#communicate beautifully!

[britneyshakespeare]

i like it when you watch a song or a movie clip on youtube and you go down into the comments section and someone has written a heart-rending autobiographical paragraph about how it impacted them

[gongyussy]

MONKEY MAN (2024)

[arthursfuckinghat]

"Bad news awaits you, sir. Sadly, sooner than you think. But beyond the news, paradise awaits."

[gwendolyn-of-loxley]

Transfemininity is lycanthropy.

The snapping of bones. The tearing of skin. The annihilation of the self, replaced by something so intoxicating that your younger self and all your ancestors would vomit at the sight of. The realizing of the true self, the pure jubilation of being a freak. A hateful thing.

And all the while the girl who turned you holds your face in her hands and talks about how hot you are and how much she wants to lick your heart and chew your ribs.

Being transfeminine is being a werewolf. A primal, ravenous beast thing that has teeth too sharp and too yellow to ever let your smile be treasured by the dumb shit-covered villagers who call for the Huntsman. Your outstretched hands for your sister's new baby are clamped in irons for having claws so sharp that they will surely destroy the next generation's fragile identity. Your fur is ugly and your face is that not of a trainable puppy but of an undomesticated wild animal. You stink and you can't be trusted to dress yourself.

All of it, every single fear, every single horror, is 100% true. And you love it, because it finally means you can escape the desire to die in order to stop being something that you aren't.

I love being a monster.

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Look I am all for trauma-fueled deeply unhealthy relationships between male leads but I feel compelled to say (with absolutely no malice) that that is not what is happening in Squid Game. In-ho is being deliberately manipulative in every instance in which he interacts with Gi-hun. He doesn't refrain from killing him at the end because he can't bring himself to shoot him, but because the whole point of playing in the games is centered around breaking Gi-hun down mentally. And while In-ho is certainly deeply invested in doing this to Gi-hun, his framing at the end of Episode 7 is intended to serve as a wake-up call: for as nice and understanding as this guy has made himself seem, almost everything we see from him is a lie. He was never going to have a change of heart. To fail to recognize that is to make the same mistake Gi-hun did, but even more willfully since we actually know In-ho is the Frontman. And that's exactly what the show wants us to do!

From the beginning, Gi-hun has served as the audience stand-in. We empathize with him, we root for him, we share his beliefs in the possibility of change. But we are given information he doesn't have; we know that In-ho is the Frontman. And even though we know this, we know this guy is able to shoot his own brother, we want to like him! We want to believe in him, to think that maybe something about Gi-hun or the reality of the games can change his mind! And the show weaponizes this intentionally. Through his character, the show does to us what In-ho himself does to Gi-hun: punishes us for our optimism. It wants us to feel silly for ever believing that In-ho would change, just as In-ho's point is that Gi-hun should have known the games would end the same.

So for as much as I usually love reading doomed yearning into character dynamics, I don't think it works here. In-ho doesn't have any particular love for Gi-hun--the show just wants you to believe he might.

[remyfire]

Reader, I love them

[kiisuuumii]

@kiisuuumii (tragedy in love)

[seaglassquotes]

This is something I feel so much and so often but I've never seen it put into words so easily. It is so hard as an adult who is not a Christian to find functional and substantial community.

[shannonsketches]

he's so important to me

[seriousbrat]

speaking of fancasts, it has bothered me for like, a literal decade that fandom has never truly considered luke newberry for remus when he has PLENTY of material that is literally perfect for remus. He has scenes from In the Flesh (great series, could not recommend more) that can be used for werewolf-y stuff in fanvids. he even has gay material!!!! like what more could you ask for. it's the obsession with making remus into sexy hot guy instead of the average-but-still-cute king that he is. luke newberry is so lupin vibes that he was cast to play remus lupin's son in the films before that was cut. like justice for luke newberry as remus

[kadextra]

I’ve slept on it, it’s a new day, I feel like can say that Sweet Despair is the best lore stream I’ve ever watched

[maybe-boys-do-love]

great men academy is the trans* fairytale i've been desperately craving. Love is literally out with lanterns looking for herself.

[ominous-faechild]

The simultaneous hilarity and tragedy of looking at a character whose arcs all center around "I feel so lonely and isolated and just wish I had someone to lean on" and deciding to ship them with the character I've been planning to kill from the beginning.

[luminarrow]

had lots of fun at the ttcc pride parade shoutouts to all the lesbians ❤️ (im boo boo snifflepaws!)

[halanikki]

“this book changed my life” and the book is a haikyuu x reader series fic that hasn’t been updated in years

[chiropteracupola]

tonight my excellent pal @baronetcoins got the dubious honor of watching me sprain my ankle in the silliest possible manner