#not bad 2019 kat!! not bad

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some people on twitter are getting really mad at colby for apparently ‘ditching’ shea for his new girl saying shit like oh he led shea on and now he’s pushed her away lol

they’re fully acting like he’s committed an awful crime like why are they cancelling him 😭

(side note - i’m actually, whole heartedly convinced that half of the fandom genuinely hates colby and everything he does fills them with rage lmfao)

This is going to be a one and done, on this topic. I don't like Shea, don't like what she's doing. Never did like her, as you all know, because she has been an absolutely awful and manipulative bully and generally trash person over the years and I don't want her taking up too much space on my blog because of it.

But I felt the need to just put this out there before I move on, so here we go, behind a cut for anyone who doesn't want to hear it lol.

You know, I find this whole "taking Shea on her word all of a sudden" thing interesting.

According to Shea, they had a 10 year (even though he was still living in Kansas 10 years ago) "on-again, off-again thing" that was "mostly just talking" and was "never official," although it was "almost dating, but not official" for 2 years (even though there hasn't been a 2 year period where Colby hasn't been at least seeing someone, if not hooking up).

She doesn't seem to know any of his friends and not a single one of them follow her on socials - in fact, most of them unfollowed her several years back. Of particular note is the fact that Sam, after all these years of her being Colby's future wife, still hasn't followed her back...but has followed several of the other girls Colby's been linked to over the years, including M.

She never seems to have a clue about what is going on in his life and has been promising (and not delivering) fans content with Colby for years now - including her telling everyone that her and Colby were going somewhere to film a documentary in January of this year when Colby had already told everyone on xplrclub that he and Sam were going to be in Vegas or in Texas filming in all of Jan and then in Australia for most of Feb. She promised to have him on one her streams on a day when he was actually in Hawaii, then another day when he was actually in Kansas visiting family.

She hasn't been invited to a single party or group gathering of theirs since 2019, save for one time when she visited Colby and Sam in Las Vegas - which came across as very awkward, given the above.

She complained about never getting invited to snc's Halloween parties - you know, the ones that have 500-1,000 invitees and snc have claimed include an invite to every single person they know and are friends with? Yet Colby's soul mate gets left on the list somehow, 6 years running?? (One year he had four different past flings there at once. But the future Mrs. Shea Brock just didn't make the cut somehow)

Oh, bonus: she once told a gc full of her fans that Colby asked her out, but she turned him down because she valued the friendship too much. Funny how those turns tabled.

Colby meanwhile, has never hidden that he considers himself single, does not think he's met "the one," uses Raya to find dates, hooks up and has flings....he's not just pretending to be single, he IS single.

So. to recap: They have had a 10 year friendship and emotional bond that Shea deluded herself into thinking was more. Colby comes around her again after having had a cancer that could've easily rendered him unable to have children, and her grand idea is to tell this guy she freely admits she was never even dating that she wants to cash in on some vague promise he may or may not have actually made to her about getting married and having CHILDREN???

I'd have left her ass, too.

But sure. He's the bad guy. By the way, to hear Shea tell it, Colby did the same thing to her that Sam did to Kat. But all the people trashing Colby were the first ones in line to defend Sam from big bad mean Kat and her hurtful words because "he wasn't ready" and wah wah wah. Isn't that funny...and on par.

So yes, lol. Most of the people pissed about this are using any excuse put in front of them to trash Colby cause that is the only enjoyment they get out of life. Trust me when I say they are backing the wrong horse with Shea. She's not the hero victim y/n sainted good girl she pretends to be.

[mariacallous]

The most-liked video in TikTok history shows a dark-haired woman making funny faces to her front-facing camera as she lip-syncs to a popular song. It’s held its position since 2020, but recently it’s encountered competition from another video, featuring … a dark-haired woman making funny faces to her front-facing camera as she lip-syncs to a popular song.

Australian influencer Leah Halton posted her simple, short video set to YG Marley’s “Praise Jah in the Moonlight” on February 5, nearly four years after the front-runner it’s trying to take down. Initially, it got a few million likes—not bad, but small potatoes by the standards of a platform with well over a billion monthly active users. Still, because TikTok’s algorithm doesn’t care how old a video is, it began to catch on, and soon its popularity skyrocketed. Over the month of April, it went from approximately 12 million likes to more than 49 million, making it one of the most popular videos in the app’s history.

Keeping track of the video’s growth is easy: Just look closely at its comment section. TikTok users have spent months posting its current metrics multiple times a day, comparing it to other popular videos as it makes its way up the list and exhorting people to spread it around so it can eventually become the most-liked TikTok ever.

At the moment, that goal seems unlikely. Since that enormous leap in April, growth has slowed, and as of July 1 it has gotten fewer than 3 million likes in the past two months. Those are still impressive numbers, but the current record-holder, a video by Bella Poarch, went from 64 million likes to 66 million likes in that same time frame, more than enough to keep her video at the top.

Poarch, an influencer and singer, set the record in 2020 with a video which has many similarities to Halton’s, from the hair and makeup style to the short, satisfying, and easy-to-mimic movements. At the time, Vox journalist Rebecca Jennings called the popularity of Poarch’s video “inexplicable,” but the success of her video and Halton’s—and the similarities between them both—provide indicators of what it takes to achieve virality on TikTok's somewhat abstruse platform. Jennings concluded that “young people centering their conventional attractiveness in easily repeatable formats” was “the logical endpoint” of TikTok. Unfortunately for Halton, once you’ve reached the end, there’s nowhere further to go, and once the novelty has worn off she’ll have to settle for the silver medal.

It’s a little odd to apply the logic of a race to the popularity of two very similar videos. Poarch and Halton (neither of whom responded to requests for comment) haven’t treated it as a rivalry, but in the comment sections of both videos, there’s a loose but fiercely devoted community formed around getting Halton’s video past Poarch’s. “Anyone here on July 1st?” read comments on Halton’s clip in at least six languages, each with a line of users replying “me!” “REMIND ME WHEN THIS HITS 67M!” says a user on Poarch’s video.

It would be easy to put this down to stan armies—established fans of these creators, clashing over the video in a kind of proxy war to glorify their community—but it’s not along such rigid lines. “Whenever there’s a way to quantify popularity online, there’s a group mentality that emerges,” says Kat Tenbarge, a reporter for NBC News who covers internet culture. “It’s something to be a part of.”

Indeed, this isn’t the first time a relatively innocuous post has become the most popular on a platform. In January 2019, an Instagram post with a stock photo of an egg received over 45 million likes in less than two weeks. It shattered Kylie Jenner’s record for the most-liked post in Instagram’s history thanks to a campaign from thousands of users sharing hashtags like #EggGang and #EggSoldiers.

WIRED deemed the egg “the last of a dying breed,” predicting that popularity campaigns from ordinary users, rather than professional influencers or brands, would get less and less traction “as social networks mature and develop more stringent business models.” Just two months later, in a milestone for corporate social media, the Indian music conglomerate T-Series definitively beat the streamer PewDiePie to become YouTube’s most-subscribed channel, despite a campaign from PewDiePie’s fans involving everything from hacking printers to marching in the streets.

Simply put, since viral popularity can be directly translated into money, there’s much less opportunity for it to happen for free. “Mainstream social media platforms have been solidified as global community spaces with outsized cultural impact,” says Tenbarge. “There’s clear value in dominating the metrics on these platforms, which creates an incentive for people to invest their time and care in such accomplishments, even if they don’t personally benefit from it.” Halton has an actual financial investment in her engagement numbers, but the campaign to boost them has already given the more casual users who started it what they wanted: a sense of community.

Beyond that, there’s the issue of how ephemeral TikTok can be. The algorithm that powers the app’s For You page is so good at finding engaging content that China has passed laws against selling it to potential US buyers, who are seeking to purchase the app after lawmakers passed legislation in April forcing its parent company ByteDance to divest from owning it or face a ban in America. The flip side of that algorithm’s power and intensity is that it blocks the more direct and organic forms of community that were the initial appeal of social networks to begin with.

With vanishingly few exceptions, every product, community, or figure with popularity credited to TikTok needs to establish a presence outside of the app to stick around and stay popular, or the relentless algorithm will drive it off people’s feeds. Stanley Quencher water bottles had huge success last year credited to the app, but this was years after they first took off thanks to a prominent review blog. Abigail Barlow, whose Bridgerton fan musical written on TikTok won a Grammy in 2022, had already released a successful single in 2020.

Poarch presumably understood this, quickly parlaying her proverbial 15 minutes of TikTok fame into a line of merchandise, a music career, and more. Halton is already following suit with a reality show appearance. Despite this, Halton’s video will never be able to catch up to Poarch’s without some major element outside TikTok, because it’s just that: a video. Unlike its creator, it can’t transcend the app.

For Halton’s video to break the record, there would need to be some massive, directed interest beyond the shallow sensory appeal that got the video so popular in the first place, which is next to impossible given how much emphasis TikTok places on algorithmic feeds over searching for specific content. The commenters on Halton’s video, who dutifully boost the clip and keep track of the numbers every day, are swimming against the currents that carry every single TikTok to their feeds.

With TikTok reportedly developing a new version of its algorithm to skirt the ban in the US, it’s worth keeping track of how that algorithm shapes what users see, especially how hard it is to work against. The thousands of comments keeping track of the most-liked videos on the platform show that people don’t always just want what the algorithm gives them, and the fact that they come back every day shows they want something that stays in their lives longer than the next swipe up.

[phantomram-b00]

I know I’ve been on a good omens brainrot. But I want to stop and talking about something, some movie as it been exactly this day (edit: yesterday, I meant to post this yesterday but it got hectic and I couldn’t finished until 12. So my bad, I tried. That and the wifi is shit, so forgive me) (at least released on Netflix). But it just not some movie, you might know it, you might not that’s okay because I would like to talk about…..*drum rolls*

Now for those who don’t know and without spoiling too much as I recommend this movie, it follows Kat Elliot a black teenage girl who’ve gone through a traumatic event of her parent’s death and have two demons, Wendell and Wild, who have their own agenda of opening a theme park for the souls. Can’t stress this enough that this movie is worth the watch. Please go watch before going to see this post as I will be discussing the movie, spoiler warning ahead 🤭 unless if you wanna get spoil then, that’s on you, who am I to tell you what to do am I right? With that being said let get into this

(Disclaimer: Now, I am planning a drawing for it so stay tone for that. But I couldn’t finish in time due to being on vacation but it will be done! ^v^ now onto the post.)

Honestly, this is my second stop motion picture movie since coraline, who funfact Henry Selick directed. He also directed Wendell and Wild and was produced by Jordan Peele who also stars as Wild himself with his friend Keegan-Michael Key who plays Wendell; honestly to see these two play the demon bring be back to Key and Peele show they did, always happy to see them together and be chaotic duos. But I do wanna give honor to Jordan Peele as imo, his movies have been phenomenal between Get out, Nope, Us, and now Wendell and Wild (granted produced but he did have control), I can’t wait to see what else he got in plan. I think what make me appreciate his directing/producing is how he can say and I quote in this news article,

“I feel fortunate to be in this position where I can say to Universal, ‘I want to make a 20$ million horror movie with a black family’ and they say yes” - Jordan Peele (2019)

And frankly, I’m happy representation is happening, (I’m not black, I’m only Puerto Rican, but to have poc representation make me happy! but also that, imma say this, representation do matter. You (and I’m talking to the non-poc/white) might not think it not a big deal, but trust me, it is matter and it is important. And it should. And I’m happy Jordan Peele for example here is able to diverse the cast, and like he said, “not that I don’t like white dudes but I’ve seen that movie.” I’ll dive deep soon so remember this.) and I hope they keep going with representation.

Henry Selick, he’s responsible for Coraline, Nightmare before Christmas and more! And to see another Henry Selick movie, I had a feeling with a help of Jordan Peele that I was going to love it. And I did! I’m excited to see whatever he come up with next, though if it another stop motion, which I love stop motion animation as much as a next person, however, do you know how long these shit takes? Like I gotta give them prop for the dedication! But I don’t know how you get patience for stop motion- but back to Henry, he responsible for my love for Coraline and nightmare before Christmas, and I gotta give him and Jordan Peele props and credit, and also to thank them for making this movie!

Now the casting, honestly the casting imo was fantastic, Lyric Ross was excellent as Kat Elliot, both when Kat is a no nonsense headstrong character to when she is actively grieving of the death of her parents as she grows from her trauma. Very much Phenomenal work and her chemistry with Wendell and Wild is what make it much cool as well as her chemistry with Raul (Sam Zelaya), Siobhan (Tamara Smart) and even Sister Helley (Angels Bassett herself!). I feel the casting was phenomenal and was well-casted I don’t think I had a moment where I think “oh this person could’ve been better” or “wow they bad”, nope I don’t think I have a complaint. Oh and Father level bests (James Hong) was just the right amount of a comedic antagonist next to Siobhan’s parent, his delivery was comedic and also a right amount of asshole. They all ate, and it was worth it for the cast!

The story! While I do think the pacing could’ve been better to flow better and also other qualms, but I won’t say that what toke me away, as I really like the story, I like how while yes the title and that it is about two demons, but I do like how we get to see Kat’s story and how she grows. As Jordan Peele mentions in again this article, the demon represent her personal demons with both her guilt and anger, and how she can overcome and wear your fears in a sense as well as dealing with her being a hell maiden. This was done well, and I like how it was done, sure was it a messy landing but it landed and it did well. Learning to overcome your demons is a challenge, hell I’m still trying to overcome them as I go and I’m twenty one, but as Kat shown, we can overcome our demons, and learn to carry on. And now as we saw at the end, she while she still grieve her parents, she learns that she not or never will be alone as she now surrounded by people who care and who won’t hurt her like the people in her past. Even accepting her two person demons, and being a hell maiden (which I will say, I think the demons can also represent how you handle them, like helley bottling up her demon can be a commentary on bottling up your problems rather than facing them. And seeing the amount that was there she had the bottle it up alot, which I can relate and I feel it was done well as well.) if they ever do a sequel, I would be here for it, i doubt their might because 1) stop motion takes such a long time. 2) the advertisement for this movie was done dirty. But if they did, I will be here for it and can’t wait to see what they do.

And finally the representation, honestly the presentation and the diversity of this movie was amazing. My eyes widen seeing just how diverse it, something I wish I had growing up as stated by Peele, I’ve already seen movies where predominantly of the cast was white, and (and this isn’t me saying “I hate white people” let me put this out there) I’m tired of seeing an all or almost all white or cast, I think it been done so many time and also it feel tiring and disheartening not to be represented in a way or even if there was it done stereotypical. So seeing representation was wonderful between black/Asian/Latine/Latinx/indigenous representation to there being Trans and disability representation. I hope more representation keep happening and there is, very much so! And as I said and I will say again, representation matters! And this movie’s rep was done very well! Im sure I’m missing some (forgive me it been a while and I don’t have access to Netflix as of now. Please forgive me, if I miss any please let me know!)

Before I close this blog, I gotta say, the advertisement for this movie was done very dirty! Like i don’t know what it is, but I felt we hardly saw any promotional work for this movie, it the same thing that happen with Disney’s Strange world. If there was, I probably missed a lot because I felt there wasn’t much ads for this movie, and because of it, I felt it didn’t get the recognition it deserved. So if you made it this far whether you seen this movie or you haven’t to please go watch Wendell and Wild, I promise you will have a good time and a wonderful experience watching this movie. I can’t wait to show the drawing. And I just needed to talk about this, as it one of my favorite stop motion films, I can’t wait to see where Wendell and wild go, and hope we get more of it. Even if we do get a sequel, I hope we see more of hell maidens and of Kat’s journey with her demons and her friends. hope you enjoyed. Phantom. Out.

[imthefailedartist]

Collecting Fat Taxes

The entertainment industry owes me a Fat Tax. And the overdue balance is astronomical.

The following is what I'm owed per every offense. This is for main, side, and background characters, etc.

Every time a fat character is slovenly and food obsessed: 3 movies

The fat person is the bully, not because they're fat, but it's definitely because they're fat: 14 per

A fat character appears only to be compared to our assumed to be skinny character now fat: 30 per

Fat character used to be skinny, old love interests no longer interested: 12 per

Any fucking movie like The Whale (2022): 16 per

A fat person is minding their business and is brought into the story because a character is making fun of them: 6 per

Fat person has self love but has to prove it to others. 2 per (ex. Willowdean in Dumplin)

Movie could be cute romance/romcom but instead focuses on self-love: 7 per

Zuckerbaby (1985, German) & Baby Cakes (1989) or any other movie like them: 9 per

Fat person is married and miserable or being cheated on (with skinny person) with because fat: 50 per

Skinny actress has round face, so they are constantly cast to play fat (ex. Amy Schumer, Mae Whitman, Rene Zellwegger, teen Ani Luckiest Girl Alive (2023): 165 per

Bachelorette (2012): 10K per

Anything from the early aughts in which a skinny round faced and size 8 woman is lamenting about being fat and is treated like she is 900 pounds (Bridget Jones, Tyra Banks in hee bating suit, Ugly Betty): 90 per, in addition to all the profits Slim Fast made during that period

The Fat people episodes of procedurals (Bones and CSI): 28 per

Fat character is stalker because no one could possibly love them normally: 45 per

Fat character fucks, but is relationship averse (see any show 2019 onward): 1 per

This is the industries new way of saying sorry for the fat jokes that we're still going to continue doing.

Fat Amy getting Bumper only for his spin-off show love interest to be different and skinny: 39 per

News reports B-roll, for an obesity segment, of fat people walking down the street: 52 per

True story, real person fat, adaptation, actor skinny: 8 per

"Her over me?": 72 per

Fat persons weight being mentioned even though it has no effect on the story: 600 per

A fat body used for shock value: 49 per

Movie stars a fat person, and the plot is about them being outcasts because they're fat: 5 per

Fat character learns to love themself: 10 per

Show is about bullying= bad, unless person is fat (All of Us are Dead 2022); 20 per

Character likes Fat women but never dates/fucks/oogles/looks at one outside of the episode where they are outed as being a chubby chaser (ex. Malik Wright, The Game (2006-2015 + Spin-off) Danny Wheeler, Baby Daddy (2012-2017): 22 per

A fat person makes fun of another fat person for being fat because they aren't fat like them: 20 per

Skinny person Friendzones fat person, not because they're fat, [sotto voce] it's because they're fat: 11 per

Fat actress' career dies because they are fat and therefore are not for any sorry that does not involve their weight: 82 per

A skinny person in a fat suit: 8 per

A character finds love with another fat person because they, too, are fat: 2 per (looking at you, The Sleepover (2004)

A skinny person learns a lesson through a fat person: 6 per

Character was fat in the book, skinny in the movie: 3 per

Super hot or ugly snake dates fat person to get closer to someone else or to steal or to something: 6 per

Super traditionally hot person likes fat person, everyone, including fat person, skeptical and/or suprised: 13 per

Fat character is an idiot, not because they're fat, but it's definitely because they're fat: 15 per

Fat character finds self-love through bump on the head: 2 per

Fat person loses weight, makes them hot, and an asshole: 6 per

Whatever the hell Sam Levinson thought he was doing with Kat on Euphoria: 550 per

I want 1,000 movies and shows for every article ever written about a fat person's body and how they had the audacity to be nude, even you fuck-ass feminist publications who write condescending articles about how brave it is. (Ex. Any article written about Hannah on GIRLS)

Feel free to comment with your Fat Tax and how much is owed per offense. I'm sure I've missed some

[golbrocklovely]

Sam and Colby going to Jake’s party made me think that maybe when things got bad between them , it was more Snc and Corey being on worse terms and having some fight and Jake just sticking to Corey , because he was always closer to him? Idk. Because Snc are bad at cutting bad people out from their life, but I doubt that they would forgive Jake if he would really did something really really bad for them. Even Colby wouldn’t I think … idk… just thinking.

Bit honestly I hope they will never reunite with Corey and for fuck sake i beg you never Elton. I can tolerate Jake… but not those two

i always believed that whatever happened between snc and jake was just petty, dumb shit and that nothing truly serious happened. but i figured whatever did happen caused them to need a break from one another.

this is my guess about all of it (so obviously take it with a grain of salt):

i think when jake and corey moved in with snc, they thought things would be like it was in the old trap house. however, snc weren't gonna let them go buckwild crazy bc now this was a house that they owned, not rented. i think once snc went from roommates to landlords (in a way), that started the riff in the friendship. we also gotta remember that it wasn't just them splitting off, jake/corey and snc, it was also the entire friendgroup. slowly but surely, everyone stopped being friends for some reason. my personal guess is that once snc stopped making the content they used to make ie the paranormal content with jake and corey, mix that with the pandemic and not seeing one another, i think that caused everyone to reevaluate their friendships. mike had his issues with some of the friends, kevin ventured off too, aryia moved, most moved onto knj's friendgroup, ect ect.

and you could tell things were changing or had changed. by kat's bday of 2020, not everyone was showing up. and then definitely by sam's, no one came over. i also believe that snc changing up their content made some of their friends jump ship. i think some of their friends didn't believe that snc would be succeeding if they changed their format, and if snc don't succeed, neither do their friends since so many of them at the time relied on snc's clout.

by 2021, things changed a lot. i think by that point, jake had alluded to wanting to move out and have his own place so that he could be loud and obnoxious without it being an issue (which is what seemed to be a problem in the house for some reason that he never explained). so he moved out. and then corey followed suit not long after that.

now with corey, i think he had plans to move out eventually, but i think snc not doing paranormal content and moving on to other things pushed his hand. corey barely made his own content around this time. realistically, he relied on snc and their constant posting to give him any attention since he couldn't keep up or bother to post his own content often enough. and once snc stopped doing haunted stuff, i think corey knew he had to jump ship and find someone else to lean on. and that's where elton comes in at.

ppl forget that there was a period of time that elton didn't want to do tfil. back in late 2018/early 2019, he stopped tfil. he literally ended it and said that he wanted to make documentaries. he made one or two and no one cared about them, which is why he came back out with tfil and did those trips with snc, corey, and andrea. elton lost the love he had for his own brand and only brought it back bc he had no other options.

elton had done paranormal stuff before on his other, personal channel (which is now the overnight channel). granted, a lot of them were faked or had edits in them to make the content more interesting, but he did do that stuff prior to snc doing it. while elton moved onto paranormal stuff, snc switched to 25x25, which elton saw as a copycat to tfil - even tho it never was.

corey had to move on with elton, not only bc from he said he wanted to make music and get back into dancing (which… how's that going for you) but bc elton was doing the one thing that brought corey attention: paranormal content. ppl knew corey for the paranormal content he made with snc, so jumping onto someone else's brand that was paranormal related worked for him.

and things only escalated once snc went back to paranormal investigating when 25x25 didn't work out like they hoped.

i think jake and corey were very close since they became friends, and it only made sense that once they moved out and kinda pretended snc didn't exist (for one reason or another) to rely on each other. but again, i don't think jake ever really had a deep issue with snc. maybe in the beginning when he first moved out, but i say after a couple months he probably was fine with them again. plus, friendships go thru ebbs and flows all the time.

as for corey and snc….. that friendship will probably never be fully mended. i think corey only sided with elton in the beginning bc he had to. but by this point, i think he's equally lost in the sauce as much as elton. they both love to think that snc stole ideas from tfil/elton when that just didn't happen. and now they're in a race with snc when they aren't even in the same game as them lol

i don't see elton or corey ever really being friends with snc again, or vice versa. if they do become friends, there's gonna need to be a LOT of talking to get thru all the bs that occurred.

also… snc are gonna have to deal with half the fandom hating elton for forever sksksk

[scorpio-karma]

I honestly really don't get it, why after all these years, are people still obsessed and invested in TVD or with the cast? That show nothing but a complete shit show and dumpster fire garbage from start to finish (though the first few seasons did a better job in hiding it, because the show had promise and potential). Nothing  but one problematic thing after another and just so much negativity and toxicity surrounding it. And a lot of your stances raise a lot of questions and put a lot of things into perspective for me. 

First, it's so funny to me that you single out Nina for being a mediocre actress and using that as a reason to say her career after TVD flopped, or that she hasn't done anything since leaving the show. Because the majority of the TVD/TO cast (with the exception of only a few select), were also mediocre and not particularly good either. And honestly, what did you expect from a CW show, of all things? Also, the other cast members haven't done anything or gotten jobs after TVD either. 

Second, only singling out Nina for being problematic and doing shady things, when all of the TVD cast, including your dear and lovely Kat Graham, have done a lot of fucked up, problematic, and shady shit as well. Absolutely none of them are innocent or saints. Ian acted like a straight up, petty, and bitter manchild after he and Nina broke up and he got with Nikki Reed, while Nina handled that whole situation with grace and maturity, even with how shitty both Ian and Nikki treated her. On top of that, he's a fucking abuser who threw away Nikki's birth control pills, coerced her into pregnancy, and bragged about it publicly on a podcast as if it was something to be proud of. 

Third, singling out Nina for supposedly being racist (which to my knowledge, I've never seen her make any racist posts or comments), but say fuck all about Matt Davis, the biggest racist piece of shit in the whole show. Or Nate Buzolic, who on top of being racist, is also a raging homophobic and anti abortion rights. Most of the men on the show have done way worse than Nina or any of the girls, yet I don't see any posts from you calling them out on their shit behavior. Because as always, men can do the most abhorrent shit, they can be racist, homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, they can abuse, rape, or even kill somoene, and still have people defend and support them. But god forbid women aren't perfect and have flaws or make mistakes and fuck up. 

And you all wonder why the TVD fandom had such a bad rep back then, and still continue to have such a bad rep now. The very definition of toxic. 

First of all sweetie, you seem to be responding to some old ass posts from like 2019, so you the one that's still obsessed. Second of all, if you searched my Tumblr thoroughly (which I know is hard given Tumblr piss poor searching system) you'd find posts critical of all cast members. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only one I'm not critical of is Trevino because he knows when to stay quiet. And lastly, I'm definitely only skimming that whole message because you're clearly an unhinged Nina fan who went searching for shit to be mad at since they're tagged as "anti" meaning your not the audience for these opinions. Maybe find more recent and relevant criticisms before blowing up someone's inbox anonymously with a dissertation as to why they're wrong. In fact, maybe put this in an actual response to that post so they know what the fuck you're going on about.

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for August 10, 2019; #204.

Jade Imagine “Big Old House”

Kitty Kat Fan Club “Dreamy Little You”

Temple Of Angels “Cerise Dream”

Slowness “Walls Of Blue”

Chasms “Tears In The Morning Sun”

Death Of Pop, The “Gardens”

Flying Fish Cove “Sleight Of Hand”

Gingerlys “See You Cry”

Slow Pulp “High”

Cathedral Bells “Time Capsule”

Double Grave “The Kiss”

Fawns Of Love “Girls”

Swervedriver “Mary Winter”

Ceremony “Turn Away The Bad Thing”

Shizuka “Butterfly, Alight On A Girl’s Lips”

Holy Fawn “Dark Stone”

Julie Shapiro “Shape”

Picnic “Too Fast”

Venera 4 “Metal Shells”

Seablite “There Were Only Shadows”

Soma Cake “Red”

Peel Dream Magazine “I Want Have It”

Black Tambourine “For Ex-Lovers Only” (1st demo)

Thyla “Only Ever”

Soft Blue Shimmer “Chamoy”

Esther Drang “It’s Too Late”

Westkust “Swebeach”

Come Back Harriet “Side”

Deluxe shoegaze, dreampop, and alternative.

[djrobokat]

The titular heroes stood in front of Megakat City Hall for a press conference. Cameras were fixed on them, including Ann Gora from Kat's Eye News. They'd been asked the usual "hero" questions on how it felt having to constantly save the city from all its evil bad kats, and handling those jobs better than Commander Feral's Enforcers (which Feral didn't take kindly), and what it took to be considered "heroes." At the very end of the conference, T-Bone and Razor decided to reveal their deepest secret, something only the Metallikats knew beforehand. Broadcast live, the two kats proceeded to take off their helmets and masks, revealing to the public just who were behind those vigilante alter-egos. To both Feral and Deputy Mayor Briggs, at least, two ex-pilots/mechanics came to mind.

"We're the SWAT Kats..."

A what-if scenario I did in 2019 where the SWAT Kats unmasked themselves to the public, for the whole world to see.

[fox-buried-in-maple-leaves]

the halloween themed asks with serafim?

👻 - Do they believe in ghosts? Demons? The supernatural? Do they have any stories of seeing the unusual and strange?

Sera believes in destiny and the Fates, but not so much the supernatural. He has no care for made up ghost stories.

🤡 - What are they're dressing as for trick-or-treating or parties? What costumes have been their favorite?

If yall aren't careful probably Sephiroth, sword included. The more intricate the costume the more he loves it, he thinks its so fun.

👽 - Would they ever spend the night in a haunted house/hotel/place? Do they visit haunted attractions like mazes or scare house? Who would they go with?

He would, and he'd use his psychic abilities to scare whoever he brought along. Usually Marilla or the twins drag him along, unfortunately for them..

🎃 - What are some of their Halloween traditions? Do they cook pumpkin seeds after carving pumpkins? Do they host a party?

He loves roasting pumpkin seeds with cinnamon sugar and eating it. Or making pumpkin pie with pie pumpkins! He also really like trick or treating when he's younger.

🖤 - They're with their significant other or a group of best friends. What are they dressing up as?

Noctis and Prompto WHEN (or if its a group, the whole crew)

🍬 - Do they have a favorite piece of candy? Do they prefer cherry, strawberry, or black licorice? Do they like mini bars or king sized bars?

Serafim would be the kind of mf to like black licorice </3 his favourite are kit kats though, and he likes the minis cause he feels less bad about eating a whole box.

🫀 - What are their favorite horror movies or shows to watch to get into the spooky season?

pet sematary (2019 specifically)!

[louiswilliamtomlinsons]

ABOUT ME

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FAVORITES

music: louis tomlinson. rachel chinouriri. kendrick lamar. alemeda. blackswan. zayn malik. one direction. jade thirlwall. darumas. debii dawson. the last dinner party. samia. olivia rodrigo. the aces. honey revenge. soyoon. towa bird. pacifica. manumi. leigh anne pinnock. normani. chappell roan. the academic. idkhow. selena quintanilla. lauren jauregui. beabadoobee. snarls. pale waves. muna. meet me @ the altar. natalia lafourcade. the snuts. ryan ross. arctic monkeys. black belt eagle scout. nova twins. hozier. muna. blur. the smiths.

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characters: kieu my vu. aylin keuaahree. clementine (twdg). anaïs davis. maya etienne. felice ehrencrona. kat edison. evie alexander. aster flores. ellie chu. sana bakkoush. kali prasad. nancy wheeler mj sevilla. bill potts. lottie matthews. sam anuntrakul. taissa turner. donna noble. martha jones. nancy gillian. nyota uhura. jamie (drive away dolls). marian (drive away dolls). francesca bridgerton. michaela stirling. pat jindapat. richie tozier. ray pakorn. simon haynes. calliope burns. elena alvarez. deena johnson. drea torres. tony stark.

ships: kieutou. ayluna. anobbie. monsam. aninpin. jamiemarian. spirk. tpura. violetine. yousana. ronance. kalancy. ongsasun. inkpa. calliette. ellister. reddie. stozier. samdeena. dreleanor. lottienat. mistynat. sydlena. patpran. rhaenicent. zimon.

people: view benyapa. freen sarocha. ayo edebiri. laura harrier. rachel zegler. milk pansa. esther oruche. adria arjona. jude bellingham. trent alexander arnold.

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that being said, i’m not into harry anymore, so there won’t be much about him on this blog.

louis is my number one and i post about him a lot.

i love zayn too.

expect a lot about rachel chinouriri.

unexpectedly got into kendrick lamar so expect a lot about him too.

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[backyardflames]

whats crazy to me is the sheanu drama was about phil being upset at the baby not being his than the affair itself really. a wrong dna test caused all of this drama and we are here 4years later doing this again. im here for a phil and sharon baby but i would have preferred it from the start rather than now but better than never really.

i personally hope phil and sharon get together and sharon and albie move into number 55 with phil(i would even go as far as to say i want ben, cal and lexi living there too i feel like ben has been isolated a lot since living away from his parents compared to the 2019/2020 days. the flat and not working at the arches has closed his circle quite a lot i think). i need the slaters AWAY from phil and his wealth. sharon is just much more classier than kat and i prefer kat with alfie really.

i am so here for sharon returning to the mitchell empire. i would love louise and peggy junior to make a return even a short one.

i guess keanu can kiss goodbye to the arches and ben will get it back? a part of me does feel sorry for keanu yes he is the reason for all of this but i do feel bad imagine chasing around a son that wasnt even yours i would feel terrible

i wonder is the show going to change albies surname to mitchell? do you think they should do the same to lexi? im not sure if its disrespectful to since lolas not here but she was christened as a mitchell.

i was so disappointed to see sharon not tell phil about albie last night as sharon has often in the past blurted out things too fast! this is important but yes for the xmas plot i guess we got to drag it out. at least she told zach i was surpised at tbh!!

Need my pharon wedding to happen next year

I think Eastenders just wanted to have their cake and eat it. Keanu has never been an important character, so the Phil/Sharon angle was the only thing they could mine from this situation. They wanted all of the fall out and drama it caused, as well as whats happening right now. Albie could have just been Phil's from the start, but they wouldn't have gotten the 3/4 storylines out of it that they have.

Keanu was absent for years and literally no one missed him, so it was obvious that his return would be limited and directly related to what went before.

Sharon and Phil are one of those 'inevitable' couples, whether you like them or not. And I quite like Kat and Phil but it feels like a placeholder for both of them - they both have their great loves waiting in the wings.

As isolated as Ben and Callum feel from their wider family (mainly Phil and Kathy), I don't really see a scenario of them moving in together again. It would be a bit strange at this point given they have their own place.

With Lexi, I would like to see her change her name to Pearce Mitchell or just Mitchell - and Callum to change his name too. It's weird that they haven't addressed the difficulties of having a family unit in which the child and two parents all have different last names. It would cause a lot of issues in real life.

Ben was always going to get the Arches back but I am interested to see how it comes about - there isn't really a straight line between 'Sharon and Keanu break up' to 'Ben gets the Arches back' - Sharon is obviously going to find out about the kidnapping at some point and the paternity thing will come out as a result of her anger around that. There needs to be a lot of bridge building between Ben and Sharon too. I do wonder if Ben's assault will become Square public knowledge at some point , with all the stuff with Dean. It would be interesting to see Ben's reaction to his presence too, given everything.

[golbrocklovely]

Nobody has to like the girls. Sam and Colby are old enough to know what they're doing. Are they Clout Chasers? We don't know. And if they are, Sam and Colby have to deal with it on their own, not the fandom.

The people shouldn't use statements Colby made YEARS ago about L.A. Girls as an excuse. And nobody should hate Sam now for Kat's song. The fandom has been freaking out everywhere for hours, arguing among themselves, and we don't even need to start talking about Twitter.

If K and M are bad people, Sam and Colby will notice and then THEY TWO will have to learn from it and not the damn fandom.

I miss the times of 2019-21, when the fandom was still relatively okay. They should just let Sam and Colby be happy or let them make mistakes.

At the end of the day, they're both just like us: HUMANS!

exactly. you don't have to love their gfs. i don't. but i also don't despise them like these ppl seem to. what is there, genuinely, to hate about them?

they might be clout chasers????? okay. it's not like snc are gonna die if they are used by someone. as if it somehow hasn't happened in the past before and they survived it.

everything else i've heard or seen about the girls is just made up bs or things taken way out of proportion to make it seem like the girls are worse than they appear.

the la girls quote has been used ad nauseum as if 2019 was somehow last year and not five years ago. god forbid colby changes his mind or actually finds someone in la he enjoys. and kat's song shouldn't cause a competition or back and forth to immerge. let her say her peace and keep it moving.

the fandom from 2019-21 was rough in it's own way, especially 20/21 imo, but this feels like a complete different monster at this point. bc certain things ppl are doing now would have never flied back then. it's just…. very odd, to say the least.

[sorairokakera]

some sentiments about Tamamori Yuta's acting journey - part 1

*💛 : drama main role || 💛💛 : movie main role

Gokusen 3 SP & Gokusen The Movie (2009) - as Takasugi Reita

It's the first time I saw Tamamori Yuta~! I started watching Gokusen series from Gokusen 2 then when I saw Tama, I'm not exactly sure what was it, there's something adorable about him that stuck on me. I got interested in him and searched more about him, found that he is one of Kis-My-Ft2 members, one of Johnny's junior groups that hadn't officially debuted yet. I already knew Kat-tun at that time, Kisumai got me interested for a while before some things in life put me away from internet world.

Support roles in Shiawase ni Narou yo (2011), Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata (2012), Shiritsu Bakaleya Koukou The Movie (2012), Zeni no Sensou (2015)

I watched all his small roles after I watched his big/bigger roles~ I actually skipped almost everything except his parts (gomen) >_<

Ikemen desu ne (2011) as Katsuragi Ren 💛

Tama's first main role in drama!! I've watched the Korean drama they adapted long years ago (maybe soon after it aired at that time) but I watched this Japanese adaptation after I'm interested in Tama again (will mention this later on the drama that made me into him). Maybe because I watched this 10 years later, I cringed so hard ; x ; ugyah- I enjoyed the Korean one (story pretty much the same in adaptation) when I was much younger but not anymore? 😅 I even have the pig-rabbit doll from this drama that I bought soon after I watched the original long years ago haha~ The only reason I watched this whole (cringey) drama was because Tama, of course. Somehow he matched his role pretty well. First main role (and his real main job is idol) which not bad, pretty good for his career.

Ataru (2012) as Ebina Sho

Tama-chan acting with Nakai-san!! Tama's supporting role here was good and I enjoyed watching this drama, it's pretty nice and exciting~

Nobunaga no Chef (2013) & Nobunaga no Chef Season 2 (2014) as Ken 💛

Tama's main role for 2 seasons drama!! French chef travels to the Sengoku period (time-slip), eventually becomes the chef of Nobunaga Oda. It was pretty nice drama to watch. Tama got his main role here after the director (iirc) watched his (really) hard work on variety show, and he did it pretty well.

Pin to Kona (2013) as Kawamura Kyonosuke 💛

I like Tama's main role here~! His character is adorable and kind, he did well and I enjoyed watching this drama~ I'm not fond of main female character here but kabuki world as setting is quite interesting.

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari 2014 Spring Special - Neet na Kare to Cute na Kanojo, Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 2015 Summer Special - Doko Made mo Tsuitekuru, Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari 2019 Rain Special - Sakasama Shoujo no Tame no Piano Sonata (one of main roles in special dramas)

from these 3 drama specials I like Sakasama Shoujo no Tame no Piano Sonata the most, simply because Tama as pianist~! 笑 It's the most interesting from all 3 too. Neet na Kare to Cute na Kanojo is the kind of story I'm not interested to watch, it's okay~ I tend to avoid horror story but since it's Tama, I watched Doko Made mo Tsuitekuru with anxious heart ;_; (it's scarier since it based on true story?)

Seishun Tantei Haruya: Otona no Aku wo Yurusanai! (2015) as Asagi Haruya 💛

didn't enjoy watching this drama, watched it only because Tama's there ;_; one of his (drama) friends there becomes his good friend in real life, lovely~

Raintree no Kuni (2015) as Sakisaka Nobuyuki 💛💛

Tama's first main role in movie!! It's pretty okay~ not the kind of romance I enjoy though. Tama worked hard learning kansai dialect here, he did pretty nice in this movie.

Reverse (2017) as Asami Kosuke

THIS. When I first watched this (was it 2021?) I just finished watching one drama with Tama in it that made me interested in him again. I started watching this before checking casts, I used to see good reviews about this drama and finally watched it after several years. I was surprised to see Tama in this drama, first he looks different!! and then his acting here, I really enjoyed watching him~! his character gave me various feelings and Tama did very well. Heard that he really learned about acting from the director here and it improved him, like a turning point. I really wish Tama gets more chances to do grey/darker roles ; ;

Juuyou Sankounin Tantei (2017) as Maneki Kei 💛

Tama's acting improves gradually year by year but it's more apparent starting from 2017 (reverse drama). Actually I didn't really enjoy this drama, I also not fond of main female character here (again ; ;), but visuals, good~ When watching 2017's dramas of Tama I realized that his acting style is the type of acting I like a lot (the most), subtle and profound acting.

Parallel World Love Story (2019) as Tsuruga Takashi 💛💛

great actors and actress, adapted from a novel by popular mystery author, Higashino Keigo, I feel like this movie can be much more but okay, it still impactful personally because it's Tama's first bed scene >///< really, Tama is great in more complex/darker roles. Tama in this movie is very different with real him, and he did it very well.

--continue to part 2--

[centretrust]

Euphoria show

#Euphoria show series

On Februfans of the show tuned in to watch. Ofer Hayoun as Shuki Samiguara, Tomeriko's religious older brother, tries to convert Mastuli. Euphoria season two came to a sweet and bitter end earlier this year, and we for one haven’t been able to stop the water works ever since.Tawfeek Barhom as Dudu, a 17-year-old Arab teenager and aspiring veterinarian, lives in Kino's apartment building.He shares similarities with Ashtray in the HBO adaptation. Uriel Geta as Tomer Samigura, nicknamed "Tomeriko", a young drug dealer and Orthodox Jew who later murders Yizhar, Ra'anan's killer, and broadcasts it live on the internet.Avi Mazliah as Uriel, nicknamed "Mastuli" (stoned), an openly gay drifter/couch surfer who has left home and moves from place to place, per request takes Noy's virginity and later stays with Shuki who tries to perform conversion therapy on him.Amit Erez as Noy Cohen, a lonely, obese girl who begins having casual sex with men per Elkana's advice and is subsequently diagnosed as having HIV, shares similarities with Kat in the HBO adaption.Roy Nik as Elkana Eldar, Deker's older brother, an IDF defector who spends most of his time having casual sex and giving advice to the others.Tries to get into the pilot course in the IDF. Dolev Mesika as Deker Eldar, nicknamed "Tzehubon" (yellow), a shy boy who uses his knowledge of chemistry and online instructional videos to produce and sell hallucinogenic drugs, in love with Hofit whom he later rapes when she rejects him.Has sex with the house maid and eventually buys a sex doll. Maor Schwitzer as Osher Gimpel, nicknamed "Shamen" (fatty), a self-conscious boy addicted to pornography, experiences impotency as a result.Dekel Adin as Kino, Ra'anan's childhood friend, lives alone while his parents are in Shanghai, has an active imagination and is mostly seen sleeping and in a dream world where he spends his time with Ra'anan in search of "Mirando Al Cielo" in South America.Kosta Kaplan as Raanan, a 16-year-old murdered the year before the events of the series, based on 2004 murder of Ra'anan Levy.Roni Dalumi as Hofit, a teenage drug addict girl and cutter who blames herself for Raanan's death, shares similarities with Rue in the HBO adaptation.

#Euphoria show series

In 2019, Euphoria was adapted into an American television series of the same title, which premiered on HBO on 16 June 2019. Skins has been named as an influence on the creators of the series. Some of the series plot is based on a true story. Adults appear in the series only rarely, and are always filmed at an angle that obscures their faces. The series follows a group of 17-year-olds who spend their time carelessly having sex and taking drugs, with seemingly no parental authority. Dominic Fike says that Elliot will definitely be back, however.Euphoria ( Hebrew: אופוריה, Oforia) is an Israeli teen drama television miniseries created and written by Ron Leshem and directed by Dafna Levin, broadcast on Hot 3 from 30 November 2012 to 1 February 2013. Ferreira was MIA at the season-two red carpet, further stoking the conjecture.Įuphoria has been renewed for a season three, but few details are known beyond that. Ferreira reportedly walked off set on at least two occasions over the direction her character was taking. Rumors of bad blood between Ferreira and showrunner Sam Levinson abounded - rumors that Ferreira denied. “i hope many of you could see yourself in her like i did and that she brought you joy to see her journey into the character she is today.” Kat became a fan favorite in season one of Euphoria, only to take a backseat in season two. “After four years of getting to embody the most special and enigmatic character kat, I’m having to say a very teary eyed goodbye,” she wrote. No longer will fans finish an episode of Euphoria and go “Wait … was Kat in that one?” Posting on Instagram Stories, Barbie Ferreira said that she was saying good-bye to Euphoria and Kat Hernandez.

[merrigel]

AH HEY y’all remember that Six of Crows zine I got into?? Here’s my piece for it!! I’m still really, really pleased with how it came out- I love all these kids so much!!

[i-will-physically-fight-you]

Being Self-Aware with Mental Health

TW: Suicidal Ideation

I think one of the most important things when it comes to mental health is not only being self-aware of why you’re behaving and reacting the way that you are, but also knowing the different ways mental health problems can manifest in people.

For example, last year I was very much in denial that I was dealing with suicidal ideation, because well. I wasn’t trying to actively kill myself. I didn’t want to die.  I wrote Floating With The Sunset and was like “Haha what a very nice fic that absolutely has nothing to do what I’m feeling right now :)”

But there is such a thing as passive suicidal ideation, where you may not actively seek suicide but well. You find yourself fantasizing dying in a car accident. Or the idea that the railing you’re leaning against giving way and causing you to fall to your death. Or, like me, you might just have the irrational feeling that you were going to be dead by a certain date and there was really nothing you could do to stop it.

There’s the little things, the little signs you may be feeling this way.

It’s not taking a shower for days at a time or never getting around to cleaning your room. Telling yourself you’re going to, but never getting around to accomplishing it because it’s so pointless. Everything is pointless.

It’s depriving yourself of sleep for days on end, only sleeping when the exhaustion forces you. You hate sleep, you see it as being pointless when you could be doing other things. Maybe you see it as being something you need to attain after accomplishing something worthy to be able to sleep. You don’t like acknowledging you hate sleep because you wish you could go to sleep and never wake up.

It’s crying over the littlest things, crying for hours on end. Crying feels like all you can do these days, because everything feels so hopeless. Then it’s feeling emotionally numb, incapable of feeling emotions. It’s feeling like a part of your soul is missing, it’s you laughing with friends but feeling like someone else is controlling you.

It’s being unable to do anything, much less the things you love because everything is pointless. The only things you get accomplished are the things you’re terrified of receiving the wrath of others for not doing. Even that barely motivates you to do the thing. Doing the simplest of things takes up so much energy.

And the thing is? I knew what I was experiencing was very bad and I needed to reach out, but I was afraid of it. I was so afraid that I didn’t want to put a label on it, much less reach out and have others treat me differently because of it.

I’m here to tell you, it’s better to be aware of the problem. It’s better to put a name to it, and to start finding ways to combat it. It’s better to express what you’re dealing with to others, even if sometimes they really don’t understand and laugh when you tell them “I literally thought last year that I was going to be dead by May”

And it might not completely dissolve the problem, you might still struggle with it every waking breath, but ignoring a problem doesn’t make things better. It only makes things worse. Ignoring it gives it more power over you. Acknowledging it weakens the power it has over you.

Just even being self-aware of it and being kinder of yourself knowing that you struggle with an issue, is big. If you can do anything, do that.