#I am so trendy

[consult-sherlockholmes]

You're trending today, sweetie

I am always trending, especially on the days I post.

But why is it in those colours? They seem familiar.

#I am so trendy #Do those colours mean anything special? #roleplay #rp #sherlock roleplay #sherlock rp #johnlock roleplay #sherlock #johnlock rp #Sherlock #Trending

[nipuni]

Some requests were for modern AU so I played dress up with Erik in some modern outfits 😊

#The Phantom of the Opera #Phantom of the Opera #erik #poto #my art #they are kind of basic listen I'm not a trendy person but I don't think he would be either so it's fine #hopefully these cover some scenarios for fanfic visualization needs 😊 #everytime a client asks for 'gen z' clothes I am reminded that I have no idea what people wear

[bylrndgm]

GOOD OMENS (2019 - ) 2.01 The Arrival

#good omens #good omens 3 #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #david tennant #michael sheen #mine #mine:gif #**try to not gif the f out of tv shows you love: mission failed** #here i am #giffing for the first time in months just for them <3 #i wanted to try the pale gif effect that was oh so trendy in 2015 and add a little thing i love AKA GLOW effect #hope you all enjoyy i had so much fun making this **i was in an anxious state of mind on the verge of a breakdown** but they make everythin #better

[fuckingstupidbracket]

like a regular bin, not even recycled or anything

#poll #okay so uh #dont read the tags ahead unless you care about my little vent #my mom got me a hoodie in December from shein #even tho i had two very similar hoodies already both from better brands #still fast fashion but not as fast #and one of them was modded by me #but the hoodie was fucking soft and comfy and good length so it quickly became my favourite hoodie #according to my mother tho after a month she started complaining that it's ugly. #it had those little balls idk what they're called but #1 i don't fucking care #2 they're removable #so anyway fot the past week or two shes been complaining every time i wore the hoodie and today she screamed at me and threw it in the trash #she also kicked me but thats unrelated #and like even if she bought me a new identical one that wouldn't help at all cause she still threw my stuff in the trasg #and bought from a company that goes against my values #and she keeps excusing it like “its cheaper” #im sorry but buying one good thing and wearing it too death is cheaper than buying a hundred things you throw away after less than 3 months #so fucking sick of this!!!!!!!! #i have more than enough clothes too and am currently trying to get rid of some #BUT NOT LIKE THAT WHAT THE FUCK #btw my vinted is dupiarz it's mostly stuff from 2017-2020 so not really trendy but maybe youd like something #the pnly clothing i dont bother repairing and just throw out is underwear #but i do fix socks because good socks are good socks

[tg-headcanons]

Two thoughts:

Does the ccg use dogs to sniff out ghouls? If they do, i almost imagine they would develope a specific, ghoul hunting breed - one with an excellent sense of smell but, unlike most hunting dogs, with no instinct to bite or attack their prey but rather to just find, follow, surround and hold in place (a bit like a rhodesian ridgeback, perhaps.) After all, the dog trying to attack the ghoul would absolutely not end well at all for the dog

And

I imagine some instruments must be more grating on ghoul ears then others - i.e. a piano, for example, will generally sound nice as long as it's in tune and so i imagine ghouls wouldn't have much of an averse reaction to that instrument, even if its a beginner playing. But say, for example, you have a beginner clarinet whose instrument squeaks and shrieks like a cat that just got its tail shredded — i cant imagine that would pair terribly well with their hearing

GHOUL HUNTING DOGS GHOUL HUNTING DOGS (IVE NEVER CONSIDERED THIS BEFORE BUT MY DOG DAYCARE EMPLOYEE ASS IS GOING WILD)

The practice of using dogs to search for ghouls is a very old one, but despite falling out of practice around the 1960s due to breed health problems and more effective methods being discovered, some of them are still around like other breeds no longer used for their original purpose

Arracht hounds are an old breed that split off from Bloodhounds. They were meant to track and hunt, but some had a behavioral quirk of howling and snarling at their prey rather than attacking, alerting humans of their location but quick to scare off animals and a liability to hunts. They were mostly deemed useless bloodhounds, until a small community in rural Ireland during the Middle Ages had one of their bloodhounds do this alert display at a seemingly normal human who was later discovered to be the monster preying on their village

The breed started to be cultivated for ghoul detection. They eventually ended up as tall, long legged and wrinkly animals bred to shriek and follow their marks, and trained to seek the smell of ghouls. Before the invention of better methods, these dogs were revolutionary and often the best detection system anyone could get. They were trained to stay out of a ghoul’s grasp to keep making as much noise as possible for as long as possible until humans could show up, and their wrinkly, loose skin made it easy for them to escape, better to lose a handful of skin than be killed

This obviously wasn’t a perfect system. A lot of those dogs, even the best bred and trained, didn’t survive their encounters. Others would find false positives and cause their attending humans to attack and kill other humans. Still, back then, an imperfect alarm was better than nothing. Many places in Europe became very dangerous for ghouls, and as those dogs spread through the world it only got worse for them

Eventually the dogs fell out of use. With better methods such as rc testing discovered they were no longer the most reliable source, and both human rights organizations citing the amount of innocent humans they got killed and animal rights groups citing how many of the dogs get killed, there was less and less reason to keep them on. The final straw was just how bad the breed got. Over time the breed developed issues the same as any other, but this one had a tendency to lose hearing and eyesight early and get neurotic and dangerous when working around ghouls for too long, so most ghoul extermination organizations retired the Arracht Hounds

Most of them are now housepets, some are trying to retrain them into guard or hunting dogs, and a few rural ghoul hunting organizations still use them, but for the most part they don’t work anymore. Every once and awhile there’s a headline of a ghoul getting caught when a family’s Arracht hound went wild over an inconspicuous neighbor, but that’s as far as it goes. People in cities are advised against getting them. They shriek very loud and maybe it’s all false positives, but you really don’t want to know just how many ghoul are around you

And as for the instruments: the ghoul hatred of squeaky clarinets and trumpets is visceral. They will actively avoid middle schools and music shops where kids are learning to play them

#tokyo ghoul #tokyo ghoul headcanon #I hope you don’t mind my Insane Dog speculation #I am So Weird about dog breeds now #I just know if there was a monster hunting dog people in cities would get them when they’re trendy #then complain about every aspect of what they were bred for #do you have any idea how many times a day I have to tell people that their cattle dog can’t spend 19 hours a day in their apartment? #I think those owners should fight to the death for my amusement

[mysticfemme]

I consistently say that I'm not sure whether I like medieval studies, and yet when I'm doing an assignment I often end up focussing on something medieval. I just took ELEVEN BOOKS from the shelf on the Gawain poet because apparently I'm a nerd

#also little side ramble but when i was out with my friend yesterday i was so worried because of how much of a nerd i am #she's quite girly and trendy and has a big group of friends and they go out a lot and stuff #and I'm just here burying my head in medieval books and i wish i could be interesting like her #but i just feel so so dull sometimes #even though i dress like the coolest medievalist-to-be #plus i had a lil social anxiety freak out yesterday when i was out with her and was just terrified the entire time that she hated me #I'm wearing my new docs today tho so I'm excitedddd #also i bought a new dress yesterday but i have nowhere to wear it and it's not very cottagecore like at all #rants n rambles

[poems-of-a-lover]

god i need straight ppl to be fuckin normal abt gay intimacy like right now

#for doa just in case bc ik hes uncomfy with it ill tag it #heartstopper #heartstopper ment #OKAY ONTO MY RANT #a new heartstopper webcomic update dropped the other day and im SOOOO #it was good!!! like it was sweet i have no problem with the actual material #its just how ppl perceived it that makes me wanna explode #its intimate near the end and everyones like 'OH NO LOOK AT THEM THATS CRAZY CALM IT DOWN' #THEYRE FUCKING TEENAGERS U NUMBSKULL #I THINK TWO TEENAGERS KISSING IS THE LEAST OF UR FUCKIN WORRIES #it makes me so mad. bc no one freaks out this much over straight ppl being intimate. #yes heartstopper is the more 'innocent and cheesy' gay media which makes it easier for straight ppl to digest #which also just means that they'll flip tf out as soon as anything other than fluff is brought up #theyre teenagers in love of course theyre gonna be fuckin curious man its so stupid #u fuckers freak the hell out when they make out but then turn around and watch whatever trendy straight romcom is popular and its even wors #i am livid. please stop thinking that gay ppl can either be completely repulsed or completely obsessed with sex. #its fucking natural #god i hope this makes sense pls give me ur thoughts on this i wanna know what other ppl think abt this too

[rinrinlovee]

I hate you modern aesthetic I hate you monochrome I hate you rose gold I hate you painting kids’ toys to be joyless I hate you soulless white kitchens I hate you stainless steel I hate you exposed framing I hate you pristine white sofas I hate you parents who force their children to live in environments with no colour I hate you organised houses I hate you echoey houses I hate you perfectly cut emerald grass I hate you biscuit cutter houses I hate you conformity I hate you modern aesthetic I hate you modern aesthetic I hate you modern aesthetic I hate you modern aesthetic !!

#MAKE IT STOP #I WANT COLOUR #I want lived in houses !! #I want to trip over dolls and have blankets all over and have a painted kitchens I love you homely homes #I want to hear laughter and see footprints and little height markers on door frames I want to see that splatter on the ceiling #from when grandma dropped that pot of spaghetti I NEED to see signs of life and happiness and love #If I don’t see a thriving household with toys on the floor and chew marks on the furniture and dents in the walls and dishes in the sink #I AM GOING TO COMBUST #This aesthetic is the definition of soulless! A terrible threat to humanity! It needs to be eradicated immediately!! I directly attribute #how rude people are nowadays to the stark and complete lack of colour and soul in stores and jokes alike! #Whoever thought of this so called aesthetic is the devil’s best pawn!! #If I see one more house with children especially drowned in white and black I’m calling every child protective service imaginable #Few things boil my blood more than a parent forcing their child to live in such a horrid non stimulating cold freakishly clean environment #If I can hear my quiet breathing in your house #It needs to be cleansed if it’s modern aesthetic sin and injected with the borderline holy rays of WARM #Yes I did just watch a HORRIBLE VILE TERRIBLE video of some trendy yummy mummy painting her child’s lovely lavender play kitchen #BLOODY BLACK AND WHITE #to make it match her aesthetic! #what the fuck!! I call child abuse !

[marypsue]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on S1 of ST being a tragedy! No main character dies, so I never thought of it that way before

I mean, nobody has to die for a story to be a tragedy (at least, in the modern definition. I'm pretty sure '(almost) everybody dies' is a requirement of Greek tragedies and Renaissance revenge tragedies). But also, no main character dies in season one...if you take season one as part of a series. Which it wasn't originally conceived as.

I am not going looking for copies of the original pitch bible, because I am lazy, and also I only saw them floating around this webbed site. But the show changed a lot from the initial pitch (Joyce had a Long Island accent! Lucas' parents were divorcing! Murray was there and named Terry Ives! Most of what ended up in Hopper's character originally belonged to Mr. Clarke! The original pitch bible is fascinating). And part of the original pitch was a proposal for possible sequels.

The Duffers' proposal for a possible sequel was "It's ten years later, and Eleven is dead".

So that's the setup. Everything that came after season one was made up wholecloth after season one was a hit and people wanted more, but also people loved the adorable little psychic murder child (cue the Duffers shockedpikachu.jpg) and Netflix obviously recognised it would be a bad call to make a new season without her in it. So it makes sense to take season one as a unit, as a self-contained story on its own. You can also take it as part of a whole, but it makes sense to read it first as a complete story. Especially given the thematic drift of later seasons and the way they are...I'm just going to say it, each new season is very much added-on to what came before rather than being built on foundation that the earlier season(s) laid. It is very clear there was never a planned five-season story arc from the beginning. (This isn't necessarily always a bad thing, when it comes to sequels, but it does mean it makes sense to 'read' each season as its own thing.)

Okay, now that we've established all of that. Season one has one very clear goal, one very clear stake for the characters: save Will Byers from the Upside Down. (I like this. It makes the stakes both extremely high and extremely personal, it makes it very easy to understand each character's motivation, it also keeps the stakes grounded in reality. I like this a lot.) And by the end of the season, that goal is accomplished. So at first blush, you're right, season one doesn't look like a tragedy.

But when you start to unpack it a little, you start to see just how many important things were lost along the way. It's most glaringly obvious with Mike and El, with Nancy and Barb. The whole Wheeler family is fractured down the middle, with Mike and Nancy on one side and Ted, Karen, and Holly on the other, and Karen, who's been trying so hard the whole time to be part of her children's lives and understand what's going on with them, is aware of the ever-expanding gulf between them but will never be able to cross it, and will never fully know why. Hopper's finally managed to snatch a kid out of the jaws of death, save a woman he obviously cares about from the pain of losing a child, and Joyce has finally had someone believe her, support her, trust her. But it became blindingly obvious to me on my fourth rewatch that Hopper's plan, from the moment he went to leave the middle school gym, was always to trade El for Will. And that decision (and the fact that Joyce obviously understands that he did something to get the lab to let them go after Will, but she obviously doesn't dare press him on what) has broken her trust in him, and left him with what looks like an equally heavy burden of guilt as what he was carrying before. The lab stays open. The government gets away with everything. No one will ever know the true extent of the hurt they've caused.

And in the end, none of it even saved Will. He's back. He's alive. But he's spitting slugs in the sink. He's permanently marked by the Upside Down, and by trying to hide it from his family, he's putting a crack down the centre of them, as well. They're losing Will, just as surely as they had when they thought he was dead, just without him going anywhere.

And there's still a hole in the world.

The fragile bonds of community, the things that people share in common, the way catastrophe can bring people together and bring out the very best in them, are the major thematic threads woven through season one. Human connection is the only thing that can change what seems inevitable, the only thing that can bring back what's seemingly lost forever.

And it's still not enough to protect anyone from the random tragedy of the world.

The love was there. The love mattered. The love bent the entire course of the world around itself.

And it still wasn't quite enough.

If that's not a tragedy, then I don't know what is.

#stranger things #the pitch bible is also part of why I think they're gonna kill el for real at the end of s5 #and that the final epilogue scene of s5 is going to be a callback to the eggos-in-the-woods scene #a) the show's ending so they don't HAVE to let her survive. and we all know the duffers love it when other people are upset #b) they've said themselves they're 'going back to season one' #c) netflix would absolutely cream their pants for an opportunity to update the nostalgia marketing for this show to the now-trendy nineties #d) and also would want to leave the door open for 'well MAYBE she survived you don't know that we're not going to resurrect this franchise! #one of many many many reasons why I'm not bothering to watch any more of this show #I'll stick happily with my s1-s2 duology and steal characters from other seasons thanks #it's so frustrating because it's so CLEAR in season one that the love MATTERS #that these people care about each other and that MATTERS #even though it's not enough. #and by season four it's just like. well what if we just kept introducing new characters so we can kill them. aren't you sad about it #like there are so many ways to write a tragedy well and 'kill everyone kind of indiscriminately' is not one of them #okay rant over. i am climbing off the cafeteria table

[moonsidesong]

ai chatbots are so corny and they drive me slightly insane. just go write bad fanfiction in your notes app. like “wowie look at what this computer can do!!!” ok dont care have you considered finding intrinsic value in creating something with your very own hands

#bri talks #freaks me out the most when tweens/young teens are getting so sucked into it like oh my god please foster your own imagination #disabling reblogs. actually. i don't want this to be like. an audience. because then it brings in people who want to Debate #and i am not interested in doing that<3 sooo<3 #anyway long story short i don't support this new trendy wave of 'AI' in any capacity and i think it's dumb also. that's all thanks

[blessyouhawkeye]

saltburn is a film that spends so much time trying to upset you that it entirely forgets to say anything or have any substance at all

#oh well at least it looks nice #seems to be a pattern for emerald fennell #kind of seems like she saw dark academia was trendy and everyone loved the secret history and figured she could do that too #everything interesting about saltburn isn't developed enough. it has nothing to say about class. even the homoeroticism is forced #why is everyone so enchanted by felix? they never tell us. what is motivating ollie? it's never developed beyond money #i just really can't tell what everyone sees in this movie i don't get it #I had the same issue with promising young woman THESE MOVIES ARE SHELLS!! THEY'RE SURFACE LEVEL!! #i mean sure it was entertaining. it was fun to watch. but that's about it. #and there's merit to that but why am i seeing people say it should win oscars. hello.

[slutdge]

does the term "neurospicy" make anyone else wanna fucking kill themselves

#i saw a legitimate ad for a therapist advertised as ''neurospicy support'' #we need to kill tiktokkers i am so fucking tired of the uwu-ification of mental illness to the point where its infesting professionals #yeah its teehee funny to you cause you have mild depression. my psychosis makes me perpetually suicidal #i dont want someone that uses these dumbass trendy internet terms doing my therapy #i would not have faith that this person would be professional or take me seriously #i dont care about your tiktok induced adhd shut up shut up shut uppppopp

[diapause]

I miss when it was popular for female british singers to actually sound british

#this isn't some british supremacy shit this is anti all these girls putting on spanish accents because that's what's trendy rn #also the music is so shit. like they aren't singing like themselves and every single song sounds the same #(I am listening to that one disclosure and eliza doolittle song rn and fuck me disclosure were GOOD) #honestly they don't just put on spanish accents there are so many girls trying to sound jamaican too it's unnerving. #I'll be like hmm whos this and its just yet another white blonde girl from south london whos dad works for virgin 😐

[robertleckie]

I'm here, crawling out of my little hole to say that I am currently in Melbourne (in fact, I've been in Oz for almost 6 months y'all, it's been a wild year), so guess who's gonna look up filming locations for The Pacific and sob about walking the same ground as not only Robert Leckie, but also my boy James Badge Dale and the rest of the cast and crew?

#This is probably going to be the closest I'll ever get to either of those people I am shooketh #I had forgotten like all of the show was filmed down here in Australia with Melbs being the backdrop for all city locations #So like watch me run down Flinders Street with the soundtrack playing and trying to figure out if I recognise anything #Spilling the peaches #Other people: Oh my god Melbs is so trendy and cool I love it here #Me: ROBERT LECKIE WHERE #I may not be an active member of any fandoms anymore but The Pacific is still near and dear to my heart #Also like not to be dramatic but I'm very emotional about this city for no reason #It's been a long day okay I just got here

[bakingmoomins]

building scientists without any ethical thought, no moral compass and zero political conscience is a huge failure on 'higher' education

#my faculty is on strike to put pressure on the university to break contact with zionist organizations #and so many people are literally being so insensitive and disgusting about it and others are like 'idk about current events bc im smol🥺' #also people 'legitimately' asking why they should care about a genocide and making fun of people protesting and caring #bc they think the only way you could honestly care abt other people is if you're doing it to cancel/skip classes #or because it's cool and trendy. like I'm sorry but they're literally barricaded inside a building i think that takes more effort #than just going to class. #i am so angry so many grown adults saying that they barely knew palestine existed. well. that's one of the reasons this sort of thing #is necessary and important #en fin pinche facultad de tibios y gente egoista

[bornunderpunchestheheatgoeson]

listen if youre online arguing about what "true punk' is youre already too far gone. ok now that being said i have a secret opinion to share ⬇️

#i know how lame it is to care about ''posers'' like literally who cares we're all adults just do yo thang #but.............. the more time i spend in my local scene(s) the more i become aware of ppl who are like aspirationally alternative #like you wanna be edgy bc you think its badass and counterculture #but you dont have the backbone to do anything for yourself without worrying about how others will see you #like youre so deadset on fitting in to this one subculture but you seemingly dont particularly like anything about it? #all you want is to look cool in front of your peers so you just absorb whatever is popular with them at the time. #opinions music attitude appearance all based on whatevers trendy. which we're all guilty of i know #but why try so hard to fit into this idealistic 'punk' label. it sucks and is so lame and everyone can tell how hard youre posturing #and not to throw stones in glass houses but these ppl r so awful to talk to #seemingly never attempted an original thought in their life. speaks exclusively in twitter/tiktok/tumblr memes or buzzwords #never really listens to you and only factors in your opinion after he's run it by the ppl he wants to fit in with #um i mean they 🧍 #could be thinking of a specific guy i know. maybe #anyways i think im discovering in real time what a ''poser'' is and its making me feel like a cranky old man #always have to remind myself to be empathetic and not judge too harshly bc literally who am i and who cares #but it still gets my goat occasionally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!