#that did kinda crack me up

[harryswinks]

why is organising a holiday with friends so hard

#so the uni reunion one seems to have gone to shit people stopped responding lmao #and now my mates from home are trying to organise soemthing #except you've got people reading and not responding like just say if you're up for it so we know what we're working with???? #and then someone was like 'oh we could do brighton then see one of our old mates who lives there' and im like our friend that stopped #talking to us and hanging out with us because we didnt do enough drugs for him???? none of the rest of us have spoken to him in years lmao #all he cared about was coke and the rest of us aint like that lmao but anyway #that did kinda crack me up #and then whenever we try to organise a holiday one girl pipes up about going somewhere to go surfing but she's the only one who cares so its #always like well.... we're not gonna start all over again when the rest of it is perfect for 99% of the group ????? #actually random rant every year late november they ask if we want to go to cornwall for new year #and i dont know how many times we have to say most of us work new years eve in the day #and even if we did want to go she always leaves it too late????? i have to put my christmas leave in in like september ajhdgajhsd #sorry back to what i was saying #i just want to go away for a weekend with my friends why is it so hard to organise!!!!!! #tumblrinas weekend away when!!!! #stacey speaks

[franky-y]

bath time 🛁

#häärijä #käärijä #khaarija calendar #digital art #ngl the way he was sitting in that tiny baby bath had me dying #and it took me a while to even get the sketch done #because i kept cracking up lol #but still i kinda gave up on this one in the end #i dunno #i just feel like i couldn't get this to look right no matter what #seriously i'm really struggling with my drawings at the moment #maybe i should take a bit of a break soon #i've drawn more in the past few month than i did in the last five years combined lol

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

Ok I've had some time to chill, lemme say a bunch of things I DID like about The Star Beast:

The right vibes are back. THIS feels like Doctor Who and I have a lot of faith in what's to come once they have time to pace things out

The characters are great. A+

Made me laugh

Silly practical effects!

Obviously Marvelous MARVELOUS to have Donna back with us, even if it's just for a little while

New intro is bangin

New Tardis is Nice. I honestly didn't like the crystal one.

The trans rep comes from a sincere place, I can tell. I think a lot of the gender talk was awkward and confused and kinda. stupid. in places. but. I appreciate it anyway

Really nice that they didn't kill off Wilf despite Bernard Cribbin's passing

#doctor who spoilers #doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #sorry for the earlier posts it's just that. some of that shit hit me like a freight train #I don't like how hard they went on like. Rose's transness not just being a normal unremarkable thing #they had to make it some kinda alien magic thing #and have her get deadnamed for kinda no reason #and just make such a DEAL out of it #idk man shit like that just makes me feel like some kinda spectacle #it was too much. I found it embarrassing. not to mention how a lot of the messaging was contradictory and just. odd? #but that's just me #I'm not here to say whether they did anything definitively wrong #I wasn't necessarily *upset* either #I actually cracked tf up at "Binary! ..... nonbinary~.....Binary!!''

[ninjasmudge]

godzilla vs kong goji really is having the worst fucking day, hes chasing this fake mecha titan around the world every time it activates cause he knows it has something to do with ghidorah again, while trying to keep an eye on these humans that are following him, and then out of nowhere theres a big fucking MONKEY that wants his spot as main bro too??? and to top it all his wife is sleeping and hes still not talking to rodan

#godzilla #godzilla vs kong #l #shark talks #look i love these movies but i watched gvsk the other day and it did kinda crack me up how done godzilla seems #like this is years late the hype for this movie is gone but still i love it

[moe-broey]

Oh, poor thang!

#moe tag #sorry i won't shut up about it but you gotta understand. this is the most eventful thing that's happened in like months #also i just really wanna apply what i learned about it to moe. torture the creature some more #BUT ALSO... LIKE..... i think about writing refs and health/safety refs and also best practice #ESP when treating a patient or being a caretaker all the time. #before the disability disabled me LMFAO i really wanted to go into working to help people w disabilities #i was so high masking and 'functional' (but like. still very much on the spectrum) that i had each foot in both worlds kinda #i wasn't exactly sure what line of work but i very much wanted to give back the way the people who believed in me did. #esp as a kid. i had so many behavioral issues. teachers actively dreaded and feared having to deal w me. #the few and far between teachers/social workers who saw me though. believed in me. treated me kindly. stuck forever #unfortunately i really don't think i'm cut out for that line of work esp after covid changed The Vibes of everything lmfao #i would love to give hope in a hopeless world. but i fear i've slipped through the cracks. #my art

[padfootastic]

hello! here’s a lil drabble/ficlet situation about sirius being super invested in baby harry’s life, to the point he gets annoyed and jealous when he’s not immediately caught up on every little thing.

x

“I can’t believe you’d do this to me.”

Lily entered the dining room to an unusually confrontational scene. On one end of the table was her husband, hands held up, palms facing outward in a gesture matched by the pleading look on his face. Right across from him was Sirius, arms crossed across his chest and a severe frown on his face. In the middle, Harry was sitting with a thumb in mouth, watching his father and godfather intently. Lily was a bit surprised at how quiet he was being—usually the presence of his favorite people meant an overload of squeals and shouts and giggles.

“Padfoot—“ James began only to be cut off by Sirius’ hand swiping through the air.

“No, James, I didn’t expect this from you of all people,” he took a deep breath and Lily was startled to see the emotions play out on his face. “How could you?”

Lily decided to enter the conversation then before things could devolve any further.

“Er, what’s going on here?” In any other situation, the way in which both their heads swivelled to look at her, coupled with the surprise on their face, would’ve been comical but Lily was too distracted to care about that right now. She couldn’t even remember the last time James and Sirius had had a disagreement. Those two just didn’t do that.

Which was another issue all in itself and if she focused too long on it, it made her head hurt (how can two people who spend as much time as they do together never have any tension?? she didn’t get it, didn’t think she ever would). But for now, she had more important things to tend to.

“Well?” She asked again, seeing the expressions change on their face. James was making a face, not unlike a child who’d been caught with their hand in a biscuit jar whereas Sirius had doubled down. His brows were furrowed, lips pressed into a straight line, and the most stubborn expression Lily had ever seen on his face.

“We, er, that is—“ James tried, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. “It’s nothing, hon.”

Lily snorted in response. She could see Sirius staring incredulously at James and really, this was just getting weirder by the second.

“Evans,” Sirius said, curtly. She didn’t even bother correcting him knowing it was a lost cause at this point. “Will you please remind your husband that we had an understanding and I won’t stand for him breaking it as he pleases?”

“Sirius—“

Lily doesn’t let James finish his groan before cutting in. “What understanding?”

“Did you and your husband not name me Harry’s godfather for a reason?”

“…yes?”

“And does that not entail certain responsibilities and obligations on my part—“

“…Yes.”

“—as well as yours?” Sirius finished, speaking over her uncertain agreement. Now she was a bit stumped.

“Ours?” She blinked at him, wondering what he was on about. A quick glance in James’ direction showed no help from that side. Her husband had the most resigned expression of exasperation on his face, which was really saying something, considering how often he looked like that.

“But of course!” Sirius said, “You are aware that James has the mirrors, yes?” This time he didn’t even bother waiting for her to nod before continuing. “Which means instantaneous communication.” He stressed the last two words, eyes squinting and a stern wrinkle appearing on his brow.

“Si, stop being so dramatic,” James cut in. “You’re confusing the dragonshite out of Lily.”

She grimaced lightly. “Very elegantly put, darling.” Her dear, dear husband only sent her a cheeky wink in return.

“Fine,” Sirius sneered. “Let me ask you this, then.” He pointed one long, pale finger in her direction, her eyebrows raising at the attempt at intimidation.

“Is it or is it not true that Harry, my godson, crawled on his bum across the living room exactly eight days and three hours ago as of right now?”

She opened her mouth to say—not sure what, exactly, but something. Before she could, though, Sirius had already cut in with an overemphasised, “And. Is it or is it not true that James, once my dearest friend—“

“Once?” James yelped.

“—and you, fellow co-wife—“

“You can’t be serious right now,” James groaned, clearly distressed if he wasn’t considering his egregious word choice.

“—did not even bother to use aforementioned mirror to inform me, post-haste?” Sirius finished dramatically, with the air of someone throwing down the gauntlet. He stared at them with a ridiculous air of triumph around him, daring them to disagree.

Lily could only stare in bemused disbelief at her husband’s best friend, nay, brother. One of her closest friends in his own right. Someone who, by all accounts, was incredibly smart and articulate.

Perhaps his bloodline was making more of an appearance here?

“He really has gone off his rocker, hasn’t he, Lils?” James’ spoke what she dared not say out loud. “Should’ve considered this before putting him in charge of the sprog.”

The words had the intended effect. In front of her wide eyes, Sirius basically puffed up in outrage, reminding her terribly of a charm-dried duck. He leaned forward to wrap a possessive arm around Harry, as if James could’ve been anything but joking and they’d take his precious godchild away from him, keeping him plastered to his chest. Harry, for his part, was as overjoyed as ever. He happily wrapped his chubby fingers around two of Sirius’ and prompt tried to insert the whole thing in his mouth, drooling and chewing gummily.

And Sirius, who was notorious for not even deigning to shake hands with strangers (and on one unavoidable occasion, had actually cast a cleaning charm on his palm the moment they’d stepped back from the handshake), someone who applied three different kinds of purifying charms on anything before using it, barely even spared a glance in his direction beyond pressing a kiss to his crown.

“Well, nothing for it then,” Sirius sniffed, nose slightly in the air in a way that reminded Lily entirely too much of Narcissa Black—not that Sirius would appreciate the comparison, of course. “I’m afraid I must take my godson out and away from this dishonourable institution then.”

And in front of both the Potters’ disbelieving eyes, Sirius actually swept out of the room with their child happily lounging in his arms, neither of them looking back even once.

“James…”

He made an answering squeak, still looking at the doorway through which Harry had basically been kidnapped by an over zealous godfather.

“What just happened?”

Her only response was the sound of his head landing on the table with a thunk.

#sirius black #harry potter #james potter #good godfather sirius black #well hello there first piece of fic i’ve writtten in a while #also coincidentally first something of 2023 lol #listen this just came to me a while ago—the thought of sirius throwing a hissa fit bc james didn’t mirror call him as soon as harry did sumn #even if it’s the most irrelevant inconsequential thing ever #and that just kinda snowballed into lowkey crack scenarios #like s in the middle of a fight and picking up his mirror to talk to harry #or he’s spying on death eaters but james is calling to tell him that harry ate his first piece of solid food and sirius just has to listen #and of course tell harry he’s so very proud of him for being such a big boy #so. yknow what i mean? #it’s just rly fun lol #also now that i’m reading it over—it’s funny how sirius here is exactly like those dramatic s asks i got a while ago lol #making a big deal out of small things sort of a dude #lowkey this was so hard to write #it just felt so unnatural #i think i’ve forgotten how writing works #everything feels weird #the co wife thing is a not so sneaky reference to wife wars #~lore. if u will 😌 #pen’s writing #tumblr works

[inusmasha]

Also side note if you come here (or anywhere tbh) and try to take a pic of someone else’s baby without consent best believe that I will be there to rip your stupid face off and eat it

#this fucking idiot who calls themselves an influencer because she has a popular fashion blog and mailing list #came out of treatment and saw the baby in the stroller #mom went to the br and left baby in MY care #the idiot approaches going AWWW (which scared the baby bc this idiot is being loud???) #THEY TAKE THEIR PHONE OUT TO TAKE A PIC OF THE BABY’S ONESIE #bitch lol no. #quickly I say ABSOLUTELY NOT and slap that hand away so fucking hard that phone went flying and weirdly popped out of its case #the mom comes out and the baby is upset and so is inflcuencer person #influencer doesn’t know what to say bc mom kinda saw I guess? she got the jist of what was going on and proceeded to tell the influencer- #in thee most polite way that she did not approve of HER CHILD BEING PHOTOGRAPHED BY A STRANGER???? #let alone a stranger with an audience???? THE FUCK???? #not on my watch BITCH #I’m LOOKING for reasons to let out years of pent up rage!!! GIVe ME A REASON!!!!!!!!!!!! #where is your common sense??????????? #I will literally devolve into a monkey and obliterate your ass #that child is not content #boss isn’t happy that it escalated that quickly but idc no paparazzi allowed here #take your cracked case and go home 👋🏼 and stay there #the fuck is wrong with people

[hkpika07]

So. Fire season, huh?

This is fanart for the fic When Fires Burn by ao3 user T_WolfXD. It’s currently my favorite fic and has possessed my brain. Especially when Cali catches fire because angst <3. I live in that state, I want to see him suffer. Im spinning this series and fic in my brain like a microwave. Anyways it’s really well written and the descriptions and character interactions are wonderful I’m going to melt and then eat the walls. I will make you like AustiCali.

#wttt california #wttt #welcome to the table #for those wondering what this is it’s basically a series where this comedian made characters that represent the states and the government #kinda like Hetalia but funnier imo #and also it talks about the latest news and it cracks me up. also Texas has DID #california wttsh #wttsh #welcome to the statehouse #tw fire #tw burns #cw fire #cw burns

[good-to-drive]

John Lennon, Richard Nixon, and Presentism in Our Discussion of Mental Illness

So I'm reading a new book about Richard Nixon and it's got me thinking about presentism in how we discuss Richard Nixon's mental illness(es), and, because I have Beatles brainrot, it's also got me thinking about whether this same mentality could affect how we talk about John.

Both Nixon and John's lives were heavily influenced by their lifelong battles with severe, persistent mental illness, but understanding the historical context of that battle and how it was fundamentally different from what a person might experience today seems to be largely ignored.

We tend to talk about Nixon in particular as if a) he or someone around him had identified that he was exhibiting symptoms of depression, paranoid delusions, and (most likely) psychosis, b) that he or someone around him understood these conditions as so-called "no fault" illnesses that could/should be treated, and c) that this treatment would have been effective.

In other words, we still understand Nixon's mental deterioration as if it had happened today.

Now, to be clear, a LOT of people in Nixon's inner circle described behavior that they personally found unsettling, and the Pentagon had stopped taking orders from the White House by the end of Nixon's presidency because they were so disturbed by his degree of disconnection from reality. So I'm not trying to argue that his condition went unnoticed -- rather, we can reasonably say that almost no one in Nixon's inner circle believed he was "normal."

(I mean, he literally screamed at God and had conversations with portraits of former presidents. It wasn't subtle.)

But the entire conceptualization of mental disorders as legitimate illnesses that can/should be treated was nowhere near as prevalent during Watergate as it is today. Even if the people around him recognized that Nixon was "acting crazy", it's not realistic to project our own ideas about mental illness onto them and assume that they conceptualized that behavior as an illness that Nixon could not control and had not chosen, believed that it was possible to treat that illness, or even had any desire to see that illness be treated.

(Incidentally, the only significant medical intervention in response to Nixon's illness was to start dosing him with anticonvulsants, resulting in significant memory loss.)

It's less clear whether Nixon himself was aware that he was losing touch with reality (my guess is "kinda"), but even if he did have insight into his mental condition he almost definitely didn't have deep familiarity with terms like "PTSD" and "psychotic break" that might help him understand what was happening to him. We can also assume that, if he did have some inkling of what was happening to him, he likely felt an even greater sense of self-hatred and revulsion at his own condition than a person might experience today.

I know there's still a huge stigma around "bad" mental illnesses, but I also know I'm incredibly lucky to have experienced a psychotic break in 2014 and not 1974. Mental hospitals were still sometimes referred to as "snake pits" because they were so horrible, and the average person did not consider someone with severe, persistent mental illness to have any future or hope whatsoever. I'm not a doctor, much less a doctor from the 70s, so I truly don't know what the prognosis for someone like Nixon would have been. But Nixon himself most likely would have believed it was very poor.

To put this another way, Nixon’s ability to have insight into his own illness was impaired by the lack of insight in the society in which he lived, and the way he processed his own experiences would have been more heavily rooted in confusion, shame, and hopelessness. Also, the degree to which we can hold Nixon to blame for failing to manage his mental illness and pursue effective treatment definitely isn't zero, but it's certainly not on par with what you could expect of a person today.

Now I'm absolutely NOT saying any of that to give Dick a free pass for the horrible things he did and said (any more than I think we should give John a free pass). Nixon was a monster in many ways. But I'd rather understand a monster within their actual context than within an imagined one.

TL;DR I think it's worthwhile to ask ourselves whether we're looking at one of the defining factors in Dick and John's lives through a distorted lens, and, if so, how that distorts our perception of them as human beings.

#before you say no one asked.... someone asked!! #to be clear I'm not a nixon expert #or anything remotely resembling a john lennon expert #this is just my limited perspective based on what I've read #I'd love to hear more opinions on this from people who know more than me #I did see a post once saying john needed to 'work on himself' that kinda cracked me up lol #like I get what they meant but... you can't exactly journal and meditate and talk therapy your way out of spmi #also... he did TRY to work on himself #I'm no doctor so I can't say if the resources truly didn't exist or he just never found them #but I think we can assume it would be harder to access the kind of intensive care he needed back in those days #and he'd be less likely to be aware of it or see it as a legitimate source of hope #john lennon #the beatles #rambles

[sadrockandwaltzes]

ASPBO Good and Evil Dichotomy

People like A Separate Peace better than Peace Breaks Out, but why is that?

Well here's my two cents. The first book takes place during the war, but before the boys are due to go. They are children holding onto what's left of their childhood before they die in battle or come out changed. Finny is the representation for all that is good and pure in the world; namely childhood purity and innocence. He implicitly trusts everyone and more importantly Gene, who kind of representatives the world. The tragedy in that book is that Gene's purity and the goodness in the world (Finny) is tainted and then destroyed by his own hand. Just as the world and these boys should have been able to live out their lives peacefully and happily, something always comes in and destroys it. Usually as a side effect of something else, like greed. Gene was so caught up in jealousy and his problems that he unknowingly destroyed what he thought was an indestructible force. He took Finny for granted and didn't realize the harm he was capable of until it was too late. The novel ends with Finny telling Gene that he forgives him and Gene forgiving himself; similar to the story of Pandora's Box where even after all the demons, there is still hope. He may have destroyed the peace, but that doesn't mean he took all the Finny out of the world.

ON THE OTHER SIDE Peace Breaks out starts from the point of view of one of those boys who went to war and came out changed, but the war is finally over. During the war it was easy to know one's enemy and assume that the war represented all the evil in the world, but then he meets Wexford, a child whose goal is to take control of everyone and cause mayhem. He represents the inherent evil in human beings, and he's so insidious that his maliciousness touches the hearts of all those around him and causes death and destruction, often without lifting a finger. Where Finny who was never given a last name represented childhood innocence, Wexford who only has a last name is the darker mature adult world. Finny possessed the quality of something immortal, while Wexford possesses something that cycles through hosts and places, never truly dying because it will always be reborn. Wexford rejects childhood in every way he can- he dresses in a grey suit (kids wear many colored suits but not gray according to 40s fashion history sites), he drinks alcohol and smokes, he is able to appear older than he is, and often frequents bars. The one thing that he, as hate instead of Finny's love can't understand, is romance and sex. He likes the idea of being in control, and unless all of the power in a relationship was with him, he can't stand the idea of being vulnerable or known by another. Gene was the accidental adult who killed his childhood, but here is a boy who purposely poses as an adult and plots to kill his childhood so that he can complete his transformation into something with all of the power in society. Finny didn't care about that- he was content to share his wins and losses and his entire heart with one person and make that his entire world. But where Finny, who is sunny and innocent is happy as himself, Gene and Wexford (and adulthood as a whole) recognize that there is a gaping hole in them, an unmissable hole. The older they get, the more distant their dreams and the nice illusions about the world fade away, and they're left to walk into the dark, full of trepidation and fear because they are aware that there really are monsters. This bothers Gene though, and he hides into himself not trusting anyone. Wexford instead decides to become the worst monster he can, so that all the other ones will be nothing compared to him. Gene is a follower where Wexford is a leader. (Actually I read a review on here that Wex was like a mix of Gene and Finny. Maybe this is what they meant. Gene saw god in Finny, Wex sees god in himself. He's Gene if Gene was a narcissist with Finny's confidence)Anyway, Pete realizes that evil is everywhere and cannot be killed, so he resigns himself to living in a world of monsters pretty much. So both stories share overlap, but there's plenty that's different. They're both cautionary tales. But one is about recognizing the evil in oneself and the other is about recognizing the evil in the world.

#Spoilers #peace breaks out #a separate peace #Pbo #asp #Finny is the best and Wexford is the worst #I wonder if Knowles really did sit down and go 'today I'm going to write Finny's complete opposite #they're both the subject character that the plot revolves around vs the more reserved main characters #Man though those bar scenes cracked me up #Wex is such a loser. Like ok he's evil and a killer but you can't tell me you didn't laugh #I'm just imagining him as Envy or one of the sins from Fullmetal Alchemist #If Finny was a redhead they'd really be reverse doppelgangers #but instead it just adds to the evil redhead propaganda #sorry Pete but Wexford was easily the most interesting/entertaining character in the book. Loved that guy #Finny was kinda eh #maybe I just like awful characters better than supposedly good ones #GENE MY BOY #Wexford would have ruined his life

[narwhalandchill]

ok not to randomly go off on a somewhat negative ramble But. (general genshin story direction worries basically)

while there are a bunch of stunts i fear the genshin story slash lore could end up pulling that would serve as not only disappointments but to varying degrees also just retroactively ruin a lot of games writing for me. i dont think theres anything that im as genuinely concerned about as the possibility of like. completely losing their narrative marbles to an overdone time travel/temporal manipulation in one way or another like just the thought of that shit haunts me

bc like. while i dont find them particularly compelling as an argument for that to be the case regarding Everything in the narrative in current lore/theory circles (like. makoto n ei teaming up w istaroth once doesnt automatically establish universal time travel). it is unfortunately true that in canon lore there are many of the kind of lore pieces present that you could use to set that kind of reveal and complete restructuring of the story up. istaroth and the sacred sakura and some shady things said by various characters and how you could argue Any time loop or travel adjacent is just hidden by the irminsul 5head (another piece of writing whose potential misuse seriously alarms me, mind you). and so on.

and i am just. Not about any of that shit. like. for me absolutely any plot device or element that has the risk of fundamentally fucking up a storys continuity and coherence sideways to the degree BOTH the

"genshins gonna turn out to be ALL time travel/time loop/simulation to make [sudden endgame twist X heavily at odds with what was established in the central lore prior] appear sensible"

and

"celestia just irminsuls away all evidence for [that twist X again] so achsually it was always genius and compatible with lore"

tier of nightmare scenarios will have. is just. Not fucking worth it. this shit has ruined countless stories with vastly better writing and way more competent authors because its just. not the kind of stuff you can just insert in a massive fucking story willy nilly to explain away the mystery box you didnt bother to set up together so it ultimately comes together in a cohesive way that Doesnt need to be broken on multiple levels to scrape together some conclusion. and its just hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and like ive never expected some massive masterpiece out of genshin like at best its gonna be one of those stories that once finished gets some really fucking banger fanwork as its community expands upon and explores a solid but flawed canon groundwork. theres fundamental flaws and limitations to its storytelling and format and that cant be helped. so im expecting no miracles on that front.

but the one fucking thing i dont want them to fall for is that misguided at best and outright pretentious and disrespectful at worst allure of. SEE! we outsmarted the audience! the theories! we broke our own story continuity to force a twist because our established worldbuilding technically makes it an option! isnt this smart!

like just please. no. no clue how unpopular this is but im already quite conflicted on the established use of irminsul in sumeru and how it arguably voided a lot of important characterization (nahidas inferiority complex) and narrative potential (scara literally becoming a non factor in the grander story more or less) for good but like. for now. fine. it hasnt become overused yet. i dont think its inherently bad as a factor of worldbuilding. i like how it recontextualizes fact and fiction and the significance of stories that appear mere fables in the world of teyvat. but as it stands the irminsul is still a deus ex machina. and thats a dangerous tool for any writer to have in careless use. and when combined with the sprinkles of lore involving the possibility of time manipulation and such to be further explored. its like powder and keg. two tools that can absolutely gut a story of its narrative cohesion and the weight of its stakes in an instant. its really fucking worrisome.

genshins writing is flawed but the one thing this game has going for it that i REALLY hope the writers will understand to respect is its world. how much the marriage between this massive and beautifully crafted immersive open world and the intricacies of lore and history afforded to all corners of it truly do in tandem to establish the world of genshin as more Real. as weightier. as a place you grow and remain attached to even when the main storys writing stumbles. the world is so important and to let it remain feeling real is just. i hope they understand how fragile of a gem that is.

featuring an artificial world order established by fraudulent divinity and that involving some degree of cosmic fuck-uppery of the natural order and all-encompassing illusion to maintain it is fine. this is a story heavily referencing gnosticism that theme is literally a given. but it needs to be an artificial world order imposed on a real world that remains feeling real the entire time through. and for that to be preserved it needs to remain grounded.

but the problem is that once a story truly commits to the "anything could be altered and fundamentally reversed with the right mcguffin at play with seeming impunity" there is no going back. it becomes very fucking difficult to keep the figurative feet of a narrative even touching the ground for even the most skilled of writers afforded absolute creative freedom to work with (which genshin does not have). and just that much more easier for the stakes to be lost completely. and i dont want to see that scenario become reality

#like. idk i wont speak as an authority in this bc i quit before the moon arc finished but #while it doesnt to my knowledge necessarily feature the exact kind of deus ex machina that i worry abt with genshins story #the impression i did get from the start of the arc that i attempted to play thru and just from overall hearsay #(and arguably these cracks started showing much earlier too anyway) #hi3rd kinda fell victim to this weightlessness of its world developing and what shouldve been a brilliant finale just #never landed as it could have. the story lost focus tje world became a jumble of new lore drop and wall of science jargon text after anothe #i genuinely couldnt keep up with the last few arcs. flamechasers were carried by their personalities and pink jesus but like. #writing and narrative wise? its highly questionable and a mess. anyway idk where exactly im going w this uhhhh ig that like #even the hoyo game (over. arguably)hyped the most for a good story ended up with this lackluster implosion of its weight n potential #and reveived mixed response (afaik again) or had ppl outright quitting like myself bc it just wasnt pulling my heart in anymore #anyway i do have plenty of other gripes w genshins writing n other fears but this ones just the biggest one. all the others are like #more subjective and less all encompassing in how badly they would affect the rest of the story #in the end this is just random rambling and me being paranoid abt what to me is the worst case scenario #lets hope im wromg and if uou read all this bullshit get a sticker HSJSJSKFKSK 😭😭 #genshin #rambles #long post

[5mcsinatrenchcoat]

Guess who made a Dark Urge. Of the "the cutest murderer you've ever seen" variety.

A fallen-angel-blooded adorable amnesiac with unstable magic (wild magic sorcerer) and violent urges, what could go wrong?!

#tav posting #well not really but it's my bg3 tag so #I did fuck up with giving her red face cracks when she's a fallen aasimar and so the rest of her glows green #but oh well #durge things I guess! #kinda sad the mod's author changed the fallen's wings but I can deal #now we wait and see if I manage to #y'know #actually continue the playthrough like ever #it's so weird playing a small bodytype now #but at least the majority of modded armor will FINALLY fit me

[fitzrove]

Ajfkld the theatre released a Finnish Dear Evan Hansen promo clip (of 'you will be found') and I am NOT feeling the translation.....

Pimeästä pois kun löydä et / When you can't find your way out of darkness

Ystävän sä silloin tarvitset / Then you need a friend

Vaikka sut katuun heitetään / Even when you're thrown onto the street/pavement (XD)

Yksin et jää / You won't be left alone

Siis käännä katse aurinkoon / So turn your face into the sun

Ja valo sen sua kantakoon / And its light shall carry you

Ympärilläs maailma nää / See the world around you

Yksin et jää / You won't be left alone

#yeah i clearly won't be left alone. by this productionXD #maybe i'm dunking on it too much ajfkkd but as someone who was very much the target audience when deh came out #and as someone who doesnt like the show now because its actually a pretty ghoulish take on mental health representation #... idk kinda fascinated and weirded out at the same time XDD #and like i mean the original lyrics arent worldchanging either but that street/pavement line really cracks me up #like evan did you get into a bar fight???? whats going on #musicals #theatre #suomi

[shitpostingfromthebarricade]

Hot take: by the time Hugo picked Les Mis back up in 1860 to finish it, I don't think he intended for Marius and Cosette's marriage to be a good or happy one.

#I just got home after being out of my house nearly fourteen hours #and it is past my bedtime with a very early start intended for tomorrow #but the gist of the argument is that Fantine was the best of us — the French empire under Bonaparte! #and Cosette as Hugo was writing her in 1848 was intended to be the extension of that progress! #and Marius in Bonapartism! #(and then you have the amis who are different levels of supporters of Robespierre and Babeuf and maybe even Lafayette a little) #different political philosophies and directions of taking France #and by 1860 when Hugo was picking up at Blotter Talks #he was fully aware that Actually returning to the Bonaparte line kinda sucked and so did that dick NIII #who forced Hugo to flee to England where he had to (gasp) listen to people speak God's imperfect middle child language English #and he was like ''actually Cosette marrying Marius isn't all it's cracked up to be #idk I'm probably missing a ton of crucial context and background that will easily swat down this theory #but as of 21.45 18 Oct 2022 GMT+8 or whatever that is my take #PLEASE feel free to provide more info #les mis #shitposting @ me #marius #marisette #cosette

[seastarlily]

Okay, so this is random, but if any of you ever wanted to see 27-year-old Rodger Bumpass (Squidward) wearing boxing gear then boy do I have good news for you.

#Going Jellyfishing #This is from his first ever TV appearance back in 1979 BTW. The film is National Lampoon’s “Disco Beaver from Outer Space”. #The super hilarious thing about this is that Rodger only shows up like this for literally 4 seconds... #... and just tells the audience ‘So if you've got to take a bathroom break now's the time to do it.’ #Cut to an intermission. This small random act is never brought up again. So I guess one could say that this is his one... #... “Big Lipped Alligator Moment” in all his years of acting. Crazy. #I kinda want to see Squidward drawn in this getup now LOL. The mental image of Squidward trying to learn boxing just cracks me up. #Granted he might have SOME chance of getting good at it - he did manage to learn basic karate back in “Squid Defense”... #... so who’s to say he can’t learn boxing either?

[fellomenking]

Godfrey: But I don’t want to banish them to the sewers! Maybe...

Godfrey: -SHOVES BABIES IN THE CLOSET-

#{{OutOfOmens}} #thefirsteldenlord #That kinda did crack me up. I'm sorry! X3