Virtual Torture

Personal blog of a nerdy person

[renthony]

People keep tagging my Steven Universe posts with variations of "sorry about posting SU in 2022" and it makes me sad.

Steven Universe finished airing in March of 2020. As of this post, it is only December of 2022.

What a perfect commentary on how short-lived and discourse-pooisoned fandom is anymore.

Sigh.

[renthony]

I am genuinely alarmed at how fast Steven Universe has been buried. I was trying to find a list of all the comic collections yesterday so I could start collecting them, and several are OUT OF PRINT already, and have either tripled in price or are just impossible to find.

A cartoon that was created by a queer Jewish person, who was one of the major writers on Adventure Time, who pushed through the first queer wedding in a children's cartoon...you'd think that would go down in history as the significant milestone that it is.

But instead, two years later and everyone just wants to pretend it didn't happen for some reason.

What the fuck.

[renthony]

If any single part of Steven Universe becomes lost media in my lifetime, I am going to go on the fucking warpath against everyone who contributed to it.

Time and time again it is proven that queer media has to fight an uphill battle just to fucking exist.

[seainthestars]

Here are some of the animated gifs Santa Monica Studios have been putting out for God of War: Ragnarök

Sorry for the quality, tumblr only allows for 10MB gifs & these are quick & dirty rips straight from twitter which were already not great quality to start.

I'm assuming these are made to be used, so go right ahead & save & use however you like

Animator credits I could find:

Kratos making a heartshape & Kratos swearing about Valkyries by Dennis Pena, aka @/Boltfinger on twitter

Wolf paw slap by Grace Pan, one of the animators

Angrboda making faces by Jack Ebensteiner, aka @/AnimJack on twitter

Sweating Atreus by Kim Nguyen, aka @/KimbaWin on twitter

Thor sliding by Roberto Clemente, a senior combat animator

[pankendev]

every social interaction i initiate feels like i’ve violated like 15 untold rules

[talesfromthecrypts]

Its good for stories to just be one movie, one book, one series of 3 seasons, etc. In fact sometimes that’s the preferred length. Its good to use your own thoughts and imagination to fill in the blanks. Not everything should be franchised into oblivion and back.

[cherryfairy]

Train and stained glass, what more do you need

[not-a-space-alien]

Does anyone else feel, like, a weird inhibition against starting new TV shows?  Like, there are shows I want to watch but when I think about sitting down to start it something in me goes “no you can’t just do that.”  What am i waiting for?  I feel like I need to prepare?  Brain:  You have to wait.  Me:  Wait for what???  Brain:  WAIT

[yourrealitybeyondtime]

I found out recently that it’s due to not having enough emotional or mental space to process something new. Got too much going on in your own head/real life already.

[elidyce]

Me: I would like to experience this new thing.

My Brain:… no.

Me: Why not?

My Brain: Can’t do it. Not today.

Me: Whyyyyyyyy?

My Brain: Because we are processing at capacity and one more stream is going to crash the whole system. 

Me, aloud: I’m not in the mood to try (new thing) right now.

[seashells-and-bookshelves]

THIS IS A REAL THING??? ARE YOU SHITTING ME?!!?

[theeternalspace]

Wow. that explains… so much

[they-callme-ami]

No wonder I can barely start new anime or cartoons anymore.

[sanerontheinside]

[finnglas]

This also can be a very common issue for people with ADHD or other conditions that cause emotional dysregulation, even if you’re not actively Going Through Something at the time. Like, the knowledge that it’s going to evoke an emotional response in you means you’re more likely to keep putting it off because you have trouble returning to an equilibrium after an emotional spike. Like, shows that I have been REALLY INTO, like SUPER INVESTED, with lots of feelings involved – I have to take breaks between new episodes of it and go back to watching things I’ve already watched before that I know how they end, and I’m prepared for the emotions that go with them, to give myself a break from the emotional spikes and exhaustion of being surprised – even pleasantly – by the media I’m watching.

[netheritenugget]

Oh gdi…

[lyrslair]

It is worth noting, though, that technically at the present time we ARE all going through something (though the ADHD folks may notice we had this problem pre-pandemic as well).

Part of it for me is also I am running on such low bandwidth that I keep having to pause, rewind, and go back because my attention lapsed in the middle of trying to watch a new show.

[buttpoems]

[spacemancharisma]

haven’t seen this on tumblr yet, and tis the season

[uranodioning]

[caption] driver, muttering: god damnit, it’s paul. driver, at full volume: mornin’ paul! paul, cheerfully: the world will be reduced to ash! driver, muttering again: jesus christ that guy creeps me out. [/caption]

[lauf-aiya-rson-deactivated20190]

[additionally the driver is brian david gilbert, paul is a skeleton sitting on a bench with its arm sticking in the air, and the voice of paul is also brian david gilbert]

[irresistible-revolution]

thinking about atla thematics as usual and fascinated by how many fans insist they wanted aang to “grow up” more at the end of the series without considering how one of the show’s major themes is the terrible ways war and imperialism rob people of their childhoods. one of aang’s major gifts to every single character is restoring a piece of their lost or stolen or brutalized childhood. aang reminds katara there’s still joy in the world, and fuels her hope.

he brings wonder to sokka’s life with his flying bison. he sees zuko not as a terrifying enemy but as a boy he might have been friends with and had fun with, he offers toph a way out of her repressive home to have the adventures she’d been longing for, and all these characters rise to fulfill their destinies through honoring their inner child - the parts of themselves that are hopeful, kind, gentle, fierce, innocent, deserving of protection - and breaking the cycles of violence and abuse that interrupted their childhoods. azula was convinced she had no need for her inner child, and killed aang in cold blood in ba sing se, after which she slowly but surely lost everything she cared about, including her sense of self.

and finally, aang shows ozai mercy, thematically reminding the latter that the children he tried to kill and brutalize are a force capable of rising above petty violence, and reshaping the world. you could even argue that the original rupture in the mythos was when both sozin and the air nation sought to rob a child of their right to childhood - sozin by hunting a child, the air nomads by hastening aang out of his childhood so he could help them - and that balance is restored when aang, who represents the world’s lost gentleness and mercy, and upholds values that a war torn world regards as “childish” and “immature”, manages to end the war with a gesture that honors those values and affirms everyone’s right to a safe and loving childhood, to a life free of violence.

[nodelinquent]

been obsessing over bo burnham's inside and this song screamed steven to me, SO.

[shebsart]

The Weed-killer ™

[do-you-have-a-flag]

SOPHIE RAGE masterpost from only chapter 19 of Howl’s Moving Castle

[ofpaintedflowers]

hard at work

[mafuyuh]

#shit howl says in the book

[cookiekappa]

movie vs book (i adore them both) 

[thehungrycity]

Hi all, very happy to share my first published article from my ethnographic research on Dragon Age fandom.

Hit me up if you can't access it and would like a copy: [email protected]

‘Elf Lives Matter’? The racial dynamics of participatory politics in a predominantly White fandom

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779211028866

[one-time-i-dreamt]

A shark was leading me to save a princess and as I stepped out of the water he told me, “This is as far as I can take you,” to which I responded, “Because it is dangerous?” And he said, “No, it’s because I’m a fucking shark, you idiot. I can’t walk on land.”