#Why have I still not seen that movie

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

My biggest fear is that it'll turn out that Cyn and the Solver are truly one and the same, or that Cyn has been fully conscious and in control of the Solver this whole time, or that "Cyn" never existed and is just another alias for the Solver, or that basically any variation of "Cyn is completely, wholeheartedly, 100% the villain, there is no distinguishing her from the Solver, she is in no way a victim, she cannot and will not be saved and the fandom was right to demonize her" will be canon.

Basically I don't wanna be like the cricket having to come to terms with the fact that Jack Horner is an irredeemable monster.

[hyakunana]

Episode 41: The Jet-Black Shogun

[royaltea000]

I’ve never felt so conflicted about a franchise in my life but at least this dude was hot

[nebuladreamz]

The voices are loud and I am WEAK

[wowa-bublord]

some kadaj and genesis sketches inspired by @magnuficentwo and @birdblacksocialclub 's tags on this post hehehe

[vellichorius]

unpopular opinion.

they shouldn't have casted michael sheen as william boldwood in far from the madding crowd.

it's just really quite unreasonable - if i were bathsheba there's no way that i would turn that man down i mean PLEASE ????

not to be rude but bathsheba what the fuck

[cacw]

super splashfrost times

[lgbtlunaverse]

So I watched A Silent Voice with some but minor knowledge of the story going in. And right at the beginning when Shoko's bullying started I had the nagging worry that while Ishida would be redeemed they'd leave Ueno and Kawai as one-dimensional bullies. Painting the girls as the "real villains" while the male protagonist got to have depth. Anyway I just finished the movie and I would like to formally apologize to Oima Yoshitoki and Yoshida Reiko I should never have doubted you.

[lazzarella]

Maybe it's just because I watched so many low (LOW) budget 00s queer movies that I had to scour local video shops for, or maybe it's because I'm still new to BL series and I'm in a honeymoon phase or something, but so many of the series I've seen a lot of people say are trash are fine actually? Some are even quite good??? IDK, I've mostly watched more recent ones, and I'm only about 40 series in, and maybe it's just the people on MDL and Reddit, but some of the criticisms seem overly harsh to me

Or maybe I just have shit taste lmao

Either way, I’m having a great time!

(Also, I guess there’s an element of when you watch a certain thing for a long time you might get sick of the same stuff being repeated but then again, I’ve been watching murder mysteries my whole life and I’d watch basically the same thing over and over with those and be content, so… maybe I just like that I have so many ‘samey’ shows to choose from)

[knight-intraining]

You know one of the major flaws in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is the idea that Elizabeth Swann-Turner, Pirate King would retire to an island and be just a mom.

Where's the TV series of her getting into shenanigans, Murder She Wrote style?

Like, she knows better than the governor. She can't just sit by and watch him put his ridiculous naval policies into place.

With her upper class upbringing (and father's inheritance no doubt), she's not going to at least think about hiring a nanny instead of not just hand raising, but homeschooling her child?

After a taste of adventure, she's going to just sit on her laurels and wait till she can see her man again in 10 years?? I think not

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

Archive of Our Own: *goes down*

The AO3 tag, 0.2 nanoseconds away from trending:

[musicmyxiii]

Am I constantly rewatching the Zoey102 trailer since 4AM just to see Quogan and repeatetely stop and replay their moments in the trailer?

Maybe...

[starbuck]

i offhandedly mentioned having seen a movie from the 2000s to my friend and she was genuinely flabbergasted because she thought i “only watched old movies”

[burning-sol]

me typing a post abt gaslighting and then deleting it because i think "surely no one wants to hear this" but also of course no one wants to hear it, nobody REALISES they need to hear it. here's a quick and informal PSA.

I'm telling you, if your perception of gaslighting is that of exaggerated arguments where one person is clearly wrong and where all context has been stripped away, that is not what it's like from my experience. We really need to talk about gaslighting as more than just a joke, because once I saw what was most likely a REAL case of gaslighting being downplayed by people who didn't realise they were using the EXACT language that's symptomatic of a real story and also that PERPETUATES the abuse.

The biggest thing people tend to leave out is context. Gaslighting happens between the victim and a person who they hold in regard, someone they've known for a while and love. By the time gaslighting starts to occur or is noticed, you're likely in a position where you're trying to take the other in good faith and characterise their behaviour as honest mistakes. Victims don't necessarily BELIEVE the lies are reality, in fact, it's more likely you tend to just shrug it off and drop it because you value the person above disagreements.

And next is the scaling. By the time you get to any disagreements where someone is outright saying that you're crazy or denying that abusive events happen, you are deep in the process of being gaslit. But how it starts out is that you'll have disagreements recalling smaller things whether it be what your favourite flavour of icecream is, whether they had already told you something you're sure you've heard before, slightly altering history in ways that aren't that far off but still feel wrong, explaining your feelings of uncertainty back to you in ways that COULD be plausible... When you try to explain these disagreements, it can feel humiliating or like the longer you talk about it the more wrong you start to feel and that you're sure that you're just being overly critical...

This ties back into what I said about the language that is symptomatic of real gaslighting stories. The story I read had people say the person wasn't being gaslit because, "it was just over video games?" "your friend sounds like they're just misremembering" "you seem kind of petty"... While yes, it is normal for disagreements and mistakes to happen, they shouldn't be happening to the extent that you're noticing a pattern. If it's a persistent issue in which you're starting to feel insecure and like an unreliable narrator, that is a BAD sign. It also shouldn't be entirely one sided - if you find you're the one consistently having to compromise their reality to satisfy the other, that is ALSO a bad sign.

And it's really important that, again, this is how it may just start. All these smaller things wear you down until you either start to believe the other or you're too demoralised to argue anymore, and the other may continue to escalate UNTIL the arguments become more stereotypical portrayals of gaslighting - and the person may even start to introduce other forms of abuse into the relationship. The period of "trivial" disagreements isolate the victim, especially when they go to their friends for support and their friends downplay the emotions they're feeling, resulting in the victim pulling away when they start to think their issues aren't worth bringing up.

You really just have to experience it for yourself to have tried to communicate you were being gaslit and had your issues shrugged off, to know how awful it feels when you finally get out of that abusive relationship and the people around you will say they, "didn't even know that was happening".

Like, I admit, I do find gaslighting jokes funny. They make me go heehee. But it is very very bad that we aren't actually teaching people what gaslighting realistically looks like, because you're usually only seeing the later stages of gaslighting and not all the smaller things that built up to that! You're not actually catching the signs when it's most critical to be getting out of the relationship.

But yeah. There's my rant.

[six-demon-bag]

THE RIFT (1990)

[im-still-watching-anime]

haven’t been online much lately and i finally come back only to see a million screenshots of the boruto game with naruto and sasuke doing the “you’re my friend” scene part two electric boogaloo??? like i don’t watch boruto but yall cannot tell me they’re still acting THAT in love in a series where they are married to other people and have kids??? like is it just an understood thing that they’re all in some weird poly relationship with each other what is happening these screenshots are ABSURD