hearing another digital artist explain how they do things and realizing you've just been guessing this entire time and don't actually understand shit
still thinking about absolution ! john getting his shit absolutely ROCKED by mary may when she throws a fuckton of bliss in his face šĀ
also would like to formally apologize for reposting those pap pics of jodie with her baby, i have deleted the post
What has I done to be surrounded by this crowd? I have failed! I just want to get them out of the house? But then they'll be homeless! Would that be worth my stress relief???
i love how i'm either here because i have content to post or because i hate everything i post. which is the thing happening right now. so no new content today. which is also suspiciously similar to much of my time in this website
ENOUGH
mother fucking mary
enough is enough
abortion is a women's issue, yes
abortion restrictions will also affect poor women more than they will rich women - a basic class analysis will tell you that
in the united states, class is racialized, meaning that Black people experience poverty/lower class status at a higher rate than white people proportionately. yes, there are more poor white people than poor Black people, only because there are more white people than Black people in the us
when people say that abortion restrictions will disproportionately affect poor women and women of color, they are NOT saying that rich white women get off scot free, they are simply saying that poor women and women of color will have more obstacles between them and the abortion they wish to access than rich women would. again, it is not saying that abortion restrictions do not affect all women, just that some have a more difficult experience than others
your lack of reading comprehension on this issue speaks volumes, and is exactly why people are highlighting the experience of women who are oppressed on multiple axes
if you can't understand that some women have a different material reality than you, then you have a lot of self-reflection to do
character bingo foooooooor.....faith! š¤
I have thoughts about Faith and still kick myself for making a John ship first before her. My og blorbo from the first play through of the game!
I like to think god/the universe/the unlimited nothingness and emptiness of space or whatever else you'd like to call it has a very specific mission for all of us individualy. If you gravitate towards religion, that's very valid and god/the gods love you! If you feel like spreading awareness about the toxicity of religious organisations and are an atheist, it's valid and you are doing great work and you should be proud of yourself! If you are drawn to being a witch and to do tarot readings and inspire others, the universe is on your side and the magic flows through you. No religion or faith or belief is the true one because all of our paths are so specific, the only god we should listen to is our own sense of judgement. You were born with a brain, a feeling in your heart and with a mission to do, and only you know what it is. Maybe your mission is to simply just explore life? Without any specific goal in mind? Nobody else, no book, no religious figure will ever know it better than you do. It's difficult sometimes to do the right thing. Evil forces exist, whether you perceive them as demons or our own mind. But the moment you stop trusting yourself, you give up on yourself and you give up on whoever you trust, even if it is you and only you.
Hi Leslie! I read your answer about Billy and now I'm curious why you think the story doesn't work. I enjoyed the show but I was disappointed that the only answers we got were about Royal and Autumn. Do you think that's because they're saving things for another season? Is it just that it doesn't work as one season on its own?
i'm going to start with the end of this ask: yes, i do think that they're intending to save things for possible future seasons, but i don't think that's why this season doesn't work either.
i certainly understand that you have to find balance between revealing the answer to every question and saving things for down the line, as well as between spoon-feeding your audience every single detail about the story and letting them infer some things on their own. the problem is that the show doesn't actually manage to balance any of those things, which means we end up being given a hundred clues about autumn's identity and are clearly expected to somehow still be surprised at that reveal or beaten over the head with the message on the billboard in the last couple episodes, while practically everything else is left unexplored and elliptical to the point of opacity.
ultimately, the biggest problem with all of that for me is the actual structure of the show. i know that there are only eight episodes to work with, so some of the questions you introduce are going to go unanswered in that time, but if the Big Answers you're going to give in this particular season are to the questions of who is autumn and what is royal's mysterious past, then you have to structure the season so that those are the Big Questions that it presents.
instead, at the end of the first episode we're shown autumn pushing royal into the void, and at the end of the second, we get what he sees inside the void and the information that in that future he is dead. because that's the big surprising thing we're left with from that first block of episodes, THAT is the main mystery that the show has then structurally set itself up to explore. why is royal dead? did someone murder him, and if so, who? how far away is that future? etc. brian watkins has also said that that story is one of the central pillars of the show: we were all really intrigued by the idea of a journey that starts with a man that knows heās going to die and thus must prevent a future that includes that. So thatās been a really wonderful, fun narrative track for us to follow throughout these first eight episodes. It really comes to a head at the end of five with Royal seeing that Autumn and his wife Cecilia are linked in the process of his death.
but the issue with that is that those questions and their answers aren't actually "a fun narrative track for us to follow" in this season. in fact, it's the opposite: it's set up so strongly at the start that it then comes across like a dropped plot line throughout the rest of the show. the only other time we really come back to it is indeed the vision where he sees autumn there with cecilia as he's dying, but we get very little new information from that, just autumn's presence, which isn't exactly surprising by then. and while i guess you could say that the discovery that the geologist is associated with the mining company and royal's attempt to call them only to get a disconnected number are also related, mysteries related to the larger world portrayed in that future are largely tangential at this point. none of the actual questions surrounding royal's death are answered or even partially answered, and mostly it just isn't brought up again.
more importantly though, if, as watkins says, the point is that this is the journey of a man trying to prevent his future death, why are we never actually given that as a motivation for the things that royal is doing? i suppose after he sees that vision, the next bit we see of him is the scene where he picks autumn up on the atv and then kind of loses it on her and goes to burn her tent, and so maybe we're supposed to infer from that that those actions are being done in an attempt to prevent her from killing him? but i wouldn't have even thought to try to make that connection if i hadn't read watkins' interview. because what royal is actually yelling at her in that scene is to stay away from his family. i can see how those things would relateāsince cecilia is also there in the vision of his death and i guess maybe he also thinks that if he can't stop his own death he can at least keep her from hurting them as wellābut there's nothing about that connection that is made particularly clear. in fact, because he has previously warned her about staying away (long before he sees the vision of her and cecilia), the scene simply reads as him being angry that she hasn't listened to him rather than anything specifically related to preventing his own death.
that's the kind of issue that is prevalent throughout the whole show. the structure emphasizes certain things, by where they're placed in the story or how much time we spend on them, and so often they're dropped or made to feel separate from other things happening on the show. and far too often, the events we're shown aren't explicitly or even logically connected to the characters' motivations throughout the remainder of the story. and some of that is fine. obviously we as an audience should be able to read into some things. obviously you're not going to answer every single question that is raised. obviously characters are allowed to change their minds and to do things that contradict the things that happen to them or our previous impressions of them. but there still has to be enough context and connection in the show itself that we can find a discernible purpose for the things we're being shownāthere has to be a reason whyāor everything starts to feel meaningless. especially with a run time this short. there is no time for filler in eight episodes. if you're including it, you're automatically telling me it's important. and the more times that you contradict yourself or bring something up only to drop it entirely a few episodes later or don't actually give me some reason that you've chosen to show me this particular thing in this particular way, the more i start to think you don't actually know what you're doing.
i know my school counselor slides down the wall shaking and throwing up when she sees me get marked absent for like thw 100th time
Should I associate this song with Heinkel in my head? P r o b a b l y n o t.
However it's not in the way it probably seems ,, not like about them ,, more 2nd party @ them. Idk how to explain it.
Just enjoy the song , Depeche Mode is good. / lh
lays in bed face down thinking about hurt comfort and sobbing uncotrollably into my pillow
school is so weird... you see the same people in the same building five days a week for the best part of a decade and even if you're not friends you know their names and faces... and then one day school ends and you just. leave. and never see most of them again ā¹
. I considered staying longer to see some stuff. Saw a crappy post on my tl. Decided that never mind. I am going back to bed.
devan with binoculars watching void creatures storm the bridge of the iceborn looking for the watchers, talking into a walkie-talkie: my lady we have a situation, code purple
I will say AntonĆn embodies the quality of independence (and freedom) to the point where it can turn into disloyalty and selfishness.
Murderbot described Preservationās economy as a ābarter systemā because it had no words or concepts for what it was actually witnessing, which is a gift economy.
//iāve been really proud of the writing iāve been producing lately ;;Ā i do be going a little bit insane with some of my threads (shoutout to the 500+ word lyric starterĀ in my multiās queue), but iām having sooo much fun.Ā writing has been so enjoyable for me this past week or so especially and!!
I JUST LOVE COMING UP WITH WORDS DUDE, AND IRONICALLY, I CANNOT COME UP WITH THE WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE COMING UP WITH WORDS š
iāve been reading a lot between replies, making my way through the ghost at the tableĀ by suzanne berne, which isnāt even a particularly goodĀ book (the 3.01 star rating on goodreads definitelyĀ tracks), but itās kind of been encouraging me to push myself and write more descriptively and also extrapolate more on my internal monologues anD???
i dunno man, imagine what i would do when fueled by a book thatās actually goodĀ lmao
some of yall have wayyyy too much faith that the spn prequel is gonna be goodā¦. honestly have to commend you for your ability to still have faith after everything supernatural put us through
