#Cannot recommend

[dukeofankh]

My pastor dad: I heard from this lesbian researcher on a podcast that a lot of "gay" people are actually some variety of bisexual.

Me: ...and what did you take from that?

Dad: ...you can take a lot of things from that.

Me: What did you take from that.

Dad: (who has in the past used his platform to support gay conversion therapy): well...that things are a lot more fluid than they seem.

Me: Yeah. They are. A lot of queer identity stuff is actually super nuanced.

Dad: Yeah!

Me: We don't usually tell Christians that.

Dad: Why not?

Me: Ask yourself whether you can be trusted with nuance.

#ex-christian #deconversion #religious trauma #being queer while having parents #cannot recommend

[two-crabs]

highlights from the goats concert also for posterity:

full band 'minnesota' that rocked so fucking hard

again that 2 piano matt and john 'wear black' that shifted something in me

live jazz 'no children' before john was like "wait that's not the time signature for this song" and slamming into the original version

'cry for judas' probably twice as fast as the studio version, excellent for yelling

(and here i will shout out the absolutely stunning angelic individual a few folks down from me at the people fence, they were so tall and had such perfect curly blonde hair, and i kept looking over at them when i didn't know the words bc they were always singing along)

'damn these vampires' was another absolute barn-burner

followed immediately by "this is a song about when someone has their hands around your throat....and you like it" like what a fucking intro to 'choked out' which i personally believe should always be played twice

like truly "worried look on the face of the ring side nurse/at one for once with the universe" is the "cellar door" of mountain goats discography and hearing a whole venue singing it gave me goosebumps

BEST PART the openers were local-ish and were so fun and charismatic and had such a relationship with the crowd and obviously the mountain goats and when they played 'this year' as a closer they brought pool kids back on stage to sing and dance it out with them and it was so fucking fun

#:))))))) #the mountain goats #and THEN i drove home through the mountains for 2 hours in the middle of the night #cannot recommend #also i'm pretty sure i got double charged at the parking garage #but what can ya do

[copperbadge]

I feel like Screamin’ Sicilian has some quality control work yet to do on their pizza roll offerings. 

(In addition to being leaky they are absolutely vile-tasting -- dry, oily, bland -- but I was mostly impressed with how every single one of them managed to explode in a moderate oven after 10 minutes, with 10 minutes still to go on the bake.) 

[ID: A photograph of a quarter-sheet pan with a silpat sheet on it, containing five objects that look faintly like eggrolls; every one of them either has a hole in it through which orange cheese is leaking, or is sitting in a puddle of caramelizing cheese sauce.]

#food #screamin sicilian #cannot recommend #I ate half of one of them and sadly the rest will be going in the bin #nothing could rescue these but would it have killed them to include some dipping sauce

[soloragoldsun]

Just some aro thoughts that make total sense now that I realize I'm aro:

Is it just me, or does dating as a whole sound like an unpleasant anxiety sandwich? Like, people seriously will go out to restaurants where they will be eating food while sitting across from someone and the attention has to be entirely on the other person and you need to figure out conversation topics so there aren't awkward silences and just-

And to top it off, people apparently do this with people they have literally never met before?! HOW??????? Are you not more afraid of having your organs stolen, or some shit???

#aromantic #aro thoughts #dating #anxiety #seriously #went on less than five dates in my life #cannot recommend

[mylittleredgirl]

i suppose it's great that tumblr has a timestamp option now, but all these posts encouraging newcomers to turn on that feature are really depriving them of a key tumblr experience. “omg that guy died?? 😭” (died in 2014). “why doesn't this have more notes!??” (first posted 9 minutes ago). maybe you dashed off a quick post in 2018 about a specific event and people now yell at you in the notes for not including an event from yesterday, and they will still be putting the same three comments in the tags of that post when this site burns down in 2034. can't get that anywhere else.

#timestamps keep me too connected to reality #cannot recommend #happy out of touch thursday tuesday sunday to those who celebrate #that tumblr lyfe

[merlinerplatz]

Thank gog someone made the new dune movies, david lynch was not cooking

#this movie is a 5/10 #cannot recommend

[cryptidliker]

Thank God for Firefox and adblockers and. Definitely legal streaming sites thumbs-up :)👍 serial experiments lain

#talking #mumbles #cannot recommend #its SO GOOD very corpse party vibes #but also. cyber dissociation.......... gods........ hmmmmmmm #uh will warn #looots of suicide in this #sadly :( #its still wack and interesting tho #i wanna..... watch Evangelion or however you spell it next #lol

[mona-liar]

I'm done with hausen and well... that was bad. I have no idea wht the fuck the ending is supposed to tell me

#Juri ends up in space. Was it a sentient black hole or an alien or???? #Watching hausen #Cannot recommend #It steadily improved til ep 3 and then I remember nothing #What were the writers not thinking?

[percival-p-pups]

Made a mistake at a restaurant today and got some fish in jelly. I thought I was ordering some sort of Nakki plate but it was Nahki or something. Pup still wanted some.

#cannot recommend #food was bad #company was good #pug #pups #percival pups

[regallibellbright]

Oh thank goodness I had typed out 98% of my notes on Lea back in 2020 so while I’ve copied my part on his boots for reference to try and figure out how best to do Namine’s, I don’t have to try and make sense of my handwritten notes two years later for anything but his hair (which I do need to write down because after Namine, it’s Roxas’s turn, and there’s a decent chance I’ll be reusing some of that.)

(Roxas might be waiting a while but I do have his yarn now. It’s got a bit of a variegation and it’s golden brown and it’s PERFECT for his hair color. I just REALLY don’t want to get tendonitis again, and I’ve been blaming those hair spikes as much as general overuse.)

#crafting with regalli #do not subluxate your shoulder blades folks #cannot recommend #it causes SO MUCH TROUBLE #the good news is if you're not hypermobile you probably can't #if you are hypermobile... well I managed to win a bet for my hypermobility doctor with an orthopedist who thought it was impossible #Twilight Town Amigurumi #Twilight Town Amigurumi: Namine Edition

[goji-pilled]

i have awoken and im still dead tired.

though this time thats 100% my fault (sort of.) for staying awake until 4 am

#the felix talk #cannot recommend

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Hey now, Let her cook!

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #senshi #laios touden #marcille donato #izutsumi #oyasumi punpun #<- In case you are wondering what the source for the little bird guy is. #Yeah that's right. I'm back to my extremely obscure crossover BS. #Punpun is one of those series that falls under the category of 'Good! but I cannot responsibly recommend this to anyone." #If Dungeon Meshi is like a friend asking you to go on a quick errand and you accidently go on a life changing roadtrip - #Punpun is your friend asking to go on a quick errand and they pull up to the vet and tell you your dog is being put down. #Then they explode into sludge. Melting your car. You hitchhike back but the person who picked you up is an axe murderer. #I could not finish it. My friends who did say it was good. But agree it was for the best I did not finish it. #Hey speaking of tone twists...We are one episode away from one of my favourite chapters being animated! #WHO'S READY FOR THE SENSHI BACKSTORY! WHO IS READY TO CRY! #ME! I AM! I spooked my flatmate with how energetic I was this morning. I'm vibrating with energy I was not designed to contain. #I should talk about today's episode here: It was very good. I love how they animated the familiars. #And!!! Anime only people now are in the loop on the Chilchuck lore. Part 1 of many. He still contains multitudes. #They all do to be honest! If this episode told us anything it was that we still don't know these characters as well as we think! #See you guys next week. I'll be inconsolable.

[hot-coco]

recently read through the entire Lackadaisy webcomic + extra comics, and I think I'm in love with this series.

The artwork is amazing, and the story is fantastic.

#lackadaisy #artwork #I cannot recommend Lackadaisy enough

[ghelgheli]

Often when trans women ask me when I'm performing next, and I tell them that it's a queer/trans event, they will tell me that they'd rather not go because they do not feel comfortable or safe in those spaces, that they have been dismissed or belittled at such events before. Even trans women who are dyke- or bisexual- identified often don't feel welcome or relevant in queer/trans spaces. And whenever a trans woman or ally points out aspects about the queer/ trans community that contribute to these feelings of irrelevancy and disrespect—such as the way our community coddles those who support trans-woman-exclusionist events or who make trans-misogynistic comments—we are described as being "divisive." This use of the word "divisive" is particularly telling, as it implies that "queer/trans" represents a uniform movement or community—a "oneness"—rather than an alliance where all voices are respected.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl. Published 2007.

#reading #just finished it and this from the final chapter was my fav moment and one of the few times i was nodding along #the book is solid in certain places #even incisive at times #but it is so theoretically confused and downright wrong in some of its foundatioms #that i CANNOT recommend it as an introduction to transmisogyny and i can only SUGGEST it as a v critical read #may say more later #whipping girl #transmisogyny

[bixels]

It's crazy how Dungeon Meshi's manga can feel more cinematic and emotional than the anime to me, even when they're practically the same. Compared to the anime, this moment is such a heartbreaking gut-drop. The way Kui uses negative space and flat compositions to create a sense of horrific stillness is so key.

The way the text (Senshi's monologue) is sequestered to an empty corner of a panel or huddled away from the edge of its text box is not only a great way of showing Senshi's headspace (fearful, isolated, dissociating), but creates a visual representation of pause, as if you hold your breathe after each line. The first panel puts us directly in Senshi's perspective too (compared to in the anime, which puts us as an outside observer over Senshi's shoulder). The detail of the door and bricks so effectively implies that he stared at it for so long, waiting and hoping, that its image is burned in his memory. The wood grain, the brick arch, the number of rivets. The lack of dialogue in the second panel shows a moment of realization too –– "he's dead" (also a great example of the Kuleshov effect). And it's that pause that creates a beat and sets a great rhythm to his headspace, like a music rest: "He never came back." (oh god.) "I'm all alone." Finally, the third panel's negative space, cropping Senshi, shows how truly alone he feels. Without his family, the world ceases to exists. Under shock, he traps himself in a 1-foot radius, too scared to even perceive a world outside its boundaries; a world that can hurt him, kill him, make him disappear with it. There is only his body, the stone beneath his feet and against his back, his thoughts, and that awful bowl of soup.

Even though they're a series of flat images, there's an implicit reading of silence in Senshi's realization and horror. Kui influences your experience to slow down and take your time.

Compare this to the anime, which fills every shot with dialogue. The pacing is fast; we never get to sit in silence like we do with the manga. The horizontal frame allowed the boarders to add Senshi, turning the composition into an over-the-shoulder shot, which takes us out of Senshi's POV. They also added a zoom-out in shot one, which adds unnecessary energy to a very somber scene. The tightening on Senshi as a close-up reaction shot also dulls the moment. In the original panel, Senshi stares ahead at the empty space to his left as a shadow surrounds his mind. It not only shows how Senshi's senses are dulling and his world is shrinking (setting up panel three), but shows how terrified Senshi is of what's in front of him, how the air itself becomes pitch black and opaque, how Senshi is surrendering himself to fear. The pacing is understandable and necessary; this episode packed a lot of story content together. It's just a shame because it really (imo) deflated one of the most nauseating moments in Dungeon Meshi.

#dungeon meshi #senshi #analysis #personal #long post #not art #because comics are inherently more abstract and rule-breaky the format thrives off show don't tell #i think trigger is doing a great job overall but they missed the mark on this scene #for me cinematic storytelling will prioritize rhythm; tension; and silence over plot. that's why the manga feels more “cinematic” #if you've been enjoying the anime i cannot recommend also reading the manga enough. it's a completely different experience with much more #subtext and emotion to draw from

[mwagneto]

how i sleep using cracked spotify premium apk instead of paying and using newpipe apk instead of youtube and using firefox instead of chrome or opera and not paying for any streaming services and downloading movies and shows straight onto usb drives and not connecting any of my accounts and never giving my full name anywhere and not logging into google anywhere and never seeing a single fucking ad no matter where i go

#i cannot believe ppl still use youtube especially on mobile like that thing is literally unusable now #please get newpipe PLEEEEASE it doesn't have reels it doesn't have a recommended page it #immediately detoxes you from the youtube addiction. and no ads😍😍😍 #barking