#incredible display

[comic-sans-spotted]

I thought you might enjoy my exhibits (at the Vintage Computer Festival: West, in Mountain View, CA.)

I specifically picked Comic Sans for the banners, because for most people it's just a reasonable readable font, but for the kind of font nerds who hate it, it's a big SCREW YOU. It's the perfect troll: it only annoys the people who should be annoyed with it, and it's invisible to everyone else.

#foone #comic sans spotted #ask #this is incredible #what a beautiful display #truly a sight to behold

[lyramundana]

Just listened to "Want it so BAD", the new song by Han and Lee Know and, after reading the lyrics twice, let me tell you:

If there's still people who claim they're just friends, I'll lose my faith in humanity. Those guys are the real delulu here because what the fuck? With this song they basically confirmed everything we've heard since debut and screamed to the world they're, in fact, very much in love and not in a platonic way. They're married, your honour. This song basically confirms it, it states firmly and without a shadow of doubt that MINSUNG is fucking REAL and it has been since the survival show.

So for all those who don't agree with it, go argue with the wall. Us, the minsung whores and defenders, are going to fucking celebrate this gift to humanity.

Now lets focus on the parts where they specifically mention their first meeting, something we've heard from both of them in skz episodes, but now the uncensored version.

Minho: "I fell in love with you unexpectedly, couldn't get any work done, so many thoughts in my head keep me awake at night, spring snuck into my heart and left me frozen with excitement, i'm not used to it i know it's pain but i really want it so BAD" 😭😭😭😭😭 this is so minsung pre-debut coded omg, he's so fucking cute in the early states of love. knowing he was going to suffer but he loved him so much he just kept going.

Jisung: "Ride, come closer, just the two of us"🥺🥺 "together we make a whole romantic comedy movie" "let's get is started, getting anxious, can't think straight" "love you, i wanna place mysef in a spot next to you" "i'll hold you tight and say i've always been waiting for this moment" "the moment I first saw you, it was meant to be. For me, it's you"💀💀💀💀💀my man wasn't even being subtle here, he didn't try

In conclusion: Minsung is more real and solid that my parents' marriage and anyone who disagrees please come and kiss my ass. thank you❤

#i really need to know the behind the scenes of this recording #were they blushing like crazy? giggling? specially minho #were chan and changbin laughing their asses off? cringing at the brutal display of fluffy incredible love in front of them? #did they have a part in the lyrics or they just produced the music? #i feel it was jisung in charge of writing his part and then minho did his because c'mon #the lyrics are VERY clear #this isn't a love song dedicated to a random person or for Stays to self-insert in #this is heavily minsung coded #i want to see what went on as they recorded it #imagine that they kept their parts in secret from the other and when they start singing them they just blush and look lovingly at each othe #because everything they say it's true and they know it but still they can't believe it #i love them so much you have no idea #minsung #minsung song #han jisung x lee know

[the-woman-upstairs]

Ethan constantly telling his team members to just “figure it out” when something goes wrong, but then is always shocked when they come up with an outlandish alternative plan he has to pull off. Like…my dude, my guy…

#ethan is a hands-off kind of team leader #on a more serious note: it’s an incredible display of trust that he knows his team will catch him no matter what #but it really never stops being funny that he’s always ‘shocked pikachu face’ when the alternate plan is batshit #ethan hunt #mission impossible #mission impossible dead reckoning #will never be over ethan going through all five stages of grief when he realizes he’s got to jump off the mountain

[boraababy]

sometimes I think of when astronauts come back to earth and because they’re not poets they don’t have the words to describe what they just experienced and to me it’s like when cyclists are asked how their day was and they just say ‘yeah good legs’

#‘​you just climbed the col du tourmalet with nothing but the strength of you and your bike and the sheer belief that you could #with the belief that doing this is incredibly significant and life affirming #you devote so much of your life to being able to do this #how was it?’ #‘​good day yeah great display from everyone’ #is the increasingly scientific approach to sport and athletes bodies impeding the sense of wonder at what they do #is it explaining it away? #potentially #i know this also their jobs and they have to be focused #and so awe is really reserved for incredible performances see mathieu cx season #is awe and wonder concurrent with athletic success? #many thoughts

[senorscotty]

there's so much to expand on wrt helena's day job being a public school teacher and the role adding this tenderness to a character whose seeming roughness gets read as uncontrollably violent (a convo for another day). the huntress to helena is fueled with so much inner strife, part of it is putting a tangible mask on something she was doing throughout her teenage and young adulthood, going from protecting herself to protecting the vulnerable. her choosing to be a teacher further roots her in the community that she aims to protect and allows her to become the helping hand she needed as a kid. her being a teacher makes her character so much more compelling, marking her compassion and desire to be there for children esp., as a trait that exists beyond the mask. (imo this also allows a deg. of character development with what the mask is to helena; moving between a means of revenge, idealization of her strengths, to a tool to be there for when blood cries) although bat editorial has never fully understood her (some of that misunderstanding is played up solely to rehash conflict between her and the other bats), there is something about the lack of “screentime” helena’s day job gets and desire to have these figures protecting gotham but no desire to tell the stories of the people/communities that make up gotham.

#even though huntress vol.1 was incredibly dark/disturbing and has got a good couple parts that didn’t age well. it provided #so many sub stories abt the people in nyc. those who could and couldn't stand up and it made for nuanced stories and for helena to have thi #interesting origin #even the robin stories she was in afterwards! #displaying helena as a teacher provides this heart i feel like we haven’t seen in a while #also on a surface level i miss the quips she made during nightly stakeouts about grading papers. cause like saur true. #and it makes vic feeling bad about not doing something about helena’s job so much more 🥹🥹🥹🥹 #him identifying it was something important to her and grounding her…yeah #helena bertinelli

[blood-orange-juice]

I haven't played the remake so I don't know if it holds but I grew to appreciate how in the original game Aerith's plainness subtly made her feel like a cryptid.

Here's a girl, the game told you, a normal, not special in any way girl that wears a pink dress and grows flowers. Even her design was surprisingly simple for FF series. Being a healer class didn't help.

A character as boring as it gets, really.

But also it all happened in a city where flowers weren't really supposed to grow. Not friendly to normal garden-variety girls in pink dresses either.

Somehow that made her special long before you found out she was special.

#that's some incredible character design now that I think of it #I heard the ff7r aerith displays monsterfucking tendencies and for that I salute the devs #that fits right in #aerith gainsborough #aerith #I kept wondering why trying to recreate aerith in another setting never really works #maybe that's why #you need a really bleak world for such a character to shine

[nikikikiko]

hello it is 3 am today we talk about kid’s humanity and how it is vital to him being the way he is mainly by comparing him to the other two shinigami we see in the series. if u expect a coherent structure my excuse is that it IS in fact 3 am and i just woke up from my slumber

but Kid is a character who is mainly defined by three things:

1. He has a huge amount of skill and power alone

2. It is typically overshadowed by his need for perfection

3. He is human. He is also Lord Death’s son.

now, one of these holds seemingly conflicting traits: how can Kid be human if he’s Lord Death’s son? Well, he’s not. He says as much. He’s not human and he’s very easily able to identify this fact. So, how IS he human? How can something inhuman become human?

This , listeners in my walls, has an answer that can be considered very simple:

Lord Death INTENDED for Kid to be human. He intended for humanity to become an integral part of Kid.

At the time of Lord Death’s creation, we understand that inhumanity is needed to deal with immediate threats while humanity is still trying to thrive. This is showcased to us by how Lord Death creates Asura, deals with the Witches, and overall eliminates threats. He’s quick, decisive, and seemingly without any regret. Lord Death does what is best for humanity with a stern hand because that is his purpose initially: to be a present god for humanity, to light the way. Now a god is not, and never will be, human in the ways that they need to be. Especially in Soul Eater where almost all depiction of a god or god like character have them be inhuman in some shape or form. Eibon, Excalibur, the Great Old one of Power, and even Asura have appearances that can be considered monstrous: they are not human.

Speaking of Asura, I would like to call Asura a case of incomplete humanity in the wrong era. Asura is the embodiment of Lord Death’s fears culminated into a person, he did not grow up with a childhood, he simply just was. This, as everyone knows, has had a very negative effect on Asura and led to him becoming paranoid and yearning for power. He is an incomplete human who’s not quite god in the way Lord Death or Excalibur are, but not quite human either. But since he’s not quite human, Asura easily falls into morally wrong temptations to achieve power that would take some or most people at least a few more days of contemplation, and he does so without a drop of guilt or remorse. Can you imagine the absolute betrayal Vajra must have felt in their last moments? The horror and dread? The sadness that this is who Asura is? That it only gets Worse?

Now I mentioned Asura’s incomplete humanity but what exactly does that mean? In my opinion, Asura has some mechanics of a human— the shape to be exact and the general self preservation instincts of one. But where he fails at being human is how he operates. His own paranoia and fear drove him to madness yes but he acts in a way that feels logical to HIM. He does what feels best for himself in incomprehensible wonderland noise, the same way that Lord Death does what feels best for humanity. And because they are gods, they are correct at the time even if they are wrong eventually. Asura, despite having human-esque things about him, is no different than the other gods that walk among the soul eater world.

So how does this all tie back into Kid? Well, Kid is the reverse of Asura. Kid, rather than being an incomplete human, was made to be an incomplete GOD. Intentionally so, since it was the most logical thing to do to keep another Asura from happening. Lord Death created Kid to be an heir but he didn’t want Kid to become Asura 2.0 somehow, so he figured out that reversing the way Asura operated would do the trick. Instead of creating an incomplete human, he would make an incomplete god and that is the Kid we start out with in the manga.

This allows Kid to be human and a god at the same time, allowing him to learn humanity and understand it in ways Asura and Lord Death really just /can’t/. They CAN’T understand it, they simply just aren’t able to. Kid acts emotionally, he takes logical routes yes but he’s very emotional too. He can be impulsive, reckless, everything a human is expected to be. He has a drive to protect humans not because he simply should but because he has walked among them. Kid is friends with and cherishes so many humans, he finds the good in even criminals and that, in a new age where Humanity no longer needs immediate protection of it’s present god, is necessary now.

Kid can create peaceful solutions in place where Lord Death, who can only ever ensure the survival of humanity in a direct way, cannot. He can change and react and evolve in ways Asura cannot. He is human, and the two other shinigami are not. Not to mention, Kid is extremely indulgent in smaller human behaviors: we are shown time and time again that Kid has hobbies he has put time into like skateboarding and he will not hesitate to simply engage in his hobbies, but in comparison, we’re not really shown the hobbies of the other god characters. We don’t even know what Lord Death even does for fun, even though we know what Spirit does for fun.

But Kid’s also not human, and there’s no dissonance created either in this because he simply was made to be human. He knows he’s not human, he admits as much constantly, but he’s not broken up about it. He doesn’t feel disconnected from being a shinigami or from being human, he is both and he is what he is. He is what he was made to be, and his humanity is vital to make him who he is. Without that humanity, we’d most likely be left with something similar to what Kid became under the influence of the Madness of Power: a god determined to make the world into perfect nothingness.

But uh, this is all a 3am ramble ? so. take it with grains of salt LMAOO

#soul eater #death the kid #lord death #asura and death the kid #lord death and death the kid #character analysis #I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD #the visual distinction between gods and non-gods is displayed perfectly with Asura imo? #because he has an incredibly inhuman and monstrous looking form #and a human looking form #and we KNOW that that human looking form is most likely not his true form #but Kid rarely if ever looks monstrous #he has some moments but he’s not pulling out the weird looney tunes shapes of Excalibur or Lord Death ykyk #generally: if it doesn’t look normal #its not a human guy #and kid looks really normal compared to other not human guys (the witches #kishin asura

[akaluan]

New finds, new finds! Went on a road trip today to buy some new cool pottery for my display!

Here's all the pieces I bought! I think everything but the green pot is @robinsceramics ? (Sorry if I guessed wrong, I assumed based on the tags from the little figurines and the fact that the wolf and two cups all have the same little kitty face makers mark!)

And here's all of them in their new homes!

And then the zoomed out views of each shelf!

My displays are getting a little crowded, I might need to put up another bookshelf soon XD

#pottery #figurine displays #there was some really cool pieces that i didn't pick up but i already spent like $100 on all this loooooool #besides it was already a bit of a squish to find spots for the bigger pieces #oh well! #i had a fun little outing with my husband today it was good #we ate at a irish themed pub and damn the food was good #had lamb burgers and soda bread and it was incredible #i am le tired now tho

[knickynoo]

At what point in time do you think the original timeline McFly family started being dysfunctional? I’m sure George and Lorraine were fully in love at first, and Lorraine even still in the 80s seems to look back fondly when recalling how they fell in love. But I do wonder when exactly it started to go downhill, when they started having kids? Just with age? Or maybe it was never really great to begin with before Marty got involved

This is a really interesting ask, and it's something that I've thought about a handful of times. The Twin Pines McFlys fascinate me.

As for my own headcanons about when the dysfunction started, I think it was always there. Dysfunction within families is complex, though, so it likely ebbed and flowed and morphed over the years. Some thoughts! (hehehe, analysis and theories incoming)

I 100% believe George and Lorraine were fully in love at first and are even still in love when we meet them in 1985. It's just that life has beaten them both down in various ways, and they've lost touch with each other and fallen into a pattern of being resigned to (and maybe even comfortable with) all the disconnect within their family. But there's no mistaking the fondness with which Lorraine begins her story of how she and George met and the way it shifts to such sadness within just a few seconds. Her question of, "It was the night of that terrible thunderstorm, remember, George?" is such a clear bid for connection with him. A hope that he'll smile and recall that night and join in on her story. That's what Lorraine wants! But George doesn't even acknowledge her (not on purpose, I'm sure; he's just so wrapped up in watching The Honeymooners), and you see Lorraine gradually deflate from there.

It's so sad because you can see the emotions shift so suddenly in her! That first gif still holds such affection as she recalls their first kiss. It's like she's a girl again, feeling that overwhelming sense of love and all the possibilities for their life together. But then it changes. She's brought back to reality and all the unhappiness, the disappointments, the realization that life isn't what she imagined for herself.

By the last gif, she's a woman who clearly feels trapped. Now stuck with this guy for the rest of her life. And what makes it so awful is that you can TELL Lorraine still loves him. She longs for that happiness they once had, but it takes two people putting in effort to make a marriage work. She can try to reach George all she wants, but if he can't be emotionally present, it isn't going to work.

Also, I'm sure that George loves Lorraine as well, but he's got a whole plethora of issues that just. Haven't been addressed. George has no self-worth. He's meek and lets people walk all over him and is so completely anxious about everything in life that he's mostly shut down. He's trapped too, with no way (that he can see) to change things. So he does what he can to survive, which consists of doing Biff's bidding and retreating to an inner world at the expense of shutting his family out.

I don't think things were always to this extreme, though. For a while I'm sure things were okay, maybe even good. They were young and in love, and while George was still George, I don't think life had defeated him yet. They got married, really established their little life together, and I can see them as both having hope. And even if there were moments that seemed shaky or hinted that things might be difficult down the road, it was easy to brush it aside. They were still finding their footing, and they were young and had their whole future together to make things better. In all honesty, Dave probably got to experience the "best" versions of his parents for the first several years of his life.

However, each year and every hardship (big and small) likely chipped away at the McFlys and brought about additional dysfunction. I don't know if Biff and George started working with each other right out of high school or if they came to work those jobs later on, but I'm sure that was a huge factor. It offered no escape from Biff for either George or Lorraine. Just a predictable cycle of George having to do whatever Biff told him, Biff invading their home whenever he pleased, and everyone having to watch George immediately tuck his tail between his legs.

As I said, I think things gradually kind of unraveled in their house. As the state of their family became more solidified, Lorraine likely began drinking more and withdrawing. I do think they still had their good days, though! Moments that brought them together and where they felt that happiness they once shared (I mean, they had three children together, and it's clear Dave, Linda, and Marty ARE loved and were raised well.) But the state of the McFly household is probably all Marty has known for the majority of his life. I can see situations arising where maybe Dave has told him, "They weren't always like this, you know."

Dysfunctional as they are, George and Lorraine really are trying. I think they can absolutely see the cracks and the flaws—perhaps even the potential damage being caused to their children—but they just have too much brokeness inside themselves to do better. So, they do what they can, which for George involves trying to protect his children's feelings by discouraging them from taking risks. He doesn't want them hurt or sad or disappointed, and his solution is to have them form shells around themselves. Better to save yourself from all the headaches life brings.

Lorraine does her best to protect and guide her kids by way of warning them away from the very things that brought her to where she is in life. We see this manifest in the form of criticism mostly when she's talking to Marty.

Lastly even with Lorraine seeming as downtrodden as she is, I can see her clinging to the possibility of change. Hoping and praying that eventually, George would say enough was enough and stand up for himself. He'd put his foot down, step up as a husband and father, and things would become what she always wanted. She was the one always telling herself, "Someday. Someday..." until the point we see her at during the dinner scene, where she knows that "someday" isn't going to ever happen. Things are just the way they are, and she has to deal with it.

This was a lot, but I have a lot of feelings about the McFly family and how they operated in their day to day life. Especially the implications of the McFly sibs (Marty in particular!) being raised in such an emotionally disjointed environment. Ugh, those gifs of Lorraine make me so sad. The whole thing is sad.

Thanks for the ask, though! I want to write another Twin Pines McFly fic now.

#asks #back to the future #bttf #no but i could write a whole series of posts on Twin Pines McFlys #and how just that one short scene displays such a sad‚ tense home life #no cohesion. no true connection #checked out dad and depressed mom #& their oldest son who doesn't seem to have his footing in life‚ daughter who feels isolated & frustrated with a lack of social life #& youngest child who's anxious & so incredibly sensitive to rejection & feels directionless & has exactly one (1) stable adult in his life #growing up in that environment does things to you!! #and then Marty is thrown into a Better Timeline with very stable and well adjusted parents but he still was raised with the dysfunction!! #that's still part of him!!! how does he cope!!!!?? #losing my mind eric stoltz was right about the ending!!!

[gloriousmonsters]

this has no basis in anything but i can't shake the idea of ganondorf just being an incredibly reticent teenager (going along with my now-stuck headcanon of him being very isolated as a kid) who spent a ton of time just sort of observing people and absorbing information, who then around the age of stepping up to more active/public kingship was like 'okay I've done that stage, time to sink all those skill points i accumulated into charisma, manipulation and theatrics' which he views as a perfectly normal progression but seemed kind of sudden and bizarre from the outside. what I'm saying is that the original form of Nabooru's 'i don't know you any more, you are not the man I knew' was 'dude what the fuck weren't you an introvert'

#he still is! it's just less obvious #joky phrasing but. i do genuinely revolve this in my head wrt the whole nabooru-ganondorf friends 2 enemies arc (also in my head) #it's a crucial story beat re: nabooru getting unnerved by ganondorf/questioning how well she actually knows him for the first time #bc nabooru is an incredibly honest person and just kind of assumed ganondorf was the same #he seemed straightforward with her! he wasn't super talkative but what he said came off as genuine! #but when he displays the *ability* to completely change the outward appearance of his personality #combined with showing that he's figured out how to manipulate people and situations to his advantage #it calls everything else into question #(which in turn kind of hurts ganondorf because he's just putting into action the kind of king he's decided to be + being Good At People #and of course he's been truthful with her (mostly) she's smart and competent and he likes her! what is the problem??) #nabooru #ganondorf #it's an old song and we're gonna sing it again

[stedesparasol]

y'know it's funny how we talk about certain fan reactions to izzy's death bc i watched the recent m*a*s*h documentary where they talked about abyssinia henry (an episode which kills off a major character) and there was a clip of the showrunner quoting angry letters he received after that episode aired:

'you tricked us' 'you sucked us in' 'we thought this was a comedy show' 'how dare you toy with our feelings'

this is a show set in the KOREAN WAR and people still felt a character death was a 'trick' and a betrayal. not only that but i cannot express how thematically relevant and important this death was for the entire thesis of the show. and yet they received 1,000 letters from viewers about it (though some were praising the episode, and it is overall viewed positively in retrospect).

idk i just found it interesting. this episode came out in 1975 and nothing's really changed.

start discourse on this post and i'll cut off your toes.

#this isn't even really about izzy it's about fandom in general i'm just using him as a jumping off point bc the quotes rang SO familiar #(this is actually a response to a post that i couldn't reblog for some reason (maybe op blocked me? i genuinely can't imagine why)) #(which began: the way people cannot take any negative thing happening in tv shows these days is genuinely frightening and incredibly tiring #(i agree but i also think the 'these days' part is overstated... this has always been happening) #(idk if that post was about the ofmd finale but it was posted right after it so) #anyway fun fact: these letters were on display in the smithsonian! #i don't think they're still on display but i do believe the smithsonian retains the whole mash collection #what an interesting piece of fandom history

[almoststedytimetravel]

This exchange is all I have been able to think about for the past 24 hours... They don't elaborate on this they just move on and I'm going insane.

#Naoto what were you looking at? #This game has so many moments when Naoto just says something incredibly out of pocket #this doesn't even include when they just whip out their pistol when Mitsuru asks about evokers #or when she says she would display mini Kanji and Teddie in her room #Naoto really do just be sayin' shit #persona #persona 4 #persona q #kanji tatsumi #naoto shirogane #Q1 was such a funny game

[ydotome]

Delicious! Next. Not enough! More. More. More! More! More! More! That was delicious. - Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi - Episode 1

#Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi #Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill #Regarding the Display of an Outrageous Skill Which Has Incredible Powers #Tonsuki #とんでもスキルで異世界放浪メシ #Tsuyoshi Mukouda #Mukouda Tsuyoshi #Feru #Fenrir #my gifs #my post #long post

[ariadne-mouse]

Scavengers Reign is like

There's a Bug For That™

#and when it's not a bug it's There's a Fruit For That™ #what an incredible show #I can't recommend it enough #it has body horror! cosmic horror! existential horror! #incredible displays of humanity (affectionate) (derogatory) (transcendant) #organic rube goldberg machines! #op #scavengers reign #watch ittttttttttt

[chamerionwrites]

This may be sort of naïve but I’m regularly astonished by how many people are comfortable barging into somebody’s notes and behaving vilely. Like aside from loud and proud bigots and authoritarians most of my blocks are because I stumbled upon someone suicide baiting or wishing incredibly graphic violence on others over the stupidest shit

#also astonishing (or not) how many of those people have incredibly cutesy and saccharine public facing blogs #and save their nastiness for replies which while not exactly *private*. are not collected and displayed under their name in any one place. #they know what they’re doing. #social media #my posts

[ourladyofsunnydale]

you know that trick high school physics teachers do where they interleave the pages of 2 phone books and then pick a student to try to pull them apart, such a seemingly easy task? maybe dr. gregory (may he Rest In Peace) puts the phone books together and calls on all the biggest sunnydale high jocks in the class to try their best at pulling the books apart and they all fail and dr. gregory pats them all on the back good-naturedly. and then when the bell rings and everyone’s filing out, he calls over “miss summers, would you mind taking one of those phone books back to the front office on your way out?” and buffy just casually rips them apart mid-joke with willow and flounces out without even pausing

#i’m such a sucker for mundane displays of buffy’s incredible strength and there was Never! Enough! in the show! #and whatever for narrative purposes obv the writers couldn’t quite decide how strong buffy was and what she could and could not do #but give me buffy acting as human carjack while xander changes a tire #buffy bridal-lifting dawn #more gun barrel bending buffy!!!! #buffy’s never met a stuck bag of vending machine Cheetos she can’t fix with a good ole casual tilt and shake #btvs #buffy