#its fun to see and its fun to list them

[rosencrantzsguildenstern]

(sequel to this and not including the arcs already mentioned in it, though some of them are character-development-y; almost included shinsengumi death game, memory loss, and hasegawa prosecution, but one had to go so i cut them all for equality; and gintoki’s the main character of a lot of arcs but i think shinigami is one of the more significant ones that wasn’t already in my previous poll)

#gintama #chitra.txt #this one is harder for me to choose on then the first one lol #im also gonna run an iconic comedy arc poll and maybe another one to fit memory loss and kintama #its fun to see and its fun to list them

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

#uh just a heads up if you expand the tags to see all there's. a lot. very long #amphibian #frog #poison dart frog #based on my most popular frog to date (day 651) #inspired by everyone pointing out what they think it looks like #here's a fun secret fact the original guy is actually a phantasmal poison dart frog (Epipedobates tricolor) #(according to the original artists title of the drawing) #not Anthony's poison arrow frog (Epipedobates anthonyi) #i feel too awkward to really point it out though because they look the exact same. i cannot tell if there is a difference #im half convinced the same frog was just discovered and named twice #its very curious btw if you go on the (english) wikipedia page for either species it doesn't mention the other #while hereptiles.info (no idea if this is a trustworthy site) lists both names as common names for the same frog (incorrectly??) #while inaturalist lists them as two different frogs. curiously with tricolor having wayyyyy fewer photos #ok anyway that's my rant i went on a whole journey trying to figure out if these are the same frog or not and i have no answer #i did some more 'research' and i am more confused. some sources seem to imply they are now considered the same species ( e. tricolor) #i think my conclusion is i am willing to agree the drawing looks more like e. anthonyi. it seems like tricolor is generally less vibrant re #and the white is darker and more green? #i feel like thumblr should stop me from typing more in the tags at this point this is a whole essay #at this point i am failry convinced this is specifically the Santa Isabel frog. isthat the real subspecies or morph or whatever #or just the name pet sites are using to sell it?? #i even found some sources (frog selling websites) refering to it as “Epipedobates Anthonyi 'Santa Isabel' Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog” lol #Anyways if you read this far hi. species are confusing. i am not a frog scientist #the first few tags are like an hour old now i just kept trying to figure it out and adding more tags

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tom & B'Elanna give off closeted gay vibes in that I think if you asked them to describe their ideal woman and man they would respectively describe a swimsuit model (bonus: who's Not Like Other Girls) and the lead in some sort of romantic novel. Nothing even close to a real person. The most generic you can get about straight romantic and sexual attraction.

#B'Elanna would say that OR she'd just name some incredibly basic things that make you sad when you hear them #I can 1000% see a canon scene where B'Elanna is upset about random ensign guy not meeting her standards for a date #and everyone's of course of course of course like 'well YOUR standards aaare a little high B'Elanna' ha ha ha and B'Elanna's like #(she's upset but trying to work to take her mind off it) 'Is it SO hard to find a guy who-' then proceeds to list off basic things #the writers think women want and it's all soft romantic things and Tom's like (bc this is ostensibly a romance scene between them) #'B'Elanna are you serious?' (What???) 'If you went out with a guy like that you'd eat him alive. You need a guy who can keep up with #your-' (I swear to God if you say my temper.) '-Passion.' <- his hands are held defensively in the air and his tone is sarcastic. B'Elanna #is pointing a space wrench or something at him. she quickly pulls away. frustrated and embarrassed. #and everyone's like wow this a very good romantic scene we did that really well I think. #in reality the scene was B'Elanna being upset - Tom making fun of her and ignoring the fact that she's a romantic but in the writer's minds #its Tom being romantic and charming and signaling that he's interested in her

[vongulli]

HELLO ONE PIECE WATCHER are u obsessed yet

YAYA ITS SO AWESOME GAHH IM SO INVESTED 😭!!!! i actually just caught up in the manga to where i am in the anime!! (on ep 81, and on chapter 134!!!) i've shed lots of tears, laughed, and had my heart touched many times since starting it- i'm totally in love!!! I even cried at the same places i did while watching it when reading manga, ahaha!!!

the characters, the world, the designs, the dreams and ambitions everyone has is SOOOSOSO fun and like, inspiring.. just so good-feeling, i'll even wake up and be like "man, can't wait to watch/read one piece today"

the friendships/bonds created between everyone feels like, so strong- its really beautiful! I love how much fun the fights are, and i really adore the small moments between everyone (like when sanji brings out foods/drinks and everyone kinda just, chills and eats?? the food component of things feels so important too, I love seeing what they eat, idk why haha!!!)

i feel like other shows i love don't have enough time to just see everyone hanging out... it makes me so happy, im really thankful for those moments

also i would take a bullet for any of the strawhats in miliseconds!!! an instant!!!! anything for them!!

#ask #ask reply #text #vonchatty #like i've seen a lot of the character designs from it and always thought they were fun!!! its so nice to get to see them in action! #SO ITS SO EXCITING to see who interacts or like #whats happening with them or what their whole deal is #like there's characters im super intrigued by that havent even shown up yet!! #OH AND THE POWERS ARE SO FUN #also luffy is in my top list of MCs #he's incredible!!!! #also the middle aged men romance potential is sooo awesome #so many hot men in it.. good day to be a man enjoyer #OH AND I CANT WAIT FOR THE LIVE ACTION its gonna be covering everything i know so im SUUUPER SUPER excited for it #it looks super fun and i love how much heart has been put into it like everyone looks like they had so much fun and loved making it!! #i also think in modern times dreams feel impossible to reach so its so wonderful to see a story where people are able to #follow their ambitions to a full extent #long post

[bullagit]

no bro the beauty of rottmnt is that there ISN’T one specific brother who actually REALLY has all the common sense trying to herd the other 3 like wayward children. 

the beauty of rottmnt is that they are ALL idiots and all GET to be idiots and they pass the reasonable brain cell around depending on the shenanigans they’re up to. i won’t take this slander and erasure of any of their rights to be complete and sincere dumbasses. they are STUPID and they are COMPETENT, each of them, as individuals and as a unit

#rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt movie #i mean this is gonna happen w every ensemble show theres always gonna be the most popular fan fave getting all the credit #but its esp insulting in rise lmfao like #'oh leo has all the common sense if u really think about it' leo cut warren stone in half and accidentally portaled pirates to tahiti #'raph is the only one with the brain cell' raph panic ate his phone once raph wanted to strap hawks to their feet for skates #'donnie' u mean constant barely restrained violence boy? created sentient robo children on accident TWICE boy? #mikey 'whoa this bridge is so rickety LETS SEE HOW FAR IT SWINGS BABY' peak baby brother boy??? #like the fun in it is so much in that they all have moments where they shine and moments where they're STUPID TEEN BOYS #and ykw april included she's the fifth sibling!!!!!!! #she's just as chaotic as any of them!!!! #you know who in this family had solid reasonable brain cells? gram gram #end of list

[mishapen-dear]

I dont mind qsmp streams when theyre all about the eggs look at all those little guys being so small and silly

#qsmp #we dont get to see them a lot without their parents around its fun to see the ways they act #fucking dapper and his goddamn kidnapping list

[asurrogateblog]

my most lukewarm headcanon about the wall is that pink is a stage-name and his real name is roger floyd because we already know his character is an amalgam of both roger waters and roger barrett so why wouldn't it be

#this contributes to my 'just for fun' headcanon that the rest of pink's band is just regular david nick and rick #who instead of having to deal with roger and syd instead have to put up with an even more nightmarish fusion of the two of them #on my long list of 'fics i will never write' #is one in which - during the live tour of the wall - david nick and rick wake up to discover that they are now in the universe of the wall #roger is nowhere to be found. and when they see pink for the first time its a very unsettling uncanny valley moment #that's -almost- roger....but somethings very wrong... those eyes...they would recognize those eyes anywhere #>:) >:) >:) #pink floyd #the wall

[humanmorph]

Lye „Lyke“ Lychen as a sacrifical altar (to Aterika’Kaal) (but he's also kind of the sacrifice)

my @secret-samol gift for @bronanlynch! for the Aterika’Kaal/Lyke prompt of „what if things had gone differently and Aterika'Kaal was still with Lyke“.

notes on this under the readmore!

AU

In this scenario Lyke would succeed in getting the heart of the Motherbeast in Episode 47 and while Alaway would notice & probably still call out to Aterika’Kaal the way he presumably did in canon, Lyke would be there and get to make a compelling case to Aterika’Kaal the likes of „If you stay with me I am going to feed you. I’ve taken care of you until now, I’ll keep doing that“ (argument supported by the fact he’s currently holding the heart of an incredibly powerful dead god). Aterika’kaal agrees and they barely escape through the Sanctum of the Stone Chorus portal. I think it's fun if Lyke then stays there after the hour described in the move is over, maybe knowing he can't convince Pickman & the others that what he's done is actually good, and fine, there's not even anything to worry about he has this totally handled, But yeah he then sets out from whereever in Sangfielle Aterika'Kaals domain is (Austin did say it was an actual place somewhere), and the rest of the Blackwick Group is left to wonder what the hell happened since Lyke just vanished! Alaway has possibly fucked off too after losing the heart. And them getting fired, the Carnival of Moted Light etc. would still happen (and I guess Chine would succeed at what they were doing since Lyke isn’t there?) and who knows if they’d take any action in finding Lyke after that! All that aside though, Lyke basically offers himself to feed on (through blood and/or energy) and to sustain that he keeps consuming(not literally eating) powerful objects/artifacts/resources and possibly eventually living things (I’d imagine he'd still take work as a „please deal with this weird shit for us“ person and when he has to kill a cursed beast or whatnot... might aswell feed Aterika'Kaal?) (What also plays into that decision, and is part of Lyke justifying this to himself, is that without him, Aterika’Kaal would become too powerful. So he aims to function as kind of a conduit & control the power intake so to speak. I think this probably doesn’t work for very long.) I think this eventually goes bad for him because it’s super taxing on his body and the whole deal kind of flips with Aterika’Kaal feeding/keeping HIM alive. He starts finding bodies in the domain again (alternatively, Aterika'Kaal gets better at hiding them because it knows Lyke doesn't particulary like it when it does that). Lyke probably gets stronger due to this power/magic wise, but also way more fragile (he's constantly anemic!). („I love you. I want us both to eat well.“ - Christopher Citro) („When I write of hunger I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.“ M.K. Fisher) Notes: I put some resources Lyke’s canonically had in-game + some extra stuff in this picture (the arrow is a reference to Marn’s epilogue, the bugs are bugs (with possibly sinister connotations. If you want them to have those, it’s optional) and the fur is from the Ravening Beast). Another detail I came up with I might aswell tell you because otherwise noone might ever know: the ring with the blue stone is a gift from Es. Sketch Notes: 1. Lyke turning his head to kiss a rose / exposing his neck was one of my very first ideas/sketches I made while working on this, and I liked it too much to not include it. 2. This is supposed to be Aterika'Kaal giving Lyke a blood transfusion but it rather looks like it's feeding on him instead...! I like how the relaxed pose turned out. 3. I wanted to draw something smaller in a simpler style to fill the big canvas I was drawing these on (even though now I put them in separate files anyways...). The day I drew this I saw a tweet about a medieval monks sketchbook, so I was still thinking about that. I didn't even plan to color it originally but I ended up getting invested, haha

Inspired mainly by these 3 quotes: „KEITH: I’m a walking- I am a shrine to Aterika’Kaal.“ (Sangfielle 12: The Secret Ledger of Roseroot Hall Pt. 4) „KEITH: There's a version of dealing with Aterika'Kaal that ends with Lyke being satisfied that he rehabilitated a god or at least it looks […] like what he thinks Aterika'Kaal would have been before the YVEs showed up. That's probably his main retirement path, but it also might kill him instead.” (Sangfielle 47: Wax, Iron, and Ichor Pt. 4) „AUSTIN: As you’re fading, the last thing that you do is make this blood sacrifice to Aterika’Kaal. Your own blood.“ (Sangfielle 52: Six Travelers: Lyke)

#secret samol #sangfielle #friends at the table #fatt #rosa art #lye lychen #aterika'kaal #lyke #guy of all time btw this was such a joy to draw and think about #its so funny to me though because i almost put lyke/aterikakaal on my own prompt list but then for whatever reason didnt #and then i saw it on the spreadsheet (2) & was like 'man i hope someone picks them. i want to see this.' BUT IT WAS ME... IM SOMEONE.... #@ those 2 people (one is eliot bronanlynch. i know this) especially: i hope you enjoy!!!!!! @ everyone else you too ok : ) #the notes were in a pdf originally i didnt think id write so much. #i thought about making it bullet points maybe itd look neater on tumblr but i dont. want to... copy&paste it is... #this isnt the first time i painted digitally but it MAY be the first time ive had a good time with it #i used the twitter circle thing for the first and possibly last (until next secsam) time for this so i could post wips. for motivation #it worked : ) #cool to see my actual progress #fun fact about the quotes i added i spent like. a lot of time to look for a better one than the citro quote #because i straight up just do not like the poem its from. i am ripping it out of its context. but it still sounds nice. i folded eventually #the urge to ramble on the the tags........ i will overcome it now and post this #ARGH i forgot tumblr doesnt take transparency on large files well.... it just turns white #well ive made it dark now on the painting it looks better than white but the original was transparent. know this #im posting this kind of late. relatively. i JUST got back from work

[twinkubus]

got tagged by @librarycards for a book rec list. ærs covered Q2'23; i'm just gonna do my faves from the first half of the year!

i've been reading a different crop of books since i made last year's list--i've taken a big dive back into sf, especially books by cj cherryh, as well as indie horror (that's... well, you'll find out when you look at the list).

again, they're ordered by when i read them. here we go!!!

Shmutz, Felicia Berliner (contemporary fiction, young hasidic woman comes of age, tries to find a husband, and gets obsessed with porn)

Father of Lies, Brian Evenson (psychological horror centering on a mormon religious leader. if you like books that make you feel gross and bad, this one's for you)

Any Other City, Hazel Jane Plante (fictional memoir of a trans musician. the book is split between her life right before she comes out, and then decades later when she's an established musician)

Camp Concentration, Thomas M. Disch (not even sure how to describe this one. fat, lapsed catholic, conscientous objector Louis Sachetti is imprisoned for refusing to become a US soldier and is sent to a prison where the (mostly black) inmates are being injected with experimental drugs. the author is gay and there's a lot of parallels to hiv/aids despite this being written in '68)

The World Cannot Give, Tara Isabella Burton (what if the secret history was catholic lesbians)

Amygdalatropolis, B.R. Yeager (another "if you like gross books" rec. i don't even know if i liked this one, but it was certainly interesting. chronicles the existence of a 4chan NEET)

Jealousy, Alain Robbe-Grillet (1957 french experientalism, i read this bc dennis cooper referenced it in an interview. believing his wife to be cheating on him, the narrator spies on her through a jalousie window, recording everything in his frame of vision that he can see. v interesting stylistically and could also rly benefit from a postcolonial reading)

The Pride of Chanur, CJ Cherryh (i read the entire trilogy pictured above, plus the first two books of her Foreigner series. it's basically a courtly fantasy/first contact mashup in space, really well developed alien cultures with lots of factions among them. tons of fun)

Frisk, Dennis Cooper (third "if you like gross extremist fiction" on here. this is my fave cooper after The Sluts and the most thematically resonant. if you haven't read the sluts i'd rec starting there. if i was a prof i would assign them together or even do this in a short course if there wasn't time for a longer book)

tagging @thebestestbat @tsubakiscarlet @danishprince @dovebeast @stackslip @eraserheadcrybaby @interstellarhitchhiker @kollapstradixionales @papika & would be happy to see book rec lists of anyone else!! fiction or non fiction or anything else idc whatever you're into ^_^

#currently reading #<- this is my tag for it tho i have finished all of them #catching up on my Tag posts as u can see from the last post as well #also sorry if anyone i've tagged does not have books feel free to make a rec list of [any other type of media] i love to see em & its fun t #do

[kim-woonhak]

What are three things on your music bucket list for 2024?

Tagged by @we-survive-endlessly (thanks rae <3)

See The Boyz live (PLEASEEE ive been canceled on twice already like ???? why is my luck so horrible with them i've seen them once at kcon but i rlly wanna see them in full concert but ig i'll also settle for kcon again this year.....not rlly pls i need a full concert)

Fly somewhere to see a kpop concert in a city I don't live in with friends as a vacation !

Improve my choreo retention to kpop challenges just for fun hahaha it makes me enjoy the songs even more when I can vaguely move along with the chore (no matter how badly)

Tagging (no pressure ofc !!): @anniyell @babytunninjadrac @lee-minhoe @leetaehwan @leewonseo @xiaojuun

#tag game #this was so fun to think about #the first one is deadass on my actual official 2024 bucket list lmao im desperate yall #i was supposed to see them in LA 2 weeks ago but it got canceled bc bad weather </3 and i was also canceled on in june 2022.... #its fineeee its chillllll at least i have seen them beforeeeeee but a 20 min set was not enoughhhhhh

[aggressionbread]

i miss num noms :(

#its probably for the best they dont sell them anymore bc my collection was getting out of hand #but it was fun to get a little Thing(tm) every time i went to the store #hooked on those mini make it food things rn #num noms would go so hard as like a resin kit toy #but i'm seeing listings popping up on aliexpress now it looks like they're selling off new old stock? #ive never seen a bootleg of num noms stuff so im pretty sure its just old stock

[snickerdoodlles]

having a lot of thoughts right now at 4am about chay being ruthless

there’s a specific animorphs quote i’m thinking of:

"People don't understand the word ruthless. They think it means 'mean.' It's not about being mean. It's about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. The line that goes from motive to means. Beginning to end. It's about seeing that bright, clear line and not caring about anything but the beautiful fact that you can see the solution. Not caring about anything else but the perfection of it." — Marco, The Reunion by K.A. Applegate 

specifically the bit: It's about seeing the bright, clear line that leads from A to B. 

now, i dont think chay from season 1 is ruthless. but i very much see him as having the makings of it. chay has a very simple and direct approach to things; he sees something he wants, so he pursues it (he asks his idol for lessons their first meeting, he doesn’t let kim skip out on tutor lessons, he confesses twice because he had a homework goal and then a personal goal, he wants the truth so he confronts kim that same day, etc). and we see this theme of ‘chay has a goal, chay pursues goal’ most often with kim because they specifically foil each other in this. kim has a grand speech about making sacrifices to achieve your goals, but he’s stagnant between the world he was borne into and cant fully leave because of his brothers, vs the soft bright world he wants to be in but cant because he comes bearing blood. this directly contrasts with chay, who pursues his goals fullheartedly and recklessly

now, chay's not ruthless. not...yet. but there’s also these little...hints of a ruthlessly practical mindset to him. the most standout point for me in this regard was episode 1 when porsche is worried about his uncle. he’s sent arthee away, but he’s still planning “how do i get uncle out of trouble, and how do i maximize it?”

but chay? chay’s straight up like “uncle’s problems aren’t ours, lets just runaway to go live your dream of owning a bar on the beach”

i love this scene between porsche and chay so much. not only is really heartwarming, but i think it rly solidifies who they are as characters right off the bat. porsche is a caretaker. he takes care of everyone around him, whether he has an obligation to or not. but chay is fully ready to just leave their uncle behind. uncle interferes with brother’s and mine’s future plans? then no uncle in future plans. chay doesn’t even seem to mourn nor care that his uncle, one of his two caretakers left, is just gone from his life after ep1. like...that’s a really cold assessment for a teenager to make about one of his two living family members (that he knows of)

for me, what holds chay back from tipping into any sort of ruthless so far is mostly his naivety. not innocence (chay is not innocent yes i am still fighting on this hill), but he has certain expectations of the world that don’t necessarily match what the world is. to me, this shows most clearly when he sees warning flags (”...how do you know i have a brother?”) but is fully willing to ignore them in favor of pursuing his original goal(s) instead of taking the warning flags into account. and since he doesn’t plan for them, when some of those flags grow into actual problems, they really trip him up in ways he’s not prepared to handle. but he doesn’t have that any more at the end of season 1

if we do get a second season, i would be v curious to see where chay’s character develops. im apparently the outlier lol, but i actually really love where kim and chay ended in s1. they were on a trajectory to crash in the middle and instead they missed and landed where the other started. kim, the kid running away from the things he’s always wanted, puts himself out there with zero expectation or surety that chay will reach back. chay lingers over the video, unsure if he wants to respond to it or block it, so he throws his phone away to deal with it another time. and it’d just be really interesting to see how these two characters would react following the same trajectory the other one originally did, but coming at it with a very different background/development. and for chay specifically, i would just rly love to see how his ep1 “lets just abandon uncle to the debtors and go live our dreams on a beach” hints might come back/come into play in a mafia world setting

#this is v stream of conscious like. this isnt anything super serious. 5am is not a time for serious lol #anyways. i have. thoughts. #didnt want to expand in the post bc this is SO very much thumb tacks and strings and headcanons but. i also want to see chay's ruthlessness #and how it might mirror/follow namphueng's ruthlessness specifically #my read on namphueng is that she's playing her own game. and whatever game she's playing for her survival. she did it knowing that she'd hav #*have to abandon her sons and that she cant/wont reveal anything to them right away #there's some fun ideas to play with there between porsche's phoenix symbolism and korn's chess bs #so i would rly love to see like. porsche v much takes after his dad in his caretaker and big heart traits #where as chay is v much namphueng's son and they have a bright clear line between point a and point b they'll pursue without hesitation #there's a fun playground in there between chay and korn but that probably interests me exclusively bc it relates to talk shit get hit series #lol ANYWAYS i personally would love for namphueng backstory and a namphueng backstory that includes her selling out her original family #specifically (i mean the family the theerapanukuls killed and took her from). then namphueng tried to get away from them #that would be v fun for me its the top of my s2 bucket list #btes if ive misspelled anything shhhhhhh its 5am ive been up since before 7am spelling isnt real #this isnt rly meant to be anything lol just. been keeping me up all night. oof. #kinnporsche #mine: kinnporsche #pls stop saying chays this weeping willow or doe-eyed bambi or innocent bean or whatever i am so tired lol #chay did not abandon his uncle to the wolves for this kind of slander lol #he did not sell himself like he was living a y/n fanfic for you to box him into innocent maiden tropes #he didnt push every step of his and kims brief relationship for yall to make kim the dom lmao #.......promise im done. this isnt a tag whine lol. its just like. idk. did yall forget the shit chay's pulled in canon #he's the same wavelength of insane as kim thats why they work #tag rambles #tag rambles: kinnporsche

[kurozu501]

i dont really care about game trophies but my friend convinced me to go back and get the platinum trophy for bloodborne with him, and so tonight im finally, truly done with that game. still a masterpiece. the chalice dungeons sure do suck tho. i probably would have done this back when i first played through the game in 2022 if they hadn't locked one of the trophy's behind an endgame chalice dungeon boss. I'm glad my friend finally helped me skip right to the queen's chalice dungeon bc i was Not Doing All That Shit lmao.

#they're just so boring like im sorry to any who like them for some weird reason #but i prefer having well designed levels with different aesthetics instead of 12 underground rooms over and over till the end of time #the queen fight was actually fun once i figured out her gimmick but getting there was not something i ever want to do again #bloodborne #anyway still my absolute favorite fromsoft game so far #we'll see if ds3 or sekiro can challenge its spot on my list

[eltomimi]

*casual conversation at work*

Coworker: Have you seen this movie?

Me: Nope, I rarely watch movies or shows.

Other coworker: Oh yeah, you've said that before. What do you do on your free time?

Me, trying to think about a single hobby of mine that is seen as normal: Eeeeeeeeeemmmmmm....

#tomimi dice #I didnt wanted to tell them about my website because its pretty personal and I dont want people like them seeing it #I actually do a lot of stuff in my free time though. I play games with my friends. Write stuff for my website. Play the piano. I'm also #making a 3d renderer for pico 8 to make fun games for game jams. I cook. I draw and I think that covers most of the things Im into right now #this list tends to change frequently too who knows what my brain will be obsessed with next week #also I ended up telling them about the piano

[snekdood]

anyways i think ive posted this before but the ADL and whatever "rational wiki" is (heard something negative abt it once idk what its about but) both have good index's on dogwhistles to look out for, of course for some things its hard to tell but take context clues and if they use a bunch of other dogwhistles into consideration if you suspect someone is alt right, also consider that some people are essentially taught this stuff w/o context of what it really means sometimes and might just use dogwhistles bc they dont know any better (thinking of minors here mostly). either way gauge for yourself if its safe enough to stick around to find out.

#dogwhistles #theres plenty of other websites i could link but i linked rational wiki specifically bc their index is bigger and includes more #niche internet dogwhistles than the adl one does. #that could also be because a lot of those niche internet dogwhistles are intentionally made with plausible deniability so the ADL #doesnt wanna list them lest they get accused of being paranoid or some shit. idk. #but i *will* say- some of these things isolated- like liking runes and pine trees.... i dont think is enough to work off of #(mostly speaking for myself on that last one bc i love pine trees and i used to like runes but never saw it in That way......) #and also some ppl are trying to reclaim pepe. esp since the guy who made it hated that neo nazis took him and did this to him #so ppl try to reclaim it. that also requires context to sleuth out if someones using it as a dogwhistle or not #in fact bc so many leftists were reclaiming pepe they decided to make a new one called a 'groyper' which is like. an obvious telltale sign #that person is a neo nazi if theyre using that one. #i also think its worth mentioning that theres a certain subsection of internet leftists who like to use these internet alt righters #terms to lure them in to truth and reality (see: vaush) it's like a meeting them at their level of understanding thing #it also shows them that you're not intimidated by their 'Secret Language' and can see it for what it is so if they try it on you #you can still counter them. so once again context matters. like if vaush is talking about someone 'hiding their power level' its him #acknowledging that thats a term they use in reference to hiding how deep in the rabbithole they are and making fun of them for that fact #bc theres something so inherently sad and funny about being that self aware that you're deranged that you gotta have a phrase you #use to hide it lmao. #not saying its great but. it seems to work at least to some degree in deconverting ppl from the alt right

[dare-g]

@sleepythug recently tagged me  to make a list of my favorite new-to-me films i watched in 2022! (Thank you btw!!) 

I know this was supposed to be more of a chill meme game but I took it as a chance to make a serious list and after some thinking I think this list pretty much includes a good range of stuff I was especially moved by/ interested in/ or entertained by through the year! 

also I know 27 films is kinda a lot but considering out of the 815 films I watched 777 of them were first time watches this is only 3% lol 

an additional note is that if I got hooked on a director I only put one film of theirs on this list.. if i hadn't made that rule the list would've looked a lot different tbh ...however that would've made it have less variety so I thought it was better do it that way and if you watch one and like it you can always look up more of their work ...

anyway ima tag a bunch of you id love to see them but no pressure to do it or to list as many films ! @jimphelps @phibes @everyones-into-weirdness @door6 @nononookytv @alicesweetalice54 @arpicot @skatalite @donnerpartyofone​ and @elliecreed​ (i know you just did a similar thing and ill see if i can be decisive enough to do something similar for that sometime soon ) 

also putting the titles under a cut in case theyre needed 

Perfumed Nightmare (1977), The Ornithologist (2016), The Decay of Fiction (2002), Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (2017), Invisible Adversaries (1977), London Orbital (2002), The Scenic Route (1978), 2+2=22 [The Alphabet] (2017), Solaris (1972), The Winter There Was Very Little Snow (1982), Skinned Deep (2004), Chan Is Missing (1982), Ticket of No Return (1979), Film About a Woman Who... (1974), Female Trouble (1974), Time Indefinite (1993), The Crazy Family (1984), Tropical Malady (2004), Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972), Studies for the Decay of the West (2010), A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1979), New York Ninja (2021), *Corpus Callosum (2022), Reveries (2018), Nothing (1999), Virtual Love (1993), The New Modernists: Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the Digital Era (2001)

#anyway enjoy seeing all my brain worms #i do appricate the tag it was interesting to think about #also yes it took till 2022 for me to watch solaris and female trouble which may surprise people #these arent in an order btw but the stuff on the top half would probably stay on the list even if i repeated directors #the bottom half some of them would and not to be no fun but the comedy ones more likely cause im just more incled twards stuff that moves m #also i wanted to choose an architecture doc but i couldnt bring myself to choose one of the single architect ones #just cause its hard although those are more pollished but folds blobs boxs introduced me to some fun stuff and is aesthetic #anyway fun year feel free to chat with me about whatever or suggest me things #talks