#you'll figure it out

[thelondonfolly]

#i believe in you #you'll figure it out #lol #kinnporsche #mynonsense

[walker-extended-universe]

Stella: I'm an adult! I do grown-up things! Independence! Stella: What are taxes?

#walker #incorrect quotes #stella walker #i think i'm funny #it's okay stella you're still new to this #you'll figure it out #eventually

[godofsmallthings]

omg every time someone likes one of my 5+ year old k*ylor posts it’s such a jumpscare. like i’ve stopped being scared of my past but i just forget that stuff is all still on here lmaoooo.

#like who was that #anyway 15 year old me keep slaying ily <3 #you'll figure it out #vi is typing...

[joi-in-the-tardis]

I found this little journal entry in one of my old notebooks. It's about feeling lonely but also like I wasn't good at interacting with people, forming friendships, and maintaining those friendships.

Dear past me... While these things aren't completely foreign to me, I want you to know things do get better. You make lots of friends in the next 12 years, both in person and online, and they love you just the way you are. Not every one of them stays. Not every one of them is good for you, so sometimes you have to leave. But, the best ones don't go anywhere for long. It gets better, 25-year-old Joi. It gets better and it's still getting better.

#joi rambles #the packening #i actually hear a lot of 20 somethings worried about how they don't have friends #and that they don't know how in the adult world #you'll figure it out #you'll find your people

[meownotgood]

devil hybrid aki.. I don’t even know what his devil would be but feral devil aki ..

there is..... there is something you are forgetting.... and I'm not gonna say it.... I'm just gonna... let you remember it on your own

#just.... just give it a minute...... #you'll figure it out #ask mags

[daemonhxckergrrl]

#daemon.md #shitpost.txt #you'll figure it out

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

#I found their original stuff while I was researching various waterhorses and their folklore for no reason #because one of the characters in their original work happens to be an each uisge #and then it turned out it ALSO included a lot of figures from welsh folklore in general #so yknow if you happen to have my incredibly specific hyperfixations you'll love it but even if you don't it's great #I didn't mean to bring up phantom of the opera so much it just happens to be very relevant to a lot of my talking points #I haven't actually seen it in years

[princessoftheroad]

Just keep going, don’t give up right now!

#tired #so long #nowhere near the end #you'll figure it out #keep going #don't give up right now #glad you're here #better days #hopeless #new direction #haven't seen the best yet #fearless soul #songs #music #empowering #inspiration #everything is going to be alright #Rachael Schroeder #Patrick Rundblad #Youtube

[hypatias-wisdom]

WWIII scheduled for Nov. 23

Please put it into your calculator and move the decimal point two digits to configure the year.

#history #the future #or both #you'll figure it out #i have faith

[reliccipher]

uh oh

#not giving context #you'll figure it out

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

putting my prediction on record now that the coming decade is going to see the rise of viral-marketed fancy at-home water filtration systems, driving and driven by a drastic reduction in the quality of U.S. tap water (given that we are in a 'replacement era' where our current infrastructure is reaching the end of its lifespan--but isn't being replaced). also guessing that by the 2030s access to drinkable tap water will be a mainstream class issue, with low-income & unstably housed people increasingly forced to rely on expensive bottled water when they can't afford the up-front cost of at-home filtration--and with this being portrayed in media as a "moral failing" and short-sighted "choice," rather than a basic failure of our political & economic systems. really hope i'm just being alarmist, but plenty of this already happens in other countries, and the U.S. is in a state of decline, so. here's praying this post ages into irrelevance. timestamped April 2023

#apollo don't fucking touch this one #serious post #not a shitpost #hope i forget about this post and have no reason to ever look back on it one day #fyi i'm aware that access to potable water is already a major issue in parts of the U.S. yes i know flint michigan exists #i'm saying that this issue is going to GROW unless local & federal governments work together to fix it. #so it's a matter of if we trust them to fix it. And well--do you? #what are the chances the government just denies there's a problem until the water actually turns brown #at which point it's already been common knowledge for years and people have just become resigned and that's our new normal #i'm mean come on. how many of us already believe that we're being exposed to dangerous pollutants we don't know about and can't avoid #like that's pretty much just part of being a modern consumer. accepting that companies will happily endanger your life for a few pennies #and the most you'll get is like a $50 gift card as part of a class action rebate 20 years down the line #probably the history books will look back on Flint as a warning and a harbinger that went ignored #luxury condos will advertise their built-in top-of-the-line filtration systems--live here and you can drink water straight from your tap! #watch the elite professional class putting $700 dyson water filtration systems on their wedding registry #while the rest of us figure out how to fit water delivery into our grocery budget while putting 90% of our paycheck towards rent #also eggs are $15

[bellabrady]

911 characters + text posts part idk

#buck baby you were nawt trying to get tommy's attention but it's okay you'll get there #he's figuring it out #just give him a sec #evan buckley #911 fox #eddie diaz #buddie #oliver stark #incorrect 911 quotes #ryan guzman #9-1-1 #edmundo diaz #abc #911 text posts

[eddievedders]

I forgive you. Don't bother.

#Good Omens #goodomensedit #gomensedit #good omens spoilers #David Tennant #Michael Sheen #Crowley #Aziraphale #usertom #dailyflicks #userbbelcher #chewieblog #tvandfilm #usergiu #i've had 'that's the point. no nightingales'. #and 'we could have been... us' #stuck in my head all weeeek #Neil Gaiman one day you'll have to pay for your crimes #will i ever figure out a coloring i actually like for this show? #my stuff #mine: ineffable #i remembered my gomens tag!!

[cinnamon-flame]

I'm trying to figure out a Winter design that I like, this one is okay but I feel like I can do better

#It just doesn't feel like him you know? #I feel like I should make him either all white with like frost pattern or a white to blue color point #we'll see this isn't the last you'll see of me trying to figure this guy out #I've been making little animated icons for my art fight profiles #and I wanted to test out how it would look on a wof design before I do them for my ocs #and Winter was the guy I had the most motivation for #I might do a little animated matching icons for Moon and Kinajou #that idea has been bouncing around in my head for a while #it would be cute #wof #wings of fire #icewing #wof winter #dragon #cinnamon's doodles

[theamazincactus]

Him!

#naruto #hatake kakashi #kakashi #my art #I couldn't figure out how I wanted to crop this #so if you go look at instagram you'll see a version cropped square #half of me wanted to zoom in so it was more “focused” #but then we cut off all those little lightning details I'm proud of!! #wow so difficult #fanart

[egophiliac]

I hear you on brave but I think Mr. CEO man could be woz

Which I’m all here for tbh

anon you sent this over 9 hours before the reveal, h...HOW DID YOU KNOW

(I am also all here for it honestly) (I kind of hope they lean really hard into the overworked-CEO bit...how is he supposed to fight evil when there's all this paperwork that he has to get in by Friday, ugh)

#art #ride kamens #i had convinced myself he was going to be necrom #so when i saw the color scheme i was like HELL YEAH I CALLED -- wait #but i am definitely not complaining! #100% true: i texted my sister to be like 'you'll never guess who the new riderboy is' #'he was the best part of his show' #immediate response: 'woz' #we are a woz household #(although his character is giving me huge zangetsu vibes) #(hold on...takato...takatora...WAIT A MINUTE --) #so probably his brother (i think his name is read uryuu?) will be the other tower emblem guy then #he has sort of distinctive hair so i THINK i know which silhouette he is but i'm not sure who he's based on #it would be kind of hilarious if he was ryuugen but we know we're getting a gaim so that's probably not happening #(sorry for being incredibly boring) (i'm having a lot of fun speculating though!) #anyway back to fruitlessly staring at these screencaps to try and figure out who anyone is