#idk i'm not trying to criticize or anything

[ritsukaaoyagi]

omg i keep wanting to just post random thoughts about loveless but i talk myself out of it because nothing really matters anymore but i'm going to start trying to indulge anyway LIKE i'm already here at ritsukaaoyagi.tumblr.com... ANYWAY

i am generally amused by yun kouga's clear lack of interest in sourit as of late (like whenever she Does acknowledge loveless) and i don't mind it because i just personally don't ship them like that. omg i just hate the word of ship/shipping so much (shivers) but anyway this does also support the general idea around soubi's character and his relationship w/ ritsuka in that the point is that they literally aren't in any sort of romantic relationship blah blah blah ykwim but i think they are way more complex than relationship/no relationship. and the idea of "soubi never had actual romantic feelings for ritsuka" feels way too much like an oversimplification of their relationship to me even if it is currently "true"

but even that thought process is so interesting to me.......... i'm always hesitant to claim that sourit isn't an actual thing in loveless because it literally is HAHAHAHA even if it can now be considered dead. even if sourit not being a thing is the intention in loveless, they are a couple that yun once very obviously enjoyed as she enjoyed (enjoys imo) sexualizing ritsuka's character and all that.

and i'm only really thinking about this because even if i believe that loveless has great characters and portrays the cycle of abuse (generally speaking) in a decent way (my own feelings) it is also true that loveless is rife with shotacon and age-gap and incest fetishes etc etc. it can have both... very often media that surrounds abuse does involve both on purpose hahaha. no bad/good moral here just thinking. and don't even get me started on "yun said she doesn't consider loveless as a yaoi" as evidence of something

#and i'm not trying to criticize shippers or anything like i cannot stress how much i don't care i only care about the text and what is given #to us and what we can make of it and what it “actually” is and i like to think about these things. #despite my being comfortable or uncomfortable with one thing or another thing sigh #and also of course there is like a whole conversation to be had about what is even meant by romanticizing and sexualizing in a piece of #media but yeah like IDK #idr if i've posted something like this before. it's very likely i tried to and then deleted it because OK obviously

[little-pup-pip]

Hey! I just wanted to let you know, while I think the moodboards you make are super cute and I do love them a lot, they're super disheartening to see.

All of them, are pretty much just stolen content? You don't bother crediting or sourcing anything on them, so they're basically all just photos/art that doesn't belong to you :(

The small artists who create the deco pacis, the plushies, the photography, deserve to be credited and not have their stuff stolen. Especially when they are products the artist is selling (deco pacis, crochet, handmade collars, etc.) they deserve that attention and credit.

/nm but I've just seen SO many people not caring to source their posts. I really encourage you to credit the posts you create.

Hello hello!! First off, I want to tell you that, for the most part, you're right! This is actually something I think about a lot, and I get where you're coming from. Most of the things I post are uncredited pictures, and I'm going to explain why in the best way I can. But ultimately, it's up to you whether this explanation satisfies you or not (if you have suggestions on how to fix it after reading this whole thing, let me know)!

For context, most of the stuff I post are pictures directly from Pinterest, a site that is notorious for being awful at crediting creators and making it difficult to find the original creators of things. I wish Pinterest was better at allowing people to trace the origins of images, and I would love it if I could find the original creators of every picture I use. Unfortunately, it is genuinely impossible to find the people who take most of the pictures on Pinterest a lot of the time (because Pinterest will show you the most recent saver of a picture rather than the poster, and if you do manage to find the poster, you never know if someone reposted a picture, so the person who you think is the creator actually is not). It's really not a matter of "I don't bother to"; it's that often I can't (this is why I try to avoid using art not made by companies because I'd drive myself crazy trying to find the artist)!

I also want to point out that none of the stuff I use is "stolen"! If you look at Pinterest's terms of service, every picture posted there is entirely free to use, sort of like a stock image, and I have to assume that the posters know that. (Legal talk and a simpler version pictured below)

Additionally, I do show products, but often not by small stores or creators. Most of them are literally product advertisements from large companies that will not take any financial hit from this at all. If you go onto Pinterest and look up something like "blanket," you'll find that it's almost completely large corporations! And that is almost entirely the selection of product pictures I use, especially for my petre boards, as I don't think I have any handmade collars in any of my boards, just commercially made ones!

The pictures that are from smaller creators, such as products, as you stated, can easily be traced back to the creators by downloading the picture and using the Pinterest or even google image search; sometimes, there's even a watermark to make things easier. And, if you ask me, I'll find the creator for you if it's possible!

As a small side note, I never take credit for pictures that aren't my own, and I don't make any money from this. I'm not receiving anything that the creators aren't, except maybe views. And, if people asked me to remove pictures they didn't want on other people's accounts shown on one of my moodboards, I would. I have never had that happen, however, and when people do recognize pictures that they made in one of my moodboards, they have only ever been happy to see them. Here are two examples (check the reblogs)!! Example 1 Example 2

Ultimately, this is a grey area for content, and Pinterest has no better alternative. This debate is also nothing new! People have been making moodboards long before my time and will continue to do so after I stop. And I'm not saying I'm perfect or that other moodboard creators take the same precautions as me, but I am doing my best to make moodboards in a conscionable manner! If you can't get behind it, that's okay!! I would also be happy to discuss this more with you if you want!

#i figured someone would send me a message like this eventually! #I'm not one to shy away from criticism #because that doesn't solve anything in the end #i hope this was a satisfying explanation #even if it wasn't necessarily what you wanted to hear from me #as i said if i could credit everyone i would #but often i can't #Pip's barks #maybe I should put this in my pinned #i always try to respond to criticism helpfully and with respect #because most of the time criticism is out of concern for me or others #the only real resolution i can think of is saying “all images found on Pinterest” under my posts #but i don't think that would change anything because i assume everyone knows I'm not taking 30+ pictures a day #idk #I'm open to suggestions

[lucem-stellarum]

So this is what, the 3rd time Porter has been decked by a character because of his attitude? At minimum?

Under the cut for long and rambling character and literary analysis

We have the initial fight 4-5 years ago between Porter and Vincent

We have Lovely getting him during their "Switzerland" talk before the Summit

Now we have Asher at the Summit (part II electric boogaloo)

At this point, I'm starting to wonder if we're even supposed to like him as a character. Sure, he's charismatic. Porter got Treasure wrapped around his finger in less than an hour. But Mr. Redacted is usually pretty clear about delineating between who is intended to be the characters we're supposed to be supporting (with enough moral grayness to make them complex and interesting). So many of his characters are a great example of the difference between the narrative 'protagonist' and the narrative 'hero'. Going back to the more technical literary term, a protagonist* is the character the story is about, but they're not necessarily the same as the hero of the story. Yandere!Ivan was a great protagonist, but he's very obviously the villain of that plotline. If you want a classic example, Michael Corleone (The Godfather) is a villain protagonist.

*I'll point out that depending on what exact definition you're using for "protagonist" that you can argue that the listener character is supposed to be the main character. I don't think that fits because in many of Redacted's cases the listener falls into the "sexy lamp" trope, where by design they have few if any character traits of their own so we as listeners can project on them. To me, they're the point of view character, which though usually is not always the same as the protagonist. IMO, a protagonist should play a more active role in the story. Overall it's a fascinating way of capitalizing on the limitations of Mr. Redacted's chosen medium, and I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this phenomenon.

Most characters fall into either the 'hero' or 'villain' category. Characters like David, Asher, Vincent, Elliott, Guy, Ollie, and Gavin are all clearly hero protagonists**. Their respective stories revolve around their interactions with the listener character, they're the good, upstanding citizens that we want to support. They've got flaws, sure, but for the most part they're meant to be appealing characters that we agree with. Characters like Marcus, Yandere!Ivan, and Regulus are clearly the villain protagonists; they're the "bad guys", we want them to fail in whatever terrible thing they're trying to do. (Which isn't to say you can't enjoy their particular brand of twisted. Dark characters and themes are important and have their place).

**with the caveat that different focal length of a particular story can change who is the technical 'protagonist' and 'antagonist'. Kody, in his Water Elemental videos, is a 'villain protagonist'; when you look at the DAMN series overall he's better classified an antagonist of season 1. The fact that there's so many perspective changes across Mr. Redacted's overall work means that a lot of these terms can get muddied depending on which specific set of videos you're referring to.

Which brings me to the 3rd type of protagonist, the anti-hero. The anti-hero is a protagonist that the reader/listener wants to succeed, but generally lacks the traditional/universal moral traits that usually define the classic hero protagonist. Examples of an anti-hero protagonist include: Deadpool, Walter White (Breaking Bad), Huckleberry Finn. In particular, the mark of a well-written antihero protagonist is the fact that it can be difficult to distinguish them from a villain protagonist. Vega is a good example of this; in the Sadism's Hold/DAMN S1 series he's an antagonist for Freelancer and Yandere!Ivan. He graduates to a villain protagonist in early Carpe Deus, and with his stated goal of preventing another Cacophony he's morphing into an anti-hero in the more recent videos. I'm sure you can get hyper-specific if you start going through all the TVTropes pages to find the perfect flavor for individual characters, but most major protagonists can be classified as one of those three groups (with eternal, ongoing debates on where specifically you draw those particular lines based on your particular morals).

Bringing it back to Porter, I'm not sure that he's meant to be an anti-hero. He's charming, intelligent, capable, and likeable (to those not biased by his history like Vincent and Sam). But I don't think we're supposed to support him as a character overall. We've had too many "hero" characters come to conflict with him; Vincent, Asher, and Lovely explicitly. Even without getting into the fine distinctions between a protagonist/supporting character/POV character that's an awful lot of animosity from some very well established people. We might not know all of his goals/motives yet because they haven't been revealed to us (Porter wants to support William, wants to gain 'power', but why? What history drives him? What is his specific end goal with that power?) but his manipulation of other people, ruthlessness, and his own acknowledged boot-licking to increase his own social power disqualify him from a traditional "hero protagonist" role. An anti-hero is one we still are intended by the author to want to support, a character we want to see succeed. But because Mr. Redacted keeps putting Porter into direct conflict with more traditional protagonists it sets him up to be an opposing force; by definition he is an antagonist to our established hero protagonists.

I've talked a lot about the different types of protagonists and some of the minute distinctions between the different types of protagonists. Antagonists can be even more variable; you have your classic Devil, Sauron, and Darth Vader trying to kill your protagonist heroes. Technically speaking, antagonists don't necessarily have to be characters, either, they can be forces or concepts. An antagonist is just someone or something that opposes the protagonist. I won't divert into the different types of conflict in a story, but I'll point out how much more variety there is for your villains than your heroes based on their particular blend of moral alignment and narrative framing. (It's a lot easier to make things go wrong than it is to make things go well). You can also have sympathetic antagonists, where the villain has acceptable motives even if their methods are objectionable and cement their status as villains. Think the Wicked Witch of the West; Dorothy killed her sister, revenge is an entirely reasonable motive even if we're not supposed to be on her side. Adam and Quinn are the clearest unsympathetic antagonist villain characters in Redacted-verse. Blake is a sympathetic antagonist, vacillating between a villain and an anti-hero depending on whether we're looking at him from Sunshine or Bestie's POV.

As far as my initial claim that we're not supposed to like Porter, we have to consider which lens we're looking at him through. From Vincent's perspective he's an unredeemable asshole. William, however, clearly sees something in him. Other characters we trust that don't have that skewed perspective because of baggage, like Asher, don't like him either. While Porter is the protagonist of his own videos (you are the main character inside your own head) he's not being cast as a classical hero. Morality wise, even in his own story he's an anti-hero at best (he wasn't honestly trying to warn Treasure off, he was luring them in to SkySide). He's got the potential to be sympathetic (at least, according to Sam and William) but he's outnumbered in the narrative of protagonists (at the very least, by Vincent, Lovely, Asher, and there's evidence for Milo and David because of what he put Sweetheart up to) who consider him an antagonist, causing them problems or otherwise being obstructive. Considering the weight of numbers and length of existence in the overall story Mr Redacted is telling, Porter so far is generally being portrayed as an antagonist to our hero protagonists but not necessarily as a villain (like Vincent wants him to be) of Close Knit's caliber. So, this leaves him in a very interesting position on the morality/perspective spectrum. Essentially:

[Photo ID: a graph running from Villain to Hero along the horizontal axis and Protagonist to Antagonist along the vertical axis. Gavin, Lasko, Guy, Ollie, Caelum, David, Asher, Milo, Vincent (post-Adam) are in the Hero-Protagonist Corner. Regulus, Yandere!Ivan, Kody, Vega (DAMN S1) are in the Villain-Antagonist Corner. Vega (early) is in the Villain Protagonist Corner. Vincent (early) and Vega (later) are in the Protagonist Antihero area. Porter is in the Antagonist Antihero area. /end ID]

Because of these mostly negative relationships to our established characters I don't think he's meant to be "supportable". There's too many reasons someone could write him off as unredeemable, based off of his history, his current actions, and his morals. Mr Redacted obviously intended us to be pitted against certain characters like Adam, Kody, and Yandere!Ivan in the same way the author intends us to like and support wholesome characters like David, Huxley, and Guy. I think Porter was written in such a way that we're supposed to disapprove of him despite his likeability in the same way we're "supposed to" disapprove of most of the Imperium characters or Alexis. There's a glimmer of "redemption" deep down for how good they could be if the universe was a little kinder towards them and they didn't have to resort to morally questionable (at best) actions and perspectives, but harsh circumstances left them protecting themselves with sharp edges designed to make anyone who gets too close bleed. Character complexity is attractive, but that's not the same thing as being sympathetic.

After all of this I have to say, death of the author is 100% valid as a concept. At least half of a story is determined by the reader themselves, and this in particular is just my interpretation of these particular facts and classifications. Depending on how you want to weight certain factors and perspectives you can come to a completely different conclusion. By trying to define a particular character the act of applying a definition means you have to be reductive; making a decision on which box to put them in flattens out their complexities. You don't have to APPROVE of a character to LIKE them. There's also a difference between a morally GOOD character and a COMPELLING character. Not every character has to be redeemed, it's not a prerequisite for finding them interesting. Just because Mr Redacted wants us to hate certain characters doesn't mean everyone is obligated to; you're entitled to your own opinion.

#redacted asmr #redacted porter #character analysis #character criticism #to be safe #I'm trying to keep an open mind #I don't like him #but I find him fascinating #i want to put him under a microscope and study him #nuance is important #idk if anything I've said here about authorial intentions is contradicted by the podcast but #word of god is NOT the same thing as canon #i was thinking my thoughts and came up with this

[fitzrove]

Not to simplify a complex historical issue in a tumblr post but I think the reason Conspiracy (Elisabeth Essen/Hungarian prods) and fandom discussions/headcanons/fanwork deriving from it (ie. advancing the interpretation that the cause of Rudolf's anguish & the thing Tod is trying to manipulate him to do is the pursuit of Hungarian independence/seizing the Hungarian throne) tend to set me off is that it ignores the thing that's, like, the historical and the musical Rudolf's actual main deal, which is anti-conservative thought and the emotional pain and feelings of powerlessness brought about by living in a world full of state-sanctioned prejudice, hatred and anti-intellectualism (among other things)

Which I, for, like, personal reasons, find more compelling to reflect upon and have portrayed on stage in our 21st century world (= "oppressive politics on state level bad" seems. Relevant somehow) than stuff like a privileged person's private quest for power (throne) or a vaguely positive portrayal of nationalism (especially since Hungarian nationalism in the 21st century isn't super cuddly or feel-good ajdkdldl, so I think having those foundation myths repeated actually borders on irresponsible - depending on the framing, that is)

Plus its not historically accurate, like the conspiracy plot has not been conclusively proven to have happened. Unlike todolf [redacted] which is indisputable historical fact

#incomprehensible posts #to make after having to read incomprehensible ir theory for school 😭 #i'm not trying to say that opibeth is an instrument of evil nationalist soft power or anything like i'm sure they have good intentions ajdk #its just worth thinking about critically #same with productions removing hass. because i genuinely think that the prods that dont have hass deal w rudolf incompletely #of course it can be debated whether its morally right to disturb/traumatise the audience to make a point ajdkdl #its difficult because i do think people who havent been personally affected need to be disturbed like that to make them think #but obviously its a tough issue idk #musicals #theatre #elisabeth das musical

[victoriawaterfield]

something i've noticed w chris chibnall's writing. idk how much sense this is gonna make. but when it comes to writing pre established characters (reoccurring ones, bringing back past companions) he's really good. like a good amount of his torchwood episodes that just include team torchwood are super good, and jack and the other returning companions (ace / tegan) are honestly some of the best written bits of thirteens era to me and then when it comes to his own characters they just sort've. fall flat? if that makes sense? like with john hart, you can very much see the attempt at making him a river song (even though she didn't really exist at the time) or the master esque character but it falls flat and seems more like knock off then anything else. it's not the worst, but it sets up for something that is obviously greater than it ended up being. and with thirteens era, her companions don't get enough character development despite having the time to grow as they're shown on screen, even the doctor, despite having her moments, doesn't get a lot of development past the timeless child, which was definitely interesting (this isn't negative or positive, i did find it intriguing) but also, once again, not elaborated on. now obviously this all isn't necessarily like. a bad thing from my point of view? i just think that. idk. i just thought it was interesting.

#doctor who #chris chibnall #chibnall critical #torchwood #john hart #thirteenth doctor #i don't dislike chris chibnall as a writer or as a showrunner #i think that some of the episodes from his era were pretty alright. & obviously. he wrote countrycide #& i definitely like the diversity in writers #i just. #idk! #you can very much tell that he wrote 4 torchwood when you watch the jack episodes #& i think at the end of his era he definitely was improving #i just don't see why he became showrunner ig is what i'm trying to say? #guys idek if this is anything.

[lord-squiggletits]

I need to reread the comics again to have specific arguments/evidence for this, but like

I feel a bit like I could've been sympathetic to the way other Cybertronian colonies view Cybertron, if it weren't for the fact that at least several of them (as in, ones that get notable dialogue/screen time) are so low-key self-righteous?

Like, idk... there's a lot of criticism of Cybertronians because they're so "warlike" and how their obsession with violence and vengeance is just dragging the whole galaxy down with them, but uh. The Autobot-Decepticon war was basically a product of societal ills bubbling over for like 6 million years beforehand and then finally boiling over into a 4 million year war that lasted as long as it did because the people involved had immense social/psychological trauma from being "raised" in an oppressive society.

So when the colonists come in being all 'omg you people are so violent and uncivilized why don't you just like, stop fighting' it kind of pissed me off a little bit as a reader/person like. Idk the colonists really came into this society of people full of massive amounts of trauma where even before the war society was super oppressive and no one has any experience of living "normal" lives unaffected by violence and bigotry. And the colonists were like "ummm wow why don't you guys just??? stop fighting???." Like idk it wasn't EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, in fact I think that when it was played for laughs it's quite a funny "fridge horror" type element. It was just annoying because like.... IDK???? It's just really annoying to watch a bunch of people who lived relatively sheltered lives on their own planets come to a different planet full of traumatized people and be like "omg why are you people so fucked up" IDK BRO MAYBE BECAUSE THEIR SOCIETY WAS OPPRESSIVE AND THEY LIVED THROUGH A LIFELONG WAR???

It also doesn't help that the colonies were literally founded based on imperialism and conquest so like, it's fucking rich to hear colonists scolding Cybertronians for their violence ruining the whole galaxy while literally sitting on planets that their Primes colonized from others. The hypocrisy of this is briefly mentioned in Unicron (literally the FINAL STORY OF THE SERIES) but like, that's basically the only time Cybertronian characters are given a reprieve of sympathy from other characters in universe and it's so tiresome.

I've talked to other people who didn't like the colonists and thought they basically (narratively speaking) existed just to shit on the existing characters, and it's actually really easy for me to sympathize with/outright agree with that assessment of the story considering how much of exRID/OP seems to be preoccupied with "Cybertron/the Primes/Optimus sucks" with very few reprieves for anything positive happening and even fewer chances for characters to get to explain themselves and experience a little bit of justice? Like, as the audience, it's just very frustrating to see the characters you spent hundreds of issues keeping up with get shit on by a bunch of "literally-who"s and then not really get a chance to ever defend themselves, either by literally defending themselves in conversation or having some sort of narrative thing happening that vindicates them at least symbolically

#squiggposting #paused work to muse about this which i prolly shouldn't have lol #oh well i'll still get stuff done #like idk an example of this is how pyra criticized OP for using religion to manipulate people #(lets just ignore how she said she would teach OP but never actually did) #but in the story there's never any sort of confrontation where pyra learns about history or talks with OP #and OP gets to be like. yeah on my planet primes fucking sucked and i'm the only one trying to redeem their image #also ive been fighting an endless war that lasted 4 mil years in which me being a shining figurehead was basically #the sole motivating force keeping my army from just collectively succumbing to endless despair #and i also had to use this shining figurehead image i had to keep the opposing army from genociding a bunch of organics #like not once does OP get to express his side of things he's basically just shit upon endlessly by other characters as he keeps doing plot #i feel like i had another example but i can't recall who/what was involved lmao #like idk it's not just that barber's writing is depressing and dark and edgy. i LIKE stories that do that kind of thing #it's just that it feels a bit as if the story is ENDLESSLY depressing and dark and edgy with almost no reprieve #as if it's mostly presenting the flaws of the characters with no chance for them to justify or redeem themselves #idk i feel like there was another better point/example i was gonna make but i can't remember it #like idk i guess a dark depressing story would've been better if the characters at least got to defend themselves #bc as is it basically feels like they (esp OP) get shit on endlessly and never once get to express anything about it #so like. they get shit on in universe. but also as the reader since there's never a contradicting viewpoint or the character defending them #it's as if you're supposed to take this one-sided criticism of them at face value and it just doesn't seem fair AS THE READER #if i read about OP getting shit on by some people and defended by others and also him expressing his opinion on himself #then that just feels like a normal fair narrative where i get to take sides #but if it's just OP being shit on and he hardly expresses much about it #then it feels like i as the reader am expected to agree with the portrayal being shown? #but in reality the portrayal just feels negative and unfair and one sided to me #and why the fuck do i want to read a story that's just the characters i know and like on an endless shame parade #also shout out to 'literally who' aka slide calling OP 'literally fascist' lmao #one of the most cringe moments of the entire comic. wait no. i can think of a more cringe Slide Moment #when unicron is about to destroy the planet and trypticon is getting shot and dying(?) in the background #and the story decides to pause and focus on Slide so she can monologue about how evil and tyrannical OP is

[theflyingfeeling]

fic talk in the tags 💝

#aaaaaaaa i have only 4 stores left to write for the advent calendar and then i'm done?! 😭 #i can't believe it guys i might actually be able to pull this off 👀 #i've literally just winged it day after day with minimal planning #and i haven't even had a breakdown once? gonna knock on wood here real quick lol #i've had so much fun writing all these little stories too 🥺 and i'm fairly satisfied with them as well! yes!! me!! my biggest critic!! #i'm not gonna be writing anything for a while after i get these last ones done though lol i've written SO MUCH during these past weeks #however i did write down a short piece of dialogue in finnish the other day 👀 #like. literally 11 words and idk if i'm ever gonna write more but those words just...came to me so i had to write them down somewhere #(it has been peer-reviewed as 'perfect' (thanks eetu <3) and you can totally slide in my DMs if you're curious) #and the college/uni au i've been playing with practically all autumn is something i definitely want to give a try #(so far i only have some random notes and moodboards 😅) #but whatever i'll end up writing i'll do it because i want to and that's what's important 🤍 #thank you so much everyone who has been reading these stories or any of my fics this year #i really am not expecting anyone to read my stories and i'm happy if even just one person does 🥺 #okay sappy talk over now back to writing byeeeeee #*stories

[rosesradio]

does anyone want to make like a petition or something for thomas to donate at least part of the ad revenue on his sorting video to a trans charity? or at least put some kind of disclaimer in the video or in the description stating that he doesn’t support jkr, and maybe link some resources and/or charities to encourage donations? idk, it just sits weirdly with me that, upon checking the video a minute ago, there’s no alterations to how it was originally posted to address the bigotry of that franchise.

(especially considering he bought a bunch of merch for the video, which he makes a joke about, potentially encouraging his viewers to sort & buy merch for their houses as well)

#and most of the recent comments don't seem to care either :/ #and see back like a year or so ago when i was still trying to be a fan and just support fan stuff i listened to this hp podcast-- #and it was really nice that they used a good portion of their proceeds around pride month (and i think around j*r's birthday as well)-- #to donate to trans charities to kind of counteract that bigotry #unfortunately i just can't listen anymore bc i'm sick of the whole thing #but the point is i feel like thomas isn't saying anything in the hopes of not addressing it? #and if he's really trying to make a 'safe space' and be 'open about feelings' and stuff like in his videos that's no way to go about it yk #i dunno #and yes on my pinned i say i don't want to harass any hp fans. but i also think those fans have a responsibility to voice-- #their disagreement. and if they're in a situation like thomas's where they're continuously receiving ad revenue-- #(idk how much for 6M views but i don't imagine it's like one of my paychecks :/) #then he should do what he can to try to counteract that bigotry #(not to mention he still has like every other video plus the patreon plus merch so it's not like i'm suggesting to rob him blind--) #wow look at these tags. if only i could write fic so easily #anyways #sanders sides #ts crit #ts criticism #ts critical

[leavemetoplaythesims]

#it's just an idea at this point that i like thought about yesterday give or take #i haven't decided how i want to do it yet #this blog would be fun cause i have all of you on here #but a side blog would also be fun so i could make it it's own thing #so idk help me #i have so many games on steam #we are talking hundreds #and it's not slowing down anytime soon #so i need to have some kind of motivation to finish them #so i thought i could write small game reviews #cause i love to talk about games and it could be a cute conversation starter #they wouldn't be super critical or in depth or anything #just what i like and dislike and if i recommend it or not #i like so many different types of games and i'm up for trying almost everything so i thought it could be fun #idk please let me know if this is something you would be interested in!! #also i'm up for ideas on how to execute it if you have them! #my polls

[evilkitten3]

maybe it's just been a while since i watched any anime online but. it feels like it's gotten more. annoying

#personal #naruto #naruto shippuden #last night i watched episodes 321 and 322 #now i'm. trying. to watch 323 #but on a different site bc the one i was using last night didn't work for this one #but this site's got the loading bs #the theme song is. eh #it's not bad or anything i just feel like they could've done more #or maybe i'm being too critical idk

[captainofthetidesbreath]

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#Seeing a weirdass take about Chetney not being a team player in a way reminiscent of like classic toxic d&d bros is so weird #It does acknowledge that Travis himself is a generous player but Chetney is selfish and not working with the team #And it's so weird to me because a) Chetney isn't any less cooperative than any other member of the team #(he's actually MORE cooperative than Nott and Caleb were for a very long time) #And b) I feel like it ignores Chetney is actually rather responsive and aware of the others and is eager to work with them when required #Refusing to tell the others he had the money but pays for most of their shit #and going off to scout or capitalize on opportunity but communicating poorly about it #and going off on his own to run dicey personal errands he doesn't want the others entangled in #those aren't like at all similar to things that are selfish or similar to classic toxic d&d table behaviors #So I'm very ????? about the take Chetney isn't a team player in ways reminiscent of specific d&d toxicity (even as Travis remains generous) #Chetney is cagey and defensive but he almost DESPERATELY wants to be part of the group as much as he is wary of them #It's honestly insane imo and overlooks the entire context of Chet and willfully ignores when he is generous; thoughtful; and cooperative #Like Chetney isn't hiding the money for himself because he spends a lot of it for the party. He goes off on his own for the party's uses. #He hasn't done anything multiple other characters haven't done so ??? #Why is this take trying to act like Chetney is more selfish or self-centered or toxic or less of a team player than anyone else #Idk idk I might revisit this in more whisper tags when I'm not typing on mobile from bed and discussed this with The Board (friends in DMs) #Critical Role things #CR spoilers #also maybe I think that characters are allowed to be selfish

[bibiana112]

I'm going to draw wktd fanart (to cope with a highly specific situation) while I still have the time for it (looming employment) and that is a promise to myself (I probably have something else I said I'd work on but whatever)

#I strt at the end of the month and I'm #I'm not even gonna say I'm scared I'm not I'm just not quite excited either? I'll pull through #and hopefully eat better and be able to buy fun things thaNK FUCK #however also taxes. I am not looking forward to taxes #like it's literally an ideal position if I don't manage it for whatever reason that'll be uh. something big for me to find out limits wise #but it's whatever I'm curious and I gotta try #and like I said god I'll be so happy to be able to afford hyper specific autism approved food that's gonna make everything so much easier #oh also the hyper specific situation? don't worry about it. just know I'm going to cry into whatever I draw for that game atm #I mentioned it in the post I made about it these days I literally skimmed through lines of one of the endings and immediately cried a single #Annoying tear. I feel like I don't cry about life things as much as would be healthy to and when I do I don't cry right #so I just get so annoyed at these sudden single tear moments when I'm not even putting effort into anything they just leak out #because something on a screen hit too close to home in an instant but I can't even properly Feel it because I'm focused on something else #and the thing in question has well been Acknowledged and rendered Irrelevant #it's not satisfying like crying for being engrossed on a story and/or characters and I absolutely hate how idk picturesque? it feels #people criticize drawing crying with a pretty single tear all the time it feels so fake and forced to fit the medium in a way that's still #appealing and consumable but I'm just a person with depersonalization issues. reverse derealization. everything's real except me #anyways I wasn't spiraling I will continue to not spiral about that at this moment but that's constantly there in my brain #and I'm going to draw the body horror lesbian polycule about it #Void fala aí #oh yeah I promised field sib content uh I can easily do that as a warm-up on a work day obviously pfft #''end of the month'' she's so pretentious you mean next week

[orbleglorb]

nothing makes me feel stupider than reading poetry i just can't fucking understand. unfortunately that is most poetry.

#i can't understand abstract things no matter how hard i try #unfortunately that does mean that most people find me stupid #i want to understand So Bad but i can't unless i'm walked through it #and even then i sometimes don't get it #and asking for help is just a great way to be called an idiot #i am so bad at understanding why poems are as emotionally impactful as everyone finds them #like i conceptually can understand richard siken poems but i don't get them like everyone else does #and it makes me feel so fucking stupid #i've had too many teachers mad that i didn't 'just get it' to NOT be made to feel like an idiot #everyone talks about how stories without symbolism are empty & ppl who enjoy stories w/o symbolism are... many things #unwilling to do critical thinking AT BEST #idk i want to. i just fucking can't because i'm fucking stupid #i cannot look at anything in a story and understand its symbolism #i can only barely grasp themes and then it's hard to put into words what it is #“oh there's no right answer” 12 years of school have taught me otherwise

[daenerys-targaryen]

ok i'm going back to my cave some of y'all are too intense about things and i'm just here to vibe

#leah rambles #i think i jumped head first into some drama without even realizing it so just ignore me cause idk what i'm doing on here #i forgot how to naviate the fandom lol #i mean the fandoms always been this way #but like #i'm here to have a good time #i didn't mean to ruffle any feathers #while i was specifically talking about non swifties memeifying the archer mirror ball and this is me trying earlier #i do think that some swifties have memeified this is me trying mirrorball and the archer #i do not think that saying you dislike album covers or songs will majorly hurt taylor #or think it's even remotely on the same level of harmful as tracking her jets or shipping her with her friends / people #like saying you don't like album covers isn't going to cause taylor to hate herself lol #really the fandom has always had this strange mindset of 'you can't criticize anything she does ever because that means you're a bad fan!" #or think that they're better than people who don't like something she does #and it's so fucking weird #but anyways i don't want any discourse or drama if you've got something to say dm it to me #going back to winona twitter where people aren't mean and act like this is highschool

[prince-of-calydon]

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#just venting down here i guess #tw vent #dont reblog #this is about the thebaid musical #filling this up with extra tags just in case you don't wanna see my problems lmao #lately ive been feeling like. all of this was for nothing idk #i know my music isn't the best but my brain hasn't been very nice to me as of late #it's trying to convince me that all my songs sound the same and they're not even rock they're just pop with a rock guitar soundfont urhrjgjf #made even worse by my rejection sensitivity taking constructive criticism from my friends on the lyrics #and turning it into 'it sucks it bad booo we hate it why did you make this' #and i have to do a presentation on it bc it's school funded??? i have to show my music to tens if not hundreds of people??? #idk. it's fucking me up and i'm wondering if im capable of doing anything that ISNT marketable to children. #I've also never been too fond of my singing voice and now this whole project is just demo after demo after demo and sometimes it sounds good #and other times it sounds like I should just trash it #hfbdjfbfhfhrh. head full many thoughts.