And My Thoughts Fly Apart

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wonderfuck:

pisses me tf off when i’m just scrolling and i accidentally click an answer on a poll and it’s not the answer i would have clicked. it makes me feel like im fucking with real scientific data and ruining the outcome for people who spent their life gathering this poll data. i’m so sorry i ruined your life’s work with my clicking.

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Sometimes people think they’re dealing with a Torment Nexus but what they actually have is a Jumanji. And sometimes people think something’s a Jumanji but oops it’s a Torment Nexus.

Now. Sometimes you have a third thing- you’ll have yourself a Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. And buddy, I can’t help you there.

So a Torment Nexus is something that is either a metaphor for a larger societal problem (e.g. The Platform, The Long Walk) or a social issue/trend taken to an exaggerated extreme (e.g. The Purge), with a lot of shades of grey in between (e.g. Squid Game). If it isn’t about a larger societal issue/trend/structure it isn’t a Torment Nexus.

A Jumanji can be dangerous and high-stakes (to the characters), but it doesn’t need to have a metaphor or lesson, it can easily just be a “Would this be fucked up or what?” situation (e.g. a lotta Goosebumps stories). If there IS a lesson/metaphor, it will be on a smaller scale like psychological issues (e.g. Magnus Archives), family/relationship issues (e.g. Zathura), or about a specific topic (e.g. Magic School Bus). Large-scale social issues may be present (after all, Everything Is Political), but they take a definite backseat.

Now. A Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory is a trap based around morality and vices. These can be cultural, religious, or bonkers bullshit like “children shouldn’t chew gum.” There is generally not discussion or criticism of this morality system. Regardless of the morality system used, if it’s not a trap, it’s not a Chocolate Factory.

examples of a willy wonkas chocolate factory include:

saw

the cabin in the woods

labrynth (1986)

and

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ameliafromafairytale:

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im cleaning out my phone and found that i have saved this tiktok no less than Five separate times

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A couple weeks ago I was practicing my owl calls on a night hike and I successfully called in a barred owl. My owl call is pretty good, but I’ve never called an owl to me from afar because I rarely do night hikes and so I don’t get much chance to. I had expected to be really excited about this, especially since two of my coworkers are really skilled at owl calls and they don’t usually get a response, much less a full conversation, but instead I felt so guilty. I eventually had to start ignoring this poor deceived owl that was following my call through the park. I felt like I catfished him.

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I was gonna say “who among us would follow an inhuman voice in the forest yelling HEY, HEY YOU WHAT’S UP?” but then I remembered this website has me pigeonholed as Most Likely To Be Taken By The Fae. So. Yeah fair enough to this owl, I would probably do the same.

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SMALLVILLE | SEASON 3 EPISODE 9 “Asylum”

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he definitely fucks but there’s no way he fucks normal

man c'mon

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growing up in chicago i always found it very insulting whenever i went to summer camp or whatever and suburban kids and rural kids made jokes about “chiraq” and asked me if i needed to carry a gun to take the train (real question that was asked to me by an ADULT when i was 14). like it was rude and distasteful and obviously rooted in racism and it always pissed me off.

and now in this current moment i’m just so mad. even more mad than i was then bc i was RIGHT those jokes were EVIL that all the propaganda about big cities being these crime ridden warzones are now being used as a pretense to fucking invade my city and terrorize my community. chicago forever

“Chiraq” in particular always makes me so crazy bc it manages to be racist about two places at once

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Paradise

((PLEASE full view/download from my DA!)) Finished it! Took less time than expected, but that’s probably cause I cut some corners haha;;; Don’t fullview it you’ll see tons of mistakes 8I;; Night skies are hard to paint

Sorry if it looks odd anyone, of course I drew it with my monitor’s settings so I’m not sure how it’ll appear for other people, but I hope you like it all the same.

Might be a part of a series of artworks.

Available as a print on my Society6!

A beautiful piece by Kudalyn that my recent little animatic reminded them of! Gosh I love those sky colors! <3 Thank you so much for sharing, friend! :)

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carebewear:

I do often think about how the origin of “he would not fucking say that” was in reference to a post which depicted Cartman SouthPark responding politely when asked for his pronouns

meme phrases are so mobile and versatile and that’s really really beautiful but i’m always thinking about the first “she x on my y til i z” being “she ebbin on my neezer til i scrooge” and the first “fork found in kitchen” coming from a tweet about sehun from exo being spotted at a gay bar. like sometimes you just utterly nail it the very first time and no variation of the joke is going to be better.

EXACTLY.

a small collection

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unhinged-soapbox:

So I just saw the most incredible production of Macbeth that wove parental grief into the whole regicide plot in such a fascinating way.

So at the very beginning of the play there was a scene where Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are at a funeral as the primary mourners. A stretcher is carried on with a covered body. The body was notably very small. They laid flowers on it and Macbeth immediately left for battle.

Now *I* studied Shakespeare in college so I immediately knew there is one single line that implies that the Macbeths lost a child at some point. Most of the time this isn’t utilized in productions; it’s just a throwaway line, intended to paint just how determined Lady M is for this regicide thing to work and how furious she is that her husband has cold feet. In this production she delivers “I have given suck, and know how tender tis to love the babe that milks me” nearly in tears. She takes a moment to steel herself before saying, “I would while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains pit, had I so sworn” and she very nearly SCREAMED this in Macbeth’s face.

Also noted was how the Macbeths looked at Macduff’s children. Lady M was clutching her heart, nearly breaking watching them embrace their parents. Macbeth could not even look at them.

At the end of Lady Macbeth’s plot, when she is sleepwalking and sleeptalking, she is typically portrayed as speaking to no one or to her husband. However, at a certain point of her monologue she got on her knees, raised her voice to a comforting octave, and began miming tear wiping, hand holding, hair and face stroking, around a child-sized figure. “Wash your hands, put on your nightgown, look not so pale. I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave.” Then she stands and appears to take the child’s hand. “Go to bed, go to bed. I can hear knocking at the gate-” then she looks down and realizes that no one is there, followed be the most heartbreaking shriek I’ve ever heard followed by a full minute of her just weeping while curled up on the floor before she stood up, finished her monologue and left the stage.

Most of the time when the loss of a child is utilized in a performance or adaptation, it is assumed that the child was an infant and lost some time ago. To imply that the child died IMMEDIATELY prior to the events of the play and had been cared for and loved by their parents for a few years adds such a fascinating layer to the desperation to ascend to the throne, Lady M’s madness, and Macbeth’s initial hesitation into “in for a penny, in for a pound” attitude, Macbeth’s fury that Banquo’s, not his, children will take the throne, and even Macbeth’s eventual demise following a frenzied final battle.

How far will grief push you to fill a hole? How far will grief push you to desperation? And what happens when none of your new pursuits are filling the void left by the one you lost? And what happens when you realize you have nothing left to lose?

It was a PHENOMENAL production.

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I support the “fiction isn’t real so nothing matters” mindset but tbf at a certain point it can tip over into “the curtains are just blue” territory

like yes actually there is a conversation to be had about how a characters actions are framed and how they thematically fit with the rest of the story and it can in fact reflect the author’s beliefs. some authors are even trying to make a point

not all depiction is glorification but sometimes it is and you need to be able to tell the difference. not because your immortal soul will be tainted by reading The Bad One, but because you need to have reading comprehension skills

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i like your concepts

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