Ghost Town Theo

Any/all - Aro/Ace God is genderless and so am I; FREE PALESTINE!!

[toastytoastytheo]

HELLO! My name is Theo and I love being reblogging shit >:)

Any/all - Aro/grey ace - American - ADHD - in college - eng / some amount of French

HEY —> :3

I like watching my little TV shows and films, rebloging a lot of things, cooking when I can, and researching (both independent and scholarly).

I love hockey (capitals + sirens), and I love collecting hobbies.

I also like learning languages. If you’re looking for a lang learning partner, feel free to reach out. I’m currently learning 한국어 & French. Next on the list is Russian.

IF you’re: homophobic or transphobic, a terf or wtever, racist, aphobic/acephobic, ableist, pro-life, MAGA, I WILL BLOCK YOU and/or Punch U in the dick!

Love who you love, eat what you can, kill our corporate overlords, have as many abortions you want, kink belongs at pride, sex workers are cool+deserve better, eat the rich, and live ur life to the fullest.

You’re doing amazing and I love you.

Donate if you can!! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vtMLLOzuc6GpkFySyVtKQOY2j-Vvg0UsChMCFst_WLA/edit

Operation Olive Branch

Operation Olive Branch

[sanlorenzoherald]

good morning

[sztupy]

[geekysteven]

Example art from Tumblr users @poltergrease @teenageclown @randomationality

[narwhal-art-space]

✨Star Trek TNG Miku✨

[stealingpotatoes]

LAPTOP DEATH FILE PURGATORY IS OVER I HAVE MY CRAP BACK

[stealingpotatoes]

however i do think i scared the repair ppl by materialising at their door in 3 seconds

[eebie]

my mom has been laughing her ass off for the last five minutes because of something i did on outlook

[eebie]

i got photoshop certified last year as part of one of my classes and put the badge for it in my signature which was kind of big but i didn’t think anything of it and i didn’t realize i could scale down the size. so for the last year i’ve been sending professional style messages with an absolutely massive PHOTOSHOP PROFESSIONAL Badge that takes up about 70% of the screen at the end of every email

[eebie]

it’s exactly like what you’re imagining

[bowlby4]

[caspercryptid]

[lesbianroselandry]

shane and jj rating the racist shit they hear on the ice. 6/10 okay that genuinely pissed me off. 1/10 yelling a slur takes no creativity no effort no pizzazz. booooo boring!!! 8/10 i broke a finger on your face for that one so i guess i have to give you points but also points off for being fucking evil. 4/10 okay i had to go to wikipedia for this one man, i actually didnt know that was a slur that existed??? damn

[noctuathene]

last thing i'll say on this tonight but the reason it bothers me is because like. troy's book starts with him being publicly retaliated against for calling out dallas kent for being a rapist. troy does the right thing in calling out this actual irredeemable bastard and he's the one punished for it while dallas is protected. and this kickstarts him actively working to stop hiding behind that homophobic douchebag mask and be a better person. he makes the choice to do it and keep at it whether people forgive him or accept it or not. and it's before he's got any reliable support system- he's not close to his new team or anyone else yet, but he still wants to be better. and he doesn't expect anything from anyone for it. aside from his relationship with harris, troy's entire book is about him working to be a better person. and so many people's first reaction to a character genuinely wanting to grow and change from his past mistakes is "no actually youre worse and irredeemable for reasons i just made up"? that just doesn't sit right with me.

[troy-barrett-love]

These are some of the main reasons why he's my favourite.

He starts his path of redemption on his own. There is no one that looks at him and says "I can fix him" he wakes up and does it himself.

Also at no point do people forgive him or suddenly start liking him, because they realise he is basically depressed or notice any of his other many issues (like only Ilya and Harris know about the human trash that is his father). They see he is trying and that's the important part.

He chooses to be better on his own, every day, starting off with no support and a shit ton of luggage and grief.

He is doing something incredibly brave, while believing himself cowardly.

[shencomix]

This was The Boy From Venus #3! Check my page on here for previous entries. ✌️

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[lettuccine]

it's a shame how the audience of agott's constant aurafarming are just her two teachers-slash-parental figures, two best friends-slash-sisters, and her crush who has too many things on her mind to even consider romance

ft. teen qiflings and jujy

[memorycycle]

he stole 1 penny from her hot dog cart and she chased him across the world and her hot dog cart sat there and nobody touched it out of respect

[memorycycle]

the hot dog stand was there for 100 years and nobody touched it out of respect and the rain didnt rain on it and the wind didnt blow it and time didnt decay it and 100 years later when she got her penny back the hot dog stand started coughing and the neighborhoods kids said whats wrong and it started coughing and said i dont have much time left and they said no and the hot dogs started smelling bad and the kids cried and the kids started smelling bad and the candles started smelling gioood

[mincenoodle]

"its ironic" whatever u say man

[penny-anna]

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

[penny-anna]

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

[penny-anna]

I know I said 'finally' but I forgot a point:

A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.

[sunthoon]

Mock poster for a fake post-PHM cartoon

Featuring a whole bunch of lovely Eridians I snagged off of Art Fight and Discord! Thanks for letting me borrow your rocks

[retroactivebakeries]

dude idk if you made up penniless friendless alone but i want that tattooed with the article on me that’s fucking hilarious

"Penniless, friendless, alone" owes its origins to a set of Mario Party house rules I played with in college. They are as follows:

One player must play Luigi.

Luigi must die penniless, friendless, and alone.

At the end of the game, if Luigi has any stars or coins, he wins. Otherwise, all other players win.

[karrakazz]

why luigi

[retroactivebakeries]

because he has been chosen to suffer

[depsidase]

[punkrorschach]

write it out in spanish if that's the filmmaker's vision! some lines should be translated and some should be transcribed. 0 should be waved away.

[otterjpg]

for real though, if you don't translate it, you should transcribe the original language. if a bilingual viewer can understand what they're saying just from listening, then a bilingual viewer who relies on subtitles should also be able to understand those lines.

[passengerpigeons]

do u ever think about corn sweat; and the fact that a large percent of corn grown in Illinois, iowa, etc is grown for ethanol and biofuel; and how solar power would be so many times more effective per acre than this; and how like 90+% of so many rare ecosystems in those states was drained for farm and suburbs (in many cases previously farms).

[passengerpigeons]

AND you could still have native plants around and even under the solar panels.

[passengerpigeons]

When you see what they did to the Midwest you'll want to fucking kill the corn lobbyists with your bare hands