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[derpycat02]

I DID IIIIITTTTT

OMG hello Tumblr it has been a HOT minute.

So for any mutuals and possibly my girlfriend who have been wondering where the flip flop I have been some stuff has happened.

The college 2022-2023 year is over! Woo-hoo! I had to move back home for the summer! Boo! Not very good! Sad actually! My brain has been rather funky and I have not had the energy for social media. I cannot connect to save my life (and tbh it would probably do me so much good...)

Then, a few days ago (3...? 4...? It hasn't been a week yet but it's felt like a pretty long time.) my phone bit the dust. I had been using exclusively the Tumblr app (don't bully me I'm sorry), so I wasn't entirely sure how to get into my account on the website (aka I forgor my fucking password).

I kept trying to log in, and Google was like "no that's wrong." and after only 2 tries it would ask me to verify it's me via my phone that I don't have. Eventually I figured out how to get it to send the code to my email instead, and I was sent a message saying I would have to "recover my account" (reset my password) and that I wouldn't be able to do so for 120 HOURS be they had to MaKe SuRe It WaS mE...

Anyway I have now officially used the desktop version for the first time ever so hello again everyone.

[shadowspronouns]

theyr looking 4 fun activities to do after amy said they weren’t allowed 2 beat each other w hammers anymore

[tennessoui]

it’s like baby gorl there’s no way I, the author who wrote the fic you’re commenting on and who is the intended audience for this comment, am gonna agree with you 😿🙏 some things can just stay on your chest 🙏

[thequeen-crimson]

Dropping this with no context <3

[spearxwind]

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[dromaeo-sauridae]

hes all yall are gonna get for a while

[crimeboys]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dream SMP Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Tommyinnit & Wilbur Soot Characters: TommyInnit, Wilbur Soot, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Hunger Games, Suicidal Thoughts, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Bittersweet, Alternate Universe - Hunger Games Setting, Wounds, Realistic Minecraft, quackity is there but speaks like. twice. Series: Part 11 of prompts Summary:

“Like, we can talk, right? But if I started sayin’ shit like, Hypixel are cruel, vicious assholes who like to watch kids get skewered for their own sick-”

Wilbur feels a jolt of fear up his spine as he interrupts with just, “Tommy.” It’s less an interruption and more a warning. Quackity’s eyes widen, skirting to Wilbur in his nerves. Tommy scoffs at their reactions, as if it isn’t exactly what he was expecting. If Wilbur were thinking clearly, he wouldn’t have given Tommy the chance to mouth off at Hypixel at all. Wilbur feels like he’s hardly fighting the other tributes at this point, just keeping Tommy from being blown off the map by Hypixel personally.

[sanchoyoscribbles]

Its UPDATING! The first pages are out NOW!

[READ TOKYO MIRACLE HERE! ✨]

This is old promo art I made back in...2022? In the back of my mind I always wanted to retry making tm2 as a webcomic...this was going to be the lil post I made to reblog whenever new pages went up, but I decided not to do that and instead post page previews weekly (over at @tokyomiracle) I can def do better lettering now, but I still think this art is pretty dang cute so I thought I'd share it 😊

[netscapenavigaytor]

jast so every body is clear the character iam sitting here beaming new mental illnesses into the brain of is this thing:

[torgawl]

gojo's death has been way too controversial for something that has been premeditated for such a long time

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

What do you mean this audio is 6 years old, I just heard it yesterday--

[chaoticfandomthot]

Here to say that i've started Beyond Evil (currently on ep 3) and i will be insane about it i can already feel it

[wowbright]

Redemptive (?) Violence in Two Scorsese Films: Goncharov (1973) and Silence (2016)

Tons has been written about the parallels between Goncharov and Scorsese's other mafia movies. But thematically, i wonder if we're not collectively missing something by considering its similarities to Scorsese's definitively non-mafia masterpiece, Silence (2016).

On the surface, these two movies don't seem to have a lot in common. Goncharov is--well, you know the plot. Silence (2016), on the other hand, is a historical drama about a persecuted Christian community in feudal Japan. And man, is it brutal. More brutal then all of Scorsese's mafia films combined. (I'm not joking here. After the initial scenes, I could not continue watching this film in increments longer than 5 minutes. It's a good film--a great film--but I absolutely do not recommend watching it to anyone.)

Silence, for those who aren't familiar, follows a pair of Portuguese Jesuit priests trying to shepherd their Japanese parish through government persecution. It's hard to watch because it's just one brutal martyrdom after martyrdom in this small community.

But unlike with cinematic narratives of Joan of Arc or even of the crucifixion of Christ himself, nothing good seems to come out of this sacrificial violence. We see people being burned alive, being crucified, being humiliated and tortured and killed in a myriad of ways--and there is no redemption in it. The martyrs don't express unalloyed joy in the face of their suffering. The musical score never wells up to ensure us that, yes, this pain and death was worth it.

It's just grim and awful and meaningless.

It's so bad that the Portuguese Jesuit missionary who serves as a priest in the community starts begging the believers to deny Christ publicly. They can believe it in their hearts, in the safety of their homes and village, but if anyone asks, they are not Christian. He assures them God will forgive them, because he cannot imagine this meaningless slaughter is what God wants.

Ultimately, Christians in the audience are prompted to wonder if even the crucifixion of Christ was worth it, if it was truly redemptive, or if it was just as grim and bleak and purposeless as every death portrayed in the film.

When I rewatch Goncharov, I see a young Scorsese struggling with the same themes. Sure, the characters in the film are terrible people, nothing like the good-hearted Japanese peasants portrayed in Silence. But Scorsese plays with the same ideas around redemptive violence. In Christianity, the death of martyrs is supposed to be redemptive by instructing and giving hope to other Christians. In Goncharov, we expect the deaths of Ice Pick Joe and Bruno and all those other horrible people to be redemptive in the sense that they are getting their just desserts, and by sacrificing them on the altar of death, we *should* be saving countless lives (because they can no longer kill).

But in Goncharov, these deaths are just as meaningless as the ones in Silence. Nothing good comes out of these people dying; the slaughter continues unabated. If anything, the pace increases, and the characters we thought could be redeemed fall further and further into hopelessness and despair.

The problem with Goncharov, and Scorsese's other mafia movies, is that the thrill of living underground, of having an alternate society, of pursuing riches and power at the expense of good--all those things seduce the viewer into romanticizing the struggles the characters go through. Scorsese's point might be that the violence is pointless and better avoided, but the audience is hesitant to adopt the same view.

So in a very real sense, Silence is a continuation of what Scorsese was trying to do with Goncharov. 40-plus years on in his career, though, Scorsese has learned to strip away every vestige of romanticism to ensure he gets his point across. No one is rich, no one is sexy. No one is engaged in a decades-long quest for revenge. No one is trying to set things right, to correct things, to make things even.

In Silence, violence is stripped down to its true essentials. It is cruel. It is unjust. It offers no hope.

These are also the things that Goncharov communicates. But they are communicated in a more palatable form, in a film you don't have to pause every 5 minutes just to get through, in a narrative where you can distract yourself with glamor and romance and what-ifs.

Look, I'm not condemning Goncharov fans for enjoying those things about the movie. Scorsese wanted you to enjoy them. He put them in there so you could actually get through the movie and receive its message at the end.

There's a risk that you won't get the message. But there's also a risk that you won't get the message in Silence, because chances are you're going to stop watching it before it's even finished.

And carrying out that narrative in both ways--in one version that is glamorized and easy to swallow, in another that is sparse and almost impossible to bear-- that's its own kind of genius.

[draw-you-coward]

ok i did one :-)

this is my friend teeb's smoke person noé!! a bit experimental but it was fun to paint :)

@tinta--branca--art teeb i hope u see this like. second

[bistaxx]

reading the luzu post, yeah cwilb and kluzu are smilar in superficial ways but not in a character mirror way nor how they relate to k/c!quackity. i feel like people go off about it more becayse theyre both tall ""emo"" guys with red color coding and fucked up relationships but both have their own narrative ways of interacting with quackitys characters(which is why i love them sm<3)

So very true, they very much are only superficially similar. Tnt are much more like yin and yang whereas Beanie/lckity are more sun and moon if that makes sense. Tnt are lifelong rivals with sentimental feelings and a complicated past but whose lives went down very different paths and took them to different places- lckity are strangers turned close friends who had romantic feelings for each other that, for their own separate reasons, never got around to confessing and tragically turned enemies and ultimately back into strangers.

And while Luzu and Wilbur's stories have some pretty similar starting beats ( elections, betrayal, spiraling-) they are two different characters and serve different roles in their stories- Luzu's role in k5 is very much different then Wilbur's post revival.

[halftheway]

the best part of being friends with my favorite artist is that we r mutuals everywhere😌