#shitposting my life in real time

[patronsaintofhangingout]

Me: has chips for meal of the day, doesn't drink enough water by a mile, then proceeds to sleep like 3 hours

Me the next day: this migraine is so uncalled for what did I even do

[katyspersonal]

[druid-boy-punk]

why do i miss a home that is unrecognizable to me now, how did i become a stranger to the place a grew up

[moe-broey]

I am a normal man who is obsessed with Alfonse Fire Emblem. Come closer -- wait nevermind don't worry about it 🧍👍

[shiftperception]

being on the “girl who is a boy” textpost website is a dangerous game because now I have to tell my impulsive thought riddled brain that having a mildly tomboyish style or playing as a pretty anime esque boy in dissociative daydreams doesn’t mean I can have two genders for free. bopping it on the nose like a dog telling it to put the word “fusion” down cause this ain’t stevens universe.

[stolenlandsshitposts]

break up with your boyfriend reg. he doesn’t even care you have lightning powers.

[dopaminestarvedsim]

omg i opened my game like 3 hours ago but proceeded to just edit screenshots and kept walking away to do laundry and make myself breakfast and then i decided to edit my tags on my posts so i could add links to my profile finally and i just tooked at the clock and somehow it's time for me to get ready for work?

i never even unpaused the game, y'all. 🤣

[jupitersmoonsstuff]

I just realized that I was 15 when I got into lego monkie kid and now I'm 17

[patronsaintofhangingout]

I have now officially thrifted a dress for the barbie movie

this thing better be good or I will be so embarrassed

[katyspersonal]

Maria: *stands on one of the Research Hall balconies and smokes rolled dry lumenweed like cigarette*

Adeline: Lady Maria, I’ve found new friends! :D

Maria: Oh, someone good for you?

Adeline: Yes! Vicar Laurence and Gehrman the first hunter! :D

Maria:

Maria: Suka blyat’

Gehrman: I was the one who taught her to say this!! :D

Laurence: Let’s all go go in the bar that serves blood instead of alcohol and talk about how great it is to engage in the cycle of blood and hunt!

*all three leave*

Micolash: Ohohoho, that wasn’t very ‘lady’like of you to say~

Maria: If I throw a pink high heel shoe in you, will THAT be ladylike enough?

Micolash: But you can never be faster than us! >:3 Huhuhuhu~

Maria: Then, running away like a coward is not quite ‘manly’, no?

Micolash: We are not a coward, no... On the contrary, you are playing OUR game every time. We make YOU run as much as we please.

Brador: *crawls out from the shadows* Well, I for one enjoy playing games! :)

Micolash: ...

*Brador starts chasing him and Micolash is actually scared right now :( *

Maria: *giggles*

Simon: *drops from the nearby tree on the near balcony when Brador left, knocks on the balcony’s door*

Rom: *opens the door*

Simon: Is this the Research Hall?

Rom: No, this is Rom *closes the door back*

Ludwig: *he was supposed to be one of the Church friends too, but I accidentally mistyped ‘hunters chief’ as ‘hunters chef’ so now he has to cook meals and use his moonlight sword like kitchen knife :(*

[tory-yeetedtoshi]

POV: you see this one good looking picture while scrolling in Pinterest but then you accidently refresh the page before you could even click it.

[scribbledquillz]

Home from camping and utterly ragged from my poor life choices staying up as late as I did. Time for a nap, getting some things in order around the house, and then I'll be putting together a little post with my Tumblr to-dos. I've gotten a lot of really nice prompts and tags lately, and I don't want anyone to think they haven't been noticed. 😊

See you on the other side! (The other side being nap time, ofc.)

[fairymint]

nope, not here. please leave a message on a corpse.

the message is that the gay uprising is gaining more power. the world is healing. chromnation for mages everywhere.

[betternamenot2come]

Accurate portrayal of my assistant department manager and me, the most overworked part time clerk, trying to hold together our bakery department by shoestrings while everyone is either a) sick with Covid b) had a heart attack and is in the hospital or c) on fucking vacation for the second time in two months (*cough* my dumbass manager *cough*)

In other news I might get full time soon. It’s only been four years (five in January) since I asked.

[jonnywaistcoat]

What’s your opinion on the contrast between “silly” and “serious” spaces? Do you think people can have very serious interpretations about a genuine piece of media and also be goofy about it? I’m asking this particularly because I’ve seen people in the Magnus podcast fandoms fight about people “misinterpreting” characters you, Alex, and the many other authors have written. Are you okay with the blorbofication or do you really wish the media you’ve written would be “taken seriously” 100% of the time?

And follow up question, what do you think about the whole “it’s up to the reader (or in some cases, listener) to make their own conclusions and interpretations and that does not make them wrong”, versus the “it was written this way because the author intended it this way, and we should respect that” argument?

This is a question I've given a lot of thought over the years, to the point where I don't know how much I can respond without it becoming a literal essay. But I'll try.

My main principle for this stuff boils roughly down to: "The only incorrect way to respond to art is to try and police the responses of others." Art is an intensely subjective, personal thing, and I think a lot of online spaces that engage with media are somewhat antithetical to what is, to me, a key part of it, which is sitting alone with your response to a story, a character, a scene or an image and allowing yourself to explore it's effect on you. To feel your feelings and think about them in relation to the text.

Now, this is not to say that jokes and goofiness about a piece of art aren't fucking great. I love to watch The Thing and drink in the vibes or arctic desolation and paranoia, or think about the picture it paints of masculinity as a sublimely lonely thing where the most terrible threat is that of an imposed, alien intimacy. And that actually makes me laugh even more the jokey shitpost "Do you think the guys in The Thing ever explored each other's bodies? Yeah but watch out". Silly and serious don't have to be in opposition, and I often find the best jokes about a piece of media come from those who have really engaged with it.

And in terms of interpreting characters? Interpreting and responding to fictional characters is one of the key functions of stories. They're not real people, there is no objective truth to who they are or what they do or why they do it. They are artificial constructs and the life they are given is given by you, the reader/listener/viewer, etc. Your interpetation of them can't be wrong, because your interpretation of them is all that there is, they have no existence outside of that.

And obviously your interpretation will be different to other people's, because your brain, your life, your associations - the building blocks from which the voices you hear on a podcast become realised people in your mind - are entirely your own. Thus you cannot say anyone else's is wrong. You can say "That's not how it came across to me" or "I have a very different reading of that character", but that's it. I suppose if someone is fundamentally missing something (like saying "x character would never use violence" when x character strangles a man to death in chapter 4) you could say "I think that's a significant misreading of the text", but that's only to be reserved for if you have the evidence to back it up and are feeling really savage.

I think this is one of the things that saddens me a bit about some aspects of fandom culture - it has a tendency to police or standardise responses or interpretations, turning them from personal experiences to be explored into public takes to be argued over. It also has the occasional moralistic strain, and if there's one thing I wish I could carve in stone on every fan space it's that Your Responses to a Piece of Art Carry No Intrinsic Moral Weight.

As for authorial intention, that's a simpler one: who gives a shit? Even the author doesn't know their own intentions half the time. There is intentionality there, of course, but often it's a chaotic and shifting mix of theme and story and character which rarely sticks in the mind in the exact form it had during writing. If you ask me what my intention was in a scene from five years ago, I'll give you an answer, but it will be my own current interpretation of a half-remembered thing, altered and warped by my own changing relationship to the work and five years of consideration and change within myself. Or I might not remember at all and just have a guess. And I'm a best case scenario because I'm still alive. Thinking about a writers possible or stated intentions is interesting and can often lead to some compelling discussion or examination, but to try and hold it up as any sort of "truth" is, to my mind, deeply misguided.

Authorial statements can provide interesting context to a work, or suggest possible readings, but they have no actual transformative effect on the text. If an author says of a book that they always imagined y character being black, despite it never being mentioned in the text, that's interesting - what happens if we read that character as black? How does it change our responses to the that character actions and position? How does it affect the wider themes and story? It doesn't, however, actually make y character black because in the text itself their race remains nonspecific. The author lost the ability to make that change the moment it was published. It's not solely theirs anymore.

So yeah, that was a fuckin essay. In conclusion, serious and silly are both good, but serious does not mean yelling at other people about "misinterpretations", it means sitting with your personal explorations of a piece of art. All interpretations are valid unless they've legitimately missed a major part of the text (and even then they're still valid interpretations of whatever incomplete or odd version of the text exists inside that person's brain). Authorial intent is interesting to think about but ultimately unknowable, untrustworthy and certainly not a source of truth. Phew.

Oh, and blorbofication is fine, though it does to my mind sometimes pair with a certain shallowness to one's exploration of the work in question.

[not-your-lifeline]

a bad habit of mine

I should really stop provoking salty, toxic players by calling them ‘cute’ and saying shits like ‘awww, look at you! so angy UwU’ as;dlfks;jggfl

sometimes I do that when I’m feeling playful and laughing my ass off at them for being so angry over a mere video game.

however I know being sadistic like that towards them won’t fix their unhealthy behavior and only agitate them further. at the same time, It’s not my responsibility to educate grown ass adults.

maybe I’ll start telling them to calm down and take care of themselves in real life more. go take a break and drink some water. even if they might not listen to me at the moment.