#because then what's the point 🙃

[sluttylittlewaste]

Hilarious that the same people defending any and all questionable choices the Bad Kids make (namely Kristen lbr) by saying "They're just kids! They have all this trauma and it's fucked up to expect teens to be good and nice all the time!" are the same people insisting that Kipperlily is an evil bitch and the Ratgrinders deserve to die.

#it's almost like the rules of empathy and nuance only apply to characters you like 🙃 #we know absolutely nothing of significance about the Ratgrinders #and i can't wait for Brennan to remind us of that #you want to complain about Kipperlily using her families money to try to buy the campaign??? #The entire shrimp party that kicked off Kristen's campaign was bankrolled by her rich friend #Adaine is a total bitch to anyone who isn't in her immediate friend group #Fig is a literal full time criminal at this point #they have at least 50+ murders under their collective belts at this point #the only verified difference between the Bad Kids and the Ratgrinders at this point is that we know nothing about them #I hope they are the biggest red herring Brennan has ever pulled #because I feel like there are people in this fandom who are so used to self-identifying as victims that they've become full bullies #and they're projecting that shit in some really gross ways #The same way Brennan had to remind Adaine that she wasn't the only one with a shitty life when she was dunking on Zayne? #how about we all take a big step back and try to have a little more perspective #instead of jumping straight to being triggered by a CHILD who had the audacity to not love your faves behavior #let me die #if i die #d20 fhjy #fhjy #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #kipperlily copperkettle #the bad kids #the ratgrinders #we have no context on what those kids went through in all the time the Bad Kids have been running around doing other shit #Aguefort is an awful school and their friend is dead #maybe she has a reason not to like the super special “chosen one” that got personally resurrected by the principal and keeps failing upwards #i didn't want to be a Kipperlily defense page #but the energy of the Kipperlily hate reeks of double-standards and unprocessed high school bitterness

[melonthesprigatito]

Look, I'm not interested in playing Palworld and I've been actively avoiding the drama/controversy so I'd be perfectly happy with forgetting it's existence and moving on with my life if it weren't for just how obsessively UNHINGED the Palworld fandom is, barging in on EVERY. SINGLE. recent Pokémon post on multiple platforms just to pick fights and shill the hell out of their game to (most of the time) confused Pokémon fans who are wondering what Palworld is and where these people came from.

I saw this wonderful art of the Kamado battle in Legends Arceus and the Champion battle in Sun and Moon on Instagram and I shit you not, a good 70% of the comments are entirely Palworld people just ranting and yelling about how Pokémon sucks, Palworld is going to kill Pokémon, anybody who likes Pokémon is a bootlicker and are riding Pokémon's 🍆, how anyone who complains about Palworld is a (and I quote) """"saviourf*g""" for Nintendo etc

Like, I just wanted to share my nostalgia about Sun and Moon and so did a lot of other people considering that there were still people talking about it, but it was hard to find those comments because they were drowned out by the Pals Vs Pokémon warzone.

And the second someone says something a Pal fan doesn't like, it eventually devolves into the Pal fans throwing homophobic slurs around and calling the Pokémon fans neckbeards, and shills and basement dwellers and such.

I'm sure there's probably sane fans who are just happy going about and making their Pals break rocks or whatever, but a majority of the Palworld fans I've encountered so far are like edgy screaming 4Chan people. Like, holy shit I wish they would just go to their own Palworld fan pages instead of invading Pokémon and turning every comment section into the embodiment of this meme.

(And I just want to address the whole "Pokémon Company is posting a lot more often recently because they're obviously scared of Palworld, lmaoooo why else would they suddenly start actively posting after months of radio silence 😎" argument that I've seen dozens of times.

First of all, the Pokémon channel/profile is always posting random game/anime/art screenshots. There hasn't been a sudden drastic increase of posts.

Second of all, it's A MONTH UNTIL POKÉMON DAY. THEY DO THIS EVERY YEAR. The influx of Snorlax posts is a promotional thing for Pokémon Sleep. Pokémon's just carrying on with their regularly scheduled hype building/ promotional stuff and the Palworld fans think it has something to do with them.(

#pokémon #tw: slurs #I wish they'd just go enjoy their game and leave us alone to enjoy ours 😭 #I don't wanna see all the insults and fighting #I haven't even been playing Pokémon recently I've been playing Kirby 😭 #All I wanted to do is look up some Pokémon art memes and plushies is that so bad????? #The saviour*redacted* thing is something that someone called me specifically 🙃 #I can't remember what comment it was under #I think it was someone accusing Ogerpon of being a Pal ripoff and I pointed out that Ogerpon is inspired by a Japanese myth or something #From my very outside perspective it looks like Palworld is only popular because its fueled by internet rage #I wish people were this defensive about Yokai Watch when it came out. I love that game :(

[bohemian-nights]

Need I remind Ryan Condal(and the fans of this show who want her cut because she’s irrelevant) that in every piece of media on the Dance [The princess and the queen(2013), The World of Ice & Fire(2014), the Dance DVD lore(2015), Fire & Blood(2018), and The Rise of the Dragon(2022)]Nettles is always there.

Some characters that will be featured in the show like Addam of Hull(he’s not mentioned by name in the DVD lore), Alys Rivers(she’s not mentioned in the DVD lore or The World of Ice & Fire), or Gwayne Hightower(he’s not mentioned in the DVD lore or The World of Ice & Fire) are not mentioned in certain versions of the story, but Nettles is featured in every single version of the Dance.

#hbo I am watching you #nettles #house of the dragon #hotd spoilers #I’m not trying to piss anyone off because I like all the characters I mentioned #I am however trying to point out how this show is treating certain characters #netty #nettles asoiaf #hotd #she’s been there since the beginning #again if GRRM or even HBO itself could always find some way to squeeze her in what is stopping them now 🙃 #why change it up 🙃 #nettles f&b #what would be the reason 🙃 #if someone replies to this with ‘HOTD has reached their Black quota’ you won’t like my reply 😊 #they also shouldn't push her back a season #they've squeezed in everyone inlcuding freaking silver denys and give a storyline before the sowing for twiddle dumb and dee #give us nettles ✊🏽

[torgawl]

"kyoto kids were useless in shibuya" so was every goddamn adult and where's your yapping?

#tired of this fandom #'if useless was a group' wanna say that to nanami? to gojo? to mei mei? to kusakabe? to naobito? to utahime? to the nitta twins? to ino? #cause girl jogo was killed by sukuna dagon was only killed because of toji... #everyone was useless yet you come for kids trying to come together to save their asses instead of running away like cowards #they were doomed the day they became sorcerers anyway that's the point of the story so what's up with the 'useless' comments #gojo literally got himself sealed be for real #sorry if teenagers who are in a school learning how to control their powers and have never been exposed to curses this strong actually are #struggling to keep up with them 🙃 #where's the common sense?

[traitorsinsalem]

bg3 is crazy for being a massive $70 larian + wotc collab game whose accessibility menu features subtitles that are present for less than half of all idle character dialogue and almost zero battle dialogue

#succ speaks #not to be the 'paizo wouldn't let this happen' guy but god this is actually insane #like why even have an accessibility menu at that point? i'd rather watch a youtube video with automatic captions #same energy as devs complaining that everyone was making their pcs a white human guy in early access while they had no asian human options #like bro i just want to know what bestie karlach is saying but if u make her mumble with no captions even tho i have subtitles on #tf am i supposed to do.....🤨😡😭💀 #baldur's gate 3 is fun but this is pissing me off. like i'm prob not gonna keep playing this solo & only play online with friends #it's fun but. not fun enough to mimic the actual wacky bullshit i do with charisma rogues and bards in dnd or pf #i think i'm also used to having real humans around for ttrpg antics and dynamic character interactions so bg3 feels bland in comparison lol #also because irl i can ask people to repeat what they just said 🙃🙃🙃 #joining the mob by accident was admittedly funnier in bg3 than it was in dnd though considering i stumbled into the base out of nowhere #i guess it just falls under ny philosophy that dnd is most fun when wotc has zero actual say in what happens and what we can do 👍 #however as much as pf > dnd...bg3 > kingmaker. i think pathfinder is just to true of a ttrpg to adapt into a video game super well #like. the writing in wotr was WAY better than bg3 but still sometimes bad enough to be infuriating ESPECIALLY in regards to iomedae #but the weird ass iomedae stuff is also true in the adventure path itself and plenty of other people have complained about it #but hey at least in wotr the subtitles told me what she was saying every time she spoke 👍 #wotr was still rly fun tho no hate to the game in general this is a quick slam of being pissed at bg3 again 🙏🙏

[theflyingfeeling]

...💇‍♀️

#so i went to the hairdresser's in september to get a trim after over a year of having NOTHING done to my hair #it was in suuuuuuuuch a poor condition but i loved how long it had gotten so i suffered through the summer #i just wasn't ready to say goodbye to my mermaid hair 🥺 #(i should've got it done in the spring but didn't because. well. life i guess lol i wasn't feeling very well maybe) #and so when i finally went to get it done i asked the hairdresser to cut only what was necessary #fair enough i went home only to notice absolutely NOTHING had happened 🙃 #i thought i could live with it until maybe later in the winter but i was getting so frustrated with how lifeless and tangled my hair was 😭 #so i booked a new appointment at a different hairdresser (a new one has just opened near me) #and aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh my hair looks and feels SO much more healthier now!! 😭 nearly teared up at the hairdresser's feeling my new hair 😂 #but at the same time i'm a bit 🥲 because it's quite a bit shorter now 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 #it's not short per se but aaaahhhh I'm having a minor identity crisis lol (no i'm not i'm just being dramatic 💅) #but it's definitely better this way. i love my hair and i'm never ever letting it get in such a terrible condition ever again 🤧 #also i'm not going back to that other place again because it wasn't the first time the same person had done barely anything to my hair 🤨 #i mean. i guess they just did what i had asked but... #with all the other hairdressers there's never been any problem when i told them to ''only take what's needed'' #i guess she was just too cautious to take TOO much of the length of my hair but gurl what's the point if you only take like 1 cm 😐 #with ''what's needed'' i obviously mean ''enough so i won't have to come back here next month'' :\ #anyway! i'm happy and keep sniffing my hair (and giving myself a headache in the process) because the products they used smell so nice 💖 #pointless ramblings hi yess i'm bored by theflyingfeeling

[locura-azul]

Anyways, I was so brave today. I only cried once and it was at the very end of the ordeal only after returning to the first office and finally solving the freaking problem.

#At one point some asshole cop who had no knowledge about my case told me I should get deported #so yeah that was fun #acab truly is universal #but of course he had no merit in saying that as i have followed every step of the law as intended from the start #the nice lady in the office came around and hugged me and told me everything was going to be okay that i am doing everything right #and to forget about what that cop said because he had no idea what he was talking about #but yeah I nearly burst into tears three times before that so i think i did pretty freaking good for myself 🙃

[pragmatic-optimist]

An Appeal re: Anon Asks

For the last week (although honestly, the last six months), I've been having conversations on and off about the responsibility of answering asks on your blog and the impact it has on fandom as a community. 

At some point during Season 2 of Lone Star, the Anon asks, in particular, got truly out of control, and it's only gotten worse over time. Your blogs are your blogs, and I respect that. At the same time, as a fandom community, we share this space. Whether or not we all know one another, we're all coexisting in the tags and on this site. It takes a lot of emotional labor and time to filter and block on Tumblr, especially when folks don't tag consistently or correctly. Like many in this fandom, I also want to have fun while I'm here, but it's hard to do that when there seems to be little to no discernment in answering asks or properly tagging them.  

When it comes to unnecessary negative comments on fanfic, we often say, "it's not hard to close out of something if you don't like it." The spirit of that applies here, too. It's easy not to answer an ask, especially an Anon ask.

If someone isn't putting their name on something they're asking you to post to your blog, I would argue it requires an additional second and third look and careful consideration of how you answer it. (Certain asks are answered flippantly and then tagged for all to see, but that is an entirely separate post I won't be writing). 

Everything you share gets eyes; how many depends on how loud of a voice you're considered in the fandom. And it's been my experience that the louder the voice, the more substantial the likelihood you'll find problematic Anon asks in your inbox. Answering these asks on your blog gives them a platform, and tagging them gives them an audience outside of your followers. If you're a "big blog," it increases the odds that some of us will also be subjected to these problematic asks through reblogs. All of this broadly impacts fandom conversation because now it's deemed acceptable to send XYZ type of ask, use XYZ word(s), bring up XYZ topic, or talk about XYZ actor(s) or character(s) in any type of way.

The whole "this is Tumblr, it's not that serious" argument is privileged because some of this stuff is serious for someone like me (and others in this space). I can't just pretend someone isn't implicitly making it seem okay to say certain things, especially if their blog is looked at as a popular fandom source.

This ask is just one example of what I'm talking about:

It's the use of a racialized fetish term, and honestly, it's super cringe. Seeing this in the show tag is deeply uncomfortable as a Latinx person. What was the point of answering this ask and then tagging it? It serves no purpose and hangs out in the show tag like we all just throw it around (we don’t). It's been brought to attention, and still, it lingers. 

A fandom community should be safe and fun for all, but we don't live in a perfect world, so it takes work. Part of being in a community and doing the work is kindly holding people accountable to make it that way and being willing to have constructive conversations when concerns are raised. It's not accountability if you only show "remorse" when your friends bring something to your attention, and then nothing changes.

Accountability also ceases to exist when the fandom community chooses deep avoidance, handwaving things away whenever someone tries to share a concern. I have no idea why this keeps happening here, but I do know that every time it happens, it is profoundly isolating and makes it clear that fandom is only meant to be fun for some. The rest of us have to either put up with it or leave. 

If that's the message the Lone Star fandom intends to send, it's being received loud and clear. 

****

(Edit: the post is finally down, but I’ve shared a screenshot because it took three days and more than one person to address it publicly and this is exactly what I’m talking about.)

#this isn't me telling people what to do #this is me imploring folks to PLEASE give some extra attention to what you're sharing and tagging #and engage when someone tries to bring up a concern #this is a personal post because i have truly reached my breaking point #i kept hoping things would sort themselves out but they won't #and my expectations that this post will even be understood are low 🙃 #and if you're reading this thinking it's not all of us #i do know that but that isn't the main point i'm trying to make here #this shit is hard by the way #and we're not out here doing this for fun #it literally sucks to be the one calling stuff out #911 lone star #911 lone star discourse #911 lone star fandom #sonia shares #that thing you queue

[stormyoceans]

with all my sympathy for bmf, why did everyone get a boxset except vv? gmm doesn't even hide its hatred for this project!

PLEASE DON'T REMIND ME ANON IM TRYING SO HARD TO BE A MATURE RATIONAL ADULT ABOUT THIS ENTIRE SITUATION LIKE YEAH NO IM JUST [CLENCHES FISTS] SO HAPPY THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING DVD BOX SETS OF THEIR FAVORITE SHOWS WITH SPECIAL BEHIND THE SCENES CONTENT AND EXCLUSIVE POSTCARDS AND A WHOLE PHOTO BOOK DEDICATED TO IT IM A BEING OF LOVE AND LIGHT IM NOT JEALOUS AND BITTER AT ALL [GNAWING GNASHING BITING MAIMING KILLING]

and the thing is.. im usually a very logical person (hard to believe, i know) and i work as an accountant for a living, so god knows just how much i've tried to justify GMMTV not making a DVD box set for vice versa as the show not meeting the company's expected financial projections and consumers interest, but when a series that pulled LESS views than vice versa gets it, that makes me want to commit grand scale larceny :) (and like you said, nothing against bmf itself, it's GMMTV i have beef with)

HONESTLY WITH ALL THE PRODUCT PLACEMENTS THEY FORCED IN IT THEY AT LEAST COULD HAVE SAVED A SMALL PART OF THE BUDGET FOR A DVD BOX SET I WILL MEET EVERY SINGLE GMMTV EXEC IN HELL AND FIGHT THEM

#HAD TO DELETE HALF OF THIS REPLY BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE TOO NEGATIVE #BUT WHEN I TELL YOU I MOURN THE VICE VERSA DVD BOX SET EVERY SINGLE DAY #IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO BEAUTIFUL TOO #honestly idk what problem do they have with vice versa #but what i DO know is that we better get an extra deluxe edition box set for last twilight #OR IM GONNA HOLD EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THAT BOARDROOM AT GUN POINT #it still wouldn't make up for vice versa not having a dvd box set but at least it's SOMETHING #im so totally fine about this im really not bitter and petty at all 🙃 #vice versa #m: ask

[chronomally]

Love when someone interrupts me while I'm speaking to completely misinterpret what I'm saying and incorrectly paraphrase it for someone else

#please feel free to ignore this #Me: Hey I feel like we don't have a cohesive team definition for these terms so if we could #Tech lead: Oh so you're confused about what those terms mean? #Me: Uh no actually I'm saying EVERYONE is confused because you have one definition and our PM has another and it's an argument every 3 mths #And then our tech lead and the PM got into argument about it proving my point exactly 🙃

[bohemian-nights]

Something I’ve noticed about a lot of Rhaenyra stans (that is so aggravating) is they are always talking about they don’t want Rhaenyra to be "whitewashed" but when you bring up the darker things she’s done/will do (calling for her younger brother to be “sharply questioned,” ordering Ser Vaemond’s head to be chopped off and then feeding him to Syrax, never punishing her husband for ordering Blood and Cheese (and I wouldn’t be surprised if in the show they have her order Blood and Cheese), ordering the death of Nettles for having a romantic/sexual relationship with her husband and yet not extending those orders to her husband, and her blatant racism towards Nettles) suddenly Fire & Blood is just a misogynistic book meant to paint Rhaenyra(and Daemon) in a bad light.

I wonder who’s going to tell them they can’t have their cake and eat it too 🫠

Moving the goalposts is their favorite pastime 😗

One moment Fire & Blood is the most reliable source when it talks about how the realm thought a seven-year-old Rhaenyra was a darling(albeit spoiled) child and how romantic it is that Daemon crept on her at fourteen (cause that’s the evidence they use to support him luving her so very much even though he left the capital when she was a child because he got butthurt over her being made heir, but he realized that he could still be close to the throne if he seduced her and forced his brother to hand her over to him🙃) which is still underage by Westeros standards. The next it’s not to be trusted because the evil men have it out for my Valyrian queen.

I suppose for some it is easier to believe a white woman, who is fine with killing her own flesh and blood, innocent babies(I love Daemon, but a son for a son should’ve meant going after Daeron or Aemond, but they weren’t easy targets), is a complete and total innocent victim 100% of the time😗

I’ve never ever heard of a white woman using her privilege to try and commit a hate crime against a Black woman. Like ever. Especially not a white woman who comes from a racist family who’s own grandmother mistook a Black man for a demon because of his skin tone. It just can’t be true 🙃

She was just stressed. You know how that goes cause we've all wanted to commit racially motivated murder when we are stressed ☺️

They are happy with the show painting her in the best light possible and will even cheer on the show doing away with book canon(see how much they celebrated Laena being “unloved” by Daemon) that they claim to love so much if it makes queenie look good🤷🏽‍♀️

#if people want to know why I don’t like Rhaenyra and her stans this is why #they ignore racism and get mad at you for pointing it out and not worshiping the ground that a racist white woman walks on 🙃 #no I don’t have to sympathize with a woman just because I’m a woman #that sympathy goes out the window as soon as you show your self #anti rhaenyra targaryen #anti rhaenyra stans #anti daemyra #hotd ask #bnask #bnasks #in the show she probably wont be a racist but she's still a hypocrite who will blame what happens solely on nettles #plus cheating and accusing someone of witchcraft isn't a good excuse for murder 🙃

[mementomush]

the will wood subreddit is so weird 😭

someone posted about seeing will at shayfer james' concert and how he was busting it down next to them and they had a really good time and then a few posts above theirs is someone asking for peoples unpopular opinions of wills music or *he himself* like that is so weird i hope you know that 😭😭😭😭

#one of their bullet points was 'i understand why people hate him or think hes prententious not saying i do' #thats so rude you dont even know him literally what 🙃 #im 99% sure the subreddit doesnt allow those posts so itll get taken down but thats such a weirdo thing to dooooo #'hey just for fun lets rip of this guy none of us know because i think hes had enough positivity from his fanbase' 😭😭 #will wood #wwatt #fungus rumbles #i heard about will at shayfers show though and apparently he and his gf were busting it down together #and it was really cute sounding im so jealous of people who got to go 🥺 #*on sorry i said of im so tired right now and my laptop is slow

[ashtonsunshine]

When something that should go right goes wrong

#carmo says things #I'm booking a hotel and it says the method of payment failed but i approved the payment before it failed and now i don't know what to do 🙃 #I'm pretty sure the UK hates me at this point #im gonna have to wait and see if the money is taken out of my account #if it is im gonna have to call the hotel #and i don't wanna call the hotel because i hate making calls #for fucks sake 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 #personal

[musical-chick-13]

One of the WORST parts of having OCD is that some of the Fears™ are actually humanly possible, so it's not like my response can just be, "Oh that'll never happen" or even "I've never seen that happen, so it's probably unlikely."

#like. okay. for example. 2019 me: 'better do cleaning compulsions because oh no what if I get the Plague™' #fast forward a year to covid and that was genuinely a very real possibility. I could LITERALLY catch the plague #or on a smaller more personal scale: 'no one is going to screenshot a Bad Line™ of your fic and publicly make fun of it online-people #don't do that it'd be so extra why tf would you be afraid of that happening' except I JUST saw someone literally do that. so we engage in #Avoidance Compulsions™ as a protective mechanism because the only way to avoid a feared outcome is to never do anything! 🙃🙃 #and okay yeah these things are not created equal and one of them probably doesn't actually matter the point I'm trying to make is that #this shit affects my life on EVERY level and I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE FOR IT NOT TO DO THAT #I AM TIRED OF THE BRAIN DISEASE BEING HERE I WOULD LIKE TO BE A MENTALLY HEALTHY PERSON PLEASE #*sigh* yeah yeah the answer is erp the answer is always erp that doesn't mean it's fun #mc13 and her ocd #I'll probably delete this later because it most likely makes me look completely and utterly absurd if not straight-up stupid #(no one ELSE with this disease or fears is absurd or stupid btw. just me. it's only me who is A Problem™) #(yes I know how that sounds. I know okay.)

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

The "yeah I showed up at your party" chapter is also interesting because Betty / The 1 / Mirrorball / TLGAD / Invisible String / Cardigan also have a recurring theme of being misunderstood and/or punished for your choices, wanting desperately someone to see you for who you really are, never quite feeling accepted and seeking love where it might not ever be fully returned in the way you wanted or hoped...

#i have thoughts bubbling SHIT #I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS #something something just wanting someone to show up for you 🙃 #at first i was like ok well invisible string doesn't really fit #except it does because that's like an ideal of what you'd wish for #'isn't it just so pretty to think this could have been?' #but the point of IS isn't that they were fated but that there were all these steps along the way #to bring them to where they met each other #that meant nothing on their own #but have meaning because they want it to #it would have been pretty to think they were fated but they weren't in real life etc #BESTIES WHY DID WE START TALKING ABOUT THE CHAPTERS NOW MY BRAIN CAN'T DO WORK #lmao i need to start blocking tumblr during work hours #I'm like 'don't check notifs during work hours' #then check my dash instead #me thinking too hard about taylor lyrics #writing letters addressed to the fire

[feluka]

suggested to my mom that i may want to switch majors since this doesn’t feel like the right for me and she sobbed and buried her face in her hands dramatially then started pulling her hair. good start i’m glad we’re starting to understand one another and get somewhere ^_^ <this user is in agony

#🌻 #given her reaction i might drop the idea bec i can't imagine what dad's reaction might be if hers was like that. #it's still an engineering major since that matters to them so much. just a different one. #she's just upset that now i'll be THREE years behind. which. yeah she's got a point that #that's awful to be so behind. #(i took 2 years of medical leave (psych hospital will attest to that 🙃🙃) so i'm already 2 years behind #and if i switch majors i'll have to start over so i'll be 3 years behind. which i hate. i already despise that my class are so much closer #to graduating than me. i got left behind. because i have a bad brain that wants to pull me back all the time.