#blah blah blaaaaah

[theirloveisgross]

do you think he’ll come back? and tour again?

yes, absolutely. he loves it a lot. he loves it so much that he accepted to do the horrendous residencies. but it'll be a while... i hope it is a while. i think he'll do shows here and there, but a world tour? mmm. i'm guessing 2025. but maybe 2026. everyones knows 1D is touring in 2025 (HAHAHAHSGAHSA).

also, i'll use this post to... vent? rant? ramble? idk. but... love on tour has been a fucking emotional ride. tonight's show was so beautiful and special, and made me remember the great things i've experienced thanks to it... like, meeting one of my closest friends in real life a year after we met online through this fandom, at harry's show in sweden, was one of the highlights of my life. it was my first time seeing harry with a friend who loved him like i do and i will always cherish that day and the fun we had and how close we were (kitchen/jp forever, bitches). like, experiencing harryween with another close friend is also high on the list. like, going all out for kiwi with harry in the same room is to this day one of the most cathartic and joyful experiences i've had in my life, and i'll brag that i did it 7 times having only been to 5 shows, because, yes, i did live through thriwi. like, listening to harry's voice live is so so so beautiful and i will be waiting for the next time i get to do that again. like, singing wmyb with harry is one of the highlights of tour. every show. i mean, it's only the best song of his entire life, he said it himself.

but as there have been many good things, there have also been many meh things, in my experience... like, the shows i attended by myself in 2021 were NOT welcoming. sure, there was still a pandemic, etc etc, but the vibes were not great, and i had to put myself in an imaginary bubble and believe it was only me and harry, forget the rest and go hard to every song. like, the awful hateful comments and words i've heard/read by some fans towards other fans the past two years have been absolutely disappointing and horrifying, and i know that's what you pay when your audience grows, etc, but yikes, sometimes it sucks to be piled up with the same group of people. like, the fact that it was very obvious to me that harry didn't want the 2021 leg to happen (this is speculation, of course i don't know what harry thought). like, the fans that kept bringing disrespectful signs to his shows. if you wouldn't say that to a stranger you just met, why would you do that with harry? like, the residency shows in the us. i won't even elaborate further on that.

anyway, that's a lot of rambling. my brain loves having the sides? nuances? of everything, for some weird and annoying reason. but trust that i was an absolute puddle tonight, especially after harry's speech about us, because, yes, all the good things outweigh the bad ones. and i got you all and my friends, who love harry for who he is, and i hope more of his fans see that, and i hope there's more kindness and understanding on his next tour. whenever that might be.

so long, love on tour. you were... something! thanks for all the experiences!

#blah blah blaaaaah

[skibidistoner]

i should actually start posting art instead of lurking and reblogging random stuff i dont know i think i should

#text #BLAH BLAH BLAAAAAH #pirhanaposting

[hood-ex]

Mad that we've gotten to the point where my brain now has to differentiate between Nightwing Vol. 2 and Vol. 4 within the #100s. Like before my brain instinctively knew that early #100s meant the Nightwing Year One story, but now my Vol. 4 brain keeps butting in reminding me that early #100s now also means Gar is a fucking unicorn and Blockbuster's daughter is like, idk, getting flung through the air like a freakin shuriken.

#vol. 4 needs to stop before we get to the issue numbers that would be tomasi's run in vol. 2 #like no #i don't want to share that shit in my brain #yes i know my brain will adapt and compartmentalize just like it's done w vol. 3 and thus far of vol. 4 #but blah. blaaaah. BLAAAAAH. ya know?

[person4924]

blaaaa blaaa blaaahh blahh

OMG I FORGOT ABOUT BEING SHEEPIES I MISSED BEING SHEEPIES

bla blaaaa baaaaaa blaaaaah baaaaa baaa blah

[kintatsujo]

Blaaaaah blah blah, blagha blah blah blah

#Killing the urge to post about shit I don't actually feel like posting about by making this post

[baaabyyyd]

I hate when people tell us how they wasnt doing what we doing at our ages... like girl, I been getting called fast since I was 11 . I do not gaf .

I been preparing for all the lil judgemntal comments from yall mommas lmaoaoaoaoo . I just know they finna go on and on about how when they was 16 they wasnt blah blah blaaaaah, etc etc etc .

[creationfathers]

aaaaand the stalker psycho is having another meltdown. @ ing Misha from half a dozen different accounts on all platforms. she’s mad he hasn’t called her on the phone! how dare he! how dare he post jokey things about xmas gifts and NOT CALL HER! he’s “not doing the work” and she. is. DONE! with him! (this is maybe the 20th time she’s declared herself DONE with him? “it’s over!! I’m done with you!!” blah blah blaaaaah (she’s super mad this time, though. I sincerely hope she doesn’t have access to firearms. bitch sounds like a murder-suicide waiting to happen.) oh and she’s blatantly posting from accounts of her family members btw. exposing how she used their accounts to lie and scam people for money in the past. fucking moron.

[critical-chris]

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

I watched this Netflix movie so you did not have to, and you're welcome.

I am a big fan of Alejandro G. Iñárritu, despite only seeing about half of his films so far. I have on my docket to watch Biutiful and Babel, but absolutely loved Birdman of (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Revenant and his directorial style of long panning shots and perfectly choreographed scenes.

I am not a big fan of Netflix, despite being an early proponent for their DVDs by mail and igniting the streaming boom. The last few years has been painful spending month after month searching the depths of Netflix for anything worth watching, and the major hits we became so accustomed to early on seem scarcer and scarcer.

It was a total surprise when I saw this movie on the 'Just Added' tab of the home screen one day, as I had no clue Iñárritu had a film upcoming whatsoever, not to mention going straight to Netflix. It dampened my expectations that this came out of nowhere, especially considering that I cannot think of many examples of a renowned director doing great work that skips theaters (Martin Scorsese and Noah Baumbach the exceptions.) Nevertheless, I saw down for this 2 HOUR AND 39 MINUTE stretch.

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths is the 2022 follow-up to Iñárritu's award-winning 2015 film The Revenant, and is what seems to be an exaggerated and self-reflective biography of sorts, but more of a visual representation of his inner conflict with fame, Mexican vs. American nationality, family, and aging.

That being said, I'm not going to spend this entire blog post breaking down each metaphor and trying to decipher the scenes haphazardly slapped next to each other. If that's what you're looking for, might I recommend reading a New York Times review of the movie? One with enormous words and descriptive praises of the blaaaaah blah blah. As mentioned on my website, I'm not a film critic and I'm not going to dissect a movie to that degree. I'm a regular moviegoer and am speaking from that viewpoint.

The movie follows renowned documentary filmmaker Silverio, portrayed well by Daniel Giménez Cacho, who navigates instances in his life that blur the line between reality and metaphoric representation. There's a thin through-line plot of his upcoming documentary being released and his traveling to America to receive an award for his work. However, for me, it felt like most of the movie was just self-contained scene after self-contained scene pasted together.

To set the tone for the rest of this post, I really disliked this movie. People in Hollywood make the joke referring to some directors' careers as 'doing one for them, and one for you' as a reference to making a profitable film for the studio and audience and making a personal film that appeals to their own interests. This is blatantly a movie Iñárritu made for himself.

I find that most present in the title itself. The definition of Bardo is "an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth", which actually makes the film a little more clear after you research the term. That is, in my opinion, a failure of this film. I think anytime you have to do research outside of a move to understand the plot indicates the filmmaker has not done their job for the audience. Sure, you may be able to pick it up if you went to film school and study the themes in movies, but the average person is just watching the movie and trying to gauge its plot and emotion by what is provided.

The jumping from absurd scene to absurd scene also made it difficult for me to empathize, sympathize, or understand the plight of Silverio. He is portrayed well by the lead actor with charisma, indignation, regret, and a range of other emotions, but he's also enough of a prick that I wasn't rooting for him. It's also difficult to relate to him when you're always trying to figure out what's actually happening, what's in his head, and what's a metaphor for what happened in his life previously.

The more I think about it, fuck this movie. I get all the good points it makes, like pointing out the cleansing of history in modern depictions of war and international relations, inner struggle of retaining your heritage and adopting a new home, the two faces of Hollywood praising and ridiculing you at the same time, et cetera. Cool, but it's such a slow burn of scenes you don't care about, you feel every minute of the runtime, and when the credits roll I felt a relief that I didn't have to endure any more. Let's get on to the specific scenes I really disliked-

**SPOILERS AHEAD**

Okay, let's talk about the baby.

After a quick shot of a shadow of a man jumping extremely high in the air in the desert, we are taken to a hospital room where a woman is giving birth. The baby comes out, the doctors clean it up, and then they advise the mother that the baby actually doesn't want to stay born because the world is too shitty. No arguments there, baby. The doctor then... *ahem*... shoves the baby back inside the woman, squishing noises and all. WHY would you make us watch that? If this was a horror movie, I'd get you going for that kind of odd and slightly shocking moment, but this is a surrealist drama. I don't want to see that, but the baby gag doesn't end there.

Later in the film, Silverio is going down on his wife, and the baby's HEAD POPS OUT OF HER IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND THEY SHOW IT. Why?? It's so weird and creepy and is such a hard right in the movie. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Shave down those 10 minutes combined and make this a slightly more watchable film.

Okay, let's talk about the host of the television show I refuse to remember or look up. Earlier in the film, Silverio goes on a tv interview talk show that his "friend" is hosting and imagines the interview going south and being relentlessly insulted. It is then revealed none of this happened and he actually no-showed the interview. Not a big fan of when movies do that, but whatever I can get past it.

Silverio is then confronted by the tv host at his documentary premiere party, and they have a LONG conversation where the host criticizes Silverio's work (in a painfully obvious metaphor for criticizing Iñárritu's work) and Silverio criticizes the television industry. It's boring, it's too long, and oh my god I don't care about any of it.

**END SPOILERS**

Some may find the surreal scenes in this film as entertaining, but I sure did not and in no world, realm, or purgatory would recommend ANYBODY watch this movie. The only person I can imagine would is Alejandro G. Iñárritu. I look forward to his next film which, hopefully, is one for them.

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths - 3.0/10

#bardo #netflix #netflix movie #Alejandro G. Iñárritu #Iñárritu #silverio #mexico #mexican #mexican american #surreal #movie review #film review #oscars

[an-stoirm]

There’s a post I just saw about respecting tumblr diviners and how sad it is that people are charging as low as $1 for readings that could easily be worth +$20. They’ll get no revenue, but if that same diviner offered free readings, they’d get a full inbox. And I agree with the core of the post -- that respecting diviners on tumblr is so important -- but there are some misconceptions that I want to point out. So I’m making my own post to point out the problem with this:

1) People who don’t make any money on their paid readings, but when they open free readings get dozens of clients, don’t realize that the reason that happens is because free is low risk for a client. I can get a reading from Suzy Cupcake on tumblr for free, and it could be a shit reading. I usually don’t know the diviner’s quality -- a lot of people don’t save their reviews! -- and I think, ���Aw, what the hell, let’s see what this diviner has to say.” 

If I have to pay, this suddenly becomes more daunting. I don’t want to just give money at someone who may not be the style of reading I enjoy or find useful to me. And while there are people who take those risks, I know me and a lot of people on tumblr are not financially stable enough to do those kind of risks. Or, best case scenario, do those risks often. 

2) Free readings should not be the same as paid readings, anyways. I know my paid readings involve a lot more production than my free readings. My free readings are used to help me learn a deck, therefore expertise isn’t as present in those readings as they are with paid readings. (Though if someone wanted to do free readings for whatever reason, that’s fine, but again the bar is so low for free readings.)

3) The amount people charge for their readings are, frankly, self-defeating. After owning a shop for 3 years, I can say that in my experience if someone is going to pay for a reading, they don’t care if it’s $1 or $20 -- they’re already in the mindset to spend money on a reading, so they will. 

Furthermore, lower prices usually triggers this subconscious thought that if it’s priced as much as a candy bar, that the quality will reflect that. If the diviner is truly giving a reading that is worth $100, then the reading should be priced as such or else no one else will think it’s worth that much.

I’ll use my shop as an example: my d20 readings are $5. This is because I roll a dice (easy) and give a short answer based from that roll (easy.) They are, in my opinion, worth $5 due to the limited detail I get from the roll. But my Message from a Goddess readings are $20. This is because I use multiple cards, involve offerings to the deities I’m reaching out to, and have a few pages of depth in the response. It takes me an hour to do, whereas the d20 readings are more like 15 minutes. 

So basically, I feel like the onus is on the tumblr diviners to make sure they are selling their services what they’re worth. And I don’t feel like people who get free readings are to blame for someone not getting any money thrown their way when they do paid readings. Paid readings and Free readings are typically so different that comparing the two feels baseless to me.

#tarot musings #tarot community #long post #blah blah blaaaaah #this feels incoherent and i apologize for that

[408requesttimeout]

artsy af 

someone kiss me im tipsy

#blah blah blaaaaah

[wayward-wren]

d’you ever get days where you’re like ‘well today was a waste’ and want to start again tomorrow? Cos oh boy. It’s been one of those days. I haven’t been able to focus on anything for more than five minutes. 

That being said, I did get some stuff done. I cleaned my room, I did my washing, I started an assignment, I emailed my tutor about another assignment. It wasn’t a complete waste. I try to tell myself. 

I’m probably going to make dinner and then curl up and watch Avatar the last airbender because it’s that kind of night. 

#personal #blaaaaah #that's the mood for the day folks #blah

[realitv]

me: enters the ga tag me: exits instantly 

#( LET GA LIVE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES LET HER LIIIIIIIVE ) #( gillian: breathes ) #( the fandom: DAVID PETER BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAAAAAH HOW DARE SHE TAKE A BREAK FROM ACTING ) #( ft. spicy speculation of her personal life. ) #( mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tumblr forgets celebs are humans too. ) #▒ ❝ 📻 WHO USES CABLE THESE DAYS ? ( ooc )

[ms-funky-autumn]

I don't have money or a console to play Detroit: Become Human, but I do have the resources to watch gameplays and the different depressing/amazing/neutral endings. And at the same time, love my boi Connor.

And if that doesn't stop me, then it shouldn't stop you either.

#i'm just feeling stupid again #blah blah blaaaaah... #shut up mar... #detroid become human

[heckofabecca]

guh, i had so much i wanted to do today and all i can do is sit and mope... help...

#i REALLY need to go out and get quarters #and i should go food shopping while i'm at it #but i can't think of anything worth making #i'm tired and blah and blaaaah #despite my successful D&D playing last night #still blah #blaaaaah

[whatbigotspost]

This is a real question, I’m genuinely asking, so please reply not like an asshole PLEASE but

Is it really bad if I go back to using the iPhone app? Like I can’t remember exactly why I deleted it and started using a browser I just know there was a kerfuffle of “TUMBLR IS ABOUT TO NOT WORK” on it and “THEY’RE CENSORING” and “NO ONE WILL SEE YOUR POSTS ANYMORE” but I can’t recall any details behind it.

I 100% concede Apple is a terrible company no question but for now I have the phone I have (and no PC or laptop or anything else I own) and I’m stuck in a contract for this phone and blah blaaaaah. My main problem is I have been using mobile browsers for months since said kerfuffle and it fucking SUCKS. It’s glitchy ALL THE TIME. There are whole functions I can’t figure out how to do that used to be easy… I can usually not type right because autocorrect on my phone freaks out in Tumblr mobile posts…like typing and retyping and correcting this takes 2-3 times longer on Tumblr than any other app. I have to constantly end non responsive pages and start over on shit I’m writing.

I’ve tried Chrome, DuckDuckGo, Firefox, and (ewww) Safari and they all interact terribly w/ mobile Tumblr use and I’m about to rip all my fucking hair out. I‘m seriously over it. It’s super hard for me to know that I used to have a 500% easier experience on here.

So someone please gently remind me WHY I am doing this before I give the fuck up.

#Tumblr shit #Posting here and not on my personal in hopes of reaching the biggest audience possible

[kirisakin]

I'm not sure how to feel about that post about Uncle Grandpa being in the runnings for being a sleeper agent Nostalgia Bomb(tm) for zoomers. Because you wanna know another show that had spectacular ratings when it was airing despite everyone outside of the age range dunking on it? Fanboy and Chum Chum.

Everyone who was my age and older when it aired were complaining that this show sucked and were the reason kid's shows got a bad rep, blah blah, blaaaaah... but my cousins who were in the demographic absolutely adored it. I had the theme song drilled into my head because they'd constantly sing it or they'd just quote scenes and jokes from the show at each other.

And these days everyone's like "well actually the show wasn't baaaaad, it just had weird jokes sometimes and an ugly art style, but it still was good!" and I KNOW these same people were whining about how Nickelodeon's new shows sucked in some Smackjeeves comment thread back in the day.

So no, I don't think that Uncle Grandpa is gonna be the next Spongebob and be the one thing to dethrone the Noughties Nostalgia Nerds. The far funnier likelihood is that five-ish years down the line, we're going to see a bunch of people making meme edits videos of Uncle Grandpa and everyone who crapped on the show is going to sweat fucking buckets lying about how they always loved it.

#A FORMER SHE-RA DISCOURSE BLOG SOBBING THROUGH TYPING OUT PIZZA STEVE QUOTES.