i’m tired of losing.

andor · sept. 2022

you know what it's only fitting i ask this

some clarifications on the options below cut 👇

calm sunny days can refer to both warm days and cool days - whichever you prefer (or if you're a fan of both).

i would rather foggy and overcast be separate, but i don't have enough poll options (sad!). however they are both rather moody. feel free to clarify if you only like one or the other though.

some cool looking clouds include: nacreous clouds, horseshoe clouds, lenticular clouds ... maybe even those bright colorful sunsets. point being you love a nice aesthetic clouds (i do too).

for tornadoes ill accept waterspouts (since -spouts are just a term for non-mesocyclone tornadoes). landspouts also exist. i dont think dust devils (and other -devils) really count here, as even though they are vortexes they're not considered to be tornadoes.

severe thunderstorm warning stuff can refer to: hail, strong winds (such as those formed by derechos), and mesocyclones which don't spawn tornadoes but look cool anyway.

space weather is. technically meteorological as well. i also just learned that there are things known as space tornadoes??? there are also space hurricanes. both can spawn auroras. if your favorite weather occurs on a different planet you can vote here as well. :)

forgive me if i missed your favorite weather, there's quite A Lot that can occur in the skies and its challenging including everything. :') i admittedly couldn't really squeeze in rainbows anywhere, despite really liking them.

Nick Carraway really said: I don’t like people but have I mentioned 💖💕💖Gatsby 💖💗💕

ࠣ 𒋯 ׄ ᰲ 𝖥𝖱ׅ𝕬𝖦ׄ𝖬𝖤𝗡𝖳𝖲 ؑ𝖮ࠣ𝖥 ׄ ִ 🕷 𝀚 𝃓

*𝑑əˈ𝑘𝑎̄* 𝃓 𓊈 𝕯 𝖤ؖ 𝖢 𝖠ׁ 𝖸* 𓊉 ˳ ֒

☆ : 𝖤𝗑𝗈𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝗅𝗎𝗑𝘂𝗋𝗒. 𝓸𝓯.

𝖡𝖾𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖺 𝗐𝗂𝗇𝗇𝖾𝗋 𝗂𝗇 𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗒𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 !

⸻ ؖ ! 𝗪𝗥ֽ𝗢𝗢ؗ𝗠 ֕ 𝗪𝗥̍𝗢𝗢᳞𝗠 ּ ࣦܷ █▋▎

"It's been a year, I feel so heavy... Mama, will this feeling ever stop?"

“Mijo. It hurts. But you have so many people who love you. We can help you carry that feeling and one day it might not feel as heavy.”

(Dialogue by @childlikegoblinqueen, with some smol additions by me)

The two most gorgeous individuals present during the execution scene must fuck, the universe demands this.

Mihawk x Crocodile

Alda posted some art and got me thinking about this blog again so here are some cool burners and increasingly unhinged Marginalia Mikes

free my complex female character, she did the same thing as complex male characters but the fandom takes Any analysis of her actions/choices/motivations that doesn’t strip her of all of her agency in bad faith and claims that only misogynists would dare to critique the things that they’ve noticed in her character because she’s a woman, completely ignoring the over-presence of discourse about similarly traited male characters in their fandom.

stupid nonsense hours, feat. xu da's carefully crafted hotboy insta

special acknowledgements to 1. the esen tittyposting post, 2. that insta story font, which is the only one i've ever used

Ik I don’t usually share wips but this is more of me holding myself at gunpoint to finish this

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

officially on a book buying ban for the rest of the year💸

pretty random but I love making like dreamcore/liminal space edits out of photos I've taken. I took this photo a few days ago on the morning right after a pretty big storm, and I made the edit itself late last night, I'm really happy with how it turned out

RGB is bad suns dot jpeg

i am having way too much fun putting this guy in suits

"dark academia isn't strictly academia; it's the AESTHETIC!"

please explain what the "aesthetic" of academia is, besides Actual University/Library Buildings and Relevant Accoutrements

like

how can academia have an Aesthetic when it's not an aesthetic concept? it's just the abstract idea of institutions of learning

I understand calling certain specific academic buildings "dark academia" and not others. it's an aesthetic WITHIN the sphere of academia

but if there's no academia...it literally can't be that

Not to keep using Titanic as reference but just imagine Charlie and Alastor in the ahem ✨car scene✨