#sensationalization

[immaculatasknight]

Chorus of imbeciles

[likeafolkssong]

being this young is art…

[the-one-who-lambs]

This is a super super gentle reminder not to put your favorite authors on a pedestal. We're real people living average lives and not trying to be influencers. We criticize ourselves enough and we don't want to be held to an invisible standard (we start to worry we fail to exceed our own selves) or compared to other writers (we are not competing) or tailor our craft to cater to a wider audience (the right people will find you).

[phaedo]

i keep getting youtube recommendations for videos with clickbait titles about how dark and disturbing the wicked book is from people trying to capitalize on the movie's marketing, which is the way of the world and all, but i just want to say that the correct way to experience the wicked book for the first time is to be a tween/young teen really into the musical and go "whoa this is based on a book?? i have to read it!!" and get some well-meaning but blissfully unaware relative to buy it for you only for you to be faced with the graphic puppet sex clock in chapter one. if you're over the age of fourteen years old it's already too late for you to get the full wicked book experience.

[kurikorso]

nostalgia slapped me upside the head a little while ago so i had to draw my favorite dudes ft. the gecko effect

[ayushipop]

the violence in bottoms (2023) is so satisfying in a way i don't really know how to put into words. somewhere between the violence against women that movies sometimes shy away from too much but also Lean Into a little too much (spectrum of either not depicting realistic violence/harassment due to discomfort with it or the "you can't hit her she's a girl!" concept vs gratuitous sensationalized violence). like it's that "boys will be boys" kind of roughhousing that girls are excluded from if the narrative frames them as too delicate / feminine / untouchable. and i see them beating the shit out of each other and it feels Good. they're not untouchable dolls nor are they objects to project malice and gratuitous violence onto! it's not even fully about the empowerment or seeing girls be able to fight back (which does feel amazing in its own right and the movie does a great job of delivering it) like even seeing like, idk black widow beat up a bunch of guys in a marvel movie doesn't feel the same as how bottoms does it. it feels unpolished and grounded and realistic and satisfying. #girlswillbegirls

[jeannetterankin]

Leverage and Criminal Minds are mirror opposites of each other

an elite team of hyper competent people travel around fighting evil by getting into the heads of bad guys (and/or punching them)

But one is outside the law, one is the law. One is premised on the idea that evil in the world is a result of systemic problems, the other that it originates in lone evil individuals.

And Leverage, despite being not really all that good, is excellent. While Criminal Minds, despite being actually quite good, is not good.

[sauronism]

if they introduce harvey into the universe, i desperately need them NOT to villainize his DID. i want them to emphasize that two-face is the protector of the system, and was there defending harvey from his father abuse. his strong reaction towards his perpetrator is a last resort. harvey was terribly harmed and he need to be there for him at all times.

[annabelle--cane]

I respect the labor it has always taken to push queer stories to anywhere approaching the mainstream and I appreciate that all of these works have their merits and will have been extremely meaningful to people but sometimes I look back at the state of queer media in the late 2000s/early 2010s and I briefly see into hell

[roykentalwaysremains]

please consider reading my hypersexual jamie fic. it starts uncomfortably (on purpose/by necessity) but is a fic about carrying trauma and the messy nonlinear nature of healing. the far reaching consequences of amsterdam. how jamie spent his time on lust conquers all. also royjamie slowburn. thank u 🙌

[liauditore]

new suicide squad anime got me thinking about the genderbend batman au i made when i was 16 again.

extra (nsfw??? body horror + shirtless doodle lol) art under the cut + drabble.

A mysterious actress appears in Gotham!

Production for the long-anticipated remake of the 1930s classic horror film, "The Clay", is saved in part thanks to the audition of one woman with no credits to her name, just a face and demeanor identical of the late leading actress of the original film.

However, the cast and crew have bigger worries than their limited budget and endless demands from their producers -- everyone involved seems to be disappearing one by one!

While the average gothammite worries that the cult classic's "cursed" reputation might be a little more than an urban legend, The Batman refuses to entertain such unfounded silliness and aims to get to the bottom of this crime against cinema!

presenting BATMAN '63 - THE RISE OF CLAYFACE coming not actually ever lmao

(her hair is brown now because I like the idea of her appearance never being fully consistent lol. shapeshifters gotta do their thing)

[deadmeat]

all those abuse cnc/mask kink people mixing isopropyl/acetone and bleach to make crackhead chloroform are going to be so confused in like 20-30 years when they realize they have tumors and various forms of cancer and say "but i was so healthy i had 6 pack abs in my 20s :'(( "

[the-bensolos]

No I’m SO sorry but it’s truly so funny to me that a lot of dudes going to see challengers for the idea that they’ll see a hot naked Zendaya and what they actually get treated to is tasteful and delicate aspects of the male form from the visionary that is Luca Guadagnino (and of course very very explicitly homoerotic imagery.) And there is a healthy amount of sexualization for both forms. But the fact that there is full frontal male nudity in this movie, the only true nudity in this movie is of the male form, marketed the way it is is just so good. Like I work in a theater and the amount of dudes coming out lambasting that this movie sucks is so fucking delicious. The way straight guys have to sit and accept the queerness of this movie that it EXISTS, that it’s beautiful and tender and gentle, and intimate, but also loud, and brash, and seeped into every conceivable corner adds another 10 on top of this already 10/10 movie.

[menlove]

Why do you think Paul insists saying John was sweet and nice when he really wasn't. He was shit to everyone including Paul. Because he feels he has to or because he was in love with him and that's what he remembers?

i meannnnn people are mixed bags. someone isn't always cruel and they also aren't always nice. ofc, john WAS a deeply awful person to many people around him (especially women). he had a Lot of untreated issues & anger. he could be very cruel & hurtful. but i think paul says he was sweet and nice because he was that, too. people aren't all black and white, ykwim? and while certainly you can absolutely hate john for some of the things he did & that's totally your right, so too can the people that loved him in life choose to forgive him. i think paul definitely like. remembers john's capacity for cruelty. he's talked about it a lot, as well as how much john hurt him & how confusing that whole period of their lives was for him. i DO wish he'd ever talk about the awful way john treated women, but i really don't think that's ever going to happen.

but as for their personal relationship, i think he just sees that john was sweet/nice a Majority of their friendship (or... whatever lmao) & that's just as much a part of him as the cruelty was. not to mention, a lot of that cruelty paul unfortunately shared in, especially in their youth, so i don't know that he saw as much of an issue with it before it turned on him.

but yeah i mean. john being a cunt & abusive doesn't necessarily negate him being sweet/nice. and if the latter is what paul remembers most and wants people to remember about john as well, i can't exactly blame him given how traumatically john died & the hole he left in his life. i think remembering him only for his cruelty would be worse for him than remembering both and focusing on the sweetness, yk?

[superm4ks]

Why does anyone even think that max "hates media" verstappen would want to be an ambassador after he retires

scream .. truly once he Retires retires ((and this is post wec too)) we will c maybe like a corner of his elbow on twitch every 5 weeks or so but lemme tell u something enzo ferrari voice ask a child to draw verstappen and theyll draw him in full rbr kit holding the f out of a can of red bull like max has ambassadorial qualities he just doesnt have ambassadorial . interests . his preference is that he represents nothing and we do not perceive him ever

[marc--chilton]

it's 2004 and new jersey. there's an oncologist who cheats on his wife. the morally questionable man in the tub gets shot. a cane used incorrectly. a feeble man who loathes and saves, is he god or a mockery of one? men who find comfort in another in spite of the hurt they inflict on them.

is this post about saw or house md?