#hope this is comprehensible LOL

[abisalli]

Doodle request of Tim still struggling to relax on thanksgiving break with his family and attempting to still do work

Thanksgiving at Wayne Manor :)

[fsheryy]

he said it !!! that's the name of the show what !!!!!!

anyway silly idea that popped into my head what if the Ninja unknowingly already came across Jay and smth resurfaces in him

[bugbrush]

just for a while

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Hello! You said something in your tags in a reblog on my post, and I wanted to hear more about it (but don't really know how to respond to something people say in tags 😭).

You referred to the concept of a Feminized Jewish Man. I don't know much about that trope - though one person told me about an antisemitic myth that cis Jewish men mestruate, if that's related!

So if you're willing, I'd love to hear you elaborate on that, if not, no worries and have a good day!

They were correct - that was (and is) a very common antisemitic trope. I don't want to include it here, but some old Nazi-era propaganda depicted jewish men with breasts in addition to the other common racist tropes of the era, for example. It was (and, again, is) common for people to depict jewish men as being feminine in mind, body, and spirit.

I do want to elaborate by saying that I am by no means an expert on this, and much of my knowledge comes from being in jewish communities and direct experiences. However, there is still a prominent practice of portraying jewish men in demeaning ways that rely on the idea of femininity being degrading and dehumanizing all the while being intrinsic to the Jewish Man. Nowadays, it is often... more subtle than depicting a jewish man with breasts, but it still absolutely exists

This is honestly why I dislike when people portray trans experience as being inherently incomprehensible to cis people. When jewish men are feminized, it is done with the same level hatred that I have experienced for being trans. I've found that many jewish spaces I have been in have more sensitive about gender specifically (in general) for many reasons. There are way too many potential reasons to list, but I think it could potentially stem from the antisemitic, racist ways that antisemites will weaponize femininity and masculinity against whomever it will hurt most.

[blazingmoltres]

“Red is the sun, Blue is the moon” “Blue is the sun and Red is the moon-“

OKAY, but what if Red and Blue are the moon and the sea??? What if the moon is seen as quiet and mysterious, while the waves can crash and sway?? What if the sea is always reaching for the moon but is never able to quite make it there?? What if the moon gets to be so high and ethereal while the sea’s insecurities keep it tethered to the ground-?? What if the moon is a lonely figure, unable to reach the Earth and Sea because they’re forced to be the moon?? What if the storms block the moon and seas from even seeing each other??? What if the moon influences the ocean to change and adapt??

What then fuckface??

[transgendercastiel]

[hypermascbishounen]

There's a deep irony in Berserk being so admired by people who really really hate what Berserk is about on an emotional level, but especially when writers want to take influence from it. Because Berserk is very strong thematically, and someone who can't acknowledge subtext is going to whiff on emulating anything good.

[televised-eyes]

i’ve referred to this idea in a previous post but i want to explore it more here. it’s more of a theoretical question:

what if crowley is so devastated and lonely following the events of season 2, he decides to go back to hell and takes over beelzebub’s position out of spite?

to be clear i’m certainly not saying this is what i want to see happen! but what if…

and i’m not saying crowley would be The Villain of the story in this alternative universe. i think the metatron has been established as such in the final fifteen

but given the stress and trauma crowley experienced in his past, on top of “losing” aziraphale, he has been placed in an incredibly vulnerable position and he might not be thinking straight. he is “disaster-coded” after all…

here’s some points and counterpoints i’ve come up with for some possible arguments:

“cons”

crowley stated he doesn’t want to go back to hell

he would be positioning himself against aziraphale and i do believe crowley’s natural instinct is to protect his angel

good omens is a comedy at heart. did the end of season 2 hurt? yes but it was also a cliffhanger to keep the viewer guessing and wanting more. comedies have happy endings and a tragic ending to this story would feel like a betrayal to the source material

it would shatter my heart into a million pieces

“pros”

aziraphale also didn’t want to go back to heaven but he was compelled by overwhelming outside sources. the same could apply to crowley

crowley was clearly hurt by aziraphale once again “rejecting” him. he might feel hopeless and cornered, even spiteful. snakes lash out when in survival mode. crowley is a demon after all and thwarting heaven must be as natural to him as protecting aziraphale. it might all come to a head

good omens is a comedy at heart but it’s also a dark comedy with dramatic elements. conflict drives a story. aziraphale and crowley are at conflict right now and how has that manifested itself in the past?

seeing aziraphale and crowley battling it out would make for great tv

at the end of the day, i wholeheartedly believe aziraphale and crowley will reunite stronger than ever but there’s no doubt there’ll be major road bumps along the way

again i’m not saying this is what i think will happen or that i want it to happen. crowley could also run off and spend most of season 3 in alpha centuri! as neil says we’ll have to wait and see

[slavhew]

Hello!

If you're not too busy, would you mind listing some of the things you think count as death flags for Mr. Spender?

There's the obvious fact that he's the "old" mentor to group of young protagonists, but what else do you think would count?

OHH BOY ok so I'd think I'm a crackpot for this but since we're talking about Zack "Foreshadowing" Morrison. I have some thoughts

No harm in leading with the (chronologically) first thing that jumped out at me:

This one IMMEDIATELY made me antsy whenever I came back to it after my initial read, and considering Zack has referred to it on twitter in the past as one of their favorite jokes it's definitely not been forgotten about.

Second, the sheer amounts of near-misses, jokey or not, of Spender narrowly avoiding specifically lightning

Again, not much, but it's weird that it happened thrice, latter two of which had real gravitas rather than an one-off joke.

And third, Spender himself. He's repeatedly shown himself to be kind of a self sacrificing idiot, as well as prideful to a fault. Granted, it's both him and Mina trying to take on all the responsibility of saving Mayview and its inhabitants from their fate.. But Spender is exactly that right measure of doesn't-value-himself-enough (chest footprint aftercare or lack thereof), having an obscene amount of power (enables his loner act + pride) and poor judgement that has the capacity to put him at great risk. And it has!

Spender has not only shown low enough self-esteem to view himself as the de-facto scapegoat for the safety of the town, but also prideful enough to make very bad calls that end up in people, often himself, hurt (COUGH FORGE INCIDENT COUGH)

This is all conjecture, but it's definitely enough to make me worried about him :') Even if all this doesn't mean he'll necessarily die he's definitely getting (even more) seriously injured at some point. I love the guy but he's so far doing a horrible job of convincing me he wants to live bad enough to circumvent at least that

[verflares]

nothing more frustrating than playing New Video Game and/or digesting new media in general and you're like "mmmm this is kinda bad/boring. honestly." so out of curiosity you look up to see if anybody else feels this way but you are instead greeted with if you think anything about this is bad or boring you need to be put in front of a firing squad

[weggggs]

So, Empire of Death- loved most of the episode, but it seems like a lot of people dislike the end. While I don't exactly hate the ending, I do have some issues with it...

I have no problem with Ruby's mother being an ordinary human; as predictable as it is, I think the theme of "imagined importance" in the episode helps it stick the landing.

I've also seen people complaining about Sutekh being defeated too easily. In the moment, I was actually fine with how he was defeated because of the trade-off; Ruby wanted to know who her mother was all her life, but in the process of defeating Sutekh, she tossed out the only thing she had that could tell her who she was. Maybe not the most dramatic ending, but a decent way to wrap up her arc.

The mixed feelings for me come in with Ruby finding her mother afterwards. It feels really contrived. It feels like RTD just slapped on the "perfect ending" for everyone here.

And it also comes out of nowhere, because just about 5 minutes before, we had Ruby take her only key to finding her mother and smash it against the floor. I thought that could have been the point where she finally let go, or at least made her peace with not knowing. In fact, that was exactly what I thought would happen from the very start of S14.

At the very least, they could have kept it more open-ended or ambiguous. Or maybe they could have done with just the reunion. But the whole family get-together afterwards, with Ruby even finding her dad, it really felt like the show's trying to have it's cake and eat it too.

Otherwise, pretty good episode though

[b4kuch1n]

wizard looking for a way home (aka wizard of dark space)

[fedoraspooky]

I haven’t been here long. What irritating changes have been made?

Credit where it's due, some changes have been good, like polls and stuff! But the big recent changes thus far that I would classify as irritating are:

- The UI change. This one may be less irritating for newcomers because it's basically the same layout as twitter and instagram, but for a lot of folks who've been here a long time, it feels cramped and like a loss of identity for the site. For many, the appeal of tumblr is that it ISN'T an algorithm hell like twitter or insta. Also, there's the annoyance of having to relearn where everything is, because it all got moved around.

- The users being lab rats for various tests the devs wanna pull out of nowhere without consenting to beta testing new site features- like the one that took away user icons on the dash for like half the site. They finally put them back after getting enough feedback that said NO, but users were so used to their feedback being disregarded that they were half expecting the change to be pushed through anyway.

- The Netflix tie-in advertising being pushed even to people who had PAID tumblr for a no-ads experience. Complete with them somehow thinking it would be a good idea to put an unescapable-by-scrolling spooky clown on peoples' dashboards that u had to use ublock to get rid of. While I'm not scared of clowns and often find them quite charming, it sucks that staff didn't take coulrophobia being a common fear into account.

- A wave of fully sfw trans posts being wrongfully marked Mature and staff doing little to nothing about it. Not sure if this is still ongoing, but it destroyed a lot of trust and good will. (LGBT+ users have been having to fight a constant war against censorship ever since the adult content ban on tumblr, so yeah... Nevar 4get the list of banned search words that would bring back no results, like 'girl')

- The site gradually moving away from customization. Tumblr is a BLOGGING site. But it seems to have lost sight of that fact, because most new users don't even know you can fully customize your blogs with css and stuff (an option that is now off by default for new accounts!), because of the in-dash viewer giving you only how blogs look on mobile, which is a lot more uniform. There, it's more like every other site- you get a banner and icon. Oh, but you can change colors and fonts from a drop-down list too, that's cool I guess. Though they recently took away custom color schemes on Message windows, just another little bit of personalization taken away.

- TUMBLR. LIVE. Basically tumblr teamed up with a skeevy dating app partner to allow for livestreams- but not the cool kinda livestreams like on twitch where you can draw or play games, no- to a site full of people who value anonymity, they decided to push phone cam only livestreams. Not only that but by agreeing to the terms, you're giving out tons of personal data including your location to said skeevy dating app partner and all of THEIR third-party ad partners. Needless to say, most people didn't wanna use it, so instead of users it's flooded by p*rn bots (which is ANOTHER issue we've been dealing with for a long time and have been getting an even bigger influx of FROM tumblr live) and scammers. And thus, since tumblr likes to put a carousel of current streams on people's dashes, you often get softcore p*rn thumbnails from the bot streams with no way to avoid it except for toggling off tumblr live entirely.

- Oh wait. That's right. You CAN'T toggle it off. Because you can only snooze it for a while until BAM, you're jumpscared by a carousel of ladies licking your screen again! But hey, at least they made the snooze 30 days instead of the 7 it used to be, right? Yeah, except for the fact that you can't get rid of the tumblr live button itself on the app anymore, and now it's front and center with a NEW notification tag on it, overlapping your dash and cramming useful stuff like the search button out of the way.

NOW- A lot of this stuff CAN be at least mostly fixed on desktop by installing ublock and xkit and tampermonkey + dashboard unfucker... But that's a lot of stuff just to make the site usable, you know?

[adamnablelittledevil]

I don't see Emma D'Arcy playing Gabrielle because they're too young and on HOTD already, I don't think the schedules would work. Still, they're actually a great actor and one of the few non-binary performers we have AND Gabrielle is a gender nonconforming character, so this is one of the few fancasts of 30yos that have some logic? Yeah, it's not realistic, it will probably never happen and it's okay, but there's nothing crazy in wanting a talented non-binary actor playing a good gnc character.

[simplydm]

do you have any tips on writing xb? im new to watching him this season and dont have a great grasp on his vibes yet.

-xB is fairly quiet. He speaks a lot with his actions, sometimes perferring bow shots and sneaking as opposed to calling out. Also, he’s generally quieter in group settings, but will make snide remarks. He will sometimes stop talking and just listen or look at something to emphasize it.

-writing his speaking patterns gets a lot easier when you realize that half his vocabulary is “bruh, breh, man, suck it, son of a-, guy” etc. honestly, throwing those in will add a lot, especially to distinguish his tone from other characters.

-xB is very sarcastic and quick-witted. Very sarcastic. He makes a lot of dirty jokes and innuendos- he’s more flirty then most people think.

-when I write xB, I tend to think of him as someone who really loves to be adored- not even necessarily in a shippy way, he just really likes being around his friends and likes being fawned on, if that makes sense.

-he likes to play tricks and pranks, but ultimately is too nice to be really mean. He loved to give people presents, like diamonds, sets of tools and armor, etc.

-in his most recent stream or video I can’t remember which, he said that he doesn’t use people’s “real names” if he knows them, which is why he calls Joel “Beans”. So he will always call ppl by their usernames

-xB giggles a lot. Like, at everything. Very giggly guy.

In conclusion, xB has a very chilled chaos kind of vibe. He’s alert but not trigger happy, unless it’s one of his dear friends. He likes to cause problems but pay back ten-fold. As a new xB watcher like you said, I’d just keep watching his videos! He has a very distinct speaking style and vibe. If you’re looking for specific videos, I’d recommend his hermitcraft s9 videos when he’s alone on the server, because all he can talk to is himself and Keralison. Also there’s “lore” there lol.

I’m sure I forgot a thousand things, so if anyone else has tip plz add them, but good luck with your writing! I’m sure it’ll be fantastic! :D

[ofcowardiceandkings]

seeing a devastatingly stupid youtube comment and letting the gremlin in your brain who likes to argue on the internet out of its house