#category: sound

[clambuoyance]

call that range

(i was going to add more of his expressions and label them but i got lazy halfway thru 🧎🏻‍♀️)

[prokopetz]

Sideblog: A blog used to post content which doesn’t fit the theme of one’s main blog.

Subblog: A blog used to organise content because things have reached the point where tags are not sufficient.

Interblog: A blog used to coordinate activity between blogs.

Parablog: A blog which exists to explain the content of another blog.

Quasiblog: A blog platform used for non-blogging purposes.

Pseudoblog: A non-blogging platform made to serve as a blog.

Infrablog: A sideblog which presents itself as an unaffiliated main blog for plausible deniability reasons.

Unblog: A blog used to not post things.

Blogblog: A blog used to blog about blogging.

Superblog: But they were all of them deceived, for another blog was made.

[millenari]

PAC posted a couple short videos abt that ballroom culture Cats production and it's mentioned that they're explicitly intended to be humans, so it's going to be like that one czech production methinks

[tmmylovejoy]

One thing I hate so fucking much about people dig up shit to “cancel” people for is that they are never part of the affected demographic. They are not looking for shit someone did wrong 10 years ago because they want to make sure they’re a good person, they’re doing it because they want an excuse to hate them.

The obvious consequence of this, however, is that suddenly an entire demographic is deeply uncomfortable with a creator who once brought them joy.

A thread recently came out about how when Wilbur Soot was 19 he made a lot of very harmful antisemitic jokes. He is now 25 years old. He has talked numerous times about how much he hates the person he was before he was about 22, and how much he’s grown since then. He’s demonstrated this growth too.

The person who published this thread was not jewish and I would assume that the person who gave them the information is not either.

I am jewish. Seeing these screenshots of “jokes” about the genocide of my people fundamentally hurt me. These screenshots do not show his current beliefs or behaviors. It would be impossible to find these jokes if you hadn’t gone actively searching for them. However I still felt betrayed and panicked, no matter how much I knew that Wilbur has changed. I do not know if I can ever watch his content again and find comfort.

This is the problem with digging into peoples past this way. It is never, and never has been, a selfless act nor a form of activism. It is the very opposite. It is the exploitation of marginalized identities to justify your dislike of someone.

[svtskneecaps]

also in terms of the bolas playlist it's fascinating to me that the songs added by each person have a slight tendency to represent a consistent aspect of bolas

like

the songs added by slime are their chaos

the songs added by philza are their rebellion

the songs added by cellbit are their rage

the songs added by baghera are their anguish

it's so fucking FASCINATING TO ME but i don't know enough music theory to elaborate lmfao this is Vibes Only

(mouse's songs i can't boil down to an easy noun which is why they aren't mentioned lmao anyway they go hard asf)

(also i went on the longest fucking unhinged elaboration in the tags lmfao i almost didn't have enough tags left to tag "long tags" at the end

(i could have even gone on longer in terms of where their characters were at entering purgatory [philza: cage for a cage; cellbit: fed worker murders; baghera: her past as a federation experiment; slime: turning into a code because of the code pretending to be his daughter] but i ran out of space and also time it's 4AM AAAAA)

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

[t4tails]

if i see one more person saying margot robbie and greta gerwig were snubbed for best actress and director nominations i think im going to explode because like... who tf do yall want to take out? barbie has EIGHT other noms. and you want to take out two others from two other categories? lily gladstone? emma stone? be honest. be for real. i hope barbie loses every category bc of how annoying everybody is being about this

[kaiidos]

being trans is so funny because you can be the tiniest fucking twink known to man and still have the voice of a 36-year-old radio announcer

[sleepinglionhearts]

No no get started on the whole "new adult" thing, I desperately want to hear

Ok, so here's the thing about New Adult:

It's a genre that's been emerging lately in the catalogs I view when doing frontlists (essentially just pre-orders for upcoming titles) for the book store and I'd been wondering what the hell it was. I'd noticed it was especially common in the descriptors for the romance books, but it was often the ones with that sort of sexy-but-not-full-blown-erotica kind of book that also tended to have the sort of description full of fanfic trope terms and "for fans of [usually a Young Adult title]" or "like [popular title] combined with [other popular title]!!" <- and here it's important to note that the popular titles don't always sound like they would mesh well.

And finally, FINALLY, one of these books is highlighted by the sales rep who works with us and she's got a little blurb about it and I get my first useful description of what "New Adult" is:

"Imagine the golden age of YA - The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Mortal Instruments - but aged up and spicy."

S P I C Y

Which would explain why they're not-quite-erotica type books, you see, we're not straight up PORN we're just ✨️spicy✨️

Nevermind that a lot of these books do have sex in them, but whatever, it's SPICY because that's what's popular to say on BookTok!

Oh. Right. Yeah. BookTok also gets mentioned a lot in listings for this sort of title.

And yes, this includes the Court of... books by Sarah J Maas and things like The Infatuated Fae books by Jeaneane O'Riley. In fact, I'm pretty sure O'Riley was described as a "BookTok darling" in the contributor bio part of the listing, but don't quote me on that, I'd have to look at the listing again.

Anyway, these are some of the biggest offenders regarding that whole "we will describe this with fanfic buzz terms and BookTok girlies will eat it up :)" issue.

[cleolinda]

HOT TAKE

They should cap Oscar wins at two per category so that a wider variety of people get to win. It’s nice to get to prove that you weren’t just a one hit wonder, but stop after that. There are wonderful people with umpteen trophies but how many times have you just writhed there on your couch at the sight of some actor(s) who are really deserving, missing out because A Legend won again? The Legend’s career didn’t need a fifth Oscar. The Legend’s life won’t be changed by that. And that goes for directors, composers, costume designers, all of them. Start the nominations announcements with “Here are the people who got enough votes but are no longer eligible. Peace and love to you” if it makes you feel better. Hollywood creatives, I love you all (okay not all of you, some of you are awful) but there are specific ways to help promote awards diversity and this is one of them.

I don’t even know that this would affect anyone this year, I was just thinking about it.

[meirimerens]

rated Mature | Graphic Depictions of Violence | Gen

19.862 words

selected other tags:

the didactics of being colleagues; "messyyyyy 😝" edition | Pre-Canon | Canon-convergence | Canonical Character Death | Murder | Artistic Differences | Hauntings | Recreational Drug Use (in the context of the Broken Heart being canonically a hashish and opium den) | coping and seething about another man’s artistic creation as poorly as you possibly could

today I offer you a fic about the Stamatins and Farkhad's meeting, their colleagueship and its inexorable end; its ups, its downs, its digging-downs...

read it by clicking the title screenshot or find the link in my reblog below 🪡

[despazito]

Imo too many dogs are being shown too young

[front-facing-pokemon]

[smittyw]

(dailies 1/3/24)

bonus:

[arcsin27]

As a non sonadow shipper, congrats on becoming canon guys! 🤝 that’s actually really cool, I’m sure you guys are having a field day with it!

[s4pphoiduser]

in a world with an aftg show (because it Has to be a show, not a movie) seth would have a Pretty Guy actor playing him who looked even prettier when he was sneering or scowling and people would make edits of him with the velocity + slo-mo effects and be like "i can fix him"