#dictator of tastes

[nacrelysis]

taxian-jun is so wild...he's a cursed tyrant. he's a retired guy competing with a dog for his husband's attention. he's a mass murderer (reformed). he calls his garden his harem. he's egotistical and overconfident. he decides to become the valley's best farmer because he lost one (1) livestock show that he entered randomly. he's the vengeful immortal emperor of a past life. he resorts to purposefully disorganizing mo-zongshi's qiankun bag so he can't find anything on his days. he mastered the forbidden techniques in secret to deploy an empire. he's diligently studying the postpartum care of sows. a girl lied about him getting her pregnant so he offered to take responsibility by kicking her in the stomach. he is a househusband.

#taxian jun #erha he ta de bai mao shizun #二哈和他的白猫师尊 #2ha #erha #chu wanning #楚晚宁 #mo ran #默燃 #i really truly can't with this man #hes. hes truly the most pathetic of them all #local dictator retires to become a sow farmer 💀 #chu wanning get better taste in men challenge (j) #pretty sure he also told hua binan he had a case of small dick but don't quote me

[shesnake]

we are at a stage where everyone has already decided how we're going to feel about a movie before we even see it and especially because their internet opinions are written in ink no one ever wants to backtrack

#this is how barbie swept #like I'm guilty of this defs but that's why I just don't watch the movies I know I'll hate #I refuse to let cognitive dissonance dictate my taste

[lord-squiggletits]

NGL I think one of my least favorite "gotchas" that I see/get while critiquing stories is "so how would you fix it? oh so you don't have an idea of how to rewrite the story to make it better? oh so basically you're just complaining that you don't like it and don't have actual critique."

Buddy.

Sometimes the reason I don't have a "solution" to how the author should've rewritten their story to be better, is because I'm not privy to the author's thought process, what their alternate story ideas were, what they talked about with their editor, what they might've been forced to do by deadlines, or even what they might've thought they were writing towards at first but then later changed the trajectory of their story to be about something else.

It's all well and good for me to say something like, idk, "I think Character A should've gotten more narrative focus because their story could have helped fix XYZ Plot Hole," but it could very well be that the author never intended for Character A to be a prominent character (just a secondary or tertiary character). Maybe using Character A to solve one Plot Hole would've gone against the writer's plans because then it would open up a different plot hole for something else they had planned later in the story. If it's an ongoing story, maybe something I see as a "plot hole" is actually a deliberate mystery that the creator left open to write about later-- or maybe the plot hole is because there was a deadline crunch and the author had to drop a certain character/plot point/etc because they couldn't fit it into the story any more. Maybe having Character A be a more prominent part of the story is just based on MY personal tastes and what I would want to write in MY version of the story, but completely clashes with the characters/conflicts the author wanted to focus on.

Because yes, there are some story critiques that are as simple as "part A doesn't make sense, you could just fix it by doing B", but there are also some story critiques where suggesting a viable "solution" would require BEING the author or someone involved in the production of the story to understand what limitations or plans were involved in the selection of that flawed plot point. There are also some story critiques where even if there is a "problem" and my critique offers a "solution," there could be another "solution" or even dozens that do just as good of a job fixing the issue, but involve vastly different characters, plot ideas, so on and so forth.

Being a good critic isn't (just) about going "the story would've been better if X happened" because the story is ultimately in control of the author and their vision, and without knowing what the author's vision was (something that you almost exclusively know if you're 1. the author or 2. their beta reader), it's impossible to definitively say "this plot point should've been cut/[completely different thing] should've happened instead" because THAT is the point at which you're complaining, not critiquing. I would argue that in some cases, trying to "fix" a story yourself actually makes your critique worse, not better, because it ends up being a case of you simply imposing your artistic vision over the author's to say "I think it would've been better this way."

At least if you just say "this part of the story was flawed because XYZ" without saying "it should have been ABC instead", then you're stating your grievances with the story without being presumptuous enough to assume that YOUR version of the story would fit the author's original vision, or the constraints they were working under, or the other versions of the story that they were debating over at the time before ultimately settling on one version (even if flawed).

There's a point at which "this plot is flawed, that should've happened instead" is just fix-it fan fiction and not actual critique that could help the writer write their story in a way that fits their vision.

#squiggposting #discourse #i think the closest you can get to definitively saying 'the author should've done X instead' #would be something like JRO and the handbooks he recently released where he actually revealed alternate plot ideas #or like what the reasoning was behind different plot points. as well as what he did and didn't include and why #because THEN with a more clear understanding of the behind the scenes/what the author wanted to achieve #THEN you would have more information to be able to say 'this alternative storyline would've solved this plot hole' #or to even say 'actually those alternate ideas weren't as good and picking the canon flawed plot made a better story' #like for god's sake ppl apparently don't understand that art and storytelling and creativity are subjective #sometimes if i don't have a solution it's not bc my critique is invalid. it's bc there's multiple ways to fix it #and i'm not the author so idk which way of fixing the story would best suit their intentions/purposes/limitations #despite what snobs seem to think it's very possible for you to say 'this is flawed' and not know what the fix for it is #it's like how you can eat restaurant food and go 'something about this tastes bland' #w/o having to know what ingredients went into the recipe or how it's supposed to taste #and in that case unless you literally know the recipe or are a chef you would come off as a dick #if you tried to dictate to the kitchen what they did wrong and how to fix it #for some reason story critics are terrified of ambiguity and uncertainty and subjectivity and idk why #it is very easy and not intellectually wrong for a person to say 'this is flawed' and not have a solution for how to fix it

[caelos-legacy]

What else does Moon eat 👀

literally any kind of malware is basically edible to him!

he can eat other kinds of files too, but those are practically tasteless

#ask post #think of virus definitions as code that dictates what a file tastes like #i.e. it tells him more specifically what the file is infected with and what is its category

[hauntedwoman]

so fucking annoyed that ppl on tiktok think ukrainian/russian food is "gross" simply bc they are in fact prejudiced against eastern european countries and love to use the fact that there's a war going on to justify it

#fun fact most of the russian people are very much against the war #and putin is actually a borderline dictator so #your morality and american nationalism wont get u out of this one #also ur a fucking pussy if you dont think sour cream and cabbage taste good with everything

[brine-in-my-eyes]

everyone say hi to my son Joe Riddle School he is so silly he has only 3 lines and 1 singular sprite and i keep thinking about him

#theyre all so mean to him just because like ????? why! #cause he cant go the correct classes? #cause he likes the taste of gasoline? #cause hes not as smart as what is required by the school elementary curriculum? #well to that i say #FOUL! #this school is cruel for the way it treats ''less smart'' students and probably encourages other students to throw them under the bus #joe will probably never be as smart or fully grasp the basic concept of math but you know what!? #why should that dictate how he should be treated by his peers? #hes probably pretty average and uninteresting but To Me hes everything #idk #rambles #riddle school #joe riddle school

[diodellet]

∞ hiiiiiiiiiii rave about this song for me (if you want!!)

uwaaa thanks forda ask bibi! i will do my best to ramble (<-0.5 seconds bfore shuffle decided to pull a pro gamer move™️)

It’s t-t-time, put on a mask, cause anyone will do  If it can hide fear inside of you  Come on, I’ll gather up all of your pride -Idola no Circus by Neru (translyrics and vocals by Oktavia)

sldjfdlksjfsld omg not shuffle putting my edgy vocaloid phase on blast HELP🙈🙈 (also MAN i missed listening to oktavia's voice...her power!! the way she channels the emotions of the song!! HER ADLIBSSSS!!!!! )

from first glance this song looks like it could be related to lost one's weeping, with the highschool uniform and the red school desks (PLUS THAT SICK GUITAR TRACK😩🎸🎸) but then you look at the lyrics and go HMMM actually this song feels like a different kind of fucked up like are the persona's issues still school-related? UH OH!! I DONT THINK WE'RE IN SCHOOL ANYM--

it could be about people-pleasing, it could be about feeling beyond salvation, it could be about those and a third worse thing thrown into the mix, i think. a lot of neru's songs are free to interpretation like that!

(send me ∞ and i'll give you my fave lyric from what shows on shuffle)

#aka i was abt to say CATERCORE for this song and then i double checked the lyrics #tbh i still dont know this song is about #as soon as i heard the guitar i was blasted back to my 15 yo self #15 yo dio: OUH SHIT THOSE GUITARRRRSSSSS #THOSE DRUMSSSSSS!!! RAWRRRR RAKENROLLLLL #i kinda miss when he leaned into his j-rock style more tho... #its true what they say: the shit u listen to as a teenager dictate ur comfort music taste #MANNNN i had a really big neru phase (i was down bad for a chara that only had 30 seconds of screentime in a three min pv) #dellet-asks #bibi-cha

[poisonouspastels]

Princess Cinnabon, ruler of the Sweet Sweet Kingdom. I’ve posted this OC wayyy back in the past before, but she only recently went through a redesign (which I. forgot to post here until now.)

Don’t be fooled by her usual outwards appearance - not all candy is sweet.

#super mario #mario #nintendo #oc #original character #mario bros media needs another mainstay villain imo #and i was like hey what if theres a really fucked up dictator princess that would be cool #she is designed specifically to cater to my tastes. the bisexual in me is screaming #also sketch image is done by my bf rileyisupset as per usual #u guys know him. he makes good stuff

[snail-speed]

Anglo Usamerican leftists love to minimize how damaging shitheads like Castro and Stalin were to their respective regions and still manage to be surprised when Latinos and Central/Eastern Europeans don't take up the communism thing eagerly.

#''we haven't tried true communism yet'' we have! and it sucked! because old communist frameworks just lend themselves to authoritarianism! #stop clinging to frameworks dreamed up by would-be dictators and get out there and actually do something in your local community #i promise you it's much better and actually puts leftism in practice instead of spending time online bullying immigrants/foreigners #and while you're at it stop making fun of genocides and human rights violations that happened/happen under communist countries #sorry not sorry but making fun of shit like the holodomor and the cambodian genocide is always in poor taste #L + ratio + your jordan's are fake + if you think Latinos and CEEs and East Asians are so ignorant for fleeing communist countries #go there instead

[mercuriiai]

send a number 1-100 and i’ll draw something based on my top songs from spotify wrapped? :3

#i woult like to draw. #might be warrior cats. might be ascendance series. #most likely will be my ocs/friends ocs #my entire music taste is dictated by characters so Most of them will be something substantial

[slobozan-shitposting]

I love writing sapphic poetry about a lady who doesn't love me back and probably never will 🤠

#lesbian #sapphic #bisexual #bisexual women #poetry #gl #i can't even send it to her #she's from a conservative Muslim Azerbaijani family #probably straight #but sooo cute and adorable #it's so sad that her taste in men is dictated by her family's traditions #ofc she can't date a guy outside of her ethnicity #so it would take a lot of courage to rebel against her family and date a girl who's not Azerbaijani #she probably will end up in a patriarchal marriage :( #she deserves better

[sapphicisland]

The problem with alot of toxic ships is that there is no reciprocity. It's usually one character being terrible and another character taking it/excusing it especially if the ship exists only in fanon. We need more toxic ships where they are both horrible to each other and we want them to be together because no one else deserves either of them. Alternatively we can have them be extremely loving but also possessive/obsessive about one another to extreme degrees like in the webtoon stalker x stalker. Especially if it's like stalker x stalker and they both think it's completely normal.

#either way people are allowed to like ships you think are toxic #because your taste in fiction does not dictate your morality #this is for the toxic yuri police btw #we can have toxic sapphic ships people

[scriich]

Caesar may have been the one who was stabbed by like sixty of his frenemies but who's really winning? We're the ones who are celebrating his death every year.

#caesar salad is disgusting btw #tastes like dictator #ides of march #julius caesar

[katnissgirlsmakedo]

i will say it. i don't care about oscar isaac. in fact i sort of hope he dies.

#people who care about new star wars are like. burdens to society #it's all just people who let fandom tumblr dictate their taste in media from 2012-2019 #and why. would i respect you for that.

[chocolatina]

when you see someone say 'let people enjoy things' and their bio says they're 26

#why are you letting ppl dictate whether you can enjoy something or not youre an adult!! #either accept ppl dont have the same tastes as you or block them and move on

[coffinliqueur]

I’ve somehow come upon the idea that if Lucas were to decide to play an instrument (at least a conventional one) and actually commit to developing proficiency with it, it’d be the accordion.

#resident evil #resident evil 7 #lucas baker #text post #nigel talks #conventional because 'ey if he was particularly in the mood he could also probably noodle around on computer programs #and make something to his tastes. he already does some sound work to dress up his traps after all #though on that front he'd probably be more like. ambience than composing or going through the probably-tedium-in-his-eyes to recreate #a conventional song. #deliberately offputting ambience and raucous instrumental beats. #and then #on the other hand #playing an accordion. #conventional also because /on/ those programs or via rube goldberg machines he could and /would/ just use noises made with random objects #to make music if any personal project or whim dictated that he did. #but yes again. #also. #meanwhile. accordion.