#holy SHIT !!!

[coolguysyndrom]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A PHOTO WHAT!!!!!

a study i did because i realized idk how to draw environments at all LMAO

a few people have asked, so this is a now a print <3

[a-man-in-the-crowd]

it's just occured to me the entirety of nevermore has happened within the span of like a week. it's been a week and the charas have experienced an entire season's worth of shenanigans this is CRAZY 😭

episodes 1 - 8: day one

episode 9 - 29: day two

episode 30 - 44: day three (this time period is ALSO when monty plots to kill lenore, meaning it took like a day of knowing her to decide this ☠️ also the same time they put duke in a wall)

episode 45 - 78: day four

episode 78 - 110: day five (i think??? bc everything in the cellar + staircase + garden happened in one morning, and then everything with the stag is happening in the middle of the night)

also presumably the rest of the stag arc also happens in day five

so in conclusion the entirety of nevermore season one + the first arc of season two takes place over the course of five days, and lowkey i'm laughing bc we're already analyzing them when we haven't even seen a month of these guys' lives (not to say we shouldn't, what's the fun in that??).

[r-jc]

what

[loveydovey489]

Gaz is the type of person to 1000% flirt with every single person. He’s close with.

TW: none!!

Like. Dose this come from that video someone made of a hypothetical scenario where ghost says:

“Make us a tea when we get back Garrick”

And he replied with,

“I’ll give you something else to swallow sir,”

Maybe. But I think this is so cannon, and I think he’s incredibly smooth and really clever with it , like, he has got all of them a-little bit red in the face at LEAST one time, his most frequent targets (victims), are soap, because he is SO easy to fluster and honestly? Nikolai.

Because Nikolai. Will say the most crude, outrageous. Despicable thing EVER. If Nikolai is ever on a mission and gaz is too. Its awful. And price has ordered them to stop. (Maybe he wants Nikolai to say those things to him?? Idk 👀)

I’m gonna take this a step further, and say he has a work wife / husband, maybe several? Definitely someone in medical, Farah and Alex?? Maybe one of them is ghost. Maybe?

Maybe that’s why soap has to do alot more work, because gaz is his precious little work husband and soap is really fun to bully. (He still loves him dw)

[cura-te-ipsum]

For anyone who didnt see it live or wants to see it again:

https://youtu.be/KDorKy-13ak?si=mzUOyWOP_PxZLUKG

A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic.

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[some1s-sista]

So this arrived this morning! Apparently a Xmas gift from Mini-Me. Y’all I don’t even know what to do. I haven’t had a working dishwasher in at least 7-8 years!

My hands are saved!

[edolin]

I'm genuinely so confused, like what? Red White and Blueland? Are we being punked right now? I feel like I'm in a Choose Your Own Adventure game and the player is purposely picking the bad end choices

[aquara-siragon]

Just went to an event with Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson as speakers and got the latter to sign my program and while I was at it I asked. It’s official y’all, EMILY FUCKING WILSON IS A FAN OF EPIC THE MUSICAL

[cholerascum]

uh

omg???

i just wanted to thank everyone thats commissioned me or otherwise just given me money since like. the start of the year.

when i started getting commissions i was running so out of money and very fast. i tried so hard to get even one commission. right before i started hrt, i became in charge of my life insurance my grammoms took out on me, so i cashed it out and had like. 2.7k to my name?

my meds costed like 100+ bucks a month, i switched to walmart, started costing like 25 a month, but then i finally got medicaid (which i shouldve started with), and now my meds are free. but by that point, i had less than 700 dollars. it is all i had. and i greatly feared running out, losing my medicaid, etc.

i just did the math. acting like i didnt spend the little bit i have, ive made like 600 bucks since january. if this keeps up im gonna have to start paying taxes. ive never had a real job, and ive certainly never had enough money to carry me or pay rent for enough time for me to actually live somewhere.

so like. thank you all. seriously. im actually gonna cry.

[knivesama]

It's a corset.

[storywonker]

They recorded tinnitus? It's a physical thing?????

[jeviisjeans]

he looks so good wtaf

SOMEBODY FUCKING SEDATE ME HES SO FINE WTF

(artist is linkim_2222eng on twt)

[jottingprosaist]

Lately I've seen a lot of people using "Star Trek ending" as a shorthand way of saying "cheesy 60s ending where all the characters get together and laugh at some shitty one-liner until the freezeframe in order to wrap things up with a neat breezy bow" and, well. They're not wrong... but that's only half the episodes.

The other half of the episodes end with you staring at the TV in haunted existential silence because the story's thesis was "Don't delude yourself that waging war with technology is any less brutal than committing murder with your bare hands. You are a mortal and an animal like any other and if you think you have a justified reason to kill you had better be prepared to face your enemy, and recognize him as an intelligent equal, and smash in his skull with a rock."

[osmanthusoolong]

Jesus fucking Christ

[angrykitten69]

[russenoire]

GO HARD OR GO HOME.