#just bc it's the reason it's trending

[bebrave-live]

good gods this has to stop -

everyone, it's percy JACKSON and the olympians, not percy JACKON, please please fix your tags we can't let it trend like this 😭😭

[hinamie]

*catboys ur shounen protag*

[art-from-the-juice-box]

gen loss dump part 2 :]

i have a gen loss playlist so the last two was me hitting randomize and drawing a pic based on the song before it finished. the second one technically isn’t that cause charlie’s inferno isn’t on apple music cause they hate me so it’s way more of the song out of spite because they wouldn’t give it to me.

[anghraine]

I've got a much longer post in drafts about it, but something I've noticed and find kind of odd is how there's so much insistence on the absolute episodic inconsistency of TOS, and writers knowing absolutely nothing about any previous episodes and the production team not really caring about consistency. It seems like almost any time there's a post about repeated themes or characteristics or whatnot in TOS, you'll get "that episode was written and produced entirely after the episode it might superficially seem consistent with or internally related to, but WELL AKSHUALLY..."

Like, for instance, any discussion of Kirk's (very consistent!) backstory and youthful personality in light of his canonical age will almost always get some insistence on how his age is completely up in the air until "The Deadly Years" establishes him as 34 in S2, there's no real consistency about his age in TOS, the internal timeline especially can't be considered significant to any S1 episodes or backstory as originally envisioned, etc. Yet in the S1 episode "Shore Leave," it's clearly stated that a) 15 years before the events of the episode, Finnegan was an older upperclassman who bullied Kirk, who was a "plebe" (first year) at the Academy at the time, and b) Finnegan was 20 then, nailing down Kirk's current age as no more than 33 or 34 (33 seems more probable, syncing exactly with him being 34 in the next season), and as far as I recall, none of the aired episodes contradict this or suggest otherwise.

A scene in "The Conscience of the King" would have suggested he's significantly older, but this was removed and the scene didn't make a lot of sense in the first place. Other backstory details in TOS are consistent with this as well, like the young Lieutenant Kirk being on his first deep-space assignment 11 years earlier c. S2 (aged 23 by the other episodes' timeline).

The production staff actively forced removal of details they considered inconsistent with his characterization and function (often rightly—sorry, Ellison, they were dicks about it but correct dicks). Details established in earlier episodes do recur—the existence of Sam Kirk, his wife, and sons and their good relationship with Kirk are established many episodes before "Operation: Annihilate!", Spock's painful, unexpressed love for his mother is introduced long before "Journey to Babel," Christine Chapel's crush on him is explicitly stated or clearly referenced in background shots over and over in S1 and S2 and is only really resolved as a thread in "Plato's Stepchildren," well into S3. Even specific events in earlier episodes are sometimes explicitly referenced in other episodes, like the Horta and Spock's desperate attempts to save Kirk in the Tholian web.

But honestly, I'm just kind of puzzled about why there seems so much investment in the idea that TOS is purely episodic and lacks all consistency from episode to episode, nothing ever recurs, it's never implicitly or explicitly calling back to other episodes, character arcs don't really happen, and so on.

[july-19th-club]

i have no mouth and i must scream speech but for about insomnia hate hate hate let me tell you how much i have come to hate being awake

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

had to ponder this one (at first i was like, i thought the internet had decided iced coffee was a bisexual thing?) but i think we’re back on “there is no other reason for literally the most famous woman to ever famously play a guitar to wear her nails short”

[sesamenom]

Reverse Gondolin AU family portrait

[cern1cal0]

>> I'M THINKING MIKU MIKU OO-EE-OO <?>

[stackyshenanigans]

Aren't Draluc's suits like, canonically custom-tailored? Why tf does he wear sleeve garters when he's not cooking?

Just for the drama???

[kaythefloppa]

"Go to hell" is basic. "I hope your favorite show that ended or was supposed to end naturally regardless of quality suddenly gets renewed for countless new seasons that soullessly milk it dry and sink the show's quality to unsalvageable levels whilst showing zero signs of ever putting the show to rest or letting it die like it should've " is smart. It's possible. It's terrifying. It has actually happened.

[chirpsythismorning]

Lonnie's last appearance in The First Shadow [source]:

"It wasn't me. I didn't do it!"

Lonnie's first mention in the series (1x01)

Which reminded me...

Kate Trefry talking about The First Shadow [source]:

We always try to go back to the original pilot and say, what more is there to learn about this moment?

Based on the leaks out there, there seems to be very few Lonnie scenes in the play, and yet it also sounds like he's gotta be the most consistently portrayed when compared to his character on the show, more than anyone else, even down to this very line, this concept of him having nothing to do with it. This tells me that with what little they were willing to give, there is a major significance to it and what it means for his character and for his role in the story overall.

So what is it? What does Lonnie have nothing to do with?

In s1, it's about Will and his disappearance. But clearly it's more than that because they made a point to have Joyce say it twice, to trust her on this.

If Lonnie has nothing to do with this, and that's a theme they want to carry out in this play in a way that quite literally juxtaposes his first mention on the show, taking us back to the very beginning, what does that mean?

Idk. Maybe it just means he has nothing to do with this. Maybe it means he has nothing to do with Will more than we realize...

It's giving

[macroglossus]

being evaluated for adhd by having one of those full psych evals that last like two hours. scared frightened etc.... last time i took it i lied extensively bc i was 13 and thought they might tell my mommy if i said i had suicidal thoughts. and i still have a habit of lying to therapists bc i'm embarrassed......... AGH idk. what if i take it and they tell me that the reason im Like This is bc im genuinely just weird and shitty and not bc im mentally ill at all. SCARED

[dragontatoes]

im the first person to say you have to let ppl make the cosmetic choices they want especially in terms of surgery (hi! I'm trans and I have had and will have more elective surgery) but there is no reason for a person who prefers to shave their body hair to comment on a post about body hair. we literally don't care why you do it and we're rightfully making fun of you

[virigorne]

i feel you abt the whole 'whenever genshin is trending the tag is always filled with male characters' and it makes me feel like SUCH a hater cuz these people are just enjoying the characters they like-- but where has our love for women characters gone 😔 can we talk about clorinde and keqing and jean and sara UGHHHH there are so many fem characters and i nvr see them at all, its tragic rly

Literally whenever I see women in the rare times I browse the tag it’s 99% of the time just softcore porn.

[goldensunset]

show us ur plushies!! what are their names :D

k! i have a few other stuffed animals but these are the actual like from-media plushies as opposed to generic animals

^ these are the pokémon oshawott and umbreon- mine specifically are named opal and evelyn! beloveds. they would make an entertaining duo i think

here we have the pokémon quaxly (in the game mine was named ralis but idk if i consider this plushy *him* like i do with opal and evelyn), marina from splatoon (i wanted a gift for riya but couldn’t bear to buy one and not the other so she got pearl and i got marina. hearts connected across a distance) (also she cameos in my first joshua plushy abuse video i threw her at him. these two are sitting by each other but they would not like each other), and lastly joshua from twewy (i have filmed multiple shots of me abusing him in effigy)

[vault81]

was gonna make a post about how we can separate our own morals as a writer from our characters to explore factions or ideas that are more evil/immoral and that doesn't mean that we endorse or support that kind of thing

I decided against an entire post lol so I'll just keep my thoughts in the tags? if they even make ANY sense at all lol