#he’s really cool so far tho

[pinkhelados]

talking to a guy 🌸🌸🌸

#he’s really cool so far tho #I got good feelings

[grozen]

Found you buddy

#mauga #baptiste #overwatch #they're so bad for each other #im still a bapssidy truther tho #bapweavepssidy to be precise #nobody will stop me from shipping characters that have canon interactions (beaver and bap; bap and cass) #and then also characters that have amazing synergy in game which is cass and beaver #have you heard of the highest noon #yeet the cowboy into space so he can function like an orbital cannon #i vowed to not spend a single dime on ow2 and so far ive been steadfastly keeping my promise so ive not unlocked maugz yet #but he seems cool #the synergy of his ult and the ults of reaper or rat are brilliant #also bap window is really good inside cage fight #cant you tell im an fps nerd

[bredforloyalty]

okay what i meant when i said that even the copious amounts of blood didn't satiate me in particular is that the dead wife/nemesis thing was never something i was eager to see explored, just because i think it's something a lot of male characters get? to go through? the ooh i'm so tortured someone took something from me and now i can't help but turn into a monster while i'm on this quest for revenge and being smothered by grief ough i might kill them even or others in gruesome ways and then realize i'm still just as empty

because, i think men often feel the role they must take on as a man or as a father (especially the latter) is a burden, a huge one, where they aren't allowed to sit back or let go or forgive to their own and everyone else's detriment.. and i understand why there is demand for the same type of stories or story elements or arcs, and why they work, and this same overall theme can be present in a story where it's dealt with in an interesting way or where there's love and care involved in the writing process and the characters don't feel like "man pain machine #48" and "generic sensitive character who will cradle mr. man pain's bloody face in their hands (when we want to end this arc and show how good and lovable he actually is)"....

idk i'm just saying it's not even a specific problem i have with male characters that avenge their families or seem like they're defined by anger or by a traumatic event, i do think it can be written lazily and that we've seen it so many times it's a bit worn-out now, but i wouldn't be quick to generalize. it's just that, since we've seen this before (and that's partly why they poked a bit of fun at themselves when in rickmurai jack, rick's dead wife backstory was revealed).. to me it's one of the least interesting aspects of rick? and yet it's clearly important to the writers and they felt they had to tackle this part of his character, really emphasize his unfinished business, or treat it like something that must have a conclusion

for me though, rick's brand of fucked up and evil wasn't compelling because something deeply fucked up happened to him and there's a lot to deal with there and that's cool, it was more compelling to me (iirc) Before knowing much about his past. tbh. i recognized him already, he felt real, his worst side was familiar because a man doesn't need a whole event to become controlling and cruel when dealing with his family... social norms and umm systems sort of already operate within the framework of the patriarchy, i think it's built into our collective ideas of society, concepts of gender and family and the rules those come with.. i liked that about rick, that why he was an asshole wasn't detailed, there was no easy explanation for the way that he was, he just was. and every time they chose to drive home that rick's defined by losing his original family to his own alternate self and that he was still chasing this one guy, it was like, well i thought there were so many other components as well to why he turned out to be who he is. i liked it more when it was mundane, because that's what i see around me, that abuse is rather mundane. and i'm much more interested in the harm he's directly inflicted on his current family and how his past might affect his current life, what might haunt him. so i guess i never wanted prime to be taken care of, each week i find myself thinking that i just want it to be rick and morty and their messed up little relationship up close and personal again

#like‚ prime was cool‚ i liked what he said when he was getting beaten to a pulp i REALLY liked it. c-137 took his life‚ took his #family technically‚ that's interesting. he regenerates‚ we didn't see a body‚ he could totally be coming back‚ that's interesting #i'm just not all that interested in rick's revenge bc for example look at this episode. what did morty do‚ what did this mean for morty? #maybe i'm too mortybrained hxsgvy but i care about him so much it makes me sick i can't just switch it off.. lol... #felt like this could've been framed differently. i would've framed it differently‚ maybe de-center rick's abstract ideas of what's been #taken from him and who's at fault‚ center his ideas of what he has now and how far he's willing to go for his loved ones #i don't know i also wanted to see how r&m worked while hunting prime since rick promised to bring the kid into his darkness #so i was like omg REGRESSION? regression sweep? real animosity when? but we didn't see any of it. but we still might!! if prime's not #really out of the picture. so i won't write that off. i am inclined to forget about it tho and believe there will be no shared darkness #well i will see i'll see the whole season and then reevaluate #kata.txt #rnm

[sysig]

Last man standing (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #It's lonely at the top :( #Poor dearest is worse for wear ah </3 #This scene made me cry ;; #Like it was sad when he wrote down his missing canonmates but going back in and writing everyone else's names ;;;; #Even his shaky alliances! Even the people he hasn't seen for a while!! Wehhh <3 <3 <3 #You soft heart ;; I see you Admiral ♥ #Also had a lot of fun writing in VUK ZIX again hehe ♪ #The translations from VUK ZIX to English aren't exact - for starters they're upside down haha #So if you started from the top down it would actually read KINLEZ NATPAK but I figured that wouldn't be as readable #You read from the bottom up! I also still headcanon it being written/read from left to right #So he started with Zelnick then Fwiffo then Tanaka and so on #Although I did change it up for the second one - Teisel then Xelloss then Xigbar then Asch and Van #The more I think of it the more I'm surprised there's no H :0 #Even just as a demarcation of a pause before during or after a syllable #The ''sh'' sound makes complete sense tho hehe <3 #Any incorrect shaping of letters/poor handwriting on my part can totally be chalked up to ZEX not being used to human hands! #Totallyyy lol #I really like the way specific syllables are shaped - like how Teisel and Zelnick almost share the same shaped between ''SEL'' and ''ZEL'' #How Z is a more connected extension of S just agh it's so pretty <3 <3 Eco_Mono really did such a lovely job with it ♪ #And then certain ''incorrectly'' spelled syllables still turned out so pretty! Like the ''ANA'' in Talana - look how swoopy and continuous! #The ''BAR'' in Xigbar looks really cool - honestly reminds me of the fanweapons I made ages ago for I? think? Xigbar's apprentice?? #It's been too long I don't remember now lol but it's cool to me in particular because of that!! :D #Fwiffo looks so funny haha - Tanaka has a cool star-like kind of letter in his name?? Man it's just so neat <3 #As for ZEX - I mean he made it this far :( Not one to give up easily that's for certain ♥ Tenacious #I want him to be happy :'0

[im-smart-i-swear]

guy trapped in a hell of his own creation: haha ive never done anything wrong in my entire life. and im always right:] anyway. why did my little brother move out:(

its so funny to me that at first glance tashi seems like hed be the most 'normal' out of all the clones but at least all the others are slowly healing n shit while hes just getting more and more insane each day and one day hell snap and explode and maim someone

#my art #my funky guys #HES SO FUCKING STUPID. #tashi im sorry ily but youre literally the dumbes fucking motherfucker ive ever seen. and a cringe loser. never change king<3 #like. this guy realised he was a clone when he was a month old and decided to base his new personality entirely #on the idealised version of the original he made up in his head. #like he did this to himself!!! he chose to revolve his entire personality around being a 'perfect flawless mom friend'!!!!!!! #in his head hes like the most selfless & altruistic person to ever walk the earth but in reality hes a sad selfish mess who just wants to #be loved. #he started out as a pretty nice and level headed guy who wanted to help ppl but then it just spiraled when he made that his entire #personality bc of his inability to move on from a lie he really wanted to be true. #he percieves shiro as this perfect flawless leader figure and he wants DESPERATELY to imitate that. deep down its not enough for him to #simply coparent and share responsibility w the others. no no no he has to be The Leader and do everything himself! #this mindset results in him later on starting to dismiss and undervalue his familys work and commitment to keeping them all alive- #esp soup. like sHE WAS THERE W HIM FROM THE VERY BEGINNING THEY ARE EQUALS THEY ARE BOTH EQUALLY IMPORTRANT #AND HES SO FAR UP HIS ASS HE FORGOT. somewhere along the line he forgot. he missed the point. he spiraled too deep. #and he knows. he knows but hes so terrified of change and growth and admitting he CANT do this alone. #he wants to be a cool epic capable solo leader AND he craves family and connection soooo badly he cant live w/o his loved ones. #so yeah. hes an angry little pathetic freak<3 i love him #despite all that hes not a bad person. just a flawed guy thrown into a situation so stressful and traumatising that he clinged to the only #coping mechanism he had at the time and just sorta. ran with it. #dw he gets better tho! it takes a lot and his and sticks relationship is strained for a LONG time but he slowly gets better. good for him

[toytulini]

saw fanart yesterday that i was ehh on

but it brought me to the conclusion that, if shrek was a lesbian, if shrek was a woman, i think she would be exactly the same as canon movie shrek, actually, and in fact. to the point, she would be so indistinguishable, that i can no longer be convinced that canon movie shrek isnt a he/him lesbian, and im excited to rewatch all the movies through the lens of percieving shrek this way. i think it will be based. excited.

#toy txt post #okay i think this post is sufficiently distanced from dunking on the fanart so i dont have to banish it to the drafts #have you no love in your heart for bald lesbian shrek? #smh turning him into a lesbian should not be that scene in shrek the third where they pluck his brows and put him in a wig #disclainer the fanartist is in their rights to draw whatever they want to draw yadda yadda i know #i simply think the fanartist is wrong ♡ also weird to choose to draw a scene with human fiona. instead of ogre fiona #idk i think i was approaching in slightly worse faith last night when i first saw it and im feeling more forgiving now. #maybe theyve drawn other scenes with ogre fiona and thats just the one that made it on my dash. idk #i did scroll through the shrek the third tag specifically looking for the scene where they dress him and fiona up #and saw the far more unforgivable sin of an edit of shrek with defined abs. far more haunting. no shrek of any gender would ever have abs #fuck i dont even think the human version of shrek that was specifically supposed to he conventionally attractive had fucking abs #i was also being unfair last night in the group chat scoffing at this persons taste in human fiona like why would you not draw like #the badass warrior fiona she was so cool. but thats unfair of me. ppl find beauty everywhere #but also really no ogre fiona? when like a big theme throughout the series is accepting her ogreself as she is and that shes still #beautiful like that? #....im gonna try to find that fanartist and block them so they dont see this post tho i dont want them to feel bad vdjsjdvjsgigdgri #which is why im making a post on my own blog the next day and not interacting with their post

[astrxealis]

me rn having the biggest hots for leon kennedy and astarion sorry LMFAOOO <3

#⋯ ꒰ა starry thoughts ໒꒱ *·˚ #^___^ me smiling innocently #bg3 is on the MIND !!! i dearly want it so badly. turns out my dad played 1/2 (not sure which) a looong time ago #but he never got too far i think bcs he's busy... :P but hey i love him. wow. it's really cool he knows it too (ofc he does lmfao) #me and him (handshake emoji) also never getting far in da origins yet bcs we have it on xbox bcs of him getting it a long time ago #but there's that bug in the mage tower... :( funny we both went thru it LMFAO <//3 anyway i got it on steam so i've been playing #again but not recently anymore since 1. ffxiv took over my life last days of summer again 2. summer is over back school so rip #anyway can u tell i love fantasy :)) da and bg babeyyy !!! my type is going to make you guys cry i'm so obvious #zevran... fenris... astarion... i have a thing for ppl w blond/white hair :P idk my fav in inquisition yet and idk anything abt bg1&2 yet #but Yeah. GHBSHJGBSHJG..... da origins is kinda funny (lack of better word) to me btw bcs i like all four main romance options #but it's hard to explain (i have a story behind stuff i want to share but it's tiring and annoying of me /hj !!!!!) #anyway i like blond elves if it wasn't obvious. yes i also like link and zelda from loz. yes i like legolas. yes i like #...anyway! so where does re fit in this? uh. u see i'm a coward actually i'm too scared to play re LMFAOOO #BTU I ADORE THE LORE and the characters and the game franchise and shit ^_^ just. i shld really watch it sometime #instead of reading wikis all the time and just soaking up all the knowledge but i'm. a Coward. okay #i can't even play bloodborne despite how nerdy i am over it... it's so scary to poor little me... i'm a coward (it's the harsh truth)..... #anwyay i'll conquer my fears one day but that day is NOT SOON !!! i wna get into re properly tho aside from just being a nerd #so i'm too scared to play but i'll watch playthroughs sometime (and admire leon) <3 yeah. another blond. i know. shut up. #is this my life rn am i just infatuated w blonds and white haired guys. it's gna be hell if i continue nier replicant rn too huh #uh. goodnight!

[nerdyenby]

Unpopular opinion but I like that they didn’t give Lloyd a villain arc. I would’ve been down for it but I support the final decision. It’s more real, more humanizing. Sure, he could’ve snapped and taken over the world, but that not Lloyd. He’s been fighting to evade that destiny since s1.

He was the son of the dark lord, he was abandoned by his mother and left at an evil orphanage, where he was an outcast. He was pushed aside again, bullied, he sought Allie’s and they betrayed him, each more painful than the last. Then he finds out that he has to fight his father, and he does it, and he wins.

He was thought to be destined to destroy the world back in s3 (the whole “Golden Master” shabang), and even back then his friends didn’t believe he was capable of that, because he’s overcome too much to fall that far. Because he’s grown so much, that’s not who he is, nor who he ever was. Even back when he was a primary antagonist, he was just a kid, overwhelmingly hurt and abandoned again and again.

He was repeatedly held as the most powerful elemental master (and just person) in s4, but that never manifested itself in greed or selfishness. When others desired his destiny in s5 is when he learned to let go of the notion that every battle had to be his, that he can rely on and trust his loved ones. When he was formally named the ninja’s master in s7, he got caught up in the fear of what he could do wrong before he realized that he needed to trust himself and his friends. When he thought said friends were dead and he was powerless in s9 it broke him, but not to the point of rage or greed or desperation, but to feeling aimless. Without the family he’s found himself, what does he have left? Nothing to fight for, no one to fight with. This is the pattern we see throughout the following seasons. There’s no greed or desperation, he’s just a kid trying to keep his family whole and make the world a safer place. He’s sick of losing people, to death or to darkness. He’s no longer afraid of loss, he’s too acquainted with it for that dread to be anything more, but he’s terrified of being the reason, of losing himself.

Lloyd has been angry and tired and distraught and selfish, but he keeps himself anchored in his family. After all he’s learned, endured, and conquered, the only thing he has left to fear is himself, and he’s not about to lose that fight, not after all this time.

#idk he’s just a kid #he’s lost so much he doesn’t need to lose himself too #also the fear of becoming hateful and vengeful and like those who have hurt you the most is far more compelling imo #battling those insecurities and anxieties and mistrust of himself makes a lot more sense to me than a villain arc #it wouldn’t really fit his character tbh #it’d be a cool full circle ending but his motivation for almost the entire show has been finding and protecting his family #it just wouldn’t make sense for him to turn on them imo #would’ve been cool tho #ninjago #lego ninjago #lloyd ninjago #lloyd garmadon

[tillman]

Baccano!s structure is so fucking unique and fun and absolutely amazing im genuinely stunned I havent seen talk about it before

#txt #SO FUN. and funny bisexuals for me and violet to go ‘us’ at #I <3 issac and miria. my good friends. #tho I really like luck . I giggle when I see him . and vino was cool for the bit he was here so far #oh I #typed that and he appeared !!! hello sexy. hes quite cute.

[vaugarde]

maybe this is just me but to me grumpy dickhead characters that are intended to be endearing only really land if they have one character that actually grounds them whether that be through them being very nice to balance it out with cute banter or them also being snarky so they can have fun banter. if a grumpy character is just an asshole to characters we dont know as well, are literally children or people who otherwise cant fight back, then like. they dont vibe with me

#thinking abt the os anime again and like yeah it had moments i didnt like where it went too far #basically any scene where misty got physical with ash #but overall the original trios bond was fun bc they could all clearly take the banter and still cared abt each other #and had plenty of genuine moments as well #and then you have jayfeather who like. tbf did have some characters to bounce off of well like his siblings and briarlight #and thats fine #but then he lost most of them and now hes a dick towards literal children all the time #and thatd be fine except we're still meant to see him as endearing bc of this bc in the same arc a child nearly dies bc of this #the protag is like ''awwwwwwww jay is like so sweet and nice tho i love him hes grumpy but i am so fond of him hes so cool'' #im trying to keep all this in mind w my own grumpy characters too tho #or assholes in general like i gotta show it more but marlow is fine when it comes to sakura bc he also banters with him #and it doesnt really get under his skin except for when they mock him for never leaving town #which is part of his arc more than just ''ha ha sakura is mean isnt that funny and quirky'' #and like. yeah im kinda just like ''ha ha sakura is mean isnt that funny and quirky'' but like he is vaguely antagonistic so #im kinda trying to go for a harley or raquelle vibe with him where hes not a villain per say but hes petty #and will play an antagonistic role to serve the plot if needed to the other characters #but then hes also not like that to everyone bc he does have a bit more depth than that. typical ''putting up walls'' but not really #bc he genuinely thinks hes all that theyre just also REALLY lonely and cant communicate with people #and is kinda traumatized and stressed from his brother being taken as a baby and being sick while grieving #and is also still sick actually! just gotten really good at hiding it and denies it which. just puts more stress on him #echoed voice

[readingloveswounds]

okay rlly gotta get my shit together here because it's literally just under a month before i go to france and i want to send three sections to my advisor before that PLUS submit my article to a journal

understand that while i think im behind, i'm technically at 2x the pages i wanted to have by this date. still. crisis time.

by sunday:

finish nimes draft

by august 31

submit article

send at least one of: sens or cahors (cahors is probably best bc shorter)

by september 17

MEET WITH ADVISOR THIS IS NONNEGOTIABLE

have sent advisor sens, cahors, and nimes

have at least started chapter conclusion

have at least started rewriting chapter intro

start frankensteining chapter sections into something coherent or at least have a reasonable idea of what a full document might look like

have a better site list put together and possibly have contact w the SHPF, BNF, and/or Louvre

by september 19

email J

give contact info for fellowship 1 (incl address)

give group pertaining to fellowship 2 my address + phone

things it would be cool to do but not strictly necessary:

go back through P's revisions on vassy

have a better idea of own style guide re names etc

read Foa

get further in LT reread

read more Martyrs - also talk to P about what the actual fuck im doing with martyrs bc im becoming less and less convinced i know how to handle the text wrt my dissertation topic/argument

figure out which chapter im writing next bc doing martyrs sounds scary but idk if im ready to do LT, and im waiting on a massive name in the field to publish his edited version of sancerre lol

#the first journal sub is going to be a long shot - i discussed this w my advisor and it would be a surprise if it was accepted #however it's worth the rejection for the comments lol #and then ill submit somewhere else #i wonder if i can talk to julien abt the article hm. tho he's not really a Lery guy. but he knows frank so. maybe #if my longhaul flight wasn't at literally midnight i'd say id do some of this on the plane but there is NO WAY #i think tomorrow before i work on nimes im gonna have a lil come to jesus meeting w me and a notebook re: wtf i need to do w this chapter #remembering advisor's edits that ive only sort of put into place for vassy augh #long post #the 'cool to do ones' are basically things id like to do by dec 31 so it's a far longer TL there #mine #she dissertates

[naggingatlas]

i looove putting spark over songs about like heroes and saving the world (tom cardy's 'level clear', uncle outrage's 'saved the world' <- nice voice hc for him!. and 'my superhero movie'.) when he like. Did. Not : ) funney.

#sprksplrs #gaia talked about spark wanting to be desired yesterday and while i think he's too much of a Lone Wolf... for those kinds of wants to #even surface. at least in my interpretation of him. its hilarious to think abt him getting. just a tad insecure abt fark's status as #a real like. superhero basically. just for a second in the far back of his head. oh i want to be as cool as him. im not good enough #tho again in my characterization he only wants to do that to be able to love himself. i first got this thought when ruminating on #oh god. what kinda games he n fark like to play respectively? and said 'if he ever does pick up hardmode or a challenge level #he will only do that to one up himself and himself only.' he only proves stuff to himself. he only cares about himself. #and the things that do the most mental damage to him are all scenarios in which his self is attacked. #in which his agency is taken his independence. losing a job to someone something that copies him and does it better than him #something that even copies a really dear object to him thats been with him throughout the years - his jester hat #an attack on individuality. and then being merged into the sim. idk. the yaoi moments when he does work together w fark become even more #potent. this way? and. it contrasts really well with how selfless (at some point in his life very literally) fark is. and how confident in #his self. he turns out to be in the end. as micah said 'how he moves with so much more fluidity in his organic body #the body he created himself because he's no longer afraid of it being fake'. citing that as the bible but yea kinda. #i think spark grew up quite ostracized maybe even self-ostracized and really needs a distinction between himself and everyone else #to be better than everyone else. there is some personality disorder shit happening under that piss yellow scalp. #and he fucking loses it when the events around him hammer in that the facade he builds for mostly again himself is. yknow. untrue. fake. #idk thoughts. i love exploring the antisocial aspect in fictional personas with how shipshipship focused fandoms and 'analysis' #in them is it's not something i see all that much. seems like only people whove experienced it ever bring up that topic. #is it so uncomfortable for others? who knows. ramble over

[mazojo]

Making a wild prediction that Jae Yeol will be my favorite in Lookism

#finally started it 😁😁 I like dumb blondes specially when they are dumb and blonde #I really like the animation style actually!! excited for it I like the concept so far #hun also seems baby he is angry but I think he will become baby but that’s just assumptions #the opening sequence is SO cool tho #I am alternating between this and stranger things which I also started today 😀 ask me how I am doing bet #anime #lookism #jae yeol

[toytulini]

not to shill for tumblr or be a mobile user on main but i do just wanna point out i think the response to the dashboard clown thing is a little disproportionate, all things considered

like if you just dont like the show thats fine but the way some of these posts are worded very weirdly and acting like its somehow way worse than.....literally any of the other ads? like yea tumblr is a company and not your friend, netflix is unethical and sucks. but like. are we pretending tumblr hasnt had ads for like. horrible fad diets and the fucking trump coin and god knows what else but like this really isnt worse than like. the fact that ppl with strobing triggers are constantly endangered by the ads on this site.

and maybe its super bad on desktop or something but so far this ad campaign has actually been one of the less obtrusive ones vs their other ads, imo. I dont think ive really seen them in between the posts on my dashboard? (hard to tell bc I try to automatically ignore those anyway) but like it feels like most of this ad campaign has been. a little fictional character at the top of the dashboard. and like. a separate dashboard "tab".....that i dont have to look at, and i dont. and its fine. i barely even noticed it. i probably wouldnt have thought twice about it if everyone hadnt started complaining about it. if tumblr wants to do more ads that are just dashboard tabs that I dont actually have to look at and arent interrupting my main dash i think im fine with that actually. like. obviously no advertisements are better than ads but like i dont have a particular problem with the structure or honestly even the content of this ad. its for a show that i might be intrigued to watch honestly. but its also not being targeted to me personally based on data harvesting its just blanket targeting to everyone.

again, id prefer no ads, but if we're going have them: i would actually prefer it be for things i might be interested in, but without the data harvesting to do it. if i HAVE to see ads, this is a way that i dont mind as much.

#toy txt post #sorry if you have a clown phobia ig. i hope one of the many posts with instructions on how to make the clown go away have been helpful for #you. i would like to point out that people can have phobias and triggers of Literally Anything so its not like there is anything that can be #advertised that is Fine For Everyone. i will admit clowns are a fairly common phobia but again i will point out the diet ads #and ask why we arent more incensed generally about the ubiquity of fatphobia in culture. and i will point out the unavoidable flashing ads #that have been a danger to ppl w strobing triggers. be that for migraines or epilepsy etc. both bad. #and i will point out. i dont THINK the clown has been strobing and i dont think the one piece ad campaign on tumblr dot com has been #particularly strobey? and i would just like to also say. its not even a scary clown. its not even like a horror ad. hes literally just like #a clown. its like walking past a spirit halloween. and tbh tis the season. sorry #idk. again. i think its fine to dislike the ads i think its fine to dislike clowns and one piece! but like #do you have to pretend its like The Virtuous Position of Righteous Outrage over an Ethical Transgression??? its literally fine #as far as my Problems With Tumblr Staff Go. Putting A Little Clown On The Dashboard As An Ad for a show is like #i dont. really give a shit. its fine. its cringe ig but what isnt. its fine to be cringe. its actually more cringe imo bc its an ad than the #the content itself being `cringey` bc u can cringe all day long at weeb nerd interests and for what? how dare genuine interest in media #i will say mixed bag of like. using ppls art within the ad campaign. not sure what the right thing to do there is tho #bc i think its honestly kind of a bad combo of tumblr trying to earnestly promote artists on the site #by reblogging and linking their work. but it is also. exploiting their art for advertisements without apparently asking or compensating them #WHICH. is still somehow a step above like hot topic and shit. bc tumblr is. i think? doing the bare minimum of linking to the artist? and #not presenting it as smth they made. perhaps in the future they could maintain the cool thing of trying to earnestly promote the work of #independent artists without it being as exploitative by like. asking permission to the artist to use their art and MAYBE even pay them #altho ig that can be tricky for things like this where its kind of fanart. but i do think they could work it out. like theyre clearly #already talking w netflix and shit so they could work a licensing deal w the artists or smth. but then that is also tricky rn specifically #bc of the strike. tumblr is a company that does not intend to join the unions. and generally i would probably prefer companies commission #independent artists in this way i think that would be cool. but in this situation specifically it would suck for the artist bc if they #approve it and get compensated for it instead of it just being fanart. now theyre Promoting A Struck Company Officially i think? #im not gonna pretend to know the details of what is and isnt allowed for influencers but if someone happens to like. be an artist who wants #to also get into sag aftra that might become a problem. idk! if nothing else. it definitely seems more complicated to navigate than tumblr #itself doing an ad campaign for netflix. which again. netflix sucks shit. but its not like Tumblr Ads(tm) are known for being only ethical #companies. i just saw like 5 ads for audible on my dash. you know. a company that i believe has had some shady shit w how it treats authors #and is owned by amazon.so like. idk. Advertising A Netflix Show is not high on my list of issues i have w staff or how theyre running things

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#had my 1st meeting with a potential adviser for a phd project #i think it went well. he was excited thst i was interested in the specific papers i listed my my email #and his lab does some super cool stuff. and he seems like a nice guy #so thats all exciting. i think the lab is only like a few degrees away from being an outstanding pick #ugh but its so close tho. like biochem and Evolutionary genertic stuff. id probably do a degree in ecology and evolution #and the department is evolutionary genetics focused. which sounds crazy cool. like i dont wanna hang with agriculture ppl. bring me the #Evolutionary biologists. plus they have some nasa ties and a big astrobiology guy is coming back to the department #and if i go. id prob get to do some work at [redacted] national park! which is an even bigger deal than the work ive done at [redacted] #national park! it would be a big change tho. more cold and snowy than the literal desert #so like im def gonna apply. and hopefully get in and hopefully visit. and we'll see what happens #im still looking at my options but this one seems pretty damn good to me #fingers crossed 🤞 i suppose #unrelated #god. it really seems like the lab is a good fit tho. like when i talk to Ecologists im like haha yea im not an ecologist #bc they wanna look for broad patterns in a big system. and im like nah fuck that. i wanna kno how this specific thing works #which i think is more his labs vibe and is why im currently not having fun with the stuff i do rn #ah we'll see where i find myself in a year #i would prob still be equally far from home tho lol. just at higher lattitude

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taking a break from my 1 playthru bc im SO tired of walkthroughs to play portable because i've already beat fes so i know what im doing prettyyy much. girlie time ^_^

#bobtalk #p3pposting #<-lol #pink UI!!!!!! also i picked theo even though liz is literally my girlbestie 10/10 attendant for new content (sad!)hes ok ig #point n click is. weird. but honestly walking around wasnt that big a deal (i kind of missed some stuff for a long time bc i didnt know i c #uld walk there in FES lol). the only big things im missing are the animated cutscenes (really cool artstyle) and being able to see ppl move #like. imagine not being able to watch liz go down the slide standing up. hashtag sad! #i forgot how much i liked 3. its nice seeing (yukari) my (yukari) friends (yukari) again (yukari) #ough. i should make an amv (using the movies probs even tho i love the game cutscenes just bc. more footage. sigh) #WAIT HOLY SHIT nobodys done a die young amv yet???????????? really??????? i need to corner this market #also. noticing a correlation between hair color and canonically bisexual protagonists (its the brown hair) (is the trinitysoulguy bisexua #its gonna be so long until we get aigis:( i miss her. i miss my computer wife #my social stats in fes were so trash that i was barely able to get very far at all in yukari's SL. i need to make sure to avoid that proble #anyways. i think i like these video games some amount. good bye