#and i was like... are we referring to the same song?

[nostalgic-shamefest]

Something about people in media, creators writers and actors alike, implying that romantic love and sexual desire reduces the depiction of a human connection that I find quite baffling. The dreaded "They're so much more than that". More than what? Human connection is body and mind. If two characters have maxxed out body and mind then what else is there???

Idk why but I always find that statement a little condescending. We, the viewers, the voyers even, we experience life as much as those who create. We feel emotions and experience relationships to the same extent. When we see intimacy depicted, we'll reference it back to connections in the real world. Romance, friendship, family.

Media of course can explore ideas through human connections, make them metaphors, allegories, explore themes. Of course that's the case. But even still the sound of that sentence rings uncomfortable to me.

I think it's often uttered when media is quite simplistic. When a theme wasn't explored properly, when an allegory wasn't carried out successfully. When a relationship was simply, and often accidentally rendered realistic. And there's such value in that kind of depiction. But often I think those who create it feel ashamed of having accidentally captured something real. Because that entails a great amount of chance, and not a praise worthy amount of forethought and talent.

It's creative ego put before good art. Sometimes you make something good and it has nothing to do with you. Sometimes you're just gifted a good story, a good song, a good anything. You can't recreate it. You can choose to embrace that with reverence or try to control it and the impact it has on your creative image. I know I'll sound obnoxious saying this, but I find the latter to be sacrilegious.

Anyway my point is, if you ship something, if you enjoy a piece of media that isn't like the most high quality high intellect type thing, and you see something like that in an interview, it's not you babe it's them.

A lot of creative people are embarrassed by the parts of their creation they cannot control.

[cosmogyros]

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[midnight--sadness]

just realized they never said jaehaera's name out loud

a casual viewer would NOT know that girl's name

[lizzardwitch]

just saying if we got to see tyler and shelby have an adorably corny pop style duet we should've gotten kendall and heckyl singing a heavy, musical theatre style duet

i don't even care about what the subject matter is, just let them sing together please

[frogayyyy]

nothing more satisfying than figuring out what that split second of a song reminds you of

[hobblt]

Today’s kids, growing up without physical media, will never know the feeling of thinking something you liked as a child was so popular and well known, only to find out it was just a random cd that your family happened to own and consume repeatedly

[ghost-in-fools-garments]

everyone lean in real quick..... The Winner Takes it All by ABBA...... with Plankrabs

thanks

[delicatepointofview]

harry really tried his hardest to add a choking/coke reference in hsh like damn

[autumnrory]

i've been going into the liam tag from time to time the last year where both his fans and people who hated him were Weird about him well before there were any allegations so i would get curious, i don't even remember what started it (maybe it was merely looking for photos that update accounts wouldn't post), but i normally try to avoid going into anything but edit tags for people i enjoy bc there are so many nonsense takes

and of course happening to go through today before the news broke bc i wanted to see what was being said about the abuse as i've only gotten bits on twitter and of course there were many posts rightfully calling it out and all but there's that weird mentality which i was getting a lot more of from twitter but some on here where they're like??? celebrating it and girlboss-ing and i'm just like. okay it's great that you're believing a victim but you're making light of it by talking about it like it's just another stan thing, i have seen that time and time again when this kind of stuff comes out and if people already thought that person was annoying or whatever they're just like "oh yes! i knew it! their career is ruined haha!" and it's like. you clearly don't actually care about the horrible things this person has done and just want to brag that you somehow ~knew~ a stranger's vibes were off and it's so beyond gross like you could use that energy to support a person's victims and instead you'll just try to prove you stan the right people and never the wrong ones or whatever

[thesunmakesmetired]

I know i might have a weird taste for music but i didn't think it was that bad until i gave a lift to my brother and he kept begging be for a normal song after being forced to listen to nyan cat for not even 30 seconds...

And than two trucks started playing...

I just kept skipping through my playlist the whole ride and this is my fun playlist too :((

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

DOES NO ELSE KNOW THAT VICTOR AND JEROME WERE ON GAME OF THRONES?!

That’s right, folks, Francis Magee aka Victor Rodenmaar Jr. was on Game of Thrones, he played Yoren in S1-S2, a brother of the Night’s Watch and a recruiter for them as well. He made easy friends with Tyrion Lannister, Robb and Ned Stark, and eventually Arya Stark. He got along with Tyrion due to the fact that unlike his comrades, Yoren had a sense of humor. Imagine Victor but cool. And later on *spoilers if you haven’t seen the show*

when Ned’s put in public for execution and Arya managed to escape the Lannister guards, he sees her in the crowd and nods his head to Yoren to try to get her to safety. He does. And he holds her close and shields her ears when her father is executed.

Immediately after he cuts off Arya’s hair and instructs her to pretend to be a boy called Arry for her own safety whilst they travel back to the North. He planned on taking her to her brother Robb who became the current Lord of Winterfell following their father’s death.

Yoren is also the one to give Arya the idea for her infamous ‘list’. Her own hit list of people she’s planning on killing which she recites every night before going to sleep. It becomes so important to her ritual that she can’t even sleep before reciting it completely.

and as for Eugene Simon aka Jerome Clarke? He played Lancel Lannister, a cousin of Cersei, Jaime, and Tyrion Lannister for S1-2, and S5-6.

He originally was just King Robert’s cup bearer and I think he was his squire? Can’t remember fully but I do know that whilst Jaime was out of King’s Landint, Lancel was the one keeping Cersei satisfied if you know what I mean. And yes, they’re cousins, and Cersei fucks her brother Jaime, this isn’t brand new or quite shocking, it’s pretty standard GoT. He’s even involved for killing the king as he kept supplying him with wine and alcohol during a hunt, a boar got to him and he couldn’t drunkenly defend himself.

Then he gets blackmailed by Tyrion for a bit S2 for fucking Cersei. Gets kicked back home too by the end I’m pretty sure. though we get to see him in armor for a bit:

Then comes back on S5 looking like this:

He becomes a very religious zealot as he believes he is ‘redeemed’ in the eyes of their gods, the Seven and he just gets very faith involved, even trying to ask Cersei, the Queen Mother, to absolve her sins by being honest about her incest with him (and her brother). She laughs him off very easily and even tries to use the other followers that the new Septon, the High Sparrow, has accumulated to her own gains by getting rid of her sons new wife, Margaery Tyrell, by having her brother Loras arrested for sleeping with men.

By S6 it gets progressively worse, not only did Cersei get what she wanted, her son’s wife, Margaery, gets taken away as well because she knew her brother was involved with men and ‘did not inform the church of these indiscretions’ so she has also sinned. But then Cersei gets a taste of her own medicine and she gets imprisoned too as Lancel has told the High Sparrow everything and he even gets this fucking carving on his forehead.

Cersei gets her revenge in a big way if you’ve seen the show.

[benetnvsch]

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[noctomania]

Me taking a week to get my shit together to apply for a new job:

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

my biggest takeaway from this poll is: some of y'all are wayyyy to smug about not knowing and/or listening to popular artists pfft

wait i wanna join in lol

(based on ones i see people talk about the most lol dont be leaving ur 'what about ____' tags because there's only 12 spaces what do you WANT from me!?!?!)

EDIT because people are already misunderstanding i mean heard as in listened to i'm not asking who you've heard OF lol...

[vraska-theunseen]

looked up tom lehrer to watch the masochism tango and saw there's a full recording of a show he did uploaded to youtube so i'm watching it now and it's so interesting i keep forgetting this is 1960s it's so funny. i didn't know you could be funny back then

[danganronpa-rejuvenation]

Moving onto Attack #4, we have this really cool piece by the user @mathes0n! I've been following their blog dedicated to their fangan campaign Camp Totis Viribus for a while now and, while it's been ages since it updated, the character designs / concepts hold a special place in my heart. As per usual, I ask for you to check out their stuff, and give their Art Fight profile some love, too!

Also, as a quick bonus:

Let's just say fun's definitely one way of describing Tsukiko 😉