#Values for 2018

[toastytrusty]

thinking a lot tonight about my favorite hickey interpretation which is that he is essentially a failed religious fanatic. to Me it is so much more compelling if he genuinely reveres the tuunbaq. he doesn't want to dominate it, he wants to worship it, or exist alongside it. he is deep in delusion and truly believes he has a genuine connection to it. he thinks that if he sacrifices the remaining men he has under his control to it, the tuunbaq will accept him as a follower. he has always believed himself separate to britain and its empire, an exception to its corruption. he believes that using the imperialist system to get away from the imperialist nation he hates makes him different than those who use the imperialist system to carry out explicitly imperialist endeavors. he thinks his past actions are inconsequential, thinks his resentment exempts him, thinks denouncing britain and allowing the tuunbaq to kill his crew will win him the respect and acceptance of this godly creature. but it doesn't. he isn't different. the pain he has caused for his personal pursuits is just as damaging as pain caused for grander, imperial pursuits, and is in fact the same thing. he is just as much a force of destruction as anyone else, just as much a target of the tuunbaq's rath as anyone else. perhaps more than anyone else. he lived his life hating britain, yet he still exhausted his endless quest for connection and purpose within the british framework before looking outside of it. he thought crozier saw things the way he did, recognized the same things he did, and he played the imperialist game as he saw it to be (abusing native people), attempting to chase that connection. but when crozier came up lacking and he came up brutalized, he stopped trying to find it there. he thinks instead that the tuunbaq sees him, recognizes he is different in a way crozier never did, can give him the soul bonded Purpose that he so deeply craves. he is genuinely mystified by it, sees it as so much larger and holier than anything britain has ever offered, and thinks it respects him the same way he respects it. tuunbaq killing him is much the same as crozier lashing him. he committed acts of violence to appeal to both of them, thinking it would win him their respect and admiration, only to end up as a subject of their violence in return, because he isn't what they want and he is never able to truly connect with people in the way he wants

[chemicalarospec]

A Waterparks/iDKHOW joint tour would fix me

[ampilfier]

chuuya in jjk. i have concepts of a verse ................... ?????????????

[palladium-poisoned]

tfw your mom doesn't value your digital art so you just spent nearly two hours sitting on the kitchen floor so you could watercolor something for mother's day

[tayfabe75]

When I heard it I thought it was from the perspective of staring death in the face. "I mean, yeah. It's not opinionated. It's stuff that's happened. It's what I was worried about. A combination of not being able to focus on one thing, and talking about my drug addiction, interspersed with the world, then me, then the world. I've always been staring death in the face. Always an existentialist, a nihilist. I just wanna have a baby now. Then I'll stop doing that." You want to have a baby now? "I'm too busy, but do you ever think that sometimes? God! Well, at least then me will go away! I'd like to become a vessel for somebody else's happiness. That's where I get meaning in life. I make music; it makes people happy. I find everything else a bit hard. I love my girlfriend." Why do you feel such an urgency to make so much music? "I don't know. Do you not feel really urgent right now? To articulate that is weird, right? I'm such a drama queen. Everybody is living their own movie, everybody is the protagonist in the world. If you're a writer, you want a great ending, right? I was obsessed: I'm gonna do three records. We've got artwork for the third. That's gonna be it." Do you feel confident that you're quitting? "Um. Yeah? But to be honest with you, one of the reasons I don't wanna talk about it is because I don't deal with change well. I move forward. If I think about it, I go backward. I've tried to distract myself. It's so hard when there's no answer as to why. Why? Because it's better. Because you should. I don't wanna have a baby because of my sense of salvation." It's okay to think that having a kid can be selfish. "Yeah. There's not much out there for them. I worry if there's really any point. Is there?" You're asking if there's a point to having kids? "Can we not? I don't wanna go down this road. Some stuff me and my missus have to iron out."

November 27, 2018: Matty sits down for an interview with Vulture, where he discusses his desire to quit music and have a baby. (source)

[hirazuki]

Okay, see, the thing about your story ending on a negative/dystopian/'despite everything that's happened nothing has changed in society' note and doing so successfully? It needs to have been set up for that in the first place, and it needs to be done in an intentional manner.

I have nothing against works that reinforce how cruel/meaningless/pointless/etc. the world is -- I enjoy a fair few! -- but the works themselves need to be some sort of commentary about it; the plot might be demonstrative of the futility of everything, but the story never should. It should take that and build on it and use it to make a statement, underscore a point, etc. to its readers. Having everything carry on business-as-usual without acknowledging it, especially in a genre that's generally meant to conclude on optimistic, uplifting, and hopeful notes, comes off as callous and in direct opposition with the values it extols.

Plus, the story itself should never be futile because, then, well, it never mattered as a work and it makes no difference if you've read it or not. Which... that's just a badly written story lmao.

[gentlethorns]

YAYYYY NEW PHONE TODAY. life is full of wonder and enchantment all bc i'm getting a new toy 🫶

[pisoprano]

Trick or treat!!

Why hello! Here, let me get you some candy! I’ve been saving this in my cupboard for… five or six years? That’s still good, right?

Oh, I remember like it was yesterday! Season 2 of the Ladybug show was starting to be released and our little fan community had come up with the idea of Chat Noir becoming akumatized—“Chat Blanc” we called him! Such a delightful idea! I wonder if the creators of the show ever learned about him…

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[verflares]

bearer of the curse (everytime i rb or see a piece of tp/ww fanart i start thinking abt how bad i want to replay them)

[alethiometry]

also ik it's like the new trendy thing or whatever in open world games to NOT have a ton of map icons and just to declutter the map in general, but i genuinely love systematically working through all the activity icons on a game map, i find it very gratifying and productive to be able to visually see at a glance what i have done / have left to do!

[outlying-hyppocrate]

my brother played sword so i played shield. my brother played scarlet so now i'm playing violet

[wild-at-mind]

Also now I'm feeling really shit about not getting to anything for trans day of remembrance this year.

[erased-promnesia]

reblogging my banger 413 post cause i dont draw stuff like these anymore :(((

413!

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more tomorrow because the power went out when the last photo loaded and im d o n e

[tayfabe75]

"So I've been writing songs since I was twelve and my songwriting has a lot of the time been called confessional songwriting, which I think is really accurate. And the reason that my songwriting has stayed confessional and stayed about my real life and my real feelings, even when my life has gotten bigger in a sense, more written about and more speculated upon, I still kept writing songs about my actual life and that's because you guys seem to care about my actual life. And I appreciate that so much. And in my opinion, I happen to feel that being vulnerable and being honest about how you feel, and saying how you feel, is really brave. And, you guys, June is Pride month. And I think a lot about how it's very brave to be vulnerable about your feelings in any sense, in any situation, but it's even more brave to be honest about your feelings and who you love when you know that it might be met with adversity from society. And so, this month and every month, I want to send my love and respect to everybody who has been brave enough to be honest about how they feel, to live their lives as they are, as they feel they should be, as they identify. This is a month where I think we need to celebrate how far we've come, but I think we also need to acknowledge how far we still have left to go. I want to send my love and respect out to everybody who, in their journey and their life, hasn't yet felt comfortable enough to come out, and may you do that on your own time, and may we end up in a world where everyone can live and love equally and no one has to be afraid to be vulnerable and say how they feel. When it comes to feelings, and when it comes to love, and searching for someone to spend your whole life with, it's all just really, really delicate, you know?"

June 2, 2018: Taylor gives a speech in honor of Pride Month at her show at the Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. (source)

[dlstmxkakwldrlarchive]

the og nuanced ot4 takes anon here, you know... there are so many sides to this its such a mess

because on one side, i do think that ot4s deserve the right to exist in this fandom peacefully and there is nothing wrong with being an ot4 if you're not being malicious about it (and like the 2017 scandal aside there are so many reasons why you could be one, i went through a period of just dropping kibum for a year bc man has consistently pissed me off with his actions for an extended time myself), because yeah - at the end of the day they're just a bunch of men and they're meant to be bringing some light into your boring life, not upset you. so blocking/hating on accounts solely based on the fact that they don't post about a member is kinda wild to me, some of them are just existing peacefully and dealing with liking the group despite not really being on board with everything it offers, and thats okay. it was a difficult year for us all. and i wanted to say i agree with the take on how the iwol and kwols perceptions are much different on this, as someone who exists on both sides of the fandom i see both angles of the conversation and its definitely a much wider gap than many of us realises

but obviously there is also the dark side of this which is just targeted harassment some of them engage in, and i genuinely don't understand how you can be an ot4 at all if one of the members makes you feel this hateful - like they totally ignore that their bias literally associates himself with the person they despise, how do you live like this??? i genuinely cant get it. like picking at random here but imagine biasing minho and despising jinki, how can you stay in this fandom if the man you love so much enables this horrible person? but at the same time i cant even be mad at them i think they need therapy huh

then there's also, i think twitter enables a culture of harassment and it is not possible to escape it unless you leave the platform, and id advise anyone who is disturbed by the constant drama there to just deactivate. you can get your updates from insta, or anywhere else really. it makes your life so much better, i promise.

also on another note jinki rly should not be opening his own fanmail, i was watching that video and thinking of how high the possibility of really dangerous things being sent to him is with how deranged these girls get, but also i think the hate might end online for a lot of them. idk i just feel like weve never properly processed 2017 as a fandom and it makes me sad

and i keep thinking how certain i am that jinki would get funeral wreaths sent to sm if it were a thing in 2017, and how fucking disgusting itd all feel a few months later.

ill stop the yap train, apologies for the essay /L

idk if this will feel like im watering down your point, but 😭 i feel like this is the same argument we do when we discuss solo stans like im fine with them and i think it's natural that every member has them since they're also soloists but i feel like not everyone deciding on solo stan is really fine with x member still being associated with shinee and shawols and yk all of the implications that come with it just like i feel like ot4 don't. and we're discussing those! and yk in the context of twt too. like, i agree i also think that platform has a unique type of hatred that got maximized recently because of the ceo change, too, and kpop stans are yk pests so it's only natural that we got at this point but its something you only find there tbh.

while i know there are silent ot4, i don't feel like talking about them even if I'm not against ppl distancing from x member bcs bringing them up feels like a shut down the ppl who are like trying to address the harassment and etc that comes from the (other) ot4s. honestly, i feel like ppl blocking eo in shawoltwt is good actually 😭 and i dont see it as something that is shocking or idk