#Today’s General Direction

[thatsbelievable]

#Today’s General Direction #down #yay! #I am already there! #anxiety

[rice-enjoyer]

#felt like i needed to make this after some interactions today #i did this with burning text generator! #my overall tumblr experience has been amazing after 6 months of radio silence #this is directed at everyone who's mutuals with me. even if we are not in the same fandoms anymore or have anything in common #i still love you and get happy when i see you post/ramble about topics that are interesting to you #just fyi if we are mutuals i actively think about you with your pfp and username in mind at least once a day #<<< past rice being based with this tag #mutual appreciation #:-)

[slooshee]

Huge day for the Sampard Nation (they stood next to one another)

#hsr #honkai star rail #sampard #sampo x gepard #gepard landau #sampo koski #ok I know they are just standing next to one another but I’m insane and take what I can get ok #they’re also leaning in eachother’s general direction #no like you don’t understand them and ratio and aventurine have absolutely destroyed me #also someone said sampo took a rose from Argenti’s boquet and that’s rlly silly #one day I will be normal abt sampard but today is not that day #thank you for listening to my insane ramblings ^_^

[teetle-time]

it Begins.

#12 #tmnt #id in alt text #tcest dni #12 watchthrough #tmnt 2012 #2012 tmnt #turtles on the TV haunted oven being drawn by my hands noodles cooking in the microwave #generating serotonin from all directions today lol

[b4kuch1n]

crumbs in your bed

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#bakuspecial #comic #horror #cw: child abuse #cw: body horror #ask to tag #hi! hello. this is basically just a goosebump story I think. or a scary stories to tell in the dark entry #that's kinda what I aim for? along with the good ol vibe of fuan no tane #and also the like. Thing in east asian art where they make the main character a generic white person and then #every other thing about the setting is deeply recogniseably common asian shit lmao #that's entertainment for me. this came about extremely haphazardly... its why the first two pages look nothing like #the rest of it fsdjfhdsjhf. I slammed those out at a cafe like two days ago #went into this one no plan outside of a general sense of direction #I dont think Ive ever actually designed a single character in any of the short horror comics I did. like either its me or #I made someone up as I went. genuinely didnt know what the character'd look like until I sketched em #and then I kept referencing previous panels to draw em. dont know if I recommend this method #mmmm on reread not super sure if the sound effect of the bed leaving the room is clear enough... oh well there are other comics #been writing a lot about food and places recently Ive found out. oh yeah dyou know whats funny #I watched a wayner highlight vid of the kingdom heart charity stream today (I do not know anything about kingdom heart) and realized #how much of kingdom heart (at least the first one) is about like. places. #which is like. good job baku great deep read there isn't kingdom heart literally behind a door. arent there doors all over the place. #isnt the biggest symbol from that game taht EVERYONE knows about the KEYblade. for locks on door #fskdjfhdj but yeah its just. very cool to me that that game really does have iconic recogniseable sites. like the scenes are all tied to #where they happen at. and the climactic battle happens in a black void around a door. its good #good story about leaving ur home after ur friends aren't there anymore and being changed so much by what you go through that #you can no longer call where you started at home anymore. I am being conned by the music #anyways. yeah I go sleep now. powered thru the last 4 pages of this so its done and out there. hope my bed will not do this #have a good night lads! be careful of bugs

[sunforgrace]

cas girlism reign eternal because we were cas baited to thee bitter end. where’s the angel forever and ever. we won because he is alive and heaven is his house but they kept that gay angel from our screens in a manner most foul

#the thursday cas pic promo tweet for the finale. #the promo pic was literally just him and they couldn’t even spare single vo line #(this is not in the vein of discourse btw im just reminiscing. we were in those trenches though) #(I do not bite my thumb at noble houses of sam or dean but the show did indeed very much end with both of them on screen brothers only were #the targeted 30 percent. and yes the show started about them but then. something happened in 2008 you see) #i don’t know why I’m in a posting mood today that’s twice now prompted by another’s post #i do bite my thumb though. in the general direction of mytharc for dean as a concept because well I think that’s a little silly. aside from #dean is not a blonde stance in other prompted thought post that is as far as I wade into discourse waters

[louisplumpyass]

YES, DADDYYY!!!!

#DADDY IS SO GENEROUS TODAY #louis tomlinson #headline #faith in the future #fitf #lt #lt2 #fitf world tour #fitfwt #louis tomlinson tour #louis tomlinson world tour #lt tour #ltwt #ltwt 2023 #one direction fandom #one direction

[bonelessratss]

honestly can’t get behind the 9/11 jokes, imma be real /:

#this is generally speaking btw not directed at anyone but been seeing them a lot today lmao

[ancientrimer]

robin wright really gave everything as buttercup in hindsight. pity she didn’t have any lines to deliver

#rewatching the princess bride is a rollercoaster for me EVERYtime #when I was a kid I was always so frustrated that I didn’t like buttercup that much bc I only cared about female characters generally #then when I got older I realised that she was an uninteresting character #and that that was why #yet another bit older and I finally reconciled with the fact that she was poorly written #now? today? she’s not poorly written! and she’s excellently acted! the issue is that she’s BARELY written #she doesn’t have enough lines to establish her character the way westley or inigo is! or even fezzik or vizzini or humperdinck #even miracle max and his wife have more character! bc they’re written to have character! #buttercup is written to be the perfect romantic heroine and damsel! which means they can’t let her have any character! #but robin wright was giving it all despite that! #her face journey of expressions after westley explains the evolution of the dread pirate roberts YELLS the potential for characterising #buttercup #only she didn’t have a line to say! she just had to walk off and fall in a quagmire! #grrrrrr!!! #I love the princess bride but it would’ve been even better if she’d gotten some lines and son character direction bc she could’ve worked #she could’ve worked magic I’m sure of it #so we circle back around to ‘its because a man wrote her’. obviously. #I love the lines she does have btw. they all fuck. she pushes westley down a hill. let her speak more!!!!!!! #my dream scenario is a sequel with all the same cast of actors where buttercup gets to speak #all in the same style of genre and special effects as in the original ofc

[karmaphone]

can u imagine if they tried to make atla today. 'yeah here's my pitch about a child who has the weight of the balance of both the physical world and an ethereal spirit world on his shoulders on top of being the last survivor of a literal genocide. yeah he's spiritually enlightened already in a non Christian religion, and reincarnation happens to him and him alone. yeah no the show's major themes are about how war and imperialism are bad for everyone involved, including the world around us. no, there'll still be cool fight scenes but it will also fundamentally explain the difference between defending oneself from an oppressor vs using that power to oppress and how even children can grasp that- where are you going'

#not to mention the backlash I'm sure they would have gotten for the 'feminist agenda' like looking specifically at katara & how the northern #water tribe and even sokka learning to respect women juice I can HEAR the outcry of subverting male power for fake female empowerment #or what fucking ever #don't even get me started on the racial aspect I had to hear about that enough growing up #like 'hey here's my series about No White People whose main messages fly in the face of American culture' #I'm not like 'wau things were better then!!1!' I know it contributed to the normalization of feminist viewpoints and the idea that maybe you #don't actually want to be part of the war machine #im just saying considering the level of fan engagement and social media I can just imagine the backlash they would get for making it today #like? the hama episode????? I DOUBT they could have gotten that passed today #literally the entire episode where they explain zuko's scar I don't think they would have gotten away with such a direct portrayal of #physical child abuse without changing the rating of the whole show #in fact all of the child abuse presented. everything that zhao did to zuko. everything that general did to katara to get aang Triggered #the blind bandit fights I can see passing bc it's like wwe and not real violence but like child kidnapping?? at the direction of the parents #how did this show get approved for 10 year olds is all I'm asking I'm NOT complaining I'm genuinely exuberant it exists im jus stymied lmao

[thelonelynindroid]

The GP: so you've done an ASD referral form?

Me, staring down at the Greendale community college shirt I'm wearing, unblinking: yeah

#so yeah i had my dreaded appointment today lmaooo i use humor to cope #i just think it's very very funny #she is gonna prescribe me sertraline after I get my bloods done which is! hopefully a step in the right direction! #(i was there for debilitating social and general anxiety not autism it's just very correlated so we had to talk about it #) #alexprobablytalksshit #community

[entropii]

@rebootsnake A few possible scenarios here:

You might earn yourself a favor (?).

It might demand a more extravagant gift from you in exchange for a favor (?).

It might lead you to a powerful entity with a distant stare and a pretty mirror who will grant you your heart's desires for the low low price of something such as [insert the most precious thing you've ever known] [insert the most precious thing you will never know].

#i have silly little doodles in me today #oc #anyways addition to yesterday's vibes: #celestial (?) entity has powerful magics and their fingers lightly touched on threads of fate threads of fortune and misfortune etc. etc. #everything they get in their deals (names good luck bad luck the chance to meet a fated one etc. etc.) is fed to a giant crystal #(the crystal is a guy is a monster is a lover who got turned into a crystal after ??? event) #it feeds off of attachments to things things given meaning stories that have been told to everyone stories that have been told to no one it #eats many things can eat years of life can eat a well worn book can eat all instances of a memory of a sunny day #celestial entity sits by the crystal for hours for days to feed it things to speak with it to spend time with it in attempts to revive the #guy the monster the lover #the black bird (?) is either a fragment of herself or a wholly separate entity that acts under the directive #'fly beyond this realm and relay to me what your keen ears hear what your keen eyes see' #bird generally gathers information about the state of the world and also finds people who may be in need of her services #sometimes grants them favors sometimes curses them sometimes guides them to the celestial entity

[orc-apologist]

it's funny how when you'll give actual explanations as to why people are racist or transphobic or something similar, like how that happens and why it's happening now out of all times, that go beyond "white people/cishet people evil" so many people will instantly attack you for "apologia"

I think it kinda comes from this idea that identity politics has pushed that people of the unmarked categories like male white and cishet can't possibly struggle with things in life. but economic crises, which we have been in for 16 years now, affect everyone that's not part of the ruling class. prolonged economic instability alienates people from the status quo, from established parties, rhetoric and such. they begin to look elsewhere for solutions. the powers that be know to counteract this with reactionary politics. using scapegoating they'll promise the return to an (often imaginary) better yesterday, the very definition of reactionary politics.

these ideas sound plausible and actionable. things used to be better after all. those scapegoats used to not be there (as visibly) after all.

the way of solving this isn't to go "waaahh people are evil and fascism is back, woe is me" but to a) point out that these reactionary politics are not going to solve the problem because they are not the cause b) point out the actual cause of the problem (capitalism) c) offer actual alternatives (organizing, strikes, expropriating the bourgeoisie, and eventually total labor democracy)

#and no fascism isn't back and it's not going to be back in most of the western world #there's a difference between a military or police dictatorship which is what the US might degenerate into under trump #and actual fascism #most of the things everyone points to as fascist aren't actually fascist they're just reactionary #even genocide isn't unique to fascism. israel for example is a liberal democracy and it's still committing genocide. #all you need for genocide is a class society. its political manifestation is irrelevant tho some forms are certainly easier to do a genocid #in #it's important to understand that so you have no illusions in liberal democracy which is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie #fascism isn't this generally evil society that we are constantly at the brink of falling back into #it was a very specific historical phenomenon #in which the petty bourgeoisie were used by totalitarian reactionaries as a battering ram against the working class #to violently suppress labor organization strikes and the potential downfall of capitalism and the rise of socialism #that was its role in germany italy and spain #it wouldn't work anymore today in the western world because the petty bourgeoisie has dwindled in numbers #as they are doomed to in the monopolization process of capitalist market anarchy #they are no longer a significant percentage of the population and no longer have the numbers to suppress the working class like that #because that's what differentiates fascism from a military dictatorship for example #a military dictatorship is a small group of people violently wrangling control of the state from its current holders #and abusing ALL of society for their personal gain. including the ruling class. marxists call this bonapartism #because napoleon bonaparte was the first to do so under capitalism #most importantly this means a military dictatorship does not have a mass base and relies on ruling by the sword #which makes it highly unstable and turns all of society against it #fascism was so dangerous because it DID have a mass base! the petty bourgeoisie! #vast amounts of them were in total support of fascist rule and actively pursued it. it wasn't just a small group of people. #this made the systems a lot more stable and a lot more powerful because they had large parts of society at their bidding #that sort of power and stability can no longer occur because their social base has mostly disappeared #they can whip up enough reactionary anger in the working class to perhaps GET to power #but as soon as a fascist politician starts going after unions strikes wages #launching the incredibly direct attacks against the working class that fascism always did #that voter base is going to turn against them very quickly

[starburstfloat]

I'm revisiting a novel I started working on in my creative writing class three years ago and I'd forgotten about a lot of it but I just reread the first chapter and not to toot my own horn but omg?? where did that rebecca go that ending to the first chapter gave me goosebumps !!! I need to reawaken my creativity again and get on that level

#might spend the rest of today reworking the general plot direction and some character gaps hehe #rebecca rambles

[hanlimz]

all the people that claim to be engenes and fans of enhypen are really starting to get on my nerves. like, i was just watching clips of riki's live from today, and i came across the clip of him saying that he would prefer the puma/cheetah emoji over the duck one. then immediately after, people in the chat started to spam duck emojis. and, yes, while i understand that it's literally just an emoji, and it's really never this serious—he DIRECTLY expressed that he preferred one thing over the other, and then "fans" started doing the complete opposite. i imagine that it has to be kind of frustrating when the people that you take time out of your night to stream for don't respect even the simplest of wishes. (like how are you supposed to feel comfortable sharing an authentic version of yourself if your "fans" don't even seem to hold a modicum of respect for you?)

and yes, ultimately, i am stating my opinion on discourse about an emoji—however, i think it speaks to a larger issue of fan/artist boundaries. we are not enhypen's buddies, we are not enhypen's pals, we are not enhypen's best friends. we never will be, and some people desperately need to understand that. we are fans, not friends. we need to give artists ample reasons to be proud of the fanbase that they've cultivated. we need to let artists thrive in a healthy environment that we create and maintain. and, we need to respect the artists we love and look up to (esp if the task is using one emoji over the other like wtf?).

#ੈ.talking to myself #sorry i'm ranting #riki alr gets enough hate as it is n while this isnt hate n it rly isnt even Discourse #i just feel like he's constantly being disrespected #n yes once more i know it's abt an emoji but “fans” like the ones in todays live always know how to push my fucking buttons #ITS NOT HARD #USE THE PUMA EMOJI N STOP TEASING RIKI LIKE U'VE KNOWN HIM FOR YEARS U EMOTIONALLY UNINTELLIGENT WEIRDO #n e ways this is not directed at anybody ofc <33 my moots n followers always slay #i j needed to rant #delete l8r #(using we as a general collective not necessarily referring to ppl on my blog . on weverse . or even engenes.) #(i think the whole kpop community could be better at this tbh)

[greencheekconure27]

Not to be a Karen but if the local bus service won't start providing me with an explanation as to why, for the fourth time this month, (not counting the day they were striking, which I'm okay with) three scheduled busses in a row just "won't come today" I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's because the bus drivers just couldn't be bothered and all went for a beer instead.

Signed,

Increasingly hangry customer who just wants to get home and have dinner already.

(I will Not be eating at the fast food place again. Nope. I refuse.)

#rant #i know for a fact there's nothing wrong with the road in either direction #there's no strike or other protest actions planned today #all other lines are working. their website which is supposed to give me a real time shedule updates reports no disruptions. #surely if someone's sick or something they could've replaced them in three hours time? there's a whole bunch of lines departing from here #is it too much to ask for my bus to be at least a little bit reliable? no? #busses #public transport #hangry #general randomness