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If you're a man and a showrunner first of all you need to kill yourself
also part of growing up is realizing that the embarrassing music you liked in your early teen years still goes hard as hell
i think if i were a jedi i would make it my life mission to make yoda angry. i would give anything to hear his little goblin voice mutter the words “thin fucking ice, you are on” and click his little cane on the ground. i would do anything. kick him as im walking and be like “oh sorry didnt see you there.” go with him to the market and try to buy him for four credits and say “oh my bad i thought you were a head of cabbage.” raise all the chairs in the jedi temple just an inch. catch him while he’s sleeping and paint his little nails and then be like “odd that someone caught you slippin master yoda. wonder who could have done that.” leave crumbs in his seat in the jedi council. i mean i would do anything
"are they soulmates" "are they good for each other" "are they bad for each other" i don't care. they're fictional! the question to be asking is are they interesting
any ship can be problematic because I have the heart and soul of a depraved pervert
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Your friend’s unpublished fic idea is kind of a dead wife
thought this was cute ^^
keep that furnace fed with the fossils of the dead...
I think the funniest thing Toby Fox could do is not have Papyrus show up in Deltarune at all and then in the post credits after you you beat the game you'd see a message appear that says "you can now play with Papyrus" and then he'd be retroactively inserted into every single chapter like some kind of new game+
i think they should put doctor who in the public domain and let us all start taking cracks at it on youtube
i'm going to say something insane. i think the overall pronounced fandom cultural slide away from complex plotty violent work and towards kidfic and coffee shops AUs and cozy domestic romcoms is a symptom of fascism.
okay actually this is a great phrase for it
Reblogging this for the term "neopastoralism", because I think that's fantastic.
Coffee shop AUs are, like... fine. They're not my thing, but they're hardly going to end the world. We don't need to have a moral panic about people enjoying coffee shop AUs. I'm also not about to come for anyone seeking escapism in the current hellscape.
However, I do think it's interesting to examine the tendency within these AUs to project a sort of idyll onto the coffee shop: here is a whimsical place where you can spend time with your friends and potentially meet your true love; here is a world where the greatest dilemma you may face is choosing the right coffee syrup for a new beverage or sneaking your number onto that to-go cup without being obvious.
The fantasy of the coffee shop AU is divorced almost entirely from the reality of an actual coffee shop. There are no abusive, creepy customers or bosses; there is no mention of the barista's wages; we don't see the dishwasher sweating at their station, the cashiers' aching feet; the person whose job it is to clean the (customer-only?) toilets. These topics are Political and Depressing and Must Be Avoided, because Political and Depressing things are antithetical to this kind of escapism.
The coffee shop AU exists, not in a world without capitalism (because this is a setting where commerce is actively happening) but in a world where capitalism has no teeth: a world where capitalism somehow works. In order to be convinced and soothed by this fantasy, you must suspend your disbelief and avert your eyes. You must filter the coffee shop through a neopastoralist lens.
To me, there's something very uncanny about it.
Prevsie I'm not gonna lie you might actually have a point with this. Give yourself some credit!
The premise of the post is flawed. Not only is it very difficult to prove such a statement, but what evidence there is suggests the OP is completely wrong.
Olderthannetfic and friends did some stat exploring and, yeah, no. If anything it looks like fics with graphic depictions of violence are taking up a higher proportion of fics than they used to.
💬 35 🔁 72 ❤️ 167 · It really is the Gilmore Girls resurgence thing: people want to live in a walkable town with cute third spaces and a re
There is a real trend towards fascist garbage in culture generally, but there isn't really any evidence for the claim made by op.
sorry to call you out but i think your tags are too important not to be seen as well
Saw this post and I had to go in the notes to see if anybody actually investigated.
what y'all are talking about in regards to pastoralism and coffee shop AUs is like. The broad concept of romanticizing things or of presenting an idealized version of them.
And like, yeah, fascists definitely romanticize some things, but when talking about fascism we gotta delve a little deeper than "this thing has a similar 'feeling' to this other thing, so therefore they must have similar underlying ideologies."
But more to the point, I don't know that there is a shift toward fluffy or escapist stories.
And without knowing the context of who wrote or who is reading that coffee shop AU, you can't say why they enjoy it or what they're getting out of it. Do you not think there might be a slight difference between a retail worker writing a fic where their own job or a very similar job is actually fun and rewarding and leads to love, and a lawyer or doctor writing that fic, and an independently wealthy person who has never actually worked a day in their life writing that fic? Do you think it might actually make a difference what any of those people is looking for in their preferred form of escapism?
In summary:
1. No actual evidence of an increase in this type of fic or of a change in its level of popularity.
2. No information about who are the primary audience or producers for this type of fic, or what they themselves think about it.
3. Sweeping conclusions based on vibes and "this thing reminds me of another thing" rather than actually any kind of evidence.
Do the work if you want to make the claim.
This post does a great job of explaining why the whole cozy game/fic = fascism feels so reductive. It also assumes that people engage with 1 type of media only. A person enjoying escapism doesn’t mean they don’t engage with other types of stories for different reasons.
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you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.
rip magnus archives crew but I'm built different. if my boss was literally all-knowing and couldn't fire me, I'd be in his office all day asking him questions about everything. I wouldn't use google anymore. I'd be like "what's the rarest kind of tree frog" and he'd be like "shut up please shut up" but he'd tell me the answer every time.
and then I'd go home and immediately call him and be like "hey elias I forgot what time I put the burekas in the oven, how much longer should I leave them in"
and he'd be like "I hate you so much. you put them in 12:42. they should come out at 1:12"
