#*points* i understood that reference

[celegormworm]

Very much appreciate Daniel Molloy’s “safe room behind the stolen Rembrandt” quip accompanied by seeing Rembrandt’s Sea of Galilee on the wall behind him, which was famously stolen from the Gardner. Gotta love the details

#Mr Molly if you don’t call the fbi right now- #interview with the vampire #iwtv #cap voice “I understood that reference #daniel molloy #armand #louis de pointe du lac

[tomwambsgays]

just your typical white suburban american couple, living their white picket fence lives

#tomshiv #tom wambsgans #shiv roy #siobhan roy #succession #succession fanart #my art #smooching you on the lips if you understood the reference of this ;) #if i have the time i'll be drawing pastor-slash-cult leader tom wambsgans soon........... #this game had me on chokehold at one point of my life and yes i have played through all daddies you can check out my steam #liking dilfs even way before i've noticed i have daddy issues oops

[queenhelenblackthorn]

#*points* #i understood that reference #chot spoilers #chain of thorns spoilers #cordelia carstairs #chain of thorns #chot #the last hours #tlh #the shadowhunter chronincles #tsc #the mortal instruments #tmi #all the stories are true #cassandra clare

[smartestsister]

#the avengers #chris evans #my new lock screen wallpaper #steve rogers #captain america #captain rogers #rewatching the avengers #i understood that reference #at this point i doubt anything would surprise me #I've been asleep for 70 years #Son...just don't #Is this the first time you've lost a soldier?

[anthromimicry]

sorry, halsey — hopeless fountain kingdom.

#ALL POWER DEMANDS PAIN AND SACRIFICE: musings. #NO SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT. NOT FOR YOU: character study. #it kind of surprises me just how much content there is out there about being afraid of intimacy but then again- #i have heard that that is supposedly one of the most common fears that people have apparently. so yeahhh but of course i do mean emotional- #intimacy here and oh my goshhh. i never realized just how sad parts of this song were until i listened to it again. #'i run away when thing's are good and never really understood the way you laid your eyes on me in ways that no one ever could #i hate to say it BUT that is so misao. she really does feel sooo unlovable sometimes and she has this 'leave them before they leave you'- #mentality that is so saddening to have TBH but i understand why she has it. her childhood kind of left her broken in a way i think- #in ways that can't be easily explained as it was very nuanced and complicated. but GAHHH that doesn't stop me from wanting misao- #to find at least some kind of love from people 😭 like she needs at least one friend or something that she can depend on bc i feel like- #that would really help her and being in a house alone all the time whenever she's not at work can not be good for her psyche. #so petition to get misao a friend or two? JSJSJ nahhh but i am legitimately being serious at this point #she needs someone who'll stick with her through thick and thin and will be understanding of the fact that she's got unresolved trauma so- #that partially causes her to be hyperindependent but i firmly believe that she needs people just as much as anyone else. #maybe more in fact but IDK #and the fact that in this song halsey says that she still knows facts about them even though she hasn't talked to them- #in forever? i'm WEEPING AHHH #that is so like misao as well sadly. she would literally take little notes as to what thing's people like to reference later if she had a- #friend because she 'doesn't want to get it wrong' whenever she gets them a present she says but it's really so that she doesn't forget- #how precious this person is to her and how she wrote down all of their favorite things as a result.

[amandabe11man]

alison and adam are the only ones in the movie who refer to lawrence by his first name. one of them is his wife and the other is??? on the same level as his wife?? adam and lawrence relationship CANON

#saw #saw 2004 #i can't formulate this thought very well rn but i hope you get it anyway #been thinking about this recently bc i am mildly bothered when ppl refer to lawrence as 'gordon' or 'dr gordon' only #everyone does it in the movie. even zep who hates his ass #even john and even TAPP #these three are all out to get lawrence one way or another and yet they respect his title? i never understood that #meanwhile alison (who lawrence loved at least at some point) and adam (his fellow prisoner) never call him that #i mean obviously alison doesn't bc they're married. but adam? #adam plows straight through formalities and right into the 'center' of lawrence #bc lawrence's title isn't his whole identity. it's not who he IS #he's just a flawed man. just like adam #alison is the closest person to lawrence (or used to be) and SOMEHOW- #SOMEhow adam has known him for like- a few days and he's already at the same level of 'intimacy' with lawrence that alison is #mentally i mean. neither adam nor alison pull any punches when calling lawrence out #i'm talking in circles rn but you get it right? #you GET IT. don't you??

[reyiosa]

be brave. let your sci-fi/fantasy cities have juxtaposing architecture. let there be 2,000-year-old monuments astride 10-year-old monoliths. let there at least be one Old City Hall.

the same thing goes for general technological advancement btw.

#most times i see the monocultural samey-same architecture in blockbusters so im an ant preaching to a wall #but i also got a lot of mental inspiration from movies and tv shows that showed that samey sameness #before i understood how cities and civilization reallg work #if a large amount of space (use your own reference point here im being vague on purpose) has similar lookinv modern buildings #then that space was built over around the same time #why was it built over? is a great questiom #often something was bought stolen or destroyed #or a combination thereof #for cities where a lot of people have in an area for a very very very long time #the question becomes even more complex #as a usamerican the most frequent tjing i see is stone churches next to skyscrapers #or federal style buildings next to brutalist ones #tiny rowhouses half a mile away from a modern pastiche of one #look it’s so easy to simplify certain parts of worldbuilding and god knows i still love media that does it #but sometimes it IS bold and original to take from real life #anywho #nobody come at me im tired and i rarely make original posts #text by rey #writing advice #worldbuilding #fantasy

[navree]

I think it is very funny (and by funny I mean infuriating and appalling) that people's reactions to a mother being terrified to death for her children's lives is "boohoo Alicent is stupid!" and not "poor thing, that's not how a mother should be made to feel by HER OWN FAMILY"

This is such a problem with literally any TV show or movie, which is that people forget that we are an omnipotent audience. We see everything, we know everything, we are the only people involved in the story that have complete and utter control over all of the information of the story. None of the other characters do, and that's why they make the decisions they do, and if they seem somewhat nonsensical to us that's because we know everything and they don't.

(seriously, as someone who was in The Originals fandom for a time, season 2 was the hardest time to be Hayley fan when half the audience forgot that her decisions made total sense if you just looked at the information she had access to, not all the information of the entire story.)

Alicent's information is this: 1) Rhaenyra lied to her (lies by omission count as lies), and then 2) appears to have leveraged those lies to strip away the last of Alicent's support as well as anyone partial to her children's place in the line of succession. 3) Rhaenyra is then callous enough to drive a man to suicide and, in the process, get another man killed, with no outward remorse. 4) Over the next ten years Rhaenyra commits at best a huge social faux-pas and at worse an outright treason and 5) the products of that treason are cruel to her own sons which Rhaenyra has done nothing to stop (or really do anything to bridge any gap in their relationship) until 6) she proposes the Jace/Helaena marriage, which just looks like an attempt to take Alicent's only daughter hostage when you have an uncharitable view of her. 7) Rhaenyra then does nothing about her son maiming Alicent's and in fact 8) demands that Aemond be tortured for having eyes that can see and 9) vocally approves the plan to maim Alicent's son and Alicent herself for also having eyes that can see, because it helps her succession and that of her sons. And the coup de grace is in 10) Alicent seeing Rhaenyra murder her husband so she can marry who she wants and gather more strength to her side.

That is all the information Alicent has on Rhaenyra as heir to the throne. That she is callous, thoughtless, bloodthirsty in the pursuit of getting what she wants, uncaring towards others, with the capacity towards coldblooded murder to anyone who gets in her way (and who are in her way? Alicent's Targaryen children, especially Alicent's firstborn Targaryen son), and no remorse or thought to consequence for anything she does. Of course, we, the audience, see things from more than just Rhaenyra's point of view, we know that her thoughtlessness is borne out of being sheltered, that she's lighthearted and playful, that she is genuinely just trying to find love within the confines of an incompatible marriage, that the faults in her relationship with Daemon lie with Daemon as the adult and senior figure, that her attempts to reach out are genuine, that she's held the best belief in Alicent for a long time ("I do not believe Alicent is capable of cold blooded murder") that she did not murder Laenor, and that she has no intention of hurting Alicent or her kids and genuinely wants to be a good ruler and pass down the Targaryen legacy/Song of Ice and Fire (whether she can be a good ruler is debatable at best, and also God I hate the stupid prophecy fuck it so hard).

So to the audience, yeah Alicent's reactions can seem irrational, but most people with basic competence and understanding of storytelling can also understand that the impression we have of the story is something no one else in universe does, it's why I'm also willing to give grace to Rhaenyra for sometimes thinking the worst of Alicent because she doesn't have access to the information that we do.

But let's be real, ASOIAF/GOT/F&B/HOTD and all adjacent fandoms have been horrifically toxic and misogynistic, a mindset that extends far beyond characters and even to the actors, no matter which side of certain debates you fall under (yes this is a fandom wide callout I've seen all teams be gross as Hell), as I'm of the belief that insulting Matt Smith's looks and harassing his mother is in fact just as bad as bullying Emily Carey off Twitter, and relentlessly castigating Sophie Turner for no reason including when she was a child is in fact just as bad as mocking Emilia Clarke's brain injuries, this shouldn't be controversial. So I'm not surprised that this toxicity exists towards the character, and there's a lack of understanding in how yeah, Alicent should not be made to feel that her children are in active danger due to the actions of not just their sister but also their literal father, her husband (and that the worsening of the relationship post-Driftmark is entirely on Team Black for not doing anything to make amends for what happened to Aemond whatsoever and refusing to even be contrite years after the fact, Vhagar eating Luke was too merciful for him I said what I said).

A lot of the people who think this way are mostly casual watchers, or just really die-hard Team Black Twitter stans, so we can at least take comfort in the fact that most people with media literacy, whether they be regular fans or even critics, are more willing to extend Alicent the grace she deserves, and us Greenies can stan her hard enough to power a major metropolis in the meantime.

#personal #answered #anonymous #yeah this isn't an hotd specific issue unfortunately enough #the originals season 2 was just.......bane of my existence #'hayley's so evil for running away with hope' klaus confessed to murdering her friend for no reason (and when he didn't even! he's stupid!) #after a year of him bullying her and trying to railroad her every decision and being an asshole to her #after already having a thousand year old reputation of being a remorseless monster #like yeah no shit she eventually decided to cut and run with her kid #the information she had was that this guy was toxic as hell and couldn't be trusted around her or her child #it's only because we saw more than just her pov that we understood where klaus was coming from #i mean god i don't think anyone on the internet understands the concept of POINT OF VIEW #like you know how in the books we the audience know the lannisters are shits but in the first one sansa doesn't in her pov #because she's a child and she doesn't have the information we do about how bad they are #or how dany tends to refer to her marriage to drogo as a love story when we the audience with a modern lens and viewpoint are like uhhhhhhh #god people are dumb

[kashuan]

once again I am Pondering this line from the gwent story... a small detail but it means So much to me... thinking about how we could have had it all in witcher 3 if this set up had been used....... . . .

#the witcher #lgtv+ ?.jpg #'traveling in the company of' aka 'historians say they were very good friends' #look at this point they'd been back home for a decent amount of time this isn't referring solely to their time traveling together in zerri #0 reason to still be 'traveling together'. outside of the fact they are married #the use of the word Them #implying they would be protected as a unit vs two separate individuals. yes. correct #read between the lines. bare minimum they were living together at this point. where was that witcher 3 #no i don't care this story was written years after #the remaster adding in one of dijk's omitted lines about zerri but Not adding one about ise? crimes. imho. #everyone always talks about the ior cut content. how about the ise cut content who afair also had his name in the game files #look i need to know what intern wrote this story so we can talk. i know they understood the assignment. i just know. #i started sketching some other charas last night but then i thought of this passage and now i'm just drawing more of them lol :`) #a year later and they continue to consume 98% of my brain's real estate

[wokeuplaughing]

I can't help but feel like 90% of the things that piss people off these days are just distractions from greater and larger problems but trying to express why I feel that way to people without sounding fucking CRAZY is so hard "it's easier to care and complain about simple things that barely matter than the complex things that we have been conditioned to believe are out of our power and this is why a vast majority of our current culture is almost mindless information with no permanent impact because it's built to be easy to critique without skills or further knowledge" OKAY GRANDPA LET'S GET YOUR MEDS!!!!

#told my irl that I thought tik tok trends/drama had no cultural impact and he was like um I still reference old ones #like bro you are missing my absolutely deranged point here :(!!! bro I thought you understood!!!

[the-world-annealing]

...people understand that chatGPT sounds Like That because a significant amount of human labor went into teaching it to larp as a personal assistant, right? There's no such thing as a recognizable 'AI voice' that AI will naturally develop and that we can expect every future language model to have.

#artificial intelligence #chatGPT #i get that when your one other reference point for What AI Sounds Like is pop culture it becomes easy to connect those dots #but the dots are connected for a reason other than 'star trek writers understood how actual AI would talk' #anyway the OP is just a chatgpt-agreer reblog

[grahamcarmen]

#graham calloway #tribute #red crackle thoughts #one of those memes i only mildly understood because hide and seek is such a sad song lol #/i get the skit reference tho #:( and he did only mean well tho #...point is thought is out #Youtube

[nitonitonito]

@ardenssolis​​ replied ; She can be both! The beauty of ancient egyptian mythos is that a pharaoh is Ra/Horus based during certain times. Horus when they are an heir, Ra when they are a pharaoh (or Horus depending on whether it is the Old Kingdom, ect., because those timelines put emphasis on certain gods and their roles), and upon their death, they become an incarnation of Osiris, but then also become Ra/Horus when the sun rises once again -- rinse repeat. It's complicated FSFDFSS. ; OH I FORGOT TO MENTION! In the Old Kingdom, they put a lot of emphasis on Anubis being Lord of the Dead, though this was later overshadowed in the New Kingdom by Osiris with Anbusi' role shifting.

         /  OOOOOO I DIDN’T KNOW THIS! I only knew that when a pharaoh came to the throne they were associated/became the manifestation of horus and in death, they became/were associated with Osiris, but i was def not aware that Ra was in consideration, as well as when the sun rises! for some reason my mind completely jumped past my own thoughts in my previous meta in regards to Nito, horus and osiris -thonks- must be my mind being tired from yesterday still RIP- THO i also didn’t know that anubis’ role got later overshadowed in the new kingdom! and when u bring that onto the table, I can see her ‘ears’ looking like pointy jackal ears as a reference to him bc of the time period where nito was said to exist which dates to much older than when the new kingdom started (and with it, Osiris taking the role of anubis)

#ardenssolis #;ooc #ooc #THANK U FOR THE DEETS SHI!! #I did not know!! #neither that anubis' role was overshadowed in the new kingdom #by osiris #IMAGINE IF- we had an anubis s.ervant and he was like -squint eyes- at the p.haraoh s.ervants OUIYTIYOIYPR #just bc of the pharaoh's being associated/being the manifestation of osiris in death #and osiris taking on the role of anubis #unless they interpreted their relationship differently ofcourse #do u ever wonder why we dont have more egyptian gods in f.go? #considering n.ito's existence dates from around the sixth dynasty #and u mentioning that osiris kind of took the role or was recognized more with that role during the new kingdom #(which if i understood correctly; the new kingdom started around the sixteenth dynasty?) #it would make sense if it was jackal ears in reference to anubis too #am i correct in this? #-thonks- #so sorry if im understanding things incorrectly 😭 my brain lit said standing man emoji moment today OUTIROTOTIUY #BUT THANK U SM FOR UR INPUT + THESE POINTS!

[gggoldfinch]

Do you ever just.,, read something in a ~niche fandom~ fic,, and instinctually know exactly what this one irrelevant passing thing is in reference to. Like, say, a pet’s name being a super obscure reference to something in the fandom/irl that one would not get unless they were originally in on it. I’m SCREAMINGHDHDJKD 

#me pointing like that Leo D meme #or alternatively: me going ‘I understood that reference’ like cap #it can’t possibly be a coincidence either at least I don’t think #and no I will not be exposing the fic I won’t put myself rn #out*

[illyigo]

i'm currently going full tin hat in the notes app over this damn series. even homestuck didn't get me to do this

#tltposting #i did not care about homestuck lore at all actually #i feel like i have the edge as a tlt fan bc i was a homestuck fan #like u kind of have to know the homestuck lore to understand tlt's references to it #and i do on the broader scale #like the whole people playing gods & mythologizing themselves create a new world in which they are gods #and the presence of huge alien monsters that represent existential threats to the universe #one could say caliborn & calliope demonstrate some uhhhh #similar concepts as some of the fucked up incomplete lyctors in t #tlt* #but yeah to be honest i never understood the whole thing about the frog that was the universe or whatever #i might have at some point #but i do actually think that tazmuir's world building is more of a closed loop than hussie's #and that she has more interesting things to say w it #both obviously legends in speculative fiction #but homestuck was more speculative in form than substance #IN MY OPINION #but as i've said i was not a homestuck plot girlie #anyway #maybe the reason i'm more captivated by the tlt lore is bc i understand what it has to say more #and i love it

[astranauticus]

went back into bilibili after a while and started watching through my old saved videos and oh... i remember why i was so unwell about bai choufei for those few months in 2021

#asto speaks #what was that thing i said #sex appeal inversely proportional to mental stability #HES SO. argh #the problem is that once i become unwell about someones voice theres no going back #i dont know WHY i obsess over voices specifically so easily and so hard but here we are #liu yunings voice... chefs kiss #honestly i did really like that hairstyle he got after turning evil that everyone kept making fun of #hes just so PRETTY honestly hes prettier with that silly hair style no im not taking comments at this time #especially with the white streak. my poor pathetic war criminal #also like bcf smiles so much more after turning evil and you look into his eyes and theres just something deeply wrong with him #look im like. more normal about him now than i was last year but like #lyn is still the only person whos ever made me go 'hes so pretty im gonna start crying' #im specifically referring to that one (1) outfit from the truth s1e3 #first time i understood what contrapoints meant by someone being so beautiful theyre painful to look at #hm i should go rewatch the truth at some point but also i dont want to put my friends through me being unwell on main again KSDJFHKSDJHF