#v popular actually

[wooeo]

enhypen 8th member headcanon

— beomgyu (from txt) has an obvious crush on u and has been caught staring at you multiple times

[bmpmp3]

finding out ur coworker is way older than you thought and having to very quickly reorient how you talk to them

[themyscirah]

Complaining abt Suicide Squad yet again but the fact that they have Waller exposing the alien community to space racist attacks and talking abt how she got to her position through deceit and being a terrible person and stuff is just. Ahsfiwueh JUST SAY YOU DONT KNOW WALLER.

Anyways literally the 3rd mission of the Squad ever (and the first framed as smth Waller picked and not orders from above) was the Squad discrediting and stopping a rogue vigilante who was only arresting POC and funneling white people into white supremacy groups (of which he was the most prominent member) in SUICIDE SQUAD #4. and it's explicitly framed as this mission being personal for Waller that she's hiding from the government bc its illegal like. Guys. Please why are we having her incite (space bc comics) racist attacks now

Also the whole "Amanda got her position through deceit and being a terrible person" NO. she KEPT her position through being shitty and playing complicated political games!!! She wasn't always that way like there is a difference and it is IMPORTANT ppl PLEASEEEE. In Secret Origins #14 we learn Amanda's backstory and she used to be a normal, caring person! Like even after she entered into working in government and politics she wasn't automatically morally bankrupt like please people. She was originally given control of the Squad by Reagan (*sigh* 80s comics...) to distract and get rid of her because she was so successful at pushing progressive social policy in Congress. Acting like she's this static pillar of evil is such a waste of her character and so fucking uninteresting and disrespectful to her arc it drives me MAD.

Like I am NOT saying Waller is all sunshine and rainbows, she fucking SUCKS (said w love <3) but like there's a human being there. It's a progression, she has a character arc like please, DC, please!!! They've fucked up Waller so bad and made her so opaque and uninteresting she can't even be the protagonist of her own story for fucks sake!

Like I don't know how many times I have to scream it until DC hears me or remembers but WALLER IS THE MAIN CHARACTER OF SUICIDE SQUAD. ITS HER BOOK. yet right now she's a cutout to be used as the villain wherever the writers please. Even in her book we get none of her perspective really displayed, no exploration of her thoughts with any kind of understanding of the role she traditionally has played and was made to play in the story.

[rolandkaros]

forever hilarious to me that tennis is promoted as this prestigious highbrow big-brain sport when most tennis fans these days are like. yeah this is my favorite player. yeah i don't know why they're like that. yes they are stupid. no i will not choose somebody else.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

these are all kind of Bad but this was the best of the bunch so i am posting it :p

i've been trying to draw vanessa more... she is so important to me... sun is here too i guess

[nostalgia-tblr]

"are people not into that?" i ask, after posting my weird niche shit to the internet, despite knowing it to be weird niche shit.

[boxwinebaddie]

my favorite baby style ncu continuity is cute tiny hopeless romantic kindergarten disney prince stan falling in love with kyle broflovski at first sight and buying every flavor of ring pop trying to propose to him like 'you are...the most Beautiful person i've ever seen.'

and evil feral kindergarten nj kyle threatening to bite him, fight him and end his pitiful life like 'and you are...so Gahdamn WEIRD. stay the hell away from me, yA FREAK!' and trying to bear mace him skdhs

— but then k-garten stan doing something incredibly wholesome, mindboggling stupid and storybook chivalrous to save k-garten kyle's life, the ice around his cold black heart melting, bein forever changed and falling head over heels in love w boy hero k-garten stan...

...all to take the fATTEST L OF ALL FUCKING TIME because he is too emotionally constipated to confess his feelings and end up gettin stuck in the super best friend zone FOREVER bc every day perfect stan marsh gets lovelier, handsomer and....Fucking STUPIDER.

[dykepaldi]

no one is telling you to skip nine anymore. not a single person in the world.

[starrysharks]

the urge to make public character playlists for my little guys...

[nihilismtrcit]

invited to dinner at the yacht club (way fancy, way out of budget) to “catch up” with some old high school frenemies friends. they have a dress code so nora had to break out an old high school dress

[chomesuke]

sephiroth would not willingly go to parties. he would not be a fashion model or an actor or anything like that. he wouldn't even be a famous soldier in canon if he had a choice

I've decided his calling in life is as an lepidopterist. let the awkward nerd live quietly and study butterflies (I have no reasoning as to why he'd like bugs it just feels right)

[artificialac1d]

redraw/redesign of puscifer's debut album's cover ! not a huge fan of the original cover and i thought i could make something at least a bit more visually appealing wahoo:)

[starswallowingsea]

another post inspired by the bad books book club but it's kind of concerning how a lot of popular YA books these days feature a huge power imbalance and don't like. make it clear that it's unethical and because these are popular with teenage girls it makes me concerned that they're internalizing these messages.

like the love hypothesis for example, which i have actually read and hated so fucking much, the main romance is between a phd candidate and one of the professors at her grad school. while they make it clear that he's not her advisor and can't be on her doctoral advising committee or whatever, he's in the same department first off and can still hold power over olive and in real life that could very very quickly turn sour because of the power imbalance. he very much still has power over her in ways she might not realize yet.

and then you look at......... well everything coho. like in verity the main character is sleeping with her agent which is UNETHICAL and could very very easily lead to a lot of business problems!!!! like you cant fucking do that and there's a reason why its looked down upon for agents to be romantically/sexually involved with clients. because the agent has power over the client. and while i think a fully grown 30 something adult can tell when something is just fantasy, younger adults are much much more impressionable to this kind of stuff. i'm saying this as 22yo college undergrad and i'm not immune to this either, but i'm aware of when i need to step back and ask myself what a text is saying and what it wants me to think because i've cultivated those skills. fresh 18yos who are still in high school and have had most of their high school career online or completely fucked with because of covid might not.

you can have books aimed at young adults that don't involve this type of harmful messaging romanticizing the power imbalance between characters. i see the way people talk about colleen hoover romantic leads and relationships and it's so worrying because nothing in any coho book is romantic and the romantic leads in all these books are like the brooding bad boy stereotype dialed up to abusive and people find it hot and attractive when it should be a massive red flag instead. young adults deserve better books.

[flowerakatsuka]

sometimes i look at the other characters i've had really intense hyperfixations on since i first got into osmt in 2016 and you can really tell that karamatsu has influenced my tastes in fictional masc characters. like.

seriously. this shit's embarrassing.

[dnangelic]

btwwww even if you have nostalgia for the series or think you know my muses because of it please don't try to project that onto my portrayal... there's been this phenomenon over the past few months where occasionally people seem to forget that i'm still an actual person(tm) behind all the dnangel stuff and therefore feel i should be obligated to entertain or write with them (as a mun, and having had many, MANY bad experiences on tumblr, i can in fact be extremely selective, things are happier when they're smaller but intimate for me) OR people don't pick up that my portrayal is in fact only semi-canon and is therefore unique and hand-built. if you come in constantly swinging with your own idea of my muse without being willing to ever actually actively listen to me about how my portrayal actually is, (even just a little or in general, i don't ask for total understanding!) i'm not really going to be happy about the difference. especially when 99% of people who go through dnangel don't actually pick up on some of the details (this is ok btw the manga is somewhat sloppy and esoteric and most people only read it in middleschool) or they haven't gone through the other formats of media (drama cds, light novels) for it. let me do my own thing but also recognize it as my own thing too!!