#okay but also correct me if I'm wrong

[crime-scene-psychic]

It's always funny to me that Jason, Tim, and Damian all have personal beef with Ra's al Ghul and meanwhile, Dick is kinda just like

[beanghostprincess]

A bit tired of people complaining about Sanji's principle of "not hitting women" being misogynistic when it has been clearly stated multiple times that he does not choose it and it's heavily tied to his trauma and admiration for his dad and respect for women and definitely not from seeing women as somehow weaker than him

[iguessitsjustme]

Pit Babe 2 Music Analysis - Tick Tick Tick Tock

I was very happy when this scene won my liveblog poll about which scene people wanted me to do a music analysis about because this is the one I wanted to do the most. My energy levels this week have been…non-existent. But I persist! As always, this is my disclaimer that I am not educated on this topic. I just have a somewhat decent ear and an interest in music. I also have the world’s flimsiest background in music and I do not know a lot. I am also looking at this from a Western lens because I do not have any background in Thai music whatsoever. I also currently do not trust my own ear for some reason and had to call in my older brother for assistance sooooooo take everything that I say with a grain of salt and form your own opinions about everything. Disclaimer done. On to the analysis!

Before I begin the analysis, I actually cut the scene and am putting the video here so everyone can watch it and listen before I do my analysis. As you watch, I want you to think about some questions:

What is the emotion this scene is trying to convey?

How would that emotion change without the music?

What is Charlie’s reaction to overhearing someone?

What noises other than the music were included in this scene and why?

What can the music in this scene tell us about Willy’s character?

Let’s start with the most glaringly obvious thing happening in this 1 minute clip. “Tick tick tick tock.” Even without the soundtrack providing additional tension and suspense, that repetition of “tick tick tick tock” would manage. Typically, when trying to invoke imagery of a clock, people would use the words “tick tock.” The repetition of “tick” is something to pick up on. It’s outside the norm. It is designed to invoke a feeling of anxiety. Which Charlie will already be feeling because of the race. The fact that Willy is seemingly over-repeating the word “tick” in a way that increases Charlie’s anxiety makes me believe that Willy knows that Charlie can hear him. (I believe that for other reasons too but I’m focused solely on sound here.)

Going back to clocks, let’s think about what clocks represent and specifically what they could be representing in this show at this moment in time. Clocks represent time. The passage of time. We learn later that it has been one year since Way’s death. One year since the events and traumas of the last season. One year since we were blessed with Pit Babe season 1. It could represent the time it takes to complete one lap around the racetrack (which circles back to the one year thing because it’s one lap around the sun). I don’t want to go in too deep about the symbolism of time here just that Willy’s ticks and tocks are representing time in some form. 

What’s most interesting to me about this scene isn’t actually Willy’s repetition of “tick tick tick tock,” but rather the little melody he sings to himself afterwards. It’s a cheerful little tune and the second time he does it, it’s even cheerier. This is after Charlie has a reaction to hearing him. Almost as if he knows that Charlie heard and he is enjoying himself. He is knowingly messing with Charlie at this point. This is punctuated by Willy’s giggle at the very end. Almost like a taunt. Charlie is both inexperienced as a racer and as the person with Babe’s Alpha powers. If Babe had been hearing Willy instead, there is a possibility that Babe would have brushed it off completely. Not Charlie though. Charlie’s nerves must already be heightened due to the race. He is already on edge, and now he is hearing something that he knows is out of the norm. This is leading Charlie to question himself. Is he hearing things? Who is he hearing? Why is he hearing something right now before the race? I ask that last question with the assumption that he and Babe have already fucked to help focus Charlie so his powers don’t get out of hand (have I ever mentioned how much I love this show?)

But it’s not just Willy building the tension for Charlie, it’s also the soundtrack itself. This is where I had to phone in a sibling (my brother has a music degree so I trust his judgement here) because I could not for the life of me identify the instrument that was causing the most tension building. I knew it but I didn’t know it. I digress. The instrument that caught my focus entirely was the didgeridoo and clapsticks (that is if I am not mistaken and that is always a possibility). The clapsticks begin the didgeridoo’s entrance as it slowly fades in and overtakes the rhythmic hand drums to establish the tone of the scene. This happens after each of Willy’s “tick tick tick tocks” lending importance to both aspects of the music. When Willy is speaking, it is given importance and the didgeridoo is silent, and when he is not, the long drone of the didgeridoo builds and maintains the tension that Willy has already established. The didgeridoo gets slowly louder and consumes the music. Consumes the rhythm of the drums. The only thing that isn't consumed by the music is the revving of the engines. They built the tension with the music and now they are telling us what to be nervous about with the sounds of engines. Now the audience is questioning the same things as Charlie. Who is this? Why is Charlie hearing him? What is going to happen during this race? Despite it being the first episode, the audience can expect that this race will not be straightforward for our boys on the X Hunter team. 

And just a little side note, I did the tiniest (and I mean tiniest) bit of research on didgeridoos and it seems as though they are traditionally only played by men with women not allowed to play them. That makes its usage here very interesting to me because of the definite lack of female characters in the first season and the addition of only one woman so far in the second season. I am not making any sort of judgement on that here, simply pointing it out.

Whether or not Willy is an alpha with a special power or not, before the race begins, we can anticipate the team will struggle because of Willy. (And if Willy doesn’t have a special power, he is a damn fine racer and also knows how to use Charlie/Babe’s powers against them. 

I have not written all of my thoughts about this scene (I simply have not been well these past few days and have had to focus my energy elsewhere) but this is already very long. This is just about less than one minute of one scene. This is barely scratching the surface of my thoughts about Willy and Charlie and what will happen and what this music and this soundtrack means. Soundtracks help set the overall tone for not just individual scenes, but for the show itself. And the soundtrack for the first episode was phenomenal. This is just one piece of the soundtrack that fits in beautifully with the overall score.

[gideonisms]

Does a podcast ever release a take you disagree with so strongly it makes you question everything you heard on it up to that point

[vermillioncrown]

(sprawling canon and media + the typical fucko urge to be correct online) * never introspecting ever = toxic, salty fandom that only specialized bacteria and flamingos can tolerate

[r0semultiverse]

Before we start not reading, not researching, & jumping to conclusions via reblogs & things with the speed per capital society we live in, where is it sourced specifically (that isn't a tumblr post or a tiktok without citations) that the Trevor Project is in support of KOSA?

We have sources for GLAAD, GLSEN, and PFLAG (August 24, 2023), but I wanna know where the rest of this info comes from. Pretty convenient to say that an organization known for helping trans youth is in support of a shitty bill amidst all the ongoing chaos, especially when we live in an age of misinformation.

If anyone could link it to me, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Update: Okay so yeah this is kinda suspect, The Trevor Project in July 25, 2022 is all for KOSA here.

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Will yall help me ease the autism for a moment bc I was looking at 2 cars and am very settled on the first one but in the back of my mind I'm like. the other car will be so sad if I don't also transfer it in to test drive it

[jonathanrook]

me: hey guys i got some new world building :) y'all: cool are you gonna tell us about what something looks like you haven't done that in a while me, who has no mind's eye: polyomegy :)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

another specific scenario nice & simple like winston "isn't allowed to have a 'correct' cishet(tm) gender n sexuality anyways" "keeps immediately latching on to the nonbinariest people around him" billions goes yolo mode after going [just endlessly weather it at the sunk cost factory] firmly established itself as a shitshow and decides like i'm gonna hook up with a guy fr (has not already happened, in this specific scenario) and then does so, congrats to him. however, with all the precedent in the world, it's like here's your big anxiety about any autodidactic sex ed beforehand. here's your big anxiety about just general surveillance & malicious handling of it afterwards. no way anyone could have completely founded hangups about everything even further just indefinitely now. bonus points though he still goes to math meetup has real math friends over there who have Really provided the [yeah it's not actually a popularity contest here] arena & he's known them for years & let's say has at least One amicable person who talks with him out of it, maybe even two. congrats to him canonly for getting out of there, sure hurt him as much as they possibly could on his way out though, was legitimately the goal

[daybreakrising]

starter call | @shameofice

He's still getting used to the presence of new faces within Inazuma: he's wary with each stranger he meets, still adjusting to life after the war against the Shogunate came to an end, still trying to find a rhythm in the world now that he is no longer required to lead troops in battle. It's a relief, of course - war is exhausting, and he has lost too many friends in the recent months and years - but it is difficult to find ways to fill his days. For so long, his hours were spent talking strategy, establishing camps and guard posts, managing resources... were there always this many hours in a day?

He wanders the outskirts of Inazuma City - a walk always helps him relax when his mind is too busy. When he catches a whiff of a familiar scent in the air, he stops in his tracks. It's faint, not quite what he's used to, but it has traces of something he knows is not all that common, particularly in more populated areas.

Oni. He knows the scent thanks to his dealings with Itto. It's unmistakable to him. He turns, sharply, seeking the source. There are few people around, so it doesn't take his keen nose long to direct him to a woman nearby, with pale hair and... are those horns? The scent is weak, nowhere near as strong as Itto's - is she masking it, he wonders, or is there something he's missing? Now he's curious. Curious enough to approach her.

"Oh, h-hello!" He's not seen her before, but he also hasn't been to Inazuma City for a long time. He can't possibly know everyone. "Ah... it's a nice day for a walk, isn't it?"

Why is he always so awkward?

[earlgreytea68]

Okay. It's time for an AI rant.

My nephew is 13 years old. Whenever he writes a paper for school, I check it over and fix all of his mistakes for him. He said to me, "Maybe I'll proofread your paper for you in exchange," meaning one of the scholarly articles I write for work. I said, "Cool," and gave him the file. And he said, "Well, this is full of errors! See, you always say you have a lot to correct on my stuff, and look at all the stuff you got wrong!" And I said, surprised, "What? Where?" Because I'm sure there are typos in the draft I sent him, but not, like, that many.

And then he pointed to the screen and said, "Look at all the blue and red lines you have."

And I said, "Yeah, but those are wrong. Like, those are blue and red lines I'm ignoring because the computer is wrong." And then I paused and added, "You know you can't proofread a paper by just looking at the red and blue lines, right?" And he gave me the blankest look, because that clearly is EXACTLY what he thinks. And it became even clearer suddenly why, whenever I correct something on his paper, his immediate reaction is, "It didn't have a blue or red line."

There's a very good reason for that: THAT'S BECAUSE THE COMPUTER ISN'T SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT IT WAS WRONG.

I am so tired of being sold the idea that computers are better than humans and so we should just outsource everything to them, which is clearly the lesson my nephew is absorbing in U.S. middle school. COMPUTERS ARE NOT BETTER THAN HUMANS. Like, maybe they are better at humans at crawling through rubble to find people trapped inside. They are also better at preserving things in a searchable format. Things like that. Very limited circumstances.

I don't want to sound alarmist but everything I hear about people using generative AI freaks me out. It's not just that I'm freaked out by people being like, "I use it to write novels!" (Although I don't see how they do, I have tried to have it write fiction for me and the output was truly terrible.) But I recognize my bias around creative writing and so no one needs to credit my views on artificial writing. But! Other things are alarming, too! "I use it to brainstorm x, y, or z." But...why? Why not just...use your own brain...to...brain...storm? The computer doesn't even have a brain to brainstorm with! And you might be like, "But it comes up with things that my brain would never think of!" So would other people! You could also brainstorm with other people! Or even through Google to see what other people have thought before you (not AI). Please don't belittle the wonder of thinking.

I just feel like the marketing around generative AI boils down to "Wouldn't it be easier not to use your own brain to think about things?" Everyone. No. It would not be. Please just trust me on this. I'm not just an old person who is out of touch with technology or something. I promise. USE YOUR BRAINS. IT WILL BE OKAY.

[beanghostprincess]

I finished S2 of Link Click and what the fuck (more on the tags for spoilers)

[floripire]

i won't give up on them.

deep conversations › @rachelambre

rachel's voice reaches her ears and floribeth pauses episode one of the first (and maybe only?) season of fallen. the 2024 tv show version, not the 2016 movie.

(at this rate, she's never finishing those eight episodes.)

"rachel, no one is asking you to give up on chloe or nathan prescott, just like the fellowship---" which is floribeth's name for the super squad, aka the more popular kids. "---isn't giving up on hope."

the latter gets his last name attached, because there's another nathan running around the hallways of the school. a vampire that fancies himself an intrepid reporter, always asking the other vampires how, why and when they turned. quite annoying, really.

"but i am sorry that you've been put through your paces in the therapy box. that shit is never fun." the last time she went in, she had to watch a version of hope - sans humanity - mercilessly rip out jed's heart, licking the blood off of her fingers as she did so.

(now, she's ill at ease if she can't feel the thrum of his strong heart beneath her palm; now she can't sleep if she's not nestled against him, one ear on his chest so the steady beat of his heart can lull her to sleep.)

with a heavy sigh, floribeth downs her luke-warm tea like a shot of alcohol, grabs her phone, unlocks it only to jot down a number in her notes app. 09:13, right underneath the words 'fallen, episode 1, s1, 2024'.

"and speaking of shit that isn't fun, let me guess..." with a few clicks, her laptop goes goes dark. "...they send you to get me 'cause it's time for loren, mia and i to be put through the wringer once more?"

she rolls her eyes as she makes her way to rachel's side and falls into step beside her as they journey back downstairs, towards the gym: "i keep telling them, the therapy box is made of magical wood and runs on a magical algorithm. it's pretty much a take on a chambre de chasse except all emotions and psychological concerns are transferred inside the box, instead of the astral plane, to form a shared narrative. but it's only that. a narrative. a story. it's basically a choose your own adventure game with fixed paths. i love games, i do, but even i can recognize when it's time to stop playing and to get serious."

[jimingyue]

Cat Tumblr Dashboard Simulator

🖋️ meowful-musings Follow

🕊️ birdwatching Follow

what's wrong with dry food??? my humans feed me it all the time and i think it's fine

💀 elusivehider-deactivated948204

op wheres the natural feeding option

🌲 outdoorsy Follow

you guys are getting fed?

#im a barn cat so maybe im missing something here #meowtthew don't look

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☀️ pawsitive-affurmations Follow

ITS OKAY TO BE A MOGGIE

ITS OKAY TO BE A MOGGIE

YOU ARE NOT LESS VALID IF YOU ARE NOT A SPECIFIC PEDIGREE!!!!!

☀️ pawsitive-affurmations Follow

extra special shout out to cats who have "common" coat colors. grey tabbies and black cats i am rubbing against your head affectionately <3

🪤 m0usetrap01 Follow

as a grey tabby i really needed to hear this :"3

#i feel like i never see positivity posts for moggies even tho we're the most common type of cat....

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🎵 rage-against-the-meowchine Follow

i cant believe there are cats ACTUALLY advocating for kittens to be separated from their mothers before 12 weeks??? kittens still need to learn how to interact with other cats before being placed into their furever home omg you guys know you're advocating for undersocialized and aggressive cats right

��️ loving-paws284 Follow

um op some of us??? matured early??????? i was separated from my mother at 7 weeks and i turned out fine... interesting how you assume that kittens being separated from their mothers at a younger age will lead to the degeneracy of the next generation...hmm i wonder where i've heard that before...

🐈 fluffy-the-cat Follow

OP got bit too hard during a play-fight as a kitten and it shows XD

🐟 tunafeesh Follow

also op have you ever considered that just because somecat is kind of scared and unable to deal with strange cats or humans, it doesn't mean they don't deserve to be adopted?? you sound like a vet psyop honestly

🎵 rage-against-the-meowchine Follow

oh meow god saying that kittens should be fully weaned before leaving their mother is NOT veterinarian rhetoric and i never said that they deserve to be euthanized!!! my mother literally died when i was 3 weeks old and it seriously messed up my development so stop putting words in my mouth, thanks

anyway friendly reminder that underweaned kittens are prone to illness and often struggle with basic cat behaviors like litterbox usage, and in some nyavinces it's even considered kitten abuse

#discourse #cant believe "kitten abuse is bad" is controversial now

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🍃 naturalliving Follow

BORN TO DIE

WORLD IS A FUCK

猫神 Kill Em All 1989

I am trash cat

410,757,864,530 DEAD BIRDS

#outdoorliving #outdoorcats please interact #outdoorcat friendly

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🎣 salmonpurina Follow

can't believe cats are uncritically reblogging that born to die world is a fuck post. i know it's funny but op is literally an outdoor cat truther

#like cmon now you just have to go to their blog #lulu speaks

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💀 tabbystripes-deactivated098712

gentle reminder that pushing cups off the table is not cute and can cause a lot of distress in your human!!!! gentle reminder that our teeth and claws can easily hurt them more than they can hurt us!!!!

🐰 evil-tabbystripes Follow

evil reminder that the cup should always be pushed off the table. evil reminder that you should always bite and claw at your human no matter what. you can do whatever you want forever

💀 tabbystripes-deactivated098712

make your own pawst

💀 laser-point-deactivated8574721

umm i know a tomcat who did that and his human ended up putting him down so...

👬🏻 nyasunaruenjoyer Follow

Nyaverage shelter cat behavior

#not nyaruto #re-nyab #pickles shut up

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🌈 nyaoi-warrior Follow

saw two male cats sleeping together on the porch today. homeow behavior imo

💡 discourse-meows Follow

hey um what the fuck??? it's really not okay of you to go assuming other cat's sexualities, especially cats you don't even know???? as a queer cat i'm VERYY uncomfortable. real-ass cats didn't consent to your nyaoi fetish, thanks

🌈 nyaoi-warrior Follow

1. i was making. a joak

2. i'm literally gay???

#literally what's your pawblem

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🎩 amazingcatshow12 Follow

reblog if you've ever caught the laser pointer

🎩 amazingcatshow12 Follow

i know you fuckers are lying

🍭 gaykittens Follow

this tom hasn't caught the laser pointer

🎩 amazingcatshow12 Follow

shut the heull up

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🐾 b-e-a-n-t-o-e-s Follow

grey toebeans >>>>>>>>> pink toebeans and don't let the haters make you believe otherwise

🐁 ladymouser Follow

op shut the fuck up ALL toebeans are beautiful!!! just bc you're miserable and insecure doesn't mean you can bring others down based on things they can't control

🐾 b-e-a-n-t-o-e-s Follow

oh so the cat-human separationist wants to preach to us

[digi-diareis]

"We need to talk" Prank

with the LaDS love interests, implied that the LI's are already in a relationship w you

Xavier

Oh he's pulling out the puppy dog eyes immediately, lower lip jutting out and ready to start crying.

"I'm sorry." "What? Do you even know what you're apologizing for? Also, why are you apologizing?"

This guy is ready to admit to any and all the faults he's made the past week, from cooking without permission, eating her secret stash of snacks, forgetting to feed the cat on time, etc.

"Please don't break up with me, please please please please-" "Xavi, baby, calm down, I'm not breaking up with you"

Anyways, the prank doesn't even last a minute because you break the moment he pulls out the kicked puppy look and he starts begging for you.

You guys end up cuddling the entire day because he won't stop sulking and being worried that you're tired of him so you can't really leave him alone because this is your fault.

We love a loser like Xavi <3

Rafayel

Dramatic ass man and pranks like these are like perfect tiktok material.

"Oh, you are NOT breaking up with me. I don't give you permission to." "I don't recall breaking up having to need permission from both parties." "Well, now you know."

Anyways, you're both just bickering over stupid shit now. You've strayed from the "we need to talk" to now pointing fingers at who's the bigger drama queen between the two of you.

Zayne

Oh sweet summer child, takes you very seriously.

"What is it, love? Did I do something to upset you?"

Oh, you just know how guilty you'll end up feeling when you keep up with the prank. You last a solid 3 sentences before you slowly turn quiet because he's listening so patiently and looks like he's truly reflecting on everything you've said.

"Okay, I'm sorry it was a stupid prank but I can't stand looking at you this guilty. You've been nothing but an absolute sweetheart, I could never ask for more."

Zayne sighs, relieved that it wasn't actually something major.

"Please, try not to do pranks like these again. I love you but the way my heart dropped when you said those words is not healthy."

You give him a big hug and lots of smooches to make it up to him, vowing never to do pranks like these on him again.

Sylus

Oh, you are looking forward to this. There's a power trip of sorts when you remember how much power you actually hold over this man. And this is perfect.

Some say this might be a red flag of yours but you're dating a wholeass criminal big boss so it's not really that big of a deal.

When you start the prank, he raises an eyebrow. Feeling like it might be a prank since he did spoil you and didn't do anything to piss you off recently.

"And what is it this time, sweetheart?"

Okay ngl, I think this prank goes way too far because he would correct / contradict / defend every single reason and excuse you come up with. That it just becomes a wholeass debate of whether you even have an actual reason to be unsatisfied with your relationship.

At the end of it all, you are breathless and out of excuses. So you just glare at him. Sylus simply smirks knowing he won this 'argument'.

"I'll get you someday, look forward to the day that you're begging for me on your knees." "Oh sweetheart, I'd get on my knees for you anytime, if you just asked."

Caleb

You feel like this might be the worst idea you've ever had, knowing full well how possessive Caleb can get but anything for the gram or whatever the kids say.

"Say that again, buttercup? I think I misheard you."

Oh, the way his voice dropped an entire octave got you both nervous and also maybe turned on?

You try to be strong and push through, repeating what you said.

"Sure, we can talk. Did I do something wrong? Did I upset you? Did you find out about the hidden cameras? Is it the new guy at work, did he give you any ideas? I knew I shouldn't have stopped at a few broken ribs-" "CALEB WHAT THE FUCK"

Prank is forgotten, you are now giving him an hour long sermon about hidden cameras and not beating up every man who has any interaction with you.

What you say is definitely passing through the other ear for him, he's just pleased he managed to distract you from the original topic. Its better that you feel responsible for correcting him and being stuck with him rather than you getting sick and tired of him.

Caleb - 1 : You - 0

(i tried my best but i feel like these are very ooc aaaaaaa)

[creep3r-chan]

Ah ah!!! Hello hello Smal!!! You may have a edition edition condition known as APHANTASIA!! This makes it nearly impossible for people (YOU) to imagine images, including faces! It's not a bad thing, no no, and it's perfectly normal! (IMPORTANT NOTE: I AM NOT A PROFESSIONAL DOCTOR, PLEASE GO SEE AN ACTUAL LICENSED PROFESSIONAL IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS)

art time!!! pinposting time!1!11!1!!11

i headcanon that pin cannot internally visualize what her own face looks like.

because i dont know if this is a normal thing among others or not, but i cant internally visualize what my own face looks like..,.. ‼️

i look into a mirror, and then within fibe seconds of looking away i forget again,.,.. bleaurghhh

i think this stems from that long period of time when i was deathly afraid of looking at myself and never looked in mirrors ever.,.,...,. (SSSIDE NOTE IM A-OKAY NOW /GEN) im SUPER DUPER EXTRA SURE WITH SPRINKLES that pin had a same episode, especially in the hit trauma season bfdia!1!1!1!!111!1!!!1!1!!1!!!!

(i still have a love-hate relationship with mirrors, anyway 💔)