#(I mean this has all genres!)

[foundfamilywhump]

truly i don't care who thinks it's stupid or boring or "doesn't count" or can't be as intense as what they think of as "real whump" or whatever else, whump with comfort and recovery and caretaker(s) is always going to be my style of whump and i'm gonna have a blast vibing with people who also enjoy that

#gav gab #saw a couple posts that annoyed me yesterday lmao but truly this is where it's at #whump #i reblog a lot of types of posts here #but i'm so bored of people who think comfort existing makes something inherently less whumpy #like lmao okay have your preferences but stop being a dick about them #'whump with caretakers is so INFANTILIZING and STUPID and ONE DIMENSIONAL and BORING' what all of it? #all of it eh???? #every single thing? #are you perhaps having a kneejerk emotional reaction to a word being used as a broad shorthand #rather than having to type 'the person who is helping to treat the whumpee's wounds or is a supportive presence in their life' #'who also has their own life and problems and feelings and interests and isn't just a one-dimensional servitor for the whumpee' #every single time you want to make sure not to piss anyone off #and thus being mean to people for no reason? makes you think #anyways hurt/comfort and whump are not disparate genres and comfort and recovery doesn't make something not whump thanks! #and it doesn't make it inherently or presumptively less intense either #or less dark or less violent or less whatever #it just means it's not Purely and Entirely about suffering and nothing else #shrug emoji

[astronomodome]

Feeling conflicted about the cyberpunk thingy impulse is going for because like yeah it’s a great theme and I like the aesthetics a lot but what I really like most about cyberpunk is the themes of corporate alienation and/or transhumanism etc etc which I know will not be addressed at all and in fact it’s kind of stupid of me to expect that at all from a minecraft series. Does anyone else get that or just me

#this is an issue I’ve been having with mcyt content in general you know. not ragging on impulse specifically #it’s just… I find it difficult to reconcile the quality of narrative focused mcyt content with its complete lack of commentary #should it have commentary? I believe it could if it wanted to. I don’t think it has to #but then you see these genres being… skinned and worn as cloaks #taking the aesthetics and story without any of the meaning behind it #and when it was just Minecraft builds that was expected. I guess it is still expected and I’m being a huge snob #but like. mcyt narrative is so fucked from a quality standpoint. you can’t even have villains who are other mcyters because people #will get mad at them #is that an unrelated issue? maybe. but I don’t think so #idk. mcyters aren’t expected to be storytellers and they don’t need to be #but I see these things happen over and over again and it’s just uncanny to see something that walks like a story talks like a story #but at the same time has absolutely nothing of value to say #it’s very early on so maybe there will be something done with this concept but I doubbbt it. I would be very pleasantly surprised #astro speaks #hermitcraft #not putting this in the impulse tag cause he would be more likely to see it #and I don’t want him to feel like he has to address this at all #it’s more just me noticing a trend

[rivetgoth]

The r/goth subreddit kinda swinging to the opposite side of the Goth Gatekeeping Discourse pendulum and like getting into incredibly nitpicky detached arguments that don’t really mean anything within the context of like. Going outside and actually engaging with the irl scene about, like, whether Disintegration by The Cure is “actually goth” or not will never not be funny. Someone asked recently if The Birthday Massacre is goth and some guy replied super condescendingly with a comment like “I’ve never heard of them before but listening to them now, they have to be the least goth band I’ve LITERALLY ever heard.” Like…. Come on now. 😭

#like TBM is not trad goth we all know this but you’re being so purposely obnoxiously obtuse to act like #it’s some absurd question to ask if one of the biggest dark alt bands that has extremely major footing in the wider dark community is goth. #(ppl on there can be cool I just think it gets goofy about nitpicking genres to the point that there’s like. no room for evolution at all) #like it’s obviously one thing to completely divorce goth of its meaning as a music based subculture but imo it’s equally goofy to like #post nothing but TSOM Joy Division & early Cure and then get weirdly rude and uppity over fellow goths using the term like #MARGINALLY more liberally than you do within the context of the modern real life goth scene. ykwim.

[rusquared]

take this as your sign from your most least somewhere-in-the-middle favorite tumblr blog 🫶 read this webtoon 🫶

#interesting thing is. i do NOT recommend the original novel #its much more typical of the romfan genre #but the manhwa artist has been taking some liberties with the story and characters and I LOVE IT #they clearly know how to tell a story and convey emotions soooooo fucking well. so subtly. #PLEASEEEEEE TAKE MY WORD. TAKE MY ORV WORD. #READ ALL THE AVAILABLE CHAPTERS OR JUST TRY TO GET TO LIKE #CH 54???? #IDK THE HALFWAY POINT? #YOU'LL KNOW WHAT I MEAN BUT THE MALE LEAD WILL GO FROM A TYPICAL DUKE OF THE NORTH TO AN ACTUAL PERSON #YOU'LL REALIZE HE'S NOT A COOKIE CUTTER ML

[ghostdrinkssoup]

idk how controversial this is but I’m actually such a big fan of s3a. it’s the exact kind of phantasmagorical bullshit that makes me kick my feet and grin like a fool. the whole show goes haywire and completely abandons the generic structure of the police procedural, and it totally gets away with it because at this point the narrative has unravelled so much that the show can safely let go of whatever conformity it was barely hanging onto in s2b. and on a metafictional level the shift in external genre strangely parallels the progression of the two main characters: just as will and hannibal have changed each other, the show too has revealed its true nature

#this is even further emphasised by s3a exploring hannibal’s backstory #like he’s been ripped open and the show has too #and now will’s peering in and trying to find the core of hannibal #so he can understand him #and in doing so finds the heart of the show #in all its gothic glory #but by the end will still doesn’t accept himself #and when he rejects hannibal and attempts to return to normalcy the show also returns to its old police procedural structure #except now it’s fragmented and unlike itself #much like will’s s3b persona #because he simply cannot return to how he was in s1 #it doesn’t matter if he marries molly or tries to make a nuclear family for himself it’ll never be as it was #and he ultimately can’t deny himself #which is literally reflected in the show’s style because it’s so unlike s1 #even if it tries to return to its original genre tropes and conventions #it ultimately reverts back to the gothic wonderland of s3a (the dragon fight + fall) #I didn’t mean to continue the analysis in the tags LMAO but I guess that’s how it is #I was too sleepy to articulate my thoughts two hours ago but now it’s 1:30am and I am so Awake #nbc hannibal #hannibal #hannibal meta #will graham #hannigram #ghost speaks

[aroaessidhe]

bookterror on insta has this nice big database of 170+ ace books from last year!

you can also find the list on goodreads!

#asexual books #ace books #asexual #demisexual books #database #if you are looking for adult romance books since I don't really include those in mine..... #(I mean this has all genres!) #queer books

[redandfranticfeelings]

after several months of tracking the solar opposites tag i'm starting to get a similar feeling from the fandom as all those posts about breaking bad where walt is really supportive of jesse's transition

#solar opposites #i mean yeah the found family aspect Is There but like. it is Not an uplifting earnest show 90% of the time lmao #like they are very mean aliens. including to each other. sure they love each other. but they are Comically Evil #im still glad that an adult animated show starring a gay couple can exist with all the outrageous humor of the genre intact #i just dont care for woobifying said gay couple too much lmao. let them be evil freaks!! #also ive never seen a soul on tumblr talk about the wall which has some Genuine Heartfelt Emotion as well #i dont have much to put into words about it myself bc of the complexity but like. it very much exists and has some great storytelling

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Ive seenyou mention wuxia a few times now and i wonder what that is. Would you mind explaining it to me?

not the most qualified person to explain this as i'm not, in fact, from china; but i've read a couple of wuxia so here goes:

wuxia is a genre of fiction from china specifically, about martial artists in ancient china. i don't think a specific time period is like required? obviously some dynasties are more popular but idk how it goes in that front. it just has to be Not Today and probably Too Long Ago. like pre industral revolution i think. again idk if that's a requirement, but most i've seen are from around the same relative murky pre-electricity era.

xianxia is a subgenre of wuxia that's specifically more fantasy-like, and it's not just martial arts, but also spiritual powers and cultivation (which i have no fucking clue how to explain without two hours and three tangents other than chinese magic system. if you've ever heard of chi/qi as an energy, it appears there). so like- genshin is by all accounts a xianxia, it just doesn't use the more common specific xianxia terms like cultivation. some of those are very weird to translate and probably not common for the average non-wuxia reader, so it makes sense why they're going for alternatives.

chongyun and xingqiu and xianyun are very much straight out of a xianxia. xianyun's entire story quest was the closest genshin has gotten to a straight xianxia plot so far. i highly reccomend ashikai's video on unnecessary visions if you want more info on why genshin is a xianxia hahah

cyanide narwhal has some talk of some stuff from xianxia, but that's mostly because well- fucking liyue, that's how it works there. the whole light energy striking down someone who's getting powerful and giving them godhood if they survive the strike is, while not exactly like that, something that happens in some xianxia as well. like the way adepti work in general is just very xianxia. ashikai does a much better job explaining it than i do tbh but yeah

TL;DR: wuxia is chinese martial arts fiction in ancient china, and xianxia is a wuxia subgenre with more magic elements. also genshin is a xianxia

#i was going to recomend some xianxia if you're curious but like #genuinely don't know which one is a good starting point #like i'm tempted to say just dive headfirst into mdzs like most of us did but like #is mdzs the best place to start if you know nothing? unsure #genuinely #given how it's made to feel more lighthearted and formatted more like it's a fucking videogame #svsss might be a good launching pad #but tbf it's been a while since i read it #also it has unskippable sex scenes (i think??) so like- if you don't want to read that you're kind of out of luck there #not that mdzs doesn't have that either but they're not literally Plot Relevant. like the plot does not hinge on their horizontal tango #there's probably a good wuxia to start out there but i can't really remember right now #like mdzs is the easiest to recomend bc it's trial by fire and you're going to come out of the other end knowing like 80% of it all #plus it's not nearly as traumatizing as some of the other options #and it's so easily accessible it's almost funny #like take your pick: novel. live action. animation. audio drama. comic #it's fucking everywhere and the fandom is fucking huge so that's a giant plus #but that doesn't change the fact that idk if you can watch a couple episodes to get a feel for the wuxia genre. like would that work?? #so i guess i'll leave that to everyone else to comment with any recomendations if they have a good one #for like an introductory work #or just decide mdzs is just the easiest point of entry. that can always be it. i mean we all made it anyway

[samusmaximus]

they should make a fantasy rpg video game but without the standardised racism and race science bullshit that fantasy tends to have and instead put in big fuck off mechs doing brutal melee combat violence at eachother

like maybe instead of having various non-human races be described as "savages" who are less intelligent and inherently evil, have an ancient purple sword wielding robot with a name like Ancient Machine Devil Vostfanger emerge from deep within the earth so its terrible power can be used to bring about the end of a vile kingdom through turn based tactical RPG gameplay

#If you're rendering wondering the name I imade up has no meaning #but also it's like french?? entirely unintentional I assure you #also the connection between these ideas here may seem tenuous at best #but like #I just want cool fantasy mech games #and I want those games without the typical bigoted bullshit that's so deeply embedded within the fantasy genre #hell i want all fantasy without those extremely bigoted standards in them it fuckin sucks #samusmaximus.posts

[crossbackpoke-check]

Substance, Shadow, and Spirit [remixed, abridged] by Tao Yuanming

#liv in the replies #patrice bergeron #boston bruins #brad marchand #do you ever think about how brad marchand said that when bergy retired he would retire or are you capable of normal thought i'm not at all #please say a gratitude for both my sanity& y'all that this poem (which has been saved in my camera roll with the vague idea of using it for #??? ​long) & not one of the poems i had saved for carey for a really long time & remixed & everything with another poem until i found a poem #that absolutely murdered me in cold blood but there is an alternate universe where i did& then had to explain my unhinged thoughts to you. #anyway how are we feeling about bergy retirement. pspspspsp sara & luna are y'all doing okay like. the doc title for this one was #patrice the hockey player means a lot to me but patrice the person means so much more #which is why the end line of the other poem was so *%"@^)! (you love / what you are) because patrice does. like he is a whole ass good huma #& now since no one asked i need to tell you all the details about everything also y'all please clap i made an edit with NO baby pictures #although i did find one & save it & minimal genres of photo i always use in edits because they're my taste & aesthetic but anyway. #when i saved the first photo and marked it as one i wanted i accidentally wrote “how will he know they love him” which is not the line but #makes me feel feral about patrice & the rest of them all had hurtful names too but also. the third picture is literally a CELLY like brad #just scored a goal & he is clinging to bergy for dear life with that shit i saved that as “oh the agony on his face for unendurable” #& yes it is one of my cliches to have a draft day picture but in my defense the lifelong bond that patrice has/d with boston deserved to be #there even if i put in the love story & YES that picture is from the 2011 playoff right below it shared joy & pain & i couldn't tell you #when the brad marchy photo for together forever is except for the fact that i saw it & just the gut punch of oh my god the way he looks at #things men will praise you for is the stanley cup. duh. but i love the contrast of “some deed” being the stanley cup but then #bergy's choice to do noble deeds (ends up still earning praise &that's my note to his efforts outside of hockey we love a supportive captai #should also mention the first two i came up with & had the photos i knew i wanted for were the first and last one alskaldk but i KNEW i #wanted chara somewhere in the paragraph about leaving & then while i was looking found the one of bergy playing tuukka on accident & yes #i do have to make goalie jokes every time. no reprieve . no dice/no deal/no goal goalies have no rest/reprieve etc etc the one that killed #me though was looking for a patrice award pic & i wanted basically the one that i got for “how will you know any will praise you” & instead #also got the picture of patrice winning the some community hero award for charity work that he does & i love him mama & of COURSE that puck #is from bergy's 1000 game who do you think I am (if you guessed sleepy and emotional about patrice you'd be right) and ALSO please be ready #for all the patrice posts/bruins posts that have been sitting in my drafts to be released on this occasion of patrice retirement #I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT TUUKKA ALSO RETIRED THAT’S WHY HE WAS ON WISE OR SIMPLE NO REPRIEVE AND THAT LATE OR SOON WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE #CHARA BECAUSE CHARA LEFT FIRST TO GO TO THE CAPS AND THEN LEFT IN RETIRMENT HE LEFT SOON BUT NOT FOR REAL THEN LATER LEFT FOR REAL (RETIRED)

[shoechoe]

i don't consider myself a punk but the way so many people who call themselves "punk" seem to have no idea what punk is is so... annoying

#rambles #not jojo related #personal #i do like some punk i like the dead kennedys and bad brains (and DG if you count it) but i'm not like a super fan of the genre #my friend just browsed through punk subreddits and stuff and ohh my god what she showed bothers me #why do so many people online think punk just means ''left wing anarchist'' #anarcho punk is a thing sure. but that's very far from all punk in existence #punk is a music genre and subculture with political themes that can skew wildly from artist to artist #the post i saw that annoyed me the most was one calling the sex pistols ''fake punk'' because the lead singer is a trump supporter... #the sex pistols were literally the kickstarter for punk in the UK. are you kidding me. #also the people looking at 80s left wing punks telling n/zi punks to fuck off with ''but n/zis can't be punk!'' #yeah they... can be. and have been for a while. hence why they needed to be told to fuck off in the first place #you can't ignore punk has a very mixed history with both far left and far right groups with ''well i don't think it's REAL punk'' #people getting terms with history wrong bothers me so much

[mariocki]

Kate O'Mara once again encounters Simon Templar, and once again has a case of the doubles; here playing 'Annabel 2', either a private secretary working for a shipping magnate, or an imposter working for an imposter... in The Saint: The Double Take (6.6, ITC, 1968)

#fave spotting #kate o'mara #the rani #classic doctor who #the saint #doctor who #classic tv #the double take #1968 #itc #character actors #having been italian and french in her previous Saint eps‚ Kate gets to be english here #and whilst she was twins last time‚ now she's just a sort of lazy double of Denise Buckley (i mean they're not dissimilar i suppose.. but #nobody could easily mistake one for the other). it's all a bit of arch plotting around a fancy pants businessman who has an apparent #doppelganger that Simon must track down before he does... villainous business? #funnily enough Kate is named first in the credits despite being Annabel 2; Annabel 1 follows her #the character names presumably related to their onscreen order of appearance and their credit position related to their relative fame #kate may not yet have been a household name but she was certainly better known than Buckley‚ who had a solid career in #genre guest spots but never quite found a breakout role nor film success like Kate did

[franeridan]

this might just be an unpopular opinion in the jjk fandom but i love how little seriously things happen for the most part since the culling game started, like i miss being seriously emotionally invested in it a little bit ngl but i love the way the newer characters will just open their mouths and say things so much, they were all forced in this game against their will and the only ones that survived long enough to make it in the cast are the unhinged ones that makes so much sense to me. maybe I liked the plot until the shibuya incident a little more but tbh some of my favourite characters in the whole manga have been introduced or have been made relevant during the culling game, some of these guys are just pure gold on legs

#of course that's without counting goge they're my forever dudes #but some chapters and characters since the game started are so unhinged they're a delight to me #remember that one chapter all set inside pandas mind what WAS that #or oh god i can't even remember who was fighting there but that one chapter that started with bestie explaining their technique #and their opponent going who do you think is even gonna read all that #(not me that was for sure. probably why I don't remember who that was at all lmao) #i just remembered the arc where they go pick up hakari oh my god #and ah of course yuki and choso vs kenjaku #all fights feel so random in this arc but i enjoyed them all so much in a chill I don't care about the outcome but this is fun way #and that's without counting the latest fights and my best friends higuruma and takaba #nah this is what I'm saying jjk might be a grave for anyone who appears in it but it def has my favourite way of going about it out of #all the manga in this genre I've ever read #like if u wanna kill off all my fav characters you NEED to continuously add new characters for me to choose new ones #if the remaining characters are always the same I'm just gonna get angry at the fact that my fav isn't there anymore and quit #but if before offing my fav you gave me Another fav I'm stuck here yk what i mean #it's good i love jjk #even if the deaths are so frequent none has any impact for me anymore

[scoopsgf]

been seeing a lot of questionable takes on my dash lately, like “mitchum was right to tell rory she didn’t have it” and “rory writing a book about her life is stupid” and I’m just… stunned by them. not only are they flat out wrong, but both of them pointedly insult rory and her capability to perform as an adequate journalist and storyteller. we know rory has it because it’s established throughout the entire series—she does great at the franklin and even manages to put spins on what should be crap stories like the pavement piece; she also rises to the top at the YDN and becomes editor in chief. not only is she great when it comes to writing (which is drilled into the viewer and over—it’s an indisputable, canonical fact), but she’s also great under pressure and defying expectations. when she went to chilton the odds were against her—it was predicted that she wouldn’t be able to catch up and would flunk out. and what did she do instead? she became valedictorian and went on to attend an ivy league university. mitchum’s critique of rory is fucking laughable when you consider all of that, but it’s even more ridiculous when you factor in that he was barely around throughout her stint interning for him, and decided that she “didn’t have it” simply because she didn’t speak up during one meeting, even though doing so would usually be considered incredibly disrespectful. rory has amazing ideas and she’s fantastic at executing them, and we know she was a successful journalist until richard’s death, which is the only reason she was in a rut at all. therefore the idea that she “doesn’t have it” is, again, canonically incorrect.

as for the other thing, rory writing a book about her life is the opposite of stupid. to the people who agree with this: you do realize you just watched an entire show about her life and found it entertaining, right? it’s a memoir about her childhood, her relationship with her mother, and how being the daughter of a teen mother affected her. there’s absolutely a market for that sort of thing. not only that, but this is rory we’re talking about: she’s perfectly capable of translating the magic we see on screen onto the page. in fact, i think it’s kind of implied that the book will play out similarly to the show and have the same kind of vibe—it sucks you in and keeps you coming back for more. anyway, tl;dr, all the rory bashing and complete lack of faith in her ability to be a good journalist is pretty unfounded and unfair. i feel like it’s just another outlet that people are using to put her down, but it has no basis in fact (like most anti-rory takes).

#gilmore girls #rory gilmore #defending rory gilmore #anti mitchum huntzberger #i wanted to say something because this crap is really making my eye twitch #i feel like the fandom is regressing back into its ‘let’s hate on rory for no reason!’ era #which is embarrassing as hell #i thought we were past that on tumblr #anyway. mitchum was wrong and he’s a jackass anyway #and a gilmore girls book would be amazing and i think it would be something a lot of ppl would eat up #myself included #just because it’s not to your personal literary taste doesn’t mean it’s stupid #it just means you don’t like that genre of literature #rory has grit and can be a total badass when she wants to be #people who say stuff like this view her through this lense of ‘vanilla goodie two shoes meek little girl’ or whatever #im sorry but… did you watch the show #she makes dirty jokes and gets pissed off and makes mistakes and is messy and takes charge when she needs to #she’s complex and interesting and funny and im just. she is my little blorbo okay #i will defend her all day long 😤

[detectivenyx]

indie horror tier list but i designed it specifically to reflect my actual opinions piss off everyone

#i mean everything below c-tier has a shit starting idea for starters #by the 'never played' thumbnail though i can tell that 90% of them are the same #the 'corruption of your childhood/an established property' thing #which has gotten so fucking old im hunting through its attic stash for dress patterns #are my standards too high for horror? or are horror standards too low #because it feels like AAA horror is the one AAA industry actually doing somewhat unique ideas with its genre #and it's indie horror that's inbred as fuck #we have mascot horrors and nostalgiabait horrors up the arse. #and the only good one is still godzilla nes because that one also gets pretty fucking surreal and original with its imagery #amanda might get points for not being a soulless cashgrab but it's still an unoriginal idea. #isn't indie horror supposed to be where your ideas aren't hampered by studio interference? #why are all the fucking games the exact same as each other #and it's just whether Michael Rat or Your Dad or The ScreenChubs or Thomas The Tankin Dankin or Blinky Fucking Bill #chasing you through the childrens playground/theme park/house/secret hell #yes i get it woooo it's that thing from my childhood i liked but it's DARK and EVIL and SCARY #and it wants me DEAD #i want me dead too bitch! #come up with another reason for me to be scared!

[markantonys]

not to expose myself as a player of choose-your-own-adventure romance mobile games, but why is he giving mob au rand al'thor

#even the tattoos! i'm hollering #this is one of the stories that has only 1 love interest but you can choose whether they're a man or a woman #and i fully intended to choose a woman because usually that's the only way to make the stories based on bad het romance tropes bearable #(although not all the stories on the app are like that! there's a ton of genres) #but i saw this man and suddenly i was slamming the Select button #and it turned out there was a later option to say that your female bff is your ex so that means my character is now canon bi god bless