#ill simply drop it

[extraclwnporeal]

I hope it's clear to my audience that no matter how much I love steddie, platonic stobin is always a priority.

Steve and Robin's soulmatism is real and they are codependent, period. If there's a scenario in which Steve have to choose between Robin or Eddie, I'll make him choose Robin, and I'll make Eddie CONSCIOUS of it. Like, Robin is the first one to look at Steve and really see him and by God he'll love her for it.

I'll never write something Steve-centered that does not have a mention of Robin, at least. A ficlet in which Robin does not take a important role in his life? Get real. They're two halves, thus they're one.

[tmos-time]

"hey buddy what have you been doing lately" well ive been thinking about how hazbin would be easier for me to consume if it looked different at bare minimum

[quarterprioritymidnight]

[veronicathegoddess]

i hate when someone invites me to like do something or go somewhere but they also invite someone i dislike, that they know i dislike and when i say i don't want to come because that person is there they're like it's fine, just ignore them...because i want to spend money i barely even have to spend time around people that have hurt me????? like if i don't like the person, idc who else is there and if i can ignore them, i'm not gonna put myself into a situation like that and idk why that's so hard for people to get

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

i think someone should make an black sails edit to highwayman and then make out with me

[indiangp]

rn it's like, I want to just chill and take it easy because I'm still so young but also I should be working my ass off because I'm still so young 😭 I have no clue what to do

[simonstamenovic]

just remembered we got invited to spend the night too, i do hope we were not offputting in the worst way. did accidentally spill a drink but she was cool about it but its so deeply embarrassing to spill things like ohh look at me i dont know how liquids work

[intertexts]

Just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying your Black Sails live blogs 💜💜 thanks for sharing so many thoughts. they're really interesting to get to read!! Especially from a first watch

ahh thank u!! <333 it's a rlly fun show 2 be able 2 dig my teeth into a little bit... pretty much the only thing i knew about it going in was that it was very well written with a lot of care + intention put into it, so it's been great to just. Be able to assume everything Is That Deep? & be right about it sometimes? anyway. incredible show i have SO many thoughts about it all of the time. + also very glad u r enjoying my silly little liveblogs ahaha :]]]

[hiemaldesirae]

in my da days i had a friend who was genuinely like the coolest person ever to little me. found out a year ago when we spoke again for like the first time in four (??) years that they were actually only a year older than me and i think something in me shattered that day

[theokusgallery]

"tumblr is dying" calm down. look at twitter. its ceo is burning the platform to the ground and the whole site looks like it's only still standing because the code practices positive self talk. it's doing just fine

[bellsliturgy]

i'm gonna work on thread replies because the fact that i've let them sit for so long is legit bothering me

[nellasbookplanet]

Sometimes, being a fan of supernatural horror is a strange thing. I love me some demons and witches and what have you, but I cannot watch these films without being aware that, in real life, witches were innocent women burned at the stake. Possessed people were and are regular humans who're either different in a way those around them refuse to accept, or in need of actual medical care.

So many movies approach these ideas in an unquestioning manner. 'The ghost of a which from ye olden days is trying to murder us!', 'poor innocent girl is possessed and must be exorcised, and anyone who suggests medical care is naive!' There is little to no examination of how these beliefs have impacted real people, even when the films are supposedly set in the real world. Christianity is used as a weapon but never examined in neither a positive or negative light. It simply Is, a supposedly neutral weapon against forces of evil. Modern science is naive and helpless.

It's rare to find something different, but a little while ago, I watched the 2019 Carmilla adaptation, in which (spoiler warning, I guess) there are no actual vampires. There is, however, a belief in vampires as something monstrous and corrupting and inhuman, a belief projected onto those who are different (in this case, queer women). In this version, Carmilla is simply a slightly strange human girl who ends up being Laura's sexual awakening. She's perceived as an evil, corrupting influence, Laura as a naive innocent who must be protected at all cost. In this story, Carmilla is the victim.

In the Babadook (again, spoilers), the demon like monster is a manifestation and a metaphor of guilt and mourning and depression. It is a very real thing, but it cannot be fought with crucifixes and holy water, can never truly be defeated, only ever managed and lived with in the manner of true grief.

I don’t really know where I'm going with this. I love supernatural horror, love films about possession and demons. I just wish the use of such tropes was more self-aware, or leaned more into the fantastic over the religious. How does one even make a possession film without implying that exoricism trumps medical care? A film about evil witches without implying that the witch hunters were on some level justified? A sceptic-believer dynamic without either making the sceptic right, thereby losing the fun supernatural element, or the believer right, thereby leaning into superstition over science? (you could make neither right, and land yourself with an open-ended and often unsatisfactory story, I guess) So many of these tropes have their roots in a very different real life type of horror, and the films all pretend not to realize that.

[faerociousbeast]

dropping dead seems to be my first reaction to a concerning amount of things

[snakepyre]

I had a really nice time w old friends two weeks ago and i miss them more than i did before now

[alittleemo]

note to self !! next time u have an open notes exam that does not mean u should not study :)

[rainingmbappe]

It boggles my mind how much wisdom you can gain from reading, yet people don't take advantage of it. It's the free gift to humanity, and yet we chose the ones that take more than they give. It's wild.