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im so grateful for bugs 🐞🐛🐜🦟🪲🪳🕷️
i hate negative language in art tutorials. "why you suck", "why this is WRONG!" clickbait ass titles. exhausting, and phrasing like that at especially a young age did loads of damage to my mentality working with art. idk i don't have a good way of expressing what i mean and i think most people don't care, but to me it is one of the most subtly evil things
My body: Omg! *aggressively pointing to a body part* Bodily function! It must be completed!
Me: *Engrossed in something absolutely not important that I can stop at anytime* That's cool. Not doing that.
I think whoever decided that counting cards in blackjack is "cheating" used to be one of those kids who unplugged the playstation whenever he started to lose
I think a giant 7ft scythe would greatly benefit my appearance
Vot is the point of being an international Quidditch player if all the good-looking girls are taken? (belated birthday gift for @colmfahey)
Someone needs to draw Charles in this NOW.
there's "two actors having chemistry", and then there's whatever George Rexstrew and Jayden Revri have between them
how to make me feel every emotion under the spectrum of emotions
step 1: show me a picture of eichi
GRRM's newest blog post
My ofmd hot take is that the pop pop scene is fully funny with no abuse flashback trigger for ed. I think we’re given a pass to enjoy a ridiculous moment. ed yelling “control your pop pop” is nothing but hilarious to me
People said he’s the male protagonist women write for their romance novels and I, as an author myself, couldn’t agree more.
potentially unpopular opinion but to me the tma episode where jon goes into the coffin to rescue daisy is the best in terms of character study and character relationship development. like not a single other moment in the show flayed me raw and left me undone like jon and daisy's conversation trapped forever deep below creation with seemingly no way out; two characters who feared and hated each other and themselves finally being able to be honest about that with each other, and realizing that despite every awful thing that has happened between them it's still a relief that neither one of them is suffocating beneath the weight of it all alone in the dark anymore. and then, knowing all that, still choosing to return to face the world again together even though it would be easier to stay where they are.
I'm drafting an infodump rn but hm I forgot I made this image. it's fitting.
I loved Emma but hated Chase. Not sure why. Emma has a certain awkward charm about her. She's cute when she's not sucking face with Chase. Honestly I wish td fans saw there was more to her than just the bitter ex/on-and-off-again girlfriend. But I understand why ppl think that. Poor Emma, Chase and Emma obviously have an incredibly toxic and abusive relationship and the writers did her so dirty. Honestly it reminded me of my own abusive relationship and it struck me as kind of odd how she so quickly became a lovesick puppy. People DO go back to abusive ex's but it's never that simple. It's a very sad and complex thing that lowkey I don't think Fresh handled well.
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"I'm grayromantic/I'm in the aromantic spectrum"
Yes both are true but I like saying I'm aromantic, I thing the broad term also fits me and it rolls out the tongue better.
I shouldn't need to explain every single time that "while I identify with the aromantic term I might (and have felt like... Once.) romantic attraction in the future or I might not, who knows". It's so tieriiiing
1995
My answer SHOULD probably be To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar but I'm gonna be honest kitten, daddy's only seen it once, a long time ago, and he was drunk and doesn't remember it well enough to write a whole thing.
Which means instead I have to go with:
This is less of an all-time top shelf movie of the heart for me, but I do love it, and I do consider it an excellent example of truly elegant crime writing. The huge strength of it imo is that all the mechanisms of the plot are motivated and justified by really well realised characters. It's essentially a social deduction movie - the story appears to be something very different depending on your assessment of the people you're observing.
Most of all though, it's a fantastic illustration that a good mystery stays compelling after you know the solution. It has one of the most famous twists of all time, and I think it would be incredibly hard to come to it in 2024 unaware of at least the shape of the grand reveal. But despite that, it's still intriguing. It still surprises, it still provokes you to reconsider what you know you know.
I think a lot of the success of The Usual Suspects comes from the fact it's unafraid of ambiguity. One of the reasons I fucking despised Glass Onion (sorry, sorry, sorry) is because it fits a very contemporary view of mystery that sees the story like a sudoku. It insists that not only is there only one correct answer, there can be only one answer the entire time. And that fucking sucks because I got 25 minutes in and looked at the sudoku and went 'ok obviously this is the only thing that could possibly be going on' and then I still had to sit there and watch it hammer me over the head with each individual number until it was done. And then it had the gall to tell me 'ooh sometimes complex things are obvious' god fuck that movie. Anyway.
My point is that The Usual Suspects doesn't eliminate alternative paths. They're dead ends when you follow them far enough, but you always have space to play as a viewer. Even on re-watching, you can still sit there and go 'huh, what would it mean if X WAS actually Y' or 'is Z really doing this for the reasons he claims, and if not what are the implications'. That's the strength of building the mystery out of the characters' internalities.
one thing that I will always stand by on when it comes to my ninjago hcs is that NONE of them are white. none. none of them. and before you ask, yes not even jay. no one is white