#secondly like. yeah???

[biblicalhorror]

Yknow that post that's like "when someone points out the wrong flaws in a character you hate so you're put in the unfortunate position of having to defend them" because that's me with the beloved 00s sitcom Friends

#'its so awkward without the laugh track!' first of all its not even a laugh track #its a live studio audience #google it #thats why the bloopers also have people laughing #secondly like. yeah??? #shockingly the media that was designed around a certain sound element is more awkward and clunky when that element is edited out #'its homophobic/transphobic' this argument ill give a little more grace towards #bc like yeah a lot of the ways that the characters reinforce gender roles/stereotypes on one another is by threat of homophobia #and some of the jokes about chandlers parent are offensive #but it was also literally the first ever show to have a lesbian wedding onscreen in 1996 #(roseanne did an episode on a gay wedding like a month before) #& w all the issues the show has dealing with trans people/drag it was a helluva lot better than almost anything else coming out @the time #for example chandler's trans parent is misgendered by other characters literally constantly #but when we do finally meet them theyre played by a cis woman in drag rather than a cis man in a wig #which yeah isnt perfect but is also much better than most trans representation onscreen at the time #and the character is allowed to be just as complex and sympathetic as any other parent on the show #i would even say moreso than the other parents tbh #'they put monica in a fat suit' yeah thats bad #and especially because of all the demeaning jokes monica is put through even after shes skinny #but the show again also takes the time to explore fat monicas humanity and how shes deserving of love #and explicitly states that her weight/body image issues were explicitly caused by her parents' emotional abuse/neglect #and even if she had stayed fat forever chandler would have still fallen in love with her #bc the show acknowledges that fat monica is not anywhere near deserving of the vitriol she receives from the ppl around her #which again for the time in the 90s/00s was pretty progressive #'theyre all functioning alcoholics' first of all theres an ep where theyre all shocked that the 6 of them went through 2 bottles of wine #and the reason for that is because one character finished one by themselves #secondly point out to me any mainstream sitcom from the last 30 years that doesnt have flagrant alcohol consumption #'they have like 2 black characters in the entire show and poc are treated terribly' #YES!! now we're talking #'ross sucks and ross/rachel is a romanticized depiction of emotional abuse' 10000% agree

[mihai-florescu]

I just realized something kinda annoying about engstars, they let Ra*bits call Nazuna "Ni-chan", but Eichi is referred to as "Brother Eichi" :/ I wish they'd just stick with one rather than make it confusing (especially for people that only have/use the official translation)

Brother eichi sounds like they're in a monastery i'll never get over that. I hear gongs in my head every time i read it. Im sorry to anyone that only uses the official translation though:( for many reasons i wont get into cuz i think i'll sound annoying if i do. Anyway. Rinne and Niki calling Anzu sister is funny tho, i'll give eng that, it adds a vague 2010s american gay layer to their characters that was definitely not intentional but it's there now

#ask #anon #every time someone casually asks 'should i download enstars' i have to bite my tongue because well if u wanna get into enstars dont download #the english app #no no. first of all it misses half a decade's worth of stories secondly the translations suck #what youre gonna do is hunt down blogs and use the wayback machine and- wait where are you going... #you wouldnt want to be a casual would you (theres nothing wrong with that considering it's easier to join an actual church than get into #enstars) #(it's just a game but also no it isnt. wait come back yeah you can download the app... well no i wouldnt recommend getting into it like that #) #these tags are a mess

[goldeaglefire1]

we love blatant plagiarism game getting fucked over (Pokemon Company has released a statement saying they're looking into Palworld). RIP Bozo

in other news play Cassette Beasts

#shitpost i guess #pokemon #cassette beasts #not tagging the other one #“wait but didn't you say before-” firstly that was before beloved mutual told me the plagiarism game also had racism in it #like between the plagiarism the racism and the ai art at that point you should just die i think #secondly distinctly remember a tweet going “saying that you're willing to buy garbage shovelware because it looks like pokemon-” #“- will not send the message you think it will to the pokemon company” and like. yeah. yeah that tweet had a point

[liquidstar]

Oh noooo I just realized pascha this year is on the same day as mikuexpo 😭 I can still do both but I'll be soooo tired 💔 but I refuse to miss either

#first of all i already bought the miku tickets secondly i want that lamb and tsoureki so yeah im going to both if it kills me (it might) #i clarify pascha specifically bc its not a different day than easter. tho its more or less the same thing w slightly different traditions #if it was ''regular'' easter it wouldnt matter to me bc we do not celebrate that so. it does not impact me LOL #regular in quotes obviously bc again its just a different version but ppl here generally think of the catholic easter as The easter #hence. clarifying #spring break is centered on when easter is but a week or two later we'd have Our easter (pascha) so i got more days off #to like go participate in events leading up to it. which is annoying on one hand but also on the other to me as a kid it was like #epic win. spring break 2

[rahabs]

It's just amazing to me that all the people who were having complete meltdowns in February over a video game are now on this website spitting some of the most vile, heinous, antisemitic rhetoric, is all.

#It's just. You know. What it is. #Masks off and all that #From 'this video game kills Jews' to 'yeah actually... we SHOULD annihilate them all! Brilliant' #Like it really didn't take long at all for those masks to come off. #It's just that I think you can make your point without all the 'actually we should wipe Israel+ Israelites + Jews off the face of the earth #Not even touching the people who have boiled this conflict down to 'Israel and Jews bad because white and Palestine good because brown' #Because people on Tumblr have been saying for years that the Holocaust doesn't count because 'it happened to white people/Jews are white' #Which is an entirely different can of ignorance (and I've already reblogged posts on the matter of Jewish ethnicity) #And to the people who I know will have knee-jerk responses to this: #Firstly temper yourself and use your brain please #Secondly I'm not saying all the Pro-Palestine people say this. #Just that there is a very large amount of real and vile antisemitism #And a lot of it is being propagated by the same people who back in February #Harassed people under the guise of 'this game is antisemitic' (even when actual Jews disagreed) #And who then immediately jumped on the 'Israel bad and also Jews bad and also we should get rid of them forever' train. #Like hopefully even the Pro-Palestine people can understand why that's Wrong. Hopefully. #Also do not even with the 'but that's not happening Cheyenne' because yes it is even if you don't want to face the realities of antisemitis #And the forms it takes. How deeply hated Jews still are by society--and not just Western society. #And also you know what while I dig myself a hole tonight: #Jewish people have existed in Israel longer than Christians and Muslims have existed PERIOD #And I am so over the horrible nonsensical comparisons North Americans try to make to the colonisation of the Americas by Europeans. #It is NOT the same thing and I say this as a First Nations woman with two history degrees; a classics degree; and a JD. #You sound ignorant. You are ignorant. Stop it.

[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

[coffee-bat]

i haven't been having the best time lately

#sorry vent incoming in tags. you dont have to read you really can skip this #/so the day before yesterday i had a major argument with mom. about something incredibly small but she got super mad at me (basically i #suggested she might have made a mistake while cleaning the oven bc when i turned it on i smelled and felt burning chemicals. like- #-teary eyes and sneezing i wasn't imagining it. and she got super mad and started yelling) #for the whole afternoon it was either silent treatment or yelling abt how what i said is 'unforgivable' #and ofc rejecting apologies and attempts to calm the situation down bc 'this isn't something you can just fix with an apology' #i literally just asked if she's sure everything went right with the oven cleaning. bc it was done in a rush. #so anyway at 10pm i HAD to get the situation to a manageable level bc i was starving and she was in the living room (we have an open kitchen #) so if i wanted to get sth to eat i'd have to confront her. so screaming match ensued again with me apologizing and explaining my point - #and her yelling over me. it went on for 40 minutes. finally after me apologizing like 70 times she calmed down but said that 'what i did is- #-unacceaptable and she does not give permission for it to happen again'. i went to sleep without getting anything to eat of course. #and this fucked me up. bc i really thought we were doing better. i really thought our relationship would only get better now esp after we - #-bonded on vacation. but turns out not. and shes still lowkey mad. #THEN yesterday im studying for a zoology exam and mention it on the phone with her #she goes 'who do you have zoology for'. i respond with the name of the teacher. confused. #'professor (x) died on friday.' #?????????? #'it's not published anywhere yet so yeah YOU have to tell your class' #i had a panic attack legit. i threw up from stress. i couldnt do it. first off bc of shock and secondly bc how am i supposed tojust jump #into group chat like 'oh hey btw professor died' #thankfully the info was posted officially by uni at 10pm. so i didnt have to do it. but mom kept pressing me to the whole day #i was nauseaous all of yesterday bc of it. i couldnt manage to study anymore after the shock. sure he was older but he was so energetic and #seemed healthy. i wouldnt have expected it it was just. a huge shock. im still not over it #like you cant know someone for half a year then not be shaken when they suddenly die yknow. and mom is lowkey making fun of me like #'what were you emotionally attached??? he wasnt anyone close' #no he wasnt but im still shaken. and being mocked is only making it worse. as is having to keep studying for his subject for the next few- #-days. #sorry ok vent over theres just. a lot happening for me and im struggling i needed to let it out ig. theres just too much at once #vent #death mention

[shima-draws]

Kirito: Hey welcome back. What took you?

Eugeo: Well uh.

Eugeo: I think

Eugeo: I just got proposed to?

Kirito: Oh neat good for you

Kirito:

Kirito: Wait, WHAT,

#Kirito: But. But babe 🥺 #Eugeo: Oh my god don’t look at me like that. You KNOW I didn’t say yes #Kirito: What the FUCK everyone on CAMPUS knows your ass belongs to me who the hell went #Kirito: ‘Eugeo-sama…I like you 😳 Let’s get married!! 🥺’ #Eugeo: Okay first of all it didn’t happen like that #Eugeo: And secondly you make fun but. It was Tiese so #Kirito: TIESE??? #Kirito: DEADASS?? #Eugeo: I know right? You’d THINK spending so much time with us she’d. You know #Eugeo: Pick up on the fact that we’re super gay for each other? #Kirito: Listen Ronie asked me on day ONE ‘Are you and Eugeo-senpai dating?’ #Kirito: How did SHE pick up on it and not Tiese. Asking real questions here #Eugeo: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #Kirito: Idk maybe your vibes weren’t gay enough #Eugeo: Like your bisexual vibes? #Kirito: My bi vibes are off the CHARTS okay. I am RADIATING with bisexual energy at all times. #Kirito: Anyway I need to have some words with your page. And make it VERY clear that you are MY boyfriend #Eugeo: Yeah yeah okay. #Kirito: And tell her that if you’re marrying ANYBODY it’s going to be me #Eugeo: Yeah yeah I get it—wait what #Kirito: What #JFNSNFMSMFMS #SAO #Yujikiri #Kirito #Sword Art Online #Eugeo #Sorry I’ll shut up now ;) #Shima speaks

[krotiation]

IVE NEVER FELT THIS PERPLEXED OVER THE EUROVISION RESULTS BEFORE

#first of all holy shit that was intense #I HATE HOW THEY DRAG THE VOTES ON SO MUCH BUT I ALSO LIKE THE DRAMA OF IT #secondly i have so many mixed emotions about the results cause like #im a swede and eurovision really brings out my swedish loyalty #so like FUCK YEAH WE WON #LETS GO LOREEN WOOOOOOOOOOOOH #but also OH MY GOD FINLAND WAS SO ROBBED #LIKE ASTRONOMICALLY #its okay we all know that the jurys votes dont count and finland is the actual winner of this years eurovision #BUT MAN. MAAAAAAN #THEIR SONG WAS SO FUCKING GOOD LIKE #I WAS AVOIDING LISTENING TO IT SINCE TUESDAY CAUSE I WANTED IT TO FEEL FRESH TONIGHT #AND I GOT WITHDRAWLS I SWEAR TO GOD #now i can finally listen to it on repeat until next years eurovision #you know whats a real shame tho? #norway could have been 3rd if it wasnt for israel and italy which means we could have had a nordic top 3 #im also really surprised that serbia didnt get more votes from the public they were SO good #okay but whether youre disappointed that sweden won or not.... you gotta admit its a good thing it was loreen and no one else #and were so obsessed with måns zelmerlöw still so hes probably definitely gonna show up next year and you know it #ITS A GOOD DAY TO BE A NORDIC #CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA #seriously käärijä just screams finland what an icon #this is already so jumbled but i have to add one last thing #ONE MORE WIN AND SWEDEN BEATS IRELAND ON MOST EUROVISION WINS #LEEEEETS GOOOOOOOOO #delete later

[angry-roomba-army]

what if the journals ranging from jealousy to near worship weren't that bad what if it was just william's gay ass theater kid poetry about his crush that looked really bad to a divorced police officer without context. i don't actually think that's what happened its just fun to think about. like what if

#angry roomba whirrs #five nights at freddys #fnaf #william afton #william afton fnaf #fnaf william afton #do you think hes a cannibalism as a metaphor for love kinda guy or does he go for a more catholic guilty ohh my love is corruption angle #like i dont really know much about catholic gulit or catholicism in general cause im not a catholic but like ive seen the tumblr posts #and the gay religious fanart #oh shoot i forgot to tag willry #willry #willry fnaf #fnaf willry #ok done PHEW #so anyway like what would a divorced police officer know about romance? firstly hes a cop secondly hes divorced so clearly not much #and we all know william hes theatrical hes a romantic or at least he seems like the romantic type im kinda jumping to conclusions here #so he would write gay ass theater kid poetry about his crush! he would! #and then when some normie ass unpoetic cop reads his DIARY of course hes not gonna understand the poetic passages dedicated to his love #like HELLO????? thats not ““““raving”””” its a SOLILOQUY come on man #and! he read his DIARY. like idc that he was investigating a murder you! dont! read! peoples! diaries! #if i were will and someone read my diary i would be so horrified like im surprised that HE wasnt the one who built a suicide bot after that #also! if you picked a random ass average target goer probably likes golf or something and showed them cannibalism as a metaphor for love #poetry they probably wouldn't see the poetic devotion part of it i think that they might think that you're crazy #or maybe. im just severely underestimating the poetic literacy of the average golf playing target goer that could be true #but anyways maybe thats what happened between clay and will like clay saw his poetry and was like yeah this is weird #oh shit i just realized a lot of the contents of williams diary are just public knowledge now like at least a mention of the raving passage #has to be somewhere in the case file just for anyone to access. oh god they live in a small town too word travels fast ohhh crap #well he kind of brought it upon himself like idk maybe don't kill children and your diary won't be read #by poetically illiterate and romantically stunted divorced cops #sorry im yapping. im yap deprived i needed to yap cough cough yeah that's me coughing from how yap deprived i am cough cough cough

[bubmyg]

i already know the elvis duran interview is gonna piss me off purely based on them all joking abt not being able to pronounce his name

#first of all. it’s literally romanized to make it easier for u fucking idiots #secondly them being like he’s so sweet!!! Yeah well he shouldn’t have been <3 dye <3

[smallboyonherbike]

btw after 333 album i became fully deeply obsessed w tinashe and i AM one of her psionic warriors and ofc her tiny desk was iconic

#megamazing #tinashe #remember when she was like yeah i hate that i did a song w chris brown the label forced me #and he was like oh well name three tinashe songs #first off i can gladly and secondly fuck you #Youtube

[coquelicoq]

things i learned today:

my stepdad doesn't like the word obituary. why? well i can't be 100% certain because i asked no follow-up questions, but based on the way he relayed this information ("i don't like to use the word [lowers voice] oBITCHuary") i have a pretty good idea.

"we have to google meet" (as in, call each other on the Google Meet app) and "we have to google 'meat'" sound identical and i will interpret it as the latter regardless of how little sense that makes in context.

some drinking glasses have a little divot at the top of the handle into which my thumb fits perfectly!!!!!!!!

apparently when you find yourself at a branch of the library that's closing in three days for renovations, you should go ahead and check out all 11 books you have an eye on, because the computer will give you a due date SEVEN MONTHS INTO THE FUTURE. even though you could return the books at any other branch! jackpot.

#besties i am soooo sleep-deprived and i tell you when she said 'we have to google meet' to me... #i was like oh yeah makes sense. because you have anemia. and she was like what. and i was like wait googling 'meat' wouldn't help #with anemia...like you already know you should eat meat...you already know what foods meat is in...okay so why are we googling 'meat'? #fully trusting her to have a totally rational reason for announcing to me that we should google 'meat' while dropping me off @ the bus stop #fully prepared to support her in this random endeavor of mysterious utility #but she showed me her phone with the google meet icon and was like 'no i'm calling my girlfriend when you get out of the car' #and then we laughed hysterically for like three straight minutes. one of those days besties <3 #fun with words #libraries #my posts #no but the library thing is so funny. these weren't even holds i just started running low on library books so i took myself to a branch #only to see all these signs like 'closing in three days!' which i had no idea was happening because it's not my usual branch #so i was like okay whatever. good thing i didn't try to come three days from now i guess! #then i checked out and it was like due date: october 1 2023. they're like please temporarily store these books for us while we renovate 🥺 #we don't have room for them 🥺because of construction 😫 will you pretty please give them a good home for all of the spring and summer 🙏 #like a of all don't mind if i do and secondly that's so fucking funny what the fuck. you guys know about other branches right #like you're aware i can put these books in any book return in the county? yeah? alright haha take it easy

[kingdomoftyto]

"Carlos, if you could just pause your experiment for a second--if you could only hear me out, hear my hypothesis! I think once you understand the science of the situation, you--" Carlos opened the door. He was crying. She had never seen him cry. He was overwhelmed and unsure of how to express his emotions, since he usually only did so in carefully worded sentences, not with water from his body. "The science of the situation?" he snarled. "That Otherworld. I was trapped there, Nilanjana. I couldn't see Cecil for ten lonely years. I was kept away from the people I love, in that desolate place where you never get hungry and you never have to drink water and so you never live. It is a place that devours. It is a place that is empty. That is the science of the situation, and I study it so I can fix it. Only I can do that. Only these experiments can do that. I'm sorry, Nilanjana; I'm not going to stop so you can tell me what science is."

🫠

#Tyto listens to WtNV #spoiler warning I guess for a book that came out a few years ago now #anyway yeah hi I finished the book #the resolutions to the plot and to Nils' character arc were pretty good. nothing to write home about but fun and serviceable #I personally get annoyed whenever a story pulls a ''you thought this romance would end with these two TOGETHER? lol NOPE'' #like we get it it's more realistic for whirlwind romances to end in a breakup and sometimes it's better for people to just stay friends #but firstly this isn't real life; it's fiction. with narrative devices and such. #and secondly WtNV of all media does NOT get to preach about realistic relationship trajectories when its lead fell in love at first sight #lmao I'm just saying. I'm not MAD about it or anything it just made me roll my eyes. #ANYWAY. that aside: it was good. and I do genuinely like the friendship Nilanjana builds up with Darrell at the end #but obviously the real star of the show was Carlos and the completely unprecedented character depth that they smothered him in. #not ONLY recontextualizing over a year's worth of the podcast but ALSO saddling him with LAYERS of guilt over the events in this book #he *KILLED* the *GODDAMN* *CENTIPEDE* #after his beautiful little speech about not killing things just because we don't understand them! #he was just SO traumatized by his time in the Otherworld and SO afraid for his family after Janice nearly got Got that he KILLED IT!!! #and THEN!!!! not only do they find out that the centipede wasn't responsible for the destruction!! #but it turns out it was HIS OWN MACHINE THE WHOLE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #his attempts to keep everyone safe were what actually caused the danger!!!! AUGH HE WAS ONLY TRYING TO HELP #HE'S JUST SCARED AND HE WANTS EVERYONE TO BE SAFE AND NOT EXPERIENCE THE SAME HORRORS HE DID AUGHDUSHGHDH #...anyway yeah back to my regularly scheduled episode listening tomorrow