#those flaws fuck people up

[ariesbilly]

Sometimes I read a post on this website and I just KNOW it was either written by a child or someone with a severe victim complex like please grow up and get some perspective

#not everyone in life is out to get you #sometimes people just fuck up #and yeah maybe it affects you negatively and you have to deal with that #so deal with it #to go around assuming everyone has ill intentions is so bizarre and incredibly myopic #deadass just read the sentence ‘all adults know exactly what they’re doing to you’ #???? i don’t know how tiontwll you this but age is not some magical cure to ignorance #you don’t turn a certain age and suddenly become a perfect person with all the answers to the universe #people are flawed #those flaws fuck people up #that’s life #yes there are people out there who intentionally do harm #but to say that about every single adult is just bizarre #like damn I have a complex relationship with the adults in my life too #but I still learned to view them as the human beings they are and realize we are all products of our environments and experiences #there’s a lot of things I wish my mom did better as a parent #but I’ve also gotta come to terms with the fact that she was going through a lot too and didn’t have all the answers #that’s life! #we’re all just fumbling along trying to do our best #again yes there are parents who are downright evil #but I feel like a lot of y’all struggle with the inbetween stuff #there’s no such thing as a perfect parent please be serious right now

[vigilskeep]

i need to wynnepost. somebody has to

#its crazy how people will assume she is all the tropes she subverts and then ignore her #also how sympathy for circle mages’ indoctrination only lasts until they get old i guess and then fuck them #because its not as if they were ever a terrified child who’d never had anything better than a single templar’s mildest kindness and any kind #of home even if it was the tower #so an orphan kid who had no memory of anything but scurrying between farmsteads and hiding in barns #didnt want to leave. what a shock. you guys dont get the place comfort has in keeping circle mages complicit #so it’s violent and terrible and you never have privacy and your children get murdered and you’re always watched and hated #its also a warm bed and community and a chance to succeed #do you honestly think every kid from fucking THEDAS knows theres anything better out there #that doesnt make the circle good. it makes it horrific that they prey on vulnerable kids to teach them the world hates them #and only the circle is ‘safe’ #i just think there should be some sympathy for those kids and what they grow up into #its easy for the player to walk in and say their character would hate the circle and never have listened to the templars #its easy for say an amell or even a surana with a family back home to not fear what they left behind #wynne genuinely thinks without the circle mages would all be murdered and she’ll fight and die protecting her fellow mages #from the right of annulment #yes its a flaw that she goes on to teach others the circle must be tolerated and that is precisely how the circle is perpetuated ove #over generations #but its amazing to me to just act like its her fault #well. this is more tags than i expected it to be

[ikilledamanforthisurl]

who's lila yammerings (i should be asleep

thinking about Who's Lila again and i really do love how the three layers of the mystery as broken down by Flaw Peacock includes kindof commentary to the "all interpretations are equally valid/correct" writing copout that isn't just the opposite statement or a rebuke of it, but also something that ties it all in with the rest of the game's infohazard/memetic properties themes. like yes, broke = all interps are valid + woke = there IS a correct answer as this is a mystery, but also bespoke = the correct interpretation comes from the unconscious mind of all people, a zeitgeist, et cetera.

it can be equally as much of a copout- because break it down, what tf does that imply? that the interpretation that takes us at large is the most correct? so the most popular theories, and that the most widely accepted aspects of the game, are what is true? whichever red herring that turns out to be when it is handed to the public? it can totally be a copout. not for lack of effort or intelligence or artistry, as FP's video is nearly 8 hours for a reason, but also it can be copout. a REALLY COOL copout though. i can't picture of any other story that i know that does this, nor could i think of a better story to do it.

because it's all about the cultural zeitgeist and memetic properties. beliefs and feelings and ideas and superstitions that trend. Lila is the mystery but she is also a demon, she is also a trauma, she is also a metaphor, she is also a delusion, she is all of these things, but above all else she is what YOU hear she is. the most popular, most widely accepted interpretations are what get shared, and spread the furthest. unrelated people hear about it, maybe give these opinions the time of day for a quick read, and Lila has fully cemented herself in those people's brains as that interpretation, even if alllll that information they just took in winds up being dead noise that the brain scraps entirely with time. she WAS there, however fleeting, as is her abiding by her, or the, laws of memetics

and to me, this is the interpretation. but that doesn't change how people at large are viewing her and i certainly wouldn't know better as i haven't bothered looking into it. idk yall im not gonna ask. regardless she is whatever we first thought she was, and unless you dig deeper and find out more, she's infected you thus. just like how the Dada Dog was originally just some guy's silly drawing, but evolved into an alt-right symbol of actual genuine murderers. somebody took the Dada Dog and maybe unintentionally recontexutalised it when putting it next to their personal dangerous rhetoric, and their ilk ate it up like flies to the point that there was nothing left of the Dog but the picked clean, bare bones of its lineart and sombre expression

my best guess are that there are three layers to the current zeitgeist of Lila as well. 1. the unknowing crowd, who have maybe seen a few pictures at most and maybe a little bit of the game, assuming she's a trauma metaphor characterised as a paranormal thing possessing dear William. 2. the initiated, knowing a little more and who may lean towards her being a demon taking advantage of kids with issues. and 3. whoever was insane enough to dig this deep and grasp that she is exactly what we think she is

Conclusion: Poor William

#ikildaman shut the fuck up #who's lila #infohazard #unreality #i dont know if this needs any more tags but the game is very egodeathy mindfucky by design #if people are freakt out by allat stay away from that game and probably this post as well #i say that last paragraph as someone who has REWATCHED flaw peacock's WL video multiple times #and i get a better grasp of what Lila is each time #not bc im studying it or am a megafan of WL either i just really REALLY like this video idk. idk dont look at me #also yeah i know william is just as much of a killer as he is not a killer but idc. im on his side #he did not deserve none of that none of those kids deserved that #justice for william. justice for wheeliam #i should draw them all alive and happy and as friends and it will be just as canon and real to me as everything else

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the previous post, I think the way I approach trying to evaluate a piece of art is asking "Do I think the positive things I get out of it outweigh the parts of it that I don't like?" And when I call something a "guilty pleasure" song/show/book/piece of media/etc. it's really more in the sense of, "Given who I am as a person, the flaws I've found in this should be complete dealbreakers for me, but somehow they aren't, and it makes me feel like I'm having an identity crisis."

#like. I think something like...idk shiki or cxgf excels on multiple levels. I understand why I like them. given the things I look for in art #it makes sense that these shows would speak to me because they make the effort to showcase those things I look for. because the people #in charge of those works clearly valued the same kinds of things and cared about seriously exploring them. #but with something like. uh. ctrlz. that is NOT the case and I frequently found myself going 'why would anyone make this writing #decision?' but I still sat through all 3 seasons of it! I still really enjoyed it! those flaws SHOULD have made me give up according to #personal history but they never did. and I very very much genuinely question why. I have NO IDEA why I still care about this #silly convoluted teen drama show so much. but I do. I wrote SO MANY FUCKING POSTS ABOUT IT. #I really love wicked the musical. I've heard many people call it 'hokey' or 'cheesy' or 'objectively bad' but here's the thing! I DON'T #think it's bad!!! like literally at all!!!!!! and it does do some genuinely cool things in regard to the music and the way the characters #develop and what the show says about the nature of prejudice and human connection. is it like. idk Serious™ the way that something like #Parade is? no. but it doesn't have to be. it does what it sets out to do and it does it well and this is why the whole '''objective #evaluation''' thing doesn't actually mean anything. I value thoughtfully-constructed music and dynamic female characters #(which this musical has). I value stories that deal with the complex and messy feelings that come with being a human (which this musical #has). I value stories about 'other'ness and romantic subplots that aren't just built on 'This Girl Is Pretty' (which this musical has). #and I value professional displays of technical vocal ability because I know how fucking DIFFICULT that is (which this musical...if you cast #it well...has). #if you value something else in a musical then yeah you will probably think THIS one is '''objectively bad''' #if you don't see the point of musicals as an art form you will probably think wicked is '''objectively bad''' #do you see where the problem with categorizing analysis like this is??

[fellhellion]

i AM just an insane person over this little fictional dude but “Miguel can’t acknowledge it was his fault Gabriella died and needs canon to mean something for that suffering to be justified” is just nottttttttt substantiated by the film.The first bit is just flat out wrong to me personally too, he takes complete ownership for what he believes to be the worst and most devastating fuck up of all time. He doesn’t even accept his own lack of knowledge about what would happen at the time as an excuse. And honestly? Unless I’m forgetting something, not once does he ever approach the idea of the canon framework being something that justifies suffering (only Peter B makes this argument). To Miguel it’s just observation of patterns of fate, and ones which destroy lives when tampered with. 

#i have a longer and more detailed post abt this and i dont want to be up in other peoples blogs about this but im just like ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #he has really interesting and complex flaws but i think this reading just isn't supported at all by his actions and how he presents his #understanding of canon to miles. #his argument to miles isnt 'miles you need to submit to fate because we all went through this' its 'miles our job as spiderman is to save #people and the way we do so is adhereing to canon because otherwise the whole fucking thing explodes and takes everyone including those you #wanted to save from their destined death' #tunes talks spiderverse

[nkogneatho]

I can get how someone can see a bad dad and hate them for that. But when you grew up in an abusive household with no father/mother role or anyone showing you what love and care is. It's kind of hard to be a father after that shit. Doesn't excuse his behavior and there are plenty of people who have shitth parents and childhoods who grow up to be wonderful parents.

if his wife didn't die leaving him a single parent to two kids, now handling intense grief because the only person who loved him has been taken away. And he can see their faces in his children everyday and he is still dealing with his own trauma. Doesn't excuse it and plenty of people stick around despite these hard circumstances and can be wonderful parents.

That isn't everyone. And the same way they can project their hatred of bad dads onto toji some people can recognize that he if he was given a better life he would have been a better dad and he isn't a one dimensional character.

He noticed must have noticed Megumi had a good abilities and that his clan would treat him better. Since sometimes a family will treat one kid like shit and then praise the very ground the other one walks on. It's bullshit and it happens more than people think

In the end he brought it up to gojo, in his dying breaths with a hole in his side he is bringing up his son, trying to stop what he could have realized is a mistake. Why bring it up to gojo if he didn't hope that someone else better could take care of his kid?

Toji is still a morally corrupt guy and heavily flawed. But I can see Toji is the product of the environment he grew up in. And I hope that Maki can beat that, and heal from the generational trauma thay toji couldn't

If he was raised in a happy house, shown what it's like to have a positive role models. Maybe he could have been a good dad regardless of his wife dying.

I like to think about a world where Toji gets the help he needs, where Satoru and Suguru regardless of their friendship or relationship got to stay by each other’s side and led peaceful lives

I wish that shoko wasn't so damn tired all the time and got to rest and that Kento made it to Malaysia. He has his stacks of books and loves to read outside on an hammock.

Isnt that the point of fanfiction to take a character put them in different circumstances (maybe better or worse ones). Which means we can take toji put him in a different world where he wife is us and he gets help and becomes a wonderful dad who heals from his traumatized childhood

But then again they can think what they wish of the character. Like how I am putting my own thoughts onto Toji

What they shouldn't do is come into someone else inbox and bitch at them, as if that can change the mind of the person who owns the blog?

YES WHAT YOU SAID.!! tsumiki isn't toji's daughter tho. they have different parents and toji married her mom and took her surname. BUT OH MY GOD THE THING YOU SAID ABOUT SEEING MAMAGUMI IN MEGUMI'S FACE EVERYDAY KILLED ME

#we don't excuse his behavior. but every person is flawed. hell i am flawed too. there are times i fucked up real bad #but i don't milk those situations and make it my personality. i learn and move on. that's what we all do #i hope people grow up and realize not everything is black or white. it's complex. it's dynamic #💌toodles

[anghraine]

Tolkien's handling of race in LotR is bad, and should not be defended, but pointing out that the Jackson LotR films are perhaps even worse on that issue seems to be *really* unpopular with most of the fans. You'd think that a film series from the 2000s should be held to a higher standard than fantasy literature written in the '30s and '40s, but apparently not.

Exactly. Whenever someone (not even me specifically, or my friends—others have pointed this out!) tries to discuss it, people tend to get super defensive and make extremely dubious arguments to defend the racial casting and coding.

And it's like, yes, I have my bias as someone who has a lot of other issues with the films and who has resented their stranglehold on fandom for years. But I see people go on about how the Jackson films' racism was just being true to Tolkien's vision, despite manifestly not being "true to Tolkien's vision" in multiple respects, so a) why should racism be the thing they couldn't change, especially amidst all the other things they did change, and b) they're actually worse than the book in this regard at any rate.

Like, Tolkien's descriptions of dark-skinned heroic characters are entrenched in colorism, imperialism, all kinds of awful assumptions about how the world works even when he's awkwardly trying to push back (I think @elwing had an interesting discussion of how we can see this in the ambivalent representation of Tar-Aldarion, for instance). But literally nothing was preventing the filmmakers from including characters like those and just not retaining the textual descriptions, which would be weird to include in film anyway.

Of course, Tolkien himself was indignant at the idea that Middle-earth is exclusively Northern or English, no matter how many times certain folks repeat the "mythology for England" quote devoid of its original context. So my view is that the book absolutely has a lot of unconsidered or poorly considered racism and racist assumptions, but that this is not incompatible with the films and fandom being still worse and all the more culpable when you consider our RL circumstances.

#anon replies #respuestas #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #anghraine rants #pj critical #long post #honestly people are very resistant to the idea that the films aren't simply a pure distillation of tolkien's ideas #and thus that their flaws are a) nonexistent or b) attributable to tolkien himself #my fairly uncharitable theory is that a lot of those people only came to tolkien through the movies #and genuinely do not see them as discrete works—the movies are distillations of tolkien #if they fucked up it's got to be in the ways that tolkien himself did #and at some level they 'had' to #even though it makes no sense to be like. okay. the characters don't need to look like tolkien's descriptions #bc you've got to cast for talent #unless you cast poc in which case wailing and gnashing of teeth #even if the poc actors resemble the descriptions more closely #like!! this shit falls apart at the slightest scrutiny but people are incredibly fragile about it

[mantisgodsdomain]

Tags from this post segmented off into a post of their own (if you don't want to click that link, then just the phrase "ancient iterator dick discourse" should suffice. We have strong opinions about iterator construction because we live with a guy who manages large-scale construction projects and such like this for a living and it's really hard to listen to half a dozen calls about the legalities of one (1) bridge and budgeting and materials construction and the legally mandated fund for art on major construction projects and then just buy in to hundreds of years of iterator designs using a single thing made by one guy without changing a single piece of it or at the very least having eighty engineers arguing the shit out of it.

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#we speak #realistically it would just require more specific tinkering w what we choose to include but we still think the dickscourse is funny #it's the image of a bunch of ancient monks gathering around to very seriously debate decisions with the upcoming iterator project #and then the whiteboard is just like. “ITERATORS: dick or no?” #(vital context: we got hung up on the semantics of people giving their iterators actual genitals in smut) #(as the existence of that on the puppet implies that someone had to design and manufacture and ship that shit for the finished iterator) #(and the general aura of the ancients instantly catapults this to fucking hilarious because it implies job titles like “dick director”) #(and work emails about iterator pipe written in the exact same cadence as all of the ancient correspondence we see in-game) #we dont think a lot of people designing iterators really Get the sheer amount of semantics and construction and effort and PEOPLE #that go into a project of the iterator's scale #especially when hundreds of them have been constructed! theres gonna be a whole ass trail of design changes and iterations! #youre gonna have hundreds of years of iterators being designed and technology coming into fashion and out of fashion #and things being integrated and things becoming obsolete and things being more or less practical as time goes on! #you cant really say that All Iterators have a trait because the sheer scale and timeframe theyre built on means thats near impossible #our windows 95 writing computer has different construction and deeply different design to a laptop from 2023 #despite them technically being the same type of technology #you expect tech developed hundreds of years apart to be The Same? absolutely not. theres gonna be eight trillion weird design quirks #accumulated both in the construction process and in the continued design refinement and improvement stage #...which is to say that you can and should write what u want but if youre gonna include pleasure inducing wires then we want like #a 40k word essay on how this got into the design how it wound up in future designs what function the wires perform that makes them Like That #and so on and so forth #we admire the confidence and ingenuity of the people who want to fuck the robots but we cannot get into their fantasies with good conscience #we live in the same house as an engineer who manages largescale construction and we also know too much about designing technology #...we should segment these tags into a separate post or something. we've gone WAY off-topic.

#we speak #questionable content #rain world #iterators #technically some of this stuff isnt TOO out there for bad design decisions? #the library that sunk because they didnt account for it bearing the weight of the books comes to mind #but generally those things get caught and they dont last like. DECADES of design decisions especially when they have to house EVERYONE #shoddy design decisions affecting things for years generally happens in areas where not too many people are checking ur work #not on the very fundamentals of the city that everyone is going to have to live on #at the very least if theres a disastrous design flaw itll be the kind of thing that comes up years down the line #and becomes an anecdote they tell new iterator engineering students in design class for years to come #rather than sticking around in the design forever #everyone lives on that fucking robot.

[insidejupiter]

jingliu is a perfect example of "if this female character was male, shed be universally loved instead of heavily criticized"

#im not saying you cant criticize a character but its sooooo telling that she gets so much of it #“shes a hypoctite. shes too mean. shes too cold.” yeah uh huh but those kinds of traits are fine on ren okay got it #people saying her character design is basic like im sorry but star rail doesnt have very many ground breaking designs for anyone #and yet i only see people bringing up jinglius design. also saying shes too pretty and done up #like the men arent also conventionally attractive. *yes* hoyoverse is bad for unique female designs #buts lets not pretend its solely a jingliu problem. it was an issue before her #shes just another victim of the short dress exposed shoulders look. also her design is not in any way shape or form the worst female design #im not going to give my opinion on that here tho because its not important #im losing my train of thought so im just gonna say people wouldnt be handwringing over the prospect #of jing yuan having romantic feelings for her. in fact thered be droves and droves of girls shipping them if jingliu was a man #not to mention shipping her with ren if she was. and dan heng/feng #but shes not a man so shes being scruitinized and picked apart for any potential “flaws” #like theyre so transparent about it. like im sorry she was mean to ren/yingxing fucking forgive her for having complex feelings #about a messy complicated issue while shes dealing with her own #trauma and guilt and anger and everything else that wouldnt be a problem if she wasnt a female character #the hypocrisy of it all never ceases to astound #hsr

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

it's all well and good to whine about being strawmanned but genuinely you lose literally any ground you had to stand on when you insinuate that it's m*sogynistic to dislike mystra and straight up lie about stuff that literally happens in the game. buddy no one has an obligation to take anything you say seriously after you try to invalidate that gale was gr***** at all based on larian not being able to stick to dnd lore and your stale as mouldy bread take about people who dislike mystra and actually like gale for who he is.

#tbd #fandom wank #my sleep cycle is fucked and i'm tired of you clowns #there's more than enough in the game to support that she did the bad #so literally go fuck yourself. #from the bottom of my heart people who dislike gale for whatever fucking reason no matter how shallow or deep are more valid than you #there are far better nuanced opinions about gale's flaws in this fandom that don't rely on white knighting the shitty goddess #also: boiling gale's arc down to his hubris is such a rancid and shallow puddle of a read #and accusing those who again are more than valid for disliking her of m*sogyny is the rotting leaf in that puddle #and if i have to see it in the tags i'm going to clown on it lol #anyway bye gotta go work on my next strawman to rally my followers & puff up it up to gain some more tumblr dot com clout #while i cackle diabolically and stroke my floofy lap cat's little head #grooming tw

[dandyshucks]

okay its going under a readmore bc its messy and a lot, i'll try to keep it succinct though. CW for some discussion of the ongoing g.enocide and things around that topic

so one of the friends is someone I've really respected and admired because they're a very intelligent well-spoken and kind-hearted individual. i've really been impressed with how they think about things and with their ability to write really fantastic essays (that they often share with this friend group because they're in school and enjoy sharing their work with us because a lot of us are interested in the things they write about). about a year ago, this person went through the process of converting to j.udaism and we were all very excited (and continue to be happy) for them. they've been really happy with the process and the community they've found and it's been really good for them.

however! this person has since stated they are a z.ionist! and they've said that it just means that j.ewish people should live in i.srael, it doesn't mean they support the i.df or what is happening in p.alestine currently. but I'm just... baffled at how they can think that non-p.alestinians occupying the country could EVER be done peacefully. it has ALWAYS been colonization. it was never going to be done in a peaceful manner.

do j.ewish people deserve a safe place to exist? absolutely! but I do not think, ESPECIALLY now, that that safe place can ever be located in p.alestine. I'm not the most educated or well-read individual, I've done a bit of reading over the past few months but my memory is shoddy and I consistently forget almost everything I've read, but as far as I can tell, this has been a non-peaceful occupation (...can occupation ever really be done peacefully in reality? i doubt it.) from the very beginning. p.alestinians were being kicked out of their houses from the start.

and to add onto the messiness of this all, I am the only i.ndigenous person in the entire group. I am the only one coming at this from an i.ndigenous perspective. and because of my perspective, I am ALWAYS going to be on the side of the population that first lived and existed in a place. i am always on the side of l.and back, i am always on the side of the first peoples. anything less would be essentially agreeing with colonization.

so it is just incredibly uncomfortable to be the only i.ndigenous person in this group while the rest of the group has discussed and expressed sympathy with this person for holding self-professed z.ionist beliefs (I do not believe this person has done the right reading to fully understand what they are saying, which is so strange because they are usually so good about educating themself). and I feel like if I try to say anything to argue or simply question this person, I'm going to rock the boat too much and make Everyone uncomfortable and the entire thing will blow up and fall apart around me. so my options seem to be either: a) say something, b) say nothing and stay in the group, or c) say nothing and quietly leave the group. none of which feel like good options!

and it sucks so much because there are people I genuinely do like in this group, and I've liked this one person and respected them since I met them, but they're really .... showing themself to be an unsafe person at the end of the day. I keep feeling like maybe I'm not seeing something or maybe I'm missing something, but I've looked at this from multiple angles and while I do absolutely see where they're coming from and even sympathise with some of it, I disagree with them on a fundamental level.

(also it seems really fucked up for them to be newly converted to j.udaism and endorsing what is essentially colonization and lowkey ignoring the fact that PEOPLE ARE BEING GENOCIDED RIGHT NOW so maybe we should not be discussing "but where are all the j.ewish ppl going to live :(" until the bullets and bombs stop at the very least(????????), while I've been indigenous and dealing with the consequences of attempted (and still ongoing!) genocide and colonization my entire life)

#its all so unbelievably fucked up and uncomfortable #and I think that the other ppl in the group do not like... see the flaw in what this individual is saying #because they are !!! not !!! i.ndigenous !!!! they are all completely white !!!! #i'm just. head in my heads clawing my hands down my face. so ... i dont have a word for this actually #its like. fear mixed with anger mixed with hurt mixed with confusion and shock and horror that these ppl are being this way #also not all of them have engaged in the convos so i dont know everyones opinions on the situation #it just. i dont know. i dont know! its so fucked up #dandy.cmd #vent // #ask to tag #i won't be discussing this sort of thing regularly here btw fdjskl this is a one-off probably #i just needed to get it off my chest and put it somewhere because i don't know what to do #and i can't talk about it on my other account bc i have some of the ppl following me there #and here i only have one person following me and if u see this hi You are okay !!! u are not part of this fdsjkl and u can dm me #but i do not think u have done anything wrong and im not lumping u in with these people #i can explain things more to u if u want though because man alive its all so tangled and messed up #but u and a couple others are not people who are making me uncomfortable bc i trust you and havent seen those two others engage #so i'm just kind of sitting here like. hm. idk what to do. and i dont want to bring it up w you randomly fdshgjkl

[a-very-fond-farewell]

fellas the grind is turning my right arm into dust and there’s no sexual innuendo in there bc

so to the keyboard we go instead!

#sneaky niki #lamb loose liveblogging #using this format again bc that edit is still funny to me #anyway I miss drawing #I would really like to draw some of YGG’s fits but with this fucked up hand situation that I have going on I don’t think I can #so to the typewriter we go #not literally although that would be great #me going *clackity clack* on one of those babies #it’s currently 5 and smth a.m. #theme of the day: YGG is impatient and bitchy and we love her #classic trope of: great character. terrible person #perfect time for a little exploration of her way of thinking #basically if you ask her to let you be for a couple of weeks or so she’s going to grow bored of you and remind you of your place #I feel like her unpredictability is her biggest flaw #she’s different from SDY in the sense that SDY does know how to play to society’s rules #he’s not pretending to be smth he is not. he just hides the scary bits in front of potential investors and clients #he even brought KJY a stupid plant once. it’s the bare minimum but he knows he has to do it otherwise people will nag about that #HDS on the other hand is split in half which can’t be healthy: he’s so ashamed to be seen as a gangster that he compartmentalizes too much #YGG has made her life The Trend. she is The Moment. #people want to be her and channel her power #imagine c//oco c//hanel but make it more evil somehow #the minute people think they got the YGG’s lifestyle covered from the A to the Z.. she flips and changes #and somehow she’ll make fun of you for even trying #she will steal your original idea and corner you for plagiarism #she’ll feel amused you tried to copy her and offer u a position in her company just to fire you before a big deal so you can’t reap benefits #she doesn’t abide to societal norms one bit. she makes new rules instead #and she gets away with it bc (in true Boa fashion) ‘she is beautiful ✨’ #so yeah. HDS is dealing with THAT and signed a contract with THAT piece of work :I #no wonder KOJ tried to escape her #ok these are the vibes for today! have a great time peeps :)

[professionaljester]

how the fuck do people make friends online lol

#abc shut it #vent #or in general #im so fucking lonely lol i cant even play games anymore bc thats cringe wow your so lonely looser #i dont draw anymore bc it doesnt fullfill me bc i have no one to share it with and no one cares #i wish my existence was acknowledge besides when im wrong and being stupid or lashing out and being mean bc ive hit my limit with being #treated lesser than those around me #for a fundamental flaw in my whole being and soul that i cannot fix and ppl wont tell me what it is #I feel like im screaming PLEASE SEE ME PLEASE HEAR ME #and everyone just fucking ignores me what am i doing wrong can someone tell me what im doing wrong #im so self aware to the point of exhaustion and i still fuck up and dont know whats wrong with me #please just someone help me and tell me #i feel like i have no one and cant rely on others please #im at my wits end #if i cant buy a house and still feel this lonely by 30 im ending it all i cant live in a world this terrible anymore #idk i feel like the people i do have in my life cant even bother to makle the time for me and i cant even have a moment to dicuss that with #them #bc they never text me back or are never around long enough to have that conversation with me #or if i cant make it known im treated like an idioit for feeling that way and i shouldnt be so selfish that ppl dont wanna make time for me #i just wanna feel like im cared and loved for in return is that too much to ask for #the people i care about i feel dont care as much for me as i do them #and if they do they dont show it to me at all #all i do is get belittled and treated like a child and talked over #i cant do it anymore

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

I feel like whenever people discuss "gender roles" on social media and just in society at large, they simplify it way too damn much.

#txt #like i'm not saying that societal norms are always correct #but a whole host of people seem to think that gender roles were just enforced by the Patriarchy to oppress people #as opposed to response to the situation they lived under #now again i'm not saying that there weren't some societies that didn't go too far with this shit #eventually it did become about separating men and women but even then y'all have no idea how people truly lived back then #people talk about this shit with zero fucking empathy for those that lived back then #because you pay too much attention to the people of the 20th century when society has advanced to a point that a lot of crap started to see #restrictive and outdated. if the society requires change then it should go for it #but y'all really believe this shit was invented for the sake of “oppressing women”. y'all are silly as fuck #y'all need to drinking the “patriarchy theory” kool-aid #it's killing y'all's braincells and critical thinking skills #while y'all swear y'all are incredibly critical and nuanced #**stop #it's really annoying how people address this topic #i mean feminism and all kinds of super progressive and narcissism-fueled ideologies dominate the discourse so ofc people are gonna be #incredibly biased and insensitive to people of the past because they had some ideas they clearly don't like as opposed to viewing them as #flawed human beings #50 years from now people are gonna shit on gen z for a lot of things even though we swear we are so morally superior and not like those #“savages from the past whose misogyny and hatred was so high it could blow up a whole city” like give me a break

[millimononym]

I think we SHOULD normalize calling out people in "cringe" fandoms who come onto other peoples posts/art about that same fandom and act all ashamed about liking that thing or interacting with it in any way because that shit is not ok and way too common

You move into OUR neighborhood, break into OUR house, and demean OUR SHARED INTEREST, FEELINGS and EFFORT because you can't keep your shame complex to yourself?? i am going to lock you in the basement and leave you to starve

#“cringe culture is dead!!”-same person who cant touch a fandom considered mildly controversial without disintegrating #for the love of everything that is unholy how many times do we have to repeat the exact same fucking thing: #liking media that isnt squeaky clean doesnt make you a bad person. you can enjoy something and know it has flaws #you ALSO dont have to bring those shit parts up every time you speak about it. especially around others who like it. #allow yourself and others to enjoy something sincerely and without ridicule for once and i promise you you will feel better #istg cringe culture isnt completely dead its just evolved into a dollar store purity culture #now instead of Commentary avatars crossing their arms at how cringe fandoms are it's the people who were made fun of cringing at a mirror #For the love of god gain a bit of self respect/restraint. #If not for yourself then for the sake of everyone else you've indirectly insulted #No one wants to look in tags of the thing they enjoy or even spend time making art of it only to be shamed about it. Directly or not #Homestuck fandom this is about you

[fionnaskyborn]

one day when i am not busy dying on the inside and out i will write an honest-to-god essay about how people are, for the lack of a better descriptor but simultaneously for the lack of a more perfect one, too edgy about five.

#like yeah five is an edgy game and the darkest in the series and gloomier than all of its predecessors but. i lack the words for it now but #there are important little moments in five where light shines through the carpet haphazardly thrown over a pile of garbage that oft get #ignored in favor of pushing the agenda that everyone in five is filth down to the core and that's just not true #i just- deeeeeeep sigh. people are so shallow sometimes man #this is how we get those characters that do not resemble the original in the slightest that either take one trait of the given character an #then bloat and exagerrate it until the character is a caricature of themselves OR projections of what the people would like these character #to BE in order to... be able to wrap their heads around them and their motivations more easily‚ i guess?? #i don't know it feels to me like people just don't want to bother with the intricacies of complex characters and that's how the wood plank #versions of characters get created and then passed around ad infinitum #sweet grouchy baby boy who never did anything wrong ever. man who is either an innocent little big guy or satan himself. guy who is #objectively one of the most flawed individuals in the series being worshipped as a hero (griffith syndrome). guy who is either depicted as #an obnoxious playboy who only cares about getting laid and having as much skin exposed as possible at all times or the most vile man on #planet earth while being neither. the fucking. masochist cyborg thing. i'm gonna explode #oh and if you point out that there needs to be depth to any analysis of these characters if you are to do them justice you end up with a #gaggle of people saying oh yeah of course everyone in here is awful and they all have pig hearts #and i'm just wondering why this is the default conclusion most come to and not‚ you know‚ the thought that complexity does not inherently #imply rottenness but rather that even in the most horrible of situations you can find something good #i'm not the happiest or the most fortunate of individuals but i still refuse to believe in the idea of inherent evil that's being sold for #cheaper than a copy paper pack these days #but that has nothing to do with this my point is if you're trying to do media analysis you've got to look beyond... i don't have a word for #this... i guess you could call them fanmade stereotypes? no that's not it‚ my point is that people need to open their eyes to how complex #motivations and circumstances and human connection are and face that complexity head on instead of rubbing the story with sandpaper until #it's satisfiable to them #logs