#also the transphobia in this episode

[vivaciousoceans]

Elliot Stabler is such a hating ass bitch, gonna call Liv overzealous???

[unopenablebox]

listening to the new if books could kill is really weird as someone who was indeed a teen/tween in the Emergence of Social Media Era, in that like. actually me and my 50 pseudonymous close friends of a decade are doing quite well thank you. im glad you interviewed some teenagers to learn that they use online socializing tools for social interaction, which accordingly has the features of social interaction, but this is a fucking bizarre thing to listen to people explain to each other

[just-an-enby-lemon]

Someone mentioned BoJack Horseman, South Park and Family Guy as great adult animations.

I go: "actually two of this shows suck."

And the person goes "I can see you point, they all started solid but only South Park stayed good."

And I can't even respond because there's an obvious answer here and they missed so much. What the fuck?

[frankiebirds]

forgot how good limelight was. jill morris really strikes the right balance between a character you dislike but not so much it makes the episode unwatchable. she has just enough redeeming qualities to make her occasionally bearable.

that's not to say i don't end the episode still disliking her. i very much do. she sucks, but she feels like a person who sucks, not like a character designed to be an obstacle and not much else.

i wish she'd reappeared. i would have loved to see how she devolved (or how she got better!) and she gave some really good insights into rossi's character via parallel that i would have loved to see more of.

[br1ghtestlight]

i feel like im blocked by at least half of ii tumblr which idc about really but i do think its funny that i know FOR A FACT the only reason people have me blocked is bcuz i dared to post positively about Inanimate insanity the show this community is literally dedicated to. and give the benefit of the doubt to the creators who btw i was proven right about. like they literally hate me for liking the show that all of our blogs are focused on they cannot fucking STAND me

[vinetabris]

bro ain’t no way i thought we’d escape the transphobic ghost in the episode, only for it to be there in the cutesy end cards

[weepingfireflies]

T-shirt that says, "I survived transphobes reacting to literally anything in media"

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s1 episode 14 thoughts

this episode made me deeply uncomfortable for a myriad of reasons so instead of doing my usual long breakdown/review, i leave you with one thing worth remembering:

scully finding a random horse on the side of the street and immediately befriending it was deeply endearing <3

[boyapologist]

I was watching law & order svu (a good show!) and an episode of regular law & order came up afterwards and I was too lazy to turn it off and it was just. 40 minutes of pro-israel propaganda. like, actually. so blatantly that I just turned it off I'm sitting here confused wondering if I didn't hallucinate this whole thing

[eldritch-bf]

“What if you were writing a profile on someone named Janet and I was your editor, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, for balance, find someone who wants to kill Janet’?” This week, Tuck Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal, takes us on a journey through the New York Times’ coverage of trans issues—and in the end, he points the way to a better future.

A great episode talking about how journalistic objectivity has come to mean “doesn’t have any empathy for or connection to the people they’re talking about” and journalistic balance has come to mean “treating non-authoritative sources as equal to authoritative sources” particularly when it comes to the NYT’s coverage of trans topics.

[autumnrory]

just started rewatching ugly betty bc i had read some v excellent betty/daniel fic i thought recently but i guess it was a couple years ago lol, i just couldn’t follow everything, because i didn’t remember all the characters/plots that well ANYWAY from what i remember idt i really thought of betty/daniel romantically until the end of the series, i remember liking her with henry before he became a shit (at least i’m pretty sure that’s what happened, i haven’t watched since this show since it ended 13 years ago) but other than that there’s not TOO much that sticks with me, i just know i loved the ending but ofc was left wanting more at the time but ya while i think i was reading fic on ff.net in 2010 there were only a few things i would’ve been searching for at that point SO once i get through the series i’m gonna have so much fun bc i read 3 fics from that author and they’ve published like 12 more stories this year and i’m gonna be able to understand them so much better, but yeah just now rewatching the pilot i’m like oh my god how did i not immediately love them i mean obviously daniel was a dick but he apologized and at the end of the ep he’s watching her fondly and i’m just ahhhh over them already bc i know the romantic aspect aside there’s such excellent growth in them and their relationship and i can’t wait to watch it play out

[ooc-miqojak]

This guy...doxxing an at-risk person, lying about what she said by excluding the part where it's not an actual death wish.... but a looney tunes gag (unless he genuinely believes there are cars covered in hammers... and if he does, that's sad for him and he shouldn't be in charge of tumblr bc he's delusional and disconnected from reality), and then lying about which photos were deemed sexually explicit. If this goes to court, I hope he knows that nothing on the internet is ever gone forever - not these transphobic harassment tweets, and not the photos that were deemed 'explicit'... so his lies can be disproven. But what a pathetic little bitch, to go looking for this complete stranger on another social media platform just to harass her. Is he like, secretly into trans women and hates himself for it? Because he's incredibly obsessed with them, and won't stop following this one woman around like a sad little puppy.

https://x.com/photomatt/status/1760647056597946851?s=46

CEO of Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg, has started openly harassing tumblr users on other platforms. This dude is actually incredibly scary and malicious and should not be involved with this website going forward. Theres just no excuse for this behavior.

[sodacowboy]

some of y’all don’t understand slowburn story telling and it shows

[scentedluminarysoul]

Yeah, I really don't understand why people still like this show? To this day? Please watch something else

[tetitous]

Big whiplash points for FMA 03 who litteraly had him chase Ed and Winry inside of a butchery when they were 12.

barry the chopper was such a funny character like he was a mass murderer and no one cared at all, he openly told literally everyone he met about how much he loved murdering people and chopping people up and they were all just like haha classic barry. its not even treated seriously by the plot its just like yeah this is barry hes killed a lot of people and also hes a funny guy hes in a suit of armor lol he gets into shenanigans 

[sewerratzz]

finch give me like a v short synopsis of always sunny in Philadelphia and then link like ur fav always sunny in Philadelphia fics uve written so i can read it please

ohmigosh you have given me a huge challenge here OKAY SO

very basic is that Always Sunny is about this group of people that absolutely suck !! and like, it's not even like they're nice to each other (well. sometimes. most of the time no), they literally are just the worst people ever. like this perfectly sums up this group

this is The Gang. in order, their names are Charlie Kelly, Dee Reynolds, Frank Reynolds, Dennis Reynolds, and Ronald "Mac" McDonald. yes his name is ronald mcdonald. the reveal of this being his name is hilarious

they all have many issues. like so many. severe issues. they refuse to acknowledge them or deal with them or change at all.

[ofc you don't necessarily have to watch the show before reading my fics but i will always reccomend watching it in general because i love this show an unhealthy amount. Charlie is literally why my url is sewerratzz & the reason my first chosen name was charlie. i <3 him hes my fav]

there's not really much plot at all to this show. it's just stuff happening. it's great & i love it

most of my sunny fics are Charlie/Mac, so a brief exposition for their relationship is that they both have horrible home lives and parents, and they've been each other's best & only friend since elementary school. god early seasons charmac save me. they have many moments throughout the show of being sweet to each other and they're my favourites

one fic of mine i love very much is a Deetress fic, so more exposition !! this ship is Dee [see above] and The Waitress, pictured here

she doesn't have a name in the show/in canon she is literally called the waitress since season 1. i also love her. she also sucks now !! she didn't before but the gang happened and she's really. yikes. poor her yk? she has a history with quite literally everyone in the gang, has slept with all of them (except dee. but you know, they're totally lesbians and if you watch the show they have 100% hate-fucked. TECHNICALLY HEADCANON BUT. yk. subtext :p) and Charlie specifically has stalked her for. years and years.

now my fics :p