#deviating from expectations

[calsvoid]

i’m probably making sebastian way too soft, but like i’d also be an emotional soft mess for blaine anderson, so whoops i’ll just touch it up while editing probably or not

[conversationaltreestump]

One thing I loved about Mickey 17, and specifically Nasha and Mickey's relationship, is that I feel in any other movie, Nasha would be this cool, distant figure who Mickey is in love with from afar, and there would be this subplot where this awkward, nerdy guy eventually does something really cool and heroic that makes her take notice and fall in love with him back. But that isn't what happens! They are happy and in love the entire time!

Mickey doesn't need to do something particularly special or out of character beyond being the person he's always been. Nasha isn't some ideal he's trying to live up to or be good enough for. They're both these fully realised people, and they're both worthy of (and have) each others love and admiration the entire time.

[vagueeyes]

INSIDE NO. 9 | S6E2 "Simon Says" Costumes by Yves Barre

[elysiuminfra]

catholic guilt is one thing but southern baptism shame is a whole different monster i don’t see many people talking about

[tayloralisonswift]

you in no way have to like what was that or anything lorde (or anyone else!) puts out but the criticism that she’s trying too hard to sound like someone else is bizarre to me because this song sounds like the narrator of melodrama all grown up… which is exactly what it is.,.. like it’s very lorde to me

[sammygender]

trans headcanons of the winchesters are always extremely fun to play around with and i can see most of them. but one that always rings slightly false to me, despite a love for it due to self-identification and the fact it’s definitely interesting, is transmasculine dean. simply because if you’re going according to canon this would require him to have transitioned at some point prior to johns death, probably much prior, probably as a youngish kid. and i genuinely do not think that ever could’ve happened. he values johns approval too much and is too scared of demanding too much of him.

like even aside from whether john is Actually transphobic (i doubt he’s like Cartoonishly transphobic he probably would be annoyed by it slash not care much, interpret ‘not caring’ however you want) just the whole Thing of coming out where you’re like. “Hey dad im actually a human person who has an internal sense of self and such that doesn’t happen to be You 2.0 and am not the gender you thought i was and i feel emotions to such an extent that i actually like need to transition”��….

no fucking way dean would ever be able to do that to john while he’s still alive. please. teenage transmasculine dean would be like Well yeah sure i want to be a guy but that’s not an option for me whatsofuckingever. and crucially he’d be like that even if he knew entirely about trans people. now this is why transfemme dean works so well. because you just know it would take her at least thirty years to even consider it for a singular second.

on the other hand transmasc sam works so well because you can picture teenage transmasculine sam realising he’s a boy and promptly making it part of the whole entirely justified and very cool and fun teen angst rebellion FUCK YOU DAD thing. he could let spite carry him to the point of coming out. dean? he is burying that shit deep.

[utilitycaster]

Haven't caught up with NADDPod (or. any podcast. the podcasts start coming and they don't stop coming) and forgetting my headphones on this trip did not help, but on one of the chat episodes leading into the finale Murph mentioned they were planning to move to shorter campaigns. TAZ has done this as well, and I'll admit I have mixed feelings, because there are so few truly long-running campaigns out there and I think there's a unique sort of story you can tell with longform. On the other hand, TAZ has gone pretty open-ended (Vs. Dracula was 30 episodes, which is not short, either, and I wouldn't be surprised if Abnimals ends up running about that long as well). I also think that WBN swung so far in the other direction the fandom lost interest. Anyway, I wonder if Critical Role is going to do this post C3 because if you leave it short or medium but open-ended in terms of episodes, I think you can still tell a very good story, even though you can't do something with quite as epic a scope. You also don't run into the failure of ambition thing I mentioned before, in which you allot 4 or 8 or 10 episodes and then kind of run out of time; if you say "we're aiming for Not 100 episodes, but if we land between 15 and 50 we're good" I think it works out much more smoothly.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

i’m so . excited to write kitsune!geto and merman!sugu and wolf/hunter!sugu you have nooo idea

[jingyismom]

if you only think thin women are attractive, or you only ever reblog images of thin women, or you only mostly do, maybe investigate that

"oh so people aren't allowed to have types? or aesthetic preferences?" of course we are. but when our types align as strongly with western imperialist patriarchal ideals as traits like "white" or "thin" or "young" or "feminine" then we should probably like. dig into why we're attracted excusively to one or more of those things

in case it's. you know. the inescapable patriarchal propaganda making us complicit in the punishment of women who deviate from those demands

"how do i investigate that?" ask yourself questions when you find a thin woman attractive. what is it i am attracted to about this woman, other than her thin body type? ask yourself questions when your eyes slide over a fat woman with the same style or attitude of thin women you find attractive. what is it about her that makes her invisible to me? or what is it about her that awakens a feeling of negativity or disgust? or of camaraderie rather than attraction?

i don't expect this post to change anybody's preferences or actions. and i'm not making it to shame anybody. i'm just exhausted by the relentlessness with which thinness is championed and fat bodies are erased from existence and particularly from desirability, and i'm tired of the fact that i have to notice it every second of every day, while most everybody else is free from thinking about it at all.

[calsvoid]

you are in love is literally seblaine’s song in my wip like it is them it was written for them

[canisalbus]

I'm not saying you should change the modern au, but I am asking you to imagine... Vasco with a motorbike and Machete hating every second of it the first time. The troupe! The opportunity for Vasco in biker leather!

I've been thinking about the possibility of Vasco having a motorbike, actually! I can imagine him looking fetching in leather. Too bad I know nothing about motorcycles.

[ceaselessims]

this may be an unpopular opinion but i hope tma never gets a visual adaptation

[normalbrothers]

i sort of want to put my thoughts in order re tommyarthur comparisons, mostly i think the similarities are more facile, but nevertheless definitely there

[k423s]

Any thoughts on Durandal+Theresa bonding over being clone girls who were mistreated by Otto but not being able to fully hate him because he was still someone they care about and a parental figure

GENUINELY THINK ABT THIS ALL THE TIME!!!!! esp w theresa's initial dislike for durandal its kinda funny how they don't really address this?????? unless im misremembering but god. yeah. love thinking abt them in orbit to each other but i dont know if they would be close. i'd hope they would though. like i'd like to think theresa starts seeing more cecilia in her sometimes and it like breaks her heart that she didn't manage to recognize her after she promised to look after her when she was kiana.

i think they'd make jokes abt otto's habits and shit sometimes just out of grief. they both understand each others complicated feelings towards him bc who else would understand but the overseer's other favorite.......

[binarybitex]

new Heart Hollow drabble alert!!!

read "Big Dog Privilege" here :]

[whoblewboobear]

At this point Wednesday and Thursday are the highlights of my week like I’m vibrating with excitement when I know Wednesday at like 7 something I’ll be sitting down to giggle at my favorite show like I- 🤧

I don’t always watch d20 seasons as they’re airing but for fantasy high, it gets so woven into my schedule when a new one drops 👏 like not to get super sentimental (I’m absolutely going to in a read more. Plus the season is ending soon and I’m emo about it but also just excited in general to get all the answers) but this season really means a lot to me. Absolutely none of them will see this (thank god) but the intrepid heroes & BLeeM mean so much to me. They made a show that is so funny and beautiful and kind and so stupid at its core and it just goes to show how lovely they are. The impact they’ve made on the actual play community is so huge. For me a lot of actual play was very intimidating to get into because of huge backlogs or the kinds of stories being told weren’t for me but goddamn, d20 just hits on so many levels. In part due to the storytelling and also just holy shit everyone at the table shows up and cares so much about who they’re playing and their place in the world and the story they’re helping be told. It’s just 🤧💖 I hope one day I’m half the dnd player that Brennan, Emily, Lou, Murph, Siobhan, Zac, and Ally are. They truly inspire me so much.

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**TW For SA, trauma, mental health + personal shit etc under the cut**

I stopped watching d20 for a long while. Give or take a year or two? I know it was around the zoom season era. Me and A guy I was really close friends with bonded over dnd and d20 and it was one of the main things we had in common. The night he SA’d me we were watching FH S1 from the beginning. And I think that kinda.. like I didn’t watch d20 because it brought up a lot of thoughts of him and that night and just so much ptsd.

D20 was my favorite form of escapism during hard times and it really sucked to lose that for so long. When d20 Junior year was announced I decided it was time to get back into the show because I missed it and I loved it and I couldn’t let him make me so scared that I never went back to what gave me so much joy. I introduced the show to him in the first place, I could reclaim.

I watched freshman year after I dropped out of art school because my parents and I couldn’t afford another loan and I was really lost. It took my mind off a lot of it thankfully.

Sophomore year aired when I started going to community college. I had a night-time psych class that would end about half an hour before the streams would start so it gave me motivation to get through it because I had something to look forward to after. Now junior year is airing while I’m dealing with a lot of health stuff + depression + job stress (now that I write it all out, both college stresses passed and I did end up getting a decent-ish, albeit very shitty job in graphic design, so I know there’s light at the end of the tunnel so to speak, this’ll pass)

I don’t know if they’ll ever do a senior year/graduation season but if they do, I’ll be there still excited and brimming with joy and anticipation for more d20 Wednesdays to come. 💖