#Frankly

[itspileofgoodthings]

#yes all of this#and re: the three interwoven storylines-- they're bound together by the title which perfectly encapsulates how these things are related#and the structure of the album has a complexity to it that I think is very well thought through#and there are so many nuances to why it is laid out the way it is and i get some of those nuances but many i can just sense are there#but they ARE there#and you have this sophisticated blend of light and dark that balances so well#and songs like but daddy i love him that are talking on multiple levels at once (its a hopeless romantic dream for how they're going to run#away together; its a petty tirade against the onlookers; its a self aware commentary on her destructive habits. its all three at once)#and several of the fame songs anticipate what you talked about here--the public's need to take aim and find fault#and the songs rise to meet that in different ways#Clara bow is sitting at the halfway point staring the critics who are sick of her straight in the face and indicting them#but there's a progression into the second half where the feelings are less predictable#like as the relationship grows more distant there's more room for these diverse feelings about it (but its still unified by that)#and where many of the songs on the first half feel like they capture a wild gut reaction#the second half is more reflective#more distant#the black dog i look in peoples windows chloe and everybody else imgonnagetyouback etc are all past the initial breakup(s)#and are looking back in different states of mind#which makes the whole thing lead up to the manuscript#and with that distance reflections on other past relationships start to get folded in (romantic and non- peter and thank you aimee)#(and the bolter and cassandra)#so that the whole thing (both halves) leads neatly into the manuscript#And that's why it deserves all the grammys tag commentary via @cogentranting

opinion: I think tortured poets department is great top to bottom, standard album and the anthology, I think the “this needs editing!” take has been wildly overstated if not completely untrue (I think it’s completely untrue), I agree with Harvard professor and literary critic Stephanie Burt that it’s got three complex interwoven storylines happening at the same time—loss of a long time love, loss of the chaotic and ultimately darkly empty rebound, and Taylor grappling with the hollowness of fame and ultimately her own mortality in the wake of both. It has everything you could want from a Taylor album and more INCLUDING the bangers many want to pretend aren’t there; it’s just that the public has never been more out of tune with her. They want to believe that it’s a bad album because they wanted a bad album from her. They truly felt it was her “time” to have a bad album and there is not a thing the public loves more than when they feel it is time for something. she is an artist who is pretty much always capable of capturing the zeitgeist but also of necessity moves in and out of it because she has her own real artistic journeys to go on and those will not always align with the cultural moment. and what is more, I think a Taylor album has never aligned with the cultural moment less, a testament to the album not a knock on it as the current cultural moment is a love of the empty-headed, the rat-brained, the sparklingly numbing emptiness. the public, someone, anyone not being in the mood for something doesn’t make it bad it means they are not in the mood for it and they’re not in the mood. but none of that changes the fact that the work is good all the way through nor the fact that time will bear that truth out. in this essay I will

[bluecapsicum]

[intermundia]

obi-wan's devotion to Anakin's son is immediate and eternal and insane. he really set that man on fire and then looked at his son like "ok this is what i'm doing until i die now thanks," and then did exactly that.

[smallishdoggo]

That "I am the parent and he's the child" line being entirely divorced from its context is the bane of my existence.

Veth says that to a group of people who are convinced that she is a child being manipulated by Caleb, who is her adult guardian. She's cornered, alone, and everyone is trying to tell her that she's being manipulated into acting against the group. It's an assertion of her agency and adulthood. It's a refutation of that specific misunderstanding of their relationship. She is saying that she's a grown ass adult who knowingly allies herself with Caleb above everyone else, and that Caleb is not controlling her.

Please for the love of god, put that line back in the context in came from or so help me.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

you really dont see any red flags about the "cheese pizza" for child porn thing? that started on 4chan over pizzagate. "good faith" doesnt mean you take an obvious fascist painting a (possibly fake) trans woman as a predator at their word.

That sure is a lot of assumptions that have nothing to do with anything I've said! I don't believe I've expressed any direct opinion of my own (out loud on here--my DMs with friends have been FULL of extremely opinionated commentary on that post, both today and when it originally hit my inbox). That is my normal way on this blog--I don't state my own opinions because I don't matter, it's the comments section that gets to matter.

But since you've asked, just to be clear, I think the submitter of that post is a thoroughly unpleasant person, has slanted that story in every possible way, and is painting a picture that may have very little in common with reality. I think they are a transmisogynist who took someone's actions and read them willfully in the wildest, worst faith way possible. Like the pool thing? I genuinely do not understand how they got from "she wants to throw a pool party for the neighborhood kids" to...whatever the hell they were implying there. I genuinely do not. And overwhelmingly, the comments agree! They are rightfully calling the submitter the asshole. Which is what this blog is here for. The system works!

That is not, and has never been, what I mean by "good faith" on this blog. I have been VERY clear (today even! in so many words!) that you are perfectly welcome to question anyone's portrayal of events. What you're not welcome to do is call the post wholesale fake and bait. As has always been the case.

[thedissonantverses]

I think where the “you’re just mad people are critiquing a game you like” crowd gets me the most is that I’ve read all their critiques. I was legitimately surprised on my first run that some people took Veilguard so personally and were vitriolic so I went through and read what they were saying because I was like “what did I miss?” That’s my first instinct when something confuses me is to dig. (Oh hey I applied this to the game too! Crazy!)

And when I started breaking down what they were saying was when I started getting annoyed because their arguments were either in such bad faith, reductive, or just plain wrong. Like Orientalism in the game? Fair! But I have not seen talk of that get anywhere near the amount of traction as “Solas should have torn down the Veil and him and Lavellan should have had elf supremacy together and they didn’t so game bad.” “I missed a bunch of stuff then blamed BioWare.” Or “I didn’t like how it played out so writing bad.” Or “They didn’t say the Maker enough and I counted.” That last one is my favorite. Oh and “the language is too modern” and they’re specifically talking about Taash because they don’t want to admit nonbinary people make them uncomfortable.

But wow I don’t see that energy from the other side at all. I don’t see them even trying to understand or read why people like the game. I try to encourage people to read your meta write ups as well as my own and they either just want to pick a fight because I have the audacity to love the game rather than hear me out or step outside of that negativity for like two seconds. Here we are two months later and they’re still acting like Veilguard broke into their house and beat them up and stole their sixty bucks then took a piss on the old games.

[misty-slays-blog]

Every other three threads or comments in the comment section on reddit are now about "WhEn Will cEleboRn APpEAR???"

Celeborn isn't this cool, badass character like Glorfindel or Anárion. Tolkien invented him to be Galadriel's husband and the father to her daughter, so she could be Arwen's grandmother and Eldarion's great-grandmother. It is telling that this cis white hetero man born in 1892 already recognized that Galadriel was much more interesting than her husband.

Reddit's obsession with Celeborn is part of a much bigger, cultural problem, namely that Galadriel isn't allowed to be a strong female character with agency without the "guidance" of her husband. It stems from their hatred towards Galadriel acting "traditionally masculine" and needing to be "more feminine, therefore tamed". It's symptomatic of their disdain towards women in general.

(I need to point out that I am not against Celeborn as a character and him appearing somewhere toward the end of the series, but this obsession rooted in misogyny is fucking disgusting actually).

[camilieroart]

But by the gods, I will go on.

I will

I will.

[forgers-therapist]

TINY PEOPLE (part 7)

[noxxytocin]

New Tag Game

Go on Pinterest and type in “friendship with me”. The first six pictures describes what a friendship with you looks like.

Tagging: @luminousecho @wrengaunt @the-golden-comet @paper-cranes @batsmcgee @crime-in-progress @shyinsunlight @eleniaelres @jewnicornjesse-blog @esolean @infernalrusalka @jamiemoonymarks @oerflink @uniyppy

[missingthemantaray]

when straight couples in media pine for each other or act particularly repressed as they deny themselves of romance or pleasure, the involuntary taunt, “gaaay” leaves my mouth. i don’t know how this started or how to stop it, but, worst of all, i don’t know if i’m ever wrong.

[itspileofgoodthings]

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[xxn00bpwn3rxx]

my apolocheeze

[butchsanji]

wip I’m having fun with this lineup but I’m tireddd

[may3505w]

I wanted to say, regarding my sexuality and people I prefer to talk to. Idk what's my sexuality and idc, I'm attracted to everyone I find visually appealing, male or female, and if I like your personality it's even better. So if you're a cis male, cis female, trans man, trans women, or literally anything else, it's all the same to me as long as I find you cool and attractive. I don't care about gender enough for all that.

[braindamagedrizz]

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Frankly, I think Bungie should give Osiris hair, he's not in the forest anymore he has access to brushes. Please, he'd look so daddy with salt and pepper hair. Guys I swear I tried to make him look as like Osiris as possible, I studied that motherfucker like a scholar.