#the brutal honesty also

[peanutbutterandsadness50]

Spoilers for ouaw ep. 18 below the cut:

How is Gid insulting the snake wife actually working??? Bro kept doubling down on swearing at them and it’s starting to work??? My guy has so much swagger and down home charm that he’s somehow winning this argument with snakes that want to eat him

[cringengl]

Underrated bitchy Will Byers moment: when a lady calls the party 'exterminators'

I love him sm😭😭😭

[thespoonisvictory]

also idc I love the citadel and all its wizard hubris I love the intersection of innovation and horror and progress and crushing others underfoot AND also clothes that magically put them on themselves and Citadel Made bouncy balls and secret societies and universities!!! and espresso and arcane discovery and and and

[mecchantheotaku]

This line right here is a large part of why Hunted is my favourite Voice. I think about this line a lot, actually.

[dumbassalex]

Ok, as someone who sorta defended The Crow 2024 reboot, and now that i've seen it, i have thoughts about it and i wanna share them... (More under the cut, spoilers ahead)

So firstly i liked the action, it was clear and you could see what's going on and the gore in those scenes was good, so no real issues with the action scenes. I really dug the soundtrack, the songs they chose to play were good and something i'd listen to.

I also like that Shelly had more screentime and got to be more of a character, that was fun and FKA twigs played her well in my opinion. Bill Skarsgard gave a good performance, as basicly always, with his Eric too.

Now my biggest issues is with the story itself, and especialy the pacing, it was SO slow, we spent like half the movie on Eric and Shelly while watching the villians look for Shelly, while also barely any real time has passed for Eric and Shelly, or at least it didn't feel like much of a time has at all passed between Eric and Shelly running away and being murdered.

And even once the couple gets killed by the villians, it takes us like another third of the movie for Eric to really become the Crow, for most of the movie he's just Eric with healing powers, and only becomes The Crow right before the opera scene, whitch is way too long for something based on a comic that's mostly just Eric being The Crow and hunting Shellys killers.

Another thing i dislike is the villians and their story, the original idea for the villians was just a group of street criminals coming across Eric and Shelly on a random day in the rain as their car broke down and deciding on a whim to do what they did, that was the tragedy, that it was random, senseless and didn't have to happen if a single thing happened differently. And changing it to a group of rich people hunting Shelly specificaly due to an incriminating video is such an odd change, along with the change to give the main villian superpowers.

Another thing that i feel like is a big difference between the comic and the movie is that the movie is very literal and very open about Eric coming from the death, healing super fast and there being supernatural entities and superpowers, while in the comics it was all more lowkey with Eric not feeling pain and healing slower than what the movies show, with his walking around wounded and scarred, the crow talking being in his head, same for the skeleton cowboy and the vision of the white horse that was a metaphor for the conflict of the story, it was a random senseless act that Eric had no control over yet he couldn't leave it be and blames himself for what happened.

In the movie it's a literal thing that happened to child Eric and doesn't set up his character arc and personal conflict of not blaming himself and moving on. Whitch was WHY he came back for revenge, because he was angry, blamed himself and couldn't move on, something he was only able to do at the end when he died at Shellys grave.

Whitch brings another change i disliked, the ending, the original ending of the comics is about Eric finaly being at peace and being able to move on and die, joining Shelly in the afterlife. But in the movie the reason he keeps going on is from pure love (somehow he felt such love after such short time) that can waver and make him loose his powers until making a deal for Shelly soul and becoming The Crow, bringing Shelly back to life while Eric stays dead. That just kinda misses the point, there wasn't no coming back and living again, it was about Eric having to come to peace and move on, it was a bittersweet ending but it was fitting the story and the themes, but just like the white horse methaphor, the movie ignores that.

So all in all, as a movie it's alright, but as a Crow adaptation it's overall kinda awfull in most ways. If you enjoyed the movie, good for you, but i personaly didn't really like it as a Crow adaptation and think it could've been much better. One thing i will give the movie for sure tho, is that it skipped Shellys assault, something i think wasn't entirely neccecary to motivate Eric to do what he did.

[thousandyearphantombunker]

"just give them an aac device!"

"just teach them sign language"

"body language and facial expressions alone are good enough for communicating what you need"

Nonononono f*!k off. Stop acting like nonverbal people have easy solutions to their lack of verbality. Not everyone can use an aac device- some people struggle with spelling or can't spell at all, some people have motor skills issues that makes typing a nightmare that takes a long time, some can't articulate themselves without outside help. Learning sign is hard if you again have motor skills issues or struggle to make facial expressions that convey what your feeling (flat affect applies to more than just a person's voice- some people really struggle to make facial expressions and have stilted or strange body language- you people can understand why autistic people get burnt out from masking all day- you know often having to control their body language and make certain facial expressions etc yet you can't understand why nonverbal autistics can't just learn sign- a language very heavy on facial expressions and expressive body language?) also again spelling and motor skill issues are a pain and also a lot of families with deaf or nonverbal children refuse to learn sign for said children and I'm sorry in day to day life I haven't met many people who speak sign- yeah you can move to a community with a lot of deaf or nonverbal people that use sign but that's not always possible and its very limiting. And do I even have to explain the third one- autistic body language is confusing to neurotypicals and I hate the stereotype that its just so blunt and obvious/better than neurotypical communication- maybe that's what its like for you and your 'smart sheldon cooper/Wednesday Addams' style autism but not every autistic person 'says exactly what they mean' often times autistic people struggle with semantics and articulating sentences that make any sense! and all these misunderstandings surrounding stimming are annoying to!- spinning can be a 'happy' stim but it can also mean your overwhelmed or understimulated, a lot of people with autism have voices that lack inflections, mix that in with being unable to use words and no it does not help communicate their needs- f!*k off with acting like its easy not all autistic people who are nonverbal can spell, not all autistic people w are nonverbal have good motor skills and body language alone is never enough to convey a persons needs. Before anyone comes after me yes Sign is body language but its also actual symbols and can convey full thoughts and ideas and sentences and also body language is hard for a lot of autistic people to convey like stated above.

Not every form autistic communication is being 'logical' and unoffended because 'we're just more logical than those superfluous, shallow neurotypicals that let their feelings control them and are never direct about what they want-we value facts and logic unlike those butthurt neurotypicals' and being overly blunt- no a lot of autistic people find that communication is messy and the ways they can communicate are ineffective and your 'logical, facts dont care about your feelings' style of communication isn't as amazing as you think it is. Stop speaking over nonverbal autistics- their is no real perfect solution to them not being able to speak. And I'm gonna say it- while not all nonverbal people are low functioning or high support needs or whatever the new term is-being nonverbal is a massive disadvantage and having your disability be visible like that is scary in many situations and being unable to communicate your needs can make it impossible to meet your needs-

[the---hermit]

10|06|2023

33/50 days of productivity

I am regressing to my high school self while studying for these exams and I don't like it. I feel tired and frustrated and I just want to cry and sleep, and I have not felt like this in so long, and I don't want it. I am again spiraling into thinking that I am going to fail my exams, and even though I am rationally aware it's just my tired brain bullying me I cannot make it shut up. I have studied terribly today, all I want to do is sleep, and I didn't even to everything I had planned. And on top of everything the professor of the exam I'll have to take on Monday hasn't emailed us yet the time of the exam, so I have no idea how much time to review I'll have that morning, with my commute and all. I have a bad feeling tomorrow I will have to do some studying even though I had promised to myself that Sundays are only rest days.

Productivity:

reviewed out loud the second half of my history of religions notes since it's the one that is making me struggle the most

finished my list of key words for the same exam

asked a friend to help me with a couple of things I wasn't sure about

Self care:

read first thing in the morning (I finished the chapter I started at the beginning of the week, I am so tired I can't even read uuugh)

went out to eat sushi with my mom (one of the smalls joys of today especially because I didn't have any anxiety symptoms while eating, which is one of the fun things my body has been doing to me lately. but today was all good and I really enjoyed my food so yay for my body collaborating)

went to the bookstore and got myself a new graphic novel I heard nothing about before (since I have no brain to read maybe a graphic novel is the right thing for me, I also plan on looking for one when I go to the city to take my exams next week, but today I did like I used to when I was younger and I just picked something I know nothing about that seemed exciting!)

[visualbrainrot]

My words are brutal

A dull knife dragging down shivering skin

My metaphors violent and archaic,

Beaten and bloody, flayed and twisted

My vulnerability a starved, rabid dog

Biting at heels of its owner, licking and drooling at the taste of drawn blood

I am not kind, I kick and I stab and I gnaw and I punch and I weep and I consume, quickly, mercilessly, savagely. I peel my flesh from the bones of my soul as I perch myself upon the plastic hooks in my glass display case. Bent, untethered and grotesque for everyone one to see, to feast and weep and wonder.

I am never more relentless, or ruthless, or vicious than when gazing at a mirror in solitude. The transmutation of this introspection is the final brutality, as I spill my blood from pen to paper.

[hiveruled-moved]

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●●●○○ | INTEREST

●●●○○ | LOYALTY (she's klaus's family, so of course! but kai is loyal to klaus first and foremost.)

●○○○○ | TRUST

[spookeyzesty]

hey guys quick question am i ( as a 19yr old ) being stupid for trying to hook up with .. someone whos age i dont know .. . ( hes older, hes already got a bachelors.. so like at LEAST 22 yrs old.. ) is this stupid am i dumb is this going to backfire

[luciality]

shout out to the goth girl from last night who didnt realize her goth mother named her after the lost boys character. thanks for letting me grope your tits while we danced im gonna jerk off to that for the next week

[lazitoelgato]

Talking w friends:

Me: honestly I miss school a lot, I miss you guys, we were so silly in class. Can't forget those Design class laughing out loud with our designs... Pfttt still can believe I survived the year

Friend1: Me neither, you were pretty zombie but yeah

Friend2: Agreed, why did you decide to still going to class ?

Me: Wait I was that bad ?!

Both Friends: *nods without hesitation* Yep.

[true-blue-sonic]

Which game/media do you think portrays Silver best?

The games, by a landslide, and for me especially those just before and just after 2010. I'd say Sonic Channel as well, but that information seems more difficult to access for non-Japanese fans, but generally I am quite in agreement with how he is portrayed there as well.

Personally, I like different games that Silver is in for portraying different aspects of him. For example, '06 nicely dives into the fact that he really very badly wants to make things better for his world, but is easily misguided through that desire. In the same vein, it also shows his stubbornness and ability to never give up and keep persevering no matter how dire the circumstances become, while simultaneously portraying him as someone who easily marvels at the small things and who can be very helpful. The Rivals games meanwhile dive deeper into his stubbornness, though interestingly enough, he's never misguided there. He is basically the first character (and among the only, too) to piece together the truth about "Eggman" through clever deduction and putting together of information that does not entirely align otherwise! But it also shows off his uncooperative attitude towards people who he perceives as being against him, his absolute brutal honesty that is so outlandish people are not inclined to believe him immediately, and a more gentle and kind nature towards those who cannot fight back and those who are willing to help him.

Colours DS and Generations meanwhile do not have Silver in a main role and he is not fighting to protect the future there, so these show a much calmer and more collected, perhaps even cheerful, side to Silver. In Colours DS he's friendly towards Sonic and Tails, he coordinates very well with Blaze despite not remembering her, and he's altogether just a lot more mellow; while still remaining his slightly smug and generally confident self. And in Generations, he's got an imo amazing boss battle and you can just tell he's truly enjoying himself and having fun. Both of these games also show his stubborn nature, honesty, and occasional slightly overkill treatment of a situation (Meteor Smash, haha), but they show as well that in a calmer situation Silver is a very friendly and helpful person, but not at all a pushover. I wouldn't even say he's got many cinnamon roll-ish qualities to him in those games! But overall, the games are my favourite portrayal of him, and many of the attributes Sonic Channel portrays to him can be seen in there as well, in my opinion.

[byanyan]

WHICH AESTHETIC COLOR ARE YOU?

oxblood

ㅤYou are fearless, honest, and you stick to your guns. You pride yourself on your honesty, and on being true to your values even in difficult situations. Others admire your grit, and those who can handle it appreciate your bluntness. Your friendships are ride-or-die, and your loved ones would destroy the goddamn sun for you. To put it simply: you're lowkey punk. Just remember that softness is not the same as weakness, and that it's ok to be a little more forgiving-- toward others, but also toward yourself.

tagged by:ㅤ@gumpistol ♡

[neeasworld]

really have to talk myself into holding my tongue sometimes bc i’m honest to a fault and it is not for the faint of heart

Honest to a fault? Can you give an example?

idk i guess like if someone asks me for advice on something they’re doing i’m not afraid to tell them they’re stupid if i think it’s a stupid move they’re trying to make lol

[pancakehouse]

physically nauseous sick to my stomach the pain of a thousand exploding suns an agony never to be recovered from a fate worse than the pits of tartarus (<- girl who’s just read back her old work)