#the INSANITY we had to go through

[getting-messi]

It’s truly a blessing to be witnessing Argentina playing this confidently like the last World Cup was a DUMPSTER fire

#omggg Sampaoli you will pay for your crimes #the INSANITY we had to go through #drawing to Iceland and Messi having a pen saved from a dentist💀💀 #and Croatia beating us and then the desperation to beat Nigeria in order to qualify to the knockouts #lord those were dark times #it’s so much more relaxing this time

[korixae]

also also the way yeah simon and wille got to be together yeah 1000% but sara and felice!! god it’s so rare for any media to portray friendship and platonic relationships as just as important if not more important than romantic. but!!!!! they were also in that car!! they were endgame too!! it just brings me such joy that this silly angsty little romance can also put such value in friendship too <3 oh young royals writers just kill me

#that car. that last scene with car. #ofc ofc ofc them being the most adorable thing in the universe in the back #but sara and felice in the front!! sara got her driver’s liscense!! felice said fuck new york!! she had her feet up!!!!!! #and while we’re talking about yr and the value of platonic friendship can we talk about wille and felice for a moment?!?!?!!!!! #all throughout i’ve been obsessed with their friendship #i mean just look at them her looking after him through it all #even more cus they’re a boy and a girl!!! more platonic friendships between boys and girls in media!!! boys and girls can be friends #and that is just as valuable as boys and girls being in romantic relationships!! #kicking my feet over the friendships in this show on their own #let’s normalise going insane kicking feet twirling hair climbing walls gnashing at bars over platonic shit yeah mhm #young royals #young royals season 3 #young royals season three #young royals s3 #yr s3 spoilers #young royals spoilers #young royals s3 spoilers #kori shitposts #felice #felice ehrencrona #sara #felice young royals #sara eriksson #sara young royals

[faunandfloraas]

It is kinda funny seeing people talk about Seungmin lately because he definitely has gotten more bold and confident for sure. He's also just getting opportunities to be perceived as an individual on his own as well for the first time in a while but it's still jarring to see people be like Aw he was always such a quiet goodie two shoes little nerd and it's like...... he was the one to leave and seek out his own vocal coach and blatantly talk about it, which of course lead to I.N and Lee Know also doing the same, he was the one to go on bubble and tell off sasaengs who used to camp outside their old dorm for invading members privacy but also because it effected other residents and staff at the complex, something that i'm certain upper management wouldnt have been happy about, and he wasn't curt or nice about it either. like he's never actually been a wallflower, he's always had a pretty strong backbone and seems to stick to his principals, its not really new.

#even silly shit like bringing up drinking even tho staff has clearly told him not too #like yeah its silly but its still sticking to his guns of being like we arent actually children anymore thanks #the food thing too like in an old 2 kids room he said something about not being able to eat on his bday bc they were filming so evidently #there was a moment in time when he caved to the shitty diet obsession kpop had but ever since hes never really said anything like it again #instead hes telling everyone to eat well and reminding people to have dinner or lunch every other day #even the comment about growing his hair out but then being like lol the stylist probably wont like me saying that or whatever #and like the yeah im going to the gym but im not lifting. dont expect me to bulk up. im doing it for stamina<< that made me cackle #bc i did see people on twt being like but what if seungmin got buff tho omg hed be so hot 🥺 Well him bein buff isnt what this is about #so he went and made sure people were realistic. not everyone needs to be noticeably cut yk #idk maybe bc i watched most all the skz content all the way through #and now i go back and gif stuff i notice patterns more easily than if youve been here for longer and havent watched older stuff #for a while- maybe? idk its just funny but i also see takes a lot and have to stop myself from going No <3 #anyway this is my obligatory insane ksm tangent of the week. see you in 5 minutes. #🐶

[redysetdare]

every time i see a post that is like "ughh why cant we have aspec characters who aren't aroace for once" I have to do a double take like "is the aroace rep in the room with us right now?" because genuinely....where is all this aroace rep y'all are complaining about? Why cant i find it yet it's apparently the only aspec rep we get?? You admit that TV never says the word aromantic so where is the aroace rep. So far I've pretty much only seen canonically asexual characters and not much else buddy.

#text #half the time i think these ppl see other aspec ppl saying that x character feels aroace and then they take it as canon rep #instead of an interpretation of the character which likely was never meant to be written as aspec at all #because majority of people don't even know what that is #this isn't me saying that we shouldn't have aroallo or alloace rep btw #this is me complaining about people throwing aroace ppl under the bus because apparently we are 'hogging' all the representation in media #and it just reads as people being aphobic towards aroace people specifically and it drives me insane #you can ask for more aroallo and alloace characters without complaining and shitting on aroace characters???? #like bro we are all on the same fucking team. we are all trying to get seen and understood. we all want to see ourselves in media #stop fighting like one of us is somehow way more privileged than the other because 'you have x rep' #we all have crumbs my guy. just because someone else is getting crumbs doesn't mean that its your crumbs being taken. #idk i see so many posts like this and it makes me feel so unwelcome in the aro and ace communities #im tired of aroace people being used as a scapegoat that you can target to pretend like you're punching up #when in reality you're just committing friendly fire against people who are on your team #i miss when the aro and ace communities used to like... work together as a big aspec community #now ppl r way too focused on separating them and acting like they have nothing in common and don't have the same goals #and both communities now tend to put a lot of blame onto aroace people because of stereotypes we never had control over in the first place #it's exhausting #like the aphobia is coming from inside the house #i didn't go through the ace discourse on tumblr to deal with this shit.

[mrghostrat]

trying to promo a new fic idea of mine on tumblr but i have..... 0 of an idea how to improve ☠️ how on earth do you go about with elevator pitches on a website like this? You pitched the idea of BNF and Streamerguys so well and naturally !!

to be fair, i have a bachelor degree in game design, and one of our early assignments had us make 25 game pitches in 2 weeks. then we had to throw 20 of them out and create 10 more. so i've got enough practise under my belt from that alone 🥵

elevator pitches are daunting, but fandom is so nice to us because we've already got the ao3 tagging system and handy trope vernacular. use them!! i try to mention my main tropes in all my fic summaries because they're such a succinct way to describe sooo much about the story (like "Enemies to Lovers")

the rest of it comes down to the actual storytelling process, and how well you can recognise your main themes and conflicts. for slower going stories (i.e. Streamer AU), the setting can also be a helpful detail to mention.

one of the hardest things about an elevator pitch is holding back information. you only want it to contain the most pivotal points, even if it feels like you're leaving out tons of important detail that people might like. when it's particularly difficult to cut a pitch down, i separate it into multiple summaries that focus on a different part of the story, and alternate which one i use when i post about it.

SO to try and wrap this up, here's a checklist for things you can use when making a pitch/summary, and some examples:

the main relationship trope/tag (i.e. enemies->lovers, childhood friends, fake relationship, new neighbours, professional rivals, online relationship, celebrity/fan, secretly pining)

the primary conflict, or the catalyst for the story (i.e. aziraphale signs up for the paris trip, not realising his worst enemy is going too // crowley and aziraphale are mad for each other but legally can't date or crowley will lose his job // crowley wants to take a clipping of a rare rose but priest aziraphale wont let him into his garden)

a pre-existing work it's referencing (i.e. movies and tv show plots you're using, like The Office, Harry Potter, Love Actually etc)

the setting (incl locations, time period, character employment) (i.e. two shops on the same street, school field trip to paris, wedding planner, Through The Ages, coffee shop, actors, authors, musicians etc)

any other trope/tag for flavour if you need to flesh it out (i.e. coming out, meet cute, summer vacation, crowley is good with kids, angst with a happy ending)

#I BELIEVE IN YOU #also thank you!! #sidenote: we had a similar assignment in a different class which made us thumbnail 50 silhouettes for an illustration #it was maddening as someone who hated drafting things and always wanted to power through with the first idea #but good fucking lord those assignments were insanely valuable exercises and i implore everyone try them #you might think your first idea is perfect but you wont KNOW until you explore something else and compare. #unrelated to this ask but you gotta learn to let stuff go #ask a rat

[hella1975]

ive never felt more rural than i have in the past few weeks since hanging out with a lad who has only ever lived in cities. what do you MEAN YOU'VE NEVER DONE A MORRIS DANCE

#he didn't even know what morris dancers WERE i said some shit like 'you know it's summer when the morris dancers come out' #and he was like 'the what now' I FEEL LIKE IM GOING CRAZY. HE'S FUCKING WITH ME SURELY #AND THIS HAPPENS SO OFTEN ABOUT THINGS I JUST ASSUMED WERE BASICS #'harvest festival 🤨' PARDON. YOU ARE JOKING #and also the CONCEPT of a village is baffling to him. i said there's probably about 100 people in my entire village #and we don't have a pub or a single shop the closest ones are in the NEXT village over which is a 3 mile walk #and this boy was HORRIFIED. we are both in a constant state of thinking the other is taking the piss #and now every time i think/do something abundantly rural im SO self-aware 😭 #my mum told me the farmers are gonna do a xmas tractor run through our village this year #(they usually miss our village bc even by village standards it's tiny) #and she was like 'shame you'll miss it! i'll send you a video!' and im there already picturing this boy's face when i show it him #like sigh. yeah. yeah okay maybe the rural england is ingrained deeper than i feared. never escaping the allegations etc #had a conversation with him the other day that concluded with me 100% genuinely being like 'you need to touch grass' #i literally said 'i think it would fix you. like actually go and touch some grass what the fuck' #bc at this point he's so far removed from nature that it's INSANE TO ME. i didnt realise how much i took growing up rurally for granted #THESE PEOPLE DONT EVEN GET DRUNK IN FIELDS. THEY HAVE NO FIELDS. I HAD TO EXPLAIN TO HIM WHAT A CAMP OUT WAS

[corpsentry]

i may not. but i write poem still

#hello friends i am in sydney australia (have been for a while now) (8 weeks) #it is good all i do is play taiko and boulder #that being said i have therefore had no time to draw. or be in fandom. i am however desperately in love #(muttering to self like an insane person) #fuck it we ball i Broke up. i. um #i broke a plate. this is not true #i am madly in love with my current little guy and it is bringing me much joy #this poem cameos them #yes i said go to sydney over the summer for ten weeks to play taiko with a professional taiko group and then did that #it is ending soon! i have just embarrassed myself yet again. it is true i have ocd #that’s ok though because i have been going through CHARACTER ARC after CHARACTER ARC #learning so much about myself and my loved ones this summer. hope u are too #in a less painful way #anyway #poem #words #my stuff #writing #poetry

[saltpepperbeard]

*comes back to tungle covered in blood* hi beloveds

#goodness GRACIOUS BESTIES #i feel like #ofmd s2 wrapped #and then i haven't known peace since <3 JSKLDJS #LIKE GENUINELY #THINGS HAVE BEEN SO SO //SO// INSANE SINCE OCTOBER 26TH #AND FOR WHAT #FOR //WHAT// #work has been the most insane workload wise since i've started this role #i've had to jump through legal hoops/copyright hoops/fistfight adobe--ALSO for work #my car battery died on me a few days after the finale #annnnnd then today i had a nonrepairable flat tire <3 PFFFF #LIKE UM #UMMMM??? #*crawls through djenks' window* david. hey david. hey #can you do a girl (gn) a solid and just drop s3 right in my lap #because i feel like s2 wrapped and then a singularity opened and spacetime distorted idk </3 #i'm going to need them back in my life so all feels Balanced once more ya feel #...ANYWAY LMAO #the way i've been ~*~lurking~*~ and the way i nearly fell tf out over those rhys/taika pictures like are we kidding #SO I WILL BE SLOWLY CATCHING BACK UP AS MY ENERGY SLOWLY INCHES BACK HSDKJLS

[kierancaz]

I want mc’s to go insane but unfortunately that doesn’t happen enough.

#like why can’t something ever just break mc ?!? #they go through so much let me see them go batshit insane please #let me see them go off the rocker and then everyone they helped throughout the coarse of the game has to be the ones to help them now #and it’s the hardest task they’ve ever had to do because all the pent up feelings of rage are being unleashed #and maybe mc doesn’t kill anyone but can they at least TRY ?? #disney twst #disney twisted wonderland #twst yuu #twst mc #twisted wonderland #obey me! #obey me mc #obey me shall we date #obey me! nightbringer #om shall we date #om nb #om nightbringer

[cashmere-caveman]

Hanif Abdurraqib, it’s not like nikola tesla knew all of those people were going to die | Anne Carson, H of H Playbook | Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain | Franz Wright, Heaven | Toby Whithouse, shooting script for Being Human S1E1 | Franz Wright, Heaven | Erin Slaughter, I Hope My Salt Lamp is a Weeping Deity | Richard Siken, Straw House, Straw Dog & My Country: The New Age, Episode 16

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#my country: the new age #nam seon-ho #seo hwi #listen guys (gn). the worms have been festering the dots have been connected the illness contracted etc!! this is an exorcism attempt #bro what if we had both been suicidal for years bc we just wanted everything to be over but we repeatedly saved each others lives #even when we were enemies bc even when we were fighting for different visions of this country we were still *each others* countries #and what if in the end we realized we were never meant to be apart in the first place and gave each other permission to finally let go #but gave our deaths meaning by sacrificing our lives so that everyone else could live in a country of peace !!!! #basically what if we went from best friends to enemies to allies to enemies to soulmates and died in each others arms and we were both boys #their dynamic is so. i wanna eat so much dirt i tunnel right through the earth and end up in argentina. #god. GOD. im like 5 years late but is anyone out there still insane like me in pain like me etc hmu #wait maybe i should put some warnings on this bitch uhhh hold on #blood cw #death tw #suicidal ideation cw #<- just in case bc idk how else to tag for the uhhh extremely normal mindset of both of them #i hope thats it? if i missed sth let me know! also if u read this far u'll get to see the business tags i forgot at the top lol #cavetext #mctna #nam seon ho #poetry #seonhwi #caveweb #also u would not Believe the fucking sleuthing i went through to find the source poem for that erin slaughter quote jfc #thats what i get for keeping incomplete notes ig :/ #also ive found the franz wright poem as both 'heaven' and 'the heaven' so ?? who knows

[cherrykamado]

a concept that i'll never get enough of is when characters endure and endure, and you can sense they're tired, but they keep going nonetheless, because there's just no time to back down, because they've got such a sense of responsibility that makes them think and feel that they just need to take care of things themselves. because it's not only their sense of justice but a mighty need to protect others, to not let anyone get hurt. in their view, nothing else matters, keeping that in mind. and because of that they'd go as far as to neglect themselves, because they believe that they can't stop, that it doesn't matter, that's a little price to pay for a greater good.

but when they finally let their guard down? when someone comes and reminds them that they're human, when they allow themselves to be vulnerable, and that they don't have to be like a kind of atlas, carrying the world on their shoulders? damn.

#this is about izuku #since im catching up w the anime as we speak and DAMN the way he's just running around trying to take care of everything #by himself? #gosh i just want to hold him #and same w tanjiro bc baby :( he had to go through a lot :( #i overused the concept of vulnerability w tanjiro but every time i see him and how he is and what he goes through.... #esp w the 'all i can do is work hard. that's the story of my life!' #i know he does it out of his own personality and story but to me it's also about his vulnerability. to protect what he's once ''failed'' to #protect. and to me that's insane #🍒 — cherrypostin

[echo-s-land]

It's insane how most of the time I don't get how ppl interact and I also Don't Fucking Care

#vent ig #i wish i could #but unfortunately i havent had the occasion of sharing one of my interest with you in the past three months and when i did it didnt go as i #wanted and now we're supposed to talk through smalltalks except i dont know how to do those so im awkward as hell and unconsciously cut the #short and now im being hated (?) even tho that wasnt my intent #but i guess no matter how trustful i am i just look like a liar #and i cant even bring myself to care bc how am i supposed to explain myself when youre convinced what i say is a lie #we werent even supposed to be this close so sorry if im stiff. i tried to get along but i just cant #the never ending circle between 'i want to have ppl to interact with being alone to experience this world is exhausting and dreadful' and #'im not even remotely interested by any of you' #its different on tumblr bc i can curate my own experience & nobody comes @ me when i dont interact with them for days or weeks (BC IVE GOT #NOTHING TO SAY) and its okay and its normal and we dont have to do the 'hi how are you wyd' script every single time (sure we can check up #on each other once in a while but it doesnt become a script. it feels genuine.) #anyway. im so normal. i can def care about ppl that have never been as insane as me about something we both love(d at some point) #am pretty sure i developed 'i perceived you saying/thinking One(1) bad thing about me and now i dont care at all about your existence' as #a child as a coping mechanism but goddammit i feel like an asshole everytime it happened #i hate feeling apathetic #and i hate lying too so i cant just say shit to reassure them when i dont mean them #cant tell them im sorry about how my behavior is perceived when im so damn tired and would rather they disappear of my life

[kimbapisnotsushi]

i think a lot of people tend to forget that kindaichi is an instigator and can be kind of a snappy lil shit and jumps into saying things he doesn’t mean and is not actually a total angel who has never done anything wrong ever

#kindaichi yuutarou #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #sou says stuff #(putting these first this time bc. OOOH boy) #sorry i got told ‘it’s insane to think kindaichi could even be remotely in the wrong for what happened in middle school’ #but like here’s the thing it’s not that i think he did something WRONG necessarily #i think he did what he felt like he had to do even if what he had to do was kind of an asshole move and it hurt kageyama #and that was the point!!!! it had to hurt kageyama!!! or else nothing would have changed!!! #but nonetheless he hurt kageyama and kageyama hurt him and that was something they both had to overcome and learn to grow from #bc that’s what haikyuu is about #there is not a single character who doesn’t grow and change and get better #we either see them actively do so or we see them start on the path of doing so #and to say kindaichi didn’t DO anything is i think very dismissive of his growth and what he had to go through #in regards to his relationship with kageyama #bc he was always ALWAYS making active choices #and when he told kageyama to not apologize??? not say anything?? #i think he meant for that to go BOTH ways #'if you don't say sorry i won't say sorry' #they've always been a two-way street!!! #kageyama cared and kindaichi cared and the problem was that they couldn't figure out how to show it so the way it came out clashed IMMENSEL #and that's the tragedy of it. that's what went wrong. they hurt each other and they had to figure out where to go from there #and how to change and learn and grow #okay i'm done thanks all going to go eat with a friend <3333

[traitorsinsalem]

i sound like the youngest boomer on earth whenever i say this but it really was a mistake for baby gays to learn about the term fruit. idk what it is about the internet that makes kids see a derogatory term for a marginalized group they’re part of, or even just adjacent to, which they’ve never been targeted with and decide it’s just their new Special Inside Joke Swear Word. some 16 y/o online calling a picture of a celebrity wearing a gaudy sweater fruity or faggy isn’t “reclamation” it’s just parroting homophobia and not funny in the slightest.

speaking among onesself or close friends is one thing but when it gets to the point (and it has) where people are calling real life people they barely (or don’t) know homophobic terms, it doesn’t matter if the person saying it is gay or not.

#succ speaks #also i thought people were only like this online but being at a lac. people really just do this to people they know irl. #like they actually just say things. having to listen to a girl call ross gay 'fruity' in a poetry class and then like a week later... #...a guy who i was kinda friends with but also hung out with a total of like 5 times decided yeah sure i can call the group chat faggots #just......wow. people really live like this. and not even 8th grade gsa attendees who are still learning. young adults in the workforce. #i also think this sort of faux solidarity is why this same demographic desperately tries to express personal parallels to experiences... #...they have never gone through and/or cannot possibly go through. something about slowly losing the ability to listen and needing to talk. #<- also sorry to sound like a psych major but egocentric approaches to social media has done irreversible damage to so many young ppl... #...but at the same time we (young ppl on social media) are to blame because social media platforms are egocentric by design. #being invested in onesself isn't a cause of shitheadedry but a lot of people have really just gotten so dismissive of others it's insane. #also idk pretend i made a solid link between this and The Lost Art Of The Sincere Apology And Taking Accountability #this is just me parroting a convo i had w some friends at lunch 2day btw. posting it online bc someone probably needs to see this. #<- AS IN. ppl have definitely thought the same thing and need to see it articulated not that someone needs to feel called out by it #feeling called out by this would be like. a personal problem to sort out

[munamania]

obsessed w my friend. i named her jackie i think forever ago lolol one of the film girlz. anyway her not letting sam get a word in last night when we had to record a little podcast together for a project. he was sooooooooooo mad

#we were Chatting... #and look first yes it's cause he naturally kept just trying to talk over/through us and she would just keep going. yay<3 and then like #she just wouldnt let him talk for more than like. i wld say 30 seconds tops but thats like barely #esp bc he just kept going back to like Well and ahahahaa so quirky fact about me is i was hit by a car #girl we've heard all these stories already including the professor and it barely has to do with our topic why are we doing this #and then after me and jackie are talking abt that one insane prof who like on top of needing ketamine injections is just not a great #person hes such a character. but talking abt how he seems to be struggling to keep up w um. post metoo life and just like women #being any more than assistants in the industry. and after like a Whilllle of this conversation w examples of shit he's said that we had to #report lololol sam goes... 'and he's also a misogynist.' hello? melania clip #abby talks #later tried to corner me abt doing a roadtrip w him and his gayass bestie to see the eclipse. like me saying Oh idk #and then him being like oh do u want me to look at tickets for u etc. girl im sorry if i do anything im going home...

[hella1975]

girls will say they’re tough shit until 7 by catfish and the bottlemen comes on

#AND ID BEG YOU BUT YOU KNOW IM NEVER HOMEEEEE AND I LOVE YOU BUT I NEED ANOTHER YEAR ALONE #literally made a whole playlist based around the specific feeling this song evokes #like is it really a sad song or is it just one of the bands you listened to religiously as a pre-teen with friends you no longer talk to #specifically this band bc they were only active for a few years before breaking up and my friendship group was OBSESSED w them #i saw them live and everything and all my big memories from the ages like 14-16 remind me of this band and vice versa #im nostalgic for what was probably one of the worst times of my life. fucking hell #would i go back there? no. do i miss what we had? a little #what's the stand by me quote. does anyone ever have better friends than the ones they had when they were twelve. or smthn #that for pre-teen girls. the other night i spent over an hour going through old snapchat memories #'seshes' babies 😭 but the vibes were so real #actually there's one girl that i was best mates with that i have an INSANE storytime about now lmao like it was so fucking random 😭 #catfish and the bottlemen #song rec