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mecachrome · 7 days

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🤨 low q oscar eyebrow dump

#buzzfeed ojp saved my life and fed me 100 years of microexpressions i could've put the entire thing here. but i resisted #oscar piastri #*#tbh this has been sitting in my drafts for weeks because it is so stupid and incoherent but hsdklfh it's fine #been going thru it lately and my health is the worst it's ever been and it is making me quite sad ngl 😔......... sigh #self-indulgent gifsets 2 soothe the soul 🧡#also started another of my fav oscaryfaces in general which i might still do ❓ but the eyebrows needed their own place imo

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preseriesdean · 4 months

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as announced. a list of my five favorite things i made this year 🥂

5. sam and dean in season 11 - i made this because i think vicky asked me for thoughts on s11, and i felt inspired to actually look at a season i quite disliked with my samdean glasses, which made me adore it. so, so many moments and these were just my ten favorites. the process of making it and collecting those moments was so fun.

4. like soulmates

3. samwitch

2. there is something wrong with you

1. you're my weak spot - it's funny because for this ww prompt i had actually made something entirely different that i didn't even particularly like and someone else made a similar (and far superior) gifset. so i scrapped it and in the end was much happier with this than what i had before. the theme of it is one of my favorite things about samdean: the way they'd do absolutely everything for each other, and the way everybody around them KNOWS it. so satisfying.

bonus: sam/anakin - definitely my most time intensive little project but also my most rewarding, i think. purely self indulgent. during my 'research' i got so incredibly excited whenever i figured out a new parallel - and there are many things i had to cut because it would have gotten too long lol

also i just realized it's wednesday so. happy ww 🕯️

#*#i had a good year i think and fandom was a good part of it #yay

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jaskierx · 3 months

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little pre-warning for suicide (i'm fine though!!)

sorry if this isn't articulated very well but like. i got into ofmd only last october when season 2 was airing and i still remember it's bc i got a clip on tiktok of the "is that blackbeard?" "no, i'm blackbeard" scene which is SUCH a good fucking hook btw. and before watching it i kind of actually hated it LOL like people do with anything that's popular and Everywhere it just oversaturates sometimes. and it made me feel kind of silly to go back on my own opinion but i didn't even really dwell on that bc me getting into it also happened to coincide with a failed suicide attempt (that kind of funnily also included a gun that misfired like in-show lol). and like i was pretty understandably all over the place, but generally still in the "i want to live" moment that happens right after you nearly properly die. and the thing about suicide recovery is that you don't actually want to recover. so it was a really up and down left and right kind of situation and you're left feeling kind of like a puppet with no strings that's also been thrown into the ocean or something.

but then i liked this show that was funny and silly and i also got to see trans and gay people existing happily and normally which isn't necessarily NEW but it did feel really cool and unique to be able to go Oh and this is the moment where they would usually leave it to subtext and then they actually KISS and it's like woahhhh. i didn't know they could do that... and then as i was still processing what was happening with my own life and like mortality i got to see this character go through the exact same thing and come out on the other side of it ENTIRELY by himself and experience love and self determination and actualisation and i'm not saying it made me want to do it myself but it did feel like a really personal thing for me (hence anon also lol).

and for the few weeks it was coming out i got to sit there and think about how he was doing and it gave me another reason to not do something again. like i am so definitely not the only one who can say "this show saved my life" but honestly it literally did. like there's that thing when you're suicidal where the things that you're sticking around for are the only things you've got so they're as important as anything even if it's like... going to a concert the following week or something. or getting a burger. and i really honestly stuck around just to love this show and my cat.

it's been a few months now ofc and it still sucks and i'm not better or anything but being able to indulge in something fun for fun's sake is the biggest source of joy in my life and tbh it's not gonna go away just because there's going to be no season 3. when i'm feeling too much of particularly anything i have a handy little balm which i know everyone feels but still. a little gifset of ed always makes me feel better if i'm freaking out so it's cool i don't care if it's a bit lame. i'm a bit sad for season 3 and everyone being sad is also making me sadder but i still have a lot of love left so ah. it'll be fine :)

if anything i hope this inspires people to have a little boom in the numbers re: content now that we know there'll be no canon to possibly diverge from and we can make up our OWN season 3 ‼️ which will be fun :)

hi anon sorry i didn't reply to this yesterday i wanted to sit and think about what to say

and then i didn't really come up with anything lmao other than you're right and i love you and i love this show and it's so incredibly important to me and so groundbreaking in so many ways and has made me feel seen in a way that no other piece of media ever has. the queer rep is groundbreaking. the portrayal of ed's suicidality moved me beyond words. there are dozens of other people sharing stories about how ofmd helped them to come out or meet their partner or start transitioning or quit something that was making them unhappy. i watched s2 at a time while i was really struggling with post-covid symptoms. i've met so many incredible people through this fandom. i think about the show dozens of times a day. the show brought me so much joy and they can't take that away

they can't ever take away how special it was and how much it's changed people's lives

i'm very excited to see what the amazing fic writers in this fandom are going to give us in place of s3. i just wish we could've had the rest of the story david wanted to tell

#asks #anon #ofmd #cw suicide

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number5theboy · 2 years

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it might be hard to pick, but what's your favourite greek myth parallel/reference/allusion in regards to five? (i hope i phrased that right lmao)

for me it's still odysseus because you know. metis and long journeys and inability to adjust to peace after a lifetime of war and being held captive by a woman and having "no name" to hold him back and being extremely arrogant and hypocritical yadda yadda yadda. (i like the sisyphus references too, but i dont really consider five to be an ~absurd hero~, especially after s3. he clings to meaning in the apocalypse but in the face of his existence turning out to be absurd he does give up, kind of).

Hey Anon, first of all, congrats on sending in probably my favourite ask I've ever received. I was genuinely so excited to answer this that I kept it for when I would be in the mood and able to savour it, and before I knew it, a month has passed, so sorry about that, I hope you'll see this. But now I've just come off making a mythology-centred Five-gifset and my mind is buzzing, so there will never be a better time.

I once did an entire, very self-indulgent gifset about figures in Greek mythology that Five reminds me off, because to me, he thematically fits into that kind of storytelling. Very powerful, very skilled, fatally flawed, fucks around and finds out, all that jazz. The fact the writers have made a dozen mannequin jokes and yet haven't tossed in a Pygmalion reference yet is baffling to me. But I think Sisyphus and Odysseus are the only direct comparisons made in the text, and I do love them both. Me elaborating on why both of them are really neat connections under the cut.

I agree with you, I like the Odysseus one better, mostly because it's a really satisfying comparison. Yes to everything you said, the combination of wisdom and cunning, the long journey motivated by finding his way back to his family, his inability to find peace once he'd gotten them back because his time away - both the erring and the fighting - changed him, the women that keeps him, the absence of a name, the arrogance, the hypocrisy. I'd like to add the reluctance to fight paired with a high level of fighting skill, the tendency to try and talk things out first, the ability to read people well, the way people around him tend to die, the fact that his fatal flaw is pride/hubris, a character paying for his transgressions.

It's a very interesting character to compare Five to, because Odysseus is definitely one of the most nuanced and most versatile characters from Greek mythology, and I like how much the two have in common. But what I find even better is that there are a few key differences that make Five more than just a superhero take on Odysseus. There's the obvious fact that Five got reverted back into a child, and that he started his journey a lot younger, so what he longs to find his way back to is a different version of family from Odysseus. Odysseus also has a certain amount of obedience to authority, he knows how things ought to go and primarily tries to operate within boundaries set, while Five is pretty much ungovernable, he is constant to question and defy authority. Five also has time-travelling powers and technically the ability to undo everything that has gone wrong, but he just doesn't manage, he keeps overestimating himself and making things worse, which adds to his pathos. They are quite similar, but there is just enough of a spin to Five where the comparison is very much warranted but not tired. It tickles that particular part of me that loved Odysseus at age 10 when I first learnt about Greek mythology.

As for Sisyphus...I'm kind of splitting this in two, one part about the Sisyphus from the original myths and one about him as an absurd hero because Camus be Camus-ing.

Sisyphus is so known for his eternal punishment, because it is truly a wonderful image for a neverending, meaningless task, that it tends to be forgotten what he did to deserve this fate. Sisyphus was sentenced because he cheated death, not once, but twice, by finding new ways to escape it. So when Five says, "I've cheated time so much, I guess I thought I'd somehow cheat death", that hits, first of all because the writers literally forgot that Five had already cheated death by rewinding time and saving his siblings and himself from their certain demise, and secondly because that realisation of one's own mortality is part of the Sisyphus myth, in my opinion. Fun fact, in some, non-Homeric versions, Sisyphus is said to be the father of Odysseus, so being a cunning dickhead who pisses off gods is apparently a heritable trait. This tidbit about cheating death, paired with the endlessly repeating punishment, which the show alludes to via world's biggest ball of twine (Five replying "seems pretty big to me" when Klaus says that he thought it would be a lot bigger is a moment that I hold very dear) is just a good bit to compare with Five. He technically cheated death by turned time forward and bypassing the death of the entire human race, he cheated death again by turning time backwards, and he keeps living despite everything. At the same time, he chases his obligations, trying to keep the world alive, and surviving, in a seemingly endless repeating cycle. I really like the allusion to Sisyphus too, because it too is very warranted but it's not just a direct adaptation with superhero veneer.

As for Sisyphus as an absurd hero...it's been a while since I've read Camus, but the fact that Five, right after comparing his obligations to his family to a ball he keeps watching roll down a hill, asks, "and what's the point?" does suggest that the writers did mean the more meaningless side of the Sisyphus myth, likely tinged by Camus and his eternal obsession with the absurd. As far as I remember, his take on the myth is that realising and acknowledging the meaninglessness trumps the absurd and allows to reach a state of accepting serenity. I think whether Five, specifically in s3, falls into the role of an absurd hero really depends on interpretation. He doesn't in s1 and s2, because his meaningless, ever-continuing task (working to save the world from an impending apocalypse) is pursued with no acknowledgement of the underlying absurdity of trying to save the entire world that keeps changing and slipping away. In s3, there's a shift. Five gives up. Kind of. Sort of. Not really. I don't know. To be an absurd hero, he would have to acknowledge the situation and still continue his task, content with what he is doing because he is aware of its meaninglessness. A key quote from Camus that I am absolutely nicking from Wikipedia because I am not re-reading that and do in-depth literary anaylsis for a throw-away line from a silly Netflix show, is that "there is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn". Five talks about fate in s3. He says that fate doesn't care for whether he is ready to face whatever it has in store for him, and then again, he tells Reginald that it's time they accept their fate and let the world end. And Five gives up. He stops pursuing the task...for a time. Because he was ready to let the world go and see what, if anything, is on the other side. Until the finale, where he is back in survival mode. He's the one to find the sigil, his decision is what ends the last guardian and culminates in Reginald (and Allison) resetting the world. So, does the act of giving up keep him from being an absurd hero? Or was that uptick, working towards saving it despite everything he knew, despite knowing it can't work out well, the action of an absurd hero? I don't know. Not quite, I think, because I don't think Five has ever reached that moment of contentment at the realisation of the meaninglessness of everything he's chased for his entire life. But it is fun to think about. I'm a bigger fan of using the original myth rather than Camus' interpretation of it, because that one was very much written with the meaninglessness of labour under capitalism in mind, which is not quite something that the Umbrella Academy is dealing with, Five even less, and I like the detail about cheating death being the thing that condemns Sisyphus to his endless, meaningless, repetitive task, and Camus doesn't delve into how Sisyphus came to be stuck on that hill.

#Replies #Anonymous #my meta #this is just a lot of rambling about intertextuality. kinda. sorta.#anyway much love to you anon this was fun to ramble on about

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bang-bang-gang · 9 months

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the good thing about THAT post not showing up in any tags is that it's a match from a year+ ago and the entire gifset is purely self indulgent so i couldn't care less whether it gets notes or not but tumblr pls tell me your secrets on what makes posts get hidden or not

#veraposting #is it the AI flagging the boobage #or did i say too many dirty words in the tags

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woozification · 1 year

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wzfct.gif in 2022!

i was tagged by @jeongtokkie to recap my year of creations, ty sarah! <3

i posted a total of 35 gifsets in 2022! i only started giffing in september, so i had soo much learning to do along the way - and i still have plenty more to learn now! in the interest of linking more than 4 gifsets, i'll mention my most popular and my favorite from each month.

i giffed every member at least once, but many of my most popular & favorite sets were woozi-centric...it's the tunnel vision, i'm afraid 😔

september:

most popular: giggly chim pearl interview woozi

honestly so representative of me as an individual, a carat, a woozidan, a human being, etc...this was also an exercise in letting go, because i originally wanted to do 8 gifs, but only four of them turned out well </3

my favorite: woozi's chipmunk cheekies (pt. 1)

i really love to do compilation gifsets, even though it takes longer to gather material for them. i was also just happy to see other people excited about woozi's omnomnom face 😂

october:

most popular: tiktok + the hoshi-woozi combo

my most popular that month by a mile. they came out very grainy, and i couldn't figure out what to do with them at the time. i think my skills have improved since then, but i'm glad they were well-loved regardless <3

my favorite: rtl confession day woozi

mainly bc woozi was rocking the cute little "retro lesbian i want to take on a rollerskating date" look. (disclaimer: i'm a lesbian, i'm allowed to have dreams. disclaimer 2: i know woozi is not a lesbian, but i'm still gonna take him rollerskating.)

november:

most popular: woozi's bday

by far my most popular set of the entire year, w/ 1000+ notes :') a compilation set that took a long time to put together! i'm so so happy with how it came out.

my (second) favorite: dk & seungkwan professional back-up dancers

is this my favorite because i did a good job or because they make me cry laughing in that episode? 🤔 either way, i was/am really pleased with it, especially since i sometimes have a hard time with big gifs <3

i think many of my mutuals have been tagged already (and it's already the new year, oops) but please do it and tag me if you like! happy new year, everyone - here's hoping 2023 can give us all a bit of a break 💕

december:

most popular: loser woozi failing to swing on a bar </3

he's a fool and i'm obsessed with him. i also just really like adding text to gifs.

my favorite: giggly s.coups <3 <3 <3 and/or woozi's cheekies pt.2

more compilation sets! i find it so satisfying when they come together. the s.coups set was for the svt gift exchange this year, which was a lot of fun. & the woozi set was, as most things on my blog are, purely self-indulgent <3

#wzfct.txt #tag game #ty again sarah!

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katewalker · 2 years

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the first wylphene dialogues... the way they looked at each other (that my mind is entirely making up but still)... yum yum the self indulgent gifsets coming your way whether you want them or not

#pau.txt

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masterelrond · 3 years

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TOLKIEN WEEK | Day 6 ↳ Favorite female character: Galadriel

The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. (insp)