#they're definitely engaged

[weewoobrainrot]

their smiles 🥺🥺

#they're definitely engaged #help #i will not be able to cope #if they get engaged #and if they don't i'll cry #i'll cry either way #ANYWAY #tarlos #:) #tk strand #carlos reyes #911 lone star speculation #911 lone star

[sergle]

how bad is the pain right after surgery? im hoping to schedule my reduction next year. im a 32K and want them gone SO BAD but im a baby lol

there is DEFINITELY PAIN, but it's not the worst pain I've ever felt. I think I clocked it at a 7 when I woke up from surgery- my nurse asked me to rate it to get a ballpark of how heavily to douse me in pain meds before I left lmao. I felt so exhausted from the surgery that I slept an absolute ton, also, so a lot of that day-of pain is being blotted out while you're unconscious! hooray! they give you pain meds immediately, and keeping on top of the doses (not letting the meds Wear Off inbetween) keeps it to a dull roar. On day 3 rn and the pain is already muchh more manageable! That's how it's been for me, anyway. It could be diff for you, I know some people feel basically numb, or others are more sensitive to pain, whatevs. but it's not Too Bad.

#it SUCKS anytime you engage your pectoral muscles by accident right. like that definitely feels bad #but I'd say Discomfort is more prominent than pain? at least for me. at least so far. #like they're HOT. and they're SWOLLEN. and the compression bra is COMPRESSING. #but those things don't hurt. they're very uncomfortable tho #sergle answers

[uncanny-tranny]

Hey, you're being lied to about what fitness constitutes. If you can't work in an hour-long crossfit slog, but you can work in a five-minute walk, then that is still fitness. If you can't use your legs but you can do arm circles every now and again, that is still fitness. If you're moving around at work, that's still fitness. It can be intentional or incidental, but here's the best part: your body doesn't care if you're dedicating specific work-out times. It doesn't care if the "only" fitness it gets is your nine to five on your feet. It doesn't care, fitness is fitness is fitness. Some of us do it differently, but the end result is more or less similar.

If you can do any type of fitness safely, your body isn't going to care if you're doing it like an Olympic athlete or if you're just a casual.

#fitness #gentle reminders #i hate hate hate the idea that fitness must be done Intentionally and in a Hegemonic Way #like... fitness is whatever you make of it and whatever you do #your body isn't going to be like 'well you walked for fove minutes but you didn't do shoulder presses at the gym so it doesn't count 😊' #if you want more specific forms of fitness then SURE you might want to do more specific exercises and activities #but if your goal is overall movement for however much if your body then... you don't Need to be THAT specific #and your goals may be specific for only parts of your body and that's GREAT! #a wheelchair user may for example do more arm exercises so they can use a manual chair for instance... #...and to many people i've noticed they don't think it 'counts' because the chair user isn't using 'all' of their body... #...but it's like... using your arms in non-powered chairs can be really important so like. it's still fitness. #you don't actually have to equally focus on everything if you don't want to or can't #all this to say that fitness is Not hegemonic and you don't need to feel shame about what you do or don't do #even a tiny tiny TINY amount is significant and matters <3 #this is definitely something i've gotten more passionate about since becoming a ~gym bro~ #because you see just how different people are and what they want out of fitness #and it's taught me a lot more about my own disabilities and how i work with (and even against) them to find balance #this is what i love about those fitness video games too! because they're often made to be engaging and fun! #i LOVED just dance as a kid and that was fitness merging with video games (and i loved video games (still do!)) #and i HIGHLY recommend people get video games like just dance or that one nintendo ring game because of these elements! #it combines the comfort of home with movement with engaging music/story/video game elements #and things like that make me believe in peace and love and care on planet earth <<3

[oceanwithouthermoon]

kubosai "can we just get married already?" "no... maybe."

#calm down ur like 17 #cheesy mfs #they're definitely getting engaged the moment its somewhat socially acceptable #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #kuboyasu aren #kubosai #meows post

[theladyrebecca2]

It's human nature to gain or lose hope when you see Netflix socials promoting Byler or Midleven, but we've gotta pull back the curtain to see the full picture.

First, always remind yourself that the Stranger Things team and Netflix are completely separate entities. Netflix is the vehicle the ST team are driving their story on, but they're not the same people who actually create it. They get little to no say in what the ST writers write.

I say 'little' because the bones of each season will have been greenlit by select Netflix higher-ups (with NDA's signed). But if the Stranger Things team want Storyline A, and Netflix were to say no, what about Storyline B? Then the ST team are absolutely capable of standing their ground and not moving. Perhaps some compromises can be made, but the final say will be down to how stubborn the ST writers can be. This was made apparent by the Duffer Brothers’ open stance on the writing and acting strikes, which directly opposed Netflix. It mattered to them that in the future, writers will continue to have control over their work. That Netflix can't just weasel out of their contracts with shows and write their own endings with AI. Right now, Netflix provide funding, connections, and a platform to host stories on. The ST team provide their content, the original idea, the heart and soul. It's a mutually beneficial relationship.

When it comes to promoting stuff on social media, we have several teams working separately. This leads to exchanges like this from the Netflix Tudum event:

This is two completely different social media teams interacting with each other. Most important to remember though - right now, the Netflix social media team won't know anything about Season 5. The earliest they may be told anything important will be at the start of the Season 5 promotional campaigns, but even then, it's not a given. NDA's will be in effect at Netflix right up until the bitter end. The social media people will be working in tandem with the marketing team, all of them given set content or working under guidelines when told what they can promote/ talk about.

Secondly, they're just ordinary people doing their job. When it comes to liking comments or replying to them, it will all differ depending on which person happens to be logged into the Netflix account at that time.

For ST5, it looks like Dana and Chris are two Senior Social Media Managers at Netflix US:

But look at all the related connections, and you begin to realise just how many people make up these social media teams (and marketing, which is related). And remember, this is just Netflix US - not the ST team.

So just think about how each person has their own opinions, has their own views on the show. How many of these people might ship Byler? How many ship Midleven? I bet they have their own interpersonal work politics behind the scenes, hoping their idealised ending is the right one.

My point is, there's no point freaking out about this occuring underneath Netflix US's recent post about ST S5:

All this shows is that we have a Midleven shipper in the social media team. After Season 4, a lot of people got excited at this:

But again, all this indicates is that we also have a potential Byler shipper in the Netflix UK team. It's just as pointless getting happy and excited about pro-Byler stuff on there, as it is to get worried or upset about pro-Midleven stuff.

#the Netflix marketing content such as the couples costume thing is almost as pointless #I say almost because I DO think active marketing outside of social media means the content they're being given to promote includes #the will and mike pairing #so that definitely strays into queerbait territory #but for S5 endgames the only social media accounts we should pay any attention to is the strangerthingswriters account #and accounts connected to the ST team NOT the Netflix team #it's just about audience engagement for them #the only thing we can do is continue liking/supporting pro-Byler comments on there when we see them #byler #< target audience

[aro-attorneys]

no but listen what really gets me about wrightworth is the comfort of it. it doesn't even need to be regarded as a romantic ship (there's so many ways to interpret their relationship anyway) in order to understand why they gravitate to the other.

every time i see wrightworth art where they simply exist. simple live together and make coffee in the morning and eat lunch somewhere and all the other mundane everyday things, i can't help but think "finally, they can just be, after everything".

their journey was so long and complicated that them being in the same room, at peace, for more than 5 minutes is so meaningful. they fought for that moment of peace. to simply be in the other's presence.

#i have definitely had someone tell me 'no they're just friends' #bc some people only accepts a good gay pairing when they kiss on screen or something /j #im not here to tell you to ship a ship. that's not a healthy way to engage w media anyway #but saying they're *just* friends is the funniest fucking thing to say #even if they aren't romantically involved their relationship would still be so special #friendship isn't a lesser form of love #okay. let them be friends then. let's strictly follow what canon has established so far #so you're telling me that phoenix fighting for 15 years to see edgeworth again is *just* some friendship? #you're telling me that edgeworth flying for hours and hours to help phoenix in 3-5 is *just* some friendship #the way edgeworth talks about phoenix in aai (both) is *just* simple friendship? #none of that has to have romantic implications. heck i really like them as queerplatonic duo even #but denying (or implying) that what they have is nothing special is so wild to me #*even* at face value this game establishes how special their relationship is #ace attorney #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright

[cryptocism]

This might be a weird question, but why do you call the YJ kids the core 4? I always through Cissie and Suzie were also pretty core?

not weird at all! and ur right Cissie and Suzie/Greta were also part of YJ since the very early days. ive got a couple vague ideas on where the core 4 thing came from

tmk the reason the Cassie/Bart/Kon/Tim quartet gets singled out in fan content is mainly because they're the four who went on to join the teen titans and continued being heroes, whereas Cissie, Greta, and basically every other member of YJ retired or quit from the hero business post-series (mid-series, in Cissie's case). it also probably helped that impulse, superboy, and robin all had solos going for them, with cassie featuring in a lot of wonder woman issues, whereas the other members were pretty YJ exclusive.

also i wont discount the fandom feedback loop's involvement! im definitely not the first person to call em the core 4, and seeing other people label the team-within-a-team probably reinforced my own view of their legitimacy, which in turn bleeds into the stuff i draw, which then gets seen by other fans, and reinforces for them that these particular characters are kind of a unit within the greater whole, whether that's Young Justice or the Teen Titans

#asks #anonymous #fandom feedback loops almost definitely exist wherever there's a fanbase #but the dc fanbase is full of em #which is probably a natural byproduct of the fact that at the end of the day theres just.... Too Much Content #so u kinda adopt fan interpretations into ur own understanding of canon #thats not a dig btw i dont think fandom feedback loops are bad #altho there is a... weirdly large amount of dc fans who proudly do not engage with canon content whatsoever #and base everything off of fan interpretations - some of whom ALSO haven't read any comics #and im glad they're havin fun but at the same time im kinda wondering why they're here lmao

[my-current-obsession]

So uh... anyone else think Leif’s paralogue is some bullshit? The snipers using ballistae are just RIDICULOUSLY strong. I don’t have a single unit that can withstand two attacks in a row (including my freaking GENERAL) so the wrong placement by itself could be deadly, and literally ALL of my healers would die if they’re in range of just one of them! Plus they’re bulky enough that no one is able to kill them from afar with Lyn’s Astra Storm. It doesn’t seem like engaging Ike reduces damage from ballistae either.

As if that weren’t bad enough the computer goes full Cheating Bastard on you and the enemy mages have WAY more range on their staves, so they can silence or freeze or break you from miles away.

IMO the recommended level for this is WAY too low. I have three other maps of the same level to do (two other paralogues & the next story chapter) and I’ll STILL be scared to return to it.

#fire emblem #fe17 #fire emblem engage #i'm playing on hard if that makes a difference #i haven't played leif's game so i have to wonder if the map was that bad originally #i only exaggerated slightly. the snipers COULD tag-team and kill jade #if i had used louis he would have (barely) survived #i'm pretty confident in my assumption no one would be able to OHKO them using lyn's engage though #MAYBE panette but she's the only one. and she'd have to be way too close for them to be worth it #i was really hoping yunaka could do it. but alas #i'm not lying about the healers though #half my options are just immediately out because they're flyers. and my other healers are all much squishier #jean and celine and framme and citrinne would DEFINITELY die. pandreo would have either died or lived with like. 1 HP #either way i think i've had enough Engage for one night. that chapter was NOT fun and i'm burned out

[the-busy-ghost]

British publishers seem to have a strange habit of classifying nineteenth century French novels as children’s books (a nebulous category I know- children are often more than capable of reading so-called ‘adult’ books but I find it odd nonetheless). 

Jules Verne is the first one that springs to mind, but the one that always confuses me is ‘The Three Musketeers’. Yes it’s got all the swashbuckling ingredients that make up a good boys’ own story, but I’m really not sure that it’s strictly a ‘children’s’ classic.

This brought to you by the fact that I’m trying to sort all my other Dumas books into order when I realised that the ‘Three Musketeers’ wasn’t among them, even though it’s part of a wider ‘series’, the other books of which are in my ‘adult’ books. But because my copy of ‘The Three Musketeers’ was part of a set of ‘children’s classics’, it’s languishing in a box somewhere, alongside The Railway Children and the Secret Garden (great books both, but very different in tone I think). I don’t want to break that set up but I also don’t see why the story of Milady de Winter is more child appropriate than the Count of Monte Cristo.

#I should go back and reread Musketeers but even as a 9 year old I knew something stank about the treatment of Milady #And if it had been wrapped up as an adult book I would have been able to engage with the story and analyse it with the complexity it deserve #But the fact it's packaged up like a book for little children left me confused instead of intrigued as a kid #You could make the argument that any swashbuckling adventure story is for kids but I'm a Scot and I have to repudiate that strongly #Otherwise Scott and Stevenson- though not inappropriate for children either- would be left out in the cold #Why is it acceptable to do that to the French #To be fair Ivanhoe sometimes gets treated like a kids' book #Interestingly Waverley almost never is but that might just be because it's less popular nowadays #Kidnapped and Ivanhoe are both appropriate for kids in my opinion and so are most adventure stories don't get me wrong #Kids are pretty bright and ok so sometimes they're not ready for certain things but that's really up to them as readers #But if there was ever an adventure story that might have been more aimed at adult readers #I have to feel that it's the Three Musketeers #It's definitely a pattern with French translations in particular I think #Though some of the racism in the Lost World (also part of the children's classics set) also seems rather dubious #I don't know much about literature by the way it's not really my speciality so there may be reasoning #And I know that the concept of 'children's books' is a really vague and silly one #I just think it's odd that certain work by French authors tend to get lumped together under that label

[maeamian]

I tend to be less amused by the genre of post where we laugh at the angry reviews of conservatives who don't like that there are queer people in art than many of you, that whole "I don't get it how could this be queer" and "How come they're shoving this down our throat now when the comics..." style comment about Sandman being the specific animus for this post.

Where, like, obviously someone who sincerely wrote those things would have drastically missed the point of the show, but there's a key word in that phrase 'sincerely', a I don't think they're actually operating in a way that adverb applies. I think this scenario is a bit more like that Sartre quote, that they're just fucking around with words because serious people believe in words and they believe in power, fundamentally this isn't different from that news clip the other day where people got mad at Cracker Barrel for introducing their non-meat sausage, no one actually cares about the sausage qua the sausage the sausage is a stand in for how a large movement in our culture is tending towards greater inclusivity and the people who don't like inclusivity don't like *that* and that's what the yelling is about

I think something that people miss when they pick out the absolute point-missingest ones to highlight how dumb our foes are is that said foes don't care they're being dumb on purpose and also, we, the audience, aren't the actual intended target, they don't care if we laugh. The actual point, I think, and the place of critical stress, is on the publishers and creators, firstly they need a one star review that won't get scrubbed for calling someone a slur and will pass the extremely generous faith of the moderation algorithms over at Amazon/Twitter/Whatever and possibly even a casual human perusal, "I hate gay people they put gay people in this" is gonna get that review removed but "I was confused by the presence of gay people" sounds like it's in good faith if you refuse to apply any context to anything, which those algorithms and their overworked moderators do.

The other thing that I think we miss is the scale, we're just looking at like... the four dumbest reviews and going 'oho' but when you're the creator, if you're looking at your reviews you go 'Jeeze there's hundreds and/or thousands of people hating this for this specific reason' and depending on why you were putting that art into the world that can hit you in a lot of ways but plenty of them extremely discouraging. I'm drawing on my experience here as a part of a mildly successful YouTube channel and knowing a few other people with them as well, but that sort of backlash can absolutely make an artist go "I would like to not touch this live wire again" which is far more the point than expressing any sincere confusion about anything. Anyhow this is probably too many words about something that doesn't really matter, I definitely am not *so* annoyed that I think you shouldn't, but it does feel a little bit like by highlighting this sort of review you're helping (not substantially or anything) with their actual goal of making it more annoying to make diverse art.

#IDK does any of this make sense? #Been thinking about it for the past few days and trying to put my finger on why that post wasn't sitting well with me #And I think it engages them on a front they're not actually fighting I think it's bad tactics to pretend they're serious as it were #'wow can you believe they believe this' they don't they just don't give a shit what you believe they believe #The other thing is that the scale and quality of the backlash on this sort of thing scales with the marginalization of the creator #Like two video essay people I respect did two takes on basically the same topic and the one who looks like a lady got it *way* worse #So there's also the sense where looking at how it happens when it's Neil Gaiman's show also misses how this works #Kinda it's funny in isolation but it's not actually happening isolated from the overall world #Where we're definitely in a period of rising backlash to queer people

[sage-nebula]

I'm just going to say it: Mystery Files >>> Ghost Files

#watcher #mystery files #ghost files #don't get me wrong i like Ghost Files #Ryan & Shane's banter is always funny and some of the evidence is interesting tho not definitive #but i'm 95% Shaneiac so i don't go into GF expecting to see ghosts proven real #and some of the locations visited have felt like . . . inauthentic. like the escape room one #so GF is like. it doesn't engage my brain as much. it's entertaining but it's ''have on in the bg while i draw or smth'' #whereas with MF i'm like yeah!!!! teach me abt the weird shit!!!! #i CAN'T just have it on the bg or i'll miss important details!!!! #it's the same with Puppet History which is my other favorite Watcher show #it makes me think and focus and engages my brain #i love it SO much 💜💜💜 #(this is also why i preferred Unsolved True Crime to Supernatural. i'm NOT a TC girly but i'd rather learn abt smth #than be entertained by the ghoul boys proving once again that the place they're at is not haunted lmaoo)

[driftwoodthrone]

As promised, I'm gonna make them a thing @ktlsyrtis ;)

DI Jill Raymond/Professor Helen Lynley AU

Two sharp knocks on Helen's door jolts her slightly out of concentration, as Jill Raymond's blonde head peeks over the threshold of her office. The imposing detective strides in without preamble, in her crisp white shirt and fitted trousers, and sits on the edge of Helen's desk with little regard for the papers strewn about. Holds up the coffee in her hand as a peace offering.

"Got a minute, Lady Helen?" Jill asks, beckoning the brunette's attention, giving way to a privately held joke between them.

Helen rolls her eyes derisively at the posh title. Frankly, she's glad to be rid of it and Tommy⁠ — surviving a near-fatal gunshot wound does wonders for sorting out one's priorities, she thought.

The scar at the centre of her breastbone is a stark reminder of the life she's left behind.

And although it didn't need saying or counting, she owes Jill an enormous favour after her divorce and an endless string of kindness for refusing to leave her side as she recuperated from surgery. So Helen lets the title go, lets it mean something different between them, knowing her dearest friend loved to get a rise out of her.

"Jillian," Helen greets with a saccharine smile, a name reserved only for herself and Jill's mum, it sticks like toffee on her tongue. She wraps her fingers around the steaming cup of coffee, and welcomes the interruption, especially when it's Jill's handsome face. "What do I owe the pleasure?" Helen hums gratefully as she takes a sip. "Have you finally come to sit in on my lecture?"

"Not today, I'm afraid. I thought I might borrow your expertise though?" Jill dangles a case file in her hand and pretends to look sorry for dropping by unannounced, but Helen sees a hint of that wolfish grin. Jill doesn't care a jot about her office hours, and if she did the woman would pick up her damn mobile phone.

Helen lets the request hang in the air, and buys herself several agonizing seconds by sorting through the mountain of grading on her desk, before coming back around to Jill's expectant face inching closer towards her. "So, you did come to learn something new, Detective," Helen teases.

Jill crowds her and a flicker of desire glazes over the detective's eyes as they trail towards soft inviting lips. It's the only evidence of Helen's effect on her, and it's gone in an instant as she leans forward to bop Helen on the head with the file.

"Get a shift on, Professor," Jill says impatiently, and the brunette gawps at her for the cheek. "I've got a murder to solve."

Helen pouts. She was rather hoping to be plied with kisses for her keen intellect, but she knows Jill is dreadfully restrained during her working hours. There was no wearing her down, she's tried.

She swaps the coffee for the folder in Jill's hand and opens it on her lap. Jill offers her reading glasses with practiced ease and takes a large gulp from the same cup as Helen scans the suspect list.

She was starting to think she worked for the Greater London Police at how frequently Jill sought out her professional opinion. It's Jill who takes a certain delight in picking Helen's brain, involving her in small, quiet ways in the investigation — as long as she's never actually on scene (lesson learned), and Jill is quite firm on that matter.

Secretly, she enjoys it too — cracking a case, bringing justice to the surface, becoming Jill's unwitting partner in crime (solving) as they've done since they were girls in uni fighting their way up the ladder. Although they had wound up choosing different career paths, they had never forgotten to pull each other up.

Jill screws her face into an imperceptible smirk to save her blushes before rising to circle Helen's chair. She tugs at her waistcoat to smooth out her appearance and school her features as she flips open a packet of mints from her coat pocket.

"I will require dinner, for the consult," Helen says nonchalantly, raising an eyebrow to hint at the double meaning with a wicked sparkle in her eyes.

Jill coughs and splutters at the suggestion, and Helen's pleased to see the nearly unflappable detective fidget in her seat.

She doesn't waste the opportunity to turn dinner into breakfast, slipping Jill's glasses off her face to hang them at the crux of the blonde's waistcoat, a familiar intimacy that pushes and pulls at the seams of their friendship.

There's a moment where they're idle, waiting for the other to have the last word. Jill is helpless to the gravity between them, she turns Helen around in her seat to lean forward on the armrest, framing the other woman between her arms. Helen's breath hitches as their noses brush, barely a whisper between them, and a flush works its way up Helen's delicious neck.

Jill's eyes remain trained on Helen's own growing dark, stirring at the heightened state between them. Hearts pounding in unison, they are two sides of the same coin, immovable and unyielding.

"You do drive a hard bargain."

#di jill raymond #helen lynley #berena #jill x helen #rrcmv #new expansion pack #and a ficlet! #i live here now #jill/helen as recent divorcees and long-standing friends who went to uni together and are now maybe definitely engaging in #no-strings attached casual sex against their better judgement b/c she's alive and they're both single for the first time in years #jill would absolutely be sick of tommy's bs and putting helen's life in danger (again) #follow this blog for more fictional ships that do not exist lmao #* #my fics #*hc

[straightfromthetorturedpoetsdept]

it does NOT surprise me that there are SO MANY tabloid movies coming out being labelled as "documentaries" filled with "friend of a friend of a friend" claims or like heavily, heavily, heavily biased with a clear narrative the filmmaker wanted to push from the beginning that tells only one possible explanation of the truth.

usually if a documentary is trying really, really, really, really hard to make you think a certain way, it's a propaganda piece. you shouldn't have to force feed your audience the "right" opinion to take away from the film evidence. you should present the full story as accurately as possible with real historical evidence to back up the storyline and the audience will walk away with the right idea.

documentaries should not have an overly persuasive tone to them because you should be able to follow the facts to get to the right answer yourself. if you find yourself walking away from a documentary feeling nothing but "wow this proves exactly what i suspected to be true why arent more people angry about niche radicalizing viewpoint that most people find to be inaccurate" you should recognize that as the first step to being indoctrinated into extremist behaviors and thoughts.

#if someone starts telling me about how much they love watching documentaries and its all super emotional hit pieces on bad celebrities #im like BIG yikes and i stay clear from them emotionally like no fucking thank you #i am a snob about documentaries sorry and i have no idea if im right in my thinking i just think this is how it should be imo #yall should walk away from a documentary understanding how someone can come to the wrong conclusion about something #because the documentary should always present the opposing view point in as sympathetic light as possible #steel man the argument then use facts to demolize it #if a documentary about a controversial or political issue #documentaries that lie manipulate rely on emotional support rather thana factual support are bad imo #because it often radicalizes people to the wrong side once they find the steal man argument against ur position #there is a reason people believe certain things #for example my terfs are lying about the original definition of woman argument post #in it i accept the possibility that woman could be defined this way only if u insist on denying factual history #i explicitly state woman was a white female child because it forces well meaning terfs to investigate the truth of my claim #and it forces them to confront the fact that their argument against trans women can be applied to people they think are in fact real women #you have to be willing to engage with repulsive ideas to show why they're factually incorrect. #im not saying the tone has to be completely passive but you have to be FACTUAL with your documentaries. #i am genuinely of the opinion that the facts will convince anyone because all people just want to be right at the end of the day.

[threewaysdivided]

Hey! Listen!

@staff, @support, not to tell you how to do your jobs but can you please implement some kind of auto-flagging system for these ding-dang bots? They're everywhere.

Even just a piece of back-end automation set to highlight any accounts that mass-follow other blogs without liking/ reblogging/ commenting/ otherwise-interacting for examination would probably save you time on waiting for our manual reports and us from having to report them.

Frankly, it's getting to be a Bit Much™.

#botpocalypse #Tumblr bot plague 2023 #bot plague 2023 #spam bots #I know that the platform and staff team have changed hands multiple times but it is BAFFLING that none of you found a long-term solution #it cannot be this hard #not the first bot plague on this site but definitely one of the worst #they're coming in thick and fast #every other notification I swear #don't make me tap the Post+ analysis sign #you've got a good thing going with Blaze and the Merch Store. Don't blow it by leaving the bots up to inflate engagement metrics #tumblr problems #tumblr #3WD

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Can't believe this got 89k likes. Harry getting accused of being straight again because he put on a trench coat. Its got to be so frustrating for him to keep getting accused of queerbaiting. Or I don't know how he feels about being so misunderstood but it's frustrating to watch.

https://twitter.com/newgamertag/status/1759467672276816254?t=xC2TkifCVjKLL4nlr213AQ&s=19

Obviously I disagree with this from every single angle (starting with the fact that he's there with Rob Stringer - of course he's selling something).

But the fact that a significant number of people are this wrong (and I do think they're wrong, factually, politically and culture) - is a reality that Harry is going to have to navigate. For me the question of what the options are and what he's going to do is one of the most interesting questions of the moment.

One of the reasons that it feels particularly unknown - is that Harry hasn't really presented himself to the public since BRITS last year. He's been seen - but it's been show outfits (which were continuity of the previous show outfits) and street clothes.

And a lot has happened. The idea that there's something wrong with how he dresses and talks about his sexuality has been brewing for a while - and was already at the point where interviewers were really pushing the line when he released Harry's House and it's only grown since then. Then there's the movie/relationship drama that peaked in September of 2023.

We haven't really seen how Harry is going to present himself post all that (the Brits looks were clearly a a continuity of what he had done previously).

I think the most immediate question (and the soonest answered) is is there still space for him to wear really interesting and iconic looks in an album release campaign. And if there's not what impact will it have on his image and his stardom? I really do think that the iconic looks and their implications, are part of his value proposition

#Part of me thinks everything is an option #If he doesn't engage with any form of media where he doesn't have control #No profiles #maybe a chat show #a ONO type deal which serves as publicity in itself #and using his performances as advertisement #I think it works really well #but I'm not sure about the timing #maybe some festivals would help? #But they're not the space for iconic fan servicing approaches #Or I guess he could do a small venue tour primarily for promo #Welcome people's thoughts #He definitely needs to turn in a charming music video performance though #I'm very happy to consult on what makes Harry's music video performances work #I have spent a lot of time thinking about it

[the-unconquered-queen]

Niche thing to rant about by now since RoE is irrelevant, but god, Alex (older brother) and Elena are so obnoxious in Newlyweds, especially Elena imo.

Don’t get me wrong, she’s justified in being pissed (lord knows if I found out my fiancé had a whole-ass previous marriage he was intentionally hiding from me I’d just dump him on the spot), but for whatever reason, this woman still insists on tagging along to all family outings and activities, just to be catty and passive-aggressive and ruin the vibe the whole time. Girl, at that point, opt out and stay home. Also, it’s all so dumb?? This man seriously gets exposed as a divorcee and his reaction is to just go “Uh-oh 😲” and then he spends the entire book trying to pretend he didn’t get exposed, trying to bribe Elena into playing nice with him, and then neither of them actually make an effort to talk about it until the very last chapter, where his explanation and her forgiveness together take about two minutes of conversation they easily could’ve gotten out of the way immediately instead of dragging it out. Newlyweds is not a bad book or anything, but they’re easily the worst part of it.

#'If you want my [unsolicited] advice CONSULT with your partner' 'Not really in a singing mood' 'Good thing a puppy is loyal' girl shut up #go HOME #I don't remember the other books so I couldn't tell you if they're wholly unlikable characters but they definitely are in the finale #rules of engagement #choices roe