[squid-died]

i love this game <3

hey if u like my art, id appreciate a reblog!

[sophsun1]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 2.19: I Only Have Eyes for You

[everyonehatesstrudel]

Just gonna take a moment to remember that period in 2012 ish where a bunch of mutuals got really into the Dwayne the rock johnson kids film "the Tooth Fairy", where he plays a football player who has to become a fairy for reasons, all because it starred Stephen Merchant and they were all really into Wheatley in Portal 2

[everyonehatesstrudel]

Fandoms today just dont do it like they did in 2012

[everyonehatesstrudel]

Just gonna take a moment to remember that period in 2012 ish where a bunch of mutuals got really into the Dwayne the rock johnson kids film "the Tooth Fairy", where he plays a football player who has to become a fairy for reasons, all because it starred Stephen Merchant and they were all really into Wheatley in Portal 2

[alliluyevas]

read a couple cozy mysteries the last couple weeks which is a genre i haven't really touched despite reading a lot of mysteries. learned that i don't like cozy mysteries lollllllll.

[alliluyevas]

friend of mine and coworker at the library is a big fan of cozy mystery (also cozy romance, cozy fantasy, etc.) and it's very interesting to talk about genre tendencies and tropes with her as an avid reader of pretentious grimdark tomes #mytomes. anyway she says that a very common trope in cozy mystery is to have the murder victim be unsympathetic so you don't feel too sad about them dying which is somehow more unsettling to me than reading about fictional people getting murdered period. and cozies also usually avoid Gritty Real World Issues like sexual violence or domestic violence so by "unsympathetic murder victim" I mean like...a grumpy old codger. Something about like...welcome to our town full of nice sweet people who bake muffins and knit and then someone gets murdered but oh welp! it's a mean old dude with no friends so it's not THAT sad. This somehow feels dystopian to me.

[alliluyevas]

on the subject I obviously don't think writing about murder in fiction is necessarily exploitative or bad and I do read murder mysteries but I do think it's very sociologically interesting how differently sexual violence is treated in fiction/by readers than other types of violence. like the entire existence of a genre of cozy mystery that centers on homicide (even if it typically avoids graphic descriptions of violence) while completely eschewing depictions of sexual or gendered motivations for homicide. I think also of the way that ASOIAF fandom tends to be much more critical of depictions of sexual violence than murder and war crimes both in terms of criticizing its inclusion in the series in the first place and in terms of whether characters who perpetrate violence are seen as redeemable or sympathetic. I think this largely stems from the fact that sexual violence feels real and immediate to readers esp female readers and war and murder feels much more remote. But I think there's this false understanding of separateness there and also a belief that no one in the prospective audience could have also been affected by other types of violence. Like obviously it is less common by several orders of magnitude but I personally know several people who have parents or siblings that were murdered. I'm probably not articulating this well but there's something very othering about this seeming perspective that murder is a fictional dramatic plot point while sexual assault is a real world trigger.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

so many people adding to that to be like “the distinction between Adult and Childrens films… well… heh… no one knows… its just too nebulous… they have the exact same quality and subject matter i guess you’ll just have to watch Kung Fu Panda and see if it speaks to you” like. no actually the distinction seems quite clear and even easy. if i’m wondering if a movie is made for children, i ask myself: “did the people who made this movie make it for children?” if the answer is yes, it is in fact for children, and not for me, an adult

[crunchymayo]

Lord, grant me the strength to throw away this box that i'll never use, the courage to throw away this box that i'll never use, and the wisdom to throw away this box that i'll never use

[everyonehatesstrudel]

Things you see at every zine fair

Dolly parton

Latest fandom is totally revolutionary and ushering new forms of queerness, i promise

Im messy and relatable and heres my comic series

Important but boring politics

Important but shallow politics

Folklore reclaimation that still somehow seems conservative

Im really online and so all of my references only make sense if you are also really online

[everyonehatesstrudel]

Why did every american tv show from the late 90s - 00s have a vegas episode

[wildspringday]

gonna be a lover for a minute, reblog and put in the tags the last movie that you LOVED like intensely loved like 5 stars on letterboxd LOVED

[mattforsythe]

[macaronniart]

what if the spider loved the fly 😳 and they were both girls

(ko-fi / youtube)

[everyonehatesstrudel]

No one talks about the worst sherlock deduction where it turns out that the victim was the son who was pretending to be a car seat and then spontaneously died and then the car he was hiding in coincidentally got rear ended and exploded, revealing his burning corpse

[everyonehatesstrudel]

@jealousofthetea @frittteclerk

this is from memory bc im not looking it up but the situation is:

Sherlock holmes is called to the mansion of a wealthy guy who at a party got a call from his son who was backpacking in the himalayas. The call is patchy but the son asks him to look at his fancy car to check its ok. A week later the car is on fire, and the sons skeleton is found in it. How did it get there???

Answer:

The son finished backpacking early! The call was a fake because he was actually hiding in his car dressed as a car seat so he could prank his dad. Unfortunately at the moment the dad came to look at the car, he had a stroke or something that killed him, trapping him in his elaborate car seat costume. Totally coincidentally a car chase happened nearby a week later where a random car crashed into this one, causing the car to explode and burn away the fake carseat, revealling the son's already dead corpse.

Sherlock figures this out in two minutes based on some plastic remnents of the fake car sear but it doesnt actually matter because its all an excuse for him to stumble onto the real case which is something to do with smashed busts of margaret thatcher hiding a memory stick

[everyonehatesstrudel]

Sherlocks secret evil sister is just so incredibly terrible as an idea on the same level of hack writing as "ursula's crazy sister" from disney straight to dvd little mermaid 2. This was the show the bbc was spending millions of pounds of taxpayers money on

[everyonehatesstrudel]

No one talks about the worst sherlock deduction where it turns out that the victim was the son who was pretending to be a car seat and then spontaneously died and then the car he was hiding in coincidentally got rear ended and exploded, revealing his burning corpse

[everyonehatesstrudel]

You know just when i was wondering if i was being too harsh on bbc sherlock like yeah its a bit shit but it was at least fun nonsense but nope it really is terrible

Steven moffat making the lying detective:

[hug-bees]

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