Just readin' other people's Tumblrs. Reblogging what I find amusing or infuriating. I'm an adult (boy am I), but I don't blog NSFW stuff. Maybe a bad word here and there. Topics will be all over the map, but mostly video games, superheroes, dragons, cartoons (old and new), and dragons. And Steven Universe. And cats! So many cats! Also, dragons. Politics mostly reserved for my side-blog, darker-than-disco (formerly darker-than-discourse)
This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they’re used to seeing together, and when that doesn’t happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.
“This show is problematic because the hero didn’t kill the villain at the end”: When does he steal the bread?
“These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don’t kiss at the end! What the fuck?”: When does he steal the bread?
“This feels like it’s missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where’s the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?”: When does he steal the fucking bread??
I heard this out as “When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn’t”
why do people make their pac-man gijinka a skinny blonde twink like come on. it’s pac-man. he’s a middle aged man with a family and he’s a big eater. do better
It’s actually kind of striking how rapidly the ads on ostensibly respectable platforms have changed in the last 12–18 months. I’ve been getting penis enlargement scams and pyramid schemes that don’t even bother to pretend to be otherwise on YouTube – it’s like every platform is now running the kinds of ads that even three years ago would have been restricted to porn sites, and I’m not gonna lie, the fact that everyone seems to be getting desperate all at once ain’t an encouraging sign!
I just saw full frontal erect penis on a weather app. It’s not the sign of the impending tech-bubble implosion I expected, but apparently it’s the sign we’re getting.
