#I like both genres a lot but

[iamoutofideas]

I honestly find it kinda interesting that just about every hip hop artist I’ve met has been super welcoming to me & just about every goth band I’ve met gets annoyed the moment they see me

#I wonder why that is #I like both genres a lot but #like I’m white & I live nowhere near a city #yeah there’s a few rough places but it’s mostly just empty where I live #it’s so easy to go for months without seeing anyone #either way it’s nice to be welcomed in to another culture #I love learning about it

[blackhholes]

Teen Wolf as Horror Subgenres

Season five B: Gothic Horror

#teen wolf #twedit #teen wolf edit #twgifs #stiles stilinski #scott mcall #malia tate #tracy stewart #theo raeken #lydia martin #my gifs #mine #twgenres #this will probably be the longest and most text heavy of this whole series don't worry y'all #also if you disagree with me just know i talked it through with a friend who has done a lot of research on the gothic genre #so i have the power of academia on my side for this one #ALSO i was initially gonna call both 5a and 5b body horror but just out of stubbornness for not wanting to include an a and a b section of #season in one gifset i set out on a quest to find something to call 5b and when i was looking through a list of horror subgenres and #saw gothic it was like i had an epiphany like it suddenly all made sooooo much sense to me #and then after talking it through with su i became 100% convinced it literally fits soo well and it makes the season even more interesting #TO ME

[estuaryorange]

Thinking about how few shits Stede gives about the distress of the crew really makes the bathtub scene hit even fucking harder like Lucius keeled over in front of him and he was just annoyed fuckery rehearsal was interrupted but Ed has a flashback and panics and he breaks open his own fucking door and sinks to his knees beside him and says Ed’s name in the tenderest voice and I am oN fIrE

Oh you’re dying Lucius? Inconvenient and rude. Ed is upset?!?! Fuckery, what fuckery ARE YOU OK EDWARD would you feel better if I tell you that you’re good at maiming people please don’t cry I’ll forgive you for planning to murder me I’ll do anything to stop you looking so desperately sad let me just touch you gently let me make it better

#thinking about #@chuplayswithfire #post about Izzy's toe #and #@ourflagmeansgayrights #response to it specifically #ofmd meta #It also really gets me in this scene that they’re each other's first real friend? #Like Ed is upset for a lot reasons but finally having someone he cares about and not wanting to kill them is one of them #Stede finally has someone he cares about who’s well being is more important than his self interest #like he was so excited about the fuckery but abandons the grand finale to check on Ed without a second thought #part of that was that the fuckery was to impress Ed anyway but the man put his whole dramatic idiot pussy into it #they’re both selfish bastards but they make an effort to care about something other than themselves for each other #anyway the bathtub scene makes me feral #my first watch I was having a blast and invested as hell #but that was the scene that tipped me over into unhinged hyperfixation #hurt/comfort is my genre foks #ofmd #genltebeard #blackbonnet #what the heck I'll also tag u emmy incase you miss it bc this seems like something you would also want to bite your own arm about #@xoxoemynn

[fideidefenswhore]

the downfall and execution of a tudor queen (2023) / the boleyns: a scandalous family (2021) / the king's pearl: henry viii and his daughter mary (2017), melita thomas / anne boleyn (tv miniseries 2021) / the mirror and the light (2024) / elizabeth (1998)

#web weaving #sort of? #i never feel like my edits really fit #they're more like collages #anyway...me on my island with the one other tudor fan that liked AB 2021 lol #'our expectations were low but holy fuck' sounds like a lot of consternation about a pretty...solid script? #what i loved most about it was moments like the above #the ability to summarize really complex dynamics borne of circumstance #in such a way that you can believe in the world and it serves as its own 'previously on' that a miniseries inherently lacks #esp when it only covers five crucial months #tl; dr there's a lot of smugness evident in many books of this genre #when it comes to anne's attitude towards her stepdaughter #bcus she was quote proven wrong unquote; becaues mary got quote the last laugh unquote... #when really. as per the quotes i've been posting #it doesn't seem like mary's reconciliation with her father was the idyll many have made it #thus we have anne's letter #and offer. knowing that others are offering her better futures #but saying this is the best future you could have. limited time only. #and it seems the future proved her right; not wrong (at least the immediate future) #bcs while matters; had she accepted; might not've been substantially better than they were under the auspices of a 'more gentle' stepmother #it also doesn't really seem like they would have been substantially worse #anne was right that her enemy's supporters wanted her disgraced and/or dead. she was right in that they wanted elizabeth disgraced #and/or dead. she couldn't have predicted what happened to herself in the exact matter it did- mainly bcus it was unprecedented #but it seems she had a pretty clear view of what mary was doing: playing both sides. attempting to ingratiate herself to her father while #also conspiring against him. and she knew it would have been better to have her on side #(and in a more jaundiced view: have her where she could watch what she was doing; who she was seeing) #but perhaps underestimated how impossible it would be to get her there in the first place #('on side' ; that is. not at court. although probably not that either. with the conditions she demanded) #but her fears of mary were not paranoia. they seem to have been grounded in realism #and a clear view of the situation at home and abroad

[trebhum]

Laceys Games and Valle Verde are so criminally underrated it's a real shame. I consume a lot of digital horror/arg content but truthfully those two are the best I've seen besides classic Petscop. The way they weave their narratives and their aesthetics are truly phenomenal. One of the reasons Petscop got so big when it did is because there was nothing really like it. I think the same can be said for both Lacey and Valle Verde, I wish there were more people who appreciated just how insanely good they both are. But, I suppose, it is always fun to be "niche"

#the biggest complaint people always have is oooohhhhh its so OVERSATURATED its all the same... #and i get that. to a certain extent #i think there is a Lot of digital horror/arg stuff out there especially nowadays i think it only becomes increasingly popular #but i think most of it is usually pretty good. i think sometimes you'll have something a little subpar like i didnt really care for #the man in the suit but even so i appreciate that someone probably put their heart and a lot of effort into making it and i like it just #bcuz of that. does that make sense? #and i think a lot of it is made by younger people as well. the good stuff is out there you just have to know where to look #or also understand that both genres as a whole are still pretty quote unquote new and also predominantly run by a younger generation #for an overall younger audience. when i say younger i mean like teenagers and young adults #although my bfs little brother loves the mandela catalogue and hes like 11 so maybe even younger #anyways this was kind of rambling but i highly recommend both laceys games and valle verde. its very rare that something like this #Actually scares/creeps me out but both have done so with flying colors.

[sillysymbol]

i wonder if there's a big intersection of tmbg fans and mr bungle fans

#I've noticed a lot of people who like mr bungle also like ween and tmbg which makes sense I am also one of those #but it's just kind of a funny contrast. I know the johns aren't like. prudes or anything #but I'd say their styles are pretty different! even though they're both pretty genre roulette! #symb posts

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

Various art fight attacks! Was significantly less active this year but had lots of fun drawing others' characters none-the-less!

Hydrofight by Dregan

Rain Valeria by Gglixious

Lava Lord by TheEntertainer

Spoon and Op by Murrower

#Art fight #artfight 2023 #character art #i love both drawing heroes with other people's design sensibilities because i learn so much and get to reach out of my usual habits #and i also love drawing characters of other types because i can stretch my imagination outside of the usual genres for a bit! #these were all really cool #every time i was like 'oh man... can i pull this one off how i envision it' and it worked out! #i knew i wasn't going to be doing a whole lot of them so i put some extra time to make them extra solid lol

[crossbackpoke-check]

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit [remixed, abridged] by Tao Yuanming

#liv in the replies #patrice bergeron #boston bruins #brad marchand #do you ever think about how brad marchand said that when bergy retired he would retire or are you capable of normal thought i'm not at all #please say a gratitude for both my sanity& y'all that this poem (which has been saved in my camera roll with the vague idea of using it for #??? ​long) & not one of the poems i had saved for carey for a really long time & remixed & everything with another poem until i found a poem #that absolutely murdered me in cold blood but there is an alternate universe where i did& then had to explain my unhinged thoughts to you. #anyway how are we feeling about bergy retirement. pspspspsp sara & luna are y'all doing okay like. the doc title for this one was #patrice the hockey player means a lot to me but patrice the person means so much more #which is why the end line of the other poem was so *%"@^)! (you love / what you are) because patrice does. like he is a whole ass good huma #& now since no one asked i need to tell you all the details about everything also y'all please clap i made an edit with NO baby pictures #although i did find one & save it & minimal genres of photo i always use in edits because they're my taste & aesthetic but anyway. #when i saved the first photo and marked it as one i wanted i accidentally wrote “how will he know they love him” which is not the line but #makes me feel feral about patrice & the rest of them all had hurtful names too but also. the third picture is literally a CELLY like brad #just scored a goal & he is clinging to bergy for dear life with that shit i saved that as “oh the agony on his face for unendurable” #& yes it is one of my cliches to have a draft day picture but in my defense the lifelong bond that patrice has/d with boston deserved to be #there even if i put in the love story & YES that picture is from the 2011 playoff right below it shared joy & pain & i couldn't tell you #when the brad marchy photo for together forever is except for the fact that i saw it & just the gut punch of oh my god the way he looks at #things men will praise you for is the stanley cup. duh. but i love the contrast of “some deed” being the stanley cup but then #bergy's choice to do noble deeds (ends up still earning praise &that's my note to his efforts outside of hockey we love a supportive captai #should also mention the first two i came up with & had the photos i knew i wanted for were the first and last one alskaldk but i KNEW i #wanted chara somewhere in the paragraph about leaving & then while i was looking found the one of bergy playing tuukka on accident & yes #i do have to make goalie jokes every time. no reprieve . no dice/no deal/no goal goalies have no rest/reprieve etc etc the one that killed #me though was looking for a patrice award pic & i wanted basically the one that i got for “how will you know any will praise you” & instead #also got the picture of patrice winning the some community hero award for charity work that he does & i love him mama & of COURSE that puck #is from bergy's 1000 game who do you think I am (if you guessed sleepy and emotional about patrice you'd be right) and ALSO please be ready #for all the patrice posts/bruins posts that have been sitting in my drafts to be released on this occasion of patrice retirement #I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT TUUKKA ALSO RETIRED THAT’S WHY HE WAS ON WISE OR SIMPLE NO REPRIEVE AND THAT LATE OR SOON WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE #CHARA BECAUSE CHARA LEFT FIRST TO GO TO THE CAPS AND THEN LEFT IN RETIRMENT HE LEFT SOON BUT NOT FOR REAL THEN LATER LEFT FOR REAL (RETIRED)

[lord-squiggletits]

Between TF and my other fandoms like BG3 and TES, I keep finding myself making OCs that have some element of "battle hardened hero who is actually good and righteous, but so traumatized by the toll of war that even after the war ends they feel empty/wrecked and can't enjoy the fruits of victory" and I'm not sure if it's bc I gravitate to a certain type of media where such OCs fit in best, or bc I have a specific character archetype I like and gravitate towards media that contains those things.

#squiggposting #possibly a mix of both bc idk if i've gone into detail here but war stories are one of my favorite genre of stories #like for fun fictional reasons but also for real life political and moral and emotional implications #war stories are literally so fucking cool man i feel like they get a bad rap for just being propaganda tools #and obv a lot of them can be/are explicitly made to be but also like #(i feel like i'm stealing a quote from one such story) war stories are also a method for the soldiers of the war to tell their side #and usually the soldier's side of the story tells of the LESS glorious and propagandistic sides #maybe ive just had the pleasure of having really good teachers/professors but like #most of the war stories i've read are specifically ABOUT the bridge bt war propaganda and the actual experience of fighting in a war #and i think even the ones where the soldier in question supports the war (american sniper comes to mind) #it's very interesting and dare i say important to read it and understand when and why and how they came to support war #like idk i think it's one of those things where ppl shy away from war stories bc #'ew gross it's all pro war probably american imperialist propaganda written by oppressive killers trying to make us feel sorry for them' #without understanding... idk. the difference between an individual soldier's evil and the evil of an entire institution? #some sort of anti intellectualism regarding soldiers as being inherently evil ppl who aren't to be listened to or taken seriously? #it's not a matter of like. you don't need to like or sympathize with them per se. but i think part of understanding and criticizing #the institution of war is getting the ground level testimonies about it. and more of them are critical than some ppl believe #plus i mean FUCK usamerican imperialism it doesn't need to be about US wars! other countries lived thru other wars that are also important! #war stories may have their strongest association w american imperialism but that doesn't mean other war stories don't exist #idk sorry for rambling in the tags

[sotc]

My Spotify wrapped except it's skewed because I share a joint account with my husband lol.

#Dua Lipa and Madonna are def HIM lol the rest sounds like me #Fun to see raggaeton on my Spotify I DID listen to a lot of it this year #Shanty is also def my husband lmfao #PAPER BOATS AND DJATS THO MWAH SHOUTOUT SHOUTOUT #and of course im the kpop girlie between us lol #i imagine rock and alt z is likely me too those aren't really his genres so haha #we both love kim petras tho so thats fair

[jackgoodfellow]

Oh, Saint Peter, let me in!

You must know where I've been

Won't you tell me at last who I am?

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wake up babes new ghost girl just dropped

#ride the cyclone #jane doe ride the cyclone #the ballad of jane doe #jane doe #ride the cyclone fan art #fanart #my art #alt-text #i am so fucking serious when i say her song blew my fucking mind #if you search Ride the Cycle slime tutorial on YouTube you can find the full musical #and it is wayyy better quality video and audio than most bootlegs #but if you only watch one song watch The Ballad of Jane Doe #like the context of the musical adds a LOT in my opinion but the shit slaps from any direction #i gasped out loud multiple times during her song #i have seen so much theater and so much horror but this is superlative in both genres #fan art #her voice is so fucking incredible too #it is fucking SO GOOD #the whole show is good but this number was the crowning jewel #emily rohm #digital illustration

[sporesgalaxy]

I'm tormenting myself with thoughts so I've decided to torment YOU with an unnecessarily binary choice

#I dont think theres an objectively correct answer if its any consolation #theres a lot of arguments you could make abt both the 1pc setting and the steampunk genre #but like....where do you lean 🤔 #adddna #1pc

[poebrey]

gonna write a whole thing someday about how characters of color who clearly have a history of trauma or mental health issues aren’t given consideration or acknowledgement in the fandom imagination

#this is first and foremost about yennefer being canonically suicidal and it being never brought up in fandom #but people can talk about how they think she’s a bitch just fine like we’re all stuck in 2005 #but also applies to like just about every character of color who has a prominent role in sci/fi fantasy genre space #because they sure get made to suffer a lot by these writers but in the white imagination that’s not noteworthy at all? #but also Scott McCall #who deadass attempted suicide on screen in one ep? #suicide tw #which I have moved on from teen wolf but it for very obvious reasons another great example #or Michael Burnham who canonically had a fucked up childhood that gave her a lifelong martyr complex #but if you ask who clearly has ptsd on the show it’s not her because it needs to get spelled out even though she is the main character? #Or even Culber; they bonded once over how they both died! #but we don’t do that with white boy side characters 5-7 #they try to hate crime someone on screen and people are making shit up to justify before whatever media it is finishes airing #we talk about diversity in media #but one of the catch 22s is that more diverse media tends to be genre media #because that’s allowed to push boundaries #but as a fan of color you have to mentally prepare yourself for witnessing trauma every time #meanwhile the silly no stakes fun shows get majority white or entirely white casts every time #so you get this fun thing where if you’re white and want a fun escape you get a buffet of laughs #and if you’re a person of color at best you *dont* get to see yourself die on screen #anyways this has been a middle of the night that no one should be taking seriously #*rant #gotta make sure everything referencing tw isn’t in the first 5 tags or I might wake up to a whole essay crying in the inbox

[lenreli]

Wild that Tom looks younger in The Boat That Rocked than in Like Minds, where he actually was like 3 years younger.

Like Minds (2006)

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

#tom sturridge #like minds #murderous intent #pirate radio #the boat that rocked #nigel colbie #young carl #i know both have like a million other names but fghgjhjh #though i think the different genres helped #also tbtr had him in lots of cuddly sweaters #either way. babygirl

[psychoticwillgraham]

just a small snapshot of my old teen playlist

#the diversity of the genres….. #I had both questionable and amazing taste in music at that age #unter null was THE artist for me when I was like 15 #destroy me had an ironclad grip on 15 year old me #I actually found a lot of my music at that age from last.fm #last.fm u will always be famous to me

[dangerliesbeforeyou]

continuing on from that rap post but i think a lot of people are really unwilling to even dip their toes into a genre they've already considered they don't like due to preconceived notions about it...

and like i GET it lol i WAS that person, sometimes still AM that person! like it wasn't until i started listening to kpop that i discovered i did really like rap music & started listening to western hip hop too! i also was adamant i didn't like heavy metal or screamo, but i've heard some songs/groups in that genre that i actually really like (like with all music, it's often about whether i enjoy the particular vocalist and production... if anyone has any heavy metal/screamo band recommendations fronted by female singers please hmu lol)

like i truly believe there is never going to be a genre that you'll dislike ALL the artists/songs of, you just gotta keep an open mind imo!

#personal #also applies to other things like film genres... #but yeh i think part of this is cos my sister opened my mind to a lot of different genres which im grateful for #which i think was her way of rebelling against my parents who are both very stuck in their own ways in terms of music #(my mum especially...) #idk... life just becomes so much interesting when u allow urself to explore a variety of music genres imo! #im rambling idkkk lol