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extravaganstar · 1 month ago

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A Past DM movie adaptation focused on a vampire ripped from dehli, ex child prostitute, ex sex slave and art muse, ex cult victim, theater kid, saw games connoisseur, technology enthusiasts, liar, killer (ecc.) who falls in love with a drug addict journalist in the 80s asking the vampire to turn him again and again would unironically slap so hard. Something slow and with an outstanding photography made of dark brown silhouettes and reds and greens and deep yellows.

Literally ending with the memory wiping. Half romance half noir half thriller. Focusing on the drug/dance scene of the 80s. Mania, illness, the need to evade life and having your golden ticket right there but the monster wants you to live!!! The monster is there in the drug hen with you!! In the dark rooms in your home in your bed in your first wife face!!! The devil on your shoulder!!!

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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lucabyte · 3 months ago

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A belief in Nominative Determinsim

#mira & isa sitting at the other side of the room: oh that cannot be a healthy rationalisation. someone should deconstruct that QUICKLY...#change's strongest soldiers VERSUS one guy echo chambering themselves about a susperstition-based retributive model of the world. GO!!!#isat spoilers #isat #isat fanart #isat siffrin #isat loop #sifloop #sloops #in stars and time #in stars and time fanart #lucabyteart #hey look now. this is softer than usual isnt it? ignore the. ignore the subtle damnation of blame unto the self. its fine. theyre fine #this is in fact a slight adaptation of that headcanon of mine i linked! yep! turns out the way to comic-ise it was to. make it like #90% speech bubble and get kinda weird with the formatting. it's clunky and experimental but hey. im experimenting.#the next ones gonna have even more fucking speech bubbles if it goes how im planning. christ #then its gonna get followed up with something wordless so. all things in perfect balance.#DISCLAIMER: i like to write loop and siffrin displaying the maybe not so great logic-holes their seeming fear of 'retribution for not #sticking to (the script) what the universe intends for them' entails. i do not agree with their weird philosophising.#i in fact think this is . bad for them. and am exploring how fucking unhealthy their mindset seems to be even when 'mundane'#OCD siffrin real as hell whats with the doing arbitrary actions in specific ways lest Something Nebulously Bad Happen little dude?#anyway if you caught the extremely blunt symbolism of kissing a hand with a knife in it you win a prize! it's called self-satisfaction 🎉🎉#hmm. do people realise i kept calling this type of back and forth between siffrin and loop a socratic dialogue bc socrates was also just #arguing with himself? like he was just making up the other guys. complete thought experiment. i also call them that because theyre WORDY!!!

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autisticandroids · 5 months ago

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CASTIEL: Stop. What's the point if you don't mean it? You fear me - not love, not respect, just fear.

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a godstiel pity party. i'd like to thank an anon i got way back in february of 2021.

#spn #vid #spnamvarchive #so fun fact i started making this more than a year ago. got it 90% done. and then was like no this isn't working #i will come back to this later.#it turns out that i needed to make some videos about cas and angels (the love club + help i'm alive amvs)#in order to make this one. anyway this video is about french mistake robert singer voice season six #i really struggled with it because i could NOT find the thread until i realized that it needed to be literally godstiel pov #it's about love and desire and jealousy and hurt and omnidirectional rage <3 #it's about the fact that cas is so utterly dependent on dean for his self-image - however dean sees him that's it #it's about having a moment of reflection about lashing out before you do it but doing it anyway #it's about taking cruelty and dishing it out #and crucially. it's about being pregnant #mpregpocalypse #fun fact: i made a post about working on three season six amvs all the way back in nov. 2022 #and only now have they come to fruition (this one + love club + metric)#anyway. have you heard that cas is obsessed #the thing is i do kinda want to add some specific director's commentary here. like the first verse is about cas being like.#incredibly deeply emotionally vulnerable to dean. as in: his emotional state and self-image is totally dominated by what dean thinks of him #and if dean is mad at him. and then the second verse is about... dean upsetting him and him responding to that by Killing Everybody lol #like he has a moment of reflection ['certain regrettable things are now required of me' + killing rachel] where he's like i've 1) also done #bad things and 2) i feel bad about it so maybe i will regret Killing Everyone. but then he does it anyway due to everybody keeps turning #on him. i feel like the rest of the amv is self evident. i guess i should note that 'share a paradise' is about how both of them have #a nostalgic view of the early days of their relationship when it wasn't Like This lol. but everything else i think is self evident.#oh and the reason the other angels flash onscreen with their burned wings at the end is i'm EVOKING the image of cas' wings burning. even #though it doesn't happen. i'm evoking it

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beansucc · 5 months ago

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help I’m so attracted to zac oyama. help his huge toothy grin and the crinkle of his eyes deal psychic damage

#dimension 20 #anyone else have an insane crush on zac oyama?#ricky matsui #gorgug thistlespring #the brainrot has a vice grip on my poor feeble mind #he should clone himself and replace 90% of men on earth #so tempted to become a mad scientist to make this happen #zac oyama

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ziggy0-o · 4 months ago

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pink floyd members dispersing the moment that an uncomfortable emotion is expressed

#imagine what would happen if they had one of those reality tv show reunion specials in the 80s or 90s LMAO #they should have had group therapy at least once #pink floyd #richard wright #david gilmour #roger waters #nick mason

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kazcat · 18 days ago

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i dont even know how this happened....

some how got obsessed with this freak

i love him DEARLY

#fushigi yuugi #fushigi yûgi #chichiri #the mysterious play #genuinely i dont know how this happened #im supposed to be obsessing over dragon ball rn considering daima AND sparking zero came out like THIS MONTH..#but NO.... my brain told me to watch like 25 episodes of a 90s shojo isekai about ancient china what #but i love chichiri like ive never fallen for a man so fast in my life...#you should know this is like my 6th day deep in obsession and i already have like 100 screenshots of him #im so over

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dustteller · 8 months ago

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I think modern au Zhu SHOULD be the lesbian best friend trope to Ouyang except that its because this man is her pet project and gODDDAMIT she's gonna FIX him she's gonna MAKE him be BETTER she's going to SOLVE EVERYTHING and he will RESPECT HER (she is actively making him worse). She has a whole complex about it and everything. She has based a part of her identity on dragging this man up from his toxic funk and is fully convinced that if she tries hard enough he will eventually come to his senses and be an equal participant in this relationship. They have a terrible wonderful toxic loving codependent relationship that's neither a romance nor a friendship nor a rivalry but a secret fourth thing.

Predictably, this does not go well. The character arcs would be Zhu learning she can't fix a sinking ship and letting Ouyang fail by himself, and Ouyang learning to not be a shit person, actually, and coming out of his bubble of self-centeredness and working on himself instead of unloading his emotional labor onto the people around him. And they should both get to develop a healthier relationship with each other than what they had in canon bc queer solidarity is great and its even better when it's in the shape of some weird bullshit some gay people built out of the corpse parts of heteronormative romance (affectionate and completely unironic)

#brought to you by me thinking about the last half of HWDtW and how Zhu interacts with Ouyang post-betrayal #well. interacts with the concept of Ouyang. he kinda (spoilers).#she was unhealthily attached to Ouyang and honestly I think she deserves an universe where her whole deal is reciprocated.#but only AFTER i put them in a fully self sustaining terrarium jar and sic the emotional isopods on them.#that part comes first bc my personal entertainment is CLEARLY the most important thing here guys #the radiant emperor #my thoughts #zhu yuanzhang #OHHH AND ALSO i think Zhu and Ouyang should get to have their weird little gay relationship #while their partners stare in accepting horror.#ma would be supportive bc she knows how important this impressively awful man is to her girlfriend #but rest assured she DOES NOT like him. she will (very politely) bitch about him to Baoxiang and then feel bad about it #she shouldn't feel bad tho bc Ouyang deserves it and Baoxiang repeatedly reminds her of this fact #eventually ouyang grows on her.#kinda like the bowl of mold in the back of the fridge you've developed an emotional attachment to.#he shouldn't be there but now she feels bad about evicting him into the trash!#(she feels significantly less bad about evicting him into Esen's appartment)#Esen has even less of a clue what's happening with Zhu and Ouyang.#he just knows that Zhu is important to Ouyang and also is 90% sure that they fucked at some point.#30% sure that they are still fucking but he grew up around Baoxiang and Ouyang #he has learned Not to Ask! he does Not Want to Know!#and anyways it's none of his bussiness who his bestie/person that he wants to adopt a horse and grow old with/hot roomate is fucking!#its not his problem! he is not invested! he is not going to think about it! there is no reason to think about whos in Ouyang's pants!#he is not thinking about anything involving Ouyang's pants at all! much less about the inside of Ouyang's pants!#and since hes not thinking about it bc theres no reason to think about it then he cant have a problem with it :)#so he wont ask!

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lachiennearoo · 24 days ago

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Another one of my pet peeves when it comes to romance is when one of the parties (usually the man when it's a straight romance, or just the more assertive of the two when it's a gay romance) bugs and annoys the other one to no end, without ever actually seeming to care for their well-being or boundaries, pushing even when the other is angry, telling them to fuck off, to calm the fuck down, that they hate them... And then you're supposed to want them to be together. That "oh secretly beneath all that annoyance and hatred they actually love the other party".

And I don't mean like lighthearted teasing, enemies to lovers where both equally annoy each other, or a comedy story where the annoyance is just funny. I mean like a supposed "serious" romance, sometimes even steamy and explicit. A story where the characters and their woes are supposed to be taken very seriously. Where you're supposed to really feel what they feel at every step of the way.

And then you're telling me the character would fall in love with some asshole who never respects them or them boundaries even when they tell them a clear no?

Just... Not really fun, innit? Feels kinda uh... Y'know...

Rapey

#spideypool #kinda #cause that shit happens a lot in fics #but also #literally how allurance happened #i love lance but holy shit #and obviously just 90% of pre-2010s Hollywood romance #call me vanilla #but #i think that good romance should have a solid foundation of trust and mutual respect #yes even if they hate each other #i don't even mind enemies-to-lovers if they still respect each other #like magneto and professor X #love these guys #hell even later SpideyPool is good for that as well

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itspileofgoodthings · 6 months ago

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The past couple weeks it’s been really hitting me how much harder it’s been teaching Pride and Prejudice this year—which was so disappointing at first? Because works I’ve traditionally had a harder time with I’ve felt like i’ve broken new ground while teaching and am teaching the kids BETTER. So initially I was so frustrated that my historically easiest work to teach was feeling so difficult! But there’s been some good days that have let me see that part of what was happening was that I have simply never reached this number of kids with pride and prejudice before and so consequently I have never had so many kinds of reactions before! In the waking up from the sleep of simply never paying attention there IS going to be plenty of stupidity, contrariness, crankiness, and almost arguing? Like even with themsELVES. And that’s a good thing.

#it’s hard because I am simply very sensitive and very tired #but I know it’s so good #like I just want to reach as many of them as possible and draw them in #and sometimes the words they say—as hard to hear as it can be for me—are simply proof they are being reached #something is Happening to them #of course not all. there is the usual garden variety boredom adolescent angst and checked out-ness #but this is more than that #anywayyyy of course this is mostly about teaching teenage boys #they’re not going to show you when they’re moved. in words.#but it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening #I talked to another teacher today about it and she goes ��I can see it happening among them too’#and it has helped! because I really was just in my head about it #first about the book itself (an insane thing but I had a bit of a wobble of just like. okay should I be teaching this)#and then about my own ability.#but it’s just that thing of leveling up.#and yeah some days it DOES make me miss the time when I and the book was sooooo under the radar that 90% of the class quietly checked out #and me and the rest of the students had an undetected fun time #I LIKE to stay in the shadows. in the peace and quiet #but clearly I am not meant to and I have a true compulsion to draw in as many people as possible #it can be scary but I know it’s good #teaching tag #ANYWAYS. thanks for listening

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accidental-spice · 7 months ago

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In the words of Jessica Day, "Work sucked today, my friends"

#at least im 90% sure she said that once #anyways it sucked. a LOT #i i paid for something i shouldnt have causing my boss to have to reimburse me and they were. less than pleased #and like i get that i should have communicated better but maybe so should you guys?#i dont know. i think im not completely in the wrong about this but its hard to tell right now #i just want to cry and not think about it ever again #at the moment only one of those is happening #i just. it cant have been ENTIRELY my fault #and i honestly dont know why its such a big deal #but my boss and i have VERY different minds #uuuuuuugggggghhhhhhhhh #i feel like everything turned out fine but i also feel like its all my fault and everything sucks #and maybe i should stand up for myself but. i do. not. want. to #i KNOW im gonna say my thoughts on it and theyre gonna say something else and ill be like uuuuhhhhh #sure yes whatever im clearly wrong #sigh

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the-lesbian-orpheus · 14 days ago

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ONLY ONE??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN ONLY ONE 😭

#I can only imagine David and Micheal sitting on FaceTime like teenage girls being mad about it lol #but like what the fuck #ugh Neil gaiman why did you have to turn out to suck and let it all get ruined #I know I should be glad it’s not canceled #BUT LIKE #how are they gonna get the whole theoretical second book and a happy ending and other stuff related to season two #in 90 fucking minutes #this is actually vile #🙁#and we have to wait so long only for something that prime is setting up to go poorly when it would usually be a masterpiece #I saw it happen to Ofmd 2 and this is so much worse #Ofmd 2 wasn’t nearly as good because they lost time and money #but they only lost 2 episodes #we’re loosing 5 #5 hours of time #what the hell #my show #:(#good omens #good omens 3 #good omens season 3 #Micheal and David please save us #fuck you gaiman #I’m glad Neil gaiman can’t hurt the production on the people and women in it any more #but ugh this is still so disappointing

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interstellar-elf · 5 months ago

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I'm pretty sure you could draw a straight line from the 1980's Satanic Panic to the creation of Project 2025, but I'm also convinced if Ronald Reagan was not president during the 80s, then the actual spread of the Satanic Panic would not have been as big as it eventually was.

#ash talks #satanic panic #this is just me talking #but it's interesting #that Reagan's presidency was during the era most noted for the Satanic Panic's height #even though it also happened right on into the 90s and 00s and resurfaced in the 10s and 20s to a frightening degree #but I think if it wasn't for Reagan's appeal to Evangelicals then the Satanic Panic would not have been as great as it was in the 80s #up into the 90s and today #you really don't understand how prevalent that narrative of the Satanic Panic was #Oprah did a whole show on it as well as a number of other talk shows #they also spread misinformation #it should also be noted that it wasn't merely DnD they were targeting but books and tv shows as well as toys music people practices #and public schools #watch any Satanic Panic video made by a religious organization at the time and they'll target public schools as cesspools of evil #stuff like meditation yoga and therapy were also targeted by Evangelicals due to them being from other cultures and for mental health #don't believe me? there's a whole 13 part series which covers topics like Halloween meditation freemasons the occult and yoga #people only talk about the Halloween one though

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nikkiruncks · 3 months ago

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#judging you (pt 2)

-> Baby Don't You Do It (T7S 6x14) || Baby Baby Baby (T9S 2x07)

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hazel2468 · 1 year ago

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“Inaccessibility has a massive impact on disabled people, especially people with mobility issues and those who use aids like canes, walkers, wheelchairs, service animals, etc. and these things are often ignored and should not be and you are right to be angry about it.”

And

“Even within the disabled community, there is a disgusting amount of dismissal and yes, ableism directed at people who have needs related to mental illness/mental disorders- to the point that other disabled people will refer to those of us with invisible disabilities, chronic illness, and mental disorders as abled and tell us that our needs are lesser and that is not okay.”

Are statements that must co-exist.

#disability #actually disabled #like i have disabilties that limit my ability to move and get around #and also mental disorders #and i a HATING IT that I am seeing like #ofher disabled people being like #’no one cares about your sensory needs’#’attention deficit isn’t a disability try being REALLY disabled’#like guys cut it the fuck out #if you are mad at a lack of accessibility- AND YOU SHOULD BE #idk how to tell you that other disabled people aren’t your fucking enemy #my mobility isn’t severely limited all the time no #but i have chronic pain and breathing issues made worse by covid #that mean on Bad Days? stairs ain’t happening #and 90% of where i live becomes inaccessible #and thats for ME so like #yes be mad about tht you are right to be #but fucking stop acting like other disabilties aren’t as disabling #just because they are disabling in different ways #they impact us differently yes but we’re all disabled in some way #and putting down people who you think aren’t disabled enough?#fucking stop it

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thebirdandhersong · 1 year ago

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well mark that down as situation 2938489 that I don't know how to handle

#i would love advice on this if y'all have any thoughts to share because i know what my parents think and im having trouble sorting it out #i love these three friends of mine but it is really draining to be around them now because all they will talk about is church drama #(re: our old church) and rehashing it all and being Outraged about the horrors etc etc #either that or being downright condescending about protestants/non denominations and acting like it's funny to talk like that all the time #i end up being more angry or resentful or exasperated at the end of our conversations than glad and at peace like i did before #(before all THIS ish happened and the three of them were like okay this is all we're going to talk about now)#i've tried to say in gentle ways (i am simply not capable of this kind of blunt confrontation) that maybe we should not be talking #so uncharitably towards other people especially behind their backs. like. yes bad things happened. we have to acknowledge that.#but continually making jokes and jibes at a priest's expense really rubs me the wrong way especially since i KNOW that he loves us #and in many ways was trying his best in the circumstances. and are we not supposed to be loving our neighbour #and is this not downright slander to keep going on this way esp since it goes on for HOURS at a time #anyway i don't know what to DO because if i keep chatting with them/meeting up with them conversation will be 90% this thing and i Hate It #but on the other hand i feel responsibility towards them because my godson's one of them and another is a friend who is a fairly recent #convert and if i leave them to stew in their own echo chamber i doubt it'll do them good #am i supposed to keep some distance? am i supposed to keep arguing whenever one of them says something unkind or inflammatory?#am i supposed to keep speaking up so that they hear a different perspective? am i supposed to run in the other direction for my own peace o #mind? anyway i am still thinking this over and it stresses me OUT #it used to be fun and life giving to be around these people and now it is so exhausting and seriously alarming in many ways

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