I am tired of seeing historical "yeah we know it's not accurate but wouldn't that be fucking cool" movies that are always only about like. Three places. Fourth one maybe if you're really lucky. I am tired of that. I am tired of the greeks.
I want to see an over the top Rule Of Cool historical action movie about some wild shit that alledgedly happened 3000 years ago in idk Sudan.
I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either
Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines
I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”
every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid
brazilians, imagine you’re a famous futebol player and are about to hit the winning penalty kick at the world cup finals. accidentally, the referee tosses a christian baby at you. would you still kick the baby to the goal and win the hexa championship, and sacrifice the christian baby?
i’ve invented a new microwave its called microwave 2. it randomly makes your food colder 9% of the time. don’t worry i’ve already entered your home and replaced your old microwave with it. im very good at technology
i think a lot of white queer/trans people need to hear that "breaking gender norms" isnt just wearing a dress while masc or dying your hair. its also unlearning the beauty standards that impose ideals of white beauty and attractiveness on non-white folks. yes you have a nose ring but i just heard you tell your black friend with meticulously cared for natural hair "you'd just look so nice with straight hair is all im saying..." why does your blog fetishizing i mean uh. appreciating trans women only feature skinny white women who pass. when societal gender norms are so inextricably tied to whiteness and emulating whiteness it is not enough to simply change your aesthetic. you need to defy the gender norms in your own head too.
fun fact! the original draft of this was about native features, but i changed my examples bc historically my native-centered posts get basically no notes compared to my other social-justice/activism posts :) which definitely doesn't frustrate me at all as a queer native american. anyways reminder that gender roles are informed by culture and what you (white person reading this) consider "gender non-conforming" might in fact be a gender-conforming feature in their culture!
Isagi Yoichi does not need a love interest: an essay
I went on Blue Lock reddit today and saw this post about how Isagi should have a girlfriend and my kneejerk reaction was mf Bachira is RIGHT there. and then I thought about it harder and it genuinely is just that. Shounen anime love interests are very common tools to move the narrative along and blue lock does not need one. Because bachisagi. (I know this is preaching to the choir because i am on tumbr dot com but anyway)
The earliest use a love interest normally has early on in the plot is to act as a sort of springboard for the protagonist. More important members of the supporting cast are normally introduced slowly rather than all at once so that they can have dramatic aura farming introductions. Before the network of people around the protagonist is built up, the early-introduced love interest provides someone for the protagonist to talk to and interact with to develop their personality in the audience’s eyes and to set up a consistent voice for them.
Later on in the story love interests can act as an anchor for the protagonist. Shounen anime have a tendency to constantly be expanding the scope of the story with every new arc, like how Itadori’s priorities in Jujutsu Kaisen shoot very quickly from ‘making sure the club I started with my friends is approved by the school’ to ‘save the world from the megalomaniacal thousand-year-old demon living in my head.’ The protagonist gains new abilities, frequently of a world-ending scale in anime with fantastical aspects and of an inhuman nature in stories centered around things regular people can do like sports or gang fights. At some point this begins to create a sense of distance from the protagonist, who was originally created to be easy for people to project onto, which is where the love interest comes in. They serve as a reminder for the audience that the protagonist hasn’t forgotten his roots, and no matter how many new enemies the protagonist decimates, the way he interacts with the love interest is usually consistent, so the presence of the love interest serves as a reminder that deep down inside under the seventy layers of plot armor and real armor, the protagonist is still the same ordinary awkward guy that your average teenage boy can relate to.
A third fairly important narrative role that a shounen anime love interest frequently fulfills is to add emotional stakes to the plot. Most shounen anime main characters have parents that tend to be either inconspicuously absent or conspicuously dead, and once they’ve defeated whoever caused that and the manga keeps on going, the stakes still need to have more layers than just ‘I am going to die if I fail.’ The love interest is used to raise the stakes in this case, because the loss of someone they care about adds more tension even to physical aspects of the story like fight scenes or a sports match.
All three of these things are things that Bachira does for Isagi and for Blue Lock in order to keep the narrative moving along.
His friendship with Isagi serves as a constant and necessary reminder that Isagi is only a jerk on the soccer field to his rivals and not anywhere else to anyone else.
He also acts as an anchor at times when the scope of the setting is expanding, such as when he helps Isagi early on in the U-20 match when Isagi first starts playing on a national scale. Unluckily, he also gets the substantial negative side of the love interest treatment, that being that he gets relegated to being a minor character for large periods of time whenever Isagi moves on to having bigger fish to fry.
There is the constant implication that Bachira is also improving while Isagi does (espcially throughout the NEL), but it’s never central to the plot and it never quite surpasses Isagi himself. This is a surprisingly close reflection of how love interests frequently increase in power scaling in action anime; there’s normally a badass girl who is interested in the main character at the beginning and is used to show how cool people in the universe can be, and then once the main character grows over one or two of the first arcs the girl continues to be cool-looking but no longer really uses her abilities to do much unless it’s happening offscreen.
Bachira gets used essentially as leverage to raise the stakes of the plot. Rin splitting up Bachira and Isagi is framed as the emotional gut punch to go along with the practical issue of Isagi not moving on in the selection
Bachira's chief motivation centers almost entirely around Isagi. Even if it doesn’t begin like that, that’s how it ends. This is a frequent pattern among shounen love interests, where the love interest will have a normal-sounding motivation like becoming stronger or avenging their dead family, but this motivation is somehow intrinsically tied to the main character so that they have to consistently return to interacting with the main character in order to get what they want. Bachira’s main reason for joining Blue Lock to begin with is that he wants to find someone who loves soccer in the same way he does, and he’s already fulfilled this desire when he meets Isagi.
In conclusion, Isagi doesn’t need a love interest in Blue Lock because Bachira does everything a girlfriend would do for Isagi narratively except that he does it better.
I have a theory that the moon IS a trans woman cause she’s always associated with feminine things but when we saw the craters that look like a face we called it “The Man In The Moon”. She’s a woman with a face that people may perceive as male. She’s a beautiful trans woman
the moon is a beautiful trans woman who hates terfs and shows her face every night to remind other trans women they are beautiful and strong and loved and important and wonderful and that terfs and their opinions dont matter
I wanna add to this if it’s ok?? In Hindu mythology, Chandra, the moon, was originally thought of as a male deity. However, as time went on, symbolism involving the moon and the name “Chandra” itself became identified with femininity, with beautiful girls being described as having “moon-like faces,” with their dark, long hair reminding lovers of the midnight sky, and names like “Nilaa” (”moon” in Tamil) and “Indu” (in Sanskrit) are now pretty much now completely girl names!
AlsO Chandra is married to 27 wives, who are all stars. The moon is a trans lesbian and is gay for all the stars in the sky.
Ozempic scares the shit out of me. You're telling me there's a drug that takes away both the craving side of hunger and targets the brain's rewards center for eating. You're telling me it takes the joy out of eating and it turns you into a skeleton. Why did we turn The Curse of the Black Pearl into a drug. What the fuck.
I actually want to thank the diabetics coming on this post like "actually it genuinely is a great treatment for diabetes and it hasn't affected my mood or my enjoyment of food. The real issue is it's getting abused as a weight loss drug which also makes it scarce and more expensive for those who can genuinely benefit from it." Kind of reminds me of the time my brother got permission from our family psychiatrist to try my ADHD medication and his reaction to it was "what the fuck are you on. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU ON. WHY DO I FEEL LIKE CRYING. YOU'RE ON THIS EVERY DAY!?!"
Body chemistry! It makes a big difference in how your body processes a drug! What can be genuinely helpful for some folks is The Curse of the Black Pearl for others!
Can I offer a reframe of the common "write the shitty first draft" advice? I like that advice a lot but I think the way it's often presented bounces off a lot of people and activates shit that does not help writing happen.
I think of the first draft as an armature.
If I was making a beautiful bronze statue, I would need to make a clay model first. And, depending on the shape, before I even got out my clay I would need to get some good thick wire and create a basic shape for the clay to adhere to, so it doesn't all fall down. Once I have this essential 3D wire frame, I can start building and subtracting and refining.
But if I try to refine on just clay, it won't have enough of a core to hold it up. I'll sculpt a beautiful hand only to have the whole arm fall off and go smush.
The armature isn't the sculpture. It is the frame you build the sculpture around.
The first draft isn't the novel, it's a sort-of-novel-shaped thing that will hold up everything you build and beautify later.
Write the armature draft. Try to make it a good armature, instead of trying to make it a good novel before it's ready.
it’s something about the aggressively obvious 2020s makeup too on everyone in every movie no matter what the time period is. it’s the 19th century they do not have highlight!!!!
look at meg march in 1994 vs 2019. they both look great! however! emma watson is wearing very obvious lipstick, mascara, concealer under eyes heavy foundation etc etc. you can see this at a glance. i literally in making this comparison had to google if this was a promotional image that she took or actually a still from the movie because her makeup just looks like normal 2019 makeup that a girl from 2019 would wear!!! (not to mention her costume. different post.) then look at trini alvarado on the other left. obviously she’s wearing tons of makeup because she’s in a movie and she has tons of lights on her all the time but it doesn’t look she is!! you can see circles under her eyes!! she doesn’t have The Shine to her face that emma watson does. she looks so much more believable as a girl from the 1860s not because she’s a perfect representation but simply because she does not Obviously Have On Modern Makeup
it’s something about the aggressively obvious 2020s makeup too on everyone in every movie no matter what the time period is. it’s the 19th century they do not have highlight!!!!
look at meg march in 1994 vs 2019. they both look great! however! emma watson is wearing very obvious lipstick, mascara, concealer under eyes heavy foundation etc etc. you can see this at a glance. i literally in making this comparison had to google if this was a promotional image that she took or actually a still from the movie because her makeup just looks like normal 2019 makeup that a girl from 2019 would wear!!! (not to mention her costume. different post.) then look at trini alvarado on the other left. obviously she’s wearing tons of makeup because she’s in a movie and she has tons of lights on her all the time but it doesn’t look she is!! you can see circles under her eyes!! she doesn’t have The Shine to her face that emma watson does. she looks so much more believable as a girl from the 1860s not because she’s a perfect representation but simply because she does not Obviously Have On Modern Makeup
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