#fucking done with 2016

[itsybitsybatsyspider]

don't you just love it when you find an obscure mediocre media that has such an intriguing concept and storyline that has better potential than whatever Marvel's been putting out for the last two years but then go to see that there's no fandom or fan content for it so you're basically vibrating and going feral by yourself in the corner as it rots your brain??

yeah so anyway, have some Max Steel doodles

#max steel #max mcgrath #digital art #n'baro aksteel #digital illustration #max steel 2016 #listen man this thing has been rotting in my brain for weeks #i NEED to talk about it #the potential it had?? #and it was done so dirty??? #EXCUSE ME??? #fuck the box office and shitty execs for fumbling this great story line #guess i'll have to take care of it myself #and the movie is LITERALLY one of the best adaptations for a tv show ive ever seen??? Helloo???

[musicalchaos07]

Down on the West Coast

#the is THE most self indulgent thing I've ever made #it is FOR ME #I'm just being nice enough to share #like ratfit is in here AT LEAST 3x #... and it's not even the worst clip in here tbh #he better look hot as fuck next season to make up for season 4 #yeaaa next weekend me is gonna LOVE this #ALSO #this would've done NUMBERS back in 2016 #my talents are wasted #jonathan byers #stranger things #st edit

[brookheimer]

the one thing i feel pretty certain about for this episode is that america will not decide the election. a decision will be made, a president will be elected, but america will not be the deciding factor.

succession can’t mimic 2016 or 2020 point blank, that would be boring and have nothing to say. it can’t try to outdo trump because it’ll go too whacky and fall flat like veep’s last season (sorry conheads, no way he’s winning). but what it CAN do is illustrate the immensely corrupt, often arbitrary, and hugely influential nature of news media and conglomerations on political processes. i think probably jimenez will be in the lead, then atn/waystar does something to, i don’t know, discount votes or cast suspicion on jimenez or call the election for mencken early, and the tide will shift, even though the votes are already in. the votes don’t actually matter. the actual result doesn’t actually matter. that’s the power logan (and as an extension, billionaires and CEOs in general) hold. shiv says it herself to logan in s4e2: “just cause you say it’s true doesn’t make it true. everyone just fucking agrees with you and believes you, so it becomes true and then you can turn around and say like, 'oh, you see? see? i was right.'” but it doesn’t matter that logan’s “a human fucking gaslight,” everything he says comes true anyways. not because he was right, but because that’s how it works. he says things and then they happen, regardless of what the truth is or what should actually come to pass. that’s been one of the key throughlines since the very first episode of the entire show when, in response to kendall calling logan out of touch because times are changing and logan isn't changing with them, logan hisses that everyone always says you’re wrong until you do it and prove you were right: “you make your own reality.” you can't miss the bus if you're the one driving it. the election, the votes, the political process? none of that matters. it was always going to come down to the roys and their ilk (allies or enemies, just the top 1%) — that was the whole point of “what it takes” (the mencken episode) last season, after all.

i’ve seen lots of theories about what america will choose and how the candidates will respond and all that and i just don’t think that’s the show’s focus; i think the whole point is to demonstrate the lack of agency, the illusion of democracy. because, i mean, we’ve already seen the fall of democracy via fascist election and fascist election-denial, both in real life and in the countless (usually mid) satires created afterwards. it would be disappointing to see succession use the election to reiterate that same point of 'ohhh alt-right ahhhhh!!!' i don’t think it’ll be about ‘fascism’ at all — at least, not ‘trump-y’ fascism. it’ll be about fascism in the broader sense, the kind that doesn't sport a KKK hood (even when it keeps one tucked away in the attic). it's the fascism that every single roy (very much including shiv and kendall) aid and abet -- the fascism that so many succession fans don't seem to regard as fascism, despite it quite literally being the definition of fascism. trump wasn’t the entrance of fascism into our political process. he wasn’t the lone sign of the failing of american democracy. democracy in america has long been illusory, trump just made it more blatantly evident with his particular brand of hate-speech-ridden masculinist in-your-face fascism.

so i think that’s what this episode will hopefully focus on — america will not decide. corporations, news media, and the roys will. thus, the president will most likely become president not because the country supports his policies the most, but because he’s likely to agree to help block a business deal for a major media empire, and the other candidate is unlikely to. and this will likely come to pass due to said major media empire's interference and influence: they create their own reality. they say it, and everyone agrees with them and believes them, so it becomes true.

#WOOF okay here's my unnecessary ~thematic prediction~ for this episode #i have some more like random thoughts ab what'll happen but those r less thought out and more throwing shit at the wall etc #but i've been thinking a lot ab this ep n idk i just can't see any other way it could be done satisfyingly -- they can't just do 2016/2020 #again. the focus has to be elsewhere. i have some specifics thoughts on details but again those r kinda random n will be in another post #after bizarrely getting a lot of things right this szn i know a lot of people are looking to me to see what i'll say for this ep and let me #remind yall that I AM LITERALLY JUST GUESSING BASED ON MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE SHOW AND HOW NARRATIVES #TEND TO WORK PARTICULARLY IN SUCCESSION! if i am wrong which i very well might be please do not crucify me. i know literally #nothing more than anyone else i'm just a random english/gov major who likes speculating about media ! that said if i end up right again #somehow then yes i am a prophet i am jesse armstrong i have never been wrong about anything in my life. etc #watch this age so poorly tho. #LOL #also fwiw i dont think the Shock etc is going to come from the election results - maybe possibly from the way things happen (i could see a #line of miscommunication resulting in fucked up outcomes etc which i can get into in another post) or a roy sibs moment but i just #don't think there's any way the results themselves cld be surprising. it's jimenez or mencken. it's not gonna be connor guys. #succession #succession spoilers #except not really. just succession speculation more than anything else #long post #succession speculation #100

[hungerpunch]

i've thought a lot about it and i have concluded that parents just shouldn't Be Like That about their kids doing sports, you know?

#this post brought to u by my inexplicable picking up of abby wambach's 2016 memoir #(who never even LOVED soccer btw?!?!?) #kids who grow up to view their bodies as transactional pawns and their pain & suffering as currency to buy love with #too many parents are too fucking intense about sports. please relax. god. that's a baby with an undeveloped brain be NICE to it! #yeah ur kid can love a sport. but you know what most of all? #most of all ur kid wants you. your love and your attention. #and what if ur kid DOESN'T love the sport they're just GOOD at it? #you need to reinforce that you will love your children even when they're not good at stuff so they don't end up committing their lives #to things they hate just to please you! #idk maybe we should just do something CRAZY like ban child athletics IDK i feel CRAZY about this!!! #i've just read too many stories about how parents ruin their child's life and destroy their sense of self with SPORT. ahhh!!! #i think all professional athletes are fucked up in an entirely preventable way!!!! #hear me out what if: if the sport cannot be performed past the age of 25-30 then it should be gutted and revamped #so that u can't START playing it professionally until that age! #and whatever it takes to make that feasible for 30+ SHOULD JUST BE DONE. #oh god i'm in a spiral about what we have been conditioned to expect athletes to do for our entertainment. #driveby post

[celestial-sapphicss]

reblog and put in tags the prominent musical artists phases in your life

#im just intrigued what music would consume you beyond repairrrrrr #if you're not acting a little crazy while consuming music are you really doing it right???? #bon's queen gifset of sand made me think of this so bon if u see thissss #prior to 2013 i was a bollywood girlieeee and bollywood is almost entirely playback singing which an entire different thinggggh #2013 - enrique iglesias #2014 - maroon 5 #2015 - coldplay #2016 - sam smith #2017 - ed sheeran & calvin harris #2018 - Queen & george ezra #2019 - p!atd (i KNOW) & khalid #2020 - harry styles & idkhbtfm & troye sivan #2021 - billie eilish & conan gray & hozier #2022 to present - taylor swift #vi.txt #the embarrassment i feel when i remember some of the absolute unhinged stuff i have done in some of then phases AAAAAAAA #i have never truly been a normal fangirl smh especially as a fucking teenager #in class 9 my friends and i LEGITIMATELY CUT A BIRTHDAY CAKE for shahid kapoor IN THE CLASSROOM during recess infront of all #he wasn't even really that popular at the time WHICH IS EVEN MORE STUPID GOD THE THINGS I HAVE DONE #and like i wasn't even that big of a fan but my closest best friend at the time was into him hence so was i #although in hindsight it was just because i had started exhibiting gay feelings subconsciously but wE wErE jUsT tHe bEsTeSt oF fRiEnDs ufff #im not wiser of course i can be tempted to be that unhinged again #the reblog game is just an excuse for shitposting this in the tags tbh #idk why i am even making this post tho #only friends has rotted my brain tbh #ALSO in 2015-2017 the internet stand up comedy scene was booming in india and that phase was truly even more embarrassing for me #it was the reason i joined instagram and the CRINGE i feel when i sort my likes and comments from oldest to newest GOODNESSS #truly an insufferable fan rip my mom and my friends #such a core teenage girlhood (genderneutral) experience methinks #if this flops.....you never saw it heheh

[tvitr]

If you remember Morty's Weed Crew you're a real one

Also how are you still following me you absolute MANIAC lmao

#for the uninitiated #it's literally just 'which gym leaders do I think smoke weed' #'and hang around in groups when they can doing stoner things' #eventually it just descended into young male gym leaders i like lmao #but this was like. 2016 level tvitr lol #anyways grusha smonks weed lmao he started because of memes but still does it because of memes and socialising #while i'm at it piers raihan and leon are also in the weed crew too fuck it in fact piers does fuckin everything #like look at him. he's done all the drugs #grusha #headcanons #gym leaders

[livelaughratgirl]

Playing through undertale genocide route, again, to spend hours struggling against undyne only to give up at sans, AGAIN

#this is like the 100th time ive done this since i got the game in fucking 2016

[lowkeyed1]

not sure how i'm supposed to take that, tbh

#covid has done more to negatively impact my faith in people than pretty much anything else #and consider what's been going on in the US since 2016 that's really something #anyway experts can make all the same recommendations #but if 95% of people don't fucking follow them then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

impulse thought of the night. should i make a flight rising sideblog

#trying to regene all my old dragons and its sooo fucking fun but also im indecisive and i wanna make polls about it #also i kiiind of want 2 start making lair lore #like... ive had my account since 2016 and ive done NOTHING with it except just kinda. fuck around #and try to collect all the familiars. lmao #i have TOO MANY COATLS AND SPIRALS. i want more aethers and aberrations and veilspuns #i have ZERO veilspuns this is so fucking sad #ive got plans to regen like 3 of my current dragons into veils but thats soooo fucking expensive.ugh #i wanna tlak about fr moreeeee #ive got a bunch of urls saved i think i might just. try it out #blahblahblah #fr

[cinna-bunnie]

bleh

#having a bad morning tbhhhh #i envy the ppl who grew up here :| it's so much easier to make friends when u went to school w ppl and grew up with them #i have been here since 2016 and was just trying to get stability the first 3 years financially/housing-wise. #and when i was Finally ready to start making friends the pandemic happened. #the closest thing I've had to friends were made thru my ex and when we broke up they ghosted me. #to this day i have not made a single genuine friend and i can't articulate how hurtful that is to think about. #and i get excited when i might have a new friend but do the audhd balancing act where i tone myself down so i don't scare them away #but then idk. maybe i just come off as uninteresting or indifferent. idk what the perception of me is bc no one ever tells me anything lol. #i just get ghosted a lot 😭 it's Literally so much easier to find ppl to fuck than it is to find friends. idk why this is so hard but it's #frustrating. everyone has lukewarm interest in me at best and i have so much to offer when I've opened up to someone. #and i can't rly talk w ppl about how I'm feeling. and i can't do anything but keep trying over and over or else i WILL fr have no friends. #it's just. like. I'm not a normal person w normal circumstances and interacting w people who already have a ton of friends and stuff #going on is hard. there's like this burning desire for companionship in u as the person NEEDING it that no one else has #bc they already have it yk? ur just kind of a footnote on everyone's day/week. u don't have that kind of relationship where #u can Just Go Over or just have ppl over. ppl can hang like once a month maybe. i hate it here but also don't want to leave :| #everything is great except trying to make friends. idk i just wanted to vent lol I'm done ranting and might just delete #but this feeling wells up inside me and some days is so hard to ignore 😭 #'i have been here since 2016 and don't have a single genuine Friend' what the fuck 😭😭 #ik that wfh doesn't Help but i wouldn't be able to get anything done in person in my position lol. plus it's less about where ppl are #and more about how relationships (dont) develop past a certain point. #i have someone I've been talking with probs longest out of everyone so far and we're gonna hang this weekend #but I'm also perpetually afraid I'm gonna scare them away or something and be back at square 1 😭 #and idk im afraid that might translate into seeming shy or something and I'd hate for them to lose interest anyways ._. #but idk how much of that is valid vs my brain just being mean to me and paranoid over my other experiences. #anyways... yea thnx for reading if u did. i feel crazy 😮‍💨

[shipsnthenight]

Soo... tumblr... I finished Burning Shores... ...how y’all doing? 

#because I am doing SO FUCKING FINE. #been screaming it since 2016 #and now they done did it #so yeah #all fine here #im flying #bye #horizon forbidden west #horizon burning shores #man what a monster of a dlc #slow clap #horizon zero dawn #aloy

[locrianking]

living in baltimore is all fun and cool until its a saturday night and your neighbors are throwing a lawn party directly next to your bedroom window with loud ass music while you’re trying to have a breakdown/do homework in peace

#currently barking like a rabid dog #rosie speaks #its literally 2016 club music too :// like its not even good #and its especially annoying when the shit i REALLY need to get done is my music theory hw #you know. the shit i need to listen to music to do. where i need to be able to identify individual pitches and transcribe music #which is REALLY FUCKING HARD with background noise

[lailuhhh]

Last sentence tag game

Tagged by @rosieblogstuff <3

Rules: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog

“Mhmm. I know you will.” He turned to Jack, hand resting on his shoulder as he spoke. “You’re good people Jack. Real good people. Don’t let anyone tell you different.”

@dinosaurswant2rule @benafee @tarantulas4davey @saplesss-tree @appalachianapologies @bold-and-nosy

#this fic is fucking me up #I’m giving it feels #it’s giving me feels #it’s not done yet #😩😩 #but ya know #lailuh speaks #macgyver #macgyver 2016 #lailuh writes #hello thank you i love you #tag game

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#some reflections on 2022 as a year bc im bored and tired mostly prob bc my hormones r fucked up #ill b real. it was not a great one. not the worst i guess. that award goes to 2016 when i was a junior in undergrad and i was spiraling #and i did kno y it was happening so it was scary. now at least i kno why mostly but i think ive experienced the most soul rattling cosmic #despair in this year just bc i pushed and pushed to the point of destruction and i mean i have a history of doing that but i never wanted #to like quit before like as in fucking quit my job and just fucking break things. its weird. and ive got that panic feeling now #its the same one i get when ive been in therapy for a while and nothings helping. and i keep thinking: help me help me someone make this #stop bc i dont want to b like this anymore and i dont kno what to do. bc i was hoping a break would heal me and that would b enough but #the fears been creaping in the past few days bc deadlines and projects snd i havent done anything i need to and i still just want to give #up. ugh. im probably just feeling melodramatic bc i overextended socially yesterday. but idk what to do. hope for a better year i guess #at least i kno i wont b living where i am in 8 to 10 months. so change is coming but things r still up in the air #and i mean 2023 wont b off to a great start bc i have to go to lunch with my grandparents and i dont want to #why? bc i think theyre bad ppl. and itll just b me. and i dont kno for how long ill b there. #my last day home and i have to spend time with them. i shoulf b working on a manuscript. i should b doing that now #but instead im laying here trying not to cry. i just wanna go to sleep. less than 48hrs and ill b back to the desert #feeling a little better maybe but idk all is not well #so yea hopefully 2023 will b a bit better #unrelated

[gemharvest]

ACTUALLY since I'm into Steven Universe again I think it is so funny that one of my strongest memories from my DeviantArt days is when I redrew that one thing from Barn Mates (Steven's drawing) and posted it and had this random fucking guy come onto it and tell me it looked bad but then backed off when I told them it was a faithful redraw??? LMFAO????

#ramblings #img attached for those who didnt watch the show cuz im not making u go to google for that #not that its bad its like super charming and was food for me as a lapidot shipper circa 2016 just like. not worth googling for #ANYWAYS its so fucking funny because like. dude even if i had done that myself all original Who Care. but like- #-it was 2016 in the peak of cringe culture and people thinking they had the right to make fun of smthn if they thought it didnt look good #second only to when i found out someone had put an old Tattletail drawing i made in a cringe comp #<- which has since been taken down and im kinda more upset that its gone bc like. its so funny someone felt the need to call a- #-one off tattletail valentines doodle cringe so bad that they put it in a whole video. bless

[wetpapert0wel]

i honestly kinda feel bad for gaiaonline as a website lmao. back in the late 2000s it was Booming. the server lobbies for some of the online stuff were Constantly packed- i think there were like. 2 million users at one point???- & 100k gold used to be a lot of money. now it's pocket change at best & there's an average of 3k people online

#did a lil bit of reading and of course as with anything. corporations are to blame for the downfall of something that was beautiful lmao. #apparently there was like. a couple ownership trades or w/e. they got bought out in the 2010s ig? and were bought back in 2016 #the corps fucked with inflation and now the cheapest you can sell something for is Ten Million coins. that used to be a LOT of money. #the inflation thing is so fucking stupid. thinking about it makes me angry lmao #neopets has inflation too!!!!!! and it's not even 1/8th as bad!!!!!!!!! #food is a little more expensive than i remember. but games also give you a LOT more np than i remember too. #gaiaonline needs to take notes from neopets LOL #uninstalled waterfox by mistake now i gotta find it again </3 #been using the ancient vers of waterfox that gaia recommended for their games. its DISGUSTINGLY laggy sometimes but it gets the job done. #orignaletti