#another interest unlocked!

[goldrushenthusiast]

I could talk forever about how, despite Lemony Snicket telling us every single episode and every single chance he got that things would not go well for the Baudelaires, that this was a series of UNFORTUNATE events, we still kind of all thought that they wouldn’t be?

Each new guardian or place they stayed at, you got the feeling that, maybe, this is the one (except for the obviously terrible ones). There was something inside (it was actually usually the other people, the small good things that gave us this hope) telling us this one would be it, and they’d live happily ever after. Even though they never really did.

It is literally human nature to hope.

#another interest unlocked! #perchance i already reblogged some #but still #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #asoue netflix #asoue fandom #asoue series #uncle monty #aunt joshepine #the baudelaires #the Baudelaire orphans

[puppyeared]

save me old flipnote studio MVs.......

#im going thru old flipnotes i used to watch years ago and ouggghhg so many good ones #is twenty one pilots still popular.... do people still remember the TRNDSTTER and marble soda meme......... #its like im unlocking some sort of primal part of my brain and everything is coming back to me. one of my biggest inspirations as a kid #i still remember thinking the final transmission lyrics were the coolest thing and watching =TopHat= Bee and Melissa over and over #theres a very specific feeling of longing and nostalgia looking back and watching these again years later #especially when there isnt anything genshin or mcyt and instead its either fnaf undertale eddsworld or another obscure #interest... and not even fnaf sister location its like fnaf 3 and 2. its THAT old. and a lot of oc MVs especially pokemon ocs and furries.. #god but they were so creative u know. i still find it amazing ppl took this little lightbox animation on the fucking NINTENDO DS and #cranked it all the way to 11.. like if u look at the transitions and movement its so fucking fluid its insane..!! HOW DO YOU MAKE THE #CHARACTERS SPIN??? AND CHANGING CAMERA ANGLES??? and keep in mind youre doing this all with a shitty stylus #on a THREE BY TWO INCH SCREEN. you only get two layers you can go up to 29FPS and you only have 999 slides to work with #and 24FPS eats up a lot of that. absolutely insane it literally boggles my mind every time i think about it. AND SOME ARE EVEN FULL COLOR #i forgot how popular EDM was back then too...they were really good for timing beats though so you get a lot of MVs with #strobe last and marble soda. porter robinsons goodbye to a world was also popular with undertale and oc MVs. also a lot of vocaloid #someone made a flipnote abt the warner bros fnaf movie being announced EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AGO. it even used the stay calm audio from #the office.... i wonder how theyre doing now... i love you shitty grainy MV audio.. but i have mixed feelings abt the flashing colors #ppl LOVED animating the sans vs frisk fight. aishite and primadonna were also big ones they were SICK AS FUCK #lots of these inspired my old oc designs.. a lot of my characters had side bangs with one eye covered. animal ears and simple eyes too #now i kinda wanna try my hand at the marble soda meme cause i loved it as a kid lol.. i wonder if i should compare my old and new art here #UGHHHH IM SO NORMAL ABOUT NOSTALGIA. IM SO NORMAL ABT MY SCHOOL BOOK DRAWINGS WITH SHIBA BROWS #yapping #nostalgia

[itspileofgoodthings]

I spent the last week mostly crying and healing old wounds and having revelations and also facing things I already knew on a bone-deep level but also I spent the last week reading Mark van Doren’s The Noble Voice and oh my gosh he’s so right the Aeneid really falls so much shorter of the Iliad and the Odyssey because Aeneas is a stand-in for history and the Weight of Rome not actually a real person.

#anyway I’m being cryptic so in the interest of being direct: #I went to visit the motherhouse of the order of Dominicans who taught me growing up #to see if it was right for me #(a decision that was a long time coming. a longgggggg time coming) #and I need things to settle and they have decidedly not yet because I cannot even explain the anxiety that this unlocked #but. because I do want to talk about it for a second #because there is nothing wrong with how I reach conclusions about things and I have to remind myself of that #I do not believe it is for me and I will most likely not enter #and the grief that unlocked has surprised me because it’s been a mental safety net for me for the last ten years #and underneath the pressure and pain (there was stuff that happened to me that should NOT have) #(in the form of people having decided opinions about my future and what it should be) #(another reason I had to go because it had gotten so tangled up and I was so bitter and hurt) #I have always loved this place so deeply #and I still do and being able to separate that from my present. To see that I could love it and to know that I don’t belong there #Has brought me peace (I think. the anxiety is still in high gear but I believe it’s peace underneath) and also waves of grief!!!!! #Anyway it was SO much and I am still reeling and also it was so good #One: because I was able to say that I had been hurt and it was wrong and then I was truly validated for that #Validated feels like a weak word #Because it was better #But the mistress of novices was so angry on my behalf #And tbh that wasn’t why I went. It couldn’t be. I had to have a reason that went deeper than that and that could stand alone #no matter the reception to my story (which I couldn’t predict)! #but it happened anyway and it was good #and then the other thing is this weird double-handed thing of having all this flood of intuitions and reasons and things falling into place #which my analytical brain LOVED and then God almost putting a hand on my shoulder and being like ‘it doesn’t matter’ #Not as in: I was wrong #Because. I was RIGHT. But there’s a secret third thing #And the secret third thing was just (is just) God saying: come closer. Come closer to me. #Trust me more. No—MORE #And it just. Whew. This is a lot but it’s been a lot!!!! It’s been so much!!!!!!!!!

[craycraybluejay]

im attracted to abstract concepts found in morbidly perverted things

#the kind of mental illness you only unlock when you have someone else to make yoy specially ill you know? #someone who makes you sick in a way thats truly rare and unusual #normal and good and whatever are boring #but there's a charm to a twisted up web of fringe ideas and terms that can barely begin to describe #idk maybe bc im schizo i just assign extra meaning to things that 'arent that deep' #but idk there are unique beaties only i can notice and maybe its horror but its beautiful too #and there are never enough words #other than 'i am disgusting and you are my muse' #to look at someone and just in that one moment there is a universe of unnamed emotion in looking at them #and its not stuff like Being In Love most of the time #its more like. wow theres something so wrong with you. wow your hair looks so beautiful in this angle. wow.. wow #wow you chew really interesting. your opinions are horrible. i can fix you. i want to make you worse #in a millisecond its like having lived an entire life staring at this one person #and thinking a million bundled twisted twined thoughts of them #and always the best word you can really grab for it is WOW #im in awe with whatever the fuck my brain just did in response to the existence of You #and quite possibly it will never do that again #its not like in loveness or like some weird limerence #but in this one singular point in time You fascinate me beyond comprehension #the pores in your skin fascinate me. what you had for dinner fascinates me. #another good word is enthralled.. enraptured.. deluded.. religious #i can tell you the falling in love on acid phenomenon is like this but ten times less or more than ten less #i know bc ive had that #but conceptually it feels similar

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#love that when ur stressed and having a bad time it makes ur menstrual pain worse so you feel even more awful #like. yes. id love to get things done but unfortunately i need to go home immediately at 2pm bc i feel physically ill. vibes wretched. #im considering sleep here at 6pm but 2 b fair i think i only slept 4hrs last night. woof. tomorrow is gonna b interesting #i think the allergic reacting is abt over now tho. like im not really itchy anymore. the rash is still visible but i think its just dry now #bc of the cold. so was i ever reacting to the tatto0? or was it all the medication? im so interesting in what happened #would i not have had a reaction if i hadn't got a bunch of holes poked in my skin? or was it just a coincidence #that the rash started on that arm? ugh. so frustrating. and i think the psychiatrist forgot to actually book my appointment from when we #last talked so idk. maybe if i watch t4skmaster over and over it will heal my soul #ay. its all very frustrating. and i still dont have fucking autoclave access. fuck off. just give me the fucking key code #i just wanna pour plates 🫗 lol that actually looks a lot like pouring solid media. i dont wanna have to steal someone else's card to open #the door. who even locks up an autoclave??? they didnt at my old school and u could wheel a body into that thing. im pretty sure it was #bigger than this one. also there's another unlocked on on campus. why?! i ask ppl and fucking no one knows. that's just how it is #ugh. i should go to sleep. my tummy hurt #unrelated

[the-way-astray]

holding out hope . . . don’t act like it’s set in stone . . . it’s not . . . yet . . .

(much ranting in the tags)

#kotlc #yes this is about the POSSIBLE keefe short story collection or book or novella about his time in the forbidden cities emphasis on POSSIBLE #i can’t deal with anymore keefe content guys i can’t do it anymore there’s already too much #let me OUTTTTTTT shannon i just wanna be done with this series stop holding me hostage let me FREEEEE /hj #if it's keefe-centric and away from the main story why can’t she just release it AFTER the series is finished? like this is SOPHIE'S story #obviously with the baby and whatnot i’d be cool with her not releasing a book for another year but releasing extras IN PLACE of a REAL book #i don't understand /gen #if she has the energy to write a book why doesn't she just write the next one #it might not be that tho that's just a possibility obviously i'm just curious #in the case that this extra is going to be released in the place of book ten this year it's like well. why doesn't she just do book ten #i wish i could say 'i'm not a keefe hater but this is too much keefe content' but i am a keefe hater so #IT'S FINE IT MIGHT NOT BE THAT MAYBE WE'RE ALL SUPER WRONG AND SHANNON'S JUST HAVING A SILLY GOOFY TIME #also even if this IS a special announcement we could still get book ten news? along with the announcement? mayhaps? #manifesting book ten news along with the special announcement please shannon #sigh hoping praying manifesting anything not keefe #if it is a short story collection i cannot tell you how BADLY i want it to be the adults' backstories #like i'm rereading unlocked rn and grady edaline alden and della all have so many blank spots in their registry files??? #an extra could fill those in . . . just saying . . . #also the ancients #the ancients are super interesting . . . just saying . . . #luzia's pyrokinetic friend! fallon and luzia's mom! fintan (possibly) throwing vespera in the dungeon! luzia and vespera light experiments! #fallon and the other two on the original council! bronte and fintan's relationship! fintan and luzia's relationship! #bronte working under fallon as an emissary! them going to meet the ogre king! luzia and orem's relationship! why orem doesn't like his mom! #so many possibilities . . . come on shannon . . . please . . . #give us this . . . just this . . . #throw a great gulon incident short story in there to keep the keefe stans happy and then get into the juicy stuff #begging pleading imploring shannon to hear my prayers #anyway #if we manifest no keefe content there won't be keefe content <- lying

[darkfromday]

about Obscurials and pre-Hogwarts Harry

this is your daily reminder that Harry could never have been an Obscurial, not because That Woman hadn’t created/retconned in the idea yet, but because of the actual definition, which is “a child who knows about their magic and tries to suppress it”.

Ariana Dumbledore knew she was a witch from the time she was able to know things. She was actively and knowingly doing magic when she was attacked, and afterward she refused to use her gift and it turned inward.

Harry Potter knew that strange things happened around him, but he did not know that it was magic, because he didn’t think magic was even real. One of the first things he says to Hagrid after The Reveal is something along the lines of “this has to be a mistake, I can’t be a wizard”. He also wasn’t trying to “suppress” any of the things happening to him, because he didn’t know he was the one causing them to happen.

so yeah, there’s no viable “Dumbledore knew Harry could have become an Obscurial when he left him with the Dursleys and still left him there” argument, because Dumbledore didn’t know the Dursleys weren’t going to tell Harry about his magic or even treat him like a member of the family (see: my 12-hour long post about this shit last month, along with The Books).

yet another big argument Dumbledore-bashers have that falls apart when you actually adhere to the story lol

#I am once again begging y'all to reread the books #Harry Potter #Ariana Dumbledore #Obscurials #when I watched the first FB movie I was like ''huh interesting'' and then people tried to make Credence/Harry parallels #EXCEPT CREDENCE ALSO KNEW HE HAD MAGIC???? #Grindelwald was literally telling him all sorts of shit about the magical world and implying he could ''give'' him magic or unlock his magic #and like sure he was lying through his fucking teeth until he realized Credence *was* an untrained wizard and Obscurial but STILL #JKR is not great at storytelling but this actually holds up in-universe! #if you know magic is real and you might have it and you suppress it: Obscurial #if you don't think magic is real and you don't think you have it: you're just Harry lol #can't believe a stupid ass Quora poster made me think about FANTASTIC BEASTS today #JKR likes to retcon herself too though so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some dumbass line about this in the latest movie #meta #what's interesting is that Hermione never comes up in these bashers' conversations #she is another person who would have had a stake in ''wishing her problems away'' if she had any magical outbursts #yet no one ever says ''Hermione could have been an Obscurial!'' you know why?? because the theory DOESN'T MAKE SENSE for anyone but Ariana! #and Ariana is like Hermione in that she had two loving parents! so clearly Obscurials don't need to have an abusive caregiver to be birthed! #Credence is more of a parallel to Tom Riddle tormenting kids in the orphanage than he is to Harry; just more sympathetic #sigh #'bout to circle back to twitter for a while bc I'm so annoyed about this

[bravest-notts]

someone at crimmus today saw my VM hoodie and went "...is that from the show?"

he's only watched tlovm and loved it, and said he's going to check out campaign one now that he knows someone who is into it and recommended it.

percy is his fav and he liked the orthax stuff

#out here converting people even on holidays #another guy here is also into dnd #and has on and off watched critrole over the years #so we both just. converged on the first guy like DID SOMEONE SAY DND #[Special Interest Unlocked]

[maxellminidisc]

Since I was a kid I've had a deep fascination with lock picking and sleight of hand/pick pocketing cause the finesse required of these skills is so fascinating and I'm only now finding out lock picking is a sport and I'm VIBRATING

#ive always wanted to learn it and buy kits and locks to do it #but like lol my parents were always like WHAT ARE YOU A THIEF!? so they never let me get them #especially when i was a teen #even without that im very good at unlocking and unlatching things that require sticking your hands in tight spaces #my mom always jokes i had to have been some kind of theif or burglar in another life because #of how often id be fascinated and interested in these skill sets even as a child lol

[mockstarling]

I like the idea of Lex giving Kon a whole space themed bedroom in his penthouse. It's a tasteful take on punk, 80s, space, and the simplistic aesthetic Lex likes all in one.

#lex also loves sci-fi #he was the one who introduced stuff like star wars and dune #clark doesn’t really care for space stuff because as a kid it made him feel more alienated #clark could never enjoy sci-fi because the thought of him truly being the last of his kind was always in the back of his head #however kon loves the fuck out of it #from nasa t-shirts to those shitty glow in the dark stars #Lex’s dad never allowed Lex to like anything that he deemed uneducational or unfavorabe to Lex’s future #so when Kon showed interest in something Lex used to like Lex’s memories where unlocked #to this day it's one of the only things Kon and Lex really enjoy to share with one another #dc comics #dc #lex luthor #kon el #kon el luthor #kon #superboy #superfamily dynamics #superfamily #superfam headcanon #superfam

[transfemswagbracket]

If Zoe doesn't win, imma riot

zoe is literally sooo silly

#monster prom! another media i liked! youre unlocking blue past interests by the hour #i was sooo obsessed with her when i first played second term #transfemswagbracket #qna

[hellpenis900]

over the past month i've found & bought two likely functioning vintage cameras (kodak pony II for $5, minolta autopak 450e for $7.50) and when i asked my mom to help me get some film for them she got me a holga outta nowhere

#i think she's been planning on getting me a camera anyways? but that was a jumpscare i got when i was half-awake #since she both woke me up to tell me she got the film AND then just threw in she got another camera too #i think she's probably excited i'm developing one of her longtime interests in cameras #however. three cameras with three different photo qualities from three different eras. once i figure out film cameras i'm gonna unlock #the powers of time travel‼️ #personal

[unusualshrimp]

hey sorry i can't come to work today im thinking about the various implications of zombie horror and the way it affects people

#saw the post the other day about horror movies reflecting the greatest fears of society at the current time #..... it was so ouuugh #anyway zombie movies. fear of infection and pandemic type situations obviously #but also. a running thread in all Zombie Media ™ since forever has been like. someone you love got bitten and now u have to kill them etc #i think that's really interesting because it also ties into another thing about zombies: fear of being changed‚ involuntary #does the zombie know what it used to be? is the hunger filling an otherwise blank mind? #or is it just strong enough to override everything else? #what would that feel like though. both possibilities are unsettling because in case 1 you Die by most definitions #and something else looks like you and pilots your body around #actually that is very similar to imposter horror innit. ''guy in the team who got bitten but doesn't tell anyone until its too late'' #and in case 2.... ooooihhhhhhh that's so much worse <3 you're alive you just can't do anything about it. just hungry #and now onto the third fear associated with zombie horror (and my favourite): the fear of being hunted‚ on a wide scale #think abt it. it's unclear whether humans actually count as apex predators. but population-wise we don't actually have A Specific Animal #- that hunts us #and that's not because we are fast or have sharp teeth or are adapted hunters. that's just because we're great at living in a society #and zombies are A Predator on a significant scale and we are NOT prepared for it #beecaaauusee--- [dramatic crescendo] they will exploit the *very* thing that made us so invincible in the first place!! 💞 #one of the first signs of civilization is healed bones. cured sickness. #a human seeing another human looking sick/injured and immediately rushing to help. is a big part of why we've made it this far #zombies have our faces!!! they know how to walk and unlock doors and climb the stairs to our buildings #AND. AND. they're people you think you know. back again to the killing a loved one thing #that's so BRILLIANT as a tactic because the societal tactics that make people group together will now make them reluctant to kill zombies #WHICH IS WHY most media tries to dehumanize zombies in some way to make it easier. ohhhh they grunt and can't talk. they're slow. #they don't feel anything. they are not the person they look like. they're not even people. the alternative is much much worse #and i need it explored. what if they can run. what if they beg and plead that they're still the same person. what if they scream. #what if they say ''sorry i love you so much im sorry'' at the end. etc

[cc-cuttlefishculler]

surprise im not a void player if you looked for my soul like my essence of my me there would be nothing there

#like so theres me. then theres my me. inside the me. #theres a me. but there isnt a me in there. #i thiny my matroshyka doll only goes like. two layers deep #maybe three. theres me for normal people. theres me for tumblr. then theres secret evil me you only unlock if we have a sleepover and i #start oversharing and telling you things ive never told anybody. then you tell me yours. then we kiss. thats the only way youre getting that #thats the me that comes out when im scheming with myself in the mirror at 3 am. #but yeah. there isntt like some kind of deep moral code and goal and purpose that i follow. i dont have a lifelong passion #none of my interests came from myself either theyre all from other people who i want to impress or talk to or who i respect. wait why am i #baring my soul to the world wide web already its 9:20 what the fuck #im gonna just shut up now. if you wanna continue me having yet another crisis over my sense of self go join the discord server

[meistoshi]

thinking about satoshi getting the Study Bug from the combination of his time at the melemele pokémon school + living with two professors & his time as sakuragi institute's research fellow, more than ever wanting to not just simply meet pokémon but understand everything about them, a kind of "if i understand them i can befriend them better" mentality, driving him to leap at chances to assist in field research, to listen to an impromptu seminar, to observe more.

#he was already So curious but like. Actively having to Indulge that curiosity Unlocked smth in his brain #& now theres Another bottomless pit demanding to be filled #he Likes leaving Some things as mysteries bc it's more interesting that way sometimes but he Loves learning #ooc. pkmn is autistic culture.

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

the switch is almost dead so i hope we get a new rhythm heaven soon. i will not shut up about it for probably at least a month once we do. that time will probably be spent getting every superb n also a lot of perfects-

#puppy rambles #rhythm hell #on one hand megamix feels like it was meant to be the last game but also tsunku wants to make another rhythm heaven so- #idk since we have gba nso now i wouldn't be surprised if we get tengoku there so nintendo can gauge interest #possibly in english. idk what they did for other japanese-only games that've been put on nso #still bummed we didn't get anything for the 15th anniversary 😔 #esp since i'm pretty sure there was literally a direct on august 3rd that year- #if we do get tengoku on nso i'm totally making my moms get the nso expansion pack #i already own tengoku (specifically the fan translation even) but i wish to support rytm hevven #(i say even though i have pirated every rhythm heaven n don't have an english copy of tengoku) #in my defense i was desperate to play rhythm heaven- #n sucked at it hard. tengoku set 1 took me so long to get through #why don't you unlock the cafe until after remix 1 in tengoku who thought that was a good idea #wait if tengoku was in english in nso do you think they'd dub the audio #n do you think they'd let you toggle the language #cuz if there's not language toggling then *looks at marching orders and space dance* oh no