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I have some unfortunate news.
While it's not confirmed either way yet, it is likely that Season 2 will be Earthspark's final season.
Recent information has shown that he show has been, to put it quite frankly, a flop. By their own fault, Hasbro has only lost money from it. Earthspark was badly marketed, had mediocre toys accompanying it, and was hardly ever advertised-- not to mention the major review-bombing done by transphobes online after their discovery of its queer representation. All of this makes it highly unlikely that Hasbro will even attempt to continue the show after Season 2. (Edit: Check reblogs for clarification.)
I'll keep you updated on any further information.
#>> mod: firefly#i've gotten a lot of messages/asks about this and i'm sorry to not respond to you all#this sucks. it really sucks#it's obvious that earthspark is a project with a lot of passion and work behind it that was seriously constricted by its budget and-#-hasbro just being crappy in general#under better circumstances it could have been great; but its failure is overall a product of corporate greed#okay yeah i'll stop now.#earthspark#transformers earthspark#tf earthspark#tfe#transformers#maccadam
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If nothing else Koenma is a Kuwabara stan and I'm right there with him o7 (I need to write the kuwameshi fic that goes with this fr)
#maybe one day i'll write that au i have sitting in my head#ever since the comment he made about making kuwa spirit detective instead ive been thinking about it#like...what if yusuke is still recruited same as canon but like#kuwa was already spirit detective? doing assignments for the guys upstairs and all#and they made yusuke help him after his resurrection instead of going solo#and it's hilarious because they still have the ''rivalry'' set in place so it's like#now i gotta be coworkers with this guy i was in a fist fight with last week?#yusuke is like you can't be serious you want me to fight DEMONS with the guy who cant even beat ME? lmaooo okay#kuwa would be more in tune with his powers atp in this au and super offended like hello#why would i use my reiki on a FELLOW HUMAN CHILD you DICK i can hold my own on my assignments just fine#but he's actually really excited to be able to spend time with yusuke doing something besides getting his ass handed to him#they're both genkai's students (she's endlessly annoyed but they grow on her)#i just think it'd be fun cos like#it'd be harder to exclude kazuma from shit if he's literally been involved in this shit before he even met#kurama and hiei#kuwabara isn't really told about yusuke's resurrection so things go mostly the same up til he's brought back#they're both called to koenma's office and it's the spiderman pointing meme 💀#it's koenma's first time seeing kuwa in person as he usually just sends assignments with botan#yusuke has already seen him cos of the resurrection arc#and koenma is SUCH a fanboy ''kuwabara it's such a pleasure. you know you're my best worker 🥺''#''um urameshi am i seeing things or is that a fuckin baby'' yusuke will NOT stop laughing#it fucks koenma up so bad he makes sure he's in his adult form when he's around kuwa next#cos he wants to be the respected boss but also guy that you can chill with!! he's so cringe#okay yeah i need to write this it's such a fun concept#kuwameshi#yu yu hakusho#kuwabara kazuma#yusuke urameshi#koenma
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the frenemies of all time
it was so hard to find pictures of them in the same shots 😭 they're in the same scenes all the time but not the same shots- i think it's actually a purposeful choice by the animators to show they're not actually allied, which i think is cool
#i could watch an entire series JUST about these guys#idk they're so interesting#you can argue that their interactions are shallow & not thought out BUT I ARGUE DIFFERENT#they could definitely be developed 👀#rip i couldn't find a photo with reirei and mzingo. tbf the vultures aren't in all the battles#or reirei and ushari#or mzingo and ushari#but its fine#this is making me realise janja is basically the main character of the outlands lol#but yeah. they're so interesting to me#the forced bonding after jasiri's reformation of the outlands would be so funny#can i just say. the shot of mzingo and kiburi is hilarious LMAO#anyway i'll stop rambling now...#ME FORGETTING I WROTE A FIC ABOUT JUST THEM-#okay i'll actually shut up now#the lion guard#tlg#tlg outlanders#tlg leaders#scar's army#janja#mzingo#reirei#ushari#kiburi
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Honestly transformers one deserves a medal for being the first transformers. Thing. In like five years to make me actually like and want to see bumblebee
#God I was. Look okay the market. The transformers market. Is SO oversaturated with bumblebee#Stop making him the protagonist of things please I just want to see ONE new character just one just one new guy#Like he's familiar I get it. The audience knows him. Cute little guy#But also I do not care get him off of my SCREEN#It's not even that I DISLIKE bumblebee. As a character. I liked him in the 80s I liked him in Bumblebee 2018 I liked him in prime#I am just. SO tired of seeing him in EVERYTHING#Bumblebee oversaturation is real and it could happen to you#Anyways tf1 made him fun again. He's quirky. he's silly. He's not an audience surrogate or an inexperienced kid for the adults to teach he'#Literally just some guy. I missed when Bumblebee was just some guy#Also his crippling loneliness and isolation in the dumpster? Yeah man I get it#Also he was funny. Call me a middle schooler but he was FUNNY. I giggled#And even the jokes that didn't land I was never like Oh brother this guy STINKS. And I think that's because the jokes and bee himself never#Overstayed their welcome#So yeah good for them for making me actually like bumblebee again. I genuinely thought it couldn't be done#He's my friend and I like him :)#This is incomprehensible sorry I just really want to share my thoughts on tfone and I haven't had the energy to make any written analysis#And I don't have a car. So I can't watch it in theatres again#Watch in in theatres for me. Please#transformers one#Transformers#Also badassatron was funny I'll die on this hill#Sorry it WAS funny until it became my partner's vocal stim and now they must be SLAIN
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i accidentally conned my way into an autism clinic referral by offhandedly mentioning that i think i might have it to my doctor last week and this is about how the entire interaction felt
#had to stop myself from jumping up and down going YES YES I DID IT IM IN. still have not been sent the actual address to this place btw#i went yeah i might be audhd lol idk it's possible and this lady goes okay ! i'll just refer you to this clinic at our STATE UNIVERSITY#i spent the entire rest of the day like ???? HUH?? anyway i'm on T now#ev.post#autism#neurodivergent
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dontstandmedown replied to this post:
re:tags could you share the playwright you're talking about? :0
No problem! For others, the tags in question are this:
#thinking about this partly because the softer & gentler versions of fanfic discourse keep crossing my dash #and partly because i've written like 30 pages about a playwright i adore who was just not very good at 'original fiction' as we'd define it #both his major works are ... glorified rpf in our context but splendid tragedies in his #and the idea of categorizing /anything/ in that era by originality of conception rather than comedy/tragedy/etc would be buckwild
I am always delighted to share the good news of John Webster! If you're not familiar with him, he was an early seventeenth-century English playwright known for being a slow, painstaking, but reliable writer. He did various collaborations with other playwrights (and acknowledges a bunch of his peers in an author's note to The White Devil, including Jonson and Shakespeare) and wrote some middling plays in various genres that could be more or less termed "original fiction," but he's remembered for two brilliant, bloody tragedies.
The basic premises/plots of both of these were essentially ripped from the headlines of the previous century, and Webster makes zero attempt to conceal that fact.
I couldn't shut up about my guy so more under a cut!
The White Devil is based on the actual murder of Vittoria Accoramboni in the late sixteenth century and the characters in the play are generally given the same or similar names as the real life people in the story as known at the time, so there's no attempt to conceal the play's origins (the anti-heroine/villain???[debatable] is named Vittoria Corombona in the play, for instance).
The original production of The White Devil largely failed, which Webster blamed mainly on bad weather and an audience who just didn't get his ~vision and what he was trying to do. It would not be unsurprising for a contemporary audience to struggle with it given that it's a complicated play in which, among other things, Vittoria is put on trial and rhetorically shreds the underlying misogyny of the entire legal process.
The Duchess of Malfi, generally considered a still greater achievement, is based directly on the murder of Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi by her brothers (it was presumed, likely correctly). Lope de Vega also wrote a play about this tragedy not long before Webster did, though the plays are very different and it's unlikely that Webster would have had the time or linguistic knowledge necessary to read Lope's version. Probably part of the reason for the differences between Lope's and Webster's takes is that Lope had to be careful about the reception by the Catholic Church given that one of the murderers was a cardinal, while obviously an English Protestant like Webster could say whatever he wanted about eeeeevil cardinals.
Webster takes a lot of artistic license, a normal approach at the time to adapting previously-established narratives, but the source material is very recognizable. One of the commendatory verses at the beginning of the play (blurbs in poetic form from other playwrights) is like "I'm sure the real duchess was cool but she couldn't be as cool as Webster's heroine, wow <3". (One of the other commendations is by another fave of mine, John Ford.)
Bosola, the historically mysterious minion of the Duchess's murderous brothers (=Bozolo in the historical narrative) gets an elaborate quasi-redemption arc in the play. And the play is extremely critical of various characters' obsession with and attempts to control the Duchess's sexual behavior (a fixation that is often extremely normalized in early modern British drama, but which comes off really badly here).
Ultimately this obsessiveness leads to her brothers, the Cardinal (=the historical Cardinal Luigi d'Aragona) and Ferdinand (=Carlo d'Aragona) orchestrating her torment and murder in which she emerges with her sanity and integrity intact and dies with dignity. Meanwhile, the Cardinal is exposed as a remorseless villain (he proceeds to murder his mistress with a Bible) and Ferdinand's already-shaky sanity snaps under the realization of what he's done.
Webster's Duchess is often considered the first real female tragic hero in British drama—the tragic is especially significant because tragedy was typically considered a higher art form than comedy and the truly great female characters from that era of drama are often restricted to comedies or secondary roles in tragedy (a marked trend in Shakespeare, for instance). The Duchess in the play is virtuous, strong-willed, witty, and fairly unabashedly sexual in the context of the time, a concept that several hundred years of critics have struggled with. (My favorite OTT complaint is from Martin Sampson, an early 20th century critic who lamented the conspicuous absence of a "strong active man, following righteous things" in Webster's work, to which I say l m a o.)
Anyway, among scholars of early modern British drama, Webster is often considered second only to Shakespeare as a tragedian, on the basis of those two plays. And the modern obsession w/ originality and novelty makes this kind of fascinating, given that his "original" work (in our sense—again, the original vs fanfic dichotomy was not a thing in that cultural context) is sort of meh but his work with pre-existing sources turns them into these staggering dramatic achievements.
#dontstandmedown#respuestas#renaissance blogging#john webster#the white devil#the duchess of malfi#anghraine's meta#ivory tower blogging#gender blogging#long post#i love vittoria and the duchess and also how pissy he is about people complaining about his slow writing#'yeah well that's what mediocre rapid content generators said to EURIPIDES and who do people remember now? THINK ABOUT IT'#okay okay i'll stop with My Guy but. he's pretty cool.
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Continuing on the religion thoughts/rambles
I just think that a really interesting comparison could be made between ghouls and needing to eat human flesh/blood and like communion/the eucharist?? Like hear me out,
You could probably already draw the connection with people having to eat the actual body and blood of christ and ghouls needing to human flesh. There's also the fact that this practice is an actual necessity for ghouls, like they depend on it to live, as it's the only thing they can consume that'll actual sustain them (unlike coffee), which makes it sacred in a way (not to mention ghouls treat humans/human bodies in a special way that doesn't translate to humans, for example donato mentions how they view the head as the "centerpiece" of a meal, and it is a special part of ghoul meals, we see Yomo put his hands together and bow his head before collecting corpses, the way Shuu acts about his gourmet meals sometimes (also reminding me of a line I saw once in a tg fic, "Not the blood of Christ but certainly the blood of someone else"), etc., just the way that (by some at least) it's held in high honor, and it is a sacrifice).
There's also the fact that hunger will drive ghouls to insanity (and cannibalism still slowly eats away at their minds), the only way they can be "saved" from this fate is consuming human flesh
There's this one verse; John 6:53 that has multiple variations but generally goes “Unless you eat my body and drink my blood, there is no life in you" While it can be very symbolic in the context of religion for ghouls it would be very literal, as they have no choice but to consume the body and blood of humans or they slowly and painfully die
Just. Something something comparison between ghouls eating humans and communion, something something corruption of religious ideas because the lives of ghouls and their need to kill and feed off of humans is regarded as a sin/sinful. Does this make sense.
Ummm I was gonna try and fit that in with amoneki but I ran out of thought juice orz. Tbf I think this kind of connection/irony would definitely not be lost to Kaneki, I think he'd have some interesting thoughts on that as well I just forgot where I was going with this :skull:
#txt#tokyo ghoul#tg#amoneki ramblings#well it was intended to be#i was cooking but i fumbled at the last ingredient and now the kitchen is on fire i can't connect the dots i thnk i need to go to sleep#if i go into the religious devotion deep end i think i'm gonna need to be euthanized so i'll stop there#but yeah just something that's been in my brain for Several Days#i feel like i soudn weird when i talk about religious comparison stuff idk idk i'm self concious okay
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Your art looks so yummy and soft it tastes like soft ice-scream with different flavours for each character. GIVE ME MOREEEEEEEEEE
THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPYYY!!! 💙💙💙💙💙
HOW'D YOU KNOW!!!? No one has ever connected those dots for YEARS!!! 👀 See my headline? "With Love Of Every Flavor..." That's something I wrote in my adolescence which I just never bothered to change. It pertains to my posts and how I make them with love (you can cringe), but I also purposely used it to allude to- you literally guessed it- ICE CREAM!!! Which, according to my family, I was infamously obsessed with. STILL super obsessed with actually! (Tho in my defense, the Philippines is hotter than HELL rn.) So yes! I do see my own art as scoops of ice cream. Have been for- again -YEARS! Besides a "space bubble" for introverts -and people who simply love in a different flavor- to feel safe in, that's EXACTLY what I wanted my art to be seen as!!! Which is why I mostly draw sweet things. (Key word: Mostly.) I wanted to convey the giddiness I feel whenever I eat ice cream with my art. So hearing you say that, tho I know naming the taste of an artist's work isn't all that new, really feels like an achievement! THANK YOU!!! ...Okay. Now that you made it this far through my sappy sugar rush induced writing, I know I went off on a tangent, but since ya'll have been really hyping me up lately, how about an update? On my AU? Just a short and sweet reward? Nothing big. Not much lore, but let's saaaaay... it'll beeeee... today? 🫣 Hehe. More, indeed. ^v^ Stay Tuned~! -Bubbly💙
#sorry I got excited#and now I feel embarrassed#but I'm not rewriting that#I like being honest with my writing.#and in all honesty?#I have a HUGE sweet tooth!#Ice cream is my number one of course but I have other favorites#there's carbonated grapes (grape soda)#honey glazed donuts#leche flan#strawberry milk#ice cream CAKE#ube cake#matcha mochi#cookies and cream chocolates#that one sweet I keep forgetting the name of but it's like frozen icing in a crumbly cookie#red velvette cake#polvoron#ensaymada#mango shake#buttery pancakes#and- okay I'm just making myself hungry. I can't list every sweet in existence her unfortunately so#to end it here's something ironic. I don't like strawberries as is#I much prefer blue berries which isn't all that sweet#ANYWAYS! back to your regularly scheduled tags#Spacebubblearts#thanks for the ask!#HHStargazersAU#Asks#-OH SHOOT YEAH! Macarons- Ok ok I'll stop!
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Carlos Alcaraz // "Miniature Disasters" by KT Tunstall
#this song is so him and it drives me insane#every single lyric#I could go on and on about this and about him#but anyways#carlitos you are an incredible tennis player and it is 100% okay to lose sometimes and I hope he knows that#because yeah every time he loses everyone (including him) treats it like a “disaster”#but it's just a miniature lil disaster it's okay!#I'll stop talking now#carlos alcaraz#tennis#video edit
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resignation letter is the most potent painkiller. i love you resignation letter i love you one month notice <3
#tmi but im regular again and literally the only change is because i've been eating enough to shit daily#i was in such a bad headspace these past few months that i could barely bring myself to eat#i'd go to sleep with my work uniform still on and wake up willing myself to get up for 30 mins and then brushing my teeth and going to work#with the same clothes i slept in#i stopped hanging out with my friends. i had nightmares abt my job.#i can only take care of myself on my days' off and i cant grok anything other than shallow entertainment like wrestling#everything else is too much for my brain to handle. i'd simply forget everything i read or play or even listen to#those three months are miserable lmao#its not just my job... its also the family issues i've been dealing with#yknow remember when i said i could have died? yeah that shit was real. fuckin love it when my mom admit my dad have the capacity to be a#family annihilator. but... since my dad have a job to keep him busy and we moved to a house where me and my sister and#my mom and dad get to have our own rooms... and my dad get to live near his old friends and family...#things have been getting better. usually we had a physical fight every two months but it hasnt happened yet and i seem to get on with him#better now. so... i guess im gonna be okay. i've been so tired and trapped#stuck between two places that are both physically and emotionally draining with no reprieve#things are changing. and i find that to be comforting despite how up in the air the future might be. i might be screwed but also? what if#i'll be fine? im at a point where im accepting any drastic changes even if its for the worse#funny how i used to like my job a lot. i guess im not to be comfortable with anything long term#posts about my life
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puella magi rue magica!!!!
#my doodles#oc tag#rue tag#the words in this drawing are from the midi bunny song 'magical girl(s)' which is a very good song you should listen to#this drawing is kinda just a quick thing because ive been tired and boring lately so i havent had much energy to draw and stuff#sorry.. but i'll go back to normal again soon probably. i haven't drawn a magical girl in a while#and i wanted to draw rue as a magical girl for ages now#so yeah :3 the wand shes holding is the cutie moon wand from sailor moon btw#i think rue would enjoy sailor moon. i mean have you ever met a bunny girl that doesn't like sailor moon?#its in their blood. sailor moon is bunny girl territory#okay my cat just started climbing up my shelf so im gonna stop typing tags for this and tell him to stop knocking stuff down ..
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NOW I CAN BREATHE, TURN MY INSIDES OUT, AND SMOTHER ME
WARM AND ALIVE, I'M ALL OVER YOU, WOULD YOU SMOTHER ME?
#I'M UNWELL!!!!!!!!!! I'M UNWELL!!!!!!!!!!!!#i will never stop thinking about zack shoving cloud's face into his open wounds like what the fuck. wjat the fuck. what the fuck.#but okay now i can go over my thought process 😈#so all the middle sections it's Metaphorical blood it's not actually still on his face or his hands it's The Memory of the blood#and the aerith part is referencing the scene in the forest but more specifically a piece of art i saw for it. i'll rb it after this#the fact that aerith puts her hand on the cheek where cloud had zack's blood just fucking 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 my mind yknow#and then the final bit is referencing advent children when sephiroth gives cloud a cut on the same side as zack's scar#so yeah 👍 fucked up world we live in#ff#ff7#ffvii#zack fair#cloud strife#aerith gainsborough#zakkura#clerith#zerith#zack#aerith#i love fucked up and sad zaclerith it's my favorite 👍#hh art
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The Artist at work.
Heaven Sent (2016)
#heaven sent#billy taylor#christian kane#it's great to finally see him get to play an artist#let his inner art historian come out and play#and his scruffy look here in the first half of the movie is the best#the makeover was okay but this look is superior#sorry i don't make the rules#(yeah okay i'll stop giffing this movie now)#ghostly'sgifs
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It always comes back to the same problems. Tale, Fell, Swap, the majority of all my other AUs, Sans feels tremendous amounts of pressure to take care of his brother and tries hard not to let Papyrus know just how difficult it truly is for him, Papyrus can obviously tell anyway, and feels tons of pressure to take more responsibility for himself.
Papyrus is so easily influenced at such a young age, and learns to keep the struggles a secret from Sans, and later on unintentionally doing the same thing Sans did by trying to hide the burden so it wouldn't weigh on his brother.
Maybe the exact why or other circumstances vary but it always ends up that way. Sans thinks he has to do everything on his own and Papyrus just wants to help him, but the only way he knows how is to do the exact thing that only worries Sans more but neither will just talk about it. For one reason or another. They are locked in knowing the other cares, wanting to take care of them, but failing to ever actually do things to better their relationship, only creating more, and more, and more distance.
Because distance is safer than dragging each other down. It takes a very long time to realize they were doing that anyway (if they ever get so lucky).
#okay I have to stop thinking about it or I'm gunna start thinking about VF and then I'll be ill so yeah#it's esp grueling in uf bc edge KNOWS. he KNOWS how much the distance hurts them but no matter how many times he’s tried to close it Sans#keeps him at arms length. pushes him away. bc he’s convinced he’s not gunna make it and Papyrus has to learn how to deal w/o him. bc he#'knows' how useless he is. how much he burdens Papyrus. and he just wants him to stop...CARING so damn much. he sees how much it hurts#Papyrus and it kills him but he knows it would be so much worse if he let him in. he would be the death of both of them and he won't do#that to him. he won't.#FUCK they all make me so emotional bc they care abt each other so much but can't ever figure out how to make it not hurt#okay.#okay. done being a drama queen for now. good evening#sun spots#undertale#underfell#underswap#ut rus#ut sans#us stretch#us blue#uf edge#uf red
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#waiting to start not one but TWO immunosupressants and knowing exactly what date it's going to happen is so weird#because there's a deadline on your immune system now#and i spend most of the time not really thinking about it and then out of nowhere I'll be like#oh yeah#in just under two weeks I won't have my good immune system anymore#i wont be able to rely on it as i always have because it won't be there#and i know Exactly when it's going to happen#it's. in all honestly it feels bizarrely like being at the vets when sobi was put to sleep#it was the right thing to do it was the right time to so it and i knew it was coming#we need to do this so my immune system doesn't keep eating my intestines in its fervour#it's the right thing to do it's the right time to do it it's needed and necessary but I'm grieving all the same#yes okay maybe it's stupid to equate starting immunosuppressants with my pet dying#maybe im being overdramatic about all this#ive had people tell me it probably wont be that bad it'll probably just give me a normal system j shoudl stop stressing about all this#i should stop feeling so sad about all this#and that doesn't help one fucking bit#i do feel sad about this. i feel very sad about this. i am experiencing grief about this#dont tell me to make my emotions smaller#the nurse said i would could as high risk. that i will need to avoid people who even just have colds#this is not a small change. this is me losing something i have relied on for my entire life#something i have taken a stupid pride in for my entire life#and it feels just like being at the vets. gently stroking sobi's head as he died#putting him to sleep. putting my immune system to sleep. telling it did well#it'll come back one day i know (i hope) but for now it has a deadline#crunchy rambles
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#i really thought we were going to be okay#but that letter of disconnection despite explaining that we would pay#and i DID#now they're pissed i haven't paid next month's bill because there's still 'outstanding debt' on the account#yeah i know!! but i've got to pay the mortgage and buy groceries for two weeks.#then i'll pay it!!#the fact we're possibly going to have to move and lose our chickens over $600 is killing me#and the doctor at the er said i need to stop pushing myself but like. i HAVE to. there's no option!#'you're disabled' yeah i know what do you want me to do!!#loyal talks about stuff and things
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