#and not ruin other people's lives

[sad-leon]

I think some people need the reminder that you can just not like things. For whatever reason. You don't need to justify things you don't like to anyone, as long as you're not making people feel bad for liking it.

You're able to not like something, but that doesn't make it weird.

You're able to not like that people like something, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're bad people (within reason of course)

And it's also important to remember that you may like something that other people don't like. That doesn't mean they have a personal vendatta against you for liking it.

That doesn't mean you're wrong, nor are they wrong.

People have preferences for everything. Just because you prefer something, that doesn't mean you're "right". This is fandom, there are very few things that even have a "right" and "wrong" side.

#rambles #okay getting off my soap box now #i was just reminded of a debate earlier that rubs me the wrong way #its fandom #have fun #but dont let your fun ruin other peoples #you can have boundaries without attacking people #you can have defenses and opinions without putting people down #you dont have to justify your existance in fandom and neither does anyone else #live and let live #all of these guys that we're obsessing over (in the rottmnt fandom atleast) are fictional #if you dont like something dont read it #but that doesnt mean others cant enjoy it #tag your shit and respect people's boundaries

[exhuastedpigeon]

Hey you - yes YOU.

I'm gently holding your face in my hands and reminding you that you are loved and valued and you don't have to do anything to earn that love.

You're special and important and the world is better because you're here. I'm proud of you.

Go drink some water, I think we've both been crying a lot and we need to rehydrate.

#this is mostly directed at the people who commented on my fic sharing your own experiences with religious trauam #because baby i am right there with you #and we are going to heal together #but it's also directed at anyone who needs to hear it #catholic guilt will not ruin our lives #we won't let it #let's hold hands and walk each other to therapy

[marcsnuffy]

I know many people talked about Ego going to jail for the rest of his life (to which I only have this to add: who's getting locked off now, cunt) but I have to ask. Would Anri also be going to jail since she's like complicit in everything and also the one who set the project up in the first place

#the answer is yes obviously but i never see people talking abt her #if she doesnt i can picture her giving him updates on the jpn nt and everything of interest #txt #feminism win the other person ruining young people's careers and lives (to a degree) is a woman

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways #There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse. #I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something #There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others #or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all #or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost #$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably. #or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill #or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels. #or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis #suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away #life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away #Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly #people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before #they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability. #long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious. #they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority. #they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag #but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing #it already is. #its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people #ALL people. #they use basic human rights as bargaining chips. #the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.

[fromtheseventhhell]

It's crazy that people still uphold show!Sansa as a well-written character and pretend that liking her is the pinnacle of feminism when it would be infinitely more impactful to acknowledge her terrible and misogynistic writing. This is the same character who, while written by two men, was thankful for the abuse she suffered because it allowed her to grow. The same character who we had to be told was smart because the writers were too lazy to develop or show her intelligence. The same character who had to rely heavily on the men surrounding her and ended up accomplishing nothing on her own merit ( and no, thinking that she deserved to be Queen doesn't mean that she earned it). She is not well-written, she is not complex, and she is not a feminist character. Which is fine! If you enjoy her then good on you, but please stop pretending that she's something she isn't just because you feel the need to justify liking her character

#anti got #anti d&d #anti show sansa #anti sansa stans #like literally one of the worst written characters on that show because they tried so hard to make her the most important #while being entirely incompetent and their only method of doing so was to steal from other characters which ruined the plot #the only arguable achievement was defeating LF but even then it's written in the script that she had to go to Bran to explain things #/she rallied the Vale army!/ no she didn't 😭 she wrote a letter to LF and he did everything. instead of showing her arc in the Vale and #her learning about politics to rally them herself they took the quickest route to give her a /badass/ savior scene #which only ended up making her look selfish + power-hungry for putting her brothers' lives at risk for not telling anybody about said lette #and idiotic in the aftermath after relying once again on LF even though he was very obviously manipulating her #/pawn to player/ sounds catchy on paper but without seeing that growth/development it doesn't work #Arya was terribly written but at least we /saw/ her training in a way we never did with Sansa #and people try to apply this same logic to the books and think she's gonna suddenly spring forth as a political mastermind #when that's not how George writes...we see characters develop and make mistakes on page and get actual earned growth #feminism isn't defending the writing of two men who gave her a rape plot not in the books because they thought it was /interesting/ #when the only aspect of that plot they adapted was a woman suffering abuse :/ #and as per usual with stansas their only /evidence/ of her being well-written is accusing you of being misogynistic if you don't like her

[ichthyorelationships]

an idea i invite anyone else to write about / run with lol....

the premise that The Change gets all messed up for alberto, say it's something that can happen from stress, &/or happens rarely and you just have to wait for it to resolve itself....used as some parallel to struggling through some emotional turbulence / upheaval / questioning / Realizing Things, etc etc

#luca 2021 #pixar luca #alberto scorfano #another idea i've failed to write for & so invite anyone else to run with: ciao alberto but what if he peaces out by swimming off lol #ends up in a coastal town maybe an hour's swim from genoa. but not Getting In Touch w/anyone for a while b/c plausibly he thinks that #giulia may not be a fan of him now by extension; just being too embarrassed asf to reach out to luca kinda lol....luca off doing his own #thing just fine & alberto not wanting to write him now like b/c i Ruined Everything again ahaha.... #and by ''not in touch w/anyone for a while'' who knows. months; a few years even....might stumble across news of him b/c like. #say more sea folk are coming to land / more humans know abt them & not many places are as [harpoon]ly from the start anyways #portorosso exceptional in that way....maybe where alberto settles down they're like legendary but also considered Good Luck anyways lol. #anyways like some people know of him who might; say; swim down to portorosso. have their own teen who knows a teen who mostly lives on land #most convenient re sparking [wow could they mean Our alberto] if he doesn't go so far as to take up an alias lol. but why would he.... #that difference in that massimo might figure that however alberto was surviving before; he could continue to do so now; but even though tha #is some comfort it's still Not Actually Enough....feeling way more Parentally towards alberto than his biological dad like that; obv #and anyways re: this [The Change gets messed up] idea it's more of an inconvenience lol but one that could still have some significance #like if he first finds out the issue exists via hopping right into the ocean; failing to change forms; never being human form'd in water b4 #thee worst....crash intro course to the experience of drowning. observation of How Humans Swim / being able to grab any part of the boat... #and besides That unpleasantness it's like; hey. where's my nonhuman form at #or; of course; being in sea form even while dry....especially if he's still dealing with Nonsense on land. which is presumed. #&/or if there's an upswing in nonsense b/c of Other ways you're Othered...ofc we can consider like; tfw you're a gay fish & maybe that's no #something that on its own would be like Aah until it's like well a) i kinda wanna do things that would make this Visible and b) i've learne #that humans also Have Issues about this kind of thing.... #appropriately my tablet was also all thrown off. no pressure sensitivity; input sensitivity overall was rough #but i would've had to restart my laptop about it lol like eh i'll just work around it

[moonpaw]

thinking about nami's backstory and how she begged for help twice, and both times ended up with Gen getting beat up and sliced to ribbons, as well as the rest of the villagers getting attacked as nami watched in horror, and this was after watching her mother get shot in the head

then later on in arlong park, she watched as several marine ships came to try to help and watched as arlong and the fishman pirates sank each and every one of them before the navy stopped sending help altogether and in just a few hours nami realized that she can no longer ask for help, it won't successfully come without lose of life of either random people or those she cares about

so at that moment she decided that she can't rely on anyone, can't ask for help lest they get attacked, and that she is completely and utterly on her own

and then comes in luffy and the straw hats, determined to help, but i think it's important here to know that luffy waits until nami asks for it, something she was avoiding until arlong backed her into a corner and everyone she loves was about to be killed despite all her effort and struggles

asking for help meant death to whoever would, but not asking for help would lead to the deaths of those she was trying to protect

so she asked

#one piece #i had to reread arlong park like 4 times bc of the zoro project and every single time i was bawling like a baby #just argh #one piece is so good #and sometimes i see people misunderstanding this part or thinking nami was weak for it and im just #no you dont understand #she couldnt ask for help because she didnt want luffy and the others to get killed by arlong #because that's what she associates asking for help with because she watched what happened when she did the same day her mother got killed #she doesnt want them to die!! #she doesnt want her village to be killed either! #she couldve easily run out to sea and abandoned them if she wanted to free herself but she didnt #because she loves her village #she put herself in danger for them and didnt get to live a normal childhood as she started to go out and rob other pirates for money #she would be gone for weeks and months but she always came back #even if coming back meant being near who killed her mother and ruined her life #just augh #nami....

[youaremysunshine-court]

The saddest thing is the witcher could have portrayed healthy found familial relationship in a non-traditional way, but they went and forced yennefer into the role of mother, geralt into the role of father, completely did away with jaskier, and didn't even bother to consider that every single witcher in Kaer Morhen could be considered ciris father, but no, there's a husband and a wife and a child and that's all there is to it

#witcher #the witcher netflix #geralt of rivia #jaskier #yennefer of vengerberg #also yennefer is historically NOT a good maternal figure for ciri #it was so ooc for geralt to just completely forgive her at th end of s2 #like i have never had a child but i do have nieces and nephews and they are very dear to me #and if anyone pulled that sort of shit with them i would hunt them and waterboard them not cuddle them on a battlement jesus christ #also the fact that like the witchers are relegated to uncle positions is so fucking dumb #a girl can and should have 20 dads if she wants #bc like kaer morhen is basically a commune right #so they good have given us some good non stereotypical family vibes maybe some polyam #but they ruined it #they gave us two people who could barely stand each other forom the time they met and a lady who traumatised this guys daughter #and they were like nah its fine theyre gonna live happily ever after #WHERES THE FUCKING BARD #IS HE LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER #also fuck socially acceptable family dynamics and fuck netflix and fuck whoevers writing these godawful scripts (fuck henry cavill?) #and fuck the last episode for that unsatisfactory scene where they just cuddle up on a fucking roof like yen didnt give ciri trust issues #for decades to come #if i was geralt i would have slit her throat then and there #nothing comes before children #i was gonna be done here but its so narratively unsatisfactory like they havent seen each other in a year(s?) and his loyalty is with her #instead of his own daughter??? #the man who prizes morality and justice over everything else?? is fine with dragging a literal child into her need for power?? #what. the fuck. #okay im done #it could have been good but netflix fucked it the way they do everything so #fuck you netflix

[threadsun]

Hey real quick request:

Can yall try to be normal about sex work and nonmonogamy/people who aren't virgins?

The number of asks I get that censor sex work related terms, use outdated and offensive terms, and act like it's something secret and to be ashamed of is unacceptable. Sex work is work. We don't keep random VHS copies of our own pornos in our houses. We aren't "spoiled" or "ruined" because we have sex with colleagues for the camera, and it's not something that should inspire jealousy in any reasonable person. I will never make the boys anything but fully supportive of sex work, and I will not change my Joseph's backstory as a full service survival sex worker just because it "ruins him for you". Grow the fuck up and be normal about the fact that even if you personally are a virgin, not everyone is and that doesn't make them incapable/unworthy of love or devotion or commitment. Casual sex is not abnormal or something you need to psychoanalyse a character about. Just. Please be normal about sex and sex work, all you're doing is making yourself look like an asshole.

#sunshine #I'm tired of waking up every other day to weird and offensive asks about reader or the boys doing sex work #I'm tired of people trying to psychoanalyse Jean for occasionally having casual sex before he met his sweetheart #I'm tired of people acting like virginity is an important thing or a measure of worth #I'm tired of people acting like a character ever having had sex with anyone else ever somehow ruins them #I'm tired of monogomy being seen as a requirement for full devotion and true love (and yanderes) #just get your shit together and stop projecting your weird virginity and purity bullshit onto me #you just look like an inexperienced dumbass who needs to learn to be normal about sex real quick before you hurt yourself or others #I don't care if you're a virgin that is No Fucking Excuse to be weird about other people's healthy sex lives

[completeoveranalysis]

[5]

In all honesty I sometimes forget that’s his actual name. 

Also something about the Tsubasa family all have one eye in shadow when they spot Evil Wolverine (except Fai’s is technically under an eye patch, but that counts! It's still visually matching!)

VERY much enjoying this prompting the personal stakes that both Kurogane and Fai have here. How Evil Wolverine ruined both their lives personally from the exact same portal, and drawing out such different expressions on them even now. Fai still showing the hurt from the murder and the seven levels of lies, betrayal, and manipulation, while Kurogane has skipped straight to gleeful murder and unsheathes his sword on sight.

And Lava Lamp has a motivation shot also!

In all three flashbacks Evil Wolverine portals in to kill someone dramatically to manipulate the survivor for the rest of their lives. 

And now they’re all back here to face him for it!

The narrative loops are all ready to be completed!

#Hopefully POSITIVELY?? #But this is also Clamp #BUT ALSO THIS IS THE GOOD CLAMP? #THE BEST CLAMP??? #Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle #Tsubasa #Vol 205 #Evil Wolverine #Lava Lamp Guy #Fai #Kurogane #And all your crimes coming back to haunt you #Something about all the peoples lives youve ruined #Whose families you killed and the lives youve forced them into #Something about them learning to love each other and coming to kick your ass as one #Is just SO 100%

[travllingbunny]

Say what you will, but you really can't blame Kendall Roy for thinking that his whole worth as a human being is defined by whether he can become the next Logan Roy, CEO of Waystar Royco. He's been brainwashed into thinking that his whole life, since he was 7. It took less than 39 hours of a TV show for a large chunk of the audience and people who write professional reviews to be brainwashed into thinking the same.

#same for the other Roy siblings #kendall roy #succession #roman roy #shiv roy #connor roy #when you see people seriously discussing who was most equipped to be CEO or who will win or should have won #and talk about the Roy siblings as failures because they 'failed' to emulate their father enough apparently #rather than being too much like him because the poison drips through and their toxicity ruins their lives and relationships #when people unironically think Logan Roy was a great businessman that others should emulate #and take any BS Logan said as gospel truth

[runawaymarbles]

at this point i am simply uninterested in any opinion on a hot-button political topic that treats human beings as a mass of meaningless hypotheticals

#this goes for all of them!!!!!! #some people may die and that is the cost of the economy going #those are real people! #pro life people who shrug off the number of complexities and ways their laws will ruin lives for a nebulous greater good they can't define #pro choice people who groupthink each other into forgetting that a lot of people do want to be pregnant and the loss of a baby is a tragedy #places that don't think accessibility laws should apply to them #people who unironically advocate for murdering billionaires #people who shrug off mass casualty events because they think one side or the other had it coming/is not sympathetic enough #idk I think everyone should spend some time around babies (most future members of some undesierable class or another) #and have a good long think about the work that goes into making a person and the amount of impact people have on the lives of others #and those who haven't or don't know someone who has gone through the loss of a child should really think.about what that is like. #sorry fam im' editing a stillborn shoot and i'm very tired of the internet actually #op

[carnation-damnation]

Made because of you, made to spite you

#sketches #Refraction of a Shadow #Sonic AU #Terios the Hedgehog #sonic oc #Shadow the Hedgehog #Sonic the Hedgehog #There's the journey to realizing that Shadow wasn't made to hurt. Wasn't made to destroy. That he was loved. And made with love. #And discovering a being made because of him that was everything he never wanted to be. #That wasn't made to be loved. To be cared for. To see the world. To live at all #Of course it's not Shadow's fault. #How could he have known that refusing to work for the same people that ruined his life and killed his family would come to this? #How much more will the past come to haunt him when all Shadow wants to do is live his life free of other's control over him?

[distinguished-slacker]

I wish for an OnS antagonist that is an asshole full stop. No tragic backstory. No “I was also…” past. No “it’s for my loved one” goals. Just a big, arrogant asshole who does evil just because.

#This isn’t to hate on Shikama’s character #if all of this was because of a tragic backstory surrounding his son and people go for it #but it gets tiring when every OnS antagonist ruins other people’s lives #and then we get a flashback basically telling us they are also victims too #I know every character here is doing what is advantageous to them but all these parallels are becoming too repetitive #that it is becoming kind of hard to get a ‘unique’ character #basically #I don’t think there is anything wrong from a narrative standpoint to have an antagonist that has no sad story to back it up #by ‘back it up’ I mean ‘explain’ not ‘justify’ their actions #owari no seraph #seraph of the end

[wizardnuke]

astrid and caleb do you ever THINK about them. they're working in the system that failed them. more than that they're working to rip the rot out of the system that failed them from the literal ground zero of it. the soltryce academy and the chair of the archmage of civil influence. i'm sure that wulf pops in to help and/or bash heads and beau is beside caleb every step of the way, but. astrid and caleb. they never got out. do you ever think about how they chose to never get out of there. they're chaining themselves to the tree they're cutting down. they're lighting the gasoline from the center of the room. they know. they know. and they're not at fault (they tortured people they killed their parents- they were brainwashed and tricked! they were extensions of ikithon! that blood is on his hands as much as theirs!) they're not at fault it wasn't their fault, they were children, and now they're the ones who have to make sure that no more children are hurt like they were. by the people that they work with every single day. no one saved them. did they really even save themselves if they're choosing to stay in the lion's den. do you ever think about it.

#NO MORE CHILDREN. at the cost of their own ruined lives #it's awful it's so damn sad to me. they're never going to get out. they don't even want to get out! they find purpose in it! #astrid always wanted that seat! caleb found out that he loves working with kids! #every day they shake hands with thee very people who were at best complicit and at worst actively worked to harm them #and they're looking them dead in the fucking eyes. to be clear. stone cold acknowledgement. smiles that look like snarls. #really. they're not locked in there with the academy and the assembly. all those wizards r locked in there with THEM #And They Know It #the only people they can't manage to look at are each other .

[warriors-ideas]

Do you think Jayfeather and Lionblaze resent Dovewing, not for leaving, but for having the family they never got to have? Dovewing got to join her mate and raise her kits with him. Jayfeather and Lionblaze never got to know their mother until it seemed too late, and they still never really got to know their father. Dovewing has the “perfect” family, while Jayfeather and Lionblaze grew up in one that was perfectly imperfect.

#warriors #warrior cats #jayfeather #lionblaze #dovewing #leafpool #wc #headcanon #headcanons #headcanon ideas #ideas #im surprised i don’t see more people comparing dovewing and leafpool like they do with leafpool and mapleshade #both were cursed by the stars and saw their life in ruins because of them #but one got to escape and live a happier life while the other was scorned even in death