destruction knows no team loyalty.
*especially* referee femur destruction
Best way to get fancy bread without paying for it.
was she aiming to get thrown out? (I don’t get the last panel)
From the team mentioned, ‘the game’ Billie brought up is a hockey game. Ruth is passionate about hockey (this may even be a Leafs game). She turned to see where Billie was looking and saw a call being made that she disagreed with. Vehemently.
As hockey fans do.
oh wow I would never have understood that
After reviewing the play, the call on the ice is
…..
NO GOAL!!!! *skates off*
The alt-text a reference to the best/only good line from the second Transformers movie?
I believe this is the commonest type of reference to Revenge of the Fallen, we checked.
That and “Give me your face!” are the two most common RotF references I think.
I am directly under the enemy scrotum!
^The only one of the three so far I actually remember from the film.
There was a good line in a Transformers movies?
Well, the line for the snack bar was quite short.
I LOVE FANCY BREAD! AAAAA THE BREAD AT OUTBACK IS THE BEST PART OH I CAN ALMOST TAAAASTE IT!
OK, I loooove fancy bread, but I really dislike the Outback bread.
SACRILEGE! Nah, not really, that’s fine! I know it looks weird as hell but somehow I love that strange…grey bread. And it’s cool that you don’t! How about Olive Garden’s breadsticks?
Olive Garden may be boring, “safe” Italian food, but I’ll gorge myself on their breadsticks given the opportunity.
There’s a regional Italian chain around here that makes amazing rolls, too. They’re about the size of a tennis ball, with a thick crust that keeps the inside soft and warm.
Oh god that sounds absolutely delicious. This past Thanksgiving, I had my first yeast rolls and they were AMAZING. So thick, yet soft and warm…why is bread so DELICIOUS?
Of course, the real question is: Olive Garden’s breadsticks, or Red Lobster’s cheddar biscuits?
Tough choice, but I’d pick Red Lobster all the way.
I want fancy bread so bad right now. Dammit, Willis..
Outback is the yummy brown bread, isn’t it? When I was a kid there was a steakhouse in town with small loaves of brown bread and you got to slice it yourself and spread soft butter on it. I loved it. Also you got to eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor which intrigued me even thought I tend to dislike that kind of mess.
If it’s the same kind as Cheesecake Factory (I’ve only been to Outback once) it’s called molasses bread and it is delicious. And can sometimes be found at local bakeries/grocery stores.
This reminds of an entirely different molasses bread – Boston Brown Bread. The bread in a can.
Sweet and soft and delicious, at least in my childhood memories. I now need to make some.
Actually sold canned by B&M, but easy to make as well. Traditionally it actually is steamed, not baked and was often made in old coffee cans and the like.
I also remember a black Russian Rye we used to get at the little grocery near college. Haven’t found anything in that line quite so good since.
If they eat nothing but that bread, would it be a…Fancy Feast?
That was a rather catty thing to say
Hmm I’m feline a pun thread comin’ on! Although it’s been an hour with no new additions so maybe that’s a fur-fetched prediction.
I think we should take a minute to paws and appreciate the purrfectness of these puns
I’m wondering if I should add another claws to my comment.
If it were an Indian place, they’d have nyaan bread, right?
You win.
Thank you!
That waiter is ready to throw down.
Clearly the waiter disagrees with Ruth’s statement.
Turns out Leafs fans are banned from the restaurant.
*snooty waiter silently points to sign*
NO CANADIANS
NO LESBIANS
NO F**KIN LEAFS
Must be a Montreal fan.
They should go to the bar where the game was on and drink soda!
Well, I guess if they get thrown out they can go to that place with the game.
you cant enjoy yourself if youre missin a hockey game, I always say.
Oh, to be young, broke, and dating again.
“Waiter, more free water and bread please!”
waiter, I will take some of that delicious outback bread to go pls.
Oh, huh, Ruth is apparently my dad.
This is a weird place to find a lost sibling, but obviously we had the same father.
Yaaaay, new sibling!
I’ll say it again. Ruth is Peridot and I’ll take no arguments.
I guess out of the most frequent ships, Billie is more Amethyst than Pearl or Lapis, but who’s Pumpkin?
Fuckface, perhaps? He’s the only pet on campus (that we know of).
Maybe im being too optimistic but i hope this ends with them figuring out you can go on dates however you like and you dont have to do it like the movies.
But i will prep my “damn you willis” just in case
Only prepping it now? And you only have one? I have at least five “Damn You Willis” ready to use at any given time; in pristine condition. Because you can never, ever cease your vigilance when it comes to DYW.
In fact, I think I need to purchase a few more; considering he’s already been hinting at a particularly sad valentine strip happening this year.
here is kitty’s word of the day!
sairas (sick)
i think i have pneumonia
have a nice day!
But can you sleep already? Get well
Parane pian!
Date is going well!
Define “well”.
The adverb, not the noun. And in this particular context.
No one is rage-murdered,
No one has lost their femurs,
No one is suicidal,
No one is unconscious in alcohol poisoning,
Aaaaand, they are both nervously and adorably reaching out to each other and in general behaving like young people with chemistry on a date rather than in the middle of a crisis. Ruth’s big fear was that they would have nothing in common outside drunk bullying/fucking in the murder cave. She seems to be wrong.
Nobody’s made a faaaace comment yet?
Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace it, the era of those comments is over.
…wait
Sir, did you pay for all those a’s you just carried out of the alphabet store?
He’s not stealing a’s. He’s stealing wheelbarrows.
Of course he’s stealing wheelbarrows, that’s the only way he’ll be able to get all those a’s home.
And then he is going to dump them into a hole in the back yard. Yes, that’s right, it’s an a-hole.
But if I took them through a security checkpoint while arriving at a tropical volcanic reef-based island, I’d have to pay a fine – a-toll.
Stop the Faces!
Look, Ruth, Billie, there are lots of different types of dates.
Right now might be a good time to aim for the sort of date where you get thrown out of ten different establishments in one night.
It’s sports.
It’s cute because they don’t really know how dates work. Sure, you could “go out to a nice dinner” which is a sort of “traditional” dating activity. But it’s also fun — maybe MORE fun — to go places together and do things together that both of you enjoy, which means you get to just have FUN the whole time!
The whole point is to build a library of shared experiences that help your relationship bond together, like glue.
Which is why my first date with the woman I ended up marrying was at a roller coaster park.
(Granted, we spent the first two days in bed before going to the roller coaster park all-day date, but still.)
My first date with my fella was at a Starbucks. Neither of us enjoy Starbucks but we do enjoy Redwall and comic books and we chatted about it for hours on end.
About a year ago, my wife and I did a “bookstore” date; in which we searched for books based on stuff like “Book that defined your childhood” “Book about something you wish you’d learn about” and so on. Turned out to be quite interesting.
Of course, being that we’d already been married for over four years at this point, we agreed to see if we could find the absolutely -least- appropriate choice for the “risque book” category. I think mine ended up being a DIY book of some sort.
This is awesome and I think I’ll do it with my wife (I’m quite sure she’ll love it too). Thanks for the idea!
Here’s the website that had the list we ended up using.
https://mrdarcycheated.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-ultimate-bookstore-date.html
Oh! Fun! Ahem.
My first date with the woman I ended up marrying went like this:
Walk through park up a trail with a waterfall to reach –
A fancy Japanese restaurant (also accessible by car) where we had sushi. Then –
A walk back through the park (since the car was on the other side), pausing at a bench next to the waterfall for talking and then impromptu makeouts.
Makeouts led to… a bit more than that, which was fine until we got caught by other hikers and, blushing, made our way back to her car and then back to her apartment for more private sexy times.
After a few hours of sexy times, we rearranged ourselves because we were planning to meet friends. See, she and I were already best friends for years prior to our first actual date, and said date had been kind of spontaneous, so none of our friends knew anything had happened and we wanted to keep it that way until we had time to actually talk about everything that had happened.
Later that evening, after meeting (and, we later learned, completely failing to fool any of them that nothing had happened), we sat down to talk and ended up having more sex instead of talking.
Best first date ever. Obviously, I suppose, since we ended up getting married three years later and have been together ever since. ^^
Heh… I love telling that story.
Cuuuuuuute
^^
Wow, you are my hero. It is impressive enough to have sex on the first date, but to have it before? And two days? You are a god.
To now destroy the god image a bit, this was our first face-to-face meeting, seeing that we got to know each other online. And it did take us a while to meet, what with living on different continents and all.
So when we finally met, there was… a fair amount (to say the least) of pent-up sexual tension to release before we could do anything else.
Barely got the chance to butter the rolls before getting kicked out.
What were you saying about antagonizing each other, Billie?
Billie: Place across the street has the game.
Ruth: *shoving bread
sticksin her purse* I have to go. You’re coming with me. I need to yell at the referee from closer to the TV(I’m not sorry for using this old meme format but I’m sorry for this not being a very good joke in general)
Was half expecting Ruth’s eyes to turn red
Thanks to recent goalie interference controversies in the NHL, some of them involving the Leafs, this strip is accidentally timely!
I feel like Billie’s trying to avoid talking about her new dorm. She says a short, generic thing that doesn’t really anything about the dorm at all, and then moves to another topic. At first I thought the third panel was Ruth trying to get to open up more about Forest Quad, and then next panel Billie avoids the question completely. But the structure of 2nd and 3rd panels don’t fit that narrative.
Ruth trying to get *Billie to open up
A fair assessment
FWIW, I think that Billie still hasn’t come to any solid conclusions about Forest Hall yet, and the few ideas in her head (“They like me there! They really, really like me!”) she’s probably hiding because she’s worried it will make Ruth doubt their relationship.
I HOPE you’re right, and Billie’s not hiding things because she wants a kind of double life. That’s what I do. I mean, the hiding things part. Don’t do what I do, Billie!
You goofy dorks
No, no no!
They are dorky goofs.
The difference is very important. So important, that one day, I will learn what exactly this difference is.
Summary of strip: Billie and Ruth would have both been happier in a sports bar!
And that date would end with them in Ruth’s room, and Billie taking off the normal shirt she’d be wearing, to reveal a Leafs jersey underneath…
–Except Billie’s underage (albeit with fake ID). Plus they have a bad history with alcohol. Watching it from across the street is probably a lot safer. :/
There’s the pissy red-headed dandelion we’ve all come to know and love.
(i would credit the coiner of that term but I forget who they are.)
They are such a Fem/Butch couple it’s not even funny
ruth is butch, right?
I’ve been getting this vibe too, but I’ve been trying to deny it, because I don’t like separating and categorizing into masculine and feminine, which I see as related to gendering. I still do it, whether consciously or not, because it’s so ingrained in culture, society, and in me, and omg I hate it. I just want non-binary to be mainstream in everything already.
This isn’t really directed at you though, just me venting.
I want to be clear that I’m not advocating for complete annihilation of genders, everyone should be non-binary gender, etc. I just wish people could be themselves, like whatever they like, dislike whatever they dislike, without worrying about gender or the masc-fem spectrum.
Even so, part of my non-binary gender identity IS worrying about gender and masc-fem, because I really want to not be at the either end of the so-called spectrum. I haven’t progressed mentally enough that I’m free of that yet.
Just keep being you Plox. Internet hugs if ya need them.
By which criteria did you reach that conclusion?
I don’t perceive any of them as more butch as the other (though Billie might have some more aspects that can be read as femme than Ruth, but still, that’s not enough to make Ruth butch ).
I’m not sure exactly what qualifies as butch, but Ruth’s definitely taken the boy role in this date – possibly pushed by Billie taking the girl role.
For some strange and unfathomable reason, I am reminded of this comic.
It seems like some people might do well to attend Leslie’s gender studies class.
It might just come from being a Leafs fan in Michigan but my immediate reaction was to wonder which game they’re watching.
(Motherforking Red Wings indeed)
It was the one where the ref should shut their face.
…..isn’t that…..ALL of them?
Huh, nobody’s made the Red Wings sex act pun. You are all better people than I.
And which pun would that be, pray tell?
“Getting one’s red wings” is going down on a woman during her period.
It actually took me a moment to parse that Red Wings was a sportsball team. Which left me horribly confused by the dialogue.
You know, if you earn your red wings while fucking your mother…
Aw, Ruth. She’s having such a hard time being her because she’s spent so much time being broken, she feels that trying to be fixed means trying to be the ideal of normality. … Sure hope Billie knocks herself out of it before that explodes in her face.
It’s more of a case that Clint has successfully programmed Ruth to believe that ‘being her’ is an intrinsically bad thing. Because of that, she’s afraid to let Billie see that part of her.
To be fair they are kids. They’re gonna screw up. Life isn’t perfect, and Willis likes things to explode spectacularly
“That was goal”…??
Not, “That was A goal”…??
You (N) American types are weird!
“That was a goal” is what an American or Canadian would say. I know because I’m both. Willis typo?
I get to repeat my previous comment
Ruth: during my experimental phase I dates lots of boys so I totally know how to treat chicks on dates.
Billie: ah yea.. I like the sound of that.
Ruth: ‘oh no’ I forgot my wallet. You pay for this Sweet Cheeks. Wait, my phone is ringing. Super important (aside: Toronto’s winning the game. Hell yea, **BURP**)
I just lost the game…
Oh, here, I can fix that. https://xkcd.com/391/
Thanks
Anytime!
ALT TEXT REFERENCING THE BEST MOMENT OUT OF EVERY LIVE ACTION TRANSFORMERS MOVIE FOR THE WIN.
They are perfect for each other.
Lmao adorable
Tell me, where is fancy bread?
In the heart, and in the head!
–Dave, UMP ARE YOU BLIND??
This is fluffy as fluff. Motha-fluffas.