#Various Genres

[mrbopst]

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[thecakeisnotalie]

31 Songs for 31 Years

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pull up, i'm live till 5 pm EST

[grison-in-space]

yeah all right I'm at s5e2 of this dumb firefighters show and look I'm sorry I haven't seen anything this intensely but unacknowledgedly gay without feeling the need to either no homo itself or engage with a very special episode subplot since, like... Due South. Or The Sentinel. It keeps using all the same tropes you see between the main love interests in an ensemble piece, just centered on two people who happen to be guys.

I'm weirdly convinced that this is a deliberate choice to probe the genre and play with the writing opportunities afforded by taking these really standard and familiar procedural tropes and storylines, and then mixing the genders willy nilly. After all, this show is... not subtle about making a habit of that throughout: it loooooooves to dig through familiar procedural subplots with gendered expectations and subversions. This is, in fact, the show that kicks its first arc off by exploring the possibilities for character decisions entailed by a loving, supportive marriage divorcing because one partner wants to come out as gay. It's a show that gives all its most traditionally masculine subplots to Athena, the most femme woman on the main cast! It really wouldn't be out of character for the show to move in that direction.

I'm not actually invested in canon Buck/Eddie per se— I've never needed that from my fandom time — but I'm fascinated by the storytelling opportunities afforded to it, and I'm keenly aware that writers rooms almost definitely include people in them now who have spent a significant time in fandom as participants, and who have thought deeply about the ways that gender can shape stories (particularly though the venue of always-a-gender! AUs). I'm also.... hm, how shall I put this...

That relationship is already textually queer. Wills have been modified involving custody and co-parenting agreements, okay, we are firmly in the territory of "immediate family" commitment levels. They could both be 1000% straight and cis and this would still be a relationship that queers normative expectations, particularly on men and especially on young men. I don't actually need it to do anything else to love it.

So I'm not coming from a place of wanting to see anything in particular in that respect, but I gotta say: it really feels to me that this show is playing with the ability to have its cake and eat it too in terms of the "will they/won't they" dynamic of the "main couple" in a television series: you can be as dramatic and iddy as you want, really dial up those emotional stakes, but at the same time your audience isn't huffing and whining that everything is so predictable because just by existing between two men you're subverting audience expectations.

It's really interesting. I'm enjoying myself a lot.

[varyathevillain]

you know what I really like in season 2? how Jim Jimenez, who was not exactly part of the comedy in S1, which was most probably the reason why Blackbeard got them into the new crew in the last episode of S1... is now hamming it up as much as they can.

they used to be the silent support (posing as literally silent, mute) of the crew, someone who'd be on the fringes of both conflicts and comedic situations. and then, when Jim realises what exactly the good old days were to them, things they miss, the stories Stede told... they re-enact the wooden boy story the best they could. bring up the "toxic environment" to Izzy, refuse to let good things go, don't run from them, kiss Archie when she allows, ham it up with jokes and needlings, have a curly moustache drawn onto them and are the life of the party, and then Jim's the one to help Olu out with his new romantic partner. you'd think S1!Jim would be called "nosy interferer"? personally, wouldn't think so.

as much as we call a certain other character "person amongst Muppets", Jim Jimenez had also escaped their own genre, of "Hispanic revenge thriller", into queerness and acceptance of it wholeheartedly. with Jim being themselves, nonbinary and poly and breaking as many stereotypes as they can.

[hawkogurl]

[posthumanwanderings]

did these surplus aesthetic frutiger aero mix maker gurus forget the term ambient existed? or muzak (non-intrusive background music meant to soothe)? making ambient music in mid 2000's is no different than making it in the 80's so it doesn't need its own cool social media exclusive term. there's nothing groundbreaking about lumping pseudo similar things together slapped with a new name just to get people to pay attention to your youtube page / blog more. also so many people bashed the Wii for longest time til just recently after this net fascination with mid 2000's which if you ask me was a very dull time period for me that I never look back on. weirdly though looking up the FA tag on here has more 'Y2K' vibes than the actual Y2K tag people pass around here which is so chaotic bad that I never even look it up anymore (even after all those video essays it has never helped alleviate that problem 😔). guess I have nothing else to say on this subject other than I wish I wasn't so stuck on the internet where everyone thinks they invented the god damn wheel or can base their entire lifestyle on an aesthetics wiki page. as long as my claim to fame is being the NoPlay person or the Toonami-pilled page I don't give af what anyone thinks about me or my sites 👍

[thedevotionaltour]

sci-fi and horror are two beautiful girls who are holding each other intertwined close as possible and making out

[commsroom]

doug eiffel is relatively offline, his choice of... constant, unyielding background noise so he never has to be left alone in the company of his own thoughts... is the radio and/or tv, but he is also always watching youtube videos like "Can We Drive 1,200 MILES in an ABANDONED Van With NO TITLE? - First Start in 17 Years" and "Monster Jam - INSANE AIR Compilation." zero doubt.

[unironicallycringe]

immersion be damned that twink can drive a truck

[mrbopst]

Good News: Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by Lorene Mann, The Psychedelic Aliens, Glen Adams & The Bunny Lee All-Stars, U.B.’s Group, Marie Franklin, Alan Moorhouse, Peta Teanet, Can, The Super Stocks, Modern Nature, Piero Montanari, B.T. P. Folders, Sons & Daughters, Little Royal and The Swingmasters and Sothy is available for free public consumption on Podomatic or wherever you get your podcasts.

This show originally aired July 1, 2022 on WRWK 93.9 LP FM in Midlothian, Virginia, USA.

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[decidentia]

Hey gang, happy weekend. ♡

I’ve really been enjoying having Royce on his own blog, and I’m now planning to curate similar single-muse spaces for my other primarys – Anri, Farkas, Odessa.

If you’re interested in interacting with any of them, please drop me a DM or comment on this post with the blog(s) you’d like me to follow you from.

This blog will remain as a multimuse, so have no fear!

[neosatsuma]

showing Malevolent fanart to friends like

[amethyst-halo]

i have had the concept of troll languages bouncing around in my head for aaaages...... and with tbt we see some pop troll alphabet........... stares

[public-trans-it]

God... I have so many Thoughts about Scott Pilgrim Takes Off. The original comics/movie had a message of "The power of love IS powerful, but isn't enough to fix things on its own. You have to be willing to change yourself first, and it's never too late to make that change."

And like that's a good message! The first 3/4ths of the series kinda fumble that message, and then it only shows up at the end, but that really helps define the emphasis on that last part.

The original series has also aged like fucking MILK. Bryan Lee O'Malley has been VERY open about the fact that it hasn't aged well, and that even when it was being released he could have handled parts of it a lot better.

And so when he got the chance to make a 'faithful adaption' of his comic into an animated series, a full decade and a half later, what did he do? He took the message to heart and changed the series to be so steeped in that message that it permeated every single moment of it, because even if the series was complete, it still wasn't too late to change it and convey that message better.

[hairtusk]

should also specify that when i told my students we were studying gothic literature, one of them just said 'why are we reading emo books' and i didn't even have an answer.