#By ineffective I mean

[creationsabyss]

I was going to post more stuff more often but the, in my opinion, unnecessary drama over Aventurine is making me reconsider things. I made a lot of pieces after I finished the 2.1 quest but I worry about posting them.

I'm sure no one really cares since I usually post once in a blue moon anyway but I still find the drama concerning. Perhaps that just me though.

#ink stained letters #And also pretty ridiculous #Like I'm almost certain this didn't need to happen #Not like this #Not only is it ineffective #It actively harms people #On both sides of the argument #aventurine x reader #hsr aventurine #If literal death threats were sent to someone who wrote a fluffy ish piece #I would rather not see what they would send to someone who writes angst #By ineffective I mean #People will still write it anyway #And probably with a lot more darker themes than just having a better route

[isfjmel-phleg]

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*it cut off my last tags which were: I don't know what I can do about this but in the meantime it's a struggle

#random personal stuff #back on my soapbox feel free to ignore #okay so I have been struggling a bit in the Sunday school class that I am being taken to #which is not surprising because I have been struggling socially in this church for the past year #it's a women's class taught by the pastor's wife but not all the women in the church are in it #most of them are middle-aged/elderly #what we're learning is perfectly fine #I appreciate that they're going through an epistle and not lecturing us on How To Be Good Wives and Mothers #but the other women will chime in with their thoughts in between discussions of doctrine #and it will be things like empty little slogans #(such as 'Choose joy!' or 'GodisgoodallthetimeandallthetimeGodisgood') #(not that there isn't any truth in those but they're used tritely) #or What The Lord Did For Me (or: My Life Is Perfectly Peachy) #or things that suggest their faith is all about never being upset by anything ever because you Have Peace #and I kind of wonder if this is a generational thing #because sometimes I'll call my mom with something that's troubling me #and she'll tell me things to the effect of 'just don't feel that way' #or 'ask the Lord to take it away' #which is kindly meant but ultimately ineffective in my experience #but anyway I'm sure these women mean what they say yet at the same time it just...feels insincere to me #as if as Christians we're just supposed to paste smiles on our faces and never have negative feelings #I'm not saying we should all come to class and dispense our personal dramas #but it feels like we're showing up and performing Niceness #and not allowing room for anything that isn't Easy Answers Positivity #and I sit there feeling like there's a huge invisible brick wall around me #and I'm sure that's a me problem #but...I don't know what I'm trying to articulate here sorry #I guess I don't know how to interact with these people because nothing seems real #and we can progress no further than the smallest of small talk because heaven forbid we let our real honest selves slosh over in public #and it's draining!

[satans-knitwear]

Desperately want to play more jedi survivor (im having such a good time on it!!) but its such a nice sunny day, but im also horribly ill and movement hurts.

#My parents laughed at me bc i have a swolen throat and glansaround there so my grumpy face is ineffective and stupid-looking. #Baby belle wants to sit outside in the lovely sunshine but it hurts my head and makes me cough more out in the air so i cant stay with her #I also hate feeling useless and i dont usually let myself do things like gaming during the day. #I just feel guilty no matter what i do tbh. Not out in the sun??? Wasting a nice day. Gaming before 5pm??? Could be doing something useful. #Sit and rest quietly bc ill??? Wasting time that could be spent doing things ive been meaning to do like read etc. #I shall just complain to myself on tungl.com instead bc communicating my non-issues with other people makes me nauseaous #And i dont want to be a bother

[paradife-loft]

ah yes. the morally correct torture. the torture that goes right up to the line but doesn't cross it. that torture.

#also like. the claim that chang ci'an's finger would've been the appropriate equivalent of xue yang's is just. #do you also think we ~all have the same 24 hours in a day~? #half the point of xiao xingchen saying that is that he was *wrong* #(that convo had both of them regressing in their responses imo - xy emotionally and xxc philosophically/in his understanding of the world) #but that's another topic I'm getting distracted #bc seriously. we try to point out that the protagonists tortured people and the response coming back is 'torture is good sometimes' istg #(''I just got my degree from torture college and now you all decide it's ineffective it's evil fuck off'' etc etc) #the things I see with my own two (nonconsensually-donated-by-a-friend) eyes.... #I mean this is more pointed than I usually like to be on here but Come On #content is for other people

[faggotician]

Does anybody have info on organizing? I want 2 get a protest together but dont rly know the first thing abt it....Biggest struggle it seems wld be getting folks 2 join in w/ me

#I mean . ill hop a bus wit a sign and just be the crazy guy yelling outside BAE systems #But that seems as if itd be ineffective..

[fellhellion]

one thing i'd really like come to the surface in btsv is jeff having to truly reckon with what being a cop asks of him. like, the awareness of what cops are, how they represent a violent arm of the law, is SITTING under the surface of both spiderverse films.

it's in miles's blm pins, it's in the way jeff pulls his gun on a someone who was clearly a child, it's in the way gwen's father was forced to reckon with the fact it was impossible to be both a "good" cop and a good father, and tonally he is rewarded for choosing gwen.

but i would argue spiderverse, if it doesn't take the step of having jeff interogate why some of his colleagues think he's "blowing it" by trying to work together with a vigalante, risks skirting around fully examining why the dimension of alienation and distance between miles and jeff exists beyond the fact of secret identity. like no, come out and say the subtext of why miles is more frightened of telling his father (compared to his mother) about his superhero identity without playing off the fact of jeff just being a bit of an intense guy at times.

#tunes talks spiderverse #i dont THINK this needs the critical tag but ill slap it on if need be #its not that i think MILES thinks his father would hurt him. its more that i think given jeff's position of authority and power #miles is subconsciously aware that he'd be asking his father to choose between two different responsibilities and aspects of his life #and so far miles and jeff have placated either side by just going do what u want to do we'll agree to disagree but #as individuals that may work but jeff as an agent of a system? that system is going to reject jeff eventually if thats the line he wants to #walk w it imo #maybe I’m just overly optimistic abt a genre that has a lot of copganda ahdhfjfj but ​I’m rlly hoping everything abt Gwen’s arc w her father #means btsv is going to take a critical eye to what Jeff being a cop means for his relationship w miles when his whole institution resents #spiderman showing them up as ineffective

[thegreenleavesofspring]

...I dunno, I've never written a vampire story in my life, but it's been months since I watched the official video for End of All Hope and it is Still Bothering me so I might just have to.

#Like I do get why they're using crosses but also #That's just not the most effective imagery you can be using okay? #I'm not saying it's INeffective #Just that it's not the BEST #...I just don't think it should've ended that way okay #As a story that is. I mean it fits the song. But I don't like the story it tells. #It didn't have to end that way. #...I may end having to Fix It.

[badolmen]

‘oooo printers are so mean and scary’ rip to you but I’m built different. my printer eats oats from my hand. the printer at work lets me print double sided papers without so much as a whinny. don’t get me started on the office copy machine we have a bond you couldn’t comprehend.

#ra speaks #personal #printers #shitpost #sorry can’t relate to the ‘they smell fear’ sentiment. #you need to approach them with calm confidence or else they’ll get skittish and have a paper jam. #so so sick of people acting like printers are inherently bad office supplies when they’re literally built to be the way that they are #I mean don’t get me started on HP’s unethical software development but it’s not the printer’s fault! #they need gentle hands for rehabilitation not percussive maintenance that’s long been known to be an ineffective and abusive strategy

[cruelsister-moved2]

gaining a lot of followers lately for some reason and i dont have time to check you all so just reiterating that you need to leave and kill yourself if you're a transmisogynist and that doesnt just mean putting 'no terfs' in your bio like if you think trans women are privileged with visibility, or you work harder to comfort tme people's feelings than trans women's safety, or you give more space to trans MEN than trans women in the lesbian community, or if you turn a blind eye to your mutuals reblogging from vulvaradfem1989's posts about female exclusive spaces, regardless of how many 'reblog to make a terf cry' posts on your blog, i mean YOU!!

#feels so ineffective because these ppl just dont even acknowledge themselves as misogynists and transphobes #so i can say whatever i want in my bio but its a this sign wont stop me i cant read moment #like i mean you bitch #misogynists in general but i assume i will scare u away with my natural manhating swag lol

[caitas-cooing]

I walk slowly when I'm on my own

(do you feel alive)

Yeah but frankly I still feel alone

(oh but you'll survive)

#owl city #if my heart was a house #the depression is depressing me #I have taken meds today but idk I'd they're helping right now #I hope this is just a rough patch because if they stopped working they'll probably have to put me on new meds #because my dosage is already really high so my psychiatrist will most likely not want to increase it more #and switching meds around like that is always hell #like it takes month to even know if it will work #and then you have to figure out if it's just because you need a higher dosage #or because this medication is ineffective and you need a different one #and it's all ugh I don't want to deal with it #I'm tired of this crap I wish the mental illness would just go away #it's been 10 years #I am going to have to deal with this for the rest of my life if mom is any indication #I mean I'll do it but ugh

[starlooove]

DETEST WFA for calling Jason “an edgelord since day one” literally die 😭

#the fact that Jason being mean as Robin is becoming more popular is so annoying #like ignore how u PERSONALLY feel Abt the character look at it from a narrative standpoint #him being the same as Robin and Red Hood ruins the impact of rh #Like the whole point is that he’s different now bc of the situation #if he was always mean asf and willing to kill and butting heads with Bruce #nothing changed but the date #and that’s just boring #And listen if u argue jason was leaning towards those ideals towards the end of his run as Robin #I don’t agree but like SURE yknow #but ppl who act like Jason was just tryna kill ppl on the 3rd day? #be so fuckin forreal rn #ALSO #that period of time where no one knows how RH is? #the moment they all figure it out? #also less impactful if Jason was mean as Robin #Like yeah he’s dead that’s obviously reasons 1-1000 they didn’t suspect it was him #but also the idea of that sweet lil Robin growing up into the RH is another factor of the issue all on its own #and is also one of the main reasons to believe that Bruce’s methods are ineffective #bc even someone like JASON can be hurt and turned into this #someone like Jason had to turn himself into that to feel safe #it just doesn’t hit the same if he ALWAYS felt this way #making it seem like all of this was brewing from day one also takes responsibility off of Bruce #it turns the question from what is Jason’s problem with Bruce to what is Jason’s problem #bc bruce had nothing to do with it if that’s just Jason’s nature #AND when it comes to Bruce it’s not about his relationship with Jason his son anymore #it’s just become ‘wow how is Bruce gonna wrangle Jason in on this one’ #And I love a good family au as much as anyone but when ur fics have Bruce suddenly be ok with killing or even LETTING Jason kill ppl- #-‘if they’re bad enough’ or Jason just not killing whatsoever and suddenly trusting the law? we’ve lost the plot babe. entirely

[musical-chick-13]

Genuinely I absolutely, thoroughly hate the way people have gotten in regard to "You can write fic about dark subjects, but don't ever go into detail about those subjects" (if they even concede that people are "allowed" to write about anything unpleasant at all).

Because I just read an excellent one that was...very fucked-up! Actually!!! But it was also a nuanced and gripping examination of abuse--switching between the POV of the abuser (who lies to themselves about the reality of their actions, making their POV sections all the more uncomfortable for it), their victim (who lies to themselves in a different way, by refusing both to acknowledge their own victimhood or to consider the ways they later come to continue that cycle) and, eventually, an outside party (who is the only one aware of the true reality, and tries (and fails) to help, through the comparatively powerless ways that are available to them).

And this thing was not reserved in any way regarding its depiction of all of this. It didn't cut away cleanly after a vague uncomfortable comment for the reader to fill in every single blank for themselves. There were even times where the victim themselves was under the impression that they were genuinely enjoying what happened, because they convinced themselves that they had control over a situation they never had control over!!! And I know that...certain people. Would absolutely accuse this fic of "romanticizing abuse" because of these things. Which I think is an INCREDIBLY unfair assessment of it, especially since most of the time the discussion of "romanticizing [x]" is less a discussion and more, "I don't care what the author intended, this story simply shouldn't exist because this is incontrovertible proof they are a horrible person in reality, also they should die."

#do NOT ask me what the fic was if this post finds the type of people I'm complaining about they would 100% go and harass this person #I'm also thinking about that One Scene in shiki (b/c I'm thinking about shiki a lot in general during many days) in the hospital with the #experimentation. and THAT one is horrifying and grisly too but I wouldn't take it out? the most brutal act we see is by a human. #the most realistic horror is perpetrated by the guy who thinks he's In The Right that MEANS something. it's INTEGRAL to the story's themes! #and like. yeah sometimes these things CAN come across as fetishistic (or at the very least...WILDLY ineffective) or gratuitous #but that's not automatically the case? #like I really do think there's a middle ground here between 'ALL depictions of EVERYTHING are EQUALLY effective and we do not EVER need to #consider how various topics are typically presented in art (especially when it's meant for a mainstream public audience)' and #'SOME things should NEVER be talked about or if you HAVE to they can ONLY be done THIS specific way or else you should KILL YOURSELF' #like I think we can gauge a story's effectiveness and cultural context and optics on a given issue with. you know. actual nuance. #tw: abuse #tw: suicide baiting #tw: death threats #tw: abuse mention #I'm trying to cover all the tags that people might have blacklisted

[nordic-language-love]

i’m so annoyed, i thought about calling in sick on tuesday bc my voice had been feeling a bit strained but bc i don’t get sick days and have to work every scheduled day this month to get my full salary i decided to push through it. my voice lasted until the end of classes and i’ve had no voice since :( so now i have to take a day off anyway (and judging by the lack of improvement, probably the rest of the week).

the most annoying part? of all my classes this week, tuesday’s were the ones i was least looking forward to. i was really really looking forward to all my other classes this week and now i don’t get to teach them. bc i pushed through the day i was dreading. ffs. i'm so annoyed

#should've taken that day off #i still have no voice over 40 hours later #and japanese cold/flu/cough medicine is completely ineffective #did you know a lot of common drugs found in western cold medicines are illegal in japan? #well yeah there you have it #no sick days but also no effective cold medicine #idc what the law says if i end up visiting the uk at all i'm coming back loaded with lemsips #i honestly think i would have been find if i'd had a lemsip before and after classes #but nooooo gotta take a day off bc i sound like my vocal chords have been through a cheese grater #i don't even feel that ill just got a bit of a sniffle and no voice #ughhh #so yeah that's my first proper gripe about japan #using my day off to study japanese though #and by study japanese i mean binge-watch anime #i've discovered My Hero Academia and omg i love this show <33 #*fine not find

[wingsyliveblogs]

When did they take this picture???

...also, is Eda proud of Luz for getting banned in general, or is she proud of her for getting banned from the magic school specifically? 

Luz walking through the hallway of the school she’s banned from in the ED: nothing to see here, this is perfectly fine

King, who previously watched Eda go sit alone in a shack with a shame hat and mope because she thought Luz had left her: .......I’m not going to say anything

Well, there we have it! It’s about the banishment and the illegal activity, not the location.

#wingsy liveblogs #wingsy watches owl house #owls ep 3 #extra credit for WHAT Amity??????? #I'm sorry I love her already #she's mean and petty and she doesn't even qualify as a threat anymore #I know she's got character development incoming as well #but I have a soft spot for antagonists who are smug and overconfident yet completely ineffective

[smallboyonherbike]

everyone please send manifesting energy my way bc i'm 90% sure i'm going to get a new job offer but they can't do the offer until they get my 10 year old maryland drivers license record which i had to request by mail and then they mail out to them and i first requested it when they asked me to on 8/03 and supposedly they mailed it out last week and i just need them to HURRY UP so i actually know whether i'm getting out of here. like at this point i would rather have a rejection than this effing limbo

#megamazing #the most annoying part is my coworker could just run my old DL for me in 2 seconds #but she can only do it for new hires here so it would get her in trouble #i absolutely love working in HR and feel like i've finally found a career i enjoy am good at and doesn't pay pure shit #but i need to get out of this particular agency bc all the bosses are mean rude and ineffective #i could handle it when my two direct bosses were good and just the director sucked #but they left bc of how much the director sucks and their replacements also suck and i'm very over it #like just let me do what i'm good at and is my job and don't make me do half another persons job for months on end despite hiring new ppl #ANYWAYS i am losing it waiting to hear

[spiritunwilling]

Good lord

#not to be mean but the author is 49 which means he wouldve attended high school in. like. the 90s. #so i feel like his experiences and the stereotypes and behavior he was confronted with might be a little different than yours my guy #the point is that you are meant to be. uncomfortable. its not for everyone but it feels uhhhh not great to dismiss the book as #'entirely ineffective and problematic'? like if your english teacher was not prepared to guide students through the book then im very sorry #but srsly. chin kee is meant to be uncomfortable to read about. and the metaphor was not exactly subtle bro #also the complaint about it having some innuendos which will 'detrimentally affect students' lmaooo