#fuck this team. FUCK EM

[knowlesian]

okay: let’s talk candied melon silk moths, everybody. because holy shit, did i just blow my own fucking mind upon this very night.

full disclosure: i had this shit planned out a little before i sat down to google. i’d start with a little light ‘i’m not a bug-ologist, buuuuut’ joke and then synthesize what i’d read on google into a readable bit of moth fact/history before moving onto Considering The Humble Moth.

but ofmd has ruined that. because here’s the thing: there is no such thing as a candied melon silk moth. 

now, the rosy maple moth? that moth exists, and their habitat stretches well past st. augustine down to nearly the tip of florida. they’re apparently the smallest kind of silk moths, which seems Not An Accident given the way this show is playing with toxic masculinity and expectations surrounding it. 

they were classified in 17-fucking-93, because of course they were. by johan christian fabricius, which is just a really fucking cool name. i don’t make these rules. (i did some light research on him and it ended in Very Interesting/The Kind of Problematic You’d Expect From A Man Named That Doing Science-y Things Around Then places, so i’m gonna do more there later.)

for now, the basics. this level of detail and then a last minute hard swerve into We Do What We Want, Fuck You means they did the work: they didn’t just slap together some latin and make up a name and call it a day to avoid paying... moth copyright???? 

they tracked down an interesting moth, did their research on it, and then cackled with glee as they changed one very important letter and made up their own goddamned moth, because it’s all fuckery here. masks on masks on masks, all of them a little bit real just because we put them on and went about our day.

and because ofmd looks at history, at traditional power structures and the crushing weight they put on every single one of us living under them, and asks: why? and what if it weren’t like that?

in the real world, these were not the men we are watching fall in love; the real ed and stede did horrible fucking things. they were, in colloquial terms, The Bad Guys.

but what if they were these men, instead? what if we stole their names and histories and pasted our stories on their fucking faces. what IF we colonized the colonizers and made them dance to our fucking tunes, this time? 

what if nobody had to define themselves against what they aren’t? what if a rosy maple moth was a candied melon silk moth because fuck you for saying it can’t be different, this time of all times?

so fuckin’ yeah. there’s THAT, which really put a spin on how i planned to organize this meta. i mean: what do i DO with that shit???? that’s fucking insane. i’m gonna fight these people. fight them with my TEARS because they have pushed my love over the borderline. feels like i’m going to lose my mind, & etc.

what the fuuuuuuuck.

that little mental/song break over, onto what i knew i was going to talk about.

first: that they used a moth at all. we have a lot invested in the butterfly as an image/metaphor as a culture. at worst it’s a literal started ugly, ended up beautiful thing, at best it’s about metamorphosis and transition/transformation and the revealing of a true self (things ofmd is also very interested in) but the physical beauty part is always lurking there in the subtext, making things a liiiiittttle bit weird.

this particular moth also happens to be legit cute as fuck, but we don’t attach that kind of beauty baggage to moths. instead, our favorite moth metaphor is about danger. moths to a flame, we say, because we are REAL scared of warmth and pleasure. (and emotional risk, understandably.)

and oh look! ed and stede, moths to each other’s flame; these two are drawn together, the way whole crew is drawn together, by accident and irresistibly until they're a family in ways they couldn’t have planned for or ever anticipated. none of them started out in the same place, some of them didn’t start out speaking the same languages, a lot of them are still on the way to figuring out who they are: but here they are. drawn together in their various states, anyway.

(puts the fire at the heart of stede’s liminal space ship in new context, huh? fuck this stupid show.)

but here’s where it gets real weird: that’s a silk moth.

stede, privileged and still in his cocoon not quite With It stede, holds in his hands the creature responsible for the red handkerchief ed’s mother was tricked into believing god didn’t want people like them to have. and he offers it up to ed, entirely clueless of the resonance he holds in his hands, eager to share it without even knowing the fucking magic he is capable of conjuring for a million reasons fair and unfair, systemic and personal: the means of fuckin’ production.

because god doesn’t decide who gets silk, rich fuckers don’t decide who gets silk.

no silk moths, no silk from those moths.

fuck god and fuck rich people: drill down to the absolute core, the humble moth holds the actual power here.

and that moth gives no shits about these stupid rules. the moth doesn’t give a single solitary fuck if ed has a piece of silk or the king of england has that same exact piece, because of fucking course it doesn’t. ‘deserve’? fuck that. the moth isn’t like oh GOLLY i hope somebody with class puts me on. somebody with a full bank account. those people deserve me: nobody else.

the people who benefit most made up those rules about who gets what and why they get it, and now for some reason a lot of us help enforce it without any hope of feasting on their crumbs.

and if you think about it we made up god, technically, because we invented words and belief structures and intricate rituals to explain this gnawing ache and loneliness inside just as much as the surge of impossible hope or unshakeable, inexplicable sense of Something More. and none of us can prove entirely the others are wrong, even though many of us will kill and die to insist otherwise.

either way, this i know for sure: we definitely fucking made up money.

so stede’s got his cute little metaphor moth perched on his finger, eagerly offering it for inspection. he is literally offering up to ed the means of production for the object that represents his heart. 

and the kicker: he doesn’t even know it’s happening.

(neither of them do. not yet.)

i mean. this fucking show is just ridiculous.

i’m sure there’s a Lot More here, and i want to keep writing about how they use stede’s privilege/wealth in this fascinating way where it informs his character for good and ill and functions as a commentary on the unfortunate reality that sometimes people who will one day show amazing solidarity start from a place of good-hearted Not Having A Clue, and then move and grow from there as they see more of the world and watch the people they love experience pain in ways they never anticipated. but that’s an adjacent lane and another piece of writing!!!

so for now: fuck this show, and let us continue to consider the Humble Silk Moth i guess.

#our flag means death #my ofmd meta #i'm so mad at this fucking show all the time #like i am sure i will wake up at four am and go FUCK ME I MISSED THIS OBVIOUS THING #for now: the emotional scream i will call a freewrite #fuck this team. FUCK EM #ugh i will be thinking about the moth ALL NIGHT

[wiiwarechronicles]

do you see the vision .

#tempted to tag this as bush medicine both becs the original clip is in a romantic context and because I think autistic people should kiss #but this wasn’t drawn under that. I just wanted to draw em both #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 sniper #fuck it #bushmedicine #softiestyx #I know the whittling makes no sense but you have to be nice to me right now ok!?

[mr-president]

DISCOOORD i’m howlin at the moon n sleepin in the middle of a summer afternoon

format stolen from here

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 heavy #tf2 engineer #tf2 soldier #tf2 spy #tf2 demoman #heavymedic #engimedic #medicspy #science party #…that’s all the ship names i know im sorry #the other 3 boys are digging a hole in the sand btw #im too fucking tired to draw more rn i’ll draw em later

[gracefireheart]

✨Here comes Team Fortress - Pokemon [Mystery Dungeon] Edition✨

'Aight, so, let's go over who is what and why I chose said pokemon for them;

Pyro - [shiny] Heatmor: This one was chosen from a poll I made, which had a few different fire type pokemon in it for, well, obvious reasons. And honestly, I'd say Heatmor was a pretty good choice in the end. Also, their ability would be Flash Fire :]

Demoman - Druddigon: I'm gonna be truthful. Originally, I thought "it would be cute if he was a Druddigon since it looked like the dragon on the Scottish flag :)." And then, way too late into the drawing, I remembered that the flag I was thinking about (that has a dragon) is Wales, not Scotland o(-( But I just said fuck it, let the man be a (imo) cool af dragon. Oh, and his ability would be Sheer Force.

Sniper - Inteleon: The most obv pick for him as 1. He has the Sniper ability. 2. He literally has a special move called "Snipe Shot". 3. Has a Gigantamax that has Inteleon high up on it's elongated tail, staring down at it's opponent with a water sniper harpoon thingy. And 4. Inteleon is lanky.

Heavy - [Regular] Ursaluna: It's a bear. It's big af at 2.4m tall (or 7'10"). And it has the ability Bulletproof :)

Scout - Grafaiai: I first looked after pokemon with high speed stats, noted some of them down, then spotted Grafaiai, which is a mischievous fella that does grafiti. And since I like the thought of Scout being a good artist (because of Expiration Date), I thought it would be neat. His ability would be Prankster.

Medic - [shiny] Togekiss: Mainly, I wanted to choose a fairy type pokemon for him 'cause of the old "dragon slayer memes" that went around when the fairy typing had been announced and was shown to be super effective against dragon type pokemon, which used to only be weak against other dragon types pokemon. That, and Togekiss kinda looks like a dove (even if it's supposed to be a plane? Apparently?) His ability would be Serene Grace.

Soldier - [shiny] Rampardos: Not gonna lie, I just thought this pokemon would fit him well. Sure, I wasn't able to put his soldier helmet on 'cause of how dumb this pokemon's head is, but I still thought it would fit him. His ability would either be Sheer Force or Mold Breaker.

Engineer - Raichu: Another one I did a poll for, and again, I liked the outcome :) Raichu just feels like a very Engineer pokemon.

Spy - Zoroark: The most obvious one of them all due to the ability unique to Zoroark, aka Illusion. There's not really anything else I can add onto this lol

#This took so long to draw holy fuck orz #my art #Team Fortress 2 #TF2 Fanart #I'm not gonna tag 'em all o(-( #Pokemon

[rainbowpufflez]

Giovanni homophobia arc™️

#they’re all fucking with Gio which is why Rose still asks about them all dating #the real reason Team RR fell apart /j #they aren’t called Team Rainbow Rocket for nothing 😏 #all ur ships can be real if you’re brave enough #someone get Cyrus’s aro/ace outta there tho #that poor man just wants to leave #Archie and Maxie makeout session #Ghetsis is homophobic cause I say so /hj #sorry for the jumpscare in page two (lying) #Gus and Lys wouldn’t actually be dating at this point in the timeline but they are here for the joke #I tried on the French can’t promise it’s right 😭 #my friend checked it tho so hopefully we slay (shoutout to my friend tho fr!!) #All u need to know is Lys has murderous intentions as per usual #Archie is trans because I love him #Lys is Archie and Maxie’s designated fight stopper cause I hate him #team rainbow rocket #giovanni pokemon #lysandre pokemon #cyrus pokemon #lusamine pokemon #chairman rose #archie pokemon #maxie pokemon #ghetsis pokemon #perfectworldshipping #hardenshipping #<- u can tag it as other ships those are just the two ones I definitely implied #go crazy go stupid #make em a big polycule why not /hj #rainbowpufflez art tag

[youtappedout]

oh they are going to HELL

#hate hate hate fans like this #anyone who's watched him from NXT to this should be well aware how much he's been underutilized for YEARS goddamn #the tag team win + the bloodline was definitely the most over and push he got so he's just actually riding the high now #cos let's be honest he was really fucking amazing in it. funniest even. brought so much good unseriousness with 'em #and these unwashed fuckers have the gall to be so upset with him like they didn't chant or laugh with sami? gtfo honestly #i am mad on a friday morning. thanks twitter iwc u suck #sami zayn #cr: Wrestle Features on X

[peterfankoffski]

One more. For AVPM’s 14th anniversary

#team starkid #starkid #a very potter musical #avpm #avps #avpsy #avpt #a very potter trilogy #lauren lopez #fuck jkr #tw harry potter #barbie 2023 #em’s memes

[amidalis]

FUCK the Greens™️ NOW AND FOREVER!!!

#FUCK EM!!!! SWIFT DEATH ON ALL OF EM!!!! #hotd #house of the dragon #game of thrones #kiki speaks #oooh plotting bastards!!!!!! #TEAM BLACK!!! *airhorns* #asoiaf

[likeabitchylamb]

it's so genuinely interesting to look at my favorite characters in supernatural because it changes so much as the show goes on and each character is different in each season and with each writer. Like, Sam in the early seasons with the demon blood, his brand of daddy issues, his trying to be good but everyone including heaven is telling him he's nothing more than a demon blood-drinking vessel of Lucifer, and he'll sacrifice himself to save the world and stop the apocolapse. oh my god i think about that every five minutes. he's just a long, shaggy-haired, too-tall, and too-kind young man. he sees the best in everyone, and tries to redeem monsters when he can because if he can save them, he can save himself, right? and later on I think about the soulless sam and hallucinating lucifer and the ramifications of being in the cage for so long, and all that so often. but then... idk he has his moments from time to time, but it felt like his character finished and just needed a woman to pair off with because TV character arcs always end with characters marrying, but he didn't even properly get that? he married an off-screen woman after his actual love interest DIED!

then we get dean, who started out as the typical beer-loving cool womanizer dude who loves his family, his car, and hunting things. then he gets broken down as the show goes on into exploring his daddy issues, and it was never something i really fully loved until later on, mostly because the show was always so insistent on keeping his Cool Status at first. then he did and it was always so good. but the show always put a beer back in his hand, a gun in his pocket, and I always left the season feeling like there was more to be explored. he can yell, scream, and cry, but he was never allowed to truly grow from those experiences. he died a hunter, after explicitly showing that was the last thing he wanted.

casiel. oh my god i love castiel. he very quickly became my favorite character above sam with his lack of understanding social queues and his relationship with heaven. ohhhhhh my GOD his relationship with heaven. that scene at the bench where he's begging for clarification and a sign and for god to talk to him????? I'm sobbing. at times i felt like his character's arcs were forced, or his arc was too quick, or off-screen, but that's a by-product of the studio keeping him as a side character so misha had a max number of episodes to show up in. i really hate not seeing "starring: misha collins" because misha really is the heart of the character. just like everyone, but especially misha. he kept castiel around and brought him to life beyond what was expected and that was how it was from day fucking one of his portrayal. oh my god.

also, adam! because his bitterness and spite and hatred always felt So Real. imagine you're him, and your dad travels for his job, but comes to baseball games and he's nice and all. then he disappears and suddenly two men, kinda older than you, show up saying all sorts of crazy shit. they're your father's children from his first marriage before his wife died when they were super young -what?- and his job was hunting monsters -what the fuck?- and you're actually a dark secret in his life and they are fucking pissed cause he was such a shit dad to him -what the FUCK?- oh, and he's dead, killed by a demon -what the actual FUCK- then you get possessed by -get this- the archangel Michael and before you can even begin to properly process that angels exist and the apocolapse is happening because you're still reeling over the fact that your dad was a deadbeat to his two other children who were raised to hunt monsters and your family was like a vacation getaway for him so he can pretend to be normal instead of raising his two other children properly, but you can't think about THAT because oh my god sam took control of lucifer and dragged you and Michael, btw in the same body, down to the hell. but not normal hell, oh no, this is the cage where time is so much faster and you're there for hundreds of years and lucifer is torturing sam and it's awful and you're stuck there with Michael and wow, did he ever say goodbye to his mom (note: i forget if his mom is even alive or talked about, but i assume so) Then you get brought back, and of COURSE YOU HATE EVERYONE!!!

#likeabpost #im not adding everyone im stopping here #so just call it why i like the winchesters except the parents fuck 'em #spn #supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #castiel #team free will #tfw #adam spn #adam winchester #idk if he had a different last name sorry adam

[anshiel]

It’s weird to argue over ships in 2023, going to amy rose ship tag and seeing arguments

but also, girls we need to unite against the true enemy, people who hate on Amy Rose STILL

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #anshiel's text post #sorry when i go look at fanfic and they r calling amy a crazy fangirl and excluding her from the entire team and the author obv hates her #i scream #nways should i tag this w ships? i have lots and even the ones i don't ship i see the appeal of em #amy rose #fuck it ill tag it #i could also go on a tirade about what canz be good and appealing about amy rose ships anyway because she's amazing but also maybe later #sticksamy #blazamy #metamy #surgeamy #silvamy #sonamy #shadamy #ok those r the ones ik and should be the order i discovered em in #sorry but like @anyone who hates on amy: SHUT UP #SHE'S PERFECT THE WAY SHE IS WHAT DO U HAVE AGAINST GIRLS WHO R SO FULL OF LOVE MOTHERFUCKER #YES EVEN THAT ONE U SAY IS THE''WORST''VERSION OF HER #amy rose fans we r god's specialest warriors 4 putting up w this<3 #esp the guys who've been here longer i can't imagine how bad the hate was in the 2000s... the fukig misogyny

[aspennntree]

guys who

who put the lamp on etsy

#rwby #rwby relics #relic of knowledge #rwby jinn #yes i am aware that its 3d printed its just so funny to me that they use an image from the show with it #rwby shitpost #was this before or after it got stolen #emerald would do this to spite cinder honestly #or neo #yeah neo would do this #neo and em team up for one last time to fuck over cinder

[courfaeriedust]

Okay I would like to talk about Sam the Quarterback in Kaleidotrope, because I adore her and also her arc is so funny to me.

So this is her big realisation moment:

I think this is one of my favourite pieces of Sidlesmith ridiculousness because it’s just, what??? This team have won basically every game intentionally playing badly, until the timing is dramatic enough to stage a desperate comeback. Every game. Every game, and they just think it’s all because of the Sidlesmith Magic. Like, what is up with that??? Do they think they’re a really bad team and it’s only because of the Magic that they’re able to win? Are they just fucking around til the last minute? Are they instructed to do this by their coaches in order to keep the football-watching population of Sidlesmith happy and secure that the tropes are still going as planned??

And what’s it like to play on that team? If they’re winning every game they must be highly ranked (I am very British please feel free to correct me on how American College Football works), so I assume the entry expectations are high? Do they recruit and then the freshmen come in like ‘yeah I can play good football’ and then get told ‘sure, but not until the final quarter’? How frustrating must that be?? But Sam seems to genuinely be shocked by the idea of playing some other way. But imagine also playing against this team. You start playing. You’re winning easily. You get cocky and then Sidlesmith start playing well suddenly and oops they’ve smashed up your lead and is this even the same team, suddenly you’re way outmatched and there’s nothing you can do and then oops you lost, even though no one should have been able to make up for that lead you had during the first three quarters. And you hear that they’ve done it to other teams, no matter how good. And so the next time you play against them you keep your guard up, you warn all your rookies. They don’t believe you after the first quarter, but you know what you’ve seen. You keep the lead up; Sidlesmith get some scrappy points but nothing nearly to the level you remember them being at last time. And then when you’re begging your team not to let this lull you into a false sense of security, BAM, Sidlesmith take it seriously again and even though you play your hardest you suddenly can’t do anything to keep hold of the ball. AGAIN. And you ask them about it afterwards, because this must be some kind of joke, right? They must be mocking you, or maybe they think you’re a terrible team and they don’t want to make you look too bad. But no, it’s none of that — or at least, they don’t say that. They just talk about the “Sidlesmith Magic”. All of them, with no conferring. If it’s a joke they’re all incredible actors. You seriously wonder if it’s some kind of performance-enhancing drug, this magic stuff, but you find out another team had accused them of that, demanded drug tests, and had to drop a bunch of their own teammates as a result. All the Sidlesmith team had been indisputably clean. So you’re left with nothing, no answers, a demoralised team, and thousands of questions about what the hell the Sidlesmith team are up to.

This got so very off track, but anyway: Sam’s incredible, what the actual fuck is up with that whole thing, and I’m so excited for Sam’s future where she just obliterates every single team in the league.

#Kaleidotrope #Sam the Quartback #She’s so serious!!! #The whole opposing team sidetrack has me wondering in general what people outside Stoneybrook think of Sidlesmith #But that should probably be it’s own post #For Sam I’m imagining in their next year they do so amazingly that all the pro football teams are like… can we play too? #So they set up a bunch of charity games #And those ARE more difficult but they still win #Obviously #alternatively the next year they’re all like #Oh fuck we actually need to do more cardio if we’re doing this properly for all four quarters #This has been Kaleidotrope Thoughts with Em

[arachnid-guts]

I love how my brain was like OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS GAME!!!!!!! DISCO ELYSIUM!?!?!?? HELL YEAH, NEURON ACTIVATION. WE ARE GONNA CONSUME THIS BECAUSE ME HAPPY WHEN I SEE THEM BITCHES!!!!!!! Then two months later i don't know what the fuck happened and now tf2 is eating my ass like, this hyperfixation is even worse... Wow.

#i'm not complaining #just confused #as fuck #anyway #having hyperfixations is fun #i've been slowly getting out of my artblock thanks to this games #hyperfixations help to improve!! #remember this #now. back to the old men #goddamn #love me some deranged hot mercs. you know? #i need an exorcism #team fortress 2 #tf2 #disco elysium #haha guess who i'd like to bang? everyone. #SORRY #also. RIP to all my de wips #i'm not finishing any of them #fuck em

[stromer]

WHY DO THE CANUCKS HATE THE CONCEPT OF CLINCHING SO MUCH OH MY GODDDDDDUHHHHH

#let's fuck around and find out and do this in the lamest and most unnecessary way possible 👍🏼 #goofy ass team. DEEPLY UNSERIOUS! #get me in that locker room rick. I'll knock some identity into em #canucks lb

[denkisauce]

HELLO????????

#THEY SAID ALL TEENAGERS SCARE THE LIVING SHIT OUTTA ME #FUCK EM UPPPPP JIROUUUUU #jirou vs afo??? #most unexpected match up right here #but also so terrified #tokoyami and jirou?????? goth team up of the century????? #do not lay a finger on my children #bnha 354 #bnha manga spoilers #my stuff #kyouka jirou #jirou

[peterfankoffski]

Back to 🔮spells🔮 and 🪄enchantments🪄 and 🧪potions🧪 and ✨friends!✨

To Gryffindor!

Hufflepuff!

Ravencl—

SLYTHERIN!!!

#team starkid #starkid #avpm #a very potter musical #a very potter trilogy #em’s memes #fuck jkr