#like genuinely in the trenches

[smatterbrained]

Bruhhhh Pay unto Evil by lord_squiggletits fucked me up so here’re some doodles

[paunchsalazar]

better together

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I love Tumblr because nothing matters here truly. There are no influencers. Having followers doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a site where people post their sporadic thoughts and rb pretty pictures. Anyone who thinks any of this matters is woefully missing the point

[thisultraviolet]

Any of y’all have Speak Now food puns for me to use for snacks at my listening party bc the gc and I are STRUGGLING

[utilitycaster]

Travis: Chetney is a shallower character who should probably be dead by now, which is obviously why I wrote a massive timeline lore document mid-campaign; here is the list of significant character creation questions I have been continuously pondering

[cowboy-robooty]

im not going to lie i have an illuminati type theory that fanfiction has gotten so fucking bad recently as yet another consequence of the pandemic

[layaart]

like Carrion Boy and Ember Girl, endlessly drawn together, endlessly colliding, two against the world.

foster & the ghost from archivist wasp / firebreak

[mamawasatesttube]

its just like. such a shame in a way you know?? bc in the comics tim and kon genuinely have such a fun relationship. they are best friends!! they bicker but they love each other!! they have a deep bond of trust from pretty early on even WHILE they're bickering!! they learn how to communicate with each other and they have a clear arc of growing closer and leaning into each other. and yeah, we all know tim goes off the deep end when kon dies (yippee!!) but thats like... just the tip of the iceberg. kon goes to him when he feels uncertain about his powers! kon likes it when tim's "the man with the plan"! kon knows how to read him so incredibly well just from his costume! kon has a red mercy nightmare about tim dying in front of him while hating him! kon calls him his best friend SO early on, even before he knows his name!! they hang out, they make each other laugh!

...and yet in fanon they just get relegated to boomer style "i hate my wife" jokes wherein tim is always annoyed with kon for some reason, flanderized into homophobic stereotypes (why is tim always "the girl" whose virginity must be defended by her owners i mean brothers/father, in this gay relationship? let's ponder), or treated as just some default background pair who never get any characterization. particularly kon. (kon baby im SO sorry the people who brag about how they don't read comics do all of that to you.)

like... dude... this is tragic... theres SO much good here and NONE of it shows up in the tags save for once in a blue moon...

[dangerous-fighter-fairy]

Damn those pilots can sure twenty one!

[bandzboy]

hybe with their insane zionist problem and the fact that they have been overpricing everything and overworking their groups, sm making a guy debut who had accusations of sexual assault put a riize member on hiatus for dating predebut, having a lot of employees leaving and also a lot of their long time artists leaving, jype with that coca cola sponsor and having skz collab with a brand that broke their privacy having them collab with someone who is zionist............. like what is happening anymore

[thecoolerliauditore]

why is every ironwood take i read the strangest in the world. why does every post about this guy (that isn't from an ironwood stan) read like an argumentative essay for why he's hitler and then you see the points being made and it's like. oooh he made robots(?) and didn't want the world-ending god powers to free roam(?). what an ass(?)

[toddtakefive]

thinking about todd and his resolve toward… not quite isolation, but being alone in a room full of people again. he goes along to the study room to sit on his own and do his homework, he sits at the poets table and follows along with what’s being said while keeping quiet, he goes to the meetings at all but doesn’t necessarily contribute (in fact, if you watch him when cameron is telling the story ‘from camp in sixth grade’, you can see that he recognizes it before any of the other poets but doesn’t voice it until they all have). he’s not alone, necessarily, if you want to get technical about it, he’s just lonely, and he’s generally okay with that. he doesn’t have friends and that’s fine, he doesn’t participate in class and that’s fine, he doesn’t have a relationship with his family and that’s fine—he could live without any real connection and he’d have been, more or less, fine.

the thing about when he says “i can take care of myself just fine!” is that he isn’t really wrong, you can infer that he’s been doing it his entire life anyway, it’s that ‘taking care of yourself’ isn’t the same thing as really living or being happy. todd’s an introvert, certainly, and even as he gets closer to the group he defaults to sitting quietly in the background, but he’s also denying himself community out of fear not introversion. todd isn’t friendless because he’s an introvert, although that definitely plays a part, he’s friendless because he pushes anyone that might want his company away. if anyone has every wanted for his attention in the first place. (neil’s unwavering interest in him is unique (even when it comes to the rest of the poets, who are fine with todd coming along and joining the group, but aren’t really hellbent on him being there in the beginning) and his refusal to accept it is a direct result of being so lonely growing up.)

there’s obviously something to be said about the implications of his parents neglect, and the more than likely fact that he grew up friendless, and how those both play a part in in him being so skilled at dodging social interaction/being so avoidant of it, but by the time we see him in the movie he’s all but accepted his fate as being alone his entire life. he’s already accepted being the family disappointment, and he’s already accepted he’ll never amount to anything, and he obviously doesn’t like it, but he’d have managed living with that knowledge without the confirmation that it was all wrong. would he have been miserable? almost certainly. but he’d have managed. he’d done it for that long already, anyhow.

[theythemmer]

missing ERS….

[earlywintermourning]

dangerous romance is fun because its completely character driven and none of the characters know if they want to be in a romcom or a drama

[callizinc]

hello mutual….i’ve been seeing bits and pieces of ena dreambbq and it’s piqued my interest but ive never seen the animations before. would you say that i need to watch them to play dream bbq or would i be able to play the game on its own? (i figured i would ask you bc ur like my resident ena mutual 😭)

YES.... HA HA HA........... YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK OK WELL :D Honestly, it's up to you!!

Cause the thing is that none of the characters nor settings in Dream Bbq are from the ena animations (except for Ena herself... Kind of), but the game IS obviously set in the same world and has a few details and references you might not get without the animations for context. However, it's so abstract and bizarre already that you won't be missing much without them, nor gaining *THAT* much more understanding WITH them LOL

But at the same time, like. There's only four videos, and they quite literally only take about half an hour to watch in total, so i'd still recommend them. Because they are good : ]

[heich0e]

i spent 20 hours cleaning my new apartment this weekend. TWENTY!! and my entire body is covered in bruises but i think it's finally ready to start moving stuff in thank godddd