links, in honour of the exodus

hello! if you’re still here i’m very impressed, considering it’s been…. what, two years since i was active here?

i am not dead, i just migrated to twt (@ zamothac). i mostly talk about bts now, because it’s 2018 and there is no escape, and also they’re the goodest boys to ever walk the face of this earth. (there’s also occasional mcelroy content! Good Boy Zone Only)

since everyone seems to be migrating off tumblr anyway in light of the nsfw ban, come hang out with me on twt if you’re going there? i remember there were some really lovely people here and i miss yall - please come hit me up!! especially if we were mutuals or ever talked.

alternatively, if you’re staying on tumblr, my new address is @wlwminyoonji. despite the name it’s only about 20% bts content, so maybe give it a look? it’s not very active but it’s a nice place to be, i think.

disclaimer: if i know you primarily irl and you interact with me on any of these platforms, i will block you immediately. i like my online life and my irl life to be separate, thanks!

anyway. this place was real formative for me and even though i haven’t been active in a long time i’m going to miss the way it was. thanks

tall people: if we are walking together please take into consideration my tiny legs. i cant keep up with you. please think of my tiny legs i dont want to be jogging to keep up with your leisurely stroll you TITANS

Just get a pair of roller skates and hang on to my sleeve, we don’t have all day.

Since I know there’s probably a fair amount of you out there who haven’t seen the first three Mad Max movies, I’m here to tell you a li’l secret about them:

All the people complaining about how Max “isn’t the main character” in Fury Road are big ol’ Fake Fanboys cause Max’s primary character trait in literally every movie is “I hate this, why is it happening, please leave me alone to brood in the desert in peace”. 

He’s much more the central focus of the plot in the first movie but in Road Warrior and Thunder Dome he basically just gets kidnapped or beat up by wankers in weird bondage outfits and spends the rest of the movie trying to leave as soon as possible while other people are like “please solve our absurd post-apocalyptic problems”.  There is not one single point where Max actively seeks out being a hero until it is forced upon him.  He ACTIVELY TELLS PEOPLE WHO ASK HIM FOR HELP to take a hike.

Mad Max himself would like nothing better than to never, ever, ever be the main character.

He would also like for people to stop stealing his fucking car.

Nobody wants to escape his own movies more than Max Rockatansky. 

He understands better than his own fanboys that his life sucks and you don’t want to be like him, to be Max is humiliating and painful. Every time he gets dragged into a conflict, he ends up worse than he started. Max seems to realize no good can come of this, and is weirdly genre-savvy because he’s always trying to make a getaway at the first signs of encroaching Plot. I find this darkly comical and endearing – at no point does he snap off witty quips and save the day and get the girl. Ever. He’s perpetually a weird desert loser with terrible luck. It’s great.

What makes Max a badass is the ability to survive to the end of any movie he’s unfortunate enough to find himself in.

This relates to a theory I have, which is that the archetypal Western Male Hero is James Bond, to the degree that people (Mainly straight white men) start to see every Western Male Hero as James Bond. 

Which is to say an aggressively masculine, quip-spitting, hyper violent womanizer.  The ultimate Male Power Fantasy. A new supermodel love interest (or two) every film, a gun in his hand, and no consequences for his actions. Consider:  Captain Kirk: Painted as a headstrong idiot who spends all his time banging green skinned alien queens. In reality, a pretty firmly Feminist character. 

Han Solo: Pictured as a suave too-cool-for-school scoundrel. Actually kind of a mess with a ship that’s falling apart. He constantly has people after him, not because he’s some sort of superscoundrel that makes powerful enemies, but because he makes deals with dangerous people, and then fails to live up to his end of the bargain. From what I recall, it’s not even that he double-crosses them or anything, he just screws up. 

Mad Max: To quote that one hilariously stupid review that helped make the movie so popular, “In the post-apocalyptic future, it’s going to be MEN LIKE MAX THAT ARE IN CHARGE!” Max just wants to drive his car around the desert and be sad. He doesn’t want any of this. 

It’s like, the Male Power Fantasy (as exemplified by James Bond) is so strong that we feel a need to cast everybody we can in that same mold. 

Seriously this

Max is not ‘in charge’ of anything Max is a broken shell of a human being who has lost everyone he ever loved and suffers from severe post traumatic stress disorder and his life is a non-stop struggle just to live through another day in the nightmarish hellworld that he is trapped in, he is literally never ‘in charge’ the movies are about him being dragged against his will into whatever bizarre and horrific thing is happening in this Nightmare World this week and doing his best to survive and, sometimes, to just help out the actual heroes of the film because something about them reminds him of the person he used to be instead of the wreckage of a human being he has become

OOOH MR LESTER~~

inspired by : X

nEnglish speakers got the amazing Shelby Rabara singing Peace and love, but for the french La Paix, L’Amour got… this…

What’s doubly astounding is that Peridot is voiced by Anouck Hautbois, the same lady who voices Marinette in Miraculous ladybug, but that voice she uses for peridot is just… wow

@stetsuninu

it won’t be like what you imagined. maybe you get the road trip to the beach with coffee in your hand and the radio playing, maybe you don’t. but happy shows up. it’s in a 2 AM game of jenga with your new college friends. it’s curling up for another marathon of netflix. it’s meeting the person who will be your best man at the wedding. it’s 4:45pm in the library when the girl in the study coral across from you quietly whispers “i’m going to set everything on fire” and then turns to you and asks if you wanna take a break for dinner (say yes, she’s very nice and you both need a moment away from the stress). it’s the mornings they have omelettes and in good books and in a puddle that looks cool. it’s sometimes picturesque, but more often it’s full-belly laughter at stupid things on the floor of your friend’s house while in the background someone is debating the best way to win settlers of catan. 

i know it gets dark early now and the tired is setting in and everything sort of feels blank and hazy and you want to spend ages staring at walls thinking of nothing

but happiness will find a way in. it will be small moments. look for them.

john cage - 4′33″ BASS BOOSTED

Hey! Men!

Don’t worry about a lack of representation for dudes in the new Ghostbusters movie guys! You have Chris Hemsworth’s character! He’s a man!

He’s a Strong Male Character, he doesn’t need a woman to make him feel complete! I mean, yeah, he seems to be wearing a lot of unnecessarily tight clothes, but that’s just because he Feels Comfortable In His Own Skin! He’s pretty bright for a dumb blonde to? That makes him super relatable! He’s not a Dude in Distress! He doesn’t need a woman to save him! He is Fiesty! He can Hold His Own against the Ladies! He’s not loud and over bearing, he’s a cool, empowering male character! There may even be some ROMANCE! You guys like romance right? He’s practically one of the girls! He’s just as strong as the women! He’s TECH SUPPORT! THAT’S ALMOST AS GOOD AS BEING A REAL GHOSTBUSTER RIGHT???

Knock ‘em dead, Pool boy!