#it’s really.....fucking offensive??

[timegears-moved]

don't trust bitches that say pokemon hasn't been good since gen 5. sun and moon did so much for us and yet you treat her like this.

#bwark #i love sumo so fucking much guys. im very emotionally attached to it because it came out at a time where i really needed a story like the #one it has. that's why when people say stuff like that it makes me so sad like!!!!! no offense but what the fuck is wrong with you #it's also why i hate usum so much like sure sumo story wasn't perfect as much as i adore it regardless #but i'll take that over the blatant abuse apologism in usum

[front-facing-pokemon]

#aegislash #now THIS is an objectively cool pokémon. a fucking sentient sword and shield with two forms depending on whether they're defense mode or #offense mode. which granted i never fucking use defense mode bc there's no reason to #insert competitive players telling me i'm wrong here #but it's still really cool is the thing?? and that. is the end of the sentence

[wispforever]

oooh my god you don't ship them? you think the art is cute but you don't ship them? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party

#today on: things that are not especially offensive but get Really fucking annoying when they're in my tags #you don't ship them #okay so don't reblog it #YOU CAN REBLOG IT JUST DON'T SAY ANYTHING #what if we went to art museums and lefts notes for the artist to read and you just wrote. I don't like sunflowers #but I took a picture of your painting of sunflowers to show my family and friends #just don't fucking say anything #this is wisp #I've gotten this multiple times. not about anyone specific #just be more conscious of artists and artists space folks please

[mintpopz]

its honestly really disappointing to me at least that Adam is just gonna end up as a Mammon reskin. Like, I dunno I saw his design and I had some interesting thoughts about the first Man, yknow? I found it interesting that they have him demon like features, suggesting that maybe underneath his holier-than-thou appearance and attitude, he really isn't that different from the sinners he kills. But he hides that part away, acting formal and polite and as much of a good little Christian boy under the eyes of God. When God isn't looking though? He would show his true colours instantly....

But no. They just made the angel say fuck.

#I have no qualms about him being an angel it's an interesting interpretation! (No offense to religions ofc) #butttt it does suck that he really is just a second mammon #From what we've seen #And like. I think mammon is a good villain because of how cartoonishly evil he is - the lack of depth adds to his character #And the fact that greed is commonly perceived as the one truly bad irredeemable sin #But that cartoony evilness only works for mammon. #not for a literal angel-- I'm not saying I want Adam to be a good guy I just want him to have more depth #than apparently just ''i hate demons and sinners and my wife who doesn't let me beat her fuck BOOM EPIC ROCK SOLO'' #the show hasn't released yet which is why I added apparently #But I don't have high hopes... And I worry that hazbins lack of quality might make it harder for other indie creators to make their shows #aero talks #hazbin hotel

[gingerylangylang1979]

Nope

It’s cute to try to say pseudo-intellectual, playing at poetic things like, “The beauty of this relationship is it’s one of those profound connections that has no difference in meaning between romance and platonic… and really it doesn’t matter what happens… and isn’t that soooo…”

But fuck no, I don’t feel you and that doesn’t even make sense. Friendship at the highest level of expression and romantic relationship at the highest level of expression have an inherent hierarchy. I’m sorry that’s just fact. You can contort it all you want but a friend can be a life partner only to a certain extent. Meanwhile, a romantic partnership can contain all the elements of a platonic relationship, but also include SEX. I’m sorry, it just goes a step further and that step further is hyperbolic, can literally be life generating, can be its own character in a narrative, creates a bodily connection, inspires a primal drive to be with the other person in the most WOW of ways. Sorry, that’s the truth. And none of that truth diminishes what an epic friendship is… it’s just not the same as an epic love story expressed in all its forms.

#carmy x sydney #the bear fx #carmy berzatto #jeremy allen white #chefs kiss #sydney adamu #ayo edebiri #charged and sexy #platonic and messy #sydcarmy #the bear is a love story #the bear is a mom & pop restaurant established in 2023. #sorry if that’s offensive #sorry if that hurt your feelings #bring on that most epic of swirls and let them fuck nasty because that is what they really wanna do #and they will still be best friends #they will be beyond best friends #my husband better be a fucking more profound relationship than my platonic bestie #the fuck some of yall on about?

[funishment-time]

the most fitting alternate title for the Nice AU (UTDP/Summer Camp) is the Jin Kirigiri Tax Evasion Bad Father Arc, for many reasons

not the least of which is that it's implied class 77, 78, and the v3 class (fanon name: 79, but this is never confirmed) all were accepted at once, are graduating at once, and spent 3 years together

so this dude accepted his daughter, then accepted another unrelated boy who is clearly worse, both as SHSL detective, at the same time, in the same year.

he probably forgot which was his real kid, Honestly

#danganronpa #jin kirigiri #kyoko kirigiri #shuichi saihara #(no offense shuichi) #(but it's canonical in the AU that shuichi is...not on kyoko's level) #(not that she's really Rude about it) #he also went ahead and accepted the kid in the jokey n*zi uniform calling himself “ultimate Evil Overlord” #and never bothered to find out Rantaro's Real Talent apparently #jin “fuck it who cares. i'm transferring all this money to an offshore account anyway” kirigiri

[alastairstom]

Okay I don't want to be mean to my mutuals who like him so I'm going to try to be less of a Julian hater on here publicly. It's going to be SO hard but I'm going to be brave about it. Please DM me so we can dump on him together privately instead because it's fun for me to be a little bit of a hater

#i generally isolate from t/da and so dont really think of myself as offensive #the general consensus in my circles is 'fuck that guy' so i like. forget he has fans #sorry

[madnessofthespirits]

surprising me by somehow finding ways to make CBC progressively more boring year after year

#no offense to anyone who’s happy or excited about it i just do not give half a fuck about most of those characters #some of the CEs look okay but nothing is really wowing me #at least i wasn’t really expecting anything to begin with

[pansyfemme]

honestly the only thing keeping me going through this bullshit is being friends with so many freaky trans people i feel like talking to other trans people is the only thing that keeps me sane sometimes

#having people bitch about me making being trans my whole personality is funny af #because its not really. people just sometimes dont care to actually get to know me #and 2) yeah my art and style are based around it. because i am an artist. making a political statement in my work. a relativly common thing #to do. that is what my work is about. im sorry its so offensive to you #fuck dude i like to think i have a thick skin after facing near daily transphobia on and offline since i was a kid but i do feel so angry #its so easy to get away with for some people #because it has nothing to do with them and everything to me being a cis hating bigoted scary transsexual who bullies cis people by standing #in a room and not being cisgender

[thedreadvampy]

btw about Neil Gaiman I periodically agree with the 'Neil Gaiman is annoying' stuff bc I feel like both he and Amanda Palmer seem like people who I would go insane stuck in a room with bc we have very different ideas about art and suchlike. and I also do think that the career trajectory he's on lately is cynically redoing his greatest hits and pretending that was the dream all along when it clearly was not. which is at best meh.

having said which

as far as I can tell by far the most common complaint about Neil Gaiman is "Snow, Glass, Apples is problematic/gross/it's got incest and rape and frames the child as the aggressor"

which strikes me as a weird complaint to pull out of a 40 year body of work tbh when that short story is pretty clearly coming from a place of 'how far can I push this'. like you don't have to like the story. I don't really like the story. but it is. a horror story.

like and this is the thing with particularly 90s alt horror right? a lot of the interest is in transgression and sitting in the worst possible perspective and seeing what happens if you pull those strings. like I really like Clive Barker for example but there's a good chunk of his short stories that I'm like I'm not picking up what you're putting down Clive this seems Kinda Off. but that willingness to write some trite or Bad Message horror fiction that doesn't land is imo a side effect of being willing to try writing uncomfortable and unpleasant fiction at all. which is what horror is for, among other things, it's for creating discomfort as a form of catharsis or engagement.

like I am not a huge fan of the type of sex-horror that pops up in a lot of Gaiman's work and other contemporary horror writers - to me I don't find it upsetting or horny it just ends up feeling kind of edgy and tryhard - but I'm also a bit like. it does seem like a lot of people's beef with Neil Gaiman is that In The 90s He Was A Horror Writer

and this approach to Problematic Horror in Snow, Glass, Apples I find kind of microcosmic of how The Discourse often approaches art in this kind of 1:1 way. if you write a story which seems to line up with rape apologia it can only be because you agree with it. if you write a story about transphobia you're a transphobe. if you write a story that makes me genuinely uncomfortable you're attacking me.

but artwork, especially art like horror that's not necessarily trying to provoke enjoyment as its main response, is necessarily hit and miss. and if what you're shooting for is discomfort then whether it works, falls flat or goes too far incredibly depends on your audience. and making good art - as in art that makes its audience think, art that opens the audience up to discomfort and catharsis and sticks with them and changes them - requires the space to experiment and tbh the space to fuck up. like they aren't all going to be winners and they certainly aren't all going to work for you as a singular audience.

personally I don't see the appeal of Snow, Glass, Apples, less cause it's nasty and more cause it's hack. ooh an edgy monstrous version of a fairy tale where there's lots of rape and cannibalism? you're soooo original Neil. but like. that's fine. I don't really vibe with like 70% of Neil Gaiman stuff I've read but I still like Neil Gaiman because the stuff that works for me really works for me.

idk I think there's a lot of folk on this website who shouldn't interact with horror cause they clearly aren't interested in being horrified. that's not everyone who dislikes Snow, Glass, Apples, but it's a real undercurrent to a lot of the criticism and tbh this kinda vibe is shit for art. making standout art What Is Good also requires being ready to make art which stands out for the wrong reasons. sometimes they'll be the same art to different people.

#red said #not to Cancel Culture this but isabelle fall springs to mind in a lot of how folks talk about stuff like this #like she wrote a transgressive piece exploring her own negative feelings about transness and her anger around a transphobic trope #and she made something which i found really resonant and interesting #and she got torn apart for it because it Might From Some Angles Agree With Transphobia #and I'm not making a direct comparison. because i think attack helicopter is a really GOOD story and i think SGA is gratuitous and hack #but that's the thing right? transgression and discomfort and speaking about unpleasant things in an openended way are KEY #to making art that engages directly with your own pains and angers and discomforts #and that's hard to mediate tbh. but it's also very necessary. #i think as well thinking about Gaiman this is also a thought I've often had about Amanda Palmer #who over the years has written a lot of songs about things i find genuinely uncomfortable or offensive. #and i can engage with 'it's fucked up to tell your ex they transed their gender At You' or 'your partner's suicide is not about you' bc yeah #but #you can't celebrate someone for making confessional music then get mad because you don't like everything they confess #if you only take about your socially acceptable thoughts it's not really confessional is it? #if you only talk about discomforting things that people are comfortable hearing about its not really discomforting #and you can only really discern what's Good Transgressive and what's Damaging Transgressive through doing i think #so if you want challenging art you are going to have to get some art which challenges you and you go hmm no i still disagree #is what i think #so yeah you can hate the artwork but when an artist is specifically setting out to make challenging art it's weird to hate them #for making 50 pieces of art you like and 1 you hate

[batwynn]

I love not being able to find basic info about different rocks and gems because google is 100% about selling stuff now, and every result is about magical crystal healing heat pads that heal your soul or what the fuck ever.

#I just want to know some rock things ok #fucking #Google #bing #fuck them all #I’m trying to find out if this dude found a huge #jade or if it’s green tourmaline #anyway no offense to crystal loving healing people intended #but I’d really like to find actual fucking facts about rocks #thanks

[larsnicklas]

Oh, boy. Really don't wanna get emotional here, but you know, there was a moment there this season where I thought this day wouldn't really come, and, um, I had guys at one point tell me that they'd strap me to their back and carry me on the ice to get me to a thousand, so I love you guys for that. I love going to work with you every day. It's been an absolute pleasure. Love you guys.

#tj oshie #capitals #washington capitals #nhl #nhledit #hockey #hockeyedit #meg.caps #meg.gif #meg.all #he brought up that anecdote about the guys saying they'd strap him onto their backs and carry him if needed multiple times #like that's so...... it meant so much to him that they love him that way. you can just tell he appreciated it more than he could express. #i know i don't shut up about my caps being just. a really strong and cohesive room and he is SUCH a huge part of that. #from the moment he arrived in dc he really became such an emotional cornerstone for this franchise. he was just the piece the group needed. #when they finally got over the hump and won in 2018 it was because trotz could put together two top lines; #one with kuzy centering ovi for explosive offense #and the other with nicke centering tj for the hard matchups; playing responsible defense with a scoring touch #and it's not that other guys didn't play hard. of course they played hard. #but tj always. ALWAYS gives more of himself than he has to give. #you can't play with a guy like that and not do the same. god. fuck. he's so important lol

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

the thing is as i may have mentioned before i'm usually not that animated by reading stuff as gay if it's just like............ nice. you know? like if it's just like two guys or two women who like each other a lot and are very affectionate towards each other, i mean depending on the context i may enjoy that as a ship, but it's not interesting to me as subtext, which is a different impulse. to find it an enriching reading of the actual text, as opposed merely a fun bonus to be silly about on the internet, the fact that these people are gay but no one's saying it like that has to be something that adds color to the portrait of what is wrong with them. so like: rayanne graff's entire Deal falls into a certain beautiful and compelling clarity if you consider she is gay and wants to fuck angela but can't and maybe can't even articulate that to herself. citizen kane, i'm not really ready to talk about this one still but iykyk. in zodiac - i mean, the actual and ultimate peak of this in the history of cinema? perhaps??? (no offense to heat @power-chords it's just that heat takes place over like a week while zodiac spans years like literally these men are being destroyed over the course of decades........). like in zodiac it's not just that robert downey jr. acts opposite every scene jake gyllenhaal so flirtatiously it's literally crazy, like sometimes when i'm lying awake at night wondering if zodiac was gay on purpose or by accident i think it has to be by accident because if rdj was doing that to be gay on purpose it's arguably borderline homophobic, it's that homophobia-induced self-repression makes jake gyllenhaal go so fucking insane he literally (maybe) solves the zodiac killings (which in itself is like i mean the whole Thing of the movie is a lack of closure so reading that thread as gay thematically reinforces what's going on in the rest of the plot which is that your entire life can be ruined forever by this thing you'll never actually be able to put into words or understand completely.......). anyway. all that is a long way of saying this is one of many reasons that succession was the greatest show of all time always and forever hallelujah amen.

#succession #it's a show where like even if no one is gay all the gay subtext still matters. you know? #like it was literally gay of ken to kill that waiter even if he wasn't being gay when he killed that waiter #i mean really that's all because it's a show that's like deeply engaged with cultural constructions of Manhood #which is so attached to heterosexuality you can't interrogate it without getting kind of gay #(this is also for the record the thing going on with citizen kane) #this is also all why the gayness of social network does not interest me the way zodiac does #well. also because zodiac is no offense 1 billionty thousand zillion times better As A Fucking Movie #but it's like... yeah mark and eduardo are exes. sure #but the story is the same whether they're friend exes or sex exes. u kno?