Layna Lazar Girl

Eve • 23 • she/they • mentally ill dumbass • lost in another world definitely far from here • writer •

[laynalazargirl]

Name's Eve. 25.

I mainly reblog random things, but also sometimes post about TV shows, movies, reading, or chess.

A big fan of all things horror.

[disgustinggf]

[johnssoap]

tried to match the vibe of the older seasons

[undead-moth]

I do love that when the Heated Rivalry’s show runner was asked about casting queer actors to play queer characters he ignored the bait and was just straight up like “You can’t ask that. That’s illegal.” lmao because yeah. It is. Weird how a lot of discourse on this subject acts like this is not a factor.

[t4timekeeper]

anyway i think fans of unjustly overhated female characters and fans of unjustly overhated characters of colour should unionize

[gorbling]

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

[gorbling]

[hapalopus]

[hapalopus]

More from the notes:

[vexwerewolf]

I love this post

[karifaevt]

The horse thinks as it scratches an itch

[laynalazargirl]

Everytime I see the discourse saying "oh my god 100s of years old vampires and teen, underage humans, are so deeply problematic and we shouldnt ship them and it shouldnt be common in popular media"

Im just like: god forbid teens also have yearnings to meet a vampire that will wisk them away from all the mundane bullshit?? You started watching a teen show or a young adult book and then got mad that the main character was actually a teen.

Literally there are adult romance vampire books and shows read and watch those and stop purity culturing over everything.

[shadow-complains]

I find it funny that this is being considered "purity culture" when I feel like it's common sense to not want anything glorified with immortal beings decades, hundreds and even thousands of years in age to be in love with a 13 y/o. That being said, some of it is... fine. It genuinely depends on the being in question. For example: I think Inuyasha and Kagome is fine. Inuyasha is 50 years old but he is clearly just aging slower because he's a separate species entirely. I know someone around here likes Kamisama Kiss and Tomoe is easily centuries old, but he only has one tail, so he's a teenager just as much as Nanami is. That being said, an adult immortal being with a teenager is disgusting.

I find it funny how one of the tags says "why are there child soldiers in media" because guess what, there are child soldiers in real life and it's not "purity culture" those are real experiences real people go through. I don't know why people pretend like child soldiers do not exist IRL. There are millions of them, it's under a category called organized extreme abuse. Can we not use representations of real people as a "gotcha" moment and use purity culture discourse as an excuse to glorify and discount victims of abuse? Thanks.

[laynalazargirl]

"Child soldiers are not fake, they are not in your movies, and they are def not for you to use as a weapon" couple things: Did not say that was a fake thing solely made up in media??? Truthfully I do not know lots about in real life child soldiers but I don't disbelieve their existence? And I also didn't use it as a weapon? I was talking about narrative conventions? I was making reference to when people watch something like My Hero Academia or Percy Jackson and then complain that the kids are child soldiers in the media despite watching a teen show. (Which are important so children can see themselves in roles of leadership and strength and responsibility. As well as having agency.) I wasn't referencing purity culture with that. It was just a separate example of hyper analyzing children and teen media through an adult lens and then getting mad at the content. Oftentimes centering adult involvement and forgetting the target audience isn't an adult and thereby the adults should not be leading the charge in this fantasy world. My point was simply child soldiers in media are not a bad thing and even in relatively positive media like my hero or percy Jackson (hell even buffy the vampire slayer) they still show the negative side effects of this role very well. Its unfortuate you have gone through something like that but that has very little to do with this conversation.

And as for the vampire media. It is 100% purity culture because those who don't want vampire relationships with teens say it shouldn't exist at all or (oftentimes) only when it is depicted negatively because it does not fit within their morality. That is moral purity culture.

If we take an example like Twilight: that book uses vampires as an outlet for a teen girl who is struggling and parentified by her parents. Who desperately wishes for a way out of that life: in comes vampires who give the teen girl that chance. And the reasons for marriage and having a child narratively make sense from the perspective of the teen girl comes from a broken home so she dreams of the idyllic version of what a marriage could look like. It also exposes teenagers to the idea that when you come from a neglectful and at times controlling home you might disregard red flags of a potential partner because you've normalized the behaviors. And by showing Bella ending up with a vampire who is outright controlling and abusive (despite Bellas own resistance to the controlling aspects of his character) she still ends up with him because of her desperation to escape.

You could use a regular human her age, but the point is it to be fantastical and out of reach. It's supposed to be a complete escape. Which a human, in context of the narrative, can't provide.

I also think it is very interesting you're using 13 year old for the age. Which implies to me that you are thinking of very different vampire media from which I was talking about. I have never seen media use a 13 year old so i cannot comment on that. (Although im sure it exists) The vampire media I'm talking about is the 16-17-18 year old media. And usually the media also happens to write it so the vampire was turned at around their age. And if they aren't they typically portray it as very creepy. (Or not even endgame: in the case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for example.)

I also think we need to remember that oftentimes these vampire media are also horror. And even through the contexts of the book you can see the glaring power dynamic issues.

Grooming is a very complex issue and talking about and analyzing the inherent power dynamic inequality in teen vampire media is fine (and also you absolutely should) which is also usually supported by the text even if it is a romance with an endgame relationship between a vampire and a teen human. And it even is a fun and engaging way to approach discussions of grooming and what it looks like to teenagers who may be unfamiliar. But the way some people say it shouldnt exist at all and that it is bad/evil is purity culture.

Lastly.

No real people were used while discussing this so I'm not entirely sure why youre projecting that on to me.

Victims of abuse were also not discounted at all. (And if you feel as though you were discounted in the original post, that would be projection and has nothing to do with me. Because i literally do not know you.) Whether someone identifies themselves as being a victim of abuse or not is not relevant to what should or should not be depicted in media. Most especially because two people with the same identity can differ on depiction and what they deem acceptable. So there is really no winning and can actually silence the creative self expression of victims trying to work out their trauma in a safe manner. Media does not have to teach you a moral lesson or have to depict bad things as bad to be acceptable media.

[shadow-complains]

I wrote what I wrote because I was annoyed and it was more emotionally charged and less rational than usual. I think your post here has some good points and I apologize for my response clearly coming from an act of projection and lashing out as opposed to anything productive in the 2nd paragraph. You are right in saying this is not a you problem. It is definitely a me problem.

Me personally being annoyed by a throwaway tag that has nothing to do with the meat of the problem, and projecting onto you that you must somehow think child soldiers do not exist, was wrong. It was also wrong of me to imply that you simply thought they were fake or invalidating victims. I apologize for that and I will try and do better at keeping my personal life and feelings away from this discourse.

[laynalazargirl]

I appreciate the apology. Its true, trauma makes us behave in manners we dont always mean sometimes. It happens to the best of us. I wish you well on your healing journey.

Have a lovely day. 💕

[laynalazargirl]

Everytime I see the discourse saying "oh my god 100s of years old vampires and teen, underage humans, are so deeply problematic and we shouldnt ship them and it shouldnt be common in popular media"

Im just like: god forbid teens also have yearnings to meet a vampire that will wisk them away from all the mundane bullshit?? You started watching a teen show or a young adult book and then got mad that the main character was actually a teen.

Literally there are adult romance vampire books and shows read and watch those and stop purity culturing over everything.

[shadow-complains]

I find it funny that this is being considered "purity culture" when I feel like it's common sense to not want anything glorified with immortal beings decades, hundreds and even thousands of years in age to be in love with a 13 y/o. That being said, some of it is... fine. It genuinely depends on the being in question. For example: I think Inuyasha and Kagome is fine. Inuyasha is 50 years old but he is clearly just aging slower because he's a separate species entirely. I know someone around here likes Kamisama Kiss and Tomoe is easily centuries old, but he only has one tail, so he's a teenager just as much as Nanami is. That being said, an adult immortal being with a teenager is disgusting.

I find it funny how one of the tags says "why are there child soldiers in media" because guess what, there are child soldiers in real life and it's not "purity culture" those are real experiences real people go through. I don't know why people pretend like child soldiers do not exist IRL. There are millions of them, it's under a category called organized extreme abuse. Can we not use representations of real people as a "gotcha" moment and use purity culture discourse as an excuse to glorify and discount victims of abuse? Thanks.

[laynalazargirl]

"Child soldiers are not fake, they are not in your movies, and they are def not for you to use as a weapon" couple things: Did not say that was a fake thing solely made up in media??? Truthfully I do not know lots about in real life child soldiers but I don't disbelieve their existence? And I also didn't use it as a weapon? I was talking about narrative conventions? I was making reference to when people watch something like My Hero Academia or Percy Jackson and then complain that the kids are child soldiers in the media despite watching a teen show. (Which are important so children can see themselves in roles of leadership and strength and responsibility. As well as having agency.) I wasn't referencing purity culture with that. It was just a separate example of hyper analyzing children and teen media through an adult lens and then getting mad at the content. Oftentimes centering adult involvement and forgetting the target audience isn't an adult and thereby the adults should not be leading the charge in this fantasy world. My point was simply child soldiers in media are not a bad thing and even in relatively positive media like my hero or percy Jackson (hell even buffy the vampire slayer) they still show the negative side effects of this role very well. Its unfortuate you have gone through something like that but that has very little to do with this conversation.

And as for the vampire media. It is 100% purity culture because those who don't want vampire relationships with teens say it shouldn't exist at all or (oftentimes) only when it is depicted negatively because it does not fit within their morality. That is moral purity culture.

If we take an example like Twilight: that book uses vampires as an outlet for a teen girl who is struggling and parentified by her parents. Who desperately wishes for a way out of that life: in comes vampires who give the teen girl that chance. And the reasons for marriage and having a child narratively make sense from the perspective of the teen girl comes from a broken home so she dreams of the idyllic version of what a marriage could look like. It also exposes teenagers to the idea that when you come from a neglectful and at times controlling home you might disregard red flags of a potential partner because you've normalized the behaviors. And by showing Bella ending up with a vampire who is outright controlling and abusive (despite Bellas own resistance to the controlling aspects of his character) she still ends up with him because of her desperation to escape.

You could use a regular human her age, but the point is it to be fantastical and out of reach. It's supposed to be a complete escape. Which a human, in context of the narrative, can't provide.

I also think it is very interesting you're using 13 year old for the age. Which implies to me that you are thinking of very different vampire media from which I was talking about. I have never seen media use a 13 year old so i cannot comment on that. (Although im sure it exists) The vampire media I'm talking about is the 16-17-18 year old media. And usually the media also happens to write it so the vampire was turned at around their age. And if they aren't they typically portray it as very creepy. (Or not even endgame: in the case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for example.)

I also think we need to remember that oftentimes these vampire media are also horror. And even through the contexts of the book you can see the glaring power dynamic issues.

Grooming is a very complex issue and talking about and analyzing the inherent power dynamic inequality in teen vampire media is fine (and also you absolutely should) which is also usually supported by the text even if it is a romance with an endgame relationship between a vampire and a teen human. And it even is a fun and engaging way to approach discussions of grooming and what it looks like to teenagers who may be unfamiliar. But the way some people say it shouldnt exist at all and that it is bad/evil is purity culture.

Lastly.

No real people were used while discussing this so I'm not entirely sure why youre projecting that on to me.

Victims of abuse were also not discounted at all. (And if you feel as though you were discounted in the original post, that would be projection and has nothing to do with me. Because i literally do not know you.) Whether someone identifies themselves as being a victim of abuse or not is not relevant to what should or should not be depicted in media. Most especially because two people with the same identity can differ on depiction and what they deem acceptable. So there is really no winning and can actually silence the creative self expression of victims trying to work out their trauma in a safe manner. Media does not have to teach you a moral lesson or have to depict bad things as bad to be acceptable media.

[laynalazargirl]

Everytime I see the discourse saying "oh my god 100s of years old vampires and teen, underage humans, are so deeply problematic and we shouldnt ship them and it shouldnt be common in popular media"

Im just like: god forbid teens also have yearnings to meet a vampire that will wisk them away from all the mundane bullshit?? You started watching a teen show or a young adult book and then got mad that the main character was actually a teen.

Literally there are adult romance vampire books and shows read and watch those and stop purity culturing over everything.

[ruffboi-mags]

So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.

And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.

So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:

Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:

And it’s all just delightful.

But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.

As Prince Fucking Humperdink.

[movebackintime]

https://youtu.be/lR8pA_WV9QI

Here ya go

[laziestgirlintown]

In case you need a comfort watch and because Youtube search nowadays sucks rancid farts, I remind you of the Princess Bride Home Movie from the lockdown, starring everybody

[boycritter]

this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] put on the best talent show this towns ever seen

[boycritter]

guys this post is a big hit on the adolescent psych ward

[birdsagainsthumanity]

Fish in the great lake being like

[birdsagainsthumanity]

Wait shit wrong fucking post

[laynalazargirl]

Ya'll what do mean the AI grok (??? literally don't even know what grok is on a base level tbh) has it's own website called grokipedia.

wikipedia get behind me they're trying to come for your brand

[cognitohazardous]

no one says big mood anymore. no one even says mood. no one says anything. all thats left is a dry wind, that scours my face until i bleed

[rohirric-hunter]

I am sort of frustrated about that post I made about Google Gemini giving an AI summary of Tumblr users if you google a URL because it quickly turned into a long post where people started sharing all the things the AI got wrong about them, and I'm not saying it isn't good for a laugh when an AI is wrong, but I feel like people are missing the point. Who cares if the AI offers information about you that's wrong? What's worrying is all the information the AI got right.

That initial accidental google I did of a mutual returned an AI summary that was absolutely correct, and featured information about them that would not have been obvious from a quick perusal of their blog. The first few times I googled myself the AI overview was 100% correct. The version of that post that is circulating is not the one where I shared that the AI gave me someone's real name. I had hoped that it had screwed up and it wasn't their real name after all, but no, I checked with them, and just by googling someone's Tumblr URL, I got their honest to goodness legal name. Do you have any idea how dangerous that is? Like yeah I get that it's fun to go, "Haha, AI bad at collecting information," but that's not the problem. The problem is that sometimes AI good at collecting information, and it can collect a lot more a lot faster than a normal human can, by running multiple searches simultaneously and cross-referencing a lot of different documents all in a few seconds, for a level of snooping that would take a real person hours or even days, if they could do it at all.

That is so dangerous and I need people to be angrier about the fact that Google thinks it's okay to let their AI do this for online users. If you google your legal name and you're not already famous the AI won't say shit. Because that would be creepy and invasive! So why does Google think it's all hunky dory to do it for random internet users?

[headspace-hotel]

I tried this a couple times and it just gives a list of summaries of my posts that have been spread widely outside of Tumblr, but it also said that my blog was "run by creator [name that is not my name at all]."

[laynalazargirl]

Gender envy but it's just the way men's voices sound when they sing in musicals specifically for characters that are teetering on the edge of sanity.

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[venort]

OP are you telling me we got the death of Gică Petrescu before we got gta6

[remischessblr]

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