#that would be LESS stupid at least

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

prince and prince friendship. this is my vision

#blood cw //////// #violence cw /////////// #erikar #eridan ampora #dirk strider #karkat vantas #dave strider #im just crazy about the idea that eridan and dirk would get along #theyre both fucked up in the head but in a way where they go ''theyre a freak but theyre basically OK'' about each other #eridan is too stupid/stubborn to manipulate and dirk literally could not give less of a shit about eridan's drama #so they have like a net 0 impact on each other #they do not make each other better. they also do not make each other worse. #they just get really bored and lonely sometimes #''do u want to stave off the ennui and beat the shit out of each other'' ''sure i dont have anything else going on today'' #just super lethargic and almost transactional #since they only hang out when theyre both bored as shit. from the outside it almost looks like a moirallegiance thing #at least until they start trying to murder each other which is when it suddenly looks like a kismesis #but its neither #theyre literally just bored and love violence #eridan <> karkat btw

[girlwiththegreenhat]

the insanity of making a new streaming service when the streaming bubble is literally popping Right Now

#liz blogs #watcher #its sink or swim and these boys are already sinking #even the corporations are starting to merge because people arent paying for 20 different services #it would have been at least a little less stupid if they joined an already existing service #insane that instead of looking at their budget and cutting out some of the unnecessary fluff they opted for streaming #this is gonna backfire soooo bad. anyway i'll be here when they come back to youtube #why are y'all living in one of the most expensive cities in the world. moving out of cali would honestly free up so much budget lmfao

[recurring-polynya]

howl, zabimaru

bonus: here it is in two other colorways

#zabimaru #my fanart #is this...folk art? #this is a birthday present for renji because srsly who wouldn't want a linocut of their own bankai? #happy birthday renji! #i think this was more process than product but i had a pretty good time making it #sorry i couldn't decide between the colors so you get all of them #this is so awful but the purple version is actually based on RENJI'S STUPID TOQUE FROM ROLLING STAR #or at least at made it at the time that i was trying to color-correct that screenshot #i was just going thru the gradient maps that i had and was like 'oh no this looks good' #this is all digital btw #made possible by the bardotbrush art maker's club block print toolkit brushset. thank you lisa! i hope you never see this!! #i actually did take an actual block printing class once. it turned out it was less of a class and more of open studio for 3 old dudes #and as a result it took a ton of time outside of class that i didn't really expect #and i had a baby at the time and i also sucked at art then so i didn't re-enroll when it was over #point being: i think it would funny to go back and do nothing but 20-year old anime-themed block prints #you laugh but there was a big ass print someone made of totoro hanging in the room and it slapped

[markantonys]

what really gets me is that gawyn deciding to go 1v1 with demandred is hailed as the stupidest decision of the series, and yet, he was the first one to try it. meanwhile, galad and lan try the EXACT SAME THING while KNOWING THAT IT DIDN'T WORK (and knowing that it didn't work TWICE in lan's case), and nobody calls THEM idiots for it? you're joking

#if you wanna call gawyn's plan stupid that's fine but galad & lan's plans were even MORE stupid for already having evidence it would fail! #not to mention gawyn at least had a bloodknife infinity gauntlet powerup while the other two had no such thing #they really went 'okay i'm gonna try exactly what another guy just got killed for trying while having much less power than that guy had' #just because the narrative/sanderson loves galad & lan and lets them survive when by ALL logic they should have been toast #doesn't mean they get a free pass for doing the exact same thing gawyn gets endless hate for doing #right down to knowingly risking his last-battle-crucial bondholder in lan's case! #wot #wot book spoilers

[metawatts]

Screw it, I'm petty. Mostly Book Accurate Theo colour picked from his own outfit. Proof below:

That was Headmaster Theodore: He put everything out there. He had clearly worked hard to get his body into peak physical condition, and he wanted to show it off. A flowing gray-blue cape, the color of a stormy sky, was clasped around his shoulders with a silver chain. He had a silver belt with a round buckle, matching his boots, and bright white slacks with deep side pockets, all carefully orchestrated to draw even more attention to himself.

#rwde #I think the worst thing about this is that #it's still bad #but I think it's somehow more cohesive then the official concept art #stupid white spandex pants #why's he covered up anyway at least let him show his collarbones where's his 'putting everything out there' energy #personally I also would have gone for less desaturated blues overall but I didn't want to waste more time on this #rwby-edit #mod watts

[protoindoeuropean]

sometimes when people argue for language change it's just like, who's gonna win:

a mythical reference that has been continuously used for more than two millenia in both high art and common language (and in many languages at that)

getting people to stop saying 'narcissist'

#like not even taking a position one way or the other its like #hoo boy have you chosen a target #another level to this is 'trying to change the human tendency to describe others in caricaturizing ways through prohibiting the use of #certain words' #but let's leave that aside #j #lang #also to be clear im quite neutral to these efforts #like obv sometimes this kind of language change can be successful (they as a sg pronoun is one such (quite rare) example) #but with derogatory terms this is just another link in the long euphemism chain #(like with stupid 'stunned' idiot 'private' cretin 'christian' retard 'slow' etc.) #like obviously i get not wanting to have derogatory terms associated with yourself #but it would also be good to realize that with changing words you're not contributing much to the changing of atritudes #or at least you're contributing less than you might think #you're just contributing to language change which is a much more neutral process

[eugeniedanglars]

society if felisa valdez had been brought back as eddie's love interest instead of marisol

#like i'd still be rooting for buddie endgame but god at least felisa is interesting #she has a personality and a backstory and a career and a best friend and. yknow. a goddamn last name #i would have enjoyed having her onscreen and i think her relationship with eddie would have been interesting #both of them dealing with past trauma... eddie navigating the weirdness of dating a celebrity... their fun skeptic/believer dynamic... #if we're still going for a repressed gay eddie storyline then instead of the stupid fucking nun outfit #we could have gotten something like eddie wondering 'i'm dating a woman literally thousands of men dream about dating #so why am i somehow still not attracted to her or in love with her? what am i looking for in a partner if she's not it?' #and tbh felisa seems so sweet and developed such a genuine friendship with eddie in her one episode #that i could honestly see him coming out to her first because that's less scary and less real than coming out to anyone at the 118 #we could have had it alllllll #911 abc #911 lb

[theramblingvoid]

Ok but the real question about the flight of the Masters (I say, as if there's not a dozen of them) is: why didn't we get more of them joining the fight? And why did we get those ones? Fires is pretty obvious, it doesn't want the Sixth City and that seems to have been the alternative to beating the Starved. I don't know enough about Pages or Iron to know their possible motivations, but also what was keeping the others from joining in? Did they disagree on the plan of action? Did they just not care about the city enough to fight for it? Alternatively, it's hardly like any of the three seemed to be struggling in that fight - did they just not think the situation was bad enough to need more of them? I'm so interested to know

#fallen london #estival 2023 #voidrambles #I would have thought that Hearts would want to get up in there at the very least #to maybe gather some Starved bits for its collection #or who knows，Wines is connected to Sinning Jenny，maybe she could have called in a favour? #i can't quite imagine Wines clawing up a bunch of Starved but I'd certainly like to see how it might go about it #if anyone who's less stupid about lore than me has any guesses as to why we got who we got I'd love to hear them #and why no other Masters showed up

[afniel]

Oh, okay. I've slept 2½ hours and woke up with my jaw clenched so hard it hurts all the way into my neck and I can't get comfortable again because I'm too hot and my heart rate is way up.

Is this what I get for dreaming that I was abusing item placement to make a launcher to go out of bounds from my own dream? Also why did my dream have a framerate, and why were boundary collision detection checks explicitly tied to said framerate? Come on, me, even asleep you should know that's a shoddy way to do it and just results in exactly what you were trying to do.

#dreams are stupid #who even does that. why would I out of bounds from anything. haha obviously that's illegal #or maybe it was because I once again dreamt my stepdad was alive but let's go with the funny explanation #for s guy that was unpleasant and terrible my brain sure does want him to be redeemable anyway. #grief is fucking weird. #well. maybe I can get back to sleep. I'm not gonna have less of a headache at this rate anyway #at least my dreams are explicitly running at 60fps. imagine if it was like 20 or something. literally unplayable

[loveletterworm]

Cool game where you pick up flashlights off the ground in the dark until you're holding too many flashlights at which point trying to pick up more will make an unfitting cartoon boing sound effect that I had laying around in my downloads folder

#With this process now mostly defeated I must begin to consider my next enemy: #Making an entire roguelike level generation system for some reason despite being stupid. #I don't know why I thought that would be a good idea. I kind of assumed someone else would have written down how this is done. #But it's weirdly difficult to find. #mypost #i think i might make the player sprite randomized as well or maybe just change it #(other than just making it not be a placeholder drawn in 2 seconds.) #because i don't think the little cat thing is very fitting. #i thought making the player a little pudding animal in scary world would be funny and distract from the vaguely derivative concept* #(* it may be diverging into being less derivative) #but i feel like it just kind of looks weird now. it could at least be a different animal... #This just isn't cat behavior. #(you can barely see the sprite because it's dark though so maybe you have no idea what im talking about LOL)

[catkin-morgs-kookaburralover]

broke my streak at seventeen-nearly-eighteen days clean and don't even feel better as a result

#tw sh #i had hoped that after that long at least i might be going a bit less deep but n o p e #like it's not deep enough that it would need medical attention of any kind or anything even close to that but it's still deep enough that i #will scar. though what's a few more scars when im already scarred #i want to die #tw suicide #ofc i won't but i just. ugh. hopefully choir tonight will make me feel a bit better #personal #puddleglum hours #i was completely fine until i had a sudden compulsion to self harm so i straight up Did which is absolutely stupid

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

I LOVE going everywhere by bike. Don't need to wait for a bus. Don't need to cram myself into a bus with (urgh) people. Or even worse, what feels like every single student in town. I still get home in about the same amount of time. I'm so so flexible including with places. Like yeah sure, let's go there! I don't care if the next bus station is far away. Doesn't matter to me.

Stayed out late with friends recently. Two of em had to get their family to come pick them up because that's too far to walk and it was too late for buses. A different friend lives like 30 minutes away but always walks and their way goes through a small park where literally no one is at with few lanterns so it's pitch black and I could literally just walk them home and then take the bike which is faster and has its own light and feels and probably is safer than walking those dark ass streets at night alone.

Like. I can just do all that. And yeah, sometimes when I'm not doing too well I feel like collapsing afterwards and yeah, maybe my fingers feel like falling off a lot at this time of year but that's like. SO worth it. I have no idea how people can live and NOT go everywhere by bike. Like if it's more than 20-30 minutes maybe but even with hills.... I fucking love my bike.

#a biscuit's rambles #also i just love going out with friends til late?? #with the lockdown and shit that is such an entirely new experience and its great #also i like feeling useful i think. i like walking a friend home knowing ill definitely get home safe #idk #i also like my bike. a lot #been taking it literally every single day for years now and i have no regrets #EXCEPT FOR THOSE FUCKING PEDESTRIANS THAT HEAR MY BELL AND DO NOT FUCKING MOVE #AND THE OTHER BIKES THAT JUST DONT RING THEIR BELLS OR NOT EVEN HAVE ANY #LIKE THEN YOU GOTTA AT LEAST YELL AT PEOPLE TO MOVE OVER YOU NUMBNUT #A BIKE IS QUIET THEY DO NOT HEAR YOU THEY WILL NOT MOVE OVER MAGICALLY #AND IM STUCK BEHIND YOU #ALSO ITS JUST ASSHOLE BEHAVIOUR LIKE SOMEITMES WARNING SOMEONE SO THEY KEEP TO THE BLOODY SIDE IS GOOD!!! #and dont even get me STARTED ON SOME OF THE CARS #MUCH LESS THE STUPID ASS FUCKING INFRASTRUCTURE OF MY TOWN #ITS LIKE THEY WANT BIKES TO BE RUN OVER #fun fact i have been run over before #just fuckin collided with a car #nobody would listen to me try to pick apart the details of how it felt #which was probably my way of trying to cope with that experience lol #though nothing serious happened. bUT STILL #also oh god that one stupid fucking street with those stupid ass cars NOBODY NEEDS A CAR THERE JUST BAND HTEM ALREADY #AND THE. THE FUCKIGN ROADWORKS #I CAN NOT REACH MY SCHOOL WITHOUT ALMOST BEING EITHER HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A HUGE SHOVEL OR RUN OVER BY A TRUCK #AND IF THATS NOT THE CASE THEN THERES SO MANY FCKING PEOPLE THAT EVEN IF I YELL AT THEM LIKE MAD I CANT GET PAST WITHOUT RUNNING SOMEONE #THROUGH MYSELF #im very passionate about all things bike. but thinking abt it is a huge part of my life so im allowed to be

[caitrose]

I put on the Miku expo on YouTube bc I like putting on the vocaloid/Hololive/etc concerts in the background while I draw and stuff and WOW they were not lying, even filmed from an optimal viewing angle this looks embarrassing and there’s not even an attempt to use the lighting to help make the illusion as a matter of fact every time the lights go up it looks way worse. It’s only like a quarter of the stage too.

Hatsune Miku looked better live a decade ago :|

if I paid hundreds of bucks to see real life Miku and I got what’s effectively a high production movie showing I’d be soo pissed

#miku expo 2024 #yiiiikes man #and like I’m no lighting designer but I can think of several things that would make this setup look way more acceptable #namely DONT PUT LIGHTS /BEHIND/ THE STUPID TV SCREEN MAKING IT SUPER OBVIOUS THAT ITS A TV SCREEN?? #WHY aren’t those laser lights on the stage also on the screen? that would at least make it stick out less from an ideal angle #it’s literally just. a black rectangle in the middle of the stage. it looks so tiny from far away #it’s probably only 20-30 ft #they can barely travel on the stage!!! #if you’re a performer you’ll know it’s super important for solos/small groups on a big stage to move around and fill the space or its weird #embarrassing. smh.

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Thingol was a Moron

No, seriously, can we take a minute to talk about how stupid he was?

Like this idiotic elf really said “yeah, ok, you can marry my kid if you steal the jewel from the devil’s crown and bring doom upon us by putting a target on our backs for the sons of feanor”

Like, what?

For all that he’s intent to protect his daughter and his kingdom, he really went out there and deliberately chose to have the silmaril be the bride price.

This guy knows the oath of feanor, knows his sons will do whatever it takes, including kill, to get it back, and he still went deliberately out of his way to provoke the beast.

It’s not coincidence, or ignorance, he had to have chosen, on purpose, for Bergen to retrieve the silmaril, despite knowing exactly what that means.

He couldn’t have chosen literally anything else?

Sauron’s head? The defeat of a dragon? Any other of morgoth’s jewels?

No, it had to be the silmarils.

He knew what it means, there’s no way he didn’t, and then still gets surprised and offended when it brings down massacres on his head. The feanorions never would have looked in his direction had it not been for silmarils, which he had no right to, no reason for having, and yet went out of his way to acquire anyway.

If he wanted an impossible quest for Beren, there were other ways to do it without putting him, his kingdom, and his daughter directly into the line of fire.

Also, this guy purposefully sent people and elves to their death in order to retrieve the silmaril, and then gets pissed when the sons of feanor are also willing to cause death for it.

I’m sorry, but I genuinely feel that thingol is also responsible for finrod’s and his companions death, bc they wouldn’t have died had thingol not created a suicide mission.

There’s a particular flavor of hypocrite surrounding thingol and it’s infuriating.

Thingol’s really like: “elves dying by my actions is ok as long as I am not the one actually stabbing them”

Technically his hands are clean bc he never raised a sword to another elf, but oh my god so many death are a direct result of his actions that I’d argue he might be worse than any of the noldor.

#elu thingol #silmarillion #sons of feanor #no seriously #why did he do this? #was he stupid? #arrogant? #entitled? #there’s just no logic #he knew exactly what the result of having the silmarils would be #and still had the gal to be offended when the it brought death and destruction at his door #did he seriously think that he was special and that it wouldn’t happen to him? #did he just hate his kingdom? #‘the sons of feanor shouldn’t be so obsessed with shiny rocks’ yeah well neither should thingol #at least the sons of feanor had an actual reason aka the oath and it was their father’s most prized creation #what excuse does thingol have? #the 2nd and 3rd ik slaying could have been avoided had thingol left the silmarils where they were #then the feanorians would have focused exclusively on morgoth for the oath and maybe less people would have died

[bigmammallama5]

i still think about that unfinished supercorp hades!lena fic often, i hope the author is ok and having a nice time

#stupid rant is stupid #supercorp #i was looking through my wip list and clicked on a tungle link that inspired one of my aus #and there was another post from that link source that reminded me of that fic #it was so good i miss it #i also lost the link which makes me sad but i'll go try to find it again one day when i have less of a noodle brain #at least lena is hades its been a few years and my brain memory is an asshat #*AT LEAST I THINK LENA IS HADES #i would like my hands to slow down and not leave words out