Absurdity

[googledocsdyke]

ok because like. ok this is probably embarrassing for me to post bc i have no vidding skills myself but the BEST fanvids are truly Transformative Works in every sense of a word like while they do not speak a word of "analysis" in the conventional sense (like textposts explicitly breaking moments and scenes and themes down) they actually ARE hyperanalytical works like you take a song and you're like I am going to recontextualise this within [the self-hatred that forbids dean from speaking his capacity for love] [the inherent tragedy of the godstiel arc] [the self-referential madness of heaven and the angelic family] [insert theme here] AND you take clips from this terrible cw show and you're like Okay i'm gonna recontextualise these clips within this song. like good vidding is PRODUCTIVE ANALYSIS it brings two texts into conversation (more than two if you consider spn itself as like a complex overlaid multitext imo) and says Okay you know what i am going to produce a synthesis!!!!!!!

e.g. ok let's say you're tumblr user jurisffiction and you're like I am going to bring taylor swift gold rush and destiel into conversation and IN DOING SO i will bring both texts more meaning. the line "i don't like that anyone would die to feel your touch" is overlaid with these scenes of dean touching cas but ONLY in moments of violence, hitting him or stabbing him or pushing him against the wall, and so that line becomes rewritten as "I WOULD die to feel your touch, without question, and i hate that i feel that way, and i hate that so many others feel the same way and there is so much competition for the simple dignity of being touched by your hand" and that reinterpretation is like. understood by both the viewer and the vidder without that interpretation being explicitly spoken or written or said. idk i think it's in the introduction to anti-fandom: dislike and hate in the digital age that melissa click makes the distinction betweet transformative fandom (which engages in transformative works like vidding, fanfic, meta writing, etc) and affirmative fandom which by and large just like affirms or rejects the authorial interpretations of characters and the story and engages in the narrative at face value (think like straight men who watch game of thrones) and like!!!!!! WOW what is even the POINT of affirmative fandom when some of the most talented people on the internet are out here doing THEORY from that which they love

anyways some of my favourite vids along these line are spn angels: runs in the family and @jurisffiction's destiel: gold rush and @markantxny's godstiel: oh ana and @katebushstandean's destiel: strawberry blond because WOW. wow

[lavenderprose]

To be clear. Shane's whole thing about Ilya being a Sex God is because of the limerence. Ilya is nineteen and he can get a rhythm going and that's about it. He was throwing shit at the wall when he hit that 'Get on your knees' in Nashville but only he knows that because Shane's brain turned OFF. Ilya said "Let's do a little experiment here" and the results were "Oh my god oh my god oh my god." Shane came hands free because he was that obsessed with the idea of Ilya Rozanov being inside him. Ilya said "Do you like that do you like that" because he's nineteen and he needs the validation and Shane was like "YES YES YES I LIKE IT OH MY GOD YOU'RE SO DEEP YOU'RE SO GOOD" and objectively. It was okay. Ilya fully did not know where to put his hands a couple of times. He forgot about Shane's dick. Luckily, Shane is God's special angel who can come from the idea of Ilya's cockhead being in proximity to his prostate a few times. Mind over matter, says Shane Hollander's dick. And then Ilya said "Oh God Hollander" because it was also, objectively, one of the hottest things that had ever happened to HIM, Ilya Rozanov. Shane sits on that step afterwards plotting about how he's gonna get this over and over and over again for the rest of his life and he has no idea that there are women in Boston who have Ilya listed in their contacts as "Hockey Guy 6/10". Shane Hollander cannot fathom a world in which Ilya Rozanov doesn't lay the maddest pipe this side of Lake Michigan. "Ilya Rozanov is a some kind of nineteen year old sex God" No Shane honey he was just designed in a lab to score goals and make you cum and he's done scoring goals for the night.

[imharnaannesta]

I would say Ilya is probably above average, skills wise, for his age and his secret is that he checks in constantly and takes feedback well.

He’s a high level athlete with an unstable home life who actually cares whether his partner is having a good time. He is extremely sensitive to the signals other people are putting out and he is paying attention. And he’s built a career on some level on being willing and able to repeat a motion over and over until he’s told it’s right and then replicate that consistently. That probably translates pretty well to sex. So Ilya probably has a solid, well-earned reputation as a good sexual partner, but he’s not naturally gifted or super experienced when he first hooks up with Shane.

He’s just actually trying to make sure Shane has a good time.

[butchbetty]

this is a cinematic masterpiece

[hadalstims]

So deeply moved by this puppy eating raspberries I had to make it a gif I felt compelled

[assiraphales]

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts

[lotuspositivity]

You don't have to force yourself to bounce back so quickly. I read something recently that said "when you come in from a rainstorm, you don't expect yourself to be dry and warm right away", and it really resonated with me. It's okay to take time to dry off and warm up. Take the time you need to process what happened to you.

[spitzonthefritz]

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

[fipindustries]

ok this looks ultra mega based, are you kidding me? can you imagine the bullshit i could get up to with this bad boy? fuck yes i want ten

[mint-corset]

Wait are iPhone bros coping because Apple has to be more universal? Lol.

[such-justice-wow]

Boo hoo i'll be able to add more physical storage to my phone and be able to change out batteries if they degrade as well as all these other optional features I won't have to touch

[lectorel]

Continuing in the trend of political cartoons depicting milquetoast moderate positions seem so much cooler and more badass than they are

[domina-honoribila]

I love how they add totally absurd things no one is asking for to make the idea look crazy. And still, I must emphasize, failing to make this look like a bad idea.

[teaboot]

"Is this what you want? Is this ugly stupid bullcrap what you want??" the biggest loudest idiot in the room asks, holding up a picture of the hottest looking shit I've ever seen

[anxietyproblem]

[squirrelstothenuts]

[cozyvu]

via cozyvu

[ambidisastrous]

People who work within a system: okay so studies show that the normal system works 90% of the time, but because it’s very bad when it doesn’t work, we’ve set up a process to manage those outliers. We need six well-trained workers to run the system 100% of the time without any serious incidents.

CEOs and politicians, every time: Well i just saw it go right twice in a row which means the normal system which you say works 90% of the time actually works 100% of the time. We’re cutting the team down to one person pulling 18 hour shifts without breaks

[apocryphics]

[shanebug]

[crittaslink]

"who said that" is a powerful spell that casts a defensive bubble around your most vulnerable thoughts

[mymansmoon]

shane's face after ilya picks him up my god he's so turned on. this guy is 200lbs of pure muscle he follows a diet other professional athletes have never even heard of and spends half his life in the gym, the other half muscling big strong hockey players out the way to get to a puck. and ilya just lifted him right off the ground and is ferrying him over to the bed where he Is Going To Fuck Him. my sweet steaming-engine-brain shane has never blanked so hard in his life. he's barely a person in this moment he is just Hormone

[graceebooks]

#if you are a person who is not little and have ever been picked up easily by a partner for the first time in your life... u get it

[danndesigns]

[violet-hady]

Okay, I am really obsessed with this joke. I literally reblog it every time I see it.

[partialpablo]

Pondering my orb rn, I’ll join you at the pond afterwards.

[sandumilfshous]

my 5–9 (orbiting my pond) after my 9–5 (pondering my orb)