#weird essay

[thechekhov]

I've been working on this since.... September? And I have been trying to piece it together like legos for two months now, and I've finally just decided to give up and leave it as is.

If you've ever wanted to read The Locked Tomb but were scared off by the worldbuilding and the terminology, this is for you.

#video #the locked tomb #video essay #youtube video #chekhov makes a video #i apologize for the weird audio jump halfway through #maybe someday I'll fix it #Youtube

[lilydvoratrelundar]

Jane Doe's backup dancing skills <3

#have i perchance mentioned she's my fave #she's just. so autism. i love her. #me after watching stop making sense 🤝 me after watching rtc: i need to move weird more #jane doe #jane doe rtc #rtc jane doe #ride the cyclone #rtc #emily rohm #rtcedit #ridethecycloneedit #ride the cyclone edit #what do people tag these things as jflksdjf #gonna do this for the others too. AT LEAST for ricky cos him at the start of tsia kills me every time #anyway i need to go work on my essay now. hate being at uni they keep making u do work when i just want to autism about this musical :( #rtc edit #lily edits #lily dot tee ex tee

[kabru-of-utaya]

i'm crazy actually . the first time kabru and mithrun looked at each other vs the last times. ohhhhhh how their relationship changed through the story, ohhhhhh falls to my knees

#i have GOT to go back to my essay on them and their relationship through the story #it makes me so genuinely insane #theyre friends- theyre some weird thing between friends and in love #their secret third thing is so just so #give me a minute #mithrun #mithrun house of kerensil #kabru #kabru of utaya #kabru dungeon meshi #mithrun dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dungeon meshi spoilers #sorry that theyre all i talk about I am so not normal about them #my thoughts

[raggedy-spaceman]

Why am I seeing people suddenly saying Good Omens s2 was actually badly written? It was a fun little journey into the lives of Crowley and Aziraphale with lower stakes than s1, it was a lot of fun and that’s what it was supposed to be, fun. Does the fact that the plot is simple and a little goofy means it’s badly written now? Why? Not every show has to be mind blowing high brow super deep and meaningful, sometimes they can just be silly. 

Hell, What We Do In The Shadows is 5 seasons of dumb vampires doing stupid stuff with no plot whatsoever and it’s one of my all time favourite shows, sometimes we can have just that and it’s ok!

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens season 2 #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #Gomens #gos2 #I started reading that 16k essay and it’s really interesting but come on #really #and then I saw other people saying s2 is good just because of Michael and David’s acting #what happened to just enjoying a silly little goofy show?? #Yeah the ending was devastating but that’s because s2 only exists to get to the plot of s3 #The one Neil and Terry developed years ago #I mean it’s valid if you didn’t like s2 but saying it was badly written is just weird #wwdits #mine

[reddoesntlikeart]

I wanna live in massivehugetits as well, qi qingqi 😔

#shang qinghua #svsss #svsss fanart #shen qingqiu #cumplane #qi qingqi #scum villian self saving system #no but actually qi qingqi could step on me and I’d thank her #while drawing this i decided to watch a 2 hr video essay #it was very good #I did get really weird ads tho #shang qinghua is a mess #sos sqq but less outwardly so #I’d like to believe that qqq laughs at them whenever she sees them #she’s lovely

[ghostingcrows]

I used to talk about this a lot but 

IDW Prowl is probably one of the most complex characters in the comics and I absolutely hate it when hes reduced down to “the asshole character”

Cause like

Yeah sure hes got a bit of a stick up his ass

But I feel like people just end there analysis of him there

Has he committed a lot of war crimes and done unethical stuff

Yes

But so has literally EVERYONE else in this universe

Starscream is literally the pinnacle of war crimes

The comics make a point calling out even Optimus for his questionable actions and orders during the war with the Dinobots saying he makes them do the dirty work for him

Megatron literally commits genocide and yet his story ends with an alternate version of him going free and exploring the universe with the LL

The literal war lord was treated better and is looked upon more positively than Prowl and I think it just came down to how fucked Prowl got by the writers

Because while Megatrons redemption was all in your face and you got a shit ton of flashbacks that try to justify the eventual atrocities he would commit you don’t get that with Prowl

Even when Prowl is absolutely in the right you constantly have it disregarded by characters making jokes about him overreacting (being mad OP is sending the space tyrant away with free reign of his own ship isn’t overreacting btw-) and as such you start to think of him as a genuinely irrational character when hes not

Prowl is bad at keeping the relationships he forms yes 

But he is not always at fault for that

While his relationship with CD ended poorly Chromedome is also shown to be kinda of a dick sometimes and commits his fair share of fucked up things such as when he literally ATTACKS PROWL AND FORCES HIS WAY INTO HIS MIND TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM THE CONSEQUENCE OF HIS ACTIONS WHEN PROWL THREATENS TO TELL REWIND ABOUT THE SHITTY STUFF HE DID IN HIS PAST

This leads to Prowls inevitable snowball out of control when this attack leads to an opening for Bombshell (I think its been a while since I read the comics) to use his tech to mind control him forcing him into combining with the contructicons

Something we learn is an immensely intimate thing with their minds being kinda melded 

This was something Prowl did not want 

And when all was said and done and he was calmed down he still had to live with that gesalt he was forced into with them following him around like fanboys

Nobody ever even really stopped to check in on him 

And as such he understandable went a little bit insane

He had just faced an immensely traumatic invasion of his body and mind and on top of stress form feeling like everything was out of his control and like he couldn’t stop the bad things from happening alongside bitter emotions being brought back up with a return visit to Earth and reunion with spike AND the fact that he feels like Optimus doesn’t trust him and like hes just letting Starscream do whatever he want (something that understandably freaks him out seeing as how he spent 4 million years fighting Starscream) he just kinda snaps

He trys to destroy the space bridge so that no one else can leave or get through and so he can regain some semblance of control

Is it wrong

Yes

But he was not in a good state of mind and no one was helping him at all 

And immediately following his arrest afterward Prowl is confronted by OP who is supposed to be his friend and when Prowl doesn’t say the right things to him to placate him Optimus’ response is to punch him out a window and beat the shit out of him

And not being given any room to breath this is immediately follow up my him getting kidnapped by Tarantulas who is very obviously an impactful and negative part of his past

Prowl just has bad event, one after the other, happen to him over and over again and not only does no one check up on him afterwards to see if hes okay but everyone actively makes fun of him for being understandable unstable

Prowl is a fucking tragedy and not many people seem to be able to see beyond what characters in the comics think of him

#IDW #Prowl #IDW prowl #Asher writing entire essays about the complex nature of a character most people hate- #I will defend IDW Prowl to my death #and I know a lot of people like to point fingers at him for war crimes and questionable actions #but like again almost everyone in IDW has commited a few war crimes #and he was literally the second in command of the entire army #of course he would have had to take on the brunt of the shitty questionable orders #I also think its weird that so many characters point out hes always the one ordering the shitty stuff but never wants to get his hands dirty #but then OP does the same thing and literally ONLY the dinobots point it out #optimus prime #megatron #lost light #taurantulas #starscream

[charlieconwayy]

Movies That Made Me: Back to the Future (1985)

#filmedit #bttfedit #motionpicturesource #80sdaily #back to the future #moviesmademe #gifs: movies #* #this had to be the first pick for this meme #i saw this on a class trip in fifth grade and it changed my perception of movies #obviously it's considered one of the best films ever made with one of the most perfect scripts ever and honestly? i agree #biff still being in their lives at the end is weird af but i get why the writers did it #i have known this script word for word since i was probably 14. even rewatching it for this gifset i was just mouthing the words #my hot take in the ~fandom is that there never has been and never will be anyone who can play marty except for mjf #one of the reasons (aside from the music being atrocious) that i do not like the musical #“back to the future made me a feminist” essay also sums up my thoughts perfectly #the CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE that is earth angel bleeding into the score during the kiss #crispin glover's heel turn from fear into courage during the car scene is one of my favorite performances in any movie #we do not give him enough flowers i fear

[soaring-trash]

Im I the only one who wonder's if Pate was an actual child

Like he would be so adorable, i bet his Puppy eyes could kill

#critical role #critical role campaign 3 #bells hells #critters #critical role fanart #laudna #fanart #imogen temult #imodna #imogen x laudna #The Little league Au made me think of this #And rat pate could be his favorite stuffy #Im just imagening them walking down the street and someone looks at them weird and he just sticks his tongue out at them in retaliation #he would have a sailors vocabulary and it would be hilarious #could write an essay about this omg #pate de rolo #southern gothic

[thebeautifuldaughter]

fascinating to watch how hozier speaking Irish in his new music is making some people: 1. fetishise him further and/or 2. make 'fun' jokes about gaeilge/gaelic/'''garlic'''' bc like. babes. i can guarantee you neither of those actions are separable from the lingering impacts of colonialism.

#not understanding some of the nuances around a 'dying' (killed) language is not shocking #but treating it like some weird little romantic bog man character trait is annoying #i'm being a wet blanket but if i creamed my pants over irish OR mocked the language here i'd get bottled #and it's been said ten ways to tuesday but stop fetishising what you believe irish culture is like #he is a normal man trying to speak a language that occupies an incredibly complex space in contemporary Ireland #how majority-white cultures victim to colonisation are worshipped/fetishised in a still-bad way but different compared to POC cultures... #i want an essay #the way people are drooling over it while showing that they didn't care about it until their fave white boy sang it... #additionally in a way they have never cared about POC native languages........... #none of this is hozier's fault it's just fascinating culturally #gaeilge #wasteland baby #colonialism #irish language #unreal unearth #hozier

[lucky-clover-gazette]

i honestly love the fact that i have just been following two people very invested in dnf for like a year, either bc of a misclick or other mutual fandom, because i have so little knowledge about what is and is not real with those two. i have never played or watched a mindcraft in my life, however i can acknowledge insane homoeroticism when i see it, and those two are either ridiculously committed to a bit or ridiculously committed to each other, and to the like fifteen people who still seem to care post-face reveal (which i always thought was awful by the way, like people were dicks about it) it doesn’t really matter

#i’ve never been a rpf girlie and most of the time it’s pretty delusional and weird to me #but from what i’ve seen those two invite it #and the amount of Events that happen that i just see mutuals losing their shit about #is so funny #like oh what’s going on with these two men today oh they kissed with tongue at a pride parade? interesting #the tall one wrote snd publicly performed poetry about the twink? sure #they both seem insufferable to everyone except each other and you know what i respect it #tagging it #dnf #bc what fandom doesn’t want to see a bewildered mini essay about them

[brittie-frog]

Today was brilliant:

- Bagi giving up her day off to celebrate Em's 100 days

- their outfits - I imagine it's something that drunk Tina asked for in the admin chat about a little special outfit for her

- Bagi flying, the dragon wings and the comments from Tina about it

- the Hatsune Miku statue... crying

- museum!!! So much bagi/breakfast family and Demon Lore!!

- Tina finally getting on, also in a hanbok, and mentioning she hasn't been home and Bagi having a moment of realisation of what she'd left (reminiscent of when she remembered leaving the date ask when she day Tina)

- them lying about Em picking up the string first to make her feel better but she's already smart and also she has chat open so she definitely knows it's the book

- Pepito getting the ritual and Roier (Doied?) Wanting to do it too and instead coaxing Pepi to pick up the money because he only had 3 coins...

- the money shots in front of the atm with warp stones and diamonds - definitely the Pancake Mafia

- the lightning strikes and Tina leaving and Em still holding out on telling her but saying that if she just waits for Tina to talk she'll never - this is a detective she's definitely figured it out like she said

The only thing that could have made it better was if Tina was streaming so we could see the convos she had with Em when Bagi left and the panic on her face when Bagi just went to buy her the warp stone but understandable she was short on time so no real point

#the lightning strikes were weird but it makes no sense for it to be Tina lore but is hilarious to think so #please someone needs to follow through on the vampire lore for longer than a day #also cant wait for tina to log back on in that hole i hope its on stream because she'll probably forget shes in there #qsmp tina #qsmp bagi #qsmp empanada #qsmp #time to spend my next week at home finsihing demon lore tina and hanbok family photo #despite that i have 3 essays to write for the week after

[quaranmine]

i think the whole cringe is dead, radical sincerity, depth of genuine emotion, earnest effort, and unironic love thing that tumblr has going on the past few years has transformed my outlook on things and changed me for the better. but it does mean that now the people i know irl will give me strange looks for being too sappy or too poetic or too dedicated or too excited about about something because they're still stuck in their "well i only like this ironically" phase. guess that's their problem tho not mine <3

#like on here i could spontaneously decide to write a poem about life & love & death & the dying peace lily on my parent's porch #and everybody would be like omg love it #or i could write essays analyzing mcrp. or dig up documents from 1910 and 1956 for fanfic research #and everyone is like 🤩 #and in real life there's like a 90% chance anybody would just be like. that's good for you....you're a little weird though..... #or i will say something i was thinking about and people will get all cynic on me or something #SORRY for having a writer's/artist's/photographer's brain i guess and seeing the beauty in the world #idk idk so many people i meet irl are allergic to genuine expressions of emotion or artistry #there was a lady i saw on the train once who was reading a densely-written pocket sized planner...from 2013 #i think about her sometimes. was that her planner? were those good memories? was she trying to remember something? has it been a kind decade #and when i told my dad he couldn't at all see anything i saw in the moment. he just made jokes about her being crazy #but i liked the moment

[quatregats]

Something I've been thinking about is how Patrick O'Brian manages so skillfully to write characters whose actions contradict their beliefs, which I think is honestly a big part of why his characters feel so real. Mostly with Stephen and Jack—e.g., and perhaps most notably, Stephen has notably leftist sympathies (honestly I have no idea how to characterize his politics in period terms) who nonetheless becomes very comfortable with his rise to the landed gentry, while Jack is a card-carrying Tory who much of the time sympathizes far more with working class sailors and farmers than with the upper classes—but I'm sure he does it to a lesser degree with some of his minor characters (James Dillon, while perhaps not precisely minor, comes to mind), and I love that he's able to do that, especially the way in which he embeds it in the narrative. We see how they're all unreliable narrators of themselves; we understand how they want to be seen and how that does and doesn't coincide with the reality, but most importantly, this isn't presented as something reprehensible, just as a part of their own humanity. They are not their expectations for themselves, but they don't need to be those expectations to be beloved.

#stephen is especially guilty of this and i think it's very interesting how he thinks of himself versus how he acts #which is probably an essay on its own #but i do think that this is another point he and jack make a fun foil on #(for jack this manifests much less explicitly but i think it's definitely still there) #i can't think of other characters atm besides james dillon #(who okay. his actions don't contradict his beliefs exactly but there is a weird and complex relationship between them) #though i do suspect that there are probably more #idk i've been thinking about this a lot because o'brianizing hornblower has brought to the forefront #how different those two authors treat internal/external narratives #patrick o'brian is kind of like yeah they don't really line up but that's okay that's just what it's like to be a person #while for hornblower and cs forester it's like the internal narrative is so unbelievably unreliable and negative #but the external narrative also seems to be resoundingly positive #(which is probably why. in my humble opinion having watched two episodes of it. the tv show is much more Fun) #writing hornblower in o'brian format is just like wow there is no weirdness going on did i write him wrong #but no it's hornblower he just sounds so much more normal without the 24/7 mental gymnastics #perce rambles #aubreyad

[underwaterbanshee]

Look, I came away from the Neverafter finale with a mighty need for so many things:

fic about divorcee Elodie and Gerard shenanigans

fic about awkward teenagers Gnocchi and Yfla trying to flirt both pre and post transformations

fic about awkward princesses existing in their own stories without true love

bonus points for step sisters awkwardly supporting each other while step mom Minerva Does Her Best

points for Snow setting Rosamund up on a speed dating round with her roommates before she has to explain she has seven boyfriends

anything with Rapunzel figuring out how to person

anything with Mira

fic about smooth criminal orange faery

fic about Pib and the step sisters

Basically, I want fic. Oops.

#neverafter #neverafter spoilers #dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #i loved the finale #it hit the right kind of beats #the right kind of stakes #honestly all my fic desires are highly specific #and skew general and not as shippy as usual #i tried looking into d20 fic on ao3 once #and the tagging system for d20 was kind of a nightmare #which is unusual for ao3 #also it feels weird to tag a silly post with spoilers #but it is day of #and i don't want to be rude #tag essay

[jakes3resin]

More Modern Reincarnation AU thoughts

"So what brought you to town?" Buck asks.

"Ah," Bucky stares down at his coffee. The ice has already started melting in the late summer heat. He fiddles with it, swirling it around. "It's a bit complicated."

"How so?" Buck leans in.

"A bit too complicated for a first meeting," Bucky says with a sad smile. "I don't wanna scare you off when I just met you now do I Buck?"

"Well, I don't scare so easy." Buck reaches out placing a hand on Bucky's own. "But I won't force you."

"Thanks," Bucky squeezes Buck's. "But, that doesn't mean we can't talk about you."

"Ha," Buck breathes out a laugh. He still hasn't pulled his hand away. "I see how it is. Dodge the question, so you can repeat it. You turned the tables on me real quick."

"Just curious," Bucky laughed. Buck stared at him wide-eyed. "Don't get a lot of boys telling me I look like an old friend from Wisconsin, and I'm curious about the one who did."

"Well," Buck draws out the word. He still hasn't taken his eyes off of Bucky, and it's hard work fighting a blush with those blue eyes taking in his every feature. "I'm a student at Georgetown. Trying for my PhD."

"Wow," Bucky pushes his glasses up. "In what?"

"Interplanetary physics." Buck says it with a smile. "Bit nerdy, right?"

"Not at all!" Bucky leans in affronted that someone would dare say that. "Who told you that? They're just jealous."

✨️

"I don't know why I'm telling you all this," Bucky laughs. Shakes his head and starts to pace because he really can't explain it, and it drives him up the wall. "There's just something different about you? I think."

Bucky pauses, shakes his head again as if that'll clear his head. Buck hasn't stopped staring at him.

"You're something else, Buck." Bucky stops pacing to just stare right back at Buck. He doesn't do that very often, stare back at Buck. When he does, a weight presses down, down, down on his chest until he can scarcely breathe. Buck never looks away, but Bucky always has to.

✨️

"Why do you go by the name Egan?" Buck asks him one day while they're slaving over textbooks and assignments in another coffee shop. Bucky found this one online a week ago. The lemon tarts are divine, but the coffee is so so. Though that may be because he chose a lavender oat milk latte instead of his usual caramel macchiato. Sue him, the sign next to the tarts had said they paired well together. Bucky shrugs, not lifting his eyes from his reading. Buck has to tap him on the nose to get a better answer.

"Easier, I guess." Bucky pushes up his glasses with one finger. Buck still stares at him as if every motion or movement is brand new, like he's one of the stars Buck adores so much. Bucky still can't stare back for too long. "No one expects someone with my family name to change it, so I can fly under the radar. Live my life without the burden of all those eyes."

I have SO MANY thoughts about this AU! Someone please take them out of my head, I need to focus on England Arc for my a/b/o fic series!

#mota #masters of the air #buck x bucky #john bucky egan #clegan #gale buck cleven #mota au #mota fic #mota reincaration au #bucky egan #buck cleven #bucky is a big bundle of secrets and trauma in this au and buck would listen to every secret with stars in his eyes still #also bucky is a history major because i think he' be cute with his classes carrying around old books and writing obscure essays #plus he'd be like the weird darling of the department because he is so obssessed with ww2 but not in the gross way most men are #i was a history major so i dealt with so many gross ww2 buffs meanwhile bucky would be the idealized history boy with his glasses and curls #i just think we as a fandom need to write more pining buck #buck who is head over heels for his sunshine boi bucky

[phanchester]

all dan and phil variants exist on a scale

discuss

#okay hear me out #aziraphale/crowley? dnp because they are light and dark dynamic #bert and ernie? dnp because of how they bicker #da vinki twins? dnp because thats what normies THINK dnp are like. two weird dudes. maybe brothers #nick and charlie? dnp because they are sappy romantic gross disgusting ppl #my essay #dan and phil #phan #phil lester #amazingphil #daniel howell #dan howell #danisnotonfire #ineffable husbands #bert and ernie #nick and charlie #heartstopper #narlie #good omens