#engagement videos

[amandaanddonnie]

fall festival, grilling, GOT ENGAGED💍

[geryone]

The Instagram reel romance book pitches are getting so outrageous like how am I not supposed to laugh at this??

[retrogamingblog2]

Animal Crossing marriage proposal 15 years later

[vampmilf]

dont get me wrong, clowing on trump for trying to buy greenland is fun and all and we all love a good meme, but i think a lot of it also misses a major point

denmark countering the offer and saying they want to buy america instead, and essentially telling trump "fuck off, greenland will always belong to denmark" isnt that funny anymore when you remember that greenland, and its native people, have been colonised by several nordic countries and lastly denmark, and denmark saying it will "always be part of us" is continuing said colonisation. theres a long history of forcing natives from their homes and from their land, forced sterilisation for controlling the native population and instead fill the country with settlers, forcibly relocating children to denmark to raise them speaking a different language, follow a different religion, lose their own culture.

native greenlanders have been trying for years to gain complete independence from their colonisers so denmark can also fuck right off with their "greenland will always be ours" bullshit.

i just saw a video from a dutch politician joking about taking back new york and revive their old colony there under the name "new amsterdam", turning the trump tower into a red light district, etc etc and sure, thats a little funny, but again: a colony. sure, the dutch werent the biggest most famous offernders in north america but that doesnt mean they werent offenders at all. native americans suffered under them just as much, still had their land stolen from them by the dutch, had their children taken and their rights stripped away.

the dutch didnt only bring settlers with them, they also brought slaves, many of them, yet another group of people that was taken from their native lands and forced into labour in absolutely subhuman conditions. joking about reviving a colony isnt as funny as some people seem to think it is for the sake of a funny 60 second clip.

when you see videos or memes of people clowning on trump buying greenland, ask yourself who really is the butt of the joke here and remember that greenland will always belong to the greenlanders. hopefully we will see them gain independence from denmark in our lifetime.

[arishnea]

"My friends told me it doesn't matter where you're from. What's important is how you live. How you live and what you do shape your future. So... who do you want to become?"

Fire Emblem Engage as a trans allegory makes my heart full.

[blueskittlesart]

in the nicest and most non-confrontational way possible. i feel like some of you think that anything that isn't directly openly spelled out for you within a story is "missed potential" or "unexplored." like. sometimes there are implied narratives. sometimes the point is that you as the reader are supposed to think and draw your own conclusions and participate in the story. the writers not directly spelling every little detail out for you doesn't mean that the story is poorly written or missed its own plot details somehow. PLEASE.

[felikatze]

i feel like. the more i like and care about something. the less i am capable of watching video essays about it. game i never heard of and don't intend to ever play? sure i'll watch 8hrs discussing it's flaws.

but thing i like? if you think you can point out flaws i'm not already aware of, you are dead wrong. none know better how much my interests suck than me.

and also. if you get one thing wrong about them i'll maul you. with things i like it means i've already seen every single piss on the poor take of it ever, and i'm much more polarized. i got emotional investment. i'm going to start biting people.

[transfemmbeatrice]

taskmaster contestants ask you things......... TWO (part one)

[youcantrewind]

This is an outrage. I am outraged.

[the-kipsabian]

saw a take so fucking rancid on twitter i almost deleted the entire app from my phone jesus fucking christ

first of all ao3 is an archive site. this is like going to the library and saying "oh i dont like this" on every piece of media you find that you dislike and thinking they should be stamped with some sort of a marker just cause you didnt like it

you can always click back and leave. fic writers owe you nothing to explain themselves and their creations. if they have mistagged or miscategorized fics, then i understand, however there are report tools for that instead of yelling at the artist tbh

im not saying free works arent necessarily above criticism. but this is just. fucking wild. its common courtesy to just enjoy stuff (or fucking leave if you dont, the back button is free) and if the artist specifically asks for critiques, then give one - constructive that is, shitting all over someones work is not proper criticism, mind you

i just find it fucking wild people are treating art and archive sites as social media these days like this and everything needs to be policed and ~catered to the algorithm~ like. no. ao3 doesnt have an algorithm. you should be able to fucking tell what you like and what you dont like and steer away from that kind of content and let people fucking be with their art. they dont owe you anything (except trigger warnings i'd argue, but i know some people disagree with that as well for some reason), and imagine how much more energy you'd have if you only engaged with things you liked and spent time looking at instead of going to places where you dont enjoy yourself. let alone spending time telling other people you dont enjoy what they enjoy. what a fucking life

[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS THING IS SCUUUFFED AS HELL & ITS ALSO THE BEST THING I HAVE ANIMATED THUS FAR. IM SO IN LOVE WITH EMIZEL. JUST WISH I GAVE HIM MORE STUPID TATTOOS. NEXT TIME THO. NEXT TIME. I ALSO LOVE VEX&VIV SOOOO MUCH. charlies flavor of Deranged is my FAVORITE!!

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Lackadaisy Enrichment

[bruthamance-reincarnated]

What a big inspiration it is to live in a world where a black openly gay Texas elected representative can propose to his partner at the State Capital and their love be celebrated 🥹🤎

[kpopulr]

Absence (ช่องว่างหัวใจ) - Mew Suppasit [Official MV]

[they-call-me-hippie]

"Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil"

Hanna Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"