#theyre not mutually exclusive things

[artfightdramaconfessions]

And really, the only way for me to respond to that? I can't fight fire with fire. So I'll just hide all my old OCs instead, and bring in a new batch just to spite em <3. Also considering not attacking those on my hitlist who draw early. Just a thought :). And very easily, you can tell if someone's been prepping for attacks if, in the first second of the website going up, you upload a high quality piece that you couldn't have made in 1 minute. At least hide your shit better if you're gonna cheat

please touch grass it's not that deep -edit There were additional parts: "anon who does not care about getting free art here! Just thought that you needed an OC to join artfight, so I really dont care about getting art. I just wanna draw other's characters in the set time limit. It gives me much more joy. And I'm going to enforce the rule my way XD. And to those who say that people wanna prep: it's one week. Isn't one week enough to save images? Some may even argue it's enough to do some art. I bet mod is an early art maker. How does it feel to have no intergrity?" "Adding onto that, the reason why I hate people drawing early in artfight is that it's disingenuous. You're not actually drawing my OC in the month of artfight. So why then? Why post it on artfight instead of gift art on another website? Just for the points? And to all those people who say that 'they don't have time' motherfucker my summer break ends in June. There's no summer hols in July unlike for the rest of the world. I have a more reasonable excuse to start drawing early and I'm not." "Because guess what? I have integrity bitches. I do the right thing even when no one's looking. And if you can't even do it for a simple art trading game that I'm not trusting you with my pets. Secondly, starting early ruins the spirit of artfight. Why submit it to the website that's only for every July? Why not do a yearly art trading game then? 'But oh anon, people will get burnt out' then what are you doing before July???? I have so much more reasons as to why I hate people who start early"

#submission #art fight #artfight #artfight2024 #the starting early debate #you can be someone who doesnt care for or doesnt like people starting early but also not be this obsessed about other peoples business #theyre not mutually exclusive things #case in point the mods of this blog cant be assed to start early and some do not like starting early #but it doesnt affect us like it's clearly affecting you for reasons unknown

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

#people ask me sometimes why ill occasionally talk about something i like and then go 'but it's bad' and the answer is usually because it is #i love teen wolf. i love genshin impact. i love detective conan. and i fucking LOVE taylor swift. that doesnt mean theyre good #it just means i like them. and recognizing their flaws actually helps me better identify what i like about them! #it's like. in my mind bad > good is the x axis and i like it > i dont like it is the y axis yk. they're not mutually exclusive #tldr it's not that serious. we can all relax a little #irt taylor swift i do also think she has done some real harm to her fans in enabling them to deflect all criticism of her as misogyny #and i don't think it's fully the fault of these people who are parroting that response bc so much of her marketing has deliberately #reinforced this idea that to be a swiftie is to be a part of a sisterhood and that any attack on taylor is an attack on all of those women #who are in that in-group. when that's obviously not the case. but she's marketed herself as. for lack of a better term. 'girl music' #to the point where it makes her fans feel as though any criticism of the music or the woman responsible for it is an attack on their #personal experience of womanhood/girlhood/sisterhood/etc. and that's how you get all of thess bad-faith accusations of misogyny #i don't necessarily think this was her deliberate goal with her marketing tho because like. on first glance such a strong sense of communit #among fans sounds like a great thing. the friendship bracelets i got at the eras tour movie are really genuinely special to me. #but it does present a problem when your fans are unable to separate how they feel about the community and experience your music has fostere #from how they feel about you as a person. especially when you are a billionaire who absolutely CANNOT be above criticism in this economy #anyway. tldr i love taylor's music and i don't think swiftie hivemind is as deliberately malicious as it may seem #but it's obviously necessary to be able to take a step back and look objectively at what you're participating in. #anyway stream ttpd or don't idc <3 #taylor swift

[simplydnp]

Sometimes I think Dan and Phil are totally platonic besties and then other times I’m convinced they fuck on the daily. I think they do it on purpose and it’s honestly iconic.

kind of the best thing is that they are that and everything in between. you can tell they just like being around each other. they've made content together for 15 years and the large majority of it was done in the strictly platonic sense for their audience. and they were still having so much fun with it. we're in the 'we know you know' era now so we get to see flashes of different dynamics they have, but they absolutely have more we Don't get to see bc they're not for us.

they like each other. stupidly fond of each other. spending time together doesn't feel exhausting. they're best friends and each others' harshest critics while being the biggest hypeman and also safe space.

dnp's relationship with us, their audience, always has been and always will be different than any other content creators. part of it is how they accumulated it, but another part is just the massive history we have with them. they Get us. they Know us. they're silly goofy sarcastic guys who love us and hate us sometimes. theyre grateful but careful too. they like to rile us up, just like they do each other. it's a love language, teasing, and we've shown positive responses to it over the years. i like to say that my relationship with dnp is antagonistic sometimes--cause i know they're pushing my buttons on purpose. and ykw? it's fun! it's fun for us and it's fun for them because they have the control. i know anything they let out is cause they chose to let it out because they Know how we are. so yes they absolutely adore messing with us. we're a funny bunch.

#im getting sappy again #the things you mention anon are not mutually exclusive for dnp. which is a lot of the fun of it #like for me personally. why be in a relationship with someone who isnt your best friend. i dont know how they couldnt be your favourite ever #like maybe im projecting but theirs is probably the healthiest depiction of love i have in my life #theres movies and tv but its not real. and yes dnp are produced. and aware. and curate. but theyre not selling a relationship. #sure we perceive it. but its not the goal. the product is the entertainment value of them together cause theyre funny. #whereas almost every relationship ive properly witnessed in my life seems like. a trap. genuinely. #its like well no love isnt actually real its a concept you just. are stuck. for the rest of existence. be happy about it. #and with dnp its like oh like love is actually real. like theres a reason people want to stay together forever. #like people Do get lost in each others eyes. they get a different look on their face that reads i love you #theres people out there who will love every aspect of you and never get enough of you or your time #i am. so far off on a tangent. #anyways love dnp love the cat and mouse game we play together #dnp #c.text #dan and phil #answered

[aplpaca]

"wanting fiction to be relatable is selfish" my dude you can advocate for people getting outside of their own perspectives (a good thing) without implying that the human desire to be understood and empathized with is vapid and bourgeois

#like im of agreement with that one post that's like ''Resonant is a better word for what i want in a book than Relatable'' #but sometimes Relatable really is a fuckin great experience and i don't think its bad for people to seek that out #esp bc mainstream society leaves a lot of people in the dust in that regard #like if you're refusing to try stuff that doesn't seem ''relatable'' or saying stuff is objectively bad bc it wasn't personally relatable #then you should maybe expand your horizons and stop treating your own experiences as the hallmark of quality #but wanting to feel seen isnt a bad thing. #different stories can serve different purposes and someone enjoying the relatability of one can enjoy the different perspective of another #theyre not mutually exclusive like so many posts seem to portray them

[sonknuxadow]

sorry but i really really do Not like the ideas people have of sonic actually liking amy back and being too shy to admit it. or that sonic SHOULD agree to be amys boyfriend because amy "deserves it after waiting for so long" and by not doing that sonic is mean or immature or leading her on. or that yeah sonic isnt interested Now but they Will get married as adults. or whatever people go around saying.

for the entire time amy was actually open about her crush and trying to get sonic to date her he would almost always either outright reject her or just not say anything but still obviously be uncomfortable or annoyed by it. to say that he actually has always liked her or that he Should like her just feels like youre saying his feelings of not being interested in amy or romance in general arent valid and are a problem that needs to be fixed. that he MUST be with amy just because she likes him and he needs to get over any discomfort he has with the idea because he doesnt have a choice. its like people are so obsessed with shipping that theyre ignoring sonics feelings or at the very least prioritizing amys over his . Hello can anyone hear me

#also people getting mad at sonic for not wanting to be in a serious committed relationship . hes 15 ????? #and sonic not wanting a romantic relationship still wouldnt be a problem even if he was an adult to be clear #its just especially weird and unrealistic to expect a teenager to ''settle down'' or whatever #expecting it from amy is a bit strange too considering shes even younger than sonic . but Whatever #sorry for the long rant. every day i wake up and see terrible takes about sonic and amy and what their relationship is/should be like #the ideal resolution to the whole crush thing isnt sonic eventually liking her back #its sonic never liking her that way but amy being ok with that and accepting that and theyre still best friends #that is what would be best for them as characters i think #mandatory disclaimer that i love amy #because ive seen some people act like hating so//namy or sh//adamy or whatever other amy ship #and liking amy as a character are mutually exclusive opinions. which is annoying and i dont want people assuming i hate amy #okay to reblog by the way but not if youre going to try to argue with me becuase i dont feel like arguing about this lmao

[spinecutter]

discovering now that its not just a few very openly stupid people on here so like FREE PALESTINE and block me if you think its antisemetic to hate zionists youre embarrassing

#i found a blog that talks about transmasc issues but also was insistent that its antisemetic to hate zionists. What #my tag makes it sound like i think these things are mutually exclusive #theyre not i just meant that some people i might not have looked over more carefully might be zionist trash in disguise

[boyfriendyke]

vash truly is one of the most characters ever. like. he's a normal guy. he's a gunslinger. he barely uses his gun. he's lame. he's a dork. he's the most badass character ever. there are two (2) different instances of him barking in the anime. he has an evil brother. he's cain and also abel. he's an angel. also an alien. he's good with kids. he's a staunch pacifist. he's naive. but also he's aware of how inconvenient his views can be. he's a staunch pacifist. and he's killed before. and he's everything to me <3

#he's just. so incredibly nuanced its incredible. i love him i'm picking him up by the scruff and shaking him #i just love how he's legit so badass. and also the most lame pathetic man youve ever seen. and these r not mutually exclusive things #jc.txt #trigun #vash and wolfwood r just such fucking insane characters 2 me theyre both so goofy and dorky #and also they can both be so fucking serious and stoic and badass and tragic #theyre insane 2 me. they r buzzing like flies in my brain #anyways. god. when they're narrative foils

[brookheimer]

……starting to think a lot of you do not know what the word empathetic means

#i have a lot to say about this but it is going to have to wait a few days until i’m no longer up to my ears in work #but here’s a little thing to tide you over: empathy does not a good person make #a capacity for empathy is in no way a capacity let alone willingness for good #empathy and intense horrendous cruelty are not mutually exclusive #if you think that evil comes in a single form if you think evil is just pure callousness coldness spot-it-a-mile-away inability to love #then no fucking wonder people keep doing evil terrible things like in real life and your response is always ?! W hat ?! #shocking: terrible evil people are still people. they are not robots of pure malice. they were once babies with coloring books #that’s not saying we should feel bad for them or anything at all!!! just that you guys seem allergic to acknowledging that it doesn’t take a #category 5 sociopath to commit an atrocity #everyone go read arendt’s banality of evil and go watch act of killing by joshua oppenheimer #no wonder trump keeps winning. y’all don’t view his supporters as people with any qualities other than Racism #like i know this is a fictional character but the response here is so indicative of this much broader issue that makes me want to scream #i get it. you’ve lived in a bubble your whole life and never interacted with people vastly different from yourself and had to acknowledge #their personhood as much as their viewpoints disgusted you. talk to a conservative once in your life it might be mind blowing #not bc you’ll be like WOAH :o THEYRE NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL! no!!!!! because they ARE that bad and they are also regular normal people!!!!! #you are all so incapable of viewing anyone you dislike as having internal lives! christ! #this is how trump won! how do you not see this! #seriously go watch act of killing go watch anwar who murdered hundreds of people in cold blood warmly scold his grandchild for poking a duck #too hard. like the most horrifying part of horrible ppl who commit atrocities is that they aren’t caricatures of evil #we wish they were it would make it easier to understand #agh i’m rambling i’ll shut up #god watch ppl be like Uh why are you defending trump/genocide/fascists etc #dumb fucks i’m telling you the most terrifying part about those people is that they are actually people that’s what makes it so hard to #comprehend bc atrocities are so much easier to swallow when you can pretend a force of pure evil is behind it #okokokok good night lol

[dateamonster]

im sure theres very little i could say abt all this that hasnt already been said but i do think a lot abt how lately the culture surrounding media, particularly more "fringe" genres and subject matter, seems to be kind of absurdly focused on a completely imagined war between works that are "dark" vs "wholesome".

sometimes that paradigm is framed differently: elevated vs camp, edge vs fluff, insert whatever generalizations you please. ultimately it all feels like code words for "media that challenges you and makes you uncomfortable" vs "media that is fun and therefor not meant to be taken seriously"

which is all sorta like. ok cool dichotomy now what lies outside it. bitch.

#ungodly screeching #straight up cant take seriously anyone who talks abt how Wholesome a book is anymore #to be perfectly clear im saying neither of these things have inherent value over the other #but more importantly acting like theyre mutually exclusive #like challenging works cant be enjoyable or have more lighthearted and comedic elements #like fluffy feelgood stories cant have profound meaning and arent worthy of deeper analysis #it just kinda sucks #its reductive and frankly a little insulting to both parties of this imagined binary #it also feels very 'entertainment =/= art' and vice versa coded #anywhooo

[crimeronan]

very pleased that i haven't gotten any comment pushback on ao3 about AU camila referring to hunter as being in love with luz / being her wolfmate. i know it's because 99% of the readership follows me here and has seen me talk about their dynamic ten thousand times already but. i also like the idea of the average reader being like "honestly..... it would be weird if camila DIDN'T think he's in love with her."

#because that's true. also he kind of is in love with her theyre just not fucking about it because i get bored. #codependent nonsense is more fun when fucking about it actually WON'T fix it. u know #you get the feeling of like. it's like. mutual pining except it's not it's just being in love in a weird platonic freak way #i wrote almost exclusively pale romance for homestuck for SEVEN STRAIGHT YEARS. some things imprint on your BLOOD #toh #princess luz au #horrible mindscape trauma pals #camila noceda

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

mac i am so sorry to enter ur inbox with more qsmp but oh my god. qcellbit update. so he talked to bagi. his sister. he still doesn't remember her. he still needs time to process everything but she said she's waited fifteen years so she can wait a few more days. i'm crying and sobbing rn. also he doesn't even fucking remember what he did to get thrown in prison, all he knows is that he was killing people to survive one day and another he was behind bars. i'm UNWELL!!! he got called in to talk to cucurucho (the fuckin THING that's kind of the federation mascot and it tortured cellbit with a chainsaw months ago FUCK CUCURUCHO ALL MY HOMIES HATE CUCURUCHO) and he was just. fucking tired. yesterday he messed with the feds quite publicly and cucurucho questioned him about it and he said "i don't care what you do to me, you can torture me, i don't care. i just want my family back, i want a future with them. just give me peace. let me rest." HE SOUNDED SO FUCKING TIRED. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE WAS SAYING UNTIL SOMEONE POSTED A TRANSLATION BUT HE SOUNDED SO SO SAD. AND NOW CELLBIT HIMSELF IS GOING TO TWITCHCON SO QCELLBIT IS TAKING A WEEK LONG DEPRESSION NAP. MAC CAN U HEAR ME. I'M UNWELL. I'M LOSING IT. THIS IS ME RN

anyway. hows ur day. i might go watch some steven universe bc i have been meaning 2 rewatch it (or adventure time!!!! one of the two for sure) take a short break from binge watching hannibal 2 watch a silly funny cartoon :3 also still trying to make my way thru marble hornets again it's just such an insane series 2 rewatch u know but i'm getting there!!! sorry i am just currently lying on the floor in my brain thinking about qsmp i had 2 tell u what happened 2 ur blorbo in law today

NEVER APOLOGIZE TO ME ABOUT PUTTING STUFF IN MY INBOX I LOVE GETTING MAIL I LOVE LEARNING THROUGH OSMOSIS I LOVE LISTENING 2 PPL TALK ATBT THINGS THEY LOVE

that sounss aboslutely DEVASTATING btw. oh my god. so the whole thing is like.. she remembers him but he doesnt remember her ?? GODDDD thats so upsetting. im glad hes getting 2 take a nap even if it is a depression one sigh. oh man oh man i love this.

my day was! good i think! i have not had a day to reat since my whole job shadow debacle last week so im kimd of running on fumes BUT . i have off work tmw so im gonna get a haircut and feel all good about everything. and maybe work on some art bc im now caught up to my pre prepped invertober images and i have a couple other time sensitive things like that. ougah. we keep truckin. ive got a huge backlog of youtube videos to watch from last week + beginning of this week i cannot Wait to get thru those and also watch more adventure time !! bc i have offically gotten to Stakes (a marcelone centric mini series) and it is one of my favorite eras ever. i love you vampire lore!!!

#im like... skooo tired rn. i dont have ANY more words left in me. #but like i also dont want 2 sleep yet #i didnt shower this morning bc our gas lines have been down for like 3 days and we ran out of hot water #BUT theyre back up now. but also its like 11pm and my family is asleep and i dont want to wake them up #but i feel soooooo gross and greasy #+ my hair is at that point where its like. Uncomfortably Long. getting back into oh fuck i look like a girl territory. eugh #but its FINE bc im getting it CUT tomorrow. my favorite place had one (1) opening tomotrow afternoon so i snatched that shit up RIGHT away #uhhh what else. i watched some scary movies today those r always fun. #every day i yearn to be a) a man covered in blood or b) a vampire bite victim but like in a fun homoerotic way #those two things are not mutually exclusive but you know what i mean. i need 2 look like will graham #asks #friends!!! #anachronistic-falsehood #i am also revisiting an old blorbo rn and the nostalgia is hitting sooooo badly #i will not name this blorbo bc im not into public humiliation like that but ohh my god. favoritest guy ever. #fundamentally changed my life type character. #category 7 insane person moment. we stay silly !!! #im like. sooooo sleepy and rambly but also i feel a little bit like an oyster rn

[marklikely]

winning all sides of the Pretentious Movie discourse by having my favorite movie be a 3 hour long foreign film with heavily political themes thats also a blockbuster superhero action movie

#superhero movie being a label that the director himself has chosen im not like. pushing it on them #avpost #anyway im glad the tides are turning and most people are talking about how bad the 'anti pretentious' angle has become. #'wahh people like movies *i* havent seen? they must be lying everyone only likes basic big budget american movies and nothing else!!!' #sorry. i just think that 'fun' isnt mutually exclusive with most things that would be listed in these Pretentious Movie stereotypes #you can find fun in the prestige dramas and the indie arthouse and the trashy b movies and even in the blockbusters #and you can find the fun in all of those categories even if theyre from another decade or another language. #but if youre the type of person who only wants one thing from movies well. idk do your thing #just stop getting angry at other people who like a wider variety. or who enjoy the more artistic discussion of movies.

[llycaons]

fucking idiot piece of shit misogynist in the notes like 'it's so fun that the writer constantly liked to wrote about his female characters being spanked, humiliated, or sexually threatened' like fuck OFF with that 'oh hehe it's kinky so it's fine' bullshit the man was a hideous misogynist and he treated his female characters in ways I genuinely found nauseating

#also the defense that its not abusive nc its kinky is insane bc 1. THEYRE NOT REAL PEOPLE 2. those two things are not mutually exclusive #and 3. a LOT of the reason the relationships sucked because of utter lack of communication and emotional neglect. what kink is that #I hate this person and I hate everything they have said here down to the condescending and long-winded tags. fuck you #cor.txt

[circuslollipop]

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#tbqh the whole discussion that drawing imogen round + bespectacled = uwu softening her #makes me not want to draw c3 art #like i liked to draw her like that but i ADORE her canon personality and i dont see why the two have to be mutually exclusive #im not fat myself but i wear glasses and yeah this d/iscourse has been kinda taxing #idk where im going with this. obviously the whole One True Fanon thing bad #also this is a vent not an invitation for a debate #i'll still draw tiefs on the occasion i love my blue and purple beloveds but yeah. this d/iscourse is making cr art Not As Fun for me #as it used to be #and ofc im not saying my designs are better than canon theyre just me having fun #anyway yeah

[stupiidgood]

Huge apocalypse red flag: when the entire world and society as we knew it has fallen to shit, you STILL wanna be a cop???

#apoc!shawn has no problems telling cops 2.0 that theyre wrong and also stupid #solving mysteries & getting justice are not mutually exclusive or even synonymous with police #🍍 i know you know (headcanon) #shawn just wants to scooby doo it shes not interested in the often hypocritical formalities of police work #now does canon shawn break absolutely reasonable things like oh idk search warrants? yeah bc its still basically copaganda #but like. usually does it becase the police are prosecuting the wrong person anyway #this became a minimeta but hey wcyd

[iphijaania]

many many thoughts abt how a lot of american fans of tma seem to project american ideas/perceptions of race onto the tma narrative and characters without giving more thought about the differences between the us and the uk with regards to race and ethnicity and how it would effect the characters…

#things like how jude being ‘asian’ suggests her being desi/south asian rather than east asian but us fans tend to see her as the latter #and how ppl seem to thing helen being black and being a tory are mutually exclusive when theyre Very Much Not- see kemi badenoch #because americans seem to project ‘dem/republican’ onto ‘labour/tory’ which isnt super accurate! #plus things like headcanoning characters as ethnicities that almost dont exist in the uk but are common in the us #and these arent bad things! just interesting observations! #may follow up these thoughts with a little experiment 👁👁 #tma #lettos says