#kinda my brand at this point. so

[capfalcon]

oh my GOD whenever john calls finch harold i go fucking insane. because here's two men who are both, by their own doing, legally dead. they're ghosts. they don't exist in the normal world. and their names aren't even really legally theirs, most of the time. plus they're both extremely private. but they have these little glimpses of personhood, these tiny details that make them more than just names on pieces of paper.

john doesn't call harold that when he's hurt. he does it when he's feeling tender, when he's treating him as a friend, as a person, as someone he cares for. in the same episode that finch gets drugged, he calls john his "very good friend," and john, someone who literally stalked harold and tries so hard to figure things out about him, respects his privacy. he is told to ask "whatever he wants" and he walks away. he leaves, but not without wishing harold goodnight, by saying his name.

and the same when finch tries to offer to use a gun to protect carter's kid, or make a distraction. john calls him harold then, because it's a kind offer, it's something that shows how dedicated he is, how much he cares for this work, and for john.

as someone who goes by multiple names to different people, being called a name that you've claimed, no matter if it's "fake" or not, by someone who cares about you, can matter so much. and john doesn't call finch harold when he's injured, or otherwise. he calls him harold when that's what he is; not his employer, or an eccentric billionaire, but a good person, who tries to do his best. that's when john looks at him and sees harold, not mr. finch.

#person of interest #don't mind me watching another long dead show #kinda my brand at this point. so #why deviate #poi #john reese #harold finch #jordan talks #rinch

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

im so Normal. totally not shaking and crying rn

#its nice to be this excited about something again! to the point of nausea! #and i Mean That #this is the good kinda stress. tis a welcome break from the usual brands #all week i've been having moments of 'ohhhh god New Information Incoming' and i have to sit down every time #and measure my breathing to chill tf out #is this unhealthy! maybe! i am trying to keep it Contained!! tightly leashed if you will #BUT OH FUCK ITS ALMOST HERE AGH AGH AGH #absolutely unprompted #welcome home #i will probably be unable to discover secrets bc i am bad with computers and the like #but hey! ill try! #if there's like... a spoiler tag yall want from me ill make sure to tag any Update Posts with it #then again wh is a unique scenario of like... Are there spoilers #bc it feels like a 'a couple people uncover stuff and then show/tell the rest' thing #but what would i know! this is kinda the first update! #LETS GO GAMERS I HOPE THE NEW STUFF IS TRAUMATIZING FOR BOTH US AND THE CHARACTERS #alright im getting to excited again im gonna go lay down #gonna be refreshing pages every ten seconds even when its completely illogical and meaningless to do so

[lustrethings]

It's very important to me that you understand that "their relationship had deteriorated into their own private hunger games" implies not only they were hunting each other, but also that they were both scared of each other and fearing for their lives

#basic take I am aware but I just find their last scene so fascinating from a narrative point of view there are so many layers #I am obsessed bc yes Lucy Gray was definitely scared with reason #but Coryo was having a whole break down jumping from ''she won't tell'' to ''she won the hunger games for a reason I might actually die'' #was he probably bitten by a two headed sipo or something (most harmless little thing I can think of) #HOWEVER. However. I have a headcanon. Sprung to life while writing them in fact #I'm kinda hinging the entire thing on this single phrase bc it's branded in my brain really #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #snowbaird

[stevethehairington]

OH BOY book announcement. on the one hand im excited because MORE EDDIE HELL YEAH and also ive heard good things about the other books, but on the other hand nO i LOVE the backstory that we as a fandom have created for eddie, i don't want anything else!!! i don't want to see it any other way!!!

and im also hellllllla not looking forward to the upheaval it surely WILL cause when Certain Things do/don't get "confirmed"

#and yEAH i KNOW the books arent canon but theyre also not not canon? #like theyre this weird in between kinda thing #and yeah i just dont like the Implications #ALSO the plot for it makes NO sense AT ALL??? #a record producer 'discovering' eddie PRE S4????? #we obviously all know how that pans out so??? whats the point???? #ALSO if this paige lady is a love interest (which is highly suspected) that is a GROOOOSSS power imbalance i am Not Here For #like idgaf if shes a woman bc bi eddie? hell yeah!!!! #but like her being in this position of power over eddie offering him everything hes ever wanted??? #if she IS a love interest then yikes yikes YIKES #(also HOW is that gonna work with the cc boys????? unless they make a whole brand new set of bandmates) #ALSO i dont like the name al for his father lmao that Does Not fit with the image in my head #eddie munson #stranger things #flight of icarus

[bilestat]

not to be a loser but I’ve teared up from happiness multiple times over bi buck

#even tho I haven’t watched from the beginning yet I love him so fucking much and I’m so happy #and I can’t believe it’s really happening??? #wish I could bottle the feeling I get when canon bi reveals happen like #words cannot describe it #I don’t even know what I’m trying to say lmfao I am just an emotional bisexual #personal #to be deleted #like prev reblog said a win for one bi is a win for all bis #I LOVE YOU BISEXUALITY I LOVE YOU FELLOW BISEXUALS #also I feel like being an annoying bisexual is kinda my brand at this point

[perenlop]

gonna say something that's probably gonna piss some people off.

"media literacy is dead" discourse has gotten to the point where i think some of yall are only a few steps removed from "we can't let our kids watch spongebob, it might turn them gay" parents

#trying very hard not to overshare bc this kinda left me w a lot of issues growing up #but like. my family wasnt QUITE the ''spongebob makes you gay'' brand mostly bc my mom didnt care that much on her own #but the adults in my family growing up were genuinely that post thats like ''looney tunes is sick. its twisted... its so violent and evil.' #and its getting harder and harder to not see the parallels between some of the shit theyd say #and the people who were apparently like ''tma is disgusting... the creator is a sick freak for writing horror in a horror podcast...'' #to the point they harassed the creator despite them putting up cws for each episode and the podcast being a horror podcast #like congrats youre only a few steps removed from my conservative aunt who banned some CN shows for being too evil #like its the same attitude as ''this makes me uncomfortable. it must be morally evil.'' no matter what that may be #echoed voice

[starsbits]

saw barbie n honestly it was just like. ok. like a 6/10. there were some funny jokes and stuff but it feels like they were trying to send so many different messages at once that they never fully delivered any of them despite trying to spoon feed them to the audience and also the plot and pacing were just like. all over the place. which is to be expected bc yknow its a brand movie but still </3

#it was still a fun movie dont get me wrong but i dont have a desire to immediately watch it again like i did with other movies #the bit about ken being obsessed with horses was pretty funny though #but the dialogue was so. so so full of itself and i think it was supposed to be a joke like look the doll can use big words! but it just- #-made it so so stuffy. and it was very tell dont show rather than show dont tell which was annoying and one of my biggest pet peeves #and to expand on the pacing. the scene about the ken war dragged on for sooo long to the point where i was like. this is the barbie movie- #right? where is barbie? and i kinda get that was a point like about ken being backseated but it was just not done well in that regard #plus it had that anti-indigenous joke which was just. unnecessary and gross. #but yknow. it is what it is at the end of the day its a brand movie yeah its not going to be anything groundbreaking but i do think people- #-are giving it more credit than its worth lol #starspeaks

[lamentable-comedy]

honestly i think one of my favorite things about reading artemis fowl as an adult is that it has found family relationships that you can't categorize neatly into traditional familial roles.

like, yeah, there are varying degrees of it-- you can pretty straightforwardly say that root is a father figure to holly, and artemis and juliet have definite sibling vibes even if they're not quite aware of it and it's complicated by the fact that he's her boss.

and then there's butler and artemis and it's like. they're brothers, they're a father-son duo, butler is artemis' only friend for years. artemis in charge because butler works for him, butler's in charge because artemis is a child. it's butler's job to die for artemis. artemis would do anything to save butler's life. neither of them explicitly express affection except in the smallest of ways.

AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED on artemis and holly. there is no existing familial relationship, or combination of relationships that could even come close to encapsulating everything they mean to each other and everything their friendship encompasses and THAT'S the beauty of found family.

you can have relationships that shift and change over time and that resist neat categorization while still being able to clearly hold them up as important and meaningful and say "this person is family".

#honestly probably one of the reasons i don't really care about myles and beckett tbh #because the found family is just so strong by that point in the series #and artemis finally having friends after not having any for the first... 13? years of his life #was really powerful and moving to me #the 8yo with 1 friend reading the books for the first time #(13 question mark cause it kinda depends on when you start counting the fairies as his friends) #found family with more obvious one-to-ones is great but the ambiguity hits different #artemis fowl #words #artemis fowl ii #holly short #domovoi butler #juliet butler #julius root #my brand #cause found family

[robertsbarbie]

wait i forgot to tell yall the absolute highlight of my day, and probably year, and probably existence because it was genuinely the kindest thing anyone has ever done for me

#i had to act like i was not crying in class because it shook me to my core #this one professor of mine great guy probably the only reason i have not given up on the graphic design program #starts class discussing our projects for the semester #and says both projects are brand new never done before #and one of them was a music project #where we get to choose the artist and create an entire spread of everything for them #lp/ digital campaign/ website/ spotify mockups the whole fucking nine yards #and this is a man WHO DID NOT KNOW WHAT MUSIC PACKAGING WAS OR ENTAILED UNTIL #I ONE DAY WENT ON A RANT ABOUT IT IN OUR FIRST CLASS TOGETHER #and who has asked me multiple times about it since and my amateur concert photos #and i’ve given him shit for cutting a different music project in the past #and this motherfucker looked at me (i’m losing my fucking mind at this point btw like full on #everyone in the class was looking at me after the announcement) #and this motherfucker looks at me ‘you got your music project buddy don’t let me down’ #and it just kinda struck me that this clown of a man A) listens to his students and proposes projects he thinks they’ll be passionate about #but B) that he listened to me and i’ve just i’ve never had that things like this are always dismissed #and this motherfucker listened and formulated a whole ass project to help me #like that’s so fucking insane to me #eris: text

[makeitlookdecent]

"stop being overly afraid of status effects."

hey look at my map

#arknights #arknights arene #arknights doctor #hello i ran outta PO to roll for mr. chongyue so im. doing msq maps. #i want you guys to know my first event i played /was/ the first run of undertides on the en server #i only did like 3 or 4 stages back then but i had. not lvled units so the. nervous damage. really scares me. #thats also why is3 scares me and the shipyard map(i hate the shipyard map) #god the; sea brand;; #it scares me (affectionate) #ANYWAY my Lumen is max lvl m9 now!!! with module!! #( i mean. his mod is s2 rn but;; im kinda broke since i lvled him instead lol) #also i looked and i see no fanart or offical art of arene's arms how far down does his oripathy go???? #fun fact! i love like having my doctor like this cause i can practice drawin other units without feeling like #“they would not make that face” or “somethings off..” because thats the point #cant be a perfect copy lol #oh i hope ppl dont mind me drawin my. strange doctor so much;;

[flustersluts]

you are so fucking hot omgggg <33

ah thank you !!!! this is so sweet:0000 im not that hot irl i just take good selfies every once in a while

#i do have a mullet atm tho which im kinda feeling #i love having stupid ass hair #also its like the one funky style you can do with my brand of curly hair #the options r literally. short back and sides #and mullet #im in the mulletest city in the uk tho so its ok #bonus points if any brits can guess which onem #flusterasks

[dread-knight]

I get it’s like a major plot point but I never understood like. The logic behind the springlock suits in Fnaf btw…. If you wanted an employee to be able to wear a suit just…. Make a non animatronic mascot costume? Even with limited animatronics in the suit’s external eyes and eyebrows for expression and whatnot! Just… it seems very odd a choice to me to like. Make people wear an animatronic suit especially since it’s known in-universe how dangerous they are. I said it to friends but the defunctland episode for Freddy fazbears pizzeria would go crazy

#Chatter #I watched the movie with a bunch of friends last night. Off a pirating site btw im not giving Scott a single penny #It was fun I think it felt very true to the earlier games and stood well on its own #There was stuff that if I was a bigger fan of the series I wouldn’t have needed pointed out to me but yea #This is just a kinda general nitpick and I 100% get why they made them 1 for 1 replicas of the i game models #But I think it would’ve been cool to have the animatronics in the movie closer to real life ones that are like. Try to be less obvious they #-robotic. Like a la rockafire or smth. But I get why they did it the way they did in the movie. Brand recognition and whatnot. Anyhow yeah #Also I’m operating on like very hazily remembered info from the first four games I stopped paying attention to the series after that. #So if my talk is off in any way that’s why. My bro has tried to explain modern fnaf lore to me but it just confuses me xD

[meraus]

Don’t believe the American lies. I just tried airheads and hersheys and they’re absolutely vile with the worst after taste. About to try poptarts next, pray for me 🙏

#I thought oh fun a foreign candy shop I’ll go see what all the fuss is about with these American snacks #turns out it’s entirely un-fuss-worthy #y’all can NOT have been serious hyping these up to the point where I had name brand recognition with positive connotations #despite never even having seen them irl before today #was this the plan? big ole joke to play on curious Europeans? #bro I was so excited for a tasty snack #I had the cherry airheads and I was like ew ok kinda gross with weird sand texture aftertaste but surely the hersheys will be better #and then I broke a piece off and thought oh this is kind of like koetjes reep! which is delicious if a bit too sweet for my taste! #it was NOT like koetjes reep. I had to scrub my tongue bro I had to swish mouth wash to get rid of that taste asap #y’all better not have been lying about the poptarts TT I saved them for last cause I’m most excited about trying those #and even had plans to go back for twinkies next time. but if the poptarts also suck that’s strike three #that will convince me that Americans just have the worst palates in the world

[akkivee]

‘this bond will last for eternity. i won’t tolerate betrayals or running away.’

——

so speaking of kuukou probably has attachment issues in the form of being too attached, he has this arb line lmao

i revisited the kiyohime legend, and in some iterations of the legend, she specifically turns into a dragon of rage after she tried to cross a river and died to follow someone she loved who promised her he’d stay by her side, but only did so in order to escape her. makes me think this legend really is kuukou’s blueprint lol 🤔

#vee queued to fill the void #my brain has so much going on about kuukou lol if it feels like i’ve been talking in circles you’re right!!!!! #i’m circling around a kuukou topic i have so many bits and pieces to but can’t concretely piece them together so i’m super focused on it lo #like point of interest for this thought are: #kuukou relating to the mc in arb main story because his mentor left without a word #and maybe not so oddly enough but kuukou consoling hitoya to let the anger go #like yeah arb isn’t canon but it’s a story based on what canon has to offer #which means kuukou again relates to people who’ve been left behind because it’s core to his character (despite him not talking about it lol #it’s been a VERY long while since i said kuukou sometimes doesn’t put the money where his mouth is lol #but i wonder if him preaching to hitoya to move on is contradictory to what he’s keeping to himself #mr ‘you’re not allowed to leave me or betray me we are forever’ lol #is bat’s brand of codependency about to fck me up lmao #this looks like a festering sadness and anger towards someone that deeply hurt him by leaving and refuses to go thru it again #lol kinda relatedly i am so amused that kuukou’s fursona might be because he vibed with a story of an angry lady’s lovesickness #kuukou looked at this angry dragon lady and said kin LMAO #c: kuukou👑

[hshouse]

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#taylor’s roll put #has me thinking sooooo much about H’s whole pr/brand/strategy #and my thoughts have been like falling into place #and it’s just very frustrating #to me bc her absolute MASTERY of building her brand #makes hshq’s mess #even more messy for me #there are MANY points to bring #but the one I am thinking tonight #is how she operates on an even bigger platform so she is one of the few ppl I think are proper to compare H to #and she shows how you can have absolutely crafted to the tee strategies where almost nothing is spontanous and everything is planned and $$ #is front and center and YET feel personal and intimate and like she is our buddy and that we know her and she knows us and she likes us #the reason given for H’s distant persona is privacy but what this comparison shows is that you can get privacy without giving up warmth #harry on stage is such a drastic contrast to every other imput we have from him/his brand its kinda jarring #but it doesnt HAVE TO BE THIS WAY and he doesn’t need to sacrifice privacy to still craft a warmer closer persona. thats what I have been #thinking tonight. like I know 98% of you don’t follow or even like her. but trust ME when I say that being a fan of both its like oil #and water when it comes to how their public persona is. i genuinely feel like I know her. I DONT!! but thats what I feel. and I only feel li #I know H bc I am a super fan. but thats not what his brand portrays. also and this point is more nuanced so bear w me. there is an element #that comes from this brand of Cool and Private that i KNOW is completely inaccurate like I would put my hand on the fire over this but #hshq OFTEN puts out things or implies it that H is Cool and Different and would not like want to hang out w normal ppl that are not Cool #which one I don’t care if it is true and two I dont think it is true but its something that doesnt sit well w ppl. taylor has a persona that #seems like even tho she is a trillionaire she would still sit on your couch and drunk your grocery store wine and talk about dumb shit #this is largely because of ppl like fucking KID HARPOON who are into makinng harry seem like a weird etheral being and not just. a dude #but anyway. i think this is not great. and outside of this corner MANY ppl are fans of both like me. and this is v noticeable even if ppl #dont articulate it like this. and I think he is gonna have to pivot this strategy. i just hope they do it before ppl get more annoyed #and start being even meaner to him than they already are

[pumpkinrootbeer]

people hate s11 lip but like.

I get it.

#realest mf on the show #lip gallagher #shameless #who am I kidding people hate any season lip #I have so much to say. I could write essays abt that man #so overhated and for WHAT #he's a bit of an asshole and it's ohh he's so selfish oohhhh #but fiona almost kills a toddler and it's she was going through something 🥺 #listen I fucking adore Fiona but not like you fake fans I understand her absurdity you guys don't get it #she kinda sucks you can't erase the kinda sucking and pretend she's perfect #it's like with dean (Winchester) You can't just act like bc the older sibling raised the younger one they're suddenly perfect #y'all don't get it frfr #none of you bitches have even been in that dynamic you DON'T UNDERSTAND!!! #Its me and the younger sibling who the fandom hates because they're ''ungrateful'' (lip sam bolin) against the world #also like. the shit I see people hating lip for is always like #''was mean to his rapist. angry after his baby brother almost died. has trauma like a little bitch'' #''doesnt worship the ground his sister walks on.'' #sorry I'm being petty. as is my brand #''he became his dad :('' HE LITERALLY DIDN'T THATS THE FUCKING POINT?? #is that. he was falling into the same habits his dad did and then he literally dragged himself to sobriety tooth and nail #my cringefail idiot son you guys don't get him like I do #I also wanted to kill myself in college I get it