#Direct-to-Consumer

[lightspeedmedia1]

[longlivetv]

The culture around creation right now is fascinating to me, because whether we’re talking a blogger with a couple hundred followers on a dying website or the biggest artist in a generation, huge groups of people seem to think that creators should mold their creations to suit the consumer and get angry when they do not. When in reality, the creator gets to decide the direction and it is on the consumer to let it go and find something else to consume if it isn’t what they want.

[jeeliebeeliegoomiebear]

On Isolde and Many Doors (and One Key)

Thinking about Isolde and how she feels like she is constantly trapped in a small cramped room full of 1 million doors. Each door represents a presence that haunts her, an identity that lives inside her that calls to her from beyond the grave, a new mask to dawn.

If every person in the world were to have a room, most would have just one door, their own. But not Isolde.

Isolde feels like an empty vessel who is only there to serve as a point of entry for other people and their spirits. She has been forced to become so repressed by her environment, upbringing, and her nature as a medium that she finds it easy to forget herself. Her “self” is not someone she has ever been allowed to know.

The room grows increasingly smaller, claustrophobic and strangling her with pressure as the amount of doorways in it only increase, every new person she meets a new doorway she is plagued with, a new voyeur who has granted themselves full access to her life and her body. Something she is now willing to let them do. It is easier that way. Easier to let someone else command her vessel, something that never solely belonged to her to begin with. An escape from all the pressure, the expectations, the perfection demanded from her. It is something she should do. The duty of someone like her. Something to hide her wretched face from view, to give the people what they want, to uphold her family’s legacy. A performance that was never allowed to end. Each new door lead right back to that.

The only exception is Kakania. The only person Isolde believes has ever really seen her as more than a host for other identities or something to mold into shape, prop up as a set piece. A perfect lady. The star of Vienna. A tragic heroine. A dangerous hysteric witch. A curse manifested. The only one who was ever interested in finding Isolde’s door and that door alone. When she is with Kakania, a new door does not appear in that ever shrinking empty room, although at first she expects it to. For the first time she meets someone and is not greeted with a new ghost to haunt her. Not a door. But a key. A key that Isolde knows can unlock her own door, even when she herself cannot find it.

[atotalpitch]

Anna Kendrick talking (briefly) about Beca's relationship with the Bellas was NOT on my 2024 bingo card. in fact, i'm actually physically shaking. what the hell.

[14dayswithyou]

That is all thank you

ANSWERED: Art credit for da first Ren meme goes to @meo-eiru!!

BUT HELPPPPP THESE ARE SO FUNNY JDSGJH T_T The Moth meme + Uno meme had me CACKLING lmaoooooooo

[ozymandian-hymn]

what ur favorite dsmp character. like i feel like its wilbur but i wanna make sure. my favorite is technoblade cause adowdiafjjef idk man i love him so much

[thefanciestborrower]

So….so Gatsby am I right?

[littlelightfish]

I will scream at every non-romantic post I see about these guys. Writers be not afraid. I will love their non-romance fics. I'll blow up your coment section all alone if I have to. I will find you. Artists be not afraid. I will reach tag limit on your artpiece. If I see it at least. And if I don't, I will eventually. Or I'll try. Or @me so I won't fail you.

[hopelesslygaysstuff]

I don’t think we talk about Wanda with a gun enough 😩 Like I know she has her powers but can you imagine her with a glock?!?! I’m wet

WANDA WITH A GUN KINK SAVE ME

putting it between ur lips :3 makin u suck on it tellin you… “that’s right darlin’ suck on mommy’s strap”

(Hehe get it bc strap also means gun)

[xinyuehui]

Hua Gongzi ‖ First Apperance

[captainrufflebanger]

"For someone who's very online, you sure don't know a lot of [pop culture] things"— my very-online coworker, 21

How do I explain I spend my time online drawing vampire milfs, searching international recipes, and listening to video game let's plays, without sounding like I don't give a flying fuck about popular media or celebrities? (Bc I don't give a flying fuck)

Rant moment:

I don't have tiktok, my Instagram was abandoned years ago, I barely open Twitter anymore as it's too depressing, all sports bore the hell out of me, reading time is sparse despite being a librarian, I've been plagued by some kind of mental block stopping me from reading fanfics for over a year, Let's Plays are basically the only way I experience video games, I haven't seen a full anime in years, I don't watch movies or shows unless another person sits me down to do so, hell even when I was in the height of my theatre work I couldn't be assed to remember famous actors in either film or stage!

I'M JUST BUILT TO LIVE AS HERMIT AND I'M UNINTERESTING I GUESS! WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME???!?!??!

Makes me feel terrible because I cannot feign interest and an embarrassing number of people look down on me for it. "You haven't seen-?!" NO. OKAY? No I haven't and I probably never will!

[bibibbon]

I'm so done with MHA now which is so sad because at one point in time I loved it.

Just all this time, (and MONEY!) I and all of us spent on this shit of a series , and the conclusion is that all the 99% of the main villians die, (and fail to be saved by thier hero counterparts eventhough that was poorly set up - but I digress).

Izuku remains abused by Bakugou (with Bakugou growing over Izuku's character and role as MC.)

Todoroki Enji remains free and relatively well off despite being outed as an abuser (with his narrative growing over Shoto's story especially but also Rei's, Dabi's and every other Todofam members too.)

Talking of Izuku, ironically, the poor kid has become more of a literal 'Deku' controlled by the narrative the more the series has gone on. To the point where I couldn't feel connected to him anymore, despite him being my favourite at one point, because all these major things have happened, such as losing OFA he's like 😐 / softly smiling at Bkg while Bkg, his abuser, is the one who bawls about it.

I'm so dissatisfied, so angry that even my love for fic of this has faded because it's so rare to find one that offers true concequence to Bakugou, Endeavor and Aizawa - that also treats Izuku well.

Sorry for the vent, I was furious, but now I am just sad and needed someone like minded to anonymously talk this out with.

That's a totally valid feeling to have towards MHA. To be honest I have kind of gotten used to watching/interacting with shows that have a lot of wasted potential so MHA doesn't bother me as much (even if I go on long rants about it's wasted potential tbh I find it more fun to just ramble at this point)

I have never actually spent money on a lot of the media I consume so I can't actually relate but dam I do feel bad and can empathize with you over that.

Overall I do every much agree with your rant and the way the narrative simply sucks everything interesting out of izuku is so disappointing. Ironically izuku has been turned literally into a physical "deku" whether that be 1) by the narrative or 2) in his fight with shigaraki where he literally couldn't move without the help of blackwhip.

[news4dzhozhar]

[erinravenseeker]

Enjoying the way they’re presenting the IPC to us. The public perception is very positive and everyone tells us about just how dedicated they are to preserving peace throughout the cosmos. But then every little snippet we hear about the internal structure of the company ranges from vaguely menacing to extreme corporate toxicity. Really going to enjoy the inevitable collapse of THIS empire.

[leqclerc]

@f1blrcreatorsfest Week 3: Music Artist-Inspired ↳ Sebastian and Charles + songs released in 2019 Shameless / Piece Of Your Heart / You're No Good