he is dashing, you have to give him that

I love when fiction makes the audience feel guilty about their role as the audience. When something fucked up is treated as a joke but later it's recognised how fucked up it was and the audience feels guilty for finding it funny. When a character breaks the fourth wall to plead for help, and you can't do anything so you just watch. And you know that the characters pain isn't real, but they're begging for help and you're not helping because their suffering is entertainment for you

How do I get inside your head

[ID: A tumblr reply by @roshytsunami that says "Blues clues?" End ID]

Story time: I was a freshman in college when the first season of Hannibal came out on DVD, and I remember doing my first rewatch while sitting in one of those janky anti-suicide chairs at my desk, eating a subway sandwich while I started up the next episode. It was the first one where Will draws the messed up clock.

Anyway, I have a very clear memory of this climactic moment in the show, where you see this clock he's drawn that he perceives as perfectly normal, only it's now from an outside perspective and you see that his drawing is lopsided and all wrong bc his brain is on fire with encephalitis. Its a gasp-worthy moment

So here I was, raising a shitty Subway sandwich to my mouth (chicken cutlet with bell peppers and nothing else on flat bread, a truly vile concoction only a sad freshman with SPD could have thought of) when I was suddenly filled with this tremendous self loathing. This man's life was spiraling out of control because of the cruel machinations of a serial killing cannibal and here I was, watching, and eating a sandwich??? What the hell was wrong with me? In that moment, I lost all sense of narrative dissonance and became utterly disgusted with myself for being so totally unfeeling. For a moment, I truly hated myself and everything I had become. I threw away the sandwich.

Ended up finishing the show ofc - love it, one of my all time faves - but since that day, I have not been able to eat anything from Subway. I'm sure I ate plenty of meals as I continued the show, considering it aired around dinnertime. The issue wasn't the violence or the cannibalism: Subway just gives me a bad case of existential dread. Also their sandwiches suck

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Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.

Some fun stuff from the notes:

I met a girl last semester who volunteered at a national park for several years and she told a story of the time a facility that rehabilitates bear cubs had a lady pull up with a Black Bear in the back seat of her car because she had hit the bear with her car and drove an hour to the rehab facility with the bear in the car with her. They had to make a post that was like "PLEASE DO NOT BRING BEARS TO US. BEARS WILL KILL YOU"

@stvksn on ig

I hope your god has asked for your mercy. I hope youve refused to forgive him.

i love this more and more every time i see it.

I have so much love for this person. The amount of empathy it takes to have these considerations about a person you will never meet, the eloquence and conviction with which they speak, the contempt for landlords. Sometimes I see something someone writes or creates and I wish with everything in me that I could meet and talk to that person for hours about what caused them to be this kind of light in the universe. This is one of those times.

i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

How funny that she never considered that.

stories

[Image description: tweet by MCRossIsNotAPun saying, "got a sunburn at the event where they famously turn off the sun. constantly innovating in the field of applied caucasian studies." End description.]

This tattoo is very funny when you know that kerning is the fancy term for the space between letters. Very important in text design to get it right.

I see the only person on the planet who knows what it is and is immune to the rage response at seeing it done poorly is not above using that advantage in combat.

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Salad

[ID: a painting of a tabby and white cat with their face being grabbed by a set of blue tongs. end ID]

does anyone have that one painting with the ghosts standing in the water?

like theyre in the water and they’re staring off to the side and there’s something so very wrong about it and they’re bending over and trailing along like deer in the headlights but you can’t see what they’re staring at which might make it even scarier

like this

I FUCKING FOUND IT.

beach day beach day

by the way, the artist is olivia steen (website linked above) and apparently, her other works are just as breathtakingly eerie

look at this!!! it’s cool as hell!!

I thought the last one was very familiar to me and turns out it’s painted over a photo of john lennon !

and after looking at the first one again it is also, a beatle photo

Not going to lie the first picture like the ghost on the water It kinda is referenced on the one picture where the Beatles are in Miami for the Help! shooting I dont have the picture but it really looks like! Especially the bending ghost resembles Ringo and The other Picture where the ghost is sitting down I also remember so much remember that that picture is Brian Epstein sitting I also don’t have the picture cause I cant fine IT aaaaa HAHAH

Now THIS is some fucking forbidden fandom lore lmao

ETA THIS IS THE ONE!!!!

Dark Wizard