#unvarnished

[vaguely-concerned]

illario was so right... this one traumatized crow boy really can contain such a universe of pure and childlike wonder at the mere existence -- the concept! -- of wyverns. even through the horrors

[arsonistbunny]

tiger 🐯gouache on wood!! :)

[blue-eli]

Ink October day seventeen: Unvarnished

Stated or otherwise presented without any effort to soften or disguise; plain.

Unfinished, as floors or furniture; not coated with or as if with varnish.

[naochow]

“yellow mourning” 2024, me, oil on canvas

"You can smell them from up here: it's awful. A white mourning. A modern death. Divorce, or something similar. All you can do is put more distance between you and him, make him smaller. Make him less *you*."

[thethirdbear]

but don’t forget who you really are. and i’m not talking about your so-called real name. all names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. you know who you really are. when you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you.

[snugglyporos]

// your update on the election

choice A: a black woman who was once a cop who may not be the perfect embodiment of every liberal dream but who is certainly different and now has the endorsement of Taylor Swift

choice B: a man who claimed on live tv that immigrants are eating dogs in America and that we needed a bloody story to deport people

truly, how could we choose

[peppermintquartz]

What's the first story that made you break down and cry? Mine was this:

Nobita and his Dinosaur

It's a classic Boy and his Dog story, except

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he had to give up the dinosaur at the end.

There's a scene in it where the poor little dino was calling out to Nobita and Doraemon after being returned to his time and Nobita and Doraemon were forcing themselves to leave the dino behind (hot damn I'm tearing up as I type this). They eventually found the dino his proper herd that accepted it, and it was such a bittersweet yet beautiful ending

Anyway. It fundamentally changed me. I learned at age four that genuine love is worth the pain of parting.

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i feel like i should start making more of an effort, when i talk about something in a piece of media being Upsetting to me, to distinguish between 'cathartic' upsetting and 'gave me psychic damage' upsetting. sometimes i mean OUGH OW MY FEELINGS THIS FUCKS ME UP IN A MEANINGFUL AND RESONANT WAY, MY LIFE IS ENRICHED FOR BECOMING AWARE OF IT and sometimes i mean that it is genuinely distressing and i want to shake the creators and ask what the fuck they were thinking

[m-has-a-blog]

I don’t think torture porn should be a pejorative. I think it should be something I could use to find porn featuring characters getting off on torture

[scribefindegil]

*reads Literally Just A Summary Of The Events Of Separation Arc and starts foaming at the mouth*

[mumza-superiority]

oh man jorge I didn’t see this one on the epic setlist….

[peppertaemint]

Jungkooks song isn’t that bad. I know he’s trying to break a stereotype of him being the youngest and wants to be seen more mature but that guy was not a need for this song 😭 and I don’t get the hate towards jungkook cuz his lines were fine it’s just Harlows….

I'm gonna be real with you. I think that even though Harlow's lines are egregious and charmless and pretty much offensive, I don't think that Kookie comes out much better.

The song itself is about having some sort of relationship, whatever that is, with someone online in 2-D, i.e. video film, pictures, and wanting to bring that into 3-D, which is in person. That in itself is a not an issue; I've been there - seeing someone in person is exciting for the 3-D action, LOL.

My problem is that the song is so focused on the sexual act/encounter like a science experiment. You add the womanising and the objectifying, and it doesn't come off right for me. 

I'll contrast the song with Rod Wave's Turks and Caicos featuring 21 Savage. This is another sort of innocuous song about "player" behaviour. The chorus is the girl girls girls all over the world blah blah blah. But it still has charm, and it paints a portrait of a woman as a person to an extent. They talk about the girl being a vibe and bad bitches you better grab one. It's not just a list of "I have these chicks and I want to fuck them and I wanna see what it's like to fuck in person". That feels so clinical and there's a distance there, and it feels objectifying and gross.

I do think this song is charmless and sexist and pretty boring. Overall disappointing. 🤷‍♀️ and I do think that Kookie trying to make it sound like it's about monogamy in press/PR just doesn't work.

[liaromancewriter]

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You asked for it! 😈

Unpopular opinion #1:

Choices offering a VIP tier is not that unusual for mobile apps. It’s standard practice when apps mature because ad dollars only go so far. They need recurring revenue.

Unpopular opinion #2:

Open Heart: Third Year was not that offside when it came to Ethan Ramsey’s characters. We saw hints of his disdain for people like Bloom in book 2, so his response to everything was true to character.

Unpopular opinion #3:

Interactive visual novels aren’t high literature and don’t pretend to be anything but entertainment. Let’s stop expecting them to be the next Grapes of Wrath.

[queenlucythevaliant]

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Akhmatova! Akhmatova!!!!!

Courage We know what trembles in the scales, What has to be accomplished. The hour for courage. If all else fails, With courage we are not unfurnished. What though the dead be crowded, each to each, What though our houses be destroyed? — We will preserve you, Russian speech, Keep you alive, great Russian word. We will pass you to our sons and heirs Free and clean, and they in turn to theirs,         And so forever.

--Anna Akhmatova

[spockvarietyhour]

Jesus Fucking Christ, Walt.

[silverfoxlou]

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