#which is a bop by the way

[laufire]

early 00s comics be like. everyone was SO mean to stephanie for NO reason.

#reading in rapid succession how bruce is blacklisting her and the bop refuse to keep training her #and cass just keeps knocking her unconscious adsñlfkja (which barbara practically cheers on because steph is just soooo annoying apparently #like am i supposed to believe there was anything ''defective'' about her that meant she had to be stopped from vigilantism AT ALL COSTS #(except whenever it was convenient to bruce) #but every other child/teen vigilante is just. fine? like. how is her case different than tim's? #(other than bruce needing a teenaged minder as to not get overly violent and kills someone) #and i'm sure she made mistakes* along the way but lbr batman comics are notoriously hypocritical re: whose mistakes are forgiven #(*this is all before war games but that was another story and straight up character assassination lbr) #talking to the void #my thoughts #dc thoughts #dc #dc comics #stephanie brown #bitter lau tag

[bobbinalong]

i wish i was a batman fan, he gets so many comics that every once in a while, something HAS to be good. alas lmao.

#like clark is among my top 5 so it's not like i'm totally starved for good current comics #i still need to catch up on world's finest actually (which. batman lol) #but bart and steph haven't caught a break in like twenty years lol #and jon is still in tom taylor's clutches #and babs is walking around #and also in tom taylor's clutches (tho not for long anymore) #at least cass is eating well rn i like the current bop run except for the babslessness of it all #which is rectified for this arc #tho she is still walking around #anyway i'm currently really losing my mind over dc's treatment of steph so like #ignore me lol #i'm so mad about her not being in the new damian book when she SHOULD be the robin he's closest to after dick. she's literally his batgirl #i'm also mad again about the way fitzmartin broke her and tim up and probably always will be but maybe i should start getting over that #it has been two years #anyway it's not even that i hate bruce he just doesn't scratch that itch

[quatregats]

No actually in all honesty I feel like last time I went to India at 12 I had a tiny bit of impostor syndrome but was mostly very comfortable there, whereas in the ensuing 10+ years, I've somehow gotten really bad impostor syndrome about being Indian at all and have managed to gaslight myself into thinking that I have no knowledge of anything to do with being Malayalee, which is....truly fascinating, to say the least. Anyways needless to say that the second I got off the plane is Trivandrum I was immediately cured of that notion :')

#like yeah okay i am not malayalee in the way that so-and-so is or i'm not indian like so-and-so else but that's irrelevant #my mom is american i am also american but that doesn't preclude me from also being malayalee #doesn't mean that i need to feel like a stranger in kerala and in fact i did not feel like a stranger at all #before this trip i was reading darius the great is not okay (which i just sort of picked up at the library by chance) #but i was reading it and was like hmm this is a good pre-going-to-parent's-home-country-mixed-race-kid-experience read #but also i wanted to bop him on the head and be like you fool you belong #and lo and behold what should happen in kerala was me getting bopped on the head and told you fool you belong #perce rambles #i'll post some pictures and stuff here and on my main once i get my life together a bit more

[sawthefaeriequeen]

Okay I don't usually say this, but that one song leaves a bad taste in my mouth and...Taylor, girl, it's not your fans' fault you rebounded with a racist.

#other than that there are some bops but...meh. it's all so samey-sounding. #apparently a second one dropped but i dread more sameyness #at least it's not nonsense word salad anymore which midnights mostly was #i have never actively hated a tswift song the way i hate anti-hero #text post

[wiseatom]

anyway you can literally pry mike and will sw*ftie agenda from my cold, lifeless hands

#no hate to anyone not agreeing #however when has WILL CANONICALLY ever EVER showed to be pretentious with music #when has will EVER displayed the same music snob personality as jonathan #like canonically. really. point out a SINGLE time. #he of course loves the music bonding w jonathan and he loves the songs jonathan shows him but like genuinely. really and truly #i am asking you to point out anything about will's character that would indicate in any way he would be pretentious about music. #will's CANON traits repeated over and over are that he is sensitive and emotional and not like other boys #and that is not in the 'i want to be different' way like it is for jonathan. will canonically does not feel Better for being Different. #he just Is. #so like i absolutely one thousand percent believe he'd identify w her music that is sensitive and romantic and whimsical and tells stories #bc those are all things will either is or values. hello lol #and mike lmfao. mike literally tries to be like everyone else. if taylor is popular he's gonna listen and then the absolute bops are gonna #make him stick around. he'd definitely be a closet sw*ftie during rep era to go along w the crowd but he'd come back #also hold on let me circle back to the will point. even if he were pretentious u can't sit here and tell me taylor is not an incredible #songwriter who consistently puts out sonically cohesive albums (for the most part) and is able to nail almost any genre #even if he was Super Pretentious about music -- which to be clear he Would Not Be -- he would admire her for the artist she is #even if it wasn't his vibe. ANYWAY. BACK TO MIKE AKA I WILL LISTEN TO ANYTHING ANYONE SAYS IS COOL #he definitely has Opinions (calling should i stay or should i go Weird) but like. come on. his entire s3/4 arc is abt Desperately trying to #Conform. he'd listen to taylor lol. i just think he'd actually still like her for some of the same reasons as will #bc he also values story telling and then also probably just wordplay. #i'm so sorry to rant about this like i simply know it is not that deep but ALSO. Y'ALL LMFAO. the way that i'm seeing this opinion shared #'this isn't hating!' *is a hater* #<- also exactly what i'm doing but like PLEASSEEE #WILL =/= JONATHAN #AND LIKE MIKE IS EMBARRASSING. THT'S WHY WE LOVE HIM. HE'D ABSOLUTELY BLAST N BOP TO TAYLOR LOL #IDC IDC!!!!!! (CARES SO MUCH) THIS IS THE HILL I WILL DIE ON!!!!!!!!

[mermaidsirennikita]

One reason why I think Mila Finelli's mafia books do work for me better than most other (Italian--I did really love Kresley's series) mafia romance novels I've read is that the characters do feel DISTINCT and so do the relationship dynamics.

In a lot of these somewhat darker, more erotic reads, you do get the sense that any of the characters could be switched out for one another. The heroes are always the same types of alphas, the heroines are always the same types of a) virgins or b) defiant rebels who may also still be virgins, and what really sets the books apart are a few bananas scenes here and there, and some distinct sex scenes.

And while I definitely think there are distinct sexual dynamics and kinks at play with each couple (Fausto/Frankie are obviously daddy kink-central, Enzo and Gia are.... generalized freaks with some heavier BDSM by way of CNC vibes, Giulio and Alessio also have some D/s vibes but with a more competitive edge and are very into each other's violence, and Giacomo/Emma are obviously a breeding kink/softer touch vibe) they're also just super different people.

I guess the closest couples would be Fausto and Frankie and Enzo and Gia, but even then... Fausto is a dick, but he's more rational, more doting (see: daddy), and though Frankie is absolutely defiant and strong, I actually think that though she and Fausto have more of a traditional partnership in terms of gender than Enzo and Gia (which also could be because Frankie wants a billion kids and yes she has her MBA but she's very much a wife and mom first, whereas Gia is more about her career, which keeps them from being too similar). Enzo and Gia are more into the defined D/s shit sexually, but you get the sense that she has more control in the relationship and that, at the end of the day, he is very much... her bitch. Enzo and Gia have a very similar age gap to Fausto and Frankie, but Fausto and Frankie have more of a care-focused DD/lg relationship, whereas Enzo and Gia thrive on the friction of her giving as good as she gets.

And Alessio and Giulio, aside from the obvious of being the only queer relationship in the series, are very much coded as D/s as well... But not as inflexibly as the previous two couples. Aside from them switching it up in the bedroom a little, there's also a lot of space for Alessio to take care of Giulio. Like, Giulio kinda doesn't know shit about what he's doing lol, whereas Alessio is hypercompetent (which also makes sense, as Fausto for sure spoiled Giulio and Alessio has been in essentially a different class his entire life). So while Giulio is more sexually dominant, Alessio is really the stronger, steadier, and more threatening partner otherwise. And again, they both really get off on watching each other do what they do best, which is: crime.

I do think Giacomo and Emma have the softest relationship in the series--but it's not so much because she's this kind of babe in the woods virgin (and I will say, I did love that Frankie and Gia were NOT lol) but because Giacomo is just a much more tender guy. Like, yes, Fausto and Enzo both also had loved ones, but I think that because they'd both been running their shit longer than Giacomo had before he met Emma, they had these very set roles. Fausto and Enzo come off as more brutal, and honestly more crazy (like, Enzo is THE CRAZIEST for sure, but Fausto is a fucking nutball). Giacomo seems like a dude who's good at killing people and doing mafia stuff, but it's really like? His day job. It's not his life and it doesn't feel like his culture, even, which makes sense because he was on the fringes of the types of levels Fausto and Enzo have always been in, because his father and brother kept him separate from it. Even Giulio is more connected to that space than Giacomo, because he was groomed to take over for years.

I think it would be very easy to rely on these great sex scenes and wacky plots she writes, but the thing that does make it clear that Mila has the chops (.... and it also makes it clear that she's very experienced, lol, and someone who has had to write series with very individualized characters for professional editors in the past........) is that the characters are very DIFFERENT. Like, Frankie and Gia may both have their partners' balls in their pockets, but you see Frankie do a wheedling kind of little girl pouting thing to get her way with Fausto because she knows he looooves it, whereas Gia is like LISTEN UP ASSHOLE with Enzo (and it makes the relationship the best because nobody else can do that with him, Enzo and Gia are the greatest, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk). Giacomo is willing to let Emma go in a way that Fausto, Enzo, and honestly I would say Giulio too after working out some things, really aren't okay with. He's probably the best guy out of the series, on a moral level, while also being a scary murder man.

(Except for maybe Alessio? Because Alessio is also a scary murder man, but he literally just does it for the cash or to protect Giulio. It's PURE BUSINESS.)

I find the distinctiveness of the characters really cool, especially when I reread the books, and that is probably why I've had a hard time finding a series that really clicks for me in the same way within the sort of Italian mafia genre.

(That, and: so much of the other books center on Italian-American mafia stuff and that shit DOES NOT HAVE THE SAUCE the way Mila's Italy-set books do. Like, be real here, the Italian-American mafia has not been raking in this kind of cash for DECADES.)

#romance novel blogging #anyway my musings on the mafia fuckbooks continue #i really do need to read annika martin's books #bc she's another author i have been pleased by with other books #and similarly to mila did a hard left into mafia novels #but yes #i do think that giacomo being sort of fringe-level with the mobster CEO shenanigans did deprive us of some of the funniest shit in the book #which would be like #enzo and fausto sending each other severed heads and getting on the phone like #'is that-' 'the severed head of your employee? yeah. :)' #or giulio bopping over to be like 'LISTEN UP THE ONLY COKE DEALER IN SPAIN IS ME NOW!!!!' #like i do remember her saying she hadn't originally been planning to write a book for emma #which seemed wild to me at the time #but you can tell this story was conceived of separately from the others #bc there's a pretty clear pipeline from fausto and frankie -> the villain enzo getting a book w gia -> #tying up the arc with fausto's son falling for the guy enzo paid to kill fausto lmao #(the comedy of this series will never top enzo fully forgetting he put a hit on giulio bc of all the bomb sex he was having on his yacht) #anyway that doesn't make mafia virgin a lesser book in any way it just reads as the most oN ITS OWN

[kohakhearts]

yeah im thinking about the full version of 1・2・3 again yeah its making my brain a little mushy about The Characters

#taylor.txt #the lyrics in that song are insane has ANYONE gone through and determined which parts are sung by whom #because im bad at distinguishing voices so some parts im not sure if its both of them or not #either way lyrically this song is crazy. like its not the only ash and companion duet op but it has VASTLY different flavour #high touch walked so 1・2・3 could run frankly and boy did it ever #i would so happily analyze the full version lyrics so hard if anyone asked just saying #thematically goh is such a good companion and yeah WHATEVER we know im biased by shipping goggles but like. they did something so #INTERESTING and UNIQUE with that dynamic which is really compounded in jn being ash’s last series #and it reflects so well in the lyrics of the song like there is so much to say about their development as characters #and its so interesting compared to say high touch where its like. yeah this is a song ABOUT their relationship #1・2・3 is arguably that as well but fundamentally its all in the thesis of the series which is about how relationships strengthen your #INDIVIDUAL goals and actions and shape you as a Person and how those are things that like #yeah other people influence you and motivate you but at the end of the day youre still making the choice to try but whatever choice you make #that friendship doesnt just go away. it bolsters you! makes you a better person! helps you grow up!!! #idk what im saying now idk i just head full. many thoughts. btw if you havent listened to the full version like. fully. highly recommend #its just a genuinely good song like tbh it has no right being such an unironic bop but it is and i love it

[nonstandardrepertoire]

i am listening to a new arrangement of The Rite of Spring for wind band and it's hard b/c on the one hand i'm not sure i love this arrangement but on the other i also really don't like the interpretation, and it's a little hard for me to figure out whether i would think the arrangement better if it were conducted more to my taste

#mostly i think it wouldn't because the band is too small #i actually really do think that part of the ~sound~ of TRoS is the sheer *size* of the orchestra #two contrabassoons babey!!! #and that's just! woven into it i think in a way that makes it part of the piece #which is not to say a chamber arrangement can't be successful! #there are some BANGER reductions out there #but if that's what you're doing you actually have to *do* it #it's gotta be a *choice* #this arrangement feels like it wants to be “the original just rewritten for wind band” #and i think that fundamentally requires size #there is only one basoon!!!! #how can you look at this piece and think that is enough bassoon???? #incomprehensible #anyway #i do actually think the Rite is one of those pieces that is a wind band piece avant la lettre #and we should just take and make ours #even if the ending is bad and doesn't work #it's fine it was 1913 Stravinskii only sort of knew what he was doing #and endings are really hard #especially in a piece like this #The Rite of Spring #BOPS JAMS AND BANGERS #attn #sigmastolen

[firstkanaphans]

I have to try something here. Desk. But not in an innocent context!

👀

“Oh, trust me. I came prepared,” Aye said with a smirk. “Now, why don’t you bend over that desk like a good boy?”

#and with that i have finished the chapter so it will definitely be posted tomorrow #thank y'all for keeping me company! #i'm going to stop the guessing game for now but i will probably do it again before BoP is over because I had a lot of fun #if you submitted a word and i didn't respond it's either because it was way too spoiler-y or wasn't in there #i'll let you figure out which #wip guessing game #business or pleasure fic

[icewindandboringhorror]

mentally ill people who for whatever reason end up wearing the same exact clothing so many days in a row that it begins to disintegrate and will still not stop wearing it until it’s literally just scraps of fabric VS. those weird shitty rich people who ‘’can’t be seen in the same outfit twice’’ human dichotomy 

#poast brought to you by my pants that are missing an entire leg and completely open in the back and the front almost #to the point they could not really be considered pants anymore (I wear lots of layers so i have shorts under them but lol) #I tore them again sitting down and it made me introspect about when it's time to throw clothes out and how everyone has different standards #and etc. Like how some people will get stains on clothing and just throw it away #.where others will keep wearing stained stuff if they have an attachment to it. etc. etc. #or like One hole in jeans is okay but 20 holes is Crossing A Line - unless they were made that way as a fashion trend #which then made me think about those people who like.. change clothes multiple times a day and never want to rewear stuff #and just have a constant stream of fast fashion etc. Anyway. not a real dichotomy. just being silly. i like to think about humans behaviors #brggghghb.. still not being very productive as I just keep having flare up after flare up of various chronic issues I have so I'm feeling #sick like every few days but always for different reasons. As if something has increased the general inflammation in my entire body #and its just bopping around making different things worse here and there. but I'm not sure of any underlying cause. #theorectially could always be stress since I am often stressed but I don't feel stressed more than usual. I have no infection markers #on blood tests and my covid tests so far have been negative. I guess my body just felt like 'hey happy new year. would you like.. uhm... #some... Problems.. as a treat? OuO'' #I mean I'm lucky at this point that I don't have a condition that makes me completely bedridden or something and am grateful for that but #having so many smaller issues in the background overlapping all the time can be ehxausting and make it feel like a larger issue #because you just never get a break. once one problem clears up it's another. etc. modifying diet. supplements. doctors. new issue. new modif #ications. new doctors. new this #new that. etc. For my body to reach some sort of non-inflammed stable state I feel like I'm going to have to just be suspended in a gladd #*glass antigravity chamber for 3 years eating nothing but basic gruel and iv liquids. something so bland and so untriggering of anything #that literally nothing can be inflammed or etc. lol.. Though I'd probably still somehow have joint pain even with nogravity. #ANYWAY... I did finally edit a new sims video. for the few of you that follow my sims youtube. I have costumes totally ready to post I just #literally havent had the energy to queue up the photos. STILL WORKING ON EVIL WORLDBULDING SLIDESHOW task of epic proportions #. other videos. other stuff. I've had to spend some time on social stuff since I really ned to get started finding friends in the potential #places I'd like to move so I know people when I get there. as it takes me like years to trust someone. but hjgh... I am so like. inherently #unrelatable to the average person. at least the avg people on friend making sites and stuff. I even made a perosnal compatibility quiz #but again.. thats something most people don't do lol... ''buhh just text snapchat me & get to know me through conversation why should i take #a 15 minute quiz up front?'' shut up. i woudl LOVE to take a custom compatibility quiz before talking to someone. its efficent. you will nev #er get it. that is a positive to me. if only anyone else did that. if only. (I'm being jokingly rude. its perfectly reaosnable for people to #have different standards and communication styles. etc. etc. lol) ANYWAY.. tldr me sleepy and feel bad no productive wehh

[borgchip]

Did any of y'all know Tim Russ has an awesome and CURRENT music career and made a kickass youtube music video abt the surveillance state or am I the only one just now learning this

#ITS. GOO D #ITS ALL REALLY GOOD #WHICH LIKE IG I SHOULDNT BE SU R PRI S ED HES A VRY FAMOUS ACTOR OFC HE HAS OTHER SKILLS BUT #HE MAKES HIS OWN STUFF DIRECTOR WISE AND ITS ALL SO GOOD #HIS SINGING VOICE IS AMAZING??? HIS SONGS ARE BOPS? #stream never too old for rock and roll right now 🔫 #it all gives off vry like. allusion to the 80s. in a great way #ch.txt

[ghosthoodie]

get reigned

#ironically drew these while listening to vast error vol 5 #which by the way #fucking bopped #my art #myart #reign mspfa #reign #doodle #sketch #homestuck #homestuck fantroll #fantroll #artists on tumblr #digital art #homestuck fanart #my oc #putsel goirre #neusci afkuta #wollie bymura #pygemy ramawa

[lovesaved]

jacob and leah like "we have never met the c.ullens directly, but i think its safe to assume - and this is nothing against bella, we love bella, - that they are monstrously stupid sewer people,"

#like imo the tribes hatred of the c.ullens makes a LOT of sense #them just being there puts every human in the area in danger even with the whole vegetarian thing #not to mention that again. just being there. will often cause an irreversible often traumatic change in members of the tribe #that could have been completely avoided had they just bopped around in alaska instead of a place where they were explicitly unwanted #on the flip side? the c.ullens hatred and attitude toward them is really baffling and inexcusable #and really just feels like an excuse for smeyer to use her white self inserts to live out every racist fantasy she could think of #like the tribe basically just says 'dont kill people and stay tf off our lands' which is WAY more reasonable than they probably deserve #and theyre like 'you guys are so rude and awful for that :( im gonna dehumanize you about it' #and again. this gets personal for jacob and leah when bella gets looped into what they view as the c.ullens shit #theyre going to protect her and charlie and tentatively ally with the c.ullens in order to do so! but christ alive theyre gonna hate it #*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ small and knowing clown / ooc

[snowflakeb0ttles]

pet peeve i dislike when people talk about spongebob and are like 'ahaha yeah when i was a kid i was like spongebob but now im just like squidward loll' in such a way in which it implies that they used to be happy and optimistic and are now depressed/done with everything/can find no joy now that they are older and that is somehow a joke of some sort

#i suppose it falls into the same category of depression/kms jokes that are not truly funny and make things awkward for people listening #and are hurtful 2 the person saying them #however of course relating 2 squitwart is not a bad thang because it do be like that #it is simply the way in which people say it and quite often that annoys me #and on this topic . nobody ever says this to imply they enjoy music and art like squidgewarde. only negative things #and as a spunch bop enjoyer.....this must not stand !! #spongebob

[toolazytodecide]

No song will make me as immediately angry as “Bigmouth strikes again.” by “The Smiths” like I honestly can’t tell if it’s genuine or not but I kind of don’t care. It enrages me.

#The Smiths #Bigmouth Strikes again #for anyone who hasnt heard it its essentially opps im such a bigmouth for threatening to murder my girlfriend #ugh everyones so judgy now i understand how joan of arc felt #like youd think nobody could write that genuinely #but then again people like that do exist #and even if it is a joke i dont think men should joke about murdering women in any way #like the way he phrases the jokes too is so specific and terrifying #like maybe hes mocking narcissists #or maybe he is one #ive seen all the people online trying to defend it bc its a joke but i dont care #also the lyrics are a shame bc the song is a bop #abuse mention #violence mention #tw domestic abuse #also there are probably worse songs i know don't take my phrasing too literally #like i know R Kelly released a whole album defending what he did #which yeah probably would make me angrier if i listened to it #but i have no intention of doing so #i do however love the smiths so regularly hear it on playlists

[noxnthea]

What’s the Hulk’s favorite Halloween song?

A: The Monster (S)Mash

Bruce hates parties. 

He hated interdepartmental socializing when he worked at Culver — where everybody knew everyone else would rather be holed up in their offices or labs but were forced to mingle and laugh awkwardly anyways. 

He hated birthday parties growing up —  especially those for himself; all that focus and attention on him, everyone pretending like he was their best friend, like his mom hadn’t guilted their moms to dragging them all to sing to him. 

He hated frat parties in college — the ones Betty’d hauled him to, ‘for the experience, Bruce,’ though being with her did make them at least mildly manageable, and they never stayed longer than the first incidence of broken furniture or body fluids showing up where they really didn’t belong. 

And he hates, now, whatever the hell this is that Tony’s forcing him to make an appearance at with the rest of the Avengers. 

He clutches his glass a little tighter, wondering, not for the first time this evening, if his genes will spontaneously mutate again and grant him the ability to fade into the wallpaper. That would be nice. 

“Ayyyyyyyyy, Brucie, they’re playing your song!” Clint sidles up alongside him, feet doing some weird sort of stutter step that Bruce doubts is a dance. 

Bruce has many regrets. His haircut throughout middle school, for one. Substituting gamma for vita radiation, for two. Showing up tonight, for three. But currently, his greatest regret is joining a team where he has to try and make small talk with someone as obscenely loud and purple as Clint Francis Barton. “My what?” he asks. 

“Your song!” Clint shouts, gesturing upwards with his drink. Hmm. Bruce wonders if he was planning on drinking that or if he’d intended to take a mid-evening alcohol bath. “Y’know, the, the — monster — the —” he breaks off, humming under his breath until he catches up to the lyrics. “ — Drac’s voice did ring —,” he nudges Bruce’s shoulder, “— you know this, come on —” 

Bruce squints as Clint drops his cup so that he can mime opening a coffin lid and shaking his fist in sync with the lyrics before he yells in an accent so stereotypically vampiric that Bruce is mildly offended on behalf of all creatures of the night: “Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist??” 

The series of movements that follow make Bruce wonder if Clint’s managed to electrocute himself somehow or if perhaps that witch from last week fired off a lucky spell that’s belatedly coming into play. Clint’s singing along, Bruce thinks, but he has a hard time focusing on the words over all the drunken jerking and flailing that’s occupying his vision. 

As the music finally fades into the next song, Clint collapses against the wall next to him, sighing heavily. “So — that’s your favorite song, right? The Monster Mash? ‘Cause, y’know — Hulk, and the smashing?” 

“Yeah, no, I’m not doing this.” Bruce shoves his drink into Clint’s hand, who seems pleased by this development, and turns to leave. 

He hates parties. 

—

other bad jokes and their ficlets here!

#in case you were wondering: Clint is trying to drunkenly recall a kidz bop video (linked) #which he learned when Natasha got de-aged a couple years ago #and he thought binging just dance and kidz bop videos would be a way to connect with her #and she was like: wait dancing can be silly? fun? can exist for no greater purpose than to laugh? #ANYWAY i got super behind on posting these here #but they're all on ao3! #bruce banner #clint barton #avengers fanfiction