#i love this sad short man

[ducktracy]

a short placing heavy emphasis on Hungarian Rhapsody No. II is a rite of passage for golden age cartoons. Bugs Bunny did it! Tom and Jerry did it! Daffy and Donald! but one thing Woody Woodpecker has above the competition is that he is held hostage by a group of gangsters and is forced to entertain, lest he get executed. amazing

#fans of Mickey's Trailer will note the similarities at the beginning of the moving van stretching out the fence--that's because #this was directed by Don Patterson who animated that absolutely BIZARRE cut in Trailer #please look it up if you haven't because it is some of the best animation you will ever see. it is insane #i'm so sad i didn't know this short existed until yesterday because i love it. i love musical cartoons and the story/hook of this one #genuinely made me laugh. and Daws Butler voices the gangsters and cop! #Hungarian Rhapsody No. II... gangster is named Mugsy... it's almost a Friz Freleng short! almost #Hugh Harman did write this one though which is bizarre to me. yes that Hugh Harman who established and ran the first 3 years of the Warner #studio with Rudy Ising #(and Herman Cohen animates on this who of course was a longtime WB animator!) #i love cartoons #ww #convict concerto #patterson #vid #also i am team Rhapsody Rabbit on the RR vs Cat Concerto debate i'm sorry Tom (and Jerry) #but one short has Bugs Bunny killing a man in cold blood and the other doesn't

[lovelylinnn]

title: please don’t call me pretty.

alt universe- ‘king’ steve harrington is pretty much not the king here.

CW: negative self-talk, slight mention of self harm, self esteem issues, mentions of bullying, mentions of child abuse, and restrictive eating.

‘pretty’ was a word steve would absolutely not use to describe himself.

in fact, he’d never been called pretty before. not once. he was called the opposite, quite often.

of course he knew he wasn’t great looking; wasn’t outstanding or worthy of mentioning, but he didn’t think he was so bad he needed to be made fun of for it.

no one does. but he was.

ugly was a word he heard every day in middle school, and then home wasn’t any better. fat was a common word there.

“cut your hair, ugly,” people would sneer in his face. shove him into lockers, corner him in the library, single him out in p.e.; anything they could do to get their hands on him, they would.

numerous times he showed up at his home with a black eye, marks on his face, cut lips, bruised ribs; limping his way home.

“maybe you should see a doctor about your weight, steven. lose some weight?”

“that shirt seems to be fitting too tight, doesn’t it, steven?”

“yes mother,” he would respond. and so he slowly began to work out more, began lying about eating at school and saying he ate a big lunch. skipping meals became a bad habit, but at least he was seeing results.

and after years and years of being told he was ugly, unattractive, fat; he kept believing it. he didn’t think he would ever stop since in the mirror it was all he saw.

now at eighteen, a senior in his second semester of high school, he still thought he was ugly even though he’d gotten notes slipped into his locker a few times. thought he was fat although his cheeks were sunken in, and his ribs could be seen. he was tall enough now that the bullying stopped. he was finally big enough to intimidate and to get people to back off.

so he kept to himself. he wasn’t being cornered in the library anymore, and it became a safe place for him to sit during his free time.

that is where he met his boyfriend, eddie. and eddie was the first one ever to call him attractive. to point out how he never ate. to ask about his days, his home life, his grades, his everything.

of course he liked it. but it felt too good to be true. how could a boy like eddie love someone like him? it didn’t make sense.

“you’re so pretty,” eddie murmured to him the first time he’d spent the night at his trailer. it was 11am on a saturday morning, and the boys had slept in late. steve laid in his arms and looked into his brown eyes then down to the soft smile on his lips. but he himself was not smiling.

getting a compliment for the first time ever felt off. it didn’t feel right. he didn’t deserve one. he was too big, took up too much space, his hair was too frizzy, his acne was too bad, he was too-

“steve?” he called softly. he pulled steve out of his thoughts.

“please don’t call me pretty.” and he slowly crawled out of his arms, laying down but facing away from him.

“i’m sorry, i didn’t mean to make you upset. i- what do-“ he was cut off.

“it’s not you, i don’t think,” he said, curling in a tight ball, “i’ve just never been called that before. it feels weird.” 

“you’ve never been called pretty? steve, you’re gorgeous,”

he was in disbelief. not only was he pretty, but he was gorgeous?

“what?” he sat up, turning to him.

“i think you’re like one of the prettiest people i’ve seen. you’re so beautiful, steve. inside and out,”

“but- what? i-i’m ugly. i need to lose weight. my scars-“

“-do not change how pretty you are. and you do not need to lose weight. you’re so skinny, honey. and you’re not ugly,”

“w-what?” he weakly stuttered out. he was shocked.

“you don’t believe me?”

“i… no,” he told him.

“i’m so sorry,” he said back, grabbing his hands and giving a gentle squeeze, “you deserve to be told nice things. i want to tell them to you,”

steve gave a squeeze back, his eyes filling with tears. this was the first time he was ever given a sincere apology.

“i love you,” steve said. and it was the first time he genuinely meant it.

“i love you too,” eddie replied. and steve finally believed something he was told. he was pulled into a hug, and he cried on his bare shoulder for about twenty minutes before calming down.

“i’m going to tell you nice things every day until you believe them, okay?”

he nodded. not like he could stop eddie from doing that, anyway.

“starting with this,” he said, cupping his cheeks, “you are so, so pretty.”

and for once in his life, he finally believed it.

steve harrington was pretty.

#steddie #stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #steven harrington #sweet #hurt/comfort #im hurtin #angst with a happy ending #angst #i'm sad #tw restrictive ed #pretty #short but sweet #idk man #i love them #gay mlm #this is sad #bullying #eddie stranger things #eddie is a sweetheart

[fourswords]

"blue would hate shadow" WRONG did you people even SEE how devastated he was when shadow died. blue's entire THING is going "ARGH WHATEVER I DON'T CARE" and then he proceeds to care so fucking deeply about everything. RED, on the other hand, ABSOLUTELY has a precedent for pulling some shit like. idk. locking shadow in a room full of light energy (or something like that) and then when the other three links are yelling at him to let shadow out he's just like "oh but isn't it so much more peaceful around here like this? teehee!!! :3 alright alright i'm just kidding!! i'll let him out now <3" like that little shit didn't even have the barest minimum of a REACTION when shadow died and he canonically holds grudges even if it's not for very long. blue and shadow would not be at each other's throats bro shadow would be hiding behind blue every time red comes into his line of sight for at least a week and a half because red keeps smiling and waving at him in a manner that somehow manages to be both cheerful and threatening at once. except nobody notices it but shadow so blue thinks he's fucking nuts but keeps letting him hide behind him anyway

#RED IS JUST SOOOOO FUCKING FUNNY HE'S LIKE oh wow blue's been frozen in ice? that's sooo sad oh no!!! </3 i'll make sure he's remembered #as a 'short-tempered hero who lived a short life' (read: bad at his hero job) #and then the fairy's like UNFREEZE HIM WITH YOUR FIRE ROD YOU DICK #and red's like aw man do i haaaave to? SIGHHHH and then sets blue on fire. and ONLY when blue turns to look at him #does red turn on the waterworks. it's HILARIOUS. i LOVE him #also yes he and shadow would absolutely get along eventually. there's no doubt in my mind of that. At The Beginning However........ #fsa #four swords adventures #txt

[kicktwine]

oh so alisaie’s exaggerated bully behavior is 80% fanon. saying this she casually picks up a large rock

#say one thing wrong to me and you will have a wonderful few days with the rock #if angry silly girls have 100 fans etc if they have 0 fans i have died #sorry i saw a YouTube meme i vehemently disliked on principle and got mad at the only child behavior- #kipspeak #she is just short tempered and uses anger to mask other more ‘shameful’ emotions!!! alphy did the same thing with just deciding not #to express them. which is still not good and I think why he breaks and ends up teary so often now #this shortness does not translate to actually being mean to people. she only uses being mean as a shield for herself and being snarky #Is just fun for her. it’s fun for Me. you have to inconsequentually tease people or they’ll never learn to laugh at themselves #the twins and thancred 🫵 do this thing where they have big emotions but they don’t want anyone to SEE they have big weird emotions #so alphy pretends he doesn’t have them under a veneer of dignity and alisaie pretends the emotions are Something Else. thancred is #just so emotionally constipated he has trouble expressing anything. he’s got enough baggage for a flatbed #anyways. alisaie is such a compassionate and kind girl and she learned how to make snarky jokes and went ham. and she hates appearing sad o #weak or vulnerable so she blocks it off with an unapproachable emotion so no one pities her and they maybe get on with the plot #it is in fact also great at getting ppl to move away from the sad or embarrassing topic. even if the tradeoff is being more offputting #she would never (grabs youtube meme) she would never seriously bully her brother. this is sibling ribbing only. Cain instinct #just leave her be she is learning how to snark humor and she loves it she loves being sharp. alphy has wit he just keeps it close #my brother didn’t learn how to tell or receive a joke until he was 14 he took everything so seriously. he can do it now though and he’s #HILARIOUS. Don’t tell him I said that. my man knows exactly where the funny points are even if he hasn’t learned when to stop yet #too many tags. Whatever. jokey snark alisaie who sometimes compliments is happy alisaie grouchy snappy angry alisaie is way too stressed #very easy way to tell between the two. even alphy can tell between the two I believe! He tends to rib back in protest if they’re having fun #and try to stop her if they’re not having fun. case in point ‘what is that supposed to mean?!’ vs ‘alisaie ryne was only trying to help.’ #I know they’re twins but that’s such an intensely older sibling thing to do that it reels me #LONG TAGS AND THREE EDITS TO ADD ON SHORT I resent this stereotype taken too far into ooc behavior. it happened with nya #It will happen again and as a postscript let me regale you with Things U Can Notice About Character Motivation and Actions— #I’m not done let me s #she and raha are friends now I decree. ‘haha you like me’ SPUTTERING PROTEST FROM BOTH

[crybaby-bkg]

cw: mention of previous abuse, dad Dabi, mom reader, mention of childbirth, angst

new dad touya that doesn’t know how to deal with his son. he’s growing too fast and his smiles are so big, but he’s still not sure how to just be with him.

touya isn’t abusive in the slightest, not like his shit for brains dad. he can acknowledge, after you’ve drilled it into his head on cold nights where you had to hold his quivering cheeks in your hand, that he’s better. that he’s trying. that he’s a great dad.

he doesn’t really believe it. it’s hard to believe that he’s a great dad when his son, still covered in that fresh newborn smell, stares up at him with matching azure blue eyes, the little shit, and he finds it hard to smile back. it’d be easier to smile back if he could guarantee a life with no trauma, with the perfect pair of parents, that he’d love him as much as his tiny little face deserved.

touya can still hear the labor and delivery nurse tell him that he must’ve gotten on your nerves for the baby to look so much like him, and that they’ve never seen a baby that fresh out the womb smile so big at their dad. he hands the little bundle back to you, and glares at the nurse who hands him a tissue. he takes it anyway.

touya loves his son. so goddamn much that it hurts, but, he doesn’t know how to be a dad. and he knows that you don’t know how to be a mom either, that it’s a learning process for the both of you. but he’s so scared—he’s terrified that he’ll fuck up this innocent brat with his ruin. with his scars and history and the want to better but never knowing how to just be.

so he leaves. it’s the day after your sons first birthday that you celebrated together in your home.

you thought everything was okay, that he was starting to get the hang of being a dad. he did everything right, why couldn’t he stay? he sat on the floor with your son and changed his diaper and made him giggle those addicting baby giggles? he carried your son everywhere whenever he cried after being sat down without a single complaint? he helped him open his birthday presents? he didn’t smash the cake in his face, only swiped a little icing on his sons nose to hear that addicting baby giggle? he held your son like he could never let him go?

how could he just go like this? you thought he was finally learning and accepting how to be a dad? what happened?

#angst angst angst #SORRY #I thought about this earlier while I was under the dryer #and I was like ohhhh write that down before your slow ass forgets #my toxic trait is that every time I write soemthing short im like #……this could be a full fic 🫣 #LMFAO honestly duck it im making this a full fic #I have so many on my plate but this has to go on the list #he makes my heart so sad I love him mr pathetic man with so many troubles in his head #I also wanna write a sleazy shiggy n keigo fic (separate) what’s wrong with me #all these ideas and no juice to write them #im just about halfway finished w my classes so maybe il get more inspo to write #anyway I have a bkg draft from like two nights ago that I forgot about #and I wanna write that too but my head really hurts and I have to be up early tomorrow sad 😔 #okay I think im gonna sleep now :) #—new treat in the streets! 🍫 #dabi treats! 🍬

[goldiipond]

isn't it fucked up this conversation takes place a few hours before she gets killed. isn't that so fucked up. what was their problem

#skye's ramblings #SHAKES YOU REAALLY FUCKING HARD. ISNT THAT FUCKED??? HOW DESPERATELY HE TRIES TO KEEP THIS PROMISE WITHOUT KNOWING ITS ALREADY TOO LATE. TH #ahem anywayay. man i really like how much more focus the anime gives their relationship in the short amount of time we have with conny #this is a side scene in the manga and i think including it in the anime was a really good choice #that along with conny practically being glued to his side for 99% of her screentime and having them both cry when saying goodbye.. OW #theyre just !! soo fucking good i love them they make me soo sad i hope we all die. the siblings ever #tpn

[allpromarlo]

an underrated moment in tg:m is when mav & rooster are looking at the half destroyed enemy base and mav runs off without warning, to which rooster's just like

"MAV-

"okay"

followed by both of them running like fuckin muppets across the base

#hi i watched top gun again can you tell #god i love this movie so much #but anyways #watching tgm a 2nd time and...ngl i'm kinda starting to see what the girls see in rooster #payback is and will forever be my baby but rooster...hmmmm #the 70s boy swag is definitely there #and it's definitely doing something #i'm just not sure what it's doing #but the old man tomfoolery that was going on with maverick was also changing things in my perspective #cpt pete mitchell aka the only maverick i like #he's stupid he's in love he's dad he's sad & wet he's a short king. he's perfect #another bomb performance by tom cruise we got here #movies #top gun: maverick #maverick mitchell #rooster bradshaw

[idiolex]

any time lucius accidentally thinks something even halfway nice abt izzy he has to immediately insult him like 10 times in a row in his head to make up for it send post

#this is actually abt a fic im writing rn lol #lucius straight up goes “sometimes its sad watching izzy be so pathetically rejected over and over again” #and then has to repeatedly call him a short angry rat man for like 5 lines just to make up for it #im having a lot of fun writing it. #lucius is a bitch and i LOVE him for it #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd 2 #izzy hands #lucius spriggs #sprizzy #this is not explicitly abt spriggshands #but i want them together #and also they fucked nasty. #so. #really its always abt them #idiotlex

[sawedofffeet]

Pure slickness 👌

#leigh whannell #abc recovery #babygirl #my stuff #had to make a slick supercut cause i thought it was funny #and it is #i love u leigh #prettiest little princess #the day he cut his hair was a sad day for humanity #i like the short hair too but this is just....yeah #i'm carrying him around in my mouth like an old chew toy #no u can't touch him!! he's mine!! i bite him because i love him!! #he lives in my brain #ponytail man!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #saw #adam stanheight

[seldonhari]

CHŁOPI/THE PEASANTS (2023) [trailer]

mirosław baka jako maciej boryna w scenach niewykorzystanych w animacji x

#chłopi #loving vincent #the peasants #filmedit #dk welchman #dorota kobiela #hugh welchman #a short film about killing #polish #polska #slavic culture #animation #they put a tall and weird-looking sad old man in the film and now i have to deal with the highly surprising consequences #gifs

[andy-clutterbuck]

The Murmuring | requested by Anonymous

"I love you, crazy bird lady. Do you love me?”

#here ya go! 💚 #Andrew Lincoln #Essie Davis #Cabinet of Curiosities #* #EXCUSE ME BUT THE NOSE™ #THEY MADE ME SO SAD #i was relieved that things were going in the right direction at the end #HE IS SO SOFT #i think you can really see the depth they crafted in a short period of time #that patrick stewart acting gif #where can i get one #i want an adorable devoted bird loving nerd #nancy u lucky ho #SMUSHED NOSE #THE SMUSHED NOSE #ugh i love domestic #bout to make like that time i played Life and had so many kids i had to get an extra car #gonna make like the 50s and stay barefoot and pregnant #man that 5th gif i'd give both kidneys for that #maybe a limb too

[beargyufairy]

He said he'd love me all his life

But that life was too short

**the way I immediately thought of this when listening to ttpd 🫶

#the tortured poets department #Taylor swift #I can do it with a broken heart #so long london #ttpd #life is short #mavis vermillion #zeref dragneel #zeref x mavis #zervis #fairy tail #just between us #how long could we be a sad song #the smallest man who ever lived #lights camera bitch smile #tragic #tragic love #enemies to lovers #star crossed lovers

[gildeddlily]

two years ago tokyo revengers had the strongest grip on me but now I don't even remember what happens. like. a guy goes back in times a lot of times? my favs were some inui and kakucho for a long time? I didn't like the ending- I think? and now I have (not to be vain but honestly beautiful) fics written on some doc hidden in the jungle that my pc is and I don't even understand what the fuck they're about!!!!

#what is bro yapping about #i should rewatch it #but still what made me so sad to write things like those #i hated the last chapters I can remember this #but still the anxiety I felt at the mere thought of what that mad man would write in seven days #tokyo revengers #hanagaki takemichi #I LOVED HAKKAI #there's a short fic ab him on my ao3 and I remember his story pretty well #he was so beautiful (still his sister....)

[wh33zy]

I like how Nakamura looked at Misaki and was like:

"He's a complete and utter dork with nothing special about him...but he's constantly, effortlessly SWIMMING IN BITCHES. He is NEVER bitchless, and if Akihiko EVER broke up with him, Misaki has a LONG line of bitches waiting to take his place and EVERYONE WHO ISN'T MISAKI OR TODO IS SO MAD ABOUT IT."

Misaki: I don't WANT to have bitches, I just want my one bitch, Usa-

Nakamura: [putting a finger on his lips] SHH, SHH, stop talking.

Misaki: But-

Nakamura: Is that the sound of 'let's draw Misaki even more bitches before this story ends' I hear?

#junjou romantica #takahashi misaki #usami akihiko #misaki takahashi #i bet y'all a dollar and my left pinky toe that Misaki's roster of bitches becomes even longer before the story is done #by my goodness Misaki just has like SO MANY people in love with him and are waiting for Akihiko to fuck things up so they can swoop in #and get they short king #i bet they get giddy when Misaki complains about Akihiko because they're like HELL YEAH BREAK UP BBYYY #akihiko's a sad clown painting personified! kiss me little man!

[mikuyuuss]

I am reminded once again how I wish that we were shown more of Giyuu's backstory. I would understand it better if he was a normal guy whose parents are alive, but Giyuu's the opposite of that, his backstory is actually really sad in hindsight too.

From what I remember, the fanbook tells us how he lost his parents to an illness when he was young, leaving only him and his sister Tsutako. Their parents left some money for them to be able to survive, but surely, that still can't be easy. Tsutako must have had a lot on her shoulders while taking care of Giyuu.

and I wonder how Giyuu must have felt during those times, was he too young to process all of it, or did he feel like a burden to his sister? Is that one of the underlying reasons why he felt guilty for what happened to Sabito and Tsutak? Some of these stuff were definitely implied in the main story, but I just wish they showed us more of it!

And just when Tsutako is finally about to get married, she lost her life to a demon because she chose to protect Giyuu, and Giyuu tried to tell the townspeople about what happened but they didn't believe him. His distant relatives instead planned to take him away because they believe he is mentally ill. So without any choice, Giyuu ran away, nearly diied in the mountains but was founded by a hunter and later taken in by Urokodaki. The rest is history.

Considering how training takes about two years, and Giyuu was 13 years old when he took the final selection. I would guess that he’s probably around 11 yrs old when all of that happened to him.

Like that was a lot of stuff. Giyuu clearly had a rough childhood, but that wasn't shown in the main story at all and was just summarized in one taisho secret. :(

I wanted to see more of his relationship with Sabito and especially Tsutako. I really really hope we get a spin off or a light novel chapter that can help further flesh out the rest of his backstory, because it's just way too interesting not to.

#maybe I just had higher expectations for Giyuu #bc he is the first ever hashira that was ever introduced and the FIRST to believe tanjiro #so surely he must be very important right? he did help kickstart the story afterall! #and he is and not to mention his backstory with Sabito was hinted on since the very beginning so maybe I just overanticipated #but I was so looking forward to know more about him I waited for several arcs #but it ended up being wayy too short for me #and I wanted to know more about Tsutako too but shes only there for like two panels #so yeah I was a little bummed about that #but I still love Giyuu lots tho and I hope the future spin offs will show us more of him #tr #kny #demon slayer #kimetsu no yaiba #giyuu tomioka #me speaks #everytime I see ranking on who among the hashiras had the most tragic backstory #i cant help but think man giyuus is sad on its own too its just a shame it wasnt shown more in depth

[dykeinthedark]

venting in tags about gender n shit (long as hell) (u can comment and talk 2 me as always :3)

#okay so i got a really masc haircut about a month ago and i know it's just a haircut but holy shit has it changed EVERYTHING for me #like.... i've always leaned masc except 1) before i came out 2) when i was actively in love with someone who i knew liked femmes #and they always described me as a fem. because that's what i showed her. because i wanted to be with her. #but lowkey whenever i'm in a not-impressing-anyone raw-dogging-life-no-crush era i always resort to a very masc style #like masc being my default and i'd only lean fem to impress people whether it's for love or peer pressure in a specific setting #like ''dressing up'' has always been a form of drag to me. like something i HAD to do to fit in or impress my parents (scott favor core) #but ever since this haircut i've realized... i could just BE masc innately like i really don't have to be womanly if i don't want to #which i usually don't. again i have only ever dressed fem for other people. but it's not even being masc that attracts me on its own #it's like. being masc in a distinctly lesbian way. as in whenever i look in the mirror i don't wanna be like a Guy i wanna be a dyke. #like lesbian as a gender identity too sort of thing honestly. okay i've been waffling but basically i sort of want to call myself butch #but i don't know if i like... can?? if i'm allowed to??? #everyone always says it's MORE than just wearing boy clothes and not wearing makeup and having short hair (which i already do all those) #i mean i've always id'd as genderqueer because it literally just means gender weird and i experience gender in a queer way #what's probably the most telling is that my friends (all queer) CALL me a butch lesbian #like every time they do i feel really internally validated. it's not just my clothes but my personality too ig is what people tell me #i have a higher pitched voice relatively speaking but apparently the way i talk is quote ''very clockably into women'' #which?? gender euphoria asf. my best friend specifically he (gay trans guy) always uses butch to describe me very intuitively #people have also noticed that i ''transitioned'' in all aspects except hormonally. like ppl have commented and noticed my masculinzation #but at the same time i always feel rly haunted by my ex relationships because one wanted me to be more masc #(she's the one who came out as straight and would treat me like a man) which i didn't like and i didn't like playing up being fem either #bc now it feels like she (butch) won't believe me if i called myself butch too bc she remembers me being femme #idk i feel like there's her voice in my head all the time that sees everything i do through her eyes (i'm lowkey still in love) #i feel like even though this comes so naturally to me i must be putting on a performance #even though i've actually read stone butch blues and done research into the history and i truly love and id with the culture like i rly do #that im still just a sad imitation of a butch lesbian and can never really be a part of it because i used to enjoy dressing up sometimes #like it's so stupid but can i still be butch if i wore a dress to prom and i think i looked good in it?? #even though i was envious of my friends who wore suits?? that i used to try goth makeup?? that i liked long dresses?? #that i enjoyed stacked necklaces and rings on every finger??? #and tbh ALL OF THAT CAME FROM A CONCIOUS EFFORT TO FEMINIZE MYSELF IN JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL WHEN I WAS 16 #because omfg it was 2 months before junior prom and i was worried that i was too masc and wanted to get comfortable with being fem