#we have whole different issues here

[camels-pen]

the difference between zosopp and sanuso (romantic OR platonic) is that Usopp is Zoro's specialest little guy and Zoro is someone Usopp hangs out with and looks up to and hides behind when things get scary, but Sanji and Usopp are best friends. They horse around, they beat each other up, they confide their worst fears trying to one up each other. Usopp hides behind Sanji sometimes, sure, but idk, Sanji's weaknesses are more obvious (bugs, fighting women, etc) so there are times when Usopp has to stand in front of Sanji too, yknow?

Like, how do I say this, all the crewmates are equal- Usopp and Zoro are equals- but with Sanji it feels like more... comradery? Zoro's a rock in a terrible storm- even rocks tend to get weathered and chipped and worn down, but they overall stay strong and steady. He has trouble being vulnerable and there are times when the burden he's placed on himself to keep the crew safe is crushing his chest. Usopp would help with that and be very understanding, but the point I'm trying to get with that is that those moments are few and far between. So I feel like Usopp, especially after Water 7, would take Zoro's lead on something like that, and keep most of his worries to himself or only talk about them sparingly unless they're really bad and/or he can't hide them.

Sanji is like a tree in a storm; he can be strong, yes, but it feels like he bends and sways with the storm, and has more obvious breaking points. He can relate more to Usopp's struggles rather than resorting to blunt honesty that might border on callous like Zoro. And while, with Zosopp, I tend to think of scenarios with Zoro being blunt like that as a good thing- because sometimes when you're spiraling, it's nice to have someone say exactly what's great about you and shoot down all your worries with straight facts that you can't argue with- I can also see this as being a bad thing. Anxiety can really twist up your brain sometimes, you know? And despite the words, the tone could still mess someone up if they're already feeling like a burden on others in some way.

With Sanuso it's a lot more understanding and thoughtful words. It's distractions and comfort food and patience- the kind reserved for Usopp- until Usopp talks about whatever's troubling him. Compared to Zosopp, it doesn't take as long for Usopp to open up, since he's done the same thing to Sanji at times and it's more familiar to him to talk and commiserate with Sanji about his worries and doubts and such. However, there are times stuff like this has absolutely no effect and Sanji will end up at a loss, no idea what to do or how to help over the course of several days with Usopp being quiet and keeping his distance, and he'll end up working himself up about it which will only serve to make Usopp feel worse and. yeah. bit of a vicious cycle with them.

So it's like. Usopp can be weak with both of them, but since I see Sanji as the type of guy who'd be more open with his worries (at least compared to Zoro), there's less of a need to 'perform' and be his best self around him. He's comfortable around Zoro, yes, but he is constantly wanting to show that he won't be a problem to him. On the other hand, while he's more open with Sanji, and Sanji with him, they tend to relate a bit too much with each other and they both have issues with causing trouble for others and being 'deserving of love' so failed attempts at consoling one hurts the other and creates an unpleasant cycle of misery and avoidance before some other crewmate (Zoro) tells them to quit being stupid and just fucking talk to each other.

#one piece #sanuso #zosopp #long post #nemotime #does this make sense or is this the ramblings of a person who's only got 3 hrs sleep #bc thats me. 3 hrs sleep. ugh #listen okay its like. zosopp has their own growing pains to get through yknow? zoro will eventually get the whole #'oh usopp isnt as open with me bc he wants to seem tough and is also kind of doing the same thing i do. thats bad for him' #and it'll be a whole thing about making a promise between the two of them to try and be more honest with their fears and seeking help #when they need it #the sanuso thing is like. i hope i didnt mean to make it seem like sanuso is 'better' or w/e bc its just a different thing #sanuso got their own problems to sort out. 1. Sanji's everything 2. boundaries on special treatment- #i'm not gonna go seriously into this but both relationships start out not the best and get better over time yknow #also i know usopp's afraid and freaking out a lot but for this post i meant his deeper fears and insecurities #not 'i've got can't-go-on-this-island disease' lmao #the tl;dr of this post is: Usopp is more closed off with Zosopp. Usopp and Sanji have similar issues that cause problems with Sanuso. #also the way i see these ships will probably change at some point. who knows #there was a post i saw recently that was like 'hey sanuso bc romance trio were already chill with each other so sanuso became chill with #each other in an 'alone together' type of way and also they have the same issues' and i thought 'wow so true bestie' and here we are #also. man. usopp taking on / copying the behaviours of his loved ones regardless of his age is just. my jam. in a positive or negative way #maybe i'll make a post about that explaining it more. maybe

[genericpuff]

Do you know "Eggnoid"? It's a rather old webtoon about a girl being put into circumstances on taking care of a robot guy who hatched from an egg (hence the title) the robot guy appears to be a grown man, but he has mental capabilities of a toddler and even acts like one. So, it's like those types of "born sexy yesterday" tropes but the gender reversed. The girl also repeatedly shown crushing over the robot guy and at some point, she called him her boyfriend despite she's supposed to be his caretaker.

I haven't read it, but I can definitely attest that there's a double standard when it comes to gender roles and age gaps / situations of grooming / etc. in literature but especially in webtoons. And by that I mean I've legit seen people hold comics like Lore Olympus accountable for their gross dynamics between a young teenage girl and the much older and richer love interest, but then turn around and say it's "couple goals" for a teenage boy to hook up with a much older woman. At the end of the day there's still a power imbalance due to the age gap and the massive differences in life experiences between the two, gender doesn't really change that.

Big ole' sip of hot tea as a take, but speaking as an AFAB, a lot of women are just as capable of grooming and taking advantage of younger men in the same way as men towards young women, it's just that on the surface people tend to get skittish about addressing that because they don't want to sound like they're going "yeah well actually women though-" and dismissing the notion of toxic masculinity. Which yes, that's a fair thing to worry about, some people do use that as a way to dismiss the arguments made regarding patterns of grooming behavior in men towards young girls (among many other problems in which men and toxic masculinity are held accountable), but like any topic of this nature, it's not always a cut and dry black and white thing. Toxic masculinity and the grooming of teenage girls by adult men is a very real problem! But just like how we can understand the nuance that being a man by default doesn't immediately make you a predator, we should be able to understand the nuance that being a woman doesn't give you a free pass to do the same things we call out men for doing without consequences. It's like the double standard in LO that it's okay for Persephone to do the same things - if not worse - than what Leuce and Minthe and Thetis do, because she's the main character and she's not some scummy "mud-sucking" lower class person, she's rich and a Queen and she's wearing a giant hat so it makes it okay /s

Unfortunately the saying of "I support women's rights and women's wrongs" is being used in a completely tone deaf "literally excusing the main character of her crimes and wrongdoings against others because she happens to be a woman" kind of way, while missing the real point of the saying - supporting women's wrongs doesn't mean you celebrate their abuse towards others, it just means women shouldn't automatically be viewed as irredeemable "crazy bitches" for making mistakes like any other human does, and like any other human, they should be given the opportunity to grow and heal and learn from their wrongs.

When it comes to Persephone specifically, it can't even be chalked up to a "one time mistake" anymore, she's literally been showing patterns of abusive behavior for years now and refusing to take accountability, and now even Rachel is meme'ing on it knowing fully well it's what people are calling Persephone out for in the critical spaces. That's not "supporting women's wrongs", that's enabling the wrongs of a person because they happen to be a woman, and that's not okay. Persephone isn't a "girl boss", she's a bully.

I think the double standard in these age gap romances also speaks to the idolization and fixation on women as being nothing more than conquests for men as well. People who romanticize age gaps between a young woman and an older man think, "Wow, that woman is so mature for her age, enough that an older richer man would choose HER to be his wife! So romantic!" when in reality those who know those dynamics are unhealthy and toxic recognize it as an older man taking advantage of a young woman who's being love-bombed into believing she's "mature for her age" so that she'll sleep with him. Meanwhile, on the other side of it, those who romanticize young men getting with older women tend to come at it from the angle of "well she's so old and washed up, no man could ever love her, her chance for love and a happily ever after is gone now! it's so wonderful of that young man to give that sad and lonely old woman love and attention!" and yet fail to see it from the same perspective of an older person manipulating a young person with zero life experience, because there's still this deeply-rooted ideology that women are "used up" by age 30 and any man who gives her attention beyond that age range is a hero. Completely neglecting the fact that relationships aren't off the table at all for older single people and they don't need to involve robbing the cradle.

I blame the lack of older couple representation in media tbh, so many mainstream romance stories are basically just this:

To pull it out of the perspective of LO and webtoons for a second (sorry, I'm going on a hell of a tangent here), remember how gross it was when it was revealed in Fifty Shades Darker that Christian had been introduced to the concept of BDSM at age 15 through one of his mom's friends (i.e. an older woman!) who Anastasia calls "Mrs. Robinson"? And they had that relationship until he was 21? And they never really did anything about that, it was pretty much just there to explain why Christian was fucked up but he still got married to Anastasia, an innocent woman who he was repeating the cycle of abuse with, and lived happily ever after anyways?

Yeah. That was pretty fucked up.

#we all need to do better to hold ourselves accountable for shitty behavior #there are def societal issues at play that predispose people to have certain opinions or react differently based on concepts like gender #but true feminism means making a better world for women *and* men *and* everyone within and outside of that binary #it's not “rich and powerful women can do whatever they want because they're boss babes and deserve to be mean" #that's literally more along the lines of white feminism which we've definitely talked about here before #and just gender supremacy as a whole which isn't helpful for anyone #always remember to ask yourself: “is it feminism or is it misandry?” #because a lot of legit misandrists try to moonlight as feminists and really just hurt the cause as a whole

[brookheimer]

……starting to think a lot of you do not know what the word empathetic means

#i have a lot to say about this but it is going to have to wait a few days until i’m no longer up to my ears in work #but here’s a little thing to tide you over: empathy does not a good person make #a capacity for empathy is in no way a capacity let alone willingness for good #empathy and intense horrendous cruelty are not mutually exclusive #if you think that evil comes in a single form if you think evil is just pure callousness coldness spot-it-a-mile-away inability to love #then no fucking wonder people keep doing evil terrible things like in real life and your response is always ?! W hat ?! #shocking: terrible evil people are still people. they are not robots of pure malice. they were once babies with coloring books #that’s not saying we should feel bad for them or anything at all!!! just that you guys seem allergic to acknowledging that it doesn’t take a #category 5 sociopath to commit an atrocity #everyone go read arendt’s banality of evil and go watch act of killing by joshua oppenheimer #no wonder trump keeps winning. y’all don’t view his supporters as people with any qualities other than Racism #like i know this is a fictional character but the response here is so indicative of this much broader issue that makes me want to scream #i get it. you’ve lived in a bubble your whole life and never interacted with people vastly different from yourself and had to acknowledge #their personhood as much as their viewpoints disgusted you. talk to a conservative once in your life it might be mind blowing #not bc you’ll be like WOAH :o THEYRE NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL! no!!!!! because they ARE that bad and they are also regular normal people!!!!! #you are all so incapable of viewing anyone you dislike as having internal lives! christ! #this is how trump won! how do you not see this! #seriously go watch act of killing go watch anwar who murdered hundreds of people in cold blood warmly scold his grandchild for poking a duck #too hard. like the most horrifying part of horrible ppl who commit atrocities is that they aren’t caricatures of evil #we wish they were it would make it easier to understand #agh i’m rambling i’ll shut up #god watch ppl be like Uh why are you defending trump/genocide/fascists etc #dumb fucks i’m telling you the most terrifying part about those people is that they are actually people that’s what makes it so hard to #comprehend bc atrocities are so much easier to swallow when you can pretend a force of pure evil is behind it #okokokok good night lol

[aftout]

“The people coming from reddit are sooo much better than the people coming from twitter” blows you up with my mind ten million times . and then blows you up again .

#like i get what ur trying to say. i get that you’re trying to convey that reddit is a bit more similar to tumblr style-wise than twitter is #but also you sound soooo annoying. im not often publicly a hater but you sound so pretentious #tumblr is a free website and a free app on every mobile device in the world #literally anybody can come on here and make an account and do whatever they want #we are not special or cool. we are just as dumb-dumb as the rest of them #talks about other app’s censorship issues is a whole different can of worms you can just be grateful that we dont have that

[ozlices]

THEY LET RUI GROW TALLER?????????? HES ALREADY A GODDAMN TREE AND THE TALLEST CHARACTER IN THE GAME................. they're fueling his power trip

#mine #proseka #wxs #rui kamishiro #hes already literally the embodiment of >:3c ITS HIS FAVORITE POSE AND EXPRESSION #YALL CANT KEEP GIVING HIM POWER BY LETTING HIM BE AN EVEN TALLER TREE.... #he should be short to keep him humble. #although...................... hang on a second no maybe let him be very tall actually. #the mizui height difference. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> #he's almost a whole foot taller than them #HE CAN LIFT THEM....... #i revoke my joking upset this is great actually. i hope mizuki hasnt grown a single centimeter. #mizurui deserves the iconic height difference. #still though this is honestly very funny. like. shut the hell up about their outfits bc theyre fine. theyre not ugly. shut UP. #WE HAVE ACTUAL SERIOUS ISSUES HERE PEOPLE. #THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH FUELING RUI'S POWER TRIP #HE'S A BREAK KINNIE THIS IS SERIOUS- #tsukasa is like oz SO much but he does NOT have oz's sass to combat this break kinnie fool. #they cant keep getting away with it </3 </3 </3 /j

[waterberry-strawmelon]

i know a thousand other people have said this already, but im so tired of the fact that people just dont write good fanfiction about female characters or female relationships. all the 100k-word epics on ao3 are about m/m or m/f pairings, and i just mourn for all the life-changing stories we could have about female characters, the ones that fundamentally re-frame your way of thinking, the ones where the romance is slow burn that's hot and heavy and so, so achingly intimate that the page is bleeding with it.

where are those stories?

#and it's not just because there are more male characters in fictional media #it's mostly because we all care about men more #because a m/m pairing between two male background or side characters from a popular show will have AT LEAST QUADRUPLE the amount of content #than the content for a f/f ship between MAIN CAST members from that same show. #it just fucking sucks. and i wish i could change it. #it's not always enough to just write it yourself yknow? #thats not really the solution here #it would require a massive restructuring in how we prioritize female characters #especially in order to prioritize them separate from male characters. #the majority of shows or fandoms where a female main cast member is popular? their number one ship in fandom is with a male character. #can't escape it man :( #mine #fandom #i feel like we just dont like dedicating that much time to thinking about women—even fictional women. #it's not as fun or as interesting as thinking about men. and why is that hm? #i cant change what people like to write #but its always so devastating when i see an author who writes really really well #just stick to m/m stories. and theyre fantastic!! but id love to see what those writers could do with female characters too. #an account with like 8 different 50k fics about the same m/m pairing. AND while often writing a f/f pairing as a background pairing #(which is a whole other annoying issue that deserves its own post) #it just makes it even sadder that they dont dedicate that same energy toward imagining what it might look like for that background f/f #pairing to have a story of their own with just as much love and care. #(AND LIKE. YOU CANT EVEN TELL ME ITS JUST CUZ THE CHARACTERS ARE CHARACTERIZED DIFFERENTLY #LIKE TO SAY THAT THE F/F PAIRING JUST WOULDNT BE AS INTERESTING BECAUSE THEYRE MORE STABLE OR NORMAL OR NOT AS CODEPENDENT OR SOME SHIT #LIKE NOT ONLY IS THAT JUST SEXIST. IT'S ALSO HYPOCRITICAL #'CAUSE YOU'RE OUT HERE GIVING WHOLE NEW FANON PERSONALITIES TO THESE MALE CHARACTERS #FUCKING. STEVE HARRINGOTN AND EDDIE MUNSON FROM STRANGER THINGS WOULD NOT IN A MILLION YEARS DATE IN THE SHOW. #SO TO WRITE SOLID FANFICTION WITH GOOD CHEMISTRY YOURE GONNA HAVE TO CHANGE THEIR PERSONALITIES A BIT. #AND THAT'S NOT A BAD THING!!! BUT IT MAKES IT ALL THE MORE FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU JUST...DON'T PUT AS MUCH EFFORT #INTO THE FEMALE CHARACTERS. JUST CUZ YOU DON'T LIKE THEM AS MUCH.

[sunshineduo]

sunshine duo is acceptable because george and tina came up with it themselves. its the same with trio/group names like dream team or sex havers. i think it’s fine when the ccs themselves choose a name because it actually means something to them, but all the ones the fandoms come up with are so dumb like “sugar duo” “taller duo” “loud duo” (this one especially i think is dumb they arent even that loud 😭)

my personal villain origin story is george + wilbur being referred to as meow duo when george + quackity (paid each other to meow on stream, exclusively referred to one another as “discord kitten” for 2 months straight) are the actual meow duo

#i dont know if theres a reason for george + wilbur to be called that i am not up to date on my grgbur lore #but THATS A VERY FAIR POINT if they name themselves its a different situation #the problem i have w duo names is that not everyone has to be a duo 😭😭😭 #like if 2 people just publicly interacted ONCE why are we making a whole duo/subtwt about it aisdkf;sdifak #and duo names are just not new fan friendly #they arent usually intuitive so if u werent there when the name was conceived it makes ZERO sense #like if u missed the mcc where george + tubbo ate jaffa cakes then nothing would prepare u to find out theyre called jaffacake duo Imao #i think the only reason duo names gained popularity is becaus younger fans think smashing two peoples names together = shipping #when i first got on tumblr there used to b blogs that didnt refer to dnf as dnf becaus e they didnt want anyone to think they were shippers #but like ? every other fandom ive been in it was normal to just combine names + ref er to them as such even if u dont ship them.... #like i hope people have the common sense to differentiate between a shipping post and a post thats just about two people ya know ???? #its not a big issue here most people on the dtkq side use combination names (qnf/karlnap/bbq/etc) #and for that i am thankful #ifi had to call g + q something stupid like autotune duo i would kill myself #<- sorey #sidenote but we really popped off with bbqnf like ultimate trio name nothing else compares its so cute n catchy #its the only fanmade group name that deserves rights #thanks for the ask!

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

nobody:

Certain People for SOME reason: there are humans with more melanin in their skin than me and also slightly differing features, so in order to never show them as main characters i must create the ugliest models POSSIBLE and also make them absolutely unlikeable assholes

#like hey sorry for the memey approach but like ?????? #im white so i cant say anything about the effect on actual poc #but like. its so stupid #ThOsE pEoPlE lOoK dIfFeReNt ThAn Me- well buddy guess what. were not clones OF COURSE we look different from one another #like what the fuck??????? #were still?? all??? humans????? #and also without the whole racism thing those whitewashed clones are just. they look SO bad #like theyre so fucking ugly #i just dont get what people find so great in not showing other existing people on screen???? #its just so fucking weird and disgusting and useless i #this is just a rant sorry if this comes off weird or like. offensive. please tell me if it does but like. #im just ranting here #im just so fucking fed up with White People (TM) #a biscuit's rambles #also in terms of tbb. theyre. theyre not even cool. theyre lame as fuck and egoistic assholes and dont even have more skills or anything?? #likey theyre not even able to portray what they claim its all just a huge dump of stinking osik #motherfucking chakaare #[once again wondering why i had to get invested in star wars] #[remembering that theres almost nothing without such issues so might as well try and change something here] #just. ugh.

[tobe-sogolden]

How are you projecting and making assumptions when all we’re doing is having an honest conversation about fandom behaviour? If any anons feel slighted by that, then they need to ask themselves why. A hit dog will holler. It’s not so nice when people are forced to look in the mirror at the behaviour they condone or partake in. I’m the original anon that followed you and started this discussion. I’m in no way blaming black or poc harries for all the harassment Olivia faces. There’s not enough of us to even sway the fandom in that way. It was not my intention to imply that so if that’s how it came across, then I apologise. I was merely saying what my experience is as a black harrie and being disappointed by the things I continue to see and how some fake woke white harries are weaponising serious issues when a lot of the time, they have no room to even speak on certain things. The last straw for me was being lectured about what I should find offensive as a black woman by a white dude in this fandom. Like… huh? We’re emboldening the wrong people for the wrong reasons. And on the 2nd topic about projecting onto Harry and looking for representation in his dating choices (something done by anyone irrespective of race/gender/sexuality), this should not offend unless it’s something you do. In which case, unpack and unlearn that. I say that with love ❤️

TEAAAAAAA. And I didn't think you were! It's harries PERIOD. I just personally saw a ton of it from poc harries bc that's primarily who I was following at the start, but it's definitely everywhere.

#ask #some of the most toxic discussions ive seen on here have been started by poc harries though #the whole lizzo conversation when we first found out they were dating #the asinine vogue article takes #they all become huge discussions bc they've claimed to be offended by something and then white harries start spreading it #and saying okay see poc are offended so therefore it was offensive and she's terrible!!!!! #but poc can still be biased just like white people im sorry to say #everyone has a different threshold for what offends them but sometimes it's very obvious it's not coming from a genuine place #but yeah the hate definitely comes from everywhere it's not a specific group #i just really dislike people weaponizing their voice as a poc to dictate what people should find offensive when there's an agenda behind it #i think we have a great opportunity to educate people and have people listen to our struggles more than ever #but using that opportunity to falsely accuse someone of being racist just bc you have an issue with them makes me sad #bc people listen #idk if that makes any sense whatsoever but yeah #i dont feel like any poc should claim to be the authority on what poc find offensive #we're not a monolith

[cesium-sheep]

I know some people are still pushing to broaden "neurodivergent" to mean "literally anyone with any mental disorder" and I'd like to reiterate that as an autistic person it's really useful to have a term for the subcommunity of similar folks and taking our term from us just because you want it is uh. well.

folks with mental disorders of all sorts deserve community, support, and destigmatization, but you don't have to take our term to do it is all.

#someone I follow mentioned it #and I did also reply to them directly about it #I just also wanna restate my thoughts in my own space in case anyone was unclear on that. #someone else who follows them lashed out about it #which they are allowed to do even though I am allowed to permanently disengage with them #but they said something about me not wanting to associate and it's like. #did you miss the whole broader umbrella thing. #nd folks are a subcommunity not some special unique unrelated thing. #and surface symptom overlap doesn't tell me jack shit. #I'm guessing op isn't going to engage in either direction since I was disagreeing with them in the first place #which sucks a little cuz I was like 'hey I'm kind of uncomfortable with this use of this term and here's why' #which I don't think warrants 'hey can you shut the fuck up? what's your problem?' from a total stranger yknow. #idk I feel like 'you don't deserve to have a subcommunity let alone keep the term you already had for it' just feels like a rancid take #not exactly the solidarity people claim to want to appropriate the term for. #okay for the record the op of the actual post saw what happened and reached out to me (and agreed it was disproportionate) #and we had a much more constructive conversation about both the incident and our differing perspectives on the actual issue being discussed

[thethingything]

i think your art trademark is like... soft realism, if that makes sense! very realistic and detailed but still with some softer areas; i think it's really cool :D

thank you! I really like the term "soft realism" to describe it

#ask #I'm gonna tag this as #art rambles #because I'm about to ramble in the tags agkfhkgh #we used to draw with more solid shapes so like we'd fill in the base colours #and then shade over them in different colours #but then I guess we started working on one drawing and couldn't be bothered doing the base colours #so we just shaded over the background colour instead and realised we preferred how that looks #that was actually one of the other 20+ hour drawings and it's the one we use for showing off our skills #but we've never posted it on here (we posted it on instagram though) #apparently we've always enjoyed drawing things that are really intricate and have lots of little details #but we were convinced that we couldn't draw faces very well until August last year #we had covid and got really bored and just went ''fuck it'' and tried drawing a portrait and it went better than expected #so we kept doing it and now we have our current style #the only issue is that if we want to try drawing characters it's difficult because we have to figure out drawing their faces #without using a photo as a reference #it's kind of fun trying to figure it out but we also sit there the whole time going ''what if we've got it completely wrong?'' #anyway nobody asked for our art style's backstory but you're getting it anyway afjgjhgkhj - 🦋

[sorrygotthesesacks]

I had this whole thing written out yesterday (mostly in the tags) comparing my favorite pretty pretty man in hypmic (and his ride or die partner) with my favorite pretty pretty man in twst (and his ride or die partner) but I don’t see it on my blog and it’s not in my drafts.

Apologies if you see it twice here on Tumblr (I’ve posted less coherent thoughts on other social media platforms).

I ramble more today, so...

So our pretty liar once again speaks of meeting in a dream. He used this phrase in Once Upon a Time in Shibuya, too.

But this time, Gentaro uttering the words “meet in a dream” was an absolute gut punch.

He has such a romantic way of speaking - which is very much like Sebek!

Anyway. Gentaro's lyrics.

How am I expected to be normal about this?

#thinking of Gentaro and his lying #(flirting) #such a contrast to Silver's earnest sincerity #but they both have family issues #if we believe Gentaro was lying about lying in Scenario Liar #they're both orphans #taken in by 'elderly' caretakers #(sorry Lilia - going by years lived here) #they both have strong family loyalty #devoting themselves wholeheartedly to defending them #Gentaro for revenge #Silver as a misguided attempt to repay what he sees as a debt he owes Lilia for taking him in #but their partners - we have to talk about Dice and Sebek too! #Dice leaps to Gentaro's defense without even knowing the details #because he sees how upset Gentaro is #Gentaro who hides his smiles behind his sleeve and conceals his real emotions most of the time #he lights into Hifumi (and poor Doppo by extension) because Hifumi's words hurt Gentaro #meanwhile Sebek #who shows with his actions that Silver does not need to change himself for anyone #then there's the whole book 7 spoilery stuff #meanwhile Dice with his issues with his mother #and Sebek who despite having loving parents has issues with his father #for different reasons they're both separating themselves from a parent as much as possible #Gendice and Silbek are such yin and yang for each other #This is why I cannot see them with anyone else #they're just too perfect for one another #and all I needed to ramble on in the tags about my OTPs was simply #meet in a dream #gendice #silbek

[mothmans-legs]

Ohmy fuck I feel so bad I walked past this construction guy on the way home and he actually seemed rlly nice and he said hi very cheerfully but since all the construction nearby my house started (the whole area is basically a swamp, there were like little ponds and streams with frogs in 'm and everything) that whole areas been bulldozed I didn't process the vibes fast enough and I had the Wrong expression on my face (annoyed) and I feel rlly bad, like he doesn't have a choice in this matter really like we're all stuck in an eternal loop of capitalist hell and the jobs pay well enough here that people do them a lot and ugh I really hope that didn't make him feel bad if I see him again I think I'll apologize augh

#ugh its so conflicting too in my brain bc like the things being done by the construction workers are terrible but #do they really have much of a choice - its not like they made the plans and they cant just. not do their job #they need to do that to make money to survive but they shouldn't have to ughghg #i loved that swamp with my whole heart and i watched so many little bird families thrive in there. #we might not get the warblers or baltimore orioles or vieros around as much this year because of all the construction #all for them to build shitty soulless geometric gray apartment buildings in its place #guh i hate capitalism i hate governments #theyre doing what- 400 “luxury suites” #with the expectation of at least 1-2 cars per tenant- (theyre doing underground parking too???? #in the area thats already had flooding issues like???) #and our access road to the townhouse complex i live in is TINY. we already have traffic issues esp because #1: we are at the bottom of a hill 2: the complex is coming off of a super busy main road #we've already had major traffic issues in the past #like you cannot be serious #ive almost been hit there like 3 times within the past year and theres been a good 4 different accidents directly at the crosswalk #a good few as well nearby #not to mention how many ppl walk to places from here since its right in the middle of the upper half of the city #ugh #mbmb had to rant for a second #rant post #vent post

[a-soft-fluffy-nerd]

TL;DR: Steam just made library sharing so much fucking easier and so much fucking better. Instead of login-trading, it's just a simple goddamn invite.

Read this. Really. It's a good read. Because it shows that, full-stop, Valve isn't just doubling down on their stance to make sure that people can and should be able to share their copies of digital goods as easily as they can physical ones, but they're making it better and easier than ever.

But you know how Steam allowed you to, with either friends or family, link accounts with another person to be able to establish an ability to share game libraries with one another? The general gist of Steam Family Sharing was that, with a limit of five people plus you (six in total) on a limit of ten computers total could share account access to willingly mix your libraries. You could play theirs. They could play yours.

This was a huge boon. It was meant to emulate sharing a physical copy of a game. A way to allow children to play games their parents or siblings had bought without having to fork over double the cash to buy it a second game. But it had some major limitations and drawbacks, and was archaic to use.

If a person did not share the same computer, you had to manually log into that computer to give it and the accounts on it access. This wouldn't be a problem if both accounts were used on the same computer, but many households (and astronomically more family and friend groups) had multiple computers, all used by different people.

If that computer, at any point, was hard reset to any point before the sharing occurred, you lost access. And had to do the whole process again. This was also an issue with computer transfers. The whole kit and kaboodle needed to be redone on upgrades. On top of that, the old computer is now just dead weight that you may not realize you have to manually revoke access to.

Putting your account information on another person's computer opens up security issues. They could, intentionally or accidentally, land themselves on your account if the login information was stored. Which could easily lead to purchases or bans you did not want to happen.

If anyone was, at any point, playing any game on their own library, you had no access to their games. Even if it was a totally different game, you had to wait your turn as if waiting for their computer to be freed up to sit at. (Admittedly this is kind of like the "mom said it's my turn on the xbox" meme, but hey, kinda archaic.)

You could not choose whose library you accessed a game from. Not at all. It always prioritized the first library it gained access from, DLC access and multiplayer be damned. If another friend you were accepting games from had more DLC? Too bad.

And yet here we are. Steam Families Beta fixes EVERYTHING about the above issues. By just going through Settings > Interface > client Beta Participation and clicking onto Steam Families Beta? You get:

No more login sharing. No more computer links. You can now choose which person's library you borrowed from. And you can play any other game from someone's library, even while they're in-game. It just needs to be a different game than what they're playing.

Pick five people. Invite them to your family. And now everyone has access to everyone's library. My goddamn library went from 150-ish to almost a goddamn thousand in ten minutes of setup.

Account sharing and password sharing are dirty words that "lose" billions of dollars. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Max. They aren't game storefronts, but they still allow you to access massive libraries and scream like you murdered their firstborns for daring to share your password with your mother after you moved out.

Microsoft tried pushing to demonize and undercut used games sales and borrowed copies of physical games. Remember the first attempt to reveal the Xbox One? People forget, but these vultures tried to make an always online console that checked to see if you were the account that owned the game, even if you had a physical disc, and prevent access to the disc's contents if you weren't the original downloader.

Valve walked the fuck up. Valve tapped the mic. And Valve dropped the fucking thing right onto the ground with one feature's revamp.

About the only issues I can see with this are twofold:

If someone sharing your library gets banned from a game's servers... so do you. No one else in the family does, but the both of you do. This is... rather unpleasant, because banhammers can be dropped quite frequently by mistake. I'd urge Valve to rethink this one, but I see the logic: don't cheat and effectively bite the hand feeding you. Still making me side-eye that, though.

If you leave a family you've joined? You have to wait a YEAR to join a new one. It's to prevent people form jumping ship to another group and screwing over who's in the former one in the process, but a YEAR? OUCH.

Problems aside, though... it's probably the biggest fucking power move I have ever seen a media distributor make in the current economic climate. It's the kind of thing that would let so many new games be available in a way that's easier than ever. Just a few clicks to send or accept an invite, and bam. Permanent access to dozens or even hundreds of new games with so much more freedom than earlier drafts of the system.

It's the kind of thing that slaps you in the face with positivity after so many Ls from the games and media industries. And I'm all the fuck for a W like this.

#steam #valve #video games #steam games

[ikilledamanforthisurl]

i wonder why Spearmaster has no strong connections with violence or the violence karma despite being only able to feed when impaling other creatures

#ikildaman shut the fuck up #downpour #ugh spoilers tag rant #ok i did a basic sweep of the wiki and it seems SM was designed to try and minimise animalistic tendencies to further encourage its purpose #as yknow a purposed organism #but i still dont get how in The Great Scheme Of Everything this doesnt reflect on them #if Artificer can get traumatised into a violence machine and thus be Damned by the Way The World/Ascension Works #then why is it different for Spearmaster. because they're not angry when they stab shit? because they have no other way to sustain themself #as if it is mere anger that drives Arti mind you. that is an animal. #the sophontness of the slugcats r debatable and i find it weirdly cruel how Arti gets locked out of ascension #even though we have the option to not genocide a bunch of scavs. even though we are Forced to use violence to progress in game #idk man i will always find issues with the logic of ascension and the 'morality' applied to it honestly this shits nonsense #gourmand doesnt get dissolved out of an ascending ending despite his attachment to TWO worldly 'sins' !!!!! #gourmand got a real wank off of an ascension ending literally just a recolour of survivors ending. shake my fuckig head #yknow i really liked the approach to gourmand i had extremely abysmal expectations for him #but the lazy ascension ending really kind of just ruins it a little bit 2 me..... idk........ #at least be consistent in locking slugcats who are anchored to the world via the games five 'sins' out of ascension. please #same with spearmaster i feel like their ascension might be a copout. they have such a nothing story HDSHDSGGHGSHGS #theres lots of good stuff here but in the background. shit we dont get to live thru. SM was a suicide aid at one point. can you believe tha #though i suppose Survivor is kind of inherently tied to one of the anchoring sins yknow. but their whole deal is journeying past that #so. in the end we just hate Arti i guess even though the gameplay does not let us grow past that!! yayyy rainworld !!!! #im literally only ranting about this because im trying to assign each cat a karma symbol lord help me #Survivor can grow past their anchor to the world being survival + Spearmaster can grow past their anchor potentially being violence and #companionship. Gourmand heavily tied with gluttony and companionship but can ascend + who gives a fuck about him am i right guys #Hunter can grow past its tie to the anchor of violence and survival + i dont think Rivulet even has any strong ties beyond companionship #so of course Riv can ascend Riv can do whatever it wants + Saints anchor to the world is existence itself or maybe ascension violence #dont ask me what the fuck is going on with Saint because then it brings Echoes into the process and that further fucks everything up #obviously Monk can follow in Survivor's footsteps but has even less sins anchoring him to the world + Paincat isnt canon #Artificer cannot do any of these things though because ? fuck you is why. i dont know. Artificer cannot have shit #maybe Arti became an echo. i assume she did

[soon-palestine]

Israel is burning and bulldozing tree crops at historic rates. These trees would take years to grow back - and that's without factoring in the time it would take to detoxify the soil. (2/13)

It gets worse. 23% of greenhouses have been destroyed in their entirety. (3/13)

Destroying up to 48% of tree crops and 23% of greenhouses is a horrendous crime in itself, but, when you factor in Israel blocking food aid and literally killing food aid professionals, you start to see the scale of the crime in full. (4/13)

Look at the difference. See the land before. See it after. Do not turn away. (5/13)

Restoring the land will be profoundly difficult. The soil now contains asbestos, heavy metals, and even undetonated explosives. (6/13)

Waste disposal infrastructure is in ruins. Sewage treatment systems are failing. (7/13)

People are burning plastic to heat food. Fumes from bombs hang in the air. (8/13)

This is not "just" about nature. This is about the food and the air and the water and the land being deprived of life. It is about a whole population being denied its sustenance. (9/13)

A comprehensive report about this issue is in the Guardian. They are one of the few publications to cover the siege on Gaza from this angle. The full story is here: (10/13)

There is also some reporting on this in InsideClimateNews: (11/13)

Here at Climate Defiance we have been clear in calling for a ceasefire since October. We wage our peaceful struggle because we believe in the inherent value of humanity - and in the need to see the humanity in each other. (12/13)

We fight for thriving ecosystems because we fight for life. Both are under attack right now. Do not look away. Do not stay silent. Moments like these are a test of our moral fabric. (13/13)

#palestine #gaza #free palestine