#why do i even bother posting these?

[originalartblog]

Apparently much-needed reminder that reposting artists' art (by saving the images or screenshotting them and reuploading them yourself) on other platforms without the artists' expressed permission and without credit is theft and an insult to their passion and craft. You are profiting (in views, in attention, in feedback) from someone else's work and ideas, who do not get that feedback for sharing their creation.

If you are an art reposter, you are a thief and I have no respect for you.

[merlins-strawberriesandroses]

POV you’ve informed the Queen and the Court’s Sorcerer of something and they very clearly know something that they’re not letting on

[justanothertailsfan]

Yet I have more…

Do I have a weird photo gallery?

Yes… Yes I do…

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: ���it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[poketcg-art]

[mumblesplash]

heartbreaking: this viral post is saying things you completely agree with in the most irritating way possible

[not-a-heretic]

3hr and 16 minute nigel freehand

it went pretty well though all things considered. especially given the fact that i haven’t truly free-handed in MONTHS

[theygender]

Just discovered the term les4les. Are we really trying to make biphobia cool again

[ki1ldeer]

Oh pinterest my beloved, for so long I underestimated the worth of your silly pictures for drawing references 🙏

[wikiangela]

just a reminder that people don't need to explain why they ship or don't ship a ship or why they write or don't write for a ship, no one owes anyone any explanations and seeing people send asks about it is just so weird and ridiculous and confusing tbh

have you never been in a fandom before? don't like something, block and unfollow buttons are right there - and the opposite too: looking for fics/gifs/art for your ship, well, the search function is there too, its so easy to find blogs that share your ships, and you can ask for recs or whatever

just, stop asking people to explain themselves out of ships of all things, this is literally fiction, who the fuck cares about the why and why nots jfc

[starleska]

12 months. 46 crushes. 0 moments of sanity.

welcome to Starleska's F/O Round-Up 2024!! 🥳🥳

what you see above is a chart of every single fictional character crush i had in 2024: whether they lasted a single day, or are still plaguing my thoughts now 🙈💖 gosh, it's been a busy year!! if you look closely, you can see the exact moments i lost my mind in-between fixations 😳 the full list of characters is below!! feel free to ask about any of them, because they're all very dear to my heart 🥰

Maxime Le Mal (Despicable Me 4)

King Magnifico (Wish)

Alan Partridge (Various)

Adam (Hazbin Hotel)

Kinito (KinitoPET)

The Sixth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Lord Royal Highness (Spongebob Squarepants)

Velvette (Hazbin Hotel)

Dr Reflex (Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning)

Maestro (Doctor Who)

Boycie (Only Fools and Horses)

Max Jägerman (Nerdy Prudes Must Die)

Wiggog Y'Rath (Hatchetverse)

Siegfried von Schroeder (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Elliott (Stardew Valley)

Nordic Bunny (Shred Force)

Mr Puzzles (SMG4)

The Love Glove (Doom Patrol)

Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Master Shake (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

Frylock (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)

Piers (Pokémon)

Archie the Inventor (Balamory)

Periwinkle 'Peri' Fairywinkle-Cosma (Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish)

Ramón Salazar (Resident Evil 4)

Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)

Deadpool (Marvel)

Badman (Super Richie)

Captain James T. Kirk (Star Trek)

Han Solo (Star Wars)

Zanzo (Hi-Fi Rush)

Dionysus (Hades)

Gambit (Marvel)

Emberlynn Pinkle (Helluva Boss)

Victor Quartermaine (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)

Adrian Monk (Monk)

Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice)

Castor/Zuse (Tron: Legacy)

Sensei La Dew (ItsLorlo Sketches)

'Real' Frankie (Finding Frankie)

Rolando (Helluva Boss)

Vic Diamond (Thelma the Unicorn)

Jack Frost (The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause)

Gustafson (Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey)

Inspekta (Great God Grove)

Superman/Clark Kent/Kal-El (DC Comics)

[howtokillavampire]

it's so funny to be a multishipper in a fandom with intense shipping wars because you can just bond and commiserate with either team just for fun, or sit in the audience with popcorn and laugh at everyone's pointless arguments

[skunkes]

never underestimate a cheye's ability to think "what if this is as good as it gets" about any situation

[michdoodles]

Like one stobotnik post and the floodgates open and overwhelm you with stobotnik

[scarletfasinera]

I hate when people are like "I already didn't like xyz so it's not difficult for me to boycott it unlike those loser customers that actually Liked the thing which I could never understand bc I was never a customer uwu" bc like. That literally isn't boycotting lmao. That is just Never Being A Customer In The First Place, which means nothing actually.

Boycotts are primarily about applying pressure (or completely making it impossible to operate) via financial/commercial/economic impact. AKA it's about money and capital.

If you already weren't spending money on a product/franchise/company, then you were already never part of their sales data, and you just doing nothing & making absolutely no change to your daily life and just continuing to not be part of their sales data as normal, has literally no material impact. You were already never a factor. The people who WERE customers & WERE part of the sales data & ARE withdrawing their money from those sales figures actually ARE making a material impact.

"Supporting" something isn't about vibes or thoughts or feelings or you telling your best friend how much you like a thing, "support" in a meaningful sense is specifically material. It is financial. Refusing to continue supporting something means taking the money you were previously spending on it & putting it elsewhere. If you were never spending money, you were never supporting it, and therefore it doesn't make any difference if you continue to not support it. Boycotting is something CUSTOMERS and CONSUMERS do.

SO STOP FUCKING BRAGGING ABOUT IT & STOP MAKING FUN OF PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY ARE BOYCOTTING FOR "EVER LIKING XYZ TO BEGIN WITH" & STOP SPREADING THIS FALSE IDEA OF HOW BOYCOTTING WORKS LMAO sorry for capslocking I remembered I was annoyed

I just hate this low-morale mean-spirited bullshit some people do in the notifs on boycotting info posts where they arbitrarily moralize about something they just don't understand so they can pat themselves on the back for doing literally literally nothing AND inadvertently spreading misinfo in the process. Be quiet. Go do something that matters. There are plenty of posts going around, including from Palestinians themselves, with lists of references for how to help Palestine & other similar causes for people currently in crisis, please please do something For Real instead of boasting online about your fandom superiority complex as if it means anything.

[daily-suyao]