=͟͟͞⚝ happy birthday hyunjinnie .ᐟ ♡‌𓈒 ׄ 𝇈⃘ (insp)

my abecedarians. my booboo bears. i beseech y'all for those scholarly article websites. my uni databases keep giving me results for articles that aren't available and, like a pirate with a helm on his crotch might say, it's driving me nuts

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rather melancholic undertale podfic :) this was a real pretty one,,, undertale fics beloved,,

next time u try to say “bc i’m an idiot” or “what i’m doing is dumb” just F

UCK that and say “bc i’m a genius” and “this is brilliant”. the secret to self confidence is cultivating the unearned hubris of a mad scientist

can't wait to be able to articulate a single thought about kaeya again

Reading college AUs as a someone who works at a college is like my god the HR at this institution is VERY lax and I’m seriously concerned about their employee student relationship policies.

good day tumblr, today i have joined the illustrious ranks of tumblrinas who are also published scientists

I just need to make a list and then EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE

tumblr stop jump scaring me with your entertainment account,, i could not care less about whatever y'all are interviewing for 🙏

cooking up some ideas on ralsei (relating to his source object & the concept of "pure darkness"...) will probably post if i can get them peer reviewed / clean up my argument :-)

There's something quite personally satisfying about doing different art on occasion. Like yeah, most people know me for my sketches and character stuff, and that is the majority of what I draw because that's what I enjoy the most. But every now and then I'm like, hey look, I can also draw things that you might think are photographs at first glance, have a bird. And I think that's cool.

[edit: the tags are where the actual post is lmao I am so good at this]

This isn't even about Black Sails specifically, but no way you equated having a realistic depiction of unsavory topics to torture porn and violence for shock value. </3 There's a reason people follow the method of "show don't tell" for audio-visual media, it's what makes it special and so many aspects like pacing and story depend on it. I'm not saying you have to like it or even be able to watch it (it's normal and good to have your limits), but 'just talk about it and never depict' is bad for television as a whole. There's nuance that your tags are clearly missing.

like ur right but it’s literally my rambling tags on a tumblr post. no shit there’s nuance missing, i was essentially talking out loud. “tv shows should never show realistic depictions of violence” is not my stance, my stance is “black sails is not More Based than ofmd for showing on-screen acts of colonial violence,” which seemed to be what a lot of what people were arguing on that poll. there was a lot of “black sails has strong themes about anticolonialism and toxic masculinity!” which like, yeah, ofmd does too?? it’s just more subtle about it bc the show isn’t ABOUT those things, it’s literally a romcom.

bs and ofmd are both, from what i can tell, well-written shows with a lot that’s worth criticizing about them. i know this is an ofmd blog, but i criticize this show too! it’s got it’s flaws! the conversation about “where’s the line between Realistic Depictions of Unsavory Topics and Shock Value Torture Porn” is messy bc the line btwn the two is really blurry. but depending on who you ask, ofmd sometimes veers too far into “handwaving difficult topics for the sake of a feel-good fantasy,” and black sails sometimes veers too far into “gratuitous depictions of violence against marginalized people.” like, there’s a lot of nuance that should be taken into account in that convo, but the bs fans saying their show is objectively more woke or whatever are really not leaving room for nuance there

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I'm having so many thoughts abt the empires superpowers au