#do something different

[lolotheparagon]

I always thought it troubling how Lisa always was portrayed as the golden child who had her parents respect and attention, had interesting emotional episodes about her hobbies and how they relate to her relationships with others (Lisa the Drama Queen, Lisa the Vegetarian, Lisa the Greek) growing up to have a successful career in every alternate future episode the Simpsons has had so far (Lisa’s Wedding, Bart to the Future and Future-Drama, Holidays Passed) whereas Bart was always portrayed as the black sheep of the family who’s got no unique talents outside of causing mischief, his relationships with others is nowhere near as focussed on as much as Lisa’s since most of his episodes are either him falling in love with some girl or doing something stupid and facing the consequences. And future episodes always portray him growing up to be either a depressed loser or a divorced man struggling to connect with his own children. There even times where the show was just cruel to Bart for no reason. Like there was a whole episode where the city of Springfield villified poor Bart cos he lost a baseball game. Not to mention there was a 20 year long running gag of Homer strangling Bart for comedic effect.

I think his fame of being a rebel kid from the 90s has really affected his characterisation, even to this day. People forget this but back in the 90s, Bartmania was everywhere. People thought Bart’s devil may care attitude and one liners was peak comedy but because of this, the writers realised that he should always be this rebel who’s book dumb but still had a good heart cos that’s what people wanted to see. Which is fine, but that doesn’t give that much dimension to a main character. And that’s gonna get old really fast. And it did.

He became flanderised and almost turned into the show’s second biggest butt monkey next to Homer. Homer’s antics and him getting his comeuppance is funny cos he’s a grown man with the mindset of a bratty child and that is something that will never stop being funny. But Bart is a kid who may not excel at schoolwork and likes to cause trouble but he is a legit good kid with a good heart.

And the show mostly treats him like the butt of a joke or constantly remarks that he’s never gonna amount to anything in the future.

Even in episodes where he develops new hobbies that would be ideal things to expand with his character are dropped quickly whereas Lisa gets a whole episode about Buddhism and that is implemented throughout the show whereas Bart gets one episode about him taking up drumming as a hobby and the show is like poof gone. Like has no one noticed that Bart got a LOT of episodes of him caring for animals? Why don’t we have an episode where he wants to be a vet or wants to work in a zoo part time but ends up in a crappy cleaning job and makes friends with a beluga whale or something.

I just think Bart gets way too much negative attention and is severely underdeveloped for a main character in a 30 long sitcom show

[dinosaurwithablog]

I wanted to do something different for breakfast so I took my eggs and made egg foo young. The eggs are very light and fluffy and the sauce is delectable. I'm gonna have this much more often. It's very easy to make and it's healthy and delicious 😋 😊 😍 🤗 I think that I need to make some more right now!!!

[automatic-purification-system]

Congratulations @azusamifuyu !!!!! she’s here!!!!!!!! the wait can finally end!

[mabelsguidetolife]

[curling up in bed, trembling, longing for death] I am being soooooo normal lately :-)

[eyez-so-knew]

LOOK HOW MUTHAFUCKING BEAUTIFUL CALYPSO CAME OUT! Oh mah gawd! 😻😻😻 I’m a so so pleased with the outcome on this design and had so much fun creating it. Had to fight my now 10 month old for my iPad but i got it done.😎

What do you guys think I should do with this design?

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

I get with Tumblr people are gonna do the same gifsets and stuff that’s expected. But come on if you’re gonna do a similar gifset just make it somewhat different. Like this isn’t even close to different this is exactly the same. *Rolls eyes

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[lgbtlunaverse]

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

Why is it so hard to find audios with a nonverbal listener this is so frustrating

[yusuke-of-valla]

Nothing defines me as being a gen v kid more than anything else than the fact that if bw remakes are bad I'm just not going to be able to handle it emotionally? Like I can't be distant about it or angry I will just be emotionally destroyed.

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[eyez-so-knew]

3 days left to cop my #MFDOOM design!

[emmyrosee]

Could you maybe do smth like cuddling with sukuna

👉👈

Backs facing each other, you gently nudge his legs with your foot, smiling as you’re able to wiggle it between his calves. He traps your foot between his legs, and you giggle when you try to pull it back.

“I’m on insta, fuck off,” he grumbles, but you hear the annoyed smile in his voice.

“I wanna snuggle,” you mewl.

“Yeah, and I want to see how this dude makes this garlic bread.”

You slip your own phone off the nightstand and open your message app, clicking his name and quickly typing.

SENT I want attention, boyfriend 🫶🏻

You hear him snort and blunt nails briefly scratch down the sole of your trapped foot, making you try to tug it back and squeal in surprise. “You want attention?” He begins, letting go of your foot so he’s able to turn on his side and spoon you from behind, body contorting to be straight curled behind you. “Well let me tell you something- I always give you my damn attention. You just can’t live without it.”

You practically purr as he loops his arms around you, tugging you closer and letting his warm hands slip under your hoodie, warm touch on your tummy relaxing you. “You’re right,” you hum. “I just want you all to myself all the time. Not my fault you give in.” He hikes up his voice to offer you a mocking “mi meh mi meh mi”’s. You call him a brat in reply.

“If you won’t let me scroll on my instagram, scroll on yours so I can watch,” he demands.

“I can’t, I follow naked anime men.”

“Im sure you’re joking, but so help me god if you go on Instagram and there’s a naked anime man, I’m blowing up your phone.” You offer him a laugh and slip out your phone to scroll, relishing in the little kiss he plants to your jawline, then adjusting his head to be able to watch your timeline with you.

You can’t help but grin as you feel one of his feet prod to try and get between your legs, mimicking how yours was just moments ago.

[perception-1111]