Serin's

|| Currently: danmei hell. || Aromantic Autochorissexual Pronouns? whichever INFP

[thenatsdorf]

Cat sounds compilation.

[drtanner]

Don’t let the short duration of this video fool you - it is VERY good.

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[is-it-out-of-touch-thursday]

Yes

[acuityinnovations]

HAPPY ULTIMATE OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

[frogpronouns]

what you need to understand about recommending a show to me is that no matter how much we both know I'll like it, I can't watch it until the Neurodivergence Department in my brain approves it. I don't know when that will be, and I don't have any more control over it than you do.

[jumbleofnotes]

“I’ve been a massage therapist for many years, now. I know what people look like. People have been undressing for me for a long time. I know what you look like: a glance at you, and I can picture pretty well what you’d look like on my table. Let’s start here with what nobody looks like: nobody looks like the people in magazines or movies. Not even models. Nobody. Lean people have a kind of rawboned, unfinished look about them that is very appealing. But they don’t have plump round breasts and plump round asses. You have plump round breasts and a plump round ass, you have a plump round belly and plump round thighs as well. That’s how it works. And that’s very appealing too. Woman have cellulite. All of them. It’s dimply and cute. It’s not a defect. It’s not a health problem. It’s the natural consequence of not consisting of photoshopped pixels, and not having emerged from an airbrush. Men have silly buttocks. Well, if most of your clients are women, anyway. You come to male buttocks and you say – what, this is it? They’re kind of scrawny and the tissue is jumpy because it’s unpadded; you have to dial back the pressure, or they’ll yelp. Adults sag. It doesn’t matter how fit they are. Every decade, an adult sags a little more. All of the tissue hangs a little looser. They wrinkle, too. I don’t know who put about the rumor that just old people wrinkle. You start wrinkling when you start sagging, as soon as you’re all grown up, and the process goes its merry way as long as you live. Which is hopefully a long, long time, right? Everybody on a massage table is beautiful. There are really no exceptions to this rule. At that first long sigh, at that first thought that “I can stop hanging on now, I’m safe” – a luminosity, a glow, begins. Within a few minutes the whole body is radiant with it. It suffuses the room: it suffuses the massage therapist too. People talk about massage therapists being caretakers, and I suppose we are: we like to look after people, and we’re easily moved to tenderness. But to let you in on a secret: I’m in it for the glow. I’ll tell you what people look like, really: they look like flames. Or like the stars, on a clear night in the wilderness.”

— What People Really Look Like

[pinkhasivna]

serbia’s performance has everything. gregorian monks, marina abramović references, a cutting discussion of mental health in a post-capitalist society, a song in serbian and latin, a milf,

[endless-shelter]

Personally this gradual progression was the funniest thing ever

[mookybear12404]

Anyways just thinking about the scene they added in the anime where Loid tells Yor he drinks his coffee black, and then later in the anime we see her give him a black coffee without him mentioning he wanted it.

And how later in the manga we see Fiona criticize Yor giving Loid milk to put in his coffee.

Yet Loid adds the milk to his coffee anyways

This added scene in the anime shows that Yor already knows how Loid likes his coffee. She didn’t give him milk because she forgot how she likes it, but because she’s grown so close to him over the months of their fake marriage that she’s able to recognize his needs without him even needing to tell her

Loid’s stomach ulcers are played as a joke throughout the manga to emphasize how stressed he is about the mission, but this scene shows that Yor has been attentive to him and how his stress has been affecting him. The milk was Yor’s way of trying to help ease his pain, and the new scene they added to the anime really emphasizes how close the two have grown throughout their time living together

[detectivehole]

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

[detectivehole]

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

[qqueenofhades]

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

[flavinbagel]

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

[theterriblethingabouttulio]

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

[kat-witha-k]

This is fucking insane

[brightlotusmoon]

[thenatsdorf]

Oh no. (via)

[extork]

I have been quoting this tiktok for the past two weeks.

[soupsluts]

This bitch had like 5 accents

[tqueeninactive]

transcription:  “you’re a nice guy. (shifts to singsongy british accent) i’ll think about it maybe xo baybeoi uh oh eehjfgoi SHEND HIM KISSHEOIS. i didn’t know i would moive in with his missusWOOOOOT GET A LOIFE WE’RE LIVIN WITH HIS WOIFE like.. (disturbingly serene) what was i meant to do…? ehehehe. (sudden american accent) oh bitch oi seemBUHHURH BREAST KILLA?? mm. HEHEHEHEHEHE (back to british accent) she doied. that’s what she desehves. (sudden new yorker accent) this stoopid princess bitch has been fuckin goin against me since i downloaded this goddamn app. she’s like (peppa pig again) oih you’re heare? no problemm. an- oo OO OOOHOHOHOHOOO OHOHOHOHO HOHOHOWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! ….oh i was first heh!”

[katyazamolodchikova]

you’re a nice guy 👨‍💼! I’ll think 🤔 about it MAY-BEE🐝. X O 🤗💋 baybwee👶! UH OH here we go 🚀🚀🚀! SHENDS HIM KISSES😘😘😘! I didn’t know that I would move in with his Mrs.👰 WHUUT😲! GET A LIFE! You were living with his wife 👱‍♀️like what was I meant to do🤷‍♀️? Oh bitch 💃obviously- BUH HWUH BREASTKILLUH 🔪🙍‍♀️! Yeet ✌️! hehehehehehe 🤣🤣🤣🤣 she DIED 😵. It’s what she deserves 💁‍♀️. this STOOPID princess 👸 bitch 🐕 has been fuckin goin against me since I downloaded this goddamn app 📱. She’s like, “OH yaw here, no PRAWBlem!” eh OO OO 😮OOOoOooOO 😩😩😩😩OOOOoo 😱oOO😱oooo 😱O😱😱OO😱OOO WHAAAAAA🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 Oh I was first heh!🥇🏆

[animusrox]

Vengeance won’t change the past, mine or anyone else’s. I have to become more. People need hope. To know someone is out there for them. The Batman (2022) dir. Matt Reeves

[mr-faith]

“People need hope.”

[ruggedrookie]

dare i say. 2022 bruce felt the most genuinely Bruce Wayne out of all of them, to me, because it felt like they understood that the core of batman’s character is love.

that whole final act of the movie where he starts accepting his own fear, and understanding the negative effect his vengeance has had on gotham city, and seeing the importance in love. that whole montage of him lifting children out of rubble and holding the hands of scared, injured civilians and smiling comfortingly at them even though he’s covered in dirt and has a whole city full of people left to save after them. that individual kindness he gives them all. the way he doesn’t so much as hesitate to throw himself into the flood to save them. 

that’s batman. that’s who batman has always been, at least from my perspective, and i’m so glad they’re finally putting it on the screen properly. i got so sick and tired of seeing comics and movies and games etc where bruce is portrayed as this cold, brutal, downright villainous character - he should be scary, and strong, and sometimes a little violent, but overall he should be caring. batman is terrifying to the people who deserve to be scared, and comforting to those he saves. batman was the hero i looked out of my bedroom window and daydreamed about coming to save me from all my problems when i was little, because i knew i’d be safe with him.

and sure, you could argue that i’m wrong - he’s DC’s character, i have no say in how they characterise him, if they want to make him brutal and cruel they can go ahead - but if you’re asking me? this movie was the first time i’ve seen my bruce wayne on screen in a long time. it felt like they finally remembered that under all that kevlar, he’s a human being.

[eternallovers65]

My best friend loves rob pattinson and over the years she sent me a lot of articles/quotes of him, so here are some of my favourites

(there is A LOT more, this man is INSANE)

Bonus:

[fishandshesmygills]

diversity win! your unreliable narrator is gay

[5ummit]

The iOS Toggle is Here!

Per the Jan 11th announcement, you can now see posts tagged with banned** tags and view flagged blogs on the iOS app.

To do this, open tumblr in a browser (this setting is not accessible on the iOS app itself) and go to your account settings. Then, click the “Hide Sensitive Content” toggle in the “Filtering” section. This setting is automatically turned on for everyone by default. Here’s what the toggle looks like when it has been turned OFF (it will be highlighted blue when on):

But wait, you’re not done! For this setting to take effect, you must also make sure you’ve updated the tumblr app to version 22.5.2 (or higher). To update the app, go to the app store, click your profile icon in the top right corner, and scroll down until you reach the updates section. If tumblr displays an “Update” button, click it. You can check the version number by clicking “more” in the update description.

If you’ve already updated to version 22.5.2, make sure to restart the app after toggling the sensitive content setting.

That’s it, you’re done!

**This has no effect on anyone using tumblr via any other browser or app. All toggling this setting does is remove the recent iOS-only hardbanned tags and give iOS app users the same tumblr experience as everyone else. The soft ban on certain “NSFW” tags that’s been in effect since the Great Purge of 2018 is still in effect, at least as of right now. To understand the difference between softbanned and hardbanned tags check out my post about it HERE.

Also, a quick note to content creators: Even with this toggle, I would avoid using any of the banned tags whenever possible because posts with those tags will still be completely hidden (in searches and on dashboards) on the iOS app for anyone who doesn’t know about this workaround. Fortunately, it seems tumblr is currently reviewing the list and walking back some of the tags that were originally banned, seemingly for no reason as they had nothing to do with sensitive content. Most have not been reversed yet. Keep an eye on the banned tags list and continue to check tags yourself since @bannedtags​ doesn’t have all of them.

This solution is better than nothing, but we’re not out of the woods yet.

[looveniclovee]

IMPORTANT

[thatenglishdom]

Hope this will help my iOS following

[mikomoans]

For my iOS (apple) followers

[mindbrokensluts]

Reblogging so that the ios users who cannot see my blog can see how to fix that…wait a minute 🤔

[firstchaptertranslations]

A Handy Guide to JJWXC Tags, Part 1

Part 2 is Here

JJWXC, or 晋江, is by far the largest webnovel site for female audiences in China. This is their system for labeling stories–authors are supposed to choose one tag from each category for their creation. The explanations are based on the annotations provided to author accounts.

If I’ve made any mistakes, please let me know!

Format Tags

小说 = prose fiction

评论 = review

随笔 = essay

诗歌 = poetry and verse

剧本 = screenplay

Originality Tags

原创 = original

衍生 = fanfic

Orientation Tags

言情 = BG(boy/girl), het

纯爱 = (very euphemistic way to refer to) BL, yaoi

百合 = GL, yuri

女尊 = GB(girl/boy), het where the female partner is dominant. In practice this involves a lot of stories where the social/biological roles are reversed and men live in harems and/or bear women’s children and so on.

无CP = no central romantic relationship

POV Tags

Because Chinese writing doesn’t have rules against “head-hopping”, there’s no real line drawn between POV and main character.

For BG, GB, and 无CP the options are:

男主 = Male MC/POV

女主 = Female MC/POV

不明 = Unclear

For BL and GL the options are:

攻 = Seme

受 = Uke

互攻 = Characters switch

不明 = Story doesn’t mention position

Setting Tags

近代现代 = set in recent/modern eras starting around the Republican era in CHina

古色古香 = set in history during existing dynasties

架空历史 = set in an invented dynasty (think the equivalent of the generic medieval setting in Western stories)

幻想未来 = set in future

Primary Genre Tags

爱情 = predominantly romance

武侠 = predominantly wuxia adventures

奇幻 = non-xianxia fantasy, such as Western fantasy or paranormal fantasy

仙侠 = cultivation or Eastern mythology based fantasy

游戏 = online MMO setting

传奇 = MC’s dramatic life story

科幻 = science fiction

童话 = cute, innocent stories that inspire feelings of childhood again

惊悚 = horror

悬疑 = mystery/suspense

轻小说 = light novels, shallow and fun with engaging characters

古典衍生 = fanfic of ancient/classical works

东方衍生 = fanfic of Eastern works, mythology, folktales, history, etc.

西方衍生 = fanfic of Eastern works, mythology, folktales, history, etc.

其他衍生 = other fanfic

Tone Tags

悲剧 = tragedy

正剧 = between comedy and tragedy; “normal”, reasonable progression of events

轻松 = lighthearted, humorous

爆笑 = laugh-out-loud, exaggeratedly funny

暗黑 = dark