#NOT a complaint to be clear

[girlblocker]

every mcr concert i see live-blogged one of my mutuals posts like ‘oh my god they played their song volcano shake em up, which was performed once in the vault of a secret bank in western nevada in 2010 and then recorded on a disk which has been buried for a decade and only now are we getting to hear it again’

#NOT a complaint to be clear #im just impressed how well everyone remembers the lore etc… #planetary go deserves the hype tho . it’s uhh I think the first mcr song I’ve actually listened to LMAO #flop era post

[twinterrors29]

it's funny to me how in a universe that has repulsors and video comms as standard gear, the qualities that make Jedi and Sith stand out are...

the ability to make things float and communicate across distances

like, they have sensor arrays to see things coming, they don't necessarily need the in-built early detection system

and then one of the only other things they have going for them is that they can pick up on emotions and manipulate minds. you know, the things that the very common droids don't actually have.

#star wars #the force #jedi #sith #not a complaint to be clear #just thought it was ironic that the iconic abilities they're so known for are not what actually make them important

[studentofetherium]

i've gotten so many asks today. way more than usual

#not a complaint to be clear #just #wow that's a lot

[porcupine-girl]

“We don’t need the boop button back, people need to use the interaction options we already have!”

Ok well then maybe y’all shouldn’t have spent the past couple of years complaining about Likes, about how they do nothing, about how insulting it is to get a like instead of a reblog!

Yes, reblogs ARE the lifeblood of the site and they ARE the only way to ensure posts reach new audiences since most users never look at the For You tab or “based on your likes” or whatever.

HOWEVER. You were never going to get anyone to reblog every single post that they like or enjoy or smile at. Maybe they just reblogged something similar. Maybe they’ve seen it on their dash five times today and don’t feel like cluttering up their followers’ dashes with it. Maybe they like it but don’t think most of their followers would be interested. Maybe they just don’t feel the need to display every post that ever made them smile on their own blog.

But now people feel awkward or guilty about liking a post without reblogging it. Now sure, some of the time that will lead to them reblogging something they originally weren’t going to, but most of the time it just means they’re not going to interact with the post at all, because they think liking it will just piss off the OP.

So don’t complain about people using the like button as a more passive way to interact and show appreciation, then turn around and say we don’t need a boop button to do that because we already have a like button.

#to be clear the point is that people should get less up in arms about likes #NOT that we don’t need a boop button #personally I would love to have BOTH #but I know I hit like a lot less than I used to because of the number of complaints I’ve seen about it #tumblr #boop #tumblr culture #tumblr etiquette

[andi-o-geyser]

I hear your “I’m so excited for tlovm season 2! It’s going to be so fun!” and I raise you “The central theme of this season is bone-deep crushing guilt and grief”

#to be clear this is NOT at all a complaint #im so ready for the emotional damage that's going to ensue aaaAAA #how will they adapt certain moments that completely altered my brian chemistry? will they make me cry just like they did in the campaign? #who fucking knows!! we’re living la vida loca in a world where nothing bad ever happens before season 2 drops #but i watched the cast interviews and everyone is like ‘haha yeah my character’s main conflict is the bone deep guilt they grapple with!’ #and i’m just sitting here like 👁️👄👁️ #for a moment i gaslit myself into thinking this season was just percahlia and grog and craven edge sitcom and zahra and kash smh #critical role #tlovm #the legend of vox machina #tlovm season 2 #tlovm s2 #lovm #legend of vox machina #vox machina #andis thought geyser

[artiopoda]

roommate and i loved meeting the owlks :) had a great time!

#outer wilds #echoes of the eye #to be clear: we've finished the dlc now #i just got this clip on camera (because i was scared) (to send to friends who have already played before) (to show gf) #shout out to other ppl as scared as we were :] we got a noise complaint lmfaoo #echoes of the eye spoilers

[justsalpals]

people being actually confused, or somehow disappointed?? by the random npcs in the first episode? couldn't be me. absolute highlight of the entire thing. these are my people.

justice for balthazar, the bad kids deserved to taste that chilli one last time

#plus battle episodes are usually pretty hard for me. so the breaks in the monotony were needed. #(which isn't a complaint! dnd is the medium and I realize that's more of a taste thing than any sort of problem lol) #anyway I'm just shocked that I've seen multiple folks who had trouble catching on #felt like it was projected pretty clear we were coming in at the end of the Night Yorb journey. and that these guys were from that. #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #d20 fhjy #fantasy high

[hecksupremechips]

Come back home when you have some sense

You can throw your life away just not at my expense

You’re not the son I raised

#jhariah #this one just rawrrfrrr #and then uh another line thats like ‘tell me did you raise a man?’ #nice #im just listening to the new album to cope with nasty sickness and feeling out of it #god this album is really good it has every emotion in there like this song for example just the part where they scream the chorus its like #hnnnghhh #hm some other moments from the album im liking a lot uhhh i love re: concerns a lot #the part where hes like reading off the complaints and then the part where hes just screaming and its like BAM BAM BAM BAAAM #sasuke is so good and the bit at the end where its like ‘i just want you to know im so so...’ #like hes gonna say sorry but cant seem to say the word for whatever reason and i know nothing about sasuke #but i has to imagine the fan girlies are eating gravel over that one lol it gets me #and theres just that like spooky echoing afterwards #the intro to fire4fun goes SOOOOOOOO hard i was losing my shit its awesome #the entirety of trust ceremony is giving me big feelings but specifically that part towards the end where its all quiet and you hear #its like whistling i think? like a marching band is coming in maybe #but it also kinda sounds like nature too and idk i like got a little bit um magical at that part cuz i was driving down a big hill #and it had been raining but there was a clearing in the clouds and the sun was bright and like at this particular hill #you can just see everything like the land stretches for miles theres trees hills the river farms all that shit #and idk with the extreme stress and depression ive been feeling its hard to have these moments where life seems worth it #and its hard to really feel anything anymore or to feel in the moment but idk i was just going down that hill seeing everything and it was #very majestic so yeah that song is definitely gonna have the same effect as pin eye for me #which i must mention pin eye again its still OOOOGHH very good it came at a pretty good time for me #yeah basically this album is uhhhh whats keeping me somewhat grounded rn i recommend 👍

[theabstruseone]

I saw a tag on one of my posts wondering why Ea-Nasir is so popular on Tumblr and I'd like to give my thoughts as to why.

It's boring and ordinary.

And that's something we don't see a lot of in history. Most of the documents we have are about Big Events and Important People. Because the wealthy nobility were the ones paying for all the books, they wanted books about themselves and people like them. So we have lots of accounts of how the nobility and royalty lived and the wars they fought, but not so much about how normal people lived their lives.

But the Complaint Tablet to Ea-Nasir, that is a work that has survived millennia that is basically just like our lives today.

Nobody's gone to a feast in honor of Sir Whatsington, Lord of Somewhereshire. But everybody at some point in their lives have bought something that wasn't as described, went to complain, got treated like shit, and wrote a letter to corporate complaining about it. So seeing Nanni go through that exact same thing with Ea-Nasir and his copper about 3700 years ago connects us to the past in a way that yet another description of the Battle of Placeburough never could.

Sure, I could read yet another description of two battle lines meeting and the fierce fighting until the cavalry from one side broke free and hit the flanks and then the line collapsed and the battle was won (seriously, that's almost every single battle going back to the Greeks) when, outside reenactors, nobody has the experience of being in one of those battles. Or I could read a story about a dude trying to get a refund, a story so universal that it shows up as a continuing plot thread across three games in the Mass Effect trilogy.

So yeah, Tumblr (and the greater internet) love The Complaint Tablet to Ea-Nasir because it reminds us that people have always been people.

#ea nasir #ea-nasir #history #Also helps the story has a clear bad guy in that Ea-Nasir sold shit copper then kept the complaints about it as a trophy

[liquidstar]

the goddamn show came out

#no actual hate tbf i dont think its BAD but. very annoying on a personal level if youre greek sorry 💀 #i think the past couple weeks have been horrible for a lot of reasons and i do not have the energy to like #be reminded of dull takes on our mythos every 3 seconds esp when they hardly even acknowledge greece exists its just fandom blorbo shit #its annoyingggg its annoying i dont wanna see it i want it Gone #i actually think pj itself is a pretty middling example of this though. again its not bad esp compared to like booktok shit #a lot of it is often the /fandom/ but even still i find it annoying #at the very least the show does have jason mantzoukas which is more than the books did w like. acknowledging greece lol #to be clear tho i dont think all the characters have to be greek or played by greek ppl i think its cool to have a diverse cast play gods #and their kids and whatnot. its mostly just abt like somekinda nod to where youre taking it from i guess? acknowledging the culture #that still exists! in the books they go to fucking italy ffs whats the deal #basically i have complaints and find it annoying bc it doesnt care about greece like most things about.... greek mythos #so im not excited to see it all over my dash i just think its very annoying personally sorry #ppl can still like it and have fun with it idc abt that but doesnt mean i have to like it either 🤷‍♂️ #ergo. blacklist my best friend do your thing and get it away from me. and we will all be at peace again

[moonstrider9904]

I miss Crosshair. I miss his big ol' grouchy face. I miss his snarky comments. I miss his silver hair. I miss his trickshots. I miss his confidence. I miss him

#just to be clear #this isn't a complaint of the recent episodes #i just miss crosshair #tbb crosshair #the bad batch #star wars tbb #crosshair tbb #clone force 99 #crosshair #commander crosshair #my prince #imperial crosshair

[save-the-villainous-cat]

Mother what do I do if I'm in love with someone but they don't feel the same way but they're my best friend but they would never hate me if I told them but I can't tell them but I can't NOT tell them but I won't tell but mother what do I do?

Sorry, this got way too long. It's one of those moods. Hope you're doing well and having a good time.

Uhhh

I’ve been told that I’m a pretty direct person and I’m always a very big fan of being honest with people. When they don’t have feelings for you, you have to accept that and move on.

But if they do, you have a partner so don’t be a little whiny coward and get OUT OF MY INBOX NO CHILD OF MINE IS A COWARD

#that’s all I hear from you guys all the time whae whae whae #just complaints all the time #mimimi mother help help help #GUYS I AM 20 I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT LIFE #I hope it’s clear that I am not being serious you guys don’t annoy me #no writing

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

MASH fans about David Ogden Stiers: Wow what a wonderful amazing talented gentleman! I would give anything to be able to meet him, but even if I could I would politely refrain out of respect for his privacy. It is enough to simply admire him from a distance. <3

MASH fans about Alan Alda: BITE MAIM KILL I AM GOING TO KIDNAP HIM AND KEEP HIM IN A PETRI DISH IN MY BASEMENT SO I CAN PERFORM EXPERIMENTS ON HIM AND MAKE HIM ANSWER FOR HIS CRIMES

MASH fans about Mike Farrell and Wayne Rogers: god i want to motorboat his fat tits

#MASH #MASH TV #Alan Alda #Mike Farrell #David Ogden Stiers #I feel guilty even tagging him ;;_;; SO sorry for disturbing you sir!!! #anyways none of this is a complaint to be clear the contrast is just kind of hysterical to me ghsjkdghsjglshkdjk #we're literally correct on all counts though is the thing. or well I don't get the last one tbh but I enjoy witnessing it 2nd hand. #Starky's Original Posts #mash cast

[puppyboygf]

yeah i'm polyam i get sooooo many bitches 💅 (has 1 partner)

#this isnt a complaint to be clear i'm just a little amused since 'polyam' is in my pinned effectively just for technical reasons

[utilitycaster]

it is very funny to me that clerics rely on the stat that provides good insight, because, and I say this as someone who goes regularly to a place of worship and generally enjoys it, reading the room is not necessarily a qualification for the job

#this is me being like hey on this the week of one of the longest haftarot AND holocaust memorial programming keep the singing EFFICIENT. #so to be clear the most minor of complaints

[transboysokka]

This has been on my mind and obviously I’m speaking with zero authority here and was really planning on not posting about it but like

Point 1. It IS gross to police Indigenous people based on their appeared whiteness for several reasons, one of them being WHOSE FAULT do you think it is that there’s so much whiteness mixed in nowadays (ours, it’s ours (white ppl) like look at the forced assimilation that was going on during more active genocide times) and anyone (ESPECIALLY us white folks like HOW is it our business) who polices and is all “wow you’re appropriating that culture/tradition/outfit/language whatever because you’re too white for that” GET FUCKED how do you think you can see someone’s heritage and history and cultural knowledge based on appearance (I have a few VERY white-passing First Nations friends who are very involved in traditional artisanal work and craftsmanship which has been passed down through generations through their family. How would you know that by looking at them)

Point 2. I do also thing it’s gross, and am perfectly aware Nobody Asked For My Opinion on this, to take advantage of a small piece of your heritage that you have no connection with and have maybe even purposely avoided connection with for like. Monetary gain. Say hypothetically a role in a film. This is NOT talking about someone who suddenly wants to be involved with and learn about their heritage, this is talking about specifically taking advantage of it

Point 3. There is NO WAY to know which of these two categories someone falls under. I don’t care about the situation, MAYBE unless you have a deep personal intimate relationship and knowledge of that person, you can’t judge someone on that and actually how dare you because this is the exact same kind of policing and gatekeeping that has been going on for centuries and it just SUCKS. you just suck.

These are very general points and not intended to be about any one specific thing btw

#but to make it more specific in the tags lol guess what #‘’white Sokka’’ does and is allowed to suck but it’s not because of the actor like fuck off #any complaints I make about the character and casting are ABOUT the casting (which is not a teenage actor’s decision) #and also tbh the writing possibly #tl;dr stop hating on this kid #I know I’ve personally posted about the past discourse before to inform people who weren’t aware of it #that was NOT an opinion on the discourse that was just me stating facts #just so we’re. crystal clear here #text