#they're good people

[lokiondisneyplus]

Writing staff credits for Loki S2, from the WGA site.

Ep 2-3 does not have its writers' credits finalized yet, though that could be soon. There was a gap with some of the episodes in season 1, as well.

Congratulations to production designer Kasra Farahani (who will still be PD for S2, afaik) for the promotion to being a staff writer on the show.

And welcome to Katharyn Blair, Rachel Sydney Alter and Brett Maline.

(Brett has posted about working on Loki in his Twitter bio.)

#please don't harass them #they're good people

[otterlywyrdfirbolg]

(Saunters into the living room, drunk and wearing a trench coat.)

Tonight, on Unsolved Mysteries™, find out why little mushroom people are camping out in my fucking yard!

#mushroom friends #comic #traditional art #but if you want them to leave just ask #they're good people

[cynical-cy]

u all will perceive Cake

#cyspeaks #they're good people #and also a giant mass of animal people

[lightbulb-warning]

Mildly Uninteresting Anecdotal Storytime:

there's this friend of mine who is the absolute SWEETEST old man (ive known him so long I've become one his bonus children by now) and he's an incredibly PASSIONATE art collector.

He'll find the most random, unknown, local, small town artist and sniff their potential miles away in his quest to do his best to support the arts, from a point of devotion to Art as a concept. He will host free gallery shows in friends' living rooms and will write article after article after article, only to make sure that you know that the art speaks for itself.

He just got cataract surgery!!

Now he's been falling in love all over again with every. single. one. of the paintings that patchwork his walls.

"This brick was shaded first with purple under this brown!" "I forgot these small paint strokes had been windows the whole time!" "My, how wonderful is this shade of green! I haven't seen it in years"

and i've spent almost a decade between the walls of his house, staring at these excact same paintings for hours over endless cups of coffee. they've been a backdrop to many a scolding and the color pallette of many an adolescence. its gotten to the point where i have these pictures printed in the back of my brain and can still see them when i close my eyes. yet. i cannot not love them anew and all over too.

he's irradiating and infectious with that type of joy that brings people to paint in the first place.

and yeah. it's great. im feeling very normal about it (im not!!).

thanksforreadingbyehaveaniceday!!

#on my saccharine bullshit #/pos /pos /pos #brb gonna go sob hysterically/hj #shut up maiora #anecdote anthology #him and his wife have accidentally adopted a bunch of “misfit trouble children” through sheer passion and compassion #they're good people #i don't know how many “see you next time” we have left but the love this man has spread for color? in not just me but countless people? #that's not going anywhere

[nettlestingsoup]

spending time with family is always a fun little test of how long it takes me to go from

'my family!!! i love these people i should spend time with them more often!!!!'

to

'my family are going to be the reason i decide to fake my death and assume a new identity far, far away so that i never have to speak to them again.'

#we're at four days folks #and for two hours today i felt like running off into the woods and just screaming #i love them i do #but sometimes they make feel Not Good #it's not intentional #they're good people #i mean maybe from my sister it's intentional idk #i'll be fine i'll just hole up in my room #calling a friend tonight to get some proverbial fresh air #nettle's thoughts

[artisanalpeanutbutter]

as a jesse stan first and human being second, el camino is making me tear up not even 10 minutes in

#poor jesse :( #also his friends are great #like sure they all push drugs but like that doesn't make them bad friends or bad people #especially in jesse's case where all the bad things he's done have been due to manipulation and shit #idk if badger or skinny pete have like DONE anything like jesse has so i can't make calls on that #the three of them are very empathetic and try to be good people #dealing meth is bad bc it can create v bad situations and meth totally fucks you up but like #they're good people #and i like how the show makes it more complicated than just hhhhh they're drug dealers #and actually delves into their morals and shit #they do what they do because they feel like it's the only thing they're good at and they can't get jobs because of the huge gap in their #employment history and lack of degrees #andat least in badger's case he has a rap sheet so he's hard pressed to get a job #and they're all addicts and or in recovery themselves so they're just as much victims as the other addicts yk? #i really like the arc where pete and badger try to go clean. did a great job demonstrating jesse's guilt and anger and fear as well as #the reality the 3 are living in #it hurt but it was very well done

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[uncanny-tranny]

Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them

#disability #ableism #ableism tw #fatphobia #fatphobia tw #also if it's an issue solved by weight loss why would you want them to suffer until the weight loss helps wouldn't that DISCOURAGE them? #because if i were suffering the entire time i sure as fuck wouldn't want to keep going for the ~idea~ of it's gonna pay off!!! #also even if they 'made themself disabled' by being fat or anything else that doesn't matter. they're still disabled. #there is no 'good' disabled and 'bad' disabled and you cannot sort people into those categories #for every 'bad' fat disabled person there are multiple 'good' fat disabled people but you can't tell them apart often actually! #because you would have to know the intimate details of their medical history and familial lineage and tbh if you're... #...being a piece of shit to a disabled person because you assume they're guilty until proven innocent i don't blame others for being... #...weary of you and not wanting to be around you. because you've already proven you can't handle the IDEA of complex disabled experience

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[a-world-with0ut-dr34ms]

I want to write my WIPs but I have to spend all day editing a podcast for this boring ass network 😭😭😭

#no hate to the network #they're good people #but goddammit #i wanna type my smut! #personal post

[heyitsspaceace]

don't let their seemingly straight-passing tension fool you, they are still very gay and dysfunctional

#they trans their genders good for them good for them! #my friends always give me weird looks when im like “oh they're all the same two people” #doctor who #dr who #dw #the doctor #the master #thoschei #spydoc #twissy #the doctor x the master #doctor x master #master x doctor #the master x the doctor #gomez!master #missy #12th doctor #dhawan!master #twelfth doctor #13th doctor #thirteenth doctor

[yesokayiknow]

an observation on how tumblr talks about shows

#was gonna add riverdale but i'm not sure if it's wilder than how people talk about it or if they're just right #not saying that people don't call glee & ouat wild but good god the stuff that happened in those shows #as someone who watched every episode of both shows there is no way to describe how insane some of the shows' events were

[birdmenmanga]

I think there's no greater indication that disco elysium is sympathetic towards communism when it literally says "communism is failure" and then the literal gameplay itself rewards trying and failing. The most obvious one being the Shivers check at the FELD mural, which is an Impossible 20 check BUT opens itself up again and again the longer you spend in the world doing things, but even just looking at sheer probabilities, for any given white check, rolling first and THEN putting a point into that skill upon failure is more likely to grant you success than putting a point first and then rolling, but that would require failing first.

Other things too: Precarious world saying you'll 100% fail red checks no matter what (not necessarily a bad thing, btw!! throwing the boule into the sea is a success but like. in some other ways one would want a perfect petanque throw instead. but people wouldn't typically assume that failure is desirable sometimes from the start) persuading you to accept that you'll fail some things that is irrevocable, for a world where everything is just a tiny bit easier.

The faux game over screen when you faint after reading Dora's letter��� emulating a sense of failure on the scale of the entire game. When it rolls up most people go "What?? Game over?? No way, what did I do wrong!!" and waking up after that, with no huge or lasting impact on Harry's health or morale really tells the player, "Sometimes things will seem so bad that it all seems like it's coming to an end, but it's not the end, it's really not the end, go drink so water, you can still go on despite this failure"

I'm sure there are other things as well that are eluding me but like. The literal gameplay rewards failing and succeeding far more so than simply succeeding every single time, and I think you get a fuller experience of Elysium that way too

#just thinking thoughts... #disco elysium #idk man when did we get so scared of failing!! #people never want to speak in class because 'what if I'm wrong :(((' #well then you are wrong... that is okay... it's normal to fail... sometimes saying the wrong thing is a great way to jumpstart a topic... #'getting a good grade in X is both normal to want and possible to achieve' #okay sure but have you made peace with the fact that getting a BAD grade in X isn't a bad thing? #a bad grade in being friends... okay... so you didn't check up on someone in 3 months... you failed... that's fine... #you can learn from it!! you can learn how to keep in touch with people. how to take care of them when they're sick. #how to resolve a dispute. how to communicate and compromise. these are all things you are not born with #and will fail first before succeeding at #Like yes I get that in the age of surveillance your failures may be recorded and preserved forever and that's not great #but if we don't normalize failure I really think we'll just suffocate and die

[lilianade-comics]

My brain, loving and appreciating narrative parallels and themes: Danny and Vlad are perfect foils AND they have BEAUTIFUL generational parallels through their respective trios. In a more narratively coherent version of DP, this should be explored to its fullest potential. This logically means that Danielle should not exist so as not to distract from or muddy the waters of the prime dynamic.

Also my brain, 24/7 with no chill whatsoever:

cheese melt go brrrrrrrrrr

#danny phantom #cheese melt #i'm so deep in my own fanon delusions that I'm like 'gee why I am i 1 of like 2 people who creates for Vlad & Dani? they're so GOOD' #and then i remember that D-Stabilized is an episode that happened and I'm like 'oh. right.'

[essektheylyss]

It is WILD to me how many people just loudly broadcast their intention to scab, as if that isn't the fastest way to brand yourself as someone who will throw anyone else to the wolves in an industry that runs on collaboration, so every writer say it with me

#tbh i doubt most of these people even have offers to scab. so they're REALLY just fucking themselves here. #like this doesn't even apply to me cuz it's not like I'm on anyone's radar at this point but good lord #do you wanna make rent in six months? five years from now? don't undermine the guild and dont shoot yourself in the foot! oh my god! #edited to make it more clear in the post that SCABBING IS A SHIT MOVE NOT JUST CUZ ITLL GET YOU PERSONALLY BLACKLISTED

[fremulon]

proportionally, to a 6000-year-old, 4 years is about the equivalent of 12 days to a 50-year-old

they had (what felt like) 12 days of freedom

#good omens #gos2 #good omens 2 #ineffable husbands #actually this makes the gabe beez relationship speedrun even funnier #they really eloped after 2 weeks #edit: people keep being like they're over 6000 because they were around before earth! #yes I know but I needed a number to go off #if it helps think of it as 'time on Earth' rather than 'age'