#i miss these dumb kids

[ethereallock]

okay so what if i made a compilation of some wholesome moments of camp fam?? then what 🤔

[detectiveforfree]

old timey pet-nicknames

[badolmen]

hey you guys know that even if the people inside that submersible are rich billionaires, dying in that metal tube at the bottom of the ocean is a horrific way to die right. like. yeah stupid choices were made by the people in there signing off on a waiver that says the sub is not approved by anyone and they could die. but it’s the fault of OceanGate for knowingly putting people into a Home Depot DIY sub rigged up with an Xbox controller all to make a profit on people’s curiosity.

[allieinarden]

I haven’t watched it in a while but Zuko and Toph actually should’ve had the life-changing field trip because I really needed her to find out that his biggest problem is a father that demanded his children be the best benders around and kind of envy that, and then I needed him to find out that her biggest problem is parents that believed her to be helpless and wanted to love and protect her anyway and just totally flip out.

[jameswilsonsupremacy]

potential future tattoo??? (but without words just bc a lot of my planned future tattoos have words and apparently it’s Not Cool to have a bunch of words on your body instead of images)

House MD enjoyers, what are ur thoughts?

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

God. I love everything about this.

Irey going up against an evil Miss Martian to save her brother and everyone else. Clark being slower than molasses and, with close to zero context, still managing to grab the alien dogs, providing a distraction for Irey. Irey mentally yanking her brother towards her using their speedforce leash and Jai bowling the bad guys down. Irey using Jai in lieu of a weapon. It's all fantastic.

The only thing I'm not a fan of is how 'way of the heart' and 'thunder' have been mentioned in two issues now. And Irey is renaming herself in this issue. If she calls herself 'ThunderHeart' or something I will scream.

[mindmxtters]

if you can't handle them at their

you don't deserve them at their

@tournesolette

[spocksgotemotions]

so like to put kids down for nap I have one kid I read poems to and another kid I make up stories for. And lately the boy I read poems to has started like saying the lines along with me and the girl I make up stories for has started finishing my sentences (every story begins the same way and she knows it!!). And it’s like I tell my coworkers or people this and I’m super excited because not only are the kids being smart but it’s also like showing that I’m making an impact you know?

[frnkiebby]

goth besties~🎃

[dreamcrow]

wait I got a genuinely good one 😏 band au

(give me an au and i'll give you five headcanons; thank you for the ask!)

unfortunately i am still a soft stupid sucker for gradschool au dweebs so. gorgoneion (gradschool!bellroc's basement doom metal band) gets a +1

it starts with skrael—well. tinkering. he's almost through an entire cryoengineering program, how hard can a homebrew fog machine be?

after nari kicks them out of her garage—"i am NOT losing my deposit over a little FREON CONTAM, ASSHOLES (LOVING)"—bellroc changes tack. he knows bells's heard him, humming tone-deaf little bars over breakfast; he does it unthinking, but he knows they know he can't carry a tune in a bucket. vocals are, thankfully, out of the question.

so when they ask if he'd like to write for them, instead—he doesn't really know what to say.

he's not offended. it's not—that isn't it. it's not because they write their lyrics in some fuckoff ancient language (they've explained) no one living is even really that sure of how to pronounce. it's that gorgoneion was their thing. just them. a piece of them he'd first glimpsed without their knowledge, an overstep he still somehow faintly regrets, even despite their forgiveness. and now for them to offer it to him, like this? freely, knowingly, after all the stupid bullshit of the past year-odd knowing each other?

the last time he felt so much like an idiot teenager in love, he was one. and that? is really the scariest part about this.

[daisyachain]

Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.

Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.

This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.

The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.

Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.

If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.

Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.

All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.

[that-was-anticlimactic]

one of the worst feelings ever is wanting to write but your hands hurt too much or the words just don’t want to work so you just sit there staring at a half finished doc with tears in your eyes bc you want to write and you need to write but everything is telling you that you can’t

[ethereallock]

i’m sobbing, this is one of my favorite scenes in the entire show <3 i don’t see enough people talking about this

[greekgrad07]

let percy be dumb again

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Hey guys what if I told you I completely retconned the lab au prologue.

W. Would you be mad at me-

[spocksgotemotions]

I need to figure out how to care less about my job. I can’t keep crying over kids that aren’t mine, I can’t keep doing this