#sorry this is long but im bored at work

[purrvaire]

black sails + tumblr text post I have on my phone (pt. 2/?)

[manchesterau]

need to get dan in a tight black mini skirt

[puhpandas]

as someone who isnt super excited for sotm for certain reasons I am really glad that like. it's clear that since ruin theyve been setting up for carnival and sotm IS carnival. so now that carnival is finally coming out, afterwards theyll be moving on to other plotlines since the main villain stuff is sorted out

I'm just rlly happy to finally see a clear direction for how the story is gonna be playing out with like "okay these games were leading up to this so after this will be open possibilites" instead of like. absolutely no info about each upcoming game and being left guessing before it releases and just having to wait and see what's in it and if anything you're looking forward to will be in it

it feels like they have a plan and a solid direction for what they're trying to do and after carnival releases thatll be all that buildup coming to fruition. & we already know from the Scott interview that theres another release 'beyond sotm' that's 'super exciting' so maybe thatll be focusing on another big currently untouched (which is basically all of them) plotline, or even the big campaign game that dawko has been calling security breach 2

[eeblouissant]

You mentioned liking requests for drawings a couple days ago and I immediately went: oh! I've got to suggest something then! When I realised I was completely blank because I honestly adore everything you post (which somehow makes it very difficult to come up with something) 😂

But after reading 'heaven hath no fury like a woman scorned' I have to suggest: young Dorothy & Kate? :')

she’s copying her mummy :’)

[dwreader]

How do you go about figuring out what references the show is making (besides the ones they just say directly)??

Ohh ykw on this show I think they hit you over the head with so many both allusions and direct callouts that its almost more like trying to figure out which ones are true thematic references and which are just fun little namedrops. For example Daniel mentioning Kevin Durant imo is just a pop culture/worldbuilding namedrop to show that he's a ~cool guy~ from brooklyn and goes to basketball games (and to further establish these characters live in OUR world with the same celebrities). We're not meant to read Kevin Durant's bio on wikipedia and think of all the deep parallels. On the other hand, my pal blueiight has brought up that Basquiat paintings hanging around the penthouse could be read more deeply about the two men's biographies but maybe you don't necessarily HAVE to get the reference to understand the show. It's like an easter egg.

Also some references are simply bc modern tropes all stem from some origin and not the show deliberately making the connection, like yk the gothic romance tropes are abounding in this story and its not necessarily the show directly being like hey guys this is just like Jane Eyre! imma right? rather the conventions are so ingrained in our culture now that they bleed into everything. Or like my My Fair Lady posts it's like is this really a My Fair Lady specific thing or is it cause all professor/student or mentor/mentee romantic fiction all kind of stems from Pygmalion?? Anyways I'm gonna put the rest under a read more cause it's gonna be long af. sorry.

The ones I tend to take really seriously are books, plays, etc where the show goes out of its way to give you a bit of plot summary like Iolanta (blind princess who doesn't know she's a princess) where Louis crying at the opera kinda like Julia Roberts crying at La Traviata in Pretty Woman signals a thematic parallel between the characters (shoutout to slaygentford for that post that changed the world). Whereas they don't for Don Pasquale so while that's like a little funny joke cause its heheh its also about an old ass man looking for a wife that's like less serious to me than Iolanta. Louis casually reading Madame Bovary as his voiceover says he was "neglecting the duties of the role Claudia mocked me for the unhappy housewife" is a clear HELLO LOOK HERE moment, as well as Louis reading Edward Carpenter's book about marriage trying to regain his sight after his beating. Whereas I think him reading the Origin of Species is just like aww he's so cute and intellectual trying to find a scientific reason for his eating disorder.

A Doll's House is the biggest one imo cause it's both a direct callout in ep2 (Lestat mentions not wanting to miss the opening scene of Nora and the Christmas tree) and an allusion in ep7 (Louis shown decorating a Christmas tree), AND the "doll" theme runs throughout most of the show so even if you know nothing about that play, there's like hints being thrown at you with Louis bringing paper dolls to the twins bday party, decorating Claudia's room full of dolls and Lestat designing his Mardi Gras outfit like he's a doll. Maybe you've never read or heard Nora's monologue where she says all her life she's been treated like a doll and now she treats her children like dolls too cause she doesn't know anything else but you can literally SEE the dolls on the shelf in Claudia's room.

Streetcar is also the other one that the show is so so soooo obviously Leonardo Dicaprio pointing meme at itself. Even if you've never read the play or seen the movie, the image every fucking person on earth recognizes is Marlon Brando in a wifebeater cause that quite literally changed the course of pop culture history and male sex symbols AND you probably know STELLLAAAAA!!!!! These are both referenced quite directly by the show with Lestat wearing wifebeaters in ep5,6 and 7 and in Lestat's attempts to get Louis back after the DV as that's literally the context of STELLAAA he's screaming her name after he got kicked out for beating her btw if you even care. Plus they are riding an actual streetcar in ep7 even though they have a car??? and they're way too rich to be taking public transportation like what's that about.. unless!

Then you have things that Rolin has brought up himself in interviews like Bogie & Bacall (famously massive age gap hehe), John Cassavettes films (I would say Faces and A Woman Under the Influence as the primary sources of that comp), Francis Bacon art that you can definitely pick out from the show as well! So this show is chock full of cool references and inspirations and its very cool that people are being introduced to some of these older pieces of media through the show!!

[noecoded]

If you could have any Asmo/reader fic what would be the things you would want from it? like an ideal fic would contain what tropes or AUS or situations or whatever

uhmm anything wellwritten that characterizes asmo similar to the way i do ! i rlly like character exploration , both more serious stuff & just sillycute...anything where asmo is a little cunning and toxic and also gets railed into oblivion.anything where hes a vampire. ill write a tag essay about the specifics

[compacflt]

wip wednesday: the going is slow but the going is going

[xoxo-ren-xoxo]

it's controversial to say this i guess but i genuinely believe last life was the least interesting life series season and youre all lying to me about enjoying it

[thedevotionaltour]

i havent even read enough gl to justify the feelings and emotions i have about kyle i just have the lovers heart and also something wrong with me. and my projection. in my mind he's just like me. and he would have loved college vending machine frozen cheeseburger and heating it up in the microwave at 1 in the morning because he was bored and didn't want to work on a drawing assignment on 20" x 30" paper that was due tomorrow in his freshman year. he would have loved going to the club to push off finals work that's creating the worst stress known to man in his brain. and he would love to annoy the fuck out of his roommate when high and avoiding homework on a saturday.

[britneyshakespeare]

i finished the merry wives of windsor today btw. 4 shakespeare plays left to go

[jrueships]

pg really had THE wag jarebear on his show and proceeded to dish out all his personal onions on his teammates i 😭😭

[girlivealwaysbean]

isn't this the song for the tags on that post. i haven't heard billie in so long i love her music so much

[sparks-of-despair-au]

now i don't mean to rush but. its been like months since u last posted here

[Hi I’m sorry!! Uh,,, guess who is in a mood now to work on it ahah……[hides face in hands crying]

Here have an among us]

[green-eyes-and-orange-ties]

thinking about Icarus and Joey Finch ... is this ... is this something?

[nerdie-faerie]

Working in customer service and complaining when there's nothing to do and complaining when there's customers is my peak form actually

[dontcryminecraft]

sorry this isn't one, but too many came to mind so I figured I'd make a short list (mostly dsmp)-

cfundy's nightmares. cranboo's... everything (Z, enderwalking, revival, etc). Cyberknife and the secret syndicate member. cniki's underground city never got used. There was a secret time traveller and karl's time travel/ tales of the smp never got fully connected or explained. foolish and eret's past. dreamxd's deal with sapnap. karlnapity. techno once said people where he's from don't have three lives while saving Michael with eret and tubbo. Glatt.

I'm also a huge inniter so the fact that tommy kept waking up in the ocean during exile rotates in my mind weekly and we never got an explanation for that!!!!

if i started talking about the finales or later dsmp lore like eryn, boomer, aimsey, etc etc, i'd never stop talking about the shit that got abandoned. like eryn making a dream shrine in tommy's hosue because he misunderstood tommy's relation to dream. or the "lore" hints we got in the last streams with the revival book being connected to the end from dream and punz and later kristin showing up to bring people there. (also the fact that there is a goddess of death in the same world where dreamxd is handing out revival books is so interesting to me.)

outside of the dsmp, there is literally everything about origins smp because of the amount of server rests and long hiatuses killed any momentum storylines and potential plots had. phil's villain arc. ranboo and aimsey's connections to the end. tommy training to become an elytra. wilbur MISSING BEING ABLE TO FLY LIKE SIR YOU DROPPED THAT SO RANDOMLY WTF

maybe some of this stuff was explained, and i just never understood or saw it, but come on, half the dsmp's lore is filled with this shit. tubbo and ranboo never actually moved into the mansion together. they forgot about the nukes until they worked as a deus ex machina. i know some of these "abandoned" plots were jokes or one-off lines that people hyperfixated on, but i tried to keep this list to things that were actual lore, or at least plots/details that were supposed to be taken seriously enough in lore that it's not that much of an ask that they would have been focused on or brought back.

mcyt fans if you could choose one dropped plot thread/character arc to get a proper conclusion which would you choose