#it’s kind of concerning tbh

[ibeewashere]

Hi welcome to my Ted talk where I get unhealthily hyperfixated on an actor (Danny Pudi) after rewatching a show that they’re in (community) and then going down a rabbit hole and eventually becoming obsessed with a narcissistic capitalist federal criminal (Brad Bakshi) because goDDAMNIT HES JUST SO BABYGIRL.

#danny pudi #mythic quest #brad bakshi #abed nadir #abed <3 #Brad Bakshi my adorable silly little goofy guy #he’s traumatized okay #hes so pretty #he’s so babygirl #i love him so much #it’s kind of concerning tbh #i may need help #and I may just might just maybe possibly need to be caged immediately #he’s just a silly little guy #also hes so so pretty and like for what reason

[wardingshout]

Family for day 6 of SpeSilverWeek! Edition uuh found biological and crime I guess...

#this was the first one I completed tbh and I'm not vibing but it was rly good warmup and tbh working lineless is so much easier... #I get lazier and messier concerning anatomy esp and stuff but I have fun... #spesilverweek #pokespe silver #pokespe blue #pokespe #my art #the thing about this is. I have so many thoughts about this one very specific rocket au where they aren't dex holders but find Giovanni #instead but he still goes missing and they still kind of hate team rocket bc the whole mask of ice thing still happened so they try to fuck #shit up from within now that giovanni is gone even though they also rly just kinda want him to return and deal with stuff himself #and the admins have these rly fun roles of all being in disagreement on what to do #like the boss might be dead his kids should take over or we Must find the boss or lol no boss my team rocket now #and then the dex holders get mixed in too and it's Fun bc everyone is fighting everyone #also sorry Giovanni for making you look like that #it's like 5min til day 6 technically but my laptop is being a butt so in case it won't turn on tomorrow here it is now #I will not wait 5min for midnight I got a new pillow for christmas and I wanna SLeep on it noW! hell yeah !! #pokemon

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Feeling a certain way about that latest bsd interview concerning Akutagawa and the treatment he suffered

(that way is bad.)

#I was concerned about this kind of thing tbh trying to think of how this whole dynamic could narratively go forward #I’m not encouraged that he’ll ever be called out now. #listen. the orphanage director thing I was fine with. It’s fine to cry over someone who hurt you #it’s fine to have learned things from abusers. guy was the only ‘parental’ figure atsushi ever had even if he sucked #and that it was dazai saying all this introduces a layer of uncertainty also #was uncomfortable with aya having ‘learned’ from her abusive father (but you know fair I guess we still pick up on #and recall things in stressful moments. you can still learn from people who treat you horribly and it doesn’t mean you owe them shit) #but this makes me very uneasy and I’m uh. not happy. if this shit keeps up I just. :/ #won’t main tag this rn #storyrambles

[good-wine-and-cheese]

Really appreciate from the visuals so far that the characters don't look too glossy and "modern anime" if you know what I mean. Like for sure the animation is much more smooth and dynamic in a modern way, but I can look at character stills and it has a mid 2000s early 10s vibe.

#naoki urasawa's pluto #I rewatched the first teaser that was made and tbh the 3D/2D mixing is not that bad either #that was kind of my main concern going in but it looks pretty okay? and more so in the second trailer #it's interesting to see the style merge for sure #the only scene that actively felt Messy to me was the fight with the roaches but they may have cleaned it some more for the final product #we will see

[skrittle-mix]

like shipping wars besides - this is a crazy thought process to have and it actually explains why some are that ship shippers, like they simply aren't paying attention to the story and just see ��cute girl and cute boy’

theyre acknowledging mongoose isnt honest with each other.. okay, so what about “friends dont lie”? 

edit: oh that explains some of it ig

#byler #<you guys get it #no but this is kind of concerning tbh

[fleshdyke]

is anyone else really concerned by this “adultification” of teenagers and preteens. like idk i’ve seen 12 year old girls wearing full faces of makeup and worrying about fuckin. contour or fake lashes or whatever and looking like they’re 20. like i’ve seen way too many 13 year olds that look and act like they’re in their 20s. and like i know when you’re 12 you want to be taken seriously and treated like an adult but it’s just concerning to me the amount of young children i see that are trying to become older. i know for a fact that when i was that age i looked older than i did and i tried to act older than i was and it wasn’t even that long ago but it’s just on a whole new level with these kids. man. let yourself be a kid. i don’t have the proper words to articulate everything abt it right now but it’s fucking worrying and depressing and it’s tiktok’s fault

#it’s all of social media’s fault tbh but tiktok is just a specifically insidious kind here #like i don’t know how to properly explain everything but its just really really worrying #and if i can see it. me who is literally still a teenager and not yet an adult. thats fucking concerning man #rambles

[kyouka-supremacy]

Mmmhh...

#(Basically rant on my last two posts) #I know I've said it before and sorry for coming off as annoying– #but I really wish we still had a central bsd blog on Tumblr like fy-bungoustraydogs or bsd-central or things of the kind. #I think now everyone rushes to post news first. And although there's merit to it in knowing news as soon as they happen‚ #in the long run the death of this kind of central official content ***fan*** blogs is such a huge loss of fandom spaces‚ #especially for the archiving purposes they solved. Especially today that T/witter and G/oogle have basically become unusable. #Literally. Literally. I've been doing official content archiving since I was 11 #(because that's the very specific kind of mental illness I have) #and let me tell you that the quality of web search and especially reverse image search only got worse– #in a way that is very evident and noticeable. Which is crazy tbh and not how things should work. #If anyone would like to start a bsd-central kind of blog I'll be the first one to follow. #Actually if anyone actually wants to establish it feel free to contact me and I'll be more than happy to share the resources I have!!!! #It just needs to be something multi-modded for a series of reasons I won't get into right now #I just can't personally do it (not as main admin at least) because that would be modding my FIFTH active bsd blog– #and that's a little too much even for me. #On top of some ethical concerns I have regarding whether it'd be fair for me to mod a fandom central bsd blog– #when I feel like I can't genuinely share the same amount of love for the franchise other fans share #On top of. You know. Getting a degree eventually hopefully. #Then years after the blog has been solidly enstablished and aquired enough credibility it could even open a free donations found to invest– #in buying and scanning and releasing bsd content that hasn't been shared yet like the guidebooks or illustration books or everything else– #for everyone to see... #The dream. (Is realistically never going to happen) (Won't stop me from daydreaming about it every day) #((Still salty I couldn't afford the guidebooks only due to the shipment prices. I *would* have scanned and uploaded them.)) #That was a long and idealistic rant. Kyotag out #Edit: *Modding my SIXTH bsd blog #Apparently I mod so many blogs I lost count of them

[cookinguptales]

we're rewatching only murders in the building to prep for the new season and mabel's mom is named silvia, apparently, and now I'm just kind of imagining an AU where guillermo de la cruz and mabel mora are siblings who never talk and therefore don't know that both of them are living secret lives that they'd both find fairly fascinating

(and obviously, guillermo's propensity for creating murder mysteries and mabel's propensity for solving them creates... friction)

and their increasingly exasperated mother, silvia, loves them both dearly but also what the fuck

#murder siblings tbh #he's killin em and she's solvin em #the mom character silvia is kind of similar in both shows too lmao #concerned and loving and supportive but also increasingly worried and exasperated #and highly focused on fixing things with food lmao #only murders in the building #wwdits

[todayisafridaynight]

what do you think the arakawa fam r like with like. food. like in general. is masato particular abt texture. does masumi put too much salt in everything. does Jo like not eat because he hates himself

jo definitely does not eat because he hates himself why do you think they got tsutsumi to play him. man's thin as a rail it's perfect casting

BUT with arakawa you won't catch him dead eating anything less than eye-catching or remarkable. keywords being Catch Him i know my man would like a burger .... it's just appearances and all ... truly is not as high maintenance as he presents himself when in the privacy of his home

i have an essay about masato and his diet/food preferences but i'll keep it tl;dr and say he's a pampered house cat. do not even breathe the word 'take out' to him he'll shrivel up and vomit on the floor. homecooked meals were as healthy as arakawa and sawashiro could make them so the second masato had the chance to try Actual Food that didnt taste like watered almonds that probably solidified his villain origin story. once he got to taste pork bacon instead of turkey bacon for the first time it was all over.

#snap chats #arakawa definitely gootta force feed jo like tryna give your dog vitamins #OH BUT FOOD HCS <3<3<3 i love food ...... my stomach and ninety allergies def dont tho !!!!! #i dont think arakawa would salt his food in public- it can be seen as rude (unless you take a bite first but anyway) #at home he def got that elderly palette... need to eat an actual salt lick ... #i could be funny and project and make masato allergic to Everything but ill do him A Kindness and say he has a typical palette #tbh i dont even think he'd like bacon ... too greasy .... #this was meant to be about all three of them but its slowly turning into a masato analysis post #like its not my fault theres a lot to think of considering His Condition and if his diet is affected because of that #clearly not enough if he can drink enough to concern yumeno but whatever

[fruitybashir]

hey i was going to say this anyway, but now that I've seen someone actually being rude to you, just gotta stress it:

you do not know how grateful I am to you for writing such wonderful wonderful words every week. I am also so very happy that you're getting a lot of appreciation from so many people (well deserved 🥰)while I can understand that it's super motivating for you, to see so many people love your work, to write more, it can also be a bit of pressure (but depends on you ig)

you mentioned being sick and not being able to write some weeks ago. you're a working adult with bills to pay and this isn't something you're obliged to do anyways. pls don't strain yourself, take enough rest. if you're behind on a chapter or if it's going slow, I'm sure we can all be patient!

In joker out's words, "no waiting, no gain" :)

thank youuuu 🥺🫂💖💖💖💖💖

that is so so so sweet of you to say thank you so much <3333

dont worry, the only pressure on me is the one that i place on myself (weekly chapter) and thats honestly bc i suck at finishing things so i have to keep a schedule that is strict enough that it keeps me constantly engaged instead of slacking off, but still lose enough that i have some leeway (some days i write more and some days less etc) and so far thats beeb working out pretty well! im impressed and surprised by myself hahaha!

and all the comments and your sweet messages and all keep me sooo motivated and i cant wait for everyone to see it all come together in the end 💖💖💖

#also yeah my health has been funky lately but thats 🤷🏻‍♀️ i have chronic health issues and sometimes it just kicks up a notch and then #calms down again #lately has been really. 😬 annoying and frustrating tbh for the most part lol #buuuut ill get through it and ill be fine and theres gonna be better days soon ♡ #thank you sooo much for your kind words and concern it is soooo appreciated <333 #inbox #i miiiight actually have to skip a chapter next month bc ill be seeing joker out ×3 and to do that also travel home to germany to visit #my family hehe <3 so i might be a little preoccupied for a week and a half but we'll see if i get a burst of energy before that maybe and #prepare chapters for upload or whaaaatever. we'll see ✌🏼 #invece-sto-sdraiato

[eggplantgifs]

Ami Nakai: Miss Saigon » 2022 Japanese National Championships

#ami nakai #fskateedit #figure skating #JN 2022 #program #girl!!! #tbh i'm kind of concerned about her jump technique #but this was an amazing performance #she's so charming

[cuddlytogas]

Fyre sent me an article that made me Lose My Mind, so instead of sending 800 tweets about it, I decided to just write up my thoughts here

so, in re: ET Fox, 'Jacobitism and the Golden Age of Piracy' --

Fox is definitely exaggerating. His logic jumps from 'ship names and alleged toasts', to 'every pirate was one contact away from a confirmed Jacobite', to "a Jacobite maritime community" (296), with little evidence beyond each previous assumption. He does demonstrate a link with popular Jacobitism, but overstates pirates' political commitment by far.

There's one letter to George Camocke, a Jacobite naval officer, suggesting that the pirate fleet should unite under his command and take Bermuda as a Jacobite base, but the source is shaky, and it went nowhere once Woodes Rogers ousted the pirates. (It's I think from 1718 and unsigned? Possibly from Charles Vane and his crew? Fox only says that, "Through these contacts [unspecified, between Vane and English Jacobites] a letter reached George Camocke" (286), which is suspiciously vague, and I can't access the original to check. Either way, it would still only prove the committed politics of one crew.)

Fox also makes a lot of Archibald Hamilton, governor of Jamaica from 1710-16, who commissioned and profited from the anti-Spanish privateers who turned pirate and made up some of the original Bahamas pirates c. 1715. Since "it has been suggested that [Hamilton] was a Jacobite supporter" (283), Fox claims that these establishing pirates were also committed Jacobites, and therefore the whole pirate community that grew around them must have been. (Which leads to Fox then being baffled when there's no direct evidence of Jacobitism among some of them, such as the crews of Anstis, Fenn, or Rackham.) He relies on these assumptions, and then claims that every connection between pirates proves their mutual Jacobite sympathies.

It's much more likely (and in line with the historians I've read so far) that the Jacobite toasts and ship names speak to a broader anti-authoritarianism among pirates, with no evidence of committed Jacobite actions by them, eg, specifically targeting Hanoverian ships, or materially supporting or trying to support Jacobite rebels beyond that one letter. Indeed, the 1710s/20s pirates are generally agreed to be distinct for not adhering to religious/national loyalties like the C17th pirates usually did. (I'm so sorry, I haven't consolidated my notes yet, but I know Marcus Rediker goes through this, as does Kris E Lane, and I think Tim Travers and David Cordingly.)

Fox does identify a correlation between the rise and fall of Jacobitism and piracy over the mid/late 1710s, but attributes a pretty shaky causation: pirates ceased their Jacobite loyalties due to the suppression of Jacobitism in Britain and Europe. A much more obvious explanation is that both anti-authoritarian movements simultaneously flourished in the post-war, post-succession instability, then were both quashed as the new regime established itself and cracked down on rebels.

So, did many pirates espouse Jacobite sympathies? Yes! They named their ships in favour of Jacobite causes and rulers, and there are plenty of reports of them toasting to King James / the Pretender. (Which it must be said, although the sheer volume lends a ring of truth to the trend, individual claims should be taken with a grain of salt, as Jacobitism was a common accusation against criminals at the time, with or without a basis.)

Does that mean that the 1710s Caribbean pirate community was centred around a heart of politically committed Jacobites, as Fox argues, or largely motivated by Jacobite sentiments? Yeah, probably not.

Anyway, I am SO sorry that this article got me riled up XD the whole point of this is to say, I've never read anywhere that "many pirates were Jacobites driven out of Britain", which I KNOW wasn't even your main point, but I am unfortunately Insane. We can and should talk about expressions of pro-Jacobitism and actual political engagement among 'Golden Age' pirates, but what we know of their actual actions and espoused ideals doesn't speak to a trend of committed Jacobite politics beyond a general loyalty to rebellious causes.

#history #pirates #pirate history #Jacobites #Jacobitism #Togas does meta #this article annoyed me so much omfg #at every step Fox makes a sort of shaky assumption and then bases his next assumption entirely on that as if it's a proven truth #it's like IF hamilton was a commited jacobite and IF that loyalty was shared with the privateers and IF those privateers #retained and spread that belief among the growing pirate community and IF that was the belief that held the community together #then yeah sure i guess jacobitism was a core cause and concern for the golden age pirates #but that's a lot of fucking 'if's among a situation with a lot more obvious explanations #Fox is right that historians so far are probably ignoring the influence of Jacobitism on golden age pirates a bit #it really hasn't come up in all my reading so far and I've done... a pretty fair amount lol #but he goes so far in the opposite direction that it's kind of embarrassing #very BR Burg coded tbh XD (i say as if i've actually read burg >.> but all the reviews are forming a picture for me...) #EDIT: it's also worth noting that Jacobitism was rarely (never?) a charge laid against pirates in all the trials and moralising against them #which you'd think - if they were actually hardcore individual or broad-base supporters of the cause - might've come up more often #but anti-pirate arguments basically always revolve around the threat to trade and property therefore nation/empire #if lawyers and reverends wanted to argue that pirates were traitors - and they did! - you'd think they'd mention any actual treasons #EDIT EDIT: N: Harry M. Lewis (2021) George Camocke’s 1718 Proposal of a Jacobite–Pirate Alliance #The Mariner's Mirror 107:3 pp366-370 #has better detail and context for that letter

[fellhellion]

I can’t tell whether this is me having an autism moment or whether this is the kind of thing that crops up 6 months out of a film’s release, and I’m not trying to be an asshole but hand wringing about what if btsv reveals Dana is Gabriella’s biological mother is just. Not a concern I understand tbh.

Like for one, atsv shows less than nothing about her other biological parent. We know Jack shit about whoever contributed 50% of her DNA to the point where there’s just as much evidence for like. Alt Miguel spawning this child asexually like a starfish or this baby arriving in a little white blanket via stork.

There’s no family photos in the bg, no other parent was in Gabriella’s life when her father died otherwise we would’ve been shown them etc. we have more evidence for alt Miguel being a trans man that got a sperm donation than we do a partner being involved in the creation of this kid lmao

also blah blah blah it’s a good writing decision that there’s no partner shown there because otherwise it invites a dimension of moral complication to the story (ie. the violation of trust and consent that is secretly replacing someone’s partner) that atsv just isn’t trying to court, because the entire point of Gabriella as a writing device is to be an additionally sympathetic dimension to Miguel’s motivations and guilt.

Secondly, PAD is the main guy continually referencing Dana as Miguel’s fiancé (whether past or current) and unless he somehow sneaks his way into the writer’s room, I genuinely don’t understand any kind of concern that we’re somehow going to get an other parent reveal for Gabriella when the opportunity for that came and went already, and the film writers have been very open abt the fact they’re taking liberties w this iteration of the character (Asking for Oscar Issac’s opinion on the writing as a Latino man etc) and thus Miguel’s characterisation isn’t supposed to be a one to one adaptation of any singular comic run.

#like if this is just people venting what if scenarios for like #idk playing w what if scenarios ig then aight I guess. but in terms of people who feel like this is a Genuine Concern I dontttttttt #personally understand where that opinion comes from #like yeah sure bad writing always possible but what reason do we have in the story being told to revisit this plot point and ask did #alt Miguel have a partner? when the opportunity to include that info if it was relevant has already come and gone #like yeah the real answer to all of this honestly seems to be a kind of shadowboxing over ships but like. guys. #I don’t understand getting genuinely worked up abt this #also blah blah blah ‘why is Gabriella’s consent not something the story speaks on?’ great question! two parts to the answer! #one is that it’s a writing shorthand where the Point is to make you feel sympathy for Miguel #and thus Gabriella functions as an extent and motivation for his guilt and we just don’t got the time tbh to really dig into this outside o #a transformative space #and secondly within society children are thought of a functionally part of a Family Unit and not autonomous beings and that’s part of the #belief underpinning the very shorthand #she functions as part of the concept of a Family as opposed to an autonomous being who’s also a kid #and thus what she represents in the writing both as a child and a girl is the loss of and desire for family in Miguel #tunes talks critical #long post #tunes talks spiderverse

[coiled-dragon]

Does anyone else get like. Paranoid when they're nice? Like, that theyre TOO nice and its being read as having an ulterior motive? Or that you start worrying youre just fawning?

It feels like such a stupid fear, that I'm being perceived as ingenuine, OR that I am being ingenuine without even knowing, because fawning behavior in response to anxiety is just so second nature.

#Its so annoying I just #I am being genuine and I know Ive had issues fawning and people pleasing #but I just!! Think if we were all more actively kind!! Things would be better! #Then theres the issue where I think im being too nice as a way to cover my own feelings #like im using kindness and defering towards someone elses concerns to not have to think about myself #which is people pleasing tbh #idk #augh!!!

[luthwhore]

my main takeaway from smallville s5 is that lex really needs to invest in a good bullet-proof vest

#i actually made this weeks ago to send to sb on discord and found it clearing out my files #i didn't actually hate s5 the way a lot of lex fans seem to tbh? #i actually really liked a few s5 episodes #maybe bc i was kind of feeling lexana in s5 (before s6 destroyed it) #but clark's characterization in s5 imo was incredibly sloppy (at least where his relationship to lex was concerned) #s5 is all hurt no comfort for lex #meanwhile in s6 i watched reunion and had to pause and go back to the early seasons bc i hated lex's characterization there so much #smallville #lex luthor

[arolesbianism]

Another quick drawing from last night

#keese draws #eternal gales #oc posting #oc #ocs #oc art #experimented a lil bit with giving her some more visible dark fur #I think I like it but Im gonna have to draw her a few more times to make sure I think #my main concern is that it might make her look a lil too similar to mason pattern wise #which is already smth Ive struggled with in the past lol #also yeah I <3 using brushes incorrectly #idc what the creators of any given brush intended if I can use it for funky lineart I Will use it for lineart #also yeah Ive been grabbing a bunch of free brush packs lately so thats why Im actually drawing shit again lol #tbf the glory drawing was me wanting to use a base procreate brush Ive been meaning to mess around with but I used some texture brushes too #with all my new texture brushes making bullshit backgrounds will be a breeze 👍 #oh also Ive been trying to use those dumb layer filter mode thingies for the first time lately with my shading #idk how Im feeling abt them tho tbh multiply is nice ig but I kind of dont like how it dulls out the colors sometimes #like I know it makes the shading more coherent but idk sometimes I like the more grading shading #idk can yall even tell the different dndmdkdndh #I might just be being too picky with my colors or smth I always tend to assume the worst abt my colors #anyways sceduled and now eepy time from the past and good morning future me