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[kyleblackpaw]

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Well as long as we’re talking about the ancient internet, who remembers this.

[drphaffot]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

… I just realised that some of my mutuals are Too Young to get flashbacks from this. I hate the internet.

[heavenlyyshecomes]

I'm in my girl what am I doing era

[ziana-wyvern]

In the Webber & Sasko stream, they insisted on how important micro expressions of characters are and how much the animation team worked on these personal details on the characters.

They raved on and on about how much Misty’s eyes say in the beginning when she gives V the pills. She doesn’t say much, but her expressions are everything.

Webber says that a large team worked on Goro and they all mattered, including the ones creating the micro animations.

Then he adds: “All those faces Takemura gives you, you know, the glances, they can say as much about his character or about you as let’s say his backstory writen by (name of creator of the backstory), or the dialogues written by (name of dialogue creator).”

This is significant because so many characters have such human, complex and meaningful expressions and you tend to think that maybe you’re just imagining it, or putting meaning where it isn’t. Obviously not true!

Every singles glance, grimace and smile matters and I am blown away by how excited they themselves were about this and how happy that they could create such subtleties.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh this damn stream made me sooo happy!!!😩✨

[chrometrashcan]

this made me weak in the knees

[solo-net]

Takemura Goro / At First Sight

[oceans-foundfamily]

I know Lady Dimitrescu is the hot new video game senior citizen to love right now but I feel like we moved on too quickly from Goro Takemura

[funnytwittertweets]

[scandiumsky]

I’m such a slut for thunderstorms

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

[kendallroy-deactivated20210425]

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

[themself]

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

[westenra]

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

[lunaescribe]

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist. 

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective. 

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream. 

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’ 

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions. 

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior. 

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are. 

[catbountry]

I’m lowkey kind of terrified of the idea of a person who only reads YA novels with protagonists that are supposed to be morally righteous. So many people on this site only engage with media that spells out its morals at an almost child-like level and it reminds me of fucking Mormons or Evangelical Christians. I am legit worried about these people and how they will treat others and interpret the world around them. Fucking challenge yourselves.

[riprdoc]

The bakeneko got sick of us, looks like … It will find its own way.

[seashellronan]

i go to bed. i am consumed by overwhelming loneliness. i stare at the ceiling. i long for something i can’t name. i question if i’m real. i see a funny little meme on my phone and laugh hysterically for several minutes. i get too invested in an unrealistic fantasy. i pass out around three.

[alwaysgettingwhatyouwant]

i hate when people ask me what sign i am like bitch i’m a sign from god. start running.

[ijaazat]

lonely girls my beloved. i see you staying in your room, i see you standing in grocery store aisles feeling the sudden wave of isolation wash over you. i understand how badly you want and how bad that makes you feel. i get it. we're not alone. but we are.

[virgomoon-deactivated20240514]

if i don’t do something dramatic to my appearance soon i’ll lose it

[lontra-ohiensis]

still not over how much I love this

[tenporcupines]

Posts that would kill a peasant from 1173

[busstop]

Darrell Thorne on Instagram

[ambergrandma]

Here’s some of his other artworks

[fairycosmos]

wouldn't it be nice if we were older then we wouldn't have to wait so long?and wouldn't it be nice to live together in the kind of world where we belong? you know it's gonna make it that much better, when we can say goodnight and stay together. wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up in the morning when the day is new? and after having spent the day together hold each other close the whole night through?

[cow-wizard]

what they say: i’m fine

what they mean: when you meet Takemura at the docks, despite his assurances that Oda is an honorable man and wouldn’t start a fight, when things go south, he puts himself between V and Oda. V points out before the meeting that while Oda may be fine with Takemura himself, they have no way of knowing if he would attack V, a point with which Takemura agrees. when Oda refuses to listen to V, Takemura steps in front of them, signaling to V that he remembers their concern and to Oda that any problem he might have with V, he would have to go through him first.

[silvercistern-deactivated202307]

so apparently some people feel like it’s annoying when someone engages with a lot of stuff from the same person, like going through their ship tag and liking all the content there. 

hearing about this, i was immediately paranoid about reblogging literally anything from anyone i don’t talk to on a regular basis.

so to save others from the same paranoia, i’m gonna say that if you like every single post on my goddamn blog it is okay. i might be kind of concerned about your level of time management, going through 23,000 posts, but it wouldn’t bother me.