#I KNOW I'M CRINGE but i like them

[spottedloaf]

OKAY OKAY LISTEN THEY'RE SILLY ☹️

#hot tamales #like the candy #spooky month #candy dealer #spooky month candy dealer #spooky month ignacio #I KNOW I'M CRINGE but i like them

[circesoracle]

Destiny 2 is a silly little looter shooter but also its a story about love and it did matter and continues to matter at every turn. Destiny 2 is the opposite of that post about the love being there but not changing anything. the love is there and it changes everything. we succeed because Elsie tells her sister that she's there and she loves her and she trusts her and she won't leave again. we get Mara back because Shuro Chi loved her. we defeat Savathun because she cares, because she feels betrayed, because she feels her sisters were betrayed with her and that care and love blinds her. we live because Mara learns to open herself up to love and refuses to walk away from her brother again and turns back for him this time. we win because Eramis loves her people too much to fully buy into the Witness and we win because Eido believes there's good in everyone and refuses to live in a world where people can't change. we win because Taranis loved Riven and their children and defied his own nature and starved himself to give them that love. we win because Rasputin loves humanity so much even though he was never meant to because Ana loved him so much she taught him every beautiful thing she knew. we win because despite their differences Ikora loves Zavala and Zavala loves Ikora and they couldn't live without each other. we win because Eris loved her fireteam too much to let phantoms of them ruin that love and she lived because Brya loved her enough to give her one last chance. we win because our ghost loves us. just because he loves us so much. and because we love him. and because Cayde loves Sundance and wants to spend eternity with her. we win because at every turn the characters choose to love and trust and forgive.

#destiny 2 #d2 #the final shape #I'm normal about it though #i know this is probably cringe Im just literally unwell and I also saw a man whining that tfs was “emasculating” #which like buddy I dont know what game youre playing #but the one i play is about love and forgiveness and wishes and magic and who has the prettiest outfits #edit: thank you to the person who added tags about Osiris and Saint and Sagira! I wanted to add them but #I never got to play Saint's season *or* Lost so didn't know precisely how to word it but they got it!

[dontfuckmylifewtf]

No matter how weird the questions are that Neil Gaiman gets (or for the matter we see because he answered them), I would like to remind everyone, that having around 80.000 asks in your inbox gives you a lot to choose from.

Meaning, that Neil Gaiman probably actively chooses from these 80.000 questions what he answers.

So for the love of god, stop bullying the people asking "cringe" questions. They probably didn't expect to get an answer anyways, and Neil chose to answer them.

#good omens #the sandman #← tagging these because they're the most frequent 'cringe question' source #neil gaiman #just think of the weird bot questions you get and decide not to answer #it's not like he's obliged to answer those questions #this is just a theory tho maybe he keeps answering them because they're the first and he kinda made a system #I'm by all means not all knowing #just a hypothesis #maybe you know or think that too but I saw enough notes and tags that say that at least a small group does the same #and if you don't like a question you don't have to react to it ffs

[uncanny-tranny]

I decided to go through my old warm-up notebooks from my honours english class and in one of the warm-up prompts, I said I wanted my superpower to be "controlling the effects of [my] puberty," and I'm glad to say that I've gotten that superpower. It took a very long time, but that's a superpower I can check off my list

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #ngl though i felt my very soul wince while reading some of them (including that) #in my old self's defense: i was incredibly dysphoric and had Many Unresolved Issues #i also wasn't really masking in that class and didn't know i should probably not be honest with my notebook #my teacher said that she'd only grade warm-ups we wanted graded and she'd only *potentially* read others 'for fun' #also i always didn't like the 'what superpower would YOU want?' question because. it just annoyed me to know it's impossible to have #(besides the puberty superpower lmao) #as much as i believe in being kind to your past self/selves that doesn't mean i'm not cringing about it 😭 #just so long as you don't turn the cringe into self-hatred i suppose #you cannot hate yourself into being better♡♡ #WAIT I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IN ONE OF THE WARM-UPS I WROTE ABOUT A LESBIAN ROBOT #NEVER MIND I'M DONE CRINGING #man i should make that into a proper short story like. what a concept

[ad-1812]

they look so good with their traumatic moments😍🥰

#soviper #sova x viper #valorant #even here they r slaying like daaamn #idk but seeing them in pain is beautiful #I KNOW I SOUND WEIRD BUT LISTEN #it's like turning points in their stories the awawkening moment or smth #already have so many scenarios with them sharing their experience and comforting each other #BUT OFC AFTER MORE SUFFERING YKNOW HAHAH #i'm crazy and cringe pls don't mind me

[thresholdbb]

Kate's reaction to Time and Again was, "I wore this?" 🤣

#no memories just vibes #have it janeway #Robbie and Garrett were all over it though lol #I keep vaccinating between tickled and mortified by the cringe factor #I don't remember which stories I wrote up from last weekend #did I put up pics of the whole look??? idek #def don't expect them to remember some random Tuesday at work 30 years ago #I can't even remember what work clothes I wore like 10 years ago #I didn't even know what day it was I am fully back in the timeless void y'all #me 'I'm sorry to be talking to you about something so serious while wearing something so ridiculous' #yeah still leaning more mortified honestly I am embarrassing #not posting more videos but I still have stories #maybe I'll shut up eventually but that day was not today

[paperhats-and-evil-schemes]

Me: //brushing up on my old Paperhat fanfics to make sure I'm getting details right for the new one//

Me @ my past readers:

#paperhat #villainous #OP #HOW DID ANYBODY ENJOY THESE??? LMFAO #THE GRAMMAR IS AWFUL I REPEATED SO MANY PHRASES WAY TOO MUCH WTF #SO MANY UNNECESSARY EPITHETS #THE CRINGE DIALOGUE #WTF #THE AMOUNT OF BULLFUCKINGSHITTERY THAT PPL LET ME GET AWAY WITH BACK THEN. ASTOUNDING. #IF I DIDNT HAVE SUCH A HARD TIME LOOKING BACK ON THESE DUMB THINGS ID GO BACK AND REWRITE THE SHIT OUTTA EM #GOD #AWFUL #Like sure I get that the concepts themselves work fine but wow reading these back makes me physically cringe #Just from like... how bad on a technical level that the writing //itself// is #Look I know that cringe culture is dead but THAT DOESN'T HELP STOP ME FROM FUCKING CRINGING AT THIS GARBAGE #Yeesh. Oh well. I guess I was never a professional or anything lol. But WOW #I mean I'm glad that people enjoyed them back then regardless of the flaws but man. MANNNNN...... #I can do better #One day I will prove it lmao #Whenever I get around to finishing another goddamn fic lol

[quinloki]

Canon Characters vs OC vs x Reader

Disclaimer: This is just my two cents, and my perspective on things, and I'm not trying to lay down the law for everyone. I needed to just put this to words though, in order to sleep.

I was thinking about this because of a post I saw, and some, we'll say, kind of useless comments associated with the post. Mean-spirited stuff.

Normally, in one ear and out the other, but the vibes just kicked me off down a rabbit hole of sorts an I wanted to try to put some of my thoughts to words.

First, some style vibes:

Canon x Canon Canon/Canon stories are, to me, like reading an episode of that show. I'm sitting down in front of a TV or whatever, and I'm experiencing the story As A Viewer. I like this style because I don't really have to expend much energy and I just kind of roll with whatever's happening. Generally some sort of 3rd person perspective.

OC x canon OC/Canon stories are like being on a carnival ride. I'm sitting in a car on a roller-coaster, and maybe the OC is sitting next me. I'm experiencing the story more deeply than strictly canon stories, but my connection with the OC is no deeper than say, my connection with Katniss Everdeen when I read The Hunger Games. Sometimes 3rd person, sometimes first person.

Reader x canon Reader/Canon (or Reader x/ OC) is like putting on a VR helmet. I don't get much physical input about the "Reader OC" because I'm experiencing the story through their eyes. I don't expect the reader to be me, but there's a bigger feeling of immersion to be had. Some description might happen cause it's relevant to the story, and it's still a type of ride, I can't jump the rails on the roller coaster, after all. (Even with a VN you still follow the tracks). Sometimes first person, sometimes second person (I'm partial to 2nd person perspective, but that's just me).

I love Fan Fiction, I love it. All of it, and man even more than anything, what I love is that I'm going to dislike 80% of it. Because that 80% was written for someone who is not me. (Hell, that number's probably closer to 99% if we're looking at ALL fandoms, but I digress).

Second - The VENT:

What got me the most in the post that prompted this, was someone saying "Bring back the Mary Sue OCs!" and then they went on to describe something more detailed, and I just -

Look, respectfully, fuck you.

The point is, you're not going to be happy no matter what. Whether it's "mary sue" OCs, or x readers, or alternative universes, or a ship you don't like, you're going to find something to be unhappy about.

Cause people have been bitching about all styles of fan fiction since the first "You've Got Mail" chimed in 1991. And until 1998 and ff.net you really had to hunt for it, and until 2007 and Ao3 the idea of tagging a fic for any reason wasn't really a thing. Every click was a surprise! \o/

I just have seen the same song and dance a dozen times. It's exhausting. People become okay with OCs and decide x readers are the enemy, and before that OCs were *all* Mary Sues and cringe and people who made OCs were the enemy, and before OCs people who wrote even a little OOC were the enemy, and people who wrote AUs were the enemy, and you can write fan fic but it HAS to be Canon Compliant, and everyone MUST be in-character at all times - "They would not fucking say that" was the enemy.

Look, just please - please - in any capacity, stop it with the "All X style of story telling is crap" mindset. There's over a dozen different ways to do x readers alone. I know 20 x reader writers and I don't think any of us have the same style, preferences, or vibes.

I've had a lot of comments along the lines of "I thought I hated x readers, but I really loved this." on a few different fics I've written. Sometimes it's not the style of the fic, sometimes it's the style of the writer, and my Brother In Christ - you're going to have to read some awful shit to shuffle through the thousands of writers out there to find the vibes that resonate with you.

Ostracizing entire swathes of fan fic because you need something to be "The Enemy" so you can lift up something else, and then bitching you can't find anything new to read seems like a personal problem.

And I know y'all are scrolling by TONS of posts that don't interest you, every day, as a matter of course. So don't give me that "clogging up the tag" BS, because we deserve to be here same as anyone else in the fandom.

#quin grumbles #I'm so aggravated I don't even really know how to tag this #like almost 30 years of it I'm just so done #I just wonder what amazing stories we're not getting #cause of some fucker using Mary Sue to belittle someone #or someone beating someone else over the head with plot armor because their protag survived something terrible? #How many “Oh.” moments have been missed because someone criticized the very concept of reader insert? #I'm way past my usual bedtime so I'm just rambling at this point #and I am being meaner than I'd like #but JFC #I'm not going to let people's bullshit opinions stop me or anyone else from writing if I can avoid it. #Write what you want #gush about it #talk about it #TELL ME ABOUT IT #IDGAF if it's cringe or overpowered or broken or flawless or an OC or a reader with a name or WHATEVER #If it brings you joy #then do it #and if people are too mean to scroll by it when it's not their thing #and then complain like they're entitled to do so #block 'em. #and tell me who they are so I can block them too #then write more #cause I promise it'll bring someone else joy too

[angele-midnight]

Why are so many people on Tumblr/Twitter claiming Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are bad shows??? "They're not mid shows guys they're just bad" can y'all give me one concrete reason they're bad besides debunked "controversies" or things that other people told you were bad about em?

Like I'm halfway convinced all of these people claiming these are such bad shows and are annoyed about em haven't actually watched them - "I don't need to watch a show to know it's bad" pretty sure you do if you want to have an informed opinion, that goes for everything actually.

If you're annoyed by the hype and the fan culture?? That's fine we all got our things but that doesn't make the shows themselves bad I think y'all just like having someone to poke fun of without feeling like a bully and honestly?? That seems like a miserable way to live.

#This is specifically about that mid shows post going around #What other people like and consider good/bad/mid is none of your business and not a reason to make fun of them #Y'all think you're being SO progressive and kind when you're still being cruel to people online for the smallest shit #You don't like it?? Don't interact with it just block and move on #You curate your own internet experience it's not that hard #I don't like rwby or one piece and those come up on my dash all the time it's so easy to ignore and move on #I don't call those shows bad because surprise! I've never seen them so I don't know! #hazbin hotel #helluva boss #Y'all claim cringe culture is dead but still mock people who like “cringy” stuff like any of this is gonna matter in five years #And mark my words I'm gonna get called cringe or some shit for this post #When y'all should be thinking about why you take joy from calling people shit on the internet like it's gonna make you happy #Years long mutuals of mine are even jumping on the mockery bandwagon!! I've followed y'all for almost a decade what is going on

[can-of-slorgs]

Finished the Seashells collection a couple of weeks ago, so I drew my girl who did it all possible.

#neopets #neotag #neoart #aisha #god i HATE RESTOCKING SDFG #I have fun memories now that weeks have passed and this drawing is kinda old and forgot to upload it #but my gods was it a nightmare on the last stretch HSHJS #i actually finished the shenkuu one too before i finished this drawing oOOPS; #anyways aishas are fun to draw just found out #unrelated how did the ogrin drawing got 250+ notes like what????? ?? ?? #I wasn't even that proud of it #but to everyone that commented nice things i've read you all and have made 100% of the motivation i've been having lately hahaha #I should draw my neo characters more ofter but;;; hmmm...... I'm still working them outttttt #and i don't want to present cringe on the neotag HASJKDAS #at least not for now LMFAO #vin doods #to whoever is reading my tags by this point i'd love receiving requests in my inbox #I'm always in look for ideas #art trades as well!! #although i know no one here i'm still open for them ahaha #ok too much rambling

[welcometogrouchland]

[ID: a coloured and shaded digital sketch of Luz and Lilith from the owl house. They're depicted with their designs from For the Future. Luz is tackle-hugging Lilith, ugly crying and exclaiming "I missed you so much". Lilith braces for the hug and smiles with tears also in her eyes. The background is a pale yellow colour and previous versions of the sketch can be seen at low opacity behind the full drawing. End ID]

When you see your cool aunt (actually a loser but you love her) for the first time in months and she has a badass apocalypse makeover but still somehow looks like a librarian

#the owl house #toh #luz noceda #lilith clawthorne #I have a distinct feeling they won't reunite until the last episode (which I'm cool with #we're kinda busy rn) #but that won't stop me from imagining self-indulgent scenarios!! I love their relationship so much #luz really went from calling Lilith a bitch in the only way the disney channel would allow to being like. okay she's pathetic #in the first few episodes of season 2 and then by elsewhere and elsewhen when Lilith is visibly doing better luz is so supportive #of like. her new job and hobbies and stuff #and Lilith is still the same cringe fail slug woman we all know and love but she cares about Luz! #she wants to help her and share her interests with her! #they're so lame together and I adore them soooo much. adhd and autism best friends forever (real) #this was a quick doodle that i put way too mucn effort into colouring and posing wise to not post #I'm proud of the shading not bc it's especially intricate or pretty #but because the process was entirely me colour picking each individual colour and futzing with it until i got coherent shading #it's not something i do often but i love to practice it cause i feel like it improves my colour sense #and also allows me to micro manage the palette #like how Luz's azura outfit and the inside of her mouth and Lilith's skin are all the same shade of off-white #BUT i gave Lilith's a warmer shading tone (bc it's skin and has blood beneath it) while Luz's teeth has a yellow shading cast #(since that's the colour teeth turn w/o enamel and most ppls teeth is a yellowy off-white anyway) and then Luz's outfit has a teal cast! #bc i wanted white fabric to look different to pale white skin or teeth #that's such a niche thing to have fun doing and appreciate abt my own work but like. it's there! #I'm not a master of colour by any means it's just nice to be able to do that

[mikunology]

thinks about kagamine rin and len tonight

tbh Rin is definitely the type to tease Len a lot and call him a nerd and goof around with him but she also genuinely gets angry when he starts self-deprecating. like it makes her mad that he could think of himself in such a low light because even though she likes driving him up the wall in her typical big sister way she really thinks the world of him and she wishes he could see how talented and smart and cool he already is

is Kagamine Rin Kagamine Len's bratty big sister who bosses him around and plays pranks on him? yes. is Kagamine Rin also Kagamine Len's biggest hypewoman and fan who will drive flat anyone who tries to argue otherwise? also yes.

#vocal android verse #musings #I'm thinking of them. i feel really cringe tonight but thinking of them #btw i notice i tend to say rin gets mad at a lot of things #but i think it's because she doesn't know what to do with soft emotions like worry or sibling love or sadness or guilt #so she just covers it up by Being Angry™ #is that a good thing? tbh not always. but yknow

[worksby-d]

i just think that y/n's friends would tease her (affectionate) about being with old man andy (they're jealous) 😣💕 and she'd always assure there's only one dilf for her!!! but alas ✨ and andy would find it funnyyy too

#me realizing i don't know how andy would text????? #this is def a great mentor universe #i miss them #they're sooooo alive in my brain #andy barber #andy barber x reader #andy barber headcanon #a great mentor series #i kinda hate this cause like ??? irrelevant #but i just want to post things!! i want to post little things i think of instead of forcing myself to make them big things! #why do i like when other people share cute lil things but i'm cringing hard as hell @ me

[byanyan]

for munday... lemme show u the lil space I spent so much of last week getting set up

#it's not FINISHED finished... but most of what's left to do is just decorating further/adjusting the decorations i've been playing with #exposing myself a little by showing u the deco i have so far but like... w/e u guys know by now that i'm cringe lmao #i'm!!! v happy with it tho!!! esp the fairy lights... GOD those are so perfect i'm in love w them... #the pic doesn't do them justice the colours are SO pretty akjshfds #anyway... time to sit down & see if i can't do a little writing uvu #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ ooc ⋮ don't @ me.

[dawdlecentric]

Yeag...

#boniji #bocchi x nijika #hitori x nijika #am I allowed to be cringe over a rare ship on tumblr dot com in the dwindling months of 2023? #like I didn't expect this pairing to become my recent comfort ship in these trying times #one time I got curious and decided to read some fanfics back in February (?) It didn't click to me yet. I just think it's cute and moved on #but months later it came back to me full force in July and the next thing I know I went into a gay trance (just like Bocchi in ep10) #and starts searching for fanarts and obsessing over them #this ship is seriously my coping mechanism during a stressful time #sometimes a ship is what keeps a fixation (sanity) going #gathering the crumbs from both anime & manga 'Mmm...scrumptious~ 🤤😋' #episode 8 my beloved 👐💕 #fr what's with me and rare pairs. I'm not that even big of a shipper #but this is actually my first time where the tag of the ship (on tumblr) is basically inactive #or only sometimes gets tagged when other ships are involved 😭 #like I know there are some great art in the tags but it's just...not enough #it's tough to fixate on smth that's barely have any content for it #well there's one way to fix that... ◉⁠‿⁠◉ #I'm about to be annoying on the tag of this ship #I was gonna tag the main tag but I chickened out. I'll just stay in my niche corner brainrotting over a rarepair 🤐😶 however... #btr #<- using this obscure tag instead lol #my ramblings

[anastacialy]

y'know, i keep making a habit of swinging my bat at hornets nests, but i have to say i'm getting so, so tired of people complaining about shows not making perfect sense when they aren't even close to done. we're four episodes into this season of doctor who. we're four episodes into this season of bridgerton. and yet in both fandoms i keep seeing people whine that such and such didn't make sense or it wasn't explained all the way and by god you guys i think maybe explanations might come later in the season. this is something most viewers will recognize as being called a 'plot.'

#like maybe a tiny bit of media literacy... might save you #and if you think i'm being mean like. its okay if you don't get it at first. it's okay if you don't understand the themes. but maybe #instead of stamping your feet and saying this makes no sense and i hate what they're doing and and and #maybe you could try listening to other people's interpretations of things and you'll find that what the show is trying to tell you becomes #more clear! would you look at that. wild how that happens #like im sorry you're entitled to your opinions but calling things bad writing just because you don't quite get it or it doesn't resonate #with you personally... i don't think you should just say this was shitty and worthless #the examples im using are because both resonate with me btw. 73 yards was existential horror it was hill house and bly manor #(im going to write about this in another post btw bc it compels me so) #it was about the way fear of abandonment can haunt you how mental illness can haunt you how you feel like you can drive people away #just by being yourself (the Woman was Herself what caused ruby to be abandoned was Her it's about her feeling as though she was the cause #of everyone who left her even as a baby even the people who loved her most could decide to not love her at the drop of a hat) #colin bridgerton is masking and faking a personality because it has been proven that time and time again #being Himself is Wrong that he annoys people he makes himself into what people expect of him because he's tired of being abandoned too #his family ignores and does not reply to his letters this season PEN stopped replying to his letters #his brother was cruel to him for being a romantic his friends LAUGHED AT HIM for saying sex is meaningful to him and don't they feel lonely #his Fake Rake persona makes viewers cringe because! its!! fake!!! he's faking it! HE GETS CALLED OUT ON IT TWICE IN EP ONE #if you don't understand he's faking it then that's on you at that point! i don't know! maybe take a minute to sit in the discomfort and ask #why did this show make me react this way and do you think maybe it was on purpose #''73 yards was confusing'' do you think confusion may be one of the ways ruby feels about her abandonment? #there is a theme in all of her episodes so far is it ''badly written'' unclear to you or do you just refuse to think critically about it #txtly #and im sorry for tagging this its just for my blog i kinda wish they still didnt show up in tags if i tag them all the way at the bottom #[old lady ruby voice] ''i used to be able to tag things just for myself once upon a time'' #bridgerton #bridgerton spoilers #doctor who #doctor who spoilers