#i think its pretty meh

[penisbutterjellytime]

Do you understand

#butch #i just to need to get some emotions out ok #if I start thinking of some guy as butch they become insanely hot instantly #already pretty hot as a guy? becomes profusly hot so much so imaging them as a man again he seems boring #guy could be meh maybe even kinda ugly ... imagine them as butch? absurdly hot ... off the charts even #this goes for fictional and real men #Do you know how many times I've looked at a picture and went “That is the hottest butch I've ever seen” and then realize its a cis guy #and then get severely disappointed ... not that much but it's more than the average person probably #... I think this mught be lesbian behavior... me thinks

[bigmeandragonlady]

she's a 10 but is thinks she's doomed by the narrative

#shoh #shepherds of haven #i like that she's pretty meh about the gods until the scene at the temple and her 'faith/theist' stat dumped to like 10 #and then someone tries to curse her bls #anyway i might be reaching but i dont think she's in a good headspace as of ch 8/9 and becoming commander wasn't a good move for her #its letting her overwork herself to the point of exhaustion so she doesn't have to think where she normally wouldnt #my art #aelyn wildegarde

[junotter]

sometimes researching for avatar redesigns has you 6 layers deep into the Japan's Meiji era allies wiki

#im trying to mess with some of the stuff that feels weird about the ways the fire nation is depicted idk #like i do not feel optically it is good for like them to be so heavily based on japan's imperialist actions #while dressed in clothes that come from places japan colonized #but i dont want it to just be solely japanese though i did draw zuko and azula in hakama but its largely cause i wanted to draw hakama #and like the only place with strong japanese influence being kiyoshi island and my own frustration with the modern day samurai depiction #i think fundamentally it isnt a choice that had as much thought as i am putting in put into it but it does raise an eyebrow for me #anyway i think keeping the thai influence is fine despite the brief invasion japan had into thailand due to thailand then allying with japa #and further allying with the axis due to allying with japan #ugh and ive been told not to think this much about it because its fiction but its also fiction so so so heavily based on real places #and when you base fiction on real cultures you fall into some unintentional pitfalls #i also fucking hate the royal fire nation robes they look so meh and the most costumey out of everything in the show #they look like heavy blankets despite being a supposedly hot nation #theres ways to have heavy robes (heian era japan) but they look like i make them out of fleece and velvet blankets #back to kiyoshi island i think the really only aesthetically japanese reference in the show being an island of noble warriors is lame #plus over done #it feels like nowadays theres a lot of people who get all whiney about people saying fire nation is based off japan #but like dude the creators in the comics and korra like go even more into the japanese influence and clearly it was the original intentions #also i do think you could do some pretty interesting world building by having say there be an older cultural influence on kiyoshi island #from the fire nation especially if the place is established as a central port area then you tie in some okinawan or even hawaiian reference #and gives an explanation that makes sense to why kiyoshi stands out from the rest of the earth kingdom you have long term cultural trading #and it establishes interesting relationships even pre kiyoshi time thereby drawing back onto some real historic references #cause for awhile ryukyu china and japan used to be this trading triangle which could explain some of these various influences going on #i think you can get a really interesting harmony when you create the fire nation out of a mix of japan and thailand #i mean both have these floating buildings due to living on some pretty wet lands and theres harmony in that mix #god i did see one person go like “fire nation is more based on china because theres a lot of red and red is important in china” #my brother in christ red is also important in japan #red is important in like many many asian cultures #i mean of course a lot of that importance stems from china and cultural exchange with china but idk kinda silly to say with your whole ches #like if you want to bring china in then the dragons are the biggest thing like sure some mythos has dragons in japan #but a lot of those comes from china in some way

[dennisboobs]

absolute hottest lukewarm take

#ada speaks #untagged #not tagging this but #i am curious to know everyone else's rankings #ive really only seen polls and that doesn't rank them properly bc its like. one vote per person #its hard to rank a lot of the seasons bc like. i fucking love the first two eps of s7 and i think frank's pretty woman is #one of the most solid eps in the entire series #but as a whole i think there are a lot of weak eps in s7 #frank's brother absolutely blows. sorry rcg. i don't particularly care for storm of the century. audited is Fine. ANTI-social is Fine. #9 has a stretch of 3 eps i enjoy and then the rest are meh #15 got fucked over because i. absolutely fucking adore the ireland eps. so much #and even roller rink i enjoyed on its own. its fun if you consider it noncanon. botched continuity and retconning piss me off but. #i dont care for the first two eps of 15 at all though and there are Less eps to like in 15 (because less overall) than smthn like s3

[mispronouncing-michaelangelo]

tagged by @outstorm to do these two picrews (1 & 2)

and im going to tag: @rabbit-of-the-moon @jimmyjohnsdropout and as always @norsferatu (no pressure tho!!)

#thank you for the tag!! this was really fun aye ^-^ #my forehead scar isnt actually that obvious but i really like it and like to add it when i can #its actually pretty small and right at the start of my eyebrow #but i like it #dis meh #fr fr tho no pressure to do this! i just think theyre fun aye

[kideternity]

Really really funny that Justimon is like now one of my all time favourite digimon everrrr but I had a really lukewarm initial reaction to them that had to slowly change and evolve to the love I have now and even then despite all that I still think all of Justimon's major media appearances/the writing for them specifically so far are is like Mid/Mediocre LMFAOOOOOO

#digimon #justimon #dinu yells into the void #dinu yells in the void #it’s genuinely quite funny to me because im soooooo hyperfixated on justimon 24/7 but like #the only way I was able to get to that state was because I made a digimon oc whose a Justimon #because I liked Justimons design but thought in canon they never really expanded on any interesting potential they had so i just did it 😭 #literally got sooooo attached to the oc it made me in turn become really attached to the digimon in general #full on ‘IF NO ONE ELSE WILL DO THIS WELL I WILL!!!!!!!’ #ppl already know my beef with ryo and how much i think it should have been guardromon + hirokazu to bio matrix into justimon in tamers #but Im also pretty whatever on the like cyber sleuth hackers memory versions which were my actual introductions #the like cyber sleuth bonus case with Justimon is pretty meh its mostly just kind of like silly and cute #i think my favourite canon character Justimon is Ryujis partner Justimon but even then i really wish Cyberdramon/Justimon like. was given #more of a Real personality or bond to Ryuji. like we know Cyberdramon/Justimon loves and cares for Ryuji a lot. #but idk we aren’t really shown that outside of Cyberdramon protecting Ryuji during the arkadimon thing and then evolving into Justimon #sighhhhhhh. maybe one day there will be a good canon justimon in something. but until then! #once again i shall do it all myself. come on autismmon lets go

[talagalaxies]

Have to get this off my chest but here's my top fandom pet peeves

That one's "face card" is equals to a higher morality, using their looks as a " gotcha" moment. Like sorry Susan, that's not a serve you think it is. It's middle school mentality

A hate (even implied) to reylo, especially when it targets to shippers

#i want to SAY MORE on the first one #the way fandom treats looks as a top priority iks me #espwcially to asoiaf fandom for dragging actors for 'a declining face card' #and kpop fandom parrotting 'visuals' to win fanwars #and internet in general making fun of ad because his 'declining face card' means it's a flop and must be cancellable #like have we learn in storiws that beauty is deceieving or never judge a book by its cover #oh wait...they don't read stories at all! #i witness that pretty priviledge is a real deal in internet man #even thought I'm not part of the rylo fandom any longer and side eye some shippers #its still 😠 when they think reylos are the grossiest and nastiest freaks in fandom spaces that must be eliminated #or it's the boiling anger from antis since 2016 makes me this wah #meh texts #why am i posting this

[avoiltaire]

EMMA: LEGACY

even if it is impossible. even for my life.

#YO here i am again #needed a break from mp100 artblock so i finished these sketches up #i did 3 of the main trio back when i just finished the tpn manga a few weeks ago #wanted to colour LOL & try out a new way of doing things #i think it came out pretty well #hair is meh but owell i like it! #love my girlboss #so the whole point of LEGACY is me trying to draw the trio in their 2 most significant moments in the series #here for emma its her cutting off her ear and her time at goldy pond #cool eh #the promised neverland #tpn #tpn ray #tpn norman #tpn emma #goldy pond #the other 2 are coming right up

[thatbitchsimone]

How do you think you gain confidence? I was always that girl growing up that just didn't even know the concept of self-respect... </3

this is such a hard question that i really wish i had an answer for but tbh i dont really know how i gained my confidence bc its something that slowly developed and grew over time and i honestly dont know how i achieved it. my first guess is that my mom (and my dad tbh but i think my mom was more impactful since we r both women u know) instilled it in me from a very young age and that gave me a bit of a headstart in a way. i have been very insecure earlier tho like in my early teens i was very insecure about my looks but when i was about 16-17 i was starting to get more confident but that confidence wasnt even rooted in my looks it was more from my personality and me learning that ppl are very drawn to me just from my energy bc i do have a strong presence and once i leaned into that i found out that im very charming and naturally charismatic (idk if its genetic or just a result of my upbringing and my parents parenting style bc my brother has this too) and i think thats what lead me to also appreciate how i look bc i started liking and feel proud of who i am and my face and body is part of who i am.

i feel like ppl reading this will assume im especially physically beautiful or whatever but i think the interesting thing about this is that im actually not. like my physical features are kinda mid. like my features arent striking. im very girl next door facially. attractive but not head turningly so, just regular attractive. nothing special at all when u really boil it down to just my physical looks/face. what makes me stand out to a lot of ppl is the way i carry myself. the confidence in my walk, the look in my eye, my overall presence and the vibe about me etc. im more intrigueing than i am physically beautiful. idk how to explain it. all i can say is that just simply looking or appearing confident ascends physical looks and i know this from experience.

so anyways my confidence runs way deeper than just surface level/looks. i just appreciate and work with what i have. i dont aspire to be on the same level as models and celebrities bc i dont feel the need to be the prettiest girl in the room or look like an instagram model bc im very happy with who i am and when i look at myself in the mirror i do think im beautiful like just in my own personal opinion. i just love myself idk i just love her shes my baby im my baby

#like if someone tells me im ugly i feel nothing #like i just disagree lol like ok we all have different tastes #like one of my guy friends once told me he doesnt think rihanna is pretty. i think rihanna is fucking gorgeous. its all subjective. #i think salma hayek is one of the most beautiful women in the world #my friend thinks shes average and nothing special at all #its insane to me that someone would describe salma as just meh #but thats the thing. beauty is so subjective. we see it differently

[waku-waku-week]

gene from the emoji movie is transgender

#i havent seen it since it came out but im pretty sure its about this guy whos assigned the meh emoji but feels like it doesnt suit him #and he becomes this weird changing emoji i think #textpost #emoji movie

[nyxqueenofshadows]

so officially finished kiwami 2, majima saga aside which won't take long. ignore how this isn't a screenshot, this was easier

i'm just gonna dump the thousand words or so of thoughts i put in my fic doc here for posterity and anyone who might get a kick out of reading them. lots and lots of messiness, vague spoilers for rgg online plus one itsy bitsy reference to the stage play

hot take that there were maybe some redeemable elements in the last bit (mainly all the times kaoru and ryuji talk to each other) but so much of it is so fucking stupid and full of HE WOULD NOT DO THAT (mainly kiryu). idk. i don’t hate it but it needed some work

interesting things learned tho, ryuji didn’t expect to live long, he says he made it further than he was expecting. as we now know from rggo, he already knew about his jingweonha connection and was actively ignoring it (which is why terada marks him for death in the first place. slot han in here?) and remembered the night where his father died (despite being like 2 at the time, at most). kiryu also reiterates that he sees nishiki in ryuji, which i think is fair (and the stage play people clearly agreed). ‘the least i can do is honour a man like that’ is an interesting attitude to have. also ryuji is like ‘i see why my sister fell fer ya’ which is not quite the japanese line (ish) but it’s also not the straightest thing he’s ever said. ryuji also very clearly would have doted on kaoru quite a lot, if they’d lived together as children or otherwise, and i really think we missed out on seeing more of them. maybe i’m just soft for that kind of thing.

i feel like a more interesting conundrum would have been both ryuji and kiryu being wounded from their fight, delaying it again (cos they’d done it once no reason not to do it again) but neither are moving the way they should and (believing the bomb is real) kaoru has to pick one to carry and one to leave behind. (maybe halfway down the stairs or smth?) it wouldn’t be especially original but it would make more sense imo. her going down the lift does nothing but slow her down (ig she has access to the controls and doesn’t use them for hashtag drama reasons) which i don’t think fundamentally changes her position that much from before the second ryuji fight. it also gives her smth to fucking do that isn’t just crying and grabbing fences and doing that dumbfuck charge that i don’t think she would have done (her gun hadn’t gone far! then again i have hindsight and am thinking clearer than she is). anyway kiryu pushes her to take ryuji (guilt over nishiki?) and locks them in the lift thingy and sends them down, fully ready to die now. his and ryuji’s wounds mirror each other but i feel like kiryu got the shorter end of the stick? plus he was shot slightly earlier so has been bleeding for longer.

i cannot say this enough, kiryu would not leave ryuji. like, he just wouldn’t. if there was even a chance he was still alive, he would make sure he got to someone or he would at least try. he’s at his most inactive in cutscenes in kiwami 2 (i think) and it’s frustrating as a player asdfghjkl

ALSO if sudo and date and haruka went to the effort of preparing and going up in that helicopter, why didn’t they also prepare a rope?? or smth to rescue people who were on top of the tower???? they clearly knew there was a bomb up there (beforehand or not is unclear but we don’t see them have a conversation about it) and want kiryu and co. to leave. (and not MAKE OUT ON A ROOFTOP they were really going at it huh, ryuji’s ?corpse? is right fucking there guys oh and goda jin’s? he sort of vanishes from that last bit)

also it would have been kind of funny if, while there was still that ten minutes, everyone sprinted for the stairs and made it down and they’re waiting for the building to blow and when it inevitably doesn’t they’re all just standing there checking their watches like is it late? did smth break? who wants to be the sucker and go check? can we call an ambulance for the two idiots? majima is down in the construction yard i think so he’d probably send nishida, maybe?

idk kiryu has no interest in kaoru to me. he treats her no differently to anyone else aside from the two times they kiss, both of which feel very out of character for him, and that romance subplot takes away any and all girlboss power kaoru had. she went from beating men up and threatening them with bokuto and shit to like, i love man, so sad. (they knew each other like a week!!!!!! and they’re dying for each other!!!! give me a break!!!!!) that’s not to detract from the awful fucking week she has of learning who her family are (some racism in there??? i’m not qualified to speak on that, maybe it’s just the gang thing, ) and then watching literally all of them die one after another. except mama, she’s fine and never appears again. it’s very much aiming for a ‘she can be a ‘woman’ (i.e. be emotional and like cute things and not try and match the locker room attitude of the men) and also take names’ but it doesn’t succeed at that at all. from kiryu’s conversation with her on their little date thing (which is cute, i’ll give it that) he was telling her to be true to herself, right? it's his go to line. which suggests that her kicking dudes in the face a lot and working incredibly hard (she’s a prodigy, in multiple fields! this doesn’t get explored enough) is NOT her true self, the one who plays with teddy bears and falls in love is. which, again, not that those two things can’t co-exist, but the game doesn’t allow them to either. just, ah. more wasted woman potential in a yakuza game. yayoi gets the same treatment :((( you gave me two step on me yakuza ladies and dropped the ball on both of them, come on guys. hopefully she gets to live a little in 8.

#me #ryu ga gotoku #i don't think i made a post like this for kiwami? #pretty sure i did for 0 #anyway #thoughts on the game as a whole #i had fun #it has its issues but i definitely had a better time overall with it than kiwami #the side content was more my speed #cabaret minigame my beloved i did the whole thing in one straight shot #took me like a week and a half #also liked clan creator cos it was pretty funny in a dumb relaxing kind of way #tho the karaoke selection was kinda mid imo #zetsubouchou pride? banger #everything else (new to me)? meh #weirdest thing about the majima saga is watching majima do kiryu's animations #smth about that fucks with my brain #this is so long i'm so sorry #not queued

[odysseys-blood]

i think a big problem with games in series nowadays is they always wanna show off how good it looks with modern tech (like oh look how pretty the sky is and how sleek the models are and look at all the particle effects we have!) that they think its ok to just completely slack on the story aspect.

#cliffnotes/.txt #aka why i havent finished arise yet #saw a mutual (hi aleph if u see this) talking abt smtv and i will say #i did think abt getting it before bc yknow. looks nice i like what nahobino has goin on #but now knowing its kinda meh is like. [horse on beach] man. #and same thing happened with arise for me #i was so excited for a new tales game and then its just kinda. flat #like every tales game has a racism allegory already and like all of them did it better than arise has #story is abt as deep as a very shallow puddle. #which sucks! bc it does look pretty and i like some of the character interaction #but it feels like they just went hey who needs more depth when we can just make it look good #and it does look really good! but feels so childish story wise for a tales game #even the fishing kinda sucks how do u make a fishing minigame bad #im like damn i wanna play abyss or vesperia or symphonia before i even try to finish this #id even go back to xillia if i had a ps3 #wait emulators exist.....might play xillia before i even get to finishing arise fr fr

[corpsepng]

Skinamarink is about abuse

#it didn’t need to be as long as it was and was quite slow but I can see why a lot of the choices were made #I could probably expand on why I think that but Idk lazy #also it’s got a pretty meh rating on shudder which I wasn’t expecting given its internet hype before landing on the platform

[donuts4evry1]

im teetering very close to a botany/flower hyperfixation atm

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#WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #I THINK ITS BECAUSE FLOWERS ARE JUST SO PRETTY #like whenever i think about them they're ''meh'' #but there's just... something so magical about walking through a garden AND SMELLING THE ROSES HGHRSDFB!!!!!! GHSJKFHAJKBG!!!!!!!!!!! #mun rambles

[designernishiki]

next task on my trophy crusade is winning all the climax battles and so far I’ve won all of them except the ultimate section and hoo boy. let me tell you. my hands fucking Hurt

#what’s stupid about ultimate battle 1 is that the two Big Important Characters you fight aren’t even the hard ones #it’s the first round where you fight some dude and his goons that’s annoying as hell #I can get through it basically every time but the problem is. having a decent amount of health left to move onto round 2 and so on #cause boy is he good at fucking up your health (especially when you have to start by fighting off like 6 other guys) #Oda’s the second fight and he’s actually pretty fun becuase all you need to do is go into beast mode and fling a bunch of chairs at him m #and/or throw him around as much as possible. and usually that does the trick #kuze is round 3 and he’s meh. hard to judge it really when the main challenge at that point isn’t kuze himself its just. beating him with a #sliver of health left #I’ve got the strategy for that down pretty well tho. like I said it’s that first round that just fucking SUCKS #I need to have at least a DECENT amount of health left to tank some of oda’s attacks hgghhhh #anyway sorry no one wants to hear this #I’m a champ for doing these without my friend who’s Better Than Me at fighting games helping me #like I’ve gotten pretty good by this point I think (if beating all three other categories of climax battles says anything) #but. he’s good enough to probably do this kinda shit competitively #at fighting games In General. he’s got prior skills galore and I literally only play yakuza #I should. stop. for the night. I’m realizing that yeah wow my hands are Really sore #rambling #y0

[viir-tanadhal]

wanted to give depeche mode a chance because i knew they probably wouldn't be my thing because i've listened to violator - i like violator besides 2 songs on it - and a few 80s singles but there were stuff I didn't like with violator and it seemed like a recurring issue so i haven't really given them an in-depth listen. thought i'd just go ahead and give them a discography listen anyway to formulate my opinion so i'm up to exciter now and yeah. meh.

#i think my primary problem is i just do not like martin gore's songwriting #i know this isnt entirely true but i just feel like im hearing the same 5-7 songs over and over and over again #im just not invested with the themes and subjects he writes about especially because idk to me he doesnt really do much with it #to make it interesting #i just feel like he couldve done and explored stuff so much more and just doesnt and is stuck in this constant loop #and maybe he expands beyond that post-ultra idk yet obviously #violator SOFAD and ultra def had more interesting things going on topically #nothing really appeals to me. their look doesnt really interest me their album covers are well-designed up to some of the 00s ones 💀 #theyre not bad ill say tho once they get to black celebration theres good atmospheres and sonic layers #its just all overall meh beyond the handful of songs i do really enjoy #anyway sorry lmao ive had these thoughts for a while #its weird because theres crossover with new order and psb but dm just doesnt cut it for me #again i think because of martin pretty much #at least he expanded beyond the juvenile stuff on a broken frame but then it became juvenile AND edgy which bleh #it does mature tho at the v least