#not to mention the production value

[inawickedlittletown]

Re-listening to Bridgewater before the S2 premiere on Friday and ahhhh why is this podcast so good. I think it’s even better listening to S1 for the second time because having all the reveals and twists in the back in your mind make you notice all the little details that were there all along. 

For anyone that hasn’t listened to it yet, hard recommend and not just because you get to hear Misha Collins curse a lot. 

[simplydnp]

Sometimes I think Dan and Phil are totally platonic besties and then other times I’m convinced they fuck on the daily. I think they do it on purpose and it’s honestly iconic.

kind of the best thing is that they are that and everything in between. you can tell they just like being around each other. they've made content together for 15 years and the large majority of it was done in the strictly platonic sense for their audience. and they were still having so much fun with it. we're in the 'we know you know' era now so we get to see flashes of different dynamics they have, but they absolutely have more we Don't get to see bc they're not for us.

they like each other. stupidly fond of each other. spending time together doesn't feel exhausting. they're best friends and each others' harshest critics while being the biggest hypeman and also safe space.

dnp's relationship with us, their audience, always has been and always will be different than any other content creators. part of it is how they accumulated it, but another part is just the massive history we have with them. they Get us. they Know us. they're silly goofy sarcastic guys who love us and hate us sometimes. theyre grateful but careful too. they like to rile us up, just like they do each other. it's a love language, teasing, and we've shown positive responses to it over the years. i like to say that my relationship with dnp is antagonistic sometimes--cause i know they're pushing my buttons on purpose. and ykw? it's fun! it's fun for us and it's fun for them because they have the control. i know anything they let out is cause they chose to let it out because they Know how we are. so yes they absolutely adore messing with us. we're a funny bunch.

[triglycercule]

dust should have one of those mini zen gardens with all the sand and the little rake you use to make patterns but instead of sand its monster dust. specifically dust of people he doesnt like. how calming and tranquil this is as he puts a mini bridge and rocks and tiny tree into the garden filled with what's basically the human equivalent of blood!

[xiaotianquan]

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[doedipus]

I didn't get around to posting about it last night but I

WON

A TOURNAMENT

specifically dust up!! 12, run by despair-tea/lars-canyon

also pictured: despair-tea in 2nd, warmcoals in 5th, and deriveandd-e-r-i-v-e at 7th.

[amygdalae]

started watching Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, watched the first three episodes, if you like short horror story anthologies like me I think it’s well worth a watch! It’s scratching an itch for me for sure

[kaurwreck]

hey, really random question: I keep hearing this tiktok rumor being spread that apparently, chuuya’s appearance is really similar to a guy the real life dazai dated/had a crush on at 15??

I don’t buy this, but I was wondering if you had any idea what fact this was based off of/embellished, like if you knew what fact these people were talking about and exaggerating- nowhere I’ve looked has backed this up.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about and don’t feel like researching this that’s totally cool, I just know you do a lot of looking into the real authors and was curious if you’d come across anything like this.

It comes from a passage in Memories (also translated as Recollections) about Dazai walking home together with a boy from his class. There isn't any merit to the comparison.

I have great fun projecting the authors onto the characters, but I'd warn against projecting the characters onto the authors. They were whole people, and fandom's habit of plucking disparate quotes from context to caricature in lieu of literary analysis does a disservice to their wholeness.

[daincrediblegg]

people who say foundation is bad and badly written fundamentally misunderstand that it's space lord of the rings and I have literally no idea what they're talking about

[unproduciblesmackdown]

imagine that time will was like "oh do people here care about billions. maybe i'll see if i can find some pics" years ago if he qrt'd that Now lol

[a-walking-fandom-reference]

my mom stayed home from work today because she gets real hungover quickly because of her meds and she tried a new drink and it did not agree with her… anyways so she was home and i said i like it better when you’re at work you disrupt my flow and she said what your flow of laying on the couch?

YES my flow of laying on the couch just because i’m disabled and have to spend a lot of the time on the couch doesn’t mean i don’t have routines i try and follow or quiet time without anyone bothering me so yes you being in the living room all day during the week and talking and stuff disrupts my flow

[weirdbabs]

really not a fan of seeing red, from the attempted rape scene to the killing of the second queer character (of only 3, 4 if you count andrew as being actually gay and not just “haha wouldnt it be funny?”) on the show its just. not fucking fun

[emeraldgreaves]

dracula is a great book, but there is the occasional moment where it feels as though the characters are overridden by bram stoker attempting to get a good grade in victorian sexuality, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve

[mercuriallily]

I'm really tempted to write a whole essay on why I think the 10th anniversary concert of Les Mis is the best version of Les Mis

[shannonpurdyjones]

One side effect of my research for this novel being steeped heavily in textile history is my swelling disgust with modern fabrics.

Firstly they're so thin? Like most things you see in Old Navy or even department stores might as well be tissue paper?? Even some branded sports t-shirts I've bought in recent years (that are supposed to be 'official apparel' and allegedly decent quality) are definitely not going to hold up more than a year or two without getting little holes from wear.

This side of even two hundred years ago fabrics were made to be used for YEARS, and that's with wearing them way more often because you only owned like three sets of clothes. They were thick and well made and most importantly made to LAST. And they were gorgeous?? Some of the weaves were so fine and the drape so buttery we still don't entirely know how these people managed to make them BY HAND. Not to mention intricate patterning and details that turned even some simple garments into freaking ART.

I know this is not news, the fast fashion phenomenon is well documented. Reading so much about the amazing fabrics we used to create and how we cherished and valued them, though, is making it hard not to mourn what we lost to mass production and capitalism. Not just the quality of the clothing and fabrics themselves, but the generations of knowledge and techniques that are just gone. It makes me what to cry.

I need to get a sewing machine.

[caliconimbus]

Man… it really takes the wind out of my sails when I try a new FVN and I just don’t like it. Like. I only download stuff that looks promising, and I’d been keeping an eye on this one prior to release for a while, so I was so sure I would like this one, too. And the art’s great! I already knew that! The menus are good and there’s solid QoL stuff built in… but the actual writing just felt sooooo clumsy it completely put me off. Just aggressively mood-dampening

[panncakes]

started watching i feel you linger in the air without knowing anything about it; still don't understand anything about 10 minutes in but it is very pretty to look at