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Dev Patel, the man that you are 😍🤤

#dev patel #yes we just watched Monkey Man #yes Dev Patel is the only man allowed to make feminist movies now

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uncle roy doodle page

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something about me is that i’m a sucker for ships where both people are traumatized and they find love & build a good life anyway. despite despite despite etc.

#literally the AndyBooker thesis

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"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

#me shipping BookerQuynh #it’s soooo fucked up but sooooo delicious

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Changing my belief system from "this is the hill I'll die on" to "this is the hill I'll kill you on" has done absolute wonders for me 10/10 do recommend

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#togcore #Nile opening the fridge of any given safe house like: 😐

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“He went yardo on that one! On to fuckin’ Lansdowne Street!”

ELI ROTH as SGT. DONNY DONOWITZ Inglourious Basterds (2009), dir. Quentin Tarantino

#prev tags

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wistfully remembering how people (pretended they) cared about antisemitism when it was primarily coming from the right. like there are pre-2023 posts with tens of thousands of notes about antisemitism. now any mention of the existence of antisemitism (when its worse than it ever was) doesn’t breach containment outside of jewish circles. its almost funny how quickly people stopped caring when it was inconvenient.

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Finally giving in and admitting to yourself that you have a fetish you were avoiding

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What's the worst thing about fandom in the last 20 years, and what's the worst thing about fandom that's always been true of it?

The worst thing about fandom in the last 20 years has been the incentivizing of fandom-as-conflict: not merely as a field in broader culture wars but as the field for endless intra-group battles.

This manifests in many ways: as seven hour videos complaining about The Last Jedi, as Twitter backlash campaigns, but also as stans defending their faves from any and all criticism real or imagined, as the endless boom-and-backlash cycle to any fandom meme or joke you see on Reddit, and as the drive for people to look for evidence other people discussing a thing they like are hysterical illiterate dolts, before anything else.

Or, in other words: a lot of fandoms are full of assholes these days, whose main interaction with fandom is using it as a reason to be an asshole, and to defend being an asshole. The actual “fandom” part of fandom no longer really exists for them. The discourse more or less is their fandom; someone whose main fandom activity is sharing videos about how Steven Universe is a fascist (?) isn’t in the Steven Universe fandom, they’re in the videos about how Steven Universe is a fascist (?) fandom. I mean, the chief fandom for many people is their side in the fandom war. What type of fanfic you write is secondary to what your affiliations are vis-a-vis battles over fanfiction

(One trend I've noticed is people who aren't at the stage where they only talk about what they hate and not what they love, but are at the stage where they can only talk about what they love in relation to what they hate. "I love this movie...and it proves this other movie is bullshit made by a hack". No ability to say just "I love this movie", period, end of sentence. This is how like two-thirds of Film Twitter talks about film, the remainder are all the grindhouse people going "man you've GOT to see Wrong Turn 5")

Another one, that I think is related, is that fandom’s become...more transitory, maybe? There’s Big Fandoms that are inescapable and then everything else feels like it’s here for a weekend and then it’s gone. And we’ve always had fandoms that endure and fandoms that vanish quickly, when the show runs short or turns out to be bad/boring, but we did use to have a lot of enduring if small fandoms for Okay shows most people hadn’t heard of and now you don’t really. Or they burn themselves out fast.

So we’ve reached this stage where fandoms are either so big they have seven hour long discourse videos, or they’re a smattering of fanart over the course of two weeks last August. But that isn’t really the fault of fans so much as modern media release schedules.

A lot of fandom activities of old are just...impossible now, with many shows? The slow build of speculation and fan works and in-jokes and theorizing and analysis simply can’t exist in a world where the premiere comes out the same day as the finale, and you can’t talk about the finale because you have no way of knowing if the person you’re talking to binged it all in one weekend or is still on episode four. That was the kind of thing that sustained the fandom of something that wasn’t a big hit, or even something that was. My fave fandom experience ever was watching the online Lost fandom wildly theorizing for all six years of Lost, and we’d never get “and what if the Smoke Monster is a dinosaur but only the head?” under a Netflix release model. Now at a base level, we either have shows nobody can discuss because nobody’s sure who’s seen or what, or shows where everyone just discusses the finale right away, and where you get One Week of Show and then a massive hiatus, which either kills all momentum or...drives fandom in the direction of hyper-analyzing everything and fighting because, well, what else is there to do? And that plus the outrage cycles of social media plus the fact that “man who yells at Star Wars” is now a viable career choice result in, well. *gestures upwards* All that

(Really, shout out to Cartoon Network for engineering the Steven Universe fandom to Be Like That through their inscrutable strategy of dropping episodes during one random week every five months or whatever)

As for something that's always been with it...cliques and a certain fannish elitism, like, that sees engaging with media in a fandom sense as more creative or analytical or intelligent than your average person. You see it now in the form of, like, people holding up fanfic above published fiction as more representative or authentic (I’ve seen more than one post on here strongly implying queer rep doesn’t exist in mainstream non-fic storytelling???), or going “well, we think about shows, unlike those normies watching sports”. But that was probably way more pronounced a thing in the past, in the 40-50s sci-fi fans were calling non-fans "mundanes" and calling themselves "slans" as an in-group signifier (a reference to a book with superintelligent psychic mutants known as slans). Like at the very least we should be happy no one’s calling non-fans “muggles” anymore. In the evolution from “mundane” to “muggle” to “normie” normie’s probably the least bad one

#man this hit the nail on the head #sometimes it’s really is just ‘do you actually ENJOY this or do you just want something to argue about??’

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30. Joe/Nile kiss of comfort

you got it

30. …as comfort

They stood and watched the car drive away in silence.

“It’s only six months,” Nile said.

“Yeah.” Joe swiped at his eyes with the back of his hand. “Six months.”

Nile knew she should go back inside and give Joe some space. She didn’t want to.

“Six months,” she said again. “A lot can happen in six months.”

“It can.” Joe leaned a little more heavily into her side.

“We’ll see them soon,” Nile said, and twisted to press a kiss to Joe’s temple. His skin was so warm under her lips.

Before she could think about what she was doing, she turned to face him and pulled his head down to hers, into a proper kiss. He inhaled sharply and his arms came up to wrap around her, and Nile hadn’t even realized that this was what she was missing until she had it. Being here, in Joe’s arms.

“A lot can happen in six months,” he said against her lips. Nile nodded.

send a kiss

#aaaaAAAAAAHHHHHHHH #the old guard #joe x nile

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Lupita Nyong'o wearing VALENTINO – The Hollywood Reporter (2022) photographed by Christian Cody

#I VERY recently found out she and Joshua Jackson are dating and he truly could not be a luckier man if he tried #lupita nyong'o

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"I still say to myself that there isn't and there cannot be a justification either for the pain of the famished wolf or that of the wounded sheep."

from "The Penitent," by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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few things more humbling than the realization that you really do write the same fic(s) over and over again

#I definitely don't want to acknowledge the similarities between 'Surrender' and 'if I close my eyes I feel it all again'

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Chapter 11! @goldheartedsky

#oh man oh man I am NOT ready for this chapter but here we go #the old guard #tog podfic #andy x booker

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not saying my boss is the shadiest bitch alive, but firing me for bullshit reasons and then trying not to give me any documentation to back up said bullshit reasons is pretty fucking shady

#personal shit

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