#and all that baggage like...stop

[eilarae]

Stardew Valley Discourse: A Summary

shane: i have depression

person: aww poor sweetie im so sorry ily im always here for u

shane: *exhibits symptoms of depression*

the same person: ew there's no excuse for that

[ocelotlesbian]

i think the internet would be a much better place if people could dislike art normally instead of trying moralize their dislike into "oh this art is problematic and bad actually" and just accept that art they dislike & think is bad has a right to exist despite their opinion of it

this isn't about anything in specific, it's just a trend i've noticed :p

[thestormlightnetwork]

I love how you're all (all 10 people who interacted with my Jimmy Mushrooms Last Drink lyric post) fuck with me about Will Wood. I mean I haven't had this much fun being in a musician's fandom since like... Four years ago when I was for a year or so listening to 5 seconds of summer and got really into the fandom.

Omg I just remembered this really cringe 2014-esque that surely came from Tumblr about 5sos that is like sexual stuff about the band members which is like "drummers do it harder, bassists do it deeper..." And some shit like that.

[heckinggno]

(NOTE: just to be clear I'm not bashing any of the three characters I mentioned. I just found it interesting how she's been pushed away from the family members that she has a lot in common with.)

Isn't it crazy how Mirabel is connected Alma, Bruno, and Pedro? All three of key figures in the Madrigal family plotwise?

Mirabel has Alma's loyalty and love for the family, which emboldens her to have the courage to make hard decisions that no one might agree with, and yet this trait that she shares with Alma is—ironically enough—what drove them further apart from one another throughout the length of the movie.

Like Bruno, she's treated as the black sheep of the family due to her lack of gift. This shared connection of being the "dirty secret" of the family causes Bruno to go into hiding for her safety, but despite his best intentions, him hiding away is actually what makes Mirabel's situation worse in the long run because he disappears on top of everything else that was going on with her.

And with Pedro, she is referred to as his "gift" to the family, their one last miracle from their savior. They share the same courage that urges them to protect the family, but it is this same courage that causes Pedro to lose his life.

What I'm trying to say here is, despite having so much in common with these people, they almost always end up leaving her behind. And while it's true that Pedro's death isn't directly connected to her, Alma feared the implications of Mirabel's giftlessness because it could be a sign that the Miracle is fading—that the thing that gave Pedro's death meaning would one day disappear. In the end, this causes her to isolate Mirabel from the family due to her strange lack of connection to the Candle, which Alma connects back to Pedro.

At this point, Mirabel has already been disconnected to three key figures in her family from childhood. If Encanto had been a different genre, Mirabel would've been a character doomed by the narrative 😔

[pulquedeguayaba]

Been crying regularly since June last year but these last couple of weeks damn, specially this one that just ended.

I dont think I've ever cried so much in my life

[interstellarvacuumcleaner]

it's not that i'm an ungrateful asshole it's that every trip i've been at was a nightmare and i can successfully hold back tears only for about a week

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

My hot take is that some of you who live vicariously through fictional familial relationships yearn for "a healthy loving family" the same way a lonely person yearns for the perfect boyfriend/girlfriend/partner who will sweep them off their feet and dote on them and love them always and only focus on them and take care of them and protect them and provide for them and give them a fairytale wedding

And it shows

[hexcitrine]

randomly looked at this account to update my age and holy shit it's been a while since i posted here..........i have a small pile of art i have yet to post but hbhbshdbshbd too lazy

[oodlenoodleroodle]

Sorry to vaguepost, but I saw a poll about whether sex scenes in movies bother you, and one of the options was "No I think it can add to it (how?)"

And that "how" makes me sad. People are so twisted up and freaked out about sex that they can't see how it is an action that can tell you a lot about a character – just like all other actions:

Do they have sex with a man or a woman (or someone who doesn't fit into either category), are they in a relationship or strangers (or something more complicated), are they rough or gentle, are they experienced or inexperienced, what sort of position are they in, is there foreplay or roleplay, dialogue during, does it lead to further plot points such as pregnancy, etc etc etc.

You can show (not tell) a lot of things about characters by what they do and how, and in this aspect sex is no different from any other action.

If you want an example of a movie with a sex scene that adds to it, The Shape of Water has at least two. The boss guy having sex with his wife, and the protagonist having sex with the other protagonist.

So why is there a "how" and why does it make me sad?

It betrays the fact that people put sex into this weird category separate from all other activities (whether elevated as the be-all end-all human activity, or cast down as the deranged freak activity we should never even think about) and! people think that somehow your identity and sexual preferences should play a part in this all too, somehow!

Like another option in the poll indicated that it is an accepted idea that someone sex repulsed wouldn't want to see non-pornographic movie sex scenes. But no one would suggest that non-murderers wouldn't want to watch a movie where people are killed. I don't kill people and am really repulsed by murder, but I don't mind watching movies where characters kill other characters.

And I know its all because American conservatism and its disgust-based purity politics influences online queer spaces under the disguise of something else, and the people doing this shit don't even realise they're doing it. And thats the thing that makes me sad. You are building the walls of your own prisons without even realising. These sorts of hangups about sex can cause all sorts of problems.

And like, I don't want that for me, but I also don't want that for y'all. Please try to unlearn this stuff. :/ Sex is not dirty. Sex is not the ultimate connection between two people who love each other so much that they fuse their bodies into one. Sex is an action that some people do and some people don't. There's infinite variety to it. There are infinite reasons to do (or not do) it. Depending on the story it can be used in fiction to explore characters and further the plot etc.

[kilibaggins]

drowley is so good because i read a fic years ago and instantly fell in love and proceeded to imagine them getting together and getting married in my imagination/daydreaming and proceeded to have them as my favorite ship for years.

[asterdeer]

substack but for your beta readers, one chapter a week, easy to get feedback, you get to feel like charles dickens doing serial fiction, is this anything

[dullahandyke]

the thing is even as my version of the ace attorney universe is heavily modified to fit the themes of the characters within it, idk if thats even the right choice for the place to put them in bcos its not quite working. but also sooo much of it plays on aa status quo that id have to entirely reinvent parts if i wanted to preserve that effect

[pikslasrce]

my life became genuinely better once i stopped pathologizing everything i do. officially undiagnosing myself im just slightly neurotic is all

[scryclown]

anyone else simultaneously super anti-gender labels but also feel insane over the fact you have no words to define it. the struggle continues on

[wewontbesleeping]

why tf would shuffle play renegade rn? like i really fucking need to listen to renegade?