#always on watch

[blueiscoool]

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Hold The Line

Holding the line in Ukraine.

[nb-marceline]

(full article here)

[starridge]

puppet hour was brutal

[christadeguchi]

studio trigger understood the assignment. i would let her wreck me.

[antlergrave]

ANSWER ME

[desertduality]

something about the way the hermits try to blend their bases together when they're close by is just really sweet to me. I don't really know how to explain it other than like. it's art. they start out with their empty plots of land and then they shape it and change it and they start growing into each other. the lines blur. it's like they're all given a slab of marble and they carve their own statues but they make the statues hold hands. i dunno.

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[autumn-may]

Mostly spoiler free summary of my viewing experience

[lilysnotes]

Busy brunch.

[blueiscoool]

Peace, Love And Understanding

Spreading a message of love and hope.

[foreverfearlessred]

my favourite genre of post-race Charles Leclerc win is Charles finding Arthur at the barrier, seeing Arthur looking at him with such joy in his eyes and then Charles messing up his hair

[twilight-zoned-out]

Learning about the Doctor Who specials' expanded budget: oh no, what if they overuse CGI to look more 'professional' and high-budget?

The first scene of the Doctor Who Special:

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[geryone]

The Instagram reel romance book pitches are getting so outrageous like how am I not supposed to laugh at this??

[doodleswithangie]

Merry Moonar Yulenear!

[Image Description: Fanart of the Bad Kids from Dimension 20's "Fantasy High: Junior Year" episode 11, exchanging gifts for Yulenear. Alt text provided and copied below the cut. End ID.]

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Image one: Adaine pats a pouting Fabian on the shoulder as he plays his pipes of the sewers to summon rats.

Image two: Fabian gives Adaine an ear worm that immediately burrows into her ear and dizzies her.

Image three: High above the ground, Kristen hangs off of her immovable rod as Fig cheers her on from below.

Image four: Riz hugs Kristen and admires his Riddler-styled bracers of defense.

Image five: Gorgug examines his potion of fire giant strength and asks, "Is this legal?" Riz replies, "No!"

Image six: Gorgug sheepishly watches as Fig uses her orangutan mask of beasts to ask the rats to show hole. Fabian shields his eyes.

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