#my baby panache

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

no by all means keep judging cartoon villains solely by if they get redeemed in the end. i know some of us like to talk about other stuff like characterization or entertainment value or nuance as something that makes a good villain. but i think the only thing that actually matters is if the villain ends up on good terms with the protagonist at the end. all the Good TM cartoons with Good TM creators make the villains die a Horrible Death for being Abusers or whatever. and all the Bad TM cartoons with Bad TM creators Forgive Fascists by not making them get publicly executed by the 14 year old protagonist in front of the 8 year old target demographic.

i mean im so glad that more cartoons nowadays are subverting the psyop to support fascists that a few queer artists and queer shows definitely invented in 2017. there are so many popular cartoons doing that. it's almost like there are more properties killing their villains now and in the past than there ever were of properties that didn't do this. and it's almost like whether the villain gets redeemed at the end is more about the context of the story and its themes leading up to a narratively sound decision.

but you know. a few queer shows made by trans ppl were popular and they didn't kill their fascists and even had the gall to make them nuanced while also looking into the harm they did. guess it's trendy to forgive your abusers now because like two cartoons said so. out of like 40 other similarly high profile works that just straight up hit their villains with a bus or smth. by all means. keep heaping praise onto that one show about how they "let their villain just be evil" instead of talking about anything more interesting. that's so subversive, everyone's doing it!

#shut up pandora #check off my 'monthly rant about the treatment of the creators of steven universe and she ra' #this is because of the 'praise' ive been seeing for belos btw #yes i love his panache i love how much he fucks up everything and i love how hes beyond redemption #thats not because he was Born Evil and has always Been Evil??? #ppl who show baby belos going out of his way to make calebs life a living hell and evelyn Rescuing this poor blond boy from his Evil Brothe #i am sending so many bad vibes at you rn #he isnt a good villain bc dana terrace decided to be 'subversive' by not redeeming belos #JUST being subversive while writing the story doesnt mean you make a good story being subversive =/= being good #hes a good villain because while his decisions are dogshit we can understand why he made them on an emotional level #and since gravity falls seems to be the golden standard for modern cartoons i guess #bill cipher also isnt a good villain bc hes evil and they killed him #bill is a good villain bc hes entertaining in the threat he poses #what makes a character a good villain is about stuff they do while theyre being a villain #dont just sum it up with 'duhhh they killed them at the end so its good' thats entirely dependent on the story! #anyway this is specifically about modern western cartoon fandoms #if youre telling me to watch shows that arent modern western cartoons or like. read a book then know that i do that already #this stuff isnt as big of a discourse topic in those circles but im talking about this specific circle rn

[sarakiz]

Deniss Vasiljevs (LAT) - "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" by Jimi Hendrix perf. Stevie Ray Vaughan (chor. Stephane Lambiel)

2017 European Figure Skating Championships, Ostrava - Men's Short Program

#deniss vasiljevs #euros 2017 #figure skating #fskateedit #fskatingedit #i am trying to denisspost less i promise but i mean. look at my blog title #throwback to deniss' i am no longer baby i want power season #this is my dark horse of programs i want him to bring back btw #feel like itd b fun with his current hair #although to be clear i dont think hes had a single bad hair moment #i like many of you have a love hate relationship with this era of deniss programs #cause it was kinda clear that he was still a kid who hadnt grown into a particular brand of artistry yet #and was just doing his job if that makes sense #but i dont think u can deny the panache was there #especially when he really comes to life in the step sequence #also i miss the sheer drama of the palms-up landing position #i wouldve giffed his performance of this program from helsinki worlds #cause it had a much better angle on that lil guitar flourish #but they cut to the overhead on the tuck sit spin #and he had very slightly changed his landing position by then LOL #anyway someone pls message me about my deniss kikagaku moyo sp concept #lest i continue to torment tumblr user trinitea-fics about it

[unproduciblesmackdown]

took a closer look at lucifer’s notebook. it’s headed “PLEASE HELP 4/21/15″ followed by 160something tallies (though they say there’ve been 154 people who don’t give a fuck), then doodles, including what may be a face, seemingly smudged or erased lines, what i’m just now realizing may be the head of a snake with an arrow shooting at it, and crucially and most obviously, a backwards Cool S.

the writing in the middle of the page is:

I miss you and I remember what it was like be[fore]

I wish I didn't

#they're baby (god's unwanted child) #asia kate dillon #lucifer our better angels #compared with asia's own handwriting as seen in billions i'm sure they wrote the words themself. so are these also their drawings. love it #they draw v angularly lol i respect it....already noticed via their billions screenshots their handwriting is nonzero similar to mine #which you Know is v attuned for my aesthetique sensibilities same as goes into lineart for me lol...decided to write a's diff one day #and then i did. & capital Gs. once in elem school i decided to dot i's w/little circles and apparently the teacher hated it lmfao. panache #anyways lucifer satan the devil is doodling and writing diary letters to their omniscient parent i.e. for all intents & purposes praying? #well i love them so much aw cmere....rebellious child interpretation.... #well so long as god is flexible and dynamic and themself able to repent parent; that's just fantastic #meanwhile it's settled #like how people are like oh my god. upside cross ye old saint peter emblem??? satan???? #backwards Cool S is now the satanic emblem of ''but who prays for satan? who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for #the one sinner that needed it most; our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one; the one sinner among us #all who had the highest and clearest right to every christian's daily and nightly prayers; for the plain and unassailable reason that his #was the first and greatest need; he being among sinners the supremest?'' #also can't ignore their like tayloresquely dark red pants here. they truly have an outfit i'm taking notes thusly #ambitiously taking screenshots & rotating & tamping down brightness while ramping up contrast to try to make out the action like #this is just like marble hornets fr....all my training #(actually that specifically wasn't really The Way all that often lol....just reminded me of it nonetheless) #all these precise dates....april twenty first happy birthday to lucifer betterangels. october second happy birthday to blade gunnblade

[catboymoments]

I wanted to revive my TOH!IF au so I did a redraw of one of Dana’s promo pieces to get back into the groove of it… if you don’t remember, the gist is that it’s a swap au where the characters keep their original personalities and motivations but they switch roles around? Yeah 🫶

Amity is a human girl with a controlling mother who runs away to the isles, Lilith is more of a frazzled historian and researcher rather than a con artist, and the Collector is a baby titan named Orion with a panache for being childish…

#the owl house #toh #the owl house: inverted fate #toh:if #lilith clawthorne #amity blight #the collector #swap au

[weebsinstash]

What do you MEAN the early access episodes of hazbin hotel are pre-orders that were limited quality and are sold out now?? 😫 you can't dangle something in front of my face and then take it away and tell me I have to wait 😫

Even that Vox vs Alastor song I linked before is hard to find on YouTube! Spindlehorse (totally justifibly i mean) is being really aggressive taking down clips people are making and uploading and I'm getting CRUMBS of these episodes and my impatient ass can't take it

I know I've been, you know, thirsting for Valentino but, now that we've seen more of him.... VOX THOUGH! The charisma! The panache! The style! The BEEFING with Alastor!

It's kinda too old for me to go searching for the link (someone found it for me, mid pencil art alert lol) but now I'm thinking of that one idea I had in the past where Val and Vox meet you in a bar/club and start bonding and thinking you're actually pretty interesting and you eventually pepper in these "my boyfriend doesn't let me-" kind of statements, and they're both, jealous af, but, you know. Don't wanna rock the boat and chase you off! So they kinda just keep hearing all these details, "oh, my boyfriend doesn't like me going to these kinds of places, I have to lie to him" "oh, you know, hubby doesn't like me drinking, so I have to sneak around" "ugh, my baby never wants to have fun like this"

I just picture now it evolving into a plot where you're fucking sick of your old fashioned BORING boyfriend who won't let you break up with him, literally you tell him you're done with him and he keeps showing up saying you're together, won't let you out from under his thumb, and you finally sidle up to Vox, "listen dude, I'll be real with you: I think we can help each other out"

I just see Reader doing the most petty shit because you want this stag GONE and you're full of anger and spite. Alastor is walking down the sidewalk thinking you're like, at book club with the gals, and suddenly he walks by a TV on display and here's Vox, "- and here with us in the station today is a very special guest-" and THERE YOU ARE, getting interviewed about being the partner of the Radio Demon!

"So, toots, what's it like, shackin up with Alastor?"

"Oh, you mean what is YEARS of no sex, no TV, no video games, and no weed like? I'd kill myself but I kinda already did that!"

"What, you mean you don't like dating some limp dick old timey FUCK?"

"Not as much as I've liked hanging out with you ;)"

All the radios in town are blaring deafening ANGRY static for hours while you and Vox are getting high and eating cheeseburgers and playing Monster Hunter somewhere while Valentino thinks about "acquiring you" as a little ~companion~ for his man (and maybe himself) right here and now since you two are already so cute together ❤️ I mean, they were already gonna scoop you up anyways, so he might as well rush the process, right?

#yandere hazbin hotel #yandere x reader #vox x reader #sinprompts

[wingedquill]

@steddiemicrofic prompt for september! | "charm" wc 548 | rating: T | cw: (non-terminal) cancer I couldn't get this universe out of my head so I wrote a prequel of sorts.

Eddie thinks he should be feeling lighter.

Like an innocent man freed from death row, he should be walking out of the hospital with wings on his feet and a list of things to do, and see, and be now that he has a future. He should be dancing around the parking lot, and finding the nearest payphone to call all of his friends, and breaking down into sobs that it’s finally, finally over.

But it’s not over.

And he’s so fucking tired.

He gets in his car, tosses the follow-up schedule his oncologist had given him into the passenger’s seat—a blaring reminder that remission doesn’t mean gone forever. He’ll read it when he doesn’t feel like he’s about to fall asleep on his steering wheel.

He swallows back a yawn and starts driving to Steve’s house, stopping at the gas station for two terrible cups of coffee on the way. 

Steve’s slow to answer the door. He often is these days—the chemo’s been wreaking havoc on the nerves in his feet, leaving his legs constantly full of pins and needles. Eddie’s been lucky enough to avoid that particular symptom.

“Oh hey, thanks,” Steve says, as Eddie presses a cup into his hand wordlessly. He takes a long sip, glancing at Eddie over the lid. His face twitches.

“What’s wrong?” he asks at last. He takes Eddie’s hand in his, pulls him away from the doorway. 

“S’a kitchen kinda talk,” Eddie grunts. Steve closes his eyes. Nods.

Steve’s kitchen is one of the warmest rooms that Eddie’s ever been in. Maybe that’s what makes it the best place for cold conversations. It’s where Eddie told Steve he had leukemia. And a month later, it’s where Steve told Eddie he was experiencing all the same fucking symptoms. It’s where they pieced together, slow and horrified, that the bats had fucked them up way, way worse than they thought.

It’s also where Steve told Eddie that he loved him.

“What’s wrong?” Steve asks again, when they’re situated across the counter from each other. There’s a stubborn kind of dread in his thin face. A whatever this is, I’m not letting you do it alone kind of look. It makes him want to start sobbing, to beg for forgiveness.

He’s too tired.

“It’s gone,” he says instead, quietly. “The cancer. I’m…I’m in remission.”

Steve flings his arms around him immediately, stifling a scream of joy against his neck.

“Holy shit,” he says. “Oh thank God, I thought…why are you so upset?”

“I’m leaving you,” Eddie whispers. “To do this alone.”

“Oh, baby, no.”

He leans back, eyes big and soft, and he’s starting another round of chemo tomorrow, and it’s not fucking fair.

“You’re not,” Steve says. “You’re right here.”

He puts his hand on Eddie’s chest, fingers brushing against his guitar pick, and—

“Take it,” Eddie says, without even thinking about it. He yanks it over his head, shoves it into Steve’s hand with no panache whatsoever. “It’s my lucky charm. It…it got me this far, it’ll bring you the rest of the way. Please.”

It feels like a spell. A little bit of magic. Wear this and the next round will work. It has to work. You have to live.

“Okay,” Steve whispers, and drapes it around his neck.

#steddiemicrofic #steddiemicroficseptember #steddie #stranger things fic #my writing #don't worry they'll be okay in the end

[feefymo]

for the ask game, how about “ive always been alone” with JPM<3 (the image of him sitting alone after queenie left rent free in my head)

tw: violence, blood, mention of sex. a/n: Thank you for the request, baby! I try to exploit this game through small texts. I hope you like it! ♥ - Oopsie Daisies! - James jumped back slightly as a spray of blood hit him full in the face. It looked like one of Liz's elaborate make-up looks. He only cleaned the eyelashes of his left eye with a handkerchief no longer as white as a swan's feathers. A mere logistical question: the rest of that sign would have remained to compensate for the absence of a soul. Kneeling on the ground in a dramatic, even romantic pose, he cradled you in his strong arms: you were a beautiful girl, once clean as a daisy, now eradicated from your dreams of a young dancer. Dying, not yet dead, you emitted nauseating gurgles to James Patrick March. The wide glassy eyes on the verge of rolling away like speckled marbles. - What do you say? Oh, my darling... - quickly, the blood burst into thick bubbles at the back of your throat. The long, very long neck, pale and unnaturally bent in the theatrical grip that held you in the final moments of a prematurely truncated existence. Exaggerating his concern for his umpteenth victim, James sought stimulation in the theatricality of himself. He casually dabbed the crimson streams without that gesture making any sense, the paternal expression but crossed by an unhealthy radiance that gradually became quiet again. Mixed with the strangeness of a man no longer alive but who still wore the role of the rich and bizarre owner of the Cortez. Devoured by a loop of starvation, apathy, boredom and insatiable hunger, he aimlessly fed his tapeworm. He fucked without panache, he killed without panache, impervious to the charm he aroused in women and men. Unfortunately, you were one of them. Unfortunately, your punctured stomach gushed blood in place of his cock which had never reached climax in a riot of milky drops. - Don't think about me, go. - James murmured between his exposed teeth in yet another delirium of omnipotence. Mellifluous, he bent over you like a crow; his toxic pitch irises languished, nestled in the wounds he had inflicted on you. A bouquet of atrocious tortures delighted him as your agony faded. He was intoxicated by this version of you much more than by the nudity you had timidly offered him earlier. - Go, dear. Don't worry: I have always been alone. - almost as if you were waiting for his permission, in a final gasp, you shut down. You left him again at the mercy of that solitude that he continued to choose day after day. For eternity. Rising slowly, he remembered that he didn't want to call Miss Evers; a dead erection from the start in his dress pants and the routine that forever gives him back what made him famous. James Patrick March would never stop corroding into oblivion.

#evan peters #american horror story #evan peters characters #james patrick march #ahs hotel #evan peters fanfic #ask game

[vertumnanaturalis]

i finished drawing, cirrus, connie, stratus, cumulus, nimbus, nena, chino, ves (one of my favorites!! they look so cool.), misu-misu, kelvin, mac, pan, whimsy and praline for the first time.

im trying to get stuff set up to do more detailed designs!!! :D

i was also wondering if i could get some notes on the characters? right now im only drawing them once and not really doing much with them, but when I color them i want to know what you imagine them to be. also, for the newer post, it doesn't have the full names. could I have those, too?

this is a lot of fun to do, so thanks again for giving me the permission to!

I'm so excited to see it!! I made you some more detailed notes on Nem's little brothers (below the cut) and got some basic colors for the rest of them, so while it's not everything I hope this is good for now ^^,

and as for names and such, here you go! The bolded information is whats pulled from canon, the rest is my interpretation

Cirrus - He/Him - 6 at landing (turns 7 before Sol wakes up) - Anemone's little brother, one of the triplets

Stratus - He/Him - 6 at landing (turns 7 before Sol wakes up) - Anemone's little brother, one of the triplets

Cumulus - He/Him - 6 at landing (turns 7 before Sol wakes up) - Anemone's little brother, one of the triplets ; Kid with an animal tail augment (fennec fox)

Nimbus - He/Him - 3 at landing - Anemone's littlest brother, explicitly not one of the triplets

Nena - Nectarine - She/Her - 5 at landing - Photosynthesis augment ; A possible death if the bomb goes off during Glow 18

Chino - Maraschino - He/Him & She/Her* - 2 at landing - Firestarter augment

Ves - Effervescence - He/Him (& They/Them post-Helio) - 5 at landing - Nocturnal vision augment

Misu Misu - Mistletoe - She/Her - 6 at landing - An orphan from the wormhole crash now being raised in the creche ; Attempts to sneak out through one of the drainpipes as a child ; Sorrel and Thicket’s baby sister

Kelvin - He/Him - 6 at landing - A kid with a family who's still being raised in the creche ; Attempts to sneak out through one of the drainpipes as a child

Pan - Panache - He/Him - 2 at landing - Kelvin's brother, who is notably not being raised in the creche ; A possible death during the Glow 14 attacks

Mac - Macaroni - She/Her & He/Him* -1 at landing [design reflects age 2+] - No pain augment

Connie - Contrivance - He/Him - 1 at landing [design reflects age 2+] - Shark tooth augment ; A possible death during the Glow 14 attacks

Whimsey - She/Her - 0 at landing [design reflects age 2+] - Kid with an animal ear augment (sheep ears & horns) ; An orphan from the wormhole crash now being raised in the creche

Praline - She/Her - 0 at landing [design reflects age 2+] - Kid with an animal ear augment (goat ears & horns) ; An orphan from the wormhole crash now being raised in the creche

Benji - Benzodiazepine - He/Him - 0 at landing [design reflects age 2+] - Kid with an animal tail augment (dog)

Ena - Enigma - She/Her - 1 at landing [design reflects age 2+] - The last child born in space, just a short while before coming through the wormhole

(* a child named Maraschino with the nickname 'Mara' and 'she/her' pronouns is listed in the games files, but the Maraschino encountered in-game is called Chino and referred to with he/him pronouns. I decided to take them both as canon and have Maraschino use both freely from a young age, a trait I also gave Mac. For consistency, I usually use he/him for Chino and she/her for Mac.)

A public copy of my npc list is 99% ready to share, I just need to make a quick opening page and it'll be ready to go, so hopefully I'll be posting that later today.

And the more detailed notes for the brothers

#i was a teenage exocolonist #iwatex #asks #npc catalog #sorry for the delay I was hoping to post them both at the same time but alas

[arvensimp]

Hi! I’d love to add some more onto dog dad Arven as someone who grew up around large dogs.

When I was a baby, my family already had a boxer. He was…massive. He was a little extra chunky bc of medication he was on, so my first years were spent around this 85 lb behemoth.

This 85lb behemoth was the biggest crybaby and we loved him. Before he grew up my parents loved picking him up and people always said “what are you going to do when he’s too big to carry?”

Guess what: My dad would *still* scoop him up when he got scared (and trust me this dog was afraid of his own shadow), when he was tired, when we had to go somewhere but he didn’t feel like moving, the Dad Taxi TM was in business 24/7. Especially as he got older and couldn’t walk as far.

Now, if I remember correctly Mabosstiff Pokémon are closer to about 130, making my giant dog look like a toddler in comparison. Still, you can’t tell me as the two get older, or while mabosstiff is sick, Arven didn’t scoop him up like a little baby at times. Sure, the pokeball exists, but when they’re hiking in his favorite trail and mabosstiff starts to grow tired, he still wants his buddy to enjoy the outdoors too.

His arms are tired, there’s drool on his shoulder, and he’s covered in fur (you can’t tell me a dog that size doesn’t shed like crazy) but he’d do it 100 times over for his best friend.

Sorry, I just love the concept of massive dogs being the biggest babies at heart.

Oh yes anon!!! You're right and you should shout it from the hill tops!!!

Mabosstiff 100% still thinks he's baby. He's a lap dog, too. No one else understands that but Arven. That's all.

Arven also doesn't mind the sloppy drooly puppy boy 🥺🥺🥺🥺 mastiffs are so drooly but it's okay we love him anyway

Also yes he 100% sheds a huge amount of fur. Arven even says so in game. I'd bet at this point he could probably groom just about any furry pokemon just from his experience with meticulously caring for Mabosstiff as well as he does.

Imagine Arven with a furfrou omf the style and panache. Stunning.

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

G, SPOT ON

Now in theaters:

Godzilla Minus One--To paraphrase Yeats: What rough beast, its hour come round again, slouches toward Tokyo to kick ass?

Who else? This new kaiju flick, from Godzilla's home studio Toho, celebrates the title character's 70th anniversary. Released in the U.S. with minimal fanfare (no screening for critics in my area), this entry tells a standalone story, unrelated to the earlier Japanese or American films, and it feels very different from either series.

For one thing, it's a period piece. It begins in 1945, with Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), a young kamikaze, first shirking his suicide mission, then freezing up when he's confronted with the supposedly legendary sea monster at a small airbase in the Odo Islands. This lapse results in horrifying losses. Then when Shikishima gets back to the ruins of postwar Tokyo he's a pariah in his neighborhood.

Over the next couple of years, the guilt-haunted Shikishima becomes the reluctant head of an improvised family after Noriko (Minami Hamake), a young homeless woman, takes shelter in his house with an orphaned baby she's picked up. To support them, he takes a job with an oddball minesweeping crew on a small boat, clearing the leftover mines surrounding Japan. Then one day The Big G surfaces, made gargantuan after being irradiated during the Bikini nuclear tests, and heads for Tokyo.

The monster scenes here are spectacular, staged by writer-director Takashi Yamazaki with panache and a feel for dizzying ponderousness. There are some genuine jolts, too, notably Godzilla's first appearance. Best of all, the behemoth's big scenes employ Akira Ifukube's masterly score from the original 1954 film.

But at some level Godzilla Minus One feels less about monster action and more about Japanese society struggling to come to terms with an almost unimaginable defeat. The big scaly guy seems more like a symbol of the magnitude of despondency that had to be overcome for the country to survive and rebuild. This, along with heartfelt acting from an appealing cast and an effective sense of period detail, makes the film unexpectedly moving.

Having a failed kamikaze as the hero set the story up for an obvious payoff that I found troubling from the first scenes of the film: The perceived need for redemption from the eminently sensible decision not to carry out the lunacy of a futile suicide mission. Here, I thought, is the sort of intractable nationalism that makes for good melodrama, but in real life leads countries into war and horror and misery.

I'm happy to say that G-1 is having none of it; while giving full credit to worthwhile self-sacrifice, the film is resolutely life affirming. "This country never changes," one of the characters mutters, about some governmental folly. "Maybe it can't." But that country did change, albeit at a Godzilla-sized price, and this movie gets at the pained yet exhilarating spirit of that change.

My Kid accompanied me to this film, and after checking out the trailer on the way to the theater, she disapprovingly said "I think they're going to hurt him," him being Godzilla. She was right; the monster is not, here, a long-suffering defender of humankind against some bizarre alien or primal abomination, but a rampaging destructive force who must be stopped. Even his roar sounds scarier; it's not the usual nasal, irritable honk. But even so, I too felt sympathy for him during the efforts to destroy him. Something about that big lizard is lovable, even when he's being a bad boy.

#godzilla minus one #toho #takashi yamazaki #godzilla

[kaibacorpintern]

you're forcing my hand so allow me to be blunt:

how big is Seto Kaiba's dick?

Oh sure! I think Kaiba's favorite shade of blue is a royal blue. Like the rich saturated blue of a sapphire. Navy blue lacks flair and panache and he'd think baby blue is too childish. Thanks for the ask!! <3

[tellevangeline]

(Photo of me and my husband by @mettieostrowski on insta)

Caroline Polachek as a Sociological Phenomena and why it’s Important to Gatekeep Twinks.

So there I was (picture unrelated) waiting for the train at 10:30 PM on a Sunday so I can go take some extra estradiol from a generous friend at a gay bar, full incognito, wearing a fucking hoodie, I’m so tired I spent all day working on the flier for my new absurdist drag bingo because I and everyone I know are walking parodies of bushwick transexuals.

Train is taking forever so I have some time to kill, and I decide (d? Should I care about continuity? I am not a writer, I’m an author.)

Anyway I decided to put the recent Caroline Polachek album on, which is big for me because I have been a bit of a Caroline Polachek denier. I listened to Chairlift very casually when I was a teenager but I was far from die hard and since then I’ve kind of just thought of her as an unfortunate but all too common case of a talented musician being so aggressively HAIM-Pilled that it’s practically deafening. I say this as a dyke with love for all dykes❤️

Also the “new queen of artpop” claims coming from the exact type of 5’8 naturally dirty blonde he/they’s I’ve made it my life goal to disagree with at all times are really not helping her case for me.

Because here’s my thing. I’m a Kate Bush ride or die, surprising I know. I have I’ve always been a coward tattooed below my collarbones like the only 1% I’ll ever be a part of is her Spotify listeners.

But here’s the tea, if you’re not ready and willing to hee haw like a fucking donkey on a song that’s probably about some form of domestic abuse you just aren’t the new queen of artpop. I do make the rules and to be honest the only people in pop music right now not named lady fucking gaga who has the panache, the gaul, the unwavering commitment to pull stunts and shenanigans on that level are Ethel Cain and Lingua Ignota, especially since FKA Twigs decided she wanted to live a happy and fulfilling life (and good for her, thank you for all the good times queen)

And Caroline is simply not there, she’s too squeaky clean and widely appealing to go to those absurd and ugly places that make a Bjork.

Now my personal cocomelon/surrogate father figure Anthony Fantano the Internet’s Busiest Music Nerd did love her album, and I usually agree with his takes (mbdtf is mid you just love it because it was baby’s first concept album and you have a deep yearning to return to a time in your life where you first realized music could be art) BUT WHILE I AGREE WITH MANY OF HIS TAKES (sorry) my one glaring exception is that he never takes how cunt something is into consideration while evaluating a piece of music, and by that I do mean that he said gaga peaked at fame monster and 212 is the only good azealia banks song. He doesn’t have the tools to engage with music in a fag like manor, so when we’re dealing with music for gays, I don’t trust him.

And then last night I saw a Drag Queen named The Illustrious Pearl perform welcome to my island as a showgirl vampire wearing rhinestoned knee pads and frankly if Caroline is good enough for her she’s certainly good enough for me.

And I’m gonna be really vulnerable here, I really enjoyed the album. Like, there’s about as much art in it’s pop as cranberry in a gay bar vodka cran but it’s damn good pop and the art adds a nice little aftertaste.

I believe is definetely my favorite, those Rhythm Nation/Mortal Kombat ass synth hits always make me convulse (America Has A Problem is my favorite track off Renaissance) (it took me a whole 2 minutes to spell renaissance right) but I also like welcome to my island a lot and I at least liked everything else except for Billions which sounds like a song that was rejected from The Sensual World because Kate would never release a song that non-violent.

But it was cute. I have a meeting with a literal church upstate that is trying to book me for their pride drag show tomorrow and one of them just texted me “Brainstorming with the Holy Spirit is so exciting and so fruitful ✝️💜✝️) and I believe those synth hits on I Believe will carry me through my challenges tomorrow. Love Down.

Xoxo

-Evangeline

#caroline polachek #gay twink #bushwick #does tumblr have an algorithm now?

[secondhand-snow]

Nonnie! "Keeping up with the Menckens", they ARE the new Kennedys, making America feel young and powerful because President Mencken is. And their First Lady gives them panache. She's beautiful and well mannered, so people in the country no longer feel icky. Mencken would be like, "Screw the advisors." I'm taking her with me everywhere, like my lucky charm. The public goes feral when he gets her those pets, rumors of them trying for a baby break the Internet, there are pundits discussing on prime time whether is a good moment for the nation to have a president raising a new born, or if he'd lose his focus. Turns out the advisors have to eat their words when the international press starts comparing her with Lady Di, because when he's abroad dealing with other dignitaries, instead of spending all of her time meeting with the other first ladies, she is seen visiting and bringing aid to children's hospitals, women's shelters, or to the elderly, as Logan Roy's stepkid she understands how vital the optics are. Mencken most likely will run for a second term when the time comes, and this time, he will win by a landslide.

“like my lucky charm” that is so him!!

I absolutely agree with the Menckens being the new Kennedys. The chemistry between them is just so palpable, it’s harder to dislike them when they’re so clearly in love. When he gets her a dog they take a family photo with it, then the POTUS account posts it on Twitter and it goes so viral. People are making edits of TV footage of them at rallies and events, magazines are running issues detailing tips to get Mrs.Mencken’s style and suddenly they’re gaining a whole fanbase outside of those interested in American politics. A whole new Tiktok trend starts of people trying to get the “First Lady” aesthetic. And that’s really just the beginning. You can’t go anywhere on the internet without seeing one of the Mencken’s faces.

They get even more press when she starts hosting so many charity events and fundraisers. The amount of money she raises is absolutely ridiculous, and the invites to these gatherings are pined for by everyone in the country. The Lady Di comparisons would honestly be pretty accurate, because she is completely the American people’s princess. Even with his controversial past statements and strategies, Mencken becomes one of the most popular presidents in a long time due to his wife’s intelligence. Their legacy goes on far after he leaves the office.

#asks #succession #jeryd mencken #snow’s drabbles #snow's headcanons #whitehouse au

[shipaholic]

Episode 2: “The Clue” / “A Companion To Owls”

Good Omens 2 Episode 2 liveblog! Beware spoilers!!

- Crowley is such a troll in this opening scene. I've come around on the beard/glasses combo. He looks like a wisecracking talking Disney goat.

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- Jon Hamm’s impression of Buddy Holly is amazing. “Ah-hey, ah-hey-hey” yes give me those weird, grandpa-like hiccups.

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- I can hear a fly during the zoom in on sleeping Crowley in the Bentley... does Beez have one spy in the bookshop and one on Crowley at all times?

- Hmmm, Shax tells Crowley right away about Heaven detecting the miracle. That could be evidence for my Beelzebub theory, I guess...? Beez wants Crowley kept informed about the danger, so that he’ll continue to keep Gabriel safe, but they get to keep up plausible deniability with Shax and the other demons that they’re only threatening Crowley.

- Poor Shax. Crowley’s bullying her.

- LOL are all the other demons afraid of driving at high speeds? (See: Hastur.) All he had to do to get rid of Shax was rev the engine.

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- I like Maggie, but she’s a little clingy with Aziraphale. You’d think the euphoria of having 8 months of overdue rent forgiven would have lasted longer than 24 hours. On the other hand, her encyclopaedic knowledge of music history is really cool.

- Aziraphale conducting every time he sings Everyday is the cutest thing ever.

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- Crowley orders Talisker! I assume John Finnemore insisted.

- OMG, Mr. Brown is holding a newspaper with THEE headline in it about the Nebraska woman who taught her duck to play the accordion.

- “Get humans wet, and staring into each others’ eyes. Vavoom.” I. I don’t think Crowley knows where babies come from either.

- THAT JANE AUSTEN LORE. AND CROWLEY DISAPPROVES?? SHE SOUNDS AWESOME

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- Aziraphale is so hesitant when he says he doesn’t think God wants to kill Job’s children, and so utterly certain when he says he knows Crowley doesn’t want to. He already has more faith in Crowley’s mercy than God’s. 😭

- THE UNBELIEVABLE LEVELS OF SASS

- OK Ty Tennant is very funny

- Both the older kids treating Aziraphale like a waiter is hilarious actually, as is Jemima wanting to be a blue lizard and Crowley obliging

- I’ve been jossed a bunch already this season, but the biggest shock to my system by far is Crowley tempting Aziraphale into enjoying human food. I genuinely assumed Aziraphale has been nibbling on whatever was around to nibble on since he was first deployed on Earth. It took him a millennia and a half to try barbeque?? Poor deprived bb

- Whoever wrote that post about Aziraphale discovering honey and tearing into a beehive like an especially feral Winnie The Pooh, I hope they’re patting themself on the back right now.

- I am more into the sight of Michael Sheen falling onto an entire ox corpse like a starving werewolf than I am comfortable with, but fine, I guess this is who I am now.

- ALL I’M SAYING IS, Crowley and Aziraphale’s first kiss had better go EXACTLY like this.

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- I’m here for hungover Crowley wobbling across the sand.

- I suspect this minisode is difficult to follow for any viewers who didn’t swot up on the Book of Job a fortnight or so ago, like I assume we all did.

- Michael is the only angel in this scene who possesses more than a single braincell, but they’re all clearly thick as can be. The only people thicker than them are Job and Ennon, who are somehow even worse at lying than Aziraphale and Crowley.

- Crowley has such immense fucking panache this entire episode. I do love him and his terrible beard.

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- That little tongue in cheek thing Aziraphale does on “investigation” - he cannot get any cuter now. it’s literally impossible. please.

- Crowley slapped his hand omg

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- Oh god, the conversation on the bench... Aziraphale is in actual tears, and Crowley is so wry and gentle and reassuring, even while delivering words that are, taken on their own, a stark form of comfort. He’s just a calm presence while Aziraphale experiences shrimp emotions on the other side of the bench. I can’t even speak about Aziraphale, honestly, but I’ll give it a shot... he is so brave and scared 😭😭😭 Hell?? He really thought he belonged in Hell? Crowley was absolutely right to gently laugh at a notion that ridiculous (and awful) (and then again, Crowley also used to be a sweet little curly-headed bunny of an angel, and look at the unspeakable thing that happened to him). There’s that little moment where Crowley says he’s not going to tell anyone, and asks Aziraphale if he’s going to tell anyone, and Aziraphale gives this little ashamed headshake, like he’s realising for the first time that he’s not, he’s willing to lie (by omission) about this too. And then he glances at the sky, as if verifying that God isn’t going to send down a thunderbolt, and realises that he’s actually safe. There aren’t going to be any consequences; he’s going to get away with it. And that’s almost worse, the idea that he doesn’t live in a world with clearly defined rules, and he truly can’t predict what God thinks, or what she is going to do. She spoke directly to Job, but she’s a closed book to Aziraphale.

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- The ending credits are on fire so far this season.

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Right, um, next up, an episode I haven’t already seen. asdhkagsd.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens 2 liveblog #good omens s2e2 #The Clue #A Companion To Owls

[seraphtrevs]

What is up with me and liking this type of relationship dynamic (Since I was a kid, by the way!) for my favorite characters/OTPs? Lestat and Louis, Hannibal and Will, Lalo and Nacho? Why can I TOTALLY see Lalo baby trapping Nacho?! Lmao!

You and me both!

I've been thinking a lot about it recently, and here's what I think the appeal is for me:

On the one hand, we've got our devilish characters (Lestat, Hannibal, Lalo). They're powerful, intelligent, superficially charming, good at everything, and in general feel very pleased with themselves - except underneath all of the panache, they are hollow. This emptiness nags at them, but their sociopathy makes it impossible for them to truly understand what that emptiness means. The reason they feel empty is because they don't care about anyone except themselves. That selfishness isolates them. They are extremely alone.

Enter our tormented characters (Louis, Will, Nacho). These characters understand exactly what that emptiness is - it's the darkness that comes from being selfish and hurting other people. Their knowledge doesn't stop them from giving in to that darkness, but they agonize over it. Our devilish characters see enough of themselves in their tormented lovers to find them relatable, but they're fascinated by their conscience. The tormented characters aren't empty - they are full of regrets

So the devilish characters learn from the tormented characters that in order to get rid of that nagging emptiness, they have to care about other people. Unfortunately, they do just fine with picking exactly one person (the tormented character) and continuing on with their general sociopathy, which completely misses the point. The tormented character remains miserable but unable to disentangle themselves from their increasingly knotty relationship, with the knots only getting tighter the more they struggle

The push and pull of the dynamic is very exciting because the character with most of the superficial power in the relationship is in many ways powerless when it comes to their loved one, who becomes their weak spot. They become frustrated with the very thing that attracted them to the tormented character in the first place - their conscience. Meanwhile, the tormented character wrestles with their attraction, both feeling contempt for their partner's evil but also a little envious of how free they are. There's both admiration and repulsion on both sides of the relationship, with them constantly challenging each other. It's very sexy!

#this is why i prefer og dirtbag lestat #i haven't read all of the later books because i like him evil #very excited with the direction they're taking him in the show though! #and admittedly - this is more fanon lacho than canon lacho #loustat #hannigram #lacho #asks

[iiryebreadii]

More totk thoughts :D

I think I activated a main quest early?? Or maybe I’m just supposed to stumble upon it idk. I was just exploring some sky islands and then opened a fancy door and suddenly I was in a cutscene with voice acting. I’m not gonna work on completeing that quest until I finish visiting all the main towns though, I still need to do the zora!! I wonder how Sidon is doing :)

I finished the Gerudo quest line yesterday and let me tell you, the beginning of the temple had GREAT atmosphere, loved carrying the torch into the depths it felt like the beginning of the game when you go down that tunnel with Zelda. I was so spooked by the gibdos I was checking every corner. And the final boss fight was fun! I like how I needed to break up the hive things to keep from being overwhelmed by the sheer number of gibdos haha. My fire rod was my best friend during that whole fight

ALSO the part where you defend the town was super cool!! I was so worried about placing the soldiers in the wrong areas but everything worked out in the end :)

got another dragon tear memory thing, I’m liking the voice acting for ganondorf! I wasn’t sure if I would, because in the trailers he mostly just sounds like Some Guy you know, but I think it fits so far! Also Rauru my beloved. he’s so cool. He and Mineru are the last of the Zonai? That’s sad :( I wonder what happened to them? Did they just die out? Did they intermix with the people of Hyrule but just have really recessive genes?? that would be so funny actually. imagine after thousands of years ONE random baby of a hylian couple manages to get just the right gene combo and comes out looking like a funky little llama dragon

I got the giant white stallion. He WISHES he had even HALF the panache that the og giant horse had. but he’s still better than the gold horse, I’ll give him that. also his mane is cool

ALSO also, if it turns out the light dragon is zelda I’m gonna scream and also cry. they can’t do that to my girl. if it’s her we need to un-dragon her.

#totk spoilers #totk liveblog #totk