#deconstructing it. rip)

[mugmegan]

some imaginative forms touka's kagune can take

[literallyn01imp0rtant]

I recently had the honor of working with @deconreconstruction through SiIvaGunner! In addition to the music for the Friday Night Funkin' rip that premiered on their charity stream, I also made the announcement post and its art for an upcoming SECRET VAST ERROR PROJECT. I’m very thankful that I had this opportunity. Thank you once again, DCRC! :D

[simply-a-void]

Hey guys, fun fact we should stop reading before chapter 40. Hope this helps!

(I dont wanna talk about how the re-read got me feeling, I think it obvious)

[spurgie-cousin]

So it looks like Bethany is officially closing the Girl Defined shop, and says as far as everything "else" (idk what else they do besides share misogynistic Instagram reels) it will be tremendously scaled back so that she and Kristen can focus "on their kids".

And while I'm sure that's part of the reason I can't help but notice this happening as Bethany is admittedly deconstructing her fundamentalist values, and while her last few posts on GD's socials directly contradict GD's original mission.

[balleralbumcovers]

EPIC ALBUM COVER #53

SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES

Released: 2018 (MSMSMSM, Future Classic, Transgressive)

Bubblegum bass, deconstructed club

Suggested by anon.

[triplethreat77]

I was looking for something in my closet and found rare loot I forgot about - a shirt I deconstructed and hand painted. I wish I had more time to be creative. It still fits!

[omgkatsudonplease]

Lord Harry Potter and the Maiden's Kiss: Privet Drive, July 1996

“Someone’s writing love letters to you?” he demanded. “Who the hell would do that? Shouldn’t they get their eyes checked first?”   “Yeah? Well at least I’ve got someone who’ll write love letters to me,” Harry shot back heatedly, with another swipe at the letter in Dudley’s hands. “When’s the last time you pulled someone, Diddykins?” At that, Dudley’s face screwed up, as if trying to calculate exactly what counted as ‘pulling’. “I just haven’t had time for it,” he sneered after a moment. “You don’t get to be the defending Junior Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the Southeast by having a girlfriend.”  “Really? Big strong bloke like you can’t even attract a girl at school?” scoffed Harry.  Dudley spluttered. “Smeltings hasn’t got any girls—”  “Not even a local from the nearby town?” Harry shot back, before winding himself up again for another pounce. “That’s a shame. My—my girlfriend’s been in love with me since we were thirteen.” It was a bit of an exaggeration—not in the least because he was straight up pretending Draco was a girl—but Dudley’s shock was exactly the opportunity Harry needed to snatch the letter out of his nerveless fingers. After a moment, Dudley blinked and shook his head like a dog ridding itself of water, and scoffed: “You’re taking the piss. There’s no way you’ve had a girlfriend since you were thirteen.” “I never said I had a girlfriend at thirteen,” corrected Harry. “I just said she’s been in love with me since then.”

Read here on AO3!

[pepsi-maxwell]

reading tales of how media literacy today is deader than ever

reading the opening to dune: messiah which mentions how readers originally hated the fact that it explored the darker side of the hero myth of paul muad’dib, despite literally all of the foreshadowing in the first book

time is a flat circle

[marley-manson]

WHAT IS IT about due south that makes my brain whirr like a loud laptop fan as soon as I think about any second of it

Those tags led me to thinking about Ray in the first non-pilot episode, Free Willie, being held at gunpoint while Fraser walks away because he refuses to give up the bonds a bank robber wants, telling her that he can’t forsake his duty to uphold the law so she and Ray are shit out of luck. “[A bond is] an instrument of trust between two people indicating a promise that must be honored. Much like a promise I made to uphold the law. So you see, the problem is now that I have the bonds in my hands I'm honor bound not to give them to you.” So Ray thinks he’s going to die but happily robber gets so pissed off at Fraser she tries to shoot him instead, giving Ray the chance to grab the gun. So ofc once the problem is solved Fraser proceeds to explain that it was a purposeful ruse, he wanted to enrage her, and he’d never actually let Ray die just to protect money.

Which is a perfect contrast to Vault, the early season 2 episode in which that same bank robber returns to rob another bank, inviting the overt comparison between these two episodes. In this sequel episode Fraser drags Ray into the bank vault and seals it from the inside to protect it, virtually ensuring their inevitable deaths when they either run out of air, or the thieves bust it open and shoot them. He genuinely argues that it’s their duty to protect the money with their lives. “Ray, would please just listen to me? This isn't about the loss of millions of dollars from some bank! This is about the average ordinary citizen who has placed their trust in an institution. We're here to guard that trust.” Ray, conversely, tells him the money is insured, they were off-duty anyway, it’s not worth dying for, and he’s fucked up.

The difference of course being that in between these episodes Fraser lost his shit and tried to run away with a (different) bank robber so now he’s doubling down hard on his devotion to duty and is maybe arguably passively suicidal and willing to drag Ray down with him.

But like it’s so good as a compare contrast - Ray doesn’t intrinsically trust Fraser to save him in episode one despite having already ended up in the hospital for him once, and it turns out he’s actually kind of right not to! Fraser may have been playing up his devotion to duty over his loyalty to his friends in the first episode, but as a way of establishing a very central theme that gets explored a lot more in some darker ways, it’s excellent.

Like, the pilot and ep 1 really hit this one two punch of Ray devoting himself to Fraser at the expense of everything else important to him including himself, while letting the audience question Fraser’s priorities in return. In Free Willie there’s also a sequence where Fraser gambles Ray’s job on the case without Ray’s input, leading to a scene where Ray fully believes he’s about to be fired. It works out ofc, but it really underscores the ambiguous question of Fraser’s priorities.

And in Vault Ray brings up the number of times Fraser has risked their lives without consulting him as a point of contention, and the overarching theme of the episode is feeling undervalued (Ray’s sister has a whole monologue about it too lol). But Ray is resigned to Fraser risking his life without asking: when Fraser comes up with a risky plan Ray wearily tells him to just do it without explaining first. Their conflict is resolved when Ray tells Fraser to value himself more and stand up for himself, rather than when Fraser, say, prioritizes Ray over duty. 

Basically Free Willie and Vault together are a perfect examination of Ray and Fraser’s unbalanced relationship.

[ihadtried]

I used to be so afraid right after I deconstructed that I would return to the church. That suddenly I would have to leave behind this new life I loved and enjoyed so much, be sucked back into the tiny box that was my religion. Give up everything I was only just starting to experience. Delete my blog and block my new queer friends and repress repress repress repress.

And now four years later every time I hear a passage from the Bible it sounds more and more ridiculous. It looks more fake with every passing day.

I’m just so much happier

[afterthegoldrushes]

if you follow me on storygraph and see me reading if we were villains again despite how much shit i talk about it just know its because im writing an essay about it

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

Celia<3 some fashion sketches for fun!

the four on the right [cropped jacket&slit legs, slit legs&square jacket, hat&heels, and wrap top] are my favs, probably bc they are more unique & more her vibe and i altered the top two slightly by adding her arrows.

she would wear the wrap top or something similar under the open shirts/jackets tho. [rip her trenchcoat but that cropped jacket be looking good as fuck]

[iamlisteningto]

Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet’s STROBE.RIP

[lesbicastagna]

halfway tru the third book in mare fecundatis and its really devastating despite everything how good this has been like he was just that good at writing. that bastard

[talesgolden]

thinkin about that part in d2 where evie's like 'yes i will go with you to the place where i was trapped and abused because i want to help but you have to Promise Me Right Now i will not get stuck there again'

[yeeclaw]

sometimes a ship is good because an amv/fmv with that ship was the only youtube video of a song you were really into like fifteen years ago

sometimes a song is good because you saw it on a fan edit for your favorite ship like ten years ago