#and so do you assumed audience

[spaciebabie]

a (not so) fun fact about cptsd is that your symptoms can present as bpd when people treat you like shit 😁

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[seasononesam]

@corpseofsuturedseams honestly I don't think the vibe they wanted was "middle of nowhere" but rather like......midwestern suburb lol. I realize none of this was actually filmed in the midwest but I think they were going for more "typical american suburb" feel to contrast with the rest of the shows tone, that's why there's all the talk about "picket fences" and an "apple pie life" as opposed to hunting. I've never been to kansas but I do live in ohio where eric kripke is from and the place I grew up in looks pretty similar to the lawrence we see in the show and some of the other towns they go through.

[intricate-ritualz]

SMASH that like button if u feel personally victimized by the time skip in your friendly neighborhood spider-man!!! 💯🙋‍♀️🙏🙏

[wackywatchdotcom]

i will say im not super invested in the idea of the show giving us too much information on c&a. like itll be super cool if we find out about it! and im sure itll be relevant information if we do but i think the information we get is going to be not super indepth, because im not sure itd match the tone of the show? its less about mystery and like The Lore and more about the characters and examining how different characters respond and have been responding to the environment set up by the show

(it WOULD be fun to learn more details about c&a and i AM curious i just dont think itd actually enhance much abt the show itself, and as such, i dont think its super important writing wise for the audience to learn about it either)

that SAID i do ascribe to the idea that ALL of the cast members worked for c&a before the ended up in the circus, no exceptions. i dont really know how say gangle or zooble wouldve ended up there, but i feel like they all ended up there one way or another. and i think most of the cast doesnt talk about their life in the real world bc its gone and theres no reason to dredge it up (or theyve forgotten it or most aspects of it), but it does make it fascinating that not even pomni, who has the least reason to avoid these topics at least early on, broached the subject of what in the WORLD is c&a UP to. it literally is never brought up ever as of ep 4. which makes me think the company was probably always super shady in some way to the pt that its employees were kinda desensitized to the idea that its c&as fault that horrible things happen

[seaofreverie]

Watched some clips and live videos and stuff from the 2022 tour this weekend... It was so awesome

[thepoisonroom]

i know modern dating is a hell because i once went on a date with this lady and when we were about to kiss i pulled back and went "oh sorry i thought we were a vase for a second" and she didn't like that in the least

[ichorblossoms]

eternal conundrum with grimm is how the fuck yarrow figures out their pronouns in p1 bc that bitch lies all the time

[revvethasmythh]

I am curious about how Liliana and Ludinus' goals differ. Because Ludinus' obvious goal is to eradicate the gods--Liliana's, however, is apparently to free the Ruidusborn from the burden of their powers. How do these two things coincide? Obviously we can see how releasing Predathos causes the downfall of the gods, but why would releasing Predathos help the Ruidusborn? The obvious (though not necessarily correct) conclusion one would jump to is that, in order for Ruidusborn/Exaltants to be free from their powers, one would need to kill Predathos, not just free him. So I'm led to wonder if Liliana is willing to aid Ludinus in achieving his goal (kill the gods) in order to achieve her goal through some secondary effect (however one goes about killing a thing powerful enough to kill the gods). Which I suppose makes some sense, because why would you go to the effort to destroy all the gods only to allow a creature of equal-to-greater power of the gods continue to exist over Exandria? You wouldn't, would you? You'd probably want that to be gone as well

[gibbearish]

its occuring to me what specifically it is that therapists go to therapy for

[brooklynisher]

I love being in a fandom filled with autistic people

If I wasn’t, then I think everyone would just assume I was like 9 years old

[shadowslocked]

Judging from liveblogs but I think the reason everybody is so up in arms is because there’s a level of unknown to the changes not only from an audience perspective but also from a player perspective. It sounds like most of the players were unaware of the changes and nerfs coming, which in turn makes them feel very sudden and off putting because there’s no time to consider the good and bad before it’s implemented. It’s just suddenly…here.

Like, I think if the players were aware of the changes, at least on a meta level, and expressed that to the audience it wouldn’t cause so much uproar

[binghe-malewife-goals]

Don't know what it is with people thinking because Jayce didn't complain hard enough that he didn't want to be a councilor means he wanted to be in a political position in the first place.

The argument is that Jayce is an adult man who can make decisions, which is very true! But we're talking about your city's government basically appointing you as a politician despite you clearly not wanting it. But you're scared to complain BECAUSE it is your city's government.

Jayce is a little peacock, he does unironically enjoy the spotlight and praise that comes from it. There is an allure to being in a position of power for that reason, but Jayce was not ready nor wanted any of the responsibilities that came with it.

I feel like we all forget that act 2-3 took place in a span of a couple days and that's literally how long Jayce was a councilor before he quit because he hated it.

[coquelicoq]

working theory is that it's harder for me to watch something in french with english subtitles than to watch something in french with french subtitles. which isn't what i would have expected, since i'm not fluent in french, and i do still to some extent have to translate french into english in order to understand it, though not fully. so you'd think having an english translation already available would make things easier. but actually it's kind of distracting because then i'm taking the ~half of the french sentence i actually picked out and reverse engineering the english translation to figure out what the other half must have been. which it turns out takes more time and effort than reading captions that match the audio even if they are both in a language i only kind of sort of know. maybe also because i'm actually pretty good at reading french at this point? further research needed.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

If I keep my motivation up with the animatic project, I plan to make ganondorf just. soooo uncomfortably correct about things. you know, in that event horizon of being both indefensible enough in his actions that you feel like he's just saying things to make himself look less bad, but also you can't really retort a proper counterargument without revealing huge biases in your own perception of reality

just riding that wind waker swagger to more extreme extremes

[mollymarymarie]

Reading Dear Your Holiness in the papal audience

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