#but yeah i just

[oifaaa]

Damian can change for the better, he's 10, maybe his older brother who was robin right before him can and should be a good exemple to him

I won't lie I don't really mind that Tim doesn't like Damian to begin with it's reflective of the type of person Tim is and also he's never had to deal with a younger sibling before so he's gonna have some hang ups (especially as damian didn't make it easy for him) my problems come more from people acting like damian was the only one in the wrong in their relationship (Tim gave just as good as he got) or saying Damian needs to be punished more for that first fight they had even tho both Bruce and Tim where telling Damian that he had to earn their respect and love and then Tim was like prove yourself let's spar like that wasn't gonna end badly Timothy

#Ask #Anon #It's not Tim's responsibility to teach damian and that's fine #That's what dick eventually is there for #But yeah I just #Damians 10 and didn't know any better #Maybe instead of being so focused on punishing a child who didn't know any better #The focus should be on teaching the child that what they did was wrong

[moonflwer-gutz]

That's legit such interesting reasoning, because I feel even htb Mark didn't know he was going to do it until he really lost his temper at the alternate claiming to be Cesar. I think even he would've cast his vote into the "maybe" answer of the poll because it really wasn't until he was put in that position that he found out his honest reaction. And even then, the second he'd done it, I tried to convey that he regretted it - how he froze up and had to convince himself that what he'd just done hadn't happened to the real Cesar, that it had happened to a monster. My guy was terrified that he'd fired the gun and then terrified he'd got the wrong end of the stick and shot his best friend...

oughhhh I feel a lot of ways about ch 6 and how Mark responded in 10:15, Saturday Night afterwards jhgdhgsjh lmao

IT MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL JUST

i can't describe it, but i understand being in his position and doing what he thought was right- i did the right thing- because what the hell else was he going to do? his options were really limited. his options were fight, flight, or freeze; in a way, he picked all 3.

it's one of those situations where you really can't say what you'd do until you're actually put into the situation. because you have no idea how you're going to react. when this thing that was nothing more than an amorphous creature made of nothing but void and horror two seconds ago, appears to you again as your best friend, the friend you've been taking care of--letting take care of you--for the past few days, and you're standing there, utterly terrified, shaking in horror with a gun in your hands. you have no idea what's going to happen to that trigger. it might be intentional, it might be the sheer anxiety and adrenaline running through your veins, or it might be because you literally have nothing else grounding you in your environment at that point and you need to grip onto something, anything, to keep yourself from floating away.\

or you drop it altogether. once again, out of intent, instinct, or fear.

it's such a perfect storm of a situation. there's no right or wrong, only what you believe is right or wrong. and even then, that belief is only there for a split second before everything comes crashing down again and you wish you could go back and change it all. no matter what you chose.

#SCREAMS AND CRIES #yeah im so normal about chapter six and 10:15 too im fine #mark's honest reaction: [gunshot] #but yeah i just #i empathize with his situation #i can't say what he did was wrong or right. but it was right to him. albeit for a moment. #and just #thats one of those situations that calls for this kind of talk #not exactly “would” you but “could” you #i just #lots of emotions #lots of feelings #htb mark #hail true body au #moonflwer answers

[cosmicallyavg]

the master saying “if i cant be the doctor, neither can you” is so raw because he literally tried to become the doctor before, as missy, through actions - being “good”, saving people, etc etc. ultimately the past caught up to her and she regressed back into her old ways (but in the end, she did help the doctor, the doctor doesnt know that). 

then the master found out about the timeless child, realized that his devotion to the time lord empire has all been for nothing, because it was built on lies, built on the pain and suffering of the doctor. that a piece of the doctor is in him and he wouldnt be who he is without the doctor, which in a way has always been true, but never as true as it is now.

revealing all of this to the doctor should break her down to his level, right? telling her all about the lives she never knew and everything that was done to her/the child would ruin her own perception of who she is, because there are so many memories lost. to him, the doctor is the doctor because of everything she has done, the past defines who the doctor is. with so much of her past hidden, how can she continue to be who she’s built herself up to be?

but he’s wrong. the doctor isnt the doctor solely due to the memories. the doctor is the doctor because she helps people, does good where good can be done. even if her definition of “good” isnt absolute, the point is that she tries. 

he thinks he has brought her down to his level when theyre in the matrix, and shes threatening him with the death particle. he wants her to pull the trigger, wants her to kill them both. its what hes always wanted, isnt it? their deaths together. “become death, become me” 

but she cant. she cant bring herself down to that level. in a way, maybe he has broken her, trying to get her to make that decision, you can see the way she almost pulls the trigger, up until he says those four words. its then that the doctor realizes it would give him what he wants, the ultimate destruction of who the doctor is at her own hand. its then that she falters. 

the master then takes it upon himself to destroy the doctor at the very root of it all. he brings some of her old companions back, tries to pit them against her, he wants to become her in the most literal but also metaphorical sense in order to ruin everything she has ever stood for, to ruin her reputation. because if a piece of her has been in him since the beginning, he can never get rid of her in a physical sense. her death wouldnt erase him of her completely.

he takes her identity, becomes her. he plays into the role of the doctor the best he can, wants to have a companion, wants to travel the stars and get into mischief under the guise of the doctor. he doesnt have to worry about trying to become good for the doctor’s sake, he can continue on has he has done and there will be no doctor trying to stop him. 

her friends come together to undo what hes done. the universe needs the doctor. the doctor is the doctor because of the friends shes made along the way . the doctor is the doctor because of love. and the master doesnt have that, cannot have that. “dont let me go back to being me” the master loathes who hes become, after everything he had built his identity around was destroyed, he had nothing to fall back on other than his hatred for the doctor, his jealousy of the doctor. 

if the doctor couldnt become him, maybe he could become her - he doesnt want to be the master anymore. so then if he couldnt become the doctor, then she shouldnt be the doctor either. it ultimately comes down to him wanting the destruction of the both of them and going trough any means to make it happen. in the end, this time, it did happen. for them, its a neverending cycle of death and betrayal and their friendship and their love for each other but also the hatred, the animosity, they always find their way back to each other. but perhaps not this time.

because the means he went through to make it happen, i doubt the doctor is ever going to forgive him.

#this got way longer than i planned #i have a whole other thing in my drafts about the doctor not forgiving the master after tpotd #maybe ill finish that up soon #but yeah i just #kjshkjfshhld #them #doctor who #thoschei #dw meta #the power of the doctor

[stolenparticles]

thinking about scott and cassie

#* shut up kaja. / ooc. #they will always be near and dear to my heart #thank u deen for giving me the love i have for them #but yeah i just #i'm thinking about how much lost time they have #and it makes me wanna CRY

[beelzzzebub]

So the dining hall near my dorm changed their food and their ordering method and it is seriously messing with my head, bc I had a specific order established that was safe + the same for when I dont have the energy to try something new and prepare myself for the potential consequences of said new thing (which is most of the time) and now it's different and you can only get a brioche bun which I hate because it's sweet and sidkdjjsjdjdn and the burger patty tastes like this weird seasoning now and it's all just so unpleasantly different and I feel like I'm making too big a deal out of this but also it's really fucking with my routine

Like I just really hate when things--especially things that I rely on to ground me and come to as a safe sort of constant--change up without me having time to expect the change and plan for it

:((((

#ally post #btw im gonna start tagging stuff thats about me / my life in case anyone wants to like block that kind of post lmao #but yeah i just #ik im reacting this in a very too much sort of way #(my mom would say something about spilled milk and the problem being This Big and my reaction being That Big etc etc) #but i just #achhhh #:((

[myriadof-fandoms]

psa: the next person who tries to act as if billy's and max's relationship hadn't significantly improved by season 3 will get a fucking essay from me in return

this has been brought to you by both billy begging max to believe him and max crying about seeing him so distressed in s3ep4 thank u

#in other news the letter and the parts that were like we hated eachother can also suck my dick #kind of #not entirely #but yeah i just #there was such a difference between s2 and s3 #stranger things #billy hargrove #max mayfield #my favourite siblings #once again on my the majority of characterisation in st is subtext bullshit

[lesbianralzarek]

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

#i originally posted this as just a 'hey remember how fuckin bad middle/highschool was? shit was wild' type post but now #there are a bunch of teens in the notes being like 'oh my god are you serious? it gets better? im not stuck in hell forever??' #and im reminded that the only people who told teenage ella 'it gets better' were speakers at mental health assemblies #aka the least relatable people alive who were seemingly born to lie to you #so. uh. yeah im a certified adult who isnt here to lie or sugarcoat the realities of being a teenager #the only thing more certain than the pain is the transcience

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Guys.

Y’all.

I…

I just. I just… i have discovered something. And I have laughed too much. I have laughed every time I have tried to explain it to someone. I cannot get through this.

Look. Okay.

There are two things you need to know, here.

First: There’s a style of Greek pottery that was popular during the Hellenic period, for which most of the surviving examples are from southern Italy. We call them ‘fish plates’ because, well, they’re plates, and they’re decorated with fish (and other marine life).

Like this one, currently in the Met:

Or this one, currently in the Cleveland Museum of Art:

They’re very cool. We’re not 100% sure what they were for, because most of the surviving ones were found as grave goods, but that’s a different post.

The second thing you need to know is that when we (Classics/archaeology/whatever as a discipline) have a collection of artefacts, like vases, sculptures, paintings, etc. and we do not know the name of the artist, but we’re pretty sure one artist made X, Y and Z artefacts, we come up with a name for that artist. There are a whole bunch of things that could be the source for the name, e.g. where we found most of their work (The Dipylon Master) or the potter with whom they worked (the Amasis Painter), a favourite theme (The Athena Painter), the Museum that ended up with the most famous thing they did (The Berlin Painter) or a notable aspect of their style. Like, say, The Eyebrow Painter.

Guess what kind of pottery the Eyebrow Painter made?

#tagamemnon #fischteller #can you fucking imagine? #like other painters trying to explain to him that fish don’t have eyebrows #and he’s just like ‘fuck you all at least my fish have SOULS.’ #and people bought them??? #other people were also like ‘FUCK YEAH EYEBROW FISH!!!’ #other people like me. #I would 100000% buy the eyebrow fish

[mausolealdrift]

its baffling seeing people on here being all shocked about how other ppl didnt have sex or do drugs or drink or go to parties etc etc in high schools like. sorry i was too busy getting bullied to do all of that stuff i guess. why are you surprised that there’s losers on the cringe loser website

#like yeah i WISHED i could do that sort of stuff #but i felt so completely isolated from everyone else at my school bc ppl were so nasty to me #its fine cos im doing all the stuff i missed out on now that im in university #but some ppl dont even get that chance #maybe its not that serious but. idk. just dont be a dick #but also ppl who didnt do that stuff acting like theyre better than ppl who did is fucking annoying and also a dick move. btw #📼

[hell0mega]

people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.

what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.

you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.

#steamboat willie #Mickey mouse #Disney #public domain #you can't trademark him as like a logo or mascot of your plumbing business i just mean like #you can slap him in your commercial or side of the van #i just have seen soooo many people make ORIGINAL art of him and I'm like #no that's not the point!! you can already do that!!! #(obvs if it's a comic or something talking about him being free or whatever then yeah like i get it) #(but those people who put him as a fighter in their game?? Quinton reviews uploading the original video?? boss shit) #(THAT'S what it's about)

[brightlotusmoon]

#cautious optimism #i guess so #love is everywhere #yeah okay #just a reminder

[calamitys-child]

One of my favourite mundane weirdnesses about Edinburgh is that we set the big clock visible approaching the station to be 3 minutes fast to make sure people are on time for their trains. My Favourite mundane weirdness of Edinburgh is that we check this by firing a cannon.

#im so used to it that genuinely hand on heart sudden loud bangs just make me hungry now #everyone that lives here is like. yeah lunchtime cannon thats normal. everyone who doesnt is so bewildered by it. i love it.

[yesokayiknow]

i hope that sometimes fifteen's psychic paper shorts out and shows what fourteen's thinking back on earth. he tries to sneak in somewhere and the guard's like this just says 'need to pick up cat food'? and fifteen's like 🥺 they got a cat

#doctor who #the doctor #fifteen #he shows up at the noble house next day with a bunch of cat toys and 14 explains that he was just picking up food for next door #and 15's like ah. well. the thing is. i thought if you only had one cat they'd be lonely so. and pulls out a kitten #rose after 15 leaves: is this an alien cat #14: 100% yeah. don't tell donna that bit

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[incorrectinfinity]

What makes us human is the Nintendo 3DS

#/j #btw I made this after reblogging a post criticizing the phrase 'love makes us human' so yeah that's the context #my aroace swagger is just so wonderful #containment breach #🎀.txt #CHECK THE NOTES FOR PIRACY CHECK THE NOTES CHECK THE NOTES!!!!!!!!!

[lorenlily]

hmmm okay do u agree and if no, what album(s) are truly your "i listen to every song everytime" no-skips albums

#i think i probably have like 7 no skip albums #more eps than albums are no-skip for me #but yeah majority albums i listen to have a couple skips at least #it's just normal to have skips #or else it's the opposite for me where only a couple songs are good and the rest are all skips #and i know since people skip songs because they're emotionally hard to listen to but that doesn't count as a no skips album #sorry not sorry