#it's an open secret kind of thing

[matchingbatbites]

Everyone loves rockstar!Eddie and groupie!Steve, and I think a good inverse of that would be actor!Steve and personal assistant!Eddie who are suspiciously close, but no one really questions it.

Eddie doesn't mind playing the part if it means getting to jet around the world with his beautiful boyfriend for filming and promo tours, and along the way he learns he's surprisingly good at the job.

When people ask Steve why he brings his personal assistant to red carpets and premieres, he just shrugs. "It's part of his contract."

#their relationship is kind of an open secret in the industry #and the only reason they're not loud about it is because eddie doesn't want it to reflect negatively on steve for casting and such #this was inspired by a Very Specific Thought i had after watching that kiss scene from finalmente l'alba #stranger things #steddie #steve x eddie

[beatcroc]

homest[ar/uck] posting. this was meant to be supplementary to the gerome comic as him 'explaining the joke' but i uhhhhhh forgot.

i'm not much for crossovers in the the traditional sense, but it IS one of my favorite character exploration exercises to just go like 'if x media existed in this universe, who would and would not be a fan of it?'. and these ones are pretty notorious and always very fun to mess with for that and so here we are

#technically evangelion too but i couldnt think of anything intersting for eva with these guys #pizza tower #fake peppino #noisette #gerome #peppino spaghetti #these guys will just show him things and then he brings it home to peppino and hes gotta deal with all that #the simple fact is if you watch homestarunner at an impressionable age it WILL fuck up your lexicon permanently #and i think fp is the sort that is just kind of eternally impressionable. so #gerome is the only one of the cast whos into hsr he quotes it Constantly but no one knows hes referencing things #they think hes just saying shit. he knows this. he thinks it's funny. secret references for only him #but yeah that opening line was meant as an actual in-universe reference to hsr. when he says 'an old joke' it's literal jsjkskjdkjfd #idk what time pt takes place but hsr is perpetually yesteryear to me. that shit is so 2008 you really had to grow up with it i think #as for the other one. everybody i think at least knows OF mspa bc noisette talks about it All The Time #but the rest either dont get it or dont care. anyway its her right to be obnoxious about it. her privilege‚ even. #noise hates it though. hes so sick of hearing about it. if you mention a classpect hes gonna stab you #this is the only thing i have where the three besties are even close to interacting thats so sad.i need them being funny in a room together #pizzaposting

[emma-d-klutz]

People on here are always like, “I don’t know why modern adaptations always make Sherlock Holmes an asshole. He is extremely polite and nice to everyone.” 

Meanwhile you turn to the second page of any Sherlock Holmes short story, and he’s going on like, “Watson, thank you for making it! You know you’re the only one I can trust I appreciate you so much <3. We’re going to go assist our bestie, Lestrade, because he’s so dumb he not only wouldn’t figure out my insights on his own - he wouldn’t even understand them if I didn’t have you there to translate. Man, he’s so out of it, I bet he wouldn’t even have deduced which side of you was facing the light while shaving, which is so totally obvious, because you look like a depressed slob who doesn’t own a mirror on one side but not the other. He’d hang an innocent man. Go, team!”

Now if you want to argue that’s he not an asshole for that; he’s just a little too honest and his filter is a little wonky and it’s probably a touch of autism, that's fair. But this man is, like, northeast nice at best. He’s New Jersey nice. Helps you shovel your car out of the snow and lectures you while doing it nice. 

#and i love him #he's such a bitch #i have made this post before and i will keep making this post til y'all get it #sherlock holmes #i'm paraphrasing (very obviously) but this exact thing did happen and several similar opening conversations too #this is literally my favorite kind of character though #i mean obviously #as someone who talks about batman far far too much #gotta love an emotionally unadjusted bitch with a hypercompetent intelligence who secretly cares so so so so sososososoosos much #often not a secret actually #openly cares sos sos sosososososos much but doesn't always know what to say

[scorchedhearth]

i actually dont think jason would openly talk about the batarang scar like you see in fics because that's a sign of failure and you know he hides those. failure of his plan, he didn't get what he wanted and didn't plan well enough but also -mainly- failure of his relationship with bruce and he's really private, he wouldn't air that out in front of just anyone. i don't know about you but i wouldnt freely give details of how my father maimed me (and killed me) because his morals go above his personal feelings and relationships and i tried to push those. i don't even think the rest of the batfam knows what really happened at the end of UTRH and both bruce and jason like to keep it this way, secretive as they are

#sure jason could say what happened but right after hes still a bad guy and his words wouldn't be trusted #and later on hes trying to mend things with the fam so it would be counter productive to bring that out (in his own eyes. #imo thats the kind of things you nerd to talk and work through to go somewhere and not let it fester but anyway) #again a lot of this is my interpretation but i dont like how fandam make the fam to be so open. theyre all so secretive and paranoid #jason wouldnt be handing out free cards about his triggers and trauma. not any of them #dc #jason todd

[dimension-20-every-introduction]

Everyone Introduced in Dimension 20′s Mentopolis episode 6 (finale)

#dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 introductions #mentopolis #mentopolis spoilers #d20 mentopolis #HOT DAMN............. what a season #that was unbelievably goofy and looney toons level silly but like. what a fun ride #i feel like the kids on bikes system really opens the door for a lot of those moments from what i've seen it's so great #also having a secret narrative stat that uses the fucking d100 as the die roll was like VERY silly but also like. #it has me going a little bit insane about like ways that could be used in like other genres or things or whatever #like god damn that's a good way to represent some aspect of character that is just so impossibly strong that like...... #when they tap into that they just cannot fail #which kinda sucks in terms of balancing for gameplay but like god damn‚ narratively? #and like restricting it so that stat only sort of becomes awakened or usable when that sort of deeply rooted personal growth comes into pla #this might be kind of a weird stretch but like.... the crests from the og digimon adventure? #like if they managed to tap into those aspects of themselves and their crests glow‚ that's their d100 stat‚ their crests #and all sorts of astronomically powerful shit could sort of come about from them acting within their strongest parts of themselves in turn #i don't know. maybe i'm just too digimon brained maybe i'm just a little too hooked on that digimon ttrpg show that uses kids on bikes too #but like...................................... fuck. #i don't know‚ it could be something! #anyways i really enjoyed these sort of lightly animated scenes of the real world that elias hodge got to star in as the pov #very VERY fun how they played across the dome in game too #also oh my godddddd anastasia and fawnbrooke......... bro i'm gay #was this season sillier than fantasy high? or escape from the bloodkeep? probably #like the lore and worldbuilding was unabashedly bonkers due to it all existing in the mental manifestation of the human brain #and VERY funny at that #probably the silliest d20's ever been! but i loved it #alright‚ guess that's it for this one #see y'all next season!!

[shopcat]

i feel like itd be rlly funny if the reason why eddie didnt like steve before he met him wasnt any of that "oooo steve BULLIED him" fandom bullshit but that steve has like. natural musical talent that he doesnt really do much with bc he doesnt care or something. like steve was mindlessly doing polyrhythms just tapping pens on his desk in class or sth and eddie had to jump out the window

LMFAO it's like a disney channel episode dramatic plotline he hears steve singing bruce springsteen or something by himself in the locker room or something incredibly casually sophomore year and has to run out of the school to go practice deep breathing techniques in the woods telling himself over and over that metal vocalists don't have to sound "good" that's just another way they try and get you to grind yourself down in the machine but he's crying and punching trees. so upset. writes a song that says GOD HATES ME on the school bus ride home

#asks #i don't like the thing where ppl have him be like a secret pianist or something cuz i think that's just dumb also he's not that kind of #rich boy ONE DIMENSIONAL CARIACUTURE PRACTICE but him having perfect pitch or something is hilarious #they could be lemonade mouth . i've said this before #i think when ppl make eddie a good vocalist let alone The vocalist it's so funny also makes me sick remembering that time last year .. #with the kings of leon song... absolutely heinous levels of prepdom 😭 sorry kol #anyway i think when they do that it's like whatever but it's the most entry level idea you can have like oh eddie is secretly incredibly #talented bc u don't get to see much of his actual performing um limits but we know it means a lot to him #but fuck it's so funny to imagine he's just not that good BUT HE DOES IT ANYWAY. that's beautiful actually #also so many good bands have dogshit singers .. He is one. to me. #i also think this opens up the potential for the st/eddie home band that no one wants to think about Because theyre scared #sts

[chamerionwrites]

Because I am back on some very specific bullshit I am ofc also thinking about how Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement met (were very briefly roommates in fact) in the Congo, and seem to have really liked each other. Conrad wrote glowingly of Casement in his diary ("Made the acquaintance of Mr. Roger Casement, which I should consider as a great pleasure under any circumstances and now it becomes a positive piece of luck. Thinks, speaks well, most intelligent and very sympathetic"). Six years later Casement made a point of looking him up in London and they apparently talked until three in the morning.

And then two decades later Casement was hanged for treason because he tried to run guns from Germany to the Easter Rising, whereas Conrad prominently refused to sign the petition for clemency.

#contrast conan doyle who was at least as ardent a british imperialist as conrad but very loudly on team pardon #idk ultimately casement fascinates me *because* he was not an uncomplicatedly heroic figure #(he was also a man of his time and v much complicit in british imperialism) #but because he was capable of taking that step beyond cognitive dissonance and into anti-imperialism #and it's like. what is the thing that cracks someone's worldview open? witnessing atrocities sure but conrad witnessed the same things! #is it because he was irish is it because he was gay can we meaningfully answer such questions about ourselves let alone historical figures? #is it even useful to try? identity is not political destiny. we have so many examples of it not being that. #Ability To Open One's Goddamned Eyeballs is really kind of a wild thing to celebrate anyone for and yet. and yet. #if there was some secret foolproof formula for getting people to do it my god we could get so much done #roger casement #my posts #sorry i swear i will shut up now

[katyspersonal]

#personal #internets #at this rate I've unfollowed both of the kinda.. 'controvercial' blogs I've been following #since there was a good chunk of actually good takes about how bad media is now and society and braindead internet 'activists' that- #-had it too good in their western countries and NEEDED to invent the reason to bully and excile people #could honestly resonate with it despite some other posts causing genuine pain. but mostly about terribly handled media #like you know that thing when corporations do terrible ass rep to pretend that they care for minorities #or artificially fabricate online backlash against their new actors to show investors that people show interest for their product because- #-of all the clicks on their article? #like discussion of this kind sorta keeps me sober #as a person with BPD I get contaminated by opinions VERY easily and as an autist I will believe everything if it is put together 'logically #that's why I HAVE to be exposed to every possible opinion so I am forced to make out my own rather than being swayed anywhere #but at this point those blog became kinda.. bad? like they don't just have 'opinions' but they hate just to hate #but now my dashboard and recs are full of exclusively things I can fully agree with and I am scared that it will rot my brain #like.. emotions are always the same. where is the 'wait WHAT' effect? where is anger? where is self-reflection? #but ALSO I realized that 'those' blogs are no better than those western 'warriors' I despise and they become narrow-minded too in the end #they advertise themselves as 'open to debate' only to always sway debate into trying to win and not into actually discovering the truth #I cannot trust any side because they're all narrow-minded and hostile but I cannot trust people without any side because- #-they're fence-sitters without morals that side with the winner #is there a secret third thing? like is there a way to not take a side but to still HAVE ideals and opinions? #my problem is that if I am not exposed to people that trash everything I value I forget why AM I valuing [a thing] to BEGIN with #and that won't do will it

[icewindandboringhorror]

little man on my shoulder whispering into my ear: you are SO so correct about everything ever, all of your fears are reasonable and make total sense, you are always right, everyone is silly for not thinking the way you do

little man on my other shoulder: Friendly Reminder That You Have Been Diagnosed With Severe Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

#chronic game of 'do I GENUINELY dislike this thing - or is my constant fear response just ruining it for me'? #etc. etc. I jest - but I think actually most of the time I'm pretty good at telling the difference because I have this self awareness #like if I'm clearly bulshitting myself about something my brain is usually like 'eHMM that is Noot CORREct' or whatever #So sadly many of my Unpopular Opinions or etc. are just genuinely me having a naturally different beleife #not me being influenced by my fears. because it will be stuff that has nothing to do with my obsessions #But then sometimes it's something like .. cooking in a kitchen with someone else and being like 'ah no we have to lay the utensils down in #this specific ritualistic way' and then I catch myself and am like....... no. actually lay them down however you what. who said that. haha #secret battle going on in my head of 'GRR how dare they open the DOOR the INCORRECT WAY' ... 'ah I have just been informed by experts #actually that there is indeed NO correct way to open a door and I am just insane. Statement is redacted and mood is calmed' #All the while the person walking through the door or whatever is oblivious to my internal monologue #'what are you thinking about? you're kind of quiet' 'oh haha nothing. just hanging out.' *zoom into inside my head and it's two little dudes #rolling around on the floor exchanging punches beating each other to death* #there's a third guy in the corner working on worldbuilding ideas

[bredforloyalty]

me when i when i want to tell someone that a fairly famous fanartist [for XY show that i shan't say] who is very vocally anti [redacted] has a secret [redacted] twitter account but i can't say how i know that because i am a regular at the devil's sacrament

#which is an open secret but it's the kind of thing you don't say! like damn let's keep this thin veneer of respectability #also i haven't seen it it's just info from a source i trust. kind of funny to me #kata.txt

[aibari]

relatedly. it does genuinely bother me that the mcu never deals with the sociopolitical and economic implications of both the snap and the unsnappening

GIRL YOU SUDDENLY HAVE A DRAMATIC DECREASE IN WORKFORCE WYD vs GIRL YOU SUDDENLY HAVE A DRAMATIC INCREASE IN NEED FOR RESOURCES WYD

#what does that DO to your local community #what kind of power vacuums might open up #WHAT ABOUT THE ECONOMY................... #mcu was never going to have the guts to deal with these things as though they have systemic implications #because it is fundamentally not interested in systemic issues beyond like. secret government conspiracy hydra bad #like you need an enemy that can on some level be dealt with by one guy or a small team of guys coming in and doing some punching #which is fine!! #but it does lead itself to the atomization of responsibility to the individual level #and in the case of mcu + the mouse more generally ... well we don't want to get TOO political now do we

[biracy]

Yknow I don't think the "you" in "queer as in fuck you" is or was ever intended to mean "other lgbt person whom I disagree with online". I think this website is just terminally unbearably angry

#anyway just saw a post comparing people who say that queer is a slur to people who use queer as a slur so this is a normal website #honestly this is kind of a both sides bad thing ur both insufferable #but the Vitriol you people take in calling people who don't like it when you address The Community as like. 'you queers' #secret terfs and secret homophobes and 'fuck you you motherfucker i hope you die' or whatever. online. wooffff #open mick night #lgbt #discourse

[pochapal]

this is the second time we've had someone posit the "shannon wore the beatrice dress and gave maria the letter" theory. interesting that there is this assumption that there is a literal real beatrice dress hanging around that someone could wear. once is noise twice is suspicion. if someone brings this up a third time then i think there might be something to it

#umineko liveblog #the certainty of this dress existing raises questions about kinzo and about shannon i think #which goes back into the theory that kinzo was planning on grooming shannon for some kind of role involving the golden witch #was this thing with shannon whatever it was some kind of open secret among the adults? i don't know #what i do know is that shannon absolutely did not wear any dress and did not meet maria #this all but confirms that it was absolutely without a doubt that kanon did it. whether or not *he* wore the dress however..... #would maria need a dress to convince her that the person before her is beatrice? #or if the possession stuff is real would saying something like 'i beatrice am using kanon's body as a vessel' be sufficient? #i feel like it may be the latter. i think the concept of a beatrice dress is kind of silly

[vigilantejustice]

ed talk in the tags skip it if it’s no beuno :-)

#pretty certain mum just caught me ******* in the shower #because i got out and she called out ‘hey am? love you’ in a very sincere way #not that she’s not sincere whenever else she says it #but we say it a lot in like. a jokey way #this was just more weighty feeling pardon the ironic adjective #anyways. think it’s kind of an open secret that i’ve been doing this consistently for three years #+ i’ve just been hiding behind the fact that it is way way too hard and uncomfortable for anyone to broach it #and also what could they even do? i’m medically stable so i’m not at risk #i hope i’m wrong and they haven’t pieced it together because i hate that they might be worrying about me #+ i hate the idea of it not being my private thing #but odds aren’t on my side #anyways. messy as per #but also safe so it all balanaces out #personal

[laurelwinchester]

Is it just me or has the spn fandom gotten even worse over the past few months? There's an influx of people shipping Dean with (wait for it) John (puke) and a bunch of new J2 and Cockles tinhats and I feel like every post I read is delusional and talking about a show that didn't even exist.

i'm about to ruin your day but all of this is extremely normal for the spn fandom.

#although i will say it's kind of a weird time to become a j2 tinhat? #they live in different states and basically only hang out when they're being paid to so cue confused squinting from me #how exactly are the tinhats going to secret tunnel their way out of that one? #but otherwise yeah i mean i realize it's fucked up but the spn fandom is an on fire garbage can and always has been #the one thing i've noticed that is....not really all that different but let's say....outdated #is that they (one side in particular but all sides are guilty tbh) have fully reverted back to a very 2000s level of biphobia and misogyny #it's not that they were ever not biphobic and misogynistic it's just that they used to pretend they weren't #now they're very open and unapologetic about it #it feels very much like living in the early years of spn again so that's kind of odd i guess #other than that it's just business as usual #i might even go as far as to say it's almost been a little bit........calmer lately #my advice is to get very friendly with your block button #because things will not be changing in this fandom #asks #anon #spn fandom discourse

[lordofthestrix]

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#Ladamedemartel #Confession: This took me ages to figure out. #You would understandably laugh at some of the things I tried. #I very much greeted with open arms the kind of conspiratorial obsessiveness the evening invites #“Well...Perhaps there is some secret meaning to this thing Jules mentioned in passing about Aurora two months ago” #The only partial defense I wield is that my approach to these challenges is writing them on paper and scribbling my way into solving them. #So my method certainly didn't help. #While the main answer should inevitably wait until their reunion Tristan refused to leave it entirely on hold until then. #So he is a sending an improvised couple of brief snippets her way.