stating to think there’s an inverse correlation between how good media is and how easily fandomizable it is 😁

good media should make you stare at wall for 2 hours instead of immediately starting shippings wars and coffeeshop au and slowburn fics

no no you’re not wrong but also

there’s a reason for this.

My personal theory is that if Media is REALLY good, there isn't really... space, if you will for fans to add or change perspectives on it. Too dense, too complete. Like how coral won't grow on plastic because it's too smooth

Whereas some half-baked hot garbage has got ALL KINDS of plot holes, incomplete characterization, warped timelines, missing worldbuilding and other Spaces for fans to colonize, like coral growing on a sunken battleship.

And then if a series just sucks too much, it's not fun to interact with at all, and people won't fandomize it because it's toxic. Like how coral won't grow on sunken piles of burnt-out tires.

I call this the Fandom Barrier-Reef Theory.

what was i made for?

“ophelia” by john everett millais but it’s barbie and for the sake of this concept let’s pretend that there is in fact water in barbieland

Azucena vs. Lili / "Coffee vs. Tea" | TEKKEN 8

She’s gonna beat the shit out of someone for not appreciating earl grey because why not O.O

AND RIGHTLY SO I SHOULD SAY, FUCK THAT DISGUSTING DRINK

DRAMA IN THE WARM BEVERAGE COMMUNITY

maggie, probably: mr. fell, you look at that friend of yours in the dark glasses like he hung the moon 😊

aziraphale: well! well... he did hang the moon, of course! how else should I look at him?

i wore my mashup of Trouble With Tribbles green fatshirt Kirk and Dior’s new look Bar Suit to the Dior exhibit at the dallas museum of art❤️

IG | Ko-fi | DA 

totally forgot to mention… the tribble is a purse!!! (even tho you bet your ass I also put big pockets in that skirt)

I really do not care why men are lonely and hate women to cope. I’m lonely and u know what I do ? finger myself like a normal person . They have no excuse

And like mens mental health is not declining bc girls are mean to them online. Everyone’s mental health is declining bc this world as a whole is built around profit and sucks the life out of all our communities. We’re all in this shit hole together but men think if they can seize control over womens lives then everything will be okay. So to say women complaining about it online causes this is just honestly a sadistic joke and there’s something broken in your brain.

Hilda by Duane Bryers

More Hilda!!

in this family we love and support Hilda.

Yes! Hilda!

What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.

I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day

I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy

My favorite thing is how Hilda is always doing something and having a BLAST! She’s not posing coyly for anyone, she’s having her own adventures and it’s not about the viewer at all

Always reblog Hilda!

HILDA MY LOVE

100% Disagree

It’s an underdog story about classism in which the folk hero (Johnny) is confronted by a powerful man (the Devil) who tries to exploit the hero’s perceived ignorance and inferiority by offering a great reward with impossible odds. Although Johnny warns him that looks can be deceiving, and that he’s going to regret the dare because Johnny is the “best there’s ever been”, the devil is blinded by his greed and arrogance.

The devil creates an awful cacophony of technically excellent fiddle playing that would be impossible for Johnny to replicate. It’s a trick.

But Johnny just grins at him and starts to play “simple” classic country fiddling songs - Fire On The Mountain, House Of The Rising Sun, and Daddy Cut Her Bill Off. He doesn’t rise to beat the Devil - he simply creates his own music from his home, in the style that he knows, and his love of it and the familiarity of the music make his “backwoods” fiddling more perfect than the Devil could ever achieve.

It is thus the devil’s pride, not Johnny’s, that allows Johnny to Bugs Bunny his way into a golden fiddle.

(In that sense, I do agree that it is the most American song: in a land of prejudice and inequities, great power lies - dormant but ever-present - in those we underestimate and attempt to exploit.)

Also people initially react to the devil's part like "holy shit that's badass" because he's got electric guitar and bass and a whole backing band to make him sound good. Of course he sounds amazing. But if you drill down to the actual fiddling -- and this is straight from Charlie Daniels -- it's not as technically difficult as what Johnny does. It's fast? But it's mostly just going up and down scales.

Here's a good performance -- the devil's part starts around 2:00. Check out how long Daniels just stands there holding his fiddle while the guitar and piano carry the weight. I love that piano bassline but fiddling it ain't.

It's still an American narrative: if you can afford to hire a bunch of more talented people, you, too, can look like a genius. Doesn't make you one.

You know what? Dating is a numbers game. Not being rude, being well-groomed and dressed up nicely and being considerate of people is one thing, but you're just wasting your time if you go on dates trying to act normal. What you should be doing is going on 1000 dates with different people, put all your weird shit on display, and then pick the one who isn't repulsed by it. If they're repulsed by what you're into from the start, you're never going to be able to truly be comfortably yourself around them.

Don't stress about being 'too weird'. If you're genuinely just being yourself, that's just the limit of how much Your Particular Sort Of Weird Shit someone that's going to be a potential life partner will just need to tolerate, or even embrace. That might sound like some dumbass toxic entitled dramaqueen shit but trust me: You're absolutely 100% better off alone than with someone who's uncomfortable with the way you are when you're comfortable. And so are they. Like yeah, relationships require work and compromises and meeting someone halfway, but you shouldn't have to compromise who you are in order to be with someone.

Your personality is there to keep the kind of people that you don't want in your house, out of your house. Go out with seven different girls and send all of them some weird fucking meme of two humanoid ghouls eating a dead deer with some text like "this could be us but you won't go to the carcass with me :(" and pick the one who still wants to talk with you after that. And perhaps even inquires whether there actually is a deer carcass. Does it still have all the teeth. Because if there's actually a carcass and it still has all the teeth, she wants them. She has plans that need deer teeth.

had a dream someone had edited the defunctland "a powerful rat named charles entertainment cheese" into a sentence mix that was something like

a powerful pppppppprat named charles [long audio pause the exact length of "entertainment cheese"] [the fade in is charles windsor] [a bike horn remix of god save the king starts playing] [wilhelm scream] [charles gets whacked in the head by a map showing a united ireland, independent scotland, and for whatever reason the angevin empire's french holdings]

We’re winning.

I found his bio on societyofpresidentialdescendants.org and it was so delightful I had to copy paste the whole thing:

“Ulysses Grant Dietz grew up in Syracuse, New York, where his Leave it to Beaver life was enlivened by his fascination with vampires, from Bela Lugosi to Barnabas Collins. He studied French at Yale (BA, 1977), and was trained to be a museum curator in the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (MA, 1980). A decorative arts curator at the Newark Museum for thirty-seven years before he retired, Ulysses has never stopped writing for the sheer pleasure of it. Aside from books on Victorian furniture, art pottery, studio ceramics, jewelry, and the White House, Ulysses created the character of Desmond Beckwith in 1988 as his personal response to Anne Rice’s landmark novels. Alyson Books released his first novel, Desmond, in 1998. Vampire in Suburbia, the sequel, appeared in 2012. His most recent novel, Cliffhanger, was released by JMS Books in December 2020.

“Ulysses lives in suburban New Jersey with his husband of 45 years. They have two grown children, adopted in 1996.

“Ulysses is a great-great grandson of Ulysses S. Grant. His late mother, Julia, was the President’s last living great-grandchild; youngest daughter of Ulysses S. Grant III, and granddaughter of the president’s eldest son, Frederick. Every year on April 27 he gives a speech at Grant’s Tomb in New York City. He is also on the board of the U.S. Grant Presidential Library and Museum at Mississippi State University.”

And frankly, the novels sound like they slap:

Desmond was nominated for a Lambda Award.

“With his husband of 45 years.” You kids don’t know ... they got together before AIDS, at the peak of the Gay Glam Life. They stayed together as their generation died around them, and made through it to the point where they could marry and have a legal family. He looks like a chipper preppie who never had a serious thought or care in the world, but it took *incredible* determination, commitment, and also luck to get here.

I find the fact that the Barbie movie is simultaneously being criticized by the right as “too radical”, and criticized by the left as “too nice to men” and/or “too pandering”, quite funny, given that America’s WHOLE SPEECH was about how, no matter what women (like the director of the Barbie movie) do, it will simultaneously always be too little and too much.

DING DING DING

Time for more highly specific Columbo blogging. in one of the books about Columbo I’ve obtained in the last two weeks, the author says it’s a continuity problem that Columbo tells someone in season two that he’s never been on a movie theater set before, when in fact he confronted a suspect on set in Prescription: Murder. I would argue it is not a continuity error if you embrace the best characterization of Columbo: guy who lies all the time for no fucking reason.

Doctor Doom toots as he pleases!

Lying should only be performed out of necessity, and in my experience, humans tend to be very poor judges of their own behaviour.

have you considered shutting the fuck up lmao "You should only lie when absolutely necessary" are you nine?

Just an honest gal tryin’ her best to live an honest life. Now where in the world did you get the idea that lying was done for shits and giggles?

Because I do it for shits and giggles, tons of people lie for fun, for amusement, to make others feel better... None of which are "necessary" but make the world a better place next you'll say "stealing is wrong unless you're starving"

Lying should only be performed out of necessity, and sometimes it is necessary for me to be fucking hilarious.

YOUNG MAN

there's no need to look down, i said

YOUNG MAN

really, please don't look down, i said