Video Essays That Make Me Go "oh, So You're Like Smart Smart"

Video essays that make me go "oh, so you're like smart smart"

Elon Musk and Grimes: A Retrospective

Bo Burnham vs. Jeff Bezos

The Systemic Abuse of Celebrities

Lana Del Rey: the pitfalls of having a persona

we need to talk about Call Me By Your Name

MYTH OF THE AUTEUR: Stanley Kubrick vs David Lynch

In Search Of A Flat Earth

Envy

The Commodification of Black Athletes

The Lies Of The Lighthouse

The Green Knight: The Uncanny Horror of Masculinity

Max Payne, Kane & Lynch, and the Meaning of Ugly Games

Time Loop Nihilism

How Bisexuality Changed Video Games

The Golden Age of Horror Comics - Part 1 (Part 2)

Weighing the Value of Director's Cuts | Scanline

The True Horror Of Midsommar

a few more -

You're Wrong About Cyberpunk 2077 | An Overdue Critique (this is such great critique of both the game and the genre)

Disney's Fast Pass: A Complicated History

It Has Come To My Attention You Don't All Love BIRDS OF PREY

Adaptation.

The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize

Music Theory and White Supremacy

Here's the YouTube playlist! ill be adding more but that's all so far pls like and reblog xoxo 💕

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it’s fun!! recs not me reccing to you tumblr user but me being recced stuff to but also me reccing stuff i've never even watched to you ig assuming you haven't watched it either i like how i handled this new verb for me btw reccing

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sympatheticdroid

9 months ago

back with clankie propaganda🪲⚡️

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monster high cleo de nile frankie stein mh g3 clankie frankie stein g3

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sympatheticdroid

9 months ago

A digital manga-style comic. Top reads 'growing up on the Ninth'
A silhouette of a child comes running from afar towards a tired-looking woman with a buzz cut, wearing simple Ninth House facepaint. She wipes her cheek and glances over as the child screams "AI-GEMMY-KNEE! AI-GEMMY-KNEE!"
Gideon Nav rushes to her, grabbing her pant leg. She looks to be about seven years old, and her front tooth is prominently missing. "Ith 'appenedh!" she yells. "Zhe 'ooth fairy 'took my 'ooth!"
Aiglemene quirks an eyebrow, looking down at her. "What are you on about, child? What tooth fairy?" she demands.
Gideon pulls something out of her pocket, presenting it up to the adult proudly. "Thee 'ook my 'ooth justh 'ike 'arrow thaid! And I go'th thome rockth in re'urn!"
Aiglamene does not bother to look amused. "...That's not a--" she begins, before cutting herself off, and looking off in another direction thoughtfully. Her gaze strays to the raised balconies of Castle Drearburgh. Hiding between two of the banisters is a barely visible skull-faced little figure robed in black.

Aiglamene regards it for a minute, and the scene fades. The panels lapse, as though a bit of time has passed.
The next panel shows a fair of booted feet at the entry of a door. The inside is shadowed, with only the light from the inside illuminating a small figure crouched on the floor. "My lady," Aiglamene greets. Then, "Stealing milk teeth is not becoming of the scion of the ninth."
Harrowhark turns around to look at her over her shoulder. She is sitting on her knees on the floor, an array of small bones in a semicircle before her, and something else clutched tightly in one tiny fist. She looks to be about six - her hair is cropped short, and she has her cloak shrugged off her shoulders and hanging from her elbows. Her dark eyes are large as ever. "I did not steal them, Captain," she replies. "I bargained for their purchase through a metaphor. I am low on resources," she continues. "And mother says we must use all available materials wisely."
Aiglamene considers for a moment, looking a bit down. "The Reverend Mother and Reverend Father do not want you near Gideon, you know that," she says.
Harrow looks away again. "I am working with those parameters in mind," she says calmly.
Aiglamene says nothing, looking a bit dampened, and then heaves a tired sigh.

Seemingly defeated, Aiglamene looks down at Harrow again. "What are you planning to use them for, if I may ask?" she inquires.
Harrow looks up at her, having not relaxed her fist once. "It is... classified," she says.

A black bar cuts between this and the next panel. It reads: "Not That Much Later."

Next thing we see is a hallway near the castle. Harrow is hiding behind an archway, her little face split into a grin of delight as she peers around it to look at her handiwork. "Stop hitting yourself, Griddle!" she jeers. "Stop hitting yourself!"
In the forefront, Gideon wrestles with a skeleton approximately her own size. It has a knee up on her stomach, and is rearing back for a punch, while Gideon kicks her feet and tries to shove it off, her face twisted up in fury. "HRRAARGH!" she hollers. "NONAGETHIMUUUTHHH!!"

ah, childhood.

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gideon nav the locked tomb tlt I love this comic harrowhark nonagesimus aiglamene harrow's giant eyes are brilliant that face reveal was amazing and everything depicting their childhoods on the ninth is great

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sympatheticdroid

1 year ago

girlies of pelican town

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stardew valley sdv

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sympatheticdroid

9 months ago

the megabitch of your dreams.

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this art is so good casey mcquiston i kissed shara wheeler iksw cmq

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sympatheticdroid

1 year ago

Going to zuzu city just to pick up wcdonalds

Eating saloon take outs outside to avoid drunk people & sister whose vegan dinner you just abandoned at home

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stardew valley sdv

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sympatheticdroid

9 months ago

more modern au (and part 2)

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the locked tomb tlt tlt modern au

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sympatheticdroid

9 months ago

The first person ever diagnosed with autism has died, age 89.

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Donald Triplett, first person to be diagnosed with autism dies at 89

Donald Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism, has passed away at the age of 89 - he had an uncanny knack for memorization.

Rest in peace, Mr. Triplett. Because of you, countless people understand themselves and are understood better than they ever would have been before, and countless lives that would once have been unspeakably hard have been improved.

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autism history

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sympatheticdroid

9 months ago