#[ nobody worth anything ]

[thegreatidk]

My biggest beef with the way Annabeth was written in the show is that I think Rick fell into his own trap. Like his whole thing with Annabeth is that just because someone doesn’t look smart doesn’t mean they aren’t. And while it’s about their literal looks for both the show and the book, book Annabeth also sometimes acted in ways that people wouldn’t stereotypically associate with “smart” because I think we’ve all be condition to think bbc sherlock no emotions genius is the only way to be smart. Book Annabeth acts super flustered around Luke because she's a kid and she has a crush on him, she's afraid of spiders, and wanted to see the arch just because she thought it was cool. In general book Annabeth is allowed to be sillier and have a wider range of emotions than show Annabeth without it detracting from the fact that Annabeth is smart. I find this whole "stoic genius" idea is often used to put down teenage girls for being dumb and superficial just because they show emotions and the only way to beat it is to be cold, calculating, and emotionless and most people just aren't like that.

#Like on a personal note I was in robotics in high school #And all the other kids were juniors and seniors and also male #And they would bully me so bad for liking anything remotely girly or being emotional #And I was really trying to earn their respect because I wanted to captain next year #And the only way I felt I could do that was by supressing everything #And I remember relating so hard to Annabeth and being jealous of her because she acted basically the way I did #But nobody thought she was dumb or not worth leading a quest because of it #like yes percy bullies her a little lol but at the end of the day he doesn't question her wisdom #pjo show crit #annabeth chase #pjotv spoilers

[fearforthestorm]

hey if we're going over tagging etiquette for new people is this a good time for us to bring back up the plea of "please god stop tagging your watchers content as Evo if it has nothing to do with Evo" because. man I've been trying to have a productive conversation about that tagging mess for over a year and if this is what it takes to have that conversation I will take it!

#.lyr #mcyt #fanon watchers are SO far removed from the og series and its hard enough to find anything in that tag as is please #theyre not the same character anymore. please let us have that fandom tag and use.something else #(we CAN elaborate if anyone wants but not worth our energy to articulate if nobody is gonna actually.care lmao) #hermitcraft #trafficseries #last life smp #3rd life smp #mcytblr #hermitblr #twitter #mcyt watchers #(somehow tags on this got WAY fucked.up and copied smth from another post oops lol. fixed now) #evo smp #evolution smp

[fangirlsovertoomanythings]

Can you imagine what being Professor Moriarty's student was like? You have a very dedicated Mathematics professor, who also has a degree in Astronomy, and he tries his best to make everyone understand what he says despite the limitations of having a bunch of different students with a bunch of different learning styles, and he's just so nice; a bit overly strict with schedules, but he never humiliates you for forgetting an assignment. He probably donates his money to associations that seek to help immigrants or something. His eyes lighten up whenever you show interest in one of his areas of expertise outside of lecture hours, and he infodumps about how the Sun will die one day to you. He takes jokes well despite the resting bitch face he carries around.

And then one day you hear he was killed by Sherlock fucking Holmes and that he was a mobster.

#dont really like when hes the main villain of every work i ever see #but thats because nobody is exploring the possibilities when they include him in a narrative #like hes so fucking overrated and you arent doing anything to make him actually worth our time! #hes a good professor! and as far as we know his dad was a criminal and his brothers arent so theres family drama too! #have fun! be weird about him! #sherlock holmes #acd holmes #professor moriarty #headcanon

[feluka]

cairo

#i love taking photos from the bus because i can't see shit so i just click frantically a hundred times #then when i get home i sort through them like 'hmmmm are any of these worth anything' #the first photo was on foot though #i saw the cat and the entrance and the brick wall and i said nobody move or breathe i have the perfect photo in mind!!! #didn't turn out the way i wanted 😔 there was the odd bluish brick that my phone camera didn't really bring out #the cat also looks washed out too wtf. and that's with my adding saturation to fix it! #phone camera just doesn't get most of the colors smh #my photos #cairo #well. giza technically. in three of those. whatever #egypt

[wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt]

I think Amber was genuinely so good for Wilson. She understood him more than most people, and she encouraged his independence. She genuinely wanted him to put himself first and do things he wanted instead of just doing things he thought others wanted. And a lot of that was able to happen because she herself was incredibly independent. She wasn't the stereotypically "needy" person Wilson had been drawn to before, so she wouldn't stand for his attempts at being a martyr. She stood up to House, too, but she also cared about him in her own way because Wilson cared about him. She appreciated their relationship and went out of her way to work things out with House for Wilsons sake. I have a lot to say about why I think all of Wilson's female relationships failed and why I think that was caused by his internalized struggle with his sexuality, but I stand by the fact that I think Amber was actually good for him and one of, if not the most, healthy relationship he had in the show.

#dont get me wrong im a hilson truther until the day i die #but Amber was just such a bad bitch and she was so fierce and amazing and i loved her #and at first i was super hesitant about their relationship but she grew on me so much #and yes she is needy in her own way but nothing compared to wilsons other relationships #i loved how she stood up for herself and did not allow Wilson to degrade himself to make her happy #she wanted them to both be equals #and would not accept anything less #she knew her own worth and saw Wilsons worth and therefore refused to let them be anything less then they deserved #and i do think nobody understood Wilson as well as House #But i think Amber couldnt come very close #as close as possible #house md #house #hilson #james wilson #wilson #greg house #gregory house #robert sean leonard #dr james wilson #amber volakis

[gffa]

obikin sucks stop shipping it

Aww, now I'm gonna ship it even harder. 💖

#obikin #p.s. nobody go after this person or send them anything #they're not worth it and i'd rather leave them in their own muck

[bruhstation]

checking out theodore tugboat right now and all I can say is that foduck would really benefit from reading the dsm v

#zin.txt #my beautiful princess with various personality disorders. please talk to me. #I don't think I'm joking like atp he's DEFINITELY an undiagnosed autism and ocd haver. maybe bpd too.... many such cases #which is why he's always like ''I don't know why I feel like this''or ''I'm so sorry I don't know why I did that'' #him get upset over his coworkers stopping in the middle of work #going back and forth between valuing himself and feeling incredibly lesser than his peers because he is told to guard the docks #and cannot go out to the ocean #thus making his V title ''not worth anything'' according to him #''Im so important and nobody will get their job done without me'' #[5 minutes later] #''I am not a part of the team because I cannot go out to the ocean and my Vigilant title has no meaning'' #also the way he views his friends always changes like #one minute he's doting on them and cheering them on #next minute he's angry and agitated and dislikes them #next minute he's alll sorry and worried and anxious. curious indeed #living rent free inside my head and his neighbors are gordon and boomer

[tenleaguesbeneath]

I feel like ME3 kinda leaves the revelation on Chronos Station hanging when EDI is like “oh yeah Cerberus is Indoctrinating civilians and augmenting them with Reaper cybernetics, that’s why they treat their soldiers’ lives so cheaply”

It comes really late in the game, after Shepard’s walked over a pile of Cerberus bodies. Maybe part of that is that by the time she has a chance to rest after having it confirmed, she’s done fighting Cerberus for good. But then, it’s pretty heavily foreshadowed. Grissom has datapads saying they plan to make Phantoms out of the biotic students if they can take them. Eden Prime has a thing where they’re pretending to the civilians they’re occupying that the people they’re kidnapping are being taken away for forced labor and hiding that they’ll never be seen again. fucking Mars has you see their Reaper-cybernetic-altered faces, though you don’t find out about them not being willing volunteers until later. Liara seems to be aware of this given her convo with Aethyta.

I’m not sure if it’s my copy of ME:Legendary or something else but sometimes when I throw them they get stuck ragdolled in a corner with hit points remaining but they’re not getting up, and finishing them always feels kinda grim.

The version of Shepard they portray who has no comment on either doing that or finding out that she’s been doing that to people who were taken from their families against their will and mind controlled is, like...

it says disturbing things about how inured she is to violence. the entire squad, really.

#mass effect #Liara's the one I'd expect to crack first here because she's the one who has the least military mindset #also she's the one who cracks the most on seeing her homeworld attacked by Reapers #also she's the one who has personal experience with losing a loved one to indoctrination #and also on Thessia she freaks out about fighting the things Reapers turn her species into and nobody else does that #I don't remember Ash or Kaidan saying anything about fighting husks being unbearable in ME1 #or Garrus saying anything about Marauders #but no nothing #Jaal takes learning about exaltation worse than anyone in the main trilogy takes Cerberus #and do the Cerberus troops still feel fear? #what we see from more functional indoctrination victims isn't emotionlessness it's rationalization. #so does assault trooper 54317 drop onto the battlefield afraid but thinking the few seconds their life might slow Shepard down worth it?

[magentagalaxies]

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#i should've just gatekept scott thompson from my college bc the way my college is treating me right now is bullshit #like i don't even want to do the scott event anymore bc of how they're treating me but i kind of have to #and i know i should be grateful they're even letting me be one of the interviewers but i hate being a student so much #i hate how nobody respects my opinion or input or experience even tho i'm literally the reason scott's even doing this event #(and ESPECIALLY the reason he's willing to do it for free!!) #and it especially stings bc scott has never made me feel like my insights were worth less because i'm a student #like he's always been one of the few people who consistently treat me like we're equals even tho he doesn't have to #and the way my college is treating me. it's like they don't trust me to not be an annoying little kid #like they're just assuming scott doesn't respect me so they don't have to respect me either #i mean on the plus side i'm supposed to have another phone call with scott either today or tomorrow so i can probably explain the situation #like i don't want to make him feel negatively about my college i want him to have a good time #but this treatment is genuinely fucking with my self confidence #and also maybe i can harness scott's power to hear ''don't talk about this thing'' and immediately make the interview all about this thing #(except in this case it would be him treating me like an equal instead of a random student) #and there's a bunch of bullshit currently going on with the class i have right after the event #so even tho originally i was like ''awesome i have the perfect schedule to bring scott to all of my classes!!'' #i might just ask scott if he wants to skip class together and hang out. like i never promised that class anything #the only thing i *have* to do is the interview. the class we'd be skipping is already being like #''oh are you sure scott wants to visit the class i don't want to take him away from a better use of his time'' #and scott was genuinely excited to see what my classes were like!! even if y'all didn't treat him like a big celebrity!! #but y'know what i'm sure scott does have a better use of his time. and i do too. #i'm gonna do the interview event bc i have to (we're in too deep at this point) #and i might ask scott if he wants to talk to that freshman film class about the buddy cole doc #bc 1. they offered to pay scott for that (they can't legally pay me but that's why i made the joke about money laundering) #2. since it's about the doc it's the one class where i get to be treated like an actual person #but other than that. damn it i was excited to share this part of my life with scott but fuck that this part of my life sucks #i'm gonna have a good time with scott in boston and my college is only going to be as much a part of is as they have to be #because we ARE friends (scott said so!) and i AM a brilliant filmmaker (bruce said so!) and i DO have potential (bellini said so!) #even tho it is hard to internalize those things after how much yesterday fucked me up. but that's ok scott will call again soon

[johnmeowston]

top ten guys who would shatter if thrown at a wall number 1

#thinking abtpers ERMM sorry always think abt him late and then i get self concious. BUT i think #''yknow that life we lived is over. and when we were living it it didnt mean anything anyways'' < THAT. THAT MAKES ME THROW UP AND SOB #because it DID mean something to him!! it meant everything !! #it was the one thing that kept him going he was trapped w laius or wahteva #the idea that if there was even a SLIM chance of him escaping and meeting back up with coyot and things going back to the way they were. it #was worth it enough to endure torment and try to not go crazy < wanted 2 be somewhat normal when he caught up w coyot #even though it never did turn into a reality and instead he came across gunner #and it wasnt until after he had grown to love his new life and the people around him that he saw coyot again . circumstances aside he still #was so happy 2 see he was alive and well. was happy to see that coyot also lived with the people he loved and was doing alright for himself #and was in a better mental state and was well fed and ! #he loved coyot. im so emo over that. love was there but it saved nobody < shaking and crying and throwing up #and thats why i think him dying would be the best outcome 4 him tbh. having to kill your old family must be fucking devastating #and he only did it to ensure a false sense of safety. FML!! #txt

[kkoct-ik]

i think i might be loved

#big milestone here boys #hard to formulate words. but im realising people like me #there are lots of people who know me and they think im cool and worth their time #boyfriend especially is obsessed w me and does so much to make me happy and also just generally exists in my space because he likes it #im awarreee that i often still dont like myself. i get frustrated and defensive and i start seeing anything associated with me as bad #but i am loved i think #kostik speaks #people still feel very distant but in a different way now #the distance feels less harrowing and alienating and now its more like theyre distant because theyre different people #but we still have points of contact and thats very special #nobody is crawling into my lungs to envelop me but theyre inside my space and theyre comfortable #it helps that theyre not looking at me. theyre closer but its not confrontational. no sudden movements. just existing #i want boyfriends bed again this is so unfair

[shitty-check-please-aus]

Network Effect Chapter 12 Spoilers

ART and everyone else:

#murderbot spoilers #nobody tell me anything else about what happens next #is ART the only one whose name I'm sure how to spell because I'm listening to the audiobook? yes #it's worth it for Kevin R Free's performance though

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

There are certain chicks who just give off that "mean girl" vibe to me. "You hate girls like me because we know our worth" Nah, you are just a b*tch who thinks she's above everybody else just for existing.

#txt #oh yeah i'm going there #y'all can call me a pick me #these chicks don't know their worth. they believe they are goddesses that must be put on a pedestal #i'm sorry but i can't stand these types of women #they are another face of feminism hidden under the mask of “femininity advice” #“you are a pick me” if you say so sweetie #i don't feel threatened by your beauty or charm or anything y'all are just annoying #they think people dislike them for having standards. b*tch nobody cares about your silly standards #people don't like y'all because of your arrogance and no it's not sexism or putting women down. don't f*cking come at me with that #i know every single argument that is gonna be thrown at me #but yeah #i scrolled this one so-called “divine femininity” content creator and her face alone screams c*nt #i know a b*tch when i see one and these kinds of women are like that #there is a difference between a woman with standards and self-worth #the bible and christianity themselves ask women to have that #and the b*tch who thinks she is a PRIZE #honestly #the men do need to shut the hell up with that. that's why these women are running their mouths on y'all now #the men and women are both f*cking stupid and need to stop this childish sh*t #they think being called out on their nastiness somehow means society hates women with standards. what society has ever expected women to no #have standards and a sense of worth? women would get endlessly sh*t on by their family members for having babies out of wedlock and going #for men who didn't have a stable job or women who didn't have any manners because they were perceived as WORTHLESS and women who did not #respect themselves. a healthy society expects women to respect and value themselves. a lot of you b*tches hide behind that to be a b*tch #if they were men they would automatically get called sexist a$$holes. that's how you know these b*tches are no different from rp's #they are another branch of feminists. feminists and rp' #are both sh*t and men and women need to quit acting like f*cking children. i'm sick of y'all #it's rare to find anybody who is balanced on any damn platform #it's either men ain't sh*t or women ain't sh*t #also didn't jasmine have that famous “i'm not a PRIZE to be won” scene??? these women treat themselves as nothing but objects to be won

[feluka]

the way a lot of the MEANINGFUL statements in support of palestine have come from people who have never touted themselves as activists and a lot of the silence/worse than silence have been from people who constantly sell an image of themselves of how humanitarian they are and how devoted to causes they are

#like. when i say 'i can't believe some of the best statements i've heard have come from macklemore and rupi kaur and nyan cat of all ppl' #i don't mean to say 'i can't believe it's coming from stupid/'lesser' people' because that doesn't mean anything. #nobody's words is inherently worth less even if they're associated with memes or such. BUT #there is something to be said that these are people who have never attempted to inject themselves into scenes as AcTivIsTs #or constantly talked about how good they are and how much good they do #so it's depressing when critrole that brazenly says corny shit like 'we're here to leave the world better than we found it' #and don't get me started on 'don't forget to love each other' #have been dead silent

[foolishnpd]

why is it that, against every objective presence and evidence of it, I have to feel so unbearably ignored and unloved by everyone

#lilyroaring #npd safe #it doesn't have to be true at all #but sometimes I'll just feel as though nobody's ever loved me in my entire life #or I'll feel as though my life is the only one that matters #so why isn't it getting everyone's attention? why are they focused more on their own lives #why are they focused on other people even? and not me #it's not as though I'm owed constant attention on demand or anything- #so could I stop feeling bad about it #but I can't help it really #do I need to prove my worth? my suffering? how do I make myself more lovable #how far do I have to go #I can't live with myself if I'm not worthy in some way

[ducktracy]

I'm not sure if this has been brought up yet, but as I caught myself doing it, I realized it was very likely a good chunk of others are also - I think having the racist parts included in the poll is going to heavily skew the data anyway because people will, very likely, not feel able to vote for something racist in good conscience, and so the votes the racist screams would have gotten if they weren't racist are lost, thus making the data unusable due to personal bias. not even considering the number of people abstaining completely, dropping the pool of data further! I'm not aware if this has been broached yet, but I think it's definitely worth noting that the data for the racist clips will always be untrustworthy, even if the scream itself is good. On top of all of the other reasons why they should be omitted ofc!

GOD YEAH. i feel so dumb going “🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 well gee you make a good point there 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔” all contemplatively because i’m realizing that was my intent too, in that “well hopefully they’ll whittle down as the rounds go further and further” has been constantly harping on my mind. but that absolutely feeds into everything you laid out too, which, again, i DEEPLY appreciate.

i’ll be doing that, then, in that i think it’s the safest and SMARTEST course of action. it’s likewise been pointed out that the setting is a little different here than if i were doing one of my analyses, in that i’m still making it available to vote for one of those options, and that interactive element innately delegitimizes the harm/makes light of it under the guise of a poll.

i was conflating that perspective with my analyses, which IS often a more objective presentation of “okay: this is it. here is the historical context. here is how a more modern perspective impacts how it currently stands” and forgetting that polls are polls. you’re voting on them. they’re going to get spread around and viewed as a game. and they are! and i was viewing the polls from the same archivist lens as the rest of my blog, when, due to the intrinsic nature of how these polls works, you can’t really do that. it’s not the same presentation. i do view this as a historical archival of the progression of these cartoons, how Mel Blanc’s voice changes and adapts through voice direction and even the impact of history on these shorts (like, the shorts made during the WWII years are much more energetic than the domesticity of the post-war cartoons. there’s more yelling to be found in the WWII era shorts for that reason) and i was getting too lost in that and sticking to my guns of “all of this is history and deserves to be acknowledged and accounted for fairly, if/especially describing how well or poorly something has aged, otherwise it’s not history” and that doesn’t… really… work… for these polls.

i can’t believe it’s taken weeks for me to come to this realization and again, i sincerely thank you and everyone else who has called me out on this or offered other means of perspective. it was pure ignorance on my behalf, and i do want to make it known that it was never my intention to perpetuate these stereotypes and caricatures further nor harm anyone. but, obviously, prefacing it with “my intentions were good!” doesn’t negate the very real and serious harm these caricatures and i myself have caused by spreading them in such a leisurely context (or lack thereof).

as mentioned before, i take the safety and comfort of my followers and readers incredibly seriously, ESPECIALLY with the nature of these cartoons. and it’s exactly why i’m so adamant about asking people (such as yourself) to speak up and call me out, let me know what i’ve done wrong, so i can apologize, take accountability, and move forward. those disclaimers aren’t a way to avoid accountability or make it seem like i have a free pass to discuss racism. i really do mean them with every ounce of my heart, so i deeply, deeply, deeply appreciate people such as yourself acting out on those messages. thank you.

i will be excising any future deplorable examples that come up (that, thankfully, have been very few and far between, i’m up to 1948 in logging these and have “only” run into 2 that would apply) and am just going to cut any of the winners out that survived and are going into Round 2. it’s not worth it. none of it has been, but definitely, if i’m constantly thinking to myself “it’ll whittle down!” then maybe we ought to restructure our thinking now haven’t we. funny how that works.

thank you again and my deepest and most sincere apologies. i feel like a complete and utter heel for my negligence—especially because the gut instinct of “just don’t put them in there” was there all along. but, again! these exact situations are why i stress the importance of calling me out on my BS. i’m likewise deeply aware of literally just how silly this entire thing sounds, because none of this should have ever been a problem because i just shouldn’t have included them in the first place! but i did, and i take full accountability, and the harm has already been done. so i just ask and thank you for your patience, understanding and forgiveness, but completely understand that nobody—especially those harmed by my ignorance—is entitled to give it to me.

nobody ever deserves to be confronted nor harmed with such egregious stereotypes, even/especially if said stereotypes are peddled under the guise of objectivity or historical preservation. a poll is not a history site. likewise, nobody deserves to be alienated over cartoons. i post what i post because i want to share the same overflowing love and passion and joy i feel for animation history with others. i love learning new factoids. i love being educated. i love feeling like i’m learning, like i’m indulging in an intimate slice of life from a bygone era. i want to share that same love and passion and joy to my followers. i’m here to make people laugh and to make people smile. i’m here to remind people of long buried memories, or to inspire them to make new ones and investigate these cartoons themselves. i’m here to preserve the history of these cartoons within their proper contexts, and do what i can to ensure i’m doing that safely and smartly and in a way that benefits everyone. and i’m not going to accomplish any of that by slipping needlessly horrendous caricatures in something as inconsequential as a poll on which clip sounds funnier or more impressive or whatever and causing the harm.

so, sincerely, thank you.

#there are a few Hitler caricatures coming up that i may similarly apprehend—the shorts are making fun of him and Blanc of course is Jewish #but it’s just not worth it for the reasons above. a poll isn’t the proper context for it #i know i’ve been making a lot of big grandiose responses and apologies and posts lately and i know those can come off as pious and hard to #take seriously. and those who do not feel they owe it to me to take them seriously don’t have to. again i’m not owed anything #but i do hope to stress that this all comes from a very genuine place and that i mean every word #i really do genuinely feel absolutely terrible. and obviously the only direction is forward. nobody is asking for me to feel terrible and #what’s done is done i’ve caused the harm i’ve caused and the best thing i can do is own up to it apologize and not repeat my mistakes #so. i know long messages like these can come off as guilt trippy or manipulative but i really am just speaking from the heart (and you guys #know me i never shut up) #so. thanks for listening and thanks for reaching out. i appreciate it immensely. #gothglam #asks