#so fascinated by the composition

[martian-astro]

I think that people are making astrology TOO COMPLICATED 😭😭, like at this point, I'm literally EVERYTHING, and it's actually kinda funny, lol, it's very confusing too. I feel like the nakshatras, atmakaraka, darakaraka, aspects, d9 and d10 in vedic and aspects, solar return charts and a few asteroids in western are MORE THAN ENOUGH to know literally anything about your life. (this also includes planets in houses)

I mean...according to all the posts that I've read till now - I hate my mother, I love her, my husband is older than me, younger than me, a ceo, a singer, a dancer, a psychologist, a doctor, I'm an introvert and an extrovert, I hide my emotions but I'm also a crybaby..... And so on, like 😭😭

The reason why I even started learning astrology in the first place was because I was so confused. This is also why I like @notanastrologer so fucking much, because all of her observations are based on the main planets and charts and they are true like 99% of the times.

My elder sister has uranus in the 9th house, I remember she posted that these people would be the first ones in their family to study abroad, and my sister was the first one to go and study abroad. Like it's such a simple placement "uranus in 9th house", but it still manages to tell you such an important thing, I think that's really cool.

So like, don't be confused guys and as someone who is studying Psychology, I know that humans have a dynamic personality, you can be so many things all at once, but the problem is that people tend to read one thing and then get fixated on that. Like if they read one negative thing about their placement then they assume the worst. I'm a scorpio moon and I've never found any of the scorpio moon observations relatable....

I hope I was able to get my point across...

[arleniansdoodles]

I’ve been reading this awesome Star Wars fanfic, The Protégé, written by @spell-cleaver, and it really inspired me to draw some fanart! This scene is from chapter 4, where Luke and Leia are having some bonding time XDD

If y’all are interested, the fanfic’s premise is that Luke is raised by the Naberries, becomes the Senator of Naboo, and is sent to work in the Senate while Padmé is Empress and Vader is her bodyguard. The political intrigue and character relationships are amazing! Thank you so much SpellCleaver for your work!! While I wait in anticipation for the next update, please accept this humble offering as a token of my appreciation <333

[anthyies]

kind of a milf. reblog

[likeimsittinginanairportbar]

anyone else go back and just listen to the batman (2022) score like on an almost-daily basis??

[sualne]

the lord of the dungeon

bloodless version so you can see the shading underneath it

[wallpaper-inside-my-heart]

💙Smoshblr December Asks Day 30💛

top 3 favourite planets 🌌

Saturn! 🪐-> It's just so pretty! Like look at its rings!

2. Neptune! 💙-> such a gorgeous blue colour!

3. Venus! 🧡 -> Our beautiful morning/evening"star"

-> Fun fact: Did you know that you can tell if you are looking at a star or planet, by whether or not it "blinks"? If it blinks/twinkles it's a star and if the light remains consistent then it is a planet! (That's have you can easily spot Venus most nights! 😊)

[arolesbianism]

Yet another beautiful day to have the Maxwel tag blocked (can't see half of the posts in the Wendy tags)

[astrxealis]

a part of me is glad barely anyone has ever asked me about ffxiv bcs if you did i will... i am so insane.....

[craftykaname]

MMD is one of the greatest gifts the world has given us

[uozlulu]

Still thinking about the musical choices in Rocketman (2019), how they treated it like a musical rather than a biopic with songs like so many normally do. I loved how the songs acted as transitions, and how they underscored the emotion of whatever was happening. The thing i keep coming back to though is how angry and over it “Bennie and the Jets” sounded. Like within the first two chords the anger just flowed, showing the frustration and agitation growing. It was so effective and gave new perspectives on some songs that I grew up with.

[magentagalaxies]

realizing i could honestly teach a whole course on mouth congress and probably fill an entire class with an analysis of "young and alive in 1975" and "thanks for the disco"

[elizabethvaughns]

elizabeth's monologue about her failed marriage is really interesting in terms of background music because when it starts the music is all calm and peaceful, as she walks through madison park, to something a bit more upbeat and hopeful ("there's a moment when everything changes" stanza) and then it becomes really quiet all of a sudden when she starts contemplating the what ifs, and then the tempo starts picking up (and it gives that mood of when you're talking really fast about something because you're anxious and scared) when she talks about her anxieties for her further life

[shiegra]

super brief thoughts on Li Su Su

I feel like I ragged a little on her in the last post and I want to clarify - I find both her book and show counterparts fascinating. While I do love the uneasy-frenemy banter in the books between Li Su Su and Tantai Jin, where they always know the other is up to something and all their repartee has the edge of a knife even as they grow to have a strange understanding and twisted fascination of the other deeper than anyone else’s -

The narrative as it stood, this serial oft-travelogue in that subgenre of batshit action and over the top characters, would have been harder to sell on screen. I think they made an excellent choice to focus on Tantai Jin as a more complex, nuanced character and build up his personal journey. While the webnovel’s fast pace and action could carry the roadtrip adventures as they meandered back to main plot, both budget and the need for consistent overarching story structure complicate that for show.

(I also think this politely avoided some incredibly Unfortunate Implications regarding people with antisocial personality disorders due to the in-your-face allegory lol.)

In doing so they had to change up her character, and possibly played it safe due to genre conventions leaned into her directness to keep the plot moving. (Given the care and energy with which they fleshed out the two biggest secondary female characters.) But it’s also fascinating to me because even her lighter show characterization feels like it’s calling back to book characterization - but book characterization from the second dream, of her younger mischievous fairy self before the weight of apocalypse crushed her into what she is in the opening of the book.

(Plus on just a personal level maybe partly due to early fandoms I had and neglected female characters there, female characters with somewhat messy writing but who are so fascinating to explore the implications and potential layers of are like catnip to me.)

[spidersrightsactivist]

I’ve been feeling very discouraged about the goliath novel these past couple months because what I thought would be a brief and small round of line edits turned into a massive developmental revision that caused me to feel terrible about my own ability to create things and rethink even the deepest fundamentals of the project (i.e., wayyy more than necessary), but I finally figured out how to patch over the opening sections that were causing me to start the story off on the wrong foot and figured out a plan going forward--and in the process of that I reread what I did have from my last attempt at the beginning and realized it’s actually really good. Like, the structural issues I identified were still there and I’m still going to fix them, but I’m really proud of what I’ve managed to create and after feeling so bad about this project for a while it’s really nice to discover and makes me feel like I can maybe conquer this edit after all.

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

[natalieironside]

Everything that exists ought to be studied. Whether or not a work of art passes muster by some arbitrary standard of taste or quality has no bearing on the matter; if it exists, we ought to be picking it apart and interrogating it. Listen.

Can I be honest with y'all? I can be honest with y'all. I fucking hate Garfield. I'm sure we all have that one thing out in the culture or whatever which we just loathe with all of our being, and mine is Garfield. I think Jim Davis is the godfather of content farming and I cannot abide the odious presence of his creations. There, I've said it. It's out in the open now.

But, like, clearly a lot of people do not agree with me. Clearly a lot of people, many of whom are ppl whose opinions I greatly respect, love that big orange cat, to an extent which makes it clear they're deriving from it the same depths of meaning and levels of joy that I get from the shit I do like. So, like, my opinion on the big orange cat, like most of my opinions, is just so much horseshit when you really get down to it. Like, what the fuck do I know.

And the other day, this youtube guy who really really likes Garfield chanced to cross my desk, and with the above hypothesis in mind, I thought, "Fuck it, I'll watch that," and it's really goddamn interesting. It gets into, like, Garfield philology sounding the depths of its surprisingly complex compositional history and its relationship to Jim Davis' earlier and more obscure work, a lot of which is lost media. It's fascinating.

And I woulda missed out on all that if I'd assumed that me not liking Garfield meant he had nothing to teach me.