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This is Pranās other love song to Pat besides Our Song lol.
For Pat's Birthday Bash 2025, happy birthday Pat! @nongnaoseventplanner
This is my first attempt at a fan edit, hope y'all like it. The song is die without u by LĆLĆ and it's sort of perfect for them! If anyone is interested, I've been curating a playlist called the patpran story arc for like a year now that is arranged in order of the show's plot, and die without u makes an appearance on there :))
im terrible at drawing cars I didn't wanna draw CarDonnie multiple times.. š
I had to lol
(fic by kazegami on AO3)
Average car guy...
My contribution to the fandom
All gays will go to hellsite
What if in hellsite but not gay
NO!
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Closest match: Psylliodes chrysocephala genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle
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Of course Laura Bailey already had me crying during the first episode of critical role campaign four. So I chose to further my pain by drawing the scene in question. what an incredible start to a campaign!!!š§µšŖ”š¤
Thaisha why are you fishing for a reason to shit on Hal's dream š¤Ø
Sigh. Perhaps an alternate reading of this moment will help:
not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116
i very much will be a number nerd on main and the 27th of September will be extra special...
odysseus absolutely does present a threat to penelope if he perceives her as at all unfaithful, and i feel the unfairness of this, and i think people tend to undersell how much tension at least potentially exists between odysseus and penelope. but i'm also like. his reaction, all speculation aside, his actual reaction in the odyssey to her flirting with the suitors is delight, because he immediately ascertains that she is running a con. sorry that they're so in-sync in spite of the forces that try to drive a wedge between them, including their own misgiving hearts. sorry that they invented homophrosyne ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ
oh, you meant they literally did, ok
would i, tumblr user thee odysseyofhomer, lie to you?
this is the only funny addition to this post
Favorite Friends to Lovers trope is Person Who Just Discovered Their Crush And Is Freaking Out Full Force x Person Who Has Been Deeply In Love And Dealing With It For Years And Therefore Not Showing Any Signs Of Having A Crush Whatsoever. The person who's Just Realized is looking for any signs that their crush is reciprocated and they're getting NOTHING. The other person is sooo nonchalant. But really it's because being in love with this person is like breathing at that point. It just goes so hard
too many catnip mice, too little time.
In the years after the US Environmental Protection Agency was founded, the agency dispatched photographers to document pollution and contami
Formaldehyde, brick dust, lead, and borax once made grocery shopping a minefield.
Shit used to be wild, and this is just what I could find that had decent sources, I've heard a lot more horror stories.
I'm not excited to live in a word without regulation. š
"Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them" is an important statement here. The government has to spend money and labor to enforce regulations. The government has to be begged for years and sometimes threatened by the American people into even creating the regulations. The people with the money want you to believe regulations are "BIG GOVERNMENT INFRINGING ON OUR FREEDOMS" so you'll help them undo the regulations your grandparents had to force that same government to install in the first fucking place. They count on you being ignorant of the past so they can make another round of dirty money by poisoning you all over again.
I donāt mean to be rude; but I donāt think Iāve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?
Supernatural
Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)
Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)
Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.
A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.
Arguably Game of Thrones.
If we broaden it outside of televisionā¦I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I canāt help but think of every band thatās ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.
In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they wantāand think they deserveāthe time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.
They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they donāt want us. And they donāt really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audienceās demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.
And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.
It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they wonāt usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.
Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesnāt perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasnāt a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.
And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didnāt necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.
Young Justice
Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs donāt want largely female audiences
#WhereIsRey (initial)
#WhereIsRey (ongoing)
The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi
Youāre all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh
And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.
#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because heās actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)
OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like āHey folks, this girlās getting us more viewers, letās put her in more scenes!ā It just doesnāt make sense to me. MEN donāt make sense to me.
The 100 too. Iāll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.
Star Trek from TNG on was also a boyās club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, āWomen donāt understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.ā
I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.
Doesnāt stop it from boggling the mind
(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron ā¦ š¤)
Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isnāt the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.
Simply, theyāre trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. Itās not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. Itās that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.
(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)
I think a lot about an interview I heard with Bo Burnham a few years ago, where he talks about this phenomenon with his own work. He gained a large audience of teenage girls, and people in comedy spaces would look down on him for that or say what a shame it was, but he responded differently:
āThe real truth is, I would perform my show and I would meet kids after and young girls would come up to me and they understood what I was expressing in that bit onstage way more than guys my own age. Way more. So if there was a bridge between us that I had to cross to write the movie [Eighth Grade], it was built to me by them. I felt understood by them before I presumed to understand them.ā
Instead of trying to change his comedy, he decided to lean into and celebrate the audience that he actually had by making a movie specifically about the experiences of a teenage girl. Itās fascinating to hear him talk about how he got there, but also to acknowledge how rare that reaction is.
The idea that if you hook an 8-year-old boy you have him as a customer for life is baked into a lot of media, while completely ignoring the reality that adult women with no kids have more disposable income and therefore the 18 to 35 female demographic is more profitable for everyone. and in fact women do buy big ticket items like cars. Itās just that the rest of the world is still running 80 years behind reality and itās really fucking annoying. anyway thatās why people sent bras to Bonnie Hammer to prove that women watched farScape.
Some doodles for one of my favorite 2012 fanfictions, "Of the Same Cloth, the Same Coin" by Kazegami on AO3 ! šš¤š«¶āØ
This is the only fanfic related fanart I could muster this weekend,, I'm sorry y'all- š || I'll try my best to do more soon (I haven't forgotten about you Jaywritezshiitz !! šāØ) ! This is one of my favorite 2012 Jonatello fanfictions though, I'm so serious- These doodles are only a fraction of what I actually want to draw for this story ! š£ļøš£ļøš£ļø
HUGE cast, we might have peak in our hands
Thank you for sharing your art šš¾
The full set!!!
then everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
šPresenting the BRAND-NEW season - Dimension 20: On a Bus!
DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
Watch the full episode here
Hey friends!
Just wanted to thank everyone for being so lovely and supportive of D20: On a Bus!
It was a bit of a rocky shoot, but Iām really proud of the story we told! Iāve wanted to play with Jasmine, Brennan and Mark for SO LONG and itās so lovely that I got to do so at Katieās table. š
So hereās the thing: the first season (30 episodes! Can you believe it?!) is in the can, but speaking for myself I *know* the story of my character Blueyā¢ļø and their friends getting from NoHo to LAX is far from over. And thatās where you come in:
If yāall help us prove to Sam that thereās audience excitement for the sequel, we can start filming TODAY.
So please like, share, repost, and tell your friends so we can get back ON A BUS!
