#old lady yells at cloud

[shingekinomyfeelings]

People really need to stop equating virginity/lack of sexual experience with someone being 'naive' and 'innocent' and any other bullshit terms indicating immaturity. Getting fucked for the first time will not imbue someone with wisdom or a deeper understanding of humanity or love or the realities of the world. Sorry if you think sex is literally magic, it's not.

Also, this shouldn't be a hot take, but if someone who has never wanted to have sex has never had sex, that's actually a good thing.

Don't you fucking dare imply I'm lacking something.

#fucking think about what you're insinuating when you say shit like that I am begging you #I think it's a fucking GREAT thing that I've never had sex while not wanting to #today on Asexuals Being Treated Like Aliens #this is mostly about being Ace in a hypersexual world but honestly if you've not had sex by choice for LITERALLY ANY REASON you are valid #asexuality #virginity #old lady yells at cloud

[discobiscotto]

Just Guys Bein’ Dudes: A Needlessly Huge TED-Talk About Luca & Alberto’s Relationship

Ready for some big-brain BS?

Well, ready or not, here’s a “little” dive into how I interpret/perceive Luca and Alberto’s relationship.

Note: I’m referring to them as my own headcanon versions of them as men. It can certainly be applied to them as young adults and teens for sure, but I’m diving into ‘Ciao Luca’ territory specifically. So, there, just being clear on the who’s who.

What’s their deal anyhow?

Are they romantic partners? Are they attracted to eachother, yanno 👉🏻👈🏻? Buddies? Buddies with benefits? Are they even a couple? Are they husbands? What’s their deal?

So, a couple years ago when I was starting to get really busy with the headcanons, I went on a tear about their relationship to lay down some kind of clear foundation for it. I felt alittle conflicted at the time about how their relationship was going to feel/act like.

To me, because I love ambiguity, I wanted to keep that energy going from the original source material…but with alittle “oomph”…considering there’s been time and maturity tacked on. They can’t just be Pallin’ Around forever, something’s gotta give with chemistry that strong imo.

If I’m being honest, them being point-blank romantic partners felt too cliched and predictable/boring. Courtship, wooing, marriage…snore. It just didn’t feel like ‘them’ to me. It bordered heteronormative somehow. I was just …PUTTING MYSELF TO SLEEP.

Not to say they aren’t romantic, because they certainly are in their own right! It just isn’t the defining Vibe of their relationship.

As a queer lady with a pretty open mind in terms of what defines a relationship and/or bond, I believe that love expression is on a spectrum. Different strokes for different folks, yanno?

I scooted myself over to that old filing cabinet in my brain with random Greek Philosophy tid-bits (that I was impressed wasn’t put thru the incinerator) and I got polishing.

I remembered a few terms, like storge (family love), Eros: romantic, mania: obsessive/stalkerish love, agape, philia, the list goes on.

We’re gonna focus on PHILIA, typically deemed affectionate and/or “brotherly love”, I think also falls under platonic love.

We’re going to come back to this later☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻

As a couple of seamonsters (first and foremost) the human concept of love may not necessarily compute to them. Not that they get confused or turn their nose up at it, but rather it’s more boxed-in and rigid than, I guess, fish love? Haha.

Example: homosexuality, bisexuality, and heterosexuality as concepts are human inventions to help humans navigate their life and their identity in the world, be part of a tribe, and potentially find mates.

They’re social constructs, like gender conformity, and Mondays.

Seamonsters really don’t have that. They’re similar to humans in alot of ways, but in terms of attraction, love, and social awareness, they just kindof ride the wave and go where the current takes them.

Opposite sex pairings likely happen more often because [gestures] instincts and Makin’ Fries. But just like humans, same sex relationships happen just as much!…but seamonsters have no concept of homophobia (strictly a human invention) so there’s no discouragement or imposed fear of the relationship…it just happens if it’s meant to and the world keeps spinning. [deep sighs]

Luca and Alberto are aware of human society and customs (especially now that they’ve been living amongst them for atleast 15 years). So, they still try to do-as-the-humans-do sometimes. They know that they feel a strong bond to eachother that can’t be ignored, and when humans sense a similar bond between each other they express it by being physically intimate, or giving gifts, or creating things for eachother, etc.

So, basically, it boils down to “I love my friend, so I wish to express that love for him like that [gesture].”

Now bringing it back to Philia up there!👆🏻

That particular source defines philia as brotherly love, both must be men (in the Greek system), they respect and take pleasure in eachother’s company, bond through exploring philosophical truths, and sexual intimacy or attraction is optional.

This other source takes it a bit further saying that we could be diving into “friends to lovers” territory which is the aforementioned “oomph” I was referring to. The bridge into Eros stuff without being completely rooted there (ie your usual romantic pair).

Their relationship isn’t based on physical attraction, but began as a close friendship that progressed into something more. Not built on lust, but on mutual affection and respect for eachother.

They are an “unlikely” pair. Where a hockey hug became alittle tighter, and the joined hands in a good old “Piacere Girolamo Trombetta” started to linger.

They feel safe with eachother, they love and prefer eachother’s company, they share eachother’s worlds and feel deeply connected in them. Alberto cooks meals for them because he loves Luca, and Luca gives Alberto [SPOILER] because he loves him back.

They share a “I can’t quite put my finger on it but I feel safe, warm, and happy with you, I enjoy your company and what we have, I love the feeling of you being close to me, exchanging warmth and heartbeats, and I feel like this is more than going out on dates or ‘picking out curtains’.” kind of thing.

They’re roommates who kiss and “play house”. They are in love…but express it in their own unique way. They are openly affectionate. They keep people guessing, they confuse the neighbors, they have an “inside joke”.

Alberto lays on the housewife schtick: straightening Luca’s tie and sending him on his way with a packed lunch.

They call eachother heteronormative terms of endearment, mostly to be cheeky. Sarcastic “Honey” or “Dear” followed by someone affectionately ending up in a headlock.

They love to play with the human version of “married life”, little do they realize they’ve grown genuinely accustomed to it.

They’re queer but have no name and nowhere they’d rather be except each other’s arms (that one place that makes perfect sense).

They aren’t married…they never can get married…but that doesn’t stop them from sharing their homes, their beds, and a last name written on their Christmas cards.

In conclusion, humans say they’re gay.

The Paguro’s say “They built a farm together.”

SOURCES:

#luca #luberto #luca1970s #discobiscotto design notes #greek philosophy #headcanon #ciaolucafic #i want what these bitches have #ciaoluca #ciao luca #older!alberto #i want what they have #older!luca #old lady yells at cloud #I want what they have and so do you

[gwydionae]

Ok, serious question for One Piece fans.

Here's the TL;DR:

I'm at Fishman Island in the anime. I know lots of future spoilers for WCI and Wano. I love pre-time skip Sanji and WCI Sanji. I hate Fishman Island Sanji. The question is, as a Sanji fan, how much disappointment should I prepare for in Punk Hazard/Dressrosa/etc until WCI? Is he going to stay this obnoxious until then?

And here's the rather long explanation rant because sometimes you just gotta vent:

I started reading the manga, like, 20 years ago, but I dropped it during the Fishman Island arc. There were many reasons for this (some unrelated to OP entirely), but a big one was Sanji. He had always been my favorite character, and while there had been moments pre-time skip that I didn't love (see: Clear Clear Fruit and it's improper uses), I found he became downright insufferable after it. I don't have to love everything about a character for them to be my favorite, but FI pushed me past my limit.

I have since skimmed through Whole Cake Island and bits of Wano due to seeing spoilers that made me believe that may have changed over time, and I did really like the parts that I read. Well, most of them, anyway (see: invisibility and it's improper uses, Sanji). So between that and hype over the live action version, I went back and started watching the anime for the first time.

I am once again in the early goings of Fishman Island, and I am STRUGGLING. Every time Sanji is on screen my brain is warring between remembering what I like about his character and what I'm seeing play out currently. He used to be overly fond and protective of woman, to the point that his inability to fight them hindered the crew. Now he's an active pervert drooling in the face of every pretty woman who is hindering the crew simply by bleeding to death at the sight of any woman including his own crewmates. Had this happened, like, once, MAYBE twice, ok, it's a dumb gag, but whatever. But it's not a one off gag. It just keeps going, to the point where it doesn't feel like a gag anymore so much as an actual character trait. It's like his flaws (which can make for interesting character drama, like his inability to physically harm Kalifa) are now his core personality, and everything I liked about him isn't even there anymore. Heck, part of his training was to learn to cook foods to help his crew, and he hasn't even cooked anything yet, and he was separated from his crew for two years!

(Ugh, don't mind me, just unearthing feelings buried real deep a decade ago. ANYWAY)

I know he gets better. He'll never feel quite like his pre-time skip (especially pre-Thriller Bark) self again, but I know that WCI adds in some really interesting layers to his character, and while Wano still has his perviness turned up a bit higher than I'd prefer, there's real depth to his character to keep him from sinking back into the one note gag that is Fishman Island. He will get growth. He will go back to being an enjoyable and rounded character one day.

I just really need to know exactly how long I have to wait for that to happen.

Sanji is (obviously) not the only thing I like about One Piece. I like nearly all of the Straw Hats, I've gotten attached to more than a few side characters over time, and the fact that it's so long and hasn't (to my knowledge) felt like a mad scramble of retcons is highly impressive.

But here on good old tumblr, I expect people to understand about the blorbos. They're different. They're special. And feeling like I wish one of them would finally succumb to death by nosebleed is, to put it mildly, not ideal.

And thus the question at hand. Because if I have to put up with this Sanji all the way until WCI, I might just scream. But at least if I have the warning ahead of time, I'll know to expect it rather than fruitlessly hoping he gets better before then.

Just give it to me straight, doc. How bad is it?

(The one thing I know of him between now and WCI is that his mind/soul/?? gets stuck in Nami's body - not sure for how long or what all he... does... in there, though. So please spoil that for me. I do not want that kind of surprise.)

#one piece #sanji #black leg sanji #vinsmoke sanji #sanji is not a vinsmoke #sanji one piece #one piece sanji #help an old fan out guys please #man #i have been wanting to vent about this for ten years now XD #got too distracted by turtles to bother back then though so i'm doing it now lol #old lady yells at cloud

[scumtrout]

Just watched a video of cyclists accidentally slamming into a gate at full speed while riding down a side road, and the comments are full of debate about whether the gate should be there in the first place or how visible the gate is to the cyclists, is but no one's frickin commented about how, if you're moving at speed on a public road/path, then unfortunately you need to be prepared to do an emergency stop at any given time, even if a route is familiar to you and you're willing to make dangerous assumptions about how safe it is. If you can't do an emergency stop on a bike, then god help you, because a bike accident is going to fuck you up a lot more than a car accident.

Never mind Problematic Gates That Should Or Should Not Be There: there could always be a fallen tree or a random kid or animal in the way. If you wipe out someone's toddler, you're not going to feel any better if you tell yourself 'oh but the toddler was around a corner and I didn't expect them to be there, so it's totally the parents' fault, and I am okay with mowing down a small child!'

And it doesn't matter if the obstruction is in a dip or around a corner. 'Well gee whizz I didn't see it because it was around a corner!' is not an excuse that will make you magically exempt from getting injured. The main reason why you slow down for corners and dips is to give yourself more braking distance to account for the fact that you can't see the road properly.

Also, even when you think you can see the road, you can still have a deer run out or you might need to avoid a pothole so mean that it'd kill a man in Reno just to watch him die. The universe has made no promises to you regarding safety. I had this stuff hammered into my tiny brain during cycling proficiency lessons when I was 7, so I'm not sure why anyone would think, 'YOU KNOW WHAT'S A GREAT IDEA? GOING FULL TILT ON A SKETCHY LITTLE ROAD WITH QUESTIONABLE VISIBILITY, WHERE I AM THE ONLY PERSON AROUND.' I think that last one especially is a kicker: when there are other road users ahead of you, you learn a lot about the road from how they behave. When you're the only person (or the person at the front of a chain of road users) then you need to expect the unexpected.

#old lady yells at cloud

[emarie-stone]

Okay so I mostly just do not have the energy to give a shit about what staff does to the UI but this is the most obnoxious thing I’ve ever seen

It moves constantly. It doesn’t even work. It has a notification number. It’s bigger than the Create Post button (you know, posts, the whole reason we use this website).

It’s so obnoxious. I have actively spent less time on tumblr today because I don’t want it on my screen.

#ugh #staff #tumblr #old lady yells at cloud

[katie5000]

Apparently, OP decided to include some character impressions, too:

4.) Legato Bluesummers is a ‘robot’ with a bad haircut.  This version of Legato is not the nihilistic, self-destructive one of the anime and manga.  He mocks others and sees himself as superior to orphans like Wolfwood. He wants to watch a moral quandary but does Wolfwood really have a moral dilemma? Is he religious or is he reading a religious text to mock it due its emphasis of faith and emotions?  Like Wolfwood, his power is also much greater, if this were the original he would have made that random train engineer dude destroy the moving part while dying in the process.  Now, he just goes ‘whoosh’ and it breaks.  Boo - I miss his sadistic tendencies.

Holy shit, OP, you've triggered Blorbo Soapbox Mode! Let's break this down, shall we?

Legato Bluesummers is a ‘robot’ with a bad haircut.

Is he, though? For starters, I kinda like his haircut. It's not raggedy like the original, but his hair is still blue and his bangs still flop over one eye. As for being a robot, well...there were little tells throughout his initial interaction with Wolfwood that would suggest otherwise (the most obvious being "Don't talk about my hair!"). Like a lot of traumatized people, however, Legato has worked hard to suppress what emotions he does feel and put up a front. In episode 6, his blank affectation mainly serves as a contrast to Wolfwood's active display of emotion.

This version of Legato is not the nihilistic, self-destructive one of the anime and manga.

Well, yeah. But then this version of Trigun isn't the same as those other ones, either (though the nihilism may pop up later).

He mocks others and sees himself as superior to orphans like Wolfwood.

So he's a dick - that's nothing new. But I wonder what made you draw this conclusion specifically. He did mock Wolfwood a little, but it had nothing to do with Wolfwood being an orphan - it had to do with Wolfwood forming emotional attachments to other people.

He wants to watch a moral quandary but does Wolfwood really have a moral dilemma?

He definitely has a dilemma, that's for sure. Apparently Livio's death would also put the current bunch of orphans at Hopeland into danger - the EoM will have to start pulling test subjects from there again to find new assassins (Legato and Zazie's dialogue near the end of the episode suggests as much). It isn't clear to me if Wolfwood is aware of this, though.

There is the possibility that Legato put Wolfwood into the situation on the steamer so that he could try to understand the concepts of "love" and "attachment" by seeing how Wolfwood deals with Livio. After all, Legato does say at least twice in the episode that he doesn't "get" why people form these kinds of attachments with each other.

Is he religious or is he reading a religious text to mock it due its emphasis of faith and emotions?

Oh, he is very, definitely religious in this series. The official website describes him as a "fanatical follower of Knives' ideas" and says that he "worships Knives like a god". I very much doubt he'd be reading that religious text with the purpose of mocking it.

if this were the original he would have made that random train engineer dude destroy the moving part while dying in the process.

Quite possibly. However, this series is not that series, so Legato busts the part directly. It's clear that the left sleeve on Legato's jacket serves to amplify whatever powers he already has - perhaps he doesn't have to take control of people to do his bidding anymore. Or perhaps we just haven't seen him do this yet. But the fact that it's his left sleeve suggests that they may have made a certain something from the original series the source of his powers in this one, too. >.>

Boo - I miss his sadistic tendencies.

You think his sadistic tendencies are gone just because he didn't grind up a steamer engineer in the moving parts?? Just the whole setup on the sand steamer alone - in which he forces Wolfwood into having to seriously contemplate killing the closest thing he has to a brother - is indicative of his sadistic tendencies. This is the same kid that he used as leverage earlier in the episode, like it was nothing.

Legato is still very much a sadist, OP.

But God, I need to get off my soapbox now. Until next time!

#trigun stampede #legato bluesummers #old lady yells at cloud

[omisspearl]

I think I find nothing more amusing than the accounts that make gifs of shows and whatnot and then announce you shouldn't remix "their" work in any sense.

Like, I get "don't plagiarize my fanwork", but you do know you aren't the creator of the original material, right? So just as you lovingly cropped a three second bit of a show for your aesthetic mood board, someone may very well do their own spin on yours.

#old lady yells at cloud #fandom

[reverse-mermaid]

denmark is wearing the heavy duty version of czechia's costume from the first semifinal

he's making me feel old just by existing, who let all these zoomers and their sneakers and their permed bowl cuts into eurovision

#mermaid does eurovision #old lady yells at cloud

[reallivegeekgirl]

I miss the olden days of the internet. Not the slow dial-up and ugly pages, but the lack of analytics. I miss being anonymous and knowing I could lurk wherever I wanted and my friends wouldn't be notified that I viewed their profiles looking for that meme they posted, or scrolled past their videos without watching them because I was serotonin scrolling and the vibes were off.

I don't care if Google has my browser history. I don't care if my email address is on the dark web. I just don't want Jack* to know that I scrolled through a whole week of his posts or Sarah* to know that I didn't watch that video of her newborn.

*names changed to protect the me.

#old lady yells at cloud

[cinemaocd]

Kids on the radio talking about how there's 10th wave emo now. 10th? Really? Who was first wave? Chuck Berry and Little Richard?

If you try to tell me emo was a thing before y2k, then I say Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia...

#old lady yells at cloud

[kingsragesqueal]

some of y'all are so unbelievably young tbh u reblog posts about songs that came out when i was a senior in hs or older and u tag it "omg elementary school memories!!" stop making me feel old i already have arthritis and depression to do that

#Old Lady Yells At Cloud

[todd-machine]

doggy design :3

#what's this? An art post? #my art #dog #dog design #old lady yells at cloud #she's a big ol guard dog #who barks at everything djksadsad

[levitatingbiscuits]

I think part of the reason why fandom doesn't last like it used to is because it's much harder for new people to join. Large chunks of fandom activity are in invite-only discord servers now. Engagement with fic and art has dried up A LOT compared to how it used to be, so unless you post during the initial fandom boom, it's much more likely to be overlooked. People will talk about their favorite works where the creators can't see/engage with it, which can be super discouraging. People will treat everything like tiktok and only leave likes/kudos, and can't seem to find anything on their own without an algorithm. There's not really much fandom culture or community anymore. So why WOULD new people even want to join, when the barriers are so much higher?

#remember how long the inception fandom lasted?? #compare that to literally any blockbuster today #you're lucky if it lasts more than a few months #if at all #fandom wank #ancient 23 year old lady yells at cloud

[luanneclatterbuck]

You know what I miss?

Radio voices.

People who have trained their voice.

People who talk like they talk for a living.

I cannot take one more podcast that includes:

“Hey friendss/guyss/wonderful humanss!”

“…and then I was totally, like…”

“…omg sorry about the background noise/construction noise/etc…”

And the worst?

“Oh sorry, that’s my dog. Do you want to sit with mommy? Oh that’s a good girl. Ok now shh mommy has to work. Now, where were we?”

I just… I just want information presented to me in a clear and neutral and friendly but not too friendly/familiar way. I get it if it’s a conversational podcast, but if you have an educational/documentary style show? Cut it with the friendly familiarities, the vocal fry and uptalk (no I’m really not being sexist, guys do it too and i hate it when they do it too and I’ve unsubscribed to shows hosted by men who do it so), the talking to barking animals, the dumb jokes and then calling yourself out for the dumb jokes… like…

Remember radio voices, my fellow olds? They’re disappearing and that makes me sad.

(Anyway, The Dream? And like half of all new This American Life episodes? I’m looking at you.)

Edit: no, I’m not talking about people in real life. That’s fine and normal. I’m talking about people who talk for a living.

#old lady yells at clouds #these things will get your podcast or whatever turned off immediately #and I will not be coming back for more no matter how interested I am in your topic #yes I’m old and crabby and I’ve learned to live with this

[ltleflrt]

I'm mad about the Midjourney thing, but I'm also resigned. This is going to continue to spread throughout the internet until there's some kind of legislation about it, and by then it will be too late. Like, where else are we going to go? Sure, there are small sites like Dreamwidth or Pillowfort, but could they handle an entire Tumblr exodus? Are you going to support them with subscriptions so they don't go under, when you wouldn't do the same for Tumblr? Where are you going to put your thoughts and your drabbles? Your art? DeviantArt already flipped this switch a while ago. Other big sites are going to do the same, and smaller private sites can't afford the traffic of Tumblr.

"Well I just won't post anywhere."

Okay? If you're someone I follow I'll miss your stuff, but that's your choice. I can't imagine stopping posting altogether because capitalism is ruining the internet. I'd miss the socialization. And while Tumblr's communities are less active due to the porn ban exodus and the influx of people who are allergic to the reblog button, I still see more activity here than I get on AO3 or Discord servers.

If there ever is a Tumblr alternative, I'm all for moving, but the current alternatives aren't inspiring. And wherever fandom goes it's gotta have a queue or what's the point. In the meantime I'll go toggle the settings on all my blogs, and I'll pass around "Hi Newbies, here's how you should personalize your settings" posts that include info on how to toggle the settings. And I'll vote for politicians who believe in regulating businesses while preserving privacy, and hope they can regulate AI in time for it to make a difference.

#ltleramblings #grumpy old lady yelling at clouds

[katie5000]

On Modern Fandom

To me, headcaonon was always something that arose organically out of canon - like, something that seemed like it could be a plausible extension of a story or character that was just not expanded on for whatever reason. It was not something that some kid in fandom seemingly decided at random, on a whim, for personal reasons.

Not only does that kind of thing seem obviously contrived, but it also comes dangerously close to misrepresentation of an author's story or characters, depending on how the "headcanon" in question is portrayed or discussed.

I mean, ask yourself: if you spent a lot of time and effort writing a story or drawing a comic and saw the characters potentially getting misrepresented, how would you feel? I have no doubt that many of you would be up in arms.

#there's a difference between headcanon and projection #and I think a lot of you are doing the latter but calling it the former #trigun #gundam #old lady yells at cloud #katie5000 is opinionated