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promptfairy · 5 months

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❥ 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐘 [ 𝚂𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚁𝚃𝙴𝚁𝚂 ] .

change gendered language & add context to your needs . happy roleplaying !! ♡

“ last christmas , i gave you my heart . ” “ i kept my distance , but you still caught my eye . ” “ tell me , do you recognize me ?? ” “ now i know what a fool i’ve been . ” “ if you kissed me now , i know you’d fool me again . ” “ i was hiding from you & your soul of ice . ” “ my god , i thought you were someone to rely on . ” “ i guess i was just a shoulder to cry on . ” “ now i’ve found a real love ; you’ll never fool me again . ” “ i thought you were here to stay . ” “ how could you love me for only a day ?? ” “ i thought you were someone special . ” “ i don’t want a lot for christmas . ” “ i don’t care about the presents underneath the christmas tree . ” “ i just want you for my own , more than you could ever know . ” “ make my wish come true . ” “ all i want for christmas is you . ” “ i won’t even wish for snow . ”

“ i’m just gonna keep on waiting underneath the mistletoe . ” “ i’m feeling christmas all around . ” “ it’s hard to focus when i see him walking across the room . ” “ i’m avoiding every mistletoe until i know it’s true love . ” “ i want to let you unwrap me . ” “ this year , i’ve got to be smart . ” “ later , we’ll have some pumpkin pie & do some caroling . ” “ in the meadow , we can build a snowman . ” “ it’s the most wonderful time of the year . ” “ you are my home for all seasons . ” “ please don’t cry , it’s christmas . ” “ i only want you under my mistletoe . ” “ i might change your contact to ‘ has a huge north pole . ’ ” “ i’ve been a bad girl , i guess i’m getting coal . ” “ let me come warm you up , you’ve been out in the snow . ” “ you’re my wishlist . ” “ looking at you’s got me thinking christmas . ” “ it’s been a long , hard year . ”

“ let’s hope the snow will make christmas right . ” “ sure it’s madness , but it’s magic . ” “ i just want a cozy little christmas here with you . ” “ you’re the only one i’m wishing for . ” “ we were dreamers not so long ago . ” “ there’s no time to waste ; there’s so much to celebrate . ” “ tell me what’s on your wishlist , i wanna make it come true . ” “ i don’t think i’m gonna make it through the winter , babe . ” “ santa won’t bring you somebody who loves you more than me . ” “ you’re gonna leave me all alone ?? on christmas ?? ” “ can’t we just snuggle underneath the tree by the fireplace ?? ” “ you know i make those cookies you like . ” “ maybe this christmastime , you’ll finally realize that i could be the one to give you everything you want . ” “ greeting cards have all been sent . ” “ i still have one wish to make . ” “ in my dreams , i’m christmasing with you . ” “ every day is a holiday when i’m near to you . ” “ if there is love in your heart & your mind , you will feel like christmas all the time . ” “ merry christmas , darling . ”

#sentence starters #sentence meme #christmas starters #christmas meme #rp starters #rp meme #rp prompts #roleplay starters #roleplay meme #roleplay prompts #never realized how many h*rny christmas songs there are until i made this lol #also sorry for all the random spaces tumblr has made formatting these literally impossible & like for no reason

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raventherogue · 5 months

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#saw this meme format and i couldn't resist #what is the actual lifespan of these guys?#transformers #macaddam #ravage #g1 ravage #transformers g1 #Christmas meme

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water-in-the-wind · 4 months

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Hi has this been done yet?

#doctor who #doctor who specials #doctor who christmas special #ncuti gatwa #the doctor #fifteenth doctor #i’m in love and i’m so excited for spring #was a little thrown off by that musical number tho ngl #felt like when george lucas put that musical number in return of the jedi #tw suicide mention #in meme format tho #b99 #brooklyn nine nine #brooklyn 99 #rosa diaz

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theferalchild · 1 year

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he was told it was an ugly Christmas jumper party. it wasn’t.

happy holidays from my OC’s!

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quackkaz · 4 months

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sanders sides memes as a Christmas gift by yours truly!!

and a bunch under this format :3

more here :3

#incorrect quote #sanders sides #sanders sides incorrect quotes #roman sanders #virgil sanders #logan sanders #remus sanders #patton sanders #janus sanders #tss memes #tss

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tawaifeddiediaz · 2 years

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HE’S A 10 BUT... + evan buckley (pt 1)

(911 + he’s a 10 but...)

[Image ID: five large rectangular gifs of Evan Buckley from multiple episodes of 9-1-1. Each gif is overlaid with text in the meme format, "He's a 10, but...". "He's a 10 but..." is in white text, with the meme below in bold blue-and-lilac text. Underneath is a byline in parentheses, written in white capital letters.:

GIF 1: Buck turning around to find that he's too tall for the rollercoaster in 3.01, after checking if Chris is tall enough. Chris laughs at him, and despite Buck's confused pleading, the guy running the ride shakes his head, not letting him onto the ride. The text reads, "He's a 10 but...he's too tall to ride rollercoasters (yet he tries to ride them anyway)."

GIF 2: Buck defending himself for telling Chris about the kid stuck in the rotisserie to Eddie in 4.08, saying it was a cautionary tale. The text reads, "He's a 10 but...he tells stories about kids stuck in rotisseries (to other kids, as "cautionary tales")."

GIF 3: Buck sprawled out in the middle of his bed with exhaustion after the blackout in 5.03. He sucks in a breath and releases it slowly. The text reads, "He's a 10 but...he wears outside shoes on his bed (with his outside clothes)."

GIF 4: Buck telling Hen and Bobby about his idea to buy his girlfriend a portable generator in 5.10, and then explaining his reasoning behind it. Hen and Bobby look at him with an exaggerated mix of pity and bewilderment. The text reads, "He's a 10 but...he thinks a portable generator is a good Christmas present (for his long-term girlfriend)."

GIF 5: Buck excitedly bouncing as he walks when he realizes that the call they're attending is actually the shoot of a reality show he watches. He grabs Hen's shoulder to show her. He smiles and waves at the camera, tipping his head cheekily as he and Hen walk past. The text reads, "He's a 10 but...he would die to be on reality television (but not the news. never that.)”

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nobrashfestivity · 8 months

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Anyone worried my blog is turning into a personal chatty blog of my opinions, don't. I am just having a day hating my culture. This happens more and more as you get older, sadly.

I feel like the internet has turned every interest into a cult. I remember reading how they radicalized white supremacists through memes and, at first, I thought it was a joke. But when it was explained to me, it made sense:

First you get people to laugh and then before they know it you're giving them stereotypes, conspiracies and lies in the same format and you realize it absolutely works.

You need only go to some crazy blog or website to witness how people basically believe any text written over a picture. Things that are really easy to verify, like famous people saying ridiculously racist things, because people agree with the sentiment there's no questioning of veracity.

I remember when I first had to explain qanon to someone and of course you can't because it makes no sense of any kind. But someone just got murdered for having a gay pride flag, so I don't think anything's getting better.

On another note, feel free to invite me to your Christmas party

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tarnussy · 4 months

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Merry Graftsmas!

So there's this kitschy Christmas meme format I've been seeing everywhere...

#elden ring #godrick the grafted #tarnished #godrick the golden #godrick #christmas #meme #tarnussymeme #shitpost #video game #something of hers ended up being filled alright

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not-poignant · 5 months

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I hope you have a lovely day with lots of snacks

Tl;dr the day was not lovely but there might be snacks

I actually didn't have many snacks today but I'm about to make up with it with a couple of churros and dark chocolate dipped strawberries.

Today I...woke up and showered and replied to comments on AO3 for a while, and then I spent about 4 hours formatting documents into PDFs of varying sizes for Patreon and Ream and uploading chapter commentaries into compilations. And then I did more formatting stuff behind the scenes while I stared at all the other behind the scenes stuff I need to do and thought 'writing is a hard job' quietly and intensely.

I ate lunch while I was working. I also made some memes about how overwhelmed I felt, and then made some for my readers too, lol.

And then I laid down for about 4 hours because I also have chronic illness (whee) and I am constantly in pain and varying degrees of fatigue and I literally must lie down every afternoon so I don't collapse in the evening (literally) - and I did a tiny bit of reading (webtoon: Shutline (which I immediately realised I'd read before and didn't fondly remember), webtoon: December (didn't mind this)) and then dozed restlessly because it was 40C/104F today. I also edited a Tiktok art video in Adobe Premier Rush, but I haven't put it up yet, and I should really do that.

Got up and made ham and cucumber sandwiches for dinner, and watched Girl with the Dogs on YouTube while I ate, and a Smosh video.

Then did some more work and helped a friend with her work stuff, and then I watered the garden for 1.5 hours because *points tiredly to the heatwave* and stared balefully at the dark sky (you can't water during the day - it's literally a heatwave but also it's illegal here to water during the day) with its few stars because they'd set up a severe weather warning due to extreme winds in our specific area and it was dead AF and oppressive out there and it was just hot instead.

I watched a few Tiktoks while I watered.

When I hung the hose up back on the holder thingo, I sang to my plants: 'I hope you make the best out of the water I just gave you, you little fucks' like a sweet lullaby, and a person who I didn't know was outside next door because it was like 9pm and pitch black laughed softly and sweetly, like they didn't expect it, and felt kind of fond. I didn't know I had any nice neighbours on that side of the house, so I mostly just thought 'WHOOPS SHIT' and then felt too embarrassed to say anything.

And then I came back inside and replied to some asks (hi!) and am hopefully going to eat churro's soon and it's 10pm and so I'm probably going to do some more work and then I'm going to go to bed while I feel stressed about the work I haven't done (currently Palmarosa is the heart beating beneath my floorboards). I will probably keep reading December. It's okayish.

I don't know if I'd call today lovely, because I'm burnt out and I want to put up the Christmas decorations but it's 10pm and idk if I should start that because it tends to make me severely ill to do it for a few days.

I'm a little sad, a lot lonely, a little melancholic, a little grumpy, and a little very excited about churros and chocolate dipped strawberries. I resent days that are 'work and sleep' sometimes, especially during November. That's my fault. That's on me. I'm a mean and shitty boss to myself.

Gotta do something about this burnout at some point, because December is the worst month for my PTSD, but I also need to keep getting paid, because medical bills and food and stuff. So like...finding the balance there is a constant work in progress.

There were some lovely moments today:

That little laugh from the neighbour in the dark

The first yellow peach of the season

Doing tricks with my cat (who is trained) for treats

Making silly little memes

Helping a friend with work stuff

Replying to some amazing comments

Watching cute dogs

Feeling pretty accomplished at putting up those compilations on Patreon/Ream even if I'm not done yet.

I hope you're having a lovely day too, anon, with many snacks.

#asks and answers #personal #i have not had a lovely day in a while #a member of my family died suddenly this week #suddenly and unexpectedly #and within 12 hours #two other members of my family directly impacted by this death #had to evacuate due to the fires #and idk if they can go home yet #i don't think they can but the fire has at least been downgraded #i am burnt out and sad #yesterday between working on writing stuff #i photoshopped photos of my uncle for my mum #for the funeral home #to make them nicer alkfjsa so that she doesn't have to pay someone to do this #i might delete this later y'all this might be a little too real #but sometimes it doesn't hurt maybe for people to know i'm human #hell sometimes it doesn't hurt for *me* to remember i'm human dslkfjasd

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redactahoe · 7 months

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In celebration of the new guy audio here’s some honey and guy specific headcannons(tank is mentioned abunch though)

Tw:again hella unorganized, cussing, maybe some angst, mention of of abuse and neglect, fluff so fluffy it’ll rot your brain, i can’t spell or edit for shit

Srry for formatting issues, I’m writing this on mobile

Honey grew up in a shit home with tank as their older sibling and only care taker, their mother was incredibly sickly and wasn’t given proper medical care until honey, tank, and their dying mother ran away from Washington to daliha after somehow getting Gabe’s number and leaving a mysterious ass message to look out for a 14y/o(tank) and 9y/o with their half dead mom on sled in the middle of winter

Honey and tank grew up in a cult like environment with a small ‘settlement’ of people in the middle of bum fuck nowhere Washington, with honey and tank living the farthest in the woods. To far for them to talk to anyone other than each other and their parents

Honeys father was neglectful and possessive of their mother, so he would often hurt honey and tank(tank mostly) for taking their mothers attention away from their father

After they moved to daliha, instead of spending the holidays with the pack, they spent it in the hospital with their mama until she finally was able to leave when honey was 16 and tank was 19, but anyways this is how honey first met guy

Guys family (including himself)was and still is incredibly accident prone and got himself a trip the to the hospital cause his dad fell of the roof trying to put up Christmas lights, guy was bored in the waiting room while honey was two chairs away from him waiting for tank to fill out hospitals papers(idk wtf I’m talkin about) and guy decided there and then that they were the love of his life….. I’m kidding, they’re like 15 kinda

Guy struck a conversation with a reluctant honey but they end up hitting it off really well. Though all good things come to an end and honey had to go visit mama and thought that was the last time they would see that cute(tanker teases them endlessly for this one) guy….

That is until when school is back in session and they find out they have like 3 classes with him

Guy doesn’t find out why honey was at the hospital until years later and their pretty deep in their relationship that honey tells him

On less angsty note honey is a very large wolf shifter(slot like tank, it runs in the family apparently) with an affinity to healing magic

When guy is told/finds out about the whole magic thing he is elated at the idea that honey can get even cuddlier and give him magic boo boo kisses(they vehemently deny the notion)

When guy met the pack David,Milo,asher, and tank gave him the some shovel talk put in their own ways. Guy was scared shitless but honey ended up defending their lovable idiot

At said pack meeting guy and angel have a spider man meme moment and david and angel shared the same “oh god there’s two of them now”. Lovingly though

Guy know how to cook two things and two things exclusively, and that’s pizza (obviously) and box Mac n cheese but honey is the chef in the relationship.

Honey is mixed Romanian and spanish and use to spend a lot time in kitchen with mama and tank so honey knows how to cook

Honey works out a lot as an outlet for all the trauma and anger issues so their pretty beefy and guy fuckin loves it

Guy is almost always the little spoon but whenever honey is having a bad day or feels like it they’ll let him be the big spoon

Honey is secretly super cuddly but only with the people they trust

Guy is scrawny af

Guy can’t take much seriously but the first time honey had a bad day while they were just roommates, it was the first time guy got seriously with honey, he was so gentle though.

#redacted asmr #redactedverse #redacted audio #redacted honey #redacted guy #redacted tank

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shittyelfwriter · 5 months

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ALRIGHTY here we are at weeks three and four for the santa clauses series! I did not rewatch a second time because genuinely, these melted my brain. anyway, lets get into it below the cut!

So apparently according to the tsc tag, episode 3 that I missed last week is a sort of filler episode? OH BROTHER REALLY

Normally I would not complain bc I miss old format, 20-23 episode series but because I know this Isn't That? DREAD. how are you going to plot well and good in 7-8eps if some are filler? that is just SO condensed, my guy

Counterpoint to people who were sad about it but: I thought the teen romance was annoying and I'm GLAD they ended it even JUST for a bit (it will come back to haunt again, trust. It’s a disney series ffs.) Whoever is writing this needs to ask a teen about how they talk nowadays. This is not it.

I also think we're driving the whole "Buddy is terrible at everything" punchline WAY past its breaking point. Which I would argue was last season entirely, but. At the very latest, last episode with how heavy on cringe it was. Yes, EVEN for kids/teens.

Again, they are not antagonizing Magnus Antas enough for me to hate him. waaaaay too funny to be a villain. I can't take him seriously and DON'T want to

The way that Noel keeps sideyeing the Betty cutout as if to say "do you see this shit?" during his brunch with the Clauses SENT me tbh. That's bernelle coded and I love it

I do not know why Disney gets OFF on the Clauses being absolutely inept parents but I wish they would stop

SHOUTOUT JUDY OMG JUDY'S ACTRESS THAT’S JUDY JUDY IS HERE YOU GUYS (SCREAMINGGGG)

LOVING the exterior shots of the workshop and Elfsburg. As someone who has POURED over all available screenshots from the movies of those I am LIVING for new angles (even though I do NOT think bernelle would live that close to the Workshop, but it doesn't seem like Betty and Noel can POOF like Bman and Elle can (and do))

I don't know why there are TWO instances of a "misspoken turn of phrase" in this episode but neither were funny and TWO OF THEM was REALLY bad

CHUBBY BUNNY DID NOT EXIST THAT LONG AGO. NOT IN MAGNUS ANTAS' TIME. THAT WAS AN INTERNET FAD LESS THAN TEN YEARS AGO. WHAT ARE WE DOING DUDE. WHAT ARE THESE WRITERS ON (it's not good, I don't want some)

Crossing guard callback? For what? (okay, shrug I GUESS dot meme)

Why does this specific franchise always have to make EB SO WEIRD. WHY. Nothing about this is funny it's just off-putting. Just like the previous EB flirting with Carol's MARRIED MOM in tsc3

This Carol and La Befana scene was actually very good. LOVE it when they actually just let the characters be HONEST with each other. Women supporting women core. Even if Carol's reason for being mad at her was really shallow and obviously stems form Carol's lack of identity as Mrs. Claus because they just cannot wrap that plot point from last season up.

THE LETTERS DEPARTMENT. It looks dope but HATE the explanation for it. Half assed as hell. WARNING! Rant incoming: like from what I know a LOT of postal services have little lore stories about how they get the letters to Santa. WHY COULDNT WE JUST SAY THERE ARE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN SANTA AND OTHER ADULT PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE FOR OTHERS AS WELL? Why is this series so obsessed with making everything only powered by magic and never by others (yes, humans) who want to keep the spirit alive as well? It feels like magic is being used as an "explain it all away" crutch narratively. Even in season 1, the "solution" to mass consumerism wasn't for people to be kind to each other and do little things to keep the magical parts of Christmas alive, it was to show the world that magic was real. Season 2 so far, the answer to everything is also just magic. I'm hoping that maybe the B plot with Kris will touch on this. Because as it stands right now, it feels like the writers are talking out of both sides of their mouth. Commercial Christmas is bad, but Kris is a loser for having a Santa theme park. Like?? Homogenization of Christmas is the Big Bad at large, but also up at the Pole they are trying to find ways to do the same thing to be "current". CHRISTMAS IS MULTIFACTED. It is both secular and religious! That is OKAY, I don't even think "woke" people are arguing about that. Sheesh.

Can't believe I'm micro rambling IN my ramble post. New achievement unlocked omg

The way Magnus Antas picks up on modern slang so quickly practically puts Scott to shame. Good for him

AGAIN, the misturn of phrase jokes. DEAD. Not funny. STOP

If they are going to make Sandra so op that she can just Wanda Maximoff chaos magic "I just say something when I'm mad and it happens, anything I want with no negative impact on me" I will not find that swag. That is in fact Mary Sue territory, lads

Sandra's little outburst @ La Befana was giving magical nepo baby for a moment there. Oof. "Too bad I'm just naturally more skilled than you even though I'm new and you've been a witch forever" girl SHUT. UP. You are like a little baby. Also that is so mad disrespectful like no WONDER La Befana is wanting you to slow tf down. You fly off the handle WAY to easily and we ALL know you lose control when you do! Okay loose cannon! Werk!

Riley. Girl. "we never see each other" you were just up at the Pole?? Like. OFTEN?? This is so stupid of a breakup but they are teenagers so go off kids, be dysfunctional or what have you. Rah rah, as Jack would say

Episode four now, lord help us. God has cursed me for my (loving this one Christmas movie series) hubris and my work (watching it's hellish series spin off) is never finished

"Reversing a transformation is never a guarantee" what is this La Befana? the Sims? Sounds like transformation ray odds. Magic is not THAT unpredictable, even by in-universe logic

CURTIS-ITIS!??? CURTIS FUCKING EXPLODED??

ARE YOU SO FUCKING FR RN. SO BERNARD IS MARRIED TO A SENIOR CITIZEN AND CURTIS. FUCKIN VAPORIZED?? FROM STRESS? WHAT'S NEXT? Lemme guess, Judy joined the circus. Quintin is a crypto investor or works for Tesla. WHAT ARE WE D O I N G

Not Scott moving the scissors like he's afraid Buddy will shank him or others?? SIR

SANDMAN AHHHHHHHHHH HELLO SIR /POS :D

So they just con him? As though that's a long term solutio-- OH MY GOD NOT SCOTT USING SANDMAN'S SAND ON SANDMAN HIMSELF?? that's ILLEGALE?? According to tsc3 lore: "We legendaries can't use magic on each other?" I am so bewildered by the level of retcon occurring before my very eyes at BREAKNECK speed

Sandra doesn't need magic she needs THERAPY for her ANGER ISSUES bruh. Damn. She doesn't need a rage room (in someone's house too I might add? okayyyy) she needs to learn to process like a normal human being wtf

Scott being able to look like his normal self whenever he wants and they just didn't tell him? For like. 25 years? Like its clear that by the series standards, the elves think he's a total moron. But it pendulums hard and fast between "haha funny joke" and "damn they really think he ain't shit, huh"

Edie being a fashion diva is such a serve she's grown on me this season ngl

"I had to teach him how to do all the Legendaries jobs" Scott I know you're waffling, absolutely FUMBLING but what the FUCKKKKK is that excuse??? What's Cal going to do? Be EVERY Legendary? TERRIBLE AWFUL HATE IT UNINSPIRED. Not to mention, SOME OF THE OTHER LEGENDARIES MIGHT NOT TAKE THAT NEWS WELL. Some might even feel THREATENED

"The man I die for in my sleep every night" UM? Noel? You okay there bud? Holy heck

THE PURPLE JACKET IS SWAG AND SCOTT IS A HATER. HE CANNOT SEE THE VISION

Do you guys think according to this new lore Edie made Jack's suit? because me thinks PERHAPS

Magnus Antas is kind of popping off, damn. Like I think if the gnomes hadn’t given him MAJOR delusions of grandeur and an ego trip, he could have stayed totally a vibe. But stop giving the Santas snow powers and reconning Jack holy SHIT dude. First Scott now him? HATE IT

The way they made Scott and Cal look when "invisible" is Not a Good Look heck. Its like a bad picsart filter

These Scott visions. I get why, its through the Santa magic, right? But dang its corny

So Scott knows Magnus Antas is back now. Okay. They got away from him. Lost visual on Olga, have a bad feeling she somehow sneaked into the sleigh. Weird cliffhanger but EVERY episode has been like that so far

Final thoughts: I feel like they're definitely trying to make this season take itself less seriously, but I feel like the trade off is that the writers are taking too many liberties for diversions from source material and are therefore, losing the plot entirely and retconning movie lore at will and convenience. Tl;dr, it's messy. Concepts are fun until things just become so irreverent they fall apart or lean into entirely unfunny territory. Which is just a hallmark of T*m All*n brand humor, tee em, but you know.

It feels like this series is doing everything and nothing. It wants woke points, but immediately doubles back and makes fun of those same things. It wants us to feel empathy for these characters, and immediately makes them insufferable. I am so confused as to what the takeaway is supposed to be. It all feels so poorly executed--the series retcons itself constantly, not to mention the movies. I want it to be fun, and to take it at surface value, but if you know literally anything about the movies, that becomes a challenge to do. I'm just so confused dude.

I will be shocked if this gets a third season. Truly.

Also, I miss Betty too, Noel. Wish this whole season was about HER shenanigans, instead.

So. See you all next week then?

#coping is our number one skill in this household huh #don't get me wrong! thrilling to have new tsc content to talk about but at WHAT COST #ana liveblogs tscs #I am also nearing a point where I can safely say I hope they don't show more legendaries if this is how they are going to TREAT THEM #tscs spoilers #the santa clauses

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robinruns · 4 months

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Explaining the Destiel breaking news meme format to my mom over Christmas dinner wasn't on my 2023 Bingo card, but here we are 🤷🏻‍♀️

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genderqueeradrien · 4 months

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this is probably my favourite frame in the whole video. it's incredible. the context you need to understand it is, well, you need to be familiar with cj the x's previous work on youtube as well as his recent new ep, and twilight new moon, which isn't actually that much context, but if i showed this image to my mother she wouldn't understand any of it. wilt playing in the background, the sped-up twilight footage, formatted like a top text bottom text meme, with the bottom being a promotion of an extremely popular coffee company, all in a plain font. it's incredible. if i told you this is from the very beginning of an analysis of a fanfiction of the 2009 folgers coffee christmas incest commercial specifically commenting on its structure this would only add more confusion. it's beautiful. i want to print it out and put it on my wall

#text

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mydaroga · 5 months

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Follow up on the Tune In ask, Thank you for your response!! And please, never apologize for the length, it was greatly insightful. I actually haven't started on the book yet but it came highly recommended to me as The definitive Beatles biography so I was looking around to see what others think of it. Most of the critical opinions I found on this site seem consistent with your criticisms especially about Lewisohn's tendency to cherry pick quotes or imposing a new context on them...

Well, that formatted weird. Sorry. Anyway, I will definitely try to give as thorough an answer as I have time for, so that may mean just a few examples. If you want a deeper dive I can recommend the Another Kind of Mind Series, Fine Tuning. I don't agree entirely with their approach, but I agree for the most part with their findings and concerns, if that makes sense. And then there's Serene's blog entry which does a more thorough examination of the way Lewisohn ... hrm, shall we say, stretches citations to mean... whatever he wants.

I don't know that I am going to be able to go into quite as much detail here as I didn't keep these good notes while reading. But I can think of a few things that stuck out to me before I listened/read these other takes. And I'm happy to keep talking about this or expand, I'm not saying I don't like doing this, just that I am not gonna ... okay I'm going to write an essay? But I won't be as meticulous as I should be.

The first thing that made me stop reading and just go track down what was actually going on was a passage in which Lewisohn is talking about teen Paul's resistance to getting a job, going against Jim. From Tune In:

Paul still hated anyone telling him what to do -- 'It just never occurred to me to listen to other people' -- but when Jim insisted, sometimes Paul did as bid... as John scathingly noted. He went down to the Labour Exchange and Renshaw Hall and landed a £10-a-week Christmas-period job with SPD Ltd, Speedy Prompt Deliveries.

Now, all on its own without context this is a great Paul McCartney quote because you go, "yeah that checks out." I plan on using it as a sort of Macca meme, you know? But it was soooo Paul I thought, "wait, in what context did he say that? Like, he doesn't listen ever? He's admitting he just doesn't listen to anyone?"

So weirdly, it's not actually footnoted, but I found the source. It's a 1980 interview with Tim Rice, which is entertaining in its own right because he tells the guy who co-wrote Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita and later The Lion King that, you know, musicals are boring. Anyway, not the point.

It took me awhile to find the actual quote, because it's really a throwaway, almost self-deprecating aside, in the context of how he's listening to people more now because he's realized too many smart people just talk and it might be good to listen some.

So okay. Paul did say that, and he's admitting there was a time he didn't take the time to listen, but he's doing it in a sort of jokey way. I guess it's fair to say, generally, sure, Paul has a tendency to be headstrong and go his own way and that certainly would have been a factor in his psychological battle with Jim Mac over going to get his teaching license or whatever. It's not like Lewisohn is bending the facts of anything. It's not really a big deal. But it was the moment that clued me in that he's not necessarily using like for like. There's plenty of quotes about how Paul felt about this time in his life without using a joke from 1980 to shore up your point about his resistance to dad, in a paragraph that implies he's saying it about his resistance to dad. And when you've decide that "it just never occurred to me to listen to other people" can mean "and that's why he didn't listen to Jim about work, except this time he did," I don't know. It leaves a funny taste in my mouth because then you could use it for anything Paul decides to do differently. If that makes sense. If it applies there, it applies to anything Paul does. And Paul obviously didn't mean that in 1980.

Also maybe this is more nuanced, but while "Paul still hated anyone telling him what to do" is a true statement in any time in his life, that quote itself? Is neither necessarily relevant to being told what to do or very revealing. It actually is entirely unnecessary. The passage would be completely benign and throw me no red flags without it.

Like any of the points I make or, frankly, I've heard others make, it's less that he's saying untrue things and more that by using these citations in ways that remove them from context and add them to a different context, he is painting a picture but passing it off as fact. In addition, he often will use a quote from John's angry, Lennon Remembers period to interpret Paul's motives in the early 60s, rather than using, oh I dunno, a quote from.... Paul? Or a nicer quote from John when he's contradicted himself again? Again it's all legit sourcing and citing! But the contextualizing creates something he's selling as free of interpretation which is anything but.

The other one I've been thinking about is laid out quite well in I think episode 3 of the AKOM pod, and it's about Paul's creative development. While John's is described as original and a free spirit and rebellious in his artistic ambitions--which he was--Paul's artistic endeavors almost always come with a weasel word or caveat. What I mean is, John is always described as inventive; Paul is a gifted mimic. This despite a lot of attention paid to how John was basically copying his favorite cartoonists and artists--he even says at some point everything he does is Just William and Lewis Carroll. But somehow when he does it, it's extraordinary. He's got his own voice, while Paul is a talented parrot. Lewisohn gives props to all of Paul's many accomplishments but there's always either some kind of adjective like that to take away from it or this thing that creeps in where everything Paul does is for show. There are numerous places in Tune In where Paul is ostentatiously reading difficult books so he can be seen reading them. Anytime he's trying something new or going to explore a new art form or theater experience, Lewisohn has to point out that he wants to be seen to be doing something clever. When he writes songs, Lewisohn points out that he's not just writing songs, he's thinking about the image of being a writer or something like that. It's never because he's artistic, or likes the thing. He needs to be seen as someone liking the thing.

Now, we do have a quote from Paul about this. He does mention thinking about the image of a poet with the pipe and the leather patches, and he does at one point get a pipe and you know, famously pretend to be French to try to pull birds. (He does this again on that little week off he takes in France, years later, reminiscing about imagining he's a novelist in a cafe.) It's not that I'm saying Paul isn't capable of being pretentious! (I still have the beret I insisted on getting for my birthday when I was 16. I'm not immune. I still look great in it.) But Paul's, again, self-deprecating description of himself as a goofy teen appears to be the only 'proof' Lewisohn has that his reading, his art, his going to shows alone no one else cares about, is a pretense.

Again. It's not a huge deal and it's not like Paul didn't factually do all of this. It's that in a text that he's insisted in the front matter is free of speculation, Lewisohn's included numerous interpretations of Paul's (and others') motives without any direct proof/citation for those interpretations. That, I'm afraid, is speculative. And that's fine for an author to engage in--but he needs to be clear about it.

For the record he does this with John, too. He interprets numerous, sometimes almost contradictory actions of John's as "evidence" of his ability to lead. Sometimes he's like, in front and sometimes he's doing nothing and Lewisohn will conclude this was John also leading.

The point of all this isn't, like I said in my original post, that I think any one of these things is that bad. Paul's kinda pretentious? Maybe sometimes he did like to be seen reading War and Peace or whatever? Maybe John sitting back and watching what his mates are going to do is leadership? The problem, for me, is that it's not presented in a way that meets the premise of Lewisohn's introduction, which promises a work free of the prejudices and unsubstantiated speculation of his forebears. And I really do think that Lewisohn has convinced himself that he's done enough research and been a keen enough "Paul watcher" that it no longer counts as interpretation. I fear he may actually believe that he's done the math.

Again, I think you should read it. I loved the attention to detail and you'll get a lot out of it. But just be aware of this tendency, which I no longer think I'm imagining. And these are just the first two things I thought of and wanted to rant about.

#oh man thank you so much for enabling me #you don't know how great it feels to get to just babble about my thoughts lol #i'm really touched that whoever you are thinks my opinion is even worthy!!#kris reads tune in #kris talks a lot #tune in anon #anon asks

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HP Winter Holiday & December Prompt Challenges

Updated on Nov 30: Added TTB presents the Twelve Days of Yule Bash.

I posted this on Potterfests on DW and LJ. Thought I'll share it here as well.

Here is a list of HP prompt challenges that are running in December and beyond. Some are themed around winter holidays and December; some aren't. Have fun!

TTB presents The Twelve Days of Yule Bash *ADDED* A HP canon-compliant prompt challenge for the winter holiday. Self-posting and reblogs will run from December 11 to December 22. Tumblr | AO3 | Rules & Prompts

Rare Pair Shorts Winter Prompt Extravaganza 2023 *ADDED* A HP rare pair prompt challenge for December, January and February, hosted by the Rare Pair Shorts community. Maximum word count is 2000 words. Posting to Dreamwidth is optional. For a list of banned ships, see here. Dreamwidth | Tumblr | AO3 | Info & December Prompts (also on Tumblr)

dracoharry100 Christmas Challenge 2023 *ADDED* A Draco/Harry Christmas prompt challenge hosted by dracoharry100 on Dreamwidth and Livejournal. No word count limit. It runs from December 1 to 31. Dreamwidth | LJ | Rules & Prompts (also on LJ)

Liquid Luck Roll the Dice Challenge Winter Edition A winter themed HP prompt challenge. To recieve your randomly generated prompts, send the mod a message on Tumblr. Request a prompt: November 15 - January 24 Self-post to AO3: December 1 - January 31 Tumblr | AO3 | Rules | How to get a prompt

HP Yuletide Bliss 2023 A HP fic prompt challenge celebrating the winter season. It runs from December 1 to 31. Tumblr | AO3 | Rules & Prompts

Marauders Christmas Fest A 12-day winter holiday fest focusing on Marauders era characters. The fanwork doesn't have to take place in the Marauders era. The challenge runs from December 20 to 31. Tumblr | Twitter | Website | AO3 & Rules | Prompts

25 Days fo Draco and Harry 2023 A Draco/Harry winter holiday challenge. Self-posting runs from December 1 to 25. Traditional format prompts, which will be a bit different from early bird prompts, will be released daily from December 1 to 25. Livejournal | Dreamwidth | Tumblr | AO3 | Rules (also on Tumblr)

Snolidays 2023 A Severus-centric holiday challenge hosted by snapecelebration on Tumblr. Any medium is welcome. The fest runs from December 1 - 31. Tumblr | Info & Prompts

Game of Drarry's Drarropoly 2023 A Draco/Harry prompt challenge inspired by Monopoly. Run by Game of Drarry. Sign-up ends: January 14 Last day to get new prompt: February 2 AO3 collection closes: March 9 Tumblr | Discord | AO3 | Announcement | Player's Handbook | Sign-up Form

HP Deflower December A month-long HP daily prompt challenge focusing on loss of virginity. It runs from December 1 to 31. Tumblr | AO3 | Guidelines & Prompts

In addition, the ones below are still open or are accepting late submissions till December 31:

Harry Potter Kink Meme Round 2: Prompting ends on December 31. Fills are open indefinitely for both Round 1 and 2.

HP Snooze Fest: Sleep themed.

HP Cottagecore Fest: Cottagecore.

Harry Potter James Week: Harry-centric.

Wood You Rather: Oliver Wood-centric.

Snarry AUctoberfest: Severus/Harry and AUs. This one will accept late additions till May 2024. See here for more info.

And a few upcoming prompt challenges that will happen in 2024:

Good Godfather Sirius Black Fest: Non-romantic Sirius & Harry. It will run throughout the month of January.

HP Animagi Week: Prompts reveal on January 8. The event will happen in April.

Ladies of HP Fest 2024: Opens in April. You can check the schedule here. They are also running monthly minis twice a month, each time centering on one HP female character.

If you are looking for prompt challenge communities/blogs that regularly post new prompts monthly, biweekly, etc., see Lists of Prompt Communities.

Note: Many of these communities, including the ones currently on breaks, welcome everyone to use older prompts as well as new ones.

If you are curious about what HP fests are happening right now, see HP Fest Schedule for the most up-to-date info. See also HP Fest News Round-up for a round-up of HP fest news and announcements.

#potterfests updates #hp fests #harry potter fests #hpevents #hp prompt challenge

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for the 'get to know a character with 10 questions' ask meme, what would be your thoughts on drift or whirl mtmte? or if not those guys, a mtmte character of your choice? :3c

i was gonna wait to get on my computer to answer this but a capacitor blew on the motherboard yesterday so you get mobile formatting sorry. original post here, gonna answer just for whirl to keep it short but i’m open to other characters! tailgate please I Know Him Personally

1. What is the character’s go-to drink order?

he’s publicly disdainful of “froufrou shit”, and as such orders straight unfiltered engex (in human terms, everclear). in reality his tastes are a little more refined, but empurata hampered his senses enough that the difference between borderline drinking rubbing alcohol and the stuff he used to actually like is pretty negligible

2. What is their grooming routine?

mostly? he Doesn’t, and has to be dragged kicking and screaming to deal with non-lifethreatening injuries. he leaves most scratches and scrapes in place until they start, like, actually threatening his structural integrity, both because they make him look cool/intimidating and because he just doesn’t care very much

3. What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go?

hilarious to assume he has money. but what he has goes to either fucked up movies from the 60s or supplies to build chronometers. he’s bought expensive stuff for the purposes of dubiously ethical pranks before though

4. Do they have any scars or tattoos?

he has a few crude engravings, think “kill counts” and decapitated head cartoons and such. as for scars, lol. lmao

5. What was the last time they cried, and under what circumstances?

lol. lmao. (maybe once or twice, ever. his optics are definitely sparking during the hostage situation in #6 but i think it’s more general extreme emotion/stress rather than Crying as we see tailgate do it. but i do think it’s a sign he cares more than he lets on at the time)

6. Are they an oldest, middle, youngest or only child?

not applicable for obvious reasons, but i think he has “parents had him really young and Were Not Prepared” energies

7. Describe the shoes they’re wearing.

again, not strictly applicable, but if we’re talking human au… uh, also not applicable because i draw him using blade prosthetics lmao. if it was applicable i’d say the world’s most beaten up docs

8. Describe the place where they sleep.

empty slab. no personal affects. looks like no one lives or sleeps there. He doesn’t even have a bedframe. in human terms think like mattress on the floor with a sheet and nothing else

9. What is their favorite holiday?

anything providing sufficient context to get hammered and/or make fun of the primes and/or make fun of other people. not a fan of christmas because it’s depressing though. i think he’d pretend to be really into festivus or somesuch other thing because he thinks it’s funny conceptually but doesn’t care enough to actually buy into it but it annoys people when he does so he pretends to

10. What objects do they always carry around with them?

weapons. multiple, preferably.

#maccadam #mtmte whirl #mtmte #tf #whirl #ask #ix05 #tysm for the ask ;_;!!#op #meta

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