#3 in 1 solution

[scalierpepper]

Canaan crew appreciation post ^

(All scenes from Reinaeiry's Take Me to Church but it's EPIC video.)

Also, there was a lot of thought put into the details and compositions for this video, and it was like 4 months of my life so I want to talk abt it ! For lack of better place to do so I've dumped everything under the cut again:

Some details/process I personally enjoy:

I used images of pluto as my color scheme for the ninth house:

And last but not least, perhaps one of my favorite details of the whole project...we took inspo from religious and classical imagery for a big handful of the compositions or poses. The art I chose to pair with each scene was very intentional:

[shoukohime]

[isacksteban]

threesome.

[motsimages]

As per Tumblr recommendation, I started Kevin can fuck himself yesterday. I see people comment on how the sitcom part makes it look the way people see an abuser and how the abuse can be disguised. People think he is just a funny guy and the abuse goes unnoticed. I personally see it otherwise, although it's similar.

People know he is an asshole. He spends a whole episode being mean to the new neighbours just because. He meets a dangerous guy at a bar, in public. He is an alcoholic who throws weird parties with lots of other people at home. Patty's boyfriend tells her twice in the 3 or 4 conversations we see that he is an idiot. People know, and people avoid him.

And his bubble know, but they justify it and excuse it. And that's the sitcom. The sitcom is the theater of excuses Allison has (and then other characters too) about his behaviour.

"Can you believe it? We were in our anniversary, such a fun party, we were both super drunk and I don't know how it ended, that I was face down on the floor and the table was broken! Anniversa-rager we call it lol"

"He is such a clumsy guy that just as I was leaving the house, you won't believe that I don't know how he managed to cover me in chilli sauce! What a silly goose!"

"He is so helpless without me, he couldn't find the printer and he called me all day because he needed me to explain to him how to work it. And he worries too! He called the cops because he didn't know where I was, maybe I forgot to tell him".

The conversations with her coworker about husbands help drive this point. That's what mariage is. You find ways to justify it and to avoid certain fights and that's it. We got lucky.

But he did all these things on purpose. And the unreliable narrator of the sitcom makes the joke of it and makes the audience consider that maybe it isn't *that bad*. Allison needs to believe that's what it is, so it is. It really isn't that bad, she thinks, he is just like that.

And we can actually see the worrying things and the threatening parts from minute one. It's only a joke because we have been trained to dismiss it. To justify it and to move on. He isn't doing any heavy lifting here.

In episode 1, just the fact that he ends up standing on the table (when she doesn't want him to even put glasses on without protection) says a lot. But then the table breaks and he fixes it poorly and visibly. It would be bad enough just like this, but I personally think there is more to it. It's just that Allison doesn't want to speak about it or look at it so it is just the table, but it's the switch that turns on for her, the last drop. But she did end face down on her living room, on top of the broken table. It's a very elegant narrative tool where we don't see, but if we wanted to see, it's there.

And the more she notices, the more off-putting the sitcom is. It's still played as a joke, with the laugh track, but she is more aware now, so we can notice too.

We start the series with her turning point, but if the series started a year before that, it would only be happening in her house, as it is her life, her only frame of reference, and it would only be a sitcom because isn't he such a clumsy but caring guy?

[lunar-inkclipse]

I saw @lilythelitten ‘s post about the oxymorons mention in Murdle Jr and got reminded of my own annotations, so here’s the Lunar Annoted Murdle Edition! Or at least the highlights. Or, uhh, "highlights" is a stretch, It’s mostly suggestive jokes, a fair bit of cursing, and me calling them gay :P (Featuring image descriptions because my handwriting is not great so you can enjoy my classiest, highest of the high brow humor. I swear I'm more refined than this most of the time bahaha)

Spoilers for every involvement of murdle!!

[hesperidia]

Here is interesting bc Atsushi finds himself thinking what Dazai would do, when in the past that didn't work for him at all. The logical follow up (for me at least) would be he realizes he has to put Dazai aside for once in order to not be paralized and act.

+ When did Fyodor retrieve the page? did i miss that or???

[saltpepperbeard]

so this video is currently sitting on my YouTube homepage, and i cannot help but be like

[monstermoviedean]

i was looking for some spn thing a few weeks ago that led me to reddit and someone commented about how annoyed they were that in later seasons they solve everything with a spell. and that comment has haunted me through these last few seasons.

[millionsknives]

guys i literally cannot stop narrating my entire life to myself in the viktor arcane accent i don’t know what’s happening to me

[dw-flagler]

ok so a while ago i started writing this worm fanfic, right? I haven't updated it in like 4 months because... well, to be honest i've written myself into a corner.

So it's an alt-power (yes I know altpowers suck, i'm a talentless hack), and i wanted to make it so the last thing that lines up with canon is that the undersiders successfully rob the bank, even without taylor there, and then after that things would actually start to seriously derail.

Problem: how the fuck do the undersiders get out of that situation without taylor being a member. It's hard to overstate how fucked they are without taylor there. Even if you remove panacea & glory girl from the situation, they're still outnumbered almost 2-1, and they have no escape route.

[musical-chick-13]

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[figofswords]

anybody remember the stephanie brown essay I was working on under a research grant fully last summer? yeah it’s not done yet it super needs to be done and I’ve been avoiding working on it for weeks. someone tell me to just do it already

[rosemarytales]

everyone say thank you julian jones for putting your whole wrussy when writing 3x08

[professor-doc-emeritus]

There's a lot of reddit refugees/AI bot accounts here and on other websites that are spreading AITA posts around, but not sharing the required-reading post that's necessary if you want to engage with that content without becoming a goblin

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than file names

You're more amazing than Deific Artorius

[screambirdscreaming]

At the bus stop one time there was a gaggle of preschoolers waiting to catch the bus for a field trip day, and someone walked past with a couple of friendly little dogs, to great general delight.

But after a little bit, the dogs were getting overwhelmed, and the preschoolers were gently coaxed to back off so the person with the dogs could continue on. Specifically, one of the preschool teachers said, "Sometimes, when you're small, being surrounded by big people can be a bit scary and overwhelming. Even if they are friendly."

This was recieved as great wisdom: after all, the preschoolers were also small, and understood how scary and overwhelming big people could be! And the dogs were indeed even smaller than the preschoolers, so it made sense.

What was funny and charming was that, upon absorbing and reflecting on this wisdom, they all felt the need to tell it to one another. In tones of great insight, they turned to one another and said, "Did you know? Sometimes when you are small, being surrounded by big people can be scary and overwhelming! Even if they are friendly!" Back and forth, without any particular concern that they were all saying the same thing. Have reached comprehension of an insight, it must be shared!

I must say that this behavior is less charming in tumblr users than in preschoolers. Not least because tumblr users, having gained a little analytical skill to misuse, insist on Summarizing and Generalizing and Unifying the insights they repeat, quickly turning any interesting new information into formulaic dogmatic mush.