#it would be equally as shitty

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

If Adora and Catra both did crap to hurt each other then why do I never see comics abt Adora feeling like crap and feeling bad for hurting Catra

#salt salt salt #old draft post that i had stewing in here #even fandom knows. they KNOW. that c//a is not an equal relatioship. #equal c//a would have these two ALWAYS arguing back and forth with each other about things from the past. possibly working them out togethe #equal c//a FANON would naturally reflect this following that same logic #so why is it when we see the premises of “Adora has to apologize to Catra now” its the same tired old... #“Im sorry i left you in the Horde” #and nothing else. #“im sorry that your feelings were hurt and im sorry that you had no influence over me at that time... Im sorry that you're STILL mad at me” #she's not apologizing over something that she is genuinely sorry about #she's apologizing in these fanon works as a means to placate catra (and fans' warped reality of what this relationship actually is) #it's a shitty vaguely disguised way to “equalize” c//a and make it so that they BOTH look like awful people #when obviously this is not the case because the narrative itself doesn't think Adora is wrong for leaving the Horde! #even if these two were “equally bad” to each other. why ship them then. really. seriously. i get the rhetoric of “ooh toxic spicy ship” but #if they're really SO “toxic and spicy” where is the part where they're BOTH toxic? BOTH bad for each other? #it's not a toxic relationship if ONE side is toxic. thats called an abusive relationship. anyway. im done now. good night. #whoops! tag rant

[heterophobiclanwangji]

AU where Su Xiyan kills the Palace Master and rules Huan Hua alongside her demonic boytoy

#scum villain #sv #svss #svsss #su xiyan #tianlang jun #uhhh i know there's a ship name for them but i can never remember it #my posts #listen im just saying that su xiyan deserves respect and tianlang jun deserves to lounge around handfeeding her fruit #i almost said something about lbh getting a gaggle of siblings but i feel like it's more likely that he's an only child #maybe one younger sibling #having a child is HARD sxy pushed him out of her BODY she is a SECT LEADER now #if tlj wants more kids he'll have to find a way around childbirth or figure out how to carry the kid himself #god sorry the sheer gomez and morticia addams energy that they have #lbh would be more well adjusted but thoroughly grossed out (up until he falls for sy and becomes equally sappy) #there aren't that many fics where lbh is raised my his biological parents but i appreciate it every time #anyway death to the palace master you were a shitty creep #tianxi #tags updated because someone told me the correct ship name 🙏

[crimeronan]

there's an amity POV thing i wanna write for the princess luz AU, but it's truly plotless n largely just involves her being a spectator to one event that has already happened within the AU canon. which is fine i guess, i can do whatever i want and all that

but. i must admit. that 98% of the reason that i want to write this is.... just for amity watching hunter and luz be How They Are. & having a very long moment where she's genuinely and not-unkindly like. okay. Wow. you two really truly honest to god are complete freaks. god bless, love and light, diplomatic phrasing and all that, but jesus FUCKING CHRI-

#luz and hunter aren't even doing anything particularly weird (for them) theyre just having a weird moment in public #which would normally only happen in private bc. u know. social norms and whatever #everyone in the castle already knows and discusses how those two are weird. amity however gets a Special Perspective #especially because. amity knows a version of hunter who has NOT been seen in the other POVs yet #so. the contrast between how hunter is with her / most people versus how he is with luz... chefs kiss #in theory this could also include the wip scene where amity and hunter are doing 'friendly' combat while calling each other slurs #however it may not. just depends on how lazy i am #anyway. do you guys enjoy POV-exploring deleted scene type bullshit even if it doesn't have a Full Arc #and also are you interested in amity somehow being equal parts extremely fucking competent/perceptive and SO DEEPLY FUCKING AWKWARD/INEPT #toh #princess luz au #amity blight #horrible mindscape trauma pals #shitty idiot repression gang

[lord-squiggletits]

Also everyone loves to hyper-focus on the fact that Optimus felt pain while first bonding with the Matrix but then they ignore the fact that Optimus subsequently uses the Matrix's power multiple times across the story without even a flinch of pain, bc I guess that would get in the way of the narrative that Optimus is just Inherently Unworthy and A Bastard and the narrative has set him aside as being Undeserving because the Matrix put him in pain once-- his actual actions and personal moral character be damned.

#squiggposting #idw op love #also a fun reminder that nova prime as well as i believe solus prime were both users of the Matrix #(the real one not the fake that was made after the original one was stolen) #and they were literally colonizers that killed millions/billions #sooooo like idk i kinda feel like saying 'matrix likes you = you're good person' doesnt really hold water #if anything the 'true primes' would be a generational gap rather than an individual thing #w/ the original primes such as nova and solus being the shitty old regressive ones #and the younger generation of optimus and rodimus being the more reformed/equal-minded ones

[pumaskulls]

nothing fills me with more amusement than having discord emotes of my own OCs

#my art #my ocs #digital art #oc: elpis godhunter #oc: keone drake jr #os: the ugly things you say #procreate #original charater art #original character #i have a funny idea for an elysium emote that i need to make too #that way elpis AND her equally shitty twin brother both get emotes #tbh at this point it would be funny if i made an emote for each major character in TUTYS #but alas i dont have ideas for mac/vesper/sakura/murphy yet #i mean murphy is the absolute most likely to get one out of the bunch #bc i love evil women <3 #i just need a good/funny idea for her #and i havent come up with anything that encapsulates her bastard energy just right

[horsegirlhob]

I'm not an Angel hater by any means however I do think Spike should get to be as big of a dick to him as he wants to be and people shouldn't get to say shit about it.

#dylan says things #btvs #this is maybe entirely a me thing but often when im reading fanfic it acts like spike and angel fighting (specifically about buffy) #is equally shitty from both of them #but like tbh spike has way more reason to hate angel than angel has to hate spike #and it's always framed as just a 'spike shouldnt get jealous' thing which is generally fair #but also Spike spent 100 years loving a woman who loved angel more than she loved him #and then SO much of his relationship with buffy is tangled up with how she feels about Angel #Spike is CONSTANTLY being compared to Angel and he pretty much always gets the short end of that stick #like shit man I would also be really insecure about that #and i wouldnt have a problem when fics call him on being jealous over buffy and angel #but they never seem to actually address the baggage that is making him act that way #and even in fics where it's like 'they're so good at communication now' they never have spike express that there may actually be #some shit between him and angel that is valid for him to feel #not even getting into spikes relationship to angel outside of Buffy which is its own can of worms #anyways. this is just a wildly specific pet peeve of mine #it's 4am and i was reading a fanfic and for some reason this pissed me off more than usual

[dilf-din]

I’m!!!!!!! So!!!!!!! Sad!!!!!!!!

#anyway #life goes on and all that jazz #this time of year is equal parts happy and exciting #and equal parts just really shitty and hard #and each time it gets a little bit better it gets equally as sad because of that gaping hole #anyway again #would love to go to therapy one day because screaming into the void isn’t cutting it as far as coping goes #grief #no one cares Jess

[roseofcards90]

What the fuck does “chronically online misogyny take” even mean 😭😭 why did this person call my message that when I just pointed out that female characters get treated more like shit than their male counterparts do in media

#not you calling it that when it’s so apparent #that she gets portrayed as more of the bad parent than he does #I’m so fucking confused??? #I’m not the one who’s boiling down a real life disorder to “I just don’t want kids anymore and I’m suddenly disinterested in being a parent” #I am the last person when it comes to believing they left because they were shitty literally all my aus and hcs involve them both together #and happy while the reason why they were gone was due to the disc pokemon #the whole fucking point of their dynamic and the ship is that they’re both equals?? What’s the point if you only treat one of them like shit #and your au isn’t canon I cannot believe you would refute me saying canon facts about the character with your au where you make her shitty #my posts

[tunderilona]

the post thats like im single by choice just not my choice. meeeeeeee literally. except i guess its also my choice but actually not that much

#like 99% not my choice and 1% my choice because i wont go on tinder or some equally shitty dating app and just match with #absolutely everyone i see on there #but even if i did that still no one would want me BUT i will not try it to prove myself right (or wrong. but probably right)

[angeltism]

I hate everything

#➳ valentin vents #my physical health is shit #my mental health is shit #kinda craving a bleach martini #tw sui mention #tw sui ideation #tw sui joke #i just . feel . so . shitty #worthless unloved un-respected (disrespected ?) tired burnt out etc #i feel like nobody sees me as an equal #i feel like the only reason i matter to others is because i make them feel nice about themselves #but does anyone actually care about me ? if an option for a replacement came after idk . i died or some shit . would anyone mourn ? #i don't feel like most would . lol

[knifefightandchill]

It's always a bit concerning when different meta turns into something akin to discourse.

#did i miss like a whole chapter of tumblr stuff while i was at con ?? #i stick by everyone has their right to their own opinions and interpretations and whatever #but i dislike how one singular person is considered the expert and is put on a pedestal. #to the point that they're mentioned when someone doesn't agree with a take #unless they're the creator i'm not taking what they say as canon. at all. widely accepted or not. because it /isn't/. #because widely accepted doesn't equal accurate or right #no matter how well researched it is either. because i still don't think one singular person is 100% right when it comes to /everything/. #except the creator or creators themselves #popularity is just popularity #also yeah i'm bias too because i really really dislike a lot of their takes and could counter a lot of them too but it's pointless. #there can be good interpretations and shitty interpretations. but that's the beauty of fandom spaces #thank you for coming to my tedtalk #personal #i would love to post my own meta and probably will sometime when i grow a second braincell. so it's a little less jumbled insanity. #also it's mostly krauser centric so that has little to no bearing on leon. #also we're talking about a series that's almost as old as me #that has multiple timelines and retcons and inconsistencies and a novelization and live action movies. #like /come on people./ #we all know where i stand when it comes to ID too tbh

[gibbearish]

eternal fight between wanting to correct a misconception abt cats but also knowing that it was just a silly joke and i shouldnt take it so seriously but also something being a joke doesnt mean you shouldnt still point things out but also i have no expertise beyond just "i have multiple cats and spend way too much time watching them and thinking about the way they interact w each other and what that means about how their brains work" which means i would just be talking out of my ass anyways because i have no way of telling if my interpretations are right or if im anthropomorphizing them

#origibberish #anyways. your cat isnt trying to steal your food #he doesnt understand 'your' food vs 'my' food he just understands 'food' #and sees you as another cat and when cats are eating and another cat wants some they just. walk up and partake #so if youre having issues with that you gotta start using cat language to tell them to back off #like growling/hissing at your cat is allowed they do it at each other all the time for a reason #actually slight correction they do understand 'my' food but only in terms of 'i caught this so it is my trophy' #food thats just Around is communal #so think like a cat and say no this is MY kill in cat words #i killed this sandwich and IM going to eat it #like theres a part of me thats like 'no you cant hiss at your cat thats mean!' but thats looking at it through human eyes #we see hissing as mean because its The Mad Sound and mad is Bad and Angry and Personal #but for cats mad is different #theres no values or anything behind it‚ mad just means 'stop what youre doing or ill hit you' #and like you know actually hitting your cat would be shitty and abusive and that threatening smth like that to a child would be equally #and abusive so in ur brain ur like 'i cant threaten him in cat speak' #but like its not a threat for them!! its just a warning so that they know the other cat Doesnt Like What Theyre Doing!!! #thats how they establish boundaries!!! so not only are you allowed to use it i would even say trying to actually bring yourself to your #cats level in terms of communication is probably like. better? #but i mean again. this is all based entirely off of half remembered cat facts books from childhood and spending way too long #watching the endless drama between my children #so. take literally all of that with a grain of salt #actually scratch that ive decided i am an expert now. universities i am willing to be a professor of cat psychology

[cherry-shipping]

not that id ever want a job, and in reality if me and sans lived together hed probably be the one mostly responsible for our income on account of his countless fucked up jobs, BUT. i love the thought of sans being a cute shitty little househusband sending me off to work with a kiss and a lunchbox except the lunchbox is just, like, a compact bomb of as many sausages and a gross slurry of a million fucked up condiments as he could fit in there

#i try to open it and it just blasts me in the face like a pomegranet or an envelope bomb or something #theyre so doused in various condiments i dont even have to chew them i just slide them down my slippery gullet like its nothing #maybe sometimes he makes something other than that. but im sure its equally repulsive #like just. slams together shit in a pot and cooks it for a little while and calls it a day #cherry bomb #bf (bone friend) #this is‚ of course‚ all set in a potential universe where me and sans live together ALONE #if paps was there he would be so so much better at making lunches for me. so much fucking better #'but papyrus is a terrible chef' shut UP that was in the UNDERGROUND!!!! where he didnt have COOKBOOKS!!!!!!!! #and also his mentor was INSANE #anyway me and sans couldnt fucking possibly live together without anyone else mediating nobody would get anything done ever #it would be so messy and shitty and gross oh god. jesus christ #anyway that was todays dose of domestic skenp and sans ramblings except it probably wouldnt actually be like that at all #of course my made up ideas and rules for this specific selfship takes place in a world where we conveniently Dont Think About All That Shit #'what do you do for work how old are you where do you live where are your family members' the answer is dont even worry about it #i only think about the fun silly stuff and occasionally the not fun less silly but still conveniently vague stuff #you wouldnt get it.

[chromaticroses]

self care is blocking v3 haters ☺️🙏

#i’m sorry i just. do NOT see why people love the cast of 2 so much #maybe it’s just cause 3 absolutely ruined them for me #i think i’d like 2 a lot more if they all stayed dead #OR if we actually saw them act as and become despair. #okay im realizing that maybe a lot of the love for 2 from the fandom comes from extrapolating them out? bc yeah thinking about what they- #we’re like as ROD or how they cope with it after the fact. like yeah that rules. but we don’t get that in canon #in fact we get the opposite of that. we get a worse version of that. which makes me not care about them at all #but it’s just like. god they’re so boring. #fuyuhiko and peko absolute top tier. and gundhams fun. and i LOVE mean girls hiyoko. and mikan’s great but only post twist #anyway the v3 cast are literally all fucking insane and i love that in a story #thh is all like. grounded only a little bit fantastical characters. they all feel like real teens. 2 they rev it up but don’t fully commit #v3 is off the charts. balls to the walls. these guys are absolute freaks #let’s be real any cast with miu in it would become automatic fave tho #miu and GONTA? MY BOY GONTA?? YOU WANNA SAY GONTAS THE WORST THE SERIES HAS TO OFFER???? #we can all agree the worst is 3. future AND despair. equal oppurtunity shitty writing

[rotationalsymmetry]

so I’ve been listening to the entirety of Feather Summarizes the Silmarillion, a podcast on Patreon that is somewhat misleadingly titled in that yes it follows the Silmarillion, no it is not in any sense of the term a summary. It’s good though.

A large part of the reason it is not a summary but is quite good, is that Feather will go off on long sidelines about all sorts of semi-related topics, and in the long peace part 4 bonus episode (I do not know what I’m going to do with myself when I finish this thing) one of those semi-related topics is about how people tend to misremember history and specifically how people tend to misremember protest culture as being basically non-existent around 9/11 when it wasn’t, and oof, yeah, I know. I was there.

And it’s not surprising people tend to misremember this. Who wants to tell the story? The neoconservatives don’t want to tell a story of large scale anti-war protests. And the sorts of people who approved of the protests also don’t want to talk about it, because we tend to be kind of invested in the narrative that if you get large numbers of people protesting in the streets you’ll get what you want. That protesting works.

And it kinda didn’t.

And that’s not just a “well, non-violent protests…” we were blocking freeways and shit, ok? It didn’t work.

(I mean, not that blocking a freeway is an act of violence. But you’d think it was the way commuters get pissed off about it.)

this is getting into interpretation of events so I’m not sure how to fact check it as such, but my personal understanding of (left wing) protest culture in the late 90’s and early 2000’s is there was this rising wave of energy and enthusiasm focused against globalization — free trade agreements, the IMF/World Bank, I don’t know if people were talking about “austerity measures” at the time but that sort of thing, and the “race to the bottom” where corporations are free to move to wherever the labor is cheapest and has the fewest regulations and then the actual people aren’t allowed to move into the countries with better labor laws.

(I’m trying to be careful to explain what I mean by globalization because at least at the time, progressives and radicals would start talking about the problems of globalization and liberals/moderates would…intentionally or unintentionally misunderstand what you were objecting to. And at least some conservatives, anecdotally, would go “yeah we think the UN is scary too” and uh, no, not what this is about.)

Anyhow, growing anti-globalization movement in the US (and very much in other places, but I’m talking about the US here) then got massively derailed by 9/11 itself (there was a DC protest I planned on going to with some friends a couple months after 9/11 and they all bailed because they figured any protest that criticized US policy so soon after 9/11 would seem out of touch and insensitive) and by the war on Afghanistan and the war on Iraq because people have finite organizing energy and the wars, mostly the Iraq War, became the main focus.

And then as far as I can tell things stalled out for a bit until Occupy. The peace protests still went on, and I imagine protests around a number of other things that got relatively consistent if not overwhelmingly news-worthy presences. But they didn’t have the same energy.

Except of course for the gay rights movement, especially the marriage equality fight, which was substantial and highly successful.

#I did look up occupy and I did remember the timing accurately so go me #I know I got the marriage equality right because again I was personally involved in it #I mean not in a significant role? But I knocked on a few doors #And I was present when Gavin Newsom started going ‘eh laws schmaws let’s just give some people some marriage certificates #What are the courts going to do about it?’ #And the answer turned out to be surprisingly little actually #Valentine’s Day but I was in SF and living with my parents so… 2006 at latest #I think he got elected in 2003 so 2004 at earliest #I think I was in other places in 2005 and 2006 so I’m going to say 2004 #Which is earlier than I would have given a raw guess on go figure #But yeah internet agrees 2004 #That was overall a spectacularly shitty time in my life I gotta say #So that may be why I have relative trouble with the dates of things around 2002-2005

[unnecessarilygrandiose]

you ever see an opinion that's soooooooooooooooooo close to getting the point and yet somehow simultaneously managed to miss it by fivety thousand light years

#'half of adam's pov is don't fight with gansey don't fight with blue. which essentially translates to don't be yourself around them. #but when it's ronan he just fights with him. bc he can be himself around ronan.' #i #like #i me #the fuck no????????? #that is not AT ALL what adam having to remind himself of that translates to???? #like. the thing is. you CAN make this sentiment cute for pynch reasons. but not in That way??? #adam had to remind himself of that because gansey and blue tended to approach adam's issues in a way that #made him act like an asshole #meanwhile because ronan is always being an asshole it doesn't matter that adam is shitty to him in return #if you wanna look at it from a pynch perspective why don't you talk about how even though they were so distant in dream thieves #ronan still managed to see him more clearly as to where he was mentally than gansey or blue #why don't you talk about how he knew which buttons to push to get a rise out of him but never so much to put him off or anger him completel #why don't you talk about the way he was able to help adam in a way adam would accept unlike gansey who didn't know how to offer him that #fuck off with he wasn't himself in front of gansey and blue!!!! #he was vulnerable in front of gansey and blue before he was ever vulnerable in front of ronan!!! #it's just that people are so obsessed with romance they simply cannot fathom that non-explicity romantic relationships can be as #beautiful as the romantic ones #even if it's spelled out that those relationships were equal. that none of them were above one or another #ugh