#anyways it grinds my gears

[mamawasatesttube]

*vibrating with the force of my own pedantry* every now and then i see a post that claims tim tried to clone bart at the same time he tried to clone kon, but technically that is only confirmed true in the titans of tomorrow timeline and not in the main timeline, where we see tim in his cloning basement by tt03 #34 (cassie finds him there in #37). by contrast, bart's funeral only happens around issue #50, which is the start of the "titans of tomorrow today" arc in which gun batman tim says he successfully cloned both kon and bart back to life in his timeline. there is no evidence that main timeline tim tried to clone bart back to life in part because he'd already gotten caught trying to clone kon a hundred times before bart was even dead.

#rimi talks #i know i KNOW this is pedantic even for me i have like 6 tabs open bc i had to confirm issue numbers before making this post #but also. if im not getting hung up on the finer details who am i as a person? #anyway like if you wanna make an au where tim kept going ham or whatever hell yeah knock yourself out #but the claim that its canon but ''nobody talks about it'' grinds my gears bc thats not TRUE #tim #kon #bart

[uncanny-tranny]

I was told by someone that I couldn’t call myself a transsexual because I had to go off T for health reasons and I haven’t had any gender affirming surgeries yet since I’m poor and disabled. Is this true? What are like, the requirements to be a transsexual? /gen

The requirements to be transsexual: to identify as transsexual

This might seem too... straightforward, but genuinely, medical transition is so complex and individual that it's worthless to make it so ridged. There are so many reasons you have to stop some aspect(s) of transition, even if you didn't want to! That doesn't mean you never transitioned or that it's "lesser" now that you stopped.

Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, I, for one, couldn't care less if you call yourself a transsexual. To my mind, it is as political as it is an identity. Being a transsexual isn't just about your identity but also your place in this world. "Transsexual menace" isn't just a cutesy little slogan but a political battle cry. It can be an attitude about changing sex, about the lucid and plastic nature of people, and so much more.

The word transsexual was made and popularized, honestly, with the idea that we are separate from others. I think we can take this back and make it ours. We can start by actually making it our own, not the cis world's own.

#ask #anon #trans #transsexual #transsexual FAQs #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #it seems extra shitty to me when somebody goes 'oh you can't transition in the ways you might want to for outside reasons? fuck you anyway! #like how awful do you have to be to see that a trans person is in multiple positions of marginalization... #...and make it about how YOU feel about THEIR labels? #maybe that's an uncharitable read on my end but. i just hate when you have justify your OWN damn identity. #like this isn't debate club and if you are bothered by it then that genuinely is not their problem? #(sorry for ranting anon. this is just something that alwaysssss grinds my gears and isn't directed at you but them) #inuded the bit about 'transsexual menace' because people forget that transness can be just as political as it is an identity #it is the scathing reminded that we are here and we're *going* to fucking stay no matter what. we live in the bones of society #we live in the corners you think are empty. we are the reminder that humanity is sacred and divine... #...and to forget this means we will remind you. we are *going* to fucking stay on this earth with or without approval or understanding #THAT is why i think it isn't solely an identity. my political stance is transsexual. my blade is my manhood. #basically transsexualism is: i'm not afraid to keep on living; i'm not afraid to walk this world alone.

[frozenhi-chews]

One of these days I'll expand on this, but HOLY CRAP I cannot imagine the betrayal Starlo must've felt if you kill Ceroba in Flawed Pacifist. This guy, this monster who idolized humans and was so ecstatic to see one that he had them join his posse, killed his best friend. And, just, that's gotta hurt MORE than when she git married to Chujin, because despite his broken heart, she was at least THERE. She was ALIVE.

Here she's not.

Despite her willingness to die, Starlo hates you once you kill her. And part of it is how close they were before she was killed. The other part is the fact you basically betrayed him. You had no inclination to kill anyone beforehand. Heck you probably didn't even SHOOT anyone (unless you were me and was pissed at Axis).

All that training, all that bonding, the fact he stopped you and gave you that Deputy badge, said that he was PROUD of you. Suddenly all down the drain because now his best friend is gone. I cannot even fathom how that must've felt. Like no wonder he sees you less than dirt, you killed his friend and broke his trust. No longer are you his Deputy, even if you wanted to go back to the Wild East. Actually that would likely be a bad idea, he just would not like you around.

Also it's such an interesting contrast of, "yes you're safe in the law, but personally I do not want to see you again." Just, hoough love that!

Have no idea how to end this, so, yeah holy crap Starlo absolutely hates you in Flawed Pacifist

#i have no doubt that he would've wanted to absolutely DECK you #but because law and whatnot. he couldnt do anything #ANOTHER REASON WHY WE WERE ABSOLUTELY ROBBED OF A STARLO GENOCIDE FIGHT #like AUGH i can rant about this later but HOO it grinds my gears #anyway #the cake doth speak #🌵💫 #Starlo #ceroba #starlo uty #ceroba uty #undertale yellow #uty #flawed pacifist #uty flawed pacifist #this turned out better so i mught not talk about it later XD #analysis #uty analysis

[professorducc]

literally no one talk to me

#south park #south park fanart #craig south park #craig tucker #craig tucker south park #david south park #david rodriguez #david rodriguez south park #tweek tweak #tweek south park #tweek tweak south park #lil baby stan marsh right there #i tried to point em out cause im lazy but thats stan yammering like a dumbass and david next to him blushing cause hes such a moron and hes #lk into it as a fellow idiot. but stan's stupider and that grinds his gears #positively and negatively lol #and then tweek beat up david :/ #but theyre besties now :) #kyle broflovski #kyle broflovski south park #kyle south park #elf king kyle #anyway can u tell im normal abt pretty elf man lol #the guy flirting w him over there is my nk the dragon born #im literally obsessed w my ocs dont touch me #the light of my life the wind beneath my wings #but yeah i was just practicing kyle and he appeared cause theure gay #shld draw him w princess kenny too i 🥺 #anyway dont look at me #stick of truth #sp snow day

[curry-and-gunpowder]

Okay so I have some stuff to get off my chest, might get a bit heated, but I mean no disrespect to anyone, just expressing my genuine confusion and frustration and trying to make my stance on some matters clear.

Clearly I ship Odazai. But that does not mean I reject other interpretations of their relationship. Be it platonic, queerplatonic, brotherly, it's all lovely to me - I genuinely just enjoy their unique dynamic.

However, I am constantly on the brink of losing it over hearing them referred to as a father/son pair by so many people in the fandom. And I'm gonna attempt to break down why this interpretation bothers me so much.

Firstly, it just flies in the face of my personal experience of intergenerational friendships - I'm a young-ish Millennial with many Gen Z friends. And I find it completely incomprehensible to try and force people who are relatively close in age into such a dynamic. I'm aware that a lot of bsd fans are teens or young adults who maybe don't have much social contact with people outside their age range. But as a 30+ person on the Internet, let me tell you, five years? That's nothing. The plain truth is, the older you get, the less age starts to matter. Once you get out of school, you will interact with people of all ages regularly and you will have friends who are older or younger than you and nobody fucking cares. The thought of seeing any of my younger friends as my children is, pardon my french, fucking ridiculous.

Secondly, and I've spoken about this before, the fandom's tendency to parentify Odasaku way beyond what the text ever implies. It's easy to put him into the role, considering the way he cares for his orphans. In that way, he has some parental traits - but it's only a facet of his personality, and, i would argue, one that the fandom puts way too much emphasis on, imho. I'll gladly write some more meta on that at a later time, but doing that here would make the post even longer than it already is. Just to quickly reiterate, for anyone who hasn't read the dark era lightnovel - Oda does explicitly NOT treat the kids like his children. Why then would he treat Dazai like one? Dazai, whom he explicitly invites to go drinking with him in TDIPUD? How does that track? Is he supposed to be just a shitty parent? Or could it maybe indicate that he sees Dazai as his equal more than anything?

(Tangentially, I would argue that Oda's perception of what constitutes a child/an adult is horrendously skewed, considering his own past.)

Thirdly, and this is probably gonna be the one that might get me into hot water with some people, the thing I like to call the Cope. The tendency in fandom to manifest a hard line between groups of characters that somehow should never be crossed when shipping, otherwise that makes the ship badwrongtoxic. This is a phenomenon I've observed developing more and more in recent years, and it's ngl pretty worrying, because it's generally used to present one's own ship as "superior", and all "rival ships" as less than/bad. Ships with "significant" age gaps tend to fall into that category relatively often, but I suspect very few people actually genuinely care about the characters' ages, but rather use it as a shield to justify why these relationships are To Be Avoided. Odazai is an absolute stellar example of such a ship - by all means it should be way more popular than it is, considering the themes that surround it and the way its absolutely center to the nareative of bsd. But without fail, when I look up media for the ship, be it YouTube videos or simply browsing the tag on tumblr or pinterest, I see the same mantra repeated over and over - "how can you ship them, they're like father and son!"

(I'm concerned about the relationship you have with your parents, I say to myself in response.)

And its, quite frankly, just not the case. I cannot for the life of me find any indication of this so-called parental relationship anywhere in the text. All I can see is two people who are friends who have a deep and sincere love for each other.

In conclusion, not every relationship has to fall into the category of familial or romantic. Sometimes... people are just friends. Sometimes friends are some years apart in age. It's not shocking or special or anything, it literally happens all the time.

Just let them be friends. It's fine, really, it's allowed.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #text post #long #bsd odasaku #bsd dazai #bsd oda sakunosuke #odazai #bsd dazai osamu #yeah okay this got away from me ngl #sorry its a bit rambly but I'm not exactly a practiced meta writer lol #anyway here's what grinds my gears #the parentification of oda sakunosuke #<- is now a tag i have #and just to be clear #i am not saying anyone who's like #uncomfortable at the thought of shipping oda and dazainis wrong #because everyone has their preferences and boundaries #i just wanna implore people to try and examine thei reasons for that discomfort #that's all #J out✌️

[leaf-in-a-flower-garden]

Doom scrolling on the Sky Shop and I see the little keychains and I'm probably gonna get one or two but the placements of the elders??

Like, we have the elders who were either reluctant to use dark stone or at the very least recognised how bad it was for the environment. Next week have the two elders who were absolutely against dark stone, one starting a fucking war over it. And the last two are the ones who used a disproportionate amount of dark stone just because!!!!!

I'm probably reading too much into it but like com'on!!! Look!!

#Argh TGC grinding my gears per usual #anyways tho #im definitely getting the isle elder one #its so cute and small and hes just so old 🥺 #sky cotl #sky children of the light #skyblr #sky: cotl #sky elders #tgc #thatgamecompany #me ranting about anything under the sun

[whoisthisguyandwhyishehere]

Media that is centered on adoption/has an adoption storyline/has adoptee characters that is made by non adoptees can be so painful to sit through. Like the ignorance can be astounding

#and when i see non adoptees ear it up #good god does it grind my gears #we need more adoptee media made by adoptees #if anyone knows any that is good let me know #( also some of the media can be good but alot of the time it isnt) #anyways #cw vent #cw vent account #vent #adoption #adoption vent #adoptee

[stevie-petey]

whenever i question why i upload my fic on ao3 as well … i get comments like these and they remind me its all worth it because i just lost my SHIT over it laughing oh my GOD

#m speaks #like i love ao3 but steve fics def get more traction on tumblr #which isnt why i do this but having to manually italicize my shit just …. #grinds the gears sometimes #anyways ! #i laughed so hard

[murkybu]

q!quackity is my enemy

#i will not forgive and forget. #him contemplating killing tallulah and justifying it by saying ’why would i care for other eggs if no one cared for mine?’ #BROTHER #everyone on that server cared for tilin expect her own dad #she was so loved by everyone But quackity #and now he gets to be a murderous grieving father like slime? i don't think so #he did not care about that child until it died #GRRRRRR I NEED JUSTICE #ALSO #what really grinds my gears #he keeps misgendering every egg that isn't a boy >:( including his own child #q!quackity is Not Cool 3:< #i am not an apologist for this villiain. #anyways #hope quackity streams again soon! #qsmp #quackity

[robotpussy]

"#but why her big toe nail fucked up and crunchy"

what was the reason for saying this it's so unnecessary who cares if her toe is "fucked up and crunchy" that's none of your business. and it isn't even a "bad" toe nail sorry this is pissing me off so fucking much

#anyways im blocking this person because this shit grinds my gears literally shut the fuck up #like i wonder if you even have the courage to post ur face on ur blog to have to courage to say stupid petty #shit like this.... #im just annoyed because ppl do this shit to me and ppl don't understand how something that seems small can ruin how u see yourself #and whats even more annoying is the toe nail is fine???? saying this isnt even funny or anything just announced and unwarranted #*annoying

[taakosleftshoe]

i wish people were more open to saying "its not for me" rather than being like "this is objectively bad and here's why"

#sierra speaks #this is about the taz subreddits but uhhh also about things in general lmao #i notice this shit so often and it is the one thing that grinds my gears #bc there are valid critiques of things but theres also recognizing that maybe it just didn't sit with you but maybe there are good things.. #like im sorry you hated devo... they were trying to tell an interesting story lmao #i get that people miss taz being a comedy but like... the mcelroys have changed w that ! they want to tell stories! #there are still goofs but there are also stories #and like... i fr think ethersea is just as interesting as balance #anyways this is just a view even outside of taz that has been very real to my mind these past few years #its like im.. extremely sick of negativity in general? i think we can critique things!! but it doesnt have to be an awful hellscape yk. lik #we CAN enjoy things or just.. not partake in them... #cause there are many things i dont think are objectively bad. but so many people out there will be like oh this is unlistenable and im like #idk dog i had a good time #i definitely think ethersea is the kind of season that is most fun when binged and less so when it's airing #whereas steeplechase feels the opposite! idk just what im feeling rn :]

[herebecritters]

Y’all have no idea how much I love ancient history, prehistory and natural history like hhhhghhh

You also have no idea how much I loathe ancient alien theories and young earth creationist theories it’s the stupidest ass shit ever

#I’m watching a lotta stuff right now and it’s real good #I love researching so goddamn much #but MAN I have had to learn how to get good at finding reliable sources because there’s a lotta dumbass armchair archeologists out there #HUMANS ARE A CRAFTY AND INNOVATIVE SPECIES #stop trying to explain amazing human innovations as the work of alien intervention it makes me so mad #it’s also high key racist at its roots #it grinds my gears so much y’all #humans are neatto and cool and complex #anyways conspiracy history videos may seem intriguing and all but most of them are absolute uneducated bullshit #anyways rant over I just wanted to scream about how jazzed I get about ancient dead humans

[petruchio]

i go a little bit insane every time i see one of these ridiculous tik tok "lifestyle" influencers try to peddle some "what i eat in a day" shit and act like they're sharing their recipes and then they film themselves using COOKING SPRAY in a NON STICK PAN. like am i actually supposed to believe you know how to cook when youre out here committing one of the cardinal sins of using a nonstick pan? PLEASE.

#caroline speaks #obviously theres plenty of other issues with the what i eat in a day trend #but like that one just annoys me so much #like come ON. i know most of these ppl cant cook anyway but for some reason that one just rly grinds my gears

[gatheredfates]

Not to be controversial on main, but I really hate posts about 'unshippable' muses and roleplaying anything other than romance, and that comes from a place of seeing those posts all the time; often to the detriment and shame of people who may only roleplay for romance and/or smut. From personal experience, more often than not, it creates an atmosphere where people become too frightened to approach people about potential ships and end up being weird about it ooc. Just state your boundaries on the tin rather than making vague illusions to it in your reblogs. I'm someone who fucking loves ships; I have a deep, vested interest in them. I also love platonic ships. I really hate the weird puritanical nonsense of 'uwu, i am above base shipping!' yeah ok shut up.

#i'm not coping #seething #maulding #i'm normally positive but tbh that shit grinds my gears #anyway sorry if this is a dealbreaker in following me #(i'm not sorry) #｡･ﾟﾟ･ — sea speaks #no u may not reblog this i do not wish to deal with the ~drama~ #no this is not a vague post at anyone #if you have an unshippable muse great! #just state that as a boundary

[itsagrimm]

Something tells me that König did not have a usual childhood not just because of anxiety.

He entered military service with 17, which requires parental permission. Many kids in the german speaking countries still go to school when 17. König's parents being okay with their kid not pursuing education, which is highly socially expected of young people in all german-speaking countries, but instead actively allowing him to join the army, is extremely unusual.

Also, the military does not have the same social standing in Austria or Germany as let's say in the USA. It is not a very common thing people do here - especially minors.

Like, did his parents want him gone? Or did they actually felt like that was the best choice for their son because of circumstances unknown to us? Or did 17-year-old-König convince his parents AND the enlist officer to allow him to join the army somehow, giving an anxiety plagued teen a gun? And what kind of environment would allow that?

#i am fascinated #okay let's say his family really wants their son to go to the army which already would be a red flag here btw bc nazis #who in their right mind would want to have an apparently very anxious teenager yield a gun #also why not send him to cadet school then or the military university #how did he end up essentially a field soldier and not an officer #it does not make sense my knowledge of the real life military and the cod lore do not add up and it grinds my gears #anyway könig sounds like you had a shit childhood and i am holding carefully in my hands like a little cute fluffy animal #unless you are a nazi and that was the reason you joined then sorry no #yeah yeah tell me again COD is an UNPOLITICAL GAME buahaha #könig #cod #könig cod #cod mwii #könig mw2 #könig call of duty

[finn-shitposts]

I finally bit the bullet and quit my joooob !!! Now im gonna actually have time to rest and catch up on owed art and just fucjin sleep for 3 weeks

(And then scramble to find a job but thars for future me to worry abour)

#dw i still live w my parents and ill save my last paycheck for rent and testosterone ill be fine #but fuck im so relieved #like this job has been getting steadily worse over the past year. #it was meant to be a green/conservation based job but it ended up being 90% landscaping and garden clearances #and there was 0 communication and management and organization is fucking terrible like #its a wonder this company is still going #plus my terf coworker grinds my gears so bad i may have commited murder if i stayed any longer #the only good part of this job was my rly sweet supervisor who is also leavong at the end of the month skdjsj #hes so silly and kind and knowledgable and a bright spot in my life leo my best friend leo <3 he knows soo much about plants!! #anyway he reccomended some horticulture apprenticeships and my other supervisor mentioned an apprenticeship school type thing too #so thats what ill go for next year #so that i can actually work with plants someday. instead of hauling 2 tons of litter out of someones shed cos the owner cba #and the housing association/council refuses to do it cos its shit work #so they pass it off to us #anyway #finn.txt #im gomma be freeeee soon