#the good the bad and the mundane

[super-nova5045]

sylvia plath, todd anderson and virginia woolf (aka ACTUAL tortured poets) watching taylor “im breaking up with my boyfriend for his intense depression and blaming it on him, im dating a racist who enjoys watching woc being brutalized and harasses young woc artists, i sent my fans out on a hate train to attack a young woc actress for a line she had to say as part of her job to show how mentally ill her character was, im dating a maga supporter, i refuse to say anything about a current genocide despite being the most influential person in the world right now, i am a billionaire, i fly 13 minute flights and have the highest carbon emission of any celebrity, i am a known white feminist who only speaks about issues when it affects me and has constantly let my fans get away with extreme racism and even encouraged it by associating myself with known racists” swift call herself a tortured poet (her writing sounds like a bunch of thesaurus words slapped over gabba hanna and rupi kaur-esque poetry that was created purely as a trinket for an edgy pinterest board)

#anti taylor swift #like she can be problematic that’s okay #there are SO many problematic artists i like #but she’s not even that good #like read sylvia plath or virginia woolf or listen to LDR or fiona apple or mitski or lorde or boygenius or olivia rodrigo #aka her peers #and realise how much better they are #they truly write art because they have a compassion and rawness for it #whereas taytay only writes to get more money LOL #she’s so extremely privileged that her life is not at all relatable and now she tries to make it so #by romanticizing the most mundane #thats never been your brand babe now it’s going to sound like dogshit #GUTS by olivia rodrigo is better because it has such an intensity to it. liv means what she says and you can feel it! #fiona apple means what she says when she writes about begging her lover to love her back! #mitski means what she says when she writes that she is self destructive and puts herself in bad situations since that’s all she knows! #lana means what she says when she writes about her suicide attempt at 15 because of constant abuse from her mother and crippling depression #all of it such haunting and beautiful works because it truly comes from the soul and isn’t a cash grab #Anyway i’m so sorry virginia and sylvia and todd #todd anderson #AND JOE ALWYN #joe alwyn my favourite man ever #joe alwyn #dead poets society #anderperry #sylvia plath #virginia woolf #the bell jar #lana del rey #fiona apple #mitski

[fatesundress]

do we as a society think tom riddle could do math. yes or no

#i tip back and forth on this because on one hand how good was tom’s ‘muggle’ learning at the orphanage #and did it just stop once he started going to hogwarts. or did he study in the summer #but if he Was bad at math and at some point had to face an equation that made him realize it #he’d probably be disturbed at being incapable of something so mundane and just force himself to learn it alone #this raises the question of whether any wizards can do math #especially purebloods #i know draco malfoy would throw up if he looked at a times table #TOM WORKED IN RETAIL. HE HAS TO KNOW MATH…. #but wizarding currency is also like Here’s one big gold coin and here’s another coin that’s not as good and #whatever. #take your doubloons #no math required #this doesn’t deserve so much thought but i’m being deranged about it #💤 #tom riddle

[peliginspeaks]

Today I bring you month-old doodles of Hallowrove having a rough day at work. Tomorrow? Who knows?

#Hallowrove tag #fallen london #i need to do a good day at work doodle sheet one of these days to make it up to them lol #yes sometimes a bad day monster hunting can look a lot worse than this re: Almost Getting Eaten #but I've always loved how many of the activities the game describes are just sort of mundane or could become so #the necessity of slogging through the swamp for a few hours to find anything in the first place #or regularly scheduled jobs like collecting poisons for the Detective

[icewindandboringhorror]

I find it kind of silly that so many of those "time based life rule" sayings are like ~deep serious guidelines~ of some sort, but then there's that one other Well Known Rule that's just like "hrmm can I eat something off of the ground or not"

#the duality of human condition.. two biggest concerns in the modern era are attempts at self fulfilling productivity #and also 'if i drop my sandwich can i still eat it :(' #Also while capitalism is often linked with/the source of hyper productivity culture - note that I do not mean the images in that context #'meaningful to you' does not have to mean 'productive within a capitalist system'. The point is not 'every waking hour of every day #must be spent in the most societally productive grinding mindset hyper efficency mode possible' but more like #if you've always wanted to learn french ever since you were a kid and you think it would be fulfilling to you (just because you like it #absent of any larger purpose like using it for a job/monetizing it somehow/etc.). and you've just spent like 5 hours straight on tiktok #or something mindlessly scrolling the internet. maybe someimtes it'd help for your own personal fulfillment in the long #run to try to - the next time you have 5 spare hours - work on learning french or something that is actually significant to you #as a person and that you'll be glad you worked towards. instead of weeks and weeks passing by and feeling you have nothing to show for it #or etc. AAANYWAY. The images/rules themselves are also NOT the main point of this post. More just the juxtaposition of them together #and the fact that 3 of them are serious seeming while one is so mundane it seems silly in comparison. #BUT even though they're not the main point . I still didn't want it to come across as if I was like promoting or buying into capitalist #productivity culture propaganda or etc. I don't find productivity tips like this inherently bad as long as they're kind of divorced from #those ideas. I think it's still important in life to have goals even if those goals exist outside of the typical expected framework. #I mean that's actually part of why a culture of chronically exhausted overworked deprived people is damaging because if you #'re forced to spend 85% of your waking time working at some job that is perosnally meaningless to you that brings you nothing that #youre only doing under threat of starvation and houselesness and etc. then of course you don't have much time for hobbies or things you car #about and of course you'll feel more aimless and personally unsatisfied and like life is not fulfilling or interesting. #Productivity and efficiency is GOOD actually. as long as it's able to be directed in ways that are actually meaingful to the community or #individual and bring some sort of feeling of fulfillment or progress or accomplishment and working towards a person's personal ideas #of happiness whatever those are. rather than just working away aimlessly so some guy you don't know can buy a 20th house or etc. etc. #ANYWAY.. lol.. Me overthinking things perhaps.. probably not as likely #that people see the silly little cat images and go 'WOW EVIL you must be a capitalist grind culture lover' like its pretty clear #thats not the point... but... just in case... lol.. I loooove to over clarify things that don't actually need clarification

[babtest]

And maybe i'm getting older, but I heard the opening lines "You're gonna get a wrinkle on your forhead. You're gonna get a click in your knee" and went "promise ?🥺"

#the mountain goats #something something #at some point you have to accept that you wont die young #and there will be mundane things #good bad neutral #BORING #but theres only one way out

[maeamian]

tbqh it's weird as hell to me that there's this given understanding about fictional aliens that they'd be surprised or confused by adaptability, but like, as far as we know and understand that is a fundamental quality of life itself not life on earth. In order to become a spacefaring species any spacefaring alien would've had to survive whatever space threw at them for billions of years as well as whatever their planet in specific threw at them, even the 'good' planet we know about is pretty fucking hostile to life. It's just implausible to me that like, among all the possible sapient species we'd be unique or interesting for the level to which we have the ability to adapt to situations, something that any biological creature of any origin would also need to survive long enough as a species to figure out how space works.

#I mean I also understand this is a common way to frame the mundane as interesting by stripping the normalcy of it #IDK I think the 'humans as space orcs' meta has gone too far #Like it's fine to examine humanity through that lens I think it's good to examine things like that #But then when you give that lens its own actual life you need to think a bit more for it to stay coherent #In many cases I think it completely ignores that it's making sweeping implications about non-human intelligences #In ways that just don't fucking make any sense #IMO at least #IDK I'm not positive I'm saying this in a way that makes sense but I'm right #What I'm saying is the parts of those posts that're like 'this is a neat thing about humans' are good and cool IMO #but the parts that are like 'and therefore an alien intelligence would find it impossible to comprehend' are weird and bad #Just seems like a really self-satisified way of looking at ourselves #Like you really think that no other alien species might IDK have a few instincts left over from the pre-sapience days? #They all just sprung from the stars fully formed beings of pure reason and science? #Just us we're the only cool ones in the whole fuckin galaxy huh

[themundanemudperson]

just finished good girl bad blood

zsdfghjkakljhgs i wanna get into the fandom but i don't want sopilers

#a good girls guide to murder #agggtm #good girl bad blood #life's mundanity

[libelelle]

Anyways. Egghog. I love them.

#ive been imagining them in mundane situations and about how intense it would all feel at first #and also the bad feeling of sonic still being stuck and stuck and stuck #IVE JUST. YEAH. #BISCUITTTT YOUR STUFF IS GOOD #talk tag

[thueenz]

for real though that post is so true on the love front i think about it all the time like why is everyone so LOVELESS not even just in like cishetero marriages where they hate each other just in general like platonic too. it drives me craaazy when im exposed to it like why are ppl like this !! why dont you love your friends and partner!! its like everything is a social game that theyre playing just for validation and lacking real connection and its a game where theyre always about 2 steps away from being bitter and hateful towards their friends/lover like STOOOOP! im someone who values love and kindness so much and it baffles me. why do you hate your partner! why do you talk about them like theyre an object of validation! why are you dating someone you clearly dislike! why are u so mean to ur friends behind their backs im cryin. why do you up and abandon them the second you get a partner bc you dont value them over the romantic validation you get. ive always been such an affectionate person at heart and i value what my friends say so much and i always find myself feeling so distant from people in relationships because they just feel?? so shallow?? and distant from me. like i think oh this preson gets me but theres ppl who say the same things how they value kindness and love but its always like, immediately clear they are actually a deeply mean person and just enjoy feeling like theyre 'good'. the way society functions with relationships feels so intensely shallow and i cannot connect to it at all. i love my friends and i love people and i always want to understand them and reach out with compassion and be close to them physically and emotionally speaking and talk a lot and listen to them. however im cursed to live in a world of 1 word responses if any at all and shallow relationships where no one gaf about each other and then i get told i talk too much. hello? *tapping mic* hello? is this thing on? be filled with whimsy and love going forward please. anyway does anyone else feel this way or is it just me feel free to talk about it if youd like

#thank god i finally found some friends who are like this too it was so rough before #it sucks tho bc ive been so tired lately its hard for me to live up to this #which i dont hate myself for its valid its just like waaah i wanna have the energy to really put my all in friendships again #for half my life my biggest want and goal in life has been to be someone approachable and who seems kind #even to people with anxiety and i think growing up with anxiety greatly shaped that #i value being kind and compassionate and understanding to such a degree that i spent and still spend time actively working #towards that goal and unlearning being judgemental and bitter #bc i want to be kind so badly and to put kindness in the world... #no but seirously why do people date ppl they dont like #wym you guys arent so unabashedly in love that you practically see hearts thinking of them #wym your entire chest doesnt fill with joy and the simple prospect of them experiencing lifes small joys no matter how little and mundane #to love so wholly that you strive to be a good person not out of guilt or feeling like you are bad but because you desire so deeply to be #good for them and put as much goodness in their life as you can because its what they deserve...💙💙 #ANYWAY LMFAO! im sappy asf as a person sorry everyone but also not sorry #pers

[worstloki]

Thor: (straight up lying) Loki has a strong history of untrustworthiness and lying... betrayal... when we were 8 he turned into a snake and stabbed me... People: (believe him)(are mean to Loki because of it) Thor: hey now, hold on just a second--

#too late! #loki's new and improved villain arc is upon them #if people won't accept he can be good he'll just stay a villain #thanks Thor :| #Loki <- was there when Thor was lying and didn't think people would actually take Thor's words at face value #Thor <- kinda embarrassed about this whole thing bc Loki's 'villainy' is mundane harmless stuff but he's got a bad rep now and can't return #they're roommates btw they share the same living space and this makes it even funnier #Loki: well maybe i'd be able to attend game night if you didn't tell everyone im a cheat and a villain!!! #Thor: I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WOULD BELIEVE ME BROTHER!!! #Loki: yes you've said that. i still can't attend though because of it. #Thor: [pouts]

[direwombat]

which art motif are you(r ocs)

tagged by beloved @adelaidedrubman to do this uquiz for some of the kids (thank you so much~)

and tagging @socially-awkward-skeleton, @purplehairsecretlair, @strangefable, @strafethesesinners, @fourlittleseedlings, @detectivelokis, @sstewyhosseini, @confidentandgood, @kittiofdoom, @deputyash, @poetikat, @sukoshimikan, @inafieldofdaisies, @vampireninjabunnies-blog, @aceghosts, @baldurrs, and anyone else wanting to do this quiz for their kids!

HANDS. is your love language touch? i suppose it might not be, but i also suppose you might just like being held. you might see the art in human bodies. art reference: loneliness of night by kaye donachie

SNOWY TOWNS. you have the ability to see the greatness in the mundane, and it's beautiful. you would just like to live your life, and love all its things. art reference: it snows oh it snows by grandma moses

BROTHER OSWIN (D&D)

BLOOD IN RELIGIOUS DEPICTIONS. you think in violence, but not necessarily antagonism or hatred. it is more just in the physicality, the vulnerability of it all. art reference: prometheus bound by peter paul rubens

#hands for syb ;w; waaaaaaaahhhhh #no touch isn't her love language but by god she needs to be held so bad #she's the one who's done all the holding. it's her turn i think #good thing jacob has big hands #and what is her dedication of preserving physical cultural heritage than seeing greatness in the mundane? #seeing the value of the history in old objects others don't care about #and debuting brother oswin with SUCH an interesting result for him #he's my new dnd character who is a way of mercy monk (but flavored to be the medieval kind) #so his result is VERY fun and VERY on the nose :^) #oc: deputy sybille la roux #oc: paola orsini #oc: brother oswin

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

with the disclaimer that i am definitely prone to negative thinking and that i don’t have a super wide social circle so i haven’t, of course, observed what it’s like for a ton of kids and younger people these days!--

does anyone else just .......... yearn for a time when the internet wasn’t so everywhere?

in particular, i feel sad for kids, because screens are like having ten thousand pieces of candy in front of you at every second. like, how do you resist the lure? how can you NOT want it? how can you not get addicted?? it’s shiny infinite entertainment! but then everything you do is filtered through this device. (this is where i’m gonna get really judgy in a way that’s maybe over-simplistic and too negative. i know there are tons of benefits to the internet and all the information and content we have access to today! i’m just not talking about those in this post.) like, what chance do the old activities have, like doing art or playing board games or reading physical books or going outside or doing science experiments or even just watching a handful of movies over and over because those were the only options you had in your at-home video library?? (as opposed to youtube throwing endless content at young viewers via algorithm.) or even just sitting around being bored, with naught but your own thoughts???

i also find it wild that it’s so expected that from a very young age everyone in your family has this extremely expensive technological device. (like, i feel like my parents definitely would not have been willing to buy me a hundreds-of-dollars mini-computer to carry around all the time that could’ve easily gotten broken ... but it was such a different time, this being the norm would have been unimaginable!) is it hard to opt out of smart phone culture for kids? is it even acceptable to be like “my kid isn’t going to have a smartphone/ipad/whatever until high school” anymore?

i’m just really feeling the pressure of there being infinite options for screen entertainment at every moment. it has REALLY scrambled my brains as a 30-something adult. so it makes me really curious how it feels to grow up in that environment without having ever experienced what it was like before, when your options were still plentiful (”having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card!”) but much, much, much more limited. i kinda feel like you could get deeper and more profound enjoyment out of things just because there wasn’t a part of you always wondering “okay, what next?” that could be instantly gratified.

but again! i am definitely old-man-yells-at-clouds as my default setting, and therefore prone to complaining about the age of technological marvels we are living in. still ... omg, i’m so tired. i’m just really curious about whether something truly has been lost, or if that’s just how i feel because i’m nostalgic for how it was when i was younger and the internet was way more niche and one part of life that it was easy to put down and walk away from rather than EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME.

#i'm starting to realize that i think there's just a limit to how much new info your brain is supposed to get every day #and by 'info' i mean everything from world news to the most mundane status update #it's just so much! it's so much!!! no wonder i can't think creative thoughts anymore. #and i have never used tiktok and i don't really get instagram culture even though there are some accounts i follow regularly over there #and i've never really figured out twitter #so i feel like a lot of the internet/social media landscape right now i don't even understand #and i'm *still* so burned out! #anyway this is something i'm super curious to talk about with others and see how you feel about it all! #(also -- i'm super bad at having self control and just stepping away from the internet & going to do something else #so it's possible lots of people don't struggle w/ this like i do!) #dollsome's deep thoughts #also kids have parents to monitor their internet use whereas i just have me. and i am not a good monitor ... er. oof!!!!!!

[blujayonthewing]

so within the last several sessions in Melliwyk's campaign we've learned that 1) the sorcerer king, our mysterious and as-yet unseen bbeg who has been functionally immortal for thousands of years by secretly moving his soul from body to body, currently IS in fact our more immediate and personal villain, the fighter's mother, whom our fighter remembers as having been a normal loving mother prior to a heelturn in her backstory; 2) some of the stuff Mel stole from her private workshop included personal journals from her early life, which reveal the story of an unusually talented young woman who was manipulated into pursuing necromancy and high level government work over her other arcane interests, apparently with the intention of grooming her as the sorcerer king's latest vessel; 3) there is a brief mention during her school years of her hearing about a particularly gifted gnome girl in the artificing track, and hoping they might get to be classmates

doylist reason the sorcerer king didn't even try to single out melliwyk as a possible future vessel: scarlet is an NPC whose concept fit into the sorcerer king story, while melliwyk is a player character who has nothing to do with any of that

watsonion reason: sorcerer king is gnome racist

#lots of other watsonian reasons tbh but this one is the funniest #I would do anything to cheat death but I won't do that (spend several centuries as a gnome) #I'm annoyed by the 'scarlet IS the sorcerer king' reveal if I'm being honest #even though it's been an obvious possibility for as long as we've known about the sorcerer king and what his deal is #our fighter's player didn't know any of this: his backstory was 'my wizard mother became cold and distant when I struggled with magic' #a thing that... happens. like. you think your mom loves you when you're eight and full of potential #and then she finds out you're not exactly what she wanted and wholly rejects you. surprise! she was a bad person the whole time! #I dunno I feel like... 'oh but WAIT the mother that was MEAN to you was actually a DIFFERENT EVIL GUY the whole time!!' is a cheap answer #a mother gothel figure was more compelling to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #sometimes you think your parents love you and support you and are good parents until-- say-- you come out and become homeless the same day #like. sometimes evil is real and mundane. you know? #AAAANYWAY #my OCs #melliwyk

[homerjacksons]

For those who need to hear it…

Writing incredibly close, loving, intimate friendships between people of the same sex is not queerbaiting.

You are 100% allowed to ship it (I almost always do myself), but the writers/actors/directors etc are not queerbaiting by writing intimate platonic relationships.

#as an aroace person i yearn for friendships like some of the ones I see turn into ships #i yearn to platonically be someones everything #i yearn to be the first person someone goes to with all the good and the bad and the mundane #i yearn to be held by someone who adored me for who I am #seeing the kind of friendship i long for labelled as queerbaiting is so infuriating #bc it just reinforces the idea that I can never have that #bc those experienced are limited to romantic relationships #anyway mmm just some thoughts

[ladsofsorrow24]

i know there are people out there who didn't like chainsaw man's character design because they feel that most of them are boring but personally i think those are ultimately balanced out by the sheer weird designs of the devils

also the mundanity of the human characters' design helps in making the world feel more realistic and believable, because i don't think i can take the story seriously if denji had some gravity defying hairstyle lmao

#not saying the bright and fancy design is not good #but it all depends on the kind of aesthetic the artists want to emphasize #in the story #stories like yugioh etc have those fancy character designs because the story benefits from having such flashy characters #as the story itself is very flashy and theatrical #it's not very realistic to see people screaming out their attack and such for just a card game #but... that's the charm of the series #it's fantastical and fun #chainsaw man however does great with the mundane designs of the human characters because it makes fiends even more obviously... wrong #angel devil is the most human-like devil in the story and he still feels... not human from his character design alone #his height halo and wings really emphasized on that #just... i think people need to realized various art styles and aesthetic have it's time and place #and just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's bad you know? #tmi tag

[vidovy]

Dozing off on Frank must be fucking. magical. imagine.... MATRESS SIZED HUSBAND...... I'll be walking in circles on his belly like a puppy.... weheheheeeee omg i gotta press my face on his belly and caress that sweet sweet happy trail.. like ugh his extra messier hair and half lided eyes cause he's tired.. his soft smile as he scratches my scalp.. mm.. yah post

#• frank 🚐 #i'm always thinking of the sleepy imagines #I'm exaggerating on him being matress sized btw Haaa #but #oughhh my fucking god #i wanna hear about his day i wanna hear his problems his highs his lows i wanna hear him talk about mundane shit #about the bad stuff.. the good stuff..... #i wanna hear him.. #being comfortable to tell me anything in his mind.. #just laying there.. feeling him.. listening to him... #craving HIM #okay yah bye #wow didn't mean to moan like that