#the meme just called for that expression

[wiezumbeispiel]

Oh smiley face stress ball, we’re REALLY in it now—

A fanart/meme redraw i made for chapter 16 of @sciencewife’s fic, schrödinger’s cave! (The link will direct you to the beginning of the story, in case you are new to it)

Here is the original image:

#portal #portal 2 #carolmann #doug rattmann #caroline portal #schrödinger’s cave #schrödinger’s cave spoilers #sc spoilers #2024 #digital #i promise i do not draw doug looking so anguished every time alongside caroline lmfao #the meme just called for that expression #anyways fun fun fun in da sun #barbie meme

[themintman]

Whenever I'm sad the badge seller isn't real I remember these comments and go "yeah maybe it's for the best"

#a hat in time #ahit badge seller #badge seller #the badge seller #LEAVE THEM ALONE #they would be horrified #Also WOAHHHH EXPRESSIVE MASK I NEVER DO THAT WOAHHHHH #it fits the meme better #Also just sidenote people calling badge “he” is my biggest pet peeve in this fandom #Badge I am so sorry your pronouns are only in the manual #Moment of silence for badges non binaryness

[cloudofbutterflies92]

*Eden and Simon are calm in bed*

Simon: "Ehy babe"

Eden:"Yeah?"

Simon:"What do aliens spread on their toast?"

Eden:"Oh no, not another one, it's already the fifth one you're telling me" (she loves dad jokes)

Simon:"Answer my question"

*Eden rolls her eyes* "I don't know"

*Simon with a serious expression approaches her ear*

"Space jam"

Eden:"..."

#I just imagined his serious expression... #oc:eden“spectra”park #call of duty oc:eden “spectra” park #pairing: ghost & eden #x: fire and gasoline #call of duty oc #cod oc #cod mw2 #original character #simon ghost riley #ghost memes #ghost mw3 #ghost mw2 #ghost mwii #ghost mwiii #call of duty modern warfare 3 #call of duty modern warfare 2 #cod mwiii #cod mw2 ghost #cod mw3

[nacrelysis]

you've heard of the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny, now get ready for monoceros caeli: ultimate smackdown of ultimate proportions

#genshin #genshin impact #childe #monoceros caeli #tartaglia #childe tartaglia #genshin memes #genshin impact memes #genshin shitposts #his battle is really not that bad; it's the music that gets me #especially the part that mimics the call of a whale #it is all a very visceral reminder that childe is. whatever he is. you know? #like he's just some guy a mortal even but at the same time he's touched by the abyss and everything the gods fear #idk how to express that childe is like. so wild. to me. #he gives me soooo much secondhand embarrassment sometimes but also he is like a terrifying example of the product of your circumstances #fell in a hole and he came out clinging to violence as a tool of survival #family guy doesn't like involving civilians but once you're on his level oooo boy #like. he is. very principled. you get me? but he embodies an unhinged sense of violence and primal instinct that unmade ajax inside out #so honestly childe terrifies me more as a character than any other in genshin i think #because he is so principled but of what you've seen of the abyss - no mortal principle will stop it from consuming #he fascinates me in the way similar to the opening scene in train to busan #it's morbidly intriguing but at the same time there is dramatic irony - you know eventually something will go wrong. and it Is wrong already #anyways. every day childe gaslights me ab his character. i never know which interpretation is right. #btw for context ultimate showdown is a lemon demon song #very banger listen to it. thumbs up

[hauntedtotem]

ppl when they find out teenagers act like teenagers 😱

#I don't rly want to get into it but I've seen two separate callouts today and #1st was ''this person made a 'not like other girls' meme where the 2 chrcters kissed?? Thts so rude to the person tht made the characters😤 #And the othr was ''this 17 yr old is expressing emotions an acting like a teenager?? She even has fictional crushes even tho she's a minor? #Meanwhile the person mad that the teenager has crushes literally posts about being into shotacon and lolicon?? Like. #You can't be consuming sexualized content of minor characters while calling a real minor a horrible person for having a sexuality. #I am. going insane #This isn't like. An official statement about what side I'm on or anything because I don't know any of these ppl involved and idc #But i will say beefing with a child always looks a lil pathetic to me. 'she was mildly rude to me and called an actor hot once' okay???? #chill out <3 touch grass <3 #I know I made a post about this b4.. smthng smthing adults have to be the responsible party by choosing not to engage in drama w kids #If you really care so much about them being a minor online and whats appropriate for them why are you publicly fighting them #Like. That's not rly appropriate behavior on your part either #Don't take this rant as a sign to drag me in btw I am not affiliated with any party here and I don't care to be #I just cannot believe this fandom continues to produce the dumbest callouts every couple months #//shade

[sysig]

It’s me, Stanley, I’m the Bucket, speaking to you inside your brain, listen to me, Stanley, leave your wife, we don’t need her! Come with me and play my games, you need me, Stanley, your free will is an illusio- (Patreon)

He’s just jealous

Tell me this isn’t exactly the PS5 meme tho

#Doodles #The Stanley Parable #TSP #Questionably SFW #Sorry lol #We can be honest this is an open space - both Stanley and the Narrator were Uncomfortably Interested in the Bucket #But can your PS5 do this #I finally get this meme it's the Bucket's meme I understand now #Or the alternate version where it tells him to leave the Narrator instead lol #Both are applicable! #I think it fits slightly better with Mannequin Wife since y'know - she doesn't have any opions that she expresses on the Bucket #And we already know what Narra thinks of it lol #Honestly I just think Stanley's attractions to Weird Individuals - a mannequin - a bucket - an omnipresent disembodied voice #You can't even call him an objectophile! The Narrator is very much a full person - as much as Stanley is anyway! #I dunno just don't read too deeply into it - it loops back on itself in from multiple directions and that's by design lol #I'm just here for the silliness #Not me going to the different endings with the Mannequin Wife just to take screenshots to study from lol #Oh Stanley - the Narrator was just taunting you #He makes the best of a bad situation haha #And then the Bucket - sorry again lol - it's just - what else could that ending have possibly been hinting at #The only thing it needed was rose petals! Pffft #Anyway

[trainpalsforthawin]

nightmare blunt rotation

#bickering over whos turn it is and james going off about his fucking red paint and thomas calling his branchline the pride of the whole #GASP railway and then gordons like NO LITTLE FUCKHEAF THOMAS its MY EXPRESS ACTUALLY and #then they are in a big cat fight in 30 seconds #and ypure just sitting there like #can i have a puff now. #sorry im insane #nightmare blunt rotation #ttte #my post #this meme was making me giggle i had to tell you guys this

[seraphic-sibyl]

#yep i'm calling out everybody including myself on this one #i literally have a specific nose that i use just for eret #and their hair pattern-while evolved-is still distinctive #and the shoulder fluff can't forget the shoulder fluff #but seriously when you have a favorite character you love to draw you develop very efficient ways of drawing them #and making it obvious who it is with just a few strokes #not to mention inventing your own way of stylizing them since they already stand out to you #like a caricature artist who draws random people except it's your blorbo and what drew you to them #hm maybe that should be the sequel to this meme #also artists tend to have better ideas of their favorite characters' general demeanor #so when drawing them randomly the poses/facial expressions tend to be less generic and more dynamic #i don't know it would be a cool study #seraph originals #memes made by me

[eclipseatdawn]

if you claim to be an ally and someone calls you out for enabling transphobic/homophobic behavior and your immediate response is to get mad or say that the person you are defending is allowed to express their opinion, then you should really reconsider if youre actually an ally cause it seems like youre just putting on a mask to be seen as progressive and dont actually care about people

#I AM!!! MAD ABOUT THIS RN!!! #i called out my mom and brother for enabling an extreme transphobe and that it made me uncomfortable #and they got mad at ME!!!!! saying he was allowed to express his opinion #okay and im not allowed to express the opinion i have that you are making me uncomfortable???? #sharing anti trump memes on facebook does nothing for progress. you wanna know what DOES do something? #calling out toxic behavior when you see it. especially in your friends #if they spurt hateful rhetoric and you just laugh and say 'oh thats just them theyre so extreme lol' #then you are not an ally. call that shit out #cause i guarantee you the trans/queer people in your life will see you do that and learn not to trust you

[starseers]

If I had a nickel for everytime a co-host stopped fronting for months straight because they decided to adopt a child who very much can in fact take care of themself, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird it's happened twice

#/ref #already made a version of this joke to our partner sys but i felt like it was good enough for tumblr so <33 #anyways totally unrelated but hahahah uhh can you still call them a co-host even if they go pretty much inactive (not dormant though) /hj #im in pain co-host dearest i may have called you a motherfucking son of a bitch but please you're the only other person who can make me- #-not do the front-stuckkkkk #i prommy ill be nice just forget the child and keep front stable while i have a mental breakdown #you see user who for some reason read the tags this far #i will not be nice i do not know how to express my admiration or affection normally but shhh they dont know that #they also will probably never see this so this is all for nothing anyway but entertaining and im waiting for my tablet to charge sooo #🛰️✶.*̥˚ #did #dissociative identity disorder #did system #traumagenic system #endos dni #tulpas dni #did memes

[cogentranting]

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#the thing about the dea n and ca s meme is that the central idea of it is that its an incongruous reaction to a declaration of love #but in reality thats one of the STRONG indications that its NOT intended as declaration of love and not interpreted as such by the character #he doesn't look like he's reacting to a surprise love declaration because he's not #ca s is just expressing the same familial/platonic love that he's expressed consistently for nearly a decade at that point #so its not a surprise so dea n is not reacting to it at all #he's purely reacting to the devastating death #there's nothing to be surprised by and no call for a response in the way that a love delcaration would #further the fact that its not a love declaration is the reason why dea n feels no need to discuss/disclose it to anyone else after the fact #or to refer back to it all in the two succeeding episodes #but if all ca s was expressing was love as the honorary third brother he's been explicitly identified as for 9+ years #then it would make no sense to have some scene disclosing that he'd said that

[ginkovskij]

All of your enjorlas opinions are so incredibly wrong it's actually amazing how you misunderstood the point

what can i say, i live to have misguided opinions on enjolras

#i'm amazed that a random stranger will call all my opinions - which i never even share - on a fictional man incredibly wrong #from a bingo chart meme #let's be real what do you even know about my thoughts on the matter #what's your assumptions here #if you want to have a chat about the enjolras please let's talk about the enjolras just saying an anon message is not the most effective #way to have a conversation #addition: i am imagining you find 'free space' the worst of the opinions i may have expressed about ENJOLRAS and i'm crying

[stairset]

I think “reclaiming” should be added to the list of words that Tumblr users should be banned from using until they learn to use it right

#saw someone say gay men shouldn't be bothered by being called fruits cause we ''collectively reclaimed it last year'' #or something along those lines #which first of all love saying the WHOLE lgbt community ''collectively'' reclaimed a word #as if there's some sort of high lgbt council that takes a vote on these things and every lgbt person on earth does what they say #and second of all despite what some of you idiots think the word fruit is in fact an insult aimed towards gay men #not lgbt people in general but gay men specifically #and it's one thing when we DO reclaim it ourselves and joke about it #but like 99.9% of the people who've been throwing that term around willy nilly are NOT gay men #and several gay guys including myself have repeatedly made posts expressing why it's annoying only for it to keep happening #so no a bunch of people deciding to say a slur for a meme and ignoring the group that said slur is aimed at when they express discomfort #does not remotely constitute as ''reclaiming'' the slur but less UNIVERSALLY reclaiming it #and i KNOW this all stems from the logic that gay men are super privileged or whatever #and by tumblr logic this means it's okay to constantly use us as the butt of a joke and we're expected to suck it up and laugh along #and i don't fucking care #i do not care what 15 marginalized identities you fall under or what disabilities you have none of that makes it better #if anything it just means you have zero excuse to not fucking know better #i also don't care that fruit is one of the tamer slurs for gay men cause frankly that's not the point #like first of all when did we decide that only the most extreme slurs are bad but anything else is fine #the lesser of two evils is still evil #and second of all like. sure. you COULD be saying faggot instead and you're not #but when you constantly insult us and make fun of us anyway that just tells me that you really WANNA say faggot but don't wanna get canceled #the fruit thing is just ONE example but it's far from the only example #if all your jokes are indistinguishable from the shit the homophobic pricks i went to school with said #then you have some serious reevaluating to do #i will stop making posts about this when you shitheads learn to think about the things you say and the people around you #and if you ever call me a fruit or fairy or whatever in real life you'll get socked in the throat and you WILL deserve it #shut up tristan

[euryalex]

i love him so much I asked what he'd call a romanced tav and he drops shakespeare on me hello???? and he starts with. tavtastic. i love him?

[Video description: A video of Theo Solomon, voice actor of Wyll Ravengard, speaking to the camera, doing a big gesture anytime he says "Blade of Frontiers". He says: "Hello Tav, my name is Wyll Ravengard, the Blade of Frontiers! And, Tav, I've heard you've taken a— a liking to me whilst playing BG3. Well, I'm not too surprised because... I mean, who else would you romance? You certainly do have good taste. Now, we need to think of a nickname for you, Tav. Hm. Well, there are the generic ones, or a play on words— Tavtastic, for example. But, Tav, I'd rather read you some poetry. Or recite you some poetry, as it were. Shakespeare once said in his most famous sonnet: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. You, Tav, ignite the fire in my heart. Your face shines brighter than the sun in the sky and your eyes glint like diamonds found in the dirt. You, Tav, are special to me, Wyll Ravengard; I would go above and beyond to protect you, over the hills of Faerûn, just to see you smile. Lots of love, Tav, from me, Wyll Ravengard, aka: The Blade of Frontiers! Lots of love."

/ End description.

ID: A meme of Lisa Simpson looking down in a wide-eyed and open-mouthed expression. /End ID] ID by @dreadwolph

#baldur's gate 3 #Wyll Ravengard #Theo Solomon #HI???? #cameo him rn i stg #edit: ty for the id!!

[pearwaldorf]

I hate that you can't see a tweet thread anymore if you're not logged into Twitter (as a gesture of disrespect I refuse to call it by its rebranded name). Here is a copypasta of a thread from Dan Olson, a Canadian documentary filmmaker, expanding upon camera quality, the guilt trips Somerton used to goose his Patreon subscriptions, and how the best tools will never make up for lack of dedication or patience. I have added clarifications in [[double brackets]] where I feel it is necessary.

START OF THREAD

Okay, so, back in April I snapped at James in reply to a tweet that was linking to this video (which James has since delisted but not deleted) and I want to talk about the full context of that but I don't want to make a video, put your beatdown memes away. [[The video has since been deleted. I can see the title of the video is "Maybe the end (not an April Fool's Day thing".]]

The first bit of context is that I initially got keyed into James to fact-check his claims about indie filmmaking in Canada. As a filmmaker the entire Telos venture was immediately obvious as a juvenile fantasy dreamed up by someone with no idea how to make a movie.

Just wild claims about their plans that weren't worth debunking because they bordered Not Even Wrong. But in watching one of these pitch videos I noticed that he had a $4000 current-gen camera in the background as a prop, and that seemed both pretentious and weird.

You don't use your best camera as a prop, you use your second best camera as a prop. So being an obsessive weirdo I needed to know, and I watched his BTS stuff until I spotted his main rig, a $6000 camera with about $1000 in accessories.

Now, these in isolation are unremarkable because his Patreon at the time was bringing in ~$8000 per month, his channel was a full on Business business, and so investing in some professional equipment of that level is maybe a bit indulgent but justifiable.

What was weird is that he doesn't shoot multi-cam, doesn't shoot outdoors, doesn't shoot on location, and in a studio the two cameras kinda really step on each others' toes. Basically if you already have one and don't need a B cam there's no reason to get the other.

Again, on its own, this says nothing, it's just indicative of poor financial decisions, maybe impulsive purchasing, Gear Acquisition Syndrome. Biblical sins, but not crimes.

Paired with the constantly inflating fantasy scope of the Telos films it was clearly an expression of a very, very common bad filmmaker habit of "if I just get the right gear then my movie will basically make itself" Buying stuff because it feels like progress.

At the end of February he tweets "I want to start shooting anamorphic" and then three weeks later in March he posts the worst, out of focus, under-exposed "I just got a new lens!" video I've ever seen, showing off his trash-covered bedroom.

Based on what's available for his cameras and the lead time, that's enough time to get a Laowa Nanomorph or Sirui Saturn from B&H but not enough time to get a Great Joy from the UK or a Vazen from China. And with the flaring blah blah blah, $1300 lens.

Again, [gear acquisition syndrome] is not a crime and these lenses are budget options. Bit of a pointless impulse purchase since he only used it for the Showgirls video. But this is what he was doing just a few weeks before that above video came out: effortlessly impulse purchasing lenses.

James has (had?) a habit of regularly, aggressively driving viewers to Patreon by claiming that videos were getting demonetized. While tacky, it is something a lot of queer YouTubers have dealt with, so there's precedent there. But people were noticing he did it a lot.

Mid-March he humble brags about needing to work so hard to make 6 videos in April because he has over-booked sponsorships.

Then March 29th James posts this whole incel screed on Twitter about how sex work should be "subsidized as a mental health service."

[two image descriptions.

1. "For the majority of people sex (and human contact) can be imperative to a healthy state of mind. A kind and talented sex worker can make someone feel wanted for the first time in their life. I know sex workers who have pulled people back from suicide just by being there for them." 2. "Not only should (sex work) be legal, but it should be subsidized as a mental health service."]

He spends several days getting absolutely *roasted* for this, just dragged across the pavement and read for filth, and doubles down in the replies the whole way.

So this is the context immediately surrounding James waking up on Friday, and posts the above video and the below tweet.

[image description: "We just got the lowest Patreon payout we've gotten in well over a year. Like, a "maybe we need to rethink things" kind of amount... NOT an April Fools Day thing btw. But I don't know if we'll be making videos much longer."]

Now, this unfolds in kinda two directions. The first is that I'm convinced he was just lying about this income shock in the first place.

There's a million theoretical edge cases about what maybe happened and if maybe he just misunderstood the data or saw a glitch and panicked, maybe one of those happened, I don't believe it, I think he just lied because he was salty about getting dragged and felt owed a win.

A big tell to me is that he doesn't blame Patreon. He says he doesn't know what happened, but let's be real, Patreon screws up all the time, they're the first people anyone blames if anything confusing happens, just as a reflex action, even if it's completely not their fault.

The only reason to not blame Patreon is if you already know that it's not their fault and that any investigation on their part might reveal embarrassing details.

Instead he indirectly blames his viewers for not watching enough, not sharing enough, and not turning on auto-renew.

So regardless of the unknowable truth, this segues into the second, far more offensive direction of the messaging itself. "I don't know if we'll be making videos much longer." "Maybe the end" He explicitly framed this as an immediate existential threat to his channel.

In the video he is vague about everything, leaves a ton of hazy room for plausible deniability on how long the channel can keep going, but the messaging is "I need more patrons right this minute or my YouTube channel is over."

He repeatedly evokes all the "fun stuff" they had planned that would never see the light of day if this didn't turn around right away.

And his audience received this message loud and clear. Tons of people making far, far, far less than him left very heartfelt messages about digging a little deeper to subscribe or up their pledge or unsubscribe from other channels to move their pledge to his.

1200 new patrons in one day.

Since I simply don't believe the income shock was real in the first place that would put his post-"Maybe the end" Patreon income at around $10,000 per month. US. Add YouTube income, he's spent the last seven months making around $18,000 per month.

I have seen creators scale back their capabilities to the bone purely to keep making videos for the love of just, like, making stuff even as their funding evaporated and they needed to go back to a desk job to cover their bills.

You'd have to be so outstandingly reckless with your finances as a channel that a one month spook leads immediately to "channel over, sorry about all the fun stuff we won't get to do with you, our patrons, specifically because you, our patrons, aren't giving us enough money"

And not a spook where you then spend a couple weeks crunching numbers. Oh no. A shock so violent where less than two hours later you're weeping on camera about the channel being over.

Three weeks later he brought a brand new Sony FX6v for $8000 CAD to add to his pile of cinema cameras despite the fact that he was, but scant moments earlier, in such a precarious position that a single bad month would kill his channel.

He stole your money, and for that I'm profoundly sad and angry. That's why I snapped at him in April. I'm sorry I couldn't give you the full context then, and I'm sorry if that anger upset you.

END OF THREAD

#james somerton #dan olson #hbomberguy #jesus christ tumblr #it won't let me format things the way i want #because this website is sometimes a piece of shit