#but just a very weird attitude to have

[j-esbian]

frustrating how so many craft books have a section about "how to sell what you've made"

like on one hand i get it because the person writing the book has obviously made their craft a full-time job. and they might have some tips and tricks that might be useful, and there are people out there who might be trying to start a small business out of it

but on the other hand it's just exhausting and feels like another voice saying "what's the point of having a hobby if you're not going to monetize it"

#the one of those that rly boils my blood. that i still think about all the time. almost ten years later #the art of language invention by david peterson lmao. fuck that. it is NOT actually a helpful resource if youre trying to get into conlang #in the intro he pretty explicitly was like 'yeah i'm only writing this bc the publishing house approached me bc #i made up some languages for the game of thrones show and that's popular so they thought it would sell' #the meat of the book itself is pretty rudimentary stuff iirc. 'here's the ipa chart. this is what a morpheme is.' #some cool stuff in there about how to build your own font and mess with the kerning to make cursive but it was a program i dont have so #and at the end. hoooooo boy. this is where u can tell they told him to put in this kind of section bc he basically straight up said #'if you're reading this because you want to learn how to build a fantasy conlang dont bother :) #if you weren't on this specific forum in 2002 youll never get it. just hire a Real Conlanger instead' #like. that absolutely colored the rest of the book preceding it bc the entire thing was stuff i had literally just learned #in the intro to linguistics class that inspired me to want to learn how to make a language. so it was nothing new #and the added antagonism of basically saying 'if you dont already know how to do this IM not gonna help bc you'd be competition' #again i understand why he had that attitude bc that's probably how the publisher pitched it in the first place #'this is going to be a book for the average joe who knows nothing about language mechanics and might have aspirations #of writing a story with its own language (because obviously gameofthrones was the first to do that /s) and is wondering how to do it' #but just a very weird attitude to have #mine

[emptyjunior]

Can I say as someone who's a Pacific Islander, lived in Australia, Oceania my whole life, it's absolutely mind-bending how many Americans think that when it comes to english speaking countries it's only them and Europe.

Like the "oh sorry I don't use Celsius like you Europeans" stuff, you know everyone uses that right? Everyone? Absolutely everyone in the world except you?

When you talk about having a kettle as a standard kitchen item and some Americans are like that's SO british. It's not? It's all of us doing that?

I'm not making this to try and rag on Americans I promise, this isn't an 'all those Americans are ignorant and we're not' post, I'm just saying it's very baffling to be a person on the internet who speaks English and says they're not American, the FIRST response is "okay European."

???

The vibe is very 'Americans are the standard, Europe is the only other real place and then there's the east'😭

Like most of us are in the Commonwealth, measuring with kilometres, doing Eurovision. Americans are the outlier😭

I just can't impress upon you how many times I have discussed a thing that isn't a standard in the USA for an American to assume it's only a fringe European practice, we're ALL doing that man, all the rest of the world exists, it's such a gamble for you to assume I can only be in your country or Britian ☠️

#can I say once the point of this post is NOT haha all Americans are like the trump man #and it's not 'Please tell me about the electric kettle you have despite being american' #its just talking about a very weird phenomenon I see all the time #of Americans not realising that on a lot of things they're kind of very outnumbered #and it's an Attitude or perspective that they often don't realise they're doing #anyways #text post #long text post #america #Australia #britain

[tame-a-messenger]

Ya'll are so weird for getting bitter about not getting Damangela. As much as we love their dynamic, we have to accept they are a rare pair and not a established duo. Smosh has no obligation to put them together and they have no urge to be in videos together because they don't have many things in common. I love them and I hope they kick out Noah so they can have more videos together but getting bitter about kt isn't going to solve things. Let's enjoy the current dynamics we have and wait for another Damangela video.

DOG, did you read the posts??? anybody that sent in an ask about "feeling bitter" ended it with "sorry to rant". They were just speaking their mind, I see no problem in it. (I believe one of the Anons even said they felt BAD about feeling that way)

"we have to accept they are a rare pair and not a established duo."

?? who are you? the Smosh casting director?? while I slightly agree that it is a little bit of a 'rare pair' the top comments of videos they appear in are almost ALL talking about them. I would say they are somewhat 'established' as a duo. (more like rivals, but that's still in the realm of 'duo')

"they have no urge to be in videos together because they don't have many things in common."

Once again, ??? they have plenty in common?? they both are improv/theater kid nerds? and they get along swimmingly I don't see what you're getting at.

While I agree being bitter isn't going to solve things, (obviously? what is it I can solve?? I have no power over Smosh??) it doesn't hurt anybody? what are you trying to gain by telling other people how they should feel.

What do you want me to do? walk into the Smoffice and DEMAND they cast them in another video? /lh (I would if I could tbf)

YOU are WEIRD for trying to tell people how to feel!

#I have been enjoying the current dynamics thank you very much! #Damangela is just my favorite #this is like you telling me that my favorite flavor of ice cream is ass and trying to convince me not to like it anymore #because it doesn't "sell well' or something! do you hear how odd that sounds! #thought police over here #1984 #smoshblr #with peace and love Anon #if I ever catch you coming in here with this weird ass attitude again tho....

[talaricula]

i think one of the reasons why i'm so touched by jess is that, while it's easy to read her as naive about how homophobic the world is, her open queerness and butchness is clearly a conscious choice.

sure, according to kelly's backstory, they grew up relatively (for the time period) privileged wrt their queerness, and there's her obvious bewildered distress at the fact that, when she arrives in the US, people actually get to force her to act like something she's not

but she's also clearly not stupid! she clearly knows how unsafe it is to be obviously queer. when they buy boxers, they know to hold on to the excuse that they are for their brothers. she doesn't out carson and greta to anyone, not even to lupe, who's also queer, with whom she's clearly very close, and with whom she clearly spends a lot of time talking about being queer and other queer women - she understands and respects the reasons behind their choice to keep it all absolutely secret. when jo is arrested and traded out, jess (and lupe) look upset in a way that very clearly reads as "this could have been us, if we'd been there is would have been us (bc they, like jo, don't have the femme plausible deniability and would easily be picked out of the crowd by the cops), maybe it should have been been us because without us jo wouldn't have known about the bar". she knows, intimately, which risks she faces.

and yet they present the way they do. maybe it is bc she grew up in moose jaw, canada, but more than any of the others she has internalised that it's not right that the world is like this. that doesn't mean they pretend the world isn't like it is, but they do act on the fact that they think it shouldn't be. she has a modicum of self-preservation, so she takes basic safety precautions, but she clearly very strongly feels that if the world has a problem with her, that's their problem to change, not hers. that solidness of belief informs so much about jess as a character, and it means so much to me. it's not naivety, it's on purpose.

#jess mccready #aloto #aloto spoilers #i grew up genuinely relatively privileged in all the ways i was weird #incl my queernes #my family was about as supportive as anyone with a cishet family can hope for #they legitimately had no problem with the fact that i was weird and different in many ways #but they did have the mrs toni attitude - it's not a problem that you're like this but why don't you protect yourself by toning it down! #both my sister and father often asked me 'aren't you /aware/ of what people think about you?' #and they still think i'm not - that i'm just naive and can't see it #But i do! i can! it's just not /my problem/ it's theirs! #i hear the insults i hear the gossip i see the glares i hear the mocking laughs #i have since i was eight #i am not actually unobservant or naive or lying to myself! it's not about that! #it takes too much effort to change it or tone it down and i don't see why it should be on me! #it's not right that it should be on me! it should be on the world! #sure it would be hard to change myself and that's part of it but i also just legitimately deeply believe i shouldn't /have to/! #and sure i get to /act/ on that belief bc i am privileged in many ways and got to get used to that and the risk is smaller than for most #but those things do go hand in hand a bit i think #and seeing that in jess was - it got me somewhere very fundamental #not to be a broken record but - it's got smth of the autism spectrum queer experiences

[egg-emperor]

tempted to make a video about how Eggman's violence towards kids persists and that he doesn't have the moral limit that fandom likes to imagine he has now against characters as young as 6/8 like Cream and Tails because that was never the case before or after Sage came about

also the point stands and is proven by Eggman's violence and attempt to kill most characters as they're generally kids already but people don't think it seems to matter until they're as young as Cream or Tails Idk. so it'd focus on them specifically for the most part, otherwise if I were to compile literally everything it'd just be like the whole series and 10+ hours long loool

#I just think of that time someone who since blocked me that made a very obv jab at me #about having the attitude of 'Eggman should shoot a child' or whatever like it was sooo weird #bro IT'S IN THE GAMES lol. you're making me out to be some deranged violent unhinged individual #not playing the games and the puritanism of the fandom you replace it with instead has killed y'all's brains fr #anyway it's not just because of people who are like that #I genuinely just like compiling stuff to demonstrate my points because I actually always have sources #and it is also handy if I ever do wanna link it to save repetition in discussion/for emphasis #dr eggman #eggman #dr robotnik #dr. eggman #my post

[ridl]

So I've been thinking about creativity and content because of certain events and attitude I’ve noticed in gaming communities. I feel like ppl who demand more content updates or DLCs (speficically from games that are literally finished, NOT live service) kinda don't understand creative work, even if some create fan content themselves. When you create something it's a very specific thing. You pick pieces of story, worldbuilding, lore to tell a specific story. You don't always think way beyond and further bc that's not the story you’re telling. I feel like ppl don't even consider that the author might just not have more to tell. They created what they wanted with all its limitations, vagueness and unanswered questions. They're not obligated to expand on it. Media should make you think yourself, not demand all answers and more of everything from the author who maybe just cannot give it. This attitude just feels so exhuasting to me, even as a mere spectator.

#I'm seeing this attitude seep into indie game communities and it's just so #sigh. #it reached rw which is my favorite game ever as well. it just makes me tired #stop with the intense consumptionism pls #it's legit rotting ppl's brains to the point where they can't enjoy a story for what it is. they always need more #I understand the curiosity and desire for more of what you love but it's a reall weird attitude to have #eventually it just turns into disrespecting the creator. who is also apparently not allowed to work on new different things #yikes #welcome to my very rare tumblr rant hhhh #game stuff

[hella1975]

some people really still treat drugs like it's a fun little thing and im trying SO hard not to get mad about it

#like okay so the set-up is this my flatmate (F) is chronically ill and is on immunosuppressants as well as a fuckton of other stuff #and she started smoking weed bc it's the only thing she's ever found that even touches her pain #ive NEVER had a problem with that ive never had a problem with WEED even IVE done it a couple times #but me and her have VERY different attitudes towards drugs #i came from a hometown where we were between two notoriously drug-high towns/cities and we get caught in a lot of the trading #between those towns so naturally my town just generated a fuck ton of dealers starting when they were like. thirteen years old #i saw it through my entire year i was exposed to class A drugs when i was like. fifteen at parties and shit #it's HUGE in my town i seriously can't express how much it's crippled the youth of my town #like my childhood best mate's brother literally got glassed bc he got into debt with dealers it's just everywhere #so that alone makes me very wary of drugs and like. the novelty of them is just NOT THERE for me at all i actively dislike them #AND THEN there's all the kids in my year that have died bc of substances. there's the phone call when i was AT A PARTY #that my seventeen year old cousin had OD'd. like that just summed it up for me it's so prevelant that i was at a party with drugs #while he was dying. so yeah wholeheartedly i couldn't give a shit about drugs i wont touch anything stronger than weed and even that #im not keen on. my flatmate however? she DOES drugs like she smokes regularly and she likes edibles #but she doesn't come from a druggy place so it's a weird combo of me (doesn't do drugs) knowing more than her (does do drugs) #and bc she's the one who actually does them she pure WONT LISTEN TO ME #and do u know what happened last night? this girl on IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS got completely fucked #like drank 2/3 of a big bottle of vodka within an hour. and then she fucking went and did ket #and i literally was like 'that would be an awful idea anyway but ket you're REALLY supposed to not mix with alcohol' #like obvs mixing any high class drugs is bad news but ket is renowned for going bad with alcohol #i think it's bc it shuts off the opposite side of the brain that alcohol does? so taking both increases risk of shutting the whole thing of #or smthn. like people forget than an overdose isn't always fatal and i think bc they associate overdosing = dying #they assume the risk is EXTREMELY low especially when ur young and feel untouchable #AND THEN she smoked some weed as well. like i literally sat sober with her and her mate the entire time and again in the kitchen #bc i thought id distracted her from the weed and sitting with her she thought i was just hanging out #like NO BITCH IM MAKING SURE YOU DONT KHOLE BC YOU WERE TOO STUPID TO LISTEN TO ME #and i hardly slept last night bc i convinced myself when i woke up she'd be dead in her room #and we had such a nice day planned today like it's super sunny and me F and another mate are spending the whole day at the park #but she's just cancelled bc she feels too shit and im just. TRYING not to be angry about it #WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE SO DUMB

[aceredshirt13]

One thing I don’t understand about AA fandom is that often the popular takes are seen as the “one true interpretation” by much of the fandom to the detriment of any opposition. To this I raise a question about two of these popular takes: how is it that Yujin and Herlock, who become friends at the ages of 27 and 18, respectively, are shipped by a large majority of the fandom, but Edgeworth and Kay, who become friends at the ages of 26 and 17, respectively, are treated by a significant portion of the fandom as father and daughter?

I hadn't thought about it until recently, but they’re the same difference apart in years and have only a single year’s difference in when they befriend each other. So why on Earth is there such a huge difference in how the fandom interprets these friendships?? Why is Kay treated like enough of a child by the fanbase that her and Edgeworth’s age difference is interpreted as parental, when that same age difference isn’t viewed as an obstacle to romance with Herlock and Yujin? Is it because Kay is met at seventeen while Herlock is met at eighteen, even though those are fundamentally extremely similar ages? Is that why people who ship Kay and Edgeworth are smeared as pedophiles, even though I sincerely doubt any of them are shipping them while she’s still a year underage (I can attest that back when I was 14 and still shipped Narumayo, zero people I ever saw shipped them while Maya was still 17), while the same concerns about age are almost never raised with Homumiko? I have no interest in “age gap discourse” or whatever because I think it’s a silly and reductive argument as long as the relationship is healthy and no minors are involved with adults, but I do care about hypocrisy. So these are things I often ponder.

(Personally, I don’t subscribe to either of the popular interpretations, and prefer the duos to be the platonic guy-and-weird-girl dynamic they are in canon and that I enjoy (and write them as such in my fics about them). I don’t think nine years is enough of a gap to interpret any character as the parent of another, and that’s also just not what Edgeworth and Kay’s dynamic feels like to me - in the same way that I was never under the impression that Yujin’s affection for Herlock was anything other than friendly and familial. I also do not envision it as the reverse - which is to say, I can’t see Kay getting together with Edgeworth any more than I can see Yujin as Herlock’s dad. But I am also not going to be upset if anyone disagrees with me, as long as they are not upset with me - because regardless of the interpretation, it’s clear that both pairs like each other, love each other, and care about each other dearly. All I’m saying is that I think if someone is going to have a fandom hill they wish to die on, they should make sure that hill has a leg to stand on. Mixing my metaphors here. But you get what I mean.)

#red randomness #ace attorney #the great ace attorney #miles edgeworth #kay faraday #yujin mikotoba #herlock sholmes #it just strikes me as odd that some of the same people insisting that any age gap in a relationship is toxic are also shipping homumiko #real pot calling the kettle black situation #this entire argument basically just boils down to 'please leave people alone and live and let live' #which is my general attitude toward fandom at large #i hope it was obvious from the body of my post but i hold no enmity toward anyone who subscribes to any of the above opinions #do whatever you want and have fun. that's what fandom is all about #these are much more thoughts about fandom than they are about the actual games #so please don't yell at me for this lmao. i'm not trying to fight anyone #i realized that both fics i've written for secret santa gifts have been 'depressed guy is cheered up by his friendship with the weird girl' #and i think that's very endearing and sweet. intergenerational friendships warm my heart #the great ace attorney spoilers

[sayitwityachest]

okay but AKSHULLY there's more so i just hate hate HATE this weird smug condescending way male customers interact with me at work. it's like sir. sir. fella. this personality, this ~demeanor~ you see me exhibiting, it is for your benefit, it is to make YOU comfortable so you will continue using our services, so you will tell your friends and they will come into our business (heheh so also my benefit a bit maybe hehe), so you will trust me enough to believe me when i tell you that yeah, your prescription is high enough to where you will need to invest in high index lenses otherwise the lab is going to really struggle getting them to pass inspection in those frames i explicitly told you were not ideal for your correction, and so on and so forth.

And yeah, im still learning so sometimes i will get confused, but why why whyyyyy is it that with women, i get reassuring smiles and patient assurances, but with men i get knowing smirks or HILARIOUS quips and 'oh arent you darling' ? like. guy. why are you referring to me in terms of endearment my own father never even uses? why do you think you know me enough to start playing fast and loose with the jokes? yes yes im so adorable and i know you like to imagine that your comments are flustering me for a certain reason, but actually im so fucking angry. im trying to do my goddamn job and youre acting like this is a game, like youre not gonna be thinking im such a cutie pie when i fuck up this math and end up over charging you to hell lmao

#shit just kills me because how do they NOT get that this is customer service??? #this is not my truth sir #i swear you would detest the real me lmao #UGH #theyre just so amused and KNOWING #like bro you dont know SHIT #i hate it so much #i know i can come across legit dumb at times bc i have a stupid sense of humor #but that combined with my nice customer service attitude #aka i cannot be as dark humored/sarcastic/crude #is just like 'look at this little girl doing her best in the real world ohoho she wouldnt last a day outside this store- so naive #like die??? #you think im naive because im purposefully ignoring all your weird comments #you think im incapable because this job is no place for assertiveness #you think im slow bc there's more information and dynamics at play than you are aware of and im very new to handling that environment #all the things #rant #misandry

[watermelinoe]

just because a woman can ignore being called a breeder doesn't make it acceptable for you to call her one

#very very weird attitude to have on radblr of all places #you can also just delete unwanted dick pics so i guess women should simply never ask to be treated better ever #it also annoys me that some women are acting like the discourse is abt saying basic facts like ''dating men is a risk'' #on the same post where women are saying bitches and breeders #and telling women if they ''can't be fulfilled without a cock inside them'' they're ''pathetic'' #in response to someone pretty clearly talking about romantic fulfillment #what prompted the post was a woman who literally just gave birth getting condescending anons about it #it has zero to do with our regularly scheduled man-hating and everything to do with being a weirdo to women you don't know #yeah any woman can just delete shitty messages but she shouldn't have to bc you shouldn't be sending them. it's not hard

[mantisgodsdomain]

"oh, yeah," we think, "we could probably cross this over into Li nked Uni verse if we actually draw out the canon for long enough, smacking different versions of the same character into each other is always fun especially when it has the potential for massive cultural differences and shit like running into things where the thing that has been forgotten has significance beyond the things that are remembered. Hey, we should probably check the comic in order to comply with the six-month rule, we don't think we ever finished-"

We return from the reference images. We have remembered why we didn't finish looking into the base comic.

#we speak #negative chatter #moving one level of fandomization away from og LU to merely use them as inspiration for bootleg LU with more base game inspiration #we forgot why we had the author blocked. we remember now #we probably wont elaborate further on this because we keep a firm policy of not publically shit talking folk at random #we just kinda got Unexpectedly Sandblasted by them being weird abt furries&otherkin in a random twi light reference post #we are censoring this so it does not go into their tag btw! no one likes random shit talk and this is just us being vaguely pissy #the wording is vague enough that they feel like theyre like. they dont mean to imply they DISLIKE this group #they just find them strange and offputting and they strongly dislike that they project anything onto A Character #as we do not control their life and theres nothing we can do to force them to Not be uncomfortable or act Strange towards a group #all we can really do is like. scrunge up at an attitude we find it VERY difficult to mesh with and go our separate ways #the multitude of takes on these characters and the way that their fandom is so creative about them and produces so many different Ideas #is very fun! and we heavily enjoy reading it sometimes! however we cannot enjoy the base comic #because though we know that the author likely didnt intend it to come off like that and we know accusations of hate would be FAR too strong #we cannot shake the feeling that we are the sort of thing that they would look upon as a deeply offputting aberration #and they merely avoid voicing that out of a mix of manners and a wish to not get into discourse while hundreds of people are watching #so it is best to keep our distance where we don't have to be uncomfortable at the subtle bias that will pervade through all art #and they dont have to get grated against in ways that may negatively impact things from us having little shame in our existence #which is to say theres like a solid chance that the bias is not malicious and is in fact just like. lingering cultural bias type shit #however we arent gonna deal with that and us being a huge obnoxious weirdo might be liable to push them against us via abrasion #being exposed to smth more often can very easily actively push you against that thing by virtue of dislike of the people who like it #and though our individual action may not mean much in the scheme of things it will do less harm to both of us if we back the hell off #give that shit some time to soak without being prodded at too hard and hopefully someone else will be able to open the conversation better #because with bias especially you CANNOT break it down with one or two discussions #and you very much have to have the person with the bias willing to step back and examine that pattern of bias and unravel it #because if you go up at people like “this is WRONG and heres why” theyre far more likely to get defensive and feel attacked #and then double down because they feel attacked and don't want to give in to people who have been Nothing But Rude To Them #its a pattern of thought that can be a real bitch to deal with and we really arent capable of the subtle approach it requires to break thro #anyways. where were we. oh yeah we forgot why we blocked someone and now we're making a tumblr post about it

[nebulouscoffee]

Kira for the ask game, because I've sewn you mentioned liking her but haven't seen you talk about it much yet and would like to enable you

Yayy thank you!! (and I'm sorry I took so long to respond, it's been a very hectic week😅)

one aspect about them i love

Kira really embodies a lot of what I miss most about Star Trek tbh, which was the real desire to make the audience uncomfortable. Don't get me wrong; there is a lot about TOS, TNG and DS9 that didn't age well- but I still think an important goal they all shared was to take certain ideas and ideologies that might've seemed far-fetched to the audience of the time, and say- "why not?" Also, "Does this character's existence- and presence- make you uncomfortable? Well, maybe that's a YOU problem." And that's a goal which (imo) really faded over the years, because they grew more and more afraid of turning off the conservative audience. But not with Kira! Within minutes of her introduction, she offers a scathing shutdown of the "frontier" that Star Trek was quite literally built upon. She is literally a sympathetic "terrorist" MAIN character (rare enough), and furthermore a woman- and that too a "difficult" woman, who refuses to let herself be ignored or compromise her people's needs for the Starfleet crew's comfort (!!!), who is ANGRY and deeply religious and nationalistic and PROACTIVE and stomps around and shouts and cries and disagrees and wears her passion on her sleeve and is not at all afraid to make a nuisance of herself- and yet, still has numerous flaws and so many moments of self-doubt and raw vulnerability. What a fantastic character! This was 1993; I can think of so few TV women from that era who actively challenged the constructs (and men) around them so much. I love everything she represents

one aspect i wish more people understood about them

That her arc is more about learning to land upon nuance; not toning down her Bajoran-isms. Her patriotism and faith do occasionally steer her the wrong way, yes- but Kira's growth doesn't at all involve her renouncing either of those things! If anything, it's Sisko who ends up having to adjust to her perspectives. In general I'm always craving more nuanced discussions re DS9's postcolonial dynamics, too- Kira has such a range of interactions with Cardassians on the show, and numerous episodes ('Destiny', 'Life Support', 'Ties of Blood and Water', etc) show that she's genuinely invested in peace between their peoples; something I think often goes ignored. Yes, she's justifiably furious about everything they did to her home- but at the end of the day, what she wants is justice and reparations for Bajor and Bajorans; and if a small (understandable) part of her does want to see Cardassia crash and burn, she really doesn't act upon it

Also, she's funny! Remember when she told Dukat the baby was O'Brien's with no further explanation? Lmaoo what a troll

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have about this character

That she only received a very basic education. She does mention finger painting and playing springball as a kid, but also- Kira grew up in a refugee camp and she joined the Shakaar cell at age 12; she probably missed out on the higher education even the average Bajoran of her generation received (which itself was likely Cardassian State-controlled). Idk, this is low key important to me because so many Star Trek characters are almost like- defined by their scientific and educational smarts, if that makes sense? It's refreshing to see a Trek character who doesn't quite make sense of herself or the world around her primarily through (Western) scientific constructs

Also, Kira absolutely has unexamined caste biases; she just never really learnt to recognise them because caste played such a minimal role in the Resistance- but most Bajorans are far more aware of caste dynamics than she typically is (I just do not buy that the D'jarra system completely went away in less than 60 years)

one character i love seeing them interact with

Ben Sisko! They have SUCH a fascinating dynamic, it's so complex and sweet and often quite trying and hurtful but still kept afloat on this deep, deep underlying mutual respect. Ben's position as the Emissary makes everything so wonderfully complicated, and watching Kira's frustrations at the fact that she actually believes in him morph into reassurance as he slowly transforms from being the Starfleet Outsider to truly being Of Bajor... ahhh it's so good. That scene where he invites her to a baseball game lives in my head rent free! (Also they high key make a fascinating ship imo, I am something of a post-canon Sisko/Kira/Kasidy truther)

one character i wish they would interact with/interact with more

I have multiple answers to this (Julian, Worf, Garak, Keiko, Ziyal, Cretak, Jake, Ezri, etc) but I'm gonna go with someone she actually interacts with quite a bit, because I just wanted mOArrr. Jadzia!

Yes, it was the 90s, so I'm glad they were at least allowed to be friends and not like, cattily pitted against each other. But I still craved more layers to their onscreen dynamic! I mean, Jadzia, the Starfleet "Science Officer" who openly dismisses Kira's religious beliefs on more than one occasion? Kira, the child soldier who finds most of Jadzia's pastimes and preoccupations frivolous and silly? It's so interesting that they keep spending time together despite such fundamental differences, and I would've loved a bigger exploration as to why! They deserved their own 'The Wire', basically. Much like the central two characters of that episode, the answer is that they actually have a LOT more in common than is apparent at first glance (fraught senses of identity, complicated relationships with their home worlds, a sense of loss regarding family) where they outwardly seem like polar opposites. And all of this is not even getting into the nonlinearity of Bajoran religion vs the lives of Dax... gosh, there was room for so much! They deserved a whole Big Sequence full of Monologues the actors could really sink their teeth into, they deserved for one of them to fly off on a dangerous quest to save the others' life- and you know what!! They deserved a little homoerotic hand-holding too!! But, I suppose that's what fanfiction is for😂

one (or more) headcanon(s) i have that involve them and one other character

She and Bashir definitely grow much closer after the show's end; whether he stays behind on DS9 or not :)

#just gonna clarify- my second point really wasn't targeted at anybody on here. not an attack I promise!! #I just feel like we erase the nuances with her a bit #like in wider trek fandom I've seen a lot of people talk about her attitude towards cardassians as if she's a bigot #which I feel is extremely reductive of her character (and dismissive of her trauma too) #meanwhile on here people (sometimes) talk about her like she walks around with a CARDASSIANS DNI banner or something #like the very suggestion of her (or any other bajoran) having to interact with a cardassian is unthinkable and offensive? #and imo this really just doesn't reflect canon at all! (or irl postcolonial dynamics. but.. I don't wanna go there lol) #recently was talking to a mutual about her dynamic with cardassians (g@rak in particular) and it made me realise #they're actually far more civil with each other in the show than even I make them out to be! and I'm like- the no1 'k1ra & g@rak' fan lmao #even in TOBAW she's actually invested in ghem0r's politics. she's enthusiastic that he represents ''hope for cardassia'' #and she REALLY doesn't have to be! yet she is. what precisely this says about her is so much more interesting to think about #also... idk. in general writing bajor as if completely and magically stripped of all cardassian influence and interaction is so weird to me #(let's just say if things really worked that way I would not be writing this in English lol) #tysm for the ask btw!! always glad to have an opportunity ramble about k!ra nerys :) #ask game

[thebicanary]

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#in tags cos I'm not tryna start disk horse I just feel like ranting a bit about it cos it annoys me ahsmdhsbsgd #i'm tired of the prevalent attitude in a lot of RPG video game fandoms that men VAs suck and deserve to be ridiculed for no reason ahrbdgdgd #like it's been going on for so many years i'm tired i'm over it i'm done #having a preference for the female VAs and character options is fine lord knows i prefer to play them myself #but like mark meer??? gavin drea??? aren't bad actors??? #it's a different performance and interpretation but like they're at worst FINE (but also actually good) #even in games where i have a very big preference for the female VA (ac odyssey and valhalla) the guy is still good??? #i'm not big into alexios or meivor but i think their performances as deimos and odin respectively are brilliant for those stories #(and that's really a flaw in the fact they were not supposed to be main character options originally and were rewritten for that) #(so it's not on the VAs but ubisoft being dumbasses who fear making a woman the sole protagonist) #ANYWAY i know it's not that serious but it's so weird seeing people in tags on a certain post being so... nasty #about people they don't know and who afiak have been nothing but kind and appreciative of their fandoms #thank fuck honestly that bg3 doesn't have full voiced Tavs/Durges cos i know people would be freaks about the guys there too #also in games as big as these massive RPGs it's rarely just one voice director for the whole project #so a lot of the times a big reason these voice performances are very different is they're likely being directed by different people #sometimes different directors for different scenes so like. there's a lot of things that can change from page to performance because of that

[worrywirt]

there is a most sacred connection between a weird girl and their weird girl idols that cannot be synthesised

#i was just going thru the subreddit & seeing bjork talk about HER weird girl idol kate bush. everything is cyclical #in other words #i am so excited for the new bjork album #but even more excited for the podcast bc i want to glimpse into her creative thought process #i think that we have very similar attitudes towards music and i could listen to her talk about it all day #our souls are connected thru the music. a cavalcade of sound and colour and emotion #björk #kate bush

[fragmentedblade]

Dr. Ratio's idle animations... he's so ridiculous ugh

#Unfortunately it makes me like him more #The fact that he bathes with a rubber duckie too #It reminded me of the pretty boy back in college with full marks and a very pedantic attitude. He too loved to take long baths #and resented that the one in the flat he had rented with friends was so small he could barely fit lol #He too turned out to be sort of pathetic and silly despite the pedantic distant air and it also made me like him more #He blushed with so much ease #And he too was obsessed with the idea of beauty and knowledge having to go hand in hand #Which of course is very platonic so it seems like a given but he wasn't particularly into platonism I think? #He liked neoplatonism more I think. He ended up into ' analytical' (I dislike these terms) philosophy though #Abfkanfks I digress #Just that. Dr. Ratio is kind of pathetic. So much that his animations aren't even particularly beautiful. I almost feel bad for him #I don't know if I want him to be too pathetic though I don't know how that would paint the Intelligentsia Guild #and I want something more than 'Genius Society good and Intelligentsia Guild lame' out of them #especially with what little we have of the Guild's values and what little we have of many of the Geniuses' viewpoints #Which reminds me of Argent.i. I want him to be as deranged‚ weird and off putting as possible #What is a knight if they're not weird after all? 😔 #I should probably delete this later #I talk too much

[jeanmoreaux]

Thanks for all the replies re aftg!!!! Damn I’m hyped!!! I hope it won’t be too long before we can read it, I feel like Nora wouldn’t announce anything unless it was a sure go

Also I completely agree that’s what makes aftg (tbh The Foxhole Court sounds more well-suited as the series title for me personally!! But anyways)— so compelling to me. A life after trauma, the after. So many stories take us through the grinder and just end and make it look like all is said and done once you’ve experienced the storm, but what about life after the storms that come our way? Dealing with the damage it caused?

we get a good reminder with Nora’s stories that it’s not so simple as overcoming an obstacle; more so enduring after all these trials and tribulations and still …wanting to live? can’t always relate to this)

ANYWAY sorry I get so sidetracked I’m so excited!! And I’m not a jerejean shipper but the energy y’all putting out makes me so happy I love this fandom lmao

hddjjdjdjdjd no no you Get it. you Understand. everything you’re saying about the after and dealing with the fallout and still wanting to life…. yeah…. exactly. i think TSC is a very sure thing, she wouldn’t tell us about it otherwise considering she clearly stated in the past that she had no intentions of revisiting the universe in any capacity. AND YET here we are. also djjdjsjs let’s be honest the jerejean thing would be nice but i do not expect it. i guess we’ll have to wait and see.

#tbh i think the jerejean thing is us clowning tbh 🤡🤡 #but who knows #((also the aftg / tfc thing. very interesting to me #i like aftg because i think it fits neils attitude re the foxes and exy and life So Well #but tfc is home and belonging and a new life so… #i actually always though if them as interchangeable but i mostly use aftg to avoid confusion #that way tfc and trk and tkm refer to the books?? idk it’s just a weird thing of mine that i hate being misunderstood #so i avoid ambiguity whenever i can lol)) #anyway very random addendum i am sorry jdjdjsjs #have a lovely day/weekend #<3 #anon #answer #the sunshine court #tsc