you can tell i'm feeling down rn because i'm not even excited for 9/11 this year. it's like all of the magic has gone out of the holiday
what we really need this year to bring the magic back is a good old-fashioned 9/11 miracle
my personal little headcanon is that kris's light world knife is their dark world shield. both go completely unacknowledged in the world you don't see them in, in contrast to things like kris's dark world sword, which is stated to be their light world pencil. the shield is never spoken about—it has nothing to do with their armor, either, and it never seems to change. i also strongly believe that kris's knife, in the light world, is a defensive tool and not an offensive one, and it just makes sense to me that it would manifest as a shield in the dark world. AND the most memorable uses of kris's shield in the dark world are when they use it to defend susie.... the only person kris has voluntarily and happily just handed over their knife to, blade-first.
"im going to see lilo and stitch tomorrow at the cinema so i can see how bad it is and laugh at it"
YOU ARE STILL GIVING THEM MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if disney makes $20mil from a movie release, they dont say "oh but we need to deduct about $2mill from ticket sales because those were just hatewatchers. they were just people watching it ironically as a joke. so technically we only made $18mil." they say "awesome, we made $20mil"
this goes for anything you spend money on. the studio that made that shitty gollum game didnt strike your $60 from their records because you only played as a joke to see how bad it is. you still gave them $60 for a game you didnt even enjoy and didnt think was worth $60. You Gave Them Sixty Dollars.
Fun fact there's also decent anecdotal support for big media companies also looking at trending numbers on social media and even occasionally download numbers from pirating sites to gauge the popularity and strength of a branding decision. The best way to punish stupid cash-grabby bullshit is to literally be uninterested in it. Controversy sells.
people using the I’m just a girl song for their little videos but making them short enough to crop out the part of gwen stephani yelling that’s all you’ll let me be
The way some people looked at this song and went "omg yeah! i AM just a girl!" With no other consideration is fucking wild to me
-Zombie as a halloween song
-Born In The USA as a patriotic song
-whatever the fuck is going on here
"Better Man" by Pearl Jam being used to propose to girlfriends.
"Every Breath You Take" by The Police being used at weddings.
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Finally something for me
I hate when I say things like "oh I want an ipod classic but with bluetooth so I can use wireless headphones" and some peanut comes in and replies with "so a smartphone with spotify?" No. I want a 160GB+ rectangular monstrosity where I can download every version of every song I want to it and it does nothing except play music and I don't need a data connection and don't have to pay a subscription to not have ads and don't have popups suggesting terrible AI playlists all over the menus.
Gimme the clicky wheel and song titles like "My Chemical Romance- The Black Parade- Blood (Bonus Track)- secret track- album rip- high quality"
Tangara is an open source iPod clone, which includes bluetooth:
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happy @zukkaweek is this too on the nose
toph only ever had one serious girlfriend (she doesn’t want someone in her house. where she lives) but she dumped her after she noticed that all of her friends were super uncomfortable around her. they didn’t say anything, but she could tell that they all felt weird around her but didn’t wanna admit it. and, well, if she couldn’t pass the gaang vibe check, then that’s that! what none of them had the heart to tell toph was that her gf was actually super cool and lovely....... but they just couldn’t get over the fact that she looked exactly like katara.
Good morning besties, I’ve been listening to this amazing podcast @literarydemerit , and I heavily recommend listening to Literary Demerit if you enjoy examining and analyzing (bad) fan fiction.
I’m currently listening to Literary Demerit specifically because the two hosts are in the middle of covering ‘Dirty Laundry’ which LOLLLLLLLL. if you were around in 2016 this will be the voltron throwback of all time. If you missed DL’s heyday, Literary Demerit offers an excellent retrospective perspective on how DL rose to fame and also the myriad reasons it exploded upon entry into the atmosphere.
I’m currently only on part 4 of a 10 episode (which is still ONGOING somehow????) deep dive into DL and so far this podcast has been a total delight. Siobhan and Kester are an excellent duo who play off each other well. Both have clearly done an intensive amount of research into DL, and Kester even apparently watched Voltron with Siobhan just to prepare for this podcast (Spotify’s Bravest Soldier fr). They offer amazing insight into both DL as a fanfiction, and also insight into what does (and does NOT) make a fic actually good. (Honestly my largest takeaway so far is that I need to stop reading fanfic and start reading real books more often.)
I am not great at listening to podcasts, but I’m really glad I put in the effort to listening to Literary Demerit :) Since we’re in a Voltron Renaissance and all, I think this is the perfect time to offer a podcast that has an ongoing series dedicated to Voltron’s most (in)famous fanfiction.
You can listen to @literarydemerit on Spotify, Patreon, and Audible.