PUT DOWN THE ASSOCIATION OF SUFFERING WITH MORAL VIRTUE AND BACK AWAY SLOWLY!!
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Stranger Things

tannertan36
almost home
occasionally subtle

PR's Tumblrdome
NASA
Cosimo Galluzzi
Monterey Bay Aquarium
AnasAbdin

if i look back, i am lost
we're not kids anymore.
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

Love Begins
Three Goblin Art
styofa doing anything
ojovivo

izzy's playlists!
Peter Solarz

#extradirty
seen from Kenya
seen from Kenya

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from Serbia

seen from Germany

seen from United States

seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from India
seen from Brazil
@jimborg
PUT DOWN THE ASSOCIATION OF SUFFERING WITH MORAL VIRTUE AND BACK AWAY SLOWLY!!

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
I love the idea of a roomba topography map being the jumping on point for a liminal horror story. House of Leaves II: Roomba.
what’s the rush?
ily, menswear guy
at planned parenthood and they're playing regular show
"dude if you don't get this abortion benson is gonna fire us"
you know who else got aborted?

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
Second request is finished! Kit and Ivy Pepper :³
@jessica199616
Aww <3
(If you somehow haven't seen GAMEOVERSE yet, check it out!)
MY NAME, IS FRICKIN MOON MOON. I’D BE THE MOST IDIOTIC WOLF. ‘OH SHIT WHO BROUGHT FUCKING MOON MOON ALONG?’
the post that started it all
oh god
Never not reblogging.
I’ve only seen this post in screenshots
I’m very surprised this post hasn’t broken a million.
Elaborate fantasy and sci-fi worldbuilding as necessary context and structure for porn is great, but what's really fantastic is when the worldbuilding is a product of the porn. It clearly didn't need to be there, but at some point the author took a closer look at the porn and started asking "okay, so what does this imply?"
Level 1: The worldbuilding needs to be there for the porn to make sense.
Level 2: The porn needs to be there for the worldbuilding to make sense.
i love explaining the etymology of the word "rickroll" because the story starts with "ok, so at one point 4chan applied a filter to everyone's posts that changed the word egg to duck"
grandfather....

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
my mother is playing pikmin and yelling at them in the exact tone of voice she uses for me and my siblings so we go into fight or flight every time. we thought initially that this meant she regarded the pikmin as akin to her children, but I now fear she’s always viewed us as pikmin
hi your post reads like a poem to me
I think that Xena, for all of its ridiculousness and cheesiness, did a better job of conveying the allure of evil than just about any other series I've ever seen. Like it understands that violence, no matter how justifiably it starts out, is addictive, and that hatred poisons you until you can't feel real joy anymore, and it's strange to me that I've never seen it laid out so simply elsewhere.
...so THAT'S what sleeper cell activation feels like. Because yes, YES, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS, because Xena is such an interesting lightning-in-a-bottle-case study! While I would never discount the work done by the writers, Xena as a show is almost perfectly positioned both historically and structurally to consistently explore that theme.
The first puzzle piece is that Xena was a syndicated show at the tail end of syndication's total dominance of a distribution model. For those too young to remember a time when ongoing plots and prestige dramas weren't the norm, syndication is big part of why older television shows almost entirely kept plots contained to one or two episodes rather than having them span seasons. See, when a show is syndicated, it is licensed out to individual television stations/affiliates to be aired as reruns. The individual station chooses when to air them and in what order, and whether to just skip episodes they don't like in favor of the ones most likely to draw eyeballs, etc etc. The more a show is licensed, the more money you make on it, so there is an incentive to make each episode standalone to make them appealing to each station by enabling them to toss on whatever episodes they like without it being a problem for the casual viewer. Also, before streaming, easy access to dvds and episode recording, and the like, a show could not assume that even its fans would have necessarily have seen every episode. "Catching up" was not an easy thing, and reserved for the most dedicated, doing shit like physically mailing bootleg tapes! Therefore, shows needed to have a consistent formula that didn't lock out the person who couldn't watch last week for whatever reason. Characters remained within more of a status quo. Xena is a "monster of the week" style show, like X-Files. I mention X-Files intentionally, because it was one of the first to really break that no-ongoing-plots structure, and that shift affected its contemporaries, like Xena, who also started to follow suit.
That alone doesn't account for Xena being so primed to explore those themes, of course. Even staying within the same fictional universe, Hercules (which Xena is a spin-off of) and Young Hercules don't even come close to Xena's complexity on the subject. But that's because Xena's premise is perfectly positioned to interact with those practical constraints for this outcome in a way those shows aren't. The status quo that syndication demands remain mostly in intact is that 1) Xena was evil and really good at it, 2) she is trying to do good in the world now as penance but can never undo what she has done. Every episode is about Xena trying to save people while dealing with the consequences of her actions as a warlord. The fact that she was evil cannot be changed or diluted nor can the fact that she must continue trying to redeem herself, otherwise the show is over or is unrecognizable to the casual viewer. But this is also an action show, sometimes cartoonishly so, so she must also be fighting consistently! The core spectacle is violence and the core story is why violence is often evil. There is an inherent tension there that the writers either needed to interrogate earnestly or ignore, and they chose the honest, interesting route. They gave Xena a costar who is innocent and principled but loves Xena, and had her always asking why and trying to understand how Xena could be that person, while being put under similar pressures herself. They had Xena continue to use the tools she has, including violence, for good ends, and wrestled with the answers as to why that was ok, why the violence she did then and the violence she did now were different—and sometimes decided they weren't. They showed Xena struggling with falling back into those old habits because they are seductive and easy.
If someone asked "are there so many episodes of Xena where you find out someone tried to get her to change her ways many years ago and failed because that is a really great standalone premise, or because violence as a tool and power and vengeance as motivators are corruptive and hard to stop using once you start," the answer is yes. The show is cyclical because violence is. But also because it is syndicated.
It's fucking rad and interesting.
Princess Tutu, Erased, and Revolutionary Girl Utena are like. these are the animes on my syllabus. for exploring narrative concepts. theyre so fucking good + foundational. and complex. and well executed.
Princess Tutu is more exploring how certain situations in and of themselves render both consent and refusal impossible, and about trying to navigate those situations while doing the least amount of harm, + exploring what happens when someone doesn't see themselves as part of the narrative happening around them, how that self-conception of being separate from the narrative hurts oneself and also others
Erased is more about childhood, although it also explores the "not seeing yourself as part of the narrative/seeing yourself as outside of the narrative" and the consequences of that. it definitely focuses more on the dangers you can unthinkingly make yourself vulnerable to by conceptualizing yourself this way (scary)
RGU obviously is about tightlacing familial and institutional abuse, and how that shapes one's sense of self. it also explores the stuff in princess tutu about how to navigate what "consent" means in a situation where everyone involved is bonsai kitten'd into such contorted shapes that they have very little sense of themselves or their needs that has actually been shaped by their own experiences
anyway. really good. stories about stories. stories about roles. what roles are assigned to you and what roles you unquestioningly take on and what happens when you step outside of that etc.
if youre not an anime person, or you have dismissed magical girl anime as being superficial or whatever, but you have an interest in Themes And Explorations Of Concepts Relating To How Narrative Shapes Us, pleeeeease watch these!!!!

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
we gotta get back into revolving bookcases i'm begging
truly we allow the pinnacles of human achievement to wither and collapse into ashes in the wind