#this is just a bunch of personal bullshit

[entropyvoid]

Honestly with all the overlap between sci-fi and fantasy fans, I’m really surprised that “high fantasy in space” isn’t more of a thing.

There are some things generally assumed by most to be sci-fi that I’d personally label space fantasy, like Star Wars, where the high tech is just there as a backdrop to a classic heroic story of good guys vs. bad guys, who are definitely doing magic (by using the force). The point of Star Wars isn’t the tech or anything, it just happens to be a tale told in space. It contrasts pretty starkly with something like Star Trek, where the vast majority of episodes revolve around exploring whatever scientific or philosophical concept the writers thought would be kinda neat that week, using established characters as a vehicle for said exploration.

I think one of my favorite things about Honkai Star Rail is that it freely and unabashedly mixes sci-fi and fantasy. It just goes “You are a walking neutron bomb. Also turns out your bestie is from a self-reincarnating race of dragon people with powerful water and illusion magic. They live on this big, planet-sized ship that’s dedicated to hunting down this one cosmic horror that cursed all the ship’s inhabitants with immortality, under the banner of this other cosmic horror that exists solely to kill the first cosmic horror. Let’s go on vacation to the theme park planet, the actual resort is technically an Alice-in-Wonderland style dream triggered by the same kinda cosmic-horror-gifted bomb as you. Your new friend is a meme. By the way, did we tell you about the one time this super-genius harnessed the power of *imagination* to build a death ray that instantly obliterated a bunch of planets? That was kinda fucked up, huh.” Sometimes Star Rail tries to give explanations for its tech in a way that seems believably sciencey. Sometimes shit’s just straight up called magic or it’s from some deity or another and none of the characters present have a good understanding of why, so you all just go about your bullshit. It makes it work within the context of its established universe.

Cosmic horror in general is often (but not always) found in sci-fi, but where the point of sci-fi is to expand on and detail a concept in a believably scientific way or explore the impacts of a scientific thing, the point of cosmic horror is that there is a Thing that is beyond human understanding or comprehension. Sci-fi is a fun thing to insert it into, because the more scientifically sensible and well-understood elements of the world you have, the more jarring that becomes.

Then you’ve got things like Dungeon Meshi, which exists in an inverse of something like Star Rail: it takes a very Tolkien-inspired Dungeons and Dragons-esque setting, and then details it in a very scientifically sensible way. There is magic, and there are these fantastical monsters, yes, but the monsters are parts of their own delicate and intricate ecosystems, they are edible, and they have very particular nutritional values and ways you can cook them! The protag’s biggest strength lies in him being a nerd about monster biology. Magic, too, by the end of it, ends up with a plausible enough explanation as well. And the explanation is a cosmic horror! In this way, Dungeon Meshi, despite being built entirely off of very easily recognizable and classic fantasy tropes, is probably more accurately classed as sci-fi.

I just love all of it. Can I get like 50 more of these fucked up lil mixtures of science and magic please?

#ch.txt #honkai star rail #dungeon meshi #star wars #star trek #sci fi #fantasy #tagging all these bc I wanna hear if other people have cool thoughts on the subject #hopefully this isn’t considered bloating those tags or w/e #this came about from musings and conversations abt what kinda world/story I wanna write? since I’m redoing my lil sci-fantasy project

[aholotte]

Comparing Twitter and tumblr queer culture is so amusing

Twitter queer culture: reminder that if you’re an mspec lesbian every character from honkai star rail hates you (?)

Tumblr queer culture: does anyone know if we have butch faggot joy tomorrow

#do not look up mspec lesbian on twitter worst mistake of my life #It’s all just a bunch of exclus bullshit that blatantly disrespects history #Meanwhile on tumblr if you search mspec lesbian most of the posts are positive #Which is a good thing #my favorite thing is when I see posts with lots of notes about fag and dyke solidarity and stuff #I personally think that bi dykes and lesboys and turigirls and bears and butches and femmes and studs bring happiness to the world #Not to mention transsexual joy #Btw do we also have transsexual joy tomorrow? Asking for a friend #lgbtq #queer #e #This is a scheduled post

[rojekte]

ok actually one of my least favorite things about this whole watcher fiasco has been seeing people try to figure out what steven shane and ryans "true" thoughts are based on like.... their body language or whatever.

please god make it stop. u are not a body language expert. no one is. because its bullshit.

#watcher #ppl just coming up with entire stories based on like the way theyre sitting #or the way their faces look and whatever #just... shut up!! shut up shut up shut up!!! #that shit is stupid and dumb!!! #to make it clearer: 'body language analysis' is bullshit and anyone claiming to be a 'body language expert' is a fraud #that shit just isnt real. you can not accurately deduce what a person 'truly' feels by obsessing over their body language #its just a bunch of pseudoscience

[appropriatelystupid]

Below Deck AU, yesssssss

i cannot describe how desperate i am to actually get this one written

basic set up is as follows:

lena, upon gaining access to her trust fund, also officially inherits a ship lionel bought and remodeled into a yacht (basing it on bd down under s2’s ship)

in the interest of having nothing to do with the family business, lena studies environmental sciences for her many degrees and ultimately begins sailing the yacht to various parts of the world for research and running yacht seasons in route to help keep funding her work against climate change

the crew changes season to season but it’s mostly made up of our familiar faces

kara is still a journalist (no powers in this one btw) but she is determined to tell whatever story in the world matters so she’s very much a bit of a nomad and happens to be traveling (not for work) nearby when alex (1st officer) calls because they need a new deckhand

it would break from below deck in that, no one is filming them, but the structure of the ship and season would be the same

#just occurred to me this and food truck involve lena cutting most ties with the luthors lmao guess we know my personal bias #tho shes still in somewhat contact with them in this one. they’re less evil more unhinged wealth in this #and i’m planning a bunch of bullshit mods for the ship to make it not terrible for the environment while she does this #oh and lena always opts to be the second stew even tho she owns the ship and pays the crew. she just doesn’t want to be in charge like that #i have very elaborate notes and plotting to get it naturally to a point of kara and lena sharing the cabin #if it wasn’t in a notebook it’d look like that charlie day always sunny pic #wip title game #happypugstuff #appropriatelyasked #stupidlyanswered

[melonisopod]

Idk I think more mentally-unwell lonely nerds who develop parasocial relationships with the anime girls in their gacha games need to learn how to write fanfiction and make AUs. Or idk commission a fanartist. They literally have the money to blow on glorified slot machines, like bro just toss some cash at your local artist and commission them to draw your waifu making out with your self-insert. Better use of your money imo.

#i know you can't legally commission fanfic *directly* #you can request it and donate to a fan author's patreon maybe #i know some hold raffles and whatnot whoever donates a certain amount they'll write a fic for #like genuinely these guys would benefit from dipping into transformative fandom spaces more. idk why they don't. #these are obviously guys who would LOVE to work in some self-inserty bullshit with their own personal mary sues #and that's not always a bad thing! fandom can be a good outlet! #but i'm just seeing a bunch of guys bitch and whine that a female character even looked at someone besides them #and i'm like ''just write a fanfic''

[221bshrlocked]

And here I thought spending a month in an isolated monastery will make me more spiritual.

#what a bunch of bullshit #it just made my priest kink worse #personal #should i write a pero tovar or an obi wan fic inspired by the events here???

[sangfielle]

i hate how many cooking youtubers try to put out videos that are like Instructional! and you can totally do at home! that involve hundreds or thousands of dollars of kitchen equipment that they just have lying around and bulk buying ingredients. no i cant.

#And no one else can either! #personal #and i couldnt do these things even when i was livig in a house that like. #had a BUNCH of kitchen bullshit #because my dad owned a restaurant and we just absorbed some of its equipment #so i certianly cant NOW living with #some people who are not restaurant owners

[flakey-von-wembstein]

rant

i just blocked someone on pinterest

PINTEREST

because they was talkin about some bullshit all like "hamas is not a terrorist group, that's just what western media wants you to think" WHATTTTTT i need you to kill yourself rq

#obviously this is a joke i dont actually advocate for suicide (just in case someone purposely misconstrues my words) #if someone has the entire information of the world at their fingertips and still claims that hamas are a bunch pf misunderstood do gooders #then nothing is safe #even a suicide joke #i dont think its antisemitic (?) i could be wrong #im obv not the best educated person on antisemitism #but antisemitic or not that is some actual fuckin crazy ass stupid bullshit #like how are you gonna make me block you on PINTEREST. the google images for homosexuals. #smartest unironic whisper app user #not tagging this under the 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 conflict because it's not actual information just the words of an uneducated idiot

[imidori-ya]

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros is literal hot garbage and I will die on this hill.

#like it’s literally one of the worst constructed/written books I have ever encountered #how on earth could Yarros be married to a 20+ year military vet and yet still not even understand the most basic military concepts #it’s honestly astounding how brain dead her characters are #the way she writes makes it abundantly obvious that she thinks her readers are a bunch of idiots #who need every single story theme and element hand fed to them #the introduction of Varrish was just utter bullshit #she could have painted ‘VILLAIN’ on his forehead and it would’ve been less obvious #please tell us again how smart your main character is while she proceeds to do the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen #‘oh why won’t xaden trust me with rebellion secrets even though I basically announce my suspicions of the empire at every turn?’ #idk violet maybe it’s bc you won’t do the mind training they’ve been telling you to do #so you’re constantly vulnerable to the mindreader YOU KNOW PERSONALLY #maybe that’s why no one tells you anything??? #also holy shit her being like ‘I have to be careful and not let the empire know I’m questioning my duties’ #and then immediately crashing into a scribe meeting to request more red flag reading?? #like??? was she kicked in the head??? #also the dragons stating multiple times that humans are basically like ants to them and they don’t care if they live or die #but simultaneously having to somehow be subserveant to the military???? #bitch why weren’t you all enslaved by the dragons #this is such nonsense #also her prose is ass #come back when you can tell the difference between parse and parcel Rebecca #yeah a lot of my complaints are iron flame related #but that’s just bc it really hit home how bad this all is with the second book #net zero improvement #way to fail downwards Rebecca #ALSO!! what evil empire would conscript their enemies children into the one branch of their military where they get DRAGONS and SUPERPOWERS #like what??!! #in what world #what military would be so afraid of a new rebellion that they conscript the people with deep emotional ties to the old rebellion??? #if real militaries worked this way there would be no more war bc we’d all be dead

[starlooove]

Someone asks “where is this money going and do we have any evidence of it” and suddenly they’re being negative y’all just wanna play at helping ppl without using common sense or listening to the people saying MONEY IS NOT MAKING IT IN! Like. Can we be serious for 5 fucking minutes

#I will say apparently creators clarified it’s not going to Palestine but Palestinian based charities so I’m gonna be looking into that #but ppl just using the filter and saying ‘use this or u support genocide 😍’ and don’t even know how the fuck the filter is helping #like I understand the desperation of wanting to do anything ANYTHING in the face of all this #but y’all A) are being dumb as fuck about it and KNOW it’ll come back to bite you if it turns out to be bullshit #and B) taking the opportunity to gloat 💀 thank you so much for using a filter and donating a few cents to a person who’s word ur taking at #face value. bc lemme remind you these people are calling anyone saying ‘can we get some proof ur doing what u say u are’ NEGATIVE #like if it’s going to charities and individuals who are being impacted and need help or can get some kind of help out to those being impacte #that’s PERFECT #but not only do we NOT know that y’all are using the fact that ur form of revolution is stupidity and half a prayer to feel morally superior #which is sick as fuck to do #anyways #idk if I already said this but I’m not fixing tags but apparently she has evidence that she’s being honest #-the creator of the original filter- #so duh I’ll look into that and see #BTW! there’s more than one filter. this is not a good thing to me sorry #well not that there’s more than one the fact that there’s so many #and if y’all can’t handle a question about one I know you’re not fact checking them all #and unfortunately ppl like to take advantage #and even if they’re not spreading it out across a bunch of filters with no evidence is the same as that person who had a list of shit to #boycott that reached the 30s when BDS already has shit out there #WHICH IS WHAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST #there ARE things you can do orginizations already out there literally saying ‘if ur x age in y financial situation you need to do Z’ #but y’all wanna be katniss everdeen so bad that it’s impossible to handle that ur not the main character or calling the shots #and as ‘noble’ as it is to feel that ur not doing enough sometimes u do all u need to do and u still have time to kill and that sucks. but #going overboard in ways that are only not productive but harmful is so much worse #whatever tho what do I know #at least it’s sweet that ppl WANT to do so much but it’s not always the thought that counts and shit

[trans-leek-cookie]

as a certified Aromantic Asexual (I should make myself a certificate) I genuinely don't Believe there is systemic oppression that specifically targets Aromantic or Asexual people.

I do however believe that people Cannot be normal about ppl who don't have sex or romantic relationships, and that can Really Impact Aromantic And Asexual People.

Also like. Aros n aces are still. Experiences Other forms of oppression that can interact with the aro and/or ace-ness

#Like. Woman doesn't get married. Maybe aro maybe illegal for her to marry who she wants maybe no fuckin reason. She's probably gonna get #Some shit for it but that's primarily misogyny. While it does affect aro ppl disproportionately bc. Yeah. It's not based on them being #Aro it's a conicindental intersection. Also can y'all be normal about sex and virgins #Anyway slightly related dreaming of a world in which it was better acknowledged that sex repulsion while common for ace ppl #Was not synonymous w being ace so we avoided the ace discord phenomenon that a bunch of gay/lesbian/bi ppl mis identified as ace #Bc they couldn't deal w the idea of having sex w a person of the same gender #With the idea of actually having sex bc it was treated as gross (sex repulsion as a result of society) or that trauma survivors #Misidentified as ace bc they had issues w sex bc trauma. Also that sex repulsion wasnt like an identity but rather a Symptom that could be #Either a problem or neutral. Who else's brain was boiled by ace and also inclus/exclus discord and came out thinking everyone was fucking #Stupid. Like both sides had Points but it was mostly just bullshit and no one fucking talking. Also ppl kept talking about ace ppl #''stealing resources'' and multiple ppl joked Abt that which is a problem bc that means. A BUNCH OF LGBT PPL DIDNT UNDERSTAND WHAT RESOURCE #THEY HAD (anyway looking back on it. Idk if ace ppl were even taking up resources or anything like the common example was LGBT shelters #Bc like if u were gay u might be kicked out of a normal shelter but if u were ace u would probably not get kicked out so if an ace person #Went to an LGBT shelter then they might've taken a bed from someone who needed it more which. I guess is theoretically possible but also id #If that ever fucking. Was something to actually give a shit Abt. Correct me if I'm wrong) #ALSO the idea of ''all gay ppl should go to hell'' ''oh do bi ppl only half go to hell?'' sure thats probably a problem but also. A LOT OF #THOSE WERE EVERYONE DOING IT INCLUDING GAY PPL? LIKE THE FUCKING ''ALL GAY PPL SHOULD BE ON AN ISLAND AND THE POPULATION AUFNFJNSAJ'' #like does anyone else remember that. Everyone was making those stupid fucking jokes. This is just a rant Abt me being on Tumblr without an #Account for years and the psychic damage I've accrued. Anyway fuck AO3 goodbye

[musical-chick-13]

Cannot BELIEVE I had to have a conversation with someone where, after I complained about people Not Wanting To Write About Women, I then had to explain that yes, I DO write about men sometimes, actually; no I don't hate men; yes I write from the POV of the men in numerous cases and also analyze them.

#I know this person's comments were not meant maliciously but like. still. wild. #no I am in fact not on some weird gender essentialist bullshit because I want to complain about how a bunch of people don't seem to #care about women in stories. 'well how many times do YOU write about men' YOU'D APPARENTLY BE SURPRISED ACTUALLY!!!!! #MORE OF THIS CURRENT PROJECT IS FROM THE MALE CHARACTER'S POV THAN THE FEMALE CHARACTER'S POV #(granted I couldn't like. TALK about said current project to this person because why tf would I do that to myself when the subject matter #is what it is and I need to retain some sense of self-preservation but like. still.) #(like I think I actually have a pretty even mix of things I write from a man's pov versus a woman's pov. it depends on what concept #I'm trying to write about and which character I think would best serve that end. why is this. a surprise to you.) #(I even thought about genderbending a m/m wip before deciding it really did work better as a m/m story based on what I was Trying To Say) #the reason that 'not all men' was so disparaged is not because we inherently hate men. it's because people were trying to take a #discussion about things that DISPROPORTIONATELY HAPPEN TO WOMEN and making it about not hurting the feelings of men who #are not involved in this. and I shouldn't even have to fucking explain this because SOMETIMES THINGS ARE JUST!! NOT ABOUT YOU!!!!!!!

[leviiackrman]

I’m making this very clear right now:

If you think AI stealing real artists artwork is excusable, unfollow me this instant. AI Generated Images is theft.

#personal* #jess talks #if you think it’s okay to steal the hard work of someone practiced and skilled enough to creat it themselves #then you can get fucked and unfollow me #I don’t want anyone with that mentality around my blog #I’ve just seen a bunch of people on insta flood the comments of some of my fave artists saying they’re in the wrong from being against AI #yeh we fuckin know it’s not going anywhere and that’s a problem in of itself because it’ll eventually replace more creative jobs #AI generators harvest artworks from websites MADE MY REAL ARTISTS to create an emotionless/cold varient based off of key words #it’s absurd and fucked up #and don’t start with the copyright bullshit #fundamentally if an AI is going to use other real artists work as its base - then it needs to ASK PERMISSION and compensate #artwork belongs to the artist. period. #my dream job is to be concept artist #at this fucking rate a computer will have the job before I ever get the chance to apply #companies are already firing artists in place of using AI because it’s ‘faster and less expensive’ #congratulations you just openly admitted you’d rather fast mass produce content and products than pay a talented employ to create something #that’s original and potentially groundbreaking #like legit get fucked #anyway rant over #I’ll be reblogging this

[hiero-green]

fellow auties did ye get hit with the “old soul” comments as a kid

lmk if you did OR didn’t because i’m curious how much of a shared experience this is 👁

#autism #idk i just got it a LOT as a kid and like #like i kind of understood where they were coming from?? #also not to be like ‘well I’M enlightened and smart’ but like i kind of feel it still #in a non spiritual way bc i don’t believe in souls #but like i feel like if i WERE a soul that had been recycled/reincarnated a bunch of times i feel like i’m at the old person stage of it #‘i’m tired man i just want to enjoy the beauties there are to experience and you’ve been dishing out the same bullshit for 15 #*for 200000 years’ #anyway #<3 #dan speaks

[ryderdire]

thinking about that one time I posted about going to an rally organized by STUDENTS at my shcool. In support of Pro-Choice stuff, out of all the werid anti life retrotic that got thrown around in my notes and the notes going “uhuh r/thathappened” comments what discouraged me the most where the notes going off on me about how I didn’t do “enough” and how it hardly mattered and wasn’t going to change anything. And what that says about how the internet views it.

Looking back I remember feeling so ashamed of myself that I even brought it up or that I wasn’ t doing “more” and how it made me not want to get involved again because the only ways i could where small and “didn’t matter “ because of an situation out of my control that I was (AND STILL AM IN BY THE WAY) in. How people thought it was appropriate to chastise me for not doing enough because of that.

Oh and by the way when I made that post I was 16. So yeah great job guys /sarcasm

#And then because of that I turned down several oppturinties to get Involved again. #I mean there’s other reassons. My parents are still werid about that stuff and it would mean risking having to deal with their bullshit. #It would’ve meant putting myself at risk at either lying to my parents forever or dealing with their abuse for no reason #fuck everyone who came to my personal post about that and got mad at me for not doing enough fuck off I was 16 #okay to rb #honestly I think that’s there’s a discussion here about how we treat young people trying to get involved in actvism but I’m pissed off righ #now and also sleepy as all hell so not now #my situation has improved greatly since then but part of that was because I got so good at not rocking the boat as they say #I’m safe and stuff dw but at the time I just didn’t know for sure if I was? kinda ? like. my parents might have gotten upset #and cut off all internet access and friendship access if they decided I was to rebellious so you know #now that’s just straight up not an issue (mostly because I was almost never rebellious) #and am now 18 therefore theve chilled because it would look bad if they didn’t #this is kinda a bunch of jumbled together thoughts #I might expand or like make a better post later #the first draft of this was unreadable my bad It’s late and I didn’t sleep last night

[vamptastic]

while i am also put off by the insistence to at all times use the most inflammatory, insulting, and condescending language towards anybody who disagrees with their fringe beliefs, the primary reason i just cannot engage with T/ERF bullshit even for the sake of trying to break down why they believe the things they do is the utter and complete lack of unbiased sources. seriously, every single time its like, transwomenareevil.com and every article is talking about a crime some random trans woman committed using the most libelous language possible. they legitimately read like a list of crimes read out before a mob before someone is shot in the head. no statistics, not even unbiased analysis of anecdotal examples, the vast majority of scientific articles they do attempt to cite, usually regarding medical transition, are meta analysis that do not actually support their claims if you, yknow, fucking read them (as always its 'more data needed'). it's all based on kneejerk disgust reactions or fear stemming from personal trauma. not the kind of thing im inclined to humor as a basis for how i want to conduct my life or what laws i want passed. and the entire time they're all convinced they're the only real feminists and the rest of us are idiots who have never heard of systematic oppression before.

#like where is the harm reduction where is the utilitarianism... #its all like one hypothetical person could be hypothetically hurt #lets go hurt a lot of very real people over it instead #i will humor a lot of opinions i think are genuinely stupid. antivax prolife antisemitic bullshit etc etc #kinda have to living where i do #and without fail people are usually just misinformed. #with t/erf stuff though? its like they're deliberately choosing to ignore actual science #i don't know how to engage w these people #its always the most bad faith reading of whatever you say followed by a bunch of bad sources you have to individually pick apart #i think its kinda the result of them thinking their beliefs are about intellectual superiority vs moral #which is what i usually deal with #bc people concerned with moral superiority will generally listen to facts and arguments presented #ppl who wanna feel super smart will not #and theres also a false dichotomy of like #be a r/dfem or be an MRA that i dislike #like nah im just an intersectional feminist #bc im trans and jewish and any other form of feminism usually ends up hurting me or my people #even Marxist feminism even tho i generally like it has some flaws in how it tends to handle religious women