#this is ominous as fuck tho

[that-unfortunate-crow]

STAY CALM!

EVERYBODY STAY FUCKIN CALM!!!

[fr3ckl3z]

Kurt is a catboy to me but not in the "uwu smol catboy bean" sense, more in the sense that he would knock shit over on purpose and stare at you ominously from the corner

[mourn-and-watch]

I genuinely think that the best concept mass effect introduced is that your face decomposes in a sexy villainous way when you worsen your mental state by being rude and committing war crimes

[snailfen]

finally catching up on inanimate insanity invitational! i left things off on episode 4 like forEVER ago. and i forgot how much this show kills me

same energy as "youre a nasty little sewage boy, arent you doctor freeman?"

ALSO <:) THEYRE FRIENDDSSSSSSSSSSS FINALLYYYYYY

[3416]

getting the mitch marner sads is the worst feeling in the world btw

[kiddokori]

things i like about totk so far: the depths,

i am going to be so completely honest i thought id be able to think of more. um. this is awkward

[future-crab]

requesting a rant about that sweeney todd song 👀

Ooh thank you!

So. Johanna Quartet (which I spelled wrong in my post. Sorry, Johanna.) and why it slaps.

The first thing that deserves a mention is that it’s just absolutely beautiful. I don’t know anything about music theory, so I won’t try to break that element down, but if you haven’t, I’d really recommend giving it a listen. The 2023 revival cast version is excellent imo.

The part I mainly want to talk about is Sweeney’s verses, cause I think they’re really interesting. It’s (arguably) the most introspective we ever see him in the show, and it is (arguably) both the point in the tragedy when it becomes clear that it’s too late for things to turn out well, and the false high where it seems like things might work out.

Like, the beginning of the song makes it pretty clear that at this point, he has become the person he most hates. With his possessiveness over Johanna (“my little lamb, my pet” and all that) and the incestuous overtones in lines like, “And are you beautiful and pale, with yellow hair, like her? I’d want you beautiful and pale, the way I dreamed you were, Johanna” it’s laid bare for the audience that there is no difference, really, between him and Judge Turpin anymore. They both just want to own this woman, because she’s beautiful and reminds them of her mother.

But then the last couple verses come in, and we’re given a tantalizing glimpse at the possibility of character growth with lines like, “And though I’ll think of you I guess until the day I die, I think I miss you less and less as every day goes by, Johanna.” From the second he walked onstage, he’s been single-minded in his focus on his grief and revenge, but in this incongruously honest moment, he’s admitting that he could move on.

And then! And then!!! For (to my memory) the first and only time in the show, he actually acknowledges that his fantasy of getting Johanna back is flawed. Like, earlier he doubted that it would happen (“And I’ll never see Johanna, no I’ll never hug my girl to me,” “I think we shall not meet again, my little dove, my sweet Johanna,” etc) but this is the first time he acknowledges that if it did, it wouldn’t make him happy. “And you’d be beautiful and pale, and look too much like her.” Getting Johanna back would just remind him of everything else he’s lost. There is no going back.

And his last line in the song encapsulates this contradiction – “Wake up, Johanna, another bright red day. We learn, Johanna, to say goodbye.” On the surface it seems like more character growth – he’s going to learn to let go of the past! – but the fact that he can’t help but address this statement to Johanna is a sign that he’s still too deep in his obsession. You get the sense, even at this point where he’s the closest he’s ever gotten acknowledging his fatal flaw, that it’s far too late.

Also probably worth mentioning that the entire time he’s going through all this introspection, he’s just. Slitting people’s throats. Just the whole time.

[sacredjake]

no.

[reitziluz]

Chapter 3 - Workplace Affairs

working around each other. showers of freezing cold rain. clearing up curses. things like this don’t stay hidden for long.

chapter word count: 6,9K (nice)

a/n: you come up with one joke about psychic vampires and suddenly the word count has doubled. oh well. first fully new content in the rewrite, come get your exorcism shenanigans!

(a hanahaki serirei longfic (reboot) - updates monthly)

[2024skin]

Literally I feel exactly the same way now as I did when I was 13 except that now i have too much to live for to go around trying to kill myself all the time

[rainiiis]

I love uni because you can just sit there being extremely focused in class and suddenly someone walks in casually and just sits there silently half an hour after the beginning of the class and like. The professor just ignores them. Literally no one cares.

And look I know it's a typical college thing but after highschool it's just very different. Like in highschool teachers kick your ass and send you to the office. Here they just royally ignore you. I love it.

[mercutiotakethewheel]

Tolkien’s specific sense of misogyny is so funny to me cuz like he clearly knows that women are often very, very cool and writes all these cool women characters. like galadriel and melian and eowyn. but like his writing is always so damn selective about when he remembers these women are cool (or like that they exist at all). And coincidentally these women always seem to stop being relevant or important or any sort of non-passive the moment theres a quirky little dude to pair them up with.

with the exception being, obviously, luthien, who gets a million times cooler the second she has a cute little damsel in distress to run after. (and also that eowyns whole shtick actually works and aligns with the themes of the novel)

[megaxard]

oh yeah this account turned 10 years old a few months ago. i feel a horse emotion about that

[roomba-mangga]

rubber ducking my way through these revisions... i'm at the point where the thing is complete but not polished and the polishing phase never stops driving me nuts

[dickggansey]

i gotta reread the body by stephen king i have to

[onelessdreamer]

Today, I am officially 30. That's 5 years older than I thought I'd ever make it. I'm going to my aunts to spend time with my family, will probably get hammered (these are the fun kind of family) and may end up shit-posting later. You have all been warned.