i do miss gifsets
Jan. 10th, 2019 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I snuck back to Tumblr on my break at work yesterday and looked for dumb Buzzfeed Unsolved gifsets. I'm discovering, here's the thing, that in the rare event that I actually consume something, it is much richer if I know what other fans of it are most into about it first, so that I can look for those details and connect to them. It's weird, maybe, but I so rarely watch things, or listen to things-- not only do I want recs, but I also want, like, hints of how I should process it. Some idea of what other people have gotten out of it is sometimes just... helpful, or enriching at least. I need help reacting to a thing, you know?
Oh my cat has just come and stolen my arm. Well. That makes typing trickier, but it's clear this is because she thinks typing is a waste of my hands and attention. Hi, darling.
Anyway. This is an amusing experience with this particular fandom, especially because I find the thirst posts so baffling. (Ryan is clearly the objectively more attractive of the two of them, but he resembles a college roommate of mine and all I can see when I look at him is how he's going to lose his hair in about five to seven years, because my former roommate's hairline is now so terrible and hilarious. Shane is... I get how from certain angles you could mistake him for TV Star Hot but he's really pretty awkwardly-proportioned and just... not a hot dude... and the thirst posts are very clearly confusing Tall And White for Hot and it's weird because Ryan's right there you guys. Also I don't ship it, I'm sorry, I really do enjoy their platonic not-quite-even-friendship, but like, pleasant-coworkership. They're just two reasonably decent people who get along fine and have a hilarious conversational dynamic and decent chemistry, but not like. A spark.)
I guess I get where people are coming up with their theory that Shane himself is a demon, but that's also pretty clearly, like... a wacky headcanon with no bearing in the show itself. It's not scripted enough for there to be any hidden meanings, you know? If Shane were a demon he'd probably have mentioned it by now.
And I'm not very far into it, I just watched the True Crime episode where they went over JonBenet Ramsey, and like... OK most of the series is Ryan freaking out about things and Shane rolling his eyes, but this one was really clearly Shane being upset about a murdered child that he's old enough to remember the realtime of, and just really clearly being squicked out about it and literally closing his eyes rather than animatedly debating it. He's so clearly just a guy who doesn't care about ghost stories, and has a pretty normal level of semi-interest in true crime, and I was exactly of his same mind with Ramsey because I, too, remember that case as it unfolded and being really sick over it, that poor child and her weird bullshit family, and I almost didn't watch the episode but I was like... you know... these guys are like... I trust them, I can't imagine how they're going to make this not super gross, but at least they won't luridly speculate. And they didn't. Shane peering through his fingers with his face in a grimace and saying "A man's... DNA?..." and Ryan saying "No not that! Not that. It's terrible but it's not quite that terrible."
So like. No, it's not that Shane is a supernaturally unafraid creature, it's that he's just a guy who's scared of normal stuff, like how gross humans can be to each other, and not scared of ghosts or aliens or demons because his belief system doesn't particularly include them. He likes cryptids, he's not particularly timid, he's not upset by much, but he absolutely can't stomach the thought of a little girl getting sexually abused, because that's among the most abhorrent things to decent people in our society even though our media seems pretty obsessed with it and boy do we let a lot of artists who are into that make popular art in our society, hmm. So I find him pretty relatable actually! And not just because I've spent most of my adult life now with a partner who's pretty unflappable about most things but occasionally gets squicked the fuck out, usually by objectively horrible things.
Anyhow. No, I don't want to write fanfic about it and I don't want to read fanfic about it, I'm just enjoying just uncritically watching a thing and not feeling like i have to leave the room halfway through. I do that, sometimes, with TV, when I'm not sure-- someone puts it on, and I literally go stand near the door, or sit at the edge of the room, so that if I don't like it I don't have to expend the energy of getting sucked into it anyway. The very instant some dude leers at a lady or something horribly violent happens, I can just go.
It turns out their formula of, like, fourteen to twenty-four minutes per episode, plus seven to nine minutes per postmortem, is a really good size chunk of time that I can commit to and waste without ill conscience. And it's good that I've got Dude watching it too; I dont' think he'd mind if I went ahead without him, but I feel weird doing it, so I don't, and that way I don't binge it.
So here's a bunch of hotlinked gifs, if you too miss gifsets. They'll break if Tumblr moves them but in the meantime, I'm sticking it to the man by hotlinking.
Shane: If I die here right now, I don't want you to take me home. I want you to leave my body to rot.
Ryan: I won't do that.
Shane: Why not?
Ryan: 'Cause it's fuckin' weird!
Not transcribing it, it's just Ryan asking demons to kill Shane while Shane looks appealingly into the camera, but this is a good example of how angles and lighting sometimes can confusingly make it look like Shane is the hot one, but then he turns his head and you're like christ, comb your hair one time!!!
My transcription is that the two of them are discussing survival tactics and Shane is being gross while Ryan professes to prefer death to doing gross things. My objective take on this gif is that it shows one of the things that drives me nuts about the production values: two different-colored light sources. WHYYY please, someone, get them some daylight bulbs in there, there's no reason to torture your camera's auto white balance like this. Surely someone on staff at Buzzfeed fucking knows basic photographic shit like fucking white balance.
Ahhh that was self-indulgent. Back to the grind. In other news, I did actually finally beat my embroidery machine into submission long enough to make the machine-sewn portion of my mother's Christmas gift, so now I just have to hand-sew the rest over the course of today and probably the car ride tomorrow. No big!
(It's a... hot pad for the table maybe, only I don't know that I made it washable, so uh, maybe it's just. a pointless eight-inch quilted square. for decorative purposes. with a sarcastic slogan on it. Yeahhhh!)
Oh my cat has just come and stolen my arm. Well. That makes typing trickier, but it's clear this is because she thinks typing is a waste of my hands and attention. Hi, darling.
Anyway. This is an amusing experience with this particular fandom, especially because I find the thirst posts so baffling. (Ryan is clearly the objectively more attractive of the two of them, but he resembles a college roommate of mine and all I can see when I look at him is how he's going to lose his hair in about five to seven years, because my former roommate's hairline is now so terrible and hilarious. Shane is... I get how from certain angles you could mistake him for TV Star Hot but he's really pretty awkwardly-proportioned and just... not a hot dude... and the thirst posts are very clearly confusing Tall And White for Hot and it's weird because Ryan's right there you guys. Also I don't ship it, I'm sorry, I really do enjoy their platonic not-quite-even-friendship, but like, pleasant-coworkership. They're just two reasonably decent people who get along fine and have a hilarious conversational dynamic and decent chemistry, but not like. A spark.)
I guess I get where people are coming up with their theory that Shane himself is a demon, but that's also pretty clearly, like... a wacky headcanon with no bearing in the show itself. It's not scripted enough for there to be any hidden meanings, you know? If Shane were a demon he'd probably have mentioned it by now.
And I'm not very far into it, I just watched the True Crime episode where they went over JonBenet Ramsey, and like... OK most of the series is Ryan freaking out about things and Shane rolling his eyes, but this one was really clearly Shane being upset about a murdered child that he's old enough to remember the realtime of, and just really clearly being squicked out about it and literally closing his eyes rather than animatedly debating it. He's so clearly just a guy who doesn't care about ghost stories, and has a pretty normal level of semi-interest in true crime, and I was exactly of his same mind with Ramsey because I, too, remember that case as it unfolded and being really sick over it, that poor child and her weird bullshit family, and I almost didn't watch the episode but I was like... you know... these guys are like... I trust them, I can't imagine how they're going to make this not super gross, but at least they won't luridly speculate. And they didn't. Shane peering through his fingers with his face in a grimace and saying "A man's... DNA?..." and Ryan saying "No not that! Not that. It's terrible but it's not quite that terrible."
So like. No, it's not that Shane is a supernaturally unafraid creature, it's that he's just a guy who's scared of normal stuff, like how gross humans can be to each other, and not scared of ghosts or aliens or demons because his belief system doesn't particularly include them. He likes cryptids, he's not particularly timid, he's not upset by much, but he absolutely can't stomach the thought of a little girl getting sexually abused, because that's among the most abhorrent things to decent people in our society even though our media seems pretty obsessed with it and boy do we let a lot of artists who are into that make popular art in our society, hmm. So I find him pretty relatable actually! And not just because I've spent most of my adult life now with a partner who's pretty unflappable about most things but occasionally gets squicked the fuck out, usually by objectively horrible things.
Anyhow. No, I don't want to write fanfic about it and I don't want to read fanfic about it, I'm just enjoying just uncritically watching a thing and not feeling like i have to leave the room halfway through. I do that, sometimes, with TV, when I'm not sure-- someone puts it on, and I literally go stand near the door, or sit at the edge of the room, so that if I don't like it I don't have to expend the energy of getting sucked into it anyway. The very instant some dude leers at a lady or something horribly violent happens, I can just go.
It turns out their formula of, like, fourteen to twenty-four minutes per episode, plus seven to nine minutes per postmortem, is a really good size chunk of time that I can commit to and waste without ill conscience. And it's good that I've got Dude watching it too; I dont' think he'd mind if I went ahead without him, but I feel weird doing it, so I don't, and that way I don't binge it.
So here's a bunch of hotlinked gifs, if you too miss gifsets. They'll break if Tumblr moves them but in the meantime, I'm sticking it to the man by hotlinking.
Shane: If I die here right now, I don't want you to take me home. I want you to leave my body to rot.
Ryan: I won't do that.
Shane: Why not?
Ryan: 'Cause it's fuckin' weird!
Not transcribing it, it's just Ryan asking demons to kill Shane while Shane looks appealingly into the camera, but this is a good example of how angles and lighting sometimes can confusingly make it look like Shane is the hot one, but then he turns his head and you're like christ, comb your hair one time!!!
My transcription is that the two of them are discussing survival tactics and Shane is being gross while Ryan professes to prefer death to doing gross things. My objective take on this gif is that it shows one of the things that drives me nuts about the production values: two different-colored light sources. WHYYY please, someone, get them some daylight bulbs in there, there's no reason to torture your camera's auto white balance like this. Surely someone on staff at Buzzfeed fucking knows basic photographic shit like fucking white balance.
Ahhh that was self-indulgent. Back to the grind. In other news, I did actually finally beat my embroidery machine into submission long enough to make the machine-sewn portion of my mother's Christmas gift, so now I just have to hand-sew the rest over the course of today and probably the car ride tomorrow. No big!
(It's a... hot pad for the table maybe, only I don't know that I made it washable, so uh, maybe it's just. a pointless eight-inch quilted square. for decorative purposes. with a sarcastic slogan on it. Yeahhhh!)
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Date: 2019-01-10 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-10 06:44 pm (UTC)ok that's some innocent commercial website but still
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Date: 2019-01-10 05:18 pm (UTC)I find both Ryan and Shane attractive, because they are both attractive.
This PICK ONE-ism drives me batty.
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Date: 2019-01-10 06:48 pm (UTC)In my case, I think they're both inoffensive-looking, but I don't really think either one is like, scha-wingg, you know? I don't mind watching either one do whatever the hell they're doing. I just wish Shane would buy a real coat.
I have kind of a niggling worry that the real problem is that they're both too young for me. Like, they're visibly not TV Perfect Ageless, but they're also visibly, like, 30, and that's. Just too young. I'm an old lady and I can't handle the drama of 30-year-olds. 30 is the new 20. I'm increasingly ridiculous the more I think this through. This is hilarious.