#idk man. idk

[min0uet]

#1 thing i'm most afraid abt in the revival is the candace characterization actually bc we are in a paradox here

fact: candace's endless torment was part of the backbone of the show, one of the constants that kept the plot structure going. phineas and ferb must always do something new. candace and doofenshmirtz must always lose. any exceptions to these rules can't be permanent. status quo must be upheld.

fact: candace against the universe's character development seemed to finally be breaking this cycle. candace isn't alone anymore, she's letting go of her obsession to see the support that was always there for her and thus she's escaped her sisyphean cycle. to go back to the old status quo after this would be massively unsatisfying.

fact: the reboot is supposed to take place AFTER candace against the universe.

so what do we do now

#i almost deleted this it didnt super feel like i have a point to make but i went to the effort of typing it out so. #i mean the solution seems to be to have candace join in with her brothers in the reboot but im worried the show wont break that status quo #like that change would be really huge i just dont know if theyll do it #but if we backpedaled on the events of candace against the universe it would be a huge loss and just really tiring to go backwards #idk man. idk #phineas and ferb #candace flynn #pnf tag #harold.txt

[noirtek]

i like saw 3D if i’m in the right headspace to disassociate it from the prior 6 movies but aside from lawrence’s rightfully bemoaned character assassination hoffman’s personality shift is also more than a little upsetting

#saw iv and saw v put emphasis on hoffman flinching away from the violence he inflicts and literally crying after the fact multiple times #he cries after kidnapping eddie #tearstain on his cheek after killing strahm #refuses to look at rigg for too long as he bleeds out #turns his head away as strahm’s blood drips onto the lid of the glass coffin #for fuck’s sake he cries and claws at the door when he kills his sister’s neonazi murderer #AND IN THE SCRIPT HE FUCKING #EXPRESSES REMORSE INSTEAD OF SATISFACTION WHEN HE’S CONVINCED JOHN IS GOING TO BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT #but he turns into an unsympathetic rabid animal in saw 3D. like brainless slasher villain evil who was always a sociopath #instead of the hoffman that literally regrets his actions as he’s committing them and refuses to gaze upon what he’s done #idk man. idk #r #saw #mark hoffman #he put rigg and strahm into these games and fucking begs them for their trust #he’s such a deeply lonely miserable man and violence is all he has left

[spoken-outofturn]

Damn. I understand the want to not have to rely on advertising so much. I understand Ryan’s want to make high quality content.

But at that point, seek out a new opportunity that has a fan base willing to pay for no adverts and a fan base the cares about the production value.

The backbone of their community is YouTube watchers. Most who will never pay even for YouTube because we can’t be assed. Whether it be a price point thing, a principles thing, whatever. I don’t care about them advertising things, that’s what yt is. I don’t care about the amount of money put into production, I’m just there for the goofy boys. The down to earth boys. Which I think is why this feels like a slap in the face a bit, to call 60/72 bucks a year affordable for “anyone and everyone.” Especially in the face of so many fucking streamers.

But if you’re going to put up a paywall for me to watch your content I’m sorry but I’m out. I cannot follow you this one last time.

#idk man. idk #I think Steven really just wants to make his own shows without worrying about them not getting the views to support them on yt #and Ryan seems to really want to produce like films or genuine tv shows #but Shane? #idk I find it hard to think he was really on board with this #but anyways #those are just my thoughts #watcher #steven lim #ryan bergara #shane medej #watcher entertainment

[fushigurro]

idk if it’s the ‘for you’ tab or what the fuck ever but i am constantly getting notifs from posts that are not even originally mine (just something i reblogged) or posts i made not even that recently?? and from people who don’t follow me??? stop this madness

#rambles. #it’s so fucking annoying i won’t lie #like i’m not trying to get clout from a random ass text post i made last week #and it also buries shit in my notifs #idk man. idk

[uris-stanley]

i don't wanna get my hopes up but WHY would finn say "you'll have to watch, there's a really cool episode that kind of tackles that" about mike confessing his love to el if their relationship was endgame?

he already said he loves her and she said it back so what is there to tackle?

unless, of course, it isn't a romantic confession of love, and instead is him telling her how much she means to him whilst confessing something else

#idk man. idk #im not confident in them breaking mileven up. itd make sm sense but i dont think they Will #but at the same time... finn wdym why are u being coy #all signs point to byler i cant wven lie #ugh im not getting my hopes up #st #stranger things #mike wheeler #bi mike wheeler #mike #byler

[featuresofinterest]

it's insane to me how many people claim to hate ofmd or are glad it got cancelled.... have any of you freaks ever had fun before

#just saw some wild takes on twitter #idk man. idk

[literallysatanofficial]

I gotta say, like. I haven't seen the ep 9 and 10 leaks, nor do I want to (I watched pine barrens early and I wish I hadn't) but I swear, at this point I'm convinced everyone's overreacting for no reason; like there is NOTHING that the show could possibly do that would disappoint me on such a level that ppl are saying they don't want to continue watching the show. Unless they kill off the entire cast, pull an X-files and replace everyone, I just can't see it being as dire as people are making it out to be. Like... let's all calm down. You're getting (at best) a choppy machine translation, and at worst what is essentially a silent episode with 0 actual context for what you're seeing. From my experience watching pine barrens in Russian, I can tell y'all that things were interpreted incorrectly (both in summaries AND by me while I was watching) and watching the actual english episode was an entirely different experience.

Maybe it's just because I haven't gotten my hopes up about nandermo getting together this season there have been PLENTY of clear signs that it's not happening but I legit can't even imagine a worst case scenario that could prevent me from enjoying the show at this point. It feels like so many fans have gotten swept up in fandom hype (which is totally fine and completely understandable, I'm not immune to this either) but it's almost like... there's a terrifyingly big divide between fanon and canon this season. It's just a silly dumb little show. If you wanted it to go one way and it didn't, bummer, I guess, but to write off an entire show because the conclusions you've drawn up with friends weren't the way it panned out is so odd to me. It's understandable when theories like there being something in the walls that colin is trying to get to or whatever spread, but at the same time it could just be a running joke about him being a little shit of a kid. If this isn't addressed, I wouldn't be surprised. I don't think it's really ever been pushed like that, it's just that it gained traction in the fandom and a lot of fans started clinging to it (as well as some other common theories like it) but is it REALLY being teased? Or was it not meant to be anything more than a surface level joke.

I don't think it's right to be disappointed when stuff like this has been hyped up by the fandom rather than like... official marketing material or something, and I think that can be applied to every prediction that seemingly didn't come true.

I just see a lot of hostility and accusations thrown around, and some truly bizarre takes, and it's just... it's a show. it's a show, guys. it's just a show.

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #ive been rewatching to recap the season for the wiki and like. #idk. ive thought some of the nandermo theories this season have been pushing it but MAN #idk how much clearer guillermo could be about not being into nandor anymore #i have no fucking idea if this is the source of all the vague complaining but it really seems like this is the root of the issue #the anger at last season's finale for 'queerbaiting' and now i guess anger about them not getting some contrived jealousy arc #ill be honest like. if it was some wack ass shit like nandor killing guillermo i still would not give a shit. #cause as we saw with last seasons cliffhanger and this seasons premiere ep. it doesnt matter #ITS JUST A DUMB LITTLE SHOW!!!! #i feel like everyones taking it SO seriously like its.... expectations are so high #its a tv show these characters arent real and they are all terrible stupid people #ada speaks #not to be all like 'calm down son its just a drawing' but can we maybe not hold this show to impossible standards #like its not some revolutionary all important work of art its a shit and fart comedy show with some plot to it #IDK MAN. IDK

[nei-neighbor]

Fight Club charaters when you ask them their pronouns:

Marla Singer

*calls you a slur (derogatory)*

Tyler Durden

*calls you a slur (affectionately)*

Narrator

Um. Like guy ones?

#fight club #tyler durden #marla singer #narrator fight club #idk man. idk

[goupii]

doesn't really qualify as ship art because I only ship them under very specific conditions but have been going insane over the idea of a one-sided decade long crush on axel's side and an oblivious owen so there's that

#axel walker #the trickster #owen mercer #captain boomerang #idk man. Idk

[identitty-dickruption]

“neurotypicality doesn’t exist” and “I am disabled by the way my brain functions” can coexist. by the way. like, there’s no such thing as a person who is able to function perfectly all the time, because many of us live in environments that are not conducive to good mental health. there’s also no way to verify what a “normal” brain looks like

but ALSO some people are disabled. I have semi-frequent meltdowns. I can’t switch between different tasks easily (or at all). my sensory experiences are overwhelming and hard to manage. leaving the house makes me exhausted. and some people are disabled to a greater extent than I am — even with the same diagnoses

if you can accept that I’m disabled, but less disabled than someone who is housebound or relies on carers full-time, you can accept that there are also people who are labelled “neurotypical” but quite simply aren’t disabled enough to qualify for a diagnosis. the perfectly functioning individual doesn’t exist. there’s just levels of difficulty + various environmental factors that make life harder and easier

#disability #idk man. idk #neurodivergent

[hyper-pixels]

If you see me refollowing you no you don’t

#idk man. idk

[coldshrugs]

what i see in you, i hope you find in me

characters: io laithe (wol), alisaie leveilleur, estinien varlineau wordcount: 1.6k note: io feels out of sorts in garlemald. her friends seek to comfort her. the first part of this is directly before "in from the cold" and the second part is the following day. [read on AO3]

There is a fragile warmth in Camp Broken Glass.

The Ilsabard Contingent troops, faces familiar and foreign to Io, begin the difficult work of welcoming the Ist’s soldiers into their camp. There are wounds to mend, fires to stoke, and enormous pots of soup to simmer and disperse. Not all of her people are cheery about it, but there is a sense of purpose in each of them. This is why they’ve come all this way, faced the perils of the north, faced their bloody history.

Healing is rarely a painless act.

Io stays on the fringes. At best, she is a divisive figure in this land–at worst, she is the manifestation of Garlean terror. It’s better if she lets the soldiers process their new circumstances without meddling and, truthfully, she could do with a moment of peace.

She heads toward a building adjacent to the cookfires to escape the frigid wind. This is as good a place to hide as any. She tugs her fleece-lined coat around her more tightly and leans against the near-frozen wood.

Miles away, the Tower of Babil looms over the city, angry, crimson, and waiting for her. The next leg of her journey, perhaps the final one, will take her there.

To him.

For nearly three years, Zenos has consumed Io’s thoughts. He has stoked her rage, sometimes indirectly, most of the time for his deranged satisfaction. He reaches for the darkness in her that no one else wants to touch, let alone acknowledge, and he sets it aflame. She hates him for it, yet she is grateful to him. One feeling lays on the other, like oil on water, and she cannot find a way to blend them.

At least not one that makes her sound sane.

Footsteps approach and the crunch of snow shakes Io from her thoughts.

“There you are.” Alisaie stops at her side. She glares at the Tower for a long moment, then turns to Io. “Are you alright? Some of the Contingent have asked about you.”

Io nods and pulls her attention away from the repulsive skyline. “I’m fine, Alisaie. Trying to stay out of the way for the evening.”

Alisaie frowns. “Would you care for company? Alphinaud and I have tended the worst of the injured, and have been all but forced to rest. He’s run off to find that witless oaf he admires so much.”

“He’s not so bad,” Io laughs, and gestures for her friend to settle in against the battered building. “In a few short months, you two will be thick as thieves.”

“You are not often wrong, but I fear this will be the exception.”

Io glances across the camp. It takes a moment to spot them, but Alphinaud, Alberic, and Estinien sit on a couple of low benches, sipping hot soup from hammered metal cups. All three appear to be in good spirits, smiling and laughing as Alphinaud recounts some story or other.

Something strange and sharp twists in her chest at the sight of them. The knowledge she isn't welcome to join them, perhaps.

Her second reason to hide.

“He’s angry with me. I suppose that is his right. I shouldn’t have let them take you two.” Io grits her teeth, fighting against the knot of guilt that has resided in her stomach since the morning.

Estinien is her friend, perhaps the closest she has here besides Alisaie. She understands him, so she can hardly blame him for being upset with her. They are family to him, Alphinaud, and Alisaie by extension. No less than they are to her. He has given Io little more than one-word responses since the twins were found. She may pretend otherwise, but his cold shoulder wounds her.

“Oh, to hells with Estinien.” Alisaie waves a gloved hand dismissively in his direction. “He’ll get over it. Would he have you fire upon civilians while negotiating peace? He may love my brother like a… well, brother, but he must admit there was no ideal series of events to be had. We all did our best, and we all made it through.”

Her hand lands on Io’s arm. Her fingers must feel like ice inside her glove, but Alisaie squeezes anyway, firm and reassuring.

“Thank you, Ali,” she whispers, and her gratitude hangs as a visible breath between them. They stay tucked between the buildings until Y’shtola calls them to dinner.

○––––––––––––––––––––––––––––○

Articulating what it is like to be outside oneself is something Io cannot bring herself to do. How could she describe watching her loved ones nearly cut down by her own hand, while she occupies the body of another? While an intruder operates hers. To be the stringless puppet and the feeble voyeur all at once

She has never been more afraid.

And Zenos… Though something in her heart still quakes like a plucked string at the thought of him, a modicum of sympathy she can't seem to erase, she finally accepts what she has known for so long: there is nothing for her there. Her most monstrous facets are reflected in him, a dark mirror she's been staring into for too long, but she could never do that to someone. Never.

With nothing more she can say to the others, she retreats to her closet-sized room in one of the less-dilapidated buildings. Io shrugs out of her coat, sighing with exhaustion. The icy air bites at her skin, even through her shirt, and she moves toward the ceruleum heater struggling to keep the temperature up in the corner. There is no time to rest. The assault on the Tower is happening in mere hours, and she needs to be armored, armed, and briefed.

Someone knocks, two heavy raps. Io leaves the tepid warmth to open the door.

Estinien?

He's the last person she expected right now.

His jaw is locked, and his hard stare passes over her in quick inspection, missing nothing. Fury lingers in his gray eyes, but unlike yesterday, it’s not her he wants to burn. Is he no longer upset with her?

Unable to meet his gaze, Io looks away. “Is something wrong?”

“I came to ask how you’re doing,” he says, “after yesterday.”

Io opens the door wider, inviting him into the space. He glances at the wooden stool in the corner, then back at her, and crosses the threshold with a reluctant step.

She sits on the cot, too far from the meager rays of heat. The air is heavy between them. Something is on his mind, and Estinien is never one to hold back for long.

“Are you hurt?” He asks after settling on the creaky stool. It’s too small for him, and she bites back her amusement. This is not the time to fall back into their comfortable patterns, no matter how much she longs for them. “They tell me you aren’t, but I would hear it from you.”

“I’m uninjured.”

“And your mind?” Estinien presses, facing her head-on. He searches her face, grey eyes refusing to shy away from whatever the answer may be. She has seen him like this before, harboring an indignant, singular focus, though that was years ago. Yesterday’s irritation was a shadow of this.

“Fine.” She tucks a knee under her chin. It is almost the full truth.

“Io. You're shaking.”

“Perhaps you should blame the climate.”

He grimaces, teeth grinding in frustration. “I have seen you cold before. Do not pretend we're strangers.”

Io runs a hand through her hair. Trying to fool him is as futile as attempting to forget the last twenty-four hours. But he is here, talking to her, and she doesn't want him to go just yet. “And what of your mind, Estinien? You don’t seem yourself.”

His next breath stutters out of him, followed by hesitant words. “Before I found them,” he starts, and she knows he means the twins, “I could only see the worst outcome behind that door. How late would I be, this time? What could I have done to save them? …I prepared my grief. Then the door opened, and they were fine. Just whinging about the cold. It was easy to blame you for what could’ve happened. Easier than going back to the first time I lost family.”

He pauses and looks at her. Looks into her. And there’s the man she knows like the back of her hand. The friend she knows so well, they communicate across silence and stillness. She offers him a half-smile.

“I scoffed when you disappeared, still angry at the false burden I thought you cast upon me. Had I known what happened to you…” The words trail into silence as Estinien forces his eyes away from her to the window and the malevolent tower beyond. “I realized you, too, are… I will lose no more family, Io.”

Her sharp inhale stings her lungs. She watches him as he gazes out the window, projecting his anger toward Babil, Zenos, Fandaniel. Everywhere but her direction.

“Estinien,” she calls across the small room, embarrassed by the soft crack of her voice, and he turns back to her. “We’re alright, all of us. I would never let the twins come to harm. Garlemald has taken much from me, so much that offering aid to this land is agonizing, but it will not take them. I hope you trust me.”

He rises and gives her a firm nod, lingering by the window as if he’s not finished here. He shakes his head, clears his throat.

“Don’t let it take you either.”

That doesn’t feel like the end of it, but he leaves before she can say more.

#azia writes #io laithe #io/estinien #io and friends #i guess that can be a tag #endwalker spoilers #idk man. idk #anyway you don't have to read this. it's the ramblings of a madperson suffering from brainrot #like i've told ellis and ash i'm trying to find the end of zenios and the beginning of estinio #and i think this whole situation is when io realizes zenos is making her insane and when estinien realizes he's has feelings for her #it's not the right time to act on it #and io doesn't catch romantic feels until the big UT moment and thinks #'ofc this is happening. ofc i realise i want this right as it's ripped away. that's my lot in life' #IDK OKAy #and alisaie!!!! io sees so much of her younger siblings in her!!! #she's the only scion who would feel comfortable just intruding on an obviously introspective moment #and the only one io wouldn't prickle about tbh #love their lil bond so much #idk what i'm doing with the juxtaposition of zenos seeing io's darkness and attempting to stoke it versus #estinien just. seeing and knowing all of her #io thinking the one thing is more intimate than the whole of it #BYEEEEEEEEEE

[brainrotdotorg]

think it's trant

awesome. think its trant

#LMAO this is a helpful answer thank you but i love the way its phrased. think its trant #but that still leaves me with so many questions. is it trants car?? that he owns?? #or since he works as a consultant is it somehow a perk of his job?? #idk man. idk

[rivercule]

I can’t believe I read Dark Disciple (awful book) for Ventress and Night Sister lore only for Filoni to step in and say. Well actually none of that matters. Nothing is real or true. Certainly not beautiful

#I wish Star Wars would explode into a ball of fire and trouble me no more #‘oh dark disciple was good!’ they de-dyked ventress by making her be racist to quinlan vos. it’s one of the worst books I’ve ever read #and now ventress is back. in the Star Wars colorism show #how many times has Filoni personally rewritten the book on these witches for no apparent reason???? #star wars #Star Wars spoilers #assaj ventress #tbb #the bad batch #spoilers #idk man. idk

[weirdlizard26]

you know on the one hand 12 having a different attitude to missy as compared to 10 makes sense. like maybe hes just had enough. but on the other hand. would the doctor really try to kill her?..

#wl26 #dw log #watch log #Like. are you seriously telling me what she did in s8 finale was worse than the atrocities of s3 finale? #didnt he kill like. a third of the earth's population or smth? #compared to that what she did in s8 finale is like light mischief #but he decided to kill her after THAT? idk #idk man. idk #also like. 10 begging master to travel with him. vs missy begging 12 to go see gallifrey together. #still unsure if its a delightfully painful turnaround or just showrunners forgetting established facts :P #could be both <3

[joe-myosotis]

April showers

Commission post pinned on my page :)

#medieval literature #canterbury tales #pardoner #summoner #digital illustration #idk man. idk