#also obviously this is a spectrum

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

So the connective tissue I was seeing here is “artists returning to deeply personal works, who are now attempting to challenge the legacy of something they made that’s stopped being a story and has started to become ‘IP’, by depriving fans of expected catharsis and leaning heavily on meta-critique of the original piece” but an anon suggested the theme was “transition could have saved her” and you know what? That also works.

Is there a name for what these are called cuz I feel like they’re getting more common

[shittysawtraps]

please god let them make an animated film or series set in the saw universe it would be so so so funny

[rebuke-me]

the pilot program are all autistic in this essay i will

[saturnniidae]

I love how like, ambiguous so many Studio Ghibli 'couples' are. They're primarily male/female duos, and it's clear how much they love and care for each other, but more often than not it's never explicitly stated to be romantic. And their bonds aren't treated any less for it.

Idk it's just something I've always held close to my heart as someone who grew up not feeling romantic attraction the way most do, it made the characters feel more relatable and human to me, and while I still didnt fully understand my identity (didn't know being aro was a thing), it helped me better reconcile with it. And I feel that's incredibly important.

(And not just from an aro perspective. portrayal of m/f friendships is rare and something we desperately need more of)

Yes, they love each other deeply, but they don't need to kiss or be a couple for that love to be agknowledged and treated with importance. It's not any less than it would be if they weren't platonic. Hell, it doesn't even need to strictly be platonic or romantic. It could just be somewhere in between and that's okay.

Studio Ghibli fr out here making the most alterous duos I've ever seen.

[jingerpi]

cursed to be perpetually aware of

"transmisogyny targets trans women -> it also hurts trans men -> anti trans panic also hurts cis women"

"the US and Israel are commiting genocide in Gaza -> the genocide is also hurting Palestinian Christians and white tourists -> this war money could be better spent domestically"

"anti homeless architecture makes it illegal to live without a house -> it also hurts disabled people -> ableist structures also hurt abled people"

it's weird because with some of these there are genuine points to be made and it's worth discussing the full consequences of things but I can't help but be aware of the human-value-hierarchy implicit in these statements and how attention is always brought away from those who suffer most from their own oppression. it's not really surprising and it's 100% the system working as intended but you really start to see it everywhere once you look

[acerikus]

You ever think about Odile in the secret passage room talking about romantic love being unimportant to her and the way Mira's eyes shine. The way she thinks she's found someone just like her, who she can connect with on Not Feeling Those Things, someone cool, someone older than her, who might feel the same about one of her biggest struggles? Someone she already looks up to, feeling that way, showing her that maybe it really is normal and okay to not feel romantic feelings at all?

... And then Odile says that she may have been late to it, but OF COURSE she's felt romantic love before! It'd be weird if she hadn't! She was just a late bloomer, in her twenties!

I think that must've crushed mira to hear, at least a little. Especially when she's in her early 20s herself - like it's something people would think maybe she's just a little later than most others to but of course she'll fall in love soon - that's what's normal and expected! She'll fall in love soon. She'll be happy with that. That's expected. That's normal. That's normal.

[cat-doggy]

I think a, not really new, but still new pet peeve of mine is when ppl say stuff like "mspec monos aren't valid", "lesboys/turigirls/gaybians aren't valid", etc, but then proceed to say stuff like- "You can just say you're (mspec)sexual (mono)romantic or (mspec)romantic (mono)sexual!", "But nonbinary lesbians are valid!", etc. Like- you know that is one of the reasons why someone uses the mspec mono label, right? And that not every nonbinary person is afab and that multigender people exist, right?

It annoys the hell out of me- and my system members too

- Fry/Chat

[aroaessidhe]

adult romance books with demisexual characters be like "I haven't really felt attraction but i know i WANT TO" "yeah I've vaguely heard about asexuality but never looked into it more it's all so confusing and doesn't feel right" *conflates complex feelings about romance and sex into just asexuality* "you don't have to choose labels labels are so confusing and complicated (but you will choose a label related to which genders you're attracted to)" "i know it's okay to be single and not want relationships but I want that and I feel like my life is bad and missing something because of it" *obligatory queer best friend speech telling them it's okay if they don't want sex or romance or both but the MC doesn't internalise that at all* "i don't like labels i guess demi is technically what I might be we'll put the word on the page but I just don't want to label it"

okay!!! we get it!!!

[soapdi-spencer]

Marius OCD headcanons

-Unmedicated and unaware that what he's going through is abnormal

-Combats his intrusive thoughts with attempted suppression or "replacing" a negative thought with a positive one

-Combined contamination OCD and counting OCD with hoarding tendencies

-Washes his hands frequently but doesn't consider himself to be particularly clean. Avoids touching doorknobs/keypads/any other door opening mechanism with ungloved hands wherever possible and has developed a technique of using his elbows for everything

-Counts up to 10 over and over again in his head and sometimes gets so wrapped up in it that he ends up zoning out. Also counts things like tiles

-Obsessively collects various items regardless of importance, not just his own kneecaps, in case he or somebody else needs something later. His hoard has started to breach containment and spread to other areas of the ship

[seijorhi]

Which haikyuu character do you think would be the most slimy, vile, manipulative yandere in a zombie apocalypse AU?

controversial opinion but it's tendo

[thedistortionshallways]

People who genuinely believe all asexuals are sex repulsed and can't even stand to think about the act are frustrating but also funny because bro who do you think is writing your well written 30k kinktober fic that leaves you gobsmacked because of how explicit it is lmao, anyways happy October 3rd yall and god bless the many many aces who write fanfiction

[thedreadvampy]

What would you call the genre of 2010s-2020s TV shows which are:

stylistic, with cinematic transitions and colorful shots

kind of tonally YA adjacent but aimed at adults; snappy, irreverent, probably centering some amount of mystery or detective work

mildly goth/alternative aesthetic and tone

involve pursuit by some manner of Paranormal Agency with a 60s bureaucracy aesthetic, either time travel or something similar, and a range of superpowers

the/a villain is almost certainly a woman with piled up hair and a skirt suit who character design and affect wise is doing what Michelle Gomez did in Doctor Who. Separately, Michelle Gomez may or may not also be there.

have an ensemble cast of quirky, sarcastic and jaded characters, interacting with a rotating cast of similarly quirky side characters

often but not always a comic book adaptation; either way, involves a heightened reality which aims to be as 'comicsy' as possible while achieving emotional verisimilitude.

I'm reasonably certain this has to now count as a genre or at least a concrete aesthetic cause I can reel off so many of these. Off the top of my head; Dirk Gently, Doom Patrol, Umbrella Academy, Loki, and Dead Boy Detectives, just to start. I think weirdly tonally and aesthetically these shows owe a lot to Pushing Daisies.

anyway yeah is there a name for this?

[oceanwithouthermoon]

https://x.com/d3kutism/status/1741579841764475157?s=46

it should be illegal to be this fucking stupid so loudly and confidently omg..

mfs on the internet preach about "media literacy" yet they completely gloss over the fact that the only damn things that kusuo "canonically" is are a tsundere, an unreliable narrator, and a fucking liar LMFAOOO.. babe thats like basic reading comprehension, im sorry..

EDIT: it should go without saying not to send a person hate just because of a silly post like this one(+i dont have any reach anyway so im sure it wouldnt happen, but i wanna say this nonetheless lol) but i would just like to say that i just checked and realized that this person is 15 years old, so like... yeah, too young to be arguing with grown people on the internet. dont take this too serious or send this person hate pls lol..

[knifeforkspooncup]

My entire team at work is neurodivergent.

Not a single person here is neurotypical (ok maybe like one guy is unconfirmed, but I have my doubts,) and while it certainly isn't the utopia I always envisioned, it is very entertaining.

Like at no other workplaces have I ever been asked if I was ok while I was doing desk work. But here, everyone understands desk work = your soul slowly leaving your body = psychological torture of the highest degree. One person even brought me a coffee with extra sugar out of solidarity.

There are no less than 4 simultaneous conversations happening at once at any given time. Any less and I'm pretty sure we'd start clawing at the walls.

Speaking of which, this morning (halfway through our morning meeting) my coworker started tearing apart the ceiling because the AC was dripping. He was leading the meeting. No one batted an eye and the meeting just kept going as if he wasn't literally dismantling the room around us. We even handed him tools when he silently held out his hand.

Between us we are basically a fully stocked pharmacy of all the most highly restricted medications. I'm pretty sure some people are trading meds like kids trading sandwiches at lunch.

Sometimes an unstoppable force (a coworker with understimulated hyperactive ADHD) meets an immovable object (an overstimulated autistic coworker with rigid routines) and either the universe' mysteries are solved or (way more likely) nuclear war breaks out. -> my AuDHD ass watching from the corner like a child of divorce 🧍‍♂️

Most of the people here have been fired at least once in past jobs. Several of them were fired by the people they now work with.

Documentation and organization is a choose your own adventure kind of situation. This means the finished documents we DO have are absolutely immaculate and belong in the Louvre. The other 99.9% of the information is stored in people's heads or scribbled on scrap paper and left around or word docs with like one sentence in them. I am of the latter variety unless I'm forced to be the only adult in the room.

There is not a single surface in our workspace that doesn't have a fidget toy on it. We keep breaking chairs because everyone spins on them.

No one has ever looked at me weird when I announce I'm all out of facial expressions for the day.

"Did you forget to take your meds" is a socially acceptable thing to ask and honestly shows you care enough to notice.

When something goes catastrophically wrong the entire room erupts into inappropriate laughter.

The amount of coffee consumed by our team alone is probably more than all the other teams combined. Daily.

There is no such thing as a Standard Operating Procedure here. Everyone has their own way of doing things. Yes it's chaos and causes a lot of fights but it's better than the alternative (one person happy and everyone else miserable.)

[yukiwhitetm]

I'm not surprised that my leg is on fire from chronic pain but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it.

[bloggingboutburgers]

Today you answered a lot of questions, so if you want this to just sit in your inbox it's okay

Not tryna burden you or anything, just wanted to wish you a good day, and tell you that I admire you and how confident you are with your identity. It's truly heartwarming for me from my little confused bicurious/bisexual demisexual genderfluid place (Ik, it's a lot), because I get confused and sometimes awkward when I doubt on whether what I am or what I'm not. Mostly because it discourages me a bit when I'm talking about my identity and the same friend jumps in and says "but weren't you *this* a few months ago?". She's very insensitive most of the time and questions me about my choices because she thinks I strictly have to have 'had a crush' on someone to be sure. Idk man, I just realized just now that when I was a kid I found Elsa from Frozen prettier than I did with other characters, shut up. I just know, but after being fed with that if I found them attractive (or rather, sexually appealing) then I had a crush on someone, realizing if I liked someone or not was a huge fucking struggle.

Whatever, I'm just ranting by now. Just wanted to thank you because thanks to you I felt like someone understood my situation because I had been wondering why I never had liked someone my whole life. Then I realized, I can, it's just that it takes a bit more than just finding them appealing to the eye for me. You gave me a safe space, where I could laugh and relate (or not, it depends on the context but I still nod and chuckle) to being ace.

Also, I could be asking on my main but I feel embarrassed to say this since we're mutuals and you probably know who I am, but I'm still shy :P

Have a good night :D

IIIIII have totally let this sit in my asks for quite a while because the stress of the visa process got to me... TwT Sorry it took me so long to respond! (...Tbh I haven't guessed who you are either TwT I'm so sorry, I hope that isn't too hurtful, I'm kinda stupid in that way...)

I feel you though. I'm lucky I myself have such a strong and stubborn sense of self that I can still be like "no I AM this because I know and naysayers can f off" even in times where there's ground for doubt, because it IS genuinely so hard to figure oneself out. First off, people impose on you, from your very childhood, the common denominator that everyone's heterosexual and heteroromantic. Next, and even stronger than that, people impose on you that everyone feels sexual and romantic attraction, and that if anyone likes anything at all, if any person interacts positively with any other at all, if any character shares screentime with any other at all, then it must mean they're romantically/sexually attracted, because that's all it ever can mean. No wonder it's a struggle!

It's an honestly unfair situation to always have to be surrounded by "yeah but"s from people who don't experience your experience yet somehow think they know better. It makes it so that sometimes, all you have to trust is your gut, and that's a tough pill to swallow in a world that tends to erase or disvalue your experience, and in a society where it's encouraged not to be too self-centered and seek other opinions for guidance, for valid reasons. But it's sometimes so tough to find support, that trusting oneself really IS what one needs.

Either way... I consider myself really fortunate in that sense, but I know it's definitely a tough one, and I sincerely wish you the best T^T I'm really glad if I can help, even a little! And please don't let external forces make you lose too much confidence in yourself, as honestly hard as it is at times TwT You're all good as you are and you have every right to be who you are! It sounds so obvious put that way but... Yeah TwT