#it was a great story

[frownyalfred]

Oooooh, Clark who's probably used to Bruce's heart doing flips and stopping occasionally because of Gotham or a universe shattering crisis, but it always restarts and the man recovers seemingly well enough without long term consequences that Clark doesn't worry at first, but he begins to count the suddenly slow, long passing seconds of off putting silence.

Maybe after some seconds he focuses so intensely on that heartbeat that all other sounds around him go muddled, all while he's paying attention for struggling breaths or the gurgling of blood, except there's nothing. No secondary processes. No creak of worn bones. No ribcage being pressed by an external force.

No heartbeat.

Clark can probably feel his own pulse jump in his throat the more seconds pass and no heartbeat to off-set the silence. And maybe Clark doesn't do it on purpose, or maybe he does, that he speeds himself up as if that'd give Bruce's heart more time to restart by itself. He knows that's not how it works- but still. Still.

And it is still. It's been a minute, and it's so still. No heartbeat. No compression. No crackle of comms and no hails for help. A minute and ten seconds. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen-

This reminds me, as many things do, of the fucked up story (said lovingly through gritted teeth) named porridge. and how one of the reasons that Superman copes so poorly with Batman's death is because he doesn't just die, he's vaporized by magic (or some other force?) and there's no gasping death, or body, or evidence that he was even alive. nothing to throw in a Lazarus Pit, nothing to mourn.

Because yeah -- Superman has probably heard a lot of near-death experiences through Bruce's heart. He's heard him gasp and choke and pass out, but the sudden absence of his heart, devoid all other signs, is so utterly wrong. It always re-starts, it always finds that cadence again somehow, but suddenly, it just doesn't. And there's only one reason that would happen.

[depreshroom]

Actually, Tiny Strange World Review/Thoughts

What I will say is this: I can definitely see why strange world wouldn’t be someone’s cuppa tea. It’s a very gentle plot, character-driven story. The movie doesn’t do too much to urge the main plot forward. It reminds me a lot of a disney short because of its slow, tranquil pace. And due to this, there became some pacing issues where to get the point along, we had to move a bit fast. Sometimes the characters’ dialogue can drive the point a little too hard because of this.

But in the same sense, that’s why I loved it: it was driven by the characters and their generational trauma. The main event itself of realizing how destructive something that got Searcher through his trauma accidentally destroyed the animal they deemed home itself. And the foundation of his relationship with his son. The animation was gorgeous and the environment was creative/vibrant. There were illumine-scent creatures, soft flowing textures, etc. A minor friendship between two women of color that typically doesn’t pertain to the main characters issues, but each other’s skillset. People said sorry (they could’ve said it a bit better but I digress), and called out toxic behavior tropes. (Etc/ nearly kill them then save them and call it love). It was honestly more like a situation and world-building and characters smushed together rather than a story. I think that was why I loved it.

All this to say: it was a great movie for me, and it deserved more advertising from Disney. We were scammed out of rep. But I totally get why some don’t find the appeal and that’s okay, live your best life.

[spellscribe]

The best part about going to local writing groups is not shit like seeing the 20 year old guy sharing his Warhammer 40k short story, and then having to explain what Warhammer 40k is to a bunch of people over 80. It's watching the 80 year old participants try to offer encouragement like "well if I understood who those characters are or any of those words you used, I'd probably think it was really good!"

[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

[descendant-of-truth]

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

[sher-ee]

Fred Trump also describes a phone call he had with Donald about funding to support medical care for his son, William, who is disabled.

“I don’t know,” Trump allegedly told his nephew. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

Read here ⬆️

[steviesbicrisis]

To me it’s the fact that Steve assumed Robin had a license but still woke up 3 hours before his work shift to drive her to school everyday.

That is not a plot hole everybody, that is just the kind of person Steve Harrington is.

[inkiedraws]

"LOL this flip-flop wearing loser thinks he's gonna kick my ass and destroy my whole kingdom in the span of an afternoon. What an idiot"

I didn't intend for this to be a full comic, which is why it just kinda ends. Sowwy

[contactlessdrivethru]

just finished opla mood

[forbidden-interlude]

I read the husband stitch a few years ago and I’ve never read any of Machado’s stories after that

[kendyroy]

My favorite thing about the marketing for this movie is the fact that Logan and Wade participated in it themselves.

Like the bachelorette ad, the silence your phone PSA, the little podcast they did…

I’d like to think that Wade convinced Logan to do all of these with him and they both popped into our universe just to promote their little rom-com (which tells the story of how they became a couple).

[blluespirit]

there are so many amazing and powerful benders in atla but what i love about zuko is that whether or not he can use his bending in that moment has zero (0) bearing on how much he’s going to absolutely kick your ass. no bending? that’s fine - he’s got swords. no swords or bending? that’s fine - he’s literally just going to beat you up. if you’re REALLY unlucky then you get all three. as a treat.

[lilybug-02]

City of Tears. But Mini.

I wanted to make an atmospheric art piece with Dewi. And the City of Tears is one of the most sorrowing, beautiful, and grand places to do that. This is a lot of firsts for me regarding the architecture and lighting. The shadows cover a lot, and it may have been too much. I'm happy with how it turned out tho.

No idea how Dewi found his way into the City. Probably magic. Probably plot too :) But oh boy, he is experiencing childlike wonder in his raincoat!

This is a better show of the line detail I needlessly covered up in the final lol

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[siggiedraws]

illustrated the last scene of the official Sonic & Silver wallpaper cover story - translated by @acquascans!

[makingqueerhistory]

I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.

This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.

For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco     

Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright    

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley   

God Themselves by Jae Nichelle

IRL by Tommy Pico        

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages             

The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom          

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow              

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser

Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower            

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam   

Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon 

Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume      

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Homie: Poems by Danez Smith

The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw  

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman 

Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu

Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun     

Witching Moon by Poppy Woods 

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt    

Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman    

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist           

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi             

Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed      

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto