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theoptimisticdaydreamer · 6 months

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Hands down my favorite part of Bake Off is seeing the bakers help each other out. It restores my faith in humanity.

#gbbo #gbbo 2023 #great british bake off #my heart sang as the bakers helped each other out #though I may think Dan should not be here this week on principle #it was really sweet for him to help Saku out #and for Matty to help Nicky out #this collaborative helping each other out is what makes Bake Off stand apart from any other show

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keepthetension · 2 months

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you know. been almost a week and i'm still mad about this

it's just "friendly banter", i know. i still hate it. not least because everyone else around the table laughs? prem and dy don't make jokes like this about samsee (i think i remember dy telling samsee to stop thinking about food in ep1?) and i find it a little hard to believe they wouldn't go mama bear mode over this unnecessary comment, tbh

also i keep thinking about this ep 6 deleted scene

prem has no problem calling ten out! i suppose it could be that he doesn't know metha well enough/isn't as comfortable around him?

and, yeah, of course, just because prem did that, doesn't mean he can't also think fat jokes are funny. i know. i know! it just bugs me!!

because this show has so much compassion and kindness in it, for all its characters. except the fat one

i mean. honestly, this show's been kinder to samsee's character than i was expecting; i figured he'd just be the dumb background character who's always eating and has no other personality traits. and yeah, making a comment like this is realistic as fuck

but also: this comment is stupid and i hate it

#cooking crush the series #cooking crush #i know! i know!! fatphobia is baked into everything everywhere!!#metha didn't have any malicious intent either he was just making a silly joke!#i know! i really do!#i just really needed to bitch about this okay #this show has so much heart and it's doing so many things i appreciate!#but this does not spark joy #no i don't expect fat characters to be treated with main character level kindness but that doesn't mean i can't be annoyed about it

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bumblingbabooshka · 2 years

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I will walk down to the end with you / If you will come all the way down with me.

#B'Elanna Torres #B'Elanna art #B'Elanna #-thinks so hard about B'Elanna's self image issues and about how Tom Paris could be baked into an apple pie he oozes so much All American #Charm and about how B'Elanna was literally ready to break up with Tom because she felt he wasn't committed to her emotionally #and didn't prioritize her needs/wants and when she tried to bring it up he didn't address any of that and instead just asked her to marry #him and she said yes bc it's what she wanted wasn't it? But also thinks about how getting married solves literally 0 of their problems bc #that wasn't the issue - and how they never REALLY talked about the issue she had and the proposal seemed more like a desperate attempt to #hold onto her and B'Elanna's acceptance was her tightening her grip as well and thinks about how the solution to Tom not prioritizing #B'Elanna was framed as B'Elanna trying to do what Tom wanted and about how B'Elanna blames her mother entirely for her father abandoning #them - how she blames SPECIFICALLY the fact that her mother was too Klingon and about how Tom blames the fact that he never showed how much #he cares about/is committed to B'Elanna on the fact that she has 'that tough Klingon exterior' and how her response is #'do I look that tough right now?' and about how B'Elanna associates Klingon features so strongly with negativity - unloveability - rejection #that she tries to erase her features from her daughter's face and make her Human which to her means Good and Beautiful and Loveable and #about how she STILL after all this time only wants her father to love her again. Thinks about fear of abandonment which makes you hold onto #something which doesn't work bc you can't bear to be alone or fail. If she said no to Tom's proposal who else would she have? And #doesn't it feel like a prize? Like you finally WON. The Human Prince wants to marry you - you're FINALLY good enough for someone to sign #a contract saying they'll never leave you. Even if they don't pay attention to you - even if they abandon you to pursue their own interests #every time something shinier comes up they'll never LEAVE and that's what you're the most afraid of. Thinks about the fear of being too much #and too klingon and about how B'Elanna told Tom it was okay he forgot their romantic getaway even though she took so much time to plan it #and was so excited for it because she didn't want to spoil his fun (is being with her work?) and about how she still remembers that little #human boy who pointed at her forehead ridges and called her 'turtlehead' until she beat him so viciously they had to pull her off him #Thinks about all of those things VERY hard and EXPLODES-#bea art tag #st voyager #st voyager art #CHARACTER. OF. ALL. TIME.

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icewindandboringhorror · 18 days

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Various images from the past year or so... posting my evil little photo diary collections once again..

#image commentary in tags once again since they don't allow captions anymore and I feel weird using the alt text for that --#1. one of the billions of pastel sky photos I take and post constnaly because I'm obsessed with the sky lol 2. I got #a gardening mama (like cooking mama) game from a friend a few years ago and don't really play it that much since it's not #as interesting to me in some ways but.. I do like the graphics a lot. It'd be cool if in real life when you did something correclty a bunch #of little rainbows and sparkles appeared in front of you lol. 3. Everyone makes fun of me but this is how I like to have sandwiches #.. basically a salad in between two pieces of bread. barely any meat and cheese but then like 2 inches of lettuce and tomatoes and stuff..#half an entire head of iceberg lettuce on one sandwich... the Cronch... 4. Weird little light colored spider doing a split on the netting #of this strawberry garden. 5. ice creambe... 6. tiny tiny babey strawberry son.. 7. Went to someone's house and they #had this weird channel (I guess for halloween?) where it was like 8 different channels playing at once and you could watch them all #simultaneously (I don't think this is the intended purpose of it I think it's more just to show what's currently airing)#but it's kind of surreal and interesting.. with how on tiktoc and stuff they have those weird sensory overhwleming #videos where its' like 3 videos playing at once with unrelated audio. I wonder if one day people will just watch 8 screens #of tv at once like this after everyone offically has only a 2 second attention span lol. To me its kind of hard to pay attention #to but is an interesting excercise I guess. Like it was a cool challenge to try to watch it all at the same time #8. THE temperature indoors at NIGHT during the late summer........... AUGH.....#9. a pleasant little breakfast of scrambled eggs with green onion. baked salmon. sauteed corn. and a few almonds pecans and pineapple #leftover from making smoothies with it the day before. I eat basically the same rotation of things for every single meal every single #day (like literally I have had the same exact breakfast for about 2 years with zero variation except for special occasion) so whenever I do #actually have the energy to make something different or I have some interesting food for some special occasion reason. I feel more #inclined to document it lol.. like.. oooooo...eggs.. Which are normal to some people. but to me it's like.. wow... revolutionary.. so #different from my usual Scheduled Bland Stomach Problems Safety Gruel lol.#photo diary #spiders tw

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cigarette-room · 3 months

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(pretty long thread rip)

I should be studying for tomorrow but instead I am restless and overthinking and thinking to myself about how there is so much wrong in approaching love from the perspective of trying to be liked and trying to be loved and trying to be good and trying to stick people to yourself with duct tape made of gifts and nice jokes and sweet words because well, it's not only tiring but they will leave in the end anyway, and loving and being loved is supposed to be rest and peace and a sound mind and the more you try the less you achieve any of that! Except I'm my mother's and father's child so I still do it anyway and hang around and try again and cling until it's dead because otherwise it all really hurts but it hurts anyway so

Just dgaf. And if you do then pretend you don't until you convince yourself and restrain your hands so they can't reach out to anyone once they turn their back on you and just. Let people live with their own decisions. I want so hard to be loved that I am making myself disposable like a used rag and for what? It's all gonna be good one day with or without anyone else

#i am perhaps just rambling to myself here #but i am tired of that tendency that was baked into me to try to get anyone to stick around #i remember when my first ex broke up with me i spent literal months clinging to her and trying to negotiate some kind of universe #where we would still talk and be as close as we were before #and she didn't wanna hear #until she did but we eventually distanced and when i moved on she was so upset and i wondered why because? you left me?#and i fought so hard to keep you there but you made your decision and now you're upset at me for moving on?#and the second time around i wasn't any better at it either #and only recently am i realizing that the reason she was so upset at me moving on was because i made myself so reliable #with those stupid promises that I'd be in her life always no matter what happened #and why would I do that? i always cling to people because they matter to me #and they always realize i matter to them once i move on already and am not willingly a part of their life anymore #and like sure i do attract people who tend to be assholes to me but it's on me as well #i am disproportionate in showing my care to people who don't return even 1/5 of it back #and when they get bored i am the one they call weird for that #so i really decided not even to listen to what I need anymore but only to what needs to be done and it's #just letting things go with the flow. i don't have to drag the dead weight of anything i try to keep on my shoulders #do i want to? sure. do i want to be as loved as i never am? i do of course i do #but i am trying too hard. and it's never gonna get me anywhere. because people only ever want me back in their life when i have moved on and #others value themselves more. others don't love anyone blindly so #i don't have to. even though i want. i don't have to #if you gift me a paper I'll gift you a paper. if you want to kiss me I'd want to kiss you too #and if you say you love me I'd love you back and if you forget my birthday I'll forget yours too and #if i hug you but am not hugged back i won't hug you again #i think that's the best way things can go when people are concerned #maybe this is a bit too transactional in a sense but i mean #it wouldnt be fair if it was unequal #if someone does everything for you and you don't return it then you are an asshole to them but #if you give and you aren't given you are a weirdo simply put #it's best if it's equal

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phoenixyfriend · 1 year

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A few days ago you wrote about being worried your Barriss Offee writings were controversial. I feel that deeply, since I write for her as well. Almost exclusively. Really though you can't mess her up more than the end of season 5 already has. A Muslim and lesbian coded character becoming a terrorist bomber? Yikes. Write her as angsty as you like, feel liberated. Exercise sympathy and sensitivity, of course. She's really a great character with a lot to unpack. I could write her a thousand stories and still not be done.

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Yeah, I get that. It's just... difficult. Because how do you separate characterization that builds on the cynicism that was introduced with the terrorism plot?

#star wars #the clone wars #barriss offee #phoenix answers asks #I wrote out all the tags and then realized that they seem really aggressive if you don't already know how my brain works so #this is not me calling out the asker or anything this is just me talking about the role that fanon can play in fandom activism #ngl I wouldn't call her lesbian-coded (saying this as a lesbian)#she doesn't show any attraction so it's easy to project onto her. but her only real interactions with girls are her master and Ahsoka #and honestly the Ahsoka stuff doesn't even have accidental gay undertones #genuinely does feel platonic as heck to me #So yeah she's definitely muslim-coded but imo her sexuality is a blank slate and not coded in any way #Which is mostly relevant because the primary focus of all this IS the islamaphobia baked into the plot #and when talking about the intersection of minority coding and bad plot choices it's oddly common in fandom to put headcanon on #similar levels of coding/baiting (thinking of the bullshit that happened back in Voltron fandom because of fanon violations)#that said there might be something in the books that I'm not aware of?#(I mean Ahsoka got to be bi-coded but that was years after the Barriss stuff was over with so i don't consider it relevant)

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hephaestuscrew · 2 years

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I could think about Bernie the mailman as an everyman, as Just Some Guy, who whistles while he works, who wants to do his job well and go home to his husband and dog. I could think about Bernie the mailman as a mail carrier who is proud of his 100% delivery rate and wants to get the state record even though he works in a bonkers train city. I could think about Bernie the mailman as the descendent of a long line of mail carriers with mysterious mail-delivery superpowers which allow him to deliver letters without a proper address. I could think about Bernie the mailman as an audience stand-in, waiting expectantly for people to open their letters from Michael, keen to hear them read the letters out (and perhaps disappointed if they aren't ready yet). I could think about Bernie the mailman as a tool of the narrative, enabling a kind of delayed but significant communication. I could think about Bernie the mailman as a representation of the way that harsh truths, important lessons and emotionally complicated revelations can seek people out in unexpected places. But at any rate I am finding myself thinking about Bernie the mailman a lot more than I expected.

#Greater Boston #Greater Boston podcast #Help I'm getting attached to a minor character #This is such a niche post and I don't care #I love that he bribes jail guards with baked goods so he can make hand deliveries directly to prisoners #In any other show Bernie would not really be a character at all #The farewell letters could stand on their own #But the way that the delivery of the letters is starting to almost feel like a plotline in its own right #definitely adds something #Btw I'm not actually disappointed about the letters that we haven't heard yet #I know they'll be revealed at the right moment #but when Bernie asked Nica and Louisa if they were gonna open it #(and why not)#I was like 'oh he's invested in the story just like me'#Greater Boston spoilers

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marypsue · 8 months

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For argyle, I can’t say much but I will say my dad is Chicano and grew up in LA area and he appreciated the Cheech and Chong references ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ IMO, I feel like his character was exciting in that it was a chance to give the Byers some interesting development, especially Jonathan, but in reality he was more an excuse for weed jokes. I also feel like sometimes the fandom in more excited to show that they can like a brown man actually, than actually giving his character depth (necessary caveat this may just be the corners in lurking on). He mainly exist for car and pizza plot points, and also deus ex machina moments where the writers clearly decided if a high person has an epiphany that coincidentally solves everything, it doesn’t count because they’re high and it’s humorous.

Apologies if you could hear me rolling my eyes over that last point from all the way over here. Everything I hear makes me more and more convinced that I made the right call dipping halfway through this last season. This show is very much no longer being made with me in the intended target audience.

(To be fair, this tendency toward stock comedic characters with cardboard personalities started with Murray back in season two, and just got fucking egregious when they decided he should be a main cast member and an important load-bearing plot element. I cannot stand the man. And yeah, season one had its share of dopey deus ex (Jonathan, why are you taking pictures in the woods in the middle of the night?), but usually it was to get the characters into Situations, not out of them.)

Like I do think it's important to be able to draw that distinction between 'this is what the author/showrunners/writers/story actually did, in our real world, where this is a fictional story that someone had to make all the choices about' and 'this is how I could explain this within the context of the story, as though it were a Thing That Happened and the people it happened to were real, and no deliberate, conscious choices shaped those facts'.

Maybe it really is just that I'm not the target audience here. Or maybe I just don't appreciate weed jokes. But it seems pretty clear to me that nobody on the writing team put in the time or the thought to give that actor much more to work with other than 'weed joke'. (Most likely because they didn't have the time to put in the thought. Or, possibly, that there was no one left on the writing team with the perspective to do so. Minirooms are bad, 'auteur theory' is bad, support the WGA.)

But I know fandom can Do Things with characters whose writers Didn't. I've done it myself! In this case, though, I can't get past how much he annoys me. Which is rough, because I agree with your point - having him there opens up a lot of really interesting possibilities for development for the Byers! It could have been really good! I just can't get there on my own. And I'm hoping somebody has the hookup for the good stuff, so that I don't have to try to sort through a lot of fics and headcanons about a character I am already irritated by for Meta Reasons, without a trusty guide.

#chatter #stranger things #i don't know what kind of setup they had on season one production #but it seems very clear to me that the duffers had less creative control #and it actually made things Better #they've introduced a lot of elements from the pitch bible since that had been changed for season one #and like. almost universally. they have made the show Worse.#(yes I am specifically thinking of murray. fucking murray. all my homies hate murray.#if they'd at least let him be WRONG every once in a goddamn while -#i'm good. i'm good. i'm fine. we're good.)#but yeah so many of season four's concepts have just had me going. man. this could have been really good.#if only you'd asked somebody from the group you're writing about #if only you'd run it by someone who isn't paid to agree with you #if only you'd take literally any criticism #if only the whole thing wasn't a big joke to you because it's funny when it's OTHER people getting upset #if only it wasn't all so fucking half-baked #i'm not bitter you're bitter

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vveakfish · 11 months

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god damnit not again

#𓆟 #chvm bvcket #watching a show (it could he any show really. it happens with all of them)#but right now its stranger things — anyway #my brain immediately just goes: au time #and this time i literally sat down and was like ‘dont to do it!!! dont start building another au!!!!!’#i have too many half baked au planning docs already #(but like… timkon fits SO WELL IN THIS CONTEXT)#this will not be anything other than thinking about ways to play with timkon introductions in canon adjacent contexts

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onewingeddragonqueen · 2 years

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Brb on my way to join Dany in the Rhaegar fanclub

#rhaegar targaryen #wip #ive flip flopped on him before bc of fandom discourse but i can safely say i love him now (thanks content creators 😭)#oh no hes hot #finalizing some facial anatomy designs because a lot of my characters are too samey and i want these ethnicities to be distinct #no one is 100% any race. theyve all got very mixed features and i want that sense of unreality to show. idk if it does bc racialized #features are baked into our consciousness bc of white supremacy #but I really want there to be a racial ambiguity to the different races of Westeros #outside of Westeros there’s a greater degree of diversity but its still localized #ie summer islanders are still black but there’s differences between those of different islands and there’s a lot of variation #as is in real life lol we aint a monolith #but i dont want to go this area = this race that area = that race #bc if i do that then they’re all gonna be black lets be real #i am tempted to do a series of illustrations with everyone black but i do want my main book depictions to have a wide array of features so #idk i gues ill see #my art

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mye-chi · 1 year

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aah!! i love your ideas for the rest of the su gems, (its me, the anon who asked!!) they're so cool and they make me feel so??? yes?? i understand your struggle with assigning characters in crossovers too, so may i offer up blaze for bismuth? its a tight fit but it mayyy work..he strikes me as more of the righteous yet brash type, so it may fit bismuth. i also agree with jasper nicole and i'd love to hear more about her and dante!!

aahhh sorry for the late response (˃̣̣̥ᴖ˂̣̣̥) i wish i could write faster...!

i'm glad you like my ideas so far!! i'm not too sure about blaze being bismuth but i'm not aversed to it either. i think ill go over some different options for him and see what i land on.

even though it was only the last part of your message this entire reply will be about nicole and dante. you gave me an opportunity to talk about my favorite characters and i'm running with it.

unfortunately, nicole is the only one who fits as jasper which hurts me as a dancole shipper. however since i adore nicole and jasper is my favorite su character i kindof win here! besides, the only other character dante has a negative relationship with is gene and for obvious reasons that's not going to work!

(as i'm writing this i'm realizing i could probably write gene as bismuth? to mirror their relationship in mcd, dante had attempted to out gene as apart of the rebellion and gene, panicked, decided to poof him. homeworld mistook dante as apart of the chrystal gems and then imprisoned him within the magical mirror.)

(then again gene and bismuth are such fundamentally different characters i feel like slotting him in for that reason alone would be lame lmao)

i quickly doodled this to give you an idea but i'm reaaaaallly excited to properly design nicole. one aspect about jasper's character i find interesting is that she feels like a failure for coming from the beta kindergarten and being associated with rose quartz, so i thought it'd be interesting if nicole hid her gem!

... which wouldn't work since jasper's gem is on her nose but i'm considering changing gem placements so rather than appearing anywhere they'd align with the diamond that created them. in this case, nicole's gem would be on her stomach.

right now i'm considering nicole in a more military-esque admiral look and she slowly loses layers throughout her downfall. first shedding the coat during her fight with garnet and then her underclothes becoming tattered because of her corruption. i'm also thinking about giving her a tight braid that becomes loose, leaving her hair wild like the original jasper is.

i know once i figured out nicole's design i'll redraw a few scenes from su. i'm torn between the initial fusion dance and the boat proposal scene because both drive me insane...!

#realizing i did not tap into nicole and dante's dynamic at all!!#but i don't really have any ideas for it outside of what the show presented #i am kinda toying with possibly rewriting things so nicole recieves an earlier redemption arc than what happened in future #but that'll have to bake in the oven for a little while! i don't want to accidentally write myself into a corner #aphmau x su au #( 💌 ) ⸻ frills answers

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ghostickle · 2 years

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My favorite game am I an asshole or do my friends just suck