#i haven't seen anyone else talk about it

[colourfulbookdragon]

!!!Warning spoilers for ducktales 2017 finally!!!

Webby: Am I technically your aunt?

Louie: No no no no No

Huey: I mean biologically, you are. Practically no.

Louie: Noooo, just no!

Bonus

Webby to the adult cousin: hello, fellow cousins.

*screaming who idk probably most of them*

[thebrokengate]

Um-

I'll take "Bill seeing Ford the same way Ford sees Bill" for $800, Alex.

[lorephobic]

literally nobody asked for it, but here's my list of saltburn essays that i've slowly been drafting over the course of the last week which WILL be required reading for anybody trying to engage with me about this movie. my very personal saltburn 101 syllabus just dropped

A Wolf in Deer's Clothing: Saltburn's Attempt at Innocence

an examination of party costumes and our character's last attempts to masquerade as something they're not: felix—an angel, all-forgiving and all-knowing, something to be worshiped; and oliver—a prey animal, prey to class-divide, prey to saltburn, prey to felix.

thoughts about oliver specifically are loosely organized in my #bambi tag

A Midsummer Night's Mare: Farleigh Start as the Ultimate Victim of Saltburn

a farleigh character study, about the ways he was mistreated and manipulated at saltburn, about fighting to stay alive and the scars left behind by knowing when to give in

alternatively titled "QuickStart", may be adapted into a conclusive essay specifically focusing on oliver and farleigh's relationship

The Eye of the Beholder: On Saltburn's Voyeurism & Violence [working title]

how wealth and class pushes the catton's toward the volatile reality of being able to look, but not touch. on desire and the lack thereof, and portraying yourself as an object to be desired

may end up as two separate essays on wealth and aestheticism but i'm pushing toward a conclusive essay about the intersection of the two, which i feel is at the heart of saltburn

alternatively titled "Poor Man's Pudding: A Melvillian Approach to Saltburn's Class", again, may be adapted into it's own essay

Gender-Fluid: A Study in Sexuality and Saltburn's Desire to be Dry

a deep dive into the bodily fluids of saltburn and how oliver upsets the standard of men who are just so lovely and dry. on the creative choice to lean into the messy wetness of sex and desire and the audience's instinct toward repulsion

a celebration of the grotesque and an examination of why we would label it as such

least developed of the four, heavily inspired by @charnelpit's lovely post about the fluids in saltburn

if anybody is actually interested in any of these, i can work toward something closer to a finished piece instead of just bullet points and quotes in a google doc, but mostly this is so i can share my very brief takes on a multitude of themes in saltburn that have been haunting me

edit for people seeing this in the future: all posts about my essays are being organized into my #saltburn 101 tag if you’re interested in following these through to development!

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

The first person that Kyoshi greets with words first was Hei-Ran and you just KNOW Rangi was fucking losing it (in love) on the inside. I'm surprise she didn't just call it for the night and yank Kyoshi away from the party right then and there. TT0TT

Like we call her a bottom but damn does she know to make her girl swoon

Kyoshi: *being the best daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law* Rangi: *legit fucking swooning*

[chipthekeeper]

like what if i actually had a phobia about this and wasn't just fucking annoyed to death? how is there not a way to get rid of this

um how do i get this creepy ass clown off my screen tumblr?????

[alexturner2005]

at red rocks night two at the beginning of mirrorball, one of the stagehands put alex's acoustic on a little mat on the stage floor, instead of on a stand like usual, and when alex went to reach for it and saw that it was lying on the floor, he laughed and kept gesturing to it and giggling through the first verse

[bi-hans]

how I sound trying to explain my theory for how/why bi-han will be both sub-zero and noob simultaneously in the future

[rubra-wav]

NSFW/18+

I saw this post drawing Vox as Patrick Bateman from American Psycho because he reminded the artist of him (which. Absolutely true.)

After seeing that, I've been having this reoccurring thought that Vox is also 100% the type to really like mirror sex.

Whether topping or bottoming (especially top tho), he would love to watch himself and you (especially himself, let's be so real) in it while fucking and God I refuse to doubt this for even a second 💀

[magbyfromspace]

I know that a lot of us in the ofmd fandom are so excited and just taken by the fact that Stede wrote a whole ass letter for Ed so he could read it some day and understand how Stede loves him and cherishes him and that's sweet and all but... can Ed even read?

Like, it's not a joke question.

We know that he comes from a poor family, one that could not afford nice things, they weren't "this kind of people". He ran and most probably began his life as a pirate as a young adult at latest. We know that he can count and play the piano so he probably had some education but we never see him reading. He only ever skims through books or looks at the pictures inside them (ex. one about himself). Ed MARVELS at the fact that Stede has read all the books he had in his little library for crying out loud!

There is one more scene where we see Ed theoretically read. When he signs the Act of Grace. But does he actually read it? No! The only thing he says is:

Nothing whatsoever about what is actually written, just how it looks. In addition, how does he sign it you may ask? With an X.

The way in which people who can't write and/or read tend to sign themselves.

So tldr; Stede wrote a letter Ed probably won't be able to read because he CAN'T and we have to struggle with sad gays™ once more (unless Jim can read in both Spanish and English or idk Izzy can read somehow).

Fuck.

[alto-tenure]

has anyone thought about Iris's brain cancer as much as I have.

according to Ota, "Invincible Rainbow Arrow" was written by Iris after visiting a kid in the hospital that had cancer. I don't necessarily think that it's false, but that definitely isn't the whole truth, and learning about Iris's diagnosis really puts that song into perspective.

"revolt!/even with death impending" really feels like Iris trying to muster some resistance for herself. she's trying to live. she's trying to make her own world better. death is coming for her, but she won't make it easy.

and she doesn't tell anyone about it either. to our knowledge, the only person who knew about Iris's diagnosis before the events of the game was her mother and the doctors she saw for it. none of Iris's friends knew. Renju might have, but it's unconfirmed. Iris kept it to herself -- she didn't want to be the idol with brain cancer. she wanted to be A-set.

Iris's joy and optimism aren't false, either: they come from a very real desire to keep going, to live through every moment. if she gives up, then she's giving in to the fact that her cancer is likely going to kill her, and her mental state is half the battle.

she was told that she was probably going to die, and her response to that was to carry on. to keep going with her purpose. she started A-set by hoping against hope, and she keeps A-set going by continuing to hope against hope.

[bookishjules]

cannot stop thinking about percy telling annabeth not to listen to him, only for her to suggest amplifying his voice by reaching out to his father. like this boy has been made aware again and again that he is not worth listening to. and yet here is this brilliant girl basically suggesting what he has to say is worth being heard by the gods.

[endlessfuckup]

i can die happy knowing they've seen frozen

[contrasting-realities]

Textless Backgrounds from the book of bill/website

Just two of them, put in 'dispense my treat' to download

[blortch]

Talking about sicko-sleuthing archived forums, there's this site called DeadLetterReader to flip through a couple of their old RLM forum posts making announcements and discussing videos (I forgot ENTIRELY how I found this). I think it might've been even made By them as Jay mentions having been fiddling with wordpress working on the site. redletterjay is Jay, redlettermike is Mike, and Rich is RedLetterRich As well as CSunkyst btw, named after one of their Oranges characters Captain Sunkyst.

[souji-upseta]

honestly andrew hussie is an absolutely brilliant visual storyteller. and just a brilliant artist overall. psycholonials is inspiring me to get back on the horse and draw again and go apeshit and experiment with color and composition and environment. just knowing what to use and when and how to balance what assets takes a lot of skill. people really don't give them enough credit. they're also amazing at transitions and animation.

keep in mind, this is a game where the characters often look like this:

and that most of the backgrounds are pixellated jpgs of either google earth satellite images of nantucket island, or the finest that google images has to offer. trust me—it works. and i stand by their philosophy about quick turnover 100%, because this game still manages to be god. damn. STUNNING. when it needs to be.

and appropriately crude and inscrutable when, say, what's being depicted is a pot full of boozy vomit on top of week-old leftover kraft mac and cheese, pfffft.

what's also brilliant is how unafraid they are to create visuals that are really fucking stupid. is that brilliant, or is it also just stupid? idk. i love it, either way.

[demelzathemer]

I've never been active in any fandoms, not really, but dbd is such a special thing I started writing posts and commenting on fics regularly, slowly changing from being a lonely lurker in the fandom space.

But now after the news, I feel even bigger need for community, I want to find my people, I want to participate. I'll follow all the blogs who are staying here and I'll keep commenting and interacting.

You can say hello in the notes if you feel the same. We can inspire and support each other to create our own content!

If you have any active/open discord servers, share the links, I know many people have the same longing for community. We can be that for each other!