#let people live! christ!!!

[audible-smiles]

pet peeve time

it's ghoulish that we turn making fun of unusual baby names into some kind of sport. why is this the one area of culture where pedantic, hypercritical conservatism is fine and cool? there used to be an epidemic of so-called comedians in the US making fun of black names (because they thought black people were stupid!) and then when blatant racism became a faux pas in certain circles of white society they were all just like "we meant women are stupid, actually, as well as all white people in different social classes than us" and so far we've all gone "oh, that's fine!" and passed around memes of pregnant women naming their kids "Arson" or "Kayleieiigh" or whatever the fuck is supposed to be funny at the time.

I just looked at the top ten baby names in the US by binary gender and guess what, most of them date back to at least the 14th century if not much further, because again, naming conventions are astonishingly conservative. the exceptions? "Lily", because flower names for girls weren't popularized until the 1800s, and possibly "Mia" and "Aiden", which are, respectively, a diminutive version of a much older name, and an anglicized spelling of a much older name. your cousin who named their kid something weird is not necessarily indicative of a widespread societal collapse that must by guarded against by those wise preservers of our culture, internet trolls.

you are not being oppressed because somewhere a baby has a name that's spelled weird or sounds weird. in fact, that baby's name affects you in no way whatsoever, and fixating on it is deranged, "fall of civilization" behavior that makes you sound like you spent the 90s forwarding chain e-mails about ghetto kids named Oranjello and Lemonjello, because you're a tool. that's my hot take today!

adults can in fact change their names if they hate them. kids who dislike their names often end up going by nicknames. it is not child abuse to give your kid an unusual name! sometimes kids hate their traditional names, even, because names are super personal. sometimes kids are trans! The Public Universal Friend was born in 1752, you literally cannot stop people given traditional names from renaming themselves something weirder as an adult, and you still have to treat them with respect if they choose to do so!

naming a kid a nearly unpronounceable string of characters may in fact be the only remotely cool thing Elon Musk has ever done in his life, but it was almost certainly Grimes' idea

#i don't usually get this spicy lmao but #let people live! christ!!!

[laurents-secret-diary]

Can we see any of your drawings you may have had for the side characters please??? 👉👈

I only got a couple so far! I think I'm gonna do Nicaise next

#jokaste #aimeric #captive prince #kings rising #caprisun #can you believe damen fumbled a tall evil goddess? i would end myself #OKAY maybe he didnt “fumble” her. maybe it was the evil goddess part that ended it. but. but the loss is there ok. that shit would plague m #she is obviously sporting my headcanony akielon undercut like damen #but can you imagine going from this tall enchanting queen to. to looking down at a weird blue eyed frog with a stick up his ass #bi rights to damen but jesus christ my man #damen literally became the kinda guy that shows you a photo of his aint shit boyfriend on his iphone 5 while you're getting brunch together #and you have to say oh you two look so nice together. even though you cant believe he's letting that dude hit it. #like bro? you ever been to my garden? because i think you're dating one of my fucking gnomes #now onto aimeric. #he is my. he is my little tormented guy. manipulated to hell and back. abandoned. alone yet soulful and full of promise. #he schemes and pretends and KILLS A BUNCHA PEOPLE...... #FUCKS UP JORD FOR LIFEEEEEEEEEE #AND THEN OLLIE OUTS OF EVERYONES LIVES DUE TO IMMEASURABLE GUILT #AND MAKES SURE TO DELIVER THE FINAL KAMEHAMEHA TO JORD WITH THAT LITTLE MESSAGE???? #who does it like him #iconic. show stopping. mesmerising. he is the moment

[stiffyck]

The way homeless people are treated is INSANE.

I'm sitting inside a building. There's two other guys here.

A security dude comes over and tells the two guys to get out while he ignores me. He clearly saw me. But because i "don't look homeless" I can stay.

What the fuck. It's cold outside, it's raining, why the fuck can't they sit here. Literally there's almost no people here what is your ISSUE.

#i fucking hate how people treat homeless people like THEYRE STILL PEOPLE #THEIR LIVES ARE ALREADY HARD #WHY DO YOU NEED TO MAKE IT HARDER FOR THEM #JESUS CHRIST #YOU COULDNT JUST LET THEM SIT HERE? WHEN THERES LITERALLY NO ONE ELSE SITTING HERE??? #THERES ENOUGH SPACE FOR LIKE 10 PEOPLE TO SIT HERE #WE WERE JUST 3 #AND YOU KICKED THE TWO GUYS OUT #oh my GOD i hate people #stiff talk

[inkskinned]

you didn't say sorry, not really. you said sorry only when i pushed about it, you said it like an afterthought, like - oh fine, if this is what you want. the apology was already tearing itself apart in the air. you said sorry, but you caused this. you said sorry you feel that way, i guess. you said: what else do you want me to say? you've already made up your mind to be angry about this.

you've moved on since then. i hope you found a therapist. i am stuck with all of the hurt you caused but - you've been working on yourself, on your multiple projects, on that beautiful life you live. happy - you look happier, lighter, free of all of it. you take artsy videos of yourself dancing; caption it - a friend recently abandoned me.

nobody else knows how hard you pushed. nobody else knows what you did. i am sure you tell everyone a version of the truth that makes out the best of you; turns me into a cold unfeeling bitch who just "doesn't understand" you. i am sure you leave out all the ways i gave you myself, over and over, for years. how many times before this you hurt me, crossed my boundaries, laid me bare - what you say to them about when i finally drew the line is - she is just being unfair.

sometimes i feel insane about it. i have to text my best friend, make sure that what-i-think-happened actually-happened. to double-check that i wasn't being a bad person. maybe i'm misremembering it. she often has to guide me back to the same two facts: beyond what any one person could reasonably expect, i gave you everything, and you still wanted more of it.

it makes me angry, when it doesn't make me sick. i force myself to journal about it. how fucked up it makes me, knowing your narrative will be the one that sticks - knowing you are out there, right now, making sure everyone listens. telling them how you are being targeted. how you, hurting me on purpose, making me feel small, ignoring my needs - how that was really my fault, in the end.

yesterday you made a post on instagram talking about how you used to feel guilty about something that had gone wrong in a relationship, but that you've freed yourself from those toxic idealisms. you said: i am not giving her the power to make me feel bad about my mistakes. i am just a human person - it's up to her if she wants to be the bigger person and actually forgive.

and i just sat there and thought: you haven't even actually apologized for it.

#narcissist #toxic #this is about like #when u have done literally everything for someone #who takes and takes and takes from u #and when ur finally like #hey dude this thing u did hurt me #they're like #OFFENDED that u finally stood ur ground #and they turn on u SO quick #you: um dude it really hurt my feelings that u said that #them: god you're so fucking sensitive #them on instagram: LET PEOPLE BE THEMSELVES. JESUS CHRIST #them to their friends: yeah idk she just FREAKED OUT about like a miscommunication #you: .... i uhhhh asked u not to say that about me and to apologize for saying that #them to their friends: she just wants me to fucking live in misery she's toxic #you: ??????????????????????????????????? i asked ... u to treat me ... like a human person #anyway don't let those people bait u #they're good at what they do and they'll make sure to act on ur weaknesses and #get u back #so they can keep taking from u endlessly #like.... stealing ur whole energy

[ozzieinspacetime]

Thinking about the INSANE moral grey area of the thg victors at the minute,, these scared, small children killed 23 (or 47) other equally scared, small children in order to make it out alive. Every year afterwards the wound that is the games gets ripped open and they have to go about closing it up all over again. They can never escape the blood of the other scared little kids on their hands. They are being punished by the Capitol, made to watch other kids do what they did, for something the Capitol made them do in the first place. If they want the kids to die because they don't want them suffering the way a victor does for the rest of their lives, then they're uncaring & complicit in the tributes death. If they get the kids out, they're signing the tribute up for a life of misery. No winning. No moral high ground. Just a train ride that never stops.

#actually shocking that only 16 victors were dead/missing by the 3rd quarter quell. thats an insane amount of trauma to cope with #parcel day is probably the best example of how the games play on victors morals even when its over #because the entire district gets fed. for a whole year. of COURSE you'd want to give that to the people back home #but it means putting this kid up for literally anything Snow wants. You are complicit in their trauma from then on. you let them live #but if you dont mentor them then your district suffers and you're two more kids deep into this grave you keep digging for yourself #and NONE of it is the mentors fault btw im not saying that because there's no way to mantain a moral highground in this situation #but. jesus christ. its an impossible game because no matter what parents loose their children and someone looses their freedom #sickening. suzanne collins you have a brillant mind #thg #the hunger games #cw: death mention #<- multiple times #this isn't even starting on beetee/wiress and their inventions or the careers that live but if i talk abt them I'll never stop. alas

[cartoonchaos]

“gee i wonder why there’s still so much more fanfiction about male characters” “we need more morally complex female characters” “i love relationships that are doomed by the narrative” “more stories need to treat mentally ill characters with compassion and respect” “all his problems could’ve been fixed if he only went to therapy” you fuckers can’t even handle the ending of fionna and cake

#i’m not one to go online and complain fruitlessly about how media literacy is in the toilet but jesus christ #it’s actually devastating seeing so many people actively reject a brilliant and emotionally challenging show #all because they refuse to examine anything about themselves #if you’re genuinely pissed petrigrof wasn’t endgame and the show couldn’t quote unquote let them be happy #if you’re seriously mad your favorite doomed yuri was in fact doomed by the narrative #if you can’t enjoy petrigrof anymore because you now know it’s quote unquote problematic or toxic and not a perfect tragedy #please i beg of you watch it again #this show beat you over the head with a children’s book and then you misunderstood it somehow and then whined about your headache #and if you for realsies believe this show is pushing an unhealthy message with how it handled simon’s depression #this show that showed him so much compassion and understanding and gave him closure and let him move on and grow and seek help #if you think betty was too harsh on him #the betty that sentenced the man who doomed her to life #to live a happy and healthy life #to seek help and grow and become an individual not defined by his grief #if you think that’s seriously equivalent to telling a depressed person to just cheer up #then you are legitimately anti-recovery #i really hope you guys learn how to engage healthily with complex media #one would’ve thought steven universe taught us all a lesson #but i guess a million casper and nova level stories won’t be enough for some of you #here’s hoping you don’t just kin simon but actually follow his example #get therapy #loony rambles #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #adventure time

[janiedean]

two episodes of nervous crying your brains out for longer than one hour in the span of three days were not in my bingo card for 2024 when I graduated ten years ago and I would like to frankly get the fuck over myself

#personal for ts #one day i’ll be able to put into words #the absolutely hateful feeling of thinking you got over your shit #and then finding out that NOT ONLY you aren’t #but KNOWING you’re falling back into shitty coping mechanisms you STILL let it happen #honestly my self loathing is off the roof because fifteen years ago i didn’t know i was shitty coping #now i KNOW i am and guess what here i am doing the whole isolating myself and forgetting to reply to ppl song and dance #christ i thought i was okay with handling that kinda shit guess not #and yeah ofc i need to fix it for myself but this time is so much worse i’m just #my kingdom for waking up one morning and feeling some level of mental clarity #and for some goddamned financial stability #and for the force of will to keep the house tidy enough that i dont feel sad just looking at the state of the living room #guys also honestly sorry if i forgot to reply to your ask or pm or anything i’ll get to it at some point #i swear i’m not ignoring people on purpose i’m just completely overwhelmed sigh

[todayisafridaynight]

yk in retrospect it really is no surprise that rgg has a lot of queer fans. outside of the games being utterly homosexual of course

#snap chats #sorry i finally finished reading the second volume of yakuza's bias #GREAT manga i cant recommend it enough im already crying waiting for the third one to be translated #i got a stroke when the manga mentioned.. those like. ai-chat character things #like christ i know this is a new series and the japanese version was released in january but my GOD this is still topical #anyway let me. get to my point LMAO #because while i was reading there was a speech given by My Main Man that ive noticed is. p common in yakuza media #yk a speech about how the only people who'll give them (yakuza) worth is themselves #and that they'll forever be casted out by society so their passion is the only thing to turn to and live for. something like that #and of COURSE i remember a similar sentiment from The Clan Heir Is A Trans Woman #and listen..... organized crime is very different from being queer. im pretty sure dont quote me on that-- #HOWEVER when you have messages like that being thrown left and right... yeah its no wonder LMAO #of course its not note-for-note and the contexts are VERY different LMAO but yk what i mean #its like that one post talking abut monsters and monsterfucking being queer or something #dont listen to me i only go here on legality but i think im onto something #ok bye im gonna stare at my ceiling until i pass out. i wanna start working on my dummy comic but alas... #too busy with comms this week... AND im sleepy...

[thedroloisms]

honestly people just gotta leave it. let people who are gonna throw shade throw shade. it does nawt matter. who cares if xyz cc doesn't like dream. giving accusations that aren't even accusations attention benefits no one, no matter if the accusations are positive or negative. literally just. (points at dttwt like a dog) LEAVE IT. LEAVE IT

#like there are possibilities here that are avoidable by everyone just staying in their lane #there is no need to freak out at any content creator running their mouth and vagueing shit #vagues are not accusations that are enough to sway anyone that's not already convinced #no normal person sees 'this person is a BAD PERSON just trust me teehee' from a rando and believes them #just leave it and ignore it . let's NOT invite more headaches onto our head for once in our lives #when dream talked abt his experiences the point was not for every twitterian under the sun to use it as a weapon against #the people that hate his guts ?? stop wielding his triggers as a fucking weapon jesus fucking christ #do you WANT him to get hurt or

[brookheimer]

didn’t expect the anne carson post to get notes but now that it has i myself am the recipient of bad takes. horrible

#also 75% of the people reblogging it atp do not seem to understand my frustration w the comments #like i didn’t post this to be like look how ableist twt users are in denying the lived experience of depression for other ppl #i mean sure but that was not the point of the post #it’s about an inability to read poetry and a newfound insistence on everything including art having a Take i #it’s about a fundamental disconnect with literature and works in general that are not written for you specifically #relatability politics infiltrating literary discourse #like their criticism of the poem is the strangest i’ve ever seen bc it has nothing to do with the poem. people do not know how to read #anymore #they treat everything like it’s a tweet they either need to publicly agree with or publicly mock #but yeah like my point was not Look How Dismissive They Are Of Neurodivergent Experiences #it was Jesus Fucking Christ The Education System Is Failing Us And Critical Literacy Is At An All Time Low #i mean this isn’t supposed to be about depression. it’s about life and living it #and honestly people defending it from the depression/neurodivergenxe angle is just the flip side of the twitter hate — you like it because #you view it as representative of your specific lived experience and would likely not like it if it didn’t #it’s being wrapped up into identity politics #and that was sooooo not the point of the post like i am criticizing the relatability/identity politics mode of reading #it’s made us unable to look at things on their own terms let alone thru a legitimate critical lens! #i mean ofc you can like stuff bc it resonates w you i’m not criticizing That. but saying that that’s what gives a work of art value or #determines whether or not it’s ‘good’ is ridiculous and narcissistic and rooted in the tiktok brain fungus discouraging all nuance ever #sorry sorry i’ll shut up now

[pumpking64]

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#Jesus fucking Christ #why do some people just. not see the mess they’re making and acknowledge that it’s their responsibility to clean up after themselves?? #like. you throw your shoes in the entrance exactly where people walk. you let shared loafers stand outside for several hours #you cook the most simple dinner that one time you cook (mind you the other people have equal shares of making food) #and yet you don’t even manage to clean up after neither the cooking NOR taking the food off the table into the fridge so it doesn’t turn bad #you keep on taking the most easy solution that fits you the best without thinking about others. in a space where we all are exhausted #and I’m so done with it for now tbh. how lazy to not care about the bare necessities for others. how rude to admit to it #AND on top of this. you’ll tell stuff about your country that’s *objectively horrifying* and then add on to that that you love your country #it’s just. so many things. are so so so much of what I’d avoid in a person. a few things is fine. no one’s perfect. but damn there’s a limit #SORRY to anyone who’s read this far but I just. had to get it out #this guy is the one I’m working the closest with these two and a half weeks. hes still a kid kind of. I’m not gonna be mean to him #but damn. my patience. is being tested #AHHH I might delete this tbh. I don’t like showing this side of myself. I don’t want to spread this kind of negativity #I’m just so very frustrated. how a human person can come to this place and be here for SO LONG already #and still not have learnt the basics of living and working together #own post #oh. and all the triggering of intrusive thoughts is not helping your case buddy #(which you can’t really know about so it’s kinda fair but also it’s for bad hygiene stuff mostly and that’s. I mean…..)

[vorakh]

it's so damn frustrating that people (coworkers mostly) don't take it seriously when i talk about the movies i watched or books i'm reading because to them it's just weird intellectual things and they assume i talk about it to feel superior like no i'm just telling you i watched a nice movie because you asked me "what did you do yesterday" if you don't care then don't ask fuck you also don't be wondering why i don't want to see you on our free days because you are not great people to have around in life if you can't be decent about someone sharing something they like with you

#when they start making fun of the movies i like i started saying 'then keep watching m*rvel bullshit' #i don't feel better than anyone jesus christ but clearly someone has inferiority complex #i wonder how so many people can make it to adulthood without ever learning to just listen to other people (friends) talk about. whatever #so many people just go yeah i don't care about this thing let's change subject or laugh about it #how do you live #no tag for personal again (:

[realmermaid333]

So is wyler officially dead or..?

Since ya know every wyler is going to wenclay or Lucas & Tyler for some reason. Surprised they haven't gone to wenclair or wavier yet.

Hello, I'm assuming this is broken Wyler/everlark based on the comment you left then deleted?

Wyler isn't dead, in fact the tag is alive and well and I hope we pass 1,000 fics soon :) i plan to continue writing for Wyler and probably only Wyler, personally. I just had an idea for Wenclay so I chose to write something. I am not married to Wyler. You act like I am in a monogamous relationship with Wyler and writing for different ships is cheating lol.

Multi-shipping is fun, sometimes I want to write a wenclay fic simply because I feel like it, and it doesn't have to be that serious. Maybe the Wyler community would be more supportive if you didn't bother people about who they ship and who they don't. I don't need your passive aggressive comments whenever I choose to talk about another fictional pairing.

Wyler isn't dead, thank you. Let people have some artistic freedom.

I will be blocking people who give me shit for writing wenclay btw, im not a fan of ship bashing for no reason.

#let people live jesus christ #multi shipping

[munamania]

this post had to turn off reblogs and stuff bc of all the people calling this biphobic. we’re literally in the worst timeline

#let’s talk thru that thought shall we. when we’re speaking of a phobia in terms of oppression that means one group must hold power #over another in ways that are reinforced by institutions. correct? so the way bi ppl experience oppression Is through homosexuality #but let’s ignore that. truly. let’s not even go there #if we’re speaking of biphobia as the phenomenon of not believing or manipulating someone’s identity to fit some gross opinion you have of #them and bigoted ideas ppl have. if we’re speaking of invalidation #WHERE does it say bi women. and also. how much power does a post like this for real have over your life and emotions #are we seriously not allowed to make fun of lame ass boyfriends. you all suck #ppl got fucking weird in the notes too like i hope you can physically feel these two fucking each other relentlessly #girl go outside. over two not real specified people in a tumblr post. good lord… #abby talks #i complain abt this bc i feel like we need to be serious. look at the shit going on in the world and tell me why we need genuine infighting #we don’t have time for that. peoples lives are at risk. jesus christ.

[yourbestdream]

Ok long incredibly stupid rant incoming but. I hate hate HATE this stupid fucking gif

I'm literally the stupidest person alive for this I know but I fucking HATE this thing it makes me feel like I'm watching a snuff film. The shaky low quality camera the background making it seem like it's being filmed in an empty warehouse or some shit the way they STRETCH HIM and CONTORT HIS BODY. It invokes the same primal dread in me as one of those fucking al qaeda hostage videos. AND IT KEEPS FUCKING FINDING ME I CANNOT ESCAPE IT. FUCK YOU STRETCHY MICKEY MOUSE SNUFF FILM GIF FUCK YOU FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#body horror #i feel like it necessitates that fucking tag oh my GOD #it's literally the dumbest most irrational fear i've ever had but. jesus fucking christ just look at it. #told my sister abt this and she laughed at me for like 10 minutes and is now never going to let me live it down. but idc. #the people need to KNOW

[mymlody]

consider the fact that "BL/yaoi has a precedent of being written by women for women, and with that tend to romanticize tropes that are usually considered toxic in m/f media because it's instead being acted between two men" and "the assumption that any piece of media (whether described as BL/yaoi or not) coming from countries like japan, china, or korea that includes a relationship between two men automatically suffers from this issue and european/american media with gay relationships don't and are better somehow is just straight up racist" are statements that can and should coexist

#txt #saw some very annoying posts on twitter about this re: heartstopper #where self proclaimed Profic proshit whatever idc what they call themselves were like #see this is why BL/yaoi is SUPERIOR LET QUEERS BE MESSY #or whatever #and im like. my brother in christ you live in delaware first of all #the orientalism and exotification is showing #and also like. Theres gay media from EU/US where gays are messy youre literally just not looking. #Just say you have an obsession with upholding BL/yaoi as the ultimate media made by the oppressed #while ignoring BL and geikomi written by like actual gay men #or asian media explicitly depicting other members of the LGBT community that you ignore bc like #its not from japan or korea or china bc you have a weird colorist bias you havent considered #Theres like a fuckton of Thai films for example like way more than youd expect #and even in EA there are documentaries like shinjuku boys which is about trans men in JP #but youre too busy caring about your freedom to write boku no hero omegaverse slave fic to actually care about real LGBT people lawl #but whatever what do i know im just a stupid fancop right giggles