CURRENTLY BURNING IN A DUMPSTER

side blog for very hinged rants about whatever the fuck | shitty ppl will be blocked!!

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few irrelevant notes about me and this blog:

- the name is left, im a student

- a chronic fandom dweller (& ao3 is god)

- stem kid with secondary interest in english and media for fun

- this blog exists sort of to sort out some thoughts I have on specific media pieces I find interesting to comment on (even though I don’t really watch or read a lot)

- and also lots of shitposting

- rant posts are tagged under #a long run on sentence, so feel free to browse

- this is a side blog

- I guess this counts as an intro post

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WE ARE GETTING FED

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someone make a shitty hollanov gacha life music video to hooked by why don’t we

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when the announcer said “good for scott hunter” in ep 5 that was huge for me because it represents support in a sport that maybe you wouldn’t expect it from, the presence of support when maybe we would expect backlash which isn’t it so weird and disappointing that we as a society have come to expect negativity and violence? isn’t that simple sentence just the most perfect way to inspire hope that we as a society could have the world where the first response is support and happiness instead of the one perpetuating hate? that hope and love and acceptance would be the first reaction to a person loving another person regardless of sexuality, represented literally with a character living through what would be considered such success (which says a lot about society, that acceptance is considered success) because it was always about queer hope and a future and reality where acceptance is the norm and a future is possible

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there’s something to be said about heated rivalry’s portrayal of multiple queer elite athletes in the same sport because it breaks the expected societal ratio and normalizes the fact that multiple queer people exist everywhere and every place at the same time, and that they could be sitting in the room with you or on the tv screen, because it’s such a real commentary on how many queer people are actually around you and even in the show it only shows the queer people who made it out and leaves you wondering how many of them haven’t made it out and how many people in real life haven’t made it out

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SINCE WHEN WAS AO3 DOWN????????????????NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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so why did no one tell me the french translation of "remember me" is "don't forget me" im gonna cry

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Going on a 14h plane trip tmrw to a place where ao3 is blocked for around 2 weeks and I need to download as many fics as possible so if anyone has any of their fav fic recs preferably not over 70k words with no/minimal smut and happy endings PLEASE drop them here

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I feel the need to share my top three sleepy bois inc (+ others) fics from my dsmp days because I still love the shit out of them and they were absolutely comfort reads for the longest time, then i got busy and then all the allegations came out and suddenly I haven’t read them in a few years. IM SURE SOME OF YOU WILL ENJOY THEM :D

In no particular order (NOTE: I rounded down the word count (bc what’s an additional 5k words if you’ve already read 50k amiright)):

Icing those hurts by drhair76 and plantform (~33k words) — Olympics AU where Tommy is a figure skater and Wilbur, Techno, George, Schlatt, Sapnap and Quackity are a hockey team. Ranboo and Tubbo are snowboarders. Everyone else is there too but they’re dispersed across a bunch of events.

—> “Tommy's made it to the Olympics for figure skating- he's the youngest contestant on the ice and he's the favor for the gold. He's supposed to be living the dream. So why is he still so unhappy? And why do all these hockey players and snowboarders care so much about him?”

honey and tangerines by bonesandthebees (~81k words) — modern AU where Tommy and Wilbur were ex-stepbrothers (and Phil being Wilbur’s father) before Wilbur and Phil suddenly left Tommy with his ailing mother. After 8 years, Tommy is alone, and looking for a new place to live.

—> “or, when moving to a completely new town to live with Wilbur after not seeing him for 8 years, Tommy realizes there's no good way to call someone an ex-stepbrother.

or or, a coming of age story about learning how to be a family for a second time.”

(And of course, the famous)

passerine by thcscus/blujamas (~76k words) (this fic is ao3 members only)

—> “that fic where Techno and Phil are old immortals, and Tommy and Wilbur are decidedly... not.”

These fics are I guess some of the more popular ones, but when I was deep in my dsmp days I did NOT have a ao3 account so I didn’t save any of the other fics I liked 😭😭 if I find more I will update you all

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update I found a google doc where I saved a bunch of links back in 2022 so I’ll be making a new post sooner or later when I go thru all those fics 💀💀💀

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here's something that's been helping me when getting things done (especially the boring, stay in place for a long period of time type of things) as someone with a stupidly low attention span: the pomodoro technique WORKS y'all but I especially like doing 25/5s or 20/10s on bad days. this means you'd do 25 mins of work and then 5 mins/10 mins of break, and you just keep swapping on and off

BUT something that I like to do specifically is to write out a list of things that I have to do and then rotate through the items so that I'm not doing the same thing for a long time because then I'll get bored and start doomscrolling

usually I can only stand like three rounds of this before taking a longer break but!! adjust to your preference!! keep some sort of drink next to you when you're working, put on some chill music, adjust the vibes to make it as bearable as possible!!!!!!!

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(deep breath) I think the reason I didn't like the dog man movies as much is because they compressed the story a little too much and it's not particularly their fault because it's not really possible to fit (at the time of production) a 9 book series into one singular shorter digestible movie targeted towards an audience of kids that generally have a shorter attention span, but I still think this particular book series is not something that should be rushed to find an ending because i think something dav pilkey does really well is to work lessons into characters that are easy to understand for kids by introducing the development slowly in a way that makes sense since ultimately the books are canonically written by two fourth graders and we can see this because the first few books are written with the direct and unrealistic but imaginative ideas and evil vs good storyline and the literal naming of objects and fart and poop jokes that I would expect from a younger child's writing but slowly we are introduced to the fact that their world (like ours) is not actually the black and white world it was initially perceived as (you could argue that the progression of understanding the grey morality of the world comes with time and age, just like how the books evolve with time and age; everything is typically simpler as a child and we are introduced to the notion that not everything is literally good or bad as we grow older),

with the best and most obvious example being petey's backstory being slowly revealed and his choice to try and become better despite his upbringing, with how he chose to be someone better than who his father was for lil petey (healing generational trauma), with how he doubts his ability to be good (that we can see in for whom the ball rolls through the undoubtable similarity between petey and his father, his father who is shown to be unable to change his ways; he's scared)

and then his actions are explained, not justified, and he begins taking responsibility over his actions and slowly changing his ways (and we can see that the change doesn't happen overnight because he still falls towards his old "evil" tendencies, but then we also see lil petey bringing him back, and petey actually listens to him (while petey's father does not listen to petey); thus

the reason the lessons in dog man span over multiple books over multiple timelines is because its a reflection of life and how such heavy things don't change over a course of a few days but over a long length of time and really

everything in those books is nothing but simple, these are actual situations that happen in real life, actual things people are suffering from and healing from and learning from and we get to see that in real time within the span of multiple installations of the series but when a movie compresses something like that it essentially ignores the actual meaning behind the story's reason for the slow progression but idk maybe im just tweaking

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the reason your favourite trope is found family with a band of traumatized misfits is so that it can give you the false sense of family that would actually choose you despite everything you and them both went through boom hashtag exposed

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school of rock but it’s literally a school where they look at rocks and the mc introduced themselves then fucks off outside off stage and for the rest of the show you just occasionally hear a muffled shout from outside the theatre like “wow what an AWESOME ROCK!!!”

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i think what could also be funny about this is that school of ‘rock’ implies a singular rock

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school of rock but it’s literally a school where they look at rocks and the mc introduced themselves then fucks off outside off stage and for the rest of the show you just occasionally hear a muffled shout from outside the theatre like “wow what an AWESOME ROCK!!!”

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im so bad with second hand embarrassment bc i will fake a bathroom break in theatres if a character is doing something stupidly embarrassing on screen

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on wednesday I’m going on a field trip…….. to a fairly large tech company…………. that has r&d labs………. and a cafeteria…………………… I wonder if one of my classmates is secretly interning with the owner of the company and building………….

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daily affirmations: I will lock in TOMORROW