#and perhaps broad

[kindahoping4forever]

Luke via Shan Rizwan on IG

[foundfamilywhump]

truly i don't care who thinks it's stupid or boring or "doesn't count" or can't be as intense as what they think of as "real whump" or whatever else, whump with comfort and recovery and caretaker(s) is always going to be my style of whump and i'm gonna have a blast vibing with people who also enjoy that

[murdermeadow]

i find it interesting how, during the intro to season 2, there is only a sliver of light shining on each character (sometimes alongside a spotlight, which is also rather direct as well) -- except for Jayce. every time he is seen, he is struggling against an immense amount of light, an amount too high in quantity to see without covering some or squinting. there is no sliver of light. instead, it is all of it.

[warpweighted]

been trying to draft a post about the blatant anticapitalist* messaging in sweeney todd like its time period being moved up to the height of industrialization the set frequently being made to resemble a factory sweeney's whole entire fucking monologue in "We All Deserve To Die" being about how powerful people get to just ruin people's lives on a whim and theres nothing at all they can do about it save for hopeless violence the complete dehumanization of lucy johanna and toby literally being mined for parts and discarded (hair, sex, teeth, labor) to the point where their own families no longer recognize them as human the cannibalism being a moneymaking scheme and also a metaphor so blatant it's not even subtext it's just text and sweeney's revenge being not rational, no, but clearly caused by the power structures he lives within the way sweeney's death is not a victory and neither is turpin's because they are both villainous but they are not the villain, the actual enemy is the system that produces them and just killing its most obvious outgrowths will not stop the machine from grinding out endless misery but what can you even say it's all right there. just listen to the factory whistle

[lunarharp]

witch world again *shrug*

[justanotherhh]

every day i contain my desire to slander lucifer on this blog.

[patzweigz]

I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on the more mature version of Scooby doo

i am of the vested opinion that a lot of the mature takes we've seen are more about the place of scooby doo in culture, and not actually all that invested in the characters and premise of scooby doo. from velma to the live action movies to mystery incorporated (if i recall correctly mi's showrunner has admitted on record he does not give a shit about scooby doo), there is no care in who the gang are as people within a fictional setting, as vectors for worthy storytelling in them of themselves. i think it's perhaps why the venture bros. parody of scooby doo, with the members being pastiches of american killers, works more for me because it has something broader to say about american fiction and storytelling, as most of that series does.

this is all one long preamble to say that i would merely continue my sincere investment in the characters and add in a dash of realism. the original show already takes place in the 70s-- which already raises an interesting question about why a character like shaggy is still a beatnik in-universe 20 years out of the 50s, as one example.

to delve a bit further -- i need to update my old designs for them, but i'd make the gang multicultural and of various identities as one way to introduce conflict rather easily. how would daphne move through the world as a black trans woman, for instance? how would fred, being an adoptee with a father in prison (taking influence from be cool and mystery inc here)? these are simply springboards for discussion-- but most importantly they are borne from an interest in the gang as complete characters worthy of introspection, whose stories are worthy of development as they are, rather than as means to satirize the innocence of childhood and the media associated with it. scooby doo as a franchise is well over 50 years old; it genuinely boggles me how we have of yet to see someone simply say "i genuinely like these characters; what would happen if i took them seriously?"

[jimmyspades]

[wizardmp3]

"philosophy is pretentious" love? my best friend love is pretentious? platos symposium opens to talk about love amd hes one of the big three socratic philosophers. what is love by haddaway is pretentious? baby dont hurt me, dont hurt me no more?

[kindahoping4forever]

Luke performing @ Boston Calling Music Festival - 24 May 2024

[aheathen-conceivably]

I just spent the past 2 days binge reading the entire darlington saga. I have fallen in love with them. You are a very good writer!

Just ya know, no big deal, live action footage of me every time I see this 🥹😭😭😭

Like I hope we’re across the globe sipping our coffee or tea together reading through this, thinking about love and loss and the passage of time. I’m real glad to have you aboard, friend, and just know we’ve got places yet to go and people yet to see so I’m excited for the ride.

[lezbianz]

i hate the phrase “protestant work ethic.” what is uniquely protestant christian about gaining worth through work? how is a protestant (a category which encompasses everything from the amish to anglicans; “protestantism” is literally any western christian denomination that isn’t roman catholic) more disposed to hard work than a catholic, or a muslim, or a jewish person? by “protestant,” do you really mean to say “american”? how about “capitalist”? why don’t you say this instead? it’s a dumb phrase.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

truly lmao 2024 lambda literary award finalist wynnstannery

[mariocki]

"We should stop thinking in terms of 'compensatory education' but consider, instead, most seriously and systematically the conditions and contexts of the educational environment.

The very form our research takes tends to confirm the beliefs underlying the organization, transmission and evaluation of knowledge by the school. Research proceeds by assessing the criteria of attainment that schools hold, and then measures the competence of different social groups in reaching these criteria. We take one group of children, whom we know beforehand possess attributes favourable to school achievement; and a second group of children, whom we know beforehand lack these attributes. Then we evaluate one group in terms of what it lacks when compared with another. In this way research unwittingly underscores the notion of deficit and confirms the status quo of a given organization, transmission and, in particular, evaluation of knowledge. Research very rarely challenges or exposes the social assumptions underlying what counts as valid knowledge, or what counts as a valid realization of that knowledge."

- Basil Bernstein, Education Cannot Compensate for Society, in Education for Democracy (2nd ed., 1972)

[incorrect-whos-lila]

Jim: You said that if you were ever going to do same-sex experimentation, it was going to be with me! Mike: I have never said that to you. Jim: It has been implied. Mike: By you!

[moeblob]

which FE3H characters would have which animal ears and tails? Cat? Dog?

Sorry, but while I appreciate asks, lately they're genuinely too broad. I don't want to continuously think of the 30 or so students plus faculty to get an answer to an anon.

That said, on multiple times I've drawn Dimitri with cat ears/tail and I have the Ferdinyand AU+an emote on discord for him with cat ears. I also have drawn those two on my (now inactive) art blog with dog ears.

(That's all I got for this and I might not answer more huge asks like this openly. If I get non-anon I can at least answer privately and not clutter my blog.)