#something deep

[giyuulatte]

i have something to say!

yapping time!!!

seeing annabeth as a black girl with braids is healing something in my soul and i need people to understand. growing up seeing all these female leads and love interests being white made me feel like i needed to be white to be able to feel that kind of specialness that was portrayed in movies and shows. and seeing annabeth as a young black girl…..with her hair in a protective style….is putting me in shambles.

i wanted to be white my entire life. i was always one if the few black kids in my honors classes back in middle and high school. my hair was relaxed and i tried to fit in with the white kids as best i could bc it was all i knew. eventually i cut the relaxer off and got a perm so my hair was curly again, and now i’m a freshman in college wanting to go back fully natural

all I’m trying to say is that seeing leah play annabeth and have a protective style has had a HUGE impact on my in such a short amount of time. ever since i saw she was casted i’ve been so excited and i feel like a child again. seeing her in the show and doing all these interviews with her hair is so glorious to see! something has settled in me and i just don’t know what it is, but it’s special.

this is the same for the little mermaid movie too and seeing halle with her beautiful locs

all these people saying “that’s not my ______” like ok that’s fine…..they aren’t for you.

something in me is healing and i need it to be known

[itsatorchwoodthing]

rose calling the song she and jack danced “our song” and jack refusing to call the song john plays their song

[weelkeen]

#4. Self-fulfilling prophecy

This is me throwing together some thoughts I've been processing. Our perception of the world is shaped by our expectations, our interpretation creates emotions that dictate our actions, leading to situations we expect and completing this endless cycle.

Can we get out of this cycle voluntarily by adjusting our beliefs and expectations to something positive? What if we try to be less emotionally reactive and choose a productive response instead? 👀

The quote is from a song called "Proces" by Akash:) this person's been some sort of moral support and guidance for me lately, so thanks again to someone who shared his music with me

[trainwreckgenerator]

a face you'd find on the side of a milk carton

[elodieunderglass]

changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.

I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.

Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.

No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.

But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?

[soosdraws]

obi-wan kenobi

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[emiko-matsui]

Ragh Barkrock to Gorgug Thistlespring in Freshman Year VS. Gorgug Thistlespring to Mary-Ann Skuttle in Junior Year

[astearisms]

part of a sadness

[anretoga]

"In the interplay of different characters, we used to be close. As changes unfold, I'm ready to stand guard and prevent any drift. Despite transformations, remember this: you'll always be part of the fabric of my friendship."

[puppyeared]

these two are so interesting to me

characters belong to @canisalbus

[obsmiechujek]

anyway hows your day been

[oreolesbian]

anyway, I’ll keep saying until I can say it no more, but I love how hayden christensen just keeps getting to prove over and over that he was always a good anakin casting. I love that he gets to be as visually iconic as his other co-stars from the franchise. I love that he can see fans lose their absolute mind with cheer and applause at his mere presence in a SW project. All when he was once the scapegoat and punching bag of why people hated the prequel trilogy. I just love it all.

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[sop-soap]

TMA begins with a lure, but TMAGP begins with a warning.

[kedreeva]

I'm so sorry, I'm absolutely losing it. I went to my neighbor's today to find out what I would need to do to care for their puppy this weekend, and This Fucking Thing appeared ajgldfkjhfg she is a turkey hen. you know, the birds who quite famously look like this

with no feathers on their heads, or very little, mostly along the spine/top of the head... and this gal just rocks up with not only a LITTLE bit of feathering, but almost completely covered. Even her WATTLE had feathers.

I'mc rying

i said, what the hell is going on here? and they were like

her name's Fluffy