#this could have been phrased better

[helenvader]

I think there would be much less drama if people could do this:

1. Be both invested into a show and, at the same time, be able to not take themselves 100% seriously.

I'm both forever analysing Mairon and at the same time mercilessly poke fun at him, and enjoy both serious and hilarious takes of others. I would actually be very disappointed if there was no unhinged humour.

2. Take distance from their own takes. I love Mairon, I even feel sorry for him, but I do not pretend he's not a horrible bastard who's hurting people in inexcusable ways. Hence, I'm not going to rage when somebody is not in love with him as I am (which is, to be honest, an approach that makes much more sense, but I don't choose my blorbos, they choose me).

3. Understand that the show is not just about their blorbo / ship.

Mairon would surely agree. Or not.

[pixiesnooze]

me understanding content from 3 groups within a fandom cause i’m trilingual

[pencil-for-a-dog]

Me when I realize the entire series is about how the social pressure creates fake images that people are forced to live in because of that same pressure, slowly killing them inside, until a person has the mentality to break the mold and that's reppresented by him climbing the hero ranks and it also talks about how lies aren't the answer because they hurt the innocents that fall into that toxic web. A story full of metaphors of how the social hierarchy mixed with capitalism and similar economic models end up dehumanising the public figures until they're nothing but their names and brands without the ability to become human once again until they die, metaphorically or literally: Damn, Ling Lin is the representation of overworked man, he doesn't know how to stop working, anyways, his smile- nedjhasdvjbd

[iphigeniacomplex]

the cultural figure of the clown in post-wwii america is relevant to consider when discussing the themes of IT. following the family separation and civic duty foisted onto children during the war, there's something to be said for the way clowns (representing a sort of carefree silliness) were pushed increasingly toward child audiences, popping up in advertising and children's television quite a bit during the post-war economic boom. when georgie denbrough encounters the monster in the storm drain, he's able to draw from these associations (bozo the clown and clarabelle from howdy-doody are both referenced by name) to assure himself that the situation is a safe one, despite his fear. this is safe, because clowns are everywhere. this is safe, because adults say it is. the clown is obviously an uncanny figure, but at this point in pop culture young children around georgie's age don't really have language to justify any discomfort. so the way that IT as a novel looks back on the 50s as a simultaneously nostalgic and anti-nostalgia work, openly considering various forms of abuse protected by social structure of that era, ultimately comes back to this first confrontation in a gutter swollen with rain.

[mudstoneabyss]

actually. the specific phrasing that boy Kevin wants to kill older Kevin with "I must disassemble him, piece by piece, so that everything inside of the Old Kevin comes out. Only then can the New Kevin truly begin." is so incredibly the idea that to heal from trauma and "improve" you have to destroy every "wrong" part of yourself, that everything "tainted" by it has to somehow be replaced by something untouched (which isn't possible)

[foxstens]

i think it's a fucking tragedy how we get two versions of the last ravens vs foxes game

but neither of them has a single line about kevin after he scores the winning shot

[callmehere-iwillappear]

yall i got my first ever 'update when' comment today whats up. am i part of the cool kids club now

[aroace-polyshow]

ummm revamped showtime at 25 mafuyu thoughts. smth smth her mom was a struggling actress who gave up on it and i am debating on whether she immediately pushes mafuyu to do acting as a way of living vicariously through mafuyu’s future success or her initially not allowing mafuyu to act bc she believes its a pointless and worthless thing to pursue from her own experience but then she sees actual potential in mafuyu and the way people praise her and decides to let her act. either way bc of her past failure she really pressures mafuyu into aiming for fame and stardom and performing on big famous stages when mafuyu originally only wanted to make people smile with shows. mafuyu then loses this true passion for shows and forgets why she wanted to do them at all like her whole thing in canon. yeah

[perilegs]

interesting

[hafwen]

Today’s the last night of the meal train and I know the lady running it is trying to be nice but maybe needs to work on her phrasing

She texted me asking, “now that life’s not as busy do you still need the meal train?”

I know what she’s trying to say but I had to have my husband help me say something polite

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

I don’t get why people feel like the Duolingo owl is threatening, if I ever feel like he is I just get mad at him. I could fight an owl. I don’t know if I’d win, but I don’t think I’d lose (two things that can apparently coexist). I think I’d survive at least and that’s not really winning but also not losing.

You wanna be so threatening? Da bør du drepe meg!

[spyglassrealms]

@ominous-signs was just reminded of this ominous sign spotted on the Chicago metro in 2021. (photo taken by @kagansune and shared with permission)

[fa-i-ze]

Oh, I understand it now

[totheidiot]

L CLOCKED KIRA AS AN EXHIBITIONIST I AM CRYING ??????

[wanderingmind867]

I want to know about mythologies besides the ones rick riordan covered, but it's hard to get into it without his writing style. Or without the writing styles of some of the people he promotes. Like, the rick riordan presents books can be good. But i haven't read many of them. Maybe when the school year returns in september i'll get around to reading some of those books (i am a bit nervous for going back to school for full days, but i can vent about that again later).

Because i do want to know more about Indian mythology, Aztec mythology, Mayan mythology, Celtic mythology, etc. Because besides knowing some names from these pantheons (like Quetzalcoatl and Shiva and some others), I don't actually know much about them. And that's a shame. At the very least, I want an easily digestible guide to mythology sorted by country and continent and culture and all that. That would be helpful for someone like me.

[divine-knight-hand]

My moms: *Lecturing me on the fact that sex is normal and insisting that the idea of me feeling no sexual attraction to anyone isn’t, and is in actually (by their standards) weird*

Me, a secret horndog and smut writer, realizing that I may have tricked them into thinking I was still sex-repulsed a little too well: