#i have this vacuum actually

[industrations]

Reggie of the day: doing chores

#reggie of the day #i have this vacuum actually #henry #he jumpscares me from time to time

[marisatomay]

i’m so sick of writers who proudly proclaim that they don’t read and directors and actors and other filmmakers who smugly say that they rarely watch movies or any artist who acts like an audience is stupid for connecting with their work like what the fuck is wrong with you that you hold such contempt such derision for the art that you have chosen to make the art that so many people dream of the opportunity to make the art that brings meaning and connection to people’s lives it’s unbelievably disrespectful to both your audience and the art-form and if you can’t muster basic respect for either your art-form or your audience then kindly fuck off and do something else

#i hate how rare it is to have an actor be like ‘yeah i just really love movies and going to the movies it’s the best i love what i do’ #to the point where when an actor or director IS like that people are like ‘wow what a freak…they’re faking it for attention’ like!! no!! #that’s what it’s SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE!! you WANT creators who are obsessed with their medium!!! #and what gets me about the people who don’t feel that way is the clear Pride they feel like they’re Better for not caring #that uk ya author adapting the odyssey and admitting that they’ve never read the odyssey or the iliad #that writer on twitter saying that telling writers to read is ableist #the russo brothers saying that the theatrical experience is elitist and auteurism should bow to the disney/netflix model #christain bale and any number of other actors who proudly announce that they don’t watch movies #sam levinson who talks about tv like it’s a long movie because he can’t hack it as a filmmaker like his dad but he doesn’t actually LIKE tv #like i get not wanting to consume your own work after it’s released unless it’s for research or self reflection purposes #but you do not exist or create in a vacuum and it’s SO disrespectful and arrogant to act like you do

[why-the-heck-not]

20.12.23, wednesday

My main hobby is just procrastinating in any way I can. The plan was to make a cup of coffee and then start working. What actually happened is that I watched a 3 part video series (by james hoffmann ofc) on Aeropress coffee and made a few cups with different variables. Still not sure if I found The Recipe for me, but it’s getting better (tho I don’t love the coffee beans I have)

#altho i’m not sure I agree that inverted method is not worth the risks #maybe I just pour my water in too slow (bc I get nervous abt pouring too much) but there’s a fair bit of liquid that manages to get through #before I can place the vacuum on there #so I did it with inverted method #what I took from his recipe was the swirling instead of stirring and letting it rest for 30secs after to get a more even bed of coffee #I did 14g of coffee & 200g of water with a 5min brew -> swirl -> another 30seconds of letting it rest before pressing gentlyy for like 20-3 #seconds #but idk it’s a bit ’’one note’’ #which could be the beans #I have medium roast rn and I prefer light roast but the light roast beans have been no where to be found lately idk why #(there aren’t many actual light roast beans and the other ones are waay out of my budget) #(or at least good ones; there’s the one affordable light roast that’s everywhere but I don’t like it that much (but tbf should’ve still #bought that instead of these ones I got)) #like this is still way better than what the drip coffee of those beans are #and the achilles heel is that I don’t have a thermometer of any kind so my water temperature is guesswork every time #so tweaking variables is always a bit sketchy bc idk if I just had a better water temperature that time #studyblr #booklr #aesthetic #bookblr #books #study #reading #read #book #coffee #2023 #december 2023

[spoopy-moose]

reading scholarly articles about pathologic when its so obvious that the writer didn't even properly play the game and actually only played like the first half of 2 and then confidently putting their opinions out there like SHUT UP

#getting to the conclusion and reading 'i only played half of the game and then watched playthroughs of it' was so carthatic to me #autism brain reading it and being like wait a minute #also patho 2 cant even be read in a vacuum you have to consider patho 1 and 2 together #nah dude argued that pathologic 2's system of zero sum games are just like what russia does irl #and like im pretty sure the whole argument was basically just its russian propaganda #from the moment he said “the plague occurs every couple of years” I should've left #pathologic #i think that people in academia should not have many opinions about video games actually #bc the entire article read to me like the author was laughing at the fans being like haha look at this FOOLS

[pillowprincessvarric]

No one is going to like this but the solution to people misusing mental health terminology like hyperfixation & special interest is to bring back the concept & framing of Nerd Culture. Also the term "squee".

#look we really threw out the baby with the bathwater in the process of distancing ourselves from 2010s nerd culture #and now there's a terminology vacuum #which is why people are like ''im hyperfixating'' when they're actually. ahem. ''fangirling'' #i know a lot of people have convinced themselves that the level of investment in fiction that people #with tumblr accts have is actually 'normal' and therefore you don't need to call it anything. but that is simply not true. #fandom and 'nerdiness' is Considerably more mainstreamed than it used to be #but it is still not a thing that 'everyone does now'. and so people are going to want words #like to specify that they are an above average level of invested in something #so we might as well direct them away from the dsm even if the alternative is Cringe or w/e

[dennisboobs]

i think everyone on sunnytwt needs to be sat down so i can explain to them what basic human empathy is. and then maybe i put them in a blender until they agree to write meta about the characters instead of whether or not charlie day got facial reconstruction surgery.

#ada speaks #u do not exist in a vacuum and your words have the capability to harm others #celebrities may not see your tweets but your balding transmasc mutual and your follower who feels self conscious about her nose will #it is fucking bizarre the way these people conduct themselves online #really. really fucking weird man #and then you see them acting like ppl are 'defending rich white men' #instead of taking issue with the actual shit theyre saying #whether or not you think rcg has been 'under the knife' or not #a) how is this any of your business. you are not entitled to this info nor do you have a free pass to criticize someone's personal choice #b) ask yourself why you feel you need to critique alleged surgeries and how they stack up to imposed conventional beauty standards #c) you do not *own* them. you can have opinions on your own attraction to them but #a person getting plastic surgery or hair plugs or whatever is up to them. not you. if it helps to make them feel better then who cares. #just because it doesn't make them attractive to YOU doesn't mean its okay to point and laugh #if a trans guy got top surgery and it was 'botched' would you act like they were stupid for getting it in the first place? #if a trans woman decided she wanted to surgically shave her jaw would you shame her for that? #it's their body. it's not yours. #for the record i don't believe any of them have gotten work done but think its a stupid thing to speculate on regardless #ive watched family members go through plastic surgeries of varying success. ive seen them get botox and hair plugs and everything #normal everyday people do it and it's not always about vanity #it can be for gender reaffirming reasons (and yes this includes when cis people do it) to alleviate dysphoria #trying to point out alleged surgical alterations made is just. gross #not to mention that holy shit MOST of the shit ppl are saying is like. age. different hairstyles. different facial expressions. #maybe if these people actually watched the show theyd be able to see the gang in action instead of staring at pics like spot the difference

[labyrynth]

ok so your first problem was assuming mdzs is a story where Good People are Rewarded and Bad People are Punished.

your second problem was assuming that MXTX—who goes out of her way to showcase unresolved, tragic, undeserved endings in all of her works—would ever write a story with such a shallow notion of “deserving.”

the only reason wangxian makes it out unscathed is because they’re literally the protagonists. authorial intent and plot armor ensure their happy ending. that’s it.

#mdzs talk #moi #i mean it also helps that neither wwx nor lwj give a rats ass about the rest of the cultivation world #wwx had already fucked off and lwj was basically doing that too #that man has never given a single shit about politics and maintaining good relationships #like what does it say about you if even jiang cheng is a better politician than you. #mister ‘don’t talk to me before i’ve had my coffee. or after. just don’t fucking talk to me.’ #but yeah wangxian is like oh we helped to create a massive power vacuum and destabilized the entire cultivation world? #ahaha no way!🤪 hey actually can this wait? my husband and i wanna go fuck in the bushes 🥰 #like. lwj that’s YOUR brother that just lost his most significant emotional support of the last decade. #wwx that’s YOUR pseudo nephew whose parental figure you just got killed. #that’s YOUR pseudo nephew who now has to become sect leader at like 15. #but nah they wanna go bang on the side of the road #god forbid they try to clean up some of the gigantic mess they helped to make #and nobody try to argue ‘well but jgy!!’ buh buh buh nothing. jgy cleaned up after himself. #neither wwx nor lwj had ANY personal stake in seeing jgy dead. lwj SHOULD have had a personal stake in keeping him alive actually. #i still think it’s super shitty and hypocritical of lwj to defend wwx so strongly and yet try so hard to condemn jgy in PRIVATE #both wwx and lwj really showed their asses at guanyin ngl. obviously huaisang did too. #like yeah it’s noble and righteous or whatever but like. righteousness was not why lwj defended wwx before. #wangxian stans being self-righteous and hypocritical? with classist double standards? with black and white mentality? #wow! who would have ever guessed?

[spitblaze]

todays award for 'man what the fuck' goes to reddit for making me see pr0/-ship discourse in goddamn 2023. thought we were past that but i guess not

#spitblaze says things #i am once again reminding ppl that media and fan content are not created or consumed in a vacuum #you do not need to whitewash all 'taboo topics' from any work but maybe like. warn people up front. listen to minorities and csa victims #consider if yelling at strangers on the internet is actually helping anybody at all. esp the people you purport to be helping #realize that most people think grown-adult and literal-child pairings are gross for a reason and they arent just pearl clutching prudes #(im talking like 'this character is 10 and this one is 35' not 'this one is 17 and this one is 18'. yes ive seen it. yes i hate it) #idk. have a set of personal values rather than trying to align urself with some movement or group or whatever #also maybe give a little less leeway to ppl making purposefully tittilating csa content? even if it IS fiction??? #at that point its not 'exploring dark subject matter' anymore its just jerkoff material. maybe you can afford to be a bit more discerning #also. learn what a maladaptive coping mechanism is please #thats it i just. dont want to think about this shit ever agaaaaaain

[orbiyoo]

i havent posted about it since halloween because i literally havent worked on it since halloween but the clown is going well ^_^

#for one the shirt is um actually a functioning one puece shirt with a zipper. rather than Something im safetypinned into #last pic is the lining gor the vest but my lighting makes it look not gold. Its gold. Trust. #im going to start + hopefully finish the boots tomorrow ! one way or another. #and possibly find a fabric to make the red stripes up the leggings bc i went through the trouble of measuring + cuting out + gradient dying #the red fabric ive used for everything else. ontl for it to skip stitched in my machine like Crazy. i dont wsnt to fight with it #thought im leaving those until Absolute last becaude i dont care about having them that bad. actually ill probably hotglue them on #if that would fuckcifng work LOLL but idrc if i pull up in plain black leggings as long as the top is done. and i Want to do the boots but #if it doesnt work out i also have plain black boots to wear. im happy either way. smiling even #I for real have to go to bed sorry i like talking about it and i would usually message my girlfriend my yapfest but if i do that #while i need to lock in / sleep then we'll end up talking for an hour and locking in means i need to Alock IN. I NEED TO LOCK IN. GOONIGHT #one mroe thing TJE BLUE FAVRIC HOLDS ONTO CAT FUR AND THREADS LIKE A BITCH IM GONAN HAVE TO LITERALLY VACUUM IT. OKBYE

[arsonist-chicken]

So my new annoying flatmates added me to a cleaning plan app, which like... I clean when I clean, when it's necessary, not when you two barely-adults moving into a new flat with no respect for the person already living there tell me to, but also.... "clean kitchen (including windows, oven, fridge) and wipe ALL surfaces!!", "dust shoe cabinet, clean door etc." what. what does that mean. why should I clean the DOOR. or dust the shoe cabinet. weekly. NONE of these things are things you do weekly. Or like, they can, I guess, but I sure as hell won't.

#does anyone want annoying as fuck rude respectless flatmates who come home and spend the first ten minutes complaining about something #or another that they deem not clean or not done right or whatever and also think shampoo in the shower and a toothbrush in a cup by the sin #are unhygienic and that you don't need a coat rack by the door? i have two to get rid of #they also have vaccuuming and mopping on the plan which .... i vacuum about twice a week I think when it's necessary #but i definitely do not mop weekly. or even monthly. or ever. i've lived here two years and have never once mopped the floor and it's fine #ALSO ALSO they wanted to do it so that whoever's vaccuuming and mopping is doing that in all the rooms. including each bedroom. #what the actual hell. i'm not going into their rooms and I will stab and maim anyone who even touches my door without permission #this is MY space and no one else looks at it or goes in it or touches anything in there but me or friends i have explicitly invited to visi #mine #jess' flatmate rants #<< because i'm sure there'll be many more posts to come by me about them

[casiavium]

Can't sleep again. Thinking about how I don't like knight/prince(ss) as a trope. Besides the fact that it's boring to me. This isn't "discourse" or a call out or anything it's just a personal interpretation and analysis

while yeah there's nothing wrong with that level of power imbalance in fiction, these tropes always act like that's a cute thing which I just find to be. 😬 y'know. Referring to a character as a "pet" for the royal one without understanding that that's. not a great dynamic to have. The "don't call them toxic or problematic!" When the relationship is inherently not equal and can never be without issues, but this can't possibly be discussed because then the person who ships it is a bad person 🙃

and for someee reason still bitching about the "more obvious" power imbalances like enemies, who most of the time end up being MORE equal because they're the same person same situation different fonts

It's fine to me when it's used as an insult (something something loyalty) and then there's discussion of "you know you mean so much more to me than that", or when there's a Very Obviously Fucked Up imbalance that is Very Obviously Not Normal and yet the one that gets the short end of the stick is like "fuck this I don't care that you think you're better than me. Your power only exists because I give you it, so be very careful how you use it" (and when they use it wrong there are consequences that don't get magically forgiven)

If the one with less control isn't very very aware of how much power the other has over them and could exert if they wanted to (but also the fact that the relationship and its genuineness hinges on their agreement) it gets a bit too concerning for me. If there isn't a certain level of meta intertextual analysis and understanding of the way the very much dominant/submissive dynamic works then it's just. Not interesting and often frustrating

Edit: this should have said intra-textual ("in the text itself", which I apparently not a word) not inter-textual (between texts)

#was this about two specific characters from a certain Nintendo game? yeah #it's like. you guys are doing submission wrongggg you're creating sfw vanilla fifty shades #if there aren't conflicted feelings what's the point #there's a whole issue here i could write an essay on about how the d& s of b d s m became mainstream and normalized even in sfw settings #and how fiction isn't reality but it doesn't exist in a vacuum and your irl biases are 100% in the way you interact with the 'not real' #consciously or not #but like. i have other adult job stuff and adult schoolwork i need to do that actually impacts my life #I MISSED A TAG. THE ADHD STRIKES AGAIN #anyway after the tag about d&s I was going to say that's normalized but the *discussion* of it isn't. the boundries. the understanding that #it's not real and that dominance is much less in control than the one who is agreeing and cooperating

[the-six-fingered-villain]

Caught yesterday's Dracula Daily and was reminded again of that particularly striking scene...

Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure of his wife. By her side stood a tall, thin man, clad in black. His face was turned from us, but the instant we saw we all recognised the Count—in every way, even to the scar on his forehead. With his left hand he held both Mrs. Harker's hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare breast which was shown by his torn-open dress. The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink. As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast.

I think it's the line 'a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink' that I especially enjoy. Was inspired enough to try and stretch long-neglected digital sketching muscles, but of course chose to model it with my favorite rendition of the Count...

#never mind that he's not book accurate- I don't care #dracula 2020 #my art #nothing cringier than posting one's own fan art.... #but if I wanna' get better I need to keep sketching and I no longer enjoy drawing in a vacuum (subject & audience wise) #maybe next year I'll try to stage this one better- should be in profile I think to show resistance/gap between them... #I actually really enjoy renditions of Mina that have her darker skinned but went super white here due to tight color palette #backgrounds... ? I don't know her

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Mordecai probably lives in an apartment or something, but my first thought when you brought up the Caves on that post was that he won’t tell us because he’s been living in the Caves the Whole Time. Even tho he’d hate the slime mold.

yeah a Whole Damn House would be a bit much, and probably not as useful for the nightly bootlegging related goings on: see, freckle needing to stand around waiting for a ride before he can go shoot people. whereas mordecai can show up to the maribel hotel on foot, or at least have started out somewhere he could get a cab or whatever....and this is probably the closest to any relevant Living Situation Glimpses

someplace with a bed, and one with an art deco headboard....a modern style, so it's neither Antique nor unfancy enough to have less identifiable stylings at all. like just by guessing surely he lives in some apartment that's unassuming enough to live unassumingly in, with whatever alias, so something large & fancy would be unhelpful....plus if he's gonna be fairly rigorous in his domestic upkeep, it wouldn't really help to have a huge place, even if for the same reasons it wouldn't be too small (or old or otherwise unpleasant; hard no to slime mold, slime, or mold....) and like re: the rotating aliases, maybe he moves places fairly regularly for good measure, been at this like, a decade....tl;dr probably has some apartment/s that's roomy but not huge, nice but not Fancy fancy, at the nexus of practicality, resources, and preferences

but it's important to think about "what if mordecai's been living in the caves the whole time" b/c that's funny lmao

#hey just now appreciating; closest we get to a t-shirt #thank you fashion shifts that said shirts originally worn as Underthings are now just for whenever: tees; tanks. i.e. ideals lol #and we do get tank top mordecai in all his ''officially debuting standing in the woods in underwear b/c he didn't parse Joking'' go off #this and that [morning routine] How are showers taken in the lackadaisy-verse? They are taken...in stride. #that one makes me laugh throughout. perfect quotidian suffering....right yeah lol ''the mundane tortures of existence'' #mordecai and freckle as parallel [''unsociable'' guy constantly w/head in hands; sometimes w/gun in hands] is also always powerful & funny #perfect that they do meet over brunch & immediately; continuously; independently decline to interact w/each other at all #the power of distinctive characters in that there's no possible group/combo's interactions that would not be a delight #Living In The Caves could be a party if it was like given a real setup with furnishings and shit. depending.... #i don't know anything about the environment of st. louis limestone caves #but yeah between potential Organisms & Dampness & the difficulty of having even your personal cave chamber be decidedly Clean.... #i don't think he'd choose to be secretly living in the caves this whole time. sure: who would; yet he's truly a Least Likely contender lol #like rocky probably doesnt only to keep up enough of Any ''i totally have an apartment or smthng too'' appearances. a More Likely figure lo #lackadaisy #but if you move apartments do you have to move your art deco bed....however it's possible a) such furnishings come with the room #and b) he doesn't actually move around that much and c) if he does he just gets a whole new art deco bed like to hell with it #the speakeasy hitman's styled bed headboard biannual tax; as they say #looking up the history of the household vacuum. indeed the twenties are the prime time for the true onset / availability of that

[avedoodles]

pitcher fang ⚾️💫

#brawl stars #brawl stars fang #brawl stars fanart #brawl stars art #ok guys im gonna be honest i dont actually like this skin that much #in a vacuum its a very nice skin if a bit basic #(and overpriced... it should be 79 gems not 149 but i digress) #and i like how it looks! the colours for both variants are nice. its a nice uniform. #but like. the fact that its a skin for fang irks me #because like.... his whole schtick is using his feet wherever possible #and pitching in baseball is. not something u do with feet. #dont even get me started on that dumbass caption they put on the announcement post bro #“kick a home run” shut up. thats not how baseball works. #idk why they couldnt just give fang a football skin ???? like ?????? #(or soccer for any americans reading this) #this is one of the only sports skins where its not for football #and they decide to give it. to the guy. whos entire gimmick is using his feet. #LIKE COME ON!!!!!!! #the pitcher doesnt even like. run or anything. like bro #i get why they didnt give him a batter skin cuz obviously that would just be a bibi skin and it wouldnt make sense for fang #BUT NEITHER DOES A PITCHER SKIN!!!!!! #just like. idk. this is stupid #im gonna stop ranting cuz i know it aint that deep #if u like pitcher fang dont let my rambling stop u #i wouldnt have drawn him if i didnt at least think he looked good #but then again hes fang and he always looks good. so

[ask-the-bone-boys]

I don’t know if I have a specific favorite moment but I’ve spent a LOT of time thinking about atbb lore and it’s my favorite askblog pretty much ever so I just want to say thank you for running it all those years!!!!

this is genuinely one of the nicest things anybody's said to me, it's really hard for me to imagine anyone else but me being so invested in the story when i'm not actively updating it so this is really really nice to hear actually :') thank you!!!!!!!!

#would LOVE to read any theories yall may have about what's going on here tbh #there was a time at some point i got a few sent in and i will say some of them got CLOSE !!! #but agh yeah its things like this that snap me out of the thought of atbb kinda existing in a vacuum #i'll admit the thought of other ppl actually putting a bunch of thought into it is Insane to me when it probably shouldnt be #its really like. oh my brain really WAS being dumb and insecure for no reason. huh #so i really appreciate this anon thank you again !!!! #put a huge smile on my face tell you hwat