#and for all his insufferable heterosexuality

[princess-starscourge]

Persona 4 seems real fruity 👀

[sciencelings-speaks]

i finished 1-3 yesterday and i do not like stronghart and van zeiks blue eyes they scare me, but his mullet is a little funny. also... how the fuck isn't the bailey on fire after every trial, not only do they use fireballs to measure the juries opinion but the indoor fireworks? THE FLAMING OMNIBUS??? i don't care what this place is made out of there has to be wood and cloth somewhere, this is a fire hazard, I think it should blow up

[faithandfairies]

So, I'm re-watching Rizzoli & Isles and here's what I got. Maura is bisexual, Jane is a repressed lesbian and Maura fully realized that she was in love with Jane when Jane got shot in season 1. She's been treating Jane completely like her wife since then.

I also genuinely believe Maura only stayed with the surgeon as long as she did to make sure Jane got the best medical care possible. Especially after what happened with Frankie. There is no way I think she would have been able to tolerate that insufferable man that long otherwise. She literally left him the moment she realized Jane would be just fine and whatever pain Jane was still experiencing was psychosomatic.

Maura also likes sex. And the only reason she's going after Giovanni is for sex as she's said because as she said herself she loves Italians. The truth is she loves Jane and the only thing she's not getting from their relationship is sex.

It's very interesting because in season 1 Maura was looking for meaningful connections with men. For a man to have it all. Now she either only really pursues superficial connections with men or if they're more meaningful the guy is a male version of Jane.

And something else is hitting me now. I wondered before why they didn't have Jane just get with Dean because I thought they were believable as a couple. With the compulsive heterosexuality Jane was at least somewhat into him.

But they had her get with the soldier and get pregnant by him instead. They had no chemistry and I thought that was the reason. To drive home that she was a lesbian. But she liked him and was pretty comfortable in his presence and I realized just now that he looked like a male version of Maura.

And that now makes me think that the only reason she was with him as long as she was was because of the long distance thing, as in it's easier to maintain a romantic relationship you're not that into from a distance, and because he looked like a male version of Maura.

It's also interesting that he gets introduced in an episode where nothing is what it seems. The homicide victim gets linked to that one guy in the military. There's photographic evidence of their relationship just lying around. And it isn't until the end of the episode that we find out the victim was actually in love with another soldier and the only evidence of it is that they were wearing each other's dog tags. Literally, that's how they deduced those two were in a romantic relationship and they were right. And we don't even get their story from them because by the time the relationship comes to light both parties are dead.

Jane is also very into Maura, truly loves her. She allows from Maura what she doesn't from anyone else, including that Maura bosses her around. She has very butch mannerisms even with her completely feminine physique. And with that she's jealous and protective when it comes to Maura in the way guys often are when they believe a woman is theirs. But she's just completely in denial. Which given what we learn about her upbringing and what her mom is like makes complete sense.

[a-court-of-moonlight-and-ire]

Ohhhhhhhh my god, I cant believe I completely forgot to mention that incredibly sexually charged dream that Feyre had about Amarantha in my last post when thats probably the most wild part

First of all, its very impressive that sjm managed to write such insufferably heterosexual romances when none of her characters are beating the gay allegations, second of all, I find it so insidious that this book is trying to portray Amarantha as Feyre's 'primary tormentor' UTM when that was RHYSAND

Like, correct me if Im wrong here but Im pretty sure Amarantha did not touch Feyre at all other than to beat her to death at the very end while Rhysand had her sitting in his lap every night for like 2 months, whys she having dreams like this about her and none about him

Also, what happens directly afterwards when Feyre wakes up is insane to me, Rhys wakes her and she runs to the toilet to throw up and while hes holding her hair hes like "yknow, I often dream about amarantha forcing me to watch cassian or azriel get raped" like ??? hey man, maybe tell her this later. Or actually, maybe tell her this never why on earth are you traumadumping on this 20 year old whos still traumatized herself

[rottenbrainstuff]

BG3 playthrough - House of Hope

Man I’m getting legit sad I’m getting so close to being done.

Unpopular (?) opinion - I have read people explaining up and down and back and forth about how pressed they are that Haarlep says Raphael is bad in bed, how Haarlep is unreliable because he hates Raphael, how he’s an incubus so his standards must be very high, how Raphael is probably purposefully doing this or that because Haarlep is a spy keeping an eye on him for daddy so of course he’s not going to appear vulnerable in any way, even how sad and conflicted Raphael must be, being a cambian…

Honestly - I have zero trouble taking Haarlep at his literal word. 100%. Raphael’s house is literally full of paintings and statues of himself. He wrote an entire book that’s nothing but descriptions of different scenarios of him being crowned with the crown of Karsus. His diary entries are absolutely insufferable. He is the textbook definition of hubris and vanity. I have zero problem believing Haarlep literally. And I say all this affectionately, by the way: Raphael is one of my favourite characters in the entire game. But it’s kind of like how everyone wants to soften out all the rough edges on Astarion - I like him like this. I think it’s hilarious that he’s so vain. His hubris is so funny. His opinion of himself is so high and his confidence in his victory is so complete, but his personal incubus is sitting here lounging in his bed absolutely roasting his ass to complete strangers with very little prompting. I think he’s a great devil character and I don’t want to make up excuses for his behaviour in order to humanize him. I definitely do love complicated antagonists who have more to them than it first appears, but honestly I just do not get that vibe from him. And I love him for it.

Haarlep was so funny btw. I just love it when actors are having fun. That must have been so funny to come in and voice the character, like, ok so for today, you’re doing the same voice as before, except make it slutty and bitchy this time. It makes sense I guess that Haarlep can change into a female form if you want, of course he can, and I think it’s funny that even when Raphael wants to shake things up a bit, it’s still with a version of himself, but myeh, that whole thing felt to me like a “hey don’t worry if you’re icked out, we have a girl option too that we can totally switch to if you want.” Maybe I’ve just read too many forum arguments about how there’s too many gay people in this game and people are crying to have a toggle to turn it off, and it makes me hostile to anything that smacks of trying to soothe people’s hurt heterosexuality. (because like, theoretically there could be lesbians who object to the scene as well?) Oh well. Still funny in the end. I was going to go through with just sleeping with Haarlep to avoid a fight, because that’s the direction my tav generally likes to go, but then Astarion got very concerned and made me feel bad, so I changed my mind.

Well this whole area was fun. I loved Raphael’s house. I loved all the details. I loved the debtors, the tacky ostentatious bullshit in every corner, I loved the rotten banquet. Is that its natural state and he charmed it to look fresh when I arrived? (disgusting, I love it) Or has he just been so pissy about whatever went wrong with the skeleton folks at the table that he’s never bothered to have it cleared and has left it there in a temper tantrum as a lesson? (ridiculous, I also love it) I love how absolutely, singularly obsessed Raphael is with my party. I know it’s because we are the means by which he thinks he is going to get that crown, but it also feels personal and weird and uncomfortable. I love that my contract has this place of honour in his archive. It’s almost touching, if it wasn’t my fucking soul. I love how absolutely self-assured Raphael is, how confident he is that his plan is going to work, how the possibility of a failure or a trick, like, he doesn’t even have the capacity to consider that a possibility. It SO GODAMNED FUNNY to kick his ego-inflated ass when he was SO FUCKING SURE that he would win. Raphael you are such an insufferable idiot. I love him. I’m so glad the VA won a Bafta.

The Raphael fight is tricky, but honestly, half of the trick is that before you even get there, you have to fight your way to the foyer past the most annoying enemies. I guess Hope’s divine intervention which can restore your spells and HP helps to balance that out though.

It was surprising to see I was able to get Yurgir to side with me in the fight - I had assumed he’d be SO fucking pissed after I tricked him in the Shar gauntlet. Now I have an additional ally in the big brain fight! …except he really wasn’t all that helpful in the Raphael fight, not at all. He’d go invisible, pop out of invisibility, knife someone for maybe 7 HP, then pop invisible again. I guess every little bit helps but…? Come on dude. At least stay visible so you can soak some hits.

Apparently it’s possible to make Korilla survive the fight? I was… NOT able to do that. You get some extra dialogue if you do, but the fight is hard enough to win even without trying to manage a hostile NPC who is usually the first one Yurgir targets. Sorry Hope, sorry Korilla. How come you can cast Otto’s Irresistible Dance on Raphael, and it will incapacitate him, but it won’t make him actually boogie? I was so excited to see him dance, and then he didn’t, he just stands there.

It doesn’t even need to be said - Raphael’s fight song is of course amazing, chef’s kiss, perfection.

Anyway, bard vs bard fight, very fun, when you kill him Raphael crumples dramatically to the ground, I love the big boss fights in this game.

Coming back, I got a stupid lecture from the Emperor about how naughty naughty I was being. Sure asshole, lecture me about trust, that’s really rich coming from the guy who didn’t trust ME with anything, and I had to pry the truth out, unwillingly, in stages. I can’t fucking wait to doublecross that guy.

If you attack Helsik, Raphael’s boss song also plays? That was… a little bit strange! I wanted to see what was in her basement, but the fight with all the gilded imps and Minotaurs and whatnot was such a pain I didn’t bother. Apparently you can access the basement through Dammon’s basement anyways, if you really want to see it, so. I DID make sure to pickpocket those gauntlets back off her cause I want them.

Mannnn. I’m almost done the game. WTF. All I have left to do is go give Mol her contract, talk to Voss in the undercity and piss off the Emperor, get my poop in a group and… that’s it. I’m off to fight the brain. I’ve been playing this playthrough for six months, and I’m almost done.

[im-out-of-it]

when I first read that sanctuary scene, I thought it was so romantic and perfect. now rereading it, and I don’t think it’s that perfect. it’s high key underwhelming? you think for all of Thomas’s angst, the shit Alastair has been dealing with (the loss of his father) that you would get a little more than that. THESE TWO HAVE BEEN SECRETLY FALLING IN LOVE AND THIS IS THEIR MOMENT!!!!! I don’t know, I just think it could’ve been more. I would have loved to see Alastair’s pov and how he feels about the whole thing. instead we hardly get anything and what we do get is James and Cordelia’s stuff with belial which I can’t for the fuck of me care about lmao

I will say something a bit positive about this book and about CC’s writing. Thomas and Alastair are done a little bit better than how she wrote Malec. you can tell she does not give a flying fuck about Malec. it’s so obvious the way she wrote them. and I don’t know if she actually cares about thomastair or just trying to “represent” them better or what. and it’s not perfect writing but I do think it’s written a bit better than how Malec was written

and it’s very underwhelming and vexing how she will spend pages and pages over the most boring and insufferable straight couples but when it comes to the big stuff with an lgbt+ couples, the love scenes will hardly be a page long, some of the pov are atrociously done, and the whole thing kinda feels underwhelming most of the time. and this is just my opinion but it feels like she always puts so much more effort into her heterosexual relationships. thomastair, they do get more page time in the third book but it feels like it’s rushed because she doesn’t spend enough time in the first two installments.

with Malec: it’s fucking terrible writing. hardly gives them a voice, writes Alec as biphobic, magnus being hundreds of years old but can’t communicate, chases teenage Alec, almost makes Alec feel bad for not coming out, and blames their whole breakup on Alex’s insecurities, like it’s just lazy writing. and she could do better because the eldest curses isn’t that bad. but she focuses all her attention on the herondales and her insufferable couples that she puts all the other interesting and fascinating characters in the backseat. so you’re just sitting there like this could’ve been better if you weren’t so obsessed and didn’t self insert lmao I 10000000000000% believe CC is obsessed with jace. the amount of times she mentions his looks is a bit creepy with how obsessed she is

I don’t know so maybe it’s just me but it could’ve been better if she focused her sights on other characters for once. I just love thomas and Alastair so much that I’m patiently here thinking GIVE THEM MORE ATTENTION 👏🏼

[anamericangirl]

Remember when Baby Driver got low DVD sales because it came out between Theatrical and DVD release that Kevin Spacey was a child predator? Remember when one of the most amazing movies of all time got low sales because one actor in the movie had sex with a minor, and therefore it was morally wrong to give him money according to the internet, and therefore the other over 1000 people who made the movie and all the other actors and the amazing director all got paid significantly less because ONE actor in it was problematic?

Nah, Girl, I'm not surprised people voted in that stupid ass poll. It makes perfect sense to me. These fucking whiny little pussies can't handle finding out that something was only 99.99% flawless.

You would be fascinated if you looked into the JoCat controversy. JoCat, an animator on YouTube, has made over 20 cartoons about trans pride, LGBT pride, etc. But his fanbase recently discovered a cartoon he made 2 years ago called "I Like Girls" in which he tells everyone he is cis and heterosexual, and now his entire fanbase is turning against him and sending him death threats.

You should also check out Ethan Klein getting canceled by his fans. Same story.

These are people who will say "the correct things" for years, getting a huge fanbase following them of rabid liberal-left people who worship them, and then they say ONE THING that the liberal-left disagrees with, and they're as good as dead to their entire audience.

That poll and anyone voting in that poll is case in point proof that people can't handle finding out that one little iota of a percent of the thing they worship is slightly flawed.

Which is just so ironic because these are the same people who preach about fat-shaming and ableism as though everyone should be considered perfect despite their flaws, but heaven forbid that hilarious video you just finished laughing at was made by a guy who's Pro Life.

Indeed. I was not actually surprised or shocked that people were voting in the poll as well, this is the internet and more specifically this is Tumblr and if people exist who care about "pRoBlEmAtIc" media and will vote about it in a poll Tumblr is where they will be. But that's even just our culture now, like you mentioned.

I'm more just taking the opportunity to let those type of persons know that they are ridiculous and we all notice their virtue signaling and hypocrisy.

People like that are always up in arms about something but it's always the wrong thing. They love delving into people's past to find the one thing that person has said that disagrees with their narrative and put them on blast for it as if it's an unforgivable sin not to be an insufferable leftist with insufferable leftists viewpoints 100% of the time.

I hope every single one of those people either grows up and turns away from that nonsense and makes amends to everyone they hurt or gets a taste of their own medicine.

[selfabsorbed-selfdeceived]

back in my falsettos era because writing a 12 page paper for a musical you've been obsessed with since middle school as your first college final will do that to ya and god. act one marvin is asshole through and through let's get one thing clear. but he is a relatable asshole (hear me out)

the super heavy leaning into a hypermasculine role and trying to mold his relationship with whizzer to resemble a stereotypical heterosexual marriage because he can't be comfortable with his queerness? the losing everyone you love and destroying your life because years of deeply ingrained internalized homophobia shaped your self destructive behavior? he's horrible. and also so me

and all of this makes his turn around in act two hit so much harder. because that is also me. making very important queer friends that save your life. learning to be comfortable in your queerness in its entirety. finally being okay with expressing what a lifetime of societal indoctrination deems as "weak" and "gay" and "feminine". reconnecting with the people you've lost. apologizing and rekindling old relationships. building up your life again to something even better than what you had prior to coming out. god i love marvin. insufferable asshole (affectionate)

[penny-anna]

apropos of nothing, here is my Bisexual Alex P Keaton episode concept:

as the episode starts, Alex has recently got a new friend called uhh *spins wheel of names* Charles. Alex thinks Charles is just THE BEST. Charles shares all his interests and is also super smart and funny and generally great to hang out with and

rest of the family starting to get a little ?? at how much Alex likes to talk about Charles and how attached at the hip Alex & Charles are. "Is it just me or is Alex kinda obsessed with this Charles person" says Mallory. "I think it's nice that Alex has such a good friend" says Elyse.

anyway then Alex & Charles are hanging out together (late night study date bcos they are both nerds) and PLOT TWIST Charles makes a pass at Alex. it turns out that Charles 1) is gay 2) has a crush on Alex 3) has been trying to feel out if Alex reciprocates his feelings AND 4) has concluded that he does

Charles deeply apologetic on realising he has misread the situation. Alex mortified. horrified. leaves immediately.

Alex abruptly refuses to discuss Charles w his family but admits privately to Steven what happens and declares that, naturally, he can now never ever see Charles again. Steven encourages him to "be more open-minded." Alex says he'll think about it.

Alex shortly thereafter declares that Charles is now his boyfriend. Steven was not expecting this outcome. rest of family highly confused but overall supportive. (Jennifer very firm on the point that she thinks people should be able to date whoever they want.)

exception is Mallory, not because she is homophobic but bcos she flat out refuses to believe Alex likes boys. Mallory knows Alex and she is the world expert on liking boys. if Alex liked boys she would know. Alex is faking for some reason and she is going to figure out what his game is.

unfortunately having a boyfriend makes Alex approximately 150% more insufferable.

Alex will not shut up about how it's actually better for men to date other men because obviously a man can only have "true intellectual equality and emotional discourse" with another man. he starts sentences with "as a proud gay republican" approx 50 times a day.

Steven & Elyse want so much to be supportive bcos like they'd hate for people to think they were homophobic but Alex is just being so obnoxious about this.

eventually Charles breaks up with Alex.

"Alex," he says. "I've had enough intellectual discourse. I can't take it anymore. I just want to get laid, Alex. I'm gonna go find a boyfriend who'll actually make out with me, Alex."

it turns out that in spite of all his talk Alex & Charles haven't actually done anything other than go out to dinner and talk about politics.

Mallory takes this as vindication. "I knew it. You don't actually want to kiss boys, you've been faking this whole time."

Alex insists that he totally is into Charles and that he just got "nervous".

however the next day he declares confidently that he's done being gay. he is now back to being a "proud heterosexual republican". Elyse suggests that maybe he should engage in some self-reflection but he insists that he's straight now goodbye.

is Alex actually bisexual and deeply repressed OR is he a straight man who just hates women That Much. ending ambiguous!!

in a subsequent episode he has sex with a guy for real. this would either fix him OR make him 1000x worse, one or the other.

this concludes the bisexual Alex P Keaton agenda good night.

[radcowboylad]

I think that actors being super involved in the fandoms for franchises they’re in is truly the ULTIMATE marketing tactic that I don’t think the actual creators really take notice of.

As someone who reeallly only gets deep into franchises based on the fandom, these actors are like the fucking backbone of them. Not even exaggerating on that. They unintentionally bring more content for fans to thrive on and keep them involved with the community a lot longer than usual which is absolutely fantastic for people like me who are tired of fandoms dying so quickly because of how short our attention spans have become (thank you tikTok and thank you Streaming services for releasing content all at once instead of one episode per week, totally didn’t completely backfire on your longevity)

For example, let me talk about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2022) Ghost, Soap, König and Horangi:

Initially, Ghost had started appearing on tik tok when the game released sometime around October or November, and because this character was sexy as fuck, he brought in a HUGE AMOUNT of fans from an entirely different demographic (more women, more lgbt people, more mask kink people too lmao) which is so vastly different from its stereotypical community (being males who are often insufferable, sexist, homophobic and transphobic)

But the interesting thing is, once Neil Ellice (Soap’s actor) started showing up and involving himself within TikTok after That One Interview, his character’s popularity BOOMED, while Ghost kind of just remained the same level, despite both Neil and Samuel being present in that interview. I think this is because Ghost’s actor (Samuel Roukin) never really took too much interest in social media’s or the newer cod fandom, and his reactions and responses to questions in the interview never seemed (to me at least) that he cared too much or that he didn’t want to be there. (I don’t think it was intentional though, but it’s hard to know for sure)

After a week or so of the game release, König started to win the hearts of the new cod fans as soon as players started to unlock him in DMZ/multiplayer; people were obsessing over him, despite not being a story mode character (all we had was his character backstory written in his bio)…. And then his Voice actor (Jim Boeven) suddenly made an instagram story reply to someone and either unintentionally or intentionally made a remark in regards to König that came off as homophobic. This actually kind of killed the König fans temporarily; it felt awkward and uncomfortable to express liking König for a while because a lot of the homophobic fans or even just other regular fans would reply to fan art and comments and edits saying “but he’s straight/but his VA is homophobic and calls himself an alpha male unironically” etc. it was also interesting to see how the lgbt fans would actually start rejecting Jim and fully separating him from König in attempt to “reclaim” him and say “Jim isn’t technically his creator/writer, therefore the things he says in regards to König is irrelevant and not canon”, but when Neil would say something about Soap, those same fans would treat it as canon despite it being just as true as the heterosexual König remark Jim made.

I wrote an extra paragraph for Horangi but I accidentally deleted it all ugh I didn’t know adding a link would replace the entire paragraph with the preview and disappear let me do a tldr I don’t know much about Horangi because his character popularity increase is extremely recent OR because I kinda fell out of the fandom briefly until a week ago but essentially I think that Nick Martineau (horangi VA) interacting with the fandom on Neil levels is definitely reviving some cod fans and making player’s interest in COD last just a bit longer.

Anyway the tweet I was gonna link was him talking about joining AO3, the fanfic writers were FREAKING OUT and scared him out of it

I think this really shows how much effect these voice actors & actors have over these characters outside of professional work. Fandoms are a slippery slope so of course, if an actor puts a negative input on ‘their’ character, it’s going to have a negative response or effect from some of the fandom, and vice versa. It needs to be treated with respect and open mindedness.

I guess also the beauty of not having actors involved is that you can avoid this issue all together. You can’t really stop actors from “tainting” characters outside of official media because their words outside of it doesn’t make it official or canon at all

But anyways, Old fashion interviews can be nice too. but it’s different. Interviews can easily seem too professional and insincere, that the actor doesn’t actually have to have any passion for the franchise/character, can only be there for the money or because they have to be there, etc even if that’s not always the case… so it’s truly on another level when an actor has a lot of passion and love for their community and interacts with fans outside of interviews. The casual-ness, it feels more personal, and there’s a lack of need for censoring for company image or whatever and those factors name it so easy to become more attached to the character AND the actor themself.

It feels so special when the art, memes, projects, edits, and even fanfics you make can have an unprompted response from an actor involved. i think it’s normal when you see their reactions and it put you on a small high + silly bragging rights even if they comment on a lot of things.

Even if the actor is not like their character (let’s be real, actors are very rarely anything like the characters they play) it still sort of feels like that character is still alive in them, even if the character has died and the show has ended… it fills me with so much happiness especially when these actors react like their characters or answer questions on behalf of the character, or give their opinions on silly discourse, headcanon’s, theories and ships. The fandoms FEAST on this shit for a good while and it becomes the talk of the week!

Oh boy and let me tell you more instances where actors have completely amplified my emotional attachment to franchises!!! (Warning: irrelevant rambles you don’t need to read)

I was hyperfixating HARD on rdr2 a few years ago and obviously it’s just so easy to fall in love with the world and the characters in that amazing game on its own, but when I discovered Roger Clark (Arthur Morgan), Robert Wiethoff (John Marston) and Peter Blomquist’s (Micah Bell) instagram accounts, I had so much fun seeing their involvement in the fandom (despite it being little in comparison to mw2), seeing how Peter would make his instagram captions allude to not being human and kind of just acting as a Micah parody, seeing Peter make (hilarious) dad jokes (that I steal to this day) and build a fucking chicken coop on live it just makes it SOO SPECIAL!

One moment that was super special to me was when Roger Clark voiced a western audiobook and gave out some copies for free on twitter and I was a winner. I was able to have a chat with him, and after a while I made some doodles of the book characters and he saw them and ended up following me back 🥹🥹🥹 (STILL SAD THOUGH BECAUSE I NO LONGER HAVE ACCESS TO THE ACCOUNT)

Oh oh oh and TF2, those voice actors are quite literally carrying TF2 more than the actual fucking devs GENUINELY! It’s actually kind of upsetting how these actors really openly want to do more official things with the game but valve is sadly dead as fuck these days… Medic’s voice actor especially (who I think streams occasionally? I’ve never made it to one before) makes the fandom much more livelier and so fun, doing lines in medic’s voice and the fans creating funny sfm’s and comics from them!

Actually, one of the hugest impacts an actor has made on me definitely has to be Bill Moseley. I’m sure most of you probably have no fucking clue who this dude is so let me tell you all about him

I first discovered Bill Moseley in the movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (still my #1 favourite film) and he plays Chop Top, the brother of Leatherface. Sadly that character is only in that film though but oh my god, Bill Moseley did what no other actor could ever do…

I fell into a rabbit hole and discovered that Bill Moseley formed a band called Cornbugs where he essentially roleplays/sings AS CHOP TOP and it also had fucking BUCKETHEAD in it (I believe he’s one of the musicians who has made the most albums (435) in the world) and he is an absolute guitar legend and genuinely amazing music despite his silly iconic look (you guessed it he wears a bucket on his head)

Although it sounds…. Extremely unique, to say the least, I am lucky enough to be one of those people who actually enjoys all kinds of music (yes, even country, before you roll your eyes. Don’t underestimate my tastes) because most of the songs are extremely silly and fun but would probably sound… too interesting to the average person. Most of the appeal to me initially was how in some of the songs it was pretty explicitly about chop top, bubba and Drayton and my hyperfixation thrived for so so so so much longer than it should have purely because of that music career.

It also doesn’t end there though, he has an even Niche’r band that is active currently (unlike Cornbugs bc it got dispanded after buckethead got bored and left I think) called Spider Mountain that has music that genuinely surprised me. These songs are actually so good and underrated even though they are also silly (and definitely would be more appealing to Normal listeners in comparison to Cornbugs) but even though it’s about completely disconnected to chop top, I’ve noticed that the lyrics in a few of these songs seem to be about some family members and himself, like Maple Men which is an extremely silly but catchy song, and they just fill me with so much glee. Like this dude is just a dad having fun in the studio!! Making songs about silly and random topics like Goose Steppin’ Down Broadway, incredible shrinking man, and stupid life of a mom eater LIKE THEYRE JUST SO SILLY AND FUN AND CHARMINGGG these types of passionate actors increase my lifespan and when they go far and wide for the franchises they’re in its so magical.

I have to stop here now but im just about done talking about this anyway, my phone is starting to lag from my hyperfixation rambles. I’ve been writing this for 3 hours.

I’d also love to hear about whatever experiences that any of you have with actors amplifying your experiences, or just general thoughts about this recent trend that’s happening with them!

[poets-cinema]

Re- Hyperfixation post

💔 and 🏳️‍🌈

thank you for the ask!!

for characters i don’t like, it might be low-hanging fruit but emil hartman. he’s so insufferable and smug and the lengths he’s willing to go for his practice is nauseating. plus alan’s history with psychiatric hospitals because of his mom just makes it all even worse when we find out hartman has been manipulating alan since the start. he should’ve punched him twice.

okay for headcanons, i have a few!! first of all i see alan and alice as being a very open couple, i headcanon both of them as bisexual and especially in the earlier part of their relationship i can see them having an open relationship. or even just having a lot of threesomes. i think they’re both kinky in bed and i can see them letting another person into the bedroom. at least until their relationship deteriorated. also another alan/alice headcanon that i love is them being t4t <3

in a similar vein i think barbara and zane were swingers lol, it was the late 60s and i mean just look at them. whatever zane has got going on is not heterosexuality let me tell you that much. i’d say he was genderfluid and queer (i don’t think he’d care much for labels tbf) and i mean considering that ilkka interview it’s pretty much canon.

finally i love trans casey he’s just very dear to me.

SORRY THIS IS SO LONG i love yapping i could probably continue forever lol

[laney-rockin]

Seeing the trailer for "Subspace Rhapsody" was so cool. Even more cool was the fact that Kirk is back on the Enterprise for some amazing musical shenanigans.

Kirk is a first officer- what the hell is he doing away from his ship he's supposed to help command? Well I don't know but I'll let him have his free pass. He deserves it.

ALSO ALL THE HETEROSEXUALITY IN THAT TRAILER?? Despicable /j. Where's my dramatic Spirk duet that culminates in a kiss? I want that musical.

Anyways! I am way too hyped for August 3rd and I will be insufferable when the episode comes out for realsies.

[docgold13]

Doc there is way more reason to why people hate Jon Kent these days simply beyond "Heterosexualism".

1. Bendis basically destroyed the character (& trolled his fans on social media about how "this was better") for the sake of that failed 5G crap Dan Didio was pushing before he bounced, & DC refuses to take the hint despite having to bring kid Jon back in other stories to get some (but not enough) good will

2. Taylor did absolutely nothing with that development in trying to make something interesting out of it, Instead just making him a overly bland passive-centeralist nepobaby parody of Clark who'll barely lift a finger until he "gets both sides of the story" & even then doesn't solve the problem but others have to.

3. Taylor didn't care Jon at all as both his series were more about shilling his other works than actually focusing on Jon. Nightwing popping up to become Jon's new BFF (barf) because Damian was a mess at the time? The Trash OCs from his Suicide Squad run to be "the real heroes" Jon needs to put trust in? Completely throwing away the cathartic Ultraman beatdown 2 issues into AoS so Jon can fart about & be insufferable in The Injustice universe for it's remainder ending with him coming to the conclusion of "My Dad doesn't do more for the world because he'll become a facist despot if he did!"? Truly this is how to make a good character for a generation.

I don't know about any of this stuff. I've only gotten to know the adult Jon in his handful of appearances in Nightwing (plus various post here and there of him being cute with his new beau). Sorry to hear you don't care for what's been going on with him.

I'm sure there are plenty of fans who like him, plenty who don't... seems the same for most all comic characters.

[caliburn-the-sword]

tlc winter thoughts chapters 56-86

okay i didn't read 30 chapters in one day because i actually have a lot to study. and making these posts takes time. but also i took a break for like 2 days from reading because i couldn't stand the alpha stuff. here we go. like i've mentioned before, the closer i get to the climax, the less commentary i make

damn winter has reached a friendship level high enough for scarlet to start traumadumping her Tragic Backstory LMAO

look i get that this is meant to be serious but every single time the word alpha is uttered i feel nauseous LMAO

"I already have an alpha mate" i am RETCHING. i want to smash my head through a wall. i need to bleach my eyeballs and also my brain to get rid of any existence of it in my memory

something something the genetically engineered wolf soldiers are an analogy for toxic masculinity. i'm honestly really embarrassed that it took me THREE books (four including fairest) to get that. whoopsies. critical thinking and reading comprehension went out the window. winter slayed so hard by curing them of fantasy sexism lmao

cringing at all the howling. sorry. furry behaviour

"Wolf. Ze’ev. Her alpha mate." i should have stopped reading the day i hit scarlet and first saw all the alpha stuff. god this is so cringe. i can't take anymore scenes with scarlet in it as much as i love her. take me back to jacin or cinder's group

"Or maybe it was just Winter, who could make a rock fall in love with her if she smiled at it the right way." scarlet that's not a very heterosexual thing to think

"a girl of ice and snow" omg guys a new y/a title just dropped!!!

"She struggled to think of what to call herself. The pilot? The alpha female?" SCARLET STOPPPPPPPPPPPP

"He growled at her. Scarlet growled back." what if that was my last straw??? what if i just stopped reading this book right here right now

usually, i find the whole "we need you to fight with us. will you??" to a usually hostile group as really cringe and i'm not able to suspend my disbelief. but in this case it was REALLY well executed. i enjoyed it. that's a high honour i bestow, the only other time i liked it was in black panther (and that barely counts because the jibari weren't hostile, just reclusive)

hearing all the successes of the revolution is like music to my ears

omg iko is SO sweet to give up limbs for cinder <3

WING NUT. it's been so long since i've heard that delightful little insult <3

oh no there is no way that's jacin. that has to be a hallucination. or maybe someone is using their lunar gift on her

UH OH I DON'T TRUST OLD LADIES

why did it never occur to me that the sour apple lollies were eventually gonna be the poisoned apple?? i feel so stupid lmao

this is it winter is gonna get poisoned - OMG WITH LETUMOSIS I SHOULD HAVE GUESSED

NO NO NO SCARLET IS NOT ALLOWED TO DIE OF LETUMOSIS

YAY WOLF CHAPTER IT'S BEEN SO LONG

lone wolf ze'ev~ still just as bad as all that alpha stuff

ah with everything cinder and iko are saying about the timelines of chips being uploaded and malfunctions and adri disabling iko the first time, i'm guessing the patent for garan's design is stored in iko's chip or something

no. jail. wolf is not allowed to be all changed and brainwashed again. this is peeta mellark all over again. i wanted angst but not THIS much

"New chemicals and hormones pumping through his veins. Testosterone. Adrenaline. Pheromones." PHEREMONES??? JAILLLL. that said i will pick and choose and twist the words to suit my own meaning. because he's been injected with more testosterone i've decided he's trans. this is my next agenda i'm spreading, along with bisexual thorne and bisexual scarlet and kai x thorne. i will be the most insufferable damn person in this fandom

i literally cannot take wolf seriously being called a pup. i know this is dramatic. but i am retching

i appreciate kai's absolute dedication. his self sacrifice. he has got the weight of the world on his shoulders at 18. i'm close to turning 18 and am just reading a funky sci-fi book in the middle of class. i could never. he will be perhaps the only monarch i respect (however i would more greatly appreciate it if he declared a democracy at the end of the book)

not thorne and cress AGAIN. thorne EW. that is a MINOR. uh oh, that sounds like pedo-pedo-pedo-pedophilia

YAY IT'S JACIN AGAIN. IT'S BEEN SO LONG

random things that are canon that i'm filing away for later: cress and iko having the same shoe size

now iko's self sacrifice to get the vax

STATUE OF ARTEMIS. KSDJHCFNW i love references to greek mythology. chang'e when

HELP. i get that cress is very sheltered and upset here. but thorne was literally just kissed without consent by this lunar and it was COMPLETELY glossed over. not helping the "men want it" "men don't get raped" stereotypes. yikes. uncomfy as fuck

still praying against all odds that thorne rejects her because she's a young impressionable girl

EW. that was the most uncomfortable longest thing i've experienced ever in my life. gross. i wish thorne a very go to jail forever. i literally have a full blown crisis when i get a crush on someone that's only ONE YEAR younger than me. how the fuck is he literally ATTRACTED to someone 4 years younger than him, a literal baby. gross. thank goodness these are fictional people. reminding myself over and over that no one was actually hurt

cannot bring myself to feel a single bit of empathy for thorne getting dragged away by the lunars. idc. he can die so that he stops grooming cress. yikes

WINTER IS BEING WOKEN UP. EVERYONE IT'S HAPPENING THE SNOW WHITE MOMENT IS HAPPENING

"For the first time in her life, no one could say she was beautiful." vs jacin literally thinking about how beautiful winter was even when sick. i am physically ill. miss marissa meyer how could you do this to me. pay for my therapy

istg i'm not just saying this because i'm aussie like the diplomat but honestly it's SO embarrassing for adult characters to be outsmarted by teenagers. like how is this full grown adult not realising she'd be manipulated by a lunar if that's what a lunar wanted before kai did, EVEN if kai knows her and knows her to be a shell. context clues girlie

it's nice to see unusual characters like kai and cress interact. it's very sweet

yay!! kai knows cinder is alive now

torin is such a goddamn hero. why do i sense he's going to get killed for the delay tho. praying for his safety. i don't like these death flags

YES FINALLY A LUNAR CARVING OF A WOMAN CARRYING A RABBIT. A JADE RABBIT. IT'S CHANG'E. YIPPEEEEEE. admittedly i don't know the other moon gods. once i have the time and am interested i will defo look them up

YAY IKO IS BACK

i love that even through wolf's absolute hunger and mental torment he's still able to recognise that kai absolutely does not want to get married and sees his misery. some small part of him still sees kai as a friend who he should be concerned for relieved that wolf hasn't forgotten his mother as much as i hate to see aimery

VIVA LA REVOLUTION BITCHES

i hope to see adri and pearl suffer more

scarlet and wolf reunion <3 the alpha thing ruined it

things i need on a transcendent level: cinder to user her lunar gift to make levana hallucinate dancing in red hot shoes. i have no thoughts just vibes. i sense that the next post will be my last winter reactions post

@eddisfargo @francforever @winterrhayle @winterpinetrees @shellyseashell @luna-maximoff-22 @queenjazz7 @mtmousie @dramatic-jellybean

[casscainmainly]

Ship anon again: I also gotta admit Tim's had multiple moments of insufferability (truly a batboy staple) & much of his conduct during Cass' Orphan years didn't help (plus the OYL dragon lady sewage, but that might as well be napalmed out of officialdom). All told, even if that Future!Timmy take wasn't absurdly swole I gotta handwave the scenario as an Elseworld. Non-Steph, non-'Shadow' verse Cass hookups (or additions to this solo) I could roll with include Harper, Xanthe Zhou & our man Duke.

Whoa!!! HarperCass and XantheCass are popular, but DukeCass isn't a ship I've heard of before. Is it popular??? Duke isn't adopted so technically it could happen, but I do prefer them as siblings. Plus, I see Cass as non-heterosexual, so I prefer ships with non-male characters. (Except for Tai'Darshan but that is a very personal bias of mine haha).

HarperCass and XantheCass are top tier though!! I would be surprised if Tate Brombal uses Harper, she's kind of been phased out of the Batfamily (she is appearing in WFA though, so she's still in public consciousness). DC seems to be ignoring New 52 Cass altogether, which is where a lot of HarperCass takes place. Someone on Twitter please @ Tate Brombal and ask if he's using Harper or Xanthe!!

[vintage-bentley]

honestly? fuck them hets im a Beelzebub/Michael truther.

they could have left Gabriel either dumb oblivious comedic relief or made him rethink his shitty behaviour after Aziraphael went to all the length to somewhat help him out (even though he ABSOLUTELY didn't have to do it, esp after all the shit Gabe pug him through) because he is a kind soul and still a responsible angel.

ineffable bureauhets crowd was insufferable even after s1, idk it's gonna be worse now. hets-shut-the-hell-up-and-let-homosexual-couples-have-their-moment challenge fr

PREACH.

Gabriel’s character development should have been joining Aziraphale and Crowley in fighting for humanity. He should’ve learned to see their perspective…and if that means he has to be with Beelzebub, fine, but that should have come with character growth and appreciation for the people who PUT THEIR EXISTENCES ON THE LINE FOR HIM.

The ineffable bureauhets crowd has always driven me nuts tbh. They’re clearly just starved for heterosexuality (but want the quirkiness of “queerness” at the same time). Like I’ve said before, even if it was Michael and Ligur it wouldn’t bother me as much, because that phone call + Archangel Michael showing up to Crowley’s trial while a low level demon showed up to Aziraphale’s in season 1 raised questions for me about what their relationship was.

But Gabe and Beez is just…ugh. It’s especially painful when the song that was used throughout the entire marketing campaign (which centred ineffable husbands) ended up being Their Song. I hate them ❤️