#it's very different

[devourcr]

i'm thinking a lot about s2 and the interaction between armand and madeline.

( this has nothing to do with my thoughts on the character, but how i see armand's perception of her, please don't view this as character hate or anything like that. )

i feel like armand was repulsed by ( his words ) and did dislike madeline quite a bit.

while armand chooses not to make another vampire and is against doing so, the use of the word "repulsed," is so strong. it's so pointed, in that moment, i don't think that he would use it every time someone might want a human turned into a vampire. he wouldn't allow it and doesn't like it, but repulsion?

i think that's very specific language for that situation. for madeline.

armand is the coven master. his presence demands respect and she undermines it. there's a big difference between the strong-willed personalities that armand is drawn to and absolute disrespect.

i don't think her disregard for human life really suits armand's vibe either. i keep thinking about "we honor the blood." and while humans are food and armand sees himself as predatory, i don't think they're ever just walking talking snacks.

i feel like he'd see the conversation as very shallow. or that he's talking to someone who who is almost boasting at a carelessness for human life ( that he'd assume would get worse with vampirism ).

while vampires tend to stay out of human wars and there is limited focus on the war within the show, the coven was also impacted by it. so at least for my portrayal, armand was very critical over her reaction post-war and during the war.

armand deals with the loss of what he knows multiple times before he's a vampire long enough for it to be time's fault. but i think that it's still different while you're human ( from the perspective of a 500 year old vampire ), his world is in literal history books. her mocking him would only make her seem juvenile and have a lack of understanding of what it really is to be removed from time.

a lot of this!!! to say that i think she offended tf out of him.

[life-winners-liveblog]

are you in the void or somewhere else scar?

also for Scott do you have any connection between jimmy and roses?

Scott: Jimmy? Why would I have a connection with Jimmy and roses?

Grian: It's a Third Life thing, you'll see when we get to it.

[disabled-battlekukku]

When I was a kid I always got confused that people distanced humans as far as possible from animals as if we were a completely different lifeform and when I said we ARE animals they always went "oh but humans are SUPER different"

Then I talk about transgenderism and people suddenly go "oh but OTHER ANIMALS don't do that so it's unnatural"

huh.

[shrubsparrow]

It's in the eye of the beholder

[elliejaybird]

my drive home from work yesterday

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[problemnyatic]

when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they'll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,

[technovillain]

i come from the universe where everything is the same except disney heroines get like an ounce of their fathers' obviously dominant genes and their clothes are like 80% more historically accurate. it's beautiful here.

[the-jade-palace]

Me teaching my friend about the different parts of fishing

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.

[bereft-of-frogs]

There’s that post that’s like ‘everyone should get into a tiny niche fandom at least once’ fully agree, that was really fun -- but I would like to add that everyone should get into a fandom where their opinions run counter to major fanon because it really teaches you about sticking to your guns and trusting your interpretation of the text without having to rely on peer validation

because WHAT are people talking about sometimes

[eastgaysian]

[hejanic]

t4t bunnies

[disast3rtransp0rt]

this is a huge contributor to the "shortened fandom life cycle" rut we've found ourselves encountering more frequently over the past few years. a show appears and disappears from the group consciousness so quickly it's hard to keep track. it's also a problem for our understanding of society and each other.

media has become fad-based. it's a disaster for overall general comprehension/the humanities because nobody talks about their shows over the coffee machine anymore. which means they're way less exposed to alternative perspectives of the same scenes. there's less opportunity to understand a variety of fascinating and diverse human experiences.

and yeah, it feels sad and somewhat purposeful. we engage more heavily with social media - but only to argue or hype/beg for upcoming seasons before a new shiny thing grabs our attention and we leave. only engaging with the media but never pausing long enough to get to know each other.

(this is not an "all members of fandom" thing by any means, but i've noticed the pattern growing more prevalent as well-established fandoms like Star Wars, Star Trek, and GOT are hit by quick waves of engagement that quickly dry up again between active seasons)

you know one of the worst impacts of this whole streaming media enshittification era is that normal people never seem to talk about TV shows anymore. like in 2012 you couldn't go a week at my office without someone starting Game of Thrones discourse over their coffee break. in the 2000s people were always talking about their American Idol faves. when I was a kid in the 90s you had to be allowed to stay up late on Thursdays to watch Friends because everyone in 7th grade was talking about it the next morning.

but now? the most watched show of 2023 was Ted Lasso, a show that existed for three years before I even found out Ted Lasso was the name of a show and not just a guy. I still have no fucking idea what it's about. is Lasso a surname or an occupation? is Ted a cowboy? who the fuck knows. people who have Netflix, I guess? but not people who have Disney+, who probably all watched WandaVision but only talked about it on the internet.

I have a friend who's the biggest Star Trek fan I've ever met but I can't talk Lower Decks with her because she doesn't have whatever the fuck streaming service it's on and she doesn't pirate things for some reason.

our engagement with media used to be a casual part of the day-to-day social fabric and it's just like...not anymore.

[waveoftheocean]

late and very much still a wip but happy superbat week day 4: on a case/undercover!

[captainkirkk]

Concept: Peter actually got bitten by a totally normal spider. It's just a coincidence that his mutant powers were awakened around the same time