#I mean come the fuck on

[kwyw]

To add to it: that’s not even mentioning “you two are dancing in a snow globe round and round” and then snow globes showing up all over the Lover era, including the lyric video for the Lover remix, with THESE added lyrics…. which was released on November 13th.

Yes, November 13th.

Another added bonus with this performance from the Lover era:

[erix-detergentt]

very spontaneous.... uh... something. orz

never forget

quick translation:

JH: your name? HH: gh- HH: h-h... hol horse. JH: GREAT. JH: and i'm josuke higashikata. pleasure to meet you, hol horse.

[adore-the-stars-in-her-eyes]

Fresh ideas will never prosper with Star Wars as long as they listen to toxic ass fans boys.

[aspacewar]

The amount of House x Wilson content tumblr feeds me is making me want to rewatch House MD

[meraarts]

Pirate queen who conquered China Zheng Yi Sao got outwitted by a fucking nepobaby white guy? That stupid ass privilege poisoned motherfucker we met when he tried to be a pirate and failed miserably? They didn’t think to check the stupid clocks for booby traps? Be serious.

[dramalets]

It takes so little effort to just not tag a show in your negative post. People go into tags to find things to reblog because they like the thing. They don’t want to hear all the ways you don’t like the thing.

[d3adl3tt3rs]

One of these lovely TMA artists out there should make a jmart animatic to Will Wood's "Um, It's Kind of a Lot" bc it is super them.

[inoankin]

i’m thinking about leolinda again :(

[exitpursuedbyasloth]

*Jaskier sings Ciri to sleep* okay, the writers are clearly reading fucking fanfic at this point.

The Adventures of Fun Uncle Jaskier™ and his Pocket-Sized Princess™

[kwyw]

[pinkorchidsinspring]

Deeply sorry my a**

Oh wait! Other people seem to also be in their right mind!

It seems like everyone except billboards employees seem to be. F*ck off with the BS billboard.

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[themothernerd-fandomqueen]

I-

do you ever just CRY?

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[halfmoonheart]

im gunna go ahead and claim hausu as a foundational piece of lesbian media.

[tossawary]

This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.

"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.

"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.

I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.