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sumikatt · 5 months

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nothing like reading the history section on my ethnic groups wikipedia page starting with "the europeans first contacted..."

#.s #i dont think i'll finish this comic #makes me Sad.#my art #hello fellow austronesians. this is a cry for help

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monvante · 4 months

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it's so sad to me that so many authors have gotten this weird, off-putting god complex. people whom i used to consider good authors or simply blogs i'd look up to have gotten such a snobby flair to them that it makes me nostalgic and heartbroken, actually. there's this underlying feeling of competition, of wanting to outdo or outshine other people or simply censor them with no warning, no dialogue, no chance of truth or civility.

it's a pity - and it's no wonder i've seen a massive exit of authors from tumblr. either quitting entirely or doing their own thing quietly in ao3. i wonder if there's gonna be anyone left in maybe four, or six months. even less, given the batshit insanity i witness on the weekly from the self-proclaimed gods of writing.

#makes me sad.#the block button has been a close friend #rant tw

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roryzs · 8 months

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GIRL I AM SO SO SO TIRED OF BEING EXCITED FOR BLACK CHARACTERS ONLY TO SEE THEY HAVE STRAIGHT WHITE HAIR. LIKE I’M TAKING PHYSICAL DAMAGE AT THIS POINT. I LOVE CREATORS I REALLY DO BUT WHY DO SO MANY NON-BLACK [MOSTLY OC ON SOCIAL MEDIA] CREATORS HAVE FEW BLACK CHARACTERS TO BEGIN WITH AND WHEN THEY DO HAVE THEM THEY HAVE STRAIGHT WHITE HAIR???? BLACK NATURAL HAIR CAN BE GORGEOUS AND CONVEY PERSONALITY ALSO. WHAT. I’M SCREAMING.

#rant #black characters #I’M LOOOOOSING IT FOREAL #ME SEEING MY FRIEND HAVE AN OC WITH A SHONA NAME #GETS EXCITED. THIS IS THEIR FIRST BLACK CHARACTER I’VE SEEN IN THE 3 YEARS OF KNOWING THEM #THEY HAVE STRAIGHT WHITE HAIR #CRITICAL HIT. I’M FUCKINF CRYING #WHAT #I DON’T KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS THIS OR BRING THIS UP AND I LOVE MY HOMIES DEARLY BUT FUCK I GOTTA GET THIS OUT SOMEWHERE #THSI KEEPS ON HAPPENING AND I KEEP PULLING LAST STRAWS OUT OF MY POCKET #deep down i am just. sad because there are so many resources on how to improve black rep in your character design and ITS NOT HARD TO GIVE #A CHARACTER CURLY OR KINKY HAIR. OR EVEN JUST BLACK HAIR #BUT MAN #THE ONE BLACK CHARACTER AND THEY HAVE WHITE STRAIGHT HAIR #GETS ME EVERY TIME.#MAKES ME SAD.#THESE ARE NICE WELL INTENTIONED PEOPLE #BUT MAN.#personal rant #because i know this issue isn’t universal but shit to me it feels like 🤧🤧🤧🤧#hwo do i…. gucking address this. i want to but #disclaimer: black characters w any hair type is valid but when u limit all ur black characters to hair tropes of straight hair or non-black #coloured hair it raises red flags bc…. why are you avoiding curly and kinky hair and styles associated w black culture...#I’M SORRY I’LL BE HONEST. IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE TO ME?#I DON’T THINK ANYONE’S TRYING TO BE WHACK BUT MAN…. MANNNNN UGHHH I’M SAD ABOUT THIS. want to see more black ocs in my circle who have their #cultures represented here n there just like a creator would try to do for someone who’s japanese or french … more interest and seeing that #interest applied with care basically….#straight white hair just feels careless to me at this point even if ‘it looks good’ bc !!!! NATURAL BLACK HAIR AND BLACK STYLES HAVE SO MUCH #VARIETY AND CAN BE JUST AS INTERESTING AND LOOK JUST AS GOOD IF NOT MORE (i think they usually look better. ngl)#sorry. all this is in tags. 3am style. bye

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castielmacleod · 2 years

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''Also I can’t think to long about how Sam knowingly lured Crowley to his death using a recording of Dean begging for help or I will feel sick. It’s so upsetting I don’t even have the words lol''

Wait in which episode does this happen?

Hi! It’s in 10x22.

“Begging” for help might have been an exaggeration on my part (not sure how old the post you saw was) but yeah Sam literally does abuse the fact that Crowley will literally come running for Dean to trap him with the intention of killing him and it’s honestly very cruel and I do not like it

It’s just another instance of Crowley’s obvious affection for Dean being used against him and speaking as a gay guy.. idk maybe I’m overly sensitive, I’m not even claiming that the writing here was consciously homophobic, but nonetheless it does hurt my heart to see a canon mlm character treated like that 😔

#Ask #Idk it’s just like. Lol. Crowley and to a lesser but still notable extent Cas have their unrequited love for The Main Character #used to belittle or trick them or just against them in general a Lot especially Crowley and it just #makes me sad.#Like I said I’m not claiming this particular episode meant to be homophobic here but then again idk #It’s the same episode in which Dean beats Cas to a bloody pulp with Cas literally not fighting back because he loves Dean so much #So. Hm #Anyway this is why Cas and Crowley need to unionise. By which I mean marry each other instead

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wormsdyke · 2 years

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there is no amount of money you could pay me to relive my teenage years but i did just see a video of a girl celebrating her 17th birthday with her friends by getting milkshakes and oh ow ouch

#i am not a person who feels strongly that i need to have certain goals accomplished by specific ages #but i do remember my 17th bday leaving rehearsal for the school play in which i played the lead and not speaking to anyone else in the club #i took a picture of myself to commemorate so i could remember how i looked at 17 #i wore my favorite eyeshadow #i see her and i wish she had something more #i can try to do better now but i can never give her that #makes me sad.#ok sorry for sad posting on main!#orating!

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kosmogrl · 4 months

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teenage me and current me are both depressed directionless girls, the only difference is that current me started appreciating the beauty of the world and realized how good it is to be alive despite it all

#looking back at teenage me makes me feel so sad I deserved a hug

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bardofavon · 2 months

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not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #tbh even if I got a comment that said ‘I hate you I’m going to kill your family’ on chapter 75 it still means they read 75 chapters first….#it just makes me sad to see so many writers shouting into the void #and also see ppl complain openly about the specific types of comments they receive #posting screenshots on Reddit like ‘should I be mad at this’ CALM DOWN #sigh

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gentil-minou · 11 months

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Everytime I see posts like this I get filled with such profound sadness

Cause you know who has the same brainrot as you? The same unhinged feelings as you after you've read the fic? The person who always wants to scream about the fic with you?

THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT

I never used to leave comments but since I got into the habit of commenting on everything i enjoy it's been incredible. Especially when the author gets back to me about it and we get to have a discussion of what other ideas they had. One writer replied to my comment with a 5 paragraph essay detailing the Floorplan of the building the characters lived in and it was incredible

Anyways this is all to say that if you find a fic that just makes you want to scream from the rooftops, leave a comment saying that to the author and maybe they will join you and you can scream incoherently together

#i really think people have reached the point where they forget theres a person just like them who wrote the story #and it makes me sad its wonderful talking to authors #also this screenshot isnt mine i found it on twitter skkskfksk #fanfiction #fanfic #ao3 #archive of our own

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artkaninchenbau · 5 months

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Crocodile finds a strange stray cat an 11-year old Nico Robin (AU where they met 13 years earlier. Robin's been on the run from the World Government for 3 years. Crocodile's 27 and has not set up base in Alabasta yet)

It seems like I have become possessed. By some sort of demon.

Bonus:

#My art #One Piece #Nico Robin #Sir Crocodile #Y'all the OP brainrot is BAD #According to an SBS Crocodile would absolutely spoil his child rotten if he had one. *We all know how Robin's childhood went*#Scary mofo who does not know how to parent a child but boy does he have the spirit + Child who has never had proper parent in her life #They'd make. An absolute disaster of a duo. This AU concept is so fucking funny to me okay #But also sad because I would fucking die for baby Robin she deserves the fucking world #This poor girl has never been spoiled in her entire life AND NOW PAPADILE IS HERE TO SPOIL HER #You know it's funny. I know 11 yo Robin should LOOK older than 8 year old Robin. But Crocodile is a fucking giant so she's still baby sized #Also I just had too much fun drawing Robin looking as pathetic as humanly possible lmao #She's a like a wet kitten in the rain 😭

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fairuzfan · 5 months

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The ease in which Palestinian men are dehumanized. People saw those lineups of halfnaked men and there was relatively no international uproar. Is sexual violence against our men permissible for some reason as long as you write them off as "terrorists"? Humiliation is part of the colonizers' playbook after all. But this is a complex issue of two politically equal entities so don't worry about it.

That last line was sarcasm.

#palestine #thinking about those images makes me sad...

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tofixtheshadows · 1 month

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I've been thinking a lot lately about how Kabru deprives himself.

Kabru as a character is intertwined with the idea that sometimes we have to sacrifice the needs of the few for the good of the many. He ultimately subverts this first by sabotaging the Canaries and then by letting Laios go, but in practice he's already been living a life of self-sacrifice.

Saving people, and learning the secrets of the dungeons to seal them, are what's important. Not his own comforts. Not his own desires. He forces them down until he doesn't know they're there, until one of them has to come spilling out during the confession in chapter 76.

Specifically, I think it's very significant, in a story about food and all that it entails, that Kabru is rarely shown eating. He's the deuteragonist of Dungeon Meshi, the cooking manga, but while meals are the anchoring points of Laios's journey, given loving focus, for Kabru, they're ... not.

I'm sure he eats during dungeon expeditions, in the routine way that adventurers must when they sit down to camp. But on the surface, you get the idea that Kabru spends most of his time doing his self-assigned dungeon-related tasks: meeting with people, studying them, putting together that evidence board, researching the dungeon, god knows what else. Feeding himself is secondary.

He's introduced during a meal, eating at a restaurant, just to set up the contrast between his party and Laios's. And it's the last normal meal we see him eating until the communal ending feast (if you consider Falin's dragon parts normal).

First, we get this:

Kabru's response here is such a non-answer, it strongly implies to me that he wasn't thinking about it until Rin brought it up. That he might not even be feeling the hunger signals that he logically knew he should.

They sit down to eat, but Kabru is never drawn reaching for food or eating it like the rest of his party. He only drinks.

It's possible this means nothing, that we can just assume he's putting food in his mouth off-panel, but again, this entire manga is about food. Cooking it, eating it, appreciating it, taking pleasure in it, grounding yourself in the necessary routine of it and affirming your right to live by consuming it. It's given such a huge focus.

We don't see him eat again until the harpy egg.

What a significant question for the protagonist to ask his foil in this story about eating! Aren't you hungry? Aren't you, Kabru?

He was revived only minutes ago after a violent encounter. And then he chokes down food that causes him further harm by triggering him, all because he's so determined to stay in Laios's good graces.

In his flashback, we see Milsiril trying to spoon-feed young Kabru cake that we know he doesn't like. He doesn't want to eat: he wants to be training.

Then with Mithrun, we see him eating the least-monstery monster food he can get his hands on, for the sake of survival- walking mushroom, barometz, an egg. The barometz is his first chance to make something like an a real meal, and he actually seems excited about it because he wants to replicate a lamb dish his mother used to make him!

...but he doesn't get to enjoy it like he wanted to.

Then, when all the Canaries are eating field rations ... Kabru still isn't shown eating. He's only shown giving food to Mithrun.

And of course the next time he eats is the bavarois, which for his sake is at least plant based ... but he still has to use a coping mechanism to get through it.

I don't think Kabru does this all on purpose. I think Kui does this all on purpose. Kabru's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be understood as informing his character just as much as Laios's autism informs his. It's another way that Kabru and Laios act as foils: where Laios takes pleasure in meals and approaches food with the excitement of discovery, Kabru's experiences with eating are tainted by his trauma. Laios indulges; Kabru denies himself. Laios is shown enjoying food, Kabru is shown struggling with it.

And I can very easily imagine a reason why Kabru might have a subconscious aversion towards eating.