#thinkpieces

[degloved]

i do really frequently sit there and ponder the fact that strahm would always, unquestionably, survive any trap which required the trapee to inflict upon themselves grievous bodily harm. he'd have forced his way out of the razor maze, he'd have torn pipe bombs out of his skin, he'd have severed his leg without a moment's hesitation, he'd have exacted any amount of flesh, he'd be convinced he could contribute all ten pints of blood all by himself without breaking a sweat. and knowing this, it really was a stroke of luck that hoffman had asked for trust from the man that would sooner endure something firmly in the category of a cruel and unusual punishment than offer a shred of that trust. aside from this, it really paints strahm in a uniquely bizarre light. men will do anything instead of going to therapy

#saw #this could be a longer and more thoughtful post but i said all i needed to say and im tired #peter strahm #mark hoffman #hoffstrahm #n #thinkpieces

[butchwheels]

*taps mic* so uhhh ppl need to stop seeing their gnc behaviors as strictly nonbinary behaviors and assuming gnc ppl, especially butch women, must be nonbinary in some way if they aren't womanly/manly enough bc that's sexist af and also harmful to nonbinary ppl who aren't visibly androgynous!!! pls work on your internalized sexism & misogyny my friends. tired of being told i don't have "woman vibes" bc i'm butch. let's actually destroy sexism & gender roles, not just give them a nonbinary twist

#lou text #nonbinary #butch #butch4femme #queer #bisexual #trans #transmasc #transfem #femme4butch #ok to rb #thinkpieces #transgender #gnc

[mizandria]

people make fun of the "oh you only hate her because she's a WOMAN" crazy feminist mentality but yeah actually you guys do only hate her because she's a woman a lot of times. for every hated female tv character there's ten male tv characters who are a million times worse and still given at least the "intriguing morally grey character" treatment if not straight up praise. for every hated female celebrity in real life there's one hundred famous men who have done worse and don't get half the hate she does. for every hated female politician, for every hated female historical figure, for the women you know in real life and on and on.

#sansa stark skyler white siobhan roy betty draper #rachel zegler and amber heard and courtney love and these little tiktok celebrities #and many other such cases #like why am i seeing a thinkpiece on how intriguing of a character ramsay bolton is and then a thinkpiece from the same person #on how a naive 13 years old girl is satan reincarnated because she made one big mistake she couldn't foresee the consequences of #and immediately regretted and learned from it and devoted her life to making it right as much as she could #radblr

[tikkunolamresistance]

When Zionists persist and tell me “you’re not Jewish”… it makes me want to wrap my changing body in tallit, whisper to a lover in Yiddish, it makes me want to sing tefilah as I knead the velvet dough of my challah. To tenderly kiss G!d’s words, and maybe leave my magen david on as I sleep. Because where I stand, the unmoving k’lal Yisrael, with the kufiyah, my prayer shawl— I am Jewish. And it is in Palestine where I dream of touching the kotel.

Long live Palestine.

#anti zionist jews for palestine #anti zionism is the future #anti zionist jewblr #jumblr #jewblr #zionist antisemitism #to be jewish is to love #to be jewish is to heal #free palestine #palestine #original words #thinkpiece

[lady-raziel]

and alright, here's my last (let's hope) and boldest take yet. lots of people have been talking about the level of staff (around 25-ish people) at watcher, and whether downsizing that number could have been a potential avenue of reducing costs before just jumping to a subscription model. at first i was like yeah, i'm not sure that there needs to be 18 people involved in making a lets play. i was in the fucking trenches in the unus annus days and i'm still amazed how markiplier and ethan nestor managed to put out pretty well edited videos every day for a whole year with only a handful of editors and a couple people filming. what unus annus was trying to do and what watcher is trying to do are obviously pretty different, but the point is that you really don't need a whole crew of people to make lots of different types of content and do it well.

i still think there probably doesn't need to be a whole production crew involved with the creation of some of the simpler types of content watcher puts out. however, i don't think the size of the staff is the real problem. in fact, i think the staff of watcher probably should have been larger.

let me explain. if i begrudgingly go to one of my most detested websites (linkedin. *bleeegh*) and look up watcher, i can see that pretty much every person on staff is in a creative role of some sort by their own admission. at first glance, its like, oh, that makes sense. they're making creative products, it's natural that they should all be in creative roles. however, once you think about it for a little longer from a business perspective, that fact is really concerning.

after all, by watcher's own definition, this is a production studio. this is a company. So in this sea of creative roles, who's doing corporate planning? Who's managing finance? Who's doing payroll? Or brand outreach? Or human-freaking-resources??? you can hire outside groups for all this. i'm aware. but those services cost a lot of money to contract too. i'm just finding it concerning that there is pretty much no one on full time staff that is there to at least do some of this stuff. if watcher wants to be a big-boy company, that's fine, but that means you have to pay some people to be part of your company to do the not-fun business stuff like accounting. or resource management.

if they want to be a real company, they should actually have a lot more people on staff to deal with all the non-creative parts of running a company. even if they contract out most of it, you want at least a few people that are your people and don't actually work for someone else. that's how you don't get screwed over or end up in a contract you can't get out of.

which leads me to my last train of thought. like, as i go through the staff of watcher and look at what they do, it really seems like one of the ONLY people who's job it was to look at the business side of things WAS steven lim in his role as CEO. and thinking about that, i'm like god, can you imagine?? here's a guy who just wants to create cool stuff too but as one of the few people who has to think about the realities of Brand and the Business, HE has to be the one to burst the bubble. He as CEO has to say no to people and make decisions to make sure the company survives. In a group of creative people who just want to make things they're interested in, no expense spared, he was probably the guy who had to stay at least a little tethered to reality.

I'm not about to say that steven lim isn't to blame here. everyone involved in making the decisions that have led up to this point is part of this. but shit, it absolutely sucks to have to be the person at the end of the brainstorm session when everyone is coming up with their best ideas and to have to say "guys, i don't think any of these things are possible unless we make some big decisions."

is that what happened at watcher HQ? i don't know. at this point, with radio silence from everyone, speculation is all we've got. but if you follow the thread of a bunch of creatives striking out on their own to make their own business after being burned by their former employer, despite not knowing really how to run a business, and then only hiring fellow creative people and not other people who actually run business things... well, all of this starts to make slightly more sense in WHY none of watcher's actions make sense. everybody wants to stick it to the man and be their own boss with their own business, until it actually comes to the hard parts of doing that. at that point people start to realize, "oh, maybe some of the things that existed at my old job were there for a reason, actually."

all this is why lots of creatives striking out and starting their own businesses don't work in the end. they're thinking about in terms of creative products still, when they really need to be focusing more on the "business" part of the "creative business." it's sad. it sucks. it destroys a lot of good ideas and good people, because one person in every company like that has to be the one who thinks practically. could this have been avoided if watcher had been hiring people all along to manage this business and not just adding people to add to the creative output? maybe. even then it might not have been enough to curb other predictable impulses that led us down this path.

i feel bad for watcher, and i feel bad for the fandom. but i can't help but wonder if this was always the kind of situation we were going to end up in, and we just missed some of the warning signs because ALL of us were thinking, "well, that could never happen to us. we're different. not the Ghoul Boys."

#watcher #watcher tv #two stupidly long thinkpieces in one morning? wow! what a bargain! #just don't ask which of my responsibilities i'm ignoring by typing all this out

[gncrezan]

the established orion-romance dreams have gotten to me. what will my delusional visions reveal to me next <3

#not even sure if this is in character. but i enjoy the idea of orion making aki want to be better :) #infamous if #infamous #akihiro yasumi #orion quinn #my art #the mile long thinkpiece i sent to flor yesterday about their relationship. i think perhaps the next infamous update may break me #long post #i literally . think about that ask. about how he loosens up during the course of his romance. aughghghghahhwAUUAUGHGHGHHH #ALSO re the last comic. 'average lead singer proposes to their bandmates 10000 times per year' statistical error #aki who is really annoying and will get down on one knee for literally any of his band for any reason #is an outlier and should not have been counted. #its funny until the dating rumours about ur band get extremely convoluted

[staud]

HBO WAR FINAL SCENES – requested by @lamialamia

Band of Brothers (2001) / Masters of the Air (2024) / Generation Kill (2008) / The Pacific (2010)

#hbo war #band of brothers #masters of the air #the pacific #generation kill #hbowardaily #ronsparky #simizone #tusermiranda #olympain #gif #ty for this request linh u have the best ideas #now whos gonna write the thinkpiece comparing n contrasting these. IM WAITING

[fairuzfan]

Something that really shocked me these past few days is the clarification that it isn't a matter of ignorance for these representatives and world leaders — it's blatant selfish interest that motivates them to commit atrocities on a large scale.

I think a small part of me assumed that once people find out about who we are and what we represent, naturally love will prevail instantly and the Palestinian people will finally receive our unending liberation — but that's not what happened. We have Biden confirming the beheaded babies stories despite not seeing a shred of evidence and at the same time downplaying the reported number of Palestinian deaths and it's not that he doesn't know. He's President of the United States for God's sake. He probably has intel on what Netanyahu ate for breakfast, of course he can see the public videos of Palestinian children with their heads blown off. Its not that he doesn't know — its that he doesn't care.

It's fully just the complete lack of compassion and empathy — placing your own selfish desires above everyone else's and for what? Truly, for what? For a few billion extra dollars? To assure that a select few will survive even if it means alienating the rest of your countrymen? Who is he serving and benefiting other than himself in this situation? What use is that money if you're going to die soon anyways?

I can't comprehend the level of selfishness these people have, to sacrifice lives that he knows can never speak up against him. But that's "the cost of war," isn't it Biden?

#palestine #gaza #i am so fucking angry everyone is saying oh he will go down in history for abetting genocide #and aside from the fact that he PROBABLY WONT its the idea that i dont WANT him to go down in history i WANT him to stop enabling it #it doesnt comfort me that Palestinians will only have their voices hear 20 years from now in thinkpieces about how everyone was so fucking #fascist #i wamt them to stop it NOW #i will never forgive anyone in office for the standing by

[somedreamlove]

Controversial opinion, but Caiti hasn’t admitted enough responsibility for her actions in this. I’ve seen more blame levied at her friends for ‘allowing’ her to drink or ‘not protecting’ her, but her friends are not responsible for her behaviour. She is responsible for illegally underage drinking, for lying about her age with a 21 badge, for making the final decision to go to the party, to the hotel room, for choosing to stay when her friends left, for lying back down next to George multiple times, and for—yes, I’m going to say it—not giving George literally any indication of her unwillingness (if, indeed, she was ever actually unwilling in the moment). She actually had a lot of power in this situation and many, many opportunities for a decision that would not have put her in this situation.

This brings up an important difference between victim blaming and victim accountability:

Victim blaming is saying—she didn’t take precautions, and therefore she deserved to be hurt. <- (Obviously false and a very damaging mindset.)

Victim accountability is saying—she chose to not take precautions, and those decisions increased the danger of the situation and let it happen more than it would otherwise. I am sorry this meant she got hurt, and I don’t judge her for the stupid decisions. But we must acknowledge she did make those choices and she had the power not to.

Victim accountability thus actually gives her back her own power. It acknowledges that there were many things in the situation that were within her control, and it empowers her to know the many things she can do next time to more greatly control her situation. Conversely, I actually think her blaming this entire situation on George (or Dream, or her friends), is a disservice to herself, because then she sees him as all-powerful, and herself as totally powerless, which is not the case.

And reminder, we’re talking about a hand on a waist.

#I;m trying to stop writing these thinkpieces I SWEAR #but idk I have unusual opinions and I do like to see a little variety in the discussions #georgenotfound #I realised if I didn't like the CC's for not speaking their truth to avoid being cancelled #I couldn't do the same thing and try to appeal to the general mindset of tumblr instead of saying what I actually think

[pherre]

read hbomberguy's interview with vulture and these two answers in particular are extremely real

#the fact that hes being interviewed by vulture is so wild to me #he really is like a Name now and not just some guy who makes funney videogame thinkpieces #not even the donkey kong stream got this big i think #anyway #also apparently somerton plagiarized an ofmd writer which is really funny

[yaoyuren]

flowers and fireworks

#my art #project moon #limbus company #limbus company fanart #canto 4 gave me ten illnesses #dongbaek and yi sang starts fucking crying #yi sang #dongbaek #heres the promised canto 4 thinkpiece

[degloved]

hannibal. god. hannibal. every last one of his actions throughout the show thrums with the undercurrent of desperation. every manipulation, every lie told, it's steeped in this ugly desperation he tries to cover up so badly, but he can't. it bleeds into everything he touches. he needs to get will to like him, to trust him. he needs will's trust more than he needs air to breathe. he talks to god but the sky is empty for the first time in years, because will walks the earth. he wants to drop to his knees and beg for love and understanding, but his legs won't bend and his mouth will only spout vaguities and half-truths. none of his approaches work, he's lost his footing for the first time in decades, it's making him lash out. the lashing out is, too, layered in desperation. he's unraveling

and more than anything he wants to grab will's face and Show Him. and it's a delicate dance, because will is so easily spooked. not spooked, maybe, but pushed away. he doesn't tick like a normal person, and maybe that's what hannibal needs, but it's tricky. and it all culminates on that goddamn cliff and as they're going over, will is drenched in blood and red is his color and there's gore in his mouth laced between his teeth where he'd bitten out a chunk from a man's neck and he's telling hannibal It's Beautiful and he's holding on for dear life and he Sees, the way hannibal's wanted him to See ever since that day he'd shot garrett jacob hobbs in his own kitchen, and maybe it's over and maybe it's just begun but it doesn't even matter because he's finally got what he's been after for the past three fucking seasons and no one can take it away from him DO YOU HEAR WHAT IM TELLING YOU

#friend asked a singular question about hannibal and i started panting like a dog experiencing a category five autism event in her dms #hannibal #n #will graham #hannibal lecter #hannigram #thinkpieces

[yooniesim]

I'm sitting here thinking about a pretty age-old debate on simblr... the race of sims that have black hairstyles, particularly in cc preview pics.

I know it's been talked about repeatedly, but when it comes to cc previews for paid cc I think it's especially worth talking about. Some people say, well, the creator only uses a few different sim models each time, it's not like they're intending to be racist or something. It's just for convenience, because they're busy, they're hustling, they gotta pay their bills. They always use the same sim, so it's fine. But like... isn't that gross to y'all? Someone making money off of black hairstyles, but they can't even be assed to go in cas for 15 mins to make a black sim? Isn't that a prime example of appropriation of black culture for profit? Like the human aspect of us as a person is gone, it's just another part of us being advertised and sold. Black hair makes money, black hair cc is limited, it will sell and nothing else matters. It feels like black hairstyles are some kind of trend with them too, because none of these creators made them before it was possible to profit off of them... back then it was "too hard" just like now it's apparently "too hard" to make a different preview sim.

Also, it's not lost of me that when a creator does make a black sim for their previews, they're as light skinned and white looking as possible. Whether just by skintone, very eurocentric features (like they just gave a white sim slightly darker skin), vitiligo to make most of the skin light, or claiming the sim has albinism. And while some of this I'm sure is just finding that aesthetic more "pretty", I also think this has to do with potential sales. I'm going to be honest... besides engagement by black simblr itself, I've noticed a lot of posts I have get less engagement/reblogs if the sim in question has darker skin and darker hair. It's much more likely to pick up in the mainstream cc finds blogs/YouTube videos etc, if the content is for white sims or the sim has lighter skin and light hair. I don't care about engagement and simply make whatever sim I want to make, and since I do have that variety, it's how I noticed this strange trend. And with the volume of content paywall creators make, I think they noticed this too. Posts with lighter skinned sims get better engagement, and thus, make more money.

Have you ever noticed, even in paywalled cc packs, there will usually be a sort of token effect? One white sim, one ethnically ambiguous sim, one black sim. This is great if you're showing off something that will vary for different skintones- makeup and skin details, for example- but why is it always like this? And why is the variety usually only in previews for cc packs instead of solo items (like hairs)? It feels like it's all to sell better, to appeal to different demographics and say, hey, I didn't forget poc exist! Please pay for my content! It feels disgenuine, and since creators like this rarely engage with the community anymore besides paid content, it's hard to figure out whether they feel this way or not.

Personally, I don't care much what people do in their own games- I might look at them weird for a sec, but I move on, cos it's their issue not mine. But like many other aspects to this community, when it crosses over into paid content, it sparks my interest. It feels like everything, everything, is about maximizing profit now. And for the people that focus on that, that's their prerogative and all, I can't exactly stop them, but. It's just something I observed and wouldn't mind discussing with y'all.

(Note: I don't apply the "profiting off black culture" part to black creators, obviously. Also no hate to any creators that do this stuff. Be reasonable adults, please. I'm just discussing in a constructive criticism type of way.)

#ceci speaks #nonsims #text #the patreon issue #ceci speaks a lot more #negative #kinda? #just thinking #first thinkpiece in a while lol

[invinciblerodent]

im sitting in the corner with my little safety scissors, lovingly cutting out images of her to tape to my bedroom wall like a fucking simp

#baldur's gate 3 #lae'zel #lae'zel of k'liir #bg3 lae'zel #i'm going through my screenshots and uh #funny how I express my love for the boys with 2k word thinkpieces and furious scribbling of fic nobody will ever see #while for the girls i just gesture at their faces gayly and in a helpless sort of way #her baby hairs!!!! her puppy eyes!!!!! her little ears!!!!!!!!!!! #seriously ain't that just the bisexual experience #squirrel plays bg3

[barren-heart]

#wwdits #thinkpiece #what we do in the shadows #nandermo

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

One could only be so kind

#bedrock’s #there’s a bajillion thinkpieces ab these free ice tea stands #here’s my contribution to that