The ones in italics were thought up by my friend @weighted-writings so credit to them for those ones!
First off, characters.
Seven? Absolutely a Waluigi person. Change my mind.
Yoosung would choose Yoshi because not only is he cute like him but he’s a good egg boi as well.
MC would have to go with Toad. So much trouble in such a little package.
Zen knows next to nothing about the franchise but he does know Mario is the main character so he goes with him.
“Jumin should be Bowser because they’re both jerks.”
Jumin actually ends up picking Blooper
(Zen: ”Wow, how perfect, neither of you show any emotion!”)
Jaehee would pick Daisy, absolutely because they both have brown hair and definitely not because Daisy is cute, nope, certainly not.
Saeran decides to go with Dry Bones because of how edgy he looks
V picks Luigi, he almost feels bad that he doesn’t get as much love as his brother.
As for Vanderwood? Definitely Bowser.
Since the game only allows 4 players at a time they split up into 2 teams
First there’s the Casual Gamers: Zen, Jumin, Jaehee, and V.
Then there’s the Play to Win Gamers: Seven, Yoosung, Saeran, and MC.
Vanderwood ends up switching with MC for one game but decides it’s more fun to watch other people play and get mad.
Everyone’s afraid to mess with Vanderwood because he keeps threatening to tazer them if they try anything
The Play to Win Gamers go first so everyone else can watch and get to know the game
Every time they play Seven tries to convince them to play Bowser’s Warped Orbit because space
At first Yoosung would try to be nice to MC and decide not to run her over with a Bullet Bill because he’s a sweetheart
But that turns out to be a mistake because the second the board flips she Bowser candy’s his ass
The Casual Gamers end up playing Koopa’s Tycoon Town for their first game
Jumin is unsurprisingly good at it
Jaehee doesn’t really care much about winning but she would be torn between letting Jumin win bc he’s her boss and wanting to kick his butt in front of all his friends as payback for all the times he’s left Elizabeth the 3rd with her
Zen would be nice to her and would end up saving all his coins to try and take over Jumin’s hotels
V’s just there to have fun
the poor boy doesn’t understand what all the screaming’s about, he’s so forgiving
Yoosung and Zen would definitely be the kind of people to get loudly angry, Jumin would be that quiet calculative anger where he keeps telling himself it’s not worth getting angry but he’s so annoyed
Seven would be the loud, over dramatic “angry”, until he gets hit right before winning and then it’s just silence and you’re pretty sure he somehow managed to hack the game because you’re just sucking now
Either MC or Seven would want to start an “alliance” only to betray them in the end
Saeran would probably pretend teaming up would be stupid, but he does it anyway and the utter betrayal
Jumin and V would probably have some sort of unsaid alliance bc they’re friends and they want to respect each other and Zen just accuses them of teaming up and tries to team up with Jaehee (poor Jaehee, she doesn’t want to actively go against her boss)
Team Seven, with Yoosung and Zen, Team V(ictory) with Jumin and Saeran (just to mess with his brother) and both trying to get MC on their team
Because the moment teams became a thing it got serious
Team Seven is offering like, money and food, anything it takes to win
But Saeran stole all the blankets for team V and that’s pretty tempting
Everyone’s trying to persuade the two remaining members to come to their side but in the end MC and Jaehee just form their own team and end up beating everyone else
Seven tries to get Vanderwood on his team, but he joins another team just to spite them
Starts bribing/threatening Seven’s team to just go against Seven
And it ends up one big Anti-Seven round
At some point people start offering prizes
And Jumin offers Jaehee a vacation day if she wins (probably had too much wine)
And there’s just this unspoken agreement among everyone to just let Jaehee win this one
Seven tries to turn it into some sort of game of strip-poker where whenever you lose a star you take off an item of clothing and when you gain a star you can put one on (no one agrees to this)
Somehow it happens anyway and Seven’s in his boxers and Saeran’s got like a winter coat and 12 scarves
MC tries to join in and poor Jaehee Zen and Yoosung are furiously trying to talk her out of it
V promises he won’t look (not that it matters)
But despite all the screaming, in the end, they all end up having fun
My mother also talked about periods to my brothers.
When I first got mine I had terrible cramps. Crippling cramps. I once was camping with my family and a few of my big brother’s friends when my period came. My cramps were so bad that my mom gave me a full pain killer ( I was 13 and before that she only gave me pills cut in half).
I literally laid down on my parents’ air mattress and cried in pain for an hour before the pill kicked in.
My brothers friend came in to the big tent and I was just curled up and sobbing. Now, I was quite the tomboy and was known to rough house with my brothers and their friends and made sure I wasnt seen as just “a little girl.” So my brother’s friend was confused to see me openly weeping in the fetal position (seriously, these were the worst cramps I have had in my life. My vision went white). He asked what was wrong with me.
My big brother stood up immediately and suggested a nice long hike. During this hike I am sure he had a pretty awkward conversation with his friend explaining menstrual cramps, because when they got back the pain pill had (mostly) kicked in and I was sitting up at a table when my brother’s friend sheepishly asked me if I was feeling better. I said I was better, and he said good.
When we made s’mores that night my brother and his friend kept me well supplied with chocolate.
Making sure sons know as much about periods and menstruation as daughters makes them better brothers, better sons better fathers, and better men. A man that understands a period will not lightly accuse a woman of “being on her period” if the woman is in an argument.
Raise better sons Teach them about normal bodily functions.
the saddest sight in the world is a married couple at a musical and the wife is super excited and happy and the husband looks like he was dragged along and he’s making a big deal about how much he doesn’t want to be there and the wife gets embarrassed or ashamed. this isn’t a funny post, it’s actually heartbreaking and i see it happen at like every other musical i attend.
Yeah, as an usher what makes me sad is when I see wives clearly dressed in their Sunday best, beaming and buying merch and smiling at me as I hand them a program, toting some guy dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt who declines a program. And that’s at least a quarter of the couples who come in or more. Like come on man, she really loves this stuff, can’t you try to enjoy it for her at least?
About as bad as when you see a big-eyed kid who looks like this is the greatest day of their life, all excited to see this show, and their parent/grandparent/aunt/Cousin/Friend/whoever they convinced to take them keeps making fun of them and saying how dumb or ridiculous they’re being. For Gods sake, this is a person you care about and this is a thing that means a lot to them. Smile, get off your phone, and be happy for them.
