#(not cheap but i don't even care)

[weirdest-lights]

It's my own opinion but the more I watch the new season of the Bad Batch the more I feel like Tech's death was just cheap.

In a series focused on the Bad Batch, we saw more Rampart and Emerie than Echo . An integral member since the beginning.

So what if killing of Tech was just another quick way to get rid of a character they wouldn't have had time to write a role for? I mean, they barely talk about him and we never get to see anyone's reaction to his death.

It just feels like killing him was a way to get rid of a character easily to focus on others or just to make more drama in the new season.

"Oh Tech isn't here to do that so I guess we're going to have to risk our lives for this things."

"If Tech were here it would be easier but since he's not, guess we're going to have to take the long road !"

#personal #red's rambles #star wars #the bad batch #sw tbb #tbb #tech tbb #tech bad batch #tech the bad batch #I really don't like how they keep setting up plotlines but focus on others things instead #Like the whole Emerie episode ?? It just felt like a good excuse to show us how actually Emerie isn't that bad cause look ! #she cares for kids !! wow. even then she just does as she is told. #yeah sure she was brought up like this. so were the clones and they still questioned stuff #hopefully the next episode will be 2hours long cause otherwise no idea how they're concluding some stuff #my opinion #killing off the explicitly autistic character only to never talk about him again feels extremely cheap #tbb season 3 #tbb season three #tbb season 3 spoilers #? #arc trooper echo #echo #tbb echo

[joyflameball]

The internet owes an apology to Poppy Playtime I think

#cassie rambles #i don't even care that much abt poppy playtime but #man people being like ''poppy playtime isn't real horror :/ it's just shitty mascot horror'' #ONLY FOR POPPY PLAYTIME CHAPTER THREE TO BE LIKE THAT?? #they looked at ppt's reputation as shitty cheap kid's horror and just went #''okay. okay. :) alright then :)''

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys i have so many thoughts about tdr. i have so much to say. like i don't want to be super mean but dude that comic fucking sucks and i can't lie i think it made me kind of homophobic actually

#my stance up to now has been that i don't really care about tim/ber but now that i have read this. dude... #it sucks that they gave a canon queer tim narrative to someone who uses homophobia as shock value and virtue signaling points #and who actively tears down characters who don't like her special little uwu flawless oc (kate im so fucking sorry) #there's no substance to this relationship i don't see why they even like each other #bc she keeps just stating oh they're perfect they make each other so happy but she doesn't like. show that at all #and i HATE the shock value homophobia like i cannot overstate how much i hate it #oh these random cops are homophobic (that's how you know they're BAD!) #oh bernard's parents are homophobic (that's how you know THEY'RE bad too!) #it's so hamfisted and it reads like such. cheap storytelling #especially bc tim as narrator doesn't even get to have ANY thoughts on his own queerness or seeing this homophobia in the world around him #and then she can't go more than two pages without being like BTW BERNARD IS THE BEST EVER AND TIM CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM #while against this ugly backdrop of shock value homophobia #there's no substance to this relationship. why do they even like each other. it just falls apart if you examine it at all #because she just is fundamentally incapable of writing either of them as people with character flaws #for fucks sake she can't even be consistent with tim's BASIC character tenets. ''i always dreamed of being batman'' false lmao #but then to follow it up with ''i never wanted to be batman i always wanted to be my dad'' #and then on TOP OF THAT to make the Only mention of Jack drake and his impact on tim's life ABOUT BERNARD AGAIN. #yeah sorry im a hater now. this was shit tier #rimi talks

[layla-carstairs]

Cassandra Clare writing the pre-tlh short stories and then forgetting about them & what they had established as canon when actually writing the last hours is my villain origin story. like it makes me so violent. and I get things change as the writing process goes on but imo as an author you have a responsibility to abide by what you previously wrote & published. you don't get to pretend that it just never happened.

#it's cheap & annoying & takes away from the final project #even just some acknowledgement would have fixed the problem! #like with James being the 'leader' of the Merry Thieves when in the short stories it was very well established that was Matthew #or how James was the one who really hated Alastair #and Thomas would always defend Alastair which meant having conversations about Alastair nearly impossible without upsetting someone #there's countless examples of this it makes me want to pull my hair out #as for something like the family tree. I would have rathered cc just explained the situation to us fans #like just *tell us* the family tree was written before tlh was really a thing & because of that it's not canon anymore #there wasn't really a need for an canonical explanation (especially since it was so random) #I doubt anyone but fans cared about it anyway #by fans I mean hardcore fans who don't just read causally. like ones who get her newsletter/follow her on tumblr and twitter etc #the last hours #chain of gold #chain of iron #chain of thorns #james herondale #cordelia carstairs #lucie herondale #matthew fairchild #thomas lightwood #alastair carstairs #christopher lightwood #anna lightwood #jesse blackthorn #grace blackthorn #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc

[venacoeurva]

I don't really keep up with Watcher anymore aside from the drunk ghost stories, but oh my god leaving Youtube and starting your own streaming service, let alone during a period where people have like no money and people are very annoyed with streaming services, is such a terrible idea

#vena vents #not art #your primary demographics are probably younger people who don't have money what are you smoking??? #for increased production value??? that apparently a lot of people don't even like already?????? #I was fine with them sitting at a table with relatively cheap props and a folder man I do not care nor want anything flashy and expensive #Not even a Mythical Society type of thing? Which would probably work??????

[universalfanfic]

Best trick I weaponize in my writing when a scene is dragging on and I don't know how to end it is the "TV show cut to commercial" trick where I end on a meaningful or pointed line of dialogue/scene and "fade to black" for a commercial break

#writer things #i don't care about your spiels on why this isn't good technique #or how cheap a trick it is #i imagine my fics as movies/tv shows anyway so it is perfect in my tiny brain #beautiful even #works for me so well

[quatregats]

Going mildly insane because I got a Moleskine notebook from someone for free and the line spacing is so so pleasing and I cannot find any notebooks with 6mm or less line spacing that cost less than like $20 because there's like two brands that make them and they're the expensive ones ;-;

#literally i don't care if it's a nice notebook i would buy a cheap spiral bound notebook if it was 6mm #i've figured out what drives me insane about notebook paper that feels 'ugly' and it's literally like 8mm line spacing #this is why even when i look at so-called 'nice' or 'expensive' notebooks half the time i'm like why would i buy this #when i could buy a college-ruled composition book #but legitimately why is 6mm spacing so hard to find!!!! like you just have to print the lines a little closer it's not that difficult!!!!! #i'm going insane i want to bite something i can't only use moleskine or leuchtturm for the rest of my life #(also side note yes i know that grid tends to be better but i can't write stories on grid paper) #perce rambles

[brown-little-robin]

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#in other news I think if I ever get a sheepskin rug #I'll really feel like I have Made It. #there was a family we used to visit who had a sheepskin rug and I thought it was the best thing ever. the height of luxury and realness #tbh I am excited to be out of college get a job and figure out what budgeting looks like *then*. #I don't even care if I have a lot of spending money man #I just look forward to.... tithing. saving for purchases. maintaining an emergency fund. cheap grocery shopping. that sort of thing. joys

[felinesassosaurus]

What a perfect day to break out the new whetstone set and put a new edge on every knife in the house! Can't wait to slice through Caesar veggies with ease!

#march 15 #the ides of march #legit just started soaking the stones before realizing what day it is #god i hope i don't screw up #im going for the cheap knives first bc if i mess up on those its fine #but if i mess up on the Good Knives I'm dead #amd by dead i mean I'll do the deed myself before my parents even have a chance #bc those knives are the very same Zwilling Henckels they got as a wedding gift over 30 years ago #those knives have been around and in use since before i existed #i learned to knife with those knives #those knives are family and loved as such #they have been so cared for that they still have the logo on the blade #used washed immediately and put back in the knife block for 30+ years #in a proper knife block too with the blades resting on their sides instead of the edge #hate those verically slotted knife blocks #anyway #off to sharpen some metal with rocks!

[triplecreature]

You guys do know that those posts that go like "I just found out about this awesome lamp that unfolds into a dragon! Check this out!" or "I wish I had this adorable cat-shaped beanbag... OMG I FOUND THE LINK!!" are ads by dropshippers, right? You do know that's not a regular user organically sharing a neat find but a seller trying to promote their product, right? You do know they're mass-produced Chinese products, likely bought and resold at a markup from Taobao shops, with inconsistent quality and opaque manufacturing practices, and not some small business artist's craft? Right? If you just don't care, that's another thing, but sometimes I see people acting like they genuinely believe the "hey guys I just found cool thing :)" veneer on those posts. Just want you to know what you're getting yourself into.

#i do not advise buying from dropshippers i kind of hate letting them win #even with the problems with cheap chinese junk aside... if you are really into that stuff it's more economical to learn to buy direct #taobao is hard to shop on for westerners but you can save a lot and be more discerning about where it's coming from #rather than being shrouded by layers of dropshipping mystery #because there ARE genuine small businesses on taobao that are just some lady making trinkets in her home. and actually good products #I obviously don't live in China nor can I read Chinese but if anyone cares you can send me an ask and I can explain how I buy from TB

[goat-boy-sounds]

I have a parasocial hatred for the coen brothers and frances mcdormand. learning the development history of nomadland is like the skeleton key to figuring out their entire condescending faux-middle-class-americana filmography

#rambling #they're like wes anderson if someone drained all of the authentic whimsy and love for humanity out of him #and all that was left was a void of smug cheap shots #I'm probably being overly harsh but I watched burn after reading last night and I found it insufferable #no country for old men is philosophically bankrupt #they hate their characters so why should they expect me to care at all about what happens to those characters #like how do you even manage to make an adaptation of macbeth that's devoid of drama #and don't even get me started on nomadland that movie is straight up vile #and stylistically a terrence malick homunculus

[henpeckedho]

I don't remember if I talked about it on here but my wheat allergy is fading.

It has faded so much I just had TWO PB&j sandwiches for breakfast and they were soft and cheap and my mouth doesn't hurt from the texture. And I'm not even slightly dead from it.

Sometimes life is really good.

#i still need allergy meds but even with me eating wheat it's continuing to get better #this has happened before with other allergies #even if this reprieve isn't permanent i don't care this is so fun #i can have cheap ramen again!!! #I'm about to be a sandwich FIEND #and will still be eating mostly rice and potatoes #but excited for the possibilities

[themoonking]

there is no such thing as a “low maintenance pet”, only different maintenance.

dogs, cats, fish, reptiles, birds, small mammals, et cetera all have different needs, and your individual lifestyle may be better suited to meeting the needs of one more than another. you may be able to properly care for a cat but not a fish, or a fish but not a rabbit, or a rabbit but not a bird, and so on, but that doesn’t make any pet “easier” to care for than another. it doesn’t make any pet need less care and attention than another.

promoting any pet as “low maintenance” leads to neglect at best and abuse at worst.

#fish and cats and probably the worst when it comes to this but in two different ways #fish because people have the idea of a fishbowl or one of those teeny tiny tanks and think that's fine #and combined with how easy and cheap it is to get a fish compared to a cat or a dog leads to people just getting them #without knowing how to properly care for them #*in general* getting a cat/dog is a pretty lengthy process whether youre adopting or buying from a breeder #and typically involves some kind of application and a vetting by the rescue/breeder #but literally anyone can walk into the pet store and buy a fish #and they don't know about getting a filter or a heater and thermometer or even the right tank size for their fish #and they certainly don't know that you need the entire tank set up WELL before getting the fish to properly cycle the tank #and then with cats it comes down to the whole outdoor cat thing and the misconception of cats as 'independent' #and less informed people think 'oh well i can just leave the cat outside all day and all i really have to do is feed it' #and so (1) they leave the cat outside all day (neglect/abuse full stop) and (2) don't own cat toys / cat furniture et cetera #anyway in a perfect world i don't think places like petco or petsmart should be allowed to sell the animals themselves #in a perfect world they wouldn't be allowed to sell fishbowls or those teeny tiny tanks or those tube things for like hamsters and them #but we don't live in a perfect world so :-/ #i speak #animal welfare

[mamawasatesttube]

you guys i have so many thoughts about tdr. i have so much to say. like i don't want to be super mean but dude that comic fucking sucks and i can't lie i think it made me kind of homophobic actually

#my stance up to now has been that i don't really care about tim/ber but now that i have read this. dude... #it sucks that they gave a canon queer tim narrative to someone who uses homophobia as shock value and virtue signaling points #and who actively tears down characters who don't like her special little uwu flawless oc (kate im so fucking sorry) #there's no substance to this relationship i don't see why they even like each other #bc she keeps just stating oh they're perfect they make each other so happy but she doesn't like. show that at all #and i HATE the shock value homophobia like i cannot overstate how much i hate it #oh these random cops are homophobic (that's how you know they're BAD!) #oh bernard's parents are homophobic (that's how you know THEY'RE bad too!) #it's so hamfisted and it reads like such. cheap storytelling #especially bc tim as narrator doesn't even get to have ANY thoughts on his own queerness or seeing this homophobia in the world around him #and then she can't go more than two pages without being like BTW BERNARD IS THE BEST EVER AND TIM CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM #while against this ugly backdrop of shock value homophobia #there's no substance to this relationship. why do they even like each other. it just falls apart if you examine it at all #because she just is fundamentally incapable of writing either of them as people with character flaws #for fucks sake she can't even be consistent with tim's BASIC character tenets. ''i always dreamed of being batman'' false lmao #but then to follow it up with ''i never wanted to be batman i always wanted to be my dad'' #and then on TOP OF THAT to make the Only mention of Jack drake and his impact on tim's life ABOUT BERNARD AGAIN. #yeah sorry im a hater now. this was shit tier #rimi talks

[juice-enjoyer]

swapped out my case fans all by myself and i feel like a greek god rn

#it's not that i don't understand my computer or anything. just whenever i have to switch out parts or fix something #i'm terrified the whole time of breaking something else in an even worse way in the process #....granted the top fan isn't lighting up but i'm honestly not worried about that. i don't care enough #my hunch is the leds are defective or something bc they were kinda packaged like shit lol #i'd just have to swap it out again but. i dont want to. #anyways #txt #like ok. my one fan's motor died. and i was like well this sucks. guess i'll replace it. so i bought like #five fans. bc the type i use in pc only comes in five packs for some fucking reason. and i was kinda mad that i had to buy five #but THEN like two days ago the motor on the OTHER fan started giving out. and i was like OKAY?? JESUS #GLAD I BOUGHT FIVE #now i just have three extra i have no idea what to do with. backups i guess bc they're kinda cheap oops #granted on the first fan i kind of ignored the motor problem for longer than i should have #and when the second one started making the same noise the other one did i was like BE FOR REAL!!!! CMON!!!!!! #but now...my pc is so quiet....it's beautiful #i'm like super sensitive to noise so it bothered me SO much #but now. she's nice a quiet. it's great

[killbaned]

YOU THERE, are you a depressed 20 something with uncontrollable Mental Eels?

do you feel like your life lacks meaning and that you need something to care for, to feel like you’re putting love into at least one thing in your life? are you bad at caring for plants? are you unable to have pets?

then DO I HAVE just the thing for you.

#this isn't even remotely a joke bro #the journey you can have with even a cheap cast iron pan will do +100 hp every time you care for this bad boy #just had to boil a bit of water in mine to get the remains of the pork roast off and now it's gonna cook in the oven for a bit #and then i'm doing a grilled cheese and all i'll have to do is wipe it down when i'm done #it takes a while to get your pan where you want it but like it's nice!!! it makes me feel like i'm idk Doing A Thing #i need to get another big one and like a little one tbh #the only other pan i have is this cheap nonstick one that's all fucked up #fuck nonstick pans all my homies hate nonstick pans #(does not apply to ceramic nonstick just use wooden or silicon tools on them and you're fine) #also for reference the CI pan i have rn was like 10$ at save a lot #lodge's i guess are the holy grail but you don't NEED an expensive one #hell you don't even need a new one. look at your local swap groups or flea markets and you too can get cheap cast iron