I don't even know

i think in the hamster wheel of my mind a big part of where people go wrong with eddie and his shitty garage band as an extension is that they for some bizarre reason think he's gene simmons metal when he's jack black metal. heavy metal. he's tenacious d metal. he's school of rock. he's stoner lord of the rings metal he nearly wore blue jeans and plaid. jack black literally in real life once said eddie was the best character bc he's heavy metal like him. LOOK AT THIS

just in case anyone misinterprets what i mean this is not about people not being able to discern the different subgenres of one category of rock music i don't give a shit about that and anyone who does is an arrogant douchebag which doubles for when people falsely make eddie care when he's never implied it at all. it's more the exact opposite of That shit doesn't matter and he's just Some Guy before anything else. this is about the fake rockstar-core glamourised polished AESTHETICISED poser douchebag who gets record deals and shit that people cart around by the perfectly styled hair and say is eddie when eddie is fundamentally a guy who will play in a college bar and HAPPILY be tipped in free fruity little cocktails and sing about werewolves and wizards and shit. which is literally 100 times cooler than that fake concocted eddie anyway who i believe was made in a lab to specially be my worst enemy

eddie would be like hey man do you want to be my roommate and steve would be like what why and eddie would be like i didn't know how else to ask you out and steve would be like oh okay. well no. and then eddie would instantly start crying and have to turn around and face the wall entirely to pretend he isn't and steve would be like you're a fucking idiot just ask me out normal and eddie would be like (voice breaking comically) will yougo out with mee and then steve would say no again to be funny

lucas thus far has been very good at packaging his trauma into a neat box and sliding it under the bed. among other reasons, a large factor in him joining the basketball team has to do with it being extremely normal. normal people play basketball, normal people have not spent the past three years experiencing horrible trauma.

lucas cannot understand why max is not able to ignore her grief and trauma the way he is. lucas and max being on opposite sides of a toxic coping mechanism already puts a huge gap between them and it doesn’t help that lucas struggles to understand why max is grieving billy.

max mostly tried to make billy’s behavior into jokes, but he was bad, really bad. he understands why she’s sad but not why she’s letting it ruin her life? it feels like a betrayal of herself, of lucas, even. billy was racist, he attacked lucas because he was racist. now max is blowing lucas off to be sad about someone who was fundamentally not okay with his existence. how is that someone worth missing?

lucas doesn’t understand grief or depression, that max’s relationship with billy was much more complex than he can understand, that max cannot pack her feelings away the way he can, that his packing his feelings away is going to blow up on him. this is not wholly a failing in his part, nobody taught him about these things, like everybody in the party he is navigating trauma almost entirely on his own. when he asked max to come to his basketball game that was selfish, an ask for max to push things aside the way he has and have fun without addressing their issues. by the end of the season he understands reaching out in a meaningful way, they see each other for the first time in a long time. they meet in the middle. then max dies.

and this

Had Padmé been 20-30 years older than anakin instead of 2-3 it wouldve fixed a significant portion of the franchise, including padmé's own chracterization

he whole "'woah we're doing something we shouldn't this is going to ruin both of our lives" doesn't ring true in the original movies cause they're just two beautiful young people doing what they're supposed to do in a story. the cliché kills the dramatic tension. give me a 45 year old woman ruining her career life and reputation because a dumbass 19year old monk is pathetically throwing himself at her feet THAT'll give the audience something to be anxious about. It's not something people expect to happen.

Would also explain why all the authority figures are like "Sure, lets put this notoriously disobedient and hotheaded beautiful youth as the sole escort of an equally beautiful young woman who's had the entire world on her shoulders from childhood. no prophecy twins will result from this". i could see obiwan allowing it because he can't deny anakin anything, but what about the rest of the jedi council??? What about padmé's own people? The choice of anakin as bodyguard looks like bad optics even if nothing actually happens. What about her reputation??? It would've been satisfying if they'd actually leaned into it instead of vague hints. Like padmé says its improper but nothing in the surrounding world actually makes it seem that way. The prequels at least didn't do a good job establishing the jedi as sexless and chaste. They just seem like cool hot guys with swords of COURSE they fuck.

but if she's 45, even if she's beautiful, a lifetime of dutiful service to the republic would make most people go "ah she would never sleep with a teenage monk, doesn't matter if he asks". Plus the general social standards of star wars being actually identical to those of our own society they'll probably be like "well what would a 19year old even want with a middle aged woman?" the thought wouldn't even occur. She'd be desexualized by virtue of her age so of course give her a hot young bodyguard no one (including the audience) is gonna see potential for impropriety

AND NOW WE COME TO ROTS. Its not impossible for a 45 year old woman ti get pregnant (average menopause is 50 i assume also in space until proven otherwise) but it is rarer, and it would make sense of anidala not to have been expecting it. It would also underline, again, that this pregnancy is a genuine threat to their lives and careers, because two young people in love secretly married having a baby is literally fine. its normal. the audience will forgive and even applaud even if the wider society in the movie doesn't. but a 45 year old senator with a secret baby?? that she's KEEPING?? like already in the original she shouldn't have kept the baby but the movie is christian and the audience too the vibe is "noo pregnancy is beautiful its luke and leia awww". We should be SCARED about the pregnancy.

And then, anakin having nightmares about padmé dying in childbirth are no longer obvious prophecies. like young padmé is healthy and rich, she'll have the best medical care theres no reason to think her pregnancy will have complications. It's actually kind of stupid and dismissive for people to say anakin's nightmares are nothing to worry about, especially considering he's had them before! but if padmé is pregnant at 45 the risk of complications is very high even with good medical care, and it would make sense for anakin to just have regular nightmares about it. The pregnancy is not a good thing! its a big risk they're taking in a lot of ways!

It also complicates the "unavoidable fate" thing they did in rots. Like in the original had anakin not tried to do everything to prevent padmé dying in childbirth she actually wouldve been fine. She died of grief while fully healthy which i think everyone can agree was fucking stupid. But if anakin's descent into the dark side, 100% ensured padmé dying (strangling a 45 year old woman who's already endured a huge amount of stress and throwing her to the ground? narratively speaking, either she's not making it or the baby isn't), i think it would be good if we weren't told with absolute certainty "had anakin stayed a jedi she wouldn't have died". It would be more compelling if we didn't know for sure!!

Plus it would make anakin's freakout so much easier to empathize with. Like sure its scary to think of your loved ones dying but the whole movie she's presented as obviously not at risk. Anakin worries but we don't. We should worry! Are we so much better than him? Wouldn't we also be desperate in his position? Or alternatively we refuse to sympathize with his decision to fall in love with a middle aged woman which is uncomfortable and leads us into much more complicated moral questioning than "become evil or stay good?". It would add drama either way!

And it would make both padmé and anakin so much more 3 dimensional as characters. Now they're making strange, emotionally driven and unexpected decisions instead of following the script for romantic lead 1 and 2. Padmé has actual depth and complications! She makes decisions we can't necessarily appove of, keeping the baby becomes a genuine decision with genuine cost instead of "duh, what else is she gonna do?" Her falling in love with anakin actually adds depth to her character and tells us something about who she is instead of turning her into a cliché. Replaying the trilogy in my head with older padmé instead of young padmé she immediately feels like a character with agency instead of a cardboard cutout of the ideal dead wife.

Even in the delicious wonderful scenario where obiwan and padmé have an affair after anakin joins the dark side, if padmé is young it doesn't feel like a decision she's making so much as the circumstances acting upon her, it feels like obiwan is betraying anakin but it doesn't feel like she's actually betraying anything? she just doesn't have enough agency for that to be the case. Giving in to emotion is what a romantic heroine is supposed to do. But older padmé sleeping with obiwan after losing her extremely young husband to the dark side while at most 5 days away from giving birth is like...an actual decision. A complicated woman making unsympathetic choices, giving in to emotion when what's expected of her is dignity. For the THIRD time, she acts out of feeling instead of reason and seals her fate. Its kind of a misogynistic character arc but i don't care id watch the shit out of it. And she HAS a character arc now, instead of nothing.

why do you guys feel the need to lie to yourselves

•fat person exists with eccentric fashion

•”omg theyre hot!”

•”EWWWW NO STANDARDS DISGUSTING UGH EW” response

please die please die please die please die

yep that's what happened

he looks like hed own the orphanage that sold stuart little

what a beautiful thing, to be queer. how lovely it is to be strange, to have edges that spill out over the lines, to be undefinable. the oddity of our hearts is something to be treasured. never change for anyone.

“Not queer like gay. Queer like, escaping definition. Queer like some sort of fluidity and limitlessness at once. Queer like a freedom too strange to be conquered. Queer like the fearlessness to imagine what love can look like…and pursue it.”

—Brandon Wint

HELL YEAH FUCK HIM UP YOUR HONOR

Yes, I am a straight man. Yes, getting the shit beat out of me in an all-male mosh pit is an erotic experience for me. We exist

When I was in Norway at the Gojira show a guy in the pit grabbed me & said “open your mouth”

And I did

He suspected (correctly) that I was dehydrated & was judging by the color of my tongue

But I fully heard “open your mouth” & thought “wow this stranger is going to spit in my mouth”

And then, naturally, I thought “well let’s see where he’s going with this”

I don't feel like typing all of that can someone talk about the hockey player and his wife vs pornrot fanfic weirdos

Wife of a player for the Hockey team Kraken makes a post on instagram stories requesting that fans, esp ones associated with booktok, stop leaving explicitly sexual comments on her and her husband’s instagram photos esp ones that feature their children, or showing up at games to chant sexual comments like “KRACK MY BACK” at him and other players. Correctly calling all of this sexual harassment. In the post she uses examples of the type of comments she finds unacceptable, usernames are visible but no single person is pointed out as this is about the contents of the comments first and foremost. He later makes a post setting the same boundaries. The self proclaimed queen of booktok with 1 million followers who credits herself as the reason why people even know about the team bc of her videos where in some she will go at length describing how attractive she finds various players or other public figures often with sexual commentary. Because her username is kinda visible in a screenshot of the comment section in one of her videos where she says she wants a player to “fuck all 3 of her holes” among other things she proceeds to dm the wife asking why she hadn’t dm’d her to let her know that there was an issue before making the post, ofc makes a video about sending the dms as tiktokers do. Makes several videos about how disappointed and hurt she is by this bc the above mentioned “I’m the reason people know the team, they used to post slow mo thirst traps to pander to booktok, and now suddenly this is an issue” goes on tiktok live and suddenly is claiming the wife is just upset bc she got cheated on with no evidence to back up this claim. Like basically a public figure and his wife wanted to reinforce some boundaries and no longer enable blatant sexual harassment, no one was pointing her or anyone else out just addressing the people who participated in this behavior while associating themselves with booktok but she ran headfirst into the discourse and became twitter’s main character. Tweets and tiktok summarizing the situation under the cut

there comes a point in some dudes ceramics careers where they start fucking with glazes so hard they spend their weekends hand digging rare minerals out of a desert deposit or a friend's multi-acre lot so they can grind them up and put them in a glaze. I know at least three guys that do this.

I also knew this guy derrick who was an absolute beast on the wheel (threw an entire 40pc porcelain serving set w/ cups bowls plates serving dishes and casserole dish in ONE HOUR) who also rented out a backhoe so he could dig clay out of his yard and refine it. Unfortunately it had too many inclusions in it so he had to dilute it with industrially made stuff. when he did that though he found that the clay in his yard, when fired, produced it's own glossy green glasslike ooze that vitrified during firing. he called it "self glazing clay", and went back that day to go dig up more. hope hes doing well. I imagine he's excavated his entire property by now

really fun how so much of film discourse has regressed to “well some movies are boy movies and some movies are girl movies and if you’re a girl you can’t like boy movies because girls are too stupid to even understand boy movies and if you’re a boy who enjoys girl movies you’re gay (derogatory)” but in progressive language

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

“Drink some of this Michael, be one of us”

mech with “student driver” stickers slapped all over it

this one got me

Y’know what? Fuck you. *Plays an acoustic guitar version of your leitmotif to show you still have tenderness and care in your heart, and compassion for others*

yeah? well fuck YOU *plays a music box version of your leitmotif to show that this is your home and its comfortable and nostalgic here*

No, piss off! *plays your leitmotif with immense reverb and a toned-down synth sound to show that nostalgia can also be about loss of what never truly was, a reflection of a reflection and a false memory of a false memory*

ok, boomer. *plays your leitmotif using discordant synth bass to display your spiral into villainy after you discover that your memories were a fabricated illusion that were created just to keep you complacent, and how that information is destroying you*

How many times do I have to teach you this lesson, old man? *plays your leitmotif in harmony with my own, intensity of both changing as our climactic battle’s balance shifts back and forth, eventually leaving only one with long, low pauses to musically represent our mutual struggle to overtake the other, yet not being able to exist in full without them.*

oh, you’re going to regret that! *plays your leitmotif on piano in short, soft notes to show that you’re being worn down, and that your energy is at a low, but with a steadily rising bassline that foreshadows your upcoming second form*

I’d best be seeing that anti JKR energy for this twilight show too bc Smeyer continuing to profit off the Quileute tribe is not cute

I keep seeing people on Twitter being all "I'm sure they'll be more respectful and mindful of the Quileute tribe this time around."

Except, they won't be. Even if they get actual Native American actors to play these characters, even if they bring on a Native American to serve as a cultural advisor, it wont matter. Why? Because Smeyer appropriated a real Native American tribe and twisted their culture and history in her fantasy books for her own profit.

This fictional Quileute Tribe is and always will be disrespectful to the real life Quileute tribe.

The Quileute Tribe is still taking donations to move out of the immediate tsunami zone as of April 2023. Instead of directing attention to this TV series if/when comes out (and even if it doesn't honestly), please consider supporting the tribe financially here if you can afford it.