#missing the forest for the trees i think

[adhd-merlin]

merthur shippers are always like "tee hee I could take you apart with one blow :) do you know how to walk on your knees?? gay!" meanwhile merlin is going around casually dropping lines like "his life is worth a thousand of mine" and "I know him better than I know myself" and "magic isn't just a part of me it IS me. and of course I use it only for arthur"

#missing the forest for the trees i think #i need to make a list of top 5 insane things merlin has said about arthur. we need to make a poll #merthur #merlin #* #1k

[biracy]

I absolutely understand the desire for asexual representation and I really do think that that's something that deserves to be represented in more "mainstream" gay media (how much gay media is actually mainstream is debatable but you know what I mean), but at the same time I just can't get behind posts like, idk, lamenting the loss of potential asexual representation because two guys on TV had nasty gay sex, bc gay sex on TV is not "the norm" no matter how you slice it. Whereeeee is all the media filled with nasty gay sex. Can I see it

#open mick night #it just feels like missing the forest for the trees you know. i feel the exact same way abt non-asexual gay people blaming ace people #for stuff. all this vitriol aimed at the wrong targets #idk i'm most certainly not trying to Do Discourse i just kinda think it's funny #this world some people seem to live in where men are never allowed to be friends and MUST suck and fuck at all times

[genericpuff]

what people assume i'm thinking while i'm working on rekindled: "GRRR I HATE LO AND RACHEL!!! I HATE HER SO MUCH!!! THIS WILL SHOW HER AND HER FANS! THIS WILL SHOW ALL OF THEM! I HOPE RACHEL SEES THIS AND CRIES!!!"

what i'm actually thinking while i work on rekindled: "man i'm having a great time working on this but i can't wait to be done with this panel that's driving me nuts. i wonder how i can get that cool splatter effect rachel did in S1. bright colors make brain go brrrr. i can't wait to get to the part where hades clowns on himself. oof i'm hungry, i need to figure out what to have for dinner tonight. oh look, an 11 hour retrospective on the simpsons-"

#fr i'm vibin' y'all i'm having a great time #ppl see me joke about rekindled being a spite project and just automatically assume i'm SEETHING the whole time i'm working on it #i wouldn't waste time working on something purely out of hate y'all lmao #it's easy to cling to the idea that i hate lore olympus with a blind seething passion due to what i get up to here #and it undoubtedly makes for the easiest explanation that doesn't require any nuance #but i promise you that i still have a lot of love for how LO used to make me feel and what it meant to me once upon a time #i wouldn't be trying so hard to make it emulate the style of S1 to begin with if i didn't love it deep down lol #you're just on an LO critical blog so ofc a lot of what you're gonna see is LO critical stuff LMAO #don't miss the forest for the trees pls <3 #i didn't even include all the times i'm sitting there drawing thinking 'i wanna play video games i wanna play video games i wanna play vid- #lore rekindled #self post

[transhawks]

Controversial question maybe?? But I don’t get the people wanting Keigo’s arc to finish up realizing he can be a hero without the quirk. Like yeah sure, but tbh, you can’t really be a good hero without the quirk so I’m just confused as to why some people want that to be his conclusion

"can’t really be a good hero without the quirk"

uhh im not sure I agree with this. In fact, I think you need to like....reread something.....it's my hero academia, here's chapter one.

#asks #deku's about to give up his whole quirk and for what #people's awful reading comprehension #im sorry this is so snarky but im just a little blind sided and I think this is very much a case of readers missing the forest for the tree

[tearlessrain]

sometimes I think we’ve made the “kink in public” debate more complicated than it needs to be by making it entirely a consent thing, because an inevitable consequence of going out in public is you’re going to see things you didn’t consent to see and it’s not the end of the world. I didn’t consent to seeing a dude shit on the sidewalk that one time in seattle but I sure did, and frankly I would have been less upset to see someone walking their partner on a leash because that wouldn’t have caused there to be shit on the sidewalk. seeing something you don’t like passing by isn’t going to irreversibly traumatize anyone. it’s just a side effect of Living In A Society(tm)

the reason you shouldn’t do a kink scene in public is the same reason you shouldn’t watch tiktoks at full volume with no headphones on the bus: it’s just kind of rude and obnoxious, and there’s a time and a place, and the grocery store is not it. people are trying to get to the cheez-its and you’re distracting them and impeding foot traffic.

which, incidentally, is one more reason why kink at pride is fine.

#consent is important but I think sometimes #we kinda miss the forest for the trees

[briwhosaysni]

I do not regret going to grad school, and I do not regret moving for my program, but I am absolutely sick and tired of living in the fucking desert

It should not be 97° F in fucking May

I wish we still had our chest freezer so I could curl up inside it and take a nap

#personal #the sooner i can move back to the pnw the better #didn't think i would miss the rain but i was wrong #and i *desperately* miss the comfortable temps #97° in may. i'm almost offended #to be clear: deserts are a beautiful complex and thriving ecosystem with their own unique beauty and charms #however i am a coastal forest creature who's lived in a temperate rainforest for most of my life and i was not meant for this climate #i miss trees :( #i miss summer being a month or two long instead of 3/4 of the year #fingers crossed we can renew our lease for 6 months rather than a full year so we can move back in march instead of next august

[petr1kov]

honestly, i think the urge to dunk on someone who has terrible opinions on some form of media sometimes make people go too far and emit opinions under a utilitarian lens that diminish the importance of art as a whole. it's like, sure, some people do lose perspective sometimes and need to 'touch grass' when that happens, but it's definitely not because they dared to care about a work of fiction in some meaningful way

#i see that type of talk a lot with superhero movies and such like 'oh they're just comic book characters why care' #and it's like. i don't even like superhero movies or comics myself but it feels insulting to me even then lol #this type of criticism misses tee forest for the trees and leads nowhere i think

[last-flight-of-fancy]

“Kingdom Hearts being an epic slow burn gay romance would be incredibly impactful to people both personally and as a landmark in queer representation by extremely popular and established characters. It has decades of legitimate buildup and has the potential to be both incredibly validating to queer fans everywhere and even possibly sway the minds of those who love the characters but may not have much contact or knowledge of queerness.”

and

“The Kingdom Hearts series is honestly kind of unique in its unabashed emotional sincerity. How it treats friendships and non-romantic bonds as being both extremely important and powerful, never giving the impression that friendship is lesser to romance, is depressingly still somewhat of a rarity in media. This is very important and validating to many, particularly aromantics but also most everyone who is just Tired of how friendships and romance are often presented in tiers of importance.”

are concepts that can and should co-exist.

#like i get it. there really is nothing quite like kh when it comes to how it treats the bonds between characters #and the latter is just as legitimate! #but i do think that the people who argue (in good faith) that kh shouldnt make anyone canon- #-are kind of missing the forest for the trees #(i specify in good faith bc we all know the bad faith ones are just co-opting the argument to hide their homophobia) #(and oh boy are *most* of them in bad faith. but i wanna take a sec to talk about this bc there are good faith ones out there) #and what i mean by that is that... well first of all making one ship canon doesn't invalidate all the other examples of stunning displays of #-the power of friendship #second of all i would like you to consider the framing of this #if no ship becomes canon and it's purely platonic for all the OC's... how is it different from any other kids show with no couples? #in terms of representing friendship as not being less than romance? #it's still not bad don't get me wrong. what i'm saying is that media DOES exist #there are shows and books and games out there where there are no couples to speak of #maybe not terribly common but they're out there #but a slow burn epic gay romance where platonic connections are legitimately just as important and powerful? i sure af havent seen it #sora being in love with riku and still willing to sacrifice himself (TWICE) to save kairi... is that not exactly what you want? #to show that the platonic connection is not lesser? that its just as important? #i dunno i've been turning this over in my brain all afternoon thinking about it #stop talking to yourself flight

[greensaplinggrace]

Can I join the club of wanting the darkling to be more monstrous and an eldritch horror cause damn if that isn’t super fun to explore

hhhhh yes!! eldritch horror darkling is so interesting like I am always thinking about just how far his powers can go and the effects being a shadow summoner could have on him at a deep, primal level. like I love the idea of him acting just this side of human, but he always knows when you're approaching he can feel you in the air he can grab you from anywhere he is a shadow creature but not because he is master of shadow and they all bow to him. anyways...

#aleksander morozova #ajskldfjs #shadow and bone #sab #the darkling #grishaverse #i've said it before but the idea of him being in a forest and being able to feel every creature within through the shadows there #is so incredibly fascinating to me #like i have this visceral image in my head of an army trying to sneak up on him through the trees #and then there's SCREAMING #and he barely even moves #but when alina goes to leave everybody is *dead* and strewn from the trees #gore tw #oops #i hope this kind of thing doesn't upset you aljksdkl #i just constantly think about the horror aspects of his character #like if you're asking me we're missing out #all he basically does in the books and show is like... use the cut #whatever the cut is just a blade #i want him to BE shadow i want it in his blood #anyways it is always thinking about eldritch abomination darkling hours #welcome to the club #glitter50000 #<3 #myramblings #asks and answers #sorry for the ramble lmfao #i dont think you guys realize just how much i think about these characters. like it is ALL the time #also the problem with me in this fandom is that i will see anti darklina art and be like 👀👀 this depiction of the darkling is SOOOO good #but i cannot reblog it because it will piss the antis off

[landwriter]

i have never done one of them tumblr videos but winter is the prettiest season here and i wanted to share the extremely specific sight of snow drifting off conifers and being caught in the afternoon sun

my goal craft-wise as a burgeoning little words doer is to be able to describe something like this and do it justice

#about me #about the MOUNTAINS #and my TREES #it's a strange thing to be responsible to a forest you know #to be a guest in a place with towering old hems and doug firs and stately ponderosas #a forest studded with glacial erratics the size of my old apartment #resting on the breast of a mountain range older than rockies #it's a strange thing to be a lifeform that's the exception and not the rule after a lifetime of cities #and for all i miss city things #and sometimes i do #for all the downsides of rural living #i am so glad for this #it fills me with an awful sadness to think i might've gone my whole life never living in a place like this #never learning to be comfortable in the dark #never learning how to know a bit of land #but mostly #never learning to be as soft as this place has made me #as gentle and animal and wondering and content #whoever has read all these tags hi now you know where all my oaths shit comes from lmao #outside the cabin

[ryssabrin]

incredibly cold take but i really do not understand how bl*od/weave became the most popular origin/origin ship, both for each character or like. just in general. like they both make way more sense in a romance with wyll than with each other and more compelling cases could also def be made for gale/shadowheart (both having a crisis of faith and struggling to define their identity outside of said faith) and astarion/karlach (touch-averse vs touch-starved and jaded pessimism vs boundless optimism). hell i'd even see gale/lae'zel before i'd see gale with astarion. they simply do not like or respect each other. it's literally anders/fenris all over again tbh.

#madelyn rambles #i think the prevalence at least in fandom spaces #comes from either gale fans or astarion fans wanting to play their respective origin #to see all of their specific scenes and such #but they also want to do a romance #and for a lot of gale fans the next best romance is astarion #and vice versa #so it's become this monolith among a lot of fans #that act like it's just such an obvious pairing #and ofc ship and let ship it's not that deep #but they're really missing the forest for the trees here lmao #sometimes things that are popular or worse etc etc

[flashhwing]

I love when I tell people I’m from Colorado and they’re like “oh Colorado’s gorgeous” oh buddy not where I grew up. I still think any area with non-planted trees feels exotic

#like. caveats obviously. a pine forest feels like home coz we went to the mountains often enough #fjsksjsh I remember the first time we went to New York and I said to my parents ‘are you sure were in New York? it feels like florida’ #because. because there was a leafy green forest next to the road #I have lived IN THE WOODS in New Jersey for the last eight years and I’m still not used to there just Being Trees everywhere #most of Colorado is plains in my experience #a friend recently moved there from New Jersey and she described the state as ‘very yellow’ and ‘I miss autumn’ #y’know I don’t think I’ve ever seen any part of Colorado other than the mountains portrayed on television #so that’s where people get the impression #there ARE beautiful parts of Colorado don’t het me wrong. but it’s the mountains #they don’t even make up half the terrain there #they certainly don’t make up a majority of the population #this has been a post

[kickasstorrents]

im realizing lately i really am like utterly & completely terrified of people leaving me either for no reason . or for something i think is a good enough reason to suddenly hate me & want to throw rocks at me & hit me with sticks & crucify me upside down & skin me & spit on me etc. , But really its like either not a problem at all or its just a regular problem that gets better from talking

#its crazy how long you can suffer with something really intensely & not realize how like genuinely clinical it is until like IDK #God presents it to you thru orchestrating a series of events that make you realize it suddenly #or you suddenly are enlightened what the sound of one hand clapping is or w/e thru incident #i am truly invisible to myself sometimes idk why that is either bc that too is really largely invisible #my mom says i miss the forest for the trees a lot & i wld say the same thing to her but also i think its more like missing the trees for th #e forest

[aftonenterprise-moved]

remember when matpat was like "BY THE AMOUNT OF MINIMUM WAGE MIKE IS MAKING WE CAN DEDUCE THIS GAME TAKES PLACE IN 1987" youre fucking INSANE dude. THE CHECK LITERALLY SAID "20XX" ON IT

#ooc #it makes me so. ggh.AAAHHHHHH #I CANT ARTICULATE WHY IT MAKES ME SO MAD #BUT IM GOING TO TRY #FNAF THEORIES ARE ALWAYS FOCUSED ON THE LOGISTICS OF THE SERIES AND WHAT 'MAKES SENSE' FOR THE TIME PERIOD AND WHAT MAKES SENSE AS PER NUMB #NUMBERS** AND I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY BECAUSE MATPAT HIMSELF DOES NOT THEORIZE IN A FICTIONAL META FANTASY WAY #MATPAT TAKES FANTASY FICTIONAL STORIES AND TRIES TO APPLY REAL LIFE LOGIC AND MATH TO IT TO MAKE SENSE OF IT #WHICH IS OKAY. GO RIGHT AHEAD. DO THAT #BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT *FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS* IS ABOUT AND I DOUBT IT WAS A COMPONENT SCOTT CAWTHON WAS FUCKING WORRIED ABOUT WHEN WRITING #THE STORY CONSIDERING 99% OF SCOTTS INTIIAL WORK WAS FANTASTICAL RIDICULOUS COMEDY FANTASY SHIT ABOUT TALKING COFFEE POTS #AND JESUS!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE. BONAFIDE JESUS!!!!!!!!! I DONT THINK THIS GUYS DOING THE FUCKING MATH FOR HIS FICTIONAL STORIES #I THINK SCOTT CAWTHON LIKE *MOST OTHER ARTISTS WHO TELL STORIES ABOUT SHIT LIKE THIS* CARED MORE ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL REACTIONS THEN THE #LITERAL FUCKING MATH OF THE YEARS OR THE DATES OR THE PAYCHECKS OR THE FUCKING ANIMATRONICS PISTONS #okay yelling moment over im not actually that mad im just really impassioned #i love art. i love fictional stories. i love emotionally driven stories. i love abstraction. i love symbolism. the game is full of it! #but i feel like when you sit there and argue with the story *itself* about what its about youre missing the point of the story at all #and youre missing the forest for the trees my man

[yuridovewing]

maybe its just cause i stopped reading during avos but im so tempted to just nuke most of the post oots background characters and just do my own nextgen style au

#most of the important cats like alder and spark will remain and some nextgen kids will take up important spots #but im sorry. i dont give a fuck about blossomfalls kids #everytime i get to that generation when i start conceptualizing family trees my eyes go into my head #and like i also wanna make the dark forest battle more devastating and change the victims #bramblestar will lose a few lives here i know that #ferncloud and sorreltail are living out of spite on my end lmao. killing their husbands instead #the greencough deaths are getting moved here cause like. wow what a gutless decision #im thinkingggg icecloud and hazeltail have their kit but icecloud dies here #hazeltail lives til avos #graystripe dies here instead of tbc. dustpelt too. actually might nix sandstorm too so all of the og apprentice group is gone #kinda marking oots as the true end of an era #lets see who else. spiderleg since he got a boring death anyways. biiiirchfall? cinderheart is presumed dead but she goes missing #hollyleaf has been dead all along really but shes confirmed dead in this book #now that i think about it this doesnt change a ton of the new family tree but like.... ok i still wanna overhaul it sdklfjksldfdsf #yuriverse

[obstinaterixatrix]

Well in the end it comes down to recognizing when you can’t have a good faith conversation. I can understand the arguments being made and where it comes from but I fundamentally disagree with some of the foundations of these beliefs and will not budge. Nuance necessitates some alignment, I think.

#my ramblings #at this moment I don’t think you can separate the conversation of ai as a tool from the CURRENT ONGOING ethical issues #this isn’t theoretical it is right now for real being used in a specific way #if you’re curating your own datasets (??) for training (???) obviously there are ways to address it #but the major tools being used #are largely unethical full stop #and go beyond ‘unethical but you kind of can accept it and it’s necessary for day-to-day life’ #in my opinion at least #there are ai tools that can be used without exploiting artists #like yknow filters or some of those color tools or van gogh generator #van gogh’s dead so it’s not really exploitation of his art unless it’s like. I dunno. sold as if it were a commission #instead of an ai generated product #plus I feel like some of the arguments I’ve read frame things in kinda weird way #like artists are gatekeeping art rather than developing their skills #and there are unproductive ways to frame arguments that raise concerns about ai #but making it about the argument rather than the tool is missing the forest for the trees #well yknow how it is #I simply won’t see those takes anymore