David Phillip

hi, I'm David Phillip (you may call me that, or any variation of either name). I'm an aromantic white trans man (19) into things left of center and of a vague 'campiness'. right now I am a freshman English major with no plans for my life unfortunately. I am mainly active on Tumblr and have a casual approach to most things. I like to talk about most anything!

about

ummm idk what else to say that my intro does not make clear...I am neurotypical in my mind. I don't have money so I can't contribute to aid besides sharing..I am a rather boring person I think, but I do try and learn about the interests of my friends :-].
I really enjoy..not quite analyzing, but jotting down thoughts on art I'm actively going through. I'll make posts for each episode or periodically, noting things that align or guessing at what things mean. currently I am doing this for Twin Peaks (S2), PMMM (ep 3), and Pluribus. I may also do this with school-assigned works. for movies, I have a Letterboxd, and sometimes I will post my reviews to my blog if I am proud of them - even if I don't, I like to reblog gifs & posts about a movie after I've seen it so get used to that lol.
despite this, i'm not really interested in any "fandom things" - I'm not good at shipping or making headcanons and stuff like that, it's just not how my brain works. I like learning other peoples - even conflicting headcanons, if the evidence is fair on both sides - but I like treating the original text as separate, with fandom as interpretative of it but still distinct. like a paper or something. so if you are here for fandom things - By Me - you won't get them.please DNI if you believe transandrophobia is a Thing, if you post anything near sincere (non-abusive, not seriously taken) incest or pedophilia (even fictional characters or jokes about either one I Do Not Want To See It, I don't care.), and if you don't think aromantic & asexual people are valid & such.

Interests

my strongest interest is actually my original characters, which I have separated into a (very short don't worry) section. I cannot stress enough that I do not ever shut up about them. but anyway:

  • 70s/80s music, usually some variation of soft rock. yes, yes, fork found in kitchen drawer. I also enjoy pop or dance music, of most varieties - my taste is very mainstream sadly.

  • okay ANOTHER fork but I am and have been a very big fan of David Byrne's solo work & Talking Heads.

  • movie wise, I guess I would say, not cult classic but video store classic. Hastings classics. Half-Price Books classics. I haven't seen many Cinema Top Picks is what I mean, but I have seen some curveballs. I like things that touch my heart and things that are a little awkward or cold, and I want to watch more musicals. if it sticks to its guns, I'll respect it. I haven't seen a lot of recent movies, however. #broke. my top four (🤓👆) is Xanadu, True Stories, Jaws..and many things fighting for the fourth.

  • I watch Star Trek :-D! I am currently in season 5 of DS9 and season 2 of Voyager. consequently this means most of the stuff I reblog is TOS & TNG, because I have finished them and they didn't have spoilers anyway, but I post my thoughts more readily about episodes of those two.

  • I'm not into JJBA anymore, but many of my friends & mutuals I met when I was + and are still into it, so I do reblog it fairly often. I also do coloring of panels sometimes, but not so much as I used to.

  • I am also an enjoyer of: Rankin/Bass, pokemon, slop tv, fishes, etcetera. very plain yes.

warnings

though I feel too uncomfortable morally to label it as anything.. specific, I do have some type of anxious disorder. from what I can tell, it causes me to spiral about various things out of the blue*, often about "representation", people lying to me, suicide, or (especially) the ethical correctness of being a man & wanting very badly to be a real man. I understand if people find these aggravating to be around, I find them deeply embarrassing myself, which is why I'm labeling it as a Warning. because this is a warning. I am trying to get better about this, but I also struggle with responding to people trying to help, either not knowing what to say or worse, so don't feel obligated to reply. I also don't consider myself neurodivergent, I just have a problem, I don't need to take away from real people.
*I have trouble remembering what triggers these things or what I do during a spiral.

my ocs

I have two oc stories, neither one is completely plotted out or 'planned' to be made. one of them is still unnamed, but is a light 'sci fantasy' story about a very lonely young woman (Goodei) who gets ordered to save her species by her god - who explicitly doesn't interfere with the world by her tenets...
the more prominent one is vinyl hell, a..something set in worlds (mainly one for new wave & adjacent) where all song characters are there / personified, and completely unaware of the human world & stuff. it follows an amnesiac who isn't a song there (Jess) and hates everything there while it hates him back, and a song who views him as her ticket out once he remembers things (Gittens), having grown exhausted of her life after ~decades of it.