#kinds of suburbia

[leafwateraddict]

Listening to more will wood songs and like. Ive never quite had a “WHAT IS THAT MELODY” moment like this before.

#its like my brain is melting #i can barely understand him sometimes but its like #its like hes grabbed my brain and dunked it in some kind of fucking concoction #i have no clue whats going on #but i love it #??? #like #i already LOVED suburbia overture/vampire culture #but Outliers and Hyppocrates is a VERY close second omg #will wood #will wood and the tapeworms #the normal album #leaf posts

[theclassymike]

Jake Manley in Love in the Maldives (2023)

#jake manley #jake manley gifs #love in the maldives #hallmark #hallmark movies #the order #netflix the order #jack morton #nanny nightmare #a dogs journey #hotwired in suburbia #one of a kind love #infamous #holidate #netflix holidate #pursuit #the consultant #actor #talented #hot guy #gorgeous guy #one of my faves

[quixot1sm]

i think, and this may just be my zekrom bias speaking, that if someone wants to experience the full value of bw's story it's better to play through white first. black has the issue of coming off as very dismissive towards plasma's legitimate and well-founded claims that pokemon abuse DOES occur (and it does! from the kanto games' marowak to bw2's liepard there's instances where it's put in the spotlight, so it certainly does happen)... by assigning the protagonist to truth, it feels pretty evident that n's beliefs are "wrong", and the game just seems to brush any questioning aside.

on the other hand, white giving n the hero of truth role means we're basically forced to think about what that means for the relationship of people and pokemon at large. to translate a point n makes in chargestone cave: if you allow people to coexist with pokemon, even if the majority of trainers treat them well, there will always be someone somewhere out there who abuses or neglects them instead. are we okay with that? should those pokemon still be allowed to suffer, just because what they experience is an outlier to the general rule? while not outright stated, zekrom's association with hope and the strive for the ideal suggests that we don't brush off these facts, but instead take them into consideration, and aim to change the world based off of them... like how in bw2 society in unova puts a lot more emphasis on the bond between people and pokemon, and on pokemon as equals (see: iris's dialogue before entering your team info the hall of fame).

i think black version has its own unique avenues to explore, but on the surface level, it's a much more cut and dry, "no, you're just wrong", type of story that kind of makes you work harder to fit it into bw's overall theming of "the world's not black and white, there's not a singular objective right or wrong perspective."

#text #pokemon bw #this is inspired by a few posts i've come across over the past handful of months including a poketuber's who completely missed the point #i think black version should've been handled with as much care as white. because how gamefreak did it was kind of.. well lazy #and downright mean at times (white getting way more version exclusives due to white forest + black 2 making black city an empire of greed #with kinda. i don't know. depressing visuals like route 4 being turned into suburbia) #(oh and leaving in stuff like thundurus's cry over tornadus's + the castelia city paintings still being 'ugly truth and eternal ideals') #it may be too much to hope that there'll be some reworking in the inevitable remakes #that gives more credit black versions telling of the story but i doubt it. this is modern tpc we're talking about #ANYWAY yeah i think if you want to engage with the plot white version is the more rounded of the two. and i've played all 4 gen 5 games so #i was able to get a pretty good comparison between my experiences with the version differences #and oh for the record this is not a diss on anyone who takes the wrong messages from black becausefrankly black presents the wrong messages #even if it did not actively intend to. turns out just changing the word 'ideals' to 'truth' is not enough to be compelling

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

No shade but I wish the good omens musical were written by will wood

#good omens #will wood #the stuff I've heard from the musical is okay but not really anything special #will wood's style is PERFECT #campy theatrical clever funny emotional eclectic morbid philosophical #suburbia overture is so perfect for GO!Heaven #Also I’m OBSESSED with Laplace’s Angel as a Crowley song #I’ve been working for months on a big musical theatre song for Crowley #And that’s kind of exactly what I want it to sound like

[omegasmileyface]

this is the first year since i discovered miracle musical where the mind electric HASNT been in my top 2. congrats to my weird fucking obsession with pink floyd

#i was expecting blackboxwarrior > one of my turns > keep talking > the mind electric > suburbia overture #(it was gonna be fun i was gonna make a joke abt how all my music is abt people with mental health issues) #but APPARENTLY i listened to COMFORTABLY NUMB the most?????? i swear i skip that song at least half the time it comes on #i just hear it so often... good song though #AND FUCKING BROKEN CROWN BY MUMFORD AND SONS IS 11TH. THIS is a song that has been doing its best to play AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE for YEARS now #i cant remove it from my playlist bc its kind of a roulette for me now. you know? like oohhh i hope broken crown doesnt play! #and then it fucking does every time. #i skip ot frequently. spotify is rigged.

[whitechocolate]

EXO SUMMER CONCEPT 2023 vision board 🥺 miami vice !

#ok. STAY WITH ME. #i know the Big Thing atm is cyber y2k but i think this is in line w the concepts we’ve been getting recently from SM ?! #fast & the furious and plastic suburbia etc etc etc #i don’t THINK it’s gonna be synthy or anything but i do imagine the aesthetics might be similar to the weeknd’s starboy or dula peep’s #future nostalgia ?! #i could be totally wrong but i can see the outfits being inspired by shinee during view era or maybe lmr ¿? #if they go in that direction we could get like versace menswear campaigns from the late 80s kind of visuals …..? #HELLO??? #im rambling #000 #exo

[kid-sid]

share with the class bro

#myart #Aster #Keyon #comic #tangential but shout out to liz suburbia's vampire pinup drawing #the only vampire cock of EVER #two guys talk in the white void: my Favorite kind of comic to draw! #im being such a little champion w the sid comic and its backgrounds cant a bitch get a void #why a bitch gotta lie CANT A BITCH GET A VOID

[batnbreakfast]

Zoom, Booze, no Doom The 3rd Year Anniversary

Hi everyone,

who would have thought?!

A great idea by @danceswithcows01​ for the fandom to connect during complicated times. (And for those of us who had never actually watched more than gif sets from Holby City at that time. *cough cough*)

A weekly Saturday evening meeting of all of us who wanted to see our two favourite doctors being loveable idiots.

A decision to not just stop there, but to continue meeting up to chat and watch things. Silent Witness. Inspector Lynley. Doctor Who. The Grid. What The Butler Saw. Berena again. Christmas specials. Halloween specials. Eurovision Song Contests. And many more things.

It’s great fun. Something steady to look forward to. Kind of fandom changing even.

Long story short, I hope many of you will join in to celebrate

Three Years of Zoom, Booze, no Doom

next

Saturday, 1st April

at the usual time

Germany 9pm

UK 8pm

Wisconsin 2pm

We’re (finally) going to watch The Buddha of Suburbia with Jemma Redgrave.

So don your paper bags, dark sunglasses, disable your camera, or just work on your pokerface until then!

I’m looking forward to seeing you all - if you never ever took part in a Zoom so far and wonder if it is okay to join in for the anniversary celebrations? Of course it is! Everyone is welcome to join in.

#zoom booze no doom #zoom anniversary #berena #kind of #jemma redgrave #the buddha of suburbia

[appsa]

...what mediocre jack black gay sex movie?

This one called the D-Train

They dont talk abt it in the trailer but jabdkf the plot twist is that jack black banged the cool actor guy and nearly ruined his marraige and lost his job because of it. The movie is v fascinating to me cause its not overtly Homophobic??? But the overall effect is homophobia, but it does it in a kind of compelling way and thats so funny to me. It comes soooo close to saying something interesting, but fails to do so because its conclusion is just so Weird and came out of left field (for me). So yeah its weirdly compelling in a "studying the psyche of a straight-but-not-homophobic white man whos coming to terms w being a normie" kind of way

#to be clear im not Black n dunno shit abt aave but like. #its kind of interesting how thats probably what hes imitating when hes trying to seem cool #when there were no other Black characters in the movie (that i can recall) #+ the bi man is smth hes aspiring to as someone more masculine than him #idk its interesting to me how its v much abt the jealousy white straight men have towards those who r more free or smth lmaoo #like that james baldwin quote #also lmfaoo the movie is so full of cringe funny moments i genuinely did enjoy it sjdjfj #not an earth shattering movie but i did enjoyed chewing it yknwim? cause its just so fucking baffling lmao #edit: 'free' is not the right word but hdhsjf i cant find the other word for it #like ppl who dont fit into that cookie cutter heterosexual white suburbia mould ig? lmao #ask #me @ me: 'straight but not homophobic' ok u can just say liberal

[contac]

#sunny american suburbs my beloved #vhs #1984 #suburbs #suburbia #i don't care how cheesy or grotesque they are or how they're hiding all kinds of horror behind a facade of normalcy #they're my childhood and they're beautiful

[genreawareness]

my roommate’s in the bathroom so i cant brush my teeth and go to bed. time to soapbox on tumblr. very very curious what it would take to make living in a suburb emotionally sustainable for me because the genuine comedic overwhelming joy at coming home is actually crazy.

#from the desk #literally have been jumping around happystimming like its THAT insane out here #however. #get out of the bathroom pleaseeeee i dont want to be eepy tomorrow. okay? im trying to be good and go to bed on time!! #ANYWAY. #i think like. hm. okay. in a hypothetical future where i am married with kids WOULD that be enough to make suburbia survivable? #does it work fine if i just have a car and a license and can get to people easily? #i am never ever ever going to be capable of living in my hometown its too spread out #hm. i dont know. #i think the concept of a community space is apparently genuinely really critical for me #is what i love about living in this specific apartment that its kind of the community space? #i mean certainly yes but could i go without it. what WILL i do with my one wild and precious life #im sure i could? it’s difficult to say any of this for sure bc its almost 1 (LEAVE. PLEASE.) and im just saying shit but man #craaaaazy how much better i feel #not the community space the living in it. #i still feel like zooming around but also im tiiiired i wanna go to beeeeed

[mars-ipan]

i think i need to go somewhere and scream

#marzi speaks #we need big empty fields where it’s okay to scream and yell out at the top of your lungs #all kinds of screams. good screams bad screams screams for the hell of it #i want to yell and shout. unfortunately i live in suburbia #screaming into a pillow helps. but it’s not a scream #i need that catharsis #. i don’t know whether to tag this as a vent posr #gonna make it unrebloggable anyways #i was gonna apologize for having felt weird the past few days but why the fuck would i #i haven’t done anything wrong i’m just brainweird atm #anyways. i want to stop having brainweird. i’m uncomfortably restless all of the time rn

[panvani]

Idk I saw someone be like Why do all the gay characters in Breaking Bad die 🤔 which like yea I guess all 2 of them do but it's sort of a weird thing to go for when nearly every major Breaking Bad character dies and one of the gay characters in question who dies is GUS. I think a better thing to bring up is how there are exactly 2 sympathetic characters of color with any significant screen time and she gets obliviously killed off for the purpose of furthering the character development of a white man and the other is a cop entirely secondary to a white character who I literally forgot about and who also gets killed off

#logxx #Like Breaking Bad makes some general posturing towards like Oh the safety of suburbia is predicated on nonwhite suffering #But kind of fails to execute this in a cohesive way bc Vince Gilligan doesn’t know how to write anyone but middle class white people #And Gus.

[andthebeanstalk]

Today, I am learning about Malcolm X, and the way he talks about white liberals really struck a chord with me.

I also found this quote from him about John Brown, a white abolitionist who went to war for his beliefs and helped push America towards civil war. I only learned about John Brown from my very racist AP US History teacher, Mr. Green, of Hampton Township, at Hampton High School, in D Hall, who lied to us and said the Civil War wasn't about slavery. And so this'll shock you, but I never learned about Malcolm X in school! Anyway, Malcolm X says:

“We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be your ally, what does he think of John Brown? You know what John Brown did? He went to war. He was a white man who went to war against white people to help free slaves. He wasn’t nonviolent. White people call John Brown a nut. Go read the history, go read what all of them say about John Brown. They’re trying to make it look like he was a nut, a fanatic. They made a movie on it, I saw a movie on the screen one night. Why, I would be afraid to get near John Brown if I go by what other white folks say about him. But they depict him in this image because he was willing to shed blood to free the slaves. And any white man who is ready and willing to shed blood for your freedom—in the sight of other whites, he’s nuts. As long as he wants to come up with some nonviolent action, they go for that, if he’s liberal, a nonviolent liberal, a love-everybody liberal. But when it comes time for making the same kind of contribution for your and my freedom that was necessary for them to make for their own freedom, they back out of the situation. So, when you want to know good white folks in history where black people are concerned, go read the history of John Brown. That was what I call a white liberal. But those other kind, they are questionable. So if we need white allies in this country, we don’t need those kind who compromise. We don’t need those kind who encourage us to be polite, responsible, you know. We don’t need those kind who give us that kind of advice. We don’t need those kind who tell us how to be patient. No, if we want some white allies, we need the kind that John Brown was, or we don’t need you. And the only way to get those kind is to turn in a new direction.”

#original #malcolm x #john brown #racism #anti-racism #allyship #civil rights #american civil rights movement #my schooling left out a LOT of stuff that seemed to be left out for no other reason than it would make us confront modern racism #i went to a school that was like 99% white and the other 1% was Asian i didn't have a full conversation with a Black person until I #was already in high school. it was fucking bad and that system produced a LOT of racists i mean a LOT #i had to unlearn a lot of things in order to try and become the kind of white person that doesn't suck for people of color to be around #we were never taught outright that Black folk are inferior but we were instead taught that racism is over and we needn't worry about it. #aka we were taught that any incidences of modern racism were essentially harmless and exaggerated. which is so deeply evil and insidious. #and NO ONE EVER EXPLAINED WHY OUR ENTIRE TOWNSHIP HAD NO BLACK PEOPLE - IT WAS WEIRD HOW NO ONE TALKED ABOUT IT. FUCK SUBURBIA MAN! #You don't have to tell a white person racist beliefs to make them more racist. We'll pick those up from our segregated environments. #No no you'll have much much more success by telling him that his apathy and his aggressive dismissal of racial issues is valid. #ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is place a child in an all-white environment in America... and change nothing. #WE HAD KIDS WITH CONFEDERATE FLAGS ON THEIR TRUCKS. IT WAS FUCKING ///PENNSYLVANIA/// - WE WERE IN THE UNION. Y'ALL. #and now that kid's probably a cop if i had to guess #anyway fuck racism and fuck you mr. green and i am gonna do a lot of reading on malcolm x on my fucking own i guess #edit: *All you have to do is place a white child nearly ANYWHERE in America and change nothing. #If you're white and not teaching your kids anti-racism then you have failed them and you have failed the people of color in this country #also why tHE FUCK would you put your child in an all-white school i mean test scores be DAMNED who DOES that?!

[butmakeitgayblog]

Let's say ADC laughed at one of your jokes and remembered your M&M twitter comment and loved it, what would you do then?

Come

#I'm kidding omg #probably turn bright red and need to sit down like a fuckin loser 🥴 #honestly she'd probably not remember the m&m thing anyway #and she seems to have a kind of pg sense of humor #very white girl suburbia esque #no shade just stating

[cherry-pop-soda]

I love that I have a suburbia themed playlist because the concept of it is so obnoxiously american and yet most of the songs ive added are by british musicians like why do they get it so well

#okay also it’s kind of suburbia themed it’s more like a playlist for when you hate your town and #you’re happy because you know you’re gonna get out #but still a lot of it is themed around the boringness of suburban life (particularly in america) and yet so much of the music is british