#under a microscope

[ilovethenumber9]

[btheleaf]

Tenzin cheated this, Lin’s emotional constipation that, NO Linzin broke up cuz Lin fucked Bumi and Bumi wouldn’t shut up about it. Thats why tenzin is soooo annoyed with him in season two!

Loving the implication here that Lin cheated on Tenzin with Bumi? and for some reason Bumi wouldn't shut up about it? and then a minimum of 11 years later they still haven't worked through their issues?

[silliestofbilliest]

wOOO MORE DUNGEON MESHI DRAWINGS 🗣️🗣️🗣️ (can you guess who my favorite character is 👁️👁️) LMAO

[blueberrytwoberry]

Am I back to obsessing about the basketball scene? Yeah, but specifically because of the still the show released with Buck standing between Eddie and Gerrard because, tbh, that’s the most squared up and bristly i’ve ever seen Buck and it’s making me think thoughts, because, okay. 

This show consistently makes the most wild narrative choices and I mean, that’s clearly part of what I enjoy or I wouldn’t have stuck around for seven seasons, but i still think some of the wildest are related to The Basketball Game, but more because they had chances to be much wilder with it and didn’t even take them! 

Like, listen, we have Buck, who has basically been a hard no on any aggressive behavior for six seasons before this, never called himself a pacifist, but he and Hen are the only members of the main cast who never lean that way, hurting his bestie out of jealousy/frustration/anger (exact emotional motivation subject to interpretation by the viewer). 

That’s the kind of wild choice I expect this show to make! 

And it makes sense in a very messy way, because we know that Buck used to hurt himself for attention all the time. And I’ve got a research paper in me I think about what this says about Buck blurring the lines between BuckandEddie in his own head, if it’s okay {“okay”) to hurt Eddie because they’re BuckandEddie so it’s close enough to hurting himself that he didn’t even think about what he was doing, and how I’d have loved to dig into who was the end-goal recipient of attention for him. 

If they’re BuckandEddie and hurting Eddie means (to Buck) hurting himself, was he hoping for attention from Eddie, then, after the game? (This is, I think, the most likely option because the whole rest of the episode (barring the swerve at the end) is Buck trying to get Eddie to pay attention to him). Or does hurting Eddie mean it’s expected (and okay) for him to give Eddie attention after the game? 

Did everyone else reacting in a normal way to him fully taking Eddie out snap him out of that weird headspace? 

Doesn’t look like we’ll ever know because the show did surprise me there by completely swerving on Maddie’s reaction to Buck’s admission of what he did. Fully expected her to react more strongly because that’s basically… Maddie’s hot button issue (maybe unpopular take but I don’t think hurting someone becomes okay just because they aren’t your romantic partner). (Sigh the fic I never wrote about Maddie running into Eddie and seeing his ankle all bandaged up and all the feelings that’d bring up in her and the long-term fallout on her relationship with Buck because give me the obvious comparison to Doug.) 

In any case, i fully expected them to then drop the physical aggression right back out of Buck’s character after the end of 7.4. But hmmm that still makes me think maybe not and now i’m back to desperately wanting to talk about it again. Ah, well. 

[enobariasteeth]

guys I’ve got the jason brain rot again

[moonshadowslament]

this man is going to kill me someday

[infpravenclaw5w4idkwhatelse]

The whole thing with Ao3 being down all day is fucking hilarious, if only because the comments on downdetector are so incredibly unhinged. I mean how could they not be? You take away an entire group of society’s main entertainment from them and have a website thats only used if said entertainment is broken, and all those people end up there and can talk to each other. It’s such a niche group of people. It’s a more concentrated tumblr. I would base a psychology research project on the downdetector comments section.

[howifeltabouthim]

To be female still means being trapped within the purely psychological. No matter how dispassionate or large a vision of the world a woman formulates, whenever it includes her own experience and emotion, the telescope's turned back on her.

Chris Kraus, from I Love Dick

[mydawnsky]

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Also posted on iNaturalist

[if-not-now-tell-me-when]

how did the Strauch cousins become my Roman empire !!!

Esteban Kukuriczka, Francisco Romero & Rafael Federman as THE STRAUCH COUSINS Adolfo 'Fito' Strauch, Daniel Fernández & Eduardo Strauch in LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE / SOCIETY OF THE SNOW (2023)

Los primos Strauch se encargan del trabajo más doloroso. El que nadie quiere hacer. Fito es quien elige los cuerpos que los tres cortan a escondidas, apartados de la mirada del resto. Así logran contener la locura de los que comen. The Strauch cousins handle the most painful job. The one no one wants to do. Fito chooses the bodies that the three cut up. Out of sight. Where the rest of us can't see. So that they keep the ones who eat from losing their minds.

[karda]

i miss science class bro. we dont put things under microscopes as much as we should

[altarfates]

i walked like 20 minutes and now i am having the equivalent of an asthma attack for like two hours after death.

[postillfastill]

i have no words. worlds first terf monk returns from a thirty year hibernation on top of a mountain i guess.

[sunsburns]

your alien boyfriend is just so alien in the sense that his anatomy is just slightly different and off putting but you kinda love it.

you’ve noticed his heartbeat doesn’t really sound like a heartbeat, and he’s so fascinated by the way yours beats so rhythmically.

or maybe his irises get slightly wider than a normal person’s would when he sees something he likes, making them seem darker than what they usually are.

he doesn’t drink, like at all, which is fine, but he tells you it’s because alcohol doesn’t effect him. you think he’s just realizing he’s a heavy weight but you’ve seen him take ten consecutive shots back to back and not even flinch once. but funnily enough he does act a little tipsy at the smell of your perfume.

he’s also weirdly light on his feet. like, you can barely make out his footsteps half of the time and he tends to scare you sometimes because of it. you can only tell when he’s approaching is if the door creaks, or he knocks something over or he trips on his own feet or something along those lines.

he can also hold his breath for an concerningly long period of time. whenever the two of you are at the beach or the pool and he dives in, he spends an uncomfortable amount of time underwater. and when you start to worry, even the lifeguard (if there is one) starts to blow their whistle, he resurfaces casually, barely breathless.

he also kisses you like he doesn’t really need oxygen to breathe, it’s almost as if he can breathe through you, quite literally taking the breath from your lungs. he’s always looking at you like a kicked puppy whenever you pull away, telling him you need a minute for air. he doesn’t really get that you don’t breathe the same way he does.

[forgotmysword]

Doomed from the beginning

Unknown / Marguerite Duras / Blanca Varela / Ramona Ausubel / Anne Carson / Heather Havrilesky / Michael Cunningham / Lisel Mueller / Richard Siken x Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui

[userarmand]

Armand recreating Amadeo in the penthouse