#like don’t people change there

[adjit]

I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented.

I feel like every time I see a post addressing someone’s shitty behavior the post also takes the time to mention that they’re not even good at [x] anyway. And that’s just not always true? Equating being good at a skill as being morally good is just not necessary. Someone can be a fantastic writer, can have a beautiful singing voice, can create breathtaking artwork, and still be a horrible person.

I know part of this is probably just the instinct to dislike everything about a person when you dislike them, but I also think this mindset leads to people defending creatives way past where they should, because if bad people create bad art, then if this person creates art that I like and resonates with me, then they can’t be a bad person!

And you know. That’s just not true. Those two things are simply completely unconnected and I think it’d be healthier if we all started disconnecting them in our heads.

#ramblings tag #like idk. I think it’s possible to feel distaste for someone’s stuff while acknowledging it’s objectively good #but sometimes people act like admitting there’s a single good thing about a person who’s been shitty is impossible #and like. no! people are multifaceted and can have many positives #those don’t change the fact that they’ve done shitty things

[your-fave-jewish-magical-girl]

Shout out to people who are fans and enjoyers of hated media. Stuff people make 8 hour video essays on why it’s bad, shows or games or whatever that people dunk on to the point where it’s basically a trend even if they never interacted with said media. Bands or movies where people who have only heard of it will make judgement after hearing someone talk about their interest.

Keep being you, keep liking what you like authentically. Don’t let the bandwagoning or angry nerds get to you. You are some of the most awesome and chilliest people on the internet.

#small rant #sword art online #gate #rwby #high guardian spice #twilight #one direction #furrys #anime #isekai #my little pony #mobuseka #she ra #gacha life #hetalia #vtubers #more obviously #I obviously don’t like all of these #but I respect people who are true to themselves and what they like #so even if I don’t like them that doesn’t change the way you interact with your favorite media #none of this applies to Harry Potter

[chlorophyll-tints]

willing loyalty turned helpless devotion

#saw a post about smth smth guard dog and the hand that holds its leash #smth smth the sword and its scabbard #SOOOO ZOLU CODED i do not take feedback #one piece #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #zolu #my doods #also don’t look at the drastic style change from the last post i’m currently stealing the style of like 5 diff people rn

[aslyran]

A moment of respite

#the lost woods are such a home in botw to me #even when you carve a home out of the house in hateno it never feels as comfy as this #kind of like #meeting w people who knew you when you were a child #and youre diffrent now and they don’t mind but you can tell they’re kinda impressed by how much someone can change #idk #i feel like other iterations of Link held the responsibility of their destiny like a weighted blanket #while this one carries it like a tumbling shrine #well #anyways #yahaha #fanart #link #legend of zelda #link botw #botw #loz #loz botw #loz link #breath of the wild

[plistommy]

The people saying it was BARE MINIMUM that Steve was okay with Robin being a lesbian are literally making me so mad. It was the 80s, not 2022, so him accepting her while her coming out could’ve gotten her hurt badly or worse isn’t a bare minimum fucking thing.

Steve has gone through so much development and it angers me you guys are calling it bare minimum especially in a situation like this that was probably so fucking scary to Robin.

#It’s honestly life threatening still #But it has also changed a lot from what it was back in the 80s #Steve accepting Robin isn’t a small thing #It could’ve gone so wrong if she told it to a wrong person #Like UGHHHHH #This is @ those tiktokers #Who make those means edits of Steve and say shit like this #People don’t think sometimes because they just wanna hate even if they’re wrong #rant #personal #steve harrington #stranger things

[whatohitsonfirewelp]

Guys can we please talk about how HUGE buck being bisexual is?

We have more people watching the show because a man was made bi and he hits NONE of the gay stereotypes.

People are doing it because this is so so so rare!!

People are doing it out of SPITE for the homophobic fans!!

People are watching the first season and are in SHOCK because oh?? There’s a lesbian black couple?? With a CHILD??? Oh there’s a gay 911 operator???

Guys it’s just

So many people are discovering this amazing beautiful show and the queer characters and now THEY get to see themselves as well!! THEY get to experience this joy with us!!

Because 911 is so much more than Evan Buckley. It’s so much more than Hen and Karen and Josh. It’s so much more because of them. It’s so much more because we have such a diverse and amazing cast. It’s so much more because they talk about topics of abuse, ptsd, family trauma (for SEVERAL characters), therapy for MEN, the grief of losing a partner or a parent or a child. It’s fully a found family show!!

And it’s so beautiful to see people hear about this show and watch it and feel seen. That Evan Buckley being bisexual opened a door for so many people that never knew it was ever there.

#THIS is what change looks like #THIS is queer media history #THIS is how you get a audience #because I’m seeing SO many people who are so supportive of buck #even if they don’t ship buddie!! or if they never in a million years thought buck was bi!! #they’re OPEN to it they are willing to have someone connect the points for them so they CAN understand!! #whatoh back at it again #going to start SOBBING again #911 abc #evan buckley

[frownyalfred]

Things you might not realize are affecting your ao3 readership:

Putting unrelated fics into one compilation instead of series or collections

Not tagging your fics/“haha I’m so bad at tagging!”

Tagging all of the ships in a fandom instead of the relevant ones to the story

“This is my first fic ever”/ “I’m really not a good writer” / “sorry if this is crap”

Summaries that say “sorry don’t think I will update much” or “might be abandoned idk”

Tagging “r@pe” or “unaliving” etc instead of the actual tag so people can filter/exclude

NOT tagging major, relevant tags or kinks without using the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” option

Telling people how bad your writing is and how you hate it so much and how they shouldn’t even be reading your fic (self deprecation)

Weird punctuation: not starting new quotes or descriptions on a new line, and/or putting extremely long blocks of text on the page without a break

#while there are many valid reasons to do these things #they can affect if people will click on your story #they can be very influential #and it might explain some hits or ratios you don’t like #but not all #we all go through it as writers and we do this for free #but these are some reasons I might keep scrolling and that I’ve seen from other people #fanfic #fic #writing #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own #most of this applies to ao3 but still #soft writing rant for Friday #I’m not saying things will magically change if you don’t do these #but it will help i promise #always put your best self out there #and so much of these are self deprecating as a protective measure #I totally get why we do it #IVE done these #trust me #writing things #just writing things #reading #reading things

[stuckinapril]

Growing up w no Instagram does SOMETHING to a bitch like I really get taken aback by how second nature it is for people to whip out their phones and take pictures of the most mundane things. Not because I judge them for it but bc apart from selfies, pictures w friends, and obligatory pictures on trips I literally forget to take pictures of my life period

#I’m not the kind of girl who’ll be studying at a cafe and thinks to snap a picture of my cute latte art #I’m never somewhere and go Ohhh this would be a good angle…. Like I just don’t do that #At first the way I rationalized it is I don’t wanna stress myself out taking aesthetic pictures but now I’m like #Compared to other people I don’t rly have proof of cute little tender moments #And one day I’ll be old and decrepit and I won’t have many of these diminutive memories still #So I rly wanna change that by being more intentional ab taking photos #And maybe sharing some of them SPARINGLY bc I want it to mostly be for me #But just making it more of a priority to capture little things I’ll look back on when I’m older #I think taking more pictures is part of my 2024 resolution anyway I just haven’t implemented it thus far

[hyperfocuscentre]

trans people do not need to pass as cis before their identity/gender is taken seriously. sure, it’s great for some to be told that they pass, as it can feel amazing to be told you are seen the way you identify but that isn’t the case for all. some may prefer to be seen more feminine/masculine (just like cis people do) and that’s okay!! they should still be respected!! it’s the same for nonbinary folk and anyone that doesn’t fit as ‘man’ or ‘woman’, they don’t have to look androgynous or the way you expect them to.

#felt like going on a little rant again #because some people don’t seem to grasp stuff like this #transgender #ftm #mtf #amab #afab #nonbinary #trans umbrella #gender fluid people don’t have to change their appearance to match their gender #genderfluid #gender fluid #agender #bigender #pangender #transitioning #lgbtq+ pride #lgbtq #masculine presenting #feminine presenting

[jojo-schmo]

I wish I could tell the original artist that this drawing permanently changed the entire direction of my life in 2009. I want to shake their hand, look them in the eye, and admit I would not be who I am today if this drawing didn’t exist.

EDIT: Original artist is @ivynajspyder !!!!

#‘but jojo’ you ask. ‘that seems a little ridiculous’ #‘don’t you think that’s a little much?’ #no. NO. IT IS THE TRUTH. #little baby middle schooler jojo had just gotten squeak squad. the first kirby game she ever owned. #and she loved it even tho there’s a lot she didn’t understand #like who dedede was supposed to be or why copy abilities existed #I asked for the game because my roommate at swim camp had it and she told me the plot of the game when I looked over her shoulder to watch #(the plot she told me was completely made up btw she said kirby had to save the dimension from dark overlord and did not mention the squeak #and said stuff about meta knight being a bad guy idk I realize now she was just weaving a tale of her own haha) #SO I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE LORE. I had only played the one game and it’s the one people don’t like the plot of #but meta knight completely intrigued me #what was this blue sword wielding little kirby dude doing here?? #so I’d replay his boss fight over and over again just to get that glimpse at his face #and I’d sit and wonder what it all meant. who was this mysterious swordsman?? #and the boss fight was hard!!! it cost me to beat it at the time but I’d still do it to see his face #AND THEN AFTER LIKE A YEAR OF THIS it occurred to me that there was a kirby wiki online #so I found all the pictures of his face and my little fangirl-raised-by-deviantart mind ATE THIS UP. #and then I look up that one fateful google search……… the one that changed me #meta. #knight. #maskless. #and this drawing was towards the top of the results #I went feral about a fandom related topic for the very very first time #I lost my MIND. HOW can a character be so cute AND COOL??! I was a changed child. #I consumed the hoshi no kaabii anime like it was the only piece of media on earth #I drew comics about him. I made my first kirby oc ever to go on a grand adventure on him. #I filled my notebooks with kirby art to the point my mom was like ‘jossie. you REALLY need to branch out. these are just orbs.’ #and now I am the kirby artist I am today. so yes. YES. this drawing did change my life. #thanks for reading. and thanks to the original artist. I tried to find them to link but nothing. so if you know pls tell me #THE END!!! and remember! your art makes a difference in people’s lives even if they don’t say it to your face!!!!

[suncrat]

Maybe I’m just dumb so if someone has an explanation for this pls help me out but it’s kinda odd to me that Gwen, one of the spiderpeople whose universe is extremely visually distinct from Miles’s universe, doesn’t keep her world’s watercolor/color-changing aesthetic in other universes. Like she basically looks like someone from Miles’s universe when she’s not in her own universe, whereas other spiderpeople from visually distinct universes (like Hobie, Noir, and Peni) maintain their universe’s aesthetics regardless of what universe they’re in. So why doesn’t Gwen?

(Also I get that her universe’s art style is a bit inconsistent in that it changes and “ripples” a lot, especially with the characters’ emotions, but it would be cool if they utilized that to have Gwen shift into her universe’s art style during emotional moments)

#it makes a lot of thematic sense for characters like Hobie to not change at all btwn worlds (because he doesn’t abide by those rules) #but it kinda just seems like an established thing that people don’t undergo massive stylization changes btwn worlds #except Gwen DOES #idk I’m just ranting at this point and it’s a really tiny detail overall but it still bugs me- #across the spiderverse #gwen stacy #across the spider verse spoilers #atsv spoilers

[last-in-line-for-hell]

*rings bells* WEI WUXIAN IS A NERD!! He loves learning and applying his knowledge in new and creative ways! He’s INCREDIBLY insightful and perceptive! He keeps notes and creates unparalleled inventions! He knows people and even knows politics! He develops answers and theories on the fly! Please I beg for people to stop calling him an idiot all the time 😭🙏🙏

#mdzs textpost not art #No but fr #I’m sooooo tired of seeing people dismiss just how capable and smart wwx is #esp in fic like I feel like I can’t read one fic without every character being so condescending and rude to wwx and calling him stupid #like hello last I checked none of you completely changed the landscape of cultivation before the age of 22 🤨 #dkdkdkd don’t mind me I just always get tired of seeing this everywhereeee

[macbethz]

The whole idea of the “redemption arc” has become such a charged and specific phrase in fandom spaces for no reason to the point that like it doesn’t even really mean anything as a concept anymore. like once you get into conversations about who “deserves” a “redemption arc” I’m automatically like oh we are entering a territory of internet discourse I don’t give a shit about and also you are probably talking about cartoons for 12 year olds

#like does Alex clockworkorange have a ‘redemption arc.’ does Renton Trainspotting #they become changed people but the idea of the redemption arc is this thing fandom holds up but doesn’t actually apply in most cases #I don’t care if these fictional people deserve a redemption arc sometimes life is just people improving slightly #LIKE THESE ARE MOVIES FOR FUCKING ADULTS SO IT DOESNT MATTER #I cant fucking out into words what I’m thinking but yk #warlock wartalks

[asymmetryestablished]

since my return to tumblr I’ve been seeing a lot of ppl talking abt disabilities & I have one piece brainrot real bad so I figured I’d babble a bit

it took me a weirdly long time to realize that... Shanks is disabled??? like. he lost an arm. if the fan theory is correct, he lost his sword arm. and only after losing his sword arm did this man go on to become one of the four most powerful people on the seas.

and he’s not the only one!!! Crocodile’s missing a hand. Tashigi’s probably legally blind without her glasses, which she keeps fucking losing. Fujitora’s blind, Zolo’s sense of direction is so bad it probably qualifies as some sort of intellectual disability — hell, Whitebeard himself, Edward fucking Newgate, is on a ventilator for the entire time he spends on the page/screen. and yet.

none of these people are defined by their disability. Whitebeard is considered the strongest man in the world. Zolo is fucking Zolo. Fujitora’s an admiral, which is the only reason I’m calling him Fujitora in the first place. Tashigi is Smoker’s right-hand man. Crocodile is one of the first truly imposing villains the straw hats come across, and, oh yeah, still making himself relevant nearly a thousand chapters later. and Shanks... well, Shanks is one of the Four Emperors, a.k.a. legally classified as one of the four biggest threats to the current world order. he’s doing pretty okay for himself for a guy who visibly struggles to button his shirts.

it just makes me think. Oda has made a world where disability accommodations are... normalized. in a weird sort of way, but still. hell, this is a maritime setting — having a devil fruit power is a permanent disability, and yet people don’t hesitate to take them on. because everyone is just... used to accommodating them. can’t swim? don’t go overboard, keep someone on watch around the water, bathe with a friend. only one hand? that’s fine, that’s why you keep your first mate around. can’t see? we have superpowers for that. we can handle it. to paraphrase Usopp: you do what you can, and leave the rest to your crewmates.

anyway I really love one piece

#also the fact that Luffy’s asexuality is arguably also treated as a superpower bc it makes him immune to Hancock #anyway what’s with Oda taking people’s limbs over the timeskip? #Zolo’s eye. Kidd’s arm. apparently Kuzan lost a fucking leg #there are a lot of missing arms in general tbh. I mentioned this on twitter but like #like at least six people have lost arms hands or wings. what’s up w that #is Oda collecting??? #anyway #all these seafarers with devil fruit powers are like those lactose intolerant ppl who never turn down cheese #Luffy especially. Luffy is lactose intolerant but spends his whole life drinking milk (sitting on the figurehead) #don’t even get me started on Law choosing to pilot a *fucking submarine* like an absolute lunatic #one piece #wumpeece #I’m changing my one piece tag to wumpeece sorry not sorry #quoth nsd #red haired shanks #one piece crocodile #one piece whitebeard #one piece tashigi #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #disabilties

[whaliiwatching]

get remixed, bitches

#spider man: across the spiderverse #spider punk #spider noir #hobie brown #noirpunk #UNIVERSE SIGNATURE SWAP WOOHOOO #the quotes on noir are part revolutionary poetr and part The Constitution #specifically the bit about how the people are allowed to overthrow the government if it sucks #i thought their personalities might be a little more muddled too #noir’s more upbeat and jaunty while hobie gets a lil serious #not much changes story wise for them though #the picture of new york is mine!! i think it’s nyc but i can’t remember #noir in color is so cursed. i don’t like it. this was fun but i’m not doing it again #honestly the more i look the more i dislike #oh whatever it’s good enough

[4ce-of-2pades-inkwell]

This comic isn’t actually canon to the AU at all. It was just for the joke. Please don’t bug me about it in asks. Please I’m begging you. It never happened.

#it’s like the Bad End. they don’t remember a thing ‘bout it. #cddwtd #casino cups #cuphead #mugman #cddwtd devil #kool aid man #guys. #people. #I started drawing this in like June #JUNE #IT IS ALMOST DECEMBER #I abandoned this for MONTHS ON END #I almost lost the ask #if I had put it off any longer my art style would have changed and I’d have needed to redraw the whole thing #guys #G U Y S