#great just great

[thankstothe]

#house md #gregory house #james wilson #screencap #s07e09 “Larger Than Life” #house's an atheist to the surprise of no one #wilson keep getting invited to family dinners #cuddy's there its directed to cuddy and we also get the wilson close-ups #great just great #this show is great #why is it and interesting question huh? #it really didn't cross your mind when you were on one knee proposing to him?

[thetiredstuff]

I just had a meeting with my thesis advisor who was my last choice to have as a thesis advisor. And we basically had to introduce ourselves and say what we wanted to do and then he also just explained some more about the process.

It left me so disheartened and I felt so stupid and like I just didn’t understand a thing about anything so after the meeting I just went to the restroom and started crying

And this is so stupid but I posted on my Instagram best friend story that it didn’t go well and I was crying in the restroom of my uni and three of them saw it and none of them like even sent me a message sending me love or hugs or anything.

I just feel so alone and undesirable and stupid and a failure. Just like, is this what life is about? I don’t wanna have this for the next 50 plus years

#me #not spn #and now I’m crying on the train #great just great

[endless----love]

ngl the chances of Moldova not even qualifying this year are getting higher now I think 😭😭😭 EBU really had to sandwich us between two huge favorites (israhell and sweden) oof

#eurovision #eurovision 2023 #eurovision moldova #not too happy with the running order #that was so unexpected #oof #i'll be stressed until may #great just great

[evantho]

evanjoyner: sometimes i hate life lol

#my ex best friend got engaged on my birthday #great just great

[3knecrotic]

I'm so hungry I'm nauseous but the thought of Eating food makes me feel like I'll get More nauseous, and yet the food I made For Myself To Eat made me Repulsed . So what the fuck .

#vent #thc rambles #great just great #bored broke tired hungry nauseous in pain And Alone! #so cool.

[greaserink]

Cicero be upon ye

#i am skipping cicero across a pond #skyrim #cicero #shit how i HAVE to draw him #great just greaT

[strawbbfluff]

wriothesley carries handcuffs around… thinking very normal thoughts

#great just great #jade you do not need another MAN to simp for #he’s pixels girl #STAY CALM #jade stfu

[slavicprincess1966]

DO NOT SEARCH UP DAVE GAHANS PIERCING

#well you guys probably already know abt it but im jsut now finding oht #what the hell #im mortified hes quite a guy #dave gahan #depeche mode #oh yeah i also came across the photograph of mart getting head. #great just great

[hissterical-nyaan]

This day started so beautifully

I really have so much expectations from it

#woke up with drilling happening right on my fucking head #then my wall started seeping and there are big ass wet spots on it #and now the electricity is gone too #great just GREAT

[shukuchiisms]

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#one mouth taking more than 10 pills because of that #great just great #also another week here

[vierss-herondale]

I grabbed my laptop to write something for work and ended up on Tumblr. 2 hours later I remembered that I hadn't done any work and now it's almost ten at night

#great just great #why am i like this? #it’s my fault for waiting till sunday #but my new theme looks good #😌 #personal #vierssherondale

[butchdonne]

what studying literature feels like

#it’s always one of these two. #either i have a great point in my head i just can’t express it right or i have OUGHDGDHHD in my head and i need to make that useful……. #pip squeaks #literature

[free-piza]

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#txt #put your energy where it'll make a difference #i have not and will never be silent about sperling but they are not the smallest in my library #it might be Dachs - which is swiss! #and i love that for me because i understand fuck all it's all just vibes to me #and the vibes are great #muted post

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

#peach rambles #you don’t have to get rid of blorbo and squimbus!! they would look great on top of your beautiful new nightstand you’ve been excited about #hall of fame i guess #i get. the sneaking suspicion this post has inspired at least two other posts #to the effect of ‘uhmmm i was ALWAYS excited about these things??’ #yes i did have to do my own chores as a kid prommy. i just didn’t have feelings about stuff yet ok

[mcapriglione-art]

what do you want!!!!!!!!

#great #thanks #cat #comic #cats #my art #she's literally been screaming at me all day #and im cleaning so im moving about the house and she's just following me going MEOW ME WO M WOWM ME WO MEOW #and ill pet her and give her treats and shes like mewo mwow meow meow meow

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years