#I’m not sure how to explain it

[scrambledd3ggss]

I have a feeling that Alex Bailey and Hazel Levesque would be friends

#I’m not sure how to explain it #Or why I think this #I just have a feeling #pjo #Hoo #hazel levesque #alex bailey #tlos #the land of stories

[birdy-bird27]

Man every year the Truman show ages like fine wine

#the truman show #Truman show #I feel teary eyed at the end #I’m not sure how to explain it #but man I can just eat this movie and get into the juicy meats #so much to analyze here #it can be a reflection of the human spirit #criticizing the entertainment industry and how it exploits people #all sorts of stuff I can jdut talk about #though I’m sure my thoughts are surface level there had to be really good essays on this movie #sorry I like to watch it every year I love it a lot it hold a soft spot in my heart

[ivystitches]

do you ever not feel like a person

#i’m not sure how to explain it

[comradekatara]

lok was truly so crazy for being like yeah the season 1 villain is an allegory for maoism?? except he’s literally not a communist in any meaningful way bc he never once even mentions the issue of uh. class. and season 2’s villain is ostensibly a theocrat who exploits his religious/spiritual authority to exert neocolonial control over a recently independent territory/people but all he really wants is to fuse with the personification of chaos and plunge the world into darkness for ten thousand years. and season 3’s villains are an anarchist terror cell who do have clearly defined goals and advocate for proletarian rule but also they’re fucked up little sadist freaks who love chaos and torturing teenagers. and season 4’s villain is a fascist ethnonationalist dictator and she’s gonna be the ONLY character in the entire show to mention that the ostensibly independent city state where most of the show’s plot has taken place is literally a fire nation neocolony proxy state on stolen earth kingdom land. the famously anarchist character who values independent personal freedom and hates nothing more than being told what to do and telling people what to do is now the agent of said neocolonial state in the form of being the literal chief of police. who gives a shit about her arc as an abused disabled girl who fights to assert her power and autonomy while also learning to accept her own vulnerability around the people she loves, and how that narrative might be personally meaningful to many disabled people. she’s a cop now. oh, and the firstborn son of the pacifist monk who had to fight tooth and nail to assert his values as the sole survivor of the genocide against his people is now a military general, again, for the army of said neocolonial proxy state. the kid who was orphaned as a child and grew up on the street fighting to survive another day is helplessly stupid and naive and his only purpose is to chew the scenery in increasingly less funny, more obnoxious ways. if you were expecting the even remotely coherent politics of atla, a story fundamentally about the struggle to resist imperialist violence both as a target of it and from within the imperial core while grappling with your identity and the impetus to preserve your cultural heritage in the face of genocide, then you’re shit out of luck, because that show was made in the bush era, back when liberals protesting the iraq war and implicating americans in their role in upholding imperialist agendas was acceptable. but this is the obama era, so of course you can still deport people at staggering records and drone strike civilians and worship at the altar of capitalism, as long as you remember that reinforcing the status quo through implicit violence is good as long as you’re a queer disabled brown woman!!! more woman of color chiefs of police!!! more bisexual woman ceos!!!! more indigenous war profiteers!!!! more hot girl ethnostates!!! absurd fucking show…

#incoherent identity politics neoliberal mess…… #socially progressive fiscally conversative: the show #sorry for this i know i make this post like once a week but i was explaining lok to my friend who has seen like 2 atla eps #and every time i explain it im just like….. how is this possible #[fox news guy voice] THANKS OBAMA #lok crit #to be clear i love that korra is a queer disabled brown woman…… i am not immune to identity politics obviously #but like. i do recognize that as a flaw of mine…. in fairness…. #I’m sure there’s like a bunch of stuff I’m missing rn too #but swagever.

[redhotarsenic]

@nowfallc PICTURE!! FOR YOU!! PLEASE TAKE IT!! <3

#agh I’m so so nervous but I’m big and strong and you all agree with me <3 #plus it’s nearly 6 in the morning and I pulled an all nighter to finish this. which I’m sure is not helping my stress levels At All! #ALSO! #I’m gonna do another one! #you will NEVER know which picture so get fuckin ready HELLLLLLLLL yeah!!! #<- as for those of you who were Present when I said which picture I was gonna do. ummmmm. shut up! say nothing!! #ALSO…..2!! #wanted to share how I did the scuff marks cuz I felt like it. and also I said I was gonna do it. anyway! #what you wanna do is get a real textured brush. ideally something pencil adjacent #and a mid grey color #and with LIGHT pressure you follow the edges of whatever metal bit you’re rendering #you can go a little heavier on the corners if you desire #from the corners you take a smudge tool and gently blend in the opposite direction of the corner if that makes sense #and then take an eraser (IDEALLY one that’s the same as your rendering brush) #and gently erase back towards the corner. but with a much smaller brush size #add little scratches and pick marks as you please #and that’s it #you know maybe this would make more sense with an actual diagram I’m so so bad at explaining stuff agh #I’m gonna shut the hell up now 🙏 #trigun #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun stampede #trigun fanart

[glitter50000]

#You know how in Kung Fu Panda when they want to explain a story or something that happened in the past it’d be drawn in 2D animation #Same case for My Dad the Bounty Hunter (which I recommend) in that whenever they’re showing what happened in the past it’d be in 2D #Another is how in tlovm the Dragons and the Sphinxes are animated differently then mostly everyone else (or that’s what I think) #I think in Transformers Earthspark when the autobots would fight the explosions would be in 2D #I dunno I just think it’s cool when I see the two together (I’m sure there’s more examples) #the legend of vox machina #kung fu panda #transformers earthspark #my dad the bounty hunter #animation meme

[chrxnicdaydream]

#rbing with my opinion #and feel free to explain why. i love reading all the collaborative thoughts #as we’re not totally sure the specifics of how his ability works. this is just a hypothetical #but i’m curious to see what people are thinking #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd polls #bsd manga #bsd 114 #bsd chapter 114 #soukoku #skk #bsd theory #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd fyodor #bsd sigma #bsd nikolai #dazai osamu #nakahara chuuya #nikolai gogol #fyodor dostoevsky #sigma bungou stray dogs #bsd analysis #polls #bungo stray dogs #bsd spoilers #bsd 114 spoilers

[highfiveheroes]

the only thought on the episode i will say tonight is this: i’m really disappointed that i’m supposed to be rooting for a set of bullies.

say what you will about the bad kids, they’ve been nasty this season, with a few standouts here and there—notably fabian, who has gone out of his way to make amends and friendships with people outside of the bad kids. but hearing the way they talk about other characters? the way adaine and kristen and gorgug were straight up bullying the rat grinders in a lot of situations? not saying the rat grinders weren’t being antagonistic in their own right, and i fully understand this is a comedy show of people sitting around a table making jokes and rolling dice. but compared to how much connection i had with the bad kids in say, season one or two, when they were going out of their way to be nice to people more often than they were being straight up rude and egging people on…

idk man. something about the bad kids this season isn’t sitting right with me anymore. and i’m sad.

#d20 fhjy spoilers #fantasy high #d20 fantasy high #dimension twenty #d20 fhjy #d20 #d20 posting #dimension 20 #yeah say what you will about this take #and i’ll give kristen that she’s made some nicer decisions as well #but adaine specifically has NOT been sitting well with me this season #and gorgug going full bully was played like a joke and it never was funny to me #i hope they turn this around next episode #i don’t think they will #i think the bad kids won’t learn from how they’re treating people #and i think that because it’s our intrepid heroes and the ones we’re supposed to be rooting for #it’s all going to be played off and explained away #and i just…can’t say i’m comfortable with it #“but bento it’s a comedy show run by comedians yes i surely am aware #anyway

[sunnnfish]

Maybe I’m okay with it if Hirano never traditionally “loves” Kagi. Or anyone. Maybe it never will turn into the same kind of love Kagi feels. Kagi is nevertheless such a source of inspiration and strength and comfort to Hirano. Even if he never feels a desire to touch or get married or whatever. Maybe he does it because Kagi asks and he loves making Kagi happy most of all. He wouldn’t seek it if not asked. But Kagi is always asking. And he knows it makes Kagi happy. Does anyone see the vision. Do you understand. Maybe kagi will be okay with it if Hirano never “loves” him the same way Kagi loves him. Because he knows how Hirano works and he knows how Hirano cares. And he knows he is unique to Hirano. He knows Hirano wouldn’t do these things with anyone else. And that’s still love in its own way.

#every day I convince myself more and more of aroace-spec Hirano #or maybe the perceived slow-burn is getting to me #it’s like. I kind of keep forgetting that there is still going to be more relationship and character development #but also. At this point in time at least they are so queerplatonic to me #AND it all wraps back around to the theme of different kinds of love #we do not love each other in the same ways. but that’s what makes it special #also a queerplatonic relationship answers all the weird limbo relationship stuff they have goin on in future ssmy chapters #idk. anyways. maybe im crazy #also all comes back to How do you quantify being someone’s most important person #Kagi WILL be the most important person to Kagi. it’s just a question of how that manifests #at this point I can’t imagine it manifesting in Hirano necessarily wanting to touch Kagi or saying things like I love you #it’s simply. laughter and happiness and comfort #they are already old together. do you get it #I never feel like I’m properly able to explain the feelings I have. whatever #surely someone gets it #sunnfish.kghr #Hirano to kagiura #Hirano and kagiura

[valoale]

I need Draco Malfoy to discover ABBA

Don’t ask why I have no answers either

#I can’t explain how much I need this #the product of my exhausted brain #lay all your love on me please #at this point I’m not sure if I’m awake anymore at all #it’s seven pm but I think I should just go ahead and sleep #hp #draco malfoy #harry potter #drarry

[bri-sonat]

hands for the women lovers. also her in the first gif is so. she’s so cute. that lil smile. i’m upset at how cute she is.

#miranda hilmarson #hands #her hands are so #they are so #i don’t even know how to explain it #but i’m sure you all know #we are all into women here #mine #bri-sonat

[scrambledd3ggss]

I think my dog is an autism creature

#I’m not sure how to explain it #I just know it #the way she just exists #She’s an autism creature

[mxtxfanatic]

Y’all think Xie Lian will ever share what happened to him pre-second banishment with Feng Xin and Mu Qing, particularly the things that happened to him after they left?

#tgcf #just musing #cause they do become friends again in the end #and i know for myself that i would want to share these things with my friends #so that we could clear the air and be open in our friendship #but i find myself hesitant to think that xl would openly share these things *with them* #like…how do you explain to your friends that them leaving culminated in your parents committing suicide??? #i’m not sure if even i would share that with a friend #but then again i would never rekindle a friendship with that history either

[quibbs126]

I had a thought earlier about how, as I recall from the City of Wizards story, Moonlight is essentially the Wizards’ perfect Cookie. She’s literally what Dark Enchantress/White Lily has been striving to make. Well probably not exactly, but she’s the Wizard’s version of that, Dark Enchantress and the Witches probably have different interpretations than her. But she still is in essence, what Dark Enchantress ultimately wants

And also, of the Ovenbreak Legendaries, Dark Enchantress and Moonlight are the only two who were created by magical humans, the Witches and Wizards respectively. Well I mean we know DE was rebaked, but she still became who she is now because of the Witches, so in that sense she still counts

Like I feel like these could be the reasons why Moonlight is currently the only Ovenbreak elemental to have a part in the main story, as well as her getting a World Exploration. Narrative wise she has the most similarities to the main plot

#I feel like these were more cohesive when I first had these thoughts hours ago #I’m not sure it makes the most sense how I said it here #but you get it #Moonlight’s circumstances parallel aspects of the main villain #more than any of the others #I thought that was interesting #I could also be very wrong though #but in my head it explains why Moonlight in particular gets the special treatment #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #moonlight cookie #dark enchantress cookie #random stuff

[heyclickadee]

So, my family is rewatching Rings of Power, and since I’m the one in the family that read The Silmarillion (like a masochist), I’m the one who keeps getting asked all the questions.

#‘did this happen?’ well broadly speaking yes but Tolkien never fleshed this part of middle-earth’s history out in much detail #but I know exactly where they got the idea for whatever it is most of the time #‘is Galadriel’s husband really dead’ of course not #‘did Sauron ever go by the name Halbrand?’ well not really but also how much time do you have because this is going to take some explaining #‘is that Gandalf?’ almost definitely but they’re doing the blue wizard thing with him by taking him to Rhun #also I think they’re making him the basis for the hobbit’s ’man in the moon’ song so I’m honestly okay with it #‘is the Queen lady’s nightmare significant’ Yes three times over but how am I supposed to say anything about it #without giving away what’s probably a season finale #‘what’s with the mithril?’ Hell if I know I’m as confused as you are about that #actually the Galadriel’s husband one was funny #because of course Celeborn shows up in the movies #but my mom wasn’t sure that was actually her husband #or some random blorbo #or a second husband #which then opened up the whole conversation #to how the elves are painfully monogamous even when their spouse dies #because they way they die is weird and also #they all still have generational and firsthand trauma from the fallout of that one elf guy who did get remarried #rings of power spoilers

[akkivee]

#vee queued to fill the void #i don’t choose the memes the memes choose me lol #i doubt i need to explain lol but i mean ichiro may be the poster boy of teen entrepreneurship #but that means he’s a poster boy for TEEN entrepreneurship lol the man was doing hard labour at 14 capitalism kills #matenrou aka the team name with the kanji for weed 4/20 high functioning and barely functioning blaze it #acab said mtc in bayside suicde and all members meant that lol #lmao remember how the rest of tdd was like‘yeah we gotta take down chuuoku’ and ramuda went ‘ramuda!!!! 🤗’ #i’m sure sasara had the time of his life bailing samatoki out or whenever samatoki got released lol #but he’ll def be singing that tune when rei gets arrested— #ANARCHY said kuukou in his first solo lmao #so like i mean lmao!!!!! i didn’t choose this meme frfr it was literally written in the stars lol!!!!! #c: rapping boys