liking mutuals’ posts about other fandoms youre not in is like 👍 i have no frame of reference of what you’re talking abt but i know you’re right and I hope you’re winning
that comment about how you should not borrow grief from the future has saved me multiple times from spiraling into an inescapable state of anxiety. like every time i find myself thinking about how something in the future could go wrong i remember that comment and i think to myself: well i never know, it might get better. it might not even happen the way i think it will and if it does happen and it is sad and bad ill be sad about it then, when it happens. and it’s somehow soo freeing
Another point for why it’s important to own your own copies of music and media, and not use streaming services, is because the copy you own can’t be taken back.
(This is also a good time to remind people that yout*be to mp3 converters still exist).
OFMD is so fucking earnest and that's still my favorite thing about it I think.
So often nowadays, whenever a piece of art dares to be weird, it has to be all quippy and self-referential about it. If you look at any MCU movie it's just full of characters being like "wow that was weird" because they're too scared to let it stand on its own.
And OFMD doesn't bother with any of that shit. Ed sees Stede as a mermaid and it's fucking beautiful. They kiss under the moonlight and hold hands like teenagers and play sweet little thumb wars and it works perfectly because it never tries to dilute it with humor where it doesn't fit. Ed and Stede get to cry and lean on each other for support and be their weird, goofy, cringey selves, and that's never presented as anything other than wonderful and beautiful. OFMD gives us everything with all it's got and it never flinches away from being heartachingly earnest.
was thinking abt the difference in how (some) people view women's products as "things companies are trying to sell to women" while men's products are "things men want as consumers" and like. men's desires are constructed by the patriarchy. this is the problem w engaging w the concept of the patriarchy as like, the culmination of every single individual man's active desires instead of a system inherently intertwined with other systems of power. like men are constructed manhood is sold to you! if you think that everything the patriarchy says about women is a lie but you take it at it's word on The Ways Men Naturally Are. I simply need you to rethink things