#embrace the trash!

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

Nepeta: :33< mew know what you n33d equius? a piping hot plate of gossip

Equius: D-> I do not "gossip", that is for lowbloods and trash

Equius: D-> Who are we talking about

#homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #nepeta leijon #equius zahhak #meowrails #mod terezi #embrace the trash garbage boy

[memento-mori-twilight]

#clark kent #superman #lois lane #jon kent #action comics 1057 #dc comics #you can deny it all you want Clark #it was a mullet #longer hair would be longer in the front too #your fashion taste is always slightly trash just embrace it #tumblr polls #poll #what do you think? #clois #superfam

[sylvies-kablooie]

the problem w loki s2: hey, where did the women go?

this is criticism so if that isn’t your thing you have been forewarned! i knew by episode 2 that something was off compared to s1 and i couldn’t quite place it. was it the sole focus on drab retro futurist TVA aesthetic instead of the colorful cinematography in s1? was it the focus being placed upon this Loom that we just found out is a thing and also Hey we have to stop it right now? Was it the lack of sylvie content?

but i think it just comes down to bad writing and whilst also trying to salvage what we DID get, i would feel dishonest to pretend that my problems with s2 arose from the finale alone. and while there were narrative inconsistencies between the seasons, i think a central error in s2 was sidelining the female characters.

s1 had beautiful themes, including self-acceptance and the power of love, and was building up to a ton of unanswered questions. a central theme of s1 (like it or not) was the connection between sylvie and loki. it was intended by waldron and herron from the start to be a romance, but beyond the romantic aspect, sylvie was the driving force of the show. she’s the variant the TVA is chasing, she’s the one who reveals that the TVA is a lie and makes everyone question what they were taught, it’s her that plunges the blade into HWR and opens the multiverse- and it’s no secret that in s2 she was largely off screen, only to show up at key plot points and kind of make things difficult rather than allow a further explanation into her character. and i could and might make a whole post on the sidelining of sylvie, but also- renslayer.

we saw a lot of renslayer in s1! she was pretty damn integral to the plot. her connection with mobius was fascinating, her dedication to doing what she saw as the right thing even when she learned all her gods were dead, her willingness to prune her best and maybe only friend to protect the big TVA lie- that was captivating. she’s also the first character we get to see the real non-TVA life of! she’s a principal at a school! and what did we get from her in s2?

she throws the book at victor, we learn she was his general and she’s Mad, and then exiled to the void. she’s barely there this season despite being central to s1! why, when you have an actor as talented as gugu mbatha-raw, would you not take advantage of that! we see threads of what COULD have happened in her storyline- her alliance with miss minutes, realizing maybe they never needed him at all- but at the end she’s pruned, thrown in the void and That’s That’s, stay tuned to see if anything happens in one of the endless future installments. we get that amazing I’m order line, and then what? and what type of order is she even representing? why is she so willing to toss mobius to the curb? you see why we need more development here?

b-15 met a similar fate. actually, i was really excited at the start of s2 to see her get her moment defending the new branches, realizing those were people, seeing the grief on her face; remember, sylvie showed her her life on the timeline, so this is personal for her. but she’s also quickly regaled to the side after her speech in the war room. she was a doctor, she is VERITY WILLIS, but do we get into any of this? No! (I also didn’t like her willingness to negotiate with Dox after the bombed the timelines, saying deep down I know you’re good right after we watched her cry over the devastation that had brought to the timelines, but maybe that’s another point)

and dox? what’s the deal with her! we are introduced to this strong general with a weird connection to brad, someone who is willing to go against TVA orders to bomb the timelines in the defense of what she believes is right, but then- squashed in a cube. that’s that. no examination into why she would be willing to betray the TVA in that way but also NOT join renslayer, no explanation into what was going on w brad.

(brad is worth a whole separate post but this is focusing on the ladies so just keep that in the back of your mind)

and back to sylvie. i saw some people point out how gross her being frozen during the final battles between her and loki was; how it eliminated her agency and allowed the men to have a Serious Talk. i have to say i agree with that judgement. in this season we get to see glimpses of what sylvie wants, but the unresolved relationship (whichever way you wish to characterize it- you do you!) between her and loki just hangs in the air like a heavy storm cloud i kept waiting to break but it… didn’t. the closest we got was the pie room scene, but everything between them was stilted and awkward when she was onscreen, which wasn’t that much.

it was almost as if the connection with loki was considered in opposition to her role as a Strong Woman, in a way- she was Strong and Angry. in s1 we see sides of her that defy stereotype- giving that doomed child her candy to ease the pain, her admitting to loki that she numbed herself with flings; there’s a vulnerability there, a complexity. the two of them rehashed their first fight again and again instead of moving onto something new (that being said sophia’s performance in episode 3 added a weight to the story that pleased me greatly) but overall she was regarded as a plot obstacle to be hidden away- at least past episode 3.

anyway i do think it comes down to writers biting off more than they could chew and losing the central concept of the show and focusing on sciencey plot rather than characterization. you can’t make season 1 centered around a love story and then pretend that didn’t happen and expect a cohesive transition between seasons. you can’t bombard us over and over again with the centrality of loki and sylvie’s duality- all of the we’re the sames, all of the i’m not you’s, and then move into s2 deciding it’s time to focus on only one half of that duo you spent the whole series focusing on.

you also can’t give us a “aHH we’re all gonna explode” thing over and over again and expect us to give a damn when you’re not letting the characters have dialogue that makes us say, oh man, i hope this loom thing doesn’t blow up, because i want to see where the connections they have going on end up! you can’t replace emotional weight with a ticking time bomb and expect it to do the work for you.

there are other problems with the series as well, and other people are far more articulate than i am, but the lack of female gaze and only one episode having a female writer this season was glaring, imo.

thank u for coming to my tedtalk and i’d love to hear ur thoughts!

#there was also just no whimsy #it was whimsy-less #but that’s another point entirely #anyway i’m torn between embracing what i do like about s2 and throwing the whole thing in the trash mentally #loki series negativity #loki series critical #loki tv show #loki #loki series #loki show #loki tv #loki s2 #renslayer baby i’m so sorry they did all of that to you you deserved SO much better #and sylvie and dox and b-15 #i’m sure i’ll think of other things too but these are the big ones

[thewinter-smolder]

i was stuck in traffic for a long time and it gave me the time to let my "once upon a time i used to write fanfiction before capitalism killed my soul" self loose for a while so i'm just gonna pretend i've been granted the gift of vision

because it was weird they took the time to show us how the blackbeard outfit sank to the bottom of the sea (mind you, for the amount of light in that shot, i'm gonna assume it wasn't that deep, also it was like 5 minutes before Izzy said they docked so they were near land after all)

it was also weird to see how ed gets rid of the outfit because we see him on the preview for the season finale wearing it -i mean, actually emerging from the sea with it.

so what a coincidence it is for ed to be a fisherman now (don't get me started on "the fish is whatever" discourse because i'm 100% siding with stede on this one), because they will either show us another fisherman pulling out blackbeard's clothes from the water just as Ed decides to go back to land and check on Stede or

he's about to jump again into the water (just as we've seen him do before to rescue stede) and, with the power of gay, he will cross upon his clothes that are not just drifting through the sea: they are tied in a net and under a cannon ball to keep them down below.

so you might ask: mmmmm have we seen that image before? and i'm gonna say HELL YES.

because hornigold tied ed to a rock and then threw said rock off the cliff to make ed sink, and die, and be forgotten.

but then merman stede came to the rescue.

and now it's time for merman ed to show up (was i dreaming or did max australia confirmed that the title of the season finale was "mer-men" or something like that?). not necessarily to rescue stede (he probably will, afterwards) but to rescue blackbeard who is now drowning.

because if stede appeared to ed as a sign of hope, a sign of light, this new ed is also that for the blackbeard who shelters under the kraken persona.

for years, ed has believed that he was a monster for killing his father. but he forgets that killing his father meant his mom would be safe (and if that makes you think of black pete turning around lucius' situation to let him see that, yes, he almost got killed, but he also LIVED, well congrats because i did too)

the kraken was born the day ed killed his father saved his mother and will be born again (the symbolism of him emerging from the sea, man, what a time to be alive) now that the love of his life stede and izzy and fang and frenchie and lucius and jim and pretty much the entire community that made him feel be part of something over the years need to be saved.

we're about to come full circle and see blackbeard's swan song, when he makes peace with the kraken and sees him not as a monster, but as a guardian. and can be at peace with the idea that he is both and he doesn't have to kill a part of him, but to embrace it and

TURN POISON INTO POSITIVITY

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #edward teach #ed teach #ofmd meta #ofmd predictions #i won't apologize for my english because it's trash and it is time to embrace our trashy selves idgaf #also it's 9pm and i need to do a thing for work because i'm a child of capitalism but i needed to get that out of my system #taika waititi #david jenkins #reading into things way too much is my passion

[gale-gentlepenguin]

You ever feel like people will get mad at you just because you don’t post what they are expecting you to?

Well get that idea out of your head! This is your blog! Not their blog. You post what you want!

If the day ever comes that I can’t post what I want. I’ll drop this site and go do something else.

What’s the point of having a blog if you feel limited in what you can say or do?

#tumblr #expectations #f*** that trash #embrace cringe

[blessphemy]

once in a while when i'm in the murderbot fandom tag i see a shark fin of ship discourse and i'm like wrow... i guess there's shipping out there. so anyways.

#murderbot #shipping container #<- that's my shipping tag lol. for filtration purposes. cuz i often find shipping & ship discourse tiresome #and i know others do too so feel free to blacklist that tag dear followers #would anyone around here like a nice block button in this trying time #just saying #tbh this goes for any content and/or asshole strangers if it's not yr thing just blacklist/block move on #once you embrace the block button you too can swim unperturbed through the waters of tumblr dot com #i'm just looking at Cool Fanart and Fun Poasts here #legit idk what kind of trash fire the main fandom tag might be looking like as far as discourse goes #cuz to me it's pretty chill #the only hints i get are the occasional shark fin referencing some drama that i can't see. love that for me.

[relaxxattack]

i always feel like i have something to say regarding rose’s planet and her quest only i lose it. like, yes, obviously her quest is to do with the creation/continuation of life (ie motherhood), meaning obviously she rejects everything to do with it and refuses to try and understand it (ie her mommy issues). but then where do we go from there? what was the non shitty ending supposed to be

#i feel like her conversation with roxy is a big key in this but idk #was she supposed to mature by embracing it or was she supposed to break it and run #i feel like it makes the most sense for her to smash it to pieces and then eventually and cautiously approach it from the other end #(similar to transness and your agab lol) #because it lets rose have agency and lets her reclaim the idea of motherhood that was likely stamped on her #but idk how you would even exactly go about doing that in terms of her quest #because they trashed that storyline #there’s a couple things about hs that always make me gnaw and gnash my teeth and rose’s quest is definitely one of them #rose lalonde #homestuck #hsmeta #my meta

[raylin-creates]

Me when I see a post about how First is useless to the lore: I. respect. your opinion. (internally raging) (fists shaking) (teeth gritted) (body trembling) (breathing ragged) (mind shook) (eyes wild) (mentally holding myself back from replying with the force of a blue whale being dropped to the ground at terminal velocity)

#first link #first linked universe #Hyrule Historia manga #linkeduniverse #I saw the post this is about like four days ago and I am trying SO HARD #not to reblog it with a rant about how the manga is great actually #and how the reason there are inconsistencies with the game lore is because the writers weren't allowed to know much about the game #so they had to work with vague ideas like 'the earliest in the series' #'Link forges the Master Sword' #and 'Loftwings' #and how embracing the flaws and coming up with fanon explanations for it is fun #and how the story is great but limited by its short format #and would have benefited from being expanded into a full-length manga #and how it adds complexity to Hylia that we only get second hand through Zelda in the game #or don't get at all #and it opens up speculation about the pre-skyloft civilization #and! and! and! #but I'm just gonna try to accept one man's trash is another man's blorbo #and move on by instead ranting in the tags of my own post #I actually agree with the poster on a lot of their other LU takes so this especially hurts

[atthedugouts]

I have a headcanon that the Milkovich siblings get matching tattoos. Just can't decide exactly what they would get. I like sunflowers for their Ukraine heritage. each others names? initials? Winnie the Pooh quotes? (I've been on a Winnie the Pooh kick and have quotes for the siblings). Maybe when Terry dies they get birds flying because they're finally free. Or maybe something minimalistic like four small circles.

#mickey milkovich #mandy milkovich #iggy milkovich #colin milkovich #milkovich siblings #shameless us #maybe they get the classic mom heart tattoo for laura #Because they are white trash and embrace it

[the-kipsabian]

every time i close my eyes i think about kissing you

#i wasnt gonna post this tonight but i do like the cropped version better and it survived the peer screening process lol so here #embracing that ship trash brain or whatever #just. ough #night arts #orangekip

[pandorachristian]

I can't stop thibking little Cale who didn't allow to drink, used alcohol to burn thing instead.

Thing is Arm base

That's right, look at my avatar, a twelve year old Cale who was shirter than his age, holding alcohol bottle and matches box with his little hand, burn down things.

#embraced #trash of the count's family #og!cale henituse #tcf fanfic #original cale henituse #og cale henituse

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

Glad to see mobile is once again unusable because of the new hideous and buggy way to look at videos and images that no one asked for, finally something to drive me away from the platform I can't remove ads from, thus finally not giving tumblr a dime for my presence. Great strategy, guys, keep it up! @staff @wip @‎whatever the third one is I forgot

#sfw #personal #ok to reblog #tumblr updates #why do you wanna be a tiktok clone so bad your userbase loathes thst platform lmao #do advertisers only invest if you look like the most generic inhospitable mainstream trash imaginable? #tell them you're capitalizing on the weirdos who hate them you've got a special weird audience here they otherwise might not reach #(I for one don't remember the last time I saw an ad that wasn't on tumblr bc it's the only place I bother using when I don't have adblock) #people are never gonna see tumblr as normal and you know it and you embraced it when Twitter fell and you scared them off #just keep being tumblr please. don't algorithm. ever.

[pragmatic-optimist]

America is not my home. 

Intellectually, I know this. 

I am a woman of color.

Daughter of immigrants. 

No place that despises my very existence and actively works against my autonomy and prosperity could ever be home. 

Yet knowing this does not make days like today hurt any less.

My pain will wane...

...and my rage will remain. 

This is what will fuel me and so many of us in the days ahead because we will not be idle, and we will not be silent. 

I reject this place. 

I reject everything and everyone who tries to tell me and so many others that they do not deem us human—worthy of dignity and respect.

Constantly undermining our right to live, love, and thrive as our authentic selves.

America is not my home. 

Thank goodness for that. 

#i am feeling a lot of feelings today #my heart aches #and i would very much like to break shit #(starting with mitch mcconnell’s face) #yes i saw this coming #it’s def not a surprise #and it’s only the beginning #living in america when you’re not a white straight cisgender male #means living in perpetual rage #but i will not embrace resignation #the fight endures #abortion is a human right #roe v. wade #america is trash #literal dumpster fire #personal note 📝 #sonia musings

[sexellency]

@painaway

I use the ray liberally and, mayhaps, excessively.

AND YOU GET A GENDER AND YOU GET A GENDER AND YO-

Mirth ‘fuck a gender’ fstbmp has spoken.

And tbh Amy is in the process of figuring it out but can’t quite settle on something. Although transmasc Amy sure is a thought…

#don’t yell at me i’ll cry {ooc} #knuckles said fuck gender all together and tossed his in the trash. #big has just embraced all of them and simply is the gender ‘Parent’

[wickedlyqueer]

"[Nor] was only ten [...] she had hiked her green skirt up into her belt, and because the sun was high and strong, she had shucked off her blouse and tied it like a bandanna around her head. She hardly featured a swelling here or there on her chest with which to startle any sheep." (Wicked, 1996)

Gregory Maguire: a gay man who never saw a boob in his life and thinks they ring and bounce like fucking cow bells.

#wicked the life and times of the wicked witch of the west #wicked #gregory maguire #it's-shit-on-maguire-o'clock #im sorry i had to share The Cursed Texts with y'all #guys. GUYS. i know we are freaking out about the movie(s) #but no matter what trashfire it becomes #we CANNOT possibly pull a 'the book is better uwu' receipt #bc that means you have to defend quotes like this okay #and you KNOW the book is full of these #we just BLOCK IT #bc every time i reread the book i go 'huh... don't remember that.' #wicked is trash. it's always been trash. the movies will be trash. Embrace the Mess

[allpromarlo]

juancho hernangomez is better than me i woulda slapped the shit out of kermit wilts

#THIS DUDES NAME IS K E R M I T AND HE WANTS TO TALK TRASH TO ANYBODY??? #man getcho DUMBASS outta here #i know bo cruz pushed him and all but on god i would've sent that boy flying back to minnesota #like it would've been MESS with me there #jussayin tho #nba #juancho hernangomez #minnesota timberwolves #anthony edwards #hustle #adam sandler #ant did a great job embracing the hater role but i can't say i didn't want to chokeslam his character #that will be all