#all or nothing sitcom

[discontentramblings]

Well, well, well...

10 years of All or Nothing.

I made this post when I was 20 years old and there was basically no asexual/pansexual rep in media.

I'm 30 years old now and...well, there still isn't a lot, but at least we have Todd on Bojack Horseman and that guy from Schitt's Creek?

A lot has changed in the past 10 years, both in the world and within myself. Looking back on the anxious, self-criticising barely-adult that I was back then really helps to put things into perspective.

Despite the Everything that's happened with this post, I'm still glad it's around and that it's circulating - a little slice of classic 2014 tumblr nostalgia.

To everyone who has gotten something positive out of this post - I'm glad I was able to brighten even a small part of your lives, even for a moment.

To everyone who's amazed I'm still here - Same, honestly. Please keep adding such comments though, each one gives me more power so that I may one day ascend from this mortal shell.

To everyone who's left unnecessary negativity on the post - Okay 👍

And to everyone who may be wondering 'how does one celebrate the anniversary of such a momentous part of history?'

In the most asexual way possible:

Happy All or Nothing, y'all.

An asexual and pansexual become room-mates and have wacky adventures

The show is called ‘All or Nothing’

[laniidae-passerine]

in all honesty I hope they don’t announce s4 of Hannibal, not because of any truly valid concerns, but because all the promotional material was absolutely atrocious and I’d hate to see it return

[andi-o-geyser]

I hear your “I’m so excited for tlovm season 2! It’s going to be so fun!” and I raise you “The central theme of this season is bone-deep crushing guilt and grief”

[seizethedeansofproduction]

im back from the dead

[boymold]

Last year when i was first watching venture bros I got so obsessed with it every time I closed my eyes fake venture bros episodes would play in my head and it pissed me off so bad

[litrallytyrus]

rewatching the tyrus storyline and kira wanted tj so bad it’s embarrassing like she was really throwing herself onto a boy who was clearly giving major heart eyes to his boy best friend right in front of her . like omg she didn’t give a fuckkk she was like i can change him 😍 and she was so wrong like nobody has ever been more wrong

[motsimages]

As per Tumblr recommendation, I started Kevin can fuck himself yesterday. I see people comment on how the sitcom part makes it look the way people see an abuser and how the abuse can be disguised. People think he is just a funny guy and the abuse goes unnoticed. I personally see it otherwise, although it's similar.

People know he is an asshole. He spends a whole episode being mean to the new neighbours just because. He meets a dangerous guy at a bar, in public. He is an alcoholic who throws weird parties with lots of other people at home. Patty's boyfriend tells her twice in the 3 or 4 conversations we see that he is an idiot. People know, and people avoid him.

And his bubble know, but they justify it and excuse it. And that's the sitcom. The sitcom is the theater of excuses Allison has (and then other characters too) about his behaviour.

"Can you believe it? We were in our anniversary, such a fun party, we were both super drunk and I don't know how it ended, that I was face down on the floor and the table was broken! Anniversa-rager we call it lol"

"He is such a clumsy guy that just as I was leaving the house, you won't believe that I don't know how he managed to cover me in chilli sauce! What a silly goose!"

"He is so helpless without me, he couldn't find the printer and he called me all day because he needed me to explain to him how to work it. And he worries too! He called the cops because he didn't know where I was, maybe I forgot to tell him".

The conversations with her coworker about husbands help drive this point. That's what mariage is. You find ways to justify it and to avoid certain fights and that's it. We got lucky.

But he did all these things on purpose. And the unreliable narrator of the sitcom makes the joke of it and makes the audience consider that maybe it isn't *that bad*. Allison needs to believe that's what it is, so it is. It really isn't that bad, she thinks, he is just like that.

And we can actually see the worrying things and the threatening parts from minute one. It's only a joke because we have been trained to dismiss it. To justify it and to move on. He isn't doing any heavy lifting here.

In episode 1, just the fact that he ends up standing on the table (when she doesn't want him to even put glasses on without protection) says a lot. But then the table breaks and he fixes it poorly and visibly. It would be bad enough just like this, but I personally think there is more to it. It's just that Allison doesn't want to speak about it or look at it so it is just the table, but it's the switch that turns on for her, the last drop. But she did end face down on her living room, on top of the broken table. It's a very elegant narrative tool where we don't see, but if we wanted to see, it's there.

And the more she notices, the more off-putting the sitcom is. It's still played as a joke, with the laugh track, but she is more aware now, so we can notice too.

We start the series with her turning point, but if the series started a year before that, it would only be happening in her house, as it is her life, her only frame of reference, and it would only be a sitcom because isn't he such a clumsy but caring guy?

[thekimspoblog]

Is the video game really subverting its genre? Are you sure it's not just doing clever things within its genre, because otherwise the game would be boring and unchallenging and say nothing interesting? I'm just saying, it's cool and all that the internet allows horror game fandoms to overflow into eachother, but not EVERY 2 hour video essay needs to be spent breathlessly sucking off the devs. Sometimes a game is just REGULAR difficult and REGULAR high-quality.

Besides RPGs made over a decade ago, what is the thing supposedly subverting? Clearly not other contemporary indie horror games, because there is clearly a convergent ethos forming of cosmic horror and beginners' traps; that's just what the genre looks like nowadays.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

new girl is such a blip of a sitcom honestly. good for it

[volfoss]

Everyone loves me and I'm so so so employable<- affirmations

[unusualsims]

[vigilantejustice]

tfw you’re dog sitting in the granny flat of your high school besties family home and you’re not planning on even going into the main house at all but the constant rain scuppered your laundry plans so when you turn up for day one (of eight) you decide to pop into the main house to run a load only to find the kitchen has sprung a not–insignificant leak 🤡

[anoras]

kieran wasn't w morrigan during veilguard bc he's being the weird older brother his equally weird half-sister deserves while her mother is off strangling darkspawn again

quite genuinely, rivka & alistair's daughter is 15 during vg & i think rivka and morrigan took one look at what was about to go down and then looked at their weird kids and said "if shit hits the fan, hop through that elluvian and we'll find you when this is all over"

[poisonoyous]

They don’t even make tv shows for watching anymore they just churn them out to feel something

[hersweetrevenge]

au where corey still doesn't get over the accident, but instead of emotionally shutting down, his mood issues get steadily worse and he snaps and starts killing the asshole guys who bring their cars to prevo and, as soon as they recognise who he is, talk down to him/harass him about what happened. [insert kill bill sirens]. ronald helps him cover it up.

[dezwade]

good parts about Lab Rats vs Mighty Med:

- Kaz and Leo's friendship

- an idea of what Elite Force could've been if it was good

bad parts about Lab Rats vs Mighty Med

- everything else