#outside the frame

[just-slightly-chayotic]

Outside the Frame: Chapter 2

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A Popstar!Kim and Social Media Manager!Chay AU.

Relationship: Porchay Pichaya Kittisawat/Kim Khimhant Theerapanyakun

Words: 7136

Chapters: 2/?

Chapter Summary:

Kim goes live on Instagram, accidentally sparks some rumors in the fandom, and Chay causes more chaos (it's Kim's fault this time, really).

Thank you @the-water-nixie for beta reading <3

[ink-mind]

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Last year I was part of Outside The Frame's intensive to write, compose and perform with the Oregon Symphony about the state of our lives, our emotions, affected by homelessness, poverty, abuse, and addiction.

This video is a documentary leading up to the performance. my heart is full for every single person in my group. I met many friends during this time and this intensive is one of the catalysts that pushed me out of a terrifying loop.

Rest in peace to Chris, who passed recently. a friend and a member of this group, and a bright shining fire.

[perplexingly]

My favourite Merrill banter

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Spiritual seekers need one another as mirrors. A member of the Hopi nation once asked me about our holy days. I was telling him about Passover, our celebration of freedom, and Sukkot, our Feast of Tabernacles, and how they fit in with the cycles of the year. "I think I get it," he said finally. "You people don't want to be in slavery. And you want to pass this on to your children. But when you tell your kids on Passover, 'We have to go away from here; we can't stay here because it will cost us our freedom,' your kids will say, 'Yeah, but what are we going to eat?' So you teach them how to bake bread on stones, how to roast a lamb if you are hungry, how to find dandelion greens, and so on. When the kids ask, 'But where will we stay?' you show them how to build a lean-to, so they will have somewhere to live." An Indian perspective on the mitzvot to eat the Passover lamb with matzot and bitter herbs and to build a sukkah on Sukkot gave me a completely different insight into my own traditions.

-Jewish with Feeling, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. 2005, p. 198-199

[wildrbst]

Orv doodle comic time

[morganbritton132]

Someone posts on their Twitter account, “I walked pass this restaurant on my lunch break and there was this gay couple on the patio, oohing and awing into a phone about seeing their little girl. When I walked past them, they were FaceTiming a cat.”

Jonathan replies to this tweet with a picture of Steve and Eddie at a restaurant and he asks, “Was it these idiots or is someone else in the same layer of hell as me?”

They reply, “Yeah, that was them.”

[communistkenobi]

The deeply moralist tone that a lot of discussions about media representation take on here are primarily neoliberal before they are anything else. Like the shouting matches people get into about “purity culture” “pro/anti” etc nonsense (even if I think it’s true that some people have a deeply christian worldview about what art ought to say and represent about the world) are downstream of the basic neoliberal assumption that we can and must educate the public by being consumers in a market. “Bad representation” is often framed as a writer’s/developer’s/director’s/etc’s failure to properly educate their audience, or to educate them the wrong way with bad information about the world (which will compel their audience to act, behave, internalise or otherwise believe these bad representations about some social issue). Likewise, to “consume” or give money to a piece of media with Bad Representation is to legitimate and make stronger these bad representations in the world, an act which will cause more people to believe or internalise bad things about themselves or other people. And at the heart of both of those claims is, again, the assumption that mass public education should be undertaken by artists in a private market, who are responsible for creating moral fables and political allegories that they will instil in their audiences by selling it to them. These conversations often become pure nonsense if you don’t accept that the moral and political education of the world should be directed by like, studio executives or tv actors or authors on twitter. There is no horizon of possibility being imagined beyond purchasing, as an individual consumer in a market, your way into good beliefs about the world, instilled in you by Media Product 

[theblacktiecacti]

FROMTHE TOP ROPE MY PRINCE

[shiftythrifting]

40 isn’t old if you’re a tree - a sentiment I can get behind

Let’s hope grandpa has a small business making stepstools. The stool-esque shape on the sign is a mirror

Man floating in the water has a custom canvas company sticker on the back.

Topical fluoride in a vintage-looking package. I couldn’t find a best by date.

And a white onion, spotted on a support pillar outside the store

Several shops in Boise, ID

[all-seeing-plant]

Happy 10 year anniversary Over The Garden Wall!!

I've loved this series since it came out and just recently happened to rewatch it! so it was perfect timing for me to finally make some fanart for it. also happy late Halloween <3

[just-slightly-chayotic]

Happy birthday (again) to @viva-yas-vegas! I already said it twice today, but let's be honest, I'll probably say it a couple more times. Thank you for always being so lovely and absolutely wonderful <333

So here's chapter 1 of their birthday fic!

Outside the Frame

Pairing: KimChay

Chapters: 1/?

Words: 3631

Summary:

"So, P'Kim." Chay nonchalantly picks at the food on his plate, glancing at Kim from underneath his eyelashes. "What is the new MV going to be about?"

Kim's heart picks up in speed. He wills it to slow down, without success.

"I'm a prince who's been forced into an arranged marriage." Chay's head snaps up at Kim, eyes widening. "But I fall in love with a stablehand instead and we run away together."

He's pretty sure he sees the world implode behind Chay's eyes.

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Kim doesn't need a social media manager. He's doing perfectly fine. Until Chay comes along.

And then... well, he still insists he doesn't need a social media manager. But he does need Chay. (Even if it takes him a while to admit it.)

Thank you @the-water-nixie for beta reading! <3

[wazowatt-blog]

Before the storm.

[remash]

ba-holz house ~ aum | pierre minassian | photos © studio erick saillet

[zaacoy]

Your art gives me so much life, and your hot takes on canon (bc it is, no one can tell me otherwise) freenoodles is just,,,, perfection

They are in love your honor

!! :O Thank you!! :D

Good to know someone found my ramblings amusing and true-ish to canon, and thank youu!!

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Need an acknowledgement after Buddie goes canon of them having had latent or explicit feelings for each other for years. This isn’t a case of “oh, we were best friends for years and then one day we woke up and were in love.” This is a case of “we’ve been best friends for years, and we’ve been falling in love with each other since the day we met. We just didn’t understand it yet.” We’ve already had Buck’s realization that he’s bisexual, but his arc was chock-full of obliviousness to his attraction to Eddie, his feelings for Eddie, whose attention he actually wants. He still doesn’t really get it, but he gets that he likes men too, at least. Eddie is a whole other ball game. From the Catholic guilt to the toxic masculinity to the childhood emotional neglect to the pressure he keeps putting on himself to perform in relationships. He’s repressed as hell, and he isn’t to “I’m gay” yet, but we see hints of him understanding that how he feels might be a little different (his pause at “follow your heart, not Christopher’s” from Carla, his two talks with Bobby, admitting to performance anxiety on dates to the whole team, his talk with Buck about Marisol being an ex-nun, his acceptance that Ana and a ready-made family was the reason for his panic attack).

We know that the two of them are bad at identifying how they really feel, or at least allowing themselves to feel it. So, it makes way more sense for the show to admit that they’ve had romantic feelings for each other for years, rather than trying to convince the audience that what we’ve been watching these past seven seasons isn’t a product of two characters’ struggles with their identity and relationships. And while I’d be satisfied with a light-hearted snark from Hen or Chim about how they’ve been seeing it for years, I’d be so much happier with a full circle moment of the boys actually fully knowing themselves, acknowledging that they were never just best friends, they just didn’t understand it yet. It would show their series-long growth, as well as being an enormous tip of the hat to the audience. Because we aren’t misinterpreting it. We’re reading the queer-coding directly from the show, yes through subtext of course, but also the literal text. There have been so many moments deserving of acknowledgement in this regard, and I would hate for Buddie to go canon without it being clarified that those moments were exactly as queer and/or romantic as we thought.

[kaiserouo]

moderately sized ghost