#I’m not insane please LISTEN

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Ah yes, my favourite fandom —Mesopotamian mythology.

Anyway, I’m just making Gilgamesh-themed board game for my university, so now I’m spending all my time reading Samuel Kramer and listening to old Mesopotamian songs. It’s a really strange experience because while fandom is like…Dead…For centuries…

Ishtar (Inanna) and Dumuzid, my favourite hetero ship (I wanna eat pavement).

Inspired by Meat Loaf’a song “I’d do anything for love (But I won’t do that)”, it fits them soooo well.

[orioofthestars]

OFFICIAL RELEASE SO IM BRINGING THIS BACK—

yk Hermes’ new design? Kinda reminds me of smth…

[waltricia]

Bridgerton season 2 episode 3, “A Bee in Your Bonnet” is ✨magic✨ and let me tell you why.

For those of us who didn’t read the book and knew nothing of what was going to happen, we truly went on an incredible and surprising roller coaster of an experience.

We start the episode with seeing the guy from Hellboy and being like ‘oh yay, it’s the guy from Hellboy!’

… only for him to die three minutes later. And that scene is rough. It’s sudden and abrasive. And the sounds are jarring. The death is scored by tense strings. Then a moment of quiet. Then the AMAZING Ruth Gemmell begins taking us on Violet’s traumatic grief journey, which starts with her jolting Anthony (and us) out of the quiet.

And a thunderous heartbeat threatens him as he walks toward this entirely altered, unwanted life path. And that’s obviously the beginning of his PTSD.

In the other flashbacks throughout the episode, we continue to hear horrific, heart-rending pain radiate out of Violet while Anthony must not only attempt to endure it, but cover his own grief. Anthony and his siblings (and again, we the audience) all have to listen to Violet grieve while she’s giving birth! Screams on top of screams.

And the last flashback is technically quiet, but just as devastating because, like the moment of Edmund’s death, the quiet is weaponized. It signifies the death inside Violet.

It should go without saying that Jonathan Bailey is also a brilliant actor, but I’ll say it now anyway. Damn, he good! He and Ruth partnered perfectly in this grief journey. Serious props to them both because I felt this shit.

And then finally we come to the end. We had been immersed in the horrible aftermath of that striking tragedy. Between the flashbacks- in the present day- we had followed Anthony through the rooms and grounds where he had suffered silently. We had seen Edmund’s grave. We had learned that Anthony’s greatest fears and insecurities all stemmed from that tragic event ten years prior.

And then another fucking bee comes along.

And I swear to god, the first time I watched this, when Kate got stung, my heart was pounding, I was terrified, and my instinctive reaction was “oh my god, is she going to die?!” In hindsight, it’s obviously insane to think that she would be killed off at all, let alone in this scene. But the very fact that, for a moment, that was a legitimate fear I had is exactly why this episode is so god damn brilliant. I felt what Anthony felt. And I’m not the only one! I’ve seen other people’s similar reactions to this scene. The episode really is a roller coaster; easy, lighthearted moments (pall mall, drug tea), interspersed with the terrifying drops and loops that are Anthony’s painful memories which constantly haunt him. And then it brought us right back to that first traumatic moment. Because Anthony has PTSD! And that’s what PTSD does. Anthony is right back where he was, literally not far from the same spot outside Aubrey Hall, standing in front of a person he loves, watching them get stung by a bee on almost the same spot on their body. The tense string scoring comes back and Anthony panics because he’s completely helpless again.

And all of those elements- the setting, the scoring, the acting- combined to terrify us and make us forget something critical: most people don’t die from beestings.

And here’s where it gets really profound for me. Because it’s not just about how we feel Anthony’s fear. It’s also about how Kate completely obliterates it. Without knowing that history and without realizing the full extent of what her actions would mean, she does exactly the right thing. Rather than die and rather than also panic or shy away from his vulnerability, she meets it with her own in the form of care and steady assurance, which is true strength. And in so doing, she stops this cyclical moment in its tracks and completely alters the trauma. She puts his hand on her heart, and the heartbeat comes back. But this time, it’s not threatening. It’s inviting.

And just like in the first scene, the moment is over all too quickly. Just like in that scene, Anthony is thrust onto a new path. But where that moment was damaging, this one is healing. And we feel that too. And it’s the greatest experience that art can give us.

It’s catharsis.

And that’s why this episode is magic. 🐝✨

[juviavevo]

russell t davies if you can hear us please. rtd. please save m

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Do you guys ever think that maybe the “wizard’s most favored apprentice” thing was never actually true and that Greg/GGY isn’t actually the favorite but desperately wants to be so they wrote that to make themselves feel validated in their hard work and effort, kinda like how Roxanne tells herself she’s the best so she doesn’t breakdown? No? Okay.

[ricky-mortis]

A portrait of Sir John Herschel because I‘m normal about Pulp Musicals

[yourlocalabomination]

OMG TUMBLR FACE REVEAL??? More likely than you think!!

It’s Starkid Innit Day folks! I genuinely can’t wait to meet so many other Starkid fans and friends I have made in the community.

But if you guys see me about (aka notice the bright red button down) then please don’t hesitate to come say hello!

I got free prints and stickers to hand out because bro doesn’t know to to make bracelets 😔

[algrenion]

i know everyone and their mother is talking abt the Kendrick vs Drake beef but I just need to add to the conversation that I truly believe those three drops from Kdot (especially “Not Like Us” bc it’s so fun, though “Meet the Grahams” and “Euphoria” were DEEP call-outs in the beats & lyricism) were probably the best disses in rap since Ice Cube did “No Vaseline”

[fucknugg3t]

very calm about people being nice to me

holyfuck

[secretly-larry-daley]

Some may say that LarPhee is enemies to lovers, but the true enemy all along was just McPhee fighting himself.

[twinksintrees]

what if i never get to live the life i want

[clownwithoutamedicallicense]

MY BE NIMBLE BE QUICK CD ARRIVED ANNDNSNDNNDE

[chilapis]

My brain is so tender jelly due to NyQuil but werewolf ajax lives absolutely rentfree in my head.

[deathofdolls]

I’m getting back into my vkei phase AND I NEED RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!

My current favourite songs are Honey Vanity by Közi, Ma Chérie & Baroque by Malice Mizer AND Risley Circus by DADAROMA

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abigail hobbs is so girls against god by Florence and the machines coded

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Okay I’m gonna rant for a bit…

It drives me INSANE when people online get upset over seeing queer kids in media, even when it’s the most subtle, ignorable thing. I’m going to complain about this through the lens of Hunter x Hunter, because that’s where my brain is at, and also it’s a big thing with certain straight people in the fandom. (Not here, fortunately, but go to Instagram…)

I think it’s very funny how people will enjoy art of two kids getting married when they’re older (thinking of Damian and Anya from Spy x Family) and yet the moment the relationship isn’t heterosexual, they have a problem. How dense do you have to be to think that queerness is inherently degenerate? I know homophobia is stupid to the core, but it’s just…so annoying to me that people aren’t able to see their own hypocrisy here.

Part of it, I think, comes from people being unable to separate romantic attraction from sexual attraction. We live in a society where people don’t get asexuality or aromanticism. As a result, the absence of either romantic or sexual attraction isn’t understood by most people. There are even people who go “Love is Love!” and yet they won’t accept people who experience love in a form they can’t wrap their heads around.

All of that combines with the homophobia to create a culture of people who have no problem excepting Hisoka’s queerness and yet recoil at the possibility of Killua being gay—or god forbid, Gon, because everyone knows you can’t have a queer protagonist!

Hisoka is allowed to be gay because he’s a gross freak; he fits into the worldview of gay people as disgusting predators. Killua is not allowed to be gay, because he’s likable and good-hearted and someone we all root for. Someone like him must therefore be straight. Queer characters can’t be the protagonists or likable side characters: they’re required to be antagonists, because that way the gay aspect is just another thing that’s wrong with them.

And as we all know, kids aren’t gay. Some of us just get hit with the gay-beam as soon as we turn eighteen.