#something completely out of pocket?

[idsb]

Everyone at the end of the tour who is like omg there won’t be any 1989 songs left for me?!??!? Y’all don’t know how lucky you are I would LOVE to go in knowing I have been marked safe against having one of my surprise songs be from 1989 😭

[chkn-kit]

something stupid that's been cooking in my brain for a while MOOTS LOOK AWAY

[sticks-stones-sonic-insanity]

Silly lil sonadow comic i forgot to post ages ago!!!

[fatedroses]

Jullus???

[sunnibits]

god. something about samfro is so…

[icewindandboringhorror]

I got these shoes from someone recently but thought they were way too plain looking, so I set out on a quest to customize them with some sharpies and charms and miscellaneous ribbon I had in my craft drawers. Mostly sky themed (clouds, rainbows, rain, stars, etc.) because that's my favorite aesthetic, but I had to include some cat imagery as well, of course lol.

[simplepotatofarmer]

like, despite laelaps genuinely being nervous about techno figuring out who he really is, he absolutely feels some kind of glee at knowing he's annoying techno as much as techno annoyed him.

[daincrediblegg]

New lady terror costume update! The skirt!

[knaveofmogadore]

You ever wake up from a dream so fucked that you have to sit there for 10 minutes after waking to rewrite the ending so that you can move on with your day or are you normal

[artemx746]

I love damiara because either one of them can be the murderous one of the relationship depending on the situation

[born-to-lose]

[pocketramblr]

The tenderness of this story, the softest warmth, in shades of morning light 😭😭😭 I CANT

THAT'S SO NICE THANK YOU I honestly was nervous I was overusing the warmth idea a bit by the end but I think it worked well for the story thank you 💜💜💜

[sinningtamer]

Hey! Your R...T stuff is super cute! I adore it! Do you have any other R...T artist recommedations? I can never find any n/s/f/w of him :(

thank you anon! gonna have to give you a disappointing No, tho, haha’’’ i mean i’m active on the nsfw yt/twtch side of twitter and have a few mutuals who agree “yes, stuff of him is based” but as for anyone making content, it’s just me and a friend on discord who doesn’t have nsfw socials <3

this is the part where id recommend a good explicit ao3 fic as compensation, but i’m picky and nothing is immediately coming to mind to link LOL

[chryblossomjjk]

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[zhangster-moon]

ok finally saw the barbie movie and i have some thoughts, especially as a leftist seeing other leftists review the movie

so overall the movie was like .... okay? the plot was kind of a mess and the writing had some really big issues, but the direction was good and obviously visually it was stunning (i honestly think greta gerwig should maybe direct scripts written by other people)

my problem with a lot of lefties bemoaning that the movie isn't "really feminist" is that I feel like a) you are basically asking for a completely different movie (like what kind of critique is "all the barbies are conventionally attractive" when that's literally... what barbie dolls are) and b) you kind of have to accept the limitations of hollywood and th film industry and meet them where they're at.

like this is a now billion dollar movie that was clearly written to appeal to a very broad audience. it's going to feel very intro-to-feminism, and it's okay for being that. personally I found a lot of the feminism stuff faaarrr too on the nose, like I get the gist of, for example, gloria's speech about existing as a woman, but it was just like being repeatedly hit over the head with the point that it's impossible and you have to exist in these paradoxes that just ultimately break women down. but the thing is, that sort of speech may make a lot of people feel seen when feminist movies are still in their infancy in hollywood's mainstream, I don't doubt that there are lots of indies that approach the subject better and with more nuance, but when you're making a movie that's funded by a giant toy company, about a very profitable doll, that is supposed to be for both kids and adults, what do you expect?

another thing is that one huge limitation of making a movie itself means that more radical aspects will get absolutely watered down. now, I don't think that greta gerwig is a huge radical, i think she's probably a very milquetoast liberal, but I do think that this is when you really have to think about the medium of the piece of art you're critiquing. part of why I like books — they take fewer cooks in the kitchen, and obviously you'll have to bypass gatekeepers in the publishing industry (unless you self-publish, but then there's the issue of getting the word of your book out), but largely books come from one mind and can stay true to the artist's vision. movies are a completely different ballgame, you've got writers, directors (often different people), actors that then make characters their own, producers, you have to bend all sorts of ways to get funding, distribution, etc etc. for barbie to be such a massive success means it inherently must be watered down to some degree, because that's what appealing to a broad audience is.

now, there's more specific critique that I think is totally legitimate and valid, for example pointing out lines such as that smallpox joke are explicitly harmful. there's also some more interpretation-based critique that I personally have seen that I disagree with (for example the ending, which I didn't see as trans-exclusive, speaking as a Trans myself, but rather just a signal that she's human now and therefore has genitals). I think these types of critique are more "legitimate", because they don't poke that the fundamentals of the movie itself.

its frustrating to see people sort of engage in this really broad criticism about the movie, when really what they're saying is they want an entirely different movie about a different subject matter. case in point what I mentioned earlier about the barbies all being conventionally attractive. like, yeah??? it's a movie funded by mattel about BARBIES?? I think gerwig and robbie make some attempt to sort of deconstruct this via narrator going "you probs shouldn't have cast margot robbie if you wanted to make a point about barbie not feeling pretty anymore" but to me it wasn't super effective. fine to criticise this. but I do honestly feel like I'm losing my mind a little if you go at reviewing this movie by completely divorcing it of its origins, i.e. the dolls themselves IRL, the process of getting a movie made in hollywood.

I do actually also think that a lot of what was in the movie itself that didn't work for me was also because gerwig tried to distance her work from the reality as well, for example gloria's idea about making "ordinary barbie" (just logistically, how would that even work... barbie comes with 1 singular story because barbie is a doll and not a human. how would you make a barbie that is just an ordinary woman? to me, ordinary women contain nuance and subtleties that just cannot be captured in a doll in a box.)

overall I really enjoyed the experience of watching barbie — there were some genuinely laugh out loud jokes. but there was also a lot that frustrated me about it — but I also understand that some of those frustrations are not limited to the barbie movie! there are a lot of factors that limit a movie's ability to make nuanced points about real world politics that just mean every movie you walk into, ESPECIALLY a global blockbuster like barbie, you need to manage your expectations of seeing some incredible feminist film that doesn't moderate its own politics in any way. I'm sorry but in this day and age that's just not possible, and I don't think that's fair to put on barbie, or greta gerwig, or anyone except for the current state of the world.

[soulsxng]

The ones that are completely opaque are because Ruaidhri saw them and went ‘especially yes.’

"I'd heard that you were lovely, but in person, it would seem that you truly defy expectation, Lord Allanach. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." The angel makes a sweeping bow before Ruaidhri, effortlessly taking one soft hand in his own. His lips finding the fae's palm, if only for a few brief seconds...and when he straightens again, his lips have curled in a charming smile. "It also looks to me like we have a good bit in common, as well; I'd love to sit down and talk for a while, if you had time for it?"