#but it was a bizarre watch experience

[davey-in-a-minivan]

ted lasso season 4 possible... i can't do this

[mikimeiko]

Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998)

[tiberius-claudius-nero]

one of the only good things about "ironic" post-post-modern advertisements is that they're so convoluted and stupid that i can skip them on youtube after the required 5 seconds and not know what's being advertised to me. like thanks for showing me this bizarre short film, i have no clue what you want from me ♥️ yay ♥️

[parrrty-poison]

the eagles scoring 24 points and then getting a citizen's alert saying 24 shots fired 0.7 miles away is both the most philly and the most american thing i've ever experienced in my entire life

[chloesimaginationthings]

Moments before disaster

[defnotkanyewest]

Just finished Jojo and I can easily say this is the best anime I've ever watched

I've honestly never experienced something like this wether it be the first 3 or the last 3 parts it just managed to be consistently incredible

Bar the fact that I havent watched 10 episodes in a single sitting since like 2021 I've never been so invested in any show like I have with this

[yrdnzz]

giorno & golden wind requiem for my friend (and her little brother matthew) in return for a donation to care for gaza!

more info on those here if you're interested (the examples are a bit outdated but i do color these !!!)

[silverhalla]

when I was little I used to play clue with my sister and when I won by being like “okay YOU don’t have the candlestick and I don’t have the candlestick and there are no more cards, so it’s gotta be the candlestick” she would get really mad and tell me I was cheating because I wasn’t supposed to be making assumptions like that and she didn’t understand where I was getting the info from, so I was ruining the game for her

anyways I don’t rly get why people on twt are THAT mad about veilguard spoilers because they do not seem that deep

[hana-bobo-finch]

a strange trend in my favorite characters I realize is that I tend to heavily gravitate toward somewhat obscure, antagonistic forces

[incorrect-jojolands-quotes]

brainstorming a main villain for jojolands

I've yet to draw this main villain but I have one in mind that's also based on this post I made predicting the overall story. Given how villains mirror the theme of the story by being unable to realize it or fail at achieving what the theme requires for them to succeed, I made a villain that would represent this for The JOJOLands.

I had this duo Stand ability for a while that also pairs well with the villain too. To not delay any further: meet Venice "V" Vuitton.

V, at the start of The JOJOLands, is the sole head and former heiress of the Vuitton fortune. Known as "new money" in Hawaii's elite, the Vuittons gained their obscene wealth from being major players in the hospitality and tourism industry. Despite their status, they are well-liked by the more "old money" members and have rubbed elbows with families like Howler during their time in the business. The Vuitton hotel chain is seen on every populated island of Hawaii and has spread to states like California and New York in the past 10 years; recently, it opened a new hotel in Japan to begin its international expansion post-COVID. Much of the Vuittons hold varying degrees of power, wealth and status as socialites but a power struggle in the 1990s led to only a few remaining Vuittons to hold onto the fortune: the patriarch grandfather and his wife, their two sons and their wives, and one of the son's daughter Venice. Her family calls her V and never refer to her as anything else but that.

V was the only child of her parents and lived with a silver spoon in her mouth all her life. Despite the Vuittons appearing close-knit and having a reputation of being a loving family, V would describe her childhood as lonely and neglectful. Money was used to give her anything but familial love and her education was more focused on making her become a future wife and socialite than help her follow her dreams or create good memories with her family. The conservative nature of the family and their constant moving around the world also made it difficult for V to keep friends; many kept in touch with her simply because of her connections and wealth. Eventually, V became rebellious and engaged in crimes like petty theft and drug usage in response to the lack of love and connection pushing her over the edge. Rather than use their money to provide her therapy or understand their child, V's parents instead sent her to an involuntary residential treatment center in an island of Hawaii in hopes of "straightening her out".

V spent her remaining teen years there being abused by the staff and one evening planned her escape with other teenagers who had similar upbringings. These teenagers, who were the first and only genuine friends she had, died while trying to escape due to the currents of the ocean. V nearly died trying to escape with them as well but the event helped her discover her duo Stands she never realized until then and used that to save herself.

"Frame by Frame" allowed her to see ten seconds of the past at any moment, manifesting itself as a polaroid camera she activates by taking a snapshot. Its complementary ability, "THE WAITINGMAN", allowed her to drop what she would call an "anomaly" into the past as many times as she wanted. Said anomalies are random changes in the past that either result in no changes in the present (a small rock moving one inch to the left) or a drastic change instead (making someone change their mind about killing someone). On a whim, she used her abilities to save herself from drowning that night; the anomaly dropped was a driftwood that helped her float back to the shore.

Realizing how she could change the past, she used her Stand abilities again to first prevent her friends from dying, then to avoid certain abuse from the center's staff, and eventually to prevent her parents from shipping her and her friends off to the treatment center all together. She began dropping frequent anomalies as a means to rewrite her past so that her family, once cold and unable to show her love, now became doting and kind to her in the present. V could tell by the photos and home videos, now heavily altered from what it was before, that the anomalies worked to transform her family into one that she yearned for all these years. Unfortunately, changing the past doesn't mean altering the memories she had of it; she could only see those "good times" she supposedly experienced in the past through the screen and everyone else never knew about the "bad times" she seemed to only remember. Her friends, as a result of surviving and never going to the treatment center, never remembered the trauma they went through with her or even knew her beyond being another Vuitton in the elite circles, another rich girl with connections and money. Everyone else's memories have been altered by the anomalies- except hers.

In response to this, V decided to use her Stands to kill off her remaining family and friends affected and she became the sole head of the Vuittons at age 20 as a result. She did this by carefully putting various anomalies in the past so that people died in different ways at different times in history; the deaths were seen simply as a series of absurd events that made people sympathetic to V's curated tragedy. It's implied that "power struggle" mentioned earlier was caused by V's abilities and she played along with what the media called "The Vuitton Curse". Now the new head of the family and of the Vuitton estate, her young age and reputation as a party girl made the media paint her as a ditzy, bratty socialite during the 2010s who frequented the Hawaiian party scene and is surrounded by similar socialites who she called her friends or besties. However, those behind closed doors knew her as a savvy businesswoman who is milking the reputation of "famous for being famous" to her own use. V was now a brand, the precursor to the modern social media star, and able to make the world view her at worst a caricature and at best an icon. She actually has no genuine friends beyond those she pretends to be friends with for the photos and connections. She uses her anomalies to alter and experiment with the past so she could maintain her Vuitton revenue while pretending to be a harmless "celebutante" that gained a cult following of fans who find her aesthetics and opulent lifestyle pleasing or ideal. The world mostly see her as a pretty socialite who's persona has created several edits and online content by the netizens that see her performance as "iconic" and nothing more. Ten years later, at age 30, she would encounter and go up against Jodio Joestar in the story. Another case of Jodio's team trying to go after a rich person's fortune and not realizing they're up against another Stand User, she finds out he's able to see her abilities, how she was behind almost every aspect of his own life going down the drain. She becomes threatened with the possibility that her coveted powers are going to be taken away by him. That may be how her story ends: forgotten like the memories she altered, locked away in some form so no one could find her, and no longer having the ability that was supposed to save her.

Her current motivation in the story is boredom.

In her mind, she has already gained everything she wants and can get anything else if she desires within seconds if she wanted to. She has no use for achieving bigger goals, pursuing a better life, or finding new relationships to bond over when she can just use her Stands to get it almost instantly; she simply chooses not to. No one understands this about her and therefore no one is on her level or worthy enough to get on it. She is unable to make memories or experiences that are genuinely meaningful due to her Stands and therefore unable to share or bond with others over either. She doesn't desire to change anything for any reason other than to satisfy her boredom. Her days, if she's not partying or shopping or occasionally checking on her business ventures, are spent reading old news articles or history books to use Frame by Frame to find a point in time to manipulate and see what happens after she drops the anomaly (or several). At one point, she tried to use her powers for good and prevent global tragedies, but quickly became bored of "playing savior" and decided to just stick to only changing the past for her own pleasure instead. If you dig deeper, her fears stem from losing this upper status in life, this ability to supposedly play God, this boring and seemingly uneventful life disrupted. She knew what it was like to be controlled and lack agency despite being given everything on a silver platter- and she dare not return back to that.

While the ability results in altering people's memories, sometimes those memories of the previous past lingers on; people unaware of the Stand powers being used have cited the phenomenon as "Mandela effects". The most recent anomaly V dropped was making a certain bird trapped in a burning school bus.

So, yeah! That's all I have for V! Let me know what you think of her. You're also free to draw her as well if you like!

[gothicprep]

These morons watched one episode of the Simpsons and were like “yeah, this is about as good as men will get”.

[stonelions]

having finished the show, my ultimate (and most generous) take on TLOU HBO, the take that encompasses all my other takes, is that TLOU (the version co-created by the now uncredited Bruce Straley) is a surprisingly complicated interactive narrative, one that unfortunately doesn't lend itself well to the time constraints of a 9 episode television season.

this is exacerbated by the show being a highly unfaithful adaptation which not only adds unnecessary new plotlines, but fails to compensate for massive, retconning alterations to the characters and major story beats, an offense that's compounded by two showrunners hellbent on hammering out any ambiguity with shoddy exposition in place of worldbuilding, and conflating melodrama with moral complexity.

it would be a monumental task for any writer to maintain even part of the emotional impact achieved by the immersive, participatory experience of playing the video game, and instead of trying to do that, Druckmann decided to seal off every space that might allow interpretation outside his own authorial intent. and that's... just kind of a lousy thing to do to your audience.

[justabunchofdragons]

god i love when they study house

kutner: "something's wrong with house. he's acting strange. said yes to an mri just because the parents asked even though he disagreed with the diagnosis" wilson: "honestly sometimes there's no explanations for him. accept ur boss is happy and enjoy it" kutner: damn ok *leaves* wilson: ... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

wilson: cuddy what did you do!!! house is happy!!!!! cuddy: i did nothing!! maybe he's just happy!! wilson: wait if you dont know and i dont know then he's hiding something from both of us. weird cuddy: or maybe he's just happy.

cuddy: *sees house and a patient happy* cuddy: what the fuck. something is seriously wrong

[wankoshibe]

Like how stand users attract stand users, autistic people attract other autistic people.

[sapphic-luthor]

what do you think of the new dead ringers series?

a show in which TWO rachel weiszes eat pussy and stride around as unhinged sick and depraved fucked up little monsters was essentially made by taking all of the wildest dreams and fantasies directly from my brain and compiling them into one limited series.

i used to pray for times like this and now i get to Receive

[borom1r]

I need more people to watch fucked up movies unironically I need more people to watch something utterly fucking bizarre and be fundamentally changed please I’m begging it’s healthy for the soul I cannot take any more of this cardboard cutout cinema puppeting the corpses of slashers I’m going to start projectile vomiting for real