Elmo's Inner Demon

The only thing Elmo is scared of . . . follow my twitter plz @DoubtfulMage

[toastbutteregg]

just laying facts here

[redgoldsparks]

Self Care Tips From Tumblr: When you feel like everyone hates you, sleep. When you feel like you hate everyone, eat. When you feel like you hate yourself, shower. Someone out there feels better because you exist. 

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[leidiosyncraticone]

Reblog with your wish/goal for june and tag some peoples!

Mine is to complete my old fan fic, Im not very proud of it but I want to finish it. Maybe remake it with a better plot and writing one day but for now just finish it

@cadence-the-mesmerist, @captainorthred, @justmemyselfandthefridge, @sapphossidechick, @boxofsteampunkplaces

[sapphossidechick]

mine is to finish writing something, even if it’s just a oneshot or a poem

@smol-evil-gremlin @understandably-odd @sylphrenas @justmemyselfandthefridge @cleverclove @papa-antichrist @ddepressedbookworm @sapphic-arson @fairylightsandrainydays @dodgethestraight @thegirlfulloffandoms @joyandthephantoms and anyone who wants to!!

[ddepressedbookworm]

mine's to be more productive

@nikeopolis @strawberry-cupcake @idiotacadamia @incorrectinfinity @doritosandbluethings @papa-antichrist @youranemicloser @your-very-rude-neighborhood-ace

[your-very-rude-neighborhood-ace]

to pass my math finals

@treefroggo @nonbinary-ponyboy-curtis @pottah-is-it-true-you-fainted @pickosita5stwin @almost-correct-quotes @z3phyr23 @idontreallywanadotheworktoday

[quakernuggets]

To finish my to-do list

@little-sparrow37 @lady-ofmagic-andstars @the-wierdo-christine @completekeefitztrash @applygenderonchild

[applygenderonchild]

to be referred to with it/its in real life

@bronzetomatoes @smoltiredroonstone @infinitevoidofnoodles @arbitreneart @bonjour-gays @bi-peanut @slightly-deranged-deity @cadence-the-mesmerist @little-sparrow37

[squid-pizza]

to find more true friends :)

@rockruffwrites @queerblackcloud @morguenecrosis @lucifers-golden-bitch-apparently @tiredtroubledplant

[troubledsage]

Take some time for me to relax

@feral-pansexual @cawcawmotherclucker @nasa846 @spoopy-rayvynnnox @anyone

[pestil3ntia]

To set an actually achievable goal for myself :)

@theresnoescapingfromtheheartache @the-fire-might-be-shooting-at-us @falling-through-void @chassitron @thorneedsahuggle @ohdamitsme @anyone else!

[ohdamitsme]

To raise my grades before school lets out

@jammydodger666 @pensivespacepirate @anyone that wants to

[pensivespacepirate]

actually work on art and make animatics!

@everyone @purplegori @onesmoothassendoplasmicreticulum @avatar-of-the-vast

[onesmoothassendoplasmicreticulum]

thank you @pensivespacepirate for tagging me!

now that I've finished my master's project I want a good grade! and also to learn some coding and get to chill out before I start my doctorate

@how-queerious @elmosinnerdemon @nooowestayandgetcaught @shabadadu

[elmosinnerdemon]

It's a bit late but I'd like to continue working on so many cool AAA games

The only people I'd tag are :

@onesmoothassendoplasmicreticulum but you've already done it lol,

@take-a-phil-pill

[pyromantic-art]

It’s Sad Lizard Dad hours

[bogfern]

“siha, I had to do it to em”

[monoflaxart]

Thane Krios Portrait - Including Some detail shots of my favourite areas. I don’t like rendering my pieces out, so even with more time-consuming portraits like this one, I try to always let the quality of my brushes shine through. This variety in edges is what makes painting so exciting for me! 

[officious-seeing-eye-bitch]

What she says: I’m fine.

What she means: Thane Krios’ final fight was completely inaccurate and poorly done. There is no way Thane would’ve hesitated to shoot Kai Leng, especially with the Councilor and Shepard in danger. Furthermore, there is no way Thane Krios, trained since age 6 to shoot and kill, would’ve missed Kai Leng multiple times, even under the assumption that illness was damaging his reflexes. All in all, Bioware has admitted forgetting Thane, and they wasted him, his romance, and also his death in a poor, OOC storyline.

[feralphoenix]

hey, did yall know the quileute nation’s still (it is april 2021 as i write) trying to raise money to move out of that potential tsunami hazard zone and onto higher ground? i remember it was trending for a little while on tumblr when the twilight book came out but my corner of the web’s been quiet on it since.

there’s a lot going on all over the world right now but if you can spare them even 5 bucks, thats 5 bucks they wouldnt have had without you! please help them if you can.

https://mthg.org/

[feralphoenix]

hey folks would you mind passing this around please!!

[mystery-ink]

forgot to say that, without Howl chasing girls and Sophie resenting him for it, the film completely erases part of the point of Sophie being old.  Wynne Jones is using an idea that Beauvoir talked about - that being an old woman is both tragic (as we lose male attention/attractiveness) and freeing (as we are freed from the male gaze).  the idea is that with being old comes liberation, and the true meaning of what it is to be a woman, as society no longer forces gender norms on us.

Sophie is free from Howl’s attentions and therefore safe from harm (a big part of the book is the fact that Sophie believes he eats women’s hearts, and him chasing girls proves this to her).  she takes solace in the fact that she’s old, and finds it freeing.  when she learns more about Howl (notably: that he doesn’t eat hearts and that he’s not evil), she starts to curse her age and resent him chasing girls.  BUT she remains old OF HER OWN VOLITION - Howl notes that she’s perpetuating the spell by wishing to remain “in disguise”.  there are SO many layers to this, and lots to do with gender politics - if she’s still old Sophie can’t get hurt, she likes the freedom, etc.  but of course on a personal level being old is her denying her feelings for Howl, and also a representation of her low self esteem - being old is a defence mechanism and protection, both on a gender level and a personal one.

and the film kinda… loses this?  the only thing that remains is being old = low self esteem.  which really sucks.  because there’s SO MUCH MORE to Sophie being old in the book (perspective I already mentioned), and a HUGE amount of this is gender politics.  that the film just erases.

[sylvester-malone]

Also there’s the subversion of that in the book. Sophie’s belief that she’s safe from Howl, isn’t quite true because he fell in love with her while she was under the spell (and in the book, there’s no switching between looking young and old. Sophie is looking ninety the entire time, and Howl falls in love anyway.)

Also, her belief that being old means she can’t go to her stepmother or her sisters, that they’d fail to recognize her or reject her, is also unfounded. Fanny almost immediately recognizes her at the end of the book, and hugs her and cries over her and asks why Sophie disappeared. Sophie’s belief that the love of her family, friends and even her romantic interests is somehow conditional on her appearance is shown to be completely false at the end, which I think is absolutely beautiful.

Like, there’s definitely gender politics and commentary going on about beauty and youth and age and the male gaze and male violence going on, but there’s also this message about how love, real love, transcends all of that.

[ellorgast]

I actually adore the movie on its own merits, but I think it absolutely did a disservice to Sophie as a character. When I was doing a reread last month, what hit me was that Sophie is every bit as much of a volatile emotional disaster as Howl is, and that’s pretty heckin’ great. 

Howl is a pissy, dramatic asshole even when he’s at his best. He dissolves into green slime when his hair looks wrong. He deals with his problems by getting falling-over drunk and makes the walls shake every time he sneezes just so everyone will take pity on him. He’s a self-proclaimed coward who has to trick himself into taking responsibility for anything.

Movie Sophie deals with this as well as she can. She learns to look past his drama and sees his tender heart and noble intentions. She becomes the mature one in the castle, fixing everyone’s problems, essentially taking up a motherly role to all the other characters.

Book Sophie does the same… but she does it while dealing out as good as she takes. Howl is chasing after every woman except Sophie? Sophie meticulously cuts up his suit into triangles. Howl floods the room with green slime? Sophie hate-magics weed killer strong enough to melt concrete, and chucks it at Howl’s head. Howl can’t stop avoiding his problems? Meet the queen of avoidance, who clung to her curse to avoid confronting her feelings for Howl. Howl has to basically trick himself into taking action? I would like you to meet Sophie, who was too scared to leave her home her whole life, but the moment she’s under a curse is like “WELP, GUESS I’D BETTER LEAVE HOME RIGHT THIS MOMENT AND NEVER COME BACK.”

The moment of Howl and Sophie getting together in the book isn’t “Sophie fixes everything through her inherent goodness.” It’s “Sophie realizes that Howl has been secretly scheming to fix all her problems exactly the same way that she has been secretly scheming to fix all his problems because neither of them is a normal functioning adult, and they both look forward to yelling at each other for the rest of their wonderful lives.” And losing that, losing all of Sophie’s flaws and ridiculous moments as well as Howl’s efforts to fix her life as much as she’s trying to fix his, means that we’re left with a typical romance trope of a woman having to fix all of a man’s problems and be the perfect, mature one in the relationship, while he can coast purely on charm. The revelation that half of Howl’s antics were actually schemes to break Sophie’s curse or even just make her happy is important because for once it goes both ways. Not just “woman fixes man with her love,” but “people fix each other with their love, sort of, except for all the parts that will never change and that’s okay because flaws can be just as attractive as virtues, and if he laughs when you throw weed killer at him then he might be the one.”

[sylvester-malone]

Omg YES

[babyanimalgifs]

[chubbicub]

Me on my way to the fridge at 1:38 in the morning for a little snacki snaccc

[slimegargoyle]

pro tip if you start saying hewwo as a joke it will eventually come to be your standard greeting for all loved ones 

[onesmoothassendoplasmicreticulum]

@elmosinnerdemon

[elmosinnerdemon]

don't call me out like this

[giveitallforonenight-deactivate]

[asktoothless]

Hey guys remember when this took 8000000 years to scroll through?

[xxx-w1f3fuck3rs1xtyn1n3-xxx]

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

How could you

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[ajeckaea]

[geekyowlet]

the holy trinity

[germs-in-theory]

@h-m-t-w-n

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

Do you ever find unreasonable amounts of amusement in the similarity between the German word for death, “tod,” and the common American man’s name, “Todd?” Think about it:

-Todd be not proud

-Todd in Venice

-The black Todd

-I am become Todd, destroyer of worlds

[squareallworthy]

Because I could not stop for Todd – He kindly stopped for me –

[argumate]

two things are inevitable: Todd and taxes.

play chess with Todd for your soul.

one day, humankind shall even conquer Todd.

[gem-salad]

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even Todd may die

[rox-and-prose]

Ah the four horsemen. War, Famine, Pestilence, and Todd

Fear is the mind killer, the little Todd that brings total oblivion

Le petit Todd

Todd shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the King

[dankmemeuniversity]

[one-lonely-whumperfly]

The hero shows up at the villain’s doorstep one night. They’re shivering, bleeding, scared. There’s also a slightly dazed look in their eyes– they were drugged. They look like they were assaulted. Looking up at the villain, swaying slightly as they’re close to passing out, they mumble “…didn’t know where else to go…” then collapse into the villain’s arms.

[nerdy-birdy18]

Oooohhhh bitch

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

This… but also the reverse

[samwellwinchesterthebrave]

[jedthewolfdog]

i don’t know how anyone can hear a 14 year old girl say “my own mother thought i was a monster. she was right of course” and not think ‘that is an incredibly hurt child’

[bauliya]

these t a g s

[t4tsonadow]

Normalize lesbians saying ex bf

Normalize gay men saying ex gf

Not all of us found out before we started dating and developing romantic feelings. Past relationships don't define your sexuality.

[swirledbones]

+ ex partners can transition after a break-up!