#I’M. EMOTIONAL

[shima-draws]

I just finished the Starfall Street arc and holy FUCK I did not expect it to hit so hard. I actually ended up completing that one last out of the three but I enjoyed it so much. I thought it would just be a silly side story about bringing down delinquent school gangs but NO there’s so much more…there’s So much more to it than that

The fact that they address bullying in the Pokemon universe…I don’t know if statistically bullying in Japan is worse than it is here in the US but I definitely know kids are Mean. And sometimes the education system turns a blind eye to that. And people get hurt because of it. And this story arc is such a prime example of how one frustrated kid who’s been bullied to the point of no return decided to take things into their own hands. You walk into this expecting all of the Team Star bosses to just not like school or are rebelling against the system but no the further you dig into what’s going on you find out ALL of them were victims of bullying. And they just wanted it to stop, and they wanted to protect other kids who were getting bullied too. So they all got together and decided on a plan to eradicate bullying at Uva/Naranja Academy themselves because none of the adults would listen. And despite the fact that the person who brought them all together left them behind in order to face the punishment of doing so on their own…they STILL waited for their big boss to return. For a YEAR AND A HALF. They held out for that long because what else could they do? Abandon the person that helped them so much? And it’s so fucking sad that these kids, these literal CHILDREN had to be punished like this for over a year, when they were only trying to stop the bullying and continue on with their school lives and be normal kids.

But it’s so good, it’s SO good that Clavell got involved. Bc it may have started out as a “Hello fellow kids” meme but it turns out he just wants to set the record straight and actually give these kids the recognition they deserve. And the APOLOGY they deserve, that they were treated this way by the education system. And you know he feels sick to his stomach about the sorts of things they went through, and he had no idea because by the time he took over the bullying had already come to an end, and only nasty rumors about Team Star were left. How do you make it up to those kids after all that?? He’s certainly trying and I appreciate that so much

Anyway I didn’t expect this to make me cry like a baby but it sure did. MAD props for this one Gamefreak that was some Good Writing right there

[ki-the-iridescent]

it’s officially two years on estrogen for me. this year has been. absolutely insane but i’m comfortable. i never thought i’d be a butch lesbian growing up but here i am. i really don’t know where i’d be right now if it wasn’t for my access to hrt.

i’ve never smiled so much

[sa4phire]

Omg I’m—

I literally cannot contain my happiness.

Booktok has made me into a fuckin soursop.

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[stuckinapril]

Honestly the cliche advice is true. If you fill your life w things you’re passionate about, if you challenge yourself every day, if you give your own opinion of yourself more weight than you do other people’s opinions of you, you will actually thrive. Like no one can tell u anything

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

The Barbie movie really said. Yes you will grow up and childhood wonder will vanish. Yes you will grow up and learn to hate yourself, your body, your awkwardness. Yes you will grow up and lose your confidence and certainty and sense of purpose. Yes you will grow up and the world will seem a bleaker, lonelier place every day, and society will seem bleaker and lonelier every day, and you won’t understand what went wrong in the span of just a few years, what took you from a happy and secure young girl to a sad, uncertain, scared grown woman.

And yet. You will learn to find beauty again. You will find joy in not having a purpose, in building a purpose for yourself. You will find beauty in connection, with the people and the world around you. You will learn to love signs of ageing as proof of a life well lived, of experience and happiness. You will take that little girl by the hand and tell her “I know, this isn’t what you thought it would be, but it’s real. Let me show you how beautiful it can be.”

[luriuan]

Love how Sokka spent an entire 2 episodes hating on Aang, then immediately became his older brother in the third.

[pucksandpower]

Does it ever drive you crazy …

… just how fast the night changes?

[bardy-boy]

Riz is the only person who can take stress for other people

Riz is the only person who can take stress for other people

Riz is the only person who can take stress for other people

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

[contactlessdrivethru]

there is something unique and deeply special about monkey d luffy as a protagonist. he’s overwhelmingly ADORED by the fandom. he’s consistently the most or at least top 3 most popular characters in the whole series. peoples takes about him are gushingly positive. and that’s… really uncommon.

a LOT of fandoms i’ve witnessed or been in have a tendency to favor characters other than the main character. especially in anime. the main characters are often written as a blank slate for readers/watchers to project onto, but that makes them not as interesting and so they don’t get the fan attention.

but luffy is so far from that. and he’s ALWAYS been this way. we love him so much. he’s the heart of the story and the heart of the fandom in every single way. and i think that speaks to how well-written he is as a character. he’s fun and charming and complex and interesting and he makes us laugh and cry and cheer and hope and love. he’s able to inspire so much joy in people, both in his world but also in this one. and i think that’s really special. i feel so grateful to have found this story that means so much to me, and i’m so grateful that luffy exists.

[thethoriumreactor]

human alastor

(With a bonus baby al)

(Ignore whatever tf I did with the microphones idk how they work I’m sorry)

[lunarlivs]

here is harry as fun kids i found on pinterest :)

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

Begging swifties to understand that Taylor didn’t write reputation and Lover with the knowledge of how the relationship was going to end and that trying to “excavate” those albums for evidence to prove a specific theory as to why it ended is not how they should be viewed. Taylor wrote those songs feeling a very specific way because that’s what she was experiencing and she is now reflecting on them with hindsight and relates to them differently than when she first created them. These conflicting emotions can exist; how she views it now doesn’t diminish how she felt about it when she first released it.

[vita-divata]

Together again

[stuckinapril]

friend wanted to see my tumblr, and when i told him i can’t show it to him bc it’s basically my personal diary he went “oh so I can’t see it but a bunch of strangers on tumblr can??” he literally does not get me. no one will get me like the people in my phone get me