Post Collector

This is what happens when you think too much about an IP

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

literature tumblr is revolutionary in the way that it tricks kids into literary analysis by framing character analysis as headcanons it’s like wrapping a dog’s heartworm medication with lunch meat like gay moths to the flame

[starplatinumnun]

The Locked Tomb Series Official Reading Order:

- The Iliad

- The Bible

- The Apocryphal Book of Judith

- Dante's Inferno and Paradise Lost

- Don Quixote

- Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

- Revolutionary Girl Utena

- Homestuck

- Umineko

- Gideon the Ninth

- The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex

- Lolita

- Harrow the Ninth

- Harrow the Ninth Again

- The Barbie Movie

- As Yet Unsent

- Nona the Ninth

[theswampghost]

i hate this weird trend in fandom where subtext is seen as a Bad Thing and is only done if the creators are too cowardly to commit to showing something. i hate to break it to you but nuance and layers are what make stories interesting, if you have no subtext then you have a very flat story

[theswampghost]

sometimes things are subtext because they don’t quite fit the tone of the story, or because the story isn’t about that (and if they showed it outright they would have to take time to explore it), or sometimes the characters aren’t ready to face it, or sometimes subtext is just the right choice for this specific story, or SOMETIMES it’s just fun and interesting to have underlying themes and implications!!!!

[theswampghost]

also just because it’s subtext doesn’t mean it’s not deliberate or not meant to be part of the story. “well if they WANTED it to be canon they should’ve SAID SO” some of us can understand implications. some of us enjoy thinking about the media we consume and don’t just want everything handed to us on a silver platter. “wow i can’t believe the writers didn’t even realize what this implies” im going to beat you to death with hammers

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

the true nature of their pairing is revealed when you realize that squidward spews nothing but negativity like his squids ink but spongebob can absorb it all cause hes a sponge................

[onwardmeteors]

this has been said a million times but I will literally never get tired of the way announcements/promos for good omens always have to hype it up and make it sound like some high stakes fantasy spectacular as though we don't know full well the actual plot is gonna be like. aziraphale and crowley do a little dance. aziraphale and crowley put on silly outfits. aziraphale and crowley drive around in a car.

[bombshellsandbluebells]

I know I’m a few years late to the Gravity Falls party, but I can’t get over how effectively the Ford reveal flips the switch on Stan’s character. From what little I’d seen of the show on Tumblr before I watched it, I’d always assumed Stan was a pretty one-dimensional sleazy con man. And since it was a series aimed toward kids, I kind of assumed Stan wouldn’t get that much development or story outside of Dipper and Mabel. I figured if he did have an arc, it would be the pretty common “gruff bitter loner guy who doesn’t like people gets kids and learns to love them” storyline. 

And for like the first half of the show, this kind of seemed to be the case, aside from the mystery surrounding whatever Stan was hiding in the basement.

And then the Ford reveal / backstory happens and you see Stan in a completely new light. 

Stan isn’t a con man because he wants to be. He’s a con man out of necessity - first because he was kicked out of his house and forced to make it on his own at 18, and then because it was helping him work to bring his brother back. He doesn’t just run the mystery shack because he likes to lie to people and swindle them out of their money - he does it because he needed a way to make money and keep the shack while trying to figure out a way to reopen the portal. He has a fake identity because he needed to keep people from snooping around looking for Stanford and the easiest way to do that was to take his place.

All the things that make you think he’s selfish and shady throughout the first half of the series are revealed to be because he’s a desperate, heartbroken man who wants to bring his brother back. He isn’t the traditional gruff guy who doesn’t love anyone until some rambunctious kids come into his life at all - he loves his brother so much that literally everything he does is to get him back. And he lies to the kids in an effort to protect them and keep anything bad from happening to them like it did to his brother.

Great twists / mystery reveals don’t just take the story in a new direction - they cast new light on everything that has come before. And Gravity Falls does that so well.

Just look at one of the first episodes in the series where Mabel makes a wax figure of Stan and Stan appears to fall in love with it and mourns it when it melts, going as far to host a funeral for it. Without knowing Stan’s backstory, this whole storyline just feeds into our view of Stan as a self-centered, ridiculous person. It’s ridiculous he would cherish a wax figure of himself. It’s so egotistical that he would host a funeral for it when it died and get honestly choked up about it.

But then you learn that Stan lost his twin brother and that whole storyline doesn’t really feel like the story of a selfish, egotistical man anymore. It’s the story of a man who felt like he got his brother back again momentarily and then had to lose him all over again.

That’s an effective twist. You can’t learn about Stan’s backstory and then go back and view him the same way you did before it. 

[twilight-zoned-out]

Learning about the Doctor Who specials' expanded budget: oh no, what if they overuse CGI to look more 'professional' and high-budget?

The first scene of the Doctor Who Special:

[jemmalynette]

Maybe all the things you thought made you you aren’t really…you. Barbie (2023) / Fight Club (1999)

[lesbian-shakespeare]

[imsoglitter]

John Carpenter's The Thing offers many lessons in filmmaking. For example:

Have an actor wear a giant cowboy hat

Put a Fucking Thing in there

[karlmarxmaybe]

These powerful moviemaking techniques can also be seen in Jordan Peele's Nope.

[imsoglitter]

You're the only person who understands me, Karl Marx 💕

[romanceyourdemons]

so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie

[kazliin]

[philosoverted-deactivated202006]

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

[systlin]

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

[gallusrostromegalus]

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

[filthyprotozoan]

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

[hubris-i]

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

[fridge246]

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

[jemthecrystalgem]

Sorry it’s what to elves

[dvandom]

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

[moomoobooboo-deactivated2020102]

This is why Legolas can see for such great, almost impossible distances. The Earth does not curve for him.

[endreal]

Legolas said fuck the horizon

[divinegaeity-deactivated2023101]

God I fucking love high fantasy

[redbuddi]

We need less power-couples and more fail-couples. A pair that individually are disasters but together make everything even worse. Not in a toxic sense, they are just both so lacking in common sense that being together creates a shenanigans feedback-loop. They will become everyone's problem.

[haropla]

[delitaheiral]

deeply funny brand of delita-posting like I don’t think anyone’s ever missed the point in the way these people have… if you finish a game unable to tell if one of its characters is wholly right or wrong, that probably was just the point of the game rather than some riddle for players to solve lmao

[delitaheiral]

the thing about delita is that he’s not actually that much of an enigma and only ever really becomes one if you try to define him in absolutes. delita is a cognitive dissonant mess; he’s both one of the most caring characters in the game and one of the most self-centered, he can genuinely love someone while openly manipulating them for his own ends, he’s earnest about wanting to better ivalice but also gets off on the thought of being celebrated as a righteous self-made hero for it. trying to erase the nuance from that discussion in favor of putting him in a Good/Bad box not only goes against what the game as a whole is trying to do, it also ascribes some sort of unwavering clarity and consistency to delita that he just doesn’t have.

[princessamericachavez]

Thinking about Crowley immediately sympathizing with humanity over them getting punished after a “first offense”. Questioning the fact that God made humanity inquisitive and then punished them for their curiosity, for KNOWING the difference between good and evil, for WANTING to know.

And also thinking about how Aziraphale being the first one to break the tiles. Knowingly. The first one to take action on Earth led by a moral compass even he can’t yet understand or explain. Driven by the very kindness and compassion that angels like Crowley were denied.

Thinking about how since their first meeting there was a seed for what drove them to each other. Crowley’s disguised compassion and Aziraphale’s impulsive rebelliousness. All there. At the beginning of their journey.

[bandedbulbussnarfblat]

Daniel and Armand's relationship in a nutshell

[petr1kov]

truly will never get over the fact that L from death note was designed specifically to be unattractive in contrast to the pretty boy looks of light, but in order to achieve that they just made him look like a pale emoboy with too much eyeliner. in the 2000s. what did they expect

[virgoprivilege]

the bravest person in the world

[shamebanduk]

im obsessed with her