#its completely bizarre

[silverislander]

my old english class sucks so bad that its fucking demoralizing. so i go to every class and sit there bored out of my mind, i dont learn shit from the prof bc hes awful at explaining anything, i dont understand enough to do his stupid fucking homework, im completely unmotivated to do the readings or homework so i NEVER get the chance to learn. i cant win w this guy

#we have a translation due for thursday #nevermind that we Just learned verbs and none of us understand them at all #nevermind that we literally know less than 10 words total and its almost 200 words long or that we werent given dictionaries #nevermind that we dont know sentence structure and can barely understand basic conventions of speech #ive never been so disappointed and lost in a language course and i almost failed italian in my second year. via ZOOM. mid pandemic #levi.txt #the weirdest part is that my grade for this course. is good. im in the 80s i think im out of the danger zone entirely by this point #but thats bc 1. i studied REALLY hard at the start 2. all the big assessments are take home 3. one of them is literally just an essay #and im great at essays #so like. no matter how hard we struggle or how much this guy sucks at teaching i dont think theres going to be any recognition or change #dont get me wrong im not mad that im not failing. but i wish the dept could tell how little were getting out of this class you know?? #and the other thing is. he keeps forgetting and changing the actual required things #like not bringing us our graded quizzes to review before tests or cancelling classes last minute #but if you ask him for EXTRA help hes actually so helpful and nice abt it #i asked for a way to practice oe pronouns and he gave me like. 5 different resources #but hes missed 6 classes and literally lost his grading sheet + lost all of our grades for quiz 3 as a result #its completely bizarre

[fungi-maestro]

Happy tdov to fat trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ Biggest thing that helped me as a trans kid was seeing older fat trans people. There were a lot of really irritating "advice" posts going around early in my time on the internet with a lot of misinformation in them, but one that I constantly saw (in addition to people claiming you should wear your pants rediculously low or only wear button ups) were posts saying you had to lose weight to transition. Can confidently confirm that is completely untrue. 👍

#seal.txt #tdov #that 'sky and mike' image of the two old trans dudes hugging was one that I had saved to my phone as a trans teen #and i would look at it sometimes and just wonder how they had made it #idk its just nice knowing we live that long and its not a requirement to be skinnyin order to be respected and loved and get old #some of the old 'advice' posts i saw were really completely bizarre and a lot of them stick with me to this day in insecurities #this would have been 2016 ish tumblr so i know not that long ago but i would have been around 13 for reference #weird that i remember so many of the things i read back then. i could probably fill a post with things i was misinformed on due to Tumblr #specifically tumblrs run by people that i didnt really have the knowledge or awareness to understand probably didnt have my best interests #like 'trans rights ' blogs i would follow and not notice until much later were quite the opposite #this is the consequence of viewing social media before i knew all the secret codewords and my brain was much less developed than it is now

[cornsarts]

wuh oh these two again

#pannacotta fugo #giorno giovanna #fugio #jjba #jojos bizarre adventure #sketchy #yall mind if i uhhhh draw fugo different every single time lol #my friend let me use his colored pencils and that first foog was the result #and i ended up using the same color scheme as i did that 3rd drawing completely unintentionally #its interesting starting to notice greater patterns when youre left to your own devices on color scheme #i also did get some tempera sticks that i used for the block bgs and shading tho so that might also contribute #the solo giorno is just watercolor and marker lol

[dolldefaced]

it's so wild that the priest part is what people latched onto and remember when flashpoint!jason both was a drug addict and then was in brother blood's apocalypse cult before he died. and then resurrected again.

#sometimes i see people just freaking out about the priest part and its like there are more bizarre things afoot! the priest is the normalest #now if its to forget those other two things i completely get it #really hate the backstory though cause it just feeds into the Without Bruce He'd be A Criminal which is classist as hell #as it stands none of that needed to be there. it doesnt matter to traci's story imo #so why say any of that and not just do oh yeah the church helped me when i was young. like very sus dc #anyway. yeah #jason todd #dc

[peekychu]

Super surreal seeing hyperfixation and special interest enter the mainstream vernacular when sometiems.... An interest is simply an interest lol. These words are losing their original meanings.

It's bonkers to me how many words/terms coined within a niche space (mostly by and for underprivileged groups) gradually fall into the hands of popular white youth, then eventually capital media until the soul is sucked out of the original word. Language is bonkers and nothing is sacred xD

#i think the most egregious example of this is DEFINITELY aave being repurposed into wacky words that young white teens say #being white i'm definitely behind in pointing out this phenomenon #but it rly struck me as bizarre hearing 'hyperfixation' used in a context completely unrelated to neurodiversity #like its come to mean 'Nerdy Media Interest' which is fascinating #then i realize well damn. how much of modern language was casually rearranged like this #OKAY POST OVER stuff like this makes me fall into an existential spiral #but it's interesting to think about

[theskymahtin]

I can't stop thinking about the Watcher thing it's just so fascinatingly bizarre . like so many components of that decision and how they handled it were so bad and so completely out of left field for how they've operated in the past I am baffled . Someone put these guys under a microscope Stat

#watcher #like ?? it all boils down to money i know but wow #like i dont think Anyone would've cared that they introduced a subscription service if they hadnt announced it in the worst most victim #complex way possible + made SUCH a stark leap from completely paid to completely behind a paywall ?? i do not know how they expected that t #go over well #i guess i am just most baffled by the way it seems to suggest that they are just so out of touch when previously #they seemed overall very humble and down to earth #i do not think theyre just like evil money hungry freaks or something #like definitely its also that they also just want to keep improving and making better stuff and that takes more money but also . #like ....... their content Has gone a little downhill despite it all . i think most people have been thinking that and just holding out hop #that it wasnt true. #idk im gonna stop talking its not important #i dont even know why im so invested in this actually . its just . so bizarre as previously stated #trainwreck etc. #i am glad they frantically took everything back dear god #funny to watch a little i must admit #mine

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Moomin: *flashes back to Moominpappa rambling about how looks like a total lapcat and acts like it*

Moomin: so that was a lie

#o moomin fandom i offer you this as tribute #i watched season 3 with my friends the other day and im back in moomee heaven #its such a nice break from the other fandoms i partake in #moominvalley #moomintroll #snufkin #the joxter #anyway time to ramble about my emotional support cat man #i love the idea that he looks completely unapproachable but he's actually a total sweetheart #like yeah he's bizarre and occasionally unsettling but its not on purpose #he's just forgotten how to talk to people normally and he's never lived in society #i also love the idea that in the days of the oshun oxtra he was exactly how moominpappa remembers #so when they meet each other again its like #moominpappa: hello my dear friend joxter whom i havent seen hide nor tail of for well over a decade #moominpappa: you havent aged well #joxter: *amused slow-blink*

[skunkes]

OMG you like moral orel?? who is your favorite character :]c *Blinking and fluttering my eyelashes beautifully*

i watched the whole thing in a few days, ended yesterday. My faves are nurse bendy and joe (together and as a unit), stephanie (individually and then as a unit with the reverend but i dont like him individually), + danielle, of course

#idk how to feel about it in general i know there was more planned but it got cancelled but it still ended too suddenly ykwim #i liked what we saw at the end with orel finding family elsewhere (before he grows up) #i like orel himself outside of the wacky edgy adult themes of it all as a Kid who is Good #when i was watching that last episode i got a bizarre kind of emotional bc when he first poses the Big Question i Knew #that the answer was that the only good thing abt his father was that he had a hand in making him #i get so sad with stories involving children like dis 😭 #i feel like even if it was fully complete the show had more potential ykwim....i know the Tonal Shift makes the impact more...impactful #but i feel it cldve been handled differently or in different amounts. idk! #skunk mail #pawzcore #i also get its bc the eps are short but nature 1 and 2 didnt impact me the way it did others #like. idk. i knew beforehand it was the serious moment(s)/episode(s) but it wasnt presented in a way that #actually shifted My mood when watching it...clay's nonchalance from the eyes of me as a viewer #just comes off as humorous rather than serious ykwim? not that its funny but it doesnt feel high stakes at all #the whole thing didnt feel high stakes or serious unless u remove it from the context of the show youve been watching #for 2 seasons #its fucked up when you see it on paper but then in the show its different....if that makes sense

[herequeerexitentialfear]

Style study & inking practice, with Hermès Costello

the respect i have for ppl who ink their art has grown even higher i swear i was about to have an anxiety attack doing it.

Bonus: Jolyne & no erase challenge sketch page w more part 6 stuff

#some other stuff under the cut #finally practicing my pencil drawing more #hermes costello #stone ocean #jjba #jjba part 6 #jojo's bizarre adventure #thebirdarts #i have completely forgor how to fandom tag #the jolyne one was banished under the cut bc the hand looks to big but the actual issue is i squished the face horizontally #i need to work on the smaller lines #i let the nib linger as i turn it around #ITS FINE ITS A STUDY ITS FINE #need to stop looking at it

[diospore]

I just think it would be really funny if Joseph got turned into a vampire and didn't even look any younger because of it. Man literally didn't even get anything out of this he's still an old fart.

#jojo joseph #joseph joestar #jojos bizarre adventure #jjba #jojo's bizarre adventure #vampire joseph joestar au #jojo #jjba au #jjba art #I had a lot of fun designing his outfit... it took everything in me not to completely coat this man in chains #gotta be some symbolism in that i guess #also i knowww i'm suppose to be working on the josuke piece its just i had a vision of evil old man okay #may or may not write for this #dio's art tag

[deusluxuria]

bruno most of the time in golden wind: (is the most normal one of the group)

bruno's personality actually:

(image description: still of lady miss kier from the music group deee-lite, from the "groove is in the heart" music video)

#how do u say... deee-groovy #dont forget what he was like when he first met giorno on the tram dhsjfjksjdjd #there is not one normal person in all of jjba and thats why i love it #seriously idk why but i feel like bruno would have her energy #maybe its b/c she is completely bonkers but also the nicest person ever #the insane fashion as well #bruno buccellati #bruno bucciarati #golden wind #vento aureo #headcanon #jojo's bizarre adventure #jjba

[decamarks]

HEARTWARMING: Terrifying software crashes confirmed to be a replicable bug, instantly fixed by updating to latest version

#i just had the worst 5 minutes of my life. BUT ITS ALL GOOD NOW. #blender was completely crashing every time i tried to switch/play scenes of my animation and it was terrifying. #i was so scared it was a broken add-on exploding everything but apparently it was just a bizarre issue with 3.4.0 specifically #raising my aching arms upright and praising the heavens.

[harspud]

its really funny to me when someons fic post will have bright flashing banners and dividers, massive titles, unreadable aesthetic text. and the fic itself is just like. 3 sentences and the author tells you its about whoever blorbo you like the most

#>sluggy personal #i really appreciate and value the ability to edit graphics and make aesthetically pleasing layouts #its a real skill and it's really cool #but it is also really funny when you make your fic completely inaccessible bc of the insane graphics and aesthetics #i have dsylexcia or w/e i care a lot about readability and its just bizarre how far some authors go to make their stuff unreadable

[deus-and-the-machina]

ffxiv garlemald discourse is so funny because people will go "ugh people just cant stand it when things aren't black and white" and then you look at how the empire are portrayed in stormblood and shadowbringers and its like hm. that seems like a pretty intense and accurate display of violent imperialism to me! Wow I wonder why people in this day and age may find it hard to feel sympathy for them or even hate them on principal. god its such a mystery.

the games like 50/50 to me on how it tackles these themes because I actually like the garlemald arc in EW, I think it has a lot of horrific and powerful scenes depicting how self destructive fascist propaganda and beliefs are, but I also think it doesn't go far enough on some fronts. the garleans' xenophobia is most notably and obstacle to getting them to accept the contingent's help, which is what they're there to do,

but there's never an admission of harm from any garleans on the uuuuuuuuh massive amount of war crimes the nations around them are still suffering from they're just kind of like "we misjudged you...but you actually wanted to help us all along" like yeah thats great now can we get you all some deprogramming because you keep talking about returning to your prime and glory days and I think we need to unpack some stuff you really SHOULDNT return to. im not even really talking about EW proper but the patches where things are a bit more chilled out and people are recovering.

It feels like they wanted to have their critique of imperialism and also have things end with the beauty of human connection and reaching out and these things just don't mesh well because hey a lot of your modern day audience is not gonna like having to treat people yelling xenophobic things at the cast and your character with kid gloves after you showed them hours and hours of the awful things these people's beliefs have done. especially in the present day hoo boy.

#im kind of torn between 'no characters dont need to be 'punished' to be redeemed but also the characters just being so lenient with the #colonizers after we see far too many people being lenient if not supportive of the colonizers irl. well. it really blows afslkjfalkf and #yeah you can argue if they'd gone through with the garlemald expansion they would've had more time to go into this but the fact is that its #absent from what they did do and I especially think the patches when we go to garlemald and the EW role quests going 'hey maybe the #provinces can help us rebuild' as if they'd have any goddamn right to ask that just make me feel like they didnt stick the landing #seeing all the characters who have suffering time and time again bc of the garleans or seen the results of their actions having to clamp #their mouths shut every time someone said something xenophobic in EW isnt satisfying and it leaves so much unsaid! #also some people feel like the narrative didnt blame emet enough but ngl I think thats reductive even with his micromanaging scheming littl #ass and the intention of garlemald turning out a shitshow that doesnt make anyone else less complicit. most governments like this exaggerat #and lie and spread propaganda but I dont think most people here excuse the actions of a bigot because 'they were raised that way' #this is also my issue with gaius' writing. hes primarily upset that ascians were behind what he thought was his good old fashioned natural #conquering ideology :( and doesnt it suck so much he killed people for it. like yeah he seems pretty aware what he did was wrong but his #ideology remains bizarrely intact and unchallenged by the characters around him. no dude it wasnt just the ascians the system is a lot more #complex than that by this point aaaaaugh #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #siren says #I hope people are nice to me about this I dont think I said anything particularly controversial to the Tumblr crowd (twt maybe but fuck em) #ig my main point with this post is that the game isnt perfect at writing this and also that look. I actually liked the main arc in EW and I #like quite a few garlean characters but I completely understand why others didnt like it or any garleans esp if they have their own persona #experiences with colonialism and I dont get to tell them they're invalid for that. too many people get judgmental about this understandably #upsetting topic and you just gotta accept that this is a big line for many people