#just pure yappings

[eddieydewr]

I hope if you watch the tutor you’ll post a review after 🙏

you’re in luck bc i watched it yesterday and it was, um… well, the concept is interesting but poorly executed, and the pacing doesn’t make sense. i got the feeling that i’m supposed to root for ethan, aka the tutor, at first. but the actor looked like he was doing the movie at gunpoint and only started to put his whole hedlundussy into the last 15 minutes. which makes sense in retrospect since i read that garrett hedlund wasn’t sure about the script. noah was great the whole time but i hated his character design and i’m not even sure if his character (jackson) was putting on an act around ethan because the writing is that bad. he looks like chuck bass and young sheldon combined, with the pallor of a victorian child half dead from consumption. i’m aware that i should be creeped out by jackson but he clearly has something on ethan. i’m not saying he wasn’t creepy or unnerving but i knew it was on the surface, that there was something more to it. garrett and noah were great and did their best with what they were given, but the initial character design for them wasn’t convincing enough. or maybe it’s just me seeing through the flawed writing and pacing. i knew the film was bad so i was already watching with a critical eye.

the movie opens and ends abruptly. the editing is choppy but also flat. i would’ve liked the movie better if it had a terrible 90s camp vibes, like roald dahl’s the witches (1990) because it didn’t really work as a thriller or whatever genre it’s supposed to be. i’m also stuck wondering if the ending was supposed to be an open ending; again, because of the writing and editing. it’s almost frustrating because the story doesn’t feel complete and i still have questions. and not because it was done on purpose but because there’s no setup that leads to a satisfactory payoff or conclusion. there’s no clear reasoning or motivation although we do get a vague idea. basically the movie is good enough for passive viewing on the lifetime channel. usually i wouldn’t care if i’m watching something crap but i’m annoyed this time because noah’s in the movie and he has the range!! he was great but it felt like i was reading a hyped up book and i only liked the book cover. i’m just glad i didn’t pay for the privilege and used american netflix instead 😭

and that’s all i can say without spoilers, lmao. although i’m happy to reveal the plot (under a read more, ofc) and expand on my criticism, like noah’s character design, for example. i’d also love to complain about ethan’s hair!!!

ALSO… justice for noah because that video of him screaming and having a meltdown was definitely taken out of context. he does not deserve the lashings, omg 😭 like i can say it looks goofy but the fun stops every time noah antis spread it around for clout and to get people to take the piss 😩✋🏻 not to mention the clip of jackson with the gun being included in the trailer (was it? idk); that was done on purpose to make jackson look unhinged or something. and i am disappointed because of spoiler related reasons!!

i gotta stop now or i’ll just keep talking 🙈 sorry about my poor excuse of a review btw. i’m no roger ebert. or any basic movie reviewers, actually!!

[corpsentry]

pick your battles

[lienspien]

Barty is provocative as fuck and James is easy to rile up. Usually, it just leads to James storming off with Barty laughing. One time, James was having his own problems, and Barty came by and started a fight. James said the most offensive personal thing ever that got Barty so mad, he got personal too. Then they both are just yelling at each other, and everyone is kind of scared to pull them apart. Eventually James just tells him to fuck off and Barty does, for the first time, storm off.

They were seen making out later that night

[moominpopzz]

ANYWAYS Deadwood to me’s literally just one of those creepy ass old southern hunting towns… so here’s some things I think Wiwi Wisp does based offa that

• William Wisp knows about 4 ways to skin a deer and even more how to gut one

• He saw the shotgun in s2 and all those days when they were younger and David would take him out and shoot cans and bottles to pass time came flying back to him like it was trying to attack him, THATS truly how he knows how to use that thing

•He sees lone crying children and while trying to calm them down to find out what’s wrong calls them Sugar and Darlin and Dear and Bubba

•William Wisp who says only Ma or Mama and who probably called his dad daddy til he was like 14

•He refuses to talk when he gets too mad because his accent starts slipping out and it embarrasses him

•He has a secret country playlist buried with all his other music [It has a fake out title so if anyone sees it they don’t think ab it]

•He DEFINITELY passive aggressively says “God bless you” when he’s pissed at people

•He constantly slips up and says little country sayings that he then has to explain to the others

•He only drinks tea that’s so sweet it almost made Vyncent throw up at one point.

•He says hes “Sick as a dog” when not feeling good [<- edit add on]

[cyanorhis]

one gets to the fire lord’s palace, more specifically, his quarters, his private garden. what one doesn’t know is that amidst it all, in a corner of a wall, hidden in plain sight there is a secret passage to something else. if one passes through it (no one does but him in the latest hours of the night or in the idlest moments of the day), there is a statue of the painted lady in real size proportions. was the fire lord ever particularly devoted to singular spirits? no one can tell. but the statue is there, resembling no fire nation beauty nor any particularly well-known person as far as the masses can tell. they don’t know the face of katara from the southern water tribe, for she is… just as this statue, hidden in plain sight, carved into one person’s memory.

[tyrianluda]

guys what if freak fortress was instead called 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 fortress

and christian brutal sniper is christian 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 sniper

and christian pure spy is christian 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴 spy

and painis cupcake would be called [NUCLEAR BLAST]

[gammija]

During the kickstart campaign one of the stretch goals reached was a spin-off podcast, 6 eps, to be helmed by Sasha Sienna, but they wouldn't say about what since it'd be spoiling something "a few episodes into the first season", iirc.

.... sooo, scifi-ish spin-off podcast from Georgie and Celia, yall reckon?

[chaosxcrushed]

There's a certain CCCC summary video that we really, really like. We think it is a great video for people if they want to grasp the story more clearly, if they're confused, or if they're listening to the album for the first time.

That video being Chonny Jash and the Weight of the Mind on Youtube by W3tBl@nk3t. We think they cover it really well.

However, I'm sharing this for a different reason; they say few certain things that really struck with us until now, that I'd like to share with the fandom. Sometimes, we see people really just.. Miss the point of CCCC entirely, and I'd like to shine a light on what was said here. If you'd like to hear this for yourself on video, the timestamp is 35:57-36:45.

“..I bet we all could relate to that, they are the prime example of the side of you that suffers and the side of you that hates yourself for suffering:

The side of you that just wants to slow down and feel everything even to the unhealthy extent of not being able to do anything else(1), but also the side of you that so desperately wants you to get over it(2).

Sure, laying in bed all day every day to rot isn't healthy, but neither is boiling things down and invalidating your own emotions. Both are paths to inevitable disaster, and that's what Chonny is doing here. Keep in mind that the idea behind this album is being whole, and that means neither of these sides are entirely in the right or the wrong; this album is about inner compromise and acceptance(3).”

1.) The side of you that suffers; Heart. He is representative of Whole's emotions, he holds them. Your emotions can go haywire, especially when one's mentally ill and has no way of their feelings being validated. An emotional person like Heart suffers under the weight of crushing, devastating feelings. He wants to feel things out, have time to just process everything, even if it takes them days or weeks to get over it. It's not healthy, but feeling is what he does, and he wants to help because he knows he has importance. Solely focusing on just your emotions isn't the best thing to do, however.

2.) The side of you that so desperately wants you to get over it; Mind. Many people have been there, have wanted themselves to stop wallowing in their own emotions and just do something else, even to the point where you think feeling things out is unnecessary. This is also unhealthy, but not intentionally. Like Heart, Mind just wants to help, everything he does is in best interest. This is what he thinks will get them to move on the quickest; to leave behind emotions and focus on anything BUT that. Also not the best thing to do.

3.) This album is about inner compromise and acceptance; About being whole. Neither of Heart and Mind are right nor wrong. They have their own ways of doing things, of what they think will help their whole self out the most, but both are unhealthy despite the good intentions. They fight over who's wrong or right, when they shouldn't even be doing so in the first place. It's your thoughts against your emotions, basically; your feelings contradict your thoughts, and it leads to an inner war of sorts. This won't make things better, which is why you can't have Mind over Heart or vice versa; you'll need both of them. In the album, they are only able to be whole when they get along. They harmonize, they 'combine', they see eye to eye with each other and work together instead of fighting over and over. Inner compromise is achieved with this, and acceptance can lead them away from any disaster that there's to come.

What we're trying to say is that mental health is a large thing tackled within CCCC, and yet we see a lot of people who overlook it; thus, end up missing the point of the whole album. We see a lot of people believe Mind's perspective a little too much and treat Heart quite harshly, or the other way where people demonize Mind and say that Heart is perfect, when it's not really that in the slightest.

This is not a hate post towards people's interpretations of CCCC or how they view characters, I'm just saying that people can tend to overlook what's in the very narrative, and we see a concerning amount of people do such.

Anyways. Stream CCCC and put your Hearts and Minds in the get along shirt. Have a nice day.

[washiinmachiine]

briar in a modern fit bc i love clothes. also some fan skins i made for fun for the same reason. cafe cuties one is kinda old but ill shove it here anyway..

[nach0]

wanted to draw fanart for @remxedmoon's isatscryption au but i realised i didn't actually know the plot yet which. whoops! so i settled for chucking my oc at it

OH YEAH INSCRYPTION IS 60% OFF ATM!! Consider this my official propaganda to go get this game

[jetii]

feeling crazy might post the first chapter of my rex fic today

[stari-hun]

I love talking about reverse 1999 and how the characters act and why cause Bluepoch put so much effort into setting up the world and making it believable that these characters ARE people. They have all the nuances and inner conflicts a person has and to guess their actions you have to start by asking yourself what the average person would do or feel in their situation. I really enjoy that part of it and it also makes a much more compelling story because when they put so much effort into making everything matter the fandom and players make connections because of it. Something that might’ve been in there as an insignificant plot point for the characters becomes an important piece for the fanbase.

[mic-check-stims]

Walkshipping board for that one anon from forever ago who asked about my ships

X-X X-X X-X

[gwimblys-wife-and-gf]

WAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWA CHAT I LIVE LAUGH LOVE THEM AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[wreckedandpolemic]

do matty and girly dress the twins in the same outfits i'm so curious. actually i wanna hear anything about them playing dress up/the babas being fashion girlies stealing mum's high heels or picking out their own clothes <3

i think you do a matching-but-swapped thing for the first few years, like vera in a red top and blue trousers and fiona in a blue top and red trousers, but that falls apart once fiona starts screaming the second you try to put her in a skirt lol. little diva i love her <3

of the babas, alanis is def the most fashion-forward, neatly laying her clothes for the next day out on the floor every night and forcing her sisters into little fashion shows which give you and matty heart palpitations because oh my god my babies are trying to come down the stairs in my shoes how did she even get into those they're on a shelf in the closet. and you try not to be annoyed when she inevitably trips (she's fine, don't worry!) and scuffs your louboutins. the three of them have heaps and heaps of costume jewellery, because yours is a bit too delicate to hand over to a seven-year-old, so alanis goes through a phase of literally jangling when she walks lol.

fiona, by total contrast, seems to have an aversion to her clothes matching, even down to her socks, and throws such a little strop if you try to coax her into anything but what she's picked out. that doesn't change as she grows up, as alanis starts nicking matty's vintage band tees and vera trades in her kiddy little blouses for turtlenecks and oversized jumpers, fiona's careless in the most lurid combination of patterns you've ever seen in your life. any laughter is always water off a duck's back - she's her own girl, and you love her all the more for it <3

[bumblingbabooshka]

The ages of Tuvok's children (and Tuvok himself) are nebulous and change depending on the episode (Ex: Janeway says he's almost one hundred[1] but later Tuvok implies he's over one hundred[2].)

Sek is Tuvok's oldest child, described as "a mature teenager" and seems to be in college during 'Repression'. He speaks about changing his major from exo-linguistics to musical composition. However in 'Hunters' Tuvok is given a letter which says Sek has both undergone the pon farr and become a father. This episode takes place in season 4 - yet in season 7 when we see him, Sek is a college aged teenager. Asil is Tuvok's youngest and while in 'Once Upon a Time' he seems to portray her as a small child still in need of guidance (akin to Naomi) - Janeway says in 'Fury' that she was present at Asil's kolinahr ceremony which would imply to me that she's been an adult for a long while. This would match up with the fact that in 'Lineage' Tuvok tells Tom Paris that his parenting skills are "somewhat dormant" since it's been "many years since [his] children were young." (Notably he does not say 'since I've seen them' implying to me that even before canon they were all adults) However it contradicts Sek's apparent age in 'Repression'. If Sek is a college aged teenager (17 at the youngest, 19 at the most) he would have been 10 or 12 years old when Tuvok left as 'Lineage' takes place in season 7 and he is Tuvok's OLDEST. Though I guess it depends on what Tuvok considers 'young children' and how close in age his children are. [1] Fury: "So, not long until you hit the big three digits huh?" <- It's possible that Janeway got the date correct but his exact age wrong (ex: right month and day but incorrect year)

[2] Meld: "I have studied violence for over one hundred years" <- It's likely Tuvok is speaking more theoretically. To be born Vulcan is to 'study' violence but he still places his age at 100+. [3] In 'Flashback' Tuvok and Janeway are brought back to an approximately 80-year-old memory in which he was around 30 (I think he says 29) and Janeway says he left Starfleet for 'over fifty years'. He himself states that he studied the Kolinahr for six years then married T'Pel. So: At 30 he was an ensign then he left Starfleet. He married T'Pel at 36. As of season 1 he considers himself married to T'Pel for 67 years meaning he's around 103 at the time of 'Ex Post Facto' However, Asil is established to have been conceived during Tuvok's 11th pon farr. ('Alice' - this information is dubious since it comes from Tom Paris in a sequence where he and Harry incorrectly guess Tuvok's age) If he had his first at 36 that would mean she was born when he was 113. Tuvok states in Unimatrix Zero that he was born on the Stardate 38774. I don't know enough about Stardates to do anything with this information. I googled around and it seems Voyager begins at stardate 48315.6 which other sources say is 2371. There's no point to this post - I just like Tuvok and so I gather information about him to show my devotion. At some point in his past he fucked up his elbow so bad that they had to replace the joint with a prosthetic. Did you know that? It's established in 'Blood Fever'.