#unfortunate coincidence

[inkyisy]

#gowr #god of war #god of war ragnarok #laufey the just #god of war faye #god of war laufey #kratos #inkyart #fayetos #rizz: unmatched #unfortunate coincidence

[apoemaday]

Unfortunate Coincidence

by Dorothy Parker

By the time you swear you’re his, Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying– Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

#poetry #dorothy parker #unfortunate coincidence

[derangedrhythms]

Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope; Unfortunate Coincidence

#dorothy parker #enough rope #unfortunate coincidence #poetry #r

[royalarchivist]

Phil: *gasps* Our boy! Our boy! It’s Beedle! We missed you. I’m drippin - I am dripping with excitement for Beedle.

#Philza #MCYT #Phil plays BOTW #Phil plays BOTW Mastermode #Can't stand this man /j #Phil #Sighed deeply when he said this then hit the clip button #Oh shut up is this really my 69th post??? SIGHS DEEPLY..... #unfortunate coincidence

[alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry]

Dorothy Parker ~ Unfortunate Coincidence

#alliwanttodoiscollectpoetry #poem #poems #poetry #poet #tumblr poetry #poets #anthology #poetry corner #poetry blog #poem of the day #love #literature #book worm #tumblr poems #Dorothy Parker #unfortunate coincidence

[cemeterything]

you know that post that's like "it's a good skill to recognize when your au fanfic has diverged so much from the source material that you're basically writing original fiction with ocs at this point" i have the exact opposite problem. i keep making ocs based extremely loosely on character archetypes and dynamics i like with enough degrees of separation between them that a casual observer definitely wouldn't spot a connection but i always get sniffed out in the end anyway. like if i told you about my apocalyptic eldritch horror mech pilot ocs i guarantee at least one of you would be like "wait that's fitzier". if i explain vanessa in enough detail it becomes obvious she's a season 8 hermitcraft goodtimeswithscar expy. i made annie before i read homestuck but the similarities between him and vriska are undeniable right down to the cannibalistic mommy issues survival-based morality system spider motif and blue and black colour scheme.

#🐉 #likewise lincoln ray is extremely dave strider but i made him before i read homestuck so its just an unfortunate coincidence #i dont have a PROBLEM with this btw i see it as a challenge. how can i avoid being too derivative and unoriginal whilst #keeping characteristics that i like and want to explore further

[writer-room]

So a quick little thing I noticed

So, Arin, was that headgear choice on purpose or...

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #lego ninjago #dragons rising #lego ninjago dragons rising #arin #ninjago arin #lloyd garmadon #ninjago oni #onis #talk #i realize arin didnt know about the 'grandson of spinjitsu master' thing but WOULD he know abt the oni thing... #surely not cause then he'd also acknowledge lloyd is part dragon as well #oh the unfortunate coincidences

[genericpuff]

no but listen, rachel has truly embodied herself as persephone because she's constantly trying to "distance herself" from her past as a medical fetish artist but then keeps the name that's affiliated with her medical fetish art-

Like, I can't believe I never noticed it before tbh, but that was the thought that hit me while I was explaining to someone on reddit what the name "used bandaid" meant and why it was weird that Rachel is STILL using it on her print cover books, even now when she just recently set up a new Facebook account with her REAL NAME and not the used_bandaid penname (I feel like this is an attempt to "legitimize" herself in the industry but idk).

But that leads me into talking about how she keeps lying about LO being her first webcomic project and that really pisses me off. And yes, this is related to the used_bandaid thing, just bear with me here.

A lot of my contempt for this is for reasons that go beyond her, I just hate the notion that people should succeed on their "first try" and that's an idea that's often sold by people like Rachel who spin these grandiose stories of how they were just "trying it out" and suddenly wham! Fame and fortune! You can achieve all this and more if you just xyz!

Literally, in every interview I've found over the past couple years, she always heavily implies that LO was her "first attempt", that she had never used Webtoons prior to LO, and that she was just "dipping her toes" into the medium. None of this is true, she's literally been drawing webcomics since the early 2000's (possibly earlier but the earliest documentation we can find is of The Doctor Pepper Show), LO wasn't even her first webcomic on the Webtoons platform (that goes to The Doctor Foxglove Show which she ended up dumping a chapter in to work on LO almost immediately after starting it on Tumblr) and as much as she'll claim she "couldn't pay anyone to look at her work", she had landed a number of gigs that got her work out there, had been printed in anthology collections, and IIRC she had even won some small local NZ awards for her comics prior to LO. Shit, there was a local beer brand that had her art on its labelling.

But it really feels like she's trying her damn hardest to hide all that, never mentioning or implying that she did anything prior to LO, that she was just a "struggling graphic artist working in retail" until LO happened.

So why keep the penname that's directly affiliated with that past identity ??

It boggles my mind, honestly, especially considering she had gone by MULTIPLE usernames back then, some of which were actually pretty sane that she could have used instead (such as Rach Alex, which she uses in her FB groups, and Rachel Royale).

I wouldn't blame her if she was trying to hide her old medical fetish stuff, whether she didn't want it affiliated with her new LO branding or if she's just embarrassed by it, I can totally empathize with that because god knows I wouldn't be all that proud to show off the cringy shit I got up to during my early days on the Internet. But if she IS embarrassed by it, you'd think the last thing she'd want to keep is the name that's directly affiliated with the thing she's embarrassed by. Almost like a certain pink protagonist who goes by the name she earned after doing the thing she doesn't want to talk about.

But if she ISN'T embarrassed by it, then why lie?

Why paint this picture that LO was a one hit wonder, that she lived on "struggle street" until she found fame and fortune on Webtoons?

Oh right. Because it's a better story.

Because it's way more romantic to be some struggling indie darling who "came from nothing" and achieved fame through one big idea. Because it looks good for the platform who's trying to attract people to their app and website on the promise that you, too, can be a success story simply because you followed the exact same perceived steps that you saw another person follow and advertise.

If you can't tell from my tone, I really fucking hate this kind of disingenuous wish fulfillment advertising. It's manipulative, it's cruel, and it sets people up with expectations far beyond their scope of reaching, both due to the luck and "being in the right place at the right time" involved at best (which is a HUGE factor in stories like these that people never talk about), or through joy-killing comparison at worst when you don't achieve worldwide fame on your first try and wonder why everyone else did (spoiler: they didn't, they just want you to think that because it makes for better headlines and it gets you using whatever product they're affiliated with.)

If Rachel doesn't want to be tied down to her past, that's fine. But it's incredibly irresponsible and flat out cruel to lie about that past existing at all because it sets a horrible precedent to those who look up to her and want what she has.

And I say all that because I've seen what happens to the people starting out who admire these creators who painted the picture that they were just successful right off the bat. It's not a fun headspace to be in, it's robbed many creators like myself and others of their joy in creating, and it's really all just a ploy to get you to spend time and money and energy on a stupid corporate phone app that profits off your emotional investment and labor. Don't fall for it. Pretending like the Act of Wrath didn't happen doesn't remove it from history.

Anyways, I was gonna leave it at that, but then I ended up doing another rabbithole deep dive through her Wayback Machine and found album art she had illustrated for NZ band PorcelainToy. Enjoy this piece of her "dark era" art that still exists without needing to use the Wayback Machine.

#sorry btw if this seems like a sequel to the post i just made i stg they're not related #this post was written at like 4 am after doing another hyperfixated deep dive #so it's literally just an unfortunate but funny coincidence that it came right after me talking about my own roots LOL #i gotta go to bed i'm getting stabbed with ink tomorrow #lore olympus critical #lo critical #antiloreolympus #anti lore olympus #Youtube

[l4byr1nthz1]

hey did you guys know that the ferengi rule of acquisition #34 is "war is good for business"? there's also a star trek novel written by quarks actor called "The 34th Rule." for more information look up ferengi rule 34

#star trek #star trek ds9 #deep space nine #all of this information is true btw . #just a Very unfortunate coincidence that theres a BOOK. called THE 34TH RULE. #sigh

[hussyknee]

I just want to make one thing very clear. Black and brown people, especially Muslims right now, don't owe white people for your allyship in racial justice. Not even those who are themselves systemically marginalized in some way. Not white Jews, not white queers, not white disabled, not white working class, not white poor.

Whiteness is the most lethal kind of oppression because it built the current colonial capitalist, imperialist world order. Every white person benefits from and is complicit in its systems in some way because white supremacy is global. Whatever marginalization has white people in it can be and is easily weaponized against the mellanated. When charged with your racist, exclusionary and oppressive behaviour you hold up Black and brown people of the same marginalizations as tokens. This is the only time they are ever visible; more often than not you profit off their labour, hoard their gains, throw them under the bus and make them part of your iconography for liberal progress points once they're dead and have no inconvenient opinions about your conduct.

This is why it's very hard for Black and brown people to take accusations of bigotry towards you in good faith. We also have a duty of care towards others but more often than not it feels like you want us to do what you want while holding a knife to our necks. Even when you don't do it directly, you issue demands like "if you don't do x and y you clearly don't care about my people and deserve the worst!!!" without considering for a moment that the full brunt of that policing will always fall on Black and brown people, because punitive justice exercises itself first and foremost on the vulnerable. If your demands for allyship carry disproportionate punishment for Black and brown people should we refuse, you're just on some power trip and never needed our help in the first place. This also obfuscates the needs and disenfranchisement of Jewish, queer, poor, disabled BIPOC and Global South people, especially because, without racial justice, few of your gains will ever materialise in their lives. It's always trickle down liberation for the rest of us.

Your allyship is supposed to be the work of conscience, a recognition of injustice and a drive towards privilege equal to your own. For white people, it's an individual reparation on your part. It is not an act of kindness, or benevolence, or a transaction that must be repaid in kind. The worst of us deserve the same rights the worst of you already have. That's the meaning of equality. If you're willing to let us get fired, deported, or brutally murdered for bad behaviour, then not only were you never an ally, you were also just waiting for the opportunity to use that weapon you claim you never wanted. There is no justice in an asymmetry of power.

#white supremacy #so many white people on here crying about antisemitism trying not to say ''black people and muslims'' with their whole chest lmaooo #there's no equality of oppression here sunshine that's why we're watching Muslims and black people get genocided on an industrial scale rn #if i can stand seeing dead and bleeding Arab babies repeatedly dehumanized by people with the ukrainian flag in their bio #and still not want ukrainians to suffer the same fate or platform people who spread russian propaganda #then the rest of you can also shut the fuck up #unfortunately whiteness rarely coincides with conscience #racism #anti-blackness #antisemitism #islamophobia #queerphobia #homophobia #transphobia #ableism #classism #western imperialism #global north #colonization #racial justice #lgbtqia #knee of huss

[the-everqueen]

for the AMA: what compels you most in a fictional character!

rage as a trauma response.

it compels me when a character spits in the face of god. when the response isn't "why did you let all this happen" but "how dare you let this happen." something about the assertion of agency in the wake of un-meaning. something about "there was never a Purpose, the point is what you make of it." this is undoubtedly because i was raised evangelical and continue to struggle with what i believe vs what i want to be true. pero also i think i was denied anger for so long (and even now my reflex when i'm hurt is to divert/repress/hide/sublimate anger) that it's cathartic for SOMEONE to get to be mad at the powers that be.

misogyny means it's usually (white) male characters who get these narrative arcs. this is evident in my blorbos: astarion from bg3, the corinthian from sandman, will graham from hannibal. (my immediate first thought was actually emilio sandoz from the sparrow, very literal autistic brain serving me well here lmao, what does it mean to be god's whore.) but my favorite female and genderqueer characters have this, too. saga anderson from alan wake 2 (LITERALLY tells both the in-game narrative force and the meta "fuck off, i'm done with other people writing my story"). essun from the broken earth trilogy (everyone who says they can't connect to her...i need you to examine yourself for misogynoir). vic from nos4a2. eurydice from hadestown. erica slaughter from something is killing the children. jade from my heart is a chainsaw.

(horror is obviously a huge medium for this...the final girl is a figure of righteous anger, the avenging angel, the woman who mows down the ultimate horror with a baseball bat or a butcher knife and she's right, she's in the right, she's the monster slayer, fuck you fear me.)

#ask games #AMA #crimeronan #this was SUCH a good ask thank you #also i'm not gonna write a whole essay here in the tags but i think part of why i adore horror #and why i have a hard time connecting to ''literary fiction'' women IS that allowance for rage #what a genre considers acceptable female rage sometimes feels So Hollow compared to what i might let myself feel irl #i like my trauma-rage bloody and awful #SOMEONE needs to pay in flesh #weirdly stephen king is really good at this when he lets himself do it? beverly from IT and arguably It from IT are peak #Women Should Do Crimes Actually #unfortunately most of the time Stephen King sucks at letting women be people #SO INSTEAD i recommend Stephen Graham Jones who just consistently does this #i ALSO don't think it's a coincidence that my favorite queer and women creators who write these arcs are also not white #nonwhite queer and female rage is Threatening To The Status Quo

[riftstone-of-the-calm]

Got some new dialogue from my pawn, Vincent. I had no idea there was an affinity score for our main pawn 🥺💕

"'Tis the honour of my life to share your journey, Arisen" "How fare you this day, Master? I only pray you are content as I am." "It gladdens my heart to see you safe and sound Arisen."

He also blushes sometimes when talking to me. This is so cute.

#dragons dogma 2 #he also has the plague right now but it's not connected ok!! 😭 #that's just an unfortunate coincidence lol #dragon's dogma 2 #afaen dd2 #afaen main pawn vincent

[bonefall]

The Erins, impatiently waiting until pride month is over so they can make Riverstar straight:

OH NO YOU'RE RIGHT

#Unfortunate coincidence but a PROFOUNDLY funny one

[jewishbarbies]

so tumblr isn’t letting me post it but i found out via tiktok and did some digging, and the new horror game “Infestation 88” was exactly what I thought. it’s got actual nazi symbols in game, and the premise is you’re killing ‘rats’. there are nazis working as devs on the game as found out in their discord. the more public devs are claiming it’s all a coincidence and changed the name, and claimed nazis “somehow got in” to their discord as “bad actors” and aren’t related to the game. excuse me? you named a rat hunting game after a dogwhistle, put nazi symbols in the game, and know damn well these nazis were working on the game with you this whole time. but only once enough people complained, you claim it’s a coincidence? ask yourself why irl nazis would want to work on a game like this. it’s not a fucking coincidence.

I’m blocking anyone who associates with this game.

#g talks #antisemitism #‘it’s just a bunch of unfortunate coincidences!’ #how many coincidences do you need before you take this fuckery seriously #mine #/mobile #/okay to reblog

[jorrated]

desperately trying to NOT fall into a christian/ demonology mythology study hyperfixation again i cant take it

#and it unfortunately usually coincides with classical literature hyperfixation #IT TAKES SO MUCH TIME TO GET SERATONIN #*flashbacks to 12 year old me reading Shakespeare and actually enjoying it* #girl once i made a Hamlet! sonic AU and delivered it to my teacher as a portuguese assigment at like age 13 #you couldnt waterboard this out of me in real life #please please please brain just make me obsessed with some game or smth #or keep making me insane with STC please #dont make me read dantes inferno i beg of ye #*sighs* ^ tag written while the audiobook is on the next tab over

[themagicalghost]

This was the most wild thing I have ever witnessed in ToonTown Corporate Clash (yet)

#ttcc #toontown #toontown cc #toontown corporate clash #corporate clash #toonblr #suggestive #????? #timezone queue #queue note: I decided to delay this post because I realized that having this come out right after - #that pie gif would be a really unfortunate coincidence