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sofie/jude- she/her or they/them - internet historian, pokemon enthusiast, and all around bastard

[lauminary]

hello engage community

[babyanimalgifs]

A massive grouper (toilet on the left for scale) 

(via)

[j-liz]

[fucko]

[lunnefisk]

most sane yume nikki enjoyer

[sleepeys]

new defunctland video once again makes me appreciate the everyday amateur internet archivist. i love you people who make comprehensive lists of fonts used in popular media. i love you people who upload ten second videos of commercials from 2002. people who have episodes from shows i saw as a kid that i don’t even remember the names of anymore. people who record livestreams. people who record small concerts. little moments in history that’ll be important to somebody 20 years later. i love u

[thesnadger]

The Goncharov meme is such a fun little spotlight on how people view media. Like, fake academic analysis about a movie that doesn't exist. Cool. But that's only the first level.

Next you have posts recreating a modern tumblr audience "discovering" an older piece of media and engaging with it through the lens of fan culture. Particularly tumblr-specific fan culture. Particularly in a way that feels like it got its blueprint from Dracula Daily. (Shitposts and memes, intense love for the most prominent female character, reads of complex romantic dynamics between characters, etc.)

Then you get fake discourse about the fake fan response to a fake movie that are quietly complaining about real ways real people respond to real media. I.e., America-centric readings, shallow, shipping-based readings, fans lionizing a protagonist not meant to be admired, etc.

(My personal favorite are posts that recreate the experience of being told a piece of media is so gay, you guys, only to watch it and find it isn't even remotely, that fans who wanted queer subtext wrung blood from a stone and thoroughly misled you.)

I also like the extra-meta ones about "this obscure movie being recently re-discovered," fake film history about copyright battles or the original cut being suppressed, etc. And of course, Johnny fucking Truant is here to give his editorial take on it, as he should be.

Pale Fire, House of Leaves, Goncharov. Humanity is such that every now and then we need to get really invested in fake arguments about a piece of media that doesn't exist.

[hellomelancholic]

The analytical fervor that Goncharov has awakened in people is really only comparable to the Navidson Record tbh

[supermariomamafucker]

no one is doing it like them

[fxlthyangxl-deactivated20240122]

okay now that i’ve calmed down what am i going to buy myself as a treat for enduring this suffering

[valtsv]

i LOVE the idea of “i can’t win, but you can lose” in fictional confrontations it is SO fucking tasty. the human nature to self destruct and the human nature to survive by any means necessary combined at its finest.

[valtsv]

character: has no chance of winning a fight they’re in

me:

character: allows the person they’re fighting to wound them, perhaps even fatally, so that they can get close enough to slip past their defences and destroy them right back

me:

[receptorconsuming]

00s Horror JRPGs

[blazeball]

that post that's like. "can't believe there's a breaking bad fandom on the website that couldn't handle the nuance in steven universe" and its a funny post but i do nit think. that the people really into steven universe discourse are the same people watching breaking bad right now. like i think you just made up a guy right there

[ilan]

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

I want someone to make one of these new sterile teen gay romance shows on Netflix but halfway through they pull a Doki Doki Literature Club and it turns into a fucked up fourth wall breaking psychological thriller that deconstructs the heteronormative and middle class ideals of the genre

[metalgearemily]

[metalgearemily]

[calocera]

knights of the round table

[fuforthought]

If you know me, you know I’m a fan of “covert” fight scenes. Scenes where two people are fighting but they’re both pretending that something else is going on. This one from Dreadnaught (1981) is one of the best.

By the way, the guy that choreographed this scene, later went on to choreograph The Matrix films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill.

[bgm05]

I like this one so much I’m giving it its own post