#and i'm just so baffled
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imagine messaging someone and saying that a canon character in a popular tv show isn’t gay to be paired with a teenage oc and instead suggests to pair the said teenage oc with a canon character from the same show that is literally a child
#this isn't about me#it's about an ask that my friend recently got#and i'm just so baffled#so anon draws the line at shipping a gay oc with a canon character whose only been know to have an interest in women#but not at shipping a 18+ oc and a 15 year old ??#the fuck is happening#ky talks
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#tumblr polls#polls#i'm just curious#because i've met a couple of people recently who can bang out 10k or more in a day once the idea hits them#and that just baffled me to my very core#so i want to see#and i'm saying 2-8k because i feel like that's your general oneshot lengths#people are usually gonna have it up to 3-4k or up to 8k depending on plot/if it's pwp#etc etc etc
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I finally watched breaking bad (all within the past week or so while I worked, finished it and watched el camino last night) and I'm confident this isn't a new thought I'm expressing or anything but genuinely how DID an entire generation of dudes convince themselves Walter White was cool and admirable and intended to be sympathetic. I know ppl just lack media literacy sometimes but I'm still so confused
I don't think I've EVER watched a piece of media that so blatantly depicts a guy making the worst possible decisions at every turn and having his life ruined for it and not being redeemed or made sympathetic in any significant or lasting way. the kinds of justifications villains USUALLY give that make people consider them "morally grey" or "tragic" or whatever (everything I did was for my loved ones, I did what I had to to survive, once I was in this I couldn't get out, I just needed you to trust me so I could keep you safe, etc etc) is ALWAYS framed as complete self-serving bullshit when Walt says it, and one of the only shreds of personal growth he ever exhibits in the whole series is when he finally fucking admits that. every time he does something even remotely cool or drops a quotable one-liner, something terrible immediately happens that makes everything worse and makes him look like an unreasonable idiot asshole again. by the end of the series the ONLY characters they can still contrast as being morally "worse" than him are literally a bunch of bloodthirsty neonazis who kept a guy in a cage for several months. this show is practically SCREAMING at you the entire time not to admire Walt. why did every dude I knew in highschool have his face on tshirts and Facebook pfps.
I just don't get it. at least with The Dark Knight's Joker it was like, a feature-length movie and that's it. you spend a lot less time with the Joker and it has a lot less time to delve into his motivations, so there's way more room for flanderization and misinterpretation as people extrapolate the few cool/interesting/sad things they saw into a whole nuanced misunderstood guy in their heads and online. Walter White has 5 seasons' worth of 45min episodes to convince you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a miserable fucking loser who ruins everything he touches because of greed and selfishness. if you weren't watching it for that, what WERE you getting out of this. what DID you think this show was about. am I just missing some key piece of context from 2012 or whatever that would help me understand this
#buny text#breaking bad#also I'm vaguely aware there was a big movement of fans who blamed everything on his wife and said she was the worst#which like. obvious misogyny from the primary audience of teen boys and young men aside#she's not really worse than any of the other adult characters?? she sucks real bad in the first couple seasons but so does everyone else#half the point of having all these characters be so shitty and rigid and unwilling to grow or accommodate others is so that#they can serve as landmarks to show how rapidly walt is abandoning his morals and spiraling into self-justification as the series goes on#the people you hate in season 1 are largely people you sympathize with in season 4 and 5 because compared to walt they're saints#idk. it's just weird having grown up around the fan culture for this show for the past decade or so and then finally watching it#and just being completely baffled now that i know what they were responding to
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dick took the news that a strange thirteen year old broke into his apartment while he was away at the circus pretty well, I gotta say
#this is not how the interaction played out in the issue btw lol I'm just having a bit of fun#tim drake#dick grayson#batfam#dc#the new titans issue 65#inspi art#I remember being baffled when i read ALPOD and tim broke into dick’s apartment like it was nothing to find out where he’d gone#like where did he learn that? reddit?#I chalked it up to comicbook goofiness and wolfman stretching suspension of disbelief a little to keep the plot moving#which is why it surprised me when they acknowledged it again#and by doing so cemented tim knowing how to pick locks and being used to breaking into apartments as a canon fact(TM)#and so hence forth he would continued to be a little contradictory weirdo who’s both normal and incredibly not normal at the same time
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"remastering" LOTR movies to 4K quality is my favourite example of execs' utter lack of understanding of artistic vision and clever filmmaking. WHY are you stubbornly undoing all the meticulous work pj's crew did to make the movies look fairy tale-esque and help the visual effects age more slowly
"this movie needs to look sharper and crisper" have you considered.......... that MAYBE.......... the glowy fuzzy filter is there on purpose................... to give the movies a more fantasy aesthetic and to mask the cgi better..........
but no we have to release the trilogy again and it has to look "better"
I can't believe it needs to be said, but visual effects like these are just as an important part of the movie (which you know. is a visual medium.) as everything else and by "correcting" them, you're doing the artists' vision the same disservice as if you started to rewrite the lines of dialogue
#whenever i see 4k versions i'm just baffled. they look so much worse#it's mine my own my precious#peter jackson
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jungkook getting dolled up for @jkvjimin 💄 [ cr : namuspromised ]
#btsedit#btsgif#jungkookedit#dailybts#usersky#userpat#userines#userdimple#usersevn#raplineuser#uservans#annietrack#underbetelgeuse#rjshope#usermaggie#usermizuoka#*mine#jungkook#it's the differing colour grading in the same video for me#and yes technically i'm supposed to be on a break but i couldn't resist okay#i digress i couldn't think of a better person to dedicate this to#it's so on brand it's insane#also the 2nd gif? hello?#excuse me sir how are you this beautiful it's baffling#anyway just a little something for you for whenever you do see it#i hope you take care of yourself as best as you can sending you love as always 💗
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Fascinating how Polites, the character who is the personification of Odysseus' optimism and is only in 5 songs, is more grieved and appreciated than Eurylochus, a character who is his own person and is in 11 songs.
#I'm being a hater but meh :/ it's just kind of baffling to me. Don't get me wrong. Polites plays his purpose for the musical#and it is neat how Jay took one line from him in the Odyssey and got silly with it and basically created his own character.#but like... All we know about Polites is that he's nice... that's literally it. He's Odysseus' optimism personified. which is why he died.#And it's not as though it isn't sad that he died. It's just that we got to know Eurylochus longer and truly get to know him more#is it because with how little people know about Polites other than “uwu sweetiepie” people like that so they can headcanon more?#is it because Eurylochus is “too complex” and therefore “not likable”??#idk. I'm gonna be burned at the stake for this I know it. but I don't understand it.#like during “Love in Paradise” it wasn't “Open Arms” that made me sad. It was “How much longer...” and “Waiting...” that made me sad#I mean I'm an “UwU sweetiepie” too (not right now though clearly lol) so maybe I'm “meh” about him because he's just “me”?#Mad rambles#shot by odysseus#epic the musical#polites#eurylochus#hm. maybe I shouldn't tag this but I'm actually really kind of curious as to why people cling to him so much?
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i personally have very complicated feelings on the Gotham Knights video game and the routes it takes with characterization. i think it has a charm to it and it goes in an interesting direction with everyone (especially within the confides of the plot of the game) but it does have certain moments that veer painfully fanon for me. (such as: the dialogue where Tim drinks too much coffee) it's an interesting story for what it is but i don't view it comics-based for characterization and therefore don't care to interact with it much for like. fanfic purposes.
that *said* though. i do have to give the game some kind of credit for giving one of the top five JayTim moments that lives rent free in my mind. every since i played the game, the cutscene lives in my mind daily. it's the specific cutscene where Jason and Tim are arguing about whether or not Jason's non-lethal bullets are too dangerous for the field, and the argument leads to TIm *standing in front of the target* Jason is shooting and telling Jason to shoot him. it lives rent free for me. i never stop thinking about this.
the absolute certainty Tim has that he is in no danger standing in front of Jason, who has a loaded gun pointed at his face. the way Jason *hesitates* for just a moment before lowering the gun. he thinks about it for just a second. Gotham Knights JayTim seem to get along very well and can rely on each other, but Jason still clearly holds a bitterness about his death and Tim that flickers through in some lines of dialogue under the guise of jokes. especially since this game deals *heavily* with concepts of Pit Madness causing an altered state of consciousness, i think it's believable that occasionally, Jason fights the urge to fight and hurt Tim for the feeling of being replaced.
i like their tension so much in this canon. they get along but you can *tell* Tim is afraid of addressing Jason's trauma or even addressing Jason head-on, and Jason leans into spooking Tim about it. which isn't very comics feeling in their dynamic, but it is an interesting way to place their dynamic if you're playing with a more timid Tim who's newer to the role of Robin. (which he seems to be in-game) he really doesn't want to offend Jason, or worse, piss him off. but he'll still face Jason head on for things like this, while completely aware of what Jason could be capable of.
and Jason seems very protective of Tim and respecting Tim as a Robin in typical Jason fashion. if Tim pushes, Jason *will* relent. he knows this is a kid who's proved himself and should be treated with equal respect, sometimes even more than Dick and Babs do in-game.
so for all that to culminate in Tim stepping in front of Jason's loaded gun that he *knows* is on the edge of being too dangerous, just to force Jason to listen? it's the most unhinged way Tim could've gotten his point across in this scene. he was literally daring Jason to hurt him and playing with a very dangerous fire. but he did it anyway bc he believed he could make Jason heel just at the thought of hurting Tim. and he was *right*. they're gay and i'm feral ty.
#necrotic festerings#jaytim#tim drake x jason todd#gotham knights game#i hate their character designs for what it's work#BUT the size difference. jesus.#anyway i could write a gotham knights jaytim fic i think#i'm *very* unsure the ages intended for these characters#bc tim certainly seems to be intended to be a teenager#whereas jason seems in his 20s so i think it's a gap that's bigger than the comics#which also makes it fun. usually you don't get a ton of age gap with jaytim they're just under 2 yrs apart#but this tim is definitely still a teen and jason is an adult.#and seems to enjoy being a bad influence on tim in the game so#there's such good fodder for some dead dove shit#anyway the funny thing is i like this game#you don't want to know how many hours i've played it#it's just best treated as a seperate iteration of the characters than being an adaptation of anything#esp since they're *so* vague and waffly on jason's backstory#as well as not giving a ton of info on how tim became robin#you assume it's similar to comics but some details leave gaps in the timeline. so idek#probably not somehting meant to be thought about too hard.#but i'm an overthinker at heart.#my point is they're gay. this is gay. it baffles me ppl don't look at this as the gayest shit alive.#tim daring jason to shoot him is the most tim drake thing in this game#well that and tim wanting to make a talon in the belfrey.#also NO one say a word about the gif quality /lh#i had to make it MYSELF#i do everything around here to show off their gay shit#sorta tempted to just make a masterpost of “every gay ass interaction between jaytim”#bc i've seen some clips from the titans show
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why does everyone assume all destiny players hate destiny. the damage "haha I hate destiny it's my favorite game" jokes has done tbh. no I actually like playing it I have fun that is the point of playing a video game. don't assume anything just because you're having an awful time
#I think I'm pretty much preaching to the choir here but it's just so baffling to me#why are you bragging about playing a game you hate. are there no better things you could be doing
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Lee Soo Hyuck as Park Joonggil (Tomorrow, 2022) - Devil Saint
K-DRAMA SECRET SANTA 2023 for @khaoray
happy holidays Vic, wishing you all the best for next year! 💜
#kdramasecretsanta#tuservic#mbc tomorrow#tomorrow kdrama#my edits#hope you like it!#since it's you it had to be a tomorrow set and it had to be about him! and about them a little as well of course#i had to go through the episodes to find clips of him and i am still baffled by how they gave him so little screentime like...#tried out blending for the first time as i finally figured out that i could use masks for it lol#i'm going to be honest the rest of the song doesn't really fit him but these two lines just worked too well for what i wanted to do lol#kdramaedit#kdramanetwork#kdramadaily#lee soo hyuk#mine: tomorrow
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I was cleaning up some broken links on my old silly Pokemon fansite, the Neglected Pokemon Lovers Unite (NPLU), and I realized that it has now been open for 25 years. TWENTY. FIVE. YEARS. That is an ASTONISHING amount of time for a site to stay open! Even if the last substantial update was like back in 2009 lol. The world around it has changed so much, but I think it's still valuable as a time capsule of a certain time on the internet. I wrote up a new essay about it on the site and did some general clean-up here and there.
Anyway to that end, since so much of the fic and art there is so old, I decided to compare Radic's oldest form to his newest! Radic was always a human boy but I just couldn't draw humans at the time so I made him a furry lol. Eventually I figured it out.
I also thought it'd be a neat challenge to mimic my own style back when it was really wonky and bad. And it was! It was kind of fun actually. I don't have too many shots of Radic from back then (it was hard to get art on the internet in the late 90's-early 00's), but I do have a few - hugging Kitsune, two old kiribans if you want to compare. I had a lot more old shots of Parasects though to reference unsurprisingly, they were very triangular lol. I think I did a pretty good job of matching what my art used to look like. I had a clear see-through Gameboy back in the day if you can't tell what Radic is holding lol.
("Isn't Radic the faceless avatar of your gamer self as depicted in Handplates-" yes, but Pokemon!Radic is the only one that actually became his own character, all the rest are shells)
If you do go poking around the NPLU, please keep in mind that almost everything there is very old and most of the fic and art is pretty bad (and shockingly violent). Plz do not judge me! My younger self was a cringey weeb but she was trying very hard. :<
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#pokemon#z art#radic#callima#parasect#man i haven't drawn a parasect in ages i forgot how fun it is#my crabshroom babies#i always get tempted to just delete all the links to my old art but people always tell me not to#they like seeing it?? which always baffles me but i'm trying to accept that there's something worthwhile about them lol#radic is blind so he's not using the switch he's just holding it#maybe for red? idk#there was this odd stretch where i was using dot eyes#then switched to big anime eyes#then smaller anime eyes#then back to dots again#time is a circle...#i also used to use ^_^ CONSTANTLY#thus the ^_^ by old radic there#i've seen a lot of old web trends get revived but not hit awards/kiribans#for some reason#hit counters sure webring sure affiliates sure awards and adoptables sure#but celebratory things for reaching a hit marker? haven't seen a lot of those lately
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i think a major thing that is overlooked in the x files is that when they do their little cutscene of them driving from washington dc to the bumfuck middle of nowhere at the start of each episode, their roadtrips must be SO long. so what are they doing in that time? are they fighting over which radio station to listen to? filling the silence with conversation? is that how they become inseparable, over mind-numbing hours on the road where stories slip off of the tongue with ease?
#i HATE road trips so this is baffling to me#like at first it HAD to be awkward. what the hell do you say at first. but then it happens again and again.#are they chatting? getting to know each other? debating cryptids? talking about life?#are they putting on music? taking turns flipping the stations between what they like and the other person likes? do they bring CDs?#there's no way they have a mutually compatible music taste i just know they drive each other up a wall with that#in all honesty i think they're probably listening to NPR because they seem like that type of nerdy intellectual. and talking about that.#but with THAT MANY HOURS in the car like. you have to come up with SOMETHING to do.#maybe they'll address that later on idk i'm only 10 episodes in but the thought is making me laugh#txf#the x files
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honestly WHAT game the splatoon devs the idea for the flyfish. whaf kind of game design decision is it to have an that can one-shot you from anywhere on the map, and will attempt this four times in quick succession every ten seconds, on two people, and even if the missiles miss they have a splash radius that deals damage to you and, need i remind you, this happens four times in quick succession, so you can dodge all four of them and still die, and also you can only kill it with bombs, and also you need two of them, and also you need to land them in little baskets on their sides, and also this can only be done WHILE THE FLYFISH IS FIRING, AND THERE CAN BE THREE OF THEM AT A TIME, AND DID I MENTION THEY CAN INSTAKILL YOU FROM ANYWHERE ON THE MAP
#honestly flyfish are so ridiculous they deserve to be a special round like grillers#splatoon#salmon run#i'm not salty btw i'm not playing salmon run right now. i just remembered how BAFFLING the game design behind these things is
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oh, you like the idea of zolu or find the fancontent cute but can't bring yourself to ship it because you HC Luffy to be aroace? (ignoring that asexuality and aromantisism exist on a spectrum. and that QPR's/relationship anarachy are a thing). should we tell everyone??? should we throw a fucking party???
#I'm sick of seeing SO MANY posts like this#like. if you don't ship them! that's completely fine! good for you even I'm glad you are enjoying fandom in the way that makes you happiest#but why do so many ppl feel the need to make some variation of this post and not even censor it or anything so it doesn't show up in tag#search#like putting your personal opinions on your personal blog is completely understandable and fair! but it's just courtesy to make sure it#isn't searchable to people who just wanna scroll for that ships content#istg it's mainly zolu that gets this as well#which is so baffling to me because they are such an aroace coded and unconventional ship#like we ain't even doing that much extra stuff we're just observing canon 😭 it's not out fault it's like that and we have eyes#psii.txt#text#discourse
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reading this fic and ... a character was upset and went to their FWB partner for sex, and the partner unilaterally turned them down like they were being noble, declaring sex is not a healthy coping mechanism??? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT??? SEX WITH A TRUSTED ESTABLISHED PARTNER IS A GREAT COPING MECHANISM???????????
like guys. whatttt in the purity culture nonsense. Bad sex-related coping is "seeking out unsafe sex, being deliberately reckless" or "sex with untrustworthy and unkind people" or "lying to someone to get sex" - those are the unhealthy things... NOT SEX ITSELF.
#i'm baffled#thoughts on writing#getting your endorphins up and your stress out so you can better process things is EXACTLY A GOOD COPING SKILL#LIKE WORKING OUT IS A GOOD COPING SKILL#Obviously not to the exclusion of all else but that's literally true of every single coping skill#you shouldn't try to deal with everything with just tea and talk therapy either wtf#it's coping skills not coping skill (singular)
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“we need more m/f friendships in media that stay platonic due to heteronormativity that’s rooted in homophobia/aphobia plus women and men can actually be good friends without romance” and “having m/f romances aren’t inherently bad especially if the people involved are fat, disabled, neurodivergent, and/or people of color because queer people aren’t the only marginalized group that need to be represented” are two statements that can and should coexist.
#I'm a queer Latina so don't come at me with bigoted BS#but yeah it BAFFLES me when I see white gays acting as if the only good romance involves mlm or wlw#plus not all wlw or mlm pairing are good! and not all m/f pairings are bad!#and vice versa!#plus some hate for m/f pairings IS ROOTED IN BIPHOBIA AND RACISM AND FATPHOBIA OR EVEN ABLEISM#PLUS M/F PAIRINGS THAT HAVE OTHER MINORITES INVOLVED AREN'T THE ONLY ONES HATED ON!#I've seen wlw and mlm pairings that involve poc or disabled people or fat people be looked down upon as well#so shut tf up with your racism and other bigotries!#btw this isn't aimed at any specific fandom because I think every fandom can get this toxic#and no you don't have to like every pairing that involve minorites regardless of the character's genders but just don't be a bigot about it#fandom salt#queerphobia#fandom racism#ableism#fatphobia
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