#i don't know why I'm getting recommended

[eyes-of-nine]

they're so childhood friends to lovers bodyguard au coded to me 😌✨ (they have killed so so many people)

#oh how i missed doing a good ol fashioned leyendecker study #and hey look IT'S THE SILLIES<3 #<- tho my lore knowledge has not improved since last time I posted about them I have in fact gotten slightly better at russian #anyways someone plss appreciate the fact that I edited all the serifs to make the font fit nicer ywy #why are cyrillic fonts so ...ehhh #and if anyone feels like summarising over 100 comic issues in my dms i would sell my soul and left kidney to you🥺👉👈 #I wanna talk about them sm but also I genuinely don't really know shit #it's actually super fun highly recommend #sergey razumovsky #oleg volkov #....do they have a ship name??? I'm sure they do???? oh well #plss let's appreciate oleg for being very fun to draw too #major grom #major grom plague doctor #bubble comics #Сергей Разумовский #look look I figured out how to get cyrillic symbols on mobile easily :DD #Олег Волков #майор гром #fanart #my art #mgpd

[sciderman]

I would say you’re more of a Mr peanut butter type yeah

doggy doggy what now?

#sci speaks #i love mr peanutbutter. #i think i love especially that eventually people stopped liking him. #cute quirky doggy winds up being a JERK actually just like the rest of us. #i love him and i love that. #really need to rewatch bojack actually because i don't remember it very well but god do i remember Loving it. #i think it's probably the best adult animated series i've ever seen. just. like. i don't know. it's the kind of writing that i really love. #where all the characters are bad actually. and you think they might be outwardly put together but they're not. #bojack is a GREAT SHOW. depressing but great. #i can't even like recommend it to anybody i'm like. yeah. it'll depress you. sorry. but that's why i like it. #i like those kind of ugly sincere emotions that make me feel less alone for being an asshole sometimes. #not in a “haha this character i like is an asshole so i can be an asshole too” kind of a way but in a . #i shouldn't despise myself because this is just part of what it is to be human i guess. you'll mess up and make selfish choices. #we all have that same software and i don't know. makes me feel less alone. i love to see that nobody else has it put together either. #it's not just me floating in the world with no direction. #it do be why i hate people who point at a character and say “BAD ROLEMODEL!! why aren't they PERFECT??” #get out shut up i hate you. #try living LIFE for five days maybe.

[the-busy-ghost]

Alright uninformed rant time. It kind of bugs me that, when studying the Middle Ages, specifically in western Europe, it doesn’t seem to be a pre-requisite that you have to take some kind of “Basics of Mediaeval Catholic Doctrine in Everyday Practise” class. 

Obviously you can’t cover everything- we don’t necessarily need to understand the ins and outs of obscure theological arguments (just as your average mediaeval churchgoer probably didn’t need to), or the inner workings of the Great Schism(s), nor how apparently simple theological disputes could be influenced by political and social factors, and of course the Official Line From The Vatican has changed over the centuries (which is why I’ve seen even modern Catholics getting mixed up about something that happened eight centuries ago). And naturally there are going to be misconceptions no matter how much you try to clarify things for people, and regional/class/temporal variations on how people’s actual everyday beliefs were influenced by the church’s rules. 

But it would help if historians studying the Middle Ages, especially western Christendom, were all given a broadly similar training in a) what the official doctrine was at various points on certain important issues and b) how this might translate to what the average layman believed. Because it feels like you’re supposed to pick that up as you go along and even where there are books on the subject they’re not always entirely reliable either (for example, people citing books about how things worked specifically in England to apply to the whole of Europe) and you can’t ask a book a question if you’re confused about any particular point. 

I mean I don’t expect to be spoonfed but somehow I don’t think that I’m supposed to accumulate a half-assed religious education from, say, a 15th century nobleman who was probably more interested in translating chivalric romances and rebelling against the Crown than religion; an angry 16th century Protestant; a 12th century nun from some forgotten valley in the Alps; some footnotes spread out over half a dozen modern political histories of Scotland; and an episode of ‘In Our Time’ from 2009. 

But equally if you’re not a specialist in church history or theology, I’m not sure that it’s necessary to probe the murky depths of every minor theological point ever, and once you’ve started where does it end? 

Anyway this entirely uninformed rant brought to you by my encounter with a sixteenth century bishop who was supposedly writing a completely orthodox book to re-evangelise his flock and tempt them away from Protestantism, but who described the baptismal rite in a way that sounds decidedly sketchy, if not heretical. And rather than being able to engage with the text properly and get what I needed from it, I was instead left sitting there like:

And frankly I didn’t have the time to go down the rabbit hole that would inevitably open up if I tried to find out

#This is a problem which is magnified in Britain I think as we also have to deal with the Hangover from Protestantism #As seen even in some folk who were raised Catholic but still imbibed certain ideas about the Middle Ages from culturally Protestant schools #And it isn't helped when we're hit with all these popular history tv documentaries #If I have to see one more person whose speciality is writing sensational paperbacks about Henry VIII's court #Being asked to explain for the British public What The Pope Thought I shall scream #Which is not even getting into some of England's super special common law get out clauses #Though having recently listened to some stuff in French I'm beginning to think misconceptions are not limited to Great Britain #Anyway I did take some realy interesting classes at uni on things like marriage and religious orders and so on #But it was definitely patchy and I definitely do not have a good handle on how it all basically hung together #As evidenced by the fact that I've probably made a tonne of mistakes in this post #Books aren't entirely helpful though because you can't ask them questions and sometimes the author is just plain wrong #I mean I will take book recommendations but they are not entirely helpful; and we also haven't all read the same stuff #So one person's idea of what the basics of being baptised involved are going to radically differ from another's based on what they read #Which if you are primarily a political historian interested in the Hundred Years' War doesn't seem important eonugh to quibble over #But it would help if everyone was given some kind of similar introductory training and then they could probe further if needed/wanted #So that one historian's elementary mistake about baptism doesn't affect generations of specialists in the Hundred Years' War #Because they have enough basic knowledge to know that they can just discount that tiny irrelevant bit #This is why seminars are important folks you get to ASK QUESTIONS AND FIGURE OUT BITS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND #And as I say there is a bit of a habit in this country of producing books about say religion in mediaeval England #And then you're expected to work out for yourself which bits you can extrapolate and assume were true outwith England #Or France or Scotland or wherever it may be though the English and the French are particularly bad for assuming #that whatever was true for them was obviously true for everyone else so why should they specify that they're only talking about France #Alright rant over #Beginning to come to the conclusion that nobody knows how Christianity works but would like certain historians to stop pretending they do #Edit: I sort of made up the examples of the historical people who gave me my religious education above #But I'm now enamoured with the idea of who actually did give me my weird ideas about mediaeval Catholicism #Who were my historical godparents so to speak #Do I have an idea of mediaeval religion that was jointly shaped by some professor from the 1970s and a 6th century saint? #Does Cardinal Campeggio know he's responsible for some much later human being's catechism? #Fake examples again but I'm going to be thinking about that today

[blujayonthewing]

the only thing worse than someone crawling up your ass about 'have you seen show yet? haaave you Seen Show Yet?? hey. heeeyyy. you should watch show you're gonna LOVE show when are you gonna Watch Show. what are you doing tonight are you busy right now you should watch show right now' until you are actively repelled by the idea of watching show is when you finally do and it is, just as you feared, Fine

#it's fine. it's fine! but you are Obsessed and clearly Expected me also to be Obsessed so now I'm getting a bad grade in watching show #if it sucked shit I... okay well admittedly I'm not the kind of person who could actually say 'I HATED that thing you love!!' #so I suppose it wouldn't actually be any better lmao #fwiw this is part of why I typically don't strongly/ directly recommend things lol I just vibrate loudly about them #if you watch it and you love it you already know that I'm here waiting to vibrate with you #if you watch it and hate it that's completely fine! because I haven't put either of us in a situation where I'm Expecting you to Report Bac #(with how much you obviously loved it) #now I'm stressed out!! how am I supposed to tell you it's Just Fine you've made this so AWKWARD #about me #irl frens

[beesinspades]

from the daylight | Vash x Wolfwood | Canon Divergence, Beauty and the Beast Elements, Fluff and Angst, Hurt/Comfort | Status: Ongoing

Months after the July disaster, Wolfwood is asked by a small town to kill the monster that lives in the vestiges of an old ship. Although he refuses, a little girl's plea not to hurt her friend sends him on a new course—not knowing the beast he'll find in the wreckage might be more than he bargained for.

#edit: locked reblogs because i remade the background entirely sfbjkn #so i'll repost #vashwood #trigun #trigun stampede #trigun fanart #bee draws #creechur fic #i worked on this for 9 hours straight where did my day go #me: i'm gonna write today :3 #narrator's voice: they did not in fact write today #why write your fic when you can spend a whole ass day drawing for it like a man possessed #I CAN'T BELIEVE I MADE THIS!!!! #you don't get it i'm not an artist #i don't know what possessed me to draw this and have it look? decent? #anyway 100% would recommend trigun to improve at art in record time #would've loved to add the vines and flowers but.....it's very crowded already....should've thought of it earlier but alas

[cosmoboba]

#heart. heart why #why heart . #there are so many other characters why . #why him . #why did he have to be the one . #why is he your highest character obsession . #I think I need to be CHECKED for every disease he's given me . #blonde SOLDIER boy #blonde SOLDIER boy don't save me . #blonde SOLDIER boy you've ruined my life . #look bitch I just KNOW that mofo canonically taken someway somehow and if not someday he might . #I mean hey listen. hand to god no hate on Clerith nor CloTi those are some great/cute dynamics that I also ship . #but can I just confess my sins on this internet on how I . sometimes. SOMETIMES . get a bit jelly #they're like...phases mk . #they come n go . in n out of me . #BUT LIKE....WHEN I DO GET JEALOUS I LIKE....YANNO... #DJ SPIN THAT IM SERIOUS BY DAY6 SHIT #(good song btw I recommend if you like kpop. it's an angst one-sided song basically Clexis/Clomina theme LMFAO) #and no im not just referring to Cloubri as I'm typing this(well. kinda both since Aubri is technically a self projection too) #but I also do selfshipping too so. keep in mind of that . #YES. YES IM THAT MENTALLY FUCKED UP THIS IS WHAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR WHEN YOU HIT THAT FOLLOW BUTTON #but GOD Cloud Strife why do you hate me to the point you made me love you . #what is this curse you have casted upon my very existence you are a DANGEROUS fuckin man . #Cloud Strife I hate you #Cloud Strife I love you #Cloud Strife go fuck yourself I can't believe you did this to me/affection #Cloud Strife you can also fuck m-/JJJJ.....unle- #I'm not gonna survive through rebirth am I . #MOM GET MY FUNERAL READY I'M PRECISELY GOING TO DESEASE ON FEB 29TH 12 AM O CLOCK SHARP

[nomattertheoceans]

The way in which Tumblr doesn't understand my interests is both hilarious and extremely annoying.

#I'm talking about my recommended stuff #like. i get a ton of Steddie content suddenly and I don't know why? i don't particularly ship them or look for content for them #I'm getting posts about percy jackson but I NEVER read or watched or talked about it at all??? #ionly interact with The Last of Us content through gifsets and yet get tons of smutty fic with x Reader ehich I never look up in any fandom? #idk it's just baffling to me lmao #how it's so unable to offer me any content that makes sense

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 23

“Inkpot Gods” by The Amazing Devil

#song of the day #'if I don't make it back from where I've gone / just know I loved you all along' #I'm setting up my queue for a more proper recommendation tomorrow but I've been rereading 'shoulder the sky' by Night_Fury #the whole series draws from various Amazing Devil lines for titles and such #'back then I was dauntless' is my favorite reworking of the Melidaan arc I've ever seen absolutely anywhere #and the title is a line from my favorite Amazing Devil song 'The Calling' but 'Inkpot Gods' is used to stunning effect in-story #and the beautiful refrain from the end of the song is playing in my head now as I keep going into the series #today was a deeply unpleasant day: the inevitable finally happened and Duncan cut himself doing his mudlarking #we'd been trying to schedule a preventative tetanus shot but several times we've gone in for the properly scheduled shot #and found out that they didn't actually have one in stock. unspeakably frustrating #and today we ran out of time for a preventative one. I woke up #(actually I woke up for work as he was going out for his walk but I got a migraine halfway through my morning meeting--no good-- #and took the rest of the day off--turns out to have been a very good thing--and went back to sleep. so I woke up the second time) #to Duncan coming back from his walk with a sliced finger and the grody plastic-and-tin swan that had done the slicing #(picture of said swan under the cut because why not. it does look neat. can't see the sharp edge in the pic though it's underneath) #and so then we called the pharmacy and got the same automated 'of course you can have a tetanus shot' as ever so we made an appointment #and we got there and they did actually have a shot in stock this time! except that they weren't able to administer it #because now he's post-exposure that's a different shot and they aren't allowed. so we had to go to the urgent care instead #all told we spent about four hours out of the house on this mission but Duncan did get his shot and some bonus antibiotic goo for the cut #and it was worth it but also bleeeeeeegh it was miserable. which is where my recommendations do come in #when I tell y'all that I spent today reading Night_Fury's fics and also looking at valiants' CoD art and it saved me #whooo I mean it. being simultaneously stressed + bored is the nightmare state for me and instead I had wonderful things in my phone

[treeshrine]

gonna be real bud if your fic relies so heavily on intense triggering themes and shock value that you're averse to putting warnings on it to "maintain surprise" and "avoid spoilers", then you act like you did nothing wrong when people are upset that you didn't make any effort to turn them away and allow them to protect themselves, while also telling them it's their fault that they read something that upset them when they could have never known it contained specific things that will upset them, i think you are a tar pit

#'warnings are a courtesy!!' yes so why are you apparently averse to being courteous #saying omg fanfiction never used to warn people and print books never warn people so it's not a bad thing if i don't warn you! #that's some 'no one protected me so why should i protect you' type shit #sorry i got recommended this dumb ass post and i had to say something so i'm saying it here #why are you telling people to curate their own experiences while actively making it more difficult to curate their experiences LMFAO #if i read a scene with intensely triggering content without knowing it was there before. 'just closing the book' or 'hitting the back butto #is not protecting myself. how do i protect myself from something I've already read??? #diary #like dude it's possible to protect people from spoilers while also protecting people from seeing things that will distress them #i also honestly take issue with people who do a content warning but just say “this gets into some shit” or something of the like. #you might as well have just not said anything because now i'm confused and on edge #instead of able to protect myself properly i have to try and gauge my personal sensitivity against the unknowable factor of #what your idea of “some shit” is #also telling someone to 'just close the book lol' is an incredibly dismissive approach to people being affected by something triggering #you know these things do happen to people in real life. right. but of course who would have empathy for someone who doesn't want to be #reminded of trauma

[procrastinationaccount]

I'm going to lose my fucking mind

#For context: I was going to make a post complaining about how lesbians don't have enough good musical theater duets #(like we have the love songs from 'The Color Purple' which're alright but doesn't match the passion or desperation present in the book imo #'Changing My Major' which is a great love song but doesn't hit that sweet duet spot #'Dance With You' and the last verse of 'You Happened' from The Prom are sweet but the girls barely get to actually sing about each other #Honestly 'Oh Well' from Love In Hate Nation comes closest to what I want but it ends on a bittersweet note unless you see the show live #If only Elphaba and Glinda were canon... #But anyway. I can't believe that there's an adaptation of The Color Purple coming in the year of our lord 2023 and this is #how they're talking about Shug Avery. Her *role model*. Lock up your *husbands*. Ick. Pfaff. #I mean they're going to be gay. You can't get around that. But Shug is the love of her life. Can we please talk about that in the character #Don't mind me I'm just over here overreacting #From what I've read one of the biggest adaptational changes in the musical is her reaction to Shug's affair. #Like in the book Shug is the one light in her life. I sobbed myself to sleep over her nosedive in self-worth when they took a break #In the musical she's just...fine with it? I get why that's more satisfying emotionally but I still think it undermines their relationship #I don't get the curse thing either. I'm a little fuzzier on this part but in the book doesn't she just leave him and she's able to thrive? #Then when he asks her to get back together she's able to just know that the worst with Shug or alone is better than the best with him? #This book man. I hate that there isn't an adaptation as devoted to the Celie/Shug relationship as the book is. #Hate that the only recommendation I've seen calling it a sapphic book was from someone who thought that Celie's letters were to her lover #I remember watching this steamy adaptation of a Shakespeare play in soph Eng and seething because they only kiss once in the 1985 movie #Ig I can't expect too much from 1985 but...it was in the book! It was one of the most important parts! They don't even live together in it! #This was all to say I wast a lesbian 'Green Green Dress' a lesbian 'Home' a lesbian 'Natasha & Anatole' a lesbian Legally Blonde finale #The list goes on #I'm sure The Color Purple (2023) will be a good adaptation and movie. I will not pop blood vessels while watching it. #Maybe I should just avoid press releases and the movie will surprise me in a good way.

[arsonist-chicken]

Do you ever like.. get a sudden surge of love and admiration and just general happiness because of a friend, so much so that it's almost overwhelming, and you are just so, so glad you met them and hope you'll never have to let them go and get to keep them in your life forever? Yeah ❤️💖🐗🧚‍♂️🦄

#i should go to sleep #but these are the moments i wonder again if i know what a crush feels like and if i can tell the difference between periodical very strong #but platonic affection for a friend and having a tiny crush on them #oh well. in the end does it matter? #but it would still be nice to be able to tell the difference. if nothing else then to know when i actually have a crush on someone i'm not #that close to like that friend or that fond of #fucking hell god please never let me have to let them go. i don't think i've ever met someone i'm that comfortable around and around whom #it's so easy to just be myself #or rarely. maybe with two other friends i don't feel the need to hold back myself from blurting stuff out and interrupting them and #apologising and asking them to continue or just like.. say whatever comes to mind or touch electric pasture fences to see if it still stings #(it does btw but in a sensorally really nice way 10/10 would recommend) #why do amazing people often live so damn far away? last time i met a bunch of people i really got to love was almost lifesaving and #definitely mental health saving. we used to talk every day and now i barely know what any of them are up to :( covid really fucked us over #with everyone just trying to survive and stay sane. we really lost touch and now it #*it's hard to get that back because we're strewn across europe and brasil and the us and everyone's an adult with responsibilities now #i miss them :( gotta try harder to rekindle that #anyway @the universe or whatever fuckers listening: if you put me in circumstances that make me lose touch with her like with them #i'll set the world on fire. she's become far too important to me to let that happen #okay as always i couldn't damn shut up in the tags alright bye bye good night whatever my cat's purring now instead of snoring #scientists of tumblr invent a teleportation machine now. i want to lie in a park and watch dogs and read side by side and remember how good #life can be #mine

[uncanny-tranny]

do you have any knee brace recs?? my knees are always SO angry and have been since i was a young child

I honestly just picked some up from my local pharmacy. If you're planning on using an everyday one, finding something that offers compression and support is really important, I think.

Whatever brace you do get, though, definitely listen to your body. If you need a break, give yourself that time! A brace can be really tricky sometimes, and while I've found them helpful, I also can't wear them all the time, so I usually pick my battles on when I wear them

#ask #anon #disability #joint pain #if anybody has recommendations please let us know! #because mine was a generic brand from the pharmacy... i kind of picked them up in a hurry because i was at work #but they're compression/support braces and i find those to be helpful for chronic/everyday pain #i wouldn't necessarily advise people to wear a brace all day which is why i personally pick my battles... #obligatory reminder that i am NOT a medical professional and please seek out a professional if you don't have the option for experimentatio #i'm sorry my response wasn't helpful - my pain is usually not in my knees (but i do get knee pain sometimes - thanks dad!!!!)

[james-stark-the-writer]

YouTube keeps trying to funnel me into an alt-right pipeline (weirdly through reaction channels in the last few weeks) and i'm so fucking tired. i'm just so fucking tired.

#james talks #YouTube #and this is exactly why i've had to get in a habit of checking the socials of every person YouTube recommends to me— #bc i'd rather not make them a single fucking cent if i can avoid it. #and like this is fucking every goddamn day at this point #like i have become so hard to force into a pipeline that it's trying fucking everything and i'm so proud of myself for that but— #it's exhausting to fight the algorithm this much. #truly i'm just exhausted. #image id in alt text #also that tweet is so fucking stupid lmao. you know what else progresses? time. history. #like it's genuinely so stupid it's not even worth engaging with it. it's for right-wingers who cackle at bad facebook 'memes' #it's for people who don't like to think. #why would you try to make a space on youtube as a commentary channel when you want to encourage behaviors that discourage thinking #like ik it's a recruitment tactic or whatever but i'm just so fucking tired of it

[babaroqa]

i don’t need that ending explained to me, they ate jackie, that’s what that scene was. they ate jackie and it was hedonism and starvation and a ritual and it set off something new and primal and things are only going to get wilder from this point on

#i really almost never go on youtube lately and when i do i'm always surprised at the shit that gets recommended to me #it's probably my own fault for not using it for music otherwise i'd probably get music recommended #(hopefully at least) #anyway i should probably tag for spoilers just in case #yellowjackets spoilers #yellowjackets #(also full disclaimer i didn't watch the clip so maybe the explanation is good maybe it's bad i don't know) #(the point is why would we ever need someone else to explain it to us when it's all in the scene anyway?) #(can't we make our own conclusions and interpretations?)

[ghostlyheart]

I hate that my dad is more tuned into the tumblr favorites than I am. House of the Dragon, The Last of Us. Last March before ANYONE on here was talking about it he was like ''Hey this Our Flag Means Death show seems like its gonna be pretty good." Stop being better at tumblr than me you're not even on here

#or: tumblr is just really into dad shows #one of my secret prides is that I was watching our flag means death right from the premiere BEFORE all the tumblr hype. thanks dad!! #not that it matters if you watch shows after they get popular #I just dont usually get any ''I liked it before it was cool'' brags. 95% of the time I'm WAY late #he did quit after episode 6 though skdjkd #my dad actually has really good TV recommendations idk why I don't listen to him more often #maybe because we have completely opposite taste in movies #he was like ''hey you should watch station 11 you would really like it'' and I was like hmm yeah okay #and then I did!! stop knowing my taste better than I do!! >:( #also I did cave and watch the last of us. I did not make it through without crying a few times

[tiger-moran]

I love these book summaries which leave me more confused about the plot than before I read the summary

"Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul's son--perfect for Newsies shippers."

What the fuck are you talking about?

#I don't know who that is or what those are #what I'm mostly getting from this is I am not the intended audience for this book #so I don't know why you're recommending it to me #unsurprisingly I marked this as 'not interested' #I should have a tag just for me being confused by goodreads