#i genuinely dont get the appeal

[daysofnights]

smth smth sirius fucking james when he comes home after a night with a girl

#corvus thoughts™ #i thought of this in my sleep #like genuinely had the thought and in my sleep was like #i should send this as an ask to ____ #i will not be saying who lmao #weird fucking dreams these days #i dont even like prongsfoot that much #which makes it weirder #like im indifferent to it #i get its appeal #but i dont get the like brain happy from it #prongsfoot #james potter #sirius black #prongsfoot is the ship name right #have i made that up #marauders

[always-a-joyful-note]

To be honest, I see "Riku as a politician would be dangerous because of his monster appeal powers" and raise you "maybe Riku has that much appeal and ability to get people to side with him because he's fundamentally a good person who wouldn't ask anything that outlandish, and that his being just a genuinely sincere person is what contributes to his appeal powers actually working"

#that was incoherently said #but i just mean.......yeah riku IS selfish and has flaws and all that and im not gonna boil him down to cinnamon roll #but overall riku is just a genuinely solid guy #and like if he was the type to use those powers of his to get people to mass murder innocents....i dont think it would work as well? #now him using his powers to get the crowd to stomp on a horrible person - that i could see working #but mostly cause i think itd take a lot to get him to that point and the crowd would sense that #idolish7 #fandom spamdom #note's notes #tldr is that appeal powers work only if you have a basis of being a more or less reasonable person #'reasonable'

[n00dleb0yy]

How u gonna listen to metal, but get mad that it's metal

#sleep token #yes this is abt brittany broski #i fucking love her and how vast her tastes are but #bro best band to get into metal for the vocals is probably tool/perfect circle #they never really get too heavy any i mean cmon maynard #as much of a dick as he can be #bros got the voice of an incubus #sleep token aint even that heavy either!!! #idk im just whining bc i dont want a genuinely good band get clout just for the sex appeal #and i hate gatekeeping #like idk it reads as taking metal to a kpop level #and the way their fans behave is just #jesus fucking christ #like i get it i unfortunately have fallen down that rabbit hole in high school but those poor ppl are being abused #and ur just funding those companies to abuse ur sweet babies #not to mentioned what happens to many idols after their required service #if yall actually cared abt these ppl u wouldnt be supporting this #how did a post abt sleep token and brittany broski come to a rant abt kpop lmao #brittany broski #kpop

[blushft]

why is nnsg better than vivziepop shit forever and always!!!!

#this feels so random BUT?? #i hateeeeeeeeeeeee the vivziepop artstyle #JUST SAY YOU HATE CHUBBY PEOPLE AND GO!!!! #the series also just.. arent really fun?? idk they dont have the same . feeling. impact. etc. #they feel almost “corporate” in a way that nnsg doesnt. #nnsg feels like someone MADE it. a PERSON. #vivziepop stuff just... eugh?? idk. #doesnt look as appealing. #i dont get into drama about controversies and shit.. just. HATE thr artstyle. genuine assault on my eyes.. #also vivziepop shit tries so hard to be oughhh so edgy and cool #my brother in CHRIST youre not special. #i had the same fucking concepts as a 4th grader.. #oughhhhughgg.... demon whos actually good OGUGHGOG... #diediediediedie #anyways.... #helluva boss #hazbin hotel #nyan neko sugar girls #nnsg #ianriley

[mx-paint]

The funniest comment I've gotten on tiktok to this date, on a video about a lady dumping her fiance because he beat her kid, was a guy saying I was going to go to jail for not getting beat as a kid amd that I'll have a meltdown the first time someone sets a boundary with me.

#first of all thank you sincerely for assuming im well adjusted enough that i didnt #second do you think the one who threatened people with a gun was the one that went to jail. or me #whats my prison sona random stranger #as for the second weird comment its funny to those that know anything about me #ive broken up with friends and a partner in the past for not respecting my boundaries #but sure. im going to jail and be a inconvenience to your remarkable society #child abuse tw #ask to tag #it was genuinely funny i dont even care that more were agreeing with his comment than mine #especially considering i checked his profile and the ones responding were his four and only friends on there #not to judge but bro had to bring in the squad so he wouldnt get ratiod #i remembered it bc tiktok keeps marking my comments and not appealing them #one of them was literally like. the gays are winning. #it would not appeal and i got a strike.

[revolutionarysuicide]

they should invent a way to have computers as a hobby that doesnt cost money

#me genuinely considering buying a new gpu just bc my current one is nvidia and nvidia cards dont work well with wlroots #and i really like wlroots compositors... #perhaps i understand the appeal of getting one of those swanky bougie teKKK jobs

[mxdotpng]

i think the problem with fandom shipping to me is like 90% of the gay ships have at least one participant who would not, even under oath, admit they are gay. whether or not its because theyre repressed or oblivious, or whatever. i know this is true.

#.text #this post was abt erik dragon quest xi #i dont ship him with eleven. the age gap isnt like diabolical but it just kind of makes me feel. whatever about it #but erik would never admit hes gay. never #he'd be like nah im not into men. im just devoting my entire life to one because we're buds. i would totally date a woman if i had to #but id rather not. im a free man you know haha #and it would genuinely never click in his brain that hes gay. #on the other hand a lot of them COULD know theyre gay but theyd never commit to that last step to be in a relationship #like chrom and robin. they are allowed to see but never touch. #this is the appeal to me but nobody else really gets it so i dont interact with fandom shipping #but just know this is how it goes in my head

[datastring]

so do i work everyday until i die or.?

#serif.txt #i genuinely dont get the appeal of living if thats what i have to do

[pa-pa-plasma]

I would like to say that. unpopular opinion but I hate the "Danny's obsession is protecting people" thing (more & more every day tbh) because it feels very. Weird to me. Selfish almost?

Like, there's never really an explanation given (in fics) as to why, & it always comes off as. Danny isnt protecting people because he wants to, he's doing it because he's forced to, against his will. If he doesn't, he'll die.

whether your intentions are selfish or not doesn't matter to the person you saved but. it also proves the Fentons right. Phantom isn't helping because he's good. He's not helping because he cares. He's helping because he'll die or go insane if he doesn't. & what if there's no one to save? What if there's peace for a bit too long? Does he cause chaos in order to have something to stop? Or does his ghost half just fade away now that his obsession is fulfilled?

I know where it all comes from & I've seen fics based off this that actually go into detail & all that but lately it seems like a headcanon everyone falls back on for seemingly no reason.

why is his obsession "protection?" like what is the point it just seems so random to be reading a fic & then suddenly BAM it's revealed that Danny will go insane & die if he doesn't run around saving everyone for. some reason? and then they move on like it was never mentioned, & it never becomes plot relevant.

#i really dont see the appeal of randomly dumping this headcanon onto Danny but never taking it anywhere? #i really dont mean to be rude but it's late im tired & genuinely confused #people who make ghost obsessions more like hyperfixations i understand. i go that route #but the full blown Danny losing his mind & all that shit? idk. #i know people have preferences. ppl like shit for no reason sometimes just cuz it's cool #things dont need to have some big explanation #but it's killing me. this is such a huge thing to just casually drop in #it'd be like casually mentioning Danny went through PoT before the events of this fic #but it's just. there's nothing to show it? Danny is just chilling & all That is never brought up again? #like this is a pretty big thing right? Danny will Die For Real if he doesnt protect everyone 24/7 that seems like a big thing to me #Danny being scary & shit i get but like. if you just wanna sprinkle that in to spice things up a bit im sure there's easier explanations #like. Danny is a ghost & has weird vibes. that's a good explanation that doesnt have heavy implications #besides the whole being dead thing but we're already past that #i think i think too much about everything. but it's killing me. it's driving me crazy #why did Phantom's obsession do a total flip in TUE? he killed 90% of the world's population #i guess you can say it was Vlad's influence but also Vlad's obsession is mord ''possession'' than ''murder everything'' #idk i need to lie down & not think about it. enjoy your headcanon by all means im just. overthinking everything

[girlhorse]

the idea of making advertisements (or branding) for a living is yucky to me but it's my skillset and I'm becoming more nihilistic about the "morals" of that with age. truly im tired and just want a stable job with benefits that is easy, mildly engaging, and requires limited effort for me to attain

#gab gabs #all i really need rn is to learn a couple easy programs and build a portfolio. i dont need ti go to school or anything #its a bummer bc i actually adore school and learning and genuinely would be a student for the rest of my life if i could #like ever since i graduated college ive just been listless and angry #but the idea of going back to school just to get a job is so boring to me ughhhhh #unfortunately i love STEM and also humanities but 1) very few stem jobs appeal to me 2) humanities jobs are. well. they arent

[tibli]

g*nshin imp*ct fans are always like "omg hes SO hot like YES DADDY" and then its a picture of the single most generic mid-twenties anime man you have ever seen

#tibtalks #censored so it hopefully doesnt appear in the tags #but i just #genuinely dont get the appeal #the girls are no better but some of them look like. 12 and you have the weirdos that lust after them #like every character just looks like those sameface unremarkable 2010s anime character designs #if you cant tell your characters apart if theyre bald naked and have the same eye color #then its probably a bland design. js #and this isnt an insult to anime as a whole btw bc i love anime and there ARE unique character designs to be found there

[diesoonandsuffer]

i just rewatched ‘taste of armageddon’ from tos and god what an episode. objectively its not “the best” but i think i was right to put it at the top of my rankings

basic plot summary if you forgot: kirk and the enterprise are ordered to approach a planet and establish diplomacy with them even though the planet warns them to stay away. when they land they learn that the planet has been fighting a war for 500 years but purely done through computers. the enterprise is declared a casualty so kirk and the landing party are taken hostage until the enterprise crew agree to come down and submit themselves to a disintegration machine, which the civilians of that planet do if they are declared casualties. kirk and the landing party end up destroying the computers and force the planets to either negotiate peace or fight a real war.

there are so many things i enjoy about this episode. i think for me, if you ask me to name you a quintessential TOS episode, this is it. theres some sort of strange premise that seems like a silly concept on the surface but leads itself to further philosophical thought. spock gets to do some weird vulcan telepathy. kirk busts out his sick karate moves. scotty blatantly denies the orders of a federation ambassador. kirk is a wiseass who comes up with some sort of solution somehow. the primary directive is almost certainly disobeyed but no one cares. its missing some things i would have liked, for example sulu is replaced by some guy and bones and uhura don’t get to do much, but for the most part this is everything i expect in a TOS episode wrapped in one.

feel free to stop reading here but i’m just gonna mention specific things that i like

1) spock saying there’s a certain logical approach to the computer war, and when the council leader says “i’m glad you approve” spock is like “i do NOT approve”

2) a female character who is not a love interest. this is an incredibly low bar but every time they played that violin music i would get scared

3) kirk saying “you will have a longer casualty list than you know what to do with if you don’t let us out of here” like he really said fuck the laws of this land i WILL slaughter you

4) the council leader using a voice disguiser to pretend to be kirk and scotty immediately being like “that’s not kirk” ashdjksahd

5) kirk watching spock do his vulcan telepathy. he’s a little too turned on by it

6) to follow that kirk’s little smile as he watches spock trick the guard to knock him out and take his gun. he’s like heehee hey girl look what spock’s gonna do i love this trick

7) spock getting the gun in the stupidest way possible. like hello

8) the ambassador being wrong. i love when federation officials look like dumbasses. yes i love search for spock why do you ask?

9) kirk’s little “come here” finger motion to the council member before throwing him headfirst into his own guards. incredible work king and he almost won the fight too with his karate chop action

10) spock telling the yeoman to “sit on her if you have to” to get the other woman not to kill herself

11) “what are you doing, mr. spock?” “practicing a peculiar variety of diplomacy, sir” *blows up disintegration machine*

12) the council leader saying kirk is a barbarian the scene before, and then the next when he’s like what kind of monster are you kirk goes “i’m a barbarian :)”

13) also that whole scene of the council leader being like war! destruction! death and violence! millions of lives slaughtered to save your 500 people! how could you let this happen! and kirk is like that is literally not my problem

14) kirk somehow taking down a room full of guards and getting TWO guns and saying “now we’re talkin :)” he’s like hell yeah TWO GUNS

15) spock walking in like oh. i guess you’re fine. ok then

16) the fucking line delivery of kirk saying “knowing we’re not going to kill......today” i need to clip that because i quote that shit all the fucking time. he’s like yeah i have an innate bloodlust and every day i have to fight my own instinct to bite and rip and shred but i won’t do it......today! god it’s so funny

17) last but not least in case you bitches forgot THIS EPISODE is where the incredible luck and miracles line comes from. it absolutely comes out of nowhere and they play it for laughs? for some reason? but this is where it comes from! LUCK AND MIRACLES BABEY!!!! YEAH!!!!!

#genuinely i dont know if anyone else likes this episode as much as i do #which i sort of get i feel like its a very standard average tos episode but thats sort of the appeal to me #like its quintessential star trek #like are episodes like a piece of the action or the trouble with tribbles funnier and probably more enjoyable? yeah #episodes like city on the edge of forever are more well written #episodes like amok time are gayer #episodes like shore leave are more insane #but if we're talking like a good enjoyable solid tos episode this is a good one #i would even call this like a good intro ep if you want someone to get into star trek #anyway. i watched this because i felt too tired to pay attention to tng like i think it deserves and now im wired. #lol #sam's thots #tos rewatch #tos

[toastsnaffler]

this new sufjan album is going to fully rearrange my brain chemistry I can already feel it

#noticed the new single this morning but saved it for later cuz i didnt want to risk the psychic damage of listening to a track called- #'will anybody ever love me' right before a job interview 💀 #but damn its good. going to the local early listening party next week hehe #also just discovered film school everyone say thank u last.fm for actually generating good music recs 😳😳😳😳 #the recs i get suggested based off my listening to so much bdrmm are always >>>>>>> #bdrmm were INSANELY good live. genuinely think a lot of ppl who act disdainful of shoegaze would change their minds if they went to a gig #the richness and texture of the sound cant be summed up in an audio recording u have to be there and feel ur whole body thrum with it #its like floating in a wall of sound.. but the spotify versions sound soooo tame. not that i dont like them but its not the same #god im so fucking excited for slowdive. only a month and a half to go!!!!!! #listened to the new mitski album as well but honestly its not doing much for me rn #but usually when she releases new stuff it takes a little while to grow on me. i need to at least read the lyrics first.. #I think esp w folk inspired artists u have to let the song approach u at the right time. ive def had eras when diff mitski albums appealed #but in my heart im a retired from sad girlie. actually at the risk of sounding like a fake fan ive never been able to get into puberty 2 #or be the cowboy. i like a couple tracks but thematically theyve never spoken to me #makeout creek/laurel hell are in the middle theres a couple on them that have me by the throat. lush is my 2nd fave i think #but yeah i dont think ill ever be able to extricate myself emotionally from retired from sad that was my first breakup album!!!! #.diaries #anyway back 2 translation state..

[prettyboykatsuki]

TW FOR MUSIC OPINIONS but i miss what jack harlow was doing like a few records ago lmao

#aristotle.txt #DONT GET ME WRONG #i still really enjoy what he has out now #and i think his value as an artist is about the same #but i think one of the like. early appeal of his music like his sophmore album #it was really the motion of his music that set him apart. clever bars for sure but it was the production and how he rode the beat #he stopped being a lyricist after his intial ep and made like. RECORDS. music you want to play at parties but he did it WELL and ON PURPOSE #not necessarily a rapper but an artist #im big on lyricism! i am! im literally a writer #and its not like he doesn't still make party music lol #but i think it lost the edge on the latest record #still a good record but indefinitely more commercial #he shines on features i think cause it forces him out of that #he is genuinely talented im really happy hes so popular he deserves it to me #but will we get another record like loose yk #i think his newest album has some of that #like a blade of grass in particular #but gazebo? loose? confetti? IDK ! THEY HAD A QUALITY TO THEM I REALLY MISS #this is partially because im never a fan of projects that feel too polished #its why i liked earl sweatshirts album that everyone else hated and why its one of my all time greats LMAO #ive said this before but for me artistic exploration will always trump polish #for some people the latter is more important and thats ultimately subjective #ANYWAY. #loose you will always be That Record to me

[bandomgay]

Imma be honest I just want my Pinterest account back like

#like it doesnt make any sense how depressed this is making me like its exhausting being THIS depressed #of course i know its other things ny brain is doing but this is just....on another level i never realized how much i study snd search #on Pinterest till now and its lie the most harmless hobby i had and now it's gone #☹️ i cant see my friends stuff anymore or anything i cant find cool art or study anatomy or just straight up just relax on it #i know i shouldn't be dependent on something like that it was a majority where i found stuff i just liked and like idk #i just really really hope they give jt back i dont even know why it happened its been a week since in sent the appeal and ive gotten no #response at all like do u know exhausting stressing over this is like good things have been happenin lately u know and like it only happened #after this happened and im soooo sick of the cycle of something bad happens then i get good things im so tired of this actual CURSE #im genuinely cursed and it sucks #its comical at this point it really is #i know its not that serious but it meant alot to me whatever #james talks

[23meteorstreet]

it's so interesting seeing people point out things that were upsetting about mac & dennis's dynamic in the last ep. none of those things really bugged me not bc i don't think they're toxic but bc they didnt't feel ooc or surprising in any way? like it's essentially a lot of shit they've done & gone thru in previous eps just packaged in a different way.

#i mean... last time dennis couldnt get mac to do what he wanted he started a literal cult #and there were A LOT of equally bad ways that couldve gone but he literally ended up getting someone killed #the problem with this ep is that some things literally only work if ur willing to read them thru the lens that #mac would be willing to go thru w/e dennis would put him thru if dennis communicated it properly #(which doesnt sketch me out so much as the idea that if dennis could admit his feelings he *would* be able to communicate everything else) #idk i get macdennis! i get the appeal of 2 people who genuinely love e/o but constantly end up in toxic situations bc the only way they kno #it's just the fandom's single-mindedness that makes the ship annoying #& im kinda opposed to any critique that just says toxic = bad esp on this show #(even tho im seeing a lot of valid critiques on here within that which i genuinely love to read) #i do wish we could get an actual exploration or subversion of these dynamics but i still think that's a little beyond the show unfortunatel #s16 spoilers #i thought i had a point here but looking back over it i dont think i actually did... #oh actually 1 more thing... it's weird to me that so many ppl specifically blame megan for making characters/dynamics more toxic #bc almost all her eps feel like this to me... a rehash of a dynamic used in another ep that barely goes 1 step further