#just a little rant

[paperclipninja]

I'm gonna sound very old person yells at cloud but I don't care, I feel like I need to say this. We all (well most of us) know that messaging Neil with any headcanons/theories/wishes/hopes/dreams to do with the show is a no-go because it could potentially compromise the story he wants to tell or ends up telling. And yes, he is a grown up who chooses what to respond to etc and I think it's wonderful he engages with fans and answers a lot of lovely and interesting questions about his process, writing and journey etc.

However, there is another reason not to send theories and ideas about how the show should go to the show creator in the hope of a response: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether a theory is correct, or a speculation may or may not play out. That is why fandom exists.

Online fandom is where we all come together to yell and cry and throw around weird-ass ideas and theories and look at art and read fanfic and unite in our love of characters and a show. A huge part of being in fandom, is the way fandom theories become like an understood little bit of fanon lore that some people attach to, others disregard. But it doesn't matter. And part of the fun of fandom, is when a new season or a new episode of the show comes out, you have this collective catalogue of ideas and theories and headcanons and you get to yell and scream, "omg it happened1" or "lol that that thing was ever talked about" or "thank god that theory didn't come to pass".

Wanting to know now (not that we ever will) and not wanting to wait until the next season to find out the answers diminishes the fandom experience. I cannot stress enough how much we are in the absolute peak of the fandom experience right now. The between seasons time is the ultimate time to be a part of a fandom (as I'm sure many people are well aware), knowing there's another season coming energises everyone to create and connect and speculate and it's glorious! I know it feels like it'll be like this forever, but it won't. Next season is the last and yes, there will be a flurry and uptick of all the energy and excitement once again, and I absolutely believe Good Omens fandom will live on and remain active and thrumming. But there won't be theories and what ifs and hunting for clues for the next season, and over time it will dwindle a little and plateau and some people will fall into other fandoms, and while it will probably bubble away, there won't be the anticipation that sits with us now.

My point is, fandom is where we get to throw around ideas and flail and be ridiculous and also serious sometimes, but it's all for us. For the fans. Showing Neil theories or getting in a flap about a particular speculation and asking if x, y, or z might happen isn't just about putting the creator in an awkward spot, it takes away what fandom is about. Just let this time be ours. If you haven't been in fandom before, enjoy it! Don't be in a hurry to seek definitive answers or know things either way.

It doesn't matter if any or none or all of the things that float around end up being correct or incorrect. Fandom isn't about being right. It's about being a part of a community and being able to share ideas and it's about it being FUN.

So TL;DR Stop sending Neil fan ideas because that is for fandom, not for the creator.

#good omens fandom #good omens #just a little rant #sorry I don't normally get ranty but here we are #I'll get off my soap box now

[stonetopbutch]

Butch/femme culture doesn't really exist (in a historical context) where I'm from and for the longest time I felt...wrong. Even before I knew English, before I had access to the internet, before I even knew I liked women I felt different, I was different.

Eventually I came to realise I liked women, but even in the sapphic world I was not like the others. I didn't feel the same things as them, didn't have the same needs. I had dear friends telling me "you'll get over it eventually", "you'll feel different with the right one", "you still haven't tried it out?!" when I shared with them that I didn't want to be touched. I felt so alien. I thought something was deeply, deeply wrong with me. When I got with my first girlfriend every time we were intimate I felt greedy, like I was only taking and never, ever giving. I would apologise constantly while the guilt ate away at me.

Then I discovered what "stone" was. Fuck, was it good to find out that not only was I not "wrong", but there is an entire community of people like me and people who exclusively love people like me for the way we are, instead of despite it.

  Stone shaming continues to be very prevalent in the sapphic world, both towards stone tops and stone bottoms. It is so important to have a space where we can exist without being shamed and judged. But the acceptance needs to happen outside of this space too. Being stone is not unusual, it's not bad, it's not wrong, and it most certainly does not make you  "less gay" or a "fake lesbian". 

I understand that not everyone can be satisfied with the strict dynamics of such a relationship, but to call being stone "an ick", "a phase" or to diminish it in any other way is just wrong.

Love and support your stone butches, studs and femmes.

#just a little rant #butch #femme #stud #RESPECT STONE LESBIANS #anyway

[drrav3nb]

You know what actually gets to me. If Claire wasn’t around this season, Carmy would’ve never been distracted, he would’ve been fully devoted to the restaurant. He and Sydney would’ve spent loads of time together working on the menu, they would’ve went to Kasama and probably spent the day going all over Chicago trying different foods. They would’ve developed their bond and Sydney would’ve probably told him about her mother, just like he would’ve told her about his family’s fucked up Christmas dinner. And on their opening night, he would’ve never got stuck in the fridge and they would’ve completed dinner service as a team and a stronger unit.

But that never happened because the writers wanted to waste time writing a romance that did nothing but make Carmy look like a jerk.

#sydney x carmy #carmy x sydney #carmy x syd #carmen x sydney #sydcarmy #sydney adamu #carmen berzatto #the bear fx #the bear hulu #the bear #jeremy allen white #ayo edebiri #just a little rant #we were robbed y'all

[theonewithval]

You know what? This time I actually feel like we might get something good, something real about tiva and I don't even mind looking like an absolute clown. I enjoy all this, all of us talking about them again and for the first time in years I feel hopeful.

I'm sooo glad to be back screaming on here about these two (even though I've never left for good) and it all feels like the good old times, it's deep and meaningful to me.

I feel optimistic, I know both Michael and Cote would actually be glad to make our wishes come true, I trust them. They care too much about their characters and the ship, they've been through so much. I know that if they both accept to come back, it will definitely be worth it.

#just a little rant #it feels so good to be here again #it actually means so much and they mean the world to me #I just can feel it and I don't care if I look like a clown #Just here vibing #Tony and Ziva #ncis #ncis season 21 #Tony Dinozzo #Ziva David #tiva

[shadowseductress]

We met online

We fell in love online

We broke up online

We left online

#varsha #just a little rant #spilled ink

[mal3vol3nt]

it is crazyyyy seeing ppl go all the way back to ITSV and trying to find things to hate about gwen even then.

like in atsv, she is a realistic portrayal of a traumatized teenage girl who doesn’t know what to do with everything that’s happened to her and therefore ends up leaning on and trusting the wrong people. she made mistakes and was more human, but y’all didn’t like that. people HATED her for her mistakes and went out of their way to portray her as some sinister person while simultaneously simping for and loving up on male characters who’ve made similar if not worse mistakes.

in itsv, she comes off as a badass who rarely slips up. this is mainly because we’re seeing her from miles’ point of view and he very obviously has a crush on her so…. like duh. point is, in that movie gwen is an extremely capable superhero who is pretty and a lil traumatized but it doesn’t interfere with what she’s able to accomplish in itsv. she doesn’t make many mistakes in terms of her abilities or her relationship with miles because throughout the movie she’s slowly opening up to the idea of allowing herself to get close to people. therefore, she doesn’t yet have a friendship with him since her arc consists of her cold exterior melting away so she can let him in as a friend.

by atsv logic, itsv-gwen is the far superior and should- be-likeable version for some people since she’s a female character who is badass and doesn’t seriously fuck up or have any perceivable flaws (beyond the flatness that inherently comes with). but nooooo. y’all still hate her from that movie too so like… she just can’t win. you don’t like her when she’s an idealized version of herself and you don’t like her when she’s a realistic version of herself. it’s crazy seeing people pick her apart in itsv when most of the time her actions, like every other character’s, were based entirely on the very intense situation of the damn collider. to pick her apart specifically for her treatment of miles (which i don’t even think was cruel or coming from a place of illogical underestimation considering lives were on the line and miles was a very, very fresh-off-the-bite spider) and not the other characters is insaneeeee.

like to use her actions in itsv, which i would argue were logical in the context of the movie’s plot and situation, against her to further prove that she as a person is undeserving of miles in either a platonic or romantic way reeks with a lil something…. something that starts with an m and ends with a y. idk tho it’s on the tip of my tongue…

anywhore i just wanted to rant. not arguing or debating with anyone cus i don’t got the energy.

#just a little rant #call me the leader of the spider gwen defense squad #i’m not gonna argue with anyone tho so don’t @ me #this is my opinion and i’m sticking to it #and this is MY echo chamber #if i’m annoyed i block srry #spider gwen #gwen stacy #ghostflower #gwen x miles

[sixofravens-reads]

the thing that gets me about the "must read 100 books a year Or Else" thing is that you just.... don't see it with any other hobby?

no one (as far as I know) is telling knitters "you have to knit 100 projects in a year, it doesn't matter if they turn out holey or misshapen or ugly, it matters that you made so many of them!" pretty sure no one is telling gamers "you have to play 100 games a year, doesn't matter if you really enjoy them or explore the worlds, what's important is that you finish them!"

So...why, and I say this as someone who's a fairly fast reader and has read a lot this year, are (terminally online) readers so obsessed with numbers? Is it because more books = more intelligent? Is it just Number Go Up mentality? I understand the thrill of wanting to beat your past self and read more books than the year before or whatever, but why do you expect to hold others to your standards??

#thinking about reading #just a little rant #while i wait for the garlic cloves for my garlic bread to bake lmao #i often feel in competition with my past self or wanting to read certain genres etc. i didn't really get to the year before #but ive never looked at another blogger and went 'HA! you only read 10 books this year!' #don't get me started on the whole buying boatloads of books Just To Have A Big Library #i used to post about getting rid of books and people would reply like 'even if you didn't like them why not keep them just because??' #i don't live in a mansion lmao. also if i don't like a book i don't want to see it on my shelf every day #ANYWAY. back to listening to Canterbury Tales and baking

[laterisers]

if there's ONE little gripe I have about Bugsnax, it's the fact that it really feels like Filbo doesn't get nearly as much development as the rest of the cast. For a game that practically works under the idea of bringing everyone back to snaxburg for his sake, him having little to literally no involvement in that adventure at all just feels. Wrong. And it leaves me feeling like he's only becoming a mayor over the guilt of Liz not being there anymore and him not being capable of living up to her leadership. I don't know, perhaps if there ever is a sequel he'll play a much bigger role (which i really hope he does because he's one of my favorite characters) but for now I'm left with the crumbs

#bugsnax #ooooooouggggghh filabus. my dear widdle filabus they've done you so dirty. #i still love him so much but cmon dude just let him have a few sidequests and don't make parties his whole gimmick wrrraaagghhh #just a little rant

[iceeericeee]

Panicking

Why?

I’m making dinner tonight, and it’s onion soup.

Is that a bad thing? No, not really.

I just only have one recipe for it.

And I just looked at it, and it’s gonna take 2 1/2 hours to cook, not including the amount of time it takes to prep it 🫠

Dinner is very quickly approaching, and I’m gonna have to work from now until dinner making a fucking soup.

Broskis I just wanted to have onion soup tonight

And I can’t back out because I already told my family (who are onion soup enthusiasts btw) that I was gonna be making it tonight. So yeah

Soup

#just a little rant #the second I post this I’m gonna get to work #so if you don’t see me for the next few hours #just know that I’m toiling away at making the perfect onion soup #soup #onion soup

[noggyisnuugyreturns]

Those " things ninjago fans need to except " tiktoks are so funny cos they're always the most obvious shit ever,they'll be like " llorumi is toxic " , no way , most llorumi shippers ship them cos they like that or the whole " misakos a bad mother " like we get it , you still like her

#just a little rant #ive been gone for so long #ninjago #lloyd garmadon #misako garmadon #misako montgomery garmadon #llorumi

[noirtek]

the fact that the iz fanbase is still at each other’s necks over ZADR is so. to me

#i don’t have an opinion on it at all by the way #i think it would take away from the comedy for zim to semi consciously admit to himself that he kinda needs dib #i don’t really care that zim is a 100yo space bug i just don’t think it would be as funny if they were aware of how gay their rivalry gets #i think most of the issue with zadr is just everyone takes everything too seriously #ESPECIALLY whatever JV spits out on twitter. once you realize he’s a massive troll he seems even cooler #but anyways #some fans would enjoy things way more if ​they took jhonen a bit less serious #and remembered that he was not the only person who worked on zim #johnny is different because he belongs like solely to jhonen’s mind mush and everything he says abt it is like. automatically canon #just a little rant #r

[themaskstayson]

You do not need to kill the Gur for Astarion to like you.

I have played so many co-op games and read so many people saying they did this and idk why it's kind of sad.

In my first playthrough, I was romancing Astarion. I left him in camp to fight the Hag. Found the Gur, talked to him, and just bounced telling him good luck. Astarion was chill about it when I told him in the camp and I forgot all about the Gur. Until act 3. Right after Cazador's fight.

For another solo play through, I had Astarion with me and told the Gur God speed with that and Astarion got pissy that we let him live. It was a -10 approval which was lame BUT it was whatever.

Spoilers below, I guess

But TLDR version

You wanna do the same thing every single time, be my guest. But I feel like you'll get more out of the game changing your playstyle to see every single aspect of Astarion and fall in love with him every single time.

Reuniting the Gur with his two vampire daughters felt good, to see the unconditional love made me think that Astarion seeing this man, the monster hunter, with his monster daughter would understand that doing the right thing might not feel good at the time but later down the road it will.

I just feel like a majority of people trying to romance him has a hard time because they see the disapproval for every single good thing you do and panic and restart the game. It's a -1, relax, just continue your play through. Astarion's mildly annoyed by your actions, that's all.

That being said, doing every single thing to gain Astarion's approval is a bit funny. Told Zevlor for the first time I got better things to do cause I have an emergency, normally I now just bounce from the conversation so I can quickly leave act 1, and Astarion basically said I was unhinged and fun. Astarion pls we have a tadpole in our brain. And jokes on you, we're still gonna maybe help them lol

Romancing Astarion is NOT hard and I do not get it at all. I didn't change how I play, I was a good man and yet I see so many post that people are struggling.

Anyways thanks for reading my rant, I needed to get it off my chest

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #just a little rant

[iwanthermidnightz]

karlie was so cute in the vogue video… like she was bursting with happiness talking about her career in fashion. i really love hearing her talk about these moments and all the behind the scenes details. it’s wild to think about the stars aligning one peculiar moment when she was discovered and how the first calvin klein show changed her life forever. she took that opportunity and put everything she had into it, determined to make it —and she did. she became one of the most iconic models of the last 15 years by working her way up, being strong-willed and having a vision. it’s an art.

if you’re not into that sort of thing, maybe it doesn’t make a difference to you…. but to those of us who love fashion, photography, editorials, life imitating art, muses, channeling feelings into captured moments, and the many people it takes to run a fashion brand— it’s such a feat to have made a mark in the fashion industry. her work is forever timeless. she should be really proud of that 🤍

#just a little rant #i love art #and her

[norrisleclercf1]

My mother and brother bullied me into emailing my professor about my grade and so I cave and email her about my test average and how I'm worried I won't pass

This bitch (saying in a nice way) emails me back 5 seconds later and goes "Don't worry you've got an 83 after I input your quizzes and homeworks, see you in Pharm next term ☺️☺️"

She's sitting on my 83 while not even telling me and my grade is reading a 78.25 right now........I had a full on breakdown Tuesday night over this......I can't with my professor man

Whatever I've passed my class

#just a little rant

[jon-withnoh]

I say this with so much love for all Dannys that have come before, but for the love of god, stop casting her younger and younger. She likely isn‘t even in her forties in the book. I‘d say she‘s closer to being in her sixties. Why are we casting people who look like they‘re in their thirties when there are so few roles for older actresses and so many of them would absolutely shine as Danny? Why are we doing that? Huh?

#just a little rant #Rebecca das musical #mrs danvers

[firefliesintheskyline]

I'm loving everything about the show BUT I'm starting to get a little annoyed by all the cuts happening to the SandRay scenes that were used in the trailers

Where's the tattoo touching part? Why was the make out scene shortened?

I mean it's a little unfair to use those things in the trailer cause it's a guaranteed way to attract the public but then at the end it just gets cut

#only friends series #only friends #only friends the series #only friends series ep 5 #sandray #raysand #khaotung thanawat #first kanaphan #khaofirst #firstkhao #firstkhaotung #just a little rant #im not the biggest fan of the editing team