#in such a good way

[sillylizardguys]

Alright, my topic for today is

BUNGO STRAY DOGS USES RANDOM PLOT DEVICES IN A WAY THAT DOESN’T MAKE THEM FEEL LAZY AND I GENUINELY THINK IM GOING INSANE OVER THIS

normally when a show pulls a new plot device out of it’s ass I think “oh my god (derogatory)” BUT WHEN BSD DOES IT IT’S MORE “Oh my God! (Awe and excitement)” BECAUSE IT SOMEHOW DOES IT WELL???

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EXAMPLES INCLUDE

- The Moby Dick (Tbh a giant flying whale in the sky isn’t too obscure in this world)

- The Sky Casino (Okay this one my first thought was “THE WHAT?? THAT EXSISTS???” But that’s the point! It’s so obscure but with later context it just fits!!)

- Ranpo just coming in at the start of season five and saving the ADA from certain doom (It’s Ranpo! It’s just what he does!)

- SOMEHOW INTRODUCING VAMPIRES FOUR EPISODES INTO SEASON FIVE AND GETTING THE VIEWER HOOKED ON THE CONCEPT IN LESS THAN AN EPISODE (SURE FUCK IT I’LL BITE, WELL ACTUALLY THEY DO BUT YAKNOW)

- The entire character of Tachihara Michizou, a supporting cast member who we’ve known since season one getting a whole arc with twists and turns out of nowhere (Here’s hoping the next seasons will reunite the The Black Lizard!)

- Fukuchi’s Dumb Overpowered Space and Time Sword™️ (I know I’m giving it some flack here, but as far as plot devices go, I actually really like it! Maybe I’ll make a post about that sometime!)

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So many of these things would not work in any other show, but it’s clear BSD puts a lot of thought into what it does, which is the best thing you can do. It’s a story that weaves so many complicated concepts together in a way that’s compelling. I’m so happy I gave this series a shot, because it instantly became a favorite of mine.

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd tachihara #bsd season 5 #Hoping season 6 lives up to it’s predecessors! #this show makes me insane #in such a good way

[bunn13z]

That's cute, I'll just put my finger under your chin and make you look at me. You don't have to talk, just point at one without thinking or I'll just choose one. You can't just turn your pretty brain off and be a cute, blushy bunny

you are making it very hard for me to think of what to respond to this with. i keep rereading it and just nodding and feeling subby. like words don’t convey how this is sending me into bunny mode.

#in such a good way #immediately subby #i just want to turn my brain off and let someone else make decisions for me #asks #breedable s0b

[pc-98s]

i love seeing that post with the clip from the 1996 doctor who movie get over 7k notes. Watch The 1996 Doctor Who Movie It Sucks And I Love It

#it’s SOOOOO bad but like #in such a good way

[petrichorvoices]

okay like in Ulysses Dies At Dawn it really is all about that fall from grace isn’t it

#rambling #The Mechanisms #like. Oedipus losing his career and everything due to the scandal #Ariadne's family falling from grace because of the minotaur #Heracles falling from grace after he kills his family #Orpheus here is a bit more fuzzy but i see it as like. he Has to know that Eurydice won't come back right right #so he's kind of losing that whole thinking things through out of desperation #Daedalus being the original architect and now trying to destroy his own masterpiece #and Ulysses originally a revered war hero and now seen as just another victim of the city #gods like. even the Olympians after the whole Sphinx thing but they clawed their way back up and etc #anyway this album has our brain in a vice grip #in such a good way

[partiallypearl]

going through @1ooo-w0rds’s jeyna and inspiration tags always breaks my heart

#kim tag #kim you haven’t been active in forever but GOD your writing breaks my heart #in such a good way #jeyna #bc that’s HER ship #it’s hers #trademarked and everything

[castalianspring]

!!!!

#our flag means death #vico ortiz #con o'neill #this cast is killing me #in such a good way

[crymeariveronceagain]

me, sobbing over the song "Through Heaven's Eyes" on the Prince of Egypt soundtrack: im fine guys i swear

#VIBING #IM SORRY #IT HURTS ME #IN SUCH A GOOD WAY #its just so beautiful #like #think about how often we just see ourselves as the sum of what we've achieved #what we've bought with our money and the numbers on our test scores and the places we've been #we are so much more than that #there is a beauty and a dignity to every single one of us #and a love we are all deserving of #and im just sobbing my eyes out over a song going 'how do you judge what a man is worth? by what he build or buys? you can never see with #your eyes on earth look through heaven's eyes-- look at your life through heaven's eyes!!!' #cue river sobbing on the ground in a puddle because sweet and blessed stars #ow ow ow ow ow #not fandom content #personal #the prince of egypt

[or-pheus]

I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about Wendell & Wild. It is the best movie i’ve seen in awhile

#it deals with such heavy topics #in such a good way #the school to prison pipeline #it has a canonical trans character #amazing afro indigenous rep #the art style is impeccable #omg #wendell and wild #stop motion #lgbtq #animation #claymation

[transexualizeyourself]

Genuinely feel like I’m evolving as a person rn

#like I just feel like I’m on the verge of something big #idk #I also just feel like I’m coming into myself #growing up #I feel like I look so much older than I did even a few months ago #in such a good way #I feel hotter than I’ve ever felt before #(this may be due to my girlfriend) #(thank you girlfriend) #but yeah idk #I’m really starting to feel like myself #let’s hope this feeling doesn’t fade #queer #trans #ftm #transsexual #transgender #nonbinary #trans masc

[byeol-ssi]

the foreshadow (by enhypen) x style (by taylor swift) mashup audio has been on my mind nonstop, and it's fueling so many of my latest brainrots 😭

#IT'S SO GOOD??? #the transition #tickles my brain #in such a good way #✦ system notification.

[1dhq]

i have a clear vision why louis mentioned bloc party as an inspiration

#that guitar riff is giving me EVERYTHING #in such a good way #it’s giving helicopter #it’s giving hunting for witches #but most of all it’s giving me LIFE

[spiltcandycoatedpunkblood]

annoyed as hell that the Scanners OST isn't available on Spotify. I would be binging the shit out of that every single day whether at home or out in the city.

#god those creepy synths #80s horror is just really something else #in such a good way #scanners #music #favourite music #listening to them on youtube as of current #vent

[lotrmusical]

never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱

#was calling beckett and scouring the works of eliza cook looking for lesbianism #good amounts of lesbianism in evidence but unfortunately very little in the way of good poetry #APART from this worm one which DOES NOT MISS #eliza cook #is there a thriving eliza cook tag on tumblr. somehow i doubt it #the hand of the giant and the heart of the brave / must turn weak and submit to the worm and the grave! #not an original theme ofc but GOD the treatment is delightful. so fresh so gleeful some rlly nice use of sound. rlly solidly constructed #words #gay belligerence

[hansoeii]

we go just right.

#when the date went so wonderful that you don't even mind that you forgot your umbrella at home #crowley is doing his best and aziraphale appreciates it very much #aziraphale's very special version of pride and prejudice can't get wet #so you gotta use the four year old newspaper you found in your bentley #I am not mentally ready for season 2 #it will change me in a way that I cannot even explain #thank you neil gaiman love of my life fr #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens fanart #good omens 2 fanart #aziracrow fanart #aziracrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #david tenannt #micheal sheen #neil gaiman #digital art

[cursedgamerchild]

"internet historian's alt-right anyways" "great day to have never liked james somerton" "never even heard of illuminaughtii before this lol"

that's great buddy but don't go around thinking you're immune to this. if you're not looking for plagiarism, you likely won't notice it unless its egregiously obvious. hell, you've probably consumed plagiarized content without even realizing it. even hbomb pointed out that these people disguised what they presented pretty well as long as you didn't try and dig deeper. don't come away just thinking of this as a callout piece, take this as an important lesson about vetting your sources. if googling scripts in quotes was enough to expose the original, we should all start doing that shit!!

edit: it got a little too doomer-y a little too fast so one quick addition

this is hbomb's curated playlist of queer creators, many of whom were victims of plagiarism

this is producer kat on reddit calling for any more plagiarism discoveries and for queer content creators to be uplifted

please take some time to uplift these creators and recommend any you know! if you can help uncover more of the original creators whose work was lifted that would be great too :)

UPDATE- From Hbomb's twitter: "We're in the process of cataloguing everyone James Somerton plagiarised and finding their contact information. Which is quite a task, so to help us out: If you see this and happen to be one of the people Somerton stole from, please email us at [email protected]"

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#hbomberguy #james somerton #illuminaughtii #internet historian #vice #ign etc have had issues with plaigarism before #this isnt just some youtuber scandal remember #even books can fall victim to this #kaz rowe's history vids exemplify this pretty well #i'd recommend the triboulet ass slapping myth one if you want a good breakdown #and somerton absolutely had problems with the way he discussed foreign media and anyone that wasnt a cis gay man #but considering most of his ideas werent his own that doesnt dismiss the original authors' work keep in mind

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)