"the Early 2010s Were Better" No They Weren't. "hey Soul Sister" Was On The Radio.

Imagine if you had a neighbour who keeps performing songs from Phantom of the Opera in his apartment every night, by himself but accompanied by a parrot, which he has taught to sing Christine's part. Admittedly it's kind of obnoxious but you are far too baffled to even be properly annoyed. And also you don't want to confront someone with that kind of power and determination. So every once in a while you just hear this guy dramatically bellow

"SING FOR ME!"

[ASTONISHINGLY HIGH-PITCHED PARROT SHRIEK]

Painted Milo Belladonna for Pride Month cuz they're fabulous ugh

While I was kayaking a while back I saw a snake swimming across the river with a fishie he’d caught.

I wasn’t able to get a picture of it at the time so I tried to paint it from memory !

That's him, officer! That's the clown!!

(How are you, you wee infant??)

Honk Honk! Clown Noises!!

I know who you are, you clown, you jester!! 🫵

(Lmao hey, bestie✨️)

"it builds character" ok but if i go through any more character development my character might develop into the villain

I LOVE MY FRIENDS SO MUCH I'M JUST STUPID AND FORGET THAT FEELINGS NEED TO BE EXPRESSED IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BE FELT

Aight, I'm gonna elaborate more on the Lee and Brad crack ship, [ship name pending], that I mentioned in the tags of my Find The (E)x post

This is probably gonna be really scattered (especially since this came to me late last night, and it's kinda half-baked), so forgive me for that JHSCDJ

Sososo this happened because I remembered how Brad blurs the lines between real life and movie fiction. A big example was when the Cleaners went rogue, and he started assigning character roles/archetypes to his classmates like they were acting out a scene in a movie (but I'm mainly talking about him, The Hero, and Lee, the Bad Boy Seeking Redemption). Besides assigning roles, he also follows movie tropes (Hero gets the Girl (Tina))

Brad's knowledgeable about movie roles/tropes and how movies handle them; who's to say he doesn't know how fandoms see and handle tropes? Specifically relationship tropes and dynamics. And what's a popular trope in fandoms? Enemies To Lovers, especially when the so-called Enemies are the same gender. And, well, he is The Hero, and Lee is The Bad Boy (are you picking up what I'm putting down)

And sometimes the Hero and Rival have a more interesting dynamic that fans love more, and sometimes the Hero and Rival/Villain/Antagonist have better chemistry with each other than the Hero and Girl. So what does that make him and Lee; the hero and the bad boy??

Are you picking up what I'm putting down

The kind of ship that starts off one-sided, and evolves to more as things go on (could stay one-sided if you want it to be angsty) putting this dude on a rollercoaster (read: crisis)

Anyways, I think that's it for my thoughts??? this ship's dynamic is more Brad-centric(?), I realised JHGSDVJH

Brad probably says Lee's the Shadow to his Sonic or something

(Feel free to suggest ship names for these two because I. am blanking scdjhfc)

I forgot this was sitting in my drafts vjhsjchs

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad