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[infenity360]

[boundariesoverthrown]

JAMES AND LARS, DAMAGED JUSTICE TOUR – SEPTEMBER 23RD, 1989

[totallynotthedarkreunion]

When the anime protagonist is awkward and seemingly unsociable but they unintentionally draw so many good people toward them like they're a good people magnet and the plot of the show isn't centered around the growth of their abilities but the growth of their relationships with the people around them and their ideas because said protagonist already has insanely amazing abilities and a mysterious original charm and that's usually why they have so many unexpected friends (but not in the way thag they're great at this thing and people want to be friends with them just because of that, I mean in the way that the people who they meet love them for their personality and their awesome abilities are like a cherry on top) and it helps them to become a person they never expected they would be

[bamgeut]

soobin | to do ep. 121 ↳ for @soobinbf

[tls12lessthan3]

thinking about orvs metatextual engagement with its genre and specifically how that interacts with its women again. kim dokja is a self insert for the reader - what he thinks is largely meant to represent what we think, especially in the beginning before sing shong really fleshes out his character. kim dokja sees the world through tropes, directly acknowledging the genre around him and the cliches we expect e.g. the overpowered mc, the scheming villain, the beautiful heroine.

but a major part of his arc is deconstructing this reductionist view of the world in a way that parallels the author's deconstruction of the genre, and that plays really well with the way orv writes women. yoo sangah is perhaps the best exanple - shes introduced as the heroine, a one-dimensional pretty girl who in any other novel would become kim dokja's love interest. but the authors allow her to be her own character, directly challenging the stereotype of the heroine and calling attention to the genre's typical lack of depth for such a character. i think this undercurrent plays in the background often but really comes to the forefront when yoo sangah reminds kim dokja of her putting pepper in their bosses' coffee, a memory kim dokja had supressed because it didn't fit with the pretty girl persona he made for her.

i interpret that moment as yoo sangah pushing her way out of the mold of heroine often found in these stories, demanding a depth be added to her character, asking kim dokja - and thus the reader - to see her in her entirety, to see the heroine archetype for what she could be. orv is at all times in conversation with its genre, and its simultaneous writing of female characters with agency and depth and acknowledgement of the tropes these women are expected to fulfill is undeniably a part of that. and its a part i enjoy. most of the time.

[moodlesmain]

Hi. Look at this.

I just spent two days straight making a digital conspiracy board trying to piece together my favourite genre that isn't really a genre and more just a very particular niche which doesn't really have a name.

If you want to look I reccomend downloading and zooming in on the image to read everything LMAO, I want to try and convert it to a page on my neocities at some point so its easier to view but for now you guys just get a big ol' jpeg. You're welcome :)

[mwagneto]

HAAANK DON'T GET MAD AT SCIFI FOR NOT MAKING SENSE HAAAAANK !!! IT'S A METAPHOR FOR REAL LIFE THAT'S MEANT TO MAKE YOU ASK QUESTIONS HANK YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE EXACT MECHANICS!!!! HAAAANK

[mizuribbons]

from my time being in many different fandoms and encountering countless more i have seen a surprising amount of "flower shop with an extremely mentally ill florist who falls in love with a customer" aus. i mean, i see why. it's amazing, and i love this concept, it's just perfect. but also it's pretty fucking specific and there's way more of these than expected.

[necrotic-nephilim]

If you want to be bothered. Maybe this for dick and Bruce???

i ALWAYS want to be bothered these are always the highlight of my day tbh you're a delight for letting me just yap <3

Dick. For the canon isn't real square I am Specifically talking about the Tom Taylor Nightwing run. Usually I ignore bad runs but given this one is ongoing (though about to end THANK GOD and get replaced by Dan Watters who i have high hopes for since i adored his Sword of Azrael (2022) run but i digress) so I counted it. Especially since it's so debated if that run is bad or not, for some reason. I'm a 90s Nightwing truther. I love Dick so dearly and tbh recently I've been more enamored with him the more I read his Discowing era, I didn't used to be as big of a Dick stan as I am these days.

Bruce. Honestly where do you even start with Bruce. I want to fist fight him and also patch him up. He got me into comics and superheroes as a whole but I roll my eyes whenever he shows up in a story. He's a bastard and usually not a good father but also complex and should be dissected under a magnifying glass. I love him dearly. He's also just the worst. I think that's why I love him. I'm always a fan of unabashedly Complicated Asshole Bruce who's generally not always the best person, particularly not to the Batfamily and that being the driving force of his relationships with them, especially in shipping.

And for bonus points, Tim. Because know above all else, I'm a Tim Drake kinnie /deg. He's been my number one for a decade and I've yet to uproot him from my brain. He's literally the Worst half the time and I love him for it. And the canon isn't real refers to Tim Drake: Robin because... that sure was a comic. And that's about all I can say about it. Pre-Flashpoint Tim I miss you so dearly. I think it's fun that I want to put him in a blender and drink the juice but also want Nothing Ever to happen to him.

[strorberrysquid]

im back at it again with more unrendered drawtectives shitposts

[loonybun]

been sort of obsessed with more like nature based whump including like hunting whump and the idea came to me of a hunter whumper using hunting dogs to track down whumpee. i just really like the imagery. worst of all is that they’d know the woods far better than whumpee ever could.

[booksandberries]

we have GOT to bring whump back

people are tagging their fics with stuff like CONVERSATIONS and TRAINS but you can't tell me if somebody is gonna get walloped?

[definitely-not-a-wasp]

Max Ride Fancasts

Someone mentioned the Max Ride movie and I, who has not yet watched it, have decided rather than doing that, am going to make a Fancast using modern actors. While I am objectively correct about all of my choices, if you disagree with me, you should make your own fancast (this is blatant baiting into getting more fancasts. I want to see everyone's opinions about who should play these characters. Pretty Please <3)

To set the scene: the year is 2025. James Patterson has announced that he's been working with another studio for a Maximum Ride movie. Fans despair everywhere, but we all know we're going to watch it.

"What's the cast list?" we ask. "Are we going to get another blond buzzcut man for Fang?" we ask.

Before we learn any of that, we learn that it's directed by Justin Benson, and Michael Giacchino is doing the soundtrack, because this seems like the most important piece of information for them to give you, and since it's MY fantasy Maximum Ride movie, I get to choose who's doing the soundtrack.

It takes much longer for them to release the cast list, because we already have the most important part (Michael Giacchino) covered.

Maximum Ride: Dior Goodjohn

First: look at her. She could totally lead a pack of feral teenagers in the woods. And, in contrast to the canon movie, she has some solidness to her limbs that look like she'd actually do damage if she hit someone, which I find important for Max— she's strong. She needs to look it. Second: her performance in the Percy Jackson Series shows that she can 100% play a suave, sarcastic, quippy character who solves her problems with punching, while her role in Are You Afraid of the Dark shows a much more emotive role, and I think the combination of these two roles showcase a really good vibe for Max's smarmy teenager who also wears her heart on her sleeve and is in over her head.

Fang: Teo Briones

Is 20 perhaps skirting the edge of playing a teenager territory? Yes, but since JP established that the flock looks older than they are, and the last guy to play Fang was over 20, I'm allowing it. From an aesthetic perspective, Briones has both the generally youthful look while still being angular, which I feel is really good for someone playing Fang. And he's made a lot of his films in the thriller/horror genre that emphasize his ability to do micro expressions, which would translate really well to a character who doesn't emote very much.

Iggy: Mason Thames

In a perfect world I think a blind actor would be best for this role, but that being said, this is a fancast, so I'm using celebrities. I think the general gangliness fits Iggy well, there's a smarminess to him (look at the smirks), and his performance in Black Phone shows that he can also play up intense emotions, which would be good for a character like Iggy who switches from laid back/carefree to really intense and angry fairly quickly.

Nudge: Madison Curry

Gonna be honest, the younger the actors get the less I'm looking at their film history and the more I'm going off vibes, and Madison Curry looks like a really good Nudge to me. She looks so nice and happy to be alive, in contrast to all of the older kids. Also, she was really good in Us 2019, which proves her ability to work in a darker genre.

Gazzy: Jackson Scott

If the Maximum Ride Movie was allowed to cast a 12-year-old to play a six-year-old, I'm allowed to do this. He'd blond, he looks rambunctious, and the exact type of person to blow things up for fun.

Angel: Charlotte Ann Tucker

Okay but think about how much sadder all of Angel's scenes would be if she actually looked like a chubby-cheeked six-year-old. Put THAT into the horrors and we'll all forgive her for what she did in the late series (become annoying).

Ari Batchelder: David Mattle

Since Ari is seven, but looks twenty, but acts twelve, I think there's a lot of directions his actor to go in, but I'm choosing David Mattle because, like Angel, think about how much sadder all of his scenes are if he looks like a kid. David Mattle also has a more angular face, giving him a slightly more serious appearance despite being young that would lend well to Ari, and his role from There's Something Wrong With the Children makes me feel like he could play a good antagonist, leaning more into a creepy/sadistic child in a horror movie rather than a military man that kills for the lulz and is also seven.

Jeb Batchelder: Ethan Hawke

Not only does Ethan Hawke look like a tired and slightly bedraggled full-time scientist, part-time father (about to get fired from that job), but his recent work in Moon Knight and Black Phone really display someone who is surface level very calm and reasonable while he does absolutely heinous things, which is a good thing to bring into Jeb's character. We need someone who displays the cognitive dissonance to behave like he's the normal one in the situation that he's directly causing and making worse, with the charimsa to have him getting away with it.

Valencia Martinez: Lupita Nyong'o

Now you see why I casted Max the way I did. Not only is Lupita Mexican, but I'm citing her performance in Us 2019 for this one, she can 100% play frazzled mother weighed down by the guilt of her actions and enduring the Horrors caused by them, because (again) Us 2019. Look at her. Look at her. Tell me she wouldn't make the best Dr. Martinez.

In conclusion: We would all watch this movie, even if it had the exact same cgi wing budget. also I think all that this proves is that my movie watching history contains mostly horror.

[fictionadventurer]

Reblog and tell me about a movie/book/show that isn't Christmas-themed, but you still like to experience at Christmastime.

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

I think I've gotten to the point where I'm just gonna not interact with or even block blogs that post v/3 fan art while aggressively and needlessly harping on it in the caption

[astronomodome]

Feeling conflicted about the cyberpunk thingy impulse is going for because like yeah it’s a great theme and I like the aesthetics a lot but what I really like most about cyberpunk is the themes of corporate alienation and/or transhumanism etc etc which I know will not be addressed at all and in fact it’s kind of stupid of me to expect that at all from a minecraft series. Does anyone else get that or just me