cry kids do cool

short sketches and art reblogs (and some posts i find funny apparently)

[ravioliet]

all i'm saying is that if the only lens you can enjoy a story or a character dynamic through is romance and shipping, then well. your media analysis skills are just kinda shit actually. and i'm not sorry for saying it. you're missing the point of the story in question and removing the things that make it unique by shoving everything into boxes. not everything goes in the square hole.

[ravioliet]

DING DING DING!!!!!! YOU UNDERSTAND

as someone who is extremely tired of the "playing dolls" and "fandom is supposed to be fun!/let people enjoy things!" mentality and has had bricks thrown at them for this before this is EXACTLY what i'm talking about. people claim that tumblr fandom is somehow more intellectual or whatever and then you come on here and people are bending over backwards to fit everything into cookie cutter molds without ever thinking about it any deeper than surface level at best and if you call them out on this they get highly defensive about how actually people are allowed to do whatever they want!! and you're policing fandom by saying anything about it!!!! it's so tiring

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[rneliflua]

"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist

[fuckabilitypolitics]

tbh it's cruel to tell young girls on here that lesbians and bisexual women don't care about body hair and weight and skin and so on and so forth because they're going to find out it's a lie one way or another. women who are attracted to women are not magically exempt from having patriarchal beauty standards engrained in them and from punishing other women/girls for it and it isn't helping anyone to pretend we are.

[djbodyhorror]

your mom jokes don't work when you know someone too well. I would never be in bed with such a wicked woman. That's not even what I had your mom saying last night. I wouldn't speak to her.

[imi-mimimoo]

Focus, director Lan Bunji...

[starzknight]

Oh how much have things changed

[synthfagz]

"if yr stabbed dont take the knife out" okay so thats basiclaly cockwarming

[bilesandthesourwolf]

i can never leave this place

[lunnitavaldez]

I love them so much that they evoke maternal instincts in me 😔

[jupitermelichios]

I've been on a bit of an elder scrolls kick lately, and man, the jumps in complexity between the early games is so funny when you look at them side by side, from a pretty generic fantasy plot to maybe the most complex plot in all of gaming?

Like, the plot of Arena is 'a ghost tells you that the king has been kidnapped but no one knows because an evil wizard is using magic to pretend to be the king, and then the ghost guides you to a series of dungeons which each contain part of the macguffin that kills evil wizards and frees kings. You win the dungeons, reassemble the macguffin, and save the day, the end.' It's not quite 'storm the castle free the princess', but it's not far off. The world this is happening in is interesting and complex, but the actual plot is pretty simple. I think I could explain the plot of Arena to a 5 year old without much difficulty.

Then Daggerfall's plot is 'there's a complicated 4 way civil war going on among client kingdoms, and you have been sent by the emperor to retrieve a letter he sent to one of the queens, because if it's read by the wrong person, it will make the whole clusterfuck a million times worse. Once you get there, you learn that the letter contains information about how to find and activate an ancient super-weapon, and you have to decide which faction should know this and which one should get the superweapon. Also there's 2 different undead wizards here and one is plot relevant and the other one is fucking shit up for the lols, have fun figuring out which is which.' That's a whole lot more complicated, and it begins to touch on some deep esoteric themes, but you don't need to know that the numidian is actually an artificially constructed god to follow the plot. You can play the whole game assuming it's basically just mecha-godzilla, and still understand what's going on. There's a lot of nuance and complexity to the worldbuilding, but the confusing element about it is mainly that it's a non-linear mystery game, so you have to piece things together yourself, rather than the core plot being incomprehensible. The five year-old is lost, but any reasonably intelligent pre-teen could follow it.

And then Morrowind barrells in like 'do you have a degree in philosophy? you will by the end of this game!'

'so the god who created the world wasn't supposed to do this and the other gods were pissed about it so they cut out his heart and threw it away and it landed in a volcano where it constantly phases in and out of existence, and one time the dwarves built a robot to be their new god and they were going to power it using the god heart but when they touched the god heart their entire species instantly vanished and we have no idea why but that's not important what's important is that because of that event, a bunch of elves also found it and they swore to never use its power but then three of them got together and decided that touching the 'disappear your entire species' macguffin sounded like a fun time so they killed the guy who said not to use it and touched the heart and this made them living gods and one of them writes transcendental poetry riddles for fun and profit and you need to read all 36 books of these and then do some cryptography shit and this will reveal the truth about how they murdered a dude that one time. anyway there's a guy who convinced himself that the entire world is actually a dream he is dreaming and this actually sort of became true and gave him powers but to understand why you need to first grasp how achieving enlightenment works in this religion. Also you the player are the reincarnation of that murdered guy from earlier but you're maybe also an incarnation of that murdered god at the same time, but before we can unpack that we need to deal with the dream guy because he keeps using his powers to turn people into vampires for some fucking reason and it's becoming a problem. go read this book on dragon-breaks and come back when you understand the concept of non-linear time.'

I could not explain the plot of morrowind to a child. I could not explain the plot of morrowind to most adults. you cannot even begin to effectively explain the plot without first explaining huge chunks of fictional philosophy and cosmology.

And that's not a criticism, of either morrowind or arena, I think both are effective stories in very different ways. It's just hilarious to me that they went from 'kill the evil wizard because he's evil' to 'read the 36 lessons of Vivec' in less than 10 years. improving technology does not explain that. they were putting something in the water at bethesda hq back then for sure.

[perception-filter]

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

[aropride]

i love how everyone on this website is kind of pathetic it brings such a sense of understanding and community

[aropride]

🍰 mutual1 jan 32, 2025 - 3:14PM

just had a panic attack mid jerkoff sesh. killing myself goodbye forever #vent #nsfw #<- unless you work at the jacking off store i guess

🎥 mutual2 jan 32, 2025 - 3:09PM

[gif from a movie from 1938]

🐕 mutual3 jan 32, 2025 - 3:07PM

everything is so scary does anyone even know what to do #i hate it here!!!!!!!!!!

🌈 mutual4 jan 32, 2025 - 3:02PM

[gif from house md]

🧍🏻‍♂️ mutual5 jan 32, 2025 - 2:58PM

thinking of watching tv today #i <3 tv show yayyayayyayy

🏹 mutual6 jan 32, 2025 - 2:52PM

I <3 TRANSGENDER!!!!!!!!!!

🩸 mutual7 jan 32, 2025 - 2:49PM

[this post contains filtered content: blood, gore, body horror]

🌧️ mutual8 jan 32, 2025 - 2:41PM

[9-paragraph-long analysis of blorbo from their shows] #does this make sense ?? #analysis #myshows

🐏 australianmutual jan 32, 2025 - 2:38PM

still cant sleep. its 5am rn :( #insomniaposting

🍓 mutual9 jan 32, 2025 - 2:35PM

if i dont finish this essay in time there will be bloodshed #dont EVER go to college. evil here.theres assignmence

🧪 mutual10 jan 32, 2025 - 2:31PM

in the hospital again :P #third time this month. lets all die

⛪️ mutual11 jan 32, 2025 - 2:27PM

i have GOT to fuck a priest sacreligious style #nsft #please please please. on my knees for more than one reason if ur picking up what im putting down #get it . because

🦅 americanmutual jan 32, 2025 - 2:24PM

i fucking love burger

🔮 mutual12 jan 32, 2025 - 2:21pm

i hate taylor swift

🪩 mutual13 jan 32, 2025 - 2:20PM

i love taylor swift

🎸 mutual14 jan 32, 2025 - 2:17PM

i miss gerard babygirl come back please come back #MISS GERARDDDDDD :(

🐝 mutual15 jan 32, 2025 - 2:14PM

[image of 2 men standing across the room from each other] They were in love here ... #do u think they ever explored each others bodies

🧊 mutual16 jan 32, 2025 - 2:09PM

i thionk i might be aromantic .

⛏️ mutual17 jan 32, 2025 - 2:02PM

i have beenplaying minecraft. for 17 hours straight

💜 mutual18 jan 32, 2025 - 1:59PM

considering intensive outpatient again #2025 resolution is to Not kill myself its going bad. iop save me

🪐 mutual19 jan 32, 2025 - 1:55PM

I <3 MATH!!!!!!!!!!!!

🦈 mutual20 jan 32, 2025 - 1:52PM

has anybody noticed that the world is so scary and bad

i just feel really at home here

[justsomeguycore]

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

[justsomeguycore]

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

[hamletthedane]

There’s a lot of excellent examples of the difference between a million and a billion, but here’s my new personal favorite from a conversation I had today:

A million minutes ago was April 2021, the height of the COVID pandemic.

A billion minutes ago was November 121 CE, the height of the Roman Empire.

[sevenoffeathers]

as of today (6/30/2025) this post was made over 1.2 million minutes ago. a billion minutes ago was still the height of the roman empire

[cattyculous]

i think i'm one of the minority here bc i don't believe nhs planned for wwx's resurrection at all but was definitely betting on lan wangji (and/or lxc) to be the one to help him find nmj's body parts and bring jgy to "justice"

i certainly get why nhs being depicted as a mastermind who has everything under control is enticing but he isn't as close to wwx as he is to lxc (and, by proxy, lwj) to correctly guess wwx's actions after his resurrection. like, wwx simply fucked off into the wilderness after the incident with the mos and it was by coincidence that he went the same way as the lans. he brings his own risk factor as well as mxy: what if he decided not to perform the ritual at all?

while lwj – he is stable and true to himself. as The Hanguang-jun, he wouldn't be able to refuse to help. lxc is an added bonus: someone who can recognize nmj as soon as his body is almost whole. like, i think planning with the twin jades in mind is way easier than planning around wwx 😭😭

[morkva-doing-mdzs]

btw jiang yanli and The Memory of jiang yanli are two different characters and it is important to me that you Understand

[iamyounicorn]

[guy whose bedtime is approaching fast] I need to write one billion words right now. and draw everything that has ever existed.