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sometimes it can be weird to talk about my interests irl because people think I'm pretentious and I don't how to explain I love garbage actually, it's just OLD garbage
#thoughts#life stuff I guess#what I get for liking classic films#classic literature#films#like some things like Theodora Goes Wild are not that different from 90s romcoms!#I just like them better cause most of them had more creative ways to keep a couple apart than 'one of them is dating someone else'#or like eliza haywood? Don't get wrong she was doing stuff#but it was also the 18th century equivalent of like... colleen hoover (wildly popular romance)#but just saying 'oh yeah I'm into golden age hollywood and eighteenth century literature' makes it sound like I'm sipping tea#looking down on modern things#and like... I am usually sipping tea#but I like some modern things too! I just don't have the same academic interest in discussing them (usually)
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What if the plant body hadn't worked out, and the Holy Mausoleum solution had actually taken a long time to sort of "fix" Shen Qingqiu's body and fully call his soul back to it, so that hundreds of years passed and civilization in PIDW/SV world progressed to the point of something like the "modern era"?
Imagine Luo Binghe trying to delicately introduce his shizun to such strange concepts as smart phones and credit cards, while Shen Qingqiu is just desperately trying to figure out how dumb he should play this. Would it be believable for him to get everything on the first try? There have to be some differences between what he knows and this world's versions, right, because of the demons and cultivators and things? Right?? But it's not like any of this actually IS difficult for him to grasp!
Luo Binghe: Shizun already discerned how to type using a keyboard...?
Shen Qingqiu, sweating bullets: what, like it's hard?
#bingqiu#svsss#scum villain's self saving system#scum villain#shen qingqiu desperately looking up pidw on binghe's phone#that novel doesn't exist thank goodness#though there are a LOT of historical novels and scholarly articles featuring his name and luo binghe's#maybe that stands to reason but why is it all... like that...?#he finds a particularly trashy modern retelling and can't put it down despite the number of upsetting things in it#so he just rips it apart in the comments section#airplane: cucumber bro??? you're finally back from the dead???#shen qingqiu: YOU!!!! I'm going to rip out your spine and beat you to death with it!#airplane: aww I missed you too#everyone else in the comments: 👀
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"haha, are you an art gay, a science gay, or a math gay"
Actually, I find the division between art, science, and math to be a very nebulous idea and useless when you actually interact with the universe. The more you learn about the world, the more you surround yourself with art and science and math, and you'll never be able to see it any other way and it will be beautiful. When I take your hand, it won't be the science of our atoms closing the distance between us that we will experience, but the math of our fingers interlocking and the art of our bodies that we will experience. You are math and you are science and you are art, and nothing will make you any lesser💛
#positivity#the planets are singing right now. are you listening?#if you can't experience the art of science and the science of art then i think you're missing out#the more i intentionally try to learn the more i love art and sfience and the world 💛#i was always more of a humanities person but i've grown restless and taking up science??????? holy shit??????#i was in class the other day and a very simple concept finally clicked in a fundamental way and i think that's why i'm alive actually#i think i know how michaelangelo felt when he painted the creation of adam#this is why i really encourage y'all to look up on youtube some free lectures because some of them are so amazing#like i watched a lecture about elements and it's still fucking me up when i think about it#this is also why i despise the whole 'modern art isn't really art; it takes no skill 😡' thing people like to do#please sit down and paint one of the installments of Who's Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue#i've learned to appreciate that installment and art series as of late and i think it's nice art#i love this stupid fucking world 👾
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created by MKA0207, Mr.ROFLMAN
#garry's mod#gmod#source engine#half life 2#other#hearted#SUPER cool map on par with a GMT Lobby 2/Playstation Home kinda space#really cool condo designs. looked like there was one modern swanky room and one that was more like. rp_downtown apartment style#my favorite part is the little hideaways/secret tunnels that don't really go anywhere substantial but they're special because you're just#somewhere you're not 'supposed to be' which was one of my absolute favorite things in GMT#everyone who played a ton knew about those spaces and they weren't anything that crazy but it was cool to little wannabe-rulebreaker me#apparently the creators were running a server for this map a la GMT but it's been down for a bit#i've spent plenty of time in GMT and Tower to know just hanging out in the plaza is not my thing anymore but i'm sure demand is still there
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No one:
Absolutely nobody:
Not a soul:
A random public toilet for no reason:
#wtf#I don't even know how to tag this#public restroom#r/holup#i guess#r/assholedesign#maybe#choices were made#hol up#what the fuck#kinda funny#as all things should be#mine#me irl#modern decor#blood#i mean not really but#looks like#there is a story here#and I need it#it's like a mafia hit went down#and john wick might still be around the corner xD
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#not dislike. its hate#it made me cry several times today#thinking of how my classmates manipulate our teachers#and chatgpt AIs can EVERYTHING#its so painful to think of it#today I broke down in the bus and cried#idc what people think. hiding my feelings any longer would destroy me from the inside#maybe youve also seen how people use freakin AIs in their exams#the thing is that:#we wrote an exam for which Ive studies for like 2 whole days#this week we finally got the exams back (w the grades ofc)#and ok Ive got a 3 (C in America syste#*m)#my friends who used chatgpt throughout the exam got way better grades (I didnt expect it otherwise)#PLUS#the most provocating messages from the teacher:#“10/10 POINTS :)” “YOURE ROCKING THIS” “YEAH”#💔#seriously#this breaks my heart#dont the teacher see something suspect in the exam?!#why cant they open their eyes and get modernized to reality.#& they KNOW- the students Im talking of. they usally have bad results.#once our teacher came to a chatgpt student and said the most miserable thing:#“youve been using duolingo a lot lately hm? thats where your nice grades come from 😉🥰”#you get it?#no- this peoson didnt learn.#no- this person isnt even interested in the stuff we learn in lessons#AWFUL feeling to hear the praisings of da teachers when *I* gotta sit among the gpt-students and look like Im a worse student than *them*#[writing this at almost 1 at night] still have some tears. this topic really has the power to destroy someones day. 💔💔
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NICO: WE SHARED THE LIFT THIS MORNING! I WAS GOING TO THE POOL TRAMPOLINE WITH MY TWO DAUGHTERS AND HE WAS GOING TO THE RACETRACK. PINKHAM: VERY DIFFERENT LIVES YOU'RE CURRENTLY LEADING.
#that line from nico is like /the/ modern brocedes thesis to me#like this is their happy ending!!! it is not the one they dreamed of all those years ago in greece but is a happy ending.#it's not multiple shared championships or racing against each other for years or anything their 13 year-old-selves would've dreamed up but#it is them achieving their dreams. lewis has 7 wdcs and is aiming for an 8th. nico has a loving wife and 2 daughters he'd die for. they are#both doing the things they love. would it have been nice if those dreams included each other? yeah. would it have been nice that when ppl#mention their names it would be to talk about what great friends they are instead of how they tore each other apart? absolutely! but they#were doomed from the start. so maybe it doesn't matter that they didn't get their traditional 'happy ending'. at least they had a happy#start and a semi-happy middle. at least they have the lift to see each other. at least nico's daughters get to keep lewis in their lives in#a way nico will never get to again. they will never share a bowl of frosties again but at least their roots are so thoroughly tangled#together that they can never look back without haunting each other. at least they still have that.#anyway for all the non-americans who reblog or like this. the poem is 'the road not taken' by robert frost. very famous in america#every middle/high schooler has to analyze/read this poem at some point. i don't know how popular he is outside of america so i thought id#leave a note ig.#anyway. i am going crazy and i need to lie down. that 2nd line was sooo hard to find a photo for. wth does 'hence' even mean???#brocedes edit#brocedes#f1 web weaving#f1#nico rosberg#lewis hamilton#f1 edit#nr6#lh44#web weaving
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*shakes you* Listen to me LISTEN TO ME
ZEUS IS NOT JUST A FUCKBOY
HE HAS MORE TO HIM THAN HIS SEX LIFE
HE IS MORE THAN JUST THE KING THAT CHEATS
HE IS THE GOD OF HOSPITALITY, JUSTICE, WEATHER, DESTINY
PLEASE STOP MAKING HIM AN ABUSIVE FATHER LET HIM BE KIND FOR AT LEAST A MOMENT
PLEASE
HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSEIDON
PLEASE GIVE US ONE MEDIA THAT DOESN'T MAKE HIM CRUEL
#PLEASE I BEG OF YOU#JUST ONE MEDIA LET HIM HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WTH HIS KIDS#STOP MAKING HIM A HEARTLESS ABSUIVE VILLIAN WHEN HE IS NO WORSE THAN THE REST OF THE PANTHEON#wolffox speaks#Greek mythology#Zeus deity#Zeus#I love pjo and I love Epic but I am looking the other way when Zeus is abusive in both#pjo is easier cause he isnt really abusive till ToA#Greek myth#Modern day stop boiling the gods down to one thing challenge#Looking directly at Kaos when I say this#Zeus would NOT kill Dionysus's pet#or whatever the that shit had going on for it before it got cancelled
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I’ve been seeing this float around on Facebook lately and it’s bugging the crud out of me:
What is with everyone’s obsession with insisting it’s bad to need to be rescued? For as long as the human race has been on the planet, people have had problems that they needed other people’s help to resolve. Needing help is not a failing nor should it be the takeaway from these princesses’ stories as if it’s a bad thing that makes them weak. Yes, they do need help. Your point?
Snow White and Aurora were both under a curse that rendered each of them effectively dead. Were they supposed to magically wake themselves up? I’d want to be rescued if I were them. Plus, breaking it down to “she needed a prince” belittles the efforts of the Seven Dwarfs and the Three Good Fairies, who did most of the legwork in the resolution of their respective movie plots out of deep platonic love for the girls under their care. Then there’s Cinderella, who lived in an abusive household. It’s not a weakness that she wasn’t able to get out of that situation on her own, and once again, giving all the credit to the prince (and credit where credit is due, he did search far and wide for her and was able to take her away from that life in the end) detracts from the aid provided by the Fairy Godmother who enabled her to get out in the first place. All of these ladies had more helpers than just their princes, and it is because of the combined love and efforts of all of these people that our heroines were able to have their happy endings. There are plenty of great stories where the heroine is able to fight for herself, but these particular stories aren’t about that because these ladies are each in terrible circumstances where they simply don’t have the ability to do so. They do what they can, but in the end they can’t save themselves alone and there’s nothing wrong with that. These are beautiful stories about having people in your life that value you enough to fight for you when you can’t fight for yourself. Wouldn’t we all want someone to come to our rescue when there’s nothing we can do about our situation? Is it not a good and comforting moral to show that there are people in your corner who will show up for you no matter what the circumstances?
The other thing that’s bugging me about this:
Leia has to be rescued. By a man, and at that, one who could technically be seen as a prince. No one bats an eye at this, because it’s understood that she’s being held prisoner on the Death Star and couldn’t possibly be expected to get out of that on her own. It’s not seen as a weakness that someone had to come for her and take her away from there. Leia is awesome and is rightfully acknowledged as a great heroine, but she also needs help sometimes, because everybody does.
So WHY do people get so hung up on these princesses who also shouldn’t be expected to get out of their own prison cells of eternal sleep or abusive family by themselves? Why the strong negative reaction to girls needing outside help in such serious scenarios? For all that people say these stories teach girls to sit and wait for a man to save them, the stories themselves absolutely never try to say that, and frankly, with the opposite trend in recent years of fictional women who have to do everything on their own and can’t be shown to need help because they have to be the Strong Female Character, I’d be far more concerned about the impact that would have on girls. Far better to say you might need help at some point in your life than to instill the idea that you’re not a strong girl or not good enough if you can’t do everything by yourself.
Anyway. Justice for the classic Disney princesses.
#this is a disney princesses defense blog#disney#snow white#cinderella#sleeping beauty#star wars#sw: originals#leia skywalker#rant#and on a personal level? i’ve been in the position of feeling like an idiot or failure if i couldn’t do everything by myself#i was terrified for a long time to ask people for help because it felt like admitting that i was what i felt i was#if the modern stories where women being strong means they don’t need help had been a thing yet when i was at that age#it would have made me feel even worse#and as someone who has since that time also had to learn to live with chronic illness#and the reality that there’s not a ton i can do for myself#the stories of women who need help and are never looked down on for it but are seen as worthy of that help because they are loved#those are the kind of stories you end up starting to need at some point#give me more maidens in towers. i don’t care.#the idea that people love you enough to find you well worth their effort is what some of us need
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out of curiosity, which outfits did you find interesting (despite the theme) this year?
Everyone who dressed up like Lagerfeld's cat was doing their damndest to infuse some artistic interest back into what's meant to be an over-the-top art museum costume gala, and bless them for it
Apparently this is Doja Cat. Good job, Doja Cat. You will be spared the Snake Pit For Low-Effort Millionaires.
And the folks who in other ways tried to do something eccentric and elaborate despite the theme basically being Here Is An Excuse To Dress Boring For The Met Gala
I do not know enough about Lagerfeld's work to know what this has to do with the most recent Sketchy Yet Famous honoree, but Janelle Monae at least looks Artistic And Weird. Good for her!
Thank the gods for Lil Nas X.
Google says this is Met Gala co-chair Michaela Coel. The placement of the "pasties" and fringe-looking "skirt" beading remind me of Josephine Baker, but that's probably just my very specific frame of reference. Either way, love it!
I need to catch up on What We Do In The Shadows. Anyway, Harvey Guillien is fast cementing himself as one of the few Men Who Understand The Assignment every year.
As is tradition, my sister sent me JChas' look, and as seems to be tradition, it was a lovely and very Safe dress that I'm sure had something or other to do with the theme. That being said, I do think that shade of blonde makes her look like a mom who exclusively dresses little Brynleigh-Aynn in taupe:
Solid! Possibly going to yell at a Whole Foods employee for not having the organic vegan gluten-free water brand she wants, but only after she's acquitted of her rich husband's murder.
#met gala 2023#long post#I like looking at Jessica Chastain any day of the week but my sister misunderstands how interested I am in her non-CPeak activities#she seems nice enough and refreshingly private for a celebrity. most of her filmography isn't my thing though#I considered taking a weekend trip to NYC to see friends and also A Doll's House but it's a minimalistic modern production. which. meh#still might? my primary thought has been 'would it be rude to ask her to sign my copy of Art of Darkness at the stage door' though#regardless! always down to admire a gorgeous lady in a cool dress. and judge said cool dress.
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zomg... the girls! Sketched out! And a few characters I never showed designs for! haha! I keep thinking about the beach, so this is their swimwear.
I hope to make a full fledged drawing for all of them soon~ then the guys~~
Some newbies are: Aura (blue!) Katya (Gold!) and more of Verra (Green!) We'll eventually see more about them as I draw more things and doodles.
#Because I realized I never drew the girls as much as I did the guys#I used to exclusively draw women until I figured out how to draw men... I then awoke drawing nudethaniel and speedo vincent#so we're reeling it back a little#Ryoko Kui said she draws her oc's outfits in modern times to see how the different characters would dress. I thought about it- it definitel#says a lot about your character!#Monica is REALLY tall. And muscular! with a strong ability! no wonder she's taken down armies! She doesn't care to swim much but will use#a rashguard to swim in.#Sera is copying her style a bit but thankfully owns an actual wetsuit. Feels like home considering how her aerodynamic armor is designed#Sonia is sonia. She seductively asks Vincent to help her put sunscreen on... Only to be met with an albinoid man's journey to sun poisoning#He eventually gets greased in sunscreen and aloe vera after what feels like hours of nagging him. (it was forty five minutes.) Sorry Sonia.#Some things cannot be changed. When he did eventually look at her body he laughed at her ass being out rather than think anything naughty.#Not girl Summer. Vincent did end up helping her with the sunscreen though. “Lmao you can't do this yourself or something?” ruined the magic#Karin tailored her swimwear. She bedazzles her arms with accessories <3 Her nail polish can detect drugs <3 & cyanide caps in her earring <#Poor Katya is a supermodel but is way too thin... Strohl doesn't say it.. But he's worried. She makes way too much money to want to quit.#Verra is in rabbit mode because her summon LOVES to swim and hey who is she to halt its fun?#Aura is pretty modest and prefers to meditate in the water or by the shore away from all of the roughhousing. Nate and Strohl join at time#They kind of freak out when she starts floating though. Or invoking the elementals of the seas. The guys are both areligious. Awkward.#Especially when the waves start to get a little rowdy minutes later. Strohl is torn between considering religion and asking for a tutorial.
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i feel like mike would have a shark hyperfixation at some point in his life
i have a very deep rooted and personal hc of mike being a marine bio guy because iiiiiiiii am a Marine Bio Guy (although my main thing is whales mostly but i love sharks soooooo so much) so thank you to whoever sent this ask for validating that specific projection of mine 🥳
#i am being very normal about this although i could probably break mike’s marbio/shark interest down in a ten page essay#the paleontology interest to me is for all mikes everywhere but the marbio thing to meeeeee is like.#modern au mikes specifically#yes i’ve written it into 2 of my fics so far yes i will probably sneak a mention of this into acswy#chapter ten i’m looking at you .#anyways. nods#nods so normally.#asks
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this woman kind of mildly annoys and saddens me.shes obviously stuck to her high school-college years and all of her posts are basically reminiscing on her youth as if shes some methuselah and not in her early 30s(i think).the sad part about it is that even though this era of her life was the only time of true happiness she experienced , as she evidently cannot move on from it, she still ridicules herself and her behaviour at the time even though she seems to have been a pretty normal girl that followed the trends and the standards of that time, as she still does now.many other women do this, its annoying and stupid
#if u still follow modern trends you cant possibly look down at when u were following different trends#ur still doing the same thing youre going to think its cringy in a year or two#m
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the background piano music ends abruptly on a discordant note when hamlet says his father had died in the past two hours, which is when the idea gets put forward that his own perception of time/events might not be totally reliable
#btw mariah gale's portrayal of ophelia in this scene is CRAZY good i'm so.. hhhhhghgwgm#ik a couple of more modern productions try to portray ophelia w more agency and force behind what she does#which is good! but mariah gale's portrayal is my favorite in terms of what was originally intended for the character#ie how devastated she is at seeing someone she loves spiral further and further downwards#the uncomfortable smiles she has in this scene specifically cuz on one hand. Hamlet why are you saying these things. die#on the other hand she can see that he's in better spirits overall and isn't that better than how he was earlier? (it's not)#how she is driven mad bc everybody in her life either dies or leaves her and nobody can acknowledge that injustice#i get the impression that this ophelia wasn't allowed to show her anger and her frustration towards everyone around her#she was raised to act in a certain specific way to make her father (and her brother) look good. without a regard for her personhood#so it makes sense that if hamlet was so sweet w her pre-his-father's-death and that he changed so drastically in front of her#that it kind of basically brings her down with him too#hamlet
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After watching Dororo 2019 I have a few thoughts:
1: Hyakkimaru is adorable. He's just so awkward and sweet at times. Him nuzzling everything is literally one of the cutest things I've seen.
2: I refuse to acknowledge Jukai, Nui, and Tahomaru's deaths. They survived the fire, and started over, together. Jukai and Nui also gradually fall in love because I think it'd be cute for Hyakkimaru's two mamas to get together. Everyone still THINKS they died, so when Hyakkimaru and Tahomaru see each other again it's awkward, and a surprise. I just want the brothers to love each other!!
3: my fiance and I kept comparing the series to Inuyasha. I think it would be interesting to see a crossover between them. I think Inuyasha would throw Hyakkimaru for a loop lol. But a few interactions I really want: Hyakkimaru and Miroku (I like to emphasize Miroku's kindness and intelligence more than his negative traits, and I think he'd find Hyakkimaru interesting, and Hyakkimaru could have some interesting thoughts on both of them being cursed. however Miroku being a bad influence on Dororo is also extremely funny), Hyakkimaru and Kikyo (both are "half" people. He has half his body and is working to get it back, Kikyo has half her soul, and literally can't get her soul back without killing Kagome. Despite typically being quite gentle and kind, especially to children, she's also supportive of Hyakkimaru's revenge. Honestly I ship it and think it would be cute AF for them to get together. I refuse to ship him with Dororo, because she's a child when they start hinting at it... Nah, that's his kid sister.) and finally, Dororo and Rin (a girl their age to play with! They are both tough little girls who may witness horrors but remain cheerful and love their freakishly violent companion. Also the image of them meeting Sesshomaru would be incredible. He's NOT a good demon, but he doesn't gaf about humans one way or another. I wonder if Hyakkimaru would have enough self preservation to NOT try and fight him)
4: I really got the vibe that Dororo is now in charge of, at LEAST that village at the end (especially since she's the one funding the rebuild) and I, personally, think that's hilarious, so I go with it immediately. I want 10000 stories about Dororo being treated like an authority figure while being like 8, I love it.
5: Hyakkimaru, how did you FUNCTION??? He had a PROSTHETIC SPINE??? First of all: how??? I have to handwave that with weird magic shenanigans because WHAT?
#dororo 2019#hyakkimaru#dororo#i have an Inuyasha ''rewrite''#that basically just fixes a few things to make it make more sense and be less problematic#(ranging from taking away the implications of abuse from Kagome to tweaking side characters to make more sense)#and due to a this tone down i think it matches tone really well#also i refer to Dororo as female because she seems to have chosen to live as one at the end of the series#and my TRANS MALE FIANCE also sees Dororo as a girl#and the 2019 anime clearly made Dororo look feminine#like even as a child Dororo looks like. little girl#manga dororo? we can debate#my fiance and i have seen Dororo's exact situation (girl raised as a boy thinks she is one until she gets older) in manga before#and a more modern one than Dororo#so it seems like a trope#and it makes sense#however if Dororo IS TRANS i doubt my fiance would be upset lol
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Would that there was a faithful, accurate adaptation of Dracula so that Jonathan Decker and Alan Seawright could discuss the nontoxic masculinity, healthy friendships, and the BEST MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP IN FICTIONAL HISTORY but nooo!
#every time they're like 'tell us your favorite movie couples in the comments' I'm just like I wish I could Jono I wish I could#*all* of the men openly cry in this novel#and despite the filter through Seward’s narration it is not actually looked down on#Seward makes comments about manhood and what not but clearly does not think any less of Arthur or Van Helsing or Harker for showing emotion#i know everyone on here is all about the poly thing#and idk how serious that is or if its just for fun or whatever#and it's tumblr so to each their own#but personally the platonic love in this book is so beautiful and refreshing!#healthy loving friendships are so rare in media and it's an important part of nontoxic masculinity too tbh#the fact that the suitor squad all love and support each other and do anything to help Lucy without ever getting jealous or entitled#and don't get me started on how wonderful and amazing Jonathan and Mina are bc I will never stop!#i love this book so much#it's 127 years old why is it better at this stuff than most modern media?#and why can't any of the adaptations get it right?#like it's one thing to be disappointing and inaccurate but it objectively dismantles the themes!#dracula#writing#cinema therapy#jonamina#suitor squad#mina harker#jonathan harker
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