#as pretentious as that sounds lol

[liquidstar]

The agony of wanting a good gyro but there not being any good Greek places nearby

#it's so hard not to be picky abt your country's food. I'm so sorry. it has to make me have a Ratatouille moment for me to buy it #as pretentious as that sounds lol #im the same way when i go to greece tho its like damn there are NO good burgers around here #even the fast food is like. im sorry but goodies is mid. cant believe you have to drive 2 hours to gay ass lamia to get mid #was it even lamia i might be misremembering. whatever doesnt matter #crazy that i used to think that was like a big city when i was a kid LOL

[reasonsforhope]

Hey adults: Why do you like being an adult? What do you like about your life?

A couple weeks ago I told the kids at my work that "Being an adult is pretty nice, actually," and they looked shocked, laughed incredulously, and told me I was the first person they'd ever heard say that

So clearly we adults need to talk about this way more often

The past few years have been hard for a lot of people, me included. Covid sucked. I lost three relatives and three pets in one year. Right after lockdown ended, I got badly injured, and ended up housebound for six months and (much more) disabled for two years, and that sucked too.

And you know what? Literally all of that was easier and better than being a teenager.

I like being an adult. I like my life. Even when it's hard, it's mine, and I am building to the best of my ability the a life that I want to live.

I talked about a lot of why being an adult is something worth looking forward to in my last post, so right now I'll simply say this:

I love actually knowing who I am now. I love that I learned and am learning what I want and need. I love that I have independence and autonomy and don't get treated like a kid. I love the fact that I'm the one who gets to decide want I want to do and what I need. I also love that I'm learning to sew. I love that I've had pet rats, and next will have a pet cat. I love that I got top surgery. I love the way I've decorated my room. I love traveling to visit and crash and even just hang out and do work with my friends, when I can. I love that I started reading good news every day, and that I actually have hope for the future, and that I started this blog and have been able to help give so many other people hope, too.

So, here's a call to action for my fellow adults: comment or reply or tag what you like about being an adult. What you love about your life.

Let's give some kids some reasons for hope.

#hope #not news #life #life advice #growing up #teenagers #adulthood #adulting #hopepunk #hope posting #hopeposting #also feel free to put your age to help make things feel more concrete and real #and make it clear that “being an adult is good” isn't just limited to your early twenties #in fact it's often better after your early twenties #I'm around 30 personally #I hope this post sounds poetic rather than pretentious lol #that last bit in particular had me going “hmm is this too much” #but actually I think that we dismiss hope and happiness too often #hope deserves to not always have to be serious but I think hope also deserves all the seriousness and gravitas that we can give it

[forgottenflickr]

i follow over 450 blogs, and this is the best one i've found so far. absolute pinnacle of blogging. i think this is as good as it gets.

the pictures you curate, i mean, not only are they stunningly, stunningly beautiful, and poingently emotional. but i mean, you're also pulling them out, pulling them out of time, out from the past. out from flickr which, really isn't used all that much these days. and you're giving them new life. going through your posts feels like flipping through an old family photo book. absolutely brilliant. brings me through to new emotions i've never felt before.

i've only just found this blog so i'm sure i'm only scraping the surface, but dear god is the surface incredible. i feel so much connection with these people and their lives. these photos are so so so deeply human.

great job. great great job. love the account. thank you.

oh wow, well I’ve been on tumblr many years and I have to say this is my favorite ask I’ve gotten :’) I’ll try to answer this well but definitely better at words than I am

I’m really so glad, because the way you describe it is exactly what I was hoping for. There’s a feeling that’s just so indescribable I get when looking through people’s old galleries, seeing years and years of memories of their families, beloved pets, people showing their hobbies and interests. Just the mundane daily life and special memories I get to see, it feels almost intimate and heart wrenching. And eventually, those posts just stop..

All I can think is “How are you doing now? Where are you now? Why did you go away, stop sharing these moments? Do you even remember them, that they’re here?”

I think about the photos of loved children I see, how they’ve grown up now. Would they remember? How are they? There is absolutely a sort of connection that’s hard to explain.

No matter if they remember themselves or not, my goal was to create something just like how you said - to preserve and share these memories, so they may never be lost and truly forgotten.

a big part of it for me is that I had my own digital camera when I was a little kid. I loved it and taking pictures so much. My pictures were much like the ones I post, mostly pictures of my cats, and you’ll notice a lot of what I post here is cats, almost all which have certainly passed away by now. I want to help remember them and share their memory.

#you and I clearly have the same eye and view #the same appreciation and such #not to sound pretentious lol #thank you

[possumteeths]

I like fall out boy and patd as much as anyone else but theres a ~vibe~ to ppl who are still like batshit insane abt these groups who go out of their way to be like “im a cool adult i used to be emo” that i cant put my finger on

#Its a brand of pick me definitely #like somehow the ppl who are all like wow emo throwback lol love FOB are the same ppl who bullied me for liking these things in HS #Like ur gonna tell me in 2024 some girl from hs is posting brendon urie thirst traps on her insta story and shes married with children nfmd #Its very ‘I have no personality besides consumerism but this one is music based so im cool please please say im cool #Im aware this sounds pretentious but idk how else to word it #Like obvs i still like all these groups embarrassingly i love all time low still but im not fkn getting a damn tattoo and making a post abt #how they saved my life and wouldnt be there if not for (insert random emo group) #its also…. hrmmmmm its like u dont know how to be a person with interests besides vaguely gesturing at a dartboard that has a list of googl #defined emo things or something #like ‘this is a really good movie/band/cartoon/whatever because hot topic always has merch of it’ #Mmm same with nightmare before christmas honestly lnfkdbfmsnsn

[solradguy]

Sol is the only one in the entire English dub of Strive that puts in an effort to pronounce Tír na nÓg correctly and that's why he's the best

#textpost #He only does it once before he just says it how everyone else does #But tbh being the only one saying a word right when everyone else isn't is a weird feeling lol #He probably didn't want to sound pretentious. Which like fair tbh rofl

[agnesandhilda]

your bllk takes are always so solid so its cool to see your epnagi thoughts. reading through them with a hand under my chin and nodding along as if i’m a middle aged man reading a newspaper or something.

THANK YOU I am having a fantastic time subjecting this manga to literary analysis

#asks #dykefagyuri #I sound pretentious as hell saying “literary analysis” but I am. an actual english major irl lol #I enjoy something I drop a wall of text about it that's who I am

[zebrafiz]

my face after looking at all the dog breeds in cas and seeing 5758493748593 doodles but no belgian malinois

#this sounds so pretentious 😭 #but yall have to understand…. i love them i wanted a belgian malinois for this sim sooo bad but NO! #she wants an attack dog trained in bite work and heelwork! BITCH! #also i have a visceral hate for 90% of doodle owners who purposely seek them out. i think they need jail time #i have rly gotten into like the dog community and I’ve learned so much shit. some good. lots of it bad. some of these ppl are wild. #I think getting an Aussie has also catapulted me into it bc I’ve only ever had small ones like a chihuahua and an incredibly demure #jack russell may she rest in peace 😞 #anyway that’s like my new fascination. i love trying to decide which breed is my dream breed LOL #so I’ve been going through cas like a nerd for the last 30 minutes critiquing the traits and appearances they come with #the yorkie is soooo cute….ALSO THEY HAVE BEDLINGTON TERRIRORS !!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! #*personal #rant over. enjoy my tag talk

[that-rackin-frackin-varmint]

#4— 07/24/2022 12:17 AM

Back in Action review sort of

Back in Action is so funny to me. Cuz under my typical critical lens, I wouldn’t actually enjoy it as a whole, cuz the human characters aren’t that engaging, the villain is kinda forgettable (if not weirdly toon-like in demeanour), and the story I feel suffered some cutbacks (seeing from the sheer amount of deleted content).

I think what really saves it from being unbearable to me is the fact that the emotional backbone of it is Daffy and Bugs’ relationship, and especially Daffy.

He was portrayed so well with his character displaying the capacity to be so obnoxious and untouchable when he was toying with the security guard/human protagonist — which would mirror Bugs’ effortless ability to torment the ceo of comedy. So it puts them on equal standing in the sense that both are very good at tormenting people as individuals. And what’s more, the movie really goes out of its way to hold value to Daffy’s feelings, like not making his insecurities a joke (until the very last minute but I’ll get to that). The movie is very much driven by Daffy but it’s not made that apparent:

Why is this movie happening?

Because Daffy wanted to make a movie that focused on him without needing Bugs. Which ended with him getting fired.

What is the driving force of the story?

Daffy’s desire to take control of his life and be a hero of the story. But also the emotional desire to be treated like an equal.

Why doesn’t he want to come back to Warner Bros Studio?

Externally, it’s because he would rather go and find the monkey treasure with the human guy (which is just as true since Daffy’s very materialistic). Internally, it’s because he feels underappreciated and undervalued by the studio (and by association, Bugs).

The movie feels like it recognizes the anguish of Daffy’s odd status, and it doesn’t shy away from acknowledging the potent angst he could feel from being seen as replaceable. Course they didn’t get into anything obscure, like making Daffy mention his past as being beloved in the 30s-40s ish, cuz that’d be a lot of context for an average movie goer. So can’t say if that era was a thing for Daffy in this movie, but it feels like a natural development that after years of being second fiddle to Bugs, and not getting any of the acknowledgement for it, the guy would try to suggest a movie that centred around him. You can tell he’s done something like this a bunch of times before, but this time the new ceo of comedy straight up told him he has no leverage since his audience is pretty trashy, and he isn’t all that. So he got canned. Which also didn’t seem like a first time, since Bugs mentions he can make sure the pay won’t be docked as bad. Which brings me to my next topic: Bugs.

Bugs in this movie is not as dialled down like he is in the Space Jam movies, or TLTS. He is very manipulative and subtle when he wants to be, but also very teasing and attached to Daffy. Tbh, he isn’t as well-rounded of a lead as Daffy, but he is basically just following Daffy because he 1) cares about him, and 2) wants Daffy to get hired back into Warner Bros. When I say he ‘cares about him’, it’s not under any guise or gimmick, Bugs will go through the entire film because Daffy wants to. He personally isn’t invested in whatever monkey treasure Daffy and the security guard are up to, but he is kind of “obligated” since the ceo wants to find Daffy and get him back (since he isn’t as replaceable as she thought, as in, Bugs probably had a hand in screwing over her rep — quick tangent but I want to believe the only reason they were doing a Duck season-Rabbit season short without Daffy was because Bugs somehow led the conversation to that conclusion). Really, Bugs is capable of a lot of things, so if he didn’t want to be here, he probably wouldn’t. His emotional investment in the movie is Daffy. And that’s enough for him. Which is where I get into the ending of the movie…

God, when Bugs pulled a “Duck season! Rabbit season!” card on Daffy as his way of disguising a compliment, and Daffy caught onto the validation but not the point that Bugs was complimenting him, it felt right, like this was how it was going to end, and his arc was getting resolved.

And then we get a shot of the room but in a set, and my heart sank.

Bugs ends up coming out on top, as Daffy did technically end up starring in his movie. And this is the movie we’re watching at this moment. And Daffy’s resolution measures up to an empty promise from Bugs that he’ll be treated as an equal or something (I can’t remember what the exact promise was, I just know Bugs wouldn’t keep it). And so nothing changed, and maybe it meant something that this movie — which in-world was somewhat controlled by Bugs — was very much Daffy-focused as Daffy had wanted. But it’s conclusion is as ultimately ineffectual as Bugs’ efforts to somewhat give Daffy recognition. This movie can be deconstructed by the way Bugs described how he reconciles with Daffy:

“I tell him I need him. We hug, we cry, I drop something heavy on him, I laugh.”

If you were watching and emotionally invested in Daffy’s feelings like me, you got the second-hand equivalent of Bugs “dropping something heavy on him”. That even after Daffy got all that screentime, there’s no promise that things will change for him or his status. And Bugs basically leaves amused. And yes this only sounds as bleak cuz I’m viewing this so critically. That’s how I have fun, very tragic.

Basically, what this whole essay amounts to is that watching the movie on surface level is a drag.

But watching it under the perception that you’re watching Daffy and Bugs’ complicated relationship unfold on screen, makes it a lot more entertaining.

Present day thoughts:

Yeah, I feel like most of my thoughts are still intact for how I feel about this movie as both a pseudo-outsider back then, and a slightly wiser looney tunes fan now.

I have continuously analysed this film to varying degrees of seriousness, so all that's changed is that I feel like I let the impact of the ending offset the gravity of the journey's events.

Cause, as cluttered as the final product was, this film's unorthodox approach to character arcs and pacing gives it this distinct looney tunes-esque quality to it that I've yet to see be replicated in any other looney tunes modern film. The ending doesn't undermine the journey our characters took to get there.

Similar sentiments to the well-renowned Duck Amuck short directed by Chuck Jones -- the ending plot twist shouldn't reduce the story's quality. It isn't known as the "Bugs Bunny tortures Daffy Duck for 7 mins" the short. It's the critically-acclaimed short held in high regard for Jones' ability to convey personality in the face of ego death using Daffy Duck as his muse. Bugs being the artist is just a punchline.

So to this movie's ending, let me pose you a rhetorical question. What would a looney tunes film be without a punchline?

#melon ramble🍉 #baffy void #looney tunes back in action #looney tunes #daffy duck #bugs bunny #my present day thoughts sound pretty pretentious lol #give it another year and i'll start gouging my eyes out rereading it

[bunnychesofoats]

Meow :3

#oatsdiary #me #2014 tumblr #self shot ig lol sounds pretentious

[daz4i]

one thing they don't tell you about song writing is you WILL get hit with inspiration at 1 am and you WILL have to write down the whole thing before you forget and you WILL find a tune for it while typing and now you gotta actually finish it so you can record a draft so you don't forget it and- oh look it's 2:22 am

#:( #BUT the draft slaps. imo. the singing's Not Great it's purely to save the melody somehow #also some parts def need to be polished lol when i sing along on my phone in bed I'm too lazy to go back and do retakes #(in part bc it can delete stuff i don't want deleted so.) so if there's a line I'm not sure about well. i have to wing it lol #anyway. this one exists in the same cinematic universe as loveless. aka fun upbeat pop songs about how i can't feel love #i like it! i like how my brain immediately went to a fun pop tune while writing. it's perfect. i love the irony of it so so much ♡ #it's also kinda funny to call it pop when there isn't any music ajdkflglh but i can hear it clearly in my head so 🧐 yeah. #yknow I'm surprised by how naturally this sort of thing comes to me now #and i find myself writing to match the tune rather than forcing a tune to match the lyrics #it also just. makes them better. sound more natural imo. less pretentious too :P #idk I'm excited that i managed to create smth sorry for the ramble 🙏 #i need to wake up at around 9:45 so wish me luck with that 🥲 bc i doubt I'll be able to sleep soon lol

[yourstormthlaylirahh]

Another thing to appreciate about Photjanee’s characterization is that she wasn’t all of a sudden free of all uneasy feelings towards Tinn being gay and being in a relationship.

 Like yeah, she came through in a major way for her son during a very emotionally charged moment and provided the needed support and back up. But she still has reservations and doubts - you could see during the dinner scene and the conversation about Gun staying over how much longer it would take her to be comfortable with her son’s sexuality completely. She can’t change however many years of bias during one moment, even if that moment provided a turning point for her making a very public effort to be supportive of her son’s queerness - any previous moves in that direction were private moments with Tinn’s dad while wrestling with her feelings.

But she is clearly trying and working on herself in order to support her son and be able to stand by his side even when the world is against him. And that is so huge to see, because it’s so real. You don’t overcome homophobia (no matter how quietly or loudly it presents) with a sudden grand gesture, because it takes work to understand and rebuild your thought patterns. As much as we all would like homophobia to just disappear easily, and for people to support and love us and have it done with, it is these smaller steps that people take and build upon that lead to those big changes. It is all the minor but important choices Photjanee is taking, thinking through how she wants to respond and choosing to respond in an accepting way, that are the building blocks of a more accepting future.

It is such a hopeful ending in regards to her character, and so loving and beautiful. As nice as it is to think traits like acceptance and kindness are innate traits, what they are is actions, a conscious choice to behave differently according to the kind of world you want to live in.

#i hope this makes sense and doesn't sound too pretentious lol #i just have a lot of emotions about her character #she reminds me of my mom in so many ways i was just sobbing during any finale scene she was in #my school president #emilys fandom thoughts

[disasterhimbo]

#and yes I am thinking of the jenny slate drunk history meme #where she says she had to unfollow NASA on Instagram bc it made her too crazy and screams at the end #but I am lazy and I was worried if I tried to combine the two memes it might be too many layers #and just not as good #eeee I’m so excited #this is my first one #maybe someday I’ll get to be in the path of totality lol #humblebrag: I didn’t get to see the one in 2017 bc I was traveling in Europe #idk how to explain why this is my first in a non-bragging/less pretentious-sounding way lol sorry #solar eclipse #annular solar eclipse #solar eclipse 2023 #astronomy #my post #original post #memes #described #id in alt text

[stergeon]

for the writer ask

💭🚦💛 💌

💭 What inspires you and your writing?

this is a real marketing major-ass answer (from your local marketing major), but i love sharing knowledge and telling stories. writing’s one of those things that’s a bit of a compulsion for me—i’m always writing something. i took a five-year break from fiction writing before i stumbled ass-first into fanfic last year, but even in those years when i was focusing on my career, i was writing guides and trainings and a ton of other stuff—just not anything fun, lol.

writing is also so cathartic. sometimes i set out to tell a specific story, but at other times, a particular emotion gets me in a vice grip and i have to put it to words before it’ll go away. my stories tend to wind up as emotional dumping grounds as a result.

i don’t write things pulled directly from my own life, but there are bits and pieces of myself and things that have happened to me scattered throughout stuff i’ve written, and usually when i’m about 75% of the way through a piece, i’ll realize it’s absolutely related to something i’m currently going through. funny how art works that way, even when you don’t intend for it to.

and occasionally i just have a fire lit under my ass about an issue and i get so hot about it that i gotta compile my thoughts. looking at you, silver snow

🚦 What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?

look, i would love nothing more for them girls (pick whichever girls you please) to have a happy ending where they kiss and are stupid in love for the rest of forever. i love reading those kinds of stories. but in my heart of hearts, i love an ambiguous ending. i like when there are still questions after the story ends. i like thinking about where things could go or how the characters will go on after the events of the story. like, shared space could be read as having a happy ending, but i don’t really think it is. and with the victors; the vestiges, well. you’ll see :0)

come to think of it, i’m not sure i’ve ever written a happily-ever-after, but i don’t think i’ve ever written a 100% bad ending, either. i read too many bury-your-gays stories and watched too many sad european queer coming-of-age films in my youth to ever be happy putting that kinda thing out into the world. i want to write about love with all its ugliness, but not despair or hopelessness. i think what most appeals to me about an ambiguous ending is that lingering feeling of hope. it’s not the same as the kind you get from a happily-ever-after, and something about it speaks to me.

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

honestly? how to take criticism. i took a creative writing class in high school where we had to read our work out loud and then receive feedback on it from the other writers in the class, and that did a lot for me. going into that class, i’d already been writing for forever and had won some little local writing contests and such, so i was a wee bit of a pretentious douche. but i’d never gotten real critique before beyond, essentially, spelling and grammar checks. it humbled me lol. it made me grow so much as a writer, and i could see where i needed to improve or where my head was wedged way too far up my own ass for others to follow. it also helped me recognize strengths i didn’t know i had, and that was huge. it’s easy to get into a self-doubt spiral when making creative work, and good, constructive criticism can do so much to help avoid that.

to this day i love critique. i like knowing what worked or didn’t work so that i can continue to improve as a writer and do better next time. did my themes land? did something really work, but another part fall flat? i’d love to know!! i try to treat everything i write as practice for the next thing, and frankly that’s helped take some of the pressure off so i don’t go into total Perfectionist Mode.

i know critique is kind of a sensitive topic in fan spaces, but i think that’s because a lot of people have gotten unsolicited criticism that is purely critical and isn’t constructive. but getting good, constructive criticism will do so much to help a person grow as a writer. it’s scary, and sometimes it hurts! writing is very personal for most people, and it stings when things aren’t received the way you think they will be. but i know i’ve grown more from having my failures pointed out (and, very importantly, having the good things about those efforts acknowledged) than anything else.

💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?

actually Just answered this in another ask!

#sterge.eml #foxyjeongin #thank you for playing my little game and letting me talk about stories (and about me lmao) #sorry this is kind of a long post #i talk too much #i think i sound pretentious in this ask whoops. sorry #unfortunately i kind of am. i’m working on it. #… ​i guess the short answer to that first question is ‘emotions and mental illness’ lol #if you follow me on twitter (not recommended as it’s just me complaining about the weather and not being able to ride my motorcycle) #you know that every time i bring up my writing in therapy my therapist rocks my shit by revealing the story is #in fact. #NOT about what i thought it was about #or more accurately ​it’s ALSO secretly about whatever’s going on with me in real life lmao #y’know what’s really fun? looking back at something you wrote in a manic or depressive episode and going ah. hm. interesting. #the signs were. in fact. there. #(this is in fact not fun and i don’t like it. but it always happens.) #everything i write is accidentally Also about being bipolar. no getting around that #i tend to have issues organizing my thoughts and feelings to even figure out how tf i’m feeling #(forget making any attempt at doing so verbally. i have chronic foot-in-mouth disorder and accidentally say shit i don’t mean all the time) #but writing stuff down has always helped me sort through whatever mess is going on in my noggin and i love it for that #learning how to take critique is my no. 1 piece of writing advice but no. 2 is to read #read the classics. find out why they’re classics. read weird shit. read shit you don’t like. find things you like about em anyway. #and importantly: figure out WHY you do or don’t like it #it’s funny to re-read a book i haven’t read in a long time and discover OH. that’s where i get that technique from. #or that’s where i got that idea. or that’s why i had X thing happen in this story. #or why i like this type of character or scenario #nothing’s truly new and original #we’re all an amalgamation of influences and that ruuuuules #celebrate it!!!

[alagaisia]

I’m reminded of that post about how goths and people who wear only lots of pink are actually the same because “wearing only one color” is a specific choice in opposition to just looking Normal

I’m flying to a friend’s wedding today, and I recently acquired from my neighborhood free page a very pretty vintage suitcase in like a brocade upholstery texture in all of my good colors, so of course I needed a coordinated airport outfit à la Midge Maisel. You guys don’t know me, but I usually dress very put together, in what my sister calls Outfits, with a capital O to distinguish it from just wearing clothes. And since getting a full time job I’ve been slowly adding to my collection of vintage and 50’s-vibes clothes, because I just really like that aesthetic (my bridesmaid dress for the wedding is a vintage tea dress I got from Etsy. The fabric is in great condition but I had to reinforce pretty much every seam with my sewing machine, because the structural integrity of the original thread was breaking down, so that was an interesting learning experience).

All of which is to say that I Dressed Up for the airport in a vintage-y outfit that coordinates perfectly with some of the colors of my suitcase, and my hair is curled, and I have a vintage leather purse that my grandma gave me that matches her watch that I’m wearing and the shoes she bought me last summer at the same vintage store that my skirt came from, and a teenage-ish girl with whatever you call the 2023 teenage equivalent of emo/punk vibes, like the dark maroon mullet and not a lot of makeup and dark comfy clothes but like, very on purpose, told me I look cool when I walked past on the way to security

And like, she Gets It! We have different fashion goals but I think we put a similar degree of intention into the way we look compared to just wearing regular clothes. Which is cool! It’s validating. Not that I really need validation, but it’s always nice to get compliments, of course. And the way I dress is really not terribly distinctive most of the time, other than being Outfits and a little dressier than maybe the norm is, like I think most people who see me one time in passing would see that I look Nice but not necessarily see it as a cultivated Look. But punk mullet girl gets it.

#struggled with not sounding *too* pretentious here #I don’t feel pretentious but I have a hard time talking about like. specific choices and things in any detail #like to my friends I just said what happened with a picture of my outfit and was like ‘and she gets it!’ and they were like ‘yeah!’ #but to strangers I have to go into much more detail to get the point across #even though really it’s not like I’m putting all of that into it every day I just get up and go ‘i want to look nice today’ #in accordance with my personal fashion preferences #and then having to explain those preferences like ‘my name is alagaisia midge maisel darkness way and I’m wearing vintage whatever’ #i do look so cute though #i got these shoes last summer and then lost the heel cap off of one of them the very first time i wore them #finally took them in to have them fixed last week so I could wear them to the wedding #needed a deadline so that I would actually get around to it #i hate flying it’s really a testament of how much I love my friend that I’m flying #instead of driving ten hours to Nebraska #but it made more sense and to make sure i won’t be late or run into car trouble or anything #and I’ll stay looking nice right away instead of getting gross and sweaty in the car or having to change for bachelorette activities #i only know the bride so I’m definitely going to make a very specific impression on all of these strangers lol #i joked with my dad about adopting a trans Atlantic accent for the whole weekend just for shits and giggles #turns out you cannot do it over the top. have you ever listened to JFK’s ‘we choose to go to the moon’ speech #it’s very silly sounding #we had a good time saying things one might say at a bachelorette party in a goofy voice #‘we cho~ose to ohdah thihs maiule strippah… ahnd the othah things.. nawt becahse it is easyh.. #but becawhse he is hahd’ #highly recommend #mine #personal

[eddiemunson-mylove]

Sometimes I remember that I was one of the first people to see Joe’s new hair before pictures came out about it when I watched ‘You are going to die’ “with” him….

Need to make sure I don’t drop my crown 🤭👸

#lol this sounds so pretentious #I promise I’m not trying to rub it in #I’m just excited #joseph quinn #joe quinn #joseph quinn stranger things

[raytorosaurus]

Hey this isn’t a criticism of what you said at all—I’m just wondering if you’d mind elaborating! What do you mean when you say bad behavior at dunes shows reflects badly in frank/mcr? Like, should Frank be shutting these people down by speaking up about it, it were you thinking more like fans should know better, or check themselves/each other more? Again, just curious, you have so many good things to say and I wanna make sure I understand. :)

oh sorry i should have been clearer, it's got nothing to do with frank himself! i mean behaviour of the fans reflecting on an artist from an outsider's perspective, whether that's fair or not. e.g. at the thursday shows i went to that anthony green opened at he was like "wow you guys have been so attentive and welcoming to me as an opener, it makes sense that fans of this band and these guys would be so respectful and sweet to me, it's a credit to them" (paraphrased). it's a pretty common sentiment, and on the flipside if ppl see fans of a band acting entitled or disrespectful they're gonna associate that with the band. e.g. there was some pretty shitty behaviour at the front of the queue of one of the my chem shows i went to this tour, and the venue staff there are all gonna remember that - and they're not gonna remember those individuals, they're gonna remember "the mcr fans". if a band opened for my chem and people talked through their set, were on their phones, etc etc, that would make my chem look bad by extension bc it's their fans showing poor show etiquette. so what i meant by that was if ppl can't be embarrassed on their own behalf they could at least be embarrassed on frank's/mcr's behalf, does that make sense? like mcr has historically not been taken seriously because of its fanbase for a number of reasons and some of those were classic misogyny and homophobia etc, but in this specific context where people are showing up to hardcore shows and behaving kind of poorly (obviously it's a minority of people!) it makes it hard to blame the other people there for rolling their eyes at mcr yk? i don't think there's anything frank could do/say that wouldn't make him sound like an ungrateful asshole to the fanbase that made him rich sjdjfjfk, and again it's not that huge a deal in the end, it's just something that bothers me as a fellow fan yk

#i realise i probably just sound pretentious at this stage shdhdl just trying to be clear #defs didn't mean to imply it's frank's fault/responsibility! #if i may be allowed a little parasocial projection i feel a little bit bad for him skdhkd #i know he's fine and all but just let the guy play his music in the scene that he's always said means everything to him lol