#just like. the fucking vanity

[leonardalphachurch]

also ftr i think retconning out seasons of your show is fucking offensive

#what a shitty thing to do. like how awful to the fans and the people who worked on it #burnie comes back and says everything he didn’t do isn’t canon and also his specialest little boy is back and he’s so important again #and only the things he worked on are real and everything else is fake and also he’s the most person and look at his special little boy!!!! #just like. the fucking vanity #whatever #restoration spoilers

[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

[vulpinesaint]

i look like a fucking painting by the way. you may not know this about me but the planes of my face and the way the colors on my face blend together and the way my eyes look in the light are god's perfect ideal. just thought i would let everybody know

#gorgeousest boy on earth for-fucking-ever. sorry for posting about how pretty i am all the time i'm really not sorry though #i'll be conceited forever and ever no matter what i'm just being very chill about it all the time rn #very delightful talking about which deadly sin we would be with merc the other night. like yeah man. i would be pride <3 #big believer in vanity being fun and delightful. you have to be your own biggest supporter #valentine notes

[assassinregrets]

lol i got my annual visa summary for 2023 and ive decided to overthrow the government

#my health insurance is 15600 per year. just for me. nobody else. #i spent an additional 18000 on medical expenses anyway. lol. fucking lmao #doctor copays. testing. 19 different medications. #the one 'vanity' expense were my contacts which were like $800 but god. fucking GOD. #guillotine construction must begin immediately

[galaxyzone]

Currently dealing with the most annoying company at work rn and I'm... so over them😀😀

They're doing an education show, you know, FOR CHILDREN- and while they were setting up their set, they started talking about how sometimes the kids in the audience would be talking or making noises (yk, bc they're children- especially when they're neurodivergent children) and they were upset at how they'd have to pause due to the noise and one of them even made a gesture like he was threatening to punch someone and I just stood there like🧍‍♀️😶 (like he was really "joking" about threatening to punch a child for talking??)

Then they proceeded to talk about how "over this shit" they were and one of them said he questions every 5 minutes why he hasn't quit already and I🙃🙃

The stage manager is nice, I haven't had a problem with him, and one of the actors seems chill, but the others are💀💀

#they're equity and they're fucking divas I hate it #I showed one of them how to turn on the vanity lights in the dressing room & instead of thanking me she just said she was over all of this #genuinely why ARE you all doing this if you clearly hate it like just quit y'all #this same company has brought divas before this too sooo #but I'm the event supervisor so I have to accommodate their every whim and also be super polite and friendly I'm so tired y'all #sorry I never talk about personal life stuff here but I genuinely had to rant

[lgbtlunaverse]

The thing about having nieyao brainrot when watching amc the terror is that jin guangyao is approximately 50% hickey and 50% james fitzjames and nie mingjue is 100% crozier which becomes VERY funny when you look a the absolute chasm-sized difference between those two respective relationships

The idea of having BOTH "Are we brothers, Francis? I would like that very much" and "I forgive all of them, but you" in one relationship is an absolute fucking clusterfuck but also perhaps the best approximation of what nieyao have going on.

#they're a trainwreck and a half #amc the terror #nieyao #mdzs #like. 'we are at the end of vanity' and that whole scene!!! jgy ass scene!! #but 'you could've just signed up' ALSO jgy ass scene! #i lied nmj is only like 70% crozier he is also 30% tuunbaaq #which is an absolutely fucking hilarious combination #big ending spoilers for the terror incoming but #hickey holding his tongue out like an offering to tuunbaaq and getting chewed tf up only for crozier to kill tuunbaaq with hickey's corpse #is like an extended metaphor for nieyao at the fire palace and 'fine i'll kill myself after i kill you!' #this might only make sense to like 3 other people in existence

[widevibratobitch]

me when im drawing parallels between my favourite characters from completely different media that have nothing whatsoever in common........ or do they

#sorry i just started thinking about gunshot wounds and martyr complex and manipulation #ambition corruption beauty vanity gender issues christianity age difference power imbalance rot and decay and necrophilia......... #im okay im okay im okay #im locking rodrigo aramis and fitzjames in a room with no windows and studying them through the one-way mirror #there is something. there IS a pattern. they're so different but also. are they.......... #it seems that the only thing all three of them have in common is that they're hot and they like to fuck older men #hmmmmmmmm #see rodrigo and aramis are both manipulation queens with a corruption arc themes. #aramis and fitzjames are both incredibly GENDER and its all about masks and insane selfish ambition that dooms them in the end #fitzjames and rodrigo - the pride. the desperate need to be the martyr. the gunshot wound. the REAL old man fucking #(im cheating a bit with aramis cause athos is like what. 7 years older at best but shhh its ok he's still an Old Man. to me. #the difference in fitzjames's case is 17 and in rodrigo's about 40 so. yknow) #hrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i need to make a chart. a diagram. hmmmmmmmm

[opens-up-4-nobody]

The Terror fandom: what screencap moment should I draw?

#there r just so many good ones. we r at the end of vanity. i am hungry and i want to live. watercoloring. climbing exercises. #come with us. pls. like daved young we too r at the gates. #except i genuinely cant stand hickey so im not inclined to draw him or his gang. oh god. i really should do the david young eulogy #its so fucking insane. those fucking lines. we too r at the gates. jacobs ladder. yeah mate u r at the gates of hell not greatness #god. i love this show. rent free in my head since like 2021 or whatever i watched it 1st #goodsir is my fav forever. but i also lov jamy ftzjammies #unrelated #the terror #amc the terror #listen. im sad that i have to work tomorrow so im being needy #wait shit. jacobs ladder is the 2nd eulogy #oh god. how could i forget: like a dream sir

[piratesexmachine420]

The whole "Send your remains into heliocentric orbit for several thousand real american dollars" bullshit drives me crazy. Your remains are gonna be in a heliocentric orbit no matter what you do -- that's where the Earth is. The remains of every human being who has every died (with the exception of Clyde Tombaugh) are orbiting the Sun -- because they're still in the damn solar system.

#i fucking hate vanity projects like this #or elon musks car he sent into helicentric orbit #guess what idiot #every tesla orbits the sun #spaceflight #space #clyde tombaugh had an extremely small amount of his ashes onboard new horizons #which is currently on a solar escape trajectory through the outer kuiper belt #ill allow that one because it wasnt a capitalist boondoggle #just a small memorial for plutos discoverer on a science mission to study it #and not a five gallon drum of ground up celebrities and rich people

[cloud-somersault]

constellations chapter 3 is SO GOOD idk what the fuck happened there, but go OFF!!!

#i know everyone's in chapter 4 land but 3 is SOO GOOD #bro the stone forest alone....HELP #ugh it was so hard writing wukong's rage form but HOLY SHIT!! reading it after is so hype #do u ever just sit in a pavilion as the rain gently falls...with your ex-husband and mentee....and it's quiet and peaceful but #there's a strong turbulence going on deep inside you :3 #the way wukong always dusts MK off and wipes his tears away and makes sure he's clean faced and ready to go #speaks to how much wukong cares about vanity #i mean he also is expressing comfort and compassion but. he also cares about appearances a lot #but anyway -- do you also ever have a conversation with your ex-husband through eye contact alone? #i think they've done that four times in this fic... #mk the entire journey: every day i get a little more homophobic #HE'S SO TIRED!!!! #MK after talking to wukong and macaque at the inn: yeah haha! i seriously wanna go home now! 🙃 #MK on the phone: DADSY /PLEASE/ COME PICK ME UP!!!! #macaque seeing Wukong's eyes for the first time and actually stopping everything that he was doing #and just looking at wukong and being like “haha...heeyyy what the fuck?? did they do to you??” chef's kiss #wukong and macaque just talking while macaque captures that random man's shadow...please #as they reminisce about how things used to be...how easily they talk to each other when they're not guided by hate #that's the thing it's how easily they fall into step with one another #that's shadowpeach. they'll be off balance or one will be running and the other walking. they'll get distracted or whatever. but #they'll always fall back into step with one another #and that's why they've got to walk with each other. step by step...so they can stop being afraid 😌

[fruitageoforanges]

credit to @crystallinefevers for the amazing drawing that inspired this! and for being responsible for me going balls to the walls insane for aemond in a pretty dress covered in blood.

also, continuing my ‘aemond should get dark sister’ agenda

#hotd #greens <3 #aemond targaryen #scribbles #f&b #hotd fanart #aemond one eye #who just got stabbed? you decide #but someone just got decimated #probably someone who tried to fuck with aegon #no one is safe from my urge to draw pretty dresses #sometimes you have to fuck someone up and look good while doing it #should’ve added jewellery tbh #i’ll never stop going on about that tiny detail from f&b #and i like it even more in the context his show characterisation #which is so austere. and i feel like he doesn’t allow himself many nice things #pretty jewellery is his one vanity

[robertsbarbie]

i love kc but sometimes our sports teams piss me off

#you want the county residents to help vote for a bill that will help fund let me check #a new stadium in downtown that no one wants and will but many kc staple small business OUT of business #you claim you NEED to build a new stadium because suddenly the concrete underneath is bad #(when everyone knows it has to do with the lease #and wanting to expand arrowhead) #YOU WANT TO EXPAND ARROWHEAD ON TO SAID BAD CONCRETE #and you keep fake threatening to move like bro #the rams JUST recovered from leaving st. louis all those years ago #especially with football loyalties you can’t fuck with that!! #and like i’m sorry i love patrick mahomes and my bestie isiah pacheco and everyone #but like 😭 what if they get hurt #cincinnati banked everything on blonde boy and now look where they are #or andy reid retires #and like the only good renovation is making the top deck and nosebleeds more accessible #everything else is vanity and makes fans loves harder #i just ughhhhhhh shut up! #if you live in kc and vote yes i hate you #eris: text

[angelcloves]

since i mentioned her in bleeding hearts today why did they do draculaura so dirty on her monster fest doll im so sad. on her birthday too

#there are definitely things i like about the doll but #yikes the outfit...... #that playset is also not worth $60 #its like a $45 max set especially when the doll at the core is so underwhelming #she just. does not integrate with the rest of the line well #i would have loved to have seen painted details on the headpiece and an absolute explosion of pink but uh #the two different shades of pink are not giving #and im mourning a handbag and belt to tie her back to the rest of the ghouls #but its fine im fine #<- fucking malding #dont get me started on the vanity yes ive seen the vanity

[sabraeal]

would you be willing to elaborate on your tag about Tower of Dawn where you said SJM has a weird hangup about maleness? Because I think I agree but I've been having trouble putting my thoughts on it in order and I'd be very interested in hearing what you think in more detail

I know i specifically mention SJM because I was talking about Tower of Dawn, but quite honestly this is sort of a problem across a lot of the really popular romantasy titles (and lbh, probably originated due to a lot of mainstream romance these authors read over time), and has even started to extend it's spindly fingers into fandom, but there's this specific focus on MALENESS as a monolith. That someone can have a distinct maleness about them. That they can smell of sandalwood and male. That maleness requires having an eight pack and broad shoulders and the BO of a god and also there's some growling too? That a man can crush you in his large hands but that he doesn't because he's restraining his innate maleness -- read: violence-- to keep from harming you.

Which I mean, is a type. It's a kink! It's a fine flavor of romance that is perfectly enjoyable...except when it becomes the ONLY kind of ML. You can't be a ML *without* and eight pack now. Oh you might have been a lean, bookish side character in book one, but you got a love interest in the sequel, and now your veritable Man Paws break all the bindings you hold dear!

And I think that's where the real problem is-- not even that there's a real lack of body diversity in MLs in romantasy/romance, but that even when a previously NOT alpha male side character gets to have his own romance, he must BECOME that physical type. He has to suddenly become possessive and say all the things that sort of ML always says. As if there can't be a love story if the ML doesn't look or act like this. As if there is only a single type of maleness that could possibly be attractive, and it has to be founded in violence and possessiveness and domination.

There's nothing wrong with that as a preference-- whether to read or to write. And I think it's also normal in romance to emphasize the difference between partners' bodies-- if you're attracted to someone, you're gonna notice their large hands, or maybe that they only come up to your shoulder, or maybe that their skin color is a few shade off from yours or more, and be like hehehehehe dat's nice :3. But there's such a focus on describing the dorito body shape, or how ML's sweat catches on his super defined abs, or how his grip is so tight it bruises, or how he lets out his animal howling during sex...that it's sort of become a thing that's default, rather than defined by character.

I think we get real down on FL leads being samey, or having perfect bodies, or not being allowed to have more than the barest bit of personality-- especially when it's in media aimed at men. But we've kind of found our own way to reduce ML down to a single archetype, I think there's a real fear in romance about making flaws that aren't about the inches of his enemy's blood this guys stands in.

#*bangs hands on table* #let a bookish guy have a soft boy belly or something #nothing breaks immersion for me when some dude who spends his time reading obscure texts is like #fucking SHREDDED. total vanity 8-pack #SJM i think is just one of the poster children for this problem because like Chaol and Dorian and Rhys all had different #non-roided out body types. and now they are all Hans & Franz #and they're here to PUMP you UP (with their manly sperm i guess) #considering how all those sex scenes tend to go #again if you love it there is no shame. but i do think we all have to take a step back #and think about whether we really want violence to equal manliness #forever and every in every book in the genre

[mainfaggot]

in conclusion, I have no choice but to try to recover again. or else another two years will pass me by and I'll be so fucking tired

#it's so terrifying and no one gets it unless they've experienced it first hand lol #like it's easy to think that it's just the Vanity Mental Illness but for me. its the perfectionism illness. it's the i need to feel like #everything is not falling apart always illness #and to let go of it is terrifying. but i have to try or else I'll be so stuck #more than i already feel what with depression #one less illness will make things less insufferable in the long term. i keep telling myself that. #it's weird because im so attached to having a restrictive eating disorder. it's like a shadow that follows me everywhere #but i have to get a new shadow or else I'll be burdening myself further. i keep thinking #'whats the point of trying to get better if it's all doomed anyway? if im so fucked anyway? if I'll kill myself anyway?' #and i guess the answer is. the point is WHY NOT (by loona) #kidding no but actually #the answer is why not give it a shot. like just for the sake of it #how do you KNOW it's all fucked #if it really truly is and you cant take it anymore then the eating disorder is there #you can take it back. reunite rekindle the flame whatever #i dont believe anything im typing rn btw like im suffering in real time bc everything feels so utterly pointless #but whatever if i kill myself at least it'd be with one less illness. or something. i dont know #at least it wouldn't be because i was hungry LMFAO #z.post

[renanxcarvalho]

#( cover me in sunshine ) vanity #outfit. #okay so it's a deep forest green #but green nonetheless #and he's hot as fuck #and earthy tones suit him like fucking yes #so yup just go with it #and let me keep being lazy