#i can’t be that bitter about it

[bonesbuckleup]

Ten years. It’s been ten years. Ten years. A decade. One tenth of a century. It’s been a whole ass fourth grader. Ten years. Half of twenty. Ten yea

#Merlin #bitter merlin blogging #CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP #Every time I think I’m out some crab drags me back in as it whispers ‘I failed’ and ‘I want you to always be you’ #and I’m MAD ABOUT IT #once and future merlin blog tbh

[turtleblogatlast]

Sometimes I think about how the turtles are just kids, y’know? Just kids and yet it’s up to them to save people, save New York, save the world.

It’s honestly really sad. They were created to be soldiers and while they chose to protect rather than destroy, they remain soldiers all the same.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #it’s morbidly funny how the movie tries to push the whole idea of responsibility and heroism on Leo and the audience but uh #that’s a sixteen year old #and Raph is only seventeen #these kids became vigilantes for FUN and now it’s a responsibility all of a sudden like bro #it’s very heartbreaking to witness a childhood cut short #the boys are GOOD at heroism and being ninjas and saving people #but it leaves a bit of a bitter taste in my mouth when a kid acting like a kid instead of a Hero is presented as a bad thing #it’s why I was so happy to see Raph get to join in on the pizza stack competition at the end of the movie #but at the end we already see Leo much more mature in comparison and #I can’t help but feel sad about it

[altschmerzes]

i’ve reached the amatonormativity breaking point. i want to crawl into a cave and never experience shipping or jokes about how athletes on the same team who play well together Have to be in love or snide comments about Just Friends or the inevitability of And Then They Get Together forcibly stapled onto every single character dynamic or calling other people’s relationships into question because you think they’re too close to Not be In Love with each other or whatever else the world chooses to throw at me again. there is never any making it stop or even making people think for a second before barrelling headfirst into doing this constantly and without regard for what they’re reinforcing or shitting on as long as they get to have their fun. I’m Sick Of It. ive seen enough and im crawling back in the dirt like some kind of aromantic groundhog GOODBYE.

#gav gab #this is bitter and annoyed im sorry #ill snap out of it in a minute #aro blogging #get it all out of my face!!! forever!!!!!!!! #shut up about romance Shut Up About Romance SHUT UP ABOUT ROMANCE #i cant do ANYTHING without being inundated by this i can’t even ENJOY SPORTS #GOOD LORD

[the-last-butter]

“Welcome home”

The things here are as they always were, perhaps it is you who’s changed?

Super late entry to ragbrosweek 2022 prompt: ‘Home’

#I didn’t have time last few weeks but I HAD to participate this year so I rushed this out 👍👍 #I think the tone here is a bit bittersweet? but if you’d like to add additional bitterness diluc celebrates his 18th birthday 2 weeks #after the last panel #there is a diluc centric counter part to this comic but it’d be too late to finish it I suppose #anyway I can’t stop thinking about the ballads and brews event it lives in my mind rent fe #*free #kaeya #kaeya alberich #diluc #diluc Ragnvindr #ragnvindr brothers #Ragnvindr bros #adelinde genshin impact #crepus ragnvindr #genshin impact fanart #genshin impact #genshin elzer #my doodles

[figofswords]

wow I didn’t think reblogging that tea post and then seeing people’s tags would deal me such strong psychic damage. come over I can fix you I can find a tea you will like. “I don’t like tea” how can you say that as a blanket statement when there are so many vastly different kinds of tea. head in hands

#‘it’s like coffee but not good’ #while a cup of black tea does have a great deal less caffeine in it than coffee #it also has a stimulant called l-theanine which is NOT found in coffee #and the more complex combination of the two stimulants hit your system much more slowly #which is why tea doesn’t give you jitters like coffee does #anyone who’s like wow I need my coffee to survive but I hate that it makes me nauseous and gives me heart palpitations and bad breath #to you I say. wean yourself off coffee and onto tea!!!!!!! #but WAIT I can keep going. nauseous? ginger tea. sore throat? peppermint contains menthol which works as a numbing agent #green and black teas are both very high in antioxidants #chamomile and lavender do both have a calming affect #BUT WHAT ABOUT THE TASTE I hear you say #IT TASTES LIKE GRASS. try a floral tea or a black tea or chai or Thai tea #ITS SO BITTER you’re either steeping it for too long or the water you’re using is too hot #not to sound like I’m fucking uncle iroh or something I just apparnerlt have strong thoughts and feelings about tea #I can’t handle ppl going ugh I hate tea and it’s like. overbrewed lipton in microwaved tap water. #anyway MY favorites are jasmine and lavender earl grey #and currently I’m really into this corn silk tea my brother bought me at h mart #it’s like gen mai cha but even more #congrats for making it this far into my tea rant tags. if you comment your tastes I can give you a personalized tea recommendation

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

#- HK #I would say some of my peers pushed the cooties narrative but my parents discouraged it #so I never thought of boys as being gross or having transmissible microbes #and I was always raised to value romance so I I don’t think I ever noticed a shift in my attitude towards the male sex #however I was somewhat (okay Very) bitter when suddenly it was inappropriate for me to be alone in a room with my male friend #but that bitterness had nothing to do with my own feelings towards guys #(and I truly think it was unavoidable. it’s part of growing up. #you can’t know why it’s inappropriate unless you also know all the lurid things two teens can get up to alone.) #(perhaps the suddenness of the change can be mitigated but the sadness can’t) #anyways I’ve always wondered about this shift everyone talks about that happens around middle school #because I remember feeling quite glad and natural in it. though I always was an aspiring adult)

[badolmen]

Listening to James Somerton’s videos is bizarre because now that I’m aware of the plagiarism it really is glaring that he’s just reading other people’s words based on the syntax alone like. He just doesn’t have a personal writing style, there’s no grammatical quirks or phrasings he uses, because it’s all coming straight from the work of different people. If you read enough of one person’s work you pick up on their style and habits - words they like, how they structure and organize their sentences when making a point, that sort of thing. Jimmy boy has no style at all because he’s a mess of stolen words glossed up in fancy expensive editing transitions.

#ra speaks #personal #james somerton #hbomberguy #finally got to the meat of hbs video. jfc man. #I think I saw his video essay on queer horror a while ago and it’s like. damn. gonna go triple check the other horror video essays I like. #smh buddy you’re putting us gays with style to shame. coulda at least had some pizzazz if you’re gonna be a piece of shit about it. #‘that’s not fair his style is misogyny’ even then he’s being derivative and parroting popular misogynistic talking points. #man’s can’t even be original when he’s being a bitter bully

[comradekatara]

if i lived in the avatar universe and was from the water tribe and couldn’t waterbend but my younger sibling could and i just had to sit there and watch how powerful they got moving water with their mind and being able to heal and the sheer power and versatility of the form but no matter how hard i tried the water would not budge for me no matter what. well i would simply kill myself. sokka is so strong

#i rmr seeing katara’s waterbending develop and improve for the first time as a kid #and wanting that power so bad #having dreams about being able to move water and waking up distraught that it was just a dream #idk what I’d do if I was sokka #like the fact that he makes peace with it is crazy #I genuinely don’t think I could #and I know being a waterbender comes with a lot of baggage for katata #but it’s also so clearly a source of passion and joy and culture and healing and life and power #and knowing that you could have that... but you don’t!!! #oh man #no wonder he’s so depressed and bitter. honestly #like can u fucking blame him. I cannot #sokka #katara&sokka #but mostly a post about ME! because I want to waterbend #and my only consolation is that it’s physically impossible #imagine it being possible but u can’t! like srsly I’d end it all so quick #anyway i think this is why sokka hits different if ur disabled. iykyk

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

#i still can’t quite believe all of these are legit #but no #these are all words that have really come out of his mouth #the temption to put interstellar dressed in leather drinking bitter boy on here was strong #but miles has never explicitly said that’s about alex (not that he needs to let’s be real) or called him it to his face #so sadly it’s got to sit this one out #also i have almost certainly missed some so feel free to add your faves/other options in the tags! #milex #alex turner #miles kane #tlsp #the last shadow puppets #polls #lulu posts

[avelera]

Oh man, what if there IS a time skip for Good Omens S3 and we DO flash forward to Supreme Archangel Aziraphale and Duke of Hell (There Was A Vacancy) Crowley as bitter exes, WHAT IF??

#good omens #good omens spoilers #LISTEN EVEN IF THEY DON’T #I WANT TO READ THE FIC OF IT AND I WILL TAKE RECS #but I mean my other ship was pacific rim newmann I am all about bitter ex to lovers again energy #what if they don’t fix it before it festers #what if Crowley takes the job of Duke of Hell out of SPITE #which just breaks Aziraphale’s heart but he can’t complain he did the same thing #what if it SPIRALS and they’re on opposite sides of the Second Coming both thinking THEY’RE the one who can stop it and save the world #GOD THE CONFLICT WOULD BE SO DELICIOUS

[compacflt]

hey! i was just going through your blog, and i saw a post about ice&carole and mav&goose. i looked a bit more but i couldn't find a post about your take on mav and goose's relationship, so i wanted to ask what it was. if you have answered this, i'm sorry about asking you again. imo i think what they had was wayy deeper than friendship but complex and probably not romantic, but again, i just wanted to know your thoughts on it.

thank you! and this blog has probably been one of the best finds i have ever come across on tumblr, i'll be sad to see you go.

yeah, i was really trying to be suave and subtle and mysterious about it with this parallel

like, you should be able to figure it out for yourself.

but luckily for you i looooove beating dead horses. to a problematic degree.

the full story of my vision of mavgoose (moose?) is in the completed draft of the extras that are coming out on Saturday. about halfway through. But i want to bring it back to the internal craft-of-writing debate i brought up yesterday—my inability to summarize, or to cut superfluous sections that don’t really matter.

I’ll stick it under the cut for spoiler reasons, but i wanna show the simple first draft of this scene versus the complicated, heavier final draft. And I want to ask any of you, if you’re interested—as a reader, which is more impactful? which should i end up publishing?

the simple first draft:

then i kept turning it in my head thinking of different ways to edit it to say something slightly different, to get a little more specific, coming up with things to add, and ended up adding like five extra paragraphs. which is this:

about 1/4 of the final draft (by which i mean, this is about 1/4 of the whole final discussion scene, but the goosemav-specific content only goes on for about another graf [omitted bc spoilers]):

(so to answer your ask explicitly, i actually don’t think they were anything deeper than good friends. imo there’s no evidence that they were anything deeper than good friends, especially with maverick blowing goose/goose’s wishes off soooo many times [‘she’s lost that lovin feelin;’ volleyball; refusing to do the responsible thing at least twice even after goose tells him it puts his & his family’s livelihoods at risk…bro all he does is blow off goose]. see me bitching in the tags for more on this)

obviously in my head the complicated in-depth version ⬆️ is the True version, the version of events that really Happened. i think the writing is in some spots much more compelling. But it just doesn’t make for a particularly good reading experience when it’s surrounded by like 3/4 pages of other discussion of history! sometimes too much of (what i think is) a good thing turns that good thing bad! & this is a major keystone dynamic of my whole series so i just want to get it right, for my own peace of mind. I guess im asking you to be the harsh editor i wish i had sometimes, if ur interested in doing so—this is genuinely a major major problem i have with my writing, i can’t ever just leave well enough alone 😭 please let me know if simpler is better/less is more in this case! do i publish the short vague “the reader fills in the blanks” version or the long boring “here’s EXACTLY how i see it” version?

#crowd sourcing beta readers. let me know. #also. #how many times do i have to say maverick is neither a good person nor a good friend #and the writers of TGM hugely whitewashed and dulled down the original sharpness and thoughtlessness of his character #for the sake of post-50s tom cruise mary-sueifying him #before it sticks? #if it helps you can write out a list of his actions in the original movie. #for instance: > blows off goose to be late to dinner with Charlie anyway #> follows her into the women’s restroom > continues a pattern of dangerous behavior even after #Goose his supposed best friend tells him multiple times it is threatening their jobs #the truck master scene… the locker room scene… the ‘can’t afford to blow this scene’ #and then he does it a FOURTH TIME AND KILLS GOOSE HELLO!!!!! #so much for being a good friend like c’mon!!! #if he REALLY respected goose he would have SHOWN HIS RESPECT FOR GOOSE!!! #i am leaving this blog so out come the hot takes! #movies are also woobifying tom cruise lately! how’s that for a hot take #i genuinely felt insulted by TGM’s sexless passionless soft bokeh-light KIND OF half-sex with Penny. that was insulting. #what happened to the savage bitter kid in 1986 top gun? why is he so soft and toothless? #the only time we see him is in the ‘it’s not the plane it’s the pilot’ ‘EXACTLY’ exchange. THATS maverick. #sorry you know me. TGM is not my favorite. i am extremely cynical about it. #i love the IP but the writing choices in the 2nd movie wrt mav especially make me…. 😵‍💫😵‍💫 #pete maverick mitchell #nick goose bradshaw #mavgoose #you can ignore me bitching but pls don’t ignore my begging for secondary opinions here

[writeouswriter]

If I ever have a character mention a modern app like Tiktok or something in one of my stories, please assume I’ve been bodysnatched or am being held hostage somewhere.

#writing #writeblr #writer things #this also counts for Snapchat or tumblr #personal pet peeve hearing characters say the names of modern apps it dates them so bad 😭 #makes my eye twitch?? #I’m not bitter about Wednesday what nooo haha #unreality #tw unreality #just in case #doesn’t count for things like YouTube #at least not quite as much because it’s longer established it feels a little less strange? #I still don’t really want it mentioned by name?? #Facebook is on thin f—king ice #i realize tumblr is old enough but it feels wrong rules of tumblr same as fight club or whatever #there’s just this trend that reeks of show creators or book writers trying to be hip™️ with the teens™️ and it feels forced as hell #steve Buscemi hello fellow kids vibes except I like Steve Buscemi #not that it can’t be done okay in moderation but grr argh something gaaahh #modern slang in books and shows too is eye twitch because it’s idk how to describe it #it’s phrases that go in and out of style in months so it’s dated before it’s even debuted and it’s used unironically #like an adult thinking kids still use old style text speak and junk and !!! idk okay! #it just bugs me leave me be 😭 #textpost #writing humour #if it’s integral to the story I begrudgingly submit to you #but petty as I am I closed a book preview for a gothic horror book when they mentioned Spotify instead of just said listening to music

[shima-draws]

Okay but that scene in Titanic where Rose decides you know what no I’m NOT going to guarantee my safety by staying in this lifeboat and she jumps back onto the ship and she and Jack immediately start SPRINTING to try and get to each other and when they finally do Jack kisses her all frantically and calls her stupid…that’s true love baby

#Okay so apparently I’m not done talking about Titanic (1997). Sorry #Little me was obsessed with this scene and adult me is NO different. #One day I will find someone who will rush down a flight of stairs to embrace me tightly #kiss me all over my face. And call me stupid #Can’t wait for it actually #Anyway I could go on and on about this scene. In this essay I will fashion. #But I won’t bc I need to go to bed lmao. #This scene will always be playing rent free in my head tho #‘Why’d you do that huh?!! You’re so stupid Rose!’ #Me forever bitter that they killed Jack: This is fine #This is really embarrassing I’m so sorry. I can’t help it I love this stupid fuckign movie #Shima speaks

[kittykatninja321]

Jason waking up in a cold sweat realizing that Willis’s body* is unclaimed in a prison cemetery somewhere

*ignoring the post flashpoint version of Willis

#Jason has forgiven Sheila so I can’t imagine he’s particularly bitter about it but imagine you die and you get buried next to the bio mother #you never knew instead of either of the parents that actually raised you. Speaking of which where is Catherine’s body #Bruce buried him next to Sheila but not her? #Jason Todd #Willis Todd #dc #Au where Jason gets his legal identity reinstated for the sole purpose of burying Willis next to Catherine

[dumbfilmschoolkid]

not to put pressure on tomorrow’s episode but the future of the entire rtd1 era tumblr fandom depends on what they’ll do with it. like not to who too hard but we’ll either get some peace of mind or get pissed off for the rest of our lives for an arc that was supposed to have ended 13 years ago. deluxe tumblerina experience

#the giggle save me. save me the giggle the giggle save me #I can’t do this I can’t blog about some new dw bitterness for the remainder of my days #doctor who #dw #the giggle #doctor who 60th anniversary #fourteenth doctor

[watchingtheearthrise]

so I ran. right into you. and you looked at me like no one ever had.

-Finn, The Force Awakens

#star wars #Finn #star wars finn #star wars sequel trilogy #the force awakens #TFA #happy anniversary #john boyega #fn 2187 #finnrey #can’t believe it’s been seven years #I’m old #and still bitter about how they treated Finn and John #one day #we’ll get a good Finn story #and what a day that will be #until then #I will shake my fist at Disney and Rian Johnson