#i would understand

[frimoussette88]

Doing promo about Secret Invasion:

"If you don't mind me asking: did you at any point call Kit Harington to say like 'Dude, is this really a good idea?' or was it like 'No, let's go' ?" (x)

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Bonus (still laughing at her own joke)

#emilia clarke #secret invasion #kit harington #mcu secret invasion #marvel #fanart #gifset #my edit #i love her your honor #i also love her friendship with kit so fucking much #i wanna see them banter on a stage at that con #pretty please kit don't cancel on us #i would understand #obviously #but that would be sooooo disappointing #because we never got any joined interviews of these two #another thing season 8 took from us

[dowot]

"Everyone's got to face down the demons

Maybe today, you could put the past away"

#personal #i would understand #Spotify

[andromedasummer]

bro how'd stoffel not punch ticktum in the mouth while he was sitting there trying to "explain" how he obliterated the both of them

#formula e #fe #it wouldve been bad if he did but also #it would have been understandable #no violence between drivers in motorsport i condemn it all but also if a driver threw hands with ticktum #i would understand #i wouldnt be happy #but i would absolutely understand

[alexturner2005]

i wonder if alex’s laryngitis will prevent them from playing new setlist additions tomorrow….like would he have even been able to rehearse??? can he just go out and play a song they haven’t played in years, or a song they haven’t played live at all, without rehearsing?? obviously his health comes first and i don’t want him to push himself just for this…i’m relieved he seems to have recovered enough to play glasto at all…i just can’t help but wonder if we might not get surprises they might have originally planned

#if they did have any surprises planned lol #i feel like we’re all expecting something special like glasto 2013 so it’ll be huge bummer if they have to cut back #bc of the super unfortunate timing of his laryngitis #i would understand #it’s just all too bad

[anteomnia]

it’s not about a potentially queer role being taken by a potentially straight person. it’s not even about the role at all. the community wasn’t made to police straight people. it was made to protect queer people. 

#if you forced kit connor to come out #you should feel ashamed and embarrassed #he needed safety from you #and you gave him nothing but betrayal #if he wanted to quit the show from this #i would understand #and i would support his decision #kit connor #heartstopper

[oddeyevibes]

I'd like to apologize to the folks perusing the Ben Hargreeves x reader tag in advance.

#ben hargreeves x reader #feel free to block me #i would understand

[scarefox]

for a second I thought he was about to jump of that boat

#check out the series #ep10 #I would understand #the sappy cringe we had to sit through here

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours? #also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that! #unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

[anarchopuppy]

I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished

#the subtitle mistakes i've seen are absolutely fucking embarrassing #subtitles should make something easier to understand not harder #and i can hear just fine so i'm lucky! #i've seen the kind of mistakes that would make an entire video unintelligible to someone who doesn't have the audio for any reason #it's unacceptable

[flusterfluff]

The only kinds of bits that I'll ever actively harp on are ones that are actively detrimental to someone's subjective enjoyment of a thing. Like, sure, go ahead, do this thing that is deeply suboptimal. Are you enjoying it? Yes? Good, keep doing it! No? Well, here's an alternative.

What I don't get is when someone is committed to a bit that's actively impeding their own enjoyment by their own admission. Like, refusing to do something on principle, and then you find out it's because that principle is "It's too casual and easy and fun and I'm a SERIOUS Gamer™"

I have this one friend who moved home worlds in Final Fantasy 14 to Dynamis, a new data center with a low population. Queueing for content there takes literally hours for even just basic daily roulettes, when you can get the same in minutes by just using an inbuilt world-visit system that will take a few minutes at most. They refuse to queue on more active data centers, citing "commitment to the bit" as their only reason for it. Like, homie, pal, friend, sibling in The Crystal's Light™, you're only making things harder for yourself. Nobody is impressed, nobody is having fun, and you're in my DMs complaining that you've been sitting in queue two hours for a leveling roulette. You did this to yourself.

Your suffering is not noble. There are solutions. You could enjoy the thing you're trying to enjoy more. Is the bit really more enjoyable to you than actually playing the game? Do you enjoy complaining so much that you'd rather talk about how awful things are than to spend three minutes making things better for yourself?

Yeah? You do like suffering that much? The bit is still worth it to you? Okay, carry on. But I'm going to keep giving you the solutions that you're literally asking me for every time because that's the only time I'll ever be anything approaching a "straight man" in my life.

#If they had some moral stance about being the change you want to see in the world #And being one of the people queueing on Dynamis so that queues pop for others #I would get it #I would understand #I would back them up! #But they literally said it's just for the bit #So keep suffering I guess

[collaredkittyboy]

#meme #if you dont understand this you probably have really boring shitty sex #not sorry #oml one of my stupid vanilla friends is arguing with me about this #he says because top and dom usually coexist means theyre basicslly synonymous #no #hes dumb and if he didnt live in canada id punch him #thank god i never fucked this guy it would be so boring

[prolibytherium]

I will say I get the vibe that a lot of peoples interest and support for strikers is a bit too much for a vicarious ‘burn it down’ thrill, rather than for the actual goals of a strike.

Like UPS has agreed to come back to the table and it is very possible they will concede to Union demands and avert a strike. And if that happens (so long as the union does not make concessions on its key demands) it’s a good thing. It’s a victory for the laborers. It is the same ultimate conclusion that a strike would intend to produce except without the workers having to go on (not so great) strike pay for a week or two.

#I understand to an extent bc I think such a major strike would be very politically significant for the labor movement #But UPS submitting to union demands to avert a strike also accomplishes this. Maybe in a less visible way but all the same #Also on a personal note I would love to see UPS get absolutely fucked but again: strike goals are more important here

[cozylittleartblog]

@staff if you [change] the [design] of the fucking [dashboard] i will kill you

edit. i want it on the actual post that i am not actually making a de-th threat against the staff. that's shitty. the caption quotes the fucking costco hot dog meme, which i originally said in the tags. if any staff member sees this please do Not take it personally

#dashboard #staff #tumblr update #comic #art #doodles #costco ceo about the price of a hot dog.png #i refuse to believe this is a real problem that site owners think people have #frankly i refuse to believe people had this issue with deviantart before eclipse #i am sorry you have to put about 15 minutes of effort into understanding a new website. feel better soon #my main blog doesn't have it yet but i logged into here to make this post and. i have it #this is fucking terrible. it would ahve been really really funny for april fools day but not as a permanent change #i hate it a Lot. i hate it so fucking much. oh . my god. #edit - guys i amnot actually sending de*th threats to staff it's the costco hot dog meme

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

#i said i wont ever rant about this bc it's unseemly but HONESTLY. #you simply cannot complain about not having enough of A or B or C and then never reblog / interact with the content you love. #If you LOVE something you cannot just leave a like and silently wait for more to happen #I know countless of content creators that simply stopped doing art/writing fic/making edits #You need to understand that fandom content is made FOR the fandom FOR the engagement FOR the entertainment and fun it makes. #If a content creator does not have fun IN the fandom-- why would they spend the scares free time they have on making this content? #And we're not talking about things that you don't like-- no one expects you to reblog things you don't like. #However I think it's safe to say that when a post has more than 5k it's not some random shitpost with no value. #tumblr issues #tumblr #content creators #buns.txt #something something please don't starve your local clowns

[descendant-of-truth]

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

#analysis #meta #miscellaneous #fandom #shipping #media discussion #amatonormativity #lgbtq #I feel like tagging any of the fandoms I was thinking of when writing this would be a little mean-spirited potentially #Disclaimer: no one has actually been telling me personally that I don't understand any story in particular #It's just that the way people tend to phrase their analyses feels unnecessarily targeted at the reader and that's just. not great #even if I agree with every other point they make

[likehephaestionwhodied]

I'm so scared.

#i would understand #but itd hurt so bad #im so scared