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[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[fairy-bard]

i’ve been loving watching critical role recently if for no other reason than because i get to watch a decent portion of viewers actively falling for cult tactics lmao

a forbes article describes cult tactics as when cult leaders “censor dissenting viewpoints, promote a distorted narrative and use relentless repetition and peer pressure”

ludinus needing to monologue at everyone he meets. cherry picking what information to let people know (ie the orb). showing popular world leaders (gods?) at their absolute worst as a means to win over the vulnerable. creating dissent between cult prospects and the people who they’re close to outside the cult. doesn’t take no for an answer. repeating his points over and over, in whatever context he thinks will be most persuasive. targeting people who’ve lost everything. convincing people that they’re special

matt is a genius.

[astralhope]

Yuma screaming at talking with Astral, but you see what his friends see

[towards-toramunda]

Pour one out for orym of the air ashari who for the foreseeable future with have to have his gay ass eye level with both of their exposed midriffs

[robyntheredhead]

Idk if this has been said yet, but Liam tends to write out his ‘sending’ messages ahead of time to make sure it’s exactly 25 words

So the fact that he budgeted in the shaky ‘fuck’ scratches a specific itch in my brain

[wastrelwoods]

listen. listen. i know every time ao3 has a fundraiser and people donate it starts fights on here based on whether or not the website should be maintained with volunteer dollars when some people post fanfiction on it that is weird or bad to see. but i did just read a complaint that when they reach their goal they keep the fundraiser open anyway and collect more money, which is fundamental proof of corruption and greed and they should only accept the bare minimum of donations and then turn the rest away. i just want to tell you that no nonprofit fundraiser in the world does that

[jamesscarstairs]

paramount plus not only cancelling rise of the pink ladies but completely erasing its existence from its platform is so incredibly cruel towards the staff and crew that worked so hard on that show

[radiotowered]

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[offjumpoladulkittiporn]

1 more month until cooking crush 👨‍🍳💚👨‍⚕️

[doubledyke]

IMO the worst thing you can do with your character is make him a butt-monkey and then making him just a prick just to justify the beatings.

(yeah because Eddy in earlier seasons was already the writters' punching bag before starts his downward spiral in season 3).

off the top of my head i can't think of any examples before s3 where eddy is getting gratuitously walloped, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. yeah he always loses in the end, but people root for the underdog, etc. if things ever worked out for him there wouldn't be much of a show.

but yeah i just kind of take it for what it is i guess. i don't really care for eddy torture but come on, sometimes it's funny. and justified. i watched a few s3 episodes recently, namely brother can you spare an ed/the day the ed stood still, and jesus christ he really is a little fucking demon. his difficult personality is on display from the get-go and definitely intensifies as the show goes on. i don't know what the writers' intentions were but it makes sense to me that his unhinged behavior escalates all the way up to the end of bps when he finally gets his reality check.

[rosehathawhey]

[kaythefloppa]

I love how Wild Kratts lies on both ends of the spectrum of cultural relevance; On one end it raised a decade’s worth of an entire generation on biology knowledge, its animal activism inspired a scientist to name an insect after the Kratt Bros, is part of a quarter-century line-up of several different shows which have paved the path for the Kratt Brothers’ cultural impact on of itself, inspired a lot of furries, has a massive online following, and is one of the most top-rated PBS Kids shows to date; On the other end, it’s on a smaller network, is incredibly hard to pirate, is overlooked massively due to being a part of an ‘edutainment‘ channel aimed towards younger kids, has a fandom which, whilst big, can be very hard to find, and overall has less mainstream appeal in comparison to shows like SpongeBob, My Little Pony, or even The Simpsons.

[summerfullofsnow]

me when bl fans stop trying to find "the good one" to root for and learn to look at characters as multifaceted beings with their own motivations and personalities

[galwithalibrarycard]

trick or treat🤠👻?

You get... my favorite TV Halloween episode of all time, My So-Called Life episode 9, "Halloween." There's a real ghost in the school, as if being a teenager wasn't scary enough already! Feat. vampire Rayanne and sock-hop Angela.

[justafriendofxanders]

i go back and forth a lot on my interpretations of ats s5, ie. what parts of spike are 'in character' or not, but the one thing that stays constant is my belief that spike and angel fucking would have fixed most of this.

[weirdosyringe]

i have no real art but i have air, galactica, younger rita, and rita doodles