#posts for which i am the target audience

[fumifooms]

Dad always said I was like him

Meijack and Chilchuck Tims Dungeon Meshi, Ryoko Kui

^ 1: Moony moonless sky, Fatima Aamer Bilal / 2: Bug like an angel, Mitski / 3: Woodtangle, Mary Ruefle / 4: The Third Hour of the Night, Frank Bidart / 5 & 6: FROM THE MAKERS OF "TWO-MOM ENERGY DRINK," IT'S "LET YOUR FATHER DIE ENERGY DRINK,", Daniel Lavery & Cecilia Corrigan / 7: Batman: Year Three (1989) / 8 & 9 : FROM THE MAKERS OF […], Daniel Lavery & Cecilia Corrigan / 10: Wilt, CJ the X / 11: How Do We Forgive Our Fathers, Dick Lourie / 12: Milk and honey, Rupi Kaur / 13: / 14: Moony moonless sky, Fatima Aamer Bilal / 15: Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, Ocean Vuong / 16: untitled, joan tierney v 17: Drunk, The Living Tombstone / 18: unknown

When your father tried his best to provide for you but he worked all the time and even when he was home he was either tired or stressed and he’s always liked to get drunk to relax and cheer up. When you know he values work ethics and respectability so you grew up to be capable and quiet. And when he says you’re like him you’re sort of puzzled, does he really know you so little, or does he know himself so little? But you like the feeling of your father ruffling your hair so you accept it, and still you stand next to your mother just as silent and just as stoic as her during family gatherings. He leaves again and again and when your mother leaves him nothing changes, really. You wonder if it’s more telling that you know him better than he seems to himself or that you don’t know him as much as you wish you did, or that you don’t think about him all that much these days. Out of sight, out of mind. And he’s never really been there, even when he was there, after all.

#It’s ok they do get in touch again and he prob at least lives to 40 #Alright I’m ready to be normal about chilchuck again #Spoilers #I guess? #dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #meijack #chilchuck’s family #meijack chils #Web weaving #alcoholism #cw alcohol #webweave #A couple more i liked are a rearview mirror we’re not as close as we appear line and this french one from #Kristina Gauthier-Landry that goes like hands full of trout running up to you / look what i caught look / how much you love me #And this other one about chocolate coins that a dad arriving from work in middle of the night gives the happy little daughter running up #And it’s so anticlimatic and about transactional relationships and oughh ough it’s a good book #I am Chil is a complex absentee father truther sorry. Idc go see my analyses if you want don’t argue w me here #posts for which i am the target audience #Oh oh another one : So were we close? Or was it just the big things that held us together and the small things that let us fall apart? #The word father rotted in my mouth #Bc it’s left there to rot get it get it……….. #Sigh. Like father alike daughter #I’m a truther that she’s more like her mom demeanor wise

[spearxwind]

Tbh. Incel marvel mjölnir vs mega chad god of war mjölnir. If you even care.

#it didnt register how bad the marvel one was until i looked up 'mjolnir' for reference and its the one that came up #god of war #gow #i forgor which of the tags i used #thunderclap #(also being hyperaware that my text post being thunderclap is hilarious if i post about the hammer or thor. I really am the target audience #best of

[bivampir]

big fan of media set in 1980s where the wet pathetic bisexual man with the moraly questionable job is cringe and cheats on his girl with a man.

#THIS POST IS FOR ME I AM THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR IT. #dale jennings #the newsreader #LOOK OUT im outing myself as a Bad Media Enjoyer TM AND lover of shitty movies: #operation hyacinth #akcja hiacynt #<- this movie is on netflix and is bad and i love it. i want to talk more about it so send me an ask about it<3 #my posting #might be overdosing on the cringe with this one #hiacynt #which is apparently the. real polish title of this movie LMAO #firebird #firebird 2021 #<- HOW COULD I FORGET. FUCK

[jalapenyochips]

idk man if you thought either of them were straight i dont think we watched the same show

#my art #big time rush #lucy stone #james diamond #i refuse to be embarassed about this okay im just very invested in fixing what s4 did to them lmao #i have many thoughts abt this which has spiralled into a post-finale au i guess #now that im several thousand words into writing something that is not strictly abt this but has to do w this #i am not immune to pretty boy AND pretty girl that i had a crush on when i was like 12 #super cool (clearly gay) asian girl dating my favorite character they did that just for me thanks nick #and she was also a violinist... (oh my god she was a violinist...) #drawing lucy is so fun drawing james is hell on earth #posting for a target audience of 1 (me)

[birdmenmanga]

@raventhekittycat

hi okay so I've been mulling this one over for the past day or two and I think I have the answer. not to be using hamburger to explain anything to an american but you're my detco mutual so I'm going to try and explain it in detco terms

There's a post going around recently about how if you've read detco and only detco, the first time hakuba shows up you're going to be totally flummoxed, because damn this guy is clearly important, he gets to be even cooler than Shinichi, he's got a half-page shot of him (in such a panel-dense series such as Detective Conan, no less!!) and he's got a fucking hawk. he's CLEARLY important. everything about the narrative is indicating that you need to PAY ATTENTION to hakuba and that he's the coolest guy and he's important!!!! and then he dies in the case lol (not for real. but still.)!! and you're like huh??? what was that. why did aoyama do that.

But with the context of magic kaito this totally makes sense. He's a beloved character that people have been waiting decades to see again. Of course Aoyama is going to hype him up!! It's his big moment after years of being locked in the backrooms!!!

Anyways reading birdmen for me was kind of like that. The author's previous series, Kekkaishi, was pretty one-dimensional at the beginning, and even after the main plot started picking up at around volume 6, it still felt quite understandable. I knew what she was trying to get at, and the spectacular job she did with the anthropocene and climate change metaphor towards the end of that series really made me interested in the rest of her works. That and the way she writes familial relationships is absolutely DEVASTATING. (I mean this with the highest of praise)

But when I read BIRDMEN for the first time, I was probably in... middle school, maybe? And I read it, sure, but I didn't get it. I could see what was literally happening on the page but the narrative choices were absolutely baffling at times. Why skip over the entire part of the plot where they figure out who the birdman that saved them was? She blatantly doesn't care about that. What does she care about then?? I knew I didn't get it, I knew there were parts of it that were important and I couldn't figure out why and THAT'S how it dug its pretty little claws into me. Even after I finished catching up it nagged at me a little bit, not often at all, but enough that every once in a while I go, huh, right, that was a thing, let me go read it again.

For the record this type of story haunting has happened to me twice. First time was the Heart of Thomas, second time was BIRDMEN. I think the thing is that these are both stories which are not what other people say they are and I think I came into both of these stories with a misconception, trying to look too hard for things that weren't important and therefore missing the things that were.

Because sure, BIRDMEN is about mental illness. Yeah, it's about an evil scientific organization growing mutants in a lab. Yeah, it's about what it means to leave your humanity behind. That's all technically correct, on a surface level, and the fandom at large likely agrees with these takes for the most part, but in my opinion none of that really delves into what the thematic messaging of the story is about.

There are cryptic conversations about authority and human extinction and peculiar outfit and ability choices. You can tell these choices weren't made to serve the purpose of "writing exciting shonen manga" because that was what she did for the most part in Kekkaishi and you can tell she wasn't putting her whole pussy into doing that here. So what was she doing? What's like. All of this. Waves my hands at this.

The short answer is that it's really about the interplay between capitalism (represented by humanity) and communism (represented by birdmen), and explores the role institutional white supremacy (EDEN) plays in enforcing capitalism. It is ALSO about queer liberation and the importance of community, but hey, that double-stacks conveniently with the communism metaphor.

But also take this opinion of mine with a grain of salt. As far as I know I'm the only one who really truly deeply believes that it is not only AN interpretation of the work, but one that was fully intended by the author.

So basically, I like it, because I think it says something true and beautiful that I also believe in, even if I didn't have the words for it the first time I read it. But I don't really think that's what people really look for in a media recommendation.

Do I like it? Yes, I love it. Will I recommend it to others? Yeah, sure. But do I think it's deeply flawed? Yeah, absolutely. It's flawed in the same ways as The Witch from Mercury— a rushed ending, too many threads that were opened and never tied together. The pacing and characterization is perfect in the beginning, and too rushed at the end. There are prerequisites you basically HAVE to read in order to understand the story (tempest for G-Witch and the communist manifesto for birdmen). I think a truly good story wouldn't have any of these things so if people don't like it I never blame them.

It's my personal experiences that make birdmen so profound to me. If you are not queer I just don't think Eishi coming out as a birdman to his mom will hit the same, just as an example. Sorry that I wasn't the kid you wanted me to be. I know you love me and you just want the best for me and that's why you're so controlling, because you think I can be saved by conforming to societal expectations. But I can't live like that. I can't be like that. And that's why I must go. etc.

Aesthetically I do love birdmen a lot. If I had to describe it in a few words it would probably be "chilling", "beautiful", and "powerful", which nicely coincides with the type of things I personally like to draw. It's also silly to a small degree but it's so serious and I know Tanabe can be way way way funnier (read kekkaishi for this. kekkaishi and hanazakari no kimitachi he were foundational to my sense of sequential art humor) so that's not really the standout trait of this series.

I can't let it go because I'm chewing this series like a bone. And it's taking me years but I am getting that sweet sweet marrow. By god. We are on year 3 of this shit and I am GOING to understand this series. and I'm going to make 3 video essays about it

#just thinking thoughts... #stray bird thoughts #so it's like... I don't like it because birdmen is good #I think I like it because I am a certain type of person and the author was trying to say something specifically to the type of person I am #OH #I'M THE TARGETED AUDIENCE THATS WHY I LIKE IT. #YEAH THATS REALLY IT!!! #A long time ago I said that birdmen wasn't written for the people who read it at the time it serialized. #it was written for the people they would become. #and I stand by that 100% #if it really stays with you there is going to be a reason even if you can't articulate it yet #and it may APPEAR sloppy to someone who doesn't see the queer or communist metaphor #like 'what is she doing what is she saying here she's not saying anything meaningful and emphasizing the wrong things' #but that sort of presumes she is gunning to make 'the best shonen manga ever' #which she clearly isn't. #I remember when I was reading fma with a bunch of my classmates and I'd lend them a volume or two every day #and a piece of feedback I received that has stuck with me was 'volume 15 was so boring' #(that was the volume recounting the ishval civil war. it was boring because we were middle schoolers and didn't REALLY get it.) #and like. I think to people who are looking for something like kks. the whole thing is going to feel like fma volume 15 #like WHAT is she going on about? ? ? #like witch hat and dunmesh I think are similar types of stories but I think these two are just executed way better than bm #but because of that it is just not as compelling to me you know. #like yeah yeah it's well constructed. we all see it's well constructed. #the metaphor is so well constructed that I don't feel the need to point it out. everyone is saying it already you know #but bm is cryptic enough and just slightly missed that execution enough that I feel like I'm pulling the analysis out of a smoking wreckage #recently I've been watching mentourpilot videos about airplane accidents and like. that's exactly it. #there's nothing to say about a perfectly executed flight. #it's the ones that failed. and in particular the ones that just barely failed by a little bit. that compels people the most. #cue my de communism is failure post. bc that bm sure did fail.

[ghosts-and-blue-sweaters]

WHY AM I GETTING ADS FOR SOME BABY TRACKER THING I AM NOT PREGNANT!!!!!!

#TUMBLR! #WHY ARE YOU SHOWING ME THIS! #I AM NOT THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR THAT #HUH??? #my post #a few days ago I was getting ads for a dating app specifically for gay men #of which I am Neither #like. #okay #it was funny though lol

[magentagalaxies]

i have so much work to do for finals season which is frustrating bc on the one hand i'm very glad all my classes have project-based finals where i get to be creative instead of just doing an exam or a paper. however. i have a bad habit with every project-based final ever of accidentally getting an idea that's way too ambitious and creating more work for myself than i need to do

however this semester even tho i fell into that exact same trap my two most elaborate final projects each involve 1. editing a video essay which contains an interview i did with paul bellini and at least 45 seconds of it are bellini talking about why he thinks i have great potential as a comedian, and 2. editing a ten minute reel of the documentary footage i got on tour with scott. which of course involves rewatching various videos of me and scott being extremely chaotic together. so i stay winning ig

#my other finals include ''powerpoint presentation detailing the historical significance of mel brooks the producers'' #and ''live sketch show that i actually don't have a significant role in but that's fine i have a different sketch class next semester'' #(this sketch class was technically ''creating characters and solo performances'' and i really wish i could've done more) #(but also that whole interview-footage-debacle drained so much of my creative energy so sometimes doing the bare minimum is self care) #so i don't have a solo piece in the show. but i do get to say my favorite line in the whole show in a group sketch which is great #and i did sign up to perform an aubrey monologue in a sketch show in a suburb of boston next week #which is gonna be super interesting bc i've been looking to do more performing outside of my college #bc i've found that i don't think college kids are actually my target audience??? or at the very least i want to perform to a wider audience #it's frustrating bc for that show i have to trim the monologue down to 3 minutes but it's the tightest monologue i have and it's 5 minutes #so trimming it down feels like a game of jenga since it's so tight lmao #but honestly even if the performance bombs i'm mostly doing this so i can tell bellini about it lmao #he's so supportive of my comedy and he's been such a great help with my aubrey monologues i feel like this is bellini homework lmao #anyway i probably won't post the video essay publicly bc it's not the style of video essays i want to make #and it's too specific to the class it's for #but if people are interested in watching it i'll send you the vid when it's done #and for the tour video i'll probably post that or at least some version of it #bc that's just gonna be a fun teaser of ''here's the level of behind-the-scenes content you'll be getting from this doc!!'' #and also a fun way to be like. audiences don't know me nearly as well as they know scott #but they will definitely know me by the end of this bc there are so many wild interactions i have on camera of me and scott being chaotic #anyway this post was mostly to organize my thoughts of what i still have to do this week #i am so ready to be done with school lmao i'm gonna be spending a full month in toronto this summer #and it's shaping up to be such an exciting time i can't wait

[caimitos]

i already made a tumblr for my art (just as an archive) but i hate the thought of moving here for my art after ~5 years on artph / the local art community on twitter

like i'm not sure how to (re)build an audience on a website that just doesn't have my target audience in it and it makes me want to eat broken glass

#filipinos on tumblr receive my art....pretty differently from filipinos on twitter if that makes sense #on twitter it's mostly chill and normal vs tumblr where like. there's a Vibe. or they straight up say in the tags #like FINALLYYY like despite /living in this country/ they're so unused to seeing filipino culture depicted in art (bc they're on extremely #western social media circles). it's not my fault or their fault it's just Not My Preferred kind of reception to my art yk #it sort of makes me feel like i'm portraying something gimmick-y and slapping ph flags on everything when the art is just. whatever #does this make sense. but anyway twitter is like my house and tumblr is like me going to someone elses american house etc etc #it can get fun here but i am completely out of my element. shrek voice they don't even have kanal humor on here #skl.txt #also all my art there is mostly filipino (fashion) oriented and gets an ok amount of notes except ONE POST #sunrise/sunset art wc is very ambiguously fantasy wtvr looking. it's at 16k notes. which is neat but also a bit discouraging like #man. my target audience Really isn't on this site. yk. but i really really do appreciate it nonetheless i'm just a bit lost at the moment

[fumifooms]

#Marchil #posts for which i am the target audience #Compilation #not really but kinda #Some of my favorite meaningless casual crumbs #Featuring Izu daughter #With the second op smiles there could be soo much fun web weaving composition to do there ohhhh -rubs my hands together evilly- #I am planning an actual comp on marci chil and izu being a lil family btw they’re so cute #I forgot that the context for this post is important lmao. Oh well

[noonbeam17]

funniest thing about that yiik vocaloid cover i made nearly two months ago [which i apparently never even posted here] is that that was the first time that i had the right to say "Ah. It Appears That This Post Has Reached Its Target Audience" because im gonna be honest i didnt even expect for it to get even 1 comment let alone 8. im gonna have to get used to getting comment jumpscared when i post stuff there more HKASFVJN

anyway i might as well post it here now HJADFKSVGJN

#noonbeam rambles #noonbeam banging out the tunes #shoutout to the [im pretty sure] first comment i got on it which was “this blew out my headphones i cant hear” which. yeah i can confirm #especially that one part #fun statistics: 3/8 of the comments had yiik pfps. which again. It Appears That This Post Has Reached Its Target Audience #yiik #yiik a postmodern rpg #yiik: a postmodern rpg #<- the target audience in question [i am setting myself up for yiik fandom jumpscare] #Youtube

[lyannnar]

PRETENSE [Easy: Failure] -- Absurdism cool

#half baked disco elysium post #idk i just wanted to express how normal i am about absurdism #which is so normal #sysiphus my beloved #also the way gen z humor is seen as the resurfacing of absurdism is great because it is it's erratic and deranged and i love it #frick you i enjoy the message behind skibidi toilet #in the sense that it's a resurfacing of YTPs essentially #and if it was done in 2014 it would be seen as a masterpiece by those outside the niche #because skibidi toilet isn't made for the audience it reached so far out to #it's targetted at those in the absurd and deranged niche group who enjoy heads in toilets singing one song #it's a mockery of netflix (in a good way) #a caricature #if you will

[mikesbasementbeets]

can’t wait till eddie returns in s5 but only in the same capacity as b*lly did in s4 (a vector for vecna to torment the actual protagonists) and he has no interaction or shared plot relevancy w steve, who also is literally unaffected by his death and makes no reference to him whatsoever (outside of maybe dustin’s arc) bc in and of itself st*ddie’s “relationship” has absolutely no canon value

#sorry but i am a hater first and foremost and if you watch st and care about steve OVER all other characters then you’re watching #the show wrong which is fine watch it however you want but please realize it’s not for you you are not the target audience #this show is for nerds queers and outcasts n trying to reclaim it for the popular jock lovers is objectively wrong and kinda fucked up tbr #i love steve but for what he actually is: a supporting character #and i liked eddie fine for what he was too: a one dimensional plot device #whose importance lies solely in his effect on the plot and the Actual main characters’ arcs #glad st became popular in that it got the opportunity to flourish for 5 seasons but hate that its popularity means that every idiot in the #world who doesn’t understand the entire point of the show gets to share their boring ass incorrect takes #anyway #beets posts

[birt-art]

I've been so caught up in the Barbie hype that I forgot I don't actually like Greta Gerwig's other movies 😶

#they're good they're just not for me! #i am not her target audience #maybe I'll vibe with Barbie more #if I'm honest the hype also started to sour when i realised it was. Mattel marketing #which is obvious in hindsight but i had gotten swept up in it all #anyway #I'm going in with an open mind and still gonna go see it! #personal post

[the--highlanders]

I have so many fairytale aus kicking around in my head and I kind of doubt any of them will make it to fic status because I'm so bad at sticking with long plot-y stuff but I just want you guys to know that this is two's outfit in all of them. every single au.

#personal #posts with a target audience of one. hi bára i love you #but like. am i wrong. #the gold sparkly hat....... the gold sparkly lapels on the dark blue coat.................... #two is so so so so gold-and-blue star aesthetic to me & this is that but so incredibly tacky #which is ALSO two #and i love that for him

[daydreamerdrew]

Iron Man (1968) #60

#normally when these comics get into politics it’s awkward and falls flat for me #I think partially because I’m not the expected target audience with regards to age #and partially because I’m not living and reading these comics in the era that they were created in #I didn’t have particularly high hopes for this storyline in that regard #considering how a few issues ago Tony was fighting against #how the Mandarin tricked a bunch of Tony’s employees into believing that he was a communist #and so protesting against him and going on strike and trying to join a union secretly run by the Mandarin #and Tony was talking about how he needed to stop the strike before it destroyed his company #and even the depiction of the pacifist versus violent radical conflict last issue was awkward #but I actually surprisingly really like this #obviously Tony’s reaction when he’s called out for creating weapons that killed a lot of people leaves a lot to be desired #but I actually like it #he’s being pressured on both his use of violence as Iron Man and the ramifications of his work at Stark Industries #which is more convincing than if they were just doing the Stark Industry stuff and not acknowledging Iron Man’s violence #and Tony not handling it perfectly isn’t story breaking for me because I don’t expect him to be a perfect person #and am just interested in him being an interesting character #marvel #tony stark #my posts #comic panels

[caughdeighy]

when i want to stop seeing “people with X mental illness do this!!!! [generic list of symptoms that can overlap with many other disorders] hashtag relateable!” posts but i don’t want to just block tags for specific disorders outright………… Pain

#i have a really difficult time with trying to self dx with Too Many Things #bc i have such a hard time identifying my own feelings/problems and want to be validated #and end up pathologizing my Normal Human Feelings a lot of the time #which i think is a huge fucking issue in online mental health spaces!!!!!!!! #in general #but even though i relate to certain diagnoses like BPD for example #i know that i don’t actually meet criteria for it #and seeing posts that are like Oh if you do X you might have Y!!! trips me tf out #which isn’t necessarily to say the the OPs of those posts are in the wrong #or that i specifically am the target audience bc i don’t think i am #however it seems like the only way to avoid posts like that is to block all mentions of the disorder #which i don’t want to do bc i want to stay in the loop on mental health advocacy and such #idk man this is just a Personal Thing with no real solution i’m just venting really #bolbert report