#what was that about?

[catherine-sketches]

I’m on a Once Upon A Time resurgence and MY GOD did they underutilize Archie

Man is the only therapist in town, only adult male figure in Henry’s life for a good chunk of his formative years! Potential father figure? Waisted after season 1

He was raised a thief! Any bonding with Emma over shared criminal past and trying to be better now? Waisted

Dramatic scenes where everything seems lost only to everyone to find out he sly-of-hand got the McGuffey from the bad guy that underestimated the cricket? Waisted

Any funny scenes where he pickpockets Killian as a retribution for being kidnapped? Waisted

The moral complexity of being raised to steal and lie and having old habits dying hard or even having to go back on these habits to save the tiny boy you see as good as your son (maybe a scene where they have to break into some place and Archie know how to pick a lock) and being very concerned on how EASY it was to do it. Natural even.

Was this explored? No

Did he know other thieves? A potential friendship with Will Scarlet? Waisted

Mulan had a Cricket friend. Since OUAT loves to mix and match where YOU, Jiminy Cricket, her companion in the years Geppetto was a grown man that didn’t need you as much only to go back when the war was over and Geppetto was thinking about a son? WHO KNOWS! CERTAINLY NOT ME

You also are not only Jiminy Cricket! The sheet music in your office, the instruments there (a clarinet and a violin if I can remember correctly) and your dog, Pongo, mark you as Roger Radcliffe

Where is your Anitta? Where is your romance storyline promised to you from day one the moment we heard your dog’s name? Where is Perdita?

Where is your interaction with Cruella DeVil?

The moment these two were in the same ESTATE Archie should get a fifty yard stare like he can sense a disturbance in the force

Did we get that???? NO!

Justice for my man Archie Hopper they waisted you

[dynsito]

oIrving clearly has a plan and I for one will be there cheering him from the sidelines

[selfconsumerofmywoes]

paul sounding like he desperately wants these bakes to end up on the floor

[catinasink]

steam didnt fucking register that ive gotten some of the achievements for isat im gonna sob

[pikachanh]

speaking of viktor, the way he turned into the messiah FISKFKSKFKDKD like i lived for it i dunno… that’s my man!!!

[lemontartyellow]

Honestly it issssss really weird how they set it up at the end of Season 1 for Rhaenyra to go full vengeance only for her to still be trying to prevent the war in Season 2

[idrinkyouryouthquake]

Also glad I googled "Bruce Springsteen koala"

[ibenology]

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[missabnormal]

imagine being a Korean person awake at like one in the morning trying to accept that the president of South Korea actually just tried to go full dictatorship by way of an emergency martial law because he was basically having a political temper tantrum and every agency and corporation in the country is all hands on deck, code red mode on everything and the military is being deployed and then the assembly revokes the martial law and then the president is like lol nevermind and now you have to get ready to work at your shitty job on a Wednesday

[foolfortune]

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[koobiie]

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

[miiilowo]

phenomenon

[some-pers0n]

I hate how people will look at popular indie artists who had one or two songs go viral on TikTok and start making fun of anybody who listens to them. "Oh you listen to Lemon Demon, Will Wood, Jack Stauber, Glass Animals, and Mother Mother? Tsk, don't you know that is stupid TikTok neurodivergent white transmasc preteen music? It's so mid and bad you should listen to real music–" you are a pit of misery

[savrenim]

......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"

*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all