#but it's also an exercise in patience

[marsreds]

in other news suzanne collins really needs to stop killing off people who have no business dying in stories sejanus sweetheart you deserved a life of light, love and joy

[christadeguchi]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[halestrom]

[welcometogrouchland]

I miss them so bad (Dick and Damian)

[noisytenant]

always kind of strange and uncomfortable when someone admits "yeah i basically fried my attention span on Phone so i can't do anything that requires patience now". the kind of thing where i want to say a million things in response but i tend to say nothing at all

[eddis-not-eeddis]

Sometimes the things in our lives aren't directed at us individually. It is so easy for me to look up and ask God, "Why did you do this to me?" But that is such a self-centered thing to do--especially when the thing in question is on a large scale or effects more people than just me. I think often we deal with the effects of what is happening to other people, and it may not be directed at us specifically. It can be hard to realize that when we are suffering (or "suffering") but it may not be our specific problem beyond how we handle it in the given moment and move on with our lives.

[ruiningthesoup]

I find it a bit frustrating that the user base on tumblr has finally clocked on to the idea that posting online is Not Activism and that we have to do something irl, but refuses to popularise knowledge about how to organise (in communities, around campaigns etc) and replicates many of the barriers to organising by positing that not having all the information about a subject is a good reason to disengage lest you should repeat some semantic error.

LISTEN TO ME. YOU WILL LEARN MORE THEORY AND BUILD SUPPORT NETWORKS BY TURNING UP TO A MEETING AND ASKING SOME QUESTIONS. reading theory online is fine and even good! but your political education is not an isolated event! you can and should learn from other people where possible and make up your own mind based on material realities IN ADDITION TO scholarly thought.

sometimes you might be wrong. sometimes you might change your mind based on new information. these are not factors that should stop you from opening your mind to working with others in search of a collectivised future

[discoidal]

ur all invited to the party btw

[motherhenna]

So today was my first day teaching an after school elective theater class (10+ 2nd 3rd 4th grade girls) and holy shit y'all I have even more respect for teachers now than ever before because that was BRUTAL lmao it was like they could smell my fear and knew they could trample all over me. Maybe my viewpoint is skewed, seeing as I was a really meek, easygoing kid at that age, but I can't fathom just...blatantly ignoring the teacher when they tell you not to do something. I get theater is a bit more loosey goosey but damn I can't imagine treating any of my past theater teachers (or any adult for that matter) with such disregard. Hoping that they were just crazy because it was their first day back at school after summer break and they'll mellow out a tiny bit by next week.

There were two super sweet and responsible 4th graders that I'm probably going to have to lean on to get through to some of their classmates. Like appoint them "team leaders" or whatever.

Either way, no more Ms. Pushover next Wednesday--Miss Helen is gonna lay down the fucking LAW lol I'm going to print out a set of class rules and expectations and have the kids repeat them back to me, and I may invest in a fucking whistle to cut through how loud they can get. If any of y'all have a background in teaching or otherwise dealing with large groups of children, feel free to drop any tips or suggestions you might have to get a handle on a rowdy crowd of munchkins and gremlins without yelling or being overly strict.

[musical-chick-13]

"This show is SO good, you should watch it!!"

I gotta be honest. If I look at a character list on Wikipedia and get five characters down without seeing a single woman, it's probably not for me.

[piracytheorist]

I don't know how to not make this sound like I'm throwing the Spy x Family manga under the bus (cause look, I don't read it because I prefer watching the new developments in anime form, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate its value, either the SxF manga or any other manga), but there's just something so intense in how Bond's vision of Loid dying was shown in the anime.

In the manga, it's two page-wide panels.

It's still brilliantly put, don't get me wrong. Anya and Yor keep their original places, going from excited to miserable, and the place where Loid was standing is now empty. His loss would leave a void, to them, to the story, to the peace.

Anime has no panels (most of the time); each shot covers the entire screen. There's just one thing and you focus on it. You can't go back or forward (I mean, you can, if you're not watching it live, but the intent of making a show is for audiences to watch at once at least the first time, not to rewind or fast-forward all the time).

And it feels even more impactful. There's nothing else to distract you from the transition from happy fake family to broken family. You can't go back up to see the version of the family with Loid in it, because death is irreversible. There's even a shake when the vision changes. You not only see Loid's absence, you feel it.

This was one of the moments that shocked me the most in the anime, had me almost screaming "No!" at my screen - and as someone who prefers that medium, it's why I don't want to read the manga even though I'm dying to know more about the story. Because I want to be impacted by stuff like this. I want to feel like someone punched me in the gut. I want the goods that the manga created brought to me through the impact of the anime. Because it's an adaptation that fully respects its origin!

I mean, that is a testament to how well-made the anime is, how it took an already great setting of story, characters and themes from the manga and puts the advantages of animation to use in order to bring it to new heights. It's a great adaptation and the more I watch the more I appreciate that too.

[aroace-cat-lady]

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[moodr1ng]

rly insane how half the disco elysium fandom like.. completely fails at understanding even basic messaging of the game that even i got while being really bad at understanding themes lol. like yeah sure i relate hard to harrys mental health and substance use shit, and yeah, i think kim is fun and goofy, and i like their dynamic and also want to see on screen gay sex.

but like.. this is The Politics Game and half of the fanbase has taken from it exclusively "omg my blorbos meow meows babygirls" and seemingly failed to engage w the political text of the story. like ok if you came out of disco elysium and saw a man who is like.. at best 1 week sober from extreme substance abuse that has made him actively suicidal and threatening to others around him, who is desperately in need of actual, urgent help, AND who is a POLICE OFFICER, like, THEE person who absolutely should NOT be a cop, on top of, yknow, that, like, police are bad already??? a man who has canonically committed serious and traumatic police brutality due to this very instability and disregard for anyones safety and has continued to be allowed to occupy this position? and you get an ending in which his co-workers who have basically just been watching from the sidelines being like.. exasperated at him but not actually doing anything about the massive risk to himself and all these civilians safety just going "well, yknow, hes a good guy after all, and he hasnt been getting drunk and waving his police issued firearm at frightened civilians for a whole week, and he sure saw a bug, so, like, just come back to work man" and thought that was a satisfying and good ending...... after all the talk abt copaganda white ppl is the same

[vulturevanity]

I am NOT shaming anyone for this because doing it at all is a huge undertaking but the animation snob demon in my head is eating my brain and I have to say it or else I die. But it's always a bit obvious when an artist decides to create an animatic while being entirely unfamiliar with the principles of sequential art.

And I hate that I care about this. Why does it matter if an otherwise very good animatic made out of love for a story looks like a slide show. Why do I have to be this pretentious and picky. The art is beautiful. The editing is perfectly serviceable. Why can't I just appreciate something for what it's trying to do and how do I stop immediately noticing every flaw in everything I look at.

[quetzalpapalotl]

mmmm, I don't think much about how Overlord feels about Tarantulas (in contrast to how much I think about how Tarantulas feels about Overlord, which is a lot), because I don't think there was much to it. Overlord, to me, feels rather simple in his wickedness. He was using Tarantulas and that's it. But on top of their obvious similarity in how they treat the world as a playground, they are both overtly fixated in one person they rely on for meaning (Megatron and Prowl) and now I'm wondering if Overlord feels anything about that.

[thyandrawrites]

I made my smallest little guy so far. He's half of dabi. So tiny