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its-only-v · 1 year

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Best Shows of 2022

Yes, I'm putting this on Tumblr after 2022 has ended. Yes, it's also entirely too long with 30+ shows and all categories that I made myself.

The Best Show That Feels Like an Extended Award-Winning Cut of a Movie

And yes, I mean it in a good way, and not in the way that it should’ve been a movie and not a tv show. Slow Horses made the time fly by and it was so excellent that its second season is already airing right now and the show just came out in March. A big reason to watch it is also Gary Oldman, who plays one of the leads in the show. He’s also announced that he’ll be retiring after it ends - but don’t worry, it won’t be anytime soon because Apple has already renewed it for third and fourth seasons. How is that for a stamp of approval?

The Show with the Superhero in Most Desperate Need of a Therapist

On one hand, we have Peacemaker who has daddy issues (understandably so) and survivor’s guilt. On the other hand, there’s everyone in The Boys. We have definite psychopath Homelander and possible psychopath Soldier Boy and what’s Butcher doing this season with superpowers? But I doubt a therapist would be safe from the maniacs in The Boys so I’ll give this one to Peacemaker who would make better use of the help and not kill the therapist (this guarantee doesn’t extend to Vigilante).

The Show with the Highest Tension

This one’s a tie between The Bear and Severance. And what a surprise, both of them have the workplace as the central setting. Besides what I’ve already said about them in separate editions dedicated just to them, do I need to say more? Fine, here’s one line - it’s best to go in blind for Severance because you want to be surprised and I’ve watched The Bear all the way through three times.

The Best Show About Worst Career Changes That Sort of Work Out

A tie and both of these are comedy shows. Killing It follows Craig (Craig Robinson) an entrepreneur-turned-python hunter in Florida and Our Flag Means Death follows Steve Bonnet (Rhys Darby), a gentleman-turned-pirate. Both of them should not be doing what they’re doing but they do it anyway and it manages to sort of kind of work out along with hilarious situations along the way.

The Show with the Weirdest Relationship

Nobody can explain the plot of The Time Traveler’s Wife in a way that doesn’t make you narrow your eyes. Clare (Rose Leslie) first meets her husband Henry (Theo James) as a little girl when he travels back in time to a clearing near her house as an adult. She grows up falling in love with him because who wouldn’t (and she finds out that he’s already married her in the future so it’s destiny)? But it’s technically okay because he keeps his distance (and it’s not like he time/space travels on purpose) and he’s actually first met her as an adult when she’s an adult too (who has been in love with him since her childhood so is it acceptable?). It was cancelled after the first season because of the entire HBO/Warner Bros/Discovery disaster of a merger so we won’t be exploring more complexities of this relationship but it was interesting to watch while it lasted.

The Show with the Best Fictional Criminals

Sprung makes having a crew seem fun. You’d love to hang out with them and commit crimes (for legal purposes, this is a joke and I’m not condoning crime). We also had some white-collar crime in the new season of Industry but I’ll give them the leeway that crime isn’t their full-time job.

The Show with the Best Real-Life Criminals

This category was previously going to be called best shows based on real life, but then all the characters were fans of shady business practices. The contenders include WeCrashed (about WeWork), Super Pumped (about Uber), The Dropout (about Theranos) and Black Bird (about getting a criminal to get a serial killer to confess) (let’s pretend Inventing Anna didn’t happen for the sake of my sanity). Black Bird is the clear winner here. It has Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser giving their career-best performances and the show feels like a spiritual successor to True Detective and Mindhunter, which elevates it even more.

The Best Show About Teenagers Falling in Love with Teens Who Act Their Age

This was a difficult one to pick with very strong top three contenders - the new season of Young Royals, the last season of Love Victor, and Heartstopper. But, at the end, how could this not go to Heartstopper that’s romantic, wholesome, cute, and does not fail to put a big smile on your face? (The characters of The Sex Lives of College Girls are also teenagers but the second season is still airing so jury’s still out on that and if they all look & act like teenagers or rather young adults is up for debate)

The Show with the Best Power Couple

George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) from The Gilded Age, overcome the absolute drabness of their names to be the best power couple in television this year, not just in a period drama. Doing a bad relationship is easy. A great relationship? Tricky. Especially when it happens to be set in the past, with all its problematic period-accurate outlook. But Julian Fellowes has aced it (Bridgerton, please take note so you can have Season 2’s promising couple back for the third season, which didn’t happen this year).

The Show with the Most Toxic Couple

Yes, I said doing a bad relationship is easy. But - hear me out. Doing a toxic relationship with such compelling characters who happen to have insane chemistry? Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Lestat (Sam Reid) from Interview with the Vampire will make you go from thinking they-should-be-together-forever to please-someone-enforce-a-restraining-order. And as a bonus, there are multiple toxic relationships to go around along with toxic traits that don’t include ripping people’s heads or organs off their bodies (murder can be excused but Lestat, don’t open your relationship if you’re going to throw a fit once your partner takes you up on it and definitely don’t turn a teenager into a vampire to have an adoptive child to save your marriage). Runner-up goes to The Great, which had its second season air this year, with a couple that would also gladly kill each other but at least they’re honest about where they stand.

The Sexiest Show with Queer Vampires

How is this a category? How can this not be a category when you have What We Do in the Shadows’ latest season, and new shows including Interview with the Vampire, Reginald the Vampire, Vampire Academy, and First Kill all airing in the same year? Vampires definitely had a resurgence this year and not just on television (Dracula Daily was also a phenomenon this year and we had the iconic Morbius that needs no introduction and the overlooked Netflix film Day Shift with Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco as vampire hunters). But all of this is just to say that yes, Interview with the Vampire wins again, and Guillermo from WWDITS would agree and we should take his word for it.

The Best Show About Making Money Off the Female Gaze

Minx and Welcome to Chippendales both have businesses trying to capitalize on the female gaze - the first with a magazine and the second with a troupe of male strippers. Since Welcome to Chippendales is still airing and I’m not entirely convinced it’ll stick the landing, Minx wins this one by default but it’s also a very strong show which might have won anyway.

The Best Show To Take You On a Vacation

Or, more specifically, Italy. Yes, the second season of The White Lotus wasn’t the only show with a scenic Italian setting this year. While at the time of writing The White Lotus hasn’t ended yet, I know Mike White isn’t going to lead us astray. The other show that takes you on a vacation in Italy during Mussolini’s era is Hotel Portofino, which weaves in beautiful locales, interesting characters, history, and a mystery to keep you hooked till the end of the season.

The Show with the Best Murder Victim

The Afterparty. RIP Xavier (Dave Franco), you were a superstar blessed with predicting your own death in your music video. (Bonus points for the song being a banger, with the creators filming the full music video even though it wasn’t in the show and releasing a full EP by the character on Spotify).

The Show with the Most Underrated Detective

With a lot of criminals come a lot of criminal catchers. You know the trio of Only Murders in the Building but I bet you’ve not heard of Bell Prescott from Panhandle is a genius crime solver and there couldn’t have been a more fitting name for him for the way he acts. Luke Kirby (who you might know as Lenny Bruce from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - also the only good part of this year’s new season which I didn’t like much) plays the lead - he manages to solve years of unsolved cases all while not having stepped out of his Florida mansion (that he shares with his mother and pet crocodile) since the death of his wife (whose presence he still hallucinates). Also, like any crime-solving genius, he also gets an assist from a sidekick (rookie cop Tiana Okoye) who makes up for his flaws, making them an epic crime-solving duo.

The Best Supernatural Show NOT About Vampires

Well, not exclusively anyway. Supernatural Academy is my pick for this one, which won't entirely be a surprise. It was such a well-made show and had so much mature storytelling than I was expecting from it. I was also considering The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself because that was such a good show but it only picked up about halfway through and now it's been cancelled with just the first season on Netflix. While there hasn't been any news of Supernatural Academy's second season, I'm more hopeful of Peacock keeping shows going than Netflix at this point so I hope we'll see more of it.

The Best Show About Shows

Please take a moment to acknowledge the meta commentary by the placement of this category at the end. Thank you.

There are multiple shows in this category and all are winners. The Rehearsal is technically a reality show that also shows you what goes into the making of a reality show. We also have Reboot for scripted fiction, which you’ve probably guessed from the title is a show about the making of a reboot that also happens to have an all-star comedy cast. If we extend the definition of a show to all types of shows because why not, we also have Hacks, whose new season was about the making of a new stand-up show on the road. Also an excellent watch.

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originalartblog · 1 year

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I can excuse Dazai not trying to nullify Shibusawa's fog because Fyodor was there, and they really could have just incapacitated Dazai and gone right back to their nefarious plan

but the facts are that Shibusawa was unknowingly keeping himself alive as a singularity and Dazai can nullify singularities, so there was a much less convoluted way to stop him.

#edit: now with bonus in the notes #dazai had no way of knowing shibusawa died because of atsushi years ago AND he was already out when fyodor made the big twist reveal #so he can only learn the facts from atsushi after it already ended #this is filed under my 'dazai fucks up big time' category #i wrote a post about it on my main some months ago and i watched dead apple again recently so i decided to illustrate this ksjfdhkjgh #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd dead apple #dead apple #bsd atsushi #bsd dazai #bsd nakajima atsushi #bsd dazai osamu #nawy's comics #i decided i'm impatient tonight i'm posting it now

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qiinamii · 10 months

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darkner Xiao, lightner lumine 👹✨

#qiiarts #xiao #lumine #traveler #kris #genshin impact #deltarune #finally the lil buddies i wanted to show!! i had so much fun doing it #though sad thing is that i didnt have time to play chapter 2 WAAAAA #after the undertale comics i wanted a deltarune twist too so i threw them into a dark world adventure #still a big fan of deltarune's designs and how the world has you in neon/bright colors and i had to simplify their designs too hehe #xiao's still a lightner considering he also doesnt belong there but saying hes a local darkner guarding the world from evil is also so cool #bonus info they have bits of their og powers but simplified to match the battle mechanic #but lightner lumine still wields multiple elements in its own category in low levels to prevent being op #so yea <3 lil buddies

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wistfulwatcher · 1 year

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nat + the torn fishnets

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apollo18 · 11 months

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I don’t so much know a lot about the Danny Phantom fandom or the show because I was like 8 when I watched it but here’s a really cool idea for those CM and DP crossover fics is the idea that Shazam and Danny have shared custody over Captain Marvel.

Captain Marvel is not necessarily a living being but a spirit that imbues their hosts with the powers of his patrons and accentuates their heroic qualities, and as such theres a big issue in the back of their creator’s mind about what happens to them when they or their host dies because there would be a good chance his creation would be lost forever without an afterlife tied to them.

So Shazam uses the historama and his ability to access whatever point in the timeline he pleases and makes a deal with the most neutral domain of the afterlife and historically its most agreeable King who would strike a favorable deal: the king of the Ghost Zone, Danny Phantom.

In a sort of persephone like manner, when Captain Marvel dies they remain in the domain of the ghost king and when a host is found for them, they return to the living world to fulfill their duties and rejoin Shazam.

Shazam didn’t anticipate how attached Danny would grow to his creation or it’s hosts… or how much of an issue his choices in Marvel’s hosts would be when he picks little Billy Batson.

#Shazam and Danny having the worlds biggest custody battle while the rest of the gods just make bets #most versions of Marvel that are separate from Billy see shazam more like an authority figure so it’d be interesting to watch them struggle #with trying to see Danny the same way and Danny just sort of sees them as a baby #more specifically his baby that he’s responsible for until Marvel gets a new host #especially if you go with the idea that there’s two different kinds of ghosts: dead humans and nonhuman entities #marvel would definitely seem like a baby ghost in the second category sense.#bonus points if Marvel doesn’t remember their deaths and is caught completely off guard when Shazam & Danny start fighting over him & Billy #bonus bonus points if the JL gets tangled up in the drama #billy batson #I’m hesitant to tag DP but oh well #Danny phantom

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angelizs · 2 years

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Cherry and I were talking about the twst boys watching horror movies yesterday, so in honor of the halloween event, here's my take on it:

#mad purrs #twisted wonderland #Kalim insisting to Jamil that they have a horror movie marathon and Jamil doing anything to get out of it (he's got a reputation to keep)#Floyd dragging Jade and Azul to watch the WORST movies ever. with a shitty plot and shitty cgi. and he loves every second of it #bonus points if there's a shark involved in some way #Idia's is basically canon with the phantom pumpkin movie at Ignihyde's halloween stand #Riddle's mom told him that horror movies rot your brain and you can't learn anything from them so he never watched one before #not for lack of trying on Che'nya's part ofc #Che'nya would also be in the first category

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aster-go-brrr · 6 months

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me and my 45 terabytes* of venti screenshots *number mildly exaggerated

#category 5 aster moment #venti #i thought of this screenshot idea while doing my dailies and i was like ''omg'' (im sure i'm far from the first person to do it tho)#i bet ppl have done it with xiao as well #ALSO. THE FUCKING. ATK BONUS AURA THINGY. ACCURSED WRETCHED THING (it's from the bow i have him using and i DIDNT NOTICE IT)

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spaghett-onaplate · 3 months

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sixth day at my new school and i didn't sit alone at lunch today 🥳🥳

#woohoo!!#some girls invited me to sit with them so i did and chatted to them and this other guy #some of them are in my classes!! they were all very nice #honestly i was aiming to just try and fit in with the cishet boys and last week when i heard the rumour i was gay i was kinda freaked out #but i've scoped out the situation and it's not unsafe to be out (as bi. not anyone's business i'm trans)#so i realise it's better to just be open and have better chances of finding the right people than living in fear and squashing myself to--#--fit in with the wrong people. bc if i can't be fully myself around someone then why would i want to be good friends with them??#so yar i'll stick with other queer guys and supportive girls. gay guy/straight girl friendships are stereotypical but it's an ecosystem tha #works in a situation like high school tbh #ooo and i guess he was away today but the guy from a couple of my classes who i think is cute is in that group so added bonus #o and actually unrelated but at recess i went to this queer group thing i was invited to by a teacher last week #(recess is first and lunch is sceond)#i wasn't sure if i was going to go (mostly bc of my 'blend in' mindset) but i'm glad i did!! it was pretty nice #mostly just nice to get an idea of 'safe' people and teachers yaknow #'people and teachers' -- those aren't two mutually exclusive categories of being ajdsgjf but ykwim #and if i didn't go then i probably wouldn't have been in the better mindset for being just myself with everyone at lunch #so wahoo yippee :D #now i just needa keep talking to everyone and putting myself out there a bit more and i'll find the right people :)

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arecaceae175 · 9 months

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I Love Loft Part 1

Hi hello this is my I Love Loft Essay. Because I do. And because the autism is gnawing on him like a dog toy right now and I want to infodump

(Loft from @bonus-links by @ezdotjpg 💞)

I reread the comic this morning and here are all my thoughts and feelings about my best boy.

I’ve been staring at Loft. For. Hours. The shapes and colors you use in your art and the way you draw them is just SO visually appealing!!!!!!!!! Excellent visual stimming happening today

His pillow is so cute??????? Like sir??????????? Where did you get that adorable pillow??????

And look at all the other adorable little things in his house!!!!

I wonder what the painting on the left is??? Idk

ZEDLA IS SO HAPPY AND LOFT IS SO GENUINELY PLEASED FOR HER

The clapping 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

HIS LITTKE SCRUNCHIE NOSE I-

AHSJDJFJEKWKENFKWOWKFNJC

Fucking oof. Yikes. Low blow my guy

It’s SO cute and sad and cute and sad and cute that he goes to hang out with Fi. He misses his best friend 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

ANSJFJGKENFOEKWNFKDMEEN

GROOSE’S!!!!!!!!!! ARM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND!!!!!!!!!!!!! ZELDA’S!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loft is so loved in happy stimming so much right now 💞💞💞🥹🥹💞🥹👀🥹👀🥹👀🥹👀👀🥹😊😊😊🥺💞🥺😂😭😭😭😢💞😊🥹🥹

AND LOFT LOVES HIS PARTNERS SO!!!!! MUCH!!!!!!!

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

HE LITTLE HAT

Loft you’re so pretty. You’re so pretty. Did you know that you’re so pretty???????? You’re so pretty.

I fucking love that you included the lightning scarring. Love love love

It’s also interesting that the scarring goes over power and courage but not wisdom?? Perhaps since he got them in the fight with Demise?

SHAPES AND COLORS

I feel you my guy. I feel you.

Loft you’re so fucking cute what are you doing

What. Are you. Doing. 😂😂😂😂

Oh 😳😳😳😳 oh my 😳😳😳😳

Hi there. Hi. Hello.

Little wet rat of a man

😂😂😂 “gross” Sure is, buddy. Sure is.

HELL YEAH LOFT GET ‘EM

Loft is so fucking cute in this panel

Awwwwwwwww noooooooo not his little buddy!!!!!!!

He’s so upset!!!!!!!!!! Em how could you do this to him 😡😡😡😡😡😡 (/light hearted, not actually mad)

AH I can only add 30 images per post so onto part 2

(Next Part ->)

#ace's bl analysis #bonus links #bonus loft #bonus groose #bonus skord zelda #this is the outcome of my category 7 autism event #and like 5 hours of work

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marklikely · 9 months

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ok u know that fake 80s horror movie meme that people did on tiktok well aside from the blatant goncharov plagiarism i feel like the idea isnt inherently bad but trying to convince people the movie is real while giving it an obscure and therefore easily googleable name like zapotha is unwise. like goncharov was always openly fake but the video said they want to convince people zepotha is real. too easy to fact check imo.

#if you want to convince ppl this is a real movie you gotta name it like. using the few things that 80s horror titles are allowed to use..#its gotta be some kind of combination of #'night of the (xyz)'. the name of a broad category of monster (demon werewolf etc). smth like freak/creep. massacre.#and/or some event that high schoolers would participate in. prom. graduation. camp. slumber party. etc. bonus pts if its a franchise.#like omg have you seen my favorite underrated 80s horror? Vampire Camp III: Night of the Were-Creeps? from 1987?#omg its soooo good you have to check it out. linnea quigley's best role. don't @ me you know im right.#avpost #you gotta give it a really tropey name so people cant like look it up and find nothing.#at the very least if you name it 'night of the ' people will find a ton of other horror movies and assume it's blocking out the right movie #anyway you dont have to watch the rest of the vampire camp series to understand the 3rd movie bc they explain the lore #in a campfire scene at the beginning. so youll be caught up. plus the second one was really weird and hasnt aged well #the first one is kind of a low budget 1981 gem but the bad dialogue and acting is really hard to get past. pretty good gore effects though.#check it out if you like that sort of thing but the series takes off at the 3rd movie. when they make it more horror comedy.#i think its getting a remake soon. directed by a woman!

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hugespace · 11 months

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@becausethathappens a few slides from the presentation 😌 (it will be like 80 altogether so i can’t add them all here lol)

#personal #if anyone missed the previous post and is wondering what the hell this is #we want to do a presentation night with some of my friends #and mine will be 'GMM out of context: how gay is it'#and just so we're clear #i'm saying the show is gay #not that randl are #don't worry #there's seven categories and then just bonus out of context scenes that make me laugh #do i have too much time on my hands? no #but this is so fun to make lol

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maulfucker · 7 months

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The whiplash of seeing these one after the other

#hm i should make an original post tag #the phantom menace #darth maul #jar jar binks #looking through the bonus dvd's 'images' category #i actually burst out laughing when it went from maul one truth one hate to jar jar one clown one friend #meesa looking through the bonus dvds

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nemesis-is-my-middle-name · 3 months

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pla characters sorted into categories of "should've been at the club," "should get to math class," "should be in line at the dmv," etc

#the nemesis speaks #with secret bonus s tier category ''should be SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS INTO THE FUTURE''

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dangerousdan-dan · 7 months

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Hi Dan!

What's the thing you like the most about your favorite character(s)?

Hi, friend <3

I think I have different "categories" of favorite characters, but I definitely tend to fall for similar characteristics. Still, I apologize in advance because this will probably be a longer list than expected.

Characters who have a troubled past, or who carry a big mistake that fills them with guilt, but still try to be good and love and help others despite it all: Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne, Billie Lurk

Characters who are good to the core of their beings. They literally represent the light and hope in a world of darkness: Clark Kent, Billy Batson, Bilbo Baggins (everyone from LOTR, tbh), Hadrian Blackwater

The sad nerds: Viktor from Arcane, Gale of Waterdeep, Scott Free, Bruce Wayne (not the one from modern comics, I want that one away from me, please)

And last but not least.

The kindhearted women who could kick my ass in a second. I have a weakness for those: Big Barda, Selina, Emily Kaldwin, Chloe Frazer, Wonder Woman, Karlach, Éowyn

I normally end up liking the characters who fall in any of these categories (and overlap), so it was fun to enlist them.

I'm sorry, I know I have a lot of favorites. I obviously love ones more than others, but they're all my children xD

#thank you so much for the ask <3 #bonus category. cocky assholes: leon s kennedy and hal jordan #btw if any of you know who hadrian blackwater is we need to be friends #that fandom is so so sooooo small

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emily-mooon · 6 months

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The duffers should call me to help write romance cause I read a crap ton of Shoujo high school romance manga and I can tell them they unintentionally made Nancy read like a shoujo manga protagonist and show them how they can replicate it again.

#s1 Nancy truly is one and no one can change my mind #when you’re 13 and have a crush or want to know what romance feels like shoujo alters your brain chemistry #I should know cause I fall in the former category with the bonus being someone I never talked to and said sparring words like ‘thank you’#emily’s random thoughts

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kyofsonder · 15 days

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We don't often make up-front posts about our system or the people in it, but we have a sudden desire to say this into the Tumblr void and no good arguments against doing so.

Having your speaking and/or thinking accent suddenly shift at a random moment for no apparent reason is a hell of a specific experience, isn't it? Suddenly, your mouth just wants to take a different shape and your words comes out in a different way and it's not even necessarily an accent you're regularly exposed to or have a reason to mirror or want to practice. It's just there, all of the sudden, and you ride it out until you either feel it fade or have to mask it around others. It's. A hell of a thing, is all we can think to say.

We're always co-con to some degree, too, so we'll feel the ebb and flow of it as the accent-holder is closer to and further from our shared consciousness. It'll warp our accent into something between our usual/default one and whatever the accent-holder has.

Maybe we've posted about this before and forgotten, but it's weird and fascinating to us every time. Speaking patterns changing is already both those things, but whole accent shifts are... another level.

Being plural is wild, truly. We'll probably never stop being surprised, even by aspects/experiences of it we've known a thousand times over.

#sonders speak #sonder speaks #plurality #the mundane wonder of mundane things #well #mostly mundane #contextually mundane #less so to certain categories of singlets probably #this post has been brought to you by Riley's pseudo-Scottish accent #and was joined near the end by Adam's stoic speech style #as we got progressively more nervous about publicly posting plural things and required his emotionally regulatory intervention #that last tag was also him #dissociative identity disorder #or maybe osdd #endo safe #this is about the experience of plurality itself after all #this is about solidarity among plurals who have this experience #and the “wow that does sound wild you've got irl bonus features” from singlets #... we're gonna think of them as irl bonus features next time we're frustrated with JB #he annoys us by playing songs too loudly in our head #which is rough when we already have a song in our head #and his is also playing over it #maybe thinking of it as irl bonus feature background music could help #and the annoyance with having to mask accent shifts too #which was the actual point of the post that got away from us #in our defense we're tired and it hasn't been that long since we took our night meds #sorry for the personal post all the same

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