#general kvetching

[burr-ell]

fanon angst (i made myself sad based on my headcanons) and canon angst (i made myself sad based on an inference that i'm never going to genuinely explore) are two sides of the same incredibly irritating coin

#general kvetching #'how can i turn these de rolo kid headcanons into another reminder of the Tragedies' #vs 'how can i zoom in on vex's canon grief over vax to the exclusion of everything else' #both are banished to the shadow realm. get weirder with it

[tiredyke]

i miss the era of gays that weren’t afraid of the word lesbian

#or what it means #everyone is queer but no one is lesbian because that’s scary #like idk this new generation of online tiktok gays is allergic to lesbians and our culture #they can’t even say the word it’s always sapphic or wlw #kvetch

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

Just popping in to say I read the new chapter of The Hedgehog’s dilemma and WOOH. WOOOOOOOOH. WOOOH BOY, I thought Roy was gonna kill Ted. Like woahh my god. That was so cathartically satisfying to have Roy completely read what was happening in the room and put his foot down like that. I am so very excited for the next chapter—even though my heart is just BREAKING for Jamie, gosh

Anyways- LOVING IT!

Thank you!! The difference between how Roy and Ted respond to Jamie's situation with his dad is so interesting to me and up until around mid-season 3, I was convinced it would be part of Ted's character arc — the idea that hurt people hurt people, and sometimes that hurt takes the form of giving well-meaning but ultimately deeply harmful advice because you're too mired in your own trauma to actually understand the reality of the other person's situation. So when I watched season 2, I interpreted Roy's complete lack of patience for Phoebe's dad ("he's a piece of shit") and him subsequently being the one to comfort Jamie at Wembley as the writers essentially signalling to the audience that he's able to approach the situation from a much more functional angle than Ted, and that Ted would eventually process his trauma enough to develop a more nuanced view of when his whole forgiveness and second chances thing is and is not useful. But then that didn't happen, so I figured if canon doesn't give you the character arc you want, homemade is fine.

#fic: the hedgehog's dilemma #ted lasso fanfic #ted lasso #roy kent #jamie tartt #mirror universe version of this fic where roy murders ted and it suddenly becomes a thriller/murder mystery 4 chapters in #but it is interesting that as far as we know roy never canonically learns about ted's consistently terrible advice #i feel like he wouldn't take it well which would probably undermine the narrative ultimately coming down on ted's side in 3x11 #obviously i didn't like the whole “you should forgive him” thing #but i'm actually angrier about “lots of great people have tough parents” or whatever he said in 2x02 #i distinctly remember my first thought being that there is no situation on this planet that would compel me to say that to another person #especially not if i knew the parent in question was abusive but also just like. in general #anyway tag rant over #thank you for the ask! #kvetch oc #asks

[thedeafprophet]

It honestly like

Baffles me that people think so low of visual novels as a format because to me they are so interesting. The combination of game, art , and text works so well together and there's so much that can be done with them. I love when visual novels immerse me, and even though I haven't played that many all things considering, I have a great respect for the medium

And that's why it frustrates me to no end when people approach to making them as if visual novels are a 'lesser' format that needs changing. Like idk, play some more of them maybe?

#i mostly play text based rpgs like Choice of games and such #so visual novels are generally More for me #but visual novels are such a fun format and if i had more time in life id love to make my oqn #something something in how this all ties into to being a 'female' interest and how often such gets mocked #anyways #kvetching #the prophet speaks

[butchmartyr]

new copypasta unlocked? its evil to call radfem rhetoric radfem rhetoric, and people do it become because of terfs?

#ai generated bizarro worldview made for convenience #the tbros have written a silly post. #kvetching #genderposting

[dustjacketmusings]

It's fairly exhausting having a conversation about canon inconsistencies with someone who's approach is "I'm sure canon has a reason and it's never wrong or illogical"

#shockingly not a/cotar related #sometimes creators are human and thats honestly fine #generally for every canon reason theres a canon rebuttal #but like #i think it was a fuck up #i dont think they thought about it #canon isnt real #kvetching

[anankos]

Hi ! Would it be possible for you to use Edelgard critical or Edelgard discourse as tags ? It help to make the fandom more civil and make it a better space in general.

Thanks you for reading, have a good day ! ( Also feel free to ignore this message if you don't want to )

i mean i.... can? but i havent posted abt fe16 that touches on that specific topic in, if i recall correctly, years. Nor do i intend to post on the topic publicly in the future, im just kinda vibing. So im not going to be going back and backtagging a bunch of posts from early 2020s and 2019, sorry thats too much work to be worth it :( nobody will be scrolling down the search/tag that far anyway i assume

#in general when i lightly kvetch abt characters and their writing and plot #i no longer use fandom tags when i can help it so it doesnt show up in the main tag #nor does it attract the certain kind of person who goes through the 'critical' tags to stir shit up #i just mind my own business and stay in my lane these days and have been for a good while #IN GENERALTHO i am pro-tagging-things-for-blackisting-reasons #the specific timeline of all this being old just makes it a moot point #btw anon i aint mad at u Promise. i just have a habit of overexplaining to avoid conflict or bruised feelings

[cheapcheapfaker]

trying to brainstorm names and gilgamesh goes “what about Adam?” And I was like waow… irl oc real?

#stereotypically millenial in tht I do like boring classical names #and I’ve always had plain naming conventions in general #funny enough though the name we both like IS a character name I’ve written before 🥴 #not purposefully obviously. but. there’s only so many good anglicized Irish boy names #the bean #<- general preggo + baby tag if you’d like to block btw #i completely understand. I still find other people talking about their kids boring as shit #not like I’m gonna turn exploitive influencer about it #(I barely talk about gilgamesh for a reason. the internet is insane) #but it’s hard not to kvetch a little about this stuff #did you guys know constipation is a common pregnancy side effect #every time I take a shit I do a hail mary if it gets any worse I’m converting away from atheism out of desperation

[monkberries]

So it’s been a while since I’ve listened to AKOM and I went to see if any episodes piqued my interest and noticed they split into two different podcasts. As the Resident Beatles Podcast Expert, do you know why they did that?

oh girl, it really HAS been a while if you just saw this. *SD split off onto its own feed back, I think two years ago, or roundabouts. as far as i can remember, it was originally meant to host the breakup series specifically, while ak*m would be home to other types of episodes, or something like that. idk i'm fuzzy on the exact reasoning, but i know the breakup series itself was still being posted when that new feed started. i remember them calling the two feeds "sister podcasts." they posted the divorce meeting episode, which at the end mentions plans to continue the series, including specifics about what the next episode would contain, and then... they didn't. and now, interestingly (or maybe it's only interesting to me idk), they don't follow each other on twitter. and i've heard from others that they are pretty quick to correct people and clarify that they are Separate Unconnected Podcasts when someone mixes them up.

so, based on nothing but speculation and observing them not mentioning each other (except in reference to the breakup series), not speaking to each other/following each other on twitter, and not publicly supporting each other when Drama Happens, my guess is that some kind of falling-out happened behind the scenes. no idea if it was before or after the splitting of the feeds. i'd have to go back and listen to the breakup series to see if they said anything about it on air.

#idk is inter-podcast drama interesting to anyone else? #i love stupid shit like this lol #podcast blues #anonymous #also i love that im the resident beatle podcast expert lmao #even though i'm def not i just talk about the ones i do listen to because i love kvetching and bitching and being a general nuisance lmao

[moistvonlipwig]

i guess this is an unpopular opinion but i really wish people would stop making jokes about sub rosa aka the ~Scottish Ghost Sex Candle~ episode as if that were just a funny haha silly little thing that happened or, even worse, as if it were one of the campy goofy star trek plots that newer trek should seek to emulate...it's a ludicrous premise to be sure but the candle ghost quite literally rapes beverly in that episode and possibly mind-controls her as well, and the episode portrays that as romantic. the episode is a stunning failure to properly grapple with consent and a prime example of how rape culture infects popular heterosexual romance narratives. and you can call me a killjoy if you want but i simply don't think that's funny!

#for those of you who might be worried that i only complain about new trek #don't worry! i kvetch and moan about old trek too :) #star trek the next generation #star trek tng #space the final frontier etc. #five card stud nothing wild and the sky's the limit #social justice

[burr-ell]

this series is going to become the new Read Another Book

#general kvetching #i liked these books but this is gushing over buttered toast

[mantisgodsdomain]

Given the givens and the current state of the Bug Fables fandom, even if we're only active for four months out of the year, it really feels like we're eventually going to become a big enough slice of the sample size of BF fic to become a noticeable statistical outlier. "Average Bug Fables fan posts 0 whump fics a year, Mantis God Georg is an outlier and should not be included" style. Once this point comes we will also no longer be allowed to complain about any trends in the fandom anymore because we will be the majority and thus any punching we do in any way will be punching down by default by virtue of the buffet of crime we've made for ourself.

#we speak #bug fables #this will probably take a few years but the current state of BF fics being what it is it probably wont be that hard to accomplish #this will be very hard on us specifically because of the aimless kvetching we like to do about bullshit ship fics #although that particular trait may be a bit of an artefact of when we came into the fandom #since the general swing is FAR more towards gen fic nowadays #with SIGNIFICANTLY less of the ships that were so pervasive as to be inescapable when we first played #maybe some day people will write fics punching back about us #will be nice to read if so we like to inspire creativity in people even if its out of spite on their side #might even improve our writing

[esleep]

to anyone who is here from That Post please do not expect a bunch of poetry or really put-together writing. even that one post was just a spur-of-the-moment diary entry made while sitting in my car in my driveway after a shift and was never intended to go anywhere. if you want to see my on-purpose poetry and photos, i sometimes write little snippets in the tags of my photography over on @scruboaks which is my photo dump blog. if you're staying here you should know it's mostly reblogs and complaining.

#this is the kvetching zone. ok? #i have gained several followers from that post circulating again recently and feel compelled to make a general announcement. that is all.

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

for the ask game: 20, 50, and 80!

20. what is your favorite trope to write? 

I don't actually get around to doing them that often, but I love Rashomons — I've always been a bit fascinated by the way that people can perceive the same events differently and how often you can only get the full story by adding a bunch of partial stories together (this is, incidentally, also why I study history).

50. do you plan or do you write whatever comes to your mind?

I'm usually a planner but sometimes my fics end up diverging from the outline because a new idea popped into my head, and shorter fics like Ephemera and All I Have were the product of me being suddenly seized by an idea and just writing without any plan for where I was going with it.

80. do you try to put themes, motifs, messages, morals, etc in your writing? if so, how do you go about it?

I find that themes and motifs tend to find their way into stories whether you put them there deliberately or not. I usually start to pick up on the ones in my fics during the planning process, and once I've noticed they're there, I think about how plot beats and character interactions fit into it as I write. As for messages and morals, I rarely write with the intention of conveying them, but they do sometimes end up in there as well — the whole "everyone inherently has worth and deserves help" thing in The Hedgehog's Dilemma is an actual belief that I hold in real life, for instance. But other times (more in my original fiction than in my fanfics) I'm just going "hey, wouldn't it be fucked up if..."

#asks #ask games #thank you! #rationing the last of these to help me procrastinate #i have a bunch of marking (again) so if anyone wants to send asks (not necessarily from this ask game. just in general) #to help in the procrastination effort i will be very happy #kvetch oc

[thefearofcod]

literally everything hurts, what the fuck

#whole body like a single very deep bruise #can’t sleep can’t eat CAN KVETCH #make your speeches to the foxes general

[butchmartyr]

i just think it’s funny how almost every time a transfem gets called out for ““weird sex stuff”” they act like it’s a crazy thing and a dark revelation to be vigilant against ~Dangerous Kinks~ in the community but yet it’s being said here on this site, where the lifeblood of this website is rich and verdant with transmascs with batshit insane kinks who crank out 23 note masterpieces on sideblogs with worse shit than any of these girlies have even alluded to

#and power to them for it because it’s based #but like cmon man be chill to everybody #how come they get a pass for nightmare fucking but we don’t get one for generic rough stuff #kvetching