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look, y'all can all gleeful cancel me for this #unpopular opinion if you want, but even IF Nicola wasn't nominated for the comedy section and it was her and Luke head to head in best drama?
I'd still vote for him
because I genuinely and truly think his acting is INCREDIBLE. and I think he's one of the better actors on Bridgerton full stop. I love the nuance he brings to Colin as a character, I love how he so fully embodies him as a character and that Colin has similarities to him, but is fully different at the same time. Colin does not talk like Luke, walk like Luke, even fidget like Luke. He has his own character beats and yes, sometimes parts of Luke bleed into him, such as with the head tilt, but the voice is different, softer, the movements of Colin as a character are distinct to me, he delivers humor well ('you'd already be dead?') and his decisions for Colin as a character are ICONIC (I'm never forgetting that dress adjustment with specific fingers was all him). Colin had a harder go of it than a lot of leads because his story isn't as loud- he doesn't get a lot of big, dramatic moments to have big dramatic acting, and honestly the show didn't give him a lot of screentime in the first place. But when he does have poignant emotional moments? They feel REAL. He isn't given as much time with the audience as other characters are and he doesn't go for the broad strokes with his acting, so sometimes I think he can get lost in some of the louder acting, but that doesn't negate the fact that he's GOOD. He's a good ass actor. He plays Colin like Colin is an actual person.
And for me? For me, that hits home. Even with truncated time on his own season (yeah, I'm still bitter), he delivers every single time. Anger, betrayal, longing, heartache, silly awkward humor, heat- and he does all of those emotions BELIEVABLY. I watched Luke Newton depict Colin falling in love so beautifully and so realistically, I HAVE NO CHOICE but to give him his flowers. Just because he's not as heavy in the hustle as other actors are (please remember this is a neurodivergent actor with anxiety and dyslexia, mental health is important and it's good he took a break ) doesn't mean he's not a fantastic actor. And if you've ever seen his depiction in The Shape of Things? The man is excellent.
I think Bridgerton has a lot of 'big moves' actors. And that's fine. Many people prefer that. But I prefer the nuanced moments and the softer beats of it all, and I think if the camera had allowed us as an audience a longer glimpse into moments with Colin, we'd all be even more floored. I can watch gifs of his scenes over and over and over again and find something new every time.
So y'all can sit there and accuse others of a 'pity vote' but idgaf. Luke Newton is one of the best actors on that show. And I stand by that. Eat me.
#luke newton#bridgerton#look my truly unpopular opinion is that nicola is a good actor but luke is a GREAT actor#yes yes utter blasphemy in bridgerton! le gasp!!!! but i stand by it#just like i believe jb is a good actor but simone is a GREAT actor#just like i think claudia is a great actor and luke t is a good actor#we ALL have our preferences#and i think nicola is great at hustling and she's great at making connections and networking and this is not me at all hating on her#but i just don't think her performance in bridgerton was better if we're talking votes#i think she got more meat to work with in regards to the writing and she essentially played two characters#well and good#but i just think luke delivered a more poignant performance even though he didn't get as much screentime#and i can't stand the people who are out here just immediate 'whoooo nicola what a qween' if she so much as farts in a room#like she's the best ever simply for existing#i think this fandom sometimes forgets there is no polin without colin and there is no season 3 without luke newton#and he dd a tremendous job don't even try to front#she got more press she's more active on social media she engages the fandom more but at the end of the day in MY opinion?#luke delivered the better performance#and THAT'S why i'm voting for him#sorry not sorry#block me if you want
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reminding myself that Nurm is actually just a cluster of cubes and not this silly goober I imagined 😖😖
#He looks so much warmer 😞#mcsm#minecraft story mode#mcsm nurm#nurm mcsm#mcsm fanart#Lemme just say I was fighting for my LIFE drawing him accurately#I can't do cubes y'all#Also I'm convinced the colours are wrong no way is he that cold and dead looking#Blaming the render I colour picked from 🫵#What do you mean my design isn't cannon aha yeah it is that's Nurm#He told me himself guys trust me 🤞#By the way I just wanna tell y'all#I love rambling in hashtags so much#Why isn't this a big thing on other social medias I'm on#On tiktok we don't even get spaces!!! No spaces#I have to tag stuff like “mcsmnurm”#???#That's so impractical#Born to be a yapper forced to use tiktok
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And while I'm on the subject of bitching about social media, I realize this is a controversial statement on the tankie TikTok addict site, but fun fact: you can in fact criticize the American government for trying to limit what websites you go on in the name of xenophobic capitalistic surveillance exploitation, while not also just turning around and giving your information to a site that is owned lock stock and barrel by another imperialist power with an EVEN MORE corrupt surveillance exploitation system.
You can, in fact, not fucking feed the identity theft misinformation algorithm on either side! Shocking, I know!
#TikTok#Rednote#TikTok ban#social media#xiaohongshu#xhs#YOU DO NOT NEED A TIKTOK. YOU DO NOT NEED A REDNOTE EITHER.#everyone like 'oh but the Chinese people are so nice' yeah the people are. I don't trust their government with a thirty foot pole.#I knew many wonderful Russian people before the war too. I cannot talk with most of them anymore because of their government.#which pervades almost every aspect of their lives; and due to the exploitative nature of it they can't even really complain#again it goes back to: you people do not NEED these sites. you COULD use other; less exploitative ones#you COULD in fact try to move away from traditional corporate social media altogether!#I've been saying we need to go back to smaller internet/web circles for years now!#hell it'd certainly make you less easy to track!#but then some of you go 'I need an audience for <insert whatever bullshit here>'#or worse: 'well they already have my data so why should I care?'#every day I am pushed by inches closer to my Ted Kaczynski moment by you dogs#obstinate neighing
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to that anon I got about my last posts: if you're hurt that I'm talking about antisemitism on tumblr rather than the Israel/Palestine conflict itself then you're going to have to make your peace with a star wars blog not being an effective platform for activism.
This is the point I've been trying to hammer home perfectly illustrated. I deviated ever so slightly from what's allowed on the subject to say that I can't participate in this website's idea of 'raising awareness' (distributing real facts and misinfo alike without a care and being a bunch of fanatic Jew haters in the process) and that I don't think I'm able to critically and accurately examine every piece of news that gets passed around here, and you're taking this to assume I don't care. So no, I'm not going to spend my time trying to prove that I do care to that particular crowd.
You're upset with me for not treating this like I did fandom and assuming I value fictional characters more than real people because of it, but it's precisely because this is infinitely more important that I'm not going to be doing real people the disrespect of giving my two cents on their suffering and deaths on the same platform I did STAR WARS.
#You don't know how I feel about the conflict and you can't claim to know#Because I made a point of not getting into it#I have tons of things I'd say and that I'm not saying#precisely because a bunch of sheltered western young adults (which I am) thinking they HAVE to speak out#about things they're primarily exposed to on social media#is how we ended up where we're at on this website#and by the way 'antisemitism is wrong' stands on its own and i don't need to say more no matter the context#and I won't be lectured about how I need to care about innocent people suffering and dying by a website full of raging antisemites#you were never upset about me shutting up on the war for months until I mentioned antisemitism and suddenly my not speaking out is wrong#why do you only care about my silence now and not before?#and why do you take me so seriously that my stepping away is a matter of great disappointment to you?
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Nothing against op, but I'm sorry, the concept that if one of the members of a canon ship dies in an au the other one will never truly be happy is so lame. Like. As much as the concept of soulmates is beautiful it's just plain unrealistic and exists for the sufferfest sake's more than anything else. Literally just. Don't know how to create easy drama for your character when realistically they shouldn't have any problems? Bam! Kill their soulmate. Booooriing.
#there are of course instances of stories with soulmates that i like. the most obvious one is jane eyre. but even there we spend enough time#with them to understand why Exactly they are meant for each other. because they're both freaks and nobody else does it like them#why on earth caitvi should be soulmates on such a level i don't understand#they barely have any dynamic in the canon as is *cough*#also i think we should start a drinking game. drink every time amanda and cristian confirm something about arcane in social media#good luck to everyone's livers🫡🫡
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I can't stop imagining the alternate timeline where the EU did to Facebook what the US tried to do to TikTok. "Meta has to share its full proprietary software with our government, or sell to a European company" lmao can you imagine
Like EU and some others did some regulations on privacy and social media. As they should have, and as we should have here. And Zuck is still crying about it, as he should be. Notably, neither FB nor TT is banned in the EU, and while ByteDance hasn't made much noise about complying over there, Zuck is crying to drumpf to pressure the EU to lay off.
But anyways we can't do any of that here. Why?
Because any privacy regulations or social media regulations will affect our own data-farms. Because those data-farms are important to our government. Because Meta and Shitter freely share that data with our government.
The problem was never 'companies shouldn't have your data' because the US government is fully in favor of companies stealing and profiting from that data. We do it constantly!! Around the globe!! That is literally what Meta DOES.
The problem is our government isn't the one profiting, and that's what's not allowed.
#us politics#tiktok#can you imagine the outrage. of trying to force FB to sell. lmao#like sure fb has no problem sharing their software. with the US. bc they already do#which is why that was one of the conditions in the first place#'give us the same socmed access we have with our other companies' lol no get wrecked#and people still think that was an unreasonable response lol#'fine then we'll pay you for it' lol. lmao even#and none of this addresses another massive reason TikTok is banned: mutual aid and organization#i have been on. so many social media sites#everyone shits on tt for the same reasons boomers do#but there was MASSIVE community organization and education happening#in a way i have NEVER seen ANYWHERE else#because TT isn't like text-based socmed. you see FACES. you SEE the Actions#and when your feed is full of Action. and full of people making it so so easy for you to also take Action#that shit grows like lichen and you can't stop it#and when we try to organize on text-based sites we are more susceptible to cointelpro tactics#it is so so so much easier to be a bad faith agent if you don't have to also Act It with your whole face and chest#it's why organizing for Gaza on TT was so much more effective than say. tumblr. haven of spam scam chainmail
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I'll be honest I rarely see negativity on this webbed site yeah sure I curate my experience and yeah I see plenty of disagreements and yeah I see bad takes etc etc but I don't personally see much straight up vitriol. maybe I'm just in my bubble a lot but genuinely, the only rancid vibes I've seen lately have been on, surprise surprise, posts with tiktok refugees who are talking shit about tumblr. again, maybe I'm just in a bubble but this site hasn't struck me as mean spirited in years. and those posts with the tiktok refugees were steeped in mean spirit
#I'm not one of those people that thinks nothing good comes of tiktok#but there's no denying it is a social media that benefits from having the kind of people that stir up shit#more shit stirred = more clicks more interactions more scrolls etc etc#not for me thanks#and my constant anger was actually one of the biggest reasons why i left tiktok for good in 2021?? 2022?? it's been a while#like. it became obvious that ragebait was a feature of the platform not a bug#we (i hope) don't do that here (anymore)
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Consider Yelan's facial expression to be my own in reaction to opinions shared on both X and Tumblr, and I guess I'm in the minority of the 'loud ones', but I'm pretty excited for Natlan since that trailer, actually. The previous teasers left me a little 'eh', but this definitely got my hopes back up, and I'm back in the right spirits for it (and ready to catch some Pokémon.)
Now I wouldn't be me if I didn't touch on the salt that I've seen scattered across the dash, so here I go. Listen, I read people's objections and I see what you're all aiming at, but in that light want to note that it's often incredibly easy to point fingers (arguably too much so) at others while being, quite honestly, hopefully rather aware that many of our own countries, cultures, and its populations across the board (and no, I'm not excluding anyone here) would likely be just as easily guilty as MHY is with these things. And no, I'm not blindly defending them, but I also won't point fingers at only one without pointing them everywhere else as well, including those you might think would 'never do such things', because I'm absolutely certain that they would. /continues on in the tags.
#we all wear biased lenses. and no-- 'informing yourself through social media' doesn't make you aware of how cultures work/look.#people informing themselves through social media is the /worst trend/ that the 2000/2010s have ever brought us. it's insane.#i'm sorry i'm also very tired of people deciding who are minorities and when. and who is allowed to 'get away with things' and who aren't.#and who is guilty and who isn't. and how “everyone is supposed to do everything right” when most people don't even know...#how the culture of their neighboring country genuinely looks outside of simple stereotypes (and usually only bad ones).#we also need to ultimately realize that mhy is chinese. it has (uniquely) gotten a lot of praise for its presentation of japanese culture.#(from what i hear) which is incredibly rare for a chinese company (and others). and then...#it's doing cultures further away from its own less justice. it didn't exactly do mondstadt great. it played into stereotypes.#and then combined them from multiple cultures. same with fontaine. it played into stereotypes /yet again/ in the same way the west does it.#and not just stereotypes from one country and culture. but /several/. but do most people who aren't familiar with those cultures know this?#no. they don't. and why would they? look at even just the west. europe and north america think that they're similar. /they are so not/.#if WE can't/won't even get it right. and yet we pretend to every damned day; why are we condemning a country halfway across the globe?#and also no-- i don't think latam or africa would portray china properly. or france. or the states.#... but you know what all this'll still do? cause people to look up and go 'hey this is so cool-- i want to know the inspiration'.#and people will still look into it. and people will learn.#and people will be drawn to them in life outside of their homes. or at least the ones who want to touch grass. and maybe even foreign grass#sanity knows i've looked infinitely more into chinese culture and customs because of liyue than ever before. with a much higher...#interest than i've ever admittedly had in regards to china. /ever/. just like i've had other games do the same for other cultures...#way across the globe.#[ salt. ] should i be quieter next time? / no. no… it's fine. children don't learn unless you shout at them.#[ out of character. ] don't bend or water it down. don't try to make it logical. rather: follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
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While therapy went good; I'm still physically and mentally exhausted
so I'm trying to distract myself with makeup and making tiktoks even if it's not perfect✨💕
#also kink lmao agdsff always distracting with the kink🙃☠️#highgoblin#I've been practicing natural cute makeup that's why it kinda all looks the same ahdsfff#I don't really use other social media so shgddff here we are#guilty pleasure: doing my makeup while thinking about how cute id look getting tworded#shhsssffff#lowkey been practicing natural makeup jist so one day maybe I can laugh n cry it off#agdsdff#Ngl comfy sweats/pjs + pretty makeup gives me so much gender euphoria like agssf I'm just a cute lil gamer boi👉🏻👈🏻✨💕🥰
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Not to defend James Vowles but y'all do realise that when he said Mick isn't special he didn't mean "Mick is a loser and I hate him and also he sucks at driving". Like you do realise that right?
To me that very much comes across as a poorly worded way of saying "Mick's a good driver, sure, but he's not the kind of one in a million driver who's so good that you'd put him in an unfamiliar car with no FP1 sessions, no sim time, and the risk that the team he's already got a contract with could take him away the second they need him, leaving us to find yet another replacement. Given those risks, we'd rather go with someone we already have a contract with who we've at least had the chance to give some sim time to so he knows what to expect and we know what to expect"
#like yes at first I was like wtf why not sign Mick??#but then I thought about it and realised that there would be a few reasons#1. he was busy with endurance racing and wouldn't have made it to monza anyway probably#2. he would still be merc's reserve driver so if George or Lewis got sick they would call him in and Williams would need another new driver#(aside from Helmut apparently saying no I imagine this was also a factor in not choosing Liam)#3. it looks good for them to bring up someone from their own academy and it'll encourage more drivers to join their academy if they can see#an actual chance to go to f1 with it#anyway I get we don't like him at the moment and I agree he hasn't handled it great on social media and stuff but James is actually not evil#and he's making some tough and shitty decisions but they're ultimately good decisions for the team#and given that his job is to do what's best for the team even if it's not fun I actually think maybe it's not a bad thing? Hot take I know#williams racing#williams f1#james vowles
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related to my last reblog: bro i hate when social media sites shut down
not only because people's creations are lost
But also because people on here are so damned annoying about it
#regardless of what they say#tumblr has an algorithm#you don't have to reblog post if you don't want to#you can press the like button#you can - GASP - use a website however you want#and you can -double gasp- help people adjust to a site without being passive aggressive#“We're not like other social media”#it is#tumblr is#there's no “we”#tumblr has: ads / bad staff / censorship / racisim / transphobia / blah blah blah#tumblr isn't a magical haven#it's a flawed site that a lot of good people are on#Just BE NICE to new comers#(this type of attitude that i've seen is exactly why I avoided tumblr for so many years... ugh)#Sorry I'm so salty#this place really brings that out#damn#anyways going back to playing my solo dnd campaign#and grinding in creatures of sonaria
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tired of being a broken freak
someone come kiss me so i can see if i like it when the person's not being a creep
#not knowing is killing me and ruining enjoyment of any media#its exhausting overanalysing everything#and its not like i have a bestie who would be down to mess about#we dispersed to the four corners of the earth years ago#and now everyone is an acquaintance#adulthood can be exhausting when you're constantly reading between the lines to see that the invite to an event is because you're standing#there and they dont want to be rude rather than direct invite#because if you agree to go they find a way around it like going early or cancelling#and you're like what the fuck is wrong with your vibe that people do this? we get on well socially and at work#but clearly you must be emitting a Broken Signal or something#i just dont think I would WANT to Want like this if i was fully ace#its not even directed at someone#more's the pity#im the only one in my general social network who isnt married or in a relationship and there's nothing for me here#life feels like such a waste of time#and i wasted all weekend doing Nothing#so i feel i cheated myself out of enjoyment onthe one time i got off but there were so many chores and no one to hang with so it was like..#i might as well just lay here and be miserable for two days interspersed with mild chores i have been trying to get to#well its slightly safer than being in town right now there's kids in stolen cars hooning about since last night#fucking annoying and dangerous#meh#everyday blurs into an eternity and death waits for us all im so tired#its just work work work then exercise and feeling shitty and being sad and then staring at the ceiling and work again#also chores#they never end#i could try harder of course#i could actively try to meet people but i don't know what i want ive never had a type in any gender and everyone's taken or terrible#and what if i lead them on for nothing?#its not even a partner really... i just want to know if i can have the feelings of love or a crush and desire the wanting#i feel like i had them before but they went away and i dont know why
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Why is it that whenever I wish to scream, I am at work?
#i am so tired of this dumbass country doing dumbass shit#The writing is on the fucking wall people#i see all these people questioning exactly why the US govt wants to get rid of tiktok#omg its so fucking obvious#tiktok is not owned by an american entity#its own by ByteDance a Chinese company#its not about being scared our data is going to the chinese if that was true they would have banned it before everyone got into it#its because they cant control the media we consume#every other social media company that is prevalent in american culture is owned by an american company#with an american running it#and since Tiktok is owned by someone outside the United States they don't have open control on what people consume#like on facebook instagram twitter even bluesky all these entities are owned by americans meaning the government has the possibility#to have some control over what we see on our feeds#tiktok thats not as possible#also the whole divestiger law is so fucked up too#when ever would the US government force a company to sell their company to another#thats not legal#if it goes to the supreme court that should be what they find but knowing our supreme court right now thats unlikely#im so tired of this shit#i just want to be able to watch videos of my favorite celebrities on a fun social media app#is that so much to ask#tiktok ban#us government#us politics
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#i'm done i'm so fucking tired#i want to burn the internet to the ground#i want to destroy my computer chuck my phone into a river and go live in the middle of nowhere#no wifi no 4g no nothing#i want to die because we cannot fucking escape this shit#meta using my art to train ai and refusing my request to stop#my computer not being able to run glaze or nightshade or any of those ai poisoning thingies#spam emails and text messages and whatsapp messages and bots in the comments#and just EVERYTHING TRYING TO SELL ME THINGS WHILE ALSO STEALING WHAT'S ALREADY MINE#i hate it i hate it i can't fucking stand it anymore#and you'll be like ''then why don't you go offline then... nobody's making you have an instagram account''#and you'd be right... if it weren't for the fact that i chose the one fucking career that DEMANDS online presence#i already struggle to find work as an illustrator WITH social media and POSTING MY ART ONLINE#how the fuck would I do it if people don't see my art?!#and sure people have illustrated books way before the internet existed... sure... BUT IT DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT ANYMORE#i'm so fucking angry and tired and frustrated that there's no way out of this#the internet is becoming unusable yet life demands it#my only option right now it to fuck myself and my beliefs and let companies steal my hardwork for the benefit of..?#having no notes in my posts except for the bots commenting ''see 👀my hole 🍑 daddy 💦 kitten 😻 ready 4 u 🤤 subscribe🔥 pay 💲 me''#i'm sick of this#i don't want to delete everything i ever posted online because A. at this point that's useless and B. again. how the fuck would i get work?#also even then... emailing my clients their finished illustrations goes through google drive or gmail...#do we think google is nice and doesn't steal images to train generative AI?#''talk to your representatives they need to make laws about this'' my fucking president is currently chumming it up with elon fucking musk#while people here are starving to death#we're literally going to freeze this winter because the genius goverment has fucked up our gas supply and that's used not only for heating#but for ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION#so we won't have a wat to heat our houses cook or even fucking SEE AT NIGHT#and you want me to ask them to make copyright laws?!#i want to die
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Love and support for femmes who don't wear makeup, get their nails done, or shave 💖
#noticing a lot of acrylic nail positivity for femmes so I am balancing things out a bit (no shade or hostility intended 🫶)#you don't need to wear makeup or shave or have long nails to be femme! you still look very beautiful without these things#it's also expensive af and some things (like acrylics) can be bad for your health#sometimes my wife gets stressed about not looking a certain way and I think femmes are under pressure to perform femininity in a v rigid wa#and I'm not sure if it's social media or what but I think it's getting worse?#like why are we expecting femmes to live up to the unrealistic and often painful standards of beauty that men set up?#I hate the thought of my wife being uncomfortable and I am feral for her freckles and her hands and the soft hairs on her upper lip#free the femmes#femme positivity#lesbian#wlw#mine#lesbian positivity
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Can I please go one day without unnecessary flashing and glitch effects sniping me this week. I would like to not be hit with an aura or a partial seizure for the fifth day in a row
#tumblr continues to be the safe option of social media because it blocks tagged posts#like i seriously got done in because I wanted to see the modded emote someone i follow on bluesky made#and it just opens with flashing and old tv glitch effects#FOR WHY#I'm literally crying because I'm so lighheaded and dizzy from the aura it triggered that i hear my heart in my ears#and i don't have anything to take because i ran out and can't get a new script yet#IT'S A DANCE EMOTE#why are we doing this????
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