When Elphaba Says “It Well May Be That We Will Never Meet Again In This Lifetime.” I Suffer From

Be careful: nostalgia likes to link arms with fascism.

I've seen a lot of talk about how millennials are especially prone to nostalgia. How technology's rapid evolution left our childhoods as a distinctly different world than our present. How we cling to our childhood hobbies and IPs as a way to heal our inner children, etc etc.

And there's nothing inherently wrong with nostalgia. I still play pokemon games and am in the middle of rewatching Yu Yu Hakusho. You're allowed to love the things you grew up with.

But we need to be careful.

Conservatives, nationalists, and fascists *love* to evoke a ☆mythic☆ idealized past- when men were men, when America was great, upon which to build a fixed and solid identity. Any progress away from this idealized conception of the past is thus decay- corruption and ruin. Nostalgia underpins a fascists worldview and allows them to justify any violence against the forces that would further degrade society away from its perfect past. Protecting the past comes to justify all sorts of things in the present.

We need to be very careful about what we allow our nostalgia to mean to us, what we allow it to excuse or justify.

This is not *just* about Hogwarts Legacy, but Hogwarts Legacy is a good example of it. When you can invoke your nostalgia- that golden beautiful past where you felt safe and special- what are you willing to ignore? What harm are you willing to allow? What will you turn a blind eye to if doing so makes you feel like you've recaptured some of the magic from the past?

Tread carefully, friends. This HP bullshit may have been a test that you passed, but it will not be the last time when our sense of nostalgia may conflict with progress and morals. Always remember that you can love something from the past without letting it dictate the future.

Hi tumblr, long time no see. Here’s a doodle from twitter that I forgot to post here. Originally made it for ace day and then, to no one’s surprise, did not finish it in time 🖤🤍💜

[Image ID: A colored sketch from the waist up of Sam Bailey from The Sheridan Tapes and Jon Sims from The Magnus Archives. They are standing next to each other and smiling, both wrapped in an asexual flag. Sam is holding one corner with his arm slightly raised and Jon has his end draped over his own shoulder and arm. In the background there is a scribbled light blue square.

Sam is standing to the left. He has tan skin and short dark hair with a slightly longer fringe parted in the middle. He is wearing a black t-shirt with a purple collar. 3 small flag buttons are pinned to his shirt: the grey asexual flag, the bi flag and the trans flag. On his right hand he wears an ace ring.

Jon is a British-Indian person with dark wavy shoulder length hair, a few white strands frame his face. Half of it is tied up behind him. Jon has a beard, circular scars on his face and arms, a long thin scar on his neck and a larger one on his right hand. He is wearing a green jacket over a white t-shirt with 3 horizontal stripes in the colors of the bi flag across the chest. There is a circular pin with the nonbinary flag on his jacket and a black ring on his right hand. End ID]

My favorite part of watching Doc's episode today is how clear it is that he finds the whole situation incredibly funny but is trying to hide it.

He went through the pile of gifts, ignoring the building blocks of course, and was amused by all the Scarland food and merch. He tried on the Jellie ears and showed them off in F5 mode, which was extremely cute, and then quickly took them off and reminded everyone that he was still Big Mad and Out For Revenge.

Then he gave a blow-by-blow account of how Scar and Grian destroyed the tunnel borer from their videos. He explained what they'd done and gave a detailed account of Grian's screaming and their horrified silence. He was practically laughing aloud at how the pair had been tripping over themselves to get away. Then he sort of cleared his throat and reminded us all that he was still Big Mad and Out For Revenge.

And then, after discussing his anvil cannon and the TNT-spewing mecha-goat all episode as potential tools of vengeance, in the end Doc decided to flex his baffling redstone skills to do something impossible to Grian's nether portal instead of blowing anything up. 100% True GOAT behavior right here.

So um, I keep forgetting to post here but beachwood creature if you're free on Thursday afternoon to hang out 🙈🙈🙈

Ultimate Word Tournament!

overmorrow (English) [ˈoʊ.vɚˌmɑɹoʊ] The day after tomorrow.

enhappify (English, Old Dialect) [ɛnˈhæpɪfaɪ] to make happy; to enhance one's happiness. Coined by the show The Ghost and Molly McGee.

Camila and Darius are co parenting Hunter and he is living his best life with his family thank you for coming to my tedtalk

“I’d like to leave the Emperor’s Coven,

and never set foot in the throne room again.

I’d like to study wild magic,

and learn how to carve palismen.

I’d like to attend Hexside as a regular student, 

and play flyer derby with my friends.”

Help fund the final season of the Sheridan Tapes! If you havent checked out this podcast its definitely worth a listen.

"In 2018 famed horror writer Anna Sheridan disappeared, leaving behind only a box of mysterious cassette tapes. Detective Sam Bailey is tasked with piecing together what happened to Anna Sheridan from the seemingly impossible encounters she recorded, but as the scattered pieces of the puzzle come together, Bailey discovers the picture is even stranger - and more dangerous - than it seemed"

Something I'm obsessed about is.. How some hermits come off in other people's videos vs their own videos

Scar can feel infinitely more threatening in others' videos whilst in his own pov he seems so fun and cheery. One of my favorite example is his audience with Ren. From his POV he comes off as just messing around, not really listening and just doing his own thing because he doesn't really respect Ren, not really

From ren's pov he comes off as terrifying - you watch Ren have his audience and assert his authority with the rest of his court, and then Scar walks in, and he takes complete control of the scene. Where others listened, nodded, and kneeled - Scar strolls to the throne at his side, sits, and smiles condescendingly as Ren demands scar sell his gigapies.

Whereas from Scar's point of view it's one of his endless swindling moments, when he tries to negotiate the whole thing, from ren's pov he just comes off as... So... Terrifying? Its hard to put into words. He won't budge. Faced with a monarch he supposedly swore his fealty for, for whom he's killed and brought the head of resistance members... He continues to stand tall, chin up, and refuse his frivolities.

It's just... So interesting to me.

Similarly, Joel in the life series - particularly last life - almost always comes off as so unhinged, unpredictable and violent. He's scary in a different way than scar, like an rabid dog.

But if you watch Joel's povs he's so soggy and pathetic. Even in last life. Especially in last life. Rather than a rabid dog he's suddenly a shaking chihuahua, barking and growling at everything that comes his way but obviously helpless.

There's many more examples. How aloof grian comes off from other people's point of view is a good one. It's just... Interesting to me.

I myself struggle a lot with understanding the way I come off to other people. Coworkers and friends will describe me in ways that will genuinely surprise me. When watching the hermits/lifers, you can see this phenomenon from both angles, in a way. It's a nice little case study. How someone comes off when you have an intimate knowledge of their intentions and thought processes vs how they come off from an outside perspective.