#lmao?????

[vulcanette]

Mihawk’s actor responding to a mishanks fanart w a minions gif…….. I love him so much

[double-diffuser]

OH MY GOD????

[scratchface]

Katsuki to THE AFO: name's bakugou but bitch you can call me Kacchan

[eclairmeow]

WHY ALAN HATES GREEN SM BAAHAHAHAHA LIKE

[astronomodome]

Sorry for politicalposting on my mcyt blog. However I feel like this is significant what the hell man

[toasternuggets]

Fuck it tjedjjddiwkfnsjfhskjfjf NO MOR ANON

Ur art is my meal now /pos

SHAKINF?????? KICKING MY LEGS GIGGLING?????

I am super chill w just pumping out HATZGANG art like a friggin machine dw

[ocdhuacheng]

Hey what the fuck?

[marcusagrippa]

incredible first descriptions of fitzjames and hickey

[freakinator]

[shitpeoplesayinpot]

[slimeclimbtime]

tried to take a screenshot to practice drawing them but it ended up looking like they were judging me

[cherrysmokesaconha]

me when i discover that i am apparently a e-celeb in the eddsworld fandom because i keep requesting people to draw 2trenchcoat :skull:

[habitual-creatures]

What's your thoughts on vegan zombies?

... Vegan ... Zombies...?

That- that's inherently contradictory???

[nudibutch]

APPARENTLY IM ON TWITTER??

[chongmiz]

initially posted to main blog but i wanted to expand so

i think a good rule of thumb is artists don't need to disclose their medical history to "prove" their credentials. i understand how the fortnight MV and suicidal lyrics throughout ttpd can read as careless; i had some initial hesitation because i haven't stopped thinking of britney spears' memoir since i read it, and the lineage of women in her family being institutionalized against their will by and pumped full of lithium. but just because one blond pop star publicizes this doesn't mean every other should follow.

however, strong reactions to fortnight, in particular, must come from the discomfort of taylor's proud ownership of her songs as "about her life" (miss americana doc), but this wasn't even true of her discography at that point in time, before folklore; they've been about friends' lives, the kennedys, characters from books and film and tv, like she says about "death by a thousand cuts" and much of her older songs at NPR tiny desk. but taylor hasn't framed her music as narrated by characters since folklore and evermore, and she's never not appeared in a self-directed music video; i think she's only been a supporting role twice, in the ATW "film" and "i can see you."

i wonder if some more obvious buffer between her and the material might help its reception infinitesimally, like having an actor in the fortnight MV. then again, i'm reminded of pj harvey:

'Some critics have taken my writing so literally to the point that they’ll listen to 'Down by the Water' and believe I have actually given birth to a child and drowned her,' scoffed Harvey to Spin in 2005. It’s a curious trend: unlike her old pal Nick Cave, a man always left free to slip into the skins of murderers, sleazebags or demonic preachers because he’s playing characters, Harvey has often been shackled by folk desperate to bolt autobiographical meaning to her every song. 'It can be very frustrating, particularly when it seems almost preposterous that it could be autobiographical,' she told me in an interview for the Quietus in 2011, just before the release of Let England Shake. 'People don’t allow the metaphor, the imagery, all the things that you work with as a writer … standing completely outside, as the narrator of a story.' (The Guardian, 2015)

i don't bring in pj harvey for no reason. her late career has included incidental music for ivo van hove's west end productions, including all about eve starring gillian anderson and lily james. a few years prior, gillian anderson played blanche dubois in a streetcar named desire at st. ann's warehouse dir. benedict andrews. the ending of "hits different" (feeding into beginning of "fortnight") made me think of a streetcar named desire on first listen, which ends with blanche involuntarily committed after her brother-in-law assults her, her sister helpless to intervene. you might recognize the line "i have always depended on the kindness of strangers" that lana quotes somewhere on born to die, said by blanche to the nurses taking her away. i suppose early lana's midcentury nostalgia successfully separated lana from lizzy, and pj harvey did not start her career claming her lyrics as autobiography. unfortunately, taylor swift may never be allowed such estrangement because she doesn't seem to want it ("i hate it here"), even if her next directorial outing is something vastly more "period" than fortnight, even if she doesn't appear onscreen.

as much as people fantasize about her writing a musical one day, 1) "beautiful ghosts" was redundant to an already nonsense libretto and really just the ingenue version of "memory," so you're back to a ybwm madonna/whore binary, groundbreaking and 2) based on her music video treatments, i question her interest in writing in someone else's voice, as in a flesh-and-blood character with material context, not loosely-defined devices like betty and james