#the only consistent part of the show

[landonkirbyappreciation]

Just another Thursday wondering how Landon’s gonna be mistreated this time... idk how it can possibly get any worse for him, but I’m sure the writers found a way, as they always do.

#text #my posts #if they’re good at anything #it’s at coming up with new ways to torture landon #the only consistent part of the show #literally this whole season #whenever i’ve thought it can’t get worse #it always has #the way i thought it couldn’t get any worse back in s3 #ahahaha #i’m just not even gonna watch the episode #unless i find out something good happens for landon #which isn’t gonna happen... #i’m thinking they’ll use him to bring kaleb back #or use him for something to help someone #while he gets left behind again #just the usual #or something worse probably

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

since I saw your post of frank going butterfly hunting with their skirt, it got me wondering..what if eddie too had a skirt!

I imagine frank got him into the whole flowy dress ordeal. probably wears one when going through his mail shift or while working on the garden with frank.

oh my gosh...matching skirts!

considering that apparently Eddie has done drag, i imagine that its probably the other way around!!

i gotta a little lost in the sauce w/ these and forgot what the rest of the ask said besides "FranklyDear in skirts" oopsies <3

#I REMEMBERED THE MATCHING SKIRTS PART THO #i came to answer the ask and went '...ah. there was a lot more to it' #im starting to really enjoy drawing skirts #so maybe in the future i Will scribble him just going about his day in a skirt #tho im Very Obviously not used to doodling non-pleated ones #evidence: eddie in the first scribble #also adding eddie to the ever-growing list of characters i Cannot draw consistently #hes all over the place here #anyhow THEYRE EVERYTHING TO ME <3<3<3<3 #anon thank you for this opportunity 🙏 #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #franklydear #i continue to wish i found skirts remotely comfy. id probably pull em off really well #sigh... ill just have to settle for slapping them on not only my own characters but others' as well

[itsclydebitches]

Re: RWBY outfits in v9: Hey wow it's strange that Jaune gets a completely new helmet and hairstyle and altered face AND his armor is significantly retextured to the point of looking completely out of place with the flat-colored outfits the girls have in shots where they're together. I'm sure this has nothing to do with where the narrative focus of the Volume actually was. But it's fine if we don't at least partially take the girls out of their cold weather gear???

This!

Also, people frequently fail to acknowledge how much this snowballs.

RWDE: Why did Jaune get the new texture and hairstyle? Push-back: Duh, because he's the one who's been living in the Ever After for decades. RWDE: Yeah... and why did he get to do that again? Push-back: Because he killed Penny and the story needed him to have a significant arc in response to that. RWDE: Uh huh, and why did he get to do that? Push-back: Because Jaune is the one with the super important healing skill that beautifully contrasts their violent career! RWDE: ... are we not sensing a pattern yet?

Putting aside the fact that Ruby could beautifully fit any of these emotional beats with a bit of tweaking (she falls early, finds the time tree, the emphasis is on the contrast of Penny's first friend having to kill her, silver eyes are somehow significant to that moment, etc.) I think too often fans get caught up in not only the supposed necessity of any one scene —treating the RWBY gang as real people bound by the whims of fate, rather than characters 100% controlled by the writers — but also the ways in which, yes, past work does have an influence on what occurs later. If you make Jaune a team leader equal to Ruby, if you give him a big arc at the very start of the show, if you make him OP in regards to energy, if you give him the most useful skill in the entire group (given that they're fighting humans more than grimm nowadays, silver eyes are all but useless in most fights. ESPECIALLY when Ruby will randomly not use them against Cinder), if you make him the emotional focus of Pyrrha's death, if you give him the revenge quest, if you have him kill Penny... yeah, you're setting up future scenarios where he "has" to remain in the narrative spotlight. That's the problem: not only that RWBY refuses to pull back from Jaune's position in the story, but that it started that trend so early that now they have built-in excuses for why it "has" to continue. We knew going into Volume 9 that Jaune would be a problem because Volume 8 had already introduced the problems of a) having him kill Penny and b) having him fall with the title team. We're going in circles and continually winding up in scenes like, "Well, Jaune has to have an emotional breakdown that detracts from Ruby's because he's the one who has suffered for decades and he's the one who just lost an entire village to deliberate drowning. Not giving him that focus would be bad writing." Yeah, I know it would, hence the frustration that RWBY keeps backing itself into that corner!

The design issues are a like a mini-example of that. You're right, it would be ridiculous to have Jaune living in the Ever After for most of his life and somehow coming out of it looking exactly the same... but if you're going to continue capitalizing on the focus he got all the way back in Volume 1, at least give the girls equal treatment. I don't like that Jaune had a breakdown that undermined Ruby's, but given that I also would have disliked the story ignoring his clearly traumatic experiences lately, I'm glad they at least gave Ruby her breakdown alongside his (even if, as stated elsewhere, there are additional problems with how it was framed). The clothing does the opposite where Jaune gets his logical change AND the story does nothing to try and bring Team RWBY up to speed with him.

Chucking onto that pile: the fact that so many were expecting/hoping for Ruby to come out visually changed from her time in the tree, but she simply reverts back to where she was a few episodes ago with her rose pendant. Jaune, meanwhile, leaves the Ever After as the only one with a visual cue that he's undergone any growth.

#rwde #rwby #mymetas #honestly this is why it's so frustrating #when others are like 'RWDE is just obsessed with Jaune' #they want the story to be all about him because he's a man #no #RWDE (which is not a monolith!) generally wants consistency #which requires acknowledging when the show has to follow up on the conflicts Jaune has been given #something we generally dislike because we WANT the focus to be on the girls #but they're already not the focus so often that we're at least aiming for some logical follow-ups #seriously though Penny's death would have been SO EASY to give to Ruby #and not having Jaune fall would have likewise been a piece of cake #when the show is already setup having only developed one relationship for Penny (with Ruby) #and already structured this trip to be solely about the main team (Team RWBY falls) #you have to *work* to cram Jaune in there at the last possible second #there was a conscious choice on their part #not something that “had” to happen

[trillscienceofficer]

THIS THING WHERE EVERYONE IS CONSTANTLY THANKING AND APOLOGIZING AND EXPLAINING THEIR BACKSTORIES IS SO FUCKING ANNOYING

but an episode about the computer being like "uh oh I'm in danger" was pretty funny. also cool way to explain what Trill guardians actually do

#if only this show was written with a modicum of competence it would be extraordinary #im thankful that at least the parts with michael and book have been consistently solid #dsc

[iguessitsjustme]

Hi Rae!!!

I hope you're doing very well! My question is, what do you think about music in Unknown?? Because honestly every time the stripped down piano version of the opening song pops up I am FEELING THINGS. So I wondered what's your take on that.

Helloooooo

I've been...okay I guess. Work is currently using up all of my brain power which is why I have made multiple bad decisions this week (don't ask) and also why I haven't posted much about Unknown. I come home from work every day, sit on my couch, and stare at my wall while thinking "wow what a day" for the past...month? So most of my thoughts about shows have been "what a cute little show I'm watching." And Unknown needs more thought than what I've been able to give. At least for me. Plus everyone else was already writing such fantastic meta that I was just eating it up like I've been starving.

So while I definitely noticed the music in Unknown, my thoughts have been "hnnnnng good music." Buuuut since you asked I did actually turn my brain on for a bit and try to sort out my thoughts on the music. At least a little bit. This is going to be very bare bones (for now) mostly because I do not currently have the time to go back and rewatch some scenes to do any sort of proper analysis on anything. I'm also going to try to avoid spoilers.

I would be remiss if I didn't at least say how much I love the theme song. Something about me that might surprise some people is that I normally listen to the opening song once and then skip it the rest of the time because I'm eager to get into the show (and tbh most of the time I don't like the theme songs that much) but I never once skipped Unknown's opening. It perfectly encapsulates the whole show. I feel every emotion from the show in the opening itself. I cannot explain further I just love it.

This show's soundtrack is one of my absolute favorites. I always say that the goal of a soundtrack is to help set the tone for the show and this soundtrack blends seamlessly with the other show elements for the biggest emotional payoffs. Not only are all of the songs extremely good, but they are used extremely well.

I think the most brilliant part of the auditory choices in Unknown is actually the use of silence. It is used very well and makes the music choices have that much more punch when watching. Part of the reason the music makes you feel so many things when watching is because it is such a stark contrast to the silence that proceeds it. The silence sets up your emotions for the music to swoop in and basically gut punch you (sometimes. sometimes it's a loving caress. but most of the time in this show it's a gut punch but in the best way).

Soooo I don't really have a take specifically on the piano version of the opening, but those are my general Unknown music thoughts. I will consider doing a whole music analysis if anyone wants one and also work stops stealing my brain.

#unknown the series #unknown series #thanks for the ask! #the music in this show is so fucking good but for the most part it just made me go #hnnnnnnng good music make my brain go brrrrrrr #also unknown was the only show that i consistently watched every week #i am behind on literally every other show

[aprilblossomgirl]

Only Boo starts off the first episode quite well to me. It was that "i wanna do arts and find my happiness" against the world kind of trope, but I you will never see me complain about that. This is gonna be my next Sunday evening comfort show. The meet cute between Moo and Kang was cute. Descriptively cute, if you know what I mean. I'm loving their not-so-calm vs chaos energy already. Looking at the opening scene, I'm guessing there'll be more background story slowly coming through flashback, and I'm all seated. Also, episode 1 kiss was not in my checklist for this show, but. They did it, apparently.

#april.txt #only boo #this is a nice weekend distraction. not really sure if i'm part of its target market. but i truly enjoyed the first episode. #and will keep tuning in! also. can't wait to see book. and louis with his songs/osts <3 #while i did enjoy the first eps. i'm not sure i would consistently giffing the show. i might do some random giffing tho.

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

i'm generally not a huge fan of romantic subplots on account of the aroaceness but i'm weirdly charmed by featherstone and idelle's relationship. like max assigns idelle to seduce him into agreeing to partner with jack, but then while everyone else is having these complex interpersonal relationships the two of them just kind of undramatically stick together as a couple through the whole rest of the series, to the point that idelle starts gathering information from max to pass to the featherstone and the other pirates instead of the other way around. good for them honestly

#black sails #black sails spoilers #max #idelle #featherstone #to be fair this barely counts as a romantic subplot #although black sails is pretty much the only show where i'm consistently on board for the romantic subplots #not so much for the romance itself but for their part in the narrative if that makes sense

[peachlvs]

i rewatched the episodes again, and izzy's whole “redemption arc” should have been left out honestly. i know the writing is suffering because we have fewer episodes this season, but the writers chose to spend a lot of that very limited time focusing on izzy for some reason, and yet his character is completely inconsistent.

it doesn't matter that the crew accepts and supports him, it still doesn't make sense for him to suddenly be singing songs and wearing makeup, when he was threatening to kill ed for acting soft and not wanting to be a pirate in 1x10. this 180 turn was not set up in any way and they have not justified it. season one izzy was not secretly dreaming of love, acceptance and community lmao, like WHERE are these motivations coming from??

i really thought this episode batch was where we were gonna see him own up to his part in the whole kraken ordeal, cause his whole arc DOESN'T WORK without that. but all we got was ed apologizing AGAIN, making izzy out to be the victim, when we all know he was creaming his pants from eating toes in season one.

THIS is what feels like fan service to me. in the worst way. this feels like fanon actually.

it feels like since izzy was such a popular character in season one, they thought they had to redeem him so that they could keep him around and make his stans happy, cause it would not make sense to keep season one izzy around for this long.

there are some other issues with the writing this season, that i blame more just on the cut down to 8 episodes, but this whole izzy thing is on the writers cause they chose to put so much focus on him. if they didn't have the time to write a proper redemption arc for him, the whole show would've been better served by spending that time on the other characters; like jim and olu, who've been completely sidelined this season.

#izzy's character isn't even consistent with the start of the second season honestly #when he was crying about maybe being fired #that was much more in line with the character they established in season one lol #whose motivation was wanting to be a captain- #and when that didn't work #cause he's an awful captain #he reverted back to living vicariously through the glory of the blackbeard legend #now imagine if we spent some of the time wasted on that half-assed izzy arc on instead fleshing out olu and zheng yi saos relationship more #it felt so weird and ooc that jim olu and archie was just gonna up and leave the revenge and the crew for this woman olu barely knows #what happened to the found family on the revenge? #i was ready to ignore this whole izzy situation for the most part but episode 6 took it way too far #and seeing as we've now only got one episode left it's clear the other characters on the show won't be given the spotlight they deserve #because izzy literally stole their screen time #our flag means death #ofmd s2 spoilers

[ratgingi]

woe characters inspired by some of my cats be upon ye. info on them in my tags lol

#dialtown oc #jack dlc #twerpys head is a sledgehammer bc the cat theyre based on was born in a wall lmao #he works at the petstore with outis bc i got said cat frm the local petstore #lilys head is a fluffy couch pillow thing and she works at an animal shelter bc thats where i got the cat shes based on #twerpy is genderfluid bc we make jokes that my cat twerpy is genderfluid a lot #also i feel like shed be aroace if she were a person. its just the vibes yk #lily isnt labeled as anything shes just vibin #the 2 are part of a big sorta found family type shit that consists of chars based on my other 3 cats i just didnt feel like drawin more rn #twerpy is really mean and stuck up but is secretly super sweet it just takes them a long time to warm up enough to someone n show it #shes also secretly incredible at like. comforting people and helping them out. but again only shows it for people hes warmed up enough to #lily is super confident and full of herself and spoiled. she thinks shes super fuckin smart but she is very much Not /lh #she loves attention though and gets her feelings hurt super easy #also shes Huge on physical affection. she loves giving people hugs and holding hands and shit #like. shell be like oh im so fuckin hot and cool literally no ones on my level and of ur like eh idk that fit isnt really that good on u #she will start Crying. and get mad that youre being mean to her for no reason while sobbing #and probably will hug onto you while doing it #twerpy also gives really good hugs but they Hate being touched. so if it willingly touches you then youre incredibly lucky special #also lily loves sitting in peoples laps #if youre friends with her she is far more likely to sit on your lap instead of any chair in the room nd thats just smth youll have 2 deal w #dlc wiki

[nosferatufaggot]

I've been watching Tangled the Series and I'm watching the movie right now and something confuses me.

The magical flower has SIX petals! And it appears that the armor on the Corona guards represents the sun, due to the magic flower that came from a drop of the sun. So of the magic sun flower has SIX petals, why does the symbol of Corona have seven rays of sun? Like, the rays of sun are obviously supposed to resemble the petals of a flower, so why this discrepancy? Why? Why?? WHY!?

#It literally means nothing but thought must have gone into these designs! #Considering they are consistent for the most part. #In the series there is a portrait of the king in the background and his sun symbol thing has five rays of sun. #And granted I've only gotten through the first season‚ but that's the only time I've noticed the descrepancy. #Every other time it's seven rays. And yet the MAGICAL FLOWER ONLY HAS SIX PETALS!!!! #ANSWER MEEEEEEEE GOD ABOVEEEE!!!!! #Does the seventh represent Rapunzel? #Cuz before she was born it shows a ring on the king's finger. #That ring has corona's sun symbol on it and it has SIX rays!!!! SIX!!!! #DID THEY ADD THE SEVENTH TO REPRESENT THE LOST PRINCESS???? #WHY ISN'T MONTY MORE UPSET BY THAT IN THE SERIES???? WHAT IS THE ANSWER????? #I'M LOSING MARBLES OVER THIS LITTLE PIECE OF NOTHING!!!! #Okay. Okay. Okay. #Tangled #Sentiments of a vampire.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

thinking about puppet!Home. also thinking about that tidbit saying that Wally had to learn how to be gentle first as to not break things. combining both for maximum effect

#home: *struggling with suddenly having a body* #wally: FINALLY! THE STUDENT HAS BECOME THE TEACHER! THIS IS MY MOMENT! #i just think he'd really enjoy being the one Informing #hed be so proud of himself huh... #preening after telling home all about how to be a Person and then he turns around and asks barnaby what cheese is #hes doing his best. #and like... i dont think home has nearly as much to learn? #its mostly based in the physical aspect of existence #idk for some reason i see him as kind of the neighborhoods father figure?? #a very eccentric father figure. father/brother/guardian figure #but anyway mostly wallys 'teachings' has to do with like... how to control his strength. how to keep his balance. how to Do Things #once homes got it he is On Top Of Things #scribble salad #welcome home #welcome home puppet show #hm. am i about to make a little doc for the puppet!home that only exists in my head and in my lil scribbles #Yes! i Am! #boutta jot down his personality and relationships and blah blah blah #also: part (insert number here) of me being Entirely Unable To Draw Wally Consistently #i drew these wallys right after each other. back to back. #it looks like two entirely different styles lmfao

[gibbearish]

am finally back home and can say without a doubt that i am just fundamentally not built for long distance travel however the train was much nicer than planes

#that being said. pressurized cabins drive me insane a little bit #and also it gives you pretty intense sea legs for a While #like. the ones from the first trip hadnt gone away by the return one. so. might be stuck with that for a few days #we shall see #also ajr live fucks severely #the albums were already incredible but that was a goddamn religious experience #like. idk the way i think abt it is theyre more djs than a regular band esp w their performance showing the making of way less sad #like their music is very electronic‚ theyre making mixes of their own sound effects more than singing in one go #so like. the vocals were a teeensy bit rough at times #notably times it has taken me Literally Hundreds Of Hours Practice to be able to consistently sing along with #and times ive found its literally physically impossible to like. no matter what #idc how big your lungs are‚ there is no human on earth who can do that final run of karma in one breath #much less to An Entire Stadium After An Hour Of Jumping And Dancing And Singing Loud As Fuck #so like i dont blame them for that‚ you dont go to live shows expecting it to be 100% perfect anyways jwbdjsbfksb #the trumpet however. well she was certainly playing sometimes. and was very enthusiastic about her flares. #however. in most of their songs they use midi trumpets to my ear at least #meaning she was likely an addition specifically for live performances and in my personal band kid opinion #prooobably was not in any of the like. higher tier bands? idk just. a lot of the mistakes she was making were hitting as stuff that got #taught out of us the instant we joined any band beyond regular concert #so i would guess she was probably just like. a friend who happened to play trumpet in high school or maybe even just middle school #and they knew that the trumpet parts in their pieces were big and distinct enough that like they /had/ to get a live player #and just kinda. didnt anticipate the audition -> performance gap #like. her tone was really fried the whole time like she was playing as hard as possible #which. she was mic'd. have the sound guy turn her up. #the way they did it made it sound like she was using a mute but not. like she only got the bad parts of a mute from it yknow #her tempo and timing were. bad. theres no nice way to put that one it just Was Bad‚ like the trumpet runs in ajr songs arent. complicated #like. quite literally if you handed me the sheet music right now i would have it down perfect in a week at absolute most #and better than that player on sightread. like. we did so many sightreading drills. #like ill share my band kid creds if anyone cares but i need to emphasize this isnt me being braggy like. they genuinely just arent hard #fuck im out of tags. w/e i think only like one of yall also listens to them anyways so i can leave it there

[dizzybevvie]

Listen I fully follow wkm lore but like how the FUCK did he come up with any of that

#Markiplier woke up one day and said What if i was a man tortured by himself and his sentient house. #What if you cant die in the house #What if the house lets you fast travel #What if the detective is only a cliche and nothing more; so when he is pressed on the details of the case hes been following for YEARS #hes devastated by the fact that he cant remember a thing? #What if the Damien looked like Darkiplier so that there was a sense of mistrust around him for the whole show #even as he is consistently the only one to help you? What if Damien was nice all along? What if Damien turned out to be Dark anyway? #What if The Actor deliberately made it so that Damien came across as the villain just as he wanted in “DAMIEN”? What if we fell for it? #What if Celine cared so much about her brother that she fucked you over in an attwmpt to help him? #What if she kept him in a winter pocket dimension while you reach out for the cane? #What if he didnt remember everything that happened in the house and is always tired? #What if hes constantly being told “get some sleep damien” and “its time to wake up damien” to show the duality of sharing a body? #What if at the end its all pointless because the ice breaks anyway? What if Damien “life is ours to choose” Mayor makes his first choice #to let his sister sleep while he pilots the body? #What if by the time you arrive back in the present the body Damien and Celine stole from you is looking in the mirror #and just like the ice broke in the pocket dimension; the mirror cracks and you are forever stuck behind the mirror/your device's screen? #What if the detective believes you were killed as he says in WWM? What if The colonel (now Wilford Motherloving Warfstache) #can fast travel; time travel; teleport; and fuck knows what else because he realised he was part of a story? #What if that was the reason the detective was a conglomerate of different noir detective cliches? #What if theres masks on everyone but the detective at the end and I said “what masks?” when asked abt it and you still dk what it means? #What if the gardener didnt have lightning strike after saying “murder” because he hasnt been in the house for years? #what if the house seeded things in the actors head after Celine left him saying about how nothing was his fault and it was all someone else? #What if the house did this for years untik the actor was well and truly manipulated by a force he didnt even know was there? #what if he wanted Damien to be the villain in his “story” which implies that when he figured out how to cheat death in the house- #he also figured out he was a part of a story just like Wilford and eventually Abe did? #What if no one had a happy ending what if everyone was tragic what if people were only what you wrote for them as characters? #And what if the house was my head? What if the house was a metaphor for my brain all along? #and also what if they were all gay? #wkm #who killed markiplier

[tuiyla]

i don’t know how else to tell people that the problem with Leighton’s story isn’t Leighton’s story, for which I would love to be so proud of her, but that it simply wasn’t written well

i’m sorry y’all can’t “Tatum was meant to represent this!!!” and “Leighton has realized that!!” your way out of this when the writing simply did not put in any of the effort. also lmao you wanna know why I’m salty over Tatum’s treatment? cause how she ended was literally not what they’d been writing for 3 episodes. not once did Leighton look like Tatum was reminding her of bad parts of herself, not once prior to the fundraiser was Tatum anything but chill, supportive, and into Leighton for exactly who she was

it just feels so cheap and like I’m still happy for Leighton and happy for y’all if you can run with poor writing but I simply cannot tolerate it, I have to hold the show to higher standards than Leighton kissing any girl at any given moment in time

#okay now I've reeeeeally said piece #so i'll only be reiterating through asks #but goddam forgive me if i want tslocg's writing to be better than glee's lmao #y'all are giving the writing too much credit that it doesn't deserve basically #the only reason i'm so gung ho about tatum is because of WHAT THEY GAVE US FOR THREE EPS #talk about misdirection #cause then they rip it away for a storyline that doesn't work without the effort put into it #tatum you remind me of everything I want to change about myself 😤 #bitch WHERE you've never given any signs that that was the case #feels like there are missing scenes here oooor just pure bad spacing and laziness on the writers part #trust me i do not like being mad at writers of shows i like #alas #someone has to lol #but since i really do not know how else to say this now that was it #tslocg #leighton murray #leighton x tatum #tatum tslocg #fuck me i guess for thinking the writing was consistent #also to note i have no beef with alicia she's fine whatever #but you cannot tell me this was a story well told #okay someone take the tags away from me

[leafyloveslaughing]

bro. i'll appreciate pretty much any content that's consistent but damn, historical manhwa's where the fashion is consistent? pop off.

#i dont read them that much but when they put in the thought you def notice T.T #the most notable ones are ill be the matriarch in this life and a stepmothers marchen like omg #even if there's the few off artistic choices IT IS LARGELY CONSISTENT they stick to an era and they nail it !!! #of course this isnt to drag on other historical manhwa. i love any pretty outfit when i see them. but it just hits different ok 😭 #im just saying this as someone who never studied a piece of fashion history in their life but watched a lot of videos leave me alone- #in illbethematriarchinthislife. the womens wear consist of long dresses that sinch HIGH. just below the breasts. jane austen era i think #AND THE MENS WEAR IS ALSO CONSISTENT !! GOOD LORD !! long shirts. FLAT. not a synched waist to be seen here. no sir. #unless your wearing a uniform jacket then like. maybe a little sinch. just a little. #in astepmothersmarchen. womens wear are BEAUTIFUL. floofy VERY FLOOFY SKIRTS. i swear they gigantic #again i didnt study fashion history so idk the exact era but the SILHOUTTE. chefs kiss. distinction is so important #really frilly tops too. i dont think ive seen a hard lined triangle sinched waist yet. with like a visible corset i mean? thats another era #OOOH- GOING BACK TO illbethematriarchinthislife. the womens wears sleeves?!?! lovely. mostly puffed shoulders with slim long sleeves. #so going by that im now no longer sure if its jane austen era? since that era was puffed shoulder sleeves with really long gloves instead- #i mean they couldve also gone straight up sleeveless but what do i know T.T #their skirts also. unlike jane austen era. very big !! with a part split in the middle like a triangle to reveal only more skirt #i dont have the vocabulary for this... #back to astepmothermarchen skirts. floofy at the sides. lots of frills. they appear round but i wouldnt be surprised if like- #similarities with historical france dresses show up? with the really long sides you know #idk much about the mens wear in this one- #the men wear uniform esque style. casual wears are long poofy sleeves with them white loose fabric #really sinched at the waist tho but im not sure if its the fashion or just the artstyle? #a stepmother's marchen #i'll be the matriarch in this life #if anyone has any recs pls share them !! or any added detail because again. not a braincell in sight with this one XD #hearing people who study about fashion history is such a blast !! theyre all so passionate T.T #most of the historical manhwa ive read are european centirc but the asia centric ones? slay