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felt like torturing myself a bit before going to bed so im watching BIG again and i forgot that he lists every homophobic slur he can think of 7 minutes into the video and doesn't actually say he's gay until like 15 minutes later
#ik he said “spoiler alert i'm not straight” right at the start#but the fact that he said the f slur along with a million others before fully clarifying that he's gay#is sending me for some reason#it makes sense for the like... narrative of the video#but i never put this together before lol
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personally I think the best thing that the joker sequel did for me was expose the exact degree to which how much of internet/public criticism is not based on genuine analysis of the content using social and cultural resources to support an actual argument but is actually adult children whining because someone took their batman toys and put them up on a high shelf for once and they, as a consumer, feel like they're entitled to throw a tantrum about it
#one of those 'if everyone's a critic no one will be' kind of situations#like every day I have to see 30 youtube thumbnails saying 'joker 2 bad' and then they say 'this scene was bad' and the only evidence they#give for their reasoning on it is 'it didn't make sense' and I want to turn into my english teacher and give reading comprehension question#like. if something doesn't make sense then why not examine the deeper reasoning that led you to that conclusion? why not then also entertai#the circumstances in which the situation would be plausible? you know? find some actual answers? but that is too much to ask of people#truly the gulf between a really well educated opinion analyzing the actual content rather than knee-jerking and saying 'I don't like it' is#far and fucking wide. I literally have only found ONE video essay that actually does a decent job talking about theme and the cohesion#between the two movies about the gulf between reality and fantasy which I thought was REALLY a good and thoughtful take on it all#but the rest of them are just like 'OOOOH MOVIE BAD MOVIE SO BAD'#like. you can't just say that!!! I know it's the internet and it's edged your ego enough to make you think you can#but some of us would like you to unpack your actual reasoning. but you do not have the capacity for that. clearly#go back to ninth grade for god's sake like this is a really basic skill for actually analyzing narrative and film and you do not have it#joker#folie a deux#joker 2#arthur fleck
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An ouch moment from the most recent NMTDaily email that I missed the first time around:
But also, HERO IS THE ONE WRITING THOSE TWEETS. This is why I fell so deep into these series. The fucking layers, man. The layers.
#hero and pedro never had much on-screen interaction in the first place so it makes sense that there's not much on-screen resolution#but it IS interesting because they've known each other for a really long time!#like longer than anyone else in the series except hero and ursula (and bea obvs)!#and this tweet is the closest thing there is to a button on that relationship (in this series anyway) and i mean#there is a way of reading it as possibly the coldest thing hero ever says or does to anyone in either series#like. deservedly so!#and i think it was PROBABLY intended to be read in a similar tone to the way hero talks to claudio in their explanation video#but it's interesting the way the remove/the gaps in the narrative create those impressions#and again just so interesting how much the layer of not just what is said by who#but also who is REPORTING what was said and how#deepens the narrative in nmtd and lolilo#even compared to a lot of other vlog-style series#nmtdaily#nothing much to do
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its been so long since human content/new content with no book relevancy even the youtubers and theorists like dawko and john are getting restless😭
#dawko going its not gonna happen steel wool right over glamfred and rhe humans not coming back#and john going 'im... totally okay with that happening 😐' about mimics story being spoiled in the books 2 years before sotm#like dude even theyre feeling it#dawko would love a fnaf game about absolutely nothing so his excitment about sotm makes sense#but its refreshing seeing john actually criticize it bc it deserves to be even if it was really tame and not really explicitly said#we understand and its just. so nice seeing someone like john actually aware of how stupid it id#instead of everyone being okay with it and not criticizing it for some reason#even tho it kind of sucks#like john is one of the last surviving theorists and a big figure in the community#seeing him actually not shy away from at least implying he thinks its bad and dumb in a video is just.#soo refreshing#like so many times i felt like i was insane for disliking all the mimic theories before ruin came out#i thought it was boring. mimic is a book villain#its so sad seeing john try to actually theorize about mimic in an interesting way with a satisfuing narrative that isnt just c&p#but it just turns out that actually yeah. its game is a rerun of its book lore that came out years ago#and we spent three entire years foreshadowing and teasing 'carnival' in games to hype this game up and its just c&p book lore nothing new#except the new shit being like. stuff about OG freddys and og characters which. are not explaining the mimics backstory#its just like whyy did they do it like this. and they shafted basically every single thing else to do it for years#no wonder dawko is starting to actually joke about them never bringing them back and john is implying his distaste#pandas.txt#discourse#sorryyyyy#its just like i think about sotm and im like i dont need to be that hard on it. theres nothing inherently wrong with a game explaining#mimics backstory#and then i remember how it was spoiled 2 years earlier in the books and everybody already knows its story and theres nothing#new about the mimic in this game save for a random new form#and im like yeah nevermind its okay to be critical about it they somehow handled the mimics story in the worst way possible#up to this point#like if youre a fan of literally anything else in the story youll resent mimic at least a little bit for how much it hijacked everything#even all mimic fans are getting are reruns of shit they already know
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im glad that veilguard turned away from the broodmother thing in favor of darkspawn literally spawning from pools of blight now
#literally dont think there's a way for a video game to like#not make you viscerally uncomfortable with the concept of people being reduced to monster birthing machines underground sorry#i wouldnt even mind if they retconned it out#and i dont think bioware's equipped to tell a well written narrative about misogyny lol#veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#there obviously is potential to tell a tale on how women are reduced to reproduction#but dragon age's not able to do it#i suppose i should say like. a video game CAN make you uncomfortable with writing like that#and it can be saying something about the world with that narrative#but i think theyd need to dedicate entire games to that concept and not just one#am i making sense#can anyone hear me
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Honestly love when video games use it/its for the player character
#video games#gaming#was playing the old world blues new vegas add-on and being called an it in the game goes hard ngl!!!#or in the end poem where we are an it? also goes extremely hard#it's the refusal for non-humans to partake in human gender for me that adds something interesting#because to the think tank they don't fucking care about the courier's gender they only care about the function of its body#they fundamentally don't respect human autonomy. they fucking kidnapped you and STOLE YOUR BODY PARTS AND SEWED YOU UP#so it make character sense for them to diminutively call you an it#and to the other humans who at least care about adherence to human societal constructs i revert to a him again#it's like how in skyrim serana was an it to isran and THEN she became a she to him#he fundamentally did NOT see personhood in vampires until serana proved him wrong#was isran a dick? yes. he's a fucking lunatic about vampires (derogatory). but that's his character#and it makes narrative sense for him to have called her an it
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i can Not stop fucking watching this
#druid babbles#that one video#its so well made and there are so many points where thet shots that transition to eachother make narrative sense and#uuuugh#blue eye samurai#watch this if you like blue eye samurai okay#Youtube
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im up painting and kind of heated about the 'not like other girls' stereotype. 'ohh i pretended to like soccer and playing cod because i wanted to be different from other girls it was such obvious internalized misogyny 💀💀' yes but. girls can like those things why are we pretending like theyre inherently not things women would ever organically do
#i have no interest in wearing a lot of pink or a skirt. i have no interest on putting on makeup.#i like to watch some sports. i like to play some video games.#i like to tie my hair back. i have no interest in faking a higher pitched voice.#clearly i have no agency and am desperate for male validation 🙂#the narrative of 'oh i like pink now because im a better person 😇😇' pisses me off so bad#because 1 it discredits all the feminists and women who do not perform femininity to an arbitrary standard#but 2 some of the women that say this are also the people that are like 'nooo we csnt criticize the makeup industry..#makeup is literally fun for me 🥺'#does this make any sense#and also the fact that half the criticism towards the stereotype nlog girl is about like. middle schoolers is disgusting#yeah girl. beef with that child you made up. girlboss or whatever
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re last answer: please don't stop, being very unhinged about these two pretty white boys is helping distract me from the sharks losing streak rn so bring it on
https://www.tumblr.com/bondedpairs/764566430180147200?source=share
(sideblog woes but there's the link for you) anyway in the vid they talk about going over to each other's houses to have dinner and things and while that is a delicious example of their codependence i love it bc through an rpf lens there is definitely some old man ******* going on. they can have the dilfs and each other.
(someone else mentioned kept boys which i could write an essay on but i fear being Perceived™️)
anyway if you have anything to add to this please do, if not ignore me and i will hide under a rock until the stress-related insanity has worn off and i am a functioning member of society once more 😂
- @bondedpairs
ty for the video!!! and please, WRITE THE KEPT BOYS ESSAYYYY i promise i will read it with my hands over my eyes if you don’t want to be perceived. do it scared!! do it anyway!! we’ll all love you for it!!!
#like. i don’t know how to explain how narratively aware will smith is to me. he knows he’s being put into the codependent rookies arc.#he’s aware that zeev buium transforms into a dog. he knows that he and mack aren’t getting together because mack’s gotta work it out first.#& in a less unhinged way i simply mean that will smith has an air of both self-conscious thought & projection i think is maybe fascinating.#but not in a way in which i actually know this or think that he thinks about himself and how he comes across. he just Is Something ????#the best way i can explain is one of my alltime favorite fics i use it like a shorthand citation bc i love it so much but catchascatchcan’s#many worlds universe but specifically the second tk/pat story second person you the ouroboros spits out its tale nolan walks off screen.#like that is the kind of narrative awareness i am trying to explain that no matter where i put him will smith knows he’s inside a story but#not in a way where he’s trying to do anything to it. he’s just present there. this makes no sense to me either please understand#liv in the replies#bondedpairs#happy to have brought you something in your times of woe!!! also hope things get a little less stressful for you!! <3#we’re 2gether p much 24/7” no go on i say in my nature documentary voice. watching them like bugs under a rock rn observing from a distance#this DID get me to actually watch the video. agreed with puckpocketed saying rich text and ur tags like. YES the daddy issues popped out.#just wants to make sure he’s having fun!! checking up!! mack the prime irritance in will’s life!! foisted off on one another w/ no choice#it’s like when your parents are friends so then you have to be friends with their kids in a way and then also like. you’re the only kids#close in age to each other but they’re NOT but it is definitely not like. i would choose you for any lifetime it is very will smith hockey#(once again) very aware he has to wait for mack to settle down. like now that i’m saying this i DO want clairvoyant will smith which is not#where it goes in the first half but just in the sense of like. those silly posts that are like ‘invested early in stock!’ & it’s a picture#of braden holtby & his beautiful bisexual wife brandi back when holts was a hipster who wore skinny scarves & now everyone thinks he’s sooo#like that but it’s will smith saying my god you are insufferable but you’ll be fantastic in five years. get in the fucking car.#(yes i am drawing extensively from the one picture where will has COMPLETELY tuned him out (there is a football reasoning reference here?#with the patriots? neonfretra drew this also but it was a tweet about the teams. there’s layers to this here ANYWAY) we’re building a life#i realize after the fact i addressed neither the dilf (gilf?) fucking here nor the content of the actual video & polycules to which i say:#brain scrampled egg. the burnsie/joe/patty/(pavs???) polycule just exists to me and the kids intersect the venn diagram but in a much#smaller portion than they intersect each other in both ways (will/mack joe/the guys)#also as for the content of the video. you’re gonna have to give me at LEAST (how long did it take me until i actually started posting tzjd?#i hate that this is my metric but it really was like. i see everyone yelling about them & i’m like ok. [please ignore the irrational hatred#i have for tz at the time it has to do with moritz seider and also whenever i see him on the ice something awakens in kill mode] and i DO#blame tzjd for my 800 drafts and it took me like. a good while before i finally went OH kay. i see it. okay i can get invested. horizon at#a 45 degree angle moon in the late waxing gibbous winds scented of orange & blowing S by SW from the vortex cycle etc etc ass conditions)
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thinking about everyone hating on sabine for giving baylan the map and choosing ezra over the safety of the galaxy....like did we all just forget "EVERYTHING i did was for FAMILY for MANDALORE"
#like i absolutely love when people take something soooo important to a character and just ignore it#sabine cares about her family so much and ezra is family to her hera is family to her kanan was family to her zeb is family to her chopper#is family to her even jacen is now family to her#the ghost crew is her family!!!! especially since they wrote her bio family out of the narrative (still upset about that one though)#and obviously i emphasized 'mandalore' because it's emphasized in the quote obviously that doesn't have anything to do with ezra#but like if we're going to be hating on something from the ahsoka series#let's not hate on sabine's actions let's hate on arguably trash writing (in the majority of places)#but!!!! her giving baylan the map is not trash writing in my opinion because it makes sense!! it's what she would do!! it's what any of the#would do for each other in the end!! hell it's what i would do for any member of the ghost crew <3#sabine wren#don't know what exactly prompted me to go on a full rant here but i was watching drew gooden's sw video and he had some takes so it#got me thinking about all this again#also sometimes characters have to make tragic choices that doom everyone else to save the people they love and i think that is fucking#poetic and cinema and chef's kiss and i eat it up every time#kat rambles
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do you sometimes also think about the great fire of london and how there probably weren't just six people who died but hundreds maybe thousands of people whose deaths went unrecorded bc they lived in the poorest part of the city that was turned entirely to ash by a fire so hot it left no human remains and bc no officials cared about these people they're left out of the story to this day. bc i do all the time tbh
#HOW CAN A FIRE THAT DESTROYED MORE THAN HALF OF THE CITY ONLY CAUSE SIX DEATHS#HOW ARE MOST PPL STILL RUNNING WITH THIS NARRATIVE#IM SORRY IT MAKES NO SENSE IT SIMPLY ISNT TRUE#see this is what i'm thinking about minutes before leaving for a festival like#it's the injustice it's the classism#it's literally forgetting those people existed#watch that video it's so well made fr#my posts#history
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my this is the fall headcanon which i can have as its creator is that after jacques's death and maybe even after the kids' deaths they'll make an award-bait mrs. villareal biopic that is genuinely well made but like 99% inaccurate and hugo would probably publicly denounce it
#like is this canon is it not who's to say#i have so many Thoughts on her public perception and media narrative following her death i could write a book#i'll get into some of it eventually but they truly just have no idea who she actually was#it's very black and white. no nuance#she was basically never seen when she was alive except for public events no one really paid attention to her or cared what she did anyway#there are a lot of lies and cover ups about her also some of which were discovered and made public during the investigation#like how she had just started working at the company at 23 as a low-level employee#and jacques was 34 and her boss and their relationship started there that was covered up until the investigation#people know it now but like he recovered from the backlash#a lot of people DO think he killed her of course though. there have canonically been snl jokes about it#but like there are no interviews with her no diaries no publicly released family videos. no one knows what she spoke like her personality#they just have to project whatever personality would make sense with the narrative. they just have to guess#honestly realizing just now how big a theme media narratives are in this is the fall....like i have brought this up multiple times. hmmmm#this is the fall: extras
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you guys dont understand how much splatoon means to me. you will never understand
#will ALWAYS preach it has some of the best worldbuilding in anything i've ever fucking seen#especially in a video game. and ESPECIALLY a video game which isnt purely story-focused#splatoon's world feels so PAINFULLY fucking real its hard to even describe. the level of detail when it comes to LITERALLY everything#is insane. and thats only amplified when you're someone who's been playing it for a long time and has seen this world change in real time#i will always adore how time passes the same in splatoon's world as it does in real life. however long it's been since the last game came#out - thats how long its been in splatoon's world! characters are constantly changing and doing new things and taking on new roles#AND of course. the final splatfests making it so player input has a direct and pivotal effect on the setting and plot of the next game.#SO fucking cool and insane. like what other piece of media is like that#because of things like that and the worldbuilding and everything i also think that splatoon has one of the most seamless transitions#between singleplayer and multiplayer modes. a lot of times in games esp with stories those modes feel very disconnected#but in splatoon things that you do in singleplayer modes have an actual EFFECT on the world of multiplayer#i will never forget. how cool it felt when octo expansion came out and suddenly octolings started popping up in multiplayer#because in the irl sense. of course they were! people were beating that singleplayer mode and unlocking the ability to play as octolings#in multiplayer. but in-universe THIS IS ACTUALLY WHATS HAPPENING!!!! after your agent 8 escapes more octolings follow in their footsteps#and it is an actual noticeable cultural shift in the world of splatoon with it being talked about on the news and stuff#and this story of octolings coming to the surface and integrating into inkling society works perfectly because its not just something#you're hearing about. you are actually seeing IN REAL TIME octolings start to populate the city and matches because REAL PLAYERS are#playing as them. fitting perfectly into that narrative being created. its soooooo fucking good#anyways sorry i just love splatoon so much and i love talking about why its incredible#serena.txt
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"im so normal about this villain OC. i can leave them evil" (lying through my teeth)
#this is specifically about#oc: videres nasica#video has been on my mind constantly 🤟😔#would not be surprised if they end up in my top 10 fave ocs list soon#i just! sometimes i love a villain OC so much that i cant handle leaving them awful/fucked up!#especially ones like video....they never had a chance#the thought of them never getting a chance to grow and be better makes me unfathomably sad#even if narratively wrt my current plot of Velocity....it would make the most sense if Video dies after becoming the main antagonist#but i dont want them to ): i want them to at least START on a path to redemption#i wasnt supposed to get this attached to video!!!!! fuck!!!!!
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The thing about armchair diagnosing cis people as trans is that if you accept that everyone's understanding of gender is deeply personal and that you shouldn't tell someone they're not trans or not trans in the right way, you should also accept that you can't tell someone they are trans or that they're not cis in the right way. Or that they have to either identify as trans or cis.
These are all just words and there's never any excuse to argue with someone over who they are.
I don't think most people are genuinely trying to overrule the 'cis in a gnc way' perspective but even being flippant about it is not helpful. Also I think cis people talking about gender in complex and fun ways is very cool.
#everyone is allowed to have their own gender#it's not like 'trans people get to do whatever they want and cis are boring and default'#cis just means you generally identify with the gender you were assigned or don't strongly identify with something else#not that you never think about what gender means to you or that you think you're a woman BECAUSE you have a certain body#everyone is capable of understanding the difference between sex and societal gender roles and gender identity#if we try to say that only trans people have this forbidden knowledge that's just another way of alienating ourselves#and suppressing discussion of gender#gender things#anyway i said this bc i was watching a video essay about transness in horror#and she talked about a mangaka who writes trans narratives and has this really complex relationship with his own gender#but doesn't openly identify as trans#and i think we will lose a lot of interesting stories and people if we tell cis people to either be quiet about gender identity or be trans#and i know it's like. 'no one's telling them to shut up they're the majority'#yeah yeah but like. being cis is such an ephemeral state of being#you could just as easily not be cis within a moment#so it makes no sense to me to act like every cos person individually is An Oppressor#they're literally not they're just other people under the same stupid capitalist imperialist society as us#that wants them to be stuffed into tiny marketable boxes just as much as it wants us to be#so not they're not an elevated class and they're not barred from the table#the reason we have community is for support and understanding but some cis people support and understand us and some trans people don't#everything has nuance#anyway i want to engage less with labels and more with people and let them tell me who they are
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you ever give someones video essay you sort of disagree with a shot and then You still disagree with them. Thats crazy
#she said Us was a movie about middle class fears of the envy of the working class. which yes. but no. but that like.#it cant be about the working class because of its depiction of them as growling horror villains#which. also removing the aspect of. the tenderness and understanding in the film between the protagonist and the supposed antagonist#and the narrative weirdness that makes you question who is who and who was there first being a thing#to feed into the argument that contempt is the sublimation of envy and Explains a lot about society.com#anyway this is just one part of the video and other bits actively spun the is this ME question i kept afloat while watching it#but is it the truth that envy drives moralistic thinking just because it sounds more self aware and enlightened 6_9#after all even before religion and before masters and slaves people did have a sense of good or bad#based more around pain pleasure and functionality right#and can envy explain the contempt of people who dont want what they contempt.#i think its easy for some people in some positions to say like oh well they’re just envious and lying to themselves to feel better about it#and it’s hard for these same people to imagine i guess the depth of a contempt without desire. they must not truly hate me#they only want what I have and bemoan their lack of it.#but does everyone want the same thing. i.e. if you are disgusted by extravagance consumption opulence whatever is it always just envy#if you believe wealth and excess power robs everyone within it of something you actually desire#or is that just envious self-delusion. who knows#in this way of thinking some things are never possible or mutable because once the tables are turned and the envious desire is fulfilled#then people only will ever become corrupt because the substance of it always mattered less than emotional gratification#which maybe has been the pattern but is that it is that just ze human condition forever#?_?. i get the video wants to focus so it discards a lot of these things but i just dont think they can be extricable#also she said flaunting wealth is an american phenomenon LMAO. I was chinese once#also that black swan was about the sublimation of envy into artistic perfection (yes) but also not about the humanity it robs#in the proccess.
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