#really not feeling it anymore

[fastman27]

Aptrill Day 27: Black Rosy-Finch.

[madootles]

chill out season 2 jon... it's all in your head...

[thisdudedoesntexist]

Danny doesn't know he's the Ghost King, or that he's scaring the shit out of other people.

So, Danny and Jazz moved to Gotham for a new start in their life and un-life ( ignore that he and Jazz are rather young to be moving across the country, ignore that his parents died saving them from the GIW ). They've got an "ok" apartment, and a job at this cute little flower shop run by an eccentric "possibly former supervillains" lesbian couple.

He's even making friends with the ghosts. Like Richard and Mary Grayson (trapeze incident) who are teaching him to fight like a human, if Danny didn't know better he'd think they were stalking those vigilantes. or Dr. Hamish (killer clown?) who's helping Jazz with her studies.

Apparently some time before they met Danny they were just shades who couldn't even manifest, weird. There's also the weirdly active shades telling him where all the good spots to watch the city are and how to find the cheapest prices at stores.

Nobody knows what's wrong with this creepy kid. Every time some mugger even looks in the scrawny boy's direction their loved ones show up and yell at them until the kid's down the street.

Batman tried to investigate the potential meta until he saw his parents waving in a nearby window. Danny's neighbor swares his grandma is haunting him and Danny for some reason, and any time the Joker goes within a city block of ivy and Harley's flower shop/home he becomes blind and deaf by the sheer number of his "volunteers" telling him to die.

[arcade-confetti]

Being someone who read Under The Red Hood and came out with the firm belief that, for Jason, it's not about killing Joker, it's about Jason wanting proof Batman would choose him over the Joker (bc shelia chose the joker). Makes seeing any other media where it's all about just wanting the Joker dead is a teeny bit frustrating. to be honest

Jason could've killed the Joker himself, really, really easily. Jason kidnaps the Joker before the confrontation. I can't open my comic for a reference right now, but it felt like he had the Joker for quite a bit before the confrontation. He had him. He beat him up with a crowbar. He had every single opportunity to kill the Joker himself, but he didn't because that wasn't his goal. Make no mistake, he did plan for the Joker to be dead by the end of it, but do you see what im trying to say here

Edit: If I knew this post was gonna get 1000+ notes I would've tried to word it better or something, this was a rant I made on the way to the grocery store 😭

It's not about making Batman kill either. When Batman says he won't kill, Jason adjusts and goes, 'Let ME kill the Joker or kill me to stop me' instead. The test is all about Batman choosing him. The whole final confrontation is Jason's first death again. The parent, The Joker, and the explosives. It even ends with Jason unable to move as a bomb goes off right next to him again because the parent didn't choose Jason. And instead tried finding an option that'd benefit them and (consequencely) letting the Joker walk, again, lol, lmao <-in agony

[finnoky]

Hey Owl House nation how we feelin

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Learning to celebrate the little wins!

[mohntilyet]

caterina's datamined character description calling her korean-italian and early lucanis designs having him look east asian . i'll just do everything myself i guess

assorted thoughts: caterina is fully 'korean' or whatever the thedas equivalent would be in this design, and clawed her way to the top of the crow food chain after years of work. their armor is something caterina forcibly incorporated to distinguish house dellamorte from the other crows, and a symbol of their status because they get it custom made or imported. of course race-equivalents do not really exist in thedas or this world but i also will never forget how gaider just implied (east) asian people don't exist in thedas because it just so happens that there are no asians on the continent of thedas (guy who forgot about boats) . explode and die. there's not the same kind of discrimination as exists irl ofc (and the dellamortes are actually treated fine, much better than a mage or elf) but a level of xenophobia against foreigners from a different continent. illario looks the least like her, and passes for being fully antivan, which changes how he is recieved by the other crows.

and sorry if the korean is bad please actually let me know if it's horribly translated i relied on google translate . if you are one of ten asian dragon age fans feel free to talk to me at any given moment.

[whoreiorcats]

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Pokemon AU my absolute beloved 🙏🙏

(Translation for Ford's cursive/complete image description in the ALT text ❤️)

Made a companion piece to this!! See it here ❤️

[ratbuchet]

can you draw another koishi please pls u drew her cutely in the wilson drawing can you draw another koishi please pls u drew her cutely in the wilson drawing plssss

i dont have a lot of free time for drawing recently but i can give you a couple of pixel paintings i made last year! thank you for enjoying my koishi- wait who what was i talking abt huh that was weird

[lazylittledragon]

Wanna say I LOVE how you draw young Vic's hair, HE'S SO GENDER (as a non-binary person specifically) Do you happen to have crisper pics of him? (Potentially for when I get my hair cut again)

HE REALLY IS also of course i do <3

[bogos-bint3d]

IF YOU EVEN CARE

[svtskneecaps]

FUCK IT!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD CULTURAL EXCHANGE IN THEM!!!! I MISS WHEN MY MINECRAFT SERVERS HAD LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN THEM!!!!! I MISS WHEN WE WERE ALL CRAMMED IN A PIT TOGETHER SCREAMING AND SHAKING AND SOBBING AND CONFUSED AS ALL HELL SITTING IN THE TUMBLR LIVEBLOGS HOLDING HANDS AS WE ALL EXPLAINED WHAT THINGS MEANT, WHAT THE REAL WORLD CULTURAL CONTEXT WAS, WHAT WAS GOING ON IN BITS THE TRANSLATOR COULDN'T GET!!!!! FUCK IT!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE ANOTHER GODDAMN PURGATORY!!!!! GIVE ME A BUNCH OF PEOPLE FORMING SIX PERSON FAMILIES OVER THE SPAN OF THREE TO FIVE DAYS!!!!!!!! GIVE ME THE EVIL SHADOW GOVERNMENT THAT NEVER MADE ANY GODDAMN SENSE, GIVE ME THE STUPID FUCKING EYE WORKERS THAT WERE AGGRAVATINGLY UNBEATABLE, GIVE ME THE CONFUSING ASS BLACK CONCRETE STRUCTURES THAT WENT BASICALLY FUCKING NOWHERE!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT ALL IF IT MEANS I GET A FRENCH MAN AND A GUY FROM LUXEMBOURG AND A WOMAN FROM SOUTH KOREA SHOOTING THE SHIT IN A MINECRAFT PIT STARTER HOUSE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! I'LL TAKE IT IF I GET BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE AND FRENCH AND ENGLISH AND SPANISH SITTING AT A FUCKING TABLE IN A SECRET UNDERGROUND MEETING ROOM THEORIZING ABOUT A MINECRAFT CHARACTER WITH AN APPEARANCE BASED ON A JOKE ABOUT A GUY'S DOG BEING AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!! GIVE IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sunnykeysmash]

so. MY THOUGHTS ABOUT PRIME TIME:

sorry this is gonna feel scattered and rambly because i dont feel like making a proper post having screenshots and whatever, i trust you guys remember the things i talk about anyway. feel free to disagree, I don't really care

The audience. the episode does NOT characterize them as biased in any capacity. they are a focus group, they are fully NEUTRAL and have absolutely no stakes in lying or misrepresenting things. yes, they are supposed to comment on US, the audience (duh), but the episode isn't saying they are wrong. at any point. they are strangers and outsiders to the gang, all of their comments are just them saying things HOW THEY SEE THEM. they are calling dennis' speech scary because it was scary, he made himself scary to play into his facade, that is what he does, he has always done this, that is his implication, the real breakthrough is the fact he couldn't keep it up. the audience (and us) sees it as frightening because the show is PORTRAYING it that way. and the audience keeps insisting on how the mac and dennis situation is gay and calling them boyfriends because they are commenting what is being shown to them.

Dennis is not being genuine for the majority of the episode. he is trying to steer the gang to be less like themselves, he is trying to do a thing "without comedy". he is trying to paint himself as things that HE IS NOT. youthful, for one. he is implied to be wearing a wig. he insists that he is classy (when he is not, and this has been a throughline for the whole season). his life experience is anything but classy, AND THIS APPLIES TO SUNNY. this is about sunny. sunny is not classy.

when dennis is having his speech, he is not asking the audience to see the real him, it is literally the opposite. he is BEGGING them to see him for what HE wants to be perceived as. classy, young, straight. all things he is not.

you are not supposed to take his speech at face value, I really do not think RCG is trying to say something so insanely deep here (shocker coming from me, I know), or they would not have mentioned the macdennis situation upwards of 10 times in the episode. what I mean by this is, what he is insisting to be perceived as is all a big fat LIE!

it's not that dennis doesn't want to be labeled, he clearly does. he said so: im straight, im classy, im young.

he is arguing the same thing he was during the sandwich speech in season 15 to mac (and PLEASE go rewatch that if you haven't in a while), which is that your ACTIONS do not define your identity.

and I'm sorry, but that's just not how things work. dennis is not Right in that speech, and he isn't supposed to be read as right either, as EVIDENCED by what dee tells them immediately after

when dennis says "Identity doesn't have to factor into absolutely every decision you make." at face value it is a true statement, like sure, don't act like a stereotype (something mac is known to do), but dennis is using this logic to justify the EXTREME OPPOSITE. ignoring absolutely everything about his life that doesn't align with how he sees himself.

which is... literally what mac did prior to coming out?

he has obviously been heavily traumatized by being perceived in a way that he feels is humiliating (it is), but that doesn't mean it didn't happen or "doesn't represent him". you are represented by the entirety of your life experiences and choices, you cannot pick and choose? either way, dennis only wanted so bad to be perceived in that (INACCURATE) way because of the fear of appearing on tv once again and reliving that painful experience, and so, he tries to hold control of the situation. obviously, one single humiliating incident ISN'T DEFINING to your entire person... but dennis feels that it is, so he is fighting tooth and nail against it at every turn.

anyway, to bring the thoughts back to were I wanted them to go, I don't see why any of this should negate what the episode is obviously saying about macdennis.

"maybe america is ready for us" is an actual callback to the gang gets romantic. and its meta cannot be misconstrued in a way that fits with dennis' character in any capacity. it is a line meant for us to dissect and consider. just as the final dialogue about how frank "went woke and didn't go broke".

I really, really, really, REALLY do not think dennis is denying the macdennis situation because it's not true. if that was the case, the entire episode just wouldn't have been written.

the macdennis situation is included as the FIRST part of the speech (arguably the most relevant, I don't know why we are trying to remove it from the overall context) and is followed by all the other things dennis wants to be perceived as, BUT ISN'T. HE ISN'T CLASSY, YOUTHFUL ETC, and in the same vein, the entire first part is a lie as well, that he is desperately trying to tell the audience by also doubling down with his scary facade, hoping it will be convincing. he can't even get through his entire speech without crying. THAT'S the real dennis behind the mask of needing to seem perfect.

I mean, for fucks sake, this is the same series where one season ago dennis used anal beads on mac. he has a system for men.

dennis doesn't feel understood or listened to by the gang and especially by mac (shown yes in tends bar but also very much in inflates) but him trying to appeal to middle america in this episode was not him trying to be genuine. that was him doubling down on the facade.

which crumbled in the end, and at the end the gang finally knows how Dennis felt during the family fight moment (and they actually see that he has feelings! wow! I don't know if this will stick but that's huge to me!). dennis isn't this emotionless scary villain (he isn't a good person either), but he also isn't normal, and definitely not more normal than the rest of the gang. makes me think of misses the boat. he Likes to think he's the only normal one and they're a bunch of freaks dragging him down. this new ep showed clear as day that the audience actually really LIKED what the gang had going on before he tried to micromanage them.

which btw is the same throughline as big mo. it follows almost the same emotional structure for dennis (only instead of giving up, he crumbles). he wants to rise in the leaderboard and he is getting everyone else down by doing this. because he is not having fun.

so... ok, I don't know if I have more to say, or if the thoughts made sense, but that's how I feel. I do not like how much I've seen the obvious macdennis commentary be dismissed as being "in the way" of dennis' character. I'm sorry, to me, it is an INEXTRICABLE part of dennis' character. in fact, if you try to look at the areas in which he is in denial about, his living situation with mac is THE first thing that becomes apparent. and he is very much in denial of that, as he tried to argue in this same episode that they might not live together forever and he's gonna look for another apartment and "find the one" (also goes to hell, "our house? why is it our house?" gee, I don't know). he has tried many times, and it has always failed. because the reality of the situation is that he lives with mac, and he's always going to.

also... "palling around platonically in the bedroom"... how much more obvious can it be? just because dennis doesn't like to acknowledge parts of his life (and not just about the nature of his relationship with mac. but like, everything else too. PTSDee...) doesn't mean they didn't happen. doesn't mean he can just choose to define them incorrectly and then move past them.

the audience is going to see through that.

...for the most part.

his facade isn't working anymore, but when dennis talks to US directly, he is begging for it to work. he is doing all he can. the show is making it look scary. so the audience takes the bait. this always happens. this has happened so many times I've lost count.

in this one instance, we need to see through the cracks, through the "scary" and through what he is saying, into WHY he is saying it and what that means. he is not saying true things, but he is speaking in an increasingly emotionally honest way. and then eventually he just says it. "there is this other show". he actually explains his motivation.

and even if the audience doesn't get it and gets fooled by it as it ALWAYS DOES, the gang seems to have been receptive to it...

and in the end it didn't even matter, because there was never any camera, there was never any episode, there was no frank, they have all been replaced and it doesn't matter. dennis was bending himself over backwards to appeal to the focus group for an episode that never ended up existing for him. and this is what he has been doing on sunny for years. this is the Thundergun 4 of it. the FEAR OF THE AUDIENCE, the trying to change the media to appeal to a broader audience, the flyover states. the "bad reviews" from gets romantic. the jumper. woman's right to chop (and all of Season 14, actually). the expectations not being met.

that's why the emphasis on "pulling this off".

please, I am begging, do not leave out this part of the episode commentary. don't try to dismiss the actual meta they're trying to do about macdennis here.

the episode ends with "he went woke and didn't go broke". it is the heart shaped lock being opened. this is the game. the show has been playing this game for years. "let's keep this between us" is dead. the audience sees through it.

That's all I had to say, I think.

Edit:

thanks to oomf for the screenshots (idk if they want a credit so i am keeping them anon for now)

I think this dialogue explains my points perfectly, he could not say it more plainly.

[khaire-traveler]

"As a Hellenic Polytheist, you can't-"

Well, what if I want to, man? What if I'm tired of these random rules people are pulling out of their asses? What if I no longer want to be made to feel like my body itself is impure for being made of flesh and bone, rather than the ichor that the gods have running through their veins? What if I'm frustrated by the idea that the gods are so far above us mortals that they're entirely out of reach? What if I don't want to believe that I have to beg the gods for attention or bribe them with gifts for them to even acknowledge my existence? What if I just flat-out don't want to think that way and never wanted to? What then?

Does that mean I'm not a Hellenic Polytheist in your eyes or that I am now abandoned by the gods I thoroughly love, as much as you do? Does that mean that all of my religious experiences are immediately made invalid because you have deemed it so? Does that devalue the years of devotion and learning that I've done on my own time, just because you, a random Tumblr user, have decided that I don't fit well enough into your neat little mold of what a Hellenic Polytheist should be? I never wanted to fit into that mold.

I am so sick and tired of the rules people have been trying to force onto others. I'm frustrated by the intolerance. I'm exhausted by the drama. Sometimes, I don't want to even speak in this community anymore because of how judgemental and scrutinous some people are. There's being blunt, and there's being an asshole. There's being informative, and there's being defensive. There's correcting someone politely, and there's attacking them. Just let people breathe, good gods.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

When in doubt, Soup it out.

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