#experiencing at that point in the movie

[midwestgender]

worst thing about midsummer is watching Josh start to realize what’s going on. he’s clearly well studied on the type of neo-pagan Germanic beliefs that the harga ascribe too and he KNOWS they have white supremacist values (exemplified by him having that book about the secret nazi language or something which has a little more focus in the screenplay) but he trusts his friend and probably went into it thinking he’d experience racism but I’m sure he was like. well that’s everywhere for a black man! And he’s an anthropologist and really genuinely cares and is interested in this topic. But then he goes and it’s just this slow dreadful realization that this isn’t a culture, it’s not a religion, it’s a cult. And he is in far more danger than he realized.

[allthebestnamesweretaken]

Just thought about how the ATLA kids probably never got to be kids again, even though the war was over. Even if they wanted to be (which I don’t see them thinking they could just step back after everything) their circumstances and the people around them (not in a malicious way of course) just wouldn’t have let them and that thought hurts my soul

[juniperberrypipebomb]

Decided to log into twitter (hell) and outside of everything going to shit as always i found this piece of shit as my banner

I dont even remember when i made this but i do remember that i did and i remember how i made it

I saw a picture on twitter w some kind of caption and decided that i could make it look like a banner

i tried to add the fire flaming text that i saw on some reposted to twitter tumblr posts where someome makes a grammatical error and someone corrects them in a form of flaming (sometimes animated) text (never change guys, gals and all of you magnificent pals lol) but at the time i didnt know the website that you all used so i tried to improvise and google

I remember half way thru the making of this text being so upset that it looked like shit but after taking a break for 20 minutes i said "fuck it, it is way funnier this way" and i kinda glad that back then i decided to "fuck it we ball" it

It looks disgusting and i love it

[mcnuggyy]

feel like the older I get the more complex and weird my gender feelings get… I can’t tell if it’s me understanding myself more and more and seeing just how outside of average peoples ideas of gender I am, and how much I do not belong or feel comfortable in extremely binary gendered spaces (pretty much everywhere let’s be honest lmao), or that adulthood comes with its own very specific and weird “genderedness” like being a woman in her mid 20’s is such a specific thing, a specific thing that I am NOT. And yet everyone can only see me in that context that I very much do not fit in any way shape or form and I don’t think even many Cis women do… like idk man. I’m getting older and tired and I just feel very out of place the more comfortable I feel with myself which is kind of weird and ironic maybe? Like I know who I am and what I am is just so not any of “this” and it’s very very hard to exist in a space that is very much flatland when I’m a whole fucking sphere, excuse my high school geometry reference LMAO

[whiskrz]

one thing i dont see people comment on often is how in this shot

the applause sign is flashing. like, look! this is what you wanted! you can start cheering now! while there's a bloodstained animal picking over the shattered remains of a fake home and a half-corpse on the floor in view.

also, the audience is gone at this point. that sign is flashing for us. the viewer. because this IS what we wanted. something interesting to look at, which these days, is often something exactly like this: a tragedy

[forerussake]

just finally watched lost in the stars for the first time and i think i need to go lie down for a bit.

like. i had seen just enough spoilery material that i could piece the whole thing together the second they mentioned manman about 10 minutes in and yet i was still on the edge of my seat watching it all play out, and the ending still gutted me regardless.

[mintconditiondean]

In 14x16 Jack says that he's seen Lost Boys like 36 times due to Dean repeatedly picking it for movie night. Assuming they've been doing movie nights for a year, that means Dean makes everybody watch Lost Boys every 1.5 weeks or so.

I dunno. I just think about that quote a lot.

[peapod20001]

I’m the type that can and will cry if think too hard <3

[wild-at-mind]

Every International Women's Day, you will find that progressive publications publish their manditory IWD article about how we should focus more on women in the global south and yet we can't because upper class white women have their pink cupcakes and their CEO jobs exploiting the working woman by being customers and crying about Barbie not getting an Oscar nomination. I always read it and think....I have really good news for you, journalist writing this, about what you could do with the article you're being paid to write!!

[seeminglyseph]

Why is it that adaptations of “children’s” media for all ages or more mature audiences somehow involves “removing subtext” and “explaining everything in simple and plain dialogue to avoid misunderstandings by the audience”

It’s like the media targeted towards a more mature audience has even more hand holding and fewer mature themes than the media targeted towards children.

Like, yeah I watched Avatar when it came out as a young adult, and it has an adult fandom. But like many children’s media that has an all ages fandom, it was made with children in mind but was good enough that everyone could enjoy it. That’s the mark of good all ages content. Why are we making it more mature by like… taking *out* the messaging and subtlety and lessons and putting *in* really blunt dialogue that explains themes no longer present in the media and violence that enforces a message that runs counter to the theme that worked so well in the original media.

Like. Why is it that remakes targeted towards older audiences seem less mature in their storytelling? I know it’s technically “mass market appeal” but still, it feels like the assumption is that adult audiences are more ignorant and incapable of understanding media and difficult subject matter than children, so adaptations more likely to have adult or teen audiences need things explained and the lessons learned more explicitly family friendly and reductive.

[general-sleepy]

Horror movies really underestimate the degree to which I would be willing to disbelieve my own senses. Like, if I hear weird sounds at night, I will come up with an infinite amount of excuses. If I straight-up see ghost activity in my house I'm gonna immediately conclude I'm hallucinating. Off to therapy; prescribe me some antipsychotics. Someone's like, "It's all in your head!" And I'm like, "Yup, sounds about right! No argument here."

That ghoul's gonna have to rip my heart out and show it to me or whatever the endgame is before I'm hopping onboard. Hell, if it's one of those "feeds on your fear, gets in your head" fellas, I might actually make it through.

[bandtrees]

sorry for more aceposting but. maybe this is just me coming from the perspective of “autistic, asexual, and sex-repulsed”, but i really really don’t… understand why sex drives fan content as much as it does? whether it be “the overabundance of porn on ao3” or “seeing sexual violence injected into stories seemingly just to fill Obligatory Sex Quota Because This Is A Fanfiction And We Need To Have At Least One Sex Reference Or We Will Die” like… if characters have any kind of relationship it has to turn sexual, if there’s threat of violence it has to be sexual, and i just don’t… get it?

is this how people see the world and think of things? is sex genuinely that important to most people or do fandom people just tend to be really horny and want to inject it into everything? the overwhelming amount of sex stuff in fandom spaces just… confuses me more than anything - and i can give passes to people who just write smut because even if i don’t necessarily relate i get that people just wanna get their rocks off and write porn, and of course sex is a very big thing for people and it makes sense unmoderated storytelling will want to write about it but… the injection of it constantly into stories and making conflicts always About Sex In Some Way baffles me to no end. if characters engage in violence towards eachother expect a rape/non-con tag because that seems to be the only way some people can process conflict.

like, i don’t wanna sound like The Pretentious Ace Person Who Thinks They’re So Much Better Than The Horny Allosexuals™️ of course i understand that sex is important to people even if i personally Don’t Get It and i obviously don’t think i’m inherently superior or smarter or whatever than the average allo ficwriter, but like… why is sexual violence seemingly disproportionate in fanfiction compared to every other type of media. why is shipping considered the default state of fanfiction. why are most tags used on ao3 sexual in nature. why is sex so ingrained in fandom culture. why are most of the fandom glossary terms on sites like fanlore about kinks or smut tropes. Is This Weird To Anyone Else

it gets to the point where it feels almost alienating to participate in fandom as an ace person because i just don’t… understand? between the crazy amount of porn in fandom and the seeming constant of sex in fanfiction spaces (this post inspired by reading an in-universe political essay fic and finding a random graphic sexual violence reference in there???) it sometimes feels like the rest of fandom lives in a different world and will always prioritize something that’s completely meaningless and uncomfortable to me.

or maybe i just happen to find some strange Types Of Guys, idk

[s0fter-sin]

finally figured out the reason it’s been difficult to get back into reading books after reading fic for so long is so many fantasy books are just self inserts and the mc has no personality beyond the bare minimum

[unproduciblesmackdown]

one in a million when i watch smthing in the horror genre and don't end up disappointed to/and/or pissed off about it so like "also yeah i liked it. ooo" is like relative to that an off the charts rave review of media of the millennium. also i did think about mh a lot along the way so would recommend its affect/effect if you like mh's horror too

[joelletwo]

😵😵 okay idk if id understand ice ova plot on first watch or if im helped by having read the tvtropes page after last time helping me sort out whats going on but its actually not as nonsensical as id assumed. it is also. Good?

[frick-yes-dragons]

saw Barbie!

I have been Fundamentally Changed