#i know i know it's all a farce

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

i hate rishi sunak as much as the next person but i do feel bad for him having to read from the gospels at the coronation........ they keep saying that "all faiths and beliefs" are included but our Hindu prime minister still has to do a reading from the Christian bible huh

#i know i know it's all a farce #but i am struck by just how intensely christian it is despite the constant claims of multifaith considerations #like. do they not see how intensely hypocritical it is to keep saying that charles will serve the british people of all faiths and beliefs #and then immediately say ''in the name of jesus christ'' #i have such a secular existence that i do sometimes forget how seriously christian the institutions of this country are #it's weird #and i'm saying that as someone who is simply not religious at all #i'm sure it's much worse for people who follow a religion other than christianity #🧃 #uk politics

[mortiscausa]

i can't stop thinking how funny it would be if gareth's brothers did in fact recognise him and were just like 'well clearly he has his reasons so let's all be good big bros and pretend we don't know him' and then spend the next few weeks before he goes off on his quest pretending extremely badly that they have never ever met this kitchen boy before nope not at all even while other knights are looking at them and looking at gareth and going 'hmmm'

#gawain can't resist giving weird brotherly pep talks every time he passes him like 'keep up the good work kid! we're all rooting for you!' #and then turns to ragnelle to whisper loudly 'that was ok that was normal and convincing right' while she rolls her eyes #gaheris bumps into him in a corridor and startles like a deer and is like 'hahaha random kitchen boy i certainly have never met before what #fine weather we are having in these parts hahaha i shall be leaving now through the door over there good bye' and then #walks into a broom cupboard and has to awkwardly back out again while gareth stands there #holding a broom that he was just about to put back in the broom cupboard #agravaine nearly manages to pass by without incident while gareth is scrubbing floors but at the last second brotherly instinct takes over #and he kicks the bucket of suds over yelling 'you missed a spot dickwad!' before sprinting away #gareth is just 'wow my brothers are bigger freaks and weirdos than i remember i don't want to be associated with these losers' #meanwhile arthur is like 'kay can you please just tell them all that you know who he is because i cannot take this farce much longer' #kay: ... oh so now im not allowed to have fun am i? fucking tyrant

[tigergendermoved]

I don't like DDLC'S MC very much on a very petty level but I still wish there was more fic or meta speculation about him. I'm not interested in him as a character, though, because he's barely a character. Literally by the game's standards, he has no inherent "character file." He is the SCRIPT, if anything. All of his thoughts and actions occur within the little text bubble at the bottom of the screen, and so do the characters'. He barely appears in CGs, has no body sprite, and it is through his observations and his thoughts and his call to make choices that the game progresses.

I think that specific trait of MC is fascinating, especially given how deep reaching Monika's manipulation is. During Act 1 he is active, he is talkative, he has a definitive (and yet inconsistent, based on which girl(s) you're speaking to) personality. He has thoughts about just about everything going on. And yet in Act 2 he is reduced to dust. He stops having any kind of commentary and he almost never remarks upon the horrible occurrences around him unless prompted or unless it is something that could plausibly happen in the realm of reality, like Yuri abandoning him for 10 minutes and Natsuki collapsing on him. But even then he's still significantly muted. Yuri and Natsuki have a horrible fight and the only kind of response he tries to throw out is co-opted by Monika. He witness Yuri declare her love for him and talk about how she would love to pull his skin open and crawl inside of him and the only thing he has to say is "yes" or "no" when she asks if he likes her back. And then he physically cannot move or speak or react because the world is so far gone that Yuri's death has damaged him, the script, so much that all he hears is gibberish coming from her lifeless mouth.

And like... that's neat to me. I like that by the end of Act 2 the script is so off the rails and so far gone from reality that MC can no longer really function as a person, because the script is barely functioning. He stops reacting to anything happening around him and most of the conversations he has are just the girls talking at him. Monika has to literally rewrite the script and force Yuri and Natsuki to say things to further her agenda or keep the scene rolling. MC had a clear and very human response to Sayori's death because it was a plausible but horrible (and not forced) event that could happen naturally. Yuri's death was so jarring and away from the scope of the natural order of his world that MC (and Yuri, by extension) can only sit frozen and broken until Natsuki and Monika show up to force new progress.

Like Monika's effect on the girls has been talked to death and it is an interesting topic but I also think what she unintentionally did to the POV character of the game is also something neat. It really adds to the feeling of the world in DDLC being hollow. The MC is a half-character who can only react in incredibly predictable ways, and when the world stops being predictable, he stops being anything more than a walking camera for Monika to speak into.

#ddlc #this isnt even really a character analysis this is just my vague jumbled thoughts on this guy #ive always found mc interesting even if he irritates me #when i was bored and a middle schooler i used to imagine this self insert of mine in his place #what choices would she make if she knew the ddlc world was a farce? what choices would she make if she didnt? #would she be beholden to the game structure and choices written in the game's script? #could she change anything? how would she feel if she knew the girls in a context where they were her normal friends? #these scenarios were of course some random shit i thought about to make PE less awful #but it made me think of how horrible and strange it would be in mc's position #and subsequently how mc himself kind of never gets the chance to BE in his own position in a way #he is fully beholden to the whims of monika and whatever the girls around him are doing at all times in act 2 #even in act 1 his personality and motivations fluctuates constantly depending on which girl u are talking to #mc is the script and the script is mc. he never had a chance to change anything and neither did you #the only way you can do anything in that world is to be a character a .chr a person. and mc is not a person in any meaningful sense #on the topic of 'hey wouldnt it be fucked up to actually experience ddlc as a Thinking Person' #'to your eternity' (anonymous author) on ao3 specifically chapter 1 of it is a cool fic based on that thought #anyways. i know mc mostly just shuts up because it would be lame if every time yuri's eyes bug out he's like 'jeepers creepers!!!' #but i think his dwindling presence makes him an interesting non-character ❤️ #doki doki literature club

[larrylimericks]

13Jul22

With scenes that showcase his bedmates, ‘Massive Orgy!!’ is how most fixate; But it’s just pillow fights And little spoon rights And one private, romantic, male date.

#larry #harry #harry styles #harry’s house #late night talking #harry mv #hiiiiiiiii #i know i’ve been mia #i was traveling for harry #and then my account got terminated #and then i got covid #and all the HL content has been pretty overwhelming #and tbh i’m just over the stunting #and for the first time the daily limerick started to feel more like a chore than a delight #so I’ve just been chillin for a bit #but still very much tuned in #and very much still larrying #so late night talking is bringing me out of hiatus #even disregarding the video’s potential larryness #the whole video plays up the farce that is his public love life #his bedmates are literally on exhibit or in the spotlight or being paraded around london #or he’s in a comically oversized bed of rotating sleeping partners #all while he sleeps and is in an alternate universe #and his waking life proves to be much different #limerick-hs #july 13 #2022 #would just like to be on record saying i loved the pink and yellow and black and whitefit from antwerp #also anne wearing the x factor shirt at manchester 2 destroyed me

[dennisboobs]

the thing about dennis is that he is doomed to have to choose between a relationship with someone who doesn't know him, someone who doesn't love him, or someone who doesn't care about him.

#your guess who's who #wildcard thrown in there (random women) #ada speaks #i am indeed including both of my ships here #like being completely real here #he has hindered his relationships. but its to a point where i dont think he could ever break out of it on his own #and no one really cares enough to try to help #everyone who DOES know dennis still sees him as whatever persona he's crafted #and its to a point where if he is genuinely vulnerable with them #they see that and assume it's some sort of farce #he's trying to step on them. make them underestimate him. manipulate them in some way #or they'll see him as inhuman and emotionless or *deserving* of humiliation and take it as an opportunity to shame him #dennis is so. so fucking soft inside but he can't possibly hope to let the others see that now #not after this long #he's 47 years old. he's tired and lonely and sad and he's at a point where he does want to have genuine relationships #but how can you go about breaking down what you've spent years building #when all you have is a hammer and you know knocking out the supports means you'll be crushed under the rubble

[musical-chick-13]

Can somebody please explain to me what the appeal of vampires is.

#I'm genuinely curious #people seem to go absolutely feral over this concept and I want to KNOW I want to UNDERSTAND #and there are some really excellent vampire aus that I love and I want to love them MORE because I want to GET IT™ #because all I see are like...societally conventionally attractive people with fangs. who maybe (depending on The Lore™) #can't go out in the sun. and that just...doesn't resonate with me? #like I understand metaphors for 'othering' and the concept of monstrosity but I feel like that gets a little lost if there isn't anything #actually UNPALATABLE about them. like if they just look like what we culturally have idealized in human appearance then how can #they serve as a metaphor for ostracization or being misunderstood? #is it primarily an aesthetic thing? is it a *danger is sexy* thing? #but ordinary humans can be plenty dangerous too (see: 90% of the female characters I'm obsessed with) #so is it in the sense of you can vicariously experience that danger and heightened emotion in a situation that's removed from reality #so it feels less overwhelming when you're watching/reading the piece of fiction??? #like I have seen this used effectively as a metaphor for marginalization (undead murder farce) and an exploration of how society #defines a 'monster' (shiki) but that doesn't seem to be the way most people or works engage with this concept #is it just that people like when characters are covered in blood because I DO understand that one lmao #I just feel like vampires have been branded as a Key Aspect of Bisexual/Gay Culture and I feel like I am on a separate plane of existence #because It Is Not Clicking For Me #(tbh I feel like there are a lot of Quintessential Queer Experiences™ that don't apply to me but. that's a whole separate thing.) #ANYWAY would love to hear people's thoughts! #I am cooking up a Meta Post™ about fandom reaction to the concept of monstrosity and I want to gather as much information as possible

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

223. Luv (1967)

#luv #luv (1967) #2023filmgifs #my gifs #lovely aquarians #i don't know how i have watched THIRTY-SIX (36) #Jack Lemmon #fillums and have NEVER seen him look this HAWT #that first gif #that whole scene just mesmerised me #HIS EYES #did i even KNOW his eyes were that colour?! #it's the combo of unruly greying hair unshaved and touchable casual clothes #that's what it is #and that hollow at the base of his throat #ugh it's diabolical #and him being all emo and mournful i love it so much #my fellow Feb Aquarian #other than that this movie proved once again #that i just do not get along with Sixties farce #or any farce #with the odd exception #which i can't even remember now #also yes i could not resist that queer gif #his eyebrow made me bork laugh #and yes Jackie you are totally queer #always have been #i did cheekily sequence the gifs like that yes #hey he made acting choices #i'm just pointing them out

[rickybaby]

idk if it's berger going to bat for daniel per se: he's backed red bull putting lando in the seat every time someone asked him who should replace checo

I know he never made any reference to Daniel and he’s just speaking from the position of his previous relationship with redbull but it’s funny that the man just happens to be his gf’s dad

#I remember reading another article where Berger commented that US races are a farce because they’re all just dramatics #and take away from the actual racing #which you know felt a bit pointed given the whole horsey mchorsey thing #anon.txt

[arctic-hands]

Related to my tags on the Irish American reblog, how long have bastardized "Celtic" crosses been neo-Nazi symbols? I wasn't aware of this stupid use until I was an adult and my father was equally unaware until I learned about it, and in our Celtic (American) Pride we often used Celtic cross imagery in decor and accessories. Granted these usually did resemble actually woven/knotted crosses (which by no means meant they were authentic. At best a few came from local Celtic Pride fests–which as I said in those tags was plagued by Confederate and Nazi imagery), but most of them came from like JoAnn's or Michael's or Walmart whenever Saint Paddy's Day rolled around. That said, the woven pattern of a Celtic cross is a bitch to draw especially when you have yet to nurture or be nurtured in any art skills, so when my borderline-Gothic ass would doodle graveyards in my school notebooks I would often doodle simplified Celtic crosses as grave markers, which unfortunately just meant a simple cross with a simple circle in it, unfortunately reminiscent of the neo-Nazi symbol.

Me and my family were staunchly Indiana liberals (to be fair that wasn't that shocking in our democrat enclave city) and have only become more leftist as time goes on, so those who knew me well would know I didn't mean anything by it, but like I have to wonder/worry that those who didn't know me well (like most of my classmates. I was pretty lonely in high school) or people who would briefly visit my home or come across us while we were wearing Celtic pins that day or something came away with the wrong impression. I'm especially dismayed at the thought that the kids I knew to be actual neo-Nazis might thought I was one of them

For the record I left school in like twenty eleven and had been doodling graveyards for years and wearing Celtic imagery for even longer. I can't really find out when the "Celtic" cross became a dogwhistle

#Celtic cross #Celtic Pride #tbh when going to those fairs it was under the pretense of being (mostly) Scottish #it was all a farce my dad leaned into because he was adopted by a Scots-Appalachian man with a Scottish name going back to an actual clan #BUT i was never supposed to know he wasn't my biological grandfather (even tho it was pretty damned obvious) #so my dad played heavily on Scottish pride #that said we had Irish ancestry from other branches of the family so we indulged in Irish pride and imagery too #plus we just felt the knotted crosses were pretty and cool looking #anyway i/my dad did end up having more Irish genetics than Scottish pending our DNA tests #the Scottish is there but the Irish is more. especially in me because my bio maternal grandfather was also Irish Appalachian #(i have some Ulster Scots too but less so. which is more surprising because it's more common for 'Irish' Appalachians to be Ulster instead) #somewhat-Gothic because i usually aligned with goths in personality and depression but rarely wore black #i usually wore boys graphic tees with stupid sayings and memes on them #at least until the obscenely stupid dress code went into affect (search my blog for that if you're interested lol it's a saga) #i was lumped in with the goths for lack of better placement anyway but arguably i was more boy scene #my high school didn't really have cliques or anything strictly categorical so like goths would hang with 'preps' and such anyway #but i did have more commonality with Goths and most of my few friends were #anyway I'm losing the thread #rambling in the tags

[gretano8]

[thinking about them intensifies]

#valorant #wip #nanobomb #i actually dont know how to draw digitally #its all a farce

[thyfrankie]

so it seems like people love to talk about the final scene in goncharov like it’s some girlboss slay queen #feminism win just because katya is the one to pull the trigger, and those people are completely film-illiterate. no critical thinking whatsoever. katya isn’t “reclaiming her power” by shooting goncharov in his office, she’s just as much of a victim of the cyclical violence inherent in mob life and the general cultures of russia and italy at the time as goncharov and andrey … the thing about goncharov is that they’re all prisoners of the system and the squabbles for power that they engage in are ultimately meaningless and absurd. that’s the POINT. yes katya becomes the head of the mafia after killing her husband but it isn’t worth anything. somebody else will pull the trigger on her eventually. that’s why the last shot of the film is of goncharov’s grandfather clock. what seems like a “victory” that was fought so hard for is really just another inevitable turn of the wheel

#goncharov #unreality #it just really bothers me to see her reduced to her body like that… #yes she’s a powerful hashtag girlboss but really thag power is a farce and she KNOWS IT THEY ALL DO #and the audience knows too but it’s more comfortable to act like it isn’t true. exactly like the characters #god I love this movie #film theory #goncharov (1973) #frankieposts

[goyurim]

Hello Moon, its been a while since we talked, hope you are doing well and receiving many blessings. The world is hell rn but nevertheless I hope the small hapinnesses you encounter give you hope 🩷

hey carola 💖 thank you for sending this in, you're so sweet 🥺 i've had this in my inbox for a while bc i truly didn't know how to respond to it... the world really is hell right now and every feeling of happiness i get is somehow always riddled with privilege and guilt... nonetheless i have no right to give up hope so thank you for the kind reminder 💖 i hope you're taking care of yourself and i'm sending you hugs and warmth to help you get through this cold winter 🫂🌻

#so many people that i trusted have shown their true colours in the past few weeks #they were so supportive of peace and justice in theory #and even curious about my religion until now #it was all a farce. as long as i support their ideals im a friend but if i say smth like. i think genocide is bad. suddenly im the enemy? #its so scary how people are losing their jobs for upholding morality like i know im a coward for not being more outspoken about this #but im literally terrified. of the way people have been reacting to this around me so far #i remember when 9/11 happened around the time i was born and all my childhood my parents had to deal with being misunderstood and labelled #and now im experiencing that all over again except this time im not young enough to ignore it #and to think that my experience isnt even a fraction of what palestinians have been facing for generations..... #ya Allah.... have mercy on them.... #grant them with the dignity that has been stripped away from them #shower the martyrs with blessings and give strength and hope to the living to carry on despite this seemingly endless nightmare #💌 #tinyleia #carola 💓

[nonameidentified]

Carmilla is ... well Carmilla

You know, the lesbian vampire from the novel also named Carmilla

I know very little about Carmilla (the novel) apart from the general story but still it shouldn't have taken this long to figure out.

I feel stupid on so many levels.

It is so obvious.

Ok, so bye.

#undead murder farce #vampires #ok i'm stupid #carmilla #i need to read the novel but i'm lazy #pls help #i am horrible at forming sentences #crying in the corner of shame #Tumblr is just all my thoughts that I want share but don't know how to share and just a rambling #i don't know what else to say #so bye

[magioftheseas]

Newest Hanako-kun chapter was gayyyy! Good for them!

#I feel like this is confirming we're in the homestretch though #Or like the last arc #That's just the vibe I'm getting #And I would be a little leery but a story can get pretty insanely good towards the end #and it can still be a wild fucking ride #I'm just thinking of Pandora Hearts though #Or it's all a fucking farce and he's FINE #he's perfectly fine #who knows #jshk spoilers #vague but yeah #Magi Blah

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Still thinking about that caustic quote about Louis Napoleon III by Marx -who is in turn paraphrasing Hegel's 'everything in History happens twice'-, that 'everything in History happens twice, the first time as tragedy, and the second time as farce". I'm not as interested in it as a key to read History as much as its potential in storytelling.

My thoughts on the subject aren't fully cooked at all, but I'm rotating it in my mind, be assured.

#you know all those fics that are about x number of times character A did y #and the one time they didn't #well #stories based on the concept of thing happened first as tragedy and then as farce #or character A is tragedy and their mirror #character b #is farce #IDK #it feels like it should have potential but I cannot concrete it

[vermillioncrown]

Quick question: have you read The Trash of The Count Family? Because Całe is a MOOD

mentioned it before

wanted to like it, got bored

#inquiry #anonymous #verm is reading... #i read as much of the comic that was released and then read further in the webnovel #once the shiny wore off it fell into generic webnovel fare #i know ppl mention it as like... big 3 of k-web novels of certain types of Bastards (orv + tcf + s class) #but it didn't hook me like orv did #once you've read enough generic ass webnovel 'i'm reborn as the shit guy/gal' stuff it all blends together #how do you impress the other people? if you say you don't want to at least give it less than the farce attempts that cale gives #the way things happen is just 1) he complains 2) he does thing 3) but wait a new thing! 4) people oooooo! #he never comes off looking bad or 'trash' as he said #you tell me but there seems to be very little impact from your prior rep other than an excuse for others to ooooo at him #if you're gonna be squirrelly and be an unreliable narrator at least make it less obvious than ostrich-in-dirt techniques