#even if there’s so much on the horizon

[novelconcepts]

I Saw the TV Glow is such a uniquely, devastatingly queer story. Two queer kids trapped in suburbia. Both of them sensing something isn’t quite right with their lives. Both of them knowing that wrongness could kill them. One of them getting out, trying on new names, new places, new ways of being. Trying to claw her way to fully understanding herself, trying to grasp the true reality of her existence. Succeeding. Going back to help the other, to try so desperately to rescue an old friend, to show the path forward. Being called crazy. Because, to someone who hasn’t gotten out, even trying seems crazy. Feels crazy. Looks, on the surface, like dying.

And to have that other queer kid be so terrified of the internal revolution that is accepting himself that he inadvertently stays buried. Stays in a situation that will suffocate him. Choke the life out of him. Choke the joy out of him. Have him so terrified of possibly being crazy that he, instead, lives with a repression so extreme, it quite literally is killing him. And still, still, he apologizes for it. Apologizes over and over and over, to people who don’t see him. Who never have. Who never will. Because it’s better than being crazy. Because it’s safer than digging his way out. Killing the image everyone sees to rise again as something free and true and authentic. My god. My god, this movie. It shattered me.

[rugiadadelmare]

My hair has started to fray and break at the ends, funny how often times our physical health mirrors our mental health so closely

[nerdinsandals]

I wanted to see if I could draw Liko as a Gen 1 character! 💙

Instead of just changing the art style, I tried following the trends of the era to create a whole new design that looked believable for the time. For example, her outfit is based on Squirtle instead of Oshawott in this concept. :>

[Update: She has friends now!]

[sysig]

How far did you get? (Patreon)

[turtleblogatlast]

Thinking about how Leo says he uses his jokes to cope and y’know, thinking harder on it I think it may very well be because of what else uses one-liners and puns and that type of humor.

Specifically, 80’s action movies and campy sci-fi. Even more specifically, the protagonists of these.

So I can imagine why, exactly, Leo leans toward this brand of humor. It’s directly linked to things he loves! But even more than that is why I think it’s used as a coping mechanism.

In these genres, these quips tend to be said by the winner - or, if not a winner, then someone who will stay alive. So there’s a confidence behind them, an assurance, almost, that even if things go wrong, things aren’t ever too serious. There’s no bad endings here! It’s all good fun, even if the stakes seem high.

Leo canonically has been known to steer his brothers away from the more brutal villains and toward more fun, lighthearted activities and not-so-dangerous criminals. So for Leo, these jokes definitely make things less heavy, make the situations they find themselves in less intense.

It’s kinda not just coping, but also can be seen as a form of escapism. A safety blanket. A way for Leo to defuse the tension of knowing just how dangerous their lives are and replace that with a levity which implies that things will be okay.

Unfortunately, levity alone does not alter reality.

[usagifuyusummer]

Timmy with his found family your honour. *sobs furiously*

[berrysprouts]

at last, i see the light

[queerly-done]

Friede HeadCanons

Some small some big. I’m hyperfixating hard on this man!

Friede struggles to sleep without someone/something next to him because when he first got Charmander(pre-Charizard) he always let it sleep in his bed with him, and the behavior stuck with it as he and the pokemon grew up. When it evolved into a Charizard he didn’t have the heart to break the habit, and now for most of his life he’s had a pokemon lay next him or near him while he sleeps and he can’t sleep without one, or without someone. It could be as small as Captain or he could be laying on against Charizard.

Friede has ADHD, like hyperfixations on pokemon obviously but I feel he also really likes something obscure I’m not sure what yet.

He cant cook for shit. If he tried he would burn down the airship, he still wants to help so he watches Murdock hoping the skills will seep into his brain somehow

Keeps airtags or pokemon’s equivalent on everything he owns or he will loose it

Has no pain tolerance, he did get a tattoo though of the RVT logo and whined about it for far to long

As a kid he was always scuffed up, he needed constant monitoring or else he was a danger to himself. Like he broke his arms, his knees always had scrapes, he broke his nose.

He has scars from training with his pokemon and helping wild pokemon and dumb stuff he did as a child

He is a picky eater at least when it comes to veggies.

While he doesn’t see the the kids on the airship like his sons/daughters, he does see them as family but more like hid nieces and nephew

Gay very gay. Did you see the way he looked at Spinel? Gay.

If you want any other hc or anything else I’m happy to share. :3

[padmerrie]

There are two types of people.

[frog-with-no-therapy]

I want a spider X dcu but have Peter working at the league's base in space as a mechanic or a scientist, cause of course they will have the best material and information to help him make a way home. Except that Peter is weird.

Like, weird weird. Like, spider bite kind of weird with a hint of different culture from a different world kind of weird.

Listen most of his interactions with humans in their world is with them cause he's at the watchtower all the time, so his understanding of what is normal is a bit skew, and he probably also got used to acting more spidery, especially when in a lab or sm (courtesy of his time at the avenger tower where he doesn't really have to hide his spidery side)

Then you take into account him having a different kind of humour and a different set of memes and you have the whole justice league thinking he's secretly an alien

[sudden-memory-loss]

while I'm here late at night with no filter, I'm just gonna have a tiny little vent moment of like. god, I hate when I click on a youtube video that's like, "10 minutes of funny hermitcraft moments" and then it's just the same 5 clips of grian and mumbo included in every fucking compilation ever. watch other hermits!!!!! or, fuck, I don't care who you watch, but at least own up to it! if your compilation is just grian and mumbo and maybe scar, that's fine. just like, say that. don't make me watch it and realise halfway through.

[the-gentler-gamester]

I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING!

[tjerra14]

help

[cicadatree]

okinawa by @moxxie-crossing

DA: 5290-6446-9686

[rocketbirdie]

can you elaborate on your perception of sefikura (bc i trust your opinions)

i saw a tiktok this morning and i already saw some discourse about them before but now i really wanna know for myself if it's okay to ship them or if it's one of the problematic ships that i still like because the dynamic's too good/obvious/well-written/[insert other reason here]

so far i only have some kind of "they match each other's freak" and "opposite attracts" kinda vibe from them but i'd like to dwelve more on their relationship to see what else can i gather from all the information we have from all the different games

before i do though (which might be in a while bc i'm busy) i'd like your take on everything related to those two please please please 🙏

hoping you consider it, have a nice day!

of course it's fine! though it's not my preferred taste in ship, i definitely see the appeal of sefikura. most fans of sefikura love it for the very reason that it's freaky and quote unquote problematic. and enjoying it doesn't make you a bad person, despite what some random internet strangers might try to convince you. the dubcon themes and toxic abusive relationship that are common in the ship aren't a reflection of a person's morals, it's just a juicy dynamic between two of the most iconic video game characters of all time.

you see the words "problematic" "unethical" "gross" etc. thrown around in the context of fandom and shipping. especially with ffvii where ship wars are super common. don't let it get to your head. you like what you like, and you shouldn't let others police you about what you're supposedly "allowed" to enjoy. likewise, you can't change other people's minds about their interests, nor should you think it's your responsibility to shield someone else from something that might upset them.

it's not worth stressing over, especially when it comes to something as relatively tame as sefikura. TRUST me, in some fandoms it can get so much nastier than boring old sefikura lmao. the same holds true everywhere, just ship and let ship for the sake of your sanity.

[naranjapetrificada]

The first thing I should ever have said about Izzy and the last thing I intend to say until at least October 26th.

[Although I am not Her strongest soldier, so who knows if I will stick the landing.]

So to start with, I was a "late" arrival to the show. I knew it existed of course, but I only occasionally saw things that reminded me it existed. The first time I saw a mention of "grumpy/sunshine" it was with a picture of Ed and Stede, so I guess on some level I knew there was shipping going on, but that was literally all I knew. I didn't even know it involved Blackbeard lol.

Which is all to say that I first approached and watched season 1 removed from basically anything anyone had to say about it. I think what actually got me to watch it wasn't anything anyone had to say either, it was from youtube recommendations? Like I think I had watched a couple Taika interviews or something and ofmd stuff started showing up? So after catching a few clips and intentionally spoiling the kiss for myself (life is too short to be queerbaited) I watched it in April/May 2023, and was Changed by it the way so many other people were. It grabbed me so hard I started looking for fics, and when fic grabbed me even harder I became a regular tumblr user for the first time ever in June 2023.

What I didn't do, before the second half of 2023, was care particularly much about Izzy Hands.

I remember describing him as psychologically fascinating to the first IRL friend I talked to about the show, and joking that he just needed a good dom. As much as his decision to call in the navy was a threat to Stede's and Ed's lives, I saw his actions as part of a thing needed for the story, and while I knew he was one of the season's villains there wasn't really any heat behind that assessment.

For me he was there to set things in motion, and to serve the narrative in certain ways, to be a foil, more storytelling tool than man. That doesn't mean I didn't think Con did an excellent job adding layers to him, he absolutely made Izzy take up space and feel more present and textured than he otherwise might have. But when I began to zoom out and consider things on meta level, Izzy existed to do a certain thing or occupy a certain place in relation to the narrative and other characters more than anything else. And that was fine.

Then I started reading meta here, and found myself surrounded by passionate conversations about Izzy from many directions occurring with an intensity that I couldn't wrap my brain around. I saw people tying themselves into knots to justify and excuse the behavior of a textual antagonist, and I was baffled and because I still saw Izzy for what his role in the narrative was, it literally made no sense to see his behavior explained away. In the framework I brought to the fandom when I first arrived, trying to explain away Izzy's behavior would be like looking at a forest fire and trying to explain away processes like combustion and oxidation. Or if you'll allow me to borrow another extended, nature-based metaphor from a fic in an entirely different fandom:

Again, because from where my head was at, it didn't make sense to look at Izzy's morality as a zero sum game because in this metaphor, he was functionally just a brackish body of water. I'm not saying the morality is brackish, I'm saying the morality was literally not the point because like an estuary, an antagonist "must exist" because antagonists exist for specific reasons directly related to storytelling goals.

So there was no real heat behind my feelings about him or his actions, beyond the natural emotional reactions we have to characters and their behaviors before we zoom out. I was of course upset with his treatment of Lucius, which was targeted compared to other members of the crew. I was annoyed with the way he talked to and about Ed. I laughed when his plans had the equal and opposite results of what he intended, which you could argue happened with every single plan he made for the entirety of season 1. And yes, especially as a Black person living in the US, I felt the fear and betrayal that comes from seeing someone call the cops (which given the show and its writers, it does not feel like a stretch to describe calling the navy that). I wondered if there was any coming back from a choice like that, which is a big overriding question for the series as a whole.

I'm not here to debate any of the points in the previous paragraph. I know how I feel and you feel how you feel and there's already been so much said about the morality of it all by people who have explained themselves well, so let them convince you or not. Instead I've been trying to talk about the two sides of my experience before and after getting into the fandom with Izzy.

Before: Izzy Hands, Narratively Useful Antagonist Portrayed Compellingly And Effectively by Con O'Neill.

After: Izzy Hands, Unfortunate Avatar Of The Sadly Common Tendency For Certain Fans To Hyperfocus On A White Antagonist Or Secondary Character When There Already Exists A Protagonist They're A Foil Of (And Also It Looks Bad TO Do That When The Protagonist Is Someone With A Marginalized Identity).

I'm not here to argue the merits of those assessments either, because that's not the point. The point is the vast gulf between them and how the latter does such an incredible disservice to the Izzy we were given and that so many people claim to love. The latter comes from a place where morality is the focus, which I'm sorry y'all, feels like it originates with people who refuse to countenance Izzy's role in the story as well as his characterization.

Viewers who were willing to see Izzy as an antagonist, who don't view the word "antagonist" as a value judgement in and of itself, who don't think that finding an antagonist charismatic or compelling means anything about their own morality, those people can look at the show we were given and take it for what it was made to be. I'm not saying that it's only the Izzy stans (not enjoyers, not jar people) who start fights or that people who understand that Izzy is an antagonist don't also have deep morality related feelings about him and his actions in the first season. What I am saying is that sanding off Izzy's rough edges and trying to make him into something he isn't poisons even the possibility of having a discussion about him because people enter the conversation with two completely different understandings of reality. If you cannot accept the job that season 1 Izzy was given to do to move the story along, well you might as well have watched a completely different show for how much that fanon Izzy has anything to do with the canon one.

This show deserves better than that. The writers deserve better than that. Con O'Neill deserves better than that. Israel Basilica Hands deserves better than that. We all do.