#it's so chilling

[holodeckprotocols]

animorphs book 10 (the android) #thoughts

my library has the most random selection of audiobooks available for animorphs (i've spammed them with requests to buy the ones they're missing but i think they're ignoring my calls :\) so i've been cobbling together fan audiobooks/read-alongs and these AI generated ones that sound like the tiktok lady. it is making for patchwork quilt of an experience, let me tell you

that being said no amateurish recording setup can undercut my excitement that WE'RE IN THE ROBIT ZONE. i remember really liking the erek stuff as a kid. i hope i still will.

fascinated by the reveal that marco is apparently an alanis morissette fan

i peeked at the storygraph reviews for this one just to get a feel for the overall audience reaction and literally the first one says "Having Marco as a narrator is always fun. He's as cute and funny as a bisexual-coded juvenile badly coping with PTSD can be," with that bolded emphasis and everything. shout out to mugsandpugs for truly understanding his character and validating my long-held headcanon

maybe i should put in bold that i too am bisexual-coded in my tumblr description

oh wait lol it's bold because it's a LINK to an animorphs fan forum page! it's broken but presumably it's a debate as long as the one about how many days in a week there are on the bodybuilding forums.

anyway.

"a topic will emerge. i'm going to just write until i discover a topic. the topic will rise from these pages. it will reveal itself to me. i just have to keep writing." REAL

when one of the animorphs gets literally eaten alive by a bird and has to split-second morph and chestburst out of it to avoid death and you check and the book's not even halfway over.

i guess some people don't like the chee but I always did as a kid. they're pacifist robo dogs! what's not to love!

well the ending of this one was just as disturbing as I remembered. you fucked up a perfectly good robo dog as what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

[swan2swan]

Whoever conceived and animated this moment, I hope they're doing well and thriving. This is S-rank romance stuff here.

[pirateprincessjess]

Men are being very normal about the new Godzilla design

[chalkrub]

autumnal chill....featuring the girl

[miwkchii]

Finally debuting my telemachus design 🙏

Little Wolf basically :

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

big bro jazz

[hinamie]

morning glory

[butchfalin]

[roninkairi]

You can only reblog this today.*

*PLEASE READ THE TAGS

[pangur-and-grim]

the world is too big for this tiny boy

[c-tepx]

chilchuck love language: acts of violence

[sophiollo]

ECHOES OF WISDOM SPOILERS (But just for the first convo with Lueburry about Link!)

Pt. 1/3

This conversation (and Link's role in this game's narrative in general) got stuck in my brain so I decided to make a comic about it! And then I decided to make it really colorful and complicated!! Because I like to suffer!!!

Keep an eye out for the next two parts hehehe

[galaxynajma]

Why do I see people barely showing Moo Deng’s mom? Clearly the cuteness runs in the family

[chloesimaginationthings]

Do you guys fuck with the FNAF books?…

[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