#This is brought to you by me watching

[therainbowgorilla]

That's it! *slams hands on desk* We need a term for the fear of Cosmic Horror/Elrich Abominations/The Unknowable™ already!

So I think it's time we settled this.

"Lovecraftophobia" seems the simplest answer, as it easily evokes all three concepts at once. Thoughts? Would "Lovecraftiphobia" or "Lovecraftiaphobia" work better than that?

#This is brought to you by me watching #Gemini entertainment #Geminientertainment #for the first time #and not knowing how to describe the fear it evoked in one -phobia type word #Was gonna go with Eldriphobia or Eldrichophobia but Lovecraftophobia sounds better #Horror #Arg #augmented reality #Cosmic horror #eldrich horror #cthulhu #cthulu #cthuhlu #cthullhu #Also can we PLEASE decide on a cthulu spelling cause trying to tag this is so many #lovecraft #lovecraftian #lovecrafian #lovecraft inspired

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[fuckspn]

imo one of supernatural's greatest weaknesses is what i'm going to call its locational homogeneity. like. obviously this is largely a side effect of filming a show set all over the united states in the same small area of canada for 15 years but there's just a certain sameness to every location and every episode that's uncanny at best and breaks immersion at worst. they should have gone all in on southern gothic horror and spooky old northeastern coastal towns and rural midwestern isolation and instead it's just episode after episode of identical suburbs with arbitrary location titles slapped over them. the seasons never change. the weather is always mild, never with extreme enough temperature or precipitation to require a change from the standard jacket-over-flannel-over-tee costuming even when we see snow on the ground. this episode is set in the summer in idaho. no, wait, it's set in the winter in kentucky. this episode is set in the summerfallwinterspring in kansachusettohiowa. sam and dean travel all over the country and yet stay completely still. supernatural shows us a massive world and it does not turn and absolutely no one lives in it.

#help i'm seeing the matrix #the greatest hits #this brought to you by me watching the first 1 1/2 episodes of season 2 #*15 #and looking at the big new-build canadian suburban neighborhood standing in for a small town in kansas #and going 'that looks like lisa braeden's neighborhood from season fucking 3. i don't think it is but they look so alike' #and suddenly being struck by the horrific realization that EVERY town sam and dean visit looks like that #you can't tell any of it apart it's all the fucking same!!!

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

which group do you find the most absolutely delightful at bringing the lolz together??

#this poll brought to you by: i was watching wwdits last night and thinking 'DAMN this ensemble is magical' #i have also been thinking that a lot in my b99 rewatch #so now: FIGHT! #dollsome does polls #(everybody i know being influenza-ridden including future me has got me crazy for polls these past few days) #(nothing briefly saves you from reality better than a tumblr poll!) #i think my answer is wwdits but choosing between wwdits and new girl brought me suffering #and also these are all my favorite and that's why i listed them

[shima-draws]

Ghost Cora AU where he’s actually been following Law around ever since he died but nobody has been able to see him, so all he’s able to do is watch Law get hurt and suffer in silence. UNTIL, miraculously, the battle of Dressrosa ends, and for some strange reason—through some supernatural bullshit or maybe just fate—one person is finally able to see him.

Law is sitting on the deck of the Yonta Maria watching everyone party when Luffy comes trotting over to him. And Luffy plops down beside him and says, “I’ve been meaning to ask, Torao, but who’s that really tall blonde guy with the funny makeup that’s been following you around?”

And Law’s just like

#Meanwhile Cora is absolutely THRILLED. LMAO #Eventually Zoro calls Perona over and since her devil fruit power deals with ghosts. She makes it so that Law can see Cora too #(And by some bs he’ll probably be brought back to life somehow idk) #One Piece #Trafalgar Law #Donquixote Rosinante #Cora #Corazon #Luffy #Law: Ha. Haha. #Law: You’re shitting me right. #Luffy: ??? What? No? #Cora: LAWWWWWW 😭😭😭 #Luffy: He’s crying your name this guy CLEARLY knows you Torao #Law; having a mental breakdown: Uh. Uh-huh??? #Shima speaks #Sorry I’m coping. I’m coping really hard rn #Actually. I feel like I was more upset about Cora’s death than Ace’s. WHICH LIKE. YOU’D THINK IT WOULD BE THE OTHER WAY AROUND BUT #I’m very. Very weak for the unsuspecting father figure who dies trope #(Sideeyes Tony and Harry (who didn’t even die anyway but it was still Traumatic for Eggsy to watch)) #COUGHS

[prokopetz]

Like, we can quibble about merits of fidelity to the source material in principle, but in practice I have literally never encountered an "exactly the same thing except in a higher resolution" remake that actually added to my understanding of the material in any way. They just skate across the surface of my brain without leaving any lasting impression – I don't even remember them except for the bits that depart from the original, which kind of defeats the purpose of a faithful remake. I understand that there's a spectrum of fidelity in play here, but if my only choices are a beat-for-beat recapitulation and some egregious bait-and-switch meta bullshit? I'll take the second one every time.

#media #remakes #metatextual wankery #swearing #this post was brought to you by me watching the scott pilgrim anime and playing the super mario rpg remake in the same weekend #the scott pilgrim anime i found weirdly fascinating #the smrpg remake bored me so badly i shut it off mid boss fight in spite of the fact that its source material is one of my favourite games

[cemeterything]

realizing that i don't usually get second hand embarrassment from moments in stories that are intended to have that effect, but i do sometimes experience it when someone starts crying after struggling not to get emotional, or is in too much pain to hide it, or loses their temper or something. like when someone is forced to be vulnerable and emotionally honest in a situation where they'd clearly prefer not to be. definitely putting that in my notes for my next therapy session lol.

#🐉 #you can be emotionally honest? cringe ← my cringe emotionally repressed ass #this post is brought to you by me fucking squirming like a fish on a hook every time i watch the terror episode 9

[observethewalrus]

I think the thing that feels the worst right now is the fear that this fandom will fade away like so many others once their shows stopped. I would’ve felt the same even if we’d gotten all three seasons. And don’t get me wrong, people are always gonna drift away and move on to other things, that’s just life (and it already happened after s1)

But I’m seeing so many writers and artists here and on twitter all like “the apocalypse couldn’t stop me from writing/drawing/talking about these pirates” and it’s like, I love all of you so damn much. I’m not very talkative and I don’t interact with people here much but I haven’t had this much fun in a fandom in years. I know we’re going to lose people, but I’ll be eternally grateful to everyone who was here and everyone who keeps this ship afloat 🏴‍☠️

#ofmd #our flag means death #I was in such a fandom rut before I started watching ofmd #I tried going back to old fandoms and then remembering exactly why I’d left them #(looking directly at you doctor who fandom) #I haven’t seen such a creative group of people in such a long time #you’ve all brought me so much joy so thank you

[rotzaprachim]

one of the things I think a lot of goyim esp western based don’t clock about Jews is that a lot of the places we lived before mass immigration to the US&west and the creation of the state of Israel not only often pretty violently killed or expelled us, but were and are sights of continual warfare and dislocation that was and continued to be fucked up by external and internal conflict, by the direct actions of the British ottoman French American and Russian imperialisms….. Jews only became a “western” people through the acts of violent dislocations from our homelands we’d often lived in for hundreds and thousands of years.

We lived in Afghanistan. We lived in Yemen. We lived in Iraq. We lived in Serbia. We lived in Bosnia & Herzegovina. We lived in Belarus. We lived in Ethiopia. We lived in Algeria. We lived in Morocco. We lived in Syria. We lived in Iran. We lived in Kurdistan. And we lived in Ukraine. We often have complicated histories with these places, varying extents to which we identified with them or with the nationalisms that drew their borders, but we lived there, and in so many ways, from our language to stories to food, we carry them with us and are hurt by the loss of their memory in our lives, pushed into the diaspora of the diaspora. None of this justifies the often profoundly violent antisemitisms we found there, nor should it allow for simple rounds of flag waving - our communities were almost always older than the modern states, and many institutionalized Jewishness as something irreconcilable from the modern National Citizen. But we lived there. Inextricably we are a part of their history, just as they are a part of us.

Any simplistic takes about how Israeli jews should just LEAVE AND GO HOME without understanding the contexts of why that isn’t possible not only whitewashes histories of violent antisemitism but also the CURRENT ongoing realities in many of the countries we lived in, and it comes off not only as callous to Jews but to the people who continue to live there, after our links were severed. Any antizionism that doesn’t seriously reckon with these histories is incomplete. “Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” The American goy asks. I think of my friends and community. To Odessa? Or to Baghdad? To Aleppo? Or to Herat? YOU TELL ME.

#Seeing Syria and Ukraine brought in as a check me for IS Jews is wild in terms of where do you think we’re from #And also why might people not be able to go back this very minute??? #The antisemitism ALOnE is bad enough but there are yet MORE REASOns #Anyway it’s just yeah. Watching the news. We used to live there! #Sarajevo and Baghdad and Aleppo and Damascus #And Kyiv but Odessa especially …. At different times these cities have been really important to Jews! We were there!

[rox-and-prose]

Hey mtg players something occured to me: Are there any cards that, when translated to another language, function differently than they do in English due to the peculiarities inherent in translation?

#roxy writes #this post brought to you by me watching youtube videos of people playing mtg

[zillychu]

I feel like what the world needs aren't messages like "do your best and all your dreams will come true!" but rather "no matter your success, you can still be happy!"

we need more media telling us it's okay to fail. that most of us fail. that trying your best and not succeeding doesn't mean you effort was wasted. that you don't need to always try your best for everything. do what you can, when you can, and realize that no matter how things turn out, you can still find a way to be happy day to day. dreams come and go, it's okay to miss your catch and watch them pass by or change into something else entirely.

life is always full of opportunities to be happy!

#this post brought to you by someone who became disabled in their teens #and watched their dreams crumble the harder they tried to cling to them #took me a long time to realize how much i mourned a ship that sailed #while i ignored the sand and shells at my feet #I'm making sand castles now! #i wish i had started making them sooner #they're not what i wished for when i was young #but they're lovely and bring me such joy #we all deserve to notice the sand and shells now and enjoy making sand castles

[great-and-small]

Read something about a species of bird and then you start seeing it everywhere call that the Birder-Meinhof phenomenon

#esoteric biology jokes #this post is brought to you by me watching a thing on bald eagle courtship then legit seeing it randomly today while driving #I would’ve pulled off the highway to really watch and appreciate if I could’ve #I’ve never seen it before! #birds #Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

[volleypearlfan]

there's just something about music anime that's inherently gay

#watching whisper me a love song and noticing the countless sound euphonium parallels brought me to this conclusion #whisper me a love song #sasayaku you ni koi wo utau #sasakoi #sound! euphonium #hibike! euphonium #k on #nana #bocchi the rock #carole and tuesday #revue starlight #given #doukyuusei #kids on the slope #ok there's more GL examples than BL but still #someone's going to tag this with one of those idol games aren't they

[thejacketscloset]

Soap with a really bad headache stumbling around the common rooms. Ghost walks in on him circling around the room looking bleary, he doesn't even notice him when he enters.

"You alright there Johnny?" He asked. Soap startled at his voice and looked to Ghost, taking a full 5 seconds before he seemed to recognize who was talking to him.

"Lookin fer advil..." Soap answers.

Ghost raises an eyebrow, looking to the pill bottle Soap is holding in his hand.

"Is.. that not the advil there?"

Soap looks to his own hand and stares at the bottle for a moment before responding.

"Yup... it is." He continues staring, making no move to actually take any. Ghost sighs, fully entering the kitchen. He takes the bottle from Soap's hand and prepares a cup of water for him. Soap watches him, evidently not able to thing much past the fog of the headache. Ghost shakes two pills out and hands both them and the water out to Soap.

"Take that and go rest Sargent, you're on bedrest for the rest of the day."

Finally, Soap nods and follows Ghost's orders, happy to follow whatever he says.

#brought to you in part by! my raging headache! #my sister watched me walk past the advil sitting right in front of me 3 times #and then she watched me forget what i was doing soon after #ghostsoap #soapghost #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #cod #mw2 #sickfic #ghoap

[littlespoonevan]

Brought on by the fact i feel like we haven't had any big music moments in a while and i Miss them

***also i don't mean the emotional music moments like 'carry you', 'photograph' etc, i already know the answer to that question lmao. i mean the ones that just Elevated the scene/call and made the whole thing satisfying in a 'this scratches my brain just right' kind of way

#911 related #this is brought on by the fact that watching the fall guy #made me really want to see 'i was made for loving you' in a call scene #also barracuda i think that'd be cool #also i know season of the witch isn't exactly fun lmao but i LOVE that scene

[flowersforvax]

the way Sam Riegel said "I am alive" is gonna live rent free in my brain for a good long while

#hey! he's an actor and he's REALLY GOOD AT WHAT HE DOES who knew #c3e91 #this post was brought to you by me watching the clip for the millionth time #cr spoilers #sam riegel #s watches cr #critical role