i CANNOT and WILL NOT pick an angle

what's up gamers | mostly traditional artist, multifandom, sometimes fanfic writer, scrunchy little chaos monger

[instantpansies]

❗here is the hellsite-hall-of-fame x perry the platypus masterpost❗

❗here is the announcement post for the queer media archive @thegroundhogdidit and i are working on❗

❗my art blog: @artstantpansies❗

❗️if this site goes down, contact me on discord or email!!! i love you!!! ❗️

hey toast! where do you stand on the pro/antiship debate??? here's your answer!!

about me ig, might as well since nobody will be able to discern any pattern from my little sparkly collection of reblogs

-you can call me toast or perry or any other cool epic names u come up with -all pronouns - please switch them up! tme -autism + adhd babey -queer -hyperfixations: ace attorney, defunctland, jeeves and wooster, pop tab chainmail armor project, recently taught myself to tablet weave, a little bit wizards with guns, getting back into shoot from the hip, this horrible fanfic -special interests: art, music, beatles, queen, david bowie, oz books and related media, phineas and ferb, animation and cartoons, fantasy, folklore/mythology, linguistics/phonetics -have been watching pnf s5!!! and slowly rewatching previous seasons, commentary @ #toast watches dwampyverse < not updated in ages but i will be watching latest eps soon. maybe. -for other commentary check out #toast watches and #toasty talks -can't promise you'll ever see any of that but oh well. im just here. inching slowly toward smooth little rocks i like and then shoving them under my coat and skittering off into my lair to organize them nicely

how my commentary/analysis tags work -i live-comment as i experience media, so it's typically on my blog in the form of very long reblog chains, created over the course of typically an hour or two depending on how distracted i am, how much i have to say, how often i pause the media to comment, etc. this will easily clog up your dash. -all liveblogging/commentary posts on audiovisual media will be tagged #toast watches. everything will also be tagged #toast watches [name of media]. -if you want to see NONE of my commentary, block #toast watches, #toast plays, #toast studies -if you want to see my commentary but not every instance of those long reblog chains, search my blog for #analysis, #toasty talks, and/or #[name of media]. each one of those tags also includes other posts tho so just be warned lmao -if you want to block for spam (only see first and last posts in threads), block #toastblock. -so basically, if you don't want to see my thoughts on various media, block specifically #toast watches, for everything, or #toastblock, for spam. if you want to avoid spoilers for particular media, block #toast watches [name of media] (eg "toast watches star trek tos"). if you want to see a full list of commentary (only the final versions of each reblog chain featuring my full commentary and overviews at the end), search my blog for #toasty talks, or #analysis. if you want to see all my thoughts on a particular media, just search #[name of media]. i may create a dedicated tag just for final versions of all commentary chains, will update as i decide that.

if anyone i know irl finds me somehow, i beg of you dont use my real name thanks

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[gilgameshhimself]

(Getting swindled by a genie) it’s like talking to a fucking tumblr user with you

[higglety]

the genie: how dare you say I'm fucking a tumblr user

[instantpansies]

more hillary kitchen trans thoughts.

she's out at work. she's just not allowed to publicly come out because it would fuck up the network's idea of her character--as i talked about before, her own self-awareness and presence of mind seems to go against the clueless, naïve host who doesn't know how to run a show, but i think she's also being discouraged from coming out by her employers/the network, who tell her that the fact that she desires to live as a woman is proof of her own inability to make her own decisions about the show. if she can't even decide on a gender how can she decide what's best for the channel? of course it's okay for her to be a woman around the studio and thank you for telling them! thank you for Being Yourself! but trans women have it rough out there, you don't want more people to harass you or call in to the network or threaten your job. of course, hillary kitchen is not stupid. she is not necessarily taken in by these extremely thinly veiled threats or the repeated infantilization. but it wears on you after a while. hillary is treated decently when she's on set, even if it always kind of sucks because the director asks for way too many takes of her dropping food in the trash and the guests are told to act like she is a cis man. the crew are nice. the benefits are pretty good. and it's a guaranteed slot on slightly-less-than-prime-time television, cooking for thousands of viewers and sharing her recipes with the world. unfortunately, the network does hold some intense power over her future. even if she came out, left the show, looked for a new gig, finding new work would be almost impossible now that she was already in the spotlight. so she stays, and she wants to stay. not just because the awful things would get worse if she left, but because some things aren't awful at all about it.

i think it's an interesting combination of things going on and i think it makes her own mental state even more complex--not only is she constantly being told that she's too self-reflective and composed for the viewers to handle, but she's also always reminded that she is exactly as unaware and innocent as the show presents her. combined with the stress of being tied to a high-pressure, public-facing position, i don't blame her for leaning into that character. maybe there's some age regression type of stuff going on too? haven't looked into this much yet but there's certainly something there. anyways. intersectional feminism is so interesting isn't it.

i also think she is on HRT. she has been heavily discouraged from getting FFS (plus, the recovery time is longer than she can afford to miss work), but she's probably taking estrogen. viewers have probably noticed. she is presenting as a woman, and can't be stopped from doing so, despite the fact that her employers enforce constant misgendering on the show and the channel will refuse to respond to viewer questions about hillary's transition. it should be clear to everyone, and in a way it's easier, just transitioning without ever coming out. sometimes hillary is happy with this, the ability to at least look like she wants even if nobody can know the details. and sometimes it's the most agonizing thing in the world. i am certainly not projecting here. by the way. but regardless, the fact that she is a feminine-presenting person who is allegedly a man will lead to discrimination and mistreatment and bigotry throughout her life. there's no winning, because she's seen as a failure of her gender no matter how people perceive her. it leads to tension in her workplace, on set, with guests. with her family, friends, audience. there are a few people she trusts, a few people with whom she can find some peace!! and she has been able to build up a small community of support! but for now, most of the time, she's stuck in this liminal space, unable to confirm or deny her own identity.

ok i didn't promise that this would be fun or cute trans headcanons that's all i got for now. yay hillary kitchen.

[utopians]

Passed the White Pharaoh on the freeway

[laikathestar]

[handsomeboymodelingschool]

His smile is so radiant

[zabouncer]

Maybe one year Demi can be the one jello wrestling with another women

[willgrahamscock]

any time I tell my mutual about the fic i'm 'writing' and they ask me where they can read it

[kedreeva]

I planted ten little pawpaw trees today

Pawpaws are a Michigan native fruit that looks like it should not be a Michigan native fruit.

I'm told that it has the consistency of avocado, but tastes like a combination of banana, pineapple, and mango, with and earthy aftertaste. They are EXTREMELY delicate fruits, such that they are not really shipped anywhere- to eat them you have to find someplace local that has trees, or have trees, yourself.

I've always wanted to try them, so, I bought a few saplings, and spent a couple hours tonight planting them. They won't fruit for another 5 years at least. Each hole dug, each rootball excavated from its pot, each circle of mulch around the base of them... that's hope. That's a promise to be here 5 years from now, to see them flower, to pull sweet fruit from the limbs and try it for the first time.

A lot can happen in 5 years. But, I hope that you'll be here, too, to see how it turns out.

[iconuk01]

I confess I'd only ever heard of the paw-paw fruit from "The Bare Necessities" in Disney's "The Jungle Book" so had always thought it was native to somewhere in or around India... UNTIL NOW!

Now when you pick a paw-paw or a prickly pear And you prick a raw paw, well, next time beware Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw When you pick a pear try to use the claw But you don't need to use the claw When you pick a pear of the big paw-paw

You mean Baloo was either lying, or eating imported fruit?

Is NOTHING sacred?!?

[kedreeva]

Welllllll it's more likely he means pawpaw/papaw as in papaya (as pawpaw is another name for papaya), but it does get a bit confusing, since prickly pears are also only native to the Americas, particularly Mexico and South America, just like papaya

BUT they've both been in India for centuries, so it's entirely possible they are out there growing wild as invasive species.

[alt-rock-confessions]

the coolest thing about writing Franz Ferdinand fanfiction is that sometimes they see it and reference it in one of their songs

OH MY GOD

(which song is that?)

[alt-rock-confessions]

Alex Kapranos on fan fiction in conversation with Canadian online review magazine Chart Attack in November 2004:

"[Fan fiction] was pointed out to me at one point and I thought it was very humorous," Kapranos says. "The thing I didn’t realize is that there are so many hot blooded girls who are really kind of into this voyeuristic thing about homosexual sex. At first I thought they’d been spying on my private life and then I realized it’s just fantasy."

"I think it’s brilliant. It’s really, really funny. And I like that sort of thing cause it means that there’s people who have imagination who are inspired by your personality and the things that you’ve done, so it’s a good thing," he says.

"There’s absolutely nothing wrong with fictionalizing a genuine character as long as you make it clear that you are fictionalizing, which I think all that slash stuff does."

[...]"It’s what we do in songs as well," he says. "I mean, we take characters who are around us and write stories, write songs about events that have happened in their lives. Of course, when you tell any story, you make it dramatic, you use the tools of drama to make an exciting story. All they’re doing is an extreme example of what we do."

[grifoncito]

[lakemojave]

Happy Pride Month everyone! Remember 4 months ago when the CEO of this platform harassed and chased a trans woman off this website just for posting her transition timeline, then chased her to other social media platforms to continue harassing her, and threatened to call the FBI if she continued disputing the multiple dubious terminations of her blogs that did not violate tumblr's terms of service in any way? And despite tumblr staff insisting that the CEO was acting against their interests, the broad transmisogyny evident in the site's culture and moderation policy has still not been adequately addressed?

[lakemojave]

Remember that staff is continuing to nuke the blogs of trans women even after all of this. Remember this post when they call this site the queerest place on the internet again this month

[lakemojave]

It's 2 years later. It's gotten worse. Happy pride month.

[instantpansies]

i've been struck with the sudden and overwhelming urge to own gnomeo and juliet (2011) on DVD. for some reason it's absolutely necessary that i have that terrible movie in my physical media collection

[theinsects]

there is no greater mystery than What Was That Deleted Video In My Youtube Playlist

[epilepticsaints]

[chloebangbang]

I don't know how I'm ever expected to be normal again after watching this. this video is already lodging itself deep within my vocabulary as I type

[javascript-official]

Hey it looks like you reblogged "No rush, The bear videogame" slowdown! there no rush here. This is a cigarette, take it. Watch it again before you reblog it again

[javascript-official]

You are mentally ill, and that's amazing

[vamppvictoria]

hey. no rush.

[sparklebog]

Didn't realize they made emergency thermal blankets for babies

[sparklebog]

It's scary to think about babies in an emergency but I guess it's a crazy world out there

Emergency baby

[fuckblast]

[Francisco de Goya]

[instantpansies]

professor layton (and curious village) highkey pissing me off. "sometimes doing too much inference obscures the simple truth" and then every subsequent puzzle is based on an arbitrary assumption. incredible

[charl0ttan]

i honestly ran out of posts to make a few months ago so ive just been making up fake ones since aroud then

[orteil42]

90% of google search ai summaries feel like this guy leaning uncomfortably over your shoulder and pointing at stuff on your screen reading out the exact same text you're already looking at

[likeymelikeylikeylikey19]

♪ ♬ cute n fun pixels