#it doesn’t matter

[thatmooncake]

LET SUN BE SASSY

Let him be sassy to kids, let him be sassy to adults, let him be sassy to staff, let him be sassy to Moon, let him be sassy to inanimate objects, let him be sassy on good days, let him be sassy on bad days

Or just ignore the whole thing or blame it on the virus, it’s all good either way

#fnaf #sundrop #help wanted 2 #help wanted 2 spoilers #we don’t need a good reason to like something for a character #or not like it #it doesn’t matter #also #his song from Ruin is still valid #he still gets sad without his crafts ok

[featherandstorm]

My sanity needs someone one time to call “the Blue” actinium. Please. Actinium fluoresces blue and one of its isotopes has a 21 year half life. It’s been 20 winters since the first stoats drove out the humans.

It’s has zero bearing on the show, I just must know.

#burrows end #actinium #burrow's end #burrow’s end spoilers? i guess? #it doesn’t matter #my science brain wants to know #im radioactively decaying

[paradoxolotl]

I am very sad and could use some happy if anyone has a drop to spare

#I know I’m not like ‘around’ anymore #but if you had a moment for me I would very much appreciate it #I’m in the stage of creation where I can see my skill level is lacking from where I want it to be #and the words in my brain are not translating properly onto the page #unfortunately this year has done its best to turn me into dust #and then beat me down some more #so I have not been able to tear at it until it snaps and flows again #which has been cool #losing my form of escapism and all #anyways #it doesn’t matter #tell me a joke #pet pics #a silly story #your favourite thing you saw today #the world is beautiful and wide and more than any of us #I’ve just been caught in grey wash

[addsalwayssick]

listen; i am all for you not like a ship, or a character, or preferring a canon characterization. but i am not all for being hate into this word for someone who does like this ship or character. now, i’m not a fan of snape, but i don’t care if you are. i may ask why and give counterpoints, but if you don’t want that feel free to tell me. i. dont. care. people connect to different characters because we’re human. maybe you connect to snape because you said something you regretted to a friend and now you’ve lost them, i don’t know. but i will never dislike you or hate on you because you like him. i may not agree, but that’s not your problem. if you don’t like james, i expect you to hold the same regards for me. you don’t have to like james, but i do. i won’t judge you for disliking james. if you don’t like jegulus, that’s fine, you don’t need to. it’s not for everyone, but it is NOT okay to call it a stupid ship, or the people who ship it stupid. it is not okay to take something that people connect with and try to destroy it just because you don’t like it. i will not tolerate that near me, and you will be blocked. if you don’t like something, THAT IS OKAY!! you don’t have to like everything. maybe remadora felt weird to you! me too! but if people love remadora and feel like they connect with that ship, why on earth would i try and argue agaisnt it? or maybe you connect with sirius black, and i come over and be like ‘well in canon he’s actually very manly and tall and he didn’t really care about leaving his family and-‘ that’s not very kind, is it? Let People Live.

#james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #sirius #jegulus #sirius x lupin #wolfstar #regulus and evan and barty #sirius and regulus #remus and regulus #canon vs fanon #it doesn’t matter #they are fictional #but if someone connects to something #stop destroying it #it’s asshole behavior #knock it off #my respect for these people are not there. #i am young yet i know that people doing this is wrong

[philsmeatylegss]

I fucking hate with a burning passion when queer people defend Israel by saying “they would kill you in Palestine for being gay” or something along those lines.

Putting aside the fact that is completely untrue, even in a situation where somehow every Palestinian wanted me dead for being gay, I would still be on their side.

Genocide is wrong. Period. I couldn’t care less about their opinions on my sexuality. Palestinians are being slaughtered for the crime of just existing. And that is not okay.

Queers who aren’t pro-Palestine are an embarrassment to the community.

#I just saw another gay say this and my blood is fucking boiling #putting aside the fact I’ve watched multiple visably queer and or trans people who went to Palestine and talked about how they were either #treated equally or were welcomed #IT DOESN’T MATTER #even if Palestine were the most homophobic people in the world #WHICH ISN’T TRUE #it still doesn’t justify their slaughter #and queer people who have this mindset are fucking selfish and need to get a grip #rae’s rambles #lgbt #free palestine #Palestine

[a-small-writer-in-a-big-world]

I forgot how much better my life is now that my dash is free of much negativity. Here’s your reminder to unfollow people who you don’t want to follow anymore it’s okay to do it

#it doesn’t matter #in the grand scheme of things #I couldn’t imagine being that miserable #and negative all the time on here #not saying you have to be positive all the time #but damn #nothing but anger #and almost *bullying* #oh well #won’t be naming names #or tagging people #respectfully you guys shoudlnt either #no drama #just thoughts

[lunarlivs]

okay but PLEASE imagine werewolf sirius?

scenario one, where both remus and sirius are bitten at a small age, but where as sirius is shunned and even more of a disgrace, remus is loved and helped by his parents’s and then in hogwarts they spend the moons together, learning to love themselves and eventually each other and ah so lovely and sweet little puppies finding their first friend

or my personal fav, where sirius willingly get’s bitten/turned into a werewolf to truly stay by remus’s side bc they’re so in love nothing can come in between understanding one another

#idk how animagus’s would work in the second one #it doesn’t matter #but please imagine this!!!! #how cool!!!! #how emotional!!! #how sad!!!! #marauders #marauders era #sirius black #remus lupin #wolfstar #marauders fandom #thunk

[shallowseeker]

@ahundredbillionheavens - This might be a reductive answer to your question, but I think souls are empathy.

Empathy is what powers a story (and the Hollywood grind cycle), so it works pretty eloquently.

For someone to “become soulless” is simply for something to happen that turns that empathy off.

✅Could be a head wound (that one young man in Dream a Little Dream of Me, I think it was [?] or akin to how Amara injured Donatello)

✅ It could be a trauma that causes a character to withdraw / completely sunder / shut off their emotions (a la soulless Sam). Sam is vulnerable to this…he often shuts off his emotions/distances his own emotions by intellectualizing others.

✅ It could be torture and pain (demons).

✅ Or the coldness of time and distance (angels).

In this way, it’s very possible for demons, angels…anyone to have “a soul.” After all, “grace” is like a soul in that it can be wielded in violence or healing. Angels are just sold the line that “grace doesn’t count as a soul. It’s stoic, powerful, not nurturing or healing.”

And demons are sold the line, “it’s too late for you / you don’t matter anymore.”

(But we see family and friends heal each other again and again, even demons and angels, through great loyalty and sometimes terrible sacrifices.)

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Humanity is often shorthand for empathy.

✅ When you “sell your soul” to an entity, it can power itself vicariously through the “soul,”eating/draining all the hopes and dreams, spending it like dirty vice money (Hell) or powering a whole grand enterprise (Heaven).

I think this works in a very real meta sense, and it’s also how we see Chuck use Sam in 15x09 The Trap. It is not until Sam is drained of hope that Chuck is rejuvenated.

Why then, are humans more valuable than demons/angels? I think a clue is with Amara’s hunger in season 11. She laments that humans are mostly (cosmic) empty space. (Which is true of us and the universe.) But! She eats angels and demons too!

I think… The metaphor is that, in the world of story, human “empathy/experience” is compressed inside the narrative character. (Indeed: characters are avatars for multiple writers and audiences, “compressed” into a single, often morphing character/idea.)

Ergo, the human souls of SPN are so compressed that they’re simply more filling/less empty space. They’re like bite-sized, high-calorie gold nuggets you can eat. (Demons are maybe low-calorie, thorny, hard nuts to crack. Angels are too vast to tap, disconnected from their emotions like a perpetual state of alexithymia. Or like an ore field with no tools to get at the usable stuff.)

When angels get “compressed” into human vessels, their grace probably feels more. When they are compressed, they’re perhaps literally more in touch with their own emotions. A nice nod to how our own bodies help us identify/“feel” our emotions. (Angels are deadened by too much inhibition, a loss of free will and denial of the emotions through shifting those emotions onto a grander cause.)

And demons are “cured” by transfusion, which essentially cuts through the prickly shell of not-caring. (Demons are numb via the disinhibitory loss of free will and the shame of non consensual choosing disguised as purely the fault of the exploited. This generates righteous anger that can be wielded, especially if it becomes blind.)

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Anyhoo! Empathy powers stories! Souls are empathy.

Grace, souls, corrupted souls are the same star stuff, but perhaps souls are neatly packaged/compressed so that we’re (generally) “in touch with” our energy and emotions.

Soullessness is any barrier to empathy.

Or being “out of touch,” too maybe…

I might be delirious but i am bored in my hospital room.

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In a narrative, empathy may be much of what matters in a very real sense. Nihilism and apathy are supreme enemies of the story. They cause it to spiral into a neurotic mess of, “why bother?”

(They all died and nothing changed / it was all a dream / all writers lie and this story is a big lie / shaggy dog story etc. is boring and cowardly. “Playing it safe” and “Keeping things up to interpretation” can dissolve meaning and backbone. When ppl say “it didn’t stick the landing,” this is what they mean.)

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Aside/// Plenty of characters have emotions, like how Lucifer has been shown to have turbulent ones. But he lacks empathy for his peers.

His bitterness causes his emotions to be terminally self-focused, and purposefully blase. Even the deeper emotions he feels for Jack are akin to a dingy in a sea… and Lucifer would drown that dingy to stay afloat.

“Soon I’ll be me again,” he says after feeding off Anael, seeming genuinely rattled by the act of feeling his own emotions and seeing his own true motivations (that is, contrary to his rebellious streak, he valued fitting in…pleasing his dad). I think that’s a nice Sam parallel.

Lucifer was chronically used and victim-blamed by Chuck, (as late as s11), and he’s unable to connect to others in a real empathic sense because it’s unsafe. He only feels alive in the heat of battle/fighting a bigger enemy than himself (Amara, AU Michael). It’s safer for him because the chaos of the battlefield offers security and built-in allies…so long as that war keeps waging.

#spn thoughts #asks #still in progress #empathy does not negate violence #meaning vs nihilism #empathy does not negate evil #it negates apathy #nihilism is the ultimate enemy #it doesn’t matter #why bother etc etc #the enemy of story #lucifer sam parallels #lucifer afraid of feeling #sam afraid of grieving #not ethics #but story* ethics!

[nat-seal-well]

My mom and I are currently trying desperately to get tickets for the crane wives in August to surprise my sister

#yes I’m on the clock #it doesn’t matter

[leafmewrites]

I just remembered something, when Percy met Sadie Kane he said her Percy-like personality mixed with her Annabeth-like looks gave him an idea of what his and Annabeth’s kids might look like. Sadie is canonically BIRACIAL!! BLACK ANNABETH HAS ALWAYS BEEN A POSSIBILITY EVEN IN CANON!! SHUT UP ABT YOUR “FORCED DIVERSITY”

#and even if she was described as solely being white #it doesn’t matter #white people have a million smart white characters to look up to #let others have this #pjo #annabeth chase #percy jackson #percabeth #Sadie Kane #percy jackson series #also ik Sadie is described as looking like a white girl #but we all know he likes to take ethnic features away from his characters for some reason

[16woodsequ]

Me, an author who likes to do research writing a Steve Rogers WW2 fic: I can tell you the food they would've eaten, and the tents they used, and the medical supplies they had, and the music they got, and rationing and---

Also me: Military ranking? How does... that work? Uhhhh *waves hand vaguely* It doesn't really matter

#i prefer the details that broaden oir understanding of hiw the characters lived i guess #i only have vague ideas of how the army works #it doesn’t matter #the Howling Commandos are already an exception #steve rogers #fanfiction #fanfic meme #writing #writing meme

[lamp2003]

#it doesn’t matter #Spotify

[tiger-is-a-certified-idiot]

Thinking about how a character’s intelligence doesn’t depend on how much they know, but rather how much they know compared to the audience.

A character could know all the secrets of the universe. But if we know the answer to the Super Duper Narrative Mystery (Aka whatever conflict exists in the plot) and the character does not, we perceive them as pretty dim, especially especially if another character in the show can solve the mystery, and especially especially especially if we solve it with them.

Whereas if a character is finding and solving clues that were barely, if at all, presented to the audience, that character seems like an absolute genius, even if they don’t actually have knowledge beyond that of a regular person. The audience is trailing behind the smart character, who is leading the narrative investigation.

This is also why rewatching a show can completely change your perception of a character. If you watch the show again, you catch all of the clues and foreshadowing that was previously missed, and suddenly you, the audience are the one leading. This completely changes the dynamic between character and audience. You feel clever, and the character who before was leagues above you, is now on equal footing, (or below.)

Both of these interpretations of The Smart Character are equally important, in my opinion. The first allows you to respect the character, while the second allows you to look deeper and analyze their decisions and actions and dialogue a little closer, and less biased. This is why every media should be consumed twice.

#the little dopamine shots I get from finding Things in the media I like that I missed the first time #even if the Boom moments don’t hit as hard #it doesn’t matter #gotta suck that bitch dry #… #i may have adhd #related fandom tags… #good omens #good omens 2 #TLT #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #aziraphale #Crowley #doctor who #arcane #sherlock holmes #feel free to add on

[shatterspin]

“fan”kid of kai n jay

#i can’t remember ship name #it doesn’t matter #ninjago #the hollow

[speedofsoundsketches]

I think it’s shameful that Sonic fans gripe and moan about their issues with the series yet they make no effort to let the higher ups at SEGA know their feelings.

You’re no different than them!

I saw your response to that anon. Some fan you are if you’re not going to even try to enact any form of change. You whine about the films and their writing and direction yet you don’t make any effort to let Casey, Miller, and Fowler know your issues. You know, the writers and director? You blather about SEGA’s BS yet by taking no action to let them know your dissatisfaction, you are actively condoning it. As someone who wrote a strongly worded letter to Paramount about the movie design, and to SOA after what happened with Colors Ultimate, I question your proclamation about you being a fan if you’re not even going to take the slightest bit of initiative beyond complaining on places like Twitter.

Even if you think actual action is just a lesson in futility, do you not think at least doing something is better than doing nothing? For shame! A fine “longtime fan” you are.

It amuses me how you approach trying to convince me my voice matters to anyone with power to change anything by calling my answers to people asking for my opinions as “whining”. You’re not doing your argument a favor by framing my honest thoughts as such.

These series of movies have, in about a four years span, made a collective amount of over $700 million against a budget of $80 to $110 million each. Money talks and movies or any creative discipline is no different.

I’ve been working in entertainment for the last almost decade now. I bump elbows often with producers, directors and the like in my career. And I’ve learned a thing or two from this experience thus far and one of the main lessons is this.

Most studio heads and those with authority to greenlit anything do not care about “integrity” in adaptations because they go where the money goes. Apparently, what actually convinced the producers of the first movie to change Sonic’s design wasn’t all the heat they were getting from fans and critics alike. They in fact, expected that. They mostly cared about the opinions of their target audience, which is the young children. And it wasn’t until during test screenings with children who ended up not liking the design and even found it scary, that they THEN gave any serious thought to shifting gears. (I’d provide the source on this but it seems to be tough to find. I’ll share once I can locate it again)

My voice is but one of a many that are drowned out into a single tune of white noise of what the entertainment industry just considers to be from “basement dwelling losers who think too much over this stuff.” Theres little I or most fans can hope to do because it’s been clear for years now that most producers do not care about what fans think of their products. If they can sell their product to a tried and true audience that will haplessly consume whatever they throw in front of them, there’s very little incentive to change for any reason. “Respecting source material” won’t, by their perspective, bring the massive amount of return they want, especially if they can find a way to widen that gap by spending less on budget as is possible to maximize profits.

It’s a messy, terrible, goofed up situation but unfortunately, there’s little anyone can do about it save for just not giving them money anymore. But the likelihood of convincing millions of parents not to take their kids to see a movie about a funny hedgehog boy because it “doesn’t properly adapt the original games” is in the negative chances of happening. You are up against the nature of the average consumer and they do not care for one woman’s tumblr blog of opinions.

And if the audience of people willing to pay money to see it regardless of quality don’t care, why should the production team?

#Zoomer Sonic #asks #anon #text #ramble #It is what it is mate #I can have honest thoughts about a movie without needing to become some kind of agenda #I’ve no interest in starting a platform for things like this #because at the end of the day really #it doesn’t matter #(see what I did there ayyyy lol)

[siennahrobek]

Look I’m no author

But like, sometimes. Sometimes, I come up with stuff that makes me chuckle like;

 Obi-Wan narrowed his eyes. Who taught Boil manipulation tactics?

He paused, nearly tripping at the realization.

Oh right. He did.

#it doesn’t matter #all that matters is it made me laugh #sometimes I reread stuff and I’m just like lol what #I did that? #anyways #yeah throwback #I’ve mostly done canon divergence cause AUGH the Jedi dying suck