#but if its accurate...gotdamn

[defiantinsect]

me when the skeletons in my closet arent fully rotted

in a twist just a hater acht has become outdated. epic win for...whatever this kind of pairing is, i guess. i just call this "whatever the hell is wrong with them" yuri

my typical approach to shipping is throwing the drowned rats in a blender and observing the mess afterward anyway so these two are Relevant to My Interests

[tapwater118]

talking about object heights got me wanting to make something like this

i hc objects to be shorter than humans but idrk how much shorter so the heights there are for my gijinkas

also its hard to measure firey’s height cause he’s a gotdamn flickering flame so if the line doesn’t seem accurate to you bite me

the point is that coiny has to look up at firey has to look up at leafy has to look up at pin

[hellsbellschime]

Lol honestly I kind of get what they mean by this TVD!Klaus and to!klaus in regards to book kaz and tv kaz but honestly tv kaz was still pretty on point. I just think because the show wasn’t centered on the crows we aren’t really getting an in-depth feel to who they are. In the books kaz is a more ruthless pragmatic character. At one point he cuts someone’s eye out for a certain thing and he is very much of the mind that to get what he wants he’ll dirty his hands over and over. Honestly I really hope soc gets its own show.

the-girl-in-a-qulited-sweater said: yes he is a miracle and this anon is the most accurate description lol

Gotdamn, I gotta read the SoC books sometimes if that’s the case because I have managed to fall in love with the TO version of Kaz. 

[leatherbookmark]

i feel so fucking bad for op of that one post and the insane anons/replies they've been getting

"we just don't know! maybe the term fujoshi came to be because men didn't want to marry women who fetishized homosexual relationships" i'm going to throw something against the wall. no it DIDN'T and you fucking know it

"while *maybe* it has a history in japanese feminism or otaku culture, it doesn't in the english-speaking side of the internet, soooooo"

"ok but the word is used to harass trans men and--" AYE and it still doesn't change the fact that western fans took a term that JAPANESE WOMEN were using IN THEIR CONTEXT and gave it a new, COMPLETELY NEGATIVE meaning.

do you understand the problem. do you people understand the fucking problem. especially when japanese artists have been starting to post on tumblr because twt is shitting its pants? do you understand the problem of associating japanese terms with immoral debauchery robbing gay people of their dignity while the english terms are pure, healthy and wholesome? DO YOU UN(ry

"but yaoi IS pornographic and fetishistic" okay and now look me in the eyes and tell me people who foam at the mouth at the mere thought of those nasty disgusting fujos and their gross yaoi genuinely care about what gay men feel or think. or that they've thought about the issue for more than 5 seconds.

because if your problem is "pornographic" -- okay but people fuck. people are horny. people enjoy pornographic materials. surely you're not against that. surely if you don't want r18 materials in your zine/discord server/blog, you can say "no r18 materials please" rather than "no yaoi".

if it's "fetishistic" -- as in? reducing something to an object with the sole purpose of titillating you? good news, fictional characters aren't real, they're not going to be sad. bad news, you could say the same about completely sfw, fluffy coffeeshop aus, because you don't write them to give justice to gay men, you're writing them because you think they're cute and you want to see your otp kiss over a caramel macchiato after weeks of shy smiles and cup sleeve messages. and then possibly boink! gasp! they are also just tools for you to achieve the state of Kicking Your Leggies In The Air OMG I Love Them So Much. but good news, again, they aren't real.

even better news -- the general purpose of yaoi/pwp (yes hi hello we have a 'yaoi' equivalent in english!) isn't to portray actual gay men as accurately as possible. the purpose of it is to be fun for the creators and readers. the solution to the problem of "ugh, the entire romance section in my library is stupid harlequins where the stupid protagonist does nothing but swoon into the arms of her stupid beefy lover" is not to burn it all down and label harlequin readers (ie, your grandma and her neighbour) disgusting hornybrained homophobes, yknow.

bonus:

"yaoi has sex in it while shounen-ai is sfw and fluffy."

sort of.

according to gotdamn wikipedia, "yaoi" are self-pub (fan)works focusing on the sexual content rather than coming up with an interesting, complex story. the pwp fanfic. meanwhile "shounen-ai", as a word existing in the japanese language, literally means "love of young boys", or "pederasty". as jpn wikipedia states, inagaki taruho, a male writer, has been writing on the topic of "love of young boys" since the end of the taisho era, and in '68, he published "the aesthetic of shounen-ai", in which

In Taruho's unique essays on aesthetic eroticism (and erotic aestheticism) A[nus], which is directly connected to O[ral], is regarded as the most important and essential of all erotic organs/sites including V[agina], P[enis] and K[litoris]. He considers A to be the paragon of the comic, primitive, innocent, and beautiful. (source)

the works of inagaki, shibusawa tatsuhiko and mishima yukio were an inspiration for shoujo (largely romantic stories for young girls) manga artists, resulting in the works of takemiya keiko and hagio moto, amongst others, a generation of artists who revolutionized not only the shoujo genre but also manga in general. takemiya published "sunroom ni te" which later became "kaze to ki no uta", and hagio "thomas no shinzou" (the heart of thomas); their shounen-ai wasn't "the chaste equivalent of yaoi", because iirc the yaoi term surfaced a couple of years later, in late 70s/early 80s, while the aforementioned works all began in the 70s (sunroom in the very 1970). instead, it was complex, in both the plot and the psychology of the characters. dramatic, often tragic. it didn't show hole, but it dealt with topics of sex, sexual abuse, abuse, incest, suicide -- because of that, takemiya struggled for years to get their editors to publish it. here it is mentioned that

Early shōnen-ai works were inspired by European literature, the writings of Taruho Inagaki, and the Bildungsroman genre. Shōnen-ai often features references to literature, history, science, and philosophy; Suzuki describes the genre as being "pedantic" and "difficult to understand", with "philosophical and abstract musings" that challenged young readers who were often only able to understand the references and deeper themes as they grew older.

back to the word fujoshi -- after some v light googling i found that the term "fujoshi" with the 腐 was "used with self-depreciation", but because the first noted use of the term online is from a blog of a man (1999年 8月 11日) who's found it on a certain textboard, it's not clear which meaning was first: the derogatory one used by men, or self-depreciating used by the female fans themselves. this article mentions the self-depreciating angle and the fact that it was "obvious to everyone" that there was something "rotten" about fujoshi -- namely, that they were misreading the original works that featured no mentions of homosexuality at all, as well as the feeling of shame at being able to "impose" homosexual feelings upon the characters and sexualizing them.

it has to be said, though, that both this "shame" and the dreaded "tee hee my sinful babies! XD" brought up every time someone tries to tell people fujoshi are not the devil don't necessarily have to be a reflection of severe homophobia of the women, but rather a reflection of the society that punishes women for sexual desires in the first place, whether they feature a man and a woman or two men.

men don't call themselves "nasty freaks" for liking lesbian porn, iirc.

if the society was open and accepting to both homosexuality and female desire, would fujoshi be called fujoshi in the first place? it seems to me that the insistence that fujoshi are called fujoshi because Something's Really Wrong With Them, We Should Condemn! Wholeheartedly Condemn! Examine That is similar to people writhing and whining that queer people are calling themselves queer when queer is a slur and means a bad thing. aye. we live in a one-dimensional world and the sun is a quarter of a circle with sunglasses in the top left corner of the page.

and YES, there are men -- even japanese men! even japanese gay men! gasp! -- who criticize the popularity of yaoi/BL for the "i'm not gay, just in love with this one guy" trope, ignoring the matter of homophobia in society or making the uke too "stereotypically feminine" (ie, a meek, sweet, submissive little thing who's a master at cooking, gently taking care of his man and squeaking when said man plows him on the table). and these are valid criticisms! but you don't have to have a master's degree to know that this happens in heterosexual romances as well. furthermore, i have to leave in a second so i won't expand on this, but as i'm sure many people have heard/read, making Romance Works Featuring Two Guys gives women tools to examine femininity, the role of women in society and their position in relationships with men. just read this thing, it's neat.

tl;dr westerners please stop confidently acting like being tumblr/twitter antis gives you the right to debate and decide on the meaning and usage of foreign words, FUJOSHI DOES NOT, AND NEVER DID, HAVE THE MEANING OF "BAD WOMAN FETISHIZING M/M RELATIONSHIP AS OPPOSED TO APPROACHING THEM WITH RESPECT AND KINDNESS"

biting and mauling and exploding with my mind people who argue about the semantics of fujoshi/yaoi/BL/etc while possessing little more than your average anti circa about 2015's level of knowledge of the terms

[tellywoodtrash]

khkt 19.09.19 lb

how the fuck has this fool gotten away with multiple affairs if he's this bad at sneaking around? lol, what a loser.

"tu iss waqt yahaan?”, he asks his brother standing in front of his own damn house. mensa candidate of the year, this one.

"main bohut confused hoon."

"aaaah. join the gang."

lol. idiocy runs in the sippy genes.

"karne KUCH gaya tha; ho kuch AUR hi gaya." trollolololol i am really enjoying this.

HEY. NO. YOUR THING IS NOT LIKE HIS THING, YOU LYING, CHEATING MANWHORE.

not so subtle warning that rohit will absolutely not stand for fuckery within marriage.

"loyal hoon main." yeah, to your dick maybe.

YES THE SCENE I HAVE BEEN WAITING MOST FOR.

yessssssssssss sumannnnnnnnn, go offffffff ma.

woooooooop. i'm not for hitting your kids irl, but tellywood mein chalta hai. especially when your crotch-goblin, like this one here, really deserves it.

also lmao, suman ne aisa lagaaya ki pari got sent to the shadow realm.

waah kya safaai se jhoot bolti hai even under the influence. she’ll make a fantastic actor!

i mean she's not wrong, and suman needed to hear it that she can't be controlling grownass adults, but i also feel like this is just gonna go on to reinforce suman's belief that controlling a kid's life makes a good girl like sona, whereas giving free rein creates this kinda monster.

lo gir gayi.

BITCH DON'T YOU TOUCH PULKI LIKE THAT.

suman's chickens have come home to roost. isse kehte hain karma.

this is his romantic life analysis spot. whenever something momentous happens regarding his relationship status, it's on this balcony.

lmaooooooooo he really cannot close his eyes anymore without having a powerpoint slideshow of sona run.

askdjhsajfhaskjdfhdskfhjk

ofc his alter ego is a SMUGGER bastard than he is.

"tv nahi dekhte ho na, iss liye. apni sona se pooch lo; usne toh badi badi problems solve kiye hain, apne aap se baat karke." bwahahahahahahaha.

"don't! overreact!" HELLO KETTLE, THIS IS POT, YOU'RE BLACK.

alter ego is not only smugger, but also bougier; the deliberate, accented mispronunciations of the dramatic hindi words like "dhoka". i can't stop cackling like an insane person.

"itni simple si baat samajh mein nahi aati tumhe? doctor kisne banaaya?"

"bohut hi rude ho yaar!" 

AB SAMJHE????? KI TUMSE NIPATNA KITNAAAAAAAAAA MUSHKIL HAI??? KABHI KHUD KO BHI SEH LIYA KARO, JAISE BAAKI KARTE HAIN.

"tumhara hissa hoon na, rude toh hoonga hi!" askldjksjlskjfdsfj

alter!rohit is so much smarter. can we have him instead of this other fool?

omfg is he comparing raima to a plant? rude.

"kabhi kabhi lagta hai ki raima nahi, tum coma mein ho."

gotdamn. this one dropping truth bombs like an american drone over a brown country with oil reserves.

"sirf rearview mein dekh ke gaadi nahi chala sakta koi. ayeeee, tumhe toh gaadi chalaani nahi aati." LMAOOOO OMG THE WAY ALTER!ROHIT IS ROASTING HIM.

alter!rohit is like bohut ho gayi bakchodi, i have a life unlike you, soooo.... chalo rapid fire.

"fiqar hoti hai uski?"

"of course, haan."

"apne aap se zyaada?"

"ABSOLUTELY." my god the conviction with which he said that!!!!!! rohit, you absolute moppet.

lo ji, ho gaya issue ka samaadhaan.

"i love sonakshi????????"

lmaoooooooooo the dramatic asshole, echoing "accept it! enjoy it! accept it! enjoy it!"

mum-daughter bonding timeeeeee!

"nashe mein hi sahi, lekin bilkul sahi baat boli hai woh. woh meri sona nahi hai."

HALLELUJAH! FINALLLLLLLLLLLLY. SONA KI KEEMAT BADH GAYI HAI ISS HOUSEHOLD MEIN!

lmao pari take zimmedaari for the house. ho hi chuka.

protip to all girls, via sona and tt: marry a dude who makes your family a priority, instead of subscribing to that shaadi ke baad, sasuraal hi tumhara ghar hai bullshit.

ooooooooh, mummy has prepared for eventuality that rohit will be the ladka.

aankh milaake toh bolo, saaf saaf dikh raha hai ki jhoot bol rahi ho.

mummy knows best. also i like how she said "emotionally involve". it's more accurate for what's happening here than just "pyaar".

notice how she specified that sona should end it *IF* it's "ek tarfa pyaar". not the same tune she was singing an hour ago about never marrying sona off to a sindhi.

WHERE HAS THIS SORTED, PRAGMATIC, YET LOVINGLY STERN SUMAN BEEN ALL THE TIME?!?!?!? I HAVE WANTED TO SEE HER FOR MONTHSSSSSS NOWWWWWWW. THANK YOU BAPPA KE AAP JAATE JAATE YEH DE GAYE!

yup. end this shittttttttttttttttt. good call. get some me-time; ask star plus to send parvati off to switzerland like they did prerna. aaraam se ghoom phir ke aana.

look at this cheesyass mfer.

"i love sona."

ohhhhhhhhhh boy.

JFC SHE'S..... VERY ANNOYING.

.... this is 4 years back right??? why is she dressed like aishwarya in action replayy, like it’s the 70s????

ugh ok i don't like her immature ass. is she the same age as rohit? max 2 - 3 saal choti hogi? why she acting like a fucking teenager?

arre waaaaaah, coma gave her ESP, she knows that rohit's moving on without her permission.

i propose a steel cage death match: the annoying senguptas. raima and her mom fight to the death so that we have to tolerate only ONE of their annoying asses in the show instead of both.

guess tanaaz is off to shoot something else?

small mercies: akash is finally over his petty little grudge with nishi.

is the rest of the episode just this??? saying bye to nishi????

ouff fwding.

"agar tumne roya, toh tumhe airport drop karne suman rastogi aayegi." lmaoooooooooooo i love yk.

oh hooooooooo, new watch.

ouff shut up naren.

mummy is having a shipper moment.

lol look how happy she is. and his face, knowing that she already knows what's in it.

the music is too sappily senti, middle class types, for a super rich dude putting on a watch that costs a minimum of 5 lakhs.

purest mom. so much softness between the two of them. ugh i wanna squish them both in to a nice hug sandwich.

LMAO WHAT, SAMUNDAR MEIN PHENK DI???? ISKE BEECH TU BEACH KAB GAYA?????????????

"chariyo! aath laakh ki ghadi thi!!!!!!!!!!!"

aslfkdjdlfjdslfjdslk i am veena. BITCH OLX NAAM KI BHI KOI CHEEZ HOTI HAI.

i don't really think he threw it away. he's just doing it to get a rise out of his mom, the brat.

but also my question is this; raima looks to be from a pretty middle class family, and she wanted to be an air hostess. HOW THE FUCKKKKKKK DID SHE AFFORD A WATCH THAT COSTS EIGHT FUCKING LAKHS?!?!?

no i have no such advice for you. jo plan hai, woh achcha hai. friend-zone his ass for a while.

"yeh naatak sirf naatak nahi hai, taqleef hone lagi hai mujhe." ouch. my poor girl.

lol pulki wants internship with rohit. great. WILL YOU PPL LET THIS POOR GIRL LET GO OF THIS GUY?!!?

———————————————————————

either sonakshi ran her the fuck over, or raima too is a KPK fan, even though she's been in a coma for the whole duration of its run. SUCH IS THE POWER OF PARVATI!

[dameferre]

Oh my gosh, its funny you reblogged "the fandom ruined hamilton" and "queerness feels white" right after eachother. Bc to me the hamilton thing is another example of ppl taking a story that they dont connect to in the same way and ruining it and making something that should uplift poc and especially poc theater kids and making it cringe

omfg i didn’t even realise i’d queued them up right after one another, but your Mind anon, so accurate

yeah i went to a ham 4 ham show once and there was this white (or at least white passing, who knows) girl there who had made this whole scrapbook of hamilton shit and was like sobbing about how much it meant to her and i was just like...............w.hy

like i’m sure it means a lot to non POC but i don’t understand how you can possibly connect so emotionally with the show if you don’t feel like your heart is flying and being squeezed in a vice simultaneously as you watch all of broadway lose their gotdamn minds for a cast that finally, Finally, looks like you and speaks for you

sorry to go a little off topic but yeah it’s also weird how cringey it’s been made mostly by people who like. actually fucking stan the founding fathers or some shit

[sporesong]

I am,, so sorry,,,,

[sunmoonandeddie]

hi its 2:30am and i should be packing to move out of this apartment but im dead on my feet and decided to read the vixen fic (cant remember the name bcos my brain is spaghetti) and i cannot accurately portray,, the HEARTACHE of being left on a CLIFFHANGER and now i am CRYING mostly from stress and exhaustion but also because that was MEAN come on now. first a years supply of dumb bitch juice in like thirty seconds and now a gOTDAMN GSW??? the drama! the intrigue! the tension! the suspense!

This absolutely made my night oh my god I love you

[mspaleoart]

Daeodon – Late Oligocene-Early Miocene (29-19 Ma)

As I said last time we went to Mammal Junction, a lot of mammals from the prehistoric Cenozoic are similar to mammals we have now, or look kind of like a generic mammal. Some of them, though, weren’t. Some were absolutely positively bizarre. Let’s talk about one.

This ugly motherfucker is named Daeodon, and lived in North America during the Paleogene-Neogene divide.  Daeodon—and other entelodonts, by extension—is essentially what it looks like. It’s a carnivorous ungulate, or, hoofed mammal. No surprises here, other than the fact it existed. Today, the only ungulates who eat meat are whales1. Ungulates make up most of the large land mammals today, and they’re all big grazers. Daeodon and its cousins, however, were apex predators.

If you’ve seen Walking with Beasts, Daeodon might look familiar to you. A similar animal appears in the third episode, “Land of Giants,” called an “entelodont.” That one lived in central Asia and probably belonged the genus Entelodon. If you’ve seen the documentary, you certainly remember maybe the most gruesome scene in the entire franchise, where a territorial fight between two of them leads to one’s face being fucked right up. Even as a violence-loving kid that one kind of made me shudder.

But even though Walking with tends to sensationalize its animals, that wasn’t really the case this time. They were probably a lot like that. Aggressive, terrifying, and ugly as hell. I wanted to give them a little more fur, though, since I personally don’t believe they were naked like a domestic pig. They’ve been nicknamed “Hell pigs” or “Terminator pigs” and I find it hard to disagree. 

They had big-ass heads and powerful jaws with pairs of huge canines and incisors, along with batteries of tough, blunt molars. This mixture of teeth is, weird as it probably sounds, sorta convergent with ours. Sharp front teeth and dull, rounded teeth in the back? These were the teeth of an omnivore. They fed themselves with a mix of scavenging and active hunting, and probably rounded out their diet with roots and tubers, an echo of their relationship with other hooved animals. They’re like a concept for a horror movie character. It’s like Kujo for pigs, I think. I don’t know much about Kujo other than the fact that Stephen King was inebriated when he wrote it and doesn’t even remember doing so.

It’s important to mention that they weren’t actually pigs, although we used to think some of them were. They’re the weird cousin pigs don’t talk about. Paleontologists like to disagree on how closely they were related to pigs and other artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates). I did a lot of digging to see where they might fall, and the general consensus looks like “somewhere around hippos and whales2.”

More about this genus specifically, Daeodon was the largest member of the entelodont family, being a bit taller than the average grown man. I am really glad I don’t live alongside these things. One specimen was originally named Dinohyus, which means “terrible pig.” It’s thought that Daeodon, more than other entelodonts, was mostly a scavenger. It followed other carnivores around and waited for them to kill something, then got in there and screamed at them until they ran away. These were huge animals with mouths full of sharp teeth; it probably wasn’t too hard for them to terrify their fellow meatboys.

Daeodon is also interesting because it’s kind of a tangle in the entelodont family tree. First of all: entelodonts are found pretty evenly in Eurasia and North America. So, there’s a cousin of Daeodon who lived in the same region of North America, a few million years earlier, called Archaeotherium. I actually almost talked about that one today instead. The obvious conclusion there is that Daeodon is descended from Archaeotherium, right? And that was the idea for a long time. But, looking closer, we found that it looks more like its cousins on the other side of the Pacific. It might be descended from an immigrant population of entelodonts who crossed over from Asia. Wack.

This leads to some questions, like, were the entelodonts in America just worse at being entelodonts? Did these guys come over the land bridge and just outcompete them? It’s really hard to say, since most animals aren’t fossilized and it’s totally possible they coexisted with native entelodonts and we just haven’t found them. Of course, they might also just be descended from American entelodonts and happened to develop convergent traits with their cousins across the pond. Listen, this science is a total disaster sometimes. We’re doing the best we can with piles of bones we find in the dirt.

So, yeah, that’s Daeodon, the murder “pig.” The Cenozoic is still full of surprises for us. A lot of the animals that didn’t survive to modern times are absolutely buckwild, and if this one doesn’t prove that, I’ll need to try harder. I mean, even if it does convince you, there’s still some weird shit out there that I’d love to cover. And that’s why I’m here!

P.S. If you haven’t seen Walking with Beasts, I highly recommend it. It’s the passion project of the Walking with team, and probably the most accurate installment of the three.

1Whales evolved from ungulates, and so are considered members of that group even though they have no gotdamn legs

2 If any of my readers know more about the relationship between entelodonts and other artiodactyls, please let me know. I’m not certain that I’m right on this and I’d love clarification

[pigeonrocks]

all of these scantily clad women in my goddamn notifs like gotdamn locusts anyways the first time i saw Jurassic world Dominion i spent the entire movie identifying dinosaurs. and for some reason. they put a dimetrodon in their movies about dinosaurs.

the dimetrodon isnt.. a dinosaur, ofc its commonly grouped with the dinosaurs but its a synapsid. not a dinosaur- i guess you could always argue that alot of things in Jurassic park aren't accurate (i mean. look at the hybrids) but when. the franchise is about dinosaurs- and you randomly toss in something that went extinct millions of years before the dinosaurs. it gets weird. does Jurassic park have all extinct animals? like cave lions or those giant ass fucking dragonflies??

like. what the fucks up with that. anyways. happy holidays

[imthefailedartist]

Spoiler for Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Becky, you idiot.

She gave up the whole plan for a gotdamn dog! Not even her dog, just some random dog about town. They were almost in the clear and she gave it up for a goddamn dog. Miles should've left her as soon as she did that.

A fucking dog. It's not like she and the dog had a rapport, even if she did its not worth her life or Miles. It was just a dumb dog crossing the street. Who cares if it's about to get hit! It's just a dog. An alien race is attempting to take over the world and you decide one random dog is worth more than the entire world. White people.

The wildest part of that simple scream being the downfall of the plan is that it's accurate to real life. White people love animals more than they love people. They would let the whole world burn if it meant one fucking dog lived.

[weeabookstore]

western wednesday. so the SZA show soldout.

so it's our inaugural western wednesday. i thought this day was essential just because weeabookstore is an American-run blog with an inherent American perspective (Viet Texan more specifically). as such, maybe reading these will give some of you insight into some of my other thoughts and opinions.

today, we'll be talking about music. i just wanted to preface that i don't actually listen to that much j-idol music (which is why discog thursday will be a thing). the music i keep on my phone is probably the most accurate representation of my tastes. western music takes up 54 percent of the ~3000 songs i keep. Korean is 38 percent (don't crucify me, guys), Japanese is 6, and Viet is 2. concerning genre, i'll listen to anything.

lately, i've been in a chill r&b phase (because there are a lot of elements in modern r&b that i'm trying to incorporate into my own music). currently, the standout pop album of 2017 is CTRL by SZA. i've been listening to SZA since she came out with the Z EP which i was interested in because of features from Chance (who i got to see right before he blew up) and Kendrick (whom i missed the opportunity to see FOR FREE). i was super psyched when i heard SZA's tour was stopping in Texas, and then really sad when i found out the shows were sold out. because fucking everyone loves SZA now.

now obviously, i'm disappointed, but i'm glad that artists i like are getting time in the spotlight. so i've put together a short list of similar artists who i think also deserve a boost.

who to listen to when the SZA show's soldout. (we at weeabookstore enjoy alliteration.)

01. Lion Babe.

you'll find in this list that i discovered all these artists through more established acts. for Lion Babe, a "neo-soul" r&b duo who released their debut album last year, that star collaborator is Childish Gambino. Donald Glover, the industry professional i probably respect most in this world, has an admittedly forgettable verse on the song "Jump Hi," but thank Childish that i was introduced to Lion Babe because their album Begin is full of gotdamn bops. Lion Babe's biggest criticism is that they're too focused on producing "hits" as opposed to "art." i think differently. this is Lion Babe's first full-length, and imo showcasing general appeal and marketability at this point isn’t illogical. but then again, this is coming from a kid who listens to Asian idol music, an industry that is almost solely concerned with what "sells." anyway, Lion Babe is probably the "peppiest" of those mentioned here, a lot of funk-filled grooves with some disco sprinkled in a song or two. off Begin, i'd probably most recommend "Jump Hi," "Stressed Out!," and "Where Do We Go."

02. Noname.

formerly Noname Gypsy, when this act comes to mind, i think rapper before anything else. first appearing before me in Chance The Rapper's Acid Rap, I often find Noname's flow to be relatively similar to her now radio-famous colleague albeit with a more generally lowkey vibe. her debut mix Telefone is all about those keys. i just really love the piano work throughout the whole record. compared to Chance's pop-minded Coloring Book, Noname stays grounded, injecting listeners with that open-mic poetry vibe. it's pure storytelling from the perspective of the black female Chicagoan. chill, sentimental rap is my shit and Noname checks all the boxes. picking only three favorites off of Telefone is hard, but "Diddy Bop," "Forever," and "Reality Check" probably do it for me.

03. Kilo Kish.

also brought to you by Childish Gambino, i first heard Kilo's voice through features on Royalty and Because The Internet. though she may also spit some bars every once in a while, Kilo is first and foremost an alt-r&b artist, emphasis on artist. among the three i've listed here, Kilo seems most concerned with trying the conceptual and experimental, a trait which probably allows her to vibe well with Donald Glover. i'm most familiar with her last EP Across. Across, along with its older siblings, features this signature ambient, ethereal Kilo sound that's paired with the sort of haunting tones that make up Kilo vocals. more conceptually, her more recent LP debut Reflections In Real Time is just as the name suggests. Reflections is a stream-of-consciousness composition of personal experiences and observations made in theatrical fashion. "Hello, Lakisha" in particular is a relatively unorthodox but fitting introduction to both the album and the artist herself. Check out "Curious," "Locket," "The Opposite Sex," and "Collected Views From Dinner."

and in case y'all wanted to know my favorite songs from SZA's CTRL (which i found out has a repackage now! CTRL + ALT), they're "Drew Barrymore," "Garden," and "Broken Clocks."

hope you weebs don't hate this. tomorrow is discog thursday which might better suit your Jap-centric sensibilities. "weeapinion" posts will now be tagged as such.

[divorcedfiddleford]

i know this is random, but do you have any tips on writing ford and fiddleford? you do a really good job on their characterizations and even though i'm very familiar with their characters i always write people out of character when i'm writing, lol! thanks !!!!

ghhhgg i Kid but anyway im like super distracted so i just made a list of a bunch of common mistakes i see when people r writing themedit: i was so wrong i made such a long fucking post im sorry this was a Mistake (rip mobile users)

first things first everything in the journal was Fake

fiddleford:

“fiddleford is a poor precious cinnamon roll who is helpless and did nothing wrong uwu” fuck off he built all those robots and probably killed a bunch of people in the process he isnt some innocent sunflower he’s more like a rowdy dandelion

yes this applies even if you’re writing young fiddleford he was just more patient and less open with his life of crime because he didnt want to go to jail

his eyes are blue. theyre fucking blue. theyre fucking b

“he doesnt like swears/he’s soft-spoken” wrong he’s literally the only character to have sworn on-screen

“he started the society because he was traumatized by what he’d seen” no, where did you get that idea. he literally says he invented the gun because he was “haunted by the thoughts of what I’d done” >literally stating that it was guilt not fear that was bothering him. eventually yes he used it for erasing scary memories but that was not his initial intent

he’s not bald anymore

really any idea that fiddleford is pathetic is grossly ooc i can think of one situation in the show that he wasn’t able to get himself out of and thats because he was turned into a fucking arras

what is this southern belle bullshit… he chews tobacco and wrestles pigs please stop woobifying this force of nature

a banjo is not the same as a guitar. a banjo is not the same as a guitar. a banjo is not the same as a guitar.

if youre going to write accents don’t be obnoxious about it

EX: “How are y’all doin’ this fine evening?”NOT: “Hower y’all doien’ this fain evenin’?”you don’t have to use the mannerisms in every sentence and you don’t have to drop the g in every -ingphonetic spelling is a pain to read like at the most you should be using apostrophes not respelling words (“Stanferd” more like kill me now)

also make sure your mannerisms are geographically accurate he’s not from texas i never want to see him say “sugah” again

his accent isnt even that strong in the show …what……….

tip: fiddleford is salty as FUCK he has NO MERCY and holds onto grudges like a lifesaver in a storm

tip: he loves being around people and will talk to them about fucking anything such as his multiple cases of manslaughter but doesn’t usually open up about his insecurities unless prompted

further reading: 1 2 3 4

stanford:

“everything that happened to fiddleford is ford’s fault” did ?? you even watch the show??? fiddleford did all that shit himself ford had nothing to do with it

“ford was manipulating dipper and con-” im gonna stop you right there. ford loves his niece and nephew. he agreed to leave the kids alone because stan thought he was too dangerous to be around them. stan only let dipper hang out with ford after dd&md. ford loves dipper and mabel equally and never wanted them to split up or anything. bill fucking knew this hence why he threatened ford with killing them. he made the proposal to dipper about the apprenticeship because he genuinely thought that was the best thing for dipper. he was wrong but he didnt know that

in fact while we’re at it - ford literally always does stuff with the best of intentions he’s just dumb and unlucky as shit

deal with the devil? he thought the devil was his nerdy buddy not the devil. he just was so happy to have a friend who appreciated him he didnt realize he was the fucking devil

abandon your brother? he thought his brother had sabotaged his dreams and that the only person he’d ever trusted had betrayed him. he was wrong but it’s not like stan apologized or denied it. also what was he supposed to do? challenge his dad? in case you didn’t notice filbrick was a fucking terrible dad

building a doomsday device? too bad you’re literally being manipulated and abused by Lucifer The Triangle

“ford didn’t want to make amends with stan” um, no, like obviously he’s still mad and stuff but in dd&md he stops himself from getting super mad and asks stan if he wants to play with him and dipper

“ford wanted to kick stan out” ?? when did he say that??? the closest thing he said to that was that he wanted his house back and while i GUESS you could interpret that as he wanted it back to himself he follows it up directly with “this mystery shack junk is over forever” so its pretty obvious he means he wants the tourist trap that makes a mockery of his entire life’s purpose out of his house

“fords a grumpy guy” he is the opposite . he is overflowing with love and pride for those he holds dear. he might be a little gruff but who wouldnt be after living in hell for 30 years

remember that one asshole whose kink is “ciphord abuse”. dont be that guy. dont write kink shit

just. don’t make ford the villain. dont do it.

this may come as a surprise to you..but….he DOESNT have to bring up his intellect all the time! a shock i know

tip: ford is very excitable he loves getting up and doing things and going on adventures!! he loves interacting with the creatures around gravity falls like the gnomes and steve (see: every gotdamn episode)

he’s also very sympathetic; if someone he knows/cares about is struggling he does whatever he can to help them and comfort them (see: the last mabelcorn, damvtf)

he tends to think more big picture as opposed to worrying about individual details. the priority is always solving the larger problem unless a loved one’s life is ostensibly in danger in which case that takes priority (see: damvtf, wmg1, wmg3)

tip: ford is gay

tip: he’s also anti-social and wouldn’t be very forward with romantic notions like it would take him months before he even THINKS about kissing someone and even then its like a 10 hour loop of beach boys’ wouldn’t it be nice

tip: he is the king of infodumping and explains everything in excruciating detail

tip: he likes to have a good time! don’t be afraid to let him have fun!!

further reading: 1 2 3

for both:

enough of the angst. enough. enough

if you’re going to make them trans don’t milk the dysphoria

tip from my pal rudy @blue-dipper​ (im not trans)

same kinda goes for if youre doing romance dont overplay the internal/external homophobia i made that mistake so many times its just clunky and gets in the way of the characters

the whole idea of “the innocent one” vs “the sinful one” is garbage. abandon it. you will feel a weight lifted from your shoulders

realistically if it’s a reunion thing don’t make them hook up automatically this shit takes time

in general avoid stereotypes. some examples being “the hippie” or “the nerd” just write them like they act on the show its easier and more enjoyable for everyone involved

ALEX HIRSCH ≠ WORD OF GOD only the stuff in the show needs to be considered 100% canon you can pick and choose all the other stuff or ignore it entirely

in conclusion all fiction is subjective and writing someone “in character” all depends on how you perceive the character. these are my perceptions of the character and yeah i get really frustrated when people don’t agree because i believe mine are those that make the most sense and that good representation of neurodivergent and lgbta+ people is important also im petty and annoying. the most important thing is that you be consistent with your portrayals (unless your perception of the character is inconsistency in which case good luck)