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taylor swift’s work wouldn’t be nearly as insufferable if she wasn’t constantly trying to present herself as some sort of tortured underdog. like, okay, she has endured hardships, and a lot of people, especially white men, are shitty towards her for purely misogynistic reasons. that sucks, i agree. but she’s never been an underdog before. she was born to well-off parents who did everything they could to start her music career when she was barely even a teenager, an opportunity that lots of people would kill for. now she’s extremely famous and wealthy, and everything she releases is destined to sell millions of copies and receive glowing reviews in nearly every publication. she is not an underdog, and i have trouble believing she’s particularly “tortured.” she’s not even an alcoholic, despite claiming to be one on the opening track of her new album! people like to defend her lyrics by saying she’s just playing a character, which i don’t believe for a second, but even if she was, i don’t think i want to listen to someone like swift play the character of a tortured underdog, not when there’s so many musicians out there who are actually tortured underdogs. it comes across as hollow. “you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me,” sung by one of the wealthiest, most famous, most critically acclaimed musicians in the world, who was born to loving parents who personally helped her start her career, who once said she’d never been to therapy because she “just feels very sane.” if you’re going to play a character, maybe pick one who we’re not supposed to pity.
omg I just finished Protocal for Nonstandard Relations... THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for writing it. I love the realistic-ness of it... *looks at giant lake of single celled organism*... well, most of it. Sometimes people are awkward or bad at communication or bad at sex. But by the end they are so trusting of eachother💖💖💖 AND TRANS OLIMAR!!!! AND ARO AND AUTISTIC LOUIE!!!!!! 💖💖💖 And the fics were just explicit enough to be exactly my cup of tea (grayace here). I also like the whole story!
(Not to bash on single celled organism lake or anything. I love single celled organism lake)
omg thank you so much!! emotional realism was a big part of what i was going for - i started from the premise that any relationship between olimar and louie would definitely be messy as hell, and that was fun to explore by leaning into all the ways they clash. i'm also glad the level of explicitness worked for you; honestly i just went with my gut for that stuff, since there's a certain point where i was like "i don't think i actually want to write about pikmin characters going at it?" lmaoooo. but i'm happy with how it turned out! thanks again :3
15 billion miles away and NASA was able to tweak code packages on one of the onboard computers and it worked and Voyager 1 is sending signals back to earth for the first time since November.
one time i told a guy with a huge punisher decal on his car that i loved the punisher but that i'm too scared to have any of his merch because in the current political climate i wouldn't want people to think i support killing police and the man had. no response whatsoever. he was smiling and completely frozen in place. i'd never seen anyone bluescreen that hard
call it what u will, identifying with an animal is one of the most ancient and universal human experiences. the oldest known depiction of a human has a lions head. i am being dead serious when i say there are few things in this world more normal than being a furry