#they're so in love it's embarassing

[yellowocaballero]

Miguel is Fine, Actually (Being Spider-Man's Just Toxic As Hell)

Before I watched ATSV I said that I would defend my man Miguel O'Hara's actions no matter what, because he's always valid and I support women's wrongs. I was joking, and I did not actually expect to start defending him on Tumblr.edu. But I'm seeing a lot of commentary that's super reductive, so I do want to bring up another perspective on his character.

Miguel wasn't acting against the spirit of Spider-Man, or what being Spider-Man means. Miguel isn't meant to represent the antithesis of Spider-Man. Miles is the antithesis of Spider-Man. Miguel represents Spider-Man taken to its extreme.

Think about Miguel's actions from his perspective. If you were a hero who genuinely, legitimately, 100%, no doubt about it, believed that somebody is going to make a selfish decision that will destroy an entire universe and put the entire multiverse at severe risk - if you had an over-burdened sense of responsibility and believed in doing the right thing no matter what - you would also chase down the kid and put him in baby jail to try and prevent it. He believed that he was saving the multiverse, and that Miles was putting it in danger for selfish reasons. Which is completely unforgivable to him, because selfishness is what he hates the most. And then he goes completely out of pocket and starts beefing with a 15yo lmfaooo he's such a dick.

But why did Miguel believe that? Why did he believe that Miles choosing himself and his own happiness over the well-being of others was the worst possible thing? Why did he believe that tragedy was inevitable in their lives, and that without tragedy Spider-Man can't exist?

Because he's Spider-Man.

Peter Parker was once a fifteen year old who chose his own happiness over protecting others. It was the greatest regret of his life and he never forgave himself. Peter's ethos means that he will put himself last every time, and that he will sacrifice anything and everything in his life - his relationships, his health, his future - to protecting and helping others. Peter dropped out of college because it interfered with Spider-Man. He destroyed his own future for Spider-Man. He ruins friendships and romantic relationships because Spider-Man was more important. If Peter ever tries to protect himself and his own happiness, then he's a bad person.

That is intrinsic to Peter. Peter would not be Peter without it. A story that is not defined by Peter's unhappiness is not a Spider-Man story. If Peter doesn't make himself miserable, then he's just not Peter.

That is a Spider-Man story: that not only is tragedy inevitable, that if you don't allow yourself to be defined by your tragedy then you're a bad person. If you don't suffer, then you're a bad person. If you ever put anything above Spider-Man, then you're killing Uncle Ben all over again. Miguel isn't the only one that believes this - as we saw, every Spider-Man buys into what he's saying. There's no Spider-Man without these beliefs.

Miguel attempted to find his own happiness, and he was punished in the most extreme way. He got Uncle Ben'd x10000. He tried to be happy, and it literally destroyed his entire universe. It's the Spider-narrative taken to the extreme. Of course Miguel believes all of this. Of course he believes this so firmly. He's Spider-Man. That's his story. And the one time Miguel tried to fight against that story, he was punished. And like any Spider-Man, he'll slavishly obey that narrative no matter the evil it creates and perpetuates. Because if he doesn't, the narrative will punish him. The narrative will always punish him. It's a Spider-Man story.

I don't think the universal constant between Spider-Mans, the thing that makes them Spider-Man, is tragedy. I think it's the fact that they never forgive themselves. And Miguel is what that viewpoint creates. He doesn't believe this things because he's an awful, mean person. He believes them because he's a hero. He's a good person who hates himself.

Across the Spider-verse isn't really a Spider-Man story. It's a story about Spider-Man stories. Miguel's right: if this was a Spider-Man story, then Miles acting selfishly really would destroy the universe. But Miles' story isn't interested in punishing him. It pushes back against Peter's narrative that unhappiness is inevitable and that you have to suffer to be a good person. It says that sometimes we do the right thing from love and not fear, and that Peter's way of thinking is ultimately super toxic and unhappy. ITSV was about Miles deciding that he didn't need to be Peter Parker, that all he needed to be was Miles, and ATSV is about how being Peter Parker isn't such a good thing. Miguel shows that. Whatever toxic and unhealthy beliefs he holds - they're the exact same beliefs that any Spider-Man holds. He's a dick, but I don't think he's any more awful a person than Peter is.

TL;DR: Miguel isn't a bad person, he just has Spider-Man brainrot.

#across the spider-verse #atsv #atsv spoilers #across the spider-verse spoilers #across the spiderverse #across the spider verse #miguel o'hara #atsv meta #source: i recognized an embarassing amount of those cameos #im also seeing a lot of ppl make a lot of assumptions about what miguel was injecting and why #we dunno guys! im not gonna suppose anything #I just think that Miguel and Miles are great foils #and that what makes them interesting as foils #is the fact that they're both good people who want to do the right thing #miguel shows how that gets twisted #to the point where you beef with a 15yo sometimes which is still so funny #im a big spidey 2099 fan #which I love bc it is NOTHING like spiderman and yet it's such a good spiderman story #but talking about comics migs is useless bc he has 0 in common with atsv migs #but there is a lot of VERY cool stuff to say about how #the sm2099 comic has nothing to do with spiderman at all whatsoever extremely pointedly #but its still a wonderful spiderman story that finds its own way #tbh it was kind of a breath of fresh air to read a spider-man story that wasn't about spider-man for once #and that was just about miguel #anyway stan women's wrongs #miguel o hara #miguel ohara #my writing

[ladsofsorrow24]

trigun commission art i made for tracker_lucifer on twitter

commission post here

#trigun #trigun maximum #trigun fanart #legato bluesummers #millions knives #millionsummers #elendira the crimsonnail #livio the double fang #crimsonfang #ladsofsorrow24 #commission #commission art #that crimsonfang one still make me so embarassed #thanks to the good client they're the one who help with the lines #but still... it's embarassing to type that lmao #i love it tho #because i rarely draw something cute like that

[gazkamurocho]

That's how their reunion in LAD: Gaiden played out in our hearts ;u; ❤ Commission for anonymous!

Meanwhile...

#they're embarassing; they know it; and they don't care lol #when the commissioner came with this idea to me I was sobbing #why are they so perfect ;;;;; #and yes I was also crying on the inside when Majima asked; with the softest voice in the world; for Kiryu to not go #THAT MAN LOVES HIS KIRYU-CHAN SO MUCH AND IT'S CANON #yakuza #like a dragon #ryu ga gotoku #rgg #龍が如く #真島吾朗 #桐生一馬 #真桐 #桐真 #goro majima #kazuma kiryu #kiryu kazuma #majima goro #kazumaji #fanart #my art #gazkerber #illustration #games #videogames #comic #lad gaiden spoilers #gaiden spoilers #like a dragon gaiden spoilers #like a dragon gaiden

[fraudulent-cheese]

So a week or two ago in Astro's server people talked about the vampire AU prompt for the week and @nress made a really fun comic based on the idea which prompted a small discussion about a fun scenario in that AU. And i drew it.

og convo under the cut!

#cheese posting #alenoah #alenoah week #alenoah week 2024 #vampire au #art #td noah #td alejandro #total drama #i love awkward vampires that au idea is so funny #imagine the utter embarassment they'll feel when they realise they're BOTH vampires

[badn3w]

they want each other so bad

#always sunny #iasip #its always sunny #its always sunny in philadelphia #macdennis #macden #dennis reynolds #mac mcdonald #they're so embarassing #like imagine not admitting your undying love for one another for 20 years straight #pathetic

[thatsitso]

Oh??? My god???

I guess we can all agree that this exactly happened when they exchanged tassels huh- and while Oru got traumatized Qifrey doesn't even remember jksdndhdh

Anyways brb gotta draw that

And also "Embarrugio" 😭😭 I love this man he's so pure

#and so i think it was that Qifrey didn't think they were going out YET and Oru thought they were #and after that they either actually started dating #or since they're both idiots it turned into mutual pinning for years cause none of them would admit the feelings #honestly i would not be surprised that even though they're living like a married couple they just won't admit it #they're canon fr fr #tho give us the confession Shirahama I know you can do it queen #wha #orufrey #and seriously i love Olruggio so much the way he's so embarassed just talking about teen romance 😭 #there's sth going on there no denying #witch hat atelier #tongari boushi no atelier #wha chapter 59 #Olruggio #qifrey #now i have to draw that scene asap byee #manga rambling

[solarpunkani]

Saw your tags on that post about swamp milkweed about having trouble getting it started--you may already know this, but milkweed seeds need light to germinate! They only need a light dusting of soil on top of them (and putting them somewhere with a lot of light helps!); if you can't see the seed through the soil, it's buried a little too deep. They basically want to be laying flat on the surface of the soil rather than poked down into it, with just enough soil on top to help them retain moisture. Yes this does make it kind of annoying to manage moisture because you don't really want them drying out either (sorry 😭) but I hope this helps!! I mention it because this is the most common issue I see with people trying to grow milkweeds from seed. They also want 4 weeks of cold stratification (cool temperatures like in a fridge while also being in contact with moist soil; you can plant your seeds, pop the whole pot in a ziplock/cover it with cling wrap, and just refrigerate it for a few weeks) so don't forget to do that!

You know

it's really funny

because i like to call myself the self-proclaimed milkweed queen of tumblr (at least on my gardening blog but still)

And yet

I

constantly fucking forget about the light thing

IDK if that'll fix all my problems (the soil at my house is pretty sandy so I think that's the problem when it comes to transplanting at least) but regarding getting those little shits to germinate??? that might be the ticket

(one of the other problems I face sometimes is the seeds deciding to mold when they're in the fridge cold stratifying, i lost a good chunk of seeds to that last year but i don't see any signs of it happening yet this year so fingers crossed everyone)

#out of queue #ani rambles #bootesstar #answered asks #me: im the self proclaimed milkweed queen of tumblr i love milkweed i know so much about it #also me at least twice a year: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU AREN'T SUPPOSED TO BURY THEM HOWD I FORGET THAT #*proceeds to immediately forget that* #its never too late to learn homies #its just a little embarassing to need to learn it like 7 times now #im planting my milkweed tomorrow and no one will stop me (my neighbor might stop me if she needs help but AFTER THAT) #im gonna use my brand new 36 cell seed starter #its the same make as my 16 cell one but with smaller/more cells #for anyone curious/because i dont know how to shut up in the tags #my favorite seed starting trays are the burpee superseed popout reusable ones #they have silicone bottoms so you can just go BOOP when its time to take the seedlings out and it comes with a little tray to hold water to #they're also top shelf dishwasher safe. a fact i keep forgetting. #AND they have marked rows and columns so you can write down whats in what cell #so i can be like 'rows a and b are swamp milkweed' or 'cells 1a and 1b are sweet peppers cells 1c and 1d are bell' or whatever #listen. its nice. for me at least. #they used to only be at home depot in my area but I found this one at (vine ref incoming) t t t t t t t t TAAAAARGEEEEEEET

[hella1975]

by pure evil accident taob zuko's current mental state is the exact same as the one ive been stuck in for the past few weeks and that's a bit funny to me. like i started writing this chapter months ago and knew what i was doing with it even longer ago and suddenly ive manifested it into reality. we are both facing the horrors rn

#when the angry character finally learns to acknowledge their rage not as its own problem but as a coping mechanism to the problem #& faces at once the relief of finding the source of all this anger & the horror of realising that the anger itself was never the final boss #and it leaves them in a depressive state where they actually MISS the anger because at least that was active and - in a sense - dignified #whereas this just feels stilted and mopey and like each day is passing and you're losing time doing nothing #but you cant shake it anyway and wow im no longer talking about zuko!!!! we stay embarassing ourselves over taob!!!! #like i realised just now while staring off into space stirring my tea that the reason this particular depressive episode has hit me so hard #(aside the fact it's been a pretty extreme one and my paranoia has rlly flared up to the point ive felt honest to god CRAZY lately haha) #is because it's so DIFFERENT to how i usually respond to feeling like this #like normally my temper gets very quick and i completely isolate and i get mean and sharp #and i convince myself that everyone is out to get me and/or hates me and therefore i must manipulate everyone in my life #and ofc NONE OF THOSE THINGS ARE A GOOD RESPONSE. I AM NOT PROUD OF THEM #THEY ARE ALSO NOT NEARLY AS BAD AS HOW I USED TO BE HENCE I KNOW I AM GETTING BETTER #SLOWLY PAINFULLY WITH MY NAILS DIGGING IN THE DIRT BUT I AM GETTING BETTER ALL THE SAME #but STILL despite how awful those things are they're also very external. like i hurt the people around me in order to protect myself #and there's a dignity to that. there's more control there even if ultimately it's a lack of control causing it #like i have some fucked opinions from my upbringing and ik that like im quite a selfish person and it's bc i was raised to truly believe #that hurting others is always optimal over letting myself be seen as weak. like if my options are to hurt someone even someone i love #or let myself be vulnerable then sometimes i STILL will pick the former (it used to be all the time though <3 progress is progress) #and anger has always been sold to me as a very dignified STRONG emotion and it's how you're SUPPOSED to respond to badness #otherwise you're weak and a baby and pathetic etc etc #and just bc you know something is wrong doesnt mean you didnt internalise the fuck out of it anyway #like i will always see anger as the 'dignified' emotion and unlearning it regardless of that has been one of the hardest things ive done #('wow hella your own journey with mental illness is the literal exact same as taob zuko's-' i will hospitalise the both of us) #whereas currently ive just been sad and pathetic and oversharing to anyone who will listen and desperate for someone to look at me #and be like 'you're not okay' and to fix it FOR ME. like im not ANGRY im SAD and im not used to that response #AND GUESS WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENS THIS CHAPTER BY PURE FUCKING COINCIDENCE?? LITERALLY WHAT #like it's been happening for a few chapters that we're finally moving from anger to sadness on my unofficial healing chart #ever since zuko's outburst with hakoda when zi se had that tantrum #but this is the first time we see Sad Coping Mechanism as a response to a problem instead of Angry Coping Mechanism #taob updates

[agathazinha2009]

Drawing of the day lol

the first one I did at school

Cute ngl.

I didn't like the second one but I really like their position it's adorable ASJDSA

#dinotrux #revrux #Not like it #But I love it #lol #Revvit riding with Ty #I gonna Draw the others later #I have to do Ty without ponytail #Revvit is adorable 0w0 #Gijinka #Revvit without glasses oof #Ty has a ponytail to resemble his tail that's why there's a lil curve at the end #In my Human Au T-trux hair is actually primitive feathers #so when they're angry or embarassed it goes ✨FLOOF✨ #still about hair #Coil/Curly hair is know has “Screw hair”

[haliaiii]

tell us more abt sam and val plsplspls they are the backbone of our society i love hearing abt them

ofc ofc!! i love talking about them lmao

The story itself is called Retrograde and Sam and Val are the two main characters!

(Brace yourself it's kinda long!)

Val:

Personality wise he's pretty reserved, doesn't really say much unless needed, he's more open with people he's close to

Though he may look moody, he's actually just awkward

Currently he's working as a bounty hunter to pay his rent and keep the license but really it's just a title and he just goes around accepting odd jobs that pay him

He doesn't kill people so he instead chooses to beat them up real bad and turn them in

Val isn't his real name, it's just a nickname. Barely anyone knows his real name aside from one or two people.

Doesn't have the best past (original i know but its plot relevant) but he's working through his mistakes and trying to make amends with himself and others

He was found drifting in the river on the verge of death but was miraculously revived by a doctor who ran a small clinic nearby

He got into bounty hunting because he could make a living while not having to disclose his identity.

His eyes are actually not normal and are in fact a genetic condition he was born with! He gets a lotta stares and comments for it but he doesn't really care atp

Actually ridiculously good at dancing, he won a lot of competitions for ballroom dancing when he was in highschool and he could've gone professional if it weren't for certain other reasons

Because of his weirdly unique talent, he's really agile which makes him good at close hand combat

He's the one who drives both him and Sam around because he's the only one who has a hoverbike and can drive

Things he likes:

Ballet performances

The spicy shrimp noodles from his favorite thai restaurant

Cheesy romcoms (a secret)

Cats

Driving his hoverbike 30 miles above the speed limit

Things he doesn't like

Fire

Large crowds

Bugs (especially spiders)

People who don't respond to text messages

Messy eaters

Sam:

He's gonna have a longer description cause he's pretty plot relevant for the beginning

He's a pretty easy going guy, in many ways the opposite Val

Easy to get along with, most of the time he's pretty chill so he doesn't find it too hard to talk to people

Not really an extrovert tho, somewhere in the middle but still social if that makes sense

Val found him in an underground cave sleeping in a pod like thing while on a bounty

Somehow he managed to open the pod and wake Sam up, only to find out he has no recollection of anything that's happened to him nor who he is or his name

They decided to call him 'Sam' for now because it was printed on the tag hanging from his left ear

The last thing Sam remembers before waking up is a giant flash and burning buildings

Based on the weird room, sleeping pod, and the weird suit he's wearing, the two figure out that Sam's been asleep for a lot longer than he thought (more than 500 years)

He's actually from the Previous Era, which was an old civilization a lot more technologically advanced than the Current Era but was destroyed by a cataclysmic explosion (wonder what caused it?)

So Sam is technically many many years old atp but is still mentally the same age as Val

As you can guess he doesn't really take this very well

Turns out there was another pod next to Sam's pod that's been opened meaning that he may not be alone

Sam decides he wants to recover his lost memories and find out what happened to him and also find the person in the other pod, or at least what happened to them

Since he has no idea what the current era is like he enlists Val's help in exchange for helping him pay his rent.

He decides to keep his true identity a secret to not draw attention

He's actually really good at fighting and can hold up with Val pretty well so the two become partners

He's got these strange metal implants inside him, the most visible one around his neck which he's a bit self conscious about.

He doesn't know why it's there but it might have something to do with the blue ring above his head

The halo only turns off when he sleeps/lies down but seems to be above his head no matter what (he doesn't like it cause it draws a lot of attention)

His eyes are really unnatural and actually glow in the dark, another thing that freaks him out

His hair is naturally coral pink and not dyed (which is also a bit strange but not as much as the other things in his opinion)

Sam can't really read well, he's not sure if it's because he never learnt to read or the language has changed so much since he went to sleep, he's also not great at math

Kinda thanks to this he's also not great at budgeting and sometimes spends a lot of money on useless things that piques his interest (which causes him and val to do more bounties, much to val's dismay)

Even though he can be kind of an idiot sometimes, he does his best to fix his mistakes and make it up to people

Weapon of choice is dual guns!

Things he likes:

Sweet drinks (he's got a bad addiction to boba, milkshakes, and smoothies)

Arcade games (sucks at the fighting games but really good at rhythm games)

Astronomy (he knows nearly every constellation and its position by memory, it's kinda scary)

Action movies

Things he doesn't like:

Needles

Narrow hallways and closed spaces

Horror movies

Bugs (they're both screwed i know)

Some other fun facts !!

They live together in Val's apartment, they alternate sleeping on the couch and bed since Val felt bad

Even though Val said he'd only help Sam if he helped pay his rent, he actually didn't mind helping him for free and only added that because Sam insisted

Val is the only one who can cook out of the two, however that doesn't mean he's good at it, so they usually just order out most of the time

The world they live in is a mix between futuristic and post apocalyptic, yeah there's still technology but it's not as great as it was before

Part of this was because after the collapse of the previous era, rebuilding took a crazy long time and there was a big power struggle until the current government took control

There was a 4 year long civil war that happened and ended around 5 years before Sam woke up

There's currently a large supply shortage so for the past few decades so some technology has regressed

Their world is technically an alternate universe of our world, the divergent point happened around the late 1940s, I could go into it more but it's not that plot relevant but it is the reason they don't have a lot of today's modern technology despite it being many years into the future

#ok man that was long #sorry i kinda started infodumping there 😭 #can you tell ive been keeping this story in my head for 4 years now- #whether sam and val end up as romantic interests depends on how i want the story to go tbh #they work either way #romantically or platonically #ngl if they got into a relationship i don't think they'd change- #maybe this is cause i've never been romantically attracted to anyone so i don't really know how to write romance well 😔 #but if you wanna ship them go for it! i don't see why not #hopefully i can put out a comic of them so people can see what they're like #they've been in a few of my most recent animations if you can spot them lol #ty for asking tho <33 i loved writing all this #i never get the chance to just talk about them bc i feel embarassed 😭 #original character #oc #oc lore #haliai ask #retrograde ask #retrograde

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

I'm glad I'm not the only who hates R*nRuki more than Ich*Hime. Orihime is my fave girl but IH itself is kinda bland but at least Ichigo only hurt Ori while he lost control of his Hollow form. What's R*nji's excuse for hurting Rukia? I may prefer IR to IH but I'd rather IR be platonic away from abusive toxic R*nji than Rukia be married to said abuser.

Oh more people like me exist yay!

Yeah, my main problem with I//H is blandness and how Ichigo is kinda indifferent with her.

Renji excuse is being a coward, that's it, plain and simple. And it annoys me how they're friends since childhood, but if it wasn't for Ichigo, Renji probably would've seen her being killed in front of his eyes meanwhile doing anything! He loves her so much, to the point he can't even TRY to protect Rukia? What the hell? Actually, he never tried to understand her, neither did anything for her, so why would Rukia marry with someone like that? It's literally out of her character, just saying.

About the abuser thing, i don't know if i can talk too much about it, since i would be a huge hypocrite for criticizing R//R for that aspect.

#anti renruki #anti rr #ask #anonymous #answered #i have a ship that isn't that lovey dovey too #so i try to keep the same energy #at least ichigo wouldn't let Ori die for being a coward #Rukia you deserves a better man #even Ulquiorra could protect Ori from being killed #this is really embarassing to Renji #and this is how Renji treats someone he loves #imagine if he hated her 🤡 #i just don't get that mad at him #bc he later on started being a nice human being #still never did anything for my girl rukia #i understand your thoughts and they're totally valid!

[bewby]

the urge to be seen so badly but also terrified of being perceived because you're always on edge because you are so convinced everyone will turn around to reject you anyway ALL The time because you're inherently annoying and unlikable 👍🏻👍🏻 i hate living like this i hate being so afraid of being judged for everything i hate knowing people see me but i also want to be seen so badly because i want friends and i want to be happy and not lonely. my brain is aboutto fucking explode oh my God

#everytime i see people i find cool i just am like. you would never truly deeply like me. and maybe that's ok but i wish i could be someone #who's smart and witty and cool too but i'm not i'm just a people pleaser and i have no personality of my own because all my life i just #used up all my time to escape my parents bullshit which explains the chronically online-ism. i'm fucking EMBARASSED about my entire existenc #i know life comes with like rejection and people will not always like you but how do i deal with that and how do i deal with these #conflicting feelings of like. wanting to be seen but also terrified of it. jdshshhs #there's so many layers to this i recognize how alot of this wanting to be seen stuff is because of my ex too because he had a crush on me #without us even knowing eachother personally like he liked me for just existing and then he loved me like. unconditionally even After he #got to me know alot and it's like. i can't fucking believe that that is even possible with someone like me and i'm 100% sure he just had a #savior complex like yes he loved me and he loved me despite that savior complex but like. i think people can only like me because they feel #bad for me. they don't actually like me as in like. who i am. what i like what i post about #i know i have friends on here who like me but i know all of you wouldn't like me if you talked to me more because i just . #think that i'm deeply unlovable and it's so bad to say that especially because i blame myself for struggling with bpd and adhd and like #i can be liked despite being likr this. despite being mentally ill obvioisly i love my friends and they're all mentally ill #but i feel like i'm a different case because i just feel like i'm so lost and i have nothing special about myself HDJDVSVSBJYY #okay. i'll stop i'm so fucking sad

[lettersiarrange]

hey i'm the one who asked if you were a terf. I apologize for making it seem like an accusation, I've seen you reblog trans friendly stuff so I was confused but I shouldn't have worded it like that. I'm also not an expert with terf dogwhistles and stuff, but I do have shinigami eyes so the blog was highlighted in red. the blog is femmesandhoney and you reblogged their post from radgalacticacrew (this one is not highlighted).

And yeah, I get it, it's not like every single one of their posts are hateful bullshit, so you couldn't have known and no one combs through every blog they reblog from. I made a hasty judgment for something obvious to me and not to you (thanks to shinigami eyes) when I could just have given you a heads-up that you reblogged a terf. Again, sorry about that !

No worries. I appreciate the heads up that I was (unintentionally) engaging with terfs and the blogs in question so I can block them. I definitely don't want to come off as being at all affiliated with terfs so I'm glad to know I may have accidentally been giving that impression so I can fix it. I'm hoping to hunt down whatever secret terf I'm following so tumblr will stop reccomending me their innocuous-on-the-surface-but-with-terfy-undertones likes. In the meantime tho I'll block the blogs you pointed out so I don't make that mistake again.

I *have* heard of shingami eyes and DO think it's a cool idea, but I guess I'm also a little hesitant to do it myself. This kind of like "the computer/algorithm/program tells you who's Problematic" thing just feels a bit too close to, like, McCarthyism for me? I don't know how things get flagged and if they go through human review and what the guidelines are (which, to be fair, I might be able to find out, I haven't looked), but I always just feel like I'd rather personally see someone being shitty and suspicious and react to that than be informed by someone else/a program that someone is a Suspicious Person. But at the same time, clearly it's not like the program auto-blocks anyone flagged, it's just a heads up so you can do your own investigating, so I get it. I'm just not sure it's my vibe. But also my current strategy isn't 100% effective so it may be worth considering additional tools. 🤷‍♀️ something for me to think abt for sure.

#asks #don't worry op i wasn't mad i was just embarassed to have reblogged from terfs and a bit freaked out abt giving the impression of being one #and i guess like Scarred from 2012 tumblr discourse where admitting you don't Vet The Morality of every blog you touch- #-gets you like Perma-Cancelled #i appreciate you being cool abt it #we're all doing our best lol #it's also so annoying that terfs have like. co-opted femininity. #like why is every blog that celebrates being a woman or liking feminine things like a secret terf blog #tf. what if i think womanhood is cool AND i think trans people deserve rights. what then. #anyway i think we should take back femininity from terfs. I'm sick of them having a monopoly on being pro-woman and pro-femininity #(because they're not even pro woman!! that's like half the problem!!) #anyway. i will think of some alternative strategies for identifying terfs and consider shingami eyes #because i know terfs intentionally love to appear innocuous and non-terfy in order to lure people in #as part of their Strategy #so i gotta figure out a better way to sidestep that

[ambreiiigns]

just spent a good 20 minutes crying my eyes out over so far away by avenged sevenfold i have regressed to when i was 13 and extremely attached to this band

#i'm still extremely attached to them and forever will be #i grew up w rock & metal & shit bc my parents were cool but a7x was the first band i found by myself yk. like. it wasn't passed down to me #like my mom passed me nirvana & queen & bowie my dad passed me metallica & pink floyd & dire straits #my beloved uncle passed me iron maiden &. also nirvana & rancid #guns n roses was handed my collectively by all three #in short. avenged sevenfold was home grown. yk. they were my own thing #my first thing that Really got me into metal & the likes #the first time i had my Own tastes & preferences #and i was hyperfixated REAL bad for like maybe close to two years it was sooo intense i loved them sooo much #i still do!! i will still call them my faves!!! idc!! they're so special to me #i remember i found welcome to the family in a like. creepypasta mva or smth. funny that all the first few bands i liked i found thru #some creepypasta bullshit on youtube or smth. mcr fob AND p!atd i all got from creepypasta for Sure #anyway. embarassing. but i was obsessed w welcome to the family for a while #and eventually decided i wanted to know who made it and maybe listen to more stuff by them #and it was my mom's bday so august 16th when i went on their wikipedia page read the Whole thing and before i even knew much abt them or #their music or whatever i was crying so hard over the section talking abt the rev's death like i knew him personally #and i feel like that was the sign. the bad omen. that i would be down bad from then on #and i was down bad #and i listened to all their songs. i watched all the shows. i knew every piece of footage that existed of them by heart #and you have to understand by that point the only other thing i had been as obsessed with were hp & lotr #so it was still Fucky to me. to be into something that intensely #in short a7x truly fucking shaped me as a person fr and i will be thankful & fond of them forever and i avoid so far away like the plague #bc i know it gets to me. it really does #bc they were friends since they were like 10yo idiot kids yk before there was ever a band involved #and as someone who's had p much the same friend group since kindergarten #just THINKING abt losing a friend i've had for so long fucking kills me. and i can't imagine how bad it had to be for them #it's a very. empath moment of me ik ik but i can't stand it it gets to me really bad #oh nay

[xylodemon]

me, apparently: what if this sex scene was sappy *and* full of Mat's dagger paranoia

#they're in love your honor #and i'm embarassed for them tbh #that i met a man so beautiful i started crying meme #but make it about best friends #xylo writes

[daxite]

“ugh people are only hating on homestuck now because they’re embarrased they were a homestuck teen, the comic rules actually 🤓”

no people are hating on homestuck because it’s shit

#i love homestuck but i also fucking hate it because of how bad it became lol #it's been one of my major fixations for over a decade #and i will defend acts 1 - 4 with my fucking life i legitimately think they're great #and i still like A5A1 & A5A2 i just think A5A1 was too long and A5A2 left out too much lol #but yes act 6 is utter shit no you can't change my mind #there are things in act 6 i like hell caliborn is literally my favourite character he's fucking great #but overall it's just fucking awful #and when it is LITERALLY 60 - 70% of the entire comic yeah no i think it's reasonable to say that homestuck overall is shit because of that #also you can still fucking enjoy things that are bad you don't have to go and god-defend them #if anyone's insecure about their interests it's the people who piss and cry whenever you criticise the comic lmfao #and i'm not even ashamed i was a cringy homestuck teen i'll own that shit LOL #like yeah sure i was cringy and embarassing but ultimately i was just a kid having fun #i'm not 'embarrased' or 'ashamed' of that at all #homestuck was a major part of my life and it influenced both my writing and art so fucking much #hell it's the main reason why i'm making my own comic #also something i've noticed is that anyone on tumblr who says 'this rules acktually' tend to be really fucking annoying and #have the most shit takes LMAO #dax rambles