#i say stupid shit online all the time i think a good 80% of my posts about sonic are just written in the moment without thinking about it
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twigwing ¡ 2 years ago
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rajbow4ever ¡ 11 months ago
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my rajbow hcs, copy and pasted straight from my tt cz what else do i post...
(some of these are in full grammar for some reason?? idk all of these were from various middle-of-the-night decisions)
raj: did figure skating for a while when he was younger but stopped because people called him un-manly
bowie: tries to persuade him to try it again
raj: goes to stroke every stray animal he finds on the street
bowie: 'babe that probably has 20 diseases...' lets him do it anyway because he wants to see raj smile
raj: can talk about his interests for hours at a time
bowie: thinks its the cutest thing ever and loves to listen
bowie: owns one of those small business jewelry shops online
raj: learnt how to make little beaded bracelets for it
bowie: naturally very good with instruments
raj: doesnt even know how to hold a guitar
raj: got banned from his local arcade for raging at a claw machine
bowie: claw machine pro (gives 80% of the prizes he gets to raj)
bowie: loves pointless internet debates like how many holes are in a straw
raj: doesn't understand a single one of them
raj: didnt think narwhals were real because they're like 'unicorns of the sea'
bowie: had to search them up to prove they existed
raj: chronic weezer fan (same raj same)
bowie: listens to whatever's popular most of the time, but he listens to a lot of upbeat stuff
raj: is able to notice if bowie gets stuck in his thoughts
bowie: is able to notice if raj is stressed about something
raj: Gives Bowie cool rocks he finds.
bowie: Keeps. Every. Single. One.
raj: Was shocked to find out most people can't down five burgers after a simple hockey game.
bowie: Is just ever-so-slightly terrified.
raj: Sleeps at 9pm, wakes up at 5am - but them goes back to sleep and waked again randomly.
bowie: Sleeps at 4am, wakes up at 10am.
bowie: Took Raj to watch one of his basketball games.
raj: Was just staring, absolutely ENAMOURED, IN AWE at him the whole time.
raj: Scared of birds (cassowary incident).
bowie: Scared of spiders.
raj: Attacks every spider he sees.
bowie: Scares away every bird he sees.
raj: Surprisingly a very good cook, but is banned from the microwave.
bowie: Also a very good cook (is not banned from the microwave).
bowie: Bought Raj star-shapes sunglasses to match with his heart-shaped ones.
raj: They became his most prized possessions ever.
raj: uses stupid words like "coolio" and "awesomesauce"
bowie: "what the FUCK are you saying"
raj: incredibly tactile, loves physical affection
bowie: always initiates it because he knows how much raj love it
bowie: worries sometimes because he thinks he's 'ruining raj'
raj: took after some of bowie's snark
bowie: is good at skating, but falls over a lot so he continues to do it just for fun
raj: genuine pro at skating, if you name it as long as it's on ice he can probably do it
bowie: monopoly demon. takes the money from everyone, wins everything
raj: fairest monopoly player ever but is incredibly competitive
raj: struggles with panic attacks every now and then, wayne usually helps but he's started letting bowie see him vulnerable too
bowie: taught him fancy breathing techniques (that i don't trust myself to name)
they play 2 player princess tycoon on roblox together
bowie: kills everyone
raj: actually does the tycoon
bowie: is a big fan of horror movies but screams every time something even slightly scary happens
raj: is terrified of horror movies but watches them with bowie (he hopes that bowie will get scared and latch onto him)
raj: hates talking to the waiters when ordering food
bowie: does it for him
bowie: had an emo phase when he was way younger
raj: found his old emo clothes "HOLY SHIT??"
raj: believes in ghosts n that stuff
bowie: thinks its the most stupid thing ever (secretly believes in them)
thank you for listening to my ted talk. next post scheduled for 2025 i think
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spyridonya ¡ 1 year ago
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How the Drow Became Problematic Faves - a Badly Written Meta History of D&D
Oh, hey. It feels like newcomers to D&D via BG3 fandom have discovered the Problematic Nature of Drow via Halsin vs Minthara conflict. 
Cut because of talk of racism and it being fucking long.
Let's talk about meta, first. So, the very first usage of 'drow' came from a dialetc of Scots as a term for troll, which was used to talk about all sorts of evil spirits. When Gary Gygax had to make a war game, he decided he'd make evil elves. They were based on 'black elves' in the Prose Edda and saw the word 'Drow' in a dictionary that claimed it was a term for underground elves who were skilled workers in metal. Being a white guy in the late 70s, he saw no issues in making evil elves actually black. For the next decade or so, they were canon fodder for modules and novels and always evil and repugnant. 
In the late 80s and early 90s, R. A. Salavotre and Ed Greenwood slapped on the concept of drow society being an evil dystopian society run by dominatrixes who emasculate men, in the Forgotten Realms setting. There were a few token dark elves, namely the super popular Drizzt Do'Urden, who were good but the majority were not. Like Gary, RA and Ed were white guys who did not see the problem of black elves and putting their kink into deep lore. Not all settings went by this, Dragonlance for example had drow just be ‘evil assholes elves who got kicked out of their society’ and look like just any other elves.  
(Quick note on Drizzt, he became iconic not because of his race but so much as being an outsider to two cultures while being a badass. I might not be a fan personally, but I know the appeal of the character.) 
The 90s came along and by the end of the decade, TSR was bought by Wizards of he Coast who proceeded to make the Drow even Grim Darker during 3rd edition  to go along with the times. Yet, too, didn’t stop to think about the problematic issues that were being brought up by more thoughtful fans - WotC hired another module company who wrote about  drow women being so fucking evil, they an orgasm like reaction when embryo killed each other in the womb. 
4th Edition came and went. No one talks about those times. Drow existed as evil. 
2014, 5e comes along and drow are so fucking popular, they’re included in the Player’s Handbook, rather in errata based books, as ‘humanoid’. In fact other evil races were introduced under the label of ‘humanoid’, indicating orcs and goblinkin. About a year later, Matt Mercer switched up his TTRPG to 5e because it was an easier system for his friends to understand, and they began to show their games online under Critical Role while a year after that Stranger Things came out and became a smash hit. 
Between these two, D&D explodes in popularity with an entirely new demographic group that began to outnumber the old guard. This larger and more diverse popular saw drow and other ‘evil races’ and went ‘wtf’. They didn’t exactly like the concept of ‘an always evil race’ and discovered the problematic issues that collected over the last several decades not with just drow, but with ‘monstrous’ races. 
WotC wanting money began to listen - just really slowly, and not so much in Forgotten Realms.They dropped the ‘always evil’ from the stat block but refused to change anything else to their older settings. 
(Incidentally, the company that made Grim Dark Drow really disliked 4e. They decided to make their own take of 3.5e with Hookers and Blackjack and made Pathfinder, which was supposed to be Edgier Game than D&D. However, a lot of people they hired were quick to notice the nature of the game and say, ‘nah, this shit is stupid’. As of now, Pazio is retconning drow from their lore. - That my friends, is called a character arc.)
During this 46 year span, drow have been fucking evil because their goddess made them do it as justification of their evilness - and not because they were black or born into it. In fact, Lloth, Gruumsh and Maglubiyet are the reasons why the Drow, Orc, and Goblinkin society is so evil and they’re also why they can function as a society when in truth, they all should have fallen apart. And no one has bothered to change this lore. In fact they avoid mentioning this lore rather than changing it to avoid conflict with older fans and newer fans. 
Then BG3 hits and hits harder than anyone expected. A lot of new fans come on aboard and really begin to like Drow, who are super sexy evil elves, not knowing the lore and kicking the problematic issues down the road. Larian was a bit quicker than TSR/WotC to realize ‘wow, this is fucking yikes’ and decided to make Seldarine drow. I’ve been playing since I was young teen, in the last years of 3.xe. I saw a lot of wanna-be Drizzt and Good Aligned Drow that were played variably, but there were a lot of people who loved the concept. While Seldarine aren’t a concept in TTRPG canon proper, the idea of Seldarine drow has existed for decades at tables, and Larian acknowledging that is something I love.
But they made Llothsworn Drow as the ‘lore compliant drow’ because WotC hasn’t changed drow in decades. 
The thing is, Drow being Problematic Faves isn’t because WotC is wildly racist on purpose, it’s just that during the majority of Drow being A Thing in D&D, they have been Sexy and Evil Villains and play the role of Misunderstood Outsider (though this recently has been taken over by tieflings).
In fact, I’m seeing a lot of new fans getting kicked in the teeth when characters react to a Llothsworn drow as flat out evil and not being judged by their actions, because they don’t know it’s been a thing in D&D for years with narrative excuses to justify in-universe racism. And then there are some players who make an evil Llothsworn drow and still get upset despite playing into in-universe reasons for the excuses of racism.
We’re seeing it as a reaction to datamined information with little context other than an abused white guy feels uncomfortable with an abused black woman - and it’s super hard to justify in-universe reasons for this because in the real world, a white guy is going to be listened to and believed regardless of it being true or not.
Essentially, the drow are a fucking mess due to D&D ignoring the racial implications of drow in the real world for nearly 50 years. The only way to fix it is making major lore changes, which is something they’re reluctant to do because they’re making their errata books so damn light on lore as to avoid conflict and the model sells.
Will this change with BG3? I don’t know. But I kinda hope so. 
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lol-jackles ¡ 1 year ago
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Okay, maybe the Ackleses can conquer the industry with their understanding of PR. How did HBO senior executives decide that they could fix people's reactions to mediocre shows by using sock accounts to argue with people on Twitter? To make it even stupider, they also ticked off the poor underling they assigned the job, so much that he threw it into a court case over working conditions at the company. LMAO at these overpaid clowns.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/hbo-chief-casey-bloys-fake-twitter-accounts-1235634912/
Link. You mean social media can be used as a weapon?  You don't say?!
Like, is anyone really surprised?   My former colleagues were more mad that Boyd couldn’t be assed to make his own fake Twitter account but had to tell an underling to do it.  But I was, come on, most companies have a staffer or two doing sneaky social media things like this, pushing their narrative.  Hello, ever been on the Apple TV online discourse?  Apple has some good shows, but online discourse would make you think that they were already way out ahead of golden era HBO.   No doubt there are some dedicated Apple fans, but I find it hard to believe that level of devotion was natural.  And you know Amazon Prime does this, as they're the most desperate to have a cultural impactful show.
At least Mittens ran his own secret legendary Pierre Delecto account.  
Why this was news is because Bloys isn’t some newly jumped-up exec or business major in tv flailing with failing products. He’s a veteran producer who’s been extremely successful at HBO for a decade plus. Why is he so thin skinned and defensive? Why does he care so much when he’s been so successful?  While his excuse-explanation is having too much time on his hand during Covid sounds eye rolling, there is a grain of truth.  Remember when I said here and here that what previously didn't bother executives were bothering them during the pandemic lockdown.  It was why Misha suddenly scrambled to say (unprompted) three times that he and Jared got along and it was the fault of J2 fans for tainting his reputation, not because of his army of minions who lost what's left of their singe braincell over not getting canon-Destiel like he ambiguously promised for over a decade.
An assistant named Sully Temori, who is now suing HBO for wrongful termination, was given the task in June 2020 to write responses troll with  X account of Kelly Shepherd, a so-called mom and herbalist from Texas with 4 followers.  The troll targeted critics for being a middle aged white man who was “shitting on a show about women” i.e. The Nevers. Gee, those words sound familiar, right?  It's 80% of what SJW say online whenever they come across something they don't like and can't handle different opinions.
HBO is best TV brand with the most number of Emmy wins (just ignore that HBO has the most number of members in the TV academy).  So like in the article, people were surprised that a successful veteran executive would do this.  Except you see it all the time: celebrities, accomplished directors, and athletes going nuts on twitter replying to random accounts with 8 followers, "No @BigDickTerry6969, You're the one who SUCKS!!!".
One of my nieces is in the industry and doing well enough that she said if she ever gets famous enough, she will use some of the money to put guardrails in place to keep her from googling herself or reading twitter threads about her.  She also wants me to act like an addiction-recovery sponsor that she can call in the middle of the night with, "We just dropped a new episode and I really just want to know what people think, that's fine right? I just want honest feedback.".  And I will be, "No, you don't, you have to resist that urge. I want you to go outside and look stars, okay?"
Honestly, reading about Boyd's antics was like reading John Grisham's The Pelican Brief and The Firm and getting to the Big Bad reveal and end up having Big Disappointment staring back at you. Tom Cruise at least improved the movie adaptation of The Firm.
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cosmicjoke ¡ 1 year ago
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I just wanted to let you know that you’re my go to blog when I want to ask about opinions / read about insights when it comes to AoT;
because almost everywhere I go is just people constantly fighting about ships or some stupid shit that isn’t even there. It’s just constant discussion about that vow you’re talking about in your pinned post, how Levi only ever cared only about Erwin, how Levi has no emotions, how when Levi talked with Eren after his entire squad died in the dining hall there is only one other chair is pulled out in between them; and is the chair that Petra sat in — proves that Levi was in love with her and so on and so forth…
I must admit that those people who are pushing their XY thing sometimes have me confused as well, so
thank you for answering numerous questions about the same thing, I can’t even imagine how annoying it must get when you answer the same question 100 times — you’re one of the few people that I came across who actually can tell the difference between fanon and canon and as I said your insights are my favourite.
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that, truly.
Yeah, it does get annoying, lol. I would say probably 80% of the asks I get are about specifically questions surrounding Levi's relationship with Erwin and, particularly, the "vow" and whether or not he cared about humanity. It's maddening, honestly. Like, do these people not care about ANY other aspect of Levi's character? There's so much to talk about with him. He's a multilayered, complex character, which is why I'm able to write so much about him to begin with. But all these people seem to be able to focus on, and care about, was whether or not Levi was in love with Erwin or not, or some other character. He's not in love with anyone, and that's as obvious as anything in the story, so I don't know why it's even a question, let alone the dominating question about his character. And then their interpretations of the story and of Levi's actions and behavior are always filtered through this lens of him being in love with character A, B or C, or being wholly devoted to said character. It's annoying. I've really begun to see why some people say they've been turned off of particular ships because of it.
Like, damn, let's talk about Levi's multiple character traits. Let's talk about his compassion, his intelligence, his fighting ability, what he represents within the story, what he stands for, etc... There's so much there, but most people online choose to just ignore it in favor of this endless, running in circles non-issue of "Was Levi in love with whoever or not". Because Levi made a single decision to show compassion for a friend and fellow comrade by letting him die instead of forcing him to continue ruining his own mind by carrying an unbearable burden (one which, at that point, he wouldn't have been effective at anyway, something people conveniently ignore when talking about this), by being humane, we're now supposed to question whether Levi ever cared about humanity. It's so stupid.
I wrote a post recently talking about how I think, instead of saying Levi was fighting for humanity, what we should really be saying is that Levi was fighting for people. Levi's choice to let Erwin rest was a distinctly humane one. It showed a deep consideration and care for an individual life. Within the grand and, often times, impersonal scope of the "greater good", one in which the ends justifying the means often takes precedent, and the connection with people as individuals can be lost, Levi showed that he cared as much about those individual lives as he did about the altruistic concept of saving mankind. He put Erwin's life on a level with all of humanity, essentially saying that every life is worth caring about, every life is worth honoring and protecting. That's not to say Levi screwed humanity by making the choice he did. I've talked about this a lot. Erwin was done. If you actually read the chapters carefully, and pay attention to what goes into Levi's decision, you'll see it was as much a result of him understanding that Erwin, once they discovered what was in Eren's basement, wasn't going to be the same leader he had been. He was already being crushed by guilt and self-loathing, and the only thing keeping it at bay was the anticipation, the dream, of discovering the truth of the world. Levi thinks about Kenny's words to him in that moment of decision, about how our dreams are the only thing that can keep us going, and he realizes that without his dream, Erwin will have nothing to keep him going. He'll succumb to his guilt and self-loathing, and probably go mad. He would no longer be an effective leader. People never talk about this when they talk about Levi's decision. They just want to say that Levi chose Erwin over humanity because it's "romantic". No, Levi didn't choose Erwin OVER humanity. He chose compassion over cruelty. He showed, through his choice, that it's as important to consider the individual lives of each soldier and each person in this fight as it is the greater whole. Levi cares about people, people, that make up the whole of humanity. But his decision was as much based in what was good for humanity as it was based in what was good for Erwin. He doesn't prioritize one over the other, he simply prioritizes them both. He decides they both matter equally. He even says, in chapter 136, that he chose Armin because he saw the same look in his eyes as "you guys", meaning his comrades before they'd become disillusioned with their fight. He knew Armin was the right choice because he still believed in what they were fighting for. Erwin didn't. They needed people who genuinely believed in the fight for humanity for it to still be a viable fight.
Anyway, I got off on a tangent there, lol, and when I said I wasn't going to talk about this anymore.
But yes, people should focus on other aspects of Levi's character. They're missing out on one of the best character's ever created when they don't, and instead obsess over him being in love with whoever, when he's not in love with anyone at all, lol.
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ifyoucantflythenrun ¡ 9 months ago
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rant about some teacher aide at my school today
some teacher aide wrote me up with a warning today coz i took my phone out to check my card balance before lining up at the cafeteria to buy food. i’m sorry i didn’t want to waste other people’s time?
for context, this year the Australian government announced a policy named ‘Away for the day’ where students are not permitted to have phones out during school at all unless under explicit teacher instruction. the exception being to pay for food through a card connected to your phone. it was put into action as an attempt to get students to interact with each other more irl than online during break times and all public schools need to adhere to this.
seeing as i was in the cafeteria during a break time, i (apparently wrongfully) assumed i could check my card balance. i checked with a teacher and she tells me i need to be in the sectioned off area where you go to actually line up to buy stuff, just be in the general area of the line. you apparently have to be actually in the line to check a card balance and it has to take less than 15 secs to open and login to ur banking app according to a different teacher. and then after i was written up (where the teacher practically yelled at me and then took down my first name before forcefully turning me around to get my surname off of my senior jersey) i went to tell my friends because i hadn’t heard of such a rule in the 7 weeks that school had been in for this year and wanted to make sure they didn’t get in trouble like i did. as soon as i start recounting what happened, she comes up to me and my friends and says “i have ears you know, i can hear you.” to which i reply that i’m just letting them know so that she won’t have to write up more people. she then says “you don’t need to make such a big deal out of it,” and some other things along those lines, acting as if i was a toddler throwing a temper tantrum. mind you, until this point, i figured she was just doing her job as required by the government, and did not even think of smack-talking her to my friends. but the fact that she barged into a separate conversation i was having with my friends, assumed i was talking shit about her, and continued to passive aggressively point out she has ears and can hear was the straw that broke the camel’s back. like, did she want me to congratulate her for being able to hear the same way 80% of the world’s population does? i feel like that provides reason enough for me to share my experience with tumblr. also the warning scared me because i’ve had a clean record since primary school and getting a proper detention for the first time/having this be reported on with less than 9 months til i graduate would be so annoying it would be like losing a 4020+ day streak. i have an issue with perfectionism, i know, i’m working on it but it hasn’t fully gotten “there” yet, yk?
in my opinion, one of a few things happened here. she wrote me up for a stupid, made-up reason because she’s bitter and is abusing every ounce of power she holds against me as an anonymous authority figure (i’ve literally never talked to this woman in my entire 5 years at this school, 6th this year). and she knows she made it up so is censoring me in order to keep abusing her power against other students by stopping me from alerting others lest she has her little bit of power taken away once this eventually reaches the higher-ups. or. the school forgot to tell students that you can only take out your phone to check ur balance while actively taking up space in an already small cafeteria order area while not knowing if u can/will buy something or not. keep in mind this was during a 20 minute break in between periods during which we have to both get the food and eat it before class starts which would be okay if there weren’t at least 10 people not buying anything in a closed off area that holds about 30 people comfortably on a good day. the only other thing i can think of is that she was having a bad day and took it out on the first person she saw that she had power over. once she heard me telling my friends, she realised what an incredibly stupid idea that rule was and didn’t want it to be reported by me or my friends. this lady is maybe 50+ years of age and definitely knew what she was doing and it all happened too fast for me to even begin to question her until after the whole situation had already taken place. i’m friends with the school captain and our cohort is currently the longest running cohort at this school so the higher-ups sometimes look to us for help with improving the school, and i like to believe they actually take our opinions into consideration, considering how worried she got that i was telling my fellow students.
idk who’s in the wrong here so if this is just me being an entitled toddler and throwing a temper tantrum, so be it, i will fix my behaviour in the future but this is my way of moving past it coz no one sees this anyway. i can understand doing her job but no one told her to follow up a minute later by telling me off for speaking to my friends during a break time. i had respect for her as my elder and authoritative figure but that has since flown out the window once she decided to fling it through the glass. sorry if none of this made sense or had bad grammar, etc., i kinda just typed whatever entered my head.
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doctor-looneys-remedy ¡ 1 year ago
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You aren’t helping
The girl in your high school that wanted to start a campus newspaper so it could have a gossip section is NEVER GOING TO BE A GOOD PERSON.  She is always going to be up in shit that doesn’t concern her.  Forever and ever.  And she will never realize that makes her a bad person. 
That gay dude who thinks its fun and cutesy pie to out a bisexual person who is attracted to the opposite gender 80% of the time IS NOT A GOOD PERSON.  He’s a bad egg.  He always will be, no matter how much he says “oopsie” or how cute he pretends his behavior is.  And hiding bad behavior under the cover of “I’m gay so my behavior is always excusable” is bullshit. 
That relative who is screaming at you online because you didn’t get married at 18 and become a needy Hollie Hobby-looking bitch with almost no discernible personality IS NEVER GOING TO BE A GOOD PERSON. 
That bitch who thinks you are coming on to them when you are just looking for friends to hang out with because you have ditched all your toxic-ass friends and are looking for new ones? She’s a narcissist. You don’t need more toxic fucked up people in your life after you cleared house YET AGAIN. 
That guy you still fucking crush on who gets fucking life advice and intel from your worst living relatives is always going to leave you with a big trust question mark.  You can’t trust a person who constantly exhibits bad judgment. 
People who want you to confide in them for their own personal gratification, like they are sucking up the essence of life when people tell them shit, they aren’t ok.  ESPECIALLY if they act all cutie pie about it.  In fact, that should make you sick to your damn stomach. 
I don’t hate people.  I really don’t. But I wish people didn’t choose to act in these particular ways.  It's frustrating. It’s annoying.  It’s stupid. 
Get a damn life. 
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strawberryamanita ¡ 2 years ago
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Sorry, started ranting about live-action adaptations and corporate dilution of artistry, Can't Help Being A Capricorn or whatever
Discourse is allowed, just don't add something like "wow OP/prev you're a fucking reprobate I hope something happens to you that compromises your health" thanks ✌️😘
I'm also not tagging this, so if it breaches containment it's not my fault lmao
If I could be so bold.
I think the reason there's just so nauseatingly many live-action adaptations out right now, and over the past 12 years, is because there were quite a few fan-casts made over the years, whether by one person or a small group brainstorming together. Like if you search "[series] fan cast"***, there's a very good chance you'll find people still having fun with the idea of matching a celebrity up to their cartoon lookalikes, even today. Not corporations trying to drum engagement, not stark and barren listicle websites, but individual human beings who haven't been paid to say what they're saying or do what they're doing. Even after we've seen just how little Hollywood actually does with the concept 95% of the time, people are having fun with hypotheticals and being creative without restraints.
***The exception is live-action adaptations that have been officially made. If you look for things that have not been tainted adapted yet, it's like looking into a portal to a time before all This Shit started happening.
I think the main issue is, nobody who's making those fan-castings is imagining, like, a full-on movie to go with it. It's more like, who would look cute cosplaying as that character. The extent of the idea is a PhotoShop job, and that's it.
Not whatever vortex of billion-dollar soullessness we've been tossed around in for the past decade.
The Nihilist part of me wants to say: "This kind of open discussion online is gonna keep convincing Hollywood that these ideas are guaranteed to birth successful films, so we should just stop having these convos publically" -- but that's an incredibly stupid thought. I'm not gonna try and convince people that creating is something to be ashamed of and hidden away; in this Capitalist Hellworld, where artistry is minimized to keep profits high, commercial-free creativity often feels like our last stand.
I don't really have a solution at this time, myself. Nor do I think I'm responsible for providing one -- the majority of people I've tried to make a big artistic project with can tell you I'm not the most experienced nor the most confident director. But I do know that this is what the culture of media has been since the early 2010s, and all I aim to do with this rant is bring that fact to the forefront.
In the 80s and 90s (and some of the 00s), companies had no problem churning out fun visuals and engaging soundtracks and worldbuilding that took honest-to-God effort by the dozen. I mean we have nostalgia over commercials from those eras, and it wasn't just because we're susceptible to consumerism; if that were the case, we wouldn't roll our eyes and groan whenever we hear the Unholy Trio of a ukulele, glockenspiel and someone whistling over whatever fucking hunk of plastic they're trying to shove in our faces now.
The 00s had a more laid-back vibe to it, particularly with videogame commercials. This was the Era of Grimdark and goths and embracing darkness because it felt more real than anything else, or whatever the fuck I was writing about whilst crying over MCR songs. But even so, a good chunk of 00s media had effort put into it. Yes, more than half of it was horribly problematic and exploitative; I'm not telling you it was good, I'm telling you there was effort. Even the shit with deadpan narration and cheap mascot costumes and out-of-place toilet humor had some sort of creative writing team, had some sort of vision, had some sort of direction.
Then the Internet started ramping up in quality and bandwidth, and people actually could speak loud enough that companies would hear them. To anyone who's too young to remember a world before the Internet being pushed into every corner of everyday life: it wasn’t this way 15+ years ago. Media slowly became more collaborative over the era of AOL and MySpace, because consumer feedback became easier and easier to access. And then with the advent of YouTube in 2006 -- which, as shitty as it is now, was revolutionary at the time, being a place where you could publish videos without needing to audition for anyone -- access to free ideas had very suddenly become exponentially faster. More and more Internet stars were popping up on TV (think "Web Soup" and "Tosh.0"), and then Google bought YouTube and decided to monetize it and now everyone's a rockstar and Andy Warhol's laughing at us from beyond the grave.
Fuck off, Andy.
...Now, I know it feels like I took a million detours -- and I agree that it does, because driving around in my brain feels like zig-zagging between five lanes at once -- but this all came from my theory that the ideas for media are in the hands of unpaid creators. We went from production teams being creative as Hell in the 80s and 90s, to an intentional cynicism in the 00s, to a fizzling-out of ideas and corporations holding their hands out for scraps of ideas from the consumers in the 2010s.
Money isn't trickle-down, but culture sure as shit is trickle-up.
Again, I don't have any ideas on how to fix this. Capitalism breeds a culture that allows exploitation of every fundamental part of human existence, and it knows how to adapt. With every new slew of ideas I have on how to combat it, it worms its way through anyhow. It's like fighting a hydra, and it gives me agita if I think about it for too long.
I don't know.
I remember a time when adaptations were fun to think about, but they almost never came from the minds of people looking to profit off nostalgia. They came from impassioned, vision-driven fans who wanted to try retelling their favorite stories through a different lens... and I think that's a beautiful thing. All fanart is -- fanmade drawings, fanmade covers of songs, fanmade films, cosplay, and fan-casts.
I don't really know how to end this rant neatly. Just... next time you're on your way to watch the latest diluted, regurgitated corporate shlock that's trying to profit off your nostalgia, just remember that there's probably some unpaid, good-natured rando out there that took your favorite media to new heights without any executive meddling. Maybe save a buck or two from not buying a ticket.
Or just watch the original story again, since everyone seems to have forgotten what a re-release is.
I'm taking a nap. Thanks for sticking it out, if you made it this far into whatever the Hell this is.
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Thank you for the request! It was beautiful and touching! 🥺 TO build on that storyline though can you have Shawn be there when I get the call for transplant? Just have it be where he's running through the halls to find my room and where I am and the surgery doesn't start till he says not goodbye but see you later. 🥺 I know this is a real weird topic but just do the best you can. Your writing brought me to tears! 😭
In sickness and in health pt 2
Word count: 1168
Warnings: hospitals, talk of transplants, angst if you squint, my bad grammar, bad ending??? I didn’t know how to end it.
A/N: I wrote this at 1am again because who needs sleep anyway. Not me! Also thank you so much for requesting a part two I hope I did ok! It really means a lot to me that you like this ❤️❤️❤️ and as always feedback is greatly appreciated. 
pt 1  pt 3
Waiting was the worst part. Both you and Shawn jumped every time the phone rang, hoping it was the hospital with those words you both longed to hear; we found a match. 
You didn’t know how much longer you could stand the pain. Every breath was like a sharp knife stabbing your chest. And Shawn, bless his heart, tried his best to make you as comfortable as he could. 
“Is that ok honey? I can get you another pillow if you need,” he looked at you lying on the sofa all ready for a day of binge watching all the marvel movies, “I’m gonna grab another one just in case.” 
“Shawn you don't have to, I'm fine, I promise.” You wheezed out. 
He emerged from the bedroom with two more pillows and the comforter off your bed.
 “Ok but just in case, I don’t want you to strain yourself while I’m gone to this stupid meeting ok? I still don’t know why we couldn’t do it online,” he mumbled to himself, “All you have to do is rest and keep your phone on,” he grabbed his keys before kissing your forehead, “I left some food already made in the fridge all you have to do is warm it up. I’ll be back as soon as I can baby. I love you.” 
“I love you too Shawn.” You snuggled under your pile of blankets as the door closed quietly, trying to ignore the pain in your chest. 
Sometime during Thor, you fell asleep, the pain finally fading to a dull throb. You woke with a jolt causing you to wince. You saw your phone buzzing and picked it up. 
���Hello?” The sleep was evident in your voice. 
“Hi is this Y/N Y/L?” A woman chipper voice answered. 
“Yes may I ask who this is?” 
“This is Etobicoke general hospital calling. We have some good news for you. We have a match for your lung transplant.” 
You gasped and fell to the floor in shock. You had dreamed of this day but now it was finally here. You felt relief flood your body. It was happening. It was finally happening. 
“Miss Y/L? Are you still there?” The woman asked. 
“Yes yes I’m right here, sorry.” You replied shakily. 
The woman laughed. “No need to apologize. I understand this is most likely a shock for you. We understand this is slightly unconventional but for the transplant we would need you to come in immediately, would that be ok?” 
“Yes of course I’ll be in as soon as possible.” 
“Perfect I’ll let the doctors know.” 
You said your goodbyes before calling your family to tell them the news. Getting in your car, you raced to the hospital calling Shawn on your way. 
“Baby guess what?” You had a huge smile on your face. 
“Captain America betrays Iron man?” He said with false surprise in his voice. 
“No and I didn’t even make it to civil war. I got the call.” 
He was silent for a moment, “The call? The lung call?” 
“That’s the one! I’m at the hospital now I’m just pulling into the parking lot.” 
“Wait why are you going in now? Don’t you have to fill out forms or something?” 
“Yeah I’m going to do that here, the nurse who called said to come in immediately they’re going to do the transplant now.”
“Holy shit!” You heard something clatter in the background, “ok I’m on my way I promise I’ll be there before they wheel you in for surgery.” 
“Ok but don’t speed, I don’t need you in a hospital bed next to me.” 
He laughed. “I’ll be there soon honey don’t worry.“
“Ok I’m going to head in now then I’ll see you soon. I love you.“ 
“I love you too.” 
Walking into the double doors you felt anxious, your heart was pounding and your hands were sweating. You’ve been waiting for this moment for so long and now it’s finally here you don’t know what to do. Walking up to the nurses station you tried to calm your breathing. 
Hello I’m Y/N I'm here for the lung transplant.” You said shakily. 
She gave you a smile and a clipboard and directed you down a hallway to your room where they would prep you for surgery. As you filled out forms you tried to stop your hands from shaking but it was no use. More nurses came in to give you a gown to put on. They tried to calm your nerves. Even offering to bring the priest up to pray with you. All you wanted was Shawn. 
There was a commotion down the hallway. You heard a loud ‘sorry!’ then footsteps thundering toward your room. Shawn burst in with a smile on his face. 
“You're here! I made it on time.” He said, relieved. 
“Yeah I still have ten minutes before I go in.” 
He moved around the room trying to find a chair. When he couldn't he decided to squish into the bed with you. Lying back he turned on his side to face you. 
“Are you excited?” he asked.
You took a shallow, painful, breath. “Yes and no,” he looked at you, wait for you to elaborate, “I'm excited to be able to breathe properly and to know what that feels like, but i also keep thinking of what if something goes wrong,” you looked at him with tears in his eyes, “and what if I never see you again. I can't deal with that, I can't say goodbye.” you were full on sobbing into his shirt now. 
He stroked your hair gently. “Those are all valid fears but lung transplants have an 80% success rate, you're gonna be fine. These doctors know what they're doing. And I'll be right here by your side as soon as you get out ok? And it's not going to be goodbye, it's gonna be see you later, because I will see you later.” 
The doctor walked in the room saying they’re ready to take you in. You took a deep breath as Shawn climbed out of bed.
“I'll see you later Shawn.” You said with a weak smile
“I'll see you later Y/N.” He promised. 
He blew you a kiss as they wheeled you down the hallway. 
Once you were in a room a nurse put a mask over your face and asked you to count back from 100. You could hear your heart pounding in your ears as you inhaled the gas before everything went dark. 
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You slowly blinked open your eyes. The room seemed so bright. You took your first pain free breath. Tears welled up in your eyes. “It worked.” You whispered to yourself.
“I told you you'd be fine, didn't I?” Shawn lifted his head from your bedside where he had been sleeping, “so what's the first thing you want to do with your new lungs?” 
You gave him a big smile. “Kiss you until I run out of breath.”
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This is kinda about the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, so yeah. The thing is all I see is people criticizing Russia, but really what other option do they have? I have lived in Russia since 2010(i am not Russian) due to my job and have been closely following the situation since 2014, the verbal persuasion for Ukraine to not join nato has been going on since then, but they still seem to want to join it. It's either this war or nato forces on Russian borders, and we all know that USA does not exactly love Russia. The major concern is about the death of Ukrainian citizens, but you give full ammunition to citizens and then do not expect them to be harmed? the same citizens in Afghanistan and Vietnam were termed terrorists by US. I also do not understand how much of this social media news is true, it seems any country that is becoming powerful suddenly becomes evil on here, china is mocked as dog meat eater and Indians as blind cow worshipers and now all russians are being called fascists, when from experience I know them to be the kind and accepting people. As a Russian , what do you think? Am I being delusional and stupid in this situation?
Hi! Thank you for sending me this. The situation in Ukraine is horrible. But I'm not sure if I can trust any information either here or on the Ukrainian or russian tv. But we all know for sure that people are dying and it doesn't matter if those people are citizens or soldiers. Also you are absolutely right about nato. Putin was telling the EU and US that we will treat nato forces near our borders as a threat since 2005. And it is a threat. Nato was created as a weapon against USSR. USSR does not exist anymore but Russia is still a threat in their eyes. And this propaganda exists for over 80 years; that Russia is evil and will destroy them all. I think this is the real problem. Also after what happened in Vietnam, Iraq, Syria and Japan (1945) they have NO right to call us fascists. We were the reason Hitler killed himself, sorry. Maybe Putin is kinda the same, I don't mean the 'invasion', I mean that German people trusted in Hitler at first and he did good for county, later the people who chose him for the first time didn't have any choice but to follow him. We have the same situation in Russia. At first Putin really saved the country, he was a good president till 2014 or so. Nemtsov and Navalny happened and we all watched them being killed and imprisoned. The government changed laws and constitution. We can't say anything about the gov, a couple (or more) of people were arrested just for posting memes online and one got arrested for posting rummstein music video on his page. Police can beat you up and torture you just because you were on the street with a piece of paper. What is happening now in Moscow and Saint Petersburg is awful. Yeah, people are rioting but the gov doesn't listen. People are getting various threads for speaking their minds. They kinda forgot to ask us if we want that war. And of course we don't. Every family in Russia has family members who died either fighting or in concentration camp in ww2. We don't want this but nobody's listening. We are naturally kind people, I may have nothing to eat but I will help those who need it more. And the bigger part of people is exactly like that.
Also yeah, we're not the first economy in the world, but please don't forget that we weren't prepared for ww2. It's not smart to fight with us. We're fucking crazy when it comes to defending our homeland. Me and my friends like to say that only people who was born and lived here are allowed to say shit about Russia.
It would be really safer for everyone to just live in peace.
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Disinterpretation
I finally finished the Sarah Z video about “pro vs. anti”.   It’s pretty long, and I ended up watching it in chunks over several days, but I think it’s worth watching, especially if you’re sort of partially connected to online fandom, but not enough to be aware of all the lingo. 
As I expected, the whole thing was vague and confusing because the people involved in the conflict made it vague and confusing.   In theory, the full terms would be “pro-shipping” and “anti-shipping”, but it seems like it’s more about particular kinds of ships that could be considered controversial.  But that’s a slippery slope, and apparently the whole conflict mutated into both sides deciding that every hypothetical relationship between fictional characters is either equally valid or equally dangerous.  
Long story short, it’s just purity culture, which was what everyone on Tumblr was calling it around 2012.  But now, if you’re a sane person who genuinely asks: “Who gives a fuck about Voltron?”, these people will jump your ass and accuse you of being on the side of their enemies.  “Children have died over the importance of Lotor/Hagger!   Your callous indifference proves that you yourself must have murdered children!” 
I think what Sarah Z really hit upon in this video was that media consumption has become so ingrained in our culture that people feel like it has to go hand-in-hand with our morality.   That is, it’s not enough for me to watch Star Trek, I have to justify Star Trek as evidence that I’m a good person.  Maybe this is where the expression “guilty pleasure” comes from.   Conversely, it’s not enough for me to not watch Dr. Who, I have to somehow convince everyone that Dr. Who was invented by the devil.
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I’m pretty sure the Reylo ship has a lot to do with this, since it’s kind of understood to be a dark, problematic concept, and fans either embrace its flaws or recoil in horror because of them.   Star Wars itself is a dumb story about space wizards, so people try to give the debate more weight by linking it to freedom of self expression and/or enabling real world harm.   Suddenly it’s not enough to just think two actors would look cute making out instead of fighting.   Now it’s this battlefield for the soul of civilization or something.
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I grew up in the 80′s, when “concerned parents” and grifters would accuse the Smurfs and metal bands of promoting satanism and witchcraft.   I used to hear stories of teens going out into the woods in the middle of the night to do occult stuff, and all I could ever think about was: “Why would anyone bother wandering out in the woods in the middle of the night?”  Which is why “concerned parents” turned their attention to things that were closer to home, like Saturday morning cartoons.   It had nothing to do with the content; it was just about finding a safe, accessible target for their hysteria.   Some people want to go on a crusade without leaving the house, so they pick a fight with Papa Smurf instead of confronting the real evils in the world.  Even as a kid, I knew this was a con, because I’d watched the show for myself and knew it was too saccharine to be threat to anyone.
The pro/anti folks have tried to disguise this with a lot of terminology.   I wondered why they seemed to reluctant to use the full terms “pro-shipper” and “anti-shipper”, and it’s probably a couple of things.   First, the word “shipper” is basically an admission that this is pointless bullshit that doesn’t matter, and they’d like to avoid that connotation.   Second, they seem to have decided that this goes beyond shipping itself, into practically anything else they want it to involve.  It’s all part of the con, which is to make you believe that it’s “us vs. them”, and you can be part of “us” by curating specific attitudes about Steven Universe.
Seriously, “about Steven Universe” is such an incredible punchline.  You can make anything funnier by adding those three words to the end of a sentence.   “Do not interact if you blog about Steven Universe.”   “Hey, what’s up, YouTube, this is SSJ3RyokoLover69, and this is going to be kind of a serious video about Steven Universe.”   “Mrs. Johnson, the results of your biopsy are in, and I have some bad news about Steven Universe.”   It’s a fucking kids show.   “Oh no, all the characters look like the characters in all the other kids shows!”   Yeah, that’s because it’s a kids show.   Marvin looks like Garfield, this isn’t new.
The common denominator here seems to be that both sides try to wrap themselves in the flag of vulnerable groups: impressionable minors, trauma survivors, harassment victims, etc.   The “pros” want to protect those people so that they can feel free to explore weird subject matter on their own terms, and the “antis” want to protect the same people from being exposed to weird subject matter that they might not want to see.   It’s all about establishing a moral high ground.   Back in the day, it was called “sanctimony”. 
But people get roped into this, because at their core, people want approval, and this stupid conflict offers them a sense of community.  As long as you support the cause, whatever it may be, you’ll have this online friend network that appears to support anything you do.   But if you deviate from their norm, you’ll be cast out.    Does this sound familiar?
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To use a more familiar example, I still sometimes find people clamoring about Gochi vs. Vegebul.   I’ve never understood this, because both ships were canon, and I never saw much direct evidence of a war between them, but people would still talk about how crazy the Vegebul shippers were, and how crazy the Gochi shippers were, and it was like some huge thing going on just over the hills.   It’s the same idea, since the idea that you could like both or neither never seems to occur to anyone involved.   I never gave a shit, because I used to see the same dumb agendas in the Harry Potter fandom.
Okay, so let me take you back.  It’s 2005 through 2011, and I’m hateblogging all seven Harry Potter novels, because fuck you, that’s why.  The funny thing I encountered was that occasionally fans seemed to want to pretend like my bashing of certain characters was proving them right somehow.    They were like “See?  He hates Ron Weasley too!  That proves that Seamus Finnegan is the coolest guy ever.”   The Slytherin stans would do this all the time, because I would constantly take the piss out of the Gryffindor characters for being self-important dopes.   I think they just liked hearing it from an outside perspective.   But I had to keep reminding them all that I hated all of them.   Every character from Harry Potter sucks ass. Voldemort was my favorite, but only because he was the one guy who wanted to kill all of the others.   But he sucks too because he failed. 
And the shippers were the same way.   I’d say something shitty about Ron, because Ron sucks, and some smartass Joss Whedon fan would be like “Yes!  Boost the signal!  That is why Harry/Hermione is the best ship!”  And I’d be like “No, Harry and Hermione suck at least as bad as Ron does.  They’re all terrible and I hate them.”   I really do think there was some sort of Stockholm Syndrome going on with Harry Potter books, where everyone secretly knows they suck, but the fans sort of latch on to one or two characters and go like “Well, he’s not as shitty as the rest.”   Like finding spaghetti in the trash and picking out the meatball with the least amount of lint on it.   Then you’d go and start a flamewar with some other starving person over whether your meatball is shittier than theirs.  This is what people mean when they say to read another book. 
Anyway, the big thing I picked up from Sarah Z’s video is “disinterpretation”, a term coined by MSNBC columnis Zeeshan Aleem.   The Twitter thread is worth a read, but the short version is that he once remarked that a Julia Louis-Dreyfus routine wasn’t very good, and someone got mad at him for insinuating that women are incapable of being funny.    They just took his dissatisfaction with one performance by one comedian as being a universal condemnation of women comedians in general.  And this sort of thing is all over the internet.   Everyone sees what they want to see and then they take it as permission to overreact.  
I ran into this myself a while back, because someone saw who I interacted with on Twitter and decided that they’re all bad guys and if I have any interaction with them, then that makes me a bad guy too.   At the time I tried to play it cool, but the more I think about it, the more it ticks me off.   And over the course of that conversation, it was said that I don’t talk about myself much, and that’s kind of funny, because all I ever do on social media is write long-ass blog posts like this one.  I don’t expect anyone to memorize them, or even read them all the way through, but when I write all this stuff and someone goes out of their way to say they don’t know anything about me, the message is that they just didn’t pay attention to what I was saying, and they didn’t bother to try.
So I’m a little jaded from that, because I got called out for a bunch of stuff I didn’t even do or say, and apparently that’s just a thing that happens.   People will reject you for completely arbitrary reasons, not because of anything you actually said or did, and you’re left thinking you made some terrible mistake.   Except, no, I’ve seen it happen to other people, people a lore more conscientious than I am, and if they can’t satisfy the bullshit purity standards, then I never stood a chance.   If the game is rigged so I can’t win, then I’m not going to play.  
And it’s that same condition that probably draws people into these online holy wars, because if you declare yourself for the pro or anti side, at least then you’ll have a posse backing you up.   Only they don’t support you, they support your willingness to support them.    Once your commitment to their agenda wavers, even in the slightest, they will turn against you.   
Sarah Z suggests that both sides of the war drop the pro and anti terms, since they lost all meaning long ago.   But that just invites a new set of useless terms to perpetuate the same cycle.   Her more useful advice is for fandom people to broaden their horizons.   She got a lot of flak for tweeting “Go outside” once, but the ironic thing is that it’s sound advice.   I had lunch with my mom yesterday and it was just nice getting away from things for a while.   People need to do that more often, and unfortunately it feels like it’s harder to do than ever before.
But “go outside” isn’t just a literal thing.   It can mean going beyond your usual haunts, reading the same books, watching the same shows, rehashing the same conversations.   I think the reason this stuff always revolves around “shipping” is because there seems to be this deep-seated compulsion to pair fictional characters off like this, and for a lot of folks it’s the only way they can consume a story, so they do.   And they do it lot, and there’s a lot of them, and they do it the same way every time, and lo and behold the same old conflicts start up.   So maybe “go outside” should mean “go outside of that cycle once in a while.”   Just a thought. 
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Space Ghost Coast to Coast #77b: "Mommentary” December 30, 2001 - 11:30 PM | S07E06
I love Mommentary. You should know that. Space Ghost was one of the first shows I knew about that indulged in the idea of doing the anti-episode. I was a little too young to have watched 80s Letterman, and what few glimpses of it I caught seemed fairly conventional to me. When I was very small I’d wake up in the middle of the night, wander into my parents’ room and watch for a few minutes until I got sleepy again, but I never happened to be viewing when they did stuff like, say, the episode where it’s a rerun, but they hired professional voice actors to redub the episode verbatim so everyone on it just has a different voice, or the episode where they rotated the image a full 360 degrees gradually over the course of the entire show.
Space Ghost almost definitely drew inspiration from this practice, resulting in the creation of Story Book House from 1995, where Kirk the Storyteller and Carl the Cartoonist retell two old episodes of Space Ghost as if they were children’s stories being told on a boring, low-budget local kiddie show. Brilliant Number One and Brilliant Number Two, two episodes that are virtually identical except for the captions, which recite different borrowed prose, as well as tweaks to the background sound design. More information here, I hope.
There’s also Woody Allen’s Fall Project, which features clips of previous episodes but re-enacted entirely in live-action in the same style as the O.J. Simpson trial re-enactments that aired on E!. There’s Warren, which originally aired looping three times in a row, uninterrupted, with a single line change in each iteration. Snatch had it’s ending cut short and replaced with an announcement that the Space Ghost crew were auctioning it off on eBay, which they actually did! Table Read, which featured the cast and crew performing the table read for an upcoming episode, Fire Ant, which itself originally aired with a long, about 10 minute segment where Space Ghost follows an ant as it slowly makes it’s way home. 
This was in the grand tradition of all those episodes I described. In it we’re treated to a replay of Kentucky Nightmare, one of Space Ghost’s greatest episodes, but this time it has running DVD-style commentary featuring Mike Lazzo, Matthew Maiellaro, and Dave Willis’ elderly mothers. They are funny and sweet and mostly baffled by what they are watching. The bottom of the screen reads “From the Kentucky Nightmare DVD” as if the 11 minute episode of Space Ghost has it’s own DVD release. Adult Swim actually would release a volume of Space Ghost episodes through their online store featuring Kentucky Nightmare, and they titled it “From The Kentucky Nightmare DVD”.
Mommentary made waves among early Adult Swim viewers. Some absolutely hated it, and felt insulted by it. Lots of COOL CEREBRAL COMEDY LIKERS made way too much hay about how great it was. Which camp was I in? Take a fucking guess. Anyway, I still do love this episode, and it’s worth your time. One of the moms piping in towards the beginning of the episode with “WHERES THE SHARK??” is honest-to-goodness one of my favorite Space Ghost quotes. It pops into my head frequently. It’s also very funny how this ends with, I assume, Dave Willis just scolding the moms for talking about how smart their sons are. Adult Swim would continue do similar experimental stunts with various series. but nowadays they typically stick to April Fools Day. Not sure how or if I will cover those April Fools Day gags; I’m trying mostly to stick to just the episodes themselves. I don’t know man, I guess I’ll just end this on a mail bag, thank god. MAIL BAG
Brandon writes:
I think Mommentary is a prime example that Mike Lazzo's ultimate indifference/outright hatred for the show he created was overall a boon to the show. It may have been what lead to him giving the show the axe and but if he loved the show even a little bit more he would have taken greater care with it and every episode would be like Explode. It ultimately gave them more freedom to do stupid/fun shit with it because of that lack of respect.
This makes a lot of sense, actually. I sometimes lament that the Space Ghost crew weren’t as enthusiastic about making Space Ghost as I was eatin’ ‘em. Yum!
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onlyonewoman ¡ 4 years ago
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Yes, I’m gonna be the whiny old ass woman right now. I’m gonna be the “back in my days” bitch because in my youth the Internet was young as well and we didn’t know what the fuck we were doing and yadayada. I wanna say that todays youth are fucking magnificent for being so alert and bright and aware of shit my generation wasn’t. I applaud you for it and I also realise that times are a’changing differently now than they were when I grew up. Let me explain: I can connect with my parents born in the 1950′s in a way I, being born in the early 80′s, can’t do with people born on this side of the millennia and I’ve realised that technology has simply made me older faster in certain areas because times are a’changing and when I was 20, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr weren’t even invented yet.  Since I’m not very into new technology, I’m not always updated on how shit works, meaning when people invite my old ass to something new online, I might make mistakes and that’s where I think times have a’changed in just the entirely wrong fucking way. Look, I get it. The world is a kinda shitty place and you don’t want to deal with trolls or people not caring about each other and stuff, but please, in these trying times, why the hell do so many people immediately think that the first overstep of a rule is of malicious intent? How is kicking someone out after mere minutes in a group only for mentioning you write noncon, instead of just saying “dude, its against the rules” a good thing that leads to anything good for anyone? I don’t understand why you even bother with interacting with other people at all, if you don’t leave ANY room for honest mistakes.  How do you live? Is this how you address every problem? How does a “I write noncon” in a fanfic group because you didn’t see the rule about not mentioning that, result in an immediate ban and also being blocked by the person who invite you...?  Like, come on people. I’m too fucking old for this shit. Life doesn’t work like that. You can’t treat every stupid mistake with a “you’re canceled” button. You remind of the rules and then, if the person keep breaking them, you kick their ass out. But to never leave room for mistakes, makes us small, cruel and lonely. Repeated and blatant disregard is one thing, but when a lost idiot in their soon to be 40:ish explains she doesn’t get how this new platform works and mentions a forbidden word because she’s an old ass idiot who made an honest mistake immedately gets blocked, you’re not creating a safe and healthy space.  You’re only making people hypervigilant and I’m not gonna be a part of such stupity.
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Have you ever felt a baby kick? Yes, when my mom was pregnant with my brother. What color pants/shorts are you wearing? I’m only wearing a duster gown; no shorts underneath. I just got it last night, actually - my mom wanted to donate clothes to victims of a recent fire incident in Manila and so she asked my sister and I to sort through our closets for clothes we were willing to give away. My sister ended up giving away a comfy-looking duster gown that she never even wore and even smelled brand new to boot. It ended up in my hands, ha. But apart from that we gave away a lot of stuff that aren’t old uniforms or costumes (which is what most people tend to ‘donate’, ugh), so we just hope they end up with people who really need them. When is the last time you did something truly fun, and what was it? Last night I went on our org’s Discord server and we played Jackbox games for around an hour or so. It was my first time to socialize again after around two months and I really, really needed that moment. I even met the org’s newest roster of applicants for this semester, which was neat. :) What was the scariest moment of your life? Men terrorizing me or near-car crashes I’ve had.
Have you ever heard of Leonard Cohen? The name is familiar, but that’s the most I know.
Pancakes or flapjacks? I guess pancakes, since I don’t even know what flapjacks are. What kind of computer are you on? It’s a laptop. Do you eat Chinese food? If so, what's your favorite dish? For sure. Pork buns or minced pork with eggplant. With century egg on the side, yum. What are you usually doing at midnight? Either passed out or desperately trying to sleep because I don’t want to lose any more hours of sleep and risk being cranky for the whole of the next day. Have you ever developed feelings for a friend, but you were already with someone? No. The worst thing that’s happened was being someone’s ball date (and unbeknownst to me, they apparently had feelings for me at the time) while I was already with someone. If so, how did it turn out? He figured it out by himself, which I still feel bad about. But the timing was super off and I just couldn’t find a moment to sit him down and set the record straight...ah well. It was just super complicated at the time. Give me your brief definition of love. My favorite love-related quote is “Love never says ‘I have done enough’” and for the longest time, that has been my guiding principle when it comes to it. Definitely a tad bit cheesy, but telling myself that over and over makes it easier to continue loving the people I care for and be patient with them when they’re being asses. Gab included, then and now. What is the most beautiful part of the human body, male or female? It differs for everyone but I’m a thigh girl through and through. What kind of shoes do you wear? Uh...various ones? I have sneakers, flats, heels, flip-flops, probably a couple more kinds that I can’t place at the moment. What is the worst thing you've ever done when you were really angry? Resorting to physical violence. I was a kid constantly exposed to violence in my old home, and at the time I genuinely thought that’s how most things were settled or pacified. I still feel like shit about it to this day, and my backstory isn’t an excuse at all; but the past is the past and I’ve been trying to make up for it by being a much more gentle angry person in the last few years. Are there any pills you take on a daily basis? If so, what? Nope. Do you like the smell of coconuts? For some reason I can’t stand anything coconut (which is a damn shame considering I’m Filipino) but I love dishes with heaps of coconut milk in them, like curry. That’s the one coconut-related thing I enjoy, but otherwise I’ve never learned to appreciate the taste and smell of buko juice, coconut shavings, coconut pies, and everything else coconut. What is the heaviest you think you can lift? From what my old PE class showed me, around 70 to 80 lbs. Do you take Tums? Idk what that is so I guess I don’t. Have you ever walked on a pier at the beach? I’m not sure if I’ve been to a pier before. I bet it feels wonderful and freeing and I’d love to visit one; but I also can’t keep myself from associating piers with the recurring image of Jennifer Connelly’s character standing on one from Requiem for a Dream. How about under one? No. At what age do you first remember feeling butterflies in your stomach around someone? Not sure if it was 11 or 12, but it was definitely one of those years. Do you feel that way around anyone now? Yeah, if they allowed me to see them. But I’m shut out now so I haven’t had that sensation in a while.
Do you ever talk to yourself or think deep thoughts while on the toilet? No. Do you ever sing to yourself? Sure. I’m sure most people do every once in a while. What is a sound that relaxes you? Ocean waves have never failed. How hard has it been to reach your main goal in life? ‘Main goal’ sounds so overwhelming; I make it a point to avoid one overarching goal and instead make little goals and plans here and there depending on where I am in life. Do you remember the song about hoes in different area codes? Never heard of it. What is your main heritage? Filipino. What kind of pickles do you prefer, if you like pickles? I hate pickles. What kind of cheese do you prefer, if you like cheese? Mozzarella and feta are my faves, but I love cheese and am willing to be adventurous when it comes to it. If you could have a sea creature as a pet, what would you want? Eh, they can stay in the sea where they can actually survive. I don’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to keeping fish as pets. How about a farm animal? Probably pig. So, do you have hoes in different area codes? No, and ew. What is the most annoying song you can think of that came out recently? Haven’t been exposed to a lot of new music lately and the songs I do get to hear on the radio whenever I drive are actually pretty good. This totally doesn’t answer your question but my favorites so far have been Birthday by Disclosure, Kehlani, and Syd; and Plain by Benee, Lily Allen, and Flo Milli. What is a song that you hate to admit you like? Any Kanye song I like. What inspires you to get off your bum and do something productive? Not wanting to go into another downward spiral. Do you ever use Urban Dictionary? Extremely rarely. I only do when there’s a new slang I’m completely unfamiliar with. Do you find the definitions on there to be generally funny or stupid? Stupid for the most part. I find them too immature or vulgar, but that’s one of the points of the website so I guess I’m just not in their target audience lol. What comes to your mind when you hear the word 'transformation'? Uh, the Transformer robots.
What was something you regularly played with as a child? My cousins’ toy soldiers.
Have you ever given in to peer pressure? Eh, a few times. If so, what did you do? I’ve been pulled to drinking sessions here and there when I really shouldn’t be drinking because I had an important test tomorrow or something else was happening the next day that was just as significant. What part of your body have you had the most problems with in your life? Teeth, I’m pretty sure. I’ve had braces, needed a tooth extracted, gotten a cavity, and gone through a severe toothache.
Do a lot of people check you out when you're in public? Idk I never look around because being aware of it would just freak me out and make me feel like I’m naked. What is a good name for a turtle? Would depend on their personality. And this applies to all kinds of pets, at least for me. I don’t decide on their names until I have a good grasp of their attitude. Can you imitate any accents well? If so, which one(s)? Stereotypical Filipino mom and valley girl. Do you like having your ear nibbled on? Sure. What makes a good kisser a good kisser? I’ve only kissed one person so I’m not the best judge for this; but I always like it when my lower lip is tugged or grazed on. How many times a year do you have a family thing? This is a little vague for me. Do you mean get-togethers? Giant-ass reunions? Movie nights? Game nights?  What are the best things to put in a smoothie? I only like one kind of smoothie and it’s sold by a local joint – and I think I’ve already shared this before but that smoothie of theirs that I like has “apple, banana, cinnamon, oats, coco sugar, chia seeds, greens, and soy milk,” according to their menu. So I guess those are the best ingredients for me, ha. Do you ever eat with your eyes closed and just focus on the taste? When I find something extremely delicious, yeah. What do you dislike most about where you live right now? For the most part I can’t wait to get out of suburban residential villages. I’d love to finally experience living in a condo in a super busy and active city. Has anyone ever given you a rose/roses? Yes.
Are you watching your weight? Not really. I’m trying to gain pounds though, if anything. I haven’t eaten much in the last two months. Have you ever become really good friends with someone you found online? I trust y’all with my life, so that’s one. Apart from Tumblr, the best friends I made were probably the people in the AJ/Punk fandom, back when I had a stan account on Twitter. I don’t remember most of their names now and we fizzled out pretty quickly when both parts of the ship left WWE, but I look back on that period with fondness. Those people made high school a lot easier for me. What makes your best friend your best friend? She doesn’t care whether I’m on top of the world with happiness or completely self-destructive and crying my eyes out; she has always been present. Do you have a drunk uncle? *rolls eyes* We don’t wanna open up that can of worms... Do you hear weird noises in your house at night? Nope. What is something you do that is generally more like something the opposite sex does? Based on personal experience and not to come off as sexist, but it’s liking wrestling. I have never met a girl in real life who has even the most remote interest in pro wrestling or can tell me who Hulk Hogan is. And the ones I’ve had discussions with - from shallow/casual to in-depth - have all been guys. Seeing girls who are into wrestling is like finding a rare Pokemon, at least in real life. What is the girliest thing you do, if you're a girl? Idk. What is the coolest tattoo you've ever seen? Probably the spork tattoo of Josh, a crew member from Good Mythical Morning. It’s just a line tattoo. Of a spork. On his arm. But he managed to make it so goddamn fascinating lmao; and apparently, as I learned just now, it has a pretty touching backstory to it too, which makes it a million times cooler. Have you ever created anything artistic that you're proud of? If so, what? I’ve never finished any of the crafts I bought. Never finished a coloring book page much less an entire coloring book, a painting, a gem painting...it’s something I’ll have to bring my butt to do one of these days. I can’t imagine how fulfilling it would feel. Do you only eat the middle of the oreo, if you eat oreos? I eat the whole thing but I honestly find Oreos too sweet and I’ve always much rather preferred Oreo-flavored stuff instead of the actual cookies.
Do you know anyone with a huge ego? My mom. If so, is there anything else about them you actually like? She’s fed me for 22 years and gave me an education, I guess. Though it’s something I appreciate more so than like. Have you ever used a racial slur, even jokingly? Probably as a dumb kid, when historical context wasn’t a thing to me yet. I still wince thinking about it, but I suppose what matters is being better and more responsible moving forward. Do you have any friends who are more like siblings to you? Angela and to some extent Andi. 
If so, what about them do you like most? They are both understanding when it comes to me - almost to a fault. What do you like on your hotdogs, if you eat hotdogs? When you say ‘hotdogs’ here, it refers to the sausages itself. The sandwich kind of hotdog isn’t super popular here. What is everyone else in your house doing right now? My siblings are still resting in their rooms; my dad is preparing for work, I think. What is the most money you've ever had at one time? Something like P10,000 or P15,000 when my mom needed me to pay for something in cash. How long do you think it would take you to run a mile? Idk, maybe 10 minutes. I won’t be fast, that’s for sure. Look down. What do you see? My legs and the pillow I’m sitting on. What is a subject that makes you uncomfortable? Right now, probably my failed relationship. I haven’t gotten to the sharing stage yet and remotely thinking about it gets my voice all shaky. What is a subject you can talk on and on about and not get sick of it? Paramore. What kind of mood were you in most of today? It’s only 7:52 AM. My only mood so far is just woke up. Has anyone ever walked in on you naked? Yeah. Because people in this damn house never knock. Tell me an inside joke you have with someone. The word ‘ariba.’ What is the worst thing someone could do to you emotionally? Break my trust. So simple but it packs a punch. What is the worst thing you've ever done to someone emotionally? Idk if I’ve ever been that aggressive. When I want to do something destructive towards someone I always end up asking what it would feel like if the action was done to me, and it’s always been enough to sway me away from doing the thing. How do you feel now about the first person you ever dated? Sad. How about the last person (your last ex)? Same person. What is the best invention ever invented? Air conditioners.
What is something that needs to be invented? Portable air conditioners. What always makes you burp? My burps come randomly. What are you doing tomorrow? It’s my last weekend before my new job, soooooooo...I’ll be bumming around for my last two days of freedom.
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bigdadskypilot ¡ 4 years ago
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Humans are a happy little accident
But ultimately we are doomed to go the way of the dinosaurs...and much faster. How do I know this? Because I have a cold. Let me explain:
My ten year-old son is finishing fourth grade. He has a bad cold. With the quarantine imposed by the global coronavirus pandemic, none of us has been sick for over 15 months. This is both good and bad. Good because no one likes a cold. Bad because a necessary component of immunity is exposure. This is where the covid-19 response comes in.
In March 2020, my son’s school closed and all classes went online. This sucked and education took a big hit. In September 2020, we started back up with a hybrid model with two days in school and three days out. Strict social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing, the works. Coronavirus cases shut the school down occasionally and contact tracing was part of our lives.
In April 2021, our district - like so many others - rushed forward with elimination of the hybrid model and full-time in-school education. Yay, except it was rushed. We all want to get back to normal, but corona isn’t going away that easily. Many of us pointed this out to the district administration, only to get shouted down by parents and administrators alike for being alarmist. “We will wear masks still,” they said. “We will wash hands,” they said. “We will have lots of classes outside,” they said.
“How will you social distance,” we asked. “Oh, kids don’t really get corona...that bad,” they responded. “Besides, the CDC says its ok. Stop being party poopers. Hey everyone, look at the party poopers who don’t want their kids to go back to school and be normal.”
It’s not just my kid who had a cold. Five kids in his class are absent at the same time with very bad colds. That’s 20% of his class. That means someone passed it around school. “Well, thank goodness it’s not Covid,” the school said.
They are out of their fucking minds. Covid and common colds are spread in nearly identical fashion. The reason no one has had a cold in 15 months is because we have all been quarantined. Yes, I am not stupid. I know that colds will proliferate when we start opening society back up. But that means that Covid will proliferate, too...before everyone is vaccinated and before herd immunity is achieved. If kids are getting bad colds in school, then the Covid protocols are either not working or not being followed, or both. If they were working, then there would be far fewer colds. Parents are sending kids to school sick, too, because they are fatigued from a year of trying to work from home and take care of their kids full time. I get it. It sucks. But this is why we are doomed.
You see, humans throughout history have seen slow population growth because we are social animals who spread disease easily. It is only since the industrial revolution that we have been able to curb many diseases that had the effect of culling population numbers. Viruses and bacterial killed many, but now there are over 7 billion of us. We have grown too plentiful and something is going to cause the human population to seriously decline. War? Maybe. We thought that in the 70s and 80s. Climate change? Maybe, but while a warming planet is a certainty, we are unsure of the population impacts. Novel diseases? Now there is a possibility.
We are plagued by short attention spans and easily led by propaganda and bullshit. Covid was and is a real threat, but too many people couldn’t handle a year away from the tavern and a movie. Get my kids out of my hair and back into school where I don’t have to be with them all day. I hate to sound like a nihilist, but it seems fairly obvious and reasonable to me to expect that human population numbers will inevitably decline simply because we cannot go for more than a few months without creatures comforts that are less than 100 years old.
Humans got to the top of the food chain by an evolutionary accident. Whether we will be the cause of our own demise is not entirely clear, but what is clear is that we have become too big, too populated, and too short sighted to make group decisions that protect the health and welfare of the entire group.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not mad. I’m not disappointed. And I’m not a doomsday prepper. I just see that humans on their current evolutionary trajectory will probably cease to exist in such large numbers in the not-too-distant future if we can’t keep our kids out of school for a few more months until they are vaccinated against a disease that is a deadly as it is virulent. When Stephen King wrote The Stand, did anyone think that he simply made all that shit up?
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Hey I feel like you’ve already answered this but what are some of your favorite iron man or Captain America comics and why? What story lines would you recommend? I’m curious about the more modern stuff. What’s some of your fav comic artists when it comes to marvel?
OKAY SO. 
holy shit this got long so UNDER THE READ MORE WE GO
This is always kind of a hard question to answer because I personally have not read everything in regards to either Iron man or Captain America. I’ve read the Tales of Suspense stories a lot because I keep trying to start over from the very beginning. And that’s not always helpful if you just wanna dip your toes or give Iron Man/Cap a go.
So what I CAN tell you is here’s what I did when I was first getting into comics around 2012.
I went to Borders/Barnes and Noble and a I read a bunch of the compilations they had in the store. Someone has already done the work FOR you so its really easy to just pick up a book and read from there. 
I started out with Invincible Iron Man  (I’m gonna link to Amazon but I suggest not buying from them because Bezos is a demon [comixology is owned by amazon as well but it is a convenient app]) 
Marvel has its own comics app but if you also read and pay for other comics its not ideal. There are places to “read comic books online” and for older stuff I definitely do this now but for newer comics I’ll try to pay for them especially if its indie. Support indie comics!!! 
Anyway. Invincible Iron Man. A polarizing story in terms of Iron Man lore. But its definitely an easy one to get into and read especially if you’re coming in from MCU and are just testing things. You don’t necessarily need to know all of his history but it covers the basics. 
Next I’d try Demon in a Bottle It’s the original alcoholism arc. A must read for general Tony’s lore. This isn’t the one where he ends up a hobo on the street where Cap helps him escape from a burning building. But this is where he goes off the rails the first time. Bethany Cabe is his current girlfriend and tries to help him. And he kind of recovers. I’m not sure this is exactly a FAVORITE but it has a lot of the important shit for Tony. His temper is something that doesn’t get talked a lot about I think but he DEFINITELY has one. The art is very..........lol its not BAD per say but its also not like wow what gorgeous art. 
Another important Tony lore is Armor Wars So you wanna read the first few times Tony and Steve fight about REAL SHIT. This is it. This is the classic story where he realizes his tech is being used by bad guys and HE’S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN STOP THEM NO CAP NOT EVEN YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE A GOOD GUY AND I MIGHT HAVE TO GET DIRTY. It has the classic Steve sitting in a dark room waiting for Tony to come back with his date and then throwing his shield at Tony going “I don’t want your trash”
It also has a lot of good Tony being in a morally grey area. *chef’s kiss* 
And then basically read all the fun stuff with Kurt Busiek in Vol 3 (This isn’t an amazon link but the marvel database so you know roughly where to start) 
VOLUME THREE HAS SUCH HITS LIKE
The Sentient Armor: Tony accidentally kills Whiplash in a lightning storm. The Armor comes to life. The armor falls in love with Tony and WANTS TO BECOME ONE WITH TONY. Tony does not want this. Tony is beat up and kidnapped and taken by the armor to a deserted island. The Armor is like Tony I love you so much GET IN ME NOW. Tony is about to die from a heart attack. The armor RIPS ITS HEART OUT AND SHOVES IT INTO TONY. Bye Tony I love you now we’re one forever. RIP
Tiberius Stone’s 2 arcs (they’re not in consecutive order but they’re both hella gay): Tony’s old boarding school friend shows up again and is a TV mogul and is DEFINITELY NOT Slandering Tony in the press or blowing up his buildings or framing him for MURDER oh my god Tiberius is a pain in the ass and we definitely boned down as teenagers but he would never frame me for MURDER but his TV devices that seep into your brain like the boob tube thing from Batman Forever are pretty suspicious. Oh no Tiberius IS a bad guy and he got me naked (why?) and hooked the both of us up to the TV machine and now we’re trapped in his horny tv dream why am I dressed like Alice in Wonderland???  ALSO HE SLEPT WITH MY GIRLFRIEND!!!!??
(This is why I will FOREVER get upset that Killian in Iron Man 3 isn’t Tiberius Stone. He IS LITERALLY FOLLOWING THE TIBERIUS STONE PLAYBOOK INCLUDING THE PHYSICAL LOOK WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE FEIGE YOU OWE ME MONEY!!!!)
Also at the beginning of Vol 3. Tony gets the absolute holy hell bejesus shit beat out of him. And that lasts for a WHILE and seeps into the Avengers Vol 3 (which you should also read its fun and I like that George Perez actually tries to make people look ethnically diverse but also you can tell Clint from Cap)
There’s also a part in vol 3 where Monica from FRIENDS shows up at a party and that’s a wild thing that happened.
But basically I think you can start just about anywhere with Iron Man and have a good time if you’re a deep Tony fan. He has a lot of great stories and its why he’s my favorite. Even this last run with Slott I still KIND OF LIKE ANYWAY??? bc its Tony. Its not always written to what a lot of long standing Iron Man fans would say is canon but I mean.....he’s got 57 years worth of comics behind him so he’s bound to change here and there. He was once a super villain, died, brought over as a teenager from an alternate timeline, and then merged with another Tony I forget the details but its silly lol
Side universe reading Iron Man Noir, Ultimates (Hickman’s run is very fun but also Ultimates 1 and 2. DO NOT READ ULTIMATUM IT IS GROSS, I HAVE READ IT FOR YOU ALMOST EVERYONE DIES ITS GROSS.
Ultimates is literally half of the basis for the MCU. Don’t read Ultimates Iron Man tho. Not only is it written by a creep its also extremely stupid and doesn’t even really make sense in terms of what happens later in Ultimates. It basically gets RetConned immediately.
Also Ultimates universe has Gregory Stark. Tony’s fun evil twin brother who for some reason is blonde. I can’t really give you a specific story to read with Ultimates because its the most god awful confusing universe to try and find stories from so I literally don’t even remember. I’d check an Ultimates fan blog for that.
AS FOR CAPTAIN AMERICA.
I love Steve Rogers. I really do. I think he’s a fun character. B U T. His comics for me can be very boring. He has some great arcs as someone who is supposed to be a representation of what a GOOD AMERICA can aspire to or whatever. But America often times SUCKS A LOT (our current times being very obvious). Cap definitely fights for what he believes and so that’s why he often takes off the garb of Captain America and runs around in a slutty v neck and a cape as Nomad. Or when he comes back from the dead and his BFF is the new Cap (WITHA  KNIFE) and wears the sexy Secret Avengers uniform. Very sexy. We stan the Colonel Rogers uniform very much. But his early comics are a lot of “OH MY GOD I KILLED BUCKY ITS ALL MY FAULT BUCKY!!!!! RICK JONES PUT ON BUCKYS CLOTHES THIS ISNT CREEPY I PROMISE”
A GREAT run in Avengers is the Cap’s Kooky Quartet or as I call Cap Joins the Baby Sitters Club. This goes WAYYYYYY back to Avengers 17 
It runs for a very good while before Giant-man and Wasp come back because Giant Man can’t shrink back down lmfao idiot. But its a lot of fun and establishes Cap as being a really good leader even tho he’s thrown into the hot seat because he was out on a mission and everyone else was like “We’re taking a vacay bye Cap. Good luck with the kids” *John Mulaney doing Andy Cohen impression* HUH WHAT WHY
I have no idea what to Rec really lol I know @sineala is part of a SteveTony 616 discord and they do readings every month(?) of either very SteveTony based arcs or specifically Steve or Tony arcs. But I think they have a better grasp of Steve stories than I do.
I would say most recently the run with Mark Waid and Chris Samnee as the artist is a VERY good read. The story is pretty nice and dry lol but the art. Holy shit.
I know there are a bunch of artists that really REALLY get Cap but Chris Samnee is probably my number one favorite Cap artist. Even his sort of retro style works with Cap SO WELL. And I like Mark Waid’s writing. Or at least I don’t think I’ve ever been really mad at it like with Dan Slott or Gillen (We will never forgive for what he did to Tony’s backstory and taking Maria from him) lol
Uh...but as far as I could tell the entire run where Bernie is his girlfriend is VERY good. She first shows up in Captain America 247 . Cap is an illustrator on the side (or as his main job) and man what a dope. His art habits are worse than mine like get a desk Steve. But this arc through Bernie goes through a lot of Steve being kind of stuck in the past and not knowing how to embrace the modern or future and Bernie is there being the coolest fucking chick in the world who’s studying to be a lawyer, watches Wrestling, listens to Bruce Springsteen (I think lol I forget), dunks on Cap for being a weirdo old dude. Very put together woman of the 80s. She proposes to Cap and because I think the writers changed he’s like I HAVE TO LEAVE IMMEDIATELY BYE. 
This isn’t on any of the main timelines but its a good read Captain America Man Out Of Time. Basically Cap coming to grips with the future and realizing the past sucked ew. lol Also he listens to Radiohead which Tony gives him a personal concert for because of course he does.
And then of course there’s this fucking TOME of a story Captain America: The Winter Soldier .
Im gonna sound a little negative but I don’t mean it against anyone’s favorite but I have the most exhausting time trying to read this story. I’ve tried at least three times lol. I think maybe Brubaker’s weird obsession with the Cold War (Remember when he called people who were yelling at Slott for being a creep a ‘Bunch of Commies’) is just so fucking heavy handed that I can’t personally get through it. I would much rather watch the movie.
HOWEVER. There’s good old Bucky coming back from the dead. Natasha. Sam Wilson. Sharon Carter. All big players in this story. So uh lol good luck with this one. If you’re also a Bucky fan this is a must read but as I only peripherally like Bucky I don’t care to read this one. 
So I’d check out this arc.
Also a personal fave of mine is 
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It starts here on Captain America 402 . Its the best story IN THE WORLD. ITS SO ICONIC. NOTHING CAN COMPETE. I LOVE CAPWOLF SO MUCH lol
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