#where the fuck did it come from

[castielsupernatural]

pov you are minding your own business dogsitting in the desert when the dogs go crazy in the backyard and you look out to see them chasing a fucking???? peacock,???????

[bird-butch]

there's a cat in my bedroom ???????

[botbert-johnson]

That Funny Feeling, Bo Burnham - A Subjective Interpretation

This is my subjective interpretation, and desperate attempt to make sense of the meaning behind “That Funny Feeling” by Bo Burnham. Ahem.  

That Funny Feeling is a song that I struggled to garner much meaning from on my first listen. The more I listened though, the more I began to gather a bit of a narrative. There are a few types of topics Bo touches on during this song that intertwine with one another throughout the song; First the corporate death of the world, then civilizations varied and abstract reactions to the end of the world, and finally a looming acceptance of the current, once incomprehensible state of both the world, and the deterioration of all who inhabit it.  

The first topic is expressed through lyrics that make up most of the song. They hit hard and fast. He sings about corporate attempts to profit off things that are contradictory or just simply make no logical sense. These are expressed in lyrics such as “Stunning 8k resolution, meditation app” or my favorite example of this; “Steve Aoki, Logan Paul. A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall.” All instances of branded entities, corporate entities, or simply public societal situations that don’t feel like they should be possible, each sung back-to-back. The very existence of everything Mr. Burn Ham lists would have, in the not so distance past, confused and befuddled the listener when they attempted to rationalize their existence in the world. By singing about unrealistic realities constantly with little room for rest, the song attempts to pull the listener into the very feeling of dissociation the song is about.  

I would compare the feeling this song wants to convey to the feeling that most people experienced when KFC announced the game “I Love You, Colonel Sanders!”. It was hilarious, an anime dating simulator made by the fried chicken company. It felt like a PR joke that would never really happen, but not only did the game exist but it was of undeniably high quality especially compared to what most people were expecting from KFC.  

However, there are a lot of lines in this song that do not fit in with the rest. A lot of lines describe methods corporations have tried to use to stand out among their competitors, or desperate nonsensical products that do little to hide their soulless, profit-based nature. These lyrics seem to describe the reaction people have to these events. Bo.B sings about people “obeying all the traffic laws in GTA V”, “googling derealization, hating what you find”, “loving parents” and “The backlash to the backlash, to the thing that’s just begun”. These lyrics are scattered throughout the rest, however it always felt out of place to me. While all the other lyrics describe how “in honor of the revolution, it’s half of at the gap”, these lyrics all seem to describe the consumer and how weirdly they react to the ever-growing confusion that the corporate world has become.  

If we think about some of these lyrics even further, they all give me the impression they are the actions of a group of bored people. They give me the same feeling as I had in high school when I would read the ingredients label on the back of my lunch packaging.  

Before I conclude this interpretation, I think another thing that is worth discussing here is that as time has gone on people have been born into this new reality. As these individuals grow, they only ever know the world from a Lense that to people of Bo’s age is an unreality. This sort of phenomenon has happened before too, like for example when the baby boomer generation watched the world progress at such a fast rate that they witnessed both the first telephone, and the first smartphone in their lifetime. Now society progresses so quickly an entire overhaul can happen within someone's lifetime. It becomes hard to rationalize the country you live in as the same place it once was when you first started your life. Technology, culture, and people change so quickly that some people may dissociate from what their minds believe is reality to what they see now.  

To conclude; Bo describes a world where “the ocean [is] at your door”, yet neither the rich corporate CEO; who genuinely has the power and money yet uses that same power and money to cause “unapparent summer air in early fall”, nor the consumer, seems to care about it. He sings about the end of the world as an inevitability that has caused the consumer to attempt desperately to entertain themselves until worlds end, because the people causing the end are too busy trying to grab their attention with abstract PR that every day the unreality, we live in feels more and more like our new reality. What once made no sense has become the norm, and everyone has accepted it. And to Bo, everyone's acceptance of the world's current state is ironically just as dissociative as the world around him. So, there is nothing left to do. Because what can you say, we were overdue. But it’ll be over soon, you wait.  

[indiiglow]

Had an Australia moment today when I found a big uglyass bug on the toilet seat when I raised the cover 💀

[pearl-kite]

Just me, minding my business, and suddenly, idk, drooling into my windpipe and setting off a minutes-long coughing fit? That's new

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

I have blue on my hand?!?? I don’t know where it’s from I haven’t touched anything blue??? Other than my pipe but it’s not this shade of blue

[keondrawss]

the family

[paranormal-potatoes]

i am pretty much done with organizing my music and tomorrow i will say "fuck it" and put it all back on my phone. all. 5000+ songs. have i listened to all of them? nope. thing is, it's not all my music. it's a collection horde of music from 2 of my sisters, my dad, my mom, and me. i have shit from kelly clarkson to my chemical romance to rise against to sara bareilles to mika. i have godsmack. i do not know where the godsmack songs came from. no one I know listens to them.

moral of this is, hoard your mp3's. but keep it organized.

[thottybrucewayne]

I think what I want to get into with the "Anyone can do harm." thing that I keep beating yall over the head with is that literally anyone, anyone at all can do harm it's not "in your DNA" to be an abuser or written in the stars that you'll be a predator. Whatever image you have of an abuser in your head, drop it and replace it with your favorite person in the world and you'll probably be closer to the truth than you realize. It's easy to address harm when it's coming from someone you already hate. I see it happen all the time. Someone you couldn't stand for no real reason does something heinous then all of a sudden here comes the avalanche of "I always knew they were a fucked up individual." No, you didn't. There is no possible way you could have known, you just already didn't fuck with them before they started doing something you could use to justify your hatred of them. I'm guilty of it too! I'm petty, mean, vindictive, and yes! I'm way quicker to believe something bad about someone I hate versus someone I love because I'm human. Still, y all gotta learn to move past that initial "Well, they were always nice to me!" gut feeling and understand that nobody truly knows anyone and anyone can be capable of anything. Even victims. Even you.

[theexhaustedqueer]

allos will see two people standing next to each other and insist that they must be fucking

[soarrenbluejay]

Supervillains for a community. (Well, except those jerks over in Gotham, insular lot, but they’re they’re one problem) Of course they do- supervillains are a group defined by strong opinions and a willingness to see them through, often with a healthy dash of societal failures and trauma as a catalyst.

The fentons, while not active even on the online message boards, are well known and explosive when they do show up, full of fascinating insights and hours long rants on mad science on hair pin turns courtesy of that ADHD attention span. Bit of the cryptids you feel honored to bump into kind of deal. Besides, like a good quarter of the community as it aged, they’d settled down and had kids (not necessarily in that order) and taken it very seriously! Out in the middle of nowhere, where even the most fearsome government outpost members, the local branch of the IRS, quake before them in fear. Out of the way.

Reveal gone okay-ish, Danny moves to Gotham still to get some air bc now things are Akward and he landed that engineering scholarship which is loads better than any other college would give him with his track record. So- the mysterious Fenton children are finally crawling out of hiding! Everyone is psyched! And roll in to Gotham en masse to witness the fireworks!

Except Danny is Determined To Be Normal. He’s had enough of the throwing himself into harms way shit for a lifetime- he wants to be free to peacefully built Rube Goldberg machines and unintentional increasingly complex bombs to his hearts content. JAZZ, on the other hand- the coveted token Normal One, has finally snapped! She’s watched her baby brother she practically raised throw himself into danger over and over and could do nothing, and now that she’s exposed to this whole network of superheroes outside of small town Amnity, some of those uglier emotions are coming out. And boy is she pissed! And can’t afford to show it much while filing the paperwork to have Arkham legally razed to the ground!

See I love this idea of like, niches in superhero society. A villain the heroes know they can plop their kiddo down with for an exciting afternoon brawl while they take care of a particularly grisly case and come back to a few hours later ranting about some new life lesson and a new move they really want to try. A villain who has a functioning moral compass despite their somewhat batshit long term goal and you can contact to fuck with another villains’s plan so they can laugh at them and you can have an easy afternoon. One who pries up hostile architecture and fills in pot holes, idk man. Get creative here, there’s such potential!

So Jazz becomes a Training villain- someone the heroes know their sidekicks will walk away from in a fight 100% of the time, usually with some new lesson to ponder and only a couple of bruises. Sometimes even snacks!

She also absolutely ambushes mentors to check that they’re worth the kiddo, which they appreciate once they get over being jumped in a dark alley by a 7 foot Amazon trained force of nature. They are not used to being on that side of the jumping, it’s a little unnerving.

(Yes, she low key adopts Shazam upon checking in with him on cursory ‘is the main hero of this city and asshole’ checkin. Yes, the super clones get yoinked out from under Superman’s negligent thumb to go have a blast with Ellie. What about it?)

This however only encourages more assorted weirdos to crawl out of the woodwork. It’s not often one of their own forfeits their potential spot for the running of the coveted Most Normal I Swear prize, but when they do it’s bound to be good! But jazz is off hounding various heroes and punching the faces in of pedophiles and shit whenever there’s no cape within easy reach, and so is a mite bit harder to contact than Danny, who has innocently gotten an apprenticeship under a clockworker for access to their workshop and is gleefully going about doing nerdy shit with great abandon.

Plus this is Gotham. No one gives a shit if someone in the Mad Alchemist uniform and still smoking from their latest experiment pokes their head in a window to bother the local shrimp teen- none of the usual social rules apply, everyone’s crazy here! So everyone drops any and all attempts at masking and just acts their genuine unhinged selves, much to the alarm of the Bats and frustration of Danny.

Bc he cannot get these mfers to go. Away. Even liberal use of the creep stick has little effect when the interloper is calibrated for an opponent with super speed or laser vision or whatever, and he’s trying to maintain his guise as a Normal College Student Do No Investigate.

So he calls in the big guns. He’s not super active in the supervillain kids group chat ever since things in amnity calmed the fuck down post becoming King and then immediately using a loophole that says he will not take the throne until he is grown, as defined by finishing learning his trade a la the medieval standards Pariah set up. So he can just take his sweet ass time with his graduate degree and out of inter dimensional bull shit that much longer! Point is, he hasn’t taken the chance to rant over there in a while, so his Crazy friends are getting a lil worried.

The change to come over and shout at their batshit crazy but (mostly) well meaning parent AND see Danny? Score!

The bats, however, are getting awfully suspicious about this one kid that villains from all over the country are flocking to, especially young and upcoming ones as of recently! And he’s acting his engineering course- all the worst rogues are known to have flown through their PhD studies prior to Cracking. They seem to have a real problem on their hands with this Fenton guy.

[sunderwight]

Thinking about a scenario where (pre-Plot Happening) Mobei Jun and Shang Qinghua have a tiff, and Shang Qinghua goes back to his peak and honestly he isn't trying to make MBJ apologize first or anything, he just gets so busy that he doesn't have time to grovel (kind of forgets they had an argument in the first place because it's not like MBJ is going to kill him YET unless he does something really egregious, they're on a schedule), but Mobei Jun is just fuming in his ice palace like "that asshole thinks I can't replace him, I can absolutely replace him, he's sooo replaceable" and etc.

So Mobei Jun tries it. He's going to hire himself another evil advisor. Another groveling rat minion. Maybe a dozen groveling rat minions! He's a demon king, these sorts of people are not hard to find. They can't all be working for his shitstain uncle!

And they aren't, of course. Finding a minion who is loyal to Mobei Jun (well, relatively) rather than any of his rivals actually isn't that hard. Mobei Jun is the most promising demon strength-wise of his generation, he's the direct heir, and he's less absent from court than his father and less treacherous and scheme-y than his uncle. There's a whole crowd he appeals to, who serve him readily and have no motive to turn on him.

But.

Turns out that there is a specific combination of traits which Shang Qinghua brought to the table, and none of his new groveling sycophants have it. The ones who are the best at sucking up also tend to be the worst at having actual skills. The ones who are good at their assigned tasks don't have much of an interest in complimenting his tits or telling him this or that cloak really brings out his eyes. The ones who do tell him those kinds of things also keep turning up in his bed, which is unwelcome and annoying. No one can offer him nebulous sort-of-prophetic insights to the goings-on of his realm either, or if they try to, they turn out to be hacks and charlatans with woefully low accuracy rates. A lot of them just outright lie to try and manipulate him against their rivals or enemies.

Within a week Mobei Jun is frazzled, exhausted, and finally ready to apologize.

He shows up on An Ding Peak and slaps Shang Qinghua across the face. The most self-debasing sign of desire that he can extend. Open palm and everything. He's practically on his knees begging Shang Qinghua for forgiveness (he's not actually, though, after all he's still extremely arrogant demon royalty).

Several years into the future, Shang Qinghua will dimly recollect the incident after actually learning about demon courtship customs (he wrote them, doesn't mean he was actually paying attention to them) and ask what that was about, and Mobei Jun will have a Hollywood style PTSD flashback both to that and to the second time he and SQH had a big fight and SQH left, and not properly answer him.

[spicy-apple-pie]

Whoops you accidentally included the ace flag in your pride art! The only people who are proud of not having sex are called incels :)

Whoops, you left a weird fucking message in my inbox :)

I wasn’t going to give this person the time of day to respond, but I decided to respond to make my stance clear that Asexual, Aromatic, and all those who identify under that umbrella are welcomed on my blog. Those who disagree are welcomed and encouraged to shut the fuck up.

(Also Incel means Involuntary celibacy, so they take pride in the fact that they can’t have what they desire and what they believe they are owed. Asexual people don’t have that desire or experience it differently. So go fuck yourself 🙃)

(Also also, I don’t think I even have an ace pride flag in my post, mostly because I don’t see any of the characters I could fit in as ace. But love you guys lol)

[non-un-topo]

To the next adventure...

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I.D.

[A drawing of Nicky, Joe, Quynh, and Andy from The Old Guard. They are all in profile, walking in a straight line facing the sun. They are dressed in medieval clothing and armour, and each carry their own weapons and bags. Nicky has his sword, a crossbow, a quiver of bolts, a dagger at his belt and another strapped to his ankle. Joe is holding his sword, a bag, and a coin purse. Quynh's bow is over her back, and her quiver is at her hip. Two daggers are strapped to her belt, one of them matching Nicky's. Andy is holding her axe, two bags, and a dagger. They each have serene expressions and closed eyes, as if they're not in a hurry. In the background, the seasons change from winter to spring, summer, fall. There is an old tree behind them, and its branches change with the seasons.]

[nebuladreamz]

A little different than last year's, but here we are again. To say that this past year hasn't been absolutely wild would be a lie, cause HOLY SHIT MAN

This year's birthday is. A little different for me, but you already have the silly comic to show that so I won't make like a broken record oops

But, despite the changes and hills that life's decided I should climb or throw at, it hasn't changed the fact that I'm so genuinely fucking thankful to the people that I've known since joining this fandom. I'm not even kidding when I say that being here has actually changed my life for the better. I know I said something similar last year, but this time, hoo boy it sure turned up the AMP and test how far I could go.

So, to everyone, both new and old; thank you for being here :D

@garbagechocolate @darkxsoulzyx @smoljeanius @bunmuffin @skizabaa

@tuzesdays @sleepykas @fernzwing @kandidandi @starsketchez

@just-a-drawing-bean @notdysfunk @ilsole @amberluvsbugs @cloudyvoid

@nomsthecat @alfinefalf @nosleepygay @theblog-with-thestuff

@cacaocheri

(Edit: ty kibbits for informing me of the. Fuck ass tagging system)

AND TAGGING OTHERS BECAUSE. POINTS. BONKS WITH HEAD. GETTING TO EITHER INTERACT OR TALK OR WHATEVER IS ALWAYS A DELIGHT

@ohno-the-sun @kibbits @ink-yy @saltyfryz @kaprisvn

@hierba-picante @sunny-sophies-garden @cookiiemancer @sneeblbop @justaduckarts

@pepethehumanz @crystalmagpie447 @woolysstuff @mocha-illustrates @duhsty1

@sanchensky @pillowspace @victarin @witherfide

[I DEFINITELY GOT SONAS WRONG AND THESE AREN'T ALL THE SILLY PEOPLE I KNOW BUT IM SITTING HERE AT 2:30 IN THE MORNING JUST KNOW YOU'RE THERE IN SPIRIT HANDING YOU ALL POPTARTS WAUGH]

[claraoswalds]

It's racist, my dear, to be blunt. People come from outside, they think we're all witches and druids. For God's sake, child, you walked into a piece of string!