#and i was like ??? because it is NOT twee. like at all. but because im the only person who posts about that band and i like twee i was like.

[pansyfemme]

do you ever think that bands are added to streaming services.. because of you? theres been a few times bands i like aren’t on like. anything. and then i go on a listening spree on like bandcamp or something and a few days later.. they’re on spotify. i wonder if its the artist seeing theres an interest and adding it or something but it definitly makes me feel like i had a role there because literally who else would it be

#like that sounds like a big claim but this has happened with albums that have total scrobbles in the hundreds if even that on last.fm #i wonder if they notice like. woah like one guy has played this album that like six ppl play a year 3000 times #there was also a time that a boston punk band my dad liked when he was my age thats not on anything got put in the twee tags on rym #and i was like ??? because it is NOT twee. like at all. but because im the only person who posts about that band and i like twee i was like. #did i do that. did i do something to cause this #i dont even know what i could have possible done to do that #but its a weird ass thing to happen

[cruelsister-moved2]

this booktok girl who got a platform from doing cutesy cottagecore-esque ‘fae’ videos self publishing a book which was promoted as...the first time bi people were depicted in fantasy...and it turned out to just be horribly written witcher fanfiction which was insanely racist towards its black bi love interest, sexualising her, depicting her literallybeing sold into slavery and graphically describing her being SA’d on multiple occasions and then her existing solely as a way for the pale blonde haired lavender eyed protag to ~discover her sexuality~ etc, and then that book getting picked up and re-released by bloomsbury with minimal editing bc they already knew it’d sell based on the ‘bi fantasy’ label alone to people who probably didnt even care what was in it........................they need to be shut down this is so crazy im sorry we should go back to gatekeeping

#it also has her being sold to a brothel and then tries to talk about how the brothel is empowering? or something? like are we done #the author like supposedly has an MA in folklore but idk where she got it and how because #before i knew all this i was annoyed by her stupid twee neopagan tier folkwanking #+ all the videos are like reminder not to read this book bc its racist af #and its just like. well anyone who read that would be able to tell it was racist like #its not a moment of dont support this creator they said a racist thing #its like the book itself is racist. so if you read it you would see that for yourself #so its kind of disheartening bc it just shows its more about like the concept of uwuuuu The Bi Fantasy Book than like #what is the content of the book. is it good. is it harmful #idk im tireddddd that was crazy

[ot3]

tangentially related to 30 rock... i just finished watching girls5eva because its the level of sitcom that's fine for me to watch while working and someone brouht it up in my inbox a week or so ago. but when i saw the tiny fey EP credit i was like ahhh okay that makes sense.

showrunner of girls5eva was meredith scardino who was a writer on kimmy schmidt, which also tracks. the 30 rock dna is really trickling down through those shows and i can't tell if its getting weaker as it goes or if its just that since this style of humor is no longer novel it doesnt hit as well

girls5eva was fine i watched the whole thing (i accidentally started on season 3 and did not realize until it was finished. i dont know why netflix decided to start this show at season 3 for me when i hadnt watched the previous ones?) and it definitely had some funny moments but i felt it just like it wasn't quite getting where it needed to humor-wise for me. like all of the ribbing about the horrible misogyny and shit that was just Everywhere in the 00s was fun but i think over all just nothing about it was fresh in a way it would have needed to be to make the show stand out

i never finished kimmy schmidt but i do remember it being pretty funny. havnet watched it since the first few seasons were originally airing, maybe ill go back and do that to compare. but theres also something to be said for how much shorter every show has to be now. girls5eva is 3 seasons with 22 episodes total (dont know if its getting a 4th but it's still listed as 2021- on everywhere), kimmy schmidt was 4 seasons with 51 episode. meanwhile 30 rock had 7 seasons and 139 ! episodes. that's a pretty fucking significant difference. so it may be that just having more leeway to throw spaghetti at the wall gives you the chance to be funnier.

im not exactly tapped in to the sitcom market but i feel like it's been probably around a decade since we've gotten a new one that's really managed to produce what i view as stand-out and novel humor. definitely the best one since 30 rock has been community, but i also do think brooklyn 99 managed to really nail a lot of good Bits even if the way it made people act was intolerable a lot of the time. captain holt you will always be famous. but other than those 2 i don't think anything really groundbreaking has been done in the US sitcom landscape since the aughts

im sorry abbott elementary stans its perfectly enjoyable television but it's just like Doing a Parks and Rec again which was in turn Doing An Office But Twee itself.

[blackjackkent]

OK, for realsies this time (maybe?), a few more explorational highlights from the grove area, and then we're off in the direction of the goblin camp, because Rakha craves goblin blood and answers and it seems the most likely place to get both. (After not being able to hurt Mizora, Sceleritas, OR Raphael, she's feeling very pent up and not in the fun way.)

Rescued Mirkon from the harpies on the beach! We didn't do this with Hector last time. In this case, I suspect it was definitely Wyll who originally encouraged Rakha to go down and see if the kid was okay. ("Your favorite drownings all take place in shallow water," the Narrator helpfully informs us. "Just a slice of the ankle tendons...") She also got completely hypnotized by the harpies as well, because it occurred to me that (to her recollection) she has never heard music of any kind before, let alone music that beautiful - and not only that, but it quieted the Urge. Lae'zel (I assume) snaps her out of it. And once Rakha figures out what's going on and that something else was taking control of the inside of her head, she got MAD. This fight didn't go particularly well for anyone except Lae'zel, who rocked an absolutely brutal crit on one of the harpies, but Rakha got to expend some frustration on all of them with some applications of Burning Hands, which made her feel overall a little calmer. We got a Folk Hero inspiration for Wyll for helping the kid out. Gale was also pleased, although I think Rakha cares about that somewhat less.

Hit level 3! Rakha now has more spell slots and can (with sorcery points) cast an action spell as a bonus action. More fire!

Chatted with Volo. Rakha, after her recent interactions with Sceleritas and Raphael, absolutely got jumpscared by him greeting her as "my good friend!" until she realizes Volo is just Like That. She's also utterly baffled when he asks her for information on the goblin battle and then deliberately writes down falsehoods instead. ("A mythweaver," Lae'zel says disdainfully. "This man has no respect for truth.") He does confirm what she's picked up about the presence of the Absolute cult, though - and indicates that the goblins are also part of it, although it's hard to tell whether she should believe him.

Stopped down to see Mol since Mirkon said we should. It was not a particularly exciting conversation, but contact has been made which will be relevant later. Rakha definitely looks at the kids differently than she does the adults in the area, mostly because of Wyll's influence and his story of how he became the Blade of Frontiers.

Checked in with the two tiefling guards in the back corner room, one of whom is threatening to shoot a caged goblin prisoner in revenge for her dead brother. Unsurprisingly, Rakha did nothing to stop this. ("Your mind wanders," points out the Narrator, in the soft, cold drawl she uses for the Dark Urge's specific thoughts. "If the crossbow bolt shot through her mouth, would she taste the metal before she died?") Stand back and admire the guard's overflowing hate. She waits and watches while the guard's crossbow bolt slams directly between the prisoner's eyes. Interestingly - Wyll approved of her choice.

Interacting with the squirrel above the main grove was uh. Sure something.

Narrator: This squirrel might be the single most adorable creature you can recall in all your stunted memory! It would be ever so twee if it were climbing a tree.

And then Rakha got this weird grin on her face and hauled off with a kick; there was an explosion of blood and the squirrel's dead body landed in the upper branches of the tree nearby.

"Terrific," says Lae'zel (presumably while Gale and Wyll look on in complete horror). "If I'm ever harangued by a rodent, I know who to call for."

Narrator: You stare at the body before you. You have no idea what just happened.

Rakha feels the beast in her head settle, its recent frustration soothed by this spilling of an innocent creature's blood. She remembers the deep, crunching impact of her boot and a deep shiver rolls through her whole body.

"My body moved without my command," she mutters hoarsely. "I couldn't control it."

The others don't respond. What is there to say?

Narrator: The swirling bile cauldron of your brain is cooking up a poison stew - served and seasoned by that venomous butler.

#bjk plays bg3 durge #rakha the dark urge #well that escalated quickly and upsettingly at the end there o.o; #i feel like that's going to be a regular durge experience

[bropunzeling]

☕️ fav fantasy books/series and what makes them so good and so For Jess. bonus for thoughts on what makes a less good fantasy fall flat

oh Boy okay alright!!!!

fantasy series i love/are excellent/peak For Jess: radiant emperor duology by shelley parker-chan (point: is it fantasy or just historical-ish fiction with some supernatural elements? counterpoint: i fucking love it and this is my list). the lumatere chronicles by melina marchetta. the daevabad trilogy by s. a. chakraborty. queen's thief my beloved!!!!! piranesi aka one of the best novels i read in 2020. tortall series by tamora pierce (but protector of the small quartet is the best of them).

honorable mentions: the raven tower by ann leckie; sharon shinn's elemental blessings series isn't like, as sharp as the top tier, but i really enjoy every reread; earthsea (but mostly the ones about tenar); it feels like cheating to say discworld but again: my list; the divine cities by robert jackson bennett; the stravaganza books were not quote unquote good but they did change my brain chemistry when i was 13; goblin emperor books (but more witness for the dead bc u kno me, i love a murder mystery). lotr would be here except i read them all once as a 6th grader and have yet to return. i still need to read the oleander sword but the jasmine throne kicked ass.

ok what is the unifying factor here lol. strong world building is very important i think; a real sense of a distinct place and culture/mix of cultures rather than Generic Medieval European City. there was a really good post going around that was like, where does the food come from (aka have you thought about how all of this actually works?), and a lot of these series think about Where Does The Food Come From. differences in cultural norms among different groups within the world AND from the audience. plots strongly rooted in politics/the inherent people-ness of people rather than everything relying on magic (not to say i don't love me some magic/divine plaything stories!!!! but they hit so much harder when the conflict comes from a place of innate human foibles). a dash of wonder and the inexplicable. if an answer is needed, it fits in the schema of everything else, but you don't feel the author trying to answer literally everything (when an author is sweating to show their work u can tell imo). most of these have at least one set of people where i want to see them kiss on the mouth, but most of the time that is not the Point; the best fantasy for me treats romance as a subplot/b-plot where it informs the stakes but is not the stakes itself. and ur basics of a good book in general: good writing, good pacing, et cet er a!

what makes them fall flat? world building inconsistency; new magic springing up because well, the author NEEDED it (aka those moments when you can see the seams lol); when the romance is the a plot (sorry but romantasy = not for jesses!!!!!); i think also authors get tripped up both by not planning ahead enough AND planning ahead too much when doing series (if you get a deal for one than one book you should have more than one book's worth of material; however if you can’t change and move then you can be stifled! see ursula le guin revisiting the gendered magic of earthsea in tehanu years later, or tamora pierce going oh shit there are normies in tortall in protector of the small). also this is a ME thing but i fuckin hate purple or twee prose. fantasy does not mean break out the thesaurus.

sorry for the novel. im gonna think of like six more books as soon as i post this

#ask meme

[asexual-spongebob]

what I think the octonauts listen to

I feel like Shellington would listen to a lot of weezer, red hot chill peppers and like folkpunk and stuff like that, he just gives me those vibes/pos. but sometimes he listens to emo music when he feels like a angsy teenager again. (I’m sorry but I feel like shellington + dashi were scemo kids at one point)

I feel like Dashi would listen to nightcore. and twee pop (esp heavenly) + surf rock. I also think she likes MARINA and tv girl (I have never listened to tv girl, so take that w/ a grain of salt.) she also likes emo music as well. It makes her feel nostalgic. She introduced it to Shellington.

I feel like Tweak listens to acdc and stuff like that or maybe Green Day (im definitely projecting on her with this one) I also feel like she’d be a joan jett enjoyer. Oh and sublime. I’m picturing her dancing and singing along to “smoke two joints”

Peso I feel like listens to Spanish and edm music. And Beyoncé. He blasts all the single ladies at 3 am. (Which pisses off Kwazii, because Kwazii needs his beauty sleep.) he also blasts it while him and Shellington are driving. I also think he likes 80s music like David Bowie for example.

I feel like kwazii would love sea snantys and the spice girls (I had a dream where he was singing wannabe so it’s lived rent free in my brain ever since) and he also likes Sublime (blame tweak). And he also enjoys Green Day (blame paani + self projection.), he especially likes Longview bc he relates to it very heavily.

paani I feel like would be a rock (specifically like grunge, punk and metal + some other stuff) and uh. Rap rock. (like linken park) enjoyer. I also thinks he blasts green day’s entire discography. He also can and will sing the entirety of Radiohead’s “okay computer” album from memory.

captain barnacles just listens to whatever . he likes basically everything. But he

inkling likes jazz and oldies. and probably reggae :). I feel like he likes listening to bob marley ngl. And classical music.

oh and I feel like pinto likes Beyoncé. (Blame Peso) and one direction.

Koshi likes one direction and 90s and 2000s boy bands. she likes Backstreet Boys and NSYNC. Along w/ new kids on the block. She also adores musicals like Wicked.

The vegimals like basically everything but they enjoy Weezer very much (blame their nerdy ass dad/pos)

#kitty giggles #octonauts #octonauts headcanons #shellington #kwazii #paani #peso #captain barnacles #octonauts dashi #octonauts tweak #octonauts shellington #octonauts kwazii #tweak bunny #octonauts paani #paani octonauts #the vegimals

[calebwittebane]

i dont think "fandom" is even a real thing like it's a good shortcut for referring to The Collective Of Fans Of A Thing but as a word to describe an actual phenomenon im starting to think it does more harm than good and provokes the most inane conversations. 90% of the time when people complain about Fandom Ruining X they're in actuality referring to like. personal anecdotes. a specific friends group they dont like. a discord server. the enjoyers and artists/writers talking about some specific idea or ship that gets on their nerves. some specific people they think are twee and annoying. some equally specific people they think have bad opinion about the thing they like. all with an air of prime r/iamverysmart material. i mean look at the "shipping ruined fandom!" posts its like so obviously thinly veiled vagueposts about people doing some Mushing Together Fictional Characters about their favorite series that they personally dont like and are bothered by. and all of the above gets brought up to this range of Societal Problem or like Cognitive Decline etc etc. like #SOCIETY. when at the end of the day its just the same petty stuff. theres a lot of Shelf Conchesness on display because theres always this urge to pretend like your favorite extremely mainstream thing of choice is Different and Really Deep. regardless of its merit it was still created with a wide mainstream audience in mind though so i promise youre not above all of this. you are A Fan yourself. people who write y/n fanfics and whatever else are not some different breed, they just happen to do some stuff in their free time that youre not into. people whose art doesnt appeal to you or contains "mischaracterization" are not taking away anything from the source material. bad posts dont take away anything from the source material. and if the whole issue gets to you this badly... well i hate to say it but... The Fandom-Brain Might Have Been Hiding In Plain Sight. ultimately if you depend on other people for transformative content, your being displeased with what you find isnt a societal issue, its just a normal thing that happens, sometimes you just think stuff sucks and is bad. you dont have to shield your petty complaints with Serious Language. youll feel better when you realize this is kind of futile and you can just do your own thing and not desperately depend on others' fan content or discussions, and if you do browse it, well youre gonna see good stuff and bad stuff. its fine. its fine. people creating bad art and writing bad stories for their own enjoyment for free is a good thing. bad art has the right to exist. sometimes in life you have to say, "wow, this sucks. not gonna ruin my day though" and move along. youll feel so much better. enjoy the source material and maybe make some friends through it and hang out with them and joyfully be Likers and Haters and Understanders. enjoy non-mainstream media. get into non-fiction books. go to a modern art museum. watch a movie from a country youve never seen a movie from. start making art yourself even if its bad. share it with your friends. eat hummus with them. etc

[faeriemarie]

This ask is your free pass to gush abt your drs :>

YIPPEE MY FAVORITE ASK EVER EVER EVER!!!!!

okay so my main two right now are actually my fame dr (ballerina ofc) and my doctor who dr.

in my ballerina dr, i’ve been getting into it so much recently because i remembered that im gonna be shifting when im 12 and not 22. meaning i’ll be sitting in my bedroom over the summer waiting for the anastasia cast list to come out while listening to belle and sebastian on my discman (probably). spoiler alert: i am cast as anya and i have the perfect summer working on it. im also starting cambridge in the fall and im so excited!! i’ve wanted to study art history forever and this is going to be the best experience of my life. i love twee as well and getting to be there as it develops is my dream life. i can go to bishop allen concerts and be tumblr famous. there will be gifsets of me!! oh god i can’t wait. this is honestly just scratching the surface of this dr. in uni im gonna meet my girls. erin alvarez and leni liu who are also extremely young students like me. i remain friends with them for the rest of my life. god how i miss them. plus, soon i’m also getting cast in my very first acting job as effy stonem in skins and that’s how i become famous (also starting my lifelong friendship with co-star hannah murray). oh AND im gonna get my first boyfriend too. i’m so obsessed with toby regbo and especially him in the movie mr nobody which is how we meet. im cast as teen anna and we are so awkward and stumble around each other. i love him. i know we have to break up because he’s not my main s/o but being with him is gonna be so fun. i hope we stay friends in the future. we’re gonna go to bookshops and cinemas together. we’re gonna kiss in the rain and just be super cliché because why not?!?! oops okay this is getting long

as for my doctor who dr, i’m super excited for that too. i’m on the ninth series rn and i fucking love peter capaldi’s doctor like he might actually be my favorite. i’m so in love with him and bro the sonic sunglasses are actually doing um… things to me. i also just wanna time travel. like i wanna visit so many places throughout history and i wanna be super awesome and cool. i wanna go to warhol’s factory and have him make a film about me and i wanna go to the beatles’ first performance on the ed sullivan show. i wanna meet princess diana and watch a shakespeare performance at the globe. i wanna be in love with the doctor while he pretends not to notice my starry-eyed glances and pushes his feelings down because he���s afraid of falling in love. this is my dr where literally anything can happen. in my cr i’m just a boring girl who just scrolls on tumblr all day but with the doctor i’m a genius who can get us out of any situation. i’m brave and strong and perfect.

okay that’s it and i’m done. was this too much? it was too much 😔

#answered by marie ♡ #reality shifting #shiftblr #shifting #subliminals #desired reality #manifesting #manifestation #reality shift #shifting realities #shifting community

[sircolinmorgan]

I think you're right because once people DO become aware of him they're like omg where have you been all my life??? lol

I reckon Endeavour was hurt by being falsely lumped in with the likes of Midsomer Murders and other twee mystery shows because it's a period drama and the IM and Lewis connection made it seem like something designed for your parents or grandparents. Compared to Sherlock at the time which was hailed as something new, modern, and exciting. Then once the chance for initial hype passed it became one of those shows which had been on long enough to be ignored.

Funnily enough I think Endeavour has already aged much better than Sherlock and that's why it's getting noticed a bit more now.

that's true actually. the early series of endeavour were during Peak Sherlock Era so it stayed under the radar while sherlock got all the attention. it's a very similar kind of show to sherlock, 3 or 4 90 minute episodes solving a crime, but it has aged so much better you're right. the writing for one thing, endeavour has it's badly written moments and the writing for certain characters could be better but it never feels like it's laughing at the audience or talking down to them like sherlock did.

#ask #anonymous

[macbethz]

ok final thots. thank you to those who supported me liveblogging both those episodes i love doctor who so much. i also unfortunately love being a critic

all three dw episodes seem to be engaging heavily in this new folklore-ish lean that was established in wild blue yonder - the goblin stealing children, the bogeyman, the fiddle battle with the devil. im interested to see where it goes bc i think its a compelling throughline and one thing rtd lovessss is creating episodic stories that resolve into an overarching narrative. I do think DW seems to be pivoting towards its more family-centric roots, which is fine i guess. I am aware im not the target audience of doctor who but i do love her for her darker moments so ill always be a little sad

i think its kind of funny that the bbc lied in their marketing a little? like space babies was not about the first 5 second butterfly thing and the beatles were barely in the devils chord. actually really funny i literally cant be mad

ncuti is literally electrifying every time hes on camera. i believe he's the doctor 10000% and he really brings that combination of whimsy and sadness to the role that makes me want to see more of 15. ruby i find....less compelling. at least as of rn. I think the main point of interest for her is the mystery of her origin but as a character she's kind of a non-entity in the same way i found many of 13s companions. she almost reminds me of early season Clara in that she's just kinda Mystery Twee Girl but Clara ended up as one of my favorites because she became the most sick and twisted woman on planet earth over the course of 3 beautiful seasons so I have not lost hope yet.

However I do think the companion-doctor relationship is the thing the entire show runs on and I'm not, AS OF YET, super compelled by what 15 and ruby have going on. Hitting a lot of the same notes as rose/9 without the emotional follow-through and DISAGREEMENTS that really made that relationship interesting to watch. I think that's the main thing is I need to see some kind of conflict. 15 is a lot more open than any previous doctor by a LONG shot, presumably because of 14s off-screen therapy LMAO. There's a lot on the table up front in terms of backstory and personality (which i get helps set up new fans) but that also means a lot of the narrative tension created by that kind of inside information is lost. We need something else to replace it and make that dynamic interesting! For me doctor who maintains its narrative momentum through character relationships, i'm not particularly interested in just seeing Space Adventures without that kind of meat behind it idk. it makes them feel a little hollow to me

what else um. jinkx monsoon ate obviously. music is the meaning of life thank you for acknowledging this doctor who.

#warlock wartalks #MANy THOUGHTS I AM SLEEPY THO #dw spoilers

[pansyfemme]

#helen love kind of astounds me because of how all over the place their influences are and yet they all come through #like bubblegum and punk and disco and twee and lofi and techno and hardcore.. how #i tend to think of myself as not a synth person but this goes so hard i think im a convert #songposting #Spotify

[micamicster]

revisiting the pancake post at 20k :/ heres the breakdown :/

Best reactions!

people tagging it #marginalia I find that heartwarming and charming <3

people telling me about a time they similarly doubled a recipe that should not be doubled and the terrible consequences of their hubris <3

people posting their own family recipe annotations <3

mutuals telling me they’re sorry for my suffering (but still reblogging the post -_- not sorry ENOUGH)

Most common reactions!

people asking for the recipe that is already in the notes twice

people saying omg 43 pancakes is clearly wayyy too much/wayyy too few (it’s about an even split)

people telling me to just freeze the pancakes (im glad that works for you all but i swear to god it will not work for this recipe because of the whipped egg white component)

Worst reactions!

the harry potter roleplay blog who added a reaction gif of severus snape to it

person who said they were “stunned” and needed to “readjust their world view” because they’d never heard of anyone who was so bad at cooking that they needed a recipe for pancakes

furry art reaction image

“this is because americans refuse to use the metric system”

Most perplexing reactions!

people who think the first annotation is from 1917 aka over a hundred years ago instead of the much more likely 2017

people asking me frantically what happens op if you double the recipe! (it makes too many pancakes? how is that not clear?)

people asking me why i only make pancakes once every 5 years

people tagging the post #hubris. Okay

And congratulations to the one person to get blocked on this post! for reblogging to launch into a paragraphs-long rant about how the commenter before them had misspelled voila which made them look “naive” and “twee” and offended “people who (unlike you) actually know french.” French people shut up challenge

#this whole experience has been so stressfull im never posting again <3

[wariosupporter]

Comfort movie tag

Tagged by @tweetsongs !

7 comfort movies , tag 7 people.

I made a letterbox for this, so thanks for tagging me rainny 😊 letterboxd is fun >:]

In no particular order:

1. Romeo + Juliet- I love this movie so much. Leo dicap is in his full 90s twink era , the movie is so colourful and expressive and so Shakespeare. THE best adaptation for real. When tybalt threw off his jacket to reveal the Jesus Christ tight denim vest, I was like oh my god. This is cinema. Pure vibes.

2. Suckerpunch- me and my sister watch this movie together a lot. I like movies that are very elastic, non realistic and expressive. this one hits all those points. It centers on a group of girls who are being exploited by an orphanage . They aim to escape together, which they do so through these dream action sequences. It's got p dark themes but ya still def a comfort watch.

3. Scott Pilgrim vs the world . YEAH. I watched this as a teenager , im from Toronto and I am in love with Ramona flowers like any other chump who listened to too much bright eyes in the 2010s. But fr, the way the comedy and visuals in this movie calls back to the comics is great, and the way the actors deliver their lines works for what this movie is about.

4. Amelie - another one of the elastic , unrealistic , visually interesting movies. This movie is really twee and cute but there is something about it that is a bit of a callout haha. One of those , oh no I'm in this one ! Movies. But hopeful because hey she figures it out. This one is filled with so many little snippets of other stories , little details everywhere :)) love that.

5. Back to the future- this is a movie I watched with my dad a lot. We both really like it , it's a fun romp with memorable characters and great performances like . Classic movie , easy to love. Also super cartoon-y and leaning into it.

6. Spirited away- One of my fave miazaki films and the first one I ever saw. Its a movie I've been able to evolve with , and that's a joy. As a kid I felt that sort of dreamy and sad atmosphere, but I focused on the story and the fantastical elements. As an adult, it's so clear that a lot of the miazaki movies are about young adulthood. That dreamy / sad mood hits different when you realize you're living in it, and the way the protag stumbles through everything? And is just desperately trying to get through it ..Yeah it's sooooo early 20s. You'll make it chihiro.

7. Over the garden wall - I love this miniseries so much and I aim to watch it in October. I love the music , "send me a peach" was not even in the series and it is SUCH a good song. Theres so much lore , and so many layers to the story. AND you can just feel that it was crafted with a lot of love :))) . A mini series that you can come back to and pick up a new detail and glean new meaning everytime.

Tagging: @treesbian @vampire-jester @jessepinkmanpussypower @bastardbeewoman @poltergeistguy @neil-gaiman @reallyndacarter

#comfort movie tag #this was fun !! im now loading up my letterboxd

[chainsawpunk]

Im not really an art expert but paul peng is one of my favorite artists because of the way he depicts emotion particularly otherization with the shapes and movement in his pieces... i just feel a real connection to it! Like some of it is kind of erotic furry art but not really, it kind of takes the representational part of furry art and takes it to an extreme and he doesnt really take it to a sexual place, just shows nudity. anyways. I appreciate the discussion :)

I also was not saying erotic furry art as a negative I think we should be exploring all of the visuals of our time. His work seems very sentimental which reminded me of Aidan Koch and people are quick to dismiss the twee and sentimental vibe of the early 2010s but I really respect how genuine it seemed and prefer that to like performatively presenting yourself as jaded

[skelltan]

my thoughts on wet moon 7

finished wet moon. i liked it. i wish the ending was different though. i feel like a huge bitch for complaining about it since sophie worked so long on it and i don't want to tell her how to do her own story better and i can definitely tell she felt it was the best way to end the story. i'm not taking that away from her whatsoever, i dont think it was a bad ending by any means, this is simply how i personally would've preferred the story to end (spoilers for wet moon 7, obviously).

the idea of a conclusion - wet moon is very floaty in the way the story is told. it's not super abstract, but it's not really told as a conventional story, either. it's just sorts of glimpses at character's lives. this is why i find the finality of morning cold unfitting. we do have a lot of things left open, but they're more plot points than character relations for the most part (what was with the cleo eats it stuff, the paranomal stuff, etc). it felt like it closed the door on each character's narrative way too concretely. i thought the scene with beth was cute, but if she never showed up after her departure prior, i think it would've been fine. i'm also not a fan of penny's biphobia being swept under the rug for it to turn out she herself is queer all along

as a continuation on that point - the "fairy tale" ending. i thought the ending was far too sweet. i'm not a hater of happy endings, but again, tied with the conclusivity and fluff in the forms of beth and penny's story i thought could have been omitted, it felt too twee for my tastes

to summarize my biggest complaint spawning from those two: i felt this book was a bit of a tonal mismatch to prior ones. it was a bit too cut and dry and didn't have as much mystique

i dont mind cleo and mara splitting, and there were definitely seeds to it happening, but it was a bit sudden - moreso was trilby and cleo getting together when the door on that felt closed since about book 2. mara and natalie also felt a little forced, but both relationships had merits, the latter much more than the former

i don't completely get why trilby is mad with martin - you can sort of gleam why but this is left open in a way that isnt satisfying such as the other closed plot points i'd have been fine with keeping open or the things that do stay unexplained

while i mention natalie - her design. i feel like her scar was really downplayed. which, if it healed, yeah, sure, but i liked it a lot more in prior volumes. i also just generally prefer her design in prior volumes, but that's a minor gripe

a lot of focus on nissa and nora. this isn't inherently a problem, but they were barely that present prior, so to have a majority of the finale focus on them was an odd choice - though it's a bit of a lose/lose. either they could have been retroactively used more (which would've had to have changed the story a lot), or just shafted entirely. this is another minor gripe, but it stood out to me.

but don't get me wrong, like i said i still enjoyed wet moon a lot - i wrote all of this because i care, and even then, i must stress it wasn't a bad ending at all, i just have my gripes.

sophie's art through all books is spectacular and her writing was engaging - even despite my gripes with this volume, i thought she nailed the character voices (especially zia) and understanding of the character relations - its less so that she ruins character relationships, but rather she has a lot more clarity on them that, while good, feels somewhat incongruent with prior volumes.

on the art - every volume had great art but holy shit she really stepped it up in this volume. im not good with descriptive words but its just like a total evolution and its wild. trilby's redesign is awesome. every character manages to look more distinct than they already were, which again feels like magic. i definitely wanna read more of her stuff

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[hypokeimena]

Drop the book titles, please!! Also, do you have a goodreads or storygraph?

i do have a goodreads but id rather not share it - i don't write reviews so you're not missing anything lol. my goodreads is purely for my own memory and i think im going to switch to hard copy or back to my notes app bc all i ever do there is read badly written reviews about books and get mad about how wrong everyone else is.

anyway here's my 5 most recent reads, scholomance out of the running, the only reason im not on a third reread instead of writing this post is that someone else is using the same copy on a shared library account lol it can't count or ill go insane

ed: this paragraph came after i started writing little blurbs - i remember why i don't write reviews *as pitches*; i feel like i rail often enough against reviews that list off diversity metrics like it's bingo rather than telling me if the book is actually tastes good that i shouldn't do that but i guess we can all assume everything i am recommending tastes good

the verifiers - jane pek. enjoyable, well assembled little mystery-thriller about an aimless millennial who ends up working adjacent to one of the big matchmaking conglomerates and stumbles into what she, a big mystery fan, is convinced can't JUST be the suicide of a client. manages to avoid being as twee as that description makes it sound. does a good job balancing the various subplots such that they feed into and reinforce each other. some fun Themes going on. nice little 2 hour read.

the hallowed hunt - bujold. i love chalion but i hadn't read this one; i think i would probably not recommend it if you have not read the other chalion books (which i STRONGLY recommend). it's set in the world's past and in a different country, and you could probably get through it without context, but a lot of it is about how DIFFERENT that setting is from chalion itself so you're not going to get to enjoy the interest or contrast without having read the others first. the first one in the series is the curse of chalion, which is set in a world where the gods are real and anyone who knows that first hand has cause to regret it.

a lady for a duke - alexis hall. was written as a historical romance with a trans lady protag where being trans isn't the actual driver of the plot. i think being trans was very much a driver of the plot but in an understandable, forgivable (?) and believable way, and it was a well done little romance. i didn't like the sex but i never do and i did like the romance quite a lot.

the unspoken name AND the thousand eyes - ak larkwood. so good. i can't think how to pitch this one but it's on the sci-fi to fantasy dividing line and it's another one with gods who are around and you'll wish they weren't (i have consistent tastes). finally read hallowed hunt because unspoken name had put me in the mood for chalion again. anyway this one is well done and i really enjoyed the sequel. it's a duology which is now complete.

my fine fellow - forgot about this one because it was bad. lots of diversity set in an alternate history, if you like that sort of thing, but not much else to recommend it. one of the less palatable 'someone is secretly jewish' plotlines i've recently read.