#tradge

[alienjesus]

just saying ahead of time i won't be participating in any kinda mw fan week or whatever bc i barely have the time to produce one artwork a week, let alone 7 🙃

[annikuh]

need to figure out my cosplay plans for my QUICKLY approaching con OUGH. I wanted to do the Flatwoods monster but my money is getting really tight really quick😭

I could probably just do Topher bc my hair is long enough now that I don’t need the stupid ass wig, and any fixes to it would be easy (I need to futz around with the collar to make it stand better, & I’ll need new pants which may be a pain but they were BARELY hanging on in October so😵‍💫)

but I was also like…hrm, bc I could complete my Animaniacs trilogy and do Wakko, and just have to get a red hat and a big blue sweatshirt, and make another easy pair of ears. I feel incredibly obligated to do this bc I’ve already done the other two.

HOWEVER I also really wanna just do Jax bc who cares yknow? I have literally everything I’d need, clothing-wise, I’d just need to grab a pair of contacts, gloves, & some gray makeup that doesn’t turn blue when it touches the white makeup (I did a test a few months ago when I was high and the gray I had IMMEDIATELY turned like sky blue. Which was pretty but...). BUT the wig situation would be difficult. I can probably find the color I need but idk how to style a wig at ALL, & honestly don’t know what their hair would even look like in real life bc I don’t want to look like anime cosplay, you get me?

OH also I’d have to figure out a mask situation too. Wakko would be easy—I just very carefully sew a red Pom Pom onto the very tip and it works out. Topher would be whatever, I could get one of those pointy ones and boom there we go. Jax would require some art on em, bc I neeeeeeed the cheekbones to come thru😭 but I could draw the scar on it & it would be precious. (I appresh that the con is being safe, but…)

AUGH‼️ John Procrastination over here.

[alxturna-blog]

The coolest thing

Today I am wearing my cheetah print coat that I bought because I thought it made me look like a girl Alex Turner would sing about. I had my iPod on shuffle as you do at the bus stop when a friend offered me a sweet, and I chose a strawberry lace and then crying lightning came on whilst I was eating a strawberry lace and I found it so hilarious. None of my friends understood though.

[traaadge]

Denim

Hey you know what's cool?  Denim.  I'm j/k if denim was a person it would be a racist Southern white guy at a Linkin Park concert, groping your side leg as you walked by in a denim mini skirt.  It's your fault for wearing a denim mini skirt, right?  

I know I'm part of the 99.99% of the population that doesn't wear jeans, but I'm going to come out and say it, no one should wear denim. ever.

[traaadge]

Reese Witherspoon's Arrest Video

First I was thinking this is so tradge that it's not tradge.  But then it got slightly more tradgier swinging it back into the tradge zone.  

People keep saying she's Elle Woods IRL but I think she's more Tracy Flick from Election or maybe Anne Hathaway in the movie that plays in her head every second of every day.  

But the tradge part isn't that she's tradge, it's that she knew it would be on the "National News" and it is and it's our faults but we can't help ourselves its sooooooooooooo good.

[traaadge]

Anne Hathaway taking herself too seriously, which is always, is tradge.

I almost started crying. This is so much worse than I thought it could be.

3,793,073 people have watched this video committed suicide. I thought I would be able to live my life after watching this but now I'm not so sure. 

She says it's "in the style of Lil' Wayne..." In the words of Lil' Wayne, "Anne Hathaway is tradge."

[theoriginalfranksta]

You know when you're bored and you wanna rep Jamaica? This happens. #tradge (Taken with Instagram)

[blasianlikeus]

"McTragic Memories" by Youngmi Mayer and Frankie Wears Fat Gold

Guess what? McDonald’s sucks. It’s cheap. It’s gross. It’s a terrible Corporation. It is pretty much the worst.  And this we know.  However, one night, while lamenting over whiskies about our shitty McDonald’s-filled childhoods, we both came across the same sort of memory that made us think differently about the conglomerate eatery. McDonald’s came up in a very dark portion of our conversation, about the dark portions of childhood.   After two different, yet similarly traumatizing memories, we realized that both of our parents had reacted by taking us to McDonald’s.  Speaking to our friends on the matter, we discovered a handful who had similar stories, darker stories, stories involving domestic violence, divorce, and adultery.  They were relayed over drinks, in a casual almost humorous manner.  How can McDonald’s be sad or even serious?  McDonald’s and their aggressive subliminal advertising campaign had achieved the impossible, they knew how to instantly make a child happy and safe. Our parents respected the incredible power it had. We can’t really remember if we were actually happy while eating our post-traumatic meal.  Our memories of the events surrounding the meal are too weighted with sadness. Painfully enough, maybe we were really happy for the 30 minutes we were eating.  I mean how depressed can an 8 year old be with a chicken McNugget with BBQ sauce in their mouth?  The only issue was the temporary nature of the experience, the food was temporary, the happiness was temporary.   The idea of McDonald’s as a cheap, gross, terrible corporation that is pretty much the worst, is not only popular, it is obvious. However, this overwhelmingly negative view of the company negates the impact that it has on the lives of people who to some extent socially depended on it.   The dining areas are filled with strange mascots, oversaturated colors, and playground equipment signify how much fun kids are suppose to be having. For our parents, as well as other families who were financially strapped, McDonald’s served as a convenient option for food, as well as an obtainable reward and a site of relief.  Maybe we didn’t get the new Air Jordans, but we got to eat at McDonald’s. The juxtaposition of the plastic environment and our affecting childhood moments are almost worth having in a tragic and hilarious way.  As sad as those times were, McDonald’s doesn’t allow us to be sad.  We walk into one today (that’s right we still eat there) and still crave the shallow happiness of a sweet and perfectly acidic cheeseburger.

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