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coffeelovinggayidiot 5 months
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Like all of tumblr, aparently: we 馃挏 love 鉁★笍jews鉁★笍 and we would 馃憡 punch nazis and we reblog five 5锔忊儯 different haukkah 馃晭 posts a year we are like so progresive 馃拋鉁笍
Also all of tumblr, aparently: death to all jews 馃毇鉁★笍 if you're a jewish person who lives in IsNotRaEl then you're an evil 馃懞 bad jew and you deserve to be raped and murdered 鈽狅笍鈽狅笍 what? You fled to israel because we were murdering you by the millions??? Well you should have all died lol 鈽狅笍鈽狅笍 happy hanukkah btw 馃晭
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firehandlerfred 7 months
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The villain dying at the end of a show?
Expected
The villain dying at the hands of his surrogate daughter?
Fucked up, exciting, love it
The villain dying at his daughter's hands AFTER PROVING HE WOULDN'T ABANDON HER?
Insane actually, peak fiction
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andromeda3116 5 months
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people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just
got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer
lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling
game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill
#lotr#lord of the rings#lord of the rings movies#i started this post because ''may it be'' came up on my playlist but now i think i'm going to start my nth rewatch of the trilogy#there is a lot to discuss about it re: comparison to the books but it's like...#for all the changes they made - good and bad and neutral - everyone involved in making the films *loved* the source material#they all *wanted* to do justice to it and believed in it and it shows#i think of some posts i've seen about how frustrating this modern push towards tongue-in-cheek irony over sincerity#so afraid to be corny or cheesy that you have to tack a joke onto every real emotional moment#like no fuck that#give me sam hauling frodo onto his shoulders saying ''i can't carry it for you but i can carry you''#give me aragorn gently kissing boromir's forehead as he dies#give me merry and pippin throwing themselves at the uruk hai to distract them from frodo#give me theoden's grand speeches and gandalf's pained expression when frodo says he'll carry the ring#tbh i think that sincerity is a large part of *why* it has such staying power even now#because it is a story you are meant to get deeply emotionally invested in and not hold yourself a little ironically apart from#it isn't meant to sell merch it's meant to bring you to middle-earth and capture your heart and make you believe that the war can be won#with love and loyalty and hope and fellowship and fidelity and integrity and just... just refusing to give in to despair#it is earnest. it is unafraid to be melodramatic or corny because it believes in the story it's telling.#and so it imprinted onto a whole generation growing up right at the cusp of a barrage of apocalypses#anyway. i have Feelings about these movies and their impact and how that mirrors and enhances the books' own impact
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samsrosary 4 months
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fucked-upnatural where sam is pregnant with jack. he begs dean to get rid of it who agrees but how the fuck are you supposed to find somewhere that will give a male abortion How Do You Explain That? so he has to resort to some back alley supernatural surgeon and sam dies in the process. except. well. he doesn't. the baby persists. jack brings him back to life. when sam wakes up again he throws up and dean doesn't know what to do. sam dies again when he gives birth to jack; how else could he get it out? But he's forced back together again soon enough. dean doesn't know what to do with jack after watching sam go through the pregnancy and neither does anyone else. Lucifer is the first person to show jack unconditional kindness and its too sweet a fruit to resist.
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walnutmistjamie 7 months
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fave Ted Lasso moments 40/? : Keeley and Roy have broken up.
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engagemythrusters 6 months
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no bc like. we get a queer show. we get a queer show and it's openly queer. the whole thing. the entire fucking thing. no coding. just straight up queer. and not just gay men. it's not just white gay men.
like.
it's so insane to me this show exists. that we're allowed this. i can't... it almost feels too good to be true. and i've watched it, so it is true. i know it is true i have seen it all with my own eyes.
but i'm so starved for any basic fucking thing that. i just. wow. nonbinary person? ethical non-monogamy? i got? i got to see that? and it's not a bad thing it's not made fun of?
god.
i just... it's so wild that something so simple just can't feel real because nobody else will allow something like this to air.
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sarucane 5 months
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OFMD Spiral Parallels 46: Izzy Being Wrong Part 4--Izzy's redemption (in which he learns to be right)
Intro: What I love most about how season 2 builds on season 1 of OFMD is the spiral narrative structure. Ground is repeatedly and explicitly re-trod from season 1 to season 2, but in season 2 everything goes deeper than season 1. Meanings are shuffled, emotions are stronger and truer, and transformation is showcased above everything. The first season plucks certain notes, then the second season plucks the same ones--but louder, and then it weaves them together to create a symphony.
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This totally spirals round! I was starting to feel bad that this wouldn't really do the spiral thing and the title shouldn't apply, but it totally worked out!
Episode 10
In this episode, Izzy's wrongness reaches its peak. Izzy's operating on basic toxic masculinity lies: emotion is vulnerability, vulnerability is weakness, weakness is bad. And he's also having to face something he didn't really understand all season, which is that Ed's changes aren't actually all because of Stede. They go deeper.
Izzy's belief in his own lies are so deep that he can look at this
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and say this
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Izzy does his best to impose his lies on reality here, a dark reflection of Stede willing a better world into existence. Izzy walks away from this interaction with Ed feeling triumphant. And when Fang asks what happened to Izzy's foot, his response is this
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But you can tell from Izzy's face that he doesn't quite believe this is "correct," even though he made this happen.
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Izzy didn't understand anything that was happening to Ed in this episode, and he reacted to that lack of understanding in the worst possible way. He's finally realized that he was wrong when he believed just removing Stede would turn Ed back into Blackbeard. But he's only starting to realize that Ed being Blackbeard again isn't actually a good thing, for anyone.
Season 2
Izzy keeps being wrong at the beginning in the second season. He's wrong in thinking talking honestly to Ed will have any good effects, that he can now invite Ed to be vulnerable when he's the one who pushed Ed to be someone who reacts to vulnerability with destruction.
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And Izzy's wrong again when he tells Ed that the atmosphere is fucked because of Stede.
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Ed doesn't react with violence, real or threatened, when he's thinking of Stede in other contexts. His response to seeing the little figurine at the wedding (which he later directly addresses as if he's talking Stede) isn't to join in the violence.
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Ed only reacts with violence to reminders of Stede when Izzy's the medium of those reminders. Because Izzy was the one who imposed the logic on Ed that experiencing any real vulnerability was something that deserved destruction.
And so Izzy remade Ed's world so that Ed would react to invocations of vulnerability like this:
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Ed doesn't shoot Izzy because Izzy said "Stede Bonnet." He shoots Izzy because Izzy said "Stede Bonnet."
Izzy thought he was making Ed into "my captain," the strong Blackbeard of the illustrations. But he was just making Ed into a scared, lost man so terrified of living with himself, he couldn't imagine anything but running.
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Ed doesn't try to kill himself over Stede. Stede leaving him just triggered deeper insecurities in Ed.
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And Izzy made it so that Ed would have no way to deal with those insecurities except violence, turned on others or on himself
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Izzy pays for all this, for all his actions in the first season. By episode 4 of season 2, he's a broken shell of a man, drinking hard liquor like it's water to try to cope with reality, screaming at a wooden figurehead that doesn't even actually have a head.
Izzy's wrong a lot in this episode. but while he had to learn he was wrong before through violence and pain, this time he learns it through kindness.
Izzy's wrong when he tells Stede decides that Ed's "a rotten leg" that has to be removed from the ship. But Ed isn't rotten. He's just messy. Not unlike Izzy just now
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Later in the episode, Izzy tells the crew that he himself is "already gone."
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He's pretty clearly working himself up to a suicide attempt. He shot himself last time because he thought having only one working leg (and being cast out by Ed) made him unworthy of life.
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Izzy thinks he's got no place in the world anymore. The conceptions he built his internal world on were wrong, and there's nothing to replace them.
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And Izzy's wrong.
He rotten leg came off because other people knew this, because the crew knew that he deserved a better ending than this, no matter how badly he'd acted in the past
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And they're able to pass that on to Izzy.
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Because Izzy isn't going to die alone. And he isn't gone yet.
By the end of the second season, Izzy's come to understand his wrongness better than anyone. He's come to understand that what he was driving Ed to do was about his own desires, and that those were both incorrect and morally wrong--because there's a better way to live, and to treat the people you care about.
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And then Izzy's monologue spirals on through this moment from season 1
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And presents it again
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The first time we see this image, we listen to a monologue where Izzy expresses his fears over Ed being absorbed into this world. Izzy himself is in the back shadows of this shot, looking only at Ed, at the proof that so many things he believed to be correct (Ed was the mad devil Blackbeard, Izzy's position in Ed's life was secure, the world had a permanent hierarchy of strength and weakness) were wrong.
The second time we see this image, there's also a monologue of Izzy playing over it. But his perspective on the image has completely shifted. It's not a narrowly focused moment that endangers Izzy's sense of self. It's an inclusive image, that defines Izzy's sense of self.
Izzy knows better than anyone what's wrong, and what's right. And so he's able to move a step deeper than right/wrong, to understand something important about what it means to be good, or evil.
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Izzy was wrong for most of this series. But he figured it out in time to make amends. To understand himself, the world he lived in, and the people he cared about better than he ever had before.
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And to determine for himself what his life, and his death would mean: not hopelessness, but a gift of hope; not an enforcement of wrongness, of evil, but an embrace of uncertain rightness, of goodness.
Sometimes, being wrong--and having time to figure that out--amounts to an act of grace.
Previous posts:
Izzy Being Wrong 3 (S1E6-9)
Izzy Being Wrong 2 (S1E5)
Izzy Being Wrong 1 (S1E3-4)
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inhalingmagic 4 months
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funkymeow 2 years
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when bf looks cool in that not so cool basketball club jacket聽
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musical-chick-13 5 months
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Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.
#gotta say: it doesn't make me feel any better getting ignored/disparaged on account of my gender irl and then seeing every fictional woman#also get ignored/disparaged when there is no material difference between her and popular male characters other than her gender#how do I escape from irl misogyny if y'all keep willfully ignoring and flinging gendered insults at 99% (<-lowball estimate) of#female characters? how do I put aside the ableism I face in real life when y'all discuss disabled/mentally ill characters in the most#absolutely out-of-pocket way? how do I forget about biphobia when the 'arguments' you make 'for fun' about bisexual characters#in fiction sound EXACTLY the same as the things people say about my bisexuality outside of the internet/fan culture?#and then obviously this gets compounded if you are trying to even simply EXIST in fandom as a poc or a trans person or an intersection of#any or all these varying identities/life experiences#like yes caring about fictional characters is not the same as caring about real people OBVIOUSLY I can't BELIEVE I have to keep clarifying#that. and at the same time!! because multiple things can be true at the same time!!!! engaging in behavior that enforces pre-ingrained#societal biases and prejudices!!!!!!!! does not help dismantle those biases and prejudices!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in a real-world way that DOES#involve caring about actual people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#it's also. interesting. when people go on & on about how some newest show about thin cis white (male) gays is So Important & Revolutionary#So We Must Do Everything To Keep It Relevant And Visible and then act this way about women/poc/trans people/disabled people/fat people#in media. so like. you DO agree that seeing a variety of life experiences represented in fiction is beneficial. you DO believe in the#value of depicting marginalized people. interesting that that only seems to apply to a VERY narrow and specific category of marginalization#(ugh remember when I talked about this and someone called me a straight person good times)
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wistfulwatcher 3 months
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AN ENDLESS LIST OF FOUND FAMILIES I LOVE
THE STATON-HOUSE BAND ROADIES from ROADIES
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Episode 9
Rei is doing the positive version of "Living through your children." Which I believe is normally called "Being supportive of their interests?"
Essentially, making up for things or experiences you didn't or couldn't have as a child, and making sure your kids are treated better.
Rei was clearly raised to be as quiet as possible and to take up the least amount of space as possible. It's clear that he himself doesn't mind noisy or bright people, even to his own surprise as demonstrated with both Kazuki and Miri.
The thing is Miri is loud. She's 4, that's actually very normal. But, not only does he passively accept their loudness, he tries to match it here. It's such a big step for him, it can't be easy for him, but he wants to help so so badly. It can't have been easy for him to raise his voice like that, but he did it.
He loves Miri so much it's amazing. Even his advice on running and the science behind it shows that he supports her and is trying to help even though it make look like he's doesn't care.
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genericdragon 4 days
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馃槂 shitty vent in the tags don't look
#ok so idk if y'all have heard about the revo ost album art contest#nobody seems to realize how important this is for me.#I don't exactly have a long history of being Good at Art (see my last post I made)#but these past couple years people have been telling me that my art is good. great even!#idk if I fully believe them. they haven't seen where I've come from. they don't know how far I have to go.#or how far behind I am from where I could be. if I had just done better when I was younger.#but anyway. ppl have been telling me I'm good at art but I don't really have anything to show for it :)#so this is my chance to prove myself. this is my chance to finally put my skills to the test. to see if I really am as good as people say#you have no. NO fucking idea how seriously I'm taking this. I've already spent over 14 hours on this art and it isn鈥檛 even halfway done#I am putting literally everything I have into this. 100% effort. I want to make this the best it can possibly be.#but that doesn't really matter does it? only the results. I can't just go 'pwease I worked really hard on this let me win 馃ズ'#and if I work so hard to make the best thing I possibly can and I still fail what does that mean for me?#and people tell me 'nooooo it's just one little contest it doesn't define the worth of your art'#first of all. yes. it literally does. that's. the entire point of a contest#second it's not just about winning it's about proving myself it's about putting myself to the test#I've been waiting for something like this for so long. it's not just a contest to me.#this is sort of my ultimatum I guess#if I win then that means it really is true what they say. my art is worth something. I've made something meaningful. I've done it.#I can finally start to believe that maybe I am actually good at art. it won't happen overnight since I've spent so long believing otherwise#but now I have actual genuine solid proof to believe that it is true rather than just people being nice#and if I lose.... then that's it.#I've failed. I've made the best thing I possibly could with my current abilities and it still wasn't good enough.#you can't tell me that's not completely humiliating#and after that why should I believe anyone who tells me my art is good#when it's been demonstrably proven otherwise?#how could I just go 'Oh well. I can do better next time! :)'#you do not. you do not fucking understand how big a deal this is for me. i can't just move on from that#I know I can't just quit art bc I've built so much of my life around it at this point (and I have genuinely tried to quit for good#but it'll take a looooooooong long long long time before I'm confident enough to try something like this again. if ever#losing a contest at 15 is one thing. but losing a contest at 22 after years and years of practice? thinking that I've improved?
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maegalkarven 7 months
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I'm thinking about Isobel who came back from the dead a hundred years later, who came back to the lands cursed and her father fallen into madness.
Who eminates a barely indistinguishable whiff of rot and Myrkul's power. Who was touched by the forces so repulsing she wishes she has never come back.
And who still has Moonmaiden's favor and her blessing.
Like by all means Sel没ne had every right to punish Isobel for her father's sins, esp considering what Isobel is, undeniably, the cause of Ketheric turning into the villain he became. Or rather, her death is.
Instead Sel没ne grants her enough power to battle the curse and create a small safe harbor amidst darkness. More power than the most have, as priest of Selune!Tav might comment.
Instead Sel没ne favors her, loves her.
Isobel is the indirect reason Aylin is enslaved and the lands are dying under the curse, and Sel没ne never turns her back on her.
Idk it just makes me emotional
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remythologise 3 months
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2023 fujoshi wrapped
you got baited 24 times
you debated the difference between queer-coding, queerbaiting and censorship in the comments section 4 times
you revisited fanfiction for 7 hit ships from the 2000s
you got blocked 5 times for tagging paragraphs of old man yaoi ship meta on unrelated text posts
you played 585 hours of video games for a combined total of 10 minutes of gay subtext and/or sex scenes
you judged a BL manga or light novel by its cover 948 times
you told 39 friends to watch 3 gay tv shows that are 'actually really really well written and enjoyable and not just gay' and 0 of them did
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