#the reading comprehension is non-existent

[kolbietheaggrievedwriter]

Any time I stumble across a fic with the tag "Bakugou Katsuki/Consequences", it's mute on sight lmao

#kolbie blabs #the reading comprehension is non-existent #so i can't imagine the fic will be any good lol #you can dislike bakugou idc #but don't pretend like he didn't face consequences for his actions??? #like he didn't own up to what he did all on his own?? #and not only work to correct/change his behavior #but also apologize????? #i will never understand why his entire character arc is ignored lol #just proudly tag it “Bakugou Katsuki Bashing” #what is with the pretext #not rebloggable bc im not trying to start disc horse #just complaining to you guys #addendum: well i shouldn't say the fic wouldn't be any good #it's not a matter of quality after all - just personal preference #what i really mean is that i know for sure it's not a fic that would interest me #i stand by everything else i said tho

[fearandhatred]

y'all i can't with this fuckass group project holy shit just let me do everything by myself i can't take this anymore

#fearandhatred #like are you BLIND. are you BLIND and ILLITERATE #i'm so mad i'm so mad i'm so mad #y'all okay within my group i'm working with this girl because we're doing two contrasting case studies (aids in the US and south africa) #i sent her. this is literally what i sent her okay. #“public health programs in africa -> more accessible to the public. vs private insurance in the US which is more exclusive” #you will not fucking believe the text she sent back to me #“but actually i feel that public health programs in africa would be more accessible compared to private in the us?” #WHAT THE FUCK. DID I JUST SAY #i'm actually about to cry oh my god i'm so flabbergasted #what the hell is going on in your head #like can you read #holy shit #WHAT? #wait guys i'm actually stunned like the reading comprehension is non existent and this isn't the only time #i've had to repeat my points to her over and over again like multiple times in the span of an hour #she didn't even know africa was a continent and not a country #oh my god #ohhh my god #i actually can't do this this week was supposed to be my rest week and i have to deal with this incompetent bullshit #i'm stunned i'm gobsmacked i'm flabbergasted

[tortol]

Remember that post you made about a talk with Dana Terrace in October? Apparently of many claims were contradicted in the current posthoot.

An example is Eda’s Requiem is where the crew was made aware of the shortening (the show wasn’t cancelled, just shortened), but Dana claims it was Follies at the Coven Day Parade.

If Dana really did actually considered canceling the show at the end of season 2 just to spite the executives, I think that makes her really scummy.

We’re you telling the truth or lying?

hello! no, i have not lied about any of those things.

at the event, dana said that the crew was let know about the shortening during the *production* of eda’s requiem, whereas, in the post-hoot, she mentioned that follies was the first episode they *wrote* from beginning to end with the knowledge the show would only have 3 seasons in mind.

if you know anything about animation production pipelines, you’ll know that multiple episodes are worked on at the same time, at different stages, so they probably couldn’t do much about it at the time since all of s2a must’ve already been written at that point, picking up with a different pace with s2b (follies, and so on). if anything, we have a little more insight on how toh’s pipeline works now that we know that the timeframe for the show’s shortening to have affected the plot is however long it took to go from eda’s requiem to follies.

about the other thing, yes, i literally agree. it would’ve been scummy, that’s why she didn’t do it. it was just something she thought at the moment because she was pissed off over her show just getting shortened. that’s just what she said.

… are there any other claims you think the post-hoot contradicted? that post is merely just stuff dana said at a small talk at pixelatl written down that i thought other fans would find interesting and i wanted to share. i have no reason to lie about any of that.

#ask #the reading comprehension is non-existent on this webbed site

[tyrantraveveromega]

sees a post about mitsuham in the kotone shiomi tag. gets excited. two paragraphs in op is extremely wrong about mitsuham. I close the tag

#raven.txt #looove tumblr reading comprehension (non existent

[ginstermoff]

breaking anti-proship dni's is pretty based honestly 👌👌👌

Wait, I broke a dni?

Whoops, that was probably by accident tbh.^^" I usually try taking the more respectful route and not engaging with people who don't want me in their vicinity.

(And by engaging I mean following or DMs, because reblogs are just how this site works.)

If it was a banner then it might happen more frequently because I don't read those.

But uh... thank you? (I am confused, what the happ is fuckening? xD)

EDIT: nvm, found and deleted it. Being respectful it is, today. Thank you for telling me, friend!!! I gib u dis, please accept: 🍓🌻

#answered #i mean thank you for the ask and stuff #my reading comprehension for tonal indicators is non-existant so if I misread yours please do forgive #tone indicators

[anti-dazai-blog]

10- Really, Chuuya already lost before the first round began (and other complaints)

A lot of Dazai’s “teasing” (although I hate to call it that— it takes away from just how far he’s willing to go with his mockery) is seen more in his tone and facial expressions than in his words. The inflections and intonations of his voice can’t be heard in the manga, but they can be inferred based on his facial expressions. I’m tempted to take his tone into account when writing this analysis, however I don’t want to accuse him of anything that he possibly didn’t do. This blog isn’t for making up brand new Dazai crimes, but rather for looking at things that he undeniably did [or caused to happen].

Because his mockery is delivered in such a way, the words themselves can’t be quoted back as evidence of how he chips away at people’s self confidence until there’s nothing left. Which makes this chapter in particular fairly difficult to write about. With Akutagawa, he outright tells him that he’s useless and pathetic, but with Chuuya he implements more subtlety into his mockery. Not subtle enough for bystanders or witnesses to miss it— anyone present for it can clearly see what Dazai’s doing. But if someone were to witness their interactions and then try to tell it over to a third party, chances are the person’s reaction to it would be “well that’s not that bad”.

[[I wonder if Chuuya ever tried to tell anyone [Kouyou] and they gave him that same reaction. I now wonder if Dazai does this on purpose, for that very reason]]

My analysis puts me in the position of a witness trying to tell a third party. I can’t just quote back the words like I did in chapter 9. But I also can’t make any assumptions about the tone of voice. So. I guess I’ll do my best to base this off of the text alone, but keep in mind that there’s more going on here than I’d be able to mention.

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Let’s start by acknowledging what was already acknowledged in part 9– that Atsushi’s current situation [getting kidnapped by Akutagawa] is directly Dazai’s fault. If Dazai hadn’t given Akutagawa that whole nice long speech about how he’s a failure and Atsushi’s so much better than him, he never would have gained this abundance of motivation to not only capture Atsushi, but to make sure he does a very thorough job of it. Without Dazai’s provocation, Akutagawa would have probably made a few more sloppy kidnapping attempts before going all out like this. But he’s now determined to prove himself. And so now Atsushi gets some more trauma to add to his collection. 

By extension, Akutagawa’s current “capture Atsushi” strategy was rather rushed, and had some holes in it. One of these holes in question was his involvement of Karma Transit to provide the truck needed for Atsushi’s capture. The mafia has plenty of vehicles of their own, and it seems unnecessary to involve an outside company in a kidnapping. Because of this, Akutagawa had to kill everyone at Karma Transit to keep them from revealing any kidnapping-related information. Although it may seem like a stretch to accuse Dazai of indirectly causing their deaths, Dazai knew what he was doing when he provoked Akutagawa. He knew what sort of person Akutagawa is, and could have easily figured out that if Akutagawa were to get sloppy out of desperation, many [relatively] innocent people would get caught in the crossfire. 

Now back to the dungeon scene. 

Chuuya decides to visit our local Source Of Problems in the dungeon. Which goes over just about as well as you’d expect [ie: not very well]. He visits him with two goals in mind: to find out what Dazai’s planning, and then to prevent said plans from coming to fruition. He only succeeds at half of those goals. 

His dungeon visit is off to a bad start, with Dazai immediately beginning his standard routine of mocking every single aspect of Chuuya’s life. Let’s do this segment in the standard Anti Dazai Series bullet point format:

The first thing that gets insulted is Chuuya’s height.  I can and will count every insult to his height as a form of body shaming, because technically speaking it is. According to Wikipedia, body shaming would include making fun of any aspect of someone’s physical appearance, including height. As it is I already count Dazai’s double suicide requests/flirting as sexual harassment, so why not count every time he mocks Chuuya’s height as body shaming?  [[that being said, the fact that Chuuya’s shorter than Ranpo is completely incomprehensible to me. I cannot picture anyone being shorter than Ranpo. Why is Chuuya so small. He has “a little taller than average” vibes. The fact that he’s canonly shorter than pretty much everyone else does not compute in my brain.]] 

Next he goes after Chuuya’s hat, calling it ugly. I doubt I need to explain why it’s messed up to insult a personal sentimental item that has so much significance to someone that they always keep it with them. To anyone who’d like to mention that the hat is also necessary for activating corruption: yes, but it’s not like he uses corruption daily, nor does he need to personally hold on to it to keep it safe. Any time he’s wearing it casually it seems like more of a sentimental item than one needed for a secondary aspect of his ability that he hardly ever uses. Either way, his hat is something that means a lot to him, and Dazai knows this. 

He then pulls the same sort of move he often uses on Kunikida: just outright lying for the fun of it. His lie of the day this time is that “all the worrying will make you bald early”. Although it’s relatively harmless, it’s still another way that he blatantly disrespects someone who’s supposed to be his equal. It’s degrading, in a way, to say something that he made up on the spot with such a straight face, as if he’s expecting Chuuya to believe it.

[And his purpose in saying this to Chuuya is a bit of a mystery. With Kunikida, he probably expects him to believe it, if only for a moment. But with Chuuya, he knows well that he won’t believe it. Is it only for the degrading aspect (“you’re so dumb, you probably would believe something like this!”) or is it something else? A part of me believes that a possible answer for this specific scenario could be that he wanted Chuuya to hastily take off his hat, for the purpose of ruining his hair (either via hat hair or static). But that’s just a theory. A game manga theory]

The added theatrics of allowing Chuuya to break the chains that were already unlocked was a bit degrading too. With every move Chuuya makes, it’s clear that he’s playing right into Dazai’s hand. I’ll discuss this at length in the next part of this series, because it would be easier to analyze each of Dazai’s moves in this chapter in relation to his goals in the next. So consider this installation of the Anti Dazai Series a prelude to part 11.

That’s about it for chapter 10– sure it was short this week (and admittedly not as thorough as the other parts), but next week it’ll get into the final part of the three chapter dungeon scene, where everything comes together and I can criticize Dazai with the full context of his actions in mind.

Join me next week for. Well. Part 3 of Dazai’s Dungeon Visit. You know that already. I’ve mentioned it a hundred times.

#Anti Dazai series #really funny how the first chapter Chuuya shows up in is binary. Given the whole “he’s made of code” thing. #(<- that’s a code joke not a gender joke. Sorry for having to spell that out but here on tumblr the reading comprehension is non-existent) #Ironically if Chuuya really did drown in the recent chapter he’d have died in a binary chapter too #Maybe Asagiri purposely waited for 101 to kill him off because it would be funny #Bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #dazai #chuuya bsd #atsushi bsd #akutagawa

[xxcupcakexcultxx]

Because some people clearly don’t check blogs and/or don’t read DNIs y’all are getting blocked to hell.

I’m not asking at this point, I’m fucking telling you: if you’re a vent blog, if you’re an ED blog, if you’re a porn blog - FUCK OFF, DON’T TOUCH MY SHIT.

What, do I have to apply a fucking DNI banner when I reblog something??? FUCK OFF.

#rez.vent #I GODDAMN FUCKING MEAN IT #YALL READING COMPREHENSION IS NON EXISTENT #FUCK OFF

[skanktank]

the simpsons sex button actually says "send"

I had to scroll through my own blog for context and I honestly have no memory of this or why I couldn't understand the joke.... In my defense it's a rough time of year ? :s

#my reading comprehension is non existent when i drink #pup talks to someone else !

[janmisali]

what do you think of tone indicators in general?

unfortunately my thoughts on tone indicators are somewhat nuanced. fortunately, this is tumblr not twitter, so I can just write out my full thoughts in one post and be as verbose about it as feels necessary.

speaking as an autistic person (and I know there are other autistic people who don't hold this same view, this is just my perspective), I think as an accessibility tool, the extended set tone indicators in current popular use is fundamentally misguided.

the oldest ones, /s for sarcasm and /j for jokes, make sense. their notation isn't the most intuitive thing ("does /s mean sarcastic or serious?") but it's not too difficult to explain what they mean. I've had to spend my whole life learning by brute force what different tones of voice mean and what they change about how I'm supposed to interpret something, so I already know what "read this in a sarcastic voice" and "read this as a joke" are supposed to mean. my existing skills can be translated into the new form without too much effort.

the same thing applies to emoji and emoticons. I know what facial expressions mean, because I had to learn what they mean. figuring out if :) is sincere or not from context is a skill I've already needed to develop. it doesn't come naturally for me, but it's something I already at least somewhat know how to do.

most of the tone indicators in current use uh. don't work like this.

tone indicators like /ref or /nbh don't correspond to specific tones of voice. I don't have a "I'm making a reference" voice or a "I'm not talking about a person who's here" voice that I can picture the sentence being read in. these do not indicate tones, they're purely disambiguators. they clarify what something means without necessarily changing how it would be read out loud.

and on paper, that's fine, right? like, it's theoretically a good thing to take an otherwise ambiguous statement and add something to it that clarifies what you meant by it. the problem is that these non-tone tone indicators are not even remotely self-explanatory. it's up to me, the person who is being clarified to, to know what all these acronyms are supposed to mean, and how they change the way I'm supposed to interpret what something means.

it's, quite literally, a newly-invented second set of social cues that I'm expected to learn separately from the set that I've already spent my whole life figuring out, and it works completely differently.

sure, these rules are (in principle) less arbitrary than the rules of facial expressions and tones of voice and how long you're supposed to wait before it's your turn to speak, but they're also fully artificial and recently invented, which means they're currently in a constant state of flux. tone indicators go in and out of fashion all the time, and the "comprehensive lists" are never helpful.

in theory, I appreciate the idea of people going out of their way to clarify what they mean by potentially ambiguous things they post online. if it worked, that would be a really nice thing to do.

however, sometimes I imagine what the internet would be like without them. what if instead of using /s, the expectation was that if you're sarcastic online there's no guarantee that strangers reading your post will know what you meant? what if instead of inventing more and more acronyms to cover every possible potentially confusing situation, we just... expected one another to speak less ambiguously in the first place?

so, I on paper like the idea of tone indicators. I think it's good that some people are trying to be considerate by being extra clear about what they mean by things. but if tone indicators didn't exist, and people who wanted to be considerate in this way instead just made a point of phrasing things more clearly to begin with, I think that would be vastly preferable to even the most well-implemented tone indicator system.

also /pos sucks because there's something deeply and profoundly wrong for an abbreviation that means "I don't mean this as an insult, don't worry" to be spelled the same way as an acronym that's an insult

#tone indicators #jan misali

[bomberqueen17]

tone indicators

I reblogged this post without adding any commentary bc queue and not a lot of computer time lately but like okay here's the thing about tone indicators:

they're yet another in-group set of coded speech. like an inside joke, or a meme, or a conlang. if you are in a group that uses them, they're great and perfectly comprehensible.

but if you don't happen to have come from inside a group that uses them, they are exactly as exclusionary as any other heavy jargon or inside joke or acronym. I mean have you ever listened to soldiers talk? The US Army communicates in heavily jargon-ified speech, liberally laden with acronyms, so much so that it's a self-referential joke to make up obscene or deliberately-obfuscated ones to slip into official reports since the sorts of people who'd kick up a fuss about obscene language won't understand them.

It is exactly the same thing. Except that's exclusionary on purpose, and tone indicators are exclusionary in effect but tout themselves as inclusionary.

So if I, an outsider to this, am reading along, and after a sentence, there's a / and then between one and three letters, that is not enough information for me to use to look it up.

This is absolutely inaccessible if you are not alreadhy in the group that uses it.

I wouldn't mind if the people who used them were just like 'oh ha sorry jargon, i'll try to explain if it's not clear, sorry i forget you guys don't know them' just like any other inside joke or meme or whatever.

But I was in a discussion with someone on a Discord and when I was puzzled about them including these weird slash-acronyms after their statements they were like oh how nice for you that you're not neurodivergent and don't need to use these.

Uh no. The opposite actually. I'm the kind of neurodivergent that needs context. I handle being excluded from conversations very poorly. And that's where I get pissed off, that people seem to be holding these up as the new be-all end-all of Finally Solving The Problem Of Ambiguous Tones In Social Interaction. The hell you are, kids. They're just another layer, and I'd say the worst one yet, out of many many many attempts to solve this exact problem. They are fundamentally inaccessible. Don't mistake the fact that you learned them (somewhere, in some context inaccessible to me) for them actually being universal.

Considered against the many different solutions that have been offered since text-only speech was invented, tone indicators stack up as among the very least-accessible of the lot, since they contain so little context in and of themselves-- if a key is not provided then they're totally inaccessible, and are exceptionally difficult for non-native English speakers, and in general require so much memorization or cross-referencing as to be prohibitively hostile to outsiders.

And that's fine, if what your'e doing is just meant for talking to your friends. But don't come into my conversations and berate me for not having memorized whatever incomprehensible set of acronyms you've newly-decided are the new universal truth. And what drives me the most insane is how many of these acronyms someone has now decided to assign a whole new meaning to are acronyms that are well-known and already existed and are in heavy use. So if you try to look them up guess what you get! is it gonna be the newly-created version or the one that's been in use for fifty to seventy-five years??

For one, P.O.S. has had a specific meaning in written and spoken English for a really damn long time and if you call me a piece of shit in the actual language I speak I am absolutely not going to interpret your conlang as having intended something nice. (YES REALLY THEY'RE USING THAT ONE TRY TO GUESS WHAT IT MEANS. NO. NO! I know. Fuck! That's wild. Absolutely the fuck not.)

#tone indicators #accessibility #conlangs #wild shit

[mebi-byte]

the og jojo jonathan joestar for character bingo?

Character Bingo

I'm gonna be real with you I misread this completely in my sleepy daze and did the main four of the cast I could remember from Part 1 so kajnefajk here you go I guess bestie 🧡

Jojo

Speedwagon

Zeppeli

and Dio

#ask #cosmiccambion #character bingo #my reading comprehension...non existent

[aronarchy]

lol i’ve spent way too long w/o proactively poking yt supremacists’ hornet’s-nests

#vaguepost #to me paternalism will always be equally if not more violent than outright demonization & hatred #iirc last time was on fedi #forgot u crackers existed #lmaoooooooo #understanding more & more nowadays where the marginalized's-revenge paradigm is coming from #if *that* is presented as the only alternative #i rest my case #non-survivors & privileged ****s stfu forever challenge #pray for ur own pathetic selves that u meet ur own god #& get some reading comprehension too while you're at it #saneists #fash #yts being yts #how do u expect us to be nice & forgiving when ur being like that lol #almost like u /want/ us to bully u into oblivion #/hj

[naryrising]

So you like imaginary fandoms...

With the recent success of Goncharov, I thought I'd make a post to mention some of the previous times this has happened in fandom, and a brief explanation and some links on how you can find works for them. I don't claim that this is a comprehensive list, it's just ones that came to me off the top of my head based on several decades of fandom involvement.

Ghost Soup Infidel Blue. Originates from the annual Yuletide exchange, specifically a post by liviapenn in 2007 that used it as a default fandom to help explain how to write 'dear author' letters. The relevant quote (meant to illustrate the kind of letter that would be too specific) was "'Bad: "I would like a Ghost Soup story where Luke makes out with Angela's clone and Angela gets mad and seduces Moira just to make Luke mad, and then Ryan and Luke duel to the death with their lightsabers and it ends up in an Angela/Angela's clone/Moira threesome. And Ryan feels really bad and flies off to Mars forever."" Consensus is that it is a sprawling space opera anime series, something like Gundam or Macross, with many sub-parts and spin-offs. Part of the dynamic of Ghost Soup 'fandom' is people arguing in the notes and comments about the continuity or quality of these various spinoffs (e.g. Purple is reputed to be bad, but some people will staunchly defend it just to be contrary.) Deliberate wank and badfic is part of the humour. You can read the Fanlore post about Ghost Soup here and find works for it and its related fandoms here

Winterblumensaat. Again, this comes out of Yuletide, specifically a nomination in 2021 for what was strongly suspected to be a nonexistent German book. The nominator's sister found it in a flea market! It very definitely was real! They couldn't provide any evidence or a photo of the book, but they promise it was definitely a real book! Despite being rejected from Yuletide nominations as not having any basis in reality, it has nevertheless had some fics written for it. The AO3 tag is merged into Original Work, so you can find them by searching in Original Work for Winterblumensaat (results here). It seems to be a moody, dark mid-century European novel, with characters named Florientina, Mailia, Schnail, and Markus. A related non-existent fandom with the same origin story is Nur die Sonne - Maria Moßer, but this has only attracted one work so far (a crossover with Winterblumensaat).

Cordelia (Movie Poster). In 2020 a movie poster for the movie Cordelia came out that inspired fandom in ways probably not intended by the movie's creators. While the actual movie Cordelia is a contemporary horror/thriller, the poster gave people the impression that it might be about Victorian femdom with pegging. Needless to say, they were disappointed by whatever was in the actual film, and made up fic based on what they thought the poster was about instead. Currently ALL works in the Cordelia (2020) tag on AO3 are actually about the poster and not the movie.

Invisible Ficathon. In 2014 an exchange called Invisible Ficathon ran, which was based around "stories that never were". Nominated "canons" had to be nonexistent fictional works referenced in another work. Examples given included "The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - Joan Watson" (from Elementary), "The Itchy and Scratchy Show" (from The Simpsons), the books in Lucien's library in The Sandman that only exist in dreams, and so on. The collections on AO3 contain 71 works for nonexistent fandoms. Alas that this exchange only ran once, because it was a fun concept. I think with the renewed interest in Goncharov, it would be ripe for revival.

#goncharov #fictional fandoms #ghost soup infidel blue #winterblumensaat #cordelia movie poster #invisible ficathon

[cerastes]

This is absolutely the Lack Of Reading Comprehension Website, but there's another issue I've noticed that I never see brought up, and it doesn't exist completely excised from lacking reading comprehension, but it's definitely it's own topic.

Tumblr's a Bad Faith Website as well. Like the above, it's not something exclusive to Tumblr, but it definitely defines it in my opinion. A lot of people want to be Right, and disagreements are seen by a bunch of people as something to "win" rather than something to "have". You'll have randos that frame their entire argument against you based on latching onto technicalities to try to prove why you are wrong rather than actually engage with your argument to try and propose something else or turn it around. As someone who was in a debate club during university, I call it "debate-poisoned people" who see arguments and conversations as a sport more than an interaction or, well, an actual conversation to be had, or in other words, that consider every argument as a debate to be had, when a lot of the time, it's not that deep fam, and also the other person never really agreed to play under your rules, because, here's the thing, a debate is a very specific kind of interaction. In a debate, bad faith interaction and trying to erase the very floor the other party is standing on is a valid tactic, it's part of the game. In a conversation or an argument, bad faith interaction and trying to erase the floor the other party is standing on gets you rightfully called a moron who cannot use inference or extrapolation to actually engage with the topic at hand. I had one such weirdo like a week or so ago, even, who used so many words to say absolutely nothing, that I thought I accidentally performed a digital necromantic ritual and had actually found myself face to face with the spirit of Jacques Lacan.

Even in more innocuous, non-hostile scenarios, this still applies: A lot of people are so, so eager to Be Correct On The Internet, that they'll reblog something with a correction or an opinion seemingly so hastily that they did not in fact read the entire post or comprehend it. This feeds into the lack of reading comprehension, but in my opinion, it does also have to do with seeing something that they believe they can correct, and immediately chomping at the bit to correct it without stopping for a second to ask themselves, "Did I read this right? Does this need correction?", and a lot of the time, it turns out, yes, you did not in fact need to correct it, you just had to read it a bit slower without letting your quickdraw hand get the best of you, cowboy. The way I consider this to be Bad Faith, even if it's not really hostile or confrontational, is the long-held belief that The Internet Is Inhabited By People Stupid Enough To Actually Think Or Say Something This Stupid.

I'll be real with you: Yeah, you've seen wild stories on the internet, plenty of them true, about how stupid people can be. No, they do not define the majority of people that aren't you. A wild, flabbergasting story about idiocy gets traction because it's funny and wild. We don't hear stories about how User A made a compelling argument that seemed stupid at first but then turned out that their rationale was incredibly sound as much, because that's not funny and wild and doesn't make us feel good about ourselves, because we'd never make such a stupid mistake. You aren't a sage wearing the floatie of wisdom in an ocean of idiots, no matter what your echo chamber and/or carefully curated internet space makes you think. You are not exempt from having to think about things, and you are not exempt from having to acknowledge people that know things you don't, people wiser than you are out there. This isn't "you are dumb as shit, actually", because I personally believe most people are smart, this is "you are being superficial and too eager to be Correct, which only works to your detriment in the long run and makes you a rather unlikable person".

It's as simple as engaging in good faith, even when you disagree or dislike the other party. Rip apart their arguments properly, instead of trying to disqualify them with cheap gotchas from the get go just because you want to own someone. Yes, sometimes people don't make sense, period, but that's absolutely not as common as people like to claim it happens. Inevitably, you'll run into someone that will actually call out your bullshit and there goes your entire argument. And in less intense settings, really, no one likes a pedant who really wants to be Correct on fucking Tumblr of all places.

[ddarker-dreams]

a little fluff blurb for bladie from my google docs !! reader here is fem.

Blade almost took it personally when you failed to notice him. 

His presence in your room certainly stands out. Everything about him contradicts the soft pastel colors, abundant flora, and cute finishing touches. Nothing in the universe aside from your kitchenette registers. You hum along with the song playing in your ears, waiting for your tea’s timer to go off. 

He walked in when the countdown read five minutes. Presently, it’s at two. 

You’re wearing dangerously short pajama shorts and an old t-shirt, the band’s logo faded out from years in the wash. He’d considered making himself known, but watching you frolic about proved too tempting. You have your back turned toward him, entirely oblivious, stuck in a little world of your own making. 

Creepy as it may be, Blade considers it soothing to stare at you. Therapeutic, even. A way to unwind from the blood-filled jobs that beckon his mara out to play.

A wicked idea forms in his head. Going without you for so much as a day is enough to seriously dampen his mood. Normally, it’s his enemies that reap the consequences. He’ll miss their vitals just enough that they’re left to go into shock and bleed out, rather than a swift, merciful death. What can he say? It’s their fault for existing and cutting into his time with you. That’s on them.

He stalks over, movements akin to a mountain lion that’s located its unsuspecting prey. 

You’re lifting the teabag out a few moments early. He’s close enough to double as your shadow, the corners of his lips twitching upward from anticipation. 

The second your timer goes off, he strikes, large hands settling on either side of your hips. This unexpected contact earns immediate retaliation. You actually squeak, much to his surprise (and amusement). Your response doesn’t end there. From instinct, you twist your torso around, ready to ward off the threat. 

Maybe it’s because you have an object in your hand, or maybe it’s because your subconscious knows you’re in no real danger, but you don’t materialize your weapon. 

Instead, you try thwacking him with your dripping teabag. 

He easily catches your wrist, thwarting your assault. It takes you all of a millisecond to understand the situation. You use your free hand to slowly remove your in-ears. He can’t help it — your pinched-together eyebrows and scrunched-up nose makes him chuckle. This worsens his crimes from your perspective, which you make evident by a non-threatening glare. 

“Nice weapon,” he drawls. 

“Hey, that’s— that’s unfair,” you complain. “I wasn’t expecting an ambush.” 

Blade raises an eyebrow. “Is it an ambush if you expect it?” 

“Yes? No. Maybe. Quit looking at me like that, I didn’t sleep well last night.” 

“Mhm.” 

He plucks the teabag from your grasp and throws it away. Meanwhile, you remain frozen in time, only moving enough to cross your arms over your chest. The wrath you try directing his way is largely ineffective. Your miffed countenance is akin to a bunny scowling. 

“I was looking forward to your return, but I’ve since changed my mind.” 

“Mm.” 

He hoists you up onto the kitchenette’s countertop. The way the soft flesh of your thighs expands against the marble tempts him, but he knows he won’t be getting anything until your faux frustration is appeased. It won’t take much — or long. He just gazes into your pretty eyes, his bandaged hand cupping your face, the pad of his thumb massaging your cheekbone. You melt for him almost immediately. 

“Everything alright?” You ask, your arms finding their place around his neck. 

To Blade, everything’s more than ‘alright,’ because you’re here. Treating him with care he doesn’t deserve, and love he deserves even less. He used to worry he’d taint you, like clear waters turning opaque from filth. However, it’s as Kafka once said, likely pitying his lovelorn self. 

“Shouldn’t you let her decide that for herself?” 

For reasons genuinely beyond his comprehension, you decided he was worth the trouble. 

His gloved hand settles on your thigh. The irony of how he caresses you with the same hand responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of deaths isn't lost on him. Since regaining a semblance of consciousness, that's all he thought he was good for. Bloodshed and slaughter.

He observes how you shudder through lidded eyes.

You don't look at him as if he's a monster. You should, he often thinks, because he is. There's no sugarcoating the truth. He's become everything he once swore to eradicate. Mad, vengeful, immortal. A product of the Abundance's perversion of the lines separating life and death.

And yet, all those centuries, all that suffering led him to you.

You aren't the light at the end of the tunnel — you're light in its entirety.

Blade is greedy when he slots his lips against yours. He's greedy when he pulls you closer, his bandaged hand tilting your head up, allowing him to devour you with ease. Your scent, your taste, your little laugh at how unabashedly eager he is, everything blurs together and threatens to leave him breathless.

How can he pull away when your legs wrap around his waist? When you thread your hands through his hair, reciprocating his ardor like he's worth even an ounce of your affection? He isn't, he's nothing compared to you, a ghost of a man who can't cross over into the afterlife.

Sometimes, he no longer wants to. Not if you're on this side of eternity.

"Well?" You pull back a few inches from him to ask. As pretty as your smile is, he likes your lips best when they're against his. "You gonna answer my question?"

He furrows his eyebrows together and tries kissing you again. Talking about emotions in any context isn't his forte, you both know that. He's always preferred to express himself through actions than words. However, when you deny him the pleasure of your lips a second time, impatience coils inside his chest.

He huffs.

"The best," he deadpans. You roll your eyes yet laugh anyway.

"You almost pout more than I do," you tease. For this infraction, he gives your thigh a pinch, enjoying the feeling of your soft flesh a little too much. "I just worry, y'know? You become such a sourpuss when we're apart for any length of time."

You aren't wrong, but he'll keep that to himself.

“Okay, okay, stop glaring. C’mere.”

You don’t need to tell him twice. He takes you up on your offer the second you’ve finished making it.

Blade might not know how to tell you how much you mean to him, but that doesn’t mean he can show you.

#blade x reader #honkai star rail x reader #hsr x reader #blade brainrot #my stuff

[gremlingottoosilly]

okay feel free to ignore this but i have been thinking about monster!könig WAYYYY too much lately like it has been engraved in my brain.

i wanted to know, what’s the extent that he would let his wifey do human things? like would he ever get her books or like let her watch movies? sorry if this is weird i just can’t stop thinking about it 😵‍💫😵‍💫

i literally love your writing so much. i check your blog everyday 😍

You can do human things if it's not required by other people! Like, he is fine with bringing you books or some stupid hobby shit you can do at your leisure time because he is actually not always around you - he is busy, with the whole overthrowing humanity stuff, and he usually can only spend time with you while mating or sleeping, so when you're left alone, he is giving you things so you won't go depressed from boredom. He didn't, at first - he thought your whole existence is just for him and you could just fuck off and stare at the wall whenever he wasn't looking in your direction, but you have quickly proven him very, very wrong. Even human vet said you need some hobbies, it's like with hamsters and wheels. He doesn't understand the difference between human hobbies at first - he likes action movies and only reads non-fiction books about wars, strategies, and guns - he brought you 12 volumes of the most comprehensive historical analysis of monster's role in WW2 and you started actually eating the book as a snack before he found a small TV and some disks to keep you entertained. Enjoy your privileges of watching "100 romantic comedies" on some pirate disk he had found because he can't be bothered with 12 different streaming services(Netflix survived the monster uprising because evil capitalism is immortal) and he just wants you to be happy and sometimes snuggle to him while watching dumb human movies. He will also allow you to go on a movie "dates" with Horangi's pet and their bunch of kittens, as long as you're begging him cutely enough.

#cod #konig x reader #konig #yandere konig #monster!konig #tw: monster fucking