#some ppl are BOLD

[witchysniffles]

the woman was too stunned to speak 😳

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[recent-rose]

hey i dont go here but jayce's speech about viktor in s2e9 isn't him saying 'u should never have tried to heal yourself, you were perfect the way u were x3' it was him saying that viktor's physical health never made him any less beautiful, never made him any less important, never made him any LESS, period. he wasn't saying viktor didn't need to pursue a cure for his ills like come on his motivation to invent hextech was to help people. to cure disease. viktor's first and foremost among them.

he said what he said because it was the thing viktor craved to hear most in his life, and that is why those were the words that punched through his defences even as the machine herald: jayce loved him wholly and unconditionally, healthy or ill, good or bad, human or inhuman. he would always be loved just the same.

[moomeecore]

here's that essay i accidently hyped up (sorry) on how fionna & cake did a poor job of concluding betty & simons characters + story in the final 2 episodes. sorry it is so insanely long. i don't know what my deal is. sometimes a show just does such a bad job of handling your favorite characters that you have to write 19k+ words complaining about it, i guess. im linking it as a pdf bc i DO NOT want to have 2 copy & paste this all over to tumblr & i kinda don't think tumblr would be happy with me making a post that long.

[lelianasbong]

i would read soo much more het if the dynamic didn't always, always, ALWAYS default to Domly McDom Man and an I've-Never-Done-Thiiis-Before 🥺 Ingenue. not even asking for femdom it's just wild to me that that's just the, assumed/desirable/expected romantic dynamic between all men and all women

if a grown man called me good girl i don't know whether i'd laugh at him or punch him in the throat

[dipperscavern]

I wanna put Tom in my mouth and shake him back an forth like chew toy ya know.

LMFAO GOODNIGUF THATS SO REAL. i wanna chew on him a little bit

[kalmeria]

was tagged by @podcastingpineapple for a “9 people I'd like to know better” thing! hi hello!👋 i don’t think im one of the cool people but i like doing these sooooo (runs away and hides and comes back hours later) (ive decided i have nothing to lose so im just gonna give honest answers)

last song: super star spectacle (karen and hikari’s song from the revue starlight movie)(was listening in honor of yuri day)

currently watching: ummm seasonal anime mostly: skip to loafer, gundam witch, oshi no ko. also star wars rebels for amca podcast (but i accidentally got carried away and am a season ahead already)

currently reading: i’m rereading shimanami tasogare/ our dreams at dusk by kamatani yuhki. ive started to do this every summer, it always hits home around this time of the year. i am also reading a number of enstars stories at once (i guess sudden death would be the most noteworthy here). i know neither of these is like reading reading but this is where i’m at!

(i’m adding a secret bonus category of currently listening to just to say that i’ve been enjoying my archive 81 relisten~)

current obsession: uuuuuuu. well it’s enstars. theres just so many characters and so many things to know about them my brain feels like it’s jumping up and down on a trampoline (positive), plus theres the rhythm game aspect. it is so much fun. im having so much fun right now

plus the new palisade episode dropping is my favorite time of the week! and amca every two weeks.

okayyy tagging people… no pressure though!!

@umilily @cryptidm0ths @perfectpinkprincess @shionkaida @starswallowingsea @no-myers-briggs @shlnji @alicesalias @asbestieos

[odysseys-blood]

im sorry are we really referring to people supporting a political figure and his party as a "fandom"

yall r so unserious and make me sick

[ardentpoop]

ive seen people refer to s11 as "the last good season" which is deeply concerning to me for several reasons lmfao

[pinkhysteria]

i kinda need production to set up a pandora's box that unleashes jared back into the house to terrorize bowie jane at least until this eviction cycle is over i'm so serious 😭 that woman has lost her mind

[wundrousarts]

I revisited this 2021 podcast interview with Jess for research for a theory post I'm writing, and wanted to share this excerpt:

“It’s absurd, because there’s so much that’s contradictory in here. I can’t explain to my editors very well why it’s important to me that why one thing might be really important to me for example but then it’s totally fine to me that I talk about Christmas. Ugh! It’s fine! It just is. Because this is gonna be 9 books, and I’ve only really shown you the tip of the iceberg so far, but, but there are really specific reasons for a lot of that. There’s a really specific reason, for example, about Christmas, the word “Christmas” and the concept of Christmas exists in this world. And that is something that we will probably learn about in later books, but yknow, I couldn’t say why that’s totally fine and then something else that they would suggest like is there this kind of machinery or infrastructure in this world, and I would be like “well, no, of course there’s not.” I want to be able to break my own rules whenever I want just because I feel like it.”

What do people think about the bolded statement? Anyone have any ideas as to why Christmas, in the form it does, exists in Nevermoor? I'll be sharing my Christmas idea more in depth sometime soon, but I'm also curious as well about any thoughts on the excerpt as a whole. As a fervent Nevermoor theorist, I do kinda love how she's like "I have rules, but also I don't. Don't think about it too much."

[sparklyseblos]

some people make fandoms SO TIRING sometimes.

dear tsitp fandom, it’s fine if you dislike skye however that gives you no reason to make the meanest and most horrible comments about the actor and absolutely ZERO REASON to disrespect their pronouns.

and fyi skye didn’t “replace” shayla, those two characters coexist and skye probably still would’ve been in s2 if shayla was in it as well (this is also coming from someone who’s fav character was shayla in s1)

just please treat people with kindness & respect, i promise you that it’s not that hard.

[istherewifiinhell]

i should go back to emailing my friends. man was not meant for correspondence broken up by 2000 characters limits. discord app stay loosing

[unproduciblesmackdown]

another day another "applying the concept 'disposability' to 'someone withdraws from a personal relationship, & that wasn't signed off on by the other'" kill me

[milkbreadtoast]

...hey guys completely random but i made a youtube channel 🚶🏻

[themoonofblueside]

Sigh i am aware that lewis's weakness in qualifying will beat his ass when it comes to dealing with charles, and i am aware that they are mostly on good terms but i wont like i do want the geriatric guy to eat the il predestinado