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Have we talked yet about how some fans were claiming that Eddie reading the swimsuit magazine in 8x05 was absolute categorical proof he was 100% straight... He was clearly enjoying looking at all those sexy swimsuit models! Then, in 8x06, the narrative explicitly told us 'Actually, right now Eddie is subconsciously avoiding anything that brings him joy.' Y'know, directly after Eddie was in a room with a half-naked Buck, and immediately decided he had to look at pictures of women instead.

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they crave that mineral

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These pictures are killing me

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maybe the real reason for the falling popularity of tumblr for a while, combined with its revival in the last few years

is because nobody during the Trump era wanted to admit to have stolen their shoelaces from THAT president

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unexpected hazard of sightseeing in London: turning a corner and getting punched in the face with 2012-era tumblr fandom

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I keep wanting to call the show ‘A League of Our Own’ instead of ‘A League of Their Own’

and I couldn’t figure out why until I was like ‘i wonder if there any are fics for the show yet on AO3… ohhhHH wAiT thAT’s it’

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i think i really want a Leverage AU for OFMD

but it would be very important to me, that if we're assigning direct role equivalents Stede cANNOT be The Nate™. listen: he has to be The Sophie™

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People always say in fandom “let people like things!”

Allow me to argue in equal merit for “let people not like things”!

Thoughtful media criticism is valid, even if you happened to like what’s getting critiqued.

Heck, jokes and mild trash-talking when someone thinks something is badly done are also valid!

Yes, sometimes criticism can be disingenuous or bigoted, but frankly-equally so can uncritical & unconditional defenses of media.

Just… Can we not let people engage with & react to media however they want, without jumping to name-calling & assumptions of bad faith, if they’re not 100% on the positivity brigade?.

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Just had a dream that I was about to leave on a big trip.

But when I got to the airport, it turned out that my baggage was already too heavy, and so I’d have to unload some stuff before they let me on the plane.

BOY, I sure am glad that I don’t put much stock in dream symbolism, because that would be WAY too on-the-nose.

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the young wizards fandom: *sweats*

THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FUN/FUNNY POLL

POLL IS OPEN TO ANYONE IN THE QUEER COMMUNITY

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Listen:

I know Aziraphale probably doesn't understand technology enough for this to work but i love the idea of Crowley sending Aziraphale random memes as pranks over the years, & it always backfiring horribly

Crowley: *hits send, cackling*

Aziraphale, carefully typing the email: Dear Crowley,

The song you sent me on the you tube, “Taking the Hobbits to Isengard”, was surprisingly lovely for bebop. Thank you for reminding of my wonderful friendship with Tolkien, he was a terribly interesting man. 

Regards,

Aziraphale

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the more i learn about historical clothing the more period films and tv shows are ruined for me

like, i’ll be trying listen to, idk, some guy’s long existential monologue about how the people he loves are dead and i’m just sitting there like ‘who is this clown? LOWER MIDDLE CLASS? and HOW did he afford that much purple dye’

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sometimes i forget that other people aren’t as Online™ as me

like I was at the dining room table for dinner and referenced ‘that Swedish Christmas goat statue that always burns down’ and my parents had genuinely never heard of it, not even once

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Wow, that never clicked for me, but on reflection, it’s certainly… a choice.

*Especially* when you follow up with Karen talking to Hen about how she went to buy coffee and was unsuccessful, and had to scrounge some from the nurses. 👀

One of these things is not like the others...

Michael & Harry bringing pastries for everyone while Chimney was in the hospital | 2x13 Shannon bringing pizza for everyone while Chimney was in the hospital | 2x13 Eddie & Hen bringing coffees for Albert & Chimney while Buck was in the hospital | 6x11 Tommy bringing coffee only for him & Buck while Denny was in the hospital | 8x05

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I think the reason why A Knight’s Tale works SO WELL is they weren’t LAZY about anachronisms, they were DELIBERATE with them.

There are a lot of genuinely good historical details, to my relative untrained eye, mixed in with the soundtrack and the ladies in polyester with hair-spray.

I just saw this post (https://petermorwood.tumblr.com/post/189612872919/eregyrn-falls-lierdumoa-you-know-what-i-love) about female blacksmithing, and the medieval heraldry in the film, and that’s when I realized something:

If they hadn’t bothered to do any research, like many Hollywood movies, and EVERYTHING was anachronistic, then the humour and style of the anachronisms that did exist, would’ve been pointless and lost.

Instead, when the anachronisms crop up, they are there in SERVICE of plot or character, or to make the scene more emotionally resonant to a modern audience.

Many of the background extras and side characters, and even the main characters themselves, often dress relatively realistically to the time period, so when the love interest is in day-glo colours or hair-styles that are more 90s punk/red carpet, you know that’s SAYING something specific.

It’s saying ‘she’s different from the rest of them, she’s the one that your eyes should be drawn towards, in every moment, the way William’s eyes are’. It’s also notable that during their first real conversation, when neither of them really know each other, her outfit is arguably the MOST accurate to the era, with the head covering, and all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLFZcXeZymY&ab_channel=Movieclips

compared to when they dance, and she has a ridiculous hairstyle, sheer green sleeves and face make-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygNdTxoHus&ab_channel=Movieclips

Or consider the We Will Rock You scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hi8IWqic0U&ab_channel=killerkenny555

It WORKS because it’s not just a silly song with a bunch of people in cheap Party City polyester costumes in a dressed-up high school football field.

They put EFFORT into getting it right. So, watching the joust in what reads to me as relatively authentic period garb, with the peasants & soldiers looking believable dirty & lower class, with dyes and construction that would make a certain amount of sense in the era, on rickety wooden stands that look make of real logs, with real mud around them...

when they’re all suddenly singing We Will Rock You, it seems *real*, even though you know Freddy Mercury wouldn’t be born for another 600 years. You understand they are trying to convey how it would feel to be watching a joust, to be a real person in those stands. It’s taking an emotional moment that’s resonant to you, and translating that into the moment they’re trying to convey.

tl:dr The anachronisms aren’t a distraction from the authenticity, they are elevating the authenticity, by grounding the medieval experience in a metaphors that audience understands.

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reblog if you’re also queer,  neurodiverse, and neck deep in Special Interest Hell™ after watching Good Omens

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on an unrelated note about Russian Doll, do some of these reviewers know that Groundhog Day isn’t the only other piece of media to have ever used the time loop trope

because there are a lot