#except when it comes to this apparently

[edens-serigala]

the way that the fandom making yuuji a more important "son-like figure" in gojou's life than megumi, the kid he's known and been supporting for the past ten years, is now an honest to god pet peeve

#i'm not normally the jealous type #except when it comes to this apparently #why can't they both be gojou's priority?? #idk why this frustrates me so much #immm.... im sorry y'all #keep doing what you're doing #i'll write a vent fic or something eventually #jujutsu kaisen #megumi fushiguro #satoru gojou

[kanerallels]

Shoutout to my grandpa, whose excessive love of detail and extension cords has been passed on to me, as was made clear when I put up Christmas lights today

#christmas #here's the thing #he passed away like a year and a half ish ago #and i honestly wasn't that close to him plus did not feel like we had anything in common #but? apparently we did when it comes to christmas lights #which my dad pointed out #it kinda made me happy! #though christmas lights always make me happy #anyway i don't have much attention to detail in any places EXCEPT christmas lights and unimportant fic details

[forestmossling]

okay, time for some serious caleo bashing (i’ve been gearing up for it for a while).

so we have leo valdez - admittedly the loneliest and saddest character in pjo (fuck people who think it’s nico because it’s not, and i can elaborate on that in another post if anybody wants me to). his entire character arc is formed by his loneliness - he loses his mother at a very young age, so he’s left without any real, loving family or any kind of safe, stable home for the majority of his adolescence, because foster care throws him around (or he himself is forced to run away) he doesn’t get an opportunity to form any real connections. and then, finally, he gets piper and jason. except he doesn’t, really, because they mostly ignore him in favor of dealing with their rocky relationship. he seemingly gets a family - the hephaestus cabin - but he quickly becomes a social pariah there too because of his abilities and general demeanor (which is, in fact, a coping mechanism). and yes, later on we see him getting on better with his siblings, but that doesn’t happen for a good long while.

his loneliness becomes even more glaringly obvious on argo II. i don’t think i have to remind you of the whole narcissus and echo ordeal. and the way absolutely everyone is paired off, except for him. so he’s basically abandoned by everyone throughout all of hoo - by his family (godly and otherwise) and by his friends and those he tries to befriend.

so how to fix that? how to rid leo of this staggering loneliness he carries around like a suffocating cloak three sizes too big? well, i would say, let’s improve platonic relationships on argo II and let these kids be friends with each other instead of just getting tangled up in all possible variations of romantic affairs. let leo visibly (ON SCREEN (or well, on page)) get closer to his godly siblings and find a family he longed for since he lost his mother. let him find out from reliable people who love him, that his powers and what happened to his mother don’t make him a monster. let him thrive in a safe environment where he isn’t pressured to play an entertainer just to be kept around, for once.

but what did rick decide? LET’S GIVE HIM A GIRLFRIEND!! let’s throw a cute girl at leo, blatantly ignoring the fact that most of his issues stem from lacking a loving family and genuine platonic companionship, none of which will be solved by a romantic relationship. and not just throw a girl at him - let’s dump him on a cursed island which magically forces the girl in question to automatically fall in love with anybody who lands on it. let’s leave caleo no other choice but to fall in love with each other, because calypso has no other way of getting off the ogygia and leo feels guilty about leaving her there alone and also she’s his only chance of survival. sure, why the fuck not.

and i understand why caleo would be attracted to each other. when they first met and when i first saw them slowly warming up to each other, i genuinely could see them becoming a badass power couple and had pretty high hopes for them.

but then they get off the island. and well. everything goes to shit. calypso resents leo for losing her immortality, and leo somehow? feels guilty about it??? (if memory serves me right. if it doesn’t, well, i have a lot more points i’m completely confident in). every time we see them talk to each other, it’s calypso throwing jabs at leo which aren’t returned in kind. and, i hate to break it to you guys, but if it’s one person just talking shit at another without another doing the same (very likely because leo’s afraid she will dump him just like everyone else did the moment he steps a foot out of line, which, again - is a VERY BAD FUCKING SIGN), that’s not flirty banter, that’s just straight-up bullying. and let’s not forget the great hits by calypso such as “oh my gods, he doesn’t experience empathy in all the same situations and the same way i do, he’s a heartless fucking monster. hey, leo, you’re a heartless fucking monster for not empathizing with people exactly the same way i do!”, when leo was explicitly shown to struggle with empathy and social interactions in general in canon, because it’s easier to deal with machines. again, largely because he had little to none healthy socialization growing up and he does feel empathy, but just expresses it differently. and i would hope that his actual girlfriend would know that about him and, instead of judging him for it, would learn how to work around it or at least understand that people can be different and that’s not a bad thing, especially when it comes to a person you (are supposed to) love. and even if it was an actual faux pas on leo’s side, i can let it slide because he’s a teenage boy with adhd. calypso, however, is not, and i really feel like a shit ton years old immortal sorceress should know better (and yes, the huge fucking age gap in a relationship with a minor, which is another can of worms entirely, but i will skim over it for now, because there are actually ways for it to be handled better, it just wasn’t).

and, however it looks like, i genuinely don’t have any particularly strong feelings about calypso outside of the way she treats leo. she was admittedly dealt an incredibly shit hand and all the continuously-getting-her-heart-broken-because-of-the-fucking-gods deal is a lot to get over. but that doesn’t excuse how she treats leo. it’s not even a question of “does she really love him?” for me, because i find myself wondering if she even likes him in general, just as a person. and that’s another giant fucking red flag.

their whole relationship just feels like rick incredibly carelessly tied his loose ends, like “oh! there are two characters i don’t know what to do with. well, let’s just smush them together. that will surely solve everything and let me get on with the rest of the story!” (and maybe not even carelessly but, dare i say, uncaringly)

but, okay, let’s say they’re both severely traumatized and just get off to a rocky start. alright. well, how will rick work on improving their relationship and finally resolving the issue of leo’s deep-seated loneliness? oh. he won’t. he will make them leave camp half-blood indefinitely. the place where leo found his first real family, where all of his friends are. where he was, for the first time in the series, shown some actual recognition, respect and care by the other campers (which they did by… hitting him. but considering all the demigods are weird with affection, i will let that one slide), just as he finally got close with his siblings. rick will make them stay at waystation and get a “normal teenage experience” by… going to high school. and i don’t think i’m wrong in assuming leo’s average high school experience prior to this was getting bullied and isolated. which will probably not change just because he goes to a new school in a city he doesn’t know with his girlfriend who hates him.

i’m sorry, but - WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???

and i understand that letting himself believe that leo dating calypso and changing scenery would magically solve all of his problems was a lot easier for rick than laying huge groundwork for leo finally finding his place in chb and building a bunch of close interpersonal relationships with other campers that would let him feel at home somewhere at last and also breaking his problematic tendency of just pairing teenagers off with each other instead of letting them bond platonically. and i’m also not saying there aren’t A LOT of great platonic relationships written by rick (percy’s family and his friendship with grover, basically all of nico’s immediate circle, all of will’s immediate circle, i really was mostly talking about the argo II debacle there). but this feels a little bit too much like carelessly tying loose ends again for my comfort.

and it’s not like rick just doesn’t realize leo’s motivations and biggest struggles. he doesn’t just make leo a flat comic relief character: he encourages us to empathize with his loneliness and pain all throughout the journey on argo II, he forces us to notice how hard he takes being the seventh, always forgotten wheel. he just… doesn’t really do anything about it.

i am a firm believer in the fact that leo just didn’t need a romantic relationship at all throughout the series. it wouldn’t solve any of his issues (and romantic relationships shouldn’t be founded on the goal of solving anybody’s issues, that’s just a disaster waiting to happen), it would most likely distract him from building a wide and stable support system he actually needs and throw him headfirst into something he, in his current state, would not be equipped to properly deal with. but even if he did enter a romantic relationship at some point, it definitely shouldn’t have been the main point and the grand finale of his story, and it definitely shouldn’t have been with calypso. i can see him with frank (i genuinely remember reading their interactions in books and thinking that they would make a very interesting and fun couple with their dynamic, and the conflict of a guy whose literal survival depends on staying as far away from the fire/a guy who spontaneously ignites all the time would be really tasty and fun to explore, you could throw a good ol’ icarus and sun metaphor in there, but maybe that’s just me), hell, make it leo/frank/hazel (even though dating a guy you only seem to be attracted to because he’s a many-times-grandson of a boy you loved in the past doesn’t seem like a very good basis for a relationship, but at least she wouldn’t treat him the way calypso did). hell, i started really warming up to the idea of valgrace, because, even though their relationship wouldn’t have the time and space it needed to properly develop in canon (rip jason, i love you), they would have a really fucking cool and sweet dynamic. who if not jason grace can understand feeling lonely in a room full of people? who if not jason grace can appreciate leo for all the great things that he is while making him feel genuinely loved, instead of belittled? who if not leo can get jason to loosen up, make him realize he doesn’t have to carry the world of the whole world on his shoulders alone, become the ride-or-die jason never really got to have? but well, that’s me veering a little bit too much towards speculations, and i tried to work mostly with what canon had given us.

anyway. (i promise i’m almost done.) all of this doesn’t mean that i hate rick riordan - i admire his work on pjo, i really want to read the other series in riordanverse, and the sole fact that i had so much material to go through speaks for the immense work he does on giving depth to his characters. and i know he can write good romance: percabeth is one of the very few straight pairings i can not only stomach, but actually love immensely, solangelo is genuinely one of the best things to ever happen to this god-forsaken planet, in my humble opinion, and apollo’s entire history of past relationships has me obsessed (especially the commodus part. i cannot stress enough just how much feelings i have about their story). this is caleo bashing, not rick riordan bashing. but i just feel like he didn’t care enough to give the same carefully thought-out beautiful relationship to leo, and that, regretfully just happens sometimes, especially if there are as many important characters as in pjo, and we can’t really do anything about it. but as an unhinged leo valdez enjoyer and appreciator i’m very sad to see his story go that way, because he really deserves better.

and that’s about it!

#y’all this is a lot of fucking words i just wrote #i wear my professional yapper certificate proudly #all da ladies luv leo #and all da lads luv leo #basically everyone loves leo except for rick riordan and calypso apparently #and most importantly I LOVE LEO #a whole fucking lot #so i had to do this #can you tell i’ve been sitting on this for a while? #leo valdez #leo valdez character study #anti caleo #caleo bashing #leo valdez hc #pjo thoughts #valgrace #pjo hoo toa #leo valdez deserves better #fighting for leo’s happiness and appreciation with words is not enough i need a gun #in the words of great kendrick lamar #i’m the biggest hater #when it comes to caleo

[stiffyck]

Maybe its time to idk close the ask box, or not look at it or tumblr for awhile. Cause you need to chill and not get so riled up my man Its not even a tumblr vs twitter thing either this is an issue across both. But paying close attention to numbrs isn't going to help anyone. It feels nice yah but man, if thats your main focus you are going to have a bad time anywhere Its been a long issue on tumblr and sadly I don't think its gonna change. Some artist can hit it big, but a lot of times we have to use other sites to get our art seen This is coming from someone who has to do that to get their art seen and get commissions. Getting angry at people who aren't going to see your post/feel bad for not rbing every art thing is going to end up with more hurt. Mostly for you Best just step back, ignore people saying anything about it negatively in your eyes, and do something else instead. But thats up to you, you do you

I do usually try to ignore the numbers but it made me fucking mad yesterday.

Apologies for being human. God forbid humans have human emotions! (Fun fact: anger is an emotion)

Also I'm not angry for people who don't see my art?? How are they gonna reblog it if they don't see it. I'm angry that people can reblog a stupid text post but can't reblog art when it's related to the same fucking fandom.

And I'm not asking people to reblog every single piece of art they see. I also don't reblog every single thing. But it's the fact that the likes to reblogs ratio is so high yea? And also that people can absolutely reblog shit they just don't want to do it when it's art for some reason. I'm allowed to be angry and annoyed about that.

This is the last thing I'm saying on the matter

#one more ask like this and im blocking #listen i try to ignore the numbers most of the time but yesterday it fucking slapped me in the face how EASY reblogging is for people! #except when it comes to art apparently!!! #i think im allowed to be mad!!!! #asks

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

#sorry im thinking abt death again #because it's weird to think that ive been in the room. maybe a meter away from someone as they died #that someone being my mom. its just weird. the time in the hospital feels like it happened in some dark little pocket universe detached from #time. a calm room and then the soft blips of a monitor then the nurse rushing in to say she'd passed #i dont kno y ppl use that phrase: passed on. i mean i do. it softens the topic. makes it sound peaceful. ive yet to use it. i just say she #died bc thats what happened. is that insensitive? i dunno. when i was home i realized that i come off as much stranger than i think. the way #my family see me doesnt fit how i see myself. i dont kno what to do with that. i dunno. theyre all together today #for an early easter. and im halfway across the country again. nose so stuffy ive had to mouth breathe for the last 3 days #and again. everything feels the same as it did before but also profoundly different. sometimes i cry in the mornings. or when i think abt #future vacations she wont be there for. bc in the end she quickly slipped away in a way that couldn't be described as peaceful until her #last half a day. and all i can think about in that tiny room is how scary it would be to lose control like that #and how its not fair and she didnt deserve to die only halfway through a lifetime. but its not about fair and its not about deserving. #sometimes bad things just happen. that's life. and now i own a book called motherless daughters. and now im standing with the countless #others who've lost their moms too early. ive already become aware of 3 ppl in my daily life who are in the same club #i keep thinking about this moment that happened between my parents at the hospital. apparently my dad was helping her get cleaned up and her #stomach was so bloated she looked like she had a bby in there. which my dad said. and my mom apparently said: but it's a baby no one want. i #dont kno y that upsets me so much. all the things i heard abt her being in the hospital before i got there upset me. and the rest of my #family was there to see it. so i have the least traumatic version of the story. and i got almost 27 years with her. except my sisters #probably got more time with her bc i spent so much time away. or maybe not. i dunno. #i dunno. im just sad that shes gone and sad that it was drawn out even a little bit. 6 days isnt long but im sure it felt like an eternity. #again not fair. nothings fair. 53 years of unfairness culminating in a tragedy. she would hate me characterizing it like that. she lived a #full life as they say. full with an asterisk on account of length #unrelated

[angelthingy]

the thing is i think that like. afab and amab as terms arent like. a bad thing?? like if you're talking about urself and ur assigned gender happens to be relevant and is preferrable to another descriptor (eg if ur dysphoric abt ur body to some it may be easier to say ur agab rather than describing ur features) or describing a situation where thats relevant then like. sure! its just like any other word u just use it cus it makes sense- (note this only applies if YOU'RE using the term when you're talking about YOURSELF)

the problem is that when other people use or ask for someone's agab there's some kind of weird implication that it somehow changes how you behave, and that based on that you can put people into a new binary which shouldnt exist and negatively effects all trans people

people ask if you're amab expecting that to mean you're inherently more patriarchal, dangerous, "masculine" - and if you're afab expecting that to mean you're inherently more quiet, sweet, "feminine" - and BOTH of these fucking suck!!

#im only talking abt transfems in the tags purely because thats my own experience - thats not to say that it doesnt affect all trans people #please feel free to add on your own experiences too if you want to share!! /gen #the amount of times transfems have been accused of being inherently more misogynistic for being amab is fucked up #as if thats some kind of inherited trait from how you're born like what the fuck are you talking about #and its always without any proof as well obviously its just the terfs and radfems making bullshit claims again #except that it also often comes from other queer people telling us that we need to unlearn bigoted ideas that we dont even have #because we're born as boys?? like what the fuck does that even mean what are you implying?????? #its so annoying when people tell us to 'unlearn our misogynistic ideas' that we apparently magically absorbed (because we're men ofc) #when we fucking experience it ourselves #like. what r u talking about #oh also one thing i forgot to mention is that agab is . generally very exclusive of intersex people

[kayvsworld]

i always forget i have Healthcare System Anxiety until i have to interact with The Healthcare System and immediately just start screaming internally for days

#my mom obliterated her bones and the pre-surgery surgery post-surgery experience. the ER situation. moving 2 the woods #this is a vent post i forget my complaining tag #waited 30 mins for an ambulance & when we called back they were like ''yeah it hasnt been assigned to anyone & might be hours'' #so i drove her to the ER with a migraine & ran over some pylons (cool). #stuck in the ER for 9 hours. took 4 hours for anyone to give her any kind of pain management. i caught covid #was supposed to get a call when she was out of her 2 hrs max surgery. was told i could call if i hadn't heard anything #5 hours later i called and was transferred 6 times - told she had been discharged - told she had never been registered at that hospital - #yelled at by a nurse for asking for patient information - eventually got the right department and was told oh yeah sorry she's in recovery #was supposed to find out if she could come home or not in 30 mins. 3 hours later theyre like OK come get her #i show up and the doors to that wing are. locked? and no one's there to unlock them? #apparently i was supposed to pick up the wall phone? and call a code they hadn't given me? spent 30 mins getting help from other department #to GET THEM TO OPEN THE DOORS. FREE HER RELEASE HER #finally i get in and she's OK SHES FINE except morphine doesn't work on her so that's. fine. bodies are good to have #we have reached shrimp colours levels of anxiety i am a walking talking stress migraine but she's doing ok. but holy fuck #kayvswords #also like she's black and all of her nurses and doctors have been white so feeling normal about all of it all around

[catastrxblues]

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#okay i actually want to rant a bit 😭 - not advised to read this because then you might get brain damage #because oh my god??????? weird #(was going to write an entire diary but nvm here’s the gist of it) #basically i was coming home from this chem thing right #i used the train as i always do when it comes to this. and because the new station just got a shiny renovation it is now connected to the #new mall in front of it (we have two now it’s an addition to the first one). and guess what 😭 #i had to go in and get to the first mall because my dad said he’d just pick me up at the lobby instead of the bus stop in front of #the station entrance right. #and when i was on the elevator going up on a call with my mom about food orders 😭 #the guy i used to have a very very VERY heavy crush on in middle grade got to the elevator leading down just as i was on the landing 😭😭 #and i had to make sure i wasn’t hallucinating so as he was descending and his back turned to me i examined the back of his head and i’m #pretty sure it was him. curiosity killed the cat i should’ve remembered that shit because you know what my stupid ass did?? #i was already walking away on my way to cross to the first mall but then that curiosity got the better off me and i steppedonto the elevato #leading down 😭 and followed him out into (apparently) the fucking bus stop #oh my goddd I JUST REALIZED this is my the one moment help #except i don’t think he recognized me because i was never even friends with him lmao. wrote tons of poetry about him ✅ #actually had one proper conversation with him ❌ #i was delusional and kept alone with my thoughts living in my head do not judge me #but seriously even though i don’t really care about him anymore this would’ve been (unfortunately) SUPER important to middle grade me #she would’ve taken it as a sign or something and write like five pages about it #and i just keep thinking about that #funny how things change because IF YOU KNEW how many credits and exaggerated compliments i gave him in my old journal #oh you would’ve laugheddd #like i used to SPEND SO MUCH TIME pondering over him it’s so 😭 #i used to have an oc and i think i based it on my idea of him and then i think that idea of him was even the reason i started to TRY to #write poetically. and i used to relate every taylor swift love songs to him (esp the ones in debut lover and rep and fearless) IT WAS SO #FUNNY LOOKING BACK AT IT NOW #i think he did see me though. i put on this act as if i was searching for someone confused and then (my go to) pretended someone called me #and then i whisked off as if to find that someone #i’d like to think i look pretty cool though. not because of anything (def not my looks because i was SO TIRED from that extra chem lessons

[dykeinthedark]

venting in tags about gender n shit (long as hell) (u can comment and talk 2 me as always :3)

#okay so i got a really masc haircut about a month ago and i know it's just a haircut but holy shit has it changed EVERYTHING for me #like.... i've always leaned masc except 1) before i came out 2) when i was actively in love with someone who i knew liked femmes #and they always described me as a fem. because that's what i showed her. because i wanted to be with her. #but lowkey whenever i'm in a not-impressing-anyone raw-dogging-life-no-crush era i always resort to a very masc style #like masc being my default and i'd only lean fem to impress people whether it's for love or peer pressure in a specific setting #like ''dressing up'' has always been a form of drag to me. like something i HAD to do to fit in or impress my parents (scott favor core) #but ever since this haircut i've realized... i could just BE masc innately like i really don't have to be womanly if i don't want to #which i usually don't. again i have only ever dressed fem for other people. but it's not even being masc that attracts me on its own #it's like. being masc in a distinctly lesbian way. as in whenever i look in the mirror i don't wanna be like a Guy i wanna be a dyke. #like lesbian as a gender identity too sort of thing honestly. okay i've been waffling but basically i sort of want to call myself butch #but i don't know if i like... can?? if i'm allowed to??? #everyone always says it's MORE than just wearing boy clothes and not wearing makeup and having short hair (which i already do all those) #i mean i've always id'd as genderqueer because it literally just means gender weird and i experience gender in a queer way #what's probably the most telling is that my friends (all queer) CALL me a butch lesbian #like every time they do i feel really internally validated. it's not just my clothes but my personality too ig is what people tell me #i have a higher pitched voice relatively speaking but apparently the way i talk is quote ''very clockably into women'' #which?? gender euphoria asf. my best friend specifically he (gay trans guy) always uses butch to describe me very intuitively #people have also noticed that i ''transitioned'' in all aspects except hormonally. like ppl have commented and noticed my masculinzation #but at the same time i always feel rly haunted by my ex relationships because one wanted me to be more masc #(she's the one who came out as straight and would treat me like a man) which i didn't like and i didn't like playing up being fem either #bc now it feels like she (butch) won't believe me if i called myself butch too bc she remembers me being femme #idk i feel like there's her voice in my head all the time that sees everything i do through her eyes (i'm lowkey still in love) #i feel like even though this comes so naturally to me i must be putting on a performance #even though i've actually read stone butch blues and done research into the history and i truly love and id with the culture like i rly do #that im still just a sad imitation of a butch lesbian and can never really be a part of it because i used to enjoy dressing up sometimes #like it's so stupid but can i still be butch if i wore a dress to prom and i think i looked good in it?? #even though i was envious of my friends who wore suits?? that i used to try goth makeup?? that i liked long dresses?? #that i enjoyed stacked necklaces and rings on every finger??? #and tbh ALL OF THAT CAME FROM A CONCIOUS EFFORT TO FEMINIZE MYSELF IN JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGHSCHOOL WHEN I WAS 16 #because omfg it was 2 months before junior prom and i was worried that i was too masc and wanted to get comfortable with being fem

[nebulouscoffee]

Me, attending the latest in a ridiculous number of funerals this year in the place of a childhood friend who couldn't be there, watching the lifeless body of an old lady who used to make me snacks in the kitchen when I was a kid be carted away forever while my friend's mother cries and tells me she's grateful I could be there because it felt like having the support of her own daughter, hugging her and talking reassuringly and not processing a single one of these emotions: ... I am going to write soooo much fanfiction about this

#''this'' being collective grief. because tbvh it's the main reason I haven't written very much this year (but will slowly start to) #I write to remind myself I am lucky. I keep telling myself this but even now when I feel awful I am so lucky #I am lucky that none of these funerals have involved very close family members or friends of mine #and I am lucky to be living in conditions with the space to write and space to grieve #and space to come together to mourn with dignity while people not that far away from me are not receiving the same privilege rn #I am lucky my dad was with me today and I spent the evening chatting with him on the terrace I am lucky he is alive I am lucky I am lucky #(apologies if this sounds like a robot malfunctioning lmao writing is just how I process things) #(and apparently I just don't seem to feel like I have the right to feel bad about any of this anywhere except my st@r trek blog hehe) #anyway. To stay on theme I shall say something about Trills :D #I imagine loss and grief must register very differently to them. very Non Linearly in the literal sense but also a highly abstract one #even I feel this massive sense of time warp between all these funerals; and this chest-crushing distance between me and my friends #how do Trills even exist #how do they wake up every day remembering all those friends and children and parents who loved them and they loved and are gone now #and still function #how does Ezri feel walking around with memories of parents that aren't hers (but were soooo much better than hers) taking care of her #does she feel comforted by them? does it feel like the people in those memories were always comforting HER specifically? #does it even matter who it belonged to originally if a memory is HERS now? #does Ezri mourn for any parents of past hosts more than she knows she will mourn for her own mother one day? #does having all this lived experience bring her reassuring amounts of perspective for a 20-something or just overwhelm her all the more? #idk; but I hope she learns to take comfort in her past hosts' memories of family eventually... #(...again. I am going to write sooooo much fan fiction about this lmao) #cw death

[lord-squiggletits]

I know this fandom is capable of nuance because I see plenty of in-depth discussions about severely morally gray (more black than gray tbh) discussions of characters like IDW Prowl and IDW Megatron. So I know that the reason people don't talk about IDW Optimus isn't because they're not capable of taking an interest in complex/controversial characters.

At this point I'm literally convinced that it's just bc what the fandom wants Optimus to be is a dumb himbo team dad (and the malewife to whichever character they ship him with). So because IDW Optimus can't be simplified into a silly himbo or shy sad uke twink, and his character writing deliberately asks the question of "is Optimus a good person and how much do good intentions matter compared to the harm caused along the way" instead of making Optimus the Unquestioned Moral Paragon of the series, people react by utterly shunning and refusing to acknowledge or write about IDW Optimus the same way they're willing to write about other IDW characters who are far worse than he is.

That, and most ppl haven't even read the comics and so the version of IDW Optimus they think is utterly an asshole, is a caricature that only exists in their own brain constructed from out of context comic panels of him and nothing else lol. Like when people see the panel of OP beating up Prowl and going "omg he's evil" ignoring/not being aware of the fact the reason he did is bc Prowl tried to kill an entire planet of people. As just one of many examples. Bc god forbid people actually read the comics and see why he made those decisions in context, let's just cherrypick the worst incidents with zero explanation and act as if that's the sum of his character

#squiggposting #discourse #negativity #unfortunately people really want OP to be their daddy and nothing else #god forbid he actually be a person with flaws or complexity or the ability to fuck up #nah the only thing he's allowed to be is an endlessly cheerful/funny/kind daddy figure #we got one continuity ONE CONTINUITY where OP was kind of an asshole #ONE CONTINUITY. ONE. ONE VERSION OF OPTIMUS THAT'S KIND OF A DICK #and ppl couldnt even pay attention or detach themselves from happy dad OP long enough to try #ONE version of OP that was very distinct and darker compared to others #ppl really just want him to be a funny g1 dad and a stupid malewife whose primary trait is Nice #bay op 🤝 idw op - being taken out of context and framed as an angry monster for stuff that makes sense in context #ppl suck megs' dick all the time despite his many MANY flaws i know they have the capacity.t #to stan characters who are problematic assholes. #they just choose not to when it comes to idw op and it's so fucking juvenile #everyone is allowed to be nuanced and complicated and an asshole while still being loved. except OP apparently

[salt-clan]

Midnightclaw, his two beloved children, and their brother

-im-smart-i-swear

#saltclan #clangen #scart #midnightclaw #bloompaw #midnight is thoughtful except for when it comes to his kids apparently #moon 10

[coquelicoq]

fascinated to see that this dico calls no especial attention to the fact that you're not supposed to make elision with the words onze or onzième (i.e., you say le onzième rather than l'onzième). i was curious to see if they would take the same route as my english-french dico, which puts an asterisk before the pronunciation like it does with words that begin with an aspirated h, but the only thing this one does is include the example sentence Il est le onzième.

#it includes example sentences all the time and it's not always immediately apparent to me what any given example sentence #is doing. in this case because i was already looking for it (and because i read the sentence aloud) i saw the 'le' (instead of l') #but i'm not positive i would have noticed otherwise #in fact this is maybe less clear than just including the example phrase 'le onzième' would be (instead of the whole sentence) #because it's an abridged dictionary so much of the context comes from how much information is included #like for example the pronunciation notes. to save space this dico only tells you the pronunciation of words that are exceptions #and even then only tells you the pronunciation for the part of the word that is pronounced differently than one would expect #rather than for the whole word #this is very helpful to me because a) when i see a pronunciation next to a word i always notice it because it's rare #and b) it tells me exactly in what way the word is pronounced weirdly #(which also often allows me to infer how that spelling would be pronounced if it weren't an exception) #lecture du dico #lexicography #french #my posts #so anyway including the whole sentence 'il est le onzième' is a bit misleading because you think oh it's just an example sentence #which could be in there for who knows what reason. the fewer units of information you have (words in this instance) #the less you have to guess at what they're meant to convey to you. because you can focus right in on the relevant part #(which in this case is the le instead of l') with fewer red herrings #when i first saw this example sentence i thought it was just showing how the adjective onzième can be used as a noun #which is a not-infrequent purpose of example sentences in this dico #but because i was scrutinizing the entry for clues as to the lack of elision i noticed it #it's fascinating because i didn't realize this about onze until a couple years ago #and when i asked my french teacher (who is french) about it she had no clue what i was talking about #even though she personally never made elision with these words either #she didn't realize it was an exception or anything that would have to be told to L2 learners. it was completely natural to her #trying to remember now if she had the same reaction with huit cuz i knew i brought that up too #cuz to me they're functionally the same...you don't make elision or liaison with either of them #but everybody talks about aspirated hs and i don't even know if there's a word for what's going on with onze #or any other words in that same category of start-with-vowel-but-no-elision-or-liaison (there must be? but i can't think of any)

[feynavaley]

A sentence that can turn a peaceful dinner into a warzone within seconds: "Uh... I just saw a rat darting in. I think it's under our table right now."

Which meant that a cheerful conversation turned in: screams, two people teleporting to stand on their chairs, everybody else with their feet tucked on their seats (we were all wearing sandals so we were essentially barefooted. Personally, I'm not particularly afraid of rats but I wouldn't fancy touching one either...) and an army of waitresses rushing in brandishing brooms at the screams of "Close the kitchen's door! Don't let it escape!!"

End result: in spite of the rat's valiant efforts (it tried to climb the wall and at one point literally flew over the room, I didn't know it could do that) it was ultimately felled by the waitresses' brooms. RIP.

#about feyna #animals #rat #it was a restaurant in the countryside btw #the rat came from outside #actually they keep cats outside specifically to keep the rats away #but some patrons who were still outside reported seeing one of the cats coming with the apparently dead rat in its mouth #except the rat was faking it #for when the cat put it dawn the rat revived and dashed away #unfortunately the door was open so the rest is history #btw they killed it so viciously because if not caught it would have been a huge issue with hygene #the restaurant risked a fine at the very least #for the same reason even though we do have photo and video evidence we're keeping it for ourselves lol

[chompe-diem]

GIRL THE NADDPOD DISCORD'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ELDERMOURNE SLANDER I CAN'T-

#this is honestly so sad i was kinda looking forward to trying 2 be a semi-regular in the server but jk i guess #look i'm all for critical love of medias and characters and etc EXCEPT apparently when it comes to eldermourne. im sorry i love it too much #i PROMISE i am capable of having faves while still acknowledging their flaws but it turns out. eldermourne is exception to this #but hear me out: theyre so mean to her )))): #theyre so mean to herrrrrr what did she do to deserve this #also ofc (just tbc) it's Not Everyone Dogpiling onto her. but it seems a lot of the regulars are just Genuinely Not Huge Fans #so it comes up time to time #and it makes me sad }: thats my emotional support campaign.... #salt

[majorshatterandhare]

GPTim would really like the Thrilling Adventure Hour/Welcome to Night Vale crossover, well, up until Croach fixes things. But the NV citizens hate the moon *so* much that they make it disappear, but not in their time in the future. So there’s moon destroying and time travel.

On a related note: Aurora would *hate* the TAH/WtNV crossover since the NV citiz-

#the mechanisms #wtnv #tah #i dont actually think tim hates the moon itself but i thought this was funny #anyway if you like the mechs you might like the sparks nevada segment of tah #although i think its more difficult to access now. i think at some point the backlog was made a reward on patreon so you cant just listen #to it anymore. #the tah/wtnv crossover is very fun and they say none of it is canon except the part that is #and wil wheaton plays god basically #and if you dont know tah but you know wtnv. croach is played by mark gagliardi. who plays john peters. you know the farmer #and sparks nevada is played by marc even jackson who was marcus vanston and then an erika #i dont think hal lublin is in the crossover or the snmom segment. but he is in tah and he is steve carlsberg in wtnv #theres some p famous people in tah #my favorite segment is beyond belief. which stars paget brewster and paul f tompkins #molly quinn plays fey in wtnv and pemily stalwark in snmom and theres a bit about that #also jason ritter is in it #also also i looked up jason ritter to make sure he is who i thought he is and he was apparently in joan of arcadia! #the only thing i remember from when my mom waytches that show (when it was coming out so i was young) is that joan steals mail in it and- #thats illegal. and its connected in my head with solve the world since she steals mail in the first ep. haha! i brought if back to podcasts- #i listened to in high school! #I MEANT TO SAY THAT SPARKS NEVADA MARTIAL ON MARS IS A SPACE WESTERN seems kinda obvious by the full name. but its silly and they sing some- #times #when i said jason ritter is in ‘it’ i meant the crossover. but he is also in the ‘teenagers of the corn’ ep of beyond belief! #edit. ​i forgot the other mechs tags whoops! #gunpowder tim #the aurora