#ive said it before and i'll say it again:

[cowboylikeyouu]

"i think fiction has to be 100% morally correct, but i - a real person - purposely search for content i despise to insult other real people people & ruin their very real day so that i can feel better about myself!!"

[geekeryisafoot]

Wait wait hold up. Arthur admits he was suicidal, and the only thing that stopped him was how much his parents' suicide hurt and not wanting anyone else to hurt the same way he did. In more recent events, he's also said that there is literally no one left alive who cares about him

Except John.

John is his reason for living.

[queenofbaws]

GOD i love chris and ashley sosososososo much but man ALIVE did i forget their scooby-doo segment literally plays out like

ashley: s-so we're saying the guy who printed out those newspapers is the same as the one who hooked up the cameras, right?

chris: yeah, i guess so?

ashley: doesn't it...doesn't it seem weird? like...he's created this story for us and he's just watching us run through it, and...it's like some kind of...of...fucking experiment!

me, eyes narrowed: good thing. that doesn't sound like. anyone we know. in our personal lives. or. immediate. circle. of. friends.

[not 30 seconds later]

chris: EUGH it looks like a grindhouse movie in here!

me, eyes very wide: GOOD THING. WE DON'T KNOW ANYONE. WHOSE FAMILY - SAY FATHER, PERHAPS - MAKES. MOVIES. LIKE. THOSE.

i love them. i love them so much. i would do anything for them. they are in shock and having the worst night of their lives.

buT AAAAAAAAH

[andromeddog]

my piece for the History is Full of Wars zine!

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

the addams family aren't even that fucked up that's just what autistic people are like

[thebusylilbee]

im sorry but HOW am I supposed to blame Joel when he looks like THIS ??? when he's got his beautiful big brown eyes all wet and sad because he thought he was about to lose a daughter again ?!? like HELLOO ??? he can commit all the atrocities he wants he's allowed !!!

[thenewgothicromance]

Obsessed with the way the passenger (2023) juxtaposes the incredibly serious with the comically absurd. And they exist simultaneously, never contradicting each other. I love how it manifests in the visual language of the movie, and is also at the core of the story! I think it's so important to the ethos of the movie that the genesis of Randy's life-altering trauma is sort of ridiculous. It being ridiculous does not change the emotional impact of it on Randy, and it's still treated with tenderness and gravity.

The sharpness of the juxtaposition feels sort of surreal or jarring at certain moments, but I think it's actually part of what makes the movie hit a real, emotional nerve. The thing that's been haunting you for years does not always seem so obvious out of context. Or sometimes the thing haunting you IS so obviously unspeakably bad that it's going to kill you, and the only way you can talk about it is to say something as trivial as, "I wanted to be a giraffe when I grew up."

A fuzzy yellow sweater and childhood sexual abuse. A lifetime of denying yourself agency or personhood, and a woman with a color-coordinated eyepatch for every outfit. A brutal workplace shooting and bedazzled stuffed animals.

Which speaking of, it's also why, in my opinion, the epilogue does work. It reverses the dynamic from serious with a side of comical to comical with a side of serious. Our focus is on the eraser game, the sillier part of Randy's traumatic story, while the lasting impact of violence lurks quietly in the background (Randy's still physically injured, he's still got the jacket). And then the last shot of the stuffed animals is the *chefs kiss* on top of the whole thing!

[leohtttbriar]

personally think odo and jadzia were not paired up enough in ds9. there should've been at least one bottle episode a season in which odo tries to solve a crime as a put-upon inspector lestrade and dax trots around with a magnifying-glass, catching everyone off guard and having insane chemistry with every middle-aged woman with a gun.

[ghost-proofbaby]

telling myself to continue on like normal and write like normal but how am i supposed to do that when i know my world is ending in 24 hours?

tw for tags: i accidentally rambled on and aired out all my grief for my dog

[dizzydizney]

I will never blame Mal for the decision she made in D3 because I will never think that it made sense for that to be her decision in the first place. It's really that simple.

[the-purest]

Happy Birthday Phil! (im not late, i just forgot to post this here-)

[tiagems]

I swear to God, I've learned more about haircare from punkflower fics than in my previous 26 years on this earth combined

[bananonbinary]

god, Exceptional Risk gets me so much, this guy isnt even an avatar but the way he TALKS about the prisoners he "guarded" is far more chilling than any of the supernatural shit

[thegreatyin]

How did you manage to handle not one, but FOUR separate accounts in fl? I recently made the account for my HD little guy but having to do the tutorial again just seems miserable

there's... weirdly several answers to that question, actually??

a HUGE part of it is due to the way FL is structured. the 10-minute action timer is a core part of the game on a fundamental level, and the fact that i can very easily run out of stuff to do on one character and thus have an excuse to quickly and easily swap to another is just... convenient? satisfying? i'm not entirely sure how to explain it. the fact that i can make progress even while i am fundamentally simultaneously Not Making Progress is like pure dopamine for my freak insane awful little brain. there's just something really pleasing about spending all of my actions pursuing The Goal Of The Day™ on one account before casually swapping to another and doing the same without feeling like i'm wasting time or acting to the first account's explicit detriment. the downtime helps! the recharge time helps! the structure really really works!!

i'm technically only actively playing three, maybe two accounts minimum. the only reason the fourth (the one that'll be my future BaL playthrough) currently exists at all is so i can get his earlygame completely out of the way now and not have to waste time running through it all later, when what i actually want to do is play the ambition i've made myself wait a full year to play. and also getting free goodies as seasonal stuff happens,, something something surprise tools to help us later. the only two accounts i'd say i'm really "actively playing" at the moment are caeru and lark- and of the two, lark takes the most priority, since his ambition is the one i'm currently pursuing in earnest. for a couple months now- despite being My Main FL Character- the scoundrel has actually been pretty inactive on a gameplay front outside of the occasional progression in TLC and discordance content. purely by virtue of having Very little left to do outside of Very long-term grinds and vanities. they're in their "now what?" "now you can start playing the game" era. they've graduated to previous protagonist background cameo in a sequel anime series. they're like the yin FLPC equivalent of red at the top of mount silver. they're Literally just vibing rn. i only keep posting about them regardless because i'm insane and i will never ever ever ever ever let that bat go. but yeah, big TLDR, outside of doing the bare minimum to keep making waves/notability up every week, i'm not actually spending that much time on accounts i'm not currently actively interested in playing. and that accounts for way more gaming spoons than you might think.

i have a virtually lifelong history of playing MMOs, especially and specifically world of warcraft. i was born in the endless grind for useless video game pixel vanities and/or bragging rights. molded by it. you all have merely adapted to doing the same piece of content a pointlessly excessive amount of times for literally no reason besides whimsy and folly. me? i've done my time. i've served my sentence. i've spent weeks doing the original burning crusade netherwing dailies. i've devoted days to running praetorium over and over and over again, back-to-back, nonstop, long before square enix cut it in half and made it NOT take at minimum an hour and a half per run. i've perfected my silverwastes + auric basin goldfarming strategies. i've (almost) crafted dragonwrath tarecgosa's rest. i've killed the sha of anger so many times its dying scream of agony is embedded into the very fabric of my being. ""only"" doing making your name content four times over? that is nothing to me. it means nothing to me. it is so infinitesimal i can do the persuasive seduction quests in my sleep. it's not a matter of handling misery, or having the capacity, or even sighing as i remember the brass embassy raid segment of the watchful questline seriously i don't know why i keep forgetting that exists or what even is my problem with it i just am so consistently mildly inconvenienced by it and its highly specific resource requirements and it is the worst thing ever. maybe i'm just so used to the scoundrel's near-infinite money and troves of disposable items that i've completely forgotten what being poor is like. despite having done that step 3 fucking times now. ahem. anyway. i have transcended the feeble mortal bindings of my resistant-to-grinding flesh and ascended to a higher plane of enlightenment, they may call me insane but they will be the ones left laughing when they see what that "insanity" has wrought, i've usurped them, i've usurped them all-

hacks and coughs and awkwardly clears my throat. i mean. uh. um. Ahem.

the empress' court artistry + tales of the university nerfs helped too.

[tangledstarlight]

something very lovely about still seeing people watch julie and the phantoms for the first time and fall in love with that silly little musical ghost show <3

[wawamouse]

i wanted to gif this scene but then i realised that no gifset would ever do it justice <3 One of my favorite scenes of all time.... sister pete's serene fondness... glynn's barely disguised panic and bafflement.... floria's yapping... her shriek of delight.... the hack's alarm 🤌🏼