[great-and-small]

Yeah okay there are like 11 species of heron native to the USA and yes fine I’ve only managed to spot 10 of those species. You might think I’m bitter about that one species evading me but I’m not. I’m actually the Least Bittern person about it in the entire world

[maykitz]

[malachitinous]

[firethekitty]

top 5 me posts of all time

[holly-warbs]

simple moments observed recently

[lizlemondyke]

as it gets warmer let's all remember the two most beautiful accessories a girl can have this summer are hairy legs and a bunch of bruises from bangin around

[fairycosmos]

the issue with growing up in the 2000s and 2010s was like there was this really big push toward "accepting your weirdness" overall but they meant like idk wearing mismatched socks or something not being tangibly beyond the norm in any way shape or form

[hungwy]

Another reason why trains would be good is that most people are not good at driving

[not-freyja]

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

[feldfrog]

The Dow Jones moved on the Z-axis for the first time recently.

“It’s coming right at us!!”

[meanbuddhist]

i want freedom i want freedom i want freedom *is granted freedom* noooooo my attachments

[mordecaitherunaway]

I saw the TV glow, too.

[idkhowtopickausername]

hey! Im curious about your opinion about sasuke’s ships

Hi! Sorry it took me a while to get to this.

I like SNS well enough when it’s written about/analyzed by people who I think have a good grasp of the characters and the story’s themes—I like it most in one of two contexts: an alternate ending where Naruto develops a lot as a character and comes to understand Sasuke’s POV in a genuine way and oppose the village himself (and also processes his own trauma and concludes that becoming the hokage and seeking out a high status within the village is not what he ultimately wants/needs) or a version of the canon ending that is framed as very tragic and is much more about messy emotions and Naruto’s own self-delusion paired with Sasuke’s weariness and isolation leading him to surrender rather than a genuine ideological victory on Naruto’s part.

That being said though, most SNS content feels quite OOC to me and/or like a very reductive reading of Sasuke’s character that doesn’t do justice to the complexity and validity of his feelings and motives. This, paired with the fact that I find Naruto’s character fairly irritating later on in Shippuden because of how static he becomes as a character, how loyal he remains to the village despite everything, and how preachy about it he is, makes it so I have pretty mixed feelings about the ship as a whole. I also feel like some arguments in favor of the ship get a bit overly defensive in response to these criticisms rather than just accepting them as flaws/points to contend with in analysis and fan content.

I think Sasusaku is pretty obviously very one-sided in canon and the fact that they end up together without any kind of chemistry or indication of mutual interest or even meaningful bonding later on is kind of laughable, but it’s also such low-hanging fruit in terms of shipping discourse to criticize Sasusaku that it ends up feeling like a really worn out topic of conversation to me when I think there’s much more interesting stuff to analyze and discuss. I get that there’s lots of Sasusaku content out there that does a disservice to Sasuke’s character, but I find the amount of anti-Sasusaku posts in pro-Sasuke discourse kind of exhausting at this point.

I think Sasuke/team Taka ships (either all together or one-on-one, although I’m not a huge fan of Sasuke/Karin individually personally) are cool and underrated and a nice chance to explore dynamics that had a lot of potential in the show but didn’t get much in-depth exploration. All that being said though, I’m not personally very invested in shipping discourse about Sasuke, nor in particular ships themselves. I am more interested in good fan content and analysis about Sasuke that does his character justice, whether or not there are ships involved.

I’m also not really a fan of the centrality of ships in discussions of Sasuke’s character, since I think he is a very compelling character on his own and I think it leads to a lot of central aspects of his character arc getting overshadowed and under-discussed. When it comes to shipping content/discourse I care much more about whether or not it leads to interesting and insightful representations/analysis of the characters involved than whether the ship is “good” or “bad” based on arguments that have been rehashed many times—I feel like trying to argue for or against a particular pairing is a much less interesting point of analysis than focusing on the relationship between the characters themselves and how it relates to their character arcs and having insights/commentary and storytelling based on that, whether or not it involves a sexual/romantic component.

[dimmise]

tragedy alignment :))

[draintheblood]

the last tumblr blog has died in captivity

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm a sucker for a good "you think you're in one horror subgenre but it's actually a different horror subgenre". character struggling to accept that maybe demons are tormenting them suddenly finds out it's actually aliens. trope of all time tbh

[goldensunset]

when the characters never really make peace with it