#spork 2010

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[tr1ck5]

If I had a nickel every time Violet said "for the win", I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot but I cringe that it's happened twice.

Unrelated to this but also what the fuck is Jack's problem lmao dude has Issues it's almost ridiculous.

[fandomsandassortedgoods]

i need your thoughts on ts5 STAT, i like your account and posts on prideyear so id love to here your opinions on the current info we have atm.

Oh well I’m flattered asghgdhj I had some thoughts saved I was gonna post sometime, so I’ll finish it off and put it here.

Guess I'm one of the few people that don't find toys vs electronics an inherently cringe premise, I trust Pixar enough not to have the message just be IPAD BAD (though given Wall-E maybe I shouldn’t lmao), there are legitimate issues concerning children and screen use that can be explored, and how that affects how kids play with actual toys is interesting to me.

My issue is more with the time period. Were "tablet kids” even a big thing by like 2007-2009 (giving a range here on the years TS3-4 seem to take place in)? Bonnie could be older (though she doesn't look it), but even then that seems early for kids with tablets to be a major thing yet. It just feels like too modern an issue for what should be just before the 2010s. But maybe that's just drawing from my experience and tablet kids were a problem by then?

Also a bunch of defective Buzzes is... potentially interesting in concept, but by now I feel the "delusional Buzz" schtick has gotten very, very tired. It's fine to repurpose ideas that got left on the cutting room floor, but again? Really? You can't even use the excuse of "well every movie has a delusional Buzz moment so this one must have too" because there was no delusional Buzz in 4. The concept worked in 1 because well that was the plot of the movie and wasn’t done before. In 2 it worked because it a) was a funny callback to the first movie that played on the humour of how Buzz used to be compared to how he was now and b) didn't interfere with the main story so much, as in, didn't bloat up the story with unnecessary detail or ruin the more emotional scenes. In 3, it worked because it was once again a subversion on the concept: while delusional Buzz was played for laughs before, here we are shown a darker side to it, with someone being able to turn your friend against you just like that and losing yourself with the flip of a switch (ofc it still had some laughs because it's Pixar, but ykwim).

In 5, what will the fresh twist be? I really can't tell. It feels like they've done what they can with the concept and they should just let it go now like they did in 4. How many times can the characters say “not again” before the audience is thinking the same thing?

As for showing Woody back with the gang and the lack of a Bo Peep mention of all, that’s probably the most interesting part for me personally. Bonnie doesn’t seem much older, if that’s who’s under the sheet in that picture—how much time has passed since the ending of 4? How long are Bonnie’s remaining toys separated from Woody before he returns? How do they meet up again? That was a travelling fair, it’s unlikely they would be seeing each other again any time soon. Did Woody/the toys deliberately seek each other out, or is this a happy coincidence? Are they working together towards a common goal and that’s it, or will Woody be returning to Bonnie’s room for good? I’ve got a lot of questions here.

If it isn’t Bonnie under the blanket, that drastically changes things. Is this set decades ahead with a grown-up Bonnie’s kid? Or perhaps in this future, Bonnie returned her toys to Andy, and this is Andy’s child instead? (Though the presence of Forky calls that into question, unless she just threw him in as a gift because she doesn’t gaf about this spork anymore lmao). If it’s Bonnie’s kid and we know for a fact that Andy will be in the movie again, what if Bonnie’s kid befriends Andy’s kid, and that’s how his old toys eventually find their way back to him (I feel Bonnie would at least offer Andy the toys back first, but who knows)? At any rate, I’m putting heavy money on the ending being the toys returning to Andy and being passed down to his children, maybe with this new kid imitating the opening of 1 as he plays with Woody just like Andy did.

I’ve joked before about 5 opening with 4 just being a dream and they retcon the whole movie away, but these new details make that reality seem a little less insane lmao

and okay but the REAL question is: what does the 6+ hour ts4 reviewer think about all this?

[discount--dracula]

spork discovers the wonders of the early 2010s portable dvd player

[not-poignant]

Out of curiosity, when did the, 'fanfic doesn't need to adhere to canon, everything is valid and good, don't give concrit unless specifically asked for' attitude become the norm? Genuine question.

I was active in fandom back in the LJ days, when sporkings and comms viciously mocking Mary Sues were the norm, but then I sort fell out of fandom spaces for the past (checks notes) fifteen years holy shit. The current attitude seems diametrically opposed to what I remember fandom being like (kinda shitty, it was 'cool' to be an asshole back then), and I'm just curious as to when and how the shift happened. I mean, I assume it was a gradual thing, but is there anything in particular that stick out to you?

(Also, because tone doesn't convey very well through ask, and I don't want to leave you with a poor impression-- this is by no means a defence of the 2000s attitudes, nor an aspersion on the current ones. I'm genuinely only curious about the evolution from one to the other; I hope that comes across.)

Hi anon!

TL;DR because my response got LONG -> Anon this existed before Livejournal as an attitude, in fact modern fandom was literally born out of being not canon compliant (*waves aggressively to Spirk shippers*) and this existed on Livejorunal too and there have always been big pockets of fandom that really frowned on sporking even there, like that was not cool when I was on LJ, unless you were a certain age, or in certain spaces in fandom.

But also AO3 was its kind of final death knell re: making it cool to bully 13-16 yo writers (who were largely the victims of sporking) and killing dreams, which was born out of meta happening on LJ and in other places about like... not trying to make people miserable for writing a free fic out of the love in their heart that someone else didn't like or think was good enough.

Anyway, the longer version of this under the read more!

(For everyone else, welcome to some of the uglier aspects of 00s fandom!)

So there was actually criticism around all the stuff you mention 15-20 years ago as well. I was also on Livejournal during that time and there was a pretty big proportion of people in certain fandoms who recognised even then that like... setting up communities to mock say, Mary Sue writers, was actually a pretty weirdly cruel thing to do to people who were providing free labour and the literal only 'payment' they could get in a kind of energy exchange was people just not being complete dickheads to them.

So things were already changing, especially in many LJ communities and awards communities. There were a lot of big debates over whether concrit should be asked for, and a growing movement of authors who said they welcomed constructive criticism for example, instead of assuming it should automatically apply. There was also a lot of meta around the function of fanfiction and whether it should even be 'good' by published standards if the author was just doing it for themselves, and for fun (esp if they were just going to get punished for it by folks who were elitist, judgemental, grammar purists etc.)

Things really changed around the time of AO3 (2009-2010 - literally around 14~ years ago, you may have just missed the big change anon!), Strikethrough and the Dreamwidth exodus. There was a massive swing away from leaving concrit unless the author specifically asked for it, and fandom became a lot more generally able to recognise that a lot of labour goes into fanart and fanfiction and that paying with public criticism is shitty actually. Also people were just more able to recognise that like most fanfiction writers aren't trying to become professional writers and many don't want to be.

(I would actually say things changed around the time of fanfiction.net too - rude comments there were definitely noticed and could create some pretty forward 'hey why are you doing this on something you literally don't have to read' responses from fellow readers - idk what fic sites you were on. The small indie fic sites where you could often only comment via email for example, definitely drew a lot more critical attention than sites that tended to have public comments).

The 'fanfic doesn't need to adhere to canon' literally exists since the very first Spirk slash fic in modern fanfiction in the last few decades. Literally, as soon as you write Kirk/Spock, you're not adhering to canon. Our fanfiction 'ancestors' literally paved the way for a legacy which is about not adhering to canon in order to see the world/s and thing/s you want to see, be entertained by, by turned on by, or enjoy, from the very beginning. You may not have been in slash circles anon, but the foundation of queer same sex fanfic is in many ways the foundation of fandom. But yeah, this is literally where fanfiction started! As soon as you're shipping characters that aren't canon for fun (or for whatever reason), you're making it pretty clear that you want stories different to canon, and you have to change things to often keep those characters in-character.

So yeah! That's been there for decades. Idk what circles you were in on that front! While it was fairly common for a while to criticise characters for being OOC (Out of Character), imho, a lot of folks started to recognise that they literally weren't paying for what they were criticising, and they could just walk away and potentially not like...blast the fanfic. Some folks started to recognise more that people were writing with ESL, or were teenagers (some 40 yos in fandom realised they were mocking literal 15 year olds in their proto-podcasts and websites and realised actually that's just...mean? Really mean? Not the way to nurture new generations of fanfiction writers. Definitely in no way encouraging), or were writing for themselves, or writing for like one other person, or writing for fun, or writing for free, or writing for personal reasons etc.

'Don't Like Don't Read' wasn't just about political stuff, it was also about just walking away if you feel the urge to slam a fanfic in the comments.

I've been in fandom for around 2.5 decades anon, and there were so many spaces that were not actually as shitty or mean-spirited as the ones you were in? Or ones that at least had a lot of different thoughts etc. Like, sporking (mocking/bullying badfics and sometimes the folks who wrote them) was disapproved of by a lot of people in fandom even while sporking was at the height of its popularity (the Fanlore page goes into more detail about this). It might have just been the fandoms you were in, or the people you were hanging out with (and that might have been dependent on your age or just if you were around people who wanted to be 'cool' back then - in the same way that being an 'anti' is cool among certain crowds today. It's possible to spend years in certain crowds and never get an image of broader fandom for example - we can all end up in spaces like that! I know I have.)

When I started writing fanfiction (which no one will EVER find lmao), generally giving positive comments was normal. Constructive criticism was actually pretty rare and there were already fanfiction aggregate sites that generally disapproved of it in their Rules of Conduct. People were encouraging and polite. And this was around 20 years ago on Livejournal and private indie fanfiction websites.

I would actually say there was never exactly an evolution from 'one to the other' because like thousands of people in fandom already believed this and argued in defense of supporting fanfiction and transformative works via accepting that people are labouring for free and that not everyone wants to become a 'better writer' etc. - the meta was there on Livejournal in the 00s. There were communities where sporking was seen as hip/fun, and communities where it was literally banned or at the very least, super frowned upon.

There were meta fandom communities where sporking was the subject of discussion and you know eventually in a lot of those meta communities, that's where a lot of folks decided actually that calling out the fanfiction of 16 yos as 'cringe' or 'badly done' maybe said more about us as human beings and what we wanted fandom to be, than it did about the actual fanfic itself. By the time AO3 came around, people built it with this in mind.

To this day on AO3 it's mostly considered appropriate to say you want concrit in your author's notes, and to otherwise assume as a reader it's never welcome if it's unsolicited. That started during the LJ era. And it was talked about at great length. There's obviously going to be people who disagree! But for the most part I'm a big believer in compassion and 'not everyone is here for the same reason' and 'they literally gave this to us for free and it's meant to be fun' (like yourself! What we do/think/argue 10 years ago on LJ is sometimes different to what we do 10 years later lol, I used to be against trigger warnings pre-AO3! Times change a lot :D )

So yeah, this was definitely something that was around before you and I came to fandom, and it was something that continued to grow as an attitude during, until finally it kind of won out on AO3. But yeah fandom as we know it was born in people literally not being canon compliant to make some gay dreams come true (Spirk shippers bless them all), at a time when there was no representation.

Even in the earliest days of fandom where comments could only happen via email, one of the earliest phrases authors used were things like 'flames will be used to roast marshmallows.' For those reading who don't know, flames are hate comments, critical 'this fic is bad because' comments etc. Except you emailed them directly to the author, because there was no place for comments on a fic.

And this started because authors in part got death threats for writing gay stuff.

So you know, from the very beginning, authors in fanfic have by and large had a very low tolerance for criticism / hate over something they're doing for free and making no profit out of, when they're changing/altering the canon as they please to create representation (or hotness lmao), that is literally a labour of love in a world of very little representation. From there, things have just grown. The whole 'flames will not be tolerated' existed even before Livejournal did.

Honestly there are still people who love sporking and you could probably find groups and Discords dedicated to that even now (actually you literally can, there's a Dreamwidth group for it), it's kind of wild but it started to get cool again. Just like 90s clothing :D (Which is also wild because I can just take that crap out of my closet and wear it again).

But yeah it also sounds like you may have been in some pretty crappy pockets of fandom! When I was on LJ in the 00s I avoided those places and still got to experience fandom across multiple fandoms (mostly NCIS, Captive Prince, HP, Profiler, The X-Files and some others) and communities.

I was super active in some fandom communities and saw a lot of meta happening, and my view during the early and late 00s was that sporking was largely pretty frowned upon after a very brief (like 3-6 month) era where it was cool for only some folks, and then everyone (including some - but not all - of those folks) was like 'heyyyyyyy hang on a minute.' It was something that the bullies did, and enjoyed, and otherwise folks kind of stayed away from it, especially once they learned people were becoming too scared to write fics, which is the inevitable outcome of mocking/bullying folks and fics that have been made purely out of love for something.

Like, publicly making a spectacle out of what a 13 yo (they were often teens - and it's kind of sad how many 40 yo women were doing the sporking :/ ) wrote out of love, just for fun/clout was not considered cool by everyone even back then, because like, a lot of us saw that as killing new generations of fandom (some folks who sporked considered it a win if a fic or account got deleted, this is not based behaviour), not actually creating good writing, internalised misogyny (Mary Sue hatred and self insert hatred), etc. It's hard to explain because I do really think we were in different corners of fandom at the time, but I don't know anyone personally from my time on Livejournal who actually liked sporking as an idea or enjoyed it or enjoyed listening to it or reading articles mocking fic.

I knew about it from very lively 'is this okay' 'actually no it's not even if it's just for fun this is trying to hurt people and saying 'it's just the fic' is not going to be the bandaid a teenager needs to understand why older folks (generally) in fandom are mocking them for being new at a skill' discussions on LJ in meta fandom communities. So this is how much I could be in fandom and not be a part of it and also have like a wildly different experience to your LJ experience!

I think if I'd been a teenager during that era it would have seemed a lot more appealing (in the same way that many teens are antis now before they grow out of it), and fuck it if I was a more bitter person who was just around people who liked to make fun of what other people created, perhaps I would have enjoyed it too, I can see a lot of reasons why a person would fall into that in LJ -> but I was an adult on LJ trying not to be mean to people or what they were creating, so yeah I was maybe just in very different spaces! (Don't get me wrong, I have my giant fucking character flaws, but I was very scared of people hating me so like I didn't want to do things that would make that happen, lol, and also I was scared to put up fic myself during the era of active sporking. I know for myself that sporkers didn't just scare away writers of 'badfic' - they...intimidated a LOT of people).

Before AO3 I was on FF.net, posting fics on LJ, posting on Schnoogle, gossamer, and a couple of other archives. So I don't think my experience was that 'narrow,' I just think I wasn't around like... anime at that time or other places where it might have been happening. I also avoided like...Draco/Malfoy where CC drama was happening and I know sporking was popular in that specific arena / pairing for a while as well (er, as well as anything to do with Mary Sues).

So yeah! That's about where that is. Generally gatekeeping fandom is just seen as not a great thing to do to people, and that creates other kind of beliefs that are generally upheld as being more inviting/nurturing. After all, if someone truly wants to get better at writing, they can ask, or do courses, but as we all know, everyone has to write some bad stuff to get good at it, but not everyone wants to be good. Folks are in fandom for different reasons. I'm rambling now so I'm going to finish my lunch! :D

[kavalyera]

The worst thing I’ve ever done…if you don’t count the problematic shit I write about, I am actually a very gentle, law-abiding, progressive, and ethical person in real life…but I still think about this girl back in high school. I tried to befriend her because we were both weird nerds before that was cool, but she stabbed me in the back and talked shit about me to a bunch of people for some reason I don’t even remember. Probably just because she was mentally ill. On the surface I didn’t react at all, just ignored her. But I knew her FFN and DeviantArt usernames and I created multiple fake accounts to flame and troll her. Some other people online picked it up and started making fun of her as well (her writing and art were not great but she was just a kid). Finally a long fic with a Mary Sue type self-insert that she’d worked really hard on got sporked, i.e. dissected and mocked line by line on the kind of site that was popular back in the day. She went ballistic, deleted everything, but not before people at school found out and started calling her by her Sue’s name. She got in a physical fight, got suspended and never came back to school, and I heard at one point she’d attempted suicide and got put in a loony bin. If true that might or might not have anything to do with my actions, but I came from a much more stable and privileged background than she did, and am still ashamed that I wasn’t able to be the bigger person.

…Whew. So who’s my character?

This is honestly something Santino would do if he was in middle school circa 2010s and the victim is like John or Gianna😭

( confession + john wick character kin assign )

[adamwatchesmovies]

Vampires Suck (2010)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

While Vampires Suck is an improvement over Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's previous collaborations, this almost makes it worse. There are legitimately funny moments sprinkled here and there in this “Twilight” parody but just when your hopes begin to rise just a little bit, you’re hit with a deluge of groan-inducing pop-culture references, juvenile gags, unimaginative would-be jokes and farts.

Becca Crane (Jenn Proske, doing a good job lampooning Kristen Stewart’s character) moves to Sporks to live with her father, Sheriff Frank (Diedrich Bader). At school, she meets and is immediately smitten by Edward Sullen (Matt Lanter) whom she slowly (very slowly) deduces is a vampire. When he admits his affection for her, they try to build a relationship but how could a blood-sucking monster love a teenage girl?

In the above summary, you can spot one clever touch from the pair responsible for such 0-zero gems as Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans. “Edward Sullen” is pretty spot-on. “Becca Crane”? Not so much. At least it isn’t flat-out unfunny like so many of the film's torturously long scenes. If the film constantly found new ways to be bad it might be entertaining in a demented way, but that threshold is never reached. Most often, the jokes we get are the most obvious you could’ve made. It's as if the writer/directors committed to making the movie without any decent ideas, which is why Vampires Suck gets distracted from its subject matter and instead subjects us to people pretending to be the cast of Jersey Shore, Lady Gaga in a weird costume, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (at least that one's appropriate) and more. Of course, the directors assume you’re an idiot so every joke is spelled-out for you. If you have to explain why it’s funny… it probably isn’t funny.

If all the worthwhile moments in Vampires Suck were stitched together, you’d probably get about 5-minutes’ worth of footage - that's rounding up. It’s a testament to the true incompetence of the filmmakers because the movie doesn’t even parody the entire Twilight series. It stops at Eclipse (which was released the same year) and for this, there’s no excuse. Say what you will about the films based on Stephenie Meyer’s series. I’ve heard people make compelling arguments for the first one and I’ll take it over Fallen, After, Beastly, Red Riding Hood, and the other imitators. Even the most hardcore Twihards must admit what happens in Breaking Dawn is so utterly bizarre it naturally lends itself to jokes. The books were already out when this film was being made. There’s no reason for this spoof NOT to cover what would’ve taken place after Eclipse but instead, we get a non-ending. Were they expecting us to sit through another one of these? @$#%# me.

When your parody of the movie isn’t even as funny as the original, you’ve got problems. Do you want some laughs? Here’s what I recommend you do. Watch the original Twilight and then, do some digging. There’s a little-known, super-cheap, thoroughly incompetently-made knockoff called The Last Vampire on Earth. Watching those two films back-to-back brought my friends and me to tears. As for Vampires Suck, I laughed at Magicwandos' song My Panties but not much else. (On DVD, August 2, 2019)

[darthmaclunkey]

october reads!

- severance by ling ma: holy fuck what do you MEAN this was written in 2018?! uncomfortably prescient and predicted so much of the covid era, but it still had the flavour of an early 2010s setting (hipsters, blogs) and plenty of good commentary on being a millennial. I felt like the ending was maybe a bit rushed but overall this was a 5/5

- venemous lumpsucker by ned beauman: chaotic in a good way, although every so often it veered a little into lol xd random holds up spork territory (I’m reading an iain m banks culture book atm and I think he does this background weirdness very well, by comparison). but I really liked this one and what it had to say about the climate emergency and our responses to it, especially to do with individual guilt (or the avoidance of it)

- chain gang all stars by nana kwame adjei-brenyah (read on kindle): to be honest I thought the writing quality of this was poor, but the concept was so strong and the whole book seethed with urgent anger from start to finish - it almost felt like the idea had just been so compelling and important that it had leapt from a first draft to published without any edits. the melding of real and fiction in the footnotes was a great stylistic choice, I love it when fictional texts are presented in the medium of a real-life historical record. I usually never think this but I fully believe this one would be served well by a faithful live action adaptation

- paladin’s strength by t. kingfisher (audiobook, borrowed from the library): listen I didn’t really vibe with the first one in the series because fluffy romance isn’t exactly my thing, but I DID like the world building and I DO like paladins, so when I saw my library offered them all on audio I was like yeah ok why not let’s continue the series. this was fun, no insightful comments on it, it’s a good solid romance with some delightful unconventional elements. my partner walked into the room one night when I was listening to it on speaker and the line was like “we have to figure out why someone would kidnap these nuns” and he was like “what the fuck are you listening to” and I was like “the nuns are werebears and were kidnapped to fight in a gladiator arena” and he was like “again, what the fuck” which was fun

[girlswhoeatpeople]

is she a 2010s core random quirky spork girl or is she an archetype you made up to make fun of autistic ppl you went to middle school with who didn't know how to mask yet

[the-heaminator]

Equinox

I wrote this 2 and a half years ago and haven't touched it since, reading it makes me hurt inside. At this point I had only read ff net fics from the early 2010s I'm sorry

It was the monthly meeting of the magic trio, everything was in order. Romania was being the master of chaos he is, England was annoyed and Norway was just trying not to get cursed or hexed.

This time they were trying out the gender swap spell, they had been looking forward to it for a while and now that they had the chance to actually complete the spell they were excited, the equinox was upon them.so why the hell not. They had almost set it up, the pentacle was perfect, there were the right herbs and candles, all that needed to be done was the incantation when there was a loud knock on the door. A knock so loud, that it could be heard from all the way down in the basement.

The Englishman was obviously pissed off, so he went upstairs, along with the small bundle of chaos that is Romania to give whoever disturbed them a piece of his mind and received an unexpected surprise, the surprise that Denmark, Prussia and for some reason Hungary were there.

"Why are you here, we have things to be doing," England said, annoyed

"That's exactly why the awesome us are here, to stop you and Norway being such stick-in-the-muds."

"What in bloody hell about Romania then, he is the master of chaos so I don't think you need to do anything to him."

"We do not, but he is nearly as awesome as we are so he will have some fun with the awesome us."

"Romania is not awesome," Hungary said flatly

"Well, neither are you, frying pan," Romania said to Hungary

England yelled for Norway to come up and when the Norwegian came up grumbling and swearing and immediately put on a blank face as soon as he saw the other three.

"Why are you here?" He said rather exasperated "We were in the middle of something."

"Comeee on Norge, let us stay for a bit, we won't annoy you." Denmark did puppy dog eyes and he could tell that they worked on England by the way he looked away.

"Ja, we will just be here until you are done!" Prussia also attempted the puppy dog eyes, but failed miserably and looked like he would stab you in the stomach with a spork

"No, you guys will stay out until we are done, please and thank you," England said dismissively

"OH NO, YOU DON'T," Hungary said, she had her own agenda to be doing right now and she didn't need any more setbacks than they have already. "WE WILL COME IN AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP US."

The magic trio all swallowed and allowed them in, and explicitly told them not to annoy them. Obviously, Prussia and Denmark didn't listen and brought out some alcohol.

You see, this was all a ploy for Hungary to get blackmail material, Prussia and Denmark to get drunk as hell and for them to loosen up their uptight friends.

"Why do you have alcohol?" England asked, eyes narrowing.

"We were here to help you guys loosen up, but apparently you are too busy doing boring stuff to have fun with us!" Prussia said, pouting much like a child.

"Yes but why exactly, whenever you do something remotely nice, it usually means there is some sort of ulterior motive involved."

"I swear this time there isn't,you haven't hung out with us in a while and we want to make sure you are alright." Prussia said with utmost sincerity.

England and Norway were very good at not doing stupid things when people told them to (or so the others thought) so they went back down into the basement Both angrily mumbling something. Romania however stayed up and scrutinised the 3 and asked, "Really, why are you here?"

Gilbert and Mathias both actually wanted to help loosen up their rather uptight friends, and Vlad knew that, he was honestly more worried about Hungary. 

Because it was Hungary. Enough said.

[girlinyourphone]

IT WAS SPORK (2010) !!!!!!!

deliriously searching everywhere for a movie I loved when I was 15 so desperate I even posted on reddit about it 😭 does anyone remember it was about an awkward girl who lived in a trailer and she just wanted to dance and she danced at the end to cars that go boom by l'trimm im going crazy trying to find it

[randompaw90]

"I don't remember 2012!"

[ur-stepdad]

when Adventure Time first aired i kept up with it until around the time finn and flame princess broke up, and now i'm rewatching from the beginning. i'm well into season 5 and i've noticed a few things:

1. princess bubblegum is a bad ruler, and i don't like her as a person. there are areas of the candy kingdom that are totally destitute, including a disgusting little orphanage where all the kids are too depressed to play that she knows about and has been to, she sent a group of young kids she didn't like to live in the lemon kingdom alone, she doesn't value the sanctity of life, and she comes off as a lawful neutral with how she'll manipulate her friends and her people to do what she thinks is right for the greater good

2. i had forgotten that this gif is immediately followed by that lemongrab partially cannibalizing the other one that's off screen

3. this is also about princess bubblegum but cinnamon bun is treated like dirt by his princess just bc he's silly and immature?? he didn't deserve that at all and i'm glad he left to follow a ruler who respects him

4. i don't think the character of finn gets enough credit for being such a good hero. he has a clear moral code that he sticks to, which includes being respectful of all living creatures (him and jake treat cinnamon bun like a friend) including his non-monster enemies. he considers the ice king to be a bad guy and his enemy, but he refuses to attack him unless he's punishing the ice king for a specific crime. when he does something that goes against this code, he always eventually realizes that he's made a mistake and feels bad, trying to make amends (like that episode where he goes nuts wanting to do everything his way)

[thericene]

I made a playlist of 2000s/early 2010s music and was feeling nostalgic and this started as a joke drawing but now I like it. I’m only a little sorry about the glasses.

Daily painting 1204

(ko-fi | commission info)

[junkratsadstuck]

jane crocker was peak early 2010’s teen girl… mustaches, sporks, cupcakes, ron swanson. truly a relic of her time.

[sexhaver]

one of my favorite Internet Posting Phenomena is how people write out "stage directions", which is what ive decided to call those little asides that indicate you're performing an action (usually in the present tense). like "holds up a spork" or "un[VERB]s your [NOUN]". more specifically, im inch rested in the punctuation used to demarcate these asides.

i have a theory that back around 2000 or so, *asterisks* were slightly more popular than (parentheses) for this purpose, with ~tildes~ trailing a distant third. however, with the rise of rich text formatting on forums and blogs, asterisks and tildes were slowly forced into extinction as they became used for formatting bold or strikethrough text instead of their original purpose. tildes and asterisks are almost entirely extinct in the wild today, with the exception of furries who kept sexting via IRC well into the 2010s