#main comfort media

[wtfamidoing-andrade]

Its watching onward for the third time of the day, and the seventh in two days, drinking coffee, in the middle of a summer heavy rain, with a BIG college application exam coming up on sunday (which im ridiculously UNPREPARED for, so catch me going at it again next year, even if im going for visual arts) <- let’s NOT START TALKING ABOUT THAT IM GONNA CRY IM STUPID

YEP THAAAT TIME ITS THAT TIME ITS ESCAPISM SEASON ALL YEAR LONG MY FRIEENDS

Just me imagining what would it be like living in New mushroomton being lighfoots next door neighbor, that would be 10000/10 muah 🌟 chef’s kiss

[birzein]

Just lost power so I went to watch RWBY on my phone instead of on my computer, and I've just been deeply reminded by the absolute tragedy most comment sections are.

Listen, if all you're gonna do is bitch about how "Monty would have done it better" and "it needs a reboot with better characters" then in assuming you lack any and all brain capacity for intelligent thought so please get the fuck out of my comfort fandom thanks.

[lezstat]

surprised i haven’t seen anyone talking abt this parallel. jacob & delainey’s lil comforting shoulder touches🥺(no wonder everyone always gushes about those two in interviews, how could u not adore them? sweethearts. gaaah this whole cast is so solid <3)

[baconcolacan]

Just dropping by to give yall a hug, I love you ew fandom, even with all our scuffed parts. It’s been rough, but we keep going in our little corner of the internet.

Thanks for being here, so many creative and passionate people sharing our love for a silly show. It’s such a comfort to be here when things are quiet and slow.

[redr0sewrites]

i would talk about harry potter on here but no one agrees with my headcanons i fear

[stuckinapril]

i think i officially set my sights on a therapist and i'll be contacting her very soon?? therapy was legitimately not on my 2024 bingo card (or in the cards for me at all) but here we are????

[fluffy-lovely-clouds]

Woopsies, didnt mean to be so inactive for so long folks, here's a bit of food

[brown-little-robin]

I need to sleep for 70 hours and then maybe I'll feel not evil again

[fearandhatred]

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[smokeys-house]

might make an adult sideblog. not like explicitly "adult content" but like. one where I can make weiner jokes and be sure there aren't any minors nearby

[time-is-restored]

btw this might be me swinging a bat at a hornets nest but like. absolutely none of my disappointment from the tl finale comes from ship baiting or any relationships that didn’t happen (though to be clear, i think the tedbecca fake outs were meanspirited and served no narrative purpose - in noted contrast to the season's earlier jamiekeeley fakeouts, for example, which were explicitly there to demonstrate jamie's growth + maturity)

tedpendant is a really fun concept for me, and i LOVE the characterisation + thematic potential there!

but as someone who personally resonated with a lot of ted’s struggles, the idea that ted could leave richmond so… seamlessly, for lack of a better word, really doesn’t sit right with me. the thesis of the shows entire first season - assuming it can be said to have only one - was about how everyone needs the love and support of a community, whether that comes in the flavour of someone who hypes u tf up or someone who will relentlessly call u on ur shit (or, as happened quite frequently, both!).

rebecca, roy, jamie are the clearest examples as the characters with the most screentime: they were all deeply isolated and disconnected from the people around them, and that was making them miserable. the connections they made with the team, the vulnerability they finally allowed themselves to express (the ghost banishing ceremony comes to mind!), and them going on to want *more* out of their life are what made their arcs about *progression* rather than *regression*. without that clear theme of compassion + community inspiring positive growth in everyone who encounters it, there is, frankly, no season one.

my personal favourite scene from season one comes right after michelle walks away from ted, when they’ve agreed to get divorced. ted sits down on the bench looking gutted, and a little shell shocked - and beard sits down with him. hands him the drink, and they sit there together. silent, but together. to me, that scene is an implicit promise from the episode, to the audience: ‘it’ll be okay. it’s going to be hard, but ted isn’t alone, and his friends won’t leave him behind.’

it also makes it clear to the audience that ted isn’t the saintly-giver-of-grace who needs nothing in return, as one might assume on first brush, but rather that he’s Also struggling with his own shit (as is everyone, always, in real life!) and he has something he needs from the people around him too.

and looking at the text of s3, and the conclusion to his arc in the finale, i just don’t believe that he got it. he wasn’t just sad that he was leaving (which would be understandable!), he was completely closed off. unresponsive to the people around him reaching out, borderline confused as to why they were trying so hard!

(side note, while i completely respect the read of ted and trents last interaction being rather rude + ooc on ted’s part, i personally read a different motive into it. for me, it was more like… he didn’t understand where trents enthusiasm was coming from? like, he read that as trent being too invested in what other people think of him, and responded in a way that he hoped would emphasise that ted doesn’t *need* to laugh at everything trent wrote, bc trent Already Knows that he’s done something really cool and kickass, and he shouldn’t value anyone else’s reactions above that. basically, based on his demeanour in the episode, i genuinely don’t think it would’ve even occurred to him that trent was more invested in HIS reaction than he would’ve been with anyone else.)

again, looking purely at the text, the show had already established that ted has really strong depressive + avoidant tendencies, as well as panic attacks (largely triggered by his fear of not being ‘good enough’ in various roles, ie: a father). we saw one area he was able to calm HIMSELF abt these fears (worry for henry, which is a Hell of a choice considering the ending…), but in literally every other heightened moment, he had to rely on his support system to help him make the choices that he WANTED to make, rather than ones inspired by avoidance and fear (ie: confronting michelle abt jake, talking to his mum abt why she was visiting + his dads death).

and to be clear, this is a GOOD THING! we’re not supposed to go through life alone, no matter how bad OR well we’re doing. rebecca and keeleys friendship isn’t worth less for all the scenes where they’re both in good places. if anything, the opposite is true - it’s lovely that they both have someone who want to celebrate the achievements in their life!

and fuck it, we’re sure as hell not supposed to go through life with exactly one (1) person whom we expect to fulfill ALL of our emotional needs at all times either! like, im sure i don’t need to labour my point here, but tying everything to one (1) person in ur life doesn’t make u any less isolated than if u were going it completely alone, whether it’s a family member, a friend, or a partner. i won’t pretend to know the first thing abt what it’s like to be a parent, but i don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that no parent would be at their best if they had absolutely no support/camaraderie/general love provided to them from Anyone other than their child.

so when ted is SPECIFICALLY shown to be in a bad place, over and over again (did he come to terms w his fear to be close to henry overnight???????), and then removed from his community? of COURSE the audience is left feeling unsettled, and like the rug has been pulled out from under them. there was no time in this finale dedicated to how ted would still be in contact with anyone from richmond. no promises of visits, or phone calls - fuck, nothing about emails!! according to the text, we might as well assume this is a clean break (and the maybe-dream-sequence does Fuck All to assure us otherwise. if ted doesn’t go to beards wedding, what WOULD he go to????). and since the show has ALSO completely failed to give us even an IMPLICATION of who/what ted’s support system would be in kansas, there’s… a reasonable argument to be made that this is It for ted. that, after two seasons doing NOTHING but attesting otherwise, the audience is supposed to suddenly believe that ted can (and SHOULD!) pull himself up by his bootstraps, and cope entirely on his own.

that, to me, is a betrayal of the show’s premise. we were promised a show about how, no matter how dark things may get, none of the characters would be left to struggle alone. and then they ended the show with ted alone.

i don’t know. i guess if i had to give this post a tldr; if anyone has any gen fic/meta/Literally Anything in the pipeline, i would absolutely love to be tagged/directed towards it. i’ll be endeavouring to write something myself, as well, but it might take a while before i can return to my WIP, lol.

[foccaccia]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

[ripgray-moved]

       ❛ i'll watch it with ya. if you're too scared to do it alone. ❜

[queer-reader-07]

i think. at the end of the day what makes Good Omens so special to me is that i never expected to fall so deeply in love with it. i expected to like it, how could i not? but i wasn’t prepared to fall so deeply and irrevocably in love with it. i wasn’t prepared to read a story that would proceed to fill my thoughts constantly. i wasn’t prepared for Azi and Crowley to live rent free in my mind and heart forever now. i never would have expected that this story of all things would lead to countless hours of texting my friend new thoughts on Azi and Crowley and sending him what are essentially essays full of love and analysis for a story i read less than a month ago. or in me making a tumblr account simply for the sheer joy of fandom community. or in me reviving my love of art & drawing!! because how can you prepare yourself for that? there’s something so damn special about falling in love with a book you never expected to love so much.

[the-annoying-mom-friend]

to begin this I'm not trying to be a hater and I'm especially not trying to be a hater of the queer media that we have been getting this summer/will be getting this fall because it is really important BUT it'd be great if the queer media we always talk about would more often be about sapphics

[a-murmur-of-a-prayer]

Really incredible how every single piece of media I've latched onto over the past four years has some connecting thread. Like they're not all similar in the exact same way, but you can literally track my thought process through the years. I went from The Good Place to Arcane to Supernatural to the FNAF resurgence to The Hunger Games resurgence to Fleabag to The Magnus Archives. And also none of those go away. I maintain the hyperfixations by the sole fact that not one of them remains dominant for more than a few months, creating an endless cycle of dopamine - and the cycle will never stop because I'm sure I'll add a new one in January.

This is my most lethal hyperfixation cycle yet and I seem to have cracked the code by focusing on at least three at once, which never go away because every time I think they have, something about one of them taps into some deep part of my psyche. I have at least eight AO3 tabs open at all times and each one is from a different fandom. I could create a Venn Diagram out of these fandoms and how they're all connected. I'll probably have to edit this post in five minutes with more TV shows that I forgot. And it's so annoying because I lowkey feel like it's calling me out repeatedly - I really am just a basic bitch. But as my English professor says we all have themes I guess so that's what this is. My brain is hilarious sometimes