#maybe im reading into it too much

[ramblesbiab]

There’s something I love about Sam’s comment about the months on Vesta being logged as overtime in episode one so much. It’s just so unapoligetically human, while fitting with themes in the show of a lack of humanity within the human characters because it’s an issue related to a non-essential survival requirement, that being money.

It feels like excellent commentary on money’s overbearing power in society that a man who has been stranded on a dangerous planet for months is concerned with it. And I appreciate that in a show that says so much about so many other things, it also snuck in small moments like that, ones that provoke even further thought if you’re willing to search for it.

[the-flying-robins]

Would love to know what was happening behind the scenes during this.

This is from Batman #603 released in '02 almost 3 years later (32 issues) Jason makes his first appearance as the Red Hood.

There are a lot of Batman villains, and he's not the only one to have disappeared. The Red Hood seems like such an odd one to reference here if it wasn't intentional. It's different writers, even the lead editors are different (Kahn left in '02).

[little-lackadaisical]

I absolutely love the skewed melody at the end of " Fare Well," with the upbeat music that goes into an almost uncomfortable, almost miss it, low pitch, right at the end. Honestly, idk if it was intentional, but I feel like everything hozier does is intentional.

To me, it just it really highlights the songs minimization and denial of the consequences of using. Like this guy knows he's lying to himself, but he just can't stop.

[hinamie]

sympathy for cain

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[bacchuschucklefuck]

soon it'll be dawn again

transcript under the cut ⏬

page 01

Fig: no way? - you're still up?

Riz: Wh– yes?

Riz: Why'd I not be.

page 02

Fig: I me~~ean - that took.

Fig: whole day.

Riz: Yeah?

Fig: 'm beat.

Riz: you should sleep.

page 03

Fig: nah. my guy's still up

Fig: I wanna hang out.

page 04

Riz: That's really nice.

Fig: Hah! - Nobody ever expects an Archdevil rockstar to be nice.

Riz: … yeah. - 's just budget work tho. (the stuff I'm working on) - I've heard it's boring.

page 05

Fig: yeah, but you do it…

Riz: It keeps things going, right? - Nothing happens if nobody sits down and - does the thing.

Fig: That's right… - though. Yeah.

page 06

Fig: sometimes it's someone else who - doesn't want the same thing to happen.

Riz: … - mm.

page 07

Riz (off screen): …It took me a long time to get that not everyone likes doing what I do. - 's probably because you guys are so nice– - or. - kind.

Riz (off screen): to anyone too, not just. - the people you /love/.

page 08

Riz: that's not how it is elsewhere. - The world's– not. hostile. - but 's not like it's kind.

Riz: So I'm doing as much as I can now… 

page 09

Fig: Hey.

Riz: ?

Fig: Go dig some dirt with me.

page 10

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - oh you meant like - actual dirt. (not incriminating information)

Fig: o yea.

Fig: there's clay in the backyard soil. - sometimes when I'm sun deficient or something I go touch dirt for a bit.

page 11

Fig: here u go

page 12

Riz: uh

Fig: now we make a thing! - 'm pretty good at freehanding a bowl.

Fig: I'll show u

page 13

Fig: just– yep, flatten that out as evenly as u can, then–! - actually ur nails'd be so good at cutting out the strip. [larger than usual space] wait. - wait. wait u can carve patterns with them! we HAVE to try

Riz: uh - What. do I carve?

Fig: anything!!!

page 14

Fig: and– yep just seal the inside uh. seam?

Fig: yep that works - okay time's up! all contestant hands up

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - okay - wh. what's next?

Fig: haha - watch this.

(sound effect text): FWOO—MP

page 15

Riz: WH– DON'T JUST DO THAT???

Fig: Now it's fired!

Riz: THAT WAS NOT SAFE

Fig: (actually it's just dry. if u add water rn it'll dissolve)

Fig: ok catch!

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - careful!!

Fig: dw no need haha

page 16

Riz (thought bubble): oh - it's warm…

Fig: now I want you to throw this.

page 17

Fig: u gotta do it - c'mon

page 18

Riz: wh– - It's like 3AM right now

Fig: oh it's not /fired/ fired it's not gonna make a loud noise

Riz: And then just? leave a pile out here?

Fig: pour water over it & it'll be gone I told u

Riz: but

page 19

Fig (off screen): RIz.

page 20

Fig: I've done all this before.

Fig: Can you trust that at least?

page 21

Riz: no, I– - I do. - I trust you.

page 23

Riz: okay what happens now

(sound effect text): glob

page 24

Fig: we do it again!

page 25

Riz: wh. [larger than usual space] What do you mean. (this clay's too wet also)

Fig: see! you're already learning

Fig: [blank speech bubble] - there are flows that are futile to fight. - The world changes.

Fig: Things change.

page 26

Fig: I've learned my lessons with "forevers". - But - as an artist

Fig: I can give you one thing: - You can always do it again.

page 27

Fig: most of everything depends on the rest of the world, - but this. - making new. - that's yours as long as you want it.

page 28

Fig: So?

page 29

Riz: Yeah. - Yeah! - let's make another one.

[tzarrz]

i listen to fog lake too much

[xxplastic-cubexx]

[right to left]

finally finished This Wip from Ever ago and so now i ask you ever look into another dudes eyes and suddenly want to do whatever he wants

[puppyeared]

littlest furth shop

@laikascomet

[chaotickit]

is it just me or does paintbrush kinda seem to prioritize what they think other people want from them rather than doing what they want? in the first two seasons , that is. i dont really think there are any instances of this in s3?

between their aluminum tree they proclaimed as "perfect" in s1, trying to keep the pizza plain as not to "risk it" and painting steve cobs bcuz they thought mephone would like the painting in s2, and hell, even this new fact we got abt them from brian that they got into art because its what other people expected from them???

ok buddy why dont you do what makes you happy for once. Huh how about that

[corviiids]

(more persona 5 / persona 5 royal spoilers again)

(this one has art by dotdotdotukno on twitter please view)

compilation of specifically my obsession with ryuji and goro being terrible... friends??

[nonbinary-catboy]

been relistening to taz again and I don't know if it was on purpose or not, but I love how the eleventh hour arc is essentially really condensed version of stolen century+story and song with the main characters having to pursue an artifact (chalice/light of creation) while repeatedly dying and being brought back within a certain period of time. THEN theres the supposedly unbeatable foe killing them most of the time (giant worm/the hunger) that they end up defeating anyway.

[no-saints-no-scholars]

i'm houseposting way too much another reason nobody but hugh laurie could play house is because he gets house's mannerisms with his cane down so well i'd genuinely believe he used one irl.

it's in the way house slides things over to himself, like coffee cups and papers, or his chair to grab his phone in the bath. he hangs it on hospital equipment without a second thought, on random surfaces in his house, and he knows exactly how high to raise it to hang it on his doorframe so he can have his hands free. he pressed elevator buttons with it instead of using his hands. he's so much more expressive when it's in his hand- he's had the thing so long it's like another limb. he gestures more, fiddles with it, blocks things with it. you can even see he's used to doing most things one handed, and holding as many things in one hand as he can.

it's a small thing, but it adds a lot to how hugh laurie plays him yk?

[obsob]

there he is......the man of the house

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

IS THAT ST3V3??????

[welcometogrouchland]

(ID in alt) hi sorry for back to back marvel fanart I swear I still have dc stuff lmao. However I did recently read X-Men: first class and got a bit carried away doodling this after Lmao