#i think? idk man

[agoist]

I cant wven why. Holy fuck why the hell today.

She canf do that. Cussing a child out for something she did isnt right. Right?? Making a child fear being hit isnt ok????? Why the hell did she do thay???????

And then im BEHIND in BOTH of my ap classes which has Never happened before but its my fault for not paying attention but no i have to write HER EMAIL and do HER SHIT instead of study.

[svedupelle]

the people pleasers wanted to ascend because they knew they had achieved their purpose, so the tree could remake and "upgrade" them, giving them new purpose and giving them a reason to go on living. its not that they were dissatisfied with themselves, its the opposite. they were done and they knew it and accepted it. they didnt want their own end, but a new beginning.

ruby accepts the tea because she felt like she had failed, like she wasnt good enough, and that the tree could remake her a better hero than she was, and in the process, she would essentially forget all about whats happened.

that's suicide. like, thematically and allegorically, it is very much akin to suicide. she's depressed and traumatised, feels like nothing she does ends well, and is now "killing herself" hoping that it'll lead to something better. that's where she and the people pleasers differ: they're satisfied and want renewal, she's dissatisfied and wants to escape her trauma

you cant equate the two!! it doesnt work! you cant have a whole episode showing neo bringing back past traumas, driving ruby to suicide and then the next episode have her friends and sister go "actually this is a good thing and its now for ruby to decide how to move forward 🥰" ruby's fucking depressed! this is fucking stupid!!!

the biggest difference between the the pp and ruby is that the pleasers have a purpose imposed on them, while ruby's ascribing one to herself. yknow when little asks her what her purpose is at the beginning? and she doesnt know what to answer? thats because she doesnt have a purpose!! because people dont have purposes!!!

she tries to meet an impossible standard, LITERALLY. she wants to be like the "heroes in the fairytales" who dont exist! and the mother she puts on a pedestal wasnt one either, because guess what, summer fucking died. ruby reaching for summer's axe is a perfectly tragic thing for her to do, because she's dooming herself to fail again, because summer failed. im going insane.

the rebirth that the tree gives the afterians shouldnt work for humans because humans dont have a purpose. and being "given" a purpose by the tree to end up like something like the people pleasers or the cat should b horrifying, and if they'd leaned into that a bit more it couldve worked well, but no. i guess ruby's on a journey of self discovery and not self annihilation

[isame-allen]

It’s always the worksheets that have the good paper

[ryderdire]

Really interesting thing I glimpsed on rednote today

I think We- we’re developing international class consciousness 

[inkedberries]

after patrolling, unwinding in a diner somewhere ...

throw the man a bone batman geez

[starridge]

puppet hour was brutal

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Physically? I am sitting in my bedroom. Mentally? Spiritually? I AM DEAD ON THE FLOOR!!!!! THESE TWO HAVE KILLED ME!!!!

(Another drawing! This was originally attempt #1 at drawing stan, and then fiddleford just showed up. Kinda feels like them five minutes after the above acting like nothing happened though, so it works sdjkgkjfshj)

[inkskinned]

okay is she being actually immature or is it just a woman over 30 expressing a human experience you find to be immature.

like yeah. at certain ages... let shit go. im not defending the real immature shit. im not defending the karen you're picturing. i worked in retail i hate those people too. (once somebody got mad at me because she didn't like how our winter window decor was a snowman smoking a pipe. i wish i was joking).

but men at 57 will write books about how 17 year old girls are soooo sexy. they will invent worlds where women have to be naked for "armor reasons." they will write songs that treat women as objects. people rush to defend them. meanwhile a woman at 35 will be like "heartbreak is hard, actually" or "i feel betrayed by a friend" or "i am struggling with something emotionally." immediately people will say stuff like this woman is 35 by the way. by the way this woman is SO OLD to be experiencing this. BY THE WAY.

im 31, almost 32. the other day a poet was blasted online because at her "big age", she had written a poem about feeling unloved. top comment was "this woman is 29 by the way." this woman is too old to still be useful, by the way. she has to behave better . maybe if she was a good wife and mother she could stop existing loudly, and the story could continue on without her. this woman has served her purpose, by the way. she's so cringe, by the way. at 29 - so old! - she still hasn't figured out that her existence should be one of shame.

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[greenbergsays]

I'm going to say something that will make sense to the Fandom Olds and will probably be slightly controversial to the younger crowds, but I'm going to say it anyways

TPTB becoming increasingly aware of fandom and fanfiction over the past two-ish decades and thus, the spawning of the expectation of your ship going canon has ruined fandom a little bit

I mean, fandom does a great job of ruining itself a lot of the time, but this idea that a ship isn't "real" or "valid" if it isn't canon

or the idea that one ship is superior to the other because one is canon and the other isn't?

it's absolutely bananas

I grew up in an era of fandom where characters didn't even have to be from the same media source to ship them. I mean, do you know how many BtVS/HP crossover fics I read back in the early 2000s???

That shit was never gonna be canon, but we had fun with it, anyways

Like. Yeah, a lot of fanon speculation is bullshit, but it always has been and always will be. You have hundreds and/or thousands of people riffing off each other, the observations and the meta will always be deeper than what TPTB intended, and that's okay! That's what makes it fun!

I just think more people would be a lot happier in their fandom experiences if they realized that fandom is supposed to be an escape instead of a crusade

[rapidhighway]

the thing that caused me so much grief last night but now i feel better about it fdnghgdfggd

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

main take aways from Halloween (1978) rewatch:

michael myers is canonically 21??? this bitch should be at the club

*sees tiddies* ***MURDEROUS RAMPAGE NOISES***

that's it that's the movie

outside of the fact that everyone who has sex is murdered by the narrative, this is a surprisingly chill portrayal of female sexuality? these teen girls are horny and actively enjoying Getting It On with their boytoys. no pushy boyfriends sneaking in through their bedroom windows--these ladies are taking the initiative to sneak out and GET SOME. one of them gets laid and then immediately orders her boyfriend to get her a beer. (yes she gets Slashered soon afterward, but so does the boyfriend so honestly, gender equality.) yes the Final Girl is the only one not having sex, but she's not bullied for that, nor are her friends slut shamed except possibly by being murdered by the narrative

actually the only character who is shown being morally condemned on-screen is michael myers. specifically FOR his violent overreaction to other people's sex lives. (people he is spying on). metaphorically, the villain is American Puritanism sticking its judgy nose into other people's business.

aka Michael Myers Is A Republican

but actually the real villain is the doctor. guy's a judgemental, shaming, pathologizing asshole. and he's been in charge of michael's care since he was SIX YEARS OLD? kid never had a chance. i'd go on a killing spree too

also the parents. where are the parents? it's halloween night and all the teenage girls are home babysitting their younger siblings? come to think of it, michael's first victim was his own older sister, whom he killed while she was babysitting him. teen girls are really shouldering a labour burden here. maybe parentification is the true villain

side note: mike commits his first murder wearing a clown costume...which is never referenced again? his 'iconic' costume is a generic mask and wig and jumpsuit, when we coulda had a Killer Clown Michael Myers??? travesty

i like how the Final Girl and her friend casually smoke weed in her car. yeah she's an honor student and her friend is the sheriff's daughter. yeah they smoke weed. so what it's 1978

(to reiterate, mike is 21 and should be at the club. im not saying he shouldn't be rampaging, im saying it's sad that he broke out, tasted freedom for the first time in his life, and immediately snuck back into his childhood home to go rampaging. let's have a remake where he goes to a nightclub and has a few beers. maybe some slutty dancing. then rampage)

oh no he's hot

[steiiaoctangula]

happy birthday slender fella

like the idea that he has no sinister intentions hes just a guy who lost his art in the woods and is also like 9ft tall with no face in a 3 piece. to each their own, though.

[chloesimaginationthings]

The Vanessas and Mikes if they met sooner in FNAF..

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Yeah, I don't know about you, Fidds, but I'd fold at this 🙏

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[meatgrinder-0]

me at the interdimensional ramen bar of past regret