#memes are easy but memes are also hard

[locusfandomtime]

A (somewhat) genuine “What your favourite hermit says about you” chart because my joke one was so popular

Obvious disclaimer: do not take too seriously! these aren’t necessarily true! this is like 50% a joke! i mean everything here positively!

i am still right though. anyways let me know who you are I’m a zed fan

#some of these were hard because I haven’t encountered too many blogs that were HUGELY dedicated to a hermit #like cub was easy. there are a billion convex accounts. they all have the same vibes. #on the other hand. very few gem stress jevin hypno etc #like there were some I could find but only one or two per. so I went off their youtube fandom and general vibes #also some of these are more specific than others. sorry about that. same reasons as specified I just may not have encountered fans of them #much. or the things I could think of were kind of unsuitable for this #anyways let me know how accurate I was #locus fandom time #hermitcraft #mcyt #hermitblr #hermitcraft memes #shitpost

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

Roy after Wembley:

#ted lasso #roy kent #jamie tartt #it's also about roy and jamie speedrunning their friendship in my fic but this version is less niche #i figured out how to make memes and i'm making it everyone else's problem #by “figured out” i mean i just do it in preview. although now that i think about it i'm pretty sure there's like. sites for making memes #why do it the easy way when you can do it the slightly harder but still not that hard way instead #kvetch oc

[snailfen]

BLEURGH anyone else in that weird state where they dont wanna draw cus they keep getting frustrated

#i havent drawn anything in maybe 2 weeks i think. but also thats cus of SQUID GAMES ‼️ #i love salmon run so much <- got knocked out of profreshional +2 after being on a winning streak #last time i tried drawing it went. Really bad and i closed csp out of frustration #i might do something easy like a drawing meme to try and ease back into it #i wanna draw objectheads I WANNA DRAW OBJECTHEADS SO BADLY but i havent done that for like a year and a half so its Hard. help me #mossball.txt #not really a vent honestly just talking nd shit

[reticent-fate]

i Need you to understand that i am just a simple little digimon redemption machine

the squeaky lil gazimon that serve etemon on the server continent? get those critters some beef jerky and cat toys

devimon from adventure? that's a friend waiting to happen

i see milleniummon and i go "that's a friend right there, get the lads some fruit salad"

kurata can suffer in digihell but i'll take his gizmon, they're cute

i just think they're neat

-sky

#kinstuff #sky #devi #this is a little bit kinstuff/exomemory stuff a little bit just I Think They're Neat Marge Meme #our brother got us a crest of destiny necklace five years ago and i've been forever changed /hj #but like seriously the idea of rebirth is so common in the digital world #sometimes they flirt with the idea of “bad” digimon dying and coming back reformed #(see: cherubimon in frontiers; the whole gulusgammamon thing; devimon in adventure 2020; i'm blanking on the other example i thought of lol #(WAIT IMPMON DUH) #and morality is sometimes complex in digital antagonists #(ogremon my beloved and again: impmon; savers also had some of this iirc but it's been a while since we watched that one) #but like Pure Evil entities in a series that started off as a v-pet about caring for something that relies on you for everything #hits hard for some reason (could be the childhood trauma /hj) #the easy way out would be reformatting #letting the world completely change who you are and erasing the parts that made you evil #at the cost of losing yourself and maybe even forgetting what made you want to destroy the world in the first place #maybe it really did need to change and letting it kill and assimilate you isn't the right thing #but the idea of villainmons getting a chance to be better and actually taking it #some of the mons really didn't have any motivation beyond “cause mayhem and destruction” but then #milleniummon at least had some kind of yearning in its heart that drove it to act out (iirc; i've only read a summary of the ws games lol) #i think it's also interesting to consider this in the context of series where death has little meaning #digimon whose violence is relegated to the digital world like devimon or etemon #who become part of this unending cycle beyond simply the phases of homeostasis (can't think of a better way to word it) #there is no end to their damage because they do not threaten the digital world in a way that disrupts it beyond the disturbance of individu #in a system where death has no meaning what reason is there to act kind when you have received no kindness yourself? #idk #apocalymon deserved an actual pizza y'all #(i haven't gotten far in my first watch of adventure subbed) #also ghost game got so close to doing something nice for milleniummon #i know it's supposed to be one of the many personified apocalypses but like

[caterpillarinacave]

You haven’t seen despair until you’ve seen the face of a six year old, who, after months of work, has just mastered the outside three turn and is being told by their coach that they have to learn an inside three turn.

#The agony in their eyes when they try it and realize how unnecessarily HARD they are #You thought it would be easy because you’re so good at outside 3turns? Ha! Stupid kindergartener! This one feels impossible! #Also idk if it’s just me but I only ever use inside 3turns during footwork sequences when I have a bunch of momentum #Pretty sure if I tried to just push off and inside three turn I to would struggle #Anyway that poor little kid is having an existential crisis #Figure skating #Figure skater #skating #fs #fs memes

[mattodore]

unprivated my oc pinterest boards for a day or two if anyone wants to look around and see what's going on

#river dipping #SPONGEBOB HOLDING HIS HANDS OUT MEME let me just say!!!!! i didn't go through all of the boards yet to finish deleting the super old pins #SO!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't look too far down their boards or if you do take everything at the bottom with a grain of salt #i've had these ocs for like. YEARS. so some of them have old ass pins that [dennis voice] don't represent them anymore #or are just. old and ugly jkndfgknjdkfgnh #i'm very slowly going through and deleting old pins but it's hard bc even if they're ugly or i don't think they fit the character anymore.. #they've been in the boards for soooo long that i'm attached jsfnkdhkjn it's a little bit silly but <3 that's oc obsession for u #the ocs who've had their personalities/background reworked this year have cleaner boards so dutchie and sehyuk have rlly nice boards #(plus it's incredibly easy to find pins for them... maybe it's just my following but i'm always seeing violent and religious imagery lmao) #and i completely redid imani's a few months ago so her board is soooooo good now #ALSO! there are pairing boards here too which aren't even a little bit polished jdkhndkjfngk like i don't even pin things myself in them... #so if you're not on mobile they will look VERY messy but what can you do <3 #the mattodore board is the only one i update regularly out of the pairing boards bc i'm crazy abt them... hence the 200 pins #................also if you already follow me on pinterest can you tell me if your homepage is flooded by my oc pins now??? #i have no clue if that happens or not when i unprivate the board

[celepeace]

Sometimes I'm surprised that monster hunter isn't more popular among the creature design and spec evo corners of tumblr, at least the portions that also play video games, and then I remember that it's just about as hard as soulsborne games (I'd argue some specific entries are even harder) but doesn't have any of the atmospheric or story elements to attract people. It gets by on sheer gameplay alone and isn't a pvp game either. There is no way to make the game easier besides picking one of the less mechanically complex weapons and git gud. If it wasn't for the neat dinosaurs I couldn't think of a game less alluring to the average tumblr user

#a lot of other games it's a combination of escaping into another world with stuff like immersion and story #monster hunter as an ip adamantly refuses to elaborate about the world it takes place in #there is no overarching story and there's basically no lore with few exceptions e.g. fatalis but even that's really barebones #mh is just like. you're a hunter. now go kick the shit out of dinosaurs with your giant guts sword #there have been a lot of memes over the years about how it also doesn't have a tutorial it just expects you to figure it out #it has extensive ''explain how this works'' popups but they only exist for certain mechanics #and somehow half the time manage to communicate nothing of use #but actually important stuff like ''how do i use this weapon'' are not explained ANYWHERE within the game itself #and it has some of the most complicated mechanics i've ever seen in a real-time combat game i.e. charge blade and hunting horn pre rise #it just does the equivalent of giving you a gun you need a master's degree to operate at full potential and throws you to the wolves #and if you try to naively look up how some of the weapons work you get multi-page hard-to-parse essays #i STILL don't know how hunting horn works pre-rise because every time i try to read a guide my eyes glaze over #like there are perhaps few other franchises more unfriendly to an ''easy mode my beloved''-type person #not to rag on those people. there's nothing wrong with that but some games are just NOT going to work with you in that way #i pretty much only like it because i'm unfortunately a Tryhard Gamer #and the feeling of being a small human killing a dragon god by sheer skill and willpower is like crack cocaine to me #i would be more frustrated by mh's lack of any lore to speak of if it weren't for the gameplay injecting dopamine straight into my brain

[camptw1nk]

I wish tumblr was. Easier

#it just feels very. hard to kinda get things going sometimes #mostly its pretty easy on kurt but i can not emphasize enough that my other blogs are not inactive bc i dont want to do things #i log on to every blog i have every day and i try to reach out to people but. really only a small handful interact #and that handful follows me everywhere and is always trying and thats very nice!! i appreciate it a LOT!!! #but when a blog is at over 100 followers and u struggle to get more than 5 people to talk to you its. discouraging #esp bc so many people will also just. not read a single thing ab ur muse #there are people who have approached me who didn't know jason had powers. when that is. plastered everywhere #and that also happened when he had the url expheiriment and his graphics were entirely fire themed #like idk i have so many muses that i love and i try so hard with but no ones as excited as i am #and thats fine i dont expect them to get excited ab every muse its just. idk it feels like so much work to go on my other blogs #bc i show up and try to get interactions and a couple people send memes in but those memes wont always lead to more #i keep going to multimuse blogs so that i dont. have so many blogs that are ignored and i can tell myself im active and people care but #its usually only the same handful of muses that people care about #so ill make a solo blog for a passion muse but they're not one of the ones people were there for so it goes nowhere #idk im just. im very tired of tumblr but i dont want to leave you know #i just. idk i want to feel more like this is a fun little hobby and i can enjoy it but i dont. know how to do that #negative cw

[yardsards]

i don't know when or why it started, but at some point in the past few months my right leg has started jittering whenever i laugh???

#eliot posts #like i'm not complaining bc it's kinda cute. like a dog whose leg twitches when you scritch its stomach. #but why??? #also i think my laugh changed slightly? #it's still a delightfully hilariously ugly wheezy cackle but there's bits if a normal laugh in there too #then again it's been a while since i've laughed REALLY hard so maybe that's the same. but my ''chuckle at memes'' laugh is a lil different #i never laugh as loud when i'm physically alone than when i'm with other people #the last time i laughed like. really hard and uncontrollably was months ago and for The Worst reason #my friend had broken his knee for the third time #i was there for the first (high school gym class. during a game called NOODLE TAG.) #and he told me that the third was just from slipping in the rain #and i asked what the second time was #and friends. you are not gonna guess his answer here: #he broke it LEARNING KPOP DANCES #and i felt bad laughing at his misfortune but it was just such an unexpected and strange answer #and i was in a giggly tired sort of mood #so i fuckin LOST IT #like it got to the point where i could barely breathe and i fuckin drooled a little cuz i couldn't stop long enough to swallow my spit #but he was a very good sport about it. and i think even started giggling at me laughing at him #it's pretty easy to make him laugh (whether on purpose or accidentally like that) but it still makes me happy #and makes me feel accomplished #i love making people laugh so much #i think i lost a bit of the comedic edge i had back when i was a teen tho #bc i socialize in person way less than i did then bc i am no longer forced to be around people all day long #which is nice in some ways but awful in others #but i could get groups of people losing their shit. i think my specialty was telling stories #(lots -but not all- of folks have a sort of specialty with their jokes. #for example: one of my friends was a MASTER at bizarre but accurate descriptiond of shit) #my best story to tell was the 'honey‚ i had a rough week' story. i couldn't tell it very well over text abd after so long since it happened #but it's a rollercoaster. there's accidental amputation. accidental indecent exposure. drugs. death. piss. and a geriatric dog.

[thebirdandhersong]

apparently the exhilaration of finishing one project means jump-starting another one

#SIGH #well at least i have it planned out #my summer writing project for my home group is now...... chugging along #it has been four hours of writing and thinking and considering things #and i think this is a good project to embark upon #i will work on tfs at the same time just so there's some Balance #summer project: the spiderman meme novel #that's literally it though #i get to come to grips with my own vices again apparently #and instead of despair/hopelessness/apathy (tfs) or fear/anger/self dependence and also self loathing/constant striving (arb) #we're dealing with.....over-sentimentalism. sadness. being unable to let go. learning to move on the hard way #which is not easy to write however i have most of it down already #if not in written form then in bullet points #i'm actually REALLY excited about this project #because i am very close to finishing it #i technically DID write most of it during the summer #but it needs a little revamp and a lot of rewriting #and im also very very excited because this is the novel i am planning on printing out for my best friend :))) #she specifically asked for a copy for her Christmas gift and that is what I shall give her! #probably won't hand-bind it (which was also her request) but i will at least design the cover myself #and embroider a special fabric dust jacket to protect it #SO EXCITED!!!!!! and now i must sleep #the post-inklings challenge ch.1 exhilaration and adrenaline has carried me to 1am and i must..... sleeeeeeep #slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in year 21

[itspileofgoodthings]

To add on to @thelonelybrilliance’s articulate and concise post about fandom, but in a new post so hers doesn’t get cluttered—sometimes your feelings get hurt by the beats of a story as understood through fandom. I know mine have —deeply. And untangling that can feel almost impossible and Herculean. The reason I hate love triangles in an ongoing piece of media (I don’t) is purely because of fandom, because people INSIST on making into a war or contest of some kind. And no I’m not just talking about the worst kind of fandom shipping wars where insults or death threats are exchanged and people just lose their minds etc. I’m talking about that base assumption among “reasonable” fans that a love story is a prize to be won, for a character and for the fans of said character. And that “losing” this battle can only bring shame and misery. Therefore, if the losing happens it CANNOT be accepted or lived with because it’s the ultimate failure. And the only thing to do in that light is to say “well clearly the story is wrong.”

TV show writers/modern writers of popular entertainment do love to bait fans using emotional manipulation. it’s baked into our storytelling on some level and I hate it and I hate to see it. And it’s why generally, on principle, I won’t engage with a tv show or movie seriously until it’s finished. So that I can make sense of it as a whole on its own merits and not in the context of television ratings or the shipping wars/opinions that are often intentionally stoked to drive those ratings.

but the thing I have learned (only extremely recently) from the times where I can’t help it and I do get swept up into a story that is ongoing is that I do have the power to step away from not only a fandom but that fandom mindset that makes things into petty little wars and snide attacks and understand that romantic relationships are not prizes to be won, that this is about understanding who these people are, what they want, and how they fit together. And in that light I don’t have to do the thing that fandom makes me feel I do have to do—lose, or, worse, throw somebody away as the loser. Cut them off from my love and just let them die.

if a story is well written enough, or even sometimes if it isn’t but the truth of character is still there anyways, there will always be a way to resolve those things that hurt and push and pull at me on a deep level because the truth of the story will set me free. I have learned that I can’t do that in a public space or while I feel I’m being watched or even with a whole group of people. I have to do it one on one. And it doesn’t mean there aren’t things I have to let go of—my own pride, the feelings that come from the sunk cost effect, even just wanting things to be the way I wanted them to be just because I wanted it. Because I’m attached to my own views. But if I can, if I can try to trust that the story is worth it, it’s so much safer and more satisfying to see the story from that vantage point and love it and appreciate it and have fun with it without those fandom fears hurting me or clouding my vision.

#anyway the thing about jancy that I didn’t want to face #was that sickening feeling that a) I’d been wrong but also b) that I would have to throw away Jonathan #that somehow that would mean I was wrong to have loved him as deeply as I did and I would just have to throw him away! #and it’s like. I DON’t. #the way I read him now (with Emma) is very funny #and just part of the shared meme language #and it’s hard to share because it’s so personally intertwined with all of the inside jokes that exist #But all of that aside it became easy to see that neither he nor Nancy made each other happy or gave each other what they needed #and yes the writers did some real stupid things gross things to them in season 2 but there is I think an actual divide in character #that makes them not happy together. and it’s just very simple and clear #So letting go is letting both of them be happy #and you know what??? I am reading absolutely 0 fandom takes right now I never go on my dash I see nothing #And the fandom attitude STILL pervades sometimes—people reblogging pro Steve things with snide tags @ Jonathan #or the assumption showing up in reblogs that I am ‘on their side now’ in the shipping war #and it’s so annoying!!!!!! It is. SO. ANNOYING . #the clearest reminder to me to keep my distance to protect my heart!!! #anyway I read Emma’s post and it put things so clearly that it made this post easier to see and then write #so I thought I would! #fandom #shipping wars #my thoughts #all personal thoughts re: specific fandoms kept in the tags

[arledrone]

GOD I HATE THE LOCALISATION SOOOOOO FUCKING MUCH THIS LINE WAS ORIGINALLY JAMIL COMMENTING ON HOW KALIM “NEVER CHANGES” AND ACTS AS A WAY TO HINT AT HOW JAMIL SLOWLY BEGINS TO RESENT HIM LESS

#twisted wonderland #jamil viper #i swear to god this diminishes the impact of jamil's development here #ep4 isn't an instant fix and jamil still has his fucking issues with kalim #'he never changes' with such a genuine small smile on jamil's face #is meant to showcase that a part of him never truly hated kalim and doesn't WANT to #it's just he's grown up in such a debilitating environment that we get what we see in ep4 #'i am surrounded by simpletons' may as well just be jamil talking about the localisation team #also HOW are you going to go so fucking hard on disney references #and then... use a line reminiscent of a DIFFERENT DISNEY VILLAIN TO BEGIN WITH IM- #ire rising.png #also making your translation meme material doesn't make it good #it's just an easy way to keep engagement from ppl with low standards i said what i said

[bytebun]

ok i need to. rethink my dnd campaign plans because my players’ characters are so stupid (NOT MY PLAYERS! THE CHARACTERS!) that today they managed to fail every single investigations check/roll that would have revealed any of the intrigue & worldbuilding. every. single. one

#in retrospect they also failed these last session. which is. #this is a team of himbos #actually ok we are use the see you space cowboy ttrpg not dnd i just say dnd as a shorthand #and their brain stats aren't even BAD like it's not anybody's BEST skill #but it's second best for two people #and somehow they are. not even partial success (like 50% chance AND they have rerolls if they've previously failed). all failures #orz #on the other hand they managed to completely curbstomp a. well it wasn't a hard fight but it wasn't supposed to be that easy LMAO #while not intending to fight but rather run the fuck away #they failed their running away rolls like 4 times and so just had to retaliate to being attacked #they took out each opponent in ONE ATTACK #meme abt 'guy crying and screaming but he's obviously winning the fight' #anyways the combat was probably the most successful scene so far in terms of player engagement which is GREAT but also profoundly funny #because they were in way less danger than they thought they were. you can't even die in this game #new thing learnt abt my players: they are cowards when it comes to the health & livelihoods of their characters #which is very good that's a fantastic trait for getting them attached to & embodying their characters and means i don't need to curb overly #risky behaviour that doesn't make sense in the story context #but also means. i need to kinda railroad them into not running away from every noise in the dark lmaooooo #bytebun rambles #high moon

[leqclerc]

‘red’ for the wip challenge

Formula One in turmoil as season-opening Australian Grand Prix cancelled the France24 headline reads, big bold letters standing out against a red background.

From the WIP I affectionately refer to as lockdownfic. I really want to finish this at some point - I have it all plotted and planned out in my head, I'm just struggling to put it into actual words. 🙈

#replies #sbinalino #wip ask meme #fic tag #thanks for asking! <3 #'red' is so hard but so easy at the same time? like i definitely use it a lot but also it flags any word containing or ending in -red lmao

[anarchyloser]

bro. bro I tried ur exercise and a friend’s advice as well and my back feels so much better I can’t thank u enough 🥺💙💙

of course! as a fellow back pain sufferer I always have to help a homie out

#ask #memes! #mutual my beloved #it's usually my mid back which is easy enough to pop #and more often its my upper back than lower #but whenever it hurts that always helps me #its a weird one you wouldnt think of but it really helps #also rolling a tenis ball on your spine against a wall or the floor can help and feels pretty good #(or other small ish hard balls)

[jessielefey]

One should play the Drakengard/nier games in reverse publishing order in order to get the most out of them. Like how Bloodborne can be said as to "teach you how to play Souls games", Automata followed by Drakengard 3 followed by Replicant teaches you how to read Drakengard as a metacommentary in a way that conceptually proves "just starting from the first game in the series" is doomed to leave you confused and angry and heartbroken; in this essay I will...

#but seriously: thing that seems to have been lost by new kids jumping on from automata... the meme used to be 'cavia hates you' #or to give it more context: cavia got sorta notorious as like evil!Kojima games; cavia *loves* games but *hates* players #yoko taro doesn't hate us anymore but he remembers when he did #and it's all over the newer games this... sorta step-by-step guide on how to read theme into game mechanics #if you just go from Automata -- a love letter -- to the first Drakengard -- an active sneering declaration of war... #it's not hard to see why people just bounce off like 'wow this game is shit'; bad-on-purpose/bad-for-a-purpose is sketch ground to pick #but the both necessary and entirely unnecessary ten thousand automata endings? that's a lesson. #drakengard 3 going so meta its plot implodes and all you're left with is the symbolic story? another #nier literally mocking you for doing unnecessary side quests and the only good ending is to literally not-play? now you're almost ready #if you can appreciate *what the game is saying* in nier by the easy gameplay doing just about everything to get you to the end #the same end that tells you your effort was less than pointless and then lights it on fire as it makes you watch #*now* you're ready to look at drakengard's maliciously jank gameplay and story that actively punishes you for digging and understand #(reason why nier both is and is not a drakengard game is in the difference between the maliciously too-easy gameplay #and 'we're the bad guys' this was all futile conclusion and drakengard's maliciously too-hard gameplay #and 'we're the bad guys but from the opposite angle' we as devs are literally laughing at you conclusion) #(and you can see that best in drakengard 3 which *is* a drakengard game through and through even with less jank mechanics) #heh hot take: drakengard and pathologic are kissing cousins #also also: Drakengard is to NIN's Hurt as Automata is to Cash's Hurt #(((but where's the essay OP? in the tags apparently; keep up :-p)))