I don't know, man...

Mateo | 🇵🇹 | 26 | he/him | probably gay I don't know what exactly this tumblr is about anymore but it's probably also gay

[kaalbela]

Erika Stearly

[anxietyproblem]

[beemovieerotica]

[beyond-a-name]

I hope he got fatter but I fear for the worst

[tofu-rebecca]

@pocket-deer-boy

[unweavingg]

[write-on-world]

Well put. (Source: Writing About Writing Facebook page)

[12b6]

as a lawyer who’s been practicing for six years now I can say with certainty that this 100% applies to lawyers

[johanna-swann]

Me: My writing is so bad. :(

Meanwhile at Disney: Somehow, Palpatine has returned.

[autumngracy]

[cherrymaho]

[rontology]

I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.

[forbearing]

thank you anais nin

[hbtyson]

Yet another beast 💙

[wizardsisananimal]

the procrastinator’s mind will invent distractions you’ve never conceived of in order to avoid tasks even a dog could do.

[moonshinemagpie]

I made yet another Connections game in Japanese. This one is meant to be friendly to beginner students (although you may need a dictionary):

Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator

Create custom puzzles based on the game popularized by New York Times

If you play it please let me know how it goes!

[memewhore]

[sofuton]

[headspace-hotel]

[mortimermcmirestinks]

I love that this has thought process has happened independently in three different pieces of media

[z-a-d-i-e]

i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she "thought i'd left them!" and that she "made my order with extra love!" and you what, she did

[z-a-d-i-e]

it's funny that this is getting notes again, because last night i went to the thai place in my neighborhood. it's run by a family and during covid times i ate there literally almost every day. later i cut back on eating out so much and hadn't been there in two years but last night we went and ate inside for the first time ever and the owner ran over to say hello and ask how i was, and repeated our old regular order. it was sweet. it's so easy to feel like you are an island, but stuff like this reminds you that you are part of a community.

[ealasaidh]

Being a regular is fucking awesome. I've only had that status a few times, but I always feel kind of honored. These people see humans all day every day, and they remembered me?! And not for something bad (as far as I can tell)! I'm flattered af!

[2022dirt]

Things worn down by people.

[escuerzoresucitado]

[shopwitchvamp]

We need to learn from this. It's time for Beijing bikini summer.

[combataromantic-deactivated2026]

Me in the middle of being tortured : I hate this song can you skip it please

[sunnydayaoe]

she is 9 pounds

[jarnt8]

Keep the change

[diazmaximoff]

I adore Joel/Pedro so much but it’s always fascinating how differently people treat male and female characters when it comes to trauma and emotional expression. Joel can make so many morally questionable choices and a lot of fans are quick to defend or empathize with him because of his painful past. But when Ellie makes decisions based on her own trauma or breaks down emotionally, she’s often labeled as unlikeable or “too much".

This double standard seems to show up in how performances are judged too. Pedro Pascal can cry on screen and be praised for being tender and vulnerable (I mean, who can say no to that puppy face, right?). Meanwhile, Bella Ramsey shows the same raw emotion but gets mocked for their appearance or accused of bad acting, when their emotional scenes were just as powerful and honest as Pedro’s, evoking just as much pain.

Throughout episode 6, it’s shown time and time again how Ellie is dealing with survivor’s guilt and has a bit of suicidal idealization after her experiences last season. She saw all the people close to her die or abandon her, was almost s*xually abused by a creep, and had two adults she trusted basically decide things for her without having the balls to ask her how she feels. All of this comes through when she says, "Then I was supposed to die! That was my purpose. My life would've fucking mattered but you took that from me." She was even willing to try to forgive Joel for keeping her in the dark about the Fireflies for so many years but she still doesn’t get nearly as much love as he does. Why? Because she’s not tender enough about her feelings and is 'such a crybaby'. But like realistically, who wouldn't be a crybaby in her place!??

This pattern makes it harder for complex female characters to be accepted in mainstream media because audiences continue to dismiss their emotions as dramatics. It’s a bias that really needs to be examined more closely in my opinion.

[littlefly-nerd]

Oh my lord!!! Here, right fucking here you nailed it!!

Y’all want your “complex female characters” and you can’t handle them when you get them.

Like… so many people justify Joel… and also the doctor.

That doctor was going to sacrifice a kid without asking her consent.

Everyone acted terribly but none of that is acknowledged by people.

Ellie can’t do nothing and Bella Ramsey was amazing as fuck, and even with that she was still ridiculed and her character reduced.

I also hate how people wanted her to be like a Rambo on screen… guys! In a video game that is a fucking shooter that’s fine… but imagine how normies would react after seeing Bella kill 30 people on a tv show? At the end no one would be with her lmao.

With Bella’s version of Ellie, that Ellie forgives Abby at the end and doesn’t kill her will be waaay more believable.

I agree that we could have more action scenes, and it would have been good to have one more episode and not just 7… and I don’t know why they took the riffle scenes too, and made the scene of Mel and the other guy less violent (I guess maybe is because of how currently there is a problem with shootings in the US???). But still… the series as its own thing it’s actually fine.

It’s a pretty solid drama. Not excellent but pretty great.