#did you forget you have an audience?

[chaoticas-hell]

Oh to be one of the foxes as they had front row seats to the gayest fuckinh interaction known to gay kind in that dingy motel in Baltimore

#am I at 94? #youre at 100 #they were fucking flirting #excuse me sirs #did you forget you have an audience? #yall #neil josten #andrew minyard #aftg kevin #kevin day #aftg #andreil #the kings men #tkm #david wymack #aaron minyard #nicky hemmick #aftg renee #aftg allison #aftg foxes #dan wilds #matt boyd

[seasideoranges]

y'all i gotta be honest for a sec, the "atla wouldnt change much if aang wasnt there, in fact it might be better" and "the atla finale wouldnt change much if aang wasnt there to fight ozai" debates is the funniest thing ive seen come out of this fandom

#'this show wouldnt change much if the main character wasnt there' hmm me thinks otherwise! #do people just. not realize that the gaangs arcs ESPECIALLY zukos and kataras would not have happened if aang was taken out of the picture? #ppl praise zukos redemption arc sm and rightfully so but aang is such a HUGE factor in zukos arc! #hell you could argue that it kickstarted because of aang #'if we knew each other back then do you think we could have been friends too?' the question that forever changed zukos life #without aang katara would still be stuck in the south pole with sokka and she wouldve never gotten the training she needed #toph wouldve never left if aang wasnt in the picture #hell you could argue the same with suki shed still be stuck on the island #tbh without aang theyd all be dead or at least in serious trouble by the end of the series #and the finale argument... cmon now #did people forget the scene of iroh explaining to zuko (AND THE AUDIENCE) that aang HAS to be the one to fight ozai #ONLY aang could defeat ozai #the strongest firebender in the series #without aang they all wouldve been cooked #by this point both zuko and sokka were seriously injured and katara and the rest were absolutely exhausted from fighting their own battles #ozai is only one guy yeah but again he is the strongest firebender in the whole series #even iroh was like 'nah theres no way in hell i could beat him' #ozai was in the air spinning around like a beyblade shooting fire from all parts of his body destroying everything in sight LMAOOO #delete later #probably

[skateboardtotheheart]

i forgive but won't forget

#watcher #they walked it back and did the right thing #they big time fucked up and they're recognizing it #and its no secret how much shane and ryan do actually care about their audience and even with the script #you could tell they felt awful #we'll call it a severe momentary lapse in judgement #forgive but never forget #they do have to seriously earn trust back from their audience #and steven should not have been the only one to take business classes and shane and ryan should fix that #watcher entertainment #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #ghost files #weird wonderful world #puppet history #too many spirits

[demadogs]

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

(2023) Dir. Shawn Levy

#i dont think theres much of fandom for this book/show this is gonna get like 9 notes #as always these look fine on my computer and horrific on my phone so thats super fun #my gifs #all the light we cannot see #shawn levy #louis hofmann #aria mia loberti #tvedit #usergreta #dailyflicks #filmedit #atlwcs #really wish they didnt cut frederick #also its weird that this was all in english #i was expecting a mix of german and french and english but theres like no other languages just accents thats pretty stupid #also this is just the film bitch in me but when he exploded the door and she was deaf for a couple seconds and you didnt hear anything they #really should have also completely unfocused the shot too to replicate her being blind AND deaf in that moment #the fact that they only deafened the audio for the audience kinda makes you forget that shes blind they just focused on the deaf part #and blindness isnt just darkness she can probably see some light (npi) so just a really blurry shot with no audio wouldve been great #thats the only like film specific thing i wish they did tho #i really love the shot werner on the ground and in bed #i also dont hate that they made em kiss... #even tho when i read this in high school i was the only one in my socratic seminar who was glad they didnt lmao #its not like reylo like it works #ok im done #OH AND IM GLAD WERNER DIDNT DIE THAT WAS VERY NICE OF THEM

[friendofcars]

sorry to all the essays and notes and everything (an apology to myself really) but im doing the td3 pov data now instead

#rchl #cdth starts off so narrator-ish though like i THINK the prologue isn't really anyone but if you had to pick someone #it would be declan and since the revelation of his middle name tadhg (means storyteller) i think it's fair to designate the prologue as his #pov #HOWEVER i have to actually closely read the chapter and see how the descriptions of the lynches jive w declan's perceptions #also ch 1 is probably getting attributed to carmen but it veers lock for like. a sentence. and seems to be making assumptions about carmen #rather than her telling the audience about herself BUT shes repressed as hell. so #hi did anyone read this. do you have opinions on this and are there enough ambiguous chapters to constitute a category of their own #also shout out to breck myrtle for getting a pov chapter. i sure did forget about him

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

stumbled across a ballad of songbirds and snakes critique video and I couldn't even watch it because the person so did not get what the book was doing and saying and the comments were complaining about the unnecessary romance when it's super obvious it's not intended to be a romance. suzanne collins is, yet again, ahead of her time because I remember the hate mockingjay got when it came out for killing prim and having katniss vote for new hunger games when those plot points are crucial and are meant to act as a commentary

#tbosbas #thg #i am and forever will be a ballad of songbirds and snakes defender #i firmly think that is suzanne collins' most cleverly crafted hunger games book #everything about it impresses me #the narrators voice being so different from katniss' reveals something about the writing that has me in awe #one criticism the trilogy got was the writing was too simple #and it's easy to assume this is just collins' style #until you read tbosbas and realize oh shit no she's just really good at writing voice #(which if you're a writer you'll know how hard it is to make your own style dissapear when trying to write voice) #also as a writer myself #I'm so tired of the criticism of ''why did she write about snow when she could have written about [insert any fan favorite character]'' #because honestly i can understand if you're not interested in reading about snow #but to act like you're then entitled to a story of your choosing and suzanne collins shouldn't have a say in what she writes?? #god that bothers me #i feel like readers forget that writers don't always write with an audience in mind #and that while you can be displeased about an author you enjoy going in a direction you aren't interested in reading #you don't have a say in how they choose to explore their creativity

[hoaxton]

This one’s gonna be hard for the tumblr girlies to grasp but hear me out: maybe………. you were SUPPOSED to feel upset about what happened to Marwa

#like sometimes bad things happen in media to make you feel bad #the shitty monster in the show about shitty monsters doing shitty things did something shitty???? #y’all like to forget the literal atrocities the crew commit on the daily #babes they all suck #and that’s why we love them #I’m so sorry the 700 year old warlord disappointed you :( #I’m begging you to expand the media you consume #google the word nuance and try again #nandor #guillermo de la cruz #wwdits #marwa wwdits #okay but actual not salty take: we as an audience have been watching the main characters do incredibly HORRIBLE things to people #FOR FOUR WHOLE SEASONS #AND WE LAUGHED ABOUT IT #the fact that the writers were able to make us stop a feel and THINK #“oh shit that’s fucked up” #is GOOD. that’s GOOD writing #in a show where most of the comedy comes from the audience laughing at bad things happening to side characters #you WANT the writers to be able to center you and viscerally remember #THAT THESE ARE BAD PEOPLE

[theinfinitedivides]

so The Way U Are (Unplugged) gets a live stage (MNet) and Rebel gets two more stages (SBS One Take at Inkigayo and Mnet) but i see nothing for Rodeo/nothing else for Jungle. aight. ok. guess i'm meant to languish or something

#tvxq #dbsk #for legal reasons that was partially a joke since they've given us so much this comeback already and i am immensely grateful but i #need to have a serious talk with the camera operator for MNet!Rebel bc why the f*ck are we flying so much for. they're #wearing the c*nty casual western lite outfits and we're zooming in and out like a f*cking drone no!!!!!!!!!! i shouldn't have to go after #four different focus fancams to see what's actually going on here #also who could forget the file quality is sh*tty. i can see the pixels as we speak there's no way i'm tackling this one for any #potential gif endeavors unless the fancams are better quality #edit: i think they also committed the sin of heavily cleaning up the live vocals bc this sounds like they ate the CD. and not in classic #TVXQ! manner i'm talking heavy handed pitch correction studio ass ate the CD. the only time you hear the raw vocals peak through #is when there's a fanchant coming up so they have to unmute it so the audience can come through. #look it's either that or they did a pre-recorded 'live' version and then lip synched the whole thing for MNet. i don't know which #one is worse not even the 4k visuals of the Yunho fancam with his ass in denim can make up for that. their stupid watermark #is all over the thing too bitch can we get a moment of peace #at least TWUA was left relatively untouched smh

[vaugarde]

terribly sorry for progressively getting more and more annoyed and tired with jn. this show kinda gets a lot more exhausting on a rewatch when you know its not going to get better

#i think what happened when it was airing was that like. it was the direct successor to sun and moon right? #and that was a show EVERYONE shat on when it got revealed. the setting the art change the shift to a goofier style etc etc #but then it aired and aside from some hiccups while adjusting the first few eps- sm turned out to be a joy of a show #not just for a casual watch- you can tune on most episodes without context and just have a pleasant time bc its a cozy show #but also if youre more into the battle scene bc this series kinda goes hard on them #and while the episodes had a goofier tone to them the episodes never felt like they were talking down to its audience #everyone brings up the deaths and how maturely they were handled but seriously- they didnt need to go that hard on the minior episode #and yet- it took fans a long time to really come around to it and stop giving it bad faith criticism #the most popular youtubers were finding every excuse to shit on it and mock the fans #so i think when jn was announced with another slight art shift and a different format- i think we all got a little defensive over it #like hey sm had hiccups too! jn just needs some time to grow into itself and find its footing #and we had no reason to think it wouldn’t. like there were some red flags like how mimey was handled and some clickbait episodes #but we got genuinely nice episodes back then too! the scorbunny eps were neat and ash and gohs intro eps are great #the pichu opening is REALLY strong and i thought it showed a ton of promise for the show #the leon and eternatus stuff was being set up #so i waited for jn to pick up and waved off a lot of criticism as bad faith bc hey. ppl were ruthless to sm and forgetting that we do have t #to work with the limit that its a childrens series. which is fine. #but well…… suddenly we’re in the final arc and its not better. its worse. holy shit did it get worse #episodes like the drizzile one were now the exception. not the rule. #most episodes that are pleasant on a first watch became an absolute slog on a rewatch #the ‘’fanservice’’ feels more like a marketing ploy than an attempt to respect the characters. the production value was a goddamn mess. #entire arcs went unresolved #so it gave me rose tinted glasses until it all fell apart at once for me at the end #but now i have the joyful experience of watching the whole thing through knowing damn good and well it gets worse. yay #echoed voice #jn lb

[whoslaurapalmer]

arson is in fact NOT the worst crime that occurs on the plot chart

#i put things in red and bold that i need to put more thought into!! so they catch my eye when i'm scrolling around the chart #and i don't forget about them!!! MAKE THINGS EASIER FOR YOURSELF #thanks maltese falcon for having arson occur during the plot!! not a lemon man fic without arson. you know what i mean #'lulu who are you talking to in your plot notes?' me. i am talking to me. i am the audience. I CAN TELL ME A FIRE WILL OCCUR SOMEHOW DAMMIT #just how i talk!! #earlier today i did not have this part bolded. however. sometimes parts i thought were fine get bolded as i build more of the plot!! #and make sure everything makes. decent sense at least

[homielander]

every once in a while i remember that nobody in season 3, not even annie or MM, ever bothered to bring up the very valid point that maybe the boys shouldn't be hunting and killing supes who haven't actually done anything wrong (at least to their knowledge), and i am filled with rage all over again

#when annie and mm at herogasm were like. 'u cant blow up the house! theres human s*x workers there!' #i THINK ur forgetting some people idk.... #unless they had proof that each of these supes was a deplorable murderer i am not interested in hearing excuses #like did the tnt twins even do anything other than enjoy weird s*x parties? #and weirdly hughie's conscience kicked in for mindstorm but not the herogasm supes who were. as far as he knew. just as innocent #i guess atp ever non-7 supe is written like a cartoon villain and mindstorm was only needed to wake billy so y would the audience even care #also only used the * because i know the tumblr tags are funky and hide posts #the boys #also like idk. maybe all of s3 was a pov trap and later audiences will recognize the gruesome reality of what they were cheering for #and btw some of you WERE cheering like weirdos #'to stop the unstable supervillain they should work with the other unstable supervillain! the second of whom is actively blowing ppl up!' 🤨📸 #and i STILL think annie's resistance was dumb because they tied it around toxic masculinity for hughie 'benchpress me' campbell #and annie failed to bring up the much more devastating impacts of what he and butcher were doing #it's just as much as i want to think this is deliberate on the writers' part. why WOULDN'T they have their moral beacon raise #the most pressing issue at hand? not her being undermined or working with someone bad but lives being lost? idk. #especially considering annie's arc is not one of corruption or even overcoming corruption. she's just the total good guy #point is it just makes me worry for what's next #(also me complaining abt the boys s3... it feels like old times <3)

[dirt-str1der]

Wrt the previous post i still get so mad about how stupid some people are about that like okay thank you for letting me know you failed basic reading comprehension

#Listen to my problems #yeah sorry this post is going to be about the incest horror game again #like yes of course the game will attract incest loving audiences this is not the games fault. its extremely well written imo #like yeah the game has the incest ending. you mean the ending where external forces literally discourage you from making it happen ? #‘are you sure this is the route you want to go down?’ like you have to purposefully choose to make it happen for it to happen #thats not the story the game is trying to push you towards thats the ending you get because you went out of your way to get it #‘ashley thinks its funny that they had sex in a prophetic dream’ do her previous actions mean nothing to you ? like did you forget that #ashley literally says things that she knows will make her brother really upset specifically because she wants to see him upset #the incest ending is what you get when you let ashley win and she is like ... not exactly the hero #she doesnt even want to sleep with him like she is not even attracted to him. this isnt a ‘my sibling is hot and i want them’ thing. this is #a ‘im terrified of my brother leaving me and i will do anything to make him stay’ thing. its not a happily ever after it was a last resort #im going to look real stupid if the dev turns out to be pro incest

[unproduciblesmackdown]

dunno if i’ve posted this clip before or just thought about it often enough to create that uncertainty, but it sure comes to mind re: the subject of like, what function Jared’s Character serves in supporting the material. and michael greif as a key Understander in how getting the story across to the audience Works well enough for them to take that ride, see: transcribed excerpts from a podcast interview of will’s a few posts back

#not like oh people always forget to look to the director when it comes to thinking abt A Work lmao... #also funny like; you let levenson get in on this & he just won't stop humanizing your characters; then there's also the [working w/actors] #stage of things & he's like wuh oh gotta Get Good. gotta humanize them even more. girl help #and of course that Nobody's talking about like oh yeah jared's purpose? get off a Jokes Boy #even that final remark about Keeping Things In Perspective like ofc jared's noticeably Comedically interrupting peak Drama often #but it's not b/c like idk oh the audience wouldn't be able to Handle drama #but rather like. a) without breaks/shifts in pacing; more Intense / Elevated moments would just start to fall flatter #like that's the new baseline & it'd feel like Too Much in the way that it just doesn't come across as intense the way it's meant to anymore #& also b) jared is Directly Commenting on what just happened; so you now don't have to feel directly sold on that moment & you know like.... #even if you did buy into it earnestly at the time; that's not the only relevant angle here; evan having to explain it to Someone Else and do #so After The Fact is also relevant. What Is True. #like yeah you can have jared go ''what the hell???'' abt things & have audiences take that ride but come away presuming jared is either #there to simply be The Funny One and/or The Mean One. but you remove that material of someone going What The Hell & it doesn't work as well #like michael g is saying there about Just When The Audience Is Feeling Very Cynical Abt What Evan's Up To; Jared Gets To State It #and that way we're all comfortable....if jared's not stating it; the shift from Cynical to Comfortable doesn't happen & ppl don't Notice #that it's due to not having that character who outright comments on it but then they're like well my cynicism had no payoff so evan's evil #and/or the material is positing that evan is epic but he sucks; so....not like you couldn't potentially consider that the material actually #is Not necessarily abt how everything evan does is good & awesome / figure out that a mess of motivations is deliberate anyways but. #deh #will roland #also tbt to will in Another podcast interview of [while still in deh] where he was theorizing that it must've been michael greif's decision #to cast Him; Specifically as jared. can't argue with that what with his [being in a position to do that] & Understander of what could work

[bombshellsandbluebells]

the Nate Shelley s3 arc reminds me of the s5 Murphy arc in terms of how much I actually loved it despite it not being widely liked by the fandom and was actually disappointed because it wasn't ugly enough lol

and it's basically the same arc. character with deep-seated wounds and a lack of true self-love has realistic, damaging coping methods and crashes and burns spectacularly by hurting other people around them and isolating themselves because it doesn't matter how good things get for you, deep-seated wounds that don't get addressed will eventually come out one way or another. and it will be ugly when they do.

the Murphy arc was disappointing because it got wrapped up way too easily with Memori getting back together which didn't actually address ANY of Murphy's issues and Nate's was disappointing because it just didn't commit fully to being ugly and didn't let him be enough of an asshole

#with murphy it's like. do the writers even reallly REALIZE what they had written on a character level and how much it made sense and added #to murphy's character or did they just develop a reason for Memori to break up for drama and then didn't care to actually go through the #work of character growth and just got them together at the end of the season no issues #and with nate it's like. yes I DO think the majority of audiences and the fandom would have absolutely villianized nate if he had been even #meaner in s3 and probably wouldn't have celebrated him getting back with the team. I just KNOW people would have been talking about how he #didn't deserve it or hadn't made up for it enough if he had been worse in s3 #which is so unfair when a) this show tries to show how hurt can make people ugly and b) other characters get the benefit of the doubt wa #more than nate. (jamie's a little different bc it's easier to accept asshole > redeemed arcs a little more than likeable > downfall to #asshole > redeemed again bc we see the transition to being an asshole #BUT also. still. jamie did some nasty stuff that people just forget or completely forgive. and he ends up fandom favorite #and it's not that nate needed to become the fan fave or anything #I just wish people would give characters who are realistically ugly and human and complicated more grace #especially when they're not the conventionally attractive fan fave pretty boy you know #or like with murphy it's like all his actual harsh edges got sanded down by fandom. same as with Jamie #so even when he had an arc where he was acting terribly in a self destructive unhealthy kind of way that hurt others #people made it ALL about his hurt uwu other people hurt him!! it was Emori's fault!! he did nothing wrong bc he has trauma!! instead of lik #accepting that hurt people hurt people is more than a simple phrase it is true and human and UGLY when it happens #anyways #why do i always ramble more in the tags and write like a full epilogue in here

[philsmeatylegss]

"eugenia cooney isn't the reason for my anorexia" like you aren't blaming her. honestly how dare you expect someone so sick, so thin they're practically disabled, and tell them they need to get off the internet because of how they look. not everyone who has had an eating disorder's experience is universal, and by treating it that way you shit on every eating disorder sufferer's autonomy. you can get off the internet if you feel that strongly about it. after all, you're an adult and it's your responsibility to keep yourself healthy right? lmao

Anyway Eugenia Cooney should get the fuck off the internet. She is abusing her severe mental illness for views, not considering who those views are from, purposefully and that is sickening <3

#1) I didn’t say she triggers me now as an adult #i said that I discovered her when I was 13 and incredibly impressionable #this was the majority of her audience #she doesn’t do shit to me now and I couldn’t care less #but she really fucked over a lot of 13 year olds including me #2) you’re right my experience with my ed is not universal #but symptoms of my ed are universal #3) I’m like 95% sure you’ve never dealt with a restrictive ed and have no clue how horrific it is #or you’re 13 years old with an ed #4) eugenia cooney did not make me have an ed that fact is 100% true #traumatic events both from my childhood and what was currently happening at the time of the development of my ed as well as low self esteem #and lack of identity is what caused my ed #i have never said she is responsible for peoples eds because she isn’t #what she is responsible for is the continuous romanticization of restrictive eds #giving people a body to strive to get #in 2016 i saw thousands of people who talked about wanting their body to be like Eugenia’s #5) when you post your face and content to the internet you automatically are opening space for criticism #i have every right to say whatever the fuck I want about it #yes I am adult but let’s not forget she is one too #she portrays herself as ‘uwu so soft and precious smol bean innocent pwease don’t be mean* #but she’s a fucking adult who should recognize the responsibility and impact she has #6) eugenia made herself sickly and “’almost disabled’ #and it’s insulting for you to use that card to people who were actually born or through circumstances out of their control became disabled #7) I never said she should get off the internet because she is thin #i want her off the internet because she profits off of her illness and is aware of the influence she has #i want her off because those views mean more than both her health and the health of those who look up to her #do you see how she poses? the leaning over or outfits to make her look thinner? #that’s not someone who is struggling with an ed that also makes content #that is someone who is profiting off of their illness and glorifying it to those who see it #tw ed

[britneyshakespeare]

james and logan can still backflip

#I HAD A GREAT NIGHT W MY SISTERS #if you have a chance to see big time rush on their forever tour 2022. DO it. tickets arent badly priced at all either. #i dont go to concerts very often but that was a great ass time. very warm and nostalgic and logan henderson can still marry me #tales from diana #theyre all still so good they look so good they sound so good. they havent aged badly at all!!! any of em!!! #i kinda love that there's never been any serious scandal or controversy w any of them. i always loved how quietly they pursued solo projects #but there's such a genuine love ppl have for big time rush. they're great performers and their group chemistry was and still is phenomenal #and the bops don't stop! don't even start me on how good their 2020s songs have been since they came back #what is it three singles??? they also played one tonight that theyre gonna drop officially on the 30th. #so stream honey when it comes out. and stream all their other songs dammit!! their comeback deserves to be as big as jobros' was #they just picked up like they never even left. their new songs are so seamlessly them. even while it has been like 10 years. it doesnt feel #wrong or weird or inappropriate in any way. it doesnt feel tryhard or edgy in terms of adapting to a new much older audience (that grew up #with them of course). it's so natural. if you put em in a playlist w all their old songs it's hardly noticeable. #i LOVE them. i loved them tonight i had a great time. #we somewhat joked about buying last minute tickets to see them in boston where they're playing tomorrow. but you know what #we're going out w my parents for their STUPID 30th anniversary (yawn) #when they came on to do their encore. they did the theme song of course and then when they transitioned to boyfriend #i forget which one asked. i think it was either james or logan. probably james #just said: 'before we play this last song...................... anybody here lookin for a boyfriend?' #me sitting next to the women my brothers are dating/engaged to and hearing them scream 'YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' #that was funny