#the only thing going for it is nostalgia

[myvisionsblurryhelp]

aaaaalright i have some thoughts about outer banks season 3.

way too little jiara screentime and too much big john screen time. i think i speak for everyone when i say i hate that dude. absolutely ruined john b like that boy was wayyyy better off without him.

also jiara WAS SO DISAPPOINTING i expected more like that kiss was not it like they made it so awkward mmmmmmm

sarah was fine this season??? i mean the cheating part was........... but otherwise she didnt bother me too much this season

mmmmm rafe

pope was kinda forgotten this season. did we all forget he wanted to go and kill a dude???? mf went crazy for an episode there

also they got almost no gold from that cave lets be real that was noooothing and it was all covered up??? do you think it took only 18 months to dig up that whole sight and everything likeee i feel like they couldnt have gotten any richer from it??? and theyre seen as some heroes or whatever but most of those people probably didnt even know about all that stuff

singh was unnecessary ya know

cleo shouldve gotten a bigger part

why did nobody face any consequences like what happened to rafe??? did they find wards body and figured that the story doesnt line up at all??? where tf was wheezie the whole season???

also poguelandia was too short, i feel like the audience didnt get the feeling that they were connected with it and didnt care that much when they left, because no bond was established. jj says he doesnt want to leave but when he does he just doesnt mention it again or seem to be bothered(except having nowhere to live). maybe i just understood it wrong

these are just some scatterbrain thoughts that bothered me a bit there are probably more im just too tired to think of any

[chloesimaginationthings]

Are you more of FNAF or Jojo? (Ofc you will then say, I can be both-)

Why pick when they are so similar/hj

[delicatepointofview]

gonna have to deal with people missing the point of louis singing 1d songs in festivals... don't get me started on the other covers

[vaguely-concerned]

Origins is of course the DA game most closely in conversation with and playing around with Tolkien (right down to the walking talking poetree haha) -- and even more so than most works in the larger western fantasy tradition derived from Tolkien's work that DA:O also hails from and owes a lot of its Stuff to, what makes the game so great to me is that it's doing so very deliberately, and is subverting and deconstructing those tropes and entrenched ideas in some very interesting ways without at all denigrating what it's commenting on. (it doesn't have the almost disdainful undertones of the vein of fantasy that seeks to make the world more 'realistic' ala the more tedious reactions to G.R.R.Martin's work, for example, despite having the darker fantasy bent to it.) among other elements it adopts, what I find the most fascinating is the choice to use the same literary device/conceit Tolkien did in ostensibly only having in-universe biased sources and works to deliver the world through (which I feel is an underappreciated thing about his approach but is part of what makes his world so enduringly compelling and real-feeling -- the feeling of real scholarship devoted/applied to a made-up world. the grounding effect of a good diegetic footnote about source criticism, truly).

many things to be said there, and I'm glad each following game has taken on different perspectives and lenses and traditions to view the world of Thedas through because if you stick with that one too closely for too long I fear we could teeter precariously close to Pratchett's famous and bitingly accurate accusation of most modern fantasy of that era just being about rearranging the furniture in Tolkien's attic lol. and while you could accuse DA2 (my perfect wife who has never done anything wrong in her life to be clear) of many things, that's not one of them, they are pulling on some completely different strings for that one and both the game and DA overall is better for it, to my mind. as so many things in this series: worth staying with and exploring for an installment even if it might get stale if all of it was like this! people are understandably sad about the elements from previous games that they liked which were lost along the way, but that capacity for reinvention is to my mind a huge strength of dragon age as a whole.

(I think Veilguard is coming in as a close second in Tolkien conversation-ness if only in outlining/revealing the worldbuilding that indeed may have been planned since DA:O around the animosity that SHOULD by all rights exist between dwarves and elves in this universe (as per Tolkienesque tradition standards). but doesn't really because you see: politics and the many pitfalls of conservation of knowledge over the ages. our ancestral enmity got semi-intentionally lost between the floorboards of history and you know what. maybe for the best. the humans are already up to so much shit you gotta keep your eyes on them at all times you can't be brawling with each other in the deep roads while they're still around getting up to their nonsense or they'll just pile up even more of it)

[ninashiki]

i feel like almost everything in utena has sort of already been extensively discussed in the last two (almost three) decades of utena's existence (not that there aren't new interpretations to be made, there always are) besides black rose arc (mikage+mamiya+tokiko). which is why they're so much fun to think about. i think the need to read between the lines makes it unfortunately easy to misunderstand or look past obvious stuff if you don't pay attention, but to me it's always been really obvious that mikage's arc is a literal representation of the erasure of queerness in ohtori (society?) by akio/everything he represents. and that's so fucking tragic! nemuro was never able to find a name for his desires. he lived and died as a puppet in the shadows.

[lemongogo]

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[myokk]

Another normal drawing & process video🥹💓

This is one of my favorite drawings I’ve ever done…this was taken some time in the 90s I think…I’m the little girl in the middle😇

With this one, I wanted to push myself to give it a feeling of nostalgia…blending everything together and no harsh edges (hence why I just did horizontal lines the whole piece). Tbh it creates a really interesting effect & i want to keep experimenting like this!!

[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[seancamerons]

sean/emma 📸💙

[possibly-in-wonderland]

i want you all to know that no matter what you are, as long as you're not a dick, i don't care if you follow me.

this blog is a safe place for everyone.

yes. even you.

🫵

i don't care what your gender is. i don't care what your sexuality is. i don't care how many of you there are in one person. i don't care if you're a therian or otherhearted or alter human or any of that. i don't care if sometimes you regress to a younger age or an animal. i don't care if you're an eating disorder blog and just want to follow someone who posts silly things! i don't care about any of it.

as long as you treat people with respect? i could care less.

i just want everyone to know that i love you all.

alright, end post :)

[fruitsyrups]

the worst thing about fionna and cake that nobody talks about is when they say "holy shmow zow". like what the fuck are you talking about. that isn't a thing. i hate it so much, like, inexplicably. actually no it is explicable because its fucking stupid. sorry. im really normal and i have very normal and reasonable feelings about normal things.

[quietwingsinthesky]

youtube stop recommending me that five hour long “fall of doctor who” video challenge. there is not a video i could be less interested in watching.

[fairysylveon]

if you're comparing bl3 or new tales to the movie I'm gonna need a full essay on my desk about why you think they're comparable or I will take you directly to jail

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Still haven't messaged my mom back. And I don't think I'm going to.

[puppppppppy]

Wait another wizard 101 sufferer? Another lost soul sucked into the world's most entertaining grind-game? Another victim of the binge purge cycle where you want to do nothing but play followed by several months of just not caring? Another nostalgia-driven casual gamer reminiscing about when pvp was fun and not a toxic wasteland? Another with several dozen people in their friends list they wish to log in just once more when the binge purge cycles align?

oh i was a club penguin enjoyer. are u okay though

[cigarette-room]

got a notification from a funny post i made in 2022 and realized it had too much notes for my quiet nobody blog so i get into them and all of them were a sweet and funny little conversation i had with someone who isn't a part of my life anymore