#I have so many feelings!

[selemina]

Unspoken words. Mean gills my beloved! :D

[rosalie-starfall]

Picard / Crusher

Star Trek: The Next Generation

[shark-myths]

I've honestly been feeling the exact same way as you about the SMFS vid!

I feel like FOB's vids generally follow one of two threads: The most over-the-top, silliest self-roast possible, so they just have an excuse to be as ridiculous as they can (ie Uma Thurman, Irresistible, Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)), or a study in loneliness, and finding community again after you've been made to feel like you don't belong (ie Sugar We're Goin' Down, The Youngblood Chronicles, Young and Menace, What A Catch, Donnie).

SMFS manages to walk the fine line between the two pretty well, I think, and the more I think about it, the more endeared I am by it!

yes!! And I think over the last 20 years, Pete has become so used to being a spectacle, he’s started to just—put true things in plain sight under that thin gauze of silliness, knowing he’ll be dismissed and there’s no risk of being understood. the SMFS video feels like one of those thin-gauze moments.

and working with Jimmy, who came under media scrutiny for his emo look last year, amid rumors about his sexuality—receiving the pw treatment, in a way—while showing us something so soft and open, the see-through identity of the invisible man… well. this has ended me!

[bonemeal12]

Me too, buddy. Me too.

[rainbowcolored7]

OKAY THAT WAS A LOT. THAT WAS SO MUCH.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

[gibbearish]

love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking

[astearisms]

catalysts, protectors

[voltaical-art]

HE WAS SEVENTEEN. AGHHH ULDER WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

struck down by the mental image of an android laying down to "sleep" on a mattress shaped charging pad. oof. im experiencing the Emotions. rest well and recharge you dear little electric angel

[solidwater05]

Apparently this needs to be said so

Forgetting things is morally neutral! Memory issues are morally neutral!

You're not a bad person if you...

forget things quickly

forget people

can't remember entire stages of your life

can't remember important things

can remember some things very well and forget other things all the time

can't remember things (or anything!) about your interests

forget to eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, etc

forget to reply to texts

remember things and immediately forget them again

can't remember birthdays, events, etc

frequently answer 'I forgot' to questions

can't retain new information

forget things you used to know

only remember things when it's too late

have vague, distorted and/or unreliable memories

depend on others to know how an event you were in played out

have other symptoms that are worsened by memory issues and vice versa

... and anything else I might have missed!

[jeanivere]

arthur morgan tiddies and tummy thats all im gonna say

[rosalie-starfall]

The Phantom of the Opera (reimagined) Antoinette & Erik

You alone can make my song take flight Help me make the music of the night

[clarisse-doodles]

inspired by this post, in which Damian does not know what Vine is

[starspilli]

dc cowboy doodles & wips !

[blueboyluca]

“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)