#it's great to get recognition like this

[splinterclan]

I can't remember if it was said anywhere but are we ever gonna get the exact reason why Bess isn't willing to join Cedar in the clan (if there's more to it than what she said when they first met about oakclan)? Or if it's not a spoiler territory, what is the reason? 👀

It's mostly just what happened with Oakclan + the fact that she's lived on her own for long enough that she's been able to completely demonize the clans in her own mind. She imagines joining the clan would immediately mean being judged for everything she does, being told what to do at every moment, and losing everything she enjoys about her life.

She hasn't even tried to imagine a scenario where living with them would be good, because she just doesn't want to do it

[crunchyspaghetti]

Ok, as previously established, I very much enjoyed Thunderbolts*. This post is in no way trying to minimize the movie or its characters.

however

if I see one more person talking about how it was so groundbreaking to have a superhero on screen where their superpowers don’t magically fix all of their problems and actually give strength to making those problems worse, I am gonna riot I fear.

While I would argue it’s not necessarily groundbreaking to superhero stories, generally. It makes me mad when people say this bc it’s not even groundbreaking to the Marvel universe. This exact concept was literally done so well in Agents of Shield (multiple times!!!!), upwards of like 9+ years ago… like… please I’m in the trenches here

[loverboy-havocboy]

there's something so bittersweet about finding out you're autistic and that autistic people have trouble maintaining friendships long term. one one hand you're like oh! maybe there isn't something uniquely horrible about me! lots of people like me struggle with this! but then you realize that if it's not you, it's not in your power to fix

[myfanfictiongarden]

Wait… so Charles Edwards did not receive a Golden Globe nomination? Nor a Critic´s Choice, nor Saturn or Satelite nod? 

In fact, the only kind of nomination RoP seems to have gotten is a Saturn in the category Best Fantasy Television Series.

WTH is wrong with you Hollywood.

[prismbearer]

Do you think the idea of severance came from Harmony's own desire to be free of the grief and ties to the labor they endured at that Factory?

[forustothinkistobealive]

I wish we would stop measuring how good defensemen are by their goal scoring ability and instead focus on how good they are defensively

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

Thinking once again about the very weird emotional reaction I had (am still having) re: Timothee Chalamet's performance in Dune Part 2. Because I came out of that theatre legit a little scared of that guy, which is not something I ever thought I'd be able to say -- he's very much not an intimidating person in most people's minds and if you'd told me what Part 2 was like before I knew anything about Dune I wouldn't have been able to believe it. But he's so good, and I think part of the reason he works so well in this new phase of Paul's character especially is because of that audience perception of him as an actor, because you go into it thinking "this shouldn't work" and then it does work, and that weird dissonance makes it work even more in a meta way. Paul as a character also isn't supposed to seem like he could be this crazy warrior cult leader, and then he is and people within the narrative believe it and it feels within the narrative like it isn't supposed to work, yet somehow does. The fact that it Feels Wrong is perfect because it's supposed to.

[kimtaegis]

I’m feeling quite sad about how much the active bts fandom on tumblr has shrunk and/ or how selective the community has become regarding content interaction. I’ve heard people pointing out a clique-building here lately, and while I’m well aware of closer mutual circles existing – and I can only speak on behalf of my friend group here – these pretty much develop naturally when there’s just no one else who reacts, reblogs from and talks to you anymore except for these handful of people. I don’t like that some people perceive these “cliques” as “exclusive”, for example to content creators only. that’s bullshit; it’s certainly not great to have only other cc’s support your work because they personally know how much time and effort it takes. also, knowing how lovely most of these people are, you’d get immediately followed back and showered with love too as soon as you’d even show a speckle of kindness on a regular basis, regardless of whether you make gifs yourself or not. ccs dedicating sets to each other isn’t a sign of exclusivity, but rather us holding onto and appreciating people who still give us at least some motivation to create and post in the first place anymore, because there’s quite literally no one else left by now.

[yanderespamton78]

when a regretevator headcanon pisses you off so much that you become a feminist

[byanyan]

anyway i'm (very slowly) working on a lil meme doodle bc it's been in my brain for weeks now

[abirddogmoment]

Crunchy phone photos only but: I have (temporarily) acquired a boy

[starmocha]

my tablet alarm woke me, and when i attempted to unlock it, it kept refusing my password to the point of “permanently locking” so i was forced to do a factory reset

now basically everything in my tablet and the sd card were wiped clean

i haven’t backed anything in the last 3 months, so 3 months worth of stuff are gone

[skullzy20]

new fixation unlocked

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

Can we please have ace rep of characters who know confidently know they're ace?

Like, the more the merrier when it comes to ace rep, but it's starting to feel like our own story being told the most is the discovering our asexuality.

Great in its own right, but it's getting tiresome to not see many ace characters on TV who just can be ace.

[wumutummy]

All I do is come on here to yap, scream or tweak, maybe I'll have a coherent thought idk depends on my mood

Anyway I had a dream the XLOV imma be music video had a whole different concept

It was like a dark siren concept with lots of aquatic and deep sea creature imagery

You know how in siren mythology where they use their beautiful singing voices to lure sailors into the ocean, it was like that

All the members were wet.

This is important

They had water dripping off their skin

I think it also important to mention they were pretty much half naked--

Well that's not true they had clothes on but more like drapes of fabric then clothes--

Lots of swimming scenes or like scenes they have their head above the water like they like found their target but like with very seductive eyes and lots of like underwater scenes

Just lots of scenes where they look fucking majestic

Yk Ruis solo scene in the mv where he just looks really beautiful and he has the flower growing from the back, imagine that but hes doing that on a large stone in the middle of the middle of the ocean, half naked, with scaley mermaid makeup and he looks like he's glistening and sparkling in the light like a fucking vampire(close enough, welcome back Edward Cullen)

Haru was very much giving Ariel core🧜‍♂️🐡 ok little mermaid✨

The choreo scenes were like on a wet???? stage????? like they were dancing bare foot... in water??? usher core??? like you know the aespa better things mv how they were dancing on water, kinda like that but the water was even shallower than that and not as brightly colored

The colour grading was also pretty much the same, it had this kind of dark romantic aesthetic, with dreary greys and pops of color, it's not like how when your at the beach and the water is very clear and bright like it was very obviously like deep sea the water was dark and the sky was also more on the cloudy side, kinda matching the classroom scene vibe in the original mv

Their like mermaid makeup also matched their member color, like hyun had blue scales across his cheeks and arms and legs and wumuti had red, rui pink, haru yellow, but instead of them have one coloured contact for their odd eyes they had both eyes in their color

They all served face💅🏾✨

Something that really stuck with me about this dream is yk like at the end of the mv how they open the door and theres a flash cut to the four doves and then the XLOV logo, imagine your in the perspective of the sailor that was lured off their boat by the gorgeous singing voices of XLOV sirens and your laying down washed up on the beach, the boys lean over you with slightly curious expressions, the sun blaring behind them, overexposed into a flash cut then the XLOV logo

Like would that not be such beautiful imagery

Something that also stuck is Hyun floating in the water, hes wearing this flowy kind of dress thing that's draped over him but hes in the water and he's wet so it clinging to him but also flowing in the water that surrounds him, his hair (pre hair cut) is also stuck to the sides of his face and he looks so ethereal, the "camera" slowly zooming in on him as he sings and the sea looks so vast and limitless but alluring

Theres also a part where I think Rui is swimming underwater and it looks like hes trying to swin up towards the surface but something is pulling him down and he has on like this mesh skirt that's just dancing in the water as he kicks his feet and looks so beautiful, like think of the album cover for the song drowning by a boogie wit da hoodie, I think this whole thing takes on that kind of color palette I think

This post wasn't supposed to be so long💀 sorry yall u was yapping again but i do think siren XLOV is such a beautiful concept especially since i said before that imma be feels like siren singing in your ear

[viillette]

it's so crazy how few historical fiction novels are like sharon kay penman's. the way that they're built out of the skeleton of the historical record seems so obvious, but there's so few people who are actually willing to commit to it in the way that she did. it seems like so often that's just a starting point which gets reformed to fit a coherent narrative, but she makes no real attempt to do that. there's themes and foils and patterns, but first and foremost it is a reconstruction. you can't really know what someone who lived that long ago was like, only what they did, and you can feel how she takes these isolated, dramatic events and builds a whole life around them. the books are nothing more than an answer to the question 'what might someone have been like, what could the history between these people have been, to possibly explain something like this?' the ability to string together a handful of facts and events from medieval chronicles to create people that feel so real, and psychology and relationships that develop so naturally that these distant, seemingly impenetrable choices suddenly feel so immediate and clear is just beyond belief. you know this probably wasn't actually how things happened, but it doesn't matter because it was something like this. the particulars are less important the crushing awareness that at one point all of this made sense. there was a time when all of this was right now. the world is unrecognizable and exactly the same. that's something which sounds very simple but is incredibly difficult to accomplish.

you come to know these people so well, their loves and hatreds and ambitions and failures, and those things are rarely resolved in the end. you know them from the time that they're children, you watch each one of them die, and none of it means anything in particular except that they were a human being. things which seem like they must be building to some tragic fallout end in anticlimax. things which seem utterly inconsequential in the moment manifest again decades later in cataclysmic disaster. and then you see it all play out again from the beginning with their children, and their children's children. all these uncanny echoes, this endlessly unfolding palimpsest of lives, each laid over the triumphs and mistakes of those who came before. i've never read anything so epic with so much mastery over the micro and macro levels of history. it's the minute, seemingly inconsequential everyday details, which build into a lifetime, which builds into generation of lives, which builds into the rise and fall of kingdoms and empires. it's the merciless endlessly turning wheel of fortune that replays the same songs in different keys again and again for all time. a person is both an individual with free will, and the prisoner of their blood and circumstances. somehow everything has infinite weight, is tied to everything that has come before and will come after, is the culmination of someone's entire existence—their pains and joys and fears and hopes—and yet is simultaneously completely meaningless, just one more victim of fate in an endless procession of lives and choices. the whole impotent tragedy of humanity is laid out in front of you and it's so repulsive and beautiful. it's deep love and unfathomable, senseless horror briefly and miraculously reverberating in a vacuum, an absurd aberration fading into silence.

if it's not obvious these books have made me cry like 10 different times