#which was about a third of the video

[talistheintrovert]

i watched over 200 BLs in two years and I wanted to talk about it 🙏

#asianlgbtqdramas #thai drama #i spent SO MANY HOURS on this #i'm not kidding it was weeks #thoughts are messy and organising them was hard #and then my system failed and i lost all the editing i'd spent two days doing #which was about a third of the video #and i had to start again from scratch #anygay #i hope y'all like it #Youtube

[front-facing-pokemon]

#spinda #AAAHHHH YES!!! our belovèd spinda. from their café!!! probably one of my favorite minor characters from pmd sky #whom i don't even think was in the original explorers games. i think spinda's café was exclusive to sky. if i'm remembering correct #ly. or maybe that was shaymin village. i know shaymin village was for sure but maybe it was just that and not both of them. either way #have a delicious drink and allow the flower of conversation to bloom! i could quote spinda all day. he had “hopes and dreams” before toby #ever did. THAT'S ALSO like i had no idea what spinda's pronouns were. i kept trying to figure it out because i talked about him quite a lot‚ #but no one in game ever talked about him. to mention his pronouns? turns out. there's ONE line of dialogue where the post office fucker in #shaymin village mentions him and calls him a he. i think that's the only time spinda is referred to in the third person with a pronoun #i believe it's when they're talking about like. how you can send gifts or whatever and pick up the characters' responses at spinda's café #which is still a really fucking good feature. of any video game. SEE WHAT I MEAN spinda and their café is just an incredibly good Thing #it's to the point where my home wifi network is named “Spinda's Café Wi-Fi” because i love it so much. so if you're ever runnin around #and you see a wifi network by that name… it might be me! you never know! or… it could be the real deal. the real spinda's café is somewhere #nearby…! ugh. i wish. i would go there immediately #not even to mention all the other shit about this pokémon that's really good. like that they never walk in straight lines or whatever #their little dance. it's just. huUGHKLJKAHJVDHJHDAJSVGD i love spinda. a nice pick-me-up after the underwhelmingness that was grumpig #shake it this way… shake it that way… and stir it all around… and it's done!

[lestresmiserables]

I have arrived at my other favorite part, the university. Again a section with a lot of lore to be uncovered if you go looking for it. Again a section where I wonder a lot about what happened, what were they thinking, how were they spending their days?

My emotions already start with the memorial. The 'in loving memory' with all the pictures and the candles. There are three beds with made up dividers between them. Was it where they holed up after the dorms got overtaken by infected? Were they the last survivors of the students? Did they make it?

Then you enter the dorms and there is so much personality in each room. Posters, little trinkets. Outbreak day was september 26th. Beginning of the schoolyear. They probably finally finished making their room their own. Maybe they could still barely remember the name of their dormmates. Maybe they're freshman, moved from across the country and did not know anyone yet. They held out for atleast 10 months in those dorms. 10 months of not knowing if your family and friends back home are alive, dead or something worse. 10 months of being terrified and trying to survive with people you have maybe seen around, people who are completely strangers. Maybe with some friends, maybe with some who absolutely hate your guts.

After a while the cracks start to show. Infected are getting through the barricades and it is getting harder to get them out. Personal relations are getting tense. Rationing food. Who makes the calls. Who risks their life to go to town to try and find supplies. You find out no one is coming. You are on your own.

You are presented with a choice. Either you spend the last of your (probably short) life in the dorms. Trying to survive another day. Or you venture out, risk the relative safety of the dorms, and see if you can make it out in the big, brutal world. Maybe you will even make it to a QZ. Maybe you won't even make it out of the university grounds.

Maybe you will find a group of survivors, you join them. The group grows. You create a town. Sometimes life almost feels normal. At some point rations start to get low. There are little to no provisions left in places nearby, and the situation gets desperate. You start doing something you never would have thought an option when all of this started, all those years ago in that stupid dormitory. It feels like several life times ago when you were young and innocent, excited about the poster you were going to put up, wondering what your dorm mate would be like. But the years of survival have hardened you and you don't think about pulling the trigger and seeing the life leaves someones eyes anymore. You have stopped wondering if they have a family, if someone is waiting for them to get back when you drag their body back to base. You don't throw up anymore after you get served an extra serving of meat at dinner that night.

It was never an option to overtake the group that stationed themselves at the university. They are always too well manned, too well armed. But out of nowhere they seemed to have left. No one is sure why, it seemed like they had a good thing going in the science building. After staking out the place for a while to make sure they are not coming back you and some others go in. See what they left behind. But instead of finding it empty, you find a man and a little girl. A little girl who doesn't hesitate to shoot you to protect the man.

Maybe you were always fated to die in that cursed university.

#i love this section so much #i also have seen 'we're all dead here' like 8 times bc of my fascination with the university section #which only got amplified like 10 times when covid hit since I was a freshman in college living on my own #in a city where I didnt know anyone and my parents lived in another country #i would also absolutely love more content about what went down in the university #also dont know how this went from third to second person but my brain just kept going so uh #the last of us #tlou #tlou2 #joel miller #ellie williams #video games

[screwpinecaprice]

Baby?    Baby!

#Bottom right image: You know.. like that video of that mom who cried when she heard her baby laughing for the first time. #connverse #baby time #Connie Maheswaran #Steven Quartz Universe #connverse kid #Ebony OC #Lion SU #I didn't know what the baby was reaching down on that top right image #And like.... whatever. *drew a spoon* #Okay first the bab's hair is soft and fuzzy like a baby cheetah's mohawk and then it eventually poofs out #Oh Sometimes I get questions about the baby's name: It's Ebony #skedoobles #my shiz #Silver TL #SU #Tumblr sometimes does this thing where a post appears in the general tag page. But later just disappears from there even if the tag didn't #I mean that's what's happening on me #I think I've seen two OG connverse post (with the connverse tag) which it happened. And this is my third connverse post that I'm aware of. #WHAT OTHER CONNVERSE GOODIES WHERE YOU HIDING FROM ME TUMBLR??????????

[sailorsally]

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#since I talked in the tags a lil before #i also need to say that the political situation in Georgia has been a big pile of shit lately #that’s mostly why I don’t have the energy to engage with anything atm #everything is so hopeless #I just try to play video games these days to take my mind off stuff #but to explain it a bit #there is this one law the parliament already tried to pass last year but then didn’t because thousands came out to rally against it #the law is about ‘foreign agents’ and it’s directly copied from kremlin’s law in Russia #where the govt basically uses it to just cleanse the country from anyone they don’t like #So now this law is back and they have voted a yes two times #and will vote a yes third time #which is absolutely devastated news for anyone here #because if this law is instituted #basically say bye to foreign scholarships #to ngos financed from foreign countries that work to protect queer and trans peeps #rehabilitate refugees domestic violence victims etc #there will be no new roads in removed highland villages that rely mostly on international financial aid #no education opportunities for poor kids etc #this law literally equals death #and it will be heavily used to just cleanse Georgia of people who don’t think like Kremlin #and I am so fucking scared rn #There have been protests for 3 days #tens of thousands of people on the streets #but parliaments just keeps ignoring people #Or using police brutality against them #they are beating people up #jailing them for peaceful protests etc #it’s absolute nightmare #I’m just so tired of Russia #why won’t they die with everyone who supports them I wanna cry

[gracebriarwoodwrites]

My voice is a goldfish grown up in a too-small bowl, plucked from the pond and moved behind glass walls. I was told my voice was too old and too low. I bound it up in a higher pitch until it wasn't worth comment and now it has settled too small. It's beautiful--still-- but not in its trembles of pitch or its consonants that blur or the Rs that still rumble with a lost potential roar. My voice is beautiful in its golden light.

#poem #poetry #spilled ink #spilled words #voice #i've honestly thought about doing some voice training to get back to my natural voice #this poem is one of those ones that's literal but ALSO metaphorical ooo #it gets close to my natural voice when i'm tired which is why i can't make long form videos and only film any tiktoks when i'm tired lol #i COULD make long form videos i'm just a coward and also don't have anything to say that other people aren't saying better #gotta stick to my true art form i've concluded #YEARS after buying a fucking expensive camera lol #yeah anyway growing up with my voice was rough #i got teased by kids and adults would describe my voice as sultry until they were like oh shit she's nine can't be saying sultry #it was a cool voice and i miss it lol #fun fact the poem changes with my voice #maybe i'll read it for y'all lol but the sounds in the first verse bring it closest to my natural voice the second and third bring it up #to the register i like least by virtue of the sounds #the fourth really showcases the weird range #and the last one just IS #now let's see if i ever get the courage to read it to you all lol #like my voice is okay but i have to hear myself talk all my day for my job and i've gotten really self conscious of how the register change #based on situation #changes #i shall stop rambling in the tags of my own poem #i do love what i did with sound here though it's been a hot minute since i wrote a poem and i'm proud of my craft

[snackugaki]

the best thing about making AUs is that you truly can do anything with your AU doodles

like making them do the Cuff It Challenge

you can do it too, just doodle whatever you want and truly no one on this earth has any real power to stop you 🙏

snacku tmnt au brainrot pt.1 | pt.2

#tmnt au #fanart shitposting #this is all light hearted until I show why mine wear pants #(it's to hide the amount of salon-pas patches they wear) #(but ALSO because of...) #:3c #Mikey is banned from dance videos with April for established reasons #(he keeps improvising which ends up in April's phone getting busted) #(she went through two phones and she wasn't about to get a third) #stream Beyoncé's Renaissance album #they made it past their 20s #they deserve dance video bonding time #as a treat #leonardo #leo #april o'neil #raphael #raph

[tench]

It's funny for me how many unintentionally rad things Borderlands 2 has, like, for example, after that one guy's death his friend got his adoptive kind and his girlfriend - his job as a faction leader. I am really not going to get into how neither of them were prepared for that shit. But is also interesting how both have bird motif and how both are struggling with addiction which they got as a result of coping with isolation and trauma.

And I find it very cool how the game starts with blunt manipulation of the players to take the place of the bl1 vault hunters "whos time has passed", but by the end of the game they are arguably in the better parts of their lives. Except Roland (rip) but you know, his death was kinda a big deal that brought his friends together and strengthen the bond through the grieving process.

#unlike the third game which i have a lot to say about but nothing good #but i digress #anywa it's just my interpretation #borderlands 2 #tench plays video games

[englishmagic]

Ugh. You know when you experience the most amazing piece of art in your entire life and then you wake up and realise it was in a dream and you have not a shred of the talent and budget to realise it in real life and the dream is fading so the whole concept is about to be lost forever

#it was an immersive theatre show #veering a little bit into video game territory #where you would have to visit each ‘post’ three times to get the full story #the posts were about fears #but I’ve already forgotten one #which is funny because the most poignant one was about memory loss #and the third was spiders 🤷 #but the way you were presented with fragments that depicted not so much a story but a true understanding of exactly how much you have lost #I wish I could recreate that in real life #soz life #dreams

[muirneach]

definitely one of the strangest internet phenomenons of late is that suddenly everyone and their mother are urban planning experts

#which is a good topic to be interested but why is everyone talking about zoning laws and transit systems and third places etc etc etc #like i know damn well everyone is just watching the same 3 tiktokers i knowwww none of you are reading about this shit #<- myself included but i also am not trying to claim any interest or knowledge in the topic #edit: this is the video essay effect methinks. wont elaborate

[stitches-and-icecream]

Didn’t watch the Super Bowl, but your family did?

They’ve probably unknowingly been exposed to (and have possibly eaten) Evangelical bait. 

Extremely wealthy right-wing Christians have funded a campaign in an attempt to combat the church’s deep, growing unpopularity among the U.S. populace - church attendance is down and they’re freaking the fuck out. 

The ads have been around, maybe you’ve seen one, but Super Bowl has pushed them into the spotlight. If you missed it, a lot of people just saw a general vibe of “Yeah, let’s not kill all the gays! Poor people deserve to have food and clothes probably!”* and quietly nodded along.

The way the foundation works is to encourage positive feelings, then prey upon them by offering a service to direct people towards Christian spiritual centers. Any of them. Including some perhaps unfortunate options.

For emphasis, don’t give them any money (they’ve already got plenty). The campaign primarily targets culturally Christian agnostics and other spiritual fence-sitters who are hurting for a sense of community, especially right now. Watch out for your vulnerable! 

*ive seen like maybe a cumulative 30 seconds of clipped ads so i dont actually really know how the ads are but this seems like the low bar theyre trying to pass here

#first link leads to themarysue reporting on it #second is NPR with an overview and further substantiation #third is the christians indeed freaking the fuck out #fourth is rebecca watsons video on the subject #i already inoculated like half of the people in my social network i knew would be targets #then woke up to the other half #which i will admit i plumb forgot about (my bad) #already doling out the thumbs up for the whole campaign #inoculating people ahead of time is way easier lol

[rotisseries]

the dungeon crawl thing sounds like it would be so fucking cool actually

#are you team tunnels or team dungeon crawl? or team secret third thing. which is both #also I know we're bringing it up in the dnd context which I have no experience with but that's also just a video game thing #so I'm actually thinking about how fucking cool a stranger things video game dungeon would be #stranger things #byler

[repurposedmeatlocker]

What is a video that you remember seeing on youtube (a youtube poop, an animation, a meme, an edit, a funny vid) that no matter what you can no longer find, leaving your faint memory as the only proof of its existence?

#there are so many for me #but the one I will talk about here is this one youtube poop comp of avatar the last airbender edits #I hadn't even watched the show yet when I saw this I was like in third grade #I think I looked up on my mom's phone funny avatar moments and this video was one that popped up #it was basically a comp of youtube poop style edits with a changing channel effect for each skit #some that I remember included the earthbender announcer saying let's get ready to ruuuumbllleeeee #the scene where toph asked aang how he knew her name had him respond in a computer voice google dot com which I thought was the funniest #and then there was a recreation of the family guy stewie mom joke with young zuko and his mom #that was long but I am so sad that I can't find this video anymore #I cannot think about atla without thinking of the edits like man.... #squack

[slimeciclecock]

haven't even started writing this damn fic but I'm already scouring the playlist looking for fic titles

#none of that sappy cute stuff with like good lyrics in it #nope for some reason i am looking at dumpweed wondering if anything in there makes a good title #i already have one waterparks lyric im saving but i think ill save that for like. the third idea maybe? #considering my last fic title was just for the band name joke i gotta get more creative with the obscure music #if i search a song on youtube and there's about maximum 3 lyric videos none of which have 1M views- #then you Bet your ass it has a good fic title somewhere in there #guess im not titling my next fic another marianas trench song huh (<- doesmt wanna repeat songs from the same bands)

[occultdaddy]

Out of the Evo folks when Grian dissappeared in the End who:

Turned around for a second or two and when they turned back he was gone. Not unusual for Grian, but he didn't show up again.

Saw him dissappear in the corner of their eye. Thinking their eyes fooled them, that he just ended up in a blind spot of their vision... But when they looked around he was just gone.

Looked directly at him (maybe even talked with him) as he dissappeared. Their brain taking a second to register he's not there anymore. One sec he was there and the next he's not. It being completely incomprehensible.

Related to this post where it wasn't the Watchers that took Grian. (although some rumours spread that it was.)

#Grian #The little I know about evo is from fanworks and wiki so we playin loose with it #I can't devide which would be funnier or more impactful #I'm thinking maybe Pearl on the second #I can't decide if it's funnier on first or third for jimmy... first is kinda likr on brand for him #Martyn and Bigb would be best for second or third but idk which #I'm thinking first for Taurtis #Sorry I know of the other folks but I don't think I've seen them in videos or retain much memory of them in fics #I have a funny clip of me logging out while Oscar is speaking to me and I kinda imagine it somewhat like that #Ofc it said in chat that I logged out and it wouldn't be anything like that for Grian #He just dissappear without a sound or motion or anything indicating where he went #Cosmic horror style bby #He's cool about it

[maddie-grove]

Why did Bojack Horseman fans brag so much about the show handling mental illness better than 13 Reasons Why? That's like trying to sell people on your favorite restaurant by saying "it's way better than that place that got closed down after three people died from eating contaminated fish tacos." Uh, I sure hope so!

#i get that there were youtube video essays and thinkpieces with that very premise #which was also kind of weird to me #because i don't think there's one single approach to handling mental illness that would've worked #for a teen soap and a sardonic animated series about adults in hollywood #like the good alternative to 13 reasons why is either...like...sex education or ordinary people #i don't know the bad alternative to bojack horseman off the top of my head #some limp hollywood satire or third-tier prestige show from 2009 probably