#I think there’s something here

[almonddirge]

In TGCF book 1, on Mount Yujun, the bridal party is attacked. This is where Nan Feng and Fu Yao first see Ruoye. Xie Lian then commands them to get the soldiers away from the sedan so he can meet the “ghost groom” alone. Nan Feng hesitates. Fu Yao says he’ll be fine seeing as he has Ruoye and runs off. However, even as Xie Lian commands him to leave, Nan Feng struggles to do so.

Is anyone else feeling like this is very familiar? Well, it’s kinda how things happened 800 years ago. Mu Qing was quick to leave, but Feng Xin struggled to. I feel like I’m gonna see that a lot going forward. Mu Qing doesn’t have to be told twice to get out, usually not even once, while Feng Xin tries to stick it out. Feng Xin is very loyal, and I could see him thinking back to his abandonment of Xie Lian and the regrets he had every time he’s asked to go.

[lyinginthesnow]

I find it interesting how both Kendall and Logan depend on drugs in some way (Kendall’s substance abuse, Logan’s reliance on prescribed medications). Though there are clear differences in their relationships to drug use, they are similar in that both of them want to keep it under wraps due to it being perceived by others as a weakness that makes them incompetent, unstable, unpredictable, and unfit to hold a position of power — and so, possibly because they are so personally familiar with this, weaponizing it is their first instinct to undermine each other. Logan spreads lies to the press that Kendall relapsed and was high during the vote of no-confidence. Kendall tells Sandy and Stewy’s PR team what medications Logan is on to foster doubt in Logan’s leadership among the major shareholders. Obviously, Kendall and Logan have different reasons for using drugs and they take this into account based on how best to leverage public opinion. Logan presents Kendall as being erratic, mentally ill, and untrustworthy while Kendall presents Logan as an incapable old man whose mind and body are failing. I also think that in their private lives, controlling each other’s drug use becomes a way to establish a sense of power over each other, even in small ways. In Safe Room, Kendall insists that he be the one to give Logan his pills throughout the day, saying that the previous person performing that job “missed a dose”. He wants any illusion of control he can have, and this feels like control, no matter how insignificant it really is. Logan limits (or tries to limit) Kendall’s drug use by having Greg keep an eye on him at Tom’s bachelor party and, more indirectly, by sending Naomi off the yacht in This Is Not For Tears, displaying his surveillance and command over Kendall’s life.

[a-a-lost-munchkin]

I Can’t Help But Wonder

Odysseus, who just violently and mercilessly murdered 108 or so men, who claims in the next song that he’s no longer a kind or gentle man, actively listens to Telemachus and kindly and gently responds to everything his son’s expressed.

Telemachus asks, “Am I like you? Am I strong like you? Will you embrace me? Will you love and accept me as yours?” He says, “I’ve felt so alone.”

And Odysseus claims him in a heartbeat, answering, “My son. My boy. My sweetest joy I’ve ever known. I embraced you twenty years ago. I’d do the impossible for you. I’d die for you.” He says, “Seeing the men here today, I can only wonder what you’ve been through for twenty years. My son, you’re already strong. You’re my own. You’re not alone. I’m home.”

And then they fucking embrace.

[abisalli]

Jason but he wears this helmet 😼

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Dog Meshi.

[greenbergsays]

I'm going to say something that will make sense to the Fandom Olds and will probably be slightly controversial to the younger crowds, but I'm going to say it anyways

TPTB becoming increasingly aware of fandom and fanfiction over the past two-ish decades and thus, the spawning of the expectation of your ship going canon has ruined fandom a little bit

I mean, fandom does a great job of ruining itself a lot of the time, but this idea that a ship isn't "real" or "valid" if it isn't canon

or the idea that one ship is superior to the other because one is canon and the other isn't?

it's absolutely bananas

I grew up in an era of fandom where characters didn't even have to be from the same media source to ship them. I mean, do you know how many BtVS/HP crossover fics I read back in the early 2000s???

That shit was never gonna be canon, but we had fun with it, anyways

Like. Yeah, a lot of fanon speculation is bullshit, but it always has been and always will be. You have hundreds and/or thousands of people riffing off each other, the observations and the meta will always be deeper than what TPTB intended, and that's okay! That's what makes it fun!

I just think more people would be a lot happier in their fandom experiences if they realized that fandom is supposed to be an escape instead of a crusade

[soaked-doors]

the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself

[palarien]

sketched this out at jury duty actually

[soldrawss]

Something something 16yo 2k12 Mikey gets sucked into a portal and sent into the RISE universe and ends up helping raise the RISE kiddos AU

[storm-of-feathers]

I'm very fond of this video

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[chloesimaginationthings]

The story of Ballora in FNAF..

[pouletpourri]

dedicated to the hundreds of hearts i broke