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bottlehawk · 10 months

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the best thing about going through old posts from 2012 is remembering how people on tumblr and the internet in general back then spoke EVERY other WORD in CAPS LOCK while reacting to things they vaguely liked as if oh my god. OH MY GOD. IT WAS THE GREATEST THING EVER!!!!! while PUNCTUATING THEIR SENTENCES with EXCLAMATIONS!!! but never splitting apart sentences word by word with them as we do more often now and instead

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for emphasis so that you end up reading everything very dramatically with lots of PAUSES and changes in caaaaaaadence~ and an. ti. ci. PATION!!!

with quirky visual references to accompany this fanciful theater kid julliard applicant text. 2012 was the year of the theater kids and everyone including the theater kids knew it. and nowadays online we're all just lowercase derailing train of thought no punctuation no excitement just mumbling quietly to ourselves snarky hipsters and even when we get exCITED@!!! like this it's intentionally bungled so it's less of you being genuinely enthusiastic and more of you putting on a voice so that you can have the copout of being satirical about being enthusiastic. and this is due to the post-2015 mass surgence of dave strider influenced transmascs being released to mingle with the rest of society coinciding with the great cringe culture epidemic of the mid-2010s. in this essay i will

#homestuck #bottlehawk text #seriously the mid early 2000s was peak theater kid culture. nowadays a hated breed persecuted by many. but they were king back in the day.#people will still get excited “like this!!” but as you can see it is way more chill without caps lock and also pretty girly #or “LIKE FUCKING THIS!!! FUCK YEAHHHHHH” so that the colorful swearing makes you sound socially acceptable and like you're at a sports game #but just read a couple of 2013 posts talking about how X fandom is actually rlly cool despite what the bullies say FUK DEM I WILL HUG U >_<!#and you will see the difference

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katabay · 4 months

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JACK THE GIANT KILLER

originally this was a kind of personal visual vibe test: I'm still turning some thoughts around about jack in my head (altho I have finished assembling the skeleton of a story and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when I start to press at it) but I really liked how it turned out so I'm posting it as it's own illustration :)

the first post about this idea is over here, but I've fine tuned it down a bit so that the story begins with jack finding the body of a giant while he's out in the woods one day, and the story spirals out of hand before he can stop it.

it's been interesting to read up on jack tales from a literary analysis point of view while I figure this story out!! and through the power of more coffee, I think. I'm close to pinning down an underlying theme I'd really like to bite into. I just need to condense it down to a couple of sentences instead of several paragraphs.

and to close this post out, here's another excerpt from the j.g. ballard's the drowned giant that haunts me!

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost ⭐ cara ⭐ ko-fi

#i had a whole thing about why i dont link to my ko-fi on art posts but a friend said i should at least do it on original art #also cara seems to be promising as an art porfolio site? if you're looking to jump off of dA because it sucks ass. cara looks good so far!#OKAY moving on from that. in my head there is also a weird fucked up story about the drowned giant I would love #to turn into a short comic. maybe early next year? I think I need to go to a beach and do some studies because in my mind #it has a very specific visual and tone. hmmmmmm.#I had a very vivid dream abt it and I want to attempt to capture it down onto paper #and moving on from THAT. to the man himself. jack. ohhhhhh can you imagine if someone would’ve done a fucked up grim dark #Jack novel in 2013 or something. I would’ve eaten that like a cake. this isn’t an intentionally grim dark retelling although it is. grim.#original tag #generic medieval tag

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annanicolesmxth · 1 month

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Why can’t I be an off duty model from the 90s

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un-pearable · 1 year

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as true as the jokes about “everyone wants to rewrite ninjago” are i feel like smthn people forget when complaining about the inconsistencies of the show is that…. it wasn’t planned? it’s not like most other animated shows lately - it didn’t start with a deeply fleshed out world or a meticulously designed pitch bible with grandiose plans for a long-term story or character arcs. the ninja don’t originally get their powers from heredity because they weren’t hereditary powers yet. the magic system doesn’t make sense bc they literally just made it up as they went! they go back and forth on stuff like whether non-elementals can learn spinjitzu bc it’s a collaborative piece of media made by people with vastly different levels of control over the story, the animation, the sets, etc. that varied over the course of the series. it’s totally understandable and exciting to see so many people reworking the early stuff with the lore and logic later seasons introduced but i personally feel that… if you’re doing that. you need to understand why the show is like that instead of writing it off as being bad and shitty. it was working with what it had. it’s only what it is now because of that awkward troubleshooting phase, not in spite of it

#ninjago #text✨#you’re 100% allowed to criticize the show but i keep seeing people complain about the inconsistencies about like. their parents giving them #their powers especially. like yeah cool that wasn’t a thing yet? they have different origins than the non-core elementals #because in the real world that idea hadn’t even crossed their minds yet! the original story was a more traditional fantasy narrative of #normal people rising to the occasion and *gaining* powers through their own feats. the fact that they changed it later doesn’t mean #it was necessarily bad to begin with or that it’s something that should be mocked #idk just. there’s a lot of hostility in some circles about this stuff and it makes me kinda sad. enjoy the complexity of production and how #series adapt over time. it’s part of why the show is so interesting to me #that essay i wrote had a whole bit juxtaposing the attitudes about technology in rebooted and prime empire and how they reflect greater #cultural trends between 2013 and 2021. it’s SUPER interesting and yet a lot of people only talk about it to make fun of how ‘bad’ it was :(#this isnt to say i don’t enjoy some of the retcons. the changes to their meetings with wu in s8 are genuinely really interesting! i love the #changes to cole’s backstory. i think his mom makes him in the early seasons even better! i’m just saying.. be respectful? nobody *tries* to #make a bad show. ages and ages of time and dedication were put into what ends up on your screens. it’s all human love and creation.#as goofy as it is #okay sry got all anthropology there but hm. been thinking about this for a while. apologies for being the local annoying early seasons fan

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melonthesprigatito · 7 months

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History of Detective Pikachu

2013: "Too bad this game is never going to be finished"

2016: "Too bad this game is never going to get an English translation"

2018: "Oh my god, they actually released it outside of Japan? Oh, it ended on a cliffhanger. Too bad it's never going to get a sequel."

2019: "Ex-fucking-scuse me??????"

2023:

"WHAT"

#pokémon #detective pikachu #detective pikachu returns #I still can't fucking believe the nearly cancelled weird Motion Captured animation Pokémon detective game I watched videos about in 2013 #GOT TURNED INTO A BIG BUDGET HOLLYWOOD MOVIE STARRING RYAN REYNOLDS?????#The live action Pokémon movie people dreamed about for years came out then nobody in the Pokémon fandom ever talked about it again #Seriously the history of this spinoff is FASCINATING. I feel like it should be a bigger deal than it actually is #Btw anyone remember Jwittz? He was one of the earlier PokéTubers #Idk if he still post videos but he was an icon in my early Pokémon fan days. Plus he introduced me to Hoppip :)

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kay111gurl · 2 months

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2010s swag era 🎇 🛍️💬

Nostalgia<333

#pink #swag #2010s #early 2010s #2010 nostalgia #2012 #2013 #swag era #nicki minaj #iconic #nostalgia #future #kid cudi #soulja boy #rhianna #like a g6

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nonsensegnomes · 2 months

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kinda crazy song choice for this dirties (2013) trailer i just unearthed...

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#or: my final answer is that estrogen would NOT save her lmaoooo #the dirties #the dirties 2013 #zapruder film #my vids #video #AMV #my post #you may be thinking wow this looks like it has even less pixels than the original!#& that's actually the intended effect!!!#i was trying to really lean in to the digital disintegration aesthetic of 00s home video footage #that looks like it was shot on a bargain bin camcorder or possibly those early go-pros used exclusively to capture sick skating flips #so basically just like early webseries ntbts lol #guns tw #gun violence tw #um.... like schoolyard bullying homophobia/transphobia warning?#warning for the most stomach-upsettingly real depiction of the mortification of being misunderstood ever put to film??#unreality tw #school shooting tw

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danothan · 10 months

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everyday i log onto the internet i am forced to fisticuffs combat the halbarry default yaoi allegations. THEY’RE NOT A BASIC BRUNETTE/BLONDE JOCK/NERD DYNAMIC THEY’RE MORE THAN THAT (coping)

#i can’t talk to certain dc fans some of them are too immersed in fan conversation that they lose their fresh perspective #yk krillers doesn’t know anything abt superheroes and actually told me that they thought halbarry were the opposite #bc hal’s got that plane autism and barry is basically a track star #and i think that is far more enlightened than some of the stuff i see in my peripherals #but they can’t be reduced to fanfic tropes like that either way… they are special… TO ME #it’s just wild to me that i’ll see 2013-style yaoi fanart in 2023 #they’re not twinks!!! they’re not twinks and they’re not seme/uke substitutes!!!#i think a good rule of thumb is that most of their dynamic goes both ways #<- not referring to seme/uke but that too ig (does not know which word means what)#but you’ll especially notice this in older vs newer iterations of their relationship #does ‘i won’t let you get lost to the speedforce. don’t let me get lost in the stars’ mean NOTHING to you ?!#they’ve done it all!#older hal used to be the one to reach out and bridge their early friendship while barry was the stick in the mud #and newer hal struggles to adapt to barry’s way of friendship while barry is the one to usually initiate their bonding #also i love hal annoying barry bc that is honest to god his love language #but i never see the reverse in fanworks?#ig bc barry’s way of being annoying is more understated but it’s still pretty egregious #hal is annoying bc he likes attention barry is annoying bc he likes to see hal’s reaction #thank god they have each other so they can (relatively) contain their annoyingness to themselves 💚#except the pda is rly just shameless. why are they always all over each other in front of the justice league.#i’m not even rly complaining anymore i’m honestly just waxing poetic abt their relationship #they have a sedating quality abt them (when they’re not riling me up in a fit of passion)#halbarry #the flash #green lantern #barry allen #hal jordan #dc #danbles

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you-are-joking · 7 months

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just finished watching hannibal. quick question why is it LIKE that

#hannibal #like EVERYTHING about the show is 1000% over the top #WHY are the sex scenes like traveling to another dimension #why does the music alternate between hannibal playing classical piano and just irregular drumbeats #don’t even get me STARTED on the dialogue #WHO TALKS LIKE THAT #y’all were not lying with the ‘tell me will’ memes #they’ll have their morning coffee being like #ah yes the bean . . . harvested early in its life just like my dead sister #HUH #i’m obsessed #but i can’t look at hannibal content on here bc it’s all connected with our good shadows #and i still haven’t seen wwdits so i gotta get on that before it’s spoiled here #goddamn this is just like 2013 superwholock trying to catch up on every show #thanks for the recommendations at any rate

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g0ff1k-b4b3-555 · 1 year

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some picz from the best night of my life X3 <3

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bylrndgm · 1 year

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SEASON ONE, CHAPTER 7: THE BATHTUB

mike wheeler in episode 7 x random graphic techniques

#byler #mike wheeler #stranger things #usergif #userblorbo #mine #mine:gif #no like comeback gifset?#the way i associate mike with stars. he's a star.#tribute to my early gifsets in 2013 where i was abusing b&w gradient maps blending mode soft light #i hope you enjoy!!!#queue

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lesbiangiratina · 6 months

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Thats a weird “1” it must be the font idk testament most popular character forever thats so cool goodnight

#didnt mean to stay up to 3 am oopsie #but hey i got an early look at the new dev backyard.#fr tho 7/25. kinda awesome #better than them ranking like. barely top 50% of all of arcsys characters in that 25th anniversary poll #that poll was funny. it was split by gender. testament was on both. they ranked like 10 places higher in the girl poll??#that was in 2013 btw.#i saw an old xx poll that had them in the top 8 i think? i guess their relevancy just plummeted in the 2010s. sob #K FOR REAL I GOTTA GO TO SLEEPS #the kat goes meow

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hoardlikegoldenirises · 10 months

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something a little silly

(he's not actually angry at the "drugs" thing, just busy trying not to die)

oh i almost forgot

transcript of my bad handwriting:

Page 1 Panel 1: 2013, 1:38 pm (sfx: DING DING DING)

Panel 2: 9th period, 1:40 pm

Peter's internal thought bubble: "Oh shit my meds"

Panel 3:

Student 1: Hi, Mr. Parker!

Peter: mm-hm

Panel 4:

Student 1: Mr. Parker? Hello?

(Student 2: Huh?)

Panel 5:

Peter: Hm?

Student 1: What are those, tic tacs?

Student 2: No, he's doing drugs!!! (In class!)

Text pointing to Peter's hand holding his pills says "PTSD medication"

Peter: HKFGH (choking noise)

Page 2:

Panel 1:

Student 1: Are you okay?!

(Student 2: oh fuck)

Peter: COUGH COUGH

Panel 2:

(sfx: WHEEZE)

Peter: It's not DRUGS!

Panel 3, Peter cont.: Well, I mean, it is drugs, but it's prescription—it's medication. OK?

#came in through the window last night #peter parker #nadiart #fanadiart #rough art #comics #spiderman #always feel weird tagging the au stuff just cause it's so specific but... well i won't pretend i look at the peter parker tag lol #a post arguably still about a somewhat serious topic but with a more lighthearted mood #bright blue capsules = 5mg generic prazosin just fyi #he takes it starting in early 2013 to prevent flashbacks and nightmares (technically it's a blood pressure medication tho)#he takes it in morning. afternoon (at work). and bedtime. otherwise he can barely leave the house.#i was picturing this in fall after he's a little more functional but still kinda fucked #In Retrospect I'm not sure that him getting a job in 2013 makes sense though like it's a miracle he graduated from his master's program #on the other hand he strikes me as the kind of guy who works himself harder when stressed... but a few months is a very quick turnaround #maybe i should have him doing full time classes instead of pt and finish his degree over fall 2012 or smth... idk #i'll figure all that stuff out Later #anyway my approach to peter's shirts is generally anything that looks thrifted where he saw it in all its hideousness and said #''i love it''#also don't get it twisted the only reason peter even carries a water bottle is for his pills #accidentally pavlov'd himself into being hydrated but not into buying a reusable bottle lmao

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annanicolesmxth · 1 month

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peterfankoffski · 5 months

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oh to be a kid in 2013 and think you're getting away with something by staying up until 12 AM during SUMMER VACATION while watching tangled and wizards of waverly place dvr recordings

#i was not a rebellious kid can you tell #em says their thoughts #i'm having very strong memories of the early 2010s rn #what do you mean i'm gonna be 20 soon #wasn't 2013 like. yesterday. oh a decade. cool

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gxlden-angels · 2 months

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I think the most fun thing about the Who Tf Did I Marry?!? series is learning red flags I never would've thought I should think about. Getting married if you're "dating to marry" within a couple months to a year is just normal baptist/pentecostal things

#my dad started dating less than a year after my mom died and got married less than 2 years after she died #my mom died sept 2011 #they got married june 2013 #and lived together before that with the intention to get married soon #I wouldn't have even thought about that as a red flag if others didn't point it out #like sure *I* wouldn't get married that early but that's normal right #*narrator voice* it was not in fact normal #ex christian #religious trauma

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