#(for blocking purposes)

[ex0skeletal-undead]

What's a movie you sorta consider a Christmas/holiday movie even though it's not at all?

Star Wars A New Hope has Christmas vibes for me because I used to watch it (on VHS) on Christmas vacation when I was in school 🎄

[vellichorom]

[fallowsthorn]

so we were watching prehistoric planet and there's a part, i think with the quetzelcoatlus, where attenborough's like "she will guard the nest diligently until the eggs hatch, but her young must fend for themselves" and without really thinking about it i said "oh, so she's a republican" and my mom nearly inhaled her soda

[snailvee]

common gravy w

[kiraman]

Screaming crying frothing at the mouth!!!!

Shogun starts today and I'm about to watch the first two episodes y'all I'm so EXCITED

this book REWIRED my brain in unfathomable & deep ways.

Also hiroyuki sanada is pure magic, genius, elite and I just KNOW he'll kill it as Yoshii Toranaga

anyway! Watch Shogun!!!!!!

[sick--angel]

i hate that i feel bad for being asexual sometimes; i'm v much kinky, and i always get so shocked pikachu face when it's sexual..lol

like yeah we're dirty talkin and we're having fun oh god you actually wanna do this??? uhmmmmmmmm i have pizza in oven...!!! HELP :SOB:

[humanbeanisnotamused]

i know that like above table by the time they got to that platform we were pretty locked into Double Titan, like that was the thing that was happening and the time to genuinely suggest another plan was like in the break, but in universe it's fucking WILD that nobody said anything about the BLARING red flag of fearne being like "oh actually I'm not gonna take the shard I'm just here to-" and ashton being like "NO NO SHE'S TAKING IT IT'S FINE NOTHING TO SEE HERE."

like that was SO.

truly THE moment to stop EVERYTHING to be like fearne. fearne hang on. don't look at ash, look at me. what's going on. what do you think is happening here. what were you about to say.

[valacirya]

Valid criticisms of RoP aside, I love that they chose to show how important Earendil and Elwing are to Elrond. He gets tears in his eyes every time they’re mentioned! He wears feathers on his shoulders to honor his mother! He’s trying to live up to his father’s legacy! But more than anything else, he just wants to see them again. 

[thegoldendaystrikesback]

God, sometimes things that bring you so much joy can hurt you so much :(

(qsmp vent)

I wasn't going to watch qsmp when it launched and then I saw slime taking care of his trans egg daughter and I was a goner. It was fun! I've never had so much in fandom before. Spending nights without sleep to watch streams live, livebloging on discord, reading fanfics and looking at fanart. It was fun! I remember that at the peak of my qsmp obsession I promised myself that I would follow this server to the hell and back.

2024 was just one awful thing after the other. And then the whole qadmin situation happened. I haven't watched qsmp since March. I can't read about what is happening on the server because the new stuff feels so wrong. I can't watch my favorite old clips because half of them has terrible people in and the other half reminds me how better things used to be.

Man it's so sad :(

Anyway, qsmp 2023 summer was PEAK

[asha-mage]

The most difficult thing about being deeply in love with the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (aside from all the other many difficult things that are inherent to that sentence) is that for the rest of my life I am going to know about Branden Sanderson, not as a vague author who some of my friends like and whose books were not to my taste or preference, but rather as someone who I will never ever stop being exposed to. Every algorithm is going to keep recommending me his books, every time he writes something new or says something new, I am going to hear about it, every time their an adaption or a new plot twist I am going to learn about it. I am going to never stop seeing fanart of his most popular characters, or meta circulated on his most controversial ones. It's just the nature of the beast: no matter how little I care for Brandon Sanderson, no matter how clear I make it that my only interaction with his work is the stuff he wrote to finish out WoT, the only way to dislodge myself from the background radiation, would be to dislodge myself from the WoT fandom, which I will never do, because I love WoT.

I understand intellectually that Sanderson is an author that many people enjoy, and if nothing else he certainly is prolific. But he's also not an author I enjoy. And yet, there will never be a world in which I stop being exposed to Sanderson, because of the indelible link between him and WoT.

So. There's that.

[mona-liar]

Some people are seriously praising the barbie movie as "implicitly pro trans" bc neither Barbie nor Ken have genitals and Barbie is the toy-antithesis to motherhood (and Ben Shapiro hates it, I guess) even though barbie and ken-ism is gender essentialism in material form and barbie is granted personhood by getting a vagina. Y'all are dense

[butchghostbird]

sometimes I think about Sam seeing Jess in the early episodes after she died, and how Dean was seeing Cas after he "died".... killing myself

[circulars-reasoning]

Hey, follower here - I don't mean for this to be attacking, because I genuinely have always appreciated you and your blogs, but if I can ask: Why are you supporting the Eddies/WOFC's system? That system has done pretty terrible things, and despite them trying to change it's... fairly clear they haven't, given their recent actions. As someone who cares about people that system has hurt, I really just want to understand. I'm sorry if this comes off attacking, I've been tossing around the idea of asking for like a week now so I probably just seem overly aggressive or formal because I've been thinking. /gen

Thank you for being genuine! Don't worry - it doesn't read at all as an attack, and I absolutely understand what you're saying. Honestly, I was waiting to be attacked for it, so your ask is kind of a breath of fresh air. I'd like to preface this with a TW for sh, sui ideation, and of course the general content of that system's actions.

Firstly: I do not condone the actions of that system. I think some of what they've done is disgusting, heinous, and genuinely has damaged myself and others to the point of even me wanting to end it. I genuinely hope they take a sincere step back and analyze what they've done, and why, and most of all, how to change it.

Secondly: I am far too forgiving of a person, because I get it. I have also been a horrible person. I have also done things that nobody should forgive me for - and yet, people have, and those people are the only reason I'm alive right now. Honestly, I see myself in some of their actions - my traumatized, younger self, who also had a "forced dormancy" and also said I wanted entire groups of people to die out of my hatred for life at the time.

What that system has done has driven people to SH and contemplate suicide. That should not be "forgiven" in the sense that I don't believe I will ever forget those actions and I do not believe I can ever consider the system a "friend" to me. I cannot erase that from myself. However. That doesn't mean I cannot care for a person in their time of need. Maybe that's what friendship is, by others definitions, I don't know. I just care.

I saw what the Eddies were posting. The majority of it was suicidal ideation. Nobody, regardless of how much I despise their actions, deserves to go through those moments alone. So, I reached out to let them know that someone out there cares if they exist, and someone out there wants to see them grow. Let me restate that more clearly for those out there who aren't getting it: I reached out to a suicidal person and let them know someone gave a shit if they lived.

I have this inherent belief that people can change. I think Wall and Jake were pushed to limits due to trauma and acted out because of it, and I think they were pushed further than anybody should be pushed. And I cannot fault them for lashing out (even if I can fault the action). I'm not going to blame a victim for their trauma responses. What I CAN do is reach out to them and comfort them while they're in crisis.

I also want the systems who have been hurt by that system to know that I care about them as well. I've been having trouble recalling all of the events that have happened (joy, dissociative amnesia and trauma shit going on for me!) but I do know a lot of the folks involved deactivated or were termed or what have you. I've reached out to some of them as well - a lot of people in syscourse actually! When I see folks in crisis, I always reach out when I am mentally able to (and sometimes when I'm not). I've even unblocked folks before to do so.

To anyone out there: My inbox is open if you need to chat, or vent, or get it off your chests. Always has been! I prefer not going through DMs when possible, because it can be a trigger for me, but if need be, contact me that way. I just... want to be available for those in crisis.

(I'm also going to be releasing a draft at some point about the topic of people being at different stages of recovery! I think that will touch on some of these ideas as well.)

[eggmacguffin]

Worst fucking thing about Harry Potter is the theme of extreme child abuse being ridiculous and whimsical and only perpetuated by ugly fat people. But! You totally don't deserve it as long as the people abusing you aren't your birth parents! Also if your birth parents are bad people you're evil by default <3

[cockneydio]

its probably because you ship giomis? That's a common problematic reason people tend to give

I'm not sure what activities these kids consider "shipping" anymore I'll be completely honest, the goalposts change every week to accommodate some new pairing they hate (and excuse some new "Comfort pairing" they blindly worship). Altho I suspect it's more of like, a nebulous feeling in your heart and loins that they object to than any set of criteria for appropriate or inappropriate material surrounding the pairing. That's why all this is just ship wars repackaged with conservative Christian moral absolutist messaging, but I digress.

But yeah, that kind of scans with the way that anon approached my blog. Cos if you search "giomis" here you'll get results, but they're not gonna be the "ProblematicTM" boogeymen like, idk, hardcore pornography or vociferous discoursing. I don't give enough of a fuck about any of this, let alone Giorno x Mista, for all that. On that my position hasn't really changed. Compare this to, for example, brumis, a ship for which I and my compatriots are currently in production on a whole fuckin rarepair fanzine because it got in my brain and got in there good. Nihilism does not preclude passion.

....altho I do approach giomis in the same way as brumis in that I am quite inconsistent about whether I'd want them to be happy or not......Does it count as "shipping" if I only enjoy scenarios in which both parties suffer due to their own and each other's moral and emotional failings? am I just really really mean to guido mista

[brsb4hls]

Serious question here (for proshippers, I'm aware of the anti-reasons): Lokicest has been a thing for quite some time even before the show, NWH spawned new Spideycest stuff. So why is there no new Strangecest stuff now that he met some variants? Shouldn't that increase too? Or is that not appealing for character reasons?

I mean, I myself don't ship it, but probs because I'm not such a huge Strange fan.

(I like him, but I don't actively seek out fic)