#it seriously baffles me

[babypuffinzoe]

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[echo-of-the-eye]

A while ago I subscribed to rusty quill’s patreon for one month so I could get access to the extra bloopers (which are amazing and definitely worth it) and the deluxe transcripts and I’d definitely recommend it. I know they’re not canon, but they’re great. You’ll get such treats as:

• Jon being a tired millennial

• Jon shitting on the police

• Just general Jon snark

• Jon’s degree is in literature (unqualified king)

• Some really sad comments on the leitner statements

• Being subconsciously compelled to cross out this line “grant us the sight that we may not know. Grant us the scent that we may not catch. Grant us the sound that we may not call” from the statement in page turner

• Jon defending the anatomy students

• Statement giver says they almost threw up and Jon comments “a common response to fanfiction” like excuse me?! Sir?? What do you have against fanfiction??

• “Ah, mums. I assume” wtf Jon?! Why are you trauma dumping in your notes?!

• After Sasha talks about how she met up with Michael and kept investigating: “really need a staff training seminar on when to RUN AWAY” Jon I love you

• “Georgie needs to get better taste in friends”

• Just. Some really sad and ominous comments on the prentiss statement

• Implying that he’s sent the british museum MULTIPLE emails and they’re ignoring him

• “If this house is haunted by a ghost clown, I quit”

• And last but not least:

This picture of a random ass woman holding a DUCKLING that’s supposed to be mary keay

[bubblesandpages]

I'm not kidding, this is a genuine concern they keep on loooosing them

[microcroft]

Fear& is such a sitcom ass group of friends. the hot socialist guy, the wacky actor/director guy, the selfish top gay guy or whatever the hell austinshow has going on idek how to describe it, and league of legends playing pastry chef girl and they are all mentally ill.

[fowlblue]

If you want to be as famous as me- you gotta work, gotta work, gotta work-

I don’t know if Reverse Falls is still a thing on here but man, was I obsessed with it back in the early days.

[orgonongurlz]

CHIPPED OFF

ONE YEAR

[thethespacecoyote]

and if I decided to run a billford week. what then

[hoe4hotchner]

I’m 100% sure that Miss Penelope Garcia wouldn’t stand for this. She would find some way to overthrow the electoral college so Mango Mussolini wouldn’t win.

[littleoddwriter]

So many people -- especially cis men -- not understanding why Elisabeth takes the Substance in the first place, and then continues to take it, despite Sue destroying her/them, is really frustrating for me to see.

Listen. If you make a video essay or write an analysis or whatever, but you don't understand possibly the most important theme of the entire movie, then maybe... do more research first and don't just continue to say everything about said theme is "stupid" because you fail to understand it. That is stupid.

Elisabeth is plagued by intense self-hatred that's been fuelled and made worse by outside forces; i.e. comments made about her age, body, importance, and worth -- and how all of that depends on her being young and sexy; but also just the general misogyny in our society and the industry she works in. People, who have been assigned female at birth, are confronted with that kind of misogyny from day one, essentially.

And Elisabeth is so desparate in the movie, so full of raging hatred toward her own ageing body that she'd do absolutely anything to "go back" and continue to live the life she's known best and felt "most comfortable (worthy)" with. Thus, the Substance is the very real chance she gets to do that with. It works well at first, until "Sue" becomes too greedy, for the lack of a better word.

Here's the thing where most people get confused, despite how much the movie emphasises it.

Elisabeth and Sue are one. They are still the same person, simply split into two bodies, but with one singular consciousness, which basically goes from one body to the other week after week. They both experience the same things every week, but are so dissociated from the "other self" that to some people it may seem like they aren't actually the same person, because Sue often doesn't seem to remember exactly what Elisabeth did during her week, and vice versa.

To me, that's not as confusing because I deal with dissociation myself, and my understanding of it here would be that Elisabeth's self-hatred forces this kind of dissociation between her true self and Sue, who is the perfect version of herself. She's so focused on Sue being perfect and better than her "true self" that they've become different people in her mind.

In her own mind, she can't associate Sue with herself, with Elisabeth, because she -- as Elisabeth -- is nothing like Sue (anymore) and could never be her. Elisabeth, now, only exists to further Sue. To keep Sue alive and successful and living her dream, Elisabeth needs to exist. But that's all the purpose she really has now. Of course, yes, she tried to actually live a normal life as Elisabeth in the beginning, but she was unhappy and couldn't do it because this self-hatred had gotten the best of her. All the time, she could only anticipate to be Sue again and continue to live her "true life".

This kind of self-hatred is incredibly vicious. Every chance Elisabeth had to go back to being just her, she couldn't take it. Even when she ended up terminating Sue, she regretted it and tried to reverse it, which ended in her death.

Self-hatred is not logical, and it can and does alter somebody's perception of themselves and the world around them so much that it can and does result in that person's death, be that figurative or literal. Unless, of course, that person gets the help they need. But for that, they'd have to actually admit that something is "wrong", and also be ready to change things.

I think it says a lot about how necessary a movie like this is when so many people misunderstand it, despite being so obvious with everything it's trying to say. A lot of people have complained about The Substance not being a subtle movie, yet at the same time, those people are most often the ones, who question Elisabeth's motivations and don't understand the most important theme of the movie -- self-hatred.

[leonidas1754]

Semi-related to this post, there's a concept I really enjoy of like.

Akechi and Mishima end up as friends, and they call each other by their given names. For Akechi it starts as a ploy to get Mishima to let his guard down, and like. How the hell does Mishima of all people refuse that, the boy folds like wet tissue paper under that smile. (Ofc then Akechi catches Feelings™ but that's a different matter)

So at some point during third semester/Shido's palace if he's on the correct side of the shutter, Akechi is talking about "Yuuki" for something, and it takes the Thieves a solid couple minutes to realize who he's talking about.

Which is when Akechi finds out both that most of the Thieves are only vaguely aware of who Mishima is and that none of them had a goddamn clue the two were friends.

Akechi gets tempted to shoot Joker all over again when he realizes that the way Mishima described his meet-ups with Joker (framing it as giving school help instead of phansite info) wasn't actually due to Mishima's crippling self-worth issues, they just genuinely aren't very close.

[ananinidraws]

Everyone is talking about and posting bowuigi, a ship that I never really understood how I can combine them, but like Bowsario, it seems like I understand, like they are two enemies that fight for years and can have that potential of enemies to friends to lovers (if any fans of bowuigi read this, sorry I didn't mean to offend)

I'd like to start this post with the same heads up as anon, my apologies to bowigi fans, this is in no way targeted and just my opinions and views on these ships, you guys have fun with your ship ok?

With that out of the way, incoming rant

OH MY GOD ANON SAME. I do not get Bowigi at all, never did. Cuz to me, Weegee and Bowser do not have good chemistry. Now granted, i don't really go on that side of the fandom, so i do not know what the large consensus of their dynamic is like, but to me Luigi is a person who needs stability and a partner who uplifts him. It's why i like Luiasy and especially Luisley, cuz Daisy and Peasley praise him constantly and treat him like he's the most amazing thing in the world. I don't think Bowser would be a good match in that sense, man's really prideful and i don’t really see him being into romantic stuff like that (of mention, however, that he does these things towards Peach, i will not deny that. but when he does that to her it doesn’t feel as genuine, does that make sense? like he’s just shallowly trying to get her attention because he wants something in return, that being her affection but also her kingdom). Not to mention, just in general, i feel like Luigi’s constant emotional stage would be anxiety in that ship, and Bowser would get bored of it really quickly.

The biggest reason why i’m into Bowsario is because Mario matches Bowser’s fiery spirit so well. Bowser has a huge crush on Peach, but i do think that it doesn’t really go beyond that. And i find the prospect of the hatred slowly shifting into love to be SO interesting. Like he starts looking forward to Mario reaching their final battle at his castle. Without Mario, he has no purpose. And same with Mario, without Bowser his life would be so much more boring. Obviously he faces off against other foes, and he has fun on his adventures, he always has, but his boss battles against foes that are not Bowser have a different feeling. They’re not as fun, against Bowser he doesn’t fight with urgency, he fights for the love of fighting. It’s their little routine by now, their own dance, and it’s one both continue to repeat. Honestly one that they could just do, without needing to kidnap Peach and put the citizens in danger, but how would either just. Explain that? Deeply rooted and denied feelings that get confused for hatred, you know it~

This is also why Mario continues to invite Bowser to their sport and kart activities. Cuz it’s not as fun without that element of genuine competition the two have going on. Their dynamic is just so natural at this point for them, and it’s undeniably mutual. So when either of them has that “oh” moment it just throws everything for a loop and makes it all so much more interesting >:3

And when they do actually work through their feelings (which let’s be honest, it’s gonna take a LOOOOOONG time for either to even realize they’re there) their dynamic remains the same, but now they also sometimes sneak in make out sessions in their battles /j

Anyways, sorry this reply got so long anon, but. Unfortunately you and me are Bowsario fans that live in a Bowigi world because of that one scene in the Mario movie 😔 Despite the fact that, ya know, Bowsario has so much more content in game that everyone just ignores 737

[artificialflav]

Sorry but pg content creators are not the children they make content for. You don’t have to cover their ears to protect their innocence from a non pg joke. It’s weird to think that these adults can’t speak for themselves.

You can personally not like the jokes. But non pg/edgier jokes aren’t inherently bad/unfunny. You can’t expect everyone to have the same pg standard to their content. Are we really gonna bring back purity culture as a moral high ground for humor lol. There is nothing wrong with being pg and there is nothing wrong with not being pg.

Also if you don’t know any of these people and are just meeting for the first time you aren’t gonna know everyone’s hidden expectations or preferred ways of interacting. And if things do get out of hand, they can talk about it lol. Too many of you think all content creators only interact when you see them on streams. DMs are open, private convos happen all the fucking time. Stop believing CCs are more upset than they actually are, and stop thinking you need to become a white knight for them, because YOU believe it’s bad.

Be a bit more self aware with your parasocial behavior, take a breath and calm down. Everyone has a better understanding on the expectations/standards for some streamers now. So trust that they will respect each other and or communicate when stuff actually bothers them lol.

[andorerso]

what is the secret of the people who get like 1k notes on their gifsets in like 2 days

[krasytoonz]

Thinking out loud

[mightywario]

my only hope for the minecraft movie is that nintendo sees its poor reception and reconsiders the legend of zelda movie they’re planning on making

[kouhai-deactivated]

Uh oh just learned that synthetic braiding hair is giving Black Women cancers and I really hope this is a wake up call the way the tea about perms doing the same thing made no difference whatsoever WHO SAID THAT??🫨