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I finally watched breaking bad (all within the past week or so while I worked, finished it and watched el camino last night) and I'm confident this isn't a new thought I'm expressing or anything but genuinely how DID an entire generation of dudes convince themselves Walter White was cool and admirable and intended to be sympathetic. I know ppl just lack media literacy sometimes but I'm still so confused
I don't think I've EVER watched a piece of media that so blatantly depicts a guy making the worst possible decisions at every turn and having his life ruined for it and not being redeemed or made sympathetic in any significant or lasting way. the kinds of justifications villains USUALLY give that make people consider them "morally grey" or "tragic" or whatever (everything I did was for my loved ones, I did what I had to to survive, once I was in this I couldn't get out, I just needed you to trust me so I could keep you safe, etc etc) is ALWAYS framed as complete self-serving bullshit when Walt says it, and one of the only shreds of personal growth he ever exhibits in the whole series is when he finally fucking admits that. every time he does something even remotely cool or drops a quotable one-liner, something terrible immediately happens that makes everything worse and makes him look like an unreasonable idiot asshole again. by the end of the series the ONLY characters they can still contrast as being morally "worse" than him are literally a bunch of bloodthirsty neonazis who kept a guy in a cage for several months. this show is practically SCREAMING at you the entire time not to admire Walt. why did every dude I knew in highschool have his face on tshirts and Facebook pfps.
I just don't get it. at least with The Dark Knight's Joker it was like, a feature-length movie and that's it. you spend a lot less time with the Joker and it has a lot less time to delve into his motivations, so there's way more room for flanderization and misinterpretation as people extrapolate the few cool/interesting/sad things they saw into a whole nuanced misunderstood guy in their heads and online. Walter White has 5 seasons' worth of 45min episodes to convince you beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is a miserable fucking loser who ruins everything he touches because of greed and selfishness. if you weren't watching it for that, what WERE you getting out of this. what DID you think this show was about. am I just missing some key piece of context from 2012 or whatever that would help me understand this
#buny text#breaking bad#also I'm vaguely aware there was a big movement of fans who blamed everything on his wife and said she was the worst#which like. obvious misogyny from the primary audience of teen boys and young men aside#she's not really worse than any of the other adult characters?? she sucks real bad in the first couple seasons but so does everyone else#half the point of having all these characters be so shitty and rigid and unwilling to grow or accommodate others is so that#they can serve as landmarks to show how rapidly walt is abandoning his morals and spiraling into self-justification as the series goes on#the people you hate in season 1 are largely people you sympathize with in season 4 and 5 because compared to walt they're saints#idk. it's just weird having grown up around the fan culture for this show for the past decade or so and then finally watching it#and just being completely baffled now that i know what they were responding to
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Ben and Uncle Luke
#ben solo#kylo ren#luke skywalker#i have a little moment i really want to animate with them#but it also makes me want to curl up in a little ball and cry so we'll see lol#skywalker family drama#leia trying to deal with these three boys#“the fun uncle”#sketches#i have grown very fond of the 'ben with a padawan braid' concept
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boop! 💙🤍
#drawing this reset me as a person my my crops are watered and my skin is clear#this is the most wholesome thing ive ever made in my entire life#based on the one panel from the mlp comic where theres sonilver hedgehogs in the background being absolutely adorable#i made. the lineart so cute and i was so worried about the rendering but im actually. pleased with it.#thank u silver your cuteness made my self criticism leave for a while....#this didnt even start out as really ship art but god they are so cute. what the hell. i need to go look at sonilver art.#i love silver...hes such a good guy#i recently read gotf and my love for him has grown tenfold (you can also probably see the inspiration in my colouring)#i am making a gotf fanart soon!!! i have a little sketch cooked up#it is sonadow as expected of course#anyways!! here are the two best boys for you#sonic the hedgehog#silver the hedgehog#sonilver#my art
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Love, Dhes
Parker,
It's unfair how time with you feels so short. How the last 10 years have felt like no time at all. I like to think there are other versions of us out there, somewhere. Maybe in another timeline, another universe. I like to think we find each other no matter where we are or what we're doing. That we're together and happy and I get to love you in a dozen different lifetimes. That's what I hope, anyway. And I hope when this lifetime ends, we get to start over and do it all again. Because once just isn't enough. Not for me. Not with you.
I hope the next 10 years pass slower.
Love, Dhes
#ts4#simblr#ts4 edit#ts4 render#sims 4#myedits#sue#dhestyn#kelly#bow#stella#duder the cat#marky#jax#i'm not fucking recovering from this#critical damage has been dealt to me#GODDDDDD this edit took me so LONG.#the GOOD news is there ARE other versions of them & they DO in fact find each other in every universe !!#whether or not they are happy though. well. that's a different story#cough monster boyz. cough slaughter house.#:-)#ngl a lot of the time i was working on this edit all i could think about was how much dhes has grown as a character#like baby dhes genuinely was such a punk. wouldn't be caught DEAD writing a love letter#let alone to kelly of all people#idk i'm just proud of him. seeing him so comfortable with himself... how he's able to show that to others & not feel afraid or ashamed...#it's really sweet!!!#like ik y'all don't know a whole lot about the boys as kids (bc i'm v protective of them so i don't share a lot lol) but trust me.#dhes has come a long way.#genuinely feel like i have watched him grow & learn & change & it does. give me feelings.#n e way. that's it.
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We love an oblivious y/n
y/n: ( Aww, they really prioritize their guests and making their experience more personal <3
WP Sun: ( Isn’t it amazing!!! Do you love it? :D Don’t you wanna stay here forever :DDD
#don’t worry the boys actually have a plan#Sun is very proud about all the work they have put into the park/resort and how much they have accomplished#the love their job#Sun especially#one big change for him since then is learning to overcome challenges#he now loves a good challenge in a project and even welcomes it because of what he can learn from it#y/n sees Suns passion and really admires it#great seeing how much both of you have grown and I like to think the park reflects that#and it will continue to grow!#alright now tags#waterpark au#dca au#Waterspark bay#Waterspark bay au#crunch art#still reading tags??? Hi Hello Hi!!!!!!
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Oh, help me God, this hellboy got me coming back for more
reblogs super appreciated !!! close-ups under the cut !
#south park#south park fanart#stan marsh#shroomer's art !#shroomer's archives: south park#artists on tumblr#my ramblings + thought process starts here (warning. its a lot) vvvvvvvvvvvvvv#"heyyyyy shadowww. its mee. da devil.#the amount of eyestrain i went through while rendering this#gradient maps!!! are so fun!!! (they are not i hate them so much)#lots to improve on still. but that's for next time!#the process of making this was so arduous.... but i learned a lot i feel#(and also if i had spent any more time working on this i would have actually lost it)#BUT YIPPEEEEE HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAN MARSH THE LOSER BOY I CANT BELIEVE I FINISHED THIS ON TIME#2 days in advance too by the time the queue uploads it#anyways.... stupid loser boy stan marsh..... i found out his birthday was coming up soon#and i had this idea sitting in my head for like.... 2 weeks i think#popped up when i was listening to lexie liu's album the happy star and the song diablo came up#and i thought wait.... doesnt stan get possessed by satan at some point#and so here we are!!#I ACTUALLY RECENTLY WATCHED THE EPISODE TOO AND THE THEME OF THE SONG FIT THE THEME OF THE EPISODE CRAZY WELL AS WELL#sometimes my genius is almost frightening#anyways this emotionally sensitive animal lover boy has really grown on me over the course of the series <3#i still havent.... finished cartman's sheet.....#the self designated deadline i gave myself of 2 weeks is coming up soon and erm. guh.#dies#this took so much effort and brainpower that needed to be allocated to my assignments.......#but its ok!!! im gonna sell this as a print!!! so its kind of!! productive!!#guh i hope this one performs well sob theres this nagging feeling i have that its not gonna do well at all#try painting some funky lighting + greyscale painting she said. it'll be fun she said.
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I haven't drawn Floyd that much take some warmups
#rainyart#trolls#trolls branch#trolls floyd#trolls band together#ceo of drawing things a million people probably have but IDFC!!!! the song literally came into my shuffle as i was drawing the first slide#AND IT HURT REAL GOOD SO I HAD TO OKAY#i have so many thoughts about floyd i kinda tried to convey the vibe of a fucking 10-12 year old kid whos grown up in a very very fucking#disfunctional household who knows he's doing a really horrible thing but he is just SO fucking tired. SO tired and needs to get away#and man i GET IT okay. i get it. why wouldnt he wanna get away okay! of COURSE he would wanna get out and establish himself/figure out who#he is outside of a group! without a label to define how he acts!#oh my fucking GODDDD#but my boy..... branch.... branch!!!!!1! 😭😭😭💔💔💔#anyways anyways anyways. yap sesh over ill see you all next time teehee 😁💥 *kicks my feet*#if u read all that. we r kissing
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fatherhood hit Taro hard
#saw too much mebius as taro's kid fanart so i cant help myself#taro is tired#idk how to draw#my art#ultraman#ultraman mebius#ultraman taro#ultraman taiga#watching mebi teaching someone in ugf make me really proud#my boy is all grown up now#forgot to draw taro's bracelet#and his chestplate but that one is intentional#i only have little sanity left and i wont spend it all drawing taro chest
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digging into the little avatars that some riders have.... all of them are so cute and representative of their riders... im only gonna talk about a few here but i might add more later !
vale: cartoony turtle. the first to do this as far as i can tell! originated from a toy turtle (i think a teenage mutant ninja turtle lmao) that his mom gave him as a kid that he mounted on his helmet. classiccccc vale, very ironic and tongue-in-cheek, tattooed on his body in the funniest place possible, and of course the joke relies on the audience knowing that he's the fastest dude in the room ! very in-character choices all
marc: fire ant. he said i am tiny. he said i am SMALL. he said i am fierce and strong for my size... not a classically fierce choice but nonetheless makes a lot of sense to me ! also very funny that the intial design for the ant was made by vale's helmet guy, though i think he's moved towards the sharper design in recent years post-divorce and the legal stuff with its image rights... fun post about marc choosing it as his mascot by @frongsonabike here (also a very deeply catalan choice, according to @babynflames !)
bez: scorpion !!!!! this man is undeniably keyed into astrology lmao. hes a scorpio and he LOVESSSS IT. absolutely fascinating implications for his character on that, considering scorpios are a sign that catches a lot of flack. like. he looked at a list of scorpio traits and said omg me fr i need to convert this into a branding opportunity...
cele. the WAVEEE literally iconic to me. fits him SO well imo. serene. immutable. undeniably and probably unintentionally hilarious when used as punctuation. my favorite of these in the graphic design sense and i love that he changed FUCK ALL about it design-wise when he moved to KTM. also very cute that the 13 on his bike looks like the bottom of a pool!
fabio. el diablo !!! very fun considering i think hes the biggest lover boy on the grid but hes also FASTTT so i get it, its baddass etc. i DO think he would prefer the devil emoji on instagram to be red but that has been cruelly denied from him by apple.
#theres more... i think its fun that enea's is a more amorphous 'beast' character...#jorge lorenzo CLEARLY working through some masculinity issues with the spartan (gay ass...) and dani as a honda boy with the samurai...#i think its fun!#and also interesting when you consider who DOESNT have a mascot or like. really complicated helmet designs...#like luca or alex. or people who have developed the artistic stuff as theyve grown older like pecco.#his helmet is wayyy more complex this year its NEAT#motogp#callie speaks
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...I should be editing my dissertation but now I'm thinking about how both Azula and Katara are perhaps the most "adultified" of the atla characters and...hmm. Interesting.
#something something about the primary female characters getting treated like grown women while the boys...aren't so much#except maybe toph...who is the least feminine of the girls#I mean all of these kids have to grow up fast and deal with responsibilities no child should be shouldering#aang sokka and zuko all deal with this don't get me wrong#but all of them have a lot more allowance for childish moments#iroh provides zuko the space to be...if not an ordinary teen than to at least express his emotions like a teenage boy#aang is constantly granted spaces to be childish and carefree#and sokka has always had katara looking out for him which allows him to be free from the parentification she was saddled with#meanwhile toph's entire arc is about connecting with the freedoms she wasn't granted as a kid in her home#so she's allowed to be wild and crazy and her desire for that is even explored in one episode#with there being some acknowledgement that she actually DOES appreciate katara's 'motherliness'#but katara is rarely allowed a moment to be a kid and it is arguably only in the first episode that aang even comments on that#and azula never gets a moment of levity#even in the beach she's not really granted the space to be as carefree as zuko mai and ty lee#...anyways get these girls a mother figure please#let girls be girls and not young women#atla
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ao3 down for the next 10 hours 😔 it’s only 7pm my time 😔 how am i going to fall asleep without being forced into a blue-light induced coma from reading about my precious blorbos being put into situations 😔
#ao3#ao3 fanfic#archive of our own#fanfic#ao3 shutdown#😔✌️#blorbo#haikyuu#aftg#i have exclusively been reading andriel and kagehina#going FUCKING insane#oh i lied#i read most haikyuu#not sakuatsu#sorry#not really#but andriel#my loves#my boys#my poor grown men#andrew mortars#neil josten#foxhole court#the foxhole court#andreil#kageyama tobio#hinata shouyou#kagehina#bokuto koutarou#akaashi keiji
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i have such a morbid fascination with those weird reddit dudes who rate their attraction to a woman by working out the ratios and proportions of her features. i want to know if it has ever occurred to them that this is not how other people experience attraction
#ik theyre awful misogynists but a part of me really feels bad for them#there’s definitely a chunk of them who do it bc they resent beautiful women#and kinda self-soothe by ‘proving with numbers’ that these women arent ACTUALLY attractive and they dont want them anyway#but i always wonder how many of them truly just dont feel attraction when looking at women#so they use the numbers as some sort of proxy#bc We Live In A Society that kinda tells boys that if ur not pursuing and getting women then ur not a real man or whatever#im not saying theyre right but i can follow the lines of thought of that second genre of guy#where ur pushed the idea of Getting With A Woman so much but you dont actually want to get with a woman#so you end up with resentment towards women#idk.#anyway this all mostly applies to the very young ones#i have little time for grown adults who use society as an excuse to continue making society suck
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Putting this out there because it keeps coming up in my mind: Roy having been loved as a footballer by the queer community since he was in his 20s. He's not out or anything, but somehow he got chosen as a community favourite maybe cause he punched a homophobe once or cause pictures of him doing coke with drag queens came out and he's been spotted at G.A.Y. trough the years. He's never had an issue with it and with being supportive as that's just being a decent human being, doesn't mind all the pretty boys telling him he's their favourite and having his poster up in their rooms, even the ones who don't know nothing about football.
#I don’t know what this is really#I do feel like he doesn't have a problem being supportive but it doesn't apply to himself#cause he's grown up in a very toxic masculinity internalized homophobia environment#i just like to picture him surrounded with pretty boys#and being the pretty boy around some bad ass drag queens#roy kent
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ough. just finished 100%ing the help wanted dlc, corn maze ending and all. i am so excited to never have to play another fuckin plushbaby level for the rest of my life god bless
#it's cool seeing how steel wool has improved over time#like not only with how they improved from security breach to ruin#but with how they improved from hw1 to hw2. i liked hw1 but. hw2 is so much more polished and adapted WAAAY better to flat mode#............ and also hw2 doesn't have hw1's plushbaby levels. they have some levels inspired by em but. boy howdy they're Better.#they've grown a lot since hw1 is my point!! it's been neat seeing that for myself while playing the games all outta order hehe#i'm real excited to see more from the team. the most impressive thing to me across their games so far has been their creativity!#very cool visuals and settings and really fun ways of storytelling#like the princess quest ending in hw2?? i'll never ever get over that ehehe#that's why i'm real excited for secrets of the mimic. bc they've rly demonstrated that they can make games that knock my socks off :3#thank u for coming to my ted talk ldkslkfdj#fnaf /
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Never gonna be over how unutterably pathetic and in dire need of ANY kind of companionship or friendship that doesn't revolve around their band the entirety of dethklok are. I love these horrible idiots who are so devoid of any real connections outside of themselves that they will latch onto anyone unfortunate enough to get too close to any one of them! And GOD help anyone they latch onto!!
#jay talkin#metalocalypse#im thinking about the doubles episode where they just seem genuinely happy to have 'friends'#who arent like. industry people. these men are so starved of any kind of connection#and it takes them four seasons a rock opera and a movie to realise they can find that in each other lmao#also thinking about how quickly any of them bond and become really intense abt anyone in their life#aka: NATHAN TOWARDS ABIGAIL. oh dear poor abigail oh dear#but also toki to damn near anyone and this goes for the entire band tbh as well they all do this at least once#and yeah its mainly cuz 10min eps mean u gotta progress stuff fast#but also holy shit. charles these boys want friends so bad u gotta set em up on playdates or smth#maybe it'd get some of their dumb stupid idiot energy out and they'd be better behaved. well. no they wldnt but... u can dream#i do think theres smth to be said that yeah all of dethklok are cool theyre metal superstars they r good at what they do#theyre also fucking prophesised saviours too and theyre also incredibly dangerous idiots and terrible ppl#but never forget that they are also. so so SO pathetic and isolated and dysfunctional#these men have not lived in the real world in decades and are disconnected and unsocial and spoilt and u can see that this does impact#the way they interact w the world! they need like. anything other than the band in their lives hah. they do need to pal around#im glad they find that in each other eventually!!#i dont want 2 sound like im babying them or infantilising them these r grown asshole idiot men but like. listen these shitheards r lonelyyy#everyone in their lives is like. assigned to be there and is set as beneath them in a class and workbased system#they dont rlly have ppl who r just there cuz they like em. outside of fans. and fans arent rlly a real connection yknow#their only connections come via work networking sex and violence and worship baby!!!! its fucked up!
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so, fellow aspec people, what are y'all's relationship to gay as an umbrella term? I've seen a lot of aroace people call themselves gay despite *technically* not being, and personally I've always been confused by that
(and also— I'd imagine that aroallo or alloace people who are gay for their other orientation would automatically include themselves with that term, but what about the arohets and acehets? how do y'all feel about the use of gay as an umbrella term?)
I'm just curious about other people's experiences bc i as an aromantic person feel rather uncomfortable being grouped in as gay because I've never been attracted to another man before, but anecdotally i seem to be in the minority
#I'm sure it might also have something to do with some internalized transphobia of ''well if i think of myself as adjacent to straight rathe#than adjacent to gay that means I'm more masculine and thereof more of a man''#< not true but.#although it could also be that i have a little more in common with straight trans guys than gay ones#having grown up not being attracted to boys when i was expected to be#(just minus the Woman attraction part obv)#aromantic#aspec#asexual#non sam aro#aro#aroallo#aroace#ace#alloace#gay#lgbt#queer#idk. sexuality and labels and stuff are confusing#thats why ive stuck with just 'aromantic' and not even bothered to try and figure out my sexuality really#I'm not interested in sleeping with anyone so why do i need to know lol#maybe I'm asexual‚ maybe I'm repressing it bc internalized homophobia (in either direction)‚ maybe I'm mistaking dysphoria for dislike of i#again#who knows. not me#yall dont have to respond to my tag rant lol; i wanted to give some extra context and then it got away from me. oops
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