the-meeks
Hi, I'm Oleg! | Rus/Eng | He/him | Minor Multifandom, but it's always random stuff :D
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he's my son
(btw ref on a song Harvey by Alex G)
Ah yes, I finally got every achievement Hopefully that will make me draw more
katestuliy on twitter
sympathy for Sangwoo as a character…
Director Hwang Dong-hyuk said, "They [Seong Gi-hun and Cho Sang-woo] represent the two sides of me. Like Gi-hun, I was raised by a single mother in a financially troubled environment in Sangmun-dong. At the same time, like Sang-woo, I went to Seoul National University and my entire neighborhood praised me and had high expectations of me.“ He shows the flip side of too much external validation: the pressure to maintain a self concept that revolves around being “admirable/special/better/successful”… it’s this need which pushes Sangwoo to taker greater and greater risks, driving him to 6billion won in debt and why he cuts off Gihun every time he tries to shower him in praise… it’s the praise that shackles him to an inability to lose… he’d rather die than confront his failed self concept… it reflects also the director’s own “burden of high expectations”… ( 1 )
also funny… the director lost 6 teeth during the filming of Squid Game due to stress…
i was inspired by @vingler-mirror's post breaking down the isokania's matching garments' voice lines, so i made my version of a deep dive into them. my friend said you've got to applaud bluepoch, how do they manage to doom isokania further and further without a single minute of extra screen time and i hard relate. bluepoch when i get you, when i get you, bluepoch when i GET you!
been thinking about this for a while but i think i mightve found a way to word it, idk if this is a hot take or if others agree with me, but it makes me sad when i see lisa fans speak as if the ridiculousness and the sadness of lisa are opposing to eachother instead of complementary
to me it feels like both have something to do with human primitiveness, which austin himself said once is something he likes exploring, say; the silly aspect is about being so true to yourself it makes you look stupid, and the sad aspect is the reminder that youre a human being, you get affected by things, you can do good and do bad, so you get characters who look and act silly while also having something deep going on with them. they live haunted by an unfortunate experience, and/or do horrible things themselves for reasons only they understand, or just out of being selfish but are aware that they are causing harm, etc
this does not go for everyyyy character but it happens often enough (for some characters it's easier to notice than for others) and i like it. i think it's sorta beautiful seeing these bunch of stupid people trying to survive while also dealing with some shit internally
house martin gathering mud
(photos by m.geven)
I might have had strong passion to games long time ago, where you have to break a line of narrative AND do literally anything, but not the things you've been asked to do
Just finished "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Right after that suddenly realised, that during all the time while I was reading, my brain unexpectedly decided to come up with appearance for main characters.
I proudly present to your attention — Dr Jekyll looking like Avraam Lincoln and Mr Hyde like Joxter from Moomins.
I have just one question to my brain: WHY
Imagine all the BillFord fans, who were hated for years just for liking fictional toxic doomed old men yaoi (fully realising that abuse is horrible, it's just madly interesting dynamic!) opening literally any social media and seeing all the posts of people appreciating/going crazy about BillFord...
I can't describe the expression of utter shock on my face at that moment.
I fvcking adore Russian Official Dub Dipper, because in that iconic scene, where he calls Pacifica "the worst" and then immediately shuts the door, people decided to change only one word but that makes Dipper SO MUCH meaner than Off Eng Dub.
He literally says "You're a bitch". Or stinker. LIKE, WHAT. You can't imagine how much I love this decicion.
Btw, yes, we have a few words which are translating like "bitch" in English, and the one he said in show is just an insult (still mean though), however the other one is a curse word. SOMETIMES I LOVE OUR TRANSLATORS.
Dead Poets Society 1989 | dir. Peter Weir ↳ @pscentral event 27: scenery
I like to imagine that Jack could be someone like older brother for Buddy in some AUs
PLEASE BRAD PUT THE BABY DOWN
Imagine if Brad, back in his youth, before the flash, would have called Dusty "Kiddo" at that time, like how the name "Buddy" appeared. And both of kids have never canonicaly called him "Dad". It's always been just Brad.
Oh boy.
hello, buzzo stinks, follow me on ig pls (laura_carnivora) I have a shit ton of lisa art there
Lisa the hopeful wasn't very hopeful at all
Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum
Actually I thought about it for the first time a few months ago
10 reasons why a poorly adjusted adult Dib is a Valid headcanon
1. Dib is/was a neglected child
Dib doesn’t have a parent that he can lean on and go talk to for advice, his father is frequently out of the picture and doesn’t give a shit about the thing that Dib cares about. Dib is actively encouraged by his neglectful father to give up on it, actually. I believe this would make Dibs stubborn streak really bitter and spiteful. Most people reading this are LGBTQ+, I assume I don’t need to explain how a fucked up an isolated upbringing, or being unable to be yourself around a parent, hurts you in the long run.
2. Dib is bullied for the things he is passionate about, and being bullied heavily colours your perception of other people
The world of Invader Zim is not kind, Dib is frequently harassed by his classmates/superiors/family for his outbursts/lectures/overall investigator shtick.
Now you might say “but, Screaming, wouldn’t Dib learn to tone it down as he got older?” and YEAH. Probably! But does that mean that he would just forgive all the people that made his life horrible before that point? Or who socially ostracized him for the things he’d done in the past? No. No one is under any obligation to forgive anyone who hurt them, and I think Dib wouldn’t even try to forgive someone he saw as intellectually inferior
3. Dib is a selfish rich kid
Dib is selfish. He wants to be the protector of earth- but he doesn’t do it for earths sake. He’s clearly doing it as a cry for attention/ a reason to eventually be vindicated for being spit on by his own kind. I don’t think he would have genuine empathy for other people. If he did have it, it’d have to be something he had to work really hard at. However, I don’t see Dib putting much effort into understanding other humans.
Dib is rich (probably). This one being more of a headcanon- in the series Dib wants for no material object, he wastes technology on his explorations like it’s something he can just pick up from the dollar store, his father is a world renowned scientist with access to crazy technology and the ears of world leaders. I think he’d feel entitled to one or two things
4. Gaz is not her brothers keeper.
She’s not responsible for his mental health, she’s not responsible for keeping him in line and “normal”. Most of the time she doesn’t want a damn thing to do with him. If we’re going by the standards of the IZ tv show, the only times that Gaz interfered with Dibs paranormal investigations were when Professor M. Was also involved. Either she wanted to see her dad and Dibs antics were getting in the way (forcing her to intervene), or she was directly ordered by their dad to keep Dib out of trouble. Sure, you could argue that she would beat the shit out of Dib for doing something she didn’t like- but that wouldn’t “fix” the mind of a very stubborn person. It might even make them dig their heels in even deeper out of spite and bitterness as a “fuck you I’m right you’re wrong”
Furthermore, as Gaz gets older she’s going to have her own life to worry about and might stop tolerating the way Prof. M uses her as a middle man to deal with his “poor insane son”. She’s under no obligation to fix any of the phases Dibs life might go through. If Dib was unpleasant enough, and Gaz had the resources to leave, I think she might just bail on him.
5. Dib is arrogant
He’s gonna do what he thinks is the best course of action unless you physically stop him from doing so. He comes from a place of thinking that he is right, the opinion of anyone else is secondary. Dib will do “what needs to be done” for “the greater good”. Whatever he thinks that “good” is. He wants to play the white knight at any cost. He cannot be in the wrong, or that bravado towards being righteous in the end crumbles. I think Dib would subscribe to a “the ends justify the means” mentality
6. Dib would harm another person to get what he wanted
In a room with a moose, Dib debates letting himself die just to take his entire class down with him. In the unaired episode “return of Keef”, he co-operates with Zim in an attempt to make Keef explode, because he thinks Keef is irritating. Dib used Gaz to test out an ancient spell book, cursed Gaz to only taste pork, and then only helped fix the problem when threatened with physical violence. This could be the kind of thinking that gets worse over time as more people mock his attempts to save and protect them. Why care about people that don’t even give a shit if they live or die? Dib is a smart fringe personality in his world, and the otherness that he feels for that could lead to a sociopathic way of thinking if things went bad enough
7. Dib does not care about other peoples personal space
Dib hides cameras in Zims house. Dib ran right past the front gate at NASA Place, Dib chased a baby big foot up a radio tower. Dib bullied Zim physically on the playground using his known weaknesses against him. Dib would do anything to get the evidence he needed to prove what he wanted to prove, and that would get him in trouble. Repeatedly
8. Antisocial tendencies (like spending countless hours fused to a chair, or most of your young adult life spent hunched over a desk at a computer screen) make it difficult to smoothly socially integrate, and the world of Invader Zim is fuckin’ mean
You know the world he comes from is mean. However, assuming Dib did find community somewhere, who’s to say they would agree with him? Or like him? Maybe one of them would cause problems for him that were bad enough he’d have to leave. I’ve always found that the IZ portrayal of earth to be like this funny cynical parody of a dystopian police state america. If we’re going by “what can go wrong will go wrong”, Dibs social integration wouldn’t get easier without a bunch of effort on Dibs part. Maybe Dib would have to pretend to be somebody unlike himself just to get by in his day to day adult life. If we see Dibs country of residence as a police state, the world Dib grows up in would encroach heavily on his personal privacy, and that might make him even stranger via paranoia
9. Sadistic tendencies towards anything paranormal (obsessed with the act of dominating and exposing the unknown)
Dib is a fucking jerk to Zim (rightfully so), but Dib is a dick to pretty much every supernatural thing he comes across. Either out of an excess of enthusiasm, or using a supernatural being to further his own plans, or from an invasion of privacy, or being an irritant to the entity he’s dealing with. He LIKES to be mean to them. He wishes to have mastery over knowing how they work. (maybe it’s more fair to say Dib is a voyeur?)
This is more headcanon than anything, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to say he might also want to control the paranormal for his own purposes. If Dib could say- catch a ghost in a jar so he could show it to everyone, he’d do it. If he could trick a werewolf into transforming on stage in front of a large audience? He’d do that.
10. Dib is created to be Zims equal
Dib is as “evil” as Zim is and vice versa. Neither of them is good, or pure, or morally justified. It’s a nice little grey dynamic. Both characters think they’re entirely in the right when they act. That they often aren’t in the right is fun because then you get to write/draw/ think about how they’d react to the consequences. Dib could still totally be a hero in his own mind, despite setting an apartment block on fire to flush out a coven of litches.
The reverse of this is also true, Zim can do nice things, and occasionally be good as Dib can be good. I figure the Zim/Dib dynamic changes for everyones interpretations at least somewhat. Having Zims terrible actions rub off on Dib as their battles escalate is a really fun way to go about exploring their relationship
11. I like the it
There is no right or wrong way to enjoy a cartoon character! Live to make yourself happy in fandom! If you ever thought you needed permission to create rancid content, I’m sorry you felt pressured not to do it.
You want to make a serial killer Dib?? You want to make a basement dwelling depressed zit covered Dib?? You want to make a Dib who struggles with his trauma through substance abuse?? Go HAM!!
