#cause imo they're not that good

[hella1975]

girl who got hit with one of those super well-known overplayed songs that lost their punch over time until you listen to it one day and they just fucking bulldoze you

#mad world (tears for fears version) came on and i actually had to sit back and realise just how insane this song is #i find it kinda FUNNY i find it kinda SAD the dreams in which im DYING are the BEST IVE EVER HAD #i find it hard to TELL YOU cause i find it hard to TAKE when people run in CIRCLES it's a very very MAD WORLDDDDDD #tears for fears are so good ive listened to their music so much that i forget they're actually good #it's like they make music specifically for my brain to conjure dystopian depressing ass edits #dont get me started on everybody wants to rule the world. love what lorde did with it but the original is actually more haunting imo

[bibiana112]

I like to imagine the kurashikis game over ace jigsaw style when leaving him tied up in the van and that's not an euphemism if you've never seen a Saw movie they like to have these big dramatic scenes where the mastermind says Game Over before locking someone up for good or cornering them or otherwise establishing the winner of the game and it's iconic even if it. got a little silly by like the fifth time it happened anyways I think it fits them and they should get to do it

#characters being game overed in the saw movies is so over the top but also so cool I think they should get to do it #they get to bully ace all they want and this is just fun way to do it for me okay #happy halloweeen I like horror movies #and jigsaw jokes in relation to these two especially #anyways is there a game over in evey movie? I think there's at least seven... the first and second movie's are the only ones that land #cause well. they're the only ones in good movies imo lol #zero escape #999 spoilers #I kinda wanna watch X I didn't expect to hear good things about it

[strrwbrrryjam]

for all my grievances with tangled the series, one thing i cannot criticize them for is their songs, i mean, sure, not all of them make sense in context (let me make you proud comes to mind), the songs are spectacular, from the vocals to the instrumental, all of them are a joy to listen to, whether they are just incredibly goofy, like the buddy song, to heartbreaking, like waiting in the wings, whether its a solo, a duet or a group, they are wonderful to listen to

#i like the show. dont get me wrong. #though i cant deny there are a lot of flaws to the series n character n story decisions that dont make sense n infuriate me #and i will say imo season 1 is where its at its best. although yes flaws are present they dont. idk. ruin the season for me #but i cant say the same for the later two seasons. i mean. i had fun with s2 n liked the new characters but. a lot of it again imo is fille #but s3 is the worst imo cause the stakes are so high but they spend like 2-4 episodes actually on the main plot #n the rest is just. pointless filler. i mean. did we really need to learn more about fucking nigel of all characters #n i will say i am not a fan of cass' arch at all. i liked her in the first season n most of the second season but s3 just. ruins her for me #i also dont like how they treated euguene most of the time. he deserved to be treated better. he was the other main character in the movie #he deserved to be treated better not put in the back so as not to outshine cass n rapunzel's relationship #cassunzel this it not a critique of you. i liked the ship in the beginning to n i love the poly of cass rapunzel n euguene #n you can ship them to your hearts content. im just annoyed at the disrespect of euguene lol #can you tell that im passionate about the show. i mean. the potential was there but. they didn't do nothing with it. #im upset it couldnt be better lol #anyway what was i talking about #right the songs. the songs are spectacular (despite almost all of them not making sense in the context of the shows) #n are a joy to listen to. i love them all so much that i dont think there's any i dislike really. the songs are so so good #n are really fun to listen to. its one of the things that i can never fault the show for. they're wonderful n everyone should listen to the #even if you havent watched the show lol they're great #tangled the series #tts #strawberry speaks

[thatadhdfeel]

Ngl, what got me (F, 24) diagnosed w/ ADHD? Having more symptoms in common with someone who had a literal TBI (guest speaker in our class at college) and was explaining all the ways it affected their life (like the forgetting Constantly, inability to compare how you feel today vs two days ago, chronic misplaced objects, almost always living in a fog (perception of time, etc), emotions difficult to control - no noticed precursors to emotions, etc etc) than I did with the average person in the room who were expressing sympathy like oh that must be so hard, where I sat there like um, that sounds uncomfortably like me.

What nails ADHD as a *disability* to me is that moderate, easy to miss, underdiagnosed ADHD is comparable to the mental state from a TBI, folks. And all my life I’d just never been diagnosed because I “did well in 0-12 gradeschool”. (Thankfully, meds help me. I just. All along I’d masked too well for anyone to notice I needed help.)

The best way I’ve learned to explain it to folks who don’t get it is to say hey, you ever had a concussion before? Could you think? Form sentences? Understand what was being asked of you? Could you remember the color of shirt you wore yesterday? Because it literally is… so much like it. Just not in the painful way.

#adhd #actuallyadhd #i feel like some people might find the comparison kind of controversial but imo its a good one and i dont think it undermines either condit #–condition #as they're obviously not the same but they share many symptoms #there was one study that said tbis may lead to neuropsychological changes that facilitate ADHD #concussions can also cause adhd-like symptoms

[tsukasageorge]

Day 18: Character Design/Ref

remember my magical girl oc named kyrie? yeah i have another one

oh my god this gave me so much trouble for literally no reason. i liked this design when i initially sketched it out but drawing it again made me kind of hate it?????? i literally have no idea whats going on in this design and also their face looks wrong but its okay bc its done now

~2hr 15min???

#raey draws #xchallenge #raey oc #'it doesnt have to be good it just has to be done' is probably the best mindset you can have as an artist imo #cause if you're an artist you'll probably never be Good. and i dont mean that in a bad way #your art will always be beautiful and have value no matter what. what i mean is like #you will almost always have higher expectations for yourself than you can realistically achieve no matter what your skill level is #and on one hand that's good bc it pushes you to keep going and keep improving #but it's also really really discouraging because your expectations grow With your art skills and sometimes it feels like you'll never be #An 'Actually Good' Artist #basically what im trying to say is. you have to make bad art. its literally impossible for you to only make good art. #making bad art is whats gonna make you able to make good art #anyways since this gave me so much trouble im going to talk a little about kye as a treat #their real name is kyrie but since they're already besties with a different person named kyrie everyone calls them kye #(everyone actually calls them jorts) #kye does own pants that are not jorts. HOWEVER they are committed to an incredibly stupid bit #and will refuse to wear anything but jorts when in front of other people #kye saturn and kyrie are all best friends (plus mac but its gonna be 5 years before i design him) #kye and kyrie are gym bros and have some deep soulful bond that transcends time or whatever (they have the same name) #kye and saturn are the 'cant stand her fake ass!! 10 mins later: me and the bestie' meme #kye and mac are not really Best Friends outside of their friend group but they kind of understand each other on some deep subconscious leve #cause they had similar childhoods + cause of death #ok thats it bye

[bklynmusicnerd]

And here are my Trina/Portia thoughts (they're a lot lol):

Trina's dramatic entrance being the official end of the wedding was both funny and a good choice thematically. Portia's undoing is ultimately going to come at the hands of her beloved daughter so of course it's her daughter, full of demands for answers, that brings her false happily ever after to a screeching halt.

Trina's anger at her mother leading her to even push back on Taggert when he tried to check her tone makes me think that she probably already had a good idea of the betrayal that Stella was hinting at but she had to hear it from her mother. Portia trying to make weird cracks about Trina "not getting any ideas" from the bouquet (girl what???) as she tries to maintain control of a situation she lost control of a long time ago was a great character quirk.

I wasn't really sure what kind of energy Portia was going to bring with Trina in this confrontation because she's been defiant when caught in her lies before. And at first, Portia does commit to her lie by telling Trina that she was so happy when "got past" her lying to Trina the first time. Except, they never really got past anything because Trina committed to transparency with her mother while her mother continued to lie to her face. Ultimately though, I do think seeing Trina that stressed out and angry finally broke her resolve.

I do think the moment that Portia loses Trina is when she tries to put the blame on Taggert being an inattentive husband for her decisions. As calculated as Portia has become over the years, I don't think she was that calculated when it came to Trina's paternity back then. I think all the decisions she made, from the affair to leaving Trina's actual paternity up in the air so she could choose, were emotionally driven decisions.

Curtis left her, Taggert was improving so in that moment she wanted Taggert to be the father and that's the narrative she went with. Later in life, her and Taggert are divorced, Curtis is there and now she wants to play family with Curtis and Trina like Trina isn't an adult because her preferred narrative shifted. I don't know if Portia was intending to put the blame so much on Taggert as she was speaking from the perspective of Portia in her 20s and what her thought process was.

The problem for Portia is that Trina is a daddy's girl as much as she is her mother's daughter. You can see Trina seeing through Portia's attempts to make herself the victim in the situation and despite Trina probably being the biggest victim in all of this, she immediately goes into protective mode over her dad. Trina isn't just outraged on her behalf but on her father's behalf as well and you can tell that catches Portia off guard.

It was really powerful to watch Trina in the middle of a self-admitted identity crisis defiantly say that Taggert would always be her dad, even if he wasn't her father. I do think that's a sign that Trina will ultimately make it out of this identity crisis okay because her instinct to define herself is still intact. We really saw today that Trina is the daughter that Portia and Taggert raised because Trina really gave Portia no quarter and knocked down every single one of her excuses. Trina really saw her mom for the first time and she didn't like what she saw.

The most heartbreaking moment of these scenes and probably the thesis for them was Trina saying that she doesn't know who she is anymore and immediately following that up with also declaring that she doesn't know who Portia is. Even though this is a story about paternity, so much of Trina's sense of who she is was wrapped up in her understanding of who her mother was. Trina took pride in being Portia's daughter and now she's finding out that everything that her mother presented herself to be was a complete lie. Portia is selfish, she's calculated, she's manipulative, she's a consistent liar. And she's still the mother that raised her.

That is the most important and formative relationship in her life that she can no longer have faith in because of Portia's pivotal decision. To say Trina is adrift is an understatement. Portia positioned herself as an infallible north star for Trina and now all of that has been completely tainted. I do think this story is ultimately about mother and daughter rather than either father. Portia gave Trina her last name, not Taggert's. And part of that was to keep Trina safe from potential enemies of Taggert's but I also think part of that was because Portia saw Trina as hers before either potential father.

You see it when Trina tries to leave and Portia yells "no" and holds onto her with both hands, while we see Curtis and Taggert looking on confused. Trina and Portia losing each other is traumatic for both of them. Portia has lost her daughter, the love of her life and Trina has lost her sense of self because so many things that she knew to be irrefutable facts, are now nothing but questions.

#general hospital #trina robinson #portia robinson #they're not going to be the same after this and that's a good thing imo #i still kinda wish there was more public fallout cause soapy #but this is the kind of character driven writing i want more of from this gh regime #sorry for the long post but i have been waiting for this schism lol

[tate-lin]

Rant incoming concerning fatphobia:

I find it superrrr vexing and distasteful whenever someone threatens me with the 'do you want to become fat' thing. I understand that since my natural body frame is being thin, it'd indicate bad things for my health if I do become fat (if you're naturally born big, then getting bigger probably won't mean anything too bad) but I just deeply resent the underlying implication of it all. Like ofc it's better for me in a societal sense to be thin, especially since I don't have a thick skin to negative comments at all, but like?? If you want to scold me in order to make me eat more healthily, just cite health reasons! There's literally no reason to bring up fatness!! What's everyone's deal?? Is it a crime to be fat?? Smh 💀

Some ppl act as if ppl automatically become ugly when they're fat which is just blatantly untrue. And in the first place I'm not even particularly good-looking so it's not gonna be the end of my world if I get bigger. Ofc if being fat negatively affects me physically and/or mentally then I think those are good causes for concern but at least lead with that if you're truly concerned about me for god's sake

#tate lin posts #fatphobia #body neutrality #btw i'm on the camp of believing that it's not necessary to love or even like your body #but it is necessary to be comfortable in it and have it be a good body that can last you to elderly-hood without causing too much #or if any problems #at any rate i just hate the feeling of being bullied into sth by society #i'm aware that i have some self-esteem issues but my confidence isn't that low either!! #i have pride too!! #SIGH #anyway don't mind me i'm just really irritated rn #btw this vent is brought to you cause of my mother who considers herself fat #but if you ask me she doesn't look like an atypical woman at all #a lot of ppl are around her size #and she's my mother so obviously to me she's really pretty #most ppl who think they're fat actually aren't imo #comparison to media just makes them feel fatter than they actually are #and it's not that i don't have flab i absolutely do cause i'm the most physically unfit in this household #both my sisters go to the gym and they're twice my size does that make their 'fatness' their fault?? no.

[blizzardfluffykpop]

I don't usually do this, and I don't believe this has ever happened before. But I will be posting one request a little out of order because I don't want to post about the same member 2 days in 'winter' row. So, if it feels like I'm taking a while to get to your winter request- just know it's not a personal vendetta!

Anyways the next fic will be posted tomorrow at 10:30 est!

#this is about wintertime 2 #In reference to said fic- I love the idea sm- it made me melt- maybe cause it was for my ult of ults 🫣 #i actually nearly melted away at the thought of him saying the said request- and i needed to chill- it was sososo good #i really try to write them in order but this time i really have to space it out to make sure i don't end up with any members that close #wintertime 2 #unless i decide to write one from my own ideas and not requests that doesn't count tech imo ebhbhabha #i was going to do them evenly but i'm just going to do all the requests first- hwvr if you are reading the tags! pls feel free to request #more! i'm still accepting them until they're all striked thru! #i hope to queue all my fics for 1030 am- but i don't always finish them before the queue time ebhhabha- but assume they'll be up at 1030 #later~

[spectres-fulcrum]

Wilhelm and Shinobu Takatsuki as weird emotionally validating mirrors

Other than Prince Henry of Wales and Alex, FSOTUS from RWRB (Which is duh cause he's probably distant cousins with Henry cause European royalty is like that) the other rich guy teen queer I need Wilhelm to meet is Shinobu Takatsuki from Junjou Romantica(Which is a problematic af series do not read it but despite everything the Terrorist pairing salvages the best love story because they communicate their fears and their love but when it's 2015 and you google gay animes that was the highest recced and not warned about and I feel like I just aged myself). Their stories are wildly differently but I feel like they'd validate each other's terrible and anxious teenage years and emotions and also... Living a mindless life and being expected to continue that but finding the one person that brings you to life and although you shouldn't, you need it.

And they both know what it's like to find it, and to have the cruelest twist of fate turn it into an anxious thing. But to fight for it.

I feel like Wilhelm would hear about Shinobu's quote that is summed up to 'I'm super smart and sporty without effort, from a rich family, have no ambition, I figured I could attend uni, get a job, and get married and live a mindless life but I found the one thing that brings me joy and that's you! Is that so bad!' And be like I'm in this picture and I don't like it. He REALLY doesn't like it.

(Also Shinobu bby, yes, it's "so bad" because A. You are 17 talking to your sister's 35yo EX husband he cannot give into you and B. You were 13/14 when you met him. 14. And you had accepted you would never truly feel anything in life and that is HEARTBREAKING. Like it's Japan so of course it never flagged anything but that quote always tugs on my heartstrings so badly. Because he had written off the idea of love. And once he fell he would cross any line for it. And he tried to shut. It. Off. )

And that's Wilhelm. A prince. Good universities. An acceptable dating pool of ladies. Nothing that made him feel anything. And then Simon. And he even says it. He almost wishes he never felt those emotions cause once he had it he couldn't live without them. And he's willing to consider throwing it all away to keep Simon.

And they both TRIED. Wilhelm tried to let Simon move on-he did. He kissed Felice hoping to feel anything. Shinobu transferred to a school in Australia. Isolating himself from his family, his friends, his language, his culture. We don't know much about those years but I imagine he ran but anxiety and depression followed(You will pry the headcanon of Shinobu's rich brat persona hiding his depression and manifesting as a desprete attempt to get the only thing he truly wants: The only person he will ever love out of my cold dead hands)

I imagine he was very alone. Because he remembered the guy he stole glances at in the library, the guy, out of the millions of people, saved him from being mugged. The guy, who, ended up being his sister's husband to be in a marriage of conveiance. And that was their first official meeting.

So anyone would tell him, he's Risako's husband. How could he be crushing on Risako's husband. But he was the nameless man in the library first. He was Shinobu's before he was Risako's. So he never tells anyone, he just runs.

And anytime Wilhelm cries out, he gets shut down, because he has responsibilies and has to mature and live up to Erik's impossibly high shadow and this isn't a punishment but he never asked for it. He never asked for any of it. He just wants to be a boy who loves a boy. Just like Shinobu wanted that nameless library man.

And they both go crazy in love. Wilhelm announced to the world that that was him in the video without any warning the palace. Shinobu, upon his sister's divorce, suddenly transferred home to pursue her now ex husband. Wilhelm can still step down.

I can see them laughing and looking back at being teenagers in love with that recklessness of being 16 and 17, going "Did we actually do that? And that actually worked?" And it did. (I mean-we don't know about Wilmon but we know Wilmon will end up together). But also talking about anxiety and trying to move on and failing and breaking down in bedrooms that weren't home but was more of a home that their parent's home.

I can't wait to see Wilhelm and Simon as happy as Shinobu and Miyagi are in current manga.

I just need Shinobu and Wilhelm to be weird mirrors but validating mirrors in isolating times. Idk if I can get timelines to work or reasons why a Swedish prince would meet the son of a Japanese professor(although I always liked the idea that Shinobu's maternal grandmother was European, thus the blonde hair. I always went French but could go old money Swedish...?)

#prince wilhelm #shinobu takatsuki #Junjou terrorist #junjou romantica #young royals #I feel so strongly about shinobu #ESPECIALLY his australia years #imo his host family convinced his father to let them take him to a therapist and it did him so much good #And his anxiety vs his spoiled brat exterior #Like he begged miyagi for love but didn't even hint about his birthday cause he doesn't talk about himself #They both needed henry and alex #thank god shinobu and miyagi hopefully get to come out on their own terms #they're discussing it in the manga #so even if they're outed they're already discussing it #And it won't be go the world #Someone talk to me about shinobu takatsuki please #Cause 8 years later he's still my baby #Who will be an amazing bilingual lawyer #Just like Alex #He's just not a headstrong teen #he's a young man with a boyfriend who wears a promise ring and they share an apartment and a life and they talk about shit and it's great #He's amazing #They somehow turned into goals

[sn4kebites]

naruto ship discourse is corny and bored atp like who cares but i do think it's a shame that the canon ships are so bad when there was a lot of potential for them to not be lol

like on a solely aesthetic level i think sasusaku could've been cute. i see the appeal. but naruto writes women so poorly and wrote sasuke so homosexually it's hard to imagine lol.

#void.speaks #i like naruhina but not really any better #the only truly good canon naruto ships are shikatema and imo inosai #and kakashi and gai they're gay to me bc im not blind #like in boruto theyre raising a daughter but im getting side tracked #i love a good moody asshole x bright and loveable trope i think sometimes knowing what could've been i get sad #cause canonly sasuke is a deadbeat father AND husband #rip sakura in my mind you're getting your pussy ate everyday queen #sorry u were a victim of poor writing u didnt deserve that

[patronsaint-ofthedenial]

Oh Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980) we're really in it now

#jack's thoughts #best 80s bowie album imo. most of his 80s stuff sounds a bit too. idk. generic 80s music for my taste #not that they're not good. let's dance is a good album for example just not bowie enough #never let me down is 'i didn't say it was good i said i liked it' and tonight is just. boring #the labyrinth soundtrack is an exception cause it has bowie's distinct style which he seemed to tone down in the 80s #i think he got back his spark in the 90s when he gave up on the mainstream 80s style #i haven't listened to all his albums from that time but i really enjoyed 1.outside #the story of the concept album is rather dark and morbid but i've developed a liking for somewhat bizarre music #what the fuck am i talking about i'm just making a post about an album i liked

[project-catgirlpillar]

So soulmates and Love at First sight are tropes that i've Seen a Lot of people deride for being Like shallow or unrealistic or amatonormative and i while i definitely don't disagree with that as a practitioner of the noble Art of aromancy myself i Just have to say i could Not give less of a Shit about any of that. I don't hate These tropes because they're problematic i hate them cause they're boring

#idk man #like with a romance subplot ideally i should be invested in their dynamic and i think why they love each other is an important part of that #doesn't even need to be much hell i'm a sucker for childhood friends dynamics but like #with love at first sight they love each other before there even is a dynamic so it boils down to they love each other just cause #and that is just so uninteresting to me #like at least give me just one scene of them actually bonding or have one fall for the other as they're kicking ass #i'm not even asking for much hers #soulmates imo just don't really add much #like if you really give a shit about romance i can see how the idea that there is someone out there for you can be reassuring #but in romance i don't really see the difference between loving each other because of fate and loving each other without fate to intervene #the only good soulmate romance is lloydven and that is only good because it leans into the parts of soulmates that are just messed up #like the codependency #i feel like your mileage with these tropes will vary depending on whether you find them romantic or not #i don't! #so they do nothing for me

[romulussy]

Shiv and Roman calling each other bro/sis, see you at the hellhole literally makes me crazyyyyyy like they literally love each other and are brother and sister that is what they are im insane 🥹

LITERALLY they love each other so much



#ask #imo they are the only good use of bro/sis in an onscreen sibling dynamic and it's cause they're taking the piss jdfhk

[flammedoudoune]

The Voices (2014) is a better Joker movie than Joker

#i'm only half joking #i know it's not very fair to compare the two cause they're not going for the same thing and they're very different in a lot of ways #but the things that are similar in these two movies are just done waaaaaay better in the voices imo #and honestly a joker origin story as a horror comedy could have been so good

[teeto-peteto]

League should make a skinline with a Broadway musical theming. No idea how it would work, but my vision is clear. I think.

Honestly a skinline with a Phantom of the Opera (the Broadway one) aesthetic would be rad as fuck cause honestly this:

This is epic. Damn even a Cats (THE BROADWAY ONE not the movie) would have a nice aesthetic inside the game.

But you know what they made? DRAGON SKINS. SIKE.

#i think primal ambush is something very far far from Cats but slightly resembles #sorry i dont know that much about broadway some enlightenment would be great for a europetard as me #but yes they're afraid of exit #cause honestly their most recent '''new''' skinlines didnt quite stick #honestly and throwing myself into a pit of hell: after the whole heartsteel hype... #those skins in game dont really look very good #at least in my opinion. the efects look very mushy and like colorful mess without shape #they dont feel well #at least in my opinion #La Ilusion was nice but nobody really got that invested besides Renata players #(good for them and good for me) #street demons hype literally died at the next day #Not that i could make any of these skinlines better: the artists are AMAZING it just doesnt work for league at least imo #i feel like riot should move on from the dragon/mystic skinline era and move to something else #soul fighter did good cause its like a present era #they really should work on y2k skinline with girl champions #work more on the fashion rather than a mystic concept #cause the more they keep on with the mystic concept the fashion dies and it turns bland and repetitive #soul fighter doesnt feel repetitive cause it literally stands out from the rest of skinlines #the closest thing to sould fighter is probably hearthrob #or that old Vandals skinline. VANDALS. goddamn #how long have we kept with the dragons????

[rosecreates]

Reminder to myself for tomorrow: Write up the Nimue version of the Astarion bite scene.

#{rose posting} #there are some scenes i wanna write nimue versions of cause nim's pov on stuff is real interesting to do tbh imo #and one day if i gain enough confidence in writing astarion i wanna write a thing of how he views her #i wanna write the companions in general looking at her and just like what they see. #because its so interesting due to how she wears this mask and some companions may be able to gleam more than others into the truth #but only astarion has gotten as close as he has to seeing in some manner nim's true self #but he wont see it for some time. #i also wanna do a nimue version of the tiefling party because #'nim not feeling deserving of really celebrating with the tieflings because she didnt really save them out of good will. she saved them- #because with her rudimentary understanding of morality she presumed thats what she should do. its what makes the most people happy- #but she doesnt really actually feel anything at all and her urge wants so badly to take this chance now that they're in her camp to just- #kill them all but she doesnt. let alone the guilt of alfira's death is coming back because of lakrissa being at the pary. she also just- #doesnt feel like she deserves in general all of this and having to wear this mask for as long as she has it is slowly reaching a boiling- #point and astarion can get to see nimue crack a bit' #just. ough it is So Good