#i believe i’ve talked about this

[daddyiluvhim]

Do you think he eats 🐱 good?

thank you for this productive conversation opener 🙏🏼

you all are welcome to debate

#i believe i’ve talked about this #too many times #i don’t think i need to anymore #not in public at least 😭

[mortispoxi]

Seeing Twitter users recommending the People Make Games documentary as a good way to get insight on the issue is so….

I know, I’m always extremely disappointed whenever I come across someone who thinks it’s the end all be all explanations regarding the Studio ZA/UM situation.

Recommending that video always comes with a heavy caveat from me that the person needs to stop around the 40 minute mark since the interviewer shows a very clear bias that’s unbecoming of a journalist.

Regardless, now that more people are finding out about these layoffs, which might take out members of the studio that have been there since the beginning, it could finally help smack some sense into those Twitter users that actually thought, FOR SOME REASON, Rostov, Kurvitz, and Hindpere were lying for shits and giggles rather than seeing what's ACTUALLY going on which is that the investors have a very obvious agenda against the real wronged party. Hopefully this'll also open their eyes to how the People Make Games video fed into this twisted narrative that Kurvitz was somehow at fault/responsible for the theft of his own IP, but that might be asking too much from their concrete brains. Here's hoping though!

#disco elysium #studio za/um #za/um #people make games #and I’m not even getting into Bratt’s response to the criticism he got #this man deleted so many YouTube comments that pointed out the inconsistencies and bias #it’s such a reddit conspiracy theory but at the time I briefly thought Kompus paid him off to push the narrative in his favor #now I’ve talked about this before in a post from almost a year ago #but i truly believe Bratt’s heart was initially in the right place but let his anger cloud his judgement #after kurvitz rightfully denied him a way to wrap up his video in a neat little bow cause he knew the studio would use his words against hi #something in Bratt must've snapped cause all the blame got pushed on Kurvitz for no reason other than he felt slighted by his response #it's kinda tainted PMG's work for me b/c moving forward I'll have doubt if the story truly is being accurately reported #my response #mp

[visenyaism]

what are your thoughts on nettles?

understanding nettles and criston cole as narrative foils is the key to unlocking the secret good fire and blood that is about unpacking ways in which the targaryen dynasty maintained control through class, gender, and state violence. and also dragon magic.

#asoiaf #i have a notes app essay about it and it’s incredibly not cohesive. but i believe this #no i’ve talked abt nettles a lot in the past this is just the thing i haven’t said out loud yet #love her. queen of escaping the narrative

[clementine-kesh]

hmmm if i can say something potentially controversial i do think at least some of the hate directed towards ezri is rooted in misogyny. even on here like, i saw someone’s tags a while back expressing frustration at how people love jadzia for her “tumblr cool” traits and yet don’t look at her any deeper than that and i think that plays into it too. ezri as a person is far messier than jadzia, she makes a lot of mistakes, you can’t just push her off as the fun flirty bi scientist like a lot of people do with jadzia (which is problematic as well but that’s a post for another time). i’ll always be the first to say that the ds9 writers did ezri tremendously dirty but she’s also fascinating character in her own right and people should recognize that!

#i believe it was @leohttbriar’s tags i’m talking about here but i could be wrong #anyways i’ve been rotating them in my brain for a while now #star trek #ds9

[sheltershock]

Currently thinking about the symbolism of orange with Sasha’s character. How it’s a metaphor present both in Sasha’s mind and lab/office of having a very cold exterior(black/white or greys and blues) and having the smallest pop of color in the interior specifically with the color orange.

The first obvious appearance of this is in his level. When he pops out of the trapdoor/hatch in his mind there’s orange light streaming out from wherever that portal leads to deer within. This is then mirrored in the sequel seen in his office, which has the same cube design with geometric framing. The general feel of the lab is cold and almost inhuman in a way. There’s no windows and all the light is artificial. But the small corner of his office is brightly lit and warm on the inside. And the couch and pillows on top are orange along with bits of the rug on the floor.

It’s also in his outfit. The dark pants, shoes, gloves, glasses and coat cover up the sweater he’s wearing that striped with tans and browns, earthy colors and a less saturated orange. Three places, that’s a pattern.

Then there’s the detail of where the orange is, in comfortable things. It’s the surrounding light for wherever Sasha’s hanging out when chaos is absolutely rocking his entire world. It’s in his turtleneck sweater, something you usually wear to combat cold. It’s in the couch cushions and pillows, something you usually interact with to talk a break or rest in.

It’s such an obvious metaphor. Sasha is such an intimidating figure initially, cold and detached from the world and others. But then you actually spend a little time with him and he’s actually a dork who cares a lot about the people he’s close with. The most glaring time is when he calls Lili ‘darling’ that one time in RoR, completely unprompted. For most the jet ride he’s barely acknowledging that she’s crying her eyes out and mostly has the air of “don’t make me turn this car around.” But then just out of nowhere when he gets good news about Truman’s location he just pulls out the “I think we might know where he is, darling” while clearly putting on the softest tone he can most definitely but imitating Milla. And it just shows that he’s been aware the entire time and just saying something now while trying so hard to be comforting is so much. Fantastic characterization.

I love all the small details in this series, even with something like color and where it appears and how that links up with the character themselves. Just wow. I love the writing here.

#psychonauts #psychonauts 2 #psychonauts rhombus of ruin #sasha nein #I’ve just had this rolling around for a while #there’s this one post about the orange in his office and how Milla clearly must have stepped in and I like that post #but I’ve noticed this detail for a minute and I fully believe Sasha chose the orange himself #its a reoccurring thing for his character so yeah #maybe you can speculate that orange is sasha’s favorite color. it would be a cool headcanon #I’ve imagined before that oleander and him are having a tiff and oleander is talking about how they’re fantastic friends and sasha just goe #”okay. what’s my favorite color?” “….blue. No! It’s black isn’t it?” “Black isn’t a color Morry it’s a *shade*”

[communistkenobi]

authoritarianism as a term mildly annoyed me before but now reading international politics literature it’s driving me insane

#nobody ever defines it or even thinks about it it’s a completely accepted and unremarkable term #and it’s also load bearing. like it does so much work in the literature I’ve read that I don’t know how liberal #scholars would be able to talk about anything they believe without it

[angelbesideme]

oh he was feeling it

Tong Thanayut | Kinnporsche World Tour

#kinnporschesource #kinnporsche world tour #tong thanayut #kinnporsche cast #asiandramanet #kinnporscheedit #thai actor #kpedit #HE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i’ve been screaming about this nonstop since it happened #i was literally feeling so attacked i’m still feeling very attacked this is a personal attack to ME i can’t believe he did THAT #but also i can and i’m very thankful cause i mean not to sound whipped or anything but look at him LOOK #idk how the fans managed to handle that up close i’d have proposed for real #like look at us in the back he was about to risk it all and honestly same man i totally get it #okay i’m going to stop now but yes tong 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 #if you ever make anything about him or simply talk about him or whatever tag me #i was called the token tankhun/tong stan after all and that’s absolutely 100% correct #i’m not tagging anyone cause idk who wants to be tagged in tong stuff but lmk #(if these are too yellow pretend they aren’t) #gifs #mine #flashing tw

[fastidious-and-a-mess]

has anyone else thought about how “abernant” is extremely similar to “aberrant.” to be aberrant is to “deviate from the usual or natural type, to stray from the right or normal way,” (merriam-webster). anyone else thinking about The Implications for the abernant sisters. hello? anyone??

#if purposeful (and i really believe it is knowing what i do about siobhan) then this is #a Delicious piece of meta characterization and commentary that i’ve not seen anybody talk about at all #the abernant sisters #aelwyn abernant #adaine abernant #adaine fantasy high #fantasy high #dimension 20

[sixstones]

I CANT BELIEVE IT POKÉMON Z IS FINALLY REAL!!!!!

#”literally no one expected this” #I DID. #YESTERDAY I WAS TALKING ABOUT WANTING A KALOS LEGENDS GAME BUT THOUGHT IT WAS SUPER UNLIKELY #I WINNNNN #omg omg I can’t believe it I’ve waited for a new Kalos game for so long #creator rambles #Pokémon #Pokemon legends Z

[dollya-robinprotector]

I know I have a habit of always keeping things to myself… But why am I still surprised when people don’t know what I know?

#This applies to so many things in my life #this is so incredibly unhealthy #toxic even #yet i can’t help but keep doing it #and now my friends too #those who said the loudest ‘you have to talk to us if we did something you’re not comfortable with so we can come to terms’ #turned out to be bottling the hugest amount of distraught then explode without warning #now everything is in pieces #and there’s nothing that could be mended anymore #thought we had something special you know #then why… why can you sabotage everything so quick and run away so fast #why you do this to us? #what were we to you? #You hurt us all and even yourself with your ego saying we don’t have to care about you #but what were we if not friends? #why? #please I can’t continue like this #I desperately aware that things will never be the same and I can never see you as the same friend I’ve known for years #but I still refuse to believe this is really happening #it’s like sand #the more I hold it the harder I clenched my hand they would still eventually fall through my fingers gaps #are we not friends? #why? Why you did it? #You said nothing and yet expect everyone to know how you feel and to sympathize with you and your reasons #I mean we could #we totally could if you just let us know just the tiniest hint you know? #so why things turned out this way? #where has the years gone? #will I ever stop grieving the past if things keep turning out like this? #what does the future hold anyway and where’s my motivation to grasp it?

[raaorqtpbpdy]

Okay I’m thriving on all the Marie/Jordan posting, it is absolutely deserved, they’re amazing together, but I wish there was a little more love for Emma/Sam too because “I don’t remember you, but I do believe you” fucking broke me.

Imagine you’ve spent years questioning reality, surrounded by people who constantly remind you that you can’t believe your own eyes. You finally meet someone outside of that group and you’re convinced she’s a hallucination, except she passes your test, and she’s sweet, and she laughs at your jokes even though you have a really off-beat sense of humor, and she matches it, and you love her like you’ve never loved anyone. And she promises to stay with you after everyone else you’ve ever loved has abandoned you, whether intentionally or not. And then you start to freak out and you know your scaring her, because she’s seen you rip people apart with your bare hands, but she’s not running. She’s not even trying to make you calm down or be rational or stop. Instead she asks “How can I help you?” She wants to help you. And you run. And she saves you. She stops you from doing something you’ll regret. She’s the first one who’s done that without violating your mind.

And then she loses all her memories of you. She looks at you without an ounce of recognition, and you think you’ve lost her, even if you swear to get her her memories back. And you’re alone again, and you’re hallucinating. You’re hallucinating her. You can’t trust reality. You can’t trust yourself. You can’t believe what you see or hear or touch. Then she comes back again, but this time she’s real and you ask if she remembers you and she says no. “I don’t remember you, but I do believe you.”

I can’t even, okay, I’m losing my mind over here.

#gen v #sam riordan #emma myers #gen v spoilers #I could do a whole post from Emma’s side too #the way they both effortlessly validated and comforted each other #the way she broke her promise to her mom and got big for the first time in years just to save him #the way he only got the courage to leave because of her #the way they talk to each other and care for each other and naturally click #the way she went to find him based on a t-shirt and a half-remembered conversation even when she had no idea who he was #I can’t okay I just can’t #I’ve seen people talk about the ‘i don’t remember you but I do believe you line’ #but no one has brought up ‘how can I help you’ #which hit me SO hard ngl #anyway #I’m normal I’m normal about them (lying)

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

#anti intellectualism #media #movies #books #music #critical thinking #my friend who primarily listens to one very popular band once said that people who listen to obscure music are annoying and pretentious #which rubbed me the wrong way because 1 she knows that I listen to obscure music and 2 it’s such a cowardly consumerist take. anyone can #make music and hey a lot of the people who do make GOOD music. and this goes for all *obscure* media #this post was mostly inspired by people talking about Barbie and those anti pick me girls like the pick nobody girls who insist thinking is #for boys and having fun with an empty brain is for girls. Greta gerwig is an artist. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I know it has a deeper #message than haha cute pink! I’ve seen the summaries about the true meaning. the pinkness and popularity doesn’t negate the narritive. #though in the notes I saw a lot of tumblristas comunistas shitting on the film for being one big ad that people *fell for* which tbh is #tbh almost as anti-intellectual. don’t get me wrong they milked this film to sell hella shit but I don’t believe kids who play with dolls #are the target audience as these people claim. Barbie is a culturally iconic symbol almost archetypical of societal expectations for women #you say barbie people think unblinking perfect plastic pink girly. reminds me of the poem The Last Mojave Indian Barbie. yeah yeah you all #hate brands but this one carries undeniable significance and makes for a powerful literary device. it’s been used many times before #sorry for writing a tag essay about a film I haven’t even seen but I’m tired of internet people focusing so much on proving others wrong #that they end up oversimplifying everything just as much as the other person. god I saw people doing this to Nimona saying transphobes were #looking too deep into her character and they’re reactionary clowns for making that jump. like for once the transphobes are right. she is #trans. it’s a queer story. and irl the first people who notice queerness are the bigots who can tell you’re different. sick owns telling #them the story’s not that deep is harmful and it’s like they’re ignoring the real message on purpose. okay enough rambling hehe! thanks #barbie #nimona

[all-hail-the-witcher]

YOU MET BEN COOK?????

I MET BEN COOK

he was very nice! and i was not expecting him to stage door cause he used to not but he did! i was literally shaking it was so insane i don’t know how i was able to even string together a coherent sentence, i’m not sure i even was coherent tbh. but! katya and i told him we were friends because of newsies and he said “oh classic!” and i asked him to sign my newsies tour playbill from Nine Fucking Years Ago and he looked positively elated. he was confused where the theater was and i had to explain to him that i convinced my parents to drive like 8 hours round trip to fucking connecticut to go see the show back in the day. and then we took a picture with him and he was so nice and wonderful and i’m still not fucking over it. what does one do when they meet someone who very directly changed the entire trajectory of their life? i wanted to tell him that but i think i would have been absolutely a bumbling mess. as it was my hands were fucking Shaking and afterwards we met three more people at the stage door and i think i said thank you to them when they told me thank you for coming so katya and i made the executive decision to Dip and then we were still so fucking flustered that we voluntarily walked through times fucking square. i don’t really consciously remember doing much else after that, it felt like a genuine out of body experience. now i’m forever going to have to explain when people ask if i’ve ever been star struck that yes i was and it was for ben cook.

i tried to imagine explaining the whole thing to me nine years ago and i think she would be very happy to know that i’m not exactly where i thought i would end up but everything turned out alright in the end

#the funniest part of this was actually i told my sister i was bringing my newsies playbill and she was like #can’t believe you’re going to 1. think he’s going to stage for and 2. give him a nine year old newsies playbill i’m embarrassed for you #she was VERY WRONG #and i texted my mom afterwards and also she remembered who ben cook was despite it being like a very good 5 years since i’ve talked about #him to her #which i think says a lot about my newsies phase #i cannot believe i met him tbh #also he dances besutifully #like legitimately #ahh #AAAA #saph screams #ben cook #newsies #i don’t think i’ll ever be fucking over this

[communistkenobi]

I’m curious if other communists have like a religious relationship to their political beliefs for lack of a better word? That’s not a good word to use but I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m solidly atheist but all of the feelings and emotions religious people talk about, revelation and spiritual connection to community and so on are all things I experience pretty regularly and I interpret those feelings as fundamentally communist. the way I take in and absorb information in particular feels revelatory in a religious sense. I’m pretty sure this is fairly common with MLs but I’m curious about it in general

#disabling rbs because I don’t want this to leave my blog #I’m using religious in a deliberately loaded way because I lack the language for alternatives #I joke frequently with my friend that communism is the religion of science but like I do unironically believe that lol #also not claiming marxism is ‘just another religion’ I do not think that’s true or useful to think of it in those terms #but if you take political theology seriously the belief in a socialist state is like the modern version of a desire for religious authority #anyway sorry extremely complicated things that I’m not remotely expanding on enough #I’ve just been thinking about it a lot recently #it’s like a totalising force in my life and shapes the way I interpret and understand the world and my relationship to it #I remember reading marx for the first time and in a very real sense I ‘converted’ to being a communist #I need to read more Benjamin because he goes into like jewish mythology and stuff in his work #but like him talking about the divine violence of the state made it click for me and is partly responsible for me making this post

[lowcallyfruity]

SEBEK AND EPEL SIT TOGETHER AT LUNCHHHHH

GREEN APPLE SEBEPEL WINNNNN WINNNNN

Yes Jack is there too but this isn’t about him

#in my head Epel is one of the few people that doesn’t want to kill Sebek Everytime he speaks and actually tolerates his existence #like I feel like characters always react to Sebek negatively but Epel has always been like 👍 when it comes to Sebek??? #at least from what I’ve seen????? #ANYWAYS #I think they’re the best of friends ever in canon #like idk. they enjoy each others company #Epel doesn’t mind Sebek and Sebek respects Epel a lot #it also makes sense why Jack is in their table too!! #I believe jack is also one of the few people Sebek respects and nfnfndnffn #though I’m pretty sure he has spoken negatively about Sebek too tho #he’s also Epel’s friend so yeah #like I genuinely think Epel is like one of the very very very few people that are nice to Sebek 😭😭 #ANYWAYSSSS #SEBEPEL NATION WINNNNN #<333 #twst #twisted wonderland #💛!me talking💀 #disney twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #epel felmier #jack howl #sebepel #sebek x epel #epel x sebek #sebeppy…..i love them…

[offkilterkeys]

Writing John is so hard but I have to make him interact with Jasprose for a prolonged period it’s good for him it’s whag he needs.

Also I opened a doc with like 100 words in it and this was the first sentence and I don’t remember writing that but thanks Rose.

#homestuck #homestuck fanfic #john egbert #jasprosesprite^2 #rose lalonde #the second chunk is technically from Dave’s pov but I ain’t tagging him #anyway I’ve been going through my old wips #looking over the antiquated homosuck fic #and remembering how fun it is to write hahaha #I’m such a “John and Jasprose are from their original friend group and should talk about it” guy you’ll never believe