#fucking excellent

[appleelevengreen]

challengers is so good i don't understand if art and patrick are like that bc they had gay sex or bc they didn't.

#either way most repressed white boys ever the both of them #fucking excellent #poly would've solved this #challengers #zendaya #josh o'connor #mike faist #luca guadagnino

[tuliptiger]

I've been on hold with unemployment for 8 hours. The first 6 I got in contact with someone who couldn't help me so I was put in another queue. Line said 2 min wait it was 1 and a half hours and my phone disconnected.

It wasn't the signal I straight up think the hold time got maxed out. Had 5 min breakdown sobbing because this system for the last 3 weeks has been so incredibly taxing. Call back, 1 and a half more hour wait estimate that leaves 1 before they close. It is now 2 hours and 10 minutes in on the wait and I do not think I'm getting this fixed today.

This actually makes me want to fucking krill myself this is so unnecessarily difficult for no reason I need it for less than a month. Meanwhile the government is handing out blank checks to fucking Israel to commit a genocide with everyone's tax dollars.

#fucking excellent #words #I'm so livid #I'm in such a piss loor mood there is nothing like #listening to this eternal bullshit hold music

[vstheworld]

I am v mentally ill NORMAL abt mr robot

#actual portrayal of unreliable narrator? #focus on the horrors of the unreality of mental illness????? #DID that doesn’t get unpacked and named until three seasons in??? #I’m only on s3 but I also think Eliot got bad touched and I will be so bummed if we’re not doing a genuine fallout of the effects of CSA #BUT IT REALLY SEEMS LIKE WE ARE #yeah yeah some of the narrative is messy #BUT SO IS BEING CRAZY #god rami malek is so good #I never got past s2 so I’m determined to finish it now #text post #personal #this show really went ‘what if project mayhem worked and it was awful’ #fucking excellent #cash watches stuff

[coffee-and-manslaughter]

to me there is almost no quick dinner that compares to Pot Roast

#so incredibly low effort #like a gift from past me #fucking excellent #oz talks

[hawkeyes-boy]

hawkeyes always giving radar the 'its ok to be different talk' has big older neurodivergent queer to young neurodivergent queer vibes

#just watched hepatits #fuck #not hepatits #hepatitis #great ep #ofc because alan wrote and directed #the scene with margaret??? #he calls her magnificent #fucking excellent #squid watches mash

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

so every episode of extraordinary attorney woo is gonna make me cry huh

#every time I think it's about to handle something badly it sticks the landing #the hans asperger bit had me in the first half #and then it was just like 'but he was a nazi and he thought disabled people should die so' #fucking excellent #idk how I feel about a non-autistic actress hamming up the mannerisms so much but #damn it if that love interest isn't a masterclass in allyship #there are some stereotypes being leaned into sure but it's not like they didn't so their research #elise's posts

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

#linguistics #gen z slang #english #as people in the reblog pointed out! #most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave #honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English #instead of ridiculing speakers #and I tagged incorrectly and didn’t point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang #in that much of it was appropriated #and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave #aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language #and the grammar is incredible!!! #habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary #and the phonology is just beautiful #anyway I’m very sorry #I fucked up

[oncillabrigade]

Finally read Robins!

I have a lot of thoughts, but I just want to say this panel is the funniest thing I've ever seen:

#addressing Bruce as Batman is such a tell too #hilarious and fucked up #tim drake #bruce wayne #batfam #i continue to maintain that tim being a champion liar while looking like that has given him such an unfair advantage in life #no one suspects this awkward twink with survival skill-level excellence in lying to parental figures is lying to them #not even bruce #my dude this is why you are no longer the world's greatest detective #anyway #I fuckin' love tim drake #robin #robins (2022)

[keymintt]

a comic/zine about coyotes

#art #comic #coyotes #comics #my art #digital #zine #idk what else to tag this if anything #i just think coyotes are so fucking cool and excellent queer symbolism. if you think about it #< he has thought about it so fucking much #shoutout to the handful of ppl who kept me company on stream last night too hehe #sorry if you get a version with typos they should all be corrected by now. i unfortunately have adhd and made this in two days #busted out all the illustrations for this in...one night for phx zine fest lmaO #our group found out two days before we were tabling that we got taken off the waitlist. had fun today tho #greatest hits

[marinebiologyshitposts]

fishjak. if this is anything

#submarine #oh this is fucking excellent. saving this forever now thanks

[coolinternetmen]

#white boy summer #white excellence #white boys #white men #hot dudes #alpha white men #fine as hell #white guys #white king #fine as fuck

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Oh I realized a thing about the Paul/Feyd-Rautha fight. So usually if you have a big fight scene, but especially if you do something like have a character get injured in a way that would definitely be fatal if they weren't cursed with inescapable Main Character Energy, you follow up the fight scene with some moment of comfort or relief or something, which serves to release the tension for the audience and let them know whew, that was scary, but it's okay now. Your character is hurt but they're gonna survive. (Or alternately, if they're dying heroically, it was worth it and what the narrative demanded.)

But here there's nothing. Paul is surrounded by devoted followers; his mother; his lover; one of his oldest teachers and a loyal servant of House Atreides. No one steps forward to offer a shoulder to lean on or help him to his feet. He's left them all behind. He's not a person who got hurt in a fight anymore; he's a myth that people shrink back from. So he pulls the knife out by himself. He stands up by himself. Other than the emperor very begrudgingly touching his hand to kiss the ring, I don't think anyone touches him at all for the rest of the movie. He's completely alone. They never release that tension, because Paul's alive but it is very much not going to be okay.

#dune #dune part two #paul atreides #action #to be clear i think this is a fucking excellent choice #it's a big part of what makes the ending feel Like That even if we don't consciously register the missing emotional beat #been thinking a lot about the choice to let paul get like. severely injured during the final fight and what the effects are #and this is a big one #dune spoilers

[koobird]

Me before yesterday: I’m really excited for the TTYD remake, I’ve always wanted to play it, but I’m honestly worried all of these people hyping it up as the greatest game ever are really overrating it. I mean, it’s just a Mario game, how good can it really be?

Me last night after having such a good time I played the game for nine hours straight:

#it’s fucking peak y’all #the writing is so good #the characters are amazing #the battle and rpg mechanics are excellent #I love it #paper mario #paper mario ttyd

[inkskinned]

something bad happened to you, and you died, and you came back wrong.

not wrong all the way. the little ways. you forget important dates, stopped going out with friends. it's harder to make you smile. you're apathetic towards things you used to love, afraid of places you used to go to cheer up. quieter. flinching. different.

you came back for love. you're still here for love. what pulled you back was a brightness so loud that even death couldn't outshout it. death heard the call and smiled at you and said okay. go home. somebody is waiting for you.

but you came back different. like lot's wife; you've turned into salt. you used to chirp through life in hops and skips; but now you lose skin just standing up. you have to move slower, skimming across this world without-touching-it. most things feel dull - until they're suddenly all-too-much. life, and being alive just rushes up and over you and you get hopelessly crushed.

you try to explain it to them: it is ugly, but this is what you are, now. the huge golden hoop of your halo now a little bronze ring. you are still watering your plants and wearing the same clothes. after all, you worked hard to come home. this life; so odd and off-color, now that you are wrong.

but they waited for you - it's just that they wanted the "you" that happened before this. the "you" that could sing in the show and hug people tight and look at a blade without breaking down to cry. the you with a smile in pictures. god, holyshit, it's like looking at a completely different person, isn't it. that other-you; the one they actually wanted.

you are the consolation prize. you are the body that forgot the ghost. you are the memory of the bad thing, and the death after; like you are wearing that memory as a banner. you are a fragment, an assembly. simulacrum. you don't make eye contact in mirrors, afraid the light will glance off and your true nature will flash back at you.

you hear them talk about it in their hushed, desperate whispers. sometimes they even admit it to your face; harsh and violent, acid thrown at christmas dinner. god, can you just fucking be normal again. you do not remember what normal is. you had to climb so far to get back here; you are far too exhausted. you want to open the glass door of your heart and show all the gears. can you help resolve whatever got messed up?

you try so, so hard. you came back for them. because you believed they would love you, even when you were so horribly broken. because you believed they would be patient. because you believed unconditional meant "without exception." you cannot do things the same way. you just get tired too quickly these days.

you want to put them on a couch and pour them the tea with hands that shake more than they remember. you want to line them up and draw them a map of where you have had to wander. you want to show every bruise in a backsplash; the little helpless ant of your soul carrying all that weight, over and over. you want to say: yes! it is different! but i did it for love!

you want to say: "i'm not the same, but i'm yours and i'm here. can that be enough?"

#this is very obviously about my battle with #ptsd #but i think it's also like a pretty apt metaphor for a lot of things like setting boundaries or going to therapy or choosing recovery #i was thinking about the 'comes back wrong' trope and i was like. oh no i have feelings about this bc i have mental illness #and once i stopped masking - i was WRONG. i was different #here's the good news: i am now INNUNDATED with love. fucking swimming in it. excelling at it. the people who stayed #learned my new self. my new different body and how i am different but i am trying. they have held me so tightly #and my life no longer feels quiet. it is not based in my suffering. it feels like i have been growing a tree in my chest #and now it is flowering. #it is so lovely to be surrounded by people who have said - oh! you cut off so many branches i was worried you weren't the same. but now... #... this is just a new you. and i love you. and i love that you're different and happy. #(but yeah also im nb so i was absolutely influenced by Trans things)

[seefasters]

average travis player character: some sort of guy with backstory happenings of various levels of tragedy

average clint player character: old man with a mischievous streak (always on the verge of death)

average griffin player character: lil guy with impostor syndrome and trying SO hard

average justin player character: the weirdest person anyone has ever heard of, ever

#aubrey counts as some sort of guy #i didn't account ethersea into this because i didn't finish it and i don't remember their characters #but justin's characters always surprise me theyre so fucking weird and excellent in concept at the same time #duck tries to be normal so bad and fails #taz #taz dracula lb #edit: listen to steeplechase neow. for me

[elibean]

oh god DAMN i absolutely LOVE mamma todoroki saying “whether it’s guilt or regret, ours are much greater than yours” HELL yeah

#text post #i audibly went 'HELL yeah' or something along those lines lol #idk how i feel about an endeavor redemption arc i remember when this happened in the manga and the fandom was pretty nasty #but i LOVE how his family isn't letting him off the hook #fucking excellent