#gratuitous

[t3acupz]

Jonathan Tucker — The Black Donnellys [1.02]

[nuge]

leon draisaitl | the drop | episode twenty-three

[starcurtain]

A personal Alhaitham headcanon that I wish would catch on:

The gem on his chest isn't the only one on his body. He's got them elsewhere too--the backs of his hands, his ankles, a line of small ones along his spine, a scattering of green glass stars falling over each hip...

("You know," Kaveh says, mapping constellations stone to stone with the slow tip of one finger, "this really isn't typical."

"It's typical for me.")

[once-a-traya]

hi!! i know its been a million years since we talked but i was thinking abt enders game recently and looked thru our tags and wanted to tell u i just realized how much of an impact you had on my life. hope ur doing well!!!

oh hi!! wow, that's pretty humbling to hear, thank you. <3 i am doing very well, hope you are too! (even if you have now accidentally set off an archive binge in me)

[tonreihe]

Mary Magdalene as the paradigm of the artist. (David Jones, “Use and Sign,” in The Dying Gaul)

[lesser-mook]

The core of fanservice is exploitation for audience retention, for some it might not have "been bad" to see her bent over for no reason beside the fact that she's not ugly.

But to exploit a character solely because they're attractive, thus commence "fanservice" ie. sequence of events to reduce them to just a hot piece of meat in circumstantial situations geared specifically to further reduce them to a sex object---- Doesn't help them either.

Characterization builds character, fanservice takes away from them or does absolutely nothing for the character but dehumanizes them.

Because it's FAN+service, not CHARACTER+service.

And true fanservice? In reality is reference, through-lines, easter eggs, that's fanservice.

Stan Lee's cameos throughout the years, that's true fanservice. Anime/manga, predictably has this degenerate context where fanservice in anime specifically means a character (mainly FEMALE, ofc) gets bent over the couch for some instant gratification dopamine fixes, meaningless.

Basically Anime & manga has hijacked the term fanservice to mean "Sex-ploit characters for no reason, at any cost even at the expense of the story and character in question-- ya know, for the kids"

ie. Consistent Cockteasing is considered fanservice.

I hear what they're saying. But let's be frank, for some it wouldn't have been bad, but what good would it have done Dianna? Absolutely nothing. That's the point.

Her being attractive, is enough.

We, fandom/society/culture, have to learn not to exploit what we admire, just because it activates monke brain.

We don't have to ruin everything we touch just because it wouldn't hurt anyone.

And that's precisely why I respect the restraint on part of the writers, Turn A Gundam has fanservice, but for Dianna? It's especially toned down. And it further helps how seriously she's handled, and I can watcher cuter, lighter moments without worrying about an obligatory shot of her ass, crotch, or chest for no reason.

I can trust this show to know what the fuck it's doing without treating me like an idiot who has no other incentive to watch a show beyond the basic-minded factors. I like shows that take itself/ thus me/ we the audience, seriously.

Perhaps given the fact that her twin (Kihel) was a stand-in for the other "fanservice" moments and there was no point in doing it to Dianna when you already saw Kihel. Whatever the case, Dianna is more so solid because the writers (in an anime no less) respected their work enough to know NOT to do it.

Wouldn't have been bad, but it wouldn't have helped. Because it never does.

[horsejawbone]

I think "drawing awful things to cope as a teenager" has a line somewhere, and that line is drawing necro porn as an adult

[jongrub]

This scene was funny, terrifying, and completely out of nowhere. Everything great about a Tarantino film.

[triflesandparsnips]

Fic writers concerned with metrics need to spend some time with the idea that a single thread in a tapestry

[eric-sadahire]

Me trying not to cuss around kids: "What the effing fuck!"

[weehughie]

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[t3acupz]

watching tempo for the… plot, yeah (˵ᵕ̴᷄ ᗜ ᵕ̴᷅˵)

[shotbyshe]

Words of the Day

idyllic:

Tranquil and carefree.

Scenic or picturesque.

proliferate:

To grow or multiply by rapidly producing new tissue, parts, cells, or offspring.

To increase or spread at a rapid rate.

ectomorphic: Having a build with little fat or muscle but with long limbs.

gratuitous:

Given or granted without return or recompense; unearned.

Given or received without cost or obligation; free.

Unnecessary or unwarranted; unjustified.

~~~

I feel like I always pronounce this wrong: idyllic

Namjoon said that the front of Jimin's hair could no longer 'proliferate' because he dyed it too much.

In an interview with his bestie -- a fellow Tumblr-er -- RDJ described himself as ectomorphic.

Now that I think of it, what are people on Tumblr called?

I always misunderstand 'gratuitous' to mean 'generous'. It does not. Sometimes the praise that I see Bangtan getting from ARMY is gratuitous. This is why I can never call myself one. They worship them too much. They praise them for merely existing. How can this not be worship? They call them things like "better than human" "not human" "flawless" "perfect". It's bizarre and troubling. Bangtan will be the first ones to remind everyone how HUMAN and very FLAWED they are, but you can't tell ARMY shit.

[landoslastnerve]

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

dir. Bryan Singer (2014)

[once-a-traya]

if only anyone could

[tonreihe]

“In all these almost absurdly diverse works, utilitarian death has been swallowed up in the victory of the gratuitous.” (David Jones, “A Note on Mr. Berenson’s Views,” in Epoch and Artist.)