#appreciate any reblogs since its not appearing in the recent search tags

[cherry-toxic]

Metamorphosis update

Chapter 3 is now up!

Fandom: Bleach

Pairing: Grimmjow/Ichigo, Aizen/Grimmjow, Starrk/Grimmjow

Rating: Explicit

Summary:

“You’re in heat,” Szayel says bluntly, and the rest of the profanities tearing up Grimmjow's throat instantly splutter and die on his tongue.

"Heat?"

He spits the word like its poison in his mouth.

Szayel reaches for a rag to wipe his hand. “You're an omega, are you not?”

"So?" Grimmjow demands, a cold creeping sense of dread threatening to alter his voice. "That stuff doesn't matter to us - we're Hollows.”

Basically: Omega instincts. Hollow instincts. FIGHT!!!

[rphosphor]

MCYT/DSMP Tumblr Etiquette Guide

I made another post that was basically everything you needed to know about how to use Tumblr + the etiquette since a bunch of people from Twitter have migrated here. This post is basically that post cut down only to include the etiquette.

-It is okay to block people. If they’re doing something bad, you find them annoying, etc. just block the person. Do not make call out posts and public blocklists. If you want, you can message your mutuals (they have a green star in your follower tab) and tell them not to interact with the person. No one is notified when you block them, you will stop appearing in their dashboard and they will stop appearing in yours. If they try to visit your blog, it'll display as if the page isn't working & give an error if they try to reblog your posts.

-Using tone indicators. They work exactly the same as on Twitter, but are more commonly located in the tags, asks, or replies.

-Tag properly. Tags are part of the only way to categorise, search, and find posts, so tagging a lot of things incorrectly can cause a lot of problems for other people.

-Do not crosstag. It doesn’t get your post more exposure, it just annoys people and clogs up tags with unrelated things.

-Put trigger warnings in the tags. This allows people to filter the posts they don’t want to see. Keep them consistent and simple. Most people use [xyz] tw or tw [xyz].

-Tag critical/discourse, etc. when applicable. Don’t put discourse on the main tag so that it won’t be shown to people that don’t want to see it. This is not optional. Use #[xyz] critical or #c![xyz] negative, not #[xyz].

-Use spoiler tags when posting about recent events. Usually you’d need to tag events for 2-7 days after they happen, depending on the fandom. (Ex: #dsmp spoilers, #3rd life spoilers)

-If your post is long, tag it with #long post. You don’t really need to do it if it’s short with a read more. Some people aren’t okay with scrolling past long posts. On desktop, you just need to go to an empty line and click the three dots on the side to add a read more. On mobile, you need to type :readmore: in a new paragraph.

-Do not use #mine/craft, #mine/blr or #mine/craft youtubers (without the slash) unless you are talking about the actual game. There are people that don’t want to see things about mcyt, dsmp, etc. and we don’t want to clog up the tags. The tagging system will include the last one because it still contains #mine/craft.

-Don’t use #hermitcraft for 3rd Life content. 3rd life is a completely different series and deserves its own tag. Yes, a bunch of hermits are on the server, but by using the Hermitcraft tag, you flood the tag with non-Hermitcraft posts.

-Don’t use #hermitcraft for crossovers with the Dream SMP. Use #hc x dsmp so that the Hermitcraft tag isn’t flooded.

-(Hermitblr exclusive) Don’t put posts with ships on the main tags. Separate the content so that it’s not shown to people who don’t want to see it. Instead, use the tags: #hermitship, #hermitshipblr, #hermitshipping. Avoid using the main character tags as well ex: #grian, #impulsesv. Use the ship name tags instead ex: #jleo, #grumbo, #scardubs.

-If you see someone using the wrong tags/tags they shouldn’t use, politely tell them. Ex: Someone used #mine/craft on a Dream SMP post, so you tell them in their asks/replies that the Mine/craft tag is exclusive to the actual game.

-It’s okay to ask someone to use a trigger warning tag. If you follow someone whose posts can have something that triggers you/makes you uncomfortable. you can ask them to tag it so you can filter. They’re not obligated to use it, but there’s no harm in asking! You can always unfollow them in case it bothers you too much.

-If a post seems really personal or the op said they’re gonna delete it later, either don’t reblog, or ask if you can.

-Tumblr is very hungry and may accidentally eat your asks. If someone doesn’t answer, you can always ask if it went through.

-It’s not required, but much appreciated if you add image/video descriptions for the people who use screenreaders. Guide on it here.

-Reblogs alone don’t automatically give a post more exposure. You need to tag reblogs so that they show up and get recommended to people. Unless you have a large following, there’s a minuscule chance an untagged reblog would get any attention at all. This is incredibly important if you’re reblogging to share an artist’s work or something similar.

[panelshowsource]

a note about women’s month 💘

thank you to everyone who voted in the fave female panelists poll this year! last year was a blast and this year was even better! we’ve seen more woman on tv this year — and some improved, though grossly insufficient, diversity within that — and i love celebrating that with you everyday!

last year, i wrote this:

the lack of diversity in british comedy is an alarming issue that has only recently become headline news. statistics presented by this study, based on 50 years of panel shows and over 4,700 individual episodes, are beyond disappointing for women (here is an easy-to-read graph by series & by year); similar disappointment stems from the lineups at popular comedy festivals, like edinburgh. in 2014, the head of tv at the bbc promised to end all-male comedy shows, a “step in the right direction” that hasn’t been without fear of tokenism, fair criticism as well as some naysayers. women, people of colour, lgbt peoples, those differently-abled and those all of the above and in between are just as funny as cis-identifying white men and deserve a place on our screens. watch their standup, buy their books, stream their videos, listen to their podcasts, comment on and like their content, follow their social media. this support can directly help women become more visible in british comedy.

in the last year, have you been actively conscious of supporting women in comedy? i’d like to take a moment to talk about some ways you can do that :)

➡ from feminist discourse to tales of humans & their dogs to ghost stories, these women are providing some of the most touching, stimulating, and funny reading coming out of comedy:

How to be Champion: My Autobiography by Sarah Millican

Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe

The Guilty Feminist: From our noble goals to our worst hypocrisies by Deborah Frances-White

The Actual One: How I Tried, and Failed, to Avoid Adulthood Forever by Isy Suttie

Cheer Up Love: Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman

The More You Ignore Me by Jo Brand

Can't Stand Up for Sitting Down: A Memoir by Jo Brand

Look Back in Hunger: The Autobiography by Jo Brand

Born Lippy: How to Do Female by Jo Brand

Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart

Peggy & Me by Miranda Hart

Nina Is Not OK by Shappi Khorsandi

A Beginner's Guide to Acting English: A Memoir by Shappi Khorsandi

Spectacles: A Memoir by Sue Perkins

East of Croydon: Blunderings through India and South East Asia by Sue Perkins

Once More, with Feeling: How We Tried to Make the Greatest Porn Film Ever by Victoria Coren Mitchell and Charlie Skelton

For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker by Victoria Coren Mitchell

Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians featuring Sara Pascoe, Katy Brand, and Danielle Ward

...and that’s just to name a handful! my fingers would need a 5 min power nap if i tried typing out all of susie dent’s books 💪

➡ this is a list of a lot relevant active podcasts coming out of britain right now (though it is missing, most notably, off menu). for example, if you liked alice levine on taskmaster, why not listen to her podcast? or watch/listen her on rhlstp? this is such a fun way to get more deeply involved in the comedy of some of your favourite ladies! might i recommend isy suttie’s the things we do for love, anneka harry’s brown bread, or box set go! with nicola stephenson (the newest ep features rebecca front!)? most of these are free, or they can be found/requested at /r/notapanelshow p.s. suzi ruffell, rosie jones, tiff stevenson and more are scheduled to appear on rhlstp this season 😍

➡ here is a list of some radio programmes currently on the air. while it does look stacked with men (because it is), women do feature on so many of these series and absolutely smash it! did you know sandi toksvig hosted the news quiz for almost ten years, and its regular panelists include susan calman, rebecca front, zoe lyons, and more? or that victoria coren mitchell has hosted heresy since 2006 (because there’s nothing she can’t do)? or that sarah millican, jo brand, and sally phillips have each hosted series of the museum of curiosity? these are all on the masterpost! 👏 p.s. you can always search for and/or request more radio shows at /r/panelshow or, if they’re not panel radio shows, /r/notapanelshow :)

➡ social 👏 media 👏 determines 👏 relevancy 👏 do i agree with this system? no. is this the system entertainers are currently slaves to? yes. do you follow your favourite women on twitter, instagram, youtube, etc? one click. one like. one retweet. one reblog. here is a list of some of the comedians i follow on twitter to get you started — all of your faves are on there! when you like something they are on, tweet about it! tag them, the network, the channel, use the hashtags, post pictures! tell channels like dave or people like richard osman who your faves are, who deserves more exposure, who you want to see in the future! we’re already obsessing over how much we like these ladies anyways, so why not make that obsession even more visibile?

➡ we have a really sweet, modest community here of at least 10,000 people. this is not something i’ve ever talked about because i don’t want what i’m going to say to be misconstrued as begging for notes — that is not my concern. but you may have heard people on this site talk about something called the like/reblog ratio. a lot of creators are concerned that, apart from tumblr’s ever-evolving ludicrous algorithms murdering their visibility, people are so obsessed with their blog aesthetics that they’re not actually reblogging everything they like. here’s a couple of my gifset details, one from a nicher post and one from a more popular post:

while i appreciate any notes, numbers likes these aren’t always encouraging. i’m not here to tell you how to enjoy your spare time and interests, or to criticise people who enjoy aesthetic. i just want to point out that if you want someone to be successful, you play a direct part in promoting them and spreading their art. as the years pass, this becomes more and more true. i know how much you all love these ladies — i get messages about them every single day — but it’s a simple fact that a gifset of james acaster or noel fielding or richard ayoade or david mitchell is going to get more notes than a post about any of the women who placed in the top 5 of this poll. i am not bringing this up to this make anyone feel guilty about what they enjoy; i only hope my mentioning this encourages you to be conscientious when participating on social media, especially when your interest lies in the products of a grossly unjust industry that is taking a lot fucking time to get itself on the right track. more followers on a comedian’s twitter = more work for that comedian, because that’s simply the direction the film & tv industry is going. if your follow yields that much power, why not use it for good?

please support women. if you buy one of their books, please message me and tell me which one! if you think one of them is shining on a radio programme and we’re sleeping on her, please let me know (timestamps appreciated!)! if one starts a gofundme or patreon to start a podcast or a tour, please donate 50p and then send me the link! there is always more we can be doing and we are always underestimating what even smallest amount of support means for their bigger picture. i don’t have all the answers, but i love the feeling i get when i believe society is evolving in the right direction. rose matafeo won the edinburgh comedy award in 2018, and sarah keyworth and kiri pritchard-mclean took the top awards at the 2019 chortle awards. women are here to stay and they’re fucking killing it. because duh ❣️

if you took the time to read this, i appreciate you x

[kekisu]

tagged by: @catnpc !

tagging: im too shy to tag anyone <3 do it if you want

why did you choose your url?

i used to have different usernames on every platform i was on (i say "every platform" as if i regularly use anything other than twitter and tumblr) and when i started gaining more traction for my art, i thought itd be convenient for people to search my username if it was the same everywhere. so i started thinking of short cute and simple users to use... i mostly wanted it to sound random so at first i thought up of random combinations of letters like tsuao or 9kyu9, but those were taken 😭 and suddenly when i was singing along to this song in my playlist i noticed the word kisu appeared and i really liked it. my username on twitter at the time was 4keki too so i decided to combine them... my username essentially is keki (cake) and kisu (kiss) so its kind of like cake-kiss whenever you say it out loud ITS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR TOO. short cute and simple

any side blogs? if you have them: name them and why you have them

i have 0 sideblogs i put everything on here. idk i tried having a separate art blog but it was kind of a hassle and i didnt like it. if you like my art youll have to deal with me too its a package

how long have you been on tumblr?

ive been trapped here since 09/09/2017 5:24:35 PM i dont know where the exit is

do you have a queue tag?

nah i post whenever i want idgaf if the schedule is irregular since thats also part of the package

why did you start your blog in the first place?

oh boy. KMFSKMHGNDFNSFGGNJ I WAS LIKE.. 12 WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE? and like many other 12 year olds in 2017 i was super super into 21p and other bands that were associated with them at the time (never patd though. i never stooped that far low.) and so i used my blog as a place to meet others who were into them and share gifs/fanart/etc of them. i recently cleared out my blog of most of my older posts so none of its in my archive but trust me when i say i had to clear out thousands of posts from 2017 and 2018 alone

why did you choose your icon?

i always like having akira as my icon.. idk i just like him hes cute. i like when people make him a small and round chibi

why did you choose your header?

i like akira and futabas sibling dynamic and i also really like morgana. and they were all cute chibis to match my icon. so of course

what’s your post with the most notes?

this post unfortunately ... im hoping to have my art beat this amount of notes one day lol its kind of annoying to see it get circled around more than my actual work

how many mutuals do you have?

116 ritzlings (mutuals) though i dont talk to most of them cuz im shy <3 despite that i still appreciate them

how many followers do you have?

3794 exactly

how many people do you follow?

126

have you ever made a shitpost?

how old is this ask game...

how often do you use tumblr each day?

too often i swear i go on tumblr, scroll for a little bit, close the tab, then reopen it 30 seconds later to do the same thing over and over again

did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?

tumblr drama is weird so ive never engaged in it. idk the way drama works on here confuses me like cant you guys just... disable your ask box and not allow people to dm you? delete the post and just log off? i dont get it

how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

theyre really annoying and malicious. "reblog if youre not homophobic" i guess im homophobic now!

do you like tag games?

yes :) it feels nice being included in something

do you like ask games?

yes but i havent done one in a while cause i havent seen any interesting ones

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

probably all of them are but i dont think about it

do i have a crush on a mutual?

no because that would be weird. i have a boyfriend HKGKHGNFJFDHB

[dweemeister]

Blog introduction for newer followers

Especially those who started following around the holiday season or after, I just wanted to say thank you for following this small blog of mine. Good day to you, and I hope that -- in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic -- you are all well, in addition to those elders and the immunosuppressed in your life. The name is Eric and, I suspect many of you have gotten the gist of what this blog is about, but if not, read on!

And -- oh boy -- I have some unpopular opinions to share with all of you under the cut!

What’s the point of this blog?

Well, you are following a blog that concentrates on classic movies, mostly made before 1980. I specialize in Old Hollywood (silent era-late 1960s), but you will see plenty of American and international animation (from the earliest works to our globalized present), Japanese cinema (post-WWII films in particular), and the staples of European cinema (the French masters, Ingmar Bergman, the Italian greats, etc). Musicals, American Westerns, and science fiction are my favorite genres. South Asian cinema, African cinema, and Latin American cinema make appearances on this blog, but I don’t know as much as I would like. I’m an omnivore, as I’ll watch mostly anything (very select subgenres of exploitation film - like slasher - are a hard pass). The closure of American theaters is definitely going to prevent me from seeing a lot of 2020 releases this year.

For followers who are in their twenties like me (or perhaps younger), these classic movies that dominate the blog are new movies to all of you. If you’ve never seen, say, City Lights (1931), it would be a newer movie to you personally than a Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) or Frozen (2010).

Since this blog’s creation in August 2012, I have written and published 680+ movie reviews, tagged “My Movie Odyssey” (which refers to movies that I have just completed and had otherwise never seen before in their entirety). The most recent review was on The African Queen (1951). You can find an index for all movie reviews I’ve published here - films that I’ve written on are as recent as the most recent batch of Oscar-nominated short films and as far back as 1914 (for now). The Movie Odyssey write-ups have been drying up lately, but with this COVID-19 pandemic and other developments in my life, there’ll be more time for reviews. Keep your eyes peeled!

The queueing schedule of this blog is significantly - but not entirely - based on Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) daily North American schedule. When tumblr banned adult content in December 2018, it also knocked out a lot of blogs that I reblogged from from tags that I search in order to queue the blog. Since then, it has been more difficult to queue this blog - ESPECIALLY in terms of more obscure older films - but on this blog continues.

Is there any non-film content to be aware of?

Well other than the COVID-19 posts that’ll be around for a bit, I like to feature an occasional Peanuts comic around once to thrice a week if I remember to queue them. I’m also a huge soccer fan - Arsenal, LA Galaxy, and the US national teams - so those get featured, too on occasion (there’s no sports for the foreseeable future though). On Sunday mornings (recall I’m from Southern California), there’s a piece of nature photography posted around 7:30 AM Pacific Time.

And oh man, with Star Trek: Picard nearing the end of its first season... watch out. Yes, I’m a Trekkie. You’ll see the odd television posts too - mostly from the Star Trek franchise and M*A*S*H.

You’ll also notice, on occasion, I post/reblog a “nightcap” - a piece of music that strikes my fancy for whatever reason.

Do you post any objectionable content?

All posts with what I deem to portray graphic violence and nudity (I’m such a prude, I guess) is tagged “nsfw” for those of you using tumblr savior. Those posts, however, are very rare, and this is not a nsfw blog. If you consider socially liberal, economically left-center politics objectionable, you might want to know I didn’t vote for Bernie though Warren was my second choice #Byedon2020, don’t worry because this isn’t an overly political blog. However, my politics should be very obvious if you follow me for a while and read certain Movie Odyssey reviews closely (again, those reviews don’t get explicitly political but I could never deny that my political views do influence what I write sometimes).

Some news articles I post can be distressing, and I’m not afraid of writing (whether through personal posts or in my movie write-ups) on heavier issues and themes.

What else?

More info about me in the about section, I guess? Thank you for getting this far and I hope you are entertained and intrigued by this blog (and perhaps you’ll learn some new things, too)!

I hold some rather unpopular opinions about films old and new too that might sound scandalous (it’s all under the cut):

Emotional manipulation, taking the neutral sense of the word “manipulation”, is a necessity in film. I do watch films to have my emotions manipulated (in the neutral sense), but there is a line between emotional manipulation and exploitation. It’s the latter you should be wary of.

I think the Academy Awards/Oscars are meaningful. Principally, it is the Academy’s major fundraiser for the year. On a daily basis, the Academy maintains a vast film library (from all eras, nations, genres, lengths, you name it) and preserves films for posterity. They also have tons of initiatives in helping young filmmakers and fostering film education. The Oscar ceremony also shows us where the tastes of a select group of people (industry insiders) lied at a point in time. I could talk your ear off about this.

How Green Was My Valley is a fantastic film. If you transported me back to the 1940s, I might very well have voted for it over Citizen Kane at the time.

I can’t stand how modern film score composers are trying to make their scores sound as much like Hans Zimmer’s as possible. Most of the time, they are Zimmer’s ghostwriters and acolytes.

I’m a big fan of Disney Animation, but I am very suspicious about the artistic direction of the studio (live-action remakes, the Pixar brain drain, overreliance on meta humor to put down the earlier Disney classics) and the Walt Disney Company’s attempts to buy essentially all the IP they need.

I have a rather low opinion about the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), with the exceptions of the first Iron Man, first Captain America, and Black Panther. By the mid-2010s, I was watching MCU movies only because friends asked me if I was interested in going.

For superhero movies (in general), I’m a little scared about how much air and attention they have taken away from other, smaller films in the last decade and how they have shaped audience perceptions about what a movie should be. Most notably: low- and mid-budget dramas don’t need to be seen in a theater and you should stream them instead.

The conventional wisdom is that Marlon Brando and James Dean transformed acting in the 1950s. I vehemently disagree and contend the latter’s tragic death has created a legend that has overshadowed an incomplete film career.

I appreciate the French New Wave, but I don’t love it. I would grit my teeth to recommend anything other than The 400 Blows to anyone.

Isao Takahata has the most fascinating and accomplished filmography of any animation director I’ve seen the films of. Where Miyazaki is more influential because of his mostly fantastical films, Takahata pushed that envelope about what animated film could be.

I appreciate the films of two directors that are the favorite of a certain demographic: David Fincher and Christopher Nolan (hey, I’m actually in that specific demographic). But I’ve never particularly enjoyed their films.

The Shawshank Redemption is #1 on imdb’s Top 250 movies of all time. It wouldn’t come close to #250 if you asked me to make such a list. Please don’t ask me to make such a list.