#but it deserved its own post

[soldier-poet-king]

"but what if?" thinking is a life ruining compulsion and obsession with OCD and it just fuels spirals and it's turtles all the way down and if I could remove it from my thought patterns I would.

But also. But what if the 'but what if?' was good and kind? What if things work out? What if something good is just around the corner? What if love and joy and peace find you? What if all shall be well at the end of all things? What if there is goodness and kindness and love and beauty not just despite, but because of, the horrors? What if the uncertainty is a gift?

[local-redhead-bookworm]

If Billy was a girl and Ted was going after her instead of Karen, y’all would be singing a different tune…

[ellecove]

Immersive gaming

[tylerposey]

[lazylittledragon]

someone in my request box said lae'zel should get to try an oreo

[mirkwoodest]

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[potato-lord-but-not]

finally watched the movie and was so disappointed I had to draw the man to cope

[starlightseraph]

house md so wonderful and brilliant because it is simultaneously the heaviest, darkest, most serious show about love and loss and how trauma shapes people and the most unhinged thing you'll ever experience.

[starchaserdreams]

Who's the best character of the series?

THE MAIN CHARACTER'S DAD'S BEST FRIEND'S BROTHER

[bizarrelittlemew]

nose smoosh 🫠💗

[stormcallart]

He raised a villain

[storywood]

Can you find the four leaf clover? 🍀✨

[xoxoemynn]

For the record, I'm not going anywhere.

They may have killed S3, but they'll never be able to even touch what DJenks and every single person involved with Our Flag Means Death created.

This show will live on in all of us. Long may we roam.

[ftmtftm]

Maybe if some of y'all realized that transitioning isn't so you can be cis, it's so you can be you, you would be a lot happier and less beholden to this idea that we're the same and have the same experiences as cis people

[chrxnicdaydream]

hc that Dazai made a point of calling Chuuya small when they met because Dazai was used to being the small one.

like, finally there was someone shorter than him. because let’s be real, Dazai was barely taller than Chuuya in Fifteen.

i think people forget how small Dazai was too— not just in height, but also in weight. He was underweight in Dark Era, but in Fifteen & even at present he's barely within the healthy weight range for his height. he was constantly described as a twig in Fifteen, and almost every time he's introduced in the light novels he's called lanky, slender, etc.