#its SCATHING

[beescake]

shit. two dudes

#homestuck #sollux captor #karkat vantas #vioart #2023 #solkat #??? pitch ???? #<- making excuses to tag 💔 #ngl the more ppl say its impossible to woobify them #the more im like. no no listen as an enjoyer i NEED my goofy tsundere baka bl yaoi rare soft and tender #the kind that falls apart in my hands #sighs. the joy of shredding mean scathing characters down into pliant loving mush....

[punkitt-is-here]

is calling people 'squares' or whatever for liking an artist not just reinventing bullying again

this is the funniest possible thing you could have said to me on a post saying that its fun to call people who are taylor swift fans lame

#yeah squares. the most scathing of insults. #commonly known for its brutality #my posts #shitposts #asks #anon

[trillscienceofficer]

There is a cynicism about [Star Trek: Voyager] that truly troubles me. We loved DEEP SPACE NINE. We loved the show. We loved all the characters. There are actors that always give you trouble, and there are always times when the producers and actors are sometimes at each other, because, ‘You don’t understand my character.’ ‘No, you don’t understand the character I am writing.’ That’s fair game. On VOYAGER, there are characters they have given up on. They will just say that to you, flat out. I started asking questions about B’Elanna, who she is. I was saying, ‘I’m having a little trouble watching episodes and getting a handle on her, and what she is about.’ The response was, ‘We don’t have an idea. The past doesn’t matter. Just do whatever you want.’ What are you talking about? How can you give up on your own show? How do you give up on your characters? There is such a cynicism about the show within the people that do the show. I’m not just talking about the writing staff. It permeates the production.

— Ron D. Moore, from this interview that he gave shortly after leaving Star Trek: Voyager (originally published on 18/01/2000)

I'd like to add that in the time since this interview Moore has considerably softened his opinion on the Voyager production, but I still think what he says here is relevant as someone who had the experience of being in both writing rooms.

#i don't love ron moore as a writer #and he and I have VERY different priorities re: trek #but this interview is as scathing as i remember. definitely recommend reading even if it's long #voy #ron d moore #in many ways he was the original 'ds9 fan watching voyager and being disappointed' #which is basically its own subset of the fandom

[stevethehairington]

really fucking sick and tired of people who really fucking love the eddie book jumping on people who don't like or are even remotely critical of it's posts and like crusading their opinions around from the top of their high horses and shoving it down our throats.

if you like the book, great! that's awesome! love that for you! i am genuinely glad that you were able to find good in it and enjoy it!!

but not everyone did, and not everyone is going to agree with you. so, instead of going on some grand crusade where you find every single post that includes anything even remotely negative or negative adjacent or even neutrally critical and spending ALL this time and effort trying to provide unwanted rebuttals to every single thing, maybe you should just stay in your lane and find people who DO like the book and chat about it with them.

because i can PROMISE YOU, none of us appreciate it when you come onto our posts and start accusing us of "hating on" the author or "being rude" about her and her work and RIDICULOUS shit like that.

being critical of something and pointing out it's flaws is NOT inherently hating on it. i, frankly, do not know where people got that notion, but it's not fucking true so can we fucking quit assuming it is? and, critiquing something is also NOT the same as saying this is shit and it sucks and the author is a piece of garbage. again, where the fuck that came from is beyond me. you can be critical of something and still enjoy it. as soooo many of you love to point out, it's not perfect, why should it be perfect? so D U H. of course that means criticism can and should arise???

also. hot take (by which i mean ice fucking cold because it's NOT a fucking hot take), but going around toting FALSE facts as part of your "defense" does not make you or your argument look good. you, like the author, should maybe do a basic fact check first. 🙃

tldr, if you like the book, that's genuinely great, but stay in your fucking lane and stop seeking out posts from people who didn't like it to start shit in the notes.

#flight of icarus #stranger things #this has happened to me and to so many of my friends and im fucking SICK of it #i didn't even hate the book either!! i thought it was just okay #and yet i STILL get all these book lovers jumping down my throat about things i say about the book #things that - HONESTLY are not even like that scathing!!!!! #like god damn all im asking for is a little BASIC effort from the author and they all think thats me asking for her head on a platter #its NOT #i have no problem with the author #she's whatever to me honestly just a vessel through which the book was given to us #ALSO she is some nebulous blob way outside my orbit. AS IN any critiques i have of her and her work are NOT direct assaults on her??? #like i dont fucking KNOW her #im not saying any of this to her face #she is a published writer she should KNOW the risks she is taking when she publishes her writing #not everyone is going to like it! there are going to be people who are critical of it! there are going to be people who hate it! #critiques and pointing out mistakes and wishing for things to have been different is not a fucking direct attack #those things are actually pretty fucking common responses to ANYTHING #and a lot of times theyre actually meant as useful helpful things geared towards improvement and not something to tear someone down with #some people on the internet need to go touch grass and learn how to CRITICALLY THINK again #the world is not as black and white as you think #n e ways. rant over. if you stuck around through all of that kudos to you. i am just. at the end of my rope with this bullshit.

[compacflt]

question: how do you find your research/sources? yours and dancing disasters' icemav fics are so inside baseball i love it, but how do you go about doing research?

I just read a lot & google stuff I don't know & am curious about. not that hard to start learning. and in terms of reading I've been interested in military history & milfiction my whole life. mostly related to the US army, actually--im extremely new to naval history and naval literature; all of that interest was driven by top gun. I've also been fortunate enough to visit a lot of the places I write about--ive been to Pearl Harbor a couple times & San Diego MANY times, for instance, and I've toured a few aircraft carriers and military bases. I've also finally bitten the bullet and kinda shifted my career path towards aerospace, so I've been learning a lot just by working in the aerospace & defense sector/spending a lot of time with people who do.

that's obviously not to say that I am somehow Educated in all this stuff. im pretty open on this blog about me being young & naive & wrong much of the time about how the real world works. so, you know, a lot of shit I just Make Up according to my preconceived notions of the military & the world.

here is my recommended military/navy reading list, some fiction and some nonfiction.

someone also asked recently if I had read anything good in the last 6 months--yes!! three new additions to my reading list: a) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain. So goddamn good. If you have to read only one novel about the Iraq War, make it this one. It's more about America than it is about Iraq. b) Redeployment by Phil Klay. This one is a collection of short stories about Marines in Iraq, written by a USMC vet, talk about inside baseball. Crazy amounts of jargon in here, basically a "to-google" list. won the national book award which idk if it deserved, but it's good. c) No true glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle of Fallujah by Bing West. currently reading this one, really well done so far, talks a lot about how fucked the US strategy was in Iraq with Fallujah serving as a metonymy/case study for the war itself.

again... this is all mostly close-quarters-combat (infantry) literature, I really am not that interested in the navy/Air Force that much outside of top gun lol

though I did recently remember that in early 2022, before I was into top gun, I read "Wingmen" by Ensan Case, which is actually a gay US naval aviator romance set in WWII published in 1979! it's really authentic and kind of sad, obviously, since it was a 1940s navy gay love story published in 1979. I don't actually think Wingmen influenced how I wrote wwgattai or how I think of TG/TGM but I just remembered that I read that book in February 2022 and going "oh my god they were wingmen" so maybe you might find that book interesting.

#dancingdisaster's 'men like us' Directly inspired wwgattai and is the only other icemav/TG fic Ive ever read so I owe them a lottt #that fic opened my third eye as to 'omg what if ice lived' & then 'omg what if maverick died & ice never told him he loved him' #leading to my fics #thanks for the ask! PLEASE read billy Lynns long halftime walk #if for no other reason than its the best book I've read in 2024 and im already 12 books deep into 2024 #its so well written...... should be on the shortlist for the best great American novel...... #a scathing indictment of the American christian conservative.... mmm I eat it up good soup #top gun #military history #guys I just found out yesterday that my ex whom I haven't talked to in 2 years has been stalking my twitter & #has seen me gushing about my gay top gun fanfiction #well he shouldn't have stalked my twitter ... genuinely insane behavior this is why I ended things #love men

[allthisheaven2]

die jerk is literally my fav episode of s4 everyone is so sensitive about it ‘oh rory bullied the ballerina’ ok cry about it i love it when journalists are mean if its good for reason

#gilmore girls #like we havent all read and enjoyed scathing reviews of bad media. its the backbone of humanity

[theworsethingsgettheharderifight]

bro this article is as fucking brutal as it is brief I'm crying it's so fucking funny

HER STRUGGLES WITH BASIC CIVICS LMAOOOO

#naurrrr #like it could've easily been so much more scathing an long winded #but by virtue of its brevity the SHEER BRUTALITY of each jab is like a rain of punches to the dick it's beautiful #🤌🤌

[pagesofkenna]

(spoiler warning but also i feel like everyone but me has watched Midnight Mass before now)

theres a million arcs and plot threads I'm salivating over but the thing I'm circling on now is Leeza's disability and how it flips the magical faith healing narrative on its head. the ramps around town and how they're never commented on, they're just there—how there's no shots of her struggling with her mobility. thats not part of the narrative, just that she is disabled and people think she shouldn't be

how her 'miraculous healing' scene is directly after the first scene we ever get of the creature actually killing a person. timed perfectly just to make sure the audience is feeling horrified, not in awe. this is not a positive moment. how the last line is 'i can't feel my legs' and we know she is healed—not of her disability because that's not the thing she needed to be healed of

#midnight mass #there were so many little comments and parallels and threads woven into this narrative #most of which i wasnt expecting - i thought this was just gonna be a cut and dry scathing commentary on religion #'religion sucks bc its a lie!' or something simplistic like that #but its a whole damn conversation and im impressed by how much there was to include in it!!

[bisexualbailorgana]

was looking at the guardian website at work today and saw an article about crazy our flag means death fans

#it mentioned the fundraiser and i was like oh! they’re talking about me i donated to that! #hype about it though especially since the guardian gave s1 such a scathing review its obvs a big deal #ofmd #our flag means death

[eggbagelz]

Isnt it wild how when u look for actual reviews of video games- proper reviews, critical ones that don't just rip everything to shreds bc they don't like it but ones that look at the game as a whole and dissect it, what's good and whats bad and what could be fixed and what doesnt need to be- all you find is shit like. All sex scenes ranked from best to worst. All endings ranked. I got this game bc of thirst traps on tiktok.

#PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I MISS ACTUAL REVIEWS OF THINGS #I MISS REAL REVIEWS OF MOVIES AND GAMES AND BOOKS THAT ARENT ABT STUPID TRIVIAL SHIT #BUT THAT REALLY TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF WHAT THEYRE ABOUT #I MISS ANALYSIS I MISS CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IM TIRED OF NO POTENTIAL BEING NOTED #IM TIRED OF THIS GAME SUCKS BC I HATE IT IM TIRED OF THIS THING IS FLAWLESS BC I LIKED IT #IM FUCKING TIRED OF ALL ROMANCES IN XYZ RANKED FOR THE LOVE OF GODDD #CHATTERING #see and ok maybe im guilty of this too im not flawless but i try my best to focus on all the aspects of something #and yeah i get fucking frustrated but its bc it HAS potential it HAS compelling themes but its STOPPED #and nobody wants to point out the issues #or if they do its fucking scathing and all this is bad bc i hate it hashtag xyz critical hashtag whatever like #the only thing that deserves a review like that is when the thing in question has no redeemable qualities. no effort. no potential. #do you get what i mean???? #anyway all this to say please for the love of god dont make me do a bg3 review myself

[uglygirlstatus]

Omg you didnt like one last stop? Two of my friends LOVE it and i cannot be moved to read it <3 im curious why you didnt like it so i can chose to continue to not read it but with a reason

reading the line “that twink contains multitudes” in a published novel made my brain shrivel up

#but generally I just think it was boring….. prose was mediocre and characters were all so NOTHING #like everyone was a very 2D caricature and all spoke the same (also a fault of rwrb imo) #time travel stuff was poorly executed and arbitrary #mcquiston has a writing habit where they just like. list things. and it drives me nuts at times #all that said I did still cry one time during the book. whatever. #there is one really scathing goodreads review of the book regarding its misuse of New York as a setting #has spoilers but I love it. if u want it I’ll find it just msg me #ask

[fiovske]

something about gore and horror being akin to love and devotion, the flip sides of a same coin; a ground that is both anchoring and swallowing, which makes sense only on the boundary of curses that cannot be distinguished from blessings and gods that show love in a way we cannot comprehend.. I will make you a saint... I hope you become something violent and magnificent, sainthood does not come unbidden.... the brittle bones of holiness the tender marrow of transformation.... there's the reason why sangfielle and the silt verses slot together in my heart in the shape of a something familiar, something comforting

#idk how to explain it but. #this kind of worldbuilding is soo dear to me I can't explain #something about consumption and transformation. about making new gods. #haha. 'shape' of a comfort zone lol... love the shape. #love chantilly scathe... love of pickman #love devouts who change their minds then change it back. then change it back again #i know its not the same but. pickman and carpenter are like. not the same. but adjacent to me. #they run parallel to each other. #their fierce loyalties to their people. the growing up under an unbrella of a being that #engulfed everything u knew. the shape for pickman. the trawlerman for carpenter.... #many thoughts. i am thinking.... #also consider this: i am in love w both of them #me.txt

[rottedsoulx]

Ninjago reboot but it's the gang all reincarnated into furries and the McGuffin is some sort of qi orb or whatever the fuck.

#ninjago #shit post #what even happens in chima #i want to watch it but the cringe i experienced as a child was so scathing that its affecting me to this day

[swamp-mirage]

If they wanted to make an edgy Scooby Doo show they would have simply let Scooby say fuck

#velma is not a acooby doo show #its not a love letter to the series #its scathing hate mail jammed in a too small envelope #packed with anthrax and arsenic #velma #hbo #mindy kaling #mindy personally shit in the envelope as well #what they did to shaggy borders on terrorism