#larry look

[inkskinned]

no, actually, where is the whimsy?

my ex had a best friend named larry who asked me once: what do you think comes after irony?

we were at the bar where larry worked. it was a quiet night, and he'd hopped over to sit with us on the patron side. i swirled the lemon around my limoncello martini.

earnest positivity, i said, while my ex said, art self-destructs.

i stared at my ex. he stared at me.

his argument was the cinemasins argument: look how bad media is becoming! look at the loopholes and the dumb shit!

it was roughly 2011. galaxy print was still in. at the time, i had a favorite shirt that was a wolf howling at the moon. it got ripped in half in the wash and i honestly still mourn it. i dressed like effie stonem, because everyone did. and irony was the name of the thing. men liked MLP "ironically." the internet liked the kind of crass, "anti-mainstream" vibes of things like fuck romance, touch my butt and buy me pizza. we put cats in sunglasses everywhere, which was because we only liked things in irony.

and media had the same vibe in it: anti-hero white men would be "hard to love" and then storm off the scene. nobody was just earnestly trying to save the world: they were jaded, angry, unoriginal. mad you even asked them to try to help.

my ex ends up not being wrong. cinemasins becomes super popular. a lot of people start viewing media with this lens that is the cruelest, most jaded depiction. it's wrong for your character to have unexplained powers, even if the entire movie is about how strange it is she has unexplained powers - that is still considered a "loophole." characters make thoughtless, panicked choices? loophole. characters are actually kind people, despite hardship? loophole. features a woman doing literally anything without assistance? loophole. movies become hyper-aware of scrutiny, and now irony rules the media.

which means you go to a movie, and the character has to turn to the screen and say "beats me!!" or one of the side characters has to have some kind of quip like "are you seriously telling me that you think this is normal?" because nothing can happen in earnest. like a sitcom laugh track, we now anticipate the fourth-wall break: the moment that the media acknowledges it is telling a story. the media has to apologize for itself, or else someone like my ex rolls their eyes.

but here's the thing: i wasn't wrong either.

the difference might be that i am (and always have been) so soft-hearted that any crack in the light of this world will spear me into the ground. and i was the poet in the relationship. (he thought that was the same thing as being naïve and stupid). i was making things daily. i knew how all of us artists are driven by some strange desire to evolve. he notably liked to critique art, not to create it.

so yes, i've made things that are bitter and angry and even ironic. i've made long, sharp poems with all capital letters, and i've made poems about how the silence stretches out like a song. someone wrote once that we will spend our whole lives just circling the place we grew up. i think it's more that we spend our whole lives trying to remake a home. i think it's that as we age, it becomes less exciting to build the castle on the beach - we become aware of erosion, of windforce. we realize what we really want is to come home to our dog, castle or not.

and while art in the foreground is mired in white male violence and irony, and aggression, and not taking anything seriously - i don't think that's true of all art. i think more and more artists are leaning in to the things we love. the world has changed so much. they have taken so many things from us. the only thing we have left is love. at the bottom of the moving box - all we get is the faint sense that we have to appreciate what little we've got. i can't enjoy this stuff ironically anymore: what room do i have for irony? if it makes me happy, that is an amazing thing. there are so few happy places left for me. i want to be happy because of how leaves shiver beside each other like nestling birds. i want to be happy because of the color pink, and how magenta doesn't exist. i have spent so much of this life suffering, i have earned my right to a gentle ending. if nothing matters, i get to assign meaning to the nothing. i get to create meaning. i am an artist first and foremost, which means creation is my thing.

where is the whimsy? wherever i fucking put it. because if this is my last fucking chance to do any good in this world - i want to do it earnestly. i want to write things that make you happy. that make people feel heard and seen. what comes after irony has to be positivity.

it was close to my 21st birthday. in 7 years, i would end up writing a book about this relationship, which is hopefully coming out somewhere around May 2024. i come back to this bar scene in my memories a lot. i keep thinking of how pale my ex was. the look that crossed his face. how i looked back at him. how for a moment, both of us couldn't recognize the other person. like the gulf between us was a suddenly wide and cavernous thing. like we were alien to each other. he never took my opinion seriously, and he always seemed surprised whenever his manic-pixie-dream-girl ever broke free of the plot. like in the whole time we were together, i wasn't human enough.

this knowledge: where he said nothing comes after, my only instinct was what comes after is love.

#spilled ink #writeblr #this is a real story lol #looking back i liked larry as a person SO much more than my ex hollyyyyy shitttt #compulsory heterosexuality will do you DIRTY #edit to correct effies name my apologies to effie and effies family

[romansmartini]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to speculate about the sexual and romantic undertones of celebrities’ professional relationships

#thinking about the larry thing again. all my life i’ve been a believer 🙏 #obviously many times of misguided beliefs were there before i like. learned how the world works. now i practice rpf discernment #but quite frankly there’s nothing like the drug of looking at star wars ot promo and being like man. #carrie fisher and harrison ford definitely fucked didn’t they. #and then for carrie fisher to drop the princess diarist and be like yeah me and harrison had the most torrid 70s affair #you can possibly imagine. #VINDICATIONNNNN #quite frankly they are the reason i still believe something similar happened with gillovny. we just need the memoir drop #rpf quiz

[jebbabunga]

#sally face #sal fisher #larry johnson #ashley campbell #todd morrison #if you look closely you can see that I misspelled prosthetic the first time😻

[nellcher]

''These assholes told me it was a sweater party''

#pokemon #gym leader larry #elite four rika #chairwoman geeta #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #C'MON YOU KNOW THEY WOULD PULL THAT PRANK WITH LARRY #but Hassel and Poppy would look for a sweater to wear as a symbol of solidarity

[azherwind-art]

Ink Soulmate au Pt.6

<==First. <=Prev. Next=>

Someone is having a realization

#ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #narumitsu #wrightworth #larry butz #ace attorney doujin #ace attorney au #ink soulmate #ink soulmate au #ace attorney soulmate au #aa ink soulmate #azherwind #look at me drawing some backgrounds #and playing with panels #it's fun thinking about panels

[hosseinis]

CARY ELWES as DR. LAWRENCE GORDON ↳ "Bravo. To be able to sustain such a traumatic experience and yet find the positive in that grisly act. It's a remarkable feat indeed."

#cary elwes #lawrence gordon #saw 2004 #saw franchise #sawsource #sawedit #saw #my edits #I TRIED TO GET THIS DONE ON CHRISTMAS BUT PHOTOSHOP FOUGHT ME #just let me look at cary elwes. #anyway merry belated christmas here's a larry to match my adam gifset

[http-sawposting]

❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

#larry and adam but they’re one of those cursed creepy looking vingtage valentines <33 #chainshipping #lawrence gordon #adam stanheight #adam faulkner stanheight #saw #saw 2004 #saw franchise #saw movies #saw art #saw fanart #elijah art #valentines day

[ineffable-romantics]

"The plans for Armageddon are going wrong. Only Crowley and Aziraphale working together can hope to put it right."

So what you're saying is:

#never has there been a more appropriate use for this meme #it's also funny bc like #these two are like larry-boy from veggie tales #all these powers and abilities #and they still have basically fuck-all to do with the actual solutions #they're there to look pretty and be gay and by god are they good at it #/hj #good omens #good omens 3 #Aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #supernatural #supernatural meme #armageddon #the second coming #crowley #good omens season 3

[palskippah]

Hi! Here's some more Bowuigi as Bluey because I love them skjdksjd

It's from that one episode that makes me feel like crying when I watch it 😔 I hope you know the one ajskda Where it shows the mom hugging Bingo on her bed, and the dad is sleeping on the floor in his own room.

Also yeah Junior was crying in his sleep and that's why Bowser went to lay with him :'v

ALSO yeah Bowser's the sun and Luigi's the moon and the koopalings are all planets :''v

#super mario bros #bowuigi #my art #bowser koopa #luigi mario #bowser junior #wendy o koopa #larry koopa #lemmy koopa #junior without his hair in a ponytail you look like dad bowser #I know the mom and dad's name is chili and bandit but maybe not everyone does aksdak #this episode makes me very emotional no joke #you can't just tell me that Chili is the center of Bingo's universe and just expect that I be okay :'''v #yeah the sun is the center of the solar system WHATEVER AKLSDASK #tiny child and big parent my favorite thing #as well as big child and tiny parent #that's like bowser with junior and kamek with bowser aksjdaksjd #anyway they're like actual turtles to me and they can't take off their shells

[bathroomtrapped]

'Judas, must you betray me

With a kiss?'

#yeah i dontttt know. #mark is like seeing shit as hes dying or whateverrrrrrr #kinda wish i made it look like he was on acid but oh wel #3Dshipping #hoffdon #lawrence gordon #mark hoffman #saw #saw 3D #larry art tag

[romansmartini]

take my rpf quiz boy

#uquiz #god i had fun with this. #sorry not all rpf ships are mentioned. my knowledge is incomplete #only YOU can give me a complete rpf education #some tags now: #hrpf #larry stylinson #saltburn #and so many more. but unfortunately i am too lazy to look up proper tags for the rest #rpf quiz

[kabukeo]

For the limbus request,, Meursault launching Don Quixote like a catapult 😌 (or just any other Meur & Don interaction, i think they'd have a really funny dynamic)

i had so much fun so you get two things HAHA <33 Thank you so so much for requesting this duo if you like my art then consider tipping on kofi!

#limbus company #lcb #meursault lcb #don quixote lcb #NOBODY COMMENT THAT HE LOOKS LIKE LARRY OKAY I KNOW #i just realized his hand is on the wrong side mfer why does this happen every time #kabu art #my art

[daily-stylinson]

that right there is where I live.

#louis tomlinson #louis #harry styles #harry #larry stylinson #larry #one direction #love #louis tomlinson pics #concerts #fitf world tour #he looks so good #hot as fuck

[queenlucythevaliant]

Okay, we're gonna do "Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" never-have-I-ever style:

#I'm convinced that larry actually needs to get more life experience #at least per this song #all the pirates really #i have personally been to Boston in the fall numerous times #also gotten headlice #inadvertently sniffed a stinkbug #and I look fine in leggings although I don't find them especially comfortable #polls #tumblr polls #sunday school kid

[ginalestrades]

Turnabout goodbyes: 3rd trial

#flashing tw #ace attorney #phoenix wright #maya fey #larry butz #ace attorney gifs #ace attorney edits #almost christmas means it wasn't christmas #gamingedit #gaming gifs #aaedit #ace attorney edit #myaagifs #ace attorney spoilers #i didnt put the movie one side to side cuz it made the text look unreadable :/

[qhostcaptain]

I love the contrast between Larry and robins voice, like i KNOOWWW his voice is already quite gravelly but Larry speaking in his regular voice in robins costume freaks me out i love him so much i have lost my marbles 😞😞

#bbc ghosts #i love you larry rickard i really do #laurence rickard #larry rickard #ghosts bbc #ghosts #i love dilfs #just look at him #robin ghosts #bloopers