#i am fascinated by them

[copperbadge]

I work for a nonprofit that deals in terminal diseases, so I google a lot of obituaries, and obituaries are an insane part of the virtual world and the weird panopticon in which we’ve found ourselves. I’m not even counting the obits with autoplay midi files when you load the page, like some kind of morbid MySpace. 

Say I’m looking for the obituary of someone we know has passed, call him Joe Weston, that’s a relatively common name. If I google his name plus the disease we know he passed from, I’ll generally find any obituary that exists for him with relative speed. 

But if I just google his name and “obituary”, Google tends to show me obits in a virtual geographic plotting -- it starts with obits of people with that name who are closest to the location where Google thinks I am, and radiates outwards from there. So unless it’s a famous person, if Google senses via my IP address that I’m in Chicago, it starts with obits in Chicago, then gives me obituaries in the burbs, then Illinois and Wisconsin, then Michigan, and so forth. I almost never search just the name and “obituary”, so I only noticed this because my work’s VPN is located on the east coast and if I’m on the VPN it starts my treasure hunt in Connecticut. 

What I’m saying is that I, a researcher in death, am surrounded by ghosts, and Google knows where they are. 

#digital mysticism #death #obituaries #i am fascinated by them

[lavenderjewels]

“Don’t worry about it” [cut to current manga events]

#I am fascinated by them #jjk spoilers #jujutsu kaisen #kenjaku #tengen #‘don’t worry about it’ with the :| face #really setting up their baggage with each other this early on. love it <3 #id in alt

[raposabranca]

Loose muzzle

#cw flashing #magnuspod #the magnus archives #daisy tonner #basira hussain #raposabranca #gif #tma #i am fascinated by them #not that i like them but i AM fascinated

[fruit-teeth]

Cool ass goats in my local liquor store

#pics #just me things #they’re statues obviously but #I am fascinated by them #goats

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

Respectfully the idea that Calico Jack lied about sleeping with Ed is the most boring possible reading of them. It's so much more interesting if they fucked.

#i am fascinated by them #ofmd #our flag means death #blackbeard #blackbeard ofmd #edward teach #edward teach ofmd #calico jack #calico jack ofmd #it is truely the cowards headcannon tbh #they make each other insane

[alloutofgoddesses]

I cannot wait for the Ashton Greymoore barbarian build to drop

#I am fascinated by them #ashton greymoore #critical role #cr spoilers

[egophiliac]

Wait, did you put a photo of Vil and Neige as kids in Eric’s office??

oh good, I was afraid that wasn't going to read properly and people would just be like "what is this supposed to be". :') but yeah! I like to think Eric was pretty fond of Neige as a kid! single dad sees orphan child approximately the same age as his own son and goes "hmm. okay, you guys are going to be friends now." (this did not go as well as he'd hoped.)

(also I do love how it's kind of a running joke that everyone loves Neige except for Vil, who's standing over in the corner and just seething with furious irrational hatred. someday maybe he'll find someone who doesn't think Neige is the best thing since cinnamon rolls.)

#art #twisted wonderland #vil: am i massively projecting my own hangups and insecurities onto someone who i would otherwise find only mildly annoying #vil: no it must be neige who is wrong #idk i just like neige a lot! he's sweet and i find him fascinating honestly #there's ONE offhanded comment about how oh yeah he's been orphaned since a young age and just never talks about it #he lives with a bunch of dwarves and cooks and cleans for them and this has been going on since he was like eight #like. hello?! #there's a whole backstory here that we're never going to get more than this single crumb of and frankly that makes it better #man if i had a nickel for every fandom about fairytale characters in high school #where i instantly fell in love with the snow white character #i'd have two nickels et cetera you know the rest

[dentixvoxel]

guns are weird because i hate loud sudden noises and people killing/hurting eachother and how wildlife can get lead poisoning from lead bullets and all that stuff but. i still, for whatever reason, think guns are Neat. I just find them neat. I like giving characters guns. They look cool. I am aggressively against lax gun laws, but i think they're interesting (the guns, not the laws). I like drawing guns. And I'm glad basically no one is allowed to own them over here.

#ivan.docx #its just so weird #i am fascinated by them

[homolobotomized]

*die for him

#well almost #zoros inability to die is fascinating 2 me im very excited to see where exactly its going #op #one piece #zoro #sanji #zolu #zoluposting #my art #sorta i guess #id in alt text #click for higher quality #hashtag teamnozoluconfession sweep 🔥🔥🔥 #real ones know #theyre already together in every way that matterss #also #this is my first time drawing sanji fun fact. drew reiju before him too #cannot believe i have to say this but this is NOT a z0san post. if u tag it as them i am blocking you

[lastoneout]

I want whatever the fuck it is they have

#OKAY LISTEN cas and toast is SO VALID and I love them #BUT I am also FASCINATED by whatever the hell is going on between merlin and toast #we don't see them together often but lord when we do?? absolute insanity #the most boring man on earth with the most batshit woman alive #10/10 we love to see it #bapc #bapc spoilers #bee and puppycat #bee and puppcat lazy in space #toast/merlin #do they even have a ship name #bapc toast #bapc merlin

[loboazul16]

This is how these two went right?

#dungeon meshi #laios #kabru #I need to ramble excuse me #this is just disorganized thoughts dont look too much into it #RRRHRRHRHRGHRGHRGHRAAAAAAAAA #laios likes monsters more than he likes people #people bore him #so he just loves knowing about mosnters and ignores people #kabru has a fascinating interest in people #going beyond the normal limit of getting to know a person #and he cant understand why anyone would like monsters #none of them are normal about this #literal opposites of each other i am exploding

[dent-de-leon]

The fact that Essek storms off "in a huff" and is literally brought to tears when he sees Caleb mourning Molly...there's just so many interesting implications for shadowidomauk there.

It's the fact that Essek saw Caleb kiss Molly on the forehead the way he kissed him--saw Caleb repeat these familiar phrases in battle to Lucien that he once used to comfort Essek. Essek learning Caleb's love language, and seeing it reflected in how he treats Mollymauk.

It's Essek seeing Caleb at his lowest, at his most desperate and hopeless--how very wrong it feels to see him like this, how painful it is to watch him fall apart over losing Mollymauk. "Caleb Widogast, have you ever accepted defeat?"

Because of all things, it is Molly's death that leaves Caleb more brokenhearted than Essek's ever seen him, the only time he's ever truly admitted to knowing defeat--"Maybe today. For the first time." The way Caleb came all this way and tried so desperately to save him, and it still wasn't enough. He poured his whole heart and soul into that ritual, and it just wasn't enough.

Essek being moved by the Nein's own grief, choked up and crying for this person that he never even met. Insisting over and over, "It's not fair--it's not fair...We've just all come so far. It's not fair." And it's the moment that Caleb kisses Molly on the forehead and says his goodbyes that really breaks Essek's heart, the passion and gutting loss of Caleb's own grief that sends Essek storming off and fighting back tears.

Do you think...Essek ever tells Kingsley what happened that day? How hard Caleb tried to save him--how much it shattered him when Tealeaf was still lying dead in his arms? Do you think he ever told King about the forehead kiss and how tender Caleb was with him--how he must surely love him? Do you think Essek admits that even he was crushed when Tealeaf didn't wake, that he never knew him before, but still mourned him all the same?

Do you think he ever quietly tells Kingsley that he's happy he came back, how much it means to him--especially for Caleb's sake--

Do you think Kingsley ever kisses either of the wizards on the forehead and everything just. Kinda falls into place for Essek--

#mollymauk #caleb widogast #essek #kingsley tealeaf #widomauk #shadowidomauk #sorry i am just...having feelings about all of them again #would love love LOVE to see a post campaign scene where all three of them get to talk #where maybe king is fascinated by essek because hes still New and doesnt make his heart ache with old memories #and essek just. cant help but tell king just how important he always seemed to be to caleb #because he feels like king deserves to know and caleb never got to share those feelings--

[theminecraftbee]

hm. the final two being scott and cleo. at some point i need to like, properly write an analysis post about scott and cleo and the ways that they like... so the thing is that even since third life the two of them have always kind of fallen back and leaned on each other. widow's alliance to gaslight gatekeep girlboss to chosen soulmates to technically being on different teams from then on but were they really. to "we can't team up again we're too good" in secret life to "he's kind of like your bdubs" in that same series when cleo just sort of assumed they were on the same side anyway (by the way STILL an insane way to put that etho). to teaming up again this time to being the final two to laughing and having fun until the end until a zombie kills scott (like a zombie helped scott kill ren) until cleo doesn't have to be the one to make the final blow. to the "we always do this we always gravitate to each other".

the thing is that it's not so much that they're soulmates, exactly (it's kind of a defining thing about them that they aren't), or that they're one of those star-crossed pairs the life series keeps producing (they don't shape each other, not really). it's that they're both, in the end, always there. a stable pair, a lighthouse and a ship in a storm. the thing that makes them different from so many duos is that there isn't really conflict, not really; they know the shape of one another. their first alliance will often be someone else; their first alliance is also to each other, no matter what they say.

so of course they laughed as they fought in the end.

it was them. it was never really a fight in the first place.

#real life smp #real life spoilers #trafficblr #zombiecleo #scott smajor #am i making any sense. #they're like fascinating to me because they are NOT one of the star-crossed dramatic pairs of the life series #and tbh i do not see it as a ship in any way either #but they are. a pair. they're just... a stable bonded pair. it's not something that's going to change either of them. #but it's something that is always going to be there.

[elvisqueso]

Pocahontas (1995): 3 times Pocahontas is compared to her mother + 1 time she's recognized on her own merits.

rambling lil meta under the cut

see, what's crazy about this whole situation is that it makes me wonder what exactly pocahontas's mom was like to have left such a massive impression on literally everyone in their community? there's that outright statement that "yeah, your mom's spirit is in the wind, basically, and our people venerate her as a spiritual guide (at the very least)." we know that she's the main connection between pocahontas and grandmother willow, and there's an implication in there that whatever leadership role she held in the village is expected to fall on pocahontas's shoulders someday.

i am so convinced that this role is some kind of spiritual leader/shaman position. wise-woman, priestess, whatever it's called. we don't see anyone else besides kekata performing any kind of spiritual rites, and even he isn't seen acting in direct contact with spiritual entities. kekata has to perform chants, provide offerings, and use a medium. pocahontas can just fuckign. talk to the things. how is she doing that? why isn't anyone else really able to do that? john smith could talk with grandmother willow but would he be able to if pocahontas wasn't there (i actually think he could but that's a different post)? has she ever done that for literally anybody else? nakoma never mentions grandmother willow. nobody mentions grandmother willow. apparently, the only two people who knew about her before pocahontas brought her new bf over was pocahontas and her mom.

i'm losing track of myself here, but the point is pocahontas is Highly aware of the ghost she's expected to live up to. and it sucks. and there's a lot more to her character arc about this but the eventual come-around to accepting that she has a responsibility to be more than herself and more than her mother's ghost is so heartbreaking because it also meant she had to let go of her soulmate at the same time so i c ry

#pocahontasedit #disneyedit #pocahontas (1995) #pocahontas #help i'm hyperanalyzing disney's pocahontas again #<- blog tag for these metas now #queso*gifs #queso*edit #i've been thinking about this for literal days #i've beein having a lot of THoughts but am having trouble writing them down lately so bear with me #but pocahontas's resistance to engaging with Anyone until john smith shows up is Fascinating to me #nakoma had to hunt her down to talk to her and got capsized for her trouble #they giggle about it at the time but pocahontas's reluctance to open up to nakoma throughout the film is sooooo oo #this weird semi-deified status her mom has i think fucked pocahontas up a lil #bc it gives her a similar 'unapproachable' quality if she proves to have the same capability #i think she has very Mixed feelings about that and is wary of engaging to closely with others because of it

[bottombaron]

it’s a small thing, but while I was working on the Transmogrification Explained Part 2 I caught something that I thought was interesting enough to share.

At this point (see below) at the end of the finale, after the ceremony, all the housemates go into the fancy room and Nandor says something about playing Parcheesi right before he takes a brief moment to comfort Guillermo the tiniest bit.

Right afterwards however, instead of doing as he said he would and follow everyone else into the fancy room, he heads right, down the hallway, most likely going straight to his room.

All the nonchalance and dismissal and ‘hey, let's pretend everything is fine and back to normal now!’ talk is a feint. Nandor doesn’t go into the fancy room to take comfort with the group and deny that anything important happened, and since he told Guillermo to clean up Derek before sunrise (something I thought was odd at the time because why would it matter if Guillermo left it until sunrise when everyone would be asleep anyways), he knows Guillermo won’t follow him.

Nandor is choosing to be alone after all this. It’s a very neat little character bit that is easily overlooked within the noise of the episode. While the tone at the end of the ceremony looks like everyone is moving back to square one and blatantly ignoring the seriousness of the situation to do something as banal as a board game, the actual actions of the characters show that there really is devastation amongst them. Guillermo’s obvious, but Nandor’s is hidden with a line that distracts us from noticing that he actually retreats from everyone and hides away.

It really makes me wonder what Nandor did after everything. Used the time to get himself ready for bed so Guillermo couldn’t wouldn’t have to do it when he got back? Sulked? Had a tantrum? Went into his treasure room to read Guillermo’s thank you card again and again?

oh and another little thing: Guillermo and Nandor are the only ones who still have their robes on after the ceremony, and actually end the scene still in them. All the other characters almost immediately took them off after the lights went on.

having them the only two that still wear the robes feels so significant to me. like they’re still in this ritual between them. Or, if the bondage rope part of it comes into play, they are still tied to each other. There’s definitely something to be read here, with both Nandor keeping the rope-cape on and pretending like he was going to follow the others but going to his room instead. Whatever it is, one thing’s for certain to me: Nandor is Not Okay after the ceremony.

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #guillermo de la cruz #nandermo #nandor the relentless #what i love abt wwdits is that they totally hide all these little things because any outward seriousness is against it’s brand #but having nandor cross right off screen and directly opposite direction that guillermo is sitting at?? #but leaving them both tied in RED STRING #translation: they’re tied stronger together despite moving even farther apart #i totally want to know everyone else’s theories on this tho!! i find it so fascinating #also the addition to laszlo then coming in after? #like laszlo went into the fancy room with everyone else #did he notice that nandor never actually followed after he said he would? #did he see guillermo there and knew why? #so many thoughts that i am having rn #my meta #wwdits meta

[captainkirkk]

Patient's distressed mother: I don't think I want to impulsively give my dying son medicine that has a good chance of killing him much faster- House: WOOOOW your only child is going to DIE and it's going to be your fault for not making this split second decision right now, you fucking MORON

#HELLO??? #at least 3 times an episode they roll the dice to see if a treatment will either work or will kill a patient #and YET they act like it's the end of the world when a patient's family are indecisive or want a second opinion sjdskjsks #they're so fucking funny #house #liveblogging #my posts #i am also so fascinated by the relationship between house and his 3 underlings #i love them #they're incredibly intelligent and competent and also entirely his minions doing his bidding #their relationships is hostile and yet they learn so much from him (and secretly really want his approval so bad lbr)