The Amazing Devil truly knocked it out of the park with Fair in terms of love songs i mean its got everything. Domesticity, deep adoration, confessions of love when youre sure no one else can hear, a that's what she said joke, yogurt, genuinely dont think there's a more romantic song on the face of the earth

it was literally their moment and they just let us watch

(if you need me i'll be marinating in this for the foreseeable future)

do all of their songs sound the same?? yes. is that exactly why i like them??? YES.

i'm not totally immune to any and all SU criticism.

i think it's fine if people treat it like any animated show - heck, any show, because nothing is perfect. that's why i don't like when people defend SU with the caveat "its not perfect, but..." cuz they would never do for a show like gravity falls or atla. if you think any media is perfect, i straight up don't trust your opinion. it should be implied already that you don't think something is perfect. if you have to specify, you sound like a child, because you sound like you think media without that caveat is perfect.

anyway. the other issue is. most people critical of SU are incapable of being normal about it. it's such a common trope on "cartoon twitter" (shudders) that someone will say something vaguely critical - like, idk, the writing being "messy in places." and you think okay, maybe this is a normal take. maybe i won't agree, but maybe this is the rare person who dislikes SU for normal reasons and you can have a real conversation with.

then you press for examples and it's almost always "fusion is sex," "diamonds are hitler," or "they SOLVE THINGS BY HUGGING???"

so yeah... no. as long as that's the baseline, i will always defend SU.

Reading agot chapters of the stark sisters and coming to the conclusion that they hate each other in isolation from their parents’ understanding of them and society’s rigid expectations on them is idiotic as fuck. They are both classic products of their environments, both familial and social, and their feelings of each are heavily informed by these two things. Please take your Sansa and Arya hate each other because they’re antagonists, and are going to come head to head thematically in the later books, and dump it in the trash where it belongs.

“Those thoughts of past lovers, they'll always haunt me

I wish I could believe you'd never wrong me

Then will you remember me in the same way,

as I remember you?”

BABY WE BUILT THIS HOUSE, ON MEMORIES!!!! ITS MORE BETTY AND MAGIC MAN ART TIME!!!! AKA PepperPixel is completely obsessed w the dynamic of two people dealing w very similar trauma finding understanding and solidarity in one another!!!!! GHGHG JUST. I LOVE IT. I LOVE THEM. SO MUCH.

take my revolution

I need to watch Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure to reach my final conclusion on if she's even attracted to men

Theon leaving

okay i feel like i have been pretty good at ignoring 300 ppl making dumb comments like not getting Da Joak or everyone repeatedly correcting me on my spelling bc i can say hee hoo and have fun w it but christ i am fucking begging tumblr to learn how math works. i have already seen several people say "WHAT HOW IS IT 50/50 ITS AN ODD NUMBER"

yall its called Rounding you learned this in fucking grade school. tumblr only shows one decimal place of precision on the polls. 0.1% of 63,000 is 63. the number at the end being odd is literally meaningless except for the fact that if it was an even number i wouldnt have to see comments from ppl who are shit at math saying WHAT BUT ITS ODD HOW??? oh how i imagine a blessed world where if only One Less Person had voted.

also for anyone smugly pointing out to me "oh its not REALLY 50/50" i. yes i know we literally did the math. we saw the more accurate numbers to 4 decimal places. i am aware of the fact that the 63,579 vote poll with an odd number of votes is not perfectly exactly 50/50. i am aware of this ty!! i was not expecting the tumblr poll to get it right down to the individual vote i find it impressive enough that the gap is only 37ish votes out of fucking 63,579. i am aware that the number is rounded as i was literally telling people "oh yeah and the more votes this gets the more leeway the poll will have as that 0.1% gets bigger".

I'm gonna nerd about music and my feels for a bit but whenever I listen to this song in particular, one thing that REALLY stood out to me was at the very end of the song. Right after the high-pitched horn sound, there were bits of sounds that reminds me of how sparkles would sound like. A sound of fleeting magic in the midst of nothingness.

When this score was played in the episode, the end of the song cuts to Don's house. He was last seen playing pretend with his kids, knowing not even an ounce of the idea that his world, along others, were at the brink of destruction. If it weren't for Loki, this simple life would've never existed.

Now, hear me out. I'm very much reaching here and I'm like, 100% sure this is just my brain connecting the nonexistent dots. But, the mirror between both medias just felt really impactful for me.

Why?

Obviously, Loki's magic had given everyone a second chance. Not just his friends, or people in the TVA. Literally everyone. Even for someone insignificant like Don. The thing that saved best for the last is a mundane life everyone has, and I think it's beautiful, because you learn to perceive life on a better light knowing someone wants you to enjoy that while it lasts.

Especially for Mobius, though. It felt bleak knowing a good friend he had in a long while was taken away from him. But, he too, stepped out from his comfort zone and got to see what was his life before the TVA altered him to who he is now. He seemed uncertain of how his future is going to work now he had resigned from his position but perhaps looking back to his older footsteps would give him an idea of what's to come.

Perhaps in the end, there will be better hopes for both him and Loki. It's a fucking bleak outcome for both, and you might wonder if this what their fates were meant to be, even under the fact there are many possibilities for them to be together now. Are they really meant to be separated, despite the signs littered around the show said otherwise? That can't be it, yes?

The overall run of this song is hauntingly beautiful. Gloomy yet optimistic, it's a song that wraps the show in a light so positive yet caustic. Sure, things don't go the way you would've wanted, but the future is flux, so why not look forward for that?

I'd like to think the spark at the end is the sound of hope. And it could be anything. Hope of everyone for a better, lasting future, in the middle of darkness. Hope of TVA to run its course well in the embrace of the void. And, well...

Hope for Mobius to be able to see Loki again someday.

Got gifted just dance 2024 today which is a game I've not played since I owned a wii like a decade ago, got all excited the nostalgia was kicking in then I noticed a bunch of songs were behind a pay wall bc turns out if you want all the just dance songs you need to pay for the just dance plus subscription not a one off DLC payment mind you a monthly/yearly subscription

Anyway I hate ubisoft hate what they're doing to games

Congrats to everyone at @re-dracula on such a masterpiece of an episode. It was emotionally harrowing in the best way possible. Special shout out to everyone involved in the ending song for making such a lovely sounding song with lyrics that made me want to crawl out of my skin in visceral discomfort

Joel + text posts

Mind: I suppose you think that’s cute. What it makes you is a fraud.

Heart: yeah but i’m a cute fraud though right?

So I see folks pointing out that Louis' circle A tattoo is more likely an aesthetic choice than an announcement of a political commitment to anarchism, and saying basically that that maybe makes him a bit of a poser and I mean- I GUESS. But I don't like to look at things that way and I don't think it's useful. As I see it the subversive sexiness of the symbols of resistance have ALWAYS been gateways for people who are drawn to the struggle in vague ways and that's GOOD. Aligning yourself with those values is good no matter the reason, in my book, especially given the wretched options available out there, but also the journey doesn't necessarily stop there. Gatekeeping queerness victimizes people who are just trying things out and starting to discover that it may run deeper than just trying on a new look who should instead be welcomed and helped along their path, and I fail to see how gatekeeping political affiliations is any different (plus how counterproductive to actual movement building is that?)

ANYWAY. What I really want to say about Louis is that while I KNOW that Louis is probably not secretly a theory reading anti-state communalist anarchist, I think that actually Louis' optimism and idealism (and his unwavering commitment to allying himself with the working class and embracing those roots) are a perfect fit for the philosophy and always have been. I know that anarchism is mostly understood as being about throwing molotov cocktails and fighting the state (and the allure of its symbols are that they signify this, a terrific aesthetic for him to choose to sign on with in my book), but that's honestly largely cartoonish stereotyping that comes directly from anti-anarchist state propaganda. That resistance is necessary in this hellscape of oppression we live in and is super important, but in its heart anarchism is only about the state in that the state and capitalism currently stands in the way of its goals. The whole point of anarchism is that it's NOT about the state! It's about being able to imagine something better than a state, it's about how we live and about how we SHOULD live, it's about HOPE and picturing something utopian and something free of the ways capitalism pits us against one another! What could be more Louis than that?

"I need you and you need me and I love that" is as beautiful a way of talking about the cornerstone of anarchism that is mutual aid as any long winded essay I've read (even if what he meant was contextually different), and I think when he talks again and again about how special the space fans have made around him is he is expressing an intuitive understanding of the importance of autonomous zones, places and moments outside of the shitty life imposed on us by the system (also a huge part of anarchist thought). Maybe I'm just being an optimist but I think that Louis DOES understand that caring for people and wanting self-determination and freedom for all and allying himself with the working class involves a certain amount of resistance to and positioning yourself in opposition to the state. Thinking the symbols of smashing that state are cool isn't meaningless; it's a CHOICE. There are other cool symbols out there and I just happen to think that feeling a resonance with certain ones is something in and of itself, even if at this moment he does not choose to start a fight with the media about it all.