#SORRY. i dont watch tv!!!!

[ispyspookymansion]

@onehandkilling tagged me to list 8 tv shows to get to know me but unfortunately i dont watch television so im gonna see how many i can come up with

1. gravity falls

2. supernatural (sorry.) (this should count for several slots bc of how many times ive seen it)

3. chucky (also sorry)

4. ummmmmmm. stranger things i guess

5. jessica jones?

i cant think of any more even remotely formative tv or even just shows ive seen in their entirety because i watch one billion movies per year and No television </3 if any of you are tv ppl feel free to share and say i tagged you!!

EDIT 6. miraculous ladybug (refuse to be sorry)

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[dosnu]

🔥🔥💪💪

[racheld93]

TOMMY KINARD'S EARS ARE PEIRCED

discuss please. art and fic please. feed me.

[axel-tiredstudent]

i miss having energy to do stuff

[elftwink]

i know ive said this exact same thing ten thousand times before but it actually boggles my mind that we have just sort of accepted "generational divides" and the resulting discourse. generations are not real on the population scale. there is no dividing year where one generation starts and the next begins. the closest you can get to this is specifically BABY BOOMERS. who were born during the BABY BOOM. because a huge large amount of people had children immediately following the second world war. thats it. since then there has not been another clear generational divide and the things you think are clear divides are probably divides between specifically your age demographic and specifically your parents age demographic. because that's what a generation actually is when we stop trying to form stupid little clubs. im no longer participating in the legitimization of these terms & if i see the word zoomer one more time i'll detonate the explosives

[beady-one]

I'm sorry but I just keep seeing people put supernatural in there even though it Does Not Fit The Profile

[lottieurl]

in a hilarious turn of events the things i love most about s2 are the same things that make me worry about the future of the show. hear me out. s2 lottie is absolutely everything to me but IF they even had that planned while writing s1 the transition from late s1 lottie to s2 lottie is very very jarring. and then you have mistycrystal storyline which i just do not believe was something they planned during s1 and if they did then they handled it poorly. cause crystal should have been at the very least name dropped during s1 or something else should have hinted at what is being now portrayed as genuinely traumatic. and of course you can find ways to explain all of that. i did! but i'm not really talking about in-universe type explanation but what i see on screen and what i think IS concerning because IF they don't have the entirety of what happened in the wilderness mapped out in their heads then the characterization of the adults will always be unstable and shaky and inconsistent for seasons to come

[hyperfixated-on-hensper]

"This is so stupid"

- My roommate after I forced him to watch Henry Danger for 3 hours straight.

[laylawatermelon]

Lmao i just thought about something.

You can take it from me that buddie counts as a canon couple becauseeee

My autistic ass is so adamant on canon couples that of they break up or change anything I'm like i simply do no see it.

So technically with the way they act and storyline my brain accepts them as a canon couple so like.... I'm right. I'm always right.

Buddie canon 20290909!

[just-spacetrash]

😖

[stinkrascal]

if i dont finish the sopranos soon my brain will crawl out of my skull and finish it for me i think. this is a threat

[merrysithmas]

god satine kryze was so right

[bunnyb34r]

I wish my brain would let me play video games again without a care

Now I'm like "no I can't bc I'm wasting my precious free time. I can't reason using my day off to play video games when I could be using that time to do literally anything else" like fucking come on

[trinitywc]

I don't know if you're familiar with Overly Sarcastic Productions, but they recently did a video on the "Small Mammal on a Big Adventure" trope. Part of it makes me think of your series.

idk what that is but they sure are some Small Critters going on a Very Big Radioactive Adventure!!!

[smol-stardust]

Thinking again about how A Charlie Brown Christmas was a staple Christmas program that regularly aired on broadcast tv and is nostalgic. But also about A CB Christmas’ message of the holiday season amidst commercialism and superficial celebrations. How Charlie Brown, feeling disenchanted by the materialism surrounding Christmas, and co eventually find Christmas in each other. Something about the simplicity of genuine connections and the spirit of giving being the core of us and of the holidays.

Then remembering Apple bought A Charlie Brown Christmas, and kept the streaming rights to it. Making it no longer on broadcast TV. How it ignored the message of the over-commercialism about a season meant for people and giving. How it took the little simple joys away, giving an absence of the yearly broadcast. And it’s been a few years, but it still makes me mad, because even if they make it available for a few days, it’s not the same. It’s no longer the same CB Christmas we know and love if it’s kept away in this manner… and it’s just… wrong