#i really dont mean all women but if you think all women are wired for deep self-reflection its like why are white women like that

[emeticheremetic]

alas, i cant make this joke about this gender brain study thats going around. because of woke

[runthepockets]

abt your men being proverbially shit on post: i mean i agree sorta, bioessentialism is unhelpful and hurtful, and rn you see a lot of shit from cis women abt how men cant help but be bad people etc. and that kinda shit is not helpful at all. but i agree w the person who replied to that post too. i mean i wouldnt make a joke like "i hate men" to a dude's face bc it's unhelpful in the same way i wouldn't say i hate white people to a random white person's face, but like. yknow? i dont know specifically what example you're thinking of but i would pretty confidently say there IS a difference between how women talk abt men and how men talk abt women. i agree that it's unhelpful for them and YOURSELF to genuinely earnestly think men are genetically unable to be better bc it just. isn't true. but i would definitely say misogyny and "i hate men" are different. again though idk what example you're using here, but just like... when i walk around as a woman, and even when i walk around as a man, i see like every third guy talkin crazy shit on how Fundamentally Different women are from men and women are This horrible thing and women are That horrible thing and women Can't Help But Be Crazy and when i talk to women all i get are "well he's a man. he's stupid." and usually that doesn't read as bioessentialism, it reads as tiredness from dealing with misogyny all the time. so i agree to an extent, bioessentialism is an issue, and all the "feminine energy astrology balanced by male aggressiveness and men can't help but be stupid people because their brains are wired differently" are contributing to a worsening of some kind, but also i don't know that i'm seeing more manhate than i am misogyny, still to this day, and i am able to opporate socially as both a man and a woman so i see both sides pretty frequently. i feel like you have a specific example you're thinking of that i don't know, because all i can think of are the times i've personally seen men freak out and do shitty stuff because they know a woman who doesn't feel safe around men that they are close to, and both are really horrible about communication, which is a two part thing and a lot more complicated than just random negativity

I don't think I said manhate is more common than misogyny, and I'm sorry if I did because that's not really what I was going for. The point of that post was more to point out the hypocrisy of taking low blows at men while women doing the same thing gets crickets and tumbleweeds. Maybe you haven't experienced this, but I certainly have as a man. Just as there's things I can do that are easier for me to get away with as a dude, there are things chicks can get away with easier than I ever could.

I don't really think the way different genders talk about each other is that different, pre transition I heard women talk crazy shit about dudes, about how we can't control our sex drives and how we're useless if we don't make enough money, and tbh I don't really see how "he can't help being dumb and useless, he's a man" is any less of a meanspirited generalization than "she can't help being oversensitive and hysterical, she's a woman." It's both generalizing stereotypes that are, on some level, hurtful to the demographic they're being hurled at. There's plenty of men who have greivances with abusive and shitty women and we (RE: LEFTIST SPACES) don't let them speak poorly of women, so why is it ok in these same spaces to let women say whatever just cus of their trauma? It's like you say, respect is a two way street. I'm not listening to anyone who makes blind assumptions about me because of my gender and presentation.

I'm going to parrot my friend's reply as well: I don't think a lot of this is "just venting", I don't think making generalizations and saying cruel things about 50% of the population exists in a vaccuum. And even if it did, I still think I'm allowed to say "hey, it hurts my feelings when you say I'm dumb and useless", because at the end of the day you can't deny feelings.

I'm glad you don't say shitty things about men to their faces, but women have done those things to me so you can't speak for all of them. I've been called a moid and told I wouldn't get respect until I "stopped raping and killing women and children" even though I've never put my hands on a woman or child in any way that could be described as anything short of "platonic and consensual". I've been told that I'm not allowed to feel hurt and upset when women verbally abuse me because women are saints who can do no wrong, because they're lower on the social pecking order than me, because other men are nasty and cruel so I have to suck it up and take one for the team. I think people only think this stuff is "harmless venting" because they don't actually realize how biased their perceptions of men and masculinity are. I've had many trans men who can testify to my experiences word for word going as far back as the 70s in the very queer and feminist spaces that I've been bitching about for the past 3 years. So while I don't think institutional misandry is real, or anything, while I don't think women are at fault for being annoyed with how shitty we can be, I do definitely think prejudice is real and I think it's dished out rather unfairly and uncritically.

[limeade-l3sbian]

Please please please dont judge me.

So prior to discovering radfeminism I thought sex work was cool and all and whatever. My best friend lives in a different country she needed money for rent and stuff and i jokingly said like sell feet pics.

She told me one of her bosses like offered to pay for groceries and internet bills and like ever since then he started getting pushy with her and like asking to come inside and I got like this fucking pit in my stomach. I told her id wire her any amount of money she needed (i was broke as hell but i just had to do smth).

And like when i used to say I'm pro sex work i genuinely meant it like i just meant women are free to use their bodies however they please and if they got money from it who cares but then like my best friend thinking of sleeping with him even if she didnt want to as a last resort to not be homeless made me realize that if sex work was empowering and feminist it wouldn't be seen as a last resort thing like elon musk, bozos Zuckerberg and the likes would dominate the sex industry.

So i just felt so guilty for having that mindset but i was just so confused because every woman around me was like yeah sex work is great and empowering and you can get 10k in a month just by having sex etc. So I just felt guilty bc I had negative opinions about sex work.

It's only after I discovered rad feminism that I allowed myself to hate the sex industry.

I don't think it's worth the energy of feeling bad for having thought that. One, because you aren't immune to propaganda. But secondly, like most people who shout pro-sex work, you were coming from a genuinely good place. I think you have a leg up on a lot of people who do support it because when you saw a real-life situation of what that usually means and didn't encourage your friend or brush off her clearly coerced experience as "just one story."

I personally take umbrage with the people who dangerously decide to only listen to the "fun" stories instead of the women who tell them, "Hey, this really affected me in a way that I am still working through." Then, yeah, I judge and I think you're a piece of shit.

You just want women's liberation. Like the rest of us do.

[alvie-pines]

Ok so I mean no disrespect, I'm genuinely curious.

What is the draw of objectium? (I can't spell)

I'm questioning if I'm into that, and I'm not really sure what it means (other than like the textbook definition)

Of course I know it's different for everyone but I'd love to have your insight

the draw? thats a good question....

for me, im just attracted to objects (mainly machines) in the same way im attracted to women. i love curves and breasts. i love wires and hydraulics. like if u think the woman on the right is just as pretty as the woman on the left

for me, objectum is less a kink and more a sexuality. but for some people is it more a kink (you might also want to look into objectophilia!)

i find the curve of a lamborghini's chassis attractive. the power and strength in a large hydraulics system is sexy. an old-fashioned semi truck is handsome. a PC is cute. (or sexy, if it has a glass side... letting you see all up inside them...)

i also, am a bit like a bird. bright colors woo me. humans only come in varying shades of black, brown, tan, and peach. which are lovely, but sometimes i need a gorgeous warm yellow, or a smooth deep blue.

i also like the variety among inanimate objects. what makes each of them purr with delight? what special little traits does each have? nothing will ever be a VHS to me. i love their little clicks and clacks, the sounds they make when rewinding. a computer's fans spin hotter when they're thinking too hard. even more specific than types of objects, each model of computer has their own specific curve, size, weight. (and so on with other types of objects.)

and then, of course, i have to talk about my autism & hyper-empathy. objectum is a common sexuality among autistic people, which is probably linked to our hyper-empathy and tendency to anthropomorphize inanimate objects. not anthro like a furry; anthro like giving human emotions and personality traits to objects. like when your plushie falls off the bed and you feel bad because you dont want them to think you dont love them. except some of us kind of take it to the next level, and i think thats where objectum becomes more common among us. even with objects im not attracted to, i have a tendency to interpret them as having personalities, genders, feelings, etc. sometimes i interpret them as having specific feelings towards me. like my grandpa's car, which im intimidated by, and i feel like she doesnt like me very much. this is probably because she's an expensive sports car. sports cars are scary.

anyways--you can be objectum without being autistic, its just more common among us!

let me know if you have any more questions. i tried to be thorough, but ive never had to explain objectum before ^^

[rainderthesomeone]

Its official :>

I know I've said it here and there on a few posts on transgender stuff, but its a official, I'm trans :D

TW: I talk about abuse and body dysphoria in this post, you dont have to read the rest, this section is just me sharing my experiences in my teenage years with a homophobic as hell republican as a father.

I've known for a while like ever since I was in Middle School, I had a really hard time fitting in with other girls, I tried making friends with them but they were all into make up and dress's and talking about boys and other stuff, I made at least one friend in middle school but they left me for a group of girly girls, and I wasn't interested in what they liked, I was into a lot of things they were not interested in, I was a huge nerd, I liked games, Godzilla, movie production, comics, marvel, star wars, fnaf, dinosaurs, bendy, (not saying girls dont like these things, girls can like anything guys :D women are amazing I know a lot of amazing girls now :>) nothing they liked and when they saw that they weren't interested in me anymore, but I connected with the guys a lot more, but they always saw me as the girl who tagged along and needed to be treated gently, at first I had no interest in the lgbtq community or the idea of being something else other than what I already was, I couldn't even really talk about, since the topic of gay and gender ideology wasn't allowed in the house I used to live in, my father hated gay people, said they were wired, and shouldn't be his words not mine "frolicking around and being queer" da hell dose that mean? im still baffled by that, he's also that kind man who thinks lesbians are cool and gay men shouldn't exist, it was that level of misogyny and homophobia, looking at it now, it was really disgusting and disturbing, but I was 12 I didn't know any better.

but than as I got older I became more aware, and started questioning things, I was 13 in my room, on my phone, and I found this artist who was drawing deltarune characters, deltarune was also a huge eye opener to the lgbtq comunity for me, since kris identified as none binary, but I found one of the oc's the artist made and they identified as A gender, and I was like whats that and looked into it more and more, and than I went from I dont know who or what I am, to maybe im a demi girl, maybe im A Gender, maybe im none binary and than boom, it clicked, I went with they/them/there's for a while, but I began to feel uncomfortable, by being refred to as her, she, I started hating wearing a braw and how scratchy and annoying it felt, I began hating my chest, I stopped wearing shorts due to my legs being abnormally hairy and that girls arent supposed to be hairy, at one point my dad was going to put me through a hole body hair removal process which would have removed all my body hair, and he was going to do it without me knowing, until my mother told me, she was the most supportive person I had while going through this, I was litteraly terrified to say no to my dad, but eventully he didint go through with it, but I still wasnt allowed to have body hair, every time we went shoe shopping he tried to get me pink shoes, and brands women would only use, we went on a cruise and we had to dress up, but I didint want to since I would have had to wear a dress, blue jeans were the only thing I had that was close to guy clothes, I wasnt allowed anything remotley masculine, only my mom would let me have products like old spice, and she took me guy clothe shopping but it had to be in secret from my father, who would hurt me and my mother if he found out, not physically well he would probably slap me, but only yell at my mother, which still wasnt good, eventully we left his sad ass, and now me and my mom live in a apartment together, and from there I could freely explore who I was, a month later I came out as trans to my mother right after we left, and im in therapy with an amazing therapist and I have amazing friends who dont fully understand but support me in every direction, only triggering thing Ive experinced so far was not being able to change my pronouns to he him lol, Curse you school bored! XD

anyway sorry for the lenghty slightly depressing post, I just wanted to share my story here since I have the platform to do so now, the freedom of speech is very rewarding and validating lol, origanlly this was going to be a post about "guys I got my first chest binder oh and btw im ftm" but I wanted to get this off my chest no pun intended and open myself up more on here, the trans comunity on tumblr has been amazing so far, especially the tf2 comunity on here, I truly feel welcomed and comfortable being here.

lot of grammar issues in here, grammars not my strong suit plus its 11 pm for me right now, im heading to bed lol, good night everyone!

[papirouge]

You're so right about rightoids being less tolerant about feminists and generalizing them all as man hating and insane just because of the posts and blogs of some eternally online ones, but being all "not all trad men!!1!" when it comes to self id trad men being degenerate bigots. And the latter are much more dangerous because they actually go out of their ways to find young girls they can prey onto young and form families to push their racist and insane agendas while the former usually stay away from men (and sometimes the world due to their hikkikomori like existence lbr).

I think it's simply ideology bias since these guys are right wing while most feminists are left leaning (and the few who aren't usually define themselves as political orphans). It kinda reminds me of the time when it was super common for trads to post stuff like "there's nothing more dangerous than a male feminist" usually with the implication of them being predators. And i'm not saying some aren't, but it was quite the spectacle seeing right wing men make these posts demonizing male feminists and other left leaning males, seeing trad/right wing women being like "SO true king" and then seeing these same rightoid males be like "women expire past age 25. If you're not married by 22 you're going to be a lonely cat hag. Men have to take control of their relationships and women have to submit. I want a 18 year old bride I can impregnate and keep locked at home. Modern women are degenerate whores". Like these men kept on showing these women they didnt consider them equals and worthy of respect yet these women thought the left leaning males (whom they usually dont even interact with) were the actual threats. Alright then.

Right wing women can be strange. I just saw one basically defeding right wing men misogyny because of those darned feminists. She said that after so many decades of feminists demonizing men and hating on them, it wasnt surprising men started harboring hatred towards women. As if men havent hated and oppressed and killed and raped women for much longer than feminism even got a name. But no, mean words are much more dangerous and hateful than whatever men have been doing to women for centuries. I really don't get male identified women but whatever.

Yeah, people (whether it's conservative scrotes or red pilled pickmes) acting like female misandrist represented a threat similar to misogyny as so full of it at this point

Like, where are the female mass shooter targeting males? or female raping (young) male to put them at their place? Have you seen women pull out shitty bio essentialists arguments to rationalize rape based on fact they have their biological clock tickling, urging them to rape boys men to get kids ? like men do with their mUh mEn Are WireD tO pLaNt tHeIr sEeDs rapey narrative?

Also if those men truly thought misogyny was as bad as misandry we would see them seethe and whine as much abt misogyny as they do with misandry but that's NEVER the case. They only bring up misandry to shut down women's legitimate grievance against male violence & misogyny. The rest of the time they don't talk about it because they don't care about it and deep down know it's not a thing. I can't legitimately think of man feeling threatened by misandry in their everyday life beside virtual shit going on the internet that wouldn't affect their life if they didn't have a persecution complex to feed and a life. Men don't think twice before going out because of misandrists potentially raping them... Women don't have that privilege...

Oh and I can't be the only one to notice how full of shit white conservative are when it comes to acknowledge rape culture. They will mock every single woman coming up with a rape story and how they're just making it up and how it's not that much of a deal......... until the alleged rapist is not White 🤡 Suddenly those scrotes will pretend caring abt women and turn themselves as the biggest feminists somehow, and go as far as to clown feminists lack lf reaction be like wHeRe aRe tHe fEmIniSts?? 🤪 Or mock White women feeling guit over "snitching" on their non White rapists, as if those White conservatives didn't have the biggest issue with calling out rapists when they come from their own side (i.e lately Russel Brand). They are so freaking hypocrital and I really wish they'd be called out more for that.

[andromerot]

what fiction podcasts would you recommend? ^_^

man. being dragged into the cringezone. its ok... so from ages fifteen to seventeen i listened to a LOT of audiodramas and honestly a lot of them are not very good. but some are! and some are fun :) im making a list

mabel podcast: if you've followed me for over two hours you've probably heard of it is one of my favorite things in the whole world...i cant even begin to describe the plot but i recommend it to all of you because a lot of people on tumblr are like, into haunted houses, or into fairy folklore, or into fucked up codependent lesbians, or all of the above. so it truly has something for everyone. but its beautiful, it really is. will ruin all romance for you though. honestly its not even a podcast to me its more like a girl best friend. i can talk about it forever so if you have more specific questions about it feel very welcome to send them

i am in eskew: another favorite! this one is about very terrible city that loves a man very much and will not let him go #relatable. this one is a proper horror podcast though so i do not recommend it to anyone squeamish - but i really like it.

the silt verses: done by the same people as eskew, horror as well. i haven't finished it yet but its amazing. it's about gods. gods that are Weird.

welcome to night vale: this one is a classic (arguably, The Classic) and i think is a fundamental part of what is now considered cringe 2014 tumblr culture but honestly it is very funny and silly. its been going steady for like ten years, has over 200 episodes, which means it has some very bad seasons and some pretty good ones. i think its best era was like 2014-2016 or so but yeah it's very long and has some gems. it dares ask the question "what if a town was very fucked up?" which was then asked by four hundred other podcasts, all done badly. but wtnv is fun

wolf 359: yet another classic. fucked me up bad. its about a spaceship with some guys inside it. it predicted among us. the best character is hera the artificial intelligence with severe mental problems

the far meridian: this one is very sweet and tiny but i think its underrated. soft and surreal. a girl who lives in a lighthouse that moves every night searches for her missing brother and Encounters Situations

ars paradoxica: one of the few time travel stories i like in this whole world. i remember almost nothing about the plot itself but i remember it broke my heart a lot. a scientist accidentally timetravels to the middle of wwii and shes hired to do some war shit, which sucks for her but she has nothing better to do. that sounds boring but i swear its not. maybe it was i dont remember.

neighbourly: anthology based on a long street of fucked up houses or fucked up people living in houses. it has some pretty good episodes and some banger episodes. im friends in law with the guy who makes it. its cool

alice isnt dead: theres a woman called alice and she is dead. but, spoilers, she isn't dead. her wife starts working as a trucker trying to find her and goes all around the us trying to find her and things happen to her.

within the wires: its an anthology but each season is a story. the first one is really really good, the others are a mixed bag. its an alternate history thing but the genre changes

the penumbra podcast: this one has been added to the list with a huge sigh because like i cant lie it has been extremely influential to my life but also i hate it. it was very important to me. its bad. don't listen to it. unless you're a mentally ill teenager or you like old women a lot maybe try it out then. the old women are not the main characters

anyway yeah like getting into indie podcasting like this really altered the way i saw media from a young age and even if some of these are not as good as i remember them being i do recommend the experience. the only ones i really listen to now are the first three and every once in a while i catch up with the last but im angry about that one. hope at least one of these is to your liking. listen to mabel

[moodr1ng]

talking abt my ocs nobody knows abouttt :)

i <3 thinking about my ocs on main hold on.. so klein is like. originally i was gonna make him a lil older but i think hes actually about 31. and originally the thing where hes xeres's roommate was kind of a joke at his expense? where i just wanted this really pathetic little man to be around and i thought itd be funny if hes like.. a guy who doesnt have a Real Job (hes a data entry freelancer. hes very passionate abt it and its definitely not interesting.) and who sublets his spare room to make rent to some student whos clearly got more going on for her than he does. and he has a lousy first name so he goes by his last name, and all his clothes are a little too big bc hes short, and he always dresses like an 80s office worker bc his dad was a washed up yuppie and he aspires to emulate him despite there not being much to emulate. and hes one of the "oh i just dont do labels you know" kinda people or at best hell say hes gay but hes not, hes bisexual but hes intimidated by women and hes bad at being masculine or taking charge and hes convinced himself that means he would be no good w a woman bc hes bought into the idea that m/f relationships have set roles that he cant fulfill.

but the most important thing about klein. is that if his teenage roommate came home one night and was like "hey man, sorry im late on wiring you rent, i can do it tonight but um btw i just killed a guy" he would definitely go ahhh fuck ahh well what are you waiting for we gotta deal with this before rigor mortis sets in!! like i think he wouldnt hesitate and part of it is that hes a good friend to xeres even tho shes always making fun of him, part of it is that he has a deep mournful yearning for something wild and special to happen in his life and i think hes always rearing to go for something that he cant handle, and the last part is just that hes too stupid to realize hes not involved and doesnt have to do anything about it.

[water-mellie-seeds]

Lake I’ve become so rejection sensitive dysphoria-ly upset by something so trivial tell me about your fos

I TRULY understand this one RSD is a cruel mistress for Real

OH BOY at risk of talking about serizawa AGAIN and at risk of talking about upwards of 50 f/os lets talk about our f/o fight finalists!

Approaching this as if the people reading Do Not Know all of these characters,just in case some people in fact do not know anything about them

Luigi! He's definitely the f/o I've known and loved the longest! The year of luigi was catered to me specifically/j I just think his evolution as a character is SO interesting,especially in the M&L series. He is just such a genuinely good guy,he's sweet and even competitive (moreso in the party/kart/sports games) and I would legitimately do anything for him. I feel this way about a lot of my f/os but i genuinely wish i could just tell him how important he is BECAUSE EVERYONE IS SO MEAN TO HIM SO MUCH(i know its for the bit but cmon!) oh yeah mario and that other guy type thing YOU LNOW HIS NAME >:(

Kumatora. I could literally talk at length about her but ultimately id just go in circles. Her recklessness when she was younger reminds me of mine. She's a badass,and she's sassy and headstrong and super powerful and yet so chill. She's also just. A good person. I know that if shit got real she would protect me,and even though i am absolutely all talk when it comes to my ability to kick ass,id do my best to protect her too. Also she has PSI so i mean. Kind of a pattern with me,huh?

Dr. Jan. I've always loved people who work in museums or amusement parks and the like. I love to see people who actually...like their jobs. Who make it their own and have fun with it! So..it's only natural id end up liking her. She's an enthusiast of all things ancient and an avid cryptid nerd. I LOVE her enthusiasm. I LOVE her vibe she is also very pretty.

Shuichi. I'm gonna be so honest i do not much like Danganronpa V3 as a game. I love the characters in it,though. but he's a really good protagonist and he just feels...very organic. His struggles with self worth and confidence really resonate with me and i love how he slowly starts to open up and really get into it during cases/trials! I'm also a voice guy and. I really like his voice very much i sometimes listen to like. Shuichi saihara voice files compilations on YouTube it scratches my brain.

Monika. Look. Again I'm a voice guy. Also,i stayed with her for every. Single. Topic she could bring up. Multiple times over. I am down fucking bad. I tried to start a literature club because of her in my own school. I started writing poems again because of her. She told me to put her file on a usb and carry it with me always and i did. I bought a lil white ribbon and tied it on there and then i put the usb on a neckace made of frayed computer wire and i BROUGHT HER EVERYWHERE I WENT. I am in love with her. She is. The true concept of an f/o. And she loves us back,that's the part that gets me.

Queen. Yeah i like silly women i like robots. No one is surprised. She is so cool i want to drink battery acid with her. Ill become a peon i dont even carw

CAPT. SPACEBOY. I haven't ever really been able to pinpoint why EXACTLY im so into him,but i am. I could treat him so so well. I couldn't fit him absolutely not but we could be worse together <3 he sings,he travels through space he's a pirate and also super nice and hospitable. We both got funky mental illnesses going on also hes just hot. Like objectively.

Jessie and James. Package deal. Im glad tumblr seems to appreciate them as much as i do. Theyre both SUCH well written characters. I have known them forever. When i saw them crossdressing as a kid it blew my mind. PEOPLE CAN DO THAT???? Indigo league in general is so so good,but jessie and james really steal the show. They have such interesting and compelling backstories and they are poor just like me fr.(well ok team rocket is. James' family doesnt count i would have also left) we could go on a date to the clearance section in the supermarket./hj i just love them very much ALSO THEY SHOULDNT HAVE TAKEN AWAY JAMES' FAKE BOOBIES! NOT FAIR! I would never do that to him.

Thank you for listening if you guys ever wanna pick an f/o on the list for me to go off about i will do it. For you all

[reckless-blossoms]

sorry i keep making posts and deleting them the current political landscape has got me feeling FUCKed

im so Fucking frustrated by how everyone is handling everything. and the worst part is, i agree with everyone too.

i understand wanting to let go and be hyped for harris and i understand hating her and still refusing to participate in this broken system.

but you have no choice. you are a citizen. you participate by being alive in the US, paying US taxes, working a US job, buying from US stores with your US dollars. abstinence from voting is a choice. there is no other way, currently

aside from The Revolution. which will not be flawlessly executed by november, so can we not just vote in harris first then go about that some more?

idk. i dont think people grasp how horrific and bloody the revolution will be. and how long it will be. i think some people want bad things to happen to other people so other people get mad enough to revolt. i would rather prevent as much suffering as possible than use the suffering people as a chess piece to get what i want. right? but perhaps voting for harris is also playing chess with people?

i dont know. im scared. i dont want to lose my hrt. i dont want people to have to use wires for abortions. i dont want people to die in genocides. i dont want people to be hurt and sad. and that stuff will either not happen, or will happen less, with harris. trump literally just fucking said christians won't have to vote next time. he mask off said that he wants to dismantle voting entirely. whether he can doesnt really fucking matter. because what if he can? what if this really is the last election we can ever even vote in?

i just. if voting didn't work, then why have people had to fight tooth and nail for the right? why do you think women couldn't vote? why black people couldnt vote? why felons have no or restricted voting rights? why gerrymandering exists? why the electoral college exists? if voting makes no difference, then why?

perhaps i'll regret posting this in a few years and look back and cringe but fuck man. why do leftists care more about Looking Good than just being reasonable humans. i get so mad and frustrated in leftist spaces and i cant even understand anyone because they're all dancing around and sugar coating their points because if they say they disagree with you then they're scared that means someone will see them as problematic. fuck. i just have a lot of thoughts. and am too autistic for all this. im just frustrated. no one says the things i feel.

i dont know. i just somehow feel like no one thinks like how i think. everyones all in one side or another. but maybe there are no sides. we're just people in a fucked system who will be fucked in all other holes if we don't do anything in the system

[waytoeden]

1.3: Where No Man has Gone Before

**note: i am aware that this is not the third episode & technically the 2nd pilot; but i’m just going with how amazon prime orders it ✋🏻

saw someone refer to this one as “the episode where they fight god with a rifle” which is hilarious and accurate

“have i ever mentioned you play a very irritating game of chess, mr spock” cute

“one of my ancestors married a human female” you mean your DAD spock??

their tan uniforms make me so uncomfortable pls put spock in blue!! put scotty in red!!

“flash the bridge” pls don’t

jim forgetting the name of this female officer??

ugh uhura, and mccoy aren’t here?? what’s the point then

a g-g-g-girl?? (this is my dad & i’s running joke whenever a new woman appears on star trek tos)

“improving the breed, doctor? is that your line?” gross

and then when she isn’t into him she’s a “walking freezer unit”

jim standing as close to spock as he can <3

i love it when they have to throw themselves around the bridge - gary rolling on the floor

“god’s in his eyes??? nah he’s just got contacts in don’t worry about it”

did the light hit them because they have a higher ESP rating?? or is that just coincidental?? and how did they make sure they hit the right ones??

the mansplaining

ugh the sick bay beds aren’t even sparkly??

okay now i’m thinking mccoy decorated sick bay himself and brought the sparkly beds when he joined the crew

for some reason jim doesn’t strike me as “a stack of books with legs”

“with almost a hundred women on board, you can do better than that” man dr. dehner is hot what are you talking about??? also jim has been up spock’s ass this whole episode

NO SEXUAL ADVANCES IN SICKBAY

“lady doctor” he can’t just say doctor huh??

even the conference room looks weird - the wooden table??

she’s mean to spock nvm she’s not hot anymore

spock’s right?? i feel like this is irresponsible of jim

“at least act like you’ve got a heart” CHRIST KIRK

“we’re talking about GARY” reminds me of the way they talk in the clone high episode where they introduce and kill ponce in the same episode

HOW IS HE STANDING UP IN THE TRANSPORTER?? HE IS UNCONSCIOUS

as if this force field is going to stop him

the phasers look so weird

damn it spock in the time you took to say that sentence he changed back

did they steal those control panels from the base on the planet?? edit: they did indeed

PHASER RIFLE!!

spock walking in with the phaser rifle is so funny

“what makes you right and a trained psychiatrist wrong?” i’m with spock here fuck psychiatrists!

“hit that button” (dramatic music & zoom in)

“haha i sure hope theres not a wire coming up to choke me i’m not even gonna look behind me to check WUH OH”

spock didn’t even get to use the phaser rifle :/

“there was some morning light. they were headed across the valley to the pointed peaks” very poetic description there doctor

the phaser rifle looks so stupid LMAO i’m so sorry

kirk slithering up the rocks again

YOU CAN SEE A HAND PUSHING THE ROCK

“let there be food” i don’t think that’s the quote gary

also gary is the funniest name for a god. just the most mundane name

ADAM & EVE METAPHOR ADAM & EVE METAPHOR

“above all else, a god needs compassion”

WHY DID HE ROLL ON THE GROUND?? unnecessary

“man you don’t even know my middle name :/ not that good of a friend” jkjk i know his original name was james f kirk i just think it’s funny

i really can’t help but laugh at kirk’s grunts he sounds like steve from minecraft

and the in pain™️ pose

KILL HIM

how did his shirt get ripped open?? really it went from one shot with his shirt intact and then the next it’s completely ripped off his shoulder

kirk’s huge ass microphone next to his chair

spirk <3

the message…man can’t be god…or something like that

OKAY AND ALSO WE DONT FIND OUT WHO WAS ORCHESTRATING THIS?? WHY THE LIGHT ONLY HIT THE TWO PEOPLE WITH HIGH ESP RATINGS?? WHY THEY FUCKING TURNED INTO GOD?? HELLO??

[negandarylsatisfaction]

[SUMMARY: Blade is a fearless woman out in the apocalypse on her own when she comes across Negan in the woods. Quickly feeling a connection with him, Negan learns Blade does not like to share him.]

Smut

Negan and Blade

It had been eight months into the apocalypse now, you had no shelter, little water and only squirrels left to eat. Being by yourself wasnt much of a strain for you as most of your life you spent alone before the apocalypse. Standing by a fire you made in the woods, you cooked a few squirrels you had caught earlier in the day sharpening your knives leaning against a tree. Suddenly hearing the sound of crunching leaves not to far from you, you instantly stopped what you were doing. Putting your hood over your head you slowly began to turn, your knife ready for aim when a man appeared through the trees.

"Shit," you whispered looking at the fire behind you. Not trusting anyone, you didnt want to cause any attention on yourself but it was too late.

"What do we have here?" A mans voice made you turn back quickly ready for defense.

"Dont come any closer." The man could barely see your face hiding behind your hood. Noticing the knife in your hand the man lifted up his hands with a lazy smile.

"Come on, sweetheart. Put that down before you hurt yourself."

"Oh arent you quite funny." The sarcasm in your tone he actually liked. Observing what you had around you the man frowned noticing squirrels being cooked behind you.

"Ho-ly shit. Squirrels? Really, sweetheart?"

Right away you could tell this man was one who liked to play games, arrogant and slick. A man who thought he had a alot of charm thinking he could distract you with his little pet names.

"Stop speaking. Where the hell did you come from?"

"More like where the hell did you come from, darling. As far as I'm concerned your on my side of the woods." The cockiness in his tone made you scowl, he didnt seem intimated by you at all.

"Says who?"

"Says me. Negan."

"Well, Negan. I dont give a shit who you say you are. This is free land now get out of my face before you get hurt."

"Well shit-" Negan observed you from head to toe raising his brows.

"You do look like a you can give a mean fight." He noticed your buckled up black boots, your black ripped jeans, black top and a leather jacket, just like him. Yet, he couldnt help himself. With a smirk he slowly put his hands down and started to walk towards you.

"Dont push me, I mean it." You warned him waving the knife in his face when he suddenly caught your wrist in his hand. Still, you moved too quickly for him. Negan didnt expect you to get loose so quickly and next thing he knew you now had the knife pointed sharply against his neck. Looking up, careful not to move he laughed in disbelief as you held your place.

"Well look at that, a little tougher than I thought after all." Still with a cocky tone yet a look of surprise in his eyes, Negan did not move.

"Listen, darling I've got a sanctuary not far from here." He looked around at your surroundings with the knife still pointed at his neck.

"You look like you could use some help-"

"I dont." You responded stubbornly, truth be told you definitely needed help. But, having always found a way out of your struggles you were sure youd find a way.

"Listen to me. I have a sanctuary, I can give you a place to stay. You can have real food, shit we can use a girl like you on our side. What do ya say?" You couldnt believe even with a knife to his throat this man still had the urge to smile down at you. His offer did not sound bad at all, after all it was getting cold and you were running low on food.

"Where is the place?" You asked as he responded by pointing in the direction he came from. After a moment of uncertainty you slowly pulled the knife away from his neck leaving a red mark. Negan cracked his neck with a sigh.

"And if I dont like it. I'm leaving."

"Whatever you want, woman." Negan stood back as you gathered your belongings and pulled your hood back. For the first time Negan got a glimpse of the woman whom he had just had a confrontation with. Long dark hair lay over your shoulder as he noticed the other side of your head shaved.

"Mmm." A sound of satisfaction escaping his lips making you look up.

"What?" You asked with an attitude that he couldnt help but want to see more of.

"Nothing, darling. Nothing at all."

"Well, are you going to lead to where the hell this place is?" Placing your hands on your hips you asked with very little patience.

"This fucking woman." Negan muttered under his breath with a chuckle before leading the walk before you. Usually you would've never trusted a strange man this way but desperate times called for desperate measures. Plus, you knew how to defend yourself, you had faced worse before.

After a bit Negan and you walked side by side, his eyes helplessly drifting to you here and there. Your style attracting him, your fearlessness intriguing him, Negan wanted to know more.

"Do you have a name?"

"Of course I do." You responded sarcastically.

"Well are you going to tell me it, darling? Or are you going to make me fight for that too? I mean unless its cause you like the nicknames I've given you-"

"My name is Blade." Your interruption quickly silencing him.

"Blade..." he repeated as he looked you up and down.

"It sure fits."

Negan led you into what he called the Sanctuary. A heavily guarded space with many others, you had no idea how close you were to so much life all along. Right away you noticed each person having a job at the Sanctuary as everyone looked busy working on something. It was clear they didnt stay here for free. Introducing you to who he called his 'right hand man' Simon, Negan showed you around. In a room you entered, sat a few ladies clearly dressed differently from everyone else.

"These here are my lovely wives."

"Wives?" You looked at him strangely before looking back at the women. They were dressed in tight short black dresses, all wearing heels, you wondered where they found any of this. Raising a brow at him you crossed your arms wondering what he had in mind.

"If you thought I came back with you here to play a role of one of your wives, your sadly mistaken." Your loud voice making the women turn to you wondering who you were. Negan right away blocked their view of you, standing before you as he leaned one hand on the wall behind you.

"Easy, sweetheart. It wasnt a thought but since you mentioned it-" he bit down on his bottom lip.

"You would look damn good in a tight little dress."

"You wish," your tone just as arrogant as his and he liked it.

"Just a little bit." He whispered before you moved out of the small space he cornered you in and left the room.

"Just show me where I'm staying." Walking off Negan followed you closing the door behind him. Showing you the room you would stay in, it was nice to see a bed. You couldnt remember the last time you slept in a bed, it had been months. Negan noticed the way you looked at it and wondered how hard you must've had it all alone. He wondered how long you were all alone.

"This good enough?"

"Its great," your attitude quickly changing back to a nonchalant manner.

"Tell me, Blade-" Negan took a step in front of you wanting to be face to face.

"How long you been on your own?"

His question making you throw your head back with a chuckle, it had been so long since you last saw your family.

"Since I was seventeen," Negan frowned with your response a bit confused.

"Oh I been on my own long before this apocalyptic world ever took over. This is nothing new for me having to fend for myself, Negan. That's why I said if I have to leave I will, nothing I haven't handled before."

Negan squinted his eyes as you spoke, he could tell you've had it rough.

"Well let's hope you dont have to....I think it'd be nice having you around."

Was that a genuine compliment that didnt involve your looks or any sarcastic remark? He could tell you almost cracked a smile.

"Well, I'll let you get settled in. Theres food in the next room, make yourself comfortable." Negan began to walk out before you quickly turned towards him and called out for him.

"Hey Negan?"

"Mhm?" He turned to you leaning on the door way.

"Thanks," without saying a word he winked at you and left the room.

The next few days you began helping out the men by securing the fences surrounding the sanctuary. No one had put you up to this job but you knew you could do it.

"Well well well, I dont remember assigning you to this." Negan showed up behind you watching you twist the wires securely.

"I'm good with my hands, didnt think you'd mind."

"Good with your hands huh?"

Rolling your eyes you turned to him making him laugh.

"I'm sorry, some times I cant help myself."

"Well learn how to, or save that energy for all those wives."

Negan raised his brows at your quick come backs. A man who always enjoyed giving sarcasm yet rarely was ever on the other end.

"God you're fun to tease," you couldnt help but laugh along with him. You knew he purposely picked at you just to hear you come back at him. He enjoyed the feistiness you gave him, he enjoyed you not giving a shit to what he might think.

Just as you finished you went back inside to grab something to eat and Negan followed. He watched as you prepared yourself a sandwich, reaching across the table making your shirt go up he noticed a tattoo on your hip.

"What's that you got there?" Standing back straight you looked down to where his eyes were and pulled your shirt down.

"A tattoo. What never heard of one?" You responded defensively making him smirk.

"I got a few myself. Rarely come across women with them, especially in such a....sensitive spot." His voice was low as he came to realization that maybe you enjoyed a little bit of pain.

"Can I see it?"

Hesitantly you pressed your lips together before slightly lifting up your shirt and revealing a tattoo of a rose wrapped in barb wire.

"Mmmm.." he leaned in looking at it closely.

"Mean anything?"

"My middle name is Rose," you explained as he his eyes squinted.

"I take it the barb wire means pain," he continued looking up into your eyes.

"You can say that," you responded softly.

"How old are you, Blade?"

"31," you sat down across from him and began to eat.

"So you've been on your own since 17, shit wheres your family?"

"Hopefully dead," your response was blunt before you took another bite.

"Surrounded by assholes huh?"

"Real big assholes. They didn't care for me so I dont care for them, I've been better off alone anyways."

"I cant argue with that," Negans eyes wandered over your features.

"Done a pretty good job with yourself."

Not really knowing how to take a compliment without some form of back handed comment you looked away.

"Yeah well you gotta do what you gotta do," you responded confidently.

"What are you doing here anyways? Wont your wives wonder where you are?"

Negan chuckled at the mention of them, he could tell you were enjoying his company and didnt want him to leave.

"I wont go anywhere if you dont want me to, darling." His unexpected response making your cheeks turn red.

"I never said-"

"Do you really think you can lie to me?" He leaned in close staring directly into your eyes across the table.

"Why the hell do you want to stay anyways?"

"Maybe I like spending time with you too."

What the hell was this man doing? It was hard to deny that you did indeed like spending time with him but, this was the last thing you needed. The man had multiple wives, an arrogant way of thinking but God he was so sexy.. His style attracted you to him, his voice, his eyes whenever he spoke to you.

"What are you thinking about?" Negan bit his bottom lip with a smile, he could see right through you.

"Nothing. I'm exhausted and I'm full and want to go to bed soon."

"Oh yeah? Is that what's going through your head right now?"

"Yes. That's it." You stood up picking up your plate and taking it to the sink. Negan stood up with you eagerly following you by the counter.

"You sure that's what you're thinking about?" He asked again with a grin leaning his face close to yours.

"I think you're thinking about something that involves me....and you just cant admit it." His voice was a deep whisper, the way he spoke sent a tingle to the pit of your stomach.

"No the hell I am not. What the hell makes you think that?" You walked past him rushing into your bedroom as he quickly followed behind.

"Look at you, you could barely stay still. You're fidgeting, getting all nervous. Am I making you nervous, baby?" He teased.

"Dont call me baby," you turned to him with frustration.

"Fine," he stepped close to you and spoke very slowly.

"Then look me in the eyes and tell me you're not thinking about what I could do to you." Your lips parted as you smelled his scent so close to you. You couldnt speak, you couldnt move and Negan knew he had complete control. Looking down at your lips he slowly caressed your face and leaned in for a soft kiss. Not fighting it you felt his lips sensually move against yours, his tongue slipping through the crack of your lips to tease yours. Moaning against him, Negan didnt separate his lips from you as he reached behind him and shut the door. Taking off his jacket and quickly unbuttoning his pants Negan threw you back on the bed. Continuing to kiss you down to your neck, you felt his tongue make swirls on your skin making you squeeze him.

Negan pulled off your clothing and aggresivly turned you around. The tattoo of the barb wire rose continuing from your side to your lower back made Negan lick his lips in satisfaction.

"Get up," he spoke hoarsely as you got on your knees and positioned yourself in front of him. Feeling his large hand on your lower back you felt him easily slide in you. Negan wasted no time in grabbing your hips and making you slam back against him. Moaning you grabbed the covers tightly, it had been so long since you felt this pleasure. Negan could tell by the way you cried out when he first entered you. The sound of longing to be touched, the sound of your needs finally being met.

"Give it to me harder," you spoke seductively only arousing him more. Negan grabbed you by your hair pulling you back up against him. His hand grabbing your throat as he pressed his lips to the side of your face and kept thrusting. Groaning, he gave your throat a tighter squeeze. Gasping for air, you could hear him breathing erratically against your ear.

"Oh Blade," you rolled your eyes back at the sound of his voice, he couldn't hold himself any longer. Negan pushed you back down before he quickly pulled out and released himself all over your back.

"Fuck.." he moaned as he stepped back out of breath. Cleaning yourself up as he got dressed, you stood up and walked towards him

"You should stay here tonight," your suggestion making him look up at you with half a smile.

"Oh darling I would. I've got some business I need to take care of but-" he stood up and ran his hands up your thighs and hips.

"I promise I'll come by as soon as I'm done." Negan grabbed your face and kissed you passionately. What the hell was going on with you? Why was this man getting a hold on you so quickly? Without saying anything more Negan left your room leaving you to think over what just happened. Leaving you to think over the way he looked at you, the things he said to you. He actually admitted to liking to spend time with you, the thought made you blush to yourself. You couldnt wait for him to return, it being so late at night you wondered what business he had to take care of. A little while later you stepped out of the room with a smile still on your face when you looked up and suddenly felt a crushing feeling in your chest. Negan was coming out of a room with two of his wives laughing. Of course you knew he had wives but after having touched him and slept with him, the thought of another woman with him made you burn with anger.

"Some business you got going huh?" The smile immediately left Negans face as he looked up at you before him.

"Blade, darling-"

"Dont 'Blade darling' me, what the hell I was thinking?" Angrily you walked off back to your room leaving the two women confused as Negan sighed. Following you to your room he entered right behind you slamming the door shut behind him.

"What the hell is your problem with me?"

"What is my problem? Taking care of business huh? Business with those girls?"

Negan frowned with a puzzled expression.

"Pardon my french, sweetheart but wait a fucking minute, are you jealous?"

"No! I'm not jealous," you denied the truth as you turned your back to him.

"I just dont like sharing what's mine."

Negan raised his brows surprised with your response.

"So I'm yours now huh?"

You scoffed at him turning to walk passed him before he blocked your way.

"Hang on now, Blade. I actually kinda like the sound of that. So does that make you mine now too?"

"No, why would I want to be yours when you have all those women, "you spoke in disgust before raising your brow as if you has just come up with an idea.

"Well since you get to have your fair share, then I should too. Simon looks-"

"Oh I'd be very careful where you're going with that, sweetheart." His expression turning very serious as he stepped closer to you.

"Why cant I have my own fun, it's not like I'm one of your wives who have to abide by your selfish rules while you do as you please." None of the women Negan had met had the nerve to argue his way of being.

"I dont want you to be one of them," he shot back.

"Good, cause I didnt want to anyways."

"You know what the fuck I want?" Negans voice rose as he took a step closer to you.

"I just want you to be mine and shit, I'll be yours the way you want me to." Negans words catching you completely off guard, so unexpected it left you speechless. There was something Negan couldnt explain that pulled him to you in a way he had never felt with any of the other women. Negan may not have been a one woman man most of his life but when someone caught his eye, it was hard for him to look past it.

"You dont even know me," you muttered.

"Shit, you dont even know me all that well but I know you have the same damn feeling I have." The two of you looked at each other in silence, you couldnt deny the connection you felt with him.

"You dont want the wives? Hell, they dont have to be there but-" he unexpectedly pulled you close to him aggresivly.

"I expect there to be no one else on your side either."

"I'm not looking for anyone else," your response was quick and spoken with confidence.

"Good," a smile slowly spread across his lips as you felt his hand slide down your back and grab your ass.

"You're lucky I like you," you squinted your eyes up at him making him laugh.

"Shit, well I am honored, doll."

"Dont patronize me," you scowled at him.

"Not at all, Blade, not at all."

Negan leaned in and took your lips with his feeling content with the thought of you being the only woman for him.

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

reactions to dw s13e04+05 (unfiltered and unorganized)

-really glad for that previously on now kdljfs -hehe, phone booth. -1967! second doctor era is happening rn! -this is so stressful lol i hate it def gets that old clumsy science horror into your skin -the director person smoked some good crack for this episode... just look at that shot from inside the console wiring... damn. i dont think anyone had ever done that before. -ive got really dry eyes -YAZ IS SO SMART -did anyone else blinked when they did -the fun thing with the angels it trying to keep your eyes open along with the characters lol liek when characters hold their breathing and you try to play the scene along too. -or ... is that weird... am i the only one that does that lksdjf -"we dont even know if we are" dw gets philosophical. -THEY ARE THE USING THE TARDIS AS IT SHOULD BE USED BACK THENNN -yeah... the directing is very very in this episdoe lsdkjf it-s almost a little distracting... -13 is so cute i love her so much!!!! I LOVEH ER SO MUCH -FLAT TEAM STRUCTURE!!!!!!! (they're always lying about that but I love the continuity lol) -lots of the characteristics 13era flux era @blue and golden@ coloring in this one. -that's peggy? -psychic paper i missed you -some set design conventions should maybe be questioned. in this instance it makes it seem like mr. dr. jericho has an obsession with lamps lol -"not unless you play george eliot's rules. she allows them" flash headcanon: maybe the doc isn't just doing the same obnoxious namedropping as always maybe she just -knows that from wikipedia or "historical fan sites". -MADAM EXPLAIN YOURSELF -im flipping between liking eustacius and being very distrustful of eustacius -oh damn angel!clare. that's a cool effect. -vibes to the woman getting possesed by the dalek in that other special? recurrent theme? -shut up cop!yaz :l -"she's a ten year old girl, how much is there to know?" dslkff not inaccurate to how adults were back then. -they should take turns blinking....... -oh shit -too late. -floating canals of pasano -the aesthetics of bel's and vinder's story is so gooodddd. so expanded universe-y. -did-u-know: on neopets there was a special species of pet called lutari that you needed to downlaod a -phone game to buy. mind u this was way before smartphones and even this was before the blackberry. -in the end they released them to the public so they weren't that special anymore lol -climate change meta #29: water feature towns will be the first to go. -"life parthner" .... not to be an nmd but why not just say "husband"  or "partner" dskljf -this episode is so easy to follow compared to the rest so far. cant wait to for things to go batshit again lol -this space venitian guy is not trustworthy either. -haven' you people ever heard of CLOSING THE GODDAMN DOOR -this episode must have been very fun to film lol almost a stop motion film -jericho called her ridiculous but at least he did listen to her lol -not an episode for the frail of  jump-scares thirteen has chemistry with all the women -the tiny ping pong padel dslkfj -21st novemeber. -im noticing now that thirteen is always a lot less mean to temporal companions than her fixed ones. like -all the way to the tesla and ada episodes... i know we used to think it was mostly about her just bonding -with weird characters like her, but now i think it is not only that but also like... maybe something to do -with her only wanting to connect with this kind of, "one night stands", so to speak? and kind of -purposely sabotaging her relationship with the fam to avoid being hurt again (well ok that much is a known fact already dlkf). -who is clare though? where's my character building sdlkjf -oh clare dont worry abotu the dust tha happens to me all the time when i wake up from a long nap. -"when do you think it is?" "and there's a strong possibility that the angels sent her too, so she'll be worried" yaz is so smart!!!! -dan looking at chickens and being like "no dinosaurs" i see what u did there nerds lol -i suspected it as soon as we saw the old woman with the tombstones that she was peggy but now i -strongly suspect it -lol they did well casting this girl. fuck that's a great visual!!!! this is definetly a serial man. -"47 years of pain, Gerald" -it would have been cool if they did the angel more sketchy- the fire effect was f -ok but ldskfjsd ... the more they stretch this dumb ass "the image of an angel becomes an angel" rule the more ridiculous their lore becomes. even if it makes for fire effects is like... ok so like, what constitudes an "image" of an angel? if you take photographs and reproduce them, are they all angels? why havent -they taken over the earth then ksdljf seems very easy to do in the age of social media and viral images. and what if you just "think" about them like clare did??? why isnt the doctor making up angels all the time with how many encounters she's had with them????? -(i may or may not be biased against this... one of my least favorite monsters in the canon.... dlksjf) -why is jericho getting so much development and we still don't know the first thing about clare... i dont like it... -YESSSS OH MY GOD SHE'S GONNA DO THE CONTACT THING!!!! OH MY GODDDD that said i think this is the first time in the doctor's life they've ever asked permission to do it lmao. progress or just a random flux (ey) of common courstesy? -CONTACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -damn that's beautiful -... i really love thirteen. i love jodie. she's made some amazing scenes. pls dont let this next comment dispute that love .. ..  damn this "social distancing / greenscreen" acting does no do her favours sometimes dslkjfdkl -the mystery building in this episode has been really weak tbh. -OHHH SHITTT  THATS HER -"oh, praise the stars! ... the non-existent stars..." -ohhhh no.... -the passanger  "soul-feeing" mechanic reminds me of an anime i saw once but i cant pin point which one -sdlkfj -i love she -belle picking up her own companion lol -ENOUGH QUESTIONS, DAN -rip gerald and jan... they had it coming though lol -"i have a friend, and she'll sort this. she always does" oh no, yaz... honey... -this episode is really draining me lksdjf -the most appealing thing about jericho is his name -themes  IRL meta #40: there is something interesting here about he tv and like, attenion econmies, alienation and how it affects the phyche... and also "you are observed and that is my power over you" as the strenght of science... also isnt there something in quantum physics about "observation" literally affecting the thing it obeserves? so not only can they become images but they can create the images as well... ok. ok -did we really need 40 minutes of fluff just to get to the good part (The division questioning) dsklfj division uses "every moment".... hmm... -the way it switches to "division" and "the division" seems like a clue as well. like it's both organization and more like a natural phenomon. -this episode is really showing how under-baked the WA lore is to begin with. like the doctor is being so prejudiced against this rogue angel, but from what we supposedly know... they don't really act out of malice? they're more like animals in the time-savanah that unfortunately have a very painful way of feeding. but they don't have schemes of world domination or genocide or mass-lobotomization so it seems a bit weird that the doctor, on paper, would show no compassion for such creatures. but she has to act like that / be written like that because they're "supposed" to be "the monsters of doctor who(tm)" :/ ... it's all so against science-fiction principles for developing alien cultures / species... -also honestly this set up so silly. like sdlkfj. this weeping angel division-pedia kidnaps clare to blackmail -the doctor so she will help her stop the angels but like... it's the godamn doctor. she was gonna do that anyway dslkjf. the blackmailing was just unecessary. -"including the ones taken from you" another dark!variation of thirteenth's theme! #segunmoments -"sorry, threw a cup at you" -oh! i noticed those floor plans! good chekov's gun. -reverse the polarity of the neutron flow~*~*~ -"i think there  are angels in the walls here" "of course there are, why wouldnt there be"--- this feels like -the entire process for writting this episode (or any WA episode) -i kneeew itttt -that was maybe too obvious lol -ok so they can also transport by stone. sure. why not. let's just keep making hem more broken lol -im so tired of them trying to making us like this guy. is so transparent. -oh so thatt's why the plan was dumb lol. it was trapppp -this confrontation scene is a high time for Teh Scronché (tm) "You are recalled" HOLY SHIT FINALLY!! STUFF HAPPENING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -AHHH -predictable yaz reaction is predictable sldkfjlskdf -damn, cool transformation sequence.   -omg CREDIT INTERRUPTIONS WHAT. -ok im just gonna say it.... space venetian's guy's acting... .. . not the strongest sdfjlkf -PARALLEL TO YAZ AND THIRTEEN GETTING SEPARATED TO THESE TWO BEING SEPARATED -those two are such nerds

well... it was overall a well-realized, visually stunning episode... but i was kinda bored the whole time :/ ... i think the reasons were that: a) the world of the town and clare didnt feel as "live in" or imainative as other ones we've seen in flux. and b) the lack of doctor o/ companion interactions set it down my stimations too. and c) it didnt really feel like a flux story? besides the little vignette with in space venice,  it could have been inserted any other season. all that said, the last 3 minutes almosssst made up for all of that sdkljf

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-the recap drilling in that somehow this is all gonna be the doctor's fuck up *somehow* dklfjfdskjfkld -(love that for her) -i can see that limited edition figurine (tm) on display already. -"BLINKING... BLINKING!! ... tough crowd >:(" thirteen sdlfjd you're such a child i love you. -"my friends are never lost" AWW ......... well, actually- -this era has some..... inconsistent issues with font. -i can see the big finish "gap years" audios on sale already. -why is jericho still herrreeee eeee ugh -yaz's 1900s look is....  a lot................................. wowie🥵 -yaz's theme variation? -orange vs blue motif again with the doctor in this dimmension vs the companion at the temple. -RETURN TO OOD -"she is waiting"... yes definetly a tardis like ppl speculated  so .. . omg MASTER??? RANI?????????? VALEYARD? ?? BRAX????????? F  R E D??????? -RASSILON? (https://youtu.be/SfGDbEGC6hw) -eu vibes intensify again -AHHH -cant have aworld-trodding story without constantinople -the transition yesss -temple raiding, -december 5th!!!! 👀  omf i love when shows do that slkdfjsd -yaz stepping it up with these historical-lesbian outfits every scene. -AWNSER THE QUESTION OR ILL BITE YOUR TOES -the use of genre-conventions in their plot is very fun (temple-raiding, agatha cristie-esque travels, etc) -"you seem remarkably proficient at this, Ms. Khan"  this will be a Problem. -HOLY SHIT... UNIT?????????????????????????? -HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT -I WASNT EXPECTING THIS OMG GDLJFGKLDFJG -UNITED NATIONS TASK FORCE MOTHER FUCKERSSSS -i didnt say it last ep but the colorization in this "pasture" setting is rather nice! looks like an old picture. -OH MY GOD THE HOLOGRAMS - CHIBNALL YOU ARE JUST PULLING MY EYELIDS WITH THESE PARALLELS NOW ARE YOU SERIOUS -also blue scheme of the vinder / bel one vs golden one for thasminssss -EVERYTHING CONNECTS -(btw for the Xenites... ring trilogy boat scene vibes anyone? "I'm lost without you, Xena"?) -the chidi "This broke me. the little dot over the "i". I'm done." meme but it's me with this scene :) -it's about the cones yearning -gayness aside that was a great scene. lots of build up, set up, character stuff in like 1 minute! -"there will be displaced creatures who need a home. that would mean a time of battle for ownership of battle of the earth" the climate change meta keeps intensifying (also once again chibnall being weird about his messaging dsljkfsd "that dalek is a refugee" flashbacks 😬) -jericho taking a hint and dan being a good bro.  gotta #respect. -(also how many times has this happened in their journey that they know what to do by heart..... . ... . fic writers go off) -Susan, that you? -(maybe it's just another future / past doctor skldjf) -damn, you can feel how the doctor still edges and puffs   when they talk about the "time lord directive"... interesting... -I guess one can't unlearn  cultural ingraining in 4billion years it seems... -"not every civilization works or is enlightenement" shut up you fucking colonizer. -omg his dark materials viiiiiiibes -DOG NINJA TIME -dog ninja and bel not getting alone lol we love to see it (I like that flux has this constant ensamble... sometimes they're more refreshing than our fam sdlsk) -how are so many people surviving in a world with nothing -"YOU ARE SPACE. AND WE ARE TIME." -I was at first kinda underwhelmed by their plan to use people as a power source bc from all aspects, electrically, chemically, etc. people must be a really shitty power source compared to so many other things. Howeverrr.... maybe this functions like Clara's leaf? you know, using the "potentiality" of teir futures that are taken from them? it's a bit of a watsonian explenation that probably isn't true (compared to the doylist one that was "the writers just wanted something that sounded evil" lol) but y'know, i think it could be cool to interpret it like that, mixing that bit of lore with this... -oh shi they were part of the flox all this time!! - OH THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE DIVISION!!! (I thought it could have been something to do withthe space between atoms but this is super cool too) -THE DOCTOR GETTING DISTRACTED BY THE COOL SCIENCE ADKLJFDS -FUCKING TYPICAL.... i love them T_T -I was wondering about this!!! ever since the first episode it was so suspect that they never mentioned the multiverse when they talked about "the end of the universe". Aghh, I love this serial guys. It's been so clever in hinting things by suspectfully ignoring them. -oh no, the V-word...... -"what sort of virus?" "You"  LMAO SHE LOOKS SO OFFENDED I DIED -"You got out from division, and you couldn't leave the universe alone. You know, I blame myself a little but, mostly, I blame you. I thought you were managable. But I had to admit I what I always knew deep down. You'd never stop if you rediscovered what Division had done. I mean, morality... was always your flaw" "Morality is a strenght" fuck im so into this. peak who. quintessential who. essecential who. concentrated who JUICE. inject IT into my VEINS. -oh I guess flux wasn't a doctor fuck up after all lol god bless. -these guys are such good villains honestly...well, time lords as villains are the BEST, really. -'cause like you can see the logic/nuance on why they did this, their need for control and to ultimately preserve the unvierse (deep down the same drive the doctor and company follow), but it is their methods and lack of willingness to like... not try to mastermind the entirety of existence that is their downfall. there's a really cool social commentary/philosophical viewpoint in that. -I like how she even says "the TARDIS"  kind of disparingly lol almost making fun of the made-up acronym ldsjf -can't introduce the first female doctor without introducing her abusive mother. -cartmell would be proud -speaking back to the thing about "weirdly ignoring things in the script" but actually that turning out to be foreshawding... I think that's why this UNIT origin stuff is so damn satisfying sdlkfj 'cause not only is it cool in itself,  but it was *also* super suspect that after all the mythological work that's been done in the entire expanded universe of doctor who to show earthlings fighting back against threats and even seeing them before the doctor does (both UNIT and Torchwood constantly, plus sometimes old companions doing it) it was so suspect that this aspect wouldn't come up again in the apocalypse. - LETHBRIDGE STEWART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -"HE'S A SHOUTER, BUT HE'S VERY GOOD" -TARDIS!!!!!!!!!!!!  (are they referencing a particular story?) -"it does look... special" the shade lmao -"my god, general, you really are a fool" i like this guy now dkslfj so much shade in every sentence. -RIP. UNIT boss #1 -(their first boss dying foolishly~ like that tho... not be mean but... #onbrand) -oh, that's why it's called the grand serpent. -(Boreal in HDM vibes? lol) -the division probably uses and discards oods like this all the time... -i mean im loving this but... it does seem like a fairly complicated plan just to get the doctor in one place sdkljfdklsjf if the division is All That maybe they could have, idk lured her into a big cardboard box with some jammie dodgers on a string...? -(but maybe the point is that thid is all kind of irrational?) -THE MASTERRR!!!!!! dslkjf honestly this is all his fault. thank you master for this amazing serial. u did awesome sweet you can have that little murdering-of-all-of-gallifrey, as a treat <3 -climate change meta#3948: the timeless  child represents the mistreatment of refuges? (probably hinting at the child being lost as being the victim of something the division/the time lords might have done in the first place? maybe by warring war on a distant ancient galaxy?) -time lords are colonizers meta #43928390´+3498: "You took something that didn't belong to you" "(laughs) I *rescued* you" -"what if, what if, what if" "you denied my life!" "I gave you your life. Everythin you are is because of me." ............... oh no this hits too close home i dont like it. -hearing tecteum rn makes me feel like this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2INBe_qZFo but with an extra dash of abusive dynamics ldk -at the same time im like thirteen... shoving chibnall down a hill... screaming angstyly "SHOW ME THE RESSSST" -OMG ya'll im lossing my mind i looked up that scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDsJaJiZmfY) to make the joke and was gobsmaked by the parallel....  "(...) that all I am is somehow because of you, and believe me when I say, I cannot *bear* that" /// "everything you are is because of *me*" -her face ): my heart :( -now tecteum is making fun of her profession seriously chibnall im seriously worried about your upbringing now bro SDLKJFdskljfkldsjfkl what did you have to go through to write this stuff -"what do you even do, doctor? when are you even getting married?" -i mean tecteum is wrong in her reading of the doctor's companions as their "experiments" that they "uses" for company,...  but i imagine it manages to tug a little at the doctor's conscience bc of how shit she's been to her friends lately sdfjfds so i'm sure even tho she says "we're not the same" (that's what u call.. ,. .. a pro abuser mood 💥🔥😎) -aside: the doctor is now even more of a ... like, quintessential "classic english literature" right? with this background of the poor street urchin that gets picked up and used by the shitty lower-tier family of nobles... it's all very Dickensonian lol -their actinggggggg. im feeling things. -passanger is really creepy in this scene. -ouch the green screen dlkfjs at least the design is nice though -"finally, someone with a gun" FDLKSJ i love her. Di honey he doesn't know what a liverpool is dlskjfdklsj -I love them and their little quest damn. BIG FINISH GET TO WORK. -"telephone?" -yaz looks so cute in her lil fur hat T_T -i love this show -FETCH YOUR DOG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCREAMING -i love this dumbass, campyass, heart-wreching show. -vandalising around world heritage sites is just peak companion energy. -"HUMANS ARE SO ANNOYING. SPECIALLY HIM" danista nation RISE -"i have no rabbits" "...it's a metaphor" "or hats" "IT DOESNT MATTER" dfsslkjflksdjf she is so damn tired -"it is designed that way" mannnnnn. the asshole ABUSE.... .w e love to see it sldjfdskl -oh the house!!! i forgot about it too dsklfjklsd -FOBWACH FOBWACH FOBWATCH -seriously it is so fitting that there was a "snake" right under the noses of UNIT's early years. im screaming at how fitting it all is lol -"people don't like you, Prentice" i died -more gold vs blue schemes with this scene in the dinning room vs this one in the car. -"still no doctor" poor lil' lesbian -THE MAD MOLE -shout out to all the liverpolians who called out who this guy was 'cause no one else would have ever known haha -petty sheffield vs liverpool rivalries, we love to see it. -that "fianlly" was weirdly moving sdljfdslkf -oh noooo ooooooooooo rowan's meta on the memories... is coming TOT -cartmell.... imma let you finish.... russel imma let you finish.... moffat imma let you finish... nathan turner imm- -the doctor's unphased face as she hears tecteum's bs is like, peak doctor. i love it when any doctor makes that face sljfdjkl -i love that engines of the machine are in touch with the drama of the scene, like how they hummed right after "what would you give to know?"  lol -"what if i left the earth?" now that's an incentive! -KATE STEWARTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH -KATE PLEASE DONT DIE -fFUCK UFCK KFSDLKJFK I CANT BELIEVE HE EVEN WENT BACK TO GIVE THIS MUCH LORE TO THE UNIT BEING DISPATCHED THING SDKLFJDKL AND WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A RBEXIT THING !!!! AHHHHHHHHH -"i see you. i see *you*. whatever you are. hiding in plain sigh for so long, barerly aging. you are gambling that nobody cares, that nobody looks at unit anymore. but i care, more than anyone." -"a weekend, a day?" -KATE DONT DIE!!!! DONT DIE PLEASE -osgood! man chibnall is such  a faboy lol i would not have done that reference slkdjf -THEY'RE ALL ENSAMBLING THIS IS SO EXCITING -ministerio  del tiempo and doctor who fans losing their shit over these "tunnels" - who is that??? sdlkjf -chekov's potato gun -HOLD ON TO THAT HAT -imagine plotting this season dslkfjdlks im -RIP tecteum we hardly knew ya. -O BRASIL TA LASCADO

damn hto damn

this arc remains the most ive enjoyed dw.

thank you @chibnall for tailoring this crazy season to me specifically (and like 8 other people).

[sanstropfremir]

it’s the episode 8 review!!! how many episodes is this show supposed to even be?

the stages from the episode feel like such a grab bag.... i still don’t understand why they didn’t put all the skill stages together, and then did the normal two episodes of the third round. i guess it makes sense that they didn’t want to have six stages in one episode and then three in the other two, but eh. 

feeling kinda average on these as a whole, there’s a lot of good elements going on here but probably because of my own preferences (i don’t listen to ballads or blackpink) none of them really hit all the buttons. hopefully this will be a shorter review because i'm only going to do a quick rundown of the vocal stages; i dont really have that much to say about them because they are (intentionally) not very stage picture focused. i'll do the normal stage breakdowns for the other two though, even though i won’t rank them because we still need to see the other four!

vocal stages

sf9 + tbz + ikon

not much to say here other than wow, that’s RED. glad to see some more specific use of spotlighting and i always love when they light things on fire. i do wish they had fill lit with a brighter amber so we could actually get a bit more detail on their faces, especially because there’s six of them. i appreciated the simple blocking and only using one of the ‘stages,’ this stage didn’t need to be anything complicated and it wasn’t. i don’t love spinning camera shots because they make me a bit ill, and i'll forgive the constant cutting because it's a vocal stage and there isn’t any other real movement that we should be paying attention to. not my favourite of the two, i found it visually a bit too repetitive and complex at the same time. always love a crushed velvet suit though, so bonus points for that.

atz + skz + btob

i was braced for the worst and i dont know what kind of miracle happened but it was listenable! like i said, not a ballad fan but i could listen to eunkwang all day. i love a good plinth for a ballad stage, they’re one of my favourite devices in kpop design and i especially love it with a good groundlevel fog. glad they kept it black and white for the first half of the stage, it was in line with the blooming flower projections, and it made a very clear colour arc. they kept the visuals clean and simple with very little blocking at all, a very smart choice for this stage. not sure why they decided it would be the chanel time stage, which i disapprove of because i don’t like chanel, but i do love eunkwang’s shirt with the cameo buttons and the massive turnback cuffs, very 17th and also 19th century. i know they never do it because they dont read on stage normally but yes absolutely more thin chain pendant chokers on men, thank you! i also liked that there was emphasis on a more traditional lighting scheme, there weren't any crazy concert effects, just some good directional beam spotlights and the rear stacks in the climax. 

third round stages

ikon

costume

the first look for them is definitely my fabourite of theirs so far. there’s enough variation in the jackets that the base layer of tshirt and jeans don’t look too repetitive. and i do love a good statement jacket. my favourite is probably donghyuk’s because i'm a sucker for fringe always.

i don’t like the backup dancers costumes, but given the way i’ve reacted to every other all black outfit for this entire show i don’t think anyone was surprised about that. these ones particularly irk me because they’re very matte; there's pretty much no texture or pattern differentials to define the shape of the limb, which makes them disappear when theyre all grouped together (mostly on the women). i think they probably were intending to make a statement/emphasis on the hands because of the sleeve cutoff point, but there were so many arm movements that were just totally missed because the costumes were just black voids. most egregious parts are here, with the female dancers up center. i can barely tell what the movements are unless i’m paying specific attention to them because there's so many black shapes. maybe it was the point for it to be an indiscernable writhing mass, but it wasn’t my vibe.

don’t love this styling on lisa. i hate peeptoe shoes in general but peeptoe boots are the worst offenders. they make you look like you have duck feet, no matter who you are. especially with a flat cutout like that. a universally unflattering shoe, and i would know, i worked in a shoe store for two years. this whole look is just pg-13 rihanna cfda awards 2014 and really nobody should try to run up against rihanna.

also i have to mention this because it’s actually really bothering me, but lisa’s backup dancers are serving very allgemeine ss looks and i do not like it. generally when we see ‘military’ uniforms in kpop theyre usually modelled off older styles (pre wwii) of western uniforms that usually aren’t in circulation, and they’re usually non-matching and embellished in ways that are deliberately not military. i know logically that it's a budget constraint+they’re backup dancers+current trend thing but the clean lines with only button detailing and the all black and that specific harness shape? it hit my brain the wrong way. i mean, technically those uniforms are designer because hugo boss did them, but the uh..... girlboss move didn’t land for me.

this is my PERSONAL OPINION please for the love of all that is holy do not come yelling at me about this. it’s all under a cut, you chose to read the post.

set

very glad to see some busy kitschy sets! this is a massive build, since there’s essentially three full sets here: the temple, the jungle, and the first tiny room. and all of them are very heavily decorated. 

the starting room is just five walls on casters (wheels), that have been set into place with the cameraman and ikon inside at the start, and then once they exit the walls can be easily struck and rolled off set. simple, smart, and convenient!

i missed it the first couple times around but glitching out the projections in the temple for a split second was a neat little trick.

the silver and polygonal nature of the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a bit disconnected from the gold and the aesthetic of the rest of the stage for me. the difference between the original room set and the jungle tracks, but the cat head isnt able to make the same leap for me. i'm also not a fan of mixing metals so maybe that’s why.

the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a fun physical transitional device; i'm a big fan of tunnels and small transitory spaces like that and if they’re well dressed like this one they do so much for establishing place and mood.

i'm very sure i’ve seen this style of polygonal animal head with laser eyes before....i cannot for the life of me remember where or for what. i know wang yibo did a panther stage for sdc3 that had a human formation panther with green laser eyes, i wonder if i'm just crossing wires.

OH nevermind it’s because it looks like the witcher medallion. wires were definitely crossed.

lighting

using purple/teal lighting for the jungle was a smart choice because purple is the direct compliment to the gold and also is much more flattering on humans than green. green is one of the colours that humans can see the most variations in, so when something is green when it's not supposed to be (like human skin), we register that very quickly and associate it with unease and sickness. you know how old fluorescent lights have that greenish tinge that kinda makes you feel ill? it's your cone cells and your brain recognizing that you’re looking at things that are not supposed to be green.

very clean colour arc, i love to see it.

sound

it’s.....fine? i don’t listen to blackpink and have no opinions on their music other than it's not my type. i dont really know what the thematic connection to the visuals is, which is not strictly necessary in a lot of cases, but i don’t particularly care for the conflation of ‘savage’ and a (presumably) precolonial religion that’s assembled from stereotypes of real colonized cultures. you can come at me about how ‘it's not that deep’ all you want but i am here specifically doing an in depth analysis, and i gotta point it out. i'm not here to pass judgement on you if you didn’t realize or don’t care or whatever, i'm just saying that it's important to consume content with a critical eye. what you do with that information is your own personal choice, but you should be aware of it at least. 

staging

they took a big risk eating popcorn right before singing, and we definitely got some residual mouth noises of them trying to clean out their teeth. eating on stage is difficult in general because you have to make sure it's not going to dry out the performers mouths, because they dont have access to water and it takes WAY longer to chew and swallow something than you would expect. there’s a LOT of testing that goes into making stage food and guaranteed it’s not made out of what it looks like or what its supposed to be; i worked on a production of amadeus were we did literal weeks of testing amalgams of different desserts to make sure that salieri could actually eat the ones onstage without totally drying him out, because fun fact about that show, salieri doesnt leave stage like, at all, so there was no way to get him water. poor bloke.

i thought the blocking of this was really smart. the long take from the ‘normal’ room and transition into the jungle was super slick, even if that weird circle the camera did while pointed up at the ceiling was unnecessary and pointless.

bobby’s ‘acting’ was extremely funny and that’s the only way people are allowed to act surprised now. edvard munsch scream style only.

the pacing is a bit off and this time it wasn’t mnet’s editing that fucked it up. as fun as it is to have a feature, clearly she wasn’t allowed within proximity of the rest of them for covid or other yg related reasons, but it made for some extremely long transitions, especially the one out of her verse. it kills the momentum of the stage in that beat, even though they manage to pick it up after.

this is a very simple little narrative arc that’s easy to follow and doesn’t require any extra explaining. which is exactly the kind of arc that groups should be doing at this stage in the game. this is a good formic step up for ikon!

i thought the turning off of the monitor at the end was fun and a good callback to them watching the videos at the beginning of the stage. a nice clean way to make it circular.

skz

costume

FINALLY something different on the skz boys! these were mostly fun eboy looks for them, and i like it on the basis that it's not the same as the last set of costumes.

bang chan out there with his thigh OUT and a (fake) bridge piercing? LOVE to see it. great work.

(copy-paste every thing i’ve said about backup dancers wearing all black)

the backup dancers that were dressed as bystanders/extras were great! they should have kept that with all of them because it would have given a little more shape to the choreography and establishing what function the backup dancers were supposed to have.

set

that is meant to be a giant rice cooker on stage, right? i think so because it's a god’s menu mashup? if that's not a rice cooker i have NO idea what its supposed to be

there’s only two large setpieces here, which was a smart way to go. i LOVE the subway car doubling as the truck, even if the truck itself makes no narrative sense. what a fun way to double the use of a single big piece. you’ll be able to see the way it moves in the full cam but it splits down the centre and there entrance doors at the back with attached stairs that bang chan and the dancers use to climb up.

lighting

not a whole lot happening here. i like the cool white leds in the subway car and the contrast with the more warm tones of the outside, which is good atmospheric establishment, but i can't discern a visible arc. 

not a fan of these projections; they’re in line with what we’ve seen from skz so far, which is: extremely literal. i dont think they’re that distracting, but they’re not to my personal taste. they really should have kept the comic panel theme that they did for changbin’s first verse, because that was inventive and fun to watch! and a great atmospheric indicator! i would love to see a bit more experimental projection use but it's hard when they don’t have a lot of time to build these stages and the lighting team is definitely working remotely.

sound

i love that they made the choice to do some actual talking, it’s a good gimmick and it works for the deadpool/comic book/fourth wall break theme, but australian accents take me the fuck out i am so sorry i cannot listen to either felix or bang chan speak english without laughing uncontrollably. 

i don’t like this arrangement but i'm not surprised about that, given my predilections. i'm also tired of skz shouting STRAY KIDS in every performance they do. i know on music shows it's probably more relevant and yea producers tags are a thing but we’ve been watching this show for nearly two months at this point. we know who you are, you can stop yelling. be more creative with it!

staging

my biggest issue with this stage is that it doesn’t have a payoff. there is an arc here: they’re stealing the truck, but why are they stealing the truck? who are they stealing it from? who are they fighting against? it's kind of important in a stage where the theme is stealing and fighting someone that you tell us who that is. in both of ateez’s previous stages were they were both stealing (rhythm ta) and fighting (wonderland), they made sure to show us who the villain was. there needs to be tension for a big blowup climax to actually pay off. whether it be against a a balloon arm kraken or a fascist government. this stage could have reached that next step if they’d just done a little bit more exposition. 

there were a lot of fun choreo moments here, and this is probably my favourite choreo of theirs so far. i thought the whole first bit in the subway car was excellent and a very fun play on those viral videos that we used to see roll around every so often of dancers doing routines in subway cars.

did it need the guns? not in the slightest. more on this point later. i could talk more about weapons and weight here, but i’ve done that several times already.

like with the tbz game of thrones stages, theyre relying a little too much on the audience's preconceptions of the source material in order to carry the theme. the guns are there because deadpool likes guns, but they don’t actually use the guns for anything? the most we get of the stealing segment is felix and the safe, which admittedly is a great bit with him leaping over and under the ‘laser’ lines (theyre likely led strips). because comic books are by nature procedural and deeply tied to narrative, it's unsatisfying when there’s no tension and no payoff.

HOW did we manage to get two stages that are blackpink covers with remote/tv static gimmick and durags? i know the slot machine of kpop tropes is not very big but surely the probability of hitting triple sevens on this one was pretty low. i’m pretty meh on both of these stages overall. skz was unsatisfying but i loved the choreo in the subway bit so that bumped it up a little ahead of ikon’s in my personal preferences, but i'm reserving my actual rankings for next week. assuming we get the other four stages next week and they dont do something stupid and only show two. which they very well might. i’ve stopped trying to understand why mnet does things the way that they do. 

as always the ask box is open, drop your comments/questions/personal opinions, i love to hear ‘em! but don’t be rude just because some of this is touchier subject material.

[felassanis]

I've seen so many fans fucking livid about there being a female viking and LGBT romance in the new AC Valhalla because they say its historically inaccurate, there were no LGBT vikings nor people back then because it wasnt a part of the culture and that no one wanted this beardless man who makes Abbie from the last of us Fuckable.

First of all, yeah theres no historical data to suggest that women went on raids with the men during the Viking age but given that Viking mythology depicts female warriors all the time and THIS IS A GAME, WHERE FAMOUS PHILOSOPHER NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI WAS AN ASSASSIN, then it makes sense for Ubisoft to bend some elements to carry on the story and to make the game appealing to all types of gamers (because they really shot themselves in the foot with making it a near mandatory mechanic for players to be both Male and female) these games have historical settings but it's not the point of the game to be historically accurate its meant to tell a story, and really it makes no sense for badass women to exist in their mythology but not in their society. (Obviously it's because women were seen as lesser, even if Viking women did have a lot more freedom than other women of the time) but it's not out of the question for Ubisoft to do this.

Secondly, LGBT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOREVER YOU DONKEYS. No, their culture may or may not have allowed, approved or hell, even conceptualized it, but that doesn't mean Gay Vikings or bisexual Vikings weren't real nor existed. You dont choose your sexuality and that's not a thing the SJW's came up with, it is literal human biology. You dont choose how your wired, it may take you your entire life to figure it out but that's because we've lived in a world where LGBT have been discriminated against for millennia (or you're just not sure and that's fine) and a lot of them have been forced into heterosexual relations or manipulated into thinking they're something they're not. But they still existed and to claim it has no place just sounds like your mad you gotta see two men kiss on someone's play through and that your raging because you've potentially got to hear a man flirt with you and your very very very "strong" masculinity cannot deal with it.

Thirdly, Women back then unfortunately did not look like Lara Croft and you cant complain about lack of historical accuracy and then expect hot babes with bouncing tits in a Viking game. Also, yes currently we live in a society where female characters are expected to be more than Fuckable, sorry you can't get your dick wet, but I think female Eivor looks really hot actually.

[nahimjustfeelingit-writes]

I don't know why I am sending this to you LOL. I honestly feel like you are super chill and open minded and I needed a place to get this out my head lol

MBJ and LH dating has been rubbing me the wrong way and for the longest I didn't know why. I feel absolutely stupid and crazy because I wholeheartedly MBJ personal life is none of my business. TBH its Team Killmonger over MBJ any day💀. Which is why I feel like a complete weirdo LOL. But then it like finally clicked for me why I feel so bothered/pressed.

The reason its bothering me, a rando off the internet who do not know this man personally is because it confirmed TO ME that dark skin black girls are just not wanted or desired in a way I would like see them be.

Now everyone deserves love and to be happy and I'm glad in a way that there having fun and happy with each other. Even tho it doesn't look like I am LOL. Maybe its projection on my part but i dunno its sort of confirm that niggas don't really fuq with dark skin girls on that level (althought it wasnt really hidden lol). Like I have been in and out of many fandoms and in every single one its either:

1. They do not fuq with any black girls especially the dark ones

2. They do show love and uplift black girls but not the dark ones. And when I say show love I mean in a misogynistic way lol

3. They fuq with dark girls in a fetish-y, non human kind of way.

I dunno I just always get a feeling just before I join a fandom. Kind of like I'm bracing myself for potential fuckery. I guess i didn't brace myself time around. Idk maybe cause I thought because he is actually pro black and not as openly fucked up as like chris brown or kodak black (Jeez the bar was low lol). I know im projecting and being weird but i dont know. It just like i can't help but feeling like the sad insecure 12 year old little girl who felt so ugly cause her skin. Like soo it's so stupid and i know this because at the end of the day I DONT KNOW THIS MAN and he sure as fuck don't know me lol. And his business is his business. I have no idea why this out of all things mbj dating life brought these insecure feelings up but yeah. Writing all this down was sort therapeutic, maybe I'll get a journal then burn it LOL. Sorry for all the typos!

On a lighter note, keep posting your selfies and unapologetically you because you are extremely pretty and seeing you be confident gives me hope that one day I'll be like that too!

Okay so you’re beautiful!!!! I know you’re on anon but you’re beautiful to me and this isn’t weird at all so don’t feel ashamed that it’s how you feel.

Not saying this about Mike but one thing about a man that turns me off (among other things) is cowardice. That includes not going for what you truly desire and letting other people’s actions and words make you do something. A lot of times from what I’ve experienced in my younger days is guys follow a crowd of hype for lighter skinned women and non black women. Same goes for plus size girls. The guy will be attracted to them, but their friends or whoever else sees different so they gotta follow that wave. It doesn’t help that society has wired the mines of these people to find fairer skinned women or racially ambiguous women to be prettier. Dark skinned women are always left in the dark and shamed. It’s the truth.

Now as far as MBJ, I feel you on that. I root for him to find someone that makes him happy because I’m a fan, but of course I’m not going to deny that I’d love to see him with a dark skinned black women. I feel like a lot of people that he hangs with also play apart in it. He’s an actor, Hollywood all that. I definitely keep an eye on him and he’s very “secretive” about who he’s attracted to. I’ve seen him like a ton of dark skinned women’s posts like a thirsty guy would. Like why hide what you like? Not saying he has to prove anything. All in all I get why it bothers you. I also think that’s why fans prefer Erik (fictional) over MBJ.