#more of a rant

[anatheyma]

kela after denying my rehabilitation application because i'm "currently too mentally ill to be rehabilitated" even though that is the exact reason i fucking need it right now: 🤫🧏

#“you have to focus on stabilizing your depression and everything that comes with it before using our support with it” #girl in what world does that make sense #not a vent #well maybe #more of a rant

[dieting-boy]

im having one of those arfid days where everything sounds disgusting . even my safe foods. like when i imagine putting it in my mouth it makes me feel sick, which like i normally lowkey rlly appreciate bcuz it means im not eating so im not getting cals but i had a big surgery a couple days ago and im in a lot of pain and i just wanna eat my comfort foods T_T

#im not tagging this #idk #its not rlly a typical ed post #more of a rant #but yeah

[byersfanclub]

here’s the thing, stop pinning blogs, authors, artists against each other. i get that there’s a few of these things listed above that are bigger than others and “popular” but when you start competitions between these things and making it seem as though these normal, regular ass people who just like the same fandom as you as famous celebrities that’s when there’s an issue. it also makes “small” creators feel super inferior which is just sad.

#more of a rant #tbh

[bby666k]

i think i have this idea that my whole life i’ve always been longing and never reaching, but that’s not true. if i want something bad enough i will fucking get it, i don’t care anymore. i’m so tired of hearing that little voice in the back of my head telling me that i can’t shift because i want it too bad. why should me wanting something so badly get in the way of me getting it? isn’t it the opposite? i could’ve given up on shifting years ago but i never have. no matter how deeply upsetting it’s been when my attempts haven’t worked, i’ve persisted in the belief that it will happen some day because it is something i have wanted my ENTIRE life and only discovered it was possible a few years ago. i believe in the existence of shifting, i believe other people have done it, i believe anyone is capable of it, so why is it always so difficult for me to convince myself that it’s the same for ME? why is it always different when it comes to me? why do i believe in the success and happiness of others no matter how bad of a situation they’re in, but never me? i can do this and i don’t fucking care what anyone else thinks, i don’t even care what i think. i want this and i am going to make it happen whatever the fuck it takes

#k thots #more of a rant #reality shifting

[osarquivosmagnus]

Listening to In a Week by Hozier and cant stop thinking about The Corruption from tma, like how janes prentiss heard the calling of the hive and just wanted to become one with them all, or how that one dude married the insects and let them and their new kids infect and live inside him... anyway that's not even the exact Vibe of the song, it's just an overall feeling I get when listening to it and I'm not good enough with words to express it but. You know.

#hozier #tma #kind of #more of a rant

[zomblorbs]

i wish there wasn’t such a stigmatized view on platonically loving people.

I can’t call people nicknames and pet names like hun and honey without them immediately assuming i have romantic interest in them.

i can’t tell my friends i love them without adding on “platonically” or shortening the phrase “ily” “love you” “love u”

i love a lot of people. i love my sister, i love my boyfriend, and i love my best friend. All different versions of love.

let us love people openly and honestly without it being seen as “making a move” or being romantically interested.

please please please stop assuming that love is strictly romantic, i promise you life becomes so much brighter and bigger when you stop keeping love strictly romantic.

#finn rants #platonic love #romantic love #there’s so much more than just romantic love #the greek literally had seven different words for love #LISTEN TO THEM!!!

[catmask]

when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people

the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to

#just kidding the third option is i drive myself insane #trying to find a way to write someone like me in a way i may be respected as a human being #without shaving away the more frightening aspects of my experience or life #challenge level . impossible. i will die. or they will make youtube 3 hour long rant videos about it someday #scratchpost #txt

[anxiouslittlecarrot]

I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.

Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.

That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.

And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.

Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.

This movie has the potential to radically change the way we collectively see Barbie into what Ruth Handler originally intended, I’m so very excited

#I’m sorry for the rant I feel very strongly about this #I have more Barbie History if you want it #I did a full dive into Barbie History for a uni project and it was the best thing it changed the way I see her forever #she’s EVERYTHING he’s just her boyfriend Ken #barbie #barbie movie #barbie 2023 #carrot.txt

[dragoninahumancostume]

I hate the "reblog if" that literally forces you to reblog

"reblog to save a life!" shut up you literally can't blame me if someone I don't know kills themselves. You can't blame me if someone I do now kills themselves simply because I didn't reblog a post. Would I hate if it happened? Considering yesterday I almost cried because I thought I lost someone as a friend, yes, I'd hate it and I might as well blame myself, and I doubt reblogging it helps more than telling them directly that I love and care for them

"reblog if you're a safe space! Reblog if you're not a pedophile!" (aka, reblog if you're a decent person). It will literally get lost in all my other post, why does it matter? My blog is not exactly a safe space, but more so because I will judge you based on your posts, I don't give a shit about your gender or sexuality so long as you're not an asshole and a pervert.

"Reblog if you wish this person a happy day" yeah sure. I wish all my friends a good day for all the days, bro. And I'd rather not reblog that whenever I see it, if you don't mind

Like I don't wish harm but seriously just let me scroll peacefully, it was fun at first but now it's just annoying me honestly

#vent ig #Technically no tho #More of a rant

[lemon-tea-leaves]

unrelated, watching old videos from a content creator i like is agonizing because people thought captions were a fun silly thing where you can put your commentary and tell people to subscribe to you and it's like. i'm trying to read that. i am trying to Read That so i can comprehend what's being said please. no i don't care that you think Creator is a cutie i'm trying to read that

#personal #vent #i guess? not really #more of a rant #🐝.docx

[melxhunter]

I feel like there are a lot of people out there who needs to hear this:

If you dropped out of school because of diagnosed (or undiagnosed) ADHD, Autism, ADD, OCD, Dyslexia, Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar disorder, psychotic disorders, schizophrenia etc… You did not fail. The education system failed you.

#neurodiverse stuff #i cannot say this enough #neurodivergent #actually adhd #adhd problems #autism #just autistic things #actually autistic #actually bpd #actually mentally ill #actually disabled #depressing shit #this gave me more emotional damage than my dad #i am going to rant #i am going insane #dropping out #school problems #send help #you can do this #you cannot convince me otherwise #you can't change my mind #you can do it #i believe in you #i believe in their healing powers #i believe in myself #academic assignments #assignmentwriting #assignment help #in this essay i will

[magnusbae]

To illustrate this post by @mayahawkse I would like to visualize to you the difference:

A post in 2023:

A post in 2014:

A zoom out of the same post:

This is what a community looks like.

See how in 2023 almost all of the reblogs come from the OP, from their few hours/days in the tag search. Meanwhile in 2014 the % of reblogs from OP is insignificant, because most of the reblogs come from the reblogs within the fandom, within the micro-communities formed there. You didn't need to rely on tags, or search, or being featured. Because the community took care of you, made sure to pass the work between themselves and onto their blog and exposed their followers to it. It kept works alive for years.

It's not JUST the reblog/like ratio that causing this issue, it's the type of interaction people have. They're content with scrolling and liking the search engine, instead of actually having a reblogging relationship with other blogs in their community.

Anyways, if you want to see more content you like, the only true way to make it happen is to reblog it. Likes do not forward content in no way but making OP feel nice. Reblogs on the other hand make content eternal. They make it relevant, they make it exist outside of a fickle tumblr search that hardly works on the best of days.

If you want more of something, reblog it.

#i said i wont ever rant about this bc it's unseemly but HONESTLY. #you simply cannot complain about not having enough of A or B or C and then never reblog / interact with the content you love. #If you LOVE something you cannot just leave a like and silently wait for more to happen #I know countless of content creators that simply stopped doing art/writing fic/making edits #You need to understand that fandom content is made FOR the fandom FOR the engagement FOR the entertainment and fun it makes. #If a content creator does not have fun IN the fandom-- why would they spend the scares free time they have on making this content? #And we're not talking about things that you don't like-- no one expects you to reblog things you don't like. #However I think it's safe to say that when a post has more than 5k it's not some random shitpost with no value. #tumblr issues #tumblr #content creators #buns.txt #something something please don't starve your local clowns

[ourg0dsal]

If there is one piece of advice I can give as an amateur writer myself, is that truly, writing your story knowing how it ends changes the game drastically.

And yes, I'm very aware that this isn't new advice. Everyone and their mother says the same thing. Here's the thing they don't do. Explain why.

I have a story, that started with the end. Meaning I knew the ending of the story before i knew anything else. The ending inspired everything else.

And so now I know no matter what happens, no matter what I do. It must and will eventually lead to this ending. And it gives me a path that goals and flaws and different plot formulas, could never hope to give.

And, here is how it changes the writing outside of just planning it. There is a chance for foreshadowing at every corner. That "we will last forever" turns heartbreaking when you know that the ending doesn't support that. Every line means something more. It's no longer a means to end. Because you already have an end. The end gives the means meaning.

It's like a good tragedy, knowing things could have ended differently but also knowing that because the characters where who they are, and that the chain of events happened as they did, that it NEVER would have ended differently. That the entire story makes almost no sense without the ending, the closure.

A story has no meaning without an end. So why would you write something meaningless and add meaning afterwards?

#this is a long post #more of a rant #i apologize but also not really #writing #writing is hard #their are nuances to it that I would have never guessed only a couple years ago #the ending #writing advice #writing tips

[lovethistoomuch]

I've been on a bit ob a Russell Crowe movie binge in the past few weeks and since he is almost sixty now, many of the movies I've watched were consequently older movies. and when I watched them, it struck me again, how much hollywood has changed in the last few decades when it comes to depicting men.

take Gladiator for example from the year 2000. Russell Crowe plays basically an action hero in it. he is a big, muscly dude, who is very strong and uses that strength to defeat his enemies. and this is what he looks like:

looks like a strong man, right?

in the same year, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine looked like this in the first X-men movie:

in 2013 the same character played by the same actor looked like this:

it's a bit much, isn't it? I mean, he looks so skinny.

and if we go even further back: look at what the womanizer character Face from the A-team looked like in the 80s show vs the 2010 movie reboot:

maybe the difference isn't that big but it really startled me when I watched that movie for the first time. in my mind there was no reason why Face should be particularly muscular since he is the charming one not the one known for being particularly strong.

if we go even further back, look at the charmin womanizer character Hawkeye in M*A*S*H from the 70's.

I know he's a doctor and there is no reason for him to be ripped but I got the feeling if they did the show now, he would be.

I don't know what my point really is I'm just saying I got a bit nostalgic when watching these men. I cannot be the only one who'd rather see more of this:

than this:

also, as a sidenote: Russell Crowe gained a lot of weight for the nice guys and he is a fucking powerhouse in that film, like, when he punches someone, you really feel it because of the weight that is behind it and the shere mass of his body.

(even if this may look different, he's about to break Ryan Gosling's character's arm. I couldn't find a gif of him punching someone but I swear it looks painfull as hell.)

so, in short: can we get big, heavy action guys back? cause I'm tired of seeing these skinny, despite being muscular dudes who look dehydrated as hell and on steroids.

and can we stop making characters ripped just for the sake of it? cause I'd rather cuddle with a guy looking like Hawkeye than one looking like Face from the new A-team movie.

#sorry for all the shritless men #they needed to be to make my point #I know there have always been ripped action guys #but it feels so much more common place now #and sometimes for no reason #this has been on my mind for a while #so sorry for the long post #men in movies #gladiator #wolverine #a-team #m*a*s*h #master and commander #thor #the nice guys #russell crowe #don't know if i should tag the movies/shows #but oh well #rant #long post #hollywood

[featheredadora]

Disabled people shouldn't have to jump through hoops!!

#disability #birblr #bird art #doodles #context here is that I had a really triggering disability assessment this morning #'can you tell me more about what caused your panic attack?' #Not if you don't want me to have a panic attack right now?? #Also maybe don't ask an ex-anorexic 'have you lost weight?' #How is that relevant? #If I was fat or had gained weight would that make me more or less disabled in your eyes?? How is this relevant?? #Sorry for the rant guys it's been a not-so-great morning #If I didn't know better I would have assumed the assessor was purposefully trying to trigger me