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the way you're watching a video of two women talking about interior design, and the way they judge some spaces seems kind of judgemental to you, but it's all in good fun, right?
Only for them to show a picture of the home of one of the women- and she cannot even hang up her pictures on the wall and made midcentury look like High End IKEA via the vice of minimalism and cowardice in regard to colour and décor- which would explain why she couldn't hang up her picture, if she's so afraid to make a fucking statement.
#not to be a hater but COME ON#i hate unhung pictures /so much/#it's my absolute worst pet peeve it looks so unfinished and lacks commitment#like if you like in a flat where you cant put holes in the wall for some reason just stick it on#there's powerful adhesives and white paint and lil tubes of plaster in case the picture takes some paint with it after being unhung#but honestly#and the nerve to then complain about /boho chic/ of all things#like is it my fave?#NO#but i can appreciate that it wants to give a cozy vibe and it's a fun aesthetic!#god i should've known this was the wrong video for me when that cursed woman pointed out the /basic white tv stand/#as the one thing she enjoyed in one such boho chic house#like give me a break#when will well-off white women that clearly come from some sort of wealth and assume everyone should just Buy Real Persian Rugs stop#esp like- where i live i can easily get an og persian rug for even under 100 bucks if you're lucky#but im living in europe and these women are in the us#where (judging by the comments) you are way less likely to be so lucky!#so yeah the privilege is on show#alongside the bad taste#god im so peeved by this#okay i will rest now#and stop ranting abt random youtubers#thank you and good bye
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Ohhhhhhhh shiv’s face when she realized that she’s going to be cut out of the boy’s club AGAIN and this time with a baby she can’t even talk about with her husband without risking being seen as soft … Kerry being humiliated by Marcia and the rest of the family… shiv falling down in front of a room of snickering men… gerri being thrown out as easily as garbage… connor’s mom being talked about less like a human being and more as fodder for a pr campaign…
#like yeah this show is about the horrors of the top 1% destroying and reforging our moral and ethical codes#but more than that it’s also a story about women#the women of this show are shown time and time again to be disposable#it’s so ingrained and systemic#no amount of privilege and whiteness will ever save you from being a woman!!#misogyny predates white supremacy!! you will never escape it!!#GOD this show is good#my god I hate how much I love it#I was just sitting there the whole time biting my nails I was so anxious#succession#succession s4#succession spoilers
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Dead Boy Detectives being canceled is still one of the Top 10 Worst Feelings I Have Ever Had, but hey. Could be worse. Guess it could have been canceled on a cliffhanger with the obvious Set(TM) on different planes of existence, not speaking to each other after a desperate kiss
#a lot of really bad things have happened to me i promise#it's not that boohoo a tv show is the worst thing ever check my privilege#but dbda being canceled opened up all those deep ol' wounds#so yeah#dead boy detectives#good omens
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homest[ar/uck] posting. this was meant to be supplementary to the gerome comic as him 'explaining the joke' but i uhhhhhh forgot.
i'm not much for crossovers in the the traditional sense, but it IS one of my favorite character exploration exercises to just go like 'if x media existed in this universe, who would and would not be a fan of it?'. and these ones are pretty notorious and always very fun to mess with for that and so here we are
#technically evangelion too but i couldnt think of anything intersting for eva with these guys#pizza tower#fake peppino#noisette#gerome#peppino spaghetti#these guys will just show him things and then he brings it home to peppino and hes gotta deal with all that#the simple fact is if you watch homestarunner at an impressionable age it WILL fuck up your lexicon permanently#and i think fp is the sort that is just kind of eternally impressionable. so#gerome is the only one of the cast whos into hsr he quotes it Constantly but no one knows hes referencing things#they think hes just saying shit. he knows this. he thinks it's funny. secret references for only him#but yeah that opening line was meant as an actual in-universe reference to hsr. when he says 'an old joke' it's literal jsjkskjdkjfd#idk what time pt takes place but hsr is perpetually yesteryear to me. that shit is so 2008 you really had to grow up with it i think#as for the other one. everybody i think at least knows OF mspa bc noisette talks about it All The Time#but the rest either dont get it or dont care. anyway its her right to be obnoxious about it. her privilege‚ even.#noise hates it though. hes so sick of hearing about it. if you mention a classpect hes gonna stab you#this is the only thing i have where the three besties are even close to interacting thats so sad.i need them being funny in a room together#pizzaposting#off-art
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the way under the bridge has becca see herself in the teens of seven oaks, particularly josephine and warren, when in actuality she has much more in common with kelly (background-wise, at least), coupled with her anti-police beliefs vs cam being a first nations cop + the historical & institutional baggage that carries, is so interesting to me. not fully sure how to articulate this yet but the show is putting forth a specific form of (anti-institution yet still benefiting from/privileged ?) whiteness i don't think i've ever seen in media and is really a testament to the thought that the writers have put into in creating becca and cam's characters and the larger paradigms they're meant to portray
#more observation than actual commentary on the show but yeah it's so clear the writers took a lot of care in creating these characters#i don't think it fully clicked for me until the most recent ep / the fight scene but mannn what a nuanced portrayal of privilege and crime#under the bridge#cam bentland#rebecca godfrey#meta
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Headcanon:Danny Rand sometimes forgets he is a billionaire
#yeah I know that tv show actually shows that Danny sometimes do fancy things like delivery from super wealthy restaurants#but he lived more with monks and was an outsider so he wasn't privileged till he became iron fist and then he was standing near the gates#and he has like two(2) wealthy friends who just happened to be his childhood friends#all of his friends are just usual people#danny:LUKE! We need to open agency for hiring superheroes!#Luke:Why? You're a literally billionaire#danny:oh right....but ✨bonding experience ✨#danny:avengers have cool tower! I want to have cool base for defenders too:(#jessica: bitch you're billionaire just buy one#danny:this company has an extremely important artifact so I will sneak up to their ...#ward:JUST BUY IT! YOU ARE RICH FOR CHRIST SAKE#marvel#danny rand#iron fist#defenders#jessica jones#luke cage#ward meachum#marvel mcu
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Hey who wants to play Poverty Simulator from my roommate's social work classes
It's great. It's miserable. It's a little unrealistic because grocery prices have skyrocketed.
#daily life with mercy#sometimes I'm allowed to be really really angry at having to make some of these decisions#like in my own life#like yeah actually it is kinda fucked up that I've had to put so many of my own pets down because we couldn't afford the vet#and the animal shelters were so neglected/overcrowded that taking them there was unimaginably cruel#it's EXTRA fucked up that comfortable and privileged motherfuckers try to tell me that I shouldn't have had animals in the first place#No shit sherlock#I didn't fucking WANT them#They just showed up!!! Because we were poor and there were feral dogs and cats wandering around!!!!#and sometimes you think “I can afford to give it a slightly better life”#and then the kindest thing you can do it kill it in a way that it's not suffering in a strange place before someone ELSE kills it!#YOU decide between rent or a vet bill! Or your kid! Or yourself!#JILL I PROMMY THESE TAGS ARE NOT VAGUEPOSTING AT YOU#THIS IS AN UNRELATED RANT
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y'all ever notice how quickly people will start calling a nb person a man again as soon as they're mad at them?
#yeah i'm still on about the twitter thing it's so dumb#and also clearly shows that ppl still see identity as a privilege that can be taken away as soon as you misstep in their eyes
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#ignore this#but being on your period and watching those video's about omar's show are NOT the combination#because why did I just start full on crying about how proud I am of him#this is embarrassing#but yeah i am so proud of him#and i hope i once have the privilege to see him live#cuz this boy has it all
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I finished Hazbin a bit ago and call me crazy but I honestly hope Sir Pentious' ascension had nothing to do with redemption as a concept.
I hope it was just a glitch in the matrix from like, the raw, holy power of Adam's laser blast + whatever magical artillery Pentious had revved up at the helm of his ship. I just think it would be VERY funny if Adam accidentally baptized some guy so hard he rebooted him to Heaven.
#hazbin hotel#I know they won't go this direction because they've got like four seasons planned and this would eliminate the show's ability to like#cycle through sinners as they're redeemed#which would kill the show's formula/momentum#but yeah Hazbin brought back memories of my Warriors AU about a cat trying to blunt force redeem her way into StarClan#and since hell and heaven became like...a metaphor for class stratification...cough#the main character ultimately realized she could never play the game well enough to get into StarClan#because the POINT of the game was to keep cats like her out of StarClan#when 'redemption' and 'sin' are defined by the privileged class...what does success within that system look like#so in the end the main character and a coalition of cats shift their focus away from 'redemption'#and towards community building in cat hell lol#like...providing support for their neighbors#with the goal of eventually overturning the game itself (as oppose to figuring out how to win)#That's a LONG way of saying I prefer redemption stories which interrogate the concept of redemption itself#...and come away with the conclusion that it's all bullshit lmao#totally a preference thing and I'll still enjoy Hazbin regardless
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it is actually crazy how easily people who work in the music industry can get face value tickets for things even when it's sold out into oblivion
#I've never abused it and only done it for artists I LOVE when things are hopeless#but I've now gotten Noah Kahan tix and Taylor Metlife tix for face value just from knowing someone#I feel so lucky privileged blessed etc for both of those instances but#yeah idk bro when ticketing is this fucked its CRAZY how easy it is for people who don't care to go to any old show they please#esp people who are more well connected than me and CAN abuse it
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OP I LOVED UR ANDREIL POST GOING CRAZY THINKING ABOUT IT if you have anything else in that amazing brain of yours on this take please do share because i absolutely LOVED how you articulated this aspect about andreil. its something i particularily appreciate about their dynamic and relationship with anger and Their Issues TM. your post will cross my mind whenever ill think about it from now on.
I don’t think I have ever gotten an ask and this is kind of making me go insane??? I hope you know that you made my day and also, I’m so glad people share in my endless brainrot bc when it comes to this series and these characters I simply cannot stop
It really isn’t nearly talked about enough that the thing that got Andrew to actually look at Neil and become interested was (as cited by Neil himself at some point tho I can’t remember in which book that scene is from the top of my head) Neil’s bone-deep jealousy of Kevin. It’s—it ties into that whole epiphany that Neil has at some point, when he looks at Andrew and realizes that while he is hurtling towards his own breaking point and about to burn out and shatter into something he’s not sure he’d recognize if he survived the encounter, Andrew hit that point and broke from it years ago. And that’s an understanding that goes both ways between them—in a fucked up way, it feels like Andrew might be the future that Neil has waiting for him if he doesn’t end the year six feet under: hollow and drifting, passionless after everything he had to rip away from himself to be able to survive. At the same time, Neil probably reminds Andrew of how he used to be, back when he had hope for things only to have that hope rip him apart—which is exactly where Neil seems to be headed for the majority of the story.
I think that a lot of Andrew’s understanding of Neil comes from the fact that he knows intimately what it feels like to be caught between a rock and a hard place and cut his own lifeline, only to then fail to die on impact. Neil hasn’t had to resort to that yet, but he is hanging by a thread. You’d think that watching him struggle would only serve to drive it home for Andrew that he made the right choice in closing himself off, except… well. His expectations of life and the people in it are so bleak, it’s no wonder he finds himself drawn to Neil’s messy emotions and every unexpected show of spine like a moth to a flame.
Neil, for all of his issues and scars, can still feel things—can still want something so badly it defies all logic. Can want something with such visceral, fucked-up intensity that it resonates where it shouldn’t. It’s an ability that Andrew thinks he’s either lost or cut out of himself to stay somewhat safe, sane and alive a long time ago, but that remains as the most fundamental crack in the foundation of his being. It’s a fascination that seems to come out every time he’s sober and eventually ties into him wanting Neil—wanting something worth wanting and putting a name to it once he finds it. They look at each other and don’t want a watered-down version of the person in front of them. It creates a relationship that embraces issues big and small and accepts (even values!) the messy parts of being human. It means that any space shared between them immediately becomes safe once they settle into something comfortable together. The way they handle the uglier sides of each other’s personality honestly makes me feral because it’s always done with understanding and acceptance and they even find positives or comforts there that the other can’t see and that’s probably a reason for why 1) their chemistry is so off the charts and 2) their relationship is so damn healthy (in addition to their communication being stupidly good when it comes to each other).
Andrew wants something real and Neil wants to be real. And then they get to have exactly that.
#I hope this is even somewhat coherent#this went way out of hand but it’s an aspect of them that’s so hard to put into words#something something Andrew’s almost detached fascination with intense emotions and fervor#he shows that same tendency when it comes to Kevin vs exy as well#in the sense that I’m convinced Kevin’s passion both fucks him up and mystifies him#Neil is just much more up close and personal bc yeah his original devotion that caught Andrew’s eye was to the sport#but then Andrew got to experience that devotion turned around on himself full force#you cannot tell me he was ready for that#but also also#this and the og posts were meant to be about Neil and Neil’s emotions being ugly and messy and human#and how that resonates with Andrew because even terrible feelings can be better than an emotionless void#between numbness and twisted-up falsities#Neil’s raw emotions were probably the most honest thing about him early series and he had a lot that he was never allowed to express before#and not only is Andrew safe to let go of those inhibitions around#Neil also wants for Andrew to relearn how to enjoy that same privilege with him#losing control and all that#there’s a lot that can be said about all of this and I’m really not fully finding the words but. THEM. That’s all and thank you.#also ty for the ask I was really !!! when I saw that in my inbox :)))(#aftg#all for the game#neil josten#andrew minyard#andreil#aftg meta#answered asks
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doug eiffel is, in his own words, a man of many fears, but i think two of the most interesting ones are these twin fears he has about his self perception: he's afraid that no one will ever take him seriously. and he's even more afraid that they will.
i think a lot about his story in all things considered - what it betrays about eiffel's psyche that both minkowski and jacobi present versions of the narrative where they're in the right, but he has this fear. that he's screwing it up, that everything is his fault and everyone knows it, even when he's barely involved and just trying to help. that within his own narrative he is still in some way the one at fault, but also a victim of circumstance who everyone will jump to unfairly blame.
it's his attachment to this perception of himself - as the perpetual screwup, as tragically unlucky, as everyone's punching bag, as ultimately unimportant - that holds him back for so long. because the thought that he will only ever be those things, only ever his mistakes? that terrifies him. but it's safer than the alternative.
with his efforts to cast himself in that tragicomic role, taking eiffel seriously is such a central point to his character development (and specifically in what it indicates re: where he stands with the others) - everything about shut up and listen and constructive criticism, of course, but also. when hera connects with him in bach to the future by opening up about their shared insecurities, she shows him that she takes him seriously and tells him that he should take himself more seriously too. and minkowski can't fully understand eiffel or connect with him as a person until she comes to terms with his conviction and all the complexities that forces her to acknowledge in him.
it's so much scarier for doug "why the hell do you even care what i think? i'm so far beneath both of you that i shouldn't even register on your radars" eiffel to consider that maybe people can take him seriously, that maybe they already do. because if they want him around, if they value his effort, if they care about him and think about him and take the things he says to heart, then that means those things matter. and it means that he matters, which is terrifying both in what it challenges about his own self hatred and the weight it gives to his otherwise careless words and actions.
#wolf 359#w359#doug eiffel#remember that post about Jester's Privilege that was like#'the ability to mock freely without punishment for nothing he says seems to matter'#uh. yeah.#i know i talk about this kind of thing a lot but. it gets to me#the egotism of self hatred#that eiffel is so willing to punish himself but it only further hurts him and the people around him#and what that says in the specific context of eiffel as a convict#how he projects his desire for betterment onto people who feel no such desire to improve. instead of accepting responsibility for himself#and how MULTIPLE turning points in the show for eiffel are about realizing it's just him. for better or worse he has to be the one to do it#what sarah shachat said about how comedy is scary but drama makes sense
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I CAN DO THIS!!!! I CAN LEARN TO BE A THEATER DESIGNER!!!! YES I AM JUST STARTING OUT AND DOING THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!! THATS CUZ IT IS A TRADE AND YOU LEARN A TRADE BY PRACTICING!!!!! SO I AM GOING TO PRACTICE DAMMIT!!!!
#i am realizing i have the capacity to be rly ambitious and hardworking when it’s something i care about#which i didn’t think i did. because adhd and academic struggles and such#but another side effect of caring a lot about this is i am rly disappointed and worried when i feel like i’m not doing well enough#which is a feeling i think most people get academically#but i turned that feeling off in my brain for a long time cuz again. at a certain point i was academically struggling#and i couldn’t be disappointed anymore#like it was just less stressful to care a little less#which i am currently experiencing in my classes right now actually. need to deal with that#anyway#idk i keep finding out how much i don’t know about theater design and then feeling so so embarrassed#and thinking i might be a fraud#but then people look at my work and they say nice things and i am deciding to take that to heart!!!#and just hope that they’re right#it’s existential about career hours rn#also mandatory acknowledgement that i’m privileged for even considering an artistic careen#and i’m definitely gonna be living off ice soup if i try to make this happen#uh. that is all . yeah#ok yk what i should probably be a theater professor#that is definitely the biggest way i’ve seen theater professionals get regular gigs (on college shows) and make enough money to live#and also have access to massive prop and set collections!!!!!#which is what it’s really all about baybeeee#ok that is all goodnjght#theater#career#rambling
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Ironic of those of you who try to moralize over people like me for liking 🐠 or whatever blorbo, once again oblivious to WHY they are appealing to somebody like me (sounds about ⚪️) when you act x10 worse than the character towards real poc in fandom then deny it to our faces when we confront you on it— but you will never be ready for that conversion will you…
#ven talks#I have more to say but I’m too busy rn to make a post#not using his name so I don’t show up in the search lol#I'm telling you though being a minority on tumblr is unreal because not only are they incapable of conceptualizing our experiences- never do#they even try. for gods sake if you just read between the lines a little— I’m not even that opaque— it’s so obvious what my deal is.#but you need a lot of empathy to do that and it’s more than I can ask for apparently lol#hmmm what in my identity and my history and the various things I’ve alluded to and the fantasies that could be wrapped up in those things#might relate back to my main theme on this blog. hmmmmm it’s a mystery…#god. yeah no sorry if this shit is beyond your comprehension just leave me alone leave me be and cherish the privilege it takes to not have#these deep seated desires. you’ll never understand. it’s not in your blood it’s not haunting your conscious every waking moment. be glad.
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people who hate gilmore girls characters because they're classists are so fucking funny to me because that entire show has classism baked into it. it's like you all just forgot how the maids are treated in that show.
#gilmore girls#lorelai gilmore#rory gilmore#logan huntzberger#paris geller#emily gilmore#richard gilmore#yale#yeah logan is a classist#but so is literally everyone else in that show#38 year old lorelai gets an innocent lady fired because she screwed with emily's seating plan#rory is blind as hell to her class and privilege#all the yale characters are freaking WASPs with the exception of paris and i think logan#logan's mom is named shira (jewish name i'm pretty sure) so there's some jewishness in the family tree#it's a show that romanticizes old money New England#of course there's tons of classism#even paris is straight up looks down on people without a college degree
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