#<- ​/gen serious

[malewifehenrycooldown]

Slightly long, ramble vent-ish post but also some negative observations of the wider self ship community that has been bothering me a little bit.

sometimes I don’t want to be in the self ship community anymore (not that I considered myself part of it from the beginning) because said the community creates these small pocket communities of the same people interacting with each other and that’s fair and totally fine!

It’s just that up to a certain point, these pocket communities start to create an isolating and alien environment for newcomers and this is not helped by the community’s genuinely bad communication skills. Like I genuinely wonder how many blogs have deactivated due to lack of interactivity (a whole can of worms no one likes talking about apparently. HI REBLOG:LIKE RATIO) and the overwhelmingly intimidating environment for younger folks (teens - early 20s) to navigate, especially people who may not be as critical or conscious of the media they consume (and don’t understand how they could be harming people through consuming specific pieces of fiction). I remember one person straight up left due to the lack of communication and it really, really sucks because just an open conversation can really ease peoples fears and worries. People just should not have to feel like walking on eggshells all the damn time in the community and if they feel that way then there is something SEVERELY WRONG with this community but no one cares to address it

Like I’ve already left a few self discord servers, and blocked some users, and now I just don’t see any point really being in the community anymore, because there’s been multiple occasions when I’ve interacted with a user and then it turns out that said user probably has some personal issues they need to sort out, but constantly deflect blame or disregard anyone’s advice to change their actions/attitudes for the better or that they really need to get actual professional help. Like obviously we should call out bad behaviour but also know that you should encourage these people to change saidd behaviours for the better.

Idk maybe I’m cursed on tumblr to interact with people who turn out to be not that great or I’m just too naive because I believe that people are inherently good. Maybe I’m a fool for wanting to see the good in people and wanting to support them, all at the cost of me ignoring all the red flags that are obviously in front of me. Which to be fair is probably reasonable; fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me for not knowing better I should have heeded the red flags when I saw them. /serious

#shallow rambles #shallow vents #/ not about anymone #I guess also because tumblr is a bit of a polarising platform which probably doesn’t help #a few early former mutuals turn out to be not great people :/ #it probably doesn’t help that I am a conflict avoider and this sort of shit triggers my fight or flight response #idk man. maybe I’ll just stay in my bubble tbh #that and also I’ve noticed there’s some cult of Personality type shit happening too in the self ship community but I don’t think people #are ready to have that conversation yet 🧍‍♀️ #don’t expect me to do promos anymore tbh I don’t really see the point in them anymore #others thoughts are appreciated because I hope I’m not the only person that feels isolated by the community #like I have a life outside of the internet. i have more important things to do than worry about the ‘community’ #like obviously. gatekeep this shit from pro/shippers and alt right/hateful/bigoted people. #but like don’t make good folks in your community have to walk on eggshells all the time #this is not a sob story or anything these are just my thoughts and stuff #<- ​/gen serious #I’m just so tired of this community #nothing is fun anymore tbh and really it’s just more so a chore now… #when i come back I might clean out my posts and followers to keep a minimal audience #it might get better idk. #thoughts on queue #scheduled post: waiting in line

[god-u]

#happy fucking saturday 🥳 #gen v #gen v spoilers #jordan li #andre anderson #cate dunlap #* #caps #s1e5 #100+ notes and i still ​changed the last cap for their dimple 🤭 yes.. it was that serious 😌

[ozzybutweirdthistime]

i love making shitposts with memes that nobody remembers.

i also realized that i have no clue how to draw hetch. sorry!

#my art #shitpost #gen loss #genloss #generation loss #gl!ranboo #gl!hetch #ranboolive #ranboo #i did try making this at least a bit serious #however those plans fell through #sorry guys

[peeta-mellark]

SAM & EMMA GEN V (2023—) 1x05 “Welcome to the Monster Club”

#gen v #1x05 #emma meyer #sam riordan #gen v spoilers #emma x sam #sam x emma #tvedit #the boys #theboysedit #genvedit #tvandfilm #filmtv #mine #* #need them to beat the d**th allegations im so serious #doubt it but let me cook #anyways the sadness in his face when she still doesnt rememeber him IM SO SICK

[aurorangen]

Lunch with Uncle Billy and Josh and sharing the big news with them!

After lunch, Renee talked about cases with Billy. She was in the early weeks of pregnancy and her work routine was pretty much the same! Renee asked if she was allowed access to the Strangerville archives to read about. At times, she thinks about Veronica and Strangerville. There were too many unanswered questions about the dangerous place and she wonders if she will ever see Veronica again. "I'll check with the director, I don't see why not," Billy replied.

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 3 #billy reichmann #josh nixon #renee reichmann #vincent kingsley #uncle billy didnt spill the tea this time! #just take this as the 'she has revealed pregnancy with all family' post #and i wanted to see billy and josh again! its been a while hasnt it #you all know i wanted to deal with some story stuff before children #but change of plans lol #fitting in snippets of info whenever i can #like i want a good balance between serious story and everything #also billy isnt highest rank at station

[gaylactic-fire]

The Zelda movie needs to be silly, but not in a "haha so quirky" modern Disney princess kind of way. It needs to be unabashedly goofy and weird with the same genuine sincerity as presented in the games. It needs to have plot points and or characters that make you go "huh??" in the most endeared way possible. It needs to have serious moments that are unintentionally whacky as fuck. I won't accept a Zelda movie that takes itself completely seriously unless they're pulling some Oscar winning story out of their ass (which won't happen). Don't ever let them take the silly out of Zelda

#fires posts #ramblings #zelda movie #I'd sooner have a mario-esc generic PG animation than a dark bland fantasy movie im serious #ppl who act like Zelda is this epic dark fantasy are gen some of the most joyless fucks in this fandom #I don't need more of those ppl #anyway this is probs my last original post ab the movie unless we get updates

[mariejordans]

y’all…

#they BETTER be serious bc if we don’t get the deleted scenes #im going to be in ur WALLS @prime video #gen v #jordan li #marie moreau #limoreau

[hotgirlcastiel]

it’s about old friends. all of it.

#talking to my friend for hours and just catching up and having a laugh like that’s what life is all about!!!! #actually talking about serious things out loud to another human being whom you love and trust and whom loves and supports you and offers gen #genuine advice is so freeing. like am I still scared to tell my parents about these thoughts? yes but everything seems that much easier now

[all-about-the-tea-parties]

You may think that Emma trusting Sam with no memory of him is a reach, but remember, before that point she went on an entire rescue mission no questions asked for someone she didn’t know at all, and after talking with him for a lil bit, decided, yeah, yeah I’ll kill this guard for you

#she’s ride or die #it’s in character for her to look at a person and go ‘mine’ now #she just goes off the Vibes™️ #and she’s so surprisingly serious? #like Omg I want more of Stern!Emma #gen v #gen v spoilers

[shyhandart]

wanted to show you my rainbowglider kid so far! just a WIP ☺️

Holy crap! Alternate universe siblings!!

This is Caustic Phantom, but everyone they know calls them tommy :3

#art #digital art #mlp #not art #oc #asks #mlp oc #mlp ng #mlp next gen #thank you thank you for showing me!! i love seeing other peoples ngs especially when we share ships and especially when we share rarepairs!! #pls tell me your kid's lore id love to hear it #tommy is a professional boxer who is incredibly competitive and takes their job seriously but is also very serious about good sportsmanship #they have called off fights before because their opponent was being a jerk and they couldn't trust themself not to start fighting in anger #they also make sure to separate their work life from their private life and that goes into their costume #bc the mask makes their star look like just a blaze and thats kind of their most distinctive feature #this was the first time ive drawn them in like a year i think their hair is meant to be more pastel woops #id in alt text #at least for my drawing #idk how to ad alt text to asks :(

[matchalovertrait]

Let's go back home now.

Transcript:

Noemí, Erick, and Ángel: Dulce!!

Noemí: Mija, you did wonderful.

Erick: You were amazing.

Erick: Look at our baby girl.

Noemí: You must be so tired after all that! Let’s go home.

Dulce: Amá, Dad, how can you guys be so happy right now? I didn’t win.

Noemí: Dulce, that doesn’t matter. We’re glad you got to experience this wonderful opportunity. You came and gave it your all, so of course we’re beaming with pride.

Erick: [Gets down at Dulce’s eye-level] Sweetie, look at me. I know you’re upset, but it’s like what your mother said: This was an amazing opportunity. Not everyone got accepted, but you did. They saw something in you, and who wouldn’t? My daughter is phenomenal.

Dulce: I guess so.. huh? Thank you, everyone.

...

?: Excuse me, I don’t mean to interrupt.

Mia: Hello Mrs. and Mr. Alegria. I‘m Mia D‘Angelo-Ramirez, the main judge of Diced Junior. Your daughter is quite remarkable. Can I please have a quick word with her?

Noemí: Oh! Yes, please, go ahead.

Dulce: Oh, are you here to give me more advice?

Mia: No, only words of encouragement. I don’t want you to think we only said that nice stuff for the cameras. I snuck away from the table just now to let you know that I truly believe you’ll make it big in this industry.

Mia: I’ll be watching your career closely. Don’t let me down, alright? Be smart with your choices. I have to head back now.

Dulce: You got it.

#noemi alegria #erick wade #angel alegria #dulce alegria #mia d'angelo ramirez #matchalovertrait #alegria legacy #tjolc gen 1 #tjolc #NOEMIIII I MISSED SEEING YOUR BEAUTIFUL FACE FOR 2 WEEKS 😔😔😔😔😭😭😭😭😭 #for you guys it was 1 week but for me it was 2 #also sorry guys i'm always switching up my editing LMAOO #i'm tryna find something more permanent. these kind of posts with text @ the bottom won't be common tho. they'll be for more serious posts #i just wanted my slice of life posts to match my serious posts a lil more #and according to google the “league gothic” font pairs nicely with the “chewy” font idk #these moodlets might stay actually. i like how @windslar's psds look so crisp and i wanted something like that :o #if these are too hard to read lmk. open to the constructive criticism :) #white and yellow will be the main colors for posts like these. it's just that there are so many ppl in this post lol

[friendly-neighborhood-furry]

sometimes the state of the world makes me want to go outside and scream as loud as i can for help. sometimes it makes me want to crawl deep into a hole and never come back out again. sometimes it makes me want to fall to my knees and sob uncontrollably. sometimes it seems so hopeless that i cant see any better alternative other than just disappearing.

so much evil and destruction and suffering-- and for what?

what is it all for?

for the latest popular billionare to take a 13 minute flight? for the newest remake of a movie that changed my life to get turned into mindless sludge? for a never-before-seen species of animal to be discovered, then pronounced extinct the very next week? for millions of people to go broke for having cancer?

i tell my mother that i wont be able to afford a house. she says "no, you will." i tell my counselor that my government wants to kill me. she says "that's not true." i tell my teachers i don't see a point in doing well in school because i wont be able to get a job anyway, even if i have a college degree. they tell me "no, you'll get a job. school is still important." i email my senators begging them to stop funding the genocide in Palestine. i get a copy-pasted email back with a history lesson about why that wont happen. one million people died from COVID last Christmas and i'm the only one at my school still wearing a mask. my future as an artist was ripped from my hands in less than two years and pretty soon i wont be able to share anything about my art at all. i'm half mexican, but everybody says i'm "too white" to be a "real mexican". its been four years and i'm nowhere closer to understanding my gender identity than i was at the start. tumblr has been my only safe space for three years and now that KOSA might pass this week, where will i go?

and all the while, through all of this conflict-- people are still falling in love for the first time and rescuing kittens off the street and watching their children take their first steps and getting married and making fun little indie games and building elaborate cosplays of their favorite character and making the most heart-touchingly beautiful pieces of art you've ever seen and meeting lifelong friends and cooking amazingly delicious food and playing children's games and weaving baskets from pine needles and taking care of livestock and collecting little knick-knacks and having the best day of their lives and writing their first line of code and learning to play instruments and hatching baby birds and posting a 100K word thesis about a show they really like and uploading song covers for 19 people on Youtube to listen to and pushing the boundaries of what science can accomplish and discussing moral philosophies in the comment section of a Reddit post and feeling truly seen in the eyes of another human being for the first time in their lives and growing old surrounded by the people they love.

the future is uncertain, but the world will go on. the winds will still blow and the tides will still flow. people will continue to find joy in this hell and fight for it with everything they have.

so don't give up.

"don't give up," i tell myself.

"don't give up," i tell you.

"don't give up," i scream into the sky.

there is always something to keep going for. if you cannot find it in yourself, find it in others. find it in the people in your life and the people you see online. find it in the good of humanity you know to exist.

find it. keep fighting. don't give up.

#at the end of it all i do consider myself a poet #if this reaches even one person #and gives them the strength to keep going #i would consider it a success #tomothy rambles #serious post #gen z #capitalism #climate change #palestine #free palestine #lgbtqia+ #queer #trans #vent #mental health #anxiety #depression

[egophiliac]

YEA RIDE KAMENS ART IM CRYING.. is there a rider you want to appear in the game? i'm personally praying for kiva 😭

YEAH! :D I'm having a lot of fun anticipating the reveals (and being extremely wrong about most of them) but I am also unironically extremely excited for this game! it is the kind of buckwild adaptation that we both need and deserve (and also I kind of adore all the characters already).

we're never getting a Fourze but. I desperately want a Fourze. 😭 Kiva would also be EXCELLENT, the vampire motif would work SO well with these designs! (not to mention the whole stained-glass theming in general...Kiva had some really beautiful designs going on, just LOOK at Saga --)

#ride kamens #joseimuke games are serious business #i would love to see some of the riders/shows that didn't make it brought in in some other way #like minor characters or something #(sits up straight in bed) wait what if one of the academy teachers is fourze #GEN-SENSEI WE NEED YOUR WISDOM NOW MORE THAN EVER #it won't happen it would be TOO good #and yet... #(i also think it would be INCREDIBLY funny if one of them was decade) #(not based on decade just actual literal tsukasa who has dimension-hopped into this game and decided to run with it) #(let him finally live a peaceful life as a simple bus driver. please. he is so tired.)

[l48yr1nth]

noivern and swoobat are very similar when you think about it...........! swoobat feels like noivern's goofy cousin or something to me. love it!!

#fun laby fact! #when i was first getting into drawing as a serious hobby dragons were my first muse! #i would look at other people's drawings online and try to copy them just by looking #i still love drawing dragons and dragon shaped things x3 #labyart #my art #pokemon #pokemon art #pokemon black and white #pokemon fanart #pkmn #noivern #swoobat #unova pokemon #unova #unova region #gen 5 pokemon #generation 5 #gen 5

[mustangs-flames]

Just a heads up (I've had a few asks) to say that I don't intend on returning to the TMC fandom. I've moved onto new things, HTB has become its own fiction series, and I'm having a lot of fun with my own stuff now. I'm grateful to TMC as a thing that inspired me to make my own work, but I'm not interested in going backwards. I also don't give permission for anyone to continue HTB as an AU. It is a fiction series now by me and will be moving forward as such.

Thanks 💜

#honestly the whole things was a mess and i am not interested in being part of the fandom anymore #i am sorry if people were expecting me to come back with htb as an au again but that's not the plan at all #i hope everyone involved is doing well and is safe though /gen #sorry for getting serious here but i had a few asks today and wanted to address it in one post #i hope that's okay

[god-u]

#gen v #gen v spoilers #jordan li #* #caps #mi vida #need their dad to d word i’m so fucking serious.. #got something cooking in my drafts so had to post this first for reference #the last cap.. FUCK! 😭😞💔💔 #him saying i’m no bigot made me wanna punch him so bad i’m GODDKNS #s1e3 #when i catch you mr. li…