#but I am almost 40 now

[agapi-kalyptei]

anyway hi to the 16 new followers, too bad you didn't realize i'm both insane and boring at the same time! I'm funny only twice a year sorry for misleading you

[moonlightflower-queen]

"Okay, this is a meme redraw. It shouldn't take that long"

-Me 3 days ago

[snarkylinda]

Spencer's body language on that little anxiety attack on Date Night screams of someone that had to deal with them often and that fucks me up tbh.

[add1ctedt0you]

An interesting theme, imo, in mdzs is the sheer tiredness you must feel when dealing with someone who, having been dead for more than a decade, is still the same person as before, while you aren't anymore.

[3-aem]

MY BRAINS NOT WORKING AND THE CUTE BOY I WORK WITH KEEPS CORRECTING MY GRAMMAR THIS IS SO AHAIWIAKSDHDGRRRRHRNE

[autistic-katara]

icl i would be at least a little happy with almost any ending for stranger things but one thing that would ruin all of it would be an epilogue (of a decade or more later)

[darkelfchicksick]

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[jtownraindancer]

good news: i wrote a fic

bad news: i wrote a fic

[findmeinthefallair]

It's so weird to think that the US is currently 5-8 hours behind me instead of the 12-15 hours that I'm used to

[thecedarchronicle]

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[ducktracy]

What are some of your favorite blog reviews you've done?

OHHHH THIS IS A GOOD QUESTION!!! i actually have more of an objective answer this time around. "there "any short covering my favorite" is the short, broad answer, but i have to say that my reviews for Porky's Last Stand (unsubtle plug), You Ought to be in Pictures (unsubtle plug), and Notes to You (unsubtle plug) are some of the ones i take the most pride in

these are all shorts i love to the moon and back and back again and am very very intimate with, so i'm able to present a more passionate and interesting analysis for that reason. Pictures is a pretty well known short, but i really enjoyed carving into the Porky and Daffy dynamic in that one and presenting what about this super well known short i think works so well. especially because i think.. in regarding character development with that short, Daffy gets talked about the most because it's the first short where he's substantially greedy and how that's pretty prophetic, but i think it's actually a short much better advocated for Porky's characterization instead! he has a really grounded and mature presence in this one that is really the first time we've seen him like this. the short has his sympathy the entire way through. and i think most people don't realize that, which is why i'm fond of my review for that one in that i feel i was able to demonstrate that POV

Last Stand and Notes hit similar success points. i've seen Notes outright get called a bad cartoon and i don't think most people even know Last Stand exists, which should both be criminal offenses. Last Stand especially was very fun to do because, outside of it being one of my favorite shorts ever made, i was able to really dive deep and demonstrate why i love that so much and that it offers so much more than what seems to be on the surface. i haven't seen many people give that short the time of day, and so it was refreshing to give that little "sales pitch"

same with Notes. Back Alley Oproar has rendered it obsolete, but i think Notes has so many things in it that make it a worthwhile cartoon, and there are a lot of things i like that it does BETTER than Oproar (that isn't just my pig bias speaking. but Sylvester's one of my absolute favorites too so the competition is relatively fair!) i felt like i was actually able to present a new point of view with my Notes review, that i was able to give an argument as to why i feel the way i do about it

SO I GUESS REALLY all my favorites are the ones i feel i really had something to say about them and could use them as a manifesto of sorts HAHA. analyses that i think could convincingly convince (convincingly) people to give those shorts a taste for themselves and see it in a new light if they didn't like it/had a preconceived notion before, or just introduce the short to them entirely

[hauntedwoman]

i need to find another job bc after i paid my credit card bill i literally only have $9 in my account for the next two weeks lol

[add1ctedt0you]

What's your version of Jiang Cheng Gives Up? *chinhands*

Hiii! My version of jc gives up is very boring: he gives up on wwx and their shared past and moves on.

An overexposure to yunmeng bros reconciliations has brought me to one conclusion: I don't necessarily need them to reconcile. (Not because: 'jc/wwx is so toxic!' or 'jc/wwx deserves better than that selfish asshole!'. Like, I always roll my eyes. They are two horrible human - fictional- beings who deserve each other!).

But imo, post-canon jc has two priorities:

Jin ling

Himself

First point: he needs to be there for jl. Not only politically! But emotionally too. jl is going through a rough time jc too experienced: a loved ones betrayal. jc knows what it does to you. And listen, one of the things I love about jc is how he is trying his best. Always. In particular when it comes to people he loves. ('but he did a lot of things wrong', thank fuck! He is a traumatized character who behaves like a traumatized character. This scene explains so much about jc imo: jc knows that not having an adult in your life who believes in you is shit. So he tries to give space - in his way- to jl, while fighting his urge to protect him, because the last time every one of his family member was on a battlefield, they died.) So yeah, he is going to try being there for jl, in his imperfect way. And that brings me to point two.

jc has to recalibrate himself, to be there for jl: what he thought were truths, are revealed to be lies. All his life was a lie.

That's my favorite jc's speech. It's visceral, it's painfully honest. He is literally saying to us his state of mind: he is feeling guilty, wronged and confused.

'who am I?' hits hard, because who you are when you have built your life on lies?! Should he feel guilty?! wwx has made this huge sacrifice for him, but he has hurt him too: what should he feel?!

So, because I interpret jc as someone who overthinks, I want him to lose his mind over his doubts and start a journey of healing (or, what realistically someone without therapy can manage).

I want him to look at Lotus Pier, his home, and think: 'dang, what I have managed is incredible'. I what him to realize: 'what wwx made for me was an huge sacrifice, but my feelings are valid too'. I want him to be, not happy, but satisfied, when thinking about his life. And I don't need him and wwx to reconcile, because I like the bittersweet taste their broken relationship leaves in his mouth.

So, my jc gives up is: he learns to live with himself and jl, peacefully.

[ploncc]

finally watching House MD and yes i am catching up on my shows a decade late, but that DOES mean that now i can make the hypothesis that chase is another bubblegum bitch character and frankly that's worth the ten years

[glimpsesofeuterpe]

note to future-ish self: do not drink booze without eating something as well

[yohankang]

i feel so down after coming back from the camp....