#lampshaders

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On the CTA with four lampshades in a bag not even trying to hide it not even embarrassed like an absolute lampshade freak

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constructive criticism

[themurphyzone]

Love how there are so many instances of Heinz always offering food to Perry.

-a slice of his birthday cake in Raging Bully

-the aged cheese that Perry rudely ate when Heinz walked into another room in Lights Camera Candace

-the plate in Flopz Star where Perry made him add lots of pepper

-the hot wings and dip in Lake Nose Monster

-lemonade in Moon Farm

-mid battle tea break in Doofapus

-Just Desserts battle

-his first line in the revival involves asking Perry if he wanted a veggie plate

-was gonna pay for his and Perry's lunch in Quietest Day Ever

-Perry once broke into Heinz's fridge and his comment was 'man, you were hungry that day'.

-that one time Heinz asked 'don't they feed you at the agency?' to a random platypus he thought was Perry. He might legit think OWCA was starving Perry the whole time (and in all honestly, it's a fair assumption).

And in non-Perry examples:

-Gave Vanessa a homemade pie to share with friends for a movie night in Night of the Living Pharmacists.

-The ATSD movie where he offers Phineas and Ferb food from his buffet setup even after they accidentally destroyed his inator.

[godslush]

I still don’t know how to draw Sam but that doesn’t stop me from thinking up stupid dialogues.

[bobauthorman]

Splinter wearing Hats

[vulturevanity]

A Father's Purpose

Someone asks Martin if he actually cares about his daughters. He laughs at the joke he thinks they made.

Alternative version and thoughts under the Read More (please read the content warnings in the tags before clicking through!)

Epithet: ☆Dumb☆

Martin Blyndeff is a carefree man.

Despite his uncomplicated character, I have plenty of thoughts on Worst Dad and his impact on his daughters -- particularly Lorelai, but she isn't the focus on this piece and I'll talk about her another day.

I think what gets me about Martin and Molly is how efficient he is at shutting her down. Whether or not he's aware of what he's doing (it doesn't matter), it's really telling how smoothly he's able to do it. In the Museum Arc, he unloads another night shift onto her, rapid-fires excuses for why she has to take the night shift, takes credit for the school worksheet which she filled out, then changes subjects so she'll drop it. And he does it often enough that Lorelai has caught on to it, to the point that the first thing she does in the book is use his name to shut Molly down too. No matter what, if it's up to Martin, then Molly will have to shut up and deal.

I wonder how much of this DARVO-adjacent behaviour is a result of losing Calliope, if at all. I mean, I really, REALLY can't see how someone like Calliope would've fallen for Martin as he is today; we know he's always been the personification of the word "carefree" and Callie was an anxious workaholic mess, but honestly the Martin we see would probably just constantly stress her out even more (which he did sometimes). He was already rather senseless back then, but I can't help but think having Calliope to take on every burden for him for over 15 years and then losing her so suddenly must have exarcebated the learned helplessness. And since Molly was the one who took over, he just went "well I guess it's her job now", dusted off and went right back to his little world of toys and blissful obliviousness.

And speaking of Molly. She was suffering so much in that house, and yes, there have been plenty of walls of text about the verbal and emotional abuse she suffered from Lorelai, but I feel like we don't talk enough about Martin's complete dismissal of her feelings, thoughts and protests, and how deeply that affected her. He was the one who taught her no one would listen to her. He was he reference point Lorelai used to take advantage of her. He parentified Molly and made her bear the brunt of their financial troubles. And he did it all with a genuine smile across his face.

Martin Blyndeff sucks and I think we should talk about him more.

[pastafossa]

Thoughts on Matt's 'This all feels fake' line from the last DDBA episode and why it was a genius move

I've had a night to think and process the episode last night, and the more I think about it, the more I think that line was the absolute best way to go.

Obviously, spoilers ahead.

Let's set aside 'is the show good or bad' for a moment since everyone's vibing with it differently (we know where I stand, I'm happy and having a grand old time, but that's not important). Let's instead think about where Scardapane and the new writers found themselves when they were hired on to do the rewrites and reshooting.

Imagine being a cook. A good one. And someone comes to you, with an absolute dumpster fire of a cake. 'Hey man, we got the potluck in a few hours. It's really important there's a cake since it's someone's birthday. If you fix this, I'll let you bake the next one.'

Except the cake is a mess. Parts of it are burned, the flavor's all wrong, it's unfinished, and you have no idea why it's shaped the way it is.

You don't have the time or all the ingredients needed to entirely make a new cake. Your only option is to save what you can and cut off what you can't, and then build from there.

But how do you do that?

That's essentially where they were, writing-wise. The OG writers had created an absolute mess, something that didn't feel like Matt at all, something that had no respect for all of the lore and character building that came before. And it's definitely not the Netflix vibe show that Feige had asked for (which was why that team was fired, shocker). But reshooting the entire season would have thrown off the larger schedule, it would have required contract changes, and it'd be expensive as hell. That meant they had to use at least some of the footage that had already been shot, and build onto it rather than sweeping it away. But what do you do when the new footage you want to shoot has a very different vibe than the old footage? Especially when those two energies are very, very different?

Answer: you acknowledge it.

There's a technique in writing known as lampshade hanging, when instead of ignoring something that's implausible or weird, you point it out instead and move on, while also sometimes using it to advance the narrative. It's one of my favorite tropes! I love to use it, and I love to see it used.

Even better? They made it feel weird, which is something multiple people have brought up as a theory, this idea that it's intentional, and I agree with them. Even some of the teaser trailers before DDBA came out even played off of that feeling, Matt's voice hoarse and dark as a monologue while beneath his voice you get an eerily soundtracked montage of him going through his new 'normal' life day after day after day in a way that makes it clear this new life doesn't fit, and it never will.

I've been fascinated by how they've played it over this first season, both the writers and Charlie himself, using these jarring tonal differences to leave you intentionally unsettled. Sometimes it's done with music, like that early scene where Matt's getting ready for his day, clearly repressing and disassociating his way through life, all while more upbeat music is playing, or the slight alteration to our OG Daredevil theme. Sometimes it's a subtle pattern, these little ticks and tells from Charlie's portrayal - Matt always wearing his glasses even in softer scenes because he doesn't feel safe with these new people around him that are supposedly his friends, hell, even in his own apartment when he's entirely alone because it's not a home like his last place was.

And then there are moments like last night, when Matt literally came out and said it: this all feels fake sometimes. It's not my home. This isn't my life.

We know he doesn't belong there. And they managed to change the original story so that Matt? Matt knows that, too. He's known the entire time.

It weaves a thread through all the original footage, the tonal differences, and Matt's behavior. It's a thread that not only amounts to the new writers saying to us, the audience, 'trust us, we know,' but it's also one that reinforces this idea that Matt is literally just fucking faking it in the hopes that it will keep him away from Daredevil, in the hopes that he can be the man he thinks Foggy would have wanted. He's trying so hard to live that perfect, happy, wonderful life while repressing all of his trauma and depression and it's left him in this bizarre otherworld that he doesn't recognize. He's not himself. It grates on him every day.

And it makes that creeping darkness, that gritty reality, that dirt on his hands and the blood on his lips and his visceral screams all the more thrilling when it edges in, because that? That is the real Matt, his true self, the Devil tearing its way out of the prison he's trapped it in just long enough to bare its teeth and snap and bite before he forces it back into its cell.

And god does it feel real compared to the moments where Matt is just pretending this is all fine, all bright, all good.

I fucking love that they went in that direction. It's the best thing they could have done when locked into reusing the old footage which was different in tone than the Netflix vibe they want to bring back. It was always going to be jarring mashing both of them together. So they ran with it.

Like I said, I'm already really happy with DDBA. Some eps nailed it for me better than others (Ep 6 is just an absolute blast), but even when it gets a little rough, there's this sense of Scardapane and the new writers giving us a wink going, 'yup, we know. Just hang in there until we're not bound by old footage and we can take you on a fucking ride.'

They want what we want. And they're going to take us there. That line solidified it for me. I'm so fucking pumped for Season 2 when the chains are off and they're free to come out swinging.

Anyway thanks for coming to my rambling ted talk.

[lyltinc]

listening to the edison kingdom arc as a certified chip enjoyer is so delightful. chip's vague suggestion that they should get the older kids from the sunny side up orphanage to help him and the rest of the albatrio pickpocket the richer blossom district residents... and it immediately gets shot down by jay and gillion because their lived experiences are so different.

i imagine reuben really prioritized/pushed chip's ability to go unnoticed and sneak around. if reuben's hands protected chip from danger (at a point where their relationship was being built into something, before it went downhill), chip's hands slipped into the pockets of wealthy passerby.

chip obviously sees himself in these kids in the orphanage, and begins to track his lived experiences with reuben (and later their crew) onto them. why wouldn't they want to go up there to steal for themselves? that's how chip was useful in his youth, doing something that'd keep him and reuben alive. stealing and thievery meant agency and survival.

and jay thinks he's crazy! he'd be putting them directly in danger of being caught! she thinks it's a terrible idea, because she thinks it's dragging them into the situation, into peril. chip sees these kids as already in danger. he thinks that the reason these kids currently pickpocket people on the bottom layer is because they don't have the opportunity to do so from the people up top (because of the five gold coin fee to even get into the layer that they certainly can't spare). in his mind, he's giving them agency.

not to say that sending a bunch of orphans to go steal from rich people on the blossom district would be a good idea: another decision he thinks he's making logically, aka more people stealing = more gold coins, but is instead emotionally driven.

jay and gillion object so immediately because they don't have the lived experience that chip does, so they don't have the emotional connection either.

everything else that happens after in edison kingdom, especially with chip's conversation with king leon where he talks about how people can't choose what they're born into, and the kids living in poverty never chose that either, is also so telling of his character and who he is. all such a good direction for his character to have gone after opposing gillion's drive to help loffinlot/desire island/win the paramount tournament.

[artsy-1diot]

I got hit by the make fusion beam again here's hot streak

ouuu fucking thing

+some doodles featuring @zedleaked's oc Record producer ough i love gay people

[simplydnp]

dan's 'i was straight before 2019' bit being used as the main reason sharing the bed on the tatinof tour bus wasn't gay is hilarious

[merlins-art]

hope im doing this right

you asked for designs to draw

draw lampshade john!!

LAMPSHADE JOHN!!

I’ve actually been wanting to draw your john design for awhile now so thanks for making me actually remember to lol

[y3aj-3002]

please forgive thy,,, BUT,,,,

I love them sm oml they make me sick (this is just actual dialog)

Chat I love tweening and I love lampshade/hauntedlight

could you find it in ur (Kevin) heart to forgive me for my ass drawing of brightney,,,,,

chat could yall tell me when we have a ship name for them

[mudwerks]

(via Living Color: Strange Square Snapshots - Flashbak)

how it’s going

[plasterbrain]

Help my Girlfriend played Pizza Game and now she's cosplaying Warped Lamp and sending me messages like this

This is your fault

that's actually me larping as your girlfriend roleplaying as warped lamp. pretty twisted, i know.

[liivn]

[biblicalhorror]

Okayyyyy yeah also let's talk about Tammy. I didn't know how I felt about her for awhile because she did very much feel like the Disposable Black Girlfriend, but I'm seeing people saying she's an "abuser" or God forbid "just as bad as Kevin" and that's just. Not at all true.

Yes, Tammy is controlling. She doesn't seem to really like Patty for who she is, and kind of seems to want to change her into someone else instead. HOWEVER, I think we need to look at the whole character to understand WHY she's like that. I don't think she's controlling Patty for personal gain or for the sake of manipulating her. I think she's lonely and desperate for companionship, which leads to her ignoring/pushing past the obvious incompatibility in her relationship with Patty.

Here's what we know about Tammy:

1. She seems to be the only black person in the Worcester social circle. She also mentions frequently how she's surrounded entirely by white men at work.

2. She is also the only openly lgbt person in the area, other than Patty, who is still not exactly out and proud.

3. She describes her entire job as "making excuses for" and "cleaning up after" the men at her job, particularly her partner (whose name I am unfortunately forgetting, does anyone remember?), who even had her plant evidence for him on at least one occasion.

4. Despite being very competent and good at her job, the white men around her keep failing upwards (she mentions a few times that people beneath her keep getting promoted) while she remains stagnant in her career. There doesn't seem to be any explanation for this other than the fact that she is a black lesbian in an extremely white, conservative community.

Basically, Tammy seems like someone who has been taught (like many black women) that she will have to work much harder than everyone else to get ahead in any capacity. She is also likely very, very lonely. She doesn't seem to have any friends outside of work, which isn't surprising given the above. It seems like she doesn't exactly have a ton of prospects, dating-wise, other than Patty. In my opinion, it's really no wonder that she clung to Patty so desperately and immediately and tried to forcibly mold her into someone who could be compatible. She's tough, smart, organized, direct, manipulative, no-nonsense and controlling because, well, she had to be. And she ends up trying to "rein in" Patty because, in her mind, what's the other option? She ends up alone, surrounded by men who force her to cover for their antics and don't care if she lives or dies.

I'm not saying her behavior is healthy. But it comes from an entirely different place than Kevin's abuse, or Chuck's, or even Neil's. And it's also not uncommon. In real life, I know many queer women (specifically small-town lesbians) who end up in relationship dynamics just like that over and over again because they start dating someone who doesn't quite fit, and they compensate for it by trying to force a connection instead of accepting loneliness and isolation. I have a lot of sympathy for Tammy. And I wish the show had taken more care to establish the abuse she faced from her coworkers off-camera.