#I am normal about media

[frmulcahy]

I can’t believe they’re taking Aziraphale to the severed floor 😔

#the work is in fact mysterious and important #good omens #good omens season 2 #severance #severance tv #WHAT IF I MAKE A LIL SEVERANCE AU WHAT THEN #WHAT IF I DRAW AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY AS BURT AND IRV IN THAT ROOM FULL OF PLANTS WHAT THEN #I am normal about media #😃👍

[maelgwyn]

Not to be dramatic but I would die and also kill for Samanthan Rutherford.

#samanthan rutherford #lower decks #star trek #I haven't started season 3 yet so no spoilers please #sweet boy baby bear #warm up sketch #my art #why is the star trek comedy show also one of the most sincere and excellent representations of everything star trek can and should be #why did the funny cartoon make me cry #good job titmouse studios #lower decks is made by people who love star trek intensely but also aren't afraid to poke fun at it and that's why I love lower decks #I am normal about media #art

[aftout]

o yea any other dst ships you really like?

Tbh I think all of them are charming. I have my personal biases but you could approach me with pretty much any pairing imaginable and I’d swoon. I’d be like this food… is so good. So lovely.

Anyone who’s been following me for literally half a second knows that I am unhealthily devoted to Westox. It’s so fucking stupid. It’s a mime and a Krampus. It sucks. It’s so wonderful. Wortox calls Wes’ ghost delicious and it makes me LAUGH!! A friend pointed out that their entire relationship is like this elaborate comedy routine and I think that is wonderful. But also??? The whole concept of being in love with someone despite knowing the danger of the situation? The constant yearn for direct touch? The gentleness in what’s supposed to be so cold and harsh? That gets me bawling, dude. It’s like snorting a line of crack.

Maxwil is also good. It’s a classic. I went on a whole rant a few weeks back about the themes of mortality, forgiveness, and acceptance that their story holds and why it can have such an impact, but also people need to be more goofy about them. I keep saying we need more slapstick shenanigans involving these two. I need Wilson to try throwing shit at Maxwell and missing every single time despite the other standing perfectly still.

ANF OHHHHH . OHHHHHHHHH SLAPS YOU SILLY. SLAAAPS YOU SIIIILLLYYYYYY. WINONA AND GENNY. BITES ON MY KNUCKLE ROLLS AROUND. GOODDDDD WINONA AND GENNY. THEY BREAK ME. I just KNOW that Genny is there on earth trying to bring JUSTICE to her woman’s NAME. I just KNOW she misses Winona with EVERY FIBRE OF HER BEING. I just KNOW she is LONGING and YEARNING, CLINGING ONTO THAT SMIDGE OF HOPE THAT WINONA IS SOMEHOW STILL OUT THERE SOMEWHERE. You call it denial, I call it her massive brain who can tell that SOMETHING IS AFOOT. I need them to reunite and cry and kiss and kiss more.

Lucy and Woodie 👍

CHARLOW ALSO ROCKS but ive made a post abouts them earlier so teehee!!! Teehee!!!

#i am normal about media #asks

[mangoes-and-mothman]

hey guys can you guess what movie i just watched?

#i am normal about media #mangoes thoughts

[obamaphoner]

oh gosh the Bad Kids on the infinity train 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#AAAAAAHH #i am normal about media #Fantasy High #I don't know where to start bc they all need it and are all capable of making it

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[redkehlchen]

Look at all these turtles! 🐢

#I am so normal about these turtles…. I have consumed a totally normal amount of turtle media in the last couple of weeks- #tmnt 2003 #rottmnt #tmnt mutant mayhem #tmnt the last ronin #tmnt leonardo #tmnt michelangelo #tmnt raphael #tmnt donatello #I also wanted to include the 2012 boys.. but I just couldn’t get them right… #scrapped the drawing #tried it again but I still didn’t like it… #I read last ronin yesterday so you are getting sad old man mikey instead 🥲 #red does art #fanart #tmnt

[cataclysmic-cathexis]

Can we take it... slow?

Because I am once again completely normal about a piece of media, here is a visual essay on You Wear Fine Things Well Take 2: Faces and What Those Faces Are Doing (It's Kissing, But Also Emotions)

(I lightened all these screenshots up so the faces are more visible)

Ed is telling Stede his very sweet fishing story. Stede is reacting totally appropriately - gasping, eyes wide, interested and adorable. He's genuinely loving spending this time with Ed, hearing about his day.

He even leans forward to examine the lil fishy. CUTE. He's just so happy to be here, with Ed, talking about their days, spending time together. ("I love being near you.")

Stede tells Ed his abbreviated "cursed suit" story, where Ed delivers the "that wasn't a long story at all" line deadpan with this hilarious face:

(Why is this face so funny? Scientists in the future may know, but alas, this mystery will not be answered within our lifetime.)

Ed then ups the ante - going from that hilarious face to this SCORCHING HOT ONE after uttering the line that ruined the life of everyone on this hellsite

You wear fine things well

Those big brown 'come hither' eyes are HITHERING (it's a word, don't Google it tho)

What I also like about the refrain of "you wear fine things well" - Ed is signaling to Stede that he is ready to take another step. In the last episode, Ed put down a firm boundary - "you don't get to say that to me." Stede, in his adorable, desperate, determined, stubborn yet respectful way, backed off (by delivering an arguably MORE romantic speech but whatever - he respected Ed's boundary and didn't say "I love you"). Ed is pulling from their shared history, from a beautiful moment where they both felt something (although it's arguable as to whether or not in the moment Stede actually knew what he was feeling - he certainly with hindsight was like OOOOOOOOHHH).

So Ed is giving Stede the ok to take a step forward - which he does, while making this face with is the human equivalent of the heart eyes emoji:

Stede then looks away - and he stays in place, letting Ed come to him, making sure it's Ed to initiate. I think Stede wants Ed to be sure, doesn't want to push, since he knows how badly he fucked up and knows how deep Ed's hurt is.

Stede looks back up, but stays in place. Ed is looking at him with such vulnerability...

..as he slowly does his adorable little teenager-about-to-have-their-first-kiss shuffle...

And he leans in for that sweet kiss under the waxing moon.

Initially it's just Ed who is leaning in, but then Stede leans into the kiss as well - and deepens it.

Ed is then like "ok weird for ME to be the one saying this but it's probably healthier if we don't skip straight to banging each other's brains out on the deck of the ship and like, make sure of our feelings first"

After Ed says "We're whim-prone, as you said," Stede goes through a little mini crisis. First, fuck why did I say that:

Then - before Ed can finish what he's saying, Stede's face falls. He's so worried he's messed this up. Ed gave him a kiss and he tried to go too fast, and he's getting rejected again.

He tries to put a brave face on it, but our lil guy is SO SAD

Then once Ed finishes his fish metaphor ("You can't catch a fish unless the fish wants to be caught") Stede realises that Ed isn't rejecting him. I think Ed's vulnerability here and how unsure he is ("we're the fish, I guess. Maybe. I think.") helps Stede to remember hey, this isn't about me and my stuff right now, this is about Ed and Ed's stuff.

Stede gains a little confidence back. He's reassured. Ed is still trying to figure out who he is without Blackbeard, and Stede gets it. And Ed still wants him to be a part of who the new Ed is ("we're the fish"). He's like ok, I got u babe.

So he pulls himself back, but he still wants Ed to feel his affection, and to know that Ed is loved. So he holds Ed's hand and asks for permission.

"What about this? Is this alright?"

"This? Perfect."

Then they have their adorable little hand moment - just happy that they understand one another, happy to be touching, happy to be together.

"You won." Stede whispers.

Ed looks away, beaming:

And, in contrast to the last time they stood on the deck, under the moon, and said "you wear fine things well", this time they walk off together.

FIN.

#cool #cool cool cool #again i am completely normal about this piece of media #did i hyperfixate and take screenshots of this entire episode? MAYBE but that's MY BUSINESS #ramblings #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #ofmd s2 ep5 #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ed teach #stede bonnet #ed teach loves stede bonnet #stede bonnet loves ed teach #you wear fine things well #our flag means death #ofmd meta

[liumilai]

thoughts are being thunk

#i am so normal about this #need the modern tumblr media trifecta to stop making me feel pain btw thanks for listening #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #wwdits spoilers #our flag means death #ofmd

[moonage-nightterrors]

me, finishing a tv show: ha! i enjoyed that a completely normal amount. i feel very normal about these characters. now i will go about my day as usual and not obsess over this

me, two days and several fanfics later: well shit

#this was literally dead boy detectives #i was proud about how normal i was being with it #little did i know… #dead boy detectives #supernatural #spn #destiel #good omens #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #literally just tagging all the fandoms who’ve consumed my life #young royals #heartstopper #ok to be fair the obsession was really immediate with heartstopper #physically could not stop watching #stayed up until 2 am #fandom #fandom shit #tv shows #queer media #hyperfixation #probably autism

[hysteriafossil]

guess who finished tlok tonight and immediately had this come to him in a vision!!!!

#i. really like tlok. like a lot #i understand why people dont like it #and i can accept that OBJECTIVELY its not that great #but i had a fantastic time with it #anyways yeah. gay people #tbh. would not call zhu li and varrick normal. most queer straight couple on the planet. #hes a gay man. shes a lesbian. theyre in love. do you get it. #i dont have that many thoughts abt wuko. i really really like it though. #wu is like the webkinz milk cat to me. i need to throw him against a wall really hard. #and of course. korrasami. what is there to even say there #one thing i will say is before watching it i TOTALLY thought asami was a fire bender and also evil #like i kept thinking “yep this is when she turns evil and then theres enemies to lovers” but nope #not a bender or evil and honestly im glad #she totally wouldve been justified in becoming evil though. i sure wouldve #love her.so much #korra too ofc #i have SO MANY more thoughts but im gonna run out of space #last thing i will say is i am a guy who will just always prefer media i can criticize #love atla. but theres nothing there for me to really sink my teeth into or like bitch about #i love it when media is KIND OF BAD and i can RANT ANGRILLY about it #the legend of korra #tlok #legend of korra #korrasami #wuko #zhurrick #korra #asami sato #mako tlok #prince wu

[ndrwlls]

assorted tma sketches/wips i did last night in a daze

#my art #the magnus archives #tma #fanart #tma fanart #the magnus archive fanart #michael shelley #gertrude robinson #gerry keay #gerard keay #agnes montague #tma is taking over my thought and life #who am i to complain #i love being normal about a piece of media #agnes is so suite-pee by soad coded #gerry+mary are so forest by soad coded

[spiderdotexe]

i had two UTDR dreams in a row and i think im being haunted by a alternate universe version of these games . anyways it was about a "sans battle fangame" but despite the name it literally had no battles and was not even 2d . it was like a 3d free roam horror game . the only thing i remember at all were the characters which looked like this . quite scary

#my art #ms paint #undertale #i guess this goes in the main tags... maybe #two in a row. am i being haunted? am i seeing a cursed future? #will red sans be the new enemy in future content? #ok i swear ill get back to normal posting i just have weird dreams all the time and i only post the ones that involve funny media #like. red sans. and tiny toy car. does it have a soul??? #i dont want to think about ENEMY

[bbromeus]

An isat x orv crossover would like, destroy me emotionally. But it would be so cool. If you ever post more of your art I would love to see it !!

AAAAA tysm !! I took a while to respond so I could make this silly isat AU for orv 🥺 hope you enjoy!

(obligatory “please spare me, I’m on ACT 2” mention)

#asks #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #AAAAHHHHHHSJDHSHDNDJDNF thinking abt this made me sick #may draw more of this #loop kdj loop kdj loop kdj. I can’t stop thinking abt this #isat #even tho it’s just an au #I know it’s not likely for this post but- #PLS SPARE ME IN THE TAGS! IM ON ACT 2 #isaters pspspsps you wanna ask me about orv. I know you do #if by chance there are other isat/orv enjoyers!! #come forth! I am so normal abt both these medias <3 #my art

[shorthaltsjester]

i do not want to dig a hole but i am too much of a laura bailey pc enjoyer to not make this post so:

selfishness ≠ a lack of kindness 

selfishness is a theme that has come up with all of laura's main campaign pcs. that doesn't mean that her characters are always making selfish choices or that they don't care about the rest of the people they're with or that they're not good. it's just that, for the most part, the first thing they're thinking of when they take action or make choices is themselves. 

in jester and vex both it is more typical and obvious selfishness. vex's developed because she needed it to keep herself and vax alive and as safe as possible and it grew into a behaviour that she had to actively work to avoid. it's evident in her greed, her theft of the broom, her reaction to her own death which relied heavily on i'm okay/i survived to which keyleth reminded her that she wasn't the only one who had to witness and reckon with her death. in jester's case, she grew up in an environment that literally trained her to make every decision based on two things - her mother's opinion and her own. so, when she's out in the world without marion for the first time, her choices are those that will benefit her and her actions are those that consider her own thoughts and not really many others' (aside from the traveler's). 

it isn't a criticism of either vex or jester to say that they are characters who act selfishly. in fact, i'd argue that to claim otherwise does a great disservice to exactly how immense both of their character arcs are. because the nuance of both jester and vex is that they are selfish, and they also hold extreme room for self-sacrifice and empathy. vex is much more brash than jester is, and jester is much more trusting than vex, but both of them are characters who begin with selfish impulses who grow with them. neither ever truly shed those impulses, but they use them in new ways, typically transforming them into impulses towards things that are in the best interest of the party. 

you may have noticed the lack of imogen in this post about laura bailey pcs and that's because of two reasons. one, we are an unknown amount of time into her story, i can't analyse her development the same way i can vex and jester's. two, imogen's selfishness isn't the blatant quasi-self-aware selfishness that we see in things like jester complaining about her lack of money to caleb or vex stealing a broom. instead, imogen's is very internal, like a lot of laura's character work with imogen. it is a bit similar to jester’s in the sense that it comes from a lack of awareness moreso than vex’s practiced behaviour, but imogen’s is a lot more tied to inherent beliefs she has about the world and the people in it.

as a consequence of her powers, imogen sees people's thoughts as their entirety, she holds it above their actions to be the truth of who they are - to act against what they think or to say something that doesn’t cohere with what they’ve thought is akin to lying, so for her to act empathetically is to act in tandem with what someone else’s thoughts are, not how they act, which is typically not all that wanted. the same as vex’s greed and jester’s naivety, this is a trait that makes narrative sense and it’s one i find quite compelling, especially when read in the vein of someone struggling through trauma that has made them assume that the world is against them. imogen’s cynicism is coherent cynicism, i can’t say that in a similar situation i wouldn’t have the same predisposition towards the world.

the part that is particularly self-interested comes in if you look at how imogen has actually been treated in the campaign (quite well) in comparison to the cynicism that she’s developed from her past (something that speaks to a world out to get her). certainly, a bunch of shitty things have happened to imogen in the time we’ve known her, but the same can be said for everyone in bell’s hells and pretty much everyone in exandria at this point in time. but, in a fight to save the aforementioned world, imogen’s focus was getting her mother back on her side. which, while very consistent with her character and a choice that i enjoy, is a very selfish one. the fun thing (to me, obviously) about imogen is that she has, more than most, an insight into the opinions of others and she also tends to seek others’ opinions out and genuinely engages with them and supports their choices. but she still very much acts towards what she thinks is best. it’s one reason i enjoy looking at the dynamic between her and orym as one between foils, as orym tends to be stalwart in his beliefs and doesn’t care too much for other’s opinions if he’s already sure of his own, but his actions tend to favour collaboration and protecting others.

as i mentioned earlier, imogen is a harder case to look at because she is still in the process of her story. however, the circlet is clearly influencing how she interacts with the world and in the wake of the solstice, the hostile reaction towards ruidusborn people has started to become more and more apparent and i’m interested to see what route that ends up leading imogen down and how it will influence her relationship with the rest of bell’s hells. (for better, i think, based on recent conversations, but if it's for worse i will be just as seated and excited).

all of this is just to say, please stop assuming that claiming a character has a trait you think is a bad one is criticism or a hate post. in light of the fact that i know that people who don’t believe this will continue to not believe this, i’ll encourage anyone confused about the ability of a character to be good and kind and selfish all at once to look to what the text itself says, specifically scanlan’s words to pelor when asked what vex means to him:

“Her name is Vex, and she is greedy and mean sometimes, and she can steal a lot. She’s a little bit not the greatest person, but her flaws highlight everything that is right about her, which is she does all these things to protect her friends and her family. She would give her life for any of us and for anyone who was truly in need. And she’s not perfect but she’s the most perfect of all of us.”

would you look at that... an ability to be a multitude of things, some in conflict with one another. i know that's hard for fandoms to believe, especially about female characters with agency, but i promise its true!

#deeply unfair of laura to make three characters with some type of people skills and morality shaped by their loneliness #and what. i’m just supposed act like i’m normal about that? #this is me blog and i have slightly more time than usual to write nothing essays about fictional characters that haunt me #but dear god . lookin at cr characters and denying their flaws is like looking at a house and only seeing it’s doors . #if ppl demand perfection of fictional characters im genuinely curious in what media they’ve ever found that . #a single imogen post of mine broke containment and it skyrocketed my annoying phil student levels so. alas #but . if you agree that imogen had an incredibly isolating life . i will emphasize that isolation causes traits and behaviours #that aren’t just Quirky or fun or hot anger or whatever #imogen contains so much i love her so much i am bursting at the seams about it #but for some ppl. she is ur ‘girlfailure’ until someone suggests a way she might be girl failing by being selfinterested #what is the truth. do u want her to be an actual girlfailure it do u just want her to suit a . frankly tired. trope about lesbians #anyway . both text and tag rant over . goodnight #cr meta #imogen temult #vex’ahlia #vex’ahlia de rolo #jester lavorre #critical role #my posts

[mostlikelytobeobsessed]

I AM SO LATE BUT

OKAY,,,,! SO!!

it was @mrghostrat ‘s birthday and I don’t know them and they don’t know me but am such a huge huge fan of their work it has been incredibly inspiring and I was racking my brain on fanart and just couldn’t find the motivation at the moment but I did make a playlist for their fandom au fic (Big Name Feelings on ao3, it’s an absolute treat) and so that is my late birthday gift I hope everyone who listens likes it as much as I do, I’ll probably add more as the fic goes on okay I’m done rambling :’D

(🌸 ps! It doesn’t have a cover yet but I’m working on it just lemme cook, also the songs are largely picked from my personal taste in music as well as the vibes I get from the pic, so do with that what you will and I’m horribly sorry if this isn’t up to snuff ok bye bye mwah)

#Bappy Hirthday! #hehe happy BEEday #i’m a comedian #mostlikelyrambling #fanfic playlist #I am so normal about this fic #just as normal and not nervous I am about using social media to share things :D #good omens fandom #Spotify