#i am beside myself

[daddy-joel-miller]

"Frank is the flowers, and Bill is the soil." -Nick Offerman

[spirk-trek]

Galactic Discourse Fanzine (1977-1987)

Monopoly: Merle Decker, 1980 || At Ease: Nan Lewis, 1980 || Sledding: Toni Hardeman, 1983 || Pillow Fight: TACS, 1987 || Sand Castles: ERIC, 1987

[colinfeatherington]

just found out that they filmed colin’s reaction to pen and debling dancing by taking away everyone in the room till it was just pen and debling dancing by themselves and that was what luke reacted to and I need netflix to release that footage yesterday I am so serious we need to bully them till we get it

[starqueensthings]

Plan 99: The Sacrifice

[howdoyousleep3]

Husband just had me fighting for my life during sex it was incredible

[critter-of-habit]

🙌 SHORT HAIR YELENAAA 🙌

[tixdixl]

Ever since I noticed the different ways Vil signals her gender identity and gender presentation in the original Japanese, the more and more I wish that there was a way for us to get a complete revision of Book 5 where the nuances of Epel's cultural identity, Vil's gender presentation, and the ways the two clash in cultural understandings and ideals are ACTUALLY demonstrated in the localization for English only readers. Because they aren't. Vil's gender presentation and Epel's cultural rootedness are both watered down and erased from the English. And what's worse is watching both turn into superficial charicatures of their intended design, in order to accommodate an uninformed Western audience.

With Epel's very specific rural understanding of masculinity and feminity, and Vil's urban, gender-nonconforming understanding of masculinity and feminity, we have an incredibly nuanced and intersectional conversation about self-realization. And English only fans get to see none of it.

Of COURSE Epel is rejective of Vil's expectation of embracing feminitiy. He's a cis male who grew up likely in the rural country side, with hints of rural, possibly rural Osakan dialect in his dialogue. Of COURSE his expectations of masculinity and feminity clash with Vil, a femme non-binary person who is both an idol/celebrity and who has lived her entire life in urban settings. He likely has deep seated misogyny that he has to contend with. He likely has deep seated transphobia that he has to contend with. It's not that he himself is dysphoric; it's that his expectations of masculinity, his tate shakai, and his understanding of collectivism reject and clash with a sub-culture that permits and encourages the exploration of self expression, and views those forms of self realization AS maintaining the collectivist status quo, rather than violating it. When his understanding of self-realization dictates he must be and act a certain way as to not break the collectivist status quo, of course, Epel looks at Vil and thinks that what she is asking him to do is uncomfortable.

Of COURSE Vil sees Epel's rural world view and wishes to challenge him on it. Of COURSE she also FAILS to understand his perspective and find it irritating and uncouthed. She ALSO has biases against rural cultures, as indicative by her dialogue and Tokyo dialect. It's not that she wants Epel to "become girly", but rather that she wants to see him fit in and join the mold of Pomefiore. Because in Pomefiore and in the idol world, ruralisms and a rooted rural identity clash with the status quo. Her understanding of the collectivist culture and mindset within the dorm and within her culture dictate that HE is the one stepping out of line... all while he believes SHE is the one stepping out of line.

There are just so many layers here, and without any help from the localization, nor cultural understandings of the values and norms that inform the writing of this game.... of course. Of course Book 5 is watered down.

[xoxoemynn]

I see that you’re having a day so I’m here to say hi, I love you, and that I routinely think about how Where the Daylight Begins is the fic that changed my brain chemistry to the point that I started writing long comments because you packed so many beautiful things into each chapter and I just had to talk about it and tell you that I was having the best time reading it! Thank you for writing and sharing it along with all your other stories!! I hope you have a better rest of your day and the rest of the week is good to you 💗💗💗

CAROLINE I AM 😭😭😭😭😭.

Ugh that just means so much to me. One, just because that fic is so special to me and is probably the one I'm the most vulnerable about? So hearing it impacted you that strongly makes my heart swell. But two, and even more importantly, the fact that you are one of the ELITE commenters in this fandom, like I think there are so many of us whose eyes just well up the second we see you've left a comment and the fact that something I wrote inspired you to be the kind of person who leaves such long, gorgeous, heartfelt comments, I'm just 🥹

That's just what fandom's all about, right? Just people who love the show and its characters so much that they need to have more of it, and then people turning that love back at them, and all that love just grows bigger and more magical and it all builds upon itself and it just matters so much.

Ough, thank you so much, friend. I am cursing the fact we are connected only through screens because there's no way to capture how I saw this image and just started wailing and ugly crying (positive) for an eternity before I was able to even form a semi-coherent response. But this image kind of comes close?

Love you, hugging you, sending you wishes that your pillow always be cold and that there's always an extra $20 in your pocket and that your tummy lets you eat all the sweet treats you want and your head is never hurty and you get absolutely everything you could ever possibly want because that's what you deserve. 💕

[spinsterennui]

Oliver is having a rough time. I’m so upset. He was doing so well and then last night and today he’s had a lot of issues. I’m so worried bc he’s probably going to need surgery and he’s so old. Plus my vet is out of town, of course.

[zareleonis]

furina is so so transgender the most transgender

[waitineedaname]

the masters program I was going for has been canceled

[sixpomseeds]

begging square enix to take a step back during development and actually see which characters have chemistry and a compelling dynamic and HAVE THEM KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE

[alectoperdita]

the fact that she knew about his injury because they fought in the sixth loop. this scar that he assiduously hides. and SHE! is the only other person who has injured him! across his face where everyone would see in the sixth loop! i’m unwell

the mood tonight: 🥴🤪

brain: secret scar secret scar secret scar secret scar secret scar that reveals a weakness in his swordplay which is why she aimed her broken blade at that side of his neck in the 6th loop she was also going for the killing blow

We're all unwell.

[lipstickmarks]

OH MY GOD 😭😭😭😭

I’m deep in an Addams Family hyperfixation, specifically the 1964 series and last night I was all but crying at how sweet Gomez and Morticia are. I was digging on Pinterest and saw someone say that John Astin confirmed they had feelings for each other so I googled it and found THIS

[moonlitlex]

shut the fuck up no fucking WAY that RENTING monkey man on youtube is fucking sixteen dollars??? girl its on in my local theatre for like six bucks??? tf?? there used to be a time when i could buy a dvd for sixteen bucks. we used to be a country

[coeur-feyrac]

Kyle Adams is off les mis for a WEEK??? i was going to get a rush ticket to see it on Wednesday and stage door 😭😭😭

I’m a little curious as to how the understudies will do, and i’m tempted to go anyways - but, Kyle 😭😭😭😭😭😭